(2024-04-26). Russian Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk Ahead of Schedule. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said that cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub completed their spacewalk tasks ahead of schedule, returning to the International Space Station (ISS) two hours earlier than planned. | RELATED: | Their spacewalk lasted 4 hours and 36 minutes. During the spacewalk, Kononenko and Chub brought the radar of the Napor-miniRSA experiment into working condition. | They installed equ…
(2024-04-26). Maryland Governor Signs "Freedom to Read Act" Into Law. truthout.org On Thursday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) enacted HB 0785, known as the Freedom to Read Act, into law, prohibiting libraries that receive state funding from banning books. "Schools should be working to build inclusive environments that reflect the diversity of their student body and community. It is especially critical that state leaders like Governor Moore rise up for policies that foster… |
(2024-04-26). Moving to Universal Health Care, Beginning in the States. counterpunch.org One of the greatest systemic failures in the U.S. is healthcare. Even after the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act: + 26 million Americans, or 7.9% of the population, still lack health insurance. + 51% of working age adults have difficulties affording health insurance. + 38% of working age adults delayed or skipped needed
(2024-04-26). Restaurant Workers Deserve a Living Wage, Too. counterpunch.org 
Growing up, I looked up to my father and aunt, who began restaurant industry careers after immigrating from Eritrea in the 1970s. When I started working, a restaurant job was a natural choice. While I took great pride in my work, I struggled with the conditions. I was often on my feet for 10-12 hour
(2024-04-26). Haiti Response External Fact Sheet January 2024. reliefweb.int 
Country: Haiti | Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees | Please refer to the attached file. | Highlights | The humanitarian crisis in Haiti is marked by a rapid escalation of gang violence, which has compounded the suffering of people already affected by critical levels of food insecurity, poverty and a breakdown in essential services. Whilst tens of thousands are being displaced from their homes, others remain trapped inside gang-controlled neighborhoods, facing very serious protection concerns. | Situation Overview | The UN Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan estimates that 5.5 million Haitians need…
(2024-04-26). Some People Have All the Luck. inequality.org
(2024-04-26). Debt From Above: The Carbon Credit Coup. libya360.wordpress.com Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin Latin America is quietly being forced into a carbon market scheme through regional contractual obligations — enforced by the satellites of a US intelligence-linked firm — which seeks to create an inter-continental "smart grid," erode national and local sovereignty, and link carbon-based life to the debt-based monetary system via a…
(2024-04-26). CSOs Denounce ADB's Draft Safeguards Policy, Call for Immediate Revisions. pressenza.com 
The draft ESF, aimed at updating ADB's safeguards policies, is being met with opposition from civil society groups due to a wide range of critical shortcomings, including: | Lack of Clear Lines of Accountability | Lack of Clarity Related to the Stakeholder Engagement | Lack of Human Rights Approach | Weakened Environmental and Social Protections | Gender Consideration Dilution | Climate Change standards that fail to stand up to climate science | Opaque Financial Intermediary Lending | In light of these grave concerns, the NGO Forum on ADB and the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) together wit…
(2024-04-26). Disaster Management Reference Handbook – Lao PDR (May 2024). reliefweb.int 
Country: Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) | Source: Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance | Please refer to the attached file. | Executive Summary | The Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, with the majority of the population comprised of ethnic Lao people alongside many other minority groups who reside predominantly in the foothills and mountains. While Lao PDR still faces relatively high poverty rates, it has made incredible strides in poverty reduction since the socialist state instituted economi…
(2024-04-26). Higher for longer interest rates hit the global economy. wsws.org Apart from the US, where there are mounting concerns over the levels of government debt, major industrial countries are in grip of a marked economic slowdown.
(2024-04-26). Private firm working on new liquid-fuel rocket. ecns.cn Orienspace, a private space company that makes the world's mightiest solid-propellant carrier rocket, has begun to develop a new, liquid-fuel model, according to the new type's chief designer.
(2024-04-26). One Health approach is the way to go. independent.co.ug 
Veterinarians as Essential Health Workers COMMENT | Dr Jesse Mukisa Mutesasira | In a lay man's language, One health is an approach where many cats chase one rat. The cats consist of a collection of different professionals working under one team to achieve the same set target or solution towards societal health challenges (rat), or …
(2024-04-26). Forced Treatment and Criminalization Won't End Homelessness. progressive.org If the Supreme Court rules against the right of people to sleep outdoors, it would only make homelessness harder to prevent.
(2024-04-26). U.S. household food insecurity a symptom of systemic social inequality: Australian expert. ecns.cn This data is symptomatic of a social settlement that is not meeting the basic expectations of a large proportion of people. The effects are multifarious, including spillover into the global sphere where domestic imbalances play out in attacks on other countries' trade relations and productive capacities, according to Wariwick Powell.
(2024-04-26). Geopolitical conflicts could exacerbate the new international debt crisis, which has already reached the record level of $313,000 billion, according to the IIF. cadtm.org
(2024-04-26). The World Bank saw the debt crisis looming. cadtm.org
(2024-04-26). The debt trap. cadtm.org
(2024-04-26). Northern Gaza heading towards famine as Israel bombs Rafah. newarab.com 
(2024-04-25). #ECSA To build another Europe, activists from the entire continent meet in Marseille. pressenza.com From April 26 to 28, hundreds of social movement activists will converge on Marseille from all | over Europe. Associations, trade unions, NGOs and local collectives want to make the voice of | civil society heard for a social, ecological, pacifist, and democratic Europe, in contrast to the | resurgence of nationalism and authoritarianism in Europe. Workshops, conferences, concerts: | for 3 days, they will be working to unite their forces for future struggles. | What better way to counter the poison of the far right and authoritarian neoliberalism than to strengthen emancipatory alternatives at the European level?