2021-03-24: Social Media Postees

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Video: Bill Gates and "Philantro-Imperialism"
Dr. Vandana Shiva | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
The so-called philanthropists, Bill Gates in particular, are taking more and …
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The Debt Whiners: Fools or Liars?
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
I keep asking this question because whining over the government debt looks to be a huge growth sector in the next year or two, or perhaps until Republicans retake the White House. I regularly ridicule debt whining, because unlike its cousin, deficit whining, it has no basis in economic reality. Before again showing why the…
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Successful Covid Treatments Censored: Testimony of Peter McCullough, MD to Texas Senate HHS Committee
Dr. Peter McCullough | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
Dr. Peter McCullough explains in testimony that known successful treatments of …
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The cost of the COVID class war
Editor | workers.org | 2021-03-24
By Feb. 22, COVID-19 related deaths in the U.S. surpassed 500,000. Since then, another 55,000 people have died from the virus, and numbers are trending up. More U.S. lives have been lost in this pandemic than in combat during World Wars I and II combined. U.S. combined military spending for . . . | Continue reading The cost of the COVID class war at Workers.org…
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Berlin Bulletin: Scandals, Elections, Emergencies!
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
Germany, once viewed as an exaggerated model of exactitude and discipline, is currently in a muddle. Above all it's the Covid mess. Seen last spring as a model of swift, effective response, Germany is now torn by controversy, with its sixteen states and dozens of politicians squabbling about when to send which kids (if any)…
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Rev. Barber to Alabama union backers: 'Bessemer is the new Selma'
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2021-03-24
BESSEMER, Ala.–Declaring "Bessemer is the new Selma," the Rev. William Barber II and union allies brought the Poor People's Campaign to a mass rally for unionizing the 5,805 workers at Amazon's mammoth shipping warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. Unity among the Black and white workers and their supporters there could lead to renewed Black-white unity for …
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Amazon intimidates workers amid historic union vote in Alabama as Jeff Bezos makes $7 million an hour
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-24
Amazon has fought off labor organizing at the company for decades, but workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver and Southern California are now also reportedly considering union drives.
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Courageous women of the Paris Commune
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2021-03-24
This month marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Paris Commune. The Commune was established during a bloody intercapitalist conflict called the Franco-Prussian War. In 1871, Parisian workers were in revolt against France's Government of National Defense, seated in Versailles, which planned to surrender part of France and . . . | Continue reading Courageous women of the Paris Commune at Workers.org…
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The China-Russia "Peaceful Proposal". "Maintaining Global Stability"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov…
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Brazil's Supreme Court rules that Sérgio Moro was partial when convicting Lula
Brasil de Fato | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-24
The 2nd Panel of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) confirmed on Tuesday March 23, with a result of 3 votes to 2, the existence misconduct by former judge Sergio Moro in the cases involving former president Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) in the Operation Car Wash case. This is the latest chapter in the legal battle of Lula, following a decision on March 8 which annulled the convictions against the ex-president and opened the doors for him to be a presidential candidate in 2022. | The latest ruling was thanks to a change in vote of the minister Carmen Lucía, who had voted, in 2018, when the proc…
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At Least 36% of Mass Shooters Have Been Trained By the U.S. Military
David Swanson | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
It is extremely easy in the United States to obtain guns, to find places to practice using them, and to find trainers willing to teach you to use them. There's no need to have any contact with the U.S. military in order to dress and act as if you're in the military, as many mass-shooters…
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Welcome to "Shocked and Awed" 21st Century Geopolitics. A "Real Game-Changing Moment"
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
It took 18 years after Shock and Awe unleashed on Iraq …
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Confused in Afghanistan: The Biden Administration's Latest Trick
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
The Biden administration continues to engage in that favourite activity White …
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Coming to the Playing Field: Biden Puts Australia First
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
It has gotten tongues wagging in the diplomatic corps of Beijing, Washington and distant Canberra. The opening session of the two-day summit between China and the United States in Anchorage, Alaska was ill-tempered. "We do not seek conflict," insisted White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan from the outset,…
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Billionaire Wealth: Who Are the 10 Biggest Pandemic Profiteers?
Chuck Collins | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
A year ago, the Institute for Policy Studies published "Billionaire Bonanza …
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Biden's and America's Mental Illness is on Full Display
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
It was just three weeks ago that our new "transformative" President Joe Biden joined that long almost unbroken list of war criminal presidents stretching back to George Washington. Biden joined this disgraceful list by ordering a bloody aerial bombardment by US warplanes in eastern Syria. The US bombs, which were reportedly dropped on a a…
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Raising the minimum wage is a health issue, too
Utibe Effiong | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-24
Study after study has linked higher income to better health.
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New report: World's 60 largest banks have poured $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since Paris Agreement; climate groups sound alarm as financing for fossil fuel expansion continues to rise
Sierra Club | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-24
Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016.
nationofchange.org/2021/03/24/new-report…

Will Israel Use 'Bunker-Buster' Bombs Against Iran's Nuclear Program?
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
Israel is extremely worried that Iran would develop a nuclear bomb …
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An Inclusive Child Allowance Would Strengthen the Public Child Support System
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2021-03-24
According to Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), an inclusive child allowance will "destroy the child-support enforcement system as we know it." American Enterprise Institute's Angela Rachidi, who also opposes an inclusive child allowance, says it would "weaken the Child Support Enforcement program" and "threaten the relationship between noncustodial parents and their children." These claims are alarming …
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Mountain Valley Pipeline Extracts One Tree Sitter At Yellow Finch Blockade
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-24
Elliston, VA – On Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021, police extracted one of two tree sitters at the Yellow Finch blockade in the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. A large crane was used to reach the tree sit from Yellow Finch Lane and extract the sitter, who had locked themself to the tree. They were arrested, charged with trespassing, and are being held without bond (set by the Montgomery County magistrate). Today is day 931 of the Yellow Finch Tree sits. As of 9: 00 p.m., the second tree sitter remains in their blockade.
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More on Open-Source Versus Patent Monopoly Financing of Drug Development
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2021-03-24
It is often said that intellectuals have a hard time dealing with new ideas. Unfortunately, for purposes of public debate, open-source government funding of drug development is a new idea, and people in policy positions seem to be having a very hard time understanding it. So, I will try to write this post in a …
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Despite Official Denials Racist Violence Against Asians Continues in the United States
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
March is International Women's History Month and the threats towards oppressed …
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A Community-Centered Response To Violence Against Asian Americans
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-24
On March 16, eight people were killed at three different spas in North Georgia including six Asian women. We are heartbroken by these murders, which come at a time when Asian American communities are already grappling with the traumatic violence against Asian Americans nationwide, fueled by the United States' long history of white supremacy, systemic racism, and gender-based violence. | As we collectively grieve and respond to this tragedy, we must lead with the needs of those most directly impacted at the center: the victims and their families.
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Washington's Delusion Of Endless World Dominion
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-24
Empires live and die by their illusions. Visions of empowerment can inspire nations to scale the heights of global hegemony. Similarly, however, illusions of omnipotence can send fading empires crashing into oblivion. So it was with Great Britain in the 1950s and so it may be with the United States today. | By 1956, Britain had exploited its global empire shamelessly for a decade in an effort to lift its domestic economy out of the rubble of World War II. It was looking forward to doing so for many decades to come. Then an obscure Egyptian army colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the Suez Canal and Britain's…
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On 10th Anniversary of the U.S.-NATO Attack on Libya: Powerful Perpetrators Have Yet to Face Justice
Jeremy Kuzmarov | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
On this day ten years ago, the Obama administration launched air …
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When Rank And File Postal Workers Whipped Bosses, Union Leaders, And Richard Nixon
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-24
The day after St. Patrick's Day in New York City was often little more than an intense, city-wide hangover. But on March 18, 1970 residents of the Big Apple awoke to more than just a headache. Thousands of local Postal workers were on the picket line in defiance of both Federal Law which prohibited strikes by government employees and their own union leadership. Within days business in the commercial and financial center of the nation ground to a halt in those pre-electronic communications days and the strike spread to more than 30 cities with 200,000 off the job. It was a big deal. A very big deal.
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Silently Disciplining Research. "Freedom of Speech Is the Right to Scrutinize Power and Society"
Prof. Ola Tunander | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars, seem to experience …
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Baritone Will Liverman dreams of a new day in CD of Black composers
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2021-03-24
Chicago-based baritone Will Liverman's Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers, a CD released on February 12 with pianist Paul Sánchez, comprises more than an hour's worth of 19 great songs by eight different composers. The senior, and probably to most listeners the most familiar name among them, is Henry Burleigh (1866-1949), whom …
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Ello & the Law of the Mall
AbolishAPD Collective | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
This is the fourth of five AbolishAPD profiles of people constantly harassed by the Albuquerque Police Department. Our profiles are based on police records. They are stories of policing written by cops. This is how cops see their work, and we call it what it is: violence work that maintains the class & racial order…
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Point Reyes National Something-or-Other
Ken Bouley | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." What should we call the diverse, wild, inspiring but scarred peninsula sliding very slowly past us, jurisdictionally in West Marin County, California, but geologically across the San Andreas Fault, on the Pacific Plate, going steadily its own…
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A new home for activists, and a new way of building in communities
Amanda Abrams | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-24
"If you're really interested in changing things–if you want to say you're being proactively anti-racist–you'll have to go out of your comfort zones and the confines of the project."
nationofchange.org/2021/03/24/a-new-home…

2021: A Global Pandemic, New Wars, and New Refugees
John Clamp | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
It's been a tough year for the world's refugees. The Covid-19 pandemic has hit them hard, and not just because refugees represent a vulnerable, often closely-packed cohort. Governments the world over have pressed the pause button on their societies, imposing lockdowns and strict rules of association that even those with their own homes and stocked…
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To Western Media, Prosecuting Bolivian Coup Leaders Is Worse Than Leading a Coup
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2021-03-24
Removing the threat of US -backed coups from the world will involve a constant struggle against Western media and the sources they present to us as reliable…
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Reporters' Alert: Launching a New Website Part II
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
Reporters at major newspapers and magazines are hard to reach by telephone. Today it is increasingly hard to converse with them about timely scoops, leads, gaps in coverage, and corrections to published articles. We just started an online webpage: Reporter's Alert. From time to time, we will use Reporter's Alert to present suggestions for important reporting on topics…
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Las responsabilidades históricas de Evo Morales
Eduardo Paz Rada | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-24
En la actualidad política boliviana se presenta una interrogante fundamental sobre las responsabilidades de Evo Morales Ayma, Jefe Nacional del Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS), en relación al futuro del proceso de liberación nacional y de la Revolución Boliviana tomando en…
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The Future of Wolves in the American West
Lindsay Larris | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
A series of recent events in multiple states makes far too clear that gray wolves need our help. Despite abundant scientific data indicating that this keystone species remains largely absent from much of its historic range in the American West, gray wolves were removed from the list of species protected under the Endangered Species Act…
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El escorpión y la rana: Biden, la supremacía belicista
Jorge Elbaum | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-24
El documento de seguridad estratégica presentado por Joe Biden y el regreso al belicismo globalista. | El último miércoles el presidente de Estados Unidos Joe Biden calificó a su par ruso Vladimir Putin como un asesino y al líder chino Xi…
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Will Turkey Give Up and Bring Back the Syrian Militants from Libya?
Khaled Iskef | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
A security source in Tripoli said that all the Syrian mercenaries …
globalresearch.ca/will-turkey-give-up-br…

Beware of RNA-based Vaccines. Potentially Serious Injuries. The Risk of Prion Disease
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
First published on March 1, 2021 | Remember " The Coronavirus COVID-19 …
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Synthetic mRNA COVID Vaccines: A Risk-Benefit Analysis
Dr. Sadaf Gilani | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
First published in February 2021 | With a "vaccine" based on untested …
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Mumia Abu-Jamal's Thank You Message to Supporters
Mumia Abu-Jamal recorded by Prison Radio | indybay.org | 2021-03-24
Mumia Abu-Jamal's COVID symptoms have improved but the severe debilitating skin condition persists. Mumia is now back in general population and he does not currently require hospitalization. However, Mumia needs continued monitoring, and he must not be shackled during future hospitalization.
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Wednesday 3/24: For The People Act (S.1) Hearing Watch Party w/ Common Cause
Common Cause | indybay.org | 2021-03-24
Online event…
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The Ultimate Gold Panning & Proespecting Guide
Michael Webster | indybay.org | 2021-03-24
First, let's talk about the proper equipment, and of course the first thing you need is a good gold pan.
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Thursday 4/29: Aviva Chomsky & Mickey Huff: Central America's Forgotten History
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM | indybay.org | 2021-03-24
Online webinar…
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Tuesday 4/20: Dave Cook & Jeff Chang: Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM | indybay.org | 2021-03-24
Online webinar…
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School reopening deals approved in Los Angeles and Oakland as unions stifle opposition
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2021-03-24
Those who did vote in "favor" were told repeatedly by the unions that they had no choice but to vote for the agreements.
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Atlanta Shootings: Sex, Race & the Politics of Repression
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
One of the earliest media reports about the Atlanta-area shootings quoted the Cherokee County spokesperson Baker who said that Long "apparently has an issue, what he considers a sex addiction, and sees these locations … [as] a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate." He noted that Long was "pretty much fed up and kind of at the end of his rope." And added, "Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did."
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"The Big Picture" Is Ignored in the COVID Debate. What Is the End Game?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
What is the "Big Picture" of Covid-19, alias SARS-CoV-2 ? — …
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Egypt: Giant container ship still stuck in Suez Canal
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-24
Egypt: Giant container ship still stuck in Suez Canal | The incident has brought marine traffic to a halt along one of the world's busiest trade routes | MEE and agencies | Wed, 03/24/2021 – 07: 29 | Images showed the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given, a 400m long and 59m wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic (AFP) | The container ship stranded in the Suez Canal is still grounded and canal authoriti…
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Mercosur, 30 años de manoseos del ideal integracionista
Aram Aharonian | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-24
Con la excusa de la emergencia de la pandemia del Covid-19, la presidencia protempore argentina del Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur) comunicó a los mandatarios de Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay que el encuentro por la conmemoración de los 30 años…
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30 años del Mercosur, hora de balance y reconsideración de sus perspectivas
Jorge Marchini | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-24
Un aniversario que completa una década siempre puede ser una oportunidad o una excusa para el balance y la reflexión de evolución, resultados y perspectivas de sueños y proyectos de una sociedad. Puede ser por ello particularmente atinado hacer un…
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En contra del despotismo y en defensa de la Carta de Naciones Unidas
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-24
En fechas recientes, varios países de la región han sido estremecidos por violentas manifestaciones de descontento social que han conllevado a la movilización de centenares de miles de ciudadanos que protestan por la ausencia o carencia de libertades democráticas, el…
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Por qué la OTAN destruyó Libia ‚Äéhace 10 años‚Äé
Manlio Dinucci | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-24
Aunque el Pentágono ya había emprendido su estrategia de destrucción de todos ‚Äélos Estados en los países del Medio Oriente ampliado, la destrucción de Libia fue ‚Äéresultado de una maniobra urgente de orden financiero. ‚Äé | Hace 10 años, el 19…
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Precarious workers hung out to dry
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2021-03-24
Resourcing precariously employed workers to become organised, to gain a voice and to demand change, means changing the way unions organise, writes Josh Cullinan.
greenleft.org.au/content/precarious-work…

End the deep-seated, dangerous sexist man-bonding in federal parliament
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2021-03-24
Reporting a male Coalition staffer's bad behaviour as "lewd" downplays the systematic nature of sexism and misogyny, argues Alison Pennington.
greenleft.org.au/content/end-deep-seated…

Extinction Rebellion demands urgent action on climate
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2021-03-24
Extinction Rebellion organised a series of civil disobedience actions in Perth, calling for urgent action to stop climate change. Alex Salmon reports.
greenleft.org.au/content/extinction-rebe…

Remembering Jack Mundey, father of the green bans
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2021-03-24
Former Builders Labourer's Federation leader Jack Mundey, who pioneered the green ban, was given a rousing state send off at Sydney Town Hall. Rachel Evans reports.
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Selected Articles: Who Are the 10 Biggest Pandemic Profiteers?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
Billionaire Wealth: Who Are the 10 Biggest Pandemic Profiteers? | By Chuck Collins, March 24 2021 | A year ago, the Institute for Policy Studies published "Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes and Pandemic Profiteers," and began tracking billionaire wealth | …
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Gunmen assassinate ICC-wanted commander in Libya's Benghazi
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-24
Gunmen assassinate ICC-wanted commander in Libya's Benghazi | Mahmoud al-Werfalli had been indicted by the International Criminal Court over war crimes | MEE staff | Wed, 03/24/2021 – 17: 42 | Werfalli was a top commander in Khalifa Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (AFP) | A prominent Libyan commander who was wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes was assassinated on Wednesday, local medi…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-command…

US to begin strategic talks with Iraq, plan combat troop pullout
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-24
US to begin strategic talks with Iraq, plan combat troop pullout | First bilateral meetings between Washington and Baghdad under Biden administration will focus on security and trade | MEE staff | Wed, 03/24/2021 – 18: 37 | American soldiers taking position around US embassy in Baghdad during a protest against US air strikes in western Iraq, on 31 December 2019 (AFP photo/HO/US embassy) | The United States is to resume st…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-set-begin-…

Egypt's Suez Canal: Why does its closure matter?
Alex MacDonald | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-24
Egypt's Suez Canal: Why does its closure matter? | Grounding of massive container vessel Ever Given in the Suez Canal once again highlights importance of shipping route | Alex MacDonald | Wed, 03/24/2021 – 09: 40 | Undated photo of freighters passing through the Suez Canal (AFP) | The Suez Canal has played a major role in world affairs for many decades now. | Ownership of the canal has been an important symbol o…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-suez-ca…

US urges Turkey to give up Russian S-400 missile defence system
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-24
US urges Turkey to give up Russian S-400 missile defence system | Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells Turkish counterpart to scrap air defence system in first face-to-face meeting at Nato summit | MEE staff | Wed, 03/24/2021 – 16: 04 | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken greets Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu at the Nato headquarters on 23 March (AFP/File photo) | US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has t…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/blinken-urges…

Mansour Abbas, the Islamist leader who could be Israel's kingmaker
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-24
Mansour Abbas, the Islamist leader who could be Israel's kingmaker | Abbas has called on Palestinians inside Israel to rethink their political alliances and be open to Jewish parties | Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Wed, 03/24/2021 – 15: 43 | Mansour Abbas, head of a conservative Islamic party, the United Arab List, or Raam, in its Hebrew acronym, 23 March 2021 (AFP) | Mansour Abbas, the Islamist, conservative…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/mansour-abbas…

Video: The Brand New Space Race. "Who Will Reach Mars First, Who Will Colonize the Moon"
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
The brand-new space race is upon us. | It moves into two …
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Plastics, other chemical pollutants are SHRINKING PENIS SIZES and reducing fertility, imperiling human race, scientist claims
rt.com | 2021-03-24
Exposure to plastics and other chemical hazards of modern life is reducing penis sizes and sperm counts, eroding fertility to the extent that the future of the human race is imperiled, a top epidemiologist claims in her new book. | "Simply put, we're living in an age of reproductive reckoning that is having reverberating effects across the planet," Dr Shanna Swan wrote in her book 'Count Down.' She added, | "The current state of reproductive affairs can't continue much longer without threatening human survival." | Swan is a leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologist who has studied declining sperm…
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What Janet Yellen Can Do at Treasury
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2021-03-24
What Janet Yellen Can Do at Treasury…
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How the NRA's Radical Anti-Gun-Control Ideology Became GOP Dogma & Still Warps Debate
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-03-24
The massacre in a Boulder grocery store came just after a Colorado judge ruled in favor of the National Rifle Association's challenge to the city's ban on assault weapons, which was passed in 2018 after this type of weapon was used in the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Despite increasingly regular mass shootings, the NRA has pushed for expanded gun rights since the 1970s and insisted that more guns, not fewer, would prevent gun deaths. "The NRA's ideology is something that they've convinced the overwhelming majority of elected officials in the GOP, especially on the national level, to believe," says investig…
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After a Year Under Lockdown, Will Our Freedoms Survive the Tyranny of COVID-19?
John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-24
The remedy is worse than the disease. — Francis Bacon One way or another, the majority of Americans will survive COVID-19. It remains to be seen, however, whether our freedoms will survive the tyranny of the government's heavy-handed response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, now that the government has gotten a taste for flexing its …
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Fire Louis DeJoy!
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2021-03-24
Fire Louis DeJoy!
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Video: Dr. Simone Gold — The Truth About the COVID-19 Vaccine
Dr. Simone Gold | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
Dr. Simone Gold of America's Frontline Doctors shared information about the …
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy could lead to thousands of extra deaths
imperial.ac.uk | 2021-03-24
Hesitancy around COVID-19 vaccines could lead to thousands of extra deaths over a two-year period, Imperial epidemiologists show.
imperial.ac.uk/news/218313/covid-19-vacc…

Fauci and U.S. Officials Say AstraZeneca Released 'Outdated Information' from COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
Andrew Joseph | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
This Report by Stat News focusses on statements by Anthony Fauci …
globalresearch.ca/stunned-fauci-us-offic…

Black Immigrants Matter
Jack Herrera | thenation.com | 2021-03-24
Black Immigrants Matter…
thenation.com/article/society/black-immi…

Remembering George Floyd
Andrea Arroyo | thenation.com | 2021-03-24
Remembering George Floyd…
thenation.com/article/activism/rememberi…

Kazuo Ishiguro at the End of the End of History
Katie Fitzpatrick | thenation.com | 2021-03-24
Kazuo Ishiguro at the End of the End of History…
thenation.com/article/society/kazuo-ishi…

The Modi Government Is a Regime of Low-Intensity Terror
Ullekh N.P. | thenation.com | 2021-03-24
The Modi Government Is a Regime of Low-Intensity Terror…
thenation.com/article/world/thomas-blom-…

Washington's Delusion of Endless World Dominion
Alfred McCoy | thenation.com | 2021-03-24
Washington's Delusion of Endless World Dominion…
thenation.com/article/world/us-foreign-p…

Don't Prolong COVID by Pretending It Is Over
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2021-03-24
We could wind up all the way back to where we started, but with a million dead to contemplate in the obsidian darkness of another long winter…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/dont-prolong-covid…

Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialization of India
Colin Todhunter | zcomm.org | 2021-03-24
The government is facilitating the dominance of giant corporations, not least through digital or e-commerce platforms, to control the entire value chain…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/walmart-amazon-and…

Immigrant Rights Advocates Urge Biden to Stop Detaining Children
Luz Lopez | zcomm.org | 2021-03-24
"What is happening at the southern border is shameful"
zcomm.org/znetarticle/immigrant-rights-a…

American Psychological Association, Guantanamo, and Torture
Stephen Soldz | zcomm.org | 2021-03-24
It is vital for the profession of psychology to learn lessons from the involvement of APA leaders and some of its members in the abusive and otherwise problematic activities of the military and intelligence community post-9/11…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/american-psycholog…

We are living through a time of fear — not just of the virus, but of each other
Jonathan Cook | zcomm.org | 2021-03-24
Once fear takes hold, populations risk agreeing to hand back rights, won over decades or centuries, that were the sole, meagre limit on the power of elites to ransack the common wealth…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-are-living-thro…

El gobierno de Bolsonaro ha terminado øY ahora qué?
Emir Sader | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-24
En este artículo el autor sostiene que el gobierno de Bolsonaro ha llegado a su fin por incapacidad e ineptitud… | Bolsonaro atraviesa su peor momento -hasta ahora- en la presidencia de Brasil. La convergencia de varios factores proyecta una perspectiva…
globalizacion.ca/el-gobierno-de-bolsonar…

US Hypersonic Missiles in Europe Five Minutes from Moscow
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
About six years ago, when we titled "Are the missiles returning …
globalresearch.ca/us-hypersonic-missiles…

Podcast: Why is Australia so soft in its response to the military coup in Myanmar?
Peter Boyle | greenleft.org.au | 2021-03-24
Why is Australia so soft in its response to the military coup in Myanmar? Jamie Parker speaks to Green Left about this question.
greenleft.org.au/content/podcast-why-aus…

The UK's Military Show Time
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-24
Readers of any reliable news outlet will probably be aware that the UK's Brexit rollout has been little short of a disaster. Adding to the catalogue of Brexit failures, the UK is now being sued by the EU for extending unilaterally a grace period on food imports to the island of Ireland, where the EU…
counterpunch.org/2021/03/24/the-uks-mili…

We Are Living Through a Time of Fear — Not Just of the Virus, but of Each Other
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-24
Welcome to the age of fear. Nothing is more corrosive of …
globalresearch.ca/living-through-time-fe…

Twenty-two Years Ago: NATO's War of Aggression against Yugoslavia: Who are the War Criminals?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
The causes and consequences of this war have been the object of a vast media disinformation campaign, which has sought to camouflage NATO and US war crimes.
globalresearch.ca/nato-s-war-of-aggressi…

Palestine reiterates commitment to cooperate with ICC war crimes probe
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-23
On Sunday, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki had his travel permit revoked by Israel after he met officials of the International Criminal Court. The chief prosecutor of the ICC had recently announced a probe into war crimes in Palestine…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/23/palestine…

Facing COVID-19 outbreaks and privatization, oil workers shut down refineries in Brazil
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
Worsening working conditions and the uncontrolled spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil are provoking strikes and work stoppages at Petrobras refineries.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/petr…

Uruguay Has Latin America's Highest Rate of New COVID-19 Cases
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
President Luis Lacalle's Minister Council met on Tuesday to take measures at the worst moment of the pandemic in Uruguay, a country that recorded 2,700 COVID-19 infections and 14,952 active cases in the previous day. | RELATED: | Uruguay Orders a Discretionary Suspension of On-Site Classes | This nation could soon face the collapse of its health care system, as the intensive care units have exceeded an occupancy rate of 62 percent. | The Interagency Working Group for SARS-CoV-2…
telesurenglish.net/news/Uruguay-Has-Lati…

Sexual Minorities Have Greater COVID-19 Risk Factors
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
Gay, lesbian, or bisexual adults have higher rates than heterosexual people of health conditions that increase the risk of developing severe COVID-19, according to national survey data.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

The police crackdown in Miami Beach: Who is responsible for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic?
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
From the beginning of the pandemic, there has been no response from the ruling elite to protect public health and deal with its impact on the youth, workers and small businesses.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/pers…

Virtual Postoperative Visits Noninferior to In-Person Visits
Slomski A. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
As postdischarge video–based virtual visits have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, a trial in JAMA Surgery found that these visits are noninferior to in-person follow-ups after low-risk surgeries.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Long COVID symptoms impact significant numbers half a year after the acute phase
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
There is an urgent need for a registry and an international effort to study and treat this debilitating complication of COVID-19 infections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/long…

The unending COVID-19 disaster in Maryland prisons
Staff | therealnews.com | 2021-03-23
As COVID-19 variants reach the state's prisons and jails, where testing of guards and inmates is woefully inadequate, the situation in Maryland is only getting worse.
therealnews.com/the-unending-covid-19-di…

Bolivia Marks 142 Years of Being Deprived of Access To the Sea
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
Bolivia's President Luis Arce on Monday presided over the "Day of the Sea" to mark 142 years of the loss of his country's Pacific coastline to Chile. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Socialists Win in 7 Out of 10 Subnational Governments | The activities began with the transfer of the remains of Eduardo Abaroa, a national hero who led the civil resistance in the Topater battle during the Pacific War (1879-1884). | The funeral procession was escorted by the Bolivian Armed Forces and the Nat…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Marks-14…

Socialists win in 7 Out of 10 subnational Governments
teleSUR Desk | mronline.org | 2021-03-23
The Movement Towards Socialism is the only party with a broad presence in the country's nine regions. | MR Online | March 23, 2021 | Newswire…
mronline.org/2021/03/23/socialists-win-i…

From Bessemer to Baltimore, Amazon workers demand the right to organize
Staff | therealnews.com | 2021-03-23
Activists held an international day of action to support Amazon workers on March 20, highlighting the ways unions can help defend worker rights and safety protections. TRNN's Jaisal Noor reports from the solidarity action held outside of an Amazon facility in…
therealnews.com/from-bessemer-to-baltimo…

Amazon workers lead 'White Monday' strike across Italy and other stories
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-23
We take a look at the nationwide strike by Amazon workers across Italy, a massive fire at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, recent developments in Yemen, and the presence of armed rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the pretext of foreign military interventions…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/23/amazon-wo…

Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-23
In June 2018, the Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and E-commerce (JACAFRE) issued a statement on Walmart's acquisition of Flipkart. It argued that it undermines India's economic and digital sovereignty and the livelihood of millions in India. The deal would lead to Walmart and Amazon dominating India's e-retail sector. These two US companies would also own…
counterpunch.org/2021/03/23/walmart-amaz…

Solidarity caravan arrives in Bessemer, AL to support Amazon workers' organizing drive
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-23
Bessemer, AL – A March 20 solidarity caravan made up of delegations from three Tennessee city Labor Councils – Chattanooga, Memphis and Nashville – traveled to meet Amazon workers who have joined the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) in Bessemer, Alabama, where they held a rally at the union hall before going to the gates of the Amazon center to hold up pro-union signs and interact with workers entering and exiting the plant. | Speakers such as RWDSU organizer "Big Mike" Foster and the Ohio politician Nina Turner highlighted the link between the struggle at Amazon, led mainly by its Black work…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/3/23/solidari…

The urgent need for a Biden-Putin summit
Norman Solomon | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-23
If the leaders of the two countries with more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear warheads can't have a summit meeting and talk with each other, we're in trouble. Real trouble.
nationofchange.org/2021/03/23/the-urgent…

Escalated US-Led Sanctions War on China
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
Sanctions are weapons of war by other means. | They're a hammer …
globalresearch.ca/escalated-us-led-sanct…

Police will not keep Asian communities safe from violence
Asha Ramachandran | peoplesworld.org | 2021-03-23
Police presence in Asian communities across the country has expanded after several acts of violence against Asians in the last year and the recent Atlanta massacres of eight people, including six Asian women working at massage parlors. Yet increased police presence in Asian neighborhoods will only bring criminalized members of those communities into contact with …
peoplesworld.org/article/police-will-not…

North Macedonia Spends Big on American-made Armoured Vehicles Despite Poverty Crisis
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
By buying 54 armoured vehicles for its military from the U.S., …
globalresearch.ca/north-macedonia-spends…

Biden Backs Revival of His Brainchild: Plan Colombia 2.0 Set to Begin Next Month
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2021-03-23
Colombia is set to return to a massive aerial campaign of spraying Monsanto's glyphosate across the country, a plan Biden once fought hard with his Republican colleagues to enact.
mintpressnews.com/biden-backs-revival-br…

Case before Supreme Court may be definitive for farmworker rights
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2021-03-23
Before the sun rises over the green hills and steep valleys of California, migrant farmworkers' feet have already touched the rich dark soil found on farmland. Their hands and feet will remain there, threshing and picking the fruit and vegetables adorning the supper table of U.S. households, long after the sun begins to set. On …
peoplesworld.org/article/case-before-sup…

Two years after Christchurch terror attack: Australian establishment covers up fascist danger
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
In his murderous onslaught on Christchurch mosques, Tarrant was targeting Muslims and immigrants, both vilified by the Australian political and media establishment over the past 20 years.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/chri…

Leaked photographs expose dismal conditions in US child immigration detention center
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
The Biden administration has tried to block press coverage of the conditions in which child migrants are being held at the US-Mexico border.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/lpep…

Minnesota protest demands end to the war on immigrants
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-23
Saint Paul, MN – On March 20, around 60 people protested outside the Whipple Federal Building, which houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to demand an end to the war on immigrants. The protest was organized by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) to mark two months since President Biden was inaugurated. | After several speakers outside the perimeter of the Whipple Federal Building, the protesters marched to the building's main entrance for a rally. There were speakers from Mexican and Filipino immigrant communities, two powerful Black spoken-word artists, as well as speakers expres…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/3/23/minnesot…

Saudi Arabia's "Renewed Peace Push" in Yemen Is Welcome, but Incomplete
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
The world must urgently act to relieve the Yemeni people's years-long …
globalresearch.ca/saudis-renewed-peace-p…

Brazil: Supreme Court Rules Lula Was Treated Unfairly by Moro
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
A Supreme Court justice ruled on Tuesday in a tie-breaking vote that former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio 'Lula' da Silva was mistreated by former Judge Sergio Moro, who oversaw corruption embezzlement investigations against the popular leftist leader. | RELATED: | Army and Supreme Court Plotted To Keep Lula Imprisoned | The vote was decided by Justice Carmen Lucia, who rejected Moro's procedural decisions and disallowed evidence in the Car Wash used against Lula when he faced…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Supreme-C…

Is Joe Biden Enabling Russiagate 2?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
The old expression that "lightning never strikes the same place twice" …
globalresearch.ca/joe-biden-enabling-rus…

Why we Must pass The Medicare for All Act
F. Douglas Stephenson | juancole.com | 2021-03-23
Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — March 17, 2021, was a very bright day in the history of single-payer health insurance and public health in the USA. Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D, WA) and Debbie Dingell, (D., MI) introduced the modern MEDICARE FOR ALL ACT of 2021 (H.R. 1976) in Congress. M4A 2021 is new …
juancole.com/2021/03/must-pass-medicare….

Want a Job? Get a Shot!
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
Mask tyranny reached a new low recently when a family was …
globalresearch.ca/want-job-get-shot/5740…

Honduras: Indigenous Activist Carlos Cerro Shot Dead
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
Indigenous environmental activist Carlos Cerro was shot dead in San Antonio, Honduras, local media outlets reported on Tuesday. | RELATED: | Drug Trafficker Linked To The Honduran President Found Guilty | Cerro was a leader of the Indigenous Lenca people and coordinated the movement United Communities, which brings together residents from the surroundings of Ulua de Chinda and San Antonio Cortes rivers as they fight against the El Tornillito hydroelectric project in the area.
telesurenglish.net/news/Honduras-Indigen…

UN Approves Resolution Regarding Blockade Impact on Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
Venezuela's foreign minister, Jorge Arreaza, reported today that the Human Rights Council of the United Nations approved by a majority a resolution on the negative impact of the United States Government's blockade against Venezuela. | RELATED: | Maduro Orders "Zero Tolerance" With Colombian Armed Groups" | Today, the resolution on the negative impact of unilateral sanctions on the enjoyment of human rights was approved in the Human Rights / UN Council. Its impact is so obvious th…
telesurenglish.net/news/UN-Approves-Reso…

Association of Clinician Minority Patient Caseload With Performance in the 2019 Medicare MIPS
Johnston KJ, Meyers DJ, Hammond G, et al. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
This study assesses the association between US clinicians' caseload of minority patients and their 2019 Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System performance score.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Association Between Proportion of Black Patients Cared for at Hospitals and Penalties in CMS Value-Based Payment Programs
Aggarwal R, Hammond J, Joynt Maddox KE, et al. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
This study evaluates whether US hospitals with mostly Black patients are more likely than other hospitals to have penalties associated with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) value-based payment programs.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Occupation of French theatres highlights devastation of the cultural sector during the pandemic
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
The trade unions have worked to confine opposition to demands for a reopening that would accelerate the spread of the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/fran…

A Year of Billionaire Pandemic Gains
RobertAlvarez | ips-dc.org | 2021-03-23
A year ago, the Institute for Policy Studies published "Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes and Pandemic Profiteers," and began tracking billionaire wealth gains as unemployment surged. We teamed up with Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) to track the wealth growth of America's billionaires over the last year. This report summarizes the extraordinary growth in wealth of those now 657 billionaires based on real-time data from Forbes on March 18, 2021. | Here are highlights from the last 12 months of billionaire wealth growth: | The co…
ips-dc.org/a-year-of-billionaire-pandemi…

Pandemic exacerbates social inequality in Germany
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
The Data Report 2021 confirms that the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated social inequality and poverty in Germany.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/germ…

Chris Hedges: The Evil Within Us
Chris Hedges | mintpressnews.com | 2021-03-23
Millions of largely white Americans, hermetically sealed within the ideology of the Christian Right, yearn to destroy the 'Satanic' forces they blame for the debacle of their lives. And one such evangelical just killed eight people in Atlanta.
mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-the-evil-…

Video: US Escalates New Cold War as Diplomatic Gloves Come Off, with Carl Zha
Dan Cohen | mintpressnews.com | 2021-03-23
The new Cold War has escalated over the past week as U.S. attempts to dominate both China and Russia backfired in embarrassing fashion for the Biden administration. Behind The Headlines' Dan Cohen is joined by "Silk and Steel" podcast host Carl Zha to discuss the diplomatic fiasco, how U.S. intelligence and media cornered Biden into denouncing Russia, and the Quad Alliance's political contradictions. | Feature photo | Graphic by Antonio Cabrera | Dan Cohen is the Washington DC correspondent for Behind The Headlines. He has produced widely distributed video reports and print dispatches from across Israel-Palest…
mintpressnews.com/video-biden-escalates-…

The War of Hunger is Taking Over From the War of Guns…and All Syrians are the Victims
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-23
Great dollops of hypocrisy invariably accompany expressions of concern by outside powers for the wellbeing of the Syrian people. But even by these low standards, a new record for self-serving dishonesty is being set by the Caesar Civilian Protection Act, the new US law imposing the harshest sanctions in the world on Syria and bringing millions of Syrians to the brink of famine.
counterpunch.org/2021/03/23/the-war-of-h…

America is 'Can-do' again: Biden's $3 trillion infrastructure Plan includes $500 bn for Green Energy and Transit and Massive Innovation
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-03-23
Jeff Stein and Tyler Pager at WaPo report that $500 billion of the proposed $3 trillion Biden infrastructure plan, or 16 percent, will be devoted to dealing with climate change. They write, "The infrastructure component is expected to include $400 billion in spending to combat climate change, including $60 billion for infrastructure related to green …
juancole.com/2021/03/trillion-infrastruc…

"End the f*cking filibuster and pass some gun reform"
Staff | therealnews.com | 2021-03-23
After Monday's horrific mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, demands for action, not more processual excuses for doing nothing, are intensifying.
therealnews.com/end-the-fcking-filibuste…

Survey–Many High School Students Have Experienced Violence
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
About half of high school students experienced at least 1 type of violence during the previous year, according to data from 9080 US students who participated in the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Cuba and EU to Discuss Unilateral Coercive Measures
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
The 3rd Cuba-European Dialogue on Coercive Measures will occur virtually on March 25, the Cuban Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. | RELATED: | Russia Rejects New US-EU Sanctions Package | The meeting will be held by virtue of the Agreement on Political Dialogue and Cooperation signed between Cuba and the EU in 2016 and provisionally implemented in 2017. | The continuation of a meeting between the two parties held in November 2019 in Havana, the Cubaminrex website reported. | The forum will de…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-and-EU-to-D…

Harp Seal Pups in Trouble in Quebec Due to Low Sea Ice
Olivia Rosane | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
The sea ice cover in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence is …
globalresearch.ca/harp-seal-pups-trouble…

China and Russia Join Forces Against Western Sanctions
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi agreed Tuesday to join efforts to confront unilateral and "illegitimate" coercive measures imposed by the United States and its European allies. | RELATED: | Applying Sanctions To Russia and China Is Unwise, Lavrov Says | In this regard, China and Russia call for more countries to join their firm rejection of so-called unilateral sanctions, such as the one imposed by the European Union on Beijing for what…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-and-Russia…

School reopening deals approved in Los Angeles and Oakland as unions stifle opposition
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
Those who did vote in "favor" were told repeatedly by the unions that they had no choice but to vote for the agreements.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/lasd…

Bolivians demand justice for crimes committed by Jeanine àÅñez's coup regime
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-23
With massive marches across the country, people in Bolivia have expressed their support for the progressive government of President Luis Arce that has arrested coup regime officials, taking an important step in the struggle for justice…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/23/bolivians…

Better Hypertension Control With Digital Self-monitoring
Slomski A. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
A digital intervention for hypertension management in primary care lowered patients' systolic blood pressure, a trial in The BMJ reported.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

With Good Adherence, Daily Aspirin May Prevent Pregnancy Loss
Slomski A. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
For women with a history of pregnancy loss, taking low-dose aspirin before conception may improve birth outcomes, according to a post hoc analysis of a multicenter US trial. The trial's original analysis, published in 2014, found no positive effects of aspirin on miscarriages or live births, but only about half of the participants adhered to the protocol.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Tallahassee community remembers Mychael Johnson
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-23
Tallahassee, FL – On March 20, activists from across the Tallahassee community gathered in front of City Hall to remember and to honor the life of Mychael Johnson, a Black man murdered by the Tallahassee Police Department one year ago. | The Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) and other community members stood alongside the family of Mychael Johnson in grief and healing. | "Somebody's hurting my people, and it's gone on far too long," sang Trish Brown, outreach coordinator for the Tallahassee Community Action Committee at the angelversary that evening. | Regina Joseph, president of TCAC, and a member of…
fightbacknews.org/2021/3/22/tallahassee-…

Going green: How your college can get involved
Lauren Groff | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-23
There's a number of things your college can do to lower their carbon footprint and Go Green in 2021.
nationofchange.org/2021/03/22/going-gree…

USPSTF Review: Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults
Feltner C, Wallace IF, Kistler CE, et al. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
This systematic review to support the 2021 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement on screening for hearing loss in older adults summarizes published evidence on the benefits and harms of screening and interventions for hearing loss in adults aged 50 years or older.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Moroccan government, police violently assault protesting teachers
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
Riot police and plainclothes police launched a violent crackdown against a peaceful protest of thousands of teachers in the capital, Rabat.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/moro…

CIA Pressured Yemen to Release al-Qaeda Leader From Prison
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2021-03-23
WASHINGTON (Substack // Alex Rubinstein) — Explosive new recordings released by the Houthi government of Yemen pile more earth atop mountains of existing evidence of the U.S. government's support for the very same terrorists it has claimed to be waging war against for nearly two decades. | The Moral Guidance Department, a branch of the Yemeni Armed Forces of the revolutionary Houthi government of Yemen published last week a number of secret documents and phone calls from the former regime of longtime president Ali…
mintpressnews.com/leaked-cia-pressured-y…

The Water Defenders
RobertAlvarez | ips-dc.org | 2021-03-23
THE WATER DEFENDERS: | HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE SAVED A COUNTRY FROM CORPORATE GREED: | Robin Broad | John Cavanagh: | Introduction: | Water is life. Countless communities across the world, from Flint, Michigan to the Standing Rock Reservation to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, have used this phrase as a rallying cry against powerful corporations that value profits over the environment and the health of local communities. | The movements waging these struggles can take some inspiration from El Salvador. | In 2002, a small group of citizens in El Salvador joined the global community of…
ips-dc.org/book-water-defenders/?utm_sou…

Australian government hails US confrontation with China amid rising war danger
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
The Morrison government particularly welcomed the US accusation of Chinese "economic coercion" against Australia.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/auch…

UAW seeks to isolate Columbia and New York University graduate student struggles
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
Everything is being done to prevent the two strikes from linking up and appealing to broader sections of students and workers for support.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/nyus…

An Open Letter to Columbia Graduate Students from the IYSSE at University of Michigan
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
The issues being fought for by graduate students–a living wage, job security, better health care coverage and improved working conditions–are the same issues that confront students, young people and workers across the country and around the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/umst…

Stalinists, far right support new bourgeois coalition in the Philippines
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
The fundamental concern of 1Sambayan is to bring Philippine foreign policy back into camp of the United States, reversing Duterte's orientation of the country's ties toward Beijing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/phil…

Biden's Remark on Putin Confirmed by National Security Adviser
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed on Tuesday that President Joe Biden's comments referring to Vladimir Putin as a "killer" were not a mistake. | RELATED: | Russia Denies Its Involvement in 2020 Presidential Campaign | "President Biden was asked a direct question. He gave a direct answer. That's how he has operated for 40-plus years in public service, and it's how he'll continue to operate as president," Sullivan said. | In response to the recent report about t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bidens-Remark-on…

Review of Hearing Loss in Children
Fink D. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
To the Editor The article by Dr Lieu and colleagues about hearing loss in children notably omitted the important topic of noise-induced hearing loss. Prevention of disease is almost always better and less expensive than treatment. The only treatment currently available for hearing loss is amplification, via hearing aids, personal sound amplification products, or cochlear implants. Hearing loss with age, which is predominantly due to noise-induced hearing loss, begins at an early age and is theoretically preventable with avoidance of loud noise. The only evidence-based noise exposure level to prevent noise-induced…
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Bill Gates' Bad Bet on Plutonium-fueled Reactors
Frank N. von Hippel | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
One of Bill Gates' causes is to replace power plants …
globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-bad-bet-plu…

Driving Impairment Following Vaporization of Cannabis
Downey LA, Hayley AC. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
To the Editor We read with interest the recent findings reported by Dr Arkell and colleagues concerning the effect of vaporized Œî9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)–dominant and THC/cannabidiol (CBD)–equivalent cannabis on on-road driving performance.
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Driving Impairment Following Vaporization of Cannabis
Tseng P, Chen M, Liang C. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
To the Editor We wish to discuss the effects of CBD and THC on visual function, which may influence driving but may not be detected by road-tracking tests as performed in the article by Dr Arkell and colleagues. A double-blind study reported that 15 mg of THC produced transient color discrimination impairment in the blue and red to yellow region of the color circle, while 8 mg of THC and placebo did not impair color discrimination ability. This transient color perception impairment may impair the development of numerous adaptations that individuals with congenital color defects use, such as memorization of the or…
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The US has a long history of violence against Asian women
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-03-23
By Karen Leong and Karen Kuo | — Asian American women understand that the alleged murderer of eight people in Atlanta was acting in keeping with a culture filled with racialized and sexualized views of Asian women. Of the people murdered, four women were of Korean descent and two of Chinese heritage. The shooter himself, …
juancole.com/2021/03/history-violence-ag…

Europe sides with the US in imposing punitive sanctions against China
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
The demonisation of China follows the modus operandi of US imperialism over the past three decades as it has prepared for one criminal war after another in the Middle East, the Balkans and Central Asia.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/usch…

Senate OKs Laborers member, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, as Biden's Labor Secretary
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2021-03-23
WASHINGTON –By a 68-29 margin, with all the "no" votes coming from Republicans, the Senate confirmed Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a member of Laborers Local 223 and former head of the city's building trades council, as U.S. Labor Secretary. He's the first unionist to hold the job in decades. Debate on the nod to Walsh …
peoplesworld.org/article/senate-oks-labo…

Russian ambassador to US returns to Moscow as diplomatic crisis continues
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
As tensions between Russia and the US intensify, Moscow seeks closer ties with China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/russ…

Unnamed Western Officials Spread Dubious Claims About Iran
Dave DeCamp | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
With a possible revival of the Iran nuclear deal on the …
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'Extreme competition but not confrontation': Biden's China policy takes shape
Duncan McFarland | peoplesworld.org | 2021-03-23
At the start of the Biden administration, the U.S. foreign policy of "American exceptionalism" so far appears to remain intact–it is imperialist, hegemonic, and anti-China. However, the new administration also recognizes certain realities that the previous White House occupant might have tried to ignore. Biden wants neither a shooting war with China nor a full …
peoplesworld.org/article/extreme-competi…

The Gen Z Emergency: The Best Climate Book You Will Ever Read
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
Generation Z is the newest generation, born between 1997 and 2012/15. …
globalresearch.ca/gen-z-emergency-best-c…

The Paris Commune of 1871
Michael Là∂wy | mronline.org | 2021-03-23
There is a wall at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, known as "Le Mur des Fédérés". It was there that the last fighters of the Paris Commune were shot in May 1871, by Versailles troops. | MR Online | March 23, 2021 | Newswire…
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Argentina Awards Grandmothers and Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez Tuesday awarded the Juana Azurduy Prize to the movement "Grandmothers and Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" to commemorate its 45 years of struggle in defense of human rights. | RELATED: | Cristina Fernandez Scores Major Win on Google's Defamation Case | The award was given to 70 women who are activists in condemning crimes against humanity perpetrated against their relatives by the Argentinean civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983). | Amon…
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Federally Qualified Health Centers and Related Primary Care Workforce Issues
Wakefield M. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
This Viewpoint proposes education, training, and funding reforms to expand the primary care workforce to supply federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), government-funded community-based health care sites that by providing safety-net primary care in underserved areas will be vital to addressing health inequities in the US.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Here's why melting ice is a big deal
Stuart Braun | peoplesworld.org | 2021-03-23
The melting of the polar ice caps has often been portrayed as a tsunami-inducing Armageddon in popular culture. In the 2004 disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow, the warming Gulf Stream and North Atlantic currents cause rapid polar melting. The result is a massive wall of ocean water that swamps New York City and beyond, killing millions …
peoplesworld.org/article/heres-why-melti…

If Abbie, Why Not Trump?
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-23
"Relman agrees that in the absence of conclusive evidence, the message on origins should be 'We don't know.'" — from "Did the coronavirus leak from a lab? These scientists say we shouldn't rule it out." MIT Technology Review. March 18, 2021 In early 1969 when Abbie Hoffman and 6 (7) others went on trial for…
counterpunch.org/2021/03/23/if-abbie-why…

New York City charter school threatens to fire educators who refuse to teach in-person
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
Public Prep, a charter school network that teaches pre-K, primary and middle school students, has threatened to fire teachers who do not teach in-person classes for two weeks a month.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/nych…

Missiles Strike U.S. Base in Syria
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
Lebanese television channel Al Mayadeen on Tuesday reported that missiles of unknown origin were fired at the U.S. base, located next to the Koniko oil field in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor. | RELATED: | Syria: Losses in Oil Stolen by US and Its Allies Revealed | During this attack, several U.S. military personnel were wounded. However, Washington had not commented on the incident until the news was broadcast. | The U.S. Armed Forces together with the Kurdish-Arab militias of…
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Dispatches from India: Left Ascendant in Kerala
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-23
In this episode we look at the upcoming elections in the States of Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the prospects of the ruling parties. We also take a look at the fate of children from the Rohingya community in Jammu, whose education has been disrupted…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/23/dispatche…

Envisioning the Veterans Affairs Health Care System of the Future
Yehia BR, Fihn SD. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
This Viewpoint proposes strategies the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system can pursue to shore up its mission in response to declining numbers of veterans and impending budget constraints, including accelerating a transition to value-based care, optimization of infrastructure, and strengthening engagement with employees and the public.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

‚ÄûLockdown Kinderrechte": Wir tà∂ten die Seelen unserer Kinder!
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
Diesen Dokumentarfilm ‚ÄûLockdown Kinderrechte" von Patricia Marchart und Judith Raunig, …
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The U.S. Pivot to Asia: Cold War Lessons From Vietnam for Today
Cynthia Chung | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-23
There were Cold War preparations underway as early as August 1945 and the two regions selected, Korea and Vietnam, were pre-planned years in advance before the actual wars were to take place, Cynthia Chung writes. ***** In Part One of this series I discussed how a massive U.S. arms stockpile in Okinawa, Japan that was …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/03/the-u-s-pivot…

North Korea Conducts First Missile Test of Biden Administration
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
News of the weapons test comes as North Korea has remained quiet since the weekend, refraining from touting its ability to stand up to the United States–leaving U.S. officials wondering about the intent behind the launch. | U.S. regional allies South Korea and Japan have also been similarly quiet. | RELATED: | US Seizes North Korean Coal Ship as Tensions Mount After Missile Launches | The launches, first reported by the Washington Post Tuesday, mark the first kn…
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Tax evasion and the 1%
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-23
"The richest 1% of U.S. households don't report 21% of their income."
nationofchange.org/2021/03/23/tax-evasio…

UK Tories and Labour denounce Bristol Police Bill protest
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
The "hijacked by extremists" claim is made to legitimise state repression and sanction measures targeting the left.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/bris…

America Should Swallow Its Pride on Iran
Geoff LaMear | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
The United States and Iran remain at an impasse over the …
globalresearch.ca/america-should-swallow…

China Takes Lead in Ratifying Regional Trade Agreement
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
China's Commerce Ministry (MOC) announced that its country has taken the lead in ratifying the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. | RELATED: | US-China Business Chamber Issues Call on Anti-Asian Violence | All members of the RCEP are planning to ratify the agreement before the end of this year and push for it to become effective on Jan. 1, 2022, MOC official Yu Benlin said during an online training activity. | With the ratification by at least six ASE…
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Former federal prosecutor says facts support sedition charges against leaders of January 6 assault on US Congress
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
Recently reassigned federal prosecutor Michael Sherwin detailed aspects of the ongoing investigation into the attempted coup, which has thus far resulted in more than 400 arrests.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/sher…

Drug Trafficker Linked To The Honduran President Found Guilty
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
New York Southern District on Monday convicted drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes, who assured he bribed Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernadez (JOH) for protection of his illegal activities. | RELATED: | Over 9,400 Unaccompanied Minors Entered the US Recently | The jury unanimously decided that Fuentes was guilty of the drug trafficking and firearms possession offenses with which he was charged in 2019. | Prosecutors also noted that all Honduran presidents since 2006, including JOH,…
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BOOK: The Water Defenders
RobertAlvarez | ips-dc.org | 2021-03-23
THE WATER DEFENDERS: | HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE SAVED A COUNTRY FROM CORPORATE GREED: | Robin Broad | John Cavanagh: | Introduction: | Water is life. Countless communities across the world, from Flint, Michigan to the Standing Rock Reservation to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, have used this phrase as a rallying cry against powerful corporations that value profits over the environment and the health of local communities. | The movements waging these struggles can take some inspiration from El Salvador. | In 2002, a small group of citizens in El Salvador joined the global community of…
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
Workers blockaded a soybean oil refinery in San Lorenzo, Argentina to protest terminations, while teachers in Entre Ríos province staged a one-day strike on March 19, and state workers in Córdoba province struck on March 18.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/wkrs…

"Lockdown Children's Rights": We Are Killing the Souls of Our Children!
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
This documentary film "Lockdown Children's Rights" by Patricia Marchart and Judith …
globalresearch.ca/we-killing-souls-our-c…

French colonial crimes continue to affect lives in Polynesia
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-23
NewsClick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent analysis of declassified documents from the nuclear testing done by France on the islands of Polynesia. He discusses how the French knowingly let the inhabitants of the islands to be exposed to the radioactive fallout from the tests, and how even today, the French are unwilling to compensate the victims.
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/23/french-co…

Review of Hearing Loss in Children–Reply
Lieu JC, Kenna M, Anne S. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
In Reply We appreciate the attention that Dr Fink brings to the issue of noise-induced hearing loss. In our Review of pediatric hearing loss, we chose to focus on the developments germane to children specifically and did not delve into noise-induced hearing loss, which has a growing body of literature that is not yet specific to children.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

More About Me, for Anyone Who Feels the Need
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2021-03-23
You can get the story here.
cepr.net/more-about-me-for-anyone-who-fe…

Bond market nervousness continues
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
The shift by investors out of government debt has already seen the 10-year Treasury yield rise from 0.9 percent at the start of the year, to more than 1.7 percent, with further rises expected to come.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/bond…

Met Opera musicians in New York City accept deal for partial paychecks
wsws.org | 2021-03-23
The days when classical music or other performing arts could be viewed as sheltered from the class struggle raging outside the concert hall have well and truly disappeared.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/23/meto…

Can the Biden Administration Lead Us to a New Post-Post-Cold War Order? If Only
Gregory D. Foster | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-23
The Biden administration is, strategically speaking, in much the same position today as the Clinton administration was when it entered office in January 1993. That was the end of the Cold War, and with it, the attendant opportunity to define and shape…
counterpunch.org/2021/03/23/can-the-bide…

American Philanthropy: the Wealthier the Donor, the Bigger the Taxpayer Subsidy
Chuck Collins | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-23
We are treated each day to multiple stories about billionaire philanthropy and acts of generosity, often with eye-popping figures. Whether we like the donor's giving strategy or not, we are encouraged to think of these as private actions and choices of beneficent people. Instead we should be thinking, "these are our tax dollars at work."
counterpunch.org/2021/03/23/american-phi…

USPSTF Report: Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults
, Krist AH, Davidson KW, et al. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
This 2021 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for hearing loss in older adults (I statement).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Capitalizing on Conflict: How Defense Contractors and Foreign Nations Lobby for Arms Sales
Dan Auble | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
Defense companies spend millions every year lobbying politicians and donating to …
globalresearch.ca/how-defense-contractor…

I Am Not Burned Out–I Have Postpartum Depression
Bagley SM. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician describes her struggle to recognize postpartum depression with the birth of her third child and how she found her way out.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Patient Information: Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults
Jin J. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-03-23
This JAMA Patient Page summarizes the US Preventive Services Task Force's 2021 recommendation that current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for hearing loss in older adults (I statement).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

The boundless advantages of the welfare state — for the rich
Paul Buchheit | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-23
Patenting the sun. Some of today's super-rich would love to add that subsidy to their welfare state.
nationofchange.org/2021/03/23/the-boundl…

New Mexico oil and gas companies sued for environmental damage
Rin Bernhardt | liberationnews.org | 2021-03-23
Oil and gas companies must be held accountable for their pollution and destruction of the land as well as their contributions to climate change.
liberationnews.org/new-mexico-oil-and-ga…

'Seaspiracy' Explores the Need for Systemic Change to Save Our Oceans
Noah Berlatsky | progressive.org | 2021-03-23
A new documentary argues that regulating personal consumption is not the solution to large-scale environmental crises.
progressive.org/dispatches/seaspiracy-sy…

Houthis demand lifting of air and sea blockade before agreeing to ceasefire
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-23
The chief negotiator for Ansar Allah said the Saudis should end their devastating air and sea blockade of the country if they are serious about implementing the ceasefire…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/23/houthis-d…

Michigan people's march in Lansing
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-23
Lansing, MI – On Saturday, March 20, hundreds of protesters gathered in southwest Lansing to unite against police crimes, eviction, ICE detention centers, military intervention and capitalism. 17 groups hosted the event in Risdale Park. | The overarching theme of protest speakers was that workers and oppressed people's struggles are united. The speaker from Movimiento Cosecha, Soleada Pauli, stated, "We used to say, 'your struggle is my struggle,'" adding, "It's our struggle. Workers against this capitalist, patriarchal, racist system." | This attitude of collective struggle was echoed by Tristan Taylor of Detroi…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/3/23/michigan…

Uneasy Russia-Turkey Relations Are at Risk of Deteriorating
Uriel Araujo | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
Both Russia and Turkey have celebrated on March 16 the centennial …
globalresearch.ca/russian-turkish-relati…

Opinion poll suggests Andrés Arauz victory in the upcoming Ecuadorian elections
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-23
The second round of the presidential elections in Ecuador is scheduled for April 11. Ahead of the run-off election, yesterday on March 21, the candidates received an important opportunity to promote their proposals for the new government and help the citizens decide their vote. | Yesterday, Andrés Arauz of the progressive Union for Hope alliance (UNES) and Guillermo Lasso of the coalition of right-wing Creating Opportunities‚Ää party (CREO) and Social Christian Party (PSC) took part in the mandatory debate organized by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which was broadcasted on national radio a…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/23/opinion-p…

Video: "Police On Guard for Thee": Toronto Police Officers Challenge "Unconstitutional Public Health Measures"
Len Faul | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-23
For those officers who are silent while we are ordered to …
globalresearch.ca/video-stop-lockdown-po…

Biden and the Pot Heads: The Return of the Drug Moralists
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-23
Promises are very much made to be broken, and the Biden administration is proving to be no exception. In a moral fit, the Biden White House has gone through the ranks of staffers with a keen eye on past marijuana use and wielded the axe and cudgel. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, a firm…
counterpunch.org/2021/03/23/biden-and-th…

Ecuador's Ombudsman Threatened After Moreno's Inquiry Petition
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
Ecuador's Ombudsman Freddy Carrión submitted a request for charges related to crimes against humanity by president Lenin Moreno and his cabinet on Tuesday. Hours after the petition, Carrion asked for protection for himself and his family after receiving several death threats. | RELATED: | Ecuador's Decision: Job Creation or Capital Liberalization | Ombudsman Carrión filed the complaint to the State Attorney General's Office (FGE) for alleged crimes committed during the social unrest…
telesurenglish.net/news/Ecuadors-Ombudsm…

Russia Requests Inclusion of Sputnik V in COVAX Mechanism
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the body which financed the development of the Sputnik V vaccine, applied for the drug's participation in the international COVAX program, according to the fund's director, Vladimir Primak. | "We submitted an application to participate in the COVAX program," he said at a conference on the prospects for the production of the drug in Europe. | RELATED: | European Commission Defends Right to Acquire Sputnik V Vaccine | For his part, RDIF…
telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Requests-…

I'm SO Sorry
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-23
counterpunch.org/2021/03/23/im-so-sorry/

Chaos at Chinese-Russian border as increased sanitary requirements to halt spread of Covid-19 cause backlog of 70 cargo trains
rt.com | 2021-03-23
With Russia and China becoming more closely linked economically, the free flow of cargo between the two nations is essential. But in the last year, measures to stop the Covid-19 pandemic have caused mayhem at border crossings. | Since late last year, China has been holding train traffic at the border due to epidemiological restrictions, causing a pile-up of timber, coal and fertilizer. In particular, this has affected the crossing at Zabaykalsk, a small town located on the Sino-Russian border and a stone's throw from Manzhouli, a city in Inner Mongolia. | According to Moscow daily RBK, which spoke to represent…
rt.com/russia/518930-border-sanitary-req…

Bolivia Accepts Three Counts for Añez's Responsibility Trial
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-23
The Bolivian Attorney General's Office on Tuesday admitted three of four accusations presented against ex-de facto President Jeanine Añez (2019-2020) to launch a trial of responsibilities. | RELATED: | Bolivia Marks 142 Years of Being Deprived of Access To the Sea | The accusations refer to an "unconstitutional" loan requested to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), violations of freedom of expression during the COVID-19 quarantine, and human rights violations against Bolivi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Accepts-…

Mandatory vaccination against coronavirus would be wrong, says Russian deputy PM, warning some citizens still 'distrust' all jabs
rt.com | 2021-03-23
Russia's mass immunization campaign against Covid-19 has picked up speed, the country's deputy prime minister has told RT, saying that despite some anti-vax sentiment, there is no need to force the public to roll up their sleeves. | Speaking as part of an exclusive interview with RT in Russian published on Tuesday, Tatyana Golikova said that the authorities "now have a better understanding" of how to organize the public health campaign, and "more than 6,000 vaccination points have been opened in our country." Around 89 million sets of doses are now planned to be produced in the first half of this year, she add…
rt.com/russia/518924-mandatory-vaccinati…

Amazon Intimidates Workers Amid Historic Union Vote in Alabama as Jeff Bezos Makes $7 Million an Hour
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-03-23
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are in the final days of voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the United States. Ballots have been sent to nearly 6,000 workers, most of whom are Black, in one of the most closely watched union elections in decades. Amazon has fought off labor organizing at the company for decades, but workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver and Southern California are now also reportedly considering union drives. "Amazon is trying to intimidate workers. They want them to be afraid," says Stuar…
www.democracynow.org/2021/3/23/amazon_wo…

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