2022-03-18: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-03-18). Ahed's Knee from Israel, made "with a sense of urgency" wsws.org "Ahed's Knee" refers to Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi and the incident in December 2017 in the occupied West Bank for which she was later arrested and sentenced to eight months in prison.

WSWS (2022-03-18). Russian court rejects appeal by historian Yuri Dmitriev, upholds 15-year prison sentence. wsws.org Amidst the war in Ukraine, the Putin regime is continuing its crackdown on all efforts to uncover the crimes of Stalinism.

deweylaura (2022-03-17). Dorothy Burnham, civil rights activist. cpusa.org The Amsterdam News published an article on Dorothy Burnham, an African American activist who turns 107 years old on March 22. Dorothy was a long-time member of the Communist Party, which goes unmentioned in the article. Dorothy's radicalism may have begun while a microbiology major at Brooklyn College, when she met students and teachers …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-17). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: New cases of COVID-19 continue downward trend. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org New cases of COVID-19 are down 90% from the peak, with under 75,000 new cases reported last week across the U.S. "What we're observing is a pretty dramatic suppression of cases," explains Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "This is good news, but we need to be cautious." Dr. Poland warns that there are still people who are vulnerable to COVID-19 infection, including people who are immunocompromised; children under 5 who cannot yet be…

A Guest Author (2022-03-17). 'What is it that needs to be done?' A conversation with anti-apartheid freedom fighter Lassy Chiwayo. workers.org This interview was conducted by Workers World correspondent Ted Kelly at Robben Island, off the western coast of South Africa. Lassy Chiwayo is an African National Congress member, former political prisoner, uMkhonto weSizwe freedom fighter and former mayor of Mbombela, capital of the Mpumalanga province. He served as the consul-general . . . |

_____ (2022-03-17). St. Louis's Movement-Backed Mayor Promised To Close An Infamous Jail. popularresistance.org St. Louis, Missouri‚Äâ-‚Äâ"What is the delay in closing the Workhouse?" moderator Maquis Govan asks Mayor Tishaura Jones at a virtual town hall on "re-envisioning public safety" February 8. | The event was co-organized by Action St. Louis, an affiliate of the Movement for Black Lives. The group's 501 ©4 arm, Action St. Louis Power Project, endorsed Jones during her 2021 mayoral run. The Rev. Michelle Higgins opened the event by thanking Jones warmly for "valuing and loving the constituents of this city in this way: taking the time to listen to our questions directly." | Now,…

Our Reporter (2022-03-17). MPs Task Security Minister to Produce Missing People. plusnews.ug Members of Parliament on the Human Rights Committee have directed the Minister of Security, Jim Muhwezi to produce seven people who have been reported missing since 2020. Muhwezi on Thursday appeared before the committee which is currently inquiring into the torture of suspects by security operatives, detention without trial, and missing persons. The missing persons …

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2022-03-17). TC de Perú examinará habeas corpus sobre indulto a Fujimori. telesurtv.net El indulto humanitario fue concedido en 2017 al expresidente Alberto Fujimori por el entonces mandatario Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

Ann Brown (2022-03-17). Black America: We're Concerned Biden And Democrats Will Use Rising Crime And Pandemic Conditions For Another Mass Incarceration. moguldom.com The property crime rate was higher than the violent crime rate in 1994 when President Bill Clinton and then-Senator Joe Biden authored the now-infamous 1994 Crime Bill. Flash forward to 2022. Property crime has again skyrocketed, with criminals going into stores and loading stolen merchandise into garbage bags. But in addition to rising property crime, the …

Ola Mousa (2022-03-17). Delays to EU aid mean Gaza's poor get jailed for debt. electronicintifada.net Most workers paid less than minimum wage.

_____ (2022-03-17). Legal Action Against Shell Board Previews Wave Of Lawsuits. popularresistance.org Boards should prepare for legal action based on their response to climate change, a DeSmog investigation has found. | Lawyers, insurers, and campaigners have been anticipating litigation against company directors for some time and say the chances are only growing as corporate requirements to address climate risks get tougher. | Today, March 15, ClientEarth announced it was taking legal action against energy giant Shell's board of directors, arguing that their failure to properly prepare the company for net zero carbon emissions breaches their legal duties. | The environmental law non-governmental organization, wh…

Isabella Kaminski (2022-03-17). Legal action against Shell board previews wave of lawsuits against company directors. nationofchange.org Individuals are expected to be a growing target of legal action on climate change, with activists, investors, and regulators looking carefully at how companies and their boards disclose and respond to climate risks.

Ana Vraƒçar (2022-03-17). Imprisoned Palestinian health activist Shatha Odeh is a beacon of resistance globally. peoplesdispatch.org Imprisoned health activist Shatha Odeh continues to persist in the struggle for the right to health and women's rights as she sends letter from prison for International Women's Day…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-17). U.S. coup engineer to Georgia: We built your army, so you must confront Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The United National Movement is the political party founded by Mikheil Saakashvili, now in prison after returning from Ukraine where President Zelensky had restored his Ukrainian citizenship and appointed him head of the Executive Committee of the National Reform Council. The recently-formed Reforms Group in the Georgian parliament, see below, is properly the Charles Michel's …

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2022-03-17: News Headlines

Staff (2022-03-16). Iran frees two dual British nationals jailed for espionage. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 16 (MNA) — Some news sources reported that Nazanin Zaghari who had been sentenced to 5 years in prison on spying for the UK in Iran released, heading to airport to leave Iran.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-16). Georgia being pulled deeper into the Ukrainian war vortex. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The West is fairly transparently supporting French-born — and -raised Zurabishvili and currently imprisoned Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement against head of state Garibashvili. Civil GeorgiaMarch 15, 2022 Garibashvili Talks Refusal of President's Europe Visits Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili claimed today the Government had refused President Salome Zurabishvili to make official visits to Europe …

WSWS (2022-03-16). Silence in the media and Labour "left" on Assange's extradition danger. wsws.org The Biden administration intends to prosecute Assange for charges under the Espionage Act with a potential sentence of 175 years in prison. This would be served in barbaric conditions, that previous judgements acknowledged could drive him to suicide.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-16). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: New cases of COVID-19 continue downward trend. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org New cases of COVID-19 are down 90% from the peak, with under 75,000 new cases reported last week across the U.S. "What we're observing is a pretty dramatic suppression of cases," explains Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "This is good news, but we need to be cautious." Dr. Poland warns that there are still people who are vulnerable to COVID-19 infection, including people who are immunocompromised; children under 5 who cannot yet be…

SF015 (2022-03-16). Mass Grave In Mariupol. Who May Buried There And Why. southfront.org An official representative of the DPR said at an urgent briefing on the morning of 16 March that information had been received from various sources that another falsification had been carried out by the Ukrainian leadership in the city of Mariupol. | This time, the office of the Ukrainian President set the task for the Ukrainian armed forces' command to discredit the actions of the Russian forces by showing the Western public the mass graves of civilians allegedly killed as a result of artillery shellin…

Human Rights Watch (2022-03-16). Saudi Arabia: Mass Execution of 81 Men: Rampant Abuses in Criminal Justice System, lack of Fair Trials. juancole.com Human Rights Watch — (Beirut) — Saudi authorities' execution of 81 men on March 12, 2022 was its largest mass execution in years despite recent promises to curtail its use of the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. Rampant and systemic abuses in Saudi Arabia's criminal justice system suggest it is highly unlikely that …

Ramona Wadi (2022-03-16). Not all Refugees are Equal: Plight of Palestinians Displaced by Israel Worsening. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Financial support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is dwindling, despite the renewed mandates and financial contribution pledges by world leaders. "The almost unanimous political support expressed by the UN General Assembly to the Agency is not translated into matching financial resources," UNRWA's Commissioner-General, …

Juan Cole (2022-03-16). Top 7 Ways Iran evaded US Sanctions that Putin could Follow. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The sorts of sanctions and boycotts the United States and its allies are placing on Russia resemble those applied by Washington to Iran off and on in the past decade, though so far the measures in place against Tehran are still far more severe than what has been done to …

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