2022-02-03: News Headlines

WSWS . Warmongering against Russia in the name of Auschwitz. wsws.org The more the USA and NATO intensify their war drive against Russia, the more aggressively the ruling class in Germany behaves.

Staff . FAO Removes Venezuela from List of Hunger Hotspots, Incorporates Colombia. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has excluded Venezuela from its list of countries facing severe food shortages. | In a FAO, in its report, stated that this year in Latin America, Colombia, Haiti and Honduras are in the Agency’s list of highest levels of concern; but there is not such a forecast for Venezuela…

Staff . VIDEO: Ukraine Crisis Webinar: Peace Activists and Experts Gather. Here’s the video: Speakers include: Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director of The Nation magazine, columnist for the Washington Post. Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army colonel, retired diplomat, author, activist. Vladimir Kozin, member of Russian Academy of Military Sciences, speaking from Moscow. Norman Solomon, co-founder and national director of , author, activist. Moderator: David Swanson, campaign …

Matt Sedlar . The Historic Opportunities for Racial Equity in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The IIJA has provided a historic opportunity for advancing racial equity in infrastructure investments. Only if state and local activists force their elected officials to take advantage of it will its full potential be realized.

Josh Mayfield . Springfield, Mo., activists fight to stop city from using public money for private gas station. liberationnews.org The campaign, “Dam Up Buc-ee’s,” began in response to the City Council announcing at their Jan. 10 meeting that the City had put forward a proposal for $9.2 million in tax incentives to bring the famous Texas-sized gas station chain to southwest Missouri.

Amanda Winstead . Steps individuals can take to combat climate—change. nationofchange.org What once was considered a trend or an ideological point of view is now a global issue. Climate change is real and taking action to mitigate its effects is necessary. Environmentalists and activists aren’t trying to create the perfect world with unrealistic ideologies; they are trying to ensure that the world simply continues to exist. …

_____ . Shutting Down Israel’s Death Machine In Britain. On January 13, campaigners announced that, after years of popular pressure and direct action, Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems had decided to bite the bullet and sell its factory located in Oldham in the northwest of England. | A week later, there was another victory for the anti-war activists, as a British judge dismissed the case against three members of the group Palestine Action who were on trial for occupying Elbit’s factory in Shenstone, 60 miles to Oldham’s south. | Today, The Watchdog speaks to three key members of the campaign to force Great Britain to divest itself from aiding in war crimes aroun…

_____ . NU Dissenters: Northwestern Is Complicit In US Militarism. We are Northwestern Dissenters. | We are a revived campaign in which previous students laid the foundation for the fight against militarism on campus. | Dissenters is a national anti-militarist, anti-imperialist and abolitionist organization leading a generation of young people to take back what has been robbed of us from the war industry, reinvest in life-giving institutions and mend our relationships with the earth. Dissenters is building chapters of young people on college campuses all across Turtle Island that stigmatize militarism and force powerful elites and elected officials to divest from death and inves…

Staff . US to send warship, fighter jets to UAE. The United States that does not miss any opportunity to boost its military presence in the region says it is sending fighter jets to assist the United Arab Emirates following Yemen’s missile attacks.

_____ . Cubans Begin Collective Discussion Of New Family Code. On Tuesday, almost 7 million Cubans will start attending around 78,000 meeting points to discuss the Family Code approved by the Cuban Parliament (ANPP) in December. | They will carry out the discussions in 12,513 constituency electoral commissions, where the citizens will debate the contents of code’s articles. These debates will be recorded in physical and electronic records that will be sent to the electoral authorities so that they can aggregate and count citizen opinions according to specific issues. | Then the compilation made by the electoral authorities will be sent to Congress so that the lawmakers can s…

Staff . Descubren órdenes ejecutivas que demuestran la intentona golpista de Donald Trump. cubadebate.cu Al avanzar las investigaciones sobre las acciones de Donald Trump y sus aliados en una intentona golpista, se revelaron un par de órdenes ejecutivas redactadas por los asesores del entonces presidente saliente para ordenar a fuerzas federales -incluso militares- incautar máquinas electorales de conteo de voto como parte del plan de anular la elección presidencial de 2020.

Brasil de Fato . Cuba starts public consultation on new family code. On Tuesday February 1, Cuba started the process of popular consultation on its new Family Code, which changes the concept of the family nucleus and expands rights to the LGBTQIA community. Around 7 million Cubans will be able to give their opinion on the text in more than 78,000 consultation posts located throughout the island. | For the task, 1,428 electoral inspectors and 27,891 employees were appointed to ensure the transparency of the process. | 23 versions of the new code have been presented during three months of debate in 2021. It must now be reviewed by the Cuban population by April 30. | The document bri…

Staff . Al menos 24 muertos tras aluvión de escombros y lodo en Ecuador (+ Video). cubadebate.cu La casa empezó a moverse como en un terremoto mientras afuera caía un fuerte aguacero acompañado de un inusual y ensordecedor estruendo. De repente agua y piedras obtuvieron a ingresar por las puertas y ventanas del primer piso y sólo atinó a correr hacia la terraza, relató el martes Imelda Pacheco al frente de la que fuera su vivienda.

_____ . Feb. 3 Webinar: Camila Saab, Wife Of Diplomat/US Political Prisoner. Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat the US government has illegally seized and imprisoned for what the US considers “violation” of the illegal US economic warfare on Venezuela. He was in fact assisting Venezuela in legally working around the US blockade on his country by finding the means to import food, medicine, and materials for the Venezuelan oil industry. The US is seeking to coerce Alex Saab into disclosing the methods Venezuela uses to circumvent the US-Canadian-European sanctions with the goal of further tightening the economic blockade and suffering on the Venezuelan people. These sanctions are illegal ac…

Ana Perdigón . US Government Starts Expelling Venezuelan Migrants. The United States government has started to apply its new immigration policy, with which it will deport Venezuelan migrants to Colombia without allowing them to apply for asylum. | The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Venezuelans will be deported to Colombia. | The US authorities also added that the deportation of migrants will be carried out on a regular basis, although they did not specify how often. | The first two Venezuelans were expelled within this policy last Thursday, January 27. They had entered the United States through the US-Mexico border, but were sent to Colombia on a commerc…

IGD Worldwide . German Autonomists Win Asylum After Decades as Fugitives. | Submitted anonymously. |
| On December 2, 2021, the Venezuelan refugee commission finally approved the refugee claim of the two surviving implicated participants in the “K.O.M.I.T.E.E.” case, Peter Krauth and Thomas Walter. With this status, they can stay in Venezuela indefinitely with official identification documents and, after years of insecurity and the perennial threat of arrest, can finally live an almost normal life. For the third defendant, Bernd Heidbreder, this decision came too…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz . PSUV is Against Corrupt Officials, There will be No Impunity, Says Diosdado Cabello. Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), declared the resounding condemnation of the party against any act of corruption committed by officials in public posts, and stated that the full weight of justice should fall on those who get involved in criminal activities. | Cabello emphasized that there should be no impunity in cases such as the ones that recently led to the detention of a mayor and a deputy in the state of Zulia, who had been linked to drug trafficking; and a mayor in Anzoátegui state linked to fuel mafias. | At the press conference, the PSUV leader stat…

Staff . Tomorrow February 3 Webinar: In Conversation with Camila Saab, Wife of Alex Saab & Special Guest, Oscar López Rivera. Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat the US government has illegally seized and imprisoned for what the US considers “violation” of the illegal US economic warfare on Venezuela. He was in fact assisting Venezuela in legally working around the US blockade on his country by finding the means to import food, medicine, and materials for the Venezuelan oil industry. The US is seeking to coerce Alex Saab into disclosing the methods Venezuela uses to circumvent the US-Canadian-European sanctions with the goal of further tightening the economic blockade and suffering on the Venezuelan people. These sanctions are illegal ac…

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