(2021-04-24). More than 300 companies including Boeing to attend Zhuhai airshow. ecns.cn More than 300 companies including Boeing will attend the Zhuhai airshow, the organizers said on their official WeChat account on Saturday.
(2021-04-24). They received Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. Now they might have to pay it back. liberationnews.org 
"I was stressed that upon deeming me ineligible for some reason, they would take the money that they had paid me, and then I would be thousands of dollars in debt."
(2021-04-24). 'Financing Border Wars' Corporations violating human rights on Arizona border. indybay.org The new report, "Financing Border Wars," details the push for border walls, drones and biometrics — including iris scans and finger prints — which violate the international human rights of migrants and refugees. The abuse includes tracking surveillance on phones and social media.
(2021-04-24). Capitalism as a Suicide Cult. zcomm.org The data on excess deaths is provided to make the point that while the pandemic is a calamity, for much of the U.S., it is just one more in a long series of calamities…
(2021-04-24). Challenged on Syria cover-up, OPCW chief lies and US-UK-France evade. thegrayzone.com Facing new outcry over the Syria cover-up scandal, OPCW chief Fernando Arias has been caught lying, while the US-UK-France are desperately trying to change the subject. Aaron Maté recaps recent meetings at the EU and UN, where the growing Douma controversy was center stage. The US-UK-France bombed Syria in April 2018 after accusing it of a chemical weapons attack in the city of Douma. Leaks later revealed that OPCW inspectors found no evidence of a Syrian government chemical weapons attack. …
(2021-04-24). 100 Days of Socialism: Socialist-Feminist. dsausa.org At the Socialist Feminist Working Group, we know that our country cannot achieve socialism without liberation on the basis of gender – and that we cannot end patriarchy without engaging in class struggle.
(2021-04-24). Military Situation In Yemen On April 24, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 261 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On April 23, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 11 airstrikes on the Sarwah area | On April 23, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on the Haradh area | On April 23, Ansar Allah attacked King Khalid Airbase with four Qasef 2K drones | On April 23, Ansar Allah attacked an Aramco facility in Jizan with a…
(2021-04-24). 'Terminator of Drones': China Unveils New Multipurpose Radar That Can Be Carried by Single Soldier. sputniknews.com Recently, new unmanned aerial vehicles such as drone swarms, kamikaze and AI-powered drones, have shown rapidly increasing widespread use among governments, and large and small military groups. The alarming trend has brought new security challenges as the devices are difficult for air defense systems to accurately identify.
(2021-04-24). Iran calls on Japan to join global disarmament movement. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 24 (MNA) — Secretary-General of Iran's Human Rights Office said that Tehran and Tokyo can develop a front by creating a global movement to disarm the weapons of mass destruction which will result in peace and security in the world.
(2021-04-24). Fatal Tesla Model S crash under investigation by authorities, raises safety concerns. wsws.org While Tesla vehicles are hitting the roads worldwide, under capitalism there is no systematic oversight of vehicle production to address safety measures before they go to market, with dangerous consequences.
(2021-04-24). Saving the planet by disempowering the elites. indybay.org Humanity is at the final crossroads of becoming aware of the drama of the ecological and peace crisis in which it finds itself. The book "The Eco-Catastrophe" is a wake-up call to take note of the seriousness of the situation, to accept the Herculean tasks ahead, to understand the growth ideology of global capitalism and its structural lack of peace as a cancerous evil.
(2021-04-24). Capitalismo y narcotráfico: La gran devastación. globalizacion.ca Cuando la acción del narcotráfico se instala en un suelo marcado por la exclusión multiforme de amplios grupos sociales por el capitalismo dominante, arrasa con la naturaleza y con el tejido social. En México, el estado norteño de Chihuahua, en…
(2021-04-24). Increasing Desperation As The US Capitalist System Declines. popularresistance.org Like all previous economic systems in recorded history, capitalism is on track to repeat the same three-step trip: birth, evolution, and death. The timing and other specifics of each system's trip differ. Births and evolutions are commonly experienced as positive, celebrated for their progress and promise. The declines and deaths, however, are often denied and usually feel difficult and depressing. Notwithstanding endlessly glib political speeches about bright futures, U.S. capitalism has reached and passed its peak. Like the British Empire after World War I, the trip now is painful. | Signs of decline accumulate…
(2021-04-23). Capitalism as a Suicide Cult. counterpunch.org 
From the launch of the U.S. war against Iraq to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic there were over four million 'excess deaths' in the U.S., deaths over and above the rates experienced in other rich nations. Given the class distribution of longevity— the rich live a full decade longer than the poor on average, these excess deaths were overwhelmingly concentrated amongst those cast aside by neoliberal economic policies.
(2021-04-23). BlackRock, Vanguard & Co — How the New Capitalist Players Are Acting Against Labour, Environment and International Law and How They Use the Corona-Pandemic. strategic-culture.org The unregulated shadow banks are now the owners of even the regulated big banks, but also of, for example, all the big digital corporations. At the same time, BlackRock & Co have managed to remain virtually unknown to the general public. | BlackRock Corporation is currently a co-owner or a shareholder, in 18,000 banks, companies, and financial service providers, primarily in the U.S. and Canada, in the European Union, and in Western-oriented nations. Such a numerous simultaneous presence of a single owner has never been seen before in the history of capitalism. | Yet BlackRock is only the tip of the current, newl…
(2021-04-23). Increasing Desperation as the U.S. Capitalist System Declines. counterpunch.org 
Like all previous economic systems in recorded history, capitalism is on track to repeat the same three-step trip: birth, evolution, and death. The timing and other specifics of each system's trip differ. Births and evolutions are commonly experienced as positive, celebrated for their progress and promise. The declines and deaths, however, are often denied and
(2021-04-23). Capitalist Morbidity and The Global Crisis. counterpunch.org 
Authors' note: The following is adapted from the first chapter of our Twilight Capitalism: Karl Marx and the Decay of the Profit System (Fernwood Publishing, 2021) The social upheaval of 2020-21 may well mark a major turning point in world history. The global Covid-19 public health emergency and the associated economic slump have produced hugely
(2021-04-23). Venezuela Advances in Clearing Landmines Laid by Colombian Narco-Terrorists in Apure. orinocotribune.com The demining operations of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) in Apure state have achieved the neutralization of at least 100 of the illegal explosives. | General Commander of the Army, General Domingo Hernández Lárez, confirmed that this challenge prompted the military to make special adaptations to its weapons and minesweeper systems to clear the territory of one of the deadly consequences of the internal Colombian conflict, that some are trying to export to Venezuela. | These explosive devices, illegal under international law, were planted by narco-terrorist gangs of Colombia in their attempt to instal…
(2021-04-23). Raúl Castro honored. workers.org 
The excerpts below are from the Cuban daily newspaper, Granma, April 17. "Let no one doubt that as long as I live, I will be ready, with a foot in the stirrup, to defend the homeland, the Revolution and socialism," stated Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, first secretary of the . . . |
(2021-04-23). Houthi Drones Targeted Aramco Facility, King Khalid Air Base In Saudi Arabia. southfront.org 
Illustrative image, source: the Houthis media wing | Early on April 23, the Houthis (as Ansar Allah is known) carried out a drone attack on targets in the southern Saudi provinces of Jizan and 'Asir. | The Yemeni group targeted a facility of Saudi oil giant Aramco in an unspecified part of Jizan with a Samad-3 suicide drone. At the same time, the group targeted King Khalid Air Base in 'Asir with two Qasef-2K drones. | Later in the morning, a third Qasef-2K drones was launched by the Houthis at a "military installation"
(2021-04-23). Bursting Pantsirs, Falling Bayraktars: Turkish-Russian Virtual War. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On April 22nd, Turkish defense company Roketsan released a video hyping up its Akƒ±ncƒ± UAV. | The video shows the drone use a MAM-T smart bomb, which hits a Russian Pantsir-S1 in a desert setting and destroys it. | Apparently, this is a kind of response to a video report on Russian TV, in which Russian "Lancets" destroy Turkish drones. | On April 18th, The Turkish media drew attention to the fact that in a report on military developments aired on the stat…
(2021-04-23). DARPA'S Aerial Dragnet Hunts Drones With Drones. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing the Aerial Dragnet. | It is a system that provides a wide-area surveillance capability that uses sensors mounted on drones to detect, classify and track small drones in dense urban environments. | DARPA's Aerial Dragnet program aims to achieve the technically difficult goal of detecting and tracking small UAS in urban terrain. The program seeks innovative technologies to provide persistent, wide-area survei…
(2021-04-23). Biden climate summit offers empty spectacle. wsws.org The two-day event that began Thursday underscored the reality that there is no solution to global warming and climate change within the framework of capitalism.
(2021-04-23). Government To Blame For Iran's Deepening Recession — OpEd. eurasiareview.com By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh* | When the Iranian authorities boast about Iran's "resistance economy," they are attempting to hide the fact that the government's economic problems have deepened to a dangerous level. | Iran's official reserves dropped to a record low of $4 billion last year, down from $122.5 billion just two years earlier. This has partially contributed to the devaluation of the currency. Iran's currency was trading at about 30,000 rials to the US dollar in 2018, compared to approximately 240,000 now. | In the last two years, many companies have gone bankrupt as the government continues to increase it…
(2021-04-23). Two lose lives in Plane Crash in Russia's Irkutsk Region. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 23 (MNA) — Two people were killed when a light aircraft crashed in the Cheremkhovsky district of Irkutsk region.