Daily Archives: April 1, 2022

2022-04-01: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2022-04-01). U.S. reaps huge benefits from Ukraine crisis. ecns.cn The Ukraine crisis has entered its second month, causing massive casualties among Russian and Ukraine soldiers and civilians while creating over 4 million refugees. China, the EU, France, Germany, Turkey, Israel and others have been working hard to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiation table.

teleSUR, mcs, MER (2022-04-01). Registran reducción de pobreza al 37,3 % en Argentina durante 2021. telesurtv.net La institución registró que el 8,2 por ciento de la población se mantiene debajo de la línea de indigencia.

WSWS (2022-04-01). Wealth bonanza for Australia's billionaires continues as the pandemic rages. wsws.org Australian billionaires added more than $50 billion to their coffers over the past year, amid a surge of COVID, wage suppression and a cost-of-living crisis.

_____ (2022-04-01). Ukraine: Afghanistan Model For The Consolidation Of The Global White Supremacist Movement. popularresistance.org Hilary Clinton declared during a February 28, 2022 interview with MSNBC that the model for Ukraine should be Afghanistan where the U.S. armed the Afghan mujahideen as part of the U.S. strategy to create a "Vietnamese quagmire ." For Clinton and some elements of the foreign policy community, it is of little concern that the training and real-world military experience and political networking that resulted from bringing radical right-wing Islamicist together created al-Qaeda, the Taliban and later ISIS. | But for African and other colonized people on the receiving end of the U.S. and Western self-centered and oppor…

_____ (2022-04-01). Millions Strike In India Against Modi Government's Policies. popularresistance.org The last two years have seen a further deterioration of the living standards of working people in India due to the pandemic and the lack of enough policy interventions by the Modi government. | Around 200 million industrial workers, employees, farmers and agricultural laborers observed a two-day general strike in India on March 28 and 29. The strike is a challenge by working people to the far-right Narendra Modi government as well as a fight to save the people's future and save the country.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). Mayo Clinic earns highest score on LGBTQ Health Equality Index survey. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Florida and Rochester earned 100 —the highest score possible —on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Health Equality Index survey. These locations have been recognized as "Leaders in LGBTQ+ Healthcare" for 2022. With numerous different locations as a factor, Mayo Clinic Health System did not participate. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the largest civil rights organization in the U.S., working to achieve equality for LGBTQ people. The Foundation uses its…

WSWS (2022-04-01). Health care workers denounce scapegoating of Nashville 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.

WSWS (2022-04-01). Australia: Striking New South Wales nurses call for unified struggle by all health workers. wsws.org "I was working during the first strike, but nothing has changed since then. There should have been ambulance workers and other health workers here. We are all copping it the same way."

WSWS (2022-04-01). Australian respiratory scientist speaks to the Global Workers' Inquest. wsws.org "Working in a chronic healthcare environment, I deal with comorbidities every day. It's not an excuse to just allow people to die early because they have an illness."

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-01). Dock workers in Genoa protest transit of arms through their port. peoplesdispatch.org Working class formations in Italy have mobilized on numerous occasions to block the transit of arms through Italian ports and airstrips and protest the complicity of the Italian government in imperialist wars.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-01). An Autopsy: How the Organized Left Got Covid Wrong, Learned to Love Lockdowns and Lost its Mind. libya360.wordpress.com Christian Parenti It is hard to destroy your own cause and feel righteous while doing so, yet the American left has done it. After more than two centuries at the vanguard of the struggle for freedom, the American left, broadly defined, executed a volte face and embraced anti-working-class policies marketed as purely technical public health…

_____ (2022-04-01). From Minneapolis To Sacramento: Teachers Teach Us How To Fight Back. popularresistance.org Teachers have taken the lead in the fight against inflation, precarious working conditions, racist education systems, and the lack of resources for public education in America. This time it is the Sacramento teachers who have been on strike for a week. | Three years ago, these same teachers in Sacramento staged a 24-hour walkout to defend the contract that education officials signed in 2019 but refused to honor. The walkout culminated in a rally at the district building where thousands of educators accompanied by the community gathered to demand that the district honor the contract. | Perhaps inspired by combativ…

_____ (2022-04-01). History Rounds Off Skeletons To Zero. popularresistance.org On 16 March 2022, as Russia's war on Ukraine entered its second month, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev warned his people that 'uncertainty and turbulence in the world markets are growing, and production and trade chains are collapsing'. A week later, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released a brief study on the immense shock that will be felt around the world due to this war. 'Soaring food and fuel prices will have an immediate effect on the most vulnerable in developing countries, resulting in hunger and hardship for households who spend the highest share of their inc…

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-31). Pentagon pushes Slovakia to transfer S-300 missile systems to Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Defense NewsMarch 30, 2022 Will Slovakia send Ukraine S-300 air defenses? The Pentagon is working on it. A top Pentagon official told lawmakers Wednesday the Biden administration is working to accommodate NATO ally Slovakia's offer to send more S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Ukraine, following Russia's invasion. Slovakia has agreed to provide Ukraine with the …

Christian Parenti (2022-03-31). How the organized Left got Covid wrong, learned to love lockdowns and lost its mind: an autopsy. thegrayzone.com It is hard to destroy your own cause and feel righteous while doing so, yet the American left has done it. After more than two centuries at the vanguard of the struggle for freedom, the American left, broadly defined, executed a volte face and embraced anti-working-class policies marketed as purely technical public health measures. For two years the left has championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and …

WSWS (2022-03-31). Illinois State University workers authorize strike, while Champaign teachers union reaches deal to avert walkout. wsws.org Many of the campus workers at ISU live in poverty-level conditions, with a starting pay rate barely above $13 per hour, less than that offered at some fast food chains.

_____ (2022-03-31). Document: An Act For The Abolition Of Slavery, 1833. popularresistance.org Just last week a white couple, William and Kate, went on a Caribbean cruise. Smiling, carefree people, they were surprised by the intense hostility and the relentless contempt they received from the dark-skinned natives. William, not incidentally, is the grandson of a woman named Elizabeth. Elizabeth has claimed — and for many years, few disputed the claim — that her full name is "Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." Her "realms and territories" inc…

Editor2 (2022-03-31). Argentina, the IMF and the Big Debt. orinocotribune.com By Gustavo A. Maranges — Mar 27, 2022 | Sometimes we make decisions only thinking about the immediate situation, while forgetting the repercussions they may have in the next 5-10 years. We think that it will all just work itself out. We tend to be optimistic at best, but the reality is that we are inconsistent. When it comes to the decision of an individual, the consequences of that decision rarely affects a considerable amount of people. However, when it comes to that of the government of a country, a single measure can change the lives of millions for generations to come. | Argentina is a country that know…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-31). 200 Million Strike in India Against Right-Wing Narendra Modi Government's Policies. towardfreedom.org Living standards of India's working people have deteriorated because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government's lack of sufficient policy interventions during the pandemic, People's Dispatch reports.

WSWS (2022-03-31). 1,300 copper mine workers in Utah prepare for struggle against Rio Tinto. wsws.org Mine workers in Utah, who have risked their lives during the pandemic, are prepared to fight for higher wages, better benefits and safe working conditions.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-31). NATO concludes 30-nation strike force exercise in Norway. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOAllied Air CommandMarch 31, 2022 Exercise Cold Response 22 accomplishes goals with Allies and Partners Norway has hosted NATO Allies and Partners during Cold Response 22, which is the largest exercise in Europe consisting of Air, Land, and Sea forces working together in a multi-domain, arctic environment. Cold Response is scheduled to conclude on April …

WSWS (2022-03-31). Defeat Sri Lankan regime's brutal austerity measures! Fight for socialist policies. wsws.org The working class must mobilise its industrial and political strength and rally the rural poor to fight for a workers' and peasants' government to implement socialist policies.

Stansfield Smith (2022-03-31). Why Many Progressives Misrepresented and Condemned the Ottawa Trucker Protest. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith — Mar 27, 2022 | Canada's "Freedom Convoy" began with protesting rules implemented in January by the Canadian and later the US governments requiring truck drivers to be fully vaccinated to enter their country. It snowballed into a demonstration against dysfunctional coronavirus restrictions. The Ottawa trucker protesters demanded: No Lockdowns, No Mandates, No Vaccine Passports, and if not, that Trudeau resign. | Working people are increasingly angry at the failures of the neoliberal regimes in Canada and the US to meet our needs. Unfortunately, we on the left are not positioned to effect…

Editor (2022-03-31). The deception of Crisis Pregnancy Centers. mronline.org CPCs are often strategically located in working class and oppressed communities as close to real abortion clinics as possible in order to cause confusion and to mislead many women who seek their services.

Dean Baker (2022-03-31). Wages Up by $1.2 Trillion Since Biden Takes Office, $9,400 per Household. cepr.net If we hear more stories of hardship now, it is because of the decision by the media to give us more stories of hardship. It's a bit like reporting on a rise in homelessness in an area, without mentioning that much of the housing stock had been wiped out by a hurricane.

VINS (2022-03-31). Indigenous Communities Using Data Sovereignty To Solve Food Insecurity. projectcensored.org The pandemic has compounded a host of systemic issues in the United States, including food insecurity in Indian Country. In an interview for High Country News, Brian Oaster spoke with…

Amy Goodman (2022-03-31). European Anti-Migrant Policies Gave Rise to Horrific Refugee Jails in Libya. truthout.org Image Credit: Sally Hayden | Western countries have opened their doors to millions of Ukrainians fleeing the war in their homeland, presenting a model of how refugees should be welcomed. But their experience stands in stark contrast to how African refugees are treated when attempting to reach Europe to escape war, hunger and despair. In her new book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route, author Sally Hayden details how a single message from an Eritrean refugee held in a Libyan detention center led her on a years-long journey to document the human rights disaster on E…

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