2022-03-12: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-03-12). Detroit autoworkers reject pro-war propaganda in corporate media. wsws.org As one worker put it, to understand the war, "you have to understand economics, and understand the world."

WSWS (2022-03-12). PSOE-Podemos government escalates Spain's threats against Russia. wsws.org The pseudo-left Podemos party is emerging as a central cog in the NATO military and propaganda machine pushing for intensifying the undeclared war with Russia.

Felix Abt (2022-03-12). CIA Behind Uyghur Propaganda and Scheme to Demonize and Destabilize China. covertactionmagazine.com The U.S. Government and its media echo chamber accuse China of committing genocide against Muslims in Xinjiang when, despite some …

WSWS (2022-03-12). Senate passes biggest-ever US military budget with unanimous Democratic support. wsws.org With remarkable speed, the Democratic-controlled Congress passed the $1.5 trillion budget bill, with more than half of the total going to the Pentagon, $13.6 billion to the Ukrainian military, and nothing to fight the COVID pandemic.

Craig M McDonald, Eduardo Marbán, Suzanne Hendrix, Nathaniel Hogan, Rachel Ruckdeschel Smith, Michelle Eagle, Richard S Finkel, Cuixia Tian, Joanne Janas, Matthew M Harmelink, Arun S Varadhachary, Michael D Taylor, Kan N Hor, Oscar H Mayer, Erik K Henricson, Pat Furlong, Deborah D Ascheim, Siegfried Rogy, Paula Williams, Linda Marbán, HOPE-2 Study Group (2022-03-12). [Articles] Repeated intravenous cardiosphere-derived cell therapy in late-stage Duchenne muscular dystrophy (HOPE-2): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial. thelancet.com CAP-1002 cell therapy appears to be safe and effective in reducing deterioration of upper limb function in patients with late-stage Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Various measures of cardiac function and structure were also improved in the CAP-1002 group compared with the placebo group. Longer-term extension studies are needed to confirm the therapeutic durability and safety of CAP-1002 beyond 12 months for the treatment of skeletal myopathy and cardiomyopathy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Medea Benjamin (2022-03-11). How the U.S. Has Empowered and Armed Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. zcomm.org The reality behind the propaganda is that the West and its Ukrainian allies have opportunistically exploited and empowered the extreme right in Ukraine…

Staff (2022-03-11). Citing Ukraine, Facebook declares some hate speech is OK. rt.com What happened after Meta amended its policy to allow calls for violence and death against Russians in some countries | When is "hate speech" not hate speech? When it's directed against the approved targets, of course — at least according to Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which just altered its censorship guidelines to allow calls for violence against Russians in certain countries. | "As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as 'death to the…

Staff (2022-03-11). YouTube to demonetize all Russian users, ban 'state media'. rt.com Google-owned video platform expanding its bans from Europe to worldwide | YouTube, owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, announced on Friday it would block access to "Russian state media" channels across the globe and block all monetization on its platform inside Russia, citing the conflict in Ukraine. | The video-sharing platform wants to remove content "denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events," as it goes against its Community Guidelines, YouTube

WSWS (2022-03-11). SEP (Australia) deregistered under anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Despite this blatant political censorship, the SEP will stand candidates in the federal election, if and when it is called, and conduct the broadest possible campaign for a genuine socialist alternative.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Australia's state-funded broadcaster pumping out pro-war anti-Russian propaganda. wsws.org ABC's "Media Watch" said nothing about the censorship and removal of a Russian-Australian student from the network's "Q+A" program only four days earlier.

Benjamin Norton (2022-03-11). Mexico's President AMLO condemns EU Parliament as 'corrupt reactionary coup-plotters'. multipolarista.com The European Parliament condemned Mexico's left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for his "populist rhetoric" against the biased corporate media. He responded by blasting the EU body as a reactionary interventionist gang of coup-plotters, declaring, "we are no longer a colony of anyone"

_____ (2022-03-11). In Praise Of 'Whataboutism'. popularresistance.org Anyone who speaks out against imperialism, capitalism, or racism with concrete examples of the terrible harm they do, can expect to be charged with the dreaded term "whataboutism." Like clockwork, the act of revealing American crimes will result in an accusation that is used to silence dissent. When war propaganda prevails regarding Ukraine or any other place where the hegemon is doing its dirty work, it is reasonable to ask probing questions. Why are the deaths of 14,000 people killed by Ukraine's civil war swept under the rug? Why is it forbidden to ask about the U.S. destruction of Libya? But once having asked…

Staff (2022-03-11). Venezuela: Economic World War Already Underway via Sanctions, Let's Hope it Doesn't Become a Nuclear Conflict. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, once again gave his opinion on the delicate situation that exists between Russia, Ukraine and the countries of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). "The world war has already started: it started economically. Our concern is that it does not escalate further. Our call is for the economic war not to escalate further into a military war or a nuclear war, which is the worst outcome for humanity and for the survival of our species on this planet." | These comments were made this Wednesday, March 9, during a broadcast from the headquarters of Inveval, a worker-controlled…

WSWS (2022-03-11). US pandemic funding dries up as BA.2 Omicron subvariant spreads uncontrolled. wsws.org On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives approved a record nearly $800 billion in military spending and nothing for the COVID-19 pandemic, just as the more infectious, immune-resistant and virulent BA.2 Omicron subvariant is spreading across the US and globally.

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