Daily Archives: February 4, 2023

2023-02-04: News Headlines

Jean-Franàßois Girard (2023-02-04). Video: "Something is Wrong, Why All Those Lies". Commemorating the Ottawa Freedom Convoy. Justin Trudeau Accused Them of "Violence" and "Racism". globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-04). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Dallas demands justice for Tyre Nichols. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On January 28, over 50 people gathered in Civic Garden Park in Downtown Dallas to protest the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by police in Memphis, Tennessee. The rally was organized by the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression-Dallas. | Local activist Olinka Green led a chant of the names of victims, including Tyre Nichols, Sandra Bland, Atatiana Jefferson, Santos Rodriguez and DeeDee Hall, an African American trans woman who was killed by police in Dallas in 2022. | Sydney Loving, co-chair of NAARPR Dallas, demanded justice for Tyre Nichols and emphasized the importance and need…

Richie Merino (2023-02-03). Harlem resists gentrification, environmental racism. workers.org Harlem, New York Harlem families and grassroots community groups gathered Jan. 28 on West 145th St. and Lenox Ave. in Harlem to protest the operations of a truck stop, which they say was opened in retaliation for their rejection of a gentrification project known as "One45." Several rally speakers condemned . . . |

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Black Lives Matter-LA protest calls for "No cops in traffic stops!" fightbacknews.org Venice, CA — On January 29, over 200 people gathered on the intersection of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards in an action led by Black Lives Matter-LA demanding justice for Keenan Anderson, Tyre Nichols and many others whose lives were taken by police during traffic stops. | This protest comes days after the Memphis Police Department released gruesome body camera footage of five now-former officers beating 29-year-old Nichols, which led to his death days later. Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of BLM and family members of Keenan Anderson were present and spoke about how much Keenan was loved and missed and demand…

Amy Goodman (2023-02-03). "Florida Is a Laboratory of Fascism": Scholars Discuss Fight Over Black History. truthout.org We host a roundtable with three leading Black scholars about the College Board's decision to revise its curriculum for an Advanced Placement course in African American studies after criticism from Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The revised curriculum removes Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer theory as required topics, while it adds a section on Black conservatism. |

Jean-Franàßois Girard (2023-02-04). Video: "Something is Wrong, Why All Those Lies". Commemorating the Ottawa Freedom Convoy. Justin Trudeau Accused Them of "Violence" and "Racism". globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-04). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Dallas demands justice for Tyre Nichols. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On January 28, over 50 people gathered in Civic Garden Park in Downtown Dallas to protest the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by police in Memphis, Tennessee. The rally was organized by the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression-Dallas. | Local activist Olinka Green led a chant of the names of victims, including Tyre Nichols, Sandra Bland, Atatiana Jefferson, Santos Rodriguez and DeeDee Hall, an African American trans woman who was killed by police in Dallas in 2022. | Sydney Loving, co-chair of NAARPR Dallas, demanded justice for Tyre Nichols and emphasized the importance and need…

Richie Merino (2023-02-03). Harlem resists gentrification, environmental racism. workers.org Harlem, New York Harlem families and grassroots community groups gathered Jan. 28 on West 145th St. and Lenox Ave. in Harlem to protest the operations of a truck stop, which they say was opened in retaliation for their rejection of a gentrification project known as "One45." Several rally speakers condemned . . . |

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Black Lives Matter-LA protest calls for "No cops in traffic stops!" fightbacknews.org Venice, CA — On January 29, over 200 people gathered on the intersection of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards in an action led by Black Lives Matter-LA demanding justice for Keenan Anderson, Tyre Nichols and many others whose lives were taken by police during traffic stops. | This protest comes days after the Memphis Police Department released gruesome body camera footage of five now-former officers beating 29-year-old Nichols, which led to his death days later. Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of BLM and family members of Keenan Anderson were present and spoke about how much Keenan was loved and missed and demand…

Amy Goodman (2023-02-03). "Florida Is a Laboratory of Fascism": Scholars Discuss Fight Over Black History. truthout.org We host a roundtable with three leading Black scholars about the College Board's decision to revise its curriculum for an Advanced Placement course in African American studies after criticism from Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The revised curriculum removes Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer theory as required topics, while it adds a section on Black conservatism. |

Alex Bainbridge (2023-02-04). Protesters condemn ALP support for Israeli apartheid after Jenin killings. greenleft.org.au Chanting "Free, free Palestine" and "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free", 70 protesters gathered in the Murray St Mall to protest the Speakers pointed out that US and Australian politicians were quick to condemn the killing of seven Jewish civilians in Jerusalem on January 28 but were silent about the killing of Palestinians by Israeli forces two days earlier.

Mickey Z. (2023-02-04). Never Again? The Same Criminals Who Funded Hitler are Imposing Tyranny on Us Today. dissidentvoice.org Like many of you, I watched parts of Vera Sharav's new documentary series, Never Again is Now Global, this week. With its sharp focus on the Holocaust and Nazi tactics in general, I felt the need to reach back into some of my older research and remind readers who was supporting and enabling the rise …

Manlio Dinucci (2023-02-04). Cooperazione a 360 ∞ Con la Libia". Ma con quale Libia? globalresearch.ca La Presidente Meloni, in visita ufficiale a Tripoli, ha impegnato l'Italia a una "cooperazione a 360 gradi con la Libia". Ma con quale Libia? Il "Governo di Unità Nazionale" libico, "internazionalmente riconosciuto", presieduto da Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. Esso è stato …

Evan Reif (2023-02-03). How a Network of Nazi Propagandists Helped Lay the Groundwork for the War in Ukraine. covertactionmagazine.com "History isn't what happened, but the stories of what happened and the lessons these stories include. The very selection of which histories to teach in a society shapes our view of how what is came to be and, in turn, what we understand as possible. This choice of which history to teach can never be …

Rick Rozoff (2023-02-03). Poland: U.S. interceptor missile battery, German troops meet operational capability. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish Press AgencyFebruary 3, 2023 German air defence system in eastern Poland is now operational The US-made Patriot air defence system that Germany has sent to Poland…. In its Friday edition, the Rzeczpospolita daily wrote that Germany had offered Poland three Patriot PAC-3 batteries to strengthen the security of the Polish eastern border. They are …

Dr. Naomi Wolf (2023-02-03). Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide: Dr. Naomi Wolf on the Pfizer "Confidential Report" globalresearch.ca The truth is: I've been rendered almost speechless because recently I've had the unenviable task of trying to announce to the world that indeed, a genocide — or what I've called, clumsily but urgently, a "baby die-off" — is underway.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-04). Madhav Kumar Nepal on threat of extreme right in Nepal. peoplesdispatch.org Madhav Kumar talks about the ongoing political instability in the country, the threat posed by the rising influence of the far right, and the path ahead for the left to defend Nepal's socialist and secular values enshrined in the constitution.

Sharon Zhang (2023-02-03). DeSantis Impeded Federal Officials' Ability to Enforce Voting Law, Watchdog Says. truthout.org A government watchdog group filed a complaint against the Department of Justice (DOJ) this week in an attempt to obtain records regarding far right politicians blocking federal election monitors in certain polling places during the 2022 election. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is suing over the DOJ's failure to turn over records of communications between federal… |

WSWS (2023-02-04). Republicans remove Ilhan Omar from House Foreign Affairs Committee, Democrats capitulate. wsws.org House Speaker McCarthy has allotted an outsized number of slots on key committees to members of the fascistic House Freedom Caucus who held up his election for Speaker for 15 ballots, as well as other far-right lawmakers who supported his bid for the speakership.

_____ (2023-02-03). Universities Submit To Neoliberalism And Fascism. popularresistance.org We are witnessing the rise of a unique brand of U.S. fascism, which has once again reared its ugly head and has made higher education one of its primary targets. This fascist attack on the university is made possible by the longstanding neoliberal withering of its institutions, which now rely mostly on underpaid contingent workers. The disempowerment of university labor runs hand-in-hand with a right-wing ideological front — rooted in rampant anti-intellectualism and rugged individualism — which seeks to control what knowledge universities can produce and teach. In order to counter this attack on high…

cameron orr (2023-02-03). It's going to take a mass movement. cpusa.org Editor's Note: Below is the full report by Joe Sims to the CPUSA National Committee on January 14th. Previously an excerpted keynote was published under the title "The Party We Must Become." As we meet this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, the fight against the fascist danger remains front and center. Make no …

_____ (2023-02-04). Writing About A Joy That Invades Jenin. popularresistance.org Israel calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality. This year, 2023, will be the seventy-fifth year after the Nakba, the catastrophe of 1948 when Israeli troops illegally removed Palestinians from their homes and tried to erase Palestine from the map. Since then, Palestinians have resisted against all odds, despite Israel's formidable backing by the most powerful countries in the world, led by the United States. | Operation Break the Wave started in February 2022 with the assassination of three Palestinians in Nablus (Adham Mabrouka, Ashraf Mubaslat, and…

H. Scott Prosterman (2023-02-04). Faustian Bargain: On pretext of Israel, Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from Committee to please White Nationalist Base. juancole.com Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) Congressional Republicans are more interested in grandstanding than governance, and political persecution rather than functional democracy. The banishment of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her assignment on the Foreign Affairs Committee by Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) illustrates how Republican candidates and office holders try to outdo each other with …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-04). Daily Round-up | Sudan, Israel to sign formal peace treaty & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of developments in the normalization of ties between Sudan and Israel, the condemnation of war-mongering by the US, a summit between Spain and Morocco, and the resettlement of a Guantanamo Bay detainee…

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-02-04). Fuerzas israelíes asesinan a joven palestino en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Abdullah Sami Qalalweh, de 25 años y residente de la aldea de Al-Judeida fue asesinado por las fuerzas de ocupación israelíes.

Ryan Black (2023-02-03). Iran Blames Israel For Last Week's Attack On Isfahan Military Site. progressivehub.net PEOPLES DISPATCH…

Anonymous669 (2023-02-03). Israel's Security Agency Says It Foiled Attempt By Hezbollah To Recruit Palestinians Via TikTok. southfront.org The TikTok accounts involved in Hezbollah's alleged recruitment attempt. Source: Shin Bet. | On February 1, the Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet, announced that it had thwarted an attempt by a former Lebanese operative of Hezbollah to recruit Palestinians via the TikTok video-sharing mobile application. | Two said two East Jerusalem men, with Israeli ID cards, were arrested over their alleged ties with the operative who identified as Salah Swouti, also known as "Abu Ghas…

ecns.cn (2023-02-03). China becomes Israel's largest supplier of imported passenger cars in Jan. ecns.cn The gasoline-powered models of the Chinese automaker Chery, which were introduced to Israel in November 2022, and the electric models of MG and Geely, also registered high sales in Israel in January. ‚ñ…

Juan Cole (2023-02-03). No, Militant Israeli Squatters haven't Exceeded 0K in Occupied Palestine: It is more Like 733,000. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) AP is reporting that what it calls the Israeli "settler" population in the Palestinian West Bank has now exceeded 0,000, quoting an Israeli squatter organization. Later in the article AP admits that about 200,000 Israelis also live in East Jerusalem, but does not specify that their presence there is illegal, …

teleSUR, jaa, YSM (2023-02-03). Informe revela que Israel asesinó a 224 palestinos en 2022. telesurtv.net La cifra incluye a 53 menores de edad, entre ellos, ocho tenían menos de 10 años y 45 entre 11 y 17 años.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-02-03). Aviones israelíes lanzan nuevo ataque contra la Franja de Gaza. telesurtv.net El bombardeo aéreo deja daños materiales. Se desconoce si provocó víctimas o heridos. Resistencia palestina responde al ataque.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-03). Daily Round-Up | Half a million UK workers go on strike and more stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of a massive strike by workers in the UK, the increase in US bases in the Philippines, Israeli attacks on Gaza, and protests in Peru…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-03). Sudan and Israel announce plans for a peace deal. peoplesdispatch.org Despite criticism from the ongoing pro-democracy movement in the country, Sudan is one of the four Arab countries that have "normalized" relations with Israel by signing the Abraham Accords…

Vijay Prashad (2023-02-03). Writing about a joy that invades Jenin: The Fifth Newsletter (2023). mronline.org Israel calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality.

Michael Bull (2023-02-04). Palestine Solidarity Conference draws widespread support. greenleft.org.au More than 150 people from across Australia and New Zealand attended the Palestine Solidarity Conference to discuss how to raise public awareness about Palestinian human rights and oppression. Michael Bull reports.

Staff (2023-02-03). Palestinian worker says UN refugee agency is retaliating against him for leading strike. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Workday Magazine on Feb. 3, 2023. It is shared here with permission. A Palestinian worker for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the West Bank is accusing the agency of retaliating against him for leading a strike for better pay. The strike of nearly 4,000 workers began …

Anonymous (2023-02-03). Palestine in Pictures: January 2023. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Editor (2023-02-03). Palestine is my cause: Arabs reaffirm support for Palestinians, rejection of the occupation. mronline.org The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration, state institutions and democracy. With one single exception: Palestine.

Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni (2023-02-03). Perú: Conmoción y violencia estatal. globalizacion.ca El telón de fondo de este drama es la cicatriz racista que históricamente enfrentó la costa y la sierra peruanas, con una Lima reluciente que no deja de ser capital virreinal. Desde la destitución de Pedro Castillo hace menos de…

Sharon Zhang (2023-02-03). Sanders, Warren Condemn GOP's "Disgusting" Move to Silence Ilhan Omar. truthout.org Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) issued strong rebukes of the GOP after the House voted along party lines on Thursday to remove Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) from her spot on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a move that Democrats and progressives have decried as racist and Islamophobic. "It is an outrage that every Republican voted to remove… |

Rageshri Dhairyawan (2023-02-04). [Perspectives] A space to grow. thelancet.com A woman's right to choose what happens to her body is an issue that often makes headlines. In 2022, the US Supreme Court made the controversial decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 law which made access to safe abortion a constitutional right. Concerns were also raised by human rights groups in July, 2022, when the UK Government took out references to protect sexual and reproductive health and rights in a multinational statement about gender equality. In her debut novel, Diary of a Void, Japanese writer Emi Yagi tackles the issue of bodily autonomy from an unusual angle—that of a single woman choosing…

Staff (2023-02-04). Juez de Corte Suprema brasileña confirma que senador le contó sobre reunión conspirativa con Bolsonaro. cubadebate.cu El ministro del Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil, Alexandre de Moraes, confirmó que el senador Marcos do Val le contó sobre una reunión de conspiración electoral a la que habría asistido con el expresidente Jair Bolsonaro y el exdiputado Daniel Silveira en 2022. Do Val dijo a periodistas el jueves que Bolsonaro "se sentó en silencio" mientras Silveira exponía el complot.

Ryan Black (2023-02-03). How The Supreme Court Could Finally Force Big Oil To Face Trial. progressivehub.net KATE YODER | GRIST…

americanthinker (2023-02-03). Republicans shouldn't forget the leak that wrecked the Supreme Court's reputation. americanthinker.com Perhaps the new Congress should consider subpoenas to get to the bottom of the unprecedented leak of the Dobbs v. Jackson abortion decision.

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