Daily Archives: March 16, 2022

2022-03-16: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-16). Day after Erbil strike, Iran claims to have foiled Israeli sabotage at its Fordow nuclear facility. peoplesdispatch.org Reports in Middle East Eye as well as some US media outlets claimed that Israel has been operating anti-Iranian bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and was responsible for the attack on Iran's drone facility in Tabriz a few weeks back…

Rachel Hu (2022-03-16). A year after the Atlanta spa shootings, why are Asian Americans still under attack? liberationnews.org March 16th marks the one-year anniversary the racist mass murder of eight Asian women in Atlanta. This sparked actions across the country, moving tens of thousands of Asian Americans and all those outraged by the massacre into the streets.

WSWS (2022-03-16). Reports expose UK, US arming of Ukraine military including fascist forces. wsws.org Officially, the UK commenced "bilateral military assistance" to Kiev in October 2014, shortly after the Maidan coup but unofficial military ties go back to 1991.

Reem Zubaidi (2022-03-16). Israeli Apartheid on full display amid Ukraine refugee crisis. liberationnews.org Israel reinstated a ban on Palestinian family unification in an explicit attempt to ensure a Jewish demographic majority, while at the same time relocating Ukrainian Jewish refugees to Israel where they have full Israeli citizenship.

ecns.cn (2022-03-16). Racism still endangers Asian American women: USA Today. ecns.cn A year after the Atlanta spa shootings, misogynistic racism still endangers Asian American women in the United States, an opinion piece published on USA Today has said.

Abdoulie Njai, Micaela Torres, Margareta Matache (2022-03-16). Ukraine: The refugee double standard. nationofchange.org This war has unleashed new, overt, and cruel manifestations of racism on the continent, revealing longstanding double standards at the global level.

WSWS (2022-03-16). Manchester Evening News dubs Ukrainian World War II Nazi collaborator a "hero" wsws.org From the moment the article was published on the MEN's online site on March 5, hundreds denounced it on social media for promoting someone who had clearly fought alongside Hitler's army.

Staff (2022-03-16). Semiótica del Nazi-Fascismo. cubadebate.cu Odio, miedo y orden para la inmovilidad. No hay que esperar a que la burguesía se asuste para que se muestre nazi-fascista. La ideología de la clase dominante posee, de nacimiento, filigranas de odio empapadas en miedo de clase, que trabajan sistemáticamente en todo el espectro, objetivo y subjetivo, de sus dominios.

ecns.cn (2022-03-16). Taiwan's future cannot rely on 'empty promises' from external forces: spokesperson. ecns.cn A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Wednesday said that the future of China's Taiwan region, as well as Taiwan compatriots' security and wellbeing, lies in the peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Strait and national reunification, rather than "empty promises" from external forces.

Miko Peled (2022-03-16). Israel Apologists Hurl Familiar Antisemitism Charges in Post-Speech Ambush of Amnesty Director. mintpressnews.com WASHINGTON — A typical DC storm has been brewing since Paul O'Brien, executive director of Amnesty International USA, spoke last Wednesday at the Women's National Democratic Club (WNDC) in Washington. O'Brien gave an excellent talk about Amnesty International's The woman asking the question represented a Zionist organization and repeatedly claimed that cal…

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-16). Muhoozi returns home after successful meeting with Rwanda's Kagame. plusnews.ug The UPDF Commander Land Forces, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has Wednesday returned from Rwanda after a successful three day visit. Muhoozi travelled to Rwanda on Monday morning to Kigali to resolve all outstanding issues between Rwanda and Uganda. While in Rwanda, he held talks with President Paul Kagame, paid respects to genocide victims at the …

Staff (2022-03-16). Iran backs OIC's endeavors towards fighting Islamophobia. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 16 (MNA) — Iran's Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi said that the country backs the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)'s endeavors towards fighting Islamophobia.

WSWS (2022-03-16). Virginia Thomas, wife of right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, admits to participating in January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally. wsws.org "Ginni" Thomas played an active role in the fascist conspiracy headed by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Hans Modrow, Harald Neuber (2022-03-16). "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.

teleSUR, JDO (2022-03-16). Liga àÅrabe exige detener el genocidio israelí contra palestinos. telesurtv.net Dicha organización condena los asentamientos ilegales, las demoliciones de viviendas, los desplazamientos y las detenciones diarias.

Ramona Wadi (2022-03-16). Not all Refugees are Equal: Plight of Palestinians Displaced by Israel Worsening. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Financial support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is dwindling, despite the renewed mandates and financial contribution pledges by world leaders. "The almost unanimous political support expressed by the UN General Assembly to the Agency is not translated into matching financial resources," UNRWA's Commissioner-General, …

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-03-16). Inicia audiencia de extradición a expresidente hondureño. telesurtv.net Juan Orlando Hernández se convierte en el primer expresidente hondureño en ser acusado de extradición a EE.UU.

PANEL: Race, Class,, the Struggle for Reproductive Rights (2022-03-16). PANEL: Race, Class, and the Struggle for Reproductive Rights. peoplesworld.org "We're Not Going Back" — CLASS, RACE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS The stakes could not be higher as reactionary attacks on reproductive rights intensify. Over 30 states are ready to outlaw legal abortion access if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade. African Americans, Latinas, and other people of color, as well as …

SF015 (2022-03-16). Mass Grave In Mariupol. Who May Buried There And Why. southfront.org An official representative of the DPR said at an urgent briefing on the morning of 16 March that information had been received from various sources that another falsification had been carried out by the Ukrainian leadership in the city of Mariupol. | This time, the office of the Ukrainian President set the task for the Ukrainian armed forces' command to discredit the actions of the Russian forces by showing the Western public the mass graves of civilians allegedly killed as a result of artillery shellin…

Human Rights Watch (2022-03-16). Saudi Arabia: Mass Execution of 81 Men: Rampant Abuses in Criminal Justice System, lack of Fair Trials. juancole.com Human Rights Watch — (Beirut) — Saudi authorities' execution of 81 men on March 12, 2022 was its largest mass execution in years despite recent promises to curtail its use of the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. Rampant and systemic abuses in Saudi Arabia's criminal justice system suggest it is highly unlikely that …

Juan Cole (2022-03-16). Top 7 Ways Iran evaded US Sanctions that Putin could Follow. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The sorts of sanctions and boycotts the United States and its allies are placing on Russia resemble those applied by Washington to Iran off and on in the past decade, though so far the measures in place against Tehran are still far more severe than what has been done to …

Staff (2022-03-15). The Amarneh Family: Palestinians resisting Israeli imprisonment and Palestinian Authority "security coordination" samidoun.net For the Amarneh family of Yabad, southwest of Jenin, involvement in the Palestinian struggle for liberation is a part of life — as is political imprisonment in Israeli occupation prisons. However, the Amarnehs, like many Palestinians resisting Zionist colonialism, apartheid and occupation, face not only the direct colonial imprisonment of the occupation forces but also …

Brian Mier (2022-03-15). Behind the Azov-Brazil Connection: How Neo-Nazis Are Pushing to "Ukrainize" Brazil. mintpressnews.com A small group of Brazilian bolsonaristas have become social media celebrities as they crossed the border into Ukraine to fight against Russia, but as Brian Meir reports, Ukrainian Neo-Nazi groups have had influence in Brazil for years.

Robert Inlakesh (2022-03-15). Israel's Links to Ukraine's Thriving Neo-Nazi Movement. mintpressnews.com Although there is no concrete evidence of a direct Israeli government link with the Azov Battalion or other neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine, there are clearly Israeli citizens who are directly aiding them.

_____ (2022-03-15). US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine And The Whiteness Of Empire. popularresistance.org The US has poured weapons, military advisors, and political operatives into Ukraine for years. It has long coveted Ukraine for NATO. So in 2014 the US arranged a coup, with neo-nazi help, against the democratically elected president. The people in the Donbas region in the east resisted that coup and formed the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics in self-defense. The illegitimate government in Kiev attacked them, aided by their neo-nazi militias and supported by the US. By the end of 2021 the war had cost 14,000 lives; 11,000 had been Ukrainians opposing the coup. | These Ukrainians resisted Kiev's ban on their…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-15). Why is the West Silent About Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Movements, Azov Battalion, & Bandera Legacy? libya360.wordpress.com Ekaterina Blinova French President Emmanuel Macron claimed in his Wednesday address to the nation that Russia's special operation to demilitarise and "de-Nazify" Ukraine is "not a fight against Nazism", thus joining the chorus of political leaders and media outlets in the West who downplay or altogether deny the problem of Ukrainian ultra-nationalism. Ukraine's ultra-nationalist and…

Staff (2022-03-15). Zelenski dice a los ucranianos que se olviden de una posible entrada de la OTAN. cubadebate.cu El presidente de Ucrania, Volodomir Zelenski, ha lamentado este martes que a pesar de haber escuchado "durante años" que "las puertas" de la OTAN estaban "supuestamente abiertas" en realidad no lo están y ha pedido a sus compatriotas que confíen en ellos mismos. Ha quedado claro que Ucrania no es miembro de la OTAN, dijo el presidente ucraniano.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-15). UN makes Mar. 15 "Intl. Day to Combat Islamophobia" en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 15 (MNA) — The United Nations on Tuesday has issued a resolution designating March 15 as "International Day to Combat Islamophobia".

Chris Walker (2022-03-15). Ginni Thomas, Wife of Clarence Thomas, Attended "Stop the Steal" Rally on Jan. 6. truthout.org Ginni Thomas, a far right activist and wife of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, admitted in an interview published on Monday that she attended the "Stop the Steal" rally that preceded the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building. | Thomas told The Washington Free Beacon

teleSUR, DRL (2022-03-15). Ejército y policía de Israel asesinan a tres jóvenes palestinos. telesurtv.net Otros seis jóvenes fueron heridos por disparos de las fuerzas de ocupación israelíes en dos zonas distintas de Palestina.

WSWS (2022-03-15). Iran's attack on Irbil confirms widening of US/Russia conflict to the Middle East. wsws.org Iran's attack on Irbil marks a significant escalation in the ongoing tensions between Tehran and Israel, and by extension the US.

Staff (2022-03-15). IRGC Quds Force commander says Erbil attack was decisive. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 15 (MNA) — The IRGC Quds Force Commander Brigadier General Esmaeil Ghaani has described the recent IRGC missile attack on an Israeli base in Erbil of Iraq as a decisive action that taught a good lesson to the regime.

_____ (2022-03-15). Iran Unleashes its Fury against US and Israel in Retaliation for Provocations. journal-neo.org Endless provocations and subversive actions of the US and Israel against Iran lead to the Iranian people getting increasingly bitter towards the two countries and their representatives. Following the blatant US assassination operation against Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) special forces, killed on the night of January 3, 2020 …

Staff (2022-03-15). Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat addresses letter to German court as he appeals political ban. samidoun.net On Friday, 11 March, Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat's appeal against the political ban imposed upon him by Berlin immigration authorities in June 2019 was brought before a German court. Barakat is fighting back against the Berlin immigration office's imposition of a political ban on him, barring him from participating in political and social events and …

Ann Brown (2022-03-15). White Nationalist Hispanics: 5 Things To Know About The Rising Trend In America. moguldom.com More Latinos in the U.S. are adopting far-right extremism. The rise in the number of white nationalist Hispanics is reflected in a few things including an increase in Hispanic Americans who identify as white. The trend is "part of the mutation that takes place as the racist fringe tries to become more mainstream," said Brian …

_____ (2022-03-15). UK Supreme Court Refuses Assange Appeal. popularresistance.org Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, has been denied his petition to appeal the High Court's decision to extradite him to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing U.S. state secrets that revealed evidence of American war crimes. The next possible step for Assange to forestall extradition is to ask the High Court to hear a cross appeal against the lower court's judgement. Assange's attorneys on Monday indicated that that would likely be their next step. Assange won in the magistrate's court in January 2021. That court decided not to extradite Assange based on his mental sta…

Chris Hedges (2022-03-15). Chris Hedges: Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death. mintpressnews.com Putin played into the hands of the war industry. He gave the warmongers what they wanted. He fulfilled their wildest fantasies. There will be no impediments now on the march to Armageddon.

_____ (2022-03-15). Waltzing Toward Armageddon With The Merchants Of Death. popularresistance.org The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world's chess board, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating predatory capitalism with freedom. In the name of national security, the Cold Warriors, many of them self-identified liberals, demonized labor, independent media, human rights organizations, and those who opposed the permanent war economy and the militarization of American society as soft on communism. | That is why they have resurrected it. | The decision to spurn the pos…

Mark Weisbrot (2022-03-15). Biden's Sanctions on Afghanistan. zcomm.org The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country…

Arturo Domínguez (2022-03-15). Biden, Democrats Not Interested in Defunding the Police (OPINION). latinorebels.com While using certain crime statistics as a rationale to "re-fund the police" is dishonest, so is the notion that Democrats are taking anything away from law enforcement. Under President Biden, police have received billions in funding with little to no accountability or transparency.

Amjed Jaaved (2022-03-15). "Accidental" launching of missile into Pakistan's air space. moderndiplomacy.eu A "supersonic flying object", believed to be a version of the Brahmos missile, flew into Pakistan's air space at debatable altitude near air corridors of airliners, before falling near Mian Chunu (Khanewal, Multan ), a strategic location. Pakistan expressed its ennui to the United Nations 'secretary general and the German chancellor. Pakistan's foreign minister alleged …

Amy Westervelt (2022-03-15). The U.S. Government Doesn't Control Domestic Oil Production. But It Should. zcomm.org The oil and gas industry won't increase production because it's enjoying the profits from high prices…

Michael Sainato (2022-03-15). More than 1,000 Hershey's Workers Vote on Plan to Unionize. zcomm.org The Pennsylvania-based candy brand has hired union-busting consultants as workers fight for better pay and conditions…

Eileen Flanagan (2022-03-15). When complex and ambitious demands undermine a good campaign. zcomm.org In trying to spur a green jobs program in Philadelphia, Earth Quaker Action Team learned valuable lessons about crafting effective demands…

Kate Aronoff (2022-03-15). Oil Companies Are Making a Fortune From Soaring Prices. zcomm.org ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and other oil companies are paying negative taxes on huge profits…

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2022-03-15). Why Europe Needs to Take a Hard Look at Itself. zcomm.org They will go down in history as Europe's most mediocre leaders since the end of the Second World War…

Joe DeManuelle-Hall (2022-03-15). Texas Union Activists Fight 'Microtransit' Privatization. zcomm.org When "microtransit," the new rage in transit privatization, showed up in Denton, Texas, union activists decided to fight back…

Hector Luis Alamo (2022-03-15). No Charges Against Chicago Cops in Shooting Deaths of Adam Toledo and Anthony Alvarez. latinorebels.com The Chicago Police officers involved in last year's shooting deaths of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez will not face criminal charges, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx said on Tuesday.

Eric Zuesse (2022-03-15). Who actually CAUSED this war in Ukraine? moderndiplomacy.eu On 24 February 1990, U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush secretly informed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at Camp David, that though Bush and all of his agents such as Secretary of State James Baker had verbally promised the Soviet Union's leader Mikhail Gorbachev that (as Baker put it) NATO would not expand "one inch to …

Noam Chomsky (2022-03-15). Peace Talks in Ukraine "Will Get Nowhere" If US Keeps Refusing to Join. zcomm.org The means are understood. If the will is there, it is possible to avert catastrophe and to move on to a much better world…

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