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US Military Prepared to Send Navy Ships to Fight Wave of Migrants
The United States military is prepared to send Navy vessels to counter an anticipated mass migration of Haitians into Florida. Officials testified Tuesday in front of the House Armed Services Committee regarding Department of Defense (DOD) activities in the Western Hemisphere and continued challenges to security, including the ongoing conflict in Haiti.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-prepared-send-navy-ships-fight-wave-migrants-1878860
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Tennessee House advances bill requiring local officers to aid US immigration authorities
The Republican-led Tennessee House advanced a proposal Thursday that would require law enforcement agencies in the state to communicate with federal immigration authorities if they discover people are in the the country illegally, and would broadly mandate cooperation in the process of identifying, catching, detaining and deporting them.
https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-immigration-enforcement-bill-police-029d3aab2c2a65788584fd626ca19b31

California sheriff releases video showing killing of boy, 15, holding garden tool
The first 15-second video released showed one deputy arriving at the home in Apple Valley, east of Los Angeles, to find an open front door. A man inside could be heard saying, “He’s got a stick in his hand,” and soon after, Ryan appeared holding the gardening tool, identified as a 5ft hula hoe. The deputy at the door shouted: “Get back … you’re going to get shot.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/13/california-sheriff-bodycam-footage-police-killing-ryan-gainer

As World Saw Hottest Year on Record, Corporate News Cut Coverage
Last year featured not only what scientists worldwide confirmed was the hottest year in human history but also a 25% drop in corporate broadcast networks' coverage of the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency, according to an analysis released Thursday.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-journalism

Mississippi police officer accused of forcing prisoner to drink his own urine
In court filings, first reported by the Daily Beast, prosecutors for the US district court for the southern district of Mississippi allege that the patrolman, Michael Christian Green, ordered a prisoner to lick up his own urine after the prisoner urinated in the corner of his holding cell.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/mississippi-officer-prisoner-urine

Inside the UAW’s Southern Strategy
The UAW has pledged to spend US$40 million through 2026 to expand its ranks to include more auto and electric battery workers, including many employed in the South, where the industry is quickly gaining ground. Based on my five decades of experience as a union organizer and labor historian, I anticipate that, recent momentum aside, the UAW will face stiff resistance from Toyota, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and the other big foreign automakers that operate in the South. The pushback is also coming from Southern politicians, many of whom have expressed concern that UAW success would undermine the region’s carefully crafted approach to economic development.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/12/inside-the-uaws-southern-strategy/

War on Gaza: All signs point to a strategic defeat for Israel
For 75 years, the western world was indifferent. But this war is forcing Israel’s western backers to see the full horrors of the crimes being committed in a campaign they described five months ago as just. Even a progressive critic of Israel like US Senator Bernie Sanders said five months ago that the war against Hamas was just. The degree of brutality and glee shown by Israeli soldiers as they go on their daily killing sprees; starving Gaza, and then dropping leaflets in Arabic telling Palestinians to feed the needy; killing 400 people waiting for aid, and then vowing to flood Gaza with aid; all of this is too much to sweep under the carpet when this war stops. A rubicon has been crossed. With this war, Israel has entered the elite rank of pariah states. It is now the ugliest of the ugly. It’s impossible to forgive. It cannot be justified, nor can it be put into context. Liberal Zionism has become a contradiction in terms. It’s too much of a stretch. Acting like this, Israel has become not the home of a beleaguered people persecuted around the world for millennia, but the Fort Knox of Jewish supremacism, the natural heir to white supremacists. This is having a transformational effect on Jewish people worldwide, in whose name and common past these crimes are being committed.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-all-signs-point-strategic-defeat

CP of Kenya, Beyond Tribal Narratives: The Kenyan National Question through a Proletarian Lens
Is there a contradiction between a Kikuyu and a Luo working together in the same small manufacturing plant in an industrial area? Or between a Kikuyu and a Luo living in Mathare and Kibera? Both individuals are exploited by capital during the day, while the owner of the plant appropriates all the surplus value generated by their hard work. In the evening, they return to the slums they call home and share a roof over their heads. When the month ends, the landlord comes knocking at their doors to collect rent. Is there a contradiction between a fisherman from Lake Victoria and a farmer growing potatoes in Shamata, Nyahururu? These people meet daily at Gikomba and Muthurwa to exchange their products. Is there a contradiction between a wealthy Kikuyu and a wealthy Luo in the upscale suburbs of Runda, Karen, or Lavington? Do they not meet each evening in posh eateries in Kitisuru and Muthaiga to enjoy roast meat and expensive whiskey, and partake in leisure activities on their golf courses and country clubs? The answer is evident. Why, then, are we told by our so-called leaders that the tribal unity of Kikuyu and Luo is paramount and that the handshake between a few billionaires from Kikuyus and Luos will lead to a cohesive and prosperous nation? How will the unity of the Odinga family and the Mount Kenya business community benefit the working class, peasants, and the marginalized sectors of society, such as the lumpen who live in deplorable conditions with no human dignity? These are the questions that have been overlooked. Abstractly, the national question has been stripped of its revolutionary essence, namely the class struggle. The national question, as presented by both the Azimio and Kenya Kwanza coalitions, lacks class struggle.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Kenya-Beyond-Tribal-Narratives-The-Kenyan-National-Question-through-a-Proletarian-Lens/

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