2022-01-24: News Headlines

Editor2 (2022-01-24). Ready for Another Game of Russian Roulette? orinocotribune.com By H. Bruce Franklin — Jan 19, 2022 | As the U.S. moves nuclear forces closer and closer to the border of Russia, and as our corporate media bang their war drums louder and louder, does anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis? | In June of 1961, just three months after the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba was defeated, the United States began the deployment of fifteen Jupiter nuclear missiles to Turkey, which shared a border with the Soviet Union. Each missile, armed with a W49 1.4 megaton thermonuclear warhead, was equivalent to 175 Hiroshima bombs. With their fifteen-hundred-mile range, the missiles were capa…

Staff (2022-01-24). Cubadebate y Cadeca desmienten noticia falsa sobre la venta de divisas. cubadebate.cu Empleando la plantilla de nuestro sitio web, circula una nueva fake news en las redes sociales sobre la venta de divisas en Cuba. No comparta informaciones dudosas o falsas. A la vez, Cadeca alertó en su cuenta de twitter que circula en las redes una noticia sobre próxima venta de Moneda Libremente Convertible (MLC) a quienes viajen al exterior.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-24). Anti-Chinese Propaganda, Christian Nationalism, & the Foundations for a Right-Wing Terror Campaign. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer SheaUsing the USA's rising anti-Chinese sentiment as their ideological unifier, Christian nationalists are partnering with reactionary militias and imperialist agents to build a growing fascist movement. One that, if it doesn't fulfill its goals for regime change abroad, is still likely to carry out a successful version of its January 6th coup attempt at…

Staff (2022-01-24). Australia accuses China of 'foreign interference' after PM's WeChat blocked. rt.com Scott Morrison has allegedly been unable to access the Chinese social network for months | The chairman of Australia's parliamentary intelligence committee has accused China of interfering with the country's democracy after Prime Minister Scott Morrison's WeChat account was allegedly blocked. | Victoria Senator James Paterson — who serves as chair of Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security — claimed on Monday that Morrison has been unable to access his account on the Chinese social network for several months. | "My view is, given that WeChat is such a closely controlled…

Staff (2022-01-24). Bucs and Brady brutally trolled by former teammate after defeat. rt.com Antonio Brown couldn't hide his glee online as his former team were eliminated from the NFL playoffs | Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers were eliminated from the NFL postseason in the most dramatic circumstances imaginable late on Sunday when Matt Gay fired a last-second field goal through…

sputniknews (2022-01-23). UK University Puts Trigger Warning on Orwell's Novel 1984 Over 'Explicit Material'. sputniknews.com George Orwell's iconic dystopian novel, "1984" was published in 1949 and has been hailed as one of the most impressive books on censorship, persecution of individual thinking, and total opinion control.

sputniknews (2022-01-23). Biden's First Year in Office Saw 5,000 More Gun Killings Than Trump's, Monitor Finds. sputniknews.com 2020 saw several Democrat-controlled city councils across the US vote to cut their police department budgets in response to the Black Lives Matter "Defund the Police" campaign. Crime has since reportedly soared in some of those areas.

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