Monthly Archives: February 2022

2022-02-26: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-26). "The US has been at war the entirety of our lives"—Students in the US denounce warmongering against Russia. wsws.org A high school student said: "It's pretty horrifying. The Cold War was called the Cold War because we didn't actually physically fight Russia. Now we're back to the threat of nuclear war; it seems almost unprecedented, the way that we're aggravating Russia."

TASS (2022-02-26). Zelensky accepts Putin's proposal, ready for peace talks. tass.com According to his press secretary Sergey Nikoforov, consultations are underway about the place and time of the negotiations…

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-26). Russia, Ukraine in 'Consultations' on Venue and Time for Negotiations. news.antiwar.com Ukraine and Russia Earlier in the day,

TASS (2022-02-26). Ukraine may discuss neutral status, security guarantees with Russia – Zelensky's office. tass.com "It will be, first of all, a detailed conversation about peace and ceasefire," Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian leader's chief of staff said…

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-26). White House Asks Congress for $6.4 Billion for Ukraine Crisis. news.antiwar.com On Friday, the White House asked Congress for $6.4 billion for military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine and to help US allies in Europe to bolster their security in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine. | "In a recent conversation wit…

TASS (2022-02-26). Kiev must contain nationalists if it wants dialogue – LPR leader. tass.com Ukrainian presidential press secretary Sergey Nikoforov said earlier that President Vladimir Zelensky has accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal and is ready to negotiate peace and a ceasefire…

CODEPINK, more (2022-02-26). Saturday 2/26: No War in Ukraine! International Emergency Online Rally. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

WSWS (2022-02-26). NATO mobilizes troops as UK MPs, US congressmen call for air war against Russia. wsws.org Three days into the war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict is showing dangerous signs of spiraling into a much wider war.

JANET (2022-02-26). Berlin antiwar rally exposes Washington's lies. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto February 25, 2022 Despite gale warnings, the Berlin Peace Coordination drew a thousand people to a Feb. 18 antiwar rally on the Platz des 18. Mà§rz at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, under the slogans "Stop the media warmongering and NATO aggression policy" and "Disarmament and peace with Russia." Among the participants were members of the Left Party, the German Communist Party and the Friends of Nature. Left Party representative in Bundestag, Sevim Dagdelen, at Feb. 18 antiwar rally. Friko (Peace Coordination) Left Party member of the Bundestag, Sevim Dagdelen, to the cheers of the crowd…

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2022-02-26). Venezuela Criticizes NATO Attitude towards Ukraine Situation (Communiqué). orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 25, 2022 (

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

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

Jessica Corbett (2022-02-26). Hundreds of Anti-War Protesters Have Been Arrested Across Russia. truthout.org Hundreds of anti-war protesters were detained in Russia on Friday following over 1,800 The independent monitoring group OVD-Info…

Pivot to Peace (2022-02-26). The Shanghai Communiqué: Key to Peace — Pivot to Peace/CODEPINK Webinar. peacepivot.org Join Pivot to Peace and CODEPINK's China Is Not Our Enemy campaign this Sunday for a conversation with Xiangyu, Col. Ann Wright, Lauren Gonitzke and Pivot to Peace's K.J. Noh to better understand the Taiwan issue and how the U.S. can avoid war with China over Taiwan. When: February 27, 2022 at 6: 00pm — 7: 30pm …

Peace in Europe coalition (2022-02-26). Peace Policy Instead of Escalation. indybay.org We call on the peace movement and all people interested in peace in Europe to participate in public actions, information booths, vigils, demonstrations and initiatives for these demands. | to stop the march into the abyss.

Roy Landersen (2022-02-26). Defend the independence of Ukraine! Moscow out now! themilitant.com Russian President Vladimir Putin Feb. 21 declared that the Moscow-backed "People's Republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk set up in Ukraine in 2014 were independent countries and ordered Russian troops to go in as "peacekeepers." The Kremlin's invasion is backed by the largest military mobilization on the European continent since World War II. | "The Socialist Workers Party demands Moscow pull its tanks and troops out of Ukraine and respect the sovereignty of Ukraine," Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party leader and candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey, told the press the next day. "Sin…

_____ (2022-02-26). Whenever There's Militants, There's Turkey. journal-neo.org Turkey has recently been receiving a considerable amount of attention in the publications of various media outlets. However, much of the reporting revolves around the attitude of Ankara and the Turkish president himself towards various armed conflicts, where Turkey still plays a major role. One example of this is the Turkish leader's offer to mediate …

Armin Groh (2022-02-26). Wars hardly achieve their intended goal anymore. indybay.org The third Gulf War ended Saddam Hussein's rule but resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, the emergence of IS, and a dramatic crash in living standards. Intervention in Libya succeeded in toppling Gaddafi, but turned Libya into a failed state.

WSWS (2022-02-26). Australia: Lessons of the 2018 union sell-out of NSW rail workers. wsws.org The Rail, Tram and Bus Union's 2018 betrayal is a stark warning to workers of what is being prepared now.

Editor2 (2022-02-26). Territorial Snatch-Back: Will the Yemen War Migrate to Saudi Arabia? orinocotribune.com By Karim Shami — Feb 22, 2022 | Yemen's resistance shocked the region when it launched retaliatory strikes on UAE cities. Ansarallah's next external move could be no less than recapturing Yemen's northern provinces from Saudi Arabia. | In the past month, Yemen's resistance movement, Ansarallah, has launched three rounds of retaliatory strikes on Abu Dhabi and Dubai, as part of a new deterrence strategy against UAE attacks on Yemen. | The escalation follows a UAE breach of the tacit agreement with Ansarallah to desist from targeting each other's interests in Yemen. | In the current Yemeni military theater, th…

United Against War, Militarism (2022-02-26). Friday 3/4: Barbara Lee, Endorse a War Powers Resolution! indybay.org 1301 Clay st, Oakland, California; the Oakland Federal Building…

WSWS (2022-02-26). The campaign against Russian conductor Valery Gergiev: Middle-class hysteria in the service of war. wsws.org The announcement by New York City's Carnegie Hall that Gergiev would no longer be conducting the Vienna Philharmonic on Friday is the product of war fever whipped up by the US government with the help of the pliant capitalist press.

UFCLP (2022-02-26). Saturday 2/26: United Fronts, The Working Class & The War In Ukraine- How To Defend Working People. indybay.org To join the panel: | us02web.zoom.us/j/81903904446?pwd=bG5XR0JjU2V4YnpvemFBVThMRjVRUT09

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

WSWS (2022-02-26). German workers speak out on war in Ukraine: "The only war we need is the war against the Coronavirus!" wsws.org "Russians and Ukrainians have a common history. The vast majority of people certainly do not want a war, which at most will benefit the gas and oil magnates in West and East, the billionaires, arms dealers and oligarchs."

Ann Danaiya Usher (2022-02-26). [World Report] The global COVID-19 treatment divide. thelancet.com Experts warn of huge global inequities in access to new treatments for COVID-19. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.

Paul Haeder (2022-02-26). Leaning into Memoir Writing in Order to "Know" dissidentvoice.org Following here is an assignment: Find some object you hold near and dear. Something that can leap you into a backward narrative. Something to hold you as a memoir writer, going back, reflecting back. That thing, you can hold or touch. You find meaning in it. And, that object holds stories. Try and do this …

WSWS (2022-02-26). Canada imposes "severe" sanctions on Russia, puts 3,400 troops on stand-by for deployment to Europe. wsws.org From within Canada's political establishment, including the ostensibly "left" NDP, the only criticism of the Trudeau government's belligerence and war preparations against Russia is that the measures do not go far enough.

sputniknews (2022-02-26). Merging Waltz: Caltech Finds Two Supermassive Black Holes Set to Collide, Warping Space & Time. sputniknews.com The object in space that showed evidence of the future collision is called a quasar. Quasars are galaxies' active cores, where a supermassive black hole sucks material from a disk that surrounds it. The supermassive black hole in some quasars produces a jet that travels at almost the speed of light.

Kimberly D Manning (2022-02-26). [Perspectives] A reckoning of racial reckoning. thelancet.com I still remember where I was when I first heard about the murder of George Floyd in 2020. My husband walked into the kitchen where I was seated at the table working on my computer. He asked if I had heard about the man who had died under the knee of a police officer in Minnesota. Then, without warning, he showed me that viral video on his cell phone. It was the one and only time I would watch the entire thing. My previous lived experiences as a Black American had taught me that a single viewing was enough.

sputniknews (2022-02-26). Russophobia in US Nears Cold War Levels, With 80% Seeing Moscow as Enemy – Poll. sputniknews.com In 2017, the White House and Pentagon outlined a new US global strategy, shifting away from the War on Terror and toward what they called "great power competition" with Russia and China. The documents accused Moscow and Beijing of trying to rewrite the US-centered post-Cold War international order.

WSWS (2022-02-25). "We can't let nuclear war break out": US workers respond to conflict in Ukraine. wsws.org Workers across the United States are responding with anxiety and apprehension to the outbreak of war in Ukraine, while voicing skepticism about the hysterical war propaganda being stoked by the Biden administration and the corporate media.

Chris Hedges (2022-02-25). Chris Hedges: Russia, Ukraine and the Chronicle of a War Foretold. mintpressnews.com After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near-universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.

WSWS (2022-02-25). Hundreds reported dead in first day of Russia-Ukraine war. wsws.org Ukraine is in the grips of a full-scale war after Russia launched large-scale bombing raids early Thursday morning local time, in the biggest military operation by Russia since the Afghanistan war.

WSWS (2022-02-25). Three neo-Nazis plead guilty in terror plot targeting US power plants. wsws.org The defendants, who hoped to provoke a race war, admitted to plotting to attack power substations with high-powered rifles.

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-25). Those who violated the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo are free, while the man who helped expose their crimes languishes in prison: The Eighth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org Twenty years ago, on 11 January 2002, the United States government brought its first 'detainees' abducted during the so-called War on Terror to its military prison in Guantánamo Bay.

_____ (2022-02-25). Chronicle Of A War Foretold. popularresistance.org I was in Eastern Europe in 1989, reporting on the revolutions that overthrew the ossified communist dictatorships that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a time of hope. NATO, with the breakup of the Soviet empire, became obsolete. President Mikhail Gorbachev reached out to Washington and Europe to build a new security pact that would include Russia. Secretary of State James Baker in the Reagan administration, along with the West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, assured the Soviet leader that if Germany was unified NATO would not be extended beyond the new borders. The commitment not t…

Charles Pierce (2022-02-25). New Cold War Conflict over Ukraine. dissidentvoice.org There is an adage that the first casualty in a war is the truth. The US and NATO allege that Putin's Russia is a malevolent aggressor against neighboring Ukraine. They assert that the US and NATO are simply defending the rights of an oppressed nation. Meanwhile, what the sycophantic legacy news media convey to the public is …

Staff (2022-02-25). Ukrainian Peace Activist: My Country Has Become a Battlefield for Major Powers. End the War Now. democracynow.org As officials in Moscow threaten to replace the democratically elected Ukrainian government and Russian forces appear set to overpower Ukrainian defenses, is this the end of an independent Ukraine? We speak with Ukrainian peace activist Nina Potarska, who fled the country after Russian troops entered Ukraine on Thursday, even as her 11-year-old daughter with COVID-19 had to stay behind. She is participating in CodePink's international emergency online rally on Saturday to advocate against war and against NATO membership for Ukraine. "I feel that my country now is like a battlefield for all other countr…

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-25). NATO Activates Response Force, to Deploy Thousands of Troops Near Ukraine. news.antiwar.com On Friday, NATO officials announced the alliance was activating part of its Response Force and is sending thousands of troops to countries near Ukraine amid Russia's assault on the country. The US and NATO have reaffirmed that they have no plans to send troops into Ukraine to fight Russia. But NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said …

Staff (2022-02-25). Katrina vanden Heuvel on Putin's "Indefensible" Invasion & Why NATO Is at the Root of Ukraine Crisis. democracynow.org The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, who has reported on Russia for decades, says many observers were "shocked" that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, calling it an "indefensible" decision. President Biden ordered strong sanctions on Russia in response, but he has also heeded critics' warnings not to send troops to Ukraine in order to avoid a world war. Vanden Heuvel says that it's vital that instead of further military escalation, there be a "diplomatic escalation" to resolve the crisis and end the war.

JANET (2022-02-25). NO WAR! NO SANCTIONS! NO NATO! iacenter.org February 24, 2022 The International Action Center joins with the many antiwar and anti-imperialist organizations, here and around the world, in raising the unifying slogans: "NO WAR! NO SANCTIONS! NO NATO!" We call for international emergency mobilizations for actions March 1-7 around this program. U.S. Out of Russia demonstration, Portland, Oregon, Feb. 5. Photo: Lyn Neeley The corporate media have spoken with one voice in the period leading up to today's blaring headlines accusing Russia of "invading" Ukraine. For months, the bipartisan message from Capitol Hill and the White House has been to demonize Russian…

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-25). Zelensky Says Ukraine 'Left Alone' to Fight Russia, NATO Is 'Afraid'. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a speech after the first day of Russia's assault on the country and said Ukraine has been "left alone" and that NATO is "afraid" to help. "We are left alone in defense of our state. Who is ready to fight with us? Honestly — I do not see such. Who …

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-25). Germany to provide troops, air defense systems, warships to NATO. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ReutersFebruary 25, 2022 Germany to offer troops, air defence systems, war ships to NATO —Der Spiegel Germany plans to offer troops, air defence systems and war ships to NATO to strengthen its eastern flank after Russia invaded Ukraine, German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Friday without providing sources. Germany could send an infantry company with …

WSWS (2022-02-25). EU imposes sanctions on Russia as NATO escalates troop deployments. wsws.org The NATO powers are intensifying economic and military pressure on Russia, risking escalation of the conflict into a global war between the major nuclear powers.

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-25). U.S. deploys F-35s to Baltic, Black Seas. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Allied Air CommandFebruary 25, 2022 U.S. F-35s forward deploy to support NATO enhanced Air Policing Six U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II aircraft forward deployed to the Baltic and Black Sea regions to support NATO enhanced Air Policing missions on February 24. The U.S. fifth generation F-35s will operate with Allies at both bases, …

_____ (2022-02-25). How The US Instigated The Ukraine Crisis. popularresistance.org Russia has sent troops into Ukraine and attacked Ukrainian military forces . | In a one hour address, President Putin said the goal was the "de-Nazification" of Ukraine. | It is now clear the Russian statements and proposed peace treaty in December 2021 were deadly serious. At that time the Russians said the US and NATO were crossing red lines, they felt threatened and would not abide this endlessly. Now they have taken action. | In his address yesterday, Russian President Putin gave a frank explanation which comes after years of complaints. The Russians have complained bitterly about the US-promoted 2014 coup in…

WSWS (2022-02-25). War danger surge as Ukraine demands Turkey close straits to Russia, Israel bombs Syria. wsws.org The NATO powers' threats against Russia amid the Russian attack on Ukraine threaten to spread war throughout the Middle East and the world.

Steve Topple (2022-02-25). Keir Starmer's latest authoritarian crackdown is dire timing. thecanary.co Keir Starmer has shut down 11 MPs who signed a Stop the War Coalition (STWC) statement on Ukraine. It's divided opinion and caused controversy. Now, he's also taken action against Young Labour, too. And his timing with all of this couldn't have been worse. | The STWC statement: | PA reported that STWC issued the statement earlier in February on Ukraine. The group accused the UK government of "aggressive posturing". It also said that NATO "should call a halt to its eastward expansion". The Labour MPs who signed the statement were: | Diane Abbott. | John McDonnell. | Richard Burgon. | Ian Lavery. | Beth Win…

WSWS (2022-02-25). Oppose the Putin government's invasion of Ukraine and US-NATO warmongering! For the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers! wsws.org That the US and NATO are prepared to take the world to the brink of nuclear war, with all its horrific consequences, testifies to the staggering level of recklessness and aggressiveness that now prevails in all the centers of world imperialism.

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2022-02-25: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-25). "We can't let nuclear war break out": US workers respond to conflict in Ukraine. wsws.org Workers across the United States are responding with anxiety and apprehension to the outbreak of war in Ukraine, while voicing skepticism about the hysterical war propaganda being stoked by the Biden administration and the corporate media.

WSWS (2022-02-25). Hundreds reported dead in first day of Russia-Ukraine war. wsws.org Ukraine is in the grips of a full-scale war after Russia launched large-scale bombing raids early Thursday morning local time, in the biggest military operation by Russia since the Afghanistan war.

WSWS (2022-02-25). Three neo-Nazis plead guilty in terror plot targeting US power plants. wsws.org The defendants, who hoped to provoke a race war, admitted to plotting to attack power substations with high-powered rifles.

Workers World Party (2022-02-25). NO WAR! NO SANCTIONS! NO NATO! workers.org February 24 Workers World Party joins with the many antiwar and anti-imperialist organizations, here and around the world, in raising the unifying slogans: "NO WAR! NO SANCTIONS! NO NATO!" We call for international emergency mobilizations for actions March 1-7 around this program. U.S. Out of Russia demonstration, Portland, Oregon, Feb. . . . |

WSWS (2022-02-25). War danger surge as Ukraine demands Turkey close straits to Russia, Israel bombs Syria. wsws.org The NATO powers' threats against Russia amid the Russian attack on Ukraine threaten to spread war throughout the Middle East and the world.

WSWS (2022-02-25). Oppose the Putin government's invasion of Ukraine and US-NATO warmongering! For the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers! wsws.org That the US and NATO are prepared to take the world to the brink of nuclear war, with all its horrific consequences, testifies to the staggering level of recklessness and aggressiveness that now prevails in all the centers of world imperialism.

WSWS (2022-02-25). EU imposes sanctions on Russia as NATO escalates troop deployments. wsws.org The NATO powers are intensifying economic and military pressure on Russia, risking escalation of the conflict into a global war between the major nuclear powers.

WSWS (2022-02-25). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Greek healthcare workers in three national strikes in last two weeks over pay and job insecurity; Hungarian teachers protest following government's attack on right to strike after 20,000 joined two-hour warning strike; UK High Court attack on right to picket continues at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital strike by security staff; food workers' strike to defend jobs and pay continues at Clover, South Africa despite workers facing hardship and attacks from management thugs…

WSWS (2022-02-25). COVID pandemic continues mass killing, notably focused on US and Russia. wsws.org As world war threatens in Europe, the global pandemic continues to take a huge daily toll.

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2022-02-25). Perpetual Tyranny: Endless Wars Are the Enemy of Freedom. dissidentvoice.org Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few…. No nation could preserve its freedom …

WSWS (2022-02-25). New Zealand government aligns with US against Russia. wsws.org With Europe on the precipice of war, the minister is using her visit to solidarise New Zealand with imperialist operations against both Russia and China.

A Guest Author (2022-02-25). Who gains from a war in Europe? U.S. targets supply of Russian gas to Europe. workers.org By Manuel Raposo Raposo is editor of the Portuguese website jornalmudardevida.net, which published this article on Feb. 20. Translation by John Catalinotto. At this moment, the events in Ukraine are shrouded in the cloud of smoke that characterizes war propaganda. Official positions, rather than clarifying facts and reporting the progress . . . |

Editor2 (2022-02-25). Canada's Fury at Russia's Recognition of the DPR & LPR Shows its Continuing Subservience to US Empire. orinocotribune.com By Bruce Katz — Feb 23, 2022 | The Crimea—a part of Russia from 1783 onward subsequent to the decline of Ottoman power—was

WSWS (2022-02-25). War crisis triggers market swings. wsws.org Global economy and financial markets are being hit by "stagflationary" shock as the major powers consider whether to exclude Russia from the Swift international payments system.

Jason Ditz (2022-02-24). Israeli Airstrikes, Missiles Target Syria's Damascus, Kill 3 Soldiers. news.antiwar.com For the second straight day Israel carried out strikes against Syria, following up Tuesday's attack on Quneitra with Syria reported air defenses were active and intercepted most of the missiles. Some damage was reported and Israel hasn't commented on these recent attacks directly, but did drop leaflets overnight warning Syrians against supporting Hezbollah. Israel officially does not co…

Rick Sterling (2022-02-24). How the US instigated the Ukraine crisis. dissidentvoice.org Introduction Russia has sent troops into Ukraine and attacked Ukrainian military forces . In a one hour address, President Putin said the goal was the "de-Nazification" of Ukraine. It is now clear the Russian statements and proposed peace treaty in December 2021 were deadly serious. At that time the Russians said the US and NATO …

Staff (2022-02-24). Venezuela Gives Full Support to Putin & Criticizes US and NATO Militarism. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, February 22, the president of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro expressed his support to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, after Moscow recognized the independence of the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The president reiterated: "Venezuela announces its full support for President Vladimir Putin, in defense of peace in Russia and the region, and in the brave defense of his people and his homeland. All our support for President Putin. All our support for Russia." | Maduro, through the state TV channel Venezolana de Televisión said that: "We have been attentive to the events in Russia and in Ukraine,…

_____ (2022-02-24). Western Media Fall In Lockstep For Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt In Ukraine. popularresistance.org When the corporate media push for war, one of their main weapons is propaganda by omission. | In the case of the recent crisis in Ukraine, Western journalists have omitted key context about the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War, as well as US support for the Maidan coup in 2014 (FAIR.org, 1/28/22). | A third and crucial case of propaganda by omission relates to the integration of neo-Nazis into the Ukrainian armed forces (FAIR.org, 3/7/14, 1/28/22). If the corporate media reported more critically about Western support for the neo-Nazi-infested Ukrainian security services, and how these forces functi…

Michael Gillespie (2022-02-24). The US and NATO Cross a Line. dissidentvoice.org One major nuclear war catastrophically interrupts the progress of human civilization and ushers in God only knows how many decades of dystopian madness. Pray that NATO's march on Moscow doesn't make Napoleon look like a genius and Hitler a brilliant military strategist. Bonaparte's retreat during the winter of 1812? A walk in the park compared to …

Moderator (2022-02-24). Hedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold. scheerpost.com Svyatoslav, 6, plays with his tablet in a public basement used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russia has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending troops and tanks from multiple directions in a move that could rewrite the world's geopolitical landscape. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) |
| By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | I was in Eastern Europe in 1989, reporting on the revolutions that overthrew the ossified communist dictatorships that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a time of hope. NATO,…

_____ (2022-02-24). US, UK, France Promised USSR Not To Expand NATO East Of Germany. popularresistance.org A newly discovered document provides more evidence that Western governments broke their promise not to expand NATO eastward after German reunification. | Notes from a 1991 meeting between top US, British, French, and German officials confirm that there was a "general agreement that membership of NATO and security guarantees [are] unacceptable" for Central and Eastern Europe. | Germany's diplomatic representative emphasized that the Soviet Union was promised in 1990 that "we would not extend NATO beyond the Elbe" river, in eastern Germany. | The document, which was formerly classified as secret, comes from the Bri…

Staff (2022-02-24). Yanis Varoufakis: Europe Must Stand with Ukraine, Condemn Putin & Roll Back NATO to Restore Peace. democracynow.org What does the Russian invasion of Ukraine mean for the rest of Europe? We speak with Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, about the failure of international bodies like the European Union and United Nations in preventing war. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres implored Russia to withdraw all troops in a speech immediately following Thursday's attack, and the U.S. and allies are moving swiftly to impose sanctions as retaliation against the aggression. Varoufakis warns these threats are "like a pea shooter trying to stop a tank." The only hope for a peaceful resolution is for NATO…

David Swanson (2022-02-24). VIDEO: Debate: Can War Ever Be Justified? Mark Welton vs. David Swanson. warisacrime.org By World BEYOND War, February 24, 2022 This debate was held online on February 23, 2022, and was co-sponsored by World BEYOND War Central Florida and Veterans For Peace Chapter 136 The Villages, FL. The debaters were: Arguing the Affirmative: Dr. Mark Welton is Professor Emeritus at the United States Military Academy at West Point. …

TASS (2022-02-24). Moscow kept trying to persuade Kiev to stop shelling Donbass — Russian negotiator. tass.com According to Konstantin Gavrilov, the Russian side tried to clarify the entire background and convince the Ukrainians and Western partners that there still was a chance for a peaceful settlement on a forum on security cooperation that took place on Wednesday…

_____ (2022-02-24). Amazon Union Organizers Arrested After Bringing Food To Workers. popularresistance.org The Biden administration has recently made proposals to strengthen unions—one suggestion includes limiting "barriers to union organizers being able to talk with employees on federal property about the benefits of organizing a union." However, there's the issue of what can happen on private property. Amazon has taken a firm anti-union stance and continues that streak with a new development. According to Business Insider, the NYPD arrested three union organizers at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island. | This is not the first time police have been called on this particular warehouse. Insider also reported…

_____ (2022-02-24). BP Dropped By National Portrait Gallery. popularresistance.org The National Portrait Gallery has announced the end of its partnership with BP, becoming the latest institution from the world of art and culture to distance itself from the oil giant. | The Royal Shakespeare Company and Tate have already ended sponsorship deals with BP following environmental campaigns launched by artists and employees. | BP has been the main sponsor of the National Portrait Gallery's annual portrait award since 1989 when it took over from tobacco company John Player & Sons. | Portraiture | The prize did not take place this year or last year while the gallery's central London building is cl…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-02-24). Black America Responds To Russia Attack On Ukraine And Potential For Nuclear War. moguldom.com Russia has officially invaded Ukraine after months of building up hundreds of thousands of troops at its border and denying that it planned an actual attack. After recognizing Ukrainian breakaway regions of Donbas as Russian territory and calling the invasion a "special military operation," Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on his neighboring country in …

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-24). Wage Cap Allows Millionaires to Stop Contributing to Social Security on February 24, 2022. cepr.net Social Security, the program that provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits to almost one-in-five people in the US, stops getting support from America's wealthiest today. Thursday the 24th is the first day of 2022 that millionaires make no contribution to the program. Most people are not aware that Social Security contributions are capped at the …

WSWS (2022-02-24). US warns Nepal of serious consequences if aid program not ratified. wsws.org US threats are part of its ongoing efforts to lock the strategically-located Nepal into Washington's war preparations against China.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-24). Lateral flow tests may be missing 'substantial' number of COVID-19 infections. imperial.ac.uk Lateral flow tests appear to miss a substantial number of COVID-19 infections, particularly for people without symptoms, experts have warned.

_____ (2022-02-24). Diagnosis: Why the China Containment Policy is Failing. journal-neo.org For the past 4 years — especially since the US 'trade war' on China started by the Trump administration in 2017 — Washington has been seeking ways to contain, roll-back on its gains and encircle China. The US 'trade war' was not something entirely new; in fact, it was a continuation of the Obama administration's …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-24). Who Are the True Insurrectionists That Illegally Took Over Ottawa? libya360.wordpress.com Prof. Anthony J. Hall Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has revoked the Emergency Act he had instituted on Valentine's Day, 2022. Instead of waiting for Parliamentary authorization of the replacement to the War Measures Act, Trudeau directed federal, provincial and municipal police forces to link up. On Feb. 17 he directed the amalgamated force to violently dislodge…

WSWS (2022-02-24). Beijing condemns Washington's "irresponsible and immoral" behaviour in the Ukraine crisis. wsws.org Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the US was "raising tensions, creating panic, and even playing up the schedule of war."

Maxwell Schwarz (2022-02-24). In solidarity rally, Young Communists bring striking miners' fight to Blackrock HQ. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO—Members of the Young Communist League gathered in Chicago to demonstrate that solidarity crosses state lines. In front of the downtown Chicago headquarters of asset-management giant, BlackRock, demonstrators rallied in support of the mineworkers striking against Warrior Met Coal in Alabama. Miners in Alabama have been on strike for nearly a year, demanding their pay, …

Don Hank, Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-02-24). Eyewitness Reports Indicate Ukrainian Army Fired First Shots in War with Russia. covertactionmagazine.com Western Media did not report that the population in Eastern Ukraine had been begging Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops …

_____ (2022-02-24). WWII Redux: The Endpoint Of US Policy, From Ukraine To Taiwan. popularresistance.org "This is not going to be a war of Ukraine and Russia. This is going to be a European war, a full-fledged war." So spoke Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky just days after berating the U.S. for beating the drums of war. | It is not hard to imagine how Zelensky's words must have fallen on those European ears that were attentive. His warning surely conjured up images of World War II when tens of millions of Europeans and Russians perished. | Zelensky's words echoed those of Philippine's President Rodrigo Duterte on the other side of the world at the Eastern edge of the great Eurasian land mass: "When elephants f…

JANET (2022-02-24). March 1-7: Int'l Week of Action to Stop War with Russia. iacenter.org NO WAR WITH RUSSIA! Here is the link to sign on: bit.ly/MarchInternationalActions March 1 to 7: International Week of Action to Stop War with Russia Submit this form if your organization endorses this call to action: The conflict in Ukraine has escalated to a dangerous level between two nuclear armed states. The United States and its allies continue to portray the current situation as one of Russian aggression without acknowledging that US-backed Ukrainian forces are attacking the Eastern region of the country and killing citizens of Russian ethnicity. This current escalation is a serious threat to world…

Amy Goodman (2022-02-24). EU and UN Are Also Responsible for Failure to Prevent War in Ukraine. truthout.org What does the Russian invasion of Ukraine mean for the rest of Europe? We speak with Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, about the failure of international bodies like the European Union and United Nations in preventing war. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres implored Russia to withdraw all troops in a speech immediately following Thursday's attack, and the U.S. and allies are moving swiftly to impose sanctions as retaliation against the aggression. Varoufakis warns these threats are "

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-24). Ukraine: Putin Turns the Tables. libya360.wordpress.com Fabrizio Casari Pending French mediation, Putin-Biden talks, German distancing, Italian fears, Spanish uncertainties and opposition from the former Eastern bloc, as well as the regularly discredited deadlines of the improbable Russian invasions, the war always announced but never started has had its first outcome. In a decision that unsettled the Western chancelleries, Vladimir Putin signed…

WSWS (2022-02-24). Judge upholds strike injunction at BNSF: US capitalism disciplines the working class while preparing for war. wsws.org Faced with a resurgence of the class struggle, the capitalist ruling class is reviving all the anti-democratic methods that it used to crush workers' resistance in previous generations.

SAM (2022-02-24). The Risk Of A Nuclear World War Three Rears Its Head. progressivehub.net MATTHEW ROZSA | SALON…

Staff (2022-02-24). Panic, Fear, Disbelief: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Could Prompt Humanitarian, Refugee Crisis. democracynow.org We speak about the looming humanitarian crisis in Ukraine with Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who recently met with civilians on the frontlines in eastern Ukraine and urges world leaders to consider the human cost of war and work toward a ceasefire and diplomatic solution. "A cruel military onslaught is engulfing millions," says Egeland. "It will lead to untold suffering in Ukraine but also refugee flows in the region."…

Hannah Gais, Megan Squire (2022-02-24). Far-Right Livestreamer Who Attended Capitol Insurrection Got Federal Pandemic Relief Funds. splcenter.org The federal government program intended to support businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic awarded more than $20,000 in forgivable loans to a far-right livestreamer and treasurer for a white nationalist nonprofit, Hatewatch found.

Tom Engelhardt (2022-02-24). Tomgram: Alfred W. McCoy, A Planet on the Brink. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. We're in a time of growing belligerence of a kind unknown since the Cold War. It's already taken us to the edge of conflict with nuclear-armed great powers, whether in Ukraine or Taiwan and the South China Sea. …

WSWS (2022-02-24). Bernie Sanders backs imperialist provocations against Russia. wsws.org Voicing his support for sanctions that only escalate the danger of war between nuclear-armed powers, Sanders justified the measures as politically progressive and even environmentally friendly.

WSWS (2022-02-24). Bipartisan line-up in Australia behind US moves against Russia. wsws.org With Labor's backing, the government has offered full-throated political support to the US and has effectively intervened militarily by offering to assist the Ukrainian military, including in cyber warfare.

WSWS (2022-02-24). Spain: Far-right Vox poised to enter Castilla y León regional government. wsws.org Forty-four years after the so-called Transition from the fascist regime established by Franco in the Civil War, the far-right is preparing to take power in parts of Spain.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-02-24). Union tries to outlaw 'captive audience' meetings at Alabama Amazon. peoplesworld.org BESSEMER, Ala.—The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union is using the rerun of the unionization vote at Amazon's big Bessemer, Ala., warehouse to try to outlaw one of the big tools in bosses' anti-union anti-worker toolbox, captive audience meetings. The challenge is in the form of one of three labor law-breaking—formally called unfair labor practices—charges …

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-02-24). YouTube Media Entrepreneur And Music Pioneer Jamal Edwards Passes Away At 31, Family Says He Had A Sudden Illness. moguldom.com Jamal Edwards, a renowned YouTube media and music entrepreneur, died of a "sudden illness" at his mother's home in Acton, London, according to his family. He was 31. Edwards' mother, singer and actress Brenda Edwards, confirmed her son's death in a statement issued through her show, "Loose Women," on British streaming TV network ITV. "It …

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2022-02-24). Venezuela Commemorates 3 Years Since Victory in Battle of the Bridges. orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 23, 2022 ( President Maduro wrote on his Twitter account: "We commemorate three years since the victory in the Battle of the Bridges, a civil-military action that defeated th…

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