(2022-01-24). Tumult in Honduras as Libre Members Betray President-Elect Xiomara Castro. orinocotribune.com January 23, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—Following the betrayal of 18 members of the Libre party, Luis Redondo and Jorge Cálix were sworn in as presidents of the National Congress of Honduras in two parallel events, leading to a complicated situation in the Central American nation. The betrayal by Libre Congress members and their selection of Cálix violated the political alliance agreed to during President-elect Xiomara Castro's campaign. | Castro won the elections of November 28, as candidate of an alliance between her Libre (Liberation and Refoundation) party and the Savior of Honduras Party (PSH). As an agr…
(2022-01-24). Honduras: Two Congressional Presidents Appointed in Parallel Sessions Days Before Xiomara Castro's Inauguration. libya360.wordpress.com Congressmen Luis Redondo and Jorge Cálix appointed as heads of Honduran Congress On Sunday, in two parallel sessions, the Honduran Congress appointed deputies Luis Redondo and Jorge Cálix as heads of its Board of Directors for the period 2022-2026. In the Legislative building, which dawned without electricity service and which this Sunday was still guarded…
(2022-01-24). NATO's tentacles from Europe to Latin America. mronline.org 
International analysts are often, and understandably, asked whether there will be a change in U.S. foreign policy depending on whether a Republican or Democratic president rules the White House.
(2022-01-24). Social sciences and the colonised mind. mronline.org 
A CRUCIAL component of the imperialist system is the colonisation of third world minds that helps to sustain it. This colonisation is pervasive, but here we shall discuss only academic colonisation and that too relating to the social sciences.
(2022-01-24). Petition Circulating At Ivy League UPenn Over Amy Wax Warning About Too Much Immigration And 'Dominance' By Asian Elites. moguldom.com Controversial University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax has again stirred up a debate with recent remarks. This time, she claims there are too many Asians moving to the U.S. who do not have the "spirit of liberty." During a Dec. 20 interview with Glenn Loury, a social sciences professor at Brown University, she said, "The …
(2022-01-24). Tancol in Arauca-Apure: NATO's Projection into Latin America? libya360.wordpress.com Misión Verdad The border between Venezuela and Colombia at the Arauca River has been heating up again since the beginning of 2022 (Photo: Archive). The violence that has recently occurred on the border between Venezuela and Colombia, specifically in the municipality of Paez in the state of Apure, should be regarded as a symptom of…
(2022-01-24). Kurds rally against escalating attacks in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. greenleft.org.au Members of Sydney's Kurdish community rallied at Sydney Town Hall to protest escalating attacks on Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. Peter Boyle reports.
(2022-01-24). The Weekly Round-Up: Deprivations of citizenship, the state of the union and prison over Pride and Prejudice. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In the news: On Friday, the Guardian reported on the earlier Freemovement.org quantitative analysis relating to deprivations of British citizenship. While it has been known and reported upon for some time, the analysis demonstrates a continued trend of increased deprivations, with a significant peak in 2017, when the number of people whose citizenship was removed …
(2022-01-24). Israel planning to evacuate Ukrainian Jews — media. rt.com 
Israel is said to be contemplating a mass airlift of those eligible for Israeli citizenship in the case of a Russian invasion | Top officials in Israel are said to be preparing for a scenario in which will they fly out thousands of Jewish people from Ukraine in the event of a Russian invasion, a top local newspaper has reported amid persistent Western speculation that Moscow could be planning an all-out offensive. | In a report on Sunday, Haaretz claimed that representatives from several government offices had met over the weekend to discuss the risk of the Jewish community in the Eastern European nation poten…
(2022-01-24). Iran's UN Rights Restored After Paying Off Membership Arrears. telesurenglish.net Iran's ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi announced that his country regained its right to vote at the UN General Assembly after its membership dues to the organization were paid by South Korea with frozen Iranian funds. | RELATED: | He said that as soon as Iran's arrears are received in New York, the country's voting rights should naturally be restored. South Korea confirmed on Sunday that it has paid Tehran's m…
(2022-01-24). Burkina Faso President Kabore Detained by Mutinous Soldiers. telesurenglish.net Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been detained overnight by mutinous soldiers. He was taken to a military camp, local media reported Monday. | RELATED: | "The situation is confusing in Burkina Faso. Late on Sunday afternoon, shots were heard near the presidential residence… in Ouagadougou, the capital of a country plagued by jihadist violence and where riots broke out in several barracks. Faced wi…
(2022-01-24). Journalist Lourdes Maldonado Shot Dead In Tijuana City. telesurenglish.net On Sunday night, Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado was shot dead while she was in her car outside her home in the Villas de Santa Fe neighborhood in Tijuana city. | RELATED: | Upon hearing the detonations, witnesses reported the attack to the emergency services. Preliminary investigations showed that her car spent about 40 minutes in the same place before the attack and that the bullet hits smashed the glass on the driver's…
(2022-01-24). Chile Declares Red Alert For Fires In Two Regions. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, Chile's National Emergency Office (ONEMI) decreed a Red Alert due to massive wildfires affecting several areas in the Valparaiso and àëuble regions. | RELATED: | The burning of 15 hectares of different types of vegetation in the àëuble region has seriously affected houses located at the rural areas of the El Carmen and Quillon communities. | Firefighters are working since last week with the support of other c…
(2022-01-24). Americans March in Washington For Vaccine Mandate Protest. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, thousands of Americans from across the country gathered in the nation's capital for a march against vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions, as Americans were frustrated and fatigued by the recent surge in COVID-19 cases and the overall pandemic. | RELATED: | During the march called "Defeat The Mandates: An American Homecoming," protesters walked from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. to decry vacc…
(2022-01-24). Assange To Defy His Extradition To US Before UK Supreme Court. telesurenglish.net On Monday, London's High Court authorized WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to challenge his extradition to the United States before the British Supreme Court. This decision temporarily blocks his transfer to that country. | RELATED: | British judges Ian Burnett and Tim Holroyde denied Assange permission to appeal their extradition approval before the Supreme Court. However, they validated his legal team's challenge…
(2022-01-24). Ready for Another Game of Russian Roulette? orinocotribune.com By H. Bruce Franklin — Jan 19, 2022 | As the U.S. moves nuclear forces closer and closer to the border of Russia, and as our corporate media bang their war drums louder and louder, does anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis? | In June of 1961, just three months after the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba was defeated, the United States began the deployment of fifteen Jupiter nuclear missiles to Turkey, which shared a border with the Soviet Union. Each missile, armed with a W49 1.4 megaton thermonuclear warhead, was equivalent to 175 Hiroshima bombs. With their fifteen-hundred-mile range, the missiles were capa…
(2022-01-24). Scores killed in Saudi-led airstrikes, highlighting US-Saudi war crimes. wsws.org On Friday, a Saudi airstrike on a detention center in Saada, northern Yemen, housing African migrant workers transiting through Yemen to Saudi Arabia, killed at least 82 people and wounded 266 more.
(2022-01-24). "This is the worst moment of the pandemic," an interview with Brazil's leading neuroscientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis. wsws.org "I think the situation in Brazil in the next two to three weeks will break all records of infections and may cause a health care collapse as great as in the second wave."
(2022-01-24). Three Years Later, Guaidó Represents No One, Says Russian Ambassador to Caracas. libya360.wordpress.com Three years after proclaiming himself interim president of Venezuela, opposition figure Juan Guaidó does not represent anyone, Russian Ambassador to Caracas Sergey Melik-Bagdasárov told Sputnik News. "Today, he is a nobody and does not represent anyone. This figure exists only in virtual space and in the feverish minds of his American supporters," Melik-Bagdasarov said. In…
(2022-01-24). Cruise ship flees to Bahamas in bid to avoid court seizure. rt.com 
Crystal Symphony bailed on its return to Miami, diverting to the Bahamas after a court ordered its seizure over unpaid debts | Seven hundred passengers had an unexpected end to their 14-day Caribbean voyage over the weekend, when their cruise ship refused to return to the US following a court order in the wake of its parent company going into liquidation. | The Crystal Symphony cruise liner veered off course on Saturday, heading for the Bahamian island of Bimini instead of returning to Miami, after a US judge ordered its seizure due to $4.6 million in unpaid fuel bills. | The judge's ruling came after a lawsui…
(2022-01-24). Transporte en la capital: Como la marea. cubadebate.cu La historia del transporte en La Habana, la mayor urbe y de más grande población en Cuba, podría resumirse en dos palabras: una marea. Y es que, en los últimos 15 años, la disponibilidad de medios ha subido y bajado, ha tenido picos rebosantes cual olas cristalinas, y como en un tsunami, el mar, o, mejor dicho, las guaguas, se han retirado (para siempre) y no precisamente para volver con mayor ímpetu.
(2022-01-24). Jueces deciden hoy si Assange puede apelar ante Corte Suprema británica. cubadebate.cu El fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, sabrá hoy lunes si podrá apelar ante la Corte Suprema del Reino Unido un veredicto anterior que lo tiene a las puertas de ser extraditado a Estados Unidos. | La decisión será anunciada por los mismos jueces que en diciembre pasado aceptaron un recurso presentado por los fiscales estadounidenses contra la negativa de una magistrada de primera instancia a extraditar al periodista australiano.
(2022-01-24). La mentira infantil de Washington y su embajada. cubadebate.cu El imperio siempre se mira al espejo para buscar faltas que atribuir a otros. Desde hace meses, funcionarios del gobierno de Washington y su Embajada en La Habana se han desgañitado acusando a Cuba de procesar a menores de edad tras los hechos violentos del 11 y 12 de julio de 2020.
(2022-01-24). Cubadebate y Cadeca desmienten noticia falsa sobre la venta de divisas. cubadebate.cu Empleando la plantilla de nuestro sitio web, circula una nueva fake news en las redes sociales sobre la venta de divisas en Cuba. No comparta informaciones dudosas o falsas. A la vez, Cadeca alertó en su cuenta de twitter que circula en las redes una noticia sobre próxima venta de Moneda Libremente Convertible (MLC) a quienes viajen al exterior.
(2022-01-24). "Forced motherhood is female enslavement. When women are not free, no one is free" indybay.org "We're really in a state of emergency as to whether women are going to be treated as both human beings or incubators," Sunsara Taylor, an initiator with a new movement called Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, told Newsweek.
(2022-01-24). US brings new charges against Haitian suspect in assassination of President Jovenel MoàØse. wsws.org The latest charges signal an acceleration of the US imperialist intervention in Haiti.
(2022-01-23). Partido de pdta. electa Honduras expulsa diputados tránsfugas. telesurtv.net Xiomara Castro convocó a la militancia del partido Libre a movilizarse hacia la capital hondureña y reunirse en las inmediaciones del Congreso.
(2022-01-23). Xiomara Castro lidera vigilia en las afueras del Congreso de Honduras. telesurtv.net "Aquí estamos a la par del pueblo construyendo democracia (…) el pueblo no está para traiciones", setenció Xiomara Castro.
(2022-01-23). Xiomara Castro Denounces Hijack Of Legislative Power. telesurenglish.net The elected president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro (Libertad y Refundación, Libre), denounced this Sunday, outside the National Congress, that a dictatorship is trying to hijack the Legislative Branch in a bid not to respond to the popular mandate. | RELATED: | Hundreds of people continue to mobilize in the vicinity of the Parliament in defense of democracy and respect for the popular vote. | Addressing the crowds of her…
(2022-01-23). After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump's Foreign Policy? dissidentvoice.org 
Getty Images President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump's foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would quickly remedy its worst impacts. As a senior member of the Obama administration, Biden surely needed no schooling on Obama's diplomatic agreements with Cuba and Iran, both of which began to …
(2022-01-23). After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump's Foreign Policy? dissidentvoice.org Getty Images President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump's foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would quickly remedy its worst impacts. As a senior member of the Obama administration, Biden surely needed no schooling on Obama's diplomatic agreements with Cuba and Iran, both of which began to …
(2022-01-23). Pfizer CEO paints 'ideal' future of Covid vaccination. rt.com 
Albert Bourla hopes the idea of annual vaccinations will be far easier to sell to the public | The CEO of Pfizer has tried to appease vaccine skeptics with an idea of Covid-19 booster shots only once a year — instead of every few months — all while attacking the most vocal anti-vaxxers as "criminals" who "profit from circulating misinformation." | In a series of interviews with Israeli TV channels, Albert Bourla
(2022-01-23). Pfizer CEO paints 'ideal' future of Covid vaccination. rt.com Albert Bourla hopes the idea of annual vaccinations will be far easier to sell to the public | The CEO of Pfizer has tried to appease vaccine skeptics with an idea of Covid-19 booster shots only once a year — instead of every few months — all while attacking the most vocal anti-vaxxers as "criminals" who "profit from circulating misinformation." | In a series of interviews with Israeli TV channels, Albert Bourla
(2022-01-23). Canciller cubano afirma que Latinoamérica no es patio de nadie. telesurtv.net El diplomático cubano recalcó que la política estadounidense busca limitar soberanías para garantizar intereses de dominación.
(2022-01-23). Pdte. mexicano vuelve a labores tras someterse a un cateterismo. telesurtv.net "Hay presidente para rato", recalcó López Obrador, quien agrdeció al personal médico por el procedimiento.
(2022-01-23). Detienen en México a ambulancia pirata con 28 migrantes a bordo. telesurtv.net El INM informó también de la detención de 65 migrantes centroamericanos que viajaban en un tráiler en el estado de Coahuila.
(2022-01-23). Perú declara emergencia en zona costera por derrame de petróleo. telesurtv.net De acuerdo al Ejecutivo peruano, la emergencia ambiental tendrá vigencia por 90 días.
(2022-01-23). Russia Refutes U.S. "Fact Sheet" on Ukraine Crisis. telesurenglish.net The U.S. Department of State has released a fact sheet titled "Fact vs. Fiction: Russian Disinformation on Ukraine" merely a day before talks between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Geneva on Friday. | RELATED: | The Russian Ministry of Foreign affairs slammed the publication, criticizing it and indicating it as a clear provocation, as it contains false infor…
(2022-01-23). Protestan en Francia contra el pase de vacunación anticovid. telesurtv.net Hubo marchas contra la obligatoriedad de portar el pase de vacunación y otras medidas adoptadas para frenar la Covid-19.
(2022-01-23). Rodolphe Jaar asume culpabilidad en magnicidio de Jovenel MoàØse. telesurtv.net Por su responsabilidad en el asesinato del presidente Jovenel Moïse, Jaar podría enfrentar pena de cadena perpetua.
(2022-01-23). Autoridades mexicanas disuelven una caravana de más de 300 migrantes. telesurtv.net El Gobierno mexicano informó que procedería a revisar la situación migratoria de las más de 300 migrantes retenidos.
(2022-01-23). Tiroteo en Guayaquil, Ecuador deja al menos cuatro muertos. telesurtv.net Las autoridades de Guayaquil reportaron que entre la tarde del jueves y la mañana del viernes hubo al menos ocho muertes violentas.
(2022-01-23). Diputados hondureños elegirán a las nuevas autoridades del Congreso. telesurtv.net En la sesión de este 23 de enero legisladores de varias organizaciones políticas buscan instalar a Luis Redondo como titular del ente legislativo.
(2022-01-23). Incendio en la India deja al menos siete muertos y 16 heridos. telesurtv.net Para las labores de rescate se emplearon 21 camiones de bomberos y un centenar de efectivos.
(2022-01-23). Ecuador suma 180 crímenes violentos en lo que va de 2022. telesurtv.net Los Ríos, Guayas y Manabí son las provincias más afectadas por la ola de violencia.
(2022-01-23). Gobierno de Burkina Faso niega golpe de Estado por militares. telesurtv.net El portavoz del Gobierno llamó a la población a mantener la calma tras la circulación en redes sociales de que las fuerzas militares se hicieron del poder.
(2022-01-23). Realizan misa por beatificación de padres y laicos salvadoreños. telesurtv.net Reciben el homenaje de los fieles los sacerdotes Rutilio Grande y Cosme Spessoto, además de los laicos Nelson Rutilio y Manuel Solórzano.
(2022-01-23). Socialistas venezolanos llaman a marchar por rebelión de 1958. telesurtv.net El diputado del PSUV, Pedro Infante aseveró que la concentración será propicia para ratificar el apoyo al presidente Nicolás Maduro.
(2022-01-23). Presidente López Obrador se sometió a un cateterismo cardíaco. telesurtv.net El titular de la Secretaría de Gobierno indicó que el mandatario retornará a sus actividades este sábado.
(2022-01-23). Dos estados brasileños posponen para abril desfile de samba. telesurtv.net Asimismo reiteraron los responsables que la decisión fue tomada ante la pandemia de la Covid-19 en Brasil.