2023-01-26: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-01-26). In new gesture to fascist right, House Speaker purges two Democrats while promoting Marjorie Taylor Greene. wsws.org Kevin McCarthy blocked the nomination of Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell in retaliation for the previous Democratic-controlled House removing two fascist Republicans for death threats against Democratic colleagues.

Ramona Wadi (2023-01-26). Israeli Calls for Palestinian Hamlet Khan Al-Ahmar's Demolition speak of Colonial Violence and Privilege. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) The former Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, has told a Likud faction meeting that "illegal Palestinian construction" in the occupied West Bank is "rampant". He wasn't being honest. "Last Friday we made it clear that supporting settlements does not contradict upholding the law," he claimed. "The defence …

teleSUR, JCM (2023-01-26). Fuerzas de ocupación israelí asesinan a dos palestinos. telesurtv.net Otro palestino resultó gravemente herido después de recibir un disparo en el pecho con fuego real israelí en el campo de refugiados de Shufat en el este de Jerusalén ocupado.

John Catalinotto (2023-01-26). Brazil's Lula moves against Bolsonaro collaborators. workers.org Brazilian Workers Confederation condemns coup attempt. Jan. 10, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Credit: CTBRS Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro's forces attempted a coup Jan. 8 in Brasilia and failed — the failure put Brazil's ultraright on the defensive. Their attack on the Legislature, the Presidential Palace and the Supreme . . . |

teleSUR, JDO (2023-01-26). Congreso de Honduras elegirá nueva Corte Suprema de Justicia. telesurtv.net Se instalará este miércoles la segunda legislatura. Los 15 magistrados que resulten electos laborarán durante el periodo 2023-2030.

WSWS (2023-01-26). US Supreme Court hands down decision denying retroactive benefits to veterans. wsws.org In the first decision of its 2023 term, the US Supreme Court handed down a unanimous ruling denying a sailor benefits retroactively for injuries suffered during military service because he did not file within one year of his discharge.

Luis Feliz Leon (2023-01-25). Workers at Hooters-style restaurant strike, protesting racist sexist manager. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Latino immigrant kitchen workers and a group of racially diverse women servers walked out at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Brentwood, Tennessee, on Saturday, Jan. 14. They say their employer is serving up of a toxic brew of racism and sexism. | "We went on strike to fire a manager because he is mistreating my co-workers verbally and physically," Juan Carlos Mendoz…

Fight Back (2023-01-25). Protest of Ohio cop hitting women in face. fightbacknews.org Butler Township, OH – On Saturday January 21, a few dozen people gathered in protest outside a local McDonald's, chanting "Black lives matter," "Women's lives matter," "No justice, no peace, no racist police" and "Boycott McDonald's." The event was hosted by Black Lives Matter-Dayton with the intention of bringing community awareness to an incident of police excessive use of force that had occurred earlier that week. | Latinka Hancock was struck in the face and head three times by Sergeant Todd Stanley while Officer Tim Zellers had a stun gun aimed at her. After receiving an incorrect order at the McDonald's in B…

Eva Bartlett (2023-01-25). Ukrainian Nazi Paraphernalia & Western Combat Instructions & Munitions Found In Mariupol Plant. thealtworld.com When in the Donetsk People's Republic recently, I visited the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works plant, a sprawling Mariupol plant which was secured in mid-April last year, when over 1,1 Ukrainian Marines surrendered or were captured by Russian forces. Even now, sappers work to clear the vast plant which Ukrainian forces littered with left behind explosives, as well as boobytraps, tripwires and mines. | Boobytrapping areas they fled from is something Ukrainian troops did elsewhere in Mariupol, including in apartment blocks. It's something terrorists in Syria likewise did, both with the intent of killing or maiming stil…

infobrics (2023-01-25). Kiev's crimes could be revealed by its own agents. infobrics.org Foreign mercenary blackmailing the neo-Nazi regime to demand benefits.

Susana Khalil (2023-01-25). Palestine: Al-Nakba, Al-Naksa and Oslo. orinocotribune.com By Susana Khalil Jan 18, 2023 | Facing this inhuman colonial attempt to make the native Semitic Palestinian people disappear, there are three aspects that must be rescued for the liberation of the native Palestinian people: to put an end to the Israeli colonial anachronism, re-incorporate the armed struggle and give birth to our own lexicon and agenda. | These are the three great tragedies that mark the struggle of the native Arab-Semitic Palestinian people in the face of Euro-Zionist colonialism. | Al-Nakba 1948. A European movement, Zionism, succeeds in imposing a colonial regime on 71% of the territory o…

J. B. Gerald (2023-01-25). Allegations of Genocide Return to Peru. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2023-01-25). The Machiavellians: James Burnham's Fascist Italian Defenders of Freedom. strategic-culture.org In our attempts at understanding such people who view themselves as the natural 'ruling elite', it is important that we never take a literal approach in our attempts to understand their desires and thus their motives. | "[James] Burnham…the real intellectual founder of the neoconservative movement and the original proselytizer, in America, of the theory of 'totalitarianism'." | — Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument: Essay and Minority Reports | [The following is the second installment from one of the chapters from my book "The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set: The Birth of International…

Julian Rose (2023-01-25). Is Fear of Freedom an Invitation for Fascism? globalresearch.ca

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-01-25). Presidenta de Honduras: la Celac es más necesaria que nunca. telesurtv.net "Solo unidos nos podemos blindar del neofascismo", expuso Xiomara Castro.

WSWS (2023-01-25). Four more Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy in Trump's failed coup. wsws.org While several members of the fascist militia group, including founder Stewart Rhodes, have been found guilty of plotting to keep Trump in power, the former president has yet to be charged more than two years after his failed coup.

Ethan Huff (2023-01-25). Netanyahu Admits Israeli Government Partnered with Pfizer to Compile Genetic Database of Population. globalresearch.ca

John Feffer (2023-01-25). Israel's Strange Ambivalence on Ukraine. fpif.org There are currently only two Jewish heads of state in the world. The first, not surprisingly, leads Israel. The second is Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. | They don't get along. | Religious affiliation by itself does not determine political or military alliances. Plenty of wars have pitted Christians against Christians and Moslems against Moslems. But there are only about 15 million Jews in the world. Especially in…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-01-25). Israel promotes Iron Fist weapons in London. electronicintifada.net Birmingham media outlet publishes lies about Palestine Action…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-01-25). Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank. electronicintifada.net Teen holding fake gun fatally shot during punitive home demolition raid.

Middle East Monitor (2023-01-25). Having brought in Disruptive Israeli Extremists, Can Netanyahu's Government Survive? juancole.com By Motasem A Dalloul | ( Middle East Monitor ) Before it was formed, the new far-right Israeli government coalition has been plagued with disputes and disagreements, despite the fact that all of its members are from the right-wing parties and all of them, at least, share the same principles, although each Party …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-25). Daily Round-up | Palestinians protest Israeli displacement in Khan al-Ahmar & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of protests against displacement in Palestine, discussions of a common currency in Latin America, a UN report on the state of Afghanistan, and more sanctions on Iran…

scorinoco (2023-01-25). The Israeli Army Has Killed 12 Palestinians in the First Two Weeks of 2023. orinocotribune.com Israel has killed 12 Palestinians since the start of the year. | The most recent were three martyrs from Jenin on January 14. The first two were Izz Eldin Basem Hamamra, 24, and Amjad Adnan Khaliliyeh, 23, who were killed by Israeli forces as they retreated after conducting a resistance operation against Israeli military targets. They were followed by another Palestinian martyr, 19-year-old Yazan Samer al-Ja'abari, who succumbed to injuries he sustained two weeks ago during an Israeli military assault on the village of Kufr Dan in Jenin. | Seven of the 12 slain Palestinians in 2023 are from Jenin. Five of the mar…

teleSUR, JCM (2023-01-25). Fuerzas de ocupación israelí asesinan a joven palestino. telesurtv.net Otro palestino resultó gravemente herido después de recibir un disparo en el pecho con fuego real israelí en el campo de refugiados de Shufat en el este de Jerusalén ocupado.

Francisco Dominguez (2023-01-25). Lula's Robust Reassertion of Democracy, Social Progress and the Rule of Law in Brazil. orinocotribune.com By Francisco Dominguez Jan 21, 2023 | "Under Lula's progressive government, the significance of Brazilian democracy to the rest of Latin America cannot be stressed enough. Nor can the threat represented by the Bolsonarista militarisation of Brazil's state institutions." | On 8th January 2023, a week after Lula's presidential inauguration, the world was shocked by a Trump-style mob attack on key state institutions in Brasilia, the country's capital city. The world saw media images of thousands of Bolsonaro supporters invading Planalto (presidential palace), and the premises of both the Supreme Court and Parl…

Staff (2023-01-25). Oil Industry Seeks Supreme Court Review of California Offshore Fracking Ban. commondreams.org The American Petroleum Institute and two oil companies filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court today, seeking a review of a lower court decision that halted offshore fracking in federal waters off California. A previous request by the Biden administration to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for an "en banc" review …

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