Monthly Archives: March 2023

2023-03-31: News Headlines

Editor (2023-03-31). Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media. scheerpost.com

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Israeli Airstrikes Hit Damascus, Two Syrian Soldiers Wounded. news.antiwar.com Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus early Thursday morning and wounded two Syrian soldiers, Syria's SANA news agency has reported. The report said explosions were heard in Damascus at 1: 30 am, and a Syrian military source said Syrian air defenses were "confronting hostile targets." Besides the two wounded soldiers, material damage was reported as well. The Israeli …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Israeli Airstrikes Hit Damascus for Second Night in a Row. news.antiwar.com Israeli airstrikes targeted the Syrian capital of Damascus early Friday morning for the second day in a row, marking the fifth time in March that Israel bombed Syria. Syria's state news agency SANA reported that Syrian air defenses "intercepted hostile targets" in the airspace of Damascus. There was no mention of any casualties or damage …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Milley Says the US Should Attack Iran's IRGC Quds Force. news.antiwar.com Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told Congress on Wednesday that the US should be targeting Iran's Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), following a drone attack in Syria that killed a US contractor. "We do know that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard [Corps], and specifically their …

Editor (2023-03-31). Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media. scheerpost.com

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Israeli Airstrikes Hit Damascus, Two Syrian Soldiers Wounded. news.antiwar.com Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus early Thursday morning and wounded two Syrian soldiers, Syria's SANA news agency has reported. The report said explosions were heard in Damascus at 1: 30 am, and a Syrian military source said Syrian air defenses were "confronting hostile targets." Besides the two wounded soldiers, material damage was reported as well. The Israeli …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Israeli Airstrikes Hit Damascus for Second Night in a Row. news.antiwar.com Israeli airstrikes targeted the Syrian capital of Damascus early Friday morning for the second day in a row, marking the fifth time in March that Israel bombed Syria. Syria's state news agency SANA reported that Syrian air defenses "intercepted hostile targets" in the airspace of Damascus. There was no mention of any casualties or damage …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Milley Says the US Should Attack Iran's IRGC Quds Force. news.antiwar.com Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told Congress on Wednesday that the US should be targeting Iran's Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), following a drone attack in Syria that killed a US contractor. "We do know that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard [Corps], and specifically their …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Russia Says It Will Keep Notifying US of Missile Tests. news.antiwar.com Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Thursday that Russia will continue notifying the US of its missile tests despite its suspension of New START, the last nuclear arms control treaty remaining between Washington and Moscow. Earlier this week, the US said it would stop sharing New START data with Russia since Moscow suspended its …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Taiwan, China Must Do Everything to Avoid War: Former President Ma. news.antiwar.com Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou told a Chinese official Thursday that Beijing and Taipei must do everything possible to avoid a war. Ma met with Song Tao, the head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Ma arrived in China on Monday, making him the first former or sitting Taiwanese leader …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Turkey's Parliament Ratifies Finland's NATO Membership. news.antiwar.com The Turkish parliament on Thursday unanimously ratified Finland's NATO membership, clearing the final hurdle to Helsinki joining the Western military alliance. Finland's ascension into NATO significantly expands the alliance's territory on Russia's border, as the Finnish-Russian border is over 800 miles long. The Russian military has plans to expand its presence in the region in …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). World Court Rules US Illegally Froze Some Iranian Assets. news.antiwar.com The UN's top court on Thursday ruled that the US violated international law by freezing assets owned by Iranian companies. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Washington to pay compensation to Tehran, but the amount has yet to be determined, and the court has no way of enforcing its rulings. Iran brought the case …

Richard Horton (2023-04-01). [Comment] Offline: Here is how we avoid collapse. thelancet.com WHO is celebrating health for all on World Health Day (April 7). The agency's messages are important and familiar—that all people deserve good health in a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world; that health is an essential human right; and that universal health coverage is the means to that end. No one could argue with WHO's intentions. But there is an important missing truth. The planet and the life it nurtures are under threat from our own greed, exploitation, and mendacity. Unless the dangers humans have created are addressed, health for all will be nothing more than whimsical fantasy.

Yuko Nagasaka (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Japan's role for a peaceful and healthier world. thelancet.com I read Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Comment about Japan's vision for the G7 Hiroshima Summit with great interest.1 However, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also published Comments before the G7 Ise-Shima Summit.

Creating Peaceful Schools (2023-03-31). Friday 4/21: Contest Deadline for Contra Costa Youth – Art & Writing Challenge 2023. indybay.org Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center | 1035 Carol Lane | Lafayette, CA 94549…

ecns.cn (2023-03-31). Regional countries need dialogue to safeguard peace. ecns.cn Regional countries should promote dialogue and cooperation to safeguard peace in the South China Sea and firmly oppose external interference, according to attendees at the Boao Forum for Asia.

Uniting for Peace (2023-03-31). Thursday 5/18: Inequality and Instability — Peace Based Approach. indybay.org Online event…

_____ (2023-03-30). 'Divide and Rule' Becomes 'Unite and Cooperate' When Xi, Putin, Raisi, Farhan Al-Saud et al Set the New Global Rules. strategic-culture.org We are yet to mull and muse as to how China has succeeded in bringing peace to the two countries which the USA has always tried to drive a wedge in between. | After it agreed with Saudi Arabia in December 2022 to purchase its oil in Chinese yuan and not only in dollars any more, and while Russia has also been cooperating with Saudi Arabia with great success as regards the oil business and with Iran, too within the Shanghai Organization for Cooperation (SCO) together with China, China has managed to clinch a historic reconciliation of Iran and Saudi Arabia despite the unrelenting efforts by the USA to wreak havoc…

ecns.cn (2023-03-30). Premier Li urges safeguarding peaceful, stable environment for development. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Thursday urged efforts to jointly safeguard a peaceful and stable environment for development and inject more certainty into the volatile global environment.

ecns.cn (2023-03-30). China's certainty a mainstay of world peace, development: premier. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Qiang said Thursday that in uncertain events, China's certainty is a mainstay that safeguards world peace and development, a fact that was true in the past, and even more so in the future and at present.

Editor (2023-03-30). Chinese Official Warns McCarthy Meeting With Taiwanese President Would Be 'Provocation'. scheerpost.com A potential visit with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen "seriously violates the One China principle, harms China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and destroys peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait," said one official.

Felix Abt (2023-03-30). Caricature of North Korea in U.S. Media Obscures Kim Regime's Adaptive Response to Sanctions and Economic Achievements of Country. covertactionmagazine.com In advance of a webinar hosted by the Canadian chapter of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which describes itself as a global network of peacemakers, to which I was invited to speak in February 2023, I was asked four important questions. The mainstream media would not ask me such questions. Is there something wrong with …

Klaus Wagener (2023-03-30). New old financial crisis & China's peace plan. indybay.org Since Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Corporation, and Signature Bank all toppled within a week in the U.S., and now First Republic Bank has also run into trouble, there are increasing signs that the next big financial crisis, which was only postponed in 2019 by tons of freshly printed central bank money, could now erupt with force. $9 trillion has been injected into the "U.S. market" since 2019.

WSWS (2023-03-30). Spain's PSOE-Podemos government calls for "social peace" as mass protests sweep France. wsws.org While imposing pension cuts in Spain, the PSOE and Podemos are terrified of an eruption of class struggles in Spain like the current mass movement in France against Macron.

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-30). Azerbaijan deploys troops against Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Russian peacekeepers. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com PanArmenian.netMarch 30, 2023 Azerbaijani military blocks Armenia-Karabakh road The Azerbaijani armed forces blocked the Armenia-Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) road between the villages of Aghavno and Tegh overnight, the Karabakh police said in a statement on Thursday, March 30. A new dirt road from Tegh to the village of Kornidzor in Armenia's Syunik province is already ready, …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-31). Daily Round-up | Saudi Arabia joins SCO & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up, we look at Saudi Arabia joining SCO; , Chad nationalizes oil assets, US senate repeals Iraq wars' authorizations, and Colombia announces conference to promote Venezuelan dialogue.

Staff (2023-03-31). President Maduro: Half of PDVSA-Crypto Corruption Detainees Confessing, New Detainees in CVG & PDVSA. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, demanded that the investigatory bodies of the state were to find all resources and assets held by the mafias and groups involved in the recently unveiled corruption network, in order for it to be reinvested into the state and in attention to the Venezuelan population. "They have to guarantee it," he said, "that all the wealth stolen from the people will be found and reinvested." | Maduro called for the resources to be redistributed so that "we can put them into social programs for our people." The announcement was made this Wednesday, March 29, during the opening of the…

teleSUR, MER (2023-03-31). Continúa lucha contra la corrupción en Venezuela. telesurtv.net La Policía Nacional contra la Corrupción informó sobre el inicio de la segunda fase del operativo especial 'Caiga quien caiga'.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-03-31). Entregan a Unesco expediente de postulación del joropo venezolano. telesurtv.net Se hizo entrega del expediente con el cual Venezuela postula al Joropo Venezolano como Patrimonio de la Humanidad.

Ricardo Vaz (2023-03-30). Venezuela: Prosecutors Charge 23 in Anti-Corruption Drive. venezuelanalysis.com The highly publicized operation has led to more arrests as well as an audit of petcoke exports.

Staff (2023-03-30). Incautada parte de bienes a exfuncionarios y empresarios detenidos por corrupción en Venezuela. cubadebate.cu El presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, informó que las autoridades han logrado incautar parte de las riquezas malhabidas por exfuncionarios y empresarios capturados por su vinculación a los recientes casos de corruptelas quienes se han acogido a la figura legal de la delación para contar todos los hechos.

Staff (2023-03-30). PDVSA-Crypto Corruption Case Detainees Officially Charged. orinocotribune.com A presentation hearing of 23 people allegedly involved in the "PDVSA-Crypto" corruption plot was held, comprising 20 officials from Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the National Superintendence of Crypto-assets (Sunacrip), and other businessmen, as well as three judges accused of plots in the judiciary. | Venezuelan Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, announced via social media that the detainees were presented this Tuesday, March 28, before the Second Control Judge. Nine public officials, ten businessmen, and one former deputy were presented, as well as three judges also accused of corruption. Saab pointed out…

Staff (2023-03-30). President Petro To Convene International Conference to Promote Venezuelan Dialogue, US & Opposition On Board. orinocotribune.com

Staff (2023-03-30). Venezuela Shoots Down 11th Narco Jet of 2023. orinocotribune.com

teleSUR, MER (2023-03-30). Presidente Maduro ratifica compromiso en lucha anticorrupción. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado destacó que no se detendrán en la lucha contra los bandidos y la corruptela.

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2023-03-30: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Israeli Airstrikes Hit Damascus, Two Syrian Soldiers Wounded. news.antiwar.com Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus early Thursday morning and wounded two Syrian soldiers, Syria's SANA news agency has reported. The report said explosions were heard in Damascus at 1: 30 am, and a Syrian military source said Syrian air defenses were "confronting hostile targets." Besides the two wounded soldiers, material damage was reported as well. The Israeli …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-29). Sen. Rand Paul to Block Sen. Josh Hawley's Bill to Ban TikTok. news.antiwar.com Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) plans to block a bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that would ban the popular video-sharing app TikTok, The Hill reported Wednesday. Hawley's bill, the No TikTok on United States Devices Act, would prohibit the app from being downloaded in the US and ban commercial activity with TikTok's parent company, …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-29). Saudi Arabia to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization. news.antiwar.com On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia's cabinet approved a decision for Riyadh to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a Eurasian security and economic bloc that was founded in 2001 by China, Russia, and several Central Asian countries. According to Saudi state media, Riyadh has approved a memorandum that would make Saudi Arabia a dialogue partner of …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-30). Israeli Airstrikes Hit Damascus, Two Syrian Soldiers Wounded. news.antiwar.com Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus early Thursday morning and wounded two Syrian soldiers, Syria's SANA news agency has reported. The report said explosions were heard in Damascus at 1: 30 am, and a Syrian military source said Syrian air defenses were "confronting hostile targets." Besides the two wounded soldiers, material damage was reported as well. The Israeli …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-29). Sen. Rand Paul to Block Sen. Josh Hawley's Bill to Ban TikTok. news.antiwar.com Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) plans to block a bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that would ban the popular video-sharing app TikTok, The Hill reported Wednesday. Hawley's bill, the No TikTok on United States Devices Act, would prohibit the app from being downloaded in the US and ban commercial activity with TikTok's parent company, …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-29). Saudi Arabia to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization. news.antiwar.com On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia's cabinet approved a decision for Riyadh to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a Eurasian security and economic bloc that was founded in 2001 by China, Russia, and several Central Asian countries. According to Saudi state media, Riyadh has approved a memorandum that would make Saudi Arabia a dialogue partner of …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-29). Senate Votes to Repeal Iraq War AUMFs. news.antiwar.com The Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was used for the invasion of Iraq and the 1991 AUMF that was passed for the Gulf War. The bill passed in a vote of 66-30 and now heads to the House. Repealing the Iraq war AUMFs …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-29). China Tells Taiwan President Not to Meet With US House Speaker as She Heads to US. news.antiwar.com China on Wednesday warned that it would respond if Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) while she visits the US as part of a trip to Central America. Tsai departed for her trip to Guatemala and Belize, two countries that maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taipei. On the way there, …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-29). Russia Says Ukraine Using Longer-Range US-Provided Rockets. news.antiwar.com Moscow announced that it downed for the first time a longer-range rocket that the US has provided to Ukrainian forces. The Russian Defense Ministry said it downed a Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), a munition made by Boeing that can hit targets up to 94 miles away, nearly twice the range of the missiles …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-29). Zelensky Says if He Loses Bakhmut, He Will Be Pushed to 'Compromise' With Russia. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told The Associated Press on Wednesday that if the Donbas city of Bakhmut falls to Russia, he would be pressured to "compromise" with Moscow. "Our society will feel tired" if the Russians win in Bakhmut, Zelensky said. "Our society will push me to have compromise with them." He said if Bakhmut …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-29). Senate Votes Down Amendment to Create Special Watchdog for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The Senate on Tuesday night voted down an amendment to create a special inspector general to oversee the over $113 billion that the US has authorized to spend on the war in Ukraine. The amendment, which was introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), failed in a vote of 26-68, with 24 Republicans and only two …

Staff (2023-03-29). Headlines for March 29, 2023. democracynow.org Asylum Seekers in Ciudad Juárez Demand Justice, Humane Treatment, Following Blaze That Killed 38, Nashville School Shooter Had 7 Legally Purchased Firearms, U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Chief Visits Zaporizhzhia in Hopes of Curbing Nuclear Disaster Risk, Russian Man Sentenced to 2 Years After 13-Year-Old Daughter Draws Antiwar Picture, The Guardian's Owners Apologize for Founders' Ties to Slavery, Burmese Military Dissolves Aung San Suu Kyi's Party, Idaho House Passes Bill Criminalizing People Who Help Minors Get Out-of-State Abortions, Judge Orders Mike Pence to Testify Before Grand Jury Investigating…

WSWS (2023-03-29). Anti-AUKUS meeting seeks to divert anti-war concern in reactionary nationalist direction. wsws.org The speakers' central criticism of the AUKUS military pact was that it undermines Australia's "national interests"—that is, economic and strategic interests of Australian imperialism, including in the South Pacific and other parts of the region.

Creating Peaceful Schools (2023-03-30). Friday 4/21: Contest Deadline for Contra Costa Youth – Art & Writing Challenge 2023. indybay.org Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center | 1035 Carol Lane | Lafayette, CA 94549…

ecns.cn (2023-03-30). Premier Li urges safeguarding peaceful, stable environment for development. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Thursday urged efforts to jointly safeguard a peaceful and stable environment for development and inject more certainty into the volatile global environment.

ecns.cn (2023-03-30). China's certainty a mainstay of world peace, development: premier. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Qiang said Thursday that in uncertain events, China's certainty is a mainstay that safeguards world peace and development, a fact that was true in the past, and even more so in the future and at present.

Klaus Wagener (2023-03-30). New old financial crisis & China's peace plan. indybay.org Since Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Corporation, and Signature Bank all toppled within a week in the U.S., and now First Republic Bank has also run into trouble, there are increasing signs that the next big financial crisis, which was only postponed in 2019 by tons of freshly printed central bank money, could now erupt with force. $9 trillion has been injected into the "U.S. market" since 2019.

Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. (2023-03-29). Yemenis Mark Eight Years Of Disastrous War Amid Hopes Of Peace. popularresistance.org Thousands took to the streets across major Yemeni cities including Sanaa, Sa'ada, and Taiz on Sunday, March 26, to mark the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the Saudi-led aggression in the country. The protesters reiterated their demand for an end to the aggression and the lifting of the blockade on the country. The leaders of the Houthi movement have called these essential conditions for peace. | The National Day of Resilience and Steadfastness, as March 26 is celebrated by the Yemenis, symbolizes their resolve amid the large-scale destruction caused by the Saudi-led coalition's airstrikes and blockade.

teleSUR (2023-03-29). Colombian Youth Artist is Assassinated in Nariño. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) denounced the murder of a 24-year-old leader in the municipality of Tumaco, department of Nariño. | RELATED: | On March 27, gunmen shot and killed Linder Stiven Sepulveda, who was a renowned artist and cultural manager. | This fact brings to 35 the number of social leaders murdered in Colombia so far this year. Since the signing of the Peace A…

teleSUR (2023-03-29). President Petro Reacts to ELN Attack on Colombian Army. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, nine Colombian soldiers died and nine were injured as a result of an ambush carried out by the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the municipality of El Carmen, in the department of Norte de Santander. | RELATED: | In response to the above, President Gustavo Petro called the government peace negotiators to a special meeting on Monday, April 3 to assess the implications of what happened. | "A peace process must be serious and re…

Staff (2023-03-30). PDVSA-Crypto Corruption Case Detainees Officially Charged. orinocotribune.com A presentation hearing of 23 people allegedly involved in the "PDVSA-Crypto" corruption plot was held, comprising 20 officials from Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the National Superintendence of Crypto-assets (Sunacrip), and other businessmen, as well as three judges accused of plots in the judiciary. | Venezuelan Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, announced via social media that the detainees were presented this Tuesday, March 28, before the Second Control Judge. Nine public officials, ten businessmen, and one former deputy were presented, as well as three judges also accused of corruption. Saab pointed out…

teleSUR, MER (2023-03-30). Presidente Maduro ratifica compromiso en lucha anticorrupción. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado destacó que no se detendrán en la lucha contra los bandidos y la corruptela.

Staff (2023-03-29). Comienza audiencia de imputación de detenidos por el caso PDVSA-Cripto. cubadebate.cu En la noche del martes empezó la audiencia de imputación de 19 acusados de corrupción en el caso PDVSA-Cripto, anunció el fiscal general de Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, en Twitter. La audiencia tuvo lugar en el local del Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional (Sebin).

Staff (2023-03-29). President Maduro: China is a Non-Imperialist Great Power. orinocotribune.com "China gives strong signals that it can be a great power without being an imperialist power," said the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, this Monday. The comments were made in the context of the new multipolar geopolitical reality in which the People's Republic of China has emerged as a great power. | "Relations between Greater China and the Homeland of Bolívar have reached their highest level of mutual trust, collaboration, and work, and our relations are at the highest level, at the best level, that relations between Venezuela and China have ever been," President Maduro said. | The head of state said that…

teleSUR (2023-03-29). Maduro Denounces Use Of Anti-Values To Defeat The Revolution. telesurenglish.net Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro denounced on Wednesday the use of anti-values and vices of capitalism to defeat the Bolivarian Revolution. | RELATED: | "What they have not been able to defeat with criminal sanctions, they intend to do it with anti-values and vices of capitalism," said the President through his official Twitter account. | Maduro referred to the recent corruption cases involving executives of the state-owned o…

teleSUR (2023-03-29). No Impunity Into Fire At Migrant Holding Center -AMLO. telesurenglish.net Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that there will be no impunity in the investigation of the fire at a migrant holding center in Juárez City, Chihuahua. | RELATED: | 39 Latin American migrants died, and 30 others were injured in the March 27 fire. The President offered his condolences to the families of the victims, "to our Venezuelan, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Ecuadorian and Colombian brothers an…

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