News 3/15

Christchurch attack: suspect had white-supremacist symbols on weapons
The suspected perpetrator of a massacre at two mosques in New Zealand displayed white supremacist symbols during the deadly assault that killed 49 people and triggered heightened security at mosques around the world.
theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/christchurch-shooting-new-zealand-suspect-white-supremacist-symbols-weapons

Fury as Australian senator blames Christchurch attack on Muslim immigration
An Australian senator has been strongly criticised after he blamed the New Zealand shooting on Muslim immigration.Following the attack, which left 49 people dead at two mosques in Christchurch, Fraser Anning tweeted: “Does anyone still dispute the link between Muslim immigration and violence?”
theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/australian-senator-fraser-anning-criticised-blaming-new-zealand-attack-on-muslim-immigration

Israel responded forcefully to rockets launched from Gaza
Fighting between Israel and Gaza may be winding down after a furious few hours that threatened to plunge the region into further chaos.On Thursday, two long-range rockets fired from Gaza streaked toward Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s largest cities. The Israeli military said that they were likely accidental launches during maintenance work.
vox.com/2019/3/15/18267026/israel-gaza-airstrike-hamas-tel-aviv

São Paulo teachers’ union shuts down one-month strike
Last Friday, March 8, 30,000 São Paulo teachers gathered in front of the City Hall saw the union’s president, Claudio Fonseca, shut down their strike even after most of the teachers there had voted to continue the action.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/15/saop-m15.html

'Change your course!': Pompeo threatens ICC over US war crimes probe
In an effort to threaten everyone into not investigating US or Israeli war crimes in the International Criminal Court, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says anyone involved in such probes will lose their visa and may be sanctioned.
rt.com/news/453951-pompeo-icc-visa-revoke/

N. Korea Considering Whether To Resume Nuclear, Missile Tests Amid Impasse With U.S.
North Korea is considering breaking off negotiations with the U.S. and resuming nuclear and missile tests, following last month's summit in Vietnam that ended early and without an agreement, a government official said.
npr.org/2019/03/15/703715667/n-korea-considering-whether-to-resume-nuclear-missile-tests-amid-impasse-with-u-

U.S. SENDS NUCLEAR BOMBERS AND SHIPS WHERE CHINA CLAIMS TRILLIONS IN OIL AND GAS RESERVES
The U.S. military has sent a nuclear-capable mainstay of its aerial might over the disputed South China Sea, where China has laid claim to trillions of dollars worth of oil and gas reserves.
newsweek.com/us-nuclear-bombers-south-china-sea-oil-gas-1363511
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Evo Morales Proposes International Forum of Leftist Leaders
At the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens, Greece, the Bolivian President Evo Morales proposed Friday a forum for cooperation to fight against the far-right advance, an international initiative which is expected to reunite the European and Latin American progressive heads of state.
telesurenglish.net/news/Evo-Morales-Proposes-International-Forum-of-Leftist-Leaders-20190315-0013.html

'Worse than Voldemort': Global students' strike targets climate change
Tens of thousands of school students around the world walked out of classes on Friday in a global strike to protest against government inaction on climate change.
reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-youth/worse-than-voldemort-global-students-strike-targets-climate-change-idUSKCN1QW01S

Nepalese Government banned the Communist Party of Nepal led by Biplav
Following a series of explosions that took place at Ncell towers and other public places across the country, the government has banned the Communist Party of Nepal led by Netra Bikram Chand.The Cabinet meeting held in Baluwatar late this evening decided to ban the Chand-led CPN and its ‘criminal’ activities, a senior minister told THT after the meeting.
www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/nepal/nepalese-government-banned-the-communist-party-of-nepal-led-by-biplav/
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Seriously Ill Federal Prisoners Freed As Compassionate Release Law Takes Effect
Last October, a federal prisoner named Richard Evans noticed a suspicious mass in his neck. He reported the condition to prison officials in Louisiana. Nothing happened.Evans, 74, is a former doctor who was convicted of conspiracy, fraud and distributing oxycodone and hydrocodone. He received a five-year sentence.
npr.org/2019/03/15/703784886/seriously-ill-federal-prisoners-freed-as-compassionate-release-law-takes-effect

FAA’s close ties to Boeing questioned after 2 deadly crashes
For more than six decades, the Federal Aviation Administration has relied on employees of airplane manufacturers to do government-required safety inspections as planes are being designed or assembled.But critics say the system, dubbed the “designee program,” is too cozy as company employees do work for an agency charged with keeping the skies safe while being paid by an industry that the FAA is regulating.
apnews.com/c6f08e5ff1264d909cd31914dc223f34

Workers and residents denounce GM Lordstown closure
Following the closure last week of the iconic General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, reporters for the World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter visited the area to speak to workers and their families. Autoworkers, teachers, high school students, parents and general laborers denounced the steel and auto corporations that have devastated the Mahoning Valley with mass layoffs over the past four decades.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/15/lord-m15.html

Wall Street is worried that Tesla's going broke yet again
Just over a month after Tesla CEO Elon Musk told investors that the company would be profitable going forward, its finances are once again the subject of Wall Street's most intense scrutiny. Tesla skeptics see blood in the water, while the company's supporters (still optimistic for the long term) have resigned themselves to yet another nail-biter of a year.
thisisinsider.com/teslas-financial-problems-return-2019-2019-3

U.S. manufacturing sector slowing as economy loses steam
U.S. manufacturing output fell for a second straight month in February and factory activity in New York state hit nearly a two-year low this month, offering further evidence of a sharp slowdown in economic growth early in the first quarter.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy/us-manufacturing-sector-slowing-as-economy-loses-steam-idUSKCN1QW1UL

A fifth of Americans say they have zero savings
About a fifth of Americans have no money tucked away for unexpected costs. About 21% of working Americans said they aren’t saving any money at all, Bankrate found in a survey. Among those who are saving, a majority are putting away less than 10% of their income.
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Of Course College Admissions Rigged for the Rich. The Whole Economic System Is
The children of working stiffs learned a brutal lesson this week as federal prosecutors criminally charged rich people with buying admission to elite universities for their less-than-stellar children.The lesson is that no matter how hard you work, no matter how smart or talented you are, a dumb, lazy rich kid is going to beat you.It’s crucial that everyone who is not a wealthy movie star, hedge fund executive, or corporate CEO—that is, 99 percent of all Americans—sees this college admissions scandal for what it really is: a microcosm of the larger, corrupt system that works against working people, squashing their chances for advancement.This system is the reason that rich people and corporations got massive tax breaks last year while the 99 percent got paltry ones. It is the reason the federal minimum wage and the overtime threshold are stuck at poverty levels. It is the reason labor unions have dwindled over the past four decades.
commondreams.org/views/2019/03/14/course-college-admissions-rigged-rich-whole-economic-system

In Salinas, Puerto Rico, Vulnerable Americans Are Still Trapped in the Ruins Left by Hurricane Maria
Nearly a year and a half after Hurricane Maria, about three-fourths of the houses in the Sierra Brava neighborhood of Salinas, Puerto Rico stand battered and empty.Some families left because their homes were rendered uninhabitable and they had no money to fix them. Others left because they lost their jobs. In responding to Maria, federal agencies had hired some local people, but just for a few months; meanwhile, many other jobs disappeared and have not come back.Sierra Brava lies low along the south side of PR Route 3 in the shadow of Salinas City Hall. Go for a walk through its now largely silent streets, and one residence in particular will catch your eye. On a corner along Calle Abraham Peña, the neighborhood’s four-block-long main avenue, stands a small grey house trimmed in bright blue and topped by a blue plastic tarp. It is in even worse shape than some of the abandoned houses. But Wilma Miranda Ramos still calls it home.
counterpunch.org/2019/03/15/in-salinas-puerto-rico-vulnerable-americans-are-still-trapped-in-the-ruins-left-by-hurricane-maria/

New York's Hudson Yards is an ultra-capitalist Forbidden City
We love it here because we love you here,” read the enormous ad covering the side of a red double-decker New York City tour bus, touting H&M’s new Hudson Yards location. The slogan is a lie. Hudson Yards does not love you. We do not love Hudson Yards. And we especially do not love it here, in a city that is desperately trying to maintain the illusion that we are all something more than props in a metropolis-sized variety show put on for the benefit of bored hedge fund employees.Hudson Yards, the biggest private real estate development in US history, may be slightly less offensive to the memory of Jane Jacobs than a freeway running through Greenwich Village, but not by much. As urban planning visions go, it is a familiar one: an ultracapitalist equivalent of the Forbidden City, a Chichen Itza with a better mall and slightly better-concealed human sacrifice. The development has been dubbed a “billionaire’s fantasy city”, but it is something more sinister than that. It is a billionaire’s reality city. The other 8.6 million of us are just character actors in this drama starring the most unbearable people you can imagine.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/13/new-york-hudson-yards-ultra-capitalist

With all the talk of Zig Forums getting FEDed or shutdown, IF that does happen i was hoping to ask anons what place is should be the back up place to post the news? As it stands now if it happens then i plan to start posting this on bunkerchan.

how bout you instead share your mighty ability of finding good news sources

prolly the leftypol subreddit

So most of the positions in Nepal are vacant now? The communists are literally the ruling party in Nepal

it already is

Capitalism is all about gaslighting your victims as the real abusers.

Nepal has like 15 communist parties.