Benjamin Norton (2022-02-08). CIA veteran hosting anti-China 'Uyghur diaspora' podcast funded by US government. multipolarista.com The "WEghur Stories" podcast claims to speak on behalf of "the Uyghur diaspora," and uses intersectional feminist rhetoric to demonize China. But it's co-created and hosted by an ex CIA agent, with funding from the US embassy in France.

Al-Shabaka (2022-02-08). Challenging Israel's Climate Apartheid in Palestine. juancole.com By Muna Dajani | — ( Al-Shabakah ) — Through its participation in the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and other international forums, the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to promote a state-centric approach to climate change that ultimately blocks legitimate climate and environmental justice in Palestine. In effect, Palestinian leadership has reduced the Palestinian …

Staff (2022-02-08). Scientists invent '4-minute' Covid test. rt.com The new electromechanical sensors are as precise as PCR lab tests and show results in four minutes, researchers say | Scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai have come up with a new method for coronavirus testing, which they say is as sensitive but much quicker than PCR lab testing. | The new method involves electromechanical sensors capable of detecting, with high precision, SARS-CoV-2 RNA in human genetic material, according to the study published Monday in Nature Biomedical Engineering science journal. | "We implemented an electromechanical biosensor for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 into an integrated and…

_____ (2022-02-08). In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Manufacturing of a Cold War. strategic-culture.org This series will explain how the philosophy of the American establishment formed their "understanding" of nuclear strategy, which continues to influence thought today such as in the belief in the winnability of a limited nuclear war. | "She [the United States] has seen that probably for centuries to come, contests of inveterate power, and emerging right [will persist]…But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy…She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own…she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual…

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-08). Despite US Warnings, Ukraine Says Diplomatic Solution More Likely Than Russian Invasion. news.antiwar.com Ukraine continues to send a much different message than what US officials are saying concerning a potential Russian invasion. On Sunday, an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a diplomatic solution to the current tensions with Russia "An honest assessment of the situation suggests that the chance of finding a diplomatic solution for de-escalation is still substantially higher than the threat of further escalation," said preside…

Ari Paul (2022-02-08). The news is not that Israel has apartheid, but that Amnesty dares say so. mronline.org Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture?>

_____ (2022-02-08). Refugees in the Cluster of Humanitarian Disasters. journal-neo.org Recent years have been increasingly marked by numerous migration crises. Fleeing from wars, armed conflicts and various militant activities, migrants from Africa and Asia continue to make dangerous attempts to enter Europe by various, often risky and dangerous, means. As a result, many of them die at sea, and the coastguards of various countries have …

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-08). Biden, Germany's Scholz Try to Show United Front Amid Ukraine Tensions. news.antiwar.com President Biden met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington on Monday as the two leaders tried to show a united front amid heightened tensions with Russia over Ukraine. | Germany has not been as eager to stoke conflict between Ukraine and Russia as some of its NATO allies and is not sending weapons to Kyiv, Berlin has cited historical reasons as to why they don't want to send weapons that could be used in a war in Eastern Europe. Another…

sputniknews (2022-02-08). Not By Diet Alone: Overweight People May Become Thinner by Sleeping Extra Hour. sputniknews.com The researchers touted their study as game-changing because it was carried out in a real-world setting rather than a laboratory. The overweight participants, who habitually slept in their own beds fewer than 6.5 hours a night, managed to add an extra 1.2 hours of sleep after they underwent counselling to improve their sleeping habits.

ecns.cn (2022-02-08). China's Gu Ailing takes historic women's freeski big air gold at Beijing 2022. ecns.cn China's prodigy Gu Ailing claimed the historic gold with a 1620 performance she had never done before in the women's freeski big air of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Big Air Shougang here on Tuesday, while Tess Ledeux of France and Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland took silver and bronze, respectively.

Staff (2022-02-08). France's Macron claims he averted Russian invasion of Ukraine. rt.com According to the French leader, he managed to get a pledge from Putin that there will be no escalation in the conflict | French President Emmanuel Macron has claimed a breakthrough in the tense standoff between Russia and Ukraine, taking credit after supposedly obtaining guarantees from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the situation will not escalate further, following a crunch summit between the two heads of state. | Speaking to journalists in Kiev ahead of talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, Macron claimed that he has secured what he sees as a pledge from Moscow on the ma…

Staff (2022-02-08). 'Dust walls' could defeat hypersonic weapons — think tank. rt.com A modern version of the nuclear 'dust defense' could be key to countering the threat, a Raytheon and Lockheed-backed paper says | The US could defend itself against enemy hypersonic gliders by dispersing clouds of dust over large areas through which such projectiles are expected to fly, a new white paper has suggested. Traveling through such an area at high speed would degrade and potentially destroy the weapon. | The idea was discussed in a document

sputniknews (2022-02-08). China Says US Should Cancel $100 Mln Deal on Weapons Supply to Taiwan. sputniknews.com BEIJING (Sputnik) – The US should cancel a $100 million deal on weapons supply to Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Tuesday, adding that China will take necessary actions to protect its sovereignty,…

Editor2 (2022-02-08). What Makes Amnesty's Apartheid Report Different? orinocotribune.com By Maureen Clare Murphy — Feb 3, 2022 | What makes Amnesty International's Certainly, Israel's "hysterical" reaction — (in the

WSWS (2022-02-08). Throughout his presidency and following the failed coup, Trump illegally burned, shredded and hid White House documents. wsws.org The Washington Post reveals that Trump stowed "multiple boxes" of White House documents at his Mar-a-Lago compound, which were only recovered last month.

_____ (2022-02-08). Ukraine and Russia: History Matters. strategic-culture.org By Karsten RIISE | What is Ukraine? This is a difficult question. Russia was born in Kiev. The first historic Russian empire was Kievan-Rus, which was founded by the Vikings and the King Rurik, who sailed from the Baltic Sea through the rivers Daugava and Dnepr down to the Black Sea and Constantinople. In 882 CE they made Kyiv the capital of the first Russian kingdom. The Mongols put a final end to Kievan-Rus in the 13th century, but the Rurik dynasty then ruled from further north, in what was in the 15th century still just a small principality around another river city called Moscow. Only in 1598 did the ruling…

ecns.cn (2022-02-08). Gu Ailing hopes introduce Chinese culture to world via skiing. ecns.cn Chinese freestyle skier Gu Ailing, or Eileen Gu, is not only well-known for her sporting prowess but also for her love for fashion. She has been trying to introduce Chinese cultural elements to the world through skiing.

Staff (2022-02-08). Iran nuclear deal: The role of the Israel lobby & pressure groups in derailing an agreement. rt.com Different impact groups try to prevent a new deal between the West and Tehran. How are some of them connected to Israel? | On January 24, it was revealed in a

WSWS (2022-02-08). BNSF railroad unions beg Biden administration to intervene against punitive new attendance policy. wsws.org The letter is an attempt to divert attention from the unions' own treachery and promote illusions in the same capitalist state, which is robbing BNSF workers of their right to strike and to free speech.

WSWS (2022-02-08). BNSF railroad unions pen letter begging Biden administration to intervene against punitive new attendance policy. wsws.org The letter is an attempt to divert attention from the unions' own treachery and promote illusions in the same capitalist state, which is robbing BNSF workers of their right to strike and to free speech.

Canadian Tire Fire (2022-02-08). Canadian Tire Fire #28: Push Back Against Far-Right Convoys Spread as Anger Grows in Ottawa. itsgoingdown.org Our report this week will focus mainly on the ongoing anti-mandate, far-Right convoys and responses across so-called Canada. This week on @CdnTireFire, we look at how far-Right politics + conspiracy theories are driving the current #OttawayConvoy + some of the anti-Semitic + fascist forces hoping to use the growing anti-mandate protests to launch their own…

JANET (2022-02-08). U.S.-EU hide their role in Afghan hunger crisis. iacenter.org By Zach Kerner February 7, 2022 On Jan. 24, U.S. and European Union representatives met with representatives of the Taliban in Oslo to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. The meeting's purpose, according to the U.S. State Department, was the "urgency in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan" and the need to "help alleviate the suffering of Afghans across the country." (state.gov, Jan. 27) Credit: sanctionskill.org The U.S.-E.U. statement focuses primarily on the Taliban's conduct, particularly charges of women's and human rights violations. It fails to acknowledge that the ongoing crisis in Afghanis…

_____ (2022-02-08). First Document on National Security to Be Published in Pakistan. journal-neo.org At the end of December last year, the National Security Council of Pakistan, chaired by the Prime Minister, adopted the National Security Policy of Pakistan 2022-2026 (or NSP), apparently the first such document in the country's history. However, its originality was immediately questioned by representatives of highly influential army circles in Pakistan who say that a …

_____ (2022-02-08). Vladimir Putin's Meeting With Xi Jinping Marks an Important Step in Eurasian Future. journal-neo.org The past week saw what was arguably the most important encounter for a considerable period of time. The Russian president Vladimir Putin travelled to Beijing as the honoured guest of Chinese president Xi Jinping . It was their first face to face meeting for more than two years. The two leaders did not waste the opportunity …

_____ (2022-02-08). Why on Earth Does George Soros Want Xi Jinping to Go? journal-neo.org Mister "Open Society," George Soros, the symbol of globalist regime change Color Revolutions since the 1980s, has just signaled that he and his globalist circles have targeted China's President Xi Jinping for what looks a lot like regime change. On the surface, Soros' latest sharp critique of Xi and his management of China's economy seems …

_____ (2022-02-08). Antiwar Groups Rally To Stop Us From Being Lied Into War With Russia. popularresistance.org Clearing the FOG provides excerpts from the speakers at the National Online Rally to stop war with Russia over Ukraine that was held on Feb. 5 as part of the national actions that took place in about 70 cities in Hawaii and coast to coast. The rally and actions were organized based on a unified call to action issued by 12 national and international antiwar organizations, which was endorsed by more than 200 more organizations. The demands include stopping the war with Russia, stopping the supply of weapons to Nazis in Ukraine, ending NATO, de-escalating the threat of nuclear war and resolving the current conflict…

Benjamin Norton (2022-02-08). China y Rusia declaran una 'nueva era' de multipolaridad, desafiando el intervencionismo de EEUU. multipolarista.com Tras reunirse en Beijing, Xi Jinping de China y Vladimir Putin de Rusia publicaron una declaración conjunta que aclara las divisiones ideológicas de la nueva guerra fría: Eurasia llama a la multipolaridad, la cooperación, la soberanía y la "redistribución del poder en el mundo" contra la hegemonía unipolar y el intervencionismo de EEUU.

Editor (2022-02-08). Canada: The Left is nowhere on COVID. And that's a big problem. mronline.org They have failed to step into the current political climate and counter far-right protests, and get workers the income, housing and other social support they need.

Finian Cunningham (2022-02-08). President JFK's Murder Is Graphic Proof of Entrenched Cold War Ideology and Why Peace Eludes U.S.-Russia Relations. dissidentvoice.org The Cold War is back with a vengeance. The current impasse between the United States and Russia over the Ukraine crisis is running the risk of an all-out war in Europe, a war that could escalate into nuclear Armageddon. The crisis is wholly manufactured by Washington's geopolitical power calculations — claims made against Russia about …

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-08). BONUS: "The Long March: an Untold Story" by Harrison E. Salisbury- Review and Thoughts. anchor.fm In this episode I go over a book titled the long march: an untold story, by Harrison E Salisbury. I talk about things like hero worship, the great men of history theory, understanding historical materialism, and some other things about Mao, Stalin, and the Chinese revolution as well as socialist revolutions across the world.

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2022-02-08). Inflation in Venezuela Continues to Cool Down (+Tax on Transactions in US Dollars). orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 7, 2022 ( The graphic below, prepared by Orinoco Tribune's editorial team, demonstrates how the inflation rate has behaved in Venezuela since 2020, based on official figures repo…

Karen Conner (2022-02-08). PREVIEW: What to Look for in the January Consumer Price Index. cepr.net The big question is whether some of the supply chain-caused price hikes of 2021 are slowing or being reversed. The biggest item on this list is new and used vehicles.

Liberation Staff, NYC (2022-02-08). Times Square action says:'Fight racism, not Russia!'. liberationnews.org It wasn't Russia that was forcing us to go back to work during a global pandemic so our bosses could grind out a little extra profit … It was Wall Street.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-02-08). Construction union leaders hail Biden's pro-union executive order. peoplesworld.org

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-08). A salvo del precipicio: Argentina y el FMI negocian un mejor acuerdo. cepr.net Si más estadounidenses supieran cuántos civiles inocentes mueren realmente como resultado de estas sanciones, øse permitiría lo peor de ellos?

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-08). The Link Between Gun Violence and Economic Hardship in Black Communities. cepr.net If the US wants to reduce gun violence, it is important that to address the profound jobs crisis among Black men.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2022-02-08). Israel executes three men in Nablus. electronicintifada.net Palestinian Authority security forces storm slain fighters' funeral.

Nan McCurdy (2022-02-08). 2021: A Year of Big Advances in Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com By Nan McCurdy — Feb 3, 2022 | [This article is an updated version of a webinar presentation given December 18, hosted by Task Force on the Americas, Ecumenical Peace Institute, and Mount Diablo Peace and Justice Center.] | In 2021 Nicaragua made great leaps in improving lives and recuperating essential rights. | Defending Sovereignty | In my opinion the most important advance in 2021 for Nicaragua is defense of their right to sovereignty. As their historic leader, Augusto Sandino said: "Sovereignty is not discussed, but rather defended." This is essential for Nicaragua but also an excellent example for othe…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-08). Argentina joins China's Belt and Road Initiative. peoplesdispatch.org On February 6, the governments of Argentine President Alberto Fernández and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a memorandum of understanding on collaboration under the Belt and Road Initiative, a global trade infrastructure project promoted by the People's Republic of China. | The memorandum, which promotes the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, was signed during President Fernández's official three-day visit to China. President Fernández visited China, at President Jinping's invitation, to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Winter Games on Februa…

Staff (2022-02-08). Talk World Radio: Braxton Brewington: End Debt. davidswanson.org AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube. VIDEO: This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about debt, including student debt. Our guest Braxton Brewington is a spokesperson and organizer for The Debt Collective. See debtcollective.org The Debt Collective …

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2022-02-08). US Plays QUAD Card During Beijing Olympics. asia-pacificresearch.com

Anonymous765 (2022-02-08). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — February 8, 2022. southfront.org This is the newest update of the 'U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Locations Map' exclusive series showing the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence tracks locations of U.S. aircraft carriers using the available open-source information. No classified information was used in production of the map. | click to see the full-size image | Carrier strike group (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is centered on an aircraft carrier and a carrier ai…

WSWS (2022-02-08). Boston University epidemiologist Dr. Eleanor Murray speaks on COVID-19 and endemicity. wsws.org Part one of a two-part interview on the COVID pandemic and the claims that COVID has become endemic.

Binoy Kampmark (2022-02-08). Hemispheric gangsterism: The US embargo against Cuba turns 60. greenleft.org.au It all seems very outdated, but when it comes to Cuba, Binoy Kampmark argues United States President Joe Biden is keen to ensure that old, and lingering, mistakes retain their flavour.

teleSUR (2022-02-08). Nicaragua Asks El Salvador to Abide by International Law. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Nicaragua recommended that El Salvador resolve any eventual territorial dispute through peaceful methods and using international norms and institutions. | RELATED: | Previously, the Salvadoran Naval Forces made statements claiming sovereignty in the Nicaraguan exclusive economic zone in the Golf of Fonseca. Since Feb. 5, Salvadoran military vessels remain less than 30 miles from the Nicaraguan coasts in a maritime terr…

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-02-08). Challenging Colonialism s01e03: Weapons of Mass Destruction (p.II). indybay.org Part II: A History of Resistance | Part two of a four-part episode outlines dams as a colonial project, and centers Indigenous science in the historical and ongoing indigenous resistance to eco-genocide.

teleSUR, DRL (2022-02-08). Nicaragua llama a El Salvador a parar escalada marítima. telesurtv.net El llamado de Managua llega cuando El Salvador niega haberse adentrado en aguas jurisdiccionales de Nicaragua.

WSWS (2022-02-08). Turkish health workers strike as COVID-19 pandemic, living costs surge. wsws.org As COVID-19 cases explode and real annual inflation exceeds 110 percent in Turkey, many layers of the working class are increasingly taking strike action.

teleSUR, JL (2022-02-08). Pdte. de Perú denuncia intentos golpistas contra su Gobierno. telesurtv.net "Me apena que grupos de poder promuevan de manera sistemática una innecesaria vacancia presidencial", denunció el mandatario.

teleSUR (2022-02-08). Guatemalans Ask For The Release Of A Migrant Detained In Mexico. telesurenglish.net On Monday, relatives of the Maya Chuj woman Juana Alonzo went to the Mexican Consulate in Guatemala City to demand the release of the Indigenous migrant, who is being held in Tamaulipas for alleged abduction charges. | RELATED: | In August 2014, this Guatemalan woman attempted to migrate to the United States. However, she was abducted nearby the northern Mexican border by a human trafficker, who forced her to wor…

rqorinoco (2022-02-07). As Biden Continues Trump's Cruel 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign, US Media Treats Crushing Iran's Economy as Anodyne 'Diplomacy Toolkit'. orinocotribune.com A harsh sanctions regime on Iran that has killed thousands and was heavily criticized under Trump is now casual bipartisan consensus in Washington.: | By Sarah Lazare — Feb 2, 2022 | In US press outlets, the Biden administration's "maximum pressure" sanctions on Iran are, by and large, not presented as a moral issue, but as a piece of leverage in a diplomatic effort to get the best possible nuclear deal with Iran. They are ethically neutral, a tool in America's tool belt, a rook in a three-dimensional game of chess, where the components and pieces are already determined. "The US sees 'snapback' sanct…

rqorinoco (2022-02-07). Argentina to Russia: We Want To End Dependency On US. orinocotribune.com On February 3, the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, visited the Kremlin and told President Vladimir Putin that his country wants to end "dependency" on the US and strengthen economic ties with Russia instead. | Fernández

sputniknews (2022-02-07). It is Urgent That Russia is Provided With Legal Security Guarantees, Top Diplomat Says. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The issue of providing Moscow with legal security guarantees has become urgent, as a slew of problems has accumulated between Russia and the West, Vladimir Yermakov, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Arms Control, told Sputnik.

WSWS (2022-02-07). US combat troops arrive in Eastern Europe as Washington steps up war hysteria. wsws.org Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan made several television appearances Sunday to warn, without evidence, that Russia could invade Ukraine "at any moment."

_____ (2022-02-07). Argentina Turns To Russia And Joins China's Belt And Road. popularresistance.org Argentina is trapped in $44 billion of IMF odious debt taken on by corrupt right-wing regimes. Seeking alternatives to US hegemony, President Alberto Fernández traveled to Russia and China, forming an alliance with the Eurasian powers, joining the Belt and Road Initiative.

Editor (2022-02-07). How Israel's occupation of Palestine intensifies climate change. mronline.org "Israel's actions over the last almost 75 years demonstrate that there is very little regard for the indigenous landscape, the indigenous flora and fauna, the wildlife population, and the indigenous people." — Zena Agha, Middle East Institute.

_____ (2022-02-07). Crisis or Confusion? A Brief Guide For Black Folk On The Situation In Ukraine. popularresistance.org Within large sectors of the U.S. left, including many elements of the Black left, there is widespread confusion related to the Ukraine "crisis." Years of anti-Russia propaganda from the US and its NATO allies, and the tendency to abstract the current Ukrainian situation from its historical and geo-strategic context, have created a climate of confusion. This climate has played into the hands of state propagandists and democratic party activists eager to use the Ukraine situation to deflect attention from Biden's disastrous domestic agenda. The situation with Ukraine did not just fall out of the sky in 2021. It has…

Otha Hernandez (2022-02-07). More than 1,000 protesters demand justice for Amir Locke in Minneapolis. liberationnews.org In the early morning hours of Feb. 2, members of the Minneapolis Police Department executed a no-knock, pre-dawn warrant in the downtown Minneapolis apartment unit where Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man, was sleeping. Within nine seconds Amir Locke would be killed.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2022-02-07). Freedom Convoy 2020: The Elite Gathers Its Forces for a Counterattack on the Truckers. globalresearch.ca There are reports that the Ottawa police, faithful servants, not of the people, but of the ruling elite, are attempting to prevent food and water and all "material support" from reaching the Truckers. | . | In other words, the ruling elite …

WSWS (2022-02-07). US death toll from COVID-19 heading toward 1 million. wsws.org America's COVID-19 death toll stands as an indictment of a capitalist social order completely indifferent to the death and suffering of the working population.

WSWS (2022-02-07). Portugal's Socialist Party wins legislative election as Left Bloc collapses. wsws.org The Left Bloc and the Portuguese Communist Party are deeply discredited after years of openly supporting the right-wing policies of the Socialist Party (PS) government.

_____ (2022-02-07). Protest Calls On Public Stores To Stop Selling Apartheid Products. popularresistance.org On Saturday, 5 February, activists in Vancouver gathered outside the downtown BC Liquor Store for a picket and literature distribution calling for the publicly owned stores to stop selling Israeli wines, many of which are produced in the occupied Palestinian and Syrian lands of the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Despite repeated calls to provincial officials noting that the sale of these wines means that BC Liquor Stores are directly implicated in war crimes, they have continued to take no action and market these apartheid wines. | The Canada Palestine Association has led the campaign for years to remove these…

_____ (2022-02-07). The Untold History Of NATO And Case For Its Abolition. popularresistance.org NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is moving ever closer to Russia's border. Russia views this as an existential threat — and a historic betrayal of key guarantees it was given by the west as the Soviet Union disintegrated. As Biden sends thousands of additional troops to Eastern Europe, the threat of war is growing by the day.

TASS (2022-02-07). Russia is better prepared for Western sanctions than EU to gas supply cuts – Borrell. tass.com "Russia has enhanced its resilience against economic sanctions, by increasing its foreign currency reserves, more than we have done to enhance our capacity to face potential gas supply cuts", EU foreign policy chief said…

ecns.cn (2022-02-07). U.S. should not go further down the wrong path: Chinese UN ambassador. ecns.cn China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Zhang Jun on Sunday resolutely refuted the unfounded accusations against China made by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. UN ambassador, in her interview with CNN.

Staff (2022-02-07). Putin Announces New Gas Supply Contract with China. orinocotribune.com This Friday, February 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, announced a "Our tankers have prepared very good new solutions for the supply of hydrocarbons to the People's Republic of China. A further step has been taken in the gas industry. I am referring to a new contract for th…

WSWS (2022-02-07). Protests erupt after Minneapolis police kill man in no-knock raid. wsws.org Amir Locke was killed in less than 10 seconds after Minneapolis police burst into the apartment he was sleeping in early Wednesday. Minneapolis Police attempted to falsely claim he was a homicide suspect and he threatened officers, among other fabricated details, following a recent trend of covering up police murder.

WSWS (2022-02-07). Kiev denies war plans against Russia as conflicts within the Ukrainian ruling class escalate. wsws.org The government of Volydymyr Zelensky is plagued by internal crisis as it marches towards war.

WSWS (2022-02-07). Over half of all US teachers consider leaving the profession due to pandemic-related stressors. wsws.org The percentage of teachers compelled to leave the profession sooner than expected has steadily risen throughout the pandemic.

Staff (2022-02-07). At Beijing Olympics, China & IOC Accused of "Sportswashing" Amid Uyghur Abuses, Peng Shuai Censorship. democracynow.org Human rights advocates say renewed international attention for China during the Winter Olympics should focus on rampant human rights violations occurring across the country. It is incumbent upon the International Olympic Committee to deny countries the bid to host if they violate their citizens' human rights, says Jules Boykoff, author and former member of the U.S. Olympic soccer team. While many have commended China's "zero-COVID policy," the emphasis on keeping infection rates low is distracting from other kinds of suffering, adds Yaqiu Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch…

Patricia Ferrer (2022-02-07). RT Censored: Germany Prohibits Russian TV Channel to Broadcast. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, February 2, German media licensing and supervision commission (ZAK) has banned the Russian TV channel, Russia Today (RT), from broadcasting. | ZAK indicated, that RT does not have a media license. According to the media regulator, German law indicates that the Russian channel requires a broadcast license. It also states that RT did not receive or request permission to broadcast its programming. For this reason, it ordered the medium to stop broadcasting in German territory on all its platforms. | With this guideline RT will not be able to transmit its programming on the air, internet, through the…

sputniknews (2022-02-07). New 'Leaked' Video Shows US F-35 Jet Bursting Into Flames and Crashing into Ocean. sputniknews.com The American warplane crashed into the deck of the USS Carl Vinson in January. While the pilot managed to safely eject they were injured in the incident, as well as six other members of the carrier's crew.

_____ (2022-02-07). The Pentagon Keeps On Killing Civilians in Syria. journal-neo.org On February 2, the Pentagon chief announced that US Special Forces had completed a counter-terrorism operation in Syria, controlled by the US Central Command, stressing that "the mission was successful" and "there were no US casualties." As it turned out, the target of this operation near the town of Atme in the Syrian province of …

deweylaura (2022-02-07). Amir Locke: Another Black man murdered by Minneapolis police. cpusa.org At 7 a.m. local time on Thursday February 3, 2022, Minneapolis SWAT executed a no-knock warrant and entered the apartment where Amir Locke, 22, was sleeping on a couch. As captured on body cams, Officer Mark Hanneman shot Locke three times within nine seconds of entry into the apartment. Locke was not the target …

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-07). Morning Commute: 2-7-2022 #FREELEONARDPELTIER. anchor.fm In this episode I go over a few things that are on my mind like the continuous encirclement and harassment of Russia and China, as well as how we can learn from the ongoing peoples movements in socialist revolution of the past and the present in order to inform and help organize for our future. Let's get Organizing y'all!

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-07). Daily Round-up| Student leader released on bail in Swaziland, persecution of Egyptian lawyer & more. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we look at the release of a student leader in Swaziland following mass protests, the persecution of human rights lawyer Osama Bayoumi in Egypt, and the controversy over an oil exploration project in the Sao Francisco region of Brazil…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-07). Farmers protest in Pakistan over fertilizer shortage and other issues, rally announced for February 14. peoplesdispatch.org The Pakistan Kissan Ittehad, which has been spearheading the farmers' protests since November, has announced a Punjab State-wide strike action by farmers if the government fails to act upon their demands till February 20…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-07). In year 3 of the pandemic, the challenges facing WHO are in plain sight. peoplesdispatch.org Gargeya Telakapalli of People's Health Movement analyzes what the recent Executive Board meeting of the World Health Organization tells us about its future and our handling of the pandemic…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-07). Netherlands: Struggle for affordable housing intensifies with protests in multiple cities. peoplesdispatch.org Activists from various youth & student groups, feminist groups, trade unions and political parties marched for housing rights on the call of #Woonrevolte Amersfoort, a housing rights coalition.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-07). Rights group urge Qatar and FIFA to ensure fair trial for former World Cup employee. peoplesdispatch.org Abdullah Ibhais, was convicted on bribery and other related charges soon after he spoke up against the Qatari authorities' repression of a migrant workers strike…

Shawgi Tell (2022-02-07). Miserable Bankruptcy of Mainstream Economics. dissidentvoice.org Capital-centered economics is unscientific and irrational. It does not provide people with a coherent, integrated, and cogent understanding of the economy. Instead it increases confusion every day, leaving people rudderless and disoriented about what is really happening. The capitalist economic system is always chaotic, anarchic, and violent, but the last two years have been more …

Tanya Wadhwa (2022-02-07). Venezuelans commemorate 30th anniversary of 1992 civic-military rebellion. peoplesdispatch.org The civic-military rebellion led by Commander Hugo Chávez against the government of president Carlos Andrés Pérez, despite its failure, marked the end of neoliberalism and the beginning of a new era of profound socio-political changes in the country…

teleSUR, JCM (2022-02-07). Consejo de Seguridad debate efectos de las sanciones unilaterales. telesurtv.net La reunión contará con la participación de la Secretaria General Adjunta de Asuntos Políticos y de Consolidación de la Paz, Rosemary DiCarlo.

Marco I. Dávila C. (2022-02-07). México — La Reforma Eléctrica no será solo de los grandes empresarios. globalizacion.ca En la historia reciente de México, øcuándo se había visto que un gobierno iniciara una discusión nacional a fondo, en la que pueden participar todos, especialistas, técnicos, políticos, académicos, empresarios, ciudadanía en general? | Hoy, con el gobierno de Andrés Manuel…

sputniknews (2022-02-07). Spotify Will Not Silence Joe Rogan Over Racial Slur Controversy, CEO Says. sputniknews.com The statement is likely to add pressure to the audio streaming service, which has come under fire in recent weeks to remove Rogan's podcast over misinformation spread by the TV presenter about COVID-19 and the vaccines against the disease.

teleSUR, yart, JL (2022-02-07). Ciudadanos de Minneapolis se movilizan por agresión policial. telesurtv.net Los manifestantes exigieron justicia por Amir Locke, así como una reforma de la Policía.

JRLCAUSC (2022-02-07). Wednesday 4/6: Pathways to Thriving Communities- Presented by Newly Dedicated John R. Lewis College UCSC. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE and open to the community)…

WSWS (2022-02-07). Wild swings on Wall Street. wsws.org The $230 billion loss of Meta's market value on Thursday was equivalent to the total market value of Intel and greater than that of McDonald's.

AIM West, ANSWER Coalition (2022-02-07). Monday 2/7: SF Rally – Tell the U.S. Government: Free Leonard Peltier! indybay.org Federal Building, 7th + Mission St., San Francisco…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-07). Video: American paratroopers arrive in Poland. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com "And if necessary, defend any portion of NATO."

Mouris Salloum George (2022-02-07). México — El miedo y el odio van de la mano. globalizacion.ca El miedo, patrimonio casi exclusivo del pensamiento de la derecha. Sus aliados, la mentira y la sospecha, ubican al margen de la ley a cualquier ser pensante o diferente y va acompañado de la supresión de protecciones y garantías sociales,…

Sandipan Talukdar (2022-02-07). Omicron-specific vaccines: can be helpful, but needs a global policy, experts opine. peoplesdispatch.org Ever since Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech have started the variant-specific vaccine's clinical trials, the international community of researchers and scientists are arguing about the necessity, need or sustainability of such variant-specific vaccines…

Andrew Wong (2022-02-07). USA uses Solomon Islands protests against China. indybay.org Recently the US Department of State has issued a condemnation of mass unrest acts in the Solomon Islands.

Healthcare-NOW (2022-02-07). Sunday 4/3: #M4A: 2022 Medicare For All Virtual Strategy Conference (Day 2). indybay.org Virtual conference – join online…

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-02-07). Challenging Colonialism s01e03: Weapons of Mass Destruction (p.I). indybay.org Part I: Dams and Colonization | In part one of a four part episode, we examine the negative environmental and cultural impact of dams, and the Indigenous-led movement to remove them. These dams, deemed Weapons of Mass Destruction by Chief Caleen Sisk, have devastated Salmon populations and the communities whose histories have been in relationship with Salmon since time immemorial.

Brenda Norrell (2022-02-07). Myron Dewey's Death: No Charges Filed Against Driver Responsible Four Months Later. indybay.org It has been four months since Paiute Shoshone Journalist Myron Dewey was killed when a driver pulled into his lane and hit him head-on. There have been no charges filed against the driver of the truck who was found at fault in the accident report. Dewey was a drone activist and filmmaker during the resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in North Dakota.

WSWS (2022-02-07). All 72 Wisconsin counties at "critically high" rate of COVID-19 transmission for record fourth week in a row. wsws.org The BA.2 Omicron subvariant has been confirmed in the state as infections and deaths continue at extremely high levels.

WSWS (2022-02-07). State of emergency declared in Ottawa as far-right Freedom Convoy occupation continues. wsws.org Far-right and fascist activists, many of whom are armed, remain menacingly encamped outside Canada's parliament. They have vowed to remain until all COVID-19 restrictions are scrapped by the federal Liberal government.

Labor Video Project (2022-02-07). IT'S WAR! The Fight To Stop School Closures In Oakland As Hundreds Rally and March. indybay.org Hundreds of teachers, students and parents rallied and marched against the proposal to shut and merge many schools in the Flatlands in Oakland. These schools have large number of Black and Brown students and this is taking place as the state has a budget surplus of 45.7 billion dollars.

WSWS (2022-02-07). Pennsylvania Governor Wolf raises minimum wage for state employees, calls for a $15 statewide minimum. wsws.org Facing reelection in the fall, Wolf has called on the Republican-dominated state legislature to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 per hour. There is little prospect the proposal will go into effect.

Project Censored (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…

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-02-06). Hundreds in Minneapolis protest police killing of Black man. en.mehrnews.com Hundreds of community members and activists gathered outside the Hennepin County Government Center Saturday afternoon for a protest following the shooting death of Amir Locke by the Minneapolis police on Wednesday.

ecns.cn (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…

Anatol Lieven (2022-02-06). Putin, Put'n, and peace in Ukraine. canadiandimension.com If Putin's past record is anything to go by, then only as a very last resort will he launch a full-scale invasion of eastern Ukraine, writes Anatol Lieven. Photo by Antonio Marín Segovia/ A mythological monster is haunting the fevered imagination of the West. Its name, as pronounced by the US media and political establishment, is "Put'n." It has the body of the bear, the arms of an octopus, and the head of a super-intelligent extraterrestrial. Its other characteristics are equally contradictory. It is an ethnic chauvinis…

Anonymous Contributor (2022-02-06). Stay Out of DC: A Report on Confronting Patriot Front at 'March for Life'. itsgoingdown.org Report back on antifascist mobilization against the neo-Nazi group Patriot Front, who attempted to march at the anti-abortion, 'March for Life' rally in DC in late January. We, speaking as DC AFA, Frederick AF, DCYLF, MDYLF and other DC community members united against Patriot Front on January 21, 2022 during the National March for Life…

Binoy Kampmark (2022-02-06). Hemispheric Gangsterism: The US Embargo Against Cuba Turns 60. dissidentvoice.org It all seems worn, part of an aspic approach to foreign policy. But US President Joe Biden is keen to ensure that old and lingering mistakes retain their flavour. Towards Cuba, it is now 60 years since President John F. Kennedy's Presidential Proclamation 3447 imposed an embargo on all trade with the island state. The …

Editor2 (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…

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-06). Morning Commute: 2-6-2022. anchor.fm In this episode I discuss more about George Jackson's "blood in my eye" as well as some other incredible works and articles I've read such as those from hoodcommunist.org, Black Alliance for Peace and Black Agenda Report. I discuss a bit about the liberal attempt to appear woke by co-opting black history month for white interests and white ideas. I also discuss the necessity to organize, arm yourself (if legal üòâ) And get building relationships with ongoing people movements wherever you can find them!

Staff (2022-02-06). Caracas Court of Appeals Upholds Conviction of CITGO Six. orinocotribune.com The ninth circuit of the Caracas Court of Appeals upheld this Friday, February 4, the ruling of the Court of First Instance of Caracas that sentenced six former executives of Venezuela's CITGO Corporation, a subsidiary of state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), to prison terms between nine and 13 years, for acts of corruption. | Friday's ruling ratified the sentence against former president of CITGO, José àÅngel Pereira Ruimwyk, to serve 13 years and seven months in prison for committing crimes of fraudulent embezzlement and illicit agreement of a public official with a contractor, according to a press…

Staff (2022-02-06). Duque Wants to Speak with Russian Ambassador about Violence in Colombia's Arauca. orinocotribune.com Colombian President Iván Duque said this Friday, February 4, that he will speak to the Russian ambassador to Colombia, Nikolay K. Tavdumadze, to clarify the objectives of Russia's military presence in Venezuela. | Thus, Duque has chosen to ignore the statement from the Russian embassy in Colombia, which had denounced unfounded allegations made by the Colombian Defense Minister, Diego Molano. Molano accused Russia of supporting and implementing technical assistance at the Venezuelan border, to carry out a foreign "intervention." The Russian embassy called these accusations irresponsible, as Molano did not provide…

Staff (2022-02-06). Video: Remembering Samah Idriss: An Organic Intellectual and his Literary and Socio-Political Paths. samidoun.net On Saturday, 5 February, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil) organized a webinar to remember the Lebanese revolutionary intellectual Samah Idriss. "Remembering Samah Idriss: An Organic Intellectual and his Subversive Literary and Socio-Political Paths" included analysis of his literary and political contributions, memories of his life in struggle, and visions for future organizing …

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-02-06). Challenging Colonialism s01e03: Weapons of Mass Destruction (p.I). indybay.org Part I: Dams and Colonization | In part one of a four part episode, we examine the negative environmental and cultural impact of dams, and the Indigenous-led movement to remove them. These dams, deemed Weapons of Mass Destruction by Chief Caleen Sisk, have devastated Salmon populations and the communities whose histories have been in relationship with Salmon since time immemorial.

teleSUR, SH (2022-02-06). Brasil registra la mayor cifra de muertes por Covid desde 2021. telesurtv.net Brasil acumula 26.4 millones de casos positivos y 631.802 fallecidos desde el inicio de la pandemia.

Nathaniel Linderman (2022-02-06). Pfizer Vaccine Confirmed to Cause Neurodegenerative Diseases: Study. globalresearch.ca

Direct Action Everywhere (2022-02-06). Sunday 2/20: Vegan Pop-Up. indybay.org Unity Park (at 16th and Ohio) | Richmond, CA 94804…

Healthcare-NOW (2022-02-06). Sunday 4/3: #M4A: 2022 Medicare For All Virtual Strategy Conference (Day 2). indybay.org Virtual conference – join online…

ecns.cn (2022-02-06). Xi calls for sound, steady development of China-Singapore ties in post-pandemic era. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Singaporean President Halimah Yacob in Beijing on Sunday, calling on both sides to deepen the synergy of development strategies and promote the sound and steady development of bilateral relations in…

J.L. Institute of Non-Violent Movements (2022-02-06). Thursday 2/17: Voting Rights, Civil Rights: What's Now, What Next? indybay.org Virtual event (FREE)…

William Briggs (2022-02-06). Taiwan and Ukraine: How United States foreign policy operates in the service of capitalism. greenleft.org.au The sabre rattling of the United States and its allies grows as capitalism's crisis sharpens, writes William Briggs.

ecns.cn (2022-02-06). China, Singapore to enhance cooperation. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday met with visiting Singaporean President Halimah Yacob, who came to China for the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

ecns.cn (2022-02-06). Xi, Mirziyoyev agree on consolidating comprehensive China-Uzbekistan cooperation. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday met with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, calling on both sides to seize opportunities to consolidate and strengthen bilateral comprehensive cooperation and bring more benefits to the two peoples.

Celeste McGovern (2022-02-06). Vaccine Researcher Admits 'Big Mistake,' Says Spike Protein Is Dangerous 'Toxin'. globalresearch.ca First published in …

ecns.cn (2022-02-06). Xi says China ready to accelerate FTA negotiation with GCC. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday said China stands ready to work with countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to accelerate the free trade agreement negotiations.

ecns.cn (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.

ecns.cn (2022-02-06). Chinese teenage snowboarder Su leads into slopestyle final at Beijing 2022. ecns.cn Chinese teenage sensation Su Yiming led the field to qualify for the men's snowboard slopestyle final at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Sunday."ÄÄ…

Comrades of Color Caucus of FSP (2022-02-06). Sunday 2/20: Black Women Fire Up the Movement for Reproductive Justice! indybay.org On Zoom: tinyurl.com/BHM-2022 | Please register in advance…

JRLCAUSC (2022-02-06). Wednesday 4/6: Pathways to Thriving Communities- Presented by Newly Dedicated John R. Lewis College UCSC. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE and open to the community)…

Disability Rights California (2022-02-06). Tuesday 2/8: Mental Health Rights: Dependent Adults & Elders Rights to be Free of Abuse & Neglect. indybay.org Online webinar…

Michael Welch (2022-02-06). Medical Marvel or the Second Coming of Al Capone? Pfizer's Sins and Crimes. "We have a Vaccine which is Killing People" globalresearch.ca . "This …

teleSUR, JL (2022-02-06). Denuncian nueva masacre en Colombia, la número 17 en lo corrido del 2022. telesurtv.net En lo corrido del presente año, el país contabiliza 20 líderes sociales asesinados.

JRLCAUSC (2022-02-06). Wednesday 4/13: Students as Agents of Transformative Change – Hosted by John R. Lewis College UCSC. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE and open to the community)…

teleSUR, JCM (2022-02-06). Exlíder sindical asume dirección del Frente Amplio en Uruguay. telesurtv.net Fernando Pereira asumió este sábado oficialmente su cargo en un acto realizado en el teatro El Galpón de Montevideo.

Direct Action Everywhere (2022-02-06). Saturday 2/12: Meetup: Hear from the Organizers Running for DxE Core. indybay.org Crescent Lawn UC Berkeley | Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720…

teleSUR, SH (2022-02-06). Avanzan con normalidad elecciones presidenciales en Costa Rica. telesurtv.net Los electores deberán escoger entre los 25 candidatos que aspiran a la presidencia de Costa Rica y a conformar la Asamblea Legislativa.

John Tully (2022-02-06). Abdullah Ocalan: Symbol of 100 years of Kurdish resistance. greenleft.org.au Abdullah Ocalan's jailers hoped that by slamming shut the prison doors, the world would forget about him. But, as John Tully writes, for millions of Kurds and their supporters around the world, Ocalan remains a living symbol of resistance to a century of oppression by the Turkish state.

JRLCAUSC (2022-02-06). Wednesday 3/30: Social Movements for a Just Society- Hosted by Newly Dedicated John R. Lewis College UCSC. indybay.org Online via Zoom (FREE and open to the community)…

David Skripac (2022-02-06). What Are the Truly Verifiable Facts Surrounding COVID-19? globalresearch.ca Incisive and carefully researched article by David Skripac, first published on Global Research on August 14, 2020 "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that …

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-02-06). Iran, Russia to hold joint agricultural working group. en.mehrnews.com Deputy Ministry of Agriculture for Horticultural Affairs said that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation will hold a joint working group in the field of agriculture.

David DeGraw (2022-02-06). National Security Alert: Thousands of U.S. Special Forces and Combat Troops Discharged as Total Force 'Vaccination' Decimates Military Readiness. globalresearch.ca

Healthcare-NOW (2022-02-06). Saturday 4/2: #M4A: 2022 Medicare For All Virtual Strategy Conference (Day 1). indybay.org Virtual conference – join online…

teleSUR, SH (2022-02-06). Presidente argentino aprueba ingreso a la Nueva Ruta de la Seda. telesurtv.net El Gobierno argentino alcanzó un financiamiento por más de 23.700 millones de dólares generando un nuevo hito en la relación bilateral con China.

teleSUR- jaa, JL (2022-02-06). Pdte. de Bolivia confirma descubrimiento de gran reserva de gas. telesurtv.net El pozo Margarita-10 será el mayor productor de gas natural del país, informaron autoridades bolivianas.

David Swanson (2022-02-06). The Warmongers Miscalculated. warisacrime.org Video from the White House on Saturday: "We need a Department of Defense Against the Warmongers" said David Swanson of @WorldBeyondWar, because defense contractors & imperial politicians will lie us into one for üí∞üí∞üí∞ pic.twitter.com/95EMNlTRkh — ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) February 5, 2022 Video from webinar on Saturday here. The people inside the White House sometimes …

Labor Video Project (2022-02-06). IT'S WAR! The Fight To Stop School Closures In Oakland As Hundreds Rally and March. indybay.org Hundreds of teachers, students and parents rallied and marched against the proposal to shut and merge many schools in the Flatlands in Oakland. These schools have large number of Black and Brown students and this is taking place as the state has a budget surplus of 45.7 billion dollars.

teleSUR, JCM (2022-02-06). Indepaz reporta masacre número 16 en Colombia en lo que va de 2022. telesurtv.net Según las investigaciones, un hombre le disparó a un Guardia Indígena en varias oportunidades cerca de la vivienda donde se encontraba reunida la comunidad.

Katy Palony (2022-02-06). Sunday 2/13: Rally in support of increased care for the mentally ill instead of jails. indybay.org 1221 Oak St, Oakland, Ca. | Alameda Board of Supervisors Office…

Staff (2022-02-06). Saudi warplanes attack Yemen's Sanaa. en.mehrnews.com Saudi fighter jets once again targeted the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Sunday morning.

Fight Back (2022-02-06). Baltimore: Protest demands: 'No U.S., NATO war on Russia and Donbass'. fightbacknews.org Baltimore, MD — Dozens of protesters gathered on February 5 in downtown Baltimore to speak out against a possible U.S./NATO war on Russia and Donbass. Speakers called on the U.S. government to fight COVID and poverty instead of Russia. | Protesters chanted demands for money for social investments in healthcare, housing and jobs instead of the military budget and war. Cars honked their horns in solidarity as they drove by the picket. A caravan of protesters drove throughout the city after the initial picket, before meeting up with another group for a joint closing rally at a different intersection. | A coali…

Paul Haeder (2022-02-06). To the Victor Go the Spoils. dissidentvoice.org As you know, I have other gigs, other ways to express ideas, and construct my own analysis in my own life. Experiences turned into philosophy. Or, anti-philosophy to invent self. This piece is in the local rag, again, Newport, Lincoln County, Oregon. On the coast. (see story/Op-ed below — Newport News Times.) Yes, the world …

International Action Center, Bay Area (2022-02-05). Saturday 2/5: No War Against Russia! Fund Schools and Covid Relief Not War! indybay.org In front of Grand Lake Theater (Grand and Lake Park) Oakland…

Moderator (2022-02-05). Joint Russia-China Statement Articulates United Opposition to Western Alliance. scheerpost.com Editors note:

Malik Miah (2022-02-05). What's behind US-NATO warmongering against Russia? greenleft.org.au The current United States-Russia crisis has its roots in Washington's betrayal of its well-documented promise to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in the early 1990s to not move NATO eastward, write Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

Rick Rozoff (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 …

ecns.cn (2022-02-05). China, Russia reaffirm support on core interest, oppose interference in internal affairs: joint statement. ecns.cn China and Russia reaffirmed strong support for each other's core interest, state sovereignty and territorial integrity, and voiced opposition to external interference in their domestic affairs, according to a joint statement issued Friday after a meeting between the two countries' presidents.

_____ (2022-02-05). Tone-Deaf Navy Lawsuit Challenges Hawai'i Shut Down Of Leaking Tanks. popularresistance.org Two lawsuits filed on February 2, 2022 by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the Department of Defense and the Department of Navy challenge the State of Hawaii's emergency order to shut down and defuel the leaking 80-year-old jet fuel tanks. These lawsuits have created another public relations nightmare for the U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense as residents of O'ahu have expressed their dismay and outrage to the continuing threat of jet fuel to their drinking water aquifer. In November 2021, the Red Hill tank system leaked jet fuel into the drinking water of 93,000 residents in military housing aro…

sputniknews (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.

Editor (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). Cyberattack against the DPRK: Reasons for the January 2022 Escalation? journal-neo.org When talking about the reasons for the end of the North Korean moratorium, global media and most pundits have disregarded one factor that could have played a key role in the DPRK leadership's decision. On January 14, 2022, NK News reported about North Korea's disappearance from the Internet that lasted several hours as crucial servers inside …

_____ (2022-02-05). The US Is Wrong On Yemen — Again. popularresistance.org Last week, Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East, boiled down the millions suffering in Yemen into a false binary in which Washington has done everything it can for peace. He claimed that the Houthi rebels in Yemen are to blame for the continuation of this seven-year conflict that has become the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. With the Houthis launching ballistic missiles at the United Arab Emirates, and a litany of their own war crimes, it'd be easy to fall for this simplistic analysis of the conflict. Yet, in suggesting that reaching a ceasefire and ending the war is simply up…

_____ (2022-02-05). US Sanctions On Afghanistan Could Be Deadlier Than 20 Years Of War. popularresistance.org Economic sanctions have, in recent years, become one of the most important tools of U.S. foreign policy. There are currently more than 20 countries subjected to various sanctions from the U.S. government. | But if more Americans knew how many innocent civilians actually die as a result of these sanctions, would the worst of them be permitted? | We may be about to find out in Afghanistan. Sanctions currently imposed on the country are on track to take the lives of more civilians in the coming year than have been killed by 20 years of warfare. There's no hiding it any more. | Projections through the winter estimate…

Ana Perdigón (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…

Bruce, Barbara MacLean-Lerro (2022-02-05). Renaissance Woman Sylvia Pankhurst: Feminist, Artist, Council Communist, Anti-Imperialist. dissidentvoice.org Why Sylvia Matters How many of you about to read this have heard of Sylvia Pankhurst? Our guess is, not many. She seems to have fallen through the cracks of socialist and suffragette movement literature. Her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst and sister, Christabel Pankhurst are still looked up to as leaders in the suffragette movement. What …

Colin Todhunter (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 …

Editor2 (2022-02-05). Honduran Garifuna Doctor who Graduated from ELAM Joins President Xiomara Castro's Cabinet. orinocotribune.com Dr. Luther Castillo Harry, who on March 17, 1999, received a scholarship to study at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, has been appointed Secretary of Science, Technology and Scientific Innovation of Honduras by President Xiomara Castro. | For Dr. Castillo, who comes from the Garífuna community, ELAM turned out to be "a paradise in the heart of the Caribbean, where the dreams of the children of the poor come true, and from where men and women of science and conscience graduate." | Coming from Moskitia, one of the most remote regions of Honduras and home to four of the nine indigenous and…

Evan Jones (2022-02-05). Cringeworthy Media Down Under. dissidentvoice.org The Russians are coming! So says the Australian mainstream media. To be honest, I don't know what the Murdoch press is saying as my equilibrium depends on my not reading it. The other major media chain, Nine Entertainment, is in full neo-Cold War mode. Nine Entertainment, as its name implies, has been best known for …

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-05). Morning Commute: 2-5-2022. anchor.fm In this episode I discussed the fascist origin of the United States of America as well as its colonial and imperial past, present, and fearful future. We are the ones who will stop the coming of the ongoing fascist and reactionary movement as well as its ability to further capture power. We must organize now!!

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-05). Extreme-Right Opposition Democratic Action Wants to Participate in 2024 Presidential Elections, Announces Candidacy. orinocotribune.com With two years to go before the 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela, Carlos Prósperi, the spokesperson for the Democratic Action (AD) faction led by Henry Ramos Allup, has called for all opposition sectors to organize as a single unitary platform. | Ramos Allup is thus making it clear that even those groups which have traditionally represented right-wing extremism in Venezuela that has recurred to violence, election abstention, and coups, now understand that the only option is to constitutionally adhere to the democratic electoral route. | "The healthiest thing would be for all opposition political organizat…

Leonardo Mattos (2022-02-05). Health systems, pandemic response and social participation: lessons from Latin America. peoplesdispatch.org Latin America has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, following years of privatization and fragmentation of health systems, and low public investment in health…

Peoples Dispatch (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…

Peoples Health Dispatch (2022-02-05). No pause in health workers' struggles in Nigeria. peoplesdispatch.org As health workers' trade unions in Nigeria call their membership to continue strike action over bad working conditions and missed payments, attempts to limit the space for industrial action persist…

PopularResistance (2022-02-05). Popular Resistance Newsletter: Stop the War with Russia Weekend Actions! dissidentvoice.org Once again, the people of the United States are being lied into a war — this time with Russia over Ukraine. The corporate media echo chamber's warning of an "imminent Russian invasion" is the equivalence of the "Iraq has WMD's" lie used to justify a US invasion there in 2003. We are in an urgent …

Ron Forthofer (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 …

Staff (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 …

Steve Lalla (2022-02-05). Barely One Week Into Her Presidency, Xiomara Castro Brings Hope and Joy to Hondurans. orinocotribune.com February 4, 2022 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)—Piloting a series of substantial policy changes a little more than one week into her mandate, Honduras' President Xiomara Castro has already established herself as a firm Latin American leader. In the process, she has brought hope and happiness to the Honduran people, living under the pall of an oppressive regime since the 2009 military coup that removed Manuel Zelaya from the presidency. | The festive atmosphere of Xiomara Castro's inauguration lit up Honduras' capital city Tegucigalpa, as thousands of supporters of Castro and her Libre party, waving red pa…

Tanya Wadhwa (2022-02-05). Outrage in Bolivia following femicide of two teenagers. peoplesdispatch.org The recent femicide of two teenage girls by a serial offender, released irregularly in 2019, sparked outrage in Bolivia. Hundreds took to streets demanding an end to violence and impunity for crimes against women due to judicial corruption…

Zachary Orlin (2022-02-05). Non-fungible Tokens Unmask the Absurdity of All Private Property. dissidentvoice.org Centuries of ideological justification and normalization can transform the bizarre, unjust, and arbitrary into that which seems natural and inevitable. The modern concept of private property has become so ingrained in society that most assume it has been with us since humans stood upright. The truth is that all the various notions of property which …

Seth Galinsky (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…

Carol Brayne, Paul O'Mahoney, Joanne Feeney, Rose Anne Kenny (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.

sputniknews (2022-02-05). Aim of 5 February Rallies in US to Show Americans Do Not Seek War With Russia, Activist Says. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Ekaterina Chukaeva – The aim of the upcoming rallies which are scheduled across the US on Saturday is to inform the public that the majority of US people are not seeking a conflict with Russia, Dan Gilman, who is on the organizing team of Seattle Anti-War Coalition and a member and past president of Veterans For Peace, said.

Sharmila Devi (2022-02-05). [World Report] Aid agencies warn of health consequences of Mali sanctions. thelancet.com Delayed elections in Mali have prompted sanctions, but humanitarian groups warn that health care is being adversely affected. Sharmila Devi reports.

teleSUR, PGV, JGN (2022-02-05). Las cinco canciones más conocidas de Violeta Parra. telesurtv.net Si bien su obra de más popular fue "Gracias a la vida", Violeta Parra realizó otras grandes composiciones que se convirtieron en verdaderos manifiestos populares.

Michael Daly, Eric Robinson (2022-02-05). [Correspondence] Depression and anxiety during COVID-19. thelancet.com The COVID-19 Mental Disorders Collaborators conclude that, throughout 2020, the pandemic led to a 27 ∑6% increase in cases of major depressive disorders and 25 ∑6% increase in cases of anxiety disorders globally.1 However, we propose that these prevalence estimates are likely to be substantially inflated. Decades of trauma research has shown that, for most people, negative life events such as bereavement or disaster exposure are typically followed by resilience (minimal effect on symptoms of anxiety, or depression, or both) or recovery (initial short-term increase in symptoms of anxiety, or depression, or…

sputniknews (2022-02-05). COVID-19 Gave Sense of Smell to Woman Who Grew Up Without It. sputniknews.com Many people who have been ill with COVID-19 infections have noticed a loss of smell. Some, meanwhile, complain that smells have become unbearably intense and unusual.

Fight Back (2022-02-05). Chicago protest demands federal charges against killer cop Jason Van Dyke. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – A delegation of activists demanding Justice for Laquan McDonald met with an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago's Federal Building. They presented a letter signed by 38 organizations and unions, as well as five elected officials, demanding federal charges against killer cop Jason Van Dyke. | A statement released before the protest explained, "VanDyke was given a 'slap on the wrist' by the Cook County Criminal Court after being convicted of McDonald's murder and 16 counts of aggravated assault and is being released from prison after less than 3 1/2 years, when Black and brown and other working-class…

WSWS (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…

WSWS (2022-02-05). Nebraska teacher and parent describe brutal conditions in schools during Omicron surge. wsws.org Despite the surge of the Omicron variant, which has pushed COVID-19 deaths close to 4,000 across Nebraska, schools continue to be fully open for in-person learning.

Paul Kelly (2022-02-05). [Correspondence] A just memory. thelancet.com Richard Horton's Offline1 makes for thought-provoking reading but gives a cynical and unbalanced view of the enterprise of tropical medicine. To portray tropical medicine as merely a service to the White colonialists and therefore fundamentally racist, even in the early days of the British empire in Africa, is to ignore the selflessness of many of its practitioners. Many of the great figures of tropical medicine were motivated by a desire to solve the health problems of African people, not merely to provide health care for the governing elite.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-02-05). Whose Swastikas? Justin Trudeau Supports Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca Trudeau has referred to swastikas intimating that the Freedom Convoy organizers are supportive of Neo-Nazi symbols. | The media has gone into high gear: | "Canada needs an explicit ban on swastikas and other "loathsome"

ecns.cn (2022-02-05). Xi, Putin agree on closer strategic coordination. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks in Beijing on Friday with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony. The two leaders agreed to deepen strategic coordination in a cordial and friendly atmosphere.

WSWS (2022-02-05). Europe's governments go all in for "herd immunity" wsws.org Mass infection is now the official policy of every European government. To keep the economy running and profits flowing, those in power are prepared to sacrifice countless lives and the health of the next generation.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-02-05). Indefinite "Political Quarantine" for Justin Trudeau: Freedom Convoy 2022. In Solidarity with the Truck Drivers. globalresearch.ca A mass movement against the Covid mandate is unfolding coast to coast across Canada in solidarity with cross-border truck drivers. Tens of thousands of people will be joining the truck drivers in Ottawa.

Angela (2022-02-05). Saturday 2/5: Free virtual screening of the documentary film "A Talk with Remarkable People" indybay.org

WSWS (2022-02-05). Oakland, California educators and students protest planned budget cuts and school closures. wsws.org Immediately following their agreement with the teachers union to maintain in-person instruction throughout the pandemic, Oakland Unified School District is pushing ahead with plans to close or merge 16 schools.

Editorial La Jornada (2022-02-05). Pekín y Moscú: Respaldo mutuo. globalizacion.ca Horas antes de la ceremonia de inauguración de los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno, que acoge Pekín, los presidentes Vladimir Putin y Xi Jinping sostuvieron un encuentro en el que se comprometieron a profundizar sin descanso la coordinación estratégica entre Rusia…

teleSUR, MER (2022-02-05). Diputado nicaragàºense: CNU garantiza continuidad educativa de jóvenes. telesurtv.net El CNU informó que la suspensión de personerías jurídicas fue para cinco centros de estudios superiores.

WSWS (2022-02-05). Republican Party officially endorses Trump's January 6 putsch as "legitimate political discourse" wsws.org The resolution marks a turning point in the political history of the United States and the capitalist two-party system, with the Republican Party now transforming itself into an organization of extra-parliamentary insurrection.

sputniknews (2022-02-05). Ukrainian Forces Deploy Armoured Vehicles in Village Near Line of Contact in Donbass, LPR Says. sputniknews.com LUHANSK (Sputnik) – The people's militia of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) detected Saturday armoured vehicles of Ukraine's security forces in the village of Klinovoe near the line of contact in the region of Donbass.

scorinoco (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…

teleSUR, SH (2022-02-05). Costarricenses en el exterior darán inicio a comicios presidenciales. telesurtv.net Un total de 147 costarricenses que residen en Australia serán los primeros que podrán participar en las elecciones presidenciales.

ecns.cn (2022-02-04). When Chinese New Year meets Olympic Winter Games. ecns.cn

Human Rights Watch (2022-02-04). Human Rights in Prolonged Occupation: Israel's Treatment of Palestinians (HRW). juancole.com ( Human Rights Watch ) — This memorandum provides an overview of several of Human Rights Watch's central concerns with respect to the Israeli government's human rights practices in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in advance of its review of Israel in March 2022. This …

William D. Hartung (2022-02-04). What a Waste, and You're Paying for it: $778 Billion for the Pentagon and Still Counting. juancole.com ( Tomdispatch.com) — 2021 was another banner year for the military-industrial complex, as Congress signed off on a near-record $778 billion in spending for the Pentagon and related work on nuclear warheads at the Department of Energy. That was $25 billion more than the Pentagon had even asked for. It can't be emphasized enough just …

Andrew Emett (2022-02-04). Former Louisville cop sentenced to prison for using excessive force. nationofchange.org Recorded on police body cam video striking a kneeling protester in the head with a riot stick, a former Kentucky police officer was recently sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to use of excessive force. During a protest against police brutality on May 31, 2020, the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) …

Editor2 (2022-02-04). Amnesty: 'Israel' Imposing 'Apartheid' on Palestinians. orinocotribune.com Occupied Palestine (QNN)- 'Israel' is carrying out "the crime of apartheid against Palestinians" and must be held accountable for treating them as "an inferior racial group", Amnesty International said in a new report. | Released on Tuesday, the 278-page report by the leading rights group details how Israeli occupation authorities enforce a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinians. | The damning investigation sets out how massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Pales…

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-04). Can Israel stop the world from saying 'apartheid'? Concealing the suffering in Palestine. mronline.org Israel attempts to improve its public image to counter efforts by human rights organizations that reveal the nature of Israeli apartheid.

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-02-04). Friday 2/4: Capitalism shows its true colors: Money for war, but not for people's needs. indybay.org Virtual event. Register at bit.ly/stop-nato-war…

Chris Hedges (2022-02-04). Hedges: Heeding James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. nationofchange.org A century after its publication, the timeless novel warns us about the poisons of nationalism and idolatry and the commonality of our sojourns between birth and death.

WSWS (2022-02-04). US claims assassination of ISIS leader in Syria. wsws.org In a White House statement celebrating the killing, Biden hailed the US military as "the solid-steel backbone of this nation."

Jake Johnson (2022-02-04). Warren warns 'corporate vultures' are circling Medicare on Biden's watch. nationofchange.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday joined physicians and dozens of her House Democratic colleagues in urging the Biden administration to immediately halt Medicare Direct Contracting, a Trump-era pilot that could result in complete privatization of the cherished public healthcare program by decade's end. "It is completely baffling to me that the Biden administration wants to …

MK Bhadrakumar (2022-02-04). US outruns regional states in race for Kabul. asiatimes.com In a hugely consequential advisory, the US Treasury Department quietly signaled on Wednesday (February 2) that it was "tweaking" sanctions against Afghanistan's Haqqani Network. International banks can now transfer money to the Taliban, including its affiliated Haqqani Network, without fear of breaching sanctions. Washington simply issued clarifications dilating on the relaxation of sanctions announced in …

Jason Ditz (2022-02-04). Saudi Airstrikes Kill Seven Houthis in Yemen's Taiz. news.antiwar.com Saudi forces carried out a series of airstrikes in Taiz Province in SW Yemen on Thursday, The attacks hit western Taiz, reportedly striking a weapons cache belonging to the Houthis, and setting off a substantial explosion. | Exactly why Taiz came under attack is unclear. The city has been contested for the entire seven years of the Yemen War. The Saudi invasion force was never able to take the city, one of the fi…

Staff (2022-02-04). Do you trust Biden or ISIS, Psaki asks skeptical reporter. rt.com The White House spokeswoman dismissed a question about evidence in deadly Syria raid | White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocked the idea that the US administration may provide journalists inaccurate information about its military operations abroad. | When asked if Washington would be giving any proof that the target of a US commando raid in Syria blew himself up along with members of his family, Psaki asked whether skeptics would rather trust terrorists. | She was confronted by a journalist on Air Force One over an account of events that President Joe Biden gave to the public. | Speaking a few hours after…

ecns.cn (2022-02-04). Herd immunity through natural infection to fight COVID-19 'foolish idea': WHO chief scientist. ecns.cn Chief scientist at the World Health Organisation (WHO) Soumya Swaminathan Thursday warned against the idea of attaining herd immunity through natural infection to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it "foolish" as there are huge costs to be paid.

ecns.cn (2022-02-04). Xi: China is ready to deliver a streamlined, safe and splendid Games. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a video address at the opening ceremony of the 139th IOC Session on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2022-02-04). Nine things you may not know about Start of Spring. ecns.cn A painting of Start of Spring and spring cake from Li Xiaolin. As a popular young Chinese artist, Li combined the customs during a solar term and the associated food and created a series of illustrations named "24 Solar Terms and Chinese Delicacies".

Ali Abunimah (2022-02-04). Palestinian resistance is forcing liberals to see Israel's apartheid. electronicintifada.net Watch Ali Abunimah and Benjamin Norton discuss Amnesty's new report.

Liberation Staff (2022-02-04). New Hampshire teachers unions fight state censorship of anti-racist education. liberationnews.org A new bill in the New Hampshire state legislature, HB 1255, would all but explicitly ban the mention of indigenous genocide and race-based chattel slavery in New Hampshire class rooms.

WSWS (2022-02-04). Declassified NSA oversight report shows illegal surveillance by US government continues unimpeded. wsws.org The semiannual report from the Office of the Inspector General shows that illegal surveillance of Americans is continuing and that claims that it has been stopped are lies.

Andrew Wong (2022-02-04). Chinese Telecom Equipment Is Banned in the USA. indybay.org Recently the US Senate has approved the next bipartisan initiative against China. This is not a new objective, which is to push Chinese business rivals out of the US telecom market.

_____ (2022-02-04). Erdogan is Covering up his Crimes against Syria. journal-neo.org As of late, various media have been publishing numerous reports about the involvement of Turkish law enforcement agencies and special services that are supervised directly by Erdogan in blatantly illegal operations in several countries. Thus, in recent years, the Turkish agencies have kidnapped dozens of people in various countries. Since 2016, or after the attempted …

_____ (2022-02-04). Some Consequences of the Latest hate Speech Incident in India. journal-neo.org On January 10 the Supreme Court of India agreed to urgently consider a petition on "hate speech" against the country's Moslem communities, with reference to specific incidents, most notoriously an incident in December 2021 in Haridwar — a city venerated in the Himalayan foothills on the banks of the River Ganges. Both the city and …

Anonymous Contributor (2022-02-04). Update on Antifascists Facing Repression from Opposing the NSM in Newnan, Georgia. itsgoingdown.org Report and update from the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund on those facing charges stemming from protests in Newnan, GA against the NSM. Back in April 2018, full-on nazis from the National Socialist Movement held a rally in Newnan, GA. Anti-fascists showed up to defend the community from that threat and were attacked — by Georgia…

Danny Shaw (2022-02-04). Book Review: 'Cancel This Book' Asks for a Return to Revolutionary Class Analysis. towardfreedom.org Academic and activist Dan Kovalik's new book, "Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture," was written on the frontlines of the twin struggles of our time, the class struggle and the fight for Black liberation, writes Danny Shaw.

Derek Royden (2022-02-04). The 'Freedom' convoy: Canada's far right revolt. nationofchange.org Unfortunately, some of those involved in the convoy and on online forums dedicated to it have called for a January 6th style event in Ottawa…

deweylaura (2022-02-04). Dimitrov on the ideological struggle against fascism. cpusa.org The following excerpt, "The Ideological Struggle against Fascism," is from Georgi Dimitrov's report at the 7th Communist International on August 2, 1935. One of the weakest aspects of the anti-fascist struggle of our Parties is that they react inadequately and too slowly to the demagogy of fascism, and to this day continue to neglect …

Free Sean Swain (2022-02-04). Sean Swain's Finger Chopped Off While in ODRC Custody. itsgoingdown.org An update on long-time anarchist prisoner, Sean Sean from his partner. For more information on Sean, go here and here. Sean's partner writes: Sean Swain is an infamous anarchist prisoner currently held in the state of Ohio. Before I get into writing about this three-ring circus I wanted to give some background on Sean to…

Joris Leverink (2022-02-04). "City on the Second Floor": Clarion call from a poetic craftsman. roarmag.org Police investigate at a homeless people's encampment in Los Angeles, US. September 15, 2022. Credit: Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock | Matt Sedillo's poetry is electric, like a lightning bolt. He is a man on a mission, with a message to spread and fire on the tongue. With the tone and the tenor of a biblical prophet — though one with a profound sense of the farcical, too — he delivers a scathing critique, a desperate denunciation of the patriarchal, white supremacist and capitalist dystopia that we inhabit. His latest book, City on the Second Floor, is a cohesive and compelling compendium of some 32 poems a…

Liberation Staff (2022-02-04). University of Illinois students walk out to protest Jeff Sessions. liberationnews.org "Jeff Sessions and his class have put our society into crisis," said Reuben, "and we are here to show the community there is an alternative future and it is socialist."

Marie Kelly (2022-02-04). Pandemic exposes U.S. health care crisis. workers.org In the book "The Great Influenza: The Deadliest Pandemic in History" by John Barry, written in 2005 about the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918, we learn that pandemic actually started in the U.S. The army barracks in the Midwest were the breeding ground for the deadly virus. World War I . . . |

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-04). US Sanctions on Afghanistan Could Be Deadlier than 20 Years of War. cepr.net If more Americans knew how many innocent civilians actually die as a result of these sanctions, would the worst of them be permitted?

Mumia Abu-Jamal (2022-02-04). Mumia Abu-Jamal: Un Nuevo Movimiento por la Libertad ahora. workers.org El gran revolucionario caribeño Frantz Fanon escribió en su ya clásica obra, The Wretched of the Earth (Los condenados de la tierra), el siguiente llamado a acción: "Cada generación debe, desde la relativa oscuridad, descubrir su misión, cumplirla o traicionarla en relativa opacidad. Esa misión la tenemos nosotros." øCuál misión? . . . |

Nauman Sadiq (2022-02-04). How Erdogan Scapegoated ISIS Caliph to Appease Biden? dissidentvoice.org Whilst Turkish President Erdogan was in Kiev on Thursday, ostensibly brokering a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine to defuse escalating tensions following the Russian troop build-up along Ukraine's borders and the deployment of 3,000 US forces in Poland and Romania, Biden announced that the Islamic State leader had been killed in a special-ops raid …

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-02-04). Victory: Palestinian teacher defeats Israel lobby smears. electronicintifada.net Sheffield Hallam University drops investigation against Shahd Abusalama.

rebekah (2022-02-04). After Amazon Tragedy, Workers Come Together to Demand Safe Working Conditions. inequality.org

Selma Dabbagh (2022-02-04). In camp of despair, a life rooted in love. electronicintifada.net Birds surmount borders and barriers in Fadia's Tree.

Staff (2022-02-04). President Maduro: Chávez's 4F Rebellion was a Cry Against Colonization. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, asserted earlier today that the rebellion of February 4, 1992, known in Venezuela as 4F/1992, led by Commander Hugo Chávez, represented an outcry against the colonization that the neoliberal government of Carlos Andrés Pérez intended to impose on the country. | The comments were made as part of President Maduro's address during commemorative events for the 30th anniversary of 4F. The head of state hosted the inauguration of the Plaza de la Rebelión Anti-imperialista [Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square], located in the environs of the San Carlos barracks, in Caracas, wher…

submedia.tv (2022-02-04). Announcing the Upcoming 'Social Empire' Documentary Film. itsgoingdown.org Announcing the trailer for the new documentary film, The Social Empire. We live in the age of the algorithm. Every day, our lives are mediated by forces that we cannot see and do not understand. Our actions, movements, decisions, and unconscious desires are monitored, recorded, and stripped down to lines of code. A vast trove…

Yasmin Abusayma (2022-02-04). Gaza farmers struggle for livelihoods and healthy soil. electronicintifada.net Farming near the boundary zone is a hazardous undertaking.

WSWS (2022-02-04). The new leadership of Germany's Green Party: A toxic mixture of militarism and identity politics. wsws.org The transition of the Greens into the camp of militarism and destruction of social programs is directly linked to the material rise of the social milieu upon which they rely.

Suds Snacks, Socialism forum Committee (2022-02-04). Saturday 2/5: Building an Independent campaign to Put the Public in Public Education. indybay.org

Direct Action Everywhere (2022-02-04). Saturday 2/12: Meetup: Hear from the Organizers Running for DxE Core. indybay.org Crescent Lawn UC Berkeley | Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). Chavez Ignited the Bolivarian Revolution with the 4F Rebellion. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Venezuelans remember the 30th anniversary of the anti-imperialist rebellion that Colonel Hugo Chavez led against President Carlos Perez (1989-1993), a corrupt politician who implemented neoliberal policies that worsened the people's living conditions. | RELATED: | On Feb. 4, 1992, five army units under Chavez's command moved into Caracas to seize key military and communications installations throughout…

Angela (2022-02-04). Saturday 2/5: Free virtual screening of the documentary film "A Talk with Remarkable People" indybay.org

Jim McIlroy (2022-02-04). Essential food workers strike in NSW, Victoria. greenleft.org.au Members of the United Workers Union employed across six essential workplace sites in New South Wales and Victoria are on strike. Jim McIlroy reports.

Swaran Singh (2022-02-04). Biden administration must rejig its North Korea strategy. asiatimes.com The UN Security Council was to hold an emergency meeting this Friday to discuss North Korea's seven missile tests in the past four weeks. The meeting was requested by the United States, along with Britain and France, and agreed by Russia, which holds the presidency of UNSC for the month of February. However, given the …

teleSUR (2022-02-04). China and Russia to Face Regional Threats Jointly. telesurenglish.net On Friday, President Xi Jinping confirmed that China stands ready to work with Russia and President Vladimir Putin to chart the future and provide guidance for bilateral relations under new historical circumstances. | RELATED: | Xi is willing to promote the continuous transformation of high-level mutual trust between China and Russia into results of cooperation in all fields and bring real benefits to the people of the two countries. | "Despite the…

Staff (2022-02-04). Headlines for February 4, 2022. democracynow.org Biden Claims ISIS Leader Detonated Bomb That Killed 13 at Site of U.S. Raid, Vladimir Putin Meets Xi Jinping in Beijing as Winter Olympics Open, State Dept. Questioned over Claims Russia Is Plotting "False Flag" Operation in Ukraine, South African Plant Produces mRNA COVID Vaccine Based on Moderna Data, Chicago Ex-Cop Who Murdered Laquan McDonald Released After Just Three Years in Prison, Biden on Crime in New York City: "The Answer Is Not to Defund the Police", Turkey Blames Greek Border Guards After 12 Asylum Seekers Freeze to Death, Texas Butterfly Conservation Center Shuts Doors Following Right-Wing Harassmen…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-04). France plans to head Baltic-style NATO battle groups in Black Sea region. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com France wants to Lead a New Multinational NATO Contingent in the Balkans French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who is in Bucharest, met virtually today with nine of his Eastern European counterparts to discuss the crisis over Ukraine…. In a speech to the Romanian parliament yesterday, Le Drian said Paris wanted to show its solidarity …

Cynthia Papermaster (2022-02-04). Saturday 2/5: No War With Russia; Yes to Diplomacy and Peace. indybay.org Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, MLK Jr. Way @ Allston Way, Berkeley.

Staff (2022-02-03). US operation in Syria leaves at least 10 killed, incl. kids. en.mehrnews.com Local media in Syria reported that at least 10 people were killed during a heliborne operation carried out by the US troops in the northern suburbs of Idlib, Syria.

sputniknews (2022-02-03). Multiple Casualties Reported as US Conducts 'Counterterrorism' Raid in Syria – Video. sputniknews.com Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said on Thursday that US Special Operations units have successfully completed a counterterrorism mission in northwestern Syria.

Staff (2022-02-03). Russia & China set to make new declaration — Moscow. rt.com The announcement comes as Moscow and Beijing increase their cooperation in a number of spheres | Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are set to declare the two countries will work shoulder to shoulder on their most important missions, Moscow has announced, as relations with the US and its allies in Europe come under increased strain. | Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov revealed that the text of a major announcement would be on the agenda for the Russian leader's upcoming visit to China. | "A joint statement on international relat…

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-02-03). Friday 2/4: Capitalism shows its true colors: Money for war, but not for people's needs. indybay.org Virtual event. Register at bit.ly/stop-nato-war…

TASS (2022-02-03). Putin slams attempts to politicize sports as 'fundamentally wrong'. tass.com According to Russian President, "the power and greatness of sports are that it brings people together, gives moments of triumph and pride for the country and delights with fair, just and uncompromising competition"

Staff (2022-02-03). Russia reveals plans in case of cut-off from US dollar. rt.com The Kremlin has urged calm in the face of massive US sanctions | Moscow is prepared for the possibility that harsh US sanctions could restrict its banks' access to dollar transactions, the Kremlin has said, admitting that the potentially unprecedented measures have officials worried. | Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday that Moscow is well aware of the threat of massive sanctions coming from the American side amid an ongoing row over Ukraine. "Certainly, the Kremlin is concerned, because the sanctions behavior of the US is absolutely unpredictable," he said. | The spokesman wen…

Ralph Nader (2022-02-03). Facilitating Civic and Political Energies for the Common Good. dissidentvoice.org 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 Plan1 budgeted at $1 billion a year (See, "Think Big to Overcome Losing Big to Corporatism," January 7, 2022). Readers wanted to know more about …

Staff (2022-02-03). FAO Removes Venezuela from List of Hunger Hotspots, Incorporates Colombia. orinocotribune.com The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has excluded Venezuela from its list of countries facing severe food shortages. | In a FAO, in its report, stated that this year in Latin America, Colombia, Haiti and Honduras are in the Agency's list of highest levels of concern; but there is not such a forecast for Venezuela…

Global Research News (2022-02-03). Selected Articles: Canadian Officials Who Met with Ukrainian Unit Linked to Neo-Nazis Feared Exposure by News Media. globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | As everyone faces difficult times, the company which deals with the fulfillment of book sales on behalf of Global Research is no longer able to provide its services. We are unfortunately suspending the sale of print books until …

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-03). Can Israel stop the world from saying 'Apartheid'? Concealing the suffering in Palestine. greenleft.org.au The Israeli state is pulling out all stops to deligitmise international organisations that dare use the term "apartheid" to describe its decades-long brutal occupation of Palestine, writes Vijay Prashad.

WSWS (2022-02-03). Beijing Olympics mired in geo-political tension. wsws.org The Western media has treated in a hostile manner the lengths to which the Chinese government has gone to protect Olympic teams, as well as the Chinese population from infection.

David Sirota (2022-02-03). Biden Reversal Gives Wall Street A Big Win. dailyposter.com

WSWS (2022-02-03). Deepening crisis of American capitalism as national debt hits $30 trillion. wsws.org The endless rise of the national debt, now $7 trillion more than the size of the entire US economy, is the outcome of deeply rooted processes whereby profits are increasingly obtained through stock market and other financial operations.

Editor2 (2022-02-03). Cuba's Resumen Latinoamericano Website Silenced Due to Blockade. orinocotribune.com By Graciela Ramírez — Jan 29, 2022 | This January 27, while we were preparing different notes on national and international affairs, our website cubaenresumen.org was silenced. We could not upload any information, we thought at first it was due to a technical problem with the website. | After an hour we began to receive messages via WhatsApp from friends and readers of Cuba en Resumen in Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Venezuela, Spain, the United States and Italy who were asking what was happening, since they could not access not only what was published in the morning, nor anything on our website. | We immedia…

Adriaan Alsema (2022-02-03). 'Police used Bogota bus terminals to torture protesters'. colombiareports.com Bogota police used bus terminals in Colombia's capital as illegal detention centers during protests last year, according to opposition politicians. The accusation made by two Bogota city council members was…

Middle East Monitor (2022-02-03). Israel's Claims to be a Democracy ring Hollow as Amnesty Finds it an Apartheid State. juancole.com By Nasim Ahmed | — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Amnesty International became the latest human rights group to label Israel an apartheid state. In a damning report titled "Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians" the rights group concludes that the occupation state has imposed a "cruel system of domination" and is committing "crimes against humanity." …

sputniknews (2022-02-03). 'Like Nothing Seen Before': New Satellite Image From Area 51 Reveals Mysterious Aircraft. sputniknews.com The United States Air Force (USAF) facility located within the Nevada Test and Training Range, commonly known as Area 51, has an aura of mystery due to its reputation as a place used for conducting alien-related probes.

TASS (2022-02-03). Ukrainian army command expects heavy casualties in Donbass offensive — DPR intelligence. tass.com Eduard Basurin pointed out that the Ukrainian military was carefully hiding the pull-up of forces…

Staff (2022-02-03). Spike Lee to produce Kaepernick series. rt.com The filmmaker was tapped by ESPN for its documentary about the 49ers quarterback-turned activist | ESPN Films announced on Tuesday that Spike Lee will take charge of its upcoming documentary series about Colin Kaepernick. Lee will have access to never-before-seen footage from Kaepernick's archive. | The director will record additional interviews with the NFL star to create "a full, first-person account of his journey" from childhood in an adoptive white family to athletic stardom to black rights advocacy. | The 34-year-old was born to a white mother from a black father and was put up for adoption, with the Kae…

Nikola Mikovic (2022-02-03). Despite the U.S. Hype about an "imminent" Russian invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is not Ready to Risk War. juancole.com Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) — Russia seems to be giving up on the "ultimatum" it issued to the United States in December. After Washington and its allies said no to Moscow's security demands, the Kremlin started to soften its rhetoric regarding a potential NATO expansion eastward. Western media, however, keep spreading rumors of an …

sputniknews (2022-02-03). Kiev Preparing Offensive, Restricts Exit of Those Liable for Military Service, Donetsk Says. sputniknews.com DONETSK (Sputnik) – The people's militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said on Thursday that Kiev had restricted the exit of citizens liable for military service from Ukraine due to preparations for an offensive in Donbass.

TASS (2022-02-03). Kiev asks embassies to quietly ask foreigners to leave Donbass — Donetsk militia's chief. tass.com At the same time, Ukraine introduced new entry restrictions on visits by foreigners who have no "solid reasons" for entering the country…

WSWS (2022-02-03). Warmongering against Russia in the name of Auschwitz. wsws.org The more the USA and NATO intensify their war drive against Russia, the more aggressively the ruling class in Germany behaves.

_____ (2022-02-03). The Year of the Tiger Starts with a Sino-Russian Bang. strategic-culture.org The Year of the Black Water Tiger will start, for all practical purposes, with a Beijing bang this Friday, as Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, after a live meeting before the initial ceremony of the Winter Olympics, will issue a joint statement on international relations. | That will represent a crucial move in the Eurasia vs. NATOstan chessboard, as the Anglo-American axis is increasingly bogged down in Desperation Row: after all, "Russian aggression" stubbornly refuses to materialize. | After an interminable wait arguably due to the lack of functionaries properly equipped to write an intelligible lett…

WSWS (2022-02-03). US sends another 3,000 troops to Eastern Europe. wsws.org Along with these latest troop deployments, the Pentagon is sending another six F-15 fighter jets to Estonia, whose border is only about 200 miles from Russia's second major city, St. Petersburg.

TASS (2022-02-03). Putin calls Russian-Chinese relations "a model of efficiency, responsibility" tass.com The Russian leader stressed that Russia and China are "close neighbors bound by centuries-old traditions of friendship and trust"

News Release (2022-02-03). Coalition to Prevent War with Russia. indybay.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — TUESDAY, FEB. 1, 2022…

Cynthia Papermaster (2022-02-03). Saturday 2/5: No War With Russia; Yes to Diplomacy and Peace. indybay.org Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, MLK Jr. Way @ Allston Way, Berkeley.

Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo (2022-02-03). The Russians Are Coming: Are Beijing and Moscow at the Cusp of a Formal Alliance? dissidentvoice.org It should matter little to the Chinese that American diplomats and a handful of their western allies will not be attending the Beijing Winter Olympics in February. What truly matters is that the Russians are coming. The above is not an arbitrary statement. It is supported with facts. According to a survey conducted by China's Global …

sputniknews (2022-02-03). Argentina President: It's Necessary to End Dependence on US, Develop Cooperation With Russia. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Argentina's large external debt rose largely because of the United States, so Buenos Aires needs to get rid of dependence on Washington and open up new opportunities in cooperation with Russia, President Alberto Fernandez said.

ecns.cn (2022-02-03). Full text of Putin's signed article for Xinhua. ecns.cn A signed article by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin titled "Russia and China: A Future-Oriented Strategic Partnership" was published by Xinhua News Agency on Thursday.

Andrew Wong (2022-02-03). Chinese Telecom Equipment Is Banned in the USA. indybay.org Recently the US Senate has approved the next bipartisan initiative against China. This is not a new objective, which is to push Chinese business rivals out of the US telecom market.

Andrew Wong (2022-02-03). Biden continues to pressure China. indybay.org Joe Biden approved a further anti-China bill and, by amazing coincidence, did it on the eve of binational summit. That's a great attack on China, it has to be said.

WSWS (2022-02-03). Maus, graphic novel about the Holocaust, censored by Tennessee school board. wsws.org The McMinn County School Board has removed Maus, by Art Spiegelman, which depicts the experience of the author's family in Poland during the Holocaust, from the 8th grade curriculum, allegedly because of "rough language."

WSWS (2022-02-03). Maus, graphic novel about the Holocaust, censored by Tennessee schoolboard. wsws.org The McMinn County School Board has removed Maus, by Art Spiegelman, which depicts the experience of the author's family in Poland during the Holocaust, from the 8th grade curriculum, allegedly because of "rough language."

_____ (2022-02-03). Situation in Turkey is Putting Erdogan's Abilities to the Test. journal-neo.org In the last few years, Turkey's economy has been caught in a drawn-out recession, largely due to the increasing costs related to the current model of economic growth. And as the economy is deteriorating, so is the political and economic situation in the country, forcing President Erdogan to make choices which are far from popular. …

Joyce Chediac (2022-02-03). Leonard Peltier has COVID-19: Action needed to get him care. liberationnews.org In the last few days actors Danny Di Vito and Susan Sarandon have tweeted support for Peltier and demanded his release…

Laurel Sutherlin (2022-02-03). Standing Rock withdraws from ongoing environmental assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline. nationofchange.org The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has withdrawn as a cooperating agency from the U.S Federal government's ongoing environmental assessment of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) operations. Standing Rock attributed their decision to the lack of transparency by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who are conducting the court-ordered Environmental Impact Statement for the pipeline in …

Liz Kimbrough (2022-02-03). Plants face tough climate challenges as seed-dispersing animals decline. nationofchange.org Animals that eat fruit and spread the seeds in their droppings offer an all-inclusive transportation service for half the world's flora. But as more seed-dispersing birds and mammals die off globally, some of these plant species will lose their ability to shift their locations to keep pace with escalating climate change, says new research. "When you …

Richard S. Dunn (2022-02-03). Peltier has COVID-19: President Joe Biden, Do The Right Thing, Free Leonard! covertactionmagazine.com On January 28th, Brian Schatz, (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs urged President Biden to commute …

Staff (2022-02-03). Argentina: Máximo Kirchner Resigns as President of Frente de Todos Parliamentary Block (+IMF). orinocotribune.com Máximo Kirchner resigned on Monday, January 31, from his responsibility as the head of the Frente De Todos (ruling party) in the Congress of the Argentine Republic. The deputy, who until Monday presided over the block of deputies of the ruling party, made his decision public through a statement in which he expressed his disagreement with President Alberto Fernández's economic policy, embodied in the recent agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). | With this position, the son of former President Néstor Kirchner and current Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, distanced himself from the pr…

Staff (2022-02-03). Jorge Rodríguez: Deputies Failing to Fulfill their Oath Will be Jailed. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, February 2, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) Jorge Rodríguez, warned that deputies who fail to comply with their oath will go to prison. This was said after referring to the case of PSUV parliamentarian, Taina González Rubio, who was arrested in Falcón for her alleged involvement in a drug trafficking network. | "Jail will be the destination for any deputy failing to fulfill their oath, thus becoming a despicable traitor. Everyone who deviates from the right path will be sent to jail," he asserted during his speech at the session this Tuesday, in which the parliamentary immunity o…

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2022-02-03). Amazon worker organizing accelerates with union voting. workers.org Worker organizing at Amazon received international coverage when the Associated Press used a photo of this Workers Assembly Against Racism rally for the Amazon Labor Union, on Oct. 25, 2021, to announce upcoming union elections in February 2022. Headlines screamed alarm Jan. 26 in capitalist business media like the Wall . . . |

Ron Forthofer (2022-02-03). Heads up: another threat to Medicare! dissidentvoice.org Medicare is a successful and treasured government program that provides health care for seniors, for those with disabilities and for those with end-stage renal disease. The Traditional Medicare (TM) approach provides quality and necessary health care with administrative costs that are far lower than that of private health care insurance such as Medicare Advantage (MA). …

Peter Boyle (2022-02-03). Opposition to proposed Western Harbour Tunnel could tip Willoughby by-election. greenleft.org.au Several candidates running in the February 12 by-election for the former Liberal premier Gladys Berejiklian's seat of Willoughby are outspoken opponents of the tollway tunnel projects. Peter Boyle reports.

Anonymous669 (2022-02-03). Breaking: Special Forces Land In Syria's Greater Idlib, Engage Militants In Kill Or Capture Operation. southfront.org File image. | Early on February 3, a suspected US special force landed from several helicopters near the northern Syrian town of Atimah right on the border line with Turkey. | The force came from the direction of Syria's northeastern region, where the US-led coalition maintains a number of bases. | After landing, the force, which was backed by several attack helicopters, combat drones and fighter jet, engaged in fierce clashes with unidentified militants while apparently carrying out a kill or capture operation.

Suds Snacks, Socialism forum Committee (2022-02-03). Saturday 2/5: Building an Independent campaign to Put the Public in Public Education. indybay.org

Juan Cole (2022-02-03). The Boosted are 97 times less likely to die of Covid, as Republican Party Death Cult Kills Tens of Thousands. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The United States has failed Covid. Compared to most other industrialized countries, its per capita rate of infection and death is much higher. Despite having plenty of vaccines, there has been a lag in getting them into people's arms, especially into the arms of the most at-risk group, of those …

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-02-03). Enlaces de Red Latina sin fronteras 03.02.2022. indybay.org

Staff (2022-02-03). Declaración del Gobierno Revolucionario: Hasta tanto el bloqueo no cese, nuestra denuncia se mantendrá firme e invariable. cubadebate.cu El Gobierno Revolucionario, en nombre del pueblo de Cuba, reclama enfática y enérgicamente, una vez más, el fin del bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero impuesto por los EE.UU. Nuestra denuncia se mantendrá firme e invariable hasta tanto no cese en su totalidad esta política inhumana e ilegal.

Staff (2022-02-02). Why Ukraine Needs the Kellogg-Briand Pact. davidswanson.org By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 2, 2022 In 1929, Russia and China proposed to go to war. Governments around the world pointed out that they'd just signed and ratified the Kellogg-Briand Pact banning all war. Russia withdrew. Peace was made. In 2022, the United States and Russia proposed to go to war. Governments …

_____ (2022-02-02). Central Asia becomes a Platform for Cooperation between Russia, India and China. journal-neo.org Central Asia (CA), due to its geostrategic location at the junction of Europe and Asia, its proximity to the leading international actors such as Russia and China, its wealth of natural resources and its yet-to-be fully exploited trade and economic opportunities, has recently attracted increasing interest from international actors. In order to create a stable …

Staff (2022-02-02). Ski starlet who swapped USA for China puts gold medals before politics. rt.com The teenage sensation switched allegiances to China in 2019 | At a Winter Olympics where Instagram is giving fans the chance to gain the inside track from athletes, Chinese-American sensation Eileen Gu's first post from the Beijing Games was telling. | Mildly sending up her usual glossy, high-fashion posts on a platform where the 18-year-old already has more than 245,000 followers, Gu haphazardly opened a box of "Olympic gear", goofishly modeling clothing provided by organizers before leaving it strewn across her sparse-looking room. | Gu might have been on a catwalk rather than dorm-style accommodation this w…

Andrew Wong (2022-02-02). Biden continues to pressure China. indybay.org Joe Biden approved a further anti-China bill and, by amazing coincidence, did it on the eve of binational summit. That's a great attack on China, it has to be said.

Daniel Alan Bey (2022-02-02). US 'rules-based order' is a myth and China knows it. asiatimes.com A new bill in the United States will only add extra weight in Beijing to fears that the "rules-based" international order American politicians like to talk about is really about keeping the world's most populous country down. The America Competes Act of 2022, passed by the US House of Representatives last week, comes in at …

WSWS (2022-02-02). Stalinist Makabayan Coalition endorses right-wing Robredo campaign in the Philippines. wsws.org The most fundamental shared principle cited by Makabayan was Robredo's commitment to defend Philippine sovereignty against China's presence in the South China Sea. Makabayan, like Robredo, is lining up with Washington.

TASS (2022-02-02). US won't divide China and Russia, Chinese scholar assures. tass.com Up until now, the US has been gathering allies and client states in order to "pounce" on China and Russia, Wan Chengcai said…

Sun Xi (2022-02-02). Unwise to politicize Beijing Winter Olympics. asiatimes.com From February 4 to 20, the 24th Winter Olympic Games will be held in Beijing. These are the first Winter Olympics held by China, and Beijing will become the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics. This is a grand and happy event for both the sporting world and China, but it has …

Staff (2022-02-02). VIDEO: Ukraine Crisis Webinar: Peace Activists and Experts Gather. davidswanson.org Here's the video: Speakers include: Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director of The Nation magazine, columnist for the Washington Post. Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army colonel, retired diplomat, author, activist. Vladimir Kozin, member of Russian Academy of Military Sciences, speaking from Moscow. Norman Solomon, co-founder and national director of RootsAction.org, author, activist. Moderator: David Swanson, campaign …

Staff (2022-02-02). Headlines for February 2, 2022. democracynow.org Putin Accuses U.S. of Using Ukraine as "Tool" to Contain Russia, Pacific Nations, Incl. Tonga, Report First COVID Cases; South Africa, EU Nations Ease Restrictions, Guinea-Bissau's President Says He Survived Coup Attempt, Security Forces Killed in Attack, Two Babies Die in Freezing Syrian Camps for Displaced People, Major Coalition of States, Cities and Advocacy Groups Backs Mexican Effort to Sue U.S. Gunmakers, Native American Tribes Reach Tentative Settlement with J&J, Drug Distributors over Opioid Epidemic, ABC Suspends Whoopi Goldberg from "The View" After Saying Holocaust Was "Not About Race", Ex-NFL Coach F…

_____ (2022-02-02). Ukraine: Another Biden Débâcle? strategic-culture.org Are we past 'peak frenzy'? Quite possibly, but it will subside only slowly. It is too good a diversion from other difficulties. | The sheer size and scope of the western information operations — insisting repeatedly on the imminence of a Russian invasion of Ukraine — has almost dwarfed the western effort mounted in the lead up to the second invasion of Iraq. This latest info-war has been qualitatively different from that earlier episode however, in the way in which supposed intelligence titbits were constantly fed to the press in order to stiffen the narrative spine with a direct sense of being at the…

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-02). US, Allies Wondering If They Can Count on Germany Against Russia. news.antiwar.com Germany's refusal to arm Ukraine and its trade relationship with Russia continues to irk the US and other NATO allies. Germany's new coalition government has adopted a policy of not sending weapons to potential conflict zones. Berlin has also cited history as a reason not to participate in the military buildup in the region, referring to Nazi war crimes in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union. | Germany's reasoning is…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-02). NATO absorbing Ukraine, all of Europe, into cyber warfare network. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com All of Europe excepting Belarus and Russia. See final sentence. (Odd that Ireland isn't included, as it's a member of the Partnership for Peace along with the four nations listed.) === Ukraine seeks closer ties with NATO on cyber defense Ukrainian government officials want closer collaboration with NATO's cyber center of excellence…. Ukraine has found …

WSWS (2022-02-02). Boris Johnson pushes anti-Russia war rhetoric in Ukraine amid UK government crisis. wsws.org Demanding Russia "steps back and chooses the path of diplomacy," Johnson made clear that this meant recognising Ukraine's right to decide "which organisations they aspire to join", i.e., NATO.

Staff (2022-02-02). Russia & US commit to further talks on security guarantees. rt.com Continued engagement from both sides will allow room for serious discussion, but situation appears to be a stalemate | Washington is willing to continue diplomatic discussions with Russia over mutual security concerns, the US State Department revealed on Tuesday, following a phone call between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. | The discussion comes as tensions between Russia and the West continue to remain high, with Moscow accused of placing over 100,000 troops on the border with Ukraine. The buildup has triggered a response from multiple NATO members, with many se…

A Guest Author (2022-02-02). At Russia-Ukraine border NO U.S.-NATO WAR! workers.org An ad-hoc coalition of anti-imperialist organizations located in the United States has published the following call for protests in the following week of U.S. and NATO's aggressive actions directed at Russia, building up to demonstrations and a webinar on Feb. 5: We must act now to stop the war with . . . |

_____ (2022-02-02). America Is Reaping What It Sowed In Ukraine. popularresistance.org So what are Americans to believe about the rising tensions over Ukraine? The United States and Russia both claim their escalations are defensive, responding to threats and escalations by the other side, but the resulting spiral of escalation can only make war more likely. Ukrainian President Zelensky is warning that "panic" by U.S. and Western leaders is already causing economic destabilization in Ukraine. | U.S. allies do not all support the current U.S. policy. Germany is wisely refusing to funnel more weapons into Ukraine, in keeping with its long-standing policy of not sending weapons into conflict zones. Ral…

Staff (2022-02-02). Leaked US & NATO replies to Russia: Here's what you need to know. rt.com It seems the West has rejected Moscow's core demands, but proposed steps to ease tensions | In December, Russia requested that the US and NATO produce definitive written responses to its proposals on assurances addressing security concerns. The letters were sent to Moscow last week. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters at the time that the correspondence should stay confidential. However, the two letters were allegedly Wh…

TASS (2022-02-02). NATO proposes to Russia to refrain from conducting anti-satellite tests — El Pais. tass.com In November 2021, the Russian Defense Ministry informed about a test, during which a defunct Russian space satellite had been successfully destroyed…

TASS (2022-02-02). US, NATO urge Russia to return to observance of CFE Treaty — El Pais. tass.com Among other things, it implies providing detailed CFE Treaty-required annual data and information…

WSWS (2022-02-02). Putin warns US seeks to "drag" Russia "into an armed conflict" wsws.org The statements by Putin underscore the immense dangers of the situation that has been created by the aggressive moves of NATO and above all, US imperialism.

News Release (2022-02-02). Coalition to Prevent War with Russia. indybay.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — TUESDAY, FEB. 1, 2022…

WSWS (2022-02-02). International Viewpoint supports war propaganda against Russia. wsws.org Under the misleading title "Time for International Anti-War Solidarity," unnamed "Ukrainian socialists" called on the "international left" to "condemn the imperialist policies of the Russian government."

Norman Solomon (2022-02-02). U.S. to Russia: Do as We Say, Not as We Do. indybay.org Meanwhile, progressives in Congress haven't really spoken up…

Editor (2022-02-02). Greenwald: The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship. scheerpost.com Joe Rogan interviews Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Aug. 6, 2019, roughly six months before he endorsed the Vermont independent for president. | By Glenn Greenwald / American liberals are obsessed with finding ways to silence and censor their adversaries. Every week, if not every day, they have new targets they want de-platformed, banned, silenced, and otherwise prevented from speaking or being heard (by "liberals," I mean the term of self-description used by th…

Michael F. Brown (2022-02-02). Israel's smears against Amnesty fail to hide apartheid. electronicintifada.net It's getting harder for Israeli politicians and the Israel lobby to cover up reality with verbal intimidation.

Anonymous (2022-02-02). Palestine in Pictures: January 2022. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Chandran Nair (2022-02-02). The Global Fashion Brands: More than the Little Black Dress. dissidentvoice.org Following the announcement of Leena Nair's (no relation) appointment as CEO of Chanel last month, media and fans were quick to laud the announcement as a step forward in diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts by global brands given she would be one of the industry's only women of colour in the exclusive ranks of leadership. …

Gustavo A Maranges, Bill Hackwell (2022-02-02). Why Wouldn't Biden Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier? dissidentvoice.org Last Friday, it became known that the 77-year-old native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was sick with COVID-19. Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years, which makes him the oldest political prisoner in the United States. This fact has brought attention to his case, but the truth is that his freedom has been …

Joseph Essertier (2022-02-02). Annihilating the Virus Enemy in Japan. dissidentvoice.org According to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, 18,515 people had lost their lives to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by 24 January 2022. Of those deaths, four were minors, i.e., 19 years of age or younger. At this point, nobody can say exactly why the Archipelago of Japan has emerged …

Binoy Kampmark (2022-02-02). Special Privileges: Charlotte Bellis, Fortress New Zealand and the Taliban. dissidentvoice.org Not wishing to be left out from the brutal closed border system that has characterised COVID-19 policy in Australia, New Zealand has also been every bit as extreme in limiting the return of its nationals. Pandemic policy, if not logic, has taken issue with the nature of citizenship, which, truth be told, is simply not …

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-02). The Historic Opportunities for Racial Equity in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. cepr.net The IIJA has provided a historic opportunity for advancing racial equity in infrastructure investments. Only if state and local activists force their elected officials to take advantage of it will its full potential be realized.

Dean Baker (2022-02-02). Marketplace Radio Gives Us the Latest Bad News on the Economy: A Glut of Retail Goods. cepr.net In the old days, we might have thought that too many goods, with too few buyers, might have meant lower prices.

_____ (2022-02-02). Another US-Japan 2+2 Meeting. journal-neo.org The regular US-Japan meeting (2+2) (officially called the US-Japan Security Consultative Committee) in January this year, involving the foreign and defense ministers of both countries, is noteworthy for a number of reasons. First of all, it should once again be emphasized that the very existence of the 2+2 format in a pair of states is …

Amanda Winstead (2022-02-02). Steps individuals can take to combat climate—change. nationofchange.org What once was considered a trend or an ideological point of view is now a global issue. Climate change is real and taking action to mitigate its effects is necessary. Environmentalists and activists aren't trying to create the perfect world with unrealistic ideologies; they are trying to ensure that the world simply continues to exist. …

Catherine Henchek, Alexander Swart (2022-02-02). Minneapolis/St. Paul teachers prepare to strike. liberationnews.org Teachers and support staff in Minneapolis and St. Paul could be headed for a strike if their respective school boards continue to stall on key issues such as pay and benefits, smaller class sizes and COVID-19 safety.

Editor2 (2022-02-02). Sabbagh: Western Coercive Measures Escalate Suffering of Millions of Syrians. orinocotribune.com Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations stressed that the US and EU illegitimate unilateral coercive measures escalated the suffering of millions of Syrians. | Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh made his remarks in a session of the Security Council on Friday on the humanitarian situation in Syria. | "The economic terrorism and the collective punishment policies represented by the illegitimate unilateral coercive measures imposed by the US and the EU have escalated the suffering of millions of Syrians who bear big burden to obtain their basic needs, in flagrant violation of all international legal standards…

Editor (2022-02-02). What's at stake with SCOTUS nomination — an editorial. workers.org On the eve of Black History Month — February — President Joe Biden announced his intentions of nominating an African American woman to replace the soon-to-be-retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Sitting on the court now are six men and three women. All justices have life tenure, until either . . . |

Eric A. Gordon (2022-02-02). Europop musical 'Singing Revolution' treats leadup to Estonian independence from Soviets. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES — "Lift it up, lift it up: we can sing our country free!" A cast of 20 all-singing, all-dancing performers and a five-piece band brought Singing Revolution: The Musical to the stage here for its world premiere on Sunday, January 30. It's intended as "an inspirational new musical based on historical events" involving …

Josh Mayfield (2022-02-02). Springfield, Mo., activists fight to stop city from using public money for private gas station. liberationnews.org The campaign, "Dam Up Buc-ee's," began in response to the City Council announcing at their Jan. 10 meeting that the City had put forward a proposal for $9.2 million in tax incentives to bring the famous Texas-sized gas station chain to southwest Missouri.

Nick Cunningham (2022-02-02). Protests erupt in Argentina over plan for offshore oil drilling. nationofchange.org Thousands of people took to the streets of Mar del Plata to protest the plans by Norwegian oil company Equinor to begin offshore oil exploration later this year.

Robert Reich (2022-02-02). How to get teenagers to read important books? Ban them. nationofchange.org There's no better way to get a teenager to read a book than to ban it.

Rosalío Muñoz (2022-02-02). Bakery Workers Local 37 strike in L.A. enters third month with growing solidarity. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES—The three-month strike of predominantly female Latina workers at the Jon Donaire ice cream cake production plant in Santa Fe Springs, an industrial area of greater Los Angeles County, has generated an impressive amount of labor, community, and political solidarity. The strikers demand better pay, respect, and improvement of injurious job conditions that have …

Steve Lalla (2022-02-02). Peru Orders Repsol to Suspend Offshore Operations After Massive Oil Spill. orinocotribune.com February 1, 2022 ( In addition, a judge barred four Repsol executives from leaving the country as the administration moves to investigate the details of the oil spill. The executives include Repsol's Director in Peru, Jaime Fernandez-Cuesta. | Ramirez ordered a "halt to all of Repsol's operations loading a…

Kim Petersen (2022-02-02). The Onus on Those Who Accuse Others of Mis/Disinformation. dissidentvoice.org Musician Neil Young finds himself in the 2022 limelight. It may well generate more on-air play and music sales for the Canadian. Young wrote a letter on his website (since removed) that garnered much attention. It read: Please immediately inform Spotify that I am actively canceling all my music availability on Spotify as soon as …

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-02). New year, new Student Accommodation Office. imperial.ac.uk Now independent of the Student Hub, the Student Accommodation Office operates as a singular, distinct entity.

Staff (2022-02-02). Al menos 24 muertos tras aluvión de escombros y lodo en Ecuador (+ Video). cubadebate.cu La casa empezó a moverse como en un terremoto mientras afuera caía un fuerte aguacero acompañado de un inusual y ensordecedor estruendo. De repente agua y piedras obtuvieron a ingresar por las puertas y ventanas del primer piso y sólo atinó a correr hacia la terraza, relató el martes Imelda Pacheco al frente de la que fuera su vivienda.

Juan Cole (2022-02-02). Apartheid 2.0: Amnesty International Joins Chorus condemning Israeli rule over stateless Palestinians. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli state has won the trifecta of condemnation by major human rights organizations, as, on Tuesday, Amnesty International joined with Human Rights Watch and B'Tselem in calling Israeli rule over the 5 million Palestinians of the Occupied Palestinian Territories a form of Apartheid. Amnesty carried out its investigation and …

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-02). COVID-19 human challenge study reveals detailed insights into infection. imperial.ac.uk Findings from the UK's world-leading human challenge study provide new insights into mild infections with SARS-CoV-2 in healthy young adults.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-02-02). Eight people killed, wounded in Turkish attacks on N Iraq. en.mehrnews.com Iraqi media on Wednesday reported that at least eight people were killed and wounded in a Turkish fighter jets' attack on Sinjar in northern Iraq.

Robert S. Becker (2022-02-01). Surviving today's toxic brew of doomsday moralism, criminality and derangement. nationofchange.org You don't have to be an English major to appreciate that style reveals as much as content when assessing persona, character and vision. A hundred years hence, literate folks may not care whether (hopefully) the Trump Deviance was a parade of unabashed chutzpah, brazen criminality, or deranged mass hysteria — whether a direction-shifter or simply …

_____ (2022-02-01). Weapons Companies Boast Ukraine-Russia Tensions Are Boon For Business. popularresistance.org As the United States weighs more involvement in the growing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, some of the largest weapons companies in the world‚Äâ—‚ÄâRaytheon and Lockheed Martin‚Äâ—‚Äâare openly telling their investors that tensions between the countries are good for business. And General Dynamics, meanwhile, is boasting about the past returns the company has seen as a result of such disputes. | The statements come as the U.S. government escalates arms shipments to Ukraine, among them the Javelin missiles that are a joint venture…

WSWS (2022-02-01). US wants war in Ukraine, charges Russia at UN debate. wsws.org A debate at the Security Council included the harshest exchanges since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

WSWS (2022-02-01). US wants war in Ukraine, Russia charges at UN debate. wsws.org A debate at the Security Council included the harshest exchanges since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-01). Haiti's National Transition Commission elects new interim president and prime minister. peoplesdispatch.org On January 30, Haiti's National Transition Council (CNT) elected economist and former governor of the Bank of the Republic of Haiti, Fritz Alphonse Jean, as the Caribbean country's new interim president. The CNT, made up of 42 members from various political parties and civil society organizations, also elected former senator Steven Irvenson Benoit as the new interim prime minister. The duo will administer the country for a transitional period of 24 months, beginning this February 7. | Jean was elected with 25 votes against 15 for his only opponent, former senator Edgard Leblanc Fils, in the first round of electio…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Johnson government to double UK troop presence in Eastern Europe, threatens sanctions against Russia. wsws.org Johnson is seeking to counter the crisis over "partygate" by placing himself at the forefront of the US war provocations and with a raft of right-wing domestic measures.

Project Censored (2022-02-01). Eleanor Goldfield and Nolan Higdon Return to the Program. projectcensored.org Journalist and filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield returns to the program to address several topics in media and world events, including the ongoing scandal of Julian Assange's imprisonment, the folly of the…

Project Censored (2022-02-01). Cal State Poly, Pomona Professor Threatened with "Cancellation" on False Charges of Anti-Semitism. projectcensored.org By Mischa Geracoulis Jaime Scholnick, a Los Angeles-based artist and adjunct professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona may lose her teaching position as a result of unfounded accusations of "anti-Semitism" by a…

deweylaura (2022-02-01). Marxist IQ: Black History Month. cpusa.org February is Black History Month. This month is of great importance, as the forces of racism and reaction, led by the Republican Party, are attempting to make Black history once more invisible in the history of the United States. Today we see in Republican-controlled states legislation banning the teaching of critical race theory in …

_____ (2022-02-01). Iran's Middle Eastern Strategy. journal-neo.org US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was quite right when he said that the talks with Iran on its nuclear program are at "a decisive moment." At it looked for a time as if Washington was ready to accept full responsibility for the deteriorating situation both in the Islamic Republic and in the Middle East …

_____ (2022-02-01). Cuba And The World Demand Lifting Of US Blockade. popularresistance.org This Sunday, January 30, on the streets of Cuba and other parts of the world, the demand for lifting the illegal US blockade against Cuba prevailed. This came just days after the 60th anniversary of the officialization of this hostile policy against the Caribbean island. | According to the Twitter profile of the Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry, from the cities of Santa Clara in the center of the country, and Bayamo in the east, the family of the Antillean nation joined a caravan that demanded the end of the economic, commercial and financial siege. "Compatriots residing in Italy and friends of #Cuba build #Puentes…

_____ (2022-02-01). GOP Bans On Teaching About Racism Drive Out Educators. popularresistance.org Date on which the Florida Senate Education Committee gave initial approval along party lines to a bill sponsored by Republican state Sen. Manny Diaz Jr. and championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel "discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress" when teaching about racism: 1/18/2022 | Number of days later that a Florida school district canceled a college professor's seminar for teachers on the history of the civil rights movement, citing in part concerns over critical race theory: 1 | Month in which…

Anonymous Contributor (2022-02-01). Indigenous Prisoner in Struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez Demands Freedom for Yaqui Political Prisoner Fidencio Aldama. itsgoingdown.org Communique from Indigenous Tzotzil prisoner in struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez showing solidarity with Yaqui political prisoner Fidencio Aldama To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation To the Human Rights Defenders To the National and International Sixth To the National Indigenous Congress To the Indigenous Governing Council To the Media To the Believers To the Organized…

Anonymous Contributor (2022-02-01). Boise Community Mobilizes In the Face of Threats of Violence from Far-Right Group. itsgoingdown.org Report back on recent community mobilization against threats of violence from the Idaho Liberty Dogs, a far-Right group in so-called Boise, Idaho. For background information, go here. photo: @RedoubtAFA After a week filled with cops stealing survival items, being stink bombed, and facing multiple threats of violence from local fascists — folks experiencing houselessness and…

David Cronin (2022-02-01). Fresh claims of mismanagement by EU police "mission" in West Bank. electronicintifada.net Audit firm complains that details aren't adequate.

Huitzilopotchtli Marron, Anaiz Alegria (2022-02-01). Migrants trapped at Otay Mesa Detention Center face deadly pandemic conditions. liberationnews.org People at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and facilities across the country are being placed in dangerous environments for weeks and months during a global pandemic.

Jenn Beverly (2022-02-01). Colorado D.A.s complain about governor's commutation of Aguilera-Mederos' sentence. liberationnews.org Trucker had been sentenced to 110 years for an accident.

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2022-02-01). Haiti now has an Interim President and a Prime Minister, with No Say from Haitian People. orinocotribune.com Caracas, January 31, 2022 (Special for The Core Group is made up of the ambassadors from the United States, France, Spain, Brazil, Germany, Canada, and the EU, as well as representatives from the UN and the Washington, DC-based Organizatio…

Liberation Staff (2022-02-01). Railroad workers fighting for right to strike against 'lifetime point' policy. liberationnews.org New rule would jeopardize worker safety with patronizing punishments…

Martha Burk (2022-02-01). To protect women's health, pass the equal rights amendment. nationofchange.org Late January marked the 49th anniversary of Roe. V. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. It could very well be the last. In 1973, Roe codified the right to terminate a pregnancy up until viability — around 23-26 weeks. Anti-abortion forces have fought to negate the decision ever since, and now they …

Oliver Wing, Carolyn Kousky, Jeremy Porter, Paul Bates (2022-02-01). New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change alone, and the inequity is stark. nationofchange.org Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster than many people realize. Over the next three decades, the cost of flood damage is on pace to rise 26% due to climate change alone, an analysis of our new flood risk maps shows. That's only part of the risk. Despite recent …

Staff (2022-02-01). Role of Workers' Productive Councils in Venezuela's Economic Recovery—Interview with Manuel Páez. orinocotribune.com On February 19, 2020, President Nicolás Maduro decreed an energy emergency and a state of exception in the country's hydrocarbon industry, which led to the creation of the General Staff of the Workers' Productive Councils (CPTT). Manuel Páez, who belongs to the presidential commission of the CPTT for the hydrocarbon sector, in an interview with àöltimas Noticias, explained that there are "71 colleagues who were assigned (by the president and the working class itself) the task of directing the transformation of the industry… presenting a new management model, which is basically collective management." | Páe…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Winter Storm Kenan pummels US East Coast, leaving thousands without power and at least four dead. wsws.org The massive blizzard deposited record snowfall throughout the northeast, forcing millions to dig themselves out.

Binoy Kampmark (2022-02-01). With intent to harm: The CIA, schizophrenia and Denmark's children. greenleft.org.au A new report exposes the drug trials and other medical experiments conducted without consent and with the backing of United States government intelligence agencies, reports Binoy Kampmark.

WSWS (2022-02-01). One year since the military coup in Myanmar. wsws.org On every front, the junta confronts a worsening impasse, which cannot be resolved through its methods of brute force.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Expand and unite the global student and teacher walkouts into a mass movement against COVID-19! wsws.org The Southern Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees stand in solidarity with students and teachers across the US and Europe, and call for a unified mass movement to stop school reopenings.

Alex Miller (2022-02-01). Socialist Green New Deal — Scottish style. greenleft.org.au Alex Miller reviews a new booklet from the Scottish Socialist Party that makes the case for a socialist green new deal.

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2022-02-01). "Journaille… Canaille!", Media Disinformation: Karl Kraus' Campaign against a "Warmongering Press" globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on May 18, 2019 | Karl Kraus, born in 1874, was one of the most important Austrian writers of the beginning of the 20th century and a sharp critic of the predominant press and inflammatory …

WSWS (2022-02-01). The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing today the text of a report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating a decision to end publication of the SEP's printed newspaper and replace it with an international website.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Growing opposition to City University of New York push to cripple remote learning options for spring semester. wsws.org Students, workers and parents denounce moves by the country's biggest urban university system to limit remote learning in the midst of a deadly global pandemic.

Ben Gilvar-Parke (2022-02-01). Can Colombia's left survive the persistent logic of armed conflict? greenleft.org.au In Colombia, former guerilla Gustavo Petro leads in the presidential polls. Petro is the lead candidate for a coalition of left political parties called Pacto Historico (Historic Pact), reports Ben Gilvar-Parke.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Trump admits aim of January 6 plot was to "overturn election" and "change results" wsws.org Trump's statement not only explodes the claim that January 6 was nothing more than an out-of-control protest, it also reveals the type of fascistic regime he planned to establish had the plot succeeded.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Serco ancillary staff at St Barts NHS Trust begin two-week pay strike. wsws.org Barts Health NHS Trust is the largest in England and serves a population of over 2.5 million people in the capital.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Poverty in Germany: 2021 report exposes profit-before-lives policy. wsws.org 13.4 million Germans, or 16.1 percent of the population, lived in poverty in the first year of the pandemic, 200,000 more than in 2019.

WSWS (2022-02-01). The Best American Short Stories 2021: A good deal of talent but little to say. wsws.org With the exception of a few gems, the book suffers socially and aesthetically from the moods and viewpoints that dominate the affluent middle class.

Gerardo Villagrán del Corral (2022-02-01). øLos migrantes en EE.UU. mantienen la economía mexicana con sus remesas? globalizacion.ca En 2021 el monto de las remesas enviadas por los migrantes mexicanos, en especial desde estados Unidos, superó cuatro veces la cantidad que sacaron del país inversionistas extranjeros. Por cada dólar que personajes y empresas extranjeros se llevaron a otra…

Sarah Hathway (2022-02-01). Socialist: 'Government neglect to blame for COVID-19 crisis in aged care'. greenleft.org.au The Socialist Alliance candidate Sue Bull said said the federal government hand-out to aged care workers won't solve the mounting pandemic death toll among the aged. Sarah Hathway reports.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Denmark scraps all pandemic restrictions as Omicron subvariant runs rampant. wsws.org Like neighbouring Sweden, Denmark is emerging as one of the most ruthless proponents of a criminal herd immunity strategy that, unless opposed, plans to make mass infection and death a permanent feature of daily life.

Fight Back (2022-02-01). Texas A&M University students push for COVID safety measures. fightbacknews.org College Station, TX – Students at Texas A&M University gathered in a silent sit-in on January 28 for improved COVID-19 policies on campus. The coalition, consisting of individuals and organizations such as Grad Aggies for Worker Safety (GAWS), Feminism4Aggies and TAMU Students for a Democratic Society, organized the protest in solidarity with the students of the University of North Texas, who were also calling for improved COVID-19 policies at universities across Texas. | Participating students held signs with demands, statements about the TAMU student who died of COVID-19 complications, and a QR code linked to…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Omicron disaster intensifies political instability in Australia. wsws.org With little popular support for the Labor Party, except in the negative sense of wanting to oust the Coalition, there are mounting fears in the ruling class that any election will result in an unstable, minority government.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Detroit students, parents angered as schools open amid COVID surge. wsws.org A WSWS reporting team spoke with students and parents at Cass Technical High School in Detroit after the resumption of in-person classes on Monday, January 31.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Two years since the WHO declared a public health emergency, COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten humanity. wsws.org Since the emergency was declared there have been 377 million confirmed infections and nearly 5.7 million deaths. Despite repeated government claims that the pandemic is over, it continues to rage.

Fight Back (2022-02-01). Miami caravan against Cuba blockade a huge success. fightbacknews.org Miami, FL- Over 60 members of the South Florida community joined in the monthly caravan in Miami on Sunday, January 30, to demand President Joe Biden end the criminal U.S. blockade on Cuba. The group called on the U.S president to end all sanctions on Cuba, restore the family reunification program and recommence freedom of travel between the United States and Cuba for both Americans and Cubans. The event was organized by the U.S. Hands Off Cuba and Venezuela South Florida and Puentes de Amor. | Dozens of cars draped with banners and signs reading "End the criminal blockade of Cuba," and "No mas bloqueo," most do…

Julio C. Gambina (2022-02-01). Argentina — El gobierno acordó con el FMI. globalizacion.ca Al final se develó la incógnita y entre hoy y el comienzo de la próxima semana se cancelan 1.100 millones de dólares al FMI, en concepto de vencimientos de capital e intereses. Eso ocurre porque se acordó con los negociadores…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Emboldened by ruling class support, far-right Freedom Convoy lays siege to Canada's Parliament. wsws.org The most rabid of the far-right elements who ran amuck in downtown Ottawa last weekend have encamped themselves in Parliament's environs and are vowing not to disperse until their demands are met.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-02-01). Video: Has Justin Trudeau Been Duly Vaccinated? Registered Nurse Expresses Doubt on Authenticity of Trudeau's Vaccine Jab. globalresearch.ca First published …

Deja Gaston, Emma Roberts (2022-02-01). Utah organizers fight to overturn abortion 'trigger law'. liberationnews.org The PSL is engaged in building a coalition of working and oppressed people, women of color and queer activists to oppose the attacks on bodily autonomy and to keep abortion legal in Utah.

Fra Hughes (2022-02-01). Yemen: How Many Must die Before the World Intervenes? orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Jan 26, 2022 | A beautiful historic country of poetry and art, of ancient buildings and centuries-old culture, has been devastated, destroyed, and bankrupted by fierce aggression led by imperialist forces. | As the death toll rises and nearly 20 million civilians face starvation… When will the international community intervene to end this suffering? Needless slaughters, bombs, regional politicking, airstrikes, the imposed siege, weapons of mass starvation targeting the infrastructure, including hospitals, prisons, and the fabric of civil society that holds a nation together in Yemen. | As I…

WSWS (2022-02-01). Unions help BNSF railway clamp down on workers' dissent in aftermath of anti-strike injunction. wsws.org As part of the ruling, a federal judge instructed the unions to order workers to "refrain from self help," and "immediately cease and desist all exhortations and communications encouraging same upon pain of fine, suspension or other sanction" by the unions.

WSWS (2022-02-01). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Longshore workers are battling attacks on jobs, working conditions and pay, with inflation rampaging across South America.