2023-03-02: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-01). African Union Under Western Pressure. libya360.wordpress.com Oleg Pavlov On February 23, the UN General Assembly voted on another anti-Russian resolution on Ukraine, which was pathetically titled "Principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine." Russia, as in the spring of last year, was condemned by 141 states. However, 24 African countries out…

Adriaan Alsema (2023-03-02). Petro sacks three ministers ahead of Colombia's local elections. colombiareports.com Colombia's President Gustavo Petro sacked three of his ministers ahead local and regional elections in October. Petro announced on Monday that Education Minister Alejandro Gaviria, Culture Minister Patricia Ariza and…

americanthinker (2023-03-01). Historical treasure from 1963 uncovered at a small town thrift store in Texas. americanthinker.com Discovery of a never-before-seen photograph makes the case for a traditional curriculum in education.

Britni Cuington (2023-03-01). Let's Get Broadband Done the Right Way. otherwords.org I'm a proud Air Force veteran. But in the service, I had little to no say over the decisions made for myself or my team. I knew that when I left the military, my next job would be a union job. | Now I've worked as a union broadband technician for seven years. I get a voice at work and everything I need to provide the best service on every assignment. And I'm paid a quality wage for the education, training, and skill that I bring to do each job correctly and safely. | However, more and more of my job has become cleaning up the messes of untrained, low-wage contractors. | Telecommunications companies are hiring mor…

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-03-01). International Women's Month and the importance of study and revolution. anchor.fm In this episode, we talk about the sham holiday known as women's month or whatever bullshit it is called in the states, and the difference between this and international working women's day that was established in the Soviet union. We also talk about the importance of study and understanding history as an active force in our daily struggle, as well as the importance of organizing with education for the sake of taking practical and realistic steps towards revolution. Please let me know what you think!




Mohammed Samaana (2023-03-01). Violence will continue in the Mideast as Long as the US runs interference for Israeli Squatting and its Pogroms against Palestinians. juancole.com Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) — I was horrified to watch the February 22 Israeli army assault on Nablus where I was born. I grew up on its outskirts and completed my secondary education there. I yearn for its beautiful old city, renowned for Turkish baths, a traditional olive-oil soap industry and old markets filled …

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-01). Sanders Moves to Subpoena Starbucks CEO Over Rampant Union Busting. truthout.org Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announced on Wednesday that he is setting up a vote on subpoenaing Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz after Schultz refused Sanders's request to testify about the company's rampant union busting last month. Sanders said that Schultz's avoidance of the request has "given us no choice but to subpoena him" and… |

Staff (2023-03-01). President Petro Shuffles Cabinet Seeking Parliamentary Alliances. orinocotribune.com Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced the departure of three cabinet ministers: Alejandro Gaviria in education, Patricia Ariza in culture and María Isabel Urrutia in sports. This change happens six months after his inauguration as president and has been exaggerated by mainstream media. Most analysts agree it is a maneuver that aims to secure parliamentary alliances to advance Petro's legislative projects. | In an address to the nation, President Petro thanked the ministers for their service. However, no details were provided about the reasons for the changes. Sociologist Aurora Vergara, who was vice min…

Staff (2023-03-01). Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners — profiles of Mohammed Adel Daoud, Mahmoud Abu Kharabish and Bashir Abdullah al-Khatib. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is providing the materials for the third week of the educational campaign, Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners. Read the previous two sets of materials: Week 2: Ibrahim Bayadseh, Ahmad Abu Jaber, Samir Abu Nima Week 1: Mohammed Al-Tus, Ibrahim Abu Mokh, Walid Daqqa This week, we will highlight the Palestinian …

WSWS (2023-03-01). UK teachers speak from picket lines during latest three days of strikes. wsws.org Roughly 200,000 teachers represented by the National Education Union (NEU) are taking strike action this week. World Socialist Web Site reporters attended pickets and spoke with those taking action.

Mohammed Samaana (2023-03-01). Violence will continue in the Mideast as Long as the US runs interference for Israeli Squatting and its Pogroms against Palestinians. juancole.com Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) — I was horrified to watch the February 22 Israeli army assault on Nablus where I was born. I grew up on its outskirts and completed my secondary education there. I yearn for its beautiful old city, renowned for Turkish baths, a traditional olive-oil soap industry and old markets filled …

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-01). Sanders Moves to Subpoena Starbucks CEO Over Rampant Union Busting. truthout.org Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announced on Wednesday that he is setting up a vote on subpoenaing Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz after Schultz refused Sanders's request to testify about the company's rampant union busting last month. Sanders said that Schultz's avoidance of the request has "given us no choice but to subpoena him" and… |

Staff (2023-03-01). President Petro Shuffles Cabinet Seeking Parliamentary Alliances. orinocotribune.com Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced the departure of three cabinet ministers: Alejandro Gaviria in education, Patricia Ariza in culture and María Isabel Urrutia in sports. This change happens six months after his inauguration as president and has been exaggerated by mainstream media. Most analysts agree it is a maneuver that aims to secure parliamentary alliances to advance Petro's legislative projects. | In an address to the nation, President Petro thanked the ministers for their service. However, no details were provided about the reasons for the changes. Sociologist Aurora Vergara, who was vice min…

Staff (2023-03-01). Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners — profiles of Mohammed Adel Daoud, Mahmoud Abu Kharabish and Bashir Abdullah al-Khatib. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is providing the materials for the third week of the educational campaign, Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners. Read the previous two sets of materials: Week 2: Ibrahim Bayadseh, Ahmad Abu Jaber, Samir Abu Nima Week 1: Mohammed Al-Tus, Ibrahim Abu Mokh, Walid Daqqa This week, we will highlight the Palestinian …

WSWS (2023-03-01). UK teachers speak from picket lines during latest three days of strikes. wsws.org Roughly 200,000 teachers represented by the National Education Union (NEU) are taking strike action this week. World Socialist Web Site reporters attended pickets and spoke with those taking action.

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Živadin Jovanović (2023-03-02). The Scholz-Macron Plan: How to Crush Serbia with Her Consent. globalresearch.ca

Ahmed Adel (2023-03-02). Blinken Hopes to Derail India's Relationship with Russia Following Scholz's Failure. globalresearch.ca

Ben Bartee (2023-03-02). Why Is Everyone So Messed Up? Carl Jung Explains Neurosis. globalresearch.ca

Colin Todhunter (2023-03-02). Food, Dispossession and Dependency. Resisting the New World Order. globalresearch.ca Food, Dispossession and Dependency.: | Resisting the New World Order: | by: | Colin Todhunter: | We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of …

Dr. William Makis (2023-03-02). COVID-19 Vaccine-Injured Doctors Are Finally Starting to Speak Up… And They Are Shocked that the Medical Establishment Abandons Them. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-03-02). China to accelerate research, development of 6G technology: MIIT. ecns.cn China will target the layout of frontier fields such as humanoid robot, metauniverse and quantum technology, to fully accelerate the research and development of 6G technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said at a press conference Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2023-03-02). CDC breaks ground on research facility. ecns.cn The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday broke ground on a 171,500-square-meter facility in Beijing as part of efforts to improve infrastructure and research capability.

ecns.cn (2023-03-02). Chinese researchers develop 4D-printed shape memory polymer for medical devices. ecns.cn Chinese researchers have developed a biodegradable shape memory polymer (SMP) using 4D-printing technology that is suitable for medical devices, according to the Lanzhou University.

ecns.cn (2023-03-02). R&D of 6G, other future tech to get high priority. ecns.cn China will "fully" promote the research and development of 6G as well as other cutting-edge technologies — including humanoid robots, the metaverse and quantum technology — this year so as to better support the construction of a modern industrial system.

Global Research News (2023-03-02). Selected Articles: Showdown in Ukraine. Hobbled US Turns to War to Preserve Its Waning Primacy. globalresearch.ca By The future of humanity will be decided on a battlefield in Ukraine. That's no exaggeration. The conflict between the United …

Kurt Nimmo (2023-03-02). War Propaganda Media Ignores Rising Antiwar Sentiment in America and Europe. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-02). Mayo Clinic Minute: Hope for spontaneous coronary artery dissection, SCAD. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Research on spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD, has exploded in the last decade, says Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and a leading expert on this rare heart condition. Though there have been many advancements in understanding SCAD, Dr. Hayes says there is still much to learn, including why 90% of these types of heart attacks happen to nonstereotypical heart attack patients — young women. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/HVz5wqWOctA Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 57) is…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-02). Science Saturday: Could antidepressants cause treatment-emergent mania? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In a study published in Molecular Psychiatry, Mark Frye, M.D., a Mayo Clinic researcher and collaborators, investigated the risk of treatment-emergent mania in bipolar disorder when treated with antidepressants. "We found that antidepressants that increase mitochondrial energetics (cells that extract energy from nutrients for sustaining life) may elevate the risk of treatment-emergent mania," says Dr. Frye. The increased energy expenditure of mania associated with impulsivity, poor judgment, psychosis and loss of insight can drive high-risk behaviors, often…

Peter Koenig (2023-03-02). Blow-up of Nord Stream I and II: Did the German Chancellor and the President of the European Commission Betray the People of Germany and Europe? globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2023-03-02). Protest Movement Against Pfizer in New York City. globalresearch.ca

David Skripac (2023-03-02). Our Species Is Being Genetically Modified. Are We Witnessing Humanity's March Toward Extinction? Viruses Are Our Friends, Not Our Foes. globalresearch.ca

Catte Black (2023-03-02). "Covid Lab Leaks" and Brick Walls. globalresearch.ca

The Cradle (2023-03-02). US Lawmakers Approve Resolution to Uphold Economic Sanctions on Syria. globalresearch.ca

Mike Adams (2023-03-02). Eight Alarming Cover-ups and Contradictions in the East Palestine Train Wreck Chemical Nightmare Now Spreading Across Multiple States. globalresearch.ca

Gavin Cordon (2023-03-02). "Exterminate All Cats in Britain": Culling Pet Cats at Start of Pandemic, Says Former U.K Minister. globalresearch.ca

Middle East Eye (2023-03-02). Iran: Who Is Poisoning Hundreds of Schoolgirls? globalresearch.ca

Yves Engler (2023-03-02). Understanding the Logic of Canada Giving $2.26 Billion in Arms to Ukraine. globalresearch.ca

Connor Freeman (2023-03-02). "Stop the Killing," Major Antiwar Protests Held in Germany, France, and Italy. globalresearch.ca

Ariel Dorfman (2023-03-02). Chile: In Memory of Carlos and Pinochet's Caravan of Death. globalresearch.ca

Michael Jansen (2023-03-02). Zionist Project Has Always Been Colonisation and Exclusion of Indigenous Palestinians. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Sansone (2023-03-02). Did We Just Start a Revolution? Ban the Jab Resolution. globalresearch.ca

Igor Chudov (2023-03-02). The UN Discusses Darkening the Skies to Combat Climate Change. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović (2023-03-02). Europe's Legalized Narco-State: Kosovo's "Independence" and a Greater Albania. globalresearch.ca

Kurt Nimmo (2023-03-02). The Lies of Neocon Nikki Haley. globalresearch.ca

Alex Berenson (2023-03-01). mRNAs Jabs May Have Caused Tens of Millions of Serious New Health Problems Worldwide, a Huge Peer-reviewed Study Shows. globalresearch.ca

Binoy Kampmark (2023-03-01). Corrupt and fraudulent: Laying bare the Adani Group. greenleft.org.au A two-year investigation by Hindenbug Research found evidence that Indian conglomerate Adani Group had engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over decades. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Clive Stafford Smith (2023-03-01). Guantanamo: Freed After 20 Years Without Charge. A Beautiful Moment, a New Start. globalresearch.ca

Drago Bosnic (2023-03-01). Serbia Dangerously Close to Capitulation. globalresearch.ca

Fayha Shalash (2023-03-01). After Helping Earthquake Victims, This Palestinian Was Killed by an Israeli Rampage. globalresearch.ca

Gord Parks (2023-03-01). CBC Building in Toronto Plastered with Suspected Vaccine Injuries and Deaths. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-01). Lessons Not Learned from the Pentagon Papers. libya360.wordpress.com Alfred de Zayas In June 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, a US government military analyst with the Rand Corporation and senior research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Daniel Ellsberg[1], released to the New York Times and Washington Post what became known as the "Pentagon Papers", 47 volumes of confidential…

J.D. Tuccille (2023-03-01). SCOTUS Says Domestic Spying Is Too Secret to be Challenged in Court. globalresearch.ca

Jonathan Cook (2023-03-01). How Social Networks Became a 'Subsidiary' of the FBI and CIA. globalresearch.ca

Jordan Schachtel (2023-03-01). Zelensky, Not Putin, Is Increasingly Threatened by the Prospect of a Palace Coup. globalresearch.ca

Joshua Frank (2023-03-01). Nuclear Armageddon Games in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca

manager (2023-03-01). California Coastal Commission Public Comment on March 2023 Agenda Item Wednesday 6e — Draft Sustainability Principles. cepr.net In the Future Actions section of the California Coastal Commission's Draft Sustainability Principles, the commission needs to consider the housing crisis contained within its purview and beyond the coastal regions. Researchers at Arizona State University estimate between 4.3 million and 8.7 million Californians live in areas threatened by sea level rise. A managed retreat of …

Mike Whitney (2023-03-01). Showdown in Ukraine. Hobbled US Turns to War to Preserve Its Waning Primacy. globalresearch.ca

Robert Freeman (2023-03-01). Ukraine and The Tunnel at the End of the Light. globalresearch.ca

Sam Husseini (2023-03-01). State Dept: Israel in Charge of When We'll Enforce US Bans on Foreign Aid Over Its Nuclear Weapons Program. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-03-02). China to build constellation of very-low Earth orbit satellites. ecns.cn China is planning on building up a constellation of very-low Earth orbit satellites, and the first launch will be this September, the Global Times learned from China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation (CASIC) on Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2023-03-01). Chinese scientists provide new method to monitor CO2 emissions from power plants. ecns.cn Chinese scientists have developed a new approach to estimate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, which offers further insight on carbon reduction, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

ecns.cn (2023-03-01). China's economic activity continues to improve. ecns.cn China's economic activity expanded for a second straight month in February, data from the National Bureau of Statistic showed on Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2023-03-01). China's non-manufacturing PMI up in February. ecns.cn The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's non-manufacturing sector came in at 56.3 in February, up from 54.4 in January, the National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday.

David Killingly (2023-03-02). Draconian bail conditions removed for housing activist. greenleft.org.au Student activist Cherish Kuehlmann successfully challenged bail conditions arising from a housing action, which prevented her from entering Sydney's CBD. David Killingly reports.

Amy Goodman (2023-03-01). Conservative Supreme Court Justices Question Biden's Student Debt Plan. truthout.org The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two challenges to the Biden administration's student debt relief plan, which could give tens of millions of federal borrowers up to $20,000 of relief. During arguments, several conservative justices expressed skepticism over the Biden administration's student debt relief plan, while liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the Republican states who… |

ecns.cn (2023-03-01). Thai students study high-speed rail technologies in Guangxi. ecns.cn A batch of Thai students started their training courses on high-speed rail technologies such as mechanical maintenance and gauge measurement at Liuzhou Railway Vocational Technical College in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, hoping to contribute to Thailand's railway construction.

G. Dunkel (2023-03-01). Step by step — U.S. tries to justify intervention into Haiti. workers.org Students make their way past a police barricade of burning tires in Port-au-Prince this year. The media attention is focused elsewhere. Ukraine and China are still of prime concern for President Joe Biden's administration and its allies and competitors, the leaders of the world's imperialist powers. But the U.S. has . . . |

Gabriel Vera Lopes (2023-03-01). Understand Cuba's upcoming National Assembly elections. peoplesdispatch.org On March 26, 470 deputies will be elected to Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power, the country's highest political body, for a five-year term. These elections will see record participation of young, black and women candidates. | The election campaigns on the island are not in the form of propaganda, as in capitalist countries. There are no smiling billboards in the streets, no advertising full of promises. In the weeks leading up to the elections, the candidates visit neighborhoods, workplaces, and student centers, where assemblies are called and organized for exchange with the population. In these public m…

Lisa Chiu (2023-03-01). Behind the photo: Little Rock desegregation. america.cgtn.com The story behind the photograph of one of the first Black students to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2023-03-01). Protests at SCOTUS as justices move to kill debt relief for 26,000,000. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The Trump-appointed right wingers on the Court questioned the legality of President Biden's plan to wipe out more than $400 billion in student debt, making it likely that the Supreme Court will kill his plan to forgive the loans of tens of millions of borrowers. The Chief Justice accused the president of acting without congressional …

Staff (2023-03-01). Student Debt Relief in Jeopardy as Conservative Supreme Court Justices Question Biden's Plan. democracynow.org The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two challenges to the Biden administration's student debt relief plan, which could give tens of millions of federal borrowers up to $20,000 of relief. During arguments, several conservative justices expressed skepticism over the Biden administration's student debt relief plan, while liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the Republican states who brought one of the lawsuits. We're joined by Eleni Schirmer, who organizes with the Debt Collective and is a writer and postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University's Social Justice Centre in Montr…

WSWS (2023-03-01). US Supreme Court poised to overturn Biden administration's limited student debt relief plan. wsws.org Currently, some 43 million borrowers in the United States owe over $1.7 trillion in student federal loan debt representing a massive and looming financial burden for a significant section of the working class.

WSWS (2023-03-01). Temple University undergraduates rally in support of grad students as strike continues into second month. wsws.org Hundreds of students and community members rallied for the striking workers as the university has sought to punish and threaten any acts of support…

Frank Breslin (2023-03-02). Three Reasons Why Public High Schools Don't Teach Critical Thinking. dissidentvoice.org The following warning should be affixed atop every computer in America's schools: Proceed at your own risk. Don't accept as true what you're about to read. Some of it is fact; some of it is opinion masquerading as fact; and the rest is liberal, conservative, or mainstream propaganda. Make sure you know which is which …

americanthinker (2023-03-01). Muslim clerics promote pedophilia over adoption. americanthinker.com A little known, though highly controversial, Islamic teaching is back in the news.

americanthinker (2023-03-01). Woke teacher stages racially repugnant exercise. americanthinker.com Ethan Hooper is very, very sorry.

John Bachtell (2023-03-01). Chicago mayoral runoff: Choice between progress or racial division. peoplesworld.org The Chicago mayoral race heads to an April 4 runoff between Cook County Commissioner and former Chicago Teachers Union leader Brandon Johnson and former Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Paul Vallas. The contest offers voters a clear choice between two vastly different visions for the city. One is of a people-centered equitable democratic city and …

Lee Camp, Mintpress News. (2023-03-01). Defending The Venezuelan Embassy, Organizing Peace For Ukraine. popularresistance.org In today's world, it can be difficult to find inspiring figures to look up to, especially in a time of division and uncertainty. Fortunately, there are still individuals like Margaret Flowers who embody the ideals of progress, justice, and compassion. Margaret Flowers is a leading activist, doctor, teacher, and co-founder of PopularResistance.org, a website that aims to inform and inspire grassroots movements around the world. | Margaret has spent her life fighting for social justice and equality. As a physician, she has been a vocal advocate for a single-payer healthcare system that would provide affordable and…

Lee Camp (2023-03-01). Defending The Venezuelan Embassy, Organizing Peace for Ukraine with Margaret Flowers. mintpressnews.com In today's world, it can be difficult to find inspiring figures to look up to, especially in a time of division and uncertainty. Fortunately, there are still individuals like Margaret Flowers who embody the ideals of progress, justice, and compassion. Margaret Flowers is a leading activist, doctor, teacher, and co-founder of PopularResistance.org, a website that …

Michael Sainato, The Real News Network. (2023-03-01). 'It's Disrupted All Of My Lesson Plans': Florida Ramps Up Censorship. popularresistance.org As the new semester began, teachers throughout Florida were faced with new state laws strictly limiting curricula—prompting schools to remove droves of books from their classrooms and libraries for fear of being in violation of the draconian but opaque new laws. An already-chilling reality gripping the third most populous state is getting even chillier in the wake of controversial legislation such as the "Don't Say Gay" bill and the Stop Woke Act, which both went into effect in July 2022. | The DeSantis administration rolled out several initiatives in January 2023 aimed at eliminating broad swathes of the e…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-01). Daily Round-up: CONAIE says govt responsible for leader's murder in Ecuador & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we look at France-Africa relations, CONAIE says govt responsible for leader's murder in Ecuador, Amazon workers strike in UK warehouse and school teachers' in Portugal.

Staff (2023-03-01). Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Loses Election; Candidates Backed by Police & Teacher Unions Head to Runoff. democracynow.org Chicago-based Democracy Now! co-host Juan González gives an update on the Chicago mayoral race after incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot failed to advance to a runoff election. The two top candidates are now Paul Vallas, the former head of Chicago Public Schools, who has been endorsed by the local police union, and Brandon Johnson, an organizer with the Chicago Teachers Union. González says the race pits progressives in the city against centrist and conservative forces and could be a bellwether of where the Democratic Party goes.

WSWS (2023-03-01). UC academic workers report major cuts to departments in the aftermath of six-week strike. wsws.org At least 89 departments have reported plans to implement cuts, while significantly reducing graduate enrollment and teaching assistant positions.

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