Daily Archives: March 28, 2022

2022-03-28: News Headlines

_____ (2022-03-28). US Launching a Paid anti-Russia Snitching Program is Yet Another Confirmation of America's Moral Decline. journal-neo.org The US authorities have launched another Russophobic "program" of informing and snitching, which is called the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Program. A reward is promised for information about the funds that were obtained as a result of cooperation with the Russian government. The United States, in the current difficult economic conditions (inflation is record high …

ecns.cn (2022-03-28). Ukraine looks for peace at fresh talks with Russia: Zelensky. ecns.cn Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Ukrainian delegation is looking for peace at the fresh round of talks with Russia, the presidential press service reported Monday.

rqorinoco (2022-03-28). Canceling Russian Reserves Boomerangs to a New International Monetary System. orinocotribune.com By Alastair Cooke — Mar 20, 2022 | The present military operation in Ukraine, in due time, will be relegated to little more than a footnote in global history, yet the total financial war which has repercussed onto Russia will be key in defining the upcoming new world order. | The reality is that the present military operation in Ukraine, in due time, will be relegated to little more than a footnote in global history, yet the total financial war which has repercussed onto Russia will be key in defining the upcoming new world order. In fact, we may have already witnessed the moment economic history changed tr…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). Negotiate Peace in Ukraine Now! transcend.org Interestingly, most news sources in the U.S. and Europe continue to attribute Russia's military difficulties in Ukraine to their own incompetence or Ukrainian heroism, but seldom to the $3.2 billion worth of high-tech weapons that the U.S. has shipped to Kyiv since 2014. Joe Biden, of course, is an architect of this de facto Western alliance with Ukraine. What his end game is nobody can say.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). Ukraine Being Destroyed by Proxy War, Not for Peace or Sustainable Future-Making. transcend.org 23 Mar 2022 – Witness to Killing and Destruction: Ukraine Fast Becoming the Epic Centre of Cataclysm…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). The Impact of Ukraine on Yemen. transcend.org 22 Mar 2022 – The People of Yemen Suffer Atrocities, Too – The Western economic war on Russia over Ukraine is having a spillover effect on the forgotten war in Yemen. The ghastly blockade and bombardment of Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is now entering its eighth year.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-28). Georgia won't invade Abkhazia, S. Ossetia, wage war with Russia on Ukraine's orders: ruling party. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The United National Movement was founded by now imprisoned former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, a citizen of Ukraine and former leading official in the Zelensky administration. Saakashvili's trial began today.* Agenda.geMarch 28, 2022 Ruling party head: Georgia "remains committed" to peaceful de-occupation The Georgian Government remains committed to the policy of peaceful de-occupation and will …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-28). Azerbaijan adds Nagorno-Karabakh to list of Russian temporarily-occupied territories. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Along with Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, the Donbass and Crimea. As detailed on this site almost daily for over a year. Azeri Press AgencyMarch 28, 2022 Azerbaijan's MFA: Azerbaijan's MoD gave detailed response to issue regarding peacekeepers "When it comes to the issues regarding Russian peacekeepers that temporarily deployed in the territories of Azerbaijan, the …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-28). Caucasus: Azerbaijan continues armed incursion into Russian peacekeeper zone. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Panorama.amMarch 28, 2022 Azerbaijani troops remain deployed on one slope of Karaglukh, Artsakh says The situation along the line of contact between Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Azerbaijan, including the eastern section, was relatively stable from Sunday evening to Monday afternoon, the Artsakh Information Center said in a statement. "No major ceasefire violations have been registered. The …

Asa Winstanley (2022-03-28). Wretch 32 and Anwar Hadid reject Israel lobby bid to delete Lowkey. electronicintifada.net Ghetts, Charlie Sloth and Roger Waters among stars signing open letter to Spotify.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution. transcend.org The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution, by Nils Melzer, Verso, 8 Feb 2022, 368 pp. – In July 2010, WikiLeaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. Unsurprisingly, Melzer's book has hardy received a whisper in the Western corporate mainstream press.

MintPress News Desk (2022-03-28). Michael Malarkey, Styles P, Wretch32 & FredWreck among stars condemning Israel Lobby's Attempt to Cancel Lowkey. mintpressnews.com Among the signatories denouncing the Israel Lobby's attack as a crude attempt to silence him include "Vampire Diaries" star Michael Malarkey, rappers Styles P and Wretch 32, rock legend Roger Waters and Grammy award-winning producer FredWreck.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). More Evidence That the U.S. Is Trying to Prolong This Ukrainian War. transcend.org 25 Mar 2022 – "Secretary of State Antony Blinken has not attempted any conversations with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, since the start of the conflict. So the US government is continuing its policy of refusing to attempt any high-level diplomatic resolutions to this war despite its public hand-wringing…

Melanie McFarland (2022-03-28). Will Smith slapping Chris Rock made the 94th Academy Awards one to remember — for the wrong reasons. salon.com Some wonderful historic moments happened before and after Will Smith hit Chris Rock. Will anyone remember?>

Staff (2022-03-28). Aggressors will regret if they miss ceasefire opportunity. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 28 (MNA) — Ansarullah leader stressed that the only way to stop Yemeni attacks is to end the aggression and siege on the country and warned the aggressors that they will regret it if they miss the opportunity to end the conflict.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). Washington Is Driving the World to Nuclear War. transcend.org 23 Aug 2022 – Washington dumped three more provocations simultaneously on the Kremlin. The signal it consistently sends is aggression. Why has no government and no presstitute in the West pointed this out? Why provoke a country concerned with its security with more security concerns unless you are trying to widen the war?>

WSWS (2022-03-28). Australian workers and youth oppose US-NATO war drive and Russia invasion. wsws.org "They are trying to unify us to fight big bad Putin, rather than the bosses who are trying to force us back to work."

WSWS (2022-03-28). Stop Canada's sixth pandemic wave! Build the Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee! wsws.org We call on all teachers and staff to build a network of rank-and-file committees, independent of the corporatist trade unions, to fight for a Zero-COVID policy in schools and to counter the attempts of the ruling elites to lead the world's population into the maelstrom of a Third World War. The war that must be fought is the war against COVID-19.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-28). Consumer Health: What do you know about MS? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org MS Awareness Week will be observed March 13—19, which makes this a good time to learn about multiple sclerosis, or MS. Nearly 1 million people are living with MS in the U.S., according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. MS is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord. With MS, the immune system attacks the protective sheath that covers nerve fibers, and causes communication problems between your brain and the rest of your body….

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-03-28). CODA wins best picture at 2022 Oscars. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 28 (MNA) — Pioneering family drama CODA has gone from a low budget festival film to best picture at the Oscars, marking a milestone as AppleTV+ becomes the first-ever streamer to win the award, media have said.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-28). War on Syria: Eleven Years of Carnage. transcend.org 22 Mar 2022 — "Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population has been displaced. More than 100,000 are missing or forcibly disappeared. Syria's cities and infrastructure have been destroyed. The poverty rate is 90 percent; 14.6 million people depend on humanitarian aid."

WSWS (2022-03-28). Boris Romanchenko, 96-year-old concentration camp survivor, killed in Kharkiv bombing. wsws.org The only way to appropriately commemorate Romanchenko is through the struggle to build a socialist movement in the international working class to put an end to imperialist war, fascism, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-28). More Kurds killed in Turkey's ongoing war in Iraq. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Xinhua News AgencyMarch 28, 2022 Turkey's drone attack kills 3 PKK members in northern Iraq At least three members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in a Turkish armed drone attack in northern Iraq, Turkey's Defense Ministry said on Monday. The PKK members were "neutralized" in the area of Turkey's "Operation Claw-Lightning," …

WSWS (2022-03-28). Socialist Equality Party holds successful event against imperialism and war. wsws.org "The war is the reactionary response of Russian nationalism to NATO's decades of aggression," said Christoph Vandreier, chairman of the SGP, at the beginning of the discussion.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-28). Michel Chossudovsky: Biography. globalresearch.ca Below is a biographical summary focussing on Chossudovsky's academic and professional activities, including publications and awards (as well as To consult the complete * | * | Biographical summary: …

WSWS (2022-03-28). Warrior Met tries to frame up striking workers for gas line explosion. wsws.org Without presenting the slightest evidence, a company spokesperson immediately claimed that the blast was an "attack" and was "related to the ongoing labor dispute."

Ramona Wadi (2022-03-28). The US Should Remember that Israel's Squatter-Settlements in Palestine are War Crimes. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — US Ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, engaged in further diplomatic contradictions, as he fluctuated between asserting the Biden administration's stance purportedly against Israeli settlement expansion, yet making concessions for earlier encroachment upon Palestinian land. "We can't do stupid things that impede us from a two-state solution," Nides reportedly told …

teleSUR, ats, JGN (2022-03-28). Conozca diez curiosidades sobre el prócer Francisco de Miranda. telesurtv.net La figura de Francisco de Miranda constituye una de las más representativas de los ideales independentistas venezolanos.

Anonymous103 (2022-03-27). The War Of The Wheat And The Famine To Come. southfront.org Children look for food scraps in a pile of trash in the Rukban camp in Syria, Nov, 2018 | Written by Piero Messina | Famine will come. 100 million tons of wheat will be missing from the world food market. 26 are those produced by Ukraine, the remainder is that relating to Russian production, even that blocked for international exports. The conflict being fought in Ukraine risks causing thousands of deaths in Africa and the Middle East. They are the collateral damage of the conflict. The specter of famine emerges from the stop…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-27). Ukrainian Forces Want to Surrender and Azov Forces Started Shooting At Them — They Are At War With Each Other. libya360.wordpress.com The Exposé US Navy veteran and independent journalist, Patrick Lancaster, has been making regular reports from Ukraine since the beginning of the crisis. His reports reveal that what is happening on the ground is not what Western corporate media would have you believe. "Over the 8 years of the Ukraine War I made more video…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). Karabakh: Azerbaijani troops invade Russian peacekeeping zone, use Turkish drones against defenders. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Massis PostMarch 26, 2022 Russia and US Call on Azerbaijan to Withdraw Troops From Karabakh Village ==== Also see: "Occupied territories" in the way: Azerbaijan, Ukraine push Eurasian corridor through GUAM format Nagorno-Karabakh model for Crimea, Donbass: Azerbaijan, Ukraine deepen strategic partnership ==== Russia has accused Azerbaijan of violating a Russian-brokered ceasefire that stopped the …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-27). Working class sections across Spain protest cost of living crisis. peoplesdispatch.org The ongoing war in Ukraine has resulted in skyrocketing oil prices across Europe, including in Spain which was already witnessing high inflation, reportedly the highest in the last three decades…

Elijah J. Magnier (2022-03-27). Ending the War in Ukraine is Halfway Through. orinocotribune.com By Elijah J Magnier — Mar 21, 2022 | Russia and Ukraine are taking the first steps towards ending the war through direct and video negotiations. After the past four rounds, progress was registered between the negotiators, notwithstanding the continuous clanging of arms. Ukraine realised that the West was sanctioning Russia to weaken its economy without necessarily having any consequence for the ongoing war. Western countries were also ready to provide media support and weapons for the army to fight alone. In contrast, the Ukrainians thought they could drag the world into a much larger war against Russia. The…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). Price of war is paid by citizens, not TV preachers: Bulgaria won't be dragged into war — president. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NoviniteMarch 26, 2022 Bulgarian President Radev: I will Not Allow Bulgaria to be Involved in the War in Ukraine "I will not allow Bulgaria to be involved in the war." This was stated by the head of state Rumen Radev. "I have been chosen to uphold security and peace in Bulgaria. The price of war …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). Full circle: with war in Ukraine, conflict in Kosovo, "NATO's child," is reignited. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com B92March 27, 2022 President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vuƒçiƒá, as a guest on B92 TV, commented on the situation in Kosovo and Metohija and the protests of Serbs "Additionally, you now have Ukraine. When you have that, Albanians think that it is an ideal opportunity to further stigmatize Serbs, ask for support for joining NATO. Certainly, …

Nathaniel Manderson (2022-03-27). Some evangelicals claim Ukraine war means the end times — as usual, they're wrong. salon.com Every few years, my fellow evangelicals claim the Antichrist has risen and the world is ending. It's never true…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). Brzezinski: Biden's Polish visit confirms NATO Article 5 war commitment. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioMarch 27, 2022 Biden visit reaffirms strength of Polish-US ties: ambassador US President Joe Biden's two-day visit to Poland has reaffirmed the strength of the partnership between the two countries and NATO allies, the American ambassador to Warsaw has said, amid Russia's war in neighbouring Ukraine. *** The US ambassador to Poland, Mark Brzezinski, …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). Georgia: Ruling party refuses Ukraine's demand to open second front against Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Agenda.geMarch 27, 2022 Ruling party, opposition MPs: Georgia on "peaceful path", not getting into war The ruling Georgian Dream party and opposition MPs on Sunday asserted the country was on a "peaceful path" and would not get involved in war, following remarks by Oleksiy Danilov, the Ukrainian Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). Xinhua: Ukraine war impacts life of Europeans. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Russia-Ukraine military conflict exerts impact on life of Europeans Xinhua News Agency BERLIN/PARIS, March 27 — The ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine has exerted great impact on the lives of European people. With rising price increases and panic buying due to worries over supply issue, a number of supermarkets in some European countries have reportedly started …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). Azerbaijan preparing to evict Russian troops from Nagorno-Karabakh. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Until two days ago the only missing piece in the puzzle in terms of the West and its partners "resolving" frozen conflicts in the former Soviet Union. Which is to say, driving Russian peacekeepers and other troops out of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Crimea and the Donbass. The latter are labeled "temporarily-occupied territories" by …

Anonymous103 (2022-03-27). Children From Mariupol On War Crimes Of Azov Militants (Video). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The situation in Mariupol remains tense. The joint forces of the DPR and Russia are slowly advancing from the eastern and western directions in the central districts of the city. | Their advance is significantly slowed down not only by direct fire from enemy troops, but also by the need to evacuate civilians from areas under their control, as well as from areas where fighting continues. While Russian troops are trying to ensure the evacuation of civilians under fire, the AFU nationalist fo…

Staff (2022-03-27). Venezuela Returns to In-Person Classes at All Levels from Monday. orinocotribune.com Venezuela will return to in-person classes at all levels from Monday, March 28. This was announced this Thursday, March 24, by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. | "Starting from this coming week we are going to normalize classes in all schools, high schools and universities in the country—100% of classes in all shifts," said the president. "We have all got vaccinated, now we go to full classes, as the boys and girls ask." | The president also called upon student organizations, leaders, and teachers to join forces to carry forward the recovery of educational institutions…

Staff (2022-03-27). Iranian lawmakers condemn 7 yrs of Saudi crimes against Yemen. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 27 (MNA) — The lawmakers at the Iranian parliament condemned the crimes committed by the Saudi coalition against the Yemeni people and called for an end to the war on Yemen.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). Brutal, horrible, criminal, inhuman attack on a small country: Serbs commemorate victims of NATO's war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Feature: Serbia marks anniversary of NATO aggression Xinhua News AgencyMarch 26, 2022 People attend the ceremony of the Remembrance Day for the Victims of the NATO Aggression, in Kraljevo, Serbia, March 24, 2022. Thousands of Serbian people with lit candles and tear-stained eyes marked the 23rd anniversary of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia at a …

Anonymous103 (2022-03-27). Military Situation In Yemen On March 26, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On March 26, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 2 airstrikes on the Haradh district; | On March 26, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 2 airstrikes on the Jubah district; | On March 26, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 2 airstrikes on the Saada district; | On March 26, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 3 airstrikes on the Hazm district; | On March 26, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition conducted 9 airstrike on the Sanaa pr…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-27). ≈Ωivadin Jovanoviƒá: The third world war will have no winners. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ≈Ωivadin Jovanoviƒá interview ≈Ωivadin Jovanoviƒá was foreign minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1998-2000, including during the 78 days of NATO's air war of 1999.As can be heard, he is both informed and humane, an internationalist in the true sense of the term: someone who values harmony between nations and peoples. Attention is …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-27). Quintana: Latin America to Experience Phase II of the Cold War. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Former Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramon Quintana gives a talk on NATO in Lauca àë. March 26, 2022. Former Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramon Quintana gave a talk on NATO and an analysis of the current conflict to the 6 Federations of the Trópico of Cochabamba (campesino union) and members of…

Editor (2022-03-27). The Uncivil War Between Nationalism and Internationalism. scheerpost.com Illustration by By John Feffer / Once upon a time, the tutelary gods of nationalism and internationalism met for a chat. They had a superb perch above the clouds. From there, they could see everything happening on the Earth below and they set to arguing, as they so often did. | Sophia, the goddess of internationalism, began by proudly pointing to the accomplishments of humanity. "Behold the United Nations," she said, not for the first time. "See how all the peoples of the world…

Anonymous103 (2022-03-27). Aroused by Power: Why Madeleine Albright Was Not Right. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | When involved in war, those who feel like benefactors are bound to congratulate the gun toting initiators. If you so happen to be on the losing end, sentiments are rather different. Complicity and cause in murder come to mind. | The late US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will always be tied with the appallingly named humanitarian war in Kosovo in 1999, one that saw NATO attacks on Serbian civilian targets while aiding the forces of the Kosovo Liberatio…

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