(2022-03-19). [Perspectives] The misuse of race in the search for disease-causing alleles. thelancet.com In her influential 2000 paper, Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener's Tale, Camara Phyllis Jones presented a theoretical framework for understanding racism through an allegory about a gardener with two flower boxes, one with rich and the other with poor soil. The gardener, who prefers red flowers, plants red blossoming seeds in fertile soil but pink blossoming seeds in poor soil (structural racism) and plucks pink blossoming seeds blown into fertile soil (personally mediated racism).
(2022-03-19). Australian government sending second shipment of arms to Ukraine. wsws.org Defence and intelligence figures have acknowledged that the arms could end up in the hands of fascist Ukrainian militias, but insist that is a price worth paying as the US escalates the confrontation with Russia.
(2022-03-19). "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.
(2022-03-19). Major Israeli Websites Crash in 'Largest-Ever Cyber Attack' Against Them, Officials Say. orinocotribune.com A number of major Israeli websites were downed for a while after a major cyber attack targeted them, said officials, alleging that services have since been restored. | The websites of the ministry of the interior, the ministry of military affairs and others were affected on Monday. | The ministries of health, justice, welfare were also targeted, as was the prime minister's office, according to Haaretz daily newspaper, which cited a source who described the incident as the "largest-ever cyber attack" carried out against Israel. | Users were unable to access websites with gov.il extensions for at least an hour. | I…
(2022-03-18). Take Action: Tell BC Government to pull Israeli Apartheid Wines Now! samidoun.net 
Click here to write a letter to British Columbia premier John Horgan and Finance Minister Selina Robinson. Tell them to pull Israeli apartheid wines from BC Liquor Stores! Samidoun is joining with the Canada Palestine Association, BDS Vancouver Coast Salish, the Canadian BDS Coalition and Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) Victoria to call on BC …
(2022-03-18). If you care about Ukraine — disband NATO. iacenter.org By Sara Flounders March 17, 2022 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 of socially owned property brought economic ruin. credit RT Now human trafficking in commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor, along with the buying of children from orphanages, is more widespread in Ukraine than any other European country…
(2022-03-18). Black Caucus Fails On Ukraine. popularresistance.org On June 11, 2015, the late Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member John Conyers made this statement about Ukraine. "House passed my amendment to prohibit assistance to Azov Battalion—a far-right white supremacist militia at front lines of Ukraine conflict." Conyers was right of course. The Azov Battalion was and is a core part of Ukraine's military. They have Nazi roots, as do many other organizations in that country. But after the Pentagon objected the amendment was stripped from the spending bill and never saw the light of day. | It is important to remember what Conyers tried to achieve the year after Bar…
(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). The erasure of Palestine and the JNF. mronline.org 
The JNF is a case study of misrepresentations and fabrications to rationalize and justify profound immorality. There is a great deal of critical history documenting that antisemitism is not inevitable, intrinsic, or constant in history.
(2022-03-18). Lowkey smeared by pro-Israel group in elite UK college. electronicintifada.net Rapper's Cambridge talk postponed because of lobby pressure.
(2022-03-18). Israel bases to be targeted if Iraq Kurdistan not remove them. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) — The spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the elite military force will not hesitate to strike other Israeli bases in Iraqi Kurdistan region if its officials do not dismantle them.
(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). Israel official proposes buying Greece islands for wartime. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) — An Israeli official has reportedly floated the idea of buying uninhabited Greek islands in the Mediterranean Sea in order to evacuate and relocate Israeli settlers in case of a missile attack or natural disaster events.
(2022-03-18). What's Ukraine got to do with Palestine? electronicintifada.net Watch: Joseph Massad discusses the history and Western responses to the war.
(2022-03-18). Opinion: In A Racist Social Structure, There Are No Mistaken Identities. The Ryan Coogler Arrest Was On Brand. moguldom.com In January of this year, acclaimed film director Ryan Coogler was mistaken for a bank robber. Bank staffers at an Atlanta Bank of American branch mistakenly thought Coogler was staging a robbery, so they called cops, and the "Black Panther" director was detained by police, in handcuffs. Coogler had handed the bank teller a handwritten …
(2022-03-18). U.S. racist hypocrisy on refugee crisis. iacenter.org By Betsey Piette March 16, 2022 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 is denying that their situation is devastating and heartbreaking. What is in question, however, is why the same Western media gave little to no coverage of the 1.5 million other Ukrainian refugees forced to flee their homes to escape bombing and shelling by their own…
(2022-03-18). Florida May Soon Use Digital Images of Ballots in Recounts—Will All Counties Make Them a Public Record? independentmediainstitute.org Florida's recounts have been notorious. The 2000 presidential election was decided when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a recount, holding, in Bush v. Gore, that different counties were using different procedures, which was unconstitutional. In 2018, three statewide contests, including for the U.S. Senate, triggered simultaneous recounts. Some populous counties did not finish in time, …
(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.
(2022-03-18). Extradition Looms For Assange After Court Refuses To Hear His Appeal. popularresistance.org The British judicial system has erected still another barrier to Julian Assange's freedom. On March 14, the U.K. Supreme Court refused to hear Assange's appeal of the U.K. High Court's ruling ordering his extradition to the United States. If extradited to the U.S. for trial, Assange will face 17 charges under the Espionage Act and up to 175 years in prison for revealing evidence of U.S. war crimes. | With no explanation of its reasoning, the Supreme Court denied Assange "permission to appeal" the High Court's decision, saying that Assange's appeal did not "raise an arguable point of law." The court remanded the c…
(2022-03-18). Sanctions anyone? Imperialist contradiction or the unintended consequence of involuntary decolonization. mronline.org 
In support of the white supremacist Ukrainian puppet government, many U.S. and European companies have been withdrawing from doing business in Russia.