Monthly Archives: March 2022

2022-03-03: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-03-03). Australian Education Union's record of agreement sell-outs. wsws.org Desperate to ram through its deal with the Victorian Labor government, the AEU has launched a misinformation campaign to bury the real details of its latest sell-out.

Berry Craig (2022-03-03). Kentucky Republicans dishonestly claim race education bill isn't whitewashed history. peoplesworld.org Kentucky state Sen. Max Wise (R-Campbellsville) evidently figured rubbing a smidgen of whitewash off Senate Bill 138 would convince critics that his legislation isn't really aimed at gagging teachers and whitewashing history. It still is, of course. SB 138, like its companions (House Bills 14, 18, and 487), limits classroom discussion of systemic racism. As such, all …

Global Research News (2022-03-03). Selected Articles: Dangerous Crossroads: A World War III Scenario at the Height of the Corona Crisis. globalresearch.ca By Unprecedented in World history, this diabolical project affecting more than 7 billion people Worldwide was…

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-03). Bendy robotic arm twisted into shape with help of augmented reality. imperial.ac.uk Imperial researchers have designed a malleable robotic arm that can be guided into shape by a person using augmented reality (AR) goggles.

WSWS (2022-03-03). The threat of world war looms: Take up the fight against imperialism and for international socialism! wsws.org The IYSSE (Australia) meeting at 4 p.m. (AEDT) Saturday, March 12 will discuss the urgent need to build an international anti-war movement of youth, students and workers as the danger of nuclear war heightens amid the escalating crisis in Ukraine.

Staff (2022-03-02). "Ukrainians Only": Nigerian Student Fleeing War Describes Rampant Racism Against Africans at Border. democracynow.org The United Nations reports more than 800,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russia attacked last week, but many foreign nationals trying to escape have described racist discrimination and abuse, saying they were turned away from buses and at the border, while Ukrainians were welcomed with open arms. We speak with one of the African students who documented their experiences on Twitter with the hashtag #AfricansInUkraine. Nigerian student Alexander Somto Orah says the discriminatory treatment he and other African students faced started at the train station in Kyiv and continued at the border with Poland. "We…

Amy Goodman (2022-03-02). Nigerian Student Fleeing War Describes Rampant Racism Against Africans at Border. truthout.org The United Nations reports more than 800,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russia attacked last week, but many foreign nationals trying to escape have described racist discrimination and abuse, saying they were turned away from buses and at the border, while Ukrainians were welcomed with open arms. We speak with one of the African students who documented their experiences on Twitter with the hashtag #AfricansInUkraine. Nigerian student Alexander Somto Orah says the discriminatory treatment…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-02). As Protests Continue in Sudan, Resistance Committees Release a Key Charter. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni On February 28, the Khartoum Coordination of the Resistance Committees proposed the "Charter for the Establishment of the People's Authority", setting forth a militant roadmap to democracy The long-awaited "Charter for the Establishment of the People's Authority" was proposed by the Khartoum Coordination of Resistance Committees (RCs) in Sudan on Monday, February 28….

rebekah (2022-03-02). Guatemalan Water Defenders Celebrate 10 Years of Resistance. inequality.org

Global Research News (2022-03-02). Selected Articles: Seven Fake News Stories Coming Out of Ukraine. globalresearch.ca By In just the last 48 hours dozens of stories, images, narratives and videos have circulated as being taken from the fighting in Ukraine, a huge …

Michael Welch (2022-03-02). Video: Canadian Dissident Doctors Speak Out against "Covid Mandates" globalresearch.ca Last January, the Minister of Health in the province of Ontario, Christine Elliott, put out a letter to the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO). She indicated that the expression of measures of treatment for the COVID-19 illness practiced …

Deirdre Benavides (2022-03-02). Right-wing college administration in Texas doubles down on free speech attacks, fires outspoken professor. liberationnews.org Phillips said the "tipping point" for his nonrenewal was talking about masks with his students amid an ongoing pandemic.

VINS (2022-03-02). Conservative Lawmakers in Several States Push Sweeping Bans on Critical Race Theory in Classrooms. projectcensored.org In August 2021, conservative politicians in several states began pushing for legislation that restricted what educators could teach their students, namely when it comes to lessons related to race and…

WSWS (2022-03-02). Virginia preschool teacher shares her story with the Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. wsws.org Jodie describes an uphill battle in her efforts to protect herself and the lives of her students, in opposition to the policies imposed by the state government, the CDC and powerful economic interests demanding parents return to work.

WSWS (2022-03-02). French students denounce state inaction on COVID. wsws.org WSWS reporters interviewed students in the Paris suburbs on the wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant.

ecns.cn (2022-03-02). Most support 'double reduction' policy, report said. ecns.cn More than 90 percent of students, teachers and parents said they are in favor of the "double reduction" policy, which reduces students' extracurricular tutoring and homework burdens, a new report said.

deweylaura (2022-03-02). Reflections on the current school board wars. cpusa.org It started in Loudon County, Virginia, and now it has metastasized all over the United States. In state after state and county after county, raucous scenes have been enacted at school board meetings, in which groups purporting to represent parents, extremely angry and worried about evil that is supposedly being done to their children, …

350.org (2022-03-02). Wednesday 3/2: What Does the UN Climate Report Mean for the Climate Justice Movement? Teach-in w/ 350.org. indybay.org Virtual teach-in – join from anywhere…

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2022-03-02: News Headlines

Global Research News (2022-03-02). Selected Articles: Seven Fake News Stories Coming Out of Ukraine. globalresearch.ca By In just the last 48 hours dozens of stories, images, narratives and videos have circulated as being taken from the fighting in Ukraine, a huge …

VINS (2022-03-02). Conservative Lawmakers in Several States Push Sweeping Bans on Critical Race Theory in Classrooms. projectcensored.org In August 2021, conservative politicians in several states began pushing for legislation that restricted what educators could teach their students, namely when it comes to lessons related to race and…

WSWS (2022-03-02). French students denounce state inaction on COVID. wsws.org WSWS reporters interviewed students in the Paris suburbs on the wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant.

WSWS (2022-03-02). Virginia preschool teacher shares her story with the Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. wsws.org Jodie describes an uphill battle in her efforts to protect herself and the lives of her students, in opposition to the policies imposed by the state government, the CDC and powerful economic interests demanding parents return to work.

_____ (2022-03-01). America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century. strategic-culture.org By Michael HUDSON | How the MIC, OGAM and FIRE Sectors Conquered NATO | My old boss Herman Kahn, with whom I worked at the Hudson Institute in the 1970s, had a set speech that he would give at public meetings. He said that back in high school in Los Angeles, his teachers would say what most liberals were saying in the 1940s and 50s: "Wars never solved anything." It was as if they never changed anything — and therefore shouldn't be fought. | Herman disagreed, and made lists of all sorts of things that wars had solved in world history, or at least changed. He was right, and of course that is the aim of both s…

Manlio Dinucci (2022-03-01). Ucraina: l'attacco lo lancià≤ la Nato otto anni fa. globalresearch.ca La commissaria Ursula von der Leyen ha annunciato che la Ue mette al bando l'agenzia di stampa russa Sputnik e il canale Russia Today cosਠche ´non possano più diffondere le loro menzogne per giustificare la guerra di Putin con …

teleSUR (2022-03-01). Burkina Faso's Military Junta To Govern For Three Years. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Paul Damiba, the leader of the coup that broke the constitutional order in Burkina Faso on Jan. 24, signed the Transitional Charter that allows the Military Junta to stay in power for three years. | RELATED: | This document was approved after hours of negotiations between 350 military representatives, opposition politicians, and citizen victims of jihadi attacks perpetrated in the national territory since 2015.

Judy Greenspan (2022-03-01). Oakland community fights school closures and cutbacks. workers.org Oakland, California Teachers, parents, students, education workers and community activists are launching a multifaceted campaign to stop the school closures that have been mandated by the Oakland School Board and the Oakland Unified School District. All last-minute attempts to stall or postpone the closure actions of the school board have . . . |

WSWS (2022-03-01). Abbott Elementary on ABC: Comedy in the tragedy of public education. wsws.org Abbott Elementary, set in a dilapidated Philadelphia school, is an unusually smart series. Aired on ABC and streamed on Hulu, the show has gained both critical accolades and a loyal following, including among teachers.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-01). Communicating with Policymakers — Imperial researchers share their thoughts. imperial.ac.uk Trust, credibility and framing are crucial for any communication with policymakers according to senior Imperial researchers.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-01). Disease biology pioneers receive Wellcome Trust funding. imperial.ac.uk Researchers studying immune system defences, gut bacteria colonisations, and parasite invasions have received funding to further their studies.

Maxximilian Seijo (2022-03-01). Adorno, Lazarsfeld and the Birth of Public Broadcasting with Josh Shepperd. mronline.org Josh Shepperd joins Money on the Left to discuss the research and activism that hastened the rise of public media in the United States. Assistant Professor of media studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Shepperd shows how public-interest broadcasting platforms like NPR and PBS exist in the U.S. today in large part as a consequence of hard-fought battles by committed scholars and advocates throughout the inter- and post-war periods.

Matthew J.L. Ehret (2022-03-01). Eugenics and the Awakening of Sleeping Monsters. dissidentvoice.org In this presentation delivered to the Day 6 proceedings of the Coronavirus Grand Jury hearing organized by Dr. Reiner Fullmich and his team of international lawyers, Canadian Patriot Review Editor-in-Chief Matthew Ehret was asked to deliver remarks elucidating the origins of the quasi-science of eugenics, and its role in mis-shaping the 20th century. This exercise …

ecns.cn (2022-03-01). China's manufacturing PMI up in February. ecns.cn The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector came in at 50.2 in February, up from 50.1 in January, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Tuesday.

WSWS (2022-03-01). UK students and young people speak on COVID pandemic, danger of war at NHS protests. wsws.org "The danger in Ukraine is actually of a fourth world war because I think that COVID has been the third world war."

WSWS (2022-03-01). Minneapolis, St. Paul teachers file intent to strike. wsws.org The strike authorization was filed amidst a surge of teacher and student opposition to the reopening of schools during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-03-01). Podcast Ep 51: Defeating censorship on a UK campus. electronicintifada.net Palestinian teacher Shahd Abusalama and her lawyer Giovanni Fassina on academic freedom and resisting Israel lobby smear campaigns.

350.org (2022-03-01). Wednesday 3/2: What Does the UN Climate Report Mean for the Climate Justice Movement? Teach-in w/ 350.org. indybay.org Virtual teach-in – join from anywhere…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-01). Filipino activists question army version of killing of five, including teachers; left bloc calls for probe. peoplesdispatch.org The Philippines army killed five people in the southern Mindanao region in an alleged shootout. Doubts were raised after it was revealed that two of those killed were volunteer teachers…

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