DARIN (2024-03-02). BERKELEY LEAP YEAR Save the Park. indybay.org We toured with the Brass Liberatin Orchestra and sussed capitalism and oligarchy…

Scott Ferguson (2024-03-02). The Alternative w/ Nick Romeo. mronline.org Scott Ferguson and Billy Saas speak with New Yorker writer Nick Romeo about his exciting new book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy, released in January 2024 with Public Affairs. Romeo's The Alternative rebukes Margaret Thatcher's infamous axiom that "there is no alternative" to neoliberal capitalism. In doing so, the book inventories the most promising experiments in radical economic democracy underway across the world today.

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2024-03-02). Saturday 3/2: Fighting the Recall of Pamela Price. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…

Ana Perdigón (2024-03-02). Venezuela Will Take Legal and Diplomatic Measures Against US Government's Destruction of Venezuelan Plane. orinocotribune.com Venezuela will take all legal, diplomatic and political measures against the destruction of the Boeing 747-300 aircraft belonging to EMTRASUR, perpetrated by the government of the United States which had also hijacked the plane in complicity with Argentina. | Through an official statement issued on Thursday, February 29, the Venezuelan authorities expressed their "strongest protest and condemnation" before the international community against this blatant violation of international law by the US. |

greenleft.org.au (2024-03-02). Protest calls on UQ to cut ties with Boeing. greenleft.org.au

codepink.org (2024-03-02). HANDS OFF RAFAH: NY RallyAs Israel and the US threaten Rafah with invasion, the time is NOW to mobilize. No amount of repression and intimidation will stop us. Join us and make this the biggest march for Palestine NYC has seen yet! | | WHEN: March 2, 2024 at 1:00PM (EST) | | WHERE: Washington Square, New York City

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2024-03-02). Rusia intercepta drones ucranianos en Nizhny Novgorod y Belgorod. telesurtv.net Asimismo insistieron que los sistemas de defensa antiaérea interceptaron un dron en el espacio aéreo de la región de Belgorod.

newarab (2024-03-02). Colombia halts Israel arms purchases after Gaza massacre. newarab.com Israel is one of the main providers of weapons to the South American country's security forces, which are engaged in a decades-long conflict with leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and drug cartels. | Petro made his announcement on Thu…

Redacción Madrid (2024-03-02). BBVA, Santander, Sabadell, and CaixaBank continue to finance the nuclear weapons industry. pressenza.com A new report shows that the number of banks financing the industry has fallen since a treaty banning it was passed, but the four Spanish banks are still on the list. | By Yago àÅlvarez Barba/El Salto diario | Since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) entered into force in 2021, the number of financial institutions financing companies that produce nuclear weapons has decreased. According to the latest Untenable Investments report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Dutch organization PAX, as part of the Dont Bank on the Bomb campaign, between January 202…

Jake Johnson (2024-03-02). Just 2 US Lawmakers Sign International Statement Demanding Israel Arms Embargo. truthout.org More than 200 lawmakers from 13 countries issued a joint statement Friday expressing opposition to their nations' weapons exports to Israel and pledging to do everything in their power to halt the flow of arms that are being used to massacre Palestinians in Gaza. "We, the undersigned parliamentarians, declare our commitment to end our nations' arms sales to the state of Israel… |

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-03-02). "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.

Ron Jacobs (2024-02-29). Unchained Capitalism: A Demonic Theology. counterpunch.org

Brandon Sanchez (2024-02-29). Craig Gauthier: Still fighting for Black Liberation, workers' power, and socialism. peoplesworld.org Huey Newton, Fred Hampton, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Claudia Jones—they're some of the most monumental names in mid-20th century Black history. They struggled for the liberation of Black people, the oppressed, and all those exploited by capitalism. The role played by many other rank-and-file fighters for justice has not written about yet, though. Craig …

Ron Jacobs (2024-02-29). Unchained Capitalism: A Demonic Theology. counterpunch.org In the minds of many, the US state of Vermont is an idyllic place of trees, mountains, ski resorts, craft beer and people with lots of money. In all honesty, Vermont does have its share of all these things. However, like any other place in the world's capitalist economy, they come at a price. Until

WSWS (2024-02-29). Twenty weeks of protests in Australia against Gaza genocide. wsws.org "I'm increasingly convinced that socialism is the only option. There's clearly a need for a change, for a system that doesn't work in the interests of profit and exploitation."

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-29). Palestine, South Africa activists to address Ecosocialism 2024. greenleft.org.au

Suds, Snacks,, Socialism Forum Committee (2024-02-29). Saturday 3/2: Fighting the Recall of Pamela Price. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…

Robert Reich (2024-02-29). My ultimate history crash course. nationofchange.org To understand the present, study the past.

GABIK (2024-02-29). KZN continues quest to remain most favoured investment destination. sanews.gov.za KZN continues quest to remain most favoured investment destination | While unemployment figures may cause despair, KwaZulu-Natal Premier, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, says the rate of investment into the province is a sign that tomorrow will be better than today. | "As KwaZulu-Natal, we faced an uphill battle in ensuring that investor confidence is unwavering, despite challenges with load shedding, the civil unrest, ageing utilities' infrastructure, some of which could not withstand the recent floods. Yet we remain determined to continue in our quest to ensure that investors know that KwaZulu-Natal is and remains the most…

Staff (2024-02-29). US Wrecks Venezuela's EMTRASUR Boeing 747 Cargo Jet. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's vice minister of anti-blockade policies, William Castillo, condemned the US vandalization of the Venezuelan 747 cargo jet, owned by Conviasa's EMTRASUR air cargo company, after the theft carried out by the United States in complicity with the government of Javier Milei in Argentina. | Castillo pointed out this Wednesday, February 28, in a statement concerning the US coercive measures that led to the illegal seizure of the plane, that "when the opposition comes to ask for your vote because they want to fix the country, remind them that … all of them asked for sanctions against Venezuela." | On Februa…

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-29). Protest calls on UQ to cut ties with Boeing. greenleft.org.au

newarab (2024-02-29). Turkish drones kill 3 in an attack on Christian militia. newarab.com

infobrics (2024-02-29). Zircon, Su-57 with Kh-69, Tornado-S with kamikaze drones… Russia's tech edge in Ukraine grows. infobrics.org Moscow's capabilities have now surpassed all expectations, both at home and abroad. By integrating multiple military technologies, Russia is creating perhaps the deadliest combination on the modern (and future) battlefield. This is certainly bad news for the Neo-Nazi junta and the political West.

K. J. Noh, Popular Resistance. (2024-02-29). US Readies 'Transnational Kill Chain' For Taiwan Proxy War. popularresistance.org In many traditions, when you paint or sculpt a Buddha, the eyes are the very last to be painted. It's only after the eyes have been completed that the sculpture is fully alive and empowered. | The US has just approved a $75 million weapons package to Taiwan province involving the sale of the Link 16 communications system. | The acquisition of Link 16 is analogous to "painting the eyes on the Buddha": a last touch, it makes Taiwan's military systems and weapons platforms live and far-seeing. It confers deadly powers, or more prosaically, in the words of the US military, it completes Taiwan as the final, lethal lin…

Patricia Harrity (2024-02-29). Amid Genocide, EU Eyes More Trade With Israel. expose-news.com Ursula von der Leyen sees genocide as a business opportunity. Just this week, the European Commission president argued that a new "mindset" is required to bolster the weapons industry. "The continuing war in Gaza …

Staff (2024-02-29). Essequibo Controversy Presented at 46th CARICOM Summit (+President Lula). orinocotribune.com The opening ceremony of the 46th Ordinary Summit of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has taken place in Georgetown, capital of Guyana, a meeting that held as one of the central points the historical territorial dispute over the Essequibo. | In the inaugural speech of the event this Monday, February 26, led by the Secretary General of CARICOM, Carla N. Barnett, she stated that the summit would deal with "various border controversies and the passage of dangerous weapons and drugs through our lands and seas." The political and security crisis in Haiti and the issue of carbon credits would als…