(2023-04-01). Mexico: Resistance and Repression in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. itsgoingdown.org 
The vultures of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and nation-states continue to circle over the Indigenous and campesino communities and lands of so-called southern Mexico. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is the latest feeding ground. There, a multiplicity of national and international state and private interests seek the imposition by any means necessary of the Interoceanic Corridor of…
(2023-04-01). Preview release of ChatGPT shows potential of artificial intelligence. wsws.org ChatGPT, released as a free prototype by the research laboratory OpenAI last November, is a powerful artificial intelligence technology with socially transformative potential that is being used under capitalism to eliminate jobs, increase exploitation and automate warfare.
(2023-03-31). How The Rich Are Prepping For End Times, And Why. mintpressnews.com The ruling class knows what's coming: social instability caused by a combination of the climate crisis, banks failing, the soul-killing inequality of late-stage capitalism, and the impending dilution of the petrodollar.
(2023-03-31). Factory explosions, tainted water and derailments: The cost of doing business for US capitalism. wsws.org The horrific explosion at a factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, which killed at least seven workers, is part of an unending series of workplace tragedies in the US.
(2023-04-01). Xi stresses advancing study, implementation of Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Thursday stressed further advancing the study and implementation of the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
(2023-04-01). Science Saturday: Understanding the speed of brain communication. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It often was thought that the speed of information transmitted among regions of the brain stabilized during early adolescence. A new study in Nature Neuroscience by Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues from the Netherlands found transmission speeds continue to increase into early adulthood. Because problems such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders can emerge in late adolescence and early adulthood, a better understanding of brain development may help clinicians offer therapies to treat these disorders. "A fundamental understanding…
(2023-03-31). Auto Workers convention lurches towards reversing concessions. mronline.org 
At the union's Detroit convention this week, hundreds of delegates—often local leaders—signaled they were less ready than the members to welcome the reform leadership. But there was unanimity that it's time to finally recoup the divisive contract concessions granted in the 2007-2009 recession.
(2023-03-31). Massive Anti-Government Protests Sweep Greece. popularresistance.org On Feb. 28, 2023, two trains traveling along the same track collided in Greece, killing 57 people—many of them students in their teens and 20s returning home from university in Athens. The deaths of 11 workers in the crash sparked two 24-hour strikes from the railway unions, followed by demonstrations across the country that have lasted for weeks and mobilized tens of thousands of people. Workers blame the crash on a lack of properly functioning safety and communication systems, as well as severe understaffing and underfunding of the railways—all originating from "Troika" (EU, IMF, and ECB) structural…
(2023-03-31). Freight train derails in U.S. Minnesota. ecns.cn A train carrying ethanol derailed and several cars erupted in flames early Thursday in Raymond, Minnesota, triggering an evacuation of people living near the crash site.
(2023-03-31). Deadly helicopter collision along Kentucky-Tennessee border claims the lives of nine US Army paratroopers. wsws.org This is the second time in the last month a US Army-piloted UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter has crashed and killed everyone on board.
(2023-03-31). The simple reason why the US wants 'full spectrum dominance' of the Earth. peoplesdispatch.org The United States demands that the world bow down to its leadership. A failure to do so is met with the full force of the international military-industrial complex controlled by the US…
(2023-03-31). How Barack Obama Bombed the "Paris of Africa" into a Hell Hole of Murder, Slave Trade, Sex Trafficking and Mass Starvation. covertactionmagazine.com First, Obama falsely portrayed Gaddafi as a monster; then, he lied about the need for harsh sanctions to punish him for crimes he never committed and, finally, he launched an illegal war under a pretext as phony as Lyndon Johnson's Tonkin Gulf Resolution and George W. Bush's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Once upon a time, …
(2023-03-31). No More Double Standards and Impunity. West Provokes Russia. Result: Nukes in Belarus on NATO's Borders. strategic-culture.org The Anglo-American-led NATO alliance has no longer the presumption of impunity. The decades of unchecked aggression from NATO expansionism and criminal Anglo-American subterfuges in foreign countries are over. | The historic — and unacceptable — deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in several European NATO states as well as the recent announcement by Britain of supplying depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine is the prologue to Russia's decision to place tactical nukes in Belarus. The Western outcry following Russia's decision is absurd and hypocritical. | The pattern is familiar and speaks of incorrigible…
(2023-03-31). Jamaal Bowman and Bernie Sanders Urge the Biden State Department to Investigate Israeli Use of US Weapons. globalresearch.ca
(2023-03-31). Russian MoD Releases Footage Of Forpost-R Combat Drone In Action Against Kiev Forces. southfront.org 
A Forpost-R combat drone. Screengrab, via the Russian Ministry of Defense. | On March 31, the Russian Ministry of Defense released video footage showing a Fropost-R combat drone in action over the special military operation zone in Ukraine. | In a brief statement, the ministry said that the drone detected a convoy of Kiev forces then participated in the attack on the convoy with high-precision weapons. | The Forpost-R is a modernized variant of the original Forpost drone, which is…
(2023-03-31). German leftist lawmaker says US soldiers and nukes must leave her country. geopoliticaleconomy.com 
On the floor of Germany's parliament, Left Party MP Sevim Dağdelen called for the c. 38,000 US soldiers in her country to leave, and to take their nuclear weapons with them. She lamented that Washington "doesn't actually want allies, just loyal vassals".
(2023-03-31). Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at the UNSC on the Deployment of Russian Nuclear Weapons in Belarus. libya360.wordpress.com Mr.President, We thank Ms.Nakamitsu for the briefing. Today we heard quite a number of critical remarks addressed to Russia. According to our former Western partners, Russia is to blame for all calamities of the modern world, but this logic no longer surprises us. However since we are speaking about serious matters that have implications for…
(2023-03-31). Dangerous Crossroads: US to Withhold Nuclear Weapons Data From Russia as Last Treaty Collapses. globalresearch.ca