(2022-02-26). "The US has been at war the entirety of our lives"—Students in the US denounce warmongering against Russia. wsws.org A high school student said: "It's pretty horrifying. The Cold War was called the Cold War because we didn't actually physically fight Russia. Now we're back to the threat of nuclear war; it seems almost unprecedented, the way that we're aggravating Russia."
(2022-02-26). Zelensky accepts Putin's proposal, ready for peace talks. tass.com According to his press secretary Sergey Nikoforov, consultations are underway about the place and time of the negotiations…
(2022-02-26). Russia, Ukraine in 'Consultations' on Venue and Time for Negotiations. news.antiwar.com Ukraine and Russia Earlier in the day,
(2022-02-26). Ukraine may discuss neutral status, security guarantees with Russia – Zelensky's office. tass.com "It will be, first of all, a detailed conversation about peace and ceasefire," Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian leader's chief of staff said…
(2022-02-26). Russian Forces Have Destroyed 821 Ukrainian Military Targets, MoD Says. sputniknews.com On February 24, Russia announced a special military operation in order to protect the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) from the Ukrainian forces. As part of the operation, the Russian military will also "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine.
(2022-02-26). Russian Envoy to UN Says Nationalists in Ukraine Using Civilians as Human Shields. sputniknews.com UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia said nationalists in Ukraine are using civilians as human shields.
(2022-02-26). White House Asks Congress for $6.4 Billion for Ukraine Crisis. news.antiwar.com On Friday, the White House asked Congress for $6.4 billion for military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine and to help US allies in Europe to bolster their security in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine. | "In a recent conversation wit…
(2022-02-26). Kiev must contain nationalists if it wants dialogue – LPR leader. tass.com Ukrainian presidential press secretary Sergey Nikoforov said earlier that President Vladimir Zelensky has accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal and is ready to negotiate peace and a ceasefire…
(2022-02-26). Russian troops welcomed with flags in Ukraine's Melitopol. tass.com The Russian Defense Ministry reassured that Russian troops are not targeting Ukrainian cities, but are limited to surgically striking and incapacitating Ukrainian military infrastructure…
(2022-02-26). Saturday 2/26: No War in Ukraine! International Emergency Online Rally. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2022-02-26). NATO mobilizes troops as UK MPs, US congressmen call for air war against Russia. wsws.org Three days into the war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict is showing dangerous signs of spiraling into a much wider war.
(2022-02-26). Berlin antiwar rally exposes Washington's lies. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto February 25, 2022 Despite gale warnings, the Berlin Peace Coordination drew a thousand people to a Feb. 18 antiwar rally on the Platz des 18. Mà§rz at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, under the slogans "Stop the media warmongering and NATO aggression policy" and "Disarmament and peace with Russia." Among the participants were members of the Left Party, the German Communist Party and the Friends of Nature. Left Party representative in Bundestag, Sevim Dagdelen, at Feb. 18 antiwar rally. Friko (Peace Coordination) Left Party member of the Bundestag, Sevim Dagdelen, to the cheers of the crowd…
(2022-02-26). Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Exposes CNN Hypocrisy during Press Conference. orinocotribune.com Russian authorities have to constantly counter media manipulation when it comes to the current crisis in Ukraine and the Donbas. On Friday, February 25, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov exposed the hypocrisy of Western media in response to a CNN journalist during a video press conference. | During the conference, Minister Lavrov responded to a question by a CNN journalist and demonstrated the hypocrisy with which Western journalists have handled the Ukraine crisis and their supposed concern for the people of Ukraine and the Donbas. In the last eight years, as over 14,000 people in the Donbas died fr…
(2022-02-26). US Plans to Destroy Taiwan to "Save" It. newatlas.report 
February 26, 2022 (Brian Berletic — NEO) — Tensions between the United States and China exist across a wide spectrum of areas, from economics to geopolitics. Among the many flashpoint issues defining this growing confrontation is the "Taiwan question." Officially, the United States recognizes what is known as the "One China Policy." The US State …
(2022-02-26). Venezuela Criticizes NATO Attitude towards Ukraine Situation (Communiqué). orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 25, 2022 (
(2022-02-26). US-NATO war threats against Russia heighten geopolitical crisis in South Asia. wsws.org The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on India—which Washington has successfully harnessed to its campaign targeting China—to line up full-square behind the war drive against Moscow.
(2022-02-26). Video: U.S. attack helicopters arrive in Latvia. NATO Response Force activated. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com
(2022-02-26). Ukraine border: German troops to join NATO battle group in Slovakia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ReutersFebruary 25, 2022 Germany to send company of troops to Slovakia to join new NATO battlegroup Germany will send a company of troops to Slovakia that will build part of a new NATO battlegroup to be established there, German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Friday. "We are working on quickly sending a company to …
(2022-02-26). NATO, Hungary prepare for engagement with Russian forces on Ukrainian border. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Daily News HungaryFebruary 25, 2022 Servicemen in East Hungary undertaking humanitarian, military tasks Hungarian servicemen deployed in the east of the country are carrying out both humanitarian and military tasks, Defence Minister Tibor Benk≈ë said on Friday…. The minister said Hungary and NATO had plans in place in the event that the fighting would spread …
(2022-02-26). NATO Countries Have Supplied Weapons to Ukraine (Report). orinocotribune.com As the Russian military operation in Ukraine has neutralized most of the Ukrainian defense system, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, lamented that they have been left "on their own" despite the support of some nations. He now sees no guarantee of Ukraine finally joining NATO. | The Ukrainian president's speech seems directed at the position taken by the United States and the European Union, since neither of the two has expressed any disposition to a military confrontation with Russia. Both the EU and the US, as well as the UK, have only limited their scope of action to the application of "tough sancti…
(2022-02-26). Hedges: Assange Affirms the Existence of Another Kind of Human Nature. scheerpost.com 
Original illustration by Mr. Fish | By Chris Hedges / A Statement made at the We know what Julian did. We know the great public service he provided. We know that he and WikiLeaks, aided by courageous figures such as Chelsea Manning, gave us the most important journalist coup of our generation, ripping back the veil erected by the ruling political, military, and financial elites to expose their mendacity, their corruption, and their crimes. We know that populations around the world, from Haiti to Tunisia, w…
(2022-02-26). Whenever There's Militants, There's Turkey. journal-neo.org 
Turkey has recently been receiving a considerable amount of attention in the publications of various media outlets. However, much of the reporting revolves around the attitude of Ankara and the Turkish president himself towards various armed conflicts, where Turkey still plays a major role. One example of this is the Turkish leader's offer to mediate …
(2022-02-26). Portland Mobilizes to Defend Fallout Camp from Sweeps; Provide Mutual Aid to Houseless Community. itsgoingdown.org Report on ongoing defense of Fallout Camp in so-called Portland, Oregon from the PDX Houseless Radicals Collective. photo: @PDXHRC On Thursday, February 17th, park rangers and Portland police showed up to the PDX Houseless Radicals Collective's Fallout Camp on Park's land in southeast Portland, Oregon. Their intended eviction of the camp was prevented by the…
(2022-02-26). France agrees to withdraw troops from Mali. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel February 25, 2022 President Emmanuel Macron of France announced that French troops will be pulling out of their bases in Gossi, Menaka and Gao, which are all in eastern Mali, near the three-border area with Niger and Burkina Faso. Local communities sent support and trucks to help move people and their belongings out of the beleaguered Tessit region. He made this announcement before a summit between the European Union and the African Union, Feb. 17 in Brussels. "We cannot remain militarily engaged alongside de facto authorities, whose strategy and hidden aims we do not share," Macron said, referring t…
(2022-02-26). Union files complaint: Is Amazon trying to rig the Bessemer election AGAIN? liberationnews.org 
The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union released a statement announcing the filing of Unfair Labor Practice charges against Amazon alleging illegal union-busting actions by the company in the re-run union election in Bessemer, Alabama.
(2022-02-26). Declaración del PSL sobre la intervención militar de Rusia en Ucrania. liberationnews.org 
La operación militar rusa en Ucrania pone de manifiesto que el mundo ha llegado a una peligrosa bifurcación.
(2022-02-26). Palestinian administrative detainees Hisham Abu Hawwash and Miqdad al-Qawasmeh released. peoplesdispatch.org Two Palestinian administrative detainees who went on hunger strikes against their illegal administrative detention were finally released from Israeli custody on February 24, Thursday, according to a report by the WAFA News Agency. Hisham Abu Hawwash and Miqdad al-Qawasmeh, who were on hunger strike for 141 and 114 days respectively, had forced Israeli authorities to agree to end their detention. They were among the several administrative detainees who launched hunger strikes to bring attention to the injustice and cruelty they faced in Israeli prisons. | According to the report, the two detainees were released fr…
(2022-02-26). The Shanghai Communiqué: Key to Peace — Pivot to Peace/CODEPINK Webinar. peacepivot.org Join Pivot to Peace and CODEPINK's China Is Not Our Enemy campaign this Sunday for a conversation with Xiangyu, Col. Ann Wright, Lauren Gonitzke and Pivot to Peace's K.J. Noh to better understand the Taiwan issue and how the U.S. can avoid war with China over Taiwan. When: February 27, 2022 at 6: 00pm — 7: 30pm …
(2022-02-26). Factory Farms Destroy Ecosystems. dissidentvoice.org Factory farms are the Grim Reapers of civilization, inhumanely penning up and slaughtering cows, pigs, and chickens by the tens of millions, as well as unintentionally, but effectively, poisoning, maiming and/or killing birds, insects, amphibians, mammals, and crucial life-supporting ecosystems that are key to human life. And, it's legal. Factory farms have suddenly arisen out …
(2022-02-26). SWP takes truckers' fight in Canada to working class. themilitant.com 
Members of the Socialist Workers Party have been building on the momentum of the recently concluded successful renewal campaign to introduce the paper and the party's election campaign to workers and farmers at plant gates, strike picket lines, political events and on their doorsteps. | They're making special efforts to meet truckers to discuss the conditions they face and how working people can defend ourselves. | "Fuel prices are high, freight is low. And the shippers and receivers keep us waiting for 13, 14 hours and we don't get paid. I'm for the Canadian truckers," Chris Weber told Eleanor García, SWP candid…
(2022-02-26). Astrophysicists Discover Origin of Closest Known Mysterious Radio Signals, Study Says. sputniknews.com Fast radio bursts are extremely short bursts of radiation in outer space. Their nature remains unknown since their discovery in 2007. Hundreds are observed daily in the sky, flashing in all directions. Most of their sources lie at extreme distances from the Earth, in galaxies that are billions of light-years away from us.
(2022-02-26). Wildcat school bus driver sickout in Louisiana forces retreat by school district. wsws.org The drivers, who have been fighting the district and their own union on wage increases, staged the sickout without the knowledge of the union.
(2022-02-26). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Tamil Nadu state transport workers demonstrate over working conditions; Punjab fire fighters workers protest sackings; Pakistan: Quetta municipal workers demand unpaid wages; West Australian Newspaper print workers still locked out; CHEP pallet workers continue strikes in New Zealand…
(2022-02-26). Defend the independence of Ukraine! Moscow out now! themilitant.com 
Russian President Vladimir Putin Feb. 21 declared that the Moscow-backed "People's Republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk set up in Ukraine in 2014 were independent countries and ordered Russian troops to go in as "peacekeepers." The Kremlin's invasion is backed by the largest military mobilization on the European continent since World War II. | "The Socialist Workers Party demands Moscow pull its tanks and troops out of Ukraine and respect the sovereignty of Ukraine," Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party leader and candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey, told the press the next day. "Sin…
(2022-02-26). Canada imposes "severe" sanctions on Russia, puts 3,400 troops on stand-by for deployment to Europe. wsws.org From within Canada's political establishment, including the ostensibly "left" NDP, the only criticism of the Trudeau government's belligerence and war preparations against Russia is that the measures do not go far enough.
(2022-02-26). UFO Pundit Claims NASA 'Hiding Facts' After Discovering Various 'Alien' Objects on Mars. sputniknews.com Earlier in February, NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the surface of the Red Planet since 2012, stumbled upon an unusual object while exploring Gale Crater. The object's strange shape immediately sparked debates on aliens and UFOs.
(2022-02-26). Protest Canadian rulers' Emergencies Act attack on workers' protests, rights! themilitant.com 
MONTREAL — "The sweeping police operation carried out under the anti-working-class Emergencies Act against the three-week protest in Ottawa, Canada's capital, by truckers and others opposed to vaccine mandates is an assault on the political rights of all working people," said Philippe Tessier, Communist League candidate in a Quebec provincial by-election in the riding of Marie-Victorin. "It is one of the largest acts of police repression in modern Canadian history and should be opposed by all unions and supporters of democratic rights. | "As of today — Feb. 22 — even though the cops have shut do…
(2022-02-26). DeSantis Trashes 'Brandon Administration' at CPAC Conference, Bolstering Speculation of 2024 Run. sputniknews.com The annual convention, which is taking place from Thursday through Sunday, is bringing together conservative activists and prominent politicians from across the country ahead of this year's midterm elections.
(2022-02-26). Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. wsws.org The nomination does not change the balance on the high court, which will remain divided 6—3 between right-wing reactionaries and moderate liberals.
(2022-02-26). Sri Lanka engulfed by power cuts and fuel shortages. wsws.org Confronting rising popular anger, President Gotabhaya Rajapakse called an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday to discuss the country's worsening debt crisis.
(2022-02-26). San Mateo County Community College District students and faculty speak out against unsafe return to campus. wsws.org A student asked, "How are we meant to put our focus on education if we are fearful and stressed out about contracting this potentially deadly virus? How are teachers meant to teach us to the best of their abilities if they are constantly put at risk?"
(2022-02-26). [Editorial] Our commitment to help accelerate progress against cancer. thelancet.com Cancer affects everyone, regardless of age, gender, or social status, and represents a tremendous burden for patients, families, and societies. In 2020, one in six deaths were caused by cancer, accounting for 10 million premature deaths worldwide. Cancer has been a leading cause of mortality since the 1970s, but only in 2016 did it become part of the UN global agenda, as part of Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4, aiming to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases. This step has helped raise the profile of cancer worldwide and led to an increased political commitment to accelerate cancer res…
(2022-02-26). PHOTO: Four Illegal Immigrants Stuffed in Toolbox Like Sardines at Texas Border. sputniknews.com A recent CBS News poll showed only 36% of respondents voiced satisfaction with how US President Joe Biden was handling immigration, as the past year witnessed record levels of illicit border crossings and overflowing detention centres struggling to deal with illegal immigrants on the Southern US border.
(2022-02-26). Saturday 2/26: #PassWHPA to Protect Reproductive Freedom Call to Action Rally w/ NARAL. indybay.org Online rally…
(2022-02-26). Herd immunity in Northern Ireland: "My family has been torn apart" wsws.org "The moneymen in government don't care how many families suffer, as long as profits keep rolling and the economy is booming."
(2022-02-26). 'The Mouse Kills the Cat': Augusto Cesar Sandino's Rebellion Against the US. orinocotribune.com By Daniel Kovalik — Feb 21, 2022 | How Sandino fought for Nicaragua's independence, lost and remained a hero for its people | Before Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, before Ho Chi Minh and before Mao began his Long March, there was Augusto Cesar Sandino. | While Sandino is not a household name in much of the world, as these others are, he was one of the most important and successful guerilla fighters of the 20th century, successfully driving the US Marines out of Nicaragua against nearly impossible odds. His image, with his iconic Tom Mix cowboy hat tilted to one side, continues to be the most ubiquitous symbol…
(2022-02-26). Monday 2/28: Have Her Back: Organizing Call to Support First Black Woman for SCOTUS. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2022-02-26). Thursday 3/10: Represent Women: 2022 Solutions Summit for Building a 21st Century Democracy (Day 3). indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2022-02-26). Tuesday 3/8: Represent Women: 2022 Solutions Summit for Building a 21st Century Democracy (Day 1). indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2022-02-26). PFAS Have Contaminated US Drinking Water Wells, According to USGS Study. sputniknews.com A new study by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has revealed that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) "forever chemicals" are now contaminating both private and public drinking water wells. The study found that 20% of private wells and 60% of public wells in 16 eastern states were contaminated by PFAS chemicals.