Monthly Archives: February 2022

2022-02-06: News Headlines

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-02-06). Hundreds in Minneapolis protest police killing of Black man. en.mehrnews.com Hundreds of community members and activists gathered outside the Hennepin County Government Center Saturday afternoon for a protest following the shooting death of Amir Locke by the Minneapolis police on Wednesday.

David Swanson (2022-02-06). The Warmongers Miscalculated. warisacrime.org Video from the White House on Saturday: "We need a Department of Defense Against the Warmongers" said David Swanson of @WorldBeyondWar, because defense contractors & imperial politicians will lie us into one for üí∞üí∞üí∞ pic.twitter.com/95EMNlTRkh — ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) February 5, 2022 Video from webinar on Saturday here. The people inside the White House sometimes …

Staff (2022-02-06). Saudi warplanes attack Yemen's Sanaa. en.mehrnews.com Saudi fighter jets once again targeted the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Sunday morning.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-02-06). Iran, Russia to hold joint agricultural working group. en.mehrnews.com Deputy Ministry of Agriculture for Horticultural Affairs said that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation will hold a joint working group in the field of agriculture.

teleSUR, SH (2022-02-06). Avanzan con normalidad elecciones presidenciales en Costa Rica. telesurtv.net Los electores deberán escoger entre los 25 candidatos que aspiran a la presidencia de Costa Rica y a conformar la Asamblea Legislativa.

Staff (2022-02-06). Cuba ha estado bajo embargo estadounidense durante 60 años. Es hora de que eso acabe. cubadebate.cu "Aquí no hay embargo a Cuba". Esta afirmación audaz, hecha por el senador de Florida Marco Rubio en el Senado de los EE. UU. en julio pasado, se ha convertido rápidamente en sabiduría convencional en los pasillos del Congreso de los EE. UU. y entre la base de apoyo de Rubio en la diáspora cubana. El bloqueo norteamericano es un mito, un coco para el Partido Comunista de Cuba. "Cuba no está aislada", dijo Rubio . Los que dicen lo contrario o "no saben de lo que hablan… o son mentirosos. Esas son las únicas dos opciones".

Staff (2022-02-06). Estados Unidos supera las 900 000 muertes por COVID-19. cubadebate.cu Estados Unidos superó el viernes último la cifra de 900 000 fallecidos por COVID-19 desde que comenzó la pandemia, según informó recientemente la Universidad Johns Hopkins de ese país. La nación norteña también encabeza los contagios a nivel global, con cifra superior a los 76 220 000 de infecciones, y secundada por la India y Brasil.

teleSUR, JL (2022-02-06). Cuba llega al 88% de población con esquema completo contraCovid. telesurtv.net De acuerdo al Ministerio, el 88 por ciento equivale a 9.839.682 connacionales que ya cuentan con sus dosis requeridas.

Staff (2022-02-06). Caracas Court of Appeals Upholds Conviction of CITGO Six. orinocotribune.com The ninth circuit of the Caracas Court of Appeals upheld this Friday, February 4, the ruling of the Court of First Instance of Caracas that sentenced six former executives of Venezuela's CITGO Corporation, a subsidiary of state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), to prison terms between nine and 13 years, for acts of corruption. | Friday's ruling ratified the sentence against former president of CITGO, José àÅngel Pereira Ruimwyk, to serve 13 years and seven months in prison for committing crimes of fraudulent embezzlement and illicit agreement of a public official with a contractor, according to a press…

Staff (2022-02-06). Duque Wants to Speak with Russian Ambassador about Violence in Colombia's Arauca. orinocotribune.com Colombian President Iván Duque said this Friday, February 4, that he will speak to the Russian ambassador to Colombia, Nikolay K. Tavdumadze, to clarify the objectives of Russia's military presence in Venezuela. | Thus, Duque has chosen to ignore the statement from the Russian embassy in Colombia, which had denounced unfounded allegations made by the Colombian Defense Minister, Diego Molano. Molano accused Russia of supporting and implementing technical assistance at the Venezuelan border, to carry out a foreign "intervention." The Russian embassy called these accusations irresponsible, as Molano did not provide…

Malik Miah (2022-02-05). What's behind US-NATO warmongering against Russia? greenleft.org.au The current United States-Russia crisis has its roots in Washington's betrayal of its well-documented promise to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in the early 1990s to not move NATO eastward, write Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

Fight Back (2022-02-05). Chicago protest demands federal charges against killer cop Jason Van Dyke. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – A delegation of activists demanding Justice for Laquan McDonald met with an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago's Federal Building. They presented a letter signed by 38 organizations and unions, as well as five elected officials, demanding federal charges against killer cop Jason Van Dyke. | A statement released before the protest explained, "VanDyke was given a 'slap on the wrist' by the Cook County Criminal Court after being convicted of McDonald's murder and 16 counts of aggravated assault and is being released from prison after less than 3 1/2 years, when Black and brown and other working-class…

Ron Forthofer (2022-02-05). US Corporate Media and Israel. dissidentvoice.org Israel is greatly concerned about the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) effort that seeks: 1) to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians; and 2) to pressure Israel to comply with international law. Israel claims that this campaign is a threat to its legitimacy. Unsurprisingly, Israel doesn't want to acknowledge that it is …

Paul Kelly (2022-02-05). [Correspondence] A just memory. thelancet.com Richard Horton's Offline1 makes for thought-provoking reading but gives a cynical and unbalanced view of the enterprise of tropical medicine. To portray tropical medicine as merely a service to the White colonialists and therefore fundamentally racist, even in the early days of the British empire in Africa, is to ignore the selflessness of many of its practitioners. Many of the great figures of tropical medicine were motivated by a desire to solve the health problems of African people, not merely to provide health care for the governing elite.

_____ (2022-02-05). The US Is Wrong On Yemen — Again. popularresistance.org Last week, Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East, boiled down the millions suffering in Yemen into a false binary in which Washington has done everything it can for peace. He claimed that the Houthi rebels in Yemen are to blame for the continuation of this seven-year conflict that has become the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. With the Houthis launching ballistic missiles at the United Arab Emirates, and a litany of their own war crimes, it'd be easy to fall for this simplistic analysis of the conflict. Yet, in suggesting that reaching a ceasefire and ending the war is simply up…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-02-05). World should not be silent towards catastrophe in Yemen. en.mehrnews.com Leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) said that different countries should help solve the problem in Yemen, calling on world community not to be silent in the face of catastrophe in Yemen.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-02-05). Removal of sanctions must not be just on paper: Govt. spox. en.mehrnews.com Turning to the negotiations which is ongoing between Iran and P4+1 in Vienna, Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi emphasized that all anti-Iranian sanctions must fully be removed.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-02-05). Unilateral sanctions make things worse not better: US senator. en.mehrnews.com American senator Chris Murphy has described the Maximum Pressure Campaign against Iran imposed by the previous US president Donald Trump as disastrous which made Iran stronger.

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-05). Biden Administration Restores Sanctions Waiver for Iran's Nuclear Program. news.antiwar.com On Friday, the Biden administration The waivers mean any foreign countries, including Russia, China, and countries in Europe, that work with Iran on its nuclear program cannot be targeted by US sanctions. The waivers are an aspect of the JCPOA and were rescinded by the Trump administration in 2020. | "

Staff (2022-02-05). EE.UU. levanta algunas medidas contra Irán por acuerdo nuclear. cubadebate.cu El secretario de Estado de EE.UU., Antony Blinken, levantó varias sanciones aplicadas contra Irán y vinculadas a actividades del programa nuclear de este país. La acción significa un paso esencial "para lograr el rápido cumplimiento de Irán" de sus compromisos, ya que el Gobierno de esa nación aseguró en varias ocasiones que "si EE.UU. levanta las crueles sanciones, es posible revivir el acuerdo de 2015".

Jyotsna Singh (2022-02-05). Cuba is helping vaccinate the world. peoplesdispatch.org Only 9.5% of people in low-income countries have received a single dose of the vaccine. Cuba has a comprehensive plan to support vaccine distribution in the global south to make sure none are left behind…

Ana Perdigón (2022-02-05). Venezuelan Authorities Announce New Phase of Vuelta a la Patria Program (+Xenophobia). orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Wednesday, February 2, that a new phase of the Vuelta a la Patria program will start in March, to guarantee the safe return of Venezuelan nationals residing in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. | During a meeting at the Miraflores Palace, the president stated that starting from March the number of flights of the Plan Vuelta a la Patria will be tripled, and called on Venezuelans who are outside the country to return. | President Maduro explained that initially the program will serve Venezuelans who are already registered to return to the countr…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-05). Extreme-Right Opposition Democratic Action Wants to Participate in 2024 Presidential Elections, Announces Candidacy. orinocotribune.com With two years to go before the 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela, Carlos Prósperi, the spokesperson for the Democratic Action (AD) faction led by Henry Ramos Allup, has called for all opposition sectors to organize as a single unitary platform. | Ramos Allup is thus making it clear that even those groups which have traditionally represented right-wing extremism in Venezuela that has recurred to violence, election abstention, and coups, now understand that the only option is to constitutionally adhere to the democratic electoral route. | "The healthiest thing would be for all opposition political organizat…

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2022-02-05: News Headlines

Malik Miah (2022-02-05). What's behind US-NATO warmongering against Russia? greenleft.org.au The current United States-Russia crisis has its roots in Washington's betrayal of its well-documented promise to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in the early 1990s to not move NATO eastward, write Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

Fight Back (2022-02-05). Chicago protest demands federal charges against killer cop Jason Van Dyke. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – A delegation of activists demanding Justice for Laquan McDonald met with an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago's Federal Building. They presented a letter signed by 38 organizations and unions, as well as five elected officials, demanding federal charges against killer cop Jason Van Dyke. | A statement released before the protest explained, "VanDyke was given a 'slap on the wrist' by the Cook County Criminal Court after being convicted of McDonald's murder and 16 counts of aggravated assault and is being released from prison after less than 3 1/2 years, when Black and brown and other working-class…

Ron Forthofer (2022-02-05). US Corporate Media and Israel. dissidentvoice.org Israel is greatly concerned about the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) effort that seeks: 1) to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians; and 2) to pressure Israel to comply with international law. Israel claims that this campaign is a threat to its legitimacy. Unsurprisingly, Israel doesn't want to acknowledge that it is …

Paul Kelly (2022-02-05). [Correspondence] A just memory. thelancet.com Richard Horton's Offline1 makes for thought-provoking reading but gives a cynical and unbalanced view of the enterprise of tropical medicine. To portray tropical medicine as merely a service to the White colonialists and therefore fundamentally racist, even in the early days of the British empire in Africa, is to ignore the selflessness of many of its practitioners. Many of the great figures of tropical medicine were motivated by a desire to solve the health problems of African people, not merely to provide health care for the governing elite.

_____ (2022-02-05). The US Is Wrong On Yemen — Again. popularresistance.org Last week, Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East, boiled down the millions suffering in Yemen into a false binary in which Washington has done everything it can for peace. He claimed that the Houthi rebels in Yemen are to blame for the continuation of this seven-year conflict that has become the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. With the Houthis launching ballistic missiles at the United Arab Emirates, and a litany of their own war crimes, it'd be easy to fall for this simplistic analysis of the conflict. Yet, in suggesting that reaching a ceasefire and ending the war is simply up…

Staff (2022-02-05). EE.UU. levanta algunas medidas contra Irán por acuerdo nuclear. cubadebate.cu El secretario de Estado de EE.UU., Antony Blinken, levantó varias sanciones aplicadas contra Irán y vinculadas a actividades del programa nuclear de este país. La acción significa un paso esencial "para lograr el rápido cumplimiento de Irán" de sus compromisos, ya que el Gobierno de esa nación aseguró en varias ocasiones que "si EE.UU. levanta las crueles sanciones, es posible revivir el acuerdo de 2015".

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-02-05). Removal of sanctions must not be just on paper: Govt. spox. en.mehrnews.com Turning to the negotiations which is ongoing between Iran and P4+1 in Vienna, Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi emphasized that all anti-Iranian sanctions must fully be removed.

Jyotsna Singh (2022-02-05). Cuba is helping vaccinate the world. peoplesdispatch.org Only 9.5% of people in low-income countries have received a single dose of the vaccine. Cuba has a comprehensive plan to support vaccine distribution in the global south to make sure none are left behind…

Ana Perdigón (2022-02-05). Venezuelan Authorities Announce New Phase of Vuelta a la Patria Program (+Xenophobia). orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Wednesday, February 2, that a new phase of the Vuelta a la Patria program will start in March, to guarantee the safe return of Venezuelan nationals residing in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. | During a meeting at the Miraflores Palace, the president stated that starting from March the number of flights of the Plan Vuelta a la Patria will be tripled, and called on Venezuelans who are outside the country to return. | President Maduro explained that initially the program will serve Venezuelans who are already registered to return to the countr…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-05). Extreme-Right Opposition Democratic Action Wants to Participate in 2024 Presidential Elections, Announces Candidacy. orinocotribune.com With two years to go before the 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela, Carlos Prósperi, the spokesperson for the Democratic Action (AD) faction led by Henry Ramos Allup, has called for all opposition sectors to organize as a single unitary platform. | Ramos Allup is thus making it clear that even those groups which have traditionally represented right-wing extremism in Venezuela that has recurred to violence, election abstention, and coups, now understand that the only option is to constitutionally adhere to the democratic electoral route. | "The healthiest thing would be for all opposition political organizat…

_____ (2022-02-04). How Israel's Occupation Of Palestine Intensifies Climate Change. popularresistance.org Al-Naqab — On Sunday, roughly 200 activists demonstrated outside Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office in Jerusalem against the Jewish National Fund's (JNF) tree-planting project in al-Naqab, maintaining the forestation is an attempt to displace the indigenous Bedouin population. | Contracted by the Israeli government, the JNF razed fruit trees and seeded fields in al-Naqab in January to "make the desert bloom" with non-native plants. The purported environmental project has been met with fierce protest from the local villagers, with more than 60 Bedouin arrested in the last few weeks. | JNF mainta…

_____ (2022-02-04). New Puerto Rico Debt Plan Is A False 'Solution'. popularresistance.org Activists and Puerto Rican community members protest against Steven Tananbaum, a board member of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), for his involvement in a hedge fund that owns over $2 billion of Puerto Rico's debt, outside of the newly renovated and reopened MOMA in Midtown Manhattan on October 21, 2019, in New York City. Drew Angerer / Getty Images | On January 18, Judge Taylor Swain of New York's Southern District confirmed Puerto Rico's eighth amended Plan of Adjustment (POA), setting into motion the closure of the largest municipal debt restructuring deal in the history of the United States. The POA modifies…

Staff (2022-02-04). Ex-Chicago Cop Jason Van Dyke Freed Early over Murdering Laquan McDonald; Activists Seek Fed Charges. democracynow.org We go to Chicago, where protests erupted Thursday over the early release of the white ex-police officer Jason Van Dyke, who was convicted of killing a Black 17-year-old named Laquan McDonald in 2014. Van Dyke — who was the first police officer in the United States to be charged with murder for an on-duty shooting — was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison but was freed early for "good behavior" after only serving a little over three years of his sentence. He was only convicted of murder a year after the shooting, when community activists pushed the Chicago police to release video footage of the i…

submedia.tv (2022-02-04). Announcing the Upcoming 'Social Empire' Documentary Film. itsgoingdown.org Announcing the trailer for the new documentary film, The Social Empire. We live in the age of the algorithm. Every day, our lives are mediated by forces that we cannot see and do not understand. Our actions, movements, decisions, and unconscious desires are monitored, recorded, and stripped down to lines of code. A vast trove…

Staff (2022-02-04). Webinar Saturday February 12: Iran & Cuba Promoting Multipolarity. orinocotribune.com This webinar takes place on the 43rd Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, and celebrates the release of the Farsi Translation of Arnold August's Cuba-US Relations: Obama and Beyond. | The webinar will take place 12 February 2022 at 9: 00AM EST New York & Toronto time, 5: 30PM Tehran time, 10: 00PM Beijing time and 2: 00PM London time over Zoom and YouTube Live. | About this event | Every February 11-12 since the 1979 Islamic Revolution is a cause to celeb…

WSWS (2022-02-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Strikes across France by healthcare, transport and employment agency workers over staff shortages, workload and pay; protests by teachers across Iran against wages and conditions following protests of retirees demanding a rise in pensions; 5,000 South African food workers on indefinite strike against pay and job cuts for eleventh week…

Liberation Staff (2022-02-04). VIDEO: Messages of solidarity and Cuba's statement marking 60 years of the U.S. blockade. liberationnews.org An event organized by Radio Havana Cuba and Cubavisión Internacional marked the 60th anniversary of the imposition of the cruel U.S. economic blockade that aims to suffocate the Cuban economy and cause suffering among the people…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). US To Reestablish Consular Work in Cuba. telesurenglish.net The Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Brian A. Nichols, announced on Thursday that the U.S. would send officials from consular service for Cuba, aiming to make the process of visas for Cuban applicants faster. | RELATED: | According to some sources, the date for the reestablishments of the consular work in the Havana embassy has yet to be defined. | In October 2017, the White House decided to withdraw all diplomatic staff f…

Staff (2022-02-04). Segunda Declaración de La Habana: El día en que todo el mundo puso los ojos sobre Cuba. cubadebate.cu La Habana, Cuba, Territorio Libre de América. Febrero 4 de 1962. La Plaza está abarrotada. Es la mayor concentración popular desde que triunfó la Revolución tres años atrás. Un niño, sobre los hombros de su padre, mira a la tribuna con unos binoculares. Frente a la multitud, Fidel Castro señala que todos los pueblos esperan la respuesta de Cuba.

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2022-02-04). Recent Polls Show Venezuelans Expect Economic and Political Improvements. orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 4, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—According to the last Hinterlaces national survey, carried out this January, 29% of voters sympathize with the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and 1% with other organizations that are grouped around the Great Simón Bolívar Patriotic Pole (GPP), which places partisan support for the government of President Nicolás Maduro at 30%. | Last May, 2021, Orinoco Tribune

Staff (2022-02-04). Diosdado Cabello: Spirit of February 4 will Never Die. orinocotribune.com A few hours before the 30th anniversary of February 4, 1992—the day when Hugo Chavez and several other brave Venezuelan military officials shook Venezuela while trying to oust the neoliberal government of Democratic Action politician Carlos Andres Perez—the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, assured the nation that the spirit of that day will never die. | "February 4 (4F) was well worth it to liberate the homeland, that's why the spirit of February 4 will never die," he said during the inauguration ceremony of the 4F Plaza, at the General Command…

Staff (2022-02-04). President Maduro: Chávez's 4F Rebellion was a Cry Against Colonization. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, asserted earlier today that the rebellion of February 4, 1992, known in Venezuela as 4F/1992, led by Commander Hugo Chávez, represented an outcry against the colonization that the neoliberal government of Carlos Andrés Pérez intended to impose on the country. | The comments were made as part of President Maduro's address during commemorative events for the 30th anniversary of 4F. The head of state hosted the inauguration of the Plaza de la Rebelión Anti-imperialista [Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square], located in the environs of the San Carlos barracks, in Caracas, wher…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). The Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square Honors Chavez Legacy. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro inaugurated the Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square in Caracas City on Thursday, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the revolt led by Colonel Hugo Chavez. | RELATED: | "In the early hours of February 4, 1992, Venezuela experienced the greatest political and spiritual upheaval that has been known since the time of Independence," Maduro said, recalling that that revolt marked the begin…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). Chavez Ignited the Bolivarian Revolution with the 4F Rebellion. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Venezuelans remember the 30th anniversary of the anti-imperialist rebellion that Colonel Hugo Chavez led against President Carlos Perez (1989-1993), a corrupt politician who implemented neoliberal policies that worsened the people's living conditions. | RELATED: | On Feb. 4, 1992, five army units under Chavez's command moved into Caracas to seize key military and communications installations throughout…

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