Daily Archives: March 7, 2022

2022-03-07: News Headlines

Ann Brown (2022-03-07). Former Staffer: California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein Cares More About Her Dog Than Black People. moguldom.com Fired Senate staffer Jamarcus Purley is speaking out about his stint as a legislative correspondent for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and he doesn't have too many kind words for his former boss. Purley, a Black man with degrees from Harvard and Stanford universities who studied abroad at Oxford, claimed Feinstein cared more about her dogs than …

Eric A. Gordon (2022-03-07). Expressions of African-American music on CD—and all that jazz. peoplesworld.org Hallelujah to Bridge Records for its dedicated program of new (and older) releases featuring a wide variety of African-American music. We have three under review here. In December of 1940 the Library of Congress observed the 75th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution with a series of concerts by African-American …

Our Reporter (2022-03-07). MP Macho protests arrest of fishermen on lake Victoria. plusnews.ug Geoffrey Macho, the Busia Municipality Member of parliament has stormed Majanji police station protesting the arrest of three fishermen from Majanji Sub-county. The fishermen are Jovan Makokha, Kelvin Wanyama and Keffa Masiga Omuhenye, all residents of Majanji Sub-county. Macho asked the police to unconditionally release the suspects or else arraign them in court immediately. The …

_____ (2022-03-06). Putin, Lenin, Imperialism And The (Real) History Of Ukraine. popularresistance.org The people of this country suffer, I've always thought, from a general ignorance of history. This is because with vast oceans for borders, and ever-friendly neighbors, and no experience of being invaded, living in a country that has always urged assimilation including the acceptance of "American exceptionalism," schooled through an educational system that avoids teaching U.S. history with any degree of credibility so as not to upset anybody, they've never been encouraged to think critically about the past. To ask questions. To raise objections—not necessarily about what happened, but about how to interpret…

Staff (2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…

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