2022-01-29: News Headlines

John Rachel (2022-01-29). True Colors: Red, White, Black & Blue. dissidentvoice.org With a bold and completely self-sabotaging diplomatic blunder, one which fails on every level including the least rigorous sanity test, this past Wednesday the U.S. was one of two nations to vote against a UN resolution designed to discourage the glorification and promotion of Nazi ideology. The other nation was Ukraine, which currently is overrun …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-01-29). To the People of Cuba: Is Washington Preparing a "Soft Coup"? The Co-optation of Cuban Intellectuals. globalresearch.ca The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism. In all major regions of the World, the Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration and struggle…

WSWS (2022-01-29). With 900,000 dead from COVID-19, US capitalism doubles down on mass infection. wsws.org Even as thousands die each day, the Biden administration and US media are demanding the end of any remaining restrictions on the spread of COVID-19.

Workers World Party (2022-01-29). To a socialist future/Build Workers World. workers.org Workers World newspaper's articles and editorials analyze major global and U.S. developments, always with an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist perspective. Our pages report on people's movements here and abroad, to not only inform our readers but to promote those struggles and show solidarity with them. And, WW aims to advance the struggle . . . |

WSWS (2022-01-29). An interview with Mark Kruger, author of The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Mark Kruger about his new book, the 1619 Project, and the current state of American politics.

Pratyush Chandra (2022-01-29). On the significance of the polemical in Marxism. mronline.org A polemic for revolutionaries is a militant dialogic practice to reveal the contradictions of a position, hammering it down to break open its hardened crust in order to rescue life from the stifle of the canon.

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2022-01-29). Putting Trudeau On Notice, Our Governments are No Longer Legitimate: Throwing Off the Tyranny of Canada's Mandatory Vaccines. globalresearch.ca

The Lancet (2022-01-29). [Editorial] Neglected tropical diseases: ending the neglect of populations. thelancet.com 2022 sees the tenth anniversary of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), a pivotal event at which governments, pharmaceutical companies, foundations, and NGOs committed to collaborate in their efforts to stop NTDs. This initiative was inspired by the WHO NTD Roadmap 2012—2020, a plan for the control, elimination, and eradication of 17 neglected tropical diseases by 2020. Not all of the targets were met, but much progress has been made. In 2020, 600 million fewer people required interventions against NTDs than in 2010, and 42 countries eliminated at least one NTD.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-28). NATO Spreads Fascism to Further Military Buildup in New Cold War. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea "It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way," stated the neoliberal economist Friedrich von Hyek. "And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism." Throughout the second half of the twentieth…

Michael Steven Smith (2022-01-28). How Nixon Flexed CIA Muscle to Destroy Reporter Who Discovered He was Taking Illegal Campaign Contributions from Fascist Greek Junta. covertactionmagazine.com If the exposé had gone public, Nixon might have been defeated and spent the next 20 years in prison—instead of …

WSWS (2022-01-28). "America First" secretary of state candidates in eight states promote Trump's "stolen election" lie. wsws.org Embracing Trump's fascistic election fraud claims, "America First" secretary of state candidates are seeking to oust Democratic and Republican incumbents alike.

Chauncey K. Robinson (2022-01-28). 'GameStop: Rise of the Players' exposes the greed of Wall Street and finance capitalism. peoplesworld.org

Brittani Banks (2022-01-28). U.S. Politicians Spend Their Time Papering Over the Social Problems Caused by Profit-Driven Capitalism. independentmediainstitute.org The declines of U.S. capitalism and of its imperial position provoke fear among its mainstream politicians. Their response, in large part, has been to deny that any such decline is happening. These politicians do this partly by acting as though the U.S. remains in the globally dominant position it occupied in the second half of …

Robert Reich (2022-01-28). The Curse of Financial Entrepreneurship. indybay.org We are not prisoners of bad decisions made in the past. We can and should rein in Wall Street, break up its five giant "too-big-to-fail" banks, support local and state banks, resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act's divide between investment & commercial banking, tax all financial transactions — and rebuild jobs and wages on the product side of the American economy.

Staff (2022-01-28). Honduras hacia una refundación socialista y democrática. cubadebate.cu Junto a Bolivia y Venezuela, Cuba estuvo entre las naciones hermanas de Honduras que más fue vitoreada por los miles y miles de personas que desde la noche del miércoles hicieron filas en las entradas del principal estadio de fútbol de Tegucigalpa para participar en la toma de posesión de la primera mujer en asumir ese cargo en la historia local.

Benjamin Norton (2022-01-28). Russia strengthens 'military-technical cooperation' with Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba amid US threats. multipolarista.com Russia said it is expanding "military-technical cooperation" with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, after Putin had phone calls with the presidents of the three socialist governments, which have been targeted by illegal US sanctions and coup attempts.

Editor (2022-01-28). Mike Taber (ed) — Under the Socialist Banner: Resolutions of the Second International, 1889-1912. mronline.org Mike Taber has edited for the first time the resolutions adopted between 1889 and 1912 by the nine congresses celebrated by the Socialist International, which is also known as the Second International.

Alex Bainbridge (2022-01-28). Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane: 'I'm fired up about education, injustice and sovereignty'. greenleft.org.au Distinguished Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane is running for Socialist Alliance in the seat of Leichhardt. A retired barrister and a former New South Wales magistrate, she spoke to Alex Bainbridge about what fires her up and why she decided to contest the federal election.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-28). Marxism and the Black Caribbean. libya360.wordpress.com Transcript Onye: The main impact of anti-communism and online left discourse has been serious strikes to principled anti imperialism, particularly in Western nations like the United Snakes. You get to the point where China, for example, or Cuba or Vietnam have clearly managed the pandemic much better: have prioritized the health and well-being of their populations,…

Editor (2022-01-28). 'Das Kapital' in Kiswahili. mronline.org Joachim Mwami on translating Marx—and Marxism—into the vocabulary of East Africa…

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-01-28). Anxiety, Depression and Organization (Part 2). anchor.fm In this episode I discuss a bit further some of the difficulties facing people when it comes to Organizing in the current circumstances were in, while being actively traumatized and in danger because of the pandemic, along with already pre-existing mental illnesses that have been far worsened during this time, but also the general difficulties the state puts in place when it comes to organizing.

WSWS (2022-01-28). All COVID restrictions ended in UK amid deepening government crisis. wsws.org The crisis wracking the Johnson government is only spurring on its reactionary agenda at home and abroad. MPs left the capital amid discussions on the UK possibly sending thousands of troops to Eastern Europe to confront Russia.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-28). US approves massive arms sale to Egypt despite deteriorating human rights situation. peoplesdispatch.org The USD 2.5 billion arms deal was approved despite calls by rights groups and even some members of Congress for a tougher stance on Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who Donald Trump once called "my favorite dictator"

_____ (2022-01-28). From Rikers To Santa Rita: Close The Death Camps! popularresistance.org January 27, 2022/25th Sh'vat 5782, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps, where so many of our ancestors were incarcerated and enslaved, raped and robbed, maimed and murdered. | We are an anonymous collective of Jewish New Yorkers who are striking this day, across the five boroughs of NYC/across occupied Lenapehoking, in solidarity with the hunger strikers at Rikers Island and with all who are resisting this genocidal regime. This is a regime which took the lives of 15 fellow New Yorkers last year alone — a number which has c…

Editor (2022-01-28). Michael Smith and Zachary Sklar: Michael Ratner Was a Revolutionary Lawyer Like No Other. scheerpost.com Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington DC, 11th January 2006. [Photo by Jonathan McIntosh] | Click to subscribe on: When Michael Ratner died in 2016, the world lost one of the great human rights lawyers of the past century. A descendant of holocaust survivors, Ratner embodied the courage an…

_____ (2022-01-28). Climate Change In The American Empire. popularresistance.org Here's to 2022. | A new year to displace one of the twenty previous warmest years globally since records began: the last twenty apart from 1998 with its strong El Niño. | The summer of 2021 saw the Met Office in the UK issue what was its first-ever "extreme heat warning." Over in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia, flash floods left more than 120 people dead. | "You don't expect people to die in a flood in Germany. Maybe in poorer countries, you could understand it, but not in Germany" was a comment that went viral. | Question: What's the difference between climate change and COVID?

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