Daily Archives: May 6, 2023

2023-05-06: News Headlines

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez (2023-05-06). La centralidad de los migrantes en el estudio de los procesos de movilidad humana transfronteriza. globalizacion.ca En el contexto del desarrollo del neoliberalismo y como parte de los procesos de expansión espacial de la globalización, las migraciones internacionales han sido una de las expresiones de los procesos de desigualdad y exclusión social del capitalismo contemporáneo. | Las…

Colin Todhunter (2023-05-06). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Jorge Alemán (2023-05-05). Después del Capitalismo, øqué? globalizacion.ca Lo que le otorga al capitalismo actual su apariencia indestructible es la manera en que pudo conjugar para su propio beneficio distintos factores heterogéneos. Se podría decir que fue en el capitalismo posfordista donde se hizo efectiva definitivamente esta realidad….

Natylie Baldwin (2023-05-05). Taking the Capitalist Road Was the Wrong Choice For Ukraine, Says Ukraine Expert. covertactionmagazine.com Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist. Throughout the 1990s he reported from Moscow for Green Left Weekly of Sydney. This past year, he published The Catastrophe of Ukrainian Capitalism: How Privatisation Dispossessed & Impoverished the Ukrainian People with Resistance Books. In April, I had an email exchange with Clarke. Below is the transcript. Natylie Baldwin: You …

Fight Back (2023-05-05). Freedom Road Socialist Organization Twin Cities celebrates International Workers Day 2023. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Saturday, April 29, over 100 activists from mass movements around the Twin Cities area came together at the office of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Education Support Professionals Local 59 to celebrate International Workers Day, and another year in struggle across the movements in the streets, and the movement for socialism. The location was fitting for such an event because the Teachers and Educators in Minneapolis Public Schools spent more than three weeks on strike only one year ago. The room was packed and boisterous. The speeches were lively. The night closed with a performa…

Ben Norton, Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-05-06). Four US Banks Crash In Two Months. popularresistance.org I'm Ben Norton, and this is Geopolitical Economy Report. Today, I have the pleasure of being joined by Michael Hudson, the brilliant economist and author of many books. | Michael is also the co-host of a program here, Geopolitical Economy Hour, which he does every two weeks with friend of the show Radhika Desai. | I had Michael on in March to discuss the collapse of three U.S. banks in just one week — that was Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank. | Yet the crisis has continued since then, and I knew I needed to bring back Michael to talk about the latest developments. | In just two mont…

Editor (2023-05-05). First Republic Bank: The Second Largest Crash in History, Another Example of Bailout. scheerpost.com First Republic Bank, holding USD 233 billion in assets, collapsed and was sold to banking giant JP Morgan Chase. First Republic is the third bank to fail in the US since March, surpassing the spectacular failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10.

Ben Norton, Michael Hudson (2023-05-05). 4 US banks crash in 2 months: Banking crisis explained by economist Michael Hudson. geopoliticaleconomy.com Economist Michael Hudson discusses the collapse of four US banks in two months, giant JP Morgan Chase taking over First Republic Bank, and how government regulators are in bed with the bankers.

WSWS (2023-05-06). Stronger than expected US jobs report increases pressure for further interest rate hikes. wsws.org Despite the 3.4 percent official unemployment rate, social distress is growing and impelling a continuing upsurge of class struggle.

F. William Engdahl (2023-05-06). The "Great Zero Carbon" Conspiracy and the WEF's "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of "net zero carbon" by 2050. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, are setting the stage for creation of what is called the New Word Order. In reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization and economic collapse.

Dean Baker (2023-05-05). Unemployment Is at a Half-Century Low as Economy Adds 253,000 Jobs in April. truthout.org This was a generally solid jobs report, with the economy adding 253,000 jobs in April. However, there were sharp downward revisions to both the February and March jobs numbers, of 78,000 and 71,000, respectively. Taken together, the April figure is just 104,000 higher than the number previously reported for March. The household survey also showed a very positive picture… |

Lucrecia Franco (2023-05-05). Brazil's Embraer eyes on innovation at the Web Summit. america.cgtn.com At Web Summit's first conference outside of Europe, Brazil's Embraer, the world's third largest producer of civil aircraft, after Boeing and Airbus, is showcasing its performance in the tech ecosystem through its disruptive innovation subsidiary: Embraer X.

unitedEditor (2023-05-06). One step further in the Ukrainian War: "We are on the brink" uwidata.com History books will write: "On 3 May 2023, the Kremlin was attacked by drones to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin." In French, the phrase "table rase" is used for the 1789 Revolution. Instead of translating it literally, rather one could explain it as the moment when everything is reset, a new beginning after the destruction, …

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-05-06). Rusia responderá con medidas concretas a los ataques al Kremlin. telesurtv.net "Ni siquiera pensaría en el nombre o los términos aquí. Esto fue claramente un acto hostil", señaló Lavrov.

teleSUR Desk (2023-05-05). Ukraine tried to attack the Kremlin with drones. mronline.org Despite what happened, the military parade on Red Square will go ahead as planned, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-05). Attack on the Kremlin: Acceleration in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara López The Russian presidential press service reported on Wednesday, May 3, that "the Kiev regime attempted to attack the Kremlin residence using two drones", an action carried out on the night of May 2. The Russian authorities pointed out that "the drones were deactivated" by the security systems of the special forces, and…

Moms, Grannies (2023-05-06). Saturday 5/13: Protest to Demand a Ban on Assault Weapons. indybay.org Intersection El Camino Real and Embarcadero | (near Town and Country Center) | Palo Alto, CA…

Jim Naureckas, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2023-05-06). Action Alert: False NYT Spy Claim On Iran Nukes Needs Correction. popularresistance.org The New York Times (5/1/23), reporting on Iran's execution of British spy Alireza Akbari, reported: | The spy had provided valuable information — and would continue to do so for years — intelligence that would prove critical in eliminating any doubt in Western capitals that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons. | This is not correct; as FAIR has often pointed out (FAIR.org, 10/17/17, 9/9/15, 9/24/13; 1/31/13; Extra!, 3—4/08), the position of US intelligence is that it has no proof Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon. As the US State Department reiterated in April 2022: | The United States co…

Palestine Action. (2023-05-06). 33 Arrests; The Siege Continues Despite Police Repression. popularresistance.org An unprecedented 33 arrests were made yesterday at the site of the Palestine Action siege, as Leicestershire Police took disproportionate measures using unjustifiable force against individuals who had turned out in opposition to Israel's arms trade. The siege continues into its third day, a mass mobilisation against the UAV Tactical Systems drone factory in Leicester — owned by Israel's largest weapons company, Elbit Systems. | Leicestershire Police, having witnessed the speeches, workshops, dance, and community mobilisation that have characterised The Siege thus far, stepped in with all of the force at the…

infobrics (2023-05-05). US to set up military bases in Finland. infobrics.org If Helsinki and Washington DC were to go ahead with such plans, it would be the first case that a country has hosted even American nuclear weapons after the end of the (First) Cold War. The same goes for Poland, whose insistence on having nuclear weapons deployed on its territory has already pushed Russia to deploy its own tactical warheads in Belarus.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-05). Ukrainian banker offers cash to weapons manufacturers and Star Wars actor is recruited to promote drone terror in Russia. expose-news.com Days before a failed drone assassination targeting Putin, Ukrainian banking baron Volodymyr Yatsenko offered a $500,000 bounty to any weapons maker able to land a drone in Red Square during Moscow's upcoming …

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