2022-03-06: News Headlines

sputniknews (2022-03-06). Video of Biden Pondering On Putin's 'Invasion of Russia' Goes Viral. sputniknews.com Biden's remark elicited a wave of mockery from a number of social media users, some of whom made disparaging remarks about the POTUS.

_____ (2022-03-06). Burning Globalist Structures to Save the Globalist 'Liberal Order'. strategic-culture.org Biden, finally, has his foreign policy 'success': Europe is walling itself off from Russia, China, and the emerging integrated Asian market. | In its triple strike of sanctions on Russia, the EU initially was not looking to collapse the Russian financial system. Far from it: Its

Richard J. Cook (2022-03-06). A Crucial Year for the Asia-Pacific Region: Gauging Elections and Strategic Transformations. moderndiplomacy.eu Authors: Richard J. Cook and Maximilian Ohle* With the increasing severity of the Sino-US peer competition, the Asia-Pacific faces a crucial year. South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Australia, all linchpins of Washington's regional security order, face major elections, which have the potential to impact the wider regional strategic constellation, with lasting ramifications. Concurrently, the …

Peter Byrne (2022-03-06). Corrupt Privatizing UC Regent Richard C. Blum is Dead, but not (yet) Forgotten. indybay.org The corrupt privatizing UC regent Richard Blum who is married to Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein died and was give accolades by the Hearst owned San Francisco education reporter Nanette Asimov. Asimov has herself has done damage control for the privatizers and Democratic Party who are selling off and destroying SFUSD and San Francisco City College. The Hearst owned Chronicle has also been involved in union busting destroying the printers union and pushing the Pelosi, Willie Brown, Breed, Newsom Hunters Point/Treasure Island development plans by corrupt Lennar on a radioactive dump site. They are also developer…

sputniknews (2022-03-06). As Bennett Meets Putin, Will Israel Mediate Between Russia and Ukraine? sputniknews.com Shortly after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, the Israeli prime minister rushed to Germany where he met Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The premier has also spoken with French leader Emmanuel Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

Staff (2022-03-06). Impulsan proyecto recreativo en casa natal de Fidel Castro en Birán. cubadebate.cu Antonio López Herrera, historiador de la comunidad de Birán y autor de este programa, destacó a la ACN la iniciativa de rescatar los diferentes espacios campestres frecuentados por el Comandante en Jefe durante su niñez y juventud, de acuerdo con las anécdotas contadas en el libro biográfico Fidel, de la escritora y periodista cubana Katiuska Blanco Castiñeira.

sputniknews (2022-03-06). Ukraine 'Not a NATO Conflict, Will Not Become One,' UK's Boris Johnson Says. sputniknews.com Johnson's remarks come in the wake of a warning by UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss late last month that the crisis in Ukraine "could end up" being a conflict between the "freedom and democracy"-loving nations of the Western alliance and Russia. Her comments prompted Moscow to place its strategic nuclear forces on heightened alert.

Toby Blomé (2022-03-06). MARCH for PEACE in UKRAINE; Global Day of Action. indybay.org Co-sponsored by CODEPINK & Democratic Socialists of America, and other allies. | Join us in a march through the streets of San Francisco to Stand in Solidarity for Peace in Ukraine. Our shared demands are:…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-06). Today's City of Folsom debates if "Negroes" from 1849 have basic human rights today. indybay.org Early California Negro Pioneer Trailblazers are clearly document in the works of Deliah Beasley. Our California State Archives, California State Library and California State Educational System has a plethora of primary source documentation. The question is methodology and process for the 1849, "Negro" without legal standing then or today in some quarters.

sputniknews (2022-03-06). North Korea Says Latest Test Part of Reconnaissance Satellite Development. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Pyongyang says its Saturday launch was part of a reconnaissance satellite project, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports.

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_____ (2022-03-06). Putin, Lenin, Imperialism And The (Real) History Of Ukraine. popularresistance.org Ukraine is a place few people in this country can find on a map. Far fewer have any idea of when and how the Ukrainian state originated, or how it has related to its neighbors over time. So I might make up any random narrative about it, weaving in bits and pieces of truth here and there, and perhaps the majority of my listeners would nod agreeably at my presentation finding no flaws. There are a whole lot of ingredients to work with and to play with when it comes to Ukraine's history.

Staff (2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…

_____ (2022-03-05). Calling Russia's Attack 'Unprovoked' Lets US Off The Hook. popularresistance.org Many governments and media figures are rightly condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin's attack on Ukraine as an act of aggression and a violation of international law. But in his first speech about the invasion, on February 24, US President Joe Biden also called the invasion "unprovoked." | It's a word that has been echoed repeatedly across the media ecosystem. "Putin's forces entered Ukraine's second-largest city on the fourth day of the unprovoked invasion," Axios (2/27/22) reported; "Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine entered its second week Friday," said CNBC (3/4/22). Vox (3/1/22) wrote of "Putin's…

Dean Baker (2022-03-05). NYT Fact-Check Goes Full Loon Tune to Trash Biden. cepr.net In his State of the Union Address, President Biden claimed the economy creating over 6.5 million jobs in his first year in office, which he said was the most ever. The New York Times boasted about fact-checking this claim. It rated it "partially true." The fact-check said: "Biden is correct on the numbers. But the …

Dean Baker (2022-03-05). NYT Fact-Check Goes Full Looney Tunes to Trash Biden. cepr.net In his State of the Union Address, President Biden claimed the economy creating over 6.5 million jobs in his first year in office, which he said was the most ever. The New York Times The fact-check said: "Biden is correct on the numbers. But the government only started collecting this [sic] data in 1939." | Okay folks, at the start of 1939, when the government started publishing this series, we had fewer than 30 million jobs by this measure (non-farm, payroll employment). An…

WSWS (2022-03-05). COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness is rapidly waning in children. wsws.org Evidence from the CDC and New York state demonstrates that vaccine effectiveness for children has dropped considerably during the Omicron surge, underscoring the dangers posed by the Biden plan to ensure schools will remain open for in-person classes.

_____ (2022-03-05). Biden Takes Advantage of the Levers of Power to Protect his Family Business in Ukraine. journal-neo.org It is no secret that members of the current US political elite and their closest relatives are fairly quick to gain business shares in all countries invaded by US occupation forces. This has been commonplace since the Iraqi wars and the destruction of Yugoslavia. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, for example, had a business …

Ronny P. Sasmita (2022-03-05). Indonesia should not be tempted to delay the presidential election. moderndiplomacy.eu The statement by the Head of the BKPM of Indonesia (National Investment Board), Bahlil Lahadalia, supported by several political elites (Muhaimin Iskandar, Chairman of the National Awakening Party and Zulkifli Hasan, the National Mandate Party) who raised the discourse of postponing the presidential election in the name of economic recovery is a very childish idea …

_____ (2022-03-05). How Ukraine's Jewish President Made Peace With Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries. popularresistance.org Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the "gray zone" of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed, mostly on the pro-Russian side. There, the president encountered the hardened veterans of extreme right paramilitary units keeping up the fight against separatists just a few miles away. | Elected on a platform of de-escalation of hostilities with Russia, Zelensky was determined to enforce the so-called Steinmeier Formula conceived by then-German Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier which called for election…

Fight Back (2022-03-05). Milwaukee: First Starbucks in Wisconsin files for union election. fightbacknews.org Oak Creek, WI – On February 17, over 50 people gathered in front of Starbucks in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee, for an announcement that the workers at that location filed for a union election. Shortly after, it was announced that an additional Wisconsin Starbucks filed for a union election, this one in the tiny community of Plover. The election filing is one of at least 100 across the country where Starbucks workers demanded a union at their workplace. Except for the first few weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, Starbucks workers have worked through it all. | The workers at Starbucks are beset on all sides. While…

eferrari10 (2022-03-05). Guaidó's Achievement: US Judge Orders Auction of CITGO (+OFAC). orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, March 2, Leonard Stark, a judge for the District of Delaware, approved the start of the procedure for the sale of shares of the Venezuelan state-owned CITGO Petroleum Corp., which includes "the selection of a winning offer," reported The Wall Street Journal. | Stark made this ruling despite the fact that the company is covered by a resolution from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury Department that prevents its liquidation without prior authorization from OFAC. The OFAC has been in de facto control of CITGO since 2019, when Washington ignored the authorities designated by…

Florence CGTN (2022-03-05). Voting rights in the eyes of Atlanta residents. america.cgtn.com With critical congressional midterm elections set for later this year in the U.S., half of all states have introduced or are considering bills that restrict voting access. That includes the state of Georgia which was hotly contested in the last Presidential election, and where …

Adriaan Alsema (2022-03-05). Violence threatening election of Colombia's war victims. colombiareports.com Armed conflict and political violence are threatening the participation of Colombia's war victims in the upcoming elections. Victim representatives from war-torn regions are vying for 16 seats in the House…

sputniknews (2022-03-05). Meghan McCain: US Needs 'More Capable Diplomat' Than VP Harris in Upcoming NATO Support Mission. sputniknews.com US Vice President Kamala Harris is set to meet with the leadership in Poland and Romania next week as part of a pro-Ukraine effort to extend support to NATO and its eastern flank-allied countries dealing with the burgeoning rise in refugees fleeing violence amid the situation between forces mobilized by Kiev and Moscow.

_____ (2022-03-05). Could This Be Russiagate's Checkmate? popularresistance.org Well, it only took six years. Six years for the Democratic Party to weaponize Russiagate into not just a way to blame and shame Black voters for the spectacular loss that Hillary Clinton suffered against The-Candidate-Who-Couldn't-Have-Ever-Won-If-Hillary-Had- Actually-Campaigned-Like-She-Wanted-to-Earn-People's-Votes-Instead-Of-Thinking- She-Was- Entitled-To-Them: Donald Trump. Six years of US corporate media mouthpieces telling Americans that Hillary lost because Black voters were duped by Rainbow Bernie Bikini posts, shoe ads, and "Like if You Love Jesus" posts that convinced them to either not vote, or to vot…

Shane Burley (2022-03-05). Trucker Convoy Counterdemonstrations Show Need for Building Antifascist Movement. truthout.org After several years of far-right insurgencies in the United States, the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump's return to public life, few expected Canada to be the location of the next great explosion of right-wing energy. Over the past several weeks, people around the world have watched as a series of protests and occupations — self-titled the "freedom convoy" — brought out long-haul truck drivers and others to ostensibly challenge the vaccine and COVID-19 mandates coming…

Joaquin Sapien (2022-03-05). House Committee Issues Subpoena to Top Trump Fundraiser Kimberly Guilfoyle. truthout.org This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued a subpoena on Thursday to Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top fundraiser for former President Donald T…

_____ (2022-03-05). Is This Russian Propaganda? popularresistance.org We're risking a very fast, very radioactive World War 3 to defend the "democracy" of a nation whose government bans opposition parties, imprisons political opponents, shuts down opposition media, and takes all its orders from Washington due to a US-backed coup in 2014. | "Defending Ukrainian democracy" makes as much sense as "Defending Mongolian seaports". | The powers responsible for destroying Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen are the same powers we're trusting to carefully navigate extremely delicate nuclear brinkmanship escalations without ending the world. | "Relax, nobody's gonna start a nuclear war…

Anonymous103 (2022-03-05). Terrorist Democracy: Overview Of Recent Assassinations In Ukraine (Photos 18+). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On March 5, member of the Ukrainian delegation for the first round of negotiations with Moscow was assassinated in Kiev. | The Ukrainian negotiator who took part at the first Russian-Ukrainian meeting in Gomel Kireev Denis Borisovich was killed in the center of the capital near the building of the Pecherskiy court. He was shot in his head. | The Ukrainian newspaper UNIAN reported that Mr. Kireev was killed after he was detained by members of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). According to me…

Anonymous669 (2022-03-05). Turkish Forces Hit SDF-Held Village In Northern Syria With TOW Missiles. southfront.org Illustrative image. | On March 5, Turkish forces targeted the northern Syrian village of al-Jat, which is held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with two anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs). | The small village is located to the northwest of the town of Manbij in the northern countryside of Aleppo. Manbij is known to be a stronghold of the SDF. | In a statement, the SDF's Manbij Military Council claimed that the Turkish ATGM strikes didn't result in any casualties or material losses. The council released a…

WSWS (2022-03-05). New Zealand court bans strike by 10,000 health workers. wsws.org The decision to ban the health workers' strike points to the increasingly anti-democratic measures being used against the working class, as COVID spreads out of control and the cost of living soars.

WSWS (2022-03-05). Australian Education Union uses anti-democratic delegates' meetings to promote sellout agreement. wsws.org High school teacher and Committee For Public Education member Will Marshall exposed the union's claims on workload, wages, and provisions covering Education Support staff.

Oliver (2022-03-05). These are the Top 5 Countries in the World Democracy Index. nationofchange.org The well-known US media, The Economist, released the 2017 World Democracy Index on January 30, 2018. The index is a project of one of the wings of the media think-tank; The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The index describes the assessment of the sustainability of democracy in every country in the world, which is measured using …

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-05). 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.

Dean Baker (2022-03-05). How Does the Washington Post Know that Republicans Have "Concerns" About Federal Spending? cepr.net The way this should be reported is simply to tell readers what the Republicans say, for example refer to "complaints," rather than try to tell us what they think.

WSWS (2022-03-05). Florida legislature passes bill banning abortion after 15 weeks. wsws.org Florida is the latest Republican-led state, along with West Virginia and Arizona, to advance a 15-week abortion ban this legislative session. The bill is modeled after an abortion ban in Mississippi that the US Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, appears poised to uphold.

Staff (2022-03-05). US senator blasts Wall Street for 'undermining' anti-Russia sanctions. rt.com Elizabeth Warren accuses investment banks of helping Moscow by buying up Russia's corporate bonds | One of the most vociferous critics of Wall Street, US Senator and former presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren, has accused American financial institutions of "undermining" the sanctions imposed on Moscow by Washington and its allies over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. | "Giant Wall Street banks like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs never miss out on an opportunity to get richer even if it means capitalizing on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and undermining sanctions placed on Russian businesses," Warren said in a statem…

teleSUR, SH (2022-03-05). Corea del Norte lanza noveno misil balístico del 2022. telesurtv.net Pyongyang realizó al menos siete pruebas de misiles en enero del 2022, incluyendo su misil más poderoso desde 2017.

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