2022-02-20: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-20). Yet again, Israel refuses to cooperate with inquiry on human rights violations. peoplesdispatch.org Israel is continuing its policy of not engaging with international investigations into human rights violations in Palestine. In a letter to the head of the international commission of inquiry, Navi Pillay, Israel's representative to the UN Meirav Eilon Shahar refused to cooperate in the investigations to identify possible violations of human rights, war crimes and reasons for protraction of conflict in historic Palestine. | Accusing Pillay of bias against Israel, Meirav claimed that there is simply no reason to believe that Israel will receive reasonable, equitable and non-discriminatory treatment from the Counci…

Staff (2022-02-20). La imagen del día: Fuerza policial a caballo arremete contra manifestantes en Canadá. cubadebate.cu El presentador Benny Johnson compartió la fotografía con el siguiente texto en Twitter: "Esta es la imagen definitoria: un líder occidental ordenó a las autoridades aplastar el cráneo de una abuela. No hay dos lados aquí. O estás con fascistas o estás en contra. Pregúntele a su representante por qué no se han pronunciado y condenado esto. Ahora es el momento de elegir".

sputniknews (2022-02-20). Inquiry Begun as Meta Exec Clegg Accused of Getting Hands on UK Gov't Plan for Net Crackdown: Report. sputniknews.com Leak Inquiry Begun as Meta Supremo Clegg Accused of Getting Hands on UK Gov't Plan for Net Crackdown…

Chris Hedges (2022-02-19). Hedges: Democrats, the More Effective Evil. orinocotribune.com By Chris Hedges — Feb 14, 2022 | The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire and the primary business is war. | When all else fails, when you are clueless about how to halt a 7.5% inflation rate, when your Build Back Better bill is gutted, when you renege on your promise to raise the minimum wage or forgive student debt, when you can't halt the Republican suppression of voting rights, when you have no idea how to handle the pandemic which has claimed 900,000 lives — 16% of the world's total deaths although we are les…

Danny Haiphong (2022-02-19). Eileen Gu controversy exposes the importance of racial loyalty to the American Empire. mronline.org Corporate media used the 2022 Beijing winter Olympics to create endless anti-China screeds. An athlete was even condemned for choosing to affirm her Chinese heritage. White supremacy drives foreign policy decisions and American thinking.

_____ (2022-02-19). Ottawa Convoy Exposes The Racism That First Nations Have Long Known. popularresistance.org Early in 2020 and late in 2021, the Wet'suwet'en First Nation faced down police forces as they tried to protect their homelands in northern British Columbia. The province and the federal government had no difficulty in sending in the RCMP to mete out justice. | No mercy has been given to the First Nations when they protest. Oka, Ipperwash, Gustafsen Lake, logging standoffs and oil and gas standoffs, including the Tiny House Warriors standing against the Trans Mountain pipeline, were all met with unwavering police forces. | The last confrontation in Wet'suwet'en had First Nations from other provinces joining in so…

Staff (2022-02-19). Over 1000 people already support #Palestine2022 campaign in France. samidoun.net In just a few weeks after its launch, the #Palestine2022 campaign, highlighting Palestine in the French presidential elections, has already received the support of more than 1000 people for its demands and its objectives. The campaign aims to denounce the collaboration of French governments with Israeli apartheid and introduce the subject of the Palestinian cause …

Abdul Rahman (2022-02-19). European Union prefers corporate profits over the health of people across the world. peoplesdispatch.org By showing reluctance on the patent waiver on COVID-19-related products even after the majority of its population is vaccinated, the EU leadership has once again taken the side of Big Pharma and perpetuated vaccine apartheid…

Workers World Party (2022-02-19). Unite for Feb. 26 — Workers Power Day! workers.org Solidarity with Starbucks, Amazon and all workers who are organizing and fighting back Fight against racism and all forms of oppression and exploitation — these struggles are part and parcel of the workers movement. Black Lives Matter! Unite our many struggles into one powerful force! Starbucks workers are leading an . . . |

_____ (2022-02-19). Lessons From January 6th: An Inside Job. popularresistance.org Over a year after the harum-scarum storming of the U.S. Capitol, there is ample evidence that it was an inside job. Not only was the security detail intentionally minimized to the extreme, but decisions were made at the highest levels of the chain of command to allow a right-wing mob to rampage through the building. At the forefront of this antidemocratic horde, as we shall see, there were fascist or semi-fascist organizations whose leadership has multiple direct ties to the military and intelligence agencies. All of this raises fundamental questions regarding the true nature of the U.S. government and its relati…

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2022-02-19). Represión israelí deja más de 60 palestinos heridos en Nablus. telesurtv.net En Cisjordania, un niño de 12 años fue gravemente herido tras ser atropellado por colonos israelíes.

Angela (2022-02-19). Saturday 2/19: Virtual screening of "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org

Tony Murphy (2022-02-19). Workers now organizing unions in over 100 Starbucks stores. workers.org Blatant, racist acts of union-busting by Starbucks have only poured fuel on the fire of worker organizing. Seven Starbucks workers were fired Feb. 8 in Memphis, Tennessee, including the entire union Organizing Committee for the store, comprised of mostly Black and Brown workers. Now, the total number of stores organizing . . . |

Valentina Rose (2022-02-19). Stanford Stands for Choice on Valentine's Day. indybay.org Activists in Palo Alto shut down a major downtown intersection during rush hour to call attention to an impending crisis. The US Supreme Court is poised to dismantle Roe v. Wade if immediate and mass action doesn't stop it.

Albert C. Lin (2022-02-19). Supreme Court Could Restrict US Agencies' Regulatory Power in Air Pollution Case. truthout.org On Feb. 28, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in This case stems from…

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