2023-03-11: News Headlines

Daniel Campione (2023-03-11). Revolución rusa y socialismo, pasado y presente. globalizacion.ca Este es el segundo volumen de la serie del autor en torno a Actualidad de la revolución y socialismo. En una primera entrega titulada Rusia 1917: Vertientes y afluentes, Casas indagó en los antecedentes revolucionarios y en el "asalto al…

Peter Boyle (2023-03-10). Kohei Saito to speak at Ecosocialism 2023. greenleft.org.au Japanese Marxist academic Kohei Saito, author of Capital in the Anthropocene, will be a keynote speaker at Ecosocialism 2023, organised by Green Left. Peter Boyle reports.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-03-10). Safety Board to probe Norfolk Southern, not just individual crashes. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—In an unprecedented decision, the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the entire "safety culture" at Norfolk Southern Railroad, not just the individual NS crashes that landed it in hot water, notably the Feb. 3 massive and dangerous freight car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. It was the first of two wrecks that month and …

WSWS (2023-03-10). Greek government and opposition parties fall in polls due to mass revulsion at train deaths. wsws.org Every day since the crash there have been protests, with a general strike held Wednesday in which hundreds of thousands participated.

americanthinker (2023-03-10). Good news, bad news on (un)employment. americanthinker.com Good–more people are working but, well, bad–more are also unemployed. Whaaaat?>

CounterSpin (2023-03-10). Kim Knackstedt on Disability Policy, Algernon Austin on Unemployment & Race. fair.org CounterSpin230310.mp3 Judy Heumann | This week on CounterSpin: "I wanna see feisty disabled people change the world." So declared disability rights activist

Daniel Campione (2023-03-11). Revolución rusa y socialismo, pasado y presente. globalizacion.ca Este es el segundo volumen de la serie del autor en torno a Actualidad de la revolución y socialismo. En una primera entrega titulada Rusia 1917: Vertientes y afluentes, Casas indagó en los antecedentes revolucionarios y en el "asalto al…

Peter Boyle (2023-03-10). Kohei Saito to speak at Ecosocialism 2023. greenleft.org.au Japanese Marxist academic Kohei Saito, author of Capital in the Anthropocene, will be a keynote speaker at Ecosocialism 2023, organised by Green Left. Peter Boyle reports.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-03-10). Safety Board to probe Norfolk Southern, not just individual crashes. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—In an unprecedented decision, the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the entire "safety culture" at Norfolk Southern Railroad, not just the individual NS crashes that landed it in hot water, notably the Feb. 3 massive and dangerous freight car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. It was the first of two wrecks that month and …

WSWS (2023-03-10). Greek government and opposition parties fall in polls due to mass revulsion at train deaths. wsws.org Every day since the crash there have been protests, with a general strike held Wednesday in which hundreds of thousands participated.

americanthinker (2023-03-10). Good news, bad news on (un)employment. americanthinker.com Good–more people are working but, well, bad–more are also unemployed. Whaaaat?>

CounterSpin (2023-03-10). Kim Knackstedt on Disability Policy, Algernon Austin on Unemployment & Race. fair.org CounterSpin230310.mp3 Judy Heumann | This week on CounterSpin: "I wanna see feisty disabled people change the world." So declared disability rights activist

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-11). Ukraine demands "incredible amount" of new Turkish combat drones — DM. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Daily SabahMarch 6, 2023 Ukraine needs 'incredible amount of drones,' defense chief says Ukraine's defense chief said on Monday that his country needed "an incredible amount of drones," as Moscow's war with Kyiv rages on into its second year. "This is also a game changer. Both drones for reconnaissance and adjustment, shock drones from 3 …

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-10). Pentagon delivers first long-range Patriot interceptors for Polish air defense system. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioMarch 10, 2023 Poland receives first US missiles for Patriot air defence systems The first batch of PAC-3 MSE missiles for Polands Patriot air-defence systems has arrived in the country, its producer Lockheed Martin announced on Thursday. US defence contractor Lockheed Martin announced the delivery in a statement on Thursday…. The PAC-3 MSE (Patriot …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-03-11). Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin—Former Member of Raytheon Board of Directors—Has Awarded Over $30 Billion in Contracts to Raytheon Since His Confirmation in January, 2021. covertactionmagazine.com [This article was originally published in April, 2021 at which time Raytheon had obtained $2.36 billion in Pentagon contracts since Austin's appointment. Since that time, CAM has kept tabs on Raytheon's contracts and the article has been updated.—Editors] The Pentagon has awarded the defense giant Raytheon Technologies, the second largest weapons-maker in the world, over …

Jake Johnson (2023-03-10). Progressives Slam Biden's Request for $30 Billion Increase to Military Budget. truthout.org Progressive lawmakers on Thursday voiced dismay that President Joe Biden is requesting a nearly $30 billion increase in U.S. military spending just months after the Pentagon failed its fifth consecutive audit, admitting it could not properly account for more than half of its trillions of dollars in assets. Biden's budget framework for fiscal year 2024 calls for $886 billion in overall military… |

Linda Benesch (2023-03-10). Inequality costs Social Security trillions. Here's how we fix it. nationofchange.org If the wealthy simply paid the same tax the rest of us do, we could even expand benefits.

Gabriele Gysi & Roland Rottenfusser (2023-03-11). Defensive Invasion & Strategies of Power. indybay.org Imagine it's war and no one goes! This dream is being hurled into the dustbin of history by NATO. War is socially acceptable again, new lifestyle. Many voices cry for revenge, cry for the most modern weapons, because there are new sneaky attack warriors with poisonous arrows. It all seems like a duplicate of the US founding story. The new savages, the new Indians are the Russians.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-11). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

americanthinker (2023-03-10). A secret reason for Ukraine war funding? americanthinker.com The government could actually have been saving money by sending weapons to Ukraine. But that can't last forever.

Editor (2023-03-10). UN Disarmament Official Lays Out Path to Reverse 'Dangerous' Nuclear Trends. scheerpost.com "Though we are living in a moment of increased confrontation and militarization, one fundamental truth remains unchanged: The only way to eliminate nuclear risk is to eliminate nuclear weapons."

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-10). By supplying weapon parts to Ukrainian army, S. Korea has become participant in war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com QuartzMarch 9, 2023 South Korea exported weapon components to Poland, knowing they would end up in Ukraine The South Korean government confirmed it approved export licenses last year for components sent to Poland and used in weapons bound for the Ukrainian army last year, contradicting Seoul's current military aid policy that prevents selling arms to …

WSWS (2023-03-10). Australian corporate papers call for war with China, nuclear weapons and mass conscription. wsws.org The series, published on the front pages of the country's largest newspapers, demanded nothing less than total war against China.

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