Daily Archives: January 26, 2022

2022-01-26: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-26). What "endemic" COVID-19 really means: Mass infection and death forever. wsws.org Government officials and the corporate media want to declare COVID-19 "endemic," to enforce policies that will have disastrous consequences for the working class.

_____ (2022-01-25). Tell Biden: No War! U.S./NATO Hands Off Russia And Donbass! popularresistance.org U.S. imperialism is playing with fire in Eastern Europe. U.S. officials are toying with the lives of millions of people in Europe, Asia and potentially the entire world with their unprecedented campaign of threats, provocations and war propaganda aimed at the Russian Federation. | The Biden regime and corporate media are lying when they warn of an "imminent" Russian invasion of Ukraine. The real danger of invasion comes from the U.S.-supported, NATO-armed Ukrainian government against the peoples of the independent Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk on Russia's Western border.

Staff (2022-01-25). Gay Catholics come out, demand the church accept them. rt.com A group of LGBTQ Catholics demand the Vatican revise its strict church doctrine to accommodate them | More than 120 LGBT priests, teachers and Church volunteers in Germany have The group said they want "to be able to live and work openly as LGBTIQ+ persons in the church without fear," including to serve in all Church occupation…

sputniknews (2022-01-25). Is Citing the Bible a Crime? Finnish Ex-Minister Faces Two Years for 'Incitement' Against Gays. sputniknews.com The case of Christian Democrat Pà§ivi Rà§sà§nen marks the first time in Finland that a court will decide on whether quoting the Bible can be considered a crime.

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2022-01-25). U.S. government pays big money for bad news about Cuba. peoplesworld.org The cruder U.S. methods for destroying Cuba's revolutionary government—military attacks, bombings of hotels and a fully-loaded airplane, violent attacks on officials, biological warfare—did not work. Nor has economic blockade, which of course continues. A more subtle approach also exists. Like the blockade, its purpose is to cause despair and then dissent. U.S. officials pay for …

_____ (2022-01-25). US And UK Escalate Russia War Fever, But NATO Splits Over Ukraine Emerge. popularresistance.org The US and UK are ramping up threats to Russia over Ukraine by sending more weapons, vowing more sanctions, and lodging evidence-free claims of a Russian plot to install a pro-Kremlin leader. But comments by Germany's navy chief that Russia "deserves respect" — leading to his resignation — underscore that not everyone is on board with Washington and London's war fever. Scholar and author Richard Sakwa discusses the latest in the Ukraine crisis.

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