2023-02-02: News Headlines

Roger D. Harris (2023-02-02). Nuclear War Is No Exit for the Ukraine Crisis. dissidentvoice.org Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the USSR were in an existential standoff. The US had deployed ballistic nuclear missiles in Turkey. When the Soviets responded by placing missiles in Cuba, the US demanded their removal or …

Staff (2023-02-02). NATO ticket of admission: Sweden brands Kurds terrorists. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The LocalFebruary 2, 2023 Sweden to make it illegal to be active in a terrorist organisation Sweden's government has submitted a new terror bill which could help convince Turkey that the country is acting to crack down on Swedish residents active in the Kurdish PKK terror group. The new proposal, titled "a special penalty provision …

_____ (2023-02-02). Nostalgia For The Cuban Missile Crisis. popularresistance.org Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the USSR were in an existential standoff. The US had deployed ballistic nuclear missiles in Turkey. When the Soviets responded by placing missiles in Cuba, the US demanded their removal or face dire consequences. | We all breathed an enormous collective sigh of relief when Nikita Khruschev publicly agreed to withdraw the Soviet missiles from Cuba. John F. Kennedy secretly reciprocated by removing US missiles from Turkey aimed at the Soviet Union. The whole world rejoiced. A clo…

_____ (2023-02-02). Pivot To Asia Ramping Up Ominously. popularresistance.org A huge new U.S. Marine Corps base on the island of Guam was paid for, in part, by Japan. Why would Japan do this? I read that it was part of a deal during the Obama administration's "pivot to Asia" to get Marines out of Okinawa. Locals there despise the presence of gaijin (foreigners) who rape and kill girls and women, and Okinawans have been struggling for decades to get rid of them. | Why export the misery to Guam? The indigenous population of Okinawa understands all too well what it's like to live under Japanese imperialism. And taxpayers in Japan are by no means on board with ramping up military spending and…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-02). In the face of censorship, Indian students organize screenings of BBC documentary on PM Modi. mronline.org A recent BBC documentary on Indian PM Narendra Modi, which has been censored by the government, is being screened by students' organizations in various parts of the country.

Anonymous103 (2023-02-02). Military Situation In Iraq On February 2, 2023 (map Update). southfront.org

Roger D. Harris (2023-02-02). Nuclear War Is No Exit for the Ukraine Crisis. dissidentvoice.org Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the USSR were in an existential standoff. The US had deployed ballistic nuclear missiles in Turkey. When the Soviets responded by placing missiles in Cuba, the US demanded their removal or …

Staff (2023-02-02). NATO ticket of admission: Sweden brands Kurds terrorists. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The LocalFebruary 2, 2023 Sweden to make it illegal to be active in a terrorist organisation Sweden's government has submitted a new terror bill which could help convince Turkey that the country is acting to crack down on Swedish residents active in the Kurdish PKK terror group. The new proposal, titled "a special penalty provision …

_____ (2023-02-02). Nostalgia For The Cuban Missile Crisis. popularresistance.org Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the USSR were in an existential standoff. The US had deployed ballistic nuclear missiles in Turkey. When the Soviets responded by placing missiles in Cuba, the US demanded their removal or face dire consequences. | We all breathed an enormous collective sigh of relief when Nikita Khruschev publicly agreed to withdraw the Soviet missiles from Cuba. John F. Kennedy secretly reciprocated by removing US missiles from Turkey aimed at the Soviet Union. The whole world rejoiced. A clo…

_____ (2023-02-02). Pivot To Asia Ramping Up Ominously. popularresistance.org A huge new U.S. Marine Corps base on the island of Guam was paid for, in part, by Japan. Why would Japan do this? I read that it was part of a deal during the Obama administration's "pivot to Asia" to get Marines out of Okinawa. Locals there despise the presence of gaijin (foreigners) who rape and kill girls and women, and Okinawans have been struggling for decades to get rid of them. | Why export the misery to Guam? The indigenous population of Okinawa understands all too well what it's like to live under Japanese imperialism. And taxpayers in Japan are by no means on board with ramping up military spending and…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-02). In the face of censorship, Indian students organize screenings of BBC documentary on PM Modi. mronline.org A recent BBC documentary on Indian PM Narendra Modi, which has been censored by the government, is being screened by students' organizations in various parts of the country.

Anonymous103 (2023-02-02). Military Situation In Iraq On February 2, 2023 (map Update). southfront.org

Marc Steiner (2023-02-02). Shattering the myth of Rosa Parks reveals the civil rights movement's true history. therealnews.com Sanitized histories of the Civil Rights Movement have erased the long history of activism and struggle that defined the life of Rosa Parks long before she defied Jim Crow codes on a Montgomery bus. Yet Rosa Parks's dedication to the Black freedom struggle preceded the Montgomery Bus Boycott by decades. She joined the campaign to free the Scottsboro Boys in 1932, and was elected secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943. As an NAACP member, Parks investigated the gang-rape of Recy Taylor, a Black woman from Alabama, and helped organize the Committee for Equal Justice for Recy Taylor, which bro…

_____ (2023-02-02). The Tehran-Seoul Scandal: A New Development or a Rerun of the old? journal-neo.org During President Yoon Suk-yeol's visit to the United Arab Emirates, a "diplomatic misunderstanding" (the wording of the ROK Foreign Ministry) occurred, which, according to Yoon's political opponents, destroyed the sisterly relations between Tehran and Seoul. Since the days of Lee Myung-bak, South Korean special forces have been stationed in the UAE to train local troops. …

Anonymous669 (2023-02-02). SDF Concludes Operation In Syria's Raqqa With Arrest Of Over 100 ISIS Members, Suspects. southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Hawar News Agency. | On February 2, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) concluded a counter-terrorism operation in the northern Syrian governorate of Raqqa. | The operation was launched exactly a week earlier, on

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-02-02). Morning Commute 2/2/2023: Housing, Genocide in North America, Police violence and more! anchor.fm This morning on my way to work we discuss the recent murder of Tyre Nichols and the ongoing genocide of African peoples, Indigenous people, Asian, Latino, Chicano, and other folks on Turtle Island. We also discuss housing struggles and the intimate relations created through meeting someone in their home, and the organizing/assistance opportunities to come of it!

Presidio Theatre on the Main Post (2023-02-02). Thursday 3/2: World Premiere of 'Sojourner ZY: An Asian American Science Fiction Fantasy'. indybay.org Presidio Theatre on the Main Post | 99 Moraga Avenue | San Francisco, CA 94129…

Brenda Norrell (2023-02-02). Heard Museum in Phoenix Harbors O'otham and O'odham Remains. indybay.org While promoting itself as the premiere showcase of American Indian Art, the Heard Museum in Phoenix has harbored the remains of Native ancestors, and one of its board members has worked for the most protested companies in Indian country, violating human rights and sacred places. Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham elder said, "America and international collectors have a morbid pride in their exhibits of human remains and sacred items. They will never conquer the sacred essence of these people and items."

Matt Kennard (2023-02-02). Revealed: U.S Secret Military Deployment on British Cyprus. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-02). Sri Lankan student activist Wasantha Mudalige released from prison. peoplesdispatch.org Mudalige, who was in custody since August 18 last year under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), was cleared of all terrorism charges on January 31. On February 1, he was released from custody on bail…

WSWS (2023-02-02). Thousands of Sri Lankan port workers protest against tax increases. wsws.org The new wave of protests has terrified the Wickremesinghe regime, the opposition parliamentary parties and the trade unions.

____ (2023-02-02). Mainland urges further resumption of direct cross-Strait flights. ecns.cn The Chinese mainland has urged Taiwan to further resume direct flights across the Taiwan Strait, according to a mainland spokesperson on Wednesday.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-02). Court in Uzbekistan sentences 22 people for participating in protests in July last year. peoplesdispatch.org Human right groups have termed the sentencing "persecution" and demanded action against security forces responsible for the deaths of nearly two dozen people…

teleSUR, DRL (2023-02-02). Amplias protestas en Myanmar al conmemorarse aniversario golpista. telesurtv.net La junta militar extiende seis meses el estado de emergencia decretado en el golpe de Estado de 2021.

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