(2021-05-07). Activist Confronts Defense Industry CEO For Company's Role In War Crimes. popularresistance.org An anti-war activist confronted General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic on Wednesday during the company's shareholders' meeting, accusing the defense industry giant of profiting off war crimes and arming repressive, undemocratic regimes without "moral reflection." | "I appreciate the care you've taken to keep us safe during COVID," CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin told General Dynamics' board, which included Novakovic and former Defense Secretary James Mattis. "But," she added, "I wonder about the care that this company takes to keep people safe from the bombs and the other weapons that you produce that kill innoc…
(2021-05-07). 'No time to lose', stop flow of deadly weapons to Myanmar military now, urges UN rights expert. news.un.org The United Nations independent human rights expert on Myanmar on Friday called on countries that have not yet done so, to impose arms embargo on the country urgently, to stop the "massacre" of citizens across the country.
(2021-05-07). As pandemic continues and nearly 500,000 file for unemployment, US states seek to blackmail workers back on the job. wsws.org Unemployment payments, as opposed to dangerous, low-paid and degrading work are being blamed for difficulties reopening restaurants and other businesses even as the pandemic continues, with the US approaching 600,000 official COVID-19 deaths.
(2021-05-07). Capitalism, Borders and the Damage They Do. counterpunch.org 
Todd Miller writes about modern empire and borders. His works tell of a US border security apparatus that extends into other nations around the world and provides various immigration police agencies in the United States to operate anywhere they please inside US borders. His descriptions of the surveillance technology and its uses are simultaneously fascinating
(2021-05-07). Landlords cheer as federal court trashes eviction moratorium. peoplesworld.org 
Up to ten million people could soon be out on the streets if a judge's ruling trashing the federal moratorium on evictions is upheld. The ban on throwing people out of their homes was put in place by the Centers for Disease Control last September as spiraling unemployment jeopardized families' ability to pay their rent. …
(2021-05-07). Selected Articles: As NATO Summit Approaches: Will Biden Keep U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Turkey? globalresearch.ca 
By It has been estimated that the Pentagon maintains 50 B61 tactical nuclear weapons at the ƒ∞ncirlik Air Base in the country …
(2021-05-07). Less-Educated Workers Were Hardest Hit in Recession. That Hasn't Changed. truthout.org 
The April employment report was considerably weaker than had generally been expected, with the economy adding just 266,000 jobs. Furthermore, the prior two months numbers were revised down by 78,000. The unemployment rate edged up to 6.1 percent, but this was entirely due to more people entering the labor force. The employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) also edged up by 0.1 percentage point to 57.9 percent. That is still 2.9 percentage points below its average for 2019. | Performance Across Sec…
(2021-05-07). Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham Moved 'Toxic Gases' To Abandoned Town In Eastern Idlib — Report. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has moved toxic gases from Idlib city to an abandoned town in the eastern Idlib countryside, Sputnik reported on May 7. | Sources familiar with the matter told Sputnik that the toxic gases will be kept in a depot in the town of Kafarya, whose residents were displaced in 2018, for a while. Later, the toxics will be moved to a new depot on the Syrian border with Turkey. | According to the sources, the toxics, which are stored in cylinders, were mo…
(2021-05-07). President Bukele grabs dictatorial powers in El Salvador. wsws.org As the pandemic demonstrates the inability of capitalism to meet the most basic needs of the working masses, the Salvadoran ruling elite is moving headlong toward dictatorship.
(2021-05-07). Canada Loses Over 200,000 Jobs in April, Unemployment Climbs Amid Pandemic's 'Third Wave'. sputniknews.com TORONTO (Sputnik) – The Canadian economy lost 207,000 jobs in March, raising the country's unemployment rate by 0.6 percent as the country labours through the so-called "third wave" of the coronavirus pandemic, the state statistics agency said on Friday.
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(2021-05-07). Zionist regime must be forced to accept CPCW: Iran UN envoy. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 07 (MNA) — Iran's permanent Ambassador to the United Nations called for the full, effective and nondiscriminatory implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (CPCW).
(2021-05-07). El crimen organizado como engranaje del capitalismo. globalizacion.ca Una tesis es fundamental para iniciar el debate: el crimen organizado es parte consustancial de los procesos de acumulación de capital, y —a su vez— se engarza con mecanismos de desposesión y despojo, así como con la triple explotación —la…
(2021-05-07). Long March 5B: Astrophysicist Photographs Chinese Rocket Around 700 km Above Earth. sputniknews.com Beijing launched a Long March 5, or Chang Zheng 5 (CZ-5), rocket into Earth's orbit last week to deliver a key component of the future Chinese space station. It is unlikely that major space organizations will be able to accurately pinpoint the crash zone of the Chinese heavy-lift launch vehicle until it first re-enters Earth's atmosphere.
(2021-05-07). Pentagon Chief Reveals if US Will Shoot Down Out-of-Control Chinese Rocket Hurtling Back to Earth. sputniknews.com On 29 April, China launched the Long March 5B carrier rocket with the main module for its future orbital station. The US Air Force said earlier that it expected the core of the rocket to crash down in the Pacific Ocean by the end of the week.
(2021-05-07). Starmer Compounds Awful Election Result With Car Crash TV Interview, Repeating Himself Three Times. sputniknews.com Sir Keir Starmer – a former Director of Public Prosecutions – replaced Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader last year after the Tories won a landslide victory in the 2019 general election. He had hoped to see the first signs of a post-Corbyn bounce in the elections held on 6 May.
(2021-05-07). Economy Adds Just 266,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Edges Up to 6.1 Percent. cepr.net Unemployment due to voluntary quits remains extraordinarily low. The April employment report was considerably weaker than had generally been expected, with the economy adding just 266,000 jobs. Furthermore, the prior two months numbers were revised down by 78,000. The unemployment rate edged up to 6.1 percent, but this was entirely due to more people entering …
(2021-05-06). More young Japanese look to Marx amid pandemic, climate crisis. mronline.org 
As the global challenge of climate change mounts and the coronavirus pandemic magnifies economic inequalities, Karl Marx, who pointed to the contradictions and limitations of capitalism, is gaining new admirers in Japan, particularly among the young. | May 6, 2021…
(2021-05-06). Shoshana Zuboff: Facebook's Oversight Board Is Not Enough. The Government Has to Regulate Big Tech. democracynow.org 
Former President Donald Trump will continue to stay off Facebook after the company's Oversight Board ruled Wednesday that his ban was justified for creating "an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible." Trump was banned shortly after the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which he helped foment by promoting baseless claims of election fraud. The Oversight Board also said Facebook should reassess its ban and make a final decision in six months. Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard Business School and author of the book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," says that Facebook's r…
(2021-05-06). Peace Activist Interrupts General Dynamics Shareholder Meeting to Blast the Business of War. commondreams.org CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin interrupted a General Dynamics shareholder meeting on Wednesday, taking the military-industrial complex titan's CEO to task for profiting from death and destruction. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/benjamin.jpg …
(2021-05-06). Biden's Border Problem Is Exploding — OpEd. eurasiareview.com President Biden is getting high marks for his overall performance, but if there is one issue that is dogging him, it is the crisis at the border. He even refuses to call it a crisis. Indeed, neither he nor his border-in-chief vice president has shown any interest in visiting the border. | Two new surveys spell disaster for the president on this subject. The Pew Research Center poll found that almost 7 in 10 Americans say Biden is doing a bad job dealing with the increasing number of migrants who are crashing our border. Most want more staffing and resources made available to handle the throngs of people, often…
(2021-05-06). US birth rate declines to lowest point in more than a century. wsws.org The year 2020 continued the general decline seen since the 2008 financial crash, while the COVID-19 pandemic drove the birth rate down drastically starting in December.
(2021-05-06). Military Industrial Complex Exerts Powerful Influence on Biden's Foreign Policy. truthout.org 
Given how progressive many of the initial Biden administration domestic policy actions have been, its Many commentators have pointed out that Biden's foreign policy…
(2021-05-06). A Light Slap: Honeywell Fined For Sharing F-35, Other Secrets To China. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 5th, the US State Department The settlement is over allegations it exported technical drawings of parts for the F-35 fighters and other weapons platforms to China, Taiwan, Canada and Ireland, according to the Bureau of Politic…
(2021-05-06). Military Situation In Afghanistan On May 6, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 5, Taliban claimed to have captured the district of Burkah in Baghlan | Two Army bases with 60 soldiers and their weapons, and ammunitions surrendered to Taliban in central Baghlan, according to the Baghlan Provincial Council Chief Safdar Mohseni | On May 5, Taliban reportedly took control over Dahla Dam | On May 5, Afghan security forces arrested 3 alleged ISIS operatives in Jalalabad | On May 4, US warplanes attacked Kajaki and Nehre Siraj areas in Helmand p…
(2021-05-06). Report Finds Low Wages Make Food Workers Want To Quit. popularresistance.org Following the passage of stimulus packages with aid for workers like expanded unemployment benefits, politicians and business owners have wrung their hands over a supposed worker shortage as people refuse to return to work, as they say. A new report pushes back on that narrative and shows that actually, it's more likely low wages offered by businesses that are causing workers to want to quit. | The report by One Fair Wage finds that 53 percent of restaurant workers have considered leaving their jobs during the pandemic, and 76 percent of restaurant workers cite low wages and tips as the reason for leaving the ind…
(2021-05-06). May Day 2021 and the struggle for international socialism in Turkey. wsws.org As the pandemic intensifies the contradictions of global capitalism, we greet May Day 2021 amid growing geopolitical tensions and war dangers in the region surrounding Turkey.
(2021-05-06). War in the Caucasus: Turkey-Azerbaijan-Israel, Turkey-Azerbaijan-Georgia, Turkey-Azerbaijan-Pakistan axes. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Daily SabahMay 6, 2021 Ways of reviving the Turkey-Azerbaijan-Israel triangleCavid Veliyev Excerpts: Turkey and Israel made important contributions to "Operation Iron Fist." Turkey's unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) Bayraktar TB2 and Israel's drones Harop contributed to the breaking of the defense line of the Armenian army, which occupied Azerbaijan's territories, and to the Azerbaijani army's …
(2021-05-06). Biden's Foreign Policy and Nuclear Weapons. zcomm.org Biden's international bipartisan approach risks a renewed arms race in a political and economic atmosphere that makes it unaffordable as well as acutely dangerous…
(2021-05-06). Nearly 8 years on, 'gaps, inconsistencies, discrepancies' remain over Syria chemical weapons declaration. news.un.org The Security Council heard new evidence in longstanding international efforts to eradicate Syria's chemical weapons programme on Thursday, including the results of an investigation into the possible of use of chlorine gas in the city of Saraqib in 2018, as the UN's top disarmament official provided her regular briefing to ambassadors.
(2021-05-06). As NATO summit approaches: will Biden keep U.S. nuclear weapons in Turkey? antibellum679354512.wordpress.com As NATO summit approaches: will Biden keep U.S. nuclear weapons in Turkey?Rick Rozoff A piece was published in Turkey's Hàºrriyet on May 5 by its editor-in-chief Sedat Ergin analyzing the prospects of the Biden administration removing American nuclear bombs from Turkey. It has been estimated that the Pentagon maintains 50 B61 tactical nuclear weapons at …
(2021-05-06). Major Russian lawmaker says U.S. wants to maintain military confrontation on Russia's borders. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Major Russian lawmaker says U.S. wants to maintain military confrontation on Russia's bordersRecalls critical role of Biden in engineering Ukrainian crisis seven years agoRick Rozoff Russia's Tass news agency today cited the chairman of the International Affairs Committee in Russia's lower house of parliament (the State Duma) warning that the provision of lethal weapons by …
(2021-05-06). Major Russian Lawmaker Says US Wants To Maintain Military Confrontation on Russia's Borders. news.antiwar.com Russia's Tass news agency today cited the chairman of the International Affairs Committee in Russia's lower house of parliament (the State Duma) warning that the provision of lethal weapons by the U.S. to Ukraine, as is authorized by an impending Senate bill, would exacerbate the situation in the war-torn Donbass region. He added that the …
(2021-05-06). Global Vaccine Disparity Shows "Irrationality of Global Capitalism" zcomm.org Interview on the Biden administration signing on to an effort at the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive intellectual property rules on vaccine technology…
(2021-05-06). Biden Proposes Progress, Republicans Scream "Socialism" cepr.net Bozeman (MT) Daily Chronicle Newsbug.info Fitchburg (MA) Sentinel & Enterprise The Lowell (MA) Sun New Castle (IN) Courier-Times Shelbyville (IN) News Wealth Creation Investing blog Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates) See article on original site Almost 70 years ago, President Eisenhower pushed bipartisan legislation that created the interstate highway system. Earlier leaders made universal access …
(2021-05-06). Biden Proposes Progress, Republicans Scream "Socialism" cepr.net Bozeman (MT) Daily Chronicle Newsbug.info See article on original site Almost 70 years ago, President Eisenhower pushed bipartisan legislation that created the interstate highway system. Earlier leaders made universal access to education, starting with kindergarten and running through high school, standard throughout the United States. The Republican Party of today would have one word for …
(2021-05-06). Robert Reich: The Republican Rebrand, Exposed — OpEd. eurasiareview.com The Republican Party is trying to rebrand itself as the Rubbish. Republicans can spout off all the catchy slogans about blue jeans and beer they want, but actions speak louder than words. But let's look at what they're actually doing. | Did they vote for the American Rescue Plan? No. Not a single Republican in Congress voted for stimulus checks and extra unemployment benefits needed by millions of American workers. | So what have they…