2023-02-01: News Headlines

The Green Arcade (2023-02-01). Wednesday 3/15: The Common Goodness of People and A Father Escaping Nazi Germany – Two Authors Read. indybay.org The Green Arcade | 1680 Market Street | SF, CA 94102…

WSWS (2023-02-01). Peace activist sentenced for criticizing German war policy in Ukraine. wsws.org The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court has sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bàºcker for a speech he gave on the anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion on the Soviet Union.

Bob Price (2023-02-01). Sunday 2/5: Confronting capitalism's crises with bold, revolutionary leadership. indybay.org New Valencia hall, 747 Polk St., San Francisco (@ Ellis Street)…

Fight Back (2023-02-01). Milwaukee shows solidarity with Tyre Nichols. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – Despite the Milwaukee snowstorm, 150 people showed up to march in solidarity with Tyre Nichols and all victims of police crimes. The Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (MAARPR) put the call to action for Sunday, January 29, and was quickly joined by the Justice for Brieon Green Coalition, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Students for Democratic Society, Reproductive Justice Action – Milwaukee (RJA-M), the Milwaukee Anti-war Committee, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | The crowd gathered at Dontre Hamilton (Red Arrow) Park, which over the years has become an…

The Green Arcade (2023-02-01). Wednesday 3/15: The Common Goodness of People and A Father Escaping Nazi Germany – Two Authors Read. indybay.org The Green Arcade | 1680 Market Street | SF, CA 94102…

WSWS (2023-02-01). Peace activist sentenced for criticizing German war policy in Ukraine. wsws.org The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court has sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bàºcker for a speech he gave on the anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion on the Soviet Union.

Bob Price (2023-02-01). Sunday 2/5: Confronting capitalism's crises with bold, revolutionary leadership. indybay.org New Valencia hall, 747 Polk St., San Francisco (@ Ellis Street)…

Fight Back (2023-02-01). Milwaukee shows solidarity with Tyre Nichols. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – Despite the Milwaukee snowstorm, 150 people showed up to march in solidarity with Tyre Nichols and all victims of police crimes. The Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (MAARPR) put the call to action for Sunday, January 29, and was quickly joined by the Justice for Brieon Green Coalition, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Students for Democratic Society, Reproductive Justice Action – Milwaukee (RJA-M), the Milwaukee Anti-war Committee, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | The crowd gathered at Dontre Hamilton (Red Arrow) Park, which over the years has become an…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-02-01). China Appears Poised to Achieve through Cooperation in the 21st Century what Japan Sought to Achieve through Coercion in the 20th. covertactionmagazine.com U.S. elites have predictably reacted with hysteria to China's rise and could go so far as to provoke a world war to try to salvage their Southeast Asia empire—as the Roosevelt administration did with Japan on the eve of Pearl Harbor. From 1991 to 2021 China achieved ten-fold growth in incomes and labor productivity, and …

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). China completes all major tasks from three-year action plan. ecns.cn China has completed all the major tasks of its three-year action plan for the reform of State-owned enterprises (2020-22), said the country's top State-owned assets regulator after participating in a key work meeting on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-02-01). Xi encourages young people to forge ties. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping, in a recent letter to students of a Hungarian-Chinese bilingual school in Budapest, Hungary, encouraged teenagers in the Central European country to understand China better and become envoys to carry forward and enhance the friendship between the two nations.

Juan Cole (2023-01-31). Sec. of State Blinken's Happy Talk Middle East Tour meets Meat Grinder of Rising Israeli Fascism. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The actually existing Middle East is not cooperating with the Washington representation of it. To hear Secretary of State Antony Blinken speak, you would think that a two-state solution to the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinians is still possible. It is not. You would think there was a "peace process." …

Ed Rampell (2023-01-31). Southern Girls: Theater Review. mronline.org Would Florida's Fascistic Governor Ban This Play and Burn the Script?>

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-01-31). "Secret Wars" & vice ADM Ann E. Rondeau now before US Court of Appeals / 4th Circuit. indybay.org Guilty of more than just dishonorable common crimes & false federal statements, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency & National Defense University trivialized, justified and even participated in neo-Nazi crimes, diluted the moral awfulness of clandestine death camps, & engaged in other barbarousness & corruption, incl. the reprehensible promoting of palpable traitors & narcotics traffickers.

WSWS (2023-01-31). Auschwitz commemoration dominated by war propaganda, right-wing historical falsification. wsws.org The unprecedented promotion of war propaganda and the deliberate minimization of the crimes of Nazism at the Auschwitz commemoration are inseparable from the renewed explosion of imperialist militarism now underway in Europe.

Staff (2023-01-31). Free Alex Saab, political prisoner of capitalism and imperialism. samidoun.net In a statement released on Monday, January 30, over 30 organizations that make up the Movement of Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution in Madrid raised their voices to demand the release of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab and all the political prisoners of imperialism. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is a signatory of this statement. This …

William I. Robinson (2023-01-31). La elite de Davos a la deriva frente a la ´policrisis ª del capitalismo global. globalizacion.ca La élite política y corporativa transnacional estuvo de regreso en Davos del 16 al 20 de enero para su cónclave anual en medio de la crisis más severa del capitalismo global desde la fundación del Foro Económico Mundial (FEM) hace…

Editor (2023-01-31). Ralph Nader: Drug Price Showdown Time for Chairman Bernie Sanders. scheerpost.com By Ralph Nader It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. The self-described "democratic socialist" from a safe seat in Vermont has long been a Big Pharma nemesis. He has issued detailed critiques of what others have called a "Pay or Die" …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-01-31). Raided by the FBI for Being Socialist, With Omali Yeshitela. orinocotribune.com Today, "Behind The Headlines" host Lee Camp speaks to Omali Yeshitela, a man raided by the FBI for the crime of being a black socialist. Together, the two discuss the revolutionary black liberation movement, U.S. imperialism, racism, and the corruption of the two-party system. | In August of last year, the FBI raided the offices of the African People's Socialist Party ( | Yeshitela helped found the APSP in 1972, at a time when the Black…

WSWS (2023-01-31). UK: A socialist strategy to defeat the anti-strike laws. wsws.org The trade unions have not organised a single day of strike action against the greatest threat to workers' democratic rights ever mounted, urging workers to rely instead on a future Starmer-led Labour government.

WSWS (2023-01-31). Democratic Socialists of America falsely tout New York State 2022 electoral victories as boon for socialist politics. wsws.org The Democratic Socialists of America are exploiting the results of the New York State 2022 elections to build their brand of pro-imperialist and corporate-friendly "socialism."

Ramzy Baroud (2023-01-31). Arab Masses Emphatically Put Palestinian Cause first, Dividing from some of their Ruling Elites. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration, state institutions and democracy. With one single exception: Palestine. 76 per cent of all respondents …

_____ (2023-01-31). Trials and Tribulations of the Collective West. strategic-culture.org Sit back, relax and enjoy a race to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The only question is who will get there first: the EU, NATO, or both. | One may be excused to imagine all sorts of amusement games unrolling at the HQ of the Russian General Staff as The Empire and NATO go literally bonkers. What crazy stunt will they come up with next — short of WWIII? | Here is a

_____ (2023-01-31). Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong. strategic-culture.org NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware won't help. | By Chris HEDGES | Empires in terminal decline leap from one military fiasco to the next. The war in Ukraine, another bungled attempt to reassert U.S. global hegemony, fits this pattern. The danger is that the more dire things look, the more the U.S. will escalate the conflict, potentially provoking open confrontation with Russia. If Russia carries out retaliatory attacks on supply and training bases in neighboring N…

Thierry Meyssan (2023-01-31). Deux perceptions de la guerre en Ukraine. thealtworld.com L'intervention militaire en Ukraine n'est pas du tout interprétée de la même manière en Occident et en Russie. C'est un cas d'école. Cette différence de représentation ne provient pas d'intérêts matériels antagonistes, mais de conceptions différentes de ce qui fait l'Homme et de ce qu'est la Vie. Pour les uns, l'ennemi tenterait de restaurer la grandeur de l'Empire tsariste ou de l'Union soviétique, tandis que pour les autres, il s'imaginerait incarner le Bien. | Le conflit opposant les partisans d' ´ un monde fondé sur des règles ª à ceux qui préconisent un retour à ´ un monde fondé sur le Droit…

Thierry Meyssan (2023-01-31). Two perceptions of the war in Ukraine. thealtworld.com The military intervention in Ukraine is not at all interpreted in the same way in the West and in Russia. It is a school case. This difference of representation does not come from antagonistic material interests, but from different conceptions of what makes Man and what is Life. For some, the enemy is trying to restore the grandeur of the Tsarist Empire or the Soviet Union, while for others, he imagines himself to be the embodiment of Good. | The conflict between the advocates of "a world based on rules" and those who advocate a return to "a world based on international law" continues. It began with the Russian m…

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). First electric-poweredlight rail line in West Africa undertaken by Chinese enterprise opens. ecns.cn The opening ceremony of the first phase of the Lagos light rail blue line, undertaken by Chinese enterprise, was held in Nigeria, marking the first electrification light rail built in West Africa and one more project benefiting people's livelihood since the Belt and Road Initiative put forward 10 years ago.

ecns.cn (2023-01-31). Xi encourages Hungarian youths to learn more about China, become envoys of friendship. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping encouraged Hungarian youths to learn more about China and become envoys of the China-Hungary friendship in a recent reply letter.

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