2021-01-22: Social Media Postees

Please be social by posting these 'POSTEES' on social media! (Copy the text of the postee below, then paste it on social media and the story images will also appear.)

What Biden Can Do Without Congress (But Won't)
Lee Camp | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
What if it could get done now? What if all (or many) of the largest problems within the United States could be solved now? What if the most exploited, the most troubled, the most chopped-up-masticated-and-drooled-out-by-the-American-machine populations could be helped right now? No Congress. No 10 years of "building up power" just to achieve a post-abuse…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/what-biden-c…

You Counter Trumpism By Ending The Conditions Which Created It, Not With Authoritarian Policies
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2021-01-22
The US political/media class have been pushing hard for more authoritarian policies to stave off the threat of "domestic terrorism" in the wake of the Capitol riot. President Biden, who was already working on rolling out new domestic terror policies well before January sixth, confirmed after the riot that he is making these new measures a priority.
thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/you-cou…

GOP Nightmare of Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders About to Come True
Jon Queally | zcomm.org | 2021-01-22
"When Republicans controlled the Senate they used the reconciliation process to provide huge tax breaks for the rich and large corporations. We're going to use reconciliation to protect working families, the sick and the poor."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/gop-nightmare-of-s…

Mob v. Crowd: the Mass Psychology of Madness
Jonah Raskin | zcomm.org | 2021-01-22
The fact that the inauguration has had to take place in a city protected by men with guns seems to prove the right wing point that we live in a police state…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/mob-v-crowd-the-ma…

CNN Dishonestly Claims That The West Is Victimized By Chinese Anti-Vaxx Disinfo
oneworld.press | 2021-01-22
The Global Times is doing a global service by raising awareness about fatal medical incidents associated with foreign vaccines which many in the West might not have been aware of until they read those articles. Although Griffiths proves that the deaths in question "were reported on by CNN, among numerous US media outlets", those platforms don't have an exclusive monopoly on reporting and shouldn't claim that their Chinese counterparts reporting on the same is akin to "disinformation".
oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1887

Trump Crazy and Intellectual Crazy
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
It's hard not to be appalled and scared by the reality denial of Donald Trump's followers. Their willingness to insist an election was stolen, with no evidence whatsoever, is difficult to understand for those of us who like to think that people respond to facts and logic. I don't have any easy answers to get…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/trump-crazy-…

Can US Workers Be Dismissed for Refusing to Be Vaxxed?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
According to Law Professor Dorit Reiss: | "Requiring a vaccine is a health and safety work rule, and employers can" fire noncompliant staff. | Attorney David Betras explained that "workplace vaccination requirements aren't new, and they passed constitutional muster long ago," …
globalresearch.ca/can-us-workers-dismiss…

Wisconsin Nursing Home Staff Laid Off for Declining COVID-19 Vaccine
Sarah Volpenhein | anti-empire.com | 2021-01-22
Employees at a Janesville nursing home risk losing their job if they do not take the COVID-19 vaccine, a policy that has caused outrage among many staff members. | Officials at Rock Haven, a Rock County-owned facility, issued a memo in December telling employees that the vaccine was "a requirement for all staff" and that employees who failed to get the vaccine would be laid off. A copy of the memo was obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel through an open records request. | According to the memo, a laid-off employee will not be eligible to return to work until they complete the two-dose vaccine regimen. | Roc…
anti-empire.com/wisconsin-nursing-home-s…

anti-empire.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/…

Why is Thanathorn Complaining about Affordable Medicine?
Anthony Cartalucci | thealtworld.com | 2021-01-22
US-backed opposition leader and billionaire Thanathorn has attacked the Thai government's response to COVID-19 and its hesitation to rush into a vaccine campaign.
thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/why-i…

Sunk before Service: Australia's Disastrous Submarine Project
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-01-22
One only gets into the submarine procurement business to spite government treasurers and economic managers. Efficiency and effectuality are bonus additions, but hardly necessary. Witness the evolving disaster that is Australia's SEA 1000 Future Submarine program, won by France's DCNS, now Naval Group, in 2016. From the start, this seemed an audaciously peculiar choice. Australia …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/sunk-before-s…

How Capitalism's Dogged Defenders and Propagandists Defend It From Criticism
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
The more victims and critics of capitalism coalesce and thereby strengthen one another, the more that economic system is questioned and challenged. That in turn provokes capitalism's defenders. They increasingly resort to attaching qualifying adjectives to capitalism and deflecting criticisms onto them. They say that the capitalism they support is a particular kind of capitalism. Their support depends on whether or not certain adjectives are attached to capitalism.
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/how-capitali…

www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/dropzone…

Fearing the Palestinian Narrative: Why Israel Banned 'Jenin Jenin'
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
On January 11, the Israeli Lod District Court ruled against a Palestinian film-maker, Mahmoud Bakri, ordering him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier who was accused, along with the Israeli military, of carrying out war crimes in April 2002, in the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp located in the northern occupied West Bank. The…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/fearing-the-…

Boris Johnson Has Done Modi a Favour
M. K. Bhadrakumar | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2021-01-22
asia-pacificresearch.com/boris-johnson-d…

Round Up the Usual Suspects; Don't Forget Putin
Ray McGovern | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
Interviewed by Mrs. Clinton Monday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi eagerly rose to the bait when Clinton spoke of "her concerns that the outgoing commander-in-chief was compromised by the Kremlin". Setting the stage, Clinton expressed the hope that "we'll find out who …
globalresearch.ca/round-up-usual-suspect…

Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodriguez details new measures to break the US blockade
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2021-01-22
In a wide-ranging interview with The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez details her government's new Anti-Blockade Law and explains how it counteracts the impact of the US economic war imposed on her country VP Rodriguez also answered left-wing criticism of the Anti-Blockade Law and discussed her family's history of leftist activism dating back to Venezuela's dirty war, when her father was disappeared by the old neoliberal regime. She placed the ongoing attacks by the US-backed right-wing opposition …
thegrayzone.com/2021/01/22/venezuelan-de…

Biden's Mask-Wearing Mandate
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
Biden and his press agent media won't explain what's vital for everyone to know. | On his first day in office as selected, not elected, president, he signed a blizzard of executive orders. | Among them was mandatory wearing of face masks …
globalresearch.ca/bidens-mask-wearing-ma…

Pivot to Asia: China Tech Ban Mirrors 1980s Attempts to Destroy Japanese Competition
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
In the 1980s, the US imposed a 100% tariff on virtually all Japanese electronics and forced Tokyo to sign a one-sided trade deal that reserved much of its domestic semiconductor sector for American companies. | *** | With just days left in …
globalresearch.ca/china-tech-ban-mirrors…

The Lies that Bind
John Clamp | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
'It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.' -Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, speaking in the UK in 1969 'One nation solemnly promised to a second nation…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/the-lies-tha…

Why Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Their Countries From COVID-19 Must Be Investigated
Noam Chomsky — Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to the deaths by asphyxiation of patients afflicted with COVID-19. No modern state–such as Brazil–should have to admit that it did nothing when these warnings came in and simply allowed its own citizens to die for no reason.
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/why-neoliber…

www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/dropzone…

From Standing Rock and J20 to the US Capitol: Who gets treated like the enemy?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2021-01-22
When police roll out the red carpet for far-right insurgents and reserve tear gas and rubber bullets for Black, Indigenous, and social justice protestors, what is to be done?
therealnews.com/from-standing-rock-and-j…

i1.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/upl…

Metalworkers carry out wildcat strike in Matamoros, Mexico, for higher wages
wsws.org | 2021-01-22
The workers at a maquiladora factory owned by the Texas-based multinational Cypress Industries struck to demand a 15 percent wage increase, following wildcat strikes by workers in the city last April against unsafe conditions caused by the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/22/mexi…

COVID vs. World War II
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
The Trump Administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic was a murderous crime committed against the American people. [1] The perpetrators of that crime should be prosecuted for it. Let us compare the sacrifices in lives paid by the American people during WWII, and during YEAR ONE of COVID-19. WWII (for the U.S.A.): 7 December 1941…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/covid-vs-wor…

US Backs Al-Qaeda in Yemen while Dubbing Its Houthi Enemies 'Terrorists'
Ben Norton | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
The US State Department designated Yemen's Houthi movement — the most effective force in fighting al-Qaeda — as a "terrorist" organization. Meanwhile Washington and Saudi Arabia have supported al-Qaeda. | *** | The United States government has designated the main enemy of …
globalresearch.ca/us-backs-al-qaeda-yeme…

SF Bay View Editor Has Cell Phone Seized & Google Fires Black Scientist Dr. Timnit Gebru
WorkWeek | indybay.org | 2021-01-22
WorkWeek covers the effort to stop SF Bay View Editor Malik Washington from doing his work. The for profit halfway house run by the Geo Group ordered that his cell phone be seized to stop him from doing his work after the facility in the Terderloin was exposed for having a Covid outbreak. We interview his lawyer Richard Tan. | Also WorkWeek looks at the firing of Google top AI scientist Dr. Timnit Gebru. WorkWeek looks at the reason she was fired.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883948…

Britain — The political future looks grim
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2021-01-22
Brexit and Covid have done bad things to our country. The former was a deliberate stoking of built-up anger against a politically and economically flawed system. The latter has bagged a world-beating record — of killing more people per million than any country on earth. Contrary to many commentators, that the Brexit debate is over, …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/britai…

Imperial scientists conduct COVID-19 testing on London's transport network
imperial.ac.uk | 2021-01-22
Researchers from Imperial are working with Transport for London to regularly test the city's transport network for the virus which causes COVID-19.
imperial.ac.uk/news/213133/imperial-scie…

WHO Finally Admits COVID-19 PCR Test Has a 'Problem'
Dr. Joseph Mercola | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
In an "inauguration" of its own while Joe Biden was being sworn into office, the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated new rules regarding the PCR assays used for testing for COVID-19. | Even though they've been widely used across the U.S. …
globalresearch.ca/who-finally-admits-cov…

Happy economic numbers hide widening inequality and growing poverty
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2021-01-22
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is very upbeat about the economy, despite an official unemployment rate of 6.6% and a growing wealth divide. Peter Boyle investigates.
greenleft.org.au/content/happy-economic-…

America Installs a Pope
Matthew Stevenson | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
Can someone explain to me why, when a mob carrying spears and wearing Davy Crockett hats breaks into the Capitol, "our democracy is under assault" by insurrectionists and seditionists, while when another group takes over the Capitol with the likes of A-Rod and Bill Clinton, and lines the streets of Washington with storm troops, our democracy has suddenly been "restored"?
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/america-inst…

www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/dropzone…

Wednesday 1/27: The Equal Rights Amendment & the Disability Community Town Hall
FFWEEC | indybay.org | 2021-01-22
Online panel discussion…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/21/1883949…

Friday Deadline: Defend Oakland's Pesticide Ban!
Isis Feral | indybay.org | 2021-01-22
The City of Oakland is preparing an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that threatens to roll back a local law that restricts pesticide use on public lands. The herbicides glyphosate, triclopyr, and imazapyr would be exempted for use in the Oakland hills, as part of a plan to remove large numbers of trees. Public comments on the Draft EIR are DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021 AT 5PM…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883945…

30 Kinds Of Hunting, Fishing Deaths and Injuries
Knowledge Protects | indybay.org | 2021-01-22
Accidents and diseases resulting from killing animals, birds, fishes…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/21/1883948…

Thursday 1/21: SF BayView Editor Malik Washington Journalist Rights & Google Firing Of Dr. Timnit Gebru
WorkWeeek | indybay.org | 2021-01-22
KPOO.COM San Francisco | KPOO 98.5 FM…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883947…

Thursday 2/4: "Mother Jones" in Conversation w/ Rev. William Barber, Sharrelle Barber & Rebekah Barber
Mother Jones | indybay.org | 2021-01-22
Online event; open to the community…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/21/1883948…

BBC Propaganda Targets Thailand (Again)
Anthony Cartalucci | thealtworld.com | 2021-01-22
The BBC — British state propaganda which has played a key role in selling wars that have destroyed nations around the globe, ending the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and ruining the lives of millions more — has its sights set on Thailand. | I explain why what the BBC left out of its deceitful narrative regarding Thailand's ongoing protests is much more important than anything it included in it. | The BBC glaringly omits any discussion about who is funding and backing the protests and why. A convenient omission the BBC also made when covering US-funded mobs in Hong Kong. | References: | BB…
thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/bbc-p…

L'Onu proibisce le armi nucleari e l'Italia che fa?
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
Entra in vigore il Trattato Onu che proibisce le armi nucleari, ma la Nato proibisce all'Italia di aderirvi. Il governo non vede, non sente e non parla. Restano cosà¨ in Italia, paese "non-nucleare", le vecchie bombe nucleari Usa tra poco …
globalresearch.ca/lonu-proibisce-le-armi…

A ONU proíbe as armas nucleares e a Itália, o que é que faz?
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
Hoje, 22 de Janeiro de 2021, é o dia que pode ficar na História como o ponto de viragem para livrar a Humanidade daquelas armas que, pela primeira vez, têm a capacidade de fazer desaparecer a espécie humana e quase …
globalresearch.ca/a-onu-proibe-as-armas-…

'I Never Thought I'd Live to See This Day': The Beginning of the End for Nuclear Weapons
Rev. John Dear | commondreams.org | 2021-01-22
Few antiwar activists ever thought they'd see nuclear weapons banned, but thanks to dedicated organizing, a historic UN treaty goes into effect today. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2021/01/22/i-neve…

Re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement Is Just Step One to Address the Climate Emergency: Frontline Women Must Lead the Way
Osprey Orielle Lake, Katherine Quaid | commondreams.org | 2021-01-22
Global people's movements and women leaders have been organizing for decades for climate justice, and community-led solutions. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2021/01/22/re-ent…

We Need To Stop The Fossil Fuel Industry's PR Machine
Jamie Henn | commondreams.org | 2021-01-22
Our theory of change is simple: if we can get the world's largest and most powerful PR and Ad agencies to stop working for the fossil fuel industry, we'll dramatically weaken the industry's ability to pollute the public debate and block climate action. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2021/01/22/we-nee…

Capitol riot participant threatened to kill his own children if they turned him in
Meaghan Ellis | zcomm.org | 2021-01-22
zcomm.org/znetarticle/capitol-riot-parti…

Argentina's long history of struggle for legal abortion
Virginia Tognola | zcomm.org | 2021-01-22
After many years of campaigning, Argentina's feminist movements booked a historic victory at the end of 2020 when abortion was finally legalized…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/argentinas-long-hi…

Baghdad suicide bombing: Islamic State claim responsibility for deadly attack in Iraq
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-22
Baghdad suicide bombing: Islamic State claim responsibility for deadly attack in Iraq | At least 32 people killed and 110 wounded after two men blew themselves up in a crowded market in the Iraqi capital | MEE and agencies | Fri, 01/22/2021 – 09: 46 | An injured man receives visitors at a hospital following the twin suicide bombing in the bustling commercial street in the heart of Baghdad (AFP) | Islamic Sta…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-baghdad-…

www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/file…

The Capitol Rioters Must Face Consequences
Kali Holloway | thenation.com | 2021-01-22
The Capitol Rioters Must Face Consequences…
thenation.com/article/politics/capitol-r…

How Georgia Went Blue
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2021-01-22
How Georgia Went Blue…
thenation.com/article/politics/georgia-s…

The Ignominious Deceits of Congressman Cawthorn
Sara Luterman | thenation.com | 2021-01-22
The Ignominious Deceits of Congressman Cawthorn…
thenation.com/article/politics/madison-c…

Levels of obesity could rise if effective actions are not taken in childhood
imperial.ac.uk | 2021-01-22
The number of adults living with obesity could rise dramatically unless robust measures are implemented to halt childhood obesity.
imperial.ac.uk/news/213233/levels-obesit…

'Foreign policy' should be central to university strategy – Alice Gast
imperial.ac.uk | 2021-01-22
Imperial's President argues that universities can craft their own 'foreign policy' to strengthen, expand and focus international collaborations.
imperial.ac.uk/news/213054/foreign-polic…

Hungary, Russia Sign Agreement on Sputnik V Coronavirus Vaccine Deliveries, Foreign Minister Says
sputniknews.com | 2021-01-22
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Hungary and Russia have signed an agreement on Russia's coronavirus vaccine deliveries, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said on Friday.
sputniknews.com/europe/20210122108184684…

Guterres hails entry into force of treaty banning nuclear weapons
news.un.org | 2021-01-22
The first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty in more than two decades, came into force just after midnight on Friday, hailed by the UN Secretary-General as "an important step towards a world free of nuclear weapons".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2021/01/1…

McConnell Pans Biden's 'Big Steps in Wrong Direction', Warns Over 'Failed Approach' to Immigration
sputniknews.com | 2021-01-22
On his first full day in office, US President Joe Biden acted upon his campaign promises to reverse a spate of policies implemented by his predecessor Donald Trump, signing executive orders to tear up the the Keystone XL oil pipeline permit, rejoining the World Health Organisation and bringing the US back to the fold of the Paris Climate Accord.
sputniknews.com/us/202101221081845548-mc…

As Israel Sets Pace With Vaccination, MP Explains Why It's Not a Success Story For Country's Arabs
sputniknews.com | 2021-01-22
Israel has vaccinated more than 2.2 million people so far. Only a small proportion of them, however, have been Arabs, and a parliamentarian says it has to do with the lack of facilities in Arab localities, the absence of significant campaigns and their distrust of the system.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/2021012210818…

Iraqi Prime Minister Fires 4 Senior Security Officials Following Baghdad Terror Attacks
sputniknews.com | 2021-01-22
CAIRO (Sputnik) — Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has dismissed four high-ranking security officials, including the country's federal police head, following the twin terrorist attacks in the capital of Baghdad, Yehia Rasool, a spokesperson for the Iraqi commander-in-chief, said.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/2021012210818…

CO2 and the Rich
Graham Peebles | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
Only the most deluded denier can now question that the global climate is dramatically changing, and that the chaos is man-made. Extreme weather events — wildfires, drought, intense heat, hurricanes, are becoming more frequent, the impact on ecosystems and biodiversity, populations and infrastructure devastating. Fuelled by industrialised nations (where the majority of the richest 10%…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/co2-and-the-…

Developing working-class resistance to fascism
Dianne Mathiowetz | workers.org | 2021-01-22
These excerpts were taken from the Jan. 14 webinar, "Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism," sponsored by Workers World Party. To view the entire panel discussion, go to tinyurl.com/y25tapr2. Like most people, I had been very much aware that this fascist rally was going to take place in Washington[, D.C.,] . . . | Continue reading Developing working-class resistance to fascism at Workers.org…
workers.org/2021/01/54001/?utm_source=rs…

www.workers.org/wp-content/uploads/Diane…

Comparing Three Types of Child Benefit Designs
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2021-01-22
Since the 1990s, America has had a very specific goal when it comes to cash benefits for families with children: keep them away from very poor people. I find this goal to be quite cruel, but the logic of it was clear enough. By making lives unspeakably miserable for the very poor while providing decent benefits for those a rung above them, we incentivize the very poor to work and ensure only the virtuous receive social benefits. | The Child Tax Credit (CTC) was reasonably well designed to achieve this goal. By delivering the benefit at the end of each year through the tax system, we can identify who the poor a…
peoplespolicyproject.org/2021/01/22/comp…

www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/…

The Making of US Empire at the Dawning of Its End
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
This article was originally published on Asia Times. | As the Exceptional Empire gets ready to brave a destructive — and self-destructive — new cycle, with dire, unforeseen consequences bound to reverberate across the world, now more than ever it …
globalresearch.ca/making-us-empire-dawni…

Farmers' Protests Reflect Existential Crisis of Indian Agriculture
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the planet but is plagued by farmer suicides, child malnourishment, growing unemployment, increased informalisation, indebtedness and an overall collapse of agriculture. Given that India is still an agrarian-based society, renowned journalist P Sainath says what is taking place can be described…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/farmers-prot…

Palestinian PM Condemns "Organized Settler Terrorism" in West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-22
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh denounced, on Thursday at night, the seriously escalating attacks, carried out by the illegal Israeli colonialist settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank, and described them as organized terrorism. Shtayyeh said the colonists attacked and injured many Palestinians, including women and children, after hurling stones and Molotov cocktails at …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-pm-condemn…

imemc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sht…

Israeli Colonists Attack, Displace, Palestinian Family Near Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-22
Several fanatic Illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Thursday at night, a Palestinian family and forced them out of a cave they were using as a residence in Khirbat Tawamin, east of Susiya village in Masafer Yatta, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Fuad al-'Amour, the coordinator of the Protection and Steadfastness Committees, …
imemc.org/article/israeli-colonists-atta…

imemc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/att…

Casualties of the Old Cold War Should Inform Opposition to U.S.' New Cold War Against China
Danny Haiphong | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
The US share of the global economy has shrunk dramatically since 1960. On the other hand, China is on pace to surpass the U.S. in GOP terms in 2030. | This past week, the United States celebrated another Martin Luther King …
globalresearch.ca/casualties-old-cold-wa…

Israeli Colonists Close Many Roads In Northern West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-22
Groups of fanatic illegal Israeli colonialist settlers closed, on Thursday evening, many roads and junctions, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and attacked homes, before the soldiers abducted a young Palestinian man. Eyewitnesses said the colonists gathered at Huwwara junction, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and closed it. …
imemc.org/article/israeli-colonists-clos…

imemc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/clo…

Defunding the Myths and Cults of Cold War Canada
Richard Sanders | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-01-22
For decades the Canadian government has been supporting East European émigré associations whose much-revered founders, leaders and war heroes include veterans of Waffen SS divisions and other fascist military formations, perpetrators of the Holocaust and other ethnic-cleansing campaigns, officials from and apologists for Nazi puppet regimes, postwar CIA propaganda assets, proponents of Cold War terrorist …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/defunding-the…

coat.ncf.ca/P4C/70/70_Pearson–WACL.jpg

US President Biden: How to Deal With China
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
The lexicon has changed. Words and phrases that seemed to define our world until quite recently now belong to a bygone era. Remember BRICs? The grouping of the next economic superpowers. Well, Brazil, Russia, India and China now resemble a …
globalresearch.ca/biden-first-us-preside…

The Persecution of Hazaras
Liaquat Ali Khan | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
"Persecution of human beings shall be forbidden." — Article 29, Afghanistan Constitution (2004) In January 2021, Deash (Islamic State) marked the new year by murdering eleven Hazara coal miners in Quetta, Pakistan. The world press covered the story ruminating that the murders sprout from the Shia-Sunni schism because the Hazaras are Shia and Daesh is…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/the-persecut…

The Rich The Poor and Climate Change
Graham Peebles | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
Only the most deluded denier can now question that the global climate is dramatically changing, and that the chaos is man-made. Extreme weather events — wildfires, drought, intense heat, hurricanes — are becoming more frequent, the impact on ecosystems and biodiversity, populations and infrastructure devastating. Fueled by the industrialized nations and the lifestyles of the…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/the-rich-the…

Cancel ALL Student Debt — 2021 YDSA Winter Conference Preview
mgrochowski | dsausa.org | 2021-01-22
This is a preview event for the 2021 YDSA Online Winter Conference. Learn more about the Winter Conference here: y.dsausa.org/2021wintercon/ Biden has the power to cancel ALL student debt with a stroke of his pen, but he won't do it without a movement to force his hand. Join us on Friday, February 5 at 8PM…
dsausa.org/calendar/cancel-all-student-d…

Ongoing Escalation: Israeli Colonists Hurled Molotov Cocktails At Homes Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-22
Israeli colonists hurled Molotov cocktails, on Thursday evening, at two Palestinian homes in Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Local sources in the village said the colonists invaded the southern area of Burin, and hurled Molotov cocktails at two homes. They added that the residents rushed to help the family …
imemc.org/article/ongoing-escalation-isr…

imemc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bur…

This Week's Most Popular Articles
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
globalresearch.ca/most-popular?since=7

Do You Remember Cuba's Dedication to Angola?
Don Fitz | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
Cuban blood left its stamp on the conscience of the world after the Angolan Wars of 1975-1988. Corporate politicians are united in their desire for us to ignore this reality. Fed up with foreign wars, Portuguese officers overthrew Prime Minister Marcello Caetano on April 25, 1974. Many former colonies had the opportunity to define their…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/do-you-remem…

The Illusion of Democracy: Government by the Rich for the Even Richer
Rod Driver | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
"Democracy has little meaning when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, transportation, and communication, reinforced by command of the press, press agents and other means of publicity and propaganda". …
globalresearch.ca/illusion-democracy-gov…

2021 is the Year of the Political Prisoner
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2021-01-22
The U.S. "justice" system, like every institution of a capitalist state, is a weapon designed and wielded by the billionaires to beat workers into submission. Special bodies of armed troops, deputized by the ruling class, round up workers by the millions and contrive laws to justify locking them in dangerously . . . | Continue reading 2021 is the Year of the Political Prisoner at Workers.org…
workers.org/2021/01/54004/?utm_source=rs…

www.workers.org/wp-content/uploads/free-…

Private Sector is "Efficient" Only at Extracting Money From Public
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
There is nothing that capitalists won't grab if they see a possibility to score a profit. Not even the most basic needs for human life, such as water, are exempt. A favorite tactic for grabbing what had once been in the public domain and converting it into private profit is the "public-private partnership." A tactic…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/private-sect…

www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/dropzone…

The Eric Brandt story: How a controversial cop watcher became one of the most successful police reformers in the US
Staff | therealnews.com | 2021-01-22
Known for his role in the Occupy Denver movement and his controversial, even profane, manner of exercising his First Amendment rights, Eric Brandt has been arrested roughly 200 times while protesting police brutality and advocating for reform. But he's also quietly racked up key victories in court.
therealnews.com/the-eric-brandt-story-ho…

i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/upl…

Why the Hammonds' Livestock Shouldn't be Allowed on Public Land
Erik Molvar | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
On the Trump administration's last full day in office, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt reached down into the Bureau of Land Management, seized control of the decision-making process for four Oregon grazing allotments, and issued new permits to Hammond Ranches, Inc., the same family that lost their grazing privileges to these allotments in 2014 for violating…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/why-the-hamm…

www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/dropzone…

Israeli Colonists Injure Child Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-22
Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Thursday evening, many Palestinian cars near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing damage and injuring a child in the face. Media sources said the colonists injured Jad Ala' Sawafta, 3, in the face after hurling stones at the family's car while his father was driving near …
imemc.org/article/israeli-colonists-inju…

imemc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/chi…

2021 YDSA Online Winter Conference
mgrochowski | dsausa.org | 2021-01-22
Register at the RSVP link for $20 early bird registration by Friday 1/22 or $30 regular registration by Friday 2/12. Join YDSA for our first ever ONLINE Winter Conference from Friday, February 26 — Sunday, February 28. Trump has been defeated, but our fight for a better world is far from over. Learn…
dsausa.org/calendar/2021-ydsa-online-win…

The First Amendment Protects Scabby, the 12-Foot Inflatable Rat, Too
Arianna Demas | aclu.org | 2021-01-22
Living in New York City, there are some things you just know. You know that if you see a gigantic rat in the subway station you look the other way and pretend it doesn't exist. And you know that if you see a gigantic inflatable rat in front of a business it means that workers are protesting unfair employer practices., , Scabby the Rat, a 12-foot inflatable rat balloon, is a familiar sight not just in New York but around the country. But the government is now trying to deflate him. Luckily for Scabby, the First Amendment is on his side., , Under existing precedent, unions have a legal right to display Scabby. T…
aclu.org/news/free-speech/the-first-amen…

Quantify the expression of metabolizing enzymes and transporter proteins in lung, eye and skin tissue in relevant animal models and humans (U01) Clinical Trial Not Allowed
grants.gov | 2021-01-22
RFA-FD-21-018
Funding Opportunity ID: | 330752 | Opportunity Number: | RFA-FD-21-018 | Opportunity Title: | Quantify the expression of metabolizing enzymes and transporter proteins in lung, eye and skin tissue in relevant animal models and humans (U01) Clinical Trial Not Allowed | Opportunity Category: | Discretionary | Opportunity Category Explanation: | | Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement | Category of Funding Activity: | Consumer Protection | Food and Nutrition | Science and Technology and other Research and Development | Category Explanation: | | CFDA Number(s):…
grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.h…

The Fatal Consequences of High Atmospheric Methane Levels
Dr. Andrew Glikson | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
It is hard to think of a more Orwellian expression than that describing the increase in toxic atmospheric methane gas as " gas-led recovery." | Several of the large mass extinctions of species in the geological past are attributed to …
globalresearch.ca/fatal-consequences-hig…

Battleground Baltimore, Jan. 22
Staff | therealnews.com | 2021-01-22
One reason why The Real News Network calls Baltimore home is because we know that the struggles the people in this majority-minority city face (unequitable access to resources like education, clean air, and transportation, for example) are the struggles people face all over the globe. This is the second installment of our weekly news roundup from the Baltimore trenches, which we hope will help keep our friends and neighbors abreast of what's going on in our city, but we also hope these stories will resonate with people united in the struggle everywhere. | The Life and Death of Dante Barksdale | On Sunday morn…
therealnews.com/battleground-baltimore-j…

i2.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/upl…

A New Day for Human Survival: On the Promise of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Dr. Joseph Gerson | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-22
On Friday, January 22, people in cities and towns across in the United States and around the world, will celebrate the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). | Those gathering, online and elsewhere, stand …
globalresearch.ca/new-day-human-survivia…

How the Weather Was
John Hutchison | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
It began snowing the night before, and by the time Mike Mewshaw, Tom Trainum and I set out to crash John F. Kennedy's inaugural ball more than eight inches had fallen and the city was practically immobilized. At dawn, soldiers had had to use flamethrowers to clear the snow from Pennsylvania Avenue for the noontime…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/how-the-weat…

Complex Life Threatened
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-22
Throughout the world, scientists are speaking out like never before. They're talking about an emergency situation of the health of the planet threatening "complex life," including, by default, human life. It's scary stuff. On this subject, America's green NGOs prefer to address the danger by sticking to a middle ground, don't scare people, too much…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/22/complex-life…

www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/dropzone…

What Biden Can Do Without Congress
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-21
What if it could get done now? What if all (or many) of the largest problems within the United States could be solved now? What if the most exploited, the most troubled, the most chopped-up-masticated-and-drooled-out-by-the-American-machine populations could be helped right now? No Congress. No 10 years of "building up power" just to achieve a post-abuse pat on the head. None of that. Just fixing the problems now. Right now. Well, it actually is possible. | I think we can all agree that Congress is basically a pit filled with hungry crocodiles in the later stages of lead poisoning, each with a different degree of…
popularresistance.org/what-biden-can-do-…

The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming
Glenn Greenwald | zcomm.org | 2021-01-21
No speculation is needed. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-new-domestic-w…

The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2021-01-21
By Glenn Greenwald / Reposted with author permission from Substack The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting "terrorism" that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago. This trend shows no sign of receding as we move farther from the January 6 Capitol riot. | Source…
scheerpost.com/2021/01/20/the-new-domest…

Former US Marine charged with assaulting police officers during Capitol riots
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-21
"What are we supposed to do? Supreme Court's not helping us. No one's helping us. Only us can help us. Only we can do it."
nationofchange.org/2021/01/21/former-us-…

Peers launch a scathing attack on the government's War Crimes Immunity Bill
Joe Glenton | thecanary.co | 2021-01-21
Peers in the House of Lords are giving the government's controversial war crimes immunity bill a rough ride, with one peer describing it as "indefensible". | Another warned that it was among the worst pieces of legislation they had ever seen, while a third peer said it would put service personnel on a "
thecanary.co/trending/2021/01/21/peers-l…

s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72×72/1…

Assange cannot be extradited, but free speech arguments dismissed — an extended look
Sapan Maini-Thompson | ukhumanrightsblog.com | 2021-01-21
In The Government of the United States v Julian Assange (2021), the District Judge sitting at Westminster Magistrates' Court discharged the American extradition request against the founder of WikiLeaks because there is a substantial risk that he would commit suicide. Given Julian Assange's political notoriety as an avowed whistle-blower, however, the judgment is significant for …
ukhumanrightsblog.com/2021/01/21/assange…

i2.wp.com/ukhumanrightsblog.com/wp-conte…

Cornel West and Maria Hinojosa Discuss Promise and Dangers of the Biden Admin
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-01-21
We host a wide-ranging discussion of the historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris — the first-ever woman, South Asian and Black vice president — how we got here, and what comes next, with award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa and author and Harvard professor Cornel West. Hinojosa says she had "mixed emotions" watching the inauguration, her sense of hope tempered by memories of the Obama administration. "We all had these extraordinary expectations, and then th…
truthout.org/video/cornel-west-and-maria…

truthout.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/…

"The Work Continues": Cornel West & Maria Hinojosa on the Promise & Dangers of the Biden Admin
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-01-21
We host a wide-ranging discussion of the historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris — the first-ever woman, South Asian and Black vice president — how we got here, and what comes next, with award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa and author and Harvard professor Cornel West. Hinojosa says she had "mixed emotions" watching the inauguration, her sense of hope tempered by memories of the Obama administration. "We all had these extraordinary expectations, and then things didn't turn out that way," she says. "The work continues." West says that while getting Trump out of office was vita…
www.democracynow.org/2021/1/21/dr_cornel…

www.democracynow.org/images/story/66/562…

"The Hill We Climb": Watch Breathtaking Poem by Amanda Gorman, Youngest Inaugural Poet in U.S. History
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-01-21
One of the most remarkable moments from Wednesday's inauguration ceremony came from poet Amanda Gorman, the youngest poet in U.S. history to speak at a presidential inauguration. The 22 year-old read "The Hill We Climb," a poem she finished right after the riot at the Capitol earlier this month. We feature her full recitation and get reaction from scholar Cornel West and award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.
www.democracynow.org/2021/1/21/amanda_go…

www.democracynow.org/images/story/67/562…

Enough with the Damn Secrets! Open Up the Government Joe!
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-21
The incoming Biden administration is considering breaking with a long-standing tradition of new presidents sharing national secrets with prior presidents. Instead, in the case of his future predecessor Trump, Biden says he wants to hear the advice of key national security figures in the new government regarding whether or not to brief the impeached ex-chief…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/21/enough-with-…

Dozens of experts call on Longleat to give the 'UK's loneliest elephant' her last chance for companionship
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2021-01-21
Dozens of experts have thrown their weight behind calls for giving the ' UK's loneliest elephant' her last chance for companionship. | Anne, who currently resides at Longleat Safari and Adventure Park, hasn't seen another elephant for 19 years. A French sanctuary has offered her a home…
thecanary.co/feature/2021/01/21/dozens-o…

My Wish Is That You Win This Fight For Truth
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-21
On 26 January, India's Republic Day, thousands of farmers and agricultural workers will drive their tractors and walk into the heart of the capital, New Delhi, to bring their fight to the doors of the government. For two months, these farmers and agricultural workers have been part of a nation-wide revolt against a government policy that seeks to deliver all the gains of their labour to the large corporate houses, whose profits have ballooned during this pandemic. Despite the cold weather and the pandemic, the farmers and agricultural workers have created a socialistic culture in their encampments with community…
popularresistance.org/my-wish-is-that-yo…

Israel at the Current Global Juncture
Judith Deutsch | socialistproject.ca | 2021-01-21
How does Israel fit in with current global emergencies and unprecedented dangers, those being the worsening provision of food, water, shelter, and healthcare for the global population, the COVID-19 pandemic and warnings of worse to come, and climate-related calamities? Massive fatalities and immiseration are not inevitable, but the current human situation is shaped by forces … Keep reading »…
socialistproject.ca/2021/01/israel-at-th…

socialistproject.ca/content/uploads/2021…

Shut Down Dissent. Going After the New "US Domestic Terrorists"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Post-9/11, war on dissent in the US raged. | In 2010, the ACLU said "freedom is under fire in the US." | "There is a pall over our fire. (There are) attempts to squelch dissent." | "A chilling message has gone out across …
globalresearch.ca/dissent-new-us-domesti…

China tech ban mirrors 1980s attempts to destroy Japanese competition
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2021-01-21
In the 1980s, the U.S. imposed a 100% tariff on virtually all Japanese electronics and forced Tokyo to sign a one-sided trade deal that reserved much of its domestic semiconductor sector for American companies.
mronline.org/2021/01/21/china-tech-ban-m…

mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/…

Are Israel And Palestine Headed Towards Yet Another Conflict?
Leonid Savin | thealtworld.com | 2021-01-21
In December 2020, there was a rise in tensions in the West Bank, including demonstrations and Israeli attacks on Palestinian homes. | Reports indicate that it was the most intense month in terms of aggressive Israeli nationalism in the last three years — that is, since the beginning of 2017. Israeli security agencies recorded 41 instances of Israeli extremists calling for…
thealtworld.com/leonid_savin/are-israel-…

orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/20…

Chomsky and Prashad: Why neoliberal leaders who failed to protect their countries from COVID-19 must be investigated
Noam Chomsky | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-21
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad deem the inaction of neoliberal and far-right governments to contain the pandemic and thus save tens of thousands of lives, as criminal…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/01/21/chomsky-a…

Sunday 1/24: The US Capitol Building Riot and Its Blowback: Scarier than QAnon?
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
ZOOM meeting, Log-in info at ICSSMARX.ORG…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883947…

Sunday 1/31: Master of Space: Corporate plans for the militarization & privatization of space
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
ZOOM Meeting, Long-in info at ICSSMARX.ORG…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883947…

A politically motivated smear: Canada's Globe and Mail blames "Marxists" for discredited racialist 1619 Project
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
In an act of political censorship, Canada's "newspaper of record" has refused to publish a letter from WSWS Chairman David North answering its smear.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/21/glob…

Keystone XL pipeline canceled. Here's what it means for the future fight against fossil fuels
Nick Cunningham | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-21
"Rescinding KXL's permit is a promising early signal that the new administration is listening to our concerns and will take issues of climate and Indigenous justice seriously. We have to insist that it not stop there."
nationofchange.org/2021/01/21/keystone-x…

Fauci announces US intention to resume major role in global health
news.un.org | 2021-01-21
The United States' top medical official said on Thursday that the US will now join the World Health Organization's global initiative to help poorer nations overcome COVID-19, in addition to a raft of new measures in support of access to universal healthcare, such as abortion services.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2021/01/1…

Lord Ashcroft — Tory donors outsourcing firm lands £350m vaccination contract
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2021-01-21
By Peter Geoghegan and Russel Scott: A healthcare company ultimately controlled by a leading Tory donor and former party chairman, Lord Ashcroft, has received a £350m contract as part of the government's COVID-19 vaccination roll-out, openDemocracy has learned. Last month the Department of Health and Social Care gave the lucrative contract to Medacs Healthcare plc. In recent …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/lord-a…

Another Mega Group Spy Scandal? Samanage, Sabotage, and the SolarWinds Hack
Whitney Webb | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2021-01-21
The devastating hack on SolarWinds was quickly pinned on Russia by US intelligence. A more likely culprit, Samanage, a company whose software was integrated into SolarWinds' software just as the "back door" was inserted, is deeply tied to Israeli intelligence and intelligence-linked families such as the Maxwells. In mid-December of 2020, a massive hack compromised Read…
thelastamericanvagabond.com/another-mega…

About Suffering: A Massacre of the Innocent in Yemen
Kathy Kelly | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
In 1565, Pieter Bruegel the Elder created The Massacre of the Innocents, a provocative masterpiece of religious art. The painting reworks a biblical narrative about King Herod's order to slaughter all newborn boys in Bethlehem for fear that a messiah …
globalresearch.ca/about-suffering-massac…

UK Mega Meddling — UK Sets Up Media Influencing Project in Venezuela Amid Secretive £750,000 'Democracy Promotion' Programme
Matt Kennard | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
The UK government has established a journalism project to 'influence' Venezuela's 'media agenda' while a Foreign Office-funded foundation is spending £750,000 on a secretive 'democracy-promotion' programme in the country, as Britain appears to deepen efforts to remove the Maduro government….
globalresearch.ca/uk-mega-meddling-uk-se…

"Democracy Has Prevailed": Joe Biden Sworn In as President; Kamala Harris Becomes First Female VP
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-01-21
Joe Biden was sworn in as 46th president of the United States Wednesday, ending the Trump era with a call for national unity and urging Americans to come together during a period of turbulence. President Biden signed 17 executive orders in his first official act from the Oval Office, including on immigration, the pandemic and the climate crisis. Biden has promised more executive actions in the coming days. Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new Democratic senators Wednesday afternoon, giving Democrats narrow control of the Senate and laying the groundwork for the administration's ambitious agenda. We pla…
www.democracynow.org/2021/1/21/joe_biden…

www.democracynow.org/images/story/65/562…

Only true unity can end America's uncivil war
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2021-01-21
President Joe Biden made an emotional appeal during his inaugural address on Wednesday to end what he unforgettably described as America's ongoing uncivil war between red and blue, rural and urban, conservative and liberal. He very strongly condemned what he called the political extremism, white supremacy, and domestic terrorism threatening American unity today and preventing the country from coming together as one to defeat the once-in-a-century pandemic of COVID-19. The other crises it faces are attacks on democracy and truth, racism, the climate, inequality, and the U.S.' role in the world, but the uncivil…
thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/only-true…

news.cgtn.com/news/2021-01-21/Only-true-…

Sweden Doesn't Need to Join NATO to be a Security Threat to Russia
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Sweden's growing ties with NATO over the past half-dozen years make many observers wonder whether the Nordic country will soon join the transatlantic bloc, but it actually doesn't even have to do so formally since it's already a de facto …
globalresearch.ca/sweden-doesnt-need-joi…

Senior panel probing violations in Syria, examining new measures to safeguard humanitarians
news.un.org | 2021-01-21
The UN chief announced on Thursday that he has set up an independent Senior Advisory Panel on strengthening the mechanism whereby humanitarian workers and sites are better protected from attack in Syria, according to a statement released by his spokesperson.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2021/01/1…

'With lives at stake, politics must be forgotten': Sputnik V sponsor warns demonizing Russian vaccine distracts from saving people
rt.com | 2021-01-21
Saving human lives amid the raging global pandemic is much more important than following political considerations, Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund that sponsored Sputnik V vaccine development, told RT. | "We are strongly against the politicization of the vaccine," said Dmitriev, adding that when it comes to health and the very life of many people, "one should forget about politics or any attempts to 'contain' Russia." | In its international dealings related to Russia's pioneering Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, RDIF is simply guided by the principle of helping those in need and is ready…
rt.com/russia/513278-sputnik-covid-savin…

cdni.rt.com/files/2021.01/thumbnail/6009…

France has become 'a nation of 66 million prosecutors,' says Macron, rejecting criticism of government's pandemic response
rt.com | 2021-01-21
French President Emmanuel Macron has defended his government and its response to the Covid-19 pandemic, saying that he laments France's "incessant hunt for errors," adding that such criticism is counterproductive during a crisis. | Speaking on Thursday, Macron took a swipe at his critics, saying France had become "a nation of 66 million prosecutors" constantly on the lookout for mistakes and government failings during the pandemic. | "And I say this because what goes with French mistrust is also this kind of incessant hunt for error. That is to say, we have become a nation of 66 million prosecutors. It is not…
rt.com/news/513249-france-macron-prosecu…

cdni.rt.com/files/2021.01/thumbnail/6009…

Nearly nine million people borrowed more cash due to pandemic
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2021-01-21
Nearly nine million people in Great Britain had to borrow more money because of the coronavirus pandemic, new figures show.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, published on Thursday, showed that 17% of adults reported borrowing money in December 2020 compared to 11% at the end of June.It also showed that the proportion of people borrowing more than £1,000 had increased from 35% to 45% during the same period. | Nearly 9 million people had to borrow more money because of the #coronavirus pandemic by December 2020. | T…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2021/01/21/nearly-n…

image.assets.pressassociation.io/v2/imag…

Quarter of doctors seek mental health support during pandemic
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2021-01-21
More than one in four medics have sought mental health support during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading doctors have said. | The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said that it was "extremely concerned" about the mental health of frontline doctors. | A new poll by the college of its members found 19% said they have sought informal mental health support during the pandemic, while 10% said they had sought formal support. | The RCP said that medics have been working for almost a year under extremely challenging circumstances. | Almost two thirds (64%) of the 1,890 doctors who responded to the RCP poll said they were tir…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2021/01/21/quarter-…

Study: Lockdowns Caused 15 Thousand Deaths of Despair Among US Men Aged 15 to 55
Ethan Yang | anti-empire.com | 2021-01-21
It should be common knowledge by now that younger people are significantly less likely to die of Covid-19 than the elderly. However, a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research notes some significant increases in excess deaths among working-age individuals. Excess deaths are the number of deaths exceeding the expected number in a given year. If there are excess deaths that means something unusual has happened, such as a pandemic or a…
anti-empire.com/study-lockdowns-caused-1…

anti-empire.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/…

The Heat: President Biden's Inauguration
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2021-01-21
The United States turns the page as Joe Biden becomes the country's 46th president. There was some of the usual pomp and ceremony, but there was something very different about Joe Biden's inauguration. Gone were the crowds — a casualty of both the pandemic and …
america.cgtn.com/2021/01/21/the-heat-pre…

america.cgtn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021…

The science of the pandemic supports teachers' concerns over the dangers of school reopening, Part two
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
Science validates teachers' concerns that in-person education during the pandemic is a dangerous proposition. This article reviews some of the more recent scientific findings.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/21/scho…

New York City workers demand action to defend Hunts Point strikers
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
Teachers, transit and other workers in New York City denounced Tuesday's police attack on striking warehouse workers and are calling for unified action to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and poverty wages.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/21/hunt…

Doctors locked out of hospital in Houston, Texas over rent dispute, forced to treat patients in parking lot
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
The sudden closure Monday of the Heights Hospital follows 21 hospital closures in 2020 across the United States, many of which were thrust into acute financial crisis by the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/21/hous…

Oil, gas, and coal behind far right and white supremacist politics
Basav Sen | peoplesworld.org | 2021-01-21
The year 2020 will be remembered in history for a deadly pandemic and a deep economic crisis that touched almost every country on earth. Hopes for a brighter 2021 were one of the few things most people could agree on. But just six days into the new year, these hopes were rudely shattered by images …
peoplesworld.org/article/oil-gas-and-coa…

www.peoplesworld.org/wp-content/uploads/…

Domestic Worker Organizing in Times of Crisis: Perspectives from the US and Latin America
mgrochowski | dsausa.org | 2021-01-21
Domestic workers have been hard hit by the global pandemic. Forced to choose between losing their jobs and livelihoods to protect their health or to continue to go to work while risking exposure to the virus in the homes they work in and in the public transportation they use to get to their workplaces, domestic…
dsausa.org/calendar/domestic-worker-orga…

As COVID-19 resurges, Chinese workers hit by pay and job cuts
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
As well as being placed on the front line of the pandemic, workers are facing an offensive against their working conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/21/chin…

World Bank exposes economic and social impact of coronavirus in South Asia
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
South Asian governments have responded to the pandemic by pumping money into big businesses and imposing the burden on the working masses.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/21/asec…

Tennessee educators and parents call for fully funded remote learning to contain the pandemic
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
In opposition to Governor Bill Lee's scheme to pressure schools to reopen, we call for the immediate closure of all schools and for the provision of ample resources to provide high quality remote learning to all students.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/21/tenn…

WW Commentary: The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort
Judy Greenspan | workers.org | 2021-01-21
Family members and prisoners' rights advocates gather outside the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez to demand release of a prisoner suffering from medical neglect during the COVID pandemic. On Jan. 15 at the death row prison in Terre Haute, Ind., with less than a week to go of Donald . . . | Continue reading WW Commentary: The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort at Workers.org…
workers.org/2021/01/53969/?utm_source=rs…

www.workers.org/wp-content/uploads/outsi…

Why Hardly Anyone Trusts the Virus Experts
John Rubino | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Early in the pandemic, "trust the science!" could actually be used in a debate without attracting derisive laughter. But as the flip-flops, mistakes and, yes, lies have accumulated, a consensus seems to be forming that the health care authorities are …
globalresearch.ca/why-hardly-anyone-trus…

The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort
Judy Greenspan | workers.org | 2021-01-21
Family members and prisoners' rights advocates gather outside the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez to demand the release of a prisoner suffering from medical neglect during the COVID pandemic. On Jan. 15 at the death row prison in Terre Haute, Ind., with less than a week to go of . . . | Continue reading The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort at Workers.org…
workers.org/2021/01/53969/?utm_source=rs…

www.workers.org/wp-content/uploads/outsi…

Flint water scandal charges: Slap on the wrist for ex-governor
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2021-01-21
Activists demand justice for Flint, 2016. In April 2014 the city of Flint, Mich., made the fatal decision to switch its water supply from Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the heavily contaminated Flint River. Flint residents have waited almost seven years for the responsible parties — in particular former . . . | Continue reading Flint water scandal charges: Slap on the wrist for ex-governor at Workers.org…
workers.org/2021/01/53975/?utm_source=rs…

www.workers.org/wp-content/uploads/Flint…

UK partygoers to be fined up to £6,400 as government clamps down on Covid rule-breakers
rt.com | 2021-01-21
In a bid to stem the ongoing spread of coronavirus, revellers will be slapped with £800 fines if they attend house parties with more than 15 people present during lockdown, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel announced on Thursday. | The fines will double for repeat offences, up to a maximum of £6,400, and the organisers of events will continue to be fined £10,000, as per the current restrictions, in what Patel called a "crackdown on those most serious cases of rule-breaking". | The home secretary was joined by the Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, who said that, from lat…
rt.com/uk/513266-uk-party-fines-covid/?u…

cdni.rt.com/files/2021.01/thumbnail/6009…

'Very high risk': ECDC urges tougher Covid-19 measures amid mutant strains from UK, Brazil, and South Africa
rt.com | 2021-01-21
The Covid-19 strains from the UK, Brazil and South Africa pose a very high risk due to their increased transmissibility and must be stamped out with tougher health measures, the EU's infectious diseases agency has said. | The transmissibility of the three variants will likely push infection rates higher, leading to more hospitalizations and "death rates across all age groups," the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in a statement on Thursday. | "The overall risk associated with the introduction and community spread of variants of concern is therefore assessed as being high/very high…
rt.com/news/513261-covid-mutant-strains-…

cdni.rt.com/files/2021.01/thumbnail/6009…

Lockdown extended in Portugal with schools to close for 15 days amid record spike in Covid-19 deaths
rt.com | 2021-01-21
Portugal is to shut all schools and universities from Friday, its prime minister has said, as the more transmissible strain of Covid-19 first detected in the UK takes hold, putting the health service under enormous pressure. | Prime Minister Antonio Costa announced the new emergency measures in Lisbon on Thursday as coronavirus cases soared, pushing Portugal's national health system (SNS) to the verge of collapse. | Health officials announced a new record daily death toll for the country on Thursday, reporting 221 fatalities, along with a further 14,647 new cases — up from 10,455 the day before. To date,…
rt.com/news/513258-portugal-covid-lockdo…

cdni.rt.com/files/2021.01/thumbnail/6009…

Covid-19 infections 'may have risen' at start of current lockdown
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2021-01-21
Experts tracking the spread of Covid-19 in England say infections may have gone up at the beginning of the current lockdown. | Professor Paul Elliot, who is leading the React study at Imperial College London, suggested the current measures may not be strict enough to see a drop in infections and the reproductive rate — the R. | The study on 143,000 people, who were randomly selected, looked at the prevalence of coronavirus including in people without symptoms. | Infections from January 6 to 15 were 50% higher than in early December, the study found. | Elliott told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current R…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2021/01/21/covid-19…

SF Bay View Editor Has Cell Phone Seized & Google Fires Black Scientist Dr. Timnit Gebru
WorkWeek | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
WorkWeek covers the effort to stop SF Bay View Editor Malik Washington from doing his work. The for profit halfway house run by the Geo Group ordered that his cell phone be seized to stop him from doing his work after the facility in the Terderloin was exposed for having a Covid outbreak. We interview his lawyer Richard Tan. | Also WorkWeek looks at the firing of Google top AI scientist Dr. Timnit Gebru. WorkWeek looks at the reason she was fired.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883948…

Covid-19: Dubai suspends non-essential surgery, entertainment after surge in cases
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-21
Covid-19: Dubai suspends non-essential surgery, entertainment after surge in cases | The increase in infections in the UAE came after the emirate relaxed its entry requirements to boost tourism and save its economy | MEE and agencies | Thu, 01/21/2021 – 10: 28 | Dubai plans to vaccinate at least 50 per cent of its population using China's SinoPharm vaccine (AFP) | Dubai has suspended all non-essential surger…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/covid-uae-dub…

www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/file…

Vaccines may not signal immediate end to epidemic, researchers say
imperial.ac.uk | 2021-01-21
The vaccine rollout may not signal an immediate end to the Covid-19 epidemic, according to latest modeling from Imperial's Covid-19 Response Team.
imperial.ac.uk/news/212993/vaccines-sign…

COVID 'vaccine hoarding' putting Africa at risk: WHO
news.un.org | 2021-01-21
Africa is in danger of being left behind in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines as countries in other regions strike bilateral deals, thus driving up prices, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2021/01/1…

Fauci Now Says COVID-19 Vaccine May Become Mandatory
Dr. Joseph Mercola | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Will the COVID-19 vaccine become mandatory? That's a question many are asking these days and, by the looks of it, the answer may well be yes — although as I'll explain later, I suspect the harms of the vaccine will …
globalresearch.ca/fauci-now-says-covid-1…

Party-Pooper Priti: UK Home Secretary Slaps Big Fines on COVID-19 Lockdown Ravers
sputniknews.com | 2021-01-21
Police forces across the UK have been breaking up underground raves and banned house parties during the current third national lockdown — some of which attracted hundreds of party-goers. Home Secretary Priti Patel said the government would not tolerate those who put others at risk.
sputniknews.com/uk/202101211081840688-pa…

The COVID Illusion, An 'Unauthorized Human Experiment' & The MAGA Straw-Man
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2021-01-21
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (1/20/21). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth Read…
thelastamericanvagabond.com/covid-illusi…

Oregon faces legal challenges after establishing blacks-only COVID-19 relief fund
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
The Oregon Cares Fund revived criteria similar to the racist "one drop" rule to determine eligibility to receive financial aid.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/21/oreg…

French students protest government apathy in education sector
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-21
On January 20, thousands of university students marched in the major cities of France demanding concrete actions from the government to help the students who are in distress due to COVID-19 restrictions.
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/01/21/french-st…

Bidenfreude: COVID-19 in post-Trump U.S
Rob Wallace | mronline.org | 2021-01-21
A jokester once characterized Yale University as a hedge fund with a campus attached to it. One might say something similar of the country in which Yale is based.
mronline.org/2021/01/21/bidenfreude-covi…

mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/…

The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down Society
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-rt-pcr-how-to…

140,000 jobs lost in December — all women
Hannah Dickinson | liberationnews.org | 2021-01-21
Originally posted on Breaking the Chains. Working-class and oppressed women are bearing the brunt of the combined COVID and economic crises in the United States. December's jobs numbers produced shocking headlines throughout the mainstream media. CNN's headline read: "The US economy lost 140,000 jobs in December. All of them were held by women." A separate …
liberationnews.org/140000-jobs-lost-in-d…

www.liberationnews.org/wp-content/upload…

With Yellen at Treasury, Can we Finally get a Progressive Carbon Tax?
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-01-21
By Rachel Kyte | — Janet Yellen is poised to be the next U.S. Treasury secretary, and her inbox will require every ounce of her vast experience to pilot the economy through a daunting confluence of challenges. How the U.S. manages the economic recovery from COVID-19, the financial risks from climate change and inequality together …
juancole.com/2021/01/treasury-finally-pr…

counter.theconversation.com/content/1534…

Washington's 40-year North Korea Policy: Success or Failure?
Prof. Joseph H. Chung | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Washington's 40-year offensive policy of North Korean regime change has gone nowhere. | Bill Clinton created a chance of peace with North Korea in 1994 and he blew it. | George W. Bush accepted the 2005 agreement for peace, then, he threw …
globalresearch.ca/washingtons-40-year-no…

Medevac refugees released from torture centres, activists vow to continue the campaign
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2021-01-21
The release of refugees from detention has given activists hope that there will be a change in policy. But, as Chloe DS writes, they won't stop organising until all refugees are released from onshore and offshore prisons and given permanent protection.
greenleft.org.au/content/medevac-refugee…

In non-binding resolution, EU parliament calls for new anti-Russia sanctions in attempt to stop Nord Stream 2 over Navalny arrest
rt.com | 2021-01-21
An EU parliament resolution, backed by 581 MEPs out of 675 present, has directed its member states to ramp up sanctions against Russia to stop the Nord Stream 2 project "once and for all," linking it to Alexey Navalny's arrest. | The EU member states should take "an active stance" on the opposition figure's 30-day arrest in Russia. This is according to a non-binding resolution adopted on Thursday, with 581 votes in favor, 50 against and…
rt.com/russia/513272-eu-parliament-nord-…

cdni.rt.com/files/2021.01/thumbnail/6009…

In non-binding resolution, EU parliament calls for new anti-Russia sanctions that would stop Nord Stream 2 over Navalny's arrest
rt.com | 2021-01-21
An EU parliament resolution, backed by 581 MEPs out of 675 present, directs members to ramp up sanctions against Russia to stop the Nord Stream 2 project "once and for all," linking it to opposition figure Alexey Navalny's arrest. | The EU member states should take "an active stance" on Navalny's 30-day arrest in Russia. This is according to a non-binding resolution adopted on Thursday, with 581 votes in favor, 50 against and 44 abstenti…
rt.com/russia/513272-eu-parliament-nord-…

cdni.rt.com/files/2021.01/thumbnail/6009…

Politicians among 48 arrested in huge Italian bust on 'Ndrangheta mafia, hundreds of millions in cash seized
rt.com | 2021-01-21
Anti-mafia police carried out sweeping early-morning raids against Italy's most powerful mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, on Thursday, arresting 48 people and placing the leader of a political party under investigation. | Officers from the Direzione Investigativa AntiMafia (DIA) immediately jailed 13 people, while 35 were placed under house arrest, with multiple politicians, low-level mob bosses and businessmen among those detained, according to local media. | The crackdown on the organized crime syndicate, based in Calabria, southern Italy, primarily targeted the economic arm of its operations, which prosecutors said…
rt.com/news/513245-italy-arrests-ndrangh…

cdni.rt.com/files/2021.01/thumbnail/6009…

Saturday 2/6: Article deadline for Slingshot issue #133
slingshot collective | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Long Haul Infoshop – 3124 Shattuck Ave Berkeley – 510-540-0751…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/19/1883944…

United States of America President Joseph Biden Inauguration Day Speech
From Speech Transcript – | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
As we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883947…

Friday Deadline: Defend Oakland's Pesticide Ban!
Isis Feral | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
The City of Oakland is preparing an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that threatens to roll back a local law that restricts pesticide use on public lands. The herbicides glyphosate, triclopyr, and imazapyr would be exempted for use in the Oakland hills, as part of a plan to remove large numbers of trees. Public comments on the Draft EIR are DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021 AT 5PM…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883945…

30 Kinds Of Hunting, Fishing Deaths and Injuries
Knowledge Protects | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Accidents and diseases resulting from killing animals, birds, fishes…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/21/1883948…

ENLACES de Red Latina sin fronteras 20.01.2021
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
ENLACES de Red Latina sin fronteras 20.01.2021 | comunicaciones e información para la liberación…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883945…

Windows Broken, Graffiti Attack on south san francisco courthouse
anonymous autonomist | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
On January 19, on Ramaytush Ohlone land occupied under the name "South San Francisco", the county courthouse was vandalized with anti-police, anti-State, anti-colonization slogans and the windows of the front entrance were smashed in.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883946…

San Francisco ICE office attacked
anonymous | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
On January 18, as strong winds raged, 30+ anti-racists attacked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/19/1883944…

Thursday 2/4: "Mother Jones" in Conversation w/ Rev. William Barber, Sharrelle Barber & Rebekah Barber
Mother Jones | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Online event; open to the community…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/21/1883948…

Saturday 2/20: EV 201: Finding the EV for Your Lifestyle
City of Sunnyvale | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Free webinar, register below.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883946…

Saturday 1/30: Carbon Neutral Portfolio: From Vision to Strategy
City of Sunnvale | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Free webinar.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883946…

President Biden Extends Student Loan Payment Freeze
Zachary Conti | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
President Biden will extend the freeze on student debt payments as one of his first executive actions after his inauguration.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883946…

Thursday 1/21: SF BayView Editor Malik Washington Journalist Rights & Google Firing Of Dr. Timnit Gebru
WorkWeeek | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
KPOO.COM San Francisco | KPOO 98.5 FM…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/1883947…

UC Places Initial Fencing Around People's Park, More to Come
Anonymous Park Defender | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
January 19th, the day before Biden's inauguration in DC, the University of California at Berkeley has placed the initial fencing on People's Park. "Work is coming", said Kyle Gibson, the director of communications for UCB Capital Strategies (quoted speaking to Berkeleyside).
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/19/1883944…

Last Process: 250 Postees: 2021-01-23 00:45 GMT (19:45 EST)

w3c-requires-heading