Monthly Archives: February 2022

2022-02-22: News Headlines

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-02-22). U.S. lifts ban on Mexican avocado imports. america.cgtn.com Avocados are immensely popular in the U.S. and the vast majority consumed in the country come from neighboring Mexico. So a trade ban imposed earlier this month drew notice on both sides of the border. The ban didn't last long, but the reason for …

WSWS (2022-02-22). Damning Auditor General report exposes failure of Canada's government to protect migrant farm workers from COVID-19. wsws.org The report is yet another exposure of the fraudulent "pro-migrant" pretensions of the Trudeau government, which has enabled big business to make massive profits during the pandemic while workers get sick and die from COVID-19.

sputniknews (2022-02-21). Sunlight Can Help Dissolve Oil Into Seawater, Reveals Study of Deepwater Horizon Spill. sputniknews.com The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill caused by an explosion on the oil rig, was the largest such marine incident in United States history. While claiming 11 lives, it also released nearly 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Workers World Philadelphia bureau (2022-02-21). 'Day without Immigrants' demands 'citizenship now!'. workers.org Migrants, refugees and their supporters participated in a march and rally in Philadelphia on the national 'Day Without Immigrants' Feb. 14, to demand that President Joe Biden keep his campaign promises and grant them citizenship now. Despite frigid temperatures the protest, which started with around 30 people, grew to well . . . |

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2022-02-21: News Headlines

sputniknews (2022-02-21). Sunlight Can Help Dissolve Oil Into Seawater, Reveals Study of Deepwater Horizon Spill. sputniknews.com The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill caused by an explosion on the oil rig, was the largest such marine incident in United States history. While claiming 11 lives, it also released nearly 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Shane Burley (2022-02-20). Border Militias Set Up Fake Humanitarian Stations in the Desert to Trap Migrants. truthout.org The growth of the militia movement the past several years has left many of our communities reeling from intimidation, harassment and violence. Donald Trump's tacit endorsement of the far right "patriot" subculture has given it a pass to grow and recruit, often manipulating the dispossession that many rural and blue-collar workers are facing in our current economic tumult. Trump's rhetoric about immigration, particularly the conspiratorial fear-mongering around the border, has played to a…

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