2022-03-18: News Headlines

Danny Haiphong (2022-03-18). Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem. orinocotribune.com By Danny Haiphong — Mar 9, 2022 | The American public are inundated with anti-Russian war propaganda that is worse than in the days of the Red Scare. | Russia has been the subject of intense outrage in the West following its decision to wage a military offensive against Ukraine. The military operation caught many by surprise. While the Western foreign policy establishment exploited the development as a "told you so" moment, the general public was thrown into a state of utter confusion. A particularly comforting explanation for the conflict has been a singular and decontextualized "Russian aggression." At the…

Dickie Haskell (2022-03-18). 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…

WSWS (2022-03-18). Biden appoints mass infection advocate Ashish Jha as COVID-19 Response Coordinator. wsws.org The selection of Jha underscores that the White House will do nothing to stop the pandemic as the Omicron BA.2 subvariant spreads uncontrolled, and all federal pandemic resources dry up.

Yasemin Y. Celikkol (2022-03-17). Calling Ukraine "Relatively Civilized" Invokes a Racist Ranking of Europeanness. truthout.org CBS senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata's contrast of Ukraine, which he described as "relatively civilized, relatively European," with Iraq and Afghanistan, where "conflict has been raging for decades," went viral and offended millions around the globe. This dangerous comment was a sobering reminder of the persisting racism, Islamophobia and colonial mentalities still propagated by mainstream media. While people from the Middle East expressed their shock and disappointment at being…

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.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-03-17). CIA Director William F. Burns—Capo of World's Biggest Spreader of Lies and Misinformation—Is Spreading The Big Lie that Russia's Invasion of Ukraine was "Unprovoked" covertactionmagazine.com Burns scornfully smears as Russian propaganda evidence that the U.S. deceitfully provoked the invasion to generate a new Cold War …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-17). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…

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