(2022-01-27). "Bastille 2022": Building a Worldwide Movement Against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca Bastille 2022 pertains to the restoration of fundamental rights. It seeks to reverse the criminal COVID-19 agenda which in the course of the last two years has triggered economic, social and political chaos Worldwide, coupled with bankruptcies, unemployment, mass poverty and despair.
(2022-01-26). US delivers 300 Javelin missiles to Ukraine as EU announces further military deployments. wsws.org A day after the US announced the extraordinarily provocative move of sending 8,500 troops to Eastern Europe, the US delivered some 300 javelin anti-tank missiles along with shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapons and bunker busters to Ukraine.
(2022-01-26). Solution to global inequality is socialism! workers.org 
Around the globe, billions of people are suffering incredible losses resulting from capitalism's inability and refusal to seriously address the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions have lost lives or loved ones. Families are houseless. Workers have been forced to choose between risking their health at minimum wage jobs and feeding their families, . . . |
(2022-01-26). Buenaventura, Colombia Strikes Against Racial Capitalism. libya360.wordpress.com Herrinson Campara Campaz, Anthony Dest, Esther Ojulari Before Colombia's national uprising exploded in April 2021, struggles for justice in a majority Black port city set in motion a historic new wave of social protest. In 2017, Junior Jein, a rapper from Buenaventura [Colombia], released a song that became the anthem of a protest. But he…
(2022-01-26). "Gangsters of Capitalism": Jonathan Katz on the Parallels Between Jan. 6 and 1934 Anti-FDR Coup Plot. democracynow.org 
We speak to award-winning journalist Jonathan Katz about his new book "Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire." The book follows the life of the Marines officer Smedley Butler and the trail of U.S. imperialism from Cuba and the Philippines to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Panama. The book also describes an effort by banking and business leaders to topple Franklin D. Roosevelt's government in 1934 in order to establish a fascist dictatorship. The plot was exposed by Butler, who famously declared, "War is a racket." The far-right conspira…
(2022-01-26). 'Millions have their hopes set on a Bolsonaro defeat': An interview with Brazilian socialist Roberto Robaina. greenleft.org.au Green Left speaks to Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) leader Roberto Robaina about Jair Bolsonaro's extreme right project, the upcoming elections and how Brazil might fit into the new wave of left governments in the region.
(2022-01-26). San Jose Passes First-of-Its-Kind Insurance Requirement for Gun Owners. truthout.org 
The city council in San Jose, California, has approved a new measure that would require gun owners in the city to purchase liability insurance for their weapons. | Several cities across the U.S. have presented similar proposals, but it's likely that San Jose, which passed the ordinance on Tuesday, There are about 55,000 gun-owning households in the ci…