(2022-04-15). Zimbabwe bus crash leaves 35 dead. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 15 (MNA) — At least 35 people died and 71 were injured in Zimbabwe when a bus carrying churchgoers to an Easter gathering veered off the road and landed in a gorge.
(2022-04-15). MTN prepares youth to tackle the unemployment Gap. plusnews.ug 
In a market with too many applicants and not enough jobs, getting experience is a catch-22; you need it to get jobs, you need a job to get it. It is not once that employers in Uganda have voiced their grievance of employing youth armed with theoretical knowledge and no practical experience. It gets worse …
(2022-04-15). Pentagon could exhaust stockpiles arming Ukraine: report. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Ukrainian News AgencyApril 15, 2022 U.S. May Exhaust Its Stockpile Of Weapons Due To Supplies To Ukraine — Media The United States may run out of stocks of weapons due to its constant supplies to Ukraine…. Hal Brands, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Institute and a specialist in international politics…. *** According to him, …
(2022-04-14). Biden Approves Additional $800 Million In Military Aid For Ukraine, Includes Howitzers For The First Time. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, President Biden authorized a new $800 million weapons package for Ukraine that includes howitzers and helicopters. The announcement was made after Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who continues to plead for more arms. The weapons package includes 18 155mm howitzers and 40,000 artillery rounds, marking the first transfer of US artillery systems to Ukraine. The Ukrainians will receive 11 Mi-17 helicopters that were originally earmarked for the now-defunct US-backed Afghan government. The new package brings the total US military aid pledged to Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb…
(2022-04-14). U.S. to funnel $800 million in more advanced weapons for larger, longer war in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Defense NewsApril 13, 2022 US unveils $800 million in weapons and equipment, plus training, for Ukraine Also see: For first time, Ukraine to get US artillery in new $800M weapons package U.S. President Joe Biden has announced an additional $800 million in heavy weapons the country will speed to Ukrainian forces, which will include more …
(2022-04-14). The Heat: Push for eastern Ukraine. america.cgtn.com 
Ukraine's president makes a plea for more weapons, as Russian forces move in on Eastern Ukraine.
(2022-04-14). The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine. scheerpost.com 
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair | By Richard Wolff / To the motives for war in human history, capitalism added another: profit. That motive drove technological advancement and created a genuine world economy. It also built new capitalist empires such as the Spanish, Dutch, British, French, Belgian, Russian, German, Japanese, and American empires. Each of these countries built its empire by various means including wars against prior systems operating on their own territories, in their colonies, a…
(2022-04-14). Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done. truthout.org "For anybody who is caught up in the systems that are shaped by extractive capitalism and organized violence, there is a cumulative and compounded effect on their persons and their lives," says scholar and activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore. In this episode of "Movement Memos," Gilmore talks with Kelly Hayes about prison abolition, the climate crisis and what must be done. | Music by TRANSCRIPT: | Note: This a rush transcript and has been lightly edited for clarity. Copy may not be in its final form. | Kelly Hayes:…
(2022-04-14). President Maduro at International Summit Against Fascism: We Have Lived 20 Years of Resistance after April 11 Coup. orinocotribune.com 
This Tuesday, April 12, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, received intellectuals, national and international guests in the Ayacucho Hall of the Presidential Palace of Miraflores for the International Summit against Fascism. The head of state pointed out that with the April 2002 revolution, the possibility of building the social welfare state and the Bolivarian Revolution through the Missions and Great Missions of Chávez was born: "We have a strong and clear socialism that was born from the awakening of the peoples," he said. | The president affirmed that from the depths of the Venezuelan social process the con…
(2022-04-14). Venezuela 2002: The coup heard around the world. peoplesworld.org 
Twenty years ago, at the dawn of the 21st century, a failed U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela, a little-known South American country, set Latin America onto a new course and helped place socialism back onto the global agenda. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991—an event which free market disciple Francis Fukuyama infamously declared …
(2022-04-14). Push for European Central Bank to tighten monetary policy. wsws.org The ECB's purpose is to impose recessionary conditions aimed at preventing workers from pushing for wage increases to compensate for falling living standards as prices race out of control.
(2022-04-14). Colombia soccer legend Freddy Rincon dies after car crash. colombiareports.com Freddy Rincon, one of Colombia's most prominent former soccer players, died on Wednesday as the result of a car accident. Rincon, 55, was admitted to a hospital in the city…
(2022-04-14). Turkey to sell combat drones to another NATO nation: Slovakia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azeri Press AgencyApril 13, 2022 Slovakia holding talks with Turkey for purchase of Bayraktar Slovakia is in talks with Turkey on the purchase of Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles, Slovak Defense Minister Jaro Nad wrote on Twitter, APA reports. "Works on acquiring drones for Slovak military ArmadaSR moving forward. Good talk today with Mr. Bayraktar …
(2022-04-14). Sweden and Finland Joining NATO Would Escalate Tensions, Says Swedish Activist. truthout.org Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is warning Russia may deploy nuclear weapons to the Baltic region if Sweden and Finland join NATO. His comments come one day after the prime ministers of Sweden and Finland spoke together about possibly joining the military alliance — a move many thought was unthinkable before Russia invaded Ukraine. Agnes Hellstrà∂m, president of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society, calls the NATO debate in Sweden "narrow," saying "it's been the only option presented to us by the media," and calls the proposed solution a "reflex" built up from a "big amount of fear after…
(2022-04-14). Lithuania raises stakes on Kaliningrad by claiming Russia bases nuclear weapons there. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azeri Press AgencyApril 14, 2022 Lithuania: Russia has nuclear weapons in Baltic Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas stated that Russia already has nuclear weapons in the Baltic region when speaking to BNS on Thursday…. The minister said Russian threats to deploy nuclear weapons in the Baltic region are "rather strange," as it is found just …
(2022-04-14). Russian MoD Analysis of Documents Related to US Biological Warfare Activities in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine (April 14, 2022) A special military operation by Russian troops has yielded additional information on US military and biological activities in Ukraine, confirming numerous violations of the Biological Weapons Convention. Taking…