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Ukraine: “Horrible Dangers” of a Proxy War; Nuclear War
Anatol Lieven writes: writes: “To judge by its latest statements, the Biden administration is increasingly committed to using the conflict in Ukraine to wage a proxy war against Russia, with as its goal the weakening or even destruction of the Russian state. This would mean America adopting a strategy that every U.S. president during the Cold War took great pains to avoid: the sponsorship of war in Europe, bringing with it the acute risk of escalation towards direct military confrontation between Russia and NATO, possibly ending in nuclear catastrophe.”
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Amazon Terminated Paid Sick Leave for Covid-19 After Union Vote
Just one day after union voting ended at Amazon’s LDJ5 warehouse in Staten Island, the company announced it will end its nationwide Covid-19 paid sick leave policy. Labor reporters and activists believe Amazon waited to make the announcement until after the vote. Eileen Appelbaum, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said that the “highly contagious nature of the Omicron variants means workers have an urgent need right now for paid time off if they get sick.”
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Israeli Killing of Palestinian Journalist a “Calculated Act of Savagery”
Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadiliyya and expert on Palestinian affairs and the contemporary Middle East, said today, in the wake of the killing of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh: “The Israeli occupier has repeatedly demonstrated that its priority is impunity, and it cannot be entrusted with either investigation, accountability, or justice for either Shireen or those whom it has deprived of their fundamental rights for more than half a century. But there will be no justice, only an impunity which set the stage for this murder and will set the stage for the next one.”
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Marcos Win in Philippines: Dynasties and Social Media Manipulation
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., known as “Bongbon…
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Scientific Analysis Links Environmental Change and New Diseases
Climate change scholars weigh in on new analysis from scientists that climate change will cause new diseases to emerge more frequently.
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Marking One Million Deaths
New analysis from the Institute for Policy Studies contrasts the nation’s death toll with billionaire wealth gains during the pandemic.
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Former Negotiator on How the Ukraine War Should End
Quigley notes however that the Biden administration “has framed the conflict in apocalyptic terms as a battle between democracy and authoritarianism. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s claim that the West is viewing the conflict as a proxy war against Russia cannot be lightly dismissed. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has set a long-term aim of weakening Russia. It’s reasonable to question whether the U.S. goal is less to force Russia out of Ukraine than to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.”
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Media Shocked by the Leak, Not the Opinion
“…in the flood of coverage, too many elite media outlets focused on the leak itself and treated the issue as a political football, rather than centering the real-world implications the opinion would have for everyday people.”
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“Handbook for a Post-Roe America”
“…the alternative is continuing a pregnancy and giving birth when you don’t want to. There’s no end to the desperation of people who want to terminate a pregnancy.”
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“How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free”
A new book from press freedom advocates Joel Simon and Robert Mahoney shows how during the pandemic, the Trump White House was part of a wave of global censorship in which governments hijacked the narrative to tell their own story. Mahoney says: “President Trump’s campaign strategy rested on a strong economy. Trump saw that the actions he would need to take to protect public health would curtail economic activity and undermine his campaign message. He didn’t have the ability to employ top-down censorship, so instead, he used ‘censorship through noise,’ or ‘flooding,’ to confuse the public. He pumped out information…
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“With a tiny staff, it has managed to place on the air and in newspapers, points of view otherwise excluded from the national debate.”
Howard Zinn