(2022-04-04). New witness testimony about Mariupol maternity hospital 'airstrike' follows pattern of Ukrainian deceptions, media malpractice. thegrayzone.com A key witness to the widely publicized incident at the Mariupol maternity hospital has punctured the official narrative of a Russian airstrike on the facility, and raised serious questions about Western media ethics. Meanwhile, news of a massacre in the city of Bucha contains suspicious elements. On March 9th, shocking news of a deliberate Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, began spreading widely via social media and news outlets. Fiery condemnation from Western officials, pundits, and …
(2022-04-04). Imperialist powers escalate Ukraine war over allegations of Russian war crimes in Bucha. wsws.org The campaign brings the cynical hypocrisy of the imperialist powers over war crimes to a new level and is being used to significantly escalate the war.
(2022-04-04). US Veteran Who Volunteered to Fight for Ukraine Describes 'Suicide Mission'. orinocotribune.com 
by Alexander Rubinstein — Mar 30, 2022 | An American volunteer for Ukraine tells The Grayzone how his foreign legion tried to use him as cannon fodder. | A decade after Henry Hoeft joined the US Army at age 18, he was back on the battlefield, but this time as a volunteer for a foreign military engaged in a proxy war against a powerful foe. After answering the Ukrainian government's call for foreign fighters this February, however, the American veteran quickly decided he was being sent on a "suicide mission" against the Russian military. | After escaping with his life, claiming his own allies had threatened…
(2022-04-04). Ukraine and the Global Economic War: Is This Barbarism or Civilization? transcend.org The West's actions against Russia since the war in Ukraine could signal an emerging new order that shuns the U.S. for weaponizing the dollar and Western control over the global financial system.
(2022-04-04). Make Peace, Not War, in Ukraine. transcend.org 31 Mar 2022 – There were a series of provocations by NATO that aroused security concerns in Moscow, including the expansion of NATO after the Cold War was over, the threat from the Soviet Union had disappeared, and promises were made by Western leaders to Gorbachev of no further NATO expansion. Such geopolitical behavior amounted to imprudent statecraft by the West,…
(2022-04-04). Ukrainians Could Defeat a Russian Occupation by Scaling Up Unarmed Resistance. transcend.org 28 Mar 2022 – As scholars of nonviolent resistance, we see four key ways Ukrainians can organize and expand the civil resistance that's already happening.
(2022-04-04). The Alarming Rise of Ukraine's Neo-Nazi MPs Since the 2014 "Pro-democracy Revolution" globalresearch.ca Over elapsing time from the February 2014 US-instituted "pro-democracy revolution", an ever expanding group of neo-Nazis has been elected to office in the Ukrainian parliament. Over the past five years of what the Washington Post calls "fledgling democracy"
(2022-04-04). Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present. transcend.org 29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.
(2022-04-04). Venezuela Denounces New Terrorist Plans by Colombia's Iván Duque. orinocotribune.com This Saturday, April 2, President Nicolás Maduro denounced his Colombian counterpart Iván Duque for ordering extremist sectors of the Venezuelan right to deepen their terrorist attacks against the country. | During a phone call with the authorities of the Somos Venezuela movement, the Venezuelan president reported that sectors of the right met in Bogotá and received an order from Duque to deepen the terrorist attacks against public services, before the Colombian president ends his term. | The head of state warned: "Recently, they held a meeting of extremists in Bogotá and received an order from Iván Duque to deep…
(2022-04-04). NATO Day: 12 members in 1949; 30 now with 1 billion people, 3.2 million under arms. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOApril 4, 2022 NATO Day marked across the Alliance Today marks the 73rd anniversary of NATO. Since its foundation on April 4th 1949….Today, the Alliance includes 30 countries and one billion people. ==== The band of brothers and sisters On Monday 4 April 2022, the Chair of the NATO Military Committee sent out a message …
(2022-04-04). Nuland to visit Turkey in trip to rally Europe against Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Hurriyet Daily NewsApril 4, 2022 U.S. undersecretary will visit Turkey amid Russia-Ukraine war U.S. Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland will visit Turkey on April 4 as part of her regional trip, which includes paying visits to France, Greece, Cyprus and Germany between April 2 and 9. Her discussions would aim to further strengthen the …
(2022-04-04). Kids Are Really Worried About the Climate Crisis. independentmediainstitute.org 
Middle school student activists write their elected representatives to urge climate action. By Reynard Loki, Independent Media Institute 17 min read In 2019, Earth | Food | Life writing fellow Lucy Goodchild van Hilten, a science writer and mother of a young child, wrote a piece titled, "How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change." …
(2022-04-04). Vice Premier Sun calls for all-out efforts to curb pandemic in Shanghai. ecns.cn Vice Premier Sun Chunlan urged resolute and swift moves to control the COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai in the shortest time possible during an inspection visit to the city on Saturday.
(2022-04-04). UK workers oppose Facebook's censoring of German Socialist Equality Party's anti-war video. wsws.org "The WSWS provides a lone voice against the pro-war propaganda in the majority of the world's media and, as such, must be defended by all conscious workers and youth."
(2022-04-04). Shellenberger – An IDW Candidate Running for CA Governor. indybay.org An avid supporter of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) is running for governor of California.
(2022-04-04). International day of action mobilizes for freedom for Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net 
On Saturday, 2 April — Georges Abdallah's 71st birthday — people across France and around the world joined in an international day of action to demand the freedom of the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France for over 37 years. Abdallah, the longest-held political prisoner in Europe, has been eligible for release …
(2022-04-04). The U.S. empire uses engineered destabilization to delay its full demise. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Mar 30, 2022 | When it comes to the decline of U.S. hegemony, there are two sides to the story, one hopeful and the other bleak. One pertains to all of the ways that the empire's power is unambiguously diminishing, and to how this is opening the potential for workers democracy to spread to every part of the world. To how Washington has been unable to use its fascist Ukrainian proxy to crush the independence of the Donbass peoples, how Washington's subversion efforts in places like Hong Kong have failed, how the 2019 coup in Bolivia has been reversed, and other such positive developments. Th…
(2022-04-04). March in Paris supports Palestinian resistance and Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net 
At the call of the Coordination to Support the Palestine Resistance in Paris, France, a march in support of the Palestinian resistance was organized from Barbès to République on Saturday, 2 April. A crowd displaying Palestinian flags and numerous banners came out despite the Parisian cold to affirm their support for the Palestinian people and their …
(2022-04-04). Red theory: Dialectics or metaphysics, two methods of analysis. fightbacknews.org In our last article we saw that Marxism-Leninism bases itself on a materialist worldview. But we saw, at the same time, that materialism as it came to be understood with the rise of bourgeois society was still metaphysical in its method of analysis. At this point, let's look at the difference between the metaphysical and dialectical method. Then we can better understand how Karl Marx established the philosophical basis of revolutionary science, dialectical materialism. | Metaphysics is a subject of philosophy that really begins, at least in the West, with Aristotle in ancient Greece, and is intended to look at th…
(2022-04-04). Democrats reject calls to impeach far-right Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. wsws.org Text messages implicating Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in Trump's January 6 conspiracy have exposed flagrant judicial misconduct by her husband, who voted to block access to documents by the congressional committee investigating the coup plot in which his own wife participated.
(2022-04-04). Minnesota: Labor union fights mass termination of unvaccinated workers. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On April 8, Hennepin County Administrator David Hough plans to fire or put on track to terminate over 150 workers for not being vaccinated. While union representatives of AFSCME 2822 are awaiting demographic data, past disciplines suggest the firings will hit workers of color and low wage workers the hardest. | The mass firings come as COVID-19 infections reach historic lows in our communities. the county and state have already rolled back all previously implemented safety measures such as mask mandates, access to free at-home testing and occupancy limits in buildings. | Two Hennepin County unio…
(2022-04-04). United States Colored Troops Congressional Gold Medal Act. indybay.org The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design to the African Americans who served with Union forces during the Civil War, collectively, in recognition of their bravery and outstanding service during the Civil War.
(2022-04-04). Zero Waste Theory is the answer to waste problems. indybay.org Zero Waste Theory can solve many problems of waste, thought to be intractable. It depends on redesigning all items for reuse, instead of for discard as today. Two photos from Costa Rica and France show examples.
(2022-04-04). 2022 California Armed Service Day – Tribute to United States Colored Troops. indybay.org AB 1655, is on the way to an official California Juneteenth Holiday to begin sharing our authentic contribution toward saving the Union while fighting for freedom. In July of 1862, Congress passed the Militia Act of 1862. It had become an "indispensable military necessity" to call on America's African descent population to help save the Union.
(2022-04-04). Vaccine Myocarditis: Mystery Solved? transcend.org 3 Apr 2022 – A Brazilian investigator may have identified the mechanism driving mRNA vaccine myocarditis. And the US CDC finally acknowledges the strongly increased risk in young males.
(2022-04-04). Coastal California Sunflower Is Latest Endangered Species Act Success. indybay.org EUREKA, Calif., March 30, 2022 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today changed the Endangered Species Act status of beach layia, a small sunflower that grows only in California's coastal dunes, reclassifying it from endangered to threatened. The change is due to reduced impacts from offroad vehicles, grazing, and development throughout much of the species' range.
(2022-04-04). Mr. Fish and Chris Hedges Wrote Bob Scheer a Birthday Ballad. scheerpost.com 
The Ballad of Bob & Tracy : | by Chris Hedges & Mr. Fish: | Robert Scheer was born 86 years ago in the Bronx on April 4, 1936. | Dwayne Booth, aka They urge you to Hedges sent in the video with this note: We play two beat poets (beta vulgaris is the Latin name for beetroot), complete with berets, bongo drum solos by Dwa…
(2022-04-04). J'Accuse! The Gene-based "Vaccines" Are Killing People. Governments Worldwide Are Lying to You the People, to the Populations They Purportedly Serve. globalresearch.ca The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the 'Covid' vaccine programme be halted immediately.
(2022-04-04). Young Amazon workers on Staten Island rattle the halls of power. peoplesdispatch.org A closer look at the organizing efforts of the Amazon workers in Staten Island that made history by winning the first ever union in the US at the multi-billion dollar corporation…
(2022-04-04). Gen Z's love of Guochao bodes well for Chinese economy. ecns.cn Wang Junwen thought he could easily snap up a fuzzy Winter Olympics mascot toy at a recent online pre-sale, but all the products were sold out in seconds.
(2022-04-04). Stumping for "America First" Republicans, Trump holds campaign rally in Macomb County, Michigan. wsws.org The threat of fascistic violence permeated the rally, with frequent calls from the crowd to "lock up" Trump's political opponents, including Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessell and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
(2022-04-04). Chinese mainland reports 1,366 new local COVID-19 cases. ecns.cn The Chinese mainland reported 1,366 new locally-transmitted COVID-19 infections on Sunday, the National Health Commission said Monday.
(2022-04-04). Georges Abdallah's statement for 2 April day of action. samidoun.net 
The following statement was released by Georges Abdallah on 2 April 2022 as part of the international day of action for his release that coincided with his 71st birthday. Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine, has been jailed in France since 1984 despite being eligible for release since 1999. Georges Abdallah is part …
(2022-04-04). Over 100 protest outside Lannemezan prison to demand release of Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net 
At the call of Collectif 65 for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah, over 100 demonstrators gathered outside the gates of the Lannemezan prison in France to demand the release of the longest-held political prisoner in Europe. This initiative was organized as part of an international day of mobilization for the release of the imprisoned Lebanese communist. The …
(2022-04-04). Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's Visit to India. journal-neo.org 
It is now possible to be cautiously optimistic about relations between China, India and Japan, which may soon be put on a normal, stable footing — an essential prerequisite if we are to see an improvement in the overall situation in the Indo-Pacific region. That is despite the fact that the recent visit by Japanese …
(2022-04-04). Poland: Ruling party chief invites nuclear weapons, more U.S. troops. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ReutersApril 3, 2022 Poland 'open' to nukes stationed in country amid Russia-Ukraine war — party head Poland would be open to having nuclear weapons stationed in the country…ruling Polish party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in comments published Sunday as Warsaw calls for tougher action against Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. The politician noted that …
(2022-04-04). Venezuela Sends Best Wishes to Muslims for Ramadan. orinocotribune.com Caracas, April 3, 2022 ( Along with the official statement, Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Félix Plasencia wrote: "Happiness and health to all Muslim friends who live in our country, a…
(2022-04-04). "Look to the health care system for being at fault"—Health care workers continue to voice support for victimized nurse, RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health care system.
(2022-04-04). #EarthDay World Naked Bike Ride #WNBRsf2022 #2. indybay.org #WNBRsf2022: Join the Fun! Become A Part of the Annual International World Naked Bike Rides; Celebrate YourSelf, Body Freedom & Liberty; Promote Bike & Transportation Safety & A More Livable Planet For All.
(2022-04-04). Davino Watson, American citizen wrongfully imprisoned by ICE, speaks out against American war drive and calls for elimination of COVID-19. wsws.org Watson, a naturalized American citizen who spent three-and-a-half years fighting an illegal effort by the US government to deport him, spoke to the WSWS aboutthe drive to world war and the need to eliminate COVID-19.
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(2022-04-04). Hinduism — The Secrets of the Vedas. transcend.org "One finds two theorems in modern science which have a profound spiritual echo, wrote in 1926 Sri Aurobindo, India's avatar of the Modern Age: "First that atoms are masses of swirling structures, like the solar system; and then that all the atoms are constituted of the same elements… (read on)…
(2022-04-04). My grandmother's Nakba nightmare. electronicintifada.net Uprooted as children, older Palestinians still wish to return home.
(2022-04-04). (Italiano) Verso un'Abbondanza Frugale. Gaia e l'Umanità : Esperimento in Corso. transcend.org La situazione mondiale è critica: la popolazione umana ha raggiunto la cifra di 8 miliardi, e il suo impatto sul pianeta ha alterato i processi e le dinamiche del nostro pianeta a tal punto, da innescare una trasformazione dell'ecosistema globale.
(2022-04-04). The Cost of War: 23 Million Afghans Suffer Acute Hunger, 95% Don't Eat Enough Food. transcend.org 24 Mar 2022 – Following 20 long years (2001-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, 23 million Afghans now face severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse, unbearable family indebtedness, and devastating humanitarian crisis.
(2022-04-04). Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey sign Trans-Caspian Corridor deal, Russia circumvented. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The MessengerApril 1, 2022 Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Kazakhstan have signed a declaration on the Trans-Caspian East-West Middle Corridor, which aims at strengthening the transit potential of the signatory states According to the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, the declaration underscores the significance of strengthening cooperation and integrating the Trans-Caspian East-West Corridor …
(2022-04-04). Georgian PM faces internal, external attacks for striving to keep nation out of war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaApril 3, 2022 Garibashvili Makes Controversial Remarks on Ukraine, Again The Georgian Prime Minister also vowed to "do everything" to avoid war in Georgia. "We want peace, stability and development, this is what our country needs today, no one needs war, and…any patriotic government must do everything to help the country and its people …
(2022-04-04). Georgia's foreign minister transferred to Washington to accelerate "Euro-Atlantic integration" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rustavi2April 4, 2022 David Zalkaliani is appointed Ambassador of Georgia to the United States Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia David Zalkaliani resigns. According to the Prime Minister, he is appointed Georgian Ambassador to the United States. "Mr. David has tremendous experience. Has served our country for 30 years in various positions in the Ministry …
(2022-04-04). War of the 21st century: Azerbaijan celebrates war, as it does everyday. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com AzernewsApril 4, 2022 April battles: Beginning of historic victory One of the glorious pages in Azerbaijan's Karabakh war history, the 2016 April battles later dubbed the four-day war, bolstered a national soldier's combat spirit and paved the way for the ultimate victory gained by Azerbaijan over Armenia in 2020. *** As a result of four-day …
(2022-04-04). Empeora crisis de adicciones y sobredosis en EEUU por consumo de fentanilo y otros opioides sintéticos. cubadebate.cu Los Gobiernos estatales de Estados Unidos están buscando formas para detener los daños del consumo de fentanilo y otros opioides sintéticos, cuando se sigue intensificando la crisis de adicciones y sobredosis que padece ese país desde hace dos décadas, con un récord de más de 100 000 muertes por esa causa entre abril de 2020 e igual mes de 2021.