(2022-01-24). Biden Reportedly Eyeing Troop Deployment to Eastern Europe, Baltic States Amid Heightened Tensions. sputniknews.com US President Joe Biden is weighing the deployment of troops, warships, and aircraft to NATO allies in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states amid increased tensions with Moscow over the possibility of a Russian "invasion" of Ukraine.
(2022-01-24). Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh, Hailed by MLK as "Apostle of Peace & Nonviolence," Dies at 95. democracynow.org 
World-renowned Buddhist monk, poet, teacher and antiwar activist Thich Nhat Hanh has died in his native Vietnam at the age of 95. He was exiled from Vietnam for decades beginning in the 1960s after he spoke out publicly against the war. In 1966, he traveled to the United States and met with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., helping to persuade King to speak out against the U.S. War on Vietnam. King went on to nominate Thich Nhat Hanh for a Nobel Peace Prize a year later, calling him an "apostle of peace and nonviolence."
(2022-01-24). "The Janes": Meet the Women Who Formed a Collective to Provide Safe Abortions Before Roe v. Wade. democracynow.org 
As conservative justices on the Supreme Court threaten to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortions nationwide, we speak to the filmmakers and a subject of "The Janes" about life before Roe, when a collective of women in Chicago built an underground service for women seeking an abortion. Heather Booth, who founded the Jane Collective as a college student, speaks about adopting lessons from the civil rights movement and antiwar sentiments of the time. "You have to stand up to illegitimate authority," says Booth. The directors of the film, Emma Pildes and Tia Lessin, speak about their m…
(2022-01-24). WHO predicts end of pandemic in Europe. rt.com 
The WHO's Europe chief says Omicron could be Covid-19's "endgame" | Speaking to AFP on Sunday, Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Europe director, claimed that there might be an end to the pandemic in sight, despite record levels of Covid-19 cases across the continent. | "It's plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of pandemic endgame," he stated, adding that the Omicron variant of Covid-19, which has been shown to be slightly milder than previous strains, could infect 60% of Europeans by March. | Following this current wave of Omicron, "there will be for quite some weeks and months…
(2022-01-24). Shambolic WA health is not COVID-19 ready. greenleft.org.au Not enough focus has been on doctors and nurses' warnings about that the deterioration of WA's healthcare system that, as Polly Watkins writes, has been run down for years.
(2022-01-24). Hackers could take control of your PC through this game. rt.com 
PC servers for 'Darks Souls' 1, 2 and 3 turned off after reports of dangerous exploit | Bandai Namco and From Software have temporarily shut down PC servers for all 'Dark Souls' games after players began reporting an exploit that allowed malicious hackers to invade users' games and subsequently take remote control of their PCs. | It started when a post on the 'Elden Ring' subreddit revealed that a Remote Code Execution (RCE) exploit had been discovered within the 'Dark Souls' games and urged players to stay away from them until it's fixed. | Essentially, this exploit allows hackers to run scripts on a user's P…
(2022-01-24). Video: John Mearsheimer, Rick Rozoff talk on Ukraine in 2015. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Excerpts from the presentation. Audio and video don't align from about 6: 00-7: 00. For Desert Shield, read Ocean Shield. This year's iteration of the NATO Cold Response war games in the High North off Russia's northwest coast will include 35-40,000 troops, up from the 16,000 in 2014 as mentioned in the presentation. Our scepticism about the …
(2022-01-24). Ready for Another Game of Russian Roulette? orinocotribune.com By H. Bruce Franklin — Jan 19, 2022 | As the U.S. moves nuclear forces closer and closer to the border of Russia, and as our corporate media bang their war drums louder and louder, does anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis? | In June of 1961, just three months after the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba was defeated, the United States began the deployment of fifteen Jupiter nuclear missiles to Turkey, which shared a border with the Soviet Union. Each missile, armed with a W49 1.4 megaton thermonuclear warhead, was equivalent to 175 Hiroshima bombs. With their fifteen-hundred-mile range, the missiles were capa…
(2022-01-24). White House discussed plans to send up to 50,000 troops to Eastern Europe. wsws.org Calls for massive NATO troop deployments and hysterical threats and accusations by top US and NATO officials against Russia point to the imminent danger of war.
(2022-01-24). Videos: UAE Air Defences Thwart Two Ballistic Missiles Targeting Abu Dhabi. sputniknews.com Three individuals were killed in Abu Dhabi last week after the Houthi faction launched a series of hostile attacks using cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and drones targeting an Emirati oil facility near the Al-Dhafra Air Base. The attack saw the first use of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system. Not all rockets were intercepted.
(2022-01-24). Scores killed in Saudi-led airstrikes, highlighting US-Saudi war crimes. wsws.org On Friday, a Saudi airstrike on a detention center in Saada, northern Yemen, housing African migrant workers transiting through Yemen to Saudi Arabia, killed at least 82 people and wounded 266 more.
(2022-01-24). The US role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. greenleft.org.au The threat of war in Europe between Russia and a United States-sponsored, client-state in Ukraine is real, writes William Briggs. The security of Europe and the world is under direct threat and we receive, as always, a skewed and distorted view of what is going on.
(2022-01-24). Online events w) Isabel Allende, Kali Akuno, Selma James, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, etc. indybay.org Here are some 40 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 11 am tomorrow, January 24th), featuring people such as Isabel Allende, Angela Davis, Kali Akuno, Stephanie Kelton, Selma James, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada, the UK, and Australia (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.
(2022-01-24). Situation Near London High Court as Appeal Hearing in Assange Extradition to US Case Takes Place. sputniknews.com Assange faces up to 175 years in prison in the United States for publishing thousands of classified documents that exposed war crimes committed by American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(2022-01-24). Gulf Stream Becoming Stronger and Warmer, Accelerating Heating of Arctic — Norwegian Study. sputniknews.com Thanks to the warm current the Gulf Stream, areas adjacent to it, such as coastal Norway and Russia's Kola Peninsula, have a milder climate than other regions at the same geographical latitude, enjoying much warmer winters and access to ice-free ports.
(2022-01-23). UN being Used as a Cover for Criminal Activity in Africa. journal-neo.org 
Founded after the end of the Second World War, the United Nations Organization set itself a primary goal of defending peace and justice in all countries. In furtherance of this goal the UN has sent troops to armed conflicts of all kinds, mounting some 70 peacekeeping missions since 1945. Known as Blue Helmets, some 100,000 …
(2022-01-23). Palestinians Call For Investigation Into Israeli Massacre In Tantura. popularresistance.org Occupied Palestine – Palestinians has called on Saturday for the formation of an international commission to investigate massacres committed by 'Israel' in the Palestinian village of Tantura in 1948. | The international investigation was called for following revelations by Israeli newspaper Haaretz that a mass grave had been discovered at Dor Beach, where Tantura once stood before it was destroyed. | Palestinians say multiple massacres of Palestinians by Zionist gangs took place in Palestinian villages during the 1948 war in a bid to forcefully displace at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands, a…
(2022-01-23). Ukraine: The West Has Paved the Road to War with Lies. dissidentvoice.org The Three Big Lies Pertaining to Ukraine: The West's leaders never promised Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze not to expand NATO eastward. They also did not state that they would take serious Soviet/Russian security interests around its borders. And therefore, each of the former Warsaw Pact countries has a right to join …
(2022-01-23). Russia Demands that US Release Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com On Friday, January 21, Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry, through a statement, demanded the immediate release of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab so that negotiations between the Venezuelan government and opposition can be resumed. | President Vladimir Putin's administration considers that the kidnapping of Alex Saab disrupted the successful negotiation process. | According to the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry, the White House "thwarted this process in October 2021 by way of direct intervention. As a reminder, in violation of generally recognized international legal norms, the US authorities arrested Venezuelan d…
(2022-01-23). China embassy warns British diplomacy 'goes nowhere if it follows Cold War playbook'. ecns.cn China's embassy in London has warned that Britain's diplomacy will go nowhere if it follows the Cold War playbook, in answer to repeated accusations against China by United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Liz Truss during her current visit to Australia.
(2022-01-23). Biden Discusses Alleged Russian Aggression Toward Ukraine With National Security Team – White House. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Joe Biden held a meeting with his national security team, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan, a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Geneva, the White House press pool informs.
(2022-01-23). Iranian women awarded in Japan Paralym Art World Cup 2021. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 23 (MNA) — Two Iranian mentally or physically handicapped women have received awards at the 2021 World Paralymart Festival of Japan.
(2022-01-23). Kiev régime du jour demands German navy chief be chastised, Berlin fires him. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Ukraine demands public refutation of statement by German Navy commander on Crimea See: Germany sacks navy chief for not toeing war line The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has described the remarks by German Navy Commander Kay-Achim Schà∂nbach that Ukraine has lost temporarily occupied Crimea as categorically unacceptable and demanded that they be publicly refuted. Ukrainian Foreign …
(2022-01-23). Blinken: single Russian infantryman straying over Ukrainian border to trigger "swift, severe, united response from us and from Europe" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com But only if the 18-year-old conscript, while visiting cousins in the Donbass, was "resisting arrest." Or not showing due respect to the Azov Battalion thug who hit him in the head with his rifle butt. That's cause for a general European war. ==== Secretary of State Antony Blinken amplified his warning against a Russian invasion …
(2022-01-23). Israel insists it only 'legally' spies on citizens. rt.com 
Israel did not deny using "advanced technology" to track the population, and rejected allegations that the practice was illegal | An Israeli minister has denied reports that police illegally used Pegasus surveillance software to spy on the country's own citizens, calling the "central claim" — that the practice was illegal — "not true." | Several government investigations were launched this past week after the Israeli newspaper Calcalist reported that law enforcement had been using NSO Group's infamous Pegasus spyware to illegally intercept the calls of citizens. | The newspaper claimed that police ha…
(2022-01-23). Officials Warn of Hazardous Road Conditions as Storm Dumps Snow, Ice on US Mid-Atlantic, Southeast. sputniknews.com Several states in the US mid-Atlantic and southeastern regions are again dealing with hazardous winter weather, subzero temperatures, and major travel disruptions after the area was pounded by vicious snow and ice storms on Friday.
(2022-01-23). WEEKEND READER: The Far-Right Extremist Tied To The Supreme Court. dailyposter.com 
(2022-01-23). Tuesday 1/25: Roundtable Discussion: Political Prisoners. indybay.org Register for our zoom discussion here: bit.ly/3KmbUjj…
(2022-01-23). Hormonal wars: A brief regulatory history of puberty blockers. mronline.org 
The use of political and military metaphors in medicine is a tradition dating back at least to the turn of the 20th century when immunologists regularly distinguished between "Self" versus "Other," and the "body's own" defenses armed against external (and internal) enemies such as bacteria, viruses, or even tumors.
(2022-01-23). Moscow: Kiev, West's Provocations in Donbass and Attacks on Russians Won't Be Tolerated. sputniknews.com Earlier, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu warned that private US military companies were planning provocations in Eastern Ukraine involving the use of chemical components. The Pentagon denied these allegations, calling the minister's statements "false".
(2022-01-23). 2022 California State Capitol Juneteenth Celebration. indybay.org From the back side of Mt. Shastina to the foothills above San Diego in Camp Lockett, our Juneteenth Celebrations honor #Womanity in our ongoing journey towards a greater measure of freedom.
(2022-01-23). Biden Covertly Continues the U.S. Forever War Against the Afghan People. libya360.wordpress.com Zachary Scott Afghans protest the former U.S. embassy building demanding the release of Afghanistan's frozen assets and resumption of international funding amid worsening economic conditions in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 21, 2021. [Source: theintercept.com] Over the past few months, U.S. lawmakers, the Afghan government, and the international community have called on Washington to stop strangling…
(2022-01-23). Following U.S. lead, Germany to evacuate citizens from Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Germany, following the U.S., ready to evacuate German diplomats' families from Ukraine, — Bild The German Foreign Ministry is preparing a plan to evacuate the families of its diplomats from Ukraine, Bild reports. "A war between Ukraine and Russia is becoming more and more likely….The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on a plan to …
(2022-01-23). Israel insists it only 'legally' spies on citizens. rt.com Israel did not deny using "advanced technology" to track the population, and rejected allegations that the practice was illegal | An Israeli minister has denied reports that police illegally used Pegasus surveillance software to spy on the country's own citizens, calling the "central claim" — that the practice was illegal — "not true." | Several government investigations were launched this past week after the Israeli newspaper Calcalist reported that law enforcement had been using NSO Group's infamous Pegasus spyware to illegally intercept the calls of citizens. | The newspaper claimed that police ha…
(2022-01-23). Russian River Transport Revolution — A Project With Geopolitical Ramifications. strategic-culture.org 
If done properly, Russia's wide rivers and preexisting canals with some upgrades could have an impact on international trade and create some previously impossible shipping routes. | Recently the Russian government revealed a plan to radically change cargo transport within the nation that could even have an international geopolitical impact. There is a quest to revolutionize the transport of goods going on globally. As it stands today, looking back on the 20th century, technology still looks much like it did during the early Cold War. We have trucks on highways, trains, boats and jet airplanes. True, all of the…
(2022-01-23). Impose 1% surcharge on richest 10% Indians to reduce inequality: Oxfam India. peoplesdispatch.org A 4% wealth tax on 98 richest families can take care of the ministry of health and family welfare for more than two years…
(2022-01-23). Germany sacks navy chief for not toeing war line. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com German navy chief Schà∂nbach resigns over comments on Putin, Crimea Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schà∂nbach stepped down as the head of the German navy after publicly saying Crimea was lost to Ukraine and that Vladimir Putin "probably" deserved respect. Germany faced a diplomatic incident on Saturday following comments made by Navy chief Kay-Achim Schà∂nbach on Russian …
(2022-01-23). UK University Puts Trigger Warning on Orwell's Novel 1984 Over 'Explicit Material'. sputniknews.com George Orwell's iconic dystopian novel, "1984" was published in 1949 and has been hailed as one of the most impressive books on censorship, persecution of individual thinking, and total opinion control.
(2022-01-23). Venezuela Doubles Oil Production with Iran's Assistance, Beating US Sanctions. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's oil production has doubled with technical assistance from Iran and others helping it circumvent US sanctions. | Venezuela is very close to reaching its maximum petroleum production capacity, since it has managed to double its crude production in recent months, thanks to Iran and other countries that have helped it evade US sanctions. | Oil industry sources confirmed to the US-based Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Herald that Venezuelan crude production reached an estimated average of 900,000 barrels per day (bpd) in December, and could be around 850,000 bpd in January. This has happened mainly due…
(2022-01-23). Venezuela Doubles Oil Production with Iran's Assistance, Beating US Sanctions. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's oil production has doubled with technical assistance from Iran and others helping it circumvent US sanctions. | Venezuela is very close to reaching its maximum petroleum production capacity, since it has managed to double its crude production in recent months, thanks to Iran and other countries that have helped it evade US sanctions. | Oil industry sources confirmed to the US-based Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Herald that Venezuelan crude production reached an estimated average of 900,000 barrels per day (bpd) in December, and could be around 850,000 bpd in January. This has happened mainly due…
(2022-01-23). Venezuelan Electoral Body Publishes Schedule to Formalize Recall Referendum — Promoters in Crisis. orinocotribune.com 
This Saturday, January 22, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) published on its website However, many experts, opposition politicians an…
(2022-01-23). Chile's President-Elect Boric Reiterates His Contempt for Besieged Nicaragua and Venezuela. libya360.wordpress.com Jesús Rodríguez Espinoza Caracas, January 22, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com) — Gabriel Boric, president-elect of Chile, considers that the leftist governments headed by President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua "have failed." According to him, the main indication of the Venezuelan government's failure is "the six million Venezuelans in diaspora;" however, he failed to…
(2022-01-23). Socialistas venezolanos llaman a marchar por rebelión de 1958. telesurtv.net El diputado del PSUV, Pedro Infante aseveró que la concentración será propicia para ratificar el apoyo al presidente Nicolás Maduro.
(2022-01-23). Russian envoy: Venezuela ready to render military assistance if relations with U.S. worsen. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Venezuela ready to offer military help to Russia if relations with US exacerbate — envoy Venezuela is ready to provide military-technical assistance to Russia in case the Russian-US relations deteriorate, Russia's Ambassador to Caracas Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov said…. "Absolutely," he said when asked whether Caracas would be capable of providing military and technical assistance to Moscow …
(2022-01-23). Secretive UK Team Met in Venezuela to Promote British Energy Interests. orinocotribune.com By John McEvoy — Jan 2, 2022 | A record of meetings seen by Declassified provides further evidence that Britain's attempt to remove Venezuela's government is guided by an interest in the country's vast oil resources. | The head of a secretive British government "reconstruction" unit held meetings in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, to plan for UK involvement in the country's energy sector. | A record of the meetings is included in documents released under the UK's Freedom of Information Act, but which are heavily redacted, and were provided over a year after a request was made. | The documents concern the Venez…