(2022-02-06). Arrests Aim to Silence Kashmiri Journalists and Human Rights Defenders. projectcensored.org By Tara Dorabji India, the world's largest democracy, continues to use draconian laws to silence and incarcerate journalists and human rights defenders in Kashmir. On February 4, Fahad Shah, founder…
(2022-02-06). There are No Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. The US and Canada do not Support Fascism. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on March 1, 2014 Svoboda is a Neo-Nazi Party, Ukraine's fourth biggest party holding 36 seats out of 450 in parliament. | They're also part of the Alliance of European National Movements along with the …
(2022-02-06). Political leaders worldwide praise Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony. ecns.cn The opening ceremony of the 24th Olympic Winter Games held here on Friday evening at the National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, has drawn praise from political leaders across the world.
(2022-02-06). Olympic Games 1936: How USA Supported Hitler Amid International Protest. strategic-culture.org The U.S. agitates against China as a host country for the Olympics. But in 1936, Hitler's Germany was able to stage glittering Winter and Summer Olympics — with U.S. help against international protests from Jewish and labor movements | Despite the worldwide boycott movement against awarding the 1936 Olympics to Berlin, they finally took place, bigger and more brilliant than ever before. Dictator Hitler stood with them in the summit of his international recognition. | The crimes of Hitler's government were internationally known since the beginning of 1933. They began immediately after the seizure of power i…
(2022-02-06). Estados Unidos supera las 900 000 muertes por COVID-19. cubadebate.cu Estados Unidos superó el viernes último la cifra de 900 000 fallecidos por COVID-19 desde que comenzó la pandemia, según informó recientemente la Universidad Johns Hopkins de ese país. La nación norteña también encabeza los contagios a nivel global, con cifra superior a los 76 220 000 de infecciones, y secundada por la India y Brasil.
(2022-02-06). The Siege of El Estor: Resistance to the Continuation of an Extractive and Repressive Neoliberal Status Quo in Guatemala. orinocotribune.com By Ben Gutman — Feb 1, 2022 First-hand reporting and analysis of the Maya Q'eqchi' resistance movement against multinational corporate…
(2022-02-06). Argentina: An Agreement of More Submission. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Aznárez and Roberto Perdía — Jan 30, 2022 | On Friday last week, President Alberto Fernández announced the new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by which he set the will of his government to extend the payment of the debts contracted by former right wing President Macri, and agreed to a series of commitments with the international financial organization where the US has the leading voice. | Since our incorporation into the IMF in 1956, this is the 22nd agreement, and in all of them there are mutual commitments to "lay the foundations for a sustained development". | In none of the…
(2022-02-06). World leaders wish complete success for Games. ecns.cn Leaders of foreign countries and international organizations have recently extended Spring Festival greetings to the Chinese people and conveyed their wishes that the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be a complete success.
(2022-02-05). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Indian power distribution workers protest nationally against privatisation; Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government workers demand pay rise; New South Wales commuter rail workers resume limited industrial action…
(2022-02-05). Cuba is helping vaccinate the world. peoplesdispatch.org Only 9.5% of people in low-income countries have received a single dose of the vaccine. Cuba has a comprehensive plan to support vaccine distribution in the global south to make sure none are left behind…
(2022-02-05). The people of the world vs Pfizer Inc. peoplesdispatch.org During the Covid-19 pandemic, Pfizer has used every opportunity to maximize its profits, even if this meant reduced access to life-saving medical products for most of the world. The same is about to happen in the case of Paxlovid, the company's Covid-19 oral treatment…
(2022-02-05). New trend/ U.S. workers strike and organize at a new pace. workers.org 
This lightly edited article, based on an interview with Workers World Managing Editor Martha Grevatt, was published Feb. 2 in the Danish Communist Party's newspaper, "Worker." In March 2021, protesters took to the streets in 50 cities across the U.S. to support workers in the state of Alabama who were . . . |
(2022-02-05). AFCON and the politics of the beautiful game. peoplesdispatch.org New Frame's sports editor Njabulo Ngidi talks about the politics around the conduct of the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, the stampede at Olemebe stadium, and the controversial statements of FIFA head Gianni Infantino…
(2022-02-05). Ralph Nader on Facilitating Civic and Political Energies for the Common Good. scheerpost.com 
By Ralph Nader / Some readers responded to one of my earlier columns urging the national progressive civic groups, with millions of members back home, to overcome the dominance of giant corporatism with a Ten-Year Plan budgeted at $1 billion a year (See,
(2022-02-05). Lee Camp and Adam McKay on Social Criticisms and Government Corruption. scheerpost.com 
This week on VIP Lee Camp looks back to a 2016 interview with the director of the Netflix smash-hit "Don't Look Up." Adam McKay is responsible for brilliant social criticisms in movies like "The Big Short" that took on the 2008 financial crisis and a satire of corporate media in "Anchorman." His latest movie skewers …
(2022-02-05). The Heat: Beijing Winter Games underway. america.cgtn.com 
A dazzling celebration inside Beijing's National Stadium, as China marks the official start of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
(2022-02-05). [Correspondence] The challenges of open access data. thelancet.com The demand that publicly funded scientific research be freely available to the public and the larger research community (including beyond academia—eg, government departments and non-governmental organisations) has increased in recent years. In line with the goal of open access science, funders of epidemiological cohort studies often mandate that study teams make anonymised datasets available for wider use.
(2022-02-05). Venezuelan Authorities Announce New Phase of Vuelta a la Patria Program (+Xenophobia). orinocotribune.com 
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Wednesday, February 2, that a new phase of the Vuelta a la Patria program will start in March, to guarantee the safe return of Venezuelan nationals residing in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. | During a meeting at the Miraflores Palace, the president stated that starting from March the number of flights of the Plan Vuelta a la Patria will be tripled, and called on Venezuelans who are outside the country to return. | President Maduro explained that initially the program will serve Venezuelans who are already registered to return to the countr…
(2022-02-05). An Inconvenient Truth: The Peasant Food Web Feeds the World. dissidentvoice.org In October 2020, CropLife International said that its new strategic partnership with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) would contribute to sustainable food systems. It added that it was a first for the industry and the FAO and demonstrates the determination of the plant science sector to work constructively in a partnership where …
(2022-02-05). US Corporate Media and Israel. dissidentvoice.org Israel is greatly concerned about the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) effort that seeks: 1) to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians; and 2) to pressure Israel to comply with international law. Israel claims that this campaign is a threat to its legitimacy. Unsurprisingly, Israel doesn't want to acknowledge that it is …
(2022-02-05). Internationalism and local activity: Emancipation without false dichotomies — Judit Rodríguez Fernández. samidoun.net 
The following article by Judit Rodríguez Fernández was published first in Spanish at laU — Revista de cultura y pensamiento. A French translation is also available, via the Collectif Palestine Vaincra. "What binds me to her is something that I could not explain exactly, although perhaps it is her deep roots in that heroic and …
(2022-02-05). The Beijing Winter Olympics are a Symbol of Multipolarity and International Friendship. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Martinez — Feb 2, 2022 | With over 30 heads of state and government gathered in Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in spite of the pandemic which is still raging in most parts of the world, the Games will prove to be a symbol of a deepening multipolarity and global solidarity. | A tiny handful of imperialist countries, led by the United States, tried and failed to coordinate a so-called "diplomatic boycott," based on absurd and debunked fabrications about the treatment of Xinjiang's Uygur population. | When Joe Biden announced a year ago that "diplomacy is back," mo…
(2022-02-05). French National Assembly Rejects Draft Resolution on Call for Political Asylum for Assange. sputniknews.com PARIS (Sputnik) – The French National Assembly has rejected the draft resolution with a call on the country's government to provide political asylum for the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website, Julian Assange.
(2022-02-05). Klaus Schwab's WEF "School for Covid Dictators", a Plan for the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca First published on December 18, 2022 | Economist Ernst Wolff believes that a hidden alliance of political and corporate leaders is exploiting the pandemic with the aim of crashing national economies and introducing a global digital currency. | How is it that …
(2022-02-05). International participants extol opening ceremony of Beijing 2022. ecns.cn The Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games officially commenced on Friday, and the opening ceremony, as the curtain raiser to the Games, won much praise from overseas participants.
(2022-02-05). Freedom Convoy 2022: The Rising of Unity and International Solidarity. globalresearch.ca These of the words of a duly elected head of government, who claims to represent Canadians: | "The small fringe minority who are on their way to Ottawa who are holding unacceptable views that they're expressing do not represent the views …
(2022-02-05). Watch New Zealand Parrot Snatching GoPro to Film Its Own Vid. sputniknews.com Fiordland National Park in New Zealand's South Island is one of the largest parks in the country and one of the most picturesque. Sometimes a literal bird's-eye-view is what's needed to get the proper perspective.
(2022-02-05). Before the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Corona Virus "Vaccines". Nuremberg Code, Crimes against humanity, War Crimes and Crimes of Aggression" globalresearch.ca We bring to the attention of Global Research readers, the full text …
(2022-02-05). Russian-Chinese statement on NATO: what it says and what it doesn't. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Much has already been and even more will be said about the joint statement issued on February 4 by the presidents of Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, entitled Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable …
(2022-02-05). Join Socialist Workers Party, 'Militant' in campaigning. themilitant.com 
The international In California the fight for ballot status for SWP candidates Eleanor García for U.S. Senate and Joel Britton for governor is underway. García and Britton explain why working people need ou…
(2022-02-05). Chilean and international capital praise Boric's cabinet picks. wsws.org Like SYRIZA in Greece and Podemos in Spain, the Chilean pseudo-left and Stalinist front has the task of dissipating seething opposition among workers and young people to capitalism.