(2022-04-29). US GDP drops 1.4 percent in first quarter amidst Omicron surge and war in Ukraine. wsws.org While Biden attempted to downplay the abysmal numbers, his bravado cannot paper over the myriad contradictions facing US and world capitalism.
(2022-04-29). Daily Blog urges "treason" investigation into New Zealand Trotskyists. wsws.org The Daily Blog, which supports the Labour Party-led government, demands state repression against the Socialist Equality Group, because of the SEG's opposition to anti-China war propaganda.
(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…
(2022-04-28). Ukraine: From Proxy War to Nuclear War? liberationnews.org 
Brian and Eugene Puryear discuss how the NATO powers are implementing their strategy of fighting a long-term proxy conflict against Russia as well as Russia's move to end gas sales to Poland and Bulgaria amid all-out economic warfare waged by the west.
(2022-04-28). Eva Bartlett reports from Mariupol: "Ukraine forces used scorched earth tactics" mronline.org 
Yes, there is destruction, that's what happens when Ukrainian forces, and Nazis, embed in residential areas & occupy apartment buildings. It isn't Raqqa, and if you aren't aware of the U.S. illegal coalition in Syria's full destruction of Raqqa, look that up.
(2022-04-28). Noam Chomsky: Propaganda Wars Are Raging as Russia's War on Ukraine Expands. truthout.org 
Since World War I, propaganda has played a crucial role in warfare. Propaganda is used to increase support for the war among citizens of the nation that is waging it. National governments also use targeted propaganda campaigns in an attempt to influence public opinion and behavior in the countries they are at war with, as well as to influence international opinion. Essentially, propaganda, whether circulated through state-controlled or private media, refers to techniques of public opinion manipulation based on incomplete or misleading information, lies and deception. During World War II, both the Nazis and the Al…
(2022-04-28). LIVE on Monday 5/2 @ 2pm EST : Reckoning with the Ukraine government's armed Nazi militias. iacenter.org Register to join the discussion now! REGISTER NOW! MONDAY, MAY 2ND @ 2PM EASTERN Join the discussion via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KS1g5l_hQi-kXZ0Jm-w3Cg Reckoning with the Ukraine government's armed Nazi militias Join the International Action Center for live discussion with anti-fascist Ukrainians on the 2014 massacre at the Odessa House of Labor and the continuing struggle Featuring: Leonid Ilderkin Ukrainian communist in exile, member of coordination council of the Union of Political Refugees and Political Prisoners of Ukraine Phil Wilayto Author and activist, coordinator of the Odessa…
(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.
(2022-04-28). Cómo EEUU formó una izquierda a su medida. cubadebate.cu Con el fin de oponerse a la Unión Soviética, al socialismo y al comunismo, el Gobierno de Estados Unidos recurrió en gran medida a armas ideológicas encubiertas, financiando una izquierda "saludable" para el resguardo de los intereses del capitalismo en el mundo. Un tema bien documentado que hace poco fue tocado por el periodista Benjamim Norton.
(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.
(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.
(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!
(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.
(2022-04-28). Peace Movement Needs to Demand Dismantling of NATO. libya360.wordpress.com Harry Targ [Source: greatgameindia.com] NATO went from fighting socialism to enforcing global empire It looks a lot like a return to the past. Founded in 1949 to defend against the "Soviet threat," the NATO alliance is facing a return to mechanized warfare, a huge increase in defense spending, and potentially a new Iron Curtain falling across…
(2022-04-28). Contractor at Katuna accused of failing to compensate resident. plusnews.ug Amugoli General Enterprises Limited, a construction company contracted to upgrade Katuna one-stop border post at the Uganda-Rwanda border of Katuna town council is on spot for illegally encroaching on land and declining to compensate the owner. Dalton Byakatonda, a resident of Kihengamo Village, in Katuna Town Council, Kabale District says that in 2020, workers of Amugoli …
(2022-04-28). Notes From Wartorn Ethiopia, Part III. popularresistance.org 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 divide-and-conquer ethnic politics from 1991 to 2018, when a popular uprising forced them from power. The TPLF then retreated to Tigray Region and, in November 2020, started the ongoing civil war by attacking the national army's Northern Command. | US officialdom and both state and corporate media in the US have since described the Ethiopian conflict as the government's persecution of the Tigrayan People's Front and the…