January, 2022

• 20 January

  Iran’s president makes first visit to Russia

  

  Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi traveled to Russia today to meet with President Vladimir Putin to discuss the expansion of economic ties, among other things. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has made his first trip to Russia today, where he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, who …

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• 20 January

  Egypt supports Somalia to counter Turkish influence

  

  Egypt has sought rapprochement with Somalia in hopes of countering Turkey’s growing influence. Egypt is working to step up its influence in Somalia and support the Somali government in solving its internal disputes to counterbalance the Turkish and Ethiopian presence in Mogadishu. In December 2021, the Cairo International Center for …

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• 20 January

  America’s New Class War

  

  There is one last hope for the United States. It does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the union organizing and strikes by workers at Amazon, Starbucks, Uber, Lyft, John Deere, Kellogg, the Special Metals plant in Huntington, West Virginia, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, the Northwest Carpenters …

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• 20 January

  Rentier Capitalism and Class Warfare in Kazakhstan

  

  Blame ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for the country’s recent protests. The recent protests in oil-rich Kazakhstan have highlighted the devastating effects of rent extraction. The country’s largest sellers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), including KazMunaiGas, Kazgermunai, CNPC-AktobeMunaiGas and …

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• 20 January

  Ready for Another Game of Russian Roulette?

  

  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, …

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• 20 January

  Ukraine president asked Bennett to mediate with Russia, Putin said no

  

  Prime Minister Naftali Bennett brought up the topic of Ukraine in his meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, offering to assist in averting a crisis between the countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected an offer from Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to mediate between him and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky …

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• 20 January

  Iran sees ties with Russia as ‘new Middle East’ – analysis

  

  Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi’s is meeting President Vladimir Putin on January 19th on a visit that “may become a turning point in political, economic and trade relations between Iran and Russia” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was in Moscow on Wednesday to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is happening as …

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• 20 January

  Iran reveals key details of Yemen Houthi attack on UAE – analysis

  

  Iranian media claims ‘economic facilities and investments in the UAE are the Achilles heel of the UAE’s war in Yemen.’ A recent drone and missile attack on Abu Dhabi has raised concerns across the Middle East about the increasing threat of Iranian drone technology. The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen …

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• 20 January

  US special operations presses on in Ukraine amid threat of Russian invasion

  

  U.S. special operators are continuing with a mission to build up an elite fighting force in Ukraine, military officials said, even as Russia threatens invasion with its thousands of troops, tanks and artillery massed along their borders. “The bottom line is that our training mission in Ukraine is ongoing,” Lt. …

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• 20 January

  The Peoples’ Money: Transitioning to a Steady State Economy

  1. A significant cause of the unjust inequalities of wealth found in our society is a simple mechanism which keeps it all going: the state-chartered monopoly power held by private banks to create money as debt, and to profit from it through the interest charged on their loans. Their ability …

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