Daily Archives: February 1, 2023

2023-02-01: News Headlines

Brenda Norrell (2023-02-01). Heard Museum in Phoenix Harbors O'otham and O'odham Remains. indybay.org While promoting itself as the premiere showcase of American Indian Art, the Heard Museum in Phoenix has harbored the remains of Native ancestors, and one of its board members has worked for the most protested companies in Indian country, violating human rights and sacred places. Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham elder said, "America and international collectors have a morbid pride in their exhibits of human remains and sacred items. They will never conquer the sacred essence of these people and items."

Editor (2023-02-01). Missing Links in Textbook History: Indigenous Peoples. scheerpost.com By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Oh, the history books tell itThey tell it so wellThe cavalries chargedThe Indians fellThe cavalries chargedThe Indians diedOh, the country was youngWith God on its side Bob Dylan, "With God on Our Side" (1963) By the time I started high school I had come to see the world …

infobrics (2023-02-01). India, Russia May Explore to Create Energy Alliance: Former Envoy. infobrics.org India and Russia can explore energy alliance in the back drop of their burgeoning energy ties that includes trade and investments, suggested DB Venkatesh Varma, India's former envoy to Moscow…

infobrics (2023-02-01). Components Ready for Fifth Kudankulam Unit. infobrics.org Major equipment for India's Kudankulam 5 is complete at the factory of the Russian supplier, Atommash…

Brenda Norrell (2023-02-01). Heard Museum in Phoenix Harbors O'otham and O'odham Remains. indybay.org While promoting itself as the premiere showcase of American Indian Art, the Heard Museum in Phoenix has harbored the remains of Native ancestors, and one of its board members has worked for the most protested companies in Indian country, violating human rights and sacred places. Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham elder said, "America and international collectors have a morbid pride in their exhibits of human remains and sacred items. They will never conquer the sacred essence of these people and items."

Editor (2023-02-01). Missing Links in Textbook History: Indigenous Peoples. scheerpost.com By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Oh, the history books tell itThey tell it so wellThe cavalries chargedThe Indians fellThe cavalries chargedThe Indians diedOh, the country was youngWith God on its side Bob Dylan, "With God on Our Side" (1963) By the time I started high school I had come to see the world …

infobrics (2023-02-01). India, Russia May Explore to Create Energy Alliance: Former Envoy. infobrics.org India and Russia can explore energy alliance in the back drop of their burgeoning energy ties that includes trade and investments, suggested DB Venkatesh Varma, India's former envoy to Moscow…

infobrics (2023-02-01). Components Ready for Fifth Kudankulam Unit. infobrics.org Major equipment for India's Kudankulam 5 is complete at the factory of the Russian supplier, Atommash…

infobrics (2023-02-01). The Importance of Sisi's Visit to India to Build Economic Blocs for Egypt with the BRICS Group. infobrics.org Recently, the Egyptian desire to be part of the BRICS group, which is an economic alliance that includes Brazil, Russia, India and China, and was established in 2006, and South Africa joined it later in 2010…

teleSUR, SH (2023-02-01). Incendio deja al menos 14 muertos en este de India. telesurtv.net La policía local indicó que entre las víctimas fatales del incendio se encuentran diez mujeres y al menos tres menores de edad.

WSWS (2023-02-01). "Everyone should be on the ballot": Stellantis workers in Kokomo, Indiana, denounce fraudulent UAW run-off election. wsws.org Supporters of UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman are touring factories in Indiana and other states to inform workers about Lehman's protest against the disenfranchisement of UAW members.

Dianne Mathiowetz (2023-02-01). Georgia is in a State of Emergency??? An Atlanta resident's response. workers.org In the afternoon of Jan. 26, Governor Brian Kemp declared a "state of emergency" in Georgia, to run through Feb. 9. Banner strung outside Weelaunee Forest. People might ask, what is this dire emergency affecting the people of Georgia? Could it be the dismal news that last year 1,333,100 people . . . |

Editor (2023-02-01). A Woman's Calls Sustained Her Incarcerated Grandson. Now a Law in Her Name Will Lower Prison Phone Rates. scheerpost.com The law in Martha Wright-Reed's name calls on the FCC to better regulate the exorbitant costs of prison and jail phone calls for incarcerated people and their families.

Editor (2023-02-01). Is It Forensics or Is It Junk Science? scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-02-01). Scott Ritter: Germany Risks Forgetting Its History. scheerpost.com In deciding to supply Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, Olaf Scholtz breaks the self-imposed constraints on the military's role in German foreign policy that had been in place since the end of WWII.

John Catalinotto (2023-02-01). U.S., German imperialism send tanks to attack Russia. workers.org Jan. 30 — By sending tanks to the Kiev regime in Ukraine, Washington and its NATO cronies have once again escalated the war they have been waging against Russia for the past nine years. Some of the 250 people who rallied Jan. 30, before the German embassy in Vienna, Austria . . . |

Mumia Abu-Jamal (2023-02-01). 'A new Freedom Now Movement'. workers.org Mumia Abu-Jamal's commentaries are recorded by prisonradio.org/. Workers.org first printed this commentary on Feb. 3, 2022. Since the article appeared, the peoples' movement won the release of Sundiata Acoli and Dr. Mutulu Shakur. Mumia Abu-Jamal The great Caribbean revolutionary Franz Fanon wrote in his now-classic work, "The Wretched of the . . . |

Fight Back (2023-02-01). Chicagoans brave cold to demand #Justice4Tyre. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL — 300 Chicagoans braced against the cold night, January 30, to protest the brutal police slayings of Tyre Nichols, Keenan Anderson and Manuel "Tortuguita" Teron. The eight-degree weather did not deter the crowd as they clustered together to stand in solidarity with protests that have broken out across the country in the wake of the release of the video footage that depicted multiple officers beating Nichols to death. | Frank Chapman, field organizer of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR), made it clear that there is an answer to the people's cries for justice. "

Adriaan Alsema (2023-02-01). Colombia preparing tropical paradise for tourism after 0 years of chaos. colombiareports.com Colombia's government is trying to promote responsible tourism on the "Rosario Islands" national park after 0 years of colonial and illegal occupation. The country's National Parks authority is carefully trying…

_____ (2023-02-01). NATO and Turkey: an expulsion or a warning?.. journal-neo.org All international political alliances (particularly military-political ones) are formed on the basis of shared interests and threats to two or more international relations subjects. In other words, there is something that unites and something against which the alliance is formed. NATO's formation in 1949, led by the United States, signaled the beginning of a new …

Fight Back (2023-02-01). Release National Democratic Front of the Philippines retirees Saluta et al! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | We condemn the Philippine National Police (PNP) for the unlawful and baseless arrest of retired National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultant, Ruben Abenir Saluta, 75 years old, literary writer and newspaperman, together with wife Presentacion Saluta and a female companion identified as Yvonne Losaria, last night in Doña Soledad, Barangay Labangal, General Santos City. | Saluta, who is frail and suffering from hypertension, as well as from chronic pulmonary disease, has long retired from…

WSWS (2023-02-01). Despite Biden's lies, the COVID emergency continues. wsws.org The Biden administration's plan to end COVID-19 emergency declarations is wholly unscientific and will have vast consequences for the American and international working class.

infobrics (2023-01-31). Russia Offers Scholarships for 200 Indian Students. infobrics.org 20 of the scholarships are for doing MBBS…

infobrics (2023-01-31). Moscow Seeks Cooperation in Metro Projects, Waste Management, Smart Cities Development with India. infobrics.org Alexey Bondaruk, deputy head of Department of external economic and international relations, Government of Moscow, said that firms in the Russian capital city can provide consultancy in these areas…

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2023-01-31). Russia's gas union eyes Pakistan, India. mronline.org Pakistan's acute energy crisis is the immediate backdrop against which Foreign Minister Bilawal Zardari's forthcoming talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow today need to be understood.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-31). In the face of censorship, Indian students organize screenings of BBC documentary on PM Modi. peoplesdispatch.org A recent BBC documentary on Indian PM Narendra Modi, which has been censored by the government, is being screened by students' organizations in various parts of the country…

WSWS (2023-01-31). After propping up Canada's Liberal government for years, the NDP's Singh accuses Trudeau of "waging war" against workers. wsws.org Singh neglected to mention a "trifle"—His NDP, with the full-throated backing of the trade unions, has been propping up the minority Liberal government for years and since March 2022 has been in a formal governmental alliance with them.

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-01-31). Hardly anyone is thinking logically about the risk of nuclear war. mronline.org The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been set since its founding after the second world war. Chief among their reasons for doing so is the increasingly dangerous war in Ukraine.

Ed Rampell (2023-01-31). Southern Girls: Theater Review. mronline.org Would Florida's Fascistic Governor Ban This Play and Burn the Script?>

Editor (2023-01-31). "The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left" mronline.org Already a century ago, political thinkers and philosophers were confronted with an apparent paradox: the failure of revolution.

Editor (2023-01-31). U.S. public opinion shifting sides about Ukraine. mronline.org The U.S./NATO war on Russia via its proxy Ukraine has awakened significant opposition here in the U.S.

Editor (2023-01-31). Assange Visitors Renew Request for CIA to 'Purge and Destroy' Files on Them. scheerpost.com By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter Attorneys and journalists, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living under political asylum in the Ecuador embassy, amended their lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for allegedly spying on them. The complaint [PDF] filed in the Southern District of New York now even more explicitly …

Editor (2023-01-31). France Strikes Against Macron's Neoliberal Pension Reform Plans. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-31). Havana Declaration Outlines Vision for Building Just World Economy. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-31). Poland Says It's Ready To Send F-16s to Ukraine in Coordination With NATO. scheerpost.com Biden said "No" when asked if the US would send F-16s to Ukraine, but the US previously ruled out providing other arms it eventually sent.

Editor (2023-01-31). Ralph Nader: Drug Price Showdown Time for Chairman Bernie Sanders. scheerpost.com By Ralph Nader It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. The self-described "democratic socialist" from a safe seat in Vermont has long been a Big Pharma nemesis. He has issued detailed critiques of what others have called a "Pay or Die" …

Jonathan Cook (2023-01-31). Why the western media is afraid of Julian Assange. mronline.org The shared desire of the security services and the corporate media is to disappear Assange in the hope that his revolutionary model of journalism is abandoned or forgotten for good.

Ryan Black (2023-01-31). Union Busting Restaurant Owners Fear Worker Uprising. progressivehub.net JULIA ROCK | THE LEVER…

SAM (2023-01-31). Politicians Decry Cop Killings, But Protect The Police At All Costs. progressivehub.net JACK MIRKINSON | DISCOURSE BLOG…

SAM (2023-01-31). The GOP Is Coming For Medicare And Social Security. progressivehub.net JAKE JOHNSON | COMMON DREAMS…

John Bachtell (2023-01-31). There are 200,000 ways you can support People's World. peoplesworld.org Dear readers and supporters, People's World has an enormous challenge ahead of it—to raise $200,000 from readers and supporters in 2023, including $125,000 during the Fund Drive, which runs from Feb. 1 to May 1. This is an absolute must-do! The goal is larger than past years because production costs, like everything else, have risen …

Keanu Sai (2023-01-31). Royal Commission of Inquiry: Investigating War Crimes in the Hawaiian Islands. covertactionmagazine.com The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) was established by Proclamation of the Hawaiian Kingdom Council of Regency on June 17, 2019, yet there has been no coverage in either the mainstream media or the alternative media. Most people are simply not aware that the Hawaiian Islands have been under a prolonged and illegal occupation by …

_____ (2023-01-31). What is covered by the "pictures of the Russian train"? journal-neo.org We recently wrote about the ways the United States' allegations of North Korean munitions shipments to Russia had created a new standard of proof. However, it appears that the US side is not content with having hit rock bottom once again. On January 20, 2023 National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby raised new …

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). WHO keeps guard up on coronavirus. ecns.cn Three years to the day after the World Health Organization sounded the highest level of global alert over COVID-19, it said on Monday that the pandemic remains an international emergency.

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). China's manufacturing PMI rises to 50.1 in January. ecns.cn The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector rose to 50.1 in January from 47.0 in December 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). IMF projects China's economic growth to reach 5.2 pct in 2023. ecns.cn The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday projected China's economy will grow by 5.2 percent in 2023, 0.8 percentage points higher than October 2022 forecast, according to a newly released update to its World Economic Outlook report.

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). China's PMI for manufacture returns to expansion territory in January. ecns.cn The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector stood at 50.1 in January, 3.1 higher than last month, returning to expansion territory for the first time since September 2022, according to data jointly released by the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). Chinese national killed in gunmen attack in Ethiopia. ecns.cn One Chinese national has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Ethiopia's Oromia region, the Chinese Embassy in Ethiopia confirmed on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). COVID-19 virus enters low prevalence state in China: official. ecns.cn At present, the COVID-19 virus has entered a low prevalence state in China, and the epidemic situation is getting steadier across the country, said Mi Feng,spokesperson with the National Health Commission, at a press conference on Monday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). IMF upgrades 2023 global growth forecast to 2.9%. ecns.cn The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday projected the global economy to grow by 2.9 percent in 2023, up 0.2 percentage points from the previous forecast in October, according to the latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report.

infobrics (2023-01-31). Plan to blockade Russian shipping in Baltic Sea breaks international law and could provoke war. infobrics.org Estonia's plan to install St. Petersburg-targeting missiles will spectacularly backfire.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-31). 7th Celac Summit: Between Evasion and Reality. libya360.wordpress.com Stephen Sefton The ambivalence inherent in the Final Declaration is also reflected in its support for decolonization and human rights without calling for the closure and withdrawal of the US military base at Guantanamo or condemning the permanent abuse of human rights the base represents as a center for illegal detention and torture. That omission…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-31). NATO Continues Its Disarmament. libya360.wordpress.com Moon of Alabama NATO is continuing its disarmament mission. France to send an extra 12 powerful Caesar howitzers to Ukraine French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu's announcement that France will send 12 additional Caesar howitzers to Kyiv is "clearly important for the Ukrainians, particularly the Caesar artillery system", said FRANCE 24 Chief Foreign Editor Robert Parsons….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-31). US Threatens Missiles, Jets, and Now Crimea, Sees (Seeks) War with China by 2025. libya360.wordpress.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for February 1, 2023 + US and its potential war with China by 2025. Western media begins preparing public for the fall of Bakhmut; Recent Ukrainian losses is being used to call for more weapon shipments to Ukraine including calls for missiles and jets; Arms shipments…

Luis Chirino (2023-01-31). Cubans fired up for Jazz Plaza Festival. america.cgtn.com The Cuban cities of Havana and Santiago de Cuba turned into Meccas of Jazz for a week as renowned musicians from across the island and abroad brought the best of their repertoires to the International Jazz Plaza Festival. The annual event is a highlight …

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-01-31). "Secret Wars" & vice ADM Ann E. Rondeau now before US Court of Appeals / 4th Circuit. indybay.org Guilty of more than just dishonorable common crimes & false federal statements, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency & National Defense University trivialized, justified and even participated in neo-Nazi crimes, diluted the moral awfulness of clandestine death camps, & engaged in other barbarousness & corruption, incl. the reprehensible promoting of palpable traitors & narcotics traffickers.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-31). Mayo Clinic Minute: Role for opioids. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Drug overdoses from opioids have been linked to a decreased life span, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ongoing opioid crisis has been a complicated one for more than a decade. Death rates continue to rise, despite national medical guidelines for prescribing the pain medication. Dr. Holly Geyer leads the opioid stewardship program at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. She says there is an important role for opioids in patient…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-31). Can blood donors suffer iron deficiency? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org With the constant need for blood and platelet donations, frequent, regular blood donors are crucial to having a continuous national blood supply. Across Mayo Clinic in Rochester, for example, anywhere between 50 and 70 units of red cells and between 20 and 30 units of platelets are used daily to help save lives. Watch: Dr. Justin Juskewitch discusses red blood cell donation youtu.be/yDXneutyCdc Journalists: Broadcast-quality video is available in the downloads at the end of…

Staff (2023-01-31). Human Rights Expert Aldred de Zayas Demands End to Sanctions Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com This Saturday, January 28, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, a lawyer specializing in international law and United Nations (UN) Human Rights expert, demanded through a post on Twitter the lifting of illegal sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the United States. | Ina tweet, de Zayas wrote: | "Unilateral coercive measures are not a legitimate tool of foreign policy — but a grave violation of the UN Charter by the US, UK, Canada and EU — and a crime against humanity." | "The US and EU have no right to call their unilateral coercive measures 'sanctions.' They are arbitrary geopolitical measures. The US has zero mor…

Staff (2023-01-31). Human Rights Expert Aldref de Zayas Demands End to Sanctions Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com This Saturday, January 28, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, a lawyer specializing in international law and United Nations (UN) Human Rights expert, demanded through a post on Twitter the lifting of illegal sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the United States. | Ina tweet, de Zayas wrote: | "Unilateral coercive measures are not a legitimate tool of foreign policy — but a grave violation of the UN Charter by the US, UK, Canada and EU — and a crime against humanity." | "The US and EU have no right to call their unilateral coercive measures 'sanctions.' They are arbitrary geopolitical measures. The US has zero mor…

Staff (2023-01-31). Human Rights Expert Alfred de Zayas Demands End to Sanctions Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com This Saturday, January 28, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, a lawyer specializing in international law and United Nations (UN) Human Rights expert, demanded through a post on Twitter the lifting of illegal sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the United States. | Ina tweet, de Zayas wrote: | "Unilateral coercive measures are not a legitimate tool of foreign policy — but a grave violation of the UN Charter by the US, UK, Canada and EU — and a crime against humanity." | "The US and EU have no right to call their unilateral coercive measures 'sanctions.' They are arbitrary geopolitical measures. The US has zero mor…

Staff (2023-01-31). 4 February, Online: Zimbabwe country hearing, International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism. samidoun.net Saturday, 4 February 10: 30 AM EST (7: 30 AM PST, 4: 30 PM central Europe, 5: 30 PM Palestine Register: bit.ly/zimbabwehearing Join the International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, Coercive Economic Measures for a hearing on the effects and impacts of these policies and practices on the people of Zimbabwe. We will hear testimony and reports …

Staff (2023-01-31). Video: International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, Coercive Economic Measures launches in New York. samidoun.net On Saturday, 28 January, the International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades and Coercive Economic Measures launched with a half-day event in New York City. The event featured a wide array of speakers addressing the upcoming tribunal, including: Nina Farnia, Co-chair of the Tribunal Steering Committee & Professor of Law, Albany Law School Niloufer …

Terry Conway (2023-01-31). Britain: Biggest strike in decades planned for February 1. greenleft.org.au Half a million trade unionists are gearing up for a national day of strike action on February 1, across England, Scotland and Wales, writes Terry Conway.

The Associated Press (2023-01-31). Peru Congress Agrees to Debate Measure on Earlier Elections. latinorebels.com Pressed by Peru's embattled president to take action in response to weeks of deadly protests, Congress narrowly agreed on Monday to reconsider a proposal to move the 2026 national elections up to this October.

Thierry Meyssan (2023-01-31). Two perceptions of the war in Ukraine. thealtworld.com The military intervention in Ukraine is not at all interpreted in the same way in the West and in Russia. It is a school case. This difference of representation does not come from antagonistic material interests, but from different conceptions of what makes Man and what is Life. For some, the enemy is trying to restore the grandeur of the Tsarist Empire or the Soviet Union, while for others, he imagines himself to be the embodiment of Good. | The conflict between the advocates of "a world based on rules" and those who advocate a return to "a world based on international law" continues. It began with the Russian m…

Shenali D Waduge (2023-01-31). Why Is Victoria Nuland Coming to Sri Lanka, Second Time in a Year? At the Forefront of US Incursions. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-01-31). Sri Lanka: SEP's local government election campaign wins support in Colombo outer-suburb. wsws.org Last week residents of Meethotamulla, a low-income working-class area, vehemently denounced successive governments, angrily explaining how they were attempting to deal with the social disaster they now confronted.

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