(2022-02-04). Warren warns 'corporate vultures' are circling Medicare on Biden's watch. nationofchange.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday joined physicians and dozens of her House Democratic colleagues in urging the Biden administration to immediately halt Medicare Direct Contracting, a Trump-era pilot that could result in complete privatization of the cherished public healthcare program by decade's end. "It is completely baffling to me that the Biden administration wants to …
(2022-02-04). US claims assassination of ISIS leader in Syria. wsws.org In a White House statement celebrating the killing, Biden hailed the US military as "the solid-steel backbone of this nation."
(2022-02-04). Do you trust Biden or ISIS, Psaki asks skeptical reporter. rt.com 
The White House spokeswoman dismissed a question about evidence in deadly Syria raid | White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocked the idea that the US administration may provide journalists inaccurate information about its military operations abroad. | When asked if Washington would be giving any proof that the target of a US commando raid in Syria blew himself up along with members of his family, Psaki asked whether skeptics would rather trust terrorists. | She was confronted by a journalist on Air Force One over an account of events that President Joe Biden gave to the public. | Speaking a few hours after…
(2022-02-04). How Erdogan Scapegoated ISIS Caliph to Appease Biden? dissidentvoice.org Whilst Turkish President Erdogan was in Kiev on Thursday, ostensibly brokering a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine to defuse escalating tensions following the Russian troop build-up along Ukraine's borders and the deployment of 3,000 US forces in Poland and Romania, Biden announced that the Islamic State leader had been killed in a special-ops raid …
(2022-02-04). Trump plotters, Republican lawmakers met on eve of coup to seek NSA "intelligence" on foreign interference in 2020 election. wsws.org At a meeting with Republican lawmakers, Trump co-conspirators proposed having military and intelligence operatives concoct bogus evidence of foreign interference to justify overthrowing Biden's election.
(2022-02-04). Biden visits New York City to press law-and-order campaign. wsws.org The US president decried the atrocious death toll from gun violence in the US—more than 100 people a day—while his administration does nothing to stop a COVID-19 death toll that is 30 times higher.
(2022-02-04). Biden administration must rejig its North Korea strategy. asiatimes.com The UN Security Council was to hold an emergency meeting this Friday to discuss North Korea's seven missile tests in the past four weeks. The meeting was requested by the United States, along with Britain and France, and agreed by Russia, which holds the presidency of UNSC for the month of February. However, given the …
(2022-02-04). The COVID-19 cover-up: Hear no deaths, see no deaths, speak no deaths. wsws.org As thousands of Americans die every single day from COVID-19, the Biden administration carries out a campaign, through media propaganda and the manipulation of data, to cover up the pandemic and accustom the population to mass death in perpetuity.
(2022-02-04). Segunda Declaración de La Habana: El día en que todo el mundo puso los ojos sobre Cuba. cubadebate.cu La Habana, Cuba, Territorio Libre de América. Febrero 4 de 1962. La Plaza está abarrotada. Es la mayor concentración popular desde que triunfó la Revolución tres años atrás. Un niño, sobre los hombros de su padre, mira a la tribuna con unos binoculares. Frente a la multitud, Fidel Castro señala que todos los pueblos esperan la respuesta de Cuba.
(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). Amnesty International Defends Report on Israeli Apartheid, Rejecting Criticism from U.S. & Israel. democracynow.org 
Amnesty International has become the third major human rights organization to accuse Israel of committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians in a new report released on Tuesday. Amnesty finds Israel's system of apartheid dates back to the country's founding in 1948 and has materialized in abuses including massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians — all of which constitute apartheid under international law. We speak with Amnesty International USA's executive dir…
(2022-02-03). Mexico Has Become A 'Roofless Prison' For Haitian Refugees. popularresistance.org Monterrey, Mexico —Wilson sits, constantly refreshing his phone, waiting for COMAR, the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance, to reschedule his appointment, originally set for Oct. 13, 2021. A day prior he received a cancellation through email. "I'm still waiting for the new date," says Wilson, who asked not to use his full name for protection, with his gaze fixed on the phone. | The Casa Indi migrant shelter in Monterrey, in northeastern Mexico, received 1,600 Haitian migrants in September 2021, a month after a tropical storm damaged large swaths of the island and contributed to the destabilization th…
(2022-02-03). Billionaire Bob Johnson Puts Reparations Proposal On Back Burner Due To Lack Of Support, Not Happy With Joe Biden. moguldom.com Bob Johnson wants President Joe Biden to include reparations in his troubled Build Back Better bill. Johnson, who became the country's first Black billionaire in 2001 when he sold his entertainment network BET to Viacom, told CNBC on Feb. 1 that the Biden administration needs to take additional steps in its Build Back Better plan to close the …
(2022-02-03). US to deploy advanced fighter jets and warships in UAE amid escalation in Yemen war. peoplesdispatch.org 
A year ago, the Joe Biden administration had announced the end of US' role in the Saudi Arabia and UAE-led war in Yemen which has killed hundreds of thousands and caused the world's largest humanitarian crisis…
(2022-02-03). Peltier has COVID-19: President Joe Biden, Do The Right Thing, Free Leonard! covertactionmagazine.com On January 28th, Brian Schatz, (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs urged President Biden to commute …
(2022-02-03). War Mania Leads White House to Condemn U.S. Senator as Russian Propagandist. strategic-culture.org The Republican senator cited Russian "threats," but said going to war with Moscow over Ukraine was not in the interests of the U.S., which should go after China instead, Joe Lauria reports. | By Joe LAURIA | The extent to which the White House will not tolerate any dissent against its war messaging on Russia was revealed when President Joe Biden's press secretary on Wednesday condemned a sitting member of the United States Senate as a Russian propagandist for simply questioning the drive to war over Ukraine. | Jen Psaki accused Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of "parroting Russian talking points" for sending a letter…
(2022-02-03). Russian Historian: We Need Both the U.S. & Russia to Deescalate Crisis over Ukraine. democracynow.org 
Despite Russian President Vladimir Putin continuing to deny accusations of a planned invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration ordered the deployment of 3,000 additional troops to Eastern Europe on Wednesday to supposedly protect Ukraine. Moscow-based historian and political writer Ilya Budraitskis says both Russia and the U.S. are gaining more from the threat of conflict than an actual war, and says Russia has no real strategic gain from a potential invasion.
(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). Intermarium realized: Ukrainian FM attends NATO Eastern Flank meeting for first time. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Regarding the article below, the Bucharest Nine group (Bulgaria, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), addressed by President Joe Biden last May, is the largest component of the current implementation by the U.S., NATO and EU of the plan to cordon Russia off from Europe devised a century ago by …
(2022-02-03). Warren Calls on Biden to End Trump-Era Plan Aimed at Privatizing Medicare. truthout.org 
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday joined "It is completely baffling to me that the Biden administratio…
(2022-02-03). Top Senate Democrat Slams Biden Administration for Negotiating With Iran to Revive the JCPOA. news.antiwar.com Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the influential chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez said the administration was "clinging" to the deal for "nostalgia's sake" in a rebuke to the US's indirect negotiations with Iran. "At this point, we seriously have to ask what exactly are we trying to salvage?" he said. | "As someone who has followed Iran's nuclear…
(2022-02-03). Blackwater Is In The Donbas With The Azov Battalion. popularresistance.org The phone call between President Biden and Ukrainian President Zelensky "did not go well", CNN headlines: while "Biden warned that the Russian invasion in February is practically certain when the frozen ground makes it possible for tanks to pass through", Zelensky " asked Biden to tone down, arguing that the Russian threat is still ambiguous". While the Ukrainian president himself takes a more cautious stance, the Ukrainian armed forces are massing in Donbas close to the Donetsk and Lugansk area inhabited by Russian populations. According to reports from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, units of th…
(2022-02-03). Why wouldn't Biden grant clemency to Leonard Peltier? mronline.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.
(2022-02-03). Biden Reversal Gives Wall Street A Big Win. dailyposter.com 
(2022-02-03). Headlines for February 3, 2022. democracynow.org U.S. to Deploy 3,000 Additional Troops to Eastern Europe Amid Tensions over Ukraine, Witnesses Say U.S. Raid That Killed ISIS Leader in Syria Left Civilians Dead, Pentagon Sends Warship and Planes to UAE; Saudi Arabia and Israel Hold Joint Naval Exercises, Militia Attacks DRC Camp for Displaced People, Killing 60, Pfizer Asks FDA to Approve COVID Vaccine for Young Kids Despite Mixed Clinical Trial Results, Ecuadorian Court Rejects Oil Drilling on Indigenous Lands in Amazon Rainforest, Biden Renominates Former Chevron Lawyer First Tapped by Trump to Become Federal Judge, Senate Forges Ahead with Judicial Confirmat…
(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). Iran's Economy Reveals Power And Limits Of US Sanctions. popularresistance.org Tehran, Iran — As economists, politicians, and pundits mull the threat of "swift and severe" United States economic sanctions against Russia should the latter invade Ukraine, one country that has long been in Washington's crosshairs does not have to ponder what such punitive measures can do — Iran. | Some 655 Iranian entities and individuals were sanctioned under the administration of former US President Barack Obama, according to data compiled by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). But the most brutal punishment kicked off in 2018, after former US President Donald Trump's administration un…
(2022-02-03). Potential SCOTUS nominee Jackson gives workers another win over Trump. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON —Potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has given the nation's two million federal workers a legal win over their nemesis, former GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump—again. This time Jackson threw out an anti-worker scheme the Trump-named majority on the Federal Labor Relations Authority concocted in the waning days of the …
(2022-02-03). Trump Floated Blanket Pardon for Jan. 6 Attackers in Final Weeks of Presidency. truthout.org 
In the final weeks of his tenure, former President Donald Trump asked several of his advisers about pardoning individuals who were involved in the January 6 Capitol attack. | In an article that was published on Wednesday,
(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). President Maduro Announces Expansion of Credit & Other Economic Decisions. orinocotribune.com 
This Wednesday, February 2, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced measures aimed at expanding access to financing through Venezuela's banks, including the implementation of mechanisms to democratize credit, allowing entrepreneurs and businessmen to expand productive capacity. | The announcements were made during a meeting held at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, in the framework of the National Council of Economy, with the participation of all the representatives of the country's public and private financial institutions, and the Central Bank of Venezuela, among other state agencies. | "We have been amalgama…
(2022-02-03). "We Need Peace": War in Ukraine Would Be Humanitarian Catastrophe for Millions in the Region. democracynow.org 
As tensions grow between Russia and NATO over a potential invasion of Ukraine, up to 2 million people in eastern Ukraine are at risk of massive displacement and violence if the conflict escalates. We speak with the Norwegian Refugee Council's Jan Egeland, who is on the ground in Ukraine and says a war could roll back nearly a decade of humanitarian progress made in the Ukrainian region. "We need reconciliation, we need peace," says Egeland on the messages he is hearing from Ukrainians.
(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). 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). Efforts to Limit Drug Prices Are Stalled — and Pharma Is Seizing an Opening. truthout.org 
Dozens of vulnerable House Democrats are worried that the party's stalled spending negotiations with Joe Manchin will cost them seats in the midterms — and hand Congress to the Republicans | Democrats planned to include legislation allowing
(2022-02-03). Escalation Between Turkish Forces & SDF Continues In Northern & Northeastern Syria (Photos). southfront.org 
File image. | Escalation between Turkish forces and the Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continues in Syria's northern and northeastern regions. | On February 3, SDF fighters targeted a vehicle of the Turkish military that was moving along the border with the Syrian town of al-Darbasiyah, which is located in the northern al-Hasakah countryside. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) claimed that the attack resulted in casualties, without providing any addition details. | In an apparent response t…
(2022-02-03). Jan Egeland on Afghanistan Facing Famine, a Massacre in DR Congo & Civilian Casualties in Syria. democracynow.org 
The United Nations warns Afghanistan is "hanging by a thread" as millions in the country suffer from hunger and are at risk of freezing to death during the winter as U.S. sanctions have devastated the economy. We get an update on what is now the world's largest humanitarian crisis from Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. He also discusses how the NRC has condemned the deadly attack on a camp for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the organization's humanitarian concerns after the U.S. raid in Syria targeting an ISIS leader that reportedly killed at least 13, inc…
(2022-02-03). Is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Beginning to Open Up? journal-neo.org 
After a year and a half of interruption, North Korea has reopened rail connections with China. Since the end of January 2020, the DPRK has halted cross-boarder railway services. Even though on June 26, 2020 one freight train passed from Hunchun (a border city in China's Jilin province) to Tumangang station on the North Korea-Russian …
(2022-02-03). Florida: Students demand justice for Aramark Starbucks workers. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On February 2, around 80 Florida State University (FSU) students, representing FSU Against Aramark, FSU Students for a Democratic Society, FSUDems, and JStreet, marched across campus from Strozier Library to Dirac Library protesting Starbucks working conditions and standing in solidarity with Aramark workers on campus. | Aramark, a multibillion-dollar corporation, is known for consistently underpaying its workers at universities around the country. The protest, spearheaded by FSU Against Aramark, was the culmination of a three-day boycott of all campus Starbucks locations. The essence of this s…
(2022-02-03). Black Woman President Of ABC News Suspends Whoopi Goldberg For Two Weeks Over Holocaust Comments. moguldom.com Iconic Hollywood star and TV host Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from popular morning show "The View" on Tuesday, Feb. 1, by ABC News President Kim Godwin after making inaccurate claims about the Holocaust. "Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments," Godwin said in a statement. "While …
(2022-02-03). Torraine Walker Discusses His Moguldom Editorial, 'Black Boogeyman Lie,' On Cable TV. moguldom.com Complex Media Group founder and Editor-in-Chief Torraine Walker recently appeared on the Black News Channel (BNC) to expound on his wave-making editorial, "The Black Boogeyman Lie", which took to task the American power structure which he said demonizes Black men. Walker penned the op-ed in response to an article by writer and critic Jamilah Lemieux, …
(2022-02-03). AOC, Ilhan Omar Support 'Day Without Immigrants' on Feb. 14. latinorebels.com Carlos Eduardo Espina has over 2.4 million followers on TikTok and over 88,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. Now the 23-year-old is asking immigrants, in Spanish and English, to disrupt Valentine's Day this year by not showing up to work, school, or the stores.
(2022-02-03). Next steps for New York State CPUSA (report). cpusa.org 
This political and organizational report was presented at the meeting of the New York State Committee on Jan. 29, 2022. This political report is divided into four parts: 1) the meaning of the Republican Party—engineered defeat of the legislation protecting voting rights, and the need in 2022 for a mass anti-fascist front; 2) the …
(2022-02-03). The Dangerous Trend Of The 'Parents Rights' Movement. popularresistance.org Given the current political divide and his ambitions to be the next Republican presidential candidate it should not be surprising that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said he supports what has been called the "Don't Say Gay" bill going through the state House of Representatives. Not surprising, no, but disgusting, yes. | One notices in "Parental Rights in Education," a portion of the bill reads "A school district may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age appropriate…" While the idea of age appropriateness does not…
(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 …