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2022-04-28: News Headlines

Rainer Shea (2022-04-28). Ukraine: How the US Empire Uses Propaganda to Turn People Into Monsters. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Apr 24, 2022 | The atomic bomb isn't the most powerful weapon that the U.S. imperialists have ever used. There's an even stronger tool that it constantly uses to inflict violence, and that tool is propaganda. It doesn't merely cause harm to the people it targets, it turns them into monsters. Monsters who are willing to kill their fellow human beings for the benefit of American capital, and believe they're doing so for a righteous cause. | In Ukraine, the imperialists have done this by indoctrinating their favored ethnic group to hate Russians. Which is an absurd project on its face, because…

WSWS (2022-04-28). 2021 Anti-Defamation League report documents "all-time high" number of anti-Semitic incidents in United States. wsws.org Incited and whipped up by fascist sections of the ruling class, the report catalogued antisemitic incidents in all 50 states.

Robert Reich (2022-04-28). The real reason Congress gets nothing done. nationofchange.org So don't believe the media narrative that Congress is trapped in hopeless gridlock and both sides are to blame.

WSWS (2022-04-28). The Socialist Equality Party launches Australian election campaign. wsws.org The SEP is the only party in the federal elections opposing the explosion of militarism and Australia's front-line participation in the US-led war drive against Russia and the escalating provocations against China.

WSWS (2022-04-28). A socialist program for striking Sri Lankan workers. wsws.org Bring down the Rajapakse government! Abolish executive presidency! No to interim regimes! Oppose hunger and IMF austerity! Build Action Committees to fight for a socialist program to ensure food, fuel and medicine for all!

teleSUR, JGN (2022-04-28). Pdte. de Venezuela recibe a delegación de la OIT. telesurtv.net Los funcionarios de la OIT participaron en el Foro de Diálogo Social, el cual inició el lunes pasado y concluirá este jueves y que cuenta con integrantes de la Central Bolivariana Socialista.

scorinoco (2022-04-27). Synthetic Left Joins Corporate Right in Getting Ukraine War Wrong — Historical Analysis. orinocotribune.com By Max Parry — Apr 24, 2022 | Since the Russian military operation to de-Nazify and de-militarize Ukraine began in late February, there is a common misperception that the Western left is " Indeed, it is true there has been infighting within organizations such as the US-based Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) between its "International Committee"—whose official

Nicholas Stender (2022-04-27). France: Far right defeated, but fascist menace still looms under anti-worker Macron government. liberationnews.org A large section of French voters chose to go to the polls for Macron purely out of disgust for Le Pen's fascistic program. Even still, fewer voters were able to stomach a tactical vote for Macron than in the previous election.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-27). Canada: Chrystia Freeland's Continuing Support for Nazis. libya360.wordpress.com Maria Zakharova Canadians reacted with outrage Sunday night after Deputy PM Freeland posted and then removed a controversial photo in which she's seen carrying a banner of notorious Nazi collaborator 'Ukrainian Insurgent Army.' Information bomb üí£ During the recent G7 and G20 finance ministers' meetings, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland pushed for the exclusion of…

Isaac Enríquez Pérez (2022-04-27). Las causas y consecuencias del retorno de la inflación global. globalizacion.ca Que la economía mundial experimente comportamientos de la inflación como no se observaba desde hace cuatro décadas es el signo de la perpetuación de la crisis estructural del capitalismo, de su modelo rentista y parasitario, y del fracaso de las…

Amy Goodman (2022-04-27). Biden's Amended "Remain in Mexico" Policy Still Puts Refugees at Great Risk. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on whether to strike down the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy, which forced tens of thousands of non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases played out in U.S. courts, often in extremely dangerous conditions. Biden suspended the policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, shortly after taking office, but Texas and Missouri challenged the move. "This is a pretty outrageous idea that a new president coming into office is not allowed to dismantle his predecessor's programs that he disagrees with," says Aaron Reichlin-Melnick,…

Jim Hightower (2022-04-27). How America's Truckers Got Hijacked. otherwords.org "Keep On Truckin'" was an iconic underground cartoon created in 1968 by comic master Robert Crumb. | Featuring various big-footed men strutting jauntily through life, the expression became widely popular as an expression of young people's collective optimism. "You're movin' on down the line," Crumb later explained. "It's proletarian. It's populist." | But today the phrase has become ironic. Like too many other workers, America's truck drivers themselves are no longer moving on down the line of fairness, justice, and opportunity. | What had been a skilled, middle-class, union job in the 1960s is now largely a skil…

imperial.ac.uk (2022-04-27). Podcast: Making malaria history, psychedelics for depression and a new diet. imperial.ac.uk In this edition: We discover what it will take to eradicate malaria, how psychedelics affect the depressed brain, and how a new diet can keep us full.

Juan Bordera (2022-04-27). How the corporate interests and political elites watered down the world's most important climate report. mronline.org The IPCC scientist in Working Group III in charge of proposing a concrete mitigation plan, that is, to reduce emissions and seek viable solutions (technological, economic, and social) to the biggest crisis ever faced by humankind. The science has never been clearer: we must drastically reduce emissions to have a chance of maintaining the climate stability that allows us to live on this planet.

_____ (2022-04-27). The Gig Economy Needs Worker-Owned Apps. popularresistance.org That's the idea! Presently, the so-called sharing economy often evades employee and consumer protection regulations, which is bad news for workers. But the underlying technology has its advantages: By cutting out the Silicon Valley middlemen, platform co-ops are putting a 21st century spin on worker-owned enterprises. | The Drivers Cooperative, for example, began offering rides through its Co-op Ride app in New York City in 2021 and redistributes profits back to its driver-owners with an annual dividend. It also assists with auto loan refinancing. | Hosts on Fairbnb, meanwhile, each rent out a single vacation pro…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-27). Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part III: Crimes of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front. libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison Mass grave site uncovered by Gondar University research team. (Photo: Twitter @Hermela22) BAR contributor Ann Garrison reports on conditions in Ethiopia. The discovery of mass graves and underground prisons in Ethiopia has exposed the crimes of the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front or TPLF, the U.S. puppets who tyrannized Ethiopia for 27 years with…

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