(2022-02-10). San José protests against U.S. war on Russia. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Saturday, February 5, anti-war protesters gathered in front of San José's City Hall to demand an end to imperial saber rattling in eastern Europe. Speakers from CODEPINK, Freedom Road Socialism (FRSO), National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the El Barrio Defense Committee gathered a crowd of 30 onlookers while calling for end to the war drive against Russia. | Mike Paradela of FRSO said "We called the protest because what the U.S. government is doing is not good for working people. NATO does not benefit working people, it began as an al…
(2022-02-09). Memo to Congress: Diplomacy for Ukraine Is Spelled M-i-n-s-k. dissidentvoice.org 
Peace protest at the White House — Photo credit: iacenter.org While the Biden administration is sending more troops and weapons to inflame the Ukraine conflict and Congress is pouring more fuel on the fire, the American people are on a totally different track. A December 2021 poll found that a plurality of Americans in both …
(2022-02-09). Having Learned Nothing From 900,000 Deaths, Governors Lift Mask Mandates. truthout.org 
We've been here before, you and I, right here at the fulcrum between controlling COVID-19 and letting it run wild. Here we are again, swaddled in the dented surety that doing the same thing over and over will bring about a different conclusion, just because we really really want it to… wait, strike that: Just because capitalism really, really wants it to. The rest of that "we" is most of us, baggage stacked down in the dripping darkness of steerage, waiting for the next viral iceberg to smack thi…
(2022-02-09). Neoliberal capitalism and the commodification of social reproduction, from our home to our classroom. mronline.org 
It is official: we are getting ready for another round of industrial action in the UK higher education sector.
(2022-02-09). Dallas rally protests US, NATO aggression against Russia. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On February 5, a crowd gathered at the Grassy Knoll in downtown Dallas to protest threats of war by the United States and NATO against Russia. The protest was organized by the Dallas Anti-War Committee, CODEPINK Greater Dallas, Dallas Peace and Justice Center, Party for Socialism and Liberation Dallas-Fort Worth, and Veterans for Peace North Texas. The rally was a part of a national day of action in which over 50 cities participated. | The protest called for total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe, an end to weapons sales to the reactionary government of Ukraine, and for the disbandment of NATO.
(2022-02-09). United protest in New Orleans against US, NATO war on Russia. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA — Anti-war protesters gathered on February 5 in New Orleans at Lafayette Square Park to demand an end to NATO aggression against Russia. Activists carried signs and chanted slogans calling for peace and the disbandment of NATO. | The protest was organized by a coalition including the Communist Party USA, the Democratic Socialists of America, Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. | Speakers decried the latest U.S. attempt to escalate the situation in Ukraine, which they said threatens us with a nuclear conflict with Russia. The protest also highlight…
(2022-02-09). The Re-Humanisation of Culture: Dickens and the Social Realist Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. dissidentvoice.org 
Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 — 9 June 1870) in New York, c.‚Äâ1867—1868 Between 1935 and 1952 seven films were made based on the novels of Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 — 9 June 1870). 1 They were filmed in the social realist style, a style that was popular after the Great Crash and reflected the hardships …
(2022-02-09). Britain to provide Ukraine with anti-tank, anti-ship missiles. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From The Guardian and RT, respectively. The Guardian, being The Guardian, of course spends most of the article, which is hypothetically a report on Britain shipping more arms to the Eastern Ukrainian war zone, to bash Russia and insist British weapons are of the most pacific nature, only meant to protect human and wildlife and …
(2022-02-09). Challenging Colonialism s01e03: Weapons of Mass Destruction (p.II). indybay.org Part II: A History of Resistance | Part two of a four-part episode outlines dams as a colonial project, and centers Indigenous science in the historical and ongoing indigenous resistance to eco-genocide.
(2022-02-09). Will Biden Declare a "No First Use" Approach to Nuclear Weapons? truthout.org 
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, many observers noted that, terrifyingly, he would soon be the sole person in charge of determining whether or not to use the U.S.'s vast nuclear weapons capability. He would have the power to end life on Earth in a matter of minutes. | As Barack Obama and Joe Biden were preparing to hand the nuclear codes over, the outgoing vice president warned against any preemptive use of the terrible weapons: "Given our non-nuclear capabilities and the nature of today's t…