2022-03-04: News Headlines

Michael F. Brown (2022-03-04). Democrats deepen embrace of Israeli apartheid. electronicintifada.net Israel visits showcase bipartisan support for colonial violence and racism against Palestinians.

Joe Sims (2022-03-04). What Biden didn't say in his State of the Union address. peoplesworld.org

Staff (2022-03-04). Headlines for March 4, 2022. democracynow.org Russia Accused of "Nuclear Terror" for Shelling Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Putin Says Russia's Invasion Is Going as Planned; Macron Says "Worst Is Yet to Come", Ukrainian Camera Operator Killed in Russian Strike on TV Tower ID'd as Yevhenii Sakun, Russia Forces Independent Radio and TV Broadcasters Off Air over Coverage of Ukraine, ICC Investigators Head to Ukraine as U.N. Rights Council Condemns Russian Invasion, Biden Admin Grants Protected Status to Ukrainian Immigrants, Halts Deportation Flights, Lawmakers Propose U.S. Ban on Imports of Russian Fossil Fuels, Youth Cl…

WSWS (2022-03-04). Biden's COVID-19 Preparedness Plan will keep schools and businesses open regardless of the death toll. wsws.org President Biden's Pandemic Preparedness Plan intends to ensure schools and businesses remain open regardless of the surge in infections and deaths.

Dave DeCamp (2022-03-04). Biden Considering Sanctions on India Over Its Russian Weapons. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration is Donald Lu, the assistant secretary of State for South Asian affairs, said the US might sanction India under the Countering American Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which was passed in 2017. | The CAATSA allows the president to impose sanctions over the transfer of Russian military equipment and was used by the T…

Staff (2022-03-04). Belarus reveals when its new constitution will take effect. rt.com According to the country's embattled president, its introduction 'will go down in the textbooks' | Minsk's revised constitution will take effect in mid-March, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has revealed, following a nationwide vote on the proposed changes. However, critics have warned that the amendments pave the way for the long-term leader to maintain his grip on power. | In a statement on Friday, the former Soviet Republic's veteran leader hailed the outcome of the referendum held on 27 February. According to the election commission, 65% of Belarusians who cast their ballots were in favor of the…

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-03-04). Emmanuel Macron confirms he will run for second term. en.mehrnews.com French President Emmanuel Macron formally announced Thursday that he will run for a second term in April's presidential election.

_____ (2022-03-04). A Chronicle of the Pre-election Race in ROK: Ahn Cheol-soo's Game. journal-neo.org For only so long, the author did not pay attention to the third candidate, but now the time is ripe to talk about Ahn Cheol-soo. This is already the third election that this 59-year-old former doctor and software entrepreneur takes part in. In 2012, he ran for president as an independent candidate but dropped out …

WSWS (2022-03-04). House Select Committee: Trump potentially guilty of at least two crimes connected with January 6 attack. wsws.org A 221-page legal brief filed in a California federal court is the first public detailing of the evidence being assembled by the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Fidel Castro Ruz (2022-03-04). "In a Nuclear War the Collateral Damage would be the Life of All Humanity". Fidel Castro. globalresearch.ca Let us have the courage to proclaim that all nuclear or conventional weapons, everything that is used to make war, must disappear!" Fidel Castro…

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2022-03-04). Braxton Brewington on Student Loan Debt, Andy Marra on Trans Youth Rights. fair.org This week on CounterSpin: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer CounterSpin220…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-03-04). If the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Is Subverting Democracy—Why Aren't Some of the Left Media Calling It Out? covertactionmagazine.com NED's history should lead to it being renamed the "National Endowment for Attacking Democracy," as journalist Stephen Kinzer suggests. On …

Paul Street (2022-03-04). Fifteen bad Ukraine narratives. canadiandimension.com Photo by Artem Kniaz/ Especially when deepened by the fog of war, idiocy comes in many mutually reinforcing forms. Let's examine and get past some problematic thinking on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But first, let's proclaim some basic principles. The Ukraine crisis is a good focus for practising the art of detesting two things at the same time. | Just as one can hate both the neoliberal-capitalist Democratic Party and (imagine) the neofascist-capitalist Republican Party at the same time, one can simultaneously abhor both supremely dange…

Benjamin Norton (2022-03-04). En partes de Europa, ahora es un crimen apoyar la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania. multipolarista.com La Unión Europea dice que representa la libertad y la democracia, pero varios miembros de la UE y la OTAN, como la República Checa y Eslovaquia, ahora dicen que es un delito apoyar la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania, punible con años de prisión. Letonia tiene una línea directa de la policía para denunciar a los ciudadanos sospechosos de simpatizar con Moscú.

Akio Tanaka (2022-03-04). Pacifica Bylaws Referendum. indybay.org Pacifica is a listener sponsored radio. | Pacifica should acknowledge the democratic vote of its members.

Staff (2022-03-04). Russia's Unprecedented Shelling of Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Raises Fears of Another Chernobyl. democracynow.org Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of "nuclear terror" after Russian forces shelled and subsequently set on fire the largest nuclear power plant in Europe on Friday morning. The fire at the Zaporizhzhia plant burned for hours but reportedly did not spread to any of the plant's six reactors before the Russians ultimately seized the site. Ukraine heavily relies on nuclear power, with 15 active nuclear power reactors across the country. Targeting any of these reactors — or even deactivated reactors at Chernobyl — could result in a catastrophic nuclear radiat…

Staff (2022-03-04). Russian Environmentalist Speaks Out on Putin's Attack on Antiwar Protesters & Independent Media. democracynow.org As the Russian military escalates its invasion in Ukraine, Russian police are cracking down on antiwar protesters at home, arresting more than 8,000 over the past eight days. Meanwhile, Russia's lower house of parliament has passed a new law to criminalize the distribution of what the state considers to be "false news" about military operations, and remaining independent news outlets in the country are shutting down under pressure from the authorities. We speak with Vladimir Slivyak, co-chair for the leading Russian environmental organization Ecodefense, who won the 2021 Right Livelihood Award […

deweylaura (2022-03-04). Marxist IQ: Women in history. cpusa.org The Marxist IQ for Women's History Month is dedicated to women who struggle for democracy, socialism, and peace. 1. International Women's Day was first established by the Socialist International (Second International) in solidarity with an early twentieth-century strike of women workers in a. London. b. Berlin. c. New York. d. Paris. 2. Women …

Staff (2022-03-04). Ukrainian American Journalist: Putin's Unjust War Is Emboldening Ukraine's Far-Right Movement. democracynow.org We speak with Ukrainian American journalist Lev Golinkin about the rise of the far right in Ukraine. Golinkin says Russian bombing of the sacred Jewish site of Babi Yar disproves Putin's claims that the invasion is about "denazification," and attacks on cities in eastern Ukraine show he does not care about Russian-speaking Ukrainians either. He also speaks about the neo-Nazi presence within his home country, saying, "Ukraine's far right is the primary benefactor on the Ukraine side of this war because they now get to attract people from all over the world, and they get to be seen as…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-04). Building towards 2022 Cesar Chavez Day – UC Davis Aggie Square Community Celebration. indybay.org In 1942, Cesar Chavez graduated from the eight grade, skipped high school to provide for his family after his father was injured in a tragic accident. After a few years working in the fields, Cesar joined the U.S. Navy in 1946 and honorably served America with a two-year tour of duty. In 1948, he married Nelen Fabela and settled in Delano, and the rest is history.

Staff (2022-03-04). Russia reacts to US senator's Putin assassination plea. rt.com Senator Lindsey Graham's call for a plot to kill the Russian president is "unacceptable and outrageous," Russian ambassador to the US said | Republican Senator Lindsey Graham pleaded on Thursday for "somebody in Russia" to "step up to the plate" and assassinate President Vladimir Putin, and who would thus do the country and the world "a great service." The Russian ambassador to Washington has rebuked the remarks, calling them "unacceptable and outrageous." | The South Carolina senator advocated assassinating Putin during an appearance on Fox News, and cited historic examples of plots to kill famous political l…

WSWS (2022-03-03). The lies and absurdities in Biden's State of the Union address. wsws.org Biden's speech was a vulgar attempt to paper over an immense domestic crisis by presenting the US as internally united against one man: Vladimir Putin.

WSWS (2022-03-03). Is the pandemic really over? wsws.org Biden's State of the Union speech marked the climax of a weeks-long effort of the entire political establishment and corporate media to force the American population to "live with the virus" and accept a "new normal" of unending mass infections, debilitation and deaths.

_____ (2022-03-03). Capitalism, Nationalism, And Copaganda. popularresistance.org In a room filled with maskless war criminals and Ukrainian flags, President Joe Biden said, in perhaps the most obvious sentence ever spoken in that chamber, that he was a capitalist. That's not shocking to anyone, but it is a wonder that he had to say it, given that every other element of his speech was so focused on protecting American capitalism and imperialism. From defending NATO, to arguing for a more productive U.S. economy, to shouting out the CEO of Intel (who was, inexplicably, in the room for the speech), Biden doubled down on his campaign promise that "nothing would fundamentally change." | Biden took…

_____ (2022-03-03). Immigrant Youth Hold Rally Demanding Biden End All Deportations. popularresistance.org A day after President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, immigrant youth from across the U.S. rallied outside the White House on Wednesday, demanding an end to all deportations. | Organized by United We Dream—the largest immigrant youth-led group in the country—activists at the rally drew attention to the president's failed immigration policies and unveiled a banner acknowledging the over two million people who have been deported or expelled under the Biden administration. | "President Biden can praise his administration's purported achievements all he wants, but at the end of the day, young, Bla…

Staff (2022-03-03). Boeing impacted by sanctions against Russia. rt.com The aircraft manufacturer has been using giant Russian cargo planes to transport supplies to its plants | American multinational corporation Boeing may be impacted by the Biden administration's ban on Russian aircraft in US airspace, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. | Boeing had been contracting giant Antonov An-124 cargo planes, operated by the Russian Volga-Dnepr Group, to move supplies to its plants in the US, potentially meaning the new restrictions will limit the American company's ability to operate out of its base in Washington. | "We work closely with our wide range of supply chain and logistics partne…

Walter Smolarek (2022-03-03). War and hollow promises: Biden's State of the Union address. liberationnews.org President Biden delivered his first State of the Union address last night, an hour-long speech mixing the war-mongering propaganda and empty promises of change that have become so typical of the Democratic Party establishment.

sputniknews (2022-03-03). Yes, Sherlock: Psaki Mocked After Spotting Biden-Related 'Pattern' in 'Russian Invasions' of Ukraine. sputniknews.com US comments on the situation in Ukraine have been abundant with gaffes and mistakes. President Joe Biden has already called Ukrainians "the Iranian people", while VP Kamala Harris has drawn mockery for her less-than-eloquent explanation of the Ukraine crisis.

Dave DeCamp (2022-03-03). Biden Administration Now Wants $10 Billion for Ukraine Aid. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration has asked Congress Last week, the White House "This reque…

Amy Goodman (2022-03-03). US Must Not Use Ukrainians as a Foreign Policy "Tool," Sanders Adviser Says. truthout.org While President Biden has ruled out sending troops into Ukraine, the U.S. is directly aiding Ukraine militarily and has imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia amounting to what some have called "economic warfare." We look at Biden's response with Senator Bernie Sanders's foreign policy adviser Matt Duss, who is also Ukrainian American. He says the U.S. should continue to exhaust all diplomatic avenues in order to stop violence in Ukraine. Duss also details the U.S. role in setting the stage for P…

Sarah Anderson (2022-03-03). Biden Doesn't Need to Wait for Congress to Begin Transforming the Economy. inequality.org

Staff (2022-03-03). Sanders Adviser Matt Duss on Ending Ukraine Crisis & How U.S. Shock Therapy in Russia Enabled Putin. democracynow.org While President Biden has ruled out sending troops into Ukraine, the U.S. is directly aiding Ukraine militarily and has imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia amounting to what some have called "economic warfare." We look at Biden's response with Senator Bernie Sanders's foreign policy adviser Matt Duss, who is also Ukrainian American. He says the U.S. should continue to exhaust all diplomatic avenues in order to stop violence in Ukraine. Duss also details the U.S. role in setting the stage for Putin's oligarchical government and says the U.S. must not use "Ukranians as a tool for…

deweylaura (2022-03-03). What Biden didn't say at the State of the Union. cpusa.org The following is based on a report given by Joe Sims at the National Board meeting on March 2, 2022. Perhaps the most suprizing thing about Biden's State of the Union address the other night is that nary a word was said about the storming of the Capitol. How could that be? A scant …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-03). Global Times: Biden fails to use Ukraine crisis to cover partisan struggles in U.S. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Full article at URL below. Global TimesMarch 3, 2022 Biden fails to use Ukraine crisis to cover partisan struggles in USState of the Union shuns provoking China, showing US limited ability: expertsBy Yang Sheng and Zhang Han US President Joe Biden finally made his delayed State of the Union address local time Tuesday night, devoting …

William Rivers Pitt (2022-03-03). Biden's SOTU Speech Channeled Reagan While Nearly Ignoring Climate. truthout.org It took me a day of watching and rewatching Joe Biden's first State of the Union address, but I was finally able to put my finger on what was troubling me: Reagan! Biden spent his hour before us on Tuesday doing his best Ronald Reagan imitation. It took a while to spot it because Biden lacks the performative chops Reagan brought wherever he went, and because I hadn't seen the real item in the flesh for thirty years. Once I saw it, though, it became impossible to miss. | Biden was at turns a national lig…

Dave DeCamp (2022-03-03). Biden Delegation in Taiwan Reassures Island of US Security Commitments. news.antiwar.com President Biden sent a delegation of former US officials to Taiwan to reassure the island that the US will stand "firm" behind its security commitments, The delegation was led by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Mullen and

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-03). Ukraine and the New Al Qaeda. libya360.wordpress.com Whitney Webb The eruption of war between Russia and Ukraine appears to have given the CIA the pretext to launch a long-planned insurgency in the country, one poised to spread far beyond Ukraine's borders with major implications for Biden's "War on Domestic Terror" As the conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues to escalate and dominate…

WSWS (2022-03-03). Anti-Russian propaganda campaign intensifies in professional sports. wsws.org The Russian invasion of Ukraine has set into motion a chauvinist anti-Russian campaign that was prepared well in advance by the Biden administration.

sputniknews (2022-03-03). Polling Underway for Sixth Phase of Polls in India's Uttar Pradesh, State Chief's Bastion at Stake. sputniknews.com In the last state assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the currently ruling Bharatiya Janata Party secured a thumping victory, winning 312 of the 403 seats available. The party is now contesting to retain power in the state, with the Samajwadi Party (SP), Congress, and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) the main contenders.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-03). Amidst voter repression, progressive candidates gain in Texas primary. peoplesworld.org SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Amid voting problems across the state—due to both repressive Republican-engineered restrictions and mechanical glitches—progressive hopefuls picked up gains in the March 1 Texas primary elections. But they didn't get all they hoped for. In one marquee race, pro-worker immigration lawyer Jessica Cisneros narrowly trailed incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar in South Texas's new 28th …

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-03). New York REI Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form a Union. truthout.org Workers at a Manhattan REI location overwhelmingly voted to form a union on Wednesday, overcoming a fierce union-busting campaign waged by the company after workers filed for a union election in January. | The results of the in-person vote to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) on Wednesday were 88 to 14 in favor of the union, or an 86 percent "yes" vote. The store, located in SoHo, is the first of the company's 170 locations to unionize. | "As members of the RWDSU, we know we will be a…

sputniknews (2022-03-03). 6 January Panel Prepares Potential Criminal Charges Against Donald Trump. sputniknews.com The committee has been investigating whether the former president and his allies played any role in the massive protests in and around the Capitol on 6 January 2021 that left five people dead. Several officials from the Trump administration were subpoenaed by the panel and the president's daughter Ivanka was invited to participate in an interview.

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-03). Trump's "Impenetrable" Border Wall Has Been Broken Through Over 3,000 Times. truthout.org The wall erected at the U.S.'s southern border under the direction of former President Donald Trump has been broken through thousands of times since it was put up, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. | According to unpublished U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, supposed "smuggling gangs" from Mexico, as…

_____ (2022-03-03). Western Media Accuse China Of Wanting To Do What US Does To Other Countries. popularresistance.org Last month, the Washington Post (2/15/22) ran an opinion piece by David Von Drehle claiming that, "in a sense, the alliance of democracies" (by which he means the US and its partners) fell "into a fitful sleep" at the end of the Cold War. "What began as a happy dream of perpetual peace," he contended, "changed in recent years to a nightmare," featuring "Communist empire-building in China." | The notion that there was a "happy dream of perpetual peace at the end of the Cold War" that only recently became a nightmare because of international bad guys like China suggests that Von Drehle himself has been not merely s…

WSWS (2022-03-03). Canada's Deputy Prime Minister carries Ukrainian fascist banner at Toronto demonstration. wsws.org Freeland's brandishing of a fascist symbol has been greeted with silence in the corporate media because it cuts across the narrative that the imperialist powers are arming "democratic" forces in Ukraine.

Editor2 (2022-03-03). Cuba Donates Thousands of Doses of Soberana 02 Vaccine to Sahrawi People. orinocotribune.com This Friday, Cuba donated a batch of 458,000 doses of its Soberana 02 COVID-19 vaccine to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), destined for the pediatric population of that country. | The African nation's ambassador accredited in Havana, Mohamed Salec Abdesamad, praised the gesture on behalf of his people and government at a ceremony held at the Finlay Institute of Vaccines (IFV), creator of the immunogen, in Cuba's capital. | The diplomat thanked Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel and all of Cuba, on behalf of the president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and the Secretary General of the Polisari…

Benjamin Norton (2022-03-03). It's a jailable crime to support Russia's Ukraine war in EU members Slovakia and Czech Republic. multipolarista.com The European Union claims to represent freedom and democracy, but EU/NATO members Czech Republic and Slovakia made it a crime for citizens to support Russia's war in Ukraine, punishable with years in prison. Latvia has a police hotline and encourages people to report neighbors suspected of sympathizing with Moscow.

Staff (2022-03-03). Report from Kyiv: Solidarity, Perseverance & "Full Mobilization" Against Russian Invasion. democracynow.org As the United Nations reports more than a million refugees have now fled the violence in Ukraine, the U.N. General Assembly voted 141 to 5 to denounce the Russian invasion. Meanwhile, Russian troops have reportedly seized their first city: the strategically located southern port of Kherson. Heavy shelling continues to be reported in the cities of Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Mariupol, and a 40-mile-long Russian convoy approaching Kyiv has been stalled due in part to Ukrainian resistance. We go to Kyiv to speak with Tymofiy Mylovanov, president of the Kyiv School of Economics and former Ukrainian trade minister, who det…

Staff (2022-03-03). Headlines for March 3, 2022. democracynow.org Russians Continue Assault on Ukrainian Cities as Death Toll Mounts, Ukrainians Put Their Bodies on the Line to Block Russian Troops from Major Nuclear Site, Russian Police Arrest Children as Brutal Crackdown on Antiwar Protests Continues, Over 1 Million People Have Fled Ukraine in What Could Become 21st Century's Largest Refugee Crisis, UNGA Votes for Resolution "Deploring" Russian Invasion of Ukraine, NYT: Beijing Asked Putin to Delay Ukraine Invasion Until After Winter Olympics, 175 Countries Agree to Collectively Tackle Plastic Pollution Crisis, Study Finds Third mRNA Vaccine Dose Dramaticall…

Staff (2022-03-03). Russia's War in Ukraine Could Spark Nuclear Catastrophe; Calls for Global Disarmament Grow. democracynow.org Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that if a Third World War were to take place, it would be a nuclear war. His comments come just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's nuclear forces on high alert and after Russian nuclear submarines set sail for tests in waters near Norway. Meanwhile, voters in Belarus have approved a referendum opening the door for Russia to station nuclear weapons in Belarusian territory, and Russia has called on the U.S. to remove its nuclear weapons from European soil. "We need to acknowledge that nuclear weapons are clearly not a cause of stabili…

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