2022-02-12: News Headlines

Maria Ramirez (2022-02-12). Wednesday 2/16: Public Demonstration for Racial Equity @ RCEB San Leandro. indybay.org Demonstration on the corner of San Leandro Blvd. & Davis Street (500 Davis Street)…

Editor (2022-02-12). Capitalism: great for the rich, shit for the poor. mronline.org Capitalism has generated the highest level of economic inequality in human history.

Aarathi Prasad (2022-02-12). [Perspectives] Deirdre Cooper Owens: bringing context to systemic medical racism. thelancet.com In the 1790s, Franàßois Marie Prevost, a young French surgeon fresh from his medical training in Paris moved to Port-de-Paix, Haiti. "Of course at that time Haiti was France's most economically valuable colony", says historian Deirdre Cooper Owens. "So there he began some experimental work on enslaved Haitian women, trying to perfect the caesarean section." Prevost's sojourn coincided with the leadership of Toussaint Louverture, who had been born a slave, the fight for Haitian independence, and the abolition of slavery.

WSWS (2022-02-12). Australian PM's defeat on religious discrimination bill deepens political crisis. wsws.org With only a handful of parliamentary sitting days left before an election, the Coalition was desperate to push the bill through in order to meet a pledge to religious fundamentalist organisations.

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-12). Romania bringing Moldova into NATO. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com AgerpresFebruary 11, 2022 Romanian, Moldovan defense ministers sign military education co-operation protocol Romania's Defence Minister Vasile Dincu and his Moldovan counterpart Anatolie Nosatii signed in Chisinau a protocol on co-operation in the field of military education on the sidelines of a joint meeting of the national governments of Romania and Moldova hosted by Chisinau. *** …

Fight Back (2022-02-12). Minneapolis, St Paul teachers will march for schools students deserve. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Teachers and education assistants in both Minneapolis and Saint Paul will hold a joint march on February 12 to call for the safe and stable schools that their students deserve. The Minneapolis educators are members of the Minneapolis Teachers Union, and the Saint Paul educators are members of Saint Paul Federation of Educators. Both groups have been in bargaining over their next contract. | The march will start at the Wabun Picnic Area at Minnehaha Falls Park at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 12, and they are calling for educators as well as parents and community supporters to come out to show t…

Editor (2022-02-12). The Left has culture, but the World still belongs to the banks: The Sixth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. '[T]here is great intellectual poverty on the part of the right wing', Héctor Béjar says in our latest dossier, A Map of Latin America's Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar (February 2022). 'There is a lack of right-wing intellectuals everywhere'. Béjar speaks …

ecns.cn (2022-02-12). Ambassador Qin Gang Sends Congratulatory Letter to Spring Festival Reception hosted by USAI. ecns.cn On Feb. 10, Ambassador Qin Gang sent‚ÄÇa congratulatory letter to the online Spring Festival reception hosted by‚ÄÇUS-Asia Institute. Minister Jing Quan attended the reception and read out Ambassador Qin's congratulatory letter. | In the letter, Ambassador Qin expressed‚ÄÇhigh appreciation to USAI for its long-term dedication‚ÄÇto the dialogue and exchanges between the US and Asian countries, including China.‚ÄÇAmbassador Qin‚ÄÇsaid, Spring Festival is the most important festival for Chinese people‚&A…

350.org, Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition (2022-02-12). Thursday 2/24: Building a Fossil Free Federal Reserve: The Movement to Stop Funding the Climate Crisis. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

David Ruccio (2022-02-11). How to lie with inequality statistics. mronline.org It's a "simple story," with clear political implications. Maybe that's the reason the Krugmans of the world don't want to tell it. . .

SAM (2022-02-11). A Super Bowl Musing: Can Pro Sports Be More Than a Billionaire Bacchanalia? inequality.org

_____ (2022-02-11). Who Will Be Held Accountable for America's Ultimate Doom? journal-neo.org It seems like there will never be any equality in the world. Just look at the situation between the United States and Russia, as an example of how everything is upside down. It doesn't seem to matter which party is in power in the U.S. The person in the White House doesn't matter either. Hollywood …

Fight Back (2022-02-11). New York rallies for Amir Locke and Isaiah Williams. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – Over 80 people rallied in Union Square in New York City on February 8 in honor of Amir Locke and Isaiah Williams, two young Black men murdered by police. Locke was murdered by Minneapolis PD under a no-knock warrant, and Williams by Metro Police near Las Vegas while police executed a warrant for a murder he did not commit. | Speeches addressed the injustice of cops murdering Black people and it being rooted in racist inequality. They emphasized how no-knock warrants are disproportionately used as an excuse to murder Black people. The rally was followed by a march.

_____ (2022-02-11). Eric Adams' Black On Black Crime. popularresistance.org The term "black on black crime" is a particularly pernicious trope. It is a ruse used to absolve the systemic racism which kills Black people in a plethora of ways. It invalidates Black people's suffering and gives license to law enforcement and its many acts of brutality. | Ironically, it also describes what is happening among a group of Black officials in New York City. The new mayor and his police commissioner committed a brazen political mugging of the Manhattan District Attorney. | New York City mayor Eric Adams personifies the political imperative to perpetuate an unjust system. Adams was a police officer h…

Editor (2022-02-11). "The Last Refuge of Scoundrels" mronline.org New Evidence of E. O. Wilson's Intimacy with Scientific Racism…

_____ (2022-02-11). New Survey: One In Four Temp Workers Reports Wage Theft. popularresistance.org A stunning 24% of workers in the temp industry say they have had their wages stolen from them by their employers, according to a survey, released Feb. 3, that examines cycles of poverty and precarity for the industry's disproportionately Black and Brown workers. | The findings are based on surveys carried out by seven worker advocacy groups, including the National Employment Law Project (NELP) and Temp Worker Justice, across the country. In the study, 1,337 temp workers in 47 states answered questions about pay, safety, job mobility, workplace discrimination and employer retaliation. | Temporary staff, or temp wo…

Ann Brown (2022-02-11). Black America Goes After Tiki Barber For Defense Of NFL Owners. moguldom.com Retired New York Giants star Tiki Barber got emotional in his defense of the National Football League, declaring that the NFL is "not racist" after former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against it and several teams. The Miami Dolphins fired Flores on Jan. 10 after he delivered two of the best …

Daniel Figueroa, Marilyn Bechtel (2022-02-11). Defying the community, Oakland school board votes to close, merge schools. peoplesworld.org OAKLAND, Calif. — Despite hours of public comment opposing any cutbacks, the Oakland Unified School District's Board of Education voted just before 1 a.m. on Feb. 9 to approve a slimmed-down but still highly controversial plan to close, merge or cut grades from 11 of the district's 87 public schools. Two schools, Community Day School …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-11). Cuba Battles COVID, Defying 60-Year U.S. Blockade. libya360.wordpress.com Struggle — La Lucha Presentation by Sharon Black, writer for Struggle-La Lucha and national spokesperson of the Socialist Unity Party, at the Europe for Cuba online forum Feb. 9, 2022. End the U.S. blockade of Cuba It has been 60 years this month since U.S. President John Kennedy first proclaimed Executive Order 3447, prohibiting "the importation into…

Alborada Online (2022-02-11). Video: The left's resurgence in Latin America. greenleft.org.au After a series of setbacks in 2015-19 suggested to many observers that the era of leftist governance in Latin America was over, the picture today is very different. A recent Alborada forum looked at what lies behind the Latin American left's resurgence.

Editor (2022-02-11). Beijing 2022 and China's challenge to sports imperialism. mronline.org In this essay, Charles Xu exposes these narratives for the new Cold War propaganda they are. At the same time, he draws from valuable left analysis of the Olympic movement's historical imbrication with white supremacy to explore China's fraught relationship with international sports.

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2022-02-11). Pakistan in the Eye of the Storm. mronline.org New trends that have appeared in regional security since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan are highly consequential for regional politics.

Haymarket Books (2022-02-11). Friday 2/11: Automating Banishment: The Data-Driven Policing of Stolen Land. indybay.org Online teach-in w/ CC available…

Yves Engler (2022-02-11). Canadian interference in Ukrainian affairs reaches epic proportions. mronline.org If there was an award for the world's most hypocritical political party, the Liberal Party of Canada would be frontrunners to take the prize.

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