 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The revelation by veteran journalist Seymour Hersh that the White House began planning an attack on the Nord Stream pipelines before the outbreak of the Ukraine war has blown apart the US media's entire narrative of the war in Ukraine. The US military occupation, along with a crippling sanctions regime that blocks the flow of relief supplies, amounts to a crime against humanity. International rock music artist Roger Waters delivered an eloquent briefing at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, saying he represented the voiceless majority around the world who are opposed to endless wars of "unipolar world domination" and calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Ukraine war. Shuttered auto plants, massive hikes in utility costs and young couples too in debt to have children—this is the reality for Russia's workers. On February 4, as part of its campaign for the Berlin elections, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party - SGP) held a central rally against the Ukrainian war and the return of German militarism at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, attended by over 300 people. The following speech was delivered by Gregor Link on February 4 on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin at the election rally of the Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei (SGP, the German section of the Fourth International) in opposition to the war in Ukraine. Link is a spokesman for its youth organization, the IYSSE. The arrest of a news reporter at a public press event in Ohio took place amid a campaign by company and government officials to cover up the extent of health and environmental issues in the massive chemical leak caused by the derailment. Ford workers in Kentucky expressed strong support for Will Lehman's protest over voter suppression by the UAW bureaucracy. University officials are provocatively demanding that striking grad students pay tuition and their health care costs. The barbaric proposals come in response to Biden's invitation to the Republicans to submit their own plans for spending cuts. Three weeks after Manuel Esteban Paez Terán was shot and killed by Georgia police while protesting the construction of Cop City, two hours of body camera footage released on Wednesday night confirm police fired dozens of shots. The US Supreme Court cleared the way for the executions of Leonard Taylor, 58, in Missouri on February 7, and John Balentine, 54, in Texas on February 8. Terence Andrus, 34, hanged himself six months after the high court denied review of his case. Nulan, who served under former US presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, played a key role in the 2014 fascist-led coup that overthrew the pro-Russian Ukraine government of President Viktor Yanukovich. Less than one week after WestRock escalated its efforts to break the locked out Mahrt Mill workers' resistance, the three United Steelworkers (USW) locals at the Cottonton, Alabama mill announced the passage of a contract to end the lockout following a fourth round of contract voting. Maximus is not just a particularly greedy employer, but a multi-billion dollar multinational corporation with deep ties to the US government. The work recounts an affair between an upper class woman, Lady Constance Chatterley, whose baronet husband has been paralyzed in World War I, and a "free spirited" gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. At the end of January, former NATO general Petr Pavel won a run-off election for the office of Czech President. Pavel is considered to be a zealous advocate of war against Russia. The Transport Workers Union's rotten deal with Kinetic to delay Monday's stoppage displays the anxiety of the union bureaucrats to scuttle this major dispute as soon as possible. Labour and the media are seeking to divert attention from the worsening social crisis facing all workers and channel rising anger into reactionary conflicts over race. Rail workers, teachers and nurses strike in Portugal over cost of living crisis; retail and technology workers walk out in Finland as Industrial union ends industrial workers' strike with below-inflation pay deal; rail and bus workers begin five-day strike in the Netherlands against below inflation pay offer; university academics join UK strike wave as 100,000 civil servants plan national strike on budget day; Israeli secondary school teachers' warning strike over pay as protests continue including calls for a general strike over judicial reforms NHS workers, rail workers, postal workers, educators, civil servants and millions more not yet striking face a government intent on funnelling social wealth to the major corporations and the super-rich, while the working class is made to pay for the pandemic bailout, the escalating war against Russia in Ukraine and the economic crisis produced by rising oil, gas and food prices. 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