(2022-01-29). Oklahoma and Alabama execute two intellectually disabled men after US Supreme Court clears the way. wsws.org In last-ditch efforts, both men had asked that they be executed by methods other than lethal injection as a means of forestalling their impending state killings.
(2022-01-29). Supreme Court poised to end racial preferences in university admissions. wsws.org The far-right majority will posture as defenders of equality, a pretense made possible by Democrats' complete embrace of identity politics.
(2022-01-29). [World Report] The next steps for US vaccine mandates. thelancet.com As the Supreme Court blocks one of the Biden Administration's plans to raise COVID-19 vaccination rates but approves another, Susan Jaffe looks at the next steps.
(2022-01-29). [Perspectives] Ali Zumla: respiratory medicine and global health supremo. thelancet.com Whether it is in his clinical work or endeavouring to connect colleagues across continents for future pandemic preparedness, Ali Zumla is motivated by improving patient care and the health of neglected populations. For this eminent clinician-researcher is at heart a humble man, always striving for excellence on the hospital ward or in developing plans to improve global health. As Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health at University College London, UK, COVID-19 has been a major part of his work over the past 2 years.
(2022-01-28). Vaccine Apartheid 2.0: The Great Reset in Action. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — Jan 25, 2022 | Recently, media outlets have reported that Nike has begun to fire employees who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 in the United States. Certainly, one must doubt whether the measure corresponds to a policy to take care of employees or whether it is intended to serve a disguised corporate agenda. | However, this is not the first company to make a similar decision. At the end of last year, Google took the decision to put pressure on its employees who were not vaccinated, even threatening to fire them. Up to that point, it was an extreme measure that no other tech company had…
(2022-01-28). How Nixon Flexed CIA Muscle to Destroy Reporter Who Discovered He was Taking Illegal Campaign Contributions from Fascist Greek Junta. covertactionmagazine.com If the exposé had gone public, Nixon might have been defeated and spent the next 20 years in prison—instead of …
(2022-01-28). "America First" secretary of state candidates in eight states promote Trump's "stolen election" lie. wsws.org Embracing Trump's fascistic election fraud claims, "America First" secretary of state candidates are seeking to oust Democratic and Republican incumbents alike.
(2022-01-28). NATO Spreads Fascism to Further Military Buildup in New Cold War. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea "It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way," stated the neoliberal economist Friedrich von Hyek. "And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism." Throughout the second half of the twentieth…
(2022-01-28). Palestinians Continue Boycott Of Israeli Military Courts. popularresistance.org Around 500 Palestinians currently incarcerated in Israel under the illegal policy of administrative detention have been boycotting Israeli military courts to protest their detention since January 1. The detainees have since refused to appear for court hearings and sessions regarding the approval or renewal of their administrative detention orders. They are also boycotting appeal hearings, including those in higher courts. According to Palestinian prisoners' rights groups, among those participating in the boycott are three minors and one woman. All of them are being detained without charge or trial by the Israeli…
(2022-01-28). Nina Turner Likely To Challenge Israel Lobby And Establishment-Backed Rep. Shontel Brown. moguldom.com Activist and former Ohio Senator Nina Turner is mounting a rematch against Ohio Rep. Shontel Brown in a 2022 bid for Congress after Turner lost a special primary election for Ohio's 11th District in 2021. Turner, the former co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, is relaunching her candidacy just days before the Feb. 2 …
(2022-01-28). Palestine Action is legalizing the smashing of Israeli arms factories. electronicintifada.net UK campaign against Elbit chalks up another victory.
(2022-01-28). Palestinian teacher reinstated after UK Israel lobby attacks. electronicintifada.net Sheffield Hallam University must drop their investigation against Shahd Abusalama, students and supporters say.
(2022-01-28). For EU, "a child is a child" except when Palestinian. electronicintifada.net Medically vulnerable teen Amal Nakhleh has been jailed by Israel without charge for a year.
(2022-01-28). Global mobilizations mark two months of the strike at South Africa's dairy giant. peoplesdispatch.org Unions and Palestinian solidarity organizations have escalated actions calling for the South African government to divest from Clover the Milco consortium, which is majority-owned by an Israeli company operating in occupied territories of Palestine.
(2022-01-28). What former PM Netanyahu's Corruption Trial says about the State of Israeli Democracy. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his prosecutors are reportedly finalising the details of a plea deal that would practically water down, shelve, or drop altogether all three major corruption cases that have led to his high-profile trial in May 2020. If such news actualises, Israel would officially …
(2022-01-28). Israel's labour court bans teachers from striking in opposition to soaring Omicron infections. wsws.org Teachers and educators at all public kindergartens and schools, excluding special education schools, had been set to hold a protest strike yesterday.
(2022-01-28). Home Demolition in Sheikh Jarrah Seen as Part of Broader Israeli Effort to Dispossess Palestinians. democracynow.org 
Israeli forces continue to expel Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem, a move that the United Nations has described as a possible war crime. We speak to Palestinian poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd, whose own family is among those facing eviction in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Sheikh Jarrah is also where the Salhiyeh family recently gained attention for threatening self-immolation while protesting their eviction and the demolition of their home. The dispossession of Palestinians has left families facing homelessness in the cold of winter. "This is not a unique situation for our neighborh…
(2022-01-28). South Africa: Unions, Palestine solidarity groups escalate demand to nationalize Clover. peoplesdispatch.org On January 27, pickets and rallies were held in several cities of South Africa in support of the workers' demand to nationalize the dairy company Clover…
(2022-01-28). 'Remain in Mexico': Migrants still waiting in peril as 'cruel and racist policy' continues after three years. splcenter.org
(2022-01-28). Unmuting Black History: SPLC funds museum projects to increase equity. splcenter.org
(2022-01-28). San Diego small business fights to stay open while facing hate crimes. liberationnews.org 
A humble Chula Vista, California establishment called Brew Bar faces ongoing harassment and hate crimes carried out by white supremacists.
(2022-01-28). US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retires. wsws.org Biden will replace Breyer with another corporate liberal, leaving the present 6—3 super-majority of right-wing justices unchanged.
(2022-01-28). 49 years after Roe v. Wade: Fight for reproductive justice! workers.org 
The right to access safe, legal abortions is in grave danger. On the 49th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling allowing access to the procedure in the case of Roe v. Wade, on Jan. 22, 1973, this fundamental human right is being challenged as never before. This landmark ruling, . . . |
(2022-01-28). Roe v. Wade 49th Anniversary—Much is at Stake. mronline.org 
January 22 is the forty-ninth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that a women's right to choose to have an abortion falls within the right to privacy protected by the 14th Amendment, making abortion legal nationally.
(2022-01-28). National Report on the Teaching of Reconstruction. mronline.org 
In his 1935 book, Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote, "One cannot study Reconstruction without first frankly facing the facts of universal lying." He denounced the Dunning School, the dominant approach to Reconstruction at the time, which denied Black achievements and celebrated white supremacy.
(2022-01-28). California Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Measure Z Oil, Gas Protections Case. indybay.org Court Will Determine Fate of Local Ordinance Restricting Oil Extraction, Pollution…
(2022-01-28). Michael Smith and Zachary Sklar: Michael Ratner Was a Revolutionary Lawyer Like No Other. scheerpost.com Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington DC, 11th January 2006. [Photo by Jonathan McIntosh] | Click to subscribe on: When Michael Ratner died in 2016, the world lost one of the great human rights lawyers of the past century. A descendant of holocaust survivors, Ratner embodied the courage an…
(2022-01-28). The Supreme Court Just Allowed the Executions of Two Disabled Black Men. truthout.org 
In what activists warn could be the first in a spike of executions this year, Matthew Reeves and Donald Anthony Grant were killed via lethal injection by the states of Alabama and Oklahoma respectively on Thursday, just one month before a constitutional challenge to Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol goes to trial. | The Supreme Court denied an application to stay Grant's execution on Wednesday, a move overshadowed by the news that Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire. Reeves's life was in Hig…
(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…