(2021-04-13). Arm our Cities with Military-Grade Healthcare, not Weapons. zcomm.org If veterans can get lifelong, integrated healthcare with no co-pays thanks to their service, why can't we?>
(2021-04-13). Vaccines highlight differences between capitalism and socialism. workers.org 
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear which countries had effective responses to the spread of the virus, and which did not. Under capitalism limited supplies despite clear need. Wuhan, China, underwent a strict lockdown for 76 days, successfully bringing the virus under control in the world's first . . . |
(2021-04-13). US Military Plane RC-135W Spotted Over Conflict Area in Apure — NASA Publishes Satellite Image of Paraguaná (Coincidence?). orinocotribune.com 
This Monday, April 12, it was reported that a United States Air Force (USAF) plane flew over the airspace that comprises the Colombian-Venezuelan border on the Colombian side, where the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) recently expelled Colombian narco-paramilitary groups. | The details were reported through social media networks by journalists and specialized aeronautical accounts, which indicated that it was a Boeing RC-135W RIVET JOINT (R135) REG 62-4139, Alias HORN41. | The plane, according to the Patriota Cazador account on Twitter, took off from Lincoln, Nebra…
(2021-04-13). Beautiful Plots: Israel Sabotages The Natanz Nuclear Facility — OpEd. eurasiareview.com 
Over the weekend, Iran marked National Nuclear Technology Day. The stars of the show were going to be new advanced centrifuges at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant. Unfortunately, the stars did not shine and President Hassan Rouhani and his officials were left with a reminder of the previous time the centrifuges at Natanz crashed. In 2010, a joint US-Israeli operation against Iran's nuclear program is said to have destroyed a fifth of the Iranian centrifuges, using the Stuxnet virus. | A sequence of events have been viewed cumulatively as suggesting that this was no error of engineering so much as plain sabo…
(2021-04-13). Rule By Fiat: When The Government Does Whatever It Wants — OpEd. eurasiareview.com 
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." — Ayn Rand | By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | Rule by brute force. | That's about as good a description as you'll find for the sorry state of our nation. | SWAT teams crashing through doors. Militarized police shooting unarmed citizens. Traffic cops tasering old men and pregnant women for not complying fast enough with an order.
(2021-04-13). Western Media Eager to See Ukraine Use US-Supplied Weapons Against Russia. news.antiwar.com With tensions simmering in eastern Ukraine, US media outlets are happy to push the narrative that Russia is the aggressor and is preparing to invade its neighbor. These reports ignore the fact that the Donetsk and Lugansk republics in the eastern Donbas region declared independence from Ukraine back in 2014 in response to a US-backed coup. | Since 2014, the US has provided Ukraine with about $2 billion in military equipment and supported its fight against the Donetsk and Lugansk separatists. Supporting a war on Russia's border is an incredible provocation, but these facts are lost on the Western press, and som…
(2021-04-13). The Myth Of Black Buying Power Is Robbing Black People Of Their Power. popularresistance.org The myth of black buying power – that black people collectively hold trillions of dollars in wealth and that they could improve their economic status if only they 'spent their money more wisely' – has been used for more than a century to take the focus off the systemic racism and uphold capitalism. Dr. Jared Ball, author of "The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power," explains what is behind this myth and why it is still actively embraced today despite evidence to the contrary. He talks about what power is and what we must do to build it.
(2021-04-13). U.S. developing biological weapons near China, Russia borders, says Putin's adviser. ecns.cn Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief security adviser Nikolai Patrushev has accused the United States of experimenting with biological weapons in regions near the borders of China and Russia, according to Newsweek.
(2021-04-13). Police & Prison Abolition — YDSA Reading Group. dsausa.org RSVP Here Join YDSA members from across the country for a series of discussions about police & prison abolition and how it relates to our vision and strategy for winning socialism.
(2021-04-12). Arm Our Cities With Military-Grade Health Care…Not Weapons. counterpunch.org American police are armed to the teeth with military-grade weapons, and the results are in. The more combat gear, the more combat. So how about we arm our cities with military-grade healthcare instead? The US Department of Veterans Affairs is part of the most generously funded institution in the government, and guess what? All that
(2021-04-12). On Contact: American Economic Illusion. popularresistance.org On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses with the economist Richard Wolff the nearly $5 trillion being allocated by the Biden administration for Covid-19 relief and infrastructure projects.
(2021-04-12). Workplace Study During Pandemic Finds Managers Should Talk Less, Listen More. eurasiareview.com 
Workplace communication often took a back seat this past year, as employees and employers rushed to work remotely, struggled with technology barriers and adjusted to physical distancing. But the pandemic has resulted in valuable lessons for communicating on the job, according to a Baylor University study. | During the onset of COVID-19 — along with accompanying layoffs and a recession — "there likely has never been a moment with such demand for ethical listening to employees," said lead author Marlene S. Neill, Ph.D., associate professor of journalism, public relations and new media at Baylor. | "Ethical lis…
(2021-04-12). Ramsey Clark, human rights fighter — 1927-2021. workers.org 
Ramsey Clark was a founder of the International Action Center and inspired the political activists who used its structure to defend liberation struggles, oppose U.S. wars of aggression, defend political prisoners whether in U.S. prison-industrial complex or in the U.S.-backed dictatorships worldwide. IAC militants joined international delegations that defied the . . . |
(2021-04-12). Shattered Dreams: The Assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. orinocotribune.com 
By Steve Lalla — Apr 10, 2021 | On April 9, 1948, Colombian Liberal politician, movement leader, and social activist Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala was murdered in the capital city of Bogotá. His killing changed the country's history forever. | During the 1940s the charismatic orator and lawyer had steered the Liberal party towards socialism. Gaitán was leading the presidential race at the time, and likely would have become Colombia's first left-leaning president. Instead, Gaitán was shot three times in the head in broad daylight, and it would take ten years and the interregnum of a military dictatorship for Col…
(2021-04-12). Houthi Drones Attacked Aramco Refineries, 'Sensitive Military Sites' In Saudi Arabia. southfront.org 
the Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari | On April 12, the Houthis (as Ansar Allah is also known) claimed that they had launched 17 drones and two ballistic missiles on the territory of Saudi Arabia. | According to the Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, their explosive-laden drones successfully targeted Saudi Aramco sites in the eastern oil terminal of Jubail and the western city of Jeddah late on April 11. | Saudi officials, nor Aramco have not commented on the attack, yet. | The Houthi…
(2021-04-12). Houthis Claim They Launched Multiple Drones At Saudi Targets, Including Aramco Refineries. eurasiareview.com 
Yemen's Houthi army and fighters from Popular Committees claimed on Monday they launched multiple drone attacks against Saudi targets, including Aramco refineries. | Using 17 drones, including 10 of the Samad-3 type, the Houthi Iran-aligned forces launched a massive attack towards Saudi Aramco refineries in Jubail and Jeddah, according to the regional reports. There has been no confirmation of the attacks by Saudi Arabia. | Iran's Tasnim agency, linked to the IRGC, cited Al Masirah TV as reporting Houthi armed forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree as saying that on Monday that the country's forces als…
(2021-04-12). A Vaccine Summit: Taking the Pandemic Seriously. counterpunch.org You might think that, after a year in which have seen millions of deaths and tens of millions of infections, and trillions of dollars in economic losses, our leaders would take the pandemic seriously. But apparently, that is too much to ask. To my view, taking the pandemic seriously means doing everything we can to
(2021-04-12). Tampa rallies against repressive legislation. fightbacknews.org Tampa FL – On Saturday April 10, a crowd of 40 people gathered at Curtis Hixon Park to fight back against the Florida anti-protest bill (HB1/SB484). The bill bypassed one state senate sub-committee hearing and it passed the Appropriations Committee on Friday. | "What HB1 makes clear is that police are not protectors of the community but are, in fact, our enemies. They saw millions rise up against police brutality. They saw African Americans, who have endured years of oppression at the hands of the police and the prison industrial complex, push back against this oppression through organizing and they got scared. T…
(2021-04-12). With cyber offensive capabilities increasing, why not ban cyber weapons? peoplesdispatch.org Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the various instances of cyber attacks , the capacities of various countries in the world in the field, and the demand for banning such weapons…
(2021-04-12). The Ever Given's Blockage of the Suez Canal and World Trade showed the Downsides of Monopoly Capitalism. juancole.com Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) — News media, maritime experts, and a curious public could hardly take their eyes off the Ever Given, the mega cargo ship as long as the Empire State Building is tall. Viewers were stunned to see the ship swung sideways to the canal and thus blocking transit in …
(2021-04-12). Neoliberalism prevents forward-looking policies. indybay.org Never learned! Not only since 30 years, please, it is round about 200 years since Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Today now we have to bitterly accept that the planet is not a factory and not a limited company. Capitalism is not an option for life!