Leonard Peltier is America’s longest-held Indigenous prisoner. He should be freed Janene Yazzie and Nick Estes
Indian Country Responds to the New Washington Commanders Name
Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, called Washington’s announcement an “end of a dark era” and said in a press release, “the NFL and the Washington franchise commercially exploited and dehumanized Native people and culturally appropriated our most sacred practices.”
“Roger Goodell and Dan Snyder have yet to take step one, as promised to the National Congress of American Indians, toward owning the genocidal history of the former name,” said Sharp. “They have shown a lack of accountability for the unspeakable harm to our citizens that they accepted, perpetuated, and profited from.”
A Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween 2019. The NYPD Is Quashing a Move to Punish the Officer. ProPublica
Labor
Amazon workers at a second Staten Island warehouse file petition for union election CNBC
Rail Unions Are Bargaining Over a Good Job Made Miserable Labor Notes
Why Most Kroger Workers Are Food Insecure American Prospect
Food delivery workers, ride-share drivers demand more rights AP
‘We’re at a crisis level’: Nurses take on union-busting bosses over short staffing Real News
Bargaining Intensifies at Mercy Hospital SEIU Healthcare Michigan
Manufacturing job losses particularly devastating for Black workers Economic Policy Institute
Manchin Raked in Record Q4 Donations While Killing Build Back Better Act ReadSludge
I never got my Covid tests I asked for. But Ukraine got the troops no one asked for. pic.twitter.com/mJgEBGdlXt
— Nick Estes (@nickwestes) February 2, 2022
The Fed’s War on Inflation Is Really an Attack on Workers CommonDreams
Biden Moves To Block Student Debt Victory Daily Poster
#COVID19
US Covid Death Rate Marks ‘Dark Side of American Exceptionalism’ CommonDreams
“You know what every country on this graph except for the USA has?” asked one observer, pointing to a new analysis of U.S. coronavirus deaths. “Universal healthcare.”
The Fallacy of “Mild” Omicron Dr. David Glassman
The Coronavirus Will Surprise Us Again Atlantic
U.S. war drive
Ukraine and U.S. war propaganda Margaret Kimberley
Plan of Ukrainian offensive in Donbass completed, awaits NSDC approval – intelligence
US troops to deploy to Eastern Europe amid Ukraine crisis CNN
Estonia: Troops, tanks, artillery, warplanes in NATO training for winter warfare Anti-bellum
Ukraine intends to insert assault forces behind the lines of Donbass, LPR’s militia says TASS
Russia has plans in case US bans dollar transactions for banks — Kremlin TASS
Proximity of US Labs to Russian Borders Poses High Risk, Health Watchdog Says Sputnik
Today was a good day for the U.S. military hammer Alex Jordan
This morning, the Pentagon announced plans to escalate U.S. military involvement in two different international conflicts: the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and the Ukraine crisis.
US to Send Warship, Fighter Jets to UAE After Yemen’s Houthis Attacks, Reports Say Sputnik
North Korea, Perpetual Victim of the US Military-Industrial Complex InDepthNews
Rabobank: Russia Is Prepared To Declare Economic War On The West, Inflicting “Huge Economic Pain” Michael Every of Rabobank
Critical German Oil Network Hit With Cyberattack Amid Rising US-Russian Tensions
The energy crisis surrounding Europe worsened as Germany’s fuel-supply network was hit with a cyberattack on Jan. 29. The incident follows mounting tensions between the US and Russia over Ukraine and the possibility Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany could be axed if Russia invades Kyiv.
Palestine
Beyond Apartheid: A Critique of Amnesty International’s Latest Report and the Apartheid Framework Within Our Lifetime
Israel can no longer bury the Tantura massacre MiddleEastEye
New documentary sheds fresh light on the 1948 killings, decades after a master’s student was embroiled in controversy for exposing it
Syria
‘Barrage of attacks’: Civilians killed in US raid in Syria Al Jazeera
Six children among 13 people killed as US special operations forces launch raid in Idlib province
Cuba
Cuba’s Resumen Latinoamericano Website Silenced Due to Blockade Resumen
Nuclear power is clean, safe and cheap. We need it to stop global heating Zion Lights
I’m a climate activist. The arguments made against nuclear power today are the same arguments I was making a decade ago, and I was wrong
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