(2022-01-19). Incoming Pentagon fury: we should have armed Ukraine for war eight years ago. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Amid Russia crisis, Pentagon nominee criticizes Obama response to Crimea A top Pentagon pick for President Joe Biden has criticized the Obama administration's response to Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine as "too slow and too incremental," at her confirmation hearing Thursday. GOP and Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled Celeste …
(2022-01-19). Salvadorans commemorate 30th anniversary of peace accords. peoplesdispatch.org 
January 16 marked 30 years since the signing of peace accords between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerilla group, ending 12 years of civil war. The Chapultepec peace accords paved the way for a transition to democracy after decades of military administrations. | This past Sunday, citizens from across the country traveled to the capital, San Salvador, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the historic agreements, despite the attempts by the far-right government of president Nayib Bukele to discredit the peace agreements and prevent the celebrations. In th…
(2022-01-19). US Senate poised to strike down voting rights legislation a day after commemoration of MLK. peoplesdispatch.org Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema has dealt what many view as a deadly blow to proposed voting rights legislation in the United States. Last Thursday, Sinema
(2022-01-19). Biden's first-year approval rating at 48.9%. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 19 (MNA) — US President Biden's first-year average approval rating was 48.9 percent, according to Gallup, which ranked lower than many other presidents but remained higher than his predecessor, former President Trump.
(2022-01-19). January 6 Committee announces new subpoenas targeting Giuliani and other Trump coup lawyers. wsws.org Following Trump's November 2020 defeat, the far-right lawyers propagated his bogus claims of election fraud while helping orchestrate his legal and extra-legal efforts to remain in power.
(2022-01-19). Tuesday 1/18: Opportunities and Dangers for Medicare and Guaranteed Healthcare in California. indybay.org Zoom info: us02web.zoom.us/j/2880330680?pwd=VXlSdVBERFM3OFVuVGdrampVQkovUT09. ID 288 033 0680 Password 131457. Phone in at 1-669 900 9128, then punch in 288 033 0680 and #, then 131457 and punch # again.
(2022-01-19). Seven Myths about the January 6th Capitol Building Incident. dissidentvoice.org After over a year of incessant publicity, the Capitol building incident of January 6, 2021, has taken on mythic proportions. While all myths are prone to hyperbole, not all are entirely false as the following accounting relates. 1. January 6 was an attempted coup According to Noam Chomsky: "That it was an attempted coup is …
(2022-01-19). One Drinks Party Too Many: Boris Johnson and Breaching Lockdowns. dissidentvoice.org It might not be quite within the bounds of good taste to compare military calculations of a bridge too far — the title used in Cornelius Ryan's work on the disastrous Allied airborne operation during the Second World War — with the latest foolish, mendacious and buffoonish efforts of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but …