Daily Archives: April 4, 2022

2022-04-04: News Headlines

____ (2022-04-04). Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present. transcend.org 29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.

Staff (2022-04-04). Cuba: Lecciones de una guerra inconclusa. cubadebate.cu Resulta urgente e imprescindible que seamos capaces de producir y reproducir una contrahegemonía (en oposición, ruptura y superación de la hegemonía burguesa que nos llega en su versión más mediocre vía Miami). Esto debe traducirse en la producción —consciente, planificada, organizada, pensada, proyectada, creadora, multilateral— de gustos, deseos, anhelos, costumbres, hábitos… que reproduzcan el socialismo cubano —como etapa de transición hacia el comunismo—.

_____ (2022-04-04). Economic Reality Confronts Europe With Some Hard Choices. journal-neo.org After a brief period of depression, the Russian rouble has recovered back to the position held in December 2021 and is currently trading at around 84 roubles to the US dollar. It was not a recovery foreseen by the Americans who have made a determined effort to attack the rouble and by that means mount …

Dana Sanchez (2022-04-04). How Mortgage Rates Are Impacting Buyers And Mortgage Refinancing: 6 Things To Know. moguldom.com By the fall of 2008, homeowners were defaulting on subprime mortgages en masse, causing havoc in financial markets leading to the collapse of the stock market and a global recession. Saddled with mortgages they couldn't afford, more than 6 million U.S. households lost their homes to foreclosure in the carnage. Economists and financial analysts, in hindsight, were accused …

Anonymous103 (2022-04-04). Greece Sends Weapons To Ukraine Despite Azov Battalion's Oppression Of Mariupol's Greeks. southfront.org Mass rally against the involvement of Greece in the events in UkraineMitsotakis' popularity plunges as Greek's protest against weapons transfers to Ukraine. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | Although it seemingly appeared that modern relations between Moscow and Athens were on the path of reaching unprecedented heights, with President Vladimir Putin meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Sochi in December last year and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meeting with his Greek…

Yves Wegelin, Serge Halimi (2022-04-04). More weapons are not the solution and Julian Assange. indybay.org What is insane, however, is the belief that peace can be secured for the future with even more weapons. SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that he wants to invest an additional hundred billion euros in Germany's army; and in Switzerland, too, armament fantasies are being voiced.

____ (2022-04-04). Poland: Ruling party chief invites nuclear weapons, more U.S. troops. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ReutersApril 3, 2022 Poland 'open' to nukes stationed in country amid Russia-Ukraine war — party head Poland would be open to having nuclear weapons stationed in the country…ruling Polish party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in comments published Sunday as Warsaw calls for tougher action against Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. The politician noted that …

ecns.cn (2022-04-04). U.S.-funded labs around Russia work to create bio-weapons: Kremlin. ecns.cn Moscow has information that an array of biological laboratories have been founded around Russia, which are engaged in developing bio-weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday.

Editor (2022-04-04). Briefing: World hunger and the war in Ukraine. mronline.org The New Cold War is rapidly heating up, with severe consequences for people around the world. Our new series, Briefings, provides the key facts on these matters of global concern.

Editor2 (2022-04-03). Russia-Ukraine Conflict Highlights Racist Double Standard in the West. orinocotribune.com By Wu Chaolan — Mar 21, 2022 | The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has garnered widespread attention across the globe. The wall-to-wall coverage and outpouring of reactions to the Russia-Ukraine conflict from the West has raised eyebrows at its double standard toward other humanitarian crises, which has unsheathed flagrant racist and biased attitudes toward the value of non-white lives that also matter. | CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D'Agata, for instance, has faced a widespread backlash due to his discriminatory comments on the Ukraine crisis: "This isn't a place, with all due respect, like…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-03). Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing Through the Fog of the Information War. libya360.wordpress.com Gabriel Rockhill Participants of an annual event in honor of Stepan Bandera march through Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2021. (Genya Savilou/AFP) On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook what he referred to as a "special military operation … to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine." Western bourgeois media immediately decried these stated goals, regularly repeating that the allegations of…

Lyle McCormick (2022-04-03). Organizers protest Idaho anti-trans bill. liberationnews.org On March 16, members of the Idaho Party for Socialism and Liberation organized an event protesting Idaho house bill HB 675.

____ (2022-04-03). Chilean court sentences military personnel for burning alive student protesters in 1986. wsws.org The "Caso Quemados" (case of the burnt ones) occurred in the midst of demonstrations against depression-level unemployment, poverty and bloody repression under the Pinochet dictatorship.

Dean Baker (2022-04-03). More Quick Thoughts on the March Jobs Report — Good News on Inflation. cepr.net Many of us have highlighted both the strong pace of job growth and the drop in unemployment in March. This is great news. We are now looking at a labor market that is as strong as at any point in the last fifty years. This should be cause for celebration, but all the Republicans have …

Staff (2022-04-03). Saudis violate UN-declared ceasefire in its early hours. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 03 (MNA) — Yemeni media reported that the Saudi coalition violated the ceasefire agreement in the early minutes and that three Yemeni citizens were killed in a rocket attack on Saada province.

ecns.cn (2022-04-03). Russia makes new claims on U.S.-funded bioweapons labs. ecns.cn Moscow claims it has information that an array of biological laboratories engaged in developing bioweapons have been found, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday.

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