(2022-03-18). Independent vets group aims to counter right's clout in military. peoplesworld.org 
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Remember the kids' game "Capture the flag?" Well, former Army Sgt. Linsay Rousseau and her colleagues at a relatively new veterans' group, Continue To Serve, want to "recapture the flag," so to speak, from the radical right. And the word "patriotism," too. The sergeant, one of four full-time staffers at the group, which seeks …
(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). Israel detiene a palestinos en Cisjordania ocupada. telesurtv.net El campo de refugiados de al-Arroub, en el distrito de Hebrón, fue invadido por los soldados israelíes.
(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). 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.
(2022-03-17). 'What is it that needs to be done?' A conversation with anti-apartheid freedom fighter Lassy Chiwayo. workers.org 
This interview was conducted by Workers World correspondent Ted Kelly at Robben Island, off the western coast of South Africa. Lassy Chiwayo is an African National Congress member, former political prisoner, uMkhonto weSizwe freedom fighter and former mayor of Mbombela, capital of the Mpumalanga province. He served as the consul-general . . . |
(2022-03-17). If you care about Ukraine — disband NATO. workers.org 
Long before the Feb. 24 Russian intervention, the 2014 U.S.-backed fascist coup regime had reduced Ukraine to the poorest country, and with the highest rate of migration, in Europe. The International Monetary Fund restructured the economy and demanded austerity measures that gutted the pensions and cut social spending. Mass privatizations . . . |
(2022-03-17). Traditions of health: Black midwives and doulas against racism. workers.org 
A Black midwife delivering a baby in the 1950s in the rural South. Midwifery on the African continent can be traced back to antiquity. The tombs of queens in Africa depict midwives assisting at the births of royalty. This is significant because it indicates midwives were held in the highest . . . |
(2022-03-17). 103 años de una leyenda musical: Nat King Cole. telesurtv.net Nat King Cole inició su carrera como cantante en su adolescencia en clubes de jazz de Chicago. Su talento rápidamente lo catapultó a la fama, plataforma que usó para la lucha contra el racismo.
(2022-03-17). Ukraine's Zelensky Uses Martin Luther King Jr's Name Before Congress To Lobby For What Experts Call World War III. moguldom.com The name of Martin Luther King Jr., who was anti-war and promoted nonviolent resistance to fight racism, was used by Volodymyr Zelensky in his address to Congress on March 16 as the Ukraine president asked for more U.S. military aid, causing a firestorm on Twitter. Zelensky invoked Dr. King's words from his "I have a dream" …
(2022-03-17). Calling Ukraine "Relatively Civilized" Invokes a Racist Ranking of Europeanness. truthout.org 
CBS senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata's contrast of Ukraine, which he described as "relatively civilized, relatively European," with Iraq and Afghanistan, where "conflict has been raging for decades," went viral and offended millions around the globe. This dangerous comment was a sobering reminder of the persisting racism, Islamophobia and colonial mentalities still propagated by mainstream media. While people from the Middle East expressed their shock and disappointment at being…
(2022-03-17). St. Louis's Movement-Backed Mayor Promised To Close An Infamous Jail. popularresistance.org St. Louis, Missouri‚Äâ-‚Äâ"What is the delay in closing the Workhouse?" moderator Maquis Govan asks Mayor Tishaura Jones at a virtual town hall on "re-envisioning public safety" February 8. | The event was co-organized by Action St. Louis, an affiliate of the Movement for Black Lives. The group's 501 ©4 arm, Action St. Louis Power Project, endorsed Jones during her 2021 mayoral run. The Rev. Michelle Higgins opened the event by thanking Jones warmly for "valuing and loving the constituents of this city in this way: taking the time to listen to our questions directly." | Now,…
(2022-03-17). How Neo-Nazis Are Pushing To 'Ukrainize' Brazil. popularresistance.org Sà£o Paulo, Brazil — During the last two weeks, a small group of Brazilian bolsonaristas became social media celebrities as they crossed the border into Ukraine to fight against Russia — posing with assault rifles on Instagram, reciting prayers to the special forces, and sharing video monologues praising the brotherhood of people from around the world who had gathered in a training base near the Ukrainian city of Lviv to kill Russian "communists." The group's inexperience was demonstrated by the fact that most of their social media posts included their geo-location information. | This all change…
(2022-03-17). Neo-Nazis In Ukraine Fake Incidents To Gain More 'Western' Support. popularresistance.org The notorious Azov Battalion, also known as the Azov Regiment, posted this video earlier this week on its Telegram channel. It announced that it had destroyed three Russian armored vehicles and four infantry fighting vehicles, and killed "many infantry." Then it released a picture of a dead man in uniform, purported to be a Russian general whom it had killed. It is difficult to verify these claims. | The city of Mariupol, which has a population of 500,000, is primarily being defended by the Azov Battalion. | Mariupol is also where the Azov Battalion, which is part of the Ukrainian National Guard and thus subordin…
(2022-03-17). Deranged Russophobia: Ukrainian Journalist Proposes Exterminating Russian Children. orinocotribune.com Russophobia is out of control at the moment, as evidenced by a Ukrainian journalist who openly proposed, on national television, that if Russian children were killed, they would never grow up, and thus Russia would disappear. | The comments were made by Fakhrudin Sharafmal, an anchor for Ukraine's Channel 24, on Tuesday, March 15. Sharafmal considered it appropriate and pertinent, during programming seen by thousands of Ukrainians, to propose a "final solution" to the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Sharafmal endorsed the strategy of Adolf Eichmann while a photo of the well-known Nazi, the architect…
(2022-03-17). Israel lobby group ADL rehabilitates Hitler's accomplices in Ukraine. electronicintifada.net Western governments don't want their people to know they are supporting Nazis.
(2022-03-17). U.S. Congress Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca Carefully documented article by the late Robert Parry, first posted on GR in June 2015. Read carefully. Of relevance to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. | "Rather than fully inform its readers about a crisis that has the potential of …
(2022-03-17). Will Ukraine write the alt-right's epitaph? nationofchange.org Most of the leaders of the alt-right are scrambling to distance themselves from Vladimir Putin. It might be too late.
(2022-03-17). Ukrainian news anchor quotes Adolf Eichmann, calls for genocide against Russians. wsws.org The comments broadcast on Ukrainian television testify to the leading role played by fascists in the conflict with Russia.
(2022-03-17). "Imperative": Kosovo petitions Biden for fast-tracked NATO membership. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Note how the very Reuters that in 1999 dutifully echoed claims by the U.S. and NATO, as did all other major government and private news sources, that NATO bombarded a European nation for 78 days because of the "worst genocide since Hitler" and "200,000 young Albanian men missing and presumed killed" now writes — almost …
(2022-03-17). Protests erupt in occupied territories and Negev desert following Israeli killing of Palestinians. peoplesdispatch.org Earlier this week, the Israeli security forces killed at least three Palestinians, including one teenager, in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank and in the Negev desert…
(2022-03-17). Imprisoned Palestinian health activist Shatha Odeh is a beacon of resistance globally. peoplesdispatch.org Imprisoned health activist Shatha Odeh continues to persist in the struggle for the right to health and women's rights as she sends letter from prison for International Women's Day…
(2022-03-17). Protesters condemn racist voting legislation in rural Georgia. liberationnews.org 
Anti-racist protesters joined a Board of Elections meeting on March 9 in Spalding County, Georgia to oppose local Republicans' new provision to eliminate Sunday voting.
(2022-03-17). U.S. racist hypocrisy on refugee crisis. workers.org 
Black immigrants in Ukraine. The disparate and often racist treatment of refugees of war is starkly apparent as the crisis unfolds in Ukraine. With 24/7 coverage, Western media has not missed an opportunity to garner sympathy for the nearly 2 million disproportionately white Ukrainians currently fleeing the war. No one . . . |
(2022-03-17). Sanctions: The Unintended Consequence Of Involuntary Decolonization. popularresistance.org In support of the white supremacist Ukrainian puppet government, many US and European companies have been withdrawing from doing business in Russia. The supposed purpose of such sanctions is, of course, to strangle a country's economy and its people into submission to the will of imperialists. And yes, sanctions kill, particularly in countries that do not have access to certain goods, necessary materials and complex technological services and need to import them. But there is also another aspect of sanctions, and that is the looting via the "confiscation" of assets belonging to the sanctioned country. Theft and p…
(2022-03-17). Donald Trump's fourth link to the Supreme Court: Ginni Thomas. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—During his four years in the Oval Office, Donald Trump catered to his right-wing supporters and used the Federalist Society, a right-wing judicial advocacy group, to name three justices to the U.S. Supreme Court—Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett. They cemented the rightist majority on the nation's highest bench. What's lesser-known is Trump's …
(2022-03-17). Defensa de expdte. de Honduras apelará extradición a EE.UU. telesurtv.net El abogado Félix Ávila, uno de los que representa a Juan Orlando Hernández, anunció que el recurso de apelación será interpuesto en tres días.
(2022-03-17). Juez autoriza la extradición del expresidente hondureño Juan Orlando Hernández a Estados Unidos. cubadebate.cu "El juez (Edwin Ortez) de Extradición de Primera Instancia resuelve conceder solicitud de extradición remitida por la Corte del Distrito Sur de Nueva York para el expresidente de la República Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado", dijo a los periodistas el portavoz de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, Melvin Duarte…
(2022-03-17). Supreme Court: Torture at CIA Black Site Is 'State Secret'. orinocotribune.com 
By Marjorie Cohn — Mar 10, 2022 | In a scathing dissent, Neil Gorsuch accused the government of seeking dismissal of Abu Zubaydah's petition to avoid "further embarrassment for past misdeeds." | Abu Zubaydah, whom the CIA once mistakenly alleged was a top Al-Qaeda leader, was waterboarded 80-plus times, subjected to assault in the form of forced rectal exams, and exposed to live burials in coffins for hundreds of hours. Zubaydah sobbed, twitched and hyperventilated. During one waterboarding session, he became completely unresponsive, with bubbles coming out of his mouth. "He became so compliant that he would…