Daily Archives: January 21, 2022

2022-01-21: News Headlines

Editor (2022-01-21). Lee Camp: Pentagon Fails Audit AGAIN! scheerpost.com The Pentagon has a long history of budgetary waste and fraud. They've failed every financial audit they've ever had by mind-blowingly large margins. Fortunately for the war hawks the corporate media has helped the Pentagon cover up their actions. Lee Camp hates to repeat himself but this story requires it because the Pentagon keeps on pouring trillions into military violence so he shines his spotlight back onto the military industrial complex to open this episode. | Lee CampLee Camp is the host of the hit comedy news show "

Workers World Party (2022-01-21). The struggle for reproductive justice is a struggle against capitalism: A 10-point fightback program. workers.org The Women and Oppressed Gender Caucus of Workers World Party issued the following statement and program on the 49th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. Email the caucus at women-gender-wwp@workers.org As a result of a hard-fought mass movement, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark ruling in Roe v. . . . |

sputniknews (2022-01-20). US Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Attempt to Keep Records From January 6 Congressional Panel. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Supreme Court blocked an attempt by former President Donald Trump to keep White House records related to the January 6 Capitol riot from the US House Select Committee investigating the incident, according to a court order.

Staff (2022-01-20). Headlines for January 20, 2022. democracynow.org Voting Rights Bill Dies in Senate as Democrats Manchin & Sinema Allow GOP Filibuster, Biden Predicts Russia Will Invade Ukraine, Says Putin "Will Regret Having Done It", Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Bid to Shield Records from January 6 Committee, Global Coronavirus Cases Hit Record High, Czech Singer Hana Horkad Dies After Deliberately Infecting Herself with Coronavirus, West Virginia's Republican Governor Urges Vaccinations After Bout of COVID-19, Florida Health Dept. Puts Top Official on Leave for Promoting COVID Vaccine to Staff , Aid Flights Land in Volcano-Stricken Tonga Amid Water Shortages, Threat of COVI…

L'Ordre (2022-01-20). The State's Celebration of Lies and Punishment of Truth. dissidentvoice.org Julian Assange once said that if wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth. Assange suffered immeasurably, with Britain and America taking him away for revealing facts about US war crimes in Iraq, while notorious Iraq War liar Tony Blair was knighted. "Sir" Tony Blair may now be paraded around as …

_____ (2022-01-20). Thousands Sign Petition Supporting Assange Release. popularresistance.org Washington, DC – Led by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), more than 26 antiwar groups and 2,500 individual peace and justice advocates have cosponsored a statement calling for the immediate release of publisher Julian Assange and commending him for his contributions toward global peace. | Assange is currently fighting extradition to the United States after the Trump administration indicted him on unprecedented Espionage Act charges. His indictment marked the first time in U.S. history that a journalist has been charged for publishing truthful information. | Since being removed from Ecuador's London em…

sputniknews (2022-01-20). Havana Syndrome Not Result of Deliberate Campaign by Hostile Country, CIA Interim Finding Says. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Central Intelligence Agency says it does not consider Havana syndrome to be the result of a deliberate global campaign by any hostile power, while allowing the possibility of foreign involvement in some cases, according to an interim assessment.

teleSUR (2022-01-20). Havana Syndrome Cases Are Not Linked To Foreign Power, CIA Says. telesurenglish.net A comprehensive study conducted by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to determine the causes of the "Havana syndrome" concluded that its illnesses are unlikely to have been caused by the Cuba state. | RELATED: | "While there is no evidence that a foreign State is deliberating harming the U.S. personnel, most of the health incidents reported could be explained by medical conditions such as undiagnosed illne…

ecns.cn (2022-01-20). Documentary reveals horrible U.S. human rights abuses. ecns.cn Danish Radio's documentary The Search for Myself accuses the U.S. intelligence agency, the CIA, of supporting experiments on 311 Danish children in the early 1960s. Many of them were adopted or orphans and were unknowingly used in the secret experiments.

Ben Norton (2022-01-20). Spain's Spy Agency Backed 2017 'ISIS' Attacks to 'Scare' Catalonia Before Independence Referendum. orinocotribune.com By Benjamin Norton — Jan 17, 2022 | Spain's ex police chief said the National Intelligence Center (CNI) facilitated 2017 "ISIS" attacks to "scare" Catalonia before an independence vote. The leader of the terror cell was a CNI informant. | A blockbuster story is rocking Spanish politics: The former commissioner of Spain's national police has testified in court that the country's top spy agency facilitated 2017 terror attacks claimed by ISIS, in order to "scare" the region of Catalonia mere days before an independence referendum. | 16 civilians were killed in the attacks, and more than 150 were injured. | The…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-01-20). Venezuelan Parliament Approves Supreme Court Reform. orinocotribune.com Congressman Diosdado Cabello described the unanimous approval of the Reform of the Organic Law of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), this Tuesday, January 18, as a great step forward towards the necessary Judicial Revolution in Venezuela, "after extensive consultation and consensus with all sectors." | This was stated by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) parliamentarian after the ordinary session of the Legislative Power, in which they addressed the review of the proposal raised by the president of the TSJ himself, Magistrate Maikel Moreno. | Cabello noted that "the Reform of the TSJ Law allows us t…

Chris Walker (2022-01-20). Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Trump Appeal on Docs Going to Jan. 6 Committee. truthout.org On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would not hear an appeal brought by former President Donald Trump to block documents from his final weeks in office from being shared with the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack. |

_____ (2022-01-20). 12 Years After Citizens United, the Supreme Court's Right-Wing Revolution Continues. commondreams.org New government statistics show union membership declined by 241,000 workers last year.

Thomas Hayes (2022-01-20). Supreme Court invited to consider secondary victim claims. ukhumanrightsblog.com Paul & Ors v The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2022] EWCA Civ 12 (13 January 2022) The Court of Appeal dismissed a set of claims for psychiatric injury on the basis of prior binding authority, but indicated that the issue is suitable for consideration by the Supreme Court. Background The judgment concerns three linked appeals …

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