(2022-03-09). Academic boycott of Russia: Science in the service of German war policy. wsws.org Punishing Russian academics and students for a government policy that is rejected by a large proportion of them has no progressive content whatsoever. On the contrary, it is an aggressive act, accompanied by a furious anti-Russia campaign in culture and public life, designed to demonise everything Russian and to put science at the service of foreign and war policy.
(2022-03-09). Black Alliance For Peace Statement On International Women's Day. popularresistance.org As the world's eyes are on Ukraine on this International Women's Day, March 8, 2022, we are reminded of the disproportionate impact that war and militarism have on women. This is a reality that the women of the global South are acutely aware of because of the steady assaults on the humanity of peoples in the South executed by the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination. The militarized terror of the Axis of Domination in the service of their economic elites have been even more intensely felt by the women of Africa and the African Diaspora. | The socialist groundings of the day were expressed in its early unfolding. Indee…
(2022-03-09). President Maduro: Russia-Ukraine Conflict Could Spread to Other Regions. orinocotribune.com Monday, March 7, 2022, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, met at night with members of the nation's high political and military command, the Council of Vice Presidents, and the Superior General Staff of the Bolivarian National Armed Force, to carry out an analysis of the world geopolitical situation in response to the operation that Russia is carrying out in Ukraine. He also confirmed the meeting between his administration and US government officials, providing some initial details. | In a televised broadcast on Monday night after 10: 30 p.m., Venezuela's president said that, according to intelligence rep…
(2022-03-09). Global South rejects U.S./NATO aggression. workers.org 
As the U.S. and NATO work to advance their war against Russia now breaking out in Ukraine, many countries who have experienced imperialist aggression — by the U.S., France, Britain and other NATO members — are speaking out. They are denouncing the impact of U.S. sanctions as acts of war . . . |
(2022-03-09). Xilan Kapu's catcher in the 'Peach Blossom Wonderland'. ecns.cn Peace and tranquility permeates Youyang Taohuayuan (Peach Blossom Wonderland) Scenic Area in southwest China's Chongqing. Under sunrise, the sound of sewing strikes up a symphony, with knitting needles and yarn dancing in a weaver's hands.
(2022-03-09). Report on California's Amazon warehouses reveals massive COVID-19 cover-up. wsws.org The Markup's report states "hundreds of workers … tested positive for COVID-19 over the past two and a half months" at a single warehouse in Rialto.
(2022-03-09). Reactions in Germany to the webinar: "Fight Covid! Save Lives! Stop the Drive to World War III!" wsws.org Workers from Germany comment on the February 26 international online webinar of the World Socialist Web Site, "Fight Covid! Save Lives! Stop the Drive to World War III!" and draw political conclusions.
(2022-03-09). US ramps up "financial war" on Russia as generals call for no-fly zone. wsws.org The United States and European Union ramped up their "financial war" against Russia Tuesday, announcing major measures to restrict Russian oil and gas imports.
(2022-03-09). Backing Biden's war drive, USW boasts its deal for 30,000 oil workers "does not add to inflationary pressures" wsws.org In a war-mongering statement calling for a ban on Russian oil imports, the United Steelworkers president praised the agreement, which will impose a deep cut in real wages for refinery workers and their families.
(2022-03-09). US ramps up "financial war" on Russia as retired generals call for no-fly zone. wsws.org The United States and European Union ramped up their "financial war" against Russia Tuesday, announcing major measures to restrict Russian oil and gas imports.
(2022-03-09). Australia's Socialist Alliance lines up behind imperialist war drive against Russia. wsws.org A politically insidious role is being played by the pseudo-left groups such as Socialist Alliance that falsely claim to be socialist but, despite token criticisms of the US, align themselves with the NATO war drive against Russia.
(2022-03-09). Yemenis Protest Continuing U.S. Supplied Saudi – UAE Air War. indybay.org Massive U.S. and European support to besieged Ukrainians in sharp contrast to U.S. participation in Saudi – UAE air war against Yemen…
(2022-03-09). OPEC chief warns of global oil shortage due to sanctions on Russia. ecns.cn The head of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) warned Tuesday that the world cannot replace Russia's share of oil exports, calling for energy depoliticization.
(2022-03-09). In the Amnesic Dizzinness of a "Turn of the Times" indybay.org When, with the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact, the entire military alliance of this rival collapsed, this could/must have been the prelude, according to rational criteria, to mothballing NATO in return. But exactly the opposite was to occur – a path based on rigid reinforced concrete of power, hubris and geostrategic calculations.
(2022-03-09). California Assembly Bill 1655 – Juneteenth Paid Holiday for the State of California. indybay.org One block from Old Sacramento Supreme Court Chambers the auction block of "enslaved" prisoners of war were sold. All along the American River Parkway, in the shadow of the early California State Capitol construction, enslavement of people of African Descent, Genocide of Indigenous Nations, Kanakas, Mexicans, Chileans and anybody with melanin pigmentated skin were not a citizen in 1849. Throughout the State same song…
(2022-03-09). China warns U.S. against harming its rights, interests over Ukraine. ecns.cn China on Wednesday urged the United States to take its concerns seriously when dealing with the Ukraine issue and relations with Russia, warning against any move that could harm Chinese rights and interests.
(2022-03-09). U.S., Canada holding joint war games from British Columbia to the Arctic. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com KINYMarch 8, 2022 Juneau is part of military exercise in Canada and Alaska Juneau is among the locations for the Arctic Edge military exercise involving U. S. and Canadian forces from British Columbia to the Arctic. In Juneau, there's a Navy diving exercise involving remotely operated vehicles and divers as they employ mine countermeasures between …
(2022-03-09). Research Dogs, War Dogs, Shelter Dogs, Eaten Dogs, Vegan Dogs Etc. indybay.org many areas in which dogs need better protection…
(2022-03-09). Peshawar mosque blast Perpetrators killed in security op. en.mehrnews.com Pakistan's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) announced that during a security operation, perpetrators of the Peshawar terrorist attack were killed.
(2022-03-09). Maduro announces reactivation of dialogue with the opposition after meeting with US government. peoplesdispatch.org The dialogue process between the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition had been suspended since October 2021. Meanwhile, the diplomatic relations between Venezuela and the US had been suspended since January 2019…
(2022-03-09). Biden Maduro Rapprochement ? indybay.org "It has been a respectful, cordial and diplomatic meeting. There were the flags of the United States and Venezuela, the flags united looked pretty," Maduro said in an address. A phrase unthinkable until a few days ago. The rapprochement, which raised the possibility of reactivating Venezuela's oil exports to the US, has received multiple negative reactions.
(2022-03-08). Russians Say, Don't Hate Us For What Our Leaders Have Done. popularresistance.org As a U.S. diplomat who resigned from the U.S. government in 2003 in opposition to Bush's war on Iraq, I hoped at the time that all Americans would not be vilified by the world for the actions of the Bush administration. | As hard as it might be for some, I plead that we not vilify Russians for the actions of their political leaders. I hope that we can be as generous to peace-seeking Russians as the world was to anti-war Americans. | I have visited Russia twice in the past six years and I know the Russians I spoke with, and I would guess that most Russians, do not want war and object to Putin's war on Ukraine. | T…
(2022-03-08). Women's Rights and Social Justice: Julia Ward Howe's 1870 Anti-War Mother's Day Proclamation, A Day of Peace. globalresearch.ca Julia Ward Howe was a humanist who cared about suffering people, a feminist, a social justice activist & suffragette, and it was because of her anti-war commitment that she wrote the famous "Mother's Day Proclamation" 5 years after the Civil War, which resulted in 600,000 dead American soldiers…
(2022-03-08). Dallas rallies against war with Russia. fightbacknews.org Dallas, Texas – On March 6, over 30 anti-war protesters showed up at the Grassy Knoll in downtown Dallas to condemn NATO's involvement in Ukraine, its hostility to Russia, and to call for the disbanding of NATO. The protest was called by the Dallas Anti-War Committee, CODEPINK Dallas, Dallas Peace and Justice Center, Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialist of America, and Party for Socialism and Liberation. Signs present at the protest included "Peace in Ukraine! No to NATO!" "No to NATO expansion" and "Abolish NATO!" | "Over the past couple of weeks, a war has broken out between Russia and Ukraine. The Am…
(2022-03-08). South Florida activists rally against war, NATO. fightbacknews.org Hollywood, FL- Anti-war activists gathered along Young Circle in downtown Hollywood Saturday evening to demand "Peace not escalation" in Ukraine. | The 15 activists held a large, hand-painted banner that read, "No war with Russia. Peace in Ukraine," as others held "Crisis in Ukraine, made in the USA," and "Honk for peace," signs. | The rally was met with enthusiastic honks of approval and peace signs from cars and passersby, both. In fact, one woman who passed the large banner shouted from her car, "I am Ukrainian, thank you for doing this!" | After the sign-waving, the group gathered to hear speeches providing…
(2022-03-08). Arms Flood Into Ukraine As US, NATO Pursue Proxy War Over Peace. thedissenter.org 
FIM-92 Stinger missile fired by Marines during Arctic exercise. US government has provided Stinger missiles to Ukraine. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Cody J. Ohira/Released)[EDITOR'S NOTE: While this newsletter typically focuses on whistleblower stories, during the Russia-Ukraine war we are giving space to more nuanced coverage that counters the constant calls from Western media pundits for further escalation.]This article was funded by paid subscribers of The Dissenter Newsletter. Become a
(2022-03-08). How Pakistan Could Find a Development-First Path to Peace in Balochistan. independentmediainstitute.org The disappearances and killings of Baloch activists living in Pakistan and abroad under mysterious circumstances have made headlines in recent years. The surge in cases relating to these "enforced disappearances" highlights the urgency for Pakistan to resolve the grievances felt by the people of the region as it tries to forge an identity away from …
(2022-03-08). Since 9-11 America's Insane Foreign Policy — Continued Under Obama — Has Killed a Million and Created ISIS. globalresearch.ca This article was first published in September 2014 following the launching of Obama's bombing campaign against Syria and Iraq. | These are the US-NATO led wars which are upheld by the media as peace-keeping operations. Double standards with regard to the …
(2022-03-08). Fight xenophobia ‚àí a form of war. workers.org 
The U.S.- and NATO-instigated conflict in Ukraine is rooted in the quest to plunder and profit off Russia's vast wealth in natural gas and oil. This has been a major pillar of U.S. imperialism's quest to rebuild its global empire since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The . . . |
(2022-03-08). TF Regular Contributor Sanket Jain Among Top 10 Finalists for Oxfam Journalism Award. towardfreedom.org Regular contributor Sanket Jain has been named a Top 10 finalist for Oxfam's 2021-22 Journalism for an Equitable Asia Award for his coverage of India's rural poor during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2022-03-08). The Ukraine War And The 'Good' Refugee. popularresistance.org In the history of accepting refugees, countries have shown more than an erratic streak. Universal human characteristics have often been overlooked in favor of the particular: race, cultural habits, religion. Even immigration nations, such as the United States and Australia, have had their xenophobic twists and turns on the issue of who to accept, be they victims of pogroms, war crimes, genocide, or famine. | The Russian attack on Ukraine has already produced refugees in the hundreds of thousands. By March 2, with the war one week old, 874,000 people were estimated to have left Ukraine. The UN High Commissioner fo…
(2022-03-08). Biden Bans Oil Imports From Russia: 3 Things To Know About Heavy New Backdoor Tax On Black America. moguldom.com President Joe Biden announced a ban on all Russian oil imports on Tuesday, March 8 as part of U.S. sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine, warning that gas prices will go up further and Americans will pay at the pump. "Putin's war is already hurting American families at the gas pump," Biden said at a …
(2022-03-08). My LAST (for now) Morning Commute 3-8-22: Happy Women's Liberation Day! Saying goodbye, for Now! anchor.fm This is going to be my last podcast for a while! I recently began my candidacy for the PSL. I am going to take this time to learn, to organize, to experience, and to try to bill not only myself and my own understanding but also a movement. We must build a socialist revolution if we believe that any of the issues facing the masses today will ever be resolved. No war, no form of capitalism, no imperialism, no empire can or ever will be able to overcome these issues. It is only the people-the masses themselves- that will be able to eradicate exploitation and oppression from this world. It has been awesome getting to…
(2022-03-08). Russia Says US Transferring Terrorists from Syria to Ukraine. orinocotribune.com Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service says the United States has been transferring Daesh terrorists from Syria to Ukraine. | The intelligence service said in a statement on Friday that the Daesh terrorists had undergone training in the US-held military base of al-Tanf in Syria. | "At the end of 2021, the Americans released from prisons… several dozen Daesh terrorists, including citizens of Russia and CIS countries. These individuals were sent to the US-controlled al-Tanf base, where they have undergone special training in subversive and terrorist warfare methods with a focus on the Donbass region," the statemen…
(2022-03-08). Ukraine Is A Pawn In The United States' Fight To Prevent A Multipolar World. popularresistance.org This week, Clearing the FOG speaks with Brian Becker, a leader of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the host of The Socialist Program, for a socialist perspective of the war in Ukraine. Becker discusses why it was a mistake for Russia to invade and how it has shored up support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) even though Russia has legitimate security concerns and the United States did not appear to be willing to stop provoking an invasion. He also talks about the real racism exposed by this war, the impact of the media misinformation campaign on people on the left and the current state…
(2022-03-08). Ukrainian government refuses Russia's offer to evacuate civilians trapped in war zones as humanitarian situation worsens. peoplesdispatch.org Russia renewed its ceasefire offer on March 8 after Ukraine refused a similar offer on Monday to provide a humanitarian corridor for millions of Ukrainians stranded inside war zones in Kiev, Kharkiv, Mariupol and other major cities…
(2022-03-08). Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Old Wars on a New Planet. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Exactly what we needed: an invasion that sends us into the grimmest parts of our Cold War past just as the planet's scientists are warning us that our future is all-too-desperately at stake. Count on one thing: in …
(2022-03-08). US is Abandoning its "Helpers" in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Everywhere! journal-neo.org 
The dismissive attitude of the US political and military establishment towards its foreign "helpers" is well known. This attitude became even more apparent after Joe Biden's recent appearance before the House of Representatives and Senate with his annual State of the Union Address, in which he described the people of Ukraine as Iranians. One could hardly attribute …
(2022-03-08). From Afghanistan to Syria: Women's Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA. globalresearch.ca Western heads of state, UN officials, military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban.
(2022-03-08). Starbucks Loses Bid to Delay Union Election Count Again as It Cuts Worker Hours. truthout.org 
The labor board has denied another Starbucks bid to delay union ballot counts as workers say that the company has started slashing hours without prior warning, endangering employees' finances. | The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that the
(2022-03-08). Women's Day 2022: Women's Rights in Afghanistan, "A Justification for War" globalresearch.ca Remember the deluge of political concern over the subjugation of Afghan women at the time of the October 2001 invasion? The tsunami of documentaries, articles, books on their plight, contributing to the justification of another invasion…
(2022-03-08). Dan Siegel on Banning the Constitution. scheerpost.com 
By Dan Siegel / Original to ScheerPost | The U.S. is experiencing one of its periodic waves of book banning, with legislators, governors, and even country music singers leading crusades to protect our children from harmful feelings and the discomfort caused by exposure to the written word. Politicians in Tennessee, who seem determined to finally come up with an issue on which they can claim national leadership, are banning the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel "Maus" because of its, yes, graphic depictions of the Holocaust. Trigger Warning! The Holocaust was violent, horrible, disgusting, obscene, and up…
(2022-03-08). Ukraine: A Planetary Crisis Provoked By The US That Threatens Nuclear War. popularresistance.org Let us begin a conversation in response to what currently qualifies as the most profound question, the one that needs most urgently to be addressed if we are to have any chance of understanding what we conveniently refer to as the "Ukraine crisis." This is, more accurately, a planetary crisis—close in magnitude to the near-certainty of species extinction within the next century, but in some ways ahead of secondary catastrophes such as the obscene, raging inequality between peoples and nations unleashed by President Ronald Reagan and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s, and the global cong…
(2022-03-08). The war in Ukraine and ways of seeing. peoplesdispatch.org Following the Russian attack on Ukraine, the media coverage and a range of responses have revealed some stark facts about corporate media as well as western institutions. Some of these orientalist perspectives have been harshly criticized from the Third world.
(2022-03-08). India refuses to condemn Russia over Ukraine invasion at special Quad summit. wsws.org India's precarious balancing between the US and Russia is becoming untenable amid the rapidly escalating US-NATO war drive against Russia.
(2022-03-08). On a Grim and Bloody International Women's Day, Let's Build Feminist Solidarity. truthout.org 
On this International Women's Day, as the world watches a historic and bloody war unfold in Europe — while people in the United States and Europe largely continue to ignore the suffering of the millions of Black and Brown people who have been rendered stateless by war, corruption and the climate crisis, many of them women — we need to fortify ourselves, pump up our optimism and bolster our resolve to fight for a better world. | Women are always vulnerable to sexual violence and ab…
(2022-03-08). Studies warn Omicron BA.2 is the most dangerous COVID variant ever. wsws.org The scientific findings contradict the claims of the Biden administration and Republican and Democratic governors that it is safe to drop masking and resume in-person school classes.
(2022-03-08). Stop the War Coalition demos offer no way forward. wsws.org The Stop the War Coalition is adapting itself to the relentless anti-Russian war drive, foregrounding the anti-Putin records of its leaders and downplaying criticisms of NATO and the imperialist powers.
(2022-03-08). Canada's Trudeau visits Europe to plot escalation of war drive against Russia. wsws.org In a lying statement before his departure, the Prime Minister asserted that Canada and NATO are trying to avoid triggering a direct military clash with Russia.
(2022-03-08). Playing reckless politics on the rim of a volcano. wsws.org Trotsky's description of the world on the very eve of World War II acquires extraordinary relevance in the present situation. All the governments are behaving with staggering recklessness.