Daily Archives: April 13, 2022

2022-04-13: News Headlines

Evan Reif (2022-04-13). NED Finances Key Ukrainian Propaganda Organ, the Kyiv Independent. covertactionmagazine.com One NED-sponsored journalist even fights with the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and openly advocates for the commission of war crimes. Throughout …

Staff (2022-04-13). Maduro says attacks on Russian culture, athletes pure Fascism. en.mehrnews.com Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called attacks on Russian culture and Russian athletes pure Fascism on Tuesday.

Staff (2022-04-13). Minister Plasencia: Not Acknowledging Legitimacy of Government of Venezuela is a Failed Path. orinocotribune.com The Foreign Affairs Minister of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, stated that countries that still insist on not recognizing the legitimacy of the government of Venezuela are walking a "failed path." | On Tuesday, April 12, during his participation in the International Summit against Fascism that is going on in Venezuela, Plasencia explained that in the United Nations (UN) there exists a committee that analyzes the legitimacy of a given government and evaluates the practices undertaken by that government to assert UN norms, and only a handful of countries in that committee still ignore the legitimacy of the governme…

Editor (2022-04-13). "Culture Shock": Harlem's Socialist City Council member Kristin Richardson Jordan reflects on her first three months in office. mronline.org Outsider-turned-insider looks for more allies as she fights budget cuts and a turn toward more intense policing.

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-13). Bulgarian coalition government could fall over proposed arms sales to Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NoviniteApril 13, 2022 Bulgaria's Socialists Party will leave the Ruling Coalition if Bulgaria sends Military aid to Ukraine "If the position of not giving military aid to Ukraine is revised, we are ready to revise our participation in the government," said in a statement from parliament Deputy Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Kristian …

WSWS (2022-04-13). Why did Mélenchon retire after nearly reaching the French presidential runoff? wsws.org Mélenchon's frantic throwing away of working-class support points to the significance of the Parti de l'égalité socialiste's call to build support for a boycott among workers.

WSWS (2022-04-13). A socialist program of action for the working class to oppose war and fight COVID-19 and austerity. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the Australian federal election to provide workers with the political weapons and organisational means to fight for their social and democratic rights.

WSWS (2022-04-13). Police launch criminal investigation into kickback scandal involving Unifor ex-president Jerry Dias. wsws.org There is no doubt that the Dias kickback scandal barely scratches the surface of the abundant corruption and backroom wheeling and dealing that pervades the upper echelons of the trade union bureaucracy. These corrupt relations are rooted in the unions' objective social position as corporatist partners of big business and the capitalist state.

_____ (2022-04-13). Retaining Rural Businesses Through Conversion To Employee Ownership. popularresistance.org Employee ownership, particularly in the form of worker cooperatives, offers a solution for business transitions. Shifting to employee ownership can keep business doors open, save jobs and maintain the business as a valued part of the community — a triple-win solution for the owner, the employees and the community.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-12). Giving Weapons to Ukraine Endangers Global Peace. libya360.wordpress.com Lucas Leiroz The West insists on giving Kiev weapons, even though it knows this measure will not help bring peace back to Ukraine. Increasingly, Western leaders contribute to the destabilization of Eastern Europe by promoting the continuation of the conflict through supplying weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces and pro-Maidan neo-Nazi militias. Considering the impossibility…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-12). NATO's Secret Nazi Armies. libya360.wordpress.com Asa Winstanle Italian special forces in training. NATO's Operation Gladio was responsible for untold suffering over decades. (BBC) How the CIA and MI6 created Operation Gladio, a Cold War terror network riddled with Nazis. Part one of a new series. Last month NATO's Twitter account posted a photo of a Ukrainian soldier and saluted her…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-12). Ukrainian Official Shows His Admiration for ISIS. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic As if having openly Nazi groups such as "Azov", "Aydar" or "Right Sector" embedded in the Armed Forces of Ukraine wasn't bad enough, now there are also prominent members of the President Zelensky's administration who have shown public appreciation and admiration for the so-called Islamic State (previously known as ISIS and ISIL) and their…

WSWS (2022-04-12). Scottish National Party joins anti-Russia war chorus and embraces NATO. wsws.org The promotion of nationalism and separatism in Ukraine and elsewhere, including the UK, has proved itself to be a means of dividing the working class to the benefit of imperialism, paving the road to war.

Editor (2022-04-12). The Russian Revolution of 2022 — 'Capitalism in One Country'. mronline.org Now that the U.S. and the NATO allies have taken from the Russian oligarchs their cash in foreign banks, their mansions, their boats and planes, and blocked the export of all private and corporate Russian capital abroad, Russia is freer to decide how to organize the capital investment of the economy.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-12). The Alliance of MI6, the CIA and the Bandéristes. libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Meyssan After having shown that the war in Ukraine was prepared by the Straussians and triggered on February 17 by Kiev's attack on the Donbass, Thierry Meyssan returns to the secret history that links the Anglo-Saxons to the Banderites since the fall of the Third Reich. He sounds the alarm: we have not been…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-12). President Maduro Warns Western Powers Aim to Destroy Russia to Stop 'Multipolar' World. libya360.wordpress.com José Luis Granados Ceja President Nicolás Maduro warned that a "media dictatorship" could lead to a "Third World War." Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned that a multifaceted campaign by Western countries to isolate Russia was aimed at destroying the country in order to deter the development of a "multipolar" world. "From Venezuela we denounce it,…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-12). Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemns pardon of former dictator Alberto Fujimori. peoplesdispatch.org The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) considered that the Constitutional Court's decision to reinstate a controversial presidential pardon granted to former dictator Alberto Fujimori in 2017, failed to give adequate weight to the right to justice of Fujimori's victims…

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