Monthly Archives: March 2022

2022-03-29: News Headlines

Norman Solomon (2022-03-29). Biden's Unhinged Call for Regime Change in Russia. indybay.org Loose lips sink planets…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-29). U.S. Air Force budget focuses on nuclear war scenarios with Russia, China. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From an article on the Defense One website. Excerpts only. More Nuclear, Less Ground Attack in Biden's Air Force Budget Request U.S. Air Force leaders want to shed hundreds of "unnecessary" aircraft and drones and spend more on nuclear and high-tech weapons they say are better suited for a war with China or Russia. They …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-29). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

WSWS (2022-03-29). Biden unveils 2023 budget with massive spending on the military and police. wsws.org The main purpose of the draft budget, which has no legal effect, is to outline the right-wing political basis of the Democratic Party campaign in the November congressional elections.

WSWS (2022-03-29). Macron criticizes Biden's call for regime change in Russia. wsws.org Even as he criticized Biden's remarks, Macron announced the accelerated deployment of French troops to Romania and further deep cuts to social spending at home.

WSWS (2022-03-29). Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs anti-democratic "Don't Say Gay" bill" wsws.org As part of the Republicans' fascistic midterm electoral strategy and continuing attacks on the democratic rights of the entire population, Republican legislatures have advanced nearly 200 anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ bills this year.

ecns.cn (2022-03-29). Serf-turned masters living testimony to Tibet's leapfrog development. ecns.cn Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China on Monday celebrated Serfs' Emancipation Day. This public holiday marks the date in 1959 when people in Tibet launched a democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom and freed a million serfs, or more than 90 percent of its population at the time.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-29). Gold Mining Town of Negro Bar Cemetery and 2022 Armed Forces Day Celebration. indybay.org The Negro Bar Cemetery was originally associated with the Negro Bar Gold Rush Era Mining Town, which is a California State Historical Site. Across Lake Natoma, a newly developed project area set aside within the vast Folsom Lake Recreational Area managed by California State Parks to honor early pioneers of African Descent along today's American River Parkway during the California Gold Rush Era (1840-1875) is under another round of effort to distort, destroy and/or disregard authentic California History.

Anonymous103 (2022-03-28). NATOstan: She's looking at YOU. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Written by Supratim BarmanNATOstan: she's looking at YOU. A Roma untermensch packaged by Ukrainian "democracy". | The above picture and text are from a tweet by Pepe Escobar. | Is this what you are supporting? That's great. I am not. I have never been to the territory of the Russian Federation nor of Ukraine; but; I don't need to; because there is no way I can support this anywhere on Planet Earth. | I do however understand chess, (although I am a fairly averagely capable player), but I got to k…

Kenya Elliott (2022-03-28). Right wing Senators turn Supreme Court hearings into spectacle of racism and bigotry. liberationnews.org Jackson, who would be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, was subjected to outlandish attacks by Republican senators.

Anonymous103 (2022-03-28). Metabiota Connection, Hunter Biden And Biolabs In Ukraine. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Written by Piero Messina | Marija Zakharova, the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, launched from her twitter profile precise accusations against Hunter Biden, the son of the US president, and his involvement in biolabs in Ukraine. Zakharova has created a real timeline that explains what has happened in Ukraine since the fall of the USSR until today. A real indictment against the financial elites and the Pentagon's lea…

_____ (2022-03-28). Biden Confirms Why The US Needed This War. popularresistance.org he U.S. got its war in Ukraine. Without it, Washington could not attempt to destroy Russia's economy, orchestrate worldwide condemnation and lead an insurgency to bleed Russia, all part of an attempt to bring down its government. Joe Biden has now left no doubt that it's true. | The president of the United States has confirmed what Consortium News and others have been reporting since the beginnings of Russiagate in 2016, that the ultimate U.S. aim is to overthrow the government of Vladimir Putin. | "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden said on Saturday at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The White H…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). Negotiate Peace in Ukraine Now! transcend.org Interestingly, most news sources in the U.S. and Europe continue to attribute Russia's military difficulties in Ukraine to their own incompetence or Ukrainian heroism, but seldom to the $3.2 billion worth of high-tech weapons that the U.S. has shipped to Kyiv since 2014. Joe Biden, of course, is an architect of this de facto Western alliance with Ukraine. What his end game is nobody can say.

_____ (2022-03-28). Russia's Actions in Ukraine Trigger World Wide Consequences. journal-neo.org The United States president Joe Biden has recently visited Poland and made a speech which on one hand was barely coherent, and on the other displayed yet again the incredible American capacity to gloss over its own history of waging almost non-stop war on any country that dares to refuse to abide by United States …

M.K. Bhadrakumar (2022-03-28). Biden's reality check in Europe. peoplesdispatch.org The takeaway from US president Joe Biden's European tour on March 25-26 is measly. Dissenting voices are rising in Europe as western sanctions against Russia start backfiring with price hikes and shortages of fuel and electricity. And this is only the beginning, as Moscow is yet to announce any retaliatory measures as such. | The unkindest cut of it all is that the Russian defense ministry chose Biden's trip as the perfect backdrop to frame the true proportions of success of its special operation in Ukraine. The US and NATO's credibility is perilously close to being irreparably damaged, as the Russian juggernaut…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-28). Europe: The Prospects of an Expanded War Beyond the Borders of Ukraine are Growing. libya360.wordpress.com Elijah J. Magnier Will NATO dare to declare open war against Russia? Will Western Europe accept to be dragged by the United States to approve the explosion of a major battle on European lands with unknown results and dangers? US President Joe Biden said from the rostrum of the European Community in Brussels that his [NATO] alliance…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-28). U.S. ambassador incites Georgians to confront Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Agenda.geMarch 28, 2022 US Ambassador: Georgia's "greatest victory" will be building "prosperous, secure, vibrant democracy" Degnan…spoke about Russia's aggression against Ukraine, pointing out the invasion was "the latest reminder" of the importance of partnership. "Now is the time for unity and solidarity, as we face a revanchist Russia intent on undermining its neighbours and the …

Natalia Marques (2022-03-28). Dangerous hypocrisy in action: US to respond in "in kind" if Russia uses chemical weapons. peoplesdispatch.org As US president Biden meets with leaders throughout Europe, he is recklessly raising the stakes for the conflict in Ukraine. On Saturday, March 26, Biden delivered

WSWS (2022-03-28). National Opera of Belgium announces season "in which Russian titles feature more prominently than ever" wsws.org Outstanding Russian conductors, singers and musicians such as Valery Gergiev, Tugan Sokhiev, Anna Netrebko and Alexander Malofeev have become victims of the hysteria incited by the Biden administration and Western European governments.

Norman Solomon (2022-03-28). Nine words that shook the world: What was Joe Biden thinking?>. salon.com Frantic day-after cleanup effort can't erase Biden's disastrous call for regime change in a rival nuclear power…

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-28). Biden's 2023 Budget Includes a 20 Percent Billionaire Minimum Income Tax. truthout.org On Monday, the White House unveiled President Joe Biden's 2023 budget proposal, which includes a minimum tax on the nation's wealthiest people, a measure that progressive lawmakers and advocates have long called for. | The "Billionaire Minimum Income Tax" would

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). Reporting from Moscow: Sanctions May Achieve the Opposite of Biden's Stated Long-Term Goals. transcend.org 27 Mar 2022 – In Russia, sanctions have taken a bite out of the Russian economy, but interviews and data suggest they cannot fulfill the West's strategic motives for imposing them.

_____ (2022-03-28). The Ongoing Covid Disaster. popularresistance.org Nothing shows the abject failure of the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris administration like the continuing toll of covid-19 deaths in this country. A pledge to end the covid pandemic was a centerpiece of their 2020 campaign. They promised to improve upon Donald Trump's disastrous handling of the crisis which resulted in the deaths of 385,000 people in 2020. Biden and Harris had 446,000 covid deaths as of their first anniversary in office. The total covid death toll is expected to reach 1 million by the end of March 2022. Now an Omicron subvariant, known as B.A.2, is becoming the dominant variant. The U.S. usually fol…

teleSUR, DRL (2022-03-28). Rusia califica de alarmante las declaraciones de Biden contra Putin. telesurtv.net La Cancillería china – por su parte – llamó a ser responsables en las declaraciones para resolver los problemas a través de negociaciones.

Ramona Wadi (2022-03-28). The US Should Remember that Israel's Squatter-Settlements in Palestine are War Crimes. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — US Ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, engaged in further diplomatic contradictions, as he fluctuated between asserting the Biden administration's stance purportedly against Israeli settlement expansion, yet making concessions for earlier encroachment upon Palestinian land. "We can't do stupid things that impede us from a two-state solution," Nides reportedly told …

Our Reporter (2022-03-28). Court of appeal upholds Tebandeke's victory. plusnews.ug The Court of Appeal has upheld the victory of Charles Tebandeke as the Bbaale Constituency member of parliament in Kayunga District. A panel comprising of justices comprising the Deputy Chief Justice Richard Buteera, Catherine Bamugemereire and Hellen Obura delivered the verdict on Monday following the withdrawal of an election appeal filed by Tebandeke's rival Ronald …

William Rivers Pitt (2022-03-28). Ginni Thomas Debacle Is a Warning That Trumpism Lives On in the Halls of Power. truthout.org In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the two-headed main character Zaphod Beeblebrox finds himself fed up with a particularly bewildering receptionist who does not appear to be making sense. "Don't try to out-weird me, lady," he growls. "I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." | That pretty much pegs where I'm at today. In a land where Donald Trump was and could again be president, where a huge swath of the populace angrily denounces BandAid-level technology meant to thwart a murderous pandemic, and where a slap at the Oscars merits equal press ink with a civilian massacre in Europe, on…

Jon Queally (2022-03-28). Uninsured Americans will now be charged for PCR Covid-19 tests. salon.com Government funding cuts to key pandemic programs forced by GOP opposition arrive as progressives in Congress renew their push for Medicare for All.

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-28). Bernie Sanders Wants WWII-Style Tax on 95 Percent of Corporate Windfall Profits. truthout.org On Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) introduced a bill that would capture nearly all of the excess profits being raked in by major U.S. corporations as they exploit ongoing crises to pad shareholders' and executives' pockets. | The Ending Corporate Greed Act would levy

David Badash (2022-03-28). Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Pete Buttigieg and husband to "stay out of girls' bathrooms" salon.com "He and his husband can stay out of our girls' bathrooms."

Our Reporter (2022-03-28). ADF attacks affect 40 schools in Watalinga Chiefdom. plusnews.ug More than 40 schools in Watalinga Chiefdom in Beni territory in North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have remained for the last two months due to insecurity caused by the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a local non-profit Christian organization in the area has revealed. Community of Christian Churches in Africa (in …

teleSUR, JDO (2022-03-28). José Mujica celebra consulta popular sobre la LUC en Uruguay. telesurtv.net Opinó que la jornada electoral invita a que el pueblo decida, y ello permite progresos institucionales y afinar la democracia.

Fight Back (2022-03-28). In New Orleans hundreds unite to march against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – Around 250 community members gathered at New Orleans City Hall, March 25, to forcefully voice their opposition to a string of legislation introduced by Louisiana Republicans in recent weeks. This includes bills that would restrict trans minors' access to healthcare, their ability to participate in school sports, and could criminalize LGBTQ+ students and educators for being "out" in Louisiana schools. | The demonstration was attended mostly by students from three New Orleans high schools who have taken the initiative in organizing bold actions both on and off their campuses. Earlier in the day st…

ecns.cn (2022-03-28). Night view of Xiangyang in Hubei. ecns.cn Aerial photo shows the view of illuminated downtown Xiangyang, central China's Hubei Province, March 27, 2022.

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2022-03-28: News Headlines

Norman Solomon (2022-03-28). Biden's Unhinged Call for Regime Change in Russia. indybay.org Loose lips sink planets…

Anonymous103 (2022-03-28). NATOstan: She's looking at YOU. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Written by Supratim BarmanNATOstan: she's looking at YOU. A Roma untermensch packaged by Ukrainian "democracy". | The above picture and text are from a tweet by Pepe Escobar. | Is this what you are supporting? That's great. I am not. I have never been to the territory of the Russian Federation nor of Ukraine; but; I don't need to; because there is no way I can support this anywhere on Planet Earth. | I do however understand chess, (although I am a fairly averagely capable player), but I got to k…

Kenya Elliott (2022-03-28). Right wing Senators turn Supreme Court hearings into spectacle of racism and bigotry. liberationnews.org Jackson, who would be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, was subjected to outlandish attacks by Republican senators.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). Negotiate Peace in Ukraine Now! transcend.org Interestingly, most news sources in the U.S. and Europe continue to attribute Russia's military difficulties in Ukraine to their own incompetence or Ukrainian heroism, but seldom to the $3.2 billion worth of high-tech weapons that the U.S. has shipped to Kyiv since 2014. Joe Biden, of course, is an architect of this de facto Western alliance with Ukraine. What his end game is nobody can say.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-28). U.S. ambassador incites Georgians to confront Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Agenda.geMarch 28, 2022 US Ambassador: Georgia's "greatest victory" will be building "prosperous, secure, vibrant democracy" Degnan…spoke about Russia's aggression against Ukraine, pointing out the invasion was "the latest reminder" of the importance of partnership. "Now is the time for unity and solidarity, as we face a revanchist Russia intent on undermining its neighbours and the …

Norman Solomon (2022-03-28). Nine words that shook the world: What was Joe Biden thinking?>. salon.com Frantic day-after cleanup effort can't erase Biden's disastrous call for regime change in a rival nuclear power…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). Reporting from Moscow: Sanctions May Achieve the Opposite of Biden's Stated Long-Term Goals. transcend.org 27 Mar 2022 – In Russia, sanctions have taken a bite out of the Russian economy, but interviews and data suggest they cannot fulfill the West's strategic motives for imposing them.

teleSUR, DRL (2022-03-28). Rusia califica de alarmante las declaraciones de Biden contra Putin. telesurtv.net La Cancillería china – por su parte – llamó a ser responsables en las declaraciones para resolver los problemas a través de negociaciones.

WSWS (2022-03-28). National Opera of Belgium announces season "in which Russian titles feature more prominently than ever" wsws.org Outstanding Russian conductors, singers and musicians such as Valery Gergiev, Tugan Sokhiev, Anna Netrebko and Alexander Malofeev have become victims of the hysteria incited by the Biden administration and Western European governments.

Ramona Wadi (2022-03-28). The US Should Remember that Israel's Squatter-Settlements in Palestine are War Crimes. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — US Ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, engaged in further diplomatic contradictions, as he fluctuated between asserting the Biden administration's stance purportedly against Israeli settlement expansion, yet making concessions for earlier encroachment upon Palestinian land. "We can't do stupid things that impede us from a two-state solution," Nides reportedly told …

Our Reporter (2022-03-28). Court of appeal upholds Tebandeke's victory. plusnews.ug The Court of Appeal has upheld the victory of Charles Tebandeke as the Bbaale Constituency member of parliament in Kayunga District. A panel comprising of justices comprising the Deputy Chief Justice Richard Buteera, Catherine Bamugemereire and Hellen Obura delivered the verdict on Monday following the withdrawal of an election appeal filed by Tebandeke's rival Ronald …

Jon Queally (2022-03-28). Uninsured Americans will now be charged for PCR Covid-19 tests. salon.com Government funding cuts to key pandemic programs forced by GOP opposition arrive as progressives in Congress renew their push for Medicare for All.

David Badash (2022-03-28). Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Pete Buttigieg and husband to "stay out of girls' bathrooms" salon.com "He and his husband can stay out of our girls' bathrooms."

teleSUR, JDO (2022-03-28). José Mujica celebra consulta popular sobre la LUC en Uruguay. telesurtv.net Opinó que la jornada electoral invita a que el pueblo decida, y ello permite progresos institucionales y afinar la democracia.

Our Reporter (2022-03-28). ADF attacks affect 40 schools in Watalinga Chiefdom. plusnews.ug More than 40 schools in Watalinga Chiefdom in Beni territory in North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have remained for the last two months due to insecurity caused by the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a local non-profit Christian organization in the area has revealed. Community of Christian Churches in Africa (in …

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-28). Gold Mining Town of Negro Bar Cemetery and 2022 Armed Forces Day Celebration. indybay.org The Negro Bar Cemetery was originally associated with the Negro Bar Gold Rush Era Mining Town, which is a California State Historical Site. Across Lake Natoma, a newly developed project area set aside within the vast Folsom Lake Recreational Area managed by California State Parks to honor early pioneers of African Descent along today's American River Parkway during the California Gold Rush Era (1840-1875) is under another round of effort to distort, destroy and/or disregard authentic California History.

Fight Back (2022-03-28). In New Orleans hundreds unite to march against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – Around 250 community members gathered at New Orleans City Hall, March 25, to forcefully voice their opposition to a string of legislation introduced by Louisiana Republicans in recent weeks. This includes bills that would restrict trans minors' access to healthcare, their ability to participate in school sports, and could criminalize LGBTQ+ students and educators for being "out" in Louisiana schools. | The demonstration was attended mostly by students from three New Orleans high schools who have taken the initiative in organizing bold actions both on and off their campuses. Earlier in the day st…

ecns.cn (2022-03-28). Night view of Xiangyang in Hubei. ecns.cn Aerial photo shows the view of illuminated downtown Xiangyang, central China's Hubei Province, March 27, 2022.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-03-27). Podcast Ep 52: No more excuses for apartheid Israel boycotts. electronicintifada.net Democratic Socialists of America make right-wing move against Palestine advocacy.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). Chinese analysts: U.S. hopes to bleed Russia, collapse it like USSR. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Global TimesMarch 27, 2022 Biden makes US tensions with Russia 'personal'; calling for 'regime change' in a nuclear power dangerous: expertBy Yang Sheng and Wan Hengyi Edited The Biden administration's real and desperate intention in the Ukraine crisis has been exposed — to turn Ukraine into a mire so that Russia keeps bleeding, and to …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). Brzezinski: Biden's Polish visit confirms NATO Article 5 war commitment. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioMarch 27, 2022 Biden visit reaffirms strength of Polish-US ties: ambassador US President Joe Biden's two-day visit to Poland has reaffirmed the strength of the partnership between the two countries and NATO allies, the American ambassador to Warsaw has said, amid Russia's war in neighbouring Ukraine. *** The US ambassador to Poland, Mark Brzezinski, …

Rebecca Talbot (2022-03-27). ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back. truthout.org This story is published in partnership with Just after dawn on September 16, 2021, E.E. and six other African immigrant men were resting in their bunks at the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida, when Captain John Gadson and a group of at least 15 sheriff's deputies stormed in, E.E. and the others sat i…

Staff (2022-03-27). Afganistán, el incendio que no cesa. cubadebate.cu Mientras el presidente ucraniano, Volodímir Zelenski, continúa utilizando a su pueblo de escudo en obediencia al presidente norteamericano, la esfinge sonriente Biden que utiliza además a los casi 750 millones de europeos como escudos humanos, ya no solo para extorsionar a Rusia, sino como fin principal el de esconder su pésima presidencia sin importarle que Ucrania se inmole en su beneficio.

Jon Queally (2022-03-27). Billionaires Would Pay Nearly 100 Times More in Taxes Under New Biden Proposal. truthout.org Economic experts and progressives opposed to the outrageous levels of inequality in the United States celebrated Saturday evening and into Sunday after reporting revealed that President Joe Biden plans to unveil "a 20 percent minimum tax rate on all American households worth more than $100 million" — a so-called "Billionaire's Tax" that will specifically target approximately 700 of the nation's wealthiest people. | First

Kelly McClure (2022-03-27). Trump may need to look up the definition of "smart" salon.com On Saturday the former president called Putin smart for the second time in a month…

Bob Brigham (2022-03-27). Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene get more applause than Trump at Georgia rally. salon.com As usual, the former leader of the free world threw a pity party over how mean people were to him.

Staff (2022-03-27). Celebran aniversario 40 del Centro de Investigaciones Médico Quirúrgico. cubadebate.cu "El aniversario 40 del Centro de Investigaciones Médico Quirúrgico (CIMEQ) tiene la connotación especial de que estamos conmemorando un sueño hecho realidad por el empeño de nuestro Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz. Rendimos homenaje a su legado y a quienes junto al General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz contribuyeron a consolidar esta prestigiosa institución de la salud pública y la ciencia cubanas".

Matthew Rozsa (2022-03-27). When a leading Republican called for world government — and Einstein and Gandhi backed him. salon.com It sounds like alternate history: A Republican who ran against FDR — from the left. Meet Wendell Willkie…

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