(2022-02-28). Chess star facing disciplinary action for Ukraine stance. rt.com 
Sergey Karjakin expressed his support for Vladimir Putin and the military action in Ukraine | Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin is facing disciplinary action from the International Chess Federation (FIDE) after expressing support for his country's military operation in Ukraine. | In an open letter to President Vladimir Putin shared on social media on Sunday, the Crimean-born Karjakin said he fully backed the effort to fight "for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine." | "I appeal to you at this difficult time, when our country, led by you, is fighting for the safety of the peaceful Russian popul…
(2022-02-28). Neo-Nazi Ukrainian group prepares 'pig-fat laden' bullets for Muslim fighters. rt.com 
Chechen 'orcs' won't go to heaven, National Guard claims in xenophobic message | Ukraine's National Guard prompted outrage, on Sunday, by posting a crude video aimed at Muslim Russian fighters. Twitter eventually labelled the message "hateful content." | The reel showed a soldier dipping the tips of bullet rounds into pork fat before putting them into a magazine. | The man, who reportedly belongs to the far-right nationalist Azov Battalion, apparently meant this as a threat to religious Muslims participating in the Russian military offensive in Ukraine. Pork is considered unclean in Islam, so Muslims killed by…
(2022-02-28). Anti-Asian Racism is Still a Dominant Force of the US Political Ideology. journal-neo.org 
Although the associations with racial discrimination in the US are primarily related to the country's black population, the problem is much deeper and more serious. Even The Guardian, which is "friendly" to the current government in Washington, stresses that racism is rampant in the United States and that from the very beginning the US was …
(2022-02-28). Monday 2/28: Have Her Back: Organizing Call to Support First Black Woman for SCOTUS. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2022-02-28). Russia Will Respond to European Bans on Air Travel, Will Consider Its Own Interests – Kremlin. sputniknews.com On Thursday, Russia began a special operation to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, responding to calls from the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics for help in countering the aggression of Ukrainian forces.
(2022-02-28). Russia's FSB: Ukrainians Report Attempts by Kiev to Use Their Compatriots For Sabotage in Russia. sputniknews.com Responding to calls from the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics for military help in countering the ceaseless aggression of Ukrainian forces, on 24 February Russia began a special operation to demilitarize and and denazify Ukraine.
(2022-02-28). War In Ukraine, The West's Propaganda War Is The End Of Democracy. southfront.org 
Tianjin explosion in China | Written by Piero Messina | Vladimir Putin has become "Putler", something halfway between Putin and Hitler. For the less aggressive, the Russian president is Vlad the Mad. "There has never been a genocide against the pro-Russian populations in Donbass. Nazi formations do not exist and have never existed in Ukraine and there has been no massacre in Odessa. Putin threatens the world and must be stopped." Western media is treating the Ukrainian crisis as if it were selling soap bars w…
(2022-02-28). Latvian Parliament Authorises Country's Citizens to Fight in Ukraine Amid Russia's Denazification Op. sputniknews.com On 24 February, Russia began a special operation to demilitarize Ukraine, responding to calls from the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics for help in countering the aggression of Ukrainian forces.
(2022-02-28). Regional Internet Provider in Kazakhstan Shuts Down Russian TV Channels Amid Moscow's Op in Ukraine. sputniknews.com Russia is conducting a special operation to demilitarise and "denazify" Ukraine in answer to calls from Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics for help in countering aggression of Ukrainian forces. Moscow has underscored it has no plans to occupy Ukrainian territory, yet many foreign countries have accused it of invading the neighbouring country.
(2022-02-28). Ukrainian Forces Have Mined Most of Mariupol, Holding Residents Hostage, DPR Says. sputniknews.com Russia announced the beginning of a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February with the goal of defending the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics from a "genocide" of the Russian-speaking population, targeted by Kiev. Prior to that, Moscow recognised the Donbass breakaways as independent republics.
(2022-02-28). The ICJ and the Issue of Lawful Representation in The Gambia v Myanmar. transcend.org 18 Feb 2022 – Ahead of the scheduled public hearings in The Gambia v Myanmar (the Rohingya genocide case) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Canada, the Genocide Watch of USA and FORSEA release a comprehensive legal analysis. It focuses on the crucial question of who should lawfully speak for Myanmar before the ICJ as Myanmar's coup resulted in an unprecedented situation with no recognized government or even regime with effective control of the state.
(2022-02-28). Monday 2/28: Discrimination Protest against RCEB. indybay.org 500 Davis Street | Corner of San Leandro Blvd & Davis Street…
(2022-02-28). Bill McKibben on Dire IPCC Climate Report & How Oil and Gas Are Fueling Putin's Ukraine Invasion. democracynow.org 
We speak with climate author, journalist and movement leader Bill McKibben upon the release of the highly anticipated U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2022 report, which finds the impacts of the climate crisis are already worse than predicted, driving poverty, hunger, disease and species extinction. McKibben also speaks about how global dependency on oil and gas empowers autocrats like President Vladimir Putin and is helping fuel the Russian war in Ukraine. Renewable energy could help defeat fascism and deter some of "the worst people on Earth" if deployed at scale, he says.
(2022-02-28). CPAC, America First conferences: A snapshot of the fascist transformation of the Republican Party. wsws.org Two conferences held over the weekend in Orlando, Florida—the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC)—demonstrated the fascist transformation of the Republican Party under Donald Trump.
(2022-02-28). Israel is Getting Pricier and Tweeps Blame Government for Sitting Idle. sputniknews.com Recent months have seen a spike in the price of basic food products, electricity bills and fuel in Israel. Although the country has put forward a plan that aimed to tackle those issues, critics have already called it useless and argued it didn't solve the core of the problem, namely the country's monopolies.
(2022-02-28). Ukraine, Palestine and the propaganda of war. electronicintifada.net Western publics are being primed for another bloody calamity.
(2022-02-28). Mexico's Supreme Court votes to protect Veracruz Reef from port expansion. peoplesworld.org 
The highest court in Mexico ruled unanimously in February to protect sea turtles and other marine life in the Veracruz Reef System from a port expansion project. This decision protects the largest reef system in the Gulf of Mexico from the destructive construction of new navigation channels, land access points, and other port facilities. The …
(2022-02-28). In the Footsteps of Constance Motley Brown, Supreme Court Pick Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes History. democracynow.org 
President Biden on Friday nominated federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill Justice Stephen Breyer's pending vacancy. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice. We speak with Harvard constitutional law professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin about the nomination of the 51-year-old federal judge and the parallels between her and the first Black woman federal judge and civil rights legal icon Constance Baker Motley, who was at one point eyed for a Supreme Court nomination.
(2022-02-28). Headlines for February 28, 2022. democracynow.org Ukraine Demands Ceasefire as Casualties Mount, Ukrainian and Russian Delegations Meet in Belarus, Belarus Could Join Russian Invasion as Putin Puts Nuclear Forces on High Alert in Latest Escalation, 500,000+ Ukrainians Become Refugees as Families Torn Apart by War, International Community Send Military Assistance, Up Sanctions on Russia
| , Protests Around the World Condemn Invasion of Ukraine; Russian Police Arrest Thousands, U.S. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Accepts Historic Supreme Court Nomination, U.N. Report Warns Climate Crisis Is Driving Hunger, Poverty, Disease and Species Loss, El Salvador Ex-Presid…
(2022-02-27). Putin Assures Israel's Bennett Russia Ready to Talk to Ukraine, Says Kiev Showing 'Inconsistency'. sputniknews.com Russia summoned Israel's ambassador to Moscow on Friday top ask why Tel Aviv "supports neo-Nazis" in Kiev after Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid blasted the Russian military operation in Ukraine as a 'grave violation of the international order'.
(2022-02-27). How Western Press Has Kept Silent For Years on War in Donbass & Neo-Nazism in Ukraine. sputniknews.com Russia on 24 February launched a "special operation" in Donbass aimed at protecting Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), which were recognised as independent entities by Moscow on 21 February. The Western media called the operation "an invasion" they have long warned about.
(2022-02-27). NATO's Atlantic Council Promoted Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. popularresistance.org The NATO military alliance's de facto think tank, the Atlantic Council, promoted a notorious neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine, the Azov Battalion, in a 2014 article that depicted the fascist extremists as anti-Russian heroes. | The Atlantic Council is one of the most powerful think tanks in Washington. With funding from the US State Department, numerous Western governments, NATO, and the weapons industry, it plays a key role in shaping US foreign policy, particularly toward Russia. | The Atlantic Council published a report in June 2014 titled "The Battle For Mariupol." It was little more than a press release for Azov,…
(2022-02-27). On Contact: Race And America's Long War. popularresistance.org The internal violence in the United States, militarized police, and the largest prison system in the world, along with America's endemic racism, are mirrored in the foreign wars that have been fought almost continuously by the United States since the end of the 19th century. These inner and outer wars, argues historian Nikhil Pal Singh, are intimately connected. The gunning down of unarmed black people in American cities is expressed outside our borders in the gunning down of unarmed Muslims in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, often by militarized drones. The prison-industrial-complex at home…
(2022-02-27). Nazis de Ucrania dicen que musulmanes rusos son 'orcos' y los matan con balas recubiertas de cerdo. multipolarista.com 
La Guardia Nacional de Ucrania elogió a sus combatientes neo-nazis del movimiento fascista Azov por usar balas recubiertas de manteca de cerdo para matar a musulmanes rusos, demonizándolos como "orcos".
(2022-02-27). Rusia rechaza ataque de Ucrania con drones de EE.UU. contra sus buques en el Mar Negro. telesurtv.net El Ministerio ruso ratificó que su posición es atacar el régimen nazista ucraniano y no a su población.
(2022-02-27). Ukraine's National Guard boasts of Nazis killing Russian Muslim 'orcs' with lard bullets. multipolarista.com Ukraine's National Guard praised its neo-Nazi fighters from the white-supremacist Azov movement for greasing bullets with pig fat to kill Russian Muslims, demonizing them as "orcs."
(2022-02-27). 6 March, Webinar: Resisting Anti-Palestinian Repression with Collectif Palestine Vaincra, Khaled Barakat and Palestine Action. samidoun.net 
Sunday, 6 March 10 am Pacific — 1 pm Eastern — 6 pm GMT — 7 pm Europe — 8 pm Palestine Register: bit.ly/resistrepression Join us on Sunday, 6 March to hear directly from organizers challenging anti-Palestinian repression internationally. Just this week, French interior minister Gerald Darmanin announced his intention to dissolve, or ban, two …
(2022-02-27). My Day in Palestine: The Stunning Beauty and Cruel Reality of an Occupied Land. orinocotribune.com 
By Miko Peled — Feb 21, 2022 | Walking through the low hills of the Naqab as the sun sets and the moon comes up is an experience that allows us to imagine what Palestine was like before it was torn apart by Zionists and what can still be saved if we act fast. | The ruins of the Palestinian village of
(2022-02-27). San Francisco's Bayview community fights racist pollution. liberationnews.org 
On Feb. 12 in San Francisco, the Bayview Hunters Point community rallied and marched along Third St., demanding the complete cleanup of nuclear and toxic contamination at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and adjacent areas. The shipyard is classified as a superfund site, deemed a hazardous contamination location by the EPA.
(2022-02-27). AFL-CIO, union leaders, call for fast confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS. peoplesworld.org 
The following statement issued by the AFL-CIO was prepared by Liz Shuler, the president of the federation: "We applaud the historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Jackson has had a distinguished legal career, and she is eminently qualified for this critical lifetime position. "Working people need a champion …
(2022-02-27). North Korea weighs in on Ukraine. rt.com 
Pyongyang accused Washington of pursuing "military supremacy" at the expense of Moscow's "legitimate" security demands | North Korea's Foreign Ministry has defended Russia and fingered the behavior of the US as the "root cause" of the conflict in Ukraine, in its first official response to Moscow's ongoing military offensive. | "The root cause of the Ukrainian crisis also lies in the high-handedness and arbitrariness of the US," a commentary posted to North Korea's Foreign Ministry website on Saturday reads. | The statement argues that Washington has pursued "military supremacy in disregard of the legitimate de…
(2022-02-27). Thursday 3/3: Women Who Are Powering Voting Rights & Democracy w/ LWV. indybay.org Online event…