2021-01-20: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2021-01-20). Brazilians celebrate arrival of Venezuelan oxygen supplies to struggling Manaus. peoplesdispatch.org Following the collapse of the healthcare system in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, Venezuela has sent 130,000 liters of oxygen and a brigade of 107 doctors to help combat the pandemic…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-01-20). Brazilians celebrate arrival of Venezuelan oxygen to struggling Manaus. peoplesdispatch.org Following the collapse of the healthcare system in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, Venezuela has sent 130,000 liters of oxygen and a brigade of 107 doctors to help combat the pandemic…

MEE and agencies (2021-01-20). Covid-19: Turkey vaccinates more than one million people, says health ministry. middleeasteye.net Covid-19: Turkey vaccinates more than one million people, says health ministry | Turkey has now given a first shot of the coronavirus vaccine to more than one percent of the population | Wed, 01/20/2021 – 13: 17 | A healthcare worker checks the body temperature of an elderly woman at a nursing home in Ankara, on 19 January 2021, amid the Covid-19 pandemic (AFP) | More than one million peop…

Dave DeCamp (2021-01-20). Trump Administration Designates Cuba a State Sponsor of Terrorism. anti-empire.com After weeks of rumors, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the Trump administration is Cuba was first designated as a state sponsor of terror by the Reagan administration in 1982. This move was reversed in 2015 by President Obama, who took other steps to normalize with Havana, including lifting travel res…

G. Dunkel (2021-01-20). Protests erupt over Haitian president's plans to stay in power. workers.org From Brooklyn and Miami to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as well as Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haitien, Jacmel, Saint-Marc and GonaàØves in Haiti, hundreds of people marched on Jan. 15 to demand that Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse follow the constitution and step down next month. Barclay Center protest, Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 15. The term . . . |

Anya Parampil (2021-01-20). Biden Inaugural Guest Is Venezuelan Coup Leader Charged with Inciting Violent Assault on Gov't Building. globalresearch.ca After condemning the pro-Trump invasion of the Capitol, the incoming Biden administration invited Carlos Vecchio — a coup leader charged in the 2014 torching of the Venezuelan Attorney General's office — to its inaugural ceremony. | *** | As Washington recovered from …

Fight Back (2021-01-20). NYC rallies for MLK Day. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – Over 50 people gathered on January 18, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The crowd rallied at the 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem, a neighborhood that has had a long history of Black revolutionary organizing. Along with the rally, others participated in a car caravan that passed by the rally. | The event was organized by the People's United Front, with speakers from organizations such as the New Abolitionist Movement, Cuba Si Coalition, New York Community Action Project, Families for Freedom, and many others. | Each of the speeches addressed one of the issues laid ou…

Fight Back (2021-01-20). NYC rallies for MLK Day. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – Over 50 people gathered on January 18, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The crowd rallied at the 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem, a neighborhood that has had a long history of Black revolutionary organizing. Along with the rally, others participated in a car caravan that passed by the rally. | The event was organized by the People's United Front, with speakers from organizations such as the New Abolitionist Movement, Cuba Si Coalition, New York Community Action Project, Families for Freedom, and many others. | Each of the speeches addressed one of the issues laid ou…

teleSUR (2021-01-19). Venezuelan Donated Oxygen Arrives in Manaus, Brazil. telesurenglish.net Authorities confirm the arrival of five trucks with oxygen in the capital of the Brazilian Amazon, Manaus, to attend to the sanitary crisis that the territory is suffering due to the Covid-19 pandemic. | The population welcomed the trucks with Venezuelan flags amidst applause. The shipment will be able to alleviate the dramatic situation suffered by the hospital network in Manaus. | RELATED: | The Venezuelan Fore…

Editor (2021-01-19). Patching up capitalism during COVID. workers.org On Jan. 21, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first recognized case of COVID-19 in the U.S. One year later, over 400,000 people in the country are dead from the virus — the equivalent of wiping out the entire population of Cleveland, Ohio, or Tampa, Fla. . . . |

Ted Glick (2021-01-19). The Cause of Independence for Puerto Rico. dissidentvoice.org From 1974 into the 1980's I worked actively with the US branch of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) in support of the cause of independence for Puerto Rico. I have maintained connections to this should-be country ever since, primarily through a close friendship with a leading community activist in Vieques, a small island off …

Rod Driver (2021-01-19). The Basic Principles of War Propaganda: The US Lies About Every War. globalresearch.ca "In war, truth is the first casualty" (Aeschylus(1)) | A Very Brief History of War Propaganda | Propaganda as a science really got under way during World War 1 (WW1). The British and the German governments both brainwashed their populations into believing …

news.un (2021-01-19). Spectre of unrest, violent repression looming over Haiti, warns UN rights office. news.un.org Increasing political tensions in Haiti coupled with insecurity and structural inequalities could result in protests followed by violent crackdowns by authorities, the United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) warned on Tuesday.

teleSUR (2021-01-19). Rep. McGovern Calls on Biden to Repair US-Cuba Relations. telesurenglish.net In a unequivocal McGovern continues by reminding of the "explosion of positive change" in U.S.-Cuba relations, during the last two years…

teleSUR (2021-01-19). St. Vincent's La Soufriere Volcano Increases Its Activity. telesurenglish.net St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on Monday asked the population to take precautions against the possible eruption of La Soufriere volcano. | RELATED: | Over the weekend, volcanologists from the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center (UWI-SRC) carried out a field trip to the lava dome. | By collecting volcanic materials, they concluded that if the dome continues to grow, "it can…

Paul Dobson (2021-01-18). Guaido Accused of Blocking Vaccines as Venezuela Sends Covid-19 Aid to Brazil. venezuelanalysis.com 107 doctors and 14,000 oxygen tanks have been sent on a humanitarian convoy to Manaus, Brazil.

teleSUR (2021-01-18). ALBA-TCP Promotes Vaccine Bank for Its Member Countries. telesurenglish.net The initiative to guarantee the vaccination of the integration mechanism's peoples was part of the issues addressed during the visit to the Caribbean nation of Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, who developed an intense agenda of work with Cuban authorities, said the head of state. | RELATED: | During an assessment of the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, Maduro insisted on meeting the medical ne…

teleSUR (2021-01-18). Venezuela Inaugurates Ozone Science Center. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday inaugurated the National Ozone Science Center (CENAOZ), a modern facility that aims to promote health strategies based on ozone therapy. | RELATED: | "Today we inaugurate the CENAOZ headquarters. The ozone therapy will contribute to the medical protocols that have been established for the cure of COVID-19," Maduro said. | "The ozone therapy will be present in all the count…

teleSUR (2021-01-18). The U.S. Opposed National Dialogues in Venezuela. telesurenglish.net Opposition lawmaker Timoteo Zambrano on Sunday affirmed that U.S. President Donald Trump hampered all dialogue processes between the Venezuelan opposition and President Nicolas Maduro. | RELATED: | He recalled the meetings held under the auspices of the Dominican Republic's former President D…

Paul Craig Roberts (2021-01-18). America's Demise Is Near At Hand. thealtworld.com For years I have been cataloging America's decline into collapse, not merely economic collapse from economic concentration and the offshoring of jobs and investment, but also the collapse of the belief system that created some unity among a diverse population. Today not only is the economy done for, but so is the belief system that sustained social and political stability. | America no longer exists. A geographical entity exists of diverse peoples and interests, but not a country, much less a nation. The United States itself has degenerated into an empire. It is no longer simply a country with an empire. The 50 s…

teleSUR (2021-01-18). Venezuela: Guaido Has Over ‚Ǩ2 Billion in European Bank Accounts. telesurenglish.net "Mr. Juan Guaidó will have to say where he got the 2 billion euros that he has deposited in European bank accounts and a 77-foot yacht that he has in Fort Lauderdale, Florida [United States], which has even been visited by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio," Amoroso declared. | RELATED: | "They have to explain to the people of Venezuela how they have obtained the money, how is it that Mr. [Julio] Borges lives in a mansion in…