Daily Archives: February 8, 2022

2022-02-08: News Headlines

Craig Murray (2022-02-07). How the Establishment functions. mronline.org The functioning of the Establishment, the way it forms a collective view and how that view is transmitted, is a mystery to many.

_____ (2022-02-07). Boise Tent Demonstration Remains Strong In Face Of Continued Police And Far-Right Harassment. popularresistance.org Folks are three weeks into the tent demonstration in so-called Boise, Idaho. Lasting through multiple police raids, attacks from local fascist groups, and a whirlwind of misrepresentation in local media; folks are war weathered but are regaining strength and pressing forward. | In the early morning hours of Friday, February 4th, 2022 folks began to hear the soft and eerie hum of police drones flying overhead, followed by the invasion of 40 Idaho state police filling the area. Cops started opening tents and grabbing whatever they could find that could be used to sustain warmth for the protesters who have been occu…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). The Moral, Military and Financial Cost of Guantanamo Bay, 20 Years Later. transcend.org 2 Feb 2022 – 20 years ago, the first detainees in the U.S. War on Terror arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Many detainees were innocent, and tortured. Presidents since then have promised to close Guantanamo, and failed. They picked up human beings and moved them halfway around the globe without an idea of how to undo this. They're stuck with this mission. So, what's next?>

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-07). Origins of State Surveillance. libya360.wordpress.com Will Griffin "State surveillance has been an integral part of American political life far longer than we might imagine." — Alfred McCoy, Tom Dispatch The modern surveillance state is now ubiquitous; it's everywhere, all the time. In 2013, Edward Snowden may have proved that the state, along with its corporations, were illegally spying on US…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-07). The Blackwater Is in Ukraine with the Azov Battalion. transcend.org 1 Feb 2022 – In the Donbass front line is the Azov battalion, trained and armed by the US and NATO. The Azov recruits neo-Nazis from all over Europe under its flag from SS Das Reich. It is not only a military unit, but an ideological and political movement. In addition, there is the $10 billion plan being implemented by Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, now renamed Academy, which has been supplying mercenaries to the CIA, Pentagon and State Department for covert operations (including torture and assassinations).

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