Daily Archives: April 28, 2021

2021-04-28: News Headlines

Staff (2021-04-29). Several killed after small plane crashes in US Florida. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) — Multiple people are dead after a small plane crashed in northern Florida on Wednesday, US media cited authorities as saying on Wednesday.

Karl Grossman (2021-04-28). The Russia/China Space Weaponization Treaty. counterpunch.org "Let's be clear: Deploying weapons in space crosses a threshold that cannot be walked back," stated retired U.S. Army Colonel John Fairlamb in a piece in the The Hill, the Washington, D.C. news website. Fairlamb knows the weaponization of space issue. His background includes being International Affairs Specialist for the Army Space and Missile Defense

Fight Back (2021-04-28). Appleton, WI: Community rallies for climate justice to honor Earth Day. fightbacknews.org Appleton, WI – On April 24, a coalition of seven local environmental and social justice groups assembled with more than 100 members of local communities to make demands for a livable future. The event was led by Sunrise Appleton, a youth-led movement that works to advocate the adoption of Green New Deal policies, reducing carbon emissions by building new sustainable sources of energy and infrastructure, and putting a stop to climate change. | The energy of the crowd was one of fervent anti-capitalism. At one point a speaking representative from Sunrise stated, "We are no longer asking, we are demanding" as they s…

Roger Harris (2021-04-28). US Role Behind the Defeat of Ecuador's Leftist Presidential Candidate. counterpunch.org The US role in the defeat of leftist Andrés Arauz in Ecuador's presidential contest on April 11 was not overt because it did not need to be, according to a high-ranking Latin American diplomat. We met with the diplomat and others on an official election observation delegation with CODEPINK. Names of some sources remain anonymous

G. Dunkel (2021-04-28). Chad's president's death upsets imperialists. workers.org Idriss Déby, president of Chad, died April 19 in the Tibesti mountains, weapons in hand, as Chad troops fought an armed convoy of his regime's opponents from the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, which had entered the country from Libya. Déby's loss was a major blow to French . . . |

Dennis Broe (2021-04-28). Paris Commune at 150: Still going strong and challenging digital capitalism. peoplesworld.org PARIS—Here in Paris, we are now living through the 150th anniversary of the Commune, identified by Karl Marx as perhaps the first worker's republic established in the history of humanity. The commune lasted 71 days, beginning March 18, 1871, and ended in violent repression during what was called "the time of the cherries"—the budding of …

Anonymous007 (2021-04-28). Sanctions, War Preparations And An Endless Supply Of Weapons For Kiev. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On April 21st a new act entered US Senate that will be voted on soon, titled Ukraine Security Partnership Act. | It passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee without a hitch and aims to increase and improve U.S. military support to Ukraine, and sends a message that the United States will continue to support the people of Ukraine, their ability to defend themselves, and the country's democratic transition."Today, as Russia masses more than 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border, mor…

WSWS (2021-04-28). Capitalism prepares to fight wars, not the pandemic. wsws.org Last year, as more than 3 million people lost their lives amid a raging pandemic, governments around the world spent nearly $2 trillion on weapons and preparations for war.

WSWS (2021-04-28). Capitalism prepares to fight wars, not the pandemic. wsws.org Last year, as more than three million people lost their lives amid a raging pandemic, governments around the world spent nearly $2 trillion on weapons and preparations for war.

_____ (2021-04-28). Covid-19 Means Good Times for the Pentagon. strategic-culture.org Or How to Vaccinate the Military-Industrial Complex | By Mandy SMITHBERGER | In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Washington has initiated its largest spending binge in history. In the process, you might assume that the unparalleled spread of the disease would have led to a little rethinking when it came to all the

_____ (2021-04-28). US Role Behind The Defeat Of Ecuador's Leftist Presidential Candidate. popularresistance.org The US role in the defeat of leftist Andrés Arauz in Ecuador's presidential contest on April 11 was not overt because it did not need to be, according to a high-ranking Latin American diplomat. We met with the diplomat and others on an official election observation delegation with CODEPINK. Names of some sources remain anonymous due to a hostile political environment towards progressives. | This setback for the Citizens Revolution movement, founded by Rafael Correa, will have profound implications for Ecuador and beyond, fortifying the US-allied reactionary bloc in Latin America. | Former President Correa left of…

Roger Harris (2021-04-28). US Role Behind the Defeat of Ecuador's Leftist Presidential Candidate. counterpunch.org The US role in the defeat of leftist Andrés Arauz in Ecuador's presidential contest on April 11 was not overt because it did not need to be, according to a high-ranking Latin American diplomat. We met with the diplomat and others on an official election observation delegation with CODEPINK. Names of some sources remain anonymous

Peter Pringle (2021-04-28). The Fight to Ban Chemical Warfare Helped Us Battle Covid-19. thenation.com The Fight to Ban Chemical Warfare Helped Us Battle Covid-19…

Staff (2021-04-28). Israeli regime deploys 'tear gas drones' against Palestinians. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 28 (MNA) — Israeli regime's police have used drones to drop tear gas canisters on protests in the West Bank and Quds, according to local media.

ecns.cn (2021-04-28). Drones stage light show to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC. ecns.cn Drones stage a light show in Chongqing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, April 27, 2021.

Luis Brito Garcia (2021-04-28). Communications in the Internet Age. orinocotribune.com By Luis Britto García — Apr 24, 2021 | Every technological advance gives rise to a utopian dream and a dystopian nightmare. The invention of the internet around 1990 generated enthusiastic expectations. Its very beginning was utopian. Its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, refused to register the patents that would have made him a billionaire in order to make the internet available to humanity. | A device initially taken over by the military industrial complex as an underground network safe from nuclear attack, it soon became an instrument supposedly available to all for the free exchange of messages and knowledge. I…

IDN (2021-04-28). Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War? — OpEd. eurasiareview.com By Jonathan Power* | Last week on Tuesday (April 20), US Strategic Command, the part of the military responsible for nuclear weaponry and its use, posted an official Tweet that read, "We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as their least bad option". | This came just as Russia was pulling back its large deployment of troops on Ukraine's border which, in turn, was triggered in part by President Joseph Biden's decision to ship for the first time sophisticated weapons to Ukraine. | The crisis has now passed but the…

Staff (2021-04-28). Police & Prison Abolition — YDSA Reading Group. dsausa.org 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. RSVP here…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-04-27). The 2020-21 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media.

Peter Koenig (2021-04-27). The WEF's Great Reset: Euphemism for a WWIII Scenario? dissidentvoice.org Let's make no mistake, we are already in WWIII. A more noble term is "The Great Reset" — the World Economic Forum's (WEF) eloquent description of a devastated worldwide economy, countless bankruptcies and unemployment, abject misery, famine, death by starvation, disease and suicide. Hundreds of millions of people have already been affected by this "collateral" …

Joshua Hanks (2021-04-27). Imperialist countries create global vaccine apartheid, prolonging pandemic. workers.org Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the scale of inequality under capitalism has come sharply into focus. Long before the pandemic began, inequality, racism and imperialism had threaded their way through all aspects of society, ensuring that the worst effects of disasters fall onto the most oppressed. . . . |

David Swanson (2021-04-27). Talk World Radio: Sam Perlo-Freeman on the Brutal Weapons Dealing by the UK. warisacrime.org Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube. Dr. Sam Perlo-Freeman is a Research Coordinator at Campaign Against Arms Trade in the UK, where he has focused on UK military spending and procurement, UK arms sales to Saudi and the war …

Dean Baker (2021-04-27). Biden's Recovery: How's The Hopey-Changey Thing Working Our For You? — OpEd. eurasiareview.com I know it was the last guy who promised hope and change, not Joe Biden, but I couldn't resist stealing Sarah Palin's best line ever. Besides, even if Biden didn't promise hope and change, it looks like he might deliver. | We are going to get the GDP growth data for the first quarter this week and it is almost certain to be very strong, quite likely over 7.0 percent. This is great news in terms of recovering from the pandemic recession and getting people back to work, but we know that all the inflation hawks will be yelling that we will soon be back in the 1970s, with inflation spiraling ever higher. For this r…

_____ (2021-04-27). How The United States Stole Democracy In Ecuador. popularresistance.org The second and final round of the presidential election took place in Ecuador on April 11. Clearing the FOG speaks with Leonardo Flores, the Latin American campaign coordinator for CODEPINK who served as an official election observer, about that election and the many ways the United States and the corporate media worked to prevent the election of the popular leftist candidate, Andres Arauz. The election of a banker, Guillermo Lasso, means the neoliberal assault on the people will continue. Flores speaks about the resistance in Ecuador and the general state of the Pink Tide in South America.

Roger Harris (2021-04-27). US Role Behind the Defeat of Ecuador's Leftist Presidential Candidate. orinocotribune.com By Roger D. Harris — Apr 25, 2021 | The US role in the defeat of leftist Andrés Arauz in Ecuador's presidential contest on April 11 was not overt because it did not need to be, according to a high-ranking Latin American diplomat. We met with the diplomat and others on an official election observation delegation with CODEPINK. Names of some sources remain anonymous due to a hostile political environment towards progressives. | This setback for the Citizens Revolution movement, founded by Rafael Correa, will have profound implications for Ecuador and beyond, fortifying the US-allied reactionary bloc in Latin A…

WSWS (2021-04-27). Governments spend trillions on weapons, claim there is no money for health care. wsws.org Total global military spending rose to nearly $2 trillion last year, up 2.6 percent from a year ago, even as world economic output shrank by 4.4 percent.

Chris Nineham (2021-04-27). All that Sending a Flotilla Bristling with Weapons into the South China Sea Can Do Is Escalate Global Tensions. globalresearch.ca No one can say that the BBC takes its role as …

Yanis Varoufakis (2021-04-27). When It Comes To Free-Market Capitalism, Fans Draw the Line at Football. commondreams.org On the many faces of oligarchy, Yanis Varoufakis asks, "Does genuine reform demand a radical rethink of who owns what?" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/fans-1.jpg

Davidson KW, Pennells L, Di Angelantonio E. (2021-04-27). Depression and Incident Cardiovascular Disease—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply To characterize the association between depressive symptoms and CVD incidence, we analyzed individual participant data from 22 prospective studies that included baseline information about self-reported depressive symptoms in participants without a history of CVD. Our study demonstrated modest log-linear associations between baseline depressive symptoms and future risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and CVD. Associations were present even with symptoms below the threshold indicative of depressive disorder and were unaffected by adjustment for several established CVD risk factors. These results are con…

El-Battrawy I, Behnes M, Akin I. (2021-04-27). Depression and Incident Cardiovascular Disease. jamanetwork.com To the Editor In their recent pooled analysis from 563‚ÄØ255 participants in 22 prospective cohorts, Dr Harshfield and colleagues demonstrated that depressive symptoms reported at baseline were associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence. It appears that there are several limitations to this study. First, the definition of fatal and nonfatal coronary heart disease was not well defined.

Slomski A. (2021-04-27). Low-Income African American Women With Hypertension and Depression. jamanetwork.com More than half of African American women of low socioeconomic status with uncontrolled hypertension also had symptoms of depression, according to a secondary analysis of an ongoing randomized trial. In their JAMA Psychiatry analysis, the authors advised clinicians at federally qualified health centers (FQHC) to screen African American women with hypertension for depression, provide mental health referrals, and monitor treatment to ensure that it is effective.

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2021-04-27). Depression, Fear of Life, Suicidal Thoughts: For Heaven's Sake, Talk to the Youth and Listen to Them! globalresearch.ca Today I received a shocking phone call from my family, who …

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2021-04-27). Depressionen, Lebensà§ngste, Suizidgedanken: Um Himmels willen, sprecht mit der Jugend und hà∂rt ihnen zu! globalresearch.ca Heute bekam ich aus dem Kreis meiner Familie, die in einem …

Peter Tase (2021-04-27). Deteriorating Conditions: Interview With An Iranian Pensioner. eurasiareview.com Despite high-ranking officials of the Iranian regime touting the importance of the presidential election that is scheduled for June 18, 2021, there is a growing concern that citizens nationwide may in fact be less favorable to participate. Fear of not attaining the minimum legitimacy for the formation of government, with an unprecedented systematic corruption, unemployment, and poverty, along with the collapse of Supreme Leader's awe in Iran and the region, international and deadly economy isolation, and most importantly being the only country in the region without vaccines and Immunity from coronavirus, have…

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