Franco Turigliatto (2023-04-30). "Fascism is likely to return under the most innocent appearances" internationalviewpoint.org "For its part, the alternative left does not find itself in an easy situation either: the social context is very complicated and, despite a few positive social demonstrations, the reconstruction of strong movements of struggle remains somewhat uncertain." | – | / |

the Odessa Solidarity Campaign, Popular Resistance. (2023-04-30). Statement On The Ninth Anniversary Of The Odessa Massacre. popularresistance.org Each year, the Odessa Solidarity Campaign has promoted actions on May 2 to mark the date in 2014 when a right-wing mob led by openly fascist organizations murdered at least 42 anti-fascists at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. | The Odessa Massacre took place just a few months after the violent coup that replaced a pro-Russian president with a pro-U.S. one. Not surprisingly, the U.S. was heavily involved in promoting the coup. | Today Ukraine has an authoritarian government that openly collaborates with neo-Nazi organizations, incorporating them into its military and promoting the memory of Ukrainian…

teleSUR, rzr, DRL (2023-04-30). Justicia brasileña desbloquea Telegram, pero mantiene multa. telesurtv.net El ente judicial ordenó el pasado miércoles el bloqueo de la aplicación después de que la empresa que la gestiona se negara a entregar datos sobre los grupos neonazis.

Anonymous103 (2023-04-30). War Crimes In Bakhmut: Ukrainians Blow Up Houses With Civilians. southfront.org

WSWS (2023-04-29). Dunera boys in Orange, the images and music of anti-Nazi refugees persecuted by British and Australian authorities. wsws.org In World War II, Canberra signed a deal with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to incarcerate thousands of Jewish refugees from Nazi-controlled Germany, Austria and eastern Europe, in remote Australian prison camps.

krish-rad_ind (2023-04-29). Bush Family Links to Nazi Germany: "A Famous American Family" Made its Fortune from the Nazis. globalresearch.ca

Franco Turigliatto (2023-04-30). "Fascism is likely to return under the most innocent appearances" internationalviewpoint.org "For its part, the alternative left does not find itself in an easy situation either: the social context is very complicated and, despite a few positive social demonstrations, the reconstruction of strong movements of struggle remains somewhat uncertain." | – | / |

the Odessa Solidarity Campaign, Popular Resistance. (2023-04-30). Statement On The Ninth Anniversary Of The Odessa Massacre. popularresistance.org Each year, the Odessa Solidarity Campaign has promoted actions on May 2 to mark the date in 2014 when a right-wing mob led by openly fascist organizations murdered at least 42 anti-fascists at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. | The Odessa Massacre took place just a few months after the violent coup that replaced a pro-Russian president with a pro-U.S. one. Not surprisingly, the U.S. was heavily involved in promoting the coup. | Today Ukraine has an authoritarian government that openly collaborates with neo-Nazi organizations, incorporating them into its military and promoting the memory of Ukrainian…

teleSUR, rzr, DRL (2023-04-30). Justicia brasileña desbloquea Telegram, pero mantiene multa. telesurtv.net El ente judicial ordenó el pasado miércoles el bloqueo de la aplicación después de que la empresa que la gestiona se negara a entregar datos sobre los grupos neonazis.

Anonymous103 (2023-04-30). War Crimes In Bakhmut: Ukrainians Blow Up Houses With Civilians. southfront.org

WSWS (2023-04-29). Dunera boys in Orange, the images and music of anti-Nazi refugees persecuted by British and Australian authorities. wsws.org In World War II, Canberra signed a deal with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to incarcerate thousands of Jewish refugees from Nazi-controlled Germany, Austria and eastern Europe, in remote Australian prison camps.

krish-rad_ind (2023-04-29). Bush Family Links to Nazi Germany: "A Famous American Family" Made its Fortune from the Nazis. globalresearch.ca

Michael A. Lebowitz, The Bullet. (2023-04-30). The State And The Future Of Socialism. popularresistance.org We are in the midst of a class war. That's not unusual. There is always class war in capitalism — although sometimes it is hidden and sometimes there is the interlude of an apparent Carthaginian Peace. But the class war has intensified now because of the crisis in capitalism — a crisis rooted in the over-accumulation of capital. And, in this crisis, capital has intensified the class war against the working class. Austerity, cutbacks, the need to sacrifice — these are the demands of capital as it calls upon workers to bear the burden of capital's own failures. This is a war conducted by capitalis…

Conor Gallagher, Naked Capitalism. (2023-04-30). Workers Who Have Occupied An Italian Factory Are Close To Owning It. popularresistance.org The longest-ever factory in Italian history is taking place in Florence where the 300 workers are now making progress at turning it into a worker-owned non-profit that would pay the employees and produce products that would benefit the community. Should the workers succeed, it could provide an inspiration for others. | For three years workers at the former automotive parts factory, GKN Florence, were in limbo. According to Investigative Reporting Project Italy, in 2018 GKN was purchased by the British hedge fund Melrose, which went about enacting its motto of "buy, improve, sell."

scorinoco (2023-04-30). Has Nicolás Maduro Become a Neoliberal? orinocotribune.com By Thierry Deronne — Apr 28, 2023 | In various sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, in the mainstream media or in the usual middle-class "political science trotskyist" circles, a new chant is circulating. The slow exit from the Western blockade is due to the fact that Nicolas Maduro has finally "embraced capitalism" or "taken a neoliberal turn." For Alberto Barrera Tyszka of the New York Times (1), neoliberalism is even the economic arm of Maduro's "dictatorship." | The "evidence" varies: from images of posh neighborhoods in Caracas with ostentatious stores, restaurants and luxury casinos, to job offers on…

WSWS (2023-04-29). One year since Amazon Labor Union's victory at Staten Island. wsws.org The ALU claimed that it was building a new rank and file-led, militant union. But its orientation was not to building an international movement of the working class against capitalism but to building a new union apparatus.

Editor (2023-04-30). May Day: Workers' Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations. socialistproject.ca For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour's long repression of its own radical past, out of which international May Day was actually born a century ago.

Federico Fuentes (2023-04-30). Austria: What's behind the historic Communist surge in Salzburg? greenleft.org.au The Communist Party of Austria (KPàñ) stunned many with its historic vote in the state of Salzburg. Christian Zeller, an ecosocialist and professor in economic geography at the University of Salzburg, discusses the rise and significance of the KPàñ's vote.

Fight Back (2023-04-29). Día Internacional de los Trabajadores 2023: °Hasta la victoria! fightbacknews.org El 1 de mayo de 2023, las personas trabajadoras y oprimidas de todo el mundo celebrarán el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores. Este año, la Organización Socialista Camino a la Libertad (OSCL) llama a nuestros camaradas, amigos y aliados a mantener la tradición revolucionaria de celebrar el 1 de mayo. Celebre haciendo manifestaciones, marchas y programas en ciudades de todo Estados Unidos. Puede encontrar una lista de eventos locales del Día Internacional de los Trabajadores El mensaje que presenta…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-29). Socialist Unity Party Condemns Indictment of Black Liberation Activists. orinocotribune.com By Struggle La Lucha — Apr 26, 2023 | The Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper condemn the unjust indictment of three members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) and the Uhuru Movement along with three Russian nationals, announced by the U.S. Justice Department on April 18. | The indictment is a naked attempt by the Biden administration to criminalize criticism and resistance to the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine. It is also a continuation of the FBI's decades-long racist war on the Black liberation movement. | The indictment accuses this long-standing movement based in the Black…

Collin P. Poirot, The Real News Network. (2023-04-29). The DOJ Is Using 'Foreign Agents' Accusations To Repress Black Liberation Organizers. popularresistance.org On July 29, 2022, Omali Yeshitela and his wife, Ona Zene, awoke at 5 o'clock in the morning to the sound of flash grenades and drones, as heavily armed FBI agents stormed into their home searching for evidence of organizational ties to the Russian government. Yeshitela is the 80-year-old chair of the African People's Socialist Party, a Pan-Africanist political party founded in 1972 and headquartered in Florida. His wife is the deputy chair. | Last week, nine months after the raid, the Department of Justice unsealed new grand jury indictments against Yeshitela, as well as Jesse Nevel, Penny Hess, and Gazi Kodzo[md…

WSWS (2023-04-29). Montana Republicans ban first openly transgender lawmaker from state House floor. wsws.org Some three weeks after a Republican super-majority in Tennessee expelled two Democratic state representatives, Montana Republicans disciplined Democratic state Rep. Zooey Zephyr for opposing reactionary bills banning gender-affirming health care.

teleSUR (2023-04-30). Mayo Square Mothers Celebrate 46 Years of Fighting for Justice. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, the "Mothers of Plaza de Mayo" celebrated the 46th anniversary of their first demonstration in front of the Argentine government headquarters during the military dictatorship (1976-1983). | RELATED: | On April 30, 1977, fourteen women took over Mayo Square to demand the appearance alive of their children who had been kidnapped, detained, tortured and murdered by the dictatorship headed by General Jorge Rafael Vide…

teleSUR (2023-04-30). Argentine Ex-General Removed For Backing Dictatorship Military. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana removed retired general Rodrigo Soloaga as President of the Cavalry Retirees Commission for publicly supporting the military personnel convicted of committing crimes against humanity during the dictatorships of Jorge Videla (1976-1981) and Reynaldo Bignone (1982-1983). | RELATED: | In a commemorative act for Cavalry Day, Soloaga expressed support for his cavalry comrades…

Amaia Cook (2023-04-29). Ralph Yarl Deserves Justice Beyond What the Criminal Legal System Can Offer. truthout.org Kansas City, Missouri, has been in a frenzy. While the city grapples with escalating gun violence, rising alongside soaring temperatures, the much-anticipated NFL draft is currently generating millions of dollars for the city and plenty of screen time for local elites. Yet, amid all the noise, one name stands out: Ralph Yarl. On Thursday, April 13, Yarl was shot by Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old… |

Robert J. Burrowes (2023-04-29). We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite's 'Great Reset': Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively? globalresearch.ca

Monisha Rios, Black Agenda Report. (2023-04-30). The Toxic Legacy Of US Foreign Policy In Vieques, Puerto Rico. popularresistance.org Puerto Ricans had no say in the U.S. war of conquest with Spain over its colonial possessions or in the Treaty of Paris that dictated they were to become the property of a new empire. The United States acted according to a well-crafted strategic narrative of white saviorism and American exceptionalism without concern for the people whose land it stole. It wanted to further its control to the south and east via its expansionist foreign policy — and it needed to extend military power beyond its violently acquired borders to do so; the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, known as the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy, p…

teleSUR (2023-04-30). The US Economy is Headed for a Recession, Experts Say. telesurenglish.net The U.S. economy appears to be slowing, and could hit a recession this year, according to experts, economic indicators and major corporations. | RELATED: | "It is very likely that the economy will be tipped into recession by mid-year," said Desmond Lachman, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). | GDP, which measures all goods and services produced in the United States, rose at a paltry 1.1 percent ann…

Peter Koenig (2023-04-29). WHO's Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before in Human History. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR (2023-04-30). Pope Francis Calls Hungarians Not To Close Doors To Migrants. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Pope Francis called Hungarians not to close the doors to migrants in an event attended by 50,000 people in Kossuth Lajos Square in Budapest. | RELATED: | This petition highly opposes the policies of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said that he would not allow Hungary to be transformed into an "immigrant country," as it would become "unrecognizable" for its native people. | In 2015, Orban backed building a steel fence on the border with Serb…

The Exposé (2023-04-30). #ModernaGate: Moderna wins Award for Deadly Covid Vaccine it was able to create prior to 2019 because "Murderna" is responsible for creating the Covid-19 Virus in a BioLab… #CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG. expose-news.com Covid-19 is a manmade virus, and Moderna Inc., the American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that has made billions through the sale of an experimental Covid-19 injection, is responsible for creating it. Don't …

_____ (2023-04-29). Clown Prince Zelensky's Charge of the Light-Headed Brigade into Crimea. strategic-culture.org As long as Anglo-American war profiteers continue to enjoy their safe havens in Western Europe and the U.S., we will never see an end to their crimes. | Ukrainian coke-head Clown Prince Zelensky imagines his lemmings are re-fighting the

Robert S. Becker (2023-04-28). The rampage of reckless individualism matches climate change as a global threat. nationofchange.org Reckless individualism delivers just as many body blows to collective freedom as fascism, communism or fundamentalism.

Global Research News (2023-04-28). Selected Articles: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump: The Left-Right Punch to Corporatist Fascism. globalresearch.ca By Corporatism, with its offspring Fascism and Nazism, is supported by totalitarians of the left and the right and its libertarian …

Chauncey K. Robinson (2023-04-28). Further into fascism: After Tennessee, GOP censures Montana transgender State Rep. Zooey Zephyr. peoplesworld.org HELENA, Mont.—On Wednesday, April 26, the Republican majority in control of the Montana House of Representatives voted to formally punish Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr. The GOP leadership voted to ban Zephyr, who is the state's first transgender-identified lawmaker in the state legislature, from attending or speaking during floor sessions. She will only be allowed to …

Staff (2023-04-28). "Rising Tide of Fascism": Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones Warns of GOP's Growing Embrace of Authoritarianism. democracynow.org Earlier this month, the largely white Tennessee House of Representatives, with its heavily gerrymandered Republican supermajority, expelled two members, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, the two youngest Black representatives in the House. They stood accused of breaching House "decorum" for nonviolently protesting the chamber's inaction on gun violence in the wake of a mass school shooting in Nashville. Days after their expulsion, both Jones and Pearson were temporarily reinstated to their seats by local authorities. Justin Jones joins us again on Democracy Now! and says there is a "rising…

Zane McNeill (2023-04-28). Florida's Ron DeSantis Is Just a Step Behind Hungary's Fascist Viktor Orbán. truthout.org This month the right-dominated Parliament of Hungary passed a federal law encouraging its citizens to report same-sex families with children to local authorities. The bill targets same-sex families for breaching the "constitutionally recognized role of marriage and the family." This isn't the first attack by Hungary's Parliament on the small Eastern European country's LGBTQ communities. In 2020… |

Zane McNeill (2023-04-28). Florida's Ron DeSantis Is Just a Step Behind Hungary's Fascist Viktor Orban. truthout.org This month the right-dominated Parliament of Hungary passed a federal law encouraging its citizens to report same-sex families with children to local authorities. The bill targets same-sex families for breaching the "constitutionally recognized role of marriage and the family." This isn't the first attack by Hungary's Parliament on the small Eastern European country's LGBTQ communities. In 2020… |

Robert S. Becker (2023-04-28). The rampage of reckless individualism matches climate change as a global threat. nationofchange.org Reckless individualism delivers just as many body blows to collective freedom as fascism, communism or fundamentalism.

Global Research News (2023-04-28). Selected Articles: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump: The Left-Right Punch to Corporatist Fascism. globalresearch.ca By Corporatism, with its offspring Fascism and Nazism, is supported by totalitarians of the left and the right and its libertarian …

Chauncey K. Robinson (2023-04-28). Further into fascism: After Tennessee, GOP censures Montana transgender State Rep. Zooey Zephyr. peoplesworld.org HELENA, Mont.—On Wednesday, April 26, the Republican majority in control of the Montana House of Representatives voted to formally punish Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr. The GOP leadership voted to ban Zephyr, who is the state's first transgender-identified lawmaker in the state legislature, from attending or speaking during floor sessions. She will only be allowed to …

Staff (2023-04-28). "Rising Tide of Fascism": Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones Warns of GOP's Growing Embrace of Authoritarianism. democracynow.org Earlier this month, the largely white Tennessee House of Representatives, with its heavily gerrymandered Republican supermajority, expelled two members, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, the two youngest Black representatives in the House. They stood accused of breaching House "decorum" for nonviolently protesting the chamber's inaction on gun violence in the wake of a mass school shooting in Nashville. Days after their expulsion, both Jones and Pearson were temporarily reinstated to their seats by local authorities. Justin Jones joins us again on Democracy Now! and says there is a "rising…

Zane McNeill (2023-04-28). Florida's Ron DeSantis Is Just a Step Behind Hungary's Fascist Viktor Orbán. truthout.org This month the right-dominated Parliament of Hungary passed a federal law encouraging its citizens to report same-sex families with children to local authorities. The bill targets same-sex families for breaching the "constitutionally recognized role of marriage and the family." This isn't the first attack by Hungary's Parliament on the small Eastern European country's LGBTQ communities. In 2020… |

Zane McNeill (2023-04-28). Florida's Ron DeSantis Is Just a Step Behind Hungary's Fascist Viktor Orban. truthout.org This month the right-dominated Parliament of Hungary passed a federal law encouraging its citizens to report same-sex families with children to local authorities. The bill targets same-sex families for breaching the "constitutionally recognized role of marriage and the family." This isn't the first attack by Hungary's Parliament on the small Eastern European country's LGBTQ communities. In 2020… |

Anonymous103 (2023-04-28). At Least Seven Civilians Burned Alive In A Bus Shelled By Ukrainian Nazis In Donetsk (Video 18+). southfront.org The Nazi Kiev regime continues terror against the civilians in Donbass. The city of Donetsk came under another intense shelling…

Anonymous103 (2023-04-28). Russia's Retribution For NATO-Backed "Georgian Legion" southfront.org Illustrative ImageThe usage of advanced weapons like the "Iskander" to destroy a relatively small unit primarily revolves around sending a clear message to all radicals within the Neo-Nazi junta forces — their war crimes have not been forgotten, let alone forgiven. | Written by The mainstream propaganda machine covers the topic of war crimes only when it serves the infowar purposes for their rabidly Russop…

Ted Kelly (2023-04-28). How to make capitalism ungovernable — a WW commentary. workers.org Every year, Mumia Abu Jamal's birthday is observed by the most militant and politically advanced workers around the world. This year there were demonstrations in London, Paris, Berlin, Juarez, Mexico, Houston, Sacramento, California, Los Angeles and, of course, in his hometown of Philadelphia. This year, these protests calling for Mumia's . . . |

Pablo Navarrete (2023-04-28). Cine Liberación: The revolutionary cinema we need. peoplesworld.org In their 1969 manifesto, Toward a Third Cinema, Argentinian filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino defined Third Cinema as "a cinema of liberation" that stood in opposition to the values of the first and second cinemas. They described First cinema as "the dominant commercial cinema," in the service of U.S. capitalism and imperialism; Second cinema …

thecommunists (2023-04-28). Chinese Marxist: The evaluation of Stalin is essentially an ideological struggle. thecommunists.org Wang Weiguang (born 1950) served as president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 2013-18. This article was originally published in Studies in Political Economy No 4, 2022, and was adapted from the online Red Culture Network. It is reproduced from Red Sails, with thanks. ***** The evaluation of Stalin's merits and demerits would …

Frank Scott (2023-04-28). Capitalism is Democratic the Way Rape is Romance. dissidentvoice.org Whenever I see he/him or she/her I think fuck/you. You must be living an awfully precious life if, amid the pervasive despair of an economy in free fall, your uppermost concern is clinging to your pronouns." — Norman Finkelstein, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, …

WSWS (2023-04-28). Corbyn ally Diane Abbott suspended as Labour MP: The collapse of the Corbynite "left" wsws.org To even speak any longer of the Socialist Campaign Group as an entity, let alone a "Corbynite left", becomes ever more tenuous.

Sebnem Oguz (2023-04-28). Challenging Authoritarian Rule: Turkish Elections 2023. socialistproject.ca

Ana Perdigón (2023-04-28). Diosdado Cabello Explains Venezuelan Opposition's Internal Conflicts Over Presidential Primaries. orinocotribune.com The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, spoke about the ongoing instability and internal conflicts within three extreme-right opposition parties: Voluntad Popular (VP), Primero Justicia (PJ), and Vente Venezuela. | On Wednesday, April 26, during his TV program Con El Mazo Dando, Cabello stated that "there is nothing left" of the VP party, not only due to the evasion of its "candidate" for the primaries, Juan Guaidó, but also because of the accelerating departure of other leaders from the far-right party. | He then brought up the case of the former mayor of Cha…

Jesús Inojosa (2023-04-28). Diosdado Cabello: US Rebuked Consensus at Colombia's International Conference on Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan deputy and Chavista leader Diosdado Cabello said that the biggest steps were not taken at the International Conference on the Political Process in Venezuela, which was organized and promoted by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, because the representatives of the United States Government refused to sign it. | "In the end, a consensus document was not drawn up there because the US did not want to sign it, the US was defeated there so they did not want to sign it," the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) said on Wednesday, April 26, during the 428th episode of his telev…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-04-28). Is This Man a Russian Agent Operating in the Black Community of St. Louis? orinocotribune.com By Jeremy Kuzmarov — Apr 24, 2023 | The Justice Department has just indicted him and three other members of the African People's Socialist Party for advancing Russian propaganda—though it looks more like the Biden administration was looking for a scapegoat to justify its anti-Russia offensive and found one in a familiar place. | On April 18, the Department of Justice announced the

midwesternmarx (2023-04-28). Is This Man a Russian Agent Operating in the Black Community of St. Louis? By: Jeremy Kuzmarov. midwesternmarx.com ​Omali Yeshitela [Source: sfbayview.com] The Justice Department has just indicted him and three other members of the African People's Socialist Party for advancing Russian propaganda—though it looks more like the Biden administration was looking for a scapegoat to justify its anti-Russia offensive and found one in a familiar place. On April 18, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of four leaders of the African People's Socialist Part …

Jesús Inojosa (2023-04-28). Diosdado Cabello: US Rebuked Consensus at Bogotá's International Conference on Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan deputy and Chavista leader Diosdado Cabello said that the biggest steps were not taken at the International Conference on the Political Process in Venezuela, organized and promoted by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, because the representatives of the United States Government refused to sign it. | "In the end, a consensus document was not drawn up there because the US did not want to sign it, the US was defeated there so they did not want to sign it," the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) said this Wednesday, April 26, during the 428th episode of his television pr…

Collin P. Poirot, Azadeh Shahshahani (2023-04-27). The DOJ is using "foreign agents" accusations to repress Black liberation organizers. therealnews.com This piece was originally published in On July 29, 2022, Omali Yeshitela and his wife, Ona Zene, awoke at 5 o'clock in the morning to the sound of flash grenades and drones, as heavily armed FBI agents stormed into their home searching for evidence of organizational ties to the Russian government. Yeshitela is the 80-year-old chair of the African People's Socialist Party, a Pan-Africanist political party f…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-04-28). Dr. John Coleman: The transhumanist agenda is Satanic. expose-news.com People often ask who is behind the Satanic transhumanist New World Order and what do the "elites" do to protect themselves from all the bioweapons they are using to depopulate the earth. …

Anonymous103 (2023-04-27). US Politics: Intensified Censorship, Political Persecution, Schisms Between Ruling Elites — Prelude to 'La Violencia'? southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Daniel Edgar exclusively for South Front | The unofficial, unspoken agreements underlying the monolithic Two-Party State cartel (perhaps best described by US historian Howard Zinn in A People's History of the United States) that has dominated US politics and controlled all State powers and functions since just about forever are breaking down. The ruling elite families, groups and factions that control the political and bureaucratic machinery of the Democrat and Republican…

ecns.cn (2023-04-28). China's newly registered private enterprises surpass two million in Q1, up 10.7% y-o-y: SAMR. ecns.cn The number of China's newly registered private enterprises in the first quarter reached 2.04 million, surged by 10.7 percent year-on-year.

Kyle Anzalone (2023-04-28). US Ambassador Blasts Hungary's Call for Ceasefire in Ukraine as 'Cynical'. globalresearch.ca

Rodney Atkinson (2023-04-27). Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump: The Left-Right Punch to Corporatist Fascism. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-26). Italian left marks liberation day from fascism, takes a stand against the policies of Giorgia Meloni government. peoplesdispatch.org Communists and other progressive sections celebrated the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Italy from fascism, while highlighting the fascist roots of the current government led by Giorgia Meloni…

WSWS (2023-04-27). 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. wsws.org Workers, who are today confronted with the unfolding maelstrom of a new imperialist redivision of the world, the buildup of fascist forces, social counterrevolution and an ongoing pandemic and climate catastrophe, have a tremendous amount to learn from the heroic but also tragic experience of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Holocaust.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-04-26). Podcast Ep 75: Unpacking Zionism and global hypermilitarism. electronicintifada.net Author and scholar Nada Elia talks about her new book, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine.

WSWS (2023-04-27). Australian military buildup backs US plans for war with China. wsws.org The buildup in Australia demonstrates that every region of the globe is being drawn into the maelstrom of a looming world war, driven by the breakdown of capitalism and the eruption of American imperialism.

Collin P. Poirot, Azadeh Shahshahani (2023-04-27). The DOJ is using "foreign agents" accusations to repress Black liberation organizers. therealnews.com This piece was originally published in On July 29, 2022, Omali Yeshitela and his wife, Ona Zene, awoke at 5 o'clock in the morning to the sound of flash grenades and drones, as heavily armed FBI agents stormed into their home searching for evidence of organizational ties to the Russian government. Yeshitela is the 80-year-old chair of the African People's Socialist Party, a Pan-Africanist political party f…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-04-26). Is this man a Russian agent operating in the Black community of St. Louis? mronline.org The Justice Department has just indicted him and three other members of the African People's Socialist Party for advancing Russian propaganda—though it looks more like the Biden administration was looking for a scapegoat to justify its anti-Russia offensive and found one in a familiar place.

Ontario Health Coalition (2023-04-26). Community Referendum to Stop Privatization of Ontario Public Hospitals. socialistproject.ca

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-04-26). Fox News Decision to settle Dominion lawsuit for more than three-quarters of a billion dollars makes no sense. thealtworld.com Something fishy here. | First, corporate executives don't give away $787 million of shareholders' money without a test of the claim in court. The uncontested amount is so large that one wonders if Fox News itself paid it or whether this almost $800 million was a gift funneled through an uncontested lawsuit to fund Dominion by our ruling elites. Once elections are determined by how voting machines are programmed, the people are disenfranchised. | Second, it is not defamation to report the news. Tucker Carlson reported the claims of experts. That is news reporting. Dominion's defamation lawsuit should have been fil…

Alex Salmon (2023-04-26). The bloody truth about the British Empire. greenleft.org.au Richard Gott's 2011 book focuses on the revolutionaries and rebels who stood up to the British Empire. Alex Salmon reviews.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-26). Italian left marks liberation day from fascism, takes a stand against the policies of Giorgia Meloni government. peoplesdispatch.org Communists and other progressive sections celebrated the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Italy from fascism, while highlighting the fascist roots of the current government led by Giorgia Meloni…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-25). More than Mercenaries: Police as the Crucible of Fascism in the US. libya360.wordpress.com Comrade Dremel Fascism is ascendant in the imperial core. The U.S. and its junior partners are waging an increasingly bloody war on all fronts, in an attempt to bolster the decaying husk of capital. The foot soldiers in this war are the police. Armed to the teeth and trained to kill, police are positioned as…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-25). How Ordinary People Become Nazis: A Review of Robert Gellately's "Hitler's True Believers" libya360.wordpress.com Charles Wofford Imagine a political speech so venomous, so hate filled, so threatening, that at times it is impossible to understand the speaker. He rages against enemies foreign and domestic, against capitalism, against communism, against ethnic and political minorities, against disabled people, and insists on the superiority of his own nation. Thousands of torch-bearing zealots…

thecommunists (2023-04-26). Eulogies for Sturgeon highlight the fraud of Scottish nationalism. thecommunists.org The resignation of Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) triggered a wave of heartfelt political obituaries from the 'thought leaders' of British liberalism. These people had looked to Sturgeon to be their champion, even if many of them are based in London and are opposed to Scottish independence. For the liberals …

C.J. Polychroniou (2023-04-25). Regulation Won't End Bank Crises. We Must Put Shadow Banks Under Public Control. truthout.org Recent bank failures in the U.S. have raised the prospect of yet another financial crisis and brought about renewed calls for stricter bank regulations rules. Yet, key questions remain: Why have banking crises become an essential feature of contemporary capitalism? Are strict bank regulations in a capitalist society really the answer to a problem caused by capitalist financial institutions… |

Editor (2023-04-25). U.S. pregnancy-related deaths skyrocket, capitalism is to blame. mronline.org A new report out from the National Center for Health Statistics finds that U.S. maternal deaths have increased by an alarming 40% since 2020.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-04-26). Is this man a Russian agent operating in the Black community of St. Louis? mronline.org The Justice Department has just indicted him and three other members of the African People's Socialist Party for advancing Russian propaganda—though it looks more like the Biden administration was looking for a scapegoat to justify its anti-Russia offensive and found one in a familiar place.

Fight Back (2023-04-26). FRSO condemns the murder of Benito Tiamzon, Wilma Austria-Tiamzon, and the Catbalogan 10. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. | To: Communist Party of the Philippines | From: Freedom Road Socialist Organization | Dear Comrades, | The cowardly murders of Benito Tiamzon, the chairman of the CPP Executive Committee, and Wilma Austria-Tiamzon, General Secretary, by U.S.-commanded troops of the Armed forces of the Philippines (AFP), are towering crimes that will never be forgiven of forgotten. Nor will the cruel murders of the Catbalogan 10. Their revolutionary spirits and contributions to the worldwide struggle for national libera…

Ontario Health Coalition (2023-04-26). Community Referendum to Stop Privatization of Ontario Public Hospitals. socialistproject.ca

Editor (2023-04-25). Indictment of African People's Socialist Party is a racist assault on the Black Liberation Movement. mronline.org The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals.

Michael A. Lebowitz (2023-04-25). An Interview with Michael A. Lebowitz on 'Capital', "Real Socialism," and Venezuela. mronline.org "While socialists need to begin with the existing concepts of fairness as reflected in the moral economy of the working class, to the extent that those concepts of fairness are contrary to the principle advanced in the Communist Manifesto that 'the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all,' they must be rejected." —Michael Lebowitz…

teleSUR (2023-04-26). Thousands of Inmates Escape From Prisons Around Sudan. telesurenglish.net According to Radio Dabanga and other Sudanese media, thousands of inmates have escaped from jails taking advantage of the intensification of fighting between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). | RELATED: | On Wednesday, the Sudanese Army affirmed that former dictator Omar al Bashir and some of his high-level officials, who are wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war cri…

infobrics (2023-04-25). Ukraine will launch its offensive by April 30, anniversary of Hitler's death – Newsweek. infobrics.org Preparations for Ukraine's anticipated offensive is far from complete.

Alex Salmon (2023-04-26). The bloody truth about the British Empire. greenleft.org.au Richard Gott's 2011 book focuses on the revolutionaries and rebels who stood up to the British Empire. Alex Salmon reviews.

Editor (2023-04-24). Chris Hedges: The United States of Paralysis. scheerpost.com The longer the corporate state erodes the social bonds that knit us to society and give us a sense of purpose and meaning the more inevitable an authoritarian state and a Christianized fascism becomes.

WSWS (2023-04-25). PSOE-Podemos government exhumes remains of Spanish fascist Primo de Rivera. wsws.org Spain's pseudo-left Podemos party is continuing without interruption the bourgeoisie's legitimization of Spanish fascist criminals of the 20th century.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-24). Economic System in Islam Compared with Capitalism and Socialism. transcend.org Abstract: This paper covers some popular Islamic Economic topics in a short and lucid style for those who want to know the basic Islamic concepts of economy. The topic, the economic system in Islam, might cause astonishment among Muslims who received Western style education.

Ken Bank, Edward Bank (2023-04-24). By banning ESG considerations, Republicans seek to protect capitalism from ethics and morality. peoplesworld.org Last month, President Joe Biden cast his first veto of a Republican-inspired bill that would have effectively eliminated the option for fiduciary investment managers to make decisions taking into account environment, social, and governance (ESG) factors affecting their client's investments in tax-advantaged retirement accounts, even with specific approval and authorization from their clients to do …

Alex Bainbridge (2023-04-24). Video: Jonathan Sriranganathan on Greens, capitalism and social change. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Alex Bainbridge speaks to outgoing Greens Gabba Ward councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan about politics, social change and the role of elected representatives.

Editor (2023-04-24). Here comes everyone: climate, class and the movement we need. mronline.org As thousands prepare to surround parliament to demand climate action, Feyzi Ismail explains the scale of the crisis and the strategy the movement needs.

WSWS (2023-04-24). Sri Lankan pseudo-left FSP and IUSF silent on their thuggish attack against IYSSE socialist campaigner. wsws.org The Frontline Socialist Party and Inter University Student Federation, which posture as champions of democratic rights at press conferences and meetings, violently oppose the IYSSE and students exercising their democratic rights on university campuses.

A Guest Author (2023-04-24). U.S. hands off the antiwar movement and the African People's Socialist Party. workers.org The lightly edited statement was issued April 23, 2023. The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) condemns the indictment of Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) and other members for expressing their views on Ukraine. The indictment charges them with "conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. . . . |

Staff (2023-04-24). Autoridades chinas destacan en Pekín relaciones partidistas con Cuba. cubadebate.cu Figuras del Partido Comunista de China resaltaron en Pekín la buena marcha de las relaciones con el Partido Comunista de Cuba, los contactos sostenidos y la contribución a la causa socialista.Cai Qui, miembro del Comité Permanente del Buró Político de PCCh, calificó de ejemplar el desarrollo de esos nexos durante una reunión con Morales Ojeda.

Avishai Ehrlich (2023-04-24). From the Protests to Palestine: The Far Right in Israel and the Left. socialistproject.ca Benjamin Netanyahu returned to the Israeli prime minister's office in November, backed by a coalition of religious and far-right ethno-nationalist parties. Since then, clashes between Israeli armed forces and Palestinians have escalated, due largely to increasing raids on Palestinian civilians and highly provocative armed aggression by Israel at the al-Aqsa Mosque. Netanyahu's government is additionally attempting to consolidate its control over the judiciary by claiming the right to appoint judges and constrain the courts' jurisdiction — a move that has sparked massive protests across the country. On Ma…

Editor (2023-04-24). A brutal system replaced socialist health care in Europe. mronline.org Matthew Read, researcher at the IF DDR, talks to the People's Health Dispatch about similarities between East Germany's and Yugoslavia's socialist health systems and the lessons to be learned from these systems.

Tanupriya Singh (2023-04-24). Socialist Movement of Ghana calls for urgent public health response to new malaria threat. peoplesdispatch.org The invasive, malaria-transmitting Anopheles stephensi mosquito has been detected in Ghana for the first time. The species can survive in high temperatures and urban areas, posing new challenges for disease response and control…

Freedom Socialist Party, Bob Price (2023-04-24). Sunday 4/30: May Day Celebration 2023 — Workers vs. Billionaires: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street, San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49)…

Freedom Socialist Party, Bob Price (2023-04-24). Sunday 4/30: May Day Celebration 2023 — Workers vs. Billionaires: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street, San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49)…

krish-rad_ind (2023-04-24). Marxism And Anticolonialism: A Conversation With Vijay Prashad. popularresistance.org

Staff (2023-04-24). Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Vijay Prashad. orinocotribune.com Vijay Prashad is above all a militant. His intellectual work is an attempt to understand and respond to some of the great challenges of our time. Of Indian origin, this Marxist historian has displayed an intense vital activity that has taken him to numerous countries, always in defense of the cause of humanity.He currently works as executive director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a task that alternates with his work as a teacher and researcher at various universities, as well as with a prolific work in which we can highlight texts such as The Darker Nations, The Poorer Nations and the most…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-04-24). Shocking Truths about Your Money. expose-news.com Since the beginning of the "pandemic" three quarters of the world's increase in wealth has gone to the 1%. The coming Great Depression was deliberately engineered in February 2020. It will lead …

Mark Curtis (2023-04-24). How Tony Blair Sealed UK Relations with Egypt's Dictatorship. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-04-24). We STILL don't get it: It is an Empire, Folks! mronline.org In mid-March 2023, David Swanson published a very interesting article: "Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned." There were some things in there I agreed with, some I disagreed with, others I might want to debate. Still, I appreciated his effort to pull together ideas from these experiences. However, there's one thing that he did …

ecns.cn (2023-04-24). Montreal EV Show attracts enterprises and visitors. ecns.cn The 6th Montreal Electric Vehicle Show was held in Montreal, Canada's second-largest city, from Friday to Sunday local time. More than 50 electric vehicles from over 20 global car brands were displayed at the show. "ÄÄ…

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-04-24). The Western World Has Forsaken All of Its Former Values. thealtworld.com Let's be honest and face it. The Western countries are no longer democracies with free speech, a rule of law, and accountable governments. They are tyrannies. | Wherever you look you see free speech stifled. You see law used as a weapon against journalists like Julian Assange and an American president like Donald Trump and his supporters. The Biden regime has put one thousand Americans in prison for attending a rally for Trump by asserting without any evidence that the rally was an insurrection. The Western media is a propaganda ministry. The West's foreign policy consists of war. | Law professor Jonathan Turley…

People's Dispatch. (2023-04-24). EU's Withdrawal Of Tariffs On Ukrainian Grain Backfires. popularresistance.org European Union (EU) authorities and five eastern European countries are in a stand-off over the import of tariff-free grain from Ukraine. The decision to remove the tariffs on grain imports from Ukraine was taken by the EU in June 2022. However, eastern European countries such as Poland, Hungary, and Romania have been increasingly unhappy with the withdrawal of tariffs, citing the impact on their local markets. The disagreement boiled over last week when five countries — Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovenia — blocked the import of Ukrainian grain. A meeting on Wednesday, April 19, between…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-04-24). Vaccine injuries become the dominant theme of German reporting on the mRNA injections. expose-news.com Last month, German Health Minister and renowned virus pest Karl Lauterbach gave a remarkable interview in which he denounced "exorbitant" pharmaceutical profits, deplored "dismaying" vaccine injuries, and called for the manufacturers to set …

Editor (2023-04-24). Chris Hedges: The United States of Paralysis. scheerpost.com The longer the corporate state erodes the social bonds that knit us to society and give us a sense of purpose and meaning the more inevitable an authoritarian state and a Christianized fascism becomes.

Sondoss Al Asaad (2023-04-23). Palestine in Sheikh Ali Salman's eyes: Normalization is a reward for the occupation. thealtworld.com Sheikh Ali Salman labels the deprivation of the Palestinians of their motherland as "a repressive practice that practically reminds us of what fascist and racist regimes have done." | Bahrain's Al-Wefaq Society has launched a booklet titled "Palestine in the Eyes of Al-Wefaq's SG," which includes the views of imprisoned Secretary-General, Sheikh Ali Salman, in support of the Palestinian cause, along with his unyielding condemnation of the Israeli occupation and its abhorrent practices. | In the introduction written by the SG in Jau Central Prison, Sheikh Salman states, "Most of the peoples of the world were subje…

Anonymous103 (2023-04-23). In Video: Survivors From Bakhmut Testify On War Crimes Of Kiev's Nazis. southfront.org

Alex Bainbridge (2023-04-24). Video: Jonathan Sriranganathan on Greens, capitalism and social change. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Alex Bainbridge speaks to outgoing Greens Gabba Ward councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan about politics, social change and the role of elected representatives. | They discussed the role of elected representatives in achieving social change, the nature of anti-capitalism, the lack of democracy under capitalism, debates within the Greens, the climate safeguard mechanism, and more.

Michael A. Lebowitz (2023-04-23). The State and the Future of Socialism. socialistproject.ca We are in the midst of a class war. That's not unusual. There is always class war in capitalism — although sometimes it is hidden and sometimes there is the interlude of an apparent Carthaginian Peace. But the class war has intensified now because of the crisis in capitalism — a crisis rooted in the over-accumulation of capital. And, in this crisis, capital has intensified the class war against the working class. Austerity, cutbacks, the need to sacrifice — these are the demands of capital as it calls upon workers to bear the burden of capital's own failures. This is a war conducted by capita…

thecommunists (2023-04-23). Dan O'Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new 'stop the boats' bill. thecommunists.org Is it immigration, or exploitation of wage-labour, that is causing the cost of living crisis in Britain and the west, and the deepening poverty of the masses of humanity around the world? Since poverty and war cause the modern phenomnon of mass migration, who is responsible for the difficulties caused to workers as a result? …

Freedom Socialist Party, Bob Price (2023-04-24). Sunday 4/30: May Day Celebration 2023 — Workers vs. Billionaires: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street, San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49)…

Tanupriya Singh (2023-04-24). Socialist Movement of Ghana calls for urgent public health response to new malaria threat. peoplesdispatch.org The invasive, malaria-transmitting Anopheles stephensi mosquito has been detected in Ghana for the first time. The species can survive in high temperatures and urban areas, posing new challenges for disease response and control…

Michael A. Lebowitz (2023-04-23). The State and the Future of Socialism. socialistproject.ca We are in the midst of a class war. That's not unusual. There is always class war in capitalism — although sometimes it is hidden and sometimes there is the interlude of an apparent Carthaginian Peace. But the class war has intensified now because of the crisis in capitalism — a crisis rooted in the over-accumulation of capital. And, in this crisis, capital has intensified the class war against the working class. Austerity, cutbacks, the need to sacrifice — these are the demands of capital as it calls upon workers to bear the burden of capital's own failures. This is a war conducted by capita…

thecommunists (2023-04-23). Dan O'Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new 'stop the boats' bill. thecommunists.org Is it immigration, or exploitation of wage-labour, that is causing the cost of living crisis in Britain and the west, and the deepening poverty of the masses of humanity around the world? Since poverty and war cause the modern phenomnon of mass migration, who is responsible for the difficulties caused to workers as a result? …

Freedom Socialist Party, Bob Price (2023-04-24). Sunday 4/30: May Day Celebration 2023 — Workers vs. Billionaires: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street, San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49)…

Tanupriya Singh (2023-04-24). Socialist Movement of Ghana calls for urgent public health response to new malaria threat. peoplesdispatch.org The invasive, malaria-transmitting Anopheles stephensi mosquito has been detected in Ghana for the first time. The species can survive in high temperatures and urban areas, posing new challenges for disease response and control…

Editor (2023-04-24). A brutal system replaced socialist health care in Europe. mronline.org Matthew Read, researcher at the IF DDR, talks to the People's Health Dispatch about similarities between East Germany's and Yugoslavia's socialist health systems and the lessons to be learned from these systems.

WSWS (2023-04-24). Sri Lankan pseudo-left FSP and IUSF silent on their thuggish attack against IYSSE socialist campaigner. wsws.org The Frontline Socialist Party and Inter University Student Federation, which posture as champions of democratic rights at press conferences and meetings, violently oppose the IYSSE and students exercising their democratic rights on university campuses.

Fight Back (2023-04-23). FRSO salutes the National Democratic Front of the Philippines on 50th anniversary. fightbacknews.org Dear Comrades, | On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), Freedom Road Socialist Organization sends warm and militant greetings. The achievements of the NDFP are legion and inspiration to revolutionaries everywhere. We are certain that efforts of the NDFP to build the national democratic movement and assisting the peoples war will meet with even great successes in the future. | For the past 50 years the NDFP and its constituent organization have crystallized the aspirations of the peoples of the Philippines to end the rule of imperialism,…

mforinoco (2023-04-23). Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For 'Weaponized' Free Speech. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Apr 19, 2023 | The Biden administration's Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says "weaponized" the First Amendment rights of Americans. | The Washington Post

scorinoco (2023-04-23). Indictment of African People's Socialist Party is a Racist Assault on the Black Liberation Movement (Statement). orinocotribune.com

WSWS (2023-04-23). Amazon warehouse workers speak out during Coventry, UK strike. wsws.org Striking workers told World Socialist Web Site reporters about their low pay and terrible working conditions.

Staff (2023-04-24). Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Vijay Prashad. orinocotribune.com Vijay Prashad is above all a militant. His intellectual work is an attempt to understand and respond to some of the great challenges of our time. Of Indian origin, this Marxist historian has displayed an intense vital activity that has taken him to numerous countries, always in defense of the cause of humanity.He currently works as executive director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a task that alternates with his work as a teacher and researcher at various universities, as well as with a prolific work in which we can highlight texts such as The Darker Nations, The Poorer Nations and the most…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-04-24). Shocking Truths about Your Money. expose-news.com Since the beginning of the "pandemic" three quarters of the world's increase in wealth has gone to the 1%. The coming Great Depression was deliberately engineered in February 2020. It will lead …

Mark Curtis (2023-04-24). How Tony Blair Sealed UK Relations with Egypt's Dictatorship. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-04-24). We STILL don't get it: It is an Empire, Folks! mronline.org In mid-March 2023, David Swanson published a very interesting article: "Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned." There were some things in there I agreed with, some I disagreed with, others I might want to debate. Still, I appreciated his effort to pull together ideas from these experiences. However, there's one thing that he did …

Manlio Dinucci (2023-04-23). Rebellion Grows Against the Dollar Empire. globalresearch.ca

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-04-23). The Empire Of Hypocrisy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com

Peter Koenig (2023-04-23). WHO's Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before in Human History. globalresearch.ca

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-04-23). The Death of Law-Based Justice. thealtworld.com I have stressed for many years that prosecutors and judges have turned trials into convicting the defendant regardless of innocence or guilt. The methods of producing convictions include withholding exculpatory evidence of the defendant, paying false witnesses with money or reduced or dropped charges for false testimony against the defendant, and piling on false charges until the defendant gives up and incriminates himself with a plea bargain (The Tyranny of Good Intentions, 2000). | US Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves' illegitimate cases against Trump supporters for a nonexistent "January 6 i…

People's Dispatch. (2023-04-24). EU's Withdrawal Of Tariffs On Ukrainian Grain Backfires. popularresistance.org European Union (EU) authorities and five eastern European countries are in a stand-off over the import of tariff-free grain from Ukraine. The decision to remove the tariffs on grain imports from Ukraine was taken by the EU in June 2022. However, eastern European countries such as Poland, Hungary, and Romania have been increasingly unhappy with the withdrawal of tariffs, citing the impact on their local markets. The disagreement boiled over last week when five countries — Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovenia — blocked the import of Ukrainian grain. A meeting on Wednesday, April 19, between…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-04-24). Vaccine injuries become the dominant theme of German reporting on the mRNA injections. expose-news.com Last month, German Health Minister and renowned virus pest Karl Lauterbach gave a remarkable interview in which he denounced "exorbitant" pharmaceutical profits, deplored "dismaying" vaccine injuries, and called for the manufacturers to set …

WSWS (2023-04-22). Spate of vigilante and police killings highlights fascistic character of BJP's rule over India's most populous state. wsws.org The fascistic "law and order" campaign being mounted by Yogi Adityanath, the saffron-clad Hindu supremacist who is Uttar Pradesh's chief minister, is meant to legitimize state criminality against political opponents of the BJP and the impoverished Muslim minority.

Apurba Chatterjee (2023-04-22). Perspectives] Visual representation, medicine, and imperialism. thelancet.com In 1945, just as World War 2 had ended, anti-fascist Bengali writer Premendra Mitra published the first short story of what was to become his science fiction series, Ghana da. Set in 1939, the story, titled Mosha, literally mosquito in Bengali, narrates how the protagonist Ghanashyam Das, alias Ghana da, saved humanity from the scourge of a lethal mosquito designed by a Japanese entomologist named Nishimara, who altered the salivary glands of the mosquito, rendering it more poisonous than a snake.

Apurba Chatterjee (2023-04-22). [Perspectives] Visual representation, medicine, and imperialism. thelancet.com In 1945, just as World War 2 had ended, anti-fascist Bengali writer Premendra Mitra published the first short story of what was to become his science fiction series, Ghana da. Set in 1939, the story, titled Mosha, literally mosquito in Bengali, narrates how the protagonist Ghanashyam Das, alias Ghana da, saved humanity from the scourge of a lethal mosquito designed by a Japanese entomologist named Nishimara, who altered the salivary glands of the mosquito, rendering it more poisonous than a snake.

Manlio Dinucci (2023-04-22). Si Allarga la Ribellione all'Impero del Dollaro | Grandangolo — Pangea. globalresearch.ca La rassegna stampa internazionale di Byoblu | 95 ∞ puntata: | Mentre il segretario USA alla Difesa Austin convoca in Germania il "Gruppo di contatto per la difesa dell'Ucraina" per fornire sempre più armi a Kiev e alimentare la guerra in Europa, …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-21). Successive Governments in Ukraine Have Accommodated Nazis to Counter Soviet Nostalgia. libya360.wordpress.com Saheli Chowdhury Interview with Ukrainian Communist Dmitri Kovalevich Every Ukrainian government after the collapse of the Soviet Union has accommodated neo-Nazi ideology to wash away nostalgia for the Soviet welfare state from the collective memory of its people, noted Ukrainian Communist organizer Dmitri Kovalevich in an interview with Orinoco Tribune. "Nationalist and neo-Nazi groups were…

Dean Baker (2023-04-22). David Brooks' Celebration of American Capitalism. cepr.net Last week David Brooks had a column which was quite literally a celebration of American capitalism. He makes a number of points showing the U.S. doing better than other wealthy countries over the last three decades. While his numbers are not exactly wrong, they are somewhat misleading. (I see Paul Krugman beat me to the …

Staff (2023-04-21). Gun Capitalism: How Lobbyists & GOP Fight Regulation & Push Gun Ownership Despite Deadly Shootings. democracynow.org We discuss the U.S. gun violence epidemic with historian Andrew McKevitt, who says, "We ought to conceive of our gun problem as a problem of gun capitalism." He covers the history of the proliferation of individual gun ownership since World War II in his forthcoming book, Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture & Control in Cold War America. McKevitt also discusses how the NRA and pro-gun lobby impedes progress on gun control through the implicit threat of "political violence."…

cameron orr (2023-04-21). Marxist IQ: Earth Day edition. cpusa.org 1. While anti-Marxists accused Marx of being uninterested in environmental questions, Marx a. saw capitalism as alienating people from nature. b. saw the interaction of labor with the natural environment as the basis of wealth and civilization. c. saw capitalist technology in agriculture turning the forces of production into forces of destruction of the …

WSWS (2023-04-21). Biden's "Irish roots" and the attack on migrants. wsws.org To study the Irish immigrant experience is to learn about social and political oppression under capitalism. It is a history that holds up a mirror to the present, into which Biden and the American media would prefer not peer.

WSWS (2023-04-22). DOJ files baseless charges against black nationalists of conspiring with Russia. wsws.org The charges against the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party were made in connection with the US government's attempt to criminalize all opposition to its unpopular proxy war in Ukraine.

Freedom Socialist Party, Bob Price (2023-04-22). Sunday 4/30: May Day Celebration 2023 — Workers vs. Billionaires: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street, San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49)…

Staff (2023-04-22). Presidente de la Asamblea Nacional de Vietnam, Vuong Dinh Hue, y su homólogo cubano, Esteban Lazo, llegan a Santiago de Cuba. cubadebate.cu El miembro del Buró Político del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de la República Socialista de Vietnam y presidente de la Asamblea Nacional, Vuong Dinh Hue, llegó a la ciudad de Santiago de Cuba en la mañana de este sábado, acompañado por su homólogo cubano Esteban Lazo Hernández, en la última jornada de su visita oficial a nuestro país.

JANET (2023-04-21). UNAC Statement on the indictment of the African People's Socialist Party, petition link & donation link. iacenter.org The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) condemns the indictment of Omali Yeshiteli, chairman of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) and other members for expressing their views on Ukraine. The indictment charges them of "conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in U.S. elections." This indictment attempts to criminalize freedom of speech and discourage all who oppose U.S. foreign policy from expressing their views. This attack on the APSP and on freedom of speech should also be seen in the light of other cases that the government has used…

Fight Back (2023-04-21). San Jose protesters denounce Republican-led attacks on mifepristone. fightbacknews.org San Jose, CA – On April 9, 15 protesters gathered in front of San Jose City Hall to denounce the Republican-led efforts to restrict the distribution and use of mifepristone, an abortion pill. | Speakers from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization spoke about the need for working-class political power to counter the reactionary politics of the capitalist state. They also established connections to attacks on women's and LGBTQ rights to that of attacks on democratic rights. | The organization Students for a Democratic Society declared abortion to be healthcare. They called out the hypocrisy of the U.S. for its fe…

WSWS (2023-04-21). Strike by over 100,000 Canadian federal government workers continues for third day. wsws.org World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to strikers on picket lines in Kitchener, Mississauga, and Quebec City, who are fighting for inflation-busting pay increases, job security and remote-work guarantees.

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-04-21). A brutal system replaced socialist health care in Europe. peoplesdispatch.org Matthew Read, researcher at the IF DDR, talks to the People's Health Dispatch about similarities between East Germany's and Yugoslavia's socialist health systems and the lessons to be learned from these systems…

Free Transit Ottawa (2023-04-21). Ottawa Budget Struggles: Cut Fares Not Service. socialistproject.ca Ottawa faces a real risk of more cuts to bus service after a recently announced budget shortfall. This was, unfortunately, entirely self inflicted. The mayor left a $39-million hole in the 2023 transit budget, ultimately approved by a majority of city councilors, on the assumption it would be covered by provincial or federal contributions. It hasn't been. | With insufficient funds in the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Transit Commission (OC Transpo) reserve, city council must step up and do what it should have done in the first place: fund transit like the critical public service it is. For decades, city council and…

channelnewsasia (2023-04-22). I'm a stay-at-home dad who fell into depression. It made me wonder if I was a bad parent. channelnewsasia.com As a first-time parent and his child's main carer, Kris Tan began feeling tired and irritable all the time. He talks about his experience, and the lessons from his struggle with depression, in the podcast series Imperfect by CNA Insider.

Betsey Piette (2023-04-21). Only a mass, united movement can push back anti-abortion attacks. workers.org On April 21 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a brief, unsigned ruling allowing the stay on the Texas judge's reactionary to stand while the matter reverts to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals — the court that ruled April 12 to limit access to mifepristone drastically by restoring all of . . . |

Redacted (2023-04-22). Robert Kennedy: I'll CLOSE all the military bases and bring the troops home! dissidentvoice.org Robert F Kennedy kicked off his bid for the Presidency proving he is for pretty much everything present-day politicians are against: He is against military expansion, he is against censorship, against the CIA, against authoritarianism. He'll get no mainstream media coverage for this! So we'll give him some air time and discuss his ideas on …

_____ (2023-04-22). The Empire's Revenge: Set Fire to Southern Eurasia. strategic-culture.org

Rania Khalek (2023-04-22). Inside the Saudi-Iran Peace Deal & How It Shakes Up Europe. thealtworld.com With Saudi Arabia and Iran making peace as part of a deal brokered by China, much has been made about the absence of the U.S. and what it means for U.S. hegemony. But what about the implications for the region? What might it look like in practice? Who are the potential spoilers? And why did this happen now? Also, what does it mean for the U.S. empire's greatest global partner, Europe? | To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by Adnan Tabatabai, the co-founder and CEO of the Germany-based think tank CARPO and an Iran analyst who has advised European policymakers and facilitated Saudi-Iran dialogue.

Gregory Shupak, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2023-04-21). Chinese Diplomacy Seen As Threat To US 'Peace,' 'Stability'. popularresistance.org China has undertaken a diplomatic blitz that has seen it broker a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, warm relations with France, and put forth a proposal to end the war in Ukraine. US media coverage of these developments has involved illusion-peddling about America's potentially waning empire, and calls for the US to escalate what amounts to a new cold war with China. | In Foreign Policy (3/14/23), Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani say that China "now shares the burden of keeping the peace in the Middle East. This is not an easy assignment, as the United States has learned bitterly over the decades."

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-04-21). Today In Empire: War Machine-Funded War Games, Facebook Censors Hersh, And More. thealtworld.com

ecns.cn (2023-04-22). Huawei announces breakthrough in U.S.-sanctioned EPR system. ecns.cn China's Huawei Technologies Co said on Thursday it had launched its own enterprise resource planning (ERP) system dubbed MetaERP and will replace the old one sourced from U.S. vendors.

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2023-04-22). The Lord of "Vaccines" and the "Health Terrorist Ideology". Where Do You Think this Is Going? Get Off that Crazy Train. globalresearch.ca "A tyrant needs above all a tyrant-state, so he will use a million little civil servant tyrants who each have a trivial task to perform, and each will perform that task competently, and without remorse"

_____ (2023-04-22). EU's Withdrawal of Tariffs on Ukrainian Grain Backfires as Eastern European Countries Rise in Opposition. strategic-culture.org The European Union and five countries in eastern Europe at are loggerheads over the tariff-free import of grain from Ukraine. The five countries say that the removal of tariffs has affected their internal markets and their farmers. | European Union (EU) authorities and five eastern European countries are in a stand-off over the import of tariff-free grain from Ukraine. The decision to remove the tariffs on grain imports from Ukraine was taken by the EU in June 2022. However, eastern European countries such as Poland, Hungary, and Romania have been increasingly unhappy with the withdrawal of tariffs, citing the…

Susan Jaffe (2023-04-22). World Report] Drug developers caution against US mifepristone ban. thelancet.com A lawsuit against the FDA embroils pharmaceutical companies in debates over access to abortion. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

Monique Al, Solange Levison, Wolfgang E Berdel, Ditte Zerlang Andersen, Decentralised Clinical Trials Task Force (2023-04-22). Correspondence] Decentralised elements in clinical trials: recommendations from the European Medicines Regulatory Network. thelancet.com Clinical trials of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) increasingly use procedures conducted outside the traditional clinical trial site—a concept referred to as decentralisation. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance and usefulness of decentralisation when visits to hospitals and other health institutions were restricted. In addition, interested parties, such as from the pharmaceutical industry, issued general plans to introduce more decentralised elements in clinical trials (eg, the Association of Clinical Research Organizations' decentralised trials toolkit1 and Trials at Home).

Thomas Cueni (2023-04-22). Correspondence] Lessons learned from COVID-19 to stop future pandemics. thelancet.com The pharmaceutical industry delivered billions of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines at speed but, as highlighted by Els Torreele and colleagues,1 these vaccines did not reach lower-income countries quickly enough. Science delivered, but the equity challenge did not. To acknowledge this, we supported calls for greater sharing of vaccines.2…

Irena Hwang (2023-04-22). FDA Still Struggles to Inspect Foreign Drug Manufacturers After COVID Delays. truthout.org For years, U.S. pharmaceutical companies have relied on drugs produced overseas to meet Americans' medical needs. And for years, it's been clear that federal drug regulators couldn't keep up with inspections of the plants that made those drugs. But a series of recent deaths linked to eyedrops produced overseas that were tainted with bacteria points to just how seriously behind the Food and Drug… |

Susan Jaffe (2023-04-22). [World Report] Drug developers caution against US mifepristone ban. thelancet.com A lawsuit against the FDA embroils pharmaceutical companies in debates over access to abortion. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

Monique Al, Solange Levison, Wolfgang E Berdel, Ditte Zerlang Andersen, Decentralised Clinical Trials Task Force (2023-04-22). [Correspondence] Decentralised elements in clinical trials: recommendations from the European Medicines Regulatory Network. thelancet.com Clinical trials of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) increasingly use procedures conducted outside the traditional clinical trial site—a concept referred to as decentralisation. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance and usefulness of decentralisation when visits to hospitals and other health institutions were restricted. In addition, interested parties, such as from the pharmaceutical industry, issued general plans to introduce more decentralised elements in clinical trials (eg, the Association of Clinical Research Organizations' decentralised trials toolkit1 and Trials at Home).

Thomas Cueni (2023-04-22). [Correspondence] Lessons learned from COVID-19 to stop future pandemics. thelancet.com The pharmaceutical industry delivered billions of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines at speed but, as highlighted by Els Torreele and colleagues,1 these vaccines did not reach lower-income countries quickly enough. Science delivered, but the equity challenge did not. To acknowledge this, we supported calls for greater sharing of vaccines.2…

Anonymous103 (2023-04-22). Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers and Skin-Deep Morality. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Today,

Staff (2023-04-21). Catalan activists send a message to occupation profiteers on Palestinian Prisoners' Day. samidoun.net We are publishing the following statement from activists in Catalonia on direct actions for Palestinian prisoners' day targeting complicit businesses involved in the crimes against the Palestinian people: On April 17, Palestinian Prisoners' Day, graffiti and murals appeared on the headquarters of companies in Catalonia that profit from the genocide of the Palestinian people, such …

Anonymous103 (2023-04-21). How Truman's America Re-Nazified Germany. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by The first (original) Nazi Party was in Germany, but the ideology, imperialistic racist fascism (the lower-case "nazism" ideology, instead of just the original, upper-case "N" Nazi Party that was an example of it) can be in any country. | German racist-fascism or Nazism was organized by Hitler as anti-Jewish, anti-communist, and for a Thousand-Ye…

Apurba Chatterjee (2023-04-22). Perspectives] Visual representation, medicine, and imperialism. thelancet.com In 1945, just as World War 2 had ended, anti-fascist Bengali writer Premendra Mitra published the first short story of what was to become his science fiction series, Ghana da. Set in 1939, the story, titled Mosha, literally mosquito in Bengali, narrates how the protagonist Ghanashyam Das, alias Ghana da, saved humanity from the scourge of a lethal mosquito designed by a Japanese entomologist named Nishimara, who altered the salivary glands of the mosquito, rendering it more poisonous than a snake.

Apurba Chatterjee (2023-04-22). [Perspectives] Visual representation, medicine, and imperialism. thelancet.com In 1945, just as World War 2 had ended, anti-fascist Bengali writer Premendra Mitra published the first short story of what was to become his science fiction series, Ghana da. Set in 1939, the story, titled Mosha, literally mosquito in Bengali, narrates how the protagonist Ghanashyam Das, alias Ghana da, saved humanity from the scourge of a lethal mosquito designed by a Japanese entomologist named Nishimara, who altered the salivary glands of the mosquito, rendering it more poisonous than a snake.

Anonymous103 (2023-04-21). Spain About To Send Naval Defense Equipment To Kiev. southfront.org Illustrative ImageThe measure sounds absolutely irresponsible as it could lead to new wave of escalation. | Written by In a rather irresponsible and provocative way, the Spanish government has announced a new military aid package for the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, which includes naval defense equipment. As well known, naval defenses are items of high strategic relevance, and their s…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-21). Successive Governments in Ukraine Have Accommodated Nazis to Counter Soviet Nostalgia. libya360.wordpress.com Saheli Chowdhury Interview with Ukrainian Communist Dmitri Kovalevich Every Ukrainian government after the collapse of the Soviet Union has accommodated neo-Nazi ideology to wash away nostalgia for the Soviet welfare state from the collective memory of its people, noted Ukrainian Communist organizer Dmitri Kovalevich in an interview with Orinoco Tribune. "Nationalist and neo-Nazi groups were…

WSWS (2023-04-21). Biden's "Irish roots" and the attack on migrants. wsws.org To study the Irish immigrant experience is to learn about social and political oppression under capitalism. It is a history that holds up a mirror to the present, into which Biden and the American media would prefer not peer.

cameron orr (2023-04-21). Marxist IQ: Earth Day edition. cpusa.org 1. While anti-Marxists accused Marx of being uninterested in environmental questions, Marx a. saw capitalism as alienating people from nature. b. saw the interaction of labor with the natural environment as the basis of wealth and civilization. c. saw capitalist technology in agriculture turning the forces of production into forces of destruction of the …

Staff (2023-04-21). Gun Capitalism: How Lobbyists & GOP Fight Regulation & Push Gun Ownership Despite Deadly Shootings. democracynow.org We discuss the U.S. gun violence epidemic with historian Andrew McKevitt, who says, "We ought to conceive of our gun problem as a problem of gun capitalism." He covers the history of the proliferation of individual gun ownership since World War II in his forthcoming book, Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture & Control in Cold War America. McKevitt also discusses how the NRA and pro-gun lobby impedes progress on gun control through the implicit threat of "political violence."…

Freedom Socialist Party, Bob Price (2023-04-21). Sunday 4/30: May Day Celebration 2023 — Workers vs. Billionaires: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street, San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49)…

Fight Back (2023-04-21). San Jose protesters denounce Republican-led attacks on mifepristone. fightbacknews.org San Jose, CA – On April 9, 15 protesters gathered in front of San Jose City Hall to denounce the Republican-led efforts to restrict the distribution and use of mifepristone, an abortion pill. | Speakers from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization spoke about the need for working-class political power to counter the reactionary politics of the capitalist state. They also established connections to attacks on women's and LGBTQ rights to that of attacks on democratic rights. | The organization Students for a Democratic Society declared abortion to be healthcare. They called out the hypocrisy of the U.S. for its fe…

WSWS (2023-04-21). Strike by over 100,000 Canadian federal government workers continues for third day. wsws.org World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to strikers on picket lines in Kitchener, Mississauga, and Quebec City, who are fighting for inflation-busting pay increases, job security and remote-work guarantees.

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-04-21). A brutal system replaced socialist health care in Europe. peoplesdispatch.org Matthew Read, researcher at the IF DDR, talks to the People's Health Dispatch about similarities between East Germany's and Yugoslavia's socialist health systems and the lessons to be learned from these systems…

cameron orr (2023-04-21). Marxist IQ: Earth Day edition. cpusa.org 1. While anti-Marxists accused Marx of being uninterested in environmental questions, Marx a. saw capitalism as alienating people from nature. b. saw the interaction of labor with the natural environment as the basis of wealth and civilization. c. saw capitalist technology in agriculture turning the forces of production into forces of destruction of the …

Staff (2023-04-21). Gun Capitalism: How Lobbyists & GOP Fight Regulation & Push Gun Ownership Despite Deadly Shootings. democracynow.org We discuss the U.S. gun violence epidemic with historian Andrew McKevitt, who says, "We ought to conceive of our gun problem as a problem of gun capitalism." He covers the history of the proliferation of individual gun ownership since World War II in his forthcoming book, Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture & Control in Cold War America. McKevitt also discusses how the NRA and pro-gun lobby impedes progress on gun control through the implicit threat of "political violence."…

Freedom Socialist Party, Bob Price (2023-04-21). Sunday 4/30: May Day Celebration 2023 — Workers vs. Billionaires: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street, San Francisco | (7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49)…

Fight Back (2023-04-21). San Jose protesters denounce Republican-led attacks on mifepristone. fightbacknews.org San Jose, CA – On April 9, 15 protesters gathered in front of San Jose City Hall to denounce the Republican-led efforts to restrict the distribution and use of mifepristone, an abortion pill. | Speakers from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization spoke about the need for working-class political power to counter the reactionary politics of the capitalist state. They also established connections to attacks on women's and LGBTQ rights to that of attacks on democratic rights. | The organization Students for a Democratic Society declared abortion to be healthcare. They called out the hypocrisy of the U.S. for its fe…

WSWS (2023-04-21). Strike by over 100,000 Canadian federal government workers continues for third day. wsws.org World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to strikers on picket lines in Kitchener, Mississauga, and Quebec City, who are fighting for inflation-busting pay increases, job security and remote-work guarantees.

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-04-21). A brutal system replaced socialist health care in Europe. peoplesdispatch.org Matthew Read, researcher at the IF DDR, talks to the People's Health Dispatch about similarities between East Germany's and Yugoslavia's socialist health systems and the lessons to be learned from these systems…

JANET (2023-04-21). UNAC Statement on the indictment of the African People's Socialist Party, petition link & donation link. iacenter.org The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) condemns the indictment of Omali Yeshiteli, chairman of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) and other members for expressing their views on Ukraine. The indictment charges them of "conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in U.S. elections." This indictment attempts to criminalize freedom of speech and discourage all who oppose U.S. foreign policy from expressing their views. This attack on the APSP and on freedom of speech should also be seen in the light of other cases that the government has used…

Black Alliance for Peace (2023-04-20). Indictment of African People's Socialist Party Is a Racist Assault on the Black Liberation Movement. dissidentvoice.org The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals. The unsealed indictment states that on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, levied charges of "conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, …

channelnewsasia (2023-04-22). I'm a stay-at-home dad who fell into depression. It made me wonder if I was a bad parent. channelnewsasia.com As a first-time parent and his child's main carer, Kris Tan began feeling tired and irritable all the time. He talks about his experience, and the lessons from his struggle with depression, in the podcast series Imperfect by CNA Insider.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-04-21). Today In Empire: War Machine-Funded War Games, Facebook Censors Hersh, And More. thealtworld.com

ecns.cn (2023-04-21). Huawei announces breakthrough in U.S.-sanctioned EPR system. ecns.cn China's Huawei Technologies Co said on Thursday it had launched its own enterprise resource planning (ERP) system dubbed MetaERP and will replace the old one sourced from U.S. vendors.

Susan Jaffe (2023-04-22). World Report] Drug developers caution against US mifepristone ban. thelancet.com A lawsuit against the FDA embroils pharmaceutical companies in debates over access to abortion. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

Monique Al, Solange Levison, Wolfgang E Berdel, Ditte Zerlang Andersen, Decentralised Clinical Trials Task Force (2023-04-22). Correspondence] Decentralised elements in clinical trials: recommendations from the European Medicines Regulatory Network. thelancet.com Clinical trials of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) increasingly use procedures conducted outside the traditional clinical trial site—a concept referred to as decentralisation. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance and usefulness of decentralisation when visits to hospitals and other health institutions were restricted. In addition, interested parties, such as from the pharmaceutical industry, issued general plans to introduce more decentralised elements in clinical trials (eg, the Association of Clinical Research Organizations' decentralised trials toolkit1 and Trials at Home).

Thomas Cueni (2023-04-22). Correspondence] Lessons learned from COVID-19 to stop future pandemics. thelancet.com The pharmaceutical industry delivered billions of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines at speed but, as highlighted by Els Torreele and colleagues,1 these vaccines did not reach lower-income countries quickly enough. Science delivered, but the equity challenge did not. To acknowledge this, we supported calls for greater sharing of vaccines.2…

Susan Jaffe (2023-04-22). [World Report] Drug developers caution against US mifepristone ban. thelancet.com A lawsuit against the FDA embroils pharmaceutical companies in debates over access to abortion. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

Monique Al, Solange Levison, Wolfgang E Berdel, Ditte Zerlang Andersen, Decentralised Clinical Trials Task Force (2023-04-22). [Correspondence] Decentralised elements in clinical trials: recommendations from the European Medicines Regulatory Network. thelancet.com Clinical trials of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) increasingly use procedures conducted outside the traditional clinical trial site—a concept referred to as decentralisation. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance and usefulness of decentralisation when visits to hospitals and other health institutions were restricted. In addition, interested parties, such as from the pharmaceutical industry, issued general plans to introduce more decentralised elements in clinical trials (eg, the Association of Clinical Research Organizations' decentralised trials toolkit1 and Trials at Home).

Thomas Cueni (2023-04-22). [Correspondence] Lessons learned from COVID-19 to stop future pandemics. thelancet.com The pharmaceutical industry delivered billions of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines at speed but, as highlighted by Els Torreele and colleagues,1 these vaccines did not reach lower-income countries quickly enough. Science delivered, but the equity challenge did not. To acknowledge this, we supported calls for greater sharing of vaccines.2…

Staff (2023-04-21). Catalan activists send a message to occupation profiteers on Palestinian Prisoners' Day. samidoun.net We are publishing the following statement from activists in Catalonia on direct actions for Palestinian prisoners' day targeting complicit businesses involved in the crimes against the Palestinian people: On April 17, Palestinian Prisoners' Day, graffiti and murals appeared on the headquarters of companies in Catalonia that profit from the genocide of the Palestinian people, such …