Daily Archives: January 28, 2022

2022-01-28: News Headlines

_____ (2022-01-28). China's Belt & Road Already Delivering for Southeast Asia. journal-neo.org The West's propaganda campaign against China is attempting to convince the world that Beijing and its policies pose a global threat. China is accused of everything from presenting an outright military threat to its neighbors and the world, to sinisterly trapping nations in debt for infrastructure projects the West insists are unnecessary in the first …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-28). Marxism and the Black Caribbean. libya360.wordpress.com Transcript Onye: The main impact of anti-communism and online left discourse has been serious strikes to principled anti imperialism, particularly in Western nations like the United Snakes. You get to the point where China, for example, or Cuba or Vietnam have clearly managed the pandemic much better: have prioritized the health and well-being of their populations,…

WSWS (2022-01-28). BA.2 subvariant of Omicron in more than 40 countries across the globe. wsws.org The Omicron subvariant BA.2 is now dominant in Denmark. This variant of the virus has also been detected in more than 40 countries across the world and is beginning to displace the original Omicron.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-01-27). Is Lockheed Martin Dictating Politico's War Propaganda Articles in Secret? Hell No—They're Doing it Right Out in the Open. covertactionmagazine.com Check out Politico's latest "independent" news story designed to scare the bejeezus out of its readers and justify the cry …

Reynard Loki (2022-01-27). Exposing the massive hypocrisy of international insurance companies. nationofchange.org Despite the pro-climate rhetoric of the insurance industry—and warnings by the world's climate scientists calling for an end to fossil fuel exploration—leading global insurers are backing the Brazilian government's massive offshore oil expansion, according to a new report titled, "Fueling Climate Change: The Insurers Behind Brazil's Offshore Oil Expansion." Released on January 20 by Insure …

Editor (2022-01-27). Un año después del ataque fascista: El capital y el Capitolio. workers.org Los United Auto Workers hacen una huelga en Ford para que se reconozca el sindicato, 1941. Henry Ford se alió abiertamente con Hitler. Hoy, Ford financia a candidatos ultraderechistas para cargos políticos. 6 de enero de 2021. Esta fecha está grabada en nuestra psique colectiva como el día en que . . . |

Editor2 (2022-01-27). Palestinian Academic Suspended by UK University Following Israeli Lobby Pressure. orinocotribune.com By Palestine Chronicle Staff — Jan 24, 2022 | British University Sheffield Hallam has suspended a Palestinian Ph.D. student from teaching, following a smear campaign by the Israeli lobby, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. | Shahd Abusalama, a Palestinian activist, writer and artist from Gaza, announced on her social media that she was suspended from a teaching position at her department following an intense online campaign by pro-Israel supporters who accused her of 'antisemitism'. | I cannot describe what I feel in words, receiving this proactive support and solidarity from people I know o…

Jipson John, Jitheesh P.M. (2022-01-27). Tariq Ali: 'Democracy is largely a set of rituals now'. canadiandimension.com Tariq Ali speaking at the 2013 Subversive Festival in Zagreb. Photo from Tariq Ali is an internationally known public intellectual, columnist and political activist. Born in pre-partition India in 1943, Ali studied at Oxford University and was elected as students' union president there. He has been involved in political activism since then. He was one of the most prominent figures of the civil society coalition against the United States' war in Vietnam. He was also there at the forefront of agitation against the war…

Dean Baker (2022-01-27). Washington Post Tries to Tell Readers that Fourth Quarter Jump In Inventories Was Due to Higher Prices. cepr.net Pretty much everyone looking at the 4th quarter GDP report ( "'The real driver of the retail inventory measurement was the dollar value, driven by new vehicle price inflation,' Smoke said. 'This does not mean that real…

Sharon Zhang (2022-01-27). Ocasio-Cortez Says Backing Progressive Over Sinema Would Be "Easiest Decision" truthout.org On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) said that backing a progressive primary challenger to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) would be the "easiest decision" she would ever have to make. | In an interview with MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, Ocasio-Cortez "She h…

Editor2 (2022-01-27). Havana Syndrome, the US's Monumental Hoax. orinocotribune.com By Alejandra Garcia — Jan 23, 2022 | Last week, the United States decided to recognize for the first time in five years that the phenomenon baptized as "Havana Syndrome" is nothing more than a big farce. On Thursday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) admitted that its allegations against Cuba for the so-called "health incidents" suffered by CIA officials in La Havana back in 2016 were not caused by "a deliberate attack." | A report released by the CIA has confirmed what the scientific community in Cuba, and the rest of the world, has been repeating from the beginning: "there is no evidence that an a…

Staff (2022-01-27). Despite U.S. Embargo, Cuba Aims to Share Homegrown Vaccine with Global South. democracynow.org A 60-year U.S. embargo that prevents U.S.-made products from being exported to Cuba has forced the small island nation to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines and rely on open source designs for life-saving medical equipment such as ventilators. We speak to leading Cuban scientist Dr. Mitchell Valdés-Sosa about how massive mobilization helped produce three original vaccines that have proven highly effective against the coronavirus. "In a moment that the whole world was mobilizing to face this tremendous menace that was killing people around the world, the U.S. administration did not lift any of the 400 sanctions tha…

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