Daily Archives: April 1, 2023

2023-04-01: News Headlines

Staff (2023-04-01). Abel Prieto denuncia la Declaración de Lima como un libelo fascista que pretende erigirse defensor de la democracia. cubadebate.cu El presidente de Casa de las Américas, Abel Prieto, denunció hoy en Cuba la llamada Declaración de Lima, la cual calificó de "libelo fascista que pretende erigirse defensor de la democracia". En su perfil de Twitter, Prieto dijo que el texto se propone "hacer retroceder la mancha roja que cubre nuestra región".

It's Going Down (2023-04-01). Beyond "Alphabet Boys": Police Infiltration and Repression in the Denver Area. itsgoingdown.org On this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we speak with a member of Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists about the history which has now been placed center stage on the popular podcast series, Alphabet Boys, which looks at how the FBI used informants during the George Floyd uprising in the Denver, Colorado area. As Democracy…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-03-31). Selective Outrage in Palestine: The Problem is Not Just Smotrich, It's Zionism. mintpressnews.com By his own admission, Israel's new Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, is a "fascist homophobe." This declaration, which he Though Smotrich is not the only politician in Netanyahu's cabinet with a track record of violence, both real and rhetorical,…

WSWS (2023-04-01). Protesting French students denounce trade union "mediation" with Macron. wsws.org Students demonstrated in Paris against Macron and his pension reform, and against the indifference of university administrations to neo-Nazi attacks targeting them.

Anonymous103 (2023-03-31). In Video: Meet New Minister of Education of Ukraine Nazi Oksen Listovoy. southfront.org

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-31). WWII & Holocaust Could Never Have Happened Without American Corporations Investing & Joint Venturing with Hitler's Nazi Germany. libya360.wordpress.com J Jankovsky-Novak alias Jay Janson This is the first chapter of a 18 chapter book by J. Jankovsky-Novak alias Jay Janson to be serialised in the next few days in CC Impossibility of a Prostate Disarmed and Captive Nazi Germany Rearming Itself While Under British and French Armed Enforcement of Prohibitions of Versailles Treaty Law The…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-31). Ukraine's "Neo-Nazi Summer Camp". Military Training for Young Children, Para-military Recruits. globalresearch.ca The Azov battalion supported by its Western partners is not only involved in para-military operations in Donbass, it is also running a Summer Camp military training project for young children.

Tanupriya Singh (2023-03-31). Reviving regionalism in the age of US decline. peoplesdispatch.org A new dossier by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and Cuba's Center for International Policy Research examines the decline of the US-led "rules-based international order" in favor of a decided shift towards regionalism and internationalism…

It's Going Down (2023-04-01). Mexico: Resistance and Repression in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. itsgoingdown.org The vultures of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and nation-states continue to circle over the Indigenous and campesino communities and lands of so-called southern Mexico. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is the latest feeding ground. There, a multiplicity of national and international state and private interests seek the imposition by any means necessary of the Interoceanic Corridor of…

WSWS (2023-04-01). Preview release of ChatGPT shows potential of artificial intelligence. wsws.org ChatGPT, released as a free prototype by the research laboratory OpenAI last November, is a powerful artificial intelligence technology with socially transformative potential that is being used under capitalism to eliminate jobs, increase exploitation and automate warfare.

Lee Camp (2023-03-31). How The Rich Are Prepping For End Times, And Why. mintpressnews.com The ruling class knows what's coming: social instability caused by a combination of the climate crisis, banks failing, the soul-killing inequality of late-stage capitalism, and the impending dilution of the petrodollar.

WSWS (2023-03-31). Factory explosions, tainted water and derailments: The cost of doing business for US capitalism. wsws.org The horrific explosion at a factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, which killed at least seven workers, is part of an unending series of workplace tragedies in the US.

Miles Fitzsimmons (2023-03-31). Australian police equate socialists with right-wing extremists, spy on both. peoplesworld.org BRISBANE, Australia—Police in the Australian state of Queensland are enlarging their effort to keep tabs on individuals with "extremist" views and beliefs as a result of the December 2022 killings of two police officers and a neighbor in the city of Wieambilla. According to reports, the Queensland Police Service (QPS) is changing its procedures for …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-01). Science Saturday: Understanding the speed of brain communication. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It often was thought that the speed of information transmitted among regions of the brain stabilized during early adolescence. A new study in Nature Neuroscience by Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues from the Netherlands found transmission speeds continue to increase into early adulthood. Because problems such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders can emerge in late adolescence and early adulthood, a better understanding of brain development may help clinicians offer therapies to treat these disorders. "A fundamental understanding…

Eric Zuesse (2023-04-01). The U.S.'s 'Democratic' Model for Dictatorships. globalresearch.ca

Teri Mattson, WtF is Going on in Latin America, the Caribbean. (2023-03-31). Argentina Celebrates 40 Years Of Democracy And Human Rights. popularresistance.org Last week, Argentina celebrated 40 years of democracy and human rights by hosting the Third World Forum of Human Rights (March 20-24) scheduled in tandem with its National Day of Remembrance for Truth & Justice. The Forum closed with a march and rally on March 24 which marked 47 years since the US-backed military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government on March 24, 1976, and installed the bloodiest dictatorship in the history of #Argentina remained in power until 1983.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-04-01). Mexico's AMLO Calls Out US 'Oligarchy' At Biden's 'Democracy' Summit. popularresistance.org AMLO strongly implied that the United States is an oligarchy, not a real democracy. He argued that the government needs to challenge the power of the economic elites if it truly wants to be democratic. | López Obrador opened his speech warning, "Many of the great crimes against humanity have been committed in the name of God or in the name of democracy". | "In some countries, the oligarchy reigns with the faàßade of democracy", he said, not so subtly referencing his northern neighbor. | "How can we talk about democracy if there is no separation of economic power and political power?" AMLO asked. | He added…

Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. (2023-03-31). French Streets And American Sofas. popularresistance.org You might be Brazilian or Malian or Singaporean, it is remarkable the world over to watch the French explode into the streets of dozens of cities and towns to protest the imperial president residing in Élysée Palace. It is altogether singular to follow the demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron as an American. The French are still citoyens and take to their streets and public squares. Americans long ago cashed in their citizenship to live as consumers—and take to their sofas no matter how abusively political elites treat them, no matter how many wars they start, no matter how corrupt the financial system, n…

WSWS (2023-03-31). German government sends battle tanks against Russia and multiplies military aid to Ukraine. wsws.org Earlier this week, the first German battle tanks arrived in Ukraine. This has far-reaching historical and political implications. 82 years after Hitler's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union, German tanks are again rolling against Russia.

Staff (2023-04-01). Venezuela's National Assembly Approves Law to Seize Assets Linked to Corruption. orinocotribune.com The National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela has unanimously approved the Organic Law on Asset Forfeiture, a legal mechanism in the Venezuelan state's fight against corruption and related crimes. The bill was approved in first discussion at a special session of the National Assembly held on Friday, March 31. | National Assembly deputy and chief of the PSUV bloc, Diosdado Cabello, presented before the plenary the bill, containing 46 articles in 4 chapter, to give legal effect to the seizure of properties linked to corruption and terrorism. | This law will allow the State to take ownership of seized assets related to cr…

Nyla Samee, Khury Petersen-Smith (2023-03-31). It's time to target gun manufacturers and their deadly profits. peoplesworld.org There is a familiar pattern after the mass shootings that have become a well-known feature of American life. The initial shock and grief give way to demands for greater regulation of gun ownership by Democrats, while Republicans dismiss such measures and blame mental illness instead. But if we actually want to do something about it, …

Anonymous103 (2023-03-31). Global Governance by Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Unaccountable Tyranny. southfront.org Illustrative Image. Source: Alt-Market.us | The WEF cites AI as the singular key to the "Fourth Industrial Revolution." In their view, there can be no human progress without the influence of AI algorithms, making human input almost obsolete. | Written by It's no secret that globalist institutions are obsessed with Artificial Intelligence as some kind of technological prophec…

Jonathan Cook (2023-03-31). Israel's Crisis Is About Who Gets to Play Tyrant: The Generals or Religious Thugs. globalresearch.ca

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-31). Slovakia, Hungary: NATO completes large-scale, full-spectrum drills near Ukrainian border. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOJoint Force Command Brunssum Exercise Slovak Shield 2023: Strengthening NATO's Deterrence and Defence Strategy Brunssum, The Netherlands — From 13th to 24th March, one of the region's most important military exercises of the year, Exercise Slovak Shield 2023, took place at the Le≈°≈• military training area in Slovakia. Slovak Shield was designed as a certification …

WSWS (2023-04-01). Hungarian PM warns EU may discuss sending "peacekeeping" troops to Ukraine. wsws.org Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the first leader of a NATO country to publicly raise the prospect of the deployment of troops from NATO countries into Ukraine.

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