(2022-05-03). Europe subjugated, NATO shifts from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com CGTNApril 29, 2022 'Defensive' NATO destabilizes Pacific for U.S. hegemony Japan — an Asian country that surrendered in World War II — will attend a summit by North Atlantic Treaty Organization — a Western military bloc established during the Cold War era — in late June, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced this week. …
(2022-05-03). In Videos: New Details On War In Ukraine From Ukrainian Servicemen And Foreign Fighter. southfront.org
(2022-05-03). Biden administration sets up Disinformation Governance Board ahead of 2022 elections. wsws.org The Department of Homeland Security has announced the creation of a secretive Disinformation Governance Board as part of the US imperialist effort to control the anti-Russian narrative of the war in Ukraine during the 2022 elections.
(2022-05-03). 'We Killed Innocent People': Retired Colombian Army Officials Confess to Murdering Civilians. orinocotribune.com 
By Tanya Wadhwa — Apr 29, 2022 | Ten retired soldiers and one civilian admit to kidnapping and murdering 120 innocent peasants, framing them as left-wing guerrilla fighters killed in combat | Ten retired members of the Colombian Military Forces confessed to kidnapping and murdering over one hundred civilians, them framing them to authorities as left-wing guerrilla fighters killed in combat during counterinsurgency operations in the 2000s. The admissions were made during public hearings organized by the Recognition of Truth Body of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in the Norte de Santander department…
(2022-05-03). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Protests in Bogota demanded that the right wing regime of Ivan Duque cease its repressive polices while hundreds of Teamster members in at the giant Sysco Corporation warehouse in Maryland walked out over working conditions and time off.
(2022-05-03). A remarkable memoir about the early Soviet Union and Stalinism: The life of Alexei Yarotsky. wsws.org The Soviet engineer wrote his memoirs in the 1970s of experiencing the October Revolution, the Civil War and the Great Terror.
(2022-05-03). Pelosi pledges war "until victory is won" wsws.org The pledge by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi amounts to an unlimited commitment of treasure and blood to the pursuit of sweeping, open-ended war aims that threatens to draw the United States into what US President Joe Biden called "world war."
(2022-05-03). Amazon workers: Loss in second warehouse won't stop us. peoplesworld.org 
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—Losing the union recognition vote at the second, smaller Amazon warehouse which the independent Amazon Labor Union targeted won't stop their organizing drive, its leaders say. Indeed, they add, they're planning for representing the 8,300 workers in the monster retailer's JFK8 warehouse, where they won convincingly weeks before—and they will be hosting a …
(2022-05-03). PSL Statement: Supreme Court declares war on women and abortion rights — Take to the streets! liberationnews.org 
A heroic individual has leaked to the public the decision by the Supreme Court to end abortion rights by overturning the Roe v Wade decision, and the earlier Casey decision.
(2022-05-03). War Realities, Top Gun Romantics, Mercenaries, the reality of a wall socket. thesaker.is Please visit Andrei's website: smoothiex12.blogspot.com/ and support him here: www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=60459185…
(2022-05-03). Queen and king set out on the chessboard. thesaker.is When a broken empire warns that "geopolitics is back", we all know what means Translated for the Saker Blog from the original text in Portuguese from Geopol.pt It is clear…
(2022-05-02). A Nordic Initiative for Peace in Ukraine and Lasting World Peace. transcend.org Oslo, 27 April, 2022 – The war in Ukraine once again shows that the world is like a city with brutal gangs constantly roaming the streets, looting and fighting with loads of heavy weapons. No one will ever feel safe in such a city. The same applies at the international level. No amount of weaponry can make us safe. No country will be safe until also neighboring countries can feel safe. The present international system is broken; to avoid future wars we need deep reforms.
(2022-05-02). How Could the U.S. Help to Bring Peace to Ukraine? transcend.org 28 Apr 2022 – As the chances for an early peace in Ukraine slip away and Western policymakers openly seek to prolong the war in order to weaken Russia, how the United States could instead help to bring peace to Ukraine.
(2022-05-02). China reiterates call for peace between Russia, Ukraine through talks. ecns.cn China has always supported Russia and Ukraine to overcome difficulties and continue negotiations, and welcomes all efforts by the international community conducive to promoting peace talks," Zhao said.
(2022-05-02). An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm. transcend.org 25 Apr 2022 – Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Old Propaganda, New Cold War…
(2022-05-02). The Second Level Geopolitical War in Ukraine Takes Over. transcend.org 30 Apr 2022 – The recent acknowledgement that U.S. goals are secondarily related to the wellbeing of Ukraine, and primarily by the dangerously regressive goals of taking on challengers to the unipolarity, which has guided U.S. grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.
(2022-05-02). Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Continue to Seize on Russia's War in Ukraine to Push Long-Term Interests. transcend.org 25 Apr 2022 – The unfolding crisis is now a common–and effective–talking point for corporate interest groups seeking regulatory relief.
(2022-05-02). UK Calls for a 'Global NATO'. transcend.org The world order created after the Second World War and the Cold War isn't working anymore, so the West needs "a global NATO", UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss argued on 27 Apr 2022. She says a 'global NATO' needs to arm Taiwan, like Ukraine.
(2022-05-02). United Nations Secretary General Holds Talks on Ukraine War. scheerpost.com 
An image taken from video released by the Russian military on Wednesday showing the launch of a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile during a test at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia. | By Abayomi Azikiwe / UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres traveled on April 28 to the Russian Federation holding high-level talks with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. | The topic of the discussions centered on the two-months long Russian military intervention…
(2022-05-02). Hedges: The Age of Self-Delusion. scheerpost.com 
"Portion Control." [Original illustration by Mr. Fish] | By Chris Hedges | Original to ScheerPost | Blinded by what Barbara Tuchman calls "the bellicose frivolity of senile empires," we are marching ominously towards war with Russia. How else might we explain Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's public declaration that the US goal is to "weaken Russia" and Joe Biden's request for another $33 billion in "emergency" military and economic aid (half of what Russia spent on its military in 2021) for Ukraine? | The same cabal of generals and politicians that drained the state of trillions of dollars in the debacles i…
(2022-05-02). The NATO To TikTok Pipeline. popularresistance.org Culver City, California — As the bloody conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate, so does the online propaganda war between Russia and the West. A prime example of this is the White House directly briefing influencers on popular social media app TikTok about the war and how to cover it. As the crisis spirals out of control, Americans have turned to TikTok to view real time videos and analysis of the invasion. With the app estimated to have around 70 million U.S. users, the White House is keenly aware of its impact. "We recognize this is a critically important avenue in the way the American public is findin…
(2022-05-02). The Different Ways That US And Chinese Governments Use Their Power. popularresistance.org Russia's war on Ukraine both reflects and deepens a global split that should remind us of Karl Marx's famous remark: "No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces, for which there is room in it, have been developed; and new higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society." The United Kingdom already lost its particular social order—its empire—while the United States is now losing its. | Despite differences, both of these social orders shared a mostly private form of capitalist relations of pro…
(2022-05-02). Ukraine: The American Tyranny Of Power. popularresistance.org The history of the US intelligence operations goes back to World War II. Stephen Bandera was released from prison by OSS officers in 1944. Bandera was a Nazi operative whose militia slaughtered Poles, Jews and communist workers on the eastern front. The OSS/CIA recruited Bandera so he could fight the advancing Soviet Union. In all the years since then, the CIA has never had an annual audit of its trillion dollar budget, and of course nothing has changed. | Just over ten years ago the CIA initiated its National Endowment for Democracy (NED) "Orange Revolution" to once more cravenly attempt to thwart the Russians,…
(2022-05-02). Czech progressives slam plans to permanently deploy US military in the country. peoplesdispatch.org In the backdrop of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, ministers of the Czech Republic have been indicating their intention to negotiate with the US on the presence of a base in the country…
(2022-05-02). Poseidon: One of the Weapons of the Russian Federation. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara In a speech in St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that "if someone intends to intervene from outside in the ongoing events in Ukraine, creating unacceptable threats to us, he should know that our response to counterattacks will be lightning fast". The Russian Federation president stressed that he possesses "instruments (weapons) that…
(2022-05-02). Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Lee visit Ukraine, Poland to strengthen NATO alliance. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioMay 2, 2022 Polish president talks Ukraine with top US lawmaker Duda hosted Pelosi at the presidential palace in Warsaw…. Pelosi was accompanied by a Congressional delegation that included Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, Barbara Lee of California and Jason Crow of Colorado, according to officials. "We are happy with this visit, which comes …
(2022-05-02). At NATO's behest, Japan continues to pressure ASEAN members against Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Associated PressMay 1, 2022 Japanese, Vietnamese leaders reject use of force in Ukraine Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida discussed the war in Ukraine with Vietnamese leaders on Sunday and said they agreed on the respect for international law and rejection of the use of force. Japan has condemned Russia's invasion and joined Western nations in …
(2022-05-02). Nazis and The Beast: The Arrest of Gonzalo Lira. covertactionmagazine.com Are American journalists collaborating with Nazi terrorists to silence dissent? There is another war going on in Ukraine. A war …
(2022-05-02). Ukrainian government continues campaign of domestic oppression. wsws.org The NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is accompanied by campaign of domestic political repression.
(2022-05-02). Pelosi pledges "victory" in Kiev, Republicans back dispatch of troops, hint use of nuclear weapons. wsws.org Washington continued at full tilt into an all-out war with Russia over the weekend, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Kiev, Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger proposed to send US troops to Ukraine, and Republican congressman Michael McCaul raised the prospect of the United States using nuclear weapons against Russia.
(2022-05-02). Everyone's anti-war until the war propaganda starts. mronline.org 
Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they're spouting the slogans they've been programmed to spout and waving the flags the flags they've been programmed to wave and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants in that moment.
(2022-05-02). Peace Portraits: Pathways to Nonkilling. transcend.org 29 Apr 2022 – The Center for Global Nonkilling has just released its latest book, co-published with Creighton University, which artfully explores the intersection between faith, ethics and politics in modern times.
(2022-05-02). "Peace": Are Religions the Cause of Peace Disruption in Humanoids? (Part 3). transcend.org Oh, you warring Humanoids, pray to the Lord rather than the religious rituals.
(2022-05-02). The Global Suicide Budget. transcend.org In 2021, the human race, in order to keep itself safe, invested $2.1 trillion in the ability to make war — to kill one another, even to end life altogether. We live counter to our deepest values in order to, as Obama put it, "upheld our highest traditions." Or something like that. The bullets fly in all directions. Sometimes they hit the soul.
(2022-05-02). The Russian Prince Turned Anarchist and Pioneering Scientist Peter Kropotkin's Advice to the Young. transcend.org The Art of Putting Your Talent in the Service of the World – "Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic."
(2022-05-02). Those Who Face Record Heat Wave in India and Pakistan Did Not Create the Crisis. truthout.org We speak with a leading Indian climate scientist about the punishing heat wave that produced the hottest weather ever recorded in April for India and Pakistan. Temperatures have climbed above 110 degrees Fahrenheit, causing power outages, school closures, crop damage and health warnings. Scientists link the early onset of the region's intense summer to the climate crisis and say more than 1 billion people may be impacted by more frequent and longer heat waves. "We are expected to and already seeing longer and more intense heat waves that are more frequent across the Indian subcontinent because of anthropogenic cl…
(2022-05-02). Labor Leaders Vow United Front Against Amazon Amid New Warehouse Union Election. truthout.org UPDATE: Workers at the LDJ5 Amazon sorting center voted 618-380 against unionization, according to a Monday tally by the National Labor Relations Board. There were no contested ballots. Sixty-one percent of eligible workers turned out to vote. Amazon Labor Union Attorney Seth Goldstein
(2022-05-02). Cuba Sounds Alarm Over UN Suspension Clause. towardfreedom.org Several countries have taken to the General Assembly to warn against the suspension mechanism, which was used to oust Russia from the Human Rights Council on April 7, when a resolution was adopted in the General Assembly despite only being supported by a minority of United Nations member states, reports Kawsachun News.
(2022-05-02). Military Situation In Iraq On May 2, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org 
(2022-05-02). 90 Men Were Sent To Bloodbath — Ukrainian Prisoner Of War. southfront.org
(2022-05-02). Samidoun statement on smear campaigns targeting Palestinian liberation and anti-Palestinian racism in Canada. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network condemns in the strongest terms the smear campaign targeting Palestinian Canadian leftist writer and community organizer Khaled Barakat as well as the work of Samidoun, by the right-wing National Post, intentionally forwarding the agenda of pro-Israel lobby organizations in Canada. It is clear that this is not a random attack; …
(2022-05-02). 'You've Got To Shut It Down': Lessons From Wisconsin's 2011 Worker Uprising. popularresistance.org Wisconsin – With the passage of Act 10 in 2011, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, Republican Gov. Scott Walker declared war on the labor movement in general and on public sector workers specifically. Act 10 was a hammer blow that essentially stripped collective bargaining rights from public sector workers, made it much more difficult for workers to organize, and forced unions to take massive concessions on healthcare, retirement benefits, and much more. Soon after, in 2015, Walker signed legislation that turned Wisconsin into a "right to work" state, issuing another blow to unions in a state once he…
(2022-05-02). How Border Deployment Led To Union Organizing In Texas. popularresistance.org When a group of Texas workers started discussing job problems and what to do about them a few months ago, their list of complaints would have been familiar to Starbucks baristas, Amazon warehouse staff, or restive young journalists at new and old media outlets. | With little notice, their employer changed work schedules and transferred employees to a new job location. Some of those adversely affected applied for hardship waivers, based on family life disruption, but many requests were denied. Meanwhile, access to a major job benefit—tuition assistance—was sharply curtailed. Even paychecks were no long…
(2022-05-02). Why nonalignment is an urgent imperative for the Global South. peoplesdispatch.org As the US escalates its new cold war against Russia and China, there is now an urgent imperative to reject this cold war mentality of wanting to divide the world along old acrimonious lines…
(2022-05-02). Chavismo Commemorates 3 Years since Failed Coup Led by Guaidó and López (Photos). orinocotribune.com 
This Saturday, April 30, three years after the People's Victory Day against the failed coup, which took place on the same day in 2019, was commemorated. From the Altamira bridge, Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), pointed out that, "today we can shout to the world that traitors will never return to Venezuela again." | During his speech, from the same place where the extreme right, led by former deputy Juan Guaidó and fugitive Leopoldo López, tried to carry out a coup against President Nicolás Maduro Moros, Cabello warned that "if today the Venezuelan oppositi…
(2022-05-02). Reflections on the Sri Lankan economic crisis. mronline.org 
The American establishment and the new cold-warriors of that country put the blame on the Sri Lankan government's developing close economic relations with China (and we shall no doubt hear much more of it in the coming days); others blame the sheer "irresponsibility" of the government which is accused of "sleeping" when Sri Lanka's external debt was building up.
(2022-05-02). Black Support For Biden And Democrats Collapses Double Digits Before Midterms. moguldom.com There's more bad polling news for President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. Support from Black voters has fallen by double digits, according to a new CNN poll. This does not bode well for Dems in the critical midterm elections. Back in 2021, Sen. Cory Booker warned that the Democrats would need the Black vote to win …
(2022-05-02). Queen Latifah Goes Back Home To Newark To Build A New Affordable Housing Development. moguldom.com Actress, hip-hop icon, and entrepreneur Dana "Queen Latifah" Owens has gone back to her hometown of Newark, New Jersey, to build affordable housing. On April 26, Queen Latifah joined Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at a groundbreaking ceremony for Rise Living, a 76-unit housing development. Rise Living will transform several properties along 19th Avenue, South 16th …
(2022-05-02). Afghanistan Braces for New War. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. BHADRAKUMAR There is media buzz lately about an anti-Taliban insurgency struggling to be born in Afghanistan. A former Afghan army general, Sami Sadat, is returning home as the West's favourite to don the mantle of leadership of a pan-Afghan "resistance" movement against repressive Taliban rule. There is a lot of infighting amongst marginalised…