(2022-02-22). US still does not intend to send its troops to Ukraine, White House says. tass.com Earlier, the US announced the deployment of additional forces to Poland and Romania over tensions around Ukraine…
(2022-02-22). Has Elizabeth Truss Decided to Help Washington Enrich itself at the Expense of Afghanistan? journal-neo.org 
At the end of December 2021, the Biden administration, in another of its now blatantly false propaganda campaigns, tried to convince the world of the supposedly "humane treatment of the people of Afghanistan." It should be recalled that at the time the matter concerned the delivery of one million doses of coronavirus vaccine produced by …
(2022-02-22). Comedian Rosie O'Donnell Apologises to Actress Priyanka Chopra for Mistaking Her Identity – Video. sputniknews.com Former Miss World-turned-Indian-American actress Priyanka Chopra and her husband – actor-singer Nick Jonas – were recently dinning at a popular restaurant in Malibu in Los Angeles when the Bollywood actress was mistaken to be someone else by popular comedian Rosie O'Donnell.
(2022-02-22). Indian Hindu Group 'Bajrang Dal' Calls for Statewide Shutdown in Karnataka Over Member's Murder. sputniknews.com A 26-year-old member of the Hindu organisation Bajrang Dal was stabbed to death on Sunday night in Shivamogga, in the state of Karnataka, for allegedly posting anti-hijab posts on Facebook, leading to a tense situation in the area amid an ongoing row over a ban against wearing hijabs introduced in some pre-university colleges.
(2022-02-22). Nothing to Lose? Gazans Vent Anger Against Hamas in Rare Twitter Campaign. sputniknews.com In 2021, the poverty rate in the Gaza Strip saw a dramatic spike, reaching 59 percent, compared to 43 percent five years earlier. Unemployment is also high and Gazans have been pinning the blame not only on Israel, but also on the Islamist group that has been running the enclave since 2007.
(2022-02-22). UK and US are the Masterminds behind Kazakhstan's January Unrest? journal-neo.org 
The events that took place in Kazakhstan's in early January still loom large. Kazakhstan is still tracing the instigators and participants of the January unrest, as law enforcement officers find arms caches in the cities and countryside almost every day. Deputy Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Marat Syzdykov has recently confirmed that the country's authorities are …
(2022-02-22). Beijing Warns US That 'Bitter Competition' With China May Escalate Into Full-Fledged Confrontation. sputniknews.com Chinese authorities previously announced that they will take countermeasures in response to US weapons sales to Taiwan and promised to slap sanctions on Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies.
(2022-02-21). Syria, Like Ukraine, Is A Potential Candidate To Be The Warzone Between Moscow And Washington. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Written by Khaled Iskef | If this critical situation in Ukraine worsened, the world, no doubt, would blow up into a third world war, especially with the expansion of US under the NATO cover by deploying forces in several European countries and in the middle east. The latest events in Donbass may probably constitute a major turning point in addition to that Moscow considers Kiev's violations a dire threat and that the NATO is reinforcing Kiev's role, a US alliance, on the expense of…
(2022-02-21). Headlines for February 21, 2022. democracynow.org Possible Biden-Putin Summit Announced Amid High Tensions, Unrest in Eastern Ukraine, California to Start Treating COVID-19 as Endemic Disease, Queen Elizabeth Tests Positive for Coronavirus; Canadian Police Clear Ottawa of "Freedom Convoy", 6 African Countries to Receive mRNA Technology as Part of WHO Program to Expand Vaccine Production, Al-Shabab Claims Bomb Blast That Killed at Least 13 in Somalian City of Beledweyne, Clashes on Malian Border Kill Dozens as France Announces Gradual Withdrawal, Iran Nuclear Deal Could Be Revived as Talks Enter Final Stretch, Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor Is Most De…
(2022-02-21). Ukraine Crisis is Part of New Cold War on Russia (and China). orinocotribune.com By Jenny Clegg — Feb 17, 2022 | The US-manufactured crisis in Ukraine is part of the NATO drive to subordinate Europe, to prevent its tilt toward the China-Russia partnership and the Eurasian powers' attempt to build a new multipolar world. | As Russia has maintained its Why is Washington choosing to stoke a conflict wit…
(2022-02-21). WWII Redux: The Endpoint of U.S. Policy from Ukraine to Taiwan. dissidentvoice.org "This is not going to be a war of Ukraine and Russia. This is going to be a European war, a full-fledged war." So spoke Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky just days after berating the U.S. for beating the drums of war. It is not hard to imagine how Zelensky's words must have fallen on those …
(2022-02-21). Japanese PM views phone call with Putin as part of efforts to ease tensions over Ukraine. tass.com The Japanese prime minister emphasized that he had called on the Russian leader "to abandon plans to change the situation by force and search for a generally acceptable solution through diplomatic negotiations"
(2022-02-21). Iran nuclear deal overshadows Russia worries on oil market radar. rt.com 
Oil prices have made their first weekly drop since the beginning of the year before recovering on Monday | Global crude prices dropped for the week ending Sunday for the first time this year. The slide came amid reports of a US-Russia summit on Ukraine and hopes of reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran. Both Russia and Iran are major global energy suppliers. | However, the price drop was short-lived as global benchmark Brent crude gained on Monday to trade above $93 per barrel by 10: 00 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was trading around $91 per barrel. | Both benchmarks reached multiple-year highs las…
(2022-02-21). The Western Allied Nations Bully the World While Warning of Threats from China and Russia. transcend.org 17 Feb 2022 – Why the chief of Germany's navy, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schà∂nbach, was sacked? Because while in India he said two things that are unacceptable in the West: | ‚Ä¢ That "the Crimean Peninsula is gone and never [coming] back" to Ukraine.
(2022-02-21). Canberra Freedom Convoy Demands, 'Sack Them All!'. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2022-02-21). 8 Million Yemenis At Risk of Starvation Due to Funding Shortage, Escalation in Violence, Say UN Officials. towardfreedom.org UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg and UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths highlighted the drastic rise in civilian casualties over the last few months, reports People's Dispatch.
(2022-02-21). The clarion call of Health for All! peoplesdispatch.org Roman Vega, Global Coordinator of People's Health Movement, talks to Peoples Dispatch about the path ahead for the movement as well as measures that need to be taken in order to achieve them…
(2022-02-21). On Israel as an Apartheid State: An Interview with Richard Falk. transcend.org 19 Feb 2022 – An interview David Falcone originally published in CounterPunch on 11 Feb prompted by the Amnesty Report but extending beyond it.
(2022-02-21). Paralysing Afghanistan: Washington's Regime Change Agenda. dissidentvoice.org Nation states are habitually doomed to defeat their best interests. Conditions of mad instability are fostered. Arms sales take place, regimes get propped up or abandoned, and the people under them endure and suffer, awaiting the next criminal regime change. Nothing is more counter-intuitive than the effort to isolate, cripple and strangulate the Taliban regime …
(2022-02-21). Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison Commits $804 Million Over a Decade for the Antarctic. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2022-02-21). Waste dumped illegally returned to UK. rt.com 
Sri Lanka dispatched the last shipment of thousands of tons of "hazardous cargo" to their country of origin on Monday | Sri Lankan officials shipped the final batch of illegally imported waste back to the UK on Monday. The containers had been sent from Britain to the South Asian nation claiming to contain "used mattresses, carpets and rugs," when they were actually filled with unwanted biowaste. | The 45 containers, containing thousands of tons of the illegally imported material, were loaded onto a ship at Colombo port. The country's customs official has announced the removal of the last portion of the "hazard…
(2022-02-21). New Data Shows US Government Has Been Bought For $14 Billion. popularresistance.org There are a lot of reasons so many people hate the two corporate parties, but one of the biggest ones might be just how thoroughly they are bought off by the "One Percent." (And no, I don't mean the percentage of people who like Trident's new Indian Curry Explosion‚Ñ¢ chewing gum.) I'm referring to the One Percent who are disgustingly wealthy — people who own ponies for their children to play with and children for their ponies to play with. Those individuals essentially own all our politicians. (Also for their children to play with. … Which explains why Chuck Schumer and Kristen Gillibra…
(2022-02-21). A Scene of Mughal-E-Azam (Music Video of the Week). transcend.org Celebrating the 78-year career of the famous Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar who passed away in Mumbai on Sunday 6 Feb 2022. The song's movie is based on the life of Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great and his son who dared to fall in love with a Mughal court dancer.
(2022-02-21). Washington's Indisputable Guilt in Worsening Relations with Iran. journal-neo.org 
Iran and the United States used to be the closest allies before the 1979 Iranian revolution, but now they are uncompromising enemies. Quite a peculiar political metamorphosis. Makes one wonder how former close friends turned into such enemies in just over forty years? And why it is the US who is still full of such violent …
(2022-02-21). US Turns On Honduran Narco-Dictator Juan Orlando Hernández. popularresistance.org The US government has turned on the right-wing former dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, after it spent years supporting him. | Hernández is the latest in a series of brutal authoritarians who were key US allies until they outlived their usefulness, from Iraq's Saddam Hussein to the Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo to Panama's Manuel Noriega. | This February, the United States requested the extradition of Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández on charges of trafficking cocaine and guns. Local authorities arrested him on February 15. | Hernández, who is popularly known by his initials JOH, ser…
(2022-02-21). Africa Must Not Abandon Palestine By Granting Israel Observer Status. popularresistance.org Africa is currently facing one of its most crucial decisions regarding Palestine and Israel. The repercussions of this decision could be as significant as the 1975 Resolution 77 (XII) by the Organization of African Unity — the precursor to the African Union — which recognized Zionism, Israel's founding ideology, as a form of racism. This time around, however, it is Palestine, not Israel, that stands to lose. | Israel's attempt to gain observer status at the AU began years ago. For many years, most African countries have severed all ties with Israel in solidarity with Palestine and other Arab countries…
(2022-02-21). Striking for Freedom: Why Palestinian Detainees are Boycotting Israeli Courts. orinocotribune.com 
Following hunger strike victories last year, Palestinians hope collective action will force Israel to abolish its practice of indefinite detention without trial. | By Yuval Abraham — Feb 17, 2022 | For the past six weeks, hundreds of Palestinian administrative detainees have been boycotting Israeli military courts over their indefinite imprisonment with no trial or indictment. Since January 1, the prisoners have announced that they will not arrive for hearings at courts, and that they are refusing to allow attorneys to represent them in absentia until Israel ceases its use of administrative detention. | Isra…
(2022-02-21). Violent protest erupts over US grant in China's backyard. rt.com 
Opponents of US plan to develop infrastructure in Nepal fear it comes with a military presence attached | Police in Nepal used tear gas and water cannons on protesters who demonstrated on Sunday against a controversial government plan to get $500 million in assistance from the US. Critics see it as a kind of trojan horse that would be used to drag the small Himalayan nation into Washington's great power competition with China. | The rioting in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, took place after the government submitted to parliament an agreement, under which the US would invest hundreds of millions of dollars into th…
(2022-02-21). Self-Exposure of the Myth of North Korean Hackers. journal-neo.org 
More recently NEO wrote that the termination of the DPRK moratorium and a potentially new round of tension could have been caused by a series of hacker attacks on the North Korean Internet in the second half of January 2022, since fortunately back in 2018, the United States stated that the first shot of this …
(2022-02-21). Teachers Union Starts Strike in Buenos Aires. telesurenglish.net Demanding better working conditions, the Association of Middle and Higher Education (ADEMYS) started a 24-hour strike on Monday, when Buenos Aires begins face-to-face classes. | RELATED: | Last week, ADEMYS spokeswoman Marisabel Grau mentioned that the Buenos Aires City government headed by Horacio Rodriguez "offered absolutely no percentage of salary increase" to teachers. | "We cannot start classes without salary impro…
(2022-02-21). My Day in Palestine: The Stunning Beauty and Cruel Reality of an Occupied Land. mintpressnews.com 
Walking through the low hills of the Naqab as the sun sets and the moon comes up is an experience that allows us to imagine what Palestine was like before it was torn apart by Zionists and what can still be saved if we act fast.
(2022-02-21). 500 000 Vaccines Donated to Palestine by China, Egypt. telesurenglish.net According to Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, Egypt's acting health minister and Minister of Higher Education, the vaccines are of local production through a partnership between Egypt's Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines (VACSERA) and Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac. | RELATED: | Ghaffar noted the valuable work that Egypt has carried out to produce more than 30 million doses of the vaccine up unti…
(2022-02-21). Venezuela Attends 6th Summit of Gas Exporting Countries in Qatar. orinocotribune.com The Foreign Affairs Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, participated this Sunday, February 20, at the 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Qatar, on behalf of President Nicolás Maduro. | "We are proud to be part of the 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), an event that promotes a model of peace, freedom, and development, supporting the sovereign rights of its members over their natural gas resources," stated the Venezuelan top diplomat through his Twitter account. | Estamos orgu…
(2022-02-21). Sri Lankan poet Ahnaf Jazeem jailed under anti-terror laws speaks with the WSWS. wsws.org The notorious Counter Terrorism and Investigation Department arrested Jazeem in May 2020, claiming that his poetry promoted extremism and falsely accused him of teaching extremism to his students.
(2022-02-21). Sri Lankan human rights lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah released after 20 months. peoplesdispatch.org Hizbullah was arrested in April 2020 and accused of being involved in the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka. His release comes at a time when there is mounting global pressure on the Rajapaksa government to reform the existing anti-terror law in the country…
(2022-02-21). Murdering Of Two Children Shocks Syria's North. southfront.org 
Illustratve Image | Written by Khaled Iskef | The crime of killing two children in Atimah camps in Northern Idlib countryside shocked people in the northern Syria's regions held by al-Nusra organizations yesterday. | On Saturday, two children, "Nour Awad al-Hamoudi" and his cousin "Fatima Imad al-Hamoudi", aging 3 years and 18 months respectively, were kidnapped by unknowns then throttled and left near their family house in "al-Wafa'a" camp in Atimah town. | The murderers attached a letter to the corpses threat…
(2022-02-21). China to Take Measures Against US Over Sale of Weapons to Taiwan – Foreign Ministry. sputniknews.com On 11 February, the Biden administration unveiled its new Indo-Pacific strategy that focuses on strengthening US partnerships and Washington's presence in the region amid the increasing "challenges" posed by Chinese activity.
(2022-02-21). China slaps sanctions on US companies over Taiwan arms deal. rt.com 
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies have drawn Beijing's ire for supplying weapons to Taipei | China has imposed sanctions on two major American arms manufacturers, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies. The decision, which was announced by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Monday, targets the two companies over their involvement in the "supply of American weapons to Taiwan." | The measures seek to "protect the sovereignty and security interests" of Beijing, the diplomat explained, as China considers Taiwan to be part of its territory. | The official stopped short of clarifying wha…
(2022-02-21). China takes countermeasures against U.S. military firms. ecns.cn China has decided to take countermeasures against Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin, U.S. military firms long engaged in arms sales to the Taiwan region of China, for seriously undermining China's sovereignty and security interests.
(2022-02-21). Striking ship-breaking workers hold a mass rally in Aliağa, Turkey. wsws.org Striking Aliağa ship-breaking workers held a mass rally in the city's Democracy Square yesterday, demanding a wage increase and better working conditions.
(2022-02-21). Military Situation In Libya On February 21, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On February 10, the House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of Libya announced Fathi Bashagha as Prime Minister of Libya; | On February 21, Acting Prime Minister, appointed by the House of Representatives, Fathi Bashagha has declared that the handover of power to the government of former Prime Minister Dbeiba will take place under peaceful conditions; | On February 16, Turkey's President Erdogan said Turkey supports elections that will ensure a peaceful future f…
(2022-02-21). International organizations urge against US imposing terrorist tag on Houthis in Yemen. peoplesdispatch.org Several groups signed a letter warning of the wide-ranging negative consequences of designating the Houthis as a terrorist group, including hampering of humanitarian relief efforts and diplomatic negotiations to end the war…