(2022-03-06). Why Do Arab Tweeps Support Russia in Its Military Operation in Ukraine? sputniknews.com Arabic-language social media has been venting anger at the West for its double standards and the biased coverage of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. People in the Middle East have also been fuming over alleged racism by international media outlets.
(2022-03-06). Ukraine war reveals ugly face of racism in Europe. en.mehrnews.com The war in Ukraine has sparked a public backlash in other parts of the world against what activists and observers call the resurgence of "racism" in Europe.
(2022-03-06). Boris Johnson sets out '6-point plan for Ukraine'. rt.com 
The British prime minister said that the West should do more for Kiev though "it is not a NATO conflict" | The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has set out his six-point "plan for Ukraine," arguing that while this is "not a NATO conflict," the international community should do more to support Kiev as it faces the "Russian aggression." | Moscow does not consider its attack on Ukraine as an act of aggression saying that its "special military operation" aiming to "demilitarize" and "denazify" Ukraine, to protect Donbass and to defend Russia's own security amid NATO's expansion eastward. | In a guest essay f…
(2022-03-06). Video: Mohammed Khatib of Samidoun on "Dictators and Fascist Regimes" samidoun.net Mohammed Khatib, Europe coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, joined the International League of Peoples' Struggle for an international online event on "Dictators and Fascist Regimes" on Saturday, 5 March 2022. "Fascism is on the rise. To fight this, we must link all the peoples' struggles against fascism all over the world." Speakers: …
(2022-03-06). Egyptian Football Player Aboutrika Slams FIFA for Applying 'Double Standards'. orinocotribune.com Former Egyptian football player Mohamed Aboutrika on Monday slammed the Federation of International Football (FIFA) for their failure to punish Israel, after the decision to ban Russia from all football competitions. | In an interview with Quds News Network, the three-time Africa Cup of Nations winner slammed the politics of double standards, since similar sanctions should have been meted out against Israel after their army was involved in the "killing of children and women in Palestine". | Mohamed Aboutrika addressing FIFA: "The decision to suspend Russian clubs and teams from all competitions must be accompanie…
(2022-03-06). As Bennett Meets Putin, Will Israel Mediate Between Russia and Ukraine? sputniknews.com Shortly after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, the Israeli prime minister rushed to Germany where he met Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The premier has also spoken with French leader Emmanuel Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
(2022-03-06). Hundreds rally in Toulouse against the dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra. samidoun.net 
In a joint rally called for by many local organizations, over 200 people mobilized at the Jean Jaurès metro station in Toulouse, France, to denounce the French interior minister's threat to dissolve the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and another pro-Palestine association, the Comite Action Palestine. Collectif Palestine Vaincra is a member of the Samidoun network and …
(2022-03-06). Our Guide Towards Homeland: Bassel Al-Araj. samidoun.net 
From Birth until Martyrdom Bassel Al-Araj was born on January 27, 1984, in the village of Al-Walaja, overlooking the Palestinian coast, where earth meets the heavens with a "sea that is too big to be besieged" as he once chanted in an angry demonstration against the blockade on Gaza. Bassel grew up curious and constantly …
(2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com 
Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…
(2022-03-05). [Perspectives] Apartheid logic in global health. thelancet.com "All my friends were dead by then and I knew I was dying too. The doctors said less than a year. But they started me on the new drugs anyway. That was 1989…y ahora, I'm still here with my twelve cats——los doce discípulos, I call them, because they follow me everywhere", Manuel laughs and leans in as if to tell a secret, "even though they say I'm not supposed to have them because they can make people with HIV sick". Manuel spoke these words in Chicago, USA, in 2014, a quarter of a century after he was expected to have died.
(2022-03-05). How Ukraine's Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front lines of war with Russia. strategic-culture.org 
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. | By Alexander RUBINSTEIN and Max BLUMENTHAL | Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the "gray zone" of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed,
(2022-03-05). World Must Not Ignore Racist Aspects of Ukraine Conflict – US Civil Rights Activists. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The world must not overlook credible instances of discrimination against Black students and residents amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict as reports of racism continue to pile up, civil rights activists told Sputnik.
(2022-03-05). Critical race theory: US right-wing wages a culture war, the people fight back. peoplesdispatch.org Conservatives are going after a new boogeyman, "critical race theory", or any attempt at teaching youth about the history of US racism…
(2022-03-05). War In Ukraine Day 9: Russia Focuses Forces On Battlefield, Counter-Attacks In Information Sphere. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Day 9 of the war in Eastern Europe demonstrated that the world has changed completely and irrevocably. Nine day of the Russian operation on the territory of the former USSR republic, which was founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919, destroyed at least eight years of the global elite's Overton Window aspirations resulted in the creation of an alternative reality with renewed Nazi criteria of dividing society into slaves and masters. | On March 4, there were a number of notable events on the front line…
(2022-03-05). Plumes of Smoke Seen in Mariupol as Multiple Blasts Heard Near City, Sputnik Correspondent Says. sputniknews.com Mariupol is currently being blockaded by forces from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics amid the ongoing Russian special operation to demilitarise and "de-Nazify" Ukraine.
(2022-03-05). Russian Attack Helicopters Destroy Ukrainian Armoured Vehicles — Video. sputniknews.com Since 24 February, Russia has been conducting a special military operation in Ukraine to demilitarise and "de-Nazify" the country. The Russian Defence Ministry underscores that only Ukrainian military infrastructure is being targeted with high-precision weapons and that civilians are out of danger.
(2022-03-05). How Ukraine's Jewish President Made Peace With Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries. popularresistance.org Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the "gray zone" of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed, mostly on the pro-Russian side. There, the president encountered the hardened veterans of extreme right paramilitary units keeping up the fight against separatists just a few miles away. | Elected on a platform of de-escalation of hostilities with Russia, Zelensky was determined to enforce the so-called Steinmeier Formula conceived by then-German Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier which called for election…
(2022-03-05). Kremlin reveals goal of Ukraine offensive. rt.com 
Russia is seeking guarantees for its own security, according to Moscow | Russia's armed forces have no intention of partitioning Ukraine as part of its military operation into the country, the Kremlin has claimed, as Moscow continues to attack its neighbor. | Speaking as part of an interview with Sky News Arabia on Friday, Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov set out Russia's objectives in the Eastern European nation. | "After the 2014 coup d'état, Ukraine has become influenced by Nazi ideology. We want to free her from this ideology," he claimed. | Peskov went on, arguing that "the presence of NATO infrastruc…
(2022-03-05). Zelensky Wanted to Use Nuclear Plant Provocation to Make West Impose No-Fly Zone – Ex-Ukrainian PM. sputniknews.com Earlier this week, Nikolay Azarov praised Vladimir Putin's decision to start a special operation in Ukraine, saying the Russian head of state had saved thousands of lives in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR). Putin said the operation is meant to "de-Nazify" and demilitarise Kiev.
(2022-03-05). Understanding Ukrainian Nazism. mronline.org 
In the West, media outlets are claiming that Russia's agenda to "denazify" Ukraine is unfounded. At the same time, public opinion in Western countries is totally alienated from the Ukrainian reality, tending to believe only what is reported by the hegemonic media.
(2022-03-05). Russian Athletes Boycott Olympic Meeting over Ethnic Discrimination (+Statement). orinocotribune.com The ROC Athletes' Commission responded after Russians and Belarusians were hit with widespread sporting bans. | The rising number of sporting sanctions being applied to Russian and Belarusian athletes is wholly unjust and amounts to "ethnic discrimination," the Athletes' Commission of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has said. | On Monday, February 28, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended not inviting Russian and Belarusian athletes to global sporting competitions due to the war in Ukraine. | The recommendation has since been followed a wide range of federations across various sports, includin…
(2022-03-05). Russian Embassy Sends German Foreign Ministry a Note Over Discrimination Against Russians. sputniknews.com The statement comes a day after German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock spoke about the mistreatment Russian and Belarussian nationals faced in the country over the Kremlin's decision to begin a special operation in Ukraine.
(2022-03-05). Jewish Pro-Israel Group Attacks Pro-Palestinian Activists. dissidentvoice.org The following is an email I wrote on February 20 to a group of progressive political activists from Syracuse, NY, a city less than one hour's drive east from where I live. For the last three years the Jewish Federation of Central New York (JFCNY) has sent a series of letters to the Syracuse Peace …
(2022-03-05). Israelí hiere a cuatro palestinos en Hebrón, Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Uno joven de 13 años de edad, Mohammad Iyad Jaabari, fue identificado como uno de los heridos.
(2022-03-05). SCOTUS sides with FBI in mosque spying case. rt.com 
Court rules that the FBI can block lawsuit with 'state secrets' privilege | The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the FBI may invoke the "state secrets" privilege to block a judge from examining evidence concerning its surveillance of a California mosque in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. | In a unanimous
(2022-03-05). Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzohkhar Tsarnaev. wsws.org The 6—3 ruling, divided between the conservative and moderate liberal justices, reversed a 2020 federal appeals court decision that would have kept Tsarnaev imprisoned for life.
(2022-03-05). Florida legislature passes bill banning abortion after 15 weeks. wsws.org Florida is the latest Republican-led state, along with West Virginia and Arizona, to advance a 15-week abortion ban this legislative session. The bill is modeled after an abortion ban in Mississippi that the US Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, appears poised to uphold.
(2022-03-05). Voting rights in the eyes of Atlanta residents. america.cgtn.com 
With critical congressional midterm elections set for later this year in the U.S., half of all states have introduced or are considering bills that restrict voting access. That includes the state of Georgia which was hotly contested in the last Presidential election, and where …