Ukraine News Links 1-2 March 2023

Thursday, 2 March 2023 — The New Dark Age

Caitlin Johnstone: Media Muzzling Anti-War Protests
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/02/caitlin-johnstone-media-muzzling-anti-war-protests/

The US diplomatic efforts to curtail Turkish independence continue
https://journal-neo.org/2023/03/02/the-us-diplomatic-efforts-to-curtail-turkish-independence-continue/

WATCH: The Vietnam Peace Movement & Ukraine Today
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/01/watch-the-vietnam-peace-movement-ukraine-today/

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Attacks on asylum housing: from Ireland to Knowsley

Thursday, 2 March 2023 — Institute of Race Relations

Since our last newsletter in which we reported on the eruption of violence in Knowsley, Merseyside, we have seen the spreading of a relentless campaign targeting hotels accommodating asylum seekers across England, with protests in Rotherham, Skegness, Newquay, Long Eaton and Dunstable in the past weeks.

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Those Who Die for Life – like Hugo Chávez – Cannot Be Called Dead: The Ninth Newsletter (2023)

Thursday, 2 March 2023 — The Tricontinental

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Dear friends,

Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

On 28 October 2005, a special event was held in Caracas at the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. At this gathering, held on the birthday of Simón Rodríguez (Simón Bolívar’s teacher), the Venezuelan government announced that nearly 1.5 million adults had learned to read through Mission Robinson, a mass literacy programme that it initiated two years earlier. The mission was named after Rodríguez (who was also known by the pseudonym Samuel Robinson).

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