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2022-03-18: News Headlines

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-18). Venezuela to Launch Social Media Platform (+CLAP). orinocotribune.com This Friday, March 18 is the launch date of Venezuela's new social media platform, announced President Nicolás Maduro. He expressed confidence that users around the world will be impressed with the news provided on the digital platform. | The head of state issued the comments during a working meeting about the economy, dedicated to the sixth anniversary of the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP). The CLAP food service provides subsidized food to millions of Venezuelan households. | "Venezuela is going to surprise the world with something that we are going to launch on Friday," Maduro said, speaking abou…

_____ (2022-03-18). EAEU Countries Develop and Strengthen Cooperation. journal-neo.org The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Launched on February 2, 2012, it has become the permanent regulatory body of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The main purpose of the Eurasian Economic Commission is to ensure the conditions for the functioning and development of the EAEU and to draw up …

ecns.cn (2022-03-18). China to continue regular trade, economic cooperation with Russia, Ukraine. ecns.cn China's Commerce Ministry said on Thursday that China would continue trade and economic cooperation with both Russia and Ukraine based on equality, mutual benefit and mutual respect.

ecns.cn (2022-03-18). World's largest trade deal RCEP comes into effect in Malaysia: trade ministry. ecns.cn The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's largest trade deal so far, came into effect in Malaysia from Friday, the trade ministry said in a statement.

WSWS (2022-03-18). Australian police officer found not guilty over fatal shooting of indigenous teenager. wsws.org Kumanjayi Walker's killing by police is an end product of decades of escalating state repression of indigenous communities, government social spending cuts and endemic poverty.

Dickie Haskell (2022-03-18). Awakening Hyperboria, Scythia, and Tartaria the Film. indybay.org We are gathering filmmakers and screen writers to collaborate on the development of a screen play that aims to tell the story of our lost giant ancestors who seemed to have created a world wide grandiose "steampunk esque" civilization. Research Tartaria online and reflect on the old world looking architecture that we have repurposed into our municipal buildings, cathedrals, and factories. Why has the mainstream narrative buried the giants? Meet at 6pm to discuss possible plots for this film that aims to reveal how magical and epic the free etheric energy realm of the Hyperborians may have been. | Thursday March 2…

Labor Video Project (2022-03-18). "Give Us Our Money" SF UESF Teachers Demand Pay & Occupy SFSUD Offices To Get Back Pay. indybay.org Dozens of teachers, members of UESF and supporters rallied at the SFUSD district to demand their back pay. They also had a sleep until they get what is owed them.

ecns.cn (2022-03-18). Chinese company delivers container lab to help Laos' COVID-19 testing. ecns.cn Biotech company MGI Tech delivered a container laboratory to Laos on Thursday, so as to help the country boost its mass COVID-19 testing capacity and prepare for the gradual re-opening of its borders in 2022.

ecns.cn (2022-03-18). Chinese official accuses U.S. of fabricating lies about life in Xinjiang. ecns.cn Yusupjan Memet on Thursday accused anti-China forces in the United States and some other Western countries of fabricating lies and fallacies about the so-called "forced labor".

ecns.cn (2022-03-18). U.S. urged to open up on Ukraine labs. ecns.cn The United States has been urged to act responsibly and clarify matters regarding its global biological-military activities, including at its biological laboratories in Ukraine.

WSWS (2022-03-18). Spain mobilises 23,000 police in bid to crush nationwide truckers strike. wsws.org The truckers have been on an indefinite nationwide strike since Monday, protesting rising fuel prices amid the NATO war drive targeting Russia.

WSWS (2022-03-18). Australia's rising cost of living outpacing official inflation. wsws.org With dramatic price rises forecast over the coming months, essentials, such as food, petrol and housing, are already near record highs.

Nayvin Gordon (2022-03-18). Albert Einstein and the Billionaire Dogs of War. indybay.org Einstein, Today, War and Capitalism…

WorkWeek (2022-03-18). WorkWeek: UESF Teachers Occupy For Back Pay, Covid, Griffin Charter & CNNC Union Busting. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SF UESF Teachers Occupation For Back Pay & Covid Capitalism, Giffin MIT Charter School Teachers Fighting Corruption & Chinese Union Busting at CNNC In Namibia…

Sara Flounders (2022-03-17). U.S. threatens nuclear war or sanctions. workers.org People line up to withdraw U.S. dollars and euros from an ATM in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 25. A seismic shift is sending shock waves through the global economy. The well-established capitalist disorder, dominated by U.S. imperialism and in place since World War II, is on shaky ground. Extreme . . . |

_____ (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…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-17). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…

ecns.cn (2022-03-17). Government pledges measures to boost growth. ecns.cn China pledged a host of measures to boost the economy and stabilize the capital market on Wednesday, restoring market confidence as the economy faces fresh headwinds.

Abdul Rahman (2022-03-17). Push for more regulation and 'quality controls' may further complicate medicine supply in Africa. peoplesdispatch.org The creation of the African Medicines Agency with the objective of maintaining European standards for medicines in the continent may hamper the supply of regular and economical versions of medicines in areas where access is already skewed…

ecns.cn (2022-03-17). China urges U.S. to roll back sanctions on Chinese enterprises. ecns.cn China urges the US to roll back sanctions on Chinese enterprises and stop politicizing economic and trade issues, a spokesperson of the Chinese ministry of commerce said Thursday in response to the Federal Communications Commission's move of revoking the authorization of Pacific Networks and ComNet.

ecns.cn (2022-03-17). Hong Kong's financial systems remain stable amid Fed rate hike, external uncertainties: HKMA. ecns.cn Hong Kong's financial systems and money markets have continued to operate in an orderly and smooth manner, said Eddie Yue, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), on Thursday.

Our Reporter (2022-03-17). Opposition in Parliament, NUP boss petition US department secretary on human rights. plusnews.ug The Opposition in Parliament has petitioned the United States Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, Lisa Petersen on the state of human rights in Uganda. Petersen, the US Ambassador to Uganda Natalie E. Brown and other officials on Thursday held a private meeting at Parliament with the Leader of Opposition, Mathias Mpuuga and …

Elle Taylor (2022-03-17). Starbucks workers in Colorado walk out, demand union, better working conditions. liberationnews.org he walkout was part of a one-day Unfair Labor Practices strike by the workers, who are seeking the union representation of Workers United.

C.J. Polychroniou (2022-03-17). We Need to Build a Labor Movement That's Willing to Break the Law. truthout.org The United States has one of the lowest levels of unionization among developed countries, with less than 11 percent of total workers being members of a union. In Sweden, on the other hand, over 66 of the labor force is unionized; in Belgium,

teleSUR, JDO (2022-03-17). Trabajadores panameños se movilizan por mejoras salariales. telesurtv.net Exigen la rebaja de la canasta básica y servicios vitales, la firma de convenios laborales y otras reivindicaciones.

Berry Craig (2022-03-17). Union members nationwide rally to Kentucky brothers and sisters hit by tornadoes. peoplesworld.org Think "solidarity," that old union byword, is just an empty phrase these days? Think again. Better yet, talk to Tim Morris, executive director of the Greater Louisville Central Labor Council, and to Liles Taylor, Kentucky State AFL-CIO political coordinator. They'll clue you in about scores of union members from coast to coast who have donated …

teleSUR, JDO (2022-03-17). Transportistas de Haití en paro contra secuestros e inseguridad. telesurtv.net Detenida la transportación en el sur del país. Exigen al Estado que proteja a transportistas y pasajeros.

teleSUR, DRL, JDO (2022-03-17). Hallan cuatro fallecidos tras alud en serranía peruana. telesurtv.net El presidente Pedro Castillo anunció la declaración del estado de emergencia tras supervisar las labores de rescate.

teleSUR, DRL, JDO (2022-03-17). Rusia denuncia actividades biológicas de EE.UU. en Ucrania. telesurtv.net Según Moscú, el Departamento de Defensa de EE.UU. estaría implicado en la producción de armas biológicas en Ucrania.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-17). Money bill tells labor enforcement agencies to work against corporate abusers. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The $1.5 trillion federal money bill for the whole government, running at that rate through September 30, gives the National Labor Relations Board and other worker enforcement agencies more cash and often more staff. And as if that wasn't enough to help the feds crackdown on corporate crooks—though lawmakers didn't use those words—the House Appropriations …

WSWS (2022-03-17). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Fuel prices rise due to war in Ukraine triggering workers' protests in Italy, Czech Republic, Turkey, Cyprus and France; South African Clover workers stoppage enters week 16 as gold miners continue stoppage at Sibanye-Stillwater, both face union sabotage; protests in southern Iraq over food prices as cost of sunflower oil and wheat from Ukraine rise due to war…

WSWS (2022-03-17). US Fed targets wage demands as it lifts interest rate. wsws.org The main impetus for the decision was the fear in ruling financial circles that inflation is going to drive a push by workers for higher wages to combat the decline over the past three decades.

ecns.cn (2022-03-17). U.S. Fed raises interest rates to tame 40-year-high inflation. ecns.cn With unprecedented inflation rippling across America and affecting Americans from all walks of life, the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday hiked interests, the first of several likely increases over the next two years.

WSWS (2022-03-17). Turkish doctors, health workers on nationwide strike for wages, safety. wsws.org Amid unprecedented inflation and falls in workers' living standards due to the pandemic and war, Turkish doctors have organized their largest strike ever.

WSWS (2022-03-17). German air force procures US nuclear bombers. wsws.org A few days after the German government announced a tripling of military spending and the biggest rearmament drive since Hitler, the plans are being put into action.

Amy Goodman (2022-03-17). US Peace Activists Must Keep Pressure on Biden to Prevent No-Fly Zone in Ukraine. truthout.org President Biden announced $800 million in new military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, just days after Congress cleared a $1.5 trillion spending bill that included nearly $14 billion for Ukrainian humanitarian aid and security assistance. Experts warn that sending more lethal weapons could escalate war and result in more losses for Ukraine. "The cost on civilian lives is horrific," says Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, who says increasing military aid in Ukraine co…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-17). Mayo Clinic researchers recommend investments in vaccine safety in Nature commentary. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The leaders of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group are emphasizing the need for increased long-term study of vaccines and their mechanisms with future safety of patients in mind. Gregory Poland, M.D., and Richard Kennedy, Ph.D., write in their commentary in the scientific journal Nature Reviews Immunology that greater focus on understanding vaccines' downstream effects, not only on immunity but also on all the other biological systems will provide information that can help make vaccines safer…

Editor2 (2022-03-17). Healthcare for Human Rights, Not Profits: what the US Can Learn from Cuba's Coronavirus Response. orinocotribune.com By Natalia Burdynska-Schuurman — Mar 10, 2022 | Cuba's remarkable response to the Coronavirus pandemic highlights the need for a healthcare system that puts people before profits | For two years now, the Coronavirus pandemic has done irreversible harm to millions in the United States. To date, over 78 million confirmed cases of infection and over 940,000 deaths due to Coronavirus have been

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-03-17). Tuesday 3/22: "How Marxists Think" – Online Reading & Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

Dean Baker (2022-03-17). Biden's Recovery Plan Did Not Cause the Ukraine War or COVID-19 in China. cepr.net Throwing millions out of work, to drive down the wages of tens of millions, is not a clever way to deal with these problems.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-17). Airport security staff across Germany go on strike demanding wage hike. peoplesdispatch.org Security staff at various airports across Germany, under the leadership of the Verdi union, are demanding a general increase in hourly wages along with pay parity in different sectors of work…

Morning Star (2022-03-17). British ferry operator P&O fires 800 workers without notice. peoplesdispatch.org Unions across the UK have slammed "one of the most shameful acts" in British industrial history today as P&O ferries were reportedly evicting staff from vessels in handcuffs after 800 workers were fired without notice. | The unions representing P&O workers, Nautilus International and the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), had instructed their shocked members to remain on board and said many refused to leave their ships in protest after they appeared to have been told about the sudden redundancies on a video call. According to RMT, the company seeks to replace the staff with cheaper agen…

WSWS (2022-03-17). Unifor, Canada's largest industrial union, announces Jerry Dias under investigation just days after he quits as its president. wsws.org That the Unifor executive moved to a secret, independent, external investigation almost immediately after receiving a written complaint against Dias indicates not just that the charges against him are very serious. It suggests they are supported by a large body of evidence and are highly damaging to the union bureaucracy as a whole.

WSWS (2022-03-17). Climate scientist Michael Mills describes the devastation of a nuclear detonation. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site five years ago interviewed Michael Mills, an expert on the dangers of nuclear war. Today we are republishing that interview.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-17). Peruvian President Pedro Castillo rejects latest attacks from opposition. peoplesdispatch.org On March 15, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo went to the Congress to give an address, a day after legislators voted to begin impeachment proceedings against him. In an hour-long speech, after presenting his administration's achievements during his less than eight months in office, and sharing plans for the future, the socialist president categorically rejected the opposition's accusations of alleged corruption. | Castillo strongly denied involvement in corruption or that he favored private interests, and claimed that his government had been targeted by the media and political sectors who seek to mislead the Per…

Manlio Dinucci (2022-03-17). Bombshell: Ukraine: NATO in the Constitution. globalresearch.ca The initiative for having introduced into the Ukrainian Constitution the commitment enter officially into NATO goes to Parliamentary President Andriy Parubiy. Co-founder in 1991 of the Ukrainian National-Socialist Party, on the model of Adolf Hitler's National-Socialist Party.

WSWS (2022-03-17). Sri Lankan workers and youth speak out against US-led war drive and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. wsws.org Workers and youth discussed the roots of the war in Ukraine, its catastrophic consequences, and the international socialist program required to stop it.

_____ (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…

deweylaura (2022-03-17). Dorothy Burnham, civil rights activist. cpusa.org The Amsterdam News published an article on Dorothy Burnham, an African American activist who turns 107 years old on March 22. Dorothy was a long-time member of the Communist Party, which goes unmentioned in the article. Dorothy's radicalism may have begun while a microbiology major at Brooklyn College, when she met students and teachers …

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2022-03-17: News Headlines

Dickie Haskell (2022-03-17). Awakening Hyperboria, Scythia, and Tartaria the Film. indybay.org We are gathering filmmakers and screen writers to collaborate on the development of a screen play that aims to tell the story of our lost giant ancestors who seemed to have created a world wide grandiose "steampunk esque" civilization. Research Tartaria online and reflect on the old world looking architecture that we have repurposed into our municipal buildings, cathedrals, and factories. Why has the mainstream narrative buried the giants? Meet at 6pm to discuss possible plots for this film that aims to reveal how magical and epic the free etheric energy realm of the Hyperborians may have been. | Thursday March 2…

Labor Video Project (2022-03-17). "Give Us Our Money" SF UESF Teachers Demand Pay & Occupy SFSUD Offices To Get Back Pay. indybay.org Dozens of teachers, members of UESF and supporters rallied at the SFUSD district to demand their back pay. They also had a sleep until they get what is owed them.

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-03-17). Tuesday 3/22: "How Marxists Think" – Online Reading & Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

Nayvin Gordon (2022-03-17). ALBERT EINSTEIN AND THE BILLIONAIRE DOGS OF WAR. indybay.org Einstein, Today, War and Capitalism…

_____ (2022-03-16). In Solidarity With Haitian Workers And Migrants. popularresistance.org The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) declares its support for garment workers in Haiti and stands with the Haitian people who, migrating from the country for economic or political reasons, have faced racism, hostility, and terror abroad. We also condemn the neo-colonial political economic policies of the U.S. government, its international allies, and the multinational corporations who have created Haiti's imperial crisis by continuing to undermine the sovereignty and independence of the Haitian people. | Early in the year, garment workers launched protests at the Caracol Industrial Park in Haiti's northeast region.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-16). Tefere Gebre leaves AFL-CIO for Greenpeace. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —Tefere Gebre, the one-time teenage Ethiopian refugee, and the first local central labor council official to attain one of the top three posts at the AFL-CIO, has left the labor federation for a top job at Greenpeace. The federation announced his departure, which occurred at the end of February, in an Executive Council statement …

Dean Baker (2022-03-16). As the Fed Prepares to Raise Rates, the Inflation Hawks are Running Wild. cepr.net With bad news on oil prices, and a new wave of Covid shutdowns in China, the inflation hawks are getting really excited. After all, higher oil prices and further supply disruptions are sure to add to the inflation the economy is already seeing. I guess they were right with their warnings. Okay, let's get back …

The Tricontinental (2022-03-16). Dossier no. 50: The military's return to Brazilian politics. mronline.org Brazil is in danger of becoming a country whose political economy is rooted in militarism, diverting precious social wealth to the military and police as it imposes a military ethic onto public life.

_____ (2022-03-16). Excluded Workers Shut Down Brooklyn And Manhattan Bridges…Again! popularresistance.org New York City – This, hundreds of excluded workers, elected officials, and allies took over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. They raised the heat on the demands for an additional $3 billion for the Excluded Workers Fund in the state budget and the first ever "Excluded Worker Unemployment Program" in the country which would provide compensation to workers who have lost a job or income and are ineligible for unemployment insurance. | More than 130,000 people across New York State had their lives transformed after receiving funding from the Excluded Workers Fund. Yet many New Yorkers were left out due to insuffic…

Rachel Bluth (2022-03-16). Doulas Push Back Against California's Proposal to Pay Them Shockingly Low Rates. truthout.org Sacramento, California — This was supposed to be the year that low-income Californians could hire a doula to guide them through pregnancy and advocate for them in the hospital. | But the new benefit for people enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid health insurance program, has been delayed twice as the state and doulas — nonmedical workers who help parents before, during, and after birth — haggle over how much they should get paid. | The state initially proposed a fla…

WSWS (2022-03-16). Silence in the media and Labour "left" on Assange's extradition danger. wsws.org The Biden administration intends to prosecute Assange for charges under the Espionage Act with a potential sentence of 175 years in prison. This would be served in barbaric conditions, that previous judgements acknowledged could drive him to suicide.

WSWS (2022-03-16). ACAS sides with strike-breaking Coventry Labour council against refuse drivers. wsws.org The decision by the government's Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service has been seized on by the Labour authority to demand an end to a strike it has spent weeks trying to break using scabs.

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-16). Labor Board Finds Starbucks Illegally Retaliated Against Union Organizers. truthout.org For the first time in Starbucks workers' union campaign, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has found that the company has taken illegal moves in its fight against the union, including retaliation against workers for organizing in Phoenix, Arizona. | In response to a petition filed by Starbucks Workers United in January,

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.

JANET (2022-03-16). Russia and China demand investigation into Pentagon-funded 'biolabs' In Ukraine. iacenter.org By Richie Merino March 14, 2022 On March 9, Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova demanded transparency from the United States on its military biological weapons program carried out in Ukraine and funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. (tinyurl.com/yeys4jj9) The Russian military previously claimed to have documentary evidence that Ukrainian authorities have been hastily destroying dangerous evidence of highly pathogenic bacterial and viral agents, which they allegedly kept in laboratories funded by the Pentagon. (tinyurl.com/cj5ar4jx) Stressing that such laboratories were located near t…

teleSUR, JDO (2022-03-16). Profesionales de salud de Haití en paro contra secuestros. telesurtv.net Concluyen este miércoles una huelga de tres días para rechazar la creciente ola de secuestros y la inseguridad.

Fight Back (2022-03-16). Minneapolis teachers and support professionals strike enters week two. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis MN – Teachers and education support professionals at Minneapolis Public Schools began a strike on March 8, shutting down the Minneapolis school system. Today, March 14, the strike continues as the schools remain closed for a second week. | Over the weekend a series of events were held by the striking educators; there we also several actions called by community and labor supporters in the area. | On Saturday, March 12, a car caravan called by the Minnesota Immigrants' Rights Committee (MIRAC) wound its way through Minneapolis streets to end at the Davis Center where the Minneapolis Public Schools off…

WSWS (2022-03-16). Australian mental health workers to take stopwork action. wsws.org The HACSU has called the three-hour stopwork to try to head off the growing anger of poorly-paid mental health workers toward the state Labor government.

Katherine Woolf, Mayuri Gogoi, Christopher A. Martin, Padmasayee Papineni, Susie Lagrata, Laura B. Nellums, I.Chris McManus, Anna L. Guyatt, Carl Melbourne, Luke Bryant, Amit Gupta, Catherine John, Sue Carr, Martin D. Tobin, Sandra Simpson, Bindu Gregary, Avinash Aujayeb, Stephen Zingwe, Rubina Reza, Laura J. Gray, Kamlesh Khunti, Manish Pareek, UK-REACH Study Collaborative Group (2022-03-16). [Articles] Healthcare workers' views on mandatory SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in the UK: A cross-sectional, mixed-methods analysis from the UK-REACH study. thelancet.com Only one in six of the HCWs in this large, diverse, UK-wide sample favoured mandatory vaccination. Building trust, educating, and supporting HCWs who are hesitant about vaccination may be more acceptable, effective, and equitable.

Staff (2022-03-16). Chevron Asks US Government for License to Expand Operations in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The United States might be set to authorize increased production for Chevron in Venezuela as a result of its ban on oil imports from Russia and the subsequent increase in fuel prices. | According to an article published by the news agency Chevron has started putting a team t…

Ahmed Abdulkareem (2022-03-16). Yemen Retaliates Against Deadly Fuel Blockade by Targeting Saudi Oil. mintpressnews.com Ansar Allah is hoping to exploit rising oil prices by targeting Saudi oil infrastructure and driving up the price of crude oil in a bid to punish the United States for its support of the Saudi-led war.

ecns.cn (2022-03-16). China's home prices slightly up in February. ecns.cn China continued to see a generally stable housing market in February, with home prices in 70 major cities showing slight month-on-month increases, official data showed Wednesday.

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-16). Biden Calls Out Oil and Gas Companies as Oil Prices Drop But Gas Remains High. truthout.org As crude oil prices are dropping, President Joe Biden is demanding that gas prices be lowered to ease the impact on the public. | On Wednesday, Biden tweeted a chart showing the current discrepancy between oil price and gas price trends. "Oil prices are decreasing, gas prices should too,"

WSWS (2022-03-16). Nickel crisis points to fragility of global finance. wsws.org Major banks, led by JPMorgan Chase, struck a deal not to pursue margin calls on the Chinese metals group Tsingshan lest this provoked a wider financial crisis.

Ann Brown (2022-03-16). WSJ Poll: Black Support For Democrats Is Collapsing, Inflation Causing Financial Strain. moguldom.com Black voters are losing their longstanding faith in the Democrats because of rising inflation, which hit its highest level in four decades. A new poll conducted by The Wall Street Journal found that Black women and Hispanic men had the highest levels of inflation worry among demographic groups. Nonwhite voters are more likely than white …

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, …

Lindsay Koshgarian (2022-03-16). Our Military Budget Is More Lopsided Than Ever. otherwords.org Congress recently announced a bipartisan budget deal to fund the federal government through 2022. It's a lopsided budget if there ever was one. | Even after America's longest war in Afghanistan ended last year, military spending isn't going down. In fact, it's skyrocketing upwards — from $740 billion in the last budget set under Trump to $782 billion in this deal. | The same new budget offers just $730 billion to meet urgent domestic needs at home. | That means that even during a pandemic, supply chain crisis, and painful inflation, we'll put more resources into the military and war than public health, educ…

JANET (2022-03-16). The ominous omnibus: Pentagon wins, workers lose. iacenter.org March 15, 2022 A $1.5 trillion "omnibus" spending bill, which President Joe Biden is expected to sign, passed the House and Senate March 10. Over half the money in the Consolidated Appropriations Act — $782 billion, a $42 billion increase over fiscal 2021 — is going for Pentagon spending. Of course NATO, the Pentagon's proxy in Europe, gets a piece of the pie. On top of that, $13.6 billion is slated to go to Ukraine — and not only for the propagandistic weapons of food and other "humanitarian" assistance. The U.S. is providing "assistance to the security forces." Moreover, almost $7 billion is s…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-16). Mayo Clinic researchers recommend investments in vaccine safety in Nature commentary. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The leaders of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group are emphasizing the need for increased long-term study of vaccines and their mechanisms with future safety of patients in mind. Gregory Poland, M.D., and Richard Kennedy, Ph.D., write in their commentary in the scientific journal Nature Reviews Immunology that greater focus on understanding vaccines' downstream effects, not only on immunity but also on all the other biological systems will provide information that can help make vaccines safer…

Larry Holmes (2022-03-16). Comrades, especially in the U.S., we need to seriously talk about what's going on in the working class. workers.org By Larry Holmes "In the absence of organization, working people do not constitute a class but rather an incoherent mass, scattered over the whole country and broken up by their mutual competition." — Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto Milwaukee Starbucks workers show support for a union. . . . |

Matt Sedlar (2022-03-16). CORRECTION: The Productivity Adjusted Minimum Wage Would Be $21.50 in 2020 and $23 in 2021. cepr.net This post contains corrections to three minimum wage articles published in January 2020, July 2020, and August 2020.

_____ (2022-03-16). For The First Time In 50 Years, Minneapolis Teachers Are Out On Strike. popularresistance.org On March 8, around 3,500 Minneapolis teachers and educational support professionals went out on strike, effectively shutting down a system of 35,000 students. The action, led by Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) Local 59, is the first walkout the city has seen in over 50 years. | Educators are demanding caps to class sizes, higher wages and more mental health support for students. While the school district is claiming a budget shortfall, union advocates have pointed to the state's record $9.3 billion surplus as a potential untapped resource. | We sat down with Beth Dill, a 5th grade teacher at Whittier Int…

Margaret Kimberley (2022-03-16). In Praise of 'Whataboutism'. orinocotribune.com By Margaret Kimberley — Mar 9, 2022 | The word "whataboutism" is used to silence and insult opponents of U.S. imperialism. It should be embraced as a means of revealing what is too often kept hidden. | Anyone who speaks out against imperialism, capitalism, or racism with concrete examples of the terrible harm they do, can expect to be charged with the dreaded term "whataboutism." Like clockwork, the act of revealing American crimes will result in an accusation that is used to silence dissent. | When war propaganda prevails regarding Ukraine or any other place where the hegemon is doing its dirty work, it is…

_____ (2022-03-16). Court Rules New York Illegally Took Mohawk Land In 1800s. popularresistance.org Akwesasne Territory — The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council is pleased to report that the decades-long dispute over the reservation boundary has been decided upon by the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. In a summary judgment ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Lawrence Kahn on Enniskó: wa/March 14, 2022, the court ruled that New York State's purchase of reservation lands in the 1800s violated the federal Non-Intercourse Act. | "To say that we are pleased is an understatement," shared Tribal Chief Beverly Cook. Chief Cook added, "We should all be proud of the perseverance t…

Tanya Wadhwa (2022-03-16). New president Gabriel Boric says Chile will be 'neoliberalism's grave'. peoplesworld.org SANTIAGO—Gabriel Boric of the left-wing Approve Dignity coalition was sworn in as the president of Chile on March 11. The 36-year-old Boric became the youngest president in the country's history, after winning the presidential run-off in December 2021. During the investiture held at the Hall of Honor of the National Congress, in the city of …

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 …

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2022-03-16: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2022-03-16). "Give Us Our Money" SF UESF Teachers Demand Pay & Occupy SFSUD Offices To Get Back Pay. indybay.org Dozens of teachers, members of UESF and supporters rallied at the SFUSD district to demand their back pay. They also had a sleep until they get what is owed them.

Editor (2022-03-16). The ominous omnibus: Pentagon wins, workers lose. workers.org A $1.5 trillion "omnibus" spending bill, which President Joe Biden is expected to sign, passed the House and Senate March 10. Over half the money in the Consolidated Appropriations Act — $782 billion, a $42 billion increase over fiscal 2021 — is going for Pentagon spending. Of course NATO, the . . . |

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-03-16). Tuesday 3/22: "How Marxists Think" – Online Reading & Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

Nayvin Gordon (2022-03-16). ALBERT EINSTEIN AND THE BILLIONAIRE DOGS OF WAR. indybay.org Einstein, Today, War and Capitalism…

_____ (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…

WSWS (2022-03-15). US threatens trade embargo as fighting continues to escalate, sanctions devastate Russian economy. wsws.org Announcing a further escalation of economic warfare against Russia, the US deputy treasury secretary threatened that the US was considering a full trade embargo on Russia and the closure of international waterways to the country.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-15). Bolivia: Wheat and Fuel Sources Remain Secure. libya360.wordpress.com Bolivia: State to Guarantee Provision of Wheat Bolivian bakers will be able to continue producing bread at a stable price for the coming year amid a worldwide wheat supply shortage. The Minister of Productive Development and Plural Economy, Néstor Huanca, informed on Sunday that the Food Production Support Company (EMAPA) has stockpiled a volume of…

ecns.cn (2022-03-15). China's central SOEs see steady revenue, profit growth in first 2 months. ecns.cn China's centrally administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) reported steady revenue and profit growth in the first two months of 2022, according to the country's top state asset regulator.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-15). Venezuela Defines Conditions for Sale of Oil to US. orinocotribune.com The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela maintained its willingness to resume its oil trade with countries such as the United States, and even those that belong to the European Union, but it has clearly outlined the diplomatic and political conditions necessary for any exchange to take place. | Venezuela's position was reiterated by its Minister for Foreign Affairs, Félix Plasencia, within the framework of the Antalya Diplomatic Forum, in the Republic of Turkey. This international meeting of diplomats coincides with the energy crisis facing North America and Europe, due to the economic blockade they…

ecns.cn (2022-03-15). Chinese vaccines save lives, drive economic recovery in Cambodia. ecns.cn Chinese COVID-19 vaccines have not only protected lives and stabilized the health system, but also helped boost economic recovery in Cambodia, officials and experts said here on Tuesday.

Hedelberto López Blanch (2022-03-15). Occidente impulsa la alianza económica ruso-china. globalizacion.ca La obsesiva política de extorsiones económicas-financieras lanzadas por Washington y sus aliados contra Rusia, tras esta nación realizar una operación especial en Ucrania para detener el avance de la OTAN hacia sus fronteras, ha provocado que se fortalezca aún más…

ecns.cn (2022-03-15). China's industrial output up 7.5 pct in first two months. ecns.cn China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, went up 7.5 percent year on year in the first two months of this year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Tuesday.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-15). Say Hello to Russian Gold and Chinese Petroyuan. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar Russia says half its gold assets were frozen — is this for real or a slick play by Moscow? Photo Credit: The Cradle The Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions. It was a long time coming,…

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…

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-03-15). Ardebil Bazaar ahead of Nowruz. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 15 (MNA) — In recent days leading to Nowruz, the markets and bazaars in Ardebil in northwestern Iran are filled with people who are buying new clothes and items needed in preparation for celebrating the new year.

WSWS (2022-03-15). Ford Motor Company severs EVs from traditional business, threatening massive job cuts and poverty wages. wsws.org Ford will invest $30 billion in EVs, a huge infusion which will likely not result in profits for years, paid for by cutting its internal combustion business to the bone.

Joris Leverink (2022-03-15). Women and labor: key struggles in the MENA region. roarmag.org Woman holding signs against gender violence at a protest to denounce violence against women in Tunis, Tunisia. November 30, 2019. Photo: Mohamed Krit / Shutterstock. | This essay is published in collaboration with Public Services International | | How do women and gender equality measures advance in a context of conflict, climate change, high unemployment, low labor force participation, limited democratization and a pandemic? These are challenges facing the Arab region as many citizens, women's rights organizations, some governments and external…

Dana Sanchez (2022-03-15). Moody's Analytics: Inflation Is Costing Average U.S. Household $300 A Month. moguldom.com U.S. households are spending $296 more a month compared to a year ago, and low-income households are feeling it worse than others. Consumer prices rose 7.9 percent in February, year over year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. As inflation keeps rising, household costs will keep rising, according to a February report from economists at Moody's Analytics. …

Kevin Mwanza (2022-03-15). Long Covid Researcher: Getting Covid Has Long-Term Implications, Risk Of Early Dementia, Stroke, Cognitive Impairment. moguldom.com Getting covid-19 has implications for long-term illness that is making employees stay away from work, and could cause other complications including dementia, stroke, and cognitive impairment, according to research. About a quarter of employers in a U.K. study said that the effects of long covid have exacerbated the labor shortage. The world marked two years …

WSWS (2022-03-15). Australia: No charges for deadly explosion at Anglo American's Grosvenor mine. wsws.org The Queensland Labor government's Workplace Health and Safety Prosecutor has confirmed no charge will be laid against Anglo American over the Grosvenor mine disaster.

Brittani Banks (2022-03-15). How Trade Union Workers Are Joining to Support Ukraine. independentmediainstitute.org Terry Bohuslawsky spoke Ukrainian before he ever learned English, attended Ukrainian schools in Cleveland and, along with his classmates, looked forward each year to decorating the elaborate Easter eggs known as pysanky. Bohuslawsky, whose parents emigrated from Ukraine, continued to honor his heritage in adulthood. He worked with others to preserve the culture at home …

Staff (2022-03-15). Encuentran el cuerpo sin vida del niño desaparecido en Los Palacios. cubadebate.cu Desde horas de la tarde de ayer, Fuerzas del Cuerpo de Bomberos en Pinar del Río, que realizaban junto al MININT, vecinos del lugar y las autoridades del Partido y el Gobierno del municipio de Los Palacios realizaban labores de búsqueda del menor Yadiel González Macias, de 11 años de edad. Fue encontrado el cadáver del infante a 12 metros de la orilla.

deweylaura (2022-03-15). Helen Winter, CPUSA leader, labor and peace activist. cpusa.org In 1908, as the first decade of the 20th century was coming to a close, Helen Winter was born in Seattle, Washington. Her parents, Alfred Wagenknecht and Hortense Allison, as leaders of the Washington State Socialist Party, no doubt hoped that their daughters would grow up to understand and fully participate in the ongoing …

jamanetwork (2022-03-15). Addition of Nonauthor Collaborator Names for the HiFLo-Covid Investigators. jamanetwork.com The Original Investigation titled "Effect of High-Flow Oxygen Therapy vs Conventional Oxygen Therapy on Invasive Mechanical Ventilation and Clinical Recovery in Patients With Severe COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial," published in the December 7, 2021, issue of JAMA, has been updated to include the nonauthor collaborator (group) names in a supplement. This article was corrected online.

Shriya Singh (2022-03-15). Pakistan's Imran Khan govt. struggles with political crisis and IMF negotiations amid mass discontent. peoplesdispatch.org The Pakistani government's discussions with the IMF have hit a roadblock after it reduced fuel prices and announced a tax amnesty. Meanwhile, opposition parties have called for a no-confidence motion…

WSWS (2022-03-15). Spanish truckers mount nationwide strike against rising fuel prices. wsws.org As strikes spread in Italy, Morocco and beyond, an international movement is emerging against the rise in prices now accelerated by NATO-EU sanctions against Russia.

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…

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…

ecns.cn (2022-03-15). China's fixed-asset investment up 12.2 pct in first two months. ecns.cn China's fixed-asset investment went up 12.2 percent year on year in the first two months of the year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Tuesday.

Editor (2022-03-15). Crimean War wasn't "collective security" mronline.org Eric Lee's latest column (2 March) contains the occasionally repeated claim that Marx supported the Anglo-French forces in the Crimean War (1853-6).

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-03-15). US announces sanctions against 11 Russian defense officials. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 15 (MNA) — The US announced the imposition of sanctions again 11 high-ranking representatives of the Russian forces and military-industrial complex Monday.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-15). Germany to purchase 35 nuclear-capable F-35s. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Associated PressMarch 14, 2022 Germany to buy US-made F-35s to replace aging bombers Germany said Monday that it will replace some of its aging Tornado bomber jets with U.S.-made F-35A Lightning II aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Announcing the decision, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said Germany also will upgrade its Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets …

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.

WSWS (2022-03-15). Nuclear expert speaks on the dangers of war between the US and Russia. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site five years ago interviewed Greg Mello, an expert on the dangers of nuclear war. Today we are republishing that interview.

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2022-03-15: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2022-03-15). "Give Us Our Money" SF UESF Teachers Demand Pay & Occupy SFSUD Offices To Get Back Pay. indybay.org Dozens of teachers, members of UESF and supporters rallied at the SFUSD district to demand their back pay. They also had a sleep until they get what is owed them.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-15). Mayo Clinic researchers recommend investments in vaccine safety in Nature commentary. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The leaders of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group are emphasizing the need for increased long-term study of vaccines and their mechanisms with future safety of patients in mind. Gregory Poland, M.D., and Richard Kennedy, Ph.D., write in their commentary in the scientific journal Nature Reviews Immunology that greater focus on understanding vaccines' downstream effects, not only on immunity but also on all the other biological systems will provide information that can help make vaccines safer…

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-03-15). Tuesday 3/22: "How Marxists Think" – Online Reading & Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

Nayvin Gordon (2022-03-15). ALBERT EINSTEIN AND THE BILLIONAIRE DOGS OF WAR. indybay.org Einstein, Today, War and Capitalism…

Vijay Prashad (2022-03-14). The life of a great Marxist: Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022). mronline.org Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) died at home on March 9, surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends.

Ali Abunimah (2022-03-14). Carrefour joins forces with Israeli settlement profiteers. electronicintifada.net EU seeks more "opportunities for cooperation" with apartheid regime.

Victoria Torres (2022-03-14). TAP Returns: Portuguese Airline Resumes Caracas-Lisbon Route. orinocotribune.com Through a post on its official Twitter account, the Portuguese airline TAP Air Portugal announced this Friday, March 11, that it will resume flights to Venezuela soon. | The Lisbon-Caracas route will officially resume on June 21, with two weekly flights (Tuesdays and Saturdays), on an Airbus A330neo aircraft, which has a capacity of 34 passengers in Business Class, 96 in Economy Extra and 168 in Economy Class. | The website of the Portuguese airline also reported that it has three additional flights scheduled to Lisbon for April 21 and May 5 and 16. In addition, they informed that regular service will operate on…

Moderator (2022-03-14). Hedges: Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death. scheerpost.com "Raft of Doom" / Illustration by Mr. Fish | By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | 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…

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-14). Billionaires Have Gotten $1.7 Trillion Richer Over the Pandemic, Report Finds. truthout.org American billionaires have accumulated an enormous amount of wealth during the pandemic as the rest of the public has suffered due to an unstable economy, a new analysis shows. | In an analysis released last week, Americans for Tax Fairness

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-03-14). Iran's economy records 4.1% growth in 1st 9 months: CBI. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 14 (MNA) — Iran's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) witnessed a growth of 4.1% and 3.4% without oil in the first 9 months of the current Iranian calendar year of 1400 (from March 21, 2021 to Dec. 21, 2021), the Iranian Central Bank said Mon.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-14). Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth. transcend.org 1 Mar 2022 – From Sep-Nov 2021, overlapping with the UN Climate Change Conference, three major developments in global finance marked a turning point in the financial expropriation of the earth and a shift in the economic paradigm to unlimited accumulation of total capital, which is now seen as including "natural capital."

Staff (2022-03-14). Russian Ambassador in Caracas: Russia in Favor of Caracas-Washington Rapprochement. orinocotribune.com The Russian ambassador to Venezuela, Sergey Mélik-Bagdasárov, considered that the recent visit to Caracas by a delegation from Washington to meet with the government of President Nicolás Maduro "is a sign that they have recognized their mistaken policies towards Venezuela." | For the Russian diplomat, economic and political measures against the Russian Federation have only one objective, which is to uphold the hegemony of the United States government in the world. | During the TV show Here with Ernesto Villegas hosted by the Minister for Culture broadcasted by Venezolana Television, Ambassador Mélik-Bagdasárov sa…

Johanna Kichton (2022-03-14). 120+ Progressive Groups Urge Schumer to Finish the Job and Pass Biden's Agenda on Climate, Care, and Economic Justice. peoplesaction.org In New Letter, Groups Call on Schumer to Whip Caucus and Bring Package to a Vote in April Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action, the Working Families Party, Indivisible, and the Center for Popular Democracy Action today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Schumer urging him to resume negotiations, hold hearings, and …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-14). 43 years later, Grenada's New Jewel Movement and Maurice Bishop continue to inspire. peoplesdispatch.org The legacy of the New Jewel Movement and Maurice Bishop is still an inspiration for millions of people across the world who imagine a world free from oppression, poverty and imperialism.

WSWS (2022-03-14). New Zealand government expedites law to ramp up Russian sanctions. wsws.org Under intensifying international and domestic pressure, the Labour government has passed a law under urgency enabling it to ramp up its sanctions against Russia.

WSWS (2022-03-14). Oppose the New Zealand government's criminal policy of mass infection. The working class must fight to eliminate COVID-19! wsws.org The Labour Party-led government has allowed COVID to spread across the country, leading to one of the highest infection rates in the world. Only the intervention of the working class can stop the virus and save lives.

Staff (2022-03-14). Cuba reporta 620 nuevos casos positivos a la COVID-19 y 453 altas médicas. cubadebate.cu Cuba confirmó al cierre de este domingo 620 casos positivos a la COVID-19, ningún fallecido y 453 altas médicas, informó en su reporte habitual el Ministerio de Salud Pública (Minsap). En la jornada de ayer se procesaron 10 654 muestras en los laboratorios de biología molecular del país.

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-14). Starbucks Union Files Complaint Saying Company Is Cutting Hours to Union Bust. truthout.org The union representing Starbucks workers across the country has filed a complaint with the federal labor board, saying that the company has been In the unfair labor practice charge, Starbucks Workers United says that in cutting hours, the company is financially punishing organizers or pr…

_____ (2022-03-14). UK and US Jointly Develop Biological Weapons. journal-neo.org Documentary evidence of Washington's aggressive plans for developing and manufacturing biological weapons in secret US biological laboratories in Ukraine, banned by international conventions, has been uncovered during the Russian special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine, and it is frankly horrifying! Although suspicions of such US activities have already been repeatedly published by many media …

_____ (2022-03-14). Why The World Needs Eco-Socialism. popularresistance.org Climate change affects everyone, but it does not affect everyone the same way. It hammers a capitalist world rampant with inequality and exploitation. This is the case because capitalism neither exploits nor develops evenly. Some nation-states are centers for accumulating wealth and development. Some nation-states are peripheries, and are underdeveloped. | Development and underdevelopment are two sides of the same process: accumulation on a world scale. Climate change, in turn, is a human-made process, a product and accelerator of uneven accumulation. Because it is human-made, some states (as well as some within…

Ann Brown (2022-03-14). As Democrats Call For Gas Sacrifice Over Ukraine, Some Los Angeles Gas Stations Are Already Over $7 A Gallon. moguldom.com Are you paying more than $7 a gallon for gasoline? That's what some drivers are paying in Los Angeles, where driving is a necessity. Democrats and the Joe Biden administration are calling for U.S. citizens to make a sacrifice by paying high gas prices due to sanctions leveled against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. …

SF015 (2022-03-14). Ways to Protect Your Data Privacy. southfront.org The data an individual creates and stores on their devices and systems that they use is the most valuable thing there is. Although applications and operating systems can be reinstalled, user-created data is one-of-a-kind. If it is misplaced or seen without permission, the consequences can be disastrous. Want to find out how to protect your data privacy? Then carry on reading. | Overall, the network of a firm may hold documents containing trade secrets, private details about employees or clients, or financial records. A person's social security number, credit card details, and bank details may be exposed through a…

WSWS (2022-03-14). International Monetary Fund calls for drastic austerity measures in Sri Lanka. wsws.org The IMF's report came two weeks after the Financial Times published an editorial warning that Sri Lanka and Zambia were the most vulnerable of the world's most heavily-indebted emerging economies.

Staff (2022-03-14). EU plans to tighten sanctions on Russian oil companies. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 14 (MNA) — The EU plans to impose sanctions against Russian oil giants Rosneft , Transneft and Gazprom Neft and block investments in fuel production, media have reported on Monday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-14). China's FDI inflow up 37.9% in Jan-Feb. ecns.cn Foreign direct investment into the Chinese mainland, in terms of actual use, rose 37.9 percent year-on-year to 243.7 billion yuan in the first two months of 2022, the Ministry of Commerce said Monday.

_____ (2022-03-14). A Climate Wake-Up Call For The Chemical Industry. popularresistance.org In 2017, the Trump administration sided with industry lobbyists and rescinded safety rules governing thousands of chemical plants across America. Five years later — after multiple chemical plant explosions in the Houston area — government investigators are telling lawmakers that a lack of federal regulation is heightening the risk of chemical disasters during climate change-related extreme weather events at thousands of facilities nationwide. | President Joe Biden's administration is considering issuing a new rule regulating such facilities — but not until next summer. Chemical companies and ind…

teleSUR, NA, JGN (2022-03-14). Cinco ideas de Karl Marx que siguen vigentes. telesurtv.net Desde la ley de la plusvalía hasta la alienación en el trabajo son hitos de la obra marxista que han persistido a lo largo del tiempo. Marx nació el 5 de mayo de 1818 y falleció el 14 de marzo de 1883.

WSWS (2022-03-14). Expand the Minneapolis educators strike! Mobilize the working class for higher wages and against war and the pandemic! wsws.org The walkout in Minneapolis, the most significant development in the class struggle in the United States currently underway, raises issues of crucial importance for workers everywhere.

Editor (2022-03-14). The enduring importance of Eric Williams' "Capitalism and Slavery" mronline.org First published in 1944, 'Capitalism and Slavery' is an investigation of the notorious relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the emergence of European industrial capitalism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Staff (2022-03-14). Servicios a edificios, de alojamiento y belleza: Nueva convocatoria para creación de mipymes y cooperativas en Cuba. cubadebate.cu El Ministerio de Economía y Planificación anunció sobre una nueva convocatoria para la presentación de solicitudes de creación de mipymes y cooperativas para actividades relacionadas con el alojamiento, servicios de belleza y servicios a edificios (incluye limpieza general de edificios e instalaciones industriales, así como servicios de paisajismo).

Liberation Staff (2022-03-14). Why we should oppose a 'no-fly zone' over Ukraine (downloadable brochure for mass distribution). liberationnews.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation is distributing this brochure across the country to combat the pro-war frenzy being promoted by the media and ruling class politicians…

_____ (2022-03-14). Western Rush To Ban Everything Russian Smacks Of Totalitarianism. popularresistance.org Western Russophobic hysteria is now in full force. German political culture, heir of the most totalitarian system the world has ever known, has led to the recent firing of a Russian orchestra conductor who refused to condemn Moscow's military actions in Ukraine, and Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko. | As a German Jewish activist friend recently told me, this incident is not totally unrelated to the firing of German Jewish musicians in 1933 as well as German Christian musicians for refusing to support National Socialism, and that was before the 1935 Nuremberg Laws. | And a few weeks ago, Germany's state-owned De…

Liberation Staff (2022-03-14). Why we should oppose a "no-fly zone" over Ukraine (downloadable pamphlet). liberationnews.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation is distributing this pamphlet across the country to combat the pro-war frenzy being promoted by the media and ruling class politicians…

Staff (2022-03-14). La Industria 4.0 y el socialismo. cubadebate.cu Las formas concretas de gestión cambian, pero el protagonismo de las empresas estatales socialistas no debe cambiar. En el contexto empresarial cubano tenemos hoy más herramientas que las que teníamos en los años 80s. Crear un contexto jurídico facilitador es condición necesaria (y se está haciendo), pero no es condición suficiente. Nuevas empresas tendrán que surgir, tecnológicamente diversas, y cada una tendrá que diseñar su camino hacia la rentabilidad.

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2022-03-14: News Headlines

Vijay Prashad (2022-03-14). Understanding the War in Ukraine. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Mar 9, 2022 | The war between Russia and Ukraine began much before February 24, 2022—the date provided by the Ukrainian government, NATO and the United States for the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to Dmitry Kovalevich, a journalist and a member of a now-banned communist organization in Ukraine, the war actually started in the spring of 2014 and has never stopped since. | He writes to me from the south of Kyiv/Kiev, Ukraine, and recounts an anecdote: "What's there at the front line?" asks one person. "Our troops are winning as usual!" comes the response. "Wh…

Ali Abunimah (2022-03-14). Carrefour joins forces with Israeli settlement profiteers. electronicintifada.net EU seeks more "opportunities for cooperation" with apartheid regime.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-14). Mayo Clinic researchers recommend investments in vaccine safety in Nature commentary. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The leaders of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group are emphasizing the need for increased long-term study of vaccines and their mechanisms with future safety of patients in mind. Gregory Poland, M.D., and Richard Kennedy, Ph.D., write in their commentary in the scientific journal Nature Reviews Immunology that greater focus on understanding vaccines' downstream effects, not only on immunity but also on all the other biological systems will provide information that can help make vaccines safer…

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-03-14). Tuesday 3/22: "How Marxists Think" – Online Reading & Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-13). Ukraine: It Was All Written in the Rand Corp Plan. libya360.wordpress.com Manlio Dinucci The strategic plan of the United States against Russia was elaborated three years ago by the Rand Corporation (The Manifesto, Rand Corp: how to bring down Russia, May 21, 2019). The Rand Corporation, headquartered in Washington, DC, is "a global research organization developing solutions to policy challenges": it has an army of 1,800…

_____ (2022-03-13). Congress Screws American Workers To Escalate War On Russia. popularresistance.org On March 8, as the Russian military operation inside Ukraine expanded, President Joseph Biden announced a total ban on Russian oil to the United States, sending oil prices to record highs. "Today I am announcing that the United States is targeting the main artery of the Russian economy. We're banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy. That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at US ports and the Americans will deal another powerful blow to Putin's war machine." | Following Biden's announcement, his allies in the media spread the message that higher gas and food prices and rising inflation wa…

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). Experts say innovation helps stabilize economy. ecns.cn China is committed to pursuing innovation-driven growth and accelerating its industrial upgrade this year amid multiple pressures and uncertainties, as high-quality development will remain a key to China's future, officials and experts said on Friday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). China provides 20 billion yuan in subsidies to grain planters. ecns.cn China has provided 20 billion yuan (about 3.16 billion U.S. dollars) from the central government budget to protect grain planters from rising prices of farming supplies, the Ministry of Finance said Friday.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-13). Very bright perspective seen in Iran-Uzbekistan trade ties. en.mehrnews.com Referring to significant increase in relations between Iran and Uzbekistan, Iranian Ambassador to Republic of Uzbekistan said that bright future can be seen at all political, economic and cultural levels between two countries.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-13). Bulgaria eyes broadening bilateral trade with Iran: envoy. en.mehrnews.com Ambassador of Bulgaria to Iran Nikolina Kuneva announced her country's readiness to form a joint economic commission and increase the level of trade and economic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

_____ (2022-03-13). Why Falling Hate Group Numbers Don't Necessarily Mean Less Hate. popularresistance.org Though 2021 started with a deadly siege on the United States Capitol by hundreds of far-right rioters trying to overturn the presidential election results, the number of hate and anti-government groups in the U.S. declined last year for the third year in a row, according to a report released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. | The SPLC counted a total of 733 hate groups last year, significantly lower than the 2018 peak of 1,021. It found that the number of anti-government groups also fell, from 566 in 2020 to 488 in 2021. | But SPLC says that doesn't necessarily mean there's les…

_____ (2022-03-13). Student-Community-Labor Coalition Grows In New York City. popularresistance.org A growing student-community-labor coalition held a large rally March 6 on demands related to New York City educational institutions. After gathering at Brooklyn Borough Hall, participants marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Foley Square in Manhattan. | Key organizers of the rally and the coalition were the Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (American Federation of Teachers Local 2334), United University Professions (AFT Local 2190) and CUNY Rising Alliance, a coalition of 30-plus student, worker and community organizations "fighting for free and high-quality CUNY." | About 600 people heard Ja…

_____ (2022-03-13). States With Temporary Budget Surpluses Should Invest In People. popularresistance.org Policymakers in at least 14 states are using temporary budget surpluses to call for costly and permanent tax cuts targeted more to wealthy people and profitable corporations than to those who need help. That's a bad choice. States should be careful to protect their long-term ability to provide funding for high-quality schools, access to affordable health care, and other public services, which these tax cuts would badly erode. Instead of permanent tax cuts, states should use the surpluses for needed one-time supports for people and businesses or to seed longer-term investments, especially those targeted to the com…

Helen Flannery (2022-03-13). Russian and US Oligarchs Funnel Money to Charity for Personal and Political Gain. truthout.org Russian oligarchs close to President Vladimir Putin are facing renewed scrutiny and sanctions. These oligarchs have shifted trillions of wealth out of their mother country to offshore tax havens, with holdings in U.K. and U.S. real estate and other investments. But they are also funneling millions into U.S. charities. | Russian oligarch donations, whether intentional or not, cast a rosier glow on the oligarchs' own reputations; keep them connected to powerful Americans even when their com…

Staff (2022-03-13). Subsidized Gasoline Service Stations Will Not be Eliminated, Assure Venezuelan Authorities. orinocotribune.com William Rodríguez, the president of the Hydrocarbons Subcommittee of the Energy and Petroleum Commission of the National Assembly of Venezuela, ruled out the elimination of the gas service stations that sell gasoline at subsidized prices in Venezuela. | Rodríguez told Union Radio Network, "What has happened is that about 100 service stations nationwide shifted from a subsidized price set in bolívars to a price in dollars, but the vast majority of gas stations will continue to operate with subsidized gasoline." | However, Rodríguez did acknowledge that, according to complaints filed by deputies of the Energy and P…

Catherine Atim (2022-03-13). Hiking commodity prices: MP Najjuma wants taxes waived on some goods. plusnews.ug As Ugandans continue raising concern over the high costs of essential household commodities in the country, Nakaseke District MP Sarah Najjuma has implored government to waive taxes on raw materials for manufacturing such goods. For a couple of weeks now, Uganda is experiencing rising prices of fuel, soap, cooking oil, sugar and other commodities. Some …

Editor (2022-03-13). Corporations Are Shamelessly Using Inflation as a Cover. scheerpost.com [ By If you've been slammed lately by higher prices on everything from groceries to rental cars and gas prices, you're probably wondering what on earth is behind these skyrocketing costs. | Corporations are quick to blame this new reality on the pandemic, but another major culprit is hiding in plain sight: their own profiteering. | Four times a year, corpor…

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). Employment, education high on government agenda this year. ecns.cn Employment, education and healthcare are high on the agenda this year so that people's livelihoods can be continuously improved, according to Premier Li Keqiang.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-13). Alexander Ionov, President of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia Live with Omali Yeshitila. libya360.wordpress.com Alexander Ionov, President of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia is LIVE on this week's #OmaliTaughtMe Sunday study. Hear more about the Russia/Ukraine war straight from the people of Russia. He joins Chairman Omali Yeshitela, African Socialist International (ASI) Secretary General Luwezi Kinshasa and APSP-Africa Regional Director Tafarie Mugeri to sum up the situation. apspuhuru.org Also…

_____ (2022-03-13). Abolitionist Efforts To Trangress The Prison Walls. popularresistance.org Incarcerated radical intellectuals elucidate the nature of political struggle and its various arenas. Alongside these writers are solidarity groups that propagate their writings and intellectual products. Through a close reading of Black Communist trans prisoner Alyssa V. Hope's legal efforts and writings, this article unearths how a pen-pal relationship transformed into a comprehensive abolitionist community. This case study provides an example of how abolitionists are grappling with the need to support the material needs of marginalized communities while still building otherwise possible worlds separate from a…

Ramona Wadi (2022-03-13). Palestinian Refugee Families expelled from Israel can't Come Home, but 100K Ukrainians Admitted. juancole.com By Ramona Wadi | — ( Middle East Monitor )- Once again, Israel feels entitled to play the humanitarian card, with only Palestinians pointing out its selectivity when it comes to opening its doors to refugees. In February, The Jerusalem Post reported that 10,000 Jewish Ukrainian refugees would be entering Israel. The move was confirmed …

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2022-03-13: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). Foreign companies show confidence in Chinese market. ecns.cn Despite the protracted pandemic and increasingly complex global environment, foreign companies are casting a vote of confidence in the Chinese economy as they continue to see opportunities amid the country's opening-up efforts.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-13). 2022 Africa Unity Day – San Diego Waterfront and African Museum. indybay.org Our "California Grown" gift to the world, the United Nations was founded in San Francisco, California, August 1943 and may help serve as "a featured platform for improving the safety and quality of life and livelihoods of people of African descent" and ensure the full political, economic and social inclusion in the societies where they live.

sputniknews (2022-03-13). At Least Six Killed, Several Injured After Kiev Forces Fire on Volnovakha Hospital – Medics. sputniknews.com Most of the doctors and patients, including women in labor from the maternity ward, survived by hiding in the basement. One of the doctors told Sputnik that during the time everyone was hiding in the basement, six babies were born.

OtherWords (2022-03-13). It's Not Just Inflation — It's Price Gouging. juancole.com By Lindsay Owens | — ( Otherwords.org) — If you've been slammed lately by higher prices on everything from groceries to rental cars and gas prices, you're probably wondering what on earth is behind these skyrocketing costs. Corporations are quick to blame this new reality on the pandemic, but another major culprit is hiding in …

teleSUR, MER, JGN (2022-03-13). 43 años de la Revolución de Granada y su líder Maurice Bishop. telesurtv.net El 25 de octubre de 1983, bajo la operación Furia Urgente, Estados Unidos invadió por aire y agua a la isla, poniendo fin a la segunda experiencia socialista en el Caribe desde la Revolución Cubana de 1959.

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-03-13). Sunday 3/27: Russian and U.S. Hands Off Ukraine! indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk St. (at Ellis), San Francisco | (on #19, 31, 38, & 49 Muni lines, near Civic Center BART)…

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). CPC Central Committee, State Council congratulate Chinese delegation on Winter Paralympics achievements. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China Central Committee and China's State Council have sent a congratulatory message to the Chinese delegation for its "best in history" performance at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games, scheduled to be concluded on Sunday.

Anonymous349 (2022-03-13). Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dreams About Death Of Putin. Russian Missiles Purge Camp With Foreign Mercenaries. southfront.org March 13 became the day of the intensification of Russian strikes on the military infrastructure of Ukraine and places of concentrations of foreign mercenaries and supplies that arrive to the country from its 'foreign partners'. | These strikes came amid even increased level of hysteria in MSM about the 'Russian aggression' against the 'peaceful Ukrainain government' that allegedly seeks a diplomatic settlement of the current situation. | To highlight the peaceful stance of the Kyiv government, it would be interesting to quote the March 12 statement of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba: "The elimination of…

Editor2 (2022-03-13). When Western Media Saw Ukraine's Neo-Nazis. orinocotribune.com Editorial note: Orinoco Tribune does not generally publish articles that are over 10 days old. However, in this case an exception is being made, as the subject matter of the following piece remains as significant today as at the time of its publication. | By Robert Parry — Aug. 10, 2014 | The New York Times reported almost in passing on Sunday (Aug. 10) that the Ukrainian government's offensive against ethnic Russian rebels in the east has unleashed far-right paramilitary militias that have even raised a neo-Nazi banner over the conquered town of Marinka, just west of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. | That…

SF015 (2022-03-13). At Least 66 Ukrainian Army Servicemen And Foreigners Were Killed And Wounded Near Lviv. southfront.org Local authorities report that as a result of a Russian missile strike on the Yavoriv training range near Lviv, 9 Ukrainian army servicemen and foreign instructors were killed and 57 wounded. |

sputniknews (2022-03-13). Death Toll Climbs to 61 in Wake of DR Congo Train Crash, Officials Confirm. sputniknews.com Late Thursday night, a train traveling from the town of Mueneditu to Lubumbashi, the third-largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, derailed as the cars were traveling up a slope, triggering a multi-carriage crash, according to early reports from local administrators.

sputniknews (2022-03-13). Efforts to Repair Damaged Power Lines at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Continue – IAEA. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says that, according to the Ukrainian regulator, work continues to repair the damaged power lines at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).

sputniknews (2022-03-13). Russian Armed Forces Destroy Ukrainian Command Post in High-Precision Strike — Video. sputniknews.com Disabling Ukraine's military infrastructure remains one of the main goals of Moscow's ongoing special operation in the country. On Saturday, the Russian military's precision strikes disabled a military airfield and a major electronic intelligence centre located in the cities of Vasilkov and Brovary, respectively.

sputniknews (2022-03-13). 'Superhuman': Cristiano Ronaldo Breaks FIFA All-Time Record for Most Goals in Men's Football. sputniknews.com Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo, already a football sensation after winning three Premier League titles, two La Liga titles, two Serie A titles, and being a five-time winner of the Champions League, scored his 807th career goal at Old Trafford on Saturday, breaking FIFA's all-time record.

sputniknews (2022-03-13). Tensions in Jerusalem Flare Up But Will It Lead to New Confrontation Between Israel & Hamas? sputniknews.com In recent weeks, Israel has carried out a number of arrests in the east of the disputed city and the West Bank. Several Palestinians have been shot dead amid clashes with the IDF, and a Ramallah-based political analyst says it is just a matter of time until the situation spirals out of control.

sputniknews (2022-03-13). Ukrainian Radicals Were Keeping 300 Monks and Civilians Hostage in Monastery, Russian MoD Says. sputniknews.com Russian forces have liberated the settlement of Nikolskoye, where members of the "Aidar" battalion set up an artillery position, an official statement confirmed.

sputniknews (2022-03-13). Woman in US Stabs Date in Revenge for…Assassination of IRGC Quds Force Chief Soleimani. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A woman in the US state of Nevada has been charged with attempted murder after she stabbed her date in revenge for the assassination of Iranian top military official Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a US drone attack in 2020, Henderson police said on Sunday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). Putin, Macron, Scholz discuss Ukraine crisis over phone. ecns.cn Putin informed Macron and Scholz of "the real situation on the ground" in response to the issues raised by them "regarding the humanitarian situation on the territory of the military operation to protect Donbass," the Kremlin said.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). China plans more planetary endeavors: scientist. ecns.cn After the Tianwen-1 mission, China will have a number of Tianwen series of planetary endeavors to explore the universe, according to a Chinese scientist.

GIWUSA (2022-03-13). South African Striking Clover Workers Occupy IDC Offices. indybay.org South African striking Clover workers today occupied the IDC offices to call for the removal of the billionaire Israeli Wertheim family from control of the largest dairy in South Africa and for it to be run by the workers under workers control…

TASS (2022-03-13). US to provide Ukraine additional military assistance worth $200 mln – Department of State. tass.com This package will include further defensive assistance to help Ukraine meet the armored, airborne, and other threats it is facing, Blinken said…

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). Chinese scientists create fertile mouse without father. ecns.cn Chinese scientists bred a live rodent offspring derived from a single unfertilized oocyte, and the mouse grew into a fertile adult.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). China says willing to tackle U.S. regulatory issue via cooperation. ecns.cn China is willing to tackle the issue of inspection and investigation by U.S. regulators on relevant accounting firms through regulatory cooperation, the country's top securities regulator said Friday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). 3rd mainland-aided COVID-19 isolation facility starts operation in Hong Kong. ecns.cn The third community isolation facility (CIF) in Hong Kong constructed with the support from the mainland has been put into operation immediately after it was handed over to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Saturday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). COVID-19 hospitalization, death rates among black Americans considerably higher than white Americans: study. ecns.cn Although black Americans are not substantially more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19, their hospitalization and death rates are considerably higher than white Americans, according to a newly published study.

sputniknews (2022-03-13). Poll Shows Majority of Brits Want Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Resign. sputniknews.com The leader of the Conservative Party has seen his approval ratings fall during the coronavirus pandemic, with critics accusing the government of failing to respond quickly to the problem. Johnson's numbers have plunged even further due to several scandals involving Tory MPs as well as the politician himself.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). U.S. to revoke Russia's most-favored nation status amid Ukraine crisis. ecns.cn The U.S. government will revoke Russia's most-favored nation trade status amid the Ukraine crisis, the White House said Friday, noting that it will work with Group of Seven (G7) countries and the European Union to roll out new sanctions.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (2022-03-13). Saturday 3/12: We Are Not Animals, Book Talk with Martin Rizzo-Martinez. indybay.org Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History | 705 Front St., Santa Cruz…

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). Hong Kong to further leverage Traditional Chinese Medicine in fighting COVID-19: Carrie Lam. ecns.cn The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government will continue to leverage the advantages of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic and consolidate the TCM as an integral part of the medical system in Hong Kong, Chief Executive of the HKSAR Carrie Lam said on Saturday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). All venues for Beijing Olympic, Paralympic Winter Games will open to public. ecns.cn All the venues for the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will open to the public after the Games, the organizers said on Saturday.

TASS (2022-03-13). Situation around Ukraine may lead to World War III – Trump. tass.com In his opinion, Russia "is not going to stop" in achieving its goals, but the US administration does not have "anybody to talk to" Moscow, in particular to Russian President Vladimir Putin…

sputniknews (2022-03-13). Midterms: Kamala Harris Tells Democratic Voters 'They Got What They Ordered'. sputniknews.com Among the promises that the Biden-Harris team rolled out during their 2020 White House campaign were tackling the spread of coronavirus, increasing the distribution of vaccines, creating paths to citizenship for migrants, and improving the country's infrastructure, a majority of which were combined in the "Build Back Better" bill.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-13). Biden directs $200 million more in military aid to Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Interfax-UkraineMarch 12, 2022 USA to provide $200 mln in military aid to Ukraine — White House The United States will provide Ukraine with military assistance in the amount of up to $200 million, the relevant memorandum was signed by U.S. President Joseph Biden, the White House said. "By the authority vested in me as President …

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). China, India hold 15th corps commander level meeting. ecns.cn The 15th round China-India Corps Commander Level Meeting was held at Moldo-Chushul border meeting point on the Indian side on Friday, said China's Ministry of National Defense.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). In-orbit construction of China's space station going smoothly. ecns.cn Construction work on the core module of China's Tiangong space station is proceeding steadily, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Friday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). Beijing 2022 sets new standard for delivery of Games, says IPC president Parsons. ecns.cn Beijing 2008 changed the way the Summer Paralympics was delivered forever, and this will be the same with the Winter Paralympics, said International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Andrew Parsons.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). Concerns of all parties to Iran nuke talks must be addressed: Chinese envoy. ecns.cn China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna Wang Qun said here Friday that the concerns and demands of all parties to the Iran nuclear talks must be addressed properly and that political dialogue and negotiations are the only solution.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). HKSAR gov't strives to reduce severe cases, deaths of COVID-19: officials. ecns.cn The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government assumes primary responsibility in fighting COVID-19 and will strive to stabilize the epidemic situation especially in reducing severe cases and deaths, senior officials have said.

TASS (2022-03-13). Kiev forces shell LPR three times over past day. tass.com One residential building was destroyed…

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). China-Laos Railway puts freight transport on fast track. ecns.cn The freight volume of the China-Laos Railway has hit 1.2 million tonnes, as the landmark project of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation marked 100 days of operation Saturday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). China's express logistics activities expand in February. ecns.cn China's express logistics sector recorded stable growth in February as market demand and production gradually picked up, data from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing showed.

American Indian Resource Center at UCSC (2022-03-13). Saturday 4/2: IndigeFest 2022: Celebrating Indigenous Cultures of the Americas. indybay.org Quarry Amphitheater, UC Santa Cruz…

TASS (2022-03-13). Russia, Ukraine working to give shape to main topics up for discussion – Kiev official. tass.com As soon as there are mutual legal frameworks, a meeting will be scheduled, the fourth round of talks, Mikhail Podolyak said…

ecns.cn (2022-03-13). Xi attending closing ceremony of Beijing Winter Paralympics. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping is attending the closing ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games, held at the National Stadium in Beijing on Sunday night.

TASS (2022-03-13). Caracas remains Moscow's committed ally – Venezuelan top diplomat. tass.com The government of Venezuela remains a "committed ally" of Russia, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia said in an interview with Turkey's Anadolu news agency…

Fresno County Bicycle Coalition (2022-03-13). Sunday 5/22: The Soul of a Cyclist: Virtual Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker. indybay.org

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2022-03-12: News Headlines

sputniknews (2022-03-12). Russia Warns West Convoys With Foreign Weapons for Ukraine Are Legit Military Targets. sputniknews.com Relations between Russia and the US have plunged to a new low since Washington imposed massive sanctions against the Russian financial sector and economy in response to the Kremlin's decision to launch a special military operation in Ukraine.

sputniknews (2022-03-12). UK Drivers May Face 'Unbelievably High Prices on Forecourts'. sputniknews.com Last Sunday, oil prices jumped to $130 a barrel, reaching their highest level in 14 years, amid reports of the US planning a ban on energy imports from Russia. Shortly thereafter, the ban was announced by President Joe Biden, as part of America's new "severe" anti-Russian sanctions over Moscow's ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.

ecns.cn (2022-03-12). China, Turkey to build world's largest rooftop solar power plant. ecns.cn Chinese tech giant Huawei and Turkish steel manufacturer Tosyali Holding co-launched a project on Friday to build the world's largest rooftop solar power plant in Turkey's Mediterranean province of Osmaniye.

ecns.cn (2022-03-12). China's commitment to high-quality development benefits all: experts. ecns.cn China's commitment to pursuing high-quality development and building a community with a shared future for mankind has drawn global attention during its annual "two sessions," and will further benefit the world, say experts worldwide.

ecns.cn (2022-03-12). China provides 20 billion yuan in subsidies to grain planters. ecns.cn China has provided 20 billion yuan (about 3.16 billion U.S. dollars) from the central government budget to protect grain planters from rising prices of farming supplies, the Ministry of Finance said Friday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-12). Experts say innovation helps stabilize economy. ecns.cn China is committed to pursuing innovation-driven growth and accelerating its industrial upgrade this year amid multiple pressures and uncertainties, as high-quality development will remain a key to China's future, officials and experts said on Friday.

WSWS (2022-03-12). Skyrocketing gasoline prices place unbearable burdens on rideshare and delivery drivers. wsws.org For rideshare and delivery app drivers, whose compensation is largely based on a flat rate per mile, the skyrocketing price of gasoline is squeezing their already tight margins to the point at which continuing to work is becoming economically unfeasible.

WSWS (2022-03-12). Detroit autoworkers reject pro-war propaganda in corporate media. wsws.org As one worker put it, to understand the war, "you have to understand economics, and understand the world."

WSWS (2022-03-12). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Thousands of unorganised workers in Karnataka protest poverty wages; Cambodian police arrest 180 protesting NagaWorld casino workers; Australia: Boral Cement plant workers strike;…

WSWS (2022-03-12). COVID infects hundreds of public transport workers in New Zealand. wsws.org The Labour Party government, local councils and private companies, as well as the trade unions, are refusing to take any action to stop the spread of COVID-19. Transport workers are being told that more infections are inevitable.

WSWS (2022-03-12). Australian Labor Party leader commits to big business restructuring and US militarism. wsws.org Albanese's speeches are part of his pitch to the ruling class to support a trade union-backed Labor government to suppress the growing discontent throughout the working class.

Bart L Haagmans, Marion P G Koopmans (2022-03-12). [Comment] Spreading of SARS-CoV-2 from hamsters to humans. thelancet.com During the past 2 years, SARS-CoV-2 has spread globally through human-to-human transmission causing a devastating pandemic. Since its emergence, SARS-CoV-2 has displayed considerable host plasticity, with an expanding list of wildlife, pets, livestock, and laboratory animals shown to be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection both experimentally and naturally.1 Indeed, large outbreaks in mink farms occurred as early as April, 2020.2,3 Given the fact that these outbreaks led to spill back to other animals and humans, and because the virus accumulated mutations during continued passage through mink (potentially affecti…

ecns.cn (2022-03-12). Governments look for solutions as pump prices soar globally. ecns.cn Oil prices dropped on Thursday as volatile trading continues amid geopolitical risks.

WSWS (2022-03-12). European Central Bank moves to tighten monetary policy. wsws.org The decision is a significant concession to northern European members of the ECB, led by Germany, which have been pushing for more significant action on monetary policy in the face of higher inflation.

ecns.cn (2022-03-12). Employment, education high on government agenda this year. ecns.cn Employment, education and healthcare are high on the agenda this year so that people's livelihoods can be continuously improved, according to Premier Li Keqiang.

WSWS (2022-03-12). UK: Record numbers of health workers quit NHS as Sajid Javid calls health spending "not sustainable" wsws.org For nurses, London tops the region with the most nursing vacancies, at 13 percent, with all other English regions exceeding a vacancy rate of 8 percent.

Carlos L. Garrido (2022-03-12). The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography. By: Marcello Musto. (Book Review). orinocotribune.com By: Carlos L. Garrido — Mar 7, 2022 | Marcello Musto's The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography provides an illuminating glance at the work and life of Karl Marx during the most unexamined period of his life. Musto's oscillation between Marx's work and life provides readers with both an intellectual allurement towards research in Marx's later years, a task facilitated by the 1998 resumed publication of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2) (which has sense published 27 new volumes and

Staff (2022-03-12). Convocan a taller para el rescate de la historia de Cuba. cubadebate.cu El próximo 23 de marzo sesionará el primer Taller de Historia, Marxismo- Leninismo y Educación para la Vida Ciudadana en la Escuela Superior del Partido, dando cumplimento a uno de los acuerdos del 8vo Congreso de la organización partidista. Durante tres días, los participantes al taller participarán en conferencias y paneles especializados.

WSWS (2022-03-12). WSWS publishes the Chinese translation of "The theoretical and historical origins of the pseudo-left" wsws.org This report by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North is of great significance today to workers and young people in China as the crisis of capitalism intensifies with the threat of nuclear war, the surging COVID-19 pandemic and deepening social inequality in every country.

WSWS (2022-03-12). David North responds to Wall Street Journal's interview with Robert Service. wsws.org The Wall Street Journal has posted online and published in its March 12 print edition the following letter from David North, chairperson of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site.

Jennifer Stavros (2022-03-11). How Spotify Is Quietly Supporting the Military-Industrial Complex. zcomm.org Unbeknownst to most users, Spotify has a secret endeavor—backing the efforts of war…

Dave DeCamp (2022-03-11). President Biden Blames Inflation on 'Putin's Price Hike'. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, President Biden released a statement on the Labor Department's consumer price index for February, which found consumer prices rose 0.8% in February and increased by 7.9% over the past 12 months, putting inflation at a fresh 40-year high. In his statement, Biden blamed the increase in inflation on Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Today's …

ecns.cn (2022-03-11). China streamlines administration, delegates power to improve business environment: premier. ecns.cn China has streamlined administration, delegated power, improved regulation and upgraded services to improve its business environment, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Friday.

_____ (2022-03-11). 'Reckoning' With The Economic Marginalization Of Native Americans. popularresistance.org Over the last two years, there has been much discussion of a national "reckoning" on race. There can be no complete reckoning without strong analysis and substantive action to address the economic marginalization of Native Americans in 21st century America. | Through years of intentional governmental policies that took away their lands and resources, American Indians have been separated from the wealth and assets that were rightfully theirs. Today, we see a consistent lack of information on Native Americans and their socioeconomic issues.

Staff (2022-03-11). Venezuela: Economic World War Already Underway via Sanctions, Let's Hope it Doesn't Become a Nuclear Conflict. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, once again gave his opinion on the delicate situation that exists between Russia, Ukraine and the countries of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). "The world war has already started: it started economically. Our concern is that it does not escalate further. Our call is for the economic war not to escalate further into a military war or a nuclear war, which is the worst outcome for humanity and for the survival of our species on this planet." | These comments were made this Wednesday, March 9, during a broadcast from the headquarters of Inveval, a worker-controlled…

Ana Perdigón (2022-03-11). Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez & Russia's Sergey Lavrov Meet in Turkey. orinocotribune.com In order to deepen their cooperative alliance and mutual respect, the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, held a meeting this Thursday, March 10, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov. The encounter occurred just a few days after the White House sent an official delegation to Caracas in order to alleviate the disruption in oil supplies caused by the recent unilateral and illegal economic coercive measures (euphemistically called sanctions) issued by the US against Russia. | The meeting took place on the eve of Rodríguez's participation in the 2nd Antalya Diplomati…

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2022-03-11). Khury Petersen-Smith on Economic Sanctions, Greg LeRoy on Amazon Subsidies. fair.org Institute for Policy Studies ( This week on CounterSpin: Russia's horrendous invasion of

JANET (2022-03-11). U.S. sanctions: an act of war against workers. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel March 9, 2022 Mass media in the United States and throughout the countries of Western Europe are exhaustively and intensely depicting the suffering of the Ukrainian people as Ukraine confronts the Russian army. It is the U.S. and its NATO proxy who have now broadened the war being fought in Ukraine. What the media is not covering is the impact of this war on the working and poor people inside Russia. Workers at a Moscow bank attempt to gain access to their money tied up by U.S. sanctions, March 1. In an alliance with the most economically powerful capitalist governments and their central banks, the U…

Editor (2022-03-11). What's the use of Marx's 'Capital'? mronline.org Marx played many roles in his life: activist, journalist, historian, philosopher and also an economist. The crowning achievement of his efforts in economics was the three volumes of Capital.

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-03-11). Mazandaran; 17th destination of Raeisi's provincial trips. en.mehrnews.com As part of his regular visits to provinces, Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi traveled to Mazandaran province on Friday and paid a visit to MiyƒÅnkƒÅle peninsula in Behshar and Amirabadport Special Economic Zone.

ecns.cn (2022-03-11). Maximum employment conducive to achieving potential growth: Chinese premier. ecns.cn China is able to achieve its potential economic growth as long as it can realize maximum employment, Premier Li Keqiang said Friday.

_____ (2022-03-11). Afghanistan: Americans Loot Poverty-Stricken Afghans. journal-neo.org The tragic events of September 11, 2001 changed our world permanently. Although those who staged those events have not yet been identified, Washington unequivocally declared a "war on terror", directed at the overthrow of Al Qaeda (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) and the Taliban regime (banned in Russia), supported by American satellites. But it is …

WSWS (2022-03-11). New Zealand police end borehole drilling at Pike River mine after finding more human remains. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government permanently sealed Pike River mine last year, preventing the recovery of the bodies of 29 men who perished in the 2010 underground disaster, and locking away vital evidence of what caused the explosions.

G. Dunkel (2022-03-11). Student-community-labor coalition grows in New York City. workers.org New York City A growing student-community-labor coalition held a large rally March 6 on demands related to New York City educational institutions. After gathering at Brooklyn Borough Hall, participants marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Foley Square in Manhattan. Brooklyn Borough Hall, March 6 WW Photo: G. Dunkel Key organizers . . . |

_____ (2022-03-11). Union Organising Is Brewing In Starbucks: 100 Stores And Counting. popularresistance.org More union organizing is brewing at Starbucks. In December 2021, staff at a Starbucks in Buffalo, NY became the first US branch to successfully vote to form a union. Since then, 103 Starbucks branches have decided to join them by filing petitions with the National Labor Relations Board. | There are roughly 9,000 Starbucks locations in the US, and the workers in Buffalo overcame an intimidation campaign by the corporation which spent a lot of resources to squash the union drive. The company was right to worry, however, as the Buffalo example has encouraged other workers of the global coffee chain to form unions in…

Kevin Mwanza (2022-03-11). Russia: The US Must Explain Bioweapons Research In Ukraine, We Have Proof. moguldom.com Russia says it found proof during its "special operation in Ukraine" that the U.S. was working with Ukrainian laboratories to develop bioweapons. The U.S. denied the renewed Russian accusations, calling the claims "laughable" and counter claiming that Moscow may be laying groundwork to use chemical warware in Ukraine, according to a Reuters report. "We confirm …

Giorgio Manfredi (2022-03-11). The AFL-CIO's Nazi Friendly Union in Ukraine. covertactionmagazine.com The AFL-CIO recently hosted a fundraiser by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) which aimed to support labor organizations in …

Patrick Gallegos (2022-03-11). Indigenous pueblos, environmentalists fight back against Los Alamos intrusion into sacred land. liberationnews.org To date, no environmental studies have been conducted for the Los Alamos upgrade project, and no Pueblo ceremonial kivas, petroglyphs, and prayer sites have been considered. This unnecessary, wasteful project is designed to build a larger power grid for the Laboratory's nuclear projects — sacrificing the sanctity of essential cultural resources attached to tribal communities.

Staff (2022-03-11). Inder e Icap firman acuerdo de colaboración. cubadebate.cu Un convenio de colaboración concebido como paso superior en el propósito de afianzar sus vínculos fue firmado este jueves por el Instituto Nacional de Deportes, Educación Física y Recreación y el Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos. Fue rubricado por sus presidentes, Osvaldo Vento Montiller y Fernando González Llort.

Thomas Piketty (2022-03-11). Sanction the oligarchs, not the people! indybay.org It is time to develop a new kind of sanctions. They must be targeted specifically at the oligarchs who have become wealthy as a result of the regime. This would require the establishment of an international financial registry, a measure that will not please the Western wealthy.

Brittani Banks (2022-03-11). If High Gas Prices Are So Painful, Shouldn't We Move Away From Fossil Fuels? independentmediainstitute.org Long used to cheap gas at the pump, Americans are experiencing serious sticker shock these days as gas prices rise to $6 or even $7 a gallon. News headlines are linking this sharp increase to Russia's war on Ukraine. Guilt-inducing memes are cropping up on social media shaming people for complaining about the high gas …

Kevin Mwanza (2022-03-11). Morgan Stanley: Sell Any Relief Rallies From Oversold, Tighter Financial Conditions And Oil Price Headwinds. moguldom.com Morgan Stanley analysts this week told investors in a note to sell into any relief rally in the stock market due to a convergence of risk factors that include the U.S. Federal Reserve's intention to raise interest rates to tame inflation and oil price headwinds due to the war in Ukraine. In a note shared …

_____ (2022-03-11). A second US Front against China. journal-neo.org Ukraine-related events in recent days have clearly exposed Washington's criminal policy and its desire to solve its financial and geopolitical problems by unleashing armed conflicts on foreign territories. It is quite remarkable that the crisis around Ukraine itself, according to even US analysts, was engineered by the US and they are fully responsible for it. …

Dean Baker (2022-03-11). The February CPI: More Bad News on Inflation. cepr.net Should Jerome Powell put on his Paul Volcker outfit and push interest rates through the roof? I would argue that, while modest rate hikes are appropriate, it is too soon to bring out the heavy artillery.

WSWS (2022-03-11). As inflation surges, Spanish unions and Podemos slash real wages. wsws.org The union bureaucracies and the Socialist Party-Podemos government in Spain are carrying out the impoverishment of the working class via inflation.

_____ (2022-03-11). What The US Can Learn From Cuba's Coronavirus Response. popularresistance.org International comparisons to U.S. health outcomes make clear that GDP (Gross Domestic Product) cannot reliably suggest a healthcare system's quality. Defined by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as "a monetary measure of the value of final goods and services," GDP tells us nothing about the efficiency of health services or the accessibility of critical medical care such as vaccination, hospitalization and basic health exams — all important determinants of a healthcare system's adaptability when emergencies put pressure on our health infrastructure. | This is particularly true in the case of Cuba.

WSWS (2022-03-11). US pandemic funding dries up as BA.2 Omicron subvariant spreads uncontrolled. wsws.org On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives approved a record nearly $800 billion in military spending and nothing for the COVID-19 pandemic, just as the more infectious, immune-resistant and virulent BA.2 Omicron subvariant is spreading across the US and globally.

WSWS (2022-03-11). The NATO campaign against Russia will drive escalating class struggle across the world. wsws.org The disastrous global impact of the sanctions regime against Russia and the gutting of social spending to pay for the military will drive explosive struggles, in which mass anger will intersect with the growing radicalization which is already underway as a consequence of the pandemic.

WSWS (2022-03-11). German trade unions support military build-up and declare an industrial truce. wsws.org Just days after Chancellor Olaf Schulz announced a gigantic increase in military spending to frenetic applause, the trade unions signalled their approval.

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-11). Democrats Unveil Bill to Tax Big Oil's Profits and Send Checks to the Public. truthout.org Democrats introduced a bicameral bill on Thursday that would levy a tax on oil and gas companies and redistribute the money back to the public, who are The Big Oil Windfall Profits Act, introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), would levy a tax on each barrel produced or imported by large oil companies. | Barrels would be su…

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TASS (2022-03-11). Gazprom continues supplying gas for transit to Europe via Ukraine as normal. tass.com As of March 11, 109.5 mln cubic meters were requested…

ecns.cn (2022-03-11). Governments look for solutions as pump prices soar globally. ecns.cn Oil prices dropped on Thursday as volatile trading continues amid geopolitical risks.

Editor (2022-03-11). Ray McGovern: What Role Has the U.S. Played in the Ukraine Crisis? scheerpost.com Ray McGovern speaking at the public tribute to Robert Knight on March 28, 2015 at The Riverside Church in New York NY. [Jennifer Hasegawa] | Click to subscribe on: As Russia's attack on Ukraine wages on, and Ukrainian civilians die daily, the fog of war has seemingly been clouding more nuanced analysis in the United States, argues "Scheer Intelligence" host Robert…

Fight Back (2022-03-11). Chicago: International Women's Day celebration. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Freedom Road Socialist Organization-Chicago held an annual International Women's Day celebration at the Grand Ballroom in the Woodlawn community on the South Side of Chicago. 40 people attended, some from Woodlawn, and others from around the city, including a delegation of Brown Berets, Chicano and Chicana activists, from Little Village. The venue is in the same building as the offices of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | The program was filled with speakers and poets. Organizations represented included the Malaya movement of the Philippines, fighting against the fascis…

Fight Back (2022-03-11). Grand Rapids, MI: FRSO rallies for reproductive rights on International Women's Day. fightbacknews.org Grand Rapids, MI – On March 8, International Women's Day, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) in Michigan organized a rally attended by 20 community members in defense of reproductive rights. Assembling in downtown Grand Rapids, speakers included Olivia Lashley in FRSO; Aly the Activist, chairwoman of the Royal Black Panther Party of Grand Rapids and Charli Karnstein, a member of the local Socialist Alternative chapter. | The rally was hosted by Barbara Howard, a member of FRSO, who began with a call for a united front to combat the attacks on abortion rights by the far right in Texas, Mississippi and Flo…

WSWS (2022-03-11). Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates line up behind war drive, denounce DSA. wsws.org All the claims of the DSA that the Democratic Party can be reformed through a pressure campaign are exposed in the entire course of events around the war drive against Russia.

WSWS (2022-03-11). SEP (Australia) deregistered under anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Despite this blatant political censorship, the SEP will stand candidates in the federal election, if and when it is called, and conduct the broadest possible campaign for a genuine socialist alternative.

Anonymous103 (2022-03-10). Biolabs In Ukraine, A Smoking Gun That White House Dubbed As Fake News. southfront.org Written by Piero Messina | Someone in Washington is telling lies. Is Jen Psaki a liar? The White House spokesperson has branded the existence of chemical and biological research laboratories in Ukraine, also run by the US State Department, as fake news. Jen Psaki, then summoned the press to define the absurd allegations and an obvious ploy to try to justify further future attacks: "We took note of Russia's false claims about alleged US biological weapons laboratories and chemical weapons development in Ukraine. We have also seen Chinese officials echo these conspiracy theories ". | And again: "They are an obvi…

Binoy Kampmark (2022-03-10). Foreign Policy Tripe: Scott Morrison's "Arc of Autocracy" dissidentvoice.org Grand foreign policy speeches are not usually the specialty of Australian Prime Ministers. Little insight can be gleaned from them. A more profitable exercise would be consulting the US State Department's briefings, which give more accurate barometric readings of policy in Canberra. The same goes for the selected adversary of the day. Washington's adversaries must …

WSWS (2022-03-10). Pseudo-left International Marxist Tendency provides cover for imperialist powers in conflict with Russia. wsws.org The IMT's role amid the current war drive is to repackage with "Marxist" phraseology the propaganda of the US State Department and other NATO countries that they have no intention of militarily intervening against Russia.

ecns.cn (2022-03-10). US's practice of disseminating disinformation about China on the Ukraine issue is despicable and malicious. ecns.cn Lately, the US has been disseminating disinformation about China on the Ukraine issue, with the attempt to shift blame, stoke confrontation and profit from the issue. The practice is despicable and malicious.

Max Blumenthal (2022-03-10). VIDEO: Congress screws American workers to escalate war on Russia. thegrayzone.com As gas prices and inflation surge, Max Blumenthal questions members of Congress on the economic toll American workers face from escalating sanctions on Russia, and on their support for escalating the war in Ukraine.

Vijay Prashad (2022-03-10). The life of a great marxist: Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022). peoplesdispatch.org Born in Muzaffarnagar, in British India, Aijaz read extensively from an early age and allowed his mind to drift out of the qasba of his childhood. His father shared some radical books with him, which helped him to understand the world outside the doab region of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the world beyond the confines of the capitalist system. From an early age, Aijaz Ahmad began to dream of internationalism and socialism. He studied in Lahore, Pakistan, where his family had migrated after the Partition in 1947-48, but these studies took place as much in the college classrooms as they did in the cafés and in the…

_____ (2022-03-10). US Sanctions: An Act Of War Against Workers. popularresistance.org Mass media in the United States and throughout the countries of Western Europe are exhaustively and intensely depicting the suffering of the Ukrainian people as Ukraine confronts the Russian army. | It is the U.S. and its NATO proxy who have now broadened the war being fought in Ukraine. | What the media is not covering is the impact of this war on the working and poor people inside Russia. | In an alliance with the most economically powerful capitalist governments and their central banks, the U.S. has managed to cut the Russian economy off from many of the world's financial arteries. According to the conservativ…

WSWS (2022-03-10). British ruling class to vastly increase military spending. wsws.org An open discussion has begun on the transformation of Europe into an independent military bloc and a ramping up of military spending. These moves, especially by the much larger economy of Germany, threaten to crowd Britain out of its position as the premier military power in Europe.

_____ (2022-03-10). Lebanon's Economic Collapse. popularresistance.org A friend in Beirut asked me teasingly as we walked the darkened streets, "Are you happy now? You wanted degrowth and you're getting it." He was referencing the economic crisis and recession Lebanon is experiencing — although he knows very well the stark difference between this deep recession and degrowth. Recession happens when growth dependent economies stop growing, i.e., GDP goes into the negative. This typically ends up in the loss of jobs, economic uncertainty, and sometimes austerity measures with long-term impacts. Degrowth, on the other hand, is an intentional shift in economic activity, revolving a…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-10). Iran roads min. to visit Baku to attend Economic Commission. en.mehrnews.com Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development will depart for Azeri capital Baku on Thursday to attend 15th Joint Economic Committee meeting which will run for two days.

_____ (2022-03-10). Pew Survey: Workers Who Quit A Job In 2021. popularresistance.org The COVID-19 Pandemic Set Off Nearly Unprecedented Churn In The U.S. Labor Market. Widespread Job Losses In The Early Months Of The Pandemic Gave Way To Tight Labor Markets In 2021, Driven In Part By What's Come To Be Known As The Great Resignation. The Nation's "Quit Rate" Reached A 20-Year High Last November. | A New Pew Research Center Survey Finds That Low Pay, A Lack Of Opportunities For Advancement And Feeling Disrespected At Work Are The Top Reasons Why Americans Quit Their Jobs Last Year. The Survey Also Finds That Those Who Quit And Are Now Employed Elsewhere Are More Likely Than Not To Say Their Current…

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-10). Gov't welcomes SEACOM's expansion strategy for Uganda. plusnews.ug Government of Uganda has welcomed the regional expansion strategy for the Ugandan and East African markets of SEACOM, the pan-African telecommunications service provider announced at a special networking breakfast event in Kampala on Thursday. The Minister of State for ICT and National Guidance, Godfrey Kabbyanga Baluku who represented government at the event said that the …

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-10). Excitement as SEACOM unveils regional expansion strategy for Uganda. plusnews.ug SEACOM, the pan-African telecommunications service provider, unveiled its regional expansion strategy for the Ugandan and East African markets at a special networking breakfast event in Kampala, Uganda. The event was attended by a cross-section of clients, business partners, staff, representatives of key government ministries and parastatals in Uganda, and SEACOM executives from Uganda, East Africa, …

Spencer Sunshine (2022-03-10). The Proud Boys Gained 29 Chapters in the Year Since Capitol Attack. truthout.org Even to casual observers, it's clear that white supremacist groups and their cousins, the militias, have been in full swing for years. And it's also clear that the departure of Donald Trump from the White House has not collapsed the far right. A newly released annual census of these groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "

SAM (2022-03-10). What Makes More Sense, a Minimum Income Tax or a Maximum Income? inequality.org

Dan Cohen (2022-03-10). US Admits to Funding Biological Laboratories in Ukraine, with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva. mintpressnews.com State Department official Victoria Nuland admitted that the US government is funding biological laboratories in Ukraine, confirming what Washington has long dismissed as "Russian propaganda." Correspondent Dan Cohen interviews journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, who has investigated these facilities in Eastern Europe.

_____ (2022-03-10). Wexner Center For The Arts Workers Want To Unionize. popularresistance.org taff at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University have announced plans to form a union with the hope of making the museum an "equitable, transparent and sustainable workplace." | Wex Workers United sent a letter to Wexner Center and university leaders Friday asking them to recognize their new union, formed in collaboration with AFSCME Ohio Council 8, according to a news release. | "We believe our endeavor is inextricably linked to the center's stated mission and ongoing commitment to social justice and institutional transformation," according to Wex Workers United's letter to leadership. "These goal…

John Logan (2022-03-10). Starbucks's Multimillion-Dollar Anti-Union Effort May Have Backfired. truthout.org The last two months have seen a veritable whirlwind of labor activism at Starbucks. Workers at

Manlio Dinucci (2022-03-10). How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" globalresearch.ca Force the adversary to expand recklessly in order to unbalance him, and then destroy him. This is not the description of a judo hold, but a plan against Russia elaborated by the Rand Corporation, the most influential think tank in the USA.

Ana Perdigón (2022-03-10). Antony Blinken Reveals US Interests in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, March 9, the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, elaborated on US interests towards Venezuela, after being questioned about the meeting of a high-level delegation with the government of Nicolás Maduro in Caracas last weekend. | During a joint press conference held with British Foreign Minister Liz Truss in Washington, Blinken stated that the US has a set of interests with Venezuela. | He explained that among the interests are "supporting the democratic aspirations" of the Venezuelan people, and securing the release of US citizens detained in Venezuela, two of whom were released…

Karen Conner (2022-03-10). Supply Chain Problems Continue as Inflation Jumps In February. cepr.net The war, and the resulting rise in energy and other commodity prices, are creating huge uncertainty going forward. Disruptions also will complicate supply chain problems.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-10). Protests mount against rising food prices in southern Iraq. peoplesdispatch.org Hundreds of Iraqis on Wednesday, March 9, took to the streets in protest against the rise in prices of food commodities, including wheat and other food grains and essential cooking items like oil and flour over the course of the last week. The protests took place predominantly in the neglected southern regions of Iraq, also the epicenter of the massive anti-government protests in 2019. The Iraqi government in the meantime announced several measures to control the prices of essential food items and to provide some relief to ordinary Iraqis dealing with acute shortages and exorbitant prices of basic goods. | Accord…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-10). VIDEO: Massive protests across EU against fuel price hike. en.mehrnews.com In France, yellow vests blocked roads leading to refineries in a protest to rising gasoline prices and demanded a return to previous rates.

ecns.cn (2022-03-10). China continues financial support for carbon reduction, energy transformation. ecns.cn China has continued to increase financial support for carbon reduction and set up a new system to push energy transformation, an official said before the closing meeting of the fifth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on Thursday.

_____ (2022-03-10). Venezuela: Government Raises Wages As Inflation Hits Eight-Year Low. popularresistance.org Caracas, Venezuela — The Nicolás Maduro government decreed a near twentyfold salary hike. | In a public forum with trade unions on March 3, the Venezuelan president announced that the minimum wage would be set at half a Petro, some 126 bolivars (BsD) which amount to US $29 at the present exchange rate. | The new figure represents a significant increase over the previous one of 7 BsD (roughly $1.6). The government is reportedly weighing raising public employee food bonuses o 45 BsD ($10.4). They are currently set at 3 BsD. | Pensions and regular government bonuses, such as support for large households, will…

Ana Vraƒçar (2022-03-10). 40,000 education workers in Slovenia go on strike. peoplesdispatch.org Forty thousand workers from the education sector in Slovenia went on strike on March 9, after the Ministry of Education failed to act on repeated requests to bring salaries in line with inflation and recognize the contribution of education workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Trade Union of Education, Science and Culture of Slovenia (SVIZ), the strike spread over 652 education institutions, including kindergartens, schools, students' homes, and universities, affecting more than half a million people. | SVIZ has been calling on Simona Kustec, the Minister of Education, to begin collective negotia…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-10). US Congress approves $1B for Israel's Iron Dome in govt. spending bill and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the military aid to Israel approved by the US Congress, the targeting of Sahrawi activist Aminatou Haidar with Pegasus, and more…

Paige Bennett (2022-03-10). EPA expected to extend use of bee-killing pesticides. nationofchange.org "These insecticides are not helping the productivity of crops on fields — it seems an amazing effort to blanket all these acres with something that doesn't have a return on investment."

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2022-03-10: News Headlines

Thomas Piketty (2022-03-10). Sanction the oligarchs, not the people! indybay.org It is time to develop a new kind of sanctions. They must be targeted specifically at the oligarchs who have become wealthy as a result of the regime. This would require the establishment of an international financial registry, a measure that will not please the Western wealthy.

WSWS (2022-03-10). Live updates: American workers and youth speak out against US imperialism and Russian militarism in Ukraine. wsws.org In the hours and days ahead, the World Socialist Web Site will be posting statements against war from workers and young people across the United States. Anti-war sentiment is censored from the corporate media. Post your statements on social media to show the world that the US population does not want war using the hashtag #SpeakOutAgainstWW3.

Fight Back (2022-03-10). Tampa: International Women's Day protest opposes attacks on reproductive freedom. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – In light of the continuing attacks on reproductive and women's rights, both here in Florida and across the country, members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), and other organizations in the Tampa area held a rally this past Saturday, March 5 on the corner of Bearss and Florida Avenues. | Florida's abortion ban, just passed by the legislature, would ban people from seeking abortions after 15 weeks, and makes no exception for survivors of assault, incest or trafficking. Protesters shouted chants of, "Racist, sexist, anti-gay: GOP go away" and, "Pro-life, that's a lie, they don't care if peo…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-10). New Vietnamese amb. submits credentials to Amir-Abdollahian. en.mehrnews.com The newly-appointed ambassador of Socialist Republic of Vietnam submitted a copy of his credential to Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday.

Payal Sinha (2022-03-09). The Federal Backlog That's Hurting Immigrants — and Our Economy. otherwords.org Why are so many employers struggling to find workers right now? One reason is the unprecedented federal backlog of work permits for immigrants. | U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that issues these permits, is sitting on U.S. employers are required to ensure their employees — regardless of citizenship or national origin — are allowed to work legally. For native-born Americans, that…

C.J. Polychroniou (2022-03-09). Climate Mitigation Isn't Just a Matter of Ethics; It's Life and Death. truthout.org The climate crisis worsens with each passing year — and even the current levels of warming are disastrous, affecting ecosystems as well as social and environmental conditions of health. People in the world's poorest countries remain most vulnerable to the crisis. The world's governments are slow to react to the greatest challenge facing humanity today, even though potential solutions are not in short supply, with the transition to a green economy offering the most effective pathway to tackling th…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-09). Sanctions on Russia are Shaking the World, Including the West which Imposed Them. libya360.wordpress.com Elijah J. Magnier "We cannot replace Russian gas overnight," Germany announced, followed by France to confirm that "its stockpile of gas will not be enough if Russia stops supplying us." Hungary did not hesitate to reveal that "its economy and local currency will collapse if energy-related sanctions are imposed on Russia." Finland confirmed that it…

WSWS (2022-03-09). Foreign corporations exit Russia to provoke economic collapse. wsws.org The pullout is hitting virtually every sector of the economy—finance, aviation, automotive, energy, technology, telecommunications, service, entertainment, food production, fashion, and consumer goods.

ecns.cn (2022-03-09). China's property sector to benefit from policy easing in 2022: experts. ecns.cn China's property sector may slightly recover from the downturn due to easing policies while debt pressure remains, experts said.

_____ (2022-03-09). The American Empire Self-Destructs. popularresistance.org The basic assumption of economic and diplomatic forecasting is that every country will act in its own self-interest. Such reasoning is of no help in today's world. Observers across the political spectrum are using phrases like "shooting themselves in their own foot" to describe U.S. diplomatic confrontation with Russia and allies alike. But nobody thought that The American Empire would self-destruct this fast. | For more than a generation the most prominent U.S. diplomats have warned about what they thought would represent the ultimate external threat: an alliance of Russia and China dominating Eurasia. America's…

_____ (2022-03-09). Maduro Announces Reactivation Of Dialogue With The Opposition. popularresistance.org Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, on Monday, March 7, announced the reactivation of the dialogue and negotiation process with the platform of far-right opposition sectors in favor of the economic recovery and stability of the country. Additionally, the president reported that on March 5, he held a meeting with a delegation from the government of his counterpart from the United States, Joe Biden. Maduro made the announcements during a meeting with his vice presidents, ministers, and military high command at the Miraflores Palace. | In a further show a potential shift in the relations between the two countries,…

Jim Hightower (2022-03-09). The GOP Has Nothing to Offer on Inflation. otherwords.org Republican politicos are all over Joe Biden for failing to stop inflation. Perhaps you wonder, though, what these squawkers would do if they were in charge. | No need to wonder — just look back to 1974, when Americans were being pummeled by price spikes that topped 12 percent, nearly double what we're enduring today. Back then, President Gerald Ford and his Republican contingent in Congress met the challenge head-on with a new magical program of economic uplift they called "WIN": Whip Inflation Now! | But it was nothing — just a political slogan with no magic and no action behind it. | Price controls?

_____ (2022-03-09). Black Alliance For Peace Statement On International Women's Day. popularresistance.org As the world's eyes are on Ukraine on this International Women's Day, March 8, 2022, we are reminded of the disproportionate impact that war and militarism have on women. This is a reality that the women of the global South are acutely aware of because of the steady assaults on the humanity of peoples in the South executed by the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination. The militarized terror of the Axis of Domination in the service of their economic elites have been even more intensely felt by the women of Africa and the African Diaspora. | The socialist groundings of the day were expressed in its early unfolding. Indee…

Benjamin Norton (2022-03-09). China reaffirms 'rock solid' friendship with Russia, deepens economic integration amid Western sanctions. multipolarista.com While the US and EU isolate Moscow over Ukraine, China is strengthening its alliance with Russia, calling it its "most important strategic partner." In response to Western sanctions, Russian banks are moving to a Chinese payment system, and the Eurasian economies are integrating closer together.

_____ (2022-03-09). Sanctions: A Sanctimonious Word for Economic Warfare and Outright Theft. popularresistance.org The word "sanctions" emerged in the Middle Ages, meaning ecclesiastical decrees. Today it's a sanctimonious word for economic warfare, including even outright theft. Despite all the terror about what could happen in Ukraine next, Afghans are still facing freezing cold and starvation and the US has seized—not just frozen but seized—their $7 billion in assets on deposit at the Federal Reserve. And Ethiopia and Eritrea face brutal sanctions in House Resolution 6600. | The US has imposed sanctions on roughly a third of the world's population , most famously now on Russia, but more on developing nations th…

Walker Bragman (2022-03-09). How Pro-Business "Law And Economics" Interests Pushed The Courts Right. dailyposter.com

Benjamin Norton (2022-03-09). China reafirma su amistad 'sólida' con Rusia y profundiza su integración económica ante sanciones occidentales. multipolarista.com Mientras EEUU y la UE aíslan a Moscú por la guerra en Ucrania, China está fortaleciendo su alianza con Rusia, llamándolo su "socio estratégico más importante". En respuesta a las sanciones occidentales, los bancos rusos están usando un sistema de pago chino y las economías euroasiáticas se están integrando más estrechamente.

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-09). Iran selected as periodical chairman of ECO CC. en.mehrnews.com The 19th General Assembly of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)'s Chamber of Commerce and Industry was held virtually with the participation of presidents and senior members ECO member states.

JANET (2022-03-09). Fight xenophobia ‚àí a form of war. iacenter.org March 8, 2022 The U.S.- and NATO-instigated conflict in Ukraine is rooted in the quest to plunder and profit off Russia's vast wealth in natural gas and oil. This has been a major pillar of U.S. imperialism's quest to rebuild its global empire since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The imperialists will do whatever it takes to gain new markets to make profits, even with the global threat of nuclear war. Russia has had the right to protect its borders as the rise of neofascist elements inside Ukraine has been a constant threat to its sovereignty since 2014, resulting in the breakaway of the People's Repu…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-09). Albania: NATO upgrades air base in city once named after Stalin. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Balkan InsightFebruary 28, 2022 In Albanian City Once Named 'Stalin', a Base for NATO Developed under Italian fascist occupation, renamed 'Stalin City' under communism, and condemned to poverty with the transition to capitalism, the central Albanian city of Kucova is now set to become synonymous with NATO. Three years after the Western military alliance announced …

Ricardo Vaz (2022-03-09). Venezuela: Government Raises Wages as Inflation Hits Eight-Year Low. venezuelanalysis.com Maduro pledged to continue recovering incomes, which remain far from covering living costs.

_____ (2022-03-09). The Unity Of Theory And Practice. popularresistance.org In 1969, Fred Hampton — chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party — said: "we saying that theory's cool, but theory with no practice ain't shit." He elaborated this statement in another speech that he gave in the same year: "I don't care how much theory you got, if it don't have any practice applied to it, then that theory happens to be irrelevant. Right? Any theory you get, practice it. And when you practice it you make some mistakes. When you make a mistake, you correct that theory, and then it will be corrected theory that will be able to be applied and used in any situation. That…

Saheli Chowdhury (2022-03-09). Restoration of Archaeological Structures Continues in Palmyra, Syria (+Russia). orinocotribune.com Restoration work of the archaeological site in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, is on going within the framework of a collaboration between Syria and Russia, with the support of UNESCO. The project started in October last year after UNESCO approved the 3-D models of the structures and monuments of the UNESCO World Heritage site that were prepared by experts from the Russian Academy of Sciences. | Palmyra, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, located in the Syrian province of Homs, was taken over by the Islamic State in 2015, which then carried out massacres, and damaged, demolished, or…

Staff (2022-03-09). China Asks the US to Disclose Information on Biolabs in Ukraine. orinocotribune.com China demands all parties involved to guarantee the security of the places where dangerous viruses are stored. | On Tuesday, March 8, China's Foreign Ministry called on the United States to release full details of its biological laboratories in Ukraine, urging all parties involved to ensure security of the labs. | On Monday, the Russian military said that it had found documents indicating that Ukrainian authorities had been destroying pathogens studied at its laboratories. Moscow claimed that 30 US-financed Ukrainian biolabs have been actively cooperating with the US military. | Recent media reports indicate t…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-09). "You strike a woman, you strike a rock!" peoplesdispatch.org Over the past several years, working class movements across the world have taken to the streets and plazas on March 8, International Working Women's Day in recognition of the day as an important day of struggle and resistance and to further the cause of women's liberation. The day which corporations and NGOs have attempted to dilute into a day to give presents to women and recognize their achievements has radical roots. It was established by socialist women in the heat of militant labor and internationalist organizing in order to highlight women's centrality in the struggle to overthrow class based oppression, as…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-09). Made in the USA: Military Biolabs in Ukraine and the Spread of Disaster. libya360.wordpress.com Mission Verdad Contracts, high health risk and bioterrorist impunity also expand with NATO The Chief of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, reported the existence of a chain of more than 30 biological laboratories divided in countries of…

WSWS (2022-03-09). Storming Heaven (1987): Meeting the responsibilities of historical fiction. wsws.org Giardina's novel takes as its subject the rapacious conquest by coal mining companies of southern West Virginia and the courageous battles waged by miners and their families in defense of their land, their labor and their lives.

JANET (2022-03-09). International Working Women's Day means solidarity. iacenter.org By Kathy Durkin March 8, 2022 International Working Women's Day is commemorated around the world on March 8. Two words signify its essence: solidarity and struggle. Ontario Federation of Labor Established in 1910 at an International Women's Socialist Conference in Copenhagen, this special day was intended to broaden global solidarity and strengthen ties among women workers. IWWD's socialist founders deplored the terrible working conditions faced by women workers, as they poured into factories in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. They noted the strikes and massive demonstrations held by women immigrants in New York…

teleSUR, jaa, JL (2022-03-09). China pide a EE.UU. explicar laboratorios biológicos en Ucrania. telesurtv.net China pidió que ambas partes garanticen la seguridad de los laboratorios en el marco del conflicto entre Rusia y Ucrania.

teleSUR, JDO (2022-03-09). Rusia exige a EE.UU. explicar sobre biolaboratorios en Ucrania. telesurtv.net La Casa Blanca admitió su existencia y dijo que había destruido peligrosos biomateriales allí desarrollados.

Staff (2022-03-09). Continúan labores de recuperación tras incendio en Termoeléctrica del Mariel. cubadebate.cu Fuerzas especializadas de los Ministerios de Energía y Minas, y el de la Construcción, trabajan intensamente en las labores de recuperación de la Central Termoeléctrica (CTE) Máximo Gómez Báez, de Mariel, tras el incendio de grandes proporciones acontecido en la noche de este lunes.

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-03-09). US-funded biolabs in Ukraine producing biological weapons. en.mehrnews.com Moscow officials say Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency has been involved in the operation of more than 30 biological laboratories across Ukraine engaged in the storage of and research into a number of deadly agents.

Olúf·∫πÃÅmi O. Táíwà≤ (2022-03-09). How BlackRock, Vanguard, and UBS Are Screwing the World. zcomm.org Such firms control a huge portion of the world's wealth. Instead of using that power to solve climate change, they're blocking progress and profiting off inequality…

Peter Certo (2022-03-09). In OtherWords: March 9, 2022. otherwords.org As anyone who's filled up their gas tank recently knows, spiraling prices for everything from gas to groceries have taken a real bite out of Americans' wallets. So what's going on? | The pandemic is certainly part of it. So is fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which is sending prices for oil and wheat spiraling upward. And as Payal Sinha explains this week,

_____ (2022-03-09). US Enriches itself at the Expense of the EU Paralized by the Price Shock. journal-neo.org Europe has been shaken by galloping gas prices in recent months, leading to financial and socio-political instability in the Old World. There are several reasons for this, one of them being the politics of domestic European speculators, who wanted to get rich quick when, as a result of their blatant Russophobic policies, European officials managed …

ecns.cn (2022-03-09). U.S. crude oil inventories up as oil prices surge again. ecns.cn The American Petroleum Institute on Tuesday reported an increase of 2.8 million barrels of crude oil in U.S. inventories for the week ending March 4.

WSWS (2022-03-09). US ramps up "financial war" on Russia as retired generals call for no-fly zone. wsws.org The United States and European Union ramped up their "financial war" against Russia Tuesday, announcing major measures to restrict Russian oil and gas imports.

WSWS (2022-03-09). US ramps up "financial war" on Russia as generals call for no-fly zone. wsws.org The United States and European Union ramped up their "financial war" against Russia Tuesday, announcing major measures to restrict Russian oil and gas imports.

WSWS (2022-03-09). Backing Biden's war drive, USW boasts its deal for 30,000 oil workers "does not add to inflationary pressures" wsws.org In a war-mongering statement calling for a ban on Russian oil imports, the United Steelworkers president praised the agreement, which will impose a deep cut in real wages for refinery workers and their families.

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2022-03-09: News Headlines

Walker Bragman (2022-03-09). How Pro-Business "Law And Economics" Interests Pushed The Courts Right. dailyposter.com

WSWS (2022-03-09). 4 months after UAW/USW sellout contract, auto parts maker Dana Inc. reports massive boost to profits in 2021. wsws.org Auto parts maker Dana Incorporated made $244 million in pretax earnings, a 492 percent increase from 2020, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Tanya Wadhwa (2022-03-09). Maduro announces reactivation of dialogue with the opposition after meeting with US government. peoplesdispatch.org The dialogue process between the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition had been suspended since October 2021. Meanwhile, the diplomatic relations between Venezuela and the US had been suspended since January 2019…

WSWS (2022-03-09). Australia's Socialist Alliance lines up behind imperialist war drive against Russia. wsws.org A politically insidious role is being played by the pseudo-left groups such as Socialist Alliance that falsely claim to be socialist but, despite token criticisms of the US, align themselves with the NATO war drive against Russia.

WSWS (2022-03-09). Reactions in Germany to the webinar: "Fight Covid! Save Lives! Stop the Drive to World War III!" wsws.org Workers from Germany comment on the February 26 international online webinar of the World Socialist Web Site, "Fight Covid! Save Lives! Stop the Drive to World War III!" and draw political conclusions.

WSWS (2022-03-09). Oppose the arrest of Ukrainian Communist Youth leaders! wsws.org The WSWS unequivocally opposes the arrests of Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich of the Ukrainian Communist Youth and demands their immediate release.

_____ (2022-03-08). Ukraine Is A Pawn In The United States' Fight To Prevent A Multipolar World. popularresistance.org This week, Clearing the FOG speaks with Brian Becker, a leader of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the host of The Socialist Program, for a socialist perspective of the war in Ukraine. Becker discusses why it was a mistake for Russia to invade and how it has shored up support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) even though Russia has legitimate security concerns and the United States did not appear to be willing to stop provoking an invasion. He also talks about the real racism exposed by this war, the impact of the media misinformation campaign on people on the left and the current state…

Matt Sedlar (2022-03-08). Transcript of 'Inflation Today' Webinar with Economists Joseph Stiglitz, Dean Baker, and Jason Furman. cepr.net On March 3, 2022, the Center for Economic and Policy Research convened three leading economists to look at some of the major issues relating to current inflation in the United States. The event can be viewed via the video directly below. A transcript of the event is also available below. Dean Baker is Senior Economist …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). President Maduro Alerts That War Could Extend Throughout the World. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News President Nicolas Maduro expresses grave concern that the conflict in Ukraine could expand and could turn into a Third World War. He warns of a media campaign and economic measures that aim to aggravate conditions and extend the scenario of war beyond Ukraine, to Europe, and beyond Europe to other regions of the…

Anand Naidoo (2022-03-08). The Heat: China renews call for negotiations to end Ukraine crisis. america.cgtn.com China reiterates its call for a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Ukraine. Plus — amidst global uncertainty Beijing outlines modest economic goals for the year.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). The American Empire Self-Destructs. libya360.wordpress.com Michael Hudson But nobody thought that it would happen this fast. Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion. The basic assumption of economic and diplomatic forecasting is…

Lucrecia Franco (2022-03-08). NGO promotes socioeconomic independence for Brazilian women. america.cgtn.com Well-known NGO "Favela Mundo" has created a project and focused on helping vulnerable women in Brazil. The latest official figures show that women earn 77.7% of what men receive. And they are overwhelmingly more likely to be victims of severe domestic abuse.

Sarah Anderson (2022-03-08). 'Reckoning' with the Economic Marginalization of Native Americans. inequality.org

_____ (2022-03-08). Will ASEAN Survive the China-US Confrontation? journal-neo.org China has been actively pushing the US out of its place as "world hegemon" for a number of years now. Through soft power — lucrative trade agreements, economic aid, generous loans and investments — the PRC gains partners and allies across the world. The scale of China's "offensive" is such that the PRC is cooperating …

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-08). New degree in economics, finance and data science is first of its kind in the UK. imperial.ac.uk Imperial has launched the UK's first degree to allow students to study economics and finance, combined with data science.

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-08). Don't sell your land, you will benefit from it when Museveni is gone- Kabuleta tells Ugandans. plusnews.ug The National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED) leader, Joseph Kabuleta has rallied Ugandans to guard their land jealously and avoid the temptation of selling it. Kabuleta said land is a priceless natural resource which will help Ugandans overcome poverty in future when the current government led by President Yoweri Museveni is out of power. The former …

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Philippines: Women and toiling people, rise up amid grave crises. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following March 8 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extends its revolutionary greetings to women in the country and across the world on the occasion of the International Working Women's Day. Let us recall the heroism of women from the ranks of workers, peasants and other progressive classes and sectors who broke through imposed gender, cultural and economic barriers and took their place as cadres and fighters of the Philippine revolution. | It is significant that in ten days, we are set to mark the 50th a…

Michael Hudson (2022-03-08). America shoots its own dollar empire in economic attack on Russia. mronline.org Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion.

Karen Conner (2022-03-08). PREVIEW: What to Look for in the February Consumer Price Index. cepr.net (The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday, March 10 at 8: 30 AM Eastern Time.) | Both the overall and core CPI rose by 0.6 percent in January. This brought the year-over-year inflation to 7.5 percent and 6.0 percent in the overall and core CPI, respectively. | While this continued the pattern of high monthly inflation rates, there is a reason for expecting some moderation in February. Most notably, we may finally be seeing vehicle prices beginning to level off and come down. In January, new vehicles prices were flat for the first time since March…

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Milwaukee: New International Women's Day Coalition hosts first action. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI — On the afternoon of March 6, over a dozen organizations joined together under the banner of the new Milwaukee International Women's Day Coalition to host a march and rally in commemoration of the working-class holiday. A crowd of more than 50 people turned out to celebrate the occasion. | The Coalition united community, campus and labor organizations under one umbrella with a platform that included points about reproductive rights, trans women's rights, compensation for domestic laborers, expanded union rights, paid parental leave, and community control of the police. | The action started at…

Manlio Dinucci (2022-03-08). Ucraina, era tutto scritto nel piano della Rand Corp. globalresearch.ca Il piano strategico degli Stati uniti contro la Russia è stato elaborato tre anni fa dalla Rand Corporation (il manifesto, Rand Corp: come abbattere la Russia, 21 maggio 2019). La Rand Corporation, il cui quartier generale ha sede a …

Sharon Zhang (2022-03-08). Starbucks Loses Bid to Delay Union Election Count Again as It Cuts Worker Hours. truthout.org The labor board has denied another Starbucks bid to delay union ballot counts as workers say that the company has started slashing hours without prior warning, endangering employees' finances. | The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that the

Dana Sanchez (2022-03-08). Biden Bans Oil Imports From Russia: 3 Things To Know About Heavy New Backdoor Tax On Black America. moguldom.com President Joe Biden announced a ban on all Russian oil imports on Tuesday, March 8 as part of U.S. sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine, warning that gas prices will go up further and Americans will pay at the pump. "Putin's war is already hurting American families at the gas pump," Biden said at a …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). Russia's Judo Kick to the Western Financial Gut. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar Washington's sanctions on Moscow will destroy Europe, not Russia. The battlefield is drawn. The official Russian blacklist of hostile sanctioning nations includes the US, the EU, Canada and, in Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore (the only one from Southeast Asia). Notice how that 'international community' keeps shrinking. The Global South should be aware…

Kevin Mwanza (2022-03-08). Russians Turn To Tether USDT As Ruble Collapses, Now Worth Less Than 1 Cent. moguldom.com Russians, rattled by the effect of sanctions on their local currency, the ruble, are turning to U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether, pushing its price up as much as 30 percent since President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. The Tether (USDT)-ruble trading pair witnessed inflation in the days after the attack, crossing for the first …

Editor2 (2022-03-08). Costa Rica: A Paradise for the Few After First Round of Elections. orinocotribune.com By Giovanni Beluche V. — Mar 3, 2022 | It seems that hard times indeed are coming for the working class, micro- and small-business owners, and small-scale farmers of Costa Rica after the first round of presidential voting on February 6. The two candidates that will go on to the runoff, José María Figueres Olsen and Rodrigo Chaves, have clearly neoliberal proposals: more free trade, more taxes on wage earners, and more cuts to university budgets and social spending. They offer no specific proposals to address the serious crisis of tax evasion and tax avoidance, nor anything to curtail the use of tax havens to…

Ana Santoyo (2022-03-08). Celebrating International Women's Day. liberationnews.org IWD means acknowledging the root cause of women's oppression—class society—and its centrality to the system that oppresses our working class today—capitalism.

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-03-08). My LAST (for now) Morning Commute 3-8-22: Happy Women's Liberation Day! Saying goodbye, for Now! anchor.fm This is going to be my last podcast for a while! I recently began my candidacy for the PSL. I am going to take this time to learn, to organize, to experience, and to try to bill not only myself and my own understanding but also a movement. We must build a socialist revolution if we believe that any of the issues facing the masses today will ever be resolved. No war, no form of capitalism, no imperialism, no empire can or ever will be able to overcome these issues. It is only the people-the masses themselves- that will be able to eradicate exploitation and oppression from this world. It has been awesome getting to…

Kevin Mwanza (2022-03-08). Citi: Investors Are Buying Bitcoin In Anticipation Of Russian Buying, We're Seeing Low Russian Volume. moguldom.com Investors are buying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in anticipation that Russians will switch to digital currencies to avoid the effect of Western sanctions imposed in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Sanctions include freezing Russia's cash reserves. The ruble has sunk to record lows against the dollar, with 1 ruble currently worth $0.0094. The Russian …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-08). Peruvian fishermen protest agreement with Repsol on oil spill. peoplesdispatch.org Fishermen are dissatisfied with the agreement signed between the national government and the Repsol company on an initial compensation of 3,000 soles to affected fishermen and fish merchants. They say that they lose more than 5,000 soles a month due to the disastrous oil spill…

WSWS (2022-03-08). The German state tries to cover its tracks in latest far-right trial. wsws.org Between August 2018 and March 2021, hundreds of threatening letters were sent to artists, lawyers and politicians under the acronym NSU 2.0, which is a reference to the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Socialist Underground responsible for the murder of nine immigrants and a policewoman.

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Eyewitness report from Venezuela: Second day of PSUV Congress. fightbacknews.org Caracas, Venezuela – The second day of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) 5th Congress, March 6, featured speeches and workshops about building the party among working people, while strengthening the role of women and youth. Facts and figures played an important part in educating the PSUV militants, with data and explanations appearing on giant video walls. However, it was the speaker's analysis of problems, and proposed solutions that kept everyone talking. | For example, there are 8 million registered to vote for the PSUV, but until now, no way to check how people participate in the party. There is…

Fight Back (2022-03-08). Dallas rallies against war with Russia. fightbacknews.org Dallas, Texas – On March 6, over 30 anti-war protesters showed up at the Grassy Knoll in downtown Dallas to condemn NATO's involvement in Ukraine, its hostility to Russia, and to call for the disbanding of NATO. The protest was called by the Dallas Anti-War Committee, CODEPINK Dallas, Dallas Peace and Justice Center, Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialist of America, and Party for Socialism and Liberation. Signs present at the protest included "Peace in Ukraine! No to NATO!" "No to NATO expansion" and "Abolish NATO!" | "Over the past couple of weeks, a war has broken out between Russia and Ukraine. The Am…

_____ (2022-03-08). Twin Cities Takes To The Streets For International Women's Day. popularresistance.org Minneapolis, MN – Around 60 people gathered in Mayday Plaza on Sunday, March 6, for an International Women's Day protest organized by the Twin Cities district of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Demands for reproductive rights and healthcare for all, justice for missing and murdered indigenous women and two-spirit people, an end to gender-based violence, queer and trans liberation, and justice for all stolen lives were raised. The demonstrators also stood in solidarity with Twin Cities educators preparing to strike, signs reading "Victory to the educators!" dotted the crowd gathered in the square, and sim…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). Fascists from Europe and Terrorists from the Middle East Support the Bandera Nazis: Russian Communist Party Statement. libya360.wordpress.com The CPRF resolutely condemns the attempt to internationalize the military conflict in Ukraine and the involvement in the hostilities of outright Nazis and terrorists from Europe and the Middle East. The CPRF initially assessed the military conflict in Ukraine as a struggle against the neo-Nazis who seized power in a coup d'état in February 2014….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). The Danger of a World Ruled by NATO: Interview with àÅngeles Maestro. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Aznarez àÅngeles Maestro is a leading figure in Spain when it comes to internationalist and solidarity activism. A former communist deputy, today she is not only highly critical of the positions of that party but also denounces its permanent ideological retreats. She has denounced with all her might the Psoe-Podemos compromise, and now that…

JANET (2022-03-08). Anti-imperialist voice from the Spanish State on the crisis in Ukraine. iacenter.org March 7, 2022 In view of the intense international crisis exacerbating the confrontation between U.S.-NATO imperialism and Russia, and in light of the upcoming NATO Summit in Madrid this June, we in Workers World publish this Statement of the Coordinating Committee of Communist Nuclei* in the Spanish State, which is a NATO member. Some of the terms and acronyms are explained at the end. Translation: John Catalinotto. Zaragoza, Spain, Oct. 3, 2015. Credit: Pablo Ibáñez Once again we must confront confusion. Once again the media owned by the international oligarchy and the big Spanish banks and multinationals [mdas…

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