(2022-03-22). China did not "blink" on Blinken's threats before the Biden-Xi phone call. indybay.org Prior to the March 18 phone meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the US mainstream media(MSM) widely highlighted US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's sharply-worded "warning" to China on "consequences" if China did not commit to stop the alleged "military aid to Russia" on its Ukraine war. To any fair and balanced observer, this hypocritical "warning" before an important meetings between the leaders of the world's two largest political and economic countries, is a sure sign that the USA empire–desperate in its bumbling handling of the disastrous Ukraine war crisis–is tryin…
(2022-03-22). Ultra-right takes control of Northern California county through recall election. wsws.org Pro-Trump militia groups and a Connecticut multimillionaire joined forces in the effort using fascistic demagogy against coronavirus restrictions.
(2022-03-22). US Congress Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine. orinocotribune.com 
Editorial note: Orinoco Tribune does not generally publish articles that are over 10 days old. However, in this case an exception is being made, as the subject matter of the following piece remains as significant today as at the time of its publication. | By Robert Parry — 12 June 2015 | "Rather than fully inform its readers about a crisis that has the potential of becoming a nuclear showdown between the United States and Russia, the [NY] Times has chosen to simply be a fount of State Department propaganda, often terming any reference to Kiev's Nazi storm troopers to be "Russian propaganda." | Now, however,…
(2022-03-22). WorkWeek: UESF Teachers Occupy For Back Pay, Covid, Griffin Charter & CNNC Union Busting. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SF UESF Teachers Occupation For Back Pay & Covid Capitalism, Giffin MIT Charter School Teachers Fighting Corruption & Chinese Union Busting at CNNC In Namibia…
(2022-03-22). Union suppresses socialist perspective at Australian mental health workers' strike "rally" wsws.org The event highlighted both the discontent among health workers and the nervousness of the unions, which are struggling to keep a lid on the anger.
(2022-03-22). Eulogy to the COVID-19 Holocaust. indybay.org "We have to live with COVID-19." What the corporate politicians and their media flunkies are really saying is that they are willing to sacrifice frontline and essential workers, the poor, the Black, the Brown, the Yellow and the Red — as well as the old, the disabled, the ill and those with weakened immune systems — all on the altar of capitalist greed.
(2022-03-21). Reviving the legacy of civil rights leader Anton de Kom. roarmag.org 
The story of Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom might seem one of those hard-to-believe Hollywood-style legends. Born the son of a formerly enslaved Surinamese farmer in 1898, he would go on to lead a national struggle against the ruling Dutch Empire before being imprisoned and banished to the Netherlands. Once in exile, he joined the resistance against German occupation, was captured and died of tuberculosis in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of 47. | The seeming contradiction of a Black anti-imperialist that would come to fight and die on behalf of his oppressor nation, coupled with an unrivaled position as a D…
(2022-03-21). Reportera de guerra relata cómo EEUU financia batallones neonazis en Ucrania. cubadebate.cu La periodista de origen sudafricano Lara Logan explica en una entrevista al portal America's Voice AM que las noticias sobre el actual conflicto de Ucrania están llenas de desinformación, mientras que muchos de los acontecimientos que ocurren ahora en ese país pasan desapercibidos en los medios. Según explica Logan, el batallón neonazi Azov está financiado por EE.UU. y la OTAN.
(2022-03-21). NATO Is Arming and Training Nazis in Ukraine, as US Floods Russia's Neighbor with Weapons. transcend.org 11 Mar 2022 – NATO is sending weapons and trainers to help neo-Nazis in Ukraine's white-supremacist Azov movement fight Russia. This follows numerous reports of Western government support for Ukrainian far-right extremists.
(2022-03-21). Civilians evacuate Mariupol and reveal the fighting methods of the Azov regime's Neo-Nazis. mronline.org 
On March 18, 2022, we went to the western part of Marioupol where the fighting between the Russian army, the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) people's militia and the neo-Nazi Azov regiment is still raging.
(2022-03-21). Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death. transcend.org 14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.
(2022-03-21). University of Michigan social work students strike to win pay for internships. wsws.org Matt Dargay, one of the organizers of the Payment for Placement movement at the University of Michigan, spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about Monday's demonstration and the demands of the P4P organization.
(2022-03-21). A Commune Called 'Che': A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes. transcend.org 1 Mar 2022 – Just as the independence struggle had different resonances in the Andes, so too does Venezuela's project of communal socialism. The region is home to one of the most successful communes in the country and has a solid productive basis (a chocolate factory and coffee cooperative). However, the Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others.
(2022-03-21). Will the Decline of the U.S. Empire Usher in a More Peaceful World Order, or Will New Empires Emerge that are Just as Lethal and Exploitative? covertactionmagazine.com History does not bring confidence that peace and genuine human equality will prevail on Planet Earth anytime soon Nevertheless, a …
(2022-03-21). Hungarian teachers starts indefinite strike demanding wage hikes, increased staff. peoplesdispatch.org The conservative government in Hungary led by Viktor Orban has tried to restrict teachers' strikes by issuing a special decree calling for mandatory teaching services in schools citing the COVID-19 crisis…
(2022-03-21). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 update. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Last week marked two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. While infection rates and hospitalizations in the U.S. continue to decline, there are some areas of concern globally. "China, Hong Kong, Ireland, the U.K. and Denmark are seeing surges back up again," explains Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "These countries, many of us experts believe, prematurely dropped mask-wearing and nonpharmaceutical interventions, and really have stopped pushing…