Daily Archives: April 2, 2023

2023-04-02: News Headlines

Isaac Nellist (2023-04-01). Green Left Podcast Ep 5: NSW elections, anti-war protests, strikes in Greece. greenleft.org.au Green Left journalists Isaac Nellist and Ben Radford take you through the latest news from Australia and around the world.

Isaac Nellist (2023-04-01). Podcast Ep 5: NSW elections, anti-war protests, strikes in Greece. greenleft.org.au Green Left journalists Isaac Nellist and Ben Radford take you through the latest news from Australia and around the world.

Creating Peaceful Schools (2023-04-02). Friday 4/21: Contest Deadline for Contra Costa Youth – Art & Writing Challenge 2023. indybay.org Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center | 1035 Carol Lane | Lafayette, CA 94549…

Uniting for Peace (2023-04-02). Thursday 5/18: Inequality and Instability — Peace Based Approach. indybay.org Online event…

Rick Rozoff (2023-04-01). NATO/Israeli-backed Azerbaijani army ready to confront Armenia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian peacekeepers. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azeri Press AgencyApril 1, 2023 Azerbaijani Defence Minister: Nobody can speak to us in menacing tone Nobody can speak to us in a menacing tone, said Azerbaijan's Defence Minister, colonel-general Zakir Hasanov at the official meeting today, APA reports. Commenting on the remarks made by those who cannot accept the successful operations of the Azerbaijan …

Richard Horton (2023-04-01). [Comment] Offline: Here is how we avoid collapse. thelancet.com WHO is celebrating health for all on World Health Day (April 7). The agency's messages are important and familiar—that all people deserve good health in a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world; that health is an essential human right; and that universal health coverage is the means to that end. No one could argue with WHO's intentions. But there is an important missing truth. The planet and the life it nurtures are under threat from our own greed, exploitation, and mendacity. Unless the dangers humans have created are addressed, health for all will be nothing more than whimsical fantasy.




Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute For Social Research. (2023-04-01). China's Historical Destiny Is To Stand With The Third World. popularresistance.org On 20 March 2023, China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin spent over four hours in private conversation. According to official statements after the meeting, the two leaders talked about the increasing economic and strategic partnership between China and Russia — including building the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline — and the Chinese peace initiative for the war in Ukraine. Putin said that 'many of the provisions of the peace plan put forward by China are consonant with Russian approaches and can be taken as the basis for a peaceful settlement when the West and Kiev are ready fo…

WSWS (2023-04-01). Hungarian PM warns EU may discuss sending "peacekeeping" troops to Ukraine. wsws.org Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the first leader of a NATO country to publicly raise the prospect of the deployment of troops from NATO countries into Ukraine.

Yuko Nagasaka (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Japan's role for a peaceful and healthier world. thelancet.com I read Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Comment about Japan's vision for the G7 Hiroshima Summit with great interest.1 However, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also published Comments before the G7 Ise-Shima Summit.

Staff (2023-04-02). Former PDVSA Executives Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos Declared Not Guilty of All Charges, Granted Full Freedom. orinocotribune.com Two former executives of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos, have been declared not guilty of all charges against them and the house arrest order against them has been lifted. | In February 2021, the two PDVSA executives were sentenced to five years in prison, for the crime of "disclosure, reservation or supply of information," after they had reported about financial crimes in PDVSA that were very similar to those unveiled recently, although those complaints involved some other top executives. The Venezuelan judiciary finally granted Torrealba and Chirinos full freedom, somethi…

teleSUR, JDO (2023-04-02). Presidente de Venezuela destaca resistencia del pueblo iraní. telesurtv.net Saludan aniversario 44 de proclamarse la República Islámica de Irán. Instan a que EE.UU. y UE levanten sanciones contra ese país.

Andreína Chávez Alava (2023-04-01). Colombia's Petro Calls for 'International Conference' to Advance Venezuela Dialogue. venezuelanalysis.com The Venezuelan government has reiterated that talks with the hardline opposition are conditioned on the release of US-seized funds.

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute For Social Research. (2023-04-01). China's Historical Destiny Is To Stand With The Third World. popularresistance.org On 20 March 2023, China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin spent over four hours in private conversation. According to official statements after the meeting, the two leaders talked about the increasing economic and strategic partnership between China and Russia — including building the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline — and the Chinese peace initiative for the war in Ukraine. Putin said that 'many of the provisions of the peace plan put forward by China are consonant with Russian approaches and can be taken as the basis for a peaceful settlement when the West and Kiev are ready fo…

WSWS (2023-04-01). Hungarian PM warns EU may discuss sending "peacekeeping" troops to Ukraine. wsws.org Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the first leader of a NATO country to publicly raise the prospect of the deployment of troops from NATO countries into Ukraine.

Yuko Nagasaka (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Japan's role for a peaceful and healthier world. thelancet.com I read Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Comment about Japan's vision for the G7 Hiroshima Summit with great interest.1 However, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also published Comments before the G7 Ise-Shima Summit.

Staff (2023-04-02). Former PDVSA Executives Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos Declared Not Guilty of All Charges, Granted Full Freedom. orinocotribune.com Two former executives of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos, have been declared not guilty of all charges against them and the house arrest order against them has been lifted. | In February 2021, the two PDVSA executives were sentenced to five years in prison, for the crime of "disclosure, reservation or supply of information," after they had reported about financial crimes in PDVSA that were very similar to those unveiled recently, although those complaints involved some other top executives. The Venezuelan judiciary finally granted Torrealba and Chirinos full freedom, somethi…

teleSUR, JDO (2023-04-02). Presidente de Venezuela destaca resistencia del pueblo iraní. telesurtv.net Saludan aniversario 44 de proclamarse la República Islámica de Irán. Instan a que EE.UU. y UE levanten sanciones contra ese país.

Andreína Chávez Alava (2023-04-01). Colombia's Petro Calls for 'International Conference' to Advance Venezuela Dialogue. venezuelanalysis.com The Venezuelan government has reiterated that talks with the hardline opposition are conditioned on the release of US-seized funds.

scorinoco (2023-04-01). The Fight Against Corruption, the Banner of Chavismo. orinocotribune.com By Jesús Faría — Mar 31, 2023 | The Bolivarian Revolution was born in a historical confrontation against multiple forces and phenomena that plunged the country at the end of the 20th century in one of the greatest crises in the nation's history. It was an economic, social and political crisis, as well as a moral crisis of enormous proportions. Let us remember that the military rebellion of February 4, 1992 condemned the disgusting moral decomposition of the political and economic elites. Punto Fijismo [two-party system in Venezuela before the Bolivarian Revolution] was crumbling in the swamp of corruption, w…

scorinoco (2023-04-01). Venezuela Opposition Primaries Falter Between Exclusions, Criticisms, and Lawsuits. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan opposition parties continue to announce their candidates for the 2024 presidential elections amid an environment marked by division, questions of "legitimacy," disqualified pre-candidates, and pleas to the US for more sanctions against the country's government. | Complaints of exclusion, characterizing other aspirants as "scorpions," accusations of treason, attributions of mental illness, etc. seem to be part of a campaign where the highly publicized "unity" is beginning to be exposed as a fabrication. | The so-called Unitary Platform for Venezuela (PUV), made up of the former members of the G4 platfor…

Staff (2023-04-01). Damián Arce y Rafael Joubert lideran el equipo de boxeo de Cuba para los V Juegos del Alba. cubadebate.cu Damián Arce y Rafael Joubert destacan en el septeto de hombres seleccionado por Cuba para incursionar en los V Juegos del Alba de Venezuela. Los otros miembros del elenco varonil están en pleno ascenso: Rogerlandy Delís (63,5 kg), Jorge Daniel Forcades (71 kg), Jorge Manuel Soto (80 kg), Fredy Alberto Pérez (92 kg) y Yoel Alejandro Duvergel (+92 kg).

Staff (2023-04-01). Venezuela's National Assembly Approves Law to Seize Assets Linked to Corruption. orinocotribune.com The National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela has unanimously approved the Organic Law on Asset Forfeiture, a legal mechanism in the Venezuelan state's fight against corruption and related crimes. The bill was approved in first discussion at a special session of the National Assembly held on Friday, March 31. | National Assembly deputy and chief of the PSUV bloc, Diosdado Cabello, presented before the plenary the bill, containing 46 articles in 4 chapter, to give legal effect to the seizure of properties linked to corruption and terrorism. | This law will allow the State to take ownership of seized assets related to cr…

teleSUR, MER (2023-04-01). AN venezolana aprueba en primera discusión proyecto de Ley de Extinción de Dominio. telesurtv.net La iniciativa fue presentada por el diputado Diosdado Cabello, quien expresó que se busca reparar los daños causados al Estado y al pueblo.

teleSUR, MER (2023-04-01). AN venezolana aprueba proyecto de Ley de Extinción de Dominio. telesurtv.net La iniciativa fue presentada por el diputado Diosdado Cabello, quien expresó que se busca reparar los daños causados al Estado y al pueblo.

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