Daily Archives: March 21, 2022

2022-03-21: News Headlines

Antonio C.S. Rosa (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.

Vidhi Bubna (2022-03-20). Talking to Gab Mejia — recognized under the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2021. moderndiplomacy.eu Gab Mejia was recognised for his work in arts in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list 2021. His work in photography is award-winning. He is also the recipient of the National Geographic grant, where he works to highlight Asia's forgotten wetland jewel — the Agusan Marshlands, in the Philippines. Tell us more about how …

Juan Cole (2022-03-20). Happiness Apartheid: UN Ranks Israel 9th for Happiness, Occupied Palestinian Territories 122nd. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The UN World Happiness Report for 2021 ranks Israel as the 9th happiest country in the world, but lists the Palestinian territories as the 122nd. Yet, both societies are ruled by the same government, the government of Israel. The annual report is brought out by the United Nations Sustainable Development …

Anonymous669 (2022-03-20). ISIS Cells Attacked Strategic Highway In Western Iraq Once Again (Photos). southfront.org File image. | On March 19, ISIS's news agency, Amaq, released photos documenting a recent attack by the terrorist group's cells in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar. | The attack targeted engineering equipment of the Iraqi military which were deployed near the town of Rutba. The town is located near a strategic highway that links the country's capital, Baghdad, with both Jordanian capital, Amman, and the Syrian capital, Damascus. | During the attack, ISIS terrorists destroyed three excavators and damaged a truck…

Felicity Arbuthnot (2022-03-20). The Nightmare: The Iraq Invasion's Atrocities, Unearthing the Unthinkable. globalresearch.ca They promised that the invasion of Iraq would be without a bloodbath…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-20). US Never Ending Wars: Thirty-one Years Ago, America's "First War" against Iraq. globalresearch.ca The War on Iraq was launched 19 years ago on March 20, 2003. (Baghdad time) | The US-NATO led invasion of Iraq started on 20 March 2003 on the pretext that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). | The 1991 Gulf …

Staff (2022-03-20). Kuwait calls for expulsion of Israel from IPU (+VIDEO). en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 20 (MNA) — Condemning the international community for exercising double standards vis-à -vis the world's ongoing conflicts, Kuwait called for the expulsion of the Israeli delegation from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

scorinoco (2022-03-20). Financial Sanctions vs the US Dollar. orinocotribune.com By Radhika Desai — Mar 15, 2022 | Not only are US and EU sanctions illegal under the UN charter, the US freezing of Russia's reserves is simply theft. It smacks not of independence either of institutions or the legal system, but of their profound politicization, nay criminalization, in US interests. | Things are really bad when employing the only means left to stave off disaster brings it closer. That is the story of the most powerful of the numerous sanctions the US has used, and convinced EU countries to use, against Russia in the war the West is waging against it over Ukraine, the freezing of its central…

Middle East Monitor (2022-03-20). Palestine tops Chilean president's Agenda in first Statements after taking Office. juancole.com By Eman Abusidu | — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Last Friday, thirty-six-year-old Gabriel Boric, the youngest Chilean president ever to have been elected, officially became the president of Chile after winning Chile's presidential elections last December. His victory represents a major revival for Chile's progressive left and a new era for Chile and …

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