Albert Bender (2023-04-13). Victoria: la reincorporación del legislador negro Justin Jones es una derrota para el fascismo. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—Por voto unánime, el legislador negro exiliado Justin Jones fue reelegido a la Cámara de Representantes del Estado de Tennessee por una sesión de emergencia del Consejo Metropolitano de Nashville el 10 de abril. Su regreso a la legislatura se produjo pocos días después de su expulsión por parte del organismo controlado por los republicanos …

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-04-14). Vandana Shiva: El ecofeminismo tiene que ser antifascista. indybay.org Vandana Shiva: "El ecofeminismo tiene que ser antifascista"

contributors (2023-04-13). How Israel's Protests actually Assist Israeli State Propaganda. juancole.com by Yoav Litvin ( Counterpunch) — Benjamin Netanyahu, in collaboration with Kahanist Itamar Ben-Gvir and a cohort of other fascists, has been executing a judicial coup which guts so-called Israeli democratic institutions and threatens liberal reforms. Many Israelis are infuriated. They've always viewed Israel as either part of Europe or the United States' 51st state. …

Special to People's World (2023-04-13). The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: After 80 years, new photographs emerge. peoplesworld.org For four weeks, from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. This year marks the 80th anniversary of …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-04-13). Black unionists link expulsion of lawmakers to billionaire racists. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists linked the white right Republican majority's expulsion of two Black Tennessee state legislators to white nationalism and its billionaire backers. The two state reps have since been reinstated. CBTU's strong statement came just after the AFL-CIO also condemned the expulsion of State Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, and Justin …

Yanis Varoufakis (2023-04-14). Blow up the banking system! A free account for all is possible. indybay.org Harsh austerity policies for the vast majority of people and state socialism for bankers, both practiced at the same time in Europe and the U.S. after 2008 – this had two consequences, as they have characterized the financialized capitalism of the past 14 years. First, this course poisoned the West's money.

Albert Bender (2023-04-13). Victoria: la reincorporación del legislador negro Justin Jones es una derrota para el fascismo. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—Por voto unánime, el legislador negro exiliado Justin Jones fue reelegido a la Cámara de Representantes del Estado de Tennessee por una sesión de emergencia del Consejo Metropolitano de Nashville el 10 de abril. Su regreso a la legislatura se produjo pocos días después de su expulsión por parte del organismo controlado por los republicanos …

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2023-04-14). Vandana Shiva: El ecofeminismo tiene que ser antifascista. indybay.org Vandana Shiva: "El ecofeminismo tiene que ser antifascista"

contributors (2023-04-13). How Israel's Protests actually Assist Israeli State Propaganda. juancole.com by Yoav Litvin ( Counterpunch) — Benjamin Netanyahu, in collaboration with Kahanist Itamar Ben-Gvir and a cohort of other fascists, has been executing a judicial coup which guts so-called Israeli democratic institutions and threatens liberal reforms. Many Israelis are infuriated. They've always viewed Israel as either part of Europe or the United States' 51st state. …

Special to People's World (2023-04-13). The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: After 80 years, new photographs emerge. peoplesworld.org For four weeks, from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. This year marks the 80th anniversary of …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-04-13). Black unionists link expulsion of lawmakers to billionaire racists. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists linked the white right Republican majority's expulsion of two Black Tennessee state legislators to white nationalism and its billionaire backers. The two state reps have since been reinstated. CBTU's strong statement came just after the AFL-CIO also condemned the expulsion of State Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, and Justin …

Yanis Varoufakis (2023-04-14). Blow up the banking system! A free account for all is possible. indybay.org Harsh austerity policies for the vast majority of people and state socialism for bankers, both practiced at the same time in Europe and the U.S. after 2008 – this had two consequences, as they have characterized the financialized capitalism of the past 14 years. First, this course poisoned the West's money.

_____ (2023-04-13). Ten Men, $1 Trillion, and the Personalization of American Capitalism. strategic-culture.org By David SCHULTZ | Capitalism has always been about the accumulation and the concentration of wealth. Marx and Engels first described that phenomena in their 1848

Deja Gaston (2023-04-13). U.S. pregnancy-related deaths skyrocket, capitalism is to blame. liberationnews.org While the spike in maternal mortality is being attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic simply exacerbated an already existing crisis.

Robert Reich (2023-04-13). Why are there fees on everything? nationofchange.org They hide the true cost when you buy a good or service.

Fight Back (2023-04-14). Border delegation in San Diego: Immigration panel. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – The Legalization for All Network (L4A) concluded day four of the 2023 border delegation with a virtual panel that included speakers from different immigrant rights organizations. The panel was moderated by Jenny Bekenstein, a member of Centro Community Service Organization (CSO). Sol Márquez, member of Centro CSO and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) grounded the discussion in the broader purpose of the delegation – to deepen participants' knowledge of different immigrant rights struggles and to find unity across these struggles. | Brad Sigal, a member of L4A and the Minnesota Imm…

Richie Merino, Danny Shaw, Black Agenda Report. (2023-04-14). AOC, The Fraud Squad, Military Recruiters And US Imperialism. popularresistance.org On Monday March 20th 2023, U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Adriano Espaillat co-hosted a "Student Services Fair" at Renaissance High School for Musical Theater and the Arts in the Bronx. As the official flier indicates, there was a large military presence . Alarmed that the two U.S. politicians, especially one who is a self-described "democratic socialist" and affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), were hosting this career fair, the Bronx Anti-War Coalition organized a counter-recruitment protest. | The official flier for the event listed seven representatives that would…

Staff (2023-04-14). Gedeme amplía proyectos de responsabilidad social y emplea parte de sus utilidades en viviendas para trabajadores (+ Video). cubadebate.cu En mayo de 2022, la Gaceta Oficial publicó normas jurídicas inherentes al paquete de 15 medidas aprobadas para transformar y fortalecer la empresa estatal socialista. Entre las facilidades aprobadas está flexibilizar la distribución de las utilidades retenidas después de impuestos.

The Socialist Program (2023-04-13). VIDEO — Hidden History: When Communism and Feminism Came Together in China, 1949. liberationnews.org Women leaders from all over the Global South came together in China in 1949 to strategize about building an anti-imperialist, anti-colonial women's movement at The Revolutionary Feminist Conference.

WSWS (2023-04-13). Why is Britain's Socialist Workers Party downplaying the no-confidence petition against the RCN nurses' union leadership? wsws.org SWP members on Unison's national executive are playing a central role in blocking a rank-and-file insurgency against the health unions' pay deal with the Tory government.

WSWS (2023-04-13). Sri Lankan police attack rally to mark start of last year's popular uprising. wsws.org Notwithstanding the Socialist Equality Party's principled opposition to the pro-capitalist policies of protest organisers, we strongly condemn the violent government-ordered assault.

Editor (2023-04-13). Socialist Party of Zambia attacked by members of ruling party, Dr. Fred M'membe arrested. mronline.org According to the Socialist Party, their party members were attacked at a campaign meeting ahead of a by-election in the Serenje district and SP President Dr. Fred M'membe was later arrested.

Peter Koenig (2023-04-14). Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): The Weaponization of Money? WHO's Health Tyranny: Towards a Totalitarian World Government? No Way! globalresearch.ca

F. William Engdahl (2023-04-14). The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset. globalresearch.ca Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier.

Julianne Tveten, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2023-04-13). US Media Denounce Twitter's 'State Media' Label When It Affects NPR. popularresistance.org As part of an ongoing, impulsive and reactionary legacy news outlets, Elon Musk's added to its list of "state-affiliated media"—a label from which all US media had, until recently, been exempt (FAIR.org, 1/6/23). | NPR (4/5/23) rebuked the label, and major media rushed to the public broadcaster's defense. "Twitter Slaps NPR With a Dubious New Tag: 'State-Affiliated Media,'" read a Washington Post headline (4/5/23). Vanity Fair (4/5/23) lambasted the "false equivalence between NPR and state propaganda agencies." CBS News (4/5/23), AP (4/5/23) and CNN (4/5/23) emphatically quoted NPR's self-description as a p…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-04-13). If the U.S. Can't Boss the World, It Will Spitefully Destroy It. covertactionmagazine.com Unable to accept the reality of a growing multipolar world order, U.S. elites are willing to risk nuclear war. In May 2022, Henry Kissinger gave a remarkable speech at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where he urged the Biden administration to seek a peace agreement in Ukraine that satisfies the Russians because …

Brittani Banks (2023-04-14). The Global South Is Done Waiting for the UN to Solve Humanity's Challenges. independentmediainstitute.org Dag Hammarskjà∂ld, the tragic second United Nations secretary general, once said the organization "was created not to lead mankind to heaven but to save humanity from hell." Of course, this depends very much on what kind of hell you had in mind. The fallout from Adolf Hitler's extermination camps must have dominated Hammarskjà∂ld's world during …

ecns.cn (2023-04-14). 3rd China International Consumer Products Expo attracts 14 Macao enterprises. ecns.cn The expo has attracted 41 brands from 14 Macao enterprises to participate.

Chris Jenkins (2023-04-13). WA nurses and midwives still face huge fines, deregistration. greenleft.org.au The WA Industrial Relations Commission is still considering fining the Australian Nursing Federation WA $350,000 for taking strike action last November as part of its enterprise bargaining campaign. Chris Jenkins reports.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-13). Tyranny on the Waters: The UAE-Israeli Occupation of Yemen's Socotra Island. orinocotribune.com Editorial note: Orinoco Tribune does not generally publish articles that are over two weeks old. However, an exception is being made in this case as the article remains as important today as it was at the time of its publication. | By Karim Shami — Mar 24, 2023 | The transformation of Yemen's strategically-located Socotra Island into an Emirati-Israeli military intelligence hub has raised concerns for the Ansarallah movement and its allies, significantly increasing the geopolitical stakes of the Yemen war. | Located off the southern coast of Yemen in the Arabian Sea, the Socotra archipelago has become a foca…

Muhammed Shabeer (2023-04-14). "Hungarian society is in a social crisis" peoplesdispatch.org Vajnai Attila, president of the Hungarian Workers' Party 2006 – European Left, talks about the social crisis in Hungary and the policies of the right-wing Viktor Orbán government…

Albert Bender (2023-04-13). Victoria: la reincorporación del legislador negro Justin Jones es una derrota para el fascismo. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—Por voto unánime, el legislador negro exiliado Justin Jones fue reelegido a la Cámara de Representantes del Estado de Tennessee por una sesión de emergencia del Consejo Metropolitano de Nashville el 10 de abril. Su regreso a la legislatura se produjo pocos días después de su expulsión por parte del organismo controlado por los republicanos …

Albert Bender (2023-04-12). People's victory: Reinstatement of Black lawmaker Justin Jones a defeat for fascism. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—By a unanimous vote, exiled Black lawmaker Justin Jones was reappointed to the Tennessee State House of Representatives by an emergency session of Metro Nashville Council on April 10. His return to the legislature came just a scant few days after his expulsion by the Republican-controlled body on April 6 for so-called "disorderly behavior." The behavior deemed disorderly …

CJ Baker (2023-04-12). Protest Song Of The Week: 'Go As Free Companions' By Dawn Ray'd. shadowproof.com Dawn Ray'd is a UK anarchist black metal band that draws from the folk traditions of rebel music. On their latest album "To Know The Light," the trio conveys a rousing anti-fascist message that balances the bleakness that black metal is known for with a sense of optimism.

Robert Reich (2023-04-12). Is the GOP becoming the American fascist party? nationofchange.org What occurred in Nashville last week is a frightening reminder of the fragility of American democracy when Republicans obtain supermajorities and no longer need to work with Democratic lawmakers.

Special to People's World (2023-04-13). The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: After 80 years, new photographs emerge. peoplesworld.org For four weeks, from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. This year marks the 80th anniversary of …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-12). Arsonist Ex-Ukrainian Government Minister Assisted Canadian Government-Funded Nazi Propaganda Bus Tour. libya360.wordpress.com Christian Shingiro and Aidan Jonah The Trade Unions Building in Odessa burning in 2014, after neo-Nazis and other right-wing forces, counting Stepan Kubiv among them, set it on fire. 42 Ukrainians opposed to the Maidan coup were killed in the fire. (Source) ATIP requests and an interview with Ukrainian economist Roman Gubriienko have revealed that…

Albert Bender (2023-04-13). Victoria: la reincorporación del legislador negro Justin Jones es una derrota para el fascismo. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—Por voto unánime, el legislador negro exiliado Justin Jones fue reelegido a la Cámara de Representantes del Estado de Tennessee por una sesión de emergencia del Consejo Metropolitano de Nashville el 10 de abril. Su regreso a la legislatura se produjo pocos días después de su expulsión por parte del organismo controlado por los republicanos …

Albert Bender (2023-04-12). People's victory: Reinstatement of Black lawmaker Justin Jones a defeat for fascism. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—By a unanimous vote, exiled Black lawmaker Justin Jones was reappointed to the Tennessee State House of Representatives by an emergency session of Metro Nashville Council on April 10. His return to the legislature came just a scant few days after his expulsion by the Republican-controlled body on April 6 for so-called "disorderly behavior." The behavior deemed disorderly …

CJ Baker (2023-04-12). Protest Song Of The Week: 'Go As Free Companions' By Dawn Ray'd. shadowproof.com Dawn Ray'd is a UK anarchist black metal band that draws from the folk traditions of rebel music. On their latest album "To Know The Light," the trio conveys a rousing anti-fascist message that balances the bleakness that black metal is known for with a sense of optimism.

Robert Reich (2023-04-12). Is the GOP becoming the American fascist party? nationofchange.org What occurred in Nashville last week is a frightening reminder of the fragility of American democracy when Republicans obtain supermajorities and no longer need to work with Democratic lawmakers.

Special to People's World (2023-04-13). The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: After 80 years, new photographs emerge. peoplesworld.org For four weeks, from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe. This year marks the 80th anniversary of …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-12). Arsonist Ex-Ukrainian Government Minister Assisted Canadian Government-Funded Nazi Propaganda Bus Tour. libya360.wordpress.com Christian Shingiro and Aidan Jonah The Trade Unions Building in Odessa burning in 2014, after neo-Nazis and other right-wing forces, counting Stepan Kubiv among them, set it on fire. 42 Ukrainians opposed to the Maidan coup were killed in the fire. (Source) ATIP requests and an interview with Ukrainian economist Roman Gubriienko have revealed that…

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-04-12). The 1st Amendment, Defense Security Cooperation Agency & the Henry A. Kissinger Connection. indybay.org Attached please find the article, "Kissinger's Culpability," published this month in The Progressive magazine. The story admirably fleshes out the already decorated U.S. federal national security and human rights whistleblower's arguably most important disclosures regarding a far-right and/or neo-Nazi cabal and a systemic pattern of self-protecting reprisal running through National Defense University (NDU) and Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) decisions against an already decorated national security whistleblower; efforts sustained by collaborationist kapos of the U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB…

Mark Gruenberg (2023-04-13). Black unionists link expulsion of lawmakers to billionaire racists. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists linked the white right Republican majority's expulsion of two Black Tennessee state legislators to white nationalism and its billionaire backers. The two state reps have since been reinstated. CBTU's strong statement came just after the AFL-CIO also condemned the expulsion of State Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, and Justin …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-12). Mexico: Is AMLO's Resource Nationalism Raising the Odds of a Coup? libya360.wordpress.com Owen Schalk Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Photo courtesy Presidencia de la República Washington and Ottawa are not only attempting to weaken AMLO's government—they are attempting to weaken Mexican democracy One of the key tenets of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's "fourth transformation" government is state sovereignty over Mexico's energy resources. This transformation…

Fight Back (2023-04-12). Great progress: FRSO fund drive nets $25,000 so far. fightbacknews.org In the two weeks since the announcement of Freedom Road Socialist Organization's $130,000 Spring Fundraising Drive, more than $25,000 has come in. More contributions are coming in every day. | FRSO Political Secretary Mick Kelly states, "We are off to a great start. FRSO is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth. We need to expand our capacity. This means we will be expanding our national office and bringing on more full-time staff. We will have more publications. And we will continue to send out organizers to build new districts of FRSO." | Kelly continued, "The decline of monopoly capitalism is accelerat…

Newsclick (2023-04-12). AI will fail… but not why you think | With Aunindyo Chakravarty. peoplesdispatch.org Artificial intelligence tools have been in the news in recent times due to a vast variety of creative tasks they seem capable of. Yet, AI is bound to fail and the reason is one word – Capitalism. Economic analyst and journalist Aunindyo Chakravarty explains the logic…

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2023-04-12). CovertAction Bulletin: Racist Attacks on Democracy in Tennessee. covertactionmagazine.com The expulsion of two Black elected Representatives from Tennessee's state government continues a long, racist tradition of the removal of Black people in political power in the United States. From the founding of the country through the Reconstruction era and to the modern day, white supremacy and capitalism have used every weapon at their disposal to disenfranchise Black voters and legislators…

Robert Reich (2023-04-13). Why are there fees on everything? nationofchange.org They hide the true cost when you buy a good or service.

WSWS (2023-04-13). Sri Lankan police attack rally to mark start of last year's popular uprising. wsws.org Notwithstanding the Socialist Equality Party's principled opposition to the pro-capitalist policies of protest organisers, we strongly condemn the violent government-ordered assault.

WSWS (2023-04-13). Why is Britain's Socialist Workers Party downplaying the no-confidence petition against the RCN nurses' union leadership? wsws.org SWP members on Unison's national executive are playing a central role in blocking a rank-and-file insurgency against the health unions' pay deal with the Tory government.

Bruni de la Motte (2023-04-12). The late East Germany, a new (distorted) history in review. peoplesworld.org The German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) has long been a subject neglected by many historians—or, if it is given attention, it's been portrayed simply as a totalitarian country ruled by Stalinists who oppressed the population. Katja Hoyer's new book on the GDR, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990, in its British edition, soon to be published …

Julianne Tveten, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2023-04-13). US Media Denounce Twitter's 'State Media' Label When It Affects NPR. popularresistance.org As part of an ongoing, impulsive and reactionary legacy news outlets, Elon Musk's added to its list of "state-affiliated media"—a label from which all US media had, until recently, been exempt (FAIR.org, 1/6/23). | NPR (4/5/23) rebuked the label, and major media rushed to the public broadcaster's defense. "Twitter Slaps NPR With a Dubious New Tag: 'State-Affiliated Media,'" read a Washington Post headline (4/5/23). Vanity Fair (4/5/23) lambasted the "false equivalence between NPR and state propaganda agencies." CBS News (4/5/23), AP (4/5/23) and CNN (4/5/23) emphatically quoted NPR's self-description as a p…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-12). War, the Separation of the World, or the End of an Empire? libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Meyssan All empires are mortal. So is the "American Empire .Painting by Alexandre Granger Many are those who predict a World War. Indeed, some groups are preparing for it. But the States are reasonable and, in fact, consider rather an amicable separation, a division of the world into two different worlds, one unipolar and…

Chris Jenkins (2023-04-13). WA nurses and midwives still face huge fines, deregistration. greenleft.org.au The WA Industrial Relations Commission is still considering fining the Australian Nursing Federation WA $350,000 for taking strike action last November as part of its enterprise bargaining campaign. Chris Jenkins reports.

Ryan Cristián (2023-04-12). Freddie Ponton Interview — What Is Happening In France & Is The US Government Involved? thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today is Freddie Ponton, here to discuss the major protests — and the subsequent tyrannical police violence — taking place in France, and what may be truly driving it. The narrative on the surface, which no doubt plays a factor, is that this began due to President Macron's proposed pension reforms. However, when

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-12). US Slaps Sanctions on Hungary Bank Over Russia Ties. news.antiwar.com The US on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a bank based in Hungary over its ties to Russia, a move that further strains ties between Washington and Budapest. According to Reuters, the sanctions targeted three top officials in the International Investment Bank in Budapest, two Russian nationals, and one Hungarian national. US Ambassador to Hungary David …

Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco (2023-04-12). French Authorities, FBI Raid Art Museum in Old San Juan. latinorebels.com French authorities, with the help of the FBI, raided the offices of the Michèle Vasarely Foundation in Old San Juan on Tuesday. The raid reportedly concerned the whereabouts of $40 million worth of art created by Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely.

Albert Bender (2023-04-12). People's victory: Reinstatement of Black lawmaker Justin Jones a defeat for fascism. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—By a unanimous vote, exiled Black lawmaker Justin Jones was reappointed to the Tennessee State House of Representatives by an emergency session of Metro Nashville Council on April 10. His return to the legislature came just a scant few days after his expulsion by the Republican-controlled body on April 6 for so-called "disorderly behavior." The behavior deemed disorderly …

Robert Reich (2023-04-12). Is the GOP becoming the American fascist party? nationofchange.org What occurred in Nashville last week is a frightening reminder of the fragility of American democracy when Republicans obtain supermajorities and no longer need to work with Democratic lawmakers.

Albert Bender (2023-04-11). Tennessee Republicans' racist expulsions backfire; movement for democracy and gun control galvanized. peoplesworld.org A public lynching! A racist kangaroo court legislature! A fascist assault on democracy! All of the above characterize the proceedings of the Republican-dominated Tennessee legislature that on Thursday, March 6, expelled two Democratic African American lawmakers under the guise of disrupting that racist legal body. A third Democratic representative similarly accused, but who is white, …

Editor (2023-04-11). øEs Israel una "democracia"? workers.org Durante las últimas 13 semanas, Israel se ha visto sacudido por manifestaciones masivas de cientos de miles de personas, especialmente en Tel Aviv, dirigidas contra el gobierno neofascista de extrema derecha encabezado por el primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu, un carnicero. Lo que provocó las protestas fue una propuesta de "paquete . . . |

John Wojcik (2023-04-11). Fascists rebuked as expelled lawmaker Justin Jones reinstated to Tennessee House. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—One of the Black Democrats expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives for his role in an anti-gun protest inside the State Capitol was sworn back in to his seat on Monday in a stinging defeat for the fascistic Republican supermajority that dominates the legislature. Almost immediately after the Metropolitan Nashville Council voted to restore …

Juan Cole (2023-04-11). Thousands of Fascist Israeli Militiamen, led by Cabinet members, march in Palestinian West Bank for Illegal Squatter-Settlement, as 27 Palestinians are Wounded and 100 are Tear-gassed. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Monday about 17,000 Israeli squatters marched through the Palestinian West Bank to the shuttered illegal squatter-settlement of Evyatar on Mount Sabih near the hamlet of Beita in the vicinity of Nablus, demanding its revival. Some 27 Palestinian counter-protesters suffered injuries from rubber-tipped …

WSWS (2023-04-11). Israel ramps up provocations against Palestinians and neighbouring states. wsws.org Netanyahu has given the green light to the fascists, racists and religious zealots that make up his government to incite the Palestinians in the run up to the end of Ramadan and provoke an uprising to be used as the excuse for a military onslaught.

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-04-12). The 1st Amendment, Defense Security Cooperation Agency & the Henry A. Kissinger Connection. indybay.org Attached please find the article, "Kissinger's Culpability," published this month in The Progressive magazine. The story admirably fleshes out the already decorated U.S. federal national security and human rights whistleblower's arguably most important disclosures regarding a far-right and/or neo-Nazi cabal and a systemic pattern of self-protecting reprisal running through National Defense University (NDU) and Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) decisions against an already decorated national security whistleblower; efforts sustained by collaborationist kapos of the U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB…

Staff (2023-04-11). Cuba y Suiza, por el fortalecimiento de sus vínculos. cubadebate.cu El miembro del Buró Político y vicepresidente de la República, Salvador Valdés Mesa, sostuvo un encuentro este lunes con el excelentísimo señor Ignazio Cassis, jefe del Departamento Federal de Asuntos Exteriores de la Confederación Suiza, quien desde el pasado sábado inició una visita oficial a nuestro país.

Fight Back (2023-04-12). Great progress: FRSO fund drive nets $25,000 so far. fightbacknews.org In the two weeks since the announcement of Freedom Road Socialist Organization's $130,000 Spring Fundraising Drive, more than $25,000 has come in. More contributions are coming in every day. | FRSO Political Secretary Mick Kelly states, "We are off to a great start. FRSO is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth. We need to expand our capacity. This means we will be expanding our national office and bringing on more full-time staff. We will have more publications. And we will continue to send out organizers to build new districts of FRSO." | Kelly continued, "The decline of monopoly capitalism is accelerat…

Ian Angus (2023-04-11). The Fishing Revolution and the Origins of Capitalism. globalresearch.ca

The Lever (2023-04-11). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Chinatown (w/ Julia Rock). levernews.com

WSWS (2023-04-11). Israel ramps up provocations against Palestinians and neighbouring states. wsws.org Netanyahu has given the green light to the fascists, racists and religious zealots that make up his government to incite the Palestinians in the run up to the end of Ramadan and provoke an uprising to be used as the excuse for a military onslaught.

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-04-12). The 1st Amendment, Defense Security Cooperation Agency & the Henry A. Kissinger Connection. indybay.org Attached please find the article, "Kissinger's Culpability," published this month in The Progressive magazine. The story admirably fleshes out the already decorated U.S. federal national security and human rights whistleblower's arguably most important disclosures regarding a far-right and/or neo-Nazi cabal and a systemic pattern of self-protecting reprisal running through National Defense University (NDU) and Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) decisions against an already decorated national security whistleblower; efforts sustained by collaborationist kapos of the U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB…

Staff (2023-04-11). Cuba y Suiza, por el fortalecimiento de sus vínculos. cubadebate.cu El miembro del Buró Político y vicepresidente de la República, Salvador Valdés Mesa, sostuvo un encuentro este lunes con el excelentísimo señor Ignazio Cassis, jefe del Departamento Federal de Asuntos Exteriores de la Confederación Suiza, quien desde el pasado sábado inició una visita oficial a nuestro país.

Fight Back (2023-04-12). Great progress: FRSO fund drive nets $25,000 so far. fightbacknews.org In the two weeks since the announcement of Freedom Road Socialist Organization's $130,000 Spring Fundraising Drive, more than $25,000 has come in. More contributions are coming in every day. | FRSO Political Secretary Mick Kelly states, "We are off to a great start. FRSO is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth. We need to expand our capacity. This means we will be expanding our national office and bringing on more full-time staff. We will have more publications. And we will continue to send out organizers to build new districts of FRSO." | Kelly continued, "The decline of monopoly capitalism is accelerat…

Ian Angus (2023-04-11). The Fishing Revolution and the Origins of Capitalism. globalresearch.ca

The Lever (2023-04-11). üéß MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Chinatown (w/ Julia Rock). levernews.com

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-11). Socialist Party of Zambia attacked by members of ruling party, Dr. Fred M'membe arrested. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in On Saturday, April 8, members of the Socialist Party of Zambia (SP) were targets of a violent attack by alleged cadres of the ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) in the district of Serenje, Central Province. Shortly after, Zambian police arrested SP president Dr. Fred M…

Ariadna Eljuri (2023-04-11). Marches Throughout Venezuela to Commemorate Failed 2002 Coup. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, Venezuelans will take to the streets throughout the country to commemorate the events of April 11, 12, and 13, 2002, noted the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, on Monday. | On April 13, 2002, a historic event occurred when the Venezuelan people refused to allow their democracy and sovereignty to be taken away, leading to the restoration of imprisoned President Hugo Chávez Frías, who returned to his post less than 48 hours after a right wing-coup d'état took him briefly out of power. | At a press conference, Cabello indicated that the activiti…

Editor (2023-04-11). The "Powell Memo" and the Supreme Court: A counteroffensive against the many. mronline.org By the early 1970s, the global revolutionary tide of socialist and national liberation struggles was at its apex, and the tide was washing over the U.S., with expanding and increasingly militant social movements and political organizations.

Liberation Staff (2023-04-11). Solidarity with the Socialist Party of Zambia: Drop the charges against Dr. Fred M'membe! liberationnews.org The Party for Socialism and Liberation strongly condemns the brutal attack on April 8 against a public meeting organized by the Socialist Party of Zambia, and the subsequent arrest of party president Dr. Fred M'membe on false charges.

WSWS (2023-04-11). Junior doctors in the UK speak on their strike. wsws.org Junior doctors in the British Medical Association are taking four consecutive days of strikes this week. World Socialist Web Site reporters visited picket lines on the first day of the action.

WSWS (2023-04-11). Public meeting: After the NSW Elections—How to fight AUKUS, War & Austerity! wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party Australia is holding a public meeting Sunday, April 23 at 3 p.m. (AEST).

Peter Koenig (2023-04-11). Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): The Weaponization of Money? WHO's Health Tyranny: Towards a Totalitarian World Government? No Way! globalresearch.ca

Taroa Zuniga Silva (2023-04-11). 50 years after Chile's coup, the first year of Popular Unity. peoplesdispatch.org A conversation with Miguel Lawner, who remembers life as a former political prisoner of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship while projecting his hope that Salvador Allende's government could improve the lives of Chileans onto the current progressive government…

Andi Olluri (2023-04-11). The Yemeni "Peace Process" is a Sham Though You Wouldn't Know That From Watching U.S. News or Reading Foreign Affairs. covertactionmagazine.com Media and intellectual elites continue to add spin to dignify a criminal war of aggression that has resulted in unconscionable suffering among the Yemeni people. In April 2022, a temporary truce was signed between the warring parties in Yemen, which ended in October, though fragments of it are still operational.[1] The truce in no way …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-11). US Once Again Turning its Sword to Latin America as its Global Power Wanes. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic The political West is always "shocked" by how deeply unpopular it is in the Global South and cannot comprehend why it "dares" to refuse to side with them against Russia and/or China. This lesson is something the political elites of the United States and its numerous satellite states need to be reminded of from time to time….

It's Going Down (2023-04-11). This Is America #185: Bash Back Returns; Why Elites Like Trump Don't Go to Jail. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, April 10th, 2023. On this episode, first we speak with someone involved in the upcoming Bash Back! convergence in Chicago, Illinois. We speak about the history of the group and why it is reforming after over 10 years on hiatus and then switch to our discussion, where we tackle why…

Lee Camp (2023-04-11). Why China's Winning and the US Is Panicking, With Gregory Mahoney. mintpressnews.com China expert Dr. Joseph Gregory Mahoney joins Lee Camp to discuss the rise of China on the world stage on the heels of the US empire's decline.

Anonymous103 (2023-04-11). Why America Is at War Against China & Russia. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by To boil it all down: it's because all U.S. billionaires fund the political campaigns ONLY of candidates whose #1 priority (other than becoming elected and re-elected) is for the U.S. Government to increase the size of its empire at this time while its dominance and virtual control over all other countries is declining instead of continuing to increase as had been the…

Walter Smolarek (2023-04-11). Leaked Pentagon documents: A snapshot of the inner workings of empire? liberationnews.org Much of the leak relates to Ukraine, and underscores how the war is a proxy conflict being directed by Washington.

Ryan Cristián (2023-04-12). Freddie Ponton Interview — What Is Happening In France & Is The US Government Involved? thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today is Freddie Ponton, here to discuss the major protests — and the subsequent tyrannical police violence — taking place in France, and what may be truly driving it. The narrative on the surface, which no doubt plays a factor, is that this began due to President Macron's proposed pension reforms. However, when

Eric A. Gordon (2023-04-10). 'Kiss of the Spider Woman': Human connection a shield against fascism. peoplesworld.org PASADENA, Calif. — Thrust together at an Argentine federal correctional complex, the notorious Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, two men of polar opposite persuasions occupy a common claustrophobic cell. The time is the Dirty War period from 1976 to 1983, when a brutal fascist military dictatorship led by General Jorge Rafael Videla ruled the land, …

Henry A. Giroux (2023-04-10). US Fascism Is Spreading Under the Guise of "Patriotic Education" truthout.org The relentless state-based attacks on Black people in the U.S. and the war being waged against public and higher education are not unrelated. In the present political and ideological climate, far right political leaders, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) have declared a war on institutions of public and higher education… |

Juan Cole (2023-04-11). Thousands of Fascist Israeli Militiamen, led by Cabinet members, march in Palestinian West Bank for Illegal Squatter-Settlement, as 27 Palestinians are Wounded and 100 are Tear-gassed. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Monday about 17,000 Israeli squatters marched through the Palestinian West Bank to the shuttered illegal squatter-settlement of Evyatar on Mount Sabih near the hamlet of Beita in the vicinity of Nablus, demanding its revival. Some 27 Palestinian counter-protesters suffered injuries from rubber-tipped …

Editor (2023-04-10). Fascists threaten, Biden concedes: organize and fight for trans rights! mronline.org The Trans Day of Vengeance was a long-planned protest in Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 1. People were coming to D.C. from across the country to participate. It was called in response to the growing legal and extralegal violence against the transgender community, egged on by far-right politicians and corporate media.

Eric A. Gordon (2023-04-10). 'Kiss of the Spider Woman': Human connection a shield against fascism. peoplesworld.org PASADENA, Calif. — Thrust together at an Argentine federal correctional complex, the notorious Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, two men of polar opposite persuasions occupy a common claustrophobic cell. The time is the Dirty War period from 1976 to 1983, when a brutal fascist military dictatorship led by General Jorge Rafael Videla ruled the land, …

Henry A. Giroux (2023-04-10). US Fascism Is Spreading Under the Guise of "Patriotic Education" truthout.org The relentless state-based attacks on Black people in the U.S. and the war being waged against public and higher education are not unrelated. In the present political and ideological climate, far right political leaders, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) have declared a war on institutions of public and higher education… |

Juan Cole (2023-04-11). Thousands of Fascist Israeli Militiamen, led by Cabinet members, march in Palestinian West Bank for Illegal Squatter-Settlement, as 27 Palestinians are Wounded and 100 are Tear-gassed. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Monday about 17,000 Israeli squatters marched through the Palestinian West Bank to the shuttered illegal squatter-settlement of Evyatar on Mount Sabih near the hamlet of Beita in the vicinity of Nablus, demanding its revival. Some 27 Palestinian counter-protesters suffered injuries from rubber-tipped …

Editor (2023-04-10). Fascists threaten, Biden concedes: organize and fight for trans rights! mronline.org The Trans Day of Vengeance was a long-planned protest in Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 1. People were coming to D.C. from across the country to participate. It was called in response to the growing legal and extralegal violence against the transgender community, egged on by far-right politicians and corporate media.

WSWS (2023-04-10). Texas Republican Governor Abbott pledges to "swiftly" pardon fascist killer. wsws.org Abbott's proclamation is a continuation of Republican efforts to legitimatize far-right vigilante violence.

WSWS (2023-04-10). Texas judge issues injunction barring most common abortion drug. wsws.org The opinion by federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an anti-abortion zealot appointed by Donald Trump, is a fascistic political diatribe.

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-04-11). The 1st Amendment, Defense Security Cooperation Agency & the Henry A. Kissinger Connection. indybay.org Attached please find the article, "Kissinger's Culpability," published this month in The Progressive magazine. The story admirably fleshes out the already decorated U.S. federal national security and human rights whistleblower's arguably most important disclosures regarding a far-right and/or neo-Nazi cabal and a systemic pattern of self-protecting reprisal running through National Defense University (NDU) and Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) decisions against an already decorated national security whistleblower; efforts sustained by collaborationist kapos of the U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB…

Staff (2023-04-11). Cuba y Suiza, por el fortalecimiento de sus vínculos. cubadebate.cu El miembro del Buró Político y vicepresidente de la República, Salvador Valdés Mesa, sostuvo un encuentro este lunes con el excelentísimo señor Ignazio Cassis, jefe del Departamento Federal de Asuntos Exteriores de la Confederación Suiza, quien desde el pasado sábado inició una visita oficial a nuestro país.

Anonymous103 (2023-04-10). Kiev's Official Admits "Horrible Losses" southfront.org Illustrative ImageAccording to a Ukrainian diplomat Kiev will admit its losses in the future, after the end of the conflict. | Written by Increasingly, Ukraine's defeat is being admitted even among officials of Kiev's neo-Nazi regime. Recently, a Ukrainian diplomat claimed that his country is suffering "horrible losses". According to him, the government is hidi…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-10). Nazi Skeletons in Finland and Sweden's Closets. transcend.org 5 Apr 2023 – Finland's official induction into NATO has been celebrated across the trans Atlantic technocracy-sphere as a victory for democracy and freedom. Is it?>

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-10). Will the West Support Ukraine's Attack on Crimea? transcend.org According to U.S. and U.N., Putin "annexed" Crimea in 2014. According to Putin, Crimea, daunted by the violence of neo-Nazis in the Maidan, had asked Putin to intervene; the subsequent referendum confirmed their approval.

Staff (2023-04-10). Headlines for April 10, 2023. democracynow.org Fate of Medication Abortion in Legal Limbo as Two U.S. Judges Issue Conflicting Rulings, Clarence Thomas Defends Luxury Gifts from Harlan Crow, GOP Megadonor and Nazi Memorabilia Collector, DOJ Probes Leak of Pentagon Documents About Ukraine War, U.S. Surveillance on Allies, Russian Strike Kills Young Girl and Father as 31 Abducted Ukrainian Children Returned to Families, China Holds Military Drills Following Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's Trip to U.S., Israel Strikes Syria, Gaza as IDF Raid In Occupied West Bank Kills Another Palestinian Teen, Saudi and Houthi Officials Meet for Yemen Peace Talks Media…

LaborFest (2023-04-10). Monday 5/1: SF May Day 2023 "Break The Chains For Solidarity & Internationalism" indybay.org 518 Valenia Near 16th St | San Francisco…

Ian Angus (2023-04-11). The Fishing Revolution and the Origins of Capitalism. globalresearch.ca

Subcommandante Marcos (2023-04-10). The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle. indybay.org Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. This new bomb destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery .

Editor (2023-04-11). The "Powell Memo" and the Supreme Court: A counteroffensive against the many. mronline.org By the early 1970s, the global revolutionary tide of socialist and national liberation struggles was at its apex, and the tide was washing over the U.S., with expanding and increasingly militant social movements and political organizations.

WSWS (2023-04-11). Public meeting: After the NSW Elections—How to fight AUKUS, War & Austerity! wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party Australia is holding a public meeting Sunday, April 23 at 3 p.m. (AEST).

Tanupriya Singh (2023-04-10). Socialist Party of Zambia attacked by members of ruling party, Dr. Fred M'membe arrested. peoplesdispatch.org According to the Socialist Party, their party members were attacked at a campaign meeting ahead of a by-election in the Serenje district and SP President Dr. Fred M'membe was later arrested…

WSWS (2023-04-10). British-Irish agreement enshrines sectarian division. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is republishing a statement issued by its Editorial Board on April 25, 1998, after the signing on April 10 of the Good Friday Agreement between the governments of the UK and Ireland, and the major parties of Northern Ireland including Sinn Féin and the then dominant Ulster Unionist Party.

Peter Koenig (2023-04-11). Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): The Weaponization of Money? WHO's Health Tyranny: Towards a Totalitarian World Government? No Way! globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-04-10). The "Independent National Convention '23": A reactionary political freakshow, part two. wsws.org Several of the main organizers and speakers from February's "Rage Against the War Machine" rally reconvened in Austin, Texas last week for a three-day conference that featured Texas Separatists, anti-vaccine zealots, anti-Semites, and cryptocurrency hustlers, along with journalist Chris Hedges.

It's Going Down (2023-04-11). This Is America #185: Bash Back Returns; Why Elites Like Trump Don't Go to Jail. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, April 10th, 2023. On this episode, first we speak with someone involved in the upcoming Bash Back! convergence in Chicago, Illinois. We speak about the history of the group and why it is reforming after over 10 years on hiatus and then switch to our discussion, where we tackle why…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-10). As Donald Trump Surrenders to Authorities in NY, Remember Feb 1924: The Trial of Adolf Hitler. transcend.org

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-10). Empire of Jingoistic Lies. transcend.org 8 Apr 2023 – How the US and its military alliance created, encircle, attack, and destroy potential rivals, governments and leaders abusing their (including NATO) powers through proxy politics and victor-centric justice. NATO is a collective, defensive, rich countries' alliance that functions under control/leadership of the USA.

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-04-10). Washington says "journalism is not a crime" while working to criminalize journalism. mronline.org After a certain point criticizing the hypocrisy and contradictions of the U.S.-centralized empire starts to feel too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. But hell let's do it anyway; the barrel's right here, and I really hate these particular fish.

WSWS (2023-04-10). Danny Wu, director of American: An Odyssey to 1947, discusses Orson Welles and political and cultural life in the US in the 1930s and '40s. wsws.org Wu's documentary begins and ends with Welles' leaving America in 1947, essentially driven out of the country by the combined efforts of the FBI, congressional witch-hunters and the media empire of William Randolph Hearst.

ecns.cn (2023-04-10). Registration-based IPOs adopted on main boards of Shanghai, Shenzhen bourses. ecns.cn The first batch of registration-based initial public offerings (IPOs) of 10 enterprises were adopted on Monday on the main boards of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, a landmark of the country's capital market reform.

ecns.cn (2023-04-10). China opens online cross-border tax service for non-resident enterprises. ecns.cn China's State Taxation Administration announced on Monday that online cross-border tax service for non-resident enterprises has been launched nationwide, through which overseas enterprises can directly pay tax online.

Brittani Banks (2023-04-10). Fifty Years After Chile's Coup, the First Year of Popular Unity. independentmediainstitute.org Ten days after the 1973 coup against the Popular Unity (UP) government of President Salvador Allende, the military opened the Río Chico concentration camp on Dawson Island, located in the Strait of Magellan, near the southern tip of Chile. The island had served as an extermination camp by a Catholic order between 1891 and 1911 …

WSWS (2023-04-10). Texas Republican Governor Abbott pledges to "swiftly" pardon fascist killer. wsws.org Abbott's proclamation is a continuation of Republican efforts to legitimatize far-right vigilante violence.

WSWS (2023-04-10). Texas judge issues injunction barring most common abortion drug. wsws.org The opinion by federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an anti-abortion zealot appointed by Donald Trump, is a fascistic political diatribe.

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-04-10). The 1st Amendment, Defense Security Cooperation Agency & the Henry A. Kissinger Connection. indybay.org Attached please find the article, "Kissinger's Culpability," published this month in The Progressive magazine. The story admirably fleshes out the already decorated U.S. federal national security and human rights whistleblower's arguably most important disclosures regarding a far-right and/or neo-Nazi cabal and a systemic pattern of self-protecting reprisal running through National Defense University (NDU) and Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) decisions against an already decorated national security whistleblower; efforts sustained by collaborationist kapos of the U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-10). Nazi Skeletons in Finland and Sweden's Closets. transcend.org 5 Apr 2023 – Finland's official induction into NATO has been celebrated across the trans Atlantic technocracy-sphere as a victory for democracy and freedom. Is it?>

WSWS (2023-04-10). Texas Republican Governor Abbott pledges to "swiftly" pardon fascist killer. wsws.org Abbott's proclamation is a continuation of Republican efforts to legitimatize far-right vigilante violence.

WSWS (2023-04-10). Texas judge issues injunction barring most common abortion drug. wsws.org The opinion by federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an anti-abortion zealot appointed by Donald Trump, is a fascistic political diatribe.

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-04-10). The 1st Amendment, Defense Security Cooperation Agency & the Henry A. Kissinger Connection. indybay.org Attached please find the article, "Kissinger's Culpability," published this month in The Progressive magazine. The story admirably fleshes out the already decorated U.S. federal national security and human rights whistleblower's arguably most important disclosures regarding a far-right and/or neo-Nazi cabal and a systemic pattern of self-protecting reprisal running through National Defense University (NDU) and Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) decisions against an already decorated national security whistleblower; efforts sustained by collaborationist kapos of the U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-10). Nazi Skeletons in Finland and Sweden's Closets. transcend.org 5 Apr 2023 – Finland's official induction into NATO has been celebrated across the trans Atlantic technocracy-sphere as a victory for democracy and freedom. Is it?>

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-10). Will the West Support Ukraine's Attack on Crimea? transcend.org According to U.S. and U.N., Putin "annexed" Crimea in 2014. According to Putin, Crimea, daunted by the violence of neo-Nazis in the Maidan, had asked Putin to intervene; the subsequent referendum confirmed their approval.

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-04-09). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

LaborFest (2023-04-10). Monday 5/1: SF May Day 2023 "Break The Chains For Solidarity & Internationalism" indybay.org 518 Valenia Near 16th St | San Francisco…

Subcommandante Marcos (2023-04-10). The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle. indybay.org Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. This new bomb destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery .

F. William Engdahl (2023-04-09). The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset. globalresearch.ca Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier.

WSWS (2023-04-10). The "Independent National Convention '23": A reactionary political freakshow, part two. wsws.org Several of the main organizers and speakers from February's "Rage Against the War Machine" rally reconvened in Austin, Texas last week for a three-day conference that featured Texas Separatists, anti-vaccine zealots, anti-Semites, and cryptocurrency hustlers, along with journalist Chris Hedges.

Robert J. Burrowes (2023-04-09). We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite's 'Great Reset': Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively? globalresearch.ca

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-10). As Donald Trump Surrenders to Authorities in NY, Remember Feb 1924: The Trial of Adolf Hitler. transcend.org

WSWS (2023-04-10). Danny Wu, director of American: An Odyssey to 1947, discusses Orson Welles and political and cultural life in the US in the 1930s and '40s. wsws.org Wu's documentary begins and ends with Welles' leaving America in 1947, essentially driven out of the country by the combined efforts of the FBI, congressional witch-hunters and the media empire of William Randolph Hearst.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-10). Empire of Jingoistic Lies. transcend.org 8 Apr 2023 – How the US and its military alliance created, encircle, attack, and destroy potential rivals, governments and leaders abusing their (including NATO) powers through proxy politics and victor-centric justice. NATO is a collective, defensive, rich countries' alliance that functions under control/leadership of the USA.

ecns.cn (2023-04-10). Registration-based IPOs adopted on main boards of Shanghai, Shenzhen bourses. ecns.cn The first batch of registration-based initial public offerings (IPOs) of 10 enterprises were adopted on Monday on the main boards of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, a landmark of the country's capital market reform.

ecns.cn (2023-04-10). China opens online cross-border tax service for non-resident enterprises. ecns.cn China's State Taxation Administration announced on Monday that online cross-border tax service for non-resident enterprises has been launched nationwide, through which overseas enterprises can directly pay tax online.

ecns.cn (2023-04-09). Insights丨Chinese macroeconomic policies provide certainty for foreign enterprises: expert. ecns.cn New Zealand China Friendship Society National President Chris Lipscombe said for foreign-owned or foreign-funded enterprises in China, the macroeconomic policies that China is following most helpfully can provide some kind of predictability or certainty for business.

ecns.cn (2023-04-09). Insights‰∏®BRI brings opportunities to New Zealand enterprises: expert. ecns.cn New Zealand China Friendship Society National President Chris Lipscombe praised the cooperation between New Zealand and China. "Working with Chinese partners to address opportunities seems like a natural extension of the Belt and Road of opportunities," he said."ÄÄ…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-08). Fascist RESTRICT Bill is the State's Reaction to an Irreversible Escalation in Class Conflict. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea With the introduction of the RESTRICT bill, the element of the ruling elite that's most committed to advancing imperialism has made its intentions clear: to criminalize anti-imperialist activities and sentiments, starting with efforts to build solidarity with anti-imperialist countries. Should it pass, it will make the organizers I know whose job is to…

WSWS (2023-04-08). Following mass shooting in Nashville, fascistic Tennessee Republicans expel two Democratic lawmakers. wsws.org The gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the lower Tennessee House expelled two freshman African American Democratic lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for leading a peaceful student protest demanding gun reform.

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-04-09). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

Manlio Dinucci (2023-04-08). Fuori dalla Guerra Finché Siamo in Tempo | Grandangolo — Pangea. globalresearch.ca La rassegna stampa internazionale di Byoblu | 93 ∞ puntata: | L'Europa sprofonda sempre più nella guerra, alimentata da una serie di atti miranti a rendere impossibile l'apertura di un negoziato. Dall'attentato terroristico che a San Pietroburgo ha provocato la morte del …

LaborFest (2023-04-09). Monday 5/1: SF May Day 2023 "Break The Chains For Solidarity & Internationalism" indybay.org 518 Valenia Near 16th St | San Francisco…

Subcommandante Marcos (2023-04-09). The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle. indybay.org Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. This new bomb destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery .

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-08). Fascist RESTRICT Bill is the State's Reaction to an Irreversible Escalation in Class Conflict. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea With the introduction of the RESTRICT bill, the element of the ruling elite that's most committed to advancing imperialism has made its intentions clear: to criminalize anti-imperialist activities and sentiments, starting with efforts to build solidarity with anti-imperialist countries. Should it pass, it will make the organizers I know whose job is to…

WSWS (2023-04-08). Following mass shooting in Nashville, fascistic Tennessee Republicans expel two Democratic lawmakers. wsws.org The gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the lower Tennessee House expelled two freshman African American Democratic lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for leading a peaceful student protest demanding gun reform.

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-04-09). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

Manlio Dinucci (2023-04-08). Fuori dalla Guerra Finché Siamo in Tempo | Grandangolo — Pangea. globalresearch.ca La rassegna stampa internazionale di Byoblu | 93 ∞ puntata: | L'Europa sprofonda sempre più nella guerra, alimentata da una serie di atti miranti a rendere impossibile l'apertura di un negoziato. Dall'attentato terroristico che a San Pietroburgo ha provocato la morte del …

LaborFest (2023-04-09). Monday 5/1: SF May Day 2023 "Break The Chains For Solidarity & Internationalism" indybay.org 518 Valenia Near 16th St | San Francisco…

Subcommandante Marcos (2023-04-09). The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle. indybay.org Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. This new bomb destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery .

Editor (2023-04-08). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. scheerpost.com

WSWS (2023-04-08). A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a "mass disabling event": Part 4. wsws.org This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses, and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

Yarden Katz (2023-04-08). Resisting Eugenics and Racial Capitalism: Passover and the Tradition of Shifra and Puah. mronline.org This world needs revolutionaries who refuse orders to kill and exploit. Two midwives named Shifra and Puah were such revolutionaries. When a racist ruler asked them to limit the reproduction of slaves—out of fear of a slave uprising—they disobeyed.

àÅlvaro J. de Regil (2023-04-08). The Unbearable Unawareness of Our Ecological Existential Crisis. mronline.org Only an ecosocialist revolution can stop our demise, but capitalism's behemoth keeps people deceitful and mostly unaware of being on the verge of a catastrophic end. We must arise—now!

thecommunists (2023-04-09). Report from the anti-imperialist Summit Against Hypocrisy in Washington DC. thecommunists.org In the video above, radio host Garland Nixon gives a masterclass in how we can talk to those around us in ways that leave them questioning imperialist lies rather than being roused to antagonistic defence of propaganda-instilled prejudice. ***** On the weekend of 25-26 March, the Centre for Political Innovation, a US-based socialist education initiative …

Friends of Socialist China. (2023-04-08). Chinese Foreign Ministry Statement On Tsai's 'Transit' Through The US. popularresistance.org The following statement, issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China on 6 April 2023, expresses China's strong objection to the US's facilitation of Tsai Ing-wen's transit through the US, during which she had a high-profile meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The statement points out that this visit forms part of an increasingly consistent pattern by the US of undermining the One China principle and encouraging Taiwanese separatism, with a view to stoking cross-Strait tensions and weakening China. | The statement urges the US to return to a framework of international law…

WSWS (2023-04-08). French union leaders plan to abandon struggle against Macron's pension cuts. wsws.org This vindicates the Parti de l'égalité socialiste, who said that to bring down Macron, workers must organise into committees of action, independent of the union bureaucracies.

WSWS (2023-04-08). Forward to May Day 2023! Build a mass movement of workers and youth against war and for socialism! wsws.org On Sunday, April 30, the International Committee of the Fourth International, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and the World Socialist Web Site will hold an on-line global rally to celebrate May Day 2023.

F. William Engdahl (2023-04-09). The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset. globalresearch.ca Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier.

WSWS (2023-04-08). ProPublica documents corrupt relations of Supreme Court arch-reactionary Clarence Thomas with billionaire Republican donor. wsws.org On Thursday, the investigative journalism website ProPublica published an extensive and damning report documenting the fact that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has for decades enjoyed luxurious vacations paid for by Harlan Crow, a billionaire far-right Republican donor.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-04-09). The Word "Presstitute" Is Insulting (To Sex Workers): Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | Responding to a war caused by NATO expansion by expanding NATO. | Fighting Russian authoritarianism by increasing censorship. | Fighting Russian propaganda by increasing propaganda. | Pursuing peace by rejecting diplomacy. | Defending Europe from Russia by bombing European pipelines. | ‚ùñ | Twitter has dropped its

Robert J. Burrowes (2023-04-09). We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite's 'Great Reset': Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively? globalresearch.ca

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-04-08). Washington Says "Journalism Is Not A Crime" While Working To Criminalize Journalism. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article: | After a certain point criticizing the hypocrisy and contradictions of the US-centralized empire starts to feel too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. But hell let's do it anyway; the barrel's right here, and I really hate these particular fish. | Russian security services have

ecns.cn (2023-04-09). Insights丨Chinese macroeconomic policies provide certainty for foreign enterprises: expert. ecns.cn New Zealand China Friendship Society National President Chris Lipscombe said for foreign-owned or foreign-funded enterprises in China, the macroeconomic policies that China is following most helpfully can provide some kind of predictability or certainty for business.

ecns.cn (2023-04-09). Insights‰∏®BRI brings opportunities to New Zealand enterprises: expert. ecns.cn New Zealand China Friendship Society National President Chris Lipscombe praised the cooperation between New Zealand and China. "Working with Chinese partners to address opportunities seems like a natural extension of the Belt and Road of opportunities," he said."ÄÄ…

ecns.cn (2023-04-08). Canberra's move against TikTok hurts confidence in Australia. ecns.cn Australia's discriminatory restrictions against TikTok undermine the confidence of the international community in the country's business environment, and harm the interests of Australian enterprises and people.

ecns.cn (2023-04-08). China-built Mombasa-Nairobi railway promotes Kenya growth. ecns.cn Data released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics show that the revenue from the Mombasa-Nairobi railway, built by Chinese enterprises, reached KES 15.3 billion (0.11 billion) last year. Both passenger and freight volumes have steadily increased, continuing to play a positive role in the economic and social development of Kenya.

FP Staff (2023-04-08). Most European Union states back Brussels' legal action against Hungary over anti-LGBTQ law. firstpost.com

_____ (2023-04-07). The Imminent Collapse of Eurofascism. strategic-culture.org Only by crushing Eurofascism and expelling the Anglo-Saxon fascists from the Old Continent can the world be saved from a nuclear holocaust. | After the collapse of Nazi Germany, the Americans entered Western Europe with the firm intention of staying there forever, and to be completely honest, they never really hid it from us. The first Secretary General of NATO, the British general and diplomat, Hastings Ismay, explained the essence of the founding of the military alliance, which he headed, in a short but more than precise and vivid formulation, saying that its goal is "to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans…

Jake Johnson (2023-04-07). 'Fascism, full stop': Progressives in Congress condemn expulsion of Tennessee Democrats. nationofchange.org "Republicans may think they won today in Tennessee, but their fascism is only further radicalizing and awakening an earthquake of young people."

WSWS (2023-04-08). Following mass shooting in Nashville, fascistic Tennessee Republicans expel two Democratic lawmakers. wsws.org The gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the lower Tennessee House expelled two freshman African American Democratic lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for leading a peaceful student protest demanding gun reform.

Chris Walker (2023-04-07). Florida School District Bans Graphic Novel Version of Anne Frank's Diary. truthout.org A Florida school district has removed a visual adaptation of Anne Frank's diary, an acclaimed first-person telling of a teenage girl's life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. For decades, students in classrooms across the U.S. have read Frank's diary, which documents her everyday life as Jewish child forced into hiding during the Holocaust. "Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic… |

LaborFest (2023-04-08). Monday 5/1: SF May Day 2023 "Break The Chains For Solidarity & Internationalism" indybay.org 518 Valenia Near 16th St | San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-04-07). South Korea's Democrats stoke nationalism to obscure growing danger of war. wsws.org While falsely promoted as a defense of victims of forced labor, there is nothing progressive about the opposition Democratic Party's anti-Japanese campaign.

_____ (2023-04-07). The Imminent Collapse of Eurofascism. strategic-culture.org Only by crushing Eurofascism and expelling the Anglo-Saxon fascists from the Old Continent can the world be saved from a nuclear holocaust. | After the collapse of Nazi Germany, the Americans entered Western Europe with the firm intention of staying there forever, and to be completely honest, they never really hid it from us. The first Secretary General of NATO, the British general and diplomat, Hastings Ismay, explained the essence of the founding of the military alliance, which he headed, in a short but more than precise and vivid formulation, saying that its goal is "to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans…

Jake Johnson (2023-04-07). 'Fascism, full stop': Progressives in Congress condemn expulsion of Tennessee Democrats. nationofchange.org "Republicans may think they won today in Tennessee, but their fascism is only further radicalizing and awakening an earthquake of young people."

WSWS (2023-04-08). Following mass shooting in Nashville, fascistic Tennessee Republicans expel two Democratic lawmakers. wsws.org The gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the lower Tennessee House expelled two freshman African American Democratic lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for leading a peaceful student protest demanding gun reform.

Chris Walker (2023-04-07). Florida School District Bans Graphic Novel Version of Anne Frank's Diary. truthout.org A Florida school district has removed a visual adaptation of Anne Frank's diary, an acclaimed first-person telling of a teenage girl's life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. For decades, students in classrooms across the U.S. have read Frank's diary, which documents her everyday life as Jewish child forced into hiding during the Holocaust. "Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic… |

LaborFest (2023-04-08). Monday 5/1: SF May Day 2023 "Break The Chains For Solidarity & Internationalism" indybay.org 518 Valenia Near 16th St | San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-04-07). South Korea's Democrats stoke nationalism to obscure growing danger of war. wsws.org While falsely promoted as a defense of victims of forced labor, there is nothing progressive about the opposition Democratic Party's anti-Japanese campaign.

Subcommandante Marcos (2023-04-08). The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle. indybay.org Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. This new bomb destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery .

WSWS (2023-04-08). A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a "mass disabling event": Part 4. wsws.org This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses, and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

David Klein (2023-04-07). Sabotaging Oil and Gas Infrastructure Is an Act of Climate Heroism. truthout.org The environmental movement has offered waves of demonstrations, petition drives, lobbying and other forms of protest. Yet, despite all that, Earth and its inhabitants are losing the war waged against us by capitalism. It follows that a reevaluation of strategy and tactics of the environmental movement is in order, including a closer examination of how nonviolence should be understood and practiced. |

Ian Angus (2023-04-07). Ecosocialist Bookshelf — March 2023. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight new books on science, society and socialism.

Tomdispatch (2023-04-07). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. juancole.com By David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | — [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there's little time to lose in tackling the …

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-04-07). What the American People Must Know About the Sensationalist Arraignment of Former President Donald Trump. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-04-08). French union leaders plan to abandon struggle against Macron's pension cuts. wsws.org This vindicates the Parti de l'égalité socialiste, who said that to bring down Macron, workers must organise into committees of action, independent of the union bureaucracies.

WSWS (2023-04-08). Forward to May Day 2023! Build a mass movement of workers and youth against war and for socialism! wsws.org On Sunday, April 30, the International Committee of the Fourth International, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and the World Socialist Web Site will hold an on-line global rally to celebrate May Day 2023.

WSWS (2023-04-08). ProPublica documents corrupt relations of Supreme Court arch-reactionary Clarence Thomas with billionaire Republican donor. wsws.org On Thursday, the investigative journalism website ProPublica published an extensive and damning report documenting the fact that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has for decades enjoyed luxurious vacations paid for by Harlan Crow, a billionaire far-right Republican donor.

Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin (2023-04-07). Remembering the Irish Easter Uprising of 1916 against the British Empire? The Art of Obfuscation. globalresearch.ca First published on March 30 2016 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Irish Uprising. | Text and analysis by renowned Irish artist Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | This Easter we commemorate the 107th anniversary of the heroic Easter uprising of 1916….

ecns.cn (2023-04-08). Canberra's move against TikTok hurts confidence in Australia. ecns.cn Australia's discriminatory restrictions against TikTok undermine the confidence of the international community in the country's business environment, and harm the interests of Australian enterprises and people.

ecns.cn (2023-04-08). China-built Mombasa-Nairobi railway promotes Kenya growth. ecns.cn Data released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics show that the revenue from the Mombasa-Nairobi railway, built by Chinese enterprises, reached KES 15.3 billion (0.11 billion) last year. Both passenger and freight volumes have steadily increased, continuing to play a positive role in the economic and social development of Kenya.

Walt Zlotow, Antiwar. (2023-04-07). Africa 'All Out,' 54-0, Against Joining Biden's Proxy War On Russia. popularresistance.org When President Biden announced sanctions against Russia over their February, 2022 invasion of Ukraine, he called it a battle of democracy over tyranny. He expected Africa to rally to the US lead. | Unsurprisingly, not one of Africa's 54 countries as joined US sanctions against Russia. Many are neutral; some even supporting Russia's war to prevent NATO's eastward expansion to Russia's borders and gain independence of Ukrainian Donbas from Kyiv aggression that has killed thousands of Ukrainians there. | Why unsurprisingly? For starters, the US was delusional Africa would follow America's proxy war on Russia.

Lee Camp (2023-04-07). Drought Profiteers: Wall Street Billionaires Are Snatching Up America's Water. mintpressnews.com Drought profiteers – financial industry executives buying up public freshwater resources in a time of increasing drought – are pushing the US water supply to the brink of collapse, reports Lee Camp.

Lee Camp, Mintpress News. (2023-04-07). Drought Profiteers: Wall Street Billionaires Snatch Up America's Water. popularresistance.org It is time to stop calling the financial industry executives who are buying up freshwater "investors" or "hedge fund managers" and instead call them "drought profiteers." | I mean, you can also call them vultures and parasites. They all apply quite well. Come up with your own names for them. Get creative with it. Really listen to your heart. | Water. We all need it to survive. It's the main ingredient in alcohol. Just think of how many more people would be killed each year if we didn't have alcohol to take the edge off. But here's the problem: as the climate crisis causes drought around the world, the richest of…

_____ (2023-04-06). Fascism Denial American Style: Exceptionalism in the Ivory Tower. strategic-culture.org It borders on cliché the number of times historians lament how "fascism" is an over-used term. But Sinclair Lewis, writing about the specter of fascism a century ago, understood something most historians don't — that U.S. intellectual culture is loathe to acknowledge fascist undercurrents in this country. I attribute this hostility to intellectuals' belief that their nation is an exceptionalist democracy — hence fascism "can't happen here."

Staff (2023-04-06). "The Undertow": Author Jeff Sharlet on Trump, the Far Right & the Growing Threat of Fascism in U.S. democracynow.org We speak with award-winning journalist and author Jeff Sharlet, who has spent the last decade reporting on the growing threat of fascism across the United States. In his new book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, Sharlet says the language of "civil war" has become central to right-wing rhetoric, mainstreamed by former President Donald Trump, Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-04-06). Report Back: 2023 Houston Anarchist Book Fair. itsgoingdown.org Report back from Space City Anarchist Organization (SCAO) on the Houston Anarchist Bookfair. Originally posted here. On Saturday, March 25th, Space City Anarchist Organization, with the help of Screwston Antifascist Committee, threw its first ever Anarchist Bookfair, and the first Anarchist Book Fair in Houston since 2017. We're happy to announce that the book fair…

Anonymous103 (2023-04-06). Ukrainian Nazis Killed At Least 12 Civilians In Donbass. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On April 6, Ukrainian nazis cowardly shelled civilians in the DPR and LPR. In just one day, at least 12 civilians became victims of Ukrainian shelling. | According to the Mayor of Donetsk Alexey Kulemzin, at about 5 pm the AFU launched at least four rounds of ammunition from multiple rocket launchers in the Kalininsky and Budyonnovsky districts of the city. Ten minutes later, in the direction of the Kievsky district, fire was opened from 155-mm artillery of the NATO sample. | Nine civil…

WSWS (2023-04-07). South Korea's Democrats stoke nationalism to obscure growing danger of war. wsws.org While falsely promoted as a defense of victims of forced labor, there is nothing progressive about the opposition Democratic Party's anti-Japanese campaign.

LaborFest (2023-04-07). Monday 5/1: SF May Day 2023 "Break The Chains For Solidarity & Internationalism" indybay.org 518 Valenia Near 16th St | San Francisco…

Mike Kinney (2023-04-06). The Next Big Threat: The Rise of the White Christian Nationalism in the United States. indybay.org A brief examination of the radical/ militant white Christian Nationalist movement.

Ian Angus (2023-04-07). Ecosocialist Bookshelf — March 2023. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight new books on science, society and socialism.

Subcommandante Marcos (2023-04-07). The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle. indybay.org Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. This new bomb destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery .

Tomdispatch (2023-04-07). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. juancole.com By David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | — [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there's little time to lose in tackling the …

Maddi Johnson (2023-04-06). Transphobia — a product of capitalism. workers.org Portland, Oregon Note: The following talk was given during the Trans Day of Resistance, March 31 in Portland, Oregon. Johnson is a member of the Portland branch of Workers World Party. Maddi Johnson speaking at Trans Day of Resistance in Portland, March 31. Where does transphobia come from? Are we . . . |

WSWS (2023-04-06). A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a "mass disabling event": Part 3. wsws.org This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses, and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

Mike Kinney (2023-04-06). The Next Big Threat: The Rise of the White Christian Nationalism in the United States. indybay.org A brief examination of the radical/ militant white Christian Nationalist movement.

Ian Angus (2023-04-07). Ecosocialist Bookshelf — March 2023. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight new books on science, society and socialism.

Subcommandante Marcos (2023-04-07). The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle. indybay.org Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. This new bomb destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery .

Tomdispatch (2023-04-07). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. juancole.com By David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | — [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there's little time to lose in tackling the …

Maddi Johnson (2023-04-06). Transphobia — a product of capitalism. workers.org Portland, Oregon Note: The following talk was given during the Trans Day of Resistance, March 31 in Portland, Oregon. Johnson is a member of the Portland branch of Workers World Party. Maddi Johnson speaking at Trans Day of Resistance in Portland, March 31. Where does transphobia come from? Are we . . . |

WSWS (2023-04-06). A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a "mass disabling event": Part 3. wsws.org This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses, and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-04-06). Possession Is Nine Tenths of Your Soul. globalresearch.ca

Paul Buhle (2023-04-06). A Singular Reality, or Not. mronline.org John Bellamy Foster, John Ross, Deborah Veneziale, and Vijay Prashad, Washington's New Cold War: A Socialist Perspective (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023), 108 pages, $15. The "singular reality" (my phrase) on display here is the imagined reality in the mind's eye of Beltline/Pentagon global strategists. Few readers will be surprised at the cravings of …

WSWS (2023-04-06). US Supreme Court, ignoring exculpatory evidence, refuses to hear appeal from Louisiana death row inmate. wsws.org The deeply reactionary, savage and clearly unconstitutional action is consistent with the pattern established by the court, particularly under its current six-to-three far-right majority, in relation to the barbaric practice of state murder.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-06). Rights groups urge UN to refrain from adopting skewed definition of anti-Semitism. peoplesdispatch.org In a letter, rights groups expressed concern that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition has been used to muzzle criticism of Israel and advocacy of Palestinian rights by equating them with anti-Semitism…

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez (2023-04-06). Tennessee Republicans move to expel 3 Democratic lawmakers for supporting student-led gun protests. nationofchange.org "This is authoritarianism," Tennessee state Representative Justin Jones says of attempts to remove him. "This is an assault on our democracy."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-06). Uganda Homosexuality Law Hides Behind Crimes of Empire. libya360.wordpress.com Margaret Kimberley Uganda's anti-homosexuality legislation has elicited worldwide condemnation. But that nation's history of invading, pillaging, and killing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with U.S. blessings, is rarely discussed. The parliament of the Republic of Uganda recently passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 , which makes it a crime to identify as gay. Same sex relationships…

ecns.cn (2023-04-07). Canberra's move against TikTok hurts confidence in Australia. ecns.cn Australia's discriminatory restrictions against TikTok undermine the confidence of the international community in the country's business environment, and harm the interests of Australian enterprises and people.

ecns.cn (2023-04-07). China-built Mombasa-Nairobi railway promotes Kenya growth. ecns.cn Data released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics show that the revenue from the Mombasa-Nairobi railway, built by Chinese enterprises, reached KES 15.3 billion (0.11 billion) last year. Both passenger and freight volumes have steadily increased, continuing to play a positive role in the economic and social development of Kenya.

WSWS (2023-04-06). Sri Lankan Telecom workers strike against privatisation. wsws.org The privatisation of state-owned enterprises and the destruction of tens of thousands of public sector jobs, are part of the IMF-dictated austerity measures being imposed by the Wickremesinghe government.

ecns.cn (2023-04-06). CATL: Hungary EV battery plant still a 'go'. ecns.cn Its battery plant in Hungary is "proceeding as planned", rebutting market rumors that the Hungarian plant had halted construction plans due to environmental issues.

Lee Camp (2023-04-07). Drought Profiteers: Wall Street Billionaires Are Snatching Up America's Water. mintpressnews.com Drought profiteers – financial industry executives buying up public freshwater resources in a time of increasing drought – are pushing the US water supply to the brink of collapse, reports Lee Camp.

Staff (2023-04-06). "The Undertow": Author Jeff Sharlet on Trump, the Far Right & the Growing Threat of Fascism in U.S. democracynow.org We speak with award-winning journalist and author Jeff Sharlet, who has spent the last decade reporting on the growing threat of fascism across the United States. In his new book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, Sharlet says the language of "civil war" has become central to right-wing rhetoric, mainstreamed by former President Donald Trump, Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans.

_____ (2023-04-06). Fascism Denial American Style: Exceptionalism in the Ivory Tower. strategic-culture.org It borders on cliché the number of times historians lament how "fascism" is an over-used term. But Sinclair Lewis, writing about the specter of fascism a century ago, understood something most historians don't — that U.S. intellectual culture is loathe to acknowledge fascist undercurrents in this country. I attribute this hostility to intellectuals' belief that their nation is an exceptionalist democracy — hence fascism "can't happen here."

Editor (2023-04-05). Is Israel a 'democracy'? An editorial. workers.org For the past 13 weeks, Israel has been rocked with massive demonstrations in the hundreds of thousands, especially in Tel Aviv, targeting the far-right, neofascist government headed by the butcher Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What prompted the protests was a proposed "reform package" that would curtail the judiciary branch of . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-05). The Ukrainian Diaspora's Influence on Canadian Foreign Policy Decisions. libya360.wordpress.com Valeriy Krylko Chrystia Freeland posed with a banner emblazoned with the official battle flag of the fascist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). She deleted the tweet after individuals noticed the flag. (Chrystia Freeland/Twitter) The first foreign servicemen to arrive in Ukraine during February 2022 were Canadians. The first foreign officer arrested by Russian troops during Russia's…

John Wojcik (2023-04-05). With democracy on the line, People's World does the job corporate media won't. peoplesworld.org The argument for keeping People's World alive is a more critical one now than ever before. That's because we are at a critical juncture in U.S. history, one that could end up with a fascist takeover of our country. At such a time as this, the need for truth-telling journalists who work in print, online, …

Mike Kinney (2023-04-06). The Next Big Threat: The Rise of the White Christian Nationalism in the United States. indybay.org A brief examination of the radical/ militant white Christian Nationalist movement.

Maddi Johnson (2023-04-06). Transphobia — a product of capitalism. workers.org Portland, Oregon Note: The following talk was given during the Trans Day of Resistance, March 31 in Portland, Oregon. Johnson is a member of the Portland branch of Workers World Party. Maddi Johnson speaking at Trans Day of Resistance in Portland, March 31. Where does transphobia come from? Are we . . . |

WSWS (2023-04-06). A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a "mass disabling event": Part 3. wsws.org This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses, and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

Subcommandante Marcos (2023-04-06). The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle. indybay.org Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. This new bomb destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery .

Editor (2023-04-05). TikTok on trial: The latest front in the U.S. tech war on China. mronline.org On March 23, CEO of TikTok Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee addressing concerns over the popular social media app's data collection practices and parent company ByteDance's alleged links to the Chinese government.

WSWS (2023-04-05). A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a "mass disabling event": Part 2. wsws.org This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-04-06). Possession Is Nine Tenths of Your Soul. globalresearch.ca

Maddi Johnson (2023-04-06). Transphobia — a product of capitalism. workers.org Portland, Oregon Note: The following talk was given during the Trans Day of Resistance, March 31 in Portland, Oregon. Johnson is a member of the Portland branch of Workers World Party. Maddi Johnson speaking at Trans Day of Resistance in Portland, March 31. Where does transphobia come from? Are we . . . |

WSWS (2023-04-06). A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a "mass disabling event": Part 3. wsws.org This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses, and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

Subcommandante Marcos (2023-04-06). The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle. indybay.org Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. This new bomb destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery .

Editor (2023-04-05). TikTok on trial: The latest front in the U.S. tech war on China. mronline.org On March 23, CEO of TikTok Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee addressing concerns over the popular social media app's data collection practices and parent company ByteDance's alleged links to the Chinese government.

WSWS (2023-04-05). A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a "mass disabling event": Part 2. wsws.org This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-04-06). Possession Is Nine Tenths of Your Soul. globalresearch.ca

Calla Walsh (2023-04-05). The US blockade of Cuba is a violation of democracy. geopoliticaleconomy.com The US State Department admitted its blockade aims "to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government." Washington's goal is to destroy Cuba's socialist democracy and force it to return to a capitalist dictatorship.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-05). Guangzhou 1927: The Paris Commune of the East. libya360.wordpress.com Friends of Socialist China The Paris Commune, which lasted from March 18-May 28 1871, is generally regarded as the first seizure of power by the proletariat, and formation of a workers' government, in history. As such, it has continued to inspire varied attempts to establish workers power and build socialism, whether in terms of inspiration…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-05). 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…

WSWS (2023-04-06). US Supreme Court, ignoring exculpatory evidence, refuses to hear appeal from Louisiana death row inmate. wsws.org The deeply reactionary, savage and clearly unconstitutional action is consistent with the pattern established by the court, particularly under its current six-to-three far-right majority, in relation to the barbaric practice of state murder.

Rick Rozoff (2023-04-05). Azeri government press praises flying of Azerbaijani flag in Iran riots. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azeri Press AgencyApril 5, 2023 Azerbaijani flag raised in Iranian cities Protests continued in Western and Eastern Azerbaijan, including Tabriz, Ardabil, Kurdistan, Mazandaran, Khuzestan, and a number of provinces. Activists hung Azerbaijan's flag in various places in Iranian cities. Participants of protests chant slogans such as "Death to the dictator!", "Death to Khamenei!", "Death to …

WSWS (2023-04-05). French rail workers denounce Macron and his fraudulent "mediation" with the unions. wsws.org Amid growing anger with Macron's dictatorial imposition of pension cuts, WSWS journalists interviewed railworkers in Paris about the call to bring down Macron via a general strike.

Editor (2023-04-05). Unchecked by consequences, a new authoritarianism is unfolding in India. mronline.org The use of hate and arbitrary power and calculated killings by Hindu nationalists reveal an ominous disregard for democracy, a forewarning of what is to come.

Staff (2023-04-05). Tennessee Republicans Move to Expel 3 Democratic Lawmakers for Supporting Student-Led Gun Protests. democracynow.org As students across the United States today join a nationwide school walkout to demand lawmakers take action on gun control, we go to Tennessee, where Republicans are trying to expel three Democratic lawmakers for supporting student-led gun control protests at the state Capitol after last week's school shooting in Nashville. "We're demanding that lawmakers hear that we can't be ignored anymore," says Ezri Tyler, a student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and a national organizer for March for Our Lives. "This is authoritarianism," Tennessee state Representative Justin…

Lee Camp (2023-04-05). How The Global South Has Risen in The Face of US Sabotage with Ajamu Baraka. mintpressnews.com Ajamu Baraka joins Lee Camp to discuss how the media demonizes enemies of the US empire, the US military's global command structure, neocolonial behavior, and the white supremacy inherent to its hegemony.

_____ (2023-04-05). Marco Rubio Accidentally Makes a Great Argument Against U.S. Dollar Hegemony. strategic-culture.org We saw just such an instance last Wednesday during a conversation between empire propagandist Sean Hannity and warmongering senator Marco Rubio on Fox News. So frenzied was Rubio in his vitriol about the rise of China on the world stage that he accidentally wound up providing a very good argument against the hegemony of the US dollar.

WSWS (2023-04-06). Sri Lankan Telecom workers strike against privatisation. wsws.org The privatisation of state-owned enterprises and the destruction of tens of thousands of public sector jobs, are part of the IMF-dictated austerity measures being imposed by the Wickremesinghe government.

ecns.cn (2023-04-05). Tax policies to boost market confidence. ecns.cn Foreign enterprises are expected to expand funding into research and development in China as the country strengthens its support to innovation with long-term preferential tax policy arrangements, they said.

ecns.cn (2023-04-06). CATL: Hungary EV battery plant still a 'go'. ecns.cn Its battery plant in Hungary is "proceeding as planned", rebutting market rumors that the Hungarian plant had halted construction plans due to environmental issues.

Editor (2023-04-05). Is Israel a 'democracy'? An editorial. workers.org For the past 13 weeks, Israel has been rocked with massive demonstrations in the hundreds of thousands, especially in Tel Aviv, targeting the far-right, neofascist government headed by the butcher Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What prompted the protests was a proposed "reform package" that would curtail the judiciary branch of . . . |

Jake Johnson (2023-04-04). Chants of 'fascists!' ring out as Tennessee GOP moves to expel Dems over gun control protest. therealnews.com

Anonymous103 (2023-04-04). What Kind of Ukraine Do We Support? southfront.org Illustrative Image. Source: Alexey Fedorenko/Shutterstock | Written by The slogan "Support for Ukraine" continues to bloom. Do those who promote it know that the Ukrainians were the most martyred people in Europe BEFORE the war? Because of the very person the West cherishes… President Zelensky. | In summary, here is what our media hide from us and w…

Mike Kinney (2023-04-05). The Next Big Threat: The Rise of the White Christian Nationalism in the United States. indybay.org

Editor (2023-04-05). Is Israel a 'democracy'? An editorial. workers.org For the past 13 weeks, Israel has been rocked with massive demonstrations in the hundreds of thousands, especially in Tel Aviv, targeting the far-right, neofascist government headed by the butcher Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What prompted the protests was a proposed "reform package" that would curtail the judiciary branch of . . . |

Jake Johnson (2023-04-04). Chants of 'fascists!' ring out as Tennessee GOP moves to expel Dems over gun control protest. therealnews.com

Anonymous103 (2023-04-04). What Kind of Ukraine Do We Support? southfront.org Illustrative Image. Source: Alexey Fedorenko/Shutterstock | Written by The slogan "Support for Ukraine" continues to bloom. Do those who promote it know that the Ukrainians were the most martyred people in Europe BEFORE the war? Because of the very person the West cherishes… President Zelensky. | In summary, here is what our media hide from us and w…

Mike Kinney (2023-04-05). The Next Big Threat: The Rise of the White Christian Nationalism in the United States. indybay.org

WSWS (2023-04-05). A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a "mass disabling event": Part 2. wsws.org This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

Reba Landers, B. C. Daurelle, Left Voice. (2023-04-04). To Protect Trans Youth, We Must Organize Ourselves. popularresistance.org To the organizers of yesterday's march, and to trans youth everywhere: thank you for fighting. No one should have to fight for their very existence, but your example reminds us that there is a joyous, expansive range of human experience that capitalism tries to erase and forget. Your example shows us that there is beauty to be found everywhere and in every moment of the struggle for a better world. We find in your combative example the spirit of the world we will build—free of every oppression. | We also thank our trans and queer elders. It's an incredible thing to have lived in a world so pitted against yo…

WSWS (2023-04-04). A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a "mass disabling event": Part 1. wsws.org This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses, and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

Calla Walsh (2023-04-05). The US blockade of Cuba is a violation of democracy. geopoliticaleconomy.com The US State Department admitted its blockade aims "to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government." Washington's goal is to destroy Cuba's socialist democracy and force it to return to a capitalist dictatorship.

Fight Back (2023-04-04). $17,000 raised in FRSO Spring Fundraising Drive. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — In less than a week, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization's (FRSO) Spring Fundraising Drive has netted more than $17,000. FRSO aims to raise over $130,000 to hire more full-time organizers to work in our national office, grow our fund to purchase a building, and publish more revolutionary literature. | Anti-war activist Sarah Martin states, "Now is the time to dig deep and contribute to FRSO so we can continue to grow and expand our work as we build towards a new world. The future is bright!" | Local FRSO groups will be going out to members and supporters to make the Spring Fundraisin…

WSWS (2023-04-04). Postal workers at UK's Royal Mail vote to establish rank-and-file committee. wsws.org Postal workers spoke with World Socialist Web Site writers and representatives of post rank-and-file committees in Germany and Australia.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-04). The Counter-Summit for Democracy. libya360.wordpress.com On 2 April 2023, Friends of Socialist China and the International Manifesto Group co-hosted a powerful and successful Counter-Summit for Democracy, a response to the US-sponsored so-called Summit for Democracy held a few days earlier. The participants at this counter-summit exposed the hegemonic reality behind the US's talk of a 'rules-based world order'; explored alternative models…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-04-05). 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…

Dana Sanchez (2023-04-04). A Microchip Brain: Company Releases Brain Implant To Treat Depression. moguldom.com A penny-sized microchip embedded under your scalp and powered wirelessly by an external device could deliver tiny electrical pulses to the region of your brain affected by severe depression and replace conventional antidepressants, according to Los Angeles-based startup Inner Cosmos. Inner Cosmos is one of a growing number of tech companies making brain implants, but …

WSWS (2023-04-05). French rail workers denounce Macron and his fraudulent "mediation" with the unions. wsws.org Amid growing anger with Macron's dictatorial imposition of pension cuts, WSWS journalists interviewed railworkers in Paris about the call to bring down Macron via a general strike.

ecns.cn (2023-04-05). Tax policies to boost market confidence. ecns.cn Foreign enterprises are expected to expand funding into research and development in China as the country strengthens its support to innovation with long-term preferential tax policy arrangements, they said.

ecns.cn (2023-04-04). SOEs make infrastructure milestones. ecns.cn China's infrastructure construction continues to progress at a fast pace amid the nation's overall economic recovery, with State-owned enterprises playing critical roles in several massive and urgent undertakings nationwide.

Staff (2023-04-04). Debate: Will Finland's Addition to NATO Make Direct Conflict with Russia More Likely? democracynow.org Finland is formally joining NATO on Tuesday in a move that doubles the military alliance's border with Russia. Finland and Russia share an 800-mile border. Finland is joining NATO a week after Turkey's parliament voted to ratify the Nordic country's membership. Turkey and Hungary have yet to approve Sweden as a member of NATO, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan accusing Stockholm of harboring Kurdish dissidents he considers terrorists. Finland and Sweden had applied to join NATO in May 2022, just months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. For more on NATO's expans…

Rick Rozoff (2023-04-04). NATO upgrades new command structure in nations bordering Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Force Integration Unit HungaryApril 4, 2023 NATO Force Integration Hungary sums up over six years under Multinational Corps Northeast [T]he handover of one NATO military organization between different higher commands is a significant event that requires careful planning and execution. On March 31, 2023, following more than six years of exercising its command function …