(2022-04-15). Ukraine war spirals out of control after US announces major arms shipment. wsws.org The day after the Biden administration announced a massive expansion of US arms shipments to Ukraine, the war took a dangerous new turn, threatening a direct military clash between NATO and Russia.
(2022-04-15). Ukraine war: while most Americans express outrage, Putin's spell continues to hang over Republicans. nationofchange.org How can we explain the autocrat's enduring spell over the Republicans? And how might it impact upon the midterm elections due to take place in a few months' time?>
(2022-04-15). Biden Approves Additional $800 Million in Military Aid for Ukraine, Includes Howitzers for the First Time. scheerpost.com 
Joe Biden speaks at the 2019 Iowa Federation of Labor Convention hosted by the AFL-CIO at the Prairie Meadows Hotel in Altoona, Iowa. (Gage Skidmore / Flickr) | By David DeCamp / On Wednesday, President Biden authorized
(2022-04-15). They saw and heard the truth — then lied about it: media on Donbass delegation omitted mention of Ukraine's 8 year war on the autonomous Republics. mronline.org 
In the last week of March, I stood on a central Donetsk main street next to two of the impact points of a Ukrainian missile attack that had killed 21 civilians and injured nearly 40 more on March 14.
(2022-04-15). Genocide and war propaganda. wsws.org Biden's charge of "genocide" in Ukraine is a political provocation consciously aimed at whipping up a public hysteria to legitimize a massive escalation of the war, including the full-scale, open participation by the United States.
(2022-04-15). Turmoil erupts in Pakistan as Prime Minister ousted. liberationnews.org 
Political upheaval is gripping Pakistan following the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was elected to office in 2018 and removed on April 10.
(2022-04-15). Latin America's Socialist Project is Inextricably Linked with Global Anti-Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Martinez — Apr 3, 2022 | Below is the video and text of a speech by Carlos Martinez, co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, introducing the recent event | On behalf of Friends of Socialist…
(2022-04-15). US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': fmr. NATO adviser. thegrayzone.com Former Swiss intelligence officer and NATO adviser Jacques Baud on the roots of the Ukraine-Russia war and its growing dangers. As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbor. Guest: Jacques Baud. Former intelligence officer with the Swiss Strategic Intelligence Service who has served in …
(2022-04-15). Washington Post calls for censoring Chinese media, praises purge of Russian outlets. mronline.org 
The Washington Post—owned by billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, who has CIA and Pentagon contracts—has called for censoring Chinese news outlets on social media, while praising Silicon Valley for purging Russian publications.
(2022-04-15). Sunday 4/24: Peoples Park 53rd Anniversary Concert! indybay.org 2556 Haste St | Berkeley CA, 94704 | (Center of the Park – At the Free Speech Stage)…
(2022-04-15). Scott Ritter: Twitter Wars—My Personal Experience in Twitter's Ongoing Assault on Free Speech. scheerpost.com 
(Cathy Vogan/Consortium News) | By Scott Ritter / Monday, April 4, 2022: It was, from my point of view, just another day in the life of @RealScottRitter—my Twitter "handle." I had a phone call scheduled with the editor of a publication I write for where we would discuss topics for a weekly column I was responsible for. I was also under deadline for another article I was writing for a second outlet that published my work, and was preparing a pit…
(2022-04-15). Wednesday 5/18: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. indybay.org Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.
(2022-04-15). We Do Not Want a Divided Planet; We Want a World Without Walls. popularresistance.org The surface of our skin beats with the fear that a new iron curtain will descend, that there is pressure to box in China and Russia, to divide the world into camps. But that is impossible, because — as noted in last week's newsletter — we live in a knot of contradictions and not in a clean cut world of certainties. Even close allies of the US, such as Australia, Germany, Japan, and India, cannot break their economic and political ties with Russia and China. Doing so would plunge them into a recession, bringing the kind of economic chaos that war and sanctions have already brought to Honduras, Pakistan…
(2022-04-15). Israeli Forces Attack Palestinian Worshippers In Al-Aqsa Mosque Raid. popularresistance.org Israeli forces have attacked Palestinian worshippers inside al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem during an early morning raid on Friday, wounding and arresting dozens of people. | Scores of worshippers were wounded as Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel bullets, teargas and stun grenades inside the courtyards and prayer halls of the mosque. | The Palestine Red Crescent said 152 people were evacuated from the mosque and transferred to nearby hospitals, including many with upper body wounds. Al-Makassed hospital in East Jerusalem said they had received 40 wounded people from Al-Aqsa, two of them with crit…
(2022-04-15). US-Backed Coup In Pakistan Overthrows PM Imran Khan Over His Independent Foreign Policy. popularresistance.org In this episode of the Multipolarista podcast, Benjamin Norton is joined by Pakistani scholar Junaid S. Ahmad to discuss how Pakistan's elected Prime Minister Imran Khan was overthrown in a US-backed coup aimed at reversing his independent foreign policy — like his close alliance with China, improved relations with Russia and Iran, and staunch support for Palestine.
(2022-04-15). How Movements Can Maintain Their Radical Vision While Winning Practical Reforms. popularresistance.org For movements in the U.S. and beyond wondering how they can engage with the system without being co-opted, the MST offers a powerful example. Many social movement scholars believe that movements can institutionalize their wins over the long-term by having the state and mainstream political parties adopt their demands and programs. However, these scholars also contend that such institutionalization comes at a price: too often, as movement programs are incorporated into mainstream structures, grassroots forces become demobilized, dull their radical edge and lose their ability to exercise disruptive power.
(2022-04-15). The Venezuela Coup, 20 Years Later. popularresistance.org Above Photo: Pedro Carmona swearing in as president following the April 2002 coup. The enduring legacy of Venezuela's short-lived 2002 coup d'etat, and the subsequent countercoup, for US-Latin American relations. On April 11, 2002, Venezuela's democratically elected government, headed by Hugo Chávez Frías, was ousted in a military coup d'etat. Then, dramatically, two days later, the …
(2022-04-15). Amazon Lashes Back In Staten Island Warehouses. popularresistance.org The company has billed itself as the everything store. Now Amazon is the throw-everything-at-them union-buster—trying every trick in the playbook to throttle worker organizing at its Staten Island warehouses in New York City. | The union vote at a second warehouse, a neighboring sorting center known as LDJ5, is set to start April 25, so the company has turned its focus there. | "All those union-busters that were there to union-bust 8,000 workers at JFK8 have walked across the street and are in our little building of 1,600 people," a visibly shaken Madeline Wesley, who works at LDJ5, told reporters at a pres…
(2022-04-15). Scientists Glue Hands to UK Business Dept. Demanding End to 'Fossil Fuel Madness'. popularresistance.org Over two dozen scientists on Wednesday glued scientific papers and their own hands to the windows of a U.K. government building in London to demand an end to fossil fuels. | The demonstration was part of a wave of Extinction Rebellion (XR) actions that launched last weekend and are scheduled through Sunday—a protest series that follows a worldwide mobilization of scientists last week, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest concerning report. | With his left hand glued to the U.K. Department for Business, Energy, & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), ecologist Aaron Thierry…
(2022-04-15). Putin's Scuttled Peace Initiative: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. popularresistance.org On his first foreign visit to Belarus on Tuesday since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin explained during a joint press conference with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that the time frame of the military offensive in Ukraine was determined by the intensity of hostilities and Russia would act according to its plan. | "I often get these questions, can't we hurry it up?' We can. But it depends on the intensity of hostilities and, any way you put it, the intensity of hostilities is directly related to casualties," said the Russian president. "Our task is to achi…
(2022-04-15). Mexicans mobilize in support of president AMLO's electricity reform. peoplesdispatch.org 
The electricity reform promoted by president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seeks to nationalize Mexico's energy industry by rolling back the process that opened it up to foreign and private investment in 2013…
(2022-04-15). Israeli jets violate Syrian airspace, bomb areas west of capital Damascus. peoplesdispatch.org Israel has carried out thousands of unprovoked attacks inside Syria since the war in the country began in 2011. Thursday's attack was the second such strike in less than a week and eighth since the beginning of 2022…
(2022-04-15). COVID-19: the poor people's pandemic. peoplesdispatch.org 
Soon after the first pandemic wave subsided, COVID-19 turned from the "great equalizer" to a poor people's pandemic in the United States, shows a recent The Poor People's Pandemic Report is focused on the data and lived experien…
(2022-04-15). Health workers in South Africa protest as post-pandemic austerity looms. peoplesdispatch.org Workers in health institutions in several provinces of South Africa have organized protests and industrial action as they face threats of job loss and reorganization of services…
(2022-04-15). Renowned 'Nazi Hunter' Claims Canada Failed by Training Members of Extremist Ukrainian Battalion. orinocotribune.com "There is no doubt that the members of the Azov battalion are far-right radicals and they will be the first to admit it," Efraim Zuroff said. | In an
(2022-04-15). Venezuelan Authorities Predict Rebound in Tourism during Holy Week. orinocotribune.com The vice president of Venezuela's superior council of tourism (Conseturismo), Reinaldo Pulido, has announced that a significant rebound in the influx of foreign and domestic tourists is expected during Holy Week. | Pulido noted that as this important holiday begins, several tourist destinations in Venezuela have already register a high rate of visitors, which has not been reported since before the onset of the pandemic. | Regarding Los Roques, the paradise island in the Caribbean, he stated that it is 100% booked, in Margarita Island there is a good flow of people and in Mérida there is a 40% occupancy rate. | "T…
(2022-04-15). Argentina Reports Highest Inflation in 20 Years. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, April 13, it was reported that Argentina registered its highest inflation in the last 20 years during the month of March, reaching a figure of 6.7% for that single month, while the interannual rate stood at 55.1%. | This information was released by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) via Twitter. Venezuela and Argentina have been the countries in the region most afflicted by inflation in recent years. Especially Venezuela, which was hit hard by a hyperinflation spiral that affected millions of Venezuelans from 2018 until 2021. Last March, the Central Bank of Venezuela reporte…
(2022-04-15). Massive Demonstrations in Support of Imran Khan. orinocotribune.com Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf supporters protest in solidarity with former prime minister Imran Khan, who was ousted by the Opposition that he accuses of conspiring with Washington because of his opposition to US foreign policy. | Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf (PTI) supporters took to the streets at Lahore's Liberty Chowk against the ouster of former prime minister and party chairman Imran Khan. | Khan was ousted by the Opposition through a Pakistan became an independent state in 1947; bu…
(2022-04-15). Why a Coup in Pakistan? US Takes Advantage of Any Chance to Gain Advantage. orinocotribune.com The Biden administration's campaign to topple the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in Pakistan has succeeded, according to an American writer and political commentator. "The Empire never sleeps." | Prime Minister Khan was unseated after losing a no-confidence vote in the parliament on Saturday night. | According to the House speaker, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, opposition parties were able to secure 174 votes in the 342-member house in support of the no-confidence motion, making it a majority vote. There were just a few legislators of Khan's ruling party present for the process. | "The US sof…
(2022-04-15). Venezuelan Anti-Chavistas Ask Washington to Ease Sanctions. orinocotribune.com Expressing criticism of the pressure exerted by US political sectors against the Biden administration's rapprochement with Nicolás Maduro's government in Venezuela, a group of anti-Chavistas presented a letter in which they described the failure of illegal US sanctions. | Joshua Goodman of Associated Press shared the letter through his Twitter account, and noted that the signatories advocated the return of oil companies to Venezuelan soil. | "The economic sanctions and the policy of maximum pressure did not achieve their objectives," reads the document. "While the sanctions are not at the root of the humanitarian…
(2022-04-15). Russia investigating ISIS-style Ukrainian "social ad" mronline.org 
The unsettling video portrays a mock execution of a Russian soldier.
(2022-04-15). "Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0" mronline.org 
The new Cold War and the spread of anti-Asian racism.
(2022-04-15). International law and 'European civilisation'. mronline.org 
Despite its promises of universalism, international law has clearly not yet shaken its foundation as a racial order.
(2022-04-15). German EU official uses racist rhetoric claiming Russians don't value life. multipolarista.com 
A German EU official claimed Russians don't value human life and thus aren't Europeans. The ex NATO researcher was echoing a centuries-old colonialist trope used to justify genocide of Indigenous peoples, US war on Vietnam, and Israeli occupation of Palestine.
(2022-04-15). Funcionaria alemana de la UE usa retórica racista: Los rusos no valoran la vida humana como en Occidente. multipolarista.com Una funcionaria alemana de la Unión Europea afirmó que los rusos no valoran la vida humana y por lo tanto no son europeos. La ex investigadora de la OTAN se hacía eco de un tropo colonialista antiguo, utilizado para justificar el genocidio de los pueblos indígenas, la guerra de EEUU contra Vietnam y la ocupación israelí de Palestina.
(2022-04-15). Black America: If $Millions More In Police Funding Solves Public Safety Issues, Explain Frank James. moguldom.com 
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former cop, was elected on a promise to curb rising gun violence in the Big Apple but he has been criticized for taking credit when the New York Police Department arrested Frank James. James went on a shooting rampage in a Brooklyn subway station on April 12, shooting 10 …
(2022-04-15). Fact Check: Magic Johnson Choosing Converse Over Nike Cost Him $5B. moguldom.com Former NBA basketball star Magic Johnson is known among his fans as a successful businessman who has made great investments over the years that have grown his company's holdings to more than $1 billion. But one investment decision that he says he regrets is the one that could have made him $5.2 billion. The 62-year-old …
(2022-04-15). Reports Of A Widespread Fake Artist Problem On Spotify: 3 Things To Know About Scammers Gaming The System. moguldom.com Audio streaming platform Spotify has a fake artist problem, and these scammers are gaming the system. Spotify's streaming model makes it easy for scammers to manipulate the algorithms that determine song royalties, experts say. Scammers hack the algorithms and send large amounts of money into their bank accounts. Here are three things to know. 1. …
(2022-04-15). Here's How To Use An SBA Loan To Buy Another Cash Flow Positive Company: 7 Things To Know. moguldom.com The Small Business Administration, a federal agency, helps small businesses get needed credit by offering government guaranties on loans made by commercial lenders. So, the bank or lender makes the loan and the SBA will repay up to 85 percent of any loss in case of default. Applications are submitted to the bank and loan …
(2022-04-15). Operation Gladio: How NATO Conducted a Secret War Against European Citizens and Their Democratically Elected Governments. libya360.wordpress.com Cynthia Chung Everyone is aware of the Iron Curtain speech delivered by Winston Churchill. However, it is not Churchill who is the originator of the phrase. "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, unknown people far from any political game. The reason was quite simple — to force the people to turn to…
(2022-04-15). US Dusts Off WMD Lies, This Time Aimed at Russia. journal-neo.org 
The US is once again waving around accusations against its adversaries of preparing to use "chemical weapons." This time, the accused is Russia amid ongoing military operations in Ukraine. The Guardian in its article, "'Clear sign' Putin is weighing up use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, says Biden," would claim: Russia's false accusation that Ukraine …
(2022-04-15). Iran and the US — When Will We See a New Agreement? journal-neo.org 
Extensive negotiations on the so-called Iranian nuclear deal have been conducted in Vienna over the last 12 months, many highly complex drafts have been prepared, a lot of obstacles have clearly been overcome, and now, at last, it appears that there is light at the end of the tunnel. However, media organizations around the world …
(2022-04-15). Auto Workers, Climate Groups Team Up to Demand Union-Made, Electric Postal Vehicles. inequality.org
(2022-04-15). Still Another Reason for Taxing the Rich. inequality.org
(2022-04-15). Montreal students threatened with funding cut for backing BDS. electronicintifada.net Under guise of protecting "diversity and inclusion," McGill university administration attempts to crush Palestinian rights policy, student democracy.
(2022-04-15). Europe: the return to the periphery of the world. canadiandimension.com 
"The Congress of Vienna," watercolour etching by August Friedrich Andreas Campe (1777-1846), in the collection of the State Borodino War and History Museum, Moscow. | One hundred years after the First World War, Europe's leaders are sleepwalking toward a new, all-out war. As in 1914, they believe that the war in Ukraine will be limited and short-lived. In 1914, the word in Europe's chancelleries was that the war would last three weeks. It lasted four years and resulted in more than 20 million deaths. As was the case in 1918, the dominant view today holds that it is necessary to inflict exemplary punishment…
(2022-04-15). Indian PM, Vietnamese party chief discuss Ukraine, South China Sea. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Press Trust of IndiaApril 15, 2022 PM Modi, Vietnam's Communist Party General Secy discuss Ukraine, South China Sea situation Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday spoke with general secretary of the Communist party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and exchanged views on regional and global issues, including the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the situation …
(2022-04-15). Warning to Pelosi: China holds large-scale military drills near Taiwan targeting Congressional visit. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Global TimesApril 15, 2022 PLA drills around Taiwan targeted at US lawmakers' visit, rehearse 'real action' once necessary After the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine started, the US has intensified provocations over the Taiwan question as it wants to instigate a similar crisis on the island of Taiwan. The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) …
(2022-04-15). Chinese, Vietnamese FMs vow not to allow Ukraine-type tragedy in region. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Global TimesApril 15, 2022 Wang Yi speaks with Vietnamese FM, vowing won't let Ukraine-like tragedy happen in the regionBy Wang Qi Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on Thursday on the phone, stressing that China and Vietnam, two socialist countries, are ready to strengthen solidarity …
(2022-04-15). NATO's incorporation of Finland, Sweden could pose nuclear threat to Europe. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com China DailyApril 15, 2022 Stakes rise as Sweden, Finland eye NATO move Sweden and Finland, which have long held a policy of neutrality in military conflicts, are likely to become the latest countries to join the US-led NATO as the Russia-Ukraine conflict triggered deep security concerns in Europe. At a joint news conference in Stockholm …