Staff (2022-01-21). US sanctions anti-NATO Ukrainian politicians. rt.com The Biden administration accused the two opposition politicians of working for Moscow to undermine Ukraine's Western-backed government | The US Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned two Ukrainian MPs — Taras Kozak and Oleg Voloshyn — and two former officials — Volodymyr Oliynyk and Vladimir Sivkovich, accusing them of participating in a Moscow-backed conspiracy to destabilize the pro-Western government of Volodymyr Zelensky. | "Russia has directed its intelligence services to recruit current and former Ukrainian government officials to prepare to take over the government of Ukraine and to c…

WSWS (2022-01-21). New Mexico governor calls in National Guard to substitute teach as educators and child care workers fall ill from COVID. wsws.org With outbreaks of the Omicron variant resulting in staff shortages at schools, the Democratic governor is mobilizing military forces to act as replacements to keep schools running and parents working to produce profits during the pandemic.

Staff (2022-01-21). New 'Mission: Impossible' invokes decades-old CIA-Hollywood link. rt.com The upcoming 'Mission: Impossible 8' has the curious working title 'Scorpio' — the same as the first movie allowed access to film at the CIA headquarters | Recent editions of

Dean Baker (2022-01-21). Are Used Car Prices Bankrupting Workers? cepr.net The news media have been constantly hyping inflation in recent months. While everyone has been seeing the huge rise in gas prices over the last year (that's what happens when the world reopens after a pandemic), used car prices have risen almost as rapidly. From December 2020 to December 2021 they rose 37.3 percent. This accounted for 1.03 percentage points of the 7.0 percent overall inflation in the last year. | We know the story of these price increases. A fire in a semiconductor plant in Japan has created a worldwide shortage of semiconductors, which has slowed car production. With people unable to get new car…

Staff (2022-01-21). January 6 riot at the Capitol to be turned into a movie. rt.com 'J6' is set to depict the events in a "harrowing and terrifying" feature film | The January 6 Capitol Hill riot that shook the US in 2021 is to be adapted into a Hollywood film called 'J6', and will retell the story from a ground-level perspective. According to entertainment-news outlet Deadline, it will be scripted and directed by Billy Ray, who worked on 'The Hunger Games', 'Terminator: Dark Fate' and anti-Trump miniseries 'The Comey Rule', and produced by 'Don't Look Up' and 'The Big Short' director Adam McKay. | Ray said he'd been inspired to tell the story of the police officers who responded to the riot…

_____ (2022-01-20). The Disintegrating Faàßade of US Democracy. popularresistance.org The US media is the most sophisticated propaganda apparatus that history has ever known, with the incredible ability to make a broad base of unexamined premises and consents widely accepted. Democracy is reduced to the process of electing representatives despite wide knowledge of the fact that the rich control the outcomes and those outcomes are invariably antithetical to the interest of working-class people, especially working class Brown and Black people.

Saheli Chowdhury (2022-01-20). Oxfam Report Details Obscene Wealth Inequality in India. orinocotribune.com January 18, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—Oxfam, in its recently released report "

Mark Gruenberg (2022-01-20). As inequality killed millions, top billionaires doubled wealth during pandemic. peoplesworld.org LONDON—The world's richest billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, have doubled their wealth during the coronavirus pandemic, even as income inequality, climate change, and the coronavirus combine to kill one person worldwide every four seconds, a new analysis says. "The wealth of the world's 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began," London-based …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-20). How can we solve inequality? peoplesdispatch.org Oxfam's latest report on global inequality has highlighted some alarming statistics on how wealth distribution has worsened during the pandemic. While the wealth of the world's 10 richest men doubled since the pandemic began, the incomes of 99% of humanity became worse off because of COVID-19. What are the solutions to this crisis?

rebekah (2022-01-20). Why Student Body Presidents Are Calling on Biden to Eliminate Student Loan Debt. inequality.org

Sharon Zhang (2022-01-20). Biden Dodges Question About His Failure to Cancel Student Debt. truthout.org President Joe Biden dodged a question about his campaign promise to cancel up to $10,000 in student debt at a press conference on Wednesday, frustrating debt activists and borrowers who have been begging for relief. | A reporter asked the president

Emmanuel Alvarez (2022-01-20). Sovereignty or dependence: Six reasons to not pay the IMF. peoplesdispatch.org When the payment of debt seems to be the only way forward, voices within the ruling party argue why, at the very least, debt should be suspended and denounced in international organizations…

_____ (2022-01-20). Biden Criticized for Ignoring Question on Student Debt Promise. commondreams.org FBI agents appeared to launch an investigation at Rep. Henry Cuellar's home hours after Democratic leader Steny Hoyer endorsed the congressman.

ecns.cn (2022-01-20). Chinese employee in Tonga recounts moments of fear after volcanic eruption. ecns.cn "A volcanic mushroom plume rapidly built up and sprawled across the sky seconds after an extraordinary blast rumbled our ears to deaf," a Chinese employee working in Tonga said.

Mando Kelly (2022-01-20). Kroger: Fighting hunger or fighting the hungry? peoplesworld.org The Kroger Company, the nearly $84 billion grocery corporation based in Cincinnati, has set its sights on the lofty goal of eradicating hunger. In 2018, it launched its Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation, a vehicle through which, as the name implies, it apparently aims to "end hunger and waste." On the foundation's website, it highlights …

Landless Rural Workers' Movement (2022-01-20). The MST has donated more than six thousand tons of food during the pandemic to fight hunger. peoplesdispatch.org Just during the Christmas Without Hunger campaign, the MST distributed food donations to 250,000 people in 24 Brazilian states…