2022-01-22: News Headlines

Dan Yaseen (2022-01-22). Speaking Truth to Empire about Ukraine Crisis. warisacrime.org "Speaking Truth to Empire" on KFCF 88.1 independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of "Scorpion King: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump" (2020). He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF …

WSWS (2022-01-22). "Democracy" in Ukraine—What is NATO risking a war for? wsws.org Honouring war criminals and Nazi collaborators, promoting fascist militias, mafia-like fights between oligarchs, corruption and massive social inequality are the most prominent features of Ukrainian "democracy."

WSWS (2022-01-22). Qantas to slash wages and conditions of Australian cabin crew. wsws.org The airline is seeking to tear up the existing enterprise agreement after 97 percent of workers rejected a wage-cutting company proposal last month.

Jews United for Democracy & JCA (2022-01-21). Wednesday 1/26: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism w/ Historian A. Appelbaum. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-21). Bolsonaro Declared Persona Non Grata in Guyana. libya360.wordpress.com January 21st, 2022 We, the undersigned organizations and individuals wish to register our strong opposition to the official visit of Brazil's President, Jair Bolsonaro to Guyana, and the Government's plan to strengthen ties with Bolsonaro's regime. Well known for his racist and neo-fascist views and policies, Jair Bolsonaro has created a nightmare scenario for Indigenous…

Ian Ellis-Jones (2022-01-21). US blockade frustrates Cuba's vaccine internationalism. greenleft.org.au ING Group, the Dutch multinational banking institution, has bowed to pressure from the United States and is blocking donations to support Cuba's vaccine solidarity, reports Ian Ellis-Jones.

Jenny Farrell (2022-01-21). On 'The Tragedy of Macbeth,' prompted by film director Joel Coen's latest iteration. peoplesworld.org Of all Shakespeare's tragedies, Macbeth is perhaps the most strikingly modern. When one considers what Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, written between 1600 and 1606, have in common as an overarching theme, it is this: they all center on the crucial conflict of early capitalism between the Renaissance humanist ideal on the one hand …

Workers World Party (2022-01-21). The struggle for reproductive justice is a struggle against capitalism: A 10-point fightback program. workers.org The Women and Oppressed Gender Caucus of Workers World Party issued the following statement and program on the 49th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. Email the caucus at women-gender-wwp@workers.org As a result of a hard-fought mass movement, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark ruling in Roe v. . . . |

Bree Newsome Bass (2022-01-21). Capitalism Has to Collapse. zcomm.org We can't mobilize masses of people in a direction without having a clear sense of what we are mobilizing around…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-01-21). Diosdado Cabello Announces Changes in Regional PSUV Leadership. orinocotribune.com The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) entered a stage of restructuring and adequacy of forces, as reported this Wednesday, January 19, by the first vice president of the revolutionary political party, deputy Diosdado Cabello. | During the 371st broadcast of his TV show Con el Mazo Dando, broadcasted on radio, television and digital platforms, Cabello expressed that they have already taken the first steps to renew the red awning at different labels, in accordance with the guidelines recently issued by the head of state and president of the Party, Nicolás Maduro Moros. | "The Party will adapt to these time…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-21). Justice delayed or justice denied? Lithuanian court postpones hearing on Algirdas Paleckis' appeal. peoplesdispatch.org The hearing on the appeal of socialist leader and ex-diplomat Algirdas Paleckis has been postponed for the second time. He has been convicted on charges of 'espionage on behalf of Russia'

_____ (2022-01-21). QR Codes Are Dead in Russia. strategic-culture.org One thing the individual can do is resist, and when the majority of the population decides to grind the wheels the engine comes to a halt | The sum of all fears for the average Russian has just been averted. The large packet of totalitarian answers to a problem of questionable magnitude has been booted from the State Duma. There has been an air of dread amongst the populace who were waiting to see if nationwide QR-code legislation would make it into law destroying their lives and businesses to separate those vaccinated from plague ridden riff raff. There was an expectation that some sort of Hegelian Dialectic gam…

Lillian House (2022-01-21). Roe v. Wade 49th anniversary — much is at stake. liberationnews.org Ever since the landmark 1973 case, reactionary forces have waged a war to reverse this decision by any means necessary.

Lillian House (2022-01-21). Roe v. Wade 49th anniversary—much is at stake. liberationnews.org Ever since the landmark 1973 case, reactionary forces have waged a war to reverse this decision by any means necessary.

Win Without War (2022-01-21). Wednesday 1/19: Making Foreign Policy Work For the People, Not Just Special Interest Elites. indybay.org Online event…

Editor (2022-01-21). The 700,000 Club: Joe Biden's Deportation Frenzy. mronline.org In under a year, the Biden regime has detained and deported more asylum seekers than his predecessor, demonstrating that there is an alignment among the U.S. political elites—of both parties—when it comes to creating and enforcing racist, inhumane laws.

_____ (2022-01-21). The Three Types Of US 'Regime Change'. popularresistance.org Throughout the long, documented history of the United States illegally overthrowing governments of foreign lands to build a global empire there has emerged three ways Washington broadly carries out "regime change." | From Above. If the targeted leader has been democratically elected and enjoys popular support, the C.I.A. has worked with elite groups, such as the military, to overthrow him (sometimes through assassination). Among several examples is the first C.I.A-backed coup d'état, on March 30, 1949, just 18 months after the agency's founding, when Syrian Army Colonel Husni al-Za'im overthrew the elected presid…

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-21). Albania: NATO acquires, to upgrade air base in ninth Eastern European nation. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com In recent months NATO and the U.S. have announced securing new air bases in Latvia, Hungary, Slovakia and Albania. Those acquisitions are in addition to U.S./NATO air bases in Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. The latter airfields have been modernized and expanded as will no doubt. the newer ones. That accounts for nine of …

Rob Wallace (2022-01-21). COVID Shows It's Time to End the Pharmaceutical Industry. truthout.org Eighty-four million Americans As with COVID testing, thousands of newly hired community health workers are needed to hit the streets and back roads to convince people that vaccines are safe and necessary. Daily conversat…

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