2023-03-15: News Headlines

Toward increased Networking (2023-03-15). Online events w) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 12 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 11: 30 am tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/14), featuring people such as John and Gabriel Shipton (Julian Assange's father and brother, respectively), India Walton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Peter Linebaugh, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

Dr. Werner Ràºgemer (2023-03-14). Apple: "Forced Labor" in India with Foxconn. Hourly Wage 88 Cents. globalresearch.ca

Gabriele Gysi & Roland Rottenfusser (2023-03-14). Defensive Invasion & Strategies of Power. indybay.org Imagine it's war and no one goes! This dream is being hurled into the dustbin of history by NATO. War is socially acceptable again, new lifestyle. Many voices cry for revenge, cry for the most modern weapons, because there are new sneaky attack warriors with poisonous arrows. It all seems like a duplicate of the US founding story. The new savages, the new Indians are the Russians.

Toward increased Networking (2023-03-15). Online events w) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 12 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 11: 30 am tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/14), featuring people such as John and Gabriel Shipton (Julian Assange's father and brother, respectively), India Walton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Peter Linebaugh, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

Dr. Werner Ràºgemer (2023-03-14). Apple: "Forced Labor" in India with Foxconn. Hourly Wage 88 Cents. globalresearch.ca

Gabriele Gysi & Roland Rottenfusser (2023-03-14). Defensive Invasion & Strategies of Power. indybay.org Imagine it's war and no one goes! This dream is being hurled into the dustbin of history by NATO. War is socially acceptable again, new lifestyle. Many voices cry for revenge, cry for the most modern weapons, because there are new sneaky attack warriors with poisonous arrows. It all seems like a duplicate of the US founding story. The new savages, the new Indians are the Russians.

infobrics (2023-03-14). The Indian-Russian Relationship Remains Strong. infobrics.org India has embraced Russia in a "special and privileged strategic partnership" that features regular dialogues between the heads of state as well as ministries, substantial advanced arms sales, and intergovernmental commissions to cooperate in trade, energy, science, technology, and culture…

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-14). U.S. Navy Europe/Africa holds exercise with African, Georgian, NATO partners in Indian Ocean. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th FleetMarch 13, 2023 A Clash of Doctrine: VBSS in the Western Indian Ocean Within the Bandari Maritime Academy of Mombasa, Kenya, participants in exercise Cutlass Express 2023, hailing from Djibouti, Georgia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, United Kingdom, and the United States, gathered to address a common challenge — Visit, …

Nimalakaran Sinnakkili (2023-03-14). Former Tamil refugee asks federal gov't to give asylum seekers permanency. greenleft.org.au Australian Tamil Congress director Nimalakaran Sinnakkili called for permanent protection for the remaining refugees and asylum seekers living in the community and those imprisoned in detention centres in Australia and on Nauru.

ecns.cn (2023-03-15). China's industrial output up 2.4 pct in Jan-Feb. ecns.cn China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, went up 2.4 percent year on year in the first two months of 2023, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2023-03-15). China's retail sales up 3.5 pct in Jan-Feb. ecns.cn China's retail sales of consumer goods increased 3.5 percent year on year in the first two months of 2023, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2023-03-15). China's fixed-asset investment up 5.5 pct in Jan-Feb. ecns.cn China's fixed-asset investment went up 5.5 percent in the first two months of this year, 0.4 percentage points higher than the full-year growth rate of 2022, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2023-03-15). China's average surveyed urban unemployment rate at 5.6 pct in Jan-Feb. ecns.cn China's average surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.6 percent in the first two months of 2023, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2023-03-15). China urges Japan to heed concerns of all parties on nuclear-contaminated water disposal. ecns.cn Twelve years on, the Japanese government, instead of learning the painful lesson of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, is set on pushing through the ocean discharge plan in an attempt to shift the risk of nuclear pollution onto all humanity. A responsible country would never do such things and this simply runs counter to the international obligations Japan should fulfill.

Fight Back (2023-03-15). Los Angeles: Centro CSO hosts 6th annual International Women's Day. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – On March 12, more than 50 people gathered at Salazar Park in East Los Angeles to rally with Centro CSO for its 6th annual International Women's Day commemoration. Speakers included leaders from CSO's different committees – education, police accountability and immigration – who explained the importance of women's liberation to their work. | The attendees also heard from members of CSO Orange County and Freedom Road Socialist Organization as well as two artists, Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl and Daisy Magallanes. | Diana Terreros, a founder of CSO-Orange County and a member of Freedom Road Socialist O…

John Catalinotto, Sara Flounders (2023-03-15). Which way forward for the antiwar movement? workers.org Workers World Managing Editor John Catalinotto held an interview March 13 with Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center (IAC), a member of the Administrative Committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and contributing editor to Workers World, to discuss the developments of the past year of the . . . |

Monica Moorehead (2023-03-15). Cuban women headline New York conference to end U.S. blockade. workers.org New York City An International U.S.-Cuba Normalization Conference took place March 11-12 at the Fordham University School of Law in Manhattan — 200 activists attended the conference in person, while hundreds more, including those from around the world, live streamed the event. The conference was hosted by the New York-New . . . |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-15). Consumer Health: What's the difference between kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the difference between two kidney disorders — kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease. Your kidneys are situated in the back of your abdomen under your lower ribs, one on each side of your spine. One of the important jobs of the kidneys is to clean the blood. As blood moves through the body, it picks up extra fluid, chemicals and waste….

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-15). Consumer Health: Do you check the Nutrition Facts label? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org March is National Nutrition Month, which makes this a good time to learn about using the Nutrition Facts label to make healthy choices. Most people in the U.S. don't eat a healthy diet, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most consume too much sodium, saturated fat and sugar, increasing their risk of chronic diseases. The Nutrition Facts label on packaged foods is a tool created by the Food and Drug Administration to help…

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-15). NATO states build "naval coalition" with Ukraine; "Ukraine is also building a fleet in Turkey" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com UkinformMarch 14, 2023 Reznikov announces formation of naval coalition International partners will help Ukraine develop its naval fleet. Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said this at a joint briefing with Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren at the Ukraine-Odesa Media Center on March 14…. "Today, the Minister of Defense of the Netherlands, Mrs. Ollongren, announced that …

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-03-15). Tuesday 3/28: Rally To Rehire Fired Namibian Miners By Chinese National Nuclear Corporation. indybay.org San Francisco Chinese Consulate | Geary & Laguna St. | San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-03-15). Stop the war in Ukraine! Mobilize the international working class against imperialism! wsws.org In endorsing and participating in the demonstration on March 18, the IYSSE seeks to advance a revolutionary socialist strategy that directs the anti-war movement toward an open struggle against capitalism.

Yamin Kogoya (2023-03-15). West Papua: How should Indonesian govt, international community, UN respond to OPM hostage demands? greenleft.org.au To prevent further bloodshed, peaceful resolution of the kidnapping of Phillip Mehrtens and Indonesia's brutal war of occupation in West Papua needs to be found, writes Yamin Kogoya.

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-03-14). Former US natsec advisor: destroy Taiwan semiconductor factories if China invades. thegrayzone.com A growing body of evidence suggests that the US would blow up the global economy to prevent China from laying claim to Taiwan's semiconductor factories. Former White House National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien has hinted at a sinister US contingency plan in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Rather than see Taiwan's semiconductor factories fall into the hands of the Communist Party of China, the US and its allies would simply pull a Nordstream. "The United States …

ecns.cn (2023-03-14). Haikou aims high with lofty economic targets. ecns.cn China's economy is set to rebound this year, and Haikou, the core area of Hainan Free Trade Port, is speeding up economic development, according to Ding Hui, mayor of Haikou and a deputy to the National People's Congress.

ecns.cn (2023-03-14). Xi pools mighty force for building great country, national rejuvenation. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for forming a mighty force for building a great modern socialist country and advancing national rejuvenation.

ecns.cn (2023-03-14). Employment remains key national priority. ecns.cn China will embrace a talent dividend to boost economic development, while the implementation of the employment-first policy remains one of the government's top priorities to stabilize the job market, said Premier Li Qiang.

ecns.cn (2023-03-14). Chinese modernization inspires many developing countries: international media on two sessions. ecns.cn During the just-concluded "two sessions," the world kept a close eye on how the annual event would devise China's development and promote its people's well-being for the years ahead.

ecns.cn (2023-03-14). Opening-up, stress on value chains praised. ecns.cn China's unswerving commitment to high-level opening-up is "very welcome" when rising geo-economic fragmentation is threatening global growth, said a senior official of the International Monetary Fund.

Fight Back (2023-03-14). Denver FRSO hosts International Women's Day rally at State Capitol. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – On Wednesday, March 8, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization hosted a rally at the Colorado State Capitol building to celebrate International Women's Day. Two dozen people gathered to answer the call for an end to attacks on women's and reproductive rights, including members of Students for a Democratic Society and the Denver-Aurora Community Action Committee. | FRSO and Denver residents are outraged at the outcome of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision. So-called "trigger laws" banned abortion in 13 states after the decision was made in 2022. In other states, "heartbeat bills" have become law, serio…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). Braving the High Seas to Europe and North America: The Many Killers of the Migrant Worker. libya360.wordpress.com Yusuf Serunkuma Yusuf Serunkuma writes that a migrant worker dies many times, and has many killers. They die in their home countries — where they are structurally, violently uprooted — they then die on the journeys to either Europe or the Middle East and then, they finally die in dehumanising working conditions if they ever…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). China's Example of Leadership Injects Hope into a World of Uncertainty. libya360.wordpress.com Danny Haiphong Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, presides over the closing meeting of the talks between a Saudi delegation and an Iranian delegation in Beijing, capital of China,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). Colombian Government and ELN Conclude Second Round of Peace Talks. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch The Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) concluded the second round of peace talks on March 10, in Mexico. Photo: Francia Márquez/Twitter During the second round of peace talks, the Colombian government and the ELN agreed on a six-point definitive agenda that will guide the following stages of the negotiation process…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). Dmitry Polyanskiy: 'A New World is Taking Shape'. libya360.wordpress.com Al Mayadeen Russian deputy representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy A lot has changed since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Borders of countries have changed, the form of relations and alliances has changed, and the war that began in the Donbass region has resonated across the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's Interview with Channel One, Moscow, March 10, 2023. libya360.wordpress.com Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with Channel One's The Great Game political talk show, Moscow, March 10, 2023 Question: I'll start with a question concerning the latest news. In Tbilisi, the government has in fact met all the demands of the protesters without exception and without any concessions on the part of the protesters. However, we…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). Libya: Abdoulaye Bathily's Proposals Cannot Succeed. libya360.wordpress.com Habib Lassoued UN Envoy, Abdoulaye Bathily There is nothing to suggest that the initiative of the UN envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, can open the doors of a solution to the worsening crisis. His initiative is immature, incomplete, and closest to the bitter fruit of a desperate situation in which the international community is floundering,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). Libya: Do Not Be Deceived by the Soft-Spoken! libya360.wordpress.com Eshtaiwe Eljadi, Former Libyan Diplomat UN Envoy, Abdoulaye Bathily It is well known that the United Nations and its International Security Council have played a major role in giving America and its Western allies a free hand in Libya since February 2011, when it placed the then-existing Libyan national government under Chapter VII of international…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). Sergey Glazyev: 'The Road to Financial Multipolarity Will Be Long and Rocky'. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar In an exclusive interview with The Cradle, Russia's top macroeconomics strategist criticizes Moscow's slow pace of financial reform and warns there will be no new global currency without Beijing. The headquarters of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) in Moscow, linked to the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) is arguably one of the most crucial nodes of the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). The "French Era" is Coming to an End, and Not Just in Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Vladimir Danilov During his recent four-day African tour, French President Emmanuel Macron was forced to admit that the era of the "Franàßafrique" is over in Gabon. It existed for more than six decades, realizing Paris' desire to imprison its former colonies in Africa in the "arms" of enslaving economic agreements and informal arrangements with the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). The Nord Stream-Andromeda Cover Up. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter Divers taking a safety stop at 5 metres. (Oetzipopoetzi, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons) U.S. intelligence was too quick to leak information about the German investigation to The New York Times.It raises the distinct impression that the real culprit is nervous about the investigative work of Seymour Hersh. Back in 2000, the television series "Andromeda" premiered,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). Ukraine: Western Media Start to Acknowledge Reality. libya360.wordpress.com Moon of Alabama Finally some truth about the real state of the Ukrainian military is sneaking into main stream media. It is as bad, still not fully disclosed, as we have described it again and again. As the Washington Post provides: Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow I'll leave out the propaganda bits and go…

jamanetwork (2023-03-14). Consistency of Physician Data Across Health Insurer Directories. jamanetwork.com This study assesses the consistency of information across publicly available physician directories from 5 large national health insurers.

JANET (2023-03-14). Sat. March 18 — National March on Washington — at the White House On the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq: No War in Ukraine! No to NATO! No Weapons, No Money for the Ukraine War. iacenter.org

Julie Varughese (2023-03-14). International Women's Alliance Uplifts Militant Grassroots Struggles in First U.S.-Based Conference. towardfreedom.org Hundreds of mostly women gathered at Washington, D.C.-based Catholic University's Maloney Hall during the first weekend of March to convene the first U.S.-based conference of an international grassroots women's alliance and help strengthen its U.S. chapter. TF editor Julie Varughese reports.

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-03-14). Torture, Murder and Security Clearances at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. indybay.org The news out of the democratic republic of Chile this week is that the conviction of Jaime Garcia Covarrubias—the former National Defense University / Defense Security Cooperation Agency professor who was since 2008 the target of the Petitioner's disclosures through the NDU/DSCA chain of command—for the torture and murder of an unarmed detainee was upheld by that country's Supreme Court. | Garcia Covarrubias has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his authorship of that crime, one of two involving the torture and clandestine murder of unarmed detainees for which he has already been convicted a…

National Lawyers Guild (2023-03-14). NLG Condemns "Stop Cop City" Music Festival Arrests in Atlanta. indybay.org Law enforcement detained at least 35 people in Atlanta on Sunday, March 5, at a solidarity music festival over a mile away from the Cop City construction site.

Pink Knight Press (2023-03-14). "March for Life" in Sacramento. indybay.org March 6 was the California event for the anti-choice group March for Life, a national anti-abortion organization. Charter buses lined their speaking event, which drew something in the region of 200 people, with 15-20 counter-protesters at any given time. The counter-protesters stayed loud throughout the anti-choice speakers' time, drowning out speeches and annoying the audience.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-14). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…

Ricardo Vaz (2023-03-14). Venezuela: Popular Movements Rally to Demand Justice for Fallen Campesino Leader. venezuelanalysis.com The Attorney General's Office and the National Assembly pledged to investigate the assassination of Carlos Bolívar.

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-14). U.S. nuclear bombers hold multinational NATO drills along Russia's western frontier. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces AfricaMarch 10, 2023 U.S. B-52 Stratofortresses conduct multi-lateral NATO exercise with Allies in Eastern Europe Two U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron integrated with NATO Allies in eastern Europe, Mar. 9, 2023. The bombers, who are forward deployed to Moron Air …

Roger McKenzie (2023-03-14). U.S. weapons make up 40% of world arms trade; Chinese sales decline. peoplesworld.org The U.S. share of global arms exports has risen to 40%, according to a report published Monday. The U.S. has long been the world's leading exporter of military equipment, but its share of the deadly trade grew by 14% between 2013—17 and 2018—22, says the report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The report, …

WSWS (2023-03-14). George Galloway's NO2NATO: War cannot be opposed based on nationalism and an embrace of capitalism's "rising powers" wsws.org To advance a campaign in alliance with the far-right to pressure British and US imperialism to "go gentle into that good night" as a means of opposing war is politically grotesque. It articulates the position of a layer of the petty-bourgeoisie frightened by the threat of war, but hostile to a struggle against that threat by the working class and possessed of a truly boundless belief on the long-term viability of the capitalist system.

WSWS (2023-03-14). The transformation of Germany's postal service into a low-wage sector. wsws.org Deutsche Post DHL Group exemplifies an international trend; mercilessly sacrificing workers' living standards and health for profit.

WSWS (2023-03-15). IYSSE holds anti-war demonstrations in front of two major universities in Sri Lanka. wsws.org The two events in Sri Lanka were part of a global series being held by the IYSSE to fight for the end of the war in Ukraine and to prevent the US-led plans for conflict with China.

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