Morning Star (2021-04-05). The political centre crumbles as Orban, Morawiecki and Salvini launch their reactionary international. peoplesworld.org Christians come in many different colours, from communist and socialist red to conservative blue and fascist brown. All can interpret passages in the Bible to justify their political policies, although it sounds especially discordant when self-proclaimed followers of the "prince of peace" preach stridently in favour of weapons of genocidal mass murder. Viktor Orban, Mateusz …

Morning Star (2021-04-05). Political center crumbles as Orban, Morawiecki, and Salvini launch reactionary international. peoplesworld.org Christians come in many different colors, from communist and socialist red to conservative blue and fascist brown. All can interpret passages in the Bible to justify their political policies, although it sounds especially discordant when self-proclaimed followers of the "prince of peace" preach stridently in favor of weapons of genocidal mass murder. Viktor Orban, Mateusz …

Mark Gruenberg (2021-04-05). Official jobless rate down but reality a lot worse. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —The official U.S. unemployment rate declined to 6% in March, down 0.2% in one month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on April 2. Driven by big gains in bars and restaurants, companies claimed to create a net of 780,000 new jobs. Governments added 136,000—125,600 of them as schools reopened. But the story was …

Leonard Eiger (2021-04-05). Jesuit Priest Continues Holy Resistance to Nuclear Weapons. globalresearch.ca Father Steve Kelly, S.J., a Jesuit priest and longtime nuclear …

WSWS (2021-04-05). Big Dirty Money: "White-collar crime" and the nature of capitalism. wsws.org This recent book describes many outrages, even while it is unable to explain or indicate how to end them.

Staff (2021-04-05). Being "Anti-Racist" Isn't Enough. The Violence of Whiteness Must Be Exposed. truthout.org Even if the movement for reparations someday transforms the profound economic disparities that fall along racial lines in this country — addressing income disparities, the wealth gap, housing and health care inequities, and unemployment disparities — a fundamental problem of anti-Black racism still won't be solved. | What remains is a fundamentally ontological problem: the reality of the being of whiteness, and its denial of Black humanity within white racist America. | White privilege…

_____ (2021-04-05). Jared Ball: Black Liberation And Socialism With Frank Chapman. popularresistance.org Frank Chapman is a community organizer, Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Field Organizer of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and a member of the Central Committee of Freedom Road Socialist Organization. He is also a published writer, with articles on Truthout and Freedomways. In 2019, Frank published his first book, a memoir entitled The Damned Don't Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Organizer.

Anonymous007 (2021-04-05). Military Situation In Syria On April 5, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On April 4, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 29 times: 14 — in Idlib province, 10 — in Latakia province, 3 — in Hama province, 2 Aleppo province | On April 4, a Turkish drone targeted a mechanised digger near the town of Malekiyah. No casualties were reported | On April 4, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SDF positions near Ain Issa | On April 4, a Russian Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone crashed…

Dean Baker (2021-04-05). Inside the Economic Bounce. counterpunch.org The March employment reports show the economy bouncing back sharply due to the spread of vaccines and the first effects of the Biden recovery package. The establishment survey showed the economy adding 916,000 jobs in the month. The household survey was also encouraging, with the unemployment rate dropping 0.2 percentage points to 6.0 percent, a

Mohammad Ayesh (2021-04-05). Arabic press review: This is what the Arab media is saying about the Jordan 'coup plot'. middleeasteye.net Arabic press review: This is what the Arab media is saying about the Jordan 'coup plot' | According to the Jordanian media, Hamzah rebuffed the king's efforts for private conciliation, while the Saudis report Amman is in an 'unprecedented crisis' | Mon, 04/05/2021 – 14: 59 | An elderly Palestinian man in the occupied-West Bank town of Hebron reads the daily newspaper al-Quds, which boasts front-…

Erica X Eisen (2021-04-05). The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On. zcomm.org ailures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism…

_____ (2021-04-04). On Contact: Emergence Of The Global Police State. popularresistance.org On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the emergence of the global police state with Professor William I. Robinson. Robinson's new book, The Global Police State, uses shocking data to reveal how far capitalism has become a system of repression. He argues the emerging megacities of the world are becoming the battlegrounds where the excluded and the oppressed face off against the global police state. | Robinson is Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies, at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Among his many award-winning books are Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanit…

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2021-04-04). Friday 4/2: Virtual Forum: 60-year Blockade on Cuba & Unions Fight for Safe Schools. indybay.org bit.ly/education4thepeople…

Climate Now (2021-04-04). Thursday 4/8: Climate Action Crash Course. indybay.org Online, via zoom…

Anonymous669 (2021-04-04). Another Russian Drone Lost In Greater Idlib. southfront.org Click to see full-size image, source: the internet | On April 4, a Russian Orlan-10 drone crashed in the northern countryside of Syria's Idlib, a few kilometers away from the Turkish border. | Opposition sources said the drone crashed near the town of Mashhad Ruhin. The drone was not targeted. It reportedly crashed as a result of a technical failure. The wreckage was recovered by the militants. | The Orlan-10 has a flight duration of 16 hours and a range of 140 km. The drone can be equipped with several types of sensors to c…

Rainer Shea (2021-04-04). Revolution or Fascism: The Choice We Must Make Amid US Collapse. orinocotribune.com American collapse presents us with two diverging paths, ones which respectively mean massive genocide and the liberation of the U.S. masses from capitalist and colonialist subjugation. These paths are the transformation of the U.S. into a full-on Nazi regime, and the abolition of the U.S. government so that this continent can be made into a post-colonial socialist civilization. | Each day, both of these outcomes are made ever more likely by the deteriorating conditions that the country is sliding into. As international capital finds itself weakened by our current global depression, as the climate crisis threatens…

_____ (2021-04-04). On Contact: Emergence Of The Global Police State. popularresistance.org On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the emergence of the global police state with Professor William I. Robinson. Robinson's new book, The Global Police State, uses shocking data to reveal how far capitalism has become a system of repression. He argues the emerging megacities of the world are becoming the battlegrounds where the excluded and the oppressed face off against the global police state. | Robinson is Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies, at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Among his many award-winning books are Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanit…

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2021-04-04). Friday 4/2: Virtual Forum: 60-year Blockade on Cuba & Unions Fight for Safe Schools. indybay.org bit.ly/education4thepeople…

Climate Now (2021-04-04). Thursday 4/8: Climate Action Crash Course. indybay.org Online, via zoom…

Anonymous669 (2021-04-04). Another Russian Drone Lost In Greater Idlib. southfront.org Click to see full-size image, source: the internet | On April 4, a Russian Orlan-10 drone crashed in the northern countryside of Syria's Idlib, a few kilometers away from the Turkish border. | Opposition sources said the drone crashed near the town of Mashhad Ruhin. The drone was not targeted. It reportedly crashed as a result of a technical failure. The wreckage was recovered by the militants. | The Orlan-10 has a flight duration of 16 hours and a range of 140 km. The drone can be equipped with several types of sensors to c…

_____ (2021-04-03). Kim Stanley Robinson's 'The Ministry For The Future'. popularresistance.org The Ministry for the Future (Orbit, 2020) is a magnificent novel but also an especially welcome resource for thinking about ecosocialist initiatives for a near-future global Green New Deal. Could not be more timely! This was my initial impression upon reading it last week. After some reflection, I am somewhat more critical but still highly recommend this novel for its inspiration and provocation — particularly because of how Kim Stanley Robinson (KSR) concretely addresses the radical transformation of real existing capitalism dominated by its militarized fossil legacy. Ministry should certainly be subject t…

orinocotribune (2021-04-03). Venezuelan Minister for Defense: Colombia is Using PsyOps and Media Warfare to Undermine Venezuelan Army. orinocotribune.com This Friday, April 2, Venezuelan Minister for Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, denounced the use of psyops and media manipulation on the part of the Colombian government to defend its economic interests, create unrest among the Venezuelan population, manipulate public opinion at the international level and thus destabilize Venezuela. | On his Twitter account @vladimirpadrino, he wrote that "this conflict, in which the Republic makes legitimate use of its weapons to expel the groups that want to use our territory for bastard purposes, is accompanied by other weapons that seek various objectives: | 1 Defend the eco…

WSWS (2021-04-03). Turner's Modern World at the Tate Britain: J.M.W. Turner's artistic depiction of early capitalism. wsws.org The exhibition shows how Turner's work is imbued with ideas of progress, democracy and freedom.

WSWS (2021-04-03). Capitol police officer, driver killed in vehicle attack near US Capitol. wsws.org The driver of the vehicle, identified as 25-year-old Noah Green of Indiana, was shot and killed by police after he crashed his vehicle into a barricade outside the Capitol.

WSWS (2021-04-03). March jobs growth dominated by low-wage sectors. wsws.org While the US economy added 916,000 jobs in March, the highest number since August, well over half were in low wage sectors, while long-term unemployment remained unchanged.

Fight Back (2021-04-03). Illinois: After 31 Years, Gerald Reed is Free! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) greets the commutation of Gerald Reed's life sentence today by Governor J. B. Pritzker as a courageous act to set right a terrible crime against a Black man committed 31 years ago. Now we need to finish the job of freeing all survivors of police torture who were convicted by confessions coerced by police and dismantling the prison industrial complex as a whole. | Reed was convicted of a double murder in 1990 after…

RT (2021-04-03). WATCH Mandalorian ship get DESTROYED by Siberian 'mini-tornado', weeks after Star Wars fans erect 'Razor Crest' replica on hill. rt.com A fan-built, life-size copy of a spacecraft from the The Mandalorian TV show, which is part of the 'Star Wars' universe, was knocked from a hill in Siberia by a powerful wind. | A team of fans assembled the replica of 'Razor Crest' gunship last month. The vessel, which was piloted by bounty hunter Din Djarin, the lead character in the show, was then put on display in a park in the city of Yakutsk, Russia. | The ship did not stand for long, however, as it fell victim to local weather. A gust of wind toppled the installation on the hill, sending it rolling down a snowy slope. | –≤–∏–&ye…

Jordan Woll (2021-04-03). Chaos of capitalist production: 15 million vaccine doses ruined. liberationnews.org Most of the deficiencies cited in FDA investigation reports from 2020 indicate the lack of rigor that capitalism incentivizes with its "race to the bottom" profit motive.