(2022-02-01). Headlines for February 1, 2022. democracynow.org U.S. and Russia Clash over Ukraine at U.N. Security Council, China Struggles to Stamp Out COVID Outbreaks Ahead of Beijing Winter Olympics, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Pfizer Vaccine Could Be Made Available to U.S. Children Under 5 by March, Trump Sought to Seize Voting Machines in Swing States He Lost to Biden, Atlanta-Area Prosecutor Asks FBI for Protection After Trump Urges Followers to Protest, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Accuses Democrats of "Smears" over Nazi Rallies, Amnesty Report Finds Israel Guilty of "The Crime of Apartheid Against Palestinians", Three Israeli O…
(2022-02-01). Medical Marvel or the Second Coming of Al Capone? Pfizer's Sins and Crimes. "We have a Vaccine which is Killing People" globalresearch.ca . "This …
(2022-02-01). Video: Has Justin Trudeau Been Duly Vaccinated? Registered Nurse Expresses Doubt on Authenticity of Trudeau's Vaccine Jab. globalresearch.ca First published …
(2022-02-01). Migrants trapped at Otay Mesa Detention Center face deadly pandemic conditions. liberationnews.org 
People at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and facilities across the country are being placed in dangerous environments for weeks and months during a global pandemic.
(2022-02-01). Socialist: 'Government neglect to blame for COVID-19 crisis in aged care'. greenleft.org.au The Socialist Alliance candidate Sue Bull said said the federal government hand-out to aged care workers won't solve the mounting pandemic death toll among the aged. Sarah Hathway reports.
(2022-02-01). Growing opposition to City University of New York push to cripple remote learning options for spring semester. wsws.org Students, workers and parents denounce moves by the country's biggest urban university system to limit remote learning in the midst of a deadly global pandemic.
(2022-02-01). Omicron cases appear to peak in U.S., pandemic far from over. america.cgtn.com 
Many are eager for a return to normalcy, but the pandemic is still far from over.
(2022-02-01). Growing opposition to CUNY push to cripple remote learning options for spring semester. wsws.org Students, workers and parents denounce moves by the country's biggest urban university system to limit remote learning in the midst of a deadly global pandemic.
(2022-02-01). Poverty in Germany: 2021 report exposes profit-before-lives policy. wsws.org 13.4 million Germans, or 16.1 percent of the population, lived in poverty in the first year of the pandemic, 200,000 more than in 2019.
(2022-02-01). Two years since the WHO declared a public health emergency, COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten humanity. wsws.org Since the emergency was declared there have been 377 million confirmed infections and nearly 5.7 million deaths. Despite repeated government claims that the pandemic is over, it continues to rage.
(2022-02-01). Denmark scraps all pandemic restrictions as Omicron subvariant runs rampant. wsws.org Like neighbouring Sweden, Denmark is emerging as one of the most ruthless proponents of a criminal herd immunity strategy that, unless opposed, plans to make mass infection and death a permanent feature of daily life.
(2022-02-01). Canada records highest daily COVID-19 death toll since start of pandemic. wsws.org A grim milestone was reached on January 27 as 309 COVID-19 deaths were recorded nationally, the highest-ever daily total since the start of the pandemic.
(2022-02-01). OXFAM: Pandemic exposes systemic inequality. greenleft.org.au Since the pandemic began a new billionaire has been created every 26 hours, according to OXFAM. Jessie de Waal reports.
(2022-02-01). Why I'm Done With Teaching. popularresistance.org "Friday was my last day as a high school teacher. After 15 years of teaching, this was not an easy decision. I have loved and will miss the classroom — getting excited about literature, teaching writing, asking big questions about life, discussing the human experience and getting to know students as individuals with unique perspectives. My leaving is not about advancement or money. It's not even really about COVID. I'm tired of being tired. Stress and burnout in education are real. Teaching isn't healthy and life-giving right now. If it were, I would stay."
(2022-02-01). An Arkansas Jail Tested Ivermectin 'Treatment' On Detainees Without Their Consent. popularresistance.org The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a federal lawsuit against the Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas on behalf of inmates who say the jail's medical staff, led by Dr. Robert Karas, prescribed and gave them ivermectin to treat COVID-19 without telling them what the drug actually was. As Edrick Floreal-Wooten, recently told CBS News, "They said they were vitamins, steroids and antibiotics. We were running fevers, throwing up, diarrhea … and so we figured that they were here to help us. … We never knew that they were running experiments on us, giving us ivermectin. We never knew that.
(2022-02-01). New Top Covid Variant BA.2 Is Spreading 1.5X Faster Than Omicron In America. moguldom.com New covid variant BA.2 is 1.5 times more contagious than omicron and is already circulating in almost half of U.S. states, according to health experts. BA.2, an omicron subvariant, is more transmissible than the original omicron strain, according to Danish scientists. Nearly half of U.S. states have confirmed the presence of BA.2. It represents 8 …
(2022-02-01). Texas A&M University students push for COVID safety measures. fightbacknews.org College Station, TX – Students at Texas A&M University gathered in a silent sit-in on January 28 for improved COVID-19 policies on campus. The coalition, consisting of individuals and organizations such as Grad Aggies for Worker Safety (GAWS), Feminism4Aggies and TAMU Students for a Democratic Society, organized the protest in solidarity with the students of the University of North Texas, who were also calling for improved COVID-19 policies at universities across Texas. | Participating students held signs with demands, statements about the TAMU student who died of COVID-19 complications, and a QR code linked to…
(2022-02-01). Detroit students, parents angered as schools open amid COVID surge. wsws.org A WSWS reporting team spoke with students and parents at Cass Technical High School in Detroit after the resumption of in-person classes on Monday, January 31.
(2022-02-01). Expand and unite the global student and teacher walkouts into a mass movement against COVID-19! wsws.org The Southern Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees stand in solidarity with students and teachers across the US and Europe, and call for a unified mass movement to stop school reopenings.
(2022-01-31). Saving The World From Nuclear War. popularresistance.org These are dark days for both our nation and the world. Climate change is wreaking havoc everywhere, a global pandemic continues its onslaught, our nation's experiment in democracy is threatened by a slow-motion insurrection and, to top it all off, our nation has taken the lead in pushing Russia toward a war over Ukraine that is capable of going off the rails into a full-scale nuclear war (and that is not hyperbole!). | At least four or five U.S. OHIO Class "Trident" ballistic missile submarines are currently at sea on "hard alert" in their designated patrol areas—ready to launch any or all of their 20 Tride…
(2022-01-31). Headlines for January 31, 2022. democracynow.org U.N. Security Council Meets over Russia-Ukraine Tensions as Ukraine Calls Out Western "Panic", U.N.: 2,000 Children Died Since 2020 After Being Forced into Combat in Yemen, Taliban Killed Dozens of Former Gov't and Allied Forces Workers Since Takeover, Sudanese Security Forces Kill Another Demonstrator as Protests Continue 3 Months After Coup, North Korea Tests Most Powerful Ballistic Missile Since 2017, Pipeline Bursts on Indigenous Land in Ecuadorian Amazon; Thailand Rushes to Contain Coastal Oil Spill, Spotify Adds Advisory to Podcasts About COVID; Joni Mitchell Removes Music from App, Ahmaud Arbery's Family,…
(2022-01-31). Spanish Morenoites attack China's "Zero COVID" strategy. wsws.org The Revolutionary Workers' Current (CRT) is denouncing essential public health measures that allowed China to rapidly bring the pandemic under control.
(2022-01-31). COVID-19 vaccines a 'testament' to capitalism? greenleft.org.au There was no altruism in the speed in which pharmaceutical companies developed successful vaccines. The very future of capitalism relied on science's ability to keep the wheels turning, argues William Briggs.
(2022-01-31). The NHS vaccine mandate: Corbyn, pseudo-left and trade unions join Tory and libertarian right. wsws.org Like the Tory right, the union bureaucracy, their spokesperson Corbyn and their backers in the pseudo-left see no sense in requiring vaccination against a disease which they have accepted will be widespread throughout society forever.
(2022-01-31). Fascist podcaster manipulates tragic case of Minnesota COVID patient to attack health care providers. wsws.org Far-right elements are using the case of Scott Quiner, a ventilated COVID-19 patient who died after being moved from Mercy Hospital in Minnesota to a Texas hospital, as a rallying point for anti-vaccine forces.
(2022-01-31). COVID-19 vaccines, a 'testament' to capitalism? greenleft.org.au There was no altruism in the speed in which pharmaceutical companies developed successful vaccines. The very future of capitalism relied on science's ability to keep the wheels turning, argues William Briggs.
(2022-01-31). Revolutionary Hope, Kinship, and Community w/Elena from the Red Nation. anchor.fm In this episode me and Elena from Red Power Hour and the Red Nation, were able to go over some really fun and important conversations. We discussed what we've been doing to cope and deal with everything going on since not only the beginning of the pandemic, as well as how we've been trying find ways to get organized and built community while this pandemic is enduring. It's difficult, it's scary, and one of the things we desperately need to know how to overcome. We have a desperate need for organizing, we have a desperate need to come together and to build towards a new world! Many groups, organizations, and peopl…
(2022-01-31). Free Leonard Peltier! COVID-19 inside prison. workers.org 
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic currently raging through the jail, prison and detention centers of this country, Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Band, Chippewa Nation), an Indigenous leader and political prisoner, has issued a cry for help. Leonard Peltier Peltier, 77 years old, who has been imprisoned for 45 . . . |
(2022-01-31). Pasadena residents demand better housing. liberationnews.org 
Over the last five years, Pasadena residents have come together and organized the Pasadena Tenants Union to combat the city's rising housing costs. PTU was able to quickly mobilize during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to protect tenants by successfully campaigning for an eviction moratorium and are currently fighting for a city charter amendment that would establish rent control, just cause eviction, and a rental housing board.
(2022-01-31). PSUV Training System to be Relaunched Within '3 Rs Dot Net' Strategy. orinocotribune.com The National Training System of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) will be reactivated throughout Venezuela within the framework of the "three Rs dot net" initiative carried out by the president of the party, Nicolás Maduro, to build the new era of transition to socialism. | Reading circles, courses, and diplomas, as well as the Institute of Higher Studies, will return to their activities "with more force," following the exceptional situation created by COVID-19. The pandemic will force them to adapt to a new work methodology, said PSUV Vice President for Training, Héctor Rodríguez, in this regard. Th…
(2022-01-31). Joining the dots: Pandemics and political economy. greenleft.org.au Climate Justice puts the people most affected by the crisis at the centre of the solution. Health Justice must do the same, argues Rehad Desai.
(2022-01-31). Mexico's COVID-19 Collateral Damage: Orphanhood. america.cgtn.com 
Mexico's COVID death toll was one of the world's highest. And according to official data, roughly 1.5 million children lost at least one parent since March of 2020. Alasdair Baverstock reports on Mexico's pandemic orphans.
(2022-01-31). Greater Manchester drivers escalate pay strike against First Bus: "It's modernised slavery" wsws.org First Bus insisted on a pay freeze last year due to the pandemic, and drivers say they have not had a real pay rise in three years.
(2022-01-31). Cruise Industry Recovery Hindered by Omicron. america.cgtn.com 
After months of suspended operations, cruises are making a comeback. The multi-billion-dollar industry was pummeled during the pandemic. But bookings for 2022 are already higher than in 2019. John Zarrella tells us how cruise companies and passengers are adapting to new protocols.
(2022-01-31). Klaus Schwab's WEF "School for Covid Dictators", a Plan for the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca Economist Ernst Wolff believes that a hidden alliance of political and corporate leaders is exploiting the pandemic with the aim of crashing national economies and introducing a global digital currency. | How is it that more than 190 governments from all …
(2022-01-31). NYC mayor Adams steps up law and order campaign after two police officers killed. wsws.org The city's new Democratic mayor, along with the entire political establishment and bourgeois media, is preparing increased police repression as a response to growing working class resistance to the pandemic and its consequences.
(2022-01-31). Union Membership Resumes Its Fall. popularresistance.org Union membership fell by almost 2% in 2021 as employment rose by over 3%. That took union density—the share of the workforce belonging to unions—down from 10.8% in 2020 to 10.3% last year, where it was in 2019. Density rose in 2020 because more nonunion workers lost their jobs in the covid crisis than their unionized counterparts, but 2021's return to employment undid that. | For the private sector, just 6.1% of workers were unionized last year, down from 6.3% in 2020, an all-time low for a series that goes back to 1900. (Official numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics began in 1983; I've assembl…
(2022-01-31). Teachers denounce forced reopening of Australian schools amid COVID explosion. wsws.org An educator in Melbourne, where classes return today, said: "It is COVID roulette for teachers."
(2022-01-31). Detroit teachers denounce resumption of in-person classes for 50,000 students. wsws.org Public schools are reopening in Detroit on Monday after a month of virtual-only classes because of the high rates of COVID-19 throughout state's largest school district.
(2022-01-31). Mass school reopenings in Australia amid record COVID deaths. wsws.org Governments admit that the reopening of schools in NSW and Victoria this week will result in mass transmission among teachers and students.
(2022-01-31). Leonard Peltier Has COVID; His Lawyer — an Ex-Federal Judge — Calls for Native Leader to Be Freed. democracynow.org 
Jailed 77-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier has tested positive for COVID-19 less than a week after describing his prison conditions as a "torture chamber." Peltier was convicted of aiding and abetting the killing of two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 while a member of the American Indian Movement. He has long maintained his innocence and is considered by Amnesty International as a political prisoner. We speak with his lawyer and former federal judge Kevin Sharp, who says Peltier's case was riddled with misconduct, including witness intimidation and w…
(2022-01-31). Will Boris Johnson's COVID Hypocrisy Finally Break His Political Grip in the UK? truthout.org 
A much-awaited report on booze-soaked parties attended by top U.K. officials — including Prime Minister Boris Johnson — in violation of COVID rules was finally released today by senior civil servant Sue Gray. It marks the worst crisis of Boris Johnson's premiership. | For 17 of the last 22 months, the U.K. has been in one form or another of COVID lockdown, as the government has tried to negotiate between two instincts. On the one hand, there has been a medical consensus that all…
(2022-01-31). Detroit teachers oppose resumption of in-person classes for 50,000 students. wsws.org Public schools are reopening in Detroit on Monday after a month of virtual-only classes because of the high rates of COVID-19 throughout state's largest school district.
(2022-01-31). New York, Michigan and Ohio end contact tracing. wsws.org Many of the largest American states have officially ended their contact tracing programs as part of a coordinated nationwide policy to allow virtually the entire American population to be infected with the potentially deadly and debilitating COVID-19.
(2022-01-31). Leonard Peltier Has COVID. Will Biden Finally Consider Freeing Him? truthout.org 
Jailed 77-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier has tested positive for COVID-19 less than a week after describing his prison conditions as a "torture chamber." Peltier was convicted of aiding and abetting the killing of two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 while a member of the American Indian Movement. He has long maintained his innocence and is considered by Amnesty International as a political prisoner. We speak with his lawyer and former fede…