2022-01-04: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-04). European Union funds Greece's fascistic anti-refugee offensive—Part 1. wsws.org The camps being built in Greece, with the fulsome praise of bourgeois politicians across the continent, are prisons, enforcing total surveillance and control over detainees.

Moderator (2022-01-04). Big Pharma Hikes Prices on 442 Drugs. scheerpost.com By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams Patient advocates on Monday condemned the U.S. pharmaceutical industry for ushering in the new year with price hikes on more than 440 medications, a move that came as congressional Democrats' plan to lower prescription drug costs remained stuck due to Sen. Joe Manchin's persistent obstruction. According to the healthcare firm GoodRx, the prices …

Christian Zeller (2022-01-03). Ecosocialist strategy: industrial restructuring as a joint project of the climate movement. indybay.org The findings of international climate research and the IPCC are clear. World society is heading for tipping points that will abruptly change the earth and climate system. As a result, several billion people will lose their previous livelihoods in a few decades.

UFCLP (2022-01-03). Thursday 1/6: On Anniversary Of Jan 6 Insurrection, Workers Must Call For United Front Against Fascism. indybay.org San Francisco Federal Building | 90 7th St. | San Francisco…

Badri Raina (2022-01-03). As 2022 Begins, Make No Mistake That an Epistemic Shift Is Underway. zcomm.org If the desired curtailment of constitutional democracy were to result from the democratic process itself, a populist endorsement would have been achieved for the transformation, and the nomenclature of fascist overthrow neatly averted…

Staff (2022-01-03). US intel mistake helped Nazis spread disinfo, book claims. rt.com An intercepted cable from an American spymaster helped the Nazis spread misleading rumors during the war | A US intelligence chief inadvertently helped the Nazis push disinformation during World War II after he continued using a cipher that had been compromised by the Germans, according to classified records discussed in a new book. | In his new book, 'Covert Legions: US Army Intelligence in Germany 1944-1949', historian and author Thomas Boghardt claims that mistakes by an American spy could have helped the Nazis spread false information about Adolf Hitler's Alpine redoubt. | In one of the most successful dis…

_____ (2022-01-03). Sudanese Dictatorship's PM Hamdok Resigns Amid Protests. popularresistance.org On Sunday, Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced his resignation from his post in the wake of the political crisis in the country. | "I announce to you my resignation from…

Staff (2022-01-03). Russian Muslim leaders deny they want Beijing boycott. rt.com Russia's leading Muslim body says it has not called for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics | Russia's Islamic leaders have rebutted suggestions that they have forbidden Muslim athletes from competing at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games in protest at China's treatment of its Uyghur population. | A document shared at the end of December by the 'Global Imams Council' Twitter account purportedly came from senior Islamic leaders who 'banned' Muslim athletes from appearing at the upcoming Games in Beijing. | "This event directly serves the interests of a tyrannical and oppressive regime that is directly respon…

sputniknews (2022-01-03). Israel Registers First 'Flurona' Case, Rare Double Infection of COVID and Seasonal Flu. sputniknews.com In December, the Israeli government approved banning all non-essential travel to Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States to prevent the spread of the Omicron coronavirus strain.

Free West Media (2022-01-03). Covid Jabs are an Example of "Cell and Gene Therapy". Endorsed by the WHO, Big Pharma, the WEF and the EU. globalresearch.ca It is no longer a conspiracy theory: In the course of this year's World Health Summit, Stefan Oelrich, CEO of pharmaceutical giant Bayer, referred to the mRNA jabs as "cell and gene therapy" in his speech. | Mockingly, he explained …

Allen Forrest (2022-01-03). Unless They Tell Me I Have to. dissidentvoice.org A Coronatoon looks at the increasing number of boosters prescribed. First there was a vaccine which required one or two doses. Then along came a Delta variant, and a third booster was needed. Now along comes Omicron, and Big Pharma is producing more boosters.

Brittani Banks (2022-01-03). New Book About Big Pharma by Economy for All Fellow Alexander Zaitchik. independentmediainstitute.org Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines will be released by Counterpoint Press this year by IMI Economy for All fellow Alexander Zaitchik. One of the most problematic areas in the social response to the world health crisis of COVID-19 has been the profit-seeking and opportunism of Western …

2022-01-04 15:07 | 11:07 EST | jz | 14 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0