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2022-04-09: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-04-09). Pakistan's Supreme Court orders no-confidence vote, paving way for change in government. wsws.org The economic crisis, coupled with the government's privatization and austerity policies and its ruinous mishandling of the pandemic, have drastically eroded popular support for Khan and his PTI-led government.

Elijah J. Magnier (2022-04-09). The Birth of a 'New World Order' from the Ukrainian Battlefield. orinocotribune.com By Elijah J. Magnier — Apr 4, 2022 | There is a lot of speculation about the birth of a "new world order" from the womb of the battle in Ukraine between America and Russia. The Middle East, Asia and Africa are awaiting the results of this battle, its implications and what will be the outcome to form new alliances once the dust has settled. A new world will inevitably be born after long labours and punctuated by direct wars, countries' occupations, proxy wars and illegal unilateral sanctions which have exhausted the world's population. What will the "New World Order" look like, and will it be better or wor…

WSWS (2022-04-09). Amazon Labor Union turns to AFL-CIO following successful vote at Staten Island warehouse. wsws.org It has not taken long for the leaders of the Amazon Labor Union, which won a vote at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island last week, to demonstrate their orientation to the AFL-CIO bureaucracy and the Democratic Party.

Editor (2022-04-09). Corporate Media Ignores Senate Hearing on Corporate Greed and Inflation. scheerpost.com Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a Senate Budget Committee hearing June 8, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. | By Ralph Nader / It is exceedingly rare for a major congressional committee to hold hearings on "corporate greed" leading to corporate profiteering and surging prices on consumer goods. On April 5, 2022, Senate Budget Chairman, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chartered uncensored territory on corporate avarice with a lead witness, former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reic…

WSWS (2022-04-09). Howard University Hospital staff plan one-day strike due to staffing ratios, low pay. wsws.org The strike by over 300 nurses and hospital workers comes as a wave of working class struggle has moved to oppose the capitalist elite's efforts to impose the weight of the pandemic and inflation on the population's back.

WSWS (2022-04-09). Sri Lanka at centre of growing debt and inflation crisis. wsws.org The UN food price index for March reached a record high, increasing by 34 percent from a year ago—described by the UN as a "giant leap."

_____ (2022-04-09). Who is Blocking the Supply of Oil Needed by Europe? journal-neo.org The global energy crisis and the US anti-Russian sanctions due to the special operation in Ukraine have led to the fact that Europe is now spending about 10% of GDP on energy resources, according to analysts of Black Rock, one of the world's largest investment companies. The last time the Old World spent this much …

WSWS (2022-04-09). Capitalism normalizes death: From COVID-19 to the threat of nuclear war. wsws.org The utter casualness and recklessness with which the US political establishment is treating the prospect of a war that threatens to escalate into a full-scale nuclear exchange must be seen in context of the ruling elite's indifference to mass death in the pandemic.

Yoselina Guevara (2022-04-08). Russia and Ukraine, the World's Breadbaskets and Food Insecurity in North Africa and the Middle East. orinocotribune.com By Yoselina Guevara — Apr 5, 2022 | Until the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the world had not realized that these two nations were objectively the world's breadbaskets. Ukraine alone accounts for 12% and 16% of world wheat and corn exports, respectively; moreover, before the exacerbation of the conflict, Kiev alone accounted for half of the world's sunflower oil production; with Moscow, the figure exceeds 80%. | During March wheat prices have reached record highs on the stock exchanges, even reaching 474.24 dollars per ton; for this April 4 it stands at 365.95 dollars per ton. This var…

_____ (2022-04-08). Greek Railroad Workers Block Delivery Of U.S. Tanks To Ukraine. popularresistance.org Workers at TrainOSE, a Greek railroad company, have been refusing to transport U.S. tanks destined for Ukraine from Alexandroupoli, a port in the northern part of the country. After workers there refused, bosses tried to force railroad workers from elsewhere to take on the work. "For about two weeks now," the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) said in a statement, "there has been pressure on the employees of the engine room in Thessaloniki to go to Alexandroupoli." The bosses' desperate effort to find workers who would move the transport forward was unsuccessful. The argument from employers that they should have no…

Dean Baker (2022-04-08). Washington Post Columnists Badly Need to Learn About Corporate Power. cepr.net Corporations hold enormous political power on obscure issues that almost no one follows, but nonetheless have an enormous impact on our economy. This is what the left is upset about in complaining about the excessive power of large corporations.

Fight Back (2022-04-08). Staten Island Amazon workers vote 'union yes'. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – On April 1 workers at the Amazon warehouse JFK8 in Staten Island New York voted to join the newly formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU). | Amazon is one of the largest companies in the United States and through the COVID-19 pandemic it has ballooned in size and importance to the economy as more people have transitioned to online shopping. In recent years multiple unions had unsuccessfully attempted to unionize in several high profile campaigns. | More than 8000 Amazon employees at the Staten Island warehouse will become members of the ALU after the successful vote. | Amazon vows to contest the results o…

Editor (2022-04-08). Venezuela's economy will grow 20% in 2022, despite illegal U.S. sanctions, predicts Western bank. mronline.org Major Switzerland-based bank Credit Suisse forecasts Venezuela's real GDP growth to be 20% in 2022 and 8% in 2023. This is despite an illegal U.S. blockade, which starved the government of 99% of its revenue, according to the top UN expert on sanctions.

Editor (2022-04-08). Robert Scheer/Ellen Brown Podcast on Crisis in the World Economy. scheerpost.com Ellen Brown. [Photo courtesy of Ellen Brown] | Click to subscribe on: Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the horrific toll it has been taking on the nation's civilians and infrastructure makes daily headlines. So, too, has the West's response: rapidly slapping Russia and high-ranking Russian officials and oligarchs with a slate of debilitating economic sanctions. Bu…

_____ (2022-04-08). Ukraine: A Conversation With Scott Ritter. popularresistance.org Margaret Flowers and Joe Lombardo of the United National Antiwar Coalition host a conversation with Scott Ritter regarding the situation in Ukraine and its broader implications for the realignment of global power, security and economic structures. Ritter discusses the provocations that led Russia to launch a military operation, the humanitarian situation, including what happened in Bucha, how Russia is winning, and the propaganda being used to build popular support for war. | Scott Ritter was the UN weapons inspector who, during the Iraq War told the truth that we found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He…

Staff (2022-04-08). Credit Suisse Corrects Venezuela Economic Growth Estimate from 4.5% to 20%. orinocotribune.com Caracas, April 7, 2022 ( "For 2023 we are also increasing our GDP growth forecast to 8% from a previous estimate of 3%," read a part of the report. "These are not typos! If we are accurate, these might end up being among the strongest growth prints globally for these years."

ecns.cn (2022-04-08). Trade between China, Mekong countries nears 400 bln USD in 2021. ecns.cn Trade between China and countries along the Mekong River has continued to surge despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the sluggish global economic recovery.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-04-08). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

WSWS (2022-04-08). Sri Lanka still has no finance minister amid continuing anti-government protests. wsws.org The inability to find a finance minister only underscores the enormity of the economic and political crisis engulfing the government and Colombo political establishment as whole.

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-08). Japan escalates diplomatic, economic, political measures against Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kyodo NewsApril 8, 2022 Japan to expel Russian diplomats in concerted effort with allies The Japanese government said Friday it will expel eight Russians including diplomats in a concerted effort with the United States and European countries, strongly condemning Moscow's killing of "many innocent civilians" in Ukraine. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the decision was …

William Rivers Pitt (2022-04-08). Why Is Merrick Garland Throttling the Trump Investigation? truthout.org Between plague, disruptive invasions, economic consternation and the ceaseless bilge tide of right-wing social warfare, it's been hard of late for an attempted coup by the former president of the United States against the government of the United States to make a dent in the 24-hour news cycle. I'm not sure what to make of that, but it may have something to do with the fact that the last major investigation into presidential malfeasance that actually changed anything was first gaveled to order when I was 3 years old. | The Watergate hearings are the gold standard by which all since have been judged, and have been…

WSWS (2022-04-08). Record inflation is driving mass poverty‚ÄÜin Germany. wsws.org The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and sanctions imposed on Russia have led to an explosion in prices worldwide. In Germany, annual inflation rose to 7.3 percent in March.

Berry Craig (2022-04-08). Kentucky offers proof positive that elections have consequences. peoplesworld.org I went rummaging through my old computer files after Republican supermajorities in the Kentucky Senate and House overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's veto of House Bill 4. Straight from the national GOP's social Darwinist, unemployment-compensation-makes-you-lazy playbook, the measure slashes the length of time workers, laid off through no fault of their own, can earn jobless benefits. I …

WSWS (2022-04-08). New Zealand's leading health officials resign as COVID deaths mount. wsws.org The resignation of Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Public Health Director Dr Carlone McElnay follows the Labour Party-led government's decision to abandon all public health restrictions, resulting in a surge in deaths.

_____ (2022-04-08). The Labor Disputes At Amy's Kitchen, Explained. popularresistance.org "We're now proudly B Corp certified!" chirps a green banner on the homepage of Amy's Kitchen, the organic packaged and prepared-foods giant. It's positioned above an image of the company's founders, the Berliner family — Andy, who is currently the CEO of Amy's Kitchen, with his wife Rachel and their daughter, Amy, after whom the company is named — dressed in down vests and worn-in scarves, smiling and windswept in front of a blue sky. "B Corp certification is awarded to businesses that use profits and growth as a means to a greater end: Positive impact for their employees, communities, and the environ…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-08). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…

WSWS (2022-04-08). Australia: Health workers strike reveals mounting opposition to union bureaucracy and Labor. wsws.org The angry interjections of health workers at the union meetings reflect a growing shift in the working class after the profound experiences of the ongoing pandemic.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-08). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other biotech companies to enable precision medicine through advanced diagnostics. Diagnostic testing can help find the right answers for each individual patient. "A laboratory test can either help in making a diagnosis for a disease, or it can help…

WSWS (2022-04-08). Australia: Health worker strikes reveal mounting opposition to union bureaucracy and Labor. wsws.org The angry interjections of health workers at the union meetings reflect a growing shift in the working class after the profound experiences of the ongoing pandemic.

ecns.cn (2022-04-08). Xinjiang spokesman says U.S. hearing hypocritical. ecns.cn The holding of a public hearing in the U.S. on the so-called "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act" demonstrates the hypocrisy and absurdity of a legal and judicial system using long-arm jurisdiction, a Xinjiang government spokesman said.

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-08). Next year in Jerusalem: Azerbaijan, Israel mark 30 years of strategic arms-for-oil partnership. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azeri Press AgencyApril 8, 2022 Israeli President Isaac Herzog: I hope to see us fulfil an additional milestone, in the opening of the Azerbaijan Embassy in Israel "This anniversary is an opportunity to commend the good bilateral relations between the State of Israel and the Republic of Azerbaijan, which include collaboration in various fields….This auspicious …

Kevin Mwanza (2022-04-08). Fertilizer Prices Go Parabolic: Here's How It's Squeezing The Food Supply And Farmers. moguldom.com Fertilizer prices have gone parabolic, rising as much as 40 percent and threatening the world's food supply and farmers' margins as the war in Ukraine sends energy costs soaring. According to Morgan Stanley, Russia and Belarus together provide about 40 percent of the world's exports of potash, which is used primarily (95 percent) as an …

Cameron Harrison (2022-04-08). Detroit City Council has opportunity to put people before profits. peoplesworld.org DETROIT—The newly elected City Council of Detroit is at a crossroads. It is caught between Mayor Mike Duggan, who represents the interests of big business, particularly Dan Gilbert (Quicken Loans) and the Illitch family (Little Caesars), and the residents, who are seeing their standard of living continue to decline with costly living prices, deteriorating infrastructure, …

Paige Bennett (2022-04-08). Climate inaction could cost the U.S. $2 trillion per year, study finds. nationofchange.org "Investments to confront the climate crisis will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, drive down clean energy prices, make our Nation more resilient, present new opportunities for American innovation and well-paying jobs, provide benefits to historically underserved communities, and work to protect against the long-term fiscal risks identified in the new Budget analyses released today."

Sonali Kolhatkar (2022-04-08). Housing is a human right—here's how to make it a reality. nationofchange.org The federal government has for years enabled the private market to make money off our housing needs. Now, as home prices and rents skyrocket, there is a simple solution: offer people a public option for housing.

Richard Medhurst (2022-04-08). Silent Killer: The Siege of Yemen. orinocotribune.com By Richard Medhurst — Mar 31, 2022 | A new report reveals the shocking extent of the Saudi-led blockade on Yemen. Fuel shortages have led Yemen's inflation to skyrocket 40%, deepening the world's worst humanitarian crisis. | ‚Ä¢ Despite announcing a ceasefire on March 30th, Saudi Arabia has not lifted its siege on Yemen | ‚Ä¢ A new report exposes the shocking extent of the embargo, which was imposed in 2015, and intensified in 2021 | ‚Ä¢ The Saudi-led coalition is preventing fuel ships from reaching Hodeida, Yemen's largest port and main lifeline to 80 percent…

_____ (2022-04-08). US Facing Up To $2 Trillion Bill Each Year From Climate Crisis By 2100, Says White House. popularresistance.org Failing to take action on the climate crisis and surrendering to a worsening spiral of wildfires, heatwaves, flooding, and extreme storms, could leave the federal government with an annual bill of $2 trillion by the end of the century, according to new federal analysis. The analysis, conducted by the chief economist in the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the associate director for climate, energy, environment, and science, found that US gross domestic product (GDP) could be slashed 3 to 10 per cent by the end of this century. At the top of that range, global warming would lead to a loss o…

Anonymous669 (2022-04-08). More Escalation In Israel: Shooting Attack In Tel Aviv Leaves Two Dead, Ten Wounded (Videos). southfront.org Israeli policemen patrol a street in the Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber following clashes in Jerusalem September 18, 2015. FILE IMAGE: Reuters | Late on April 7, two people were killed and more than ten others were wounded as a result of a shooting attack in the heart of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. | The shooting took place on Dizengoff Street that was crowded with people spending the night at local bars, restaurants and cafes. The street and nearby areas experienced a state of complete chaos…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-04-08). Obama: Social media platforms' pursuit of profits undermines democracy. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO—Social media platforms' pursuit of profits, without controlling for extremist content, leads to "a series of editorial choices" and rampant disinformation which can "undermine our democracy, and combined with a media ecosystem, can be fatal to it," former President Barack Obama says. Google, Facebook, Instagram, and the like ignore or denigrate past safeguards on disinformation …

WSWS (2022-04-08). Workers around the world come to the defense of former Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health care system.

Nayvin Gordon (2022-04-08). WAR CRIMINALS OF THE WORLD FIGHT—SPILLING THE PEOPLE'S BLOOD. indybay.org Profit-driven war criminals sacrifice the working class…

Tanupriya Singh (2022-04-08). Blaise Compaoré convicted for the murder of revolutionary Burkinabé leader Thomas Sankara. peoplesdispatch.org After over three decades, a court in Burkina Faso has convicted former President Blaise Compaoré in the assassination of his predecessor, and revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara. The verdict was announced by a military tribunal in the capital of Ouagadougou on April 6th, following a six-month trial. | Sankara was a Marxist, Pan-Africanist icon who became the president of Burkina Faso in 1983. Under his leadership, the government implemented a progressive and socialist program of self-sufficiency, nationalization and distribution of land, education, healthcare, and the emancipation of women. | Sankara once said,…

_____ (2022-04-08). A Former Sundown Town Passed Reparations And Rent Control. popularresistance.org "There's the California that people imagine, a place I would love to visit and maybe buy a house on one salary," Mayor Daniel Lee, now running for Congress, says with a smile. "Then, there's the actual California." | Back in 2018, when Lee was elected as Culver City's first Black councilmember, he didn't know about the city's history as a "sundown town," a reference to all-white areas that enforce segregation through local laws, intimidation and violence. It was only at the Annual Legislative Conference hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation that other Black elected officials told him their stories o…

_____ (2022-04-08). A Former Sundown Town Passed Reparations And Rent Control. Now It's Fighting To Keep Them. popularresistance.org "There's the California that people imagine, a place I would love to visit and maybe buy a house on one salary," Mayor Daniel Lee, now running for Congress, says with a smile. "Then, there's the actual California." Back in 2018, when Lee was elected as Culver City's first Black councilmember, he didn't know about the city's history as a "sundown town," a reference to all-white areas that enforce segregation through local laws, intimidation and violence. It was only at the Annual Legislative Conference hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation that other Black elected officials told him their stories of…

_____ (2022-04-08). Biden Kills The Demand To Defund Police. popularresistance.org There is no better contemporary proof that reformism is poison to social justice, than what has happened to the demand for "defund the police". This emerged as a slogan amidst the George Floyd uprisings. In many ways Donald Trump's militarized police crackdown on the mobilizations actually served to embolden them. | But the indignation the people felt in the face of Trump's bombast was quickly exploited by corporate media cheerleaders of the Democratic party wing of neoliberal settler-colonial duopoly to win control over the US presidency and both legislative branches of government. The Democratic party is notori…

Fight Back (2022-04-08). Centro CSO hosts 5th annual International Women's Day Event. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA — On March 6, Centro CSO hosted its fifth annual International Women's Day event. Hosted over Zoom for the second consecutive year, "Luchadorxs de Los àÅngeles: Resisting State Sanctioned Violence during a Pandemic" highlighted the efforts of women in leading the fights against police brutality, the privatization of education as well as other struggles. | The event kicked off with a solidarity statement from Sol Marquez, a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization and Centro CSO's core, immigration, and police brutality committees. Marquez said, "We have come a long way. For Chican…

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-04-08). Tuesday 4/19: Revolution, She Wrote — Online Reading/Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

_____ (2022-04-08). Greek Railroad Workers Block Delivery Of US Tanks To Ukraine. popularresistance.org Workers at TrainOSE, a Greek railroad company, have been refusing to transport U.S. tanks destined for Ukraine from Alexandroupoli, a port in the northern part of the country. After workers there refused, bosses tried to force railroad workers from elsewhere to take on the work. | "For about two weeks now," the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) said in a statement, "there has been pressure on the employees of the engine room in Thessaloniki to go to Alexandroupoli." | The bosses' desperate effort to find workers who would move the transport forward was unsuccessful. The argument from employers that they should have…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-08). Progressives in Greece reject Zelensky's address to parliament with neo-Nazis. peoplesdispatch.org Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Greek parliament on Thursday April 8 via video conference and provoked outrage after he shared a video byte of a neo-Nazi soldier from the notorious Azov battalion. In the video, the Azov soldier of Greek origin requested Greece's solidarity to the Ukrainian government in the ongoing war with Russia. The Azov battalion is notorious for its neo-Nazi beliefs and practices. | The testimony of the Azov soldier was widely condemned by progressives in Greece. Parliamentarians from the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) boycotted the parliament session. The All Workers Milit…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-08). Eye-Witness Report from Donbass: How the War Looks From the Russian Side. libya360.wordpress.com Sonja Van den Ende Photo courtesy of Sonja Van den Ende Following in the tradition of the late Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983), an Australian who reported on the Korean and Vietnam Wars from the communist side, this article continues CAM's reporting on the "other side" of the war in Ukraine, the side that is not presented…

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2022-04-08: News Headlines

Nayvin Gordon (2022-04-08). WAR CRIMINALS OF THE WORLD FIGHT—SPILLING THE PEOPLE'S BLOOD. indybay.org Profit-driven war criminals sacrifice the working class…

_____ (2022-04-08). Biden Kills the Demand to Defund Police. popularresistance.org There is no better contemporary proof that reformism is poison to social justice, than what has happened to the demand for "defund the police". This emerged as a slogan amidst the George Floyd uprisings. In many ways Donald Trump's militarized police crackdown on the mobilizations actually served to embolden them. | But the indignation the people felt in the face of Trump's bombast was quickly exploited by corporate media cheerleaders of the Democratic party wing of neoliberal settler-colonial duopoly to win control over the US presidency and both legislative branches of government. The Democratic party is notori…

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-04-08). Tuesday 4/19: Revolution, She Wrote — Online Reading/Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

_____ (2022-04-08). No Charges For Minneapolis Cop In Amir Locke Killing. popularresistance.org Two months after Minneapolis Police officer Mark Hanneman killed Amir Locke, 22, while executing a no-knock warrant, prosecutors say they won't be charging Hanneman with a crime. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison released a 44-page joint report on April 6 explaining their decision in the case. Also released was a report by retired police officer John "Jack" Ryan.

WorkWeek (2022-04-08). Chris Hedges On Imperialist Wars, Capitalist Media & Censorship. indybay.org Journalist and writer Chris Hedges is interviewed on WorkWeek and talks about the removal of the complete archives on his show at RT by youtube which is owned by Google.

Heidi Harmon (2022-04-08). Solidarity with Ukraine with CA climate action day April 8 Solidarity with Ukraine with CA. indybay.org On April 8 communities across California will join together in solidarity with Ukraine – to free fossil fuel dependency – will have a statewide day of action as they call on the Governor to build on his climate leadership by ending all new fossil fuel permitting and strengthening the setbacks rule to include both new and existing oil wells.

WSWS (2022-04-07). General strike in Greece against destruction of living standards worsened by Ukraine war. wsws.org Greek workers from every sector of the economy mounted a 24-hour general strike yesterday.

Kawsachun News (2022-04-07). Interview: Latin America in the New Global Economy Amid Ukraine Conflict. towardfreedom.org Kawsachun News spoke to Ecuadorian economist Juan Fernando Terán on April 2 about Western sanctions, the Ukraine war and how Latin America can protect its economy.

ecns.cn (2022-04-07). Upgraded China-New Zealand FTA to bring brighter shared future: ambassador. ecns.cn Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Wang Xiaolong has said the upgraded Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will bring a brighter shared future to both countries.

_____ (2022-04-07). India is Building Up its Naval Capacities. journal-neo.org India is a big country with significant resources and a huge population. It has the third largest economy in Asia and the seventh largest in the world. But its geographical location also presents it with certain problems. Specifically, the Indian peninsula is largely cut off from the rest of the Eurasian landmass. In the west …

_____ (2022-04-07). ExxonMobil Announces $10 Billion Oil Investment. popularresistance.org "Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness," UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest report on Monday. This scientific summary, focused on how the world can cut greenhouse gas emissions, warns of the extraordinary harm to all of humanity caused by fossil fuels and the need for a rapid energy transition away from oil, gas, and coal, calling for meaningful changes over the next three years. "Such investments will soon be stranded assets, a blot on the landscape, and a blight on investment portfolio…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-04-07). Iran's exports to Eurasian market at 15% growth: IRICA. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 07 (MNA) — The Director-General of International Cooperation Department of Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) announced the 15% growth in export of Iranian products to Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) market last year.

WSWS (2022-04-07). Bring down Sri Lanka's Rajapakse government! Abolish the executive presidency! No to austerity and starvation! Form action committees to fight for a socialist program of action to secure food, fuel and medicines for all! wsws.org Neither the government nor the opposition parties have any solution to the hunger and want facing working people. The SEP is advancing a program of action for the working class which alone can resolve the immense social and economic crisis.

WSWS (2022-04-07). Bank of International Settlements chief says new era of inflation has begun. wsws.org The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development reported that consumer prices in the world's 30 richest countries rose by 7.7 percent in February, compared with just 1.7 percent a year ago.

Marco Fernandes (2022-04-07). Washington watches as China and Latin America deepen their ties. peoplesdispatch.org Foreign policy experts in the US have alerted to the growing economic relationship between Latin America and China, a trend only expected to increase in the coming period…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-04-07). Black Labor And Reparations: 3 Emerging Leaders Showing Results That Black America Should Keep An Eye On. moguldom.com The Black labor and reparations movements have gained traction in recent years with more frequent hearings about H.R. 40, California's creation of a reparations task force, and the historic vote to create Amazon's first-ever U.S. labor union all pointing to progress. The movements, however, are only as strong as the people behind them. Here are …

Sharon Zhang (2022-04-07). Labor Board's Top Counsel Argues Anti-Union Meetings Are "Inherently" Illegal. truthout.org A top tactic that employers use to feed workers anti-union propaganda and threats could soon be outlawed, as the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) top legal counsel has released a new memo arguing for a return to a previous version of federal labor laws. | NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo wrote in

Staff (2022-04-07). Presidente de Cuba rememora a heroína de la Revolución. cubadebate.cu El presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, rememoró el 92 aniversario del nacimiento de la heroína de la Revolución, Vilma Espín, a quien calificó como líder indiscutible del movimiento femenino mundial. Desde su cuenta en Twitter destacó su labor en la defensa y emancipación de las mujeres.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-07). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-07). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other biotech companies to enable precision medicine through advanced diagnostics. Diagnostic testing can help find the right answers for each individual patient. "A laboratory test can either help in making a diagnosis for a disease, or it can help…

Amjad Ayman Yaghi (2022-04-07). No rights for Gaza's workers in Israel. electronicintifada.net Employers refuse to pay financial compensation after accidents on building sites.

Staff (2022-04-07). Venezuela's Inflation 1.4% in March, A 9-Year Low. orinocotribune.com Caracas, April 7, 2022 ( Venezuelan authorities have been working in recent months to keep inflation at bay, with BCV interventions in the exchange rate market to keep the price of the US dollar at an optimal level, a…

Kevin Mwanza (2022-04-07). Shanghai's 26M People Are In Covid Lockdown: How China's Struggles Could Impact Inflation, U.S. Supply Chain. moguldom.com China's covid-related lockdown and severe restrictions in Shanghai and other parts of the country have affected millions of workers and could impact the U.S. supply chain, exacerbating already runaway inflation. China's zero-covid policy, which imposed strict measures in the last two years to keep the disease out of the country while the rest of the …

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-04-07). Podcast Ep 54: Palestine is the litmus test for international law. electronicintifada.net The situation for Palestinians is "beyond occupation."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-07). The UN Votes in Favor of Suspending Russia from the Human Rights Council. libya360.wordpress.com Statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on the early termination of the Russian Federation's membership in the UN Human Rights Council 07-04-2022 The Russian side considers the resolution adopted on April 7 in New York by the UN General Assembly to suspend the Russian Federation's membership in the UN Human Rights Council as an unlawful…

Editor (2022-04-07). Biden's budget cements turn towards war, police. mronline.org On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled his 2023 budget, calling for dramatically increased funding for war and the police while allocating all-too-little funding for social services. Out of the total $1.58 trillion of spending outlined in the budget, $813 billion is allocated to the military while $769 billion is allocated for non-military spending. This is a $31 billion increase in funding for the war machine.

WSWS (2022-04-07). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org National 24-hour strike by 20,000 French public sector workers over pay and conditions; workers at all eight Amazon warehouses in France begin stoppage over pay; Finnish nurses and municipal workers strike over poor pay and conditions while government increases military spending by 70 percent; five-week strike by thousands of miners at South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold mines threatens to spread to coal mines which supply biggest electricity supplier…

ecns.cn (2022-04-07). Upgraded China-New Zealand FTA comes into effect. ecns.cn A protocol on upgrading the free trade agreement (FTA) between China and New Zealand took effect Thursday, aiming at further facilitating bilateral trade and investment, said China's Ministry of Commerce.

WSWS (2022-04-07). Ford Saarlouis: Instead of a bidding war and blackmail—fight to defend all jobs at all plants! wsws.org To the profits-above-all-else programme of the bosses, we counterpose the programme of international workers' solidarity.

Amy Goodman (2022-04-07). Hungary's Far Right Prime Minister Victor Orbán, a Trump Ally, Wins Fourth Term. truthout.org Far-right nationalist prime minister and longtime Putin-ally Viktor Orbán won his fourth consecutive election in Hungary, aided by biased media coverage and campaign regulations that favored the sitting prime minister. We speak to historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat about the future of Hungary under the Fidesz party, which, aside from passing anti-LGBTQ legislation and stoking xenophobia, has also been an important ally for Russian President Vladimir Putin. "He's very much a conduit for the infiltration and spread of Putin ideas in a more palatable frame," says Ben-Ghiat. She also discusses how Orbán has become a model for…

AD Foster (2022-04-07). United Campus Workers Fight for Wage Increase at UofSC. liberationnews.org Following a victory in their campaign for graduate student health insurance last year, workers at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) are calling on the university to raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Ann Brown (2022-04-07). BLM Co-Founder Patrice Cullors On Purchase Of $6M House: This House Was For Social Justice Influencers, Nothing Nefarious. moguldom.com An investigative report recently published by New York Magazine uncovered questionable use of Black Lives Matter donations. The report revealed that BLM used donations to purchase a lavish $6 million house in California. The Black activist group said in 2021 that it had pulled in $90 million in donations in 2020, a year of worldwide …

Ann Brown (2022-04-07). Startup Named 'Fast' Blows Through $120M Of Investor Money And Is Shutting Down. moguldom.com Fintech startup Fast came and went quickly, blowing through $120 million of investor money it had attracted to help people expedite online purchases in what seemed like a good idea at the time, but one that went horribly wrong. A one-click checkout software firm for online merchants, Fast was founded in 2019 by Australian entrepreneur …

____ (2022-04-07). Billionaire Elon Musk buys his way onto Twitter's board of directors. wsws.org The richest man in the world has purchased 9.1 percent of Twitter shares ($2.6 billion) since January and he has now been given a seat on the company's board of directors.

WSWS (2022-04-07). Billionaire Elon Musk buys his way onto Twitter's board of directors. wsws.org The richest man in the world has purchased 9.1 percent of Twitter shares ($2.6 billion) since January and he has now been given a seat on the company's board of directors.

David Sanders (2022-04-07). David Sanders on being a health activist. peoplesdispatch.org David Sanders talks about his life as a health activist, the role of Primary Health Care for the Health for All agenda, and how neoliberalism obstructs possible advances in global health…

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2022-04-07: News Headlines

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-04-07). Tuesday 4/19: Revolution, She Wrote — Online Reading/Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

Amy Goodman (2022-04-06). Women's Delegation Urges US and Europe to Unfreeze Afghan Funds Amid Crisis. truthout.org Women in Afghanistan are protesting a number of gender-based restrictions from the Taliban, including an order in March to shut down public high schools for girls. In response, U.S. officials canceled talks with Taliban leaders in Doha, continuing to freeze billions in Afghan assets while Afghanistan spirals into economic catastrophe. We speak with Masuda Sultan and Medea Benjamin, two co-founders of Unfreeze Afghanistan, a coalition advocating for the release of funding for Afghan civilians. They recently visited Afghanistan as part of a U.S. women's delegation and say the U.S. has a responsibility to alleviate…

Ann Brown (2022-04-06). Economists And Bond Investors: There Is Increasing Risk A Recession Is Coming To America. moguldom.com Fears of a recession are increasing despite the U.S. economy experiencing a boom. Economics and bond investors alike are warning a recession is on its way for America. The factors that lead them to believe so include rapid inflation, soaring oil prices along with global instability, The New York Times reported. The job market is up, with …

Leonid Savin (2022-04-06). Eurasianism, Eurasian Economic Union and Multipolarity: Assessments of Foreign Experts. thealtworld.com Leonid Savin, Konstantin Kurylev, Sergey Bazavluk | Eurasianism, in its various interpretations, from ideology to the implementation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) programs, is regarded as one of the strategies of creating a multipolar world order. This article analyzes the views and assessments of foreign authors regarding the relationship between Eurasianism and the EAEU amid the changing international context. | The authors present both critical and positive opinions on Eurasianism, Eurasian integration and its political and economic interlinkages with other countries and associations (China, Vietnam, t…

_____ (2022-04-06). Why Should Progressives Embrace a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights? Because They Already Do. commondreams.org Progressives need to make clear to the American people that they have a cohesive economic program for the country—one that the American People want.

scorinoco (2022-04-06). Sri Lanka: President Revokes Emergency Declared 5 Days Ago Amidst Protests Over Economic Crisis. orinocotribune.com President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, revoked on Tuesday, April 5, the state of emergency he had declared five days ago amidst a spate of protests, including outside his house, over the worst economic crisis on the island nation. | In gazette notification no 2274/10 issued late Tuesday night, the president announced that he has withdrawn the emergency rule ordinance which gave security forces sweeping powers to curb any disturbance in the country. | On April 1, Rajapaksa had issued a special gazette notification declaring a nationwide public emergency in effect immediately. In the notification, the Presiden…

WSWS (2022-04-06). Home buyers to take major hit as Australian central bank moves to lift interest rates. wsws.org A cash rate of 1.75 percent at the end of year, now being priced in by financial markets, would lift repayments on an $800,000 mortgage by almost $1,400 a month.

Braxton Brewington (2022-04-06). Biden's 2023 Budget Could Have Made Child Care Free. Instead, It Boosts Police. truthout.org Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't speaking rhetorically when he urged the U.S. to "undergo a radical revolution of values." In fact, he spoke quite plainly when he declared that "a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." Fifty-five years later, our nation's triple evils that King so famously promulgated — racism, poverty and militarism — manifest in President Joe Biden's most significant value statement: his budget. | Widely considered a wish list, a spending package is a reflection of a president's po…

_____ (2022-04-06). Laboring Beyond Black Representation. popularresistance.org Because most of what passes as Black thought nowadays has been criminally captured by white capital (philanthropic foundations, corporate advertising, government funding, academia, business roundtables etc.) it was inevitable that the recent union victory against Amazon would fail to trend in the same spellbounding way as recent stories have in the Blacksphere. As a consequence, a feeble smack from one rich negro onto another and a token "First Black " woman judge appointed to a supreme court that regularly rules against (Black) labor is naturally lifted above the story of the first union to form against the insi…

_____ (2022-04-06). Watchdog Finds DeJoy Invests In COVID Company, Potentially Breaking Law. popularresistance.org Postmaster General Louis DeJoy may have broken federal conflict of interest laws by holding investments in a company with federal government contracts for COVID rapid test kits, according to a government watchdog's analysis of the embattled Trump appointee's financial disclosures. | The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) found in a report released last week that DeJoy owns roughly between $50,000 and $250,000 of stock in Abbott Laboratories, which produces the popular BinaxNow COVID testing kits. Earlier this year, federal officials awarded Abbott a $306 million contract for test kits as part of the governmen…

_____ (2022-04-06). DC Protest Calls On Biden To Cancel Student Debt. popularresistance.org Washington, D.C. – Hundreds of people converged in Washington, D.C. on Monday for a national day of action to demand that the Biden administration cancel all outstanding federal student loan debt via executive order. | "All it takes is a signature," said the Debt Collective, a debtors' union that organized the "Pick Up the Pen, Joe" demonstration, which was supported by a coalition that includes dozens of progressive advocacy groups and labor unions. Following speeches and performances in front of the Eisenhower Memorial, the crowd marched outside the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). | Monday's rally and march…

Dean Baker (2022-04-06). Being a Bit Serious About Oil Prices. cepr.net We have a world oil market…many Republican politicians are running around saying that if we just produced more oil here, we wouldn't have to worry about high gas prices. The numbers indicate otherwise.

WSWS (2022-04-06). Peruvian government deploys army, locks down Lima, then rescinds order as cost-of-living protests swell. wsws.org The growing protests in Peru are the latest expression of a global wave of social protest over spiraling prices exacerbated by the war between the US/NATO and Russia in Ukraine…

Brasil de Fato (2022-04-06). Peruvian President Castillo backed into a corner amid fuel-hike protests. peoplesdispatch.org Peru's President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday April 5 suspended the decree he signed hours earlier that imposed a curfew in the capital Lima and the district of Callao. The measure was taken after a meeting with the Congress' Board of Directors. | "I must inform you that as of now we are going to cancel the curfew, it is up to the Peruvian people to calm down," Castillo said. | Faced with a truckers' protest over skyrocketing fuel prices, Castillo had decreed a curfew after more than a week's strike, with episodes of road blockages, looting and destruction of private property. | Part of the population, however, did…

Sharon Zhang (2022-04-06). Sanders, Bush Unveil Bill to Use the Defense Production Act to Fund Clean Energy. truthout.org As President Joe Biden doubles down on fossil fuels amid high gas prices, Democratic and progressive lawmakers have introduced a bill to instead make investments in renewable energy to lower utility prices and boost energy independence in the U.S. | The Energy Security and Independence Act,

WSWS (2022-04-06). Spanish trucker on suspending the strike: "Fuel prices will keep rising as the war goes on" wsws.org Truckers have said that the suspension of the nationwide truckers strike is only temporary, so they can recover financially before striking in the summer.

WSWS (2022-04-06). Spanish truckers "temporarily suspend" 3-week strike against high fuel prices. wsws.org Spain's truck drivers agreed Saturday to "temporarily suspend" a 20-day strike over crippling fuel prices amid the NATO war drive targeting Russia and its energy exports.

WSWS (2022-04-06). What the UAW 2021 financial report shows: Assets rise, membership falls. wsws.org Despite a 6 percent drop in membership in 2021, the UAW saw its total assets increase, as it hoarded its strike fund by isolating or blocking a series of walkouts and other struggles.

Editor (2022-04-06). What Would It Take for Military Spending in America to Go Down? scheerpost.com [ By William Astore / I have a question for you: What would it take in today's world for America's military spending to go down? Here's one admittedly farfetched scenario: Vladimir Putin loses his grip on power and Russia retrenches militarily while reaching out to normalize relations with the West. At the same time, China prudently decides to spend les…

WSWS (2022-04-06). Canada commits to purchase F-35 fighter jets, vows massive defence spending hike in April 7 budget. wsws.org The minority Liberal government is assured of parliamentary support for its plans to rapidly expand the Canadian military's war-making capabilities, thanks to the "confidence-and-supply" agreement it recently struck with the trade union-sponsored NDP.

_____ (2022-04-06). How the Supreme Court Could Make Your Life More Dangerous. commondreams.org If Republican appointees on the Supreme Court succeed in gutting regulatory agencies, we all lose. This agenda is anti-worker, anti-consumer, and anti-environment. The only thing it's good for is corporate profits.

WSWS (2022-04-06). Profiting off of the pandemic, CEO pay increased to record levels in 2021 while workers' wages fell. wsws.org Data filed by top US corporations to the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that CEOs dramatically increased their compensation in the second year of the pandemic.

WSWS (2022-04-06). US Justice Department expanding probe of taxes, business dealings of Hunter Biden. wsws.org After previously dismissing claims that Hunter Biden traded on the family name for profit, Democratic-aligned newspapers, such the Washington Post and New York Times , recently published reports confirming details of the allegations.

Capire (2022-04-06). "Weapons are not tools for peace": feminists against wars and NATO. peoplesdispatch.org War and militarism perpetuate the system of exploitation and oppression in which we live, destroying communities, unbalancing economies and ways of life, suppressing sovereignty and freedom. For decades, the feminist movement has been denouncing the impacts of war on women's lives and its connection to patriarchy, capitalism, and racism. Feminists are aware of NATO's imperialist nature and its desire to control peoples and territories around the world. Feminists say "no" to the war on Ukraine and also to wars, sanctions and occupations in Palestine, Yemen, Western Sahara and other territories. | On the processes…

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-04-06). Iran devises strategy for industrialized nuclear program. en.mehrnews.com In the latest sign of Iran's determination to advance its nuclear program, the Ebrahim Raeisi administration announced that it will soon unveil a comprehensive document for boosting the country's nuclear development.

Staff (2022-04-06). SNB 61: Gallos se escapan y Leones siguen imbatibles. cubadebate.cu Muy productiva fue la jornada de este martes para los Gallos de Sancti Spíritus, al combinar una victoria con las derrotas de sus más cercanos perseguidores, para aumentar su ventaja en la primera posición del torneo. La calurosa tarde fue beneficiosa también para aumentar la temperatura de los maderos en varios estadios, y para que los Industriales de la capital extendieran a golpe de jonrones su racha ganadora a ocho partidos.

Editor (2022-04-06). U.S. biggest spoiler of Ukraine situation, European security. mronline.org After the latest round of talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey on Tuesday, both sides said the negotiations released positive signals. Ukraine proposed adopting neutral status in exchange for security guarantees from the international community. Russia said the country would sharply cut military activity around Kiev and Chernihiv.

WSWS (2022-04-06). Sri Lankan plantation workers strike and demonstrate for overthrow of Rajapakse government. wsws.org The stoppage was called by the Glenugie Estate Workers Action Committee, which was formed with the support of the Socialist Equality Party.

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2022-04-06: News Headlines

____ (2022-04-06). Home buyers to take major hit as Australian central bank moves to lift interest rates. wsws.org A cash rate of 1.75 percent at the end of year, now being priced in by financial markets, would lift repayments on an $800,000 mortgage by almost $1,400 a month.

____ (2022-04-06). Spanish trucker on suspending the strike: "Fuel prices will keep rising as the war goes on" wsws.org Truckers have said that the suspension of the nationwide truckers strike is only temporary, so they can recover financially before striking in the summer.

____ (2022-04-06). Spanish truckers "temporarily suspend" 3-week strike against high fuel prices. wsws.org Spain's truck drivers agreed Saturday to "temporarily suspend" a 20-day strike over crippling fuel prices amid the NATO war drive targeting Russia and its energy exports.

____ (2022-04-06). Peruvian government deploys army, locks down Lima, then rescinds order as cost-of-living protests swell. wsws.org The growing protests in Peru are the latest expression of a global wave of social protest over spiraling prices exacerbated by the war between the US/NATO and Russia in Ukraine…

____ (2022-04-06). What the UAW 2021 financial report shows: Assets rise, membership falls. wsws.org Despite a 6 percent drop in membership in 2021, the UAW saw its total assets increase, as it hoarded its strike fund by isolating or blocking a series of walkouts and other struggles.

____ (2022-04-06). Canada commits to purchase F-35 fighter jets, vows massive defence spending hike in April 7 budget. wsws.org The minority Liberal government is assured of parliamentary support for its plans to rapidly expand the Canadian military's war-making capabilities, thanks to the "confidence-and-supply" agreement it recently struck with the trade union-sponsored NDP.

____ (2022-04-06). US Justice Department expanding probe of taxes, business dealings of Hunter Biden. wsws.org After previously dismissing claims that Hunter Biden traded on the family name for profit, Democratic-aligned newspapers, such the Washington Post and New York Times , recently published reports confirming details of the allegations.

____ (2022-04-06). Profiting off of the pandemic, CEO pay increased to record levels in 2021 while workers' wages fell. wsws.org Data filed by top US corporations to the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that CEOs dramatically increased their compensation in the second year of the pandemic.

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-04-06). Iran devises strategy for industrialized nuclear program. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 06 (MNA) — In the latest sign of Iran's determination to advance its nuclear program, the Ebrahim Raeisi administration announced that it will soon unveil a comprehensive document for boosting the country's nuclear development.

____ (2022-04-06). Sri Lankan plantation workers strike and demonstrate for overthrow of Rajapakse government. wsws.org The stoppage was called by the Glenugie Estate Workers Action Committee, which was formed with the support of the Socialist Equality Party.

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-04-06). Tuesday 4/19: Revolution, She Wrote — Online Reading/Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

Brian Berletic (2022-04-05). Solomon Islands and China's Security Pact: Why is the West Complaining? thealtworld.com The Solomon Islands is in the process of working out a security pact with China which would allow Chinese police and soldiers to help maintain order in the country upon request. The West has decried this deal as a sign of growing Chinese influence, but fail to point out the context within which this pact is necessary for both the Solomon Islands and China. | It has been the US, Australia, and Taiwan who have undermined the peace, stability, and security of the Solomon Islands for years, forcing Honiara to find a more reliable security partner. China is already a reliable and important economic partner, thus Honia…

JANET (2022-04-05). World hunger and the war in Ukraine. iacenter.org By Vijay Prashad April 5, 2022 During this war on Ukraine, No Cold War launched a new publication called Briefings, which will be factual texts on matters of global concern. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research shared this first briefing: Billions of people around the world will suffer from this hunger crisis. The war in Ukraine, along with sanctions imposed by the United States and Western countries against Russia, have caused global food, fertilizer and fuel prices to skyrocket and endanger the world food supply. This conflict is exacerbating the existing crisis of global hunger and imperils the living…

Sam Gindin (2022-04-05). Inflation: Reframing the Narrative. socialistproject.ca Fighting inflation is on the public agenda today in a way not seen since the 1970s. The orthodox response — having central banks raise interest rates to slow the economy, and ultimately, prices — is already in play. Yet current price increases aren't the result of the traditional phantoms haunting central banks of overheated economies and the excessive power of unions. What we're facing today is an inflation of a particular kind — the knock-on effects of a unique non-economic shock. | Covid forced states to do something never done before in consciously placing major parts of the economy on ho…

ecns.cn (2022-04-05). RCEP, bilateral FTAs to boost Cambodia's economy: World Bank. ecns.cn The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade pact and bilateral free trade agreements (FTA) will be a booster for Cambodia's economic growth in the coming years, according to the World Bank's economic update report released on Tuesday.

Andy Kroll (2022-04-05). What Would It Take for Military Spending in America to Go Down? tomdispatch.com I have a question for you: What would it take in today's world for America's military spending to go down? Here's one admittedly farfetched scenario: Vladimir Putin loses his grip on power and Russia retrenches militarily while reaching out to normalize relations with the West. At the same time, China prudently decides to spend less on its military, pursuing economic power while abandoning any pretense to a militarized superpower status. Assuming such an unlikely scenario, with a "new cold war" nipped in the bud and the U.S. as the world's unchallenged global hegemon, Pentagon spending would surely shrink, right?

____ (2022-04-05). Tunisian president assumes dictatorial powers amid deepening social unrest. wsws.org This year has seen numerous demonstrations protesting social and economic conditions, with the total number of demonstrations in the eight months since SaàØed's July coup topping those that proceeded it.

oneworld.press (2022-04-05). Sri Lanka Is The Latest Victim Of The US' "South Asian Spring" oneworld.press The Hybrid War modus operandi being employed by America is to prompt an economic crisis to cover up the preplanned regime change campaign that it's launching against non-aligned governments across the Global South as punishment for their independent foreign policies.

_____ (2022-04-05). Why the EU is Confronting China. journal-neo.org The EU is clearly on a diplomatic war path vis-à -vis China. In the most recent (April 1, 2022) virtual EU-China summit, the Europeans clearly told Beijing that the latter's support for Russia in its ongoing military operation in Ukraine will have a serious cost i.e., a rupture in the EU-China economic ties. China, on the …

ecns.cn (2022-04-05). Partnership tipped to welcome more members in next few years. ecns.cn Signs are already emerging that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, could expand beyond the one-third of the world it already covers.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-04-05). A Poor People's Pandemic Report links poverty, race, coronavirus deaths. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Poverty is inextricably linked with the almost one million U.S. deaths, so far, from the coronavirus pandemic, a new and detailed report says. And the county-by-county statistics also reveal a disproportionate impact on people of color, it adds. A Poor People's Pandemic Report: Mapping The Intersection Of Poverty, Race And Covid-19—the formal name for the …

____ (2022-04-05). Three-alarm house fire kills twin brothers in Trenton, New Jersey. wsws.org The fire is only the latest tragedy in a former industrial city beset by poverty, violence and neglect.

____ (2022-04-05). New Zealand student with Long COVID denounces abandonment of public health measures. wsws.org A 22-year-old Wellington student spoke to the WSWS about her experience with Long COVID and her deep concern at the Labour government's decision to lift public health restrictions while infections and deaths are surging.

James Goodman (2022-04-05). The Fight for Labor Rights in Mexico. progressive.org Activists are beginning to undo the damage done by NAFTA.

_____ (2022-04-05). Workers Used Amazon's Captive Audience Meetings Against Amazon. popularresistance.org Amazon workers in Staten Island, N.Y., astonished the world last week when they voted to form the first-ever U.S. union at the e‚Äëcommerce behemoth, which is known for ferociously opposing its workers' efforts to organize. The Amazon Labor Union (ALU), which won the effort at the JFK8 fulfillment center, had been targeted by such anti-union efforts, and its co-founder, Chris Smalls, had been called "not smart or articulate" by Amazon officials. (Smalls co-founded the union after he was fired for organizing for safer conditions during the pandemic.) | Workers and organizers across the country are…

_____ (2022-04-05). Higher Ed Labor Unites For Equity For All: Faculty, Staff And Students. popularresistance.org Students swell the picket lines of dining service workers. Staff fight for cancellation of exorbitant graduate student workers' fees. Undergraduate student workers learn about the precarity and low pay behind the title "adjunct" and demand their university administrations do better. Tenured faculty insist that part-time instructors receive benefits. Across higher education, workers are realizing that they depend on each other to get work done, from faculty, academic staff, graduate and undergraduate student workers, to janitors and clerical and technical workers—and the landscape of organizing is changing.

Ann Brown (2022-04-05). Labor King Chris Smalls Takes On AOC After Legendary Amazon Victory: 3 Things To Know. moguldom.com The Amazon Labor Union movement spearheaded by fired New York City Amazon worker Chris Smalls had a legendary victory on April 2 when employees at the Staten Island warehouse voted to join the upstart labor union. The move marked the union's first entry into the e-commerce giant's U.S. operations. But it was a victory void …

Staff (2022-04-05). Boxeadores cubanos se insertarán en circuitos profesionales sin abandonar el sueño olímpico (+ Video). cubadebate.cu Ariel Saínz, vicepresidente del Instituto Nacional de Deportes, Educación Física y Recreación aseguró que el boxeo ha sido el deporte cubano que más títulos ha obtenido a nivel internacional. "En Juegos Olímpicos alcanzaron 41 oros y 77 en campeonatos mundiales, lo que ilustra cómo nuestros púgiles han prestigiado al movimiento deportivo". Reconoció la labor de padres fundadores de la escuela cubana de boxeo, como Eduardo Santiago, Alcides Sagarra y Sarbelio Fuentes.

____ (2022-04-05). Labor-Greens bury Assange's plight ahead of Australian federal election. wsws.org A particularly pernicious role is played by Greens MPs who have criticised Assange's persecution, but are working with Labor to ensure it is buried in the forthcoming election.

_____ (2022-04-05). Amazon Workers In Staten Island Clinch A Historic Victory. popularresistance.org It's the magical stuff of Disney movies. But yesterday, the improbable became the most probable when the scrappy band of workers who make up the Amazon Labor Union took the lead in a union election at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, putting within reach a historic labor win at the corporate behemoth. | Before the vote count most reporters had dismissed the independent union's chances, treating the organizing as a curiosity at best. "I think we have been overlooked," said ALU Treasurer Madeline Wesley Thursday night. "And I think that that ends tomorrow when we are victorious." | The ALU clinched a decisiv…

_____ (2022-04-05). Millionaires for Humanity Calls Forbes List 'A Slap in the Face of Society'. commondreams.org "The Forbes rich list shows us that we are living in a tale of two pandemics where billionaire wealth is still booming, while most of humanity is going bust," said one campaigner.

____ (2022-04-05). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Heavy cargo truckers in Peru blocked highways over surging fuel prices while a threatened walkout by 1,300 workers at the Kennecott Copper Mine in Utah was averted after union rammed through a last-minute deal.

_____ (2022-04-05). The Coming Global Financial Revolution. popularresistance.org The first challenge by a major power to what became known as the petrodollar has come in 2022. In the month after the Ukraine conflict began, the U.S. and its European allies imposed heavy financial sanctions on Russia in response to the illegal military invasion. The Western measures included freezing nearly half of the Russian central bank's 640 billion U.S. dollars in financial reserves, expelling several of Russia's largest banks from the SWIFT global payment system, imposing export controls aimed at limiting Russia's access to advanced technologies, closing down their airspace and ports to Russian planes and…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-04-05). Georgia Governor Candidate Stacey Abrams Is Now Worth $3M From Book And Speaking Fees. moguldom.com Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is now a millionaire three times over. The voting rights activist and Spelman College graduate, who launched her second campaign for governor of the peach state in 2021, has reportedly overcome financial hurdles which plagued her when she ran in 2018 against current Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Abrams is now …

Megan Davies (2022-04-05). US Stops Russian Bond Payments. anti-empire.com Source: The United States stopped the Russian government on Monday from paying holders of its sovereign debt more than $600 million from reserves held at American banks, in a move meant to ratchet up pressure on Moscow and eat into its holdings of U.S. dollars. | Under sanctions put in place after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, foreign currency reserves held by the Russian central bank at U.S. financial institutions were frozen. | But the Treasury Department had been allowing the Russian government to use those funds to m…

____ (2022-04-05). Japan to match Germany's NATO military spending level, develop first external strike ability since WWII. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kyodo NewsApril 5, 2022 Japan defense chief looks to boost defense capabilities "drastically" A meeting of foreign ministers of NATO member and allied states will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. The ministerial will gather officials of Australia, Finland, Georgia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Sweden and Ukraine. Japan's defense minister said Monday his ministry will …

themoscowtimes (2022-04-05). U.S., Britain to Seek Russia's Suspension From UN Rights Council. themoscowtimes.com Suspending Russia from the council would require a vote in favor by two-thirds of the UN General Assembly.

Kevin Mwanza (2022-04-05). Solana Is Turning Into High Flyer Crypto Again, Spikes To $130+: 3 Things To Know. moguldom.com Ethereum competitor Solana (SOL) has led price gains in a rally of top cryptocurrencies as investors' risk appetite rises for altcoins amidst capital rotation from the recent revival in Bitcoin, analysts said. The rally in SOL and other altcoins bulked the overall cryptocurrency market trend while most coins fell, dragged lower by profit-taking on Bitcoin's …

_____ (2022-04-05). New Analysis Details 'Master Class in War Profiteering' by US Oil Giants. commondreams.org "Oil and gas companies are feeding off humanitarian disaster and consumer suffering in order to reward Wall Street," said Lukas Ross at Friends of the Earth.

_____ (2022-04-05). Appalachia Knows There's a Climate Crisis. Does President Biden? commondreams.org The fracked gas industry is taking advantage of a brutal war to put profit over people. We cannot allow that to happen.

_____ (2022-04-05). 120+ Groups Urge Pelosi and Schumer to Embrace Windfall Tax on Big Oil. commondreams.org "The oil and gas industry will reach near all-time records for stock buybacks in 2022," the advocates wrote in a letter to the congressional leaders. "It is time for the profiteering to stop."

Editor (2022-04-05). Andreas Malm & the Zetkin Collective — 'White Skin, Black Fuel'. mronline.org As regular readers of this blog will be aware I think that Andreas Malm, even where I disagree with key points of his argument, is one of the most stimulating Marxist authors on environmental politics.

_____ (2022-04-05). Will the Wasteful Pentagon Budget Ever Shrink? commondreams.org A thought experiment on the military-industrial complex.

Staff (2022-04-05). Inicia XXIII Feria Internacional Agroindustrial Alimentaria. cubadebate.cu En la apertura Rodolfo Gonzalo Rodríguez Espósito, viceministro primero del Ministerio de Agricultura, destacó como principales objetivos del evento promover la cartera de oportunidades de inversión extranjera en el sector, la exportación de bienes y servicios y elevar la cultura ganadera del país.

Ann Brown (2022-04-05). Investigative Journalist: Black Lives Matter Purchased $6M House As More Questions Raised. moguldom.com Former Black Lives Matter leader Patrisse Cullors repeatedly denied accusations that BLM donations were used to purchase real estate but New York Magazine investigative journalist Sean Campbell has reported that BLM did indeed buy a $6 million house in California. Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Melina Abdullah founded the Black activist group in July 2013. In …

Liberation Staff Atlanta (2022-04-05). Atlanta's housing movement demands rent control: Repeal the state ban! liberationnews.org The rally marks a new stage for the movement for housing justice in Atlanta.

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____ (2022-04-05). Three-alarm house fire kills twin brothers in Trenton, New Jersey. wsws.org The fire is only the latest tragedy in a former industrial city beset by poverty, violence and neglect.

____ (2022-04-05). Facebook overturns deletion of SGP anti-war video after widespread protest. wsws.org After thousands of people protested on social media for a week against Facebook's deletion of an anti-war video by the Socialist Equality Party (SGP), the tech company restored the video on Sunday.

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-04-05). Tuesday 4/19: Revolution, She Wrote — Online Reading/Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

____ (2022-04-05). Is Russia an imperialist state? A letter from a Russian socialist to David North. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site has received this letter from a Russian socialist, commenting on a letter written by David North, posted on the WSWS on April 2.

Marcel Cartier (2022-04-05). Russophobia a cover for anti-communism in Germany. peoplesworld.org BERLIN—Almost every day, I have the job of taking scores of tourists to some of the most important historical landmarks in the German capital city of Berlin. For many, this is their first glimpse of a city that was the focal point for so many of the 20th century's most important struggles. At the famed …

____ (2022-04-04). Ukraine and the Global Economic War: Is This Barbarism or Civilization? transcend.org The West's actions against Russia since the war in Ukraine could signal an emerging new order that shuns the U.S. for weaponizing the dollar and Western control over the global financial system.

Rania Khalek (2022-04-04). Grain Shortages Produce Unrest — Ukraine War Is Wake-Up Call for Global South. thealtworld.com As the war continues in Ukraine, food prices are going up worldwide — because the world is interdependent on others for food and energy. Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine took place this week in Turkey. Is there hope for peace? What's coming next? | Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute, discusses where the conflict is headed, the potential coming food crisis and Russia's economic relations with India.

____ (2022-04-04). Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present. transcend.org 29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.

____ (2022-04-04). Cyclic Representation of Coherence as Knots and Otherwise. transcend.org 4 Apr 2022 – Cyclic themes include the circular economy, environmental cycles, recycling, business cycles, domestic cycles of violence, and the cycles of conflict. Exploration of the cyclic representations of coherence considering their significance separately, or however they may be combined with others.

ecns.cn (2022-04-04). Gen Z's love of Guochao bodes well for Chinese economy. ecns.cn Wang Junwen thought he could easily snap up a fuzzy Winter Olympics mascot toy at a recent online pre-sale, but all the products were sold out in seconds.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-04). Protests intensify in Sri Lanka as economy goes off the rails. peoplesdispatch.org Protests continued in Sri Lanka on Monday, including in front of the residence of the prime minister. The entire cabinet quit on Sunday amid the agitations and a massive economic crisis…

_____ (2022-04-04). Amazon Workers' Historic Win and Corporate America's Ongoing Greed. commondreams.org If it can't fight off unions directly, it will do so indirectly by blaming inflation on wage increases, and then cheer on the Fed as it slows the economy just enough to eliminate American workers' new bargaining clout.

ecns.cn (2022-04-04). China to pilot digital yuan in more cities. ecns.cn China's central bank announced Saturday that its digital yuan pilot program will be expanded to more domestic cities following its successful operation over the past years.

____ (2022-04-04). Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey sign Trans-Caspian Corridor deal, Russia circumvented. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The MessengerApril 1, 2022 Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Kazakhstan have signed a declaration on the Trans-Caspian East-West Middle Corridor, which aims at strengthening the transit potential of the signatory states According to the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, the declaration underscores the significance of strengthening cooperation and integrating the Trans-Caspian East-West Corridor …

____ (2022-04-04). The Cost of War: 23 Million Afghans Suffer Acute Hunger, 95% Don't Eat Enough Food. transcend.org 24 Mar 2022 – Following 20 long years (2001-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, 23 million Afghans now face severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse, unbearable family indebtedness, and devastating humanitarian crisis.

Bill McKibben (2022-04-04). When Boomers Come Together. progressive.org Our new organization, Third Act, is mobilizing the generation with the most political | and economic influence to fight for a working climate and a working democracy.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-04-04). Government numbers show depression virtually over, for now. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The coronavirus-caused economic Depression is apparently over, at least for workers, for now, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. But the public mood is different, and that's a problem for the Biden administration. And with Republicans in Congress hamstringing further funds to battle the modern-day plague—despite the threat of yet another variant—that could quickly change, …

____ (2022-04-04). Canadian imperialism using US-NATO war drive against Russia to expand military operations in the Arctic. wsws.org The Western powers' success in goading Putin to launch a reactionary war in Ukraine has intensified economic and geopolitical rivalries around the globe, including in the far north. The major powers view the Arctic, with its vast natural resources and trade routes opening up due to climate change, as a key battleground.

_____ (2022-04-04). Radio Free Asia Slanders Russia and China. journal-neo.org The depths to which American propagandists descend have been noted by observers for a very long time. We have witnessed and experienced it our entire lives and the lives of those before us. Enabled by their dominant economic and military power since the Second World War, their propaganda has been an important element of their …

____ (2022-04-04). While You Were Distracted by Will Smith, the International Elite Met at the World Government Summit. transcend.org 1 Apr 2022 – While much of the world spent the last days obsessing over the celebrity spectacle of actor Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock 'live,' the international elites were meeting in Dubai for the 2022 World Government Summit. Guests included Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and Kristalina Georgieva of the International Monetary Fund.

____ (2022-04-04). Fortieth anniversary of Malvinas/Falklands war exploited to protect Johnson and sanction NATO aggression against Russia. wsws.org Now an attempt to play the same political trick is being made under conditions in which the working class stands on the edge of an economic abyss and the world faces the prospect of a military confrontation between nuclear powers. The price for any let-up in the class struggle would be far higher.

Cira Pascual Marquina (2022-04-04). Sanctions and the World Economic Order: a conversation with Prabhat Patnaik. mronline.org A distinguished Marxist economist reflects on the impact of imperialist blockade mechanisms.

_____ (2022-04-04). Economic Reality Confronts Europe With Some Hard Choices. journal-neo.org After a brief period of depression, the Russian rouble has recovered back to the position held in December 2021 and is currently trading at around 84 roubles to the US dollar. It was not a recovery foreseen by the Americans who have made a determined effort to attack the rouble and by that means mount …

____ (2022-04-04). The MADness of the Resurgent U.S. Cold War on Russia. transcend.org 28 Mar 2022 – The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia under a spotlight: How they 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 goal is to pressure, weaken and eliminate Russia, or a Russia-China partnership, as a strategic competitor to U.S. imperial power.

Dana Sanchez (2022-04-04). How Mortgage Rates Are Impacting Buyers And Mortgage Refinancing: 6 Things To Know. moguldom.com By the fall of 2008, homeowners were defaulting on subprime mortgages en masse, causing havoc in financial markets leading to the collapse of the stock market and a global recession. Saddled with mortgages they couldn't afford, more than 6 million U.S. households lost their homes to foreclosure in the carnage. Economists and financial analysts, in hindsight, were accused …

____ (2022-04-04). Save the Planet, Behead the Military Budget. transcend.org 30 Mar 2022 – Why, why, why, as our ecosystem collapses, as millions flee the horrors of war and poverty, as the pandemic continues, as WWIII and a nuclear Armageddon rears its evil head, does ever-expanding, global militarism remain our primary national purpose? This question stabs me as President Whoever announces his proposed military budget, as Congress increases it, as the media shrugs.

____ (2022-04-04). UK: British ruling elite imposes "historic shock to real incomes" of the working class. wsws.org Taking every increase into account, households face a staggering and unaffordable increase of £2,620 in their bills and other costs.

Staff (2022-04-04). Poorest US Counties Suffered Twice the COVID Deaths of the Richest. truthout.org A first-of-its-kind examination of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on low-income communities "The neglect of poor and low-wealth people in this country during a pandemic is immoral, shocking, and unjust, especially in light of the trillions of dollars that profit-driven entities received," said Rev. Dr. William Barber II, co-chair of the na…

_____ (2022-04-04). Let Us Now Praise Courageous Men And Women. popularresistance.org Let us honor those workers who stood up to Amazon, especially Chris Smalls, described by Amazon's chief counsel as "not smart, or articulate," who led a walkout at the Amazon warehouse at Staten Island JFK8 at the beginning of the pandemic two years ago to protest unsafe working conditions. He was immediately fired. Amazon's high-priced lawyers, however, were in for a surprise. Smalls unionized the first Amazon warehouse in the country. He, along with his co-founder Derrick Palmer, built their union worker by worker with little outside support and no affiliation with a national labor group, raising $120,000 on Go…

Ann Brown (2022-04-04). Labor Organizer Chris Smalls Wins His Battle Against Amazon: 'One Of The Greatest Labor Victories In A Generation'. moguldom.com The Amazon Labor Union scored a momentous victory Friday, giving organized labor its first entry into the e-commerce giant's U.S. operations thanks to the New York warehouse and the efforts of former employee Chris Smalls. Employees at Amazon's JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York, voted on April 2 to join an upstart labor …

ecns.cn (2022-04-04). U.S.-funded labs around Russia work to create bio-weapons: Kremlin. ecns.cn Moscow has information that an array of biological laboratories have been founded around Russia, which are engaged in developing bio-weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday.

Staff (2022-04-04). Amazon union slams any attempt to 'delay our hard-won right to bargain collectively'. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in In the wake of its historic victory in the election to unionize Amazon's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union demanded over the weekend that the company begin collective bargaining negotiations in early May and immediately halt any changes to employment policies in the meantime.

____ (2022-04-04). On eve of contract expiration, thousands of Los Angeles County workers march to demand improved wages, working conditions. wsws.org Last Thursday, with their labor contract expiring at midnight, over 2,000 Los Angeles County workers gathered in downtown Los Angeles to protest the county's new proposed contract that further attacked their wages, working conditions and jobs.

_____ (2022-04-04). 'This Seems Totally Illegal': Amazon May Ban Union Terms in Messaging App. commondreams.org "In case you've forgotten, union-busting is still disgusting," said the House Labor Caucus.

Staff (2022-04-04). Conozca las novedades de la última actualización de toDus. cubadebate.cu toDus, la aplicación de mensajería instantánea y colaborativa de Cuba desarrollada por la Universidad de Ciencias Informáticas, cuenta desde hoy con una nueva versión (1.4.37). Algunos de los cambios que trae son: ajustes de privacidad, mejoras en los servicios de notificación, mejoras en la gestión de geolocalización y soporte para Markdown y Latex.

Labor Video Project (2022-04-04). Dutch DockersTake Solidarity Action For UK P&O RMT Seafarers With Niek Stam of FNV-NL. indybay.org Dutch dockworkers took solidarity action against the ferry line P&O to support the 800 fired seafarers. Niek Stam of FNV-NL, who is the president of the Dockworkers union reported on their action.

thenarwhal (2022-04-04). The report on Ontario's natural resources the government didn't want you to read. thenarwhal.ca Even as it details how human activity is hurting wetlands and waterways, it focuses on the wealth generated by natural resources.

_____ (2022-04-04). 'A Poor People's Pandemic': Poorest US Counties Suffered Twice the Covid Deaths of Richest. commondreams.org "The neglect of poor and low-wealth people in this country during a pandemic is immoral, shocking, and unjust," said Rev. Dr. William Barber II in response to the new report.

Ben Winck (2022-04-04). Americans Should Budget an Extra $5,200 This Year to Cover Rising Prices. anti-empire.com Source: Inflation will cost the average US household an extra $5,200, Bloomberg economists said. | About $2,200 of that inflation tax will come from pricier food and energy, they added. | The red-hot inflation expected to last throughout the year will leave the average US household spending $5,200 more compared to the year prior, Bloomberg economists Andrew Husby and Anna Wong said in a Tuesday article. That boils down to an extra $433 per month on the same goods a…

_____ (2022-04-04). Pain at the Pumps Originates in the Paycheck. commondreams.org Rather than address gas prices as an isolated problem, policymakers should act on wages.

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ecns.cn (2022-04-04). Partnership tipped to welcome more members in next few years. ecns.cn Signs are already emerging that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, could expand beyond the one-third of the world it already covers.

Fight Back (2022-04-04). Minnesota: Labor union fights mass termination of unvaccinated workers. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On April 8, Hennepin County Administrator David Hough plans to fire or put on track to terminate over 150 workers for not being vaccinated. While union representatives of AFSCME 2822 are awaiting demographic data, past disciplines suggest the firings will hit workers of color and low wage workers the hardest. | The mass firings come as COVID-19 infections reach historic lows in our communities. the county and state have already rolled back all previously implemented safety measures such as mask mandates, access to free at-home testing and occupancy limits in buildings. | Two Hennepin County unio…

Staff (2022-04-04). Watchdog Finds DeJoy Invests in COVID Test Company, Potentially Breaking the Law. truthout.org Postmaster General Louis DeJoy may have broken federal conflict of interest laws by holding investments in a company with federal government contracts for COVID rapid test kits, according to a government watchdog's analysis of the embattled Trump appointee's financial disclosures. | The Project on Government Oversight (POGO)

____ (2022-04-04). Anti-government protests continue in Sri Lanka in defiance of curfew and police repression. wsws.org The demonstrations were anonymously organised via social media and followed days of spontaneous protests over skyrocketing inflation, scarcity of essentials, including food, medicine, cooking gas and fuel, and lengthy power cuts.

____ (2022-04-04). "Look to the health care system for being at fault"—Health care workers continue to voice support for victimized nurse, RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health care system.

Fight Back (2022-04-04). Red theory: Dialectics or metaphysics, two methods of analysis. fightbacknews.org In our last article we saw that Marxism-Leninism bases itself on a materialist worldview. But we saw, at the same time, that materialism as it came to be understood with the rise of bourgeois society was still metaphysical in its method of analysis. At this point, let's look at the difference between the metaphysical and dialectical method. Then we can better understand how Karl Marx established the philosophical basis of revolutionary science, dialectical materialism. | Metaphysics is a subject of philosophy that really begins, at least in the West, with Aristotle in ancient Greece, and is intended to look at th…

Staff (2022-04-04). Sobre el proyecto de Ley del Proceso de amparo de los derechos constitucionales. cubadebate.cu No basta solo con la previsión de la posibilidad de disfrute o ejercicio del derecho, tanto en el plano de hacer, no hacer o impedir que otros hagan, sino que se requiere de la activa intervención del aparato de poder dado su importante rol en el aseguramiento de los mismos, más aún en un Estado socialista de derecho y justicia social (C.2019, art.1).

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-04-04). Tuesday 4/19: Revolution, She Wrote — Online Reading/Discussion Group. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/RevSheWrote…

____ (2022-04-04). UK workers oppose Facebook's censoring of German Socialist Equality Party's anti-war video. wsws.org "The WSWS provides a lone voice against the pro-war propaganda in the majority of the world's media and, as such, must be defended by all conscious workers and youth."

Staff (2022-04-04). International day of action mobilizes for freedom for Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net On Saturday, 2 April — Georges Abdallah's 71st birthday — people across France and around the world joined in an international day of action to demand the freedom of the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France for over 37 years. Abdallah, the longest-held political prisoner in Europe, has been eligible for release …

Staff (2022-04-04). Over 100 protest outside Lannemezan prison to demand release of Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net At the call of Collectif 65 for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah, over 100 demonstrators gathered outside the gates of the Lannemezan prison in France to demand the release of the longest-held political prisoner in Europe. This initiative was organized as part of an international day of mobilization for the release of the imprisoned Lebanese communist. The …

Staff (2022-04-04). Georges Abdallah's statement for 2 April day of action. samidoun.net The following statement was released by Georges Abdallah on 2 April 2022 as part of the international day of action for his release that coincided with his 71st birthday. Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine, has been jailed in France since 1984 despite being eligible for release since 1999. Georges Abdallah is part …

Editor2 (2022-04-03). Russia-Ukraine Conflict Highlights Racist Double Standard in the West. orinocotribune.com By Wu Chaolan — Mar 21, 2022 | The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has garnered widespread attention across the globe. The wall-to-wall coverage and outpouring of reactions to the Russia-Ukraine conflict from the West has raised eyebrows at its double standard toward other humanitarian crises, which has unsheathed flagrant racist and biased attitudes toward the value of non-white lives that also matter. | CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D'Agata, for instance, has faced a widespread backlash due to his discriminatory comments on the Ukraine crisis: "This isn't a place, with all due respect, like…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-03). Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing Through the Fog of the Information War. libya360.wordpress.com Gabriel Rockhill Participants of an annual event in honor of Stepan Bandera march through Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2021. (Genya Savilou/AFP) On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook what he referred to as a "special military operation … to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine." Western bourgeois media immediately decried these stated goals, regularly repeating that the allegations of…

Michael T. Klare (2022-04-03). As Europe Turns Away From Russian Oil, Gas Exporters' Global Clout Is Increasing. truthout.org Few events in recent years have proved to be as transformative of international relations as Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the resulting imposition of sanctions on the Russian economy. The war and sanctions have sundered or sharply curtailed most remaining trade and diplomatic relations between Russia and the West, forcing Western firms to suspend their operations in Russia and plan for a world divided into highly segmented trade blocs. | Every major industry will be battered by these seismic shifts, but none more so than energy: Prior to the invasion, Russia was Europe's principal supplier of imported oil and…

ecns.cn (2022-04-03). CPEC contributes to Pakistan's economic development, promotes regional connectivity: Pakistani FM. ecns.cn The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been contributing to the country's economic development while promoting regional connectivity and prosperity, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Saturday.

ecns.cn (2022-04-03). Chinese-invested int'l airport to boost Cambodia's economy, tourism: PM. ecns.cn Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said here on Sunday that Chinese-invested Siem Reap Angkor International Airport will play an important role in boosting the kingdom's economy and tourism when it comes online in late 2023.

Cortney Sanders (2022-04-03). States Legislators Can Usher In an Antiracist, Equitable Recovery. Here's How. truthout.org As state legislators finalize their budgets for the year ahead, they should pursue tax and budget policies that align with Target aid to those most in need due to the pandemic and economic crises. | Advance short- and long-term antiracist and equitable policies to dismantle racial, ethnic, gender, and economic i…

ecns.cn (2022-04-03). (W.E. Talk) How does China-Germany cooperation serve as a bridge to global climate governance?>. ecns.cn How can we better promote the win-win cooperation of China with Germany and the EU to jointly lead the global low-carbon development? How is the realization of climate goals be balanced with energy and economic security? How does hydrogen energy play an important role in China-Germany climate cooperation? How do we understand the China-Germany and China-EU competition-cooperation relationships in the new energy vehicles and other industries? The "China-Germany Dialogue on Climate" held recently by China News Network and BWA brings experts to share their views on the above topics.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-03). Communication: Strategy for Wars. libya360.wordpress.com Fabrizio Casari Wars have always been fought to conquer territories, to plunder the riches of the sea, land and subsoil, for the strategic control of sea and air routes. Today, wars are also fought to prevent the growth of competition in markets, to redefine the structure of world governance, where a unipolar and a multipolar…

____ (2022-04-03). Chilean court sentences military personnel for burning alive student protesters in 1986. wsws.org The "Caso Quemados" (case of the burnt ones) occurred in the midst of demonstrations against depression-level unemployment, poverty and bloody repression under the Pinochet dictatorship.

Dean Baker (2022-04-03). More Quick Thoughts on the March Jobs Report — Good News on Inflation. cepr.net Many of us have highlighted both the strong pace of job growth and the drop in unemployment in March. This is great news. We are now looking at a labor market that is as strong as at any point in the last fifty years. This should be cause for celebration, but all the Republicans have …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-03). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-03). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other biotech companies to enable precision medicine through advanced diagnostics. Diagnostic testing can help find the right answers for each individual patient. "A laboratory test can either help in making a diagnosis for a disease, or it can help…

Labor Video Project (2022-04-03). 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.

ecns.cn (2022-04-03). Russia makes new claims on U.S.-funded bioweapons labs. ecns.cn Moscow claims it has information that an array of biological laboratories engaged in developing bioweapons have been found, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday.

_____ (2022-04-03). Will Biden Shoot Himself In The Foot To Impose Sanctions On Russia? popularresistance.org On Thursday, President Joe Biden ordered the largest release ever from the US emergency oil reserve in a futile attempt to bring down gasoline prices that have soared to record levels following the Russo-Ukraine War. Starting in May, the United States will release 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil for six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), amounting to 180 million barrels in total, which is equivalent to only two days of the global demand. | Invoking the fabled trope of American patriotism, Biden urged the consumers not to hesitate from paying twice the amount while filling gas tanks in…

Dean Baker (2022-04-03). CNN Hypes Inflation, Just Like It Hyped Ebola Before the 2014 Midterm Elections. cepr.net I'm sure everyone remembers the 2014 Ebola crisis. A

ecns.cn (2022-04-03). China's transport investment up 11.7 pct in Jan-Feb. ecns.cn China's transport sector saw an increase in fixed-asset investment in the first two months of this year, data from the Ministry of Transport showed."ÄÄ"ÄÄ…

_____ (2022-04-03). Italian Students Are Rising Up Against Exploitation. popularresistance.org On January 21, 18-year-old Italian high school student Lorenzo Parelli died after being hit by a heavy metal beam while working at a factory in Lauzacco, a small town in northern Italy. The accident happened on the last day of Lorenzo's alternanza scuola-lavoro ("school-work alternation") internship as part of a mandatory work-placement program for high school students. | In an attempt to individualize the responsibility for this tragedy, investigators are now wasting time and resources to determine who is to blame for Lorenzo's death. Meanwhile, they are letting the neoliberal capitalist death machine that legit…

Lyle McCormick (2022-04-03). Organizers protest Idaho anti-trans bill. liberationnews.org On March 16, members of the Idaho Party for Socialism and Liberation organized an event protesting Idaho house bill HB 675.

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UFCLP (2022-04-03). Thursday 3/31: Ukraine, The War & The Labor Movement A Panel. indybay.org Zoom Panel | us02web.zoom.us/j/86828281477?pwd=UTFHMkVOZDFOMXM3L2JpS3R2UkJ1Zz09…

ecns.cn (2022-04-03). China to pilot digital yuan in more cities. ecns.cn China's central bank announced Saturday that its digital yuan pilot program will be expanded to more domestic cities following its successful operation over the past years.

ecns.cn (2022-04-03). Gen Z's love of Guochao bodes well for Chinese economy. ecns.cn Wang Junwen thought he could easily snap up a fuzzy Winter Olympics mascot toy at a recent online pre-sale, but all the products were sold out in seconds.

Labor Video Project (2022-04-03). Dutch DockersTake Solidarity Action For UK P&O RMT Seafarers With Niek Stam of FNV-NL. indybay.org Dutch dockworkers took solidarity action against the ferry line P&O to support the 800 fired seafarers. Niek Stam of FNV-NL, who is the president of the Dockworkers union reported on their action.

ecns.cn (2022-04-03). U.S.-funded labs around Russia work to create bio-weapons: Kremlin. ecns.cn Moscow has information that an array of biological laboratories have been founded around Russia, which are engaged in developing bio-weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday.

Anonymous103 (2022-04-03). Civilians From Mariupol Share Their Testimonies With Foreign Journalists. southfront.org

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-04-03). Moscow poised to offer support to Minsk if Belarus attacked. en.mehrnews.com Russia remains ready to provide the required support to Belarus in case of an attack on it, and Moscow will view such actions as aggression against itself, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

_____ (2022-04-02). US Imperialism's Proxy War With Russia In Ukraine. popularresistance.org Here is my analysis of what's going on in Ukraine after one month. It may not prove acceptable to many. Certainly not liberals, the ruling elite in Washington, or even some left liberal and socialist left. But I've always spoken my mind and will continue to do so, with no allegiances to any political forces or organizations. So here goes: | First, this is a proxy war engineered by US neocons and political elites, that has its origins going back as far as 1999, when the neocons began to gain greater control over US foreign policy. The dress rehearsal for the current conflict originates with the Clinton administrat…

No Cold War (2022-04-02). World hunger and the war in Ukraine. peoplesdispatch.org The war in Ukraine, along with sanctions imposed by the United States and Western countries against Russia, have caused global food, fertiliser, and fuel prices to War in the 'breadbasket of the world': | Russia and Ukraine together

Dave DeCamp (2022-04-02). US to Work With Allies to Send Soviet-Made Tanks to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com A US official told The New York Times on Friday that the Biden administration will work with allies in Europe The move marks an escalation in Western military aid to Ukraine. Until now, the US and its NATO allies have provided Ukraine with thousands of shoulder-fired anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles but have held off on sending more advanced weapons over concerns of provoking Russia. | The US official wouldn't specify how many tanks will be sent or what countries the…

JANET (2022-04-02). Sanctions on Russia boomerang — Biden promises food shortages. iacenter.org By Sara Flounders March 31, 2022 March 27 "Food shortages — it's going to be real," President Joe Biden said in Brussels March 25. "The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It's imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well." This ominous warning, reported around the world, was delivered at a NATO press conference. As Biden spoke, workers' actions in Spain, Greece, Italy, France and Germany confronted soaring prices for fuel and food. From truckers to farmers on tractors, roads were blocked. Fishing people organized on boats. The pric…

Vijay Prashad (2022-04-02). History rounds off skeletons to zero: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org On 16 March 2022, as Russia's war on Ukraine entered its second month, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev warned his people that 'uncertainty and turbulence in the world markets are growing, and production and trade chains are collapsing'.

TASS (2022-04-02). Europe has no robust alternative to paying for Russian gas in rubles – expert. tass.com Leonardo Paz Neves of the Fundacao Getulio Vargas foundation believes, the new payment rules for Russian gas will cause no turmoil on the global energy market…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-02). Latin America in the New Global Economy. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News We spoke to Ecuadorian economist Juan Fernando Terán about Western sanctions, the Ukraine war, and how Latin America can protect its economy. Who is paying the price of western sanctions on Russia? Ecuador's banana industry has collapsed without the Russian consumer market? Juan F. Terán: Countries that export food and agricultural goods are…

ecns.cn (2022-04-02). How American financial capital profits from chaos and wars. ecns.cn There's been a particularly interesting fact emerging, or re-emerging in a new and more undeniable way, through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that "the economy" and the financial market have almost nothing to do with one another.

WSWS (2022-04-02). Arriva London South bus drivers' strike becomes focus of broader opposition. wsws.org If it were not for the trade unions, the cost-of-living crisis fuelled by thirty-year high inflation of 8.2 percent would already have resulted in a strike wave across all sectors of the economy.

TASS (2022-04-02). US blacklists 120 organizations from Russia, Belarus. tass.com A document uploaded to the US Federal Register says those organizations were determined to be "acting contrary to the national security interests or foreign policy of the United States"

Anonymous103 (2022-04-02). Kremlin Determined To Secure Russian Economy: No Rubles, No Gas. southfront.org Leon Mill spray paints a sign outside his Phillips 66 station in Perkasie, Pa., on June 1, 1973, to let his customers know he's out of gas. An oil crisis was the culprit, squeezing U.S. businesses and consumers who were forced to line up at gas stations for hours. | On March 31, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on payments for gas with ´unfriendly countries ª in rubles. According to the document, since April 1, Russian pipeline gas s…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-04-02). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

Roger D. Harris (2022-04-02). Illegally Imprisoned Venezuelan Diplomat Faces US Court Amid a Shifting Global Context. orinocotribune.com By Roger D. Harris — Mar 31, 2022 | Alex Saab's April 6 hearing takes place in the setting of a mercurial world situation, where events in Ukraine may have indirect bearing on his case and on the larger US economic war against Venezuela. | In a world where the US believes it makes the rules and the rest of humanity must follow its orders — what President Biden euphemistically calls the "

WSWS (2022-04-02). The "exceptional" economics of the Australian budget. wsws.org The opening sentence of the Treasury's budget analysis sets the tone for the rest of the document, by promoting the fiction that Australian capitalism is going to plough through the storms of global turbulence virtually unscathed.

_____ (2022-04-02). Dispatching Mental Health Teams Instead Of Police Is Successful. popularresistance.org After dispatching mental health teams, instead of police officers, to certain 911 emergency calls, the city of Denver is proclaiming their pilot program a huge success—and expanding it significantly. | Since June 2020, the Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) has deployed medical and behavioral health clinicians to respond to over 2,200 low risk calls reporting trespassing, intoxication, or mental health crises involving poverty, homelessness or addiction. | In all that time, STAR teams have never called for police back-up due to a safety issue, according to their January report. | In January, the City Cou…

_____ (2022-04-02). Denver's Program To Dispatch Mental Health Teams Instead Of Police Is So Successful It Is Expanding 5-Fold. popularresistance.org After dispatching mental health teams, instead of police officers, to certain 911 emergency calls, the city of Denver is proclaiming their pilot program a huge success—and expanding it significantly. Since June 2020, the Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) has deployed medical and behavioral health clinicians to respond to over 2,200 low risk calls reporting trespassing, intoxication, or mental health crises involving poverty, homelessness or addiction. In all that time, STAR teams have never called for police back-up due to a safety issue, according to their January report.

Anna K Blakney, Linda-Gail Bekker (2022-04-02). [Comment] DNA vaccines join the fight against COVID-19. thelancet.com As of March, 2022, just over 1 year has passed since the authorisation of first-generation vaccines against COVID-19. Since then, almost 10 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally.1 Although the delivery of this number of vaccines is a remarkable achievement, there is still a disparity in vaccine equity, access, and affordability between high-income and low-income countries. According to the Global Dashboard for Vaccine Equity (established by the UN Development Programme, WHO, and the University of Oxford), as of Jan 18, 2022, approximately 67 ∑6% of people in high-income countries…

_____ (2022-04-02). Organized Farmworkers Win Basic Demands In A Quick Strike. popularresistance.org Mt. Vernon, Washington – Tulips and daffodils symbolize the arrival of spring, but the fields are bitterly cold when workers' labors begin. Snow still covers the ground when workers go into the tulip rows to plant bulbs in northwest Washington state, near the Canadian border. | Once harvesting starts, so do other problems. When a worker cuts a daffodil, for instance, she or he has to avoid the liquid that oozes from the stem—a source of painful skin rashes. | Yes, the fields of flowers are so beautiful they can take your breath away, but the conditions under which they're cultivated and harvested can be jus…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-02). Science Saturday: Improving diagnosis of rare congenital disorders. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org When a child falls ill, two questions quickly come front and center for parents: What's the problem, and what can be done to fix it? For families whose children have certain congenital disorders, the answers to those questions can be maddeningly elusive. Laboratory tests to diagnose congenital disorders of methylation, such as Beckwith-Wiedemann, Silver-Russell, Prader-Willi, and Angelman syndromes, often come back without a definitive result. "We can have up to 25% of our results be equivocal for these conditions, and that's…

WSWS (2022-04-02). Amazon Labor Union wins election at Amazon warehouse in New York City. wsws.org While the ALU claims to be independent, its orientation is to the trade union apparatus, a section of which sees such initiatives as a means to somehow revive support for thoroughly discredited organizations.

Seamus O'Mahony (2022-04-02). [Perspectives] A fortunate man? thelancet.com In 1966, the writer John Berger and his regular collaborator the photographer Jean Mohr spent about 6 weeks living with and observing the daily work of a general practitioner called John Eskell, who practised in the village of St Briavels in Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean in the UK. Berger was already well known as a novelist and art critic, and he went on to win the Booker Prize in 1972. Mohr was a Swiss photojournalist noted for his work highlighting humanitarian issues, such as the plight of refugees.

_____ (2022-04-02). US-EU Sanctions Hit Latin America's Banana Growers. popularresistance.org Russia is a large consumer of the Latin American banana—but western sanctions have dealt a devastating blow to farmers who can no longer get their products to market. | For Ecuador, the world's largest exporter of bananas, the setback has been disastrous. Around 25% of Ecuador's banana exports go to Russia and 90% of all bananas consumed in Russia come from Ecuador. However, commercial ships carrying the bananas can no longer reach the port of St. Petersburg due to sanctions imposed by the US and EU. The sudden drop in demand has left producers with excess supply. Prices have collapsed as a result. | Richar…

Staff (2022-04-02). OPEC Will Not Bow to US Pressure, Declare Saudi Arabia and UAE. orinocotribune.com The energy ministers of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have declared that the OPEC+ alliance of oil producing countries will continue to leave politics out of its decision-making process. This statement comes amidst pressure from the West on the bloc to increase oil production and lower the price of crude oil and to expel Russia from the group. | The organization discarded the politicization of oil production the sole objective of which is isolating Russia, and announced that it will instead focus on stabilizing fuel prices,

WSWS (2022-04-02). Strikes sweep Brazil as prices soar. wsws.org A wave of strikes is spreading among different sections of the working class in response to the explosive inflation rates accumulated in the two years of COVID-19 pandemic.

WSWS (2022-04-02). US corporate profits, CEO pay surged in 2021 while inflation slashed real wages. wsws.org US corporate profits rose 25 percent in 2021 and CEO pay shot up 9 percent, while workers' wage gains were eclipsed by rising prices.

The Lancet (2022-04-02). [Editorial] Planetary health for the ages. thelancet.com This year's World Health Day, on April 7, has the theme "our planet, our health". It draws attention to the inextricable link between human health and environmental change, and to the limits of an ecology that cannot sustain unfettered consumption and blatant disregard for natural resources. WHO estimates that more than 13 million deaths annually are now due to avoidable environmental causes, including those related to climate change, which they call the greatest health threat to humanity.

WSWS (2022-04-02). German unions agree to below inflation "wage rise" for airport security workers. wsws.org The imposition of a two-year no-strike clause in the deal is aimed at suppressing the growing opposition among airport workers.

WSWS (2022-04-02). Stellantis announces hundreds more job cuts at Belvidere, Illinois plant, as layoffs continue to roil auto global industry. wsws.org Stellantis is seeking to reduce employment at its Belvidere plant down to 603 non-skilled and 199 skilled trades employees, according to the UAW.

WSWS (2022-04-02). Stellantis announces hundreds more job cuts at Belvidere, Illinois plant, as layoffs continue to roil global auto industry. wsws.org Stellantis is seeking to reduce employment at its Belvidere plant down to 603 non-skilled and 199 skilled trades employees, according to the UAW.

_____ (2022-04-02). Extinction Rebellion And Just Stop Oil Block Oil Facilities Across The UK. popularresistance.org BREAKING: In the early hours of the morning, Extinction Rebellion UK and groups in the Just Stop Oil Coalition have blocked 10 major oil facilities across the UK. We will continue to block the sites until the UK Government agrees to end all new fossil fuel investments immediately.[1] | Extinction Rebellion is blocking the Esso West Terminal near Heathrow Airport, and the Hamble and Hythe Terminals in Southampton. People are locked on at the entrances using large pink oil barrels filled with concrete, with the words 'END FOSSIL FUELS NOW' on them. Two people are up bamboo structures at the Esso Terminal and the So…

Mike Ludwig (2022-04-02). House Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill With Racial Justice Provisions. truthout.org The House voted along party lines on Friday to end federal prohibition of cannabis, advancing a bill that aims to address some of the damage caused by drug policing across the nation. While the bill is unlikely to pass in the Senate, the House vote is a powerful signal to President Joe Biden that elected Democrats — like much of the country — are ready to fully decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and repair some of the damage caused by the war on drugs. | The House approved the legislation, known as the Marijuana Opportunity and Reinvestment (MORE) Act, by a 220-204 vote after rejecting a bid…

Peoples Health Dispatch (2022-04-02). Health workers in Greece mobilize against pro-privatization reform. peoplesdispatch.org Health workers in several cities in Greece organized a three-hour work stoppage on Wednesday, 30 March, to protest a new healthcare bill proposed by the government. According to the workers and their trade union representatives, the reform will adversely affect the national health system, which has already been weakened by two years of pandemic response and staff shortages. In addition to the work stoppage, workers also staged marches in Athens and other cities, where they were faced with police attacks. | The government's reform emphasizes strengthening the private for-profit health sector, including public-priv…

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2022-04-02: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2022-04-02). Dutch DockersTake Solidarity Action For UK P&O RMT Seafarers With Niek Stam of FNV-NL. indybay.org Dutch dockworkers took solidarity action against the ferry line P&O to support the 800 fired seafarers. Niek Stam of FNV-NL, who is the president of the Dockworkers union reported on their action.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-02). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other biotech companies to enable precision medicine through advanced diagnostics. Diagnostic testing can help find the right answers for each individual patient. "A laboratory test can either help in making a diagnosis for a disease, or it can help…

Labor Video Project (2022-04-02). 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.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-02). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…

WSWS (2022-04-02). Growing outrage over victimization of Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health system.

WSWS (2022-04-02). Sri Lankan president declares state of emergency to suppress mass protests over austerity. wsws.org Workers must recognise that they are facing a political fight not only against the government but the entire political establishment that defends capitalism and supports austerity measures.

TASS (2022-04-02). Turkish forces shell northern Syrian city of Ayn Issa, injuires reported – TV. tass.com Artillery and mortar fire was coming from the border security zone, created by the Turkish troops in 2019, Syria's Alikhbaria TV reported…

JANET (2022-04-01). The war in Ukraine and its effects on Latin America and the Caribbean. iacenter.org March 31, 2022 by Carlos Mauricio Ferolla and Marcelo Depieri March 23, 2022. On Feb. 24, war broke out in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army. The war has a global impact on a multipolar international system, hyperconnected and in a critical state, undergoing a process of hegemonic transition from the West to the East. The military conflict adopts new configurations, what Ignacio Ramonet calls a new type of war, taking the form of an economic, media, cultural, political, etc. war. In addition to the economic effects of the military conflict, there is the global impact of the sanctions imposed by the U…

_____ (2022-04-01). National Endowment For The Arts Report On The Devastation Of The Arts. popularresistance.org On March 15, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the US government agency that funds arts projects, released a report revealing a portion of the financial and job losses sustained by artists and arts organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic so far. | The NEA study points out that between 2019 and 2020 the US "arts economy" contracted at almost twice the rate of the economy as a whole. "Arts and cultural production fell by 6.4 percent when adjusted for inflation, compared with a 3.4 [percent] decline in the overall economy." While the arts and culture sector remained "a major contributor to the economy,"

Maxximilian Seijo (2022-04-01). Weimar Futurities with Engelbert Stockhammer. mronline.org Engelbert Stockhammer joins Money on the Left to discuss the political and economic debates that shaped and ultimately devastated Weimar-era Germany. Professor Stockhammer is professor of political economy in the department of European and International Studies at King's College London and has published widely on financial instability and Post-Keynesian economics.

WSWS (2022-04-01). National Endowment for the Arts report lifts the lid on the devastation of the US arts economy. wsws.org Between 2019 and 2020, the arts economy, according to the NEA study, "shed more than half a million jobs (604,000 workers)—not counting self-employed artists and other cultural workers."

Dean Baker (2022-04-01). March Employment Growth Closes in on Pre-Pandemic Levels. truthout.org The economy added 431,000 jobs in March, in line with expectations. Revisions to the prior two months data added 95,000 jobs to January and February growth, bringing the three month average to 562,000. Total employment is now down by 1.6 million from the pre-pandemic level. The strong job growth brought unemployment down to 3.6 percent, just 0.1 percentage point below its pre-recession low. | Employment Closes in on Pre-Pandemic Levels: | The rise in employment in March left total employment at 1.6 million jobs below its pre-pandemic level, less than three months of growth at its recent pace. Private sect…

Staff (2022-04-01). Iran FM stresses realizing Tehran-Beijing economic potentials. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 01 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stressed the need for realizing the huge potentials of the two countries of Iran and China, especially in economic spheres.

teleSUR, yart, JGN (2022-04-01). Gobierno de Bolivia lanza política de reconstrucción económica. telesurtv.net La entrega de bonos a sectores menos favorecidos está entre las acciones del Gobierno del presidente Arce para impulsar la economía.

Isaac Enríquez Pérez (2022-04-01). La coordenada rusa y el tablero geopolítico global, la dimensión geoeconómica. globalizacion.ca La reconfiguración de las relaciones económicas y políticas internacionales no siempre se dirime por los senderos de la paz, sino que precisa del conflicto y de las pugnas, incluso bélicas en mayor o menor medida, y más cuando el sistema…

WSWS (2022-04-01). Inflation slashes living standards and pushes millions of workers in the US to the brink. wsws.org A new economic estimate finds that the average US household will have to spend $5,200 more this year, $433 a month, just to buy the same goods and services as in 2021.

_____ (2022-04-01). History Rounds Off Skeletons To Zero. popularresistance.org On 16 March 2022, as Russia's war on Ukraine entered its second month, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev warned his people that 'uncertainty and turbulence in the world markets are growing, and production and trade chains are collapsing'. A week later, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released a brief study on the immense shock that will be felt around the world due to this war. 'Soaring food and fuel prices will have an immediate effect on the most vulnerable in developing countries, resulting in hunger and hardship for households who spend the highest share of their inc…

WSWS (2022-04-01). UK: Sacked P&O workers lose jobs in rout organised by trade unions and Labour Party. wsws.org This is not the failure of a campaign to defend jobs; it is proof that no such campaign was ever mounted.

WSWS (2022-04-01). COVID deaths surge in New Zealand. wsws.org 101 deaths have been added to New Zealand's COVID-19 toll in the last six days, as the Labour Party-led government allows the virus to rip across the country.

_____ (2022-04-01). Millions Strike In India Against Modi Government's Policies. popularresistance.org The last two years have seen a further deterioration of the living standards of working people in India due to the pandemic and the lack of enough policy interventions by the Modi government. | Around 200 million industrial workers, employees, farmers and agricultural laborers observed a two-day general strike in India on March 28 and 29. The strike is a challenge by working people to the far-right Narendra Modi government as well as a fight to save the people's future and save the country.

_____ (2022-04-01). Staten Island Amazon Workers Pull Into The Lead. popularresistance.org In initial vote tallies today, Amazon warehouse workers in New York are ahead by hundreds of votes in favor of forming a union, while in Alabama the election is too close to call, pending a court hearing. | The vote at Amazon's mammoth warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was a rerun of the election last April that the union lost by more than 2 to 1. The results of that election were thrown out after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that Amazon had illegally interfered with the vote. | This time, out of 2,375 valid ballots, 993 workers at the fulfillment center voted against joining the Retail, Wholesal…

Karen Conner (2022-04-01). Strong Job Growth in March, Some Evidence of Slowing Wage Growth. cepr.net The March report showed the labor market continues to improve, with modest evidence that the labor shortages in some areas are being alleviated.

_____ (2022-04-01). Our Organizing Must Match The Structure Of Our Target. popularresistance.org In September 2017, Amazon announced its intention to build a second headquarters, dubbed HQ2. Over 200 municipalities in the US, Canada, and Mexico submitted proposals to host the site, with offers for everything from tax breaks to infrastructure improvements to promises of partnerships with high schools and universities in order to train a whole workforce for Amazon. Some even offered to rename their town Amazon. In the end, Amazon selected three locations: New York City, Arlington, and Nashville. | Labor and community organizations in each location quickly coalesced to oppose the developments and the use of pub…

Staff (2022-04-01). Yanaisi Capó Nápoles: Nueva secretaria del Partido en Granma. cubadebate.cu "Debemos hacer coincidir empeños con resultados", dijo Yanaisi Capó Nápoles, tras ser elegida como primera secretaria del Comité Provincial del Partido en Granma. Ubiquemos al lector: es una mujer laboriosa, familiar, elocuente y con gran capacidad organizativa. Guantanamera de nacimiento, toda su vida laboral ha transcurrido en Granma.

WSWS (2022-04-01). Australian Labor leader Albanese's budget reply: Militarism, business handouts, nothing for workers. wsws.org Like the government, Labor has pledged massive increases to military spending, further pro-business restructuring and nothing to address a cost of living crisis or stagnant wages.

teleSUR, yart, JGN (2022-04-01). Depósito de petróleo ruso sufre incendio tras ataque de Ucrania. telesurtv.net Bomberos y equipos de emergencia se encontraban laborando este viernes para extinguir el fuego.

Taroa Zuniga Silva (2022-04-01). Labor and workers' rights are at the heart of Chile's new Constitutional Convention. peoplesdispatch.org On March 13, 2022, two days after Gabriel Boric was

Mark Gruenberg (2022-04-01). Union wins at Staten Island Amazon, too close to call in Alabama. peoplesworld.org BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Workers at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse scored a historic victory today by winning their vote to unionize with the independent Amazon Labor Union. Meanwhile, the vote at the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse is too close to call because of the large number of challenged ballots. The NLRB Brooklyn office covers elections at Amazon's JFK8 …

Elson Concepción Pérez (2022-04-01). Bajo el disfraz de la colaboración biológica entre Ucrania y EE. UU. globalizacion.ca La noticia puede resultar tan impactante como la de la guerra misma: el Ministerio de Defensa ruso comprobó, documentación incluida, que se experimentó, en laboratorios biológicos establecidos y financiados por EE. UU. en Ucrania, con muestras de coronavirus en murciélagos….

_____ (2022-04-01). Sanctions On Russia Boomerang — Biden Promises Food Shortages. popularresistance.org "Food shortages — it's going to be real," President Joe Biden said in Brussels March 25. "The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It's imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well." This ominous warning, reported around the world, was delivered at a NATO press conference. | As Biden spoke, workers' actions in Spain, Greece, Italy, France and Germany confronted soaring prices for fuel and food. From truckers to farmers on tractors, roads were blocked. Fishing people organized on boats. The price of fuel has already become unbearable.

Jenny Pierson (2022-04-01). Housing Is a Human Right—Here's How to Make It a Reality. independentmediainstitute.org Is housing a human right? Or is it a privilege affordable only to those who have made it under our unfair system of market capitalism? If you read CNBC's recent financial advice column, you may come away believing the latter to be true. Economist and CNBC contributor Laurence J. Kotlikoff said Americans "are wasting too …

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2022-04-01: News Headlines

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). Science Saturday: Improving diagnosis of rare congenital disorders. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org When a child falls ill, two questions quickly come front and center for parents: What's the problem, and what can be done to fix it? For families whose children have certain congenital disorders, the answers to those questions can be maddeningly elusive. Laboratory tests to diagnose congenital disorders of methylation, such as Beckwith-Wiedemann, Silver-Russell, Prader-Willi, and Angelman syndromes, often come back without a definitive result. "We can have up to 25% of our results be equivocal for these conditions, and that's…

Labor Video Project (2022-04-01). Dutch DockersTake Solidarity Action For UK P&O RMT Seafarers With Niek Stam of FNV-NL. indybay.org Dutch dockworkers took solidarity action against the ferry line P&O to support the 800 fired seafarers. Niek Stam of FNV-NL, who is the president of the Dockworkers union reported on their action.

Labor Video Project (2022-04-01). 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.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…

Taroa Zuniga Silva (2022-04-01). Labor and workers' rights are at the heart of Chile's new Constitutional Convention. peoplesdispatch.org On March 13, 2022, two days after Gabriel Boric was

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other biotech companies to enable precision medicine through advanced diagnostics. Diagnostic testing can help find the right answers for each individual patient. "A laboratory test can either help in making a diagnosis for a disease, or it can help…

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-01). Graphic: NATO members' military spending nears $1.2 trillion. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Anadolu AgencyApril 1, 2022 NATO members' defense spending nears $1.2 trillion…

WSWS (2022-04-01). Health care workers denounce scapegoating of Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health care system.

WSWS (2022-04-01). As Quebec faces its sixth wave of COVID-19 pandemic, CAQ government continues to put profits before lives. wsws.org Fueled by the Omicron BA.2 variant, which is up to 30 percent more contagious than the original Omicron strain, a sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is now underway in Quebec.

ecns.cn (2022-04-01). Beijing strengthens policy support for road testing of autonomous buses. ecns.cn Beijing unveiled regulations for trial implementation on Thursday to provide policy support for the upcoming road tests of autonomous buses, local authorities said.

WSWS (2022-04-01). Workers and youth condemn Facebook censorship of Socialist Equality Party's anti-war video. wsws.org "This censorship is not only directed against us, but against the mass opposition to a world war," says Vandreier. The socialist anti-war perspective of the SGP "is to be banned and censored in the midst of deafening war propaganda for a third world war."

The Socialist Program (2022-03-31). China Reaffirms Closer Relations with Russia as Ukraine War Continues. liberationnews.org Key international relationships are being profoundly tested by the war in Ukraine, especially between China and Russia — the two countries at the top of the U.S. empire's hit list.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-31). Tunisia's suspended parliament fights against president's coup. peoplesdispatch.org In its most defiant move against President Kais Saied, the Tunisian parliament in an online session on Wednesday, March 30, voted to repeal all the extraordinary measures taken by him over the past months to usurp virtually absolute control of the country. Just hours after the suspended parliament passed the symbolic vote by a majority, the president dissolved the body. He had previously suspended the parliament eight months ago. The developments threaten to push Tunisia into further political chaos and instability even as the economy continues to decline. | According to news reports, 123 parliamentarians attende…

Editor2 (2022-03-31). Mali, France, and Russia — The Continued Underdevelopment of the 'Global South'. orinocotribune.com By Otobong Inieke — Mar28, 2022 | Much like any other country with geopolitical clout, Moscow is also known to make plays that bolster their interest in Africa. Bilateral economic agreements and security arrangements as well as everyday information campaigns serve to develop soft power influence. A prime example would be the 2017 defense agreements between the Central African Republic (CAR) and Moscow in combination with the Miss Central African beauty contest in 2018 as

WSWS (2022-03-31). Illinois State University workers authorize strike, while Champaign teachers union reaches deal to avert walkout. wsws.org Many of the campus workers at ISU live in poverty-level conditions, with a starting pay rate barely above $13 per hour, less than that offered at some fast food chains.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-31). Chicago story shows Poor People's Campaign participants the power of solidarity. peoplesworld.org MADISON, Wis.—Oscar Sanchez brought an example of the power of solidarity to the Poor People's Campaign at a meeting in Madison, Wis. Sanchez, a resident of Chicago's Far Southeast Side 10th Ward, a now-predominantly low-income African-American and Latino area and a longtime dumping ground for toxic wastes from around the city, discussed a potential win …

WSWS (2022-03-31). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Teachers strikes in Catalonia, Spain over attack on conditions; French teachers in Marseille walk out over pay, childcare workers in Belgium over staff shortages; miners at Sibanye-Stillwater, South Africa on pay strike for four weeks defy lock out with demonstrations; weeks-long pay strikes by UK refuse workers in Coventry out for two months against Labour council; Chep pallet workers in Manchester begin strike week 18…

WSWS (2022-03-31). New Zealand's ISO backs US-NATO imperialism in Ukraine war against Russia. wsws.org The International Socialist Organisation, a pseudo-left group supportive of the Labour-led government in New Zealand, has declared that anyone opposing Ukraine's integration into NATO's war plans is making "concessions" to Russia.

_____ (2022-03-31). How To Build Fierce And Worker-Centered Unions. popularresistance.org In the early 2000s, UNITE was a small, scrappy union that put an immense amount of resources into new organizing. They had small teams of organizers who flew around the country and lived in hotels and motels and spent their life organizing. I think it's really important for unions to be oriented in that way, to have just about every arm focused around new organizing and building the labor movement and having militant sites. | At the same time, we have to really think critically about the role of organizers. Organizing can be such a science: We assess things, map workplaces, determine our tactics. Our tactics add…

Staff (2022-03-31). ParlaSur to Discuss Re-entry of Venezuela into Mercosur. orinocotribune.com The South American Parliament (ParlaSur) will address the issue of the re-entry of the National Assembly of Venezuela to Mercosur, the South American trade bloc. This came as an announcement by Oscar Laborde, the vice president of ParlaSur Argentina and president of the ParlaSur Democracy Observatory. | "America must be a pole, and that will only be achieved if we travel the path of the Great Homeland," said the Argentine parliamentarian, while pointing to the interventionism of other countries in the region that have joined the US coup agenda against Venezuela. | In particular, he referred to the fact that the A…

Staff (2022-03-31). El Kremlin informa que Putin y Zelensky solo se reunirán con los acuerdos por delante. cubadebate.cu El portavoz presidencial ruso, Dmitri Peskov, señaló hoy que no existe un calendario de reunión entre los presidentes de Rusia y Ucrania, la cual deberá estar precedida por la finalización del texto de los acuerdos bilaterales. Si el tratado se elabora rápidamente y se encuentra el compromiso requerido, la posibilidad de conseguir la paz estará mucho más cerca.

_____ (2022-03-31). Document: An Act For The Abolition Of Slavery, 1833. popularresistance.org Just last week a white couple, William and Kate, went on a Caribbean cruise. Smiling, carefree people, they were surprised by the intense hostility and the relentless contempt they received from the dark-skinned natives. William, not incidentally, is the grandson of a woman named Elizabeth. Elizabeth has claimed — and for many years, few disputed the claim — that her full name is "Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." Her "realms and territories" inc…

Staff (2022-03-31). Mexico Celebrates Rapprochement Between Caracas & Washington Amid Ukraine Conflict. orinocotribune.com It is a positive development that, after years of hostilities, the governments of Caracas and Washington seek agreement and conciliation as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, said the Mexican president. | "I was very pleased that it seems an agreement between the United States and Venezuela is on the right track, after so many things that have been said," Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said during his morning press conference on Wednesday, March 30. | "And why the arrangement?" asked AMLO. "Well, because of the situation in Ukraine and the increase in oil prices, the United States considers it convenient to…

Staff (2022-03-31). US weighs largest ever draw from emergency oil reserves. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 31 (MNA) — The Biden administration is considering releasing up to 180 million barrels of oil over several months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in a bid to curb rising oil prices.

WSWS (2022-03-31). Finance capital demands an end to Shanghai's lockdown and China's Zero-COVID policy. wsws.org In an editorial board statement, the Financial Times denounces lockdowns and all other public measures that impinge on the production of profits but have saved millions of lives in China.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-31). Editorial: Arms merchants, politicians, experts, think tanks batten on corpse of Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Global TimesMarch 30, 2022 'Vampires' in the war: US warmongers feeding on the bloody turbulence in other countriesConflict-profiteering syndicate Amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, arms dealers have made a big fortune in the ongoing war, and financial predators have also missed no opportunity to take full advantage of the situation. Moreover, in the US, there is …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-31). Will Russia Defeat the Dollar and Resurrect the Ruble, or Cut Off Europe's Gas? libya360.wordpress.com Elijah J. Magnier Russia will not be able to disassociate itself from U.S. global unilateralism as long as it uses the U.S. currency as a financial medium for its business transactions. This dependence on the U.S. dollar naturally puts Moscow at the mercy of the United States of America and its sanctions. The same applies…

WSWS (2022-03-31). Spanish truckers strike continues in third week, as inflation hits 10 percent. wsws.org As state repression of the strike mounts, it is clear that the underlying causes of inflation in Spain and internationally—bank bailouts and war threats against Russia—remain.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-03-31). Podcast Ep 53: Whitewashing Ukraine's Nazis. electronicintifada.net Why is Zelensky a big fan of Israel?

WSWS (2022-03-31). Australian budget boosts military spending amid escalating war drive. wsws.org The budget papers explicitly refer to "an increasingly assertive China," dispensing with the previous norm of references to "mounting tensions" with unnamed "foreign adversaries."

Jasper Jackson (2022-03-31). US investment firms prop up ad revenue for Russian propaganda sites. nationofchange.org "Investors need to also think through how their money is being used, where that money is being invested, and how they can contribute to isolating Russia and Russian companies."

WSWS (2022-03-31). Death of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson on Orlando, Florida, amusement park ride highlights consequences of deregulation, lax oversight. wsws.org Sampson is the latest victim of ride-related accidents, many fatal, in the United States from a profit-driven and deregulated attractions industry.

Eleanor Klibanoff (2022-03-31). Abortion nonprofits say Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain defamed them. peoplesworld.org A group of nonprofits that help people access abortions is threatening to sue a Texas lawmaker for defamation after he called them "criminal organizations" in letters he posted to social media. State Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, sent cease-and-desist letters to eight of these abortion funds earlier this month, ordering them to "immediately stop paying …

Jeanine Molloff (2022-03-31). Supreme Court conservatives declare war against decades of regulations, potentially overturning decades of established law. nationofchange.org What the nation witnessed on December 10, 2021, was a mere prelude to the corporate abuse SCOTUS conservatives would unleash on the average American.

Newsclick (2022-03-31). Aijaz Ahmad: critic, scholar, communist. peoplesdispatch.org Aijaz Ahmad, literary critic, analyst of imperialism and Marxist, died on March 9. Throughout his life, Aijaz keenly studied and interpreted the processes of our time and his insights continue to inspire and illuminate.

Dean Baker (2022-03-31). Wages Up by $1.2 Trillion Since Biden Takes Office, $9,400 per Household. cepr.net If we hear more stories of hardship now, it is because of the decision by the media to give us more stories of hardship. It's a bit like reporting on a rise in homelessness in an area, without mentioning that much of the housing stock had been wiped out by a hurricane.

WSWS (2022-03-31). 1,300 copper mine workers in Utah prepare for struggle against Rio Tinto. wsws.org Mine workers in Utah, who have risked their lives during the pandemic, are prepared to fight for higher wages, better benefits and safe working conditions.

WSWS (2022-03-31). Defeat Sri Lankan regime's brutal austerity measures! Fight for socialist policies. wsws.org The working class must mobilise its industrial and political strength and rally the rural poor to fight for a workers' and peasants' government to implement socialist policies.

ecns.cn (2022-03-31). China urges U.S. to end protectionist steps. ecns.cn China hopes the U.S. will stop taking protectionist measures and maintain the stability of the global photovoltaic industrial chain, Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Shu Jueting said at a news briefing on Thursday.

WSWS (2022-03-31). German government plans missile defence system for war against Russia. wsws.org Four weeks after Chancellor Scholz announced Germany's biggest rearmament since the end of the Second World War, new weapons systems are being purchased in large quantities.

WSWS (2022-03-31). Determined Richmond, California Chevron workers join global movement against spiraling cost of living. wsws.org Even though the USW is staffed by bureaucrats making over $100,000 or $200,000 a year and has assets of $1.5 billion, workers angrily report that the USW has not yet paid out any strike pay.

Stansfield Smith (2022-03-31). Why Many Progressives Misrepresented and Condemned the Ottawa Trucker Protest. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith — Mar 27, 2022 | Canada's "Freedom Convoy" began with protesting rules implemented in January by the Canadian and later the US governments requiring truck drivers to be fully vaccinated to enter their country. It snowballed into a demonstration against dysfunctional coronavirus restrictions. The Ottawa trucker protesters demanded: No Lockdowns, No Mandates, No Vaccine Passports, and if not, that Trudeau resign. | Working people are increasingly angry at the failures of the neoliberal regimes in Canada and the US to meet our needs. Unfortunately, we on the left are not positioned to effect…

ecns.cn (2022-03-31). Xi Jinping participates in Beijing's tree planting activity. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, plants a tree during a tree-planting activity in Daxing District of Beijing, capital of China, March 30, 2022.

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