(2022-04-30). NATO Lobbyist Wants Serbia To Donate Weapons To Ukraine And Sanction Russia. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageThe lobbyist wants "only those in favor of sanctions, nationalization of companies, urgent delivery of military aid to Ukraine and expulsion of 90% of the Russian Embassy staff in the new Serbian government". | Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst | Ever since the start of the Russian special military operation in response to Ukraine's attempted ethnic cleansing in Donbass, the United States and NATO have been pressuring member states and even EU members not officia…
(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.
(2022-04-29). How Could the U.S. Help to Bring Peace to Ukraine? dissidentvoice.org 
Photo credit: cdn.zeebiz.com On April 21st, President Biden announced new shipments of weapons to Ukraine, at a cost of $800 million to U.S. taxpayers. On April 25th, Secretaries Blinken and Austin announced over $300 million more military aid. The United States has now spent $3.7 billion on weapons for Ukraine since the Russian invasion, bringing …
(2022-04-29). Ukrainian Railway Power Substations Hit By Russian Missiles (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On April 29, Russian sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed three power substations in the areas of Fastov, Krasnoselka and Polonnoye railway junctions. | On April 25, Russian missiles destroyed six traction substations in the areas of the Krasnoe, Zdolbunov, Zhmerinka, Berdichev, Kovel and Korosten railway stations. | The stations are used for the supply of foreign weapons and military equipment for the Ukrainian troops in the Donbass region. Railway communication in Western…
(2022-04-29). Poland has delivered hundreds of tanks, scores of APCs, howitzers, drones, rocket launchers to Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioApril 29, 2022 Poland has sent over 200 tanks to Ukraine: IAR Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Poland has supported its eastern neighbour with PLN 7 billion (EUR 1.5 billion) in military aid, President Andrzej Duda confirmed earlier this week. This figure includes more than 200 T-72 tanks, dozens of infantry fighting …
(2022-04-29). US GDP drops 1.4 percent in first quarter amidst Omicron surge and war in Ukraine. wsws.org While Biden attempted to downplay the abysmal numbers, his bravado cannot paper over the myriad contradictions facing US and world capitalism.
(2022-04-29). Toward building a "New World" mronline.org 
If you really want changes requiring the dismantling of capitalism—and this does include the changes necessary to the imagined "green economy,"—then you will join in these efforts rather than condemning the project that inspires them.
(2022-04-29). How the imperialist system works, and how Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution resists it. multipolarista.com A Venezuelan sociologist explains how the imperialist system is built on a murderous, savage capitalism, and how Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution has resisted it, based on Hugo Chávez's concept of 21st-century socialism.
(2022-04-29). Peace Movement needs to demand dismantling of NATO. mronline.org 
NATO went from fighting socialism to enforcing global empire.
(2022-04-29). Amazon Labor Union and the awakening of the American working class. mronline.org 
The United States is the most powerful capitalist nation in the world. Socialism cannot ultimately achieve victory without the success of the American working class. The struggles we are seeing now are just the beginning of the awakening of this colossus that will change the course of history.
(2022-04-29). Turkish Loitering Munition Crashed In Kurdish-Held Town In Syria's Aleppo (Video). southfront.org 
One of the Syrian soldiers wounded in the Turkish shelling. Click to see full-size image. Source: the Hawar News Agency. | On April 29, the Hawar News Agency released footage showing the werkcage of a Turkish Kargu loitering munition that crashed a day earlier in the northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo. | The loitering munition crashed in Sewarxa, one of several towns held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the southern part of Afrin area. According to Hawar, a Turkish drone was flying over the…
(2022-04-29). Protests Around Globe Target World's Biggest Weapons Company Lockheed Martin. davidswanson.org By World BEYOND War, April 29, 2022 From April 21st to 28th, crowds and small groups of people in locations around the world have brought petitions, banners, and protests to the offices of the world's largest weapons dealer, Lockheed Martin. Details, including photos and videos, of the Global Mobilization to #StopLockheedMartin are still being collected …
(2022-04-29). Kings Bay Plowshares Walking For Peace And Nuclear Abolition. popularresistance.org Called to enact the Old Testament prophecies of Isaiah and Micah, Plowshares activists seek to "turn swords into plowshares, spears into pruning hooks and train for war no more." It was this call to action that led Clare Grady, Martha Hennessy, Liz McAlister, Mark Colville, Carmen Trotta, Steve Kelly and Patrick O'Neill to enter Kings Bay Naval Base in St. Marys, Georgia on April 4-5, 2018. | Once inside, the activists split into three groups. One (composed of Trotta, Kelly and McAlister) went into the fatal force zone, investigating the bunkers housing nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Grady and Hennessy put up crime…
(2022-04-29). Biden massively expands US war with Russia. wsws.org On Thursday, US President Joe Biden called on Congress to approve $20 billion in weapons shipments for the US war with Russia, increasing US involvement in the conflict by a factor of six.