Daily Archives: February 27, 2022

2022-02-27: News Headlines

sputniknews (2022-02-27). Putin Assures Israel's Bennett Russia Ready to Talk to Ukraine, Says Kiev Showing 'Inconsistency'. sputniknews.com Russia summoned Israel's ambassador to Moscow on Friday top ask why Tel Aviv "supports neo-Nazis" in Kiev after Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid blasted the Russian military operation in Ukraine as a 'grave violation of the international order'.

Fight Back (2022-02-27). Minneapolis protest calls for U.S. de-escalation in Ukraine. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On February 24, around 30 people demonstrated outside U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar's office in downtown Minneapolis with signs and banners calling for no war with Russia and an end to U.S. intervention in Ukraine. Held less than 24 hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops into Ukraine, the protest came amidst a jingoistic frenzy of calls by Western governments and media for actions against Russia. | Protesters emphasized the role that the U.S. and NATO played for years in escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russia. In 2014, the elected Ukrainian government was overth…

Staff (2022-02-27). Trump says NATO & US acted 'dumb'. rt.com The former president suggested the US' chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan prompted the Russian offensive in Ukraine | Former US President Donald Trump has argued that President Joe Biden and NATO had acted "dumb" compared to his "smart" one time Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and claimed Moscow's attack on Ukraine would not have happened under his presidency. | Trump made the comments during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday. Addressing his supporters, Trump noted that he was the only US president of the 21st century to not oversee Russia's military action abroad.

sputniknews (2022-02-27). Beijing Blasts US Over Ukraine Crisis, Tells Washington to 'Ask Itself' Who's to Blame for Disaster. sputniknews.com US President Joe Biden warned Thursday that any nation that doesn't condemn Moscow's military operation in Ukraine would be "stained by association." On Friday, US media reported that US officials had held six urgent meetings with senior Chinese officials to try to force Beijing to pressure Russia into changing course.

TASS (2022-02-27). Biden tells to impose full blocking sanctions on Russian Direct Investment Fund. tass.com According to the official, "sanctioning this entity will further curtail [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's strategic ambitions to expand the instruments of war and repression"

sputniknews (2022-02-27). Uttar Pradesh Polls: Voting Underway For Crucial Phase in BJP's Stronghold Ayodhya Temple Region. sputniknews.com India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh, currently governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is having assembly polls in seven phases. The elections are seen as a litmus test for the Narendra Modi-led federal government's policies and popularity.

sputniknews (2022-02-27). 'He Gave $417 Million. What The Hell is Going On?' Trump Urges Audit of Zuckerberg Election Funding. sputniknews.com Last October former POTUS Donald Trump insisted new analysis showed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's donation of roughly $419.5 million to election offices through a pair of nonprofits was "illegal", having purportedly boosted Democratic turnout in key areas.

Staff (2022-02-27). Germany to hike defense spending, buy new weapons. rt.com Berlin has until now avoided rebuilding its armed forces | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that he'll invest –Ñ100 billion ($113 billion) in weaponry and hike defense spending to 2% of GDP, in light of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Successive German governments have resisted investing in the country's military, at times angering the US. | "It's clear we need to invest significantly more in the security of our country, in order to protect our freedom and our democracy," the left-wing leader told a special sitting of the Bundestag (the German Parliament). Promising to reverse decades…

League of Women Voters (2022-02-27). Thursday 3/3: Women Who Are Powering Voting Rights & Democracy w/ LWV. indybay.org Online event…

sputniknews (2022-02-27). US Condemns Pyongyang's Latest Missile Launch. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States condemns North Korea's ballistic missile test carried out on Sunday, the US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) said.

Staff (2022-02-27). North Korea weighs in on Ukraine. rt.com Pyongyang accused Washington of pursuing "military supremacy" at the expense of Moscow's "legitimate" security demands | North Korea's Foreign Ministry has defended Russia and fingered the behavior of the US as the "root cause" of the conflict in Ukraine, in its first official response to Moscow's ongoing military offensive. | "The root cause of the Ukrainian crisis also lies in the high-handedness and arbitrariness of the US," a commentary posted to North Korea's Foreign Ministry website on Saturday reads. | The statement argues that Washington has pursued "military supremacy in disregard of the legitimate de…

WSWS (2022-02-26). US-NATO war threats against Russia heighten geopolitical crisis in South Asia. wsws.org The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on India—which Washington has successfully harnessed to its campaign targeting China—to line up full-square behind the war drive against Moscow.

WSWS (2022-02-26). Australia announces Ukraine military aid and condemns China. wsws.org The political establishment is doing everything it can to assist the Biden administration in exploiting Moscow's reactionary military operation to escalate the underlying US-led offensive against Russia and China.

sputniknews (2022-02-26). PHOTO: Four Illegal Immigrants Stuffed in Toolbox Like Sardines at Texas Border. sputniknews.com A recent CBS News poll showed only 36% of respondents voiced satisfaction with how US President Joe Biden was handling immigration, as the past year witnessed record levels of illicit border crossings and overflowing detention centres struggling to deal with illegal immigrants on the Southern US border.

teleSUR (2022-02-26). Biden Nominates African-American Judge for US Supreme Court. telesurenglish.net With the election of the current federal appellate judge in Washington, D.C., Biden fulfills his 2020 campaign promise to make history by nominating the first African American to that position. | President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. She is eminently qualified to serve our nation on our highest court. Feb. 26, 2022.

WSWS (2022-02-26). Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. wsws.org The nomination does not change the balance on the high court, which will remain divided 6—3 between right-wing reactionaries and moderate liberals.

Walker Bragman (2022-02-26). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Biden's Court Pick Just Boosted Unions. dailyposter.com

_____ (2022-02-26). REI Workers In SoHo Schedule First Union Vote. popularresistance.org More than 100 retail workers at the national outdoor gear chain Recreational Equipment, Inc. will decide whether to form a union during an in-person vote on March 2, paving the way for what could become the company's first unionized store. | The workers are campaigning to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union in order to help workers address issues related to wages, paid-time off scheduling, training and workplace safety concerns, organizers said. Union organizers announced the vote Wednesday night and records from the National Labor Relations Board confirmed the election will be held throughout t…

Liberation Staff (2022-02-26). Union files complaint: Is Amazon trying to rig the Bessemer election AGAIN? liberationnews.org The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union released a statement announcing the filing of Unfair Labor Practice charges against Amazon alleging illegal union-busting actions by the company in the re-run union election in Bessemer, Alabama.

WSWS (2022-02-26). The enthusiasm of despair and the rise of Ferdinand Marcos Jr in the Philippines. wsws.org Thirty-six years after the People Power ouster of the brutal Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr is front-runner in the country's presidential election.

sputniknews (2022-02-26). DeSantis Trashes 'Brandon Administration' at CPAC Conference, Bolstering Speculation of 2024 Run. sputniknews.com The annual convention, which is taking place from Thursday through Sunday, is bringing together conservative activists and prominent politicians from across the country ahead of this year's midterm elections.

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-26). Victor Hugo: From fratricide to fraternity. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Victor Hugo: Selections on war ==== Victor HugoFrom MemoirsTranslated by John W. Harding December 11 (1870). — Rostan came to see me. He has his arm in a sling. He was wounded at Creteil. It was at night. A German soldier rushed …

Terry Evans (2022-02-26). SF school board recall reflects capitalist rulers' political crisis. themilitant.com The ousting of three liberal members of the San Francisco school board in a recall election Feb. 15 is one more reflection of the political crisis wracking the capitalist rulers. After years of watching board members attempting to foist their "woke" politics on the cities' schools, parents organized to put the recall on the ballot and won the vote. | The outcome echoed last year's defeat of former Democratic Party Gov. Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, expressing the revulsion of working people toward high-handed actions by politicians and school administrators toward parents and students alike. | Democrats Alison Col…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-26). Higher unity in which every war will appear impious fratricide. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Women writers on peace and war Bertha von Suttner: Selections on peace and war ==== Bertha von SuttnerFrom Lay Down Your ArmsThe Autobiography of Martha von TillingTranslated by T. Holmes The great majority of the people usually know nothing about why or how a war exists. They only see it coming for a certain time, and then it is there. …

Brian Williams (2022-02-26). SWP takes truckers' fight in Canada to working class. themilitant.com Members of the Socialist Workers Party have been building on the momentum of the recently concluded successful renewal campaign to introduce the paper and the party's election campaign to workers and farmers at plant gates, strike picket lines, political events and on their doorsteps. | They're making special efforts to meet truckers to discuss the conditions they face and how working people can defend ourselves. | "Fuel prices are high, freight is low. And the shippers and receivers keep us waiting for 13, 14 hours and we don't get paid. I'm for the Canadian truckers," Chris Weber told Eleanor García, SWP candid…

Steve Penner (2022-02-26). Protest Canadian rulers' Emergencies Act attack on workers' protests, rights! themilitant.com MONTREAL — "The sweeping police operation carried out under the anti-working-class Emergencies Act against the three-week protest in Ottawa, Canada's capital, by truckers and others opposed to vaccine mandates is an assault on the political rights of all working people," said Philippe Tessier, Communist League candidate in a Quebec provincial by-election in the riding of Marie-Victorin. "It is one of the largest acts of police repression in modern Canadian history and should be opposed by all unions and supporters of democratic rights. | "As of today — Feb. 22 — even though the cops have shut do…

sputniknews (2022-02-26). REC Approves 12 Applications For Product Placement in Pavilions Abroad. sputniknews.com The meeting of the Expert Commission of the Russian Export Centre (part of VEB.RF) for the selection of applications from organisations for exhibiting agricultural products in pavilions abroad was held on 25 February, where applications from 12 companies were approved.

Ed Rampell (2022-02-26). MSNBC Needs a History Lesson: Imperial America is "Greatest Purveyor of Coups" on Earth. covertactionmagazine.com MSNBC legal analyst Daniel Goldman, Majority Counsel in the first Trump impeachment inquiry, adds to the vast TV disinformation wasteland …

WSWS (2022-02-26). Two prosecutors leading criminal investigation into Trump Organization resign. wsws.org New Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg reportedly expressed reservations about moving the criminal case forward, prompting the resignation of the lead prosecutors.

Editor2 (2022-02-26). 'The Mouse Kills the Cat': Augusto Cesar Sandino's Rebellion Against the US. orinocotribune.com By Daniel Kovalik — Feb 21, 2022 | How Sandino fought for Nicaragua's independence, lost and remained a hero for its people | Before Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, before Ho Chi Minh and before Mao began his Long March, there was Augusto Cesar Sandino. | While Sandino is not a household name in much of the world, as these others are, he was one of the most important and successful guerilla fighters of the 20th century, successfully driving the US Marines out of Nicaragua against nearly impossible odds. His image, with his iconic Tom Mix cowboy hat tilted to one side, continues to be the most ubiquitous symbol…

teleSUR (2022-02-26). Int'l Commission Against Impunity to Be Installed in Honduras. telesurenglish.net The UN confirmed President Xiomara Castro's request to install the International Commission against Impunity (CICIH) in the framework of the fight against corruption. | RELATED: | The process will take a period of time that the UN has not yet stipulated, but they did offer a positive response to the request. | President-Elect Xiomara Castro has requested support from the United Nations to form an International Com…

_____ (2022-02-26). War In Europe And The Rise Of Raw Propaganda. popularresistance.org Marshall McLuhan's prophecy that "the successor to politics will be propaganda" has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain. | On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin, the currency of the age. In 1964, McLuhan famously declared, "The medium is the message." The lie is the message now. | But is this new? It is more than a century since Edward Bernays, the father of spin, invented "public relations" as a cover for war propaganda. What is new is the vir…

RepresentWomen (2022-02-26). Tuesday 3/8: Represent Women: 2022 Solutions Summit for Building a 21st Century Democracy (Day 1). indybay.org Online via Zoom…

RepresentWomen (2022-02-26). Wednesday 3/9: Represent Women: 2022 Solutions Summit for Building a 21st Century Democracy (Day 2). indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Richard Horton (2022-02-26). [Comment] Offline: There is no right to lie. thelancet.com Perhaps the most curious aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the flourishing of anti-science movements, despite the demonstrable triumphs of science in producing life-saving antivirals and vaccines. Mistrust of science is spreading well beyond COVID-19. Political challenges to climate action, notably the goal of net zero emissions, are growing, especially as economic stress impoverishes millions. 5G remains a target for many science sceptics. And libertarian politicians condemn scientists as unelected threats to democratic freedoms.

RepresentWomen (2022-02-26). Thursday 3/10: Represent Women: 2022 Solutions Summit for Building a 21st Century Democracy (Day 3). indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Anonymous669 (2022-02-26). US-Backed Fighters Occupied Syrian Government Building In Al-Qamishli. southfront.org Click to see full-size image, source: sdf-press.com | On February 26, fighters from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) occupied a building of the Damascus government in the northeastern Syrian town of al-Qamishli. | According to the Syrian Arab News Agency, SDF fighters took over the Social Insurance and Labor building in the town's center by force."A groups of SDF fighters took control of the three-story Social Security and Labor building after breaking the door locks then began to guard the main entranc…

Fight Back (2022-02-26). Texas: UT-Austin students demand justice for Amir Locke. fightbacknews.org Austin, TX – On Thursday evening, February 24, students at the University of Texas at Austin gathered at a campus plaza to demand justice for Amir Locke, who was murdered by Minneapolis police earlier this month. The group held signs and chanted, "Hey hey, ho ho, these racist cops have got to go!" and "Say his name: Amir Locke." A few passersby joined the speak-out upon hearing the chants and reading the signs. | Jake Holtzman spoke on behalf of the Austin Students for a Democratic Society, the group that organized the hour-long event, saying, "Students for a Democratic Society stands in solidarity with the famil…

_____ (2022-02-26). An HBCU Roundtable On Violence And Accountability. popularresistance.org Historically Black Colleges and Universities, most of which are concentrated in the South, hold contrasting legacies as both safe havens for Black students and frequent targets of violence. Last week, Scalawag hosted a live Twitter conversation with journalists who are both current and former students of HBCUs to discuss the broader contexts they have experienced and written about around student safety. | This is a conversation with renewed urgency: As panelist Adam Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The State Must Provide, pointed out, there hasn't been a week in February this year without…

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