2024-02-05: News Headlines

Ron Jacobs (2024-02-05). Any Way You Look at It, You Lose. counterpunch.org Here it is, February 2024 and it's as if the US' two major parties had already held their nominating conventions. Biden vs. Trump. Two corpses of the US political system as the vaunted democracy's choices. Reactionary neoliberalism or reactionary fascism. The key word in both phrases is reactionary. At this point in history, I don't

Susana Khalil (2024-02-05). The Native Palestinian People Have the Right To Liberate Themselves. orinocotribune.com By Susana Khalil — Feb 3, 2024 | Let's be clear, no pirouettes please. | The native Palestinian people have the dignified right and duty to liberate themselves from Israel's Eurocentric colonial anachronism. | The native Palestinian people, not only have the dignified right to liberate themselves from colonialism, but they have the duty and obligation, since in their liberation they would be liberating the world from the most powerful fascism of our historical time, such as Zionism. | The liberation of Palestine is a just, noble and generous right. It is a fertile and fecund right. A right of universal honor…

WSWS (2024-02-05). Republican governors join Abbott and fascist militias in Texas to denounce Biden and immigrant "invasion" wsws.org Coinciding with the far-right "Take our Borders Back" convoy, Republican governors descended on Eagle Pass, Texas Sunday to back Gov. Abbott's anti-immigrant campaign and his usurpation of federal authority over the border.

scorinoco (2024-02-04). Venezuela Repudiates Vandalism of Bolívar Statue in Rome. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, denounced the desecration of the bust of Liberator Simón Bolívar in Monte Sacro, Rome, capital of Italy. | "I denounce the unacceptable aggression that fascist hordes in Italy have perpetrated in Monte Sacro, Rome, against Simón Bolívar, Father and Liberator of our free America," President Maduro wrote on X on Saturday, February 3. | Denuncio la agresión inaceptable que hordas fascistas en Italia han perpetrado en el Monte Sacro, Roma, en contra de Simón Bolívar, Padre y Libertador de nuestra América libre. Repudio totalmente esta agresión llevada adelante por quienes s…

newarab (2024-02-05). Israeli minister likens UK's David Cameron to Nazi appeaser. newarab.com Israel's Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli compared the In a post on X, Chikli shared a photo comparison of UK Foreign Minister David Cameron waving alongside the picture of former British prime minister Neville Chamberlain holding up a copy of the 1938 Munich Agreement that let Nazi Germ…

newarab (2024-02-04). Israeli minister likens UK's David Cameron to Nazi appeaser. newarab.com Israel's Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli compared the In a post on X, Chikli shared a photo comparison of UK Foreign Minister David Cameron waving alongside the picture of former British prime minister Neville Chamberlain holding up a copy of the 1938 Munich Agreement that let Nazi Germ…

_____ (2024-02-05). Reflections on the Holocaust and the Parallels between Nazi Brutality and Israeli Atrocities. transcend.org "At the end of World War II an august body, the United Nations, was formed as a global organization based on the horrors of the Nazi Regime against the Jews of Europe, a tragedy called The Holocaust. A unanimous resolution was made by world leaders at the time, Never Again, yet the same human catastrophe is being reenacted in the atrocities on Gaza by the Zionist Regime of Israel as a neo imperialist force."

Andrés Tapia Arias, Andrés Madrid Tamayo, People's Dispatch. (2024-02-05). Capitalism And Drug Trafficking In Ecuador. popularresistance.org Ecuador is experiencing a wave of organized crime violence that is linked to structural problems. It is the product of a complex context divided between the increase in poverty, new drug routes worldwide and the emergence of a local narco-bourgeoisie. Amid all this, a global crisis of neoliberal capitalism, and consequently, the decomposition and rupture of the social pact between classes, peoples and hegemonic blocks. | In this context, the Government of Daniel Noboa has decided to confront the wave of drug crime that is drowning Ecuador through the declaration of internal armed conflict. In other words, war aga…

Binoy Kampmark (2024-02-05). When Much is Too Much: Elon Musk's Compensation Package. counterpunch.org When is the acquisitive nature of open frontier capitalism too much? When Elon Musk is told that US$56 billion as a pay package is unfair. This, at least, was the finding by Delaware Court of Chancery by Judge Kathaleen McCormick regarding the spellbinding 2018 compensation package for the planet's wealthiest human being. McCormick and Musk already have

WSWS (2024-02-05). Capitalism leads to genocide and war—youth and students must fight for world socialism! wsws.org The fact that genocide has been adopted as policy by all the major capitalist powers is a warning. Gaza is the test case, the imperialist powers are making clear that there are no "red lines" they will not cross in their struggle to sustain their hegemonic rule.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2024-02-04). Forget the Kids: Social Media, Congress and Child Safety. "Monetize Information — Surveillance Capitalism — is Left untouched" globalresearch.ca

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2024-02-04). Forget the Kids: Social Media, Congress and Child Safety. "Monetize Information — Surveillance Capitalism — is Left untouched" globalresearch.ca

_____ (2024-02-05). The Transnational Capitalist Class. The Billionaires, the Trillionaires. "Stake Holder Capitalism" and the New World Order. transcend.org 21 Jan 2024 – In 2011, the Great British Class Survey was conducted in collaboration with the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics, and the University of York. The British have always been obsessed with class, so it is not surprising that they would attempt something of this nature.

Drago Bosnic (2024-02-05). US and NATO Are "The Fourth Reich". Strikes Inside Iran are Contemplated. globalresearch.ca

Emanuel Pastreich (2024-02-05). Free Whistleblower Joshua Schulte. End Criminal Governance in the United States. globalresearch.ca

infobrics (2024-02-05). US and NATO are the Fourth Reich. infobrics.org Anyone with a single functioning brain cell knows who the bad guys are. Except for the bad guys themselves. On the contrary, they're unequivocally convinced they're the "good guys". It's not entirely clear if this is a coping mechanism, self-delusion or perhaps simply a case of one lying to everyone (including themselves).

thecommunists (2024-02-04). Lenin's work remains a guide for our time: an introduction. thecommunists.org Download this leaflet as a pdf. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to us as Lenin, was a Russian Marxist who is best known for leading the 1917 October Revolution that brought socialism to Russia and to the territories of the former Russian empire, leading to the foundation and building of the world's first great socialist state, …

Editor (2024-02-05). Feb 5, 2024. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Willie Nelson — Blue Skies (with Lyrics) There is no God Higher than Truth, by Alex Krainer "All Options Are On the Table," by Bill Astore It's now: people vs. the banks, by Alex Krainer "We are the Good Guys" — Prof Didier Raoult Calls for COVID-19 Vaccine Moratorium, by John Leake Understanding American Totalitarianism and Hegemony in 3 minutes (Video) The Worst US I've Ever Seen | Col. Larry Wilkerson (Video) Never Before Has The Empire Been So Exposed, by Caitlin Johnstone Tedros Dismayed at Global Hesitancy on WHO Plans w/Dr McCullough, Alison Stein (Video, Transcript) "Y…

geo.tv (2024-02-05). 'World's coolest dictator' Nayib Bukele declares presidential victory in El Salvador. geo.tv Polls closed at 5pm, about two hours before Bukele claimed victory…

Staff (2024-02-04). India needs leadership that understands people's needs: Tharoor. muslimmirror.com Jaipur : Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday, February 4, accused the Centre of destroying India's democratic institutions and said the country is turning into an "electoral dictatorship". He also took an apparent dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said there has been talk of only one person in the last 10 years and …

Evan Jones (2024-02-04). Are Palestinians the New Jews? counterpunch.org Image by Ahmed Abu Hameeda. | The World War II mass murder of European Jewry took place mostly behind closed doors, as it were. Most of the living witnesses were the perpetrators. Not so the Gaza genocide. Like the American war in Vietnam, the destruction and the mass murder are reported in the media daily, even in the mainstream media that is right up Israel's arse. The media exposure proved fatal to the US cause in Vietnam. What chance a comparable development regarding Gaza? By contrast with the conditions of the Jewish holocaust, there is the knowledge and capacity to constrain Israel's bloodlust. | To rea…

Evan Jones (2024-02-04). Are Palestinians the New Jews? counterpunch.org Image by Ahmed Abu Hameeda. | The World War II mass murder of European Jewry took place mostly behind closed doors, as it were. Most of the living witnesses were the perpetrators. Not so the Gaza genocide. Like the American war in Vietnam, the destruction and the mass murder are reported in the media daily, even in the mainstream media that is right up Israel's arse. The media exposure proved fatal to the US cause in Vietnam. What chance a comparable development regarding Gaza? By contrast with the conditions of the Jewish holocaust, there is the knowledge and capacity to constrain Israel's bloodlust. | To rea…

teleSUR, JCM (2024-02-04). Cohete chino Smart Dragon-3 lanza nueve satélites desde el mar. telesurtv.net China lanzó el primer satélite comercial del mundo con inteligencia artificial.

Editor (2024-02-04). Patty Hearst Was Treated Gently At a Time When "Tough On Crime" Was Taking Hold. scheerpost.com Listen to Roger D. Rapoport discuss his latest book on Patty Hearst on Scheer Intelligence By Roger D. Rapoport / CounterPunch On February 4, 1974, a group of ragtag revolutionaries who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army abducted Patty Hearst, an heiress to the Hearst media empire, from her Berkeley apartment. The bold act stunned …

Editor (2024-02-04). Patty Hearst Was Treated Gently At a Time When "Tough On Crime" Was Taking Hold. scheerpost.com Listen to Roger D. Rapoport discuss his latest book on Patty Hearst on Scheer Intelligence By Roger D. Rapoport / CounterPunch On February 4, 1974, a group of ragtag revolutionaries who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army abducted Patty Hearst, an heiress to the Hearst media empire, from her Berkeley apartment. The bold act stunned …

Editor (2024-02-04). Feb 4, 2024. sitrepworld.info For those of you who keep returning to see if there's something new, thank you for your interest. I am now mostly recovered from my illness and am trying to get on my horse and figure out where to go from here. There are two competing destinations. The first is going back to publishing the links for the Daily Posts. And the other is to continue to blog about what I consider the most important and compelling process driving pretty much everything else, the Geopolitical Tectonic Shift (GTS), referring to the disintegration of the USraeli Empire, heir to the 500 year long European empire, while the RoW (the Rest of…

Editor (2024-02-04). Feb 4, 2024. sitrepworld.info For those of you who keep returning to see if there's something new, thank you for your interest. I am now mostly recovered from my illness and am trying to get on my horse and figure out where to go from here. There are two competing destinations. The first is going back to publishing the links for the Daily Posts. And the other is to continue to blog about what I consider the most important and compelling process driving pretty much everything else, the Geopolitical Tectonic Shift (GTS), referring to the disintegration of the USraeli Empire, heir to the 500 year long European empire, while the RoW (the Rest of…

Kathleen Wallace (2024-02-04). Abstractions and Mass Murder. counterpunch.org Israeli ground operations in Gaza, November 1, 2023. Photo: IDF. There is nothing new under the sun in terms of incitement to war methods or the dehumanization techniques necessary to create compliant and bloodthirsty populations. The only thing that is new are the shifting and doomed populations who find themselves in the way of empire. Students of history, generally without a shred of self-examination, congratulate themselves for being born to a more enlightened time knowing that even if they were transported to those historical eve…

Kathleen Wallace (2024-02-04). Abstractions and Mass Murder. counterpunch.org Israeli ground operations in Gaza, November 1, 2023. Photo: IDF. There is nothing new under the sun in terms of incitement to war methods or the dehumanization techniques necessary to create compliant and bloodthirsty populations. The only thing that is new are the shifting and doomed populations who find themselves in the way of empire. Students of history, generally without a shred of self-examination, congratulate themselves for being born to a more enlightened time knowing that even if they were transported to those historical eve…

tvbrics (2024-02-04). Cultural sector enterprises record remarkable expansion in China. tvbrics.com China has recorded significant growth in revenue and profits for major companies in the cultural sector in 2023…

tvbrics (2024-02-04). Cultural sector enterprises record remarkable expansion in China. tvbrics.com China has recorded significant growth in revenue and profits for major companies in the cultural sector in 2023…

Dean Baker (2024-02-04). The Young People Will Never Own Homes Lie that the Media Keep Pushing. cepr.net It is not hard to get access to government data on homeownership. You just need an Internet connection, that's it. Unfortunately, it seems that cost-cutting or other measures prevent reporters at CNN and the New York Times from getting the data that the Census Bureau publishes quarterly on homeownership rates among young people. They keep …

albawaba (2024-02-05). Samsung's Leader acquittal in fraud case unraveled. albawaba.com ALBAWABA — Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman, Jay Y. Lee was acquitted of accounting fraud and stock manipulation charges as a Seoul court found him not guilty, citing lack of proof, after he was arrested in 2017 in accusation of manipulating a merger of Samsung C&T Corp, Samsung's construction and engineering arm, and Cheil Industries Inc. back in 2015, with Jay Y. Lee denying any wrongdoings.After Elliot Associates, an American hedge fund with 7.1 percent ownership of Samsung C&T had opposed the 2015 merger in court, Jay Y. Lee was later accused of bribing former president Park Geun-Hye and her confi…

tvbrics (2024-02-05). Egypt and Tunisia discuss co-operation in the health sector. tvbrics.com The meeting between the two countries discussed achieving integration in the field of pharmaceutical industry…

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