2023-03-08: News Headlines

Fight Back (2023-03-08). Community rallies against environmental racism, opposes Roof Depot demolition. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Sunday, March 5, residents of the south Minneapolis neighborhood of East Phillips and supporters marched to celebrate community and fight against an environmentally racist project. | The city of Minneapolis, with support from Mayor Jacob Frey, plans to expand its existing public works yard in the neighborhood by demolishing the Roof Depot building. The Roof Depot is a former EPA Superfund site and within the Minneapolis Southside Green Zone, an area identified by the city as having "high levels of environmental pollution" and "racial, political, and economic marginalization." | The city's pro…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-08). Black History Month: Dr. Michele Halyard on a lifetime commitment to health equity, inclusion and diversity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Michele Halyard Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is highlighting Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity, inclusion and diversity through their work. Meet Dr. Michele Halyard,…

teleSUR, nama, JCM (2023-03-08). Denuncian racismo en represión contra mujeres indígenas en Perú. telesurtv.net El lanzamiento de gas lacrimógeno por parte de la Policía Nacional a mujeres aimaras y sus bebés ha generado indignación.

Anonymous103 (2023-03-07). Tunisia: World Says No To Saied's Racism, And The IMF Loan Is Stopped. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Piero Messina | The World Bank has suspended relations with Tunisia. The $1.9 billion loan needed to save the country led by Kais Saied from default is now a mirage. Without that money, Tunisia will fail and a scenario of chaos will open up, with the suspension of essential public services and a new diaspora towards Europe. | The World Bank took this decision after President Saied's statements on the racial issue. In recent weeks, the Tunisian leader had hypothesized the exist…

Kirk Off Campus (2023-03-08). Phone Zap! Tell UC Davis Chancellor May We Don't Want Another Proud Boy Hate Rally! indybay.org Phone Zap! Call and email UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May and refuse to let our taxes and student fees be used to pay for a Turning Point USA hate rally! Charlie Kirk says trans people need to be "took care of!" At the last TPUSA event at UC Davis, Proud Boys attacked students and community members. Enough is enough!




Anonymous Contributor (2023-03-07). Antifascists Drop Banner Against "Grade A Grifter" Jordan Petersen in Vancouver. itsgoingdown.org Report on antifascist activity in response to far-Right grifter Jordan Peterson's appearance in so-called Vancouver, BC. Originally posted to BC Counter-Info. On February 21st, approximately a dozen anti-fascists dropped a banner on Vancouver's Georgia St. Viaduct reading, "No War but Class War, Grade A Grifter, Garbage Human, Go Back to Sleep, JP (Jordan Peterson)," in…

Juan Cole (2023-03-08). South African downgrades Israeli Embassy over Ongoing Apartheid (and they should know). juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Middle East Eye reports that the South African parliament has voted to downgrade the Israeli embassy in Pretoria to liaison status. The resolution was introduced by the tiny center-left National Freedom Party, which has only two seats in parliament. Its passage was assured, however, when the African National Congress …

Staff (2023-03-08). Boycott Tour demands an end to Toulouse-Tel Aviv "twinning" relationship. samidoun.net On Saturday, 4 March, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra — a member of the Samidoun Network — organized a Boycott Tour in the city center of Toulouse, France, bringing together several dozen people to raise awareness in Toulouse about the campaign to bring an end to the "twinning" or "sister city" relationship with apartheid Tel Aviv. …

Juan Cole (2023-03-08). South Africa downgrades Israeli Embassy over Ongoing Apartheid (and they should know). juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Middle East Eye reports that the South African parliament has voted to downgrade the Israeli embassy in Pretoria to liaison status. The resolution was introduced by the tiny center-left National Freedom Party, which has only two seats in parliament. Its passage was assured, however, when the African National Congress …

Ali Abunimah (2023-03-07). Settlers celebrate Purim with more attacks on Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Watch: Israeli apartheid is "violence against every Palestinian man, woman and child everywhere all the time," EI's Ali Abunimah tells BreakThrough News.




Alexander Rubinstein (2023-03-07). Top Biden Officials Address Pro-War Rally Led by Ukrainian Nazi Supporters. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous103 (2023-03-07). In Video: Azov Nazi Tells How He Killed Civilian, POW In Mariupol. southfront.org Illustrative Image: Azov fighters calling for their liberation from Azovstal | Members of the Ukrainian Nazi Azov battalion continue to testify on their war crimes committed during the battle for Mariupol. Ukrainian POWs reveal the truth about the murders who became new "heroes" of Ukraine. | A Nazi with the call sign "Botko" told how he killed unarmed servicemen of the DPR, who was likely evacuating civilians from the war-torn city. The Ukrainian militant confirmed that there was no order to kill the DPR prisoner but h…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-07). Nazi Brotherhood: American Media Ignore Atomwaffen's Plot for a Baltimore Terror Attack. libya360.wordpress.com Felix Livshitz Atomwaffen's plot in Baltimore should have been headline news American far-right radicals — linked to neo-Nazis from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion — have been charged with conspiring to stage a terrorist attack in Baltimore, Maryland. However, US media reporting on the story does not mention connections between the group and the militants. Additionally, the attempted…

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-03-07). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-07). Georgian PM: foreign-backed actors push second war front, EU has exposed Saakashvili as West's agent. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaMarch 7, 2023 PM: Georgia's Future No Longer Belongs to Foreign Agents "The future of our country does not belong and no longer belongs to foreign agents or servants of foreign countries. The future of our country and our people belongs to patriots," Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, who is visiting Germany to attend …

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-03-07). Top Biden Officials Address Pro-War Rally Led by Ukrainian Nazi Supporters. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous103 (2023-03-07). In Video: Azov Nazi Tells How He Killed Civilian, POW In Mariupol. southfront.org Illustrative Image: Azov fighters calling for their liberation from Azovstal | Members of the Ukrainian Nazi Azov battalion continue to testify on their war crimes committed during the battle for Mariupol. Ukrainian POWs reveal the truth about the murders who became new "heroes" of Ukraine. | A Nazi with the call sign "Botko" told how he killed unarmed servicemen of the DPR, who was likely evacuating civilians from the war-torn city. The Ukrainian militant confirmed that there was no order to kill the DPR prisoner but h…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-07). Nazi Brotherhood: American Media Ignore Atomwaffen's Plot for a Baltimore Terror Attack. libya360.wordpress.com Felix Livshitz Atomwaffen's plot in Baltimore should have been headline news American far-right radicals — linked to neo-Nazis from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion — have been charged with conspiring to stage a terrorist attack in Baltimore, Maryland. However, US media reporting on the story does not mention connections between the group and the militants. Additionally, the attempted…

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-03-07). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-07). Georgian PM: foreign-backed actors push second war front, EU has exposed Saakashvili as West's agent. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaMarch 7, 2023 PM: Georgia's Future No Longer Belongs to Foreign Agents "The future of our country does not belong and no longer belongs to foreign agents or servants of foreign countries. The future of our country and our people belongs to patriots," Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, who is visiting Germany to attend …

Editor (2023-03-07). Making Tunisia non-African again — Saied's anti-Black campaign. mronline.org On 21 February 2023, President Kais Saied called a meeting with the National Security Council to take urgent measures "to address the phenomenon of the influx of large numbers of irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa to Tunisia."

Charlie Wood, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-03-07). We Need A Climate Movement That Addresses The Trauma Of Fighting. popularresistance.org I used to think trauma was something that only applied to people exposed to extreme situations like war, genocide, abuse or crime. Yet, living on planet Earth pretty much guarantees you some trauma. | Trauma comes from the Greek "traumat," which means "wound." It is an emotional wounding that results from experiencing or witnessing a highly stressful, horrifying event or series of events where one feels a lack of control, powerlessness and threat of injury or death. This sounds disturbingly similar to what humans are increasingly living through with climate change.

ecns.cn (2023-03-08). Gender wage gap narrows, but work discrimination remains. ecns.cn Despite progress being made in narrowing the income gap between men and women in the past few years, many women still face impediments to their career development based on factors such as gender discrimination and marital status, according to a recent report.

Staff (2023-03-07). "Pure, Unadulterated Fascism": Mehdi Hasan on Trump, Fox News, Jan. 6, GOP & 20th Anniversary of the Iraq War. democracynow.org We examine the state of U.S. politics, Trumpism, journalism and more with Mehdi Hasan, host of The Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC and Peacock. His new book is titled Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking.

Thomas Kennedy (2023-03-07). Florida's Fascist Legislative Agenda (OPINION). latinorebels.com The Florida Legislature has ceased to function as an independent body and instead serves as a rubber stamp for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the result of which is a slew of legislation that targets the vulnerable, diminishes civil liberties, and serves special interest groups at the expense of working people.

_____ (2023-03-08). Israel: A Fractured Civil Society. journal-neo.org The current situation in Israel is so complex and tense that the local media is increasingly focusing on whether and when a civil war is about to start. Even the mere mention of such a turn of events would have been dismissed in the blink of an eye not long ago. But, as the sages …

Bay Area for Palestine (2023-03-08). Friday 3/10: Hands Off Hawara | Hands Off Palestine. indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery Street | San Francisco…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-08). Daily Round Up — Protests continue in France over pension reforms & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we look at protests continuing in France over pension reforms, Israeli airstrikes hit quake-hit Syria, 23 Cop City protesters charged with domestic terrorism in the US and Palestinian prisoners complete 20 days of civil disobedience.

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-03-08). Fuerzas israelíes asesinan a seis palestinos en Jenín, Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Las autoridades sanitarias señalaron que dos de los heridos están en estado crítico tras recibir impactos de proyectiles.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-03-08). Siria condena el ataque de Israel contra el aeropuerto de Alepo. telesurtv.net El ente llamó la atención sobre la gravedad del hecho, que puso fuera de servicio a la instalación.

_____ (2023-03-07). The US Trying to 'Get' Israel against Russia is a Tricky Call. journal-neo.org In a bid to expand the global alliance against Russia to defeat the latter in Ukraine and eventually bring a regime change in Moscow, the US is proactively seeking to enlist Israel's support. Apparently, Washington has met some recent — although fragile — success. On February 23, the UN General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-07). Israeli Airstrike Hits Syria's Aleppo Airport. news.antiwar.com An Israeli airstrike hit Syria's Aleppo International Airport early Tuesday, damaging the runway and putting the airport out of service, Syria's news agency SANA reported. "At 2: 07 a.m., the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the sea towards the international airport in Aleppo, which caused material damage to it, and as a result …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-07). Syria Says Israeli Airstrike Halts Earthquake Aid Flights Into Aleppo. news.antiwar.com An Israeli airstrike that hit the Aleppo International Airport in Syria has halted aid flights into the city that are needed for earthquake relief, a Syrian official told AFP. The strike hit the airport early in the morning on Tuesday, about one month after an earthquake devastated Aleppo, a city that has already been struggling …

Editor (2023-03-07). How Israeli Cyber Weapons Are Taking Over Latin America. scheerpost.com By Jessica Buxbaum / MintPress News In January, Salvadoran newspaper El Faro revealed that the country's police have purchased three Israeli surveillance tools. Through the approximately $2.2 million contract, El Salavador's police acquired the Wave Guard Tracer, from Wave Guard Technologies, designed to trace calls, text, and data, the GEOLOC system sold by an unknown Israeli firm, …

Marc Steiner (2023-03-07). Ken Roth: My criticisms of Israel almost cost me a Harvard fellowship. therealnews.com

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-03-07). Israel kills six in Jenin raid. electronicintifada.net Occupation forces use pressure cooker procedure, a form of extrajudicial execution.

Michael F. Brown (2023-03-07). Will segregationist Bezalel Smotrich be welcomed to Washington? electronicintifada.net Israeli finance minister to be in US just days after he said Palestinian village should be "wiped out."

People's Dispatch. (2023-03-07). Israeli Airstrikes Target Airport, Make Aid Delivery To Syria More Difficult. popularresistance.org Early in the morning of Tuesday, March 7, an Israeli airstrike damaged parts of Aleppo international airport in Syria. This will affect aid delivery to one of Syria's provinces worst-affected by last month's earthquake. | The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) quoted an unnamed Syrian military source, according to whom, at around 2 am on Tuesday, "the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial act of aggression from the direction of the Mediterranean, west of Latakia, targeting Aleppo International Airport, which led to material damage at the airport as it went out of service."

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-07). Israeli airstrikes target Aleppo airport, making aid delivery in Syria more difficult. peoplesdispatch.org The airstrike is expected to affect aid delivery to areas affected by the devastating earthquake on February 6, in which 6,000 were killed in Syria and thousands more injured and displaced…

TALA (2023-03-07). Israel's new far-right government: Analysis. bdsmovement.net

Tamara Nassar (2023-03-07). Israel advances Palestinians-only death penalty bill. electronicintifada.net Occupation forces loot homes, bank accounts of detainees and their families.

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-03-07). Israel ataca con misiles al aeropuerto sirio de Alepo. telesurtv.net El ataque de las fuerzas sionistas se llevó a cabo a las 02: 07 (hora local) desde la dirección del mar Mediterráneo.

Ian Hoppes (2023-03-08). Just miles from East Palestine, Shell Oil poisons Pennsylvania town. liberationnews.org Beaver, Pennsylvania, 30 minutes from East Palestine, Ohio, sees billows of smoke and flame coming from Shell-owned plant.

Staff (2023-03-08). Khader Adnan enters 32nd day of hunger strike for freedom. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan enters the 32nd day of his hunger strike for freedom on 8 March 2023. Adnan, 44, is married to Randa and the father of nine children, the youngest of which is one and a half years old and the oldest 14 years old. He is a former long-term hunger striker who …

Staff (2023-03-08). Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners — Profiles of Juma'a Adam, Raed al-Sa'adi, Ibrahim and Mohammed Ighbariya. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is providing the materials for the third week of the educational campaign, Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners. Read the previous two sets of materials: Week 3: Mohammed Adel Daoud, Mahmoud Abu Kharabish and Bashir Abdullah al-Khatib Week 2: Ibrahim Bayadseh, Ahmad Abu Jaber, Samir Abu Nima Week 1: Mohammed Al-Tus, …

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-03-08). Monday 3/13: From Hunters Point To E. Palestine Prosecute & Jail Tetra Tech & Norfolk Southern CEOs. indybay.org San Francisco Federal Building | 450 Golden Gate | San Francisco, CA…

WSWS (2023-03-08). Norfolk Southern offers pittance to cover East Palestine, Ohio residents' hotel costs after derailment. wsws.org The move is a fig leaf which will do nothing to alleviate the long-term effects of the disaster on residents, the health effects of which will linger for years.

WSWS (2023-03-08). Two Norfolk Southern rail accidents in four days in Ohio show nothing has been done after East Palestine disaster. wsws.org According to press reports, 46 year-old Louis Shuster was positioned outside of the locomotive when it collided with dump truck at crossing at a Cleveland steel mill.

Global Research News (2023-03-07). Selected Articles: East Palestine's "Containment Dam" Overflows. globalresearch.ca By The makeshift dam designed to prevent toxic water contamination in East Palestine, Ohio following the toxic train derailment, has failed and overflowed. Mainstream media reports that "heavy rain" …

Malik Miah (2023-03-07). United States: Behind the derailment in Ohio — anti-worker deregulation, corporate greed. greenleft.org.au The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, highlighted safety regulation failures, indifference and anti-union bias, writes Malik Miah.

OtherWords (2023-03-07). Before RR Co. Norfolk Southern Poisoned Palestine, Oh., It Poisoned the Ohio Statehouse. juancole.com The company plied state lawmakers with cash and lobbied against common sense rail safety measures. By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org — "The Wreck of the Old 97" is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the company's demand that the engineer speed down a dangerous track to …

Ryan Cristián (2023-03-07). TN "Anti-Trans Bill", Independent E. Palestine Testing Contradicts EPA & The Lab "Leak" Last Resort. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (3/7/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Staff (2023-03-07). Headlines for March 7, 2023. democracynow.org Biden Administration Mulls Return to Detention of Asylum-Seeking Families, Migrants in Tunisia Flee Hate Crimes and Violence Following President's Racist Remarks, Survivors of Forced Labor Under Japanese Occupation Condemn South Korean Compensation Plan, North Korea Warns U.S. Shootdown of Test-Fired Missiles Would Be "Declaration of War", Chinese Leaders Condemn U.S. Policy of "Containment, Encirclement and Suppression", Ukraine Holds Out in Defense of Bakhmut as Both Sides Inflict Heavy Losses, Belarus Sentences Opposition Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 Years for Treason, Do…

splcenter (2023-03-07). 'We Are Moving': SPLC officials join thousands to commemorate Bloody Sunday march. splcenter.org

teleSUR, MER (2023-03-08). Fiscalía de Perú ratifica pedido de prisión contra Pedro Castillo. telesurtv.net El juez supremo Juan Carlos Checkley prevé emitir su decisión el próximo 9 de marzo a las 15H00 (hora local).

Brittani Banks (2023-03-07). Why Student Debt Cancellation Is Reasonable, Not Radical. independentmediainstitute.org "Nobody's telling the person who is trying to set up the lawn service business that he doesn't have to pay his loan," said U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during oral arguments about President Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan. Roberts continued his logic on behalf of this hypothetical lawn service operator, saying, "he …

Chris Walker (2023-03-07). 5 Texas Women Sue State, Saying Abortion Ban Nearly Killed Them. truthout.org Five women in Texas are suing the state over its abortion laws, alleging that they were denied the ability to legally obtain the procedure even when their pregnancies presented a grave risk to their lives. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to upend decades-old federal abortion protections last summer, Texas banned abortion in virtually all circumstances, supposedly making exceptions when a person'… |

ecns.cn (2023-03-07). Chinese people safer as social order improves: report. ecns.cn China effectively curbed serious violent crimes and crimes related to guns, explosives and drugs over the past five years, said a work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

ecns.cn (2023-03-07). Chinese courts to better serve higher-level opening up. ecns.cn Chinese courts will better serve the country's higher-level opening up by building the capacity of foreign-related justice system, a report from the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-03-07). China files more public interest litigation cases to protect environment: report. ecns.cn China has increasingly used public interest litigation to protect the natural environment, according to a work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

ecns.cn (2023-03-07). China to promote high-quality development with rule of law: report. ecns.cn China's procuratorial authorities will fully leverage the rule of law to facilitate high-quality development in 2023, said a work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Heather Gray (2023-03-07). Anne Braden vs. white supremacy: The South's rebel without a pause. peoplesworld.org Anne Braden catapulted into national headlines in mid-1954 when she and her husband, Carl Braden, were indicted for sedition for their leadership in desegregating a Louisville, Ky., suburb. Their purchase of a house in an all-white neighborhood on behalf of African Americans Andrew and Charlotte Wade violated Louisville's color line and provoked violence against both …

teleSUR- hvh, JCM (2023-03-07). Líder supremo iraní condena envenenamiento de estudiantes. telesurtv.net "Si se prueba que los estudiantes fueron envenenados […] eso es un crimen grande e imperdonable", señaló Ali Jamenei.

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