(2022-03-18). WorkWeek: UESF Teachers Occupy For Back Pay, Covid, Griffin Charter & CNNC Union Busting. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SF UESF Teachers Occupation For Back Pay & Covid Capitalism, Giffin MIT Charter School Teachers Fighting Corruption & Chinese Union Busting at CNNC In Namibia…
(2022-03-18). "Give Us Our Money" SF UESF Teachers Demand Pay & Occupy SFSUD Offices To Get Back Pay. indybay.org Dozens of teachers, members of UESF and supporters rallied at the SFUSD district to demand their back pay. They also had a sleep until they get what is owed them.
(2022-03-18). Sistema deportivo cubano: Logros, retos y objetivos para el actual ciclo olímpico (+ Video). cubadebate.cu El presidente del Instituto Nacional de Deportes, Educación Física y Recreación (Inder), Osvaldo Vento Montiller, compareció este jueves en el espacio radiotelevisivo Mesa Redonda para informar sobre los resultados del movimiento deportivo cubano en 2021, los retos para este 2022 y los objetivos en el actual ciclo olímpico. El presidente del Inder comenzó su intervención en la Mesa Redonda recordando el recién proceso de balance del organismo.
(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.
(2022-03-18). Under a strict Zero-COVID strategy, new infections in China turn sharply lower. wsws.org Since implementing a strict lockdown across several cities and provinces with the mobilization of all efforts to stem the tide of infections, China has reversed the rise in cases in only a few weeks.
(2022-03-18). Faced with a new wave of COVID-19, France ends public health restrictions. wsws.org A new wave of COVID-19, driven by a new subvariant of the Omicron variant, threatens to infect tens of millions of people in France and across Europe.
(2022-03-18). Three years since the Christchurch terror attack. wsws.org Three years after far-right terrorist Brenton Tarrant killed 51 Muslims, the policies of the Australian and New Zealand governments—including support for war and allowing COVID-19 to spread—continue to fuel the growth of the extreme right.
(2022-03-18). Prime minister: Hungary will not be dragged into "cruel, lengthy and bloody war" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Budapest TimesMarch 15, 2022 Orbán: 'We won't allow left wing to drag Hungary into war' "We won't allow the left wing to drag Hungary into war," Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday, addressing a March 15 national holiday commemoration in front of Parliament. Orbán declared that voters who wanted peace and security would cast …
(2022-03-18). Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem. orinocotribune.com By Danny Haiphong — Mar 9, 2022 | The American public are inundated with anti-Russian war propaganda that is worse than in the days of the Red Scare. | Russia has been the subject of intense outrage in the West following its decision to wage a military offensive against Ukraine. The military operation caught many by surprise. While the Western foreign policy establishment exploited the development as a "told you so" moment, the general public was thrown into a state of utter confusion. A particularly comforting explanation for the conflict has been a singular and decontextualized "Russian aggression." At the…
(2022-03-18). VIDEO: Former top Pentagon advisor Col. Doug Macgregor on Russia-Ukraine war. thegrayzone.com Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor joined Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate for a candid, live discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war. Col. Macgregor analyzed the battlefront as Russia advanced on Ukrainian positions and offered a withering assessment of the "NATOization" of Ukraine and the role of neoconservatives and the "uni-party" in driving the war from Washington.
(2022-03-18). EAEU Countries Develop and Strengthen Cooperation. journal-neo.org 
The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Launched on February 2, 2012, it has become the permanent regulatory body of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The main purpose of the Eurasian Economic Commission is to ensure the conditions for the functioning and development of the EAEU and to draw up …
(2022-03-18). Arrest in Colombia of Drug Lord Linked to Guaidó & Right-Wing Politicians. orinocotribune.com 
On Sunday, March 13, Migration Colombia announced the capture of the Italian-Venezuelan drug trafficker Garafolo Forte Biaggio Benito in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. An Interpol Red Notice issued in 2015 made Biaggio Benito a wanted man in 193 countries. Biaggio Benito maintains close ties with Venezuelan opposition politicians such as Henrique Capriles, Juan Guaidó, and the fugitive Ismael García. | Material released by the investigative blog La Tabla demonstrates the links between the drug trafficker and former deputy Guaidó, particularly through members of his Popular Will party, including former parliamen…
(2022-03-18). Venezuela to Launch Social Media Platform (+CLAP). orinocotribune.com 
This Friday, March 18 is the launch date of Venezuela's new social media platform, announced President Nicolás Maduro. He expressed confidence that users around the world will be impressed with the news provided on the digital platform. | The head of state issued the comments during a working meeting about the economy, dedicated to the sixth anniversary of the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP). The CLAP food service provides subsidized food to millions of Venezuelan households. | "Venezuela is going to surprise the world with something that we are going to launch on Friday," Maduro said, speaking abou…
(2022-03-18). Awakening Hyperboria, Scythia, and Tartaria the Film. indybay.org We are gathering filmmakers and screen writers to collaborate on the development of a screen play that aims to tell the story of our lost giant ancestors who seemed to have created a world wide grandiose "steampunk esque" civilization. Research Tartaria online and reflect on the old world looking architecture that we have repurposed into our municipal buildings, cathedrals, and factories. Why has the mainstream narrative buried the giants? Meet at 6pm to discuss possible plots for this film that aims to reveal how magical and epic the free etheric energy realm of the Hyperborians may have been. | Thursday March 2…
(2022-03-18). P&O Ferries sack 800 workers on-the-spot in class war offensive. wsws.org P&O had a scab workforce of agency workers waiting at docksides in uniform ready to board the ferries. It mobilised private security guards to remove sacked crews from its ships.
(2022-03-18). ALBERT EINSTEIN AND THE BILLIONAIRE DOGS OF WAR. indybay.org Einstein, Today, War and Capitalism…
(2022-03-18). WMNF: Diversify your station staff, bring back the news, and reinstate Alvaro Montealegre! indybay.org Join the campaign to reinstate Tampa WMNF programmer Alvaro Montealegre…
(2022-03-18). Kyiv's Forces Are On Retreat In Donbass. Rubezhnoe Falls. Severodonetsk Is Next. southfront.org 
Click to see the full-size image | The joint forces of Russia, DPR, and LPR have been successfully developing their operation in the region of Donbass. | As of March 18, troops of the Lugansk People's Republic, with support of the Russian Armed Forces, liberated more than 90% of the territory in which it declared its independence. This means that 90% of the territory of Ukraine's Lugansk Region is in thehands of LPR. | Late of March 17, LPR troops took control of the key settlement of Rubezhnoe, north of the Severo…
(2022-03-18). "I feel like I've been transported back almost 80 years. indybay.org People are desperately fleeing from bombs and rockets. I feel transported back almost 80 years and become pensive. Europe had sworn to itself: Never again fascism! Never again war! The scars remain – at the age of 94, I feel them more strongly than ever.
(2022-03-18). Thursday 3/24: Concord meeting on AB 481 (Military Equipment). indybay.org CYBERSPACE | Zoom: cityofconcord.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqf-ysrDIqEtXq_0It3nT-jQM9hnqo4JY0 | Registration required. Use a fake name if you want.
(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.
(2022-03-18). The questions confronting Amazon workers in New York amid upcoming union vote. wsws.org In the midst of an escalating war crisis and attacks on workers, critical questions of political perspective and the role of the unions must be seriously examined.
(2022-03-18). Thursday 3/24: 'Coded Bias' a diversityfilmseries documentary. indybay.org Zoom from your own home…
(2022-03-18). Waukegan, Illinois police face no charges after forcing false confession from teenage boy. wsws.org Charges against 15-year-old Martell Williams were dropped after his family provided evidence he was playing in a high school basketball game the evening of the incident—at a city 20 miles away.
(2022-03-18). Russian court rejects appeal by historian Yuri Dmitriev, upholds 15-year prison sentence. wsws.org Amidst the war in Ukraine, the Putin regime is continuing its crackdown on all efforts to uncover the crimes of Stalinism.
(2022-03-18). Much wants more and loses all. indybay.org It is the West that cannot imagine a life without money and the resultant luxuries. Sanctions or no sanctions, Western companies will sooner or later (I bet: sooner) resume business with Russia because — as everybody in the West knows — "money makes the world go round".
(2022-03-18). March 19, 2011: U.S. Africa Command, NATO launch war against Libya. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Stop NATOMarch 8, 2011 Point Of No Return: U.S. And NATO Prepare For War With Libya === Stop NATOMarch 10, 2011 West has crossed the Rubicon === Stop NATOMarch 20, 2011 Libya: Obama's Latest, AFRICOM's First, NATO's African War === Stop NATOMarch 25, 2011 Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean === Stop NATOApril 3, …
(2022-03-18). Thursday 3/24: On Having Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Divided Times. indybay.org
(2022-03-18). Australian police officer found not guilty over fatal shooting of indigenous teenager. wsws.org Kumanjayi Walker's killing by police is an end product of decades of escalating state repression of indigenous communities, government social spending cuts and endemic poverty.
(2022-03-18). French CGT union backs NATO imperialism in Russian-Ukrainian war. wsws.org Waging the necessarily international struggle against war, in France and elsewhere, requires mobilizing workers independently of the trade unions.
(2022-03-18). An interview with Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed's Knee: "One of the characteristics of sick societies … is that they don't give you any good choices" wsws.org The WSWS recently spoke to filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed's Knee, on a video call.
(2022-03-18). Informan sobre afectaciones en la CTE "Antonio Guiteras" cubadebate.cu La madrugada de este jueves la Central Termoeléctrica "Antonio Guiteras" salió de manera imprevista del Sistema Eléctrico Nacional. Producto a esta inesperada afectación en el SEN se ha reunido el Consejo Energético Nacional con sus consejos provinciales para trazar las medidas necesarias para enfrentar la presente situación.
(2022-03-18). Once again on war crimes and war criminals. wsws.org If allegations of war crimes are to be made against Putin, whatever criterion is applied to him must be brought to bear against other leaders, and, above all, against the American presidents.
(2022-03-18). Ahed's Knee from Israel, made "with a sense of urgency" wsws.org "Ahed's Knee" refers to Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi and the incident in December 2017 in the occupied West Bank for which she was later arrested and sentenced to eight months in prison.
(2022-03-18). CP Rail issues 72-hour lockout notice for 3,000 railway workers. wsws.org With its lockout threat, CP Rail management is seeking to rally big business across North America and the state behind its drive to impose yet another round of concessions and speed-up on railroad workers.
(2022-03-18). Balad airbase in Iraq's Saladin targeted by rockets. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) — Iraqi sources reported late Thursday that the Balad airbase in Saladin province that hosts US forces came under rocket attack.
(2022-03-18). Saturday 3/19: No World Order — Call for Assembly of Disassembly. indybay.org Gather 6: 30 PM on Saturday 3/19 at Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland—bring your friends and party favors. | Masks are great for more than one reason…
(2022-03-18). Destaca presidente cubano cuatro elementos para hacer política en el país. cubadebate.cu La víspera, el presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel, destacó los cuatro elementos imprescindibles para hacer política y trabajo ideológico en Cuba en estos tiempos. Hemos planteado que para hacer política y trabajo ideológico hay que articular cuatro elementos: cultura en su concepto más amplio, ética, el uso del derecho y la solidaridad.
(2022-03-18). Irán, Ucrania, Venezuela: El negocio del sabotaje en la guerra multifactorial. cubadebate.cu El sabotaje ha sido parte inherente a la guerra no convencional que se ha instrumentado desde el Norte Global para alinear a los países que no se pliegan al supremacismo con el que ellos han concebido la geopolítica. Se trata de grupos de avanzada cuya misión es generar el caos y desestabilizar para incubar o intensificar crisis sociales.
(2022-03-18). Spain mobilises 23,000 police in bid to crush nationwide truckers strike. wsws.org The truckers have been on an indefinite nationwide strike since Monday, protesting rising fuel prices amid the NATO war drive targeting Russia.
(2022-03-18). Saturday 3/26: Meetup: Learning from the Founder of Slaughter Free Cities. indybay.org Crescent Lawn, UC Berkeley | Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 | If you cannot join in person you can join on Zoom at 11: 15am, the Zoom link is dxe.io/meetupzoom…
(2022-03-18). San Diego police shoot and kill woman while serving eviction notice. wsws.org Yan Li, distraught and apparently suffering from a mental crisis, was shot down in the doorway of her apartment by a team of highly armed officers.
(2022-03-18). Con Filo: Allá ellos (+ Video). cubadebate.cu "Los odiadores no suelen modificar mucho su discurso. Cuando no tienen argumentos para refutar lo que aquí afirmamos, enseguida pasan a la ofensa o le exigen al programa posturas que nada tienen que ver con su perfil", afirmó este jueves en Con Filo Michel Torres Corona.
(2022-03-18). Australia's rising cost of living outpacing official inflation. wsws.org With dramatic price rises forecast over the coming months, the cost of essentials, such as food, petrol and housing, are already near record highs.
(2022-03-18). US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine and the Whiteness of Empire. orinocotribune.com By Roger Stoll — Mar 14, 2020 | Since the turn of the century the US has marched steadily eastward across Europe with an occupation force called NATO. Supposedly a military alliance, NATO is really just the US plus its subordinate nations. It's hostile to many peoples of the world in West Asia/Middle East, Africa and Latin America, but it's especially preoccupied with Russians. NATO's newest members include: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (all joined 2004); Albania and Croatia (both joined 2009); Montenegro (joined 2017) and North Macedonia (joined 2020); Georgia and Ukr…
(2022-03-18). Tuesday 3/15: Say NO to Two Wars! indybay.org Cooper and Pacific Ave. | In front of O'Neill's on the sidewalk…
(2022-03-18). Briefing on Iran's daily developments. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) — The following are the Islamic Republic of Iran's latest developments in the last 24 hours.
(2022-03-17). Why is the West Launching a Mercenary War? journal-neo.org 
Even in an era of moral decline of the autochthonous population, the rulers of the Roman Empire relied on mercenaries when military service turned from prestigious to onerous for their own citizens. The Persians also relied during the crisis of their empire on Greek mercenaries, who represented the most combat-ready troops of Darius III in …
(2022-03-17). Fear psychosis, arrests, and deafening silence in Kashmir. peoplesdispatch.org At least 35 journalists in Kashmir have faced police interrogation, raids, threats, physical assault, or fabricated criminal cases for their reporting since the Indian government downgraded the state into two union territories in August 2019. Dozens more have been placed on A 36-page rep…
(2022-03-17). History and African nations' stance on Russia-Ukraine war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The Conversation (Indonesia)March 11, 2022 History may explain South Africa's refusal to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine (By Keith Gottschalk, member of the African National Congress) South Africa abstained in a vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the resolution condemning the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and demanding their withdrawal. The South African …