2024-02-27: News Headlines

George Yancy (2024-02-27). This Black History Month, Let's Recognize the Vitality of Black Feminist Thought. truthout.org "As a Black feminist philosopher, I have come to expect practices, strategies — not answers," scholar Jeanine Weekes Schroer told me in a recent conversation. "This kind of ingenuity is something that should be celebrated during Black History Month," she added. "Those fighting fascism will benefit from the clarifying perspective available from the Black feminist viewpoint." The very name of Black… |

infobrics (2024-02-27). Patriot, NASAMS, Abrams, Archer, Paladin, CAESAR… Russian military is having a field day with best NATO gear. infobrics.org The Neo-Nazi junta is rapidly losing strategically important gear such as the "Patriot" and NASAMS air defenses. On February 22, the former was detected at Chernobaevka in the Kherson oblast (region). It soon had a very unpleasant "close encounter" with two Russian FAB-500 M-62 aerial bombs equipped with MPK gliding modules. Days later, the first M1 "Abrams" was also destroyed.

Drago Bosnic (2024-02-27). Two Years Into Russia's SMO: US-NATO Pushing for Global Destabilization. Unending Support for Kiev Neo-Nazi Regime. Drago Bosnic. globalresearch.ca

Mark Lesseraux (2024-02-27). Capitalism Has Left the Building. Enter Technofeudalism. pressenza.com The Search for a Definition | Over the last four or five years, like just about everyone else, I've been feeling that some kind of huge shift, some sort of sea change has taken place that I haven't quite been able to define. There were certainly occurrences that stood out. There was the Trump presidency, there was the COVID pandemic, there are the horrible wars in Ukraine, in Gaza and elsewhere, etc.. However, none of these phenomena held up, by themselves or in conjunction with one another, as a satisfying answer to my query. | Inverted Socialism? | Two years ago, I wrote an article for Pressenza entitled, "We H…

Ana Perdigón (2024-02-27). Socialist International Expels Venezuela's Popular Will Party. orinocotribune.com The Socialist International (SI) expelled the far-right Popular Will party (VP) because they "exceeded the organization's ethical codes" after modifying their ideological line, according to SI. | In Venezuela and other places in the world, analysts expressed surprise when the far-right VP was accepted into the Socialist International despite the long list of parties that are no longer socialist and still are part of this international group. | Socialist International brings together social democratic, socialist, and labor political parties from around the world. It ratified the expulsion of Popular Will because t…

Staff (2024-02-27). PSUV: Venezuela's Opposition Disguises its Shortcomings with Violence. orinocotribune.com The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, warned that Venezuela's opposition wants to hide its failures with violence. However, he assured, the government will not fall for these provocations. | This Monday, February 26, during the weekly press conference of the PSUV National Directorate, Cabello was asked about the national tour that the opposition leader, María Corina Machado, is undertaking. Despite being disqualified from holding public office, Machado continues to behave as though she is campaigning. | In this regard, the PSUV leader stated that this sector of Ve…

Friends of Socialist China. (2024-02-27). China Affirms Palestinian People's Right To Wage Armed Struggle. popularresistance.org The government of China has made an extremely important statement affirming the right of the Palestinian people to engage in armed struggle for liberation. | Speaking on February 22, on the second day of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)'s hearings on 'The Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jersusalem', held at the Hague, Holland, Ma Xinmin, Legal Adviser to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, referring to the results of the 'Six Day War' in June 1967, that 57 years have passed since Israel began its occupation a…

Stephen Joseph Scott (2024-02-27). Governance, Race, Property, and Profit. socialistproject.ca "Slavery is associated … with the emergence of several of the most profoundly cherished ideals and beliefs in the Western tradition." — Orlando Patterson | The subjugation and forced enslavement of Black bodies seized from the continent of Africa had been fundamental to the expansion and growth of the Atlantic domain since the early sixteenth century. In fact, African enslavement had been a mainstay throughout the Spanish Atlantic world for more than a generation prior to English colonization in the Americas. Seeing the Spanish not only as rivals for land, wealth, and resources, the English (not having…

teleSUR (2024-02-26). Haiti: Deficit of Mental Health Experts. telesurenglish.net Forced displacement due to violence generated by criminal gangs, assaults of all kinds, loss of homes and possessions add to the list of social disillusionment that gestated the desire of many individuals to end their own lives for good. | Depression, feelings of failure and the inability to plan for the future triggered suicidal thoughts in Haiti. Feb. 26, 2024.

teleSUR (2024-02-26). ALBA's Unity Proposal is Based on the Peoples: Arreaza. telesurenglish.net Over the weekend, Jorge Arreaza, the recently appointed secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), recalled the importance of unity among Latin American peoples to respond to contemporary global challenges. | RELATED: | "For the Bolivarian Alliance, unity is not built among elites. It is based on the peoples, their real involvement, and the comprehensive satisfaction of their…

Editor (2024-02-27). Feb 27, 2024. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Air — Johann Sebastian Bach Comes Thermidor: Are you ready for it? by James Howard Kunstler The Rapidly Emerging Rule of Tyranny in the West, by Paul Craig Roberts Fake terrorism and the genocide agenda, by Paul Cudenec Letter from CPAC: Journey into A New Kind of Dissidence, by Naomi Wolf Joan Roelofs ponders life: a web of hope and humanity in a world on fire, from Jeff Brown War Is Bad for You — And the Economy, by William Hartung U.S. Seeks to Cap Middle East Violence; In This, Iran Is (a Kind of) 'Ally,' by Alastair Crooke Aaron Bushnell Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn…

ecns.cn (2024-02-27). Sweden ready to complete NATO membership bid. ecns.cn Hungary's Parliament has removed the final obstacle to Sweden joining the NATO military alliance, after lawmakers voted to approve the application following a stand-off that lasted almost two years.

presstv.ir (2024-02-27). Sweden set to join US-led NATO as Hungary approves bid. presstv.ir Hungary's parliament approves Sweden's bid to join NATO, clearing the last obstacle before the Nordic country becomes a member of the US-led military alliance.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-02-27). Hungarian Parliament elects Tamás Sulyok as head of State. plenglish.com Sulyok will replace Katalin Novák, who resigned two weeks ago after revelations that she had pardoned a man convicted of helping to cover up sexual abuse in a children's home. | Sulyok previously served as the president of the Constitutional Court. | He was elected with the backing of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, which controls two-thirds of the Legislature. | Novak, 46, has been the president of Hungary since 2022. | She previously served as Minister for Family from 2020 to 2021.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-02-27). Hungary reaffirms Sweden's NATO accession. plenglish.com Thus, Sweden would become the military alliance's 32nd member after Finland's accession in April 2023. | The decision came after Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's recent visit to Budapest. | According to the parties, it will help to build "a fair and respectful relationship between the two countries beyond the differences of opinion." | Experts stated that Budapest delayed its decision to negotiate with the European Union (EU) to release billions of euros in frozen funds. | The EU has been highly critical of the Hungarian executive over issues such as human rights and freedom of speech nationwide.

Agence France-Presse (2024-02-27). 'Historic day': Sweden set to join Nato after Hungary approves bid. scmp.com Sweden clears the last hurdle to join Nato, ending the Nordic country's long history of neutrality and military non-alignment.

teleSUR (2024-02-27). Hungarian Parliament Approves Sweden's NATO Bid. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Hungary's lawmakers on Monday approved a bill on Sweden's bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). | RELATED: | Out of the 199 members of parliament (MP), 194 participated in the voting, with 188 votes in favor and six against. The Hungarian parliament voted on the bill on the first day of the spring session of the Parliament. | "The Swedish-Hungarian military cooperation and Sweden's NATO accession…

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