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2022-01-27: News Headlines

Project Censored (2022-01-26). The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2022. projectcensored.org Project Censored is a nonprofit organization supported by members like you. All levels of support are appreciated and you can make a donation here! Project Censored has received a grant from…

WSWS (2022-01-26). What "endemic" COVID-19 really means: Mass infection and death forever. wsws.org Government officials and the corporate media want to declare COVID-19 "endemic," to enforce policies that will have disastrous consequences for the working class.

Steve Sweeney (2022-01-26). Pelosi fast-tracks bill to funnel more weapons to Ukraine. peoplesworld.org U.S. officials are planning to rush through a major bill that will dramatically bolster weapons allocations for Ukraine and increase funding for anti-Russian propaganda and intelligence, it was announced on Tuesday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was fast-tracking the bill, called the "Defending Ukraine Sovereignty Act of 2022," straight to the House of Representatives. …

Fight Back (2022-01-26). Minneapolis protests Biden administration upholding Trump-era immigration policies. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On January 23, protesters marched in freezing temperatures to bring attention to the Biden administration's inhumane immigration policies. The march, organized by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), took place in a neighborhood with many immigrant families and received significant support from onlookers as protesters chanted about closing the camps, abolishing ICE, and supporting legalization for all. The protesters demanded that Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress take immediate action to reverse all Trump-era anti-immigrant policies and act on their campaign promi…

Sasha Abramsky (2022-01-26). GOP Is Increasingly Bent on Controlling Schools. Glenn Youngkin Is a Case Study. truthout.org Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin ran for office using the tactic of berating teachers for pushing critical race theory (CRT) on school kids. As was the case around the country, in district after district and in red state after red state, the candidate was largely attacking a straw man. CRT is a complex academic idea, generally taught in universities rather than in K-12 classrooms. But the effort to paint educators as "race warriors" and white parents as victims of a conspiracy to make their chi…

sputniknews (2022-01-26). Russian ECHR Envoy: Place From Where Missile Launched That Downed MH17 Was Controlled By Kiev. sputniknews.com STRASBOURG (Sputnik) – Russia is confident that a place from where a missile that downed the MH17 plane was allegedly launched was controlled by Ukrainian forces, Russia's representative to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Mikhail Vinogradov, said.

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-26). Putin in 2022 and Yeltsin in 1999. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com For years Western governments, their loyal oppositions and their servile (and controlled) news media have portrayed the Russian government of President Vladimir Putin as irrationally hostile toward NATO, often contrasting his alleged behavior to that of his predecessor Boris Yeltsin. The above characterization of Putin is inaccurate. He didn't say much if anything about the …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-26). Alaa Abd El-Fattah is not defeated. peoplesdispatch.org Laila Soueif, Egyptian academic and activist and mother of Abd El-Fattah, talks to Vijay Prashad about the legacy of January 25, 2011, when protests broke out that would eventually overthrew Hosni Mubarak. While the promises of those days were ultimately betrayed and repression reigns today, Laila Soueif says the young people of Egypt cannot be controlled forever this way. | She also talks about her son's book, 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated,' an ode to the endurance of Alaa's spirit and the power of resistance.

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