(2022-02-03). Biden Reversal Gives Wall Street A Big Win. dailyposter.com 
(2022-02-03). Israel's Claims to be a Democracy ring Hollow as Amnesty Finds it an Apartheid State. juancole.com By Nasim Ahmed | — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Amnesty International became the latest human rights group to label Israel an apartheid state. In a damning report titled "Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians" the rights group concludes that the occupation state has imposed a "cruel system of domination" and is committing "crimes against humanity." …
(2022-02-03). Biden continues to pressure China. indybay.org Joe Biden approved a further anti-China bill and, by amazing coincidence, did it on the eve of binational summit. That's a great attack on China, it has to be said.
(2022-02-03). Instead of Freeing Palestinian Prisoners, New Scheme Aims at Punishing Their Families. dissidentvoice.org 
A scheme is underway to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners. According to Israeli media, the Biden Administration has requested that the PA entirely overhauls its support system of Palestinian prisoners. The Palestinian leadership had already expressed willingness to engage the US in a 'discussion'. …
(2022-02-03). Amazon worker organizing accelerates with union voting. workers.org 
Worker organizing at Amazon received international coverage when the Associated Press used a photo of this Workers Assembly Against Racism rally for the Amazon Labor Union, on Oct. 25, 2021, to announce upcoming union elections in February 2022. Headlines screamed alarm Jan. 26 in capitalist business media like the Wall . . . |
(2022-02-03). Opposition to proposed Western Harbour Tunnel could tip Willoughby by-election. greenleft.org.au Several candidates running in the February 12 by-election for the former Liberal premier Gladys Berejiklian's seat of Willoughby are outspoken opponents of the tollway tunnel projects. Peter Boyle reports.
(2022-02-03). Australian government in meltdown months out from federal election. wsws.org Morrison's hated government could not have survived this long without the bipartisan assistance of Labor and its associated trade unions.
(2022-02-03). Heads up: another threat to Medicare! dissidentvoice.org Medicare is a successful and treasured government program that provides health care for seniors, for those with disabilities and for those with end-stage renal disease. The Traditional Medicare (TM) approach provides quality and necessary health care with administrative costs that are far lower than that of private health care insurance such as Medicare Advantage (MA). …
(2022-02-03). Governor Ron DeSantis refuses to denounce Florida Nazis, attacks Democrats instead. wsws.org The Florida governor's refusal to condemn members of the National Socialist Movement is another example of the transformation of the Republican Party into a fascist movement.
(2022-02-03). Berlin Administrative Court declares criticism of capitalism unconstitutional. wsws.org The German court judgement and its written grounds represent a fundamental attack on democratic rights. The aim is to ban socialist ideas and any criticism of capitalism.
(2022-02-03). The Boosted are 97 times less likely to die of Covid, as Republican Party Death Cult Kills Tens of Thousands. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The United States has failed Covid. Compared to most other industrialized countries, its per capita rate of infection and death is much higher. Despite having plenty of vaccines, there has been a lag in getting them into people's arms, especially into the arms of the most at-risk group, of those …
(2022-02-02). U.S. raises war danger, sends 3,000 more troops to Europe. peoplesworld.org 
Many across Europe and here at home breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday upon reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted negotiations to continue despite the U.S.' refusal to meet his country's key demand that NATO not be allowed to advance into Ukraine. Less than 24 hours after that, however, President Joe Biden ratcheted up …
(2022-02-02). Headlines for February 2, 2022. democracynow.org Putin Accuses U.S. of Using Ukraine as "Tool" to Contain Russia, Pacific Nations, Incl. Tonga, Report First COVID Cases; South Africa, EU Nations Ease Restrictions, Guinea-Bissau's President Says He Survived Coup Attempt, Security Forces Killed in Attack, Two Babies Die in Freezing Syrian Camps for Displaced People, Major Coalition of States, Cities and Advocacy Groups Backs Mexican Effort to Sue U.S. Gunmakers, Native American Tribes Reach Tentative Settlement with J&J, Drug Distributors over Opioid Epidemic, ABC Suspends Whoopi Goldberg from "The View" After Saying Holocaust Was "Not About Race", Ex-NFL Coach F…
(2022-02-02). At Russia-Ukraine border NO U.S.-NATO WAR! workers.org 
An ad-hoc coalition of anti-imperialist organizations located in the United States has published the following call for protests in the following week of U.S. and NATO's aggressive actions directed at Russia, building up to demonstrations and a webinar on Feb. 5: We must act now to stop the war with . . . |
(2022-02-02). Ukraine: Another Biden Débâcle? strategic-culture.org Are we past 'peak frenzy'? Quite possibly, but it will subside only slowly. It is too good a diversion from other difficulties. | The sheer size and scope of the western information operations — insisting repeatedly on the imminence of a Russian invasion of Ukraine — has almost dwarfed the western effort mounted in the lead up to the second invasion of Iraq. This latest info-war has been qualitatively different from that earlier episode however, in the way in which supposed intelligence titbits were constantly fed to the press in order to stiffen the narrative spine with a direct sense of being at the…
(2022-02-02). Ukraine and US War Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Margaret Kimberley — Jan 26, 2022 | The 2014 U.S. sponsored coup against the elected government of Ukraine must be the starting point for any discussion of the current crisis. That crisis has been manufactured by Joe Biden, who was the Obama administration point person in using Ukraine as a means of destabilizing Russia. | The corporate media always carry water for the state, and they are never more dangerous than when the nation is on a war footing. Right now the United States government is sending weapons to Ukraine. One wouldn't know that because of constant references to "lethal aid." The euphemisms a…
(2022-02-02). After Failed Talks, Russia Will Likely Target Persian Gulf. popularresistance.org For some reason, in the aftermath of this month's failed talks among the Russian, American and NATO representatives in Geneva, everybody is talking as though they believe Russia's invasion of Ukraine is imminent. From the officials of the U.S. State Department, Pentagon and NATO to the intelligence agencies and the media, nearly everyone is talking as though they have not the slightest doubt that Russia intends to invade. | However, in a Friday meeting with president Biden, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Biden not to provoke panic, saying that he did not see a greater threat now then during a simila…
(2022-02-02). US-Qatar Rise In Cooperation May Be Related To Washington's Energy Strategy. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size imageThe American government is trying to promote Qatar's gas production in order to ensure US allies energy security, preventing them from any cooperation with Russia. | Written by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; geopolitical consultant. | US-Qatar relations seem to be getting better and better. During a conversation at the White House with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, US President Joe Biden promis…
(2022-02-02). Biden approves deployment of 3,000 more troops to Eastern Europe within days. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com CNN: Biden formally approves new US troops to Europe amid Russia threat, deployments expected in 'coming days' President Joe Biden has formally approved additional US military deployments to Eastern Europe, the Pentagon announced Wednesday, with US troops deploying soon to Poland, Germany and Romania. *** Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the deployments include roughly …
(2022-02-02). Sudan: Yesterday's News There, Tomorrow's Nightmare Everywhere Else. journal-neo.org 
While the world waits for Boris Johnson to be sacked and Emanuel Macron to be consumed by self-inflicted love bites, it is distracting itself with the events in Sudan. Not because anyone cares about the country or its people, but because it is a useful flag-waving exercise. Military coup! Democracy violated! Turmoil in Africa! Protesters …
(2022-02-02). What's at stake with SCOTUS nomination — an editorial. workers.org 
On the eve of Black History Month — February — President Joe Biden announced his intentions of nominating an African American woman to replace the soon-to-be-retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Sitting on the court now are six men and three women. All justices have life tenure, until either . . . |
(2022-02-02). Biden Moves To Block Student Debt Victory. popularresistance.org Despite increasing pressure to fulfill a campaign promise to forgive student debt, President Joe Biden is now going in the opposite direction: His administration has taken an initial step to try to overturn a key legal victory for borrowers, according to court filings reviewed by The Daily Poster. | If the administration wins an appeal, it could bolster a legal precedent against millions of debtors being crushed by bankruptcy laws that Biden infamously helped his finance industry donors sculpt during his four decades in Washington. | On January 14, a federal judge in Biden's home state of Delaware moved to elimin…
(2022-02-02). Why Wouldn't Biden Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier? dissidentvoice.org 
Last Friday, it became known that the 77-year-old native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was sick with COVID-19. Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years, which makes him the oldest political prisoner in the United States. This fact has brought attention to his case, but the truth is that his freedom has been …
(2022-02-02). This Pandemic Showed the Benefits of Universal Health Care. otherwords.org There has been a Jekyll and Hyde quality to American health care over the past two years. | One the one hand, the federal government has been actively intervening to help people avoid COVID-19 or recover from it. On the other, it's standing by as Americans struggle with other ailments, exposing the vast fissures of The government's pandemic response has been imperfect but successful in many respects. Are there lessons for how we treat other diseases? | For example, the Biden administration is now taki…
(2022-02-02). Democrat Party Insider And Fox News Commentator Donna Brazile: Joe Biden Is Doing Everything Right, Even If Approval Rating Is 30-40%. moguldom.com President Joe Biden's approval ratings are falling and Black voters are losing confidence in the White House but Democrat Party Insider and former Fox News commentator Donna Brazile thinks Biden is doing everything right. "He's a good president," Brazile said on ABC's "This Week" program. "He might be at 30 percent, 40 percent but you …
(2022-02-02). US Expels Venezuelan Migrants to Colombia Under Title 42 Powers. latinorebels.com The Biden administration said Monday that it has begun expelling Venezuelan migrants to Colombia without a chance to seek asylum after entering the United States from Mexico, its latest use of pandemic-related authority.
(2022-02-02). Biden urged not to fight court ruling against massive oil and gas lease sale. nationofchange.org The Biden administration on Tuesday faced pressure from environmentalists to adhere to a judge's decision blocking a massive oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, site of the Deepwater Horizon spill.
(2022-02-02). El SWIFT y la rusofobia de Biden y Occidente. globalizacion.ca Las amenazas de imponer nuevas extorsiones "jamás vista" y hasta desconectar a Moscú del sistema Swift, lanzadas por el presidente Joe Biden en el supuesto de que esa nación euroasiática ataque a Ucrania, se han convertido en una especie de…
(2022-02-02). Organizers in Appalachia Are Building a Green New Deal Blueprint for Themselves. truthout.org 
The Green New Deal proposal is one of the only effective, broadly recognized pathways to tackle the climate crisis and address its social and economic consequences. It is technologically possible and economically sustainable. Yet although the Green New Deal project is already under way in some shape or form in various states, it has yet to be scaled up to the national level. In fact, climate policy as a whole has been stalled in Congress, and the Biden administration has so far engaged mor…
(2022-02-02). Workers At Two Philly Starbucks Stores Want To Unionize. popularresistance.org Starbucks workers at two Philadelphia stores took a key step in forming a union last Friday, accelerating a budding labor movement at the coffee giant that has seen employees at dozens of the chain's locations nationwide try to organize. | Baristas at the 1945 Callowhill St. and 600 South Ninth St. stores filed petitions to hold elections on union representation with the National Labor Relations Board, a first step in the process. The unionizing effort took root in December when two Starbucks stores in Buffalo, N.Y., voted to join Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. | So far…
(2022-02-02). Presidential Debates May Be a Thing of the Past. otherwords.org Are debates for America's highest office now a thing of the past? | The Republican National Committee now plans to make future GOP candidates for president "sign a pledge not to participate in any debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates," or CPD, The CPD has run general election presidential debates since wresting control of them from the League of Women Voters in the late 1980s. Although it's often characterized as a "nonpartisan" group, "bipartisan" would be mo…
(2022-02-02). Trump admits his intention to overthrow government in a coup. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Seizing and impounding voting machines in key swing states. Strong-arming the Vice President to overturn the 2020 election by throwing out electoral votes. Sending false electoral vote certificates to Congress. Witness tampering. And now calling for nationwide repeats of Jan. 6 insurrections. And on top of all of that Donald Trump declares that if he …
(2022-02-02). Libyan parliament to replace transitional government after failure to hold presidential elections. peoplesdispatch.org The eastern based-parliament announced that candidates can start submitting their applications for the role of interim prime minister. The move came just over a month after the presidential elections scheduled for December 24 were postponed…
(2022-02-02). Trump's Comments This Week Made it "Very Clear What He Was Up To," Raskin Says. truthout.org 
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), a member of the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack, suggested on Tuesday that recent comments by former President Donald Trump "said the criminal part out loud" regarding his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. | Earlier this week, Trump
(2022-02-02). Press reports reveal Trump commissioned second draft executive order to seize voting machines. wsws.org After ruling out having the military seize voting machines to overturn the 2020 election, Trump advisers drafted a second executive order instructing the Department of Homeland Security to do the job.
(2022-02-02). Descubren órdenes ejecutivas que demuestran la intentona golpista de Donald Trump. cubadebate.cu Al avanzar las investigaciones sobre las acciones de Donald Trump y sus aliados en una intentona golpista, se revelaron un par de órdenes ejecutivas redactadas por los asesores del entonces presidente saliente para ordenar a fuerzas federales -incluso militares- incautar máquinas electorales de conteo de voto como parte del plan de anular la elección presidencial de 2020.
(2022-02-02). Greenwald: The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship. scheerpost.com 
Joe Rogan interviews Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Aug. 6, 2019, roughly six months before he endorsed the Vermont independent for president. | By Glenn Greenwald / 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 th…
(2022-02-02). Xiomara Castro felicita a científica hondureña nominada a Nobel de la Paz. telesurtv.net La presidenta Xiomara Castro resaltó que la científica María Elena Bottazzi ha dedicado su vida al servicio de la humanidad a través de la ciencia…
(2022-02-02). SDF Continue To Search For Hundreds Of ISIS Terrorists Who Fled Al-Hasakah Prison (Videos). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image. Source: the Hawar News Agency. | The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continue to search for hundreds of ISIS terrorists who fled Geweran prison in the northeastern Syrian city of al-Hasakah nearly two weeks ago. | ISIS prison break attack, which started on
(2022-02-02). Far-right "Freedom Convoy" besieges Canada's parliament—an inflection point in the breakdown of Canadian democracy. wsws.org Powerful sections of Canada's ruling elite have incited a far-right, extra-parliamentary movement that is now encamped menacingly outside the national parliament and vows to remain until its demands are met.
(2022-02-02). Non-capitalist mixed economies: what makes a socialist? mronline.org 
In this paper I attempt to provide a short overview of the subject. Words like democracy, freedom, anarchist, Marxist, communist are used in so many different meanings that they become meaningless. One such word is "socialist." — László Tàºt≈ë…
(2022-02-02). Texas: UT-Austin students rally for abortion rights. fightbacknews.org Austin, TX — On the evening of February 1, around 15 students at the University of Texas at Austin rallied on the steps of UT Tower to speak out for abortion rights. | Austin Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) called the rally, given the attacks on reproductive rights in Texas, Florida and across the country. Chants included, "We won't back down from this fight, abortion is a human right!" and "When women's rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!" | Speakers highlighted the need to defend abortion rights for all — women, but also trans and non-binary folks who are affected b…
(2022-02-02). øVale la pena defender la democracia estadounidense? globalizacion.ca Según las encuestas, 76% de estadounidenses considera que la democracia en su país está en peligro. El tema llegó al centro del debate desde el asalto al Capitolio en enero del año pasado y ante las iniciativas republicanas para suprimir…
(2022-02-02). Abrams Has Out-Fundraised Kemp by $2 Million Since December in GA Governor Race. truthout.org 
New data shows that Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, is currently raking in more fundraising dollars than incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R) for their impending electoral contest later this year. | By all measures, the race is set to be a close one. When Abrams and Kemp previously faced off in 2018,
(2022-02-02). Erasing History: Holocaust Graphic Novelist Art Spiegelman on "Maus" & Wave of Book Bans Sweeping U.S. democracynow.org 
As a wave of book bans sweeps schools and libraries across the United States, we speak with the celebrated graphic novelist Art Spiegelman on a Tennessee school district's recent vote to ban his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "Maus" from its eighth grade language arts curriculum. The novel, which was targeted for profanity and nudity, tells the story of Spiegelman's parents who survived the Holocaust. Spiegelman says the bills put forth by conservatives are just a "displacement of their own anxieties" and warns of taking away "access to understanding a genocidal system built by fascists and authoritarians"
(2022-02-02). The Silencing of Black & Queer Voices: George M. Johnson on 15-State Ban of "All Boys Aren't Blue" democracynow.org 
School districts and Republican-controlled state legislatures are rapidly intensifying efforts to ban certain books about race, colonialism, sex and gender identity from public classrooms and libraries. The wave of book bans — with more than 70 educational gag order bills being introduced in legislatures over the past month alone — have been largely led by right-wing groups funded by Charles Koch. We're joined by author George M. Johnson to talk about their award-winning memoir-manifesto "All Boys Aren't Blue," which deals with homophobia, transphobia and racism and has been targeted for removal in at…
(2022-02-02). California single-payer health care plan dead on arrival, as Democrats abandon bill they campaigned on. wsws.org Assemblyman Ash Kalra declined to put the bill before a vote in the 11th hour, stating later that "It became clear we did not have the votes," in the Democratic Party-controlled legislature.
(2022-02-02). Rent Inflation Is Up 40% In Some Cities, Forcing Millions To Relocate. moguldom.com Rent inflation is skyrocketing across the U.S. and it's forcing millions of people to relocate. Some have had to leave behind their native cities to find affordable housing for their families. Jonathan "JonKel" Kelly is one of them. A Miami native and poet who also works with youth at a nonprofit, Kelly said he ultimately …
(2022-02-02). Ex-AME Church Leaders Charged In $14M Fraud, Mortgaged Churchgoers Properties For Loans. moguldom.com 
Two former AME church leaders have been charged for defrauding church congregations in California to the tune of $14 million. Staccato Powell, 62, and Sheila Quintana, 67, have both been indicted of conspiracy and wire fraud, ABC News reported. The two were arrested Tuesday, Jan. 25 and appeared in courts in North Carolina and California, …
(2022-02-02). "All Boys Aren't Blue" Has Been Targeted for Removal in at Least 15 States. truthout.org 
School districts and Republican-controlled state legislatures are rapidly intensifying efforts to ban certain books about race, colonialism, sex and gender identity from public classrooms and libraries. The wave of book bans — with more than 70 educational gag order bills being introduced in legislatures over the past month alone — have been largely led by right-wing groups funded by Charles Koch. We're joined by author George M. Johnson to talk about their award-winning memoir-manifesto…