Daily Archives: January 7, 2022

2022-01-07: News Headlines

Rosa Astra, Benjamin Zinevich (2022-01-07). Yes, there really were only two COVID deaths in mainland China in 2021. Here's how they did it. liberationnews.org To someone who lives under U.S. capitalism, a medical system that can successfully curb a pandemic like COVID-19 may seem like fantasy. What did the people, government, and Communist Party of China do to accomplish this incredible result?>

Staff (2022-01-07). Dogs understand humans better than expected, study shows. rt.com Canines can distinguish between different languages, as well as between real language and gibberish, new research reveals | Dogs are capable of recognizing familiar human language and differentiating it from an unfamiliar one, a fresh study suggests. Canines can also tell the difference between familiar words regardless of intonation. | Our canine pets appear to be able to distinguish various languages even without prior training, research by the Hungarian Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest has revealed. A dog can understand whether someone is speaking a familiar language or an unfamiliar one. They are also…

Labor Video Project (2022-01-07). One Year After Jan 6 Insurrection & Rise Of Fascism With Vermont AFL-CIO Pres Van Deusen. indybay.org Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen is interviewed one year after the January 6, 2021 attempted coup and insurrection. His federation debated and voted for a resolution for a general strike to protest and stop such an insurrection. He talks about the same issues one year later.

Staff (2022-01-07). Biden Warns of "Dagger at the Throat of America"; Fascism Expert Says Trump's Personality Cult Growing. democracynow.org President Joe Biden warned about the looming threat of autocracy during his speech marking the first anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attack on Thursday and denounced his predecessor Donald Trump for inciting the rioters. In a statement responding to Biden's speech, Trump continued to falsely claim the 2020 election was rigged. To discuss further, we are joined by historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on the psychology of authoritarianism, who says Trump has grown his "personality cult" since his election loss and converted the GOP into "a far-right authoritarian party which has enshrined violence as part of th…

Jews United for Democracy & JCA (2022-01-07). Wednesday 1/12: Defeating Nazis in Court: Inside the Charlottesville Trial. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…

Tariq Ali (2022-01-07). Tariq Ali: 'Democracy is largely a set of rituals now'. mronline.org "There is no socialist blueprint. If you think there is a socialist blueprint, then you will only be a utopian. The formation of economic policies has to be done with the collaboration of those on whose behalf you are going to change structures."

WSWS (2022-01-07). Multimillionaire Republican donor declares vaccines are part of a Jewish plot for world domination. wsws.org Utah capitalist David Bateman, who shared hundreds of fascistic and antisemitic posts on his social media account, resigned from the board of Entrata after his email was made public Monday.

Editor2 (2022-01-07). Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti. orinocotribune.com By Peter James Hudson — Dec 23, 2021 | At the age of seventy-one, Frederick Douglass was appointed ambassador to the Republic of Haiti by the administration of U.S. president Benjamin Harrison. Douglass had helped stump for Harrison during the 1888 presidential elections and the position was something of a reward for the elderly abolitionist. However, Douglass's short time in…

Labor Video Project (2022-01-06). One Year After Jan 6 Insurrection & Rise Of Fascism With Vermont AFL-CIO Pres Van Deusen. indybay.org Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen is interviewed one year after the January 6, 2021 attempted coup and insurrection. His federation debated and voted for a resolution for a general strike to protest and stop such an insurrection. He talks about the same issues one year later.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-01-06). Assault on the Capitol: 24 questions and answers. liberationnews.org The Jan. 6 attack on Congress by a fascist-led mob was a pivotal moment in U.S. politics…

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-01-06). "Capitalist Democracy": What is it? And it's connections to Fascism. anchor.fm In this episode I discuss some of the ongoing struggles facing people here in the United States, on the anniversary of the January 6 attempt to take over Congress, and overthrow the election, and how they connect to the history of capitalism's connection to fascism, and the use of democracy as a tool by the state of capitalist dictatorship to misconstrue and misinformed the masses into believing this democracy is for them.

WSWS (2022-01-06). One year since the fascist coup attempt of January 6. wsws.org Today marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's attempt to reverse the 2020 election, overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.

Patrick Chura (2022-01-06). Anti-fascist lessons from a blacklisted Jewish Communist. peoplesworld.org With hate crimes on the rise and democracy in crisis, the literature we study in schools has new purpose. Discussing books with young people doubles as a gesture of resistance. At this moment, the great activist writers seem greater and affect us more powerfully. But of all the readings I used in my university classes …

Jews United for Democracy & JCA (2022-01-06). Wednesday 1/12: Defeating Nazis in Court: Inside the Charlottesville Trial. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-06). U.S., NATO's Drang nach Osten phalanx united against "Munich or Yalta-type agreements" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Note how the Chamberlain-Daladier-Hitler-Mussolini and the Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin meetings are equated. US and NATO's eastern flank of Bucharest Nine countries have similar assessment of security situation — Rinkevics US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke to the nine members of NATO's eastern flank, or the Bucharest Nine, on Monday, and, according to Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars …

WSWS (2022-01-06). German Federal Court of Justice confirms lenient sentence for NSU accomplice André Eminger. wsws.org With the exception of Beate Zschà§pe, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, all NSU accomplices are at large and some of them, like Eminger himself, are still active in neo-Nazi circles.

WSWS (2022-01-06). German Federal Court of Justice confirms lenient sentence for NSU accomplice André Eminger. wsws.org With the exception of Beate Zschà§pe, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, all NSU accomplices are at large and some of them, like Eminger himself, are still active in neo-Nazi circles.

Prabhat Patnaik (2022-01-06). Yet another contradiction of capitalism. mronline.org In the United States there are still four million persons who remain unemployed compared to before the pandemic; and yet the Biden administration's attempt to stimulate the economy has already run into a crisis with the re-emergence of inflation not just in that country but elsewhere in the capitalist world as well.

Ray Lvey Uyeda (2022-01-06). Climate justice through divestment. nationofchange.org n recent years, a growing movement to achieve climate justice has connected the root cause of climate change not just with greenhouse gases but also with a more entrenched, insidious foe: capitalism. The United States supports a system that allows a few corporations and people to earn money off climate degradation, mainly through the extraction …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-01-06). The 2020-22 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media.

Robert Norse (2022-01-06). A Sneak Play Past the Community and Coastal Commission…Again. indybay.org City staff is urging the Zoning Administrator to authorize and sanctify the reactionary City Council's latest RV ban (the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance). The hearing is being zoomed at 10 AM on Wednesday January 5th. Oppose it in writing now and prepare for an appeal!

Staff (2022-01-06). Guaidó Comments on Possible Venezuelan Recall Referendum. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, January 5, former deputy Juan Guaidó assured that any recall referendum against the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, will result from an agreement between all opposition sectors. | Otherwise, Guaidó said, it will become a "false dilemma" that, in his opinion, the national government would take advantage of to further strengthen its position. | "The activation of an electoral process in competitive conditions must go through an agreement," Guaidó said, "because if not it will again be a false dilemma and the dictatorship will play with the Venezuelan times, which is one of hunger, pain, and…

Stansfield Smith (2022-01-06). 21st Century US Coups and Attempted Coups in Latin America. dissidentvoice.org During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. US organized coups in Latin American countries is hardly a 20th century phenomenon. However, this century the US rulers have …

_____ (2022-01-06). Native Hawaiians Fight US Navy For Polluting Island's Water. popularresistance.org Under the cover of pre-dawn darkness, Native Hawaiians surprised the gates of the US Navy Command with a civil disobedience action over the #RedHill fuel leak. Empire Files producer Mike Prysner was on the ground.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-01-06). Study: People Who Are Obsessed With Celebrities Are Less Intelligent. moguldom.com There are some fans who can't get enough of their favorite celebrities. For many devotion and obsession have blurred lines. Those in the latter group are less intelligent than non-celebrity worshippers, according to a recent study. Published in November 2021 by BMC Psychology, a study of 1,763 Hungarian adults revealed "there is a direct association …

Michael Albert (2022-01-06). Omicron and Us—What's Coming. zcomm.org The current profit-seeking practice of big pharma and corporate compliant government that together obstruct vaccinating the whole planet is homicide for profit…

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