(2022-03-22). Russia threatens rupture of diplomatic ties with US amidst growing frictions within the oligarchy. wsws.org NATO's economic warfare and military intervention in Ukraine are accompanied by stepped-up efforts at regime change in Moscow.
(2022-03-22). Endless Wars and Failed States: The Tragedy of Neoliberalism. dissidentvoice.org Then all cried with one accord, 'Thou art King, and God and Lord; Anarchy, to thee we bow, Be thy name made holy now!' — "The Mask of Anarchy," Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819 Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the American ruling establishment embarked on a policy of backing radical anti-nation state ideologies (henceforth …
(2022-03-22). The people of Yemen Suffer Atrocities, too. dissidentvoice.org 
WFP food distribution in Raymah (credit: Julian Harneis CC BY-SA 2.0) The United Nations' goal was to raise more than $4.2 billion for the people of war-torn Yemen by March 15. But when that deadline rolled around, just $1.3 billion had come in. "I am deeply disappointed," said Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the …
(2022-03-22). Venezuela: A Model Of Resistance To US Intervention. popularresistance.org Unlike Ukraine, Venezuela successfully resisted the violent US-led coup attempt in 2014, and in other years, by right wing forces and the hybrid war being waged against it. Venezuela is recovering despite the ongoing economic blockade. Now, because the United States needs oil, the Biden administration has started talking to the Maduro government and there is hope that relations between the two countries may resume. For an update on this situation, as well as the future of Venezuela's US-based oil company CITGO, the status of Venezuela's gold in the Bank of London, the demise of Juan Guaido, and the kidnapping of…
(2022-03-22). China did not "blink" on Blinken's threats before the Biden-Xi phone call. indybay.org Prior to the March 18 phone meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the US mainstream media(MSM) widely highlighted US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's sharply-worded "warning" to China on "consequences" if China did not commit to stop the alleged "military aid to Russia" on its Ukraine war. To any fair and balanced observer, this hypocritical "warning" before an important meetings between the leaders of the world's two largest political and economic countries, is a sure sign that the USA empire–desperate in its bumbling handling of the disastrous Ukraine war crisis–is tryin…
(2022-03-22). China continues offensive against the spread of Omicron BA.2 subvariant. wsws.org Just one week after lockdowns were imposed across China to prevent the spread of the pandemic, the number of daily new cases has begun to plateau.
(2022-03-22). Slow But Steady Advance In Donbass And More. southfront.org 
Click to see the full-size image | Forces of Russia, DPR and LPR are developing their slow but steady advance in the region of Donbass. | On March 22, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian forces advanced another 6 kilometers and captured the town of Urozhajnoe in the region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. According to Russia, they are now fighting with units of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. | Meanwhile, troops of the Donetsk People's Republic penetrated 4…
(2022-03-22). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — March 22, 2022. southfront.org 
This is the newest update of the 'U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Locations Map' exclusive series showing the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence tracks locations of U.S. aircraft carriers using the available open-source information. No classified information was used in production of the map. | click to see the full-size image | Carrier strike group (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is centered on an aircraft carrier and a carrier ai…
(2022-03-22). Washington Should Think Twice Before Launching a New Cold War. scheerpost.com 
Here we are in what might indeed be Cold War II, playing out the Ukrainian version of Afghanistan with a weaker Russian military, a visibly more disturbed leader, Washington again shoveling arms, money, and training to the other side, and the possibility that the war could spread elsewhere in Europe. What happens when history repeats itself, however weirdly?>
(2022-03-22). Moon rocks collected by Chinese mission have ignited research, new findings. peoplesdispatch.org The sophisticated Chinese lunar mission has sparked research on extra-terrestrial rocks both in China and outside. Experts are hoping that we may get new information about the solar system…
(2022-03-22). UN aid conference for Yemen falls short amid warnings of widespread famine and deaths. peoplesdispatch.org At the UN pledging conference for Yemen, Gulf countries that are party to the war in Yemen, like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, failed to commit any aid…
(2022-03-22). Venezuela's Tax on Foreign Currency Transactions Starts Monday. orinocotribune.com Last Thursday, March 17, Venezuela's National Integrated Service for the Administration of Customs (SENIAT) At the core of the reform is the ruling that foreign currency transactions will be subject to a tax equal to or grea…
(2022-03-22). US Congress Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine. orinocotribune.com 
Editorial note: Orinoco Tribune does not generally publish articles that are over 10 days old. However, in this case an exception is being made, as the subject matter of the following piece remains as significant today as at the time of its publication. | By Robert Parry — 12 June 2015 | "Rather than fully inform its readers about a crisis that has the potential of becoming a nuclear showdown between the United States and Russia, the [NY] Times has chosen to simply be a fount of State Department propaganda, often terming any reference to Kiev's Nazi storm troopers to be "Russian propaganda." | Now, however,…
(2022-03-22). The rise of Ilhan Omar: Lessons from a self-portrait. mronline.org 
Shamus Cooke assesses the record of Representative Ilhan Omar and what her autobiography reveals about her political trajectory.
(2022-03-22). CIA Director William F. Burns—Capo of World's biggest spreader of lies and misinformation—is spreading the big lie that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was "unprovoked" mronline.org 
CIA Director Bill Burns testified before the Senate Intelligence committee in early March that Russia and Vladimir Putin were "losing the information war over its war in Ukraine."
(2022-03-22). How much less newsworthy are civilians in other conflicts? mronline.org 
A lot less, particularly when they're victims of the U.S.
(2022-03-22). Harvard Economist Larry Summers: America Is On Course For Recession And Stagflation. moguldom.com Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that the U.S. economy could be headed for stagflation and then eventual a recession if the Federal Reserve continues on its current policy trajectory. The Fed kicked off a series of interest rate hikes on March 13 in an effort to steer the economy out of the heightened …
(2022-03-22). Majority-Black Tennessee Town Loses Financial Control As Big Ford Plant Moves In. moguldom.com Mason, Tennessee, a majority Black, majority Democratic Party town, is fighting to protect its sovereignty from white conservatives. The town, whose population of 1,510 is almost 72 percent Black, has been in dire financial straits for the last few years. In a Republican-led effort to take control of the economy, a deal has been made …
(2022-03-22). Concerning an Assassination Attempt on Song Young-gil. journal-neo.org 
On March 7, 2022, on the eve of the presidential elections in South Korea, the leader of the Democratic Party, Song Young-gil, was campaigning in Seoul's Sinchon district and became the victim of an assassination attempt. The attacker approached him from behind and hit him on the head several times with a hammer wrapped in …
(2022-03-22). How the West Was Won: Counterinsurgency, Psyops and the Military Origins of the Internet. libya360.wordpress.com Dustin Broadbery Part 1: Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth As the digital revolution was underway in the mid-nineties, research departments at the CIA and NSA were developing programs to predict the usefulness of the world wide web as a tool for capturing what they dubbed "birds of a feather" formations. That's when flocks…
(2022-03-22). Surviving Among Ruins: Life in a Donbass City Ukraine Says No Longer Exists. libya360.wordpress.com Stepan Kostetskiy RT visited civilians surviving in the blasted-through buildings and basements of a town hit hard by the conflict in Ukraine "God preserve you!" says an elderly Volnovakha resident to departing volunteers. She and her husband stand at the gate to the front yard of their suburban home holding simple provisions that have just…
(2022-03-22). Lula Counters FBI-Backed "Corruption" Prosecution to Lead Brazil's 2022 Presidential Race. libya360.wordpress.com Julian Cola "At the age of 74, my heart only has room for love," Lula told a crowd of supporters from an impromptu stage, adding that as a migrant from the poor, underserved northeast region, "there's nothing that can beat me." RIO DE JANEIRO —Former Brazilian president, and frontrunner in the upcoming October 2022 presidential…
(2022-03-22). "Russia Would Really Hate That": British Defence Secretary Discussing Ukrainian Nuclear Program On Hoax Call (Video). southfront.org 
Two Russian prankers held a video conference with British Secretary Ben Wallace on behalf of Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis…
(2022-03-22). Sunday 3/27: The 1619 Project – Its Significance for Today. indybay.org Join us on ZOOM Sunday, March 27 from 1 to 3 PM Pacific Time…
(2022-03-22). No charges against Chicago police officer in fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. wsws.org Outraged at the decision, family members, activists and community members held demonstrations outside Foxx's office in downtown Chicago last Tuesday.
(2022-03-22). Saturday 3/19: Free Virtual Screening of film "The Stones Cry Out" indybay.org
(2022-03-22). Sri Lanka's parliamentary opposition attempt to exploit popular anger against Rajapakse government. wsws.org The real concerns of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya are not the desperate situation facing the masses but that the growing strikes and protests by workers and the poor will challenge capitalist rule.
(2022-03-22). Ukraine's Zelensky Comes Before His Master. libya360.wordpress.com David Sole On March 16 Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the United States Congress. In a virtual speech Zelensky begged his imperialist masters for more military aid. He pressed for the U.S. and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military alliance to declare and enforce a "no-fly zone" over Ukraine and asked for military fighter…
(2022-03-22). 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…
(2022-03-22). Eulogy to the COVID-19 Holocaust. indybay.org "We have to live with COVID-19." What the corporate politicians and their media flunkies are really saying is that they are willing to sacrifice frontline and essential workers, the poor, the Black, the Brown, the Yellow and the Red — as well as the old, the disabled, the ill and those with weakened immune systems — all on the altar of capitalist greed.
(2022-03-22). Macron presents militarist, class war program in French presidential elections. wsws.org The incumbent cynically uses the war NATO is waging against Russia on Ukrainian soil as a pretext to justify vastly intensifying the unpopular policies of his first term.
(2022-03-22). East Timor's presidential election goes to second round. wsws.org A plummeting turnout and the decline in Fretilin's vote reflect bitter infighting within the Timorese ruling elite, as well as escalating hostility among poverty stricken ordinary people towards the entire political establishment.
(2022-03-22). "Thrown Under The Bus" Vaccinations, Terminations & Union Rights With SEIU 1021 SF Member. indybay.org Kimberly Cox an SEIU 1021 SF MTA worker talks about the threat of firing for not getting vaccinated.
(2022-03-22). Canadian Pacific railway workers must answer lockout, threat of back-to-work law by expanding struggle. wsws.org The contract dispute between Canadian Pacific Railway and the 3,000 engineers, conductors and yard workers has rapidly escalated into a confrontation whose outcome will have a major impact on the class struggle across North America.
(2022-03-22). Colombia's Uribe Accuses Venezuela of Election Debacle, Minister for Defense Responds. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, March 20, Venezuela's Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino reacted firmly to accusations issued by Colombia's former president, àÅlvaro Uribe, following the defeat suffered by Uribe's party in the March 13 Colombian parliamentary elections. | Accusation and manipulation | According to Uribe's accusation, Venezuela's General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) was behind the alleged fraud that occurred in Colombia's March 13 elections. | "Venezuela's penetration contributed to the electoral fraud in Colombia," wrote Uribe yesterday. With this statement Uribe expressed frustration…
(2022-03-22). War as crisis accelerator. indybay.org Opportunistic parts of the German left are already sorting themselves into NATO supporters and cheerleaders of hollow Western values, who are peddling the stale bourgeois-liberal ideology one last time before the Western states also sink into barbarism.
(2022-03-22). U.S. Company Seeks to Extend License for Deep-Sea Mining in Pacific. indybay.org Mining Oceans Depths Poses Risks to Global Biodiversity…
(2022-03-22). Massive increase in COVID-19 in Austria after protective measures ended. wsws.org The total number of people who have died of COVID-19 is now 15,344. Among the almost 9 million inhabitants of the country, 3.4 million infections have been officially registered since the beginning of the pandemic.
(2022-03-22). Tuesday 3/29: Virtual Arts Training for the #Defund Climate Chaos Week of Arts Action. indybay.org Online arts training webinar for climate justice…
(2022-03-22). Las 3 del día: øQué defiende la declaración habanera sobre los juristas que participaron en los procesos derivados del 11 de julio?(+ Podcast). cubadebate.cu Este lunes en Las 3 del día nos acercamos a la declaración aprobada por juristas habaneros en la asamblea de balance de su organización, a raíz de las calumnias y campañas de descrédito tras intervenir en los procesos judiciales derivados de los hechos de 11 de julio. Luego, realizaremos el habitual resumen noticioso de las 3 del día.
(2022-03-22). White House plans major escalation of NATO's proxy war with Russia. wsws.org One month since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, US President Joe Biden will this week begin a tour of the continent in an effort to mobilize NATO in a major escalation of the conflict against Russia.
(2022-03-22). 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…
(2022-03-22). Customs: Poet Solmaz Sharif examines imperialism and exile. wsws.org The second book by an acclaimed and politically engaged young poet is notable for its international and historical perspective.
(2022-03-22). Another Broken Promise Palestinian scholar accuses SFSU of reneging on hiring agreement. indybay.org SFSU AMED professor Abdulhadi has exposed the campaign by the SFSU president Lynn Mahoney to violate her contract to destroy the program.
(2022-03-22). Saturday 4/9: Rally and March for Abortion Rights SF Bay Area and Nationwide. indybay.org Rally starts at noon in Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley Campus (public welcome) | Entrance near Telegraph and Bancroft…
(2022-03-22). Colombia's Uribe Accuses Venezuela for Election Debacle, Minister for Defense Responds. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, March 20, Venezuela's Minister for Defense Vladimir Padrino reacted firmly to accusations issued by Colombia's former president, àÅlvaro Uribe, following the defeat suffered by Uribe's party in the March 13 Colombian parliamentary elections. | Accusation and manipulation | According to Uribe's accusation, Venezuela's General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) was behind the alleged fraud that occurred in Colombia's March 13 elections. | "Venezuela's penetration contributed to the electoral fraud in Colombia," wrote Uribe yesterday. With this statement Uribe expressed frustratio…
(2022-03-22). Video: Imperial Conquest: America's "Long War" against Humanity. globalresearch.ca The world is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history. The US has embarked on a military adventure, "a long war", which threatens the future of humanity.
(2022-03-22). Ultra-right takes control of Northern California county through recall election. wsws.org Pro-Trump militia groups and a Connecticut multimillionaire joined forces in the effort using fascistic demagogy against coronavirus restrictions.
(2022-03-22). Russia-Ukraine Conflict: the European Union Navigates Between two Waters. orinocotribune.com By Yoselina Guevara L. — Mar 19, 2022 | The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is making visible the lack of a solid strategy of its own within the European Union. The organization increasingly resembles a ship sailing between two waters but whose decisions are subordinated to the distant helmsman in Washington. However, all this stems from the lack of a concrete definition of the European interest, a union held together by weak strings and a clearly non-existent integration. The EU has not been able to develop a coherent foreign and defense policy, yet it is only now that it is feeling the threat of a war…
(2022-03-22). Monday 4/4: MLK's Beyond Vietnam speech-Public Readings. indybay.org Online Event…