(2022-03-30). Explainer: Why many infections asymptomatic in China's latest COVID-19 flare-ups?>. ecns.cn Shanghai, China's economic hub with a population of more than 24.87 million, is all geared up to deal with a flare-up of COVID-19 infections.
(2022-03-30). At the UN, Amongi reitarates Uganda's commitment to address gender equality. plusnews.ug 
The Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development Betty Amongi Ongom, reiterated Government of Uganda's commitment to the implementation of International, regional and national frameworks to address Gender Equality and Climate Change. She remarked at the sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) held from 14th to 25th March 2022 at …
(2022-03-30). Mayo Clinic researchers use AI to predict antidepressant outcomes in youth. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ‚Äï Mayo Clinic researchers have taken the first step in using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict early outcomes with antidepressants in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder, in a study published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. This work resulted from a collaborative effort between the departments of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and Psychiatry and Psychology, at Mayo Clinic, with support from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. "This…
(2022-03-30). New networks support Imperial's Black postdoctoral researchers and alumni. imperial.ac.uk Two recently formed networks, for postdoctoral researchers and alumni of the College, will foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.
(2022-03-30). On The Line In The Fight For Justice: USW 5 Chevron Richmond Refinery Workers Strike. indybay.org Striking USW 5 Chevron refinery oil workers picketed at the plant and were joined by community and labor supporters. They talked about the health and safety conditions including dangerous hours and attacks on their healthcare benefits.
(2022-03-30). Australian "cash splash" budget masks military boost and pandemic health cuts. wsws.org Although barely mentioned in the media coverage, a centrepiece of the budget was a further increase to military spending in preparation for participation in US-led wars against Russia and China.
(2022-03-30). Biden's colossal military budget, global bellicosity won't save him from domestic crisis. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Global TimesMarch 29, 2022 Biden mired in credibility crisis on Ukraine amid attempt to seek defense spending boostFanning war to divert internal conflicts won't work or make US greatBy Wang Qi and Liu Xuanzun The White House on Monday asked Congress for an $813 billion national defense in 2023, including $773 billion for the Pentagon, …
(2022-03-30). Pentagon: NATO executes military deployments to Russian border with unmatched speed. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Department of DefenseMarch 29, 2022 General Says NATO Is Stepping Up Defense Investments "We are witnessing a generational moment, a historic demonstration of unity in will and an unprecedented effort by allies to strengthen defense while simultaneously helping those in need," said [Air Force General Tod] Wolters, commander of U.S. European Command and NATO …
(2022-03-30). New York's Mayor Eric Adams orders dismantling of homeless encampments. wsws.org The homeless who are targeted are themselves a stark symptom of the unprecedented social polarization and inequality in New York City and other metropolitan centers that have been touted—at least before the COVID-19 pandemic—as great success stories for American capitalism.
(2022-03-30). Chevron, the USW, and the threat of war: What striking oil workers need to know. wsws.org Chevron is the fourth-largest private oil company in the world, with close ties to the US military—industrial complex and interests in controlling the vast oil and gas reserves in Russia.
(2022-03-30). Following Saarland state election, SPD prepares social attacks. wsws.org The election result is not a vote for the policies of the Social Democratic Party, but an expression of the bankruptcy of a political system that no longer gives voters the opportunity to even begin to influence politics with their ballot paper.
(2022-03-30). Stop censoring the opponents of war! wsws.org On Saturday, Facebook deleted a video posted by the Socialist Equality Party of Germany opposing the German government's participation in the US-led NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
(2022-03-29). Russia: We Won't Supply Europe with Gas Unless Purchased with Rubles. orinocotribune.com The spokesperson for the Kremlin warned that Russia, which has been subjected to western sanctions, will not deliver gas to Europe unless purchases are made using Russia's currency, the ruble. | "Clearly we are not going to supply gas for free," said the spokesperson for the Russian President, Dmitri Peskov, during a press release this Monday. "This much can be said with absolute certainty." | According to the Russian spokesperson, Russia cannot "be a charity" while it is facing multiple sanctions imposed by western countries due to its military operations in Ukraine, which began on February 24. This course of ac…
(2022-03-29). Biden Appears to Reveal the US Is Training Ukrainian Troops in Poland. news.antiwar.com President Biden appeared to reveal on Monday that the US is training Ukrainian troops in Poland. Biden made the comments when trying to explain a recent gaffe. In Poland on Friday, President Biden told members of the 82nd Airborne Division that Ukrainians were "stepping up" against the Russian assault and said, "You're going to see …
(2022-03-29). Biden unveils 2023 budget with massive spending on the military and police. wsws.org The main purpose of the draft budget, which has no legal effect, is to outline the right-wing political basis of the Democratic Party campaign in the November congressional elections.
(2022-03-29). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.
(2022-03-29). Over 30,000 Stop & Shop workers win wage increases in their four-year contract. liberationnews.org 
The major win for Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island Stop & Shop employees comes on the back of a strike in 2019 and growing cultural consciousness that the economy can not run without essential workers.
(2022-03-29). North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missile. wsws.org The ICBM test was a desperate attempt to prompt negotiations to end the sanctions regime that has crippled North Korea's economy since 2018.
(2022-03-29). Raeisi stresses development of knowledge-based firms. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 29 (MNA) — PresidenEbrahim Raeisi described development of knowledge-based economy as one of the country's priorities and emphasized the quantitative and qualitative development of the complex.
(2022-03-29). The MADness Of The Resurgent US Cold War On Russia. popularresistance.org The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia under a spotlight, highlighting how the United States and its allies have expanded NATO right up to Russia's borders, backed a coup and now a proxy war in Ukraine, imposed waves of economic sanctions, and launched a debilitating trillion-dollar arms race. The explicit goal is to pressure, weaken and ultimately eliminate Russia, or a Russia-China partnership, as a strategic competitor to U.S. imperial power. | The United States and NATO have used similar forms of force and coercion against many countries. In every case they have been catastrophic for…
(2022-03-29). New York Freezes Seneca Nation Bank Account(S). popularresistance.org This is the latest attempt by New York State to oppress the Onà∂ndawá'ga (Seneca) People. New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has found a way to deliver an economic blow to the Seneca Nation of Indians (SNI); by freezing their banking transactions in a time during gross inflation and need for medicines and assistance. | Governor Hochul's husband is employed as general counsel for Delaware North Corporation (DNC); ergo: Hochul household income is partially provided by Delaware North Corporation, the very same company that built three racetrack casinos in violation of the original 2002 exclusivity gaming agre…
(2022-03-29). Preview: Expect Strong Job Gains to Lower Unemployment in March. cepr.net (The monthly Employment Situation is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, April 1st at 8: 30 AM Eastern Time.) | We should expect another strong jobs report in March, with growth in the range of 400,000 to 500,000 jobs, as the labor market gets still closer to its pre-pandemic state. Strong economic growth, coupled with the waning of the pandemic, should mean large jobs gains and a further drop in unemployment. | Labor Force Participation Approaches Pre-Pandemic Rates | The labor force participation rate (LPFR) is getting close to the pre-pandemic levels for nearly all demographic gro…
(2022-03-29). Mapping Faultlines: A month later, where is the Ukraine war heading? peoplesdispatch.org NewsClick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the situation in Ukraine a month after the Russian attack began, including the military developments and the questions of sanctions and their economic impact…
(2022-03-29). Striking Spanish truckers reject inadequate state bailout offer. wsws.org Truckers are maintaining strike action at key ports and industrial facilities across Spain, shutting factories that cannot get parts and limiting food supplies in supermarkets.
(2022-03-29). Philip Foner completes his multi-volume U.S. labor history with the Great Depression. peoplesworld.org 
Once again, the distinguished late historian Philip S. Foner takes his readers on an intensive whirlwind study tour of the United States, back in time and across the land. Although in this new Volume 11 of his monumental history of the American labor movement his time frame is but three years, 1929 to 1932, this …
(2022-03-29). Iron Workers Union Files Nearly 150 Labor Charges Against One Trucking Company. truthout.org In Morton, Illinois, at a welding shop for trucking company G&D Integrated, welders worked in fear that one small mistake could end up killing someone. The way that the shop floor was arranged, roughly 2,500 pound truck decks could drop on someone if a chain snapped. | "If guys weren't paying attention and didn't let the guy next to him know if a chain snapped or one of the rigging, one of the shackles snapped, the frame would fall right on the other guy and kill him," Ron Rhoades, a welder at G&D, told Truthout. The tables that the welders worked on were simply too close to each other, workers said. | But when t…
(2022-03-29). The Ghost of Enron Haunts Joe Manchin's Coal Fortune. truthout.org If there was every any confusion as to where West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin's loyalties lie, the last budget season put paid to that with interest. His seemingly bottomless vigor in dismantling President Biden's signature infrastructure/climate bills showed the world that he cares not for his party, his beleaguered president, his own people back home who he screwed right through their Carhartt jeans, or the planet whose resources have gifted him wealth, yachts and influence. | Manchin is almost exclusively about one thing: coal. Given the extreme damage he has done defending his nuggets of filthy gold, there is a…
(2022-03-29). Top Economist El-Erian: Federal Reserve Keeps 'Flip Flopping' On Inflation, America Is Headed For Stagflation. moguldom.com The U.S. Federal Reserve is flip-flopping on its monetary policy as it tries to contain inflation amid surging consumer demand and the looming threat of global stagflation caused by the war in Ukraine, according to economist Mohamed El-Erian. Rising energy and commodities prices caused by the destabilization of NATO ally Ukraine have analysts talking of …
(2022-03-29). The ECASH Act with Rohan Grey. mronline.org 
In this special episode, Rohan Grey (@rohangrey) joins Billy Saas (@billysaas) and Maxximilian Seijo (@MaxSeijo) to discuss the "ECASH" or "Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware" Act. Introduced by Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA-08), Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services' Task Force on Financial Technology, and based on Grey's research on electronic currency, the ECASH Act directs the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and pilot digital dollar technologies that replicate the privacy-respecting features of physical cash.
(2022-03-29). Macron criticizes Biden's call for regime change in Russia. wsws.org Even as he criticized Biden's remarks, Macron announced the accelerated deployment of French troops to Romania and further deep cuts to social spending at home.
(2022-03-29). Biden Using Ukraine Crisis To Justify Investments In Nuclear Weapons. popularresistance.org The Biden administration's proposed budget for fiscal year 2023, released March 28, calls for massive investments in nuclear weapons, including the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD)‚Äâ—‚Äâan intercontinental ballistic missile system that is fiercely opposed by anti-nuclear activists. | President Biden is using Russia's invasion of Ukraine to justify the investments, citing the alleged need for deterrence. | The budget proposes $34.4 billion to "recapitalize all three legs of the nuclear triad," according to a Department of Defense summary. The "triad" is a reference t…
(2022-03-29). AFPAC Co-Planner Led Crypto 'Solicitation Scheme'. splcenter.org Jozef Victor Nathan Gherman, the founder of a company whose clients lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency investments, appears also to play an integral part in organizing the finances of white nationalist Nick Fuentes' America First non-profit, Hatewatch found.
(2022-03-29). Colorado Community Stops Profit-Driven School Closure. popularresistance.org Aurora, CO – On March 22, residents of the Sable Altura Chambers community in Aurora, Colo., won a four-month-long struggle to keep Sable Elementary School from being shut down by the Aurora Public Schools Board of Education. This grassroots struggle, its members made up primarily of parents and teachers, has called into question the true motives behind the BOE's "Blueprint APS initiative" and the decision to close Sable Elementary. | Blueprint APS is a plan created by Aurora Public Schools Superintendent Rico Munn that aims to consolidate and repurpose multiple public schools in Aurora due to what Munn refers to…
(2022-03-29). Israel, Ukraine, and Black Market Transplant Surgeons. journal-neo.org 
The topics of local military conflicts and illegal human organ trade always go hand in hand, since military actions are not just about solving geopolitical issues and commonplace profiting off the arms trafficking but also about illegal human organ trade. Organ buyer-ups and black market transplant surgeons have long become ordinary elements of the military …
(2022-03-29). La guerra Rusia-Ucrania y las dos pesadillas. globalizacion.ca En 1978 fui invitado a Moscú, capital de la Unión Soviética (URSS) al lado de compañeros como Enrique Semo y Roger Bartra para participar en un congreso sobre capitalismo contemporáneo. Académicos y funcionarios del gobierno soviético nos escucharon con atención…
(2022-03-29). Australian union shuts down industrial action by Sydney rail workers. wsws.org For the second time in a month, the Rail, Tram and Bus Union has come to the rescue of the right-wing New South Wales government.
(2022-03-29). Australia: Expand strike action by NSW nurses! Form rank-and-file committees to break the isolation imposed by the union! wsws.org NSW nurses must call on all health workers throughout Australia to take action in opposition to the threats of the industrial courts and the nationwide onslaught on public healthcare.
(2022-03-29). Artist YG Banged $30M Of Bitcoin On Ledger Device In Video: Was It Fake? moguldom.com Did rapper YG, aka Keenon Dequan Ray Jackson, flex a $30 million Bitcoin stack in his recent music video? That seems to be the question on the minds of his fans after watching Young Gangsta's latest music video in which YG appeared to show off a cold storage device from crypto wallet provider Ledger. Some …
(2022-03-29). Venezuela: Subsidized Gasoline to be Purchased via Patria System. orinocotribune.com As of April 2, the ability to purchased subsidized gasoline in cash will be eliminated, and Venezuelans will only be able to pay through the BiopagoPDV system, in order to optimize the fuel marketing system and streamline service at gas stations. | "This payment in bolívars, which is currently Bs 0.11 per liter [about 5% of the price of international gasoline], will be made, as of April 2, 2022, in advance, at the time of receiving the allocation of subsidized gasoline," announced the official outlets of the Patria System, Venezuela's national identification system. Each owner of a vehicle registered in the Patri…
(2022-03-29). Uruguayan government prevails in referendum on neoliberal reforms with a slim margin. peoplesdispatch.org The LUC was widely rejected by the country's opposition parties, trade unions, social organizations and popular movements, which deemed it as a package of anti-worker, pro-corporate, neoliberal and regressive reform…
(2022-03-29). Metáfora de la isla en fuga y otros mitos (anti)cubanos. cubadebate.cu Hoy hay coros en el metaverso entonando baladas nostálgicas sobre la emigración cubana. Politizando. Se asume el asunto como un indicador del fracaso del modelo socialista; como una derrota de la sociedad de la que, se presume, la gente o escapa, o se exilia. Tenemos el derecho a migrar y lo ejercemos. No es correcto justificar la decisión maldiciendo al país.
(2022-03-29). Stop Facebook's censorship of the SGP's anti-war video! wsws.org In an act of political censorship that must be widely opposed, Facebook deleted a popular anti-war video by the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) without providing any reason.
(2022-03-29). 2 April 2022: International day for the liberation of Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net 
The appeal below was issued by the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah. Because Georges Abdallah is an Arab resistance fighter, a Lebanese communist who fought against the invasion of his country, Lebanon, by the troops of the Zionist occupier, and because resistance is a right! Because Georges Abdallah is a fighter for the …
(2022-03-29). Developers unveil pilot version of Russian alternative to Instagram. tass.com Rossgram users will be able to upload photos and videos from their smartphones, as well as videos from other platforms such as YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo…
(2022-03-29). No free gas supplies for Europe, Kremlin spokesman says. tass.com No payment, no gas, the Kremlin spokesman emphasized…
(2022-03-29). NATO took steps affecting Russia's security before Moscow's operation in Ukraine – Kremlin. tass.com The situation is quite concerning, Peskov said…
(2022-03-29). UN calls for investigation into reports about torture of prisoners of war in Ukraine. tass.com It is important that any ill treatment that may happen is stopped immediately, Head of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Matilda Bogner said…
(2022-03-29). How Israel's Indiscriminate bombing of Gaza Endangers its Precious Hellenistic and Roman Archeological Heritage. juancole.com 
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Palestinian Gaza Strip doesn't stay on the world's mind the way some besieged cities in Ukraine do right now, but it is also surrounded, besieged, and blockaded by Israeli forces. This blockade is illegal in international law, since Israel is recognized as the Occupying authority over Gaza, which it …