Daily Archives: January 7, 2022

2022-01-07: News Headlines

sputniknews (2022-01-07). Online Troll Arrested for Reportedly Sending Death Threats to Piers Morgan and His Son. sputniknews.com The vile online messages previously forced the TV host to install a panic button near his bed, on the advice of the police, the Daily Mail reported.

Paul Haeder (2022-01-06). Twenty Years of Teaching Science in Public School Down the Covid Drain. dissidentvoice.org These are snooping, snitching, massive canceling, censorious times. I just talked with a friend who is in San Francisco who has been working hard as a science teacher. He has opened up the curriculum, has worked to be in his school's union and he has just gotten married. That's 55, now, and he has to …

Stansfield Smith (2022-01-06). 21st Century US Coups and Attempted Coups in Latin America. dissidentvoice.org During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. US organized coups in Latin American countries is hardly a 20th century phenomenon. However, this century the US rulers have …

Staff (2022-01-06). 'Worse than the Civil war': how fixation on Capitol riot makes America ignore its other major problem. rt.com Disparate reactions to left-wing protesters at the DOI versus the ones at the US Capitol show how biased the mainstream media truly is. | One year after the US Capitol riot, Washington seems worried about domestic terrorism only when conservatives are perpetrators, but polling suggests no one outside the establishment echo chamber is swayed by the skewed narrative. | As a GOP congressman held up nearly identical photos of federal buildings being breached — one of the US Capitol last January and another of the Department of the Interior in October — Attorney General Merrick Garland sat stone-faced.

Editor2 (2022-01-06). Ignacio Ramonet's Complete Interview with Nicolás Maduro. orinocotribune.com "Neoliberalism is exhausted and new leaderships will surprise the world". | The year 2020 has been relatively clement to Venezuela, although it has been so frightening for the whole world. Sure, the blockades and attacks from abroad have not ceased, and have even, at times, intensified. But the Bolivarian revolution, which has just turned 22 years old, is seasoned in these battles. The remarkable thing is that here, contrary to what happened in almost all Latin America and particularly in neighboring countries (Colombia, Brazil), the Covid-19 pandemic has been controlled. Few infections, low mortality. Meanwhile,…

Staff (2022-01-06). Police dogs pulled from duty over new animal rights law. rt.com Methods for controlling enforcement canines during police operations were found to contravene new German laws on animal welfare | German police have withdrawn highly trained dogs from the front line after a new law on animal rights prohibited the methods used to train and control canines when apprehending criminals. | Following a law that came into force on January 1, police dogs in Germany were put on an enforced break. The law, introduced by former agriculture minister Julia Klockner, bans the use of punitive stimuli to train or control dogs. | "We are currently unable to deploy a section of our service dogs…

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