Daily Archives: January 29, 2023

2023-01-29: News Headlines

infobrics (2023-01-30). After a 14,000 Km Voyage, the First Russian Crane Arrives in India. infobrics.org The first crane of Russian origin has been delivered to India, carried by ship from Saint Petersburg in a 14,000-km voyage that lasted for more than 20 days…

teleSUR, JGN (2023-01-29). Temblor de magnitud 5.9 deja tres muertos en Irán. telesurtv.net El sismo fue sentido en diferentes zonas de las provincias de Azerbaiyán Occidental y Oriental, así como en regiones de Türkiye, Armenia y Azerbaiyán.




Rick Rozoff (2023-01-29). EU assists Georgia to prepare for new Caucasus war, second front. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Georgian Ministry of DefenseJanuary 28, 2023 Issues of cooperation with the European Union were discussed in the Ministry of Defense The representatives of the European Service of External Actions of the European Union visited the Ministry of Defense of Georgia. They were hosted by the first deputy minister, Lela Chikovani, together with the representatives of …

teleSUR, SH (2023-01-29). Presidente Maduro recibe a reconocidos exfutbolistas europeos. telesurtv.net El encuentro con los exfutbolistas Michel Salgado y David Trezeguet sirve para fortalecer el movimiento deportivo del país suramericano.




Staff (2023-01-29). AUDIO: David Swanson on What Russia Could Have Done Instead of Invading Ukraine. davidswanson.org

Nat London (2023-01-28). Workers in France strike over attempt to raise retirement age. themilitant.com PARIS — Striking workers led over a million people at some 220 demonstrations across the country Jan. 19 to protest President Emmanuel Macron's attempt to raise the retirement age. Protests were accompanied by strikes of gas, electrical and rail workers, other public transportation workers and teachers. | "Most of us never go out on strike but we are today," Frederic Duten told the Militant at the demonstration here. Duten is a shop steward for the CGT union at a company that is part of the Airbus aeronautic construction group. Unions at Airbus in Toulouse reserved 42 buses to go to the action. | Workers ar…




_____ (2023-01-28). The Paris policy is becoming increasingly unpopular in Africa. journal-neo.org Following Britain's exit from the European Union, France appeared to have certain opportunities to strengthen its position on the international stage, such as shifting the balance of power in Europe and bolstering Paris's position in the Franco-German tandem. First, while Germany remained the EU's economic leader, the Fifth Republic had more options in the political …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-28). Daily Round-Up | Israel strikes Gaza a day after deadly raid in West Bank, and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, France's decision to further scale down its military presence in Africa, protests in Peru, and the ICC's decision to resume investigation in the Philippines…

_____ (2023-01-28). The Paris policy is becoming increasingly unpopular in Africa. journal-neo.org Following Britain's exit from the European Union, France appeared to have certain opportunities to strengthen its position on the international stage, such as shifting the balance of power in Europe and bolstering Paris's position in the Franco-German tandem. First, while Germany remained the EU's economic leader, the Fifth Republic had more options in the political …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-28). Daily Round-Up | Israel strikes Gaza a day after deadly raid in West Bank, and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, France's decision to further scale down its military presence in Africa, protests in Peru, and the ICC's decision to resume investigation in the Philippines…

Srdan Verstovsek, Aaron T Gerds, Alessandro M Vannucchi, Haifa Kathrin Al-Ali, David Lavie, Andrew T Kuykendall, Sebastian Grosicki, Alessandra Iurlo, Yeow Tee Goh, Mihaela C Lazaroiu, Miklos Egyed, Maria Laura Fox, Donal McLornan, Andrew Perkins, Sung-Soo Yoon, Vikas Gupta, Jean-Jacques Kiladjian, Nikki Granacher, Sung-Eun Lee, Luminita Ocroteala, Francesco Passamonti, Claire N Harrison, Barbara J Klencke, Sunhee Ro, Rafe Donahue, Jun Kawashima, Ruben Mesa, on behalf of MOMENTUM Study Investigators (2023-01-28). [Articles] Momelotinib versus danazol in symptomatic patients with anaemia and myelofibrosis (MOMENTUM): results from an international, double-blind, randomised, controlled, phase 3 study. thelancet.com Treatment with momelotinib, compared with danazol, resulted in clinically significant improvements in myelofibrosis-associated symptoms, anaemia measures, and spleen response, with favourable safety. These findings support the future use of momelotinib as an effective treatment in patients with myelofibrosis, especially in those with anaemia.

WSWS (2023-01-28). Outbreak of avian flu has killed more than 100 million birds and poses a serious threat of becoming a human pandemic. wsws.org Since October 2021, the spread of the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian flu among birds in North America and Europe has killed more than 140 million poultry and wild birds through disease and culling. The spread of the virus at a mink farm in Spain raises immediate concern about the nature of the mutation the current clade of the virus possesses and its threat to human populations.

Anonymous103 (2023-01-28). Unspoken Divisions within NATO. "Sleeping with the Enemy" Part II. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by It should be obvious to the White House, the Pentagon not to mention NATO headquarters in Brussels that: | You cannot win a war against Russia when the second largest military power member state of the North Atlantic Treaty O…

Rick Rozoff (2023-01-28). With eye on Ukraine, Kosovo, Republika Srpska, Pentagon strengthens ties with NATO ally Albania. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Department of DefenseJanuary 26, 2023 U.S.-Albanian Leaders Discuss NATO, Bilateral Relations U.S. and Albanian defense leaders met today at the Pentagon to make a strong bilateral alliance even stronger. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III met with Defense Minister Niko Peleshi met as the two nations marked the 30th year of their nations' …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-01-28). 51 Years of Crimes against Humanity: From Bloody Sunday in Derry, Northern Ireland to Croatia, Kosovo and Iraq. globalresearch.ca Almost forty years later: The 00 page Saville Commission Report into the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland, fails to identify who were the perpetrators, both within H.M government and the British Army.

ecns.cn (2023-01-28). U.S. and EU to launch first-of-its-kind AI agreement. ecns.cn The U.S. and European Union on Friday announced an agreement to speed up and enhance the use of artificial intelligence to improve agriculture, healthcare, emergency response, climate forecasting and the electric grid.

Rick Rozoff (2023-01-28). U.S. benefits from continuation of war in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Tehran TimesJanuary 27, 2023 U.S. benefits from continuation of war in Ukraine FULL ARTICLE Weakening Russia is only one of its motivations to prolong the war in Ukraine to maintain its control over the politics, economy, and security of Europe. This is why the U.S. wants a war in Ukraine to the detriment of this …

Manlio Dinucci (2023-01-28). The Whole of Europe Turned Into a Battlefield. globalresearch.ca

Clean Energy Wire (2023-01-28). Arresting Greta Thunberg: Germany's Crackdown on anti-Coal Protests is not a Good Look. juancole.com By Edgar Meza | ( CleanEnergy Wire ) The protests against the razing of the village of Làºtzerath in order to expand the brown coal mining operations of energy giant RWE are damaging Germany's image and standing in international climate negotiations, Richard Klein, researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) told Table.Media. The …

Daniela Manno (2023-01-28). [Comment] Developing a vaccine against Marburg virus disease. thelancet.com Marburg virus disease is a severe infection in people and non-human primates (NHPs), with a case-fatality rate of 23—90%.1 The disease is caused by the Marburg virus, a member of the Filoviridae family, which includes the viruses responsible for Ebola virus disease.1 Marburg virus disease is extremely rare. Since its discovery in 1967, when two outbreaks occurred simultaneously in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), causing 31 cases and seven deaths, there have been 16 known outbreaks with a cumulative total of fewer than 500 reported cases.

Staff (2023-01-28). German lawmaker condemns 'US-led proxy war against Russia' and EU's 'servile vassals'. geopoliticaleconomy.com Sevim Daƒüdelen has been a member of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, since 2005. She is the spokeswoman for the Die Linke (Left Party) parliamentary group on the Bundestag's Committee on Foreign Affairs, a deputy member of the Defense Committee, and spokeswoman for international policy and disarmament. This is the speech she delivered at the International …

Denis Moynihan (2023-01-28). Belmarsh Tribunal Makes the Case for Julian Assange's Immediate Release. commondreams.org

"The first casualty when war comes is truth," U.S. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California said in 1929, debating ratification of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a noble but ultimately failed attempt to ban war. Reflecting on World War I, which ended a decade earlier, he continued, "it begins what we were so familiar with only a brief period ago, this mode of propaganda whereby…people become war hungry in their patriotism and are lied into a desire to fight. We have seen it in the past; it will happen again in the future."Time and again, Hiram Johnson has been proven right. Our government's impulse to control…

Unicorn Riot (2023-01-28). Prisoners in Greece: Hunger Strike as a Weapon. unicornriot.ninja

_____ (2023-01-28). Going for the Kill in Kosovo. strategic-culture.org The same recklessness that over the past year had been on display in the Ukraine is now in evidence increasingly in the Balkans. | The collective West's unsuccessful war against Russia using Ukraine as the stage and Ukrainians as cannon fodder has induced the Transatlantic alliance to desperately seek some semblance of victory, anywhere, in order to disguise the scope and lessen the political repercussions of its failure in the Ukraine. | The solution it has come up with to repair its tarnished hegemonic image is the aggressive campaign to wrap up "unfinished business" in the Balkans. Coming from such quarters, a…

Rick Rozoff (2023-01-28). NATO allies, partners to send another 320 battle tanks to Ukraine — ambassador. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com UkrinformJanuary 28, 2023 Western partners promise to send 321 heavy tanks to Ukraine — Ambassador Omelchenko Also see: Poland expands battle tanks sent to Ukraine to 324 Western partner countries have promised to send a total of 321 heavy tanks to Ukraine. The relevant statement was made by Ambassador of Ukraine to the French Republic …

americanthinker (2023-01-28). Keeping America Out of War with Russia. americanthinker.com The preeminent threat to the U.S. lies along its' southern border, not in Ukraine.

Andrew Korybko (2023-01-28). Lula's Recalibrated Multipolar Vision Makes Him Amenable To The US' Grand Strategic Interests. thealtworld.com None of the insight shared in this analysis is to suggest that Lula is controlled by the US, but just that his prior imprisonment clearly changed him. He's no longer the "multipolar revolutionary" that he once was or at least was considered to be, including by the US which deposed his successor and then sought to discredit them both on that perceived basis. Lula's recalibrated vision of multipolarity makes him acceptable to the US, whose ruling Democrats also love his domestic ideological alignment with them and especially his crusade against the right-wing opposition. | Throwing China & Russia Under The Bus In B…

Brian Berletic (2023-01-28). The Russian Battalion Tactical Group w/Alex of Donbass Devushka. thealtworld.com Today The New Atlas is joined by Alex from Donbass Devushka. Alex is Russian military expert. | We discuss the Russian battalion tactical group, the essential unit Russia's military is organized around and how it is being deployed in the special military operation.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-01-28). "Why Don't You Ever Criticize RUSSIA'S Warmongering??" thealtworld.com

Editor (2023-01-28). Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jason Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud. scheerpost.com The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork.

Finian Cunningham (2023-01-28). Pepe Escobar: Ukraine War is Desperate Bid by US to Preserve Hegemony and Prevent Multipolar World. thealtworld.com The war in Ukraine is not just about Ukraine and Russia with the US and NATO acting as seemingly benevolent supporters of Ukraine, as the Western media portray. | The United States and its NATO allies are deeply involved in the conflict. The military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 — after 20 years of futile occupation — was a calculated "reorganization of firepower" against Russia, says Pepe Escobar. | Ukraine is merely a proxy and ultimately cannon fodder for American imperial planners. | This war is part of a bigger geopolitical confrontation between the US and Russia, China and other nations t…

krish-rad_ind (2023-01-28). LEAKED: Emails Show How Russiagate Media Fraud Was Done. rumble.com

krish-rad_ind (2023-01-28). What motivated Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. theduran.com

Rick Rozoff (2023-01-28). Interview on NATO and war in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Global ResearchJanuary 28, 2023 In our first half hour, the anti-war and anti-NATO critic Rick Rozoff returns to give us his appraisal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, its plans for the future, and how it's more than just a 'paper tiger' threatening Russia. He's followed by lawyer, activist and fellow journalist Dimitri Lascaris who …

Stephen R Shalom (2023-01-28). History of the Vietnam War Holds Lessons for Ukraine Today. truthout.org The U.S. war against Vietnam provides a rather close analogy to the Russian war against Ukraine. An analogy, of course, is not an equivalence. There are many differences between the two cases. But there are enough similarities that some useful conclusions can be drawn. Both Vietnam and Ukraine had been colonies, and both the United States and Russia are superpowers. In each case… |

_____ (2023-01-28). Mission Creep? How The US Role In Ukraine Has Slowly Escalated. popularresistance.org When the United States involves itself militarily in a conflict, it often finds it hard to get itself out, let alone avoid deep entanglements that blow well past lines it had drawn at the start of the intervention. | It happened in Vietnam, when U.S. military advisers helping the South Vietnamese fight Viet Cong eventually became U.S. soldiers fighting an American war. It happened in Afghanistan, when an initial invasion to capture al-Qaida and overthrow the Taliban morphed into a nearly two-decade-long nation-building project. And it could be happening right now in Ukraine. | Little by little, NATO and the Unite…

_____ (2023-01-28). US Can Turn Back Doomsday Clock. popularresistance.org The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just issued its 2023 Doomsday Clock statement, calling this "a time of unprecedented danger." | It has advanced the hands of the clock to 90 seconds to midnight, meaning that the world is closer to global catastrophe than ever before, mainly because the conflict in Ukraine has gravely increased the risk of nuclear war. | This scientific assessment should wake up the world's leaders to the urgent necessity of bringing the parties involved in the Ukraine war to the peace table. | So far, the debate about peace talks to resolve the conflict has revolved mostly around what Uk…

Anonymous103 (2023-01-28). Google Hides The Main Reason For America's Arming Of Ukraine. southfront.org

Editor (2023-01-28). Patrick Lawrence: The Shadows Descend in Ukraine. scheerpost.com By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Two of my favorite New York Times words are "shadowy" and "murky." They are brilliantly suited to the Manichean version of our world the Times inflicts daily upon its unsuspecting readers. When The Times terms someone or some society or some chain of events shadowy or murky it …

Editor (2023-01-28). Ukraine Expects to Get All the Western Weapons It Wants. scheerpost.com

Rick Rozoff (2023-01-28). "That's called World War III": NATO to send first 24 fighter jets in "new chapter in the supply of weapons": envoy. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com President Joe Biden in March 2022: "The idea that we're going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews — just understand, don't kid yourself, no matter what y'all say, that's called World War III." [Thanks to Glenn Beck for the reminder.] Interfax-UkraineJanuary 28, …

SAM (2023-01-28). Ending The Ukraine War Could Mean Halting The New Cold War. progressivehub.net MEDEA BENJAMIN AND NICOLAS DAVIES | LA PROGRESSIVE…

WSWS (2023-01-28). White House "discussing" sending US fighter jets to Ukraine. wsws.org Asked whether the "United States is willing to consider" sending US fighter Jets to Ukraine, White House National Security Adviser Jon Finer told MSNBC Thursday that the United States will be "discussing this very carefully."

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