Daily Archives: March 21, 2022

2022-03-21: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-03-21). Why teachers should oppose the Minneapolis Public Schools-MFT "Educators of Color" memorandum. wsws.org The "Educators of Color" MOA and related proposals have absolutely nothing to do with a struggle against racism or for social justice, whatever the MFT and the proponents of the MOA may think.

teleSUR, DRL (2022-03-21). ONU denuncia persistencia del racismo institucional en el mundo. telesurtv.net La edición 2022 del Día Internacional de la ONU contra el racismo se titula "Voces por la acción contra el racismo".

Staff (2022-03-21). Reportera de guerra relata cómo EEUU financia batallones neonazis en Ucrania. cubadebate.cu La periodista de origen sudafricano Lara Logan explica en una entrevista al portal America's Voice AM que las noticias sobre el actual conflicto de Ucrania están llenas de desinformación, mientras que muchos de los acontecimientos que ocurren ahora en ese país pasan desapercibidos en los medios. Según explica Logan, el batallón neonazi Azov está financiado por EE.UU. y la OTAN.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). NATO Is Arming and Training Nazis in Ukraine, as US Floods Russia's Neighbor with Weapons. transcend.org 11 Mar 2022 – NATO is sending weapons and trainers to help neo-Nazis in Ukraine's white-supremacist Azov movement fight Russia. This follows numerous reports of Western government support for Ukrainian far-right extremists.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-21). NATO Patriot missile system deployed to Slovakia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ReutersMarch 20, 2022 Slovakia starts deploying Patriot air defence system — minister The Patriot air defence system has started arriving in Slovakia from NATO partner countries and the deployment will continue in the coming days, Slovakia's defence minister said on Sunday. The system will be operated by German and Dutch troops and will initially be …

Asa Winstanley (2022-03-21). How Owen Jones learned to stop worrying and love Zionism. electronicintifada.net Israel "fundamentally different" from other settler-colonial project, claims Guardian columnist.

repost (2022-03-21). Another Broken Promise Palestinian scholar accuses SFSU of reneging on hiring agreement. indybay.org SFSU AMED professor Abdulhadi has exposed the campaign by the SFSU president Lynn Mahoney to violate her contract to destroy the program.

teleSUR, SH (2022-03-21). Supremo hondureño decidirá esta semana extradición de Hernández. telesurtv.net Juan Orlando Hernández es el primer expresidente hondureño en ser requerido en extradición por Estados Unidos por narcotráfico.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). The UK Supreme Court Won't Listen to Assange, but the Legal Battle Is Still On. transcend.org 19 Mar 2022 – What are Assange's lawyers' options after the Supreme Court refused to listen to his appeal. Why US diplomatic assurances are unacceptable from a human rights point of view.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death. transcend.org 14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.

Juan Cole (2022-03-20). Happiness Apartheid: UN Ranks Israel 9th for Happiness, Occupied Palestinian Territories 122nd. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The UN World Happiness Report for 2021 ranks Israel as the 9th happiest country in the world, but lists the Palestinian territories as the 122nd. Yet, both societies are ruled by the same government, the government of Israel. The annual report is brought out by the United Nations Sustainable Development …

Fatima El-Tayeb (2022-03-20). To Treat All Refugees Like Human Beings, Europe Must Confront Its Racism. truthout.org The reactions to Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine emphasize the exceptionality of this event, its disruptiveness and its potentially massive global implications. World War II is a frequent reference point. Not since then, the understanding seems to be, has Europe seen anything like this. In the Western press in particular, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is frequently compared to Winston Churchill, as the face and voice of the democratic powers resisting the onslaught…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-20). US and NATO Allies Arm Neo-Nazi Units in Ukraine as Foreign Policy Elites Yearn for Afghan-Style Insurgency. libya360.wordpress.com Alex Rubenstein Members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion learn how fire a UK-made NLAW rocket in March 2022 Corporate US media and foreign policy hardliners want to create a new Afghanistan in the middle of Europe by flooding Ukraine with weapons. The arms industry is very pleased. "Americans, British, tons of British dead. They're not…

Hans Modrow, Harald Neuber (2022-03-20). "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.

Staff (2022-03-20). Kuwait calls for expulsion of Israel from IPU (+VIDEO). en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 20 (MNA) — Condemning the international community for exercising double standards vis-à -vis the world's ongoing conflicts, Kuwait called for the expulsion of the Israeli delegation from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

Middle East Monitor (2022-03-20). Palestine tops Chilean president's Agenda in first Statements after taking Office. juancole.com By Eman Abusidu | — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Last Friday, thirty-six-year-old Gabriel Boric, the youngest Chilean president ever to have been elected, officially became the president of Chile after winning Chile's presidential elections last December. His victory represents a major revival for Chile's progressive left and a new era for Chile and …

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