2023-03-23: News Headlines

Dave Welsh (2023-03-23). San Francisco labor opposes racist land ownership bill in Texas. workers.org San Francisco Recalling California's shameful history of prohibiting Chinese and Japanese residents from owning land in the state, the San Francisco Labor Council voted March 13 to condemn a similarly racist bill currently before the Texas state Senate. The vote by SFLC delegates was unanimous. Texas Senate Bill 147, if . . . |

Media Education Foundation (2023-03-23). Video: After 20 Years, Will US News Media Finally Admit Its Craven Complicity in Iraq War? globalresearch.ca

Ajamu Baraka (2023-03-23). Commemorations of the Attack on Iraq March 20 and Libya March 19 Reaffirms that the U.S.-EU-NATO Axis of Domination Remains the Greatest Threat to International Peace on our Planet. dissidentvoice.org The International Criminal Court should uphold an objective and impartial stance, respect the jurisdictional immunity enjoyed by the head of state in accordance with international law, exercise its functions and powers prudently by the law, interpret and apply international law in good faith, and avoid politicization and double standards. — Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang …

Ajamu Baraka (2023-03-23). Commemorations of the Attack on Iraq March 20th and Libya March 19th Reaffirm that the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination Remains the Greatest Threat to International Peace on Our Planet. globalresearch.ca




Consortium News. (2023-03-23). Iraq Invasion, AUKUS Blasted In Rousing Sydney Rally. popularresistance.org A week after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese agreed in a meeting in San Diego with President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to spend A$368 billion to buy nuclear submarines from the two countries, anti-war activists met in a sweltering Sydney town hall on Sunday on the 20th anniversary of the start of the war against Iraq to hear why the submarine deal is a disaster for Australia that must be stopped. | Greens Party Senator David Shoebridge, former foreign minister Bob Carr, retired diplomat Alison Broinowski and Colin Powell's former chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkinson (via video hook…

Kennedy Rogers, Noah Leininger (2023-03-23). Indianapolis police killings underscore issues with mental health emergency response in United States. liberationnews.org To meaningfully address the cascading mental health crises created by our society, a shift away from impatient, deadly police is desperately needed.

Staff (2023-03-23). "Disaster": Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on U.S. Invasion, Sanctions, Occupation & What's Next. democracynow.org As we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we are joined by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an award-winning Baghdad-born Iraqi journalist and author. Abdul-Ahad has received the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the British Press Awards' Foreign Reporter of the Year and the Orwell Prize. His new book is A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War. "I want the history to be told properly," says Abdul-Ahad about his hopes for the future of Iraqi society after decades of dictatorship, sanctions, war, occupation and corruption.

_____ (2023-03-23). Lebanon's Tragedy and the difficulties in overcoming it. journal-neo.org



____ (2023-03-23). Hainan to host two subforums on trade. ecns.cn Hainan province will host two subforums on March 29 at the 2023 Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, according to a news conference held on Wednesday.

Brenda Norrell (2023-03-23). No Place for Whales: The U.S. Military's Legacy in Indian Country: Reckless Toxic Dumping. indybay.org From the mustard gas pit on Walker River Paiute lands, to the napalm burn site on Fallon Paiute Shoshone lands, to the undetonated bombs in the Lakota Badlands, to the experimental explosives at Fort Wingate in New Mexico and secret radioactive waste dump near the Tohono O'odham Nation capital of Sells, Arizona, to the widespread illegal hazardous waste dumping, and leaking of toxic waste, in many of the Alaskan and Hawaiian islands — there is enough documented cancer-causing waste to fill an encyclopedia.

Demanding an End to War (2023-03-23). Anti War Protest in SF: US Out of Everywhere. indybay.org March 20th marked 20 years since the US criminal invasion of Iraq. It was the perfect time to rally and march in San Francisco.

Rohima Miah (2023-03-23). United States: Thousands rally for peace and against US imperialism. greenleft.org.au Rohima Miah reports from Washington DC that on the 20th anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq, thousands of peace and antiwar activists rallied in the nation's capital under the banner Fund People's Needs, Not the War Machine!



____ (2023-03-23). Tokyo welcomes cherry blossom season. ecns.cn People enjoy the cherry blossoms on Chidorigafuchi Moat, northwest of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan, March 32, 2023.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-23). In just three months, 30 coal miners died in Pakistan. peoplesdispatch.org

WSWS (2023-03-23). Sri Lankan president anti-democratically shuts down local government elections. wsws.org Wickremesinghe's cancellation of local government elections is in line with his essential services strike bans and mobilisation of the police and military against protesting workers and students.

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-03-23). Sismo de magnitud 6.5 deja 13 muertos en Afganistán y Pakistán. telesurtv.net El sismo se produjo en la región montañosa del Hindú Kush, en la confluencia de las placas tectónicas eurasiática e india, a una profundidad de 187 kilómetros.

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