2023-03-08: News Headlines

Bay Area for Palestine (2023-03-08). Friday 3/10: Hands Off Hawara | Hands Off Palestine. indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery Street | San Francisco…

Ian Hoppes (2023-03-08). Just miles from East Palestine, Shell Oil poisons Pennsylvania town. liberationnews.org Beaver, Pennsylvania, 30 minutes from East Palestine, Ohio, sees billows of smoke and flame coming from Shell-owned plant.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-08). Daily Round Up — Protests continue in France over pension reforms & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we look at protests continuing in France over pension reforms, Israeli airstrikes hit quake-hit Syria, 23 Cop City protesters charged with domestic terrorism in the US and Palestinian prisoners complete 20 days of civil disobedience.

Staff (2023-03-08). Boycott Tour demands an end to Toulouse-Tel Aviv "twinning" relationship. samidoun.net On Saturday, 4 March, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra — a member of the Samidoun Network — organized a Boycott Tour in the city center of Toulouse, France, bringing together several dozen people to raise awareness in Toulouse about the campaign to bring an end to the "twinning" or "sister city" relationship with apartheid Tel Aviv. …

Staff (2023-03-08). Khader Adnan enters 32nd day of hunger strike for freedom. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan enters the 32nd day of his hunger strike for freedom on 8 March 2023. Adnan, 44, is married to Randa and the father of nine children, the youngest of which is one and a half years old and the oldest 14 years old. He is a former long-term hunger striker who …




Staff (2023-03-08). Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners — Profiles of Juma'a Adam, Raed al-Sa'adi, Ibrahim and Mohammed Ighbariya. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is providing the materials for the third week of the educational campaign, Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners. Read the previous two sets of materials: Week 3: Mohammed Adel Daoud, Mahmoud Abu Kharabish and Bashir Abdullah al-Khatib Week 2: Ibrahim Bayadseh, Ahmad Abu Jaber, Samir Abu Nima Week 1: Mohammed Al-Tus, …

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-03-08). Fuerzas israelíes asesinan a seis palestinos en Jenín, Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Las autoridades sanitarias señalaron que dos de los heridos están en estado crítico tras recibir impactos de proyectiles.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-03-08). Monday 3/13: From Hunters Point To E. Palestine Prosecute & Jail Tetra Tech & Norfolk Southern CEOs. indybay.org San Francisco Federal Building | 450 Golden Gate | San Francisco, CA…

WSWS (2023-03-08). Norfolk Southern offers pittance to cover East Palestine, Ohio residents' hotel costs after derailment. wsws.org The move is a fig leaf which will do nothing to alleviate the long-term effects of the disaster on residents, the health effects of which will linger for years.

WSWS (2023-03-08). Two Norfolk Southern rail accidents in four days in Ohio show nothing has been done after East Palestine disaster. wsws.org According to press reports, 46 year-old Louis Shuster was positioned outside of the locomotive when it collided with dump truck at crossing at a Cleveland steel mill.




Ali Abunimah (2023-03-07). Settlers celebrate Purim with more attacks on Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Watch: Israeli apartheid is "violence against every Palestinian man, woman and child everywhere all the time," EI's Ali Abunimah tells BreakThrough News.

Global Research News (2023-03-07). Selected Articles: East Palestine's "Containment Dam" Overflows. globalresearch.ca By The makeshift dam designed to prevent toxic water contamination in East Palestine, Ohio following the toxic train derailment, has failed and overflowed. Mainstream media reports that "heavy rain" …

Malik Miah (2023-03-07). United States: Behind the derailment in Ohio — anti-worker deregulation, corporate greed. greenleft.org.au The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, highlighted safety regulation failures, indifference and anti-union bias, writes Malik Miah.

Michael F. Brown (2023-03-07). Will segregationist Bezalel Smotrich be welcomed to Washington? electronicintifada.net Israeli finance minister to be in US just days after he said Palestinian village should be "wiped out."

OtherWords (2023-03-07). Before RR Co. Norfolk Southern Poisoned Palestine, Oh., It Poisoned the Ohio Statehouse. juancole.com The company plied state lawmakers with cash and lobbied against common sense rail safety measures. By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org — "The Wreck of the Old 97" is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the company's demand that the engineer speed down a dangerous track to …

Ali Abunimah (2023-03-07). Settlers celebrate Purim with more attacks on Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Watch: Israeli apartheid is "violence against every Palestinian man, woman and child everywhere all the time," EI's Ali Abunimah tells BreakThrough News.

Global Research News (2023-03-07). Selected Articles: East Palestine's "Containment Dam" Overflows. globalresearch.ca By The makeshift dam designed to prevent toxic water contamination in East Palestine, Ohio following the toxic train derailment, has failed and overflowed. Mainstream media reports that "heavy rain" …

Malik Miah (2023-03-07). United States: Behind the derailment in Ohio — anti-worker deregulation, corporate greed. greenleft.org.au The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, highlighted safety regulation failures, indifference and anti-union bias, writes Malik Miah.

Michael F. Brown (2023-03-07). Will segregationist Bezalel Smotrich be welcomed to Washington? electronicintifada.net Israeli finance minister to be in US just days after he said Palestinian village should be "wiped out."

OtherWords (2023-03-07). Before RR Co. Norfolk Southern Poisoned Palestine, Oh., It Poisoned the Ohio Statehouse. juancole.com The company plied state lawmakers with cash and lobbied against common sense rail safety measures. By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org — "The Wreck of the Old 97" is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the company's demand that the engineer speed down a dangerous track to …

Ryan Cristián (2023-03-07). TN "Anti-Trans Bill", Independent E. Palestine Testing Contradicts EPA & The Lab "Leak" Last Resort. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (3/7/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Tamara Nassar (2023-03-07). Israel advances Palestinians-only death penalty bill. electronicintifada.net Occupation forces loot homes, bank accounts of detainees and their families.

_____ (2023-03-08). Israel: A Fractured Civil Society. journal-neo.org The current situation in Israel is so complex and tense that the local media is increasingly focusing on whether and when a civil war is about to start. Even the mere mention of such a turn of events would have been dismissed in the blink of an eye not long ago. But, as the sages …

Juan Cole (2023-03-08). South African downgrades Israeli Embassy over Ongoing Apartheid (and they should know). juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Middle East Eye reports that the South African parliament has voted to downgrade the Israeli embassy in Pretoria to liaison status. The resolution was introduced by the tiny center-left National Freedom Party, which has only two seats in parliament. Its passage was assured, however, when the African National Congress …

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-03-08). Siria condena el ataque de Israel contra el aeropuerto de Alepo. telesurtv.net El ente llamó la atención sobre la gravedad del hecho, que puso fuera de servicio a la instalación.

Juan Cole (2023-03-08). South Africa downgrades Israeli Embassy over Ongoing Apartheid (and they should know). juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Middle East Eye reports that the South African parliament has voted to downgrade the Israeli embassy in Pretoria to liaison status. The resolution was introduced by the tiny center-left National Freedom Party, which has only two seats in parliament. Its passage was assured, however, when the African National Congress …

_____ (2023-03-07). The US Trying to 'Get' Israel against Russia is a Tricky Call. journal-neo.org In a bid to expand the global alliance against Russia to defeat the latter in Ukraine and eventually bring a regime change in Moscow, the US is proactively seeking to enlist Israel's support. Apparently, Washington has met some recent — although fragile — success. On February 23, the UN General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-07). Israeli Airstrike Hits Syria's Aleppo Airport. news.antiwar.com An Israeli airstrike hit Syria's Aleppo International Airport early Tuesday, damaging the runway and putting the airport out of service, Syria's news agency SANA reported. "At 2: 07 a.m., the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the sea towards the international airport in Aleppo, which caused material damage to it, and as a result …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-07). Syria Says Israeli Airstrike Halts Earthquake Aid Flights Into Aleppo. news.antiwar.com An Israeli airstrike that hit the Aleppo International Airport in Syria has halted aid flights into the city that are needed for earthquake relief, a Syrian official told AFP. The strike hit the airport early in the morning on Tuesday, about one month after an earthquake devastated Aleppo, a city that has already been struggling …

Editor (2023-03-07). How Israeli Cyber Weapons Are Taking Over Latin America. scheerpost.com By Jessica Buxbaum / MintPress News In January, Salvadoran newspaper El Faro revealed that the country's police have purchased three Israeli surveillance tools. Through the approximately $2.2 million contract, El Salavador's police acquired the Wave Guard Tracer, from Wave Guard Technologies, designed to trace calls, text, and data, the GEOLOC system sold by an unknown Israeli firm, …

Marc Steiner (2023-03-07). Ken Roth: My criticisms of Israel almost cost me a Harvard fellowship. therealnews.com

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-03-07). Israel kills six in Jenin raid. electronicintifada.net Occupation forces use pressure cooker procedure, a form of extrajudicial execution.

People's Dispatch. (2023-03-07). Israeli Airstrikes Target Airport, Make Aid Delivery To Syria More Difficult. popularresistance.org Early in the morning of Tuesday, March 7, an Israeli airstrike damaged parts of Aleppo international airport in Syria. This will affect aid delivery to one of Syria's provinces worst-affected by last month's earthquake. | The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) quoted an unnamed Syrian military source, according to whom, at around 2 am on Tuesday, "the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial act of aggression from the direction of the Mediterranean, west of Latakia, targeting Aleppo International Airport, which led to material damage at the airport as it went out of service."

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-07). Israeli airstrikes target Aleppo airport, making aid delivery in Syria more difficult. peoplesdispatch.org The airstrike is expected to affect aid delivery to areas affected by the devastating earthquake on February 6, in which 6,000 were killed in Syria and thousands more injured and displaced…

TALA (2023-03-07). Israel's new far-right government: Analysis. bdsmovement.net

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-03-07). Israel ataca con misiles al aeropuerto sirio de Alepo. telesurtv.net El ataque de las fuerzas sionistas se llevó a cabo a las 02: 07 (hora local) desde la dirección del mar Mediterráneo.

Yves Engler (2023-03-08). Curious Case of "Mandela's Lawyer" Illustrates Media Bias. dissidentvoice.org The story is not about Irwin Cotler lying. It's about the media embracing a biographical detail because they support the US empire and Zionism. Seven years ago, the South African ambassador to Venezuela Pandit Thaninga Shope-Linney stated plainly that "Irwin Cotler was not Nelson Mandela's lawyer." Three years later Max Blumenthal pointed out that "in …

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2023-03-07: News Headlines

Bay Area for Palestine (2023-03-07). Friday 3/10: Hands Off Hawara | Hands Off Palestine. indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery Street | San Francisco…

Malik Miah (2023-03-07). United States: Behind the derailment in Ohio — anti-worker deregulation, corporate greed. greenleft.org.au The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, highlighted safety regulation failures, indifference and anti-union bias, writes Malik Miah.

Michael F. Brown (2023-03-07). Will segregationist Bezalel Smotrich be welcomed to Washington? electronicintifada.net Israeli finance minister to be in US just days after he said Palestinian village should be "wiped out."

OtherWords (2023-03-07). Before RR Co. Norfolk Southern Poisoned Palestine, Oh., It Poisoned the Ohio Statehouse. juancole.com The company plied state lawmakers with cash and lobbied against common sense rail safety measures. By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org — "The Wreck of the Old 97" is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the company's demand that the engineer speed down a dangerous track to …

Editor (2023-03-06). Rail lobbyists pay Politico to tout train safety. mronline.org The Beltway newsletter is running ads about the railroad industry's alleged commitment to safety as rail lobbyists fight new safety rules.

Candice Bernd (2023-03-06). Fascists Are Trying to Co-Opt Mutual Aid Organizing in East Palestine, Ohio. truthout.org After canvassing, phone-banking and holding public meetings, Columbiana County, Ohio, organizers with River Valley Organizing (RVO) released a set of demands from residents of East Palestine and surrounding areas in the wake of Norfolk Southern's train derailment disaster that led to a controlled burn of toxic chemicals and mandatory evacuations of residents within one mile of the crash site last… |

Combined Sources (2023-03-06). Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's self-described 'fascist homophobe' finance minister, to visit U.S. peoplesworld.org Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu grudgingly conceded Friday that a Cabinet ally's demand for a Palestinian village to be "wiped out" was "inappropriate." Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said last Wednesday the town of Hawara should be "erased" and that "the State of Israel should do it." His remark sparked an international uproar, with Israel's key …

Jake Johnson (2023-03-06). Jewish New Yorkers Rally at Schumer's Home to End US Military Funding to Israel. truthout.org Hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers rallied and marched on the home of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday to protest his embrace of far-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid growing violence against Palestinians — violence that demonstrators said is enabled by the U.S. government's unwavering military and diplomatic support. "As Jews who support freedom and dignity for all… |

James North, Mondoweiss. (2023-03-06). 'NY Times' Buries Israeli Military Complicity In West Bank Pogrom. popularresistance.org Yesterday's New York Times report on the rising violence in occupied West Bank Palestine is an insult to our intelligence. The paper could not ignore the latest Israeli settler/colonist pogrom against Palestinians, but reporters Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner used time-honored techniques to downplay its seriousness and the responsibility for it. | The article's most dishonest feature was that it buried the most alarming news — Israeli government military complicity in the ferocious attacks — down in paragraph 26. Here's the relevant section: | Asked why the Israeli Army did not prevent the settl…

Mac Slavo (2023-03-06). East Palestine's "Containment Dam" Overflows. globalresearch.ca

Mark Gruenberg (2023-03-06). Ohio rail cleanup workers fall ill as yet another train derails. peoplesworld.org EAST PALESTINE, Ohio—The unionized workers cleaning up the mess from chemicals released by Norfolk Southern's giant freight train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3 are getting sick. But when they complained about nausea, migraine headaches, and lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) to their immediate bosses at the wreck site, they got the …

Meredith Aby-Keirstead, Fight Back News!. (2023-03-06). Palestine Solidarity Movement Speaks Out At Board Of Investment Meeting. popularresistance.org St. Paul, Minnesota – On March 2, the Minnesota State Board of Investment (SBI) which includes Governor Walz, Attorney General Ellison, State Auditor Blaha and Secretary of State Simon, met for the first time this year at the state capitol. They meet quarterly to monitor the investments of Minnesota public employees. At the meeting members of the Palestine solidarity movement spoke out. | One of the speakers was Brandon Schorsch, an anti-Zionist Jew and activist with the Anti-War Committee, who stated, "So today, building on our testimony from last August, we bring a list of well over a dozen companies that the S…

Otis Grotewohl, Workers World. (2023-03-06). The Role Of Big Investors In East Palestine And Ukraine. popularresistance.org U.S. President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kiev Feb. 20 and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The trip was purposefully made to focus attention on the one-year anniversary of the U.S.- and NATO-led proxy war against Russia, and Biden promised large amounts of military aid to Zelensky's regime in Kiev. | Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, had become the lead news story. Because the Biden administration had done little to focus on Ohio, the Ukraine trip caused unexpected political problems at home.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-06). Palestinian prisoners complete 20 days of civil disobedience against Israeli jail authorities. peoplesdispatch.org The prisoners' agitation started in response to recent punitive measures introduced by the extremist government in Israel, and is expected to escalate in the coming days into a mass indefinite hunger strike…

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-06). Warren Urges Regulators to Stop Railroad Merger in Wake of East Palestine Crash. truthout.org As scrutiny of the railroad industry increases in the wake of a disastrous crash in Ohio last month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) is advocating against a proposed merger between two large rail companies that she says would only compound problems within the industry. In a letter sent to the Surface Transportation Board (STB), an agency charged with regulating the rail industry and… |

Staff (2023-03-06). Revolutionary intellectual and freedom fighter: The living legacy of Basil al-Araj. samidoun.net On the sixth anniversary of the martyrdom of Basil Al-Araj, Palestinian revolutionary intellectual, youth leader and freedom fighter who resisted the occupation until the last moment, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes his living legacy of struggle and resistance that continues to blossom everywhere Palestinians, Arabs and internationals mobilize to seek liberation. He exemplified the …

teleSUR, JDO (2023-03-06). Presos palestinos en Israel rechazan medidas de castigo. telesurtv.net Por vigésimo día incurren en actos de desobediencia civil para derrotar medidas punitivas impuestas por el Servicio Penitenciario.

WSWS (2023-03-06). Huwara offensive against Palestinians fuels anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel. wsws.org It is impossible for Israeli workers to halt the government's plans for a dictatorship or to prevent all-out war with the Palestinians without rejecting nationalism and allying themselves directly with the Palestinians…

WSWS (2023-03-06). "It's going to keep happening all over America": East Palestine, Ohio residents speak out at town hall on train derailment. wsws.org Last Saturday, another massive Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio, showing the government is allowing the railroads to carry on as before.

_____ (2023-03-07). The US Trying to 'Get' Israel against Russia is a Tricky Call. journal-neo.org In a bid to expand the global alliance against Russia to defeat the latter in Ukraine and eventually bring a regime change in Moscow, the US is proactively seeking to enlist Israel's support. Apparently, Washington has met some recent — although fragile — success. On February 23, the UN General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution …

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-07). Israeli Airstrike Hits Syria's Aleppo Airport. news.antiwar.com An Israeli airstrike hit Syria's Aleppo International Airport early Tuesday, damaging the runway and putting the airport out of service, Syria's news agency SANA reported. "At 2: 07 a.m., the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the sea towards the international airport in Aleppo, which caused material damage to it, and as a result …

Editor (2023-03-07). How Israeli Cyber Weapons Are Taking Over Latin America. scheerpost.com By Jessica Buxbaum / MintPress News In January, Salvadoran newspaper El Faro revealed that the country's police have purchased three Israeli surveillance tools. Through the approximately $2.2 million contract, El Salavador's police acquired the Wave Guard Tracer, from Wave Guard Technologies, designed to trace calls, text, and data, the GEOLOC system sold by an unknown Israeli firm, …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-07). Israeli airstrikes target Aleppo airport, making aid delivery in Syria more difficult. peoplesdispatch.org The airstrike is expected to affect aid delivery to areas affected by the devastating earthquake on February 6, in which 6,000 were killed in Syria and thousands more injured and displaced…

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-03-07). Israel ataca con misiles al aeropuerto sirio de Alepo. telesurtv.net El ataque de las fuerzas sionistas se llevó a cabo a las 02: 07 (hora local) desde la dirección del mar Mediterráneo.

_____ (2023-03-06). The fabled Abraham Accords and their significance. journal-neo.org The so-called Abraham Accords are a series of agreements between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco that have been closely mediated and supervised by the US. The Israelis claim that relations with Sudan, which Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen recently visited, will be normalized later this year. Under former US President Donald Trump, the two …

Juan Cole (2023-03-06). 37 Israeli 'Top Guns' Boycott Training to Protest Gutting of Courts; Most El Al Pilots decline to fly PM to Italy. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli Air Force, like its other armed forces, heavily depends on reservists. That was why Egypt was able to surprise Israel in the 1973 War, which they launched on the holy day of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when reservists were with their families. The reservists are required …

Jurgen Huebschen & Bernhard Trautvetter (2023-03-06). China's peace plan & It's about everything. indybay.org In times of crisis, right-wing populists, with the benevolent support of influential media, play the national card and pit disadvantaged groups of people against each other. Scapegoats, like Jews in the past and refugees today, are made responsible for the collapse of the welfare state and security.

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