(2022-01-14). The Iran Deal And The Assassination Of Soleimani. popularresistance.org Vienna – World leaders have descended upon Austrian capital Vienna to participate in the ongoing nuclear deal being negotiated primarily between the United States and Iran. Today, MintPress spoke to Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran. Dr. Marandi is currently in Vienna as part of the Iranian delegation. | While corporate media often portray Iran as a recalcitrant pariah and the United States as a long-suffering broker in the situation, Dr. Marandi notes that it was actually the Trump administration that unilaterally walked away from the agreemen…
(2022-01-14). How Canada's homicidal let it rip policy paved the way for the catastrophic Omicron wave. wsws.org With hospitalizations and deaths rising sharply across Canada, government and corporate media claims that Omicron is "mild" are proving to be a cruel lie.
(2022-01-14). Fact Check: 40% Of Credit Card Debt Holders Don't Know Their Interest Rate. moguldom.com Do you know the interest rate on your credit cards? If you don't, you're not alone. Some 40 percent of Americans with credit card debt do not know what interest rate they are paying on that debt, according to a new Bankrate report. "As much as we have heard about record-low rates on other products, credit card …
(2022-01-14). Julian Assange case: 4 things that the media doesn't tell you. peoplesdispatch.org As a US extradition looms over Julian Assange and the Wikileaks founder continues to remain in prison without charge, we compile a list of the most important facets of his case that mainstream media often overlooked…
(2022-01-14). Book Review: 'On the Ho Chi Minh Trail' Leaves U.S. War Propaganda Intact. towardfreedom.org Sherry Buchanan's "On the Ho Chi Minh Trail" criticizes a few isolated events that took place during the U.S. war on Vietnam. This speaks more to the depressing ignorance of so-called progressives in the West than to the experiences of Vietnamese women, writes Nick Flores.
(2022-01-14). Australian media COVID propaganda barrage intensifies ahead of schools' reopening. wsws.org An "open letter" demanding the school system's reopening will serve as an enduring indictment of its 35 signatories, and, for the medical professionals among them, as a gross dereliction of duty.
(2022-01-14). Jason E Smith: 'Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation'. mronline.org 
Smith begins with Friedrich Pollock's definition of automation as a 'technique of industrial production [in which] the machines are "controlled" by machines', and shows that this trend of automation, while increasing labor productivity in the industrial and manufacturing sector, is also the reason for a lack of automation in the service sector.