(2022-01-29). France has Become a "Destabilizing Force" in Africa. journal-neo.org 
In a January briefing with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, on the eve of his talks with Russian head of state Vladimir Putin, said Russia was allegedly becoming a "destabilizing force". In making this assessment of Russia's policies, Macron was certainly following instructions from Washington to actively deploy anti-Russian rhetoric and propaganda. …
(2022-01-29). [Correspondence] How to fix democracy to fix health care. thelancet.com Globally, we are seeing a side-effect of COVID-19: political violence.1 This effect usually shows itself in three steps: denial of scientific evidence, judgement of the intentions of political decision makers as a conspiracy, and civil disobedience and street violence.
(2022-01-29). Russia calls on U.S. to withdraw nuclear weapons from Europe, cease joint nuclear drills with non-nuclear allies. globalresearch.ca This is a serious issue, perhaps the most serious of issues in Europe, but coming as it does immediately on the heels of Russia's prior list of demands being resolutely rejected by the U.S. and NATO yesterday, the prospects of …
(2022-01-29). Venezuelan Opposition Looking to Reshuffle Leadership. orinocotribune.com The far-right in Venezuela is pushing for a change in leadership, which until now has been organized around former deputy Juan Guaidó, the self-appointed "interim president," with the backing of the United States, some European nations and Colombia. | This statement was made this Thursday, January 27, by Miami-based journalist Gaby Perozo, for the television channel VPI TV, during an interview in which she commented on her recent discussion with the fugitive from Venezuelan justice, Antonio Ledezma. | "Yesterday we spoke with Antonio Ledezma and he revealed to us that, indeed, there have been some meetings within…
(2022-01-29). [World Report] Polish Government COVID-19 advisors resign. thelancet.com The majority of Poland's COVID-19 medical advisory body have quit, saying that their advice has been ignored. Ed Holt reports.
(2022-01-29). Omicron case rates explode in Russia. wsws.org Like the governments in Washington, Berlin, Paris and London, the Kremlin is doing nothing to contain the virus as child infection rates soar and hospitals fill.
(2022-01-29). Contradicting US, Ukrainian President Zelensky denies Russian attack imminent. wsws.org The NATO powers' calls to prepare for a war against Russia supposedly to defend Ukraine are reckless, unsubstantiated propaganda threatening to trigger a world war.
(2022-01-29). Former minister for integrity Simon Lokodo is dead. plusnews.ug Former Minister of State for Ethics & Integrity in the Office of the President of Uganda, Father Simon Lokodo has passed away. The news of his passing has Saturday morning been confirmed by the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) where he has been a member. The body says the former Minister died from Switzerland where …
(2022-01-29). True Colors: Red, White, Black & Blue. dissidentvoice.org 
With a bold and completely self-sabotaging diplomatic blunder, one which fails on every level including the least rigorous sanity test, this past Wednesday the U.S. was one of two nations to vote against a UN resolution designed to discourage the glorification and promotion of Nazi ideology. The other nation was Ukraine, which currently is overrun …
(2022-01-29). VIDEO: David Swanson on Ukraine on RT. warisacrime.org Watch
(2022-01-28). The Big Lie behind U.S. and NATO policy in Europe. peoplesworld.org 
In a speech in 1881, Wendell Phillips, the famous abolitionist and Native American rights activist, said that history is but "a series of lies agreed upon." The expression originated in 18th century France, with both Voltaire and Napoleon Bonaparte, along with the American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, expressing versions of it. In truth, however, history …
(2022-01-28). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org One-day national strike across public sector in France over pay and pensions as wave of strikes continues in healthcare; South African Clover dairy workers' strike against job and pay cuts continues into tenth week, joined by other affected sectors; Lebanese teachers begin indefinite walkout against deteriorating conditions and for higher pay…
(2022-01-28). Spain's PSOE-Podemos government backs NATO war threats against Russia. wsws.org Popular opposition is mounting against the decision of the PSOE-Podemos government to send warships to join NATO naval forces in the Black Sea off the coast of Russia.
(2022-01-28). Let's Not Allow the Great Powers to Destroy the World. warisacrime.org The vast destruction wrought by the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945 should have been enough to convince national governments that the game of war was over. Wars have had a long run among rival territories and, later, nations, with fierce conflicts between Athens and Sparta, Rome and Carthage, Spain and Britain, and the …
(2022-01-28). BA.2 subvariant of Omicron in more than 40 countries across the globe. wsws.org The Omicron subvariant BA.2 is now dominant in Denmark. This variant of the virus has also been detected in more than 40 countries across the world and is beginning to displace the original Omicron.
(2022-01-28). US And Russia Climb Escalation Ladder. popularresistance.org The corporate media in the United States are breathlessly covering Russia's every move right now while U.S. politicians are aggressively pushing new sanctions and arms shipments to Ukraine. | But how is the conflict viewed from the other side? Dr. Oleg Barabanov, Academic Director of the European Studies Institute at MGIMO University, joins the show to bring light to the issues from the Russian perspective. | Ben Chacko, editor of the Morning Star in Britain, explains why people in the West should be paying close attention to the conflict.
(2022-01-28). The Geopolitics Behind Spiraling Gas and Electricity Prices in Europe. towardfreedom.org Markets do not solve the problem of energy pricing. What is required is planning and long-term investments in infrastructure, writes Prabir Purkayastha.
(2022-01-28). Thursday February 3 Webinar: In Conversation with Camila Saab, Wife of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com 
Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat the US government has illegally seized and imprisoned for what the US considers "violation" of the illegal US economic warfare on Venezuela. He was in fact assisting Venezuela in legally working around the US blockade on his country by finding the means to import food, medicine, and materials for the Venezuelan oil industry. The US is seeking to coerce Alex Saab into disclosing the methods Venezuela uses to circumvent the US-Canadian-European sanctions with the goal of further tightening the economic blockade and suffering on the Venezuelan people. These sanctions are illegal ac…
(2022-01-28). Ex-Russian president reveals Moscow's thinking on China. rt.com 
The Sino-Russian relationship is acting as a balance of power against the EU & the US, the former president said | The close relationship between China and Russia has been noticed by politicians in the US and the European Union and is therefore helping to balance power in the sphere of international diplomacy, the former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, has claimed. | Speaking to news agency TASS, in comments published on Thursday, the former head of state said that Moscow's close relations with Beijing are positive for the world as a whole. Medvedev currently serves as deputy chairman of the Security Counc…
(2022-01-28). All COVID restrictions ended in UK amid deepening government crisis. wsws.org The crisis wracking the Johnson government is only spurring on its reactionary agenda at home and abroad. MPs left the capital amid discussions on the UK possibly sending thousands of troops to Eastern Europe to confront Russia.
(2022-01-28). US-UK Antagonism of Russia Threatens to Pull NATO Apart at the Seams. sputniknews.com The NATO alliance was formed by Western capitalist powers in 1949 as a deterrence to potential invasion by the Soviet Union. Dependent on the US for support, Western Europe had little other choice; however, in the 21st century, that they will have convergent interests can no longer be taken for granted.
(2022-01-28). Rusia, Ucrania, la OTAN y la multiporalidad. globalizacion.ca Viven en la Unión Europea/OTAN en una burbuja de tal calibre que es como estar en una estación de tren abandonada, donde se ven pasar los trenes sin que se detenga ninguno y sin que nadie de los viajantes entienda…
(2022-01-28). Russia and the West: Piercing the Fog of Hysteria. orinocotribune.com By Pepe Escobar — Jan 26, 2022 | The fatal mistake committed by Brussels in 2014 was to force Kiev to make an impossible choice between Europe and Russia. | A specter haunts the collective West: total zombification, courtesy of an across-the-board 24/7 psy ops imprinting the inevitability of "Russian aggression". | Let's pierce the fog of hysteria by asking Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov what's going on: | "I can absolutely say that to date, the Russian armed forces have not created a strike group that could make a forceful invasion of Ukraine." | Well, Reznikov is obviously not aware that the White Hou…
(2022-01-28). Snubbing Russia's Red Lines, the U.S. Shows Strategic Hand. strategic-culture.org The U.S. policy of confrontation and tensions is all about finding a suitable cover for the American sabotaging of Europe's energy trade with Russia. | The intransigent response this week by the United States to Russia's security concerns shows that Washington wants conflict. At the same time, also this week, the U.S. inadvertently revealed its hand when it reinforced its objective that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline would not go ahead "if Russia invades Ukraine". | This is no mere coincidence. The tensions and crisis that have been stoked in recent months over Ukraine — to the point where, incredibly, a wo…
(2022-01-28). Russia is dividing Europe — but not in the way you'd think. rt.com 
Western disunity over NATO is both an opportunity and a danger for Moscow | A number of Washington's normally steadfast European allies have begun distancing themselves from the US's increasingly confrontational approach to the standoff over Ukraine. However, despite the White House's appeals for unity, the cracks in its foreign policy partnerships are beginning to show. | A West that agrees on less is one where Russia's efforts to get concessions on security arrangements are more likely to succeed, but also one where America must crack the whip against it to keep its bloc in line. | A growing split?:…
(2022-01-28). Russia's 'Asymmetrical' War Over Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Can Europe survive without Russian gas? The formal US response to Russia's demands for security guarantee was delivered to the foreign ministry in Moscow on Wednesday. Moscow's worst fears came true: Washington simply ducked without addressing the main Russian concerns — NATO's expansion, rollback of NATO deployments to pre-1997 level, etc. —and…
(2022-01-28). NATO response 'embarrassing' — Moscow. rt.com 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slams the bloc's reply as ideological | NATO's reply to Moscow's proposals for a European security treaty is entirely ideological and has too much of a focus on the bloc's so-called "special purpose" and "exceptionalism," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. | Speaking to news outlets as part of a broadcast interview on Friday, the chief Russian diplomat described the response produced by Brussels as "embarrassing" for the people who wrote the text. | Last month, Russia publicly released two treaties it had proposed to the US and NATO. The draft documents includ…
(2022-01-28). Ukraine cannot survive without loans, resembles lung ventilation patient — diplomat. tass.com The Russian diplomat said the European Union had announced another package of financial aid to Ukraine totaling 1.2 billion euro on January 24…
(2022-01-28). Climate Change In The American Empire. popularresistance.org Here's to 2022. | A new year to displace one of the twenty previous warmest years globally since records began: the last twenty apart from 1998 with its strong El Niño. | The summer of 2021 saw the Met Office in the UK issue what was its first-ever "extreme heat warning." Over in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia, flash floods left more than 120 people dead. | "You don't expect people to die in a flood in Germany. Maybe in poorer countries, you could understand it, but not in Germany" was a comment that went viral. | Question: What's the difference between climate change and COVID?
(2022-01-28). Make The Whole World Know That The South Also Exists. popularresistance.org On 19 January 2022, US President Joe Biden held a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. The discussion ranged from Biden's failure to pass a $1.75 trillion investment bill (the result of the defection of two Democrats) to the increased tensions between the United States and Russia. According to a recent NBC poll, 54% of adults in the United States disapprove of his presidency and 71% feel that the country is headed in the wrong direction. | The political and cultural divisions that widened during the Trump years continue to inflict a heavy toll on US society, including over the g…
(2022-01-28). Ukraine And US War Propaganda. popularresistance.org The corporate media always carry water for the state, and they are never more dangerous than when the nation is on a war footing. Right now the United States government is sending weapons to Ukraine. One wouldn't know that because of constant references to "lethal aid." The euphemisms and subterfuge are necessary for a very simple reason. Everyone except the Washington war party knows that provoking war with Russia is extremely dangerous. | Joe Biden is picking up where he left off, as Barack Obama's Ukraine viceroy. He and his incompetent foreign policy team have spun a tale about a pending Russian attack on Ukr…
(2022-01-28). Protesters at White House condemn U.S. push for war with Russia. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—U.S. imperialism and the greed of military contractors are behind the rising tensions between the Biden administration and Russia over Ukraine, leaders of some 100-plus protesters in front of the White House, in the frigid cold, said on Jan. 28. "The majority of the American people do not want war," declared Olivia DiNucci of CODEPINK, …
(2022-01-28). The Biden Presidency and the Specter of a Third World War. dissidentvoice.org 
Unlike Trump who was an outsider in American politics and derisively sneered at as "toddler-in-chief" by the US national security establishment, Biden is a typical establishment Democrat unabashedly playing into the hands of the deep state throughout his maiden year as president and escalating the conflict with Russia in Ukraine and with China in the …
(2022-01-28). The Vast Anti-Russian Psyop Campaign That's Brought Us to the Brink of Nuclear War. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea There's an absurdity to humanity's current predicament of standing on the brink of World War III. This is that the decisive factor behind why the U.S. and Russia are close to war has not been the geopolitical struggles, the economic competition, or the imperialist military encirclement around Russia, but the strange and insipid…
(2022-01-28). Fueling Tensions? CNN Claims Biden Told Zelensky Russian Invasion 'Imminent', White House Denies It. sputniknews.com Washington and some NATO states have been pushing claims that Russian troops deployed to its southern regions for drills were a prelude to an "imminent" invasion of Ukraine, despite both Moscow and Kiev dismissing the notion. The Kremlin has asserted its right to send troops anywhere inside its own borders, accusing NATO of whipping up tensions.
(2022-01-28). Tuesday 2/1: Emergency Action: "Negotiate, Don't Escalate: No War With Russia!" indybay.org San Francisco Ferry Bldg., foot of Market Street…
(2022-01-28). White House calls CNN report on Russian invasion 'completely false'. rt.com 
The White House denies a report that Biden told Zelensky to "prepare for impact" and that Kiev could be "sacked" | The White House has pushed back on a CNN report about Thursday's phone call between US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, calling it "completely false." | "President Biden said that there is a distinct possibility that the Russians could invade Ukraine in February. He has previously said this publicly and we have been warning about this for months. Reports of anything more or different than that are completely false," Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the National…
(2022-01-28). Russia comments on risk of war with West. rt.com 
Lavrov's comments come amid a growing diplomatic stand-off with NATO | With tensions running high between Russia and the US, Moscow's top diplomat has insisted that his country does not want a full-blown conflict to break out, but also warned it will not stand aside and watch well-flagged security concerns be ignored. | Speaking to news outlets as part of a broadcast interview on Friday morning, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was asked whether fighting could break out after talks over guarantees that NATO will not expand ended in deadlock. | "If it is up to the Russian Federation, there will be no war," he de…
(2022-01-28). Russia strengthens 'military-technical cooperation' with Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba amid US threats. multipolarista.com Russia said it is expanding "military-technical cooperation" with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, after Putin had phone calls with the presidents of the three socialist governments, which have been targeted by illegal US sanctions and coup attempts.
(2022-01-28). Washington Thinks U.S. Borders End at Neptune. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | * * * | Washington: Russia's gonna invade Ukraine. | Moscow: We're not gonna invade Ukraine. | Kyiv: Yeah Russia's not gonna invade Ukraine. | Washington: Russia's definitely about to invade Ukraine. | Entirety of western media: RUSSIA 100% CERTAIN TO INVADE UKRAINE ANY SECOND NOW | * * * | Both Moscow and Kyiv agree that there wil be no unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine. Washington keeps insisting that if there's a war Russia will be the aggressor, but in reality all that has to happen for there not to be a Ukraine war is for US/NATO powers not to start one. | * * * | It's actually a…
(2022-01-28). UN pushes for definite timeline for Libyan elections amid uncertainty about its mission. peoplesdispatch.org The state of elections in Libya is unclear after yet another deadline expired this week. Meanwhile, the future of the UN special mission in Libya (UNSMIL) also hangs in the balance due to differences between the US and Russia…
(2022-01-28). Headlines for January 28, 2022. democracynow.org U.S. Calls for Security Council Meeting on Ukraine as Russia Warns of Nuclear Confrontation, Biden Pledges to Nominate Black Woman to Supreme Court in February, Burkina Faso Coup Leader Paul-Henri Damiba, Who Was Trained by U.S. Military, Gives First Speech, Xiomara Castro Sworn In as First Woman President in Honduras's 200-Year History, Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Survivors Sue over Cancer Diagnoses, 70 Confirmed Dead After Tropical Storm Brings Flooding to Southern Africa, Massive Iceberg Breaks Up in Southern Atlantic, with Unknown Environmental Toll, Federal Judge Cancels Biden Administration's Largest-Ever Of…
(2022-01-28). US-NATO escalate war threats against Russia: Are you ready for World War III? wsws.org The drive to war is fueled by an utterly toxic mixture of deranged geopolitical ambitions and insoluble internal crisis.
(2022-01-28). Tangled Tale of NATO Expansion at the Heart of Ukraine Crisis. strategic-culture.org 
The U.S. response to winning the Cold War set the stage for the current crisis with Russia, reports Joe Lauria. | By Joe LAURIA | The end of the Cold War with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Soviet Union two years later presented the United States with a choice: triumphalism or reconciliation. | There was hope of a "peace dividend" because the fortune spent on armaments for so long could now be spent on domestic needs. The Warsaw Pact dissolved and there was hope that its counterpart, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, would also pass into history. Rather its expansion has become a fl…
(2022-01-28). Can We Learn Anything From Russian-Canadian Pacifists? warisacrime.org 
Image Source. Tolstoy said the Doukhobors belonged to the 25th century. He was talking about a group of people who have traditions of refusing to take part in war, refusing to eat or harm animals or put animals to work, engaging in communal sharing of resources and communal approaches to work, gender equality, and letting …
(2022-01-28). Serbia cancels Rio Tinto's lithium mining project. greenleft.org.au Rio Tinto's plan to mine lithium in Serbia has been scuttled in the wake of Novak Djokovic's deportation and against a backdrop of huge anti-mining protests and the country's upcoming elections in April, reports Binoy Kampmark.
(2022-01-28). Djoković Pays the Price for Not Being a Ball Player. strategic-culture.org 
It is only in that larger, trans-generational framework, crossing time, space, and successive historical eras, that Novak Djoković's conduct in the face of Australian chicanery can be properly understood. | No pun intended, really. On one level, Serbian tennis player Novak Djoković certainly was prevented unwillingly from playing ball in the Australian Open. But on another, deeper and archetypal level, it was he as a sovereign individual who refused to "play ball" with the movers and shakers of this world. The savage treatment he got was punishment for the choice he deliberately made.
(2022-01-28). US may provide additional economic aid to Kiev, Biden tells Zelensky. tass.com President Biden noted the United States has provided Ukraine with over half a billion dollars in development and humanitarian assistance in the last year…
(2022-01-28). GOP & pundits demand to #ReleaseTheTranscript after Biden-Zelensky call. rt.com 
CNN's report on phone conversation between the presidents of US and Ukraine triggers throwback to Trump impeachment | Political opponents of the sitting US president are demanding the White House release a full transcript of his call with Ukraine's President Volodymir Zelensky, which reportedly didn't go as smoothly as the two nations stated. It's time for Joe Biden to face what Donald Trump faces in September 2019, conservative pundits say. | The hashtag #ReleaseTheTranscript trended on Twitter in the US as opponents of President Biden reacted to a controversy surrounding his Thursday conversation with Zelens…
(2022-01-28). VIDEO: Emergency Town Hall on the Ukraine Crisis. warisacrime.org