Daily Archives: March 31, 2022

2022-03-31: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2022-03-31). Over 40,000 pieces of crashed Chinese plane found. ecns.cn Over 40,000 pieces of wreckage from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had been recovered by Wednesday, an official told a press briefing on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-31). Settlement of plane crash insurance claims underway: regulator. ecns.cn China's insurance industry is actively settling the insurance claims from the China Eastern Airlines plane crash, the country's top banking and insurance regulator said on Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-31). China Eastern plane's two black boxes being decoded: official. ecns.cn Both flight recorders, or black boxes, of the China Eastern Airlines passenger plane that crashed in south China on March 21 are being decoded, an aviation official said Thursday.

East Bay CodePink (2022-03-31). Saturday 4/2: Yard Sale Benefits: Yemeni, Afghan, Haitian Refugees. indybay.org McGee St (corner of Hearst), Berkeley, CA…

_____ (2022-03-31). US Enhances its Bacteriological and Chemical Weapons Capabilities. journal-neo.org The imperative for the US to give up the development, stockpiling and use of chemical and bacteriological weapons banned by multiple international conventions is now receiving increased global attention due to substantiated condemnation of Washington's actions in Ukraine and a number of other countries in recent years. The US attempts to create bacteriological weapons in …

Yves Wegelin, Serge Halimi (2022-03-31). More weapons are not the solution and Julian Assange. indybay.org What is insane, however, is the belief that peace can be secured for the future with even more weapons. SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that he wants to invest an additional hundred billion euros in Germany's army; and in Switzerland, too, armament fantasies are being voiced.

WSWS (2022-03-31). German government plans missile defence system for war against Russia. wsws.org Four weeks after Chancellor Scholz announced Germany's biggest rearmament since the end of the Second World War, new weapons systems are being purchased in large quantities.

The Socialist Program (2022-03-30). Biden's New Budget Gives $31 Billion Gift to War Industry. liberationnews.org Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the Biden administration's budget proposal for the coming year on Monday, proposing an enormous increase to the military budget as the new Cold War intensifies.

WSWS (2022-03-30). New York's Mayor Eric Adams orders dismantling of homeless encampments. wsws.org The homeless who are targeted are themselves a stark symptom of the unprecedented social polarization and inequality in New York City and other metropolitan centers that have been touted—at least before the COVID-19 pandemic—as great success stories for American capitalism.

WSWS (2022-03-30). Chevron, the USW, and the threat of war: What striking oil workers need to know. wsws.org Chevron is the fourth-largest private oil company in the world, with close ties to the US military—industrial complex and interests in controlling the vast oil and gas reserves in Russia.

Staff (2022-03-30). Saudi cessation of op. meaningless without lifting blockade. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 30 (MNA) — Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansarullah's political bureau said that as long as the blockade on Yemen is not lifted, Saudis' declaration of halting military operations is meaningless.

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