2022-02-08: News Headlines

Editor2 (2022-02-08). What Makes Amnesty's Apartheid Report Different? orinocotribune.com By Maureen Clare Murphy — Feb 3, 2022 | What makes Amnesty International's Certainly, Israel's "hysterical" reaction — (in the

Ari Paul (2022-02-08). The news is not that Israel has apartheid, but that Amnesty dares say so. mronline.org Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture?>

Staff (2022-02-08). Iran nuclear deal: The role of the Israel lobby & pressure groups in derailing an agreement. rt.com Different impact groups try to prevent a new deal between the West and Tehran. How are some of them connected to Israel? | On January 24, it was revealed in a

Al-Shabaka (2022-02-08). Challenging Israel's Climate Apartheid in Palestine. juancole.com By Muna Dajani | — ( Al-Shabakah ) — Through its participation in the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and other international forums, the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to promote a state-centric approach to climate change that ultimately blocks legitimate climate and environmental justice in Palestine. In effect, Palestinian leadership has reduced the Palestinian …

Liberation Staff, NYC (2022-02-08). Times Square action says:'Fight racism, not Russia!'. liberationnews.org It wasn't Russia that was forcing us to go back to work during a global pandemic so our bosses could grind out a little extra profit … It was Wall Street.

Staff (2022-02-08). Hunger-Striking Teachers Say Oakland Plan to Close Schools Will Hurt Black & Brown Communities. democracynow.org We go to Oakland, where a group of teachers are on a hunger strike to protest a plan to close and merge over a dozen schools due to under-enrollment. This comes ahead of a critical school board vote Tuesday that will decide whether to proceed with the plan. Activists argue the move threatens to divert resources to charter schools and displace hundreds of Black and Brown children from their neighborhood schools. The hunger strike across multiple different schools has empowered many to speak up against longtime systemic racism, says Moses Omolade, one of the striking workers and a community schools manager at Westl…

_____ (2022-02-08). Antiwar Groups Rally To Stop Us From Being Lied Into War With Russia. popularresistance.org Clearing the FOG provides excerpts from the speakers at the National Online Rally to stop war with Russia over Ukraine that was held on Feb. 5 as part of the national actions that took place in about 70 cities in Hawaii and coast to coast. The rally and actions were organized based on a unified call to action issued by 12 national and international antiwar organizations, which was endorsed by more than 200 more organizations. The demands include stopping the war with Russia, stopping the supply of weapons to Nazis in Ukraine, ending NATO, de-escalating the threat of nuclear war and resolving the current conflict…

Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom (2022-02-08). Challenging Colonialism s01e03: Weapons of Mass Destruction (p.II). indybay.org Part II: A History of Resistance | Part two of a four-part episode outlines dams as a colonial project, and centers Indigenous science in the historical and ongoing indigenous resistance to eco-genocide.

C.J. Atkins (2022-02-08). Canada convoy protest a truckload of anti-vax and white supremacist BS. peoplesworld.org

Maureen Clare Murphy (2022-02-08). Israel executes three men in Nablus. electronicintifada.net Palestinian Authority security forces storm slain fighters' funeral.

Staff (2022-02-08). Headlines for February 8, 2022. democracynow.org Biden Vows to Halt Russia-to-Germany Gas Pipeline If Russia Invades Ukraine, Several Democratic-Led States Announce Plans to Roll Back Mask Mandates, Biden Administration Tests Four-Legged Robotic "Dogs" on U.S.-Mexico Border, Costa Rican Presidential Candidates Appear Headed for April Runoff Election, Ex-Honduran President Added to U.S. List of Corrupt Officials over Drug Trafficking, Brazilian Antiracist Protesters Demand Justice for Immigrant Killed over Unpaid Wages, Supreme Court Will Allow Alabama's GOP-Gerrymandered Congressional Maps to Stand, Jill Biden Confirms Free Community College W…

_____ (2022-02-07). Casual Racism And The New Cold War. popularresistance.org A quick Google search of "Russia" or "China" is all that is needed to identify the casual racism of the corporate media and its central role in the U.S.'s New Cold War. Add the word "fear" to the search and the agenda becomes even clearer. In a search for mainstream media articles on Russia conducted on January 26th, nine of the first ten articles that appeared contained the word "fear" in the headline. China fared a bit better than Russia, but not by much. Better than half of the headlines referenced the word "fear" or "worried" to describe affairs relating to the world's second largest economy. | What is the co…

Zach Farber (2022-02-07). NFL head coach files lawsuit to change racist hiring practices. liberationnews.org The NFL's history of racism goes back to the early days of professional football. Of the of 511 head coaches in NFL history, only 24 are Black.

Staff (2022-02-07). Is the NFL Run Like a Plantation? Ex-Player Donté Stallworth Responds to Bombshell Racism Lawsuit. democracynow.org Ahead of the Super Bowl this weekend, we speak to former National Football League player Donté Stallworth about racism and anti-Blackness in the league. Last week, former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores sued the NFL, as well as three teams — the Dolphins, Broncos and Giants — for discriminating against him as a Black candidate during his interview process. In his complaint, Flores says the NFL is "racially segregated and is managed much like a plantation," with wealthy white owners and head coaches at the top while the majority of players who risk bodily injury are Black. "Hop…

Stephen W Enciso (2022-02-07). 'Black lives matter' say detained youth from inside Don Dale isolation block. greenleft.org.au Activists are continuing to keep up the pressure on the NT government to close the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre. Stephen W Enciso reports.

_____ (2022-02-07). Protest Calls On Public Stores To Stop Selling Apartheid Products. popularresistance.org On Saturday, 5 February, activists in Vancouver gathered outside the downtown BC Liquor Store for a picket and literature distribution calling for the publicly owned stores to stop selling Israeli wines, many of which are produced in the occupied Palestinian and Syrian lands of the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Despite repeated calls to provincial officials noting that the sale of these wines means that BC Liquor Stores are directly implicated in war crimes, they have continued to take no action and market these apartheid wines. | The Canada Palestine Association has led the campaign for years to remove these…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity. transcend.org 1 Feb 2022 – Amnesty International has analysed Israel's intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and has concluded that this system amounts to apartheid. Israel must dismantle this cruel system and the international community must pressure it to do so. All those with jurisdiction over the crimes committed to maintain the system should investigate them.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). Why Amnesty Is Taking Aim at the 'Root Causes' of Israeli Apartheid. transcend.org Amnesty International's Saleh Hijazi elaborates about his organization's new report, the Israeli government's harsh response, and why our analysis of Israeli apartheid needs to begin from 1948.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). The Blackwater Is in Ukraine with the Azov Battalion. transcend.org 1 Feb 2022 – In the Donbass front line is the Azov battalion, trained and armed by the US and NATO. The Azov recruits neo-Nazis from all over Europe under its flag from SS Das Reich. It is not only a military unit, but an ideological and political movement. In addition, there is the $10 billion plan being implemented by Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, now renamed Academy, which has been supplying mercenaries to the CIA, Pentagon and State Department for covert operations (including torture and assassinations).

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-07). "It's All Racist!" Trudeau Tailism of the Synthetic Left in Canada. libya360.wordpress.com The Synthetic Left in #Canada is doing #TrudeauTailism, repeating the same narratives about the Freedom Convoy, by telling minorities specifically, and Socialists overall not to engage in struggle during this #Populist moment because there are some Fringe Right Wing elements present. The alternative is to cede this ground to the Far Right which will only…

_____ (2022-02-07). Boise Tent Demonstration Remains Strong In Face Of Continued Police And Far-Right Harassment. popularresistance.org Folks are three weeks into the tent demonstration in so-called Boise, Idaho. Lasting through multiple police raids, attacks from local fascist groups, and a whirlwind of misrepresentation in local media; folks are war weathered but are regaining strength and pressing forward. | In the early morning hours of Friday, February 4th, 2022 folks began to hear the soft and eerie hum of police drones flying overhead, followed by the invasion of 40 Idaho state police filling the area. Cops started opening tents and grabbing whatever they could find that could be used to sustain warmth for the protesters who have been occu…

WSWS (2022-02-07). State of emergency declared in Ottawa as far-right Freedom Convoy occupation continues. wsws.org Far-right and fascist activists, many of whom are armed, remain menacingly encamped outside Canada's parliament. They have vowed to remain until all COVID-19 restrictions are scrapped by the federal Liberal government.

_____ (2022-02-07). Israel Gets Georgia To Strip Free Speech Rights (Again). popularresistance.org After Abby's major legal victory getting Georgia's anti-BDS law ruled unenforceable, Israel has hit back by getting the State Legislature to keep this brazenly unconstitutional law officially on the books.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). Pegasus Spyware Row Is Really about Who Controls Cyber Weapons. transcend.org 31 Jan 2022 – Washington's ban on NSO Group is not about safeguarding human rights. It's about curbing Israel's dominance of 'espionage diplomacy.'

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). The Problematics of Middle Eastern Diplomacy: The Case of Iran. transcend.org 2 Feb 2022 – In relation to both Iran, Israel, and Palestine, the essential message sent by the new leadership is continuity when it comes to substance combined with a resumption of the pre-Trump pretension of equi-distance diplomacy when it comes to the search for a sustainable peace.

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-07). Videos: Kiev requests U.S. THAAD, Israeli Iron Dome missile systems. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From TASS and the Times of Israel, respectively. Ukraine requests US to deploy THAAD missile defense systems — diplomatic sourceThe system will enable Kiev and its NATO allies to 'look deep" into the territory of Russia to a distance of up to 1,000 km Kiev has turned to the United States with a request to …

sputniknews (2022-02-07). As US Withholds Millions in Aid From Egypt, Local Expert Says It Won't Bring Cairo 'to Its Knees'. sputniknews.com Egypt has been the recipient of an average of $2 billion in annual military and economic aid from the US since 1979, when it signed a peace treaty with Israel. And an Egyptian professor claims that money has always been used as a tool to ensure political leverage.

Editor (2022-02-07). How Israel's occupation of Palestine intensifies climate change. mronline.org "Israel's actions over the last almost 75 years demonstrate that there is very little regard for the indigenous landscape, the indigenous flora and fauna, the wildlife population, and the indigenous people." — Zena Agha, Middle East Institute.

Shirin Odeh (2022-02-07). 7 months after her arrest, Shatha Odeh's case is emblematic of Israeli attack on Palestinian civil society. peoplesdispatch.org Shatha Odeh, the director of the Health Work Committees, has been in jail since July 2021 during which time she contracted COVID-19. Her case is a microcosm of Israel's attempts to eliminate all voices critical of its discriminatory policies…

Juan Cole (2022-02-07). Did the Pegasus Spyware Netanyahu used against Palestinians and gave to Saudis bring him Down? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Pegasus spyware made by the Israeli NSO company and backed by the Israeli state has been used extensively against Palestinians to keep them stateless, and former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu used access to the software as an incentive for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to improve relations …

teleSUR (2022-02-07). Costa Rica: Second Round To Define the New President. telesurenglish.net According to preliminary results of general elections, released on Sunday, the former President Jose Maria Figueres of the National Liberation Party and its counterpart from the Social Democratic Party, Rodrigo Chaves, went to a runoff in Costa Rica Presidential elections. | RELATED: | The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) reported that from the 6,847 voting centers throughout the country, 79.96 percent were counted, which place…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-02-07). Poor People's Campaign: Pass Build Back Better and protect voting rights. peoplesworld.org CHARLESTON, W. Va.—The closer the midterm election looms, the sharper the words to Congress from the Poor People's Campaign, both for passing the Build Back Better bill and for defending democracy against white nationalism and the radical right. The warnings came from campaign members—the rank and file, if you will—from New York and West Virginia …

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