Monthly Archives: February 2022

2022-02-22: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-22). UK higher education workers continue strikes over pensions, pay and conditions. wsws.org The lecturers' determination to fight is in sharp contrast to the UCU bureaucracy who have done everything to curtail action from the outset and want nothing more to see it ended with a rotten sell-out.

_____ (2022-02-21). Nicaragua Condemns New Interference Attempt By OAS. popularresistance.org The Nicaraguan delegation to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) firmly and categorically denounced, on Friday, February 18, the OAS' notification for scheduling a special session of its member states to address "the situation in Nicaragua." | Previously, the OAS had issued a declaration condemning alleged lack of legal guarantees in Nicaragua and what it considered as human rights violations perpetrated by the government of Nicaragua. Such declarations of the OAS referred to the judicial procedures being carried out in Nicaragua against some of the promoters of the violent 2018 cou…

Benjamin Norton (2022-02-21). At OAS, Nicaragua condemns US police brutality, racism, torture in Guantánamo prison. multipolarista.com Nicaragua condemned the hypocrisy of the OAS "Ministry of the Colonies" for obsessively demonizing his country while doing nothing about racist US police brutality and torture at Guantánamo or the mass graves of Indigenous children in Canada.

teleSUR (2022-02-21). Cuba Receives "Tons" of Love Despite US Campaign. telesurenglish.net The Catalan solidarity platform Defensem Cuba has collected health materials to support the island's people. The Committee of Solidarity has coordinated such efforts with Central America of Prat and the Associació Nou Barris de Barcelona in Prat de Llobregat. | RELATED: | The third shipment of the campaign "Tons of Solidarity against the blockade against Cuba" in Spain is valued at 80,000 Euros. | In the same ve…

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2022-02-21: News Headlines

_____ (2022-02-20). Documents: US Government Spent $22M Promoting Anti-Russia Narrative. popularresistance.org Kiev, Ukraine — Amid soaring tensions with Russia, the United States is spending a fortune on foreign interference campaigns in Ukraine. Washington's regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), has spent $22.4 million on operations inside the country since 2014, when democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown and replaced by a successor government handpicked by the U.S. Those operations included propping up and training pro-Western political parties, funding pliant media organizations, and subsidizing massive privatization drives that benefit foreign multinational c…

Gabriel Martínez Saldívar (2022-02-20). Nicaragua Condemns New Interference Attempt by OAS. orinocotribune.com Feb 20, 2022 ( Previously, the OAS had issued a declaration condemning alleged lack of legal guarantees in Nicaragua and what it considered as human rights violations perpetrated by the government of Nicaragua. Such declarations of the OAS referred to the judici…

2022-02-21 15:55 | 11:55 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 

2022-02-19: News Headlines

Alan Macleod (2022-02-18). Documents Reveal US Gov't Spent $22M Promoting Anti-Russia Narrative in Ukraine and Abroad. mintpressnews.com The National Endowment for Democracy can claim it is in the business of democracy promotion. In reality, it does anything but that, unless "democracy" is entirely synonymous with elite U.S. interests.

JANET (2022-02-18). Ukraine crisis: who fabricates a war, and how? iacenter.org By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein The author is a Venezuelan international relations expert, who was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country's ambassador to Nicaragua and an advisor for international politics for TELESUR. Translation: United World International, edited by John Catalinotto. Feb. 2 — It is almost natural that countries (especially the powers that have more capability of doing so) would like to resolve their internal problems by unleashing conflicts abroad. For that, they invent attacks on their national security,…

Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery (2022-02-18). US Is Effectively Stealing Billions From a Nation Ravaged by a US-Initiated War. truthout.org President Joe Biden recently In sharp contrast, hi…

2022-02-19 20:23 | 16:23 EST | jz | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 

2022-02-18: News Headlines

Alan Macleod (2022-02-18). Documents Reveal US Gov't Spent $22M Promoting Anti-Russia Narrative in Ukraine and Abroad. mintpressnews.com The National Endowment for Democracy can claim it is in the business of democracy promotion. In reality, it does anything but that, unless "democracy" is entirely synonymous with elite U.S. interests.

JANET (2022-02-18). Ukraine crisis: who fabricates a war, and how? iacenter.org By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein The author is a Venezuelan international relations expert, who was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country's ambassador to Nicaragua and an advisor for international politics for TELESUR. Translation: United World International, edited by John Catalinotto. Feb. 2 — It is almost natural that countries (especially the powers that have more capability of doing so) would like to resolve their internal problems by unleashing conflicts abroad. For that, they invent attacks on their national security,…

Staff (2022-02-17). Presidente de Duma Estatal rusa realizará visita oficial a Cuba. cubadebate.cu El presidente de la Duma Estatal (Cámara Baja del Parlamento) de Rusia, Viacheslav Volodin, realizará visitas oficiales a Cuba y Nicaragua el 23 y 24 de febrero. El político ruso mantendrá conversaciones con dirigentes de La Habana y Managua sobre la cooperación entre los países, así como se dará continuación al desarrollo del diálogo interparlamentario.

Stansfield Smith (2022-02-17). The gains of Nicaraguan women during the second Sandinista Government. mronline.org Women in the Third World (and increasingly in the imperial First World) face problems of violence at home and in public, problems of food and water for the family, of proper shelter, and lack of health care for the family, and their own lack of access to education and thus work opportunities.

Stansfield Smith (2022-02-17). How Nicaragua's Sandinistas boosted women's empowerment, achieving 5th-highest gender equality on Earth. multipolarista.com The Sandinistas' ambitious program of women's liberation transformed Nicaragua from having the 90th to the fifth-highest gender equality in the world. This is how they did it.

Julie Hollar (2022-02-17). Biden's multi-Billion Afghan theft gets scant mention on TV News. mronline.org Two months ago (FAIR.org, 12/21/21), I noted the striking contrast between vocal media outrage—ostensibly grounded in concern for Afghan people—over President Joe Biden's withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and the relative silence over the growing humanitarian crisis in that country, which threatens millions with life-threatening levels of famine.

2022-02-19 02:39 | 22:39 EST | jz | 8 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 

2022-02-17: News Headlines

Staff (2022-02-17). Presidente de Duma Estatal rusa realizará visita oficial a Cuba. cubadebate.cu El presidente de la Duma Estatal (Cámara Baja del Parlamento) de Rusia, Viacheslav Volodin, realizará visitas oficiales a Cuba y Nicaragua el 23 y 24 de febrero. El político ruso mantendrá conversaciones con dirigentes de La Habana y Managua sobre la cooperación entre los países, así como se dará continuación al desarrollo del diálogo interparlamentario.

Stansfield Smith (2022-02-17). The Gains of Nicaraguan Women During the Second Sandinista Government. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith — Feb 14, 2022 | Women, particularly those in the Third World, often find themselves with limited ability to participate in community organizations and political life because of the bondage poverty and their traditional sex role imposes on them. On them falls sole responsibility to care for their children and other family members, especially when sick; they maintain the home, cook the meals, wash the dishes, the clothes, bathe the children, clean the house, mend the clothes. This labor becomes unending manual labor when households have no electricity (consequently, no lights, no refrigera…

A Guest Author (2022-02-16). Ukraine crisis: who fabricates a war, and how? workers.org By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein The author is a Venezuelan international relations expert, who was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country's ambassador to Nicaragua and an advisor for international politics for TELESUR. Translation: United World International, edited by John Catalinotto. . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-16). Settler-Colonialism is an Inevitable Incubator for Fascism. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea It's ironic that U.S. patriots are the most insistent in claiming that China is headed for collapse. Not only is this narrative totally detached from China's increasingly prosperous actual conditions, but it's ignorant to just how long Chinese civilization has been here. This is in contrast to the makeshift settler colony that was…

_____ (2022-02-16). Ex-President Arrested In Honduras As US Requests Extradition. popularresistance.org Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández has been arrested, a day after the US Department of Justice requested his extradition over drug trafficking and weapons charges, culminating a spectacular fall from grace for a man who was once considered one of Washington's top allies in Central America. | On Tuesday afternoon Hernández left his home in a wealthy neighborhood in the country's capital, Tegucigalpa, where he was cuffed at the hands and feet and provided a bullet-proof vest before being taken away in a police caravan to a special forces base. He will appear before a judge for his first hearing within…

Staff (2022-02-16). Buildings collapse as country hit by major earthquake. rt.com Guatemala has experienced a major tremor and two aftershocks | A major earthquake of 6.2 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Guatemala overnight on Wednesday. Footage shared on social media showed collapsed buildings in the Central American nation, with falling debris having damaged vehicles and landslides hitting many routes, forcing emergency workers to be deployed to clear roads. | The first tremor was felt at 1: 12 am local time (7: 12 am GMT). Two aftershocks were reported around forty minutes later, with a respective magnitude of 5 and 4.8. | The epicenter of the earthquake was reported at a depth of 96 kil…

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