Daily Archives: February 14, 2022

2022-02-14: News Headlines

Mark Gruenberg (2022-02-14). Carrera Cisneros-Cuéllar clave en primarias Demócratas de Texas. peoplesworld.org

Human Rights Watch (2022-02-13). Biden Seeks to Seize Afghanistan's Assets. juancole.com By John Sifton | Asia Advocacy Director | — ( Human Rights Watch ) — The Biden administration has decided to recommend directing $3.5 billion of Afghanistan's $7 billion in foreign currency reserves in the United States to a trust fund for humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, while agreeing to release another $3.5 billion to families …

DLI (2022-02-13). Biden's promise, "America's Back!" is delivered–on Steroids! indybay.org On at least one big item, President Biden's campaign promise, "America's Back!" has been resoundingly delivered! 2 decades ago, the United States went to war based on an outrageous lie, that Saddam Hussein had WMDs(Weapons of Mass Destruction) that were ready to launch in 90 minutes on allies of the U.S. That gigantic lie had no credible evidence(and over 10 million citizens across the Globe protested in the streets agianst the impending but illegal invasion.) But the lie was delivered in such melodramatic tones that the "Corporate-bin-Laden" media bought it, line, rod and sinker). The MSM not only parroted the U…

ecns.cn (2022-02-13). Biden, Putin discuss Ukraine crisis over phone. ecns.cn U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation Saturday over the situation in Ukraine.

TASS (2022-02-13). Putin discussed Ukraine with Macron, Biden. tass.com The Russian leader reminded his counterparts that the West does not do enough to force Ukraine to perform the Minsk Agreements…

Michael Harris (2022-02-13). Why have we never heard of Black Marines serving at Iwo Jima? indybay.org 2022 California Black History Month, we began to focus on equitable and inclusive services for California Black Veterans. | Some have chosen to double down on controlling the narrative while denying and reducing earned Veteran benefits. | President Biden's Executive Order #13985 can't get to California fast enough…

Steve Lalla (2022-02-13). Attacks on Venezuela Harm Caribbean's Most Vulnerable (+Alex Saab). orinocotribune.com February 11, 2022 ( The US and its allies have waged a non-stop economic and informational war on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998. These attacks intensified in recent years with the imposition of unilateral coercive measures—euphemistically…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-13). Venezuelan Minister El Aissami Responds to Gustavo Petro's Anti-Venezuela Narrative. orinocotribune.com The Sectorial Vice President of Venezuela for Economy and Oil, Tareck El Aissami, has issued a stern response to Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, counteracting the latter's attacks on Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro. | Through a thread in his Twitter account, El Aissami blasted Petro's recent remarks in which he had claimed that President Maduro "does not embrace democracy." | Minister El Aissami wrote in response, "From Colombia, the drunken voices of the cowardly left and the voices of the paramilitary right sing together in an out of tune chorus, meddling in our affairs and with our people.

Yanis Iqbal (2022-02-13). Why the Left has to Seize Power. dissidentvoice.org Under bourgeois democracy, there prevails a specific kind of interrelationship between political society and civil society, between the moment of force and the moment of consent. Governmental apparatuses are tasked with penetrating the masses from without, in order to impose capitalist ideologies on them and organize people in the forced, artificial unity of intermediate bodies. …

WSWS (2022-02-13). Orange County, California bus drivers set to strike this week. wsws.org In response to the announcement of a potential strike, the transportation agency sent a letter to Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom requesting that he intervene in the dispute to prevent a strike.

_____ (2022-02-13). CEO-Worker Pay Resource Guide. popularresistance.org Since 2018, U.S. publicly held corporations have had to annually report the ratio between their CEO and median worker compensation. Corporate lobby groups and allied Republicans fought hard to repeal, delay, or water down this disclosure mandate, a measure initially enacted as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation. But institutional investors weighed in heavily to defend pay ratio disclosure, as did hundreds of thousands of individuals outraged about the extreme pay gaps at the vast majority of large U.S. corporations. | The CEO-worker pay ratios the new disclosures have begun revealing are boo…

ecns.cn (2022-02-13). Beijing 2022 runs smoothly as it passes half-way point: organizers. ecns.cn The Beijing Olympics has been running smoothly going into its second week of competition, said Yang Shu'an, vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games (BOCOG).

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