Daily Archives: January 21, 2024

2024-01-21: News Headlines

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-01-21). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

UFLP (2024-01-21). Stop the War on Public Worker & Privatization – United Strike & Labor Party Now. indybay.org Thousands of San Francisco City workers may be going on strike on July 1 for a contract. They face massive privatization and outsourcing and a union busting drive by Mayor London Breed and the City managers. Billions of dollars are going to outsourcing with the support of the Democrats on the Board Of Supervisors backed by the Mayor…

Pressenza New York (2024-01-21). An Expert Legal View: Israel Lied Through Their Teeth—Why South Africa's Case is Justified. pressenza.com On Jan. 19, Prof. Francis Boyle gave the following lecture to a meeting of the International Peace Coalition regarding his history of having fought and won a case of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, otherwise known as the World Court. Boyle is an American human rights lawyer and professor of international law at Illinois University's College of Law. He served as counsel for Bosnia and Herzegovina during their case at the ICJ in 1993. | By Prof. Francis Boyle | EIR is publishing Prof. Boyle's remarks so that his expert legal opinion regarding the current case by South Africa again…

Pavel López Lazo (2024-01-21). Cuban President opens Operation Truth Conference. plenglish.com The Cuban leader is being accompanied by the Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Roberto Morales Ojeda, as well as by other government officials. | On the 65th anniversary of the first Operation Truth, which gathered over 400 journalists in Havana to refute the smear campaigns against newly-formed 1959 Cuban Revolution, this meeting is critical to inform Cuba's big efforts to achieve a more prosperous and sustainable development model.

Andrew Korybko (2024-01-21). Why's The New York Times Fearmongering About Indonesia's Presidential Frontrunner? thealtworld.com It's an information warfare provocation intended to manipulate voters' perceptions of the frontrunner to the point that a run-off election is scheduled this summer, which could then give the US' preferred candidate the chance that he needs to come to power and align Indonesia with America against China in the New Cold War. | The New York Times (NYT) published a piece last week about "

Dave DeCamp (2024-01-21). US Prepares for Open-Ended War Against the Houthis in Yemen. news.antiwar.com US officials told The Washington Post on Saturday that the Biden administration is planning for a "sustained military campaign" against the Houthis in Yemen even as over a week of near-daily bombing has done nothing to deter the group and has only dramatically escalated the situation. The officials could not put any timeline on how …

2024-01-21 19:41:48 | 19:41 EST | tr | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0