Daily Archives: March 12, 2023

2023-03-12: News Headlines

Kevin Gosztola (2023-03-11). Unauthorized Disclosure: Brian Becker. thedissenter.org Brian Becker, antiwar activist and national director for the ANSWER Coalition, reflects on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War.

Ted Snider, Antiwar. (2023-03-11). Why Is The US So Unhappy That China Offered A Peace Proposal? popularresistance.org On February 24, China published its "Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis." The US reacted very negatively very quickly. They reacted more negatively even than Ukraine. | What is it about the Chinese proposal that so unnerves the US? It is not even a fully developed settlement proposal ripe for negotiation. There was no hurry to take it off the table. It is merely a declaration of China's position and a pledge that China is willing to assume "a constructive role in this regard." | In a first response so comical it could only be intended for public consumption, the US discredited China as a b…

DLI (2023-03-12). Iran-Saudi Peace a Diplomatic Coup by China. indybay.org The just-announced Peace deal(or revived diplomatic relations) between Iran and Saudi Arabia is a game changer in the Middle East. Since WW II, the USA had touted itself as the most influential Peace broker in the region, but had only turned the region into a powder keg. Now, the world is seeing how a responsible outside power–in this case China–can gain the trust and respect of two of the bitterest enemies in the MidEast.

Redacted (2023-03-12). The US Should be ASHAMED of What They're Doing in Syria. dissidentvoice.org The House of Representatives voted not to end the U.S. occupation of Syria on Wednesday. This is disappointing but not surprising. Although all is not lost, 103 leaders voted for it with 56 Democrats joining 47 Republicans to vote in favor of the bill, showing that there is at least some appetite for peace. Opponents …

A Guest Author (2023-03-11). Norway, Nord Stream and Vietnam. workers.org By Nadya Williams Feb. 28, 2023 Nadya Williams is Director of Communications, Veterans For Peace, San Francisco Chapter 69; and Board Member, VFP Viet Nam Ch. 160. Williams forwarded to Workers World this guest article, in which most language is left in her style. Anti-NATO protest, Norway, Oct. 27, 2018.Credit: . . . |

_____ (2023-03-11). More Due Effort to Possibly Sum Up Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine. strategic-culture.org Now all the services from Kiev, across Brussels and the Pentagon seem to be thinking: What is Gerasimov up to now? | During March 2022, the peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine began first in Belarus and then in Istanbul. Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to the Russian delegation announced in public that they managed to align their viewpoints on a number of issues and then Kiev presented a document in writing, which for Russia contained sufficient number of acceptable views with the neutral status out of any political bloc of Ukraine without foreign military bases, units or weaponry, nuclear arms included. | I…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-03-11). Unauthorized Disclosure: Brian Becker. thedissenter.org Brian Becker, antiwar activist and national director for the ANSWER Coalition, reflects on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War.

Ted Snider, Antiwar. (2023-03-11). Why Is The US So Unhappy That China Offered A Peace Proposal? popularresistance.org On February 24, China published its "Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis." The US reacted very negatively very quickly. They reacted more negatively even than Ukraine. | What is it about the Chinese proposal that so unnerves the US? It is not even a fully developed settlement proposal ripe for negotiation. There was no hurry to take it off the table. It is merely a declaration of China's position and a pledge that China is willing to assume "a constructive role in this regard." | In a first response so comical it could only be intended for public consumption, the US discredited China as a b…

DLI (2023-03-12). Iran-Saudi Peace a Diplomatic Coup by China. indybay.org The just-announced Peace deal(or revived diplomatic relations) between Iran and Saudi Arabia is a game changer in the Middle East. Since WW II, the USA had touted itself as the most influential Peace broker in the region, but had only turned the region into a powder keg. Now, the world is seeing how a responsible outside power–in this case China–can gain the trust and respect of two of the bitterest enemies in the MidEast.

Redacted (2023-03-12). The US Should be ASHAMED of What They're Doing in Syria. dissidentvoice.org The House of Representatives voted not to end the U.S. occupation of Syria on Wednesday. This is disappointing but not surprising. Although all is not lost, 103 leaders voted for it with 56 Democrats joining 47 Republicans to vote in favor of the bill, showing that there is at least some appetite for peace. Opponents …

A Guest Author (2023-03-11). Norway, Nord Stream and Vietnam. workers.org By Nadya Williams Feb. 28, 2023 Nadya Williams is Director of Communications, Veterans For Peace, San Francisco Chapter 69; and Board Member, VFP Viet Nam Ch. 160. Williams forwarded to Workers World this guest article, in which most language is left in her style. Anti-NATO protest, Norway, Oct. 27, 2018.Credit: . . . |

_____ (2023-03-11). More Due Effort to Possibly Sum Up Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine. strategic-culture.org Now all the services from Kiev, across Brussels and the Pentagon seem to be thinking: What is Gerasimov up to now? | During March 2022, the peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine began first in Belarus and then in Istanbul. Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to the Russian delegation announced in public that they managed to align their viewpoints on a number of issues and then Kiev presented a document in writing, which for Russia contained sufficient number of acceptable views with the neutral status out of any political bloc of Ukraine without foreign military bases, units or weaponry, nuclear arms included. | I…

Adriaan Alsema (2023-03-11). Colombia's government and ELN rebels revise peace talks agenda. colombiareports.com Negotiators of Colombia's government and guerrilla group ELN presented a revised peace talks agenda, which includes the possibility of an early ceasefire. The so-called "Mexico Accord" is a revised version…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-11). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute For Social Research. (2023-03-11). Contradictions Of The Imperialist 'Rules-Based Order'. popularresistance.org The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has now moved the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has been to the symbolic time of the annihilation of humanity and the Earth since 1947. This is alarming, which is why leaders in the Global South have been making the case to halt the warmongering over Ukraine and against China. As Namibia's Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said, 'We are promoting a peaceful resolution of that conflict so that the entire world and all the resources of the world can be focused on improving the conditions of people around the world instead of being spent on acq…

Micah Herskind, Scheer Post. (2023-03-12). The 'Stop Cop City' Movement Roots Go Back Decades. popularresistance.org On Jan. 18, 2023, a squad of local and state police officers marched into the Weelaunee Forest in southeast Atlanta, where they shot and killed a young, queer, Indigenous-Venezuelan protester named Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán. Tortuguita was one of many Atlanta forest defenders, a decentralized group of activists that has been living in the forest since 2021 to protect against its proposed destruction and replacement with "Cop City"—a massive police militarization facility complete with a "mock city" inside for police to practice their many tactics of urban warfare and repression.

Staff (2023-03-12). Reitera Maduro que el pueblo venezolano elegirá en paz al presidente en las elecciones del año 2024. cubadebate.cu Este sábado el presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, hizo un recuento de la exitosa política exterior de su Gobierno en los últimos meses, al tiempo que habló de las próximas elecciones en el país suramericano. El mandatario fue entrevistado en el programa Radio La Pizarra por el investigador y académico Alfredo Serrano Mancilla.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-03-12). Presidente Nicolás Maduro destaca que Venezuela elegirá en paz a su mandatario en 2024. telesurtv.net El presidente venezolano detalló en entrevista temas de interés nacional e internacional al tiempo que ofreció un recuerdo del comandante eterno Hugo Chavéz.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-03-12). Cuba y Venezuela saludan acuerdo entre Gobierno de Colombia y ELN. telesurtv.net El presidente cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel destacó: "Esperamos que durante el próximo ciclo, el cual nos honramos en recibir en La Habana; se continúen los avances por la paz de Colombia".

Staff (2023-03-12). Clásico Mundial de Béisbol: Venezuela vence a República Dominicana en el grupo D. cubadebate.cu Venezuela venció República Dominicana cinco carreras por una en su encuentro correspondiente al grupo D del Clásico Mundial de Béisbol. Batazo de cuatro esquinas de Anthony Santander empató el juego 1-1 en el segundo, y los suramericanos tomaron ventaja 3-1 por imparable de David Peralta con las bases llenas en el cuarto. Peralta remolcó la cuarta.

scorinoco (2023-03-11). 1706 Medical Students Graduate from ELAM Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Friday, March 10, 1,706 medical students graduated from the Doctor Salvador Allende Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) and the Hugo Chávez Frías University of Health Sciences. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro led the graduation ceremony, in which Venezuelan students and scholarship holders from various countries like Brazil, Haiti, Chile, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Colombia, Palestine, Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Zambia and Nigeria were awarded the title of integral community doctors and dentists. | The graduates were assigned to positions in the different health centers o…

scorinoco (2023-03-11). Venezuela Deports Ex-Parliamentarian Aida Merlano to Colombia. orinocotribune.com On Friday, March 10, Venezuelan and Colombian authorities announced that former senator of Colombia, Aida Merlano, has been deported to her country, at the request of the Colombian government. Merlano, who had fled from a Colombian prison in 2019, had been detained on January 27, 2020 in El Milagro sector of Maracaibo, in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. Since then, she was in prison in Venezuela. | "Today, ex-parliamentarian Aida Merlano is being transferred from Venezuela to Colombia," a statement by the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. | The document clarified that it was not an extradition, some…

teleSUR, MER (2023-03-11). Deportan de Venezuela a Colombia a la excongresista Aída Merlano. telesurtv.net Esta acción fue producto de la gestión diplomática adelantada por el Gobierno colombiano ante las autoridades venezolanas, indicó el Ministerio de Justicia y del Derecho.

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