Daily Archives: March 18, 2022

2022-03-18: News Headlines

teleSUR, DRL (2022-03-18). China reclama a EE.UU. trabajar por la paz mundial. telesurtv.net En una conferencia bilateral, Xi Jinping dijo a Joe Biden que "el conflicto y la confrontación no le interesan a nadie".

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-18). Updated Davis-Bacon regs will raise pay for construction workers. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —Building trades union leaders lauded the Democratic Biden administration's plans to revise and update the rules implementing the Davis-Bacon Act, improving enforcement and expanding its reach. The Labor Department said the changes could raise the pay for at least 1.2 million U.S. construction workers. The rewrite, announced March 11, is open for comments for …

WSWS (2022-03-18). The issue in the US West Coast dockworkers contract. wsws.org As the July 21 contract deadline for 20,000 US West Coast dockworkers approaches, the Biden administration and shippers are plotting with the West Coast longshore union to block any strike action by workers in defense of living standards and working conditions.

WSWS (2022-03-18). The issues at stake in the US West Coast dockworkers contract. wsws.org As the July 1 contract deadline for 20,000 US West Coast dockworkers approaches, the Biden administration and shippers are plotting with the West Coast longshore union to block any strike action by workers in defense of living standards and working conditions.

WSWS (2022-03-18). Biden appoints mass infection advocate Ashish Jha as COVID-19 Response Coordinator. wsws.org The selection of Jha underscores that the White House will do nothing to stop the pandemic as the Omicron BA.2 subvariant spreads uncontrolled, and all federal pandemic resources dry up.

Michael Payne (2022-03-18). Republicans ready to use violence to seize greater power and control. nationofchange.org Politics is a dirty business here in America and the last thing we need in this country is a political war in which people are physically harmed.

Walter Smolarek (2022-03-17). World War III? Pressure mounts on Biden to launch war on Russia with 'no-fly zone'. liberationnews.org Pressure is continuing to build on the Biden administration to impose a "no-fly zone" over Ukraine and carry out an escalation that will potentially have the gravest consequences for the whole world.

Dean Baker (2022-03-17). Biden's Recovery Plan Did Not Cause the Ukraine War or COVID-19 in China. cepr.net Throwing millions out of work, to drive down the wages of tens of millions, is not a clever way to deal with these problems.

WSWS (2022-03-17). Oppose USW threats and lies! Launch a national strike to overturn the government-dictated sellout contract! wsws.org The following statement was issued by the Oil Workers Rank-and-File Committee to oppose the sellout contract dictated by the Biden administration and the United Steelworkers union.

Víctor Resco de Dios (2022-03-17). Las repercusiones climáticas de una guerra nuclear. globalizacion.ca La guerra en Ucrania se está recrudeciendo. Días atrás, el presidente de EE. UU. Joe Biden advertía de que involucrar a la OTAN en la guerra implicaría la tercera guerra mundial y hace poco Putin avisaba de que tenía las…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-17). Video. Biden in 1998: I was suggesting we bomb Belgrade, destroy all bridges on the Drina. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com B92March 17, 2022 The Russians published a video — Biden ordered the bombing of Belgrade VIDEO The video shows the current president of the USA, Joe Biden, saying that it was he who proposed the bombing of the capital of the then FR Yugoslavia. "I suggested bombing of Belgrade. I suggested that American pilots go …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-17). European crisis widens as rump Bosnia joins Kosovo in demanding NATO membership. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Anadolu AgencyMarch 17, 2022 Bosnia will be 'safer' if it becomes member of both EU, NATO: Bosniak member of presidencySefik Dzaferovic calls on EU, NATO to open their doors to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Western Balkans Also see: "Imperative": Kosovo petitions Biden for fast-tracked NATO membership Bosnia and Herzegovina will be a safer place if the …

Mike Walter (2022-03-17). The Heat: Appeal from Ukraine and U.S. Immigration. america.cgtn.com The Ukrainian president received a standing ovation from members of the U.S. Congress, as he made a direct appeal to the United States for additional aid, weapons and sanctions against Russia to defend his country. In response, U.S. President Joe Biden announced an additional $800 …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-17). "Imperative": Kosovo petitions Biden for fast-tracked NATO membership. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Note how the very Reuters that in 1999 dutifully echoed claims by the U.S. and NATO, as did all other major government and private news sources, that NATO bombarded a European nation for 78 days because of the "worst genocide since Hitler" and "200,000 young Albanian men missing and presumed killed" now writes — almost …

àÅlvaro Verzi Rangel (2022-03-17). Colombia, aliado no OTAN de EE.UU., gendarme para la región. globalizacion.ca El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, le informó este jueves a su homólogo colombiano Iván Duque su intención de convertir a Colombia en aliado principal no OTAN (MNNA, por sus siglas en inglés) un estatus especial que conlleva privilegios…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-17). Nuclear War Is "On the Table". Build Awareness. Say No to Joe Biden's $1.2 Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program! globalresearch.ca Will the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's "Non-compliance"?

WSWS (2022-03-17). The US arming of Ukraine and the preparations for war. wsws.org Declaring "We started our assistance to Ukraine before this war began," President Joe Biden made clear that the United States has been pumping billions of dollars of weapons into Ukraine for years.

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2022-03-17). Rusia rechaza declaraciones del presidente de EE.UU sobre Putin. telesurtv.net El Kremlin afirmó que las declaraciones de Biden son "absolutamente intolerables, inadmisibles e imperdonables".

Amy Goodman (2022-03-17). US Peace Activists Must Keep Pressure on Biden to Prevent No-Fly Zone in Ukraine. truthout.org President Biden announced $800 million in new military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, just days after Congress cleared a $1.5 trillion spending bill that included nearly $14 billion for Ukrainian humanitarian aid and security assistance. Experts warn that sending more lethal weapons could escalate war and result in more losses for Ukraine. "The cost on civilian lives is horrific," says Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, who says increasing military aid in Ukraine co…

Ann Brown (2022-03-17). Black America: We're Concerned Biden And Democrats Will Use Rising Crime And Pandemic Conditions For Another Mass Incarceration. moguldom.com The property crime rate was higher than the violent crime rate in 1994 when President Bill Clinton and then-Senator Joe Biden authored the now-infamous 1994 Crime Bill. Flash forward to 2022. Property crime has again skyrocketed, with criminals going into stores and loading stolen merchandise into garbage bags. But in addition to rising property crime, the …

Nat Villasana, Sean Scantland (2022-03-17). Protesters condemn racist voting legislation in rural Georgia. liberationnews.org Anti-racist protesters joined a Board of Elections meeting on March 9 in Spalding County, Georgia to oppose local Republicans' new provision to eliminate Sunday voting.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-17). Complaints of Electoral Fraud Grow in Colombia (+Congress). orinocotribune.com Merely 48 hours after the legislative elections in the Republic of Colombia, complaints of fraud by various political sectors of the country are growing. More and more facts and figures that show various kinds of irregularities in the parliamentary elections held last Sunday, March 13, are coming to light. | Gustavo Petro, who was a pre-candidate in the presidential primaries of the coalition Pacto Histórico por Colombia (Historical Pact for Colombia), and is already confirmed as one of the candidates for the presidential elections to be held in May, published in his Twitter account reports of irregularities from…

_____ (2022-03-17). Elections in South Korea — Who Voted for Whom, and Why did Yoon Win? journal-neo.org So, the elections have finished and a winner has been declared! The election results have been discussed in detail in the Korean media, with breakdowns of the results by region and in terms of the age and sex of voters. According to data published by the Korean Electoral Commission following the counting of votes, elector turnout …

Adriaan Alsema (2022-03-17). Colombia's opposition recovering 'stolen' congressional seats. colombiareports.com Colombia's opposition said to have found hundreds of thousands of votes that were left out of the announced results of Sunday's congressional elections. Election observers called for a recount of…

Morning Star (2022-03-17). Facebook accused of boosting far-right BJP in Indian elections. peoplesworld.org Facebook has been accused of boosting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in elections by offering it cheaper advertising deals. The social media giant charged the BJP a lower rate in nine of 10 elections, according to analysis by transparency watchdogs and press monitoring groups. This allowed the far-right governing …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-17). Donald Trump's fourth link to the Supreme Court: Ginni Thomas. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—During his four years in the Oval Office, Donald Trump catered to his right-wing supporters and used the Federalist Society, a right-wing judicial advocacy group, to name three justices to the U.S. Supreme Court—Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett. They cemented the rightist majority on the nation's highest bench. What's lesser-known is Trump's …

WSWS (2022-03-17). Mask mandates end in nearly every US school district as pediatric death toll climbs. wsws.org The Democratic Party has fully signed on to the blatant "herd immunity" policies that the Republican Party, far-right groups and Donald Trump have been advocating since the beginning of the pandemic.

Joris Leverink (2022-03-17). Digging for democracy: history and archaeology from below. roarmag.org Children from Baltimore are being taught the use of a metal detector at the city's Lafayette Square. July 8, 2011. Photo: Baltimore Heritage / Flickr | The most common complaint teachers hear from students learning history is that "it's boring." Asked why, these same students usually remark, in one way or another, that the study of history doesn't seem relevant to their own lives and experiences. Who can blame them? When we learn history in school, we are taught to memorize certain dates, names and events as a teleological progression toward the inevitable present. We study events from above, mimicking the perspe…

Our Reporter (2022-03-17). Opposition in Parliament, NUP boss petition US department secretary on human rights. plusnews.ug The Opposition in Parliament has petitioned the United States Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, Lisa Petersen on the state of human rights in Uganda. Petersen, the US Ambassador to Uganda Natalie E. Brown and other officials on Thursday held a private meeting at Parliament with the Leader of Opposition, Mathias Mpuuga and …

Akio Tanaka (2022-03-17). Pacifica Members Voted for the New Bylaws. indybay.org Pacifica should accept the democratic vote of its members.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-03-17). Black America Praises NAASD And CJEC For Success In Legislative Progress To Disaggregate Black Data By Lineage. moguldom.com The National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants (NAASD) and Coalition for a Just and Equitable California (CJEC) attained a victory in their fight to disaggregate Black data by lineage for reparations for Black Americans. "#AB1604 just PASSED in the CA state Assembly PERS Committee with our language requiring CA to disaggregate Black data by lineage!! Thank …

ecns.cn (2022-03-17). China's longest-spanning dual-purpose suspension bridge completed in Chongqing. ecns.cn Construction wrapped up on Tuesday at the Guojiatuo Yangtze River Bridge in southwest China's Chongqing city.

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