Daily Archives: March 17, 2022

2022-03-17: News Headlines

WorkWeek (2022-03-17). 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…

_____ (2022-03-17). Exposing the Very Secret World of Prohibited Bioweapons. journal-neo.org This week, writing as of the 2nd week of March 2022, the United States will reach 1 million dead from COVID 19. This disease, according to, not so much facts, but rather the tired acceptance of corrupt press and a public sated with conspiracy theories, is the "Kung Flu." As with false narratives, and there …

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

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-03-17). US base in Deir Ez-Zor comes under missile, drone attacks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 17 (MNA) — The Al-Omar oil field base, used by American occupiers in eastern Syria, was heavily attacked by missiles and drones on early Thursday.

WSWS (2022-03-17). The US arming of Ukraine and the preparations for war. wsws.org Declaring "We started our assistance to Ukraine before this war began," President Joe Biden made clear that the United States has been pumping billions of dollars of weapons into Ukraine for years.

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). 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…

Anonymous669 (2022-03-16). Turkish Artillery, Combat Drones Target Kurdish-Held Areas In Northern & Northeastern Syria. southfront.org File image. | Turkish forces continue to escalate their attacks on Kurdish-held towns and villages in Syria's northern and northeastern regions. | On March 16, the artillery of the Turkish military and its proxies pounded the towns of Minaq, Maraanaz and al-Alqamiyah in the northern countryside of Aleppo. The three towns are held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). However, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) maintains a number of positions there. | According to the Hawar News Agency, which is affiliated wi…

WSWS (2022-03-16). US to send another $1 billion in weapons to Ukraine. wsws.org Amid mounting demands in the media and political establishment for escalation against Russia, Ukrainian President Zelensky is expected to call for the implementation of a no-fly zone in an address before the US Congress Wednesday.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-16). Video: Colossal German military buildup signals expansion of NATO nuclear strike capacity. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Deutsche WelleMarch 16, 2022 Germany wants advanced US fighter jets: A game changer? Germany confirmed this week it wants to buy F-35 fighter jets from the United States. These would replace its aging fighter fleet, and keep its commitment to NATO's nuclear weapons policy. VIDEO…

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…

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…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-03-16). Top CIA Assassin Says U.S. Was Extremely Close to Using Nuclear Weapons in Vietnam. covertactionmagazine.com Billy Waugh Says He Wrote Recommendation to Drop Them on Mu Gia Pass Along Ho Chi Minh Trail on the …

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…

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, …

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 …

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 …

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