Daily Archives: April 16, 2022

2022-04-16: News Headlines

Anonymous349 (2022-04-16). Fire From The Skies: Russia Increases Strikes In Ukraine. southfront.org Russian forces are in the Mariupol port area | The 51st day of the Russian military operation in Ukraine was opened with a new round of Russian missile strikes on military infrastructure of the Kyiv government. | According to the Russian Defense Ministry, a strike with high-precision long-range air-launched weapons destroyed the production buildings of the armoured vehicles and tank plant in Kyiv and a workshop for repairing military equipment in Nikolaev. | During the night, strikes with air-launched missiles h…

John Zarocostas (2022-04-16). [World Report] Cautious optimism following weapons talks. thelancet.com Participants have hailed global talks on an accord to protect civilians in populated areas from explosive weapons, but there are questions over its strength. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.

Rick Rozoff (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, …

Liberation Staff (2022-04-15). Climate Solutions: Beyond Capitalism national speaking tour featuring author Tina LandisÔøº. liberationnews.org Join us for events featuring Tina Landis, activist and author of Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism, and learn about real solutions to the crisis, how capitalism acts a barrier to the change that is needed, and how under socialism humanity can implement the transformations needed for our survival.

deweylaura (2022-04-15). Why we need women in the struggle. cpusa.org What can the Party do to increase participation and leadership of women in the struggle for socialism? Here's a practical solution: work to create an environment where women are accommodated and included in all areas of political work. This includes providing free childcare at events, promoting women into leadership, assigning traditionally "female" tasks (such …

_____ (2022-04-15). We Do Not Want A Divided Planet; We Want A World Without Walls. popularresistance.org The surface of our skin beats with the fear that a new iron curtain will descend, that there is pressure to box in China and Russia, to divide the world into camps. But that is impossible, because — as noted in last week's newsletter — we live in a knot of contradictions and not in a clean cut world of certainties. Even close allies of the US, such as Australia, Germany, Japan, and India, cannot break their economic and political ties with Russia and China. Doing so would plunge them into a recession, bringing the kind of economic chaos that war and sanctions have already brought to Honduras, Pakistan…

Marzieh Rahmani (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.

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (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 …

Kenya Elliott (2022-04-15). U.S. vs. peace: Biden floods Ukraine with more weapons, eyes NATO expansion. liberationnews.org In his latest effort to prolong the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, President Biden announced on Wednesday that the United States will be providing an additional $800 million in military assistance to Ukraine…

_____ (2022-04-15). US Dusts Off WMD Lies, This Time Aimed at Russia. journal-neo.org The US is once again waving around accusations against its adversaries of preparing to use "chemical weapons." This time, the accused is Russia amid ongoing military operations in Ukraine. The Guardian in its article, "'Clear sign' Putin is weighing up use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, says Biden," would claim: Russia's false accusation that Ukraine …

Mike Ludwig (2022-04-15). Ukraine and Yemen Wars Highlight US's Role as Biggest Arms Dealer in the World. truthout.org Analysts say the defense industry has spent billions of dollars lobbying Congress while quietly making much more in profit by manufacturing weapons that fuel deadly conflicts in Ukraine, Yemen and across the world under federal arms sales agreements that have little effective congressional oversight. | There is a dangerous "feedback loop" between major weapons manufacturers in the United States that make

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