Monthly Archives: March 2022

2022-03-17: News Headlines

Dickie Haskell (2022-03-17). Awakening Hyperboria, Scythia, and Tartaria the Film. indybay.org We are gathering filmmakers and screen writers to collaborate on the development of a screen play that aims to tell the story of our lost giant ancestors who seemed to have created a world wide grandiose "steampunk esque" civilization. Research Tartaria online and reflect on the old world looking architecture that we have repurposed into our municipal buildings, cathedrals, and factories. Why has the mainstream narrative buried the giants? Meet at 6pm to discuss possible plots for this film that aims to reveal how magical and epic the free etheric energy realm of the Hyperborians may have been. | Thursday March 2…

Anonymous103 (2022-03-17). In Video: Epic Fails Of Ukrainian Propaganda. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | While the Ukrainian officials made a bet on the informational warfare, the ongoing military operations in Ukraine unveiled their complete incompetence. All the main provocations aimed at blaming the Russian military of inhumane actions against civilians and used by Zelenskiy as the pretext for yet another plea for more military supplies from the West were revealed before Mr Zelenskiy released his daily video appeals to his Western counterparts. | Even superficial analyses are sufficient to rev…

WSWS (2022-03-17). We Might as Well Be Dead: An absurdist portrait of a hysteria-ridden society. wsws.org Against the backdrop of war propaganda and anti-Russian agitation in the media, one film at this year's Berlinale assumed extra significance, We Might as Well Be Dead, by the young, Russian-Jewish director Natalia Sinelnikova.

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2022-03-16). CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: The Role of War Propaganda in Anti-Asian Violence. covertactionmagazine.com The epidemic of anti-Asian violence has grown exponentially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, Asian …

Misión Verdad (2022-03-16). Cancelation of Russia is a Violation of its Fundamental Rights (From an International Legal Perspective). orinocotribune.com The Russian military operation in Ukraine has been accompanied, since the outset, by a powerful informational and cultural war on all things Russian, and on all points of view favorable to Russia. There has also been a tendency in some Western nations to censor Russian cultural and artistic output, and an increase in discriminatory incidents against Russian people themselves. | This cannot be overlooked, for such manifestations of a discourse of hate only worsen the current conflict, insofar as one of the most difficult things to achieve in any peace process is an understanding that the Other is a person whose di…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-16). Beware the Ides of March… Russia Defeated and Putin Assassinated? libya360.wordpress.com Finian Cunningham By the end of this month, as the Western media messaging goes, Russia will be defeated by the NATO-backed Ukrainian rag-tag of NeoNazi brigades. Russia's military intervention in Ukraine takes war to a new level of information warfare. Over the past three weeks, Western mainstream media has unleashed a tsunami of false information and…

Kahlil Wall-Johnson (2022-03-16). Gerald Sussman: Propaganda & Hatred Toward Russia is Unprecedented (Interview). orinocotribune.com March 16, 2022 ( Given his extensive body of research dedicated to studying the inner workings of US propaganda in the former Soviet Union, Orinoco Tribune asked him about his…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-16). Under the Wolfsangel: The Truth about Radical Ideologies in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Olga Sukharevskaya A cursory look at the documents regarding the foundation of the Ukrainian state would make it appear quite European and democratic, which is exactly the reason why many might have dismissed Vladimir Putin's talk about neo-Nazis in Ukraine as rhetoric and propaganda. The truth, however, is much more complicated and cannot be summarized…

Margaret Kimberley (2022-03-16). In Praise of 'Whataboutism'. orinocotribune.com By Margaret Kimberley — Mar 9, 2022 | The word "whataboutism" is used to silence and insult opponents of U.S. imperialism. It should be embraced as a means of revealing what is too often kept hidden. | 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…

SF015 (2022-03-16). Mass Grave In Mariupol. Who May Buried There And Why. southfront.org An official representative of the DPR said at an urgent briefing on the morning of 16 March that information had been received from various sources that another falsification had been carried out by the Ukrainian leadership in the city of Mariupol. | This time, the office of the Ukrainian President set the task for the Ukrainian armed forces' command to discredit the actions of the Russian forces by showing the Western public the mass graves of civilians allegedly killed as a result of artillery shellin…

Juan Cole (2022-03-16). Top 7 Ways Iran evaded US Sanctions that Putin could Follow. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The sorts of sanctions and boycotts the United States and its allies are placing on Russia resemble those applied by Washington to Iran off and on in the past decade, though so far the measures in place against Tehran are still far more severe than what has been done to …

Human Rights Watch (2022-03-16). Saudi Arabia: Mass Execution of 81 Men: Rampant Abuses in Criminal Justice System, lack of Fair Trials. juancole.com Human Rights Watch — (Beirut) — Saudi authorities' execution of 81 men on March 12, 2022 was its largest mass execution in years despite recent promises to curtail its use of the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. Rampant and systemic abuses in Saudi Arabia's criminal justice system suggest it is highly unlikely that …

Ramona Wadi (2022-03-16). Not all Refugees are Equal: Plight of Palestinians Displaced by Israel Worsening. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Financial support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is dwindling, despite the renewed mandates and financial contribution pledges by world leaders. "The almost unanimous political support expressed by the UN General Assembly to the Agency is not translated into matching financial resources," UNRWA's Commissioner-General, …

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2022-03-16: News Headlines

SF015 (2022-03-16). Mass Grave In Mariupol. Who May Buried There And Why. southfront.org An official representative of the DPR said at an urgent briefing on the morning of 16 March that information had been received from various sources that another falsification had been carried out by the Ukrainian leadership in the city of Mariupol. | This time, the office of the Ukrainian President set the task for the Ukrainian armed forces' command to discredit the actions of the Russian forces by showing the Western public the mass graves of civilians allegedly killed as a result of artillery shellin…

Human Rights Watch (2022-03-16). Saudi Arabia: Mass Execution of 81 Men: Rampant Abuses in Criminal Justice System, lack of Fair Trials. juancole.com Human Rights Watch — (Beirut) — Saudi authorities' execution of 81 men on March 12, 2022 was its largest mass execution in years despite recent promises to curtail its use of the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. Rampant and systemic abuses in Saudi Arabia's criminal justice system suggest it is highly unlikely that …

Ramona Wadi (2022-03-16). Not all Refugees are Equal: Plight of Palestinians Displaced by Israel Worsening. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Financial support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is dwindling, despite the renewed mandates and financial contribution pledges by world leaders. "The almost unanimous political support expressed by the UN General Assembly to the Agency is not translated into matching financial resources," UNRWA's Commissioner-General, …

Juan Cole (2022-03-16). Top 7 Ways Iran evaded US Sanctions that Putin could Follow. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The sorts of sanctions and boycotts the United States and its allies are placing on Russia resemble those applied by Washington to Iran off and on in the past decade, though so far the measures in place against Tehran are still far more severe than what has been done to …

Project Censored (2022-03-15). Censorship of Russian Media Featuring Lee Camp and Chris Garaffa. projectcensored.org This week, Eleanor Goldfield hosts both segments of the show. Her first guest is Lee Camp, comedian and political writer, whose TV program (Redacted Tonight) ended with the recent shutdown…

WSWS (2022-03-15). Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and the hypocrisy of imperialism. wsws.org The Biden administration and the corporate media howl about alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine while turning a blind eye to the mass executions and saturation bombing carried out by Saudi Arabia.

Ann Brown (2022-03-15). White Nationalist Hispanics: 5 Things To Know About The Rising Trend In America. moguldom.com More Latinos in the U.S. are adopting far-right extremism. The rise in the number of white nationalist Hispanics is reflected in a few things including an increase in Hispanic Americans who identify as white. The trend is "part of the mutation that takes place as the racist fringe tries to become more mainstream," said Brian …

Matt Sedlar (2022-03-15). Navigating Alternate Realities. cepr.net NACLA | Reading Herman and Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent as an undergrad had not prepared me for what I saw during my first trip to Venezuela. My Venezuelan friends had warned me that the mainstream media depiction of the country under Hugo Chávez grossly misrepresented the facts on the ground, but as I watched national television channels and CNN on the night of April 11, 2002, I still couldn't believe my eyes. | I'd been in Caracas for barely 48 hours. The previous day—day two of the "general strike" called by…

_____ (2022-03-15). Waltzing Toward Armageddon With The Merchants Of Death. popularresistance.org The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world's chess board, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating predatory capitalism with freedom. In the name of national security, the Cold Warriors, many of them self-identified liberals, demonized labor, independent media, human rights organizations, and those who opposed the permanent war economy and the militarization of American society as soft on communism. | That is why they have resurrected it. | The decision to spurn the pos…

Chris Hedges (2022-03-15). Chris Hedges: Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death. mintpressnews.com Putin played into the hands of the war industry. He gave the warmongers what they wanted. He fulfilled their wildest fantasies. There will be no impediments now on the march to Armageddon.

Mark Weisbrot (2022-03-15). Biden's Sanctions on Afghanistan. zcomm.org The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country…

Kate Aronoff (2022-03-15). Oil Companies Are Making a Fortune From Soaring Prices. zcomm.org ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and other oil companies are paying negative taxes on huge profits…

Joe DeManuelle-Hall (2022-03-15). Texas Union Activists Fight 'Microtransit' Privatization. zcomm.org When "microtransit," the new rage in transit privatization, showed up in Denton, Texas, union activists decided to fight back…

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2022-03-15). Why Europe Needs to Take a Hard Look at Itself. zcomm.org They will go down in history as Europe's most mediocre leaders since the end of the Second World War…

Eric Zuesse (2022-03-15). Who actually CAUSED this war in Ukraine? moderndiplomacy.eu On 24 February 1990, U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush secretly informed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at Camp David, that though Bush and all of his agents such as Secretary of State James Baker had verbally promised the Soviet Union's leader Mikhail Gorbachev that (as Baker put it) NATO would not expand "one inch to …

Amjed Jaaved (2022-03-15). "Accidental" launching of missile into Pakistan's air space. moderndiplomacy.eu A "supersonic flying object", believed to be a version of the Brahmos missile, flew into Pakistan's air space at debatable altitude near air corridors of airliners, before falling near Mian Chunu (Khanewal, Multan ), a strategic location. Pakistan expressed its ennui to the United Nations 'secretary general and the German chancellor. Pakistan's foreign minister alleged …

Eileen Flanagan (2022-03-15). When complex and ambitious demands undermine a good campaign. zcomm.org In trying to spur a green jobs program in Philadelphia, Earth Quaker Action Team learned valuable lessons about crafting effective demands…

Arturo Domínguez (2022-03-15). Biden, Democrats Not Interested in Defunding the Police (OPINION). latinorebels.com While using certain crime statistics as a rationale to "re-fund the police" is dishonest, so is the notion that Democrats are taking anything away from law enforcement. Under President Biden, police have received billions in funding with little to no accountability or transparency.

Michael Sainato (2022-03-15). More than 1,000 Hershey's Workers Vote on Plan to Unionize. zcomm.org The Pennsylvania-based candy brand has hired union-busting consultants as workers fight for better pay and conditions…

Hector Luis Alamo (2022-03-15). No Charges Against Chicago Cops in Shooting Deaths of Adam Toledo and Anthony Alvarez. latinorebels.com The Chicago Police officers involved in last year's shooting deaths of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez will not face criminal charges, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx said on Tuesday.

Noam Chomsky (2022-03-15). Peace Talks in Ukraine "Will Get Nowhere" If US Keeps Refusing to Join. zcomm.org The means are understood. If the will is there, it is possible to avert catastrophe and to move on to a much better world…

Amy Westervelt (2022-03-15). The U.S. Government Doesn't Control Domestic Oil Production. But It Should. zcomm.org The oil and gas industry won't increase production because it's enjoying the profits from high prices…

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