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2022-03-08: News Headlines

JANET (2022-03-08). World says 'No NATO war!'. iacenter.org March 7, 2022 Over 80 actions — in the U.S., around the world and in cyberspace — have been held or will be held in March to oppose U.S./NATO aggression in Russia and Ukraine. (unacpeace.org) These actions are taking place amidst an overwhelming barrage of pro-U.S./NATO and anti-Russian propaganda. The role of the U.S. media and politicians is to overwhelm and drown out any opposition. Under these conditions even a small force standing up to the barrage becomes a magnet to attract that opposition. Times Square, New York City, March 5. Photo: Brenda Ryan. In New York City on Times Square, a group of a…

WSWS (2022-03-08). Studies warn Omicron BA.2 is the most dangerous COVID variant ever. wsws.org The scientific findings contradict the claims of the Biden administration and Republican and Democratic governors that it is safe to drop masking and resume in-person school classes.

Editor (2022-03-08). Burning Globalist structures to save the Globalist 'Liberal Order'. mronline.org Biden, finally, has his foreign policy 'success': Europe is walling itself off from Russia, China, and the emerging integrated Asian market.

Dana Sanchez (2022-03-08). Biden Bans Oil Imports From Russia: 3 Things To Know About Heavy New Backdoor Tax On Black America. moguldom.com President Joe Biden announced a ban on all Russian oil imports on Tuesday, March 8 as part of U.S. sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine, warning that gas prices will go up further and Americans will pay at the pump. "Putin's war is already hurting American families at the gas pump," Biden said at a …

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-03-08). Here Is A Detailed Breakdown Of The $2.7 Billion In Fed Money Given To HBCUs By State. moguldom.com The White House has released a detailed breakdown of the $2.7 billion in funding allocated for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in President Joe Biden's covid-19 stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan. The numbers were released by the U.S. Department of Education on Monday, March 7, showing the funds that were provided by the …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). US is Abandoning its "Helpers" in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Everywhere! libya360.wordpress.com Vladimir Platov The dismissive attitude of the US political and military establishment towards its foreign "helpers" is well known. This attitude became even more apparent after Joe Biden's recent appearance before the House of Representatives and Senate with his annual State of the Union Address, in which he described the people of Ukraine as Iranians. One…

Editor2 (2022-03-08). Costa Rica: A Paradise for the Few After First Round of Elections. orinocotribune.com By Giovanni Beluche V. — Mar 3, 2022 | 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…

Alan Horner (2022-03-08). Hershey factory workers organize to challenge two-tier pay, brutal conditions. liberationnews.org Workers at a Hershey candy manufacturing plant in Stuarts Draft, VA are now voting in an election to unionize and join the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union, with the results to be counted on March 24.

Xiaolu Sun (2022-03-08). See what primary voting taught us about Texas' new voting law. america.cgtn.com Texas held the nation's first midterm primary on March 1st. It was also the first state election under a restrictive new voting law. What kind of effect did the new law have?>

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Dallas rallies against war with Russia. fightbacknews.org Dallas, Texas – On March 6, over 30 anti-war protesters showed up at the Grassy Knoll in downtown Dallas to condemn NATO's involvement in Ukraine, its hostility to Russia, and to call for the disbanding of NATO. The protest was called by the Dallas Anti-War Committee, CODEPINK Dallas, Dallas Peace and Justice Center, Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialist of America, and Party for Socialism and Liberation. Signs present at the protest included "Peace in Ukraine! No to NATO!" "No to NATO expansion" and "Abolish NATO!" | "Over the past couple of weeks, a war has broken out between Russia and Ukraine. The Am…

Brittani Banks (2022-03-08). How Union Workers Safeguard American Democracy. independentmediainstitute.org The guard shacks, razor-wire fences and gun-toting soldiers struck fear into Cynthia Overby when she traveled with an American university group behind the Iron Curtain in 1971. Even worse was the utter despair she witnessed in people living under the weight of authoritarianism, a memory that inspired her lifelong commitment to safeguarding liberty at home. …

Prof Peter Dale Scott (2022-03-08). The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy. Prof. Peter Dale Scott. globalresearch.ca Militarization, the progressive shrinking of public politics, the rule of law and the requirements of covert U.S. operations abroad.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-03-08). Legal Scholar Elie Mystal: The Constitution Is 'Kind of Trash', Written By Enslavers. moguldom.com Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for "The Nation," called the Constitution of the United States "kind of trash" twice. He made the comments on Friday, March 4, during an appearance on ABC's talk show, "The View," to discuss his debut book, "Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution." A graduate of Harvard …

_____ (2022-03-08). Western Hypocrisy Over Recent Events Shows No Limits. journal-neo.org Last Thursday evening a senior Republican (US) official issued what must count as one of the most outrageous tweets issued by a senior politician. Lindsey Graham tweeted "is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to …

Dana Sanchez (2022-03-08). Florida To Officially Break With CDC, Recommend No Vaccines For Healthy Children. moguldom.com Driven by a desire to look presidential among a Republican base that hates the idea of all power emanating from Washington, D.C., Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis convened a 90-minute discussion Monday of 10 doctors and researchers who rejected the benefits of coronavirus mitigation such as vaccine mandates, masks and school closures. During the discussion, Florida …

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Sarah Brannon (2022-03-07). The White House Can Do More to Expand Voting Access. aclu.org One year ago today, President Biden issued an Although we applauded President Biden…

_____ (2022-03-07). Would A 'Cold' War Be The Best News Around? popularresistance.org 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…

Whitney Webb (2022-03-07). Ukraine and the New Al Qaeda. orinocotribune.com By Whitney Webb — Mar 2, 2022 | 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 the world's attention, the increasing evidence that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is and has been working to create and arm an insurgency in the country has received considerably little attention considering its likely consequences. This is…

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 ( The first paragraph of the NYT hit piece claims 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 ad…

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-07). Biden Is Considering Extending Student Loan Pause as Activists Ramp Up Pressure. truthout.org Last week, a top White House official said that the Biden administration is considering extending the student loan payment freeze, which is set to expire on May 1, for a second time — and suggested that the administration may cancel some portion of student debt before payments resume. | In an interview on the podcast Pod Save America,

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-07). By Trying to Sanction the Whole World, Washington Backs Itself into a Corner. libya360.wordpress.com Ernesto Cazal The poor negotiations between the US and Venezuela could negatively impact Joe Biden politically (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP) In a short amount of time, a series of events took place, centered around Venezuela, which from a political point of view have the elements of a melodrama with a hint of comedy. It…

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…

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 …

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-…

deweylaura (2022-03-07). GOP's shameless gerrymandering shapes Ohio's political landscape. cpusa.org The following report was prepared for the Feb. 13, 2022, National Committee meeting. Coming up to the 2022 midterm elections, the democratic movement in Ohio is getting battered by Republicans' shameless gerrymandering at the level of the state legislature and congressional districts. The new maps for both have been rejected twice by the State …

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 …

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…

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.

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-07). US Can't Deport Families Under Title 42 If They Could Face Harm, Court Rules. truthout.org On Friday, a federal court decided that the U.S. can no longer use a restrictive immigration rule first invoked by the Trump administration to expel families to countries where they may face persecution or torture, but still allowed the rule to stay in place. | The ruling,

Chris Walker (2022-03-07). Trump Outraged That His Social Media Site Has Had Many Problems So Far. truthout.org Donald Trump's social media site Truth Social continues to have issues, and the former president is not happy about it. | At the Conse…

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?>

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). 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.

Ann Brown (2022-03-07). Former Staffer: California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein Cares More About Her Dog Than Black People. moguldom.com Fired Senate staffer Jamarcus Purley is speaking out about his stint as a legislative correspondent for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and he doesn't have too many kind words for his former boss. Purley, a Black man with degrees from Harvard and Stanford universities who studied abroad at Oxford, claimed Feinstein cared more about her dogs than …

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.

Muhammed Shabeer (2022-03-07). Ukrainian security services arrest young communist leaders. peoplesdispatch.org The arrest of Aleksandr Kononovich and Mikhail Kononovich, leaders of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine, has been condemned by the World Federation of Democratic Youth and other progressive organizations…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-03-07). HBCU Simmons College Acquires Historic Building In Kentucky To Add To Campus Real Estate Portfolio. moguldom.com Simmons College of Kentucky — the only HBCU in Louisville — proudly announced it has added a historic building to its real estate portfolio. Photos tweeted by St. Stephen Baptist Church on Thursday, March 3, show Simmons College President Dr. Kevin W. Cosby and other members of the school's board signing paperwork for the building …

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.

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…

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.

Chris Walker (2022-03-07). Students in Texas Form Book Clubs to Counter Far Right Bans. truthout.org Students in Texas school districts are pushing back against right-wing book-banning campaigns by forming book clubs and distributing banned titles to their peers. | Last year, Rep. Matt Krause, a Republican in the state legislature, sent a letter to school districts in Texas, inquiring whether they had

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 …

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