ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back. ~~Rebecca Talbot & Panagioti Tsolkas,

 https://truthout.org/articles/ice-continues-to-abuse-and-traumatize-under-biden-immigrants-are-fighting-back/

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

China' Response to Covid

“China battles to contain Omicron outbreaks”, 25 March 2022, Peter Symonds, WSWS, at < https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/26/ecbn-m26.html >

And

“China continues offensive against the spread of Omicron BA.2 subvariant”, 21 March 2022, Bryan Dyne, WSWS, at < https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/22/dgxt-m22.html >

And

“China mounts all-out effort to stop the spread of Omicron BA.2 subvariant”, “Perspective”, 15 March 2022, Evan Blake, WSWS, at < https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/16/pers-m16.html >.

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

US Hegemony Coming to an End ~~ Margaret Flowers

“NOW THAT THE UNITED STATES’ FREE RIDE HAS COME TO AN END”, “Transcript of Interview”, Mar 29, 2022, Margaret Flowers & Michael Hudson, Popular Resistance, at < https://popularresistance.org/now-that-the-united-states-free-ride-has-come-to-an-end/ >

And

“MICHAEL HUDSON: US DOLLAR HEGEMONY ENDED ABRUPTLY LAST WEDNESDAY”, “Podcast”, Mar 28, 2022, Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance, at < https://popularresistance.org/michael-hudson-us-dollar-hegemony-ended-abruptly-last-wednesday/ >.

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

HOW OIL AND THE WAR IN UKRAINE ARE SHAPING NEGOTIATIONS OVER THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL ~~ DAVID KATTENBURG

 https://therealnews.com/how-oil-and-the-war-in-ukraine-are-shaping-negotiations-over-the-iran-nuclear-deal

~~recommended by emil karpo ~~

Ukraine is brutally repressing the left, criminalizing socialist parties, imprisoning activists ~~ Posted Mar 26, 2022 by Ben Norton

https://mronline.org/2022/03/26/ukraine-is-brutally-repressing-the-left-criminalizing-socialist-parties-imprisoning-activists/

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

Covid news - Omicron BA2 and US Death Toll Reaches 1 MILLION

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/26/covi-m26.html >

and

 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/23/pers-m23.html >

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

‘Is it a crime to study?’: outcry as Taliban bar girls from secondary schools ~~Weronika Strzyżyńska and Akhtar Mohammad Makoii

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/girls-in-afghanistan-school-taliban

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Biden has Money for War, but Not for the Poor ~~ Danny Haiphong

https://www.blackagendareport.com/biden-has-money-war-not-poor

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

Women revolutionaries speak truth to power ~~ Monica Moorehead posted on March 25, 2022

 https://www.workers.org/2022/03/62695/

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

The War on Weed Decimated My Community—Will There Be Restitution? ~~By Tavian Crosland

 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/marijuana-legalization-equity/?custno=&zip=&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly%203.25.2022%20%282%29&utm_term=weekly

Legalization offers a chance to restore a fragment of what was lost by Black and Afro-Latinx communities pummeled by prohibition, but so far, white business are claiming the spoils.

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~ 

Protect trans kids - and Madeleine Albright Remembered~~ Sam Thielman

 A thoughtless sop to bigots in Texas has endangered trans children and their only advocates. It’s time to stand up for them. PLUS: Madeleine Albright, remembered

(NB:  apology to Sam Thielman for initially misspelling his name in the title)

“Hedges: The Lie of American Innocence”, (Our hypocrisy on war crimes makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible) ~~ Chris Hedges

  https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/21/hedges-the-lie-of-american-innocence/ 

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

“Ukraine’s Propaganda War: International PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts” ~~ Dan Cohen

https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/ 

~~ recommended by dmorista ~~

The promise — and problem — of restorative justice ~~ Jerusalem Demsas

https://www.vox.com/22979070/restorative-justice-forgiveness-limits-promise

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

“The Geopolitics of the Ukraine War: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in the Struggle over Eurasia”, March 10, 2022, ~~ Alfred McCoy,

https://tomdispatch.com/the-geopolitics-of-the-ukraine-war/

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

FROM ‘DEAD MAN WALKING’ TO FIGHTING TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY: SISTER HELEN PREJEAN’S JOURNEY ~~ Eddie Conway

 

https://therealnews.com/from-dead-man-walking-to-fighting-to-abolish-the-death-penalty-sister-helen-prejeans-journey?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Real+News+Network&utm_campaign=96e71dfef5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_03_21_06_22_Prejean&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_020676f7fe-96e71dfef5-425023606&mc_cid=96e71dfef5&mc_eid=2d87b78d52

~. recommended by emil karpo ~~

Contexto Chino: What do Chinese citizens say about Ukraine? ~~ Maria Fe Celi

https://mronline.org/2022/03/19/contexto-chino-what-do-chinese-citizens-say-about-ukraine/

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

WILL UKRAINE WRITE THE ALT-RIGHT’S EPITAPH? ~~ John Feffer

 https://fpif.org/will-ukraine-write-the-alt-rights-epitaph/

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Ralph Nader: The Biggest Business in America? Defrauding Uncle Sam and You ~~ Ralph Nader

https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/19/ralph-nader-the-biggest-business-in-america-defrauding-uncle-sam-and-you/

In terms of sheer stolen dollars, the total amount is greater than the annual sales of Amazon and Walmart over the past two years.

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

Gender Dogma Threatens to Pulverize Women's Rights | Opinion RAQUEL ROSARIO SÁNCHEZ

https://www.newsweek.com/gender-dogma-threatens-pulverize-womens-rights-opinion-1689424?utm_source=PushnamiMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1647862756362&subscriberId=613fc0137aeb51cecb2f7be1 

~~recommended by emil karpo ~~

Toward a third Reconstruction: Lessons from the past for a socialist future ~~ Eugene Puryear

https://mronline.org/2022/03/19/133194/

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

The Horrific Scam that Water Billionaires are Running on Poor Countries ~~ B TAMARA PEARSON

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/21/the-horrific-scam-that-water-billionaires-are-running-on-poor-countries/

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

The Amazon Warehouse Walkout Is Just the Latest Push

https://www.wired.com/story/amazonians-unite-walkouts/

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

U.S. sanctions: an act of war against workers ~~ G. Dunkel

https://www.workers.org/2022/03/62289/

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

Walmart Kills Wages State and federal lawmakers are focusing more on corporate power in labor markets. ~~ Pat Garofalo

https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/walmart-kills-wages?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NjUxMDE4NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTAzMDg4MjUsIl8iOiJqajQ1QiIsImlhdCI6MTY0NzUzOTI3NywiZXhwIjoxNjQ3NTQyODc3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTM3NDQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.1LBQ200DQkgZXj1R_6TVefur-uweuWVeaUlD0toygoc&s=r

Universal values now get only spotty coverage around the globe ~~ Samuel Goldman

 https://theweek.com/politics/1011327/the-liberal-world-order-is-gone-but-the-west-lives-on

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Friedrich Engels’s Eulogy to Karl Marx ~~ FRIEDRICH ENGELS

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/03/friedrich-engels-eulogy-to-karl-marx-1883

Karl Marx died on this day in 1883. At his funeral, Marx's lifelong friend and comrade Friedrich Engels delivered a eulogy predicting Marx's work would endure through the ages. We reprint Engels's speech here in full.

The following speech was given by Friedrich Engels at the grave of Karl Marx in London’s Highgate Cemetery on March 17, 1883.

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Chapter 4: TYRANNY IS TYRANNY, History is a Weapon ~~. Howard Zinn

https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinntyr4.html

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

The Pacheedaht people finally started making money from Vancouver Island timber. Then the protesters arrived ~~Lynda V. Mapes

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/the-pacheedaht-people-finally-started-making-money-from-vancouver-island-timber-then-the-protesters-arrived/?utm_source=marketingcloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sunday+Morning+03-13-22_3_13_2022&utm_term=Registered%20User

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Luxemburg, Zetkin, and Revolutionary Feminism against the War ~~Josefina L. Martínez

https://www.leftvoice.org/luxemburg-zetkin-and-revolutionary-feminism-against-the-war/

 ~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

Russia’s Shattered Opposition Fights to Make Its Voice Heard on Ukraine ~~ Robert Mackey

https://theintercept.com/2022/03/09/russia-dissidents-ukraine-invasion-navalny/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Pentagon Official Rules That A Man The CIA Raped And Tortured Can Go Free ~~ S. Ackerman

 https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/guantanamo-torture-victim-goes-free-majid-khan?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxOTg0NTkyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MDE3MjE5NSwiXyI6Iis4eHhnIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ3MDQzNzczLCJleHAiOjE2NDcwNDczNzMsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zOTM2NjQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.afqDicw13mtDVUvu5ZmKZdQvUb8bitn0KBOrYWuWRu0&s=r

Majid Khan's sentence has been reduced to time served. His lawyer doesn't expect bureaucratic subterfuge before Khan flies out of Guantanamo Bay.

~~Recommended by emil karpo ~~

Labor Against the War: Activists condemn invasion, call for immediate ceasefire

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/labor-against-the-war-activists-condemn-invasion-call-for-immediate-ceasefire/

YANIS VAROUFAKIS: WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-CAPITALIST, TECHNO-FEUDALIST DYSTOPIA

 

https://therealnews.com/yanis-varoufakis-we-are-living-in-a-post-capitalist-techno-feudalist-dystopia?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Real+News+Network&utm_campaign=b16c4a16ee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_02_23_04_05_Yanis&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_020676f7fe-b16c4a16ee-425023606&mc_cid=b16c4a16ee&mc_eid=2d87b78d52

The proletariat started life as a precariat. And then...they managed to become the proletariat. In other words, they acquired certain rights.

And then with the 1929 disaster, The Grapes of Wrath in the United States, in Europe and so on, capitalism had to be saved from itself by creating more demand for stuff. That’s the New Deal. And then the Bretton Woods system after the Great War. So, especially when there was a Soviet Union to antagonize capitalism, they started granting more and more rights

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Snowpiercer Asks Us to Imagine the End of the World — And the End of Capitalism BY CHRIS DITE

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/france-comic-strip-movie-bong-joon-ho-marxism

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

“Fuel prices are INELASTIC when the price of oil goes down and ELASTIC when the oil prices go up.” (wink – nod) ~~ A Gelbert

https://wolfstreet.com/2022/03/06/crude-oil-wti-futures-go-bananas-briefly-hit-130-this-is-whats-happening-at-my-gas-station/

and 

http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/geopolitics/us-federal-reserve-notes-($)-world-reserve-currency-privilege-in-jeopardy/msg17364/#msg17364

“The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War”, March 7, 2022, Oliver Boyd-Barrett,

  https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/07/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-a-planetary-crisis-provoked-by-the-u-s-that-threatens-nuclear-war/ >

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

What If Trump Were Still the President? ~~ Alan Z. Rozenshtein

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-if-trump-were-still-president

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

The Slave Trade and the Jews ~~ David Brion Davis

 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/12/22/the-slave-trade-and-the-jews/?lp_txn_id= 

~~ recommended by emil Karpo ~~

Manufacturing Consent: Propaganda, Disinformation, and Social Control in 2022, as Implemented over the Ukraine Issue.

“Another Casualty of the Ukraine Conflict: The Truth”, March 5, 2022, Michael Brenner, Scheer Post, at < https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/05/another-casualty-of-the-ukraine-conflict-the-truth/ >

“Student ejected from audience of Australian current affairs program for asking critical question on Ukraine”, March 7, 2022, Richard Phillips, WSWS, at < https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/07/sgra-m07.html >

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

Ukrainian Communist youth leaders arrested by government, reportedly targeted for death March 7, 2022 9:14 AM CST ~~ C.J. ATKINS

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/ukrainian-communist-youth-leaders-reportedly-arrested-by-government-targeted-for-death/

As Battle Wages Over Critical Race Theory, Schools Fail at Teaching Reconstruction ~~Nedra Rhone

https://portside.org/2022-03-03/battle-wages-over-critical-race-theory-schools-fail-teaching-reconstruction

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

The Philosophy of Fascism ~~ Jason Stanley

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/stanley

~~ recommended by ye olde guest contributor ~~

“A New Eurasian Far Right Rising: Reflections on Ukraine, Georgia, and Armenia”, “Special Report 2020”, January 2020, April Gordon

 https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/new-eurasian-far-right-rising

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

“Understanding Ukrainian Nazism”, February 26, 2022, Lucas Leiroz

  https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2022/02/26/understanding-ukrainian-nazism/ 

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

Women in the Revolution, the Revolution in Women’s Lives ~~ Andrea D'Atri

https://www.leftvoice.org/women-in-the-revolution-the-revolution-in-women-s-lives/

What effect did the Russian Revolution have on women’s lives?

~~ posted for collectivist action ~~

“NATO goes to war against Russia” Feb 28, 2022, Statement of the WSWS Editorial Board, WSWS

 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/01/pers-m01.html 

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

“Who gets NATO’s weapons in Ukraine?” ~~ Jason Melanovski & Clara Weiss,

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/05/xpbb-m05.html 

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

“The war in Ukraine: The questions that must be asked”, Mar 4, 2022, Statement of the WSWS Editorial Board

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/04/pers-m04.html >

~~posted for dmorista ~~

How Ukraine’s Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front lines of war with Russia ~~ ALEXANDER RUBINSTEIN & MAX BLUMENTHAL

 https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

CANCEL EARTHWORMS. ~~ Julia Rosen

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/jumping-worms-are-taking-over-north-american-forests/605257/

The “crazy worms” remaking forests aren’t your friendly neighborhood garden worms. Then again, those aren’t so great either.

Open Thread...

 We have had another request for an open thread.  Be kind, be generous and talk among yourselves.  

To start off, here is something to listen to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhVT0fx3rFs

Tom Jones & Rhiannon Giddens - St. James Infirmary Blues [HD] Jools' Annual Hootenanny 2015/16

rican Exceptionalism and its Impact on China, Russia, and Ukraine (Featuring Danny Haiphong

“NATO floods Ukraine with weapons”, March 3, 2022, ~~ Andre Damon

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/03/lead-m03.html

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

WATCH: ‘The War in Ukraine’ – Consortium News

“WATCH: ‘The War in Ukraine’ ” February 27, 2022, anon, Consortium News, at < WATCH: ‘The War in Ukraine’ – Consortium News >

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

WAR IN EUROPE AND THE RISE OF RAW PROPAGANDA ~~ John Pilger .

 https://popularresistance.org/war-in-europe-and-the-rise-of-raw-propaganda/

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

The Dialectical Rise of a White Nationalist State - Part 3: After Bacon's Rebellion~ Collectivist Action

The Dialectical Rise of a White Nationalist State ~~ By Collectivist Action