(2023-02-23). Monday 3/13: Architects of Abundance: Indigenous Regenerative Food Systems and the Excavation of Hidden History. indybay.org Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz | Directions: goo.gl/maps/Z18NZ9XyVJREK1f89 | This is a hybrid event, presented both in-person and virtually.
(2023-02-23). China, India vow to find solution for issues concerning western section of border. ecns.cn China and India have vowed to come up with a solution for issues concerning the western section of the China-India border based on a previously agreed consensus, officials from both countries said at the 26th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on Border Affairs held in Beijing on Wednesday.
(2023-02-23). Following corruption allegations, the fall of India's Adani group continues. wsws.org The combined market value of the group's shares has fallen to below $100 billion, bringing to $135 billion the loss of market capitalisation since the US-based Hindenburg Research published a report on January 24 alleging widespread accounting fraud and stock manipulation.
(2023-02-22). Indian, Russian Banks Open Special Vostro Accounts for Trade in Rupee, More Countries Expressing Interest. infobrics.org Certain African countries that are facing foreign exchange problems and issues with US Dollar and Euro mobilisation are also showing interest in the rupee (INR) trade mechanism…
(2023-02-22). The NDB and BRICS in Global Governance Reform. infobrics.org Egypt ratified its participation in the New Development Bank (NDB) — a multilateral development bank (MDB) established in 2015 under the direct guidance of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). Egypt followed after the admission of Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay…
(2023-02-22). The right wing is organizing in Canada. Can the left learn to stop them? therealnews.com 
This story originally appeared in Since the start of COVID-19, workers have coupled innovative new organizing models with traditional "ground game" to gain incredible wins at worksites around the world. These have ranged from Amazon to Trader Joe's in the United States, Indigo Chapters Bookstores to Second City (AICE Union) in Canada, and of course the historic farmers strike in India. Each of these campaigns amplified their v…
(2023-02-22). Families of forcibly disappeared persons mark six years of struggle in Sri Lanka. peoplesdispatch.org 
Holding banners and black flags, hundreds of relatives of disappeared Tamils marched in the northern Sri Lankan town of Kilinochchi demanding justice and accountability…
(2023-02-23). Pakistan's economic crisis likely to worsen after passing of IMF-dictated budget, rise in fuel prices. peoplesdispatch.org The Finance (Supplementary) Bill, 2023, was tabled last week, on February 15, in line with measures required to secure the next IMF loan tranche of USD 1.1 billion…
(2023-02-23). Support the SEP (Australia) in the NSW election to oppose bipartisan slashing of public sector wages! wsws.org The parliamentary parties never miss an opportunity to pay lip service to essential workers, but when it comes to wages and conditions, Labor and the Coalition are adamant—a pay rise in line with inflation is impossible.
(2023-02-23). U.S. urged to genuinely welcome Chinese students as it has said: Chinese FM. ecns.cn We urge the U.S. to genuinely welcome Chinese students as it has said, withdraw the biased and discriminatory Proclamation 10043, stop overstretching the concept of national security, stop interrogating, harassing or repatriating Chinese students in the U.S., and avoid similar incidents from happening again, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday…
(2023-02-23). Abolish the death penalty and national oppression. workers.org 
Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar "Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles today." Go to youtu.be/5Arb33Q8SN0 to view the webinar. The national question, as analyzed by Comrade Sam Marcy and Workers World Party, has been so important to us in Texas, as . . . |
(2023-02-23). Wednesday 3/8: International Women's Day: What Do the Women Say? 2023 Fighters for Freedom. indybay.org Brava Theater Center | 2781 24th Street | San Francisco, CA 94110 | Or join the event virtually…
(2023-02-23). Mayo Clinic Minute: Heart disease in African American women. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death in women in the U.S. And African American women have an even higher risk of dying from heart disease ‚Äï and at a younger age ‚Äï than white women, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. LaPrincess Brewer, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, says this serious issue is compounded by the fact that many African American women are not…
(2023-02-23). Consumer Health: Reduce your risk of the 4 most common cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org February is National Cancer Prevention Month, which makes this a good time to learn what you can do to reduce your risk of the top four most common cancers diagnosed in the U.S. One in 2 men and 1 in 3 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. The most common types of cancer diagnosed in the U.S. are skin cancer, breast cancer, prostate…
(2023-02-23). Share your love this Valentine's Day by giving blood. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than by giving the gift of life? Every year on Feb. 14, National Donor Day is dedicated to spreading awareness about organ, eye and tissue donation. One way to celebrate, that will have an impact on your community, is by donating blood at your local blood donor center. Dr. Justin Juskewitch, associate medical director of the Blood Donor Center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, says the need…
(2023-02-23). Thursday 3/9: International Women's Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas. indybay.org Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz | Driving and Parking Directions: | maps.ucsc.edu/detailed-directions/…
(2023-02-23). Australian PM pushes economic nationalism to justify huge military build-up. wsws.org Fearful of widespread anti-war sentiment, Albanese gave few details of the major military expansion on which his government is embarking.
(2023-02-22). Russia's Rostec Increased Production Of Tornado-S Rockets, Lancet & KUB-BLA Drones. southfront.org 
MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | The Russian state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec has increased production of Tornado-S multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), as well as advanced weapons for the Russian military, including the Lancet and KUB-BLA loitering munitions, RIA Novosti reported on November 22. "Rostec enterprises…
(2023-02-22). SDF Commander Wounded In New Turkish Drone Strike On Northeastern Syria (Video). southfront.org A Bayraktar Akƒ±ncƒ± combat drone. Source: the Turkish Ministry of National Defense. | On February 22, a Turkish combat drone targeted a vehicle in an area controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeastern governorate of al-Hasakah. | The vehicle, an SUV, was struck as it was moving on a road linking the towns of al-Qmaihsli and al-Qahtaniyah in the northern al-Hasakah countryside. | The SDF-linked Hawar News Agency didn't report any casualties. Howev…
(2023-02-22). Tickets available: NYC bus to the March 18 national anti-war protest. answercoalition.org Join the ANSWER Coalition bus from NYC to DC, , | : | National March on Washington: Peace in Ukraine — Stop NATO!, Saturday, March 18, The White House, , | : | BUS 1: Leave 7: 00 a.m. from Union Square, 14th St and Broadway, NY NY; return at 4: 00 p.m., , BUS 2: Leave 7: 00 a.m. from 149th St. and Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY; return at 4: 00 p.m., , | : | Ticket price: $ . Discounted tickets available based on financial need | Coinciding with the 20th anniversary weekend of the criminal U.S…
(2023-02-22). ILWU shuts down SF/Oakland docks for Mumia Abu-Jamal. workers.org 
San Francisco Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union shut down the ports of Oakland and San Francisco Feb. 16 to demand that journalist and innocent political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal be exonerated and set free. Clarence Thomas, at the mic, Feb. 16, 2023. (Photo Credit: Labor Media) Local 10 . . . |
(2023-02-22). More Drivel Over the National Debt! scheerpost.com 
(2023-02-22). $749,387 Pentagon Contract Debunks the Lie about "Independent" Fact-Checkers. libya360.wordpress.com Dilyana Gaytandzhieva The Pentagon has funded fact-checkers under a program to mark independent journalists as disinformation. Photo: defense.gov Documents expose the so called ‚Äûindependent" fact-checkers. The so called disinformation fighters are nothing more than well-paid employees working under a $749,387 program funded by the Pentagon. A U.S. company called News Guard, self-proclaimed as independent fact-checkers,…
(2023-02-22). From the Gulf of Tonkin to the Baltic Sea. libya360.wordpress.com Seymour HershLyndon B. Johnson delivering his televised report on the Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 4, 1964. The secret and incomplete history of US-Norway collaboration in covert operations Why Norway? In my account of the Biden Administration's decision to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines, why did much of the secret planning and training for the operation take…
(2023-02-22). How the U.S. (and UK) Sabotaged Peace in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Moon of Alabama US President Joe Biden meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Mariinsky Palace during an unannounced visit in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. The Washington Post provides another of those lame flattering portraits of the Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelinski: A year in the trenches has hardened Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky came into office…
(2023-02-22). Nord Stream: Propaganda, the Ultimate Weapon of Empire. libya360.wordpress.com Mohsen Abdelmoumen Empire's relentless and murderous persecution of journalists who reveal the truth Journalists who care about doing their job and informing the public are very rare in the West, but fortunately there are still some, even if everything is done to prevent them from delivering information contrary to the dominant doxa. The most obvious…
(2023-02-22). President Vladimir Putin's Speech: Russia Has the Right to Be Strong. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara L. I would like to thank you for this responsible, firm position and recall the words of Pyotr Stolypin, a patriot and a proponent of a strong Russian state. He said this in the State Duma over a hundred years ago, but it is still consonant with our times. He said: "In the…
(2023-02-22). Russia's Clout in the BRICS Universe. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter As the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears, the US and its allies are confronted with the harsh reality that stringent sanctions have failed to either deter Russian behavior or punish those responsible. One of the main reasons for this failure is the inability by the West to mobilize support for…
(2023-02-22). US Attempts to Build a Secret Biolab in Kyrgyzstan is Failing. libya360.wordpress.com Vladimir Platov Russia's special military operation to denazify the criminal Kiev regime allowed it to collect and receive more than 20 thousand documents on the US bioweapon program at the captured Ukrainian military facilities. This program, as it turns out, does not only include Ukraine. Relevant reference and analytical materials on this aspect of US…
(2023-02-22). LuxLeaks Whistleblower Wins Case Before Europe's Top Human Rights Court. thedissenter.org 
This article was funded by paid subscribers of The Dissenter Newsletter. Become a The grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights recently ruled in favor of a whistleblower who worked for the multinational accounting conglomerate PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and exposed tax evasion schemes in Luxembourg. | French national Raphaël Halet, a former auditor for PwC, alleged that his criminal conviction had disproportionately interfered with his right to freedom of expressi…
(2023-02-22). Russia's Declaration of Independence — A Review of Putin's Speech to Russia's National Assembly. sonar21.com 
Reflecting on Putin's long awaited speech to Russia's national assembly I was struck by some similarities with Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. What do I mean? Jefferson started with his iconic…
(2023-02-22). The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State, by Rizwaan Sabir (Review). juancole.com 
Review of Rizwaan Sabir, The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and The Security State (London: Pluto Press, 2022.) Greifswald, Germany (Special to Informed Comment) In May 2008, a post-graduate student of International Relations was arrested for six days after downloading a 140-page document on Al-Qaeda from the US Justice Department website. A copy of the document …
(2023-02-22). Railroad Workers United: Ohio wreck shows need for rail nationalization. peoplesworld.org 
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio—The growing uproar over the massive chemical contamination of the air and water from the Norfolk Southern freight train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, shows—once again—the need to nationalize the railroads and run them in the public good, not for profits, Railroad Workers United says. And now they're joined by the United Electrical …
(2023-02-22). Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters demand: 'Release the evidence now!'. workers.org 
There is growing international support for the freedom of U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been imprisoned in Pennsylvania for over 40 years. Mumia was falsely accused of killing a white police officer in December 1981 in Philadelphia. He was convicted of first-degree murder on July 3, 1982, following . . . |
(2023-02-22). Now Is The Time To Nationalize The Railroads. progressivehub.net KARI LYDERSEN | IN THESE TIMES…
(2023-02-22). "It's White Supremacy" — Critics Lambaste Greene's Call for "National Divorce" truthout.org This week, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) declared that Republican and Democratic states in the U.S. need "a divorce," prompting many to wonder whether she was calling for Republican-leaning states to secede. Later, Greene claimed that she wasn't calling for secession but for the federal government to have less influence, allowing states to determine how to govern for themselves… |
(2023-02-22). Argentina Records Eight Cases of Bird Flu. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Argentina's National Agrifood Health and Quality Service (SENASA) confirmed eight cases of H5 avian influenza in the provinces of Cordoba, Salta, Jujuy, and Santa Fe. | RELATED: | The authorities explained that avian influenza was found in wild and backyard birds, so Argentina preserves the sanitary status and its normal flow of exports. | "The government reinforces its plan to prevent the disease from entering the commercial circuit," SENASA said, addi…
(2023-02-22). Marielle Franco Murder to Be Investigated Again. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Brazil's Justice Minister Flavio Dino ordered the Federal Police to open a new investigation to detect the masterminds of the murder of councilwoman Marielle Franco that took place in Rio de Janeiro on March 18, 2018. | RELATED: | The administration of President Lula da Silva will collaborate extensively with subnational authorities in investigations into a political crime that could not be clarifie…
(2023-02-22). Sturgeon resigns, Scottish National Party in crisis. wsws.org Sturgeon's resignation as leader of the SNP is ultimately an expression of the increasingly apparent bankruptcy of the program of Scottish separatism.
(2023-02-22). Russia suspends participation in New START nuclear arms control treaty as US prepares expansion of Ukraine war. wsws.org Behind the smokescreen of rhetoric about "democracy" and "liberty," the imperialist powers, basing themselves largely on fascist and ultra-nationalist forces, are preparing an escalation and geographic expansion of the war in Ukraine, which threatens to soon engulf all of Eastern Europe and bears the danger of a nuclear catastrophe.