2022-03-07: News Headlines

Editor (2022-03-07). Calling Russia's Attack 'Unprovoked' Lets U.S. Off the Hook. scheerpost.com By Bryce Greene / FAIR 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 …

Staff (2022-03-07). 'Senior US Officials to Meet with Government of President Nicolás Maduro:' More NYT Fake News? orinocotribune.com Caracas, March 6, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—Yesterday, the New York Times (NYT) published a news piece signed by hardcore antichavista journalist Anatoly Kurmanaev, about an alleged visit of Washington top officials to Venezuela, in an attempt to weaken the solid alliance between Caracas and Moscow amid the Ukrainian conflict. | The NYT hit piece reads in its first paragraph that "senior US officials are traveling to Venezuela on Saturday to meet with the government of President Nicolás Maduro, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Biden administration steps up efforts to separate Russia from…

teleSUR (2022-03-07). Colombians Living Abroad Start Voting In Legislative Elections. telesurenglish.net From Monday to Sunday, 908,565 Colombian citizens living abroad will be able to cast their votes for the legislative elections in 250 voting centers installed in the consulates of 66 countries. | RELATED: | The Foreign Affairs Vice Minister Francisco Echeverri virtually attended the installation ceremony of the polling station of the Auckland consulate in New Zealand, which was the first to open since it has a 17-…

WSWS (2022-03-07). COVID cases explode in South Korea ahead of presidential election. wsws.org The presidential candidates have largely refused to acknowledge the pandemic as a major health crisis looms.

Adriaan Alsema (2022-03-07). Elections kick off for Colombia's diaspora. colombiareports.com Colombia's congressional elections began for almost a million citizens who live abroad and registered to vote. Colombians living in their native country will vote for a new Congress and candidates…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-07). Trump in criminal conspiracy to defraud the U.S., says House panel. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES—In the clearest indication yet of where its probe is heading, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, invasion and insurrection at the U.S. Capitol told a federal court that then-Oval Office occupant Donald Trump engaged in "a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States" to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss. The …

Isaac Arnsdorf (2022-03-07). Trump just endorsed an Oath Keeper's plan to seize control of the Republican Party. nationofchange.org It has already inspired thousands of people to fill positions at the lowest rung of the party ladder.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-07). Toxic Nostalgia, from Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys. transcend.org 1 Mar 2022 – War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?>

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-07). Vandana Shiva on the Dangers of Philanthrocapitalism. transcend.org 28 Feb 2022 – Physicist, ecologist and prolific author Vandana Shiva discusses her new book, "Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy," which identifies a new form of colonialism turning us away from each other and the Earth.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-07). Corporations versus Democracy. transcend.org 1 Mar 2022 – I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the ways in which giant corporations control both governments and media, thus undermining democracy. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.

WSWS (2022-03-07). Tornadoes in central Iowa kill 7, cause extensive damage. wsws.org Such catastrophes are themselves the end results of the criminal negligence of federal, state and local governments, Democratic and Republican alike, whose budget cuts and lack of planning only worsen the impact of extreme weather events.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-07). California Assembly Bill 1655 – Juneteenth Paid Holiday for the State of California. indybay.org One block from Old Sacramento Supreme Court Chambers the auction block of "enslaved" prisoners of war were sold. All along the American River Parkway, in the shadow of the early California State Capitol construction, enslavement of people of African Descent, Genocide of Indigenous Nations, Kanakas, Mexicans, Chileans and anybody with melanin pigmentated skin were not a citizen in 1849. Throughout the State same song…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-07). 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.

Dean Baker (2022-03-07). Reporting Tip for NYT: It Doesn't Know How Much Information About Covid Spending Is "Desired" by Republicans. cepr.net Unless the NYT's reporters have mind reading capabilities, they don't know what level of detail Republicans desire, they know what they are requesting.

Our Reporter (2022-03-07). Minister Onek accuses MPs of inciting women to strip naked and assault him. plusnews.ug Engineer Hillary Onek, the Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees has said he survived an attack on him by over 1,000 people who were evicted from their ancestral land in Kyangwali sub-county in Kikuube district. The minister accuses two members of Parliament of hatching the plot to assault him while performing his duties to …

Andy Kroll (2022-03-06). Would a "Cold" War Be the Best News Around? tomdispatch.com Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been widely described as the beginning of a new cold war, much like the old one in both its cast of characters and ideological nature. "In the contest between democracy and autocracy, between sovereignty and subjugation, make no mistake — freedom will prevail," President Biden asserted in a televised address to the nation the day Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. But while Russia and the West disagree on many issues of principle, this is not a replay of the Cold War. It's an all-too-geopolitical twenty-first-century struggle for advantage on a highly contested global chessb…

_____ (2022-03-06). Costa Rica: A Paradise For The Few After First Round Of Elections. popularresistance.org It seems that hard times indeed are coming for the working class, micro- and small-business owners, and small-scale farmers of Costa Rica after the first round of presidential voting on February 6. The two candidates that will go on to the runoff, José María Figueres Olsen and Rodrigo Chaves, have clearly neoliberal proposals: more free trade, more taxes on wage earners, and more cuts to university budgets and social spending. They offer no specific proposals to address the serious crisis of tax evasion and tax avoidance, nor anything to curtail the use of tax havens to hide people's fortunes. The new Legislative…

_____ (2022-03-06). Ethics Commission Votes To Subpoena ALEC Over Its Campaign Software Scheme. popularresistance.org The Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices voted 3-2 today to subpoena the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for information about its provision of sophisticated campaign software to its legislative members. | The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) filed a complaint with the Ethics Commission last July alleging that ALEC's gift of valuable voter management software, developed by Republican operatives and linked to the Republican National Committee's voter database, constituted an illegal and unreported in-kind campaign contribution. | CMD also filed an IRS whistleblower compla…

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.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-06). Video of NATO's 40,000-troop intercontinental strike force. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From what promotes itself as a strictly defensive alliance of democratic nations. NATOMarch 5, 2022 Video: Why is rapid deployment important for NATO? Rapid deployment is very important for NATO. It demonstrates NATO Allies' ability to react quickly and to defend each other against any threat from any direction.

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ecns.cn (2022-03-06). New yuan loans rise in Yangtze River Delta in January. ecns.cn New yuan loans in the Yangtze River Delta region stood at 1.44 trillion yuan (228.57 billion U.S.The balance of the region's deposits stood at 62.24 trillion yuan at the end of January, up 10.5 percent year on year…

_____ (2022-03-06). Putin, Lenin, Imperialism And The (Real) History Of Ukraine. popularresistance.org The people of this country suffer, I've always thought, from a general ignorance of history. This is because with vast oceans for borders, and ever-friendly neighbors, and no experience of being invaded, living in a country that has always urged assimilation including the acceptance of "American exceptionalism," schooled through an educational system that avoids teaching U.S. history with any degree of credibility so as not to upset anybody, they've never been encouraged to think critically about the past. To ask questions. To raise objections—not necessarily about what happened, but about how to interpret…

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…

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