Weekend Edition: World leaders mourn Archbishop Desmond Tutu in acknowledgement of services rendered to imperialism

Australia’s COVID explosion shows workers must fight for global elimination of the virus / Trump draft executive order called for military to seize ballots and voting machines as part of coup plot / US and NATO press ahead with anti-Russian military buildup

The global struggle to close schools and stop the pandemic/As Omicron rages through US workplaces, 8.8 million workers were off sick in early January/German politicians and media intensify war threats against Russia

Biden at one year: A government of mass death and political crisis / New projections estimate that up to 304,000 in the US could die from COVID-19 by mid-March / The global media’s latest anti-China salvo: “Won’t somebody please think of the hamsters?”

Oxfam report reveals malignant dependency of the pandemic on capitalist inequality / Nearly 1 million US children were infected with COVID-19 last week / Turkish iron miners launch wildcat strike for wages and benefits

America’s COVID-19 nightmare / Oxfam report “Inequality Kills”: Billionaires racked up wealth while millions died during the pandemic / University of Michigan President Schlissel, who led unsafe reopening of campus, fired over sex scandal

US and NATO escalation of conflict with Russia is leading to war / Omicron’s surge through rural America will take a terrible toll / The effort to “delete” American novelist Norman Mailer

Weekend Edition: World leaders mourn Archbishop Desmond Tutu in acknowledgement of services rendered to imperialism

Stewart Rhodes and Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy / US government moves to end daily COVID-19 death reporting by hospitals / Thousands of Chicago students walk out to protest unsafe return to schools

Price surge slashes workers’ living standards / French teachers strike vs. COVID-19 policies / Leader of fascist Oath Keepers arrested on seditious conspiracy in January 6 coup attempt