Daily Archives: March 17, 2022

2022-03-17: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-03-17). Climate scientist Michael Mills describes the devastation of a nuclear detonation. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site five years ago interviewed Michael Mills, an expert on the dangers of nuclear war. Today we are republishing that interview.

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2022-03-16). Climate research strike? Linking up environmental science with the 'science of society'. peoplesworld.org "Our obligation as scientists [is] to make sure we fight the good fight and ensure the fruits of science are not monopolized by the powerful and the elite." — Richard Levins Three scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are discouraged. New Zealanders Bruce C. Glavovic and Timothy F. Smith …

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-16). Harvard President on Ukraine, climate threat and diversity in education. imperial.ac.uk President Lawrence Bacow spoke at Imperial this week about the war in Ukraine, the global threat of climate change and widening participation.

William Rivers Pitt (2022-03-16). Manchin Just Delivered Another Blow on Climate. He's a Threat to Humanity. truthout.org Once again, the name Joe Manchin is on the lips of every person who gives a fig for salvaging the ongoing, deepening climate crisis. Once again, a senator with monstrous conflicts of interest regarding his own coal fortune has thrown soot and ash into the gears of progress. It seems entirely apparent that the man has no intention of letting any meaningful climate legislation see the light of day. It's time to make it clear that his blockading actions are, in many ways, equivalent to murder. We mus…

teleSUR, JCM (2022-03-16). Emiten alerta de tsunami para Japón tras terremoto en Fukushima. telesurtv.net El terremoto, cuya magnitud es de 7.3, en forma preliminar golpeó Fukushima y sacudió edificios en Tokio…

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…

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, …

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 …

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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