Daily Archives: March 4, 2022

2022-03-04: News Headlines

Sara Flounders (2022-03-04). Guerra de EE.UU. contra Rusia: una estampida hacia el precipicio. workers.org Boletín: Desde el 22 de febrero, Rusia ha reconocido las dos repúblicas populares de la región de Donbass, en el este de Ucrania, la República Popular de Donetsk y la República Popular de Lugansk, establecidas en 2014. Rusia ha dicho que enviará tropas para proteger a las dos repúblicas si . . . |

Vijay Prashad (2022-03-04). In these days of great tension, peace is a priority: The Ninth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org It is impossible not to be moved by the outrageousness of warfare, the ugliness of aerial bombardment, the gruesome fears of civilians who are trapped between choices that are not their own.

Michael F. Brown (2022-03-04). Democrats deepen embrace of Israeli apartheid. electronicintifada.net Israel visits showcase bipartisan support for colonial violence and racism against Palestinians.

WSWS (2022-03-04). International censorship mounted against Russian state-affiliated media outlets. wsws.org A campaign of censorship against Russian state-backed media sources has been led by the European Union and embraced by tech companies, social media platforms and cable television providers.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-03-04). If the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Is Subverting Democracy—Why Aren't Some of the Left Media Calling It Out? covertactionmagazine.com NED's history should lead to it being renamed the "National Endowment for Attacking Democracy," as journalist Stephen Kinzer suggests. On …

_____ (2022-03-04). A Chronicle of the Pre-election Race in ROK: Ahn Cheol-soo's Game. journal-neo.org For only so long, the author did not pay attention to the third candidate, but now the time is ripe to talk about Ahn Cheol-soo. This is already the third election that this 59-year-old former doctor and software entrepreneur takes part in. In 2012, he ran for president as an independent candidate but dropped out …

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2022-03-04). Declara»õia PSL privind interven»õia militarƒÉ a Rusiei àÆn Ucraina. liberationnews.org Amenin»õarea rƒÉzboiului poate fi àÆnvinsƒÉ doar prin solidaritatea interna»õionalƒÉ àÆntre popoarele lumii »ôi printr-o luptƒÉ hotƒÉrâtƒÉ àÆmpotriva imperialismului american, care trebuie sƒÉ impunƒÉ abolirea NATO. FƒÉrƒÉ rƒÉzboi cu Rusia!

Reynard Loki (2022-03-04). Letter From the Editor: Introducing &Art, a project of Earth | Food | Life. independentmediainstitute.org Dear Earth | Food | Life reader, It is a distinct pleasure to introduce Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, a newly minted fellow here at the Independent Media Institute (IMI), and the Earth | Food | Life (EFL) project she just launched: &Art. Over the last two decades, Rachel and I have discussed the many possibilities of …

Staff (2022-03-04). Venezuela Approves Report on Crimes Committed by 2016-2020 Opposition Parliament. orinocotribune.com Earlier today, the special commission of the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) investigating the crimes perpetrated against the country by the AN board of the 2016-2020 term presented the conclusions of its report. The report provided an account of the actions harmful to Venezuela that were carried out by the extreme right. | The document was approved unanimously, and the president of the commission, José Brito, during the regular session of Thursday, mentioned that there are 442 individuals involved in the investigation. Of these, 203 are former deputies. | The additional 239 are people designated by former depu…

Staff (2022-03-04). Venezuela to Increase Minimum Wage and Consider Bonuses as Part of Wage. orinocotribune.com On March 3, Venezuela announced an increase in the minimum wage to half a petro, and determined that bonuses delivered to public workers through the Patria System will be considered as salary. The increased minimum wage will impact the wage scales of public employees, those under collective bargaining agreements, and pensioners. | In addition, food bonuses will increase to Bs. 45 ($10.30 USD). With the price of the petro currently at $57.81, and the official dollar at Bs. 4.37, the minimum wage would be Bs. 126 per month (or $28.90). Adding the food bonuses, it would be Bs. 171 per month, equivalent to $39.20.

deweylaura (2022-03-04). Marxist IQ: Women in history. cpusa.org The Marxist IQ for Women's History Month is dedicated to women who struggle for democracy, socialism, and peace. 1. International Women's Day was first established by the Socialist International (Second International) in solidarity with an early twentieth-century strike of women workers in a. London. b. Berlin. c. New York. d. Paris. 2. Women …

WSWS (2022-03-04). Florida governor Ron DeSantis berates high school students for wearing masks. wsws.org DeSantis attacked a line up of teenagers for wearing face coverings while denouncing masks as "COVID theater."

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-03-04). How Ukraine's Jewish President Made Peace With Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries. mintpressnews.com While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky's Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters.

WSWS (2022-03-04). Film industry, festival officials join anti-Russian campaign: What are they signing up for? wsws.org Various global film industry and film festival officials have stumbled over themselves in recent days to join the anti-Russian hysteria.

WSWS (2022-03-04). Australia: Residents abandoned by government in flood crisis. wsws.org Days after the floods hit, thousands of residents are still without power, phone and internet, while food, drinking water and fuel are in desperately short supply.

WSWS (2022-03-04). John McDonnell and Diane Abbott pull out of Stop the War Coalition rally. wsws.org The Stop the War Coalition's entire political perspective is in ruins. The Labour Party is firmly in the hands of Starmer, more right-wing than ever, and not even one of its MPs will turn up to STWC events or sign their open letters.

Benjamin Norton (2022-03-04). En partes de Europa, ahora es un crimen apoyar la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania. multipolarista.com La Unión Europea dice que representa la libertad y la democracia, pero varios miembros de la UE y la OTAN, como la República Checa y Eslovaquia, ahora dicen que es un delito apoyar la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania, punible con años de prisión. Letonia tiene una línea directa de la policía para denunciar a los ciudadanos sospechosos de simpatizar con Moscú.

WSWS (2022-03-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org South African Clover Foods workers to continue strike over wages and job cuts until their demands are met, while gold miners closer to strike action; strikes and protests in health care sector across Spain and France over jobs and conditions; two 24-hour strikes over jobs and pensions bring London underground to halt…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-04). Sri Lankan unions begin campaign for minimum wage rise. peoplesdispatch.org 12 unions have launched a joint campaign to demand an increment in the minimum wage of private sector employees after the government decided to exclude them from a scheme granting a monthly increment of 5,000 LKR (USD 25) to pensioners and public sector employees…

WSWS (2022-03-04). House Select Committee: Trump potentially guilty of at least two crimes connected with January 6 attack. wsws.org A 221-page legal brief filed in a California federal court is the first public detailing of the evidence being assembled by the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

WSWS (2022-03-04). German Left Party backs war drive against Russia. wsws.org The Left Party plays a key role in implementing aggressive German military policy by cloaking it in peace-loving slogans to slip it past enormous popular opposition to war.

David Swanson (2022-03-04). 40 Things We Can Do and Know for People in Ukraine and the World. warisacrime.org By David Swanson Remarks at Code Pink event in Washington D.C. on March 3, 2022 Image Source. Send aid to Ukrainian friends and aid organizations. Send aid to organizations helping refugees leaving Ukraine. Send aid especially that will reach those being refused help for racist reasons. Share the remarkable media coverage of war victims in …

WSWS (2022-03-04). Officer involved in the murder of Breonna Taylor found not guilty of wanton endangerment. wsws.org Brett Hankison, the only former Louisville police officer to be charged with a crime in the shooting of Breonna Taylor two years ago, was acquitted by a jury on Thursday of three counts of wanton endangerment.

Betsey Piette (2022-03-04). Global supply chain: Rail industry prioritizes profits over safety. workers.org The global supply chain crisis, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, has laid bare systemic problems within global capitalism — when and where goods are produced to how they are transported and the growing disparity between the bosses' wealth versus the wages and benefits paid to millions of workers throughout this . . . |

WSWS (2022-03-04). Biden's COVID-19 Preparedness Plan will keep schools and businesses open regardless of the death toll. wsws.org President Biden's Pandemic Preparedness Plan intends to ensure schools and businesses remain open regardless of the surge in infections and deaths.

WSWS (2022-03-04). UK university workers speak on higher education dispute. wsws.org WSWS reporters spoke to strikers and students at universities nationwide this week, including in London.

WSWS (2022-03-04). As Tube strikes throw London into chaos, Labour and Tory MPs denounce RMT as "Putin stooges" wsws.org The McCarthyite attacks are part of efforts to brand all industrial action as treason in time of war.

WSWS (2022-03-04). French President Macron backs NATO war drive against Russia. wsws.org On Wednesday night, in a prime time address to the nation, Emmanuel Macron spoke on the rapidly escalating war between Russia and NATO's puppet regime in Ukraine.

WSWS (2022-03-04). USW tries to blackmail oil workers to accept sellout agreement. wsws.org In a series of "informational" meetings this week, United Steelworkers union officials have used lies and intimidation to push through a concessions-laden contract covering 30,000 oil refinery and petrochemical workers.

WSWS (2022-03-04). Railroad workers at Canadian Pacific vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike action. wsws.org The strike vote is the latest indication of a growing mood of opposition and militancy among rail workers in North America.

Fidel Castro Ruz (2022-03-04). "In a Nuclear War the Collateral Damage would be the Life of All Humanity". Fidel Castro. globalresearch.ca Let us have the courage to proclaim that all nuclear or conventional weapons, everything that is used to make war, must disappear!" Fidel Castro…

WSWS (2022-03-04). Twelve-year-old boy killed by Philadelphia police. wsws.org Thomas Siderio was shot in the back as he was running from plainclothes officers who did not identify themselves.

Joel Wendland-Liu (2022-03-04). Cops don't need more training. peoplesworld.org Force, violence, and death are possible outcomes of any encounter with police. But racism is decisive in shaping how police treat citizens. A report published this week by the Chicago Office of the Inspector General reveals that police in that city disproportionately target Black people and subject them to force. The report found that Black …

WSWS (2022-03-04). Vanuatu inquiry into Australia's exploitative seasonal worker scheme. wsws.org The seasonal worker schemes established by Australia and New Zealand continue to exploit impoverished Pacific peoples as a source of cheap labour, despite repeated complaints and media exposures over the years.

WSWS (2022-03-04). The war in Ukraine: The questions that must be asked. wsws.org The deep-rooted and essential causes of a war are revealed not in how a war begins but in how it develops and to what it leads.

WSWS (2022-03-04). Sri Lankan action committee holds a successful online meeting in defence of Julian Assange. wsws.org Speakers insisted that the fight to release Julian Assange depends on a political movement of the working class based on socialist policies and in opposition to the capitalist system and all its institutions.

WSWS (2022-03-04). UK attendees speak on WSWS webinar "Fight Covid! Save lives! Stop the drive to World War III!" wsws.org Workers and youth in Britain who attended Saturday's World Socialist Web Site international online webinar, "Fight Covid! Save lives! Stop the drive to World War III!", have spoken to the WSWS about their thoughts on the important event. We publish further responses here.

Joe Sims (2022-03-04). What Biden didn't say in his State of the Union address. peoplesworld.org

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2022-03-04). La hipocresía de un "No a la guerra" que llega muy tarde. indybay.org mi querido pueblo del Donbass. La hipocresía de un "No a la guerra" que llega muy tarde…

ecns.cn (2022-03-04). Los Angeles County to lift indoor mask order from Friday. ecns.cn Los Angeles County will drop its indoor mask mandate on Friday after the most populous county in the United States had officially exited the high coronavirus community level Thursday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-04). Xi attending opening ceremony of Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping is attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games, held at the National Stadium in Beijing on Friday night.

ecns.cn (2022-03-04). Hypocritical, despicable for U.S. to discredit China through Ukraine issue: spokesperson. ecns.cn The U.S. side has repeatedly spread false information related to the Ukraine issue to smear and discredit China in order to shirk their own responsibility, which is hypocritical and despicable, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Friday.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-04). Slovakia declares state of emergency as NATO troops, missiles due to arrive. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Slovak SpectatorMarch 3, 2022 Slovakia declares state of emergency, arrival of NATO troops confirmed Slovakia is deciding on the potential expulsion of Russian diplomats. The Foreign Ministry warns against travelling to Moldova and some regions of Belarus and Russia. A state of emergency applies in Slovakia as of noon on February 26. It was declared …

ecns.cn (2022-03-04). HKMAO chief reiterates central govt's support for HK's efforts against pandemic. ecns.cn Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, on Thursday expressed the central government's full support of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government's efforts to effectively coordinate all forces and take resolute actions to control the pandemic.

Staff (2022-03-04). Con Filo: La neutralidad imposible (+ Video). cubadebate.cu Las redes sociales son también un arma de colonización ideológica, prometen ser una herramienta para dar voz, cuando en realidad lo que hacen es legitimar la voz cantante, y casi siempre "pagante", y desacreditar al resto. Sobre las redes sociales (digitales), "ese paraíso de libertad" donde interactuamos cada día, hablamos hoy.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-04). US logistics targeted in Iraq's Saladin province. en.mehrnews.com A logistics convoy belonging to US military was targeted on Friday morning in Iraq's Saladin province.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-04). Born of NATO's first war: Kosovo to apply for membership in the bloc. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ReutersMarch 3, 2022 Kosovo parliament urges government to start NATO membership bid Kosovo's parliament approved a resolution on Thursday asking the government to start negotiations on NATO membership following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Kosovo has been guarded by NATO troops since 1999 when a war between ethnic Albanians and Serb forces ended, but the country …

Direct Action Everywhere (2022-03-04). Saturday 3/19: How to Change the World in One Generation- DxE Intro Workshop. indybay.org Crescent Lawn UC Berkeley, Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-04). Premature good news not substitute good agreement: FM spox. en.mehrnews.com Referring to the ongoing talks in Austrian capital of Vienna, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that premature good news does not substitute good agreement.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-03-04). Emmanuel Macron confirms he will run for second term. en.mehrnews.com French President Emmanuel Macron formally announced Thursday that he will run for a second term in April's presidential election.

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