(2022-01-31). The Democratic Party spearheads war drive against Russia. wsws.org While public opinion overwhelmingly opposes war with Russia over Ukraine, the Democrats are leading a bipartisan campaign of economic, political and military provocations that threatens to trigger a nuclear war.
(2022-01-31). Can the World Handle the Truth about the West-East Crisis? journal-neo.org 
The Biden Administration needs Russia to invade Ukraine. The US shale oil business needs Russia's gas, to remain in Russia. The world may be at war soon, but not over the rights, wants, and wishes of the people of Eastern Europe or Central Asia. The controlling elites of the west are the ones gamling with …
(2022-01-31). Headlines for January 31, 2022. democracynow.org U.N. Security Council Meets over Russia-Ukraine Tensions as Ukraine Calls Out Western "Panic", U.N.: 2,000 Children Died Since 2020 After Being Forced into Combat in Yemen, Taliban Killed Dozens of Former Gov't and Allied Forces Workers Since Takeover, Sudanese Security Forces Kill Another Demonstrator as Protests Continue 3 Months After Coup, North Korea Tests Most Powerful Ballistic Missile Since 2017, Pipeline Bursts on Indigenous Land in Ecuadorian Amazon; Thailand Rushes to Contain Coastal Oil Spill, Spotify Adds Advisory to Podcasts About COVID; Joni Mitchell Removes Music from App, Ahmaud Arbery's Family,…
(2022-01-31). Canada's opposition parties line up behind imperialist war drive against Russia. wsws.org Canada's opposition parties have lined up squarely behind the war drive against Russia, which is being spearheaded by the Biden administration in Washington and backed to the hilt by Canada's Trudeau Liberal government.
(2022-01-31). SEP (Australia) files objection to party deregistration. wsws.org The SEP is demanding the basic democratic right to stand candidates in its name at the looming federal election in order to advance, in the broadest possible way, the necessary socialist perspective, based on the protection of health and lives, not private profit.
(2022-01-31). National Labor Relations Board schedules new election at Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. wsws.org The RWDSU's campaign at Amazon has relied on unprecedented support from the Democratic Party, for whom the pro-corporate unions are a key element in their strategy to enforce labor discipline upon and increasingly restive workforce.
(2022-01-31). Colombia's moderate election candidates in crisis. colombiareports.com Infighting among Colombia's moderate presidential candidates caused the implosion of their "centrist" coalition. Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt said Saturday that her Green Oxygen party would leave the "Center Hope Coalition"…
(2022-01-31). Brazil's Workers Party lays out 2022 election program: austerity and corporatism. wsws.org Behind bombastic announcements that the party intends to "undo" the austerity imposed over the last five years, the PT is criticizing Bolsonaro's inability to control spending and attract foreign capital.
(2022-01-31). At Texas rally, Trump promises to pardon January 6 militia foot soldiers if reelected. wsws.org Flanked by top Texas Republicans, including Governor Greg Abbott, the former president incited fascistic violence against immigrants and his political and legal enemies while reiterating his "stolen election" lies.
(2022-01-31). Expiration of expanded tax credit throws millions of US children into poverty. wsws.org Amid a surge in the Omicron variant which has sickened millions, the Democrats have allowed expanded child tax credit (CTC) payments to expire with 30 million families not seeing the payments on January 15 after just six months of the program.
(2022-01-31). NYC mayor Adams steps up law and order campaign after two police officers killed. wsws.org The city's new Democratic mayor, along with the entire political establishment and bourgeois media, is preparing increased police repression as a response to growing working class resistance to the pandemic and its consequences.
(2022-01-31). Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors on Abolition & Imagining a Society Based on Care. democracynow.org 
We speak with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors about her new book, "An Abolitionist's Handbook," which lays out her journey toward abolition and 12 principles activists can follow to practice abolition, which she describes as the elimination of police, prisons, jails, surveillance and the current court system. "We have to imagine what we would do with these dollars, with these budgets, and they have to really be an imagination that's grounded in care," says Cullors. She also speaks about her community organizing in Los Angeles, which fought $3.5 billion worth of jail expansion, and her multi-year co…
(2022-01-31). Museveni meets DRC security chiefs, calls for unity in fighting ADF. plusnews.ug 
President Yoweri Museveni has assured the people of Uganda and the Democratic republic of Congo of total peace after the two countries launched joint operations to flush out the Allied Democratic Forces from Eastern Congo. The President was Sunday addressing a delegation of security chiefs from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) led by their …
(2022-01-31). Leonard Peltier Has COVID; His Lawyer — an Ex-Federal Judge — Calls for Native Leader to Be Freed. democracynow.org 
Jailed 77-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier has tested positive for COVID-19 less than a week after describing his prison conditions as a "torture chamber." Peltier was convicted of aiding and abetting the killing of two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 while a member of the American Indian Movement. He has long maintained his innocence and is considered by Amnesty International as a political prisoner. We speak with his lawyer and former federal judge Kevin Sharp, who says Peltier's case was riddled with misconduct, including witness intimidation and w…
(2022-01-31). The Weekly Round-Up: Partygate, trans rights and terrorist flags. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In the news: The Metropolitan Police have been criticised for their request to Sue Grey not to prejudice their investigation into parties held at Downing Street during lockdown. Ms Grey has yet to publish her report into the parties, but a "heavily redacted" version is expected "imminently" according to the Guardian. The Met requested the report to make "minimal reference" …
(2022-01-30). Emergency rally at White House demands 'No War with Russia,' NATO be disbanded. liberationnews.org 
ANSWER organizer Sean Blackmon, who helped lead the event, remarked how "there is no voice of peace inside this U.S. government, Democrat or Republican."
(2022-01-30). British military to "deploy across Europe to support NATO allies on land, at sea and in the air" — Johnson. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Johnson like Biden is in deep trouble at home and is attempting a Churchill moment. "We shall go on to the end…we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air…we shall fight on the landing grounds." June 4, 1940War as diversion. The American equivalent. …
(2022-01-30). Biden Spits on Putin's Request for Security. strategic-culture.org By Mike WHITNEY | "The main issue is our clear position on the unacceptability of further NATO expansion to the East and the deployment of highly-destructive weapons that could threaten the territory of the Russian Federation." Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov | Washington delivered a slap in the face to Moscow on Wednesday when U.S. ambassador John Sullivan provided a written response to Russia's proposals for security guarantees. The missive was given to Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko who did not reveal the contents but passed them on to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for analysis. Lavr…
(2022-01-30). Bridge collapses in Pittsburgh same day that Biden visits to tout infrastructure bill. liberationnews.org 
Infrastructure in the United States is falling apart, and it's working people who have to suffer the fallout.
(2022-01-30). Saudi Arabia kills 91, injures 236 in Yemen with US-made bomb from Raytheon. multipolarista.com Saudi Arabia attacked a detention center in Yemen's Saada city with a US-made laser-guided bomb from Raytheon, killing 91 people and injuring 236 more. President Joe Biden claimed he would end US support for Saudi bombing, but has not.
(2022-01-30). Border patrol chief admits 'moral at all time low' (VIDEO). rt.com 
Heated exchange unfolded between US Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz and agents irked by the Biden administration policies | In a video taken during a visit by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in Laredo, Texas – and reported by several US media on Saturday – US Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz attempts to empathize with the frustrations of the job, but his comments lead to a heated back and forth with agents. | In the video, Ortiz admits that "morale [in the force] is at an all time low" noting that the CBP is "losing too many agents" as it has dealt with record numbers of migrants cros…
(2022-01-30). Is Something Rotten In The State Of Pacifica Elections? indybay.org Let the will of the members be heard and may democracy prevail.
(2022-01-30). Mexico Auto Workers Are Set for Landmark Union Vote at General Motors Plant. truthout.org 
This was first published at Workers at a massive General Motors plant in central Mexico will vote in a landmark election this week to decide which union will represent the plant's 6,500 workers. A victory by the independent union there would be a big step toward breaking the stranglehold of the employer-friendly unions that have long dominated Mexico's labor scene. | Employees at th…
(2022-01-30). Islamophobia and the Capitol Insurrection. tomdispatch.com Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson excused one of the leaders of the extremist Oath Keepers organization implicated in the January 6th insurrection by describing him as "a devout Christian." It's safe to surmise that he wouldn't have offered a similar defense for a Muslim American. Since September 11th, and even before that ominous date, they have suffered bitterly from discrimination and hate crimes in this country, while their religion has been demonized. During the first year of the Trump administration, about half of Muslim Americans polled said that they had personally experienced some type of discrimination. No…
(2022-01-30). How Politicians Are Papering Over Social Problems Caused By Capitalism. popularresistance.org The declines of U.S. capitalism and of its imperial position provoke fear among its mainstream politicians. Their response, in large part, has been to deny that any such decline is happening. These politicians do this partly by acting as though the U.S. remains in the globally dominant position it occupied in the second half of the 20th century. Thus, to maintain this illusion, they start wars in the Middle East, maintain military bases in dozens of countries, intervene in other countries at will and describe the U.S. as the global guarantor of peace, security, and democracy. | Yet these U.S. politicians also sen…
(2022-01-30). The Pressure Campaign On Spotify To Remove Joe Rogan. popularresistance.org American liberals are obsessed with finding ways to silence and censor their adversaries. Every week, if not every day, they have new targets they want de-platformed, banned, silenced, and otherwise prevented from speaking or being heard (by "liberals," I mean the term of self-description used by the dominant wing of the Democratic Party). | For years, their preferred censorship tactic was to expand and distort the concept of "hate speech" to mean "views that make us uncomfortable," and then demand that such "hateful" views be prohibited on that basis. For that reason, it is now common to hear Democrats assert, f…
(2022-01-30). All States Need Expanded Medicaid Access. Gerrymandering Prevents It. truthout.org 
My job at the Mississippi NAACP is to safeguard the civil rights of those in my state and fight for current and future generations. | When I think about the challenges facing Mississippi, they come down to the "haves" and the "have-nots." It's about power — who has it, who's working to maintain it, and who lacks it. | Two policy issues confronting states, particularly Southern states, include closing the health insurance coverage gap and redistricting. These issues impact people's quality of lif…
(2022-01-30). Fascism's 'Legal Phase' Has Begun. popularresistance.org When Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.'s plummet toward authoritarianism. As a result, we are at this moment in a state of free-fall, the culmination of a state-level Legislative And Enforcement Landscape that directly mirrors Jim Crow — or as fascism scholar Jason Stanley recently put it, "America is now in fascism's legal phase." Although we do have ways of fighting back, the situation is dire. | We often hear that the U.S.'s founding documents, courts and institutions make it immune to despotism, but…