Daily Archives: March 25, 2023

2023-03-25: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-03-25). Strike wave sweeps across the Netherlands. wsws.org This new wave of strikes takes place against the backdrop of relentless anti-Russian hysteria and intensified propaganda in the media to justify NATO's war in Ukraine.

Alan Macleod (2023-03-24). Iran International: Inside the "Saudi-Funded" Network Promoting Regime Change in Iran. mintpressnews.com Iran International: Alan Macleod reveals how a network of Western and Saudi interests converged to create the ultimate propaganda tool in a failed bid to overthrow the government of Iran.

ecns.cn (2023-03-24). U.S. propaganda hides truth of Iraq's war: Al Jazeera columnists. ecns.cn U.S. military invasion of Iraq 20 years ago was largely framed in news media to meet strategic objectives, and the skewed media narratives continue to hide many truths, said an opinion piece published on the website of Al Jazeera on Monday.

Ramona Wadi (2023-03-24). Israel's new Cycles of forcibly displacing Palestinians. juancole.com Ramona Wadi ( Middle East Monitor ) — US President Joe Biden placed much emphasis on rhetorically opposing Israel's settlement expansion. Hence the reaction from Washington over the Israeli Knesset passing the second and third readings of the Disengagement Law that would allow resettlement of Jewish Israelis in four previously vacated illegal settlement areas in the occupied West Bank. Israel's Ambassador to the US …

Anonymous103 (2023-03-24). Imperial Visits: US Emissaries in the Pacific. southfront.org Illustrative Image: Australia's Canberra Class LHDs conducting exercises with a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke Class DDG and Nimitz Class CVN | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | For some time, Washington has been losing its spunk in the Pacific. When it comes to the Pacific Islands, a number have not fallen — at least entirely — for the rhetoric that Beijing is there to take, consume, and dominate all. Nor have such countries been entirely blind to their own sharpened interests. This largely aqueous region, which promise…

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-03-24). Israel lobby smeared Palestinian American professor, then got him fired. electronicintifada.net Kareem Tannous says he is now blacklisted from teaching.

WSWS (2023-03-25). Strike wave sweeps across the Netherlands. wsws.org This new wave of strikes takes place against the backdrop of relentless anti-Russian hysteria and intensified propaganda in the media to justify NATO's war in Ukraine.

Alan Macleod (2023-03-24). Iran International: Inside the "Saudi-Funded" Network Promoting Regime Change in Iran. mintpressnews.com Iran International: Alan Macleod reveals how a network of Western and Saudi interests converged to create the ultimate propaganda tool in a failed bid to overthrow the government of Iran.

ecns.cn (2023-03-24). U.S. propaganda hides truth of Iraq's war: Al Jazeera columnists. ecns.cn U.S. military invasion of Iraq 20 years ago was largely framed in news media to meet strategic objectives, and the skewed media narratives continue to hide many truths, said an opinion piece published on the website of Al Jazeera on Monday.

Ramona Wadi (2023-03-24). Israel's new Cycles of forcibly displacing Palestinians. juancole.com Ramona Wadi ( Middle East Monitor ) — US President Joe Biden placed much emphasis on rhetorically opposing Israel's settlement expansion. Hence the reaction from Washington over the Israeli Knesset passing the second and third readings of the Disengagement Law that would allow resettlement of Jewish Israelis in four previously vacated illegal settlement areas in the occupied West Bank. Israel's Ambassador to the US …

Anonymous103 (2023-03-24). Imperial Visits: US Emissaries in the Pacific. southfront.org Illustrative Image: Australia's Canberra Class LHDs conducting exercises with a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke Class DDG and Nimitz Class CVN | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | For some time, Washington has been losing its spunk in the Pacific. When it comes to the Pacific Islands, a number have not fallen — at least entirely — for the rhetoric that Beijing is there to take, consume, and dominate all. Nor have such countries been entirely blind to their own sharpened interests. This largely aqueous region, which promise…

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-03-24). Israel lobby smeared Palestinian American professor, then got him fired. electronicintifada.net Kareem Tannous says he is now blacklisted from teaching.

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-24). 20 Years After Iraq, Corporate Media Defends US War Crimes. popularresistance.org United States troops began the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003 under the direction of president George W. Bush. The death toll estimates for Iraqi civilians vary between 275,000 and 654,000 as a direct result of warfare, with one study estimating as many as 1 million deaths . If even the lowest figure is correct, the U.S. committed a horrific war crime, a deliberate attack on a civilian population. | In 2003 thousands of people massed in protest across the country. On February 15, 2003 , millions gathered around the world in the largest protests since the Vietnam war. While public opinion was divided, the corp…

WSWS (2023-03-24). The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2. wsws.org The pseudo-left's hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.

ecns.cn (2023-03-24). Consumers warned of bogus product reviews. ecns.cn China's consumer association has warned people about being misled by vloggers on social media who review consumer products, saying that some of them offer misleading information or may have conflicts of interest or may be deliberately influencing buyers for their own commercial gain.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-24). Separatist Somaliland Escalates War on Somali Unification Movement. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni Evidence of shelling of SSC. Attacks by Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia whose sovereignty claim has no international recognition, have caused over 1,500 injuries since February 6 in Las Anod, which is at the heart of the movement to reunify the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) with Somalia Somaliland is a self-proclaimed…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-03-24). Abu Ghraib: Horrors of US Occupation of Iraq. orinocotribune.com Abu Ghraib was a prison in the Iraqi city of the same name, located 32 kilometers west of Baghdad. The first buildings were constructed by a British contractor in the 1950s and were designed from the outset as a place of detention. | Under Saddam Hussein | During Saddam's leadership, the Mudiria al-Amn al-'Amm, or Directorate of General Security (DGS), operated the high-security prison where, according to Western media reports, mass torture and execution of political prisoners of the government took place. | In fact, however, there was no evidence that the prison was a political and not a conventional one. The la…

Staff (2023-03-24). Cop City: Judge Denies Bond to People Rounded Up in Mass Arrest for Opposing Police Training Facility. democracynow.org In Atlanta, a judge has denied bond for 8 of the people indiscriminately arrested at a music festival against the proposed "Cop City" police training facility in the Weelaunee Forest. Jailed since March 5, they are charged with domestic terrorism based on scant evidence like muddy clothes or simply being in the area at the time of the festival. We're joined by Micah Herskind, an Atlanta community organizer, who calls the charges "political prosecutions" and a blatant "attempt to repress this social movement that is trying to stop Cop City."…

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