Daily Archives: March 11, 2022

2022-03-11: News Headlines

MK Bhadrakumar (2022-03-11). Zelensky rubbishes Biden's war on Russia. asiatimes.com What was the need for all that happened in the period since mid-December when Russia transmitted to Washington its demands for security guarantees? This question will haunt US President Joe Biden long after he retires from public life. The foreign-policy legacy of his presidency and the reputation of this much-vaunted 80-year-old politician with a half-century's …

TASS (2022-03-11). DPR troops liberate Volnovakha. tass.com The units of the DPR's People's Militia continued to tighten the encirclement around Mariupol…

Dave DeCamp (2022-03-11). President Biden Blames Inflation on 'Putin's Price Hike'. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, President Biden released a statement on the Labor Department's consumer price index for February, which found consumer prices rose 0.8% in February and increased by 7.9% over the past 12 months, putting inflation at a fresh 40-year high. In his statement, Biden blamed the increase in inflation on Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Today's …

Dave DeCamp (2022-03-11). WHO Says It Advised Ukraine to Destroy 'High-Risk' Pathogens. news.antiwar.com The World Health Organization "As part of this work, WHO has strongly recommended to the Ministry of Health in Ukraine and other responsible bodies to destroy high-threat pathogens to prevent any potential spills," the WHO said in response to questions about its work with Ukraine before and during Russia's invasion.

TASS (2022-03-11). Gazprom continues supplying gas for transit to Europe via Ukraine as normal. tass.com As of March 11, 109.5 mln cubic meters were requested…

TASS (2022-03-11). Over 220,000 people evacuated to Russia from Donbass and Ukraine — source. tass.com Over 18,700 people are staying in centers of temporary accommodation in 23 Russian regions…

TASS (2022-03-11). Russia requests Security Council meeting on US biological programs in Ukraine – diplomat. tass.com Russian Mission asked for a meeting of Security Council for 11 March…

Anonymous349 (2022-03-11). Russian Forces Achieve Important Breakthrough In Donbass Region. Putin Supports Idea Of Involving Volunteers In Ukraine (Video). southfront.org Russia continues its offensive operations in Ukraine amid the expected inability to reach any real diplomatic solution of the conflict…

Anonymous103 (2022-03-11). War In Ukraine Day 15: Preparing For Second Phase Of Russian Operation. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On March 10, the joined forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR did not make significant breakthroughs on the territory of Ukraine. The liberation of territories from the AFU is carried out steadily village by village. At the same time, the strengthening of the positions of Russian forces in strategically important regions indicates that the second phase of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine will begin in the coming days. | For several days now, the parties have not an…

Milos Raickovich (2022-03-11). Serbian activist speaks out: Stop the war on Russia. workers.org The author is a Serbian composer living in the U.S. who actively opposed the U.S.-NATO war against Yugoslavia in 1999. On March 24, 1999, NATO crossed its own redline, when it bombed Serbia and Montenegro, the last two republics still remaining at that time in a union of the South-Slavic . . . |

WSWS (2022-03-11). French New Anti-capitalist Party backs NATO war drive against Russia. wsws.org Pabloite parties worldwide are whipping up war fever over the Russian-Ukrainian war, denouncing "Russian imperialism" and calling NATO to arm Ukraine against Russia.

WSWS (2022-03-11). The NATO campaign against Russia will drive escalating class struggle across the world. wsws.org The disastrous global impact of the sanctions regime against Russia and the gutting of social spending to pay for the military will drive explosive struggles, in which mass anger will intersect with the growing radicalization which is already underway as a consequence of the pandemic.

Editor (2022-03-11). Ray McGovern: What Role Has the U.S. Played in the Ukraine Crisis? scheerpost.com Ray McGovern speaking at the public tribute to Robert Knight on March 28, 2015 at The Riverside Church in New York NY. [Jennifer Hasegawa] | Click to subscribe on: As Russia's attack on Ukraine wages on, and Ukrainian civilians die daily, the fog of war has seemingly been clouding more nuanced analysis in the United States, argues "Scheer Intelligence" host Robert…

Staff (2022-03-11). Beijing Warns of Harsh Response if US Sanctions Chinese Companies. orinocotribune.com Beijing intends to retaliate with harsh measures if Washington imposes unilateral coercive measures—euphemistically called "sanctions"—on China due to the discord between Russia and the United States over the Ukraine conflict, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Thursday, March 10. | "In the process of establishing relations with the Russian Federation, the United States does not have the right to impose so-called sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals," the spokesperson said at a press conference. "If it does, China will give a firm and serious response." | Accordin…

Ana Perdigón (2022-03-11). Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez & Russia's Sergey Lavrov Meet in Turkey. orinocotribune.com In order to deepen their cooperative alliance and mutual respect, the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, held a meeting this Thursday, March 10, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov. The encounter occurred just a few days after the White House sent an official delegation to Caracas in order to alleviate the disruption in oil supplies caused by the recent unilateral and illegal economic coercive measures (euphemistically called sanctions) issued by the US against Russia. | The meeting took place on the eve of Rodríguez's participation in the 2nd Antalya Diplomati…

WSWS (2022-03-11). Amid warnings of world war, demands grow in Washington for escalation against Russia. wsws.org Despite warnings from the White House that an escalation of US involvement in the Ukraine-Russia war could rapidly trigger a third world war, there are growing calls from within both the Democratic and Republican parties for a more aggressive US military intervention.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Australia's state-funded broadcaster pumping out pro-war anti-Russian propaganda. wsws.org ABC's "Media Watch" said nothing about the censorship and removal of a Russian-Australian student from the network's "Q+A" program only four days earlier.

Adriaan Alsema (2022-03-11). Ukraine war dominates top level US-Colombia meeting. colombiareports.com Russia's war against Ukraine dominated the first meeting of Colombia's President Ivan Duque with his American counterpart, US President Joe Biden. During the public part of the meeting, Biden told…

WSWS (2022-03-11). Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates line up behind war drive, denounce DSA. wsws.org All the claims of the DSA that the Democratic Party can be reformed through a pressure campaign are exposed in the entire course of events around the war drive against Russia.

ecns.cn (2022-03-11). IAEA chief meets Ukrainian, Russian FMs on nuke security. ecns.cn The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday held meetings with Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers respectively on nuclear security in a town in Turkey's southern province of Antalya, Turkish official sources said Friday.

KS Kumar (2022-03-11). India hits pause button on LIC stake sale. asiatimes.com The economic fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war has caused India to take a wait-and-watch approach on a scheduled stake sale of state-owned Life Insurance Corporation (LIC). According to Department of Investment and Public Asset Management Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey, the government hopes to launch the initial public offering as soon as stock market volatility sparked …

Chris Gunness, Damian Lilly (2022-03-11). UNHRC must respect Myanmar's democratic reps. asiatimes.com The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva has taken swift, practical and principled steps to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the heinous human-rights violations committed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It did so as the Security Council in New York, hamstrung by a Russian veto, could do little else but pass the Ukraine …

Ravi Kant (2022-03-11). Putin: The 21st-century czar of Russia. asiatimes.com "The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century." President Vladimir Putin made that statement in his 2005 annual address to the Russian parliament. Certainly, the collapse of the Soviet Union was a tragic moment for Russia, particularly for Putin. It was in East Germany where he personally witnessed …

ecns.cn (2022-03-11). U.S. urged not to harm China's legitimate interests in handling ties with Russia. ecns.cn A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday the United States should not undermine China's legitimate rights and interests in handling with ties with Russia, otherwise China will make firm and resolute responses.

William Pesek (2022-03-11). Russia sanctions threaten to backfire on the buck. asiatimes.com TOKYO — Japan and China tend to agree on very little when it comes to economic strategy, geopolitics or managing Western idiosyncrasies. Yet Joe Biden is bringing Tokyo and Beijing together on one issue: their combined US$2.4 trillion of US Treasury debt holdings that are now suddenly in doubt. At issue is the US president's …

Salman Rafi Sheikh (2022-03-11). How Russia's war will destabilize Central Asia. asiatimes.com When Vladimir Putin declared that Ukraine was a "historic part" of Russia, a rhetorical salvo that presaged his invasion, the message must have set Central Asian republics that broke away from the ex-Soviet Union back in 1991 on a certain edge. None of those republics, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, have the same …

_____ (2022-03-11). A second US Front against China. journal-neo.org Ukraine-related events in recent days have clearly exposed Washington's criminal policy and its desire to solve its financial and geopolitical problems by unleashing armed conflicts on foreign territories. It is quite remarkable that the crisis around Ukraine itself, according to even US analysts, was engineered by the US and they are fully responsible for it. …

WSWS (2022-03-11). US media continues coverup of State Department admission of biological weapons labs in Ukraine. wsws.org For three days, major news outlets in the US have refused to report on the extraordinary acknowledgement by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland on Tuesday that there are "biological research facilities" in Ukraine.

Benjamin Norton (2022-03-11). La OTAN está armando y entrenando nazis en Ucrania, mientras EEUU inunda con armas al vecino de Rusia. multipolarista.com La OTAN está enviando armas y entrenadores para ayudar a los neo-nazis del movimiento Azov en Ucrania a luchar contra Rusia. Hay varios informes sobre el apoyo de los gobiernos occidentales a los extremistas de extrema derecha ucranianos.

ecns.cn (2022-03-11). China provides humanitarian aid supplies to Ukraine. ecns.cn A thousand packs of humanitarian supplies provided by the Red Cross Society of China to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society departed Beijing on Wednesday.

Klaus Joachim Herrmann, Ingar Solty (2022-03-11). Cuba and the Ukraine Crises. indybay.org History repeats itself after all. What as the Cuban Missile Crisis left the world balancing on the precipice is exemplified by the Ukraine crisis. Starting in 1959, the USA stationed nuclear-tipped medium-range missiles in Italy and Turkey aimed at the USSR. The latter responded with medium-range nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba in 1962.

Larmee (2022-03-11). Art of War : Ukraine / –£–∫—Ä–∞—ó–Ω–∞. indybay.org

ecns.cn (2022-03-11). Ukraine sets up 12 humanitarian corridors in 4 regions. ecns.cn Ukraine established 12 humanitarian corridors in four regions on Friday to allow civilians to leave the conflict-torn areas, the Ukrainian government-run Ukrinform news agency reported, citing Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.

ecns.cn (2022-03-11). WHO advises Ukraine to destroy high-risk pathogens in labs. ecns.cn The World Health Organization (WHO) has advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens stored in the country's labs to prevent "any potential spills," the UN agency said on Thursday.

Swaran Singh (2022-03-11). Challenges before South Korea's new president. asiatimes.com South Korea's president-designate, Yoon Seok-yeol of the People Power Party, is widely expected to revive a conservative foreign policy, implying a cozier partnership with the United States and thereby a tougher line against Pyongyang and Beijing. Also read: What to expect from Korean President-elect Yoon In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, this could also …

Anonymous103 (2022-03-10). Biolabs In Ukraine, A Smoking Gun That White House Dubbed As Fake News. southfront.org Written by Piero Messina | Someone in Washington is telling lies. Is Jen Psaki a liar? The White House spokesperson has branded the existence of chemical and biological research laboratories in Ukraine, also run by the US State Department, as fake news. Jen Psaki, then summoned the press to define the absurd allegations and an obvious ploy to try to justify further future attacks: "We took note of Russia's false claims about alleged US biological weapons laboratories and chemical weapons development in Ukraine. We have also seen Chinese officials echo these conspiracy theories ". | And again: "They are an obvi…

Anonymous103 (2022-03-10). Facebook, Instagram To Allow Calls For Violence Against Russians Over Ukraine Invasion. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Originally published on Two weeks after Facebook users were

Dave DeCamp (2022-03-10). The US Is Still Not Trying Diplomacy With Putin to Stop Fighting in Ukraine. news.antiwar.com As Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its third week, there is still no sign that the Biden administration is attempting high-level diplomacy with Moscow as a way to possibly end the fighting. | The Washington Post It's clear at this point that the Western sanctions were factored into Russian President Vladimir Pu…

WSWS (2022-03-10). Democrats, Republicans, Biden agree on staggering increase in military budget. wsws.org The Pentagon will receive nearly $800 billion, with the prospect of even greater increases as the US and NATO step up their intervention in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Sameena Rahman (2022-03-10). Embargo on Russian oil gives gift to energy corporations, deals blow to hopes for peace. liberationnews.org This move from the U.S. government fuels the flames of global tensions to the benefit of giant energy and military corporations, making the prospect of lasting peace in Ukraine even more remote.

WSWS (2022-03-10). China offers to mediate talks between Russia and the Ukraine. wsws.org Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's comments come amid mounting pressure from the US and its allies demanding that Beijing condemn the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and impose sanctions on Moscow.

Editor2 (2022-03-10). By Trying to Sanction the Whole World, Washington Backs Itself into a Corner. orinocotribune.com By Ernesto Cazal — Mar 7, 2022 | In a short amount of time, a series of events took place, centered around Venezuela, which from a political point of view have the elements of a melodrama with a hint of comedy. It all began when a plane left Washington, passing through Miami and ended its journey at the international airport of Maiquetía (La Guaira), where a delegation of US officials was reportedly received by the Venezuelan government. | The visit, unprecedented within the context of hostilities and diplomatic disagreements, was a sort of "effort" on the part of the US to breakdown the Russian—Venezu…

WSWS (2022-03-10). Pseudo-left International Marxist Tendency provides cover for imperialist powers in conflict with Russia. wsws.org The IMT's role amid the current war drive is to repackage with "Marxist" phraseology the propaganda of the US State Department and other NATO countries that they have no intention of militarily intervening against Russia.

WSWS (2022-03-10). The US-Ukrainian Strategic Partnership of November 2021 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. wsws.org A principled, left-wing opposition to the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine requires uncompromising opposition to US/NATO. Absent that, claims of being "anti-war" are hypocritical and deceitful.

ecns.cn (2022-03-10). US's practice of disseminating disinformation about China on the Ukraine issue is despicable and malicious. ecns.cn Lately, the US has been disseminating disinformation about China on the Ukraine issue, with the attempt to shift blame, stoke confrontation and profit from the issue. The practice is despicable and malicious.

Max Blumenthal (2022-03-10). VIDEO: Congress screws American workers to escalate war on Russia. thegrayzone.com As gas prices and inflation surge, Max Blumenthal questions members of Congress on the economic toll American workers face from escalating sanctions on Russia, and on their support for escalating the war in Ukraine.

Max Blumenthal (2022-03-10). Why Rep. Thomas Massie stood against "stand with Ukraine" resolution. thegrayzone.com Max Blumenthal asks libertarian Rep. Thomas Massie why he joined only two other members of Congress in voting against a resolution declaring that "the United States stands fervently with the Ukrainian people," and urging open-ended military aid to Kiev in its fight against Russia.

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-03-10). How Ukraine's Jewish President Zelensky Made Peace with neo-Nazi Paramilitaries on Front Lines of war with Russia. orinocotribune.com By Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal — March 4, 2022 | While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky's Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters. | Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the "gray zone" of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed,

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-10). Diplomatic, Legal Gains of Saharawis Amid Moroccan Arrogance. libya360.wordpress.com Hana Saada Despite a cease-fire in 1991 that put an end to the armed combat and the UN efforts toward self-determination, Western Sahara remains a disputed territory. The Saharawi people continue their honorable struggle for independence and continue to garner additional support for their just cause, as they celebrated, a couple of weeks ago, the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-10). The AFL-CIO's Nazi Friendly Union in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Giorgio Manfredi The AFL-CIO recently hosted a fundraiser by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) which aimed to support labor organizations in Ukraine assisting families suffering through the current crisis. One of the labor organizations is the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) which is a partner of the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center. A…

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