Daily Archives: February 7, 2022

2022-02-07: News Headlines

_____ (2022-02-07). Protest Calls On Public Stores To Stop Selling Apartheid Products. popularresistance.org On Saturday, 5 February, activists in Vancouver gathered outside the downtown BC Liquor Store for a picket and literature distribution calling for the publicly owned stores to stop selling Israeli wines, many of which are produced in the occupied Palestinian and Syrian lands of the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Despite repeated calls to provincial officials noting that the sale of these wines means that BC Liquor Stores are directly implicated in war crimes, they have continued to take no action and market these apartheid wines. | The Canada Palestine Association has led the campaign for years to remove these…

ecns.cn (2022-02-07). U.S. should not go further down the wrong path: Chinese UN ambassador. ecns.cn China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Zhang Jun on Sunday resolutely refuted the unfounded accusations against China made by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. UN ambassador, in her interview with CNN.

_____ (2022-02-07). The Pentagon Keeps On Killing Civilians in Syria. journal-neo.org On February 2, the Pentagon chief announced that US Special Forces had completed a counter-terrorism operation in Syria, controlled by the US Central Command, stressing that "the mission was successful" and "there were no US casualties." As it turned out, the target of this operation near the town of Atme in the Syrian province of …

Staff (2022-02-06). Boycott Israeli Wines! Spirited Vancouver protest calls on public stores to stop selling apartheid products. samidoun.net On Saturday, 5 February, activists in Vancouver gathered outside the downtown BC Liquor Store for a picket and literature distribution calling for the publicly owned stores to stop selling Israeli wines, many of which are produced in the occupied Palestinian and Syrian lands of the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Despite repeated calls to …

scorinoco (2022-02-06). Biden Regime Massacres Syrian Civilians, Claims Death of New ISIS Head. orinocotribune.com By Miri Wood — Feb 3, 2022 | Biden occupation forces carried out another illegal air raid bombing in Atma, Idlib governate. Four US military helicopters bombed this village, followed by an airdrop of imperial American soldiers, followed by a gun battle. When the dust settled, the Biden illegals had massacred thirteen or fourteen civilians, and the little-known Iraqi terrorist-cum-ISIS head, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. Al-Qurayshi had allegedly detonated himself and his family, possibly up on a roof, having taken an alleged page from the alleged death of former Daesh head, al Baghdadi. | It took appro…

Anonymous669 (2022-02-06). Suicide Drone Launched By Turkish-Backed Syrian Militants Crashes In Northern Aleppo (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Hawar News Agency. | On February 5, a suicide drone crashed in the outskirts of the Kurdish-held town of Baylouniyah in the northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo. | The primitive drone, which was made out of commercially-available parts, was reportedly launched by Turkish-backed militants who occupy vast parts of the northern Aleppo countryside. The drone was armed with a rocket-propelled grenade and a hand grenade. | The target of the drone, which crashed as a result of a technic…

Anonymous669 (2022-02-06). Turkish Drones Target Two Positions Of Syrian Democratic Forces In Northeastern Aleppo. southfront.org File image. | On February 6, Turkish combat drones targeted two positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near the village of Arab Hassan in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo. | Arab Hassan is located to the northwest of the town of Manbij. The is town one of the SDF's two main strongholds in the northeastern Aleppo countryside with the other being the town of Kobane. | No casualties were reported as a result of the Turkish drone strikes. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-06). Replicating Iraq, Syria deployments, Britain sends elite troops to Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Over 100 British elite troops sent to Ukraine amid fears of Russian invasion They are believed to be helping train Ukrainian special forces in counter-insurgency tactics, sniping and sabotage More than 100 members of Britain's elite special forces have been sent to Ukraine…. Crack troops from the SAS, the SBS, the Special Reconnaissance Regiment and …

Jason Ditz (2022-02-06). Hundreds of Children Still Held at NE Syria Prison. news.antiwar.com Last month, ISIS forces attacked the Ghawayran prison in NE Syria, sparking over a week of fighting with the Kurdish SDF who run it. During the fighting, one of the recurring stories was children at risk from the fighting, with the implication that they were taken as human shields by ISIS. | The fight is over, but the SDF is The big i…

Staff (2022-02-06). Duque Wants to Speak with Russian Ambassador about Violence in Colombia's Arauca. orinocotribune.com Colombian President Iván Duque said this Friday, February 4, that he will speak to the Russian ambassador to Colombia, Nikolay K. Tavdumadze, to clarify the objectives of Russia's military presence in Venezuela. | Thus, Duque has chosen to ignore the statement from the Russian embassy in Colombia, which had denounced unfounded allegations made by the Colombian Defense Minister, Diego Molano. Molano accused Russia of supporting and implementing technical assistance at the Venezuelan border, to carry out a foreign "intervention." The Russian embassy called these accusations irresponsible, as Molano did not provide…

John Tully (2022-02-06). Abdullah Ocalan: Symbol of 100 years of Kurdish resistance. greenleft.org.au Abdullah Ocalan's jailers hoped that by slamming shut the prison doors, the world would forget about him. But, as John Tully writes, for millions of Kurds and their supporters around the world, Ocalan remains a living symbol of resistance to a century of oppression by the Turkish state.

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