2022-05-01: News Headlines

_____ (2022-05-01). United Nations Secretary General Holds Talks On Ukraine War. popularresistance.org The topic of the discussions centered on the two-months long Russian military intervention in Ukraine which has been fueled by the imposition of unprecedented sanctions by the United States and the European Union (EU) alongside the massive transferal of weapons to the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky by key member-states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). | Two distinct positions were articulated during one-on-one talks between Putin and Guterres which were broadcast internationally. Later there was a press conference held featuring Foreign Minister Lavrov and Secretary General Guterres w…

_____ (2022-05-01). May Day—Workers In India Feel Increasing Need For Unity. popularresistance.org This year May Day is being observed at a time of increasing need for wider unity by workers in the wake of adverse government policies leading to increasing burden of unemployment and inflation at the same time. Policies relating to demonetization, poorly conceived tax reform in the form of GST, privatization, excessively stringent and poorly planned lock-downs have led to massive job losses and reduced income across vast areas of economic activity, while policies which favor big business interests contribute at least partly to rise of price of several essential commodities. | At a time of adverse external factor…

Anonymous669 (2022-05-01). Iraqi 'Resistance' Group Releases Drone Footage Of US Embassy In Baghdad. southfront.org Official logo of The Islamic Resistance in Iraq — 'Ashab al-Kahf | On May 1, the pro-Iranian Islamic Resistance in Iraq — 'Ashab al-Kahf released drone footage of the US embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdadi. | The footage, which were likely taken by a small quadcopter, shows the main building of the US embassy and the nearby Union III military base in the highly-secured Green Zone. | In a statement, 'Ashab al-Kahf alleged that its drones carried out 92 reconnaissance sorties over the US emba…

Staff (2022-05-01). Saudis violate Yemeni ceasefire 124 times in a day. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA) — News sources reported that the Saudi coalition has violated the ceasefire in Yemen 124 times during the past day.

____ (2022-04-30). Pentagon has delivered over half of howitzers promised to Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azeri Press AgencyApril 28, 2022 Pentagon: "More than half" of Howitzers the US is sending to Ukraine are in country Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said "more than half" of the 90 Howitzers, long range weapons, the US is sending to Ukraine are now country, during a briefing at the Pentagon on Wednesday, APA reports citing …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-30). Sacha Llorenti: "ALBA is fundamentally anti-imperialist" peoplesdispatch.org A central discussion throughout the III Continental Assembly of ALBA Movements was on the challenges that people's movements face in the medium and long term. One of the key strategies of ALBA movements has been strengthening over the last couple of years has been to build not only with organizations involved in its work across the continent but also to work with other platforms of people's movements and organizations that are resisting capitalism and imperialism. | A panel was organized during the Assembly to hear about the work of these allied platforms and to discuss how to better build solidarity and unity to…

____ (2022-04-30). U.S. economy shrinks in Q1 amid Omicron surge, high inflation, raising recession fear. ecns.cn The U.S. economy shrank at an annual rate of 1.4 percent in the first quarter this year amid the Omicron surge and elevated inflation, raising the fear of a looming recession.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-04-30). Video: #Yes, It's a "Killer Vaccine": Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to precipitate the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-04-30). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

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