If we don’t care about prisoners on any normal day, then why would we care about them when a pandemic is spreading through the system?
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Covid & the Way of Death in US Prisons
Author: corinna barnard
Winning & Losing the Economic War Over Ukraine
Not only has Russia withstood the economic assault, but the sanctions have boomeranged — hitting the very countries that imposed them, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
SCOTT RITTER: Arms Control or Ukraine?
As Russia suspends New START, the sooner the Ukraine war ends, the sooner the U.S. and Russia can work to preserve arms control to avert the ultimate disaster.
Biden DOJ Backing Norfolk Southern in High Court Case
If the ruling favors the railroad giant, Norfolk Southern could find it easier to block pending and future lawsuits, including those from the major derailment earlier this month in East Palestine, Ohio.
Chris Hedges: Smashing the Idols of War
From the author’s address at the anti-war demonstration on Feb. 19 in Washington: “A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.”
McCarthyism, Polish Style
As Joe Biden visits Poland, Michal Krupa reports on the firing of a Polish academic for questioning the Polish government’s position on the war in Ukraine.
German Lawmaker Calls for Nord Stream Probe
Sevim Dagdelen takes the Scholz government to task for its lack of “strength and will” in responding to Seymour Hersh’s reporting on the U.S. sabotage of the Russian pipeline. Video and text of her Feb. 10 speech to the Bundestag.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Totalized Censorship
Content warning, canceling, de-platforming, denying access: The fate of Sy Hersh’s Democracy Now! interview on YouTube is the latest indication of how much rougher press suppression is in this new media era.
Craig Murray: Nicola Sturgeon – Used & Discarded
The first minister — now resigned — failed to claim independence for Scotland and will be remembered for that.
Rail Workers Urge Nationalization Amid Ohio Disaster
As the toxic aftermath of the major Norfolk Southern derailment plays out, Railroad Workers United calls for public ownership of a system beset with “profiteering, pillaging and irresponsibility.”