Monthly Archives: March 2022

2022-03-06: News Headlines

Mirna Wabi-Sabi (2022-03-06). Immigrant's Lynching in Brazil Forces Us to Confront Xenophobia and Colonialism. truthout.org On February 5, protesters took to the streets of major Brazilian cities asking for justice. A young African man, MoàØse Kabagambe, was lynched — tortured to death — on a beach in Rio de Janeiro in January.

Staff (2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…

Anonymous669 (2022-03-05). Greater Idlib: Syrian Army Artillery Rain Hell On Militant Positions. southfront.org Photo: RIA Novosti / Ulyana Solovyeva | On March 5, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shelled the northwestern region of Greater Idlib where many terrorist groups are present and active. | According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the army's artillery fired dozens of shells at the outskirts of the towns of Kansafra, Sufuhon and Fleifel in the southern Idlib countryside and the town of al-Zeyarah in the northwestern countryside of Hama. | The London-based monitoring group noted that Russian drones were flying…

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2022-03-05: News Headlines

_____ (2022-03-04). People's Movements Across The World Demand Freedom For Julian Assange. popularresistance.org On the streets of Brasilia and Accra, Johannesburg and New York City, people's movements and organizations demanded on February 25 that publisher and political prisoner Julian Assange be released immediately. The call for mobilizations was issued by the International Peoples' Assembly (IPA) which launched a permanent campaign this month to call for Assange's immediate release and the rejection of his extradition request.

WSWS (2022-03-04). Sri Lankan action committee holds a successful online meeting in defence of Julian Assange. wsws.org Speakers insisted that the fight to release Julian Assange depends on a political movement of the working class based on socialist policies and in opposition to the capitalist system and all its institutions.

Kevin Gosztola (2022-03-04). State Secrets Ruling By US Supreme Court Helps CIA Conceal Torture At Black Site Prison. thedissenter.org Photo of the US Supreme Court from the US Government and in the public domainThis article was funded by paid subscribers of The Dissenter Newsletter. Take 25 percent off and become a The "state secrets privilege" stems from a 1953 case known as United States v. Reynolds, where the government essentially lied and claimed if relatives of victims of a military plane crash were informed of how their loved ones died it would compromise "secrets." | U.S. Air Force documents declassified decades later showed accident reports…

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