Daily Archives: April 14, 2023

2023-04-14: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-14). Biden Looking at Expanding Internet Surveillance After Discord Leaks. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration appears poised to increase internet surveillance in response to the leaked Pentagon documents that appear to have been posted on the messaging platform Discord. NBC News reported on Wednesday that the administration was looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chat rooms. The report cited an unnamed senior administration …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Leaked Document Says US Doesn't Expect Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks in 2023. news.antiwar.com A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that has been leaked online says that the US expects the war in Ukraine to go into 2024 without any peace talks between the warring sides, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. "Negotiations to end the conflict are unlikely during 2023 in all considered scenarios," the DIA analysis reads. The …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Germany Approves Poland's Request to Send MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The German government has approved Poland's request to export five Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine that originally came from Berlin's stockpile. Poland and Slovakia have already delivered some MiG-29s to Ukraine, making them the first NATO countries to provide Kyiv with fighter jets, an escalation of military support that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz previously …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Saudi Push to Bring Syria Back Into Arab League Faces Some Resistance. news.antiwar.com Saudi Arabia's push to bring Syria back into the Arab League is facing resistance from a few countries, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The report named Qatar, Morocco, and Kuwait as opposing normalization between Syria and the Arab League, which suspended Damascus in 2011. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani publicly expressed …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Twenty-One-Year-Old Air National Guardsman Arrested as Suspected Leaker. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, the FBI arrested a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard as the suspected leaker of the classified documents from the Pentagon and other US government agencies that have surfaced online. Jack Teixeira was first named before the arrest as the potential leaker by The New York Times. The paper conducted an …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Ukraine Calls for Black Sea to Become a 'Sea of NATO'. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is calling on NATO to expand its military activity in the Black Sea, urging the alliance to transform the waters into a "sea of NATO." "The Black Sea is instrumental for making the whole of Europe peaceful and future-oriented," Kuleba told a Black Sea security conference in Bucharest via video …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-14). Biden Looking at Expanding Internet Surveillance After Discord Leaks. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration appears poised to increase internet surveillance in response to the leaked Pentagon documents that appear to have been posted on the messaging platform Discord. NBC News reported on Wednesday that the administration was looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chat rooms. The report cited an unnamed senior administration …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Leaked Document Says US Doesn't Expect Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks in 2023. news.antiwar.com A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that has been leaked online says that the US expects the war in Ukraine to go into 2024 without any peace talks between the warring sides, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. "Negotiations to end the conflict are unlikely during 2023 in all considered scenarios," the DIA analysis reads. The …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Germany Approves Poland's Request to Send MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The German government has approved Poland's request to export five Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine that originally came from Berlin's stockpile. Poland and Slovakia have already delivered some MiG-29s to Ukraine, making them the first NATO countries to provide Kyiv with fighter jets, an escalation of military support that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz previously …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Saudi Push to Bring Syria Back Into Arab League Faces Some Resistance. news.antiwar.com Saudi Arabia's push to bring Syria back into the Arab League is facing resistance from a few countries, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The report named Qatar, Morocco, and Kuwait as opposing normalization between Syria and the Arab League, which suspended Damascus in 2011. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani publicly expressed …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Twenty-One-Year-Old Air National Guardsman Arrested as Suspected Leaker. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, the FBI arrested a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard as the suspected leaker of the classified documents from the Pentagon and other US government agencies that have surfaced online. Jack Teixeira was first named before the arrest as the potential leaker by The New York Times. The paper conducted an …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Ukraine Calls for Black Sea to Become a 'Sea of NATO'. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is calling on NATO to expand its military activity in the Black Sea, urging the alliance to transform the waters into a "sea of NATO." "The Black Sea is instrumental for making the whole of Europe peaceful and future-oriented," Kuleba told a Black Sea security conference in Bucharest via video …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). Ukrainian PM Appeals Directly to Lloyd Austin for Long-Range Missiles, Jets. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal directly asked Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to provide Ukraine with longer-range missiles and fighter jets during a meeting in Washington on Wednesday. "We will win this war," Shmyhal said, according to The Hill. "But to achieve it faster and with fewer casualties, Ukraine still needs intensive military support — more …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-13). US Arms Industry Planning First Taiwan Trip in Four Years. news.antiwar.com Around 25 US defense contractors plan to send representatives to Taiwan next month, marking the first time the arms industry will send a delegation to the island since 2019, Nikkei Asia reported on Tuesday. Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of the US Taiwan Business Council, said the delegation will look to boost cooperation with Taiwan's industry and …

Richie Merino, Danny Shaw, Black Agenda Report. (2023-04-14). AOC, The Fraud Squad, Military Recruiters And US Imperialism. popularresistance.org On Monday March 20th 2023, U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Adriano Espaillat co-hosted a "Student Services Fair" at Renaissance High School for Musical Theater and the Arts in the Bronx. As the official flier indicates, there was a large military presence . Alarmed that the two U.S. politicians, especially one who is a self-described "democratic socialist" and affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), were hosting this career fair, the Bronx Anti-War Coalition organized a counter-recruitment protest. | The official flier for the event listed seven representatives that would…

Anonymous669 (2023-04-14). Saudi, Houthi Officials Conclude Peace Talks In Yemen's Sanaa. southfront.org Saudi Arabia ambassador to Yemen, Mohammed bin Saeed al-Jaber, with the head of the Houthis' Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, in Sanaa. Source: Al-Masirah TV. | On April 14, a Saudi delegation led by the kingdom ambassador to Yemen, Mohammed bin Saeed al-Jaber, concluded a round of peace talks with senior officials from the Houthis (Ansar Allah), including the head of the group's Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat. | The breakthrough peace talks, which began in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on A…

John Wojcik (2023-04-14). In China, Lula pushes peace as U.S. prepares for Asia-Pacific war. peoplesworld.org The follies of U.S. plans for war and more war are being exposed now by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his current visit to China. On Friday, the day that the Washington Post reported the U.S. is planning to continue pouring weapons into the Ukraine war well into next year, Lula is …

Peninsula Peace & Justice Center website (2023-04-14). Saturday 4/15: Mountain View: Protest Judicial Ban of Abortion Pill. indybay.org Intersection of El Camino Real and Castro Street | Mountain View, CA…

Pennisula Peace & Justice Center website (2023-04-14). Saturday 4/15: Mountain View: Protest of Judicial Ban of Abortion Pill. indybay.org Intersection of El Camino Real and Castro Street | Mountain View, CA…

Michael Welch (2023-04-14). Black Radical News in 2023: Mumia's Fate, African Colonialism, and the Zone of Peace in the Americas. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-04-14). Division Remains Deep in Northern Ireland as Biden Marks 25th Anniversary of Good Friday Agreement. democracynow.org President Biden was in Ireland this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the U.S.-brokered peace deal that ended three decades of fighting in Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles. Biden's visit comes less than two months after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced he had reached a deal with the European Union on post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland, and a year after the British Parliament introduced a bill to provide amnesty to former British soldiers and individuals involved in the Northern Ireland conflict. Human rights experts have accused the bill of undermin…

Marilyn Bechtel (2023-04-13). Good Friday at Livermore Lab: A call for a nuclear weapon-free future. peoplesworld.org LIVERMORE, Calif.—On this Good Friday, as nuclear disarmament, peace, and justice advocates gathered in person and virtually at the gates of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for their annual Interfaith Service of Worship and Witness, the theme—taken from Dr. Martin Luther King's 1967 book of the same name—was, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or …

Staff (2023-04-13). Headlines for April 13, 2023. democracynow.org U.S. Appeals Court Partially Restores Access to Abortion Medication Mifepristone, Expelled Lawmaker Justin Pearson to Be Reinstated to Tennessee House of Representatives, U.N. Says Somalia Faces Catastrophic Hunger as Climate Crisis Fuels Drought, Zelensky Condemns Video Appearing to Show Russian Soldier Beheading Ukrainian POW, Brazil's Lula Will Ask China's Xi to Help Broker Peace in Ukraine; U.S. Sees No Peace Talks in 2023, At Least 10 Migrants Drown Off Tunisia's Coast as U.N. Warns of Soaring Deaths in Mediterranean, Mexico Charges Immigration Chief over Ciudad Juárez Fire That Killed 40 P…

Staff (2023-04-13). "Not Giving Up": Expelled Black Tennessee Lawmakers Are Reinstated as Movement for Gun Control Grows. democracynow.org As the world watched, the Shelby County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to reappoint Justin Pearson to the Tennessee House of Representatives, less than a week after the Republican-led House voted to expel him and fellow state Representative Justin Jones from the body for joining peaceful protests against gun violence after the school massacre in Nashville. Pearson and Jones were the two youngest Black lawmakers in the Tennessee House. The Nashville Metropolitan Council unanimously voted Monday to restore Jones to office, and he was sworn in Tuesday. Pearson is being sworn back in today. We fea…

Andi Olluri (2023-04-13). The Yemeni "Peace Process" Is a Sham Though You Wouldn't Know That from Watching U.S. News or Reading Foreign Affairs. globalresearch.ca

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-04-13). If the U.S. Can't Boss the World, It Will Spitefully Destroy It. covertactionmagazine.com Unable to accept the reality of a growing multipolar world order, U.S. elites are willing to risk nuclear war. In May 2022, Henry Kissinger gave a remarkable speech at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where he urged the Biden administration to seek a peace agreement in Ukraine that satisfies the Russians because …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-13). Canada's Legacy Press Smears Assange To Deny the Public's Right To Know. orinocotribune.com By Peter Biesterfeld — Apr 6, 2023 | "Who are the war criminals?" asked Assange. "It's not just the leaders, it's also the media. Let us ask ourselves of the complicit media, what is the average death count of each journalist?" | The most damming evidence of a journalism crisis in the Canadian press is that there is virtually no coverage of the press freedom case of our time. | The scant reporting that has appeared exposes Canadian journalists and editors working for the 'most trusted' news brands as abysmally inf…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-13). Saudi delegates visit Yemeni capital Sana'a to hold talks with Houthis. therealnews.com The Oman-mediated peace talks to end the nine-year-old war in Yemen received a boost after China brokered a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia last month. Media reports say Saudi Arabia and the Houthis agreed on the draft of a ceasefire agreement last month, which lays out the plan for a more detailed negotiation.

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-04-14). Rusia es el país invitado a los V Juegos Deportivos ALBA. telesurtv.net La invitación se produjo como parte de un acuerdo deportivo entre Moscú y Caracas que se firmó en octubre de 2021.

teleSUR, jaa, MER (2023-04-14). Presidente venezolano llama al pueblo a un nuevo 13 de abril contra la corrupción. telesurtv.net El Ejecutivo venezolano aseguró que habrá justicia y mano dura contra "todas las mafias de la corruptela".

teleSUR, JDO (2023-04-14). Venezuela conmemora victoria sobre el golpismo en abril de 2002. telesurtv.net Habrá movilizaciones en Caracas y todos los estados para conmemorar los hechos del 11, 12 y 13 de abril de aquel año, cuando el pueblo derrotó a la derecha.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-04-14). 10 años de Gobierno del presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. telesurtv.net Otro capítulo fundamental de la agenda de Gobierno que impulsa el presidente Nicolás Maduro es la lucha frontal contra los corruptos.

teleSUR, MA, JGN (2023-04-14). 13 de abril de 2002: Así fue la gesta histórica del pueblo revolucionario. telesurtv.net Hace 21 años el pueblo bolivariano salió a las calles en defensa del presidente Hugo Chávez, en una gesta popular que marcaría para siempre el devenir histórico de la Revolución Bolivariana.

Michelle Pinto (2023-04-14). Time to Dismantle Monroe Doctrine Politics. dissidentvoice.org On April 11, 2002, there was an attempted coup against President Hugo Chavez's democratically elected government in Venezuela. Chavez had prioritized programs to improve living conditions for those who were previously unrepresented, and established an independent foreign policy in favor of the nation's interests. Chavez's stance conflicted with the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, which laid the …

Andreína Chávez Alava (2023-04-13). Venezuela: Oil Exports Rise, US Rules Out New Licenses to Corporations. venezuelanalysis.com State company PDVSA is implementing new terms to sell crude and protect revenues following the recent corruption scandal.

Staff (2023-04-13). Tibisay Lucena, Former CNE President & Minister for University Education, Dies Aged 63. orinocotribune.com Tibisay Lucena, the former president of the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) and current minister of university education, died this Wednesday, April 12, as reported by Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez via social "Tibisay Lucena changed our landscape," Rodríguez wrote. "Distinguished daughter of Venezuela, former president of the electoral power and minister of university education. She was a true militant in life, and she fought her last battle without respite. Our condolences to her family an…

teleSUR, JDO (2023-04-13). Fallece política venezolana Tibisay Lucena. telesurtv.net El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, lamenta su muerte y la evoca como "patriota, defensora de la democracia y la educación en nuestro país".

teleSUR, MER (2023-04-13). Asesor Carmelo Borrego: Guayana Esequiba pertenece a Venezuela. telesurtv.net Borrego enfatizó que la CIJ no tiene jurisdicción para conocer de los términos del Acuerdo de Ginebra de 1966.

teleSUR, MER (2023-04-13). Rinden homenaje a ministra Tibisay Lucena en Venezuela. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado destacó la labor y el legado que dejó Lucena, calificándola como un ejemplo para todos los venezolanos.

Misión Verdad (2023-04-13). Tibisay Lucena: Her Work and Career. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — Apr 12, 2023 | In Venezuela, there are very few personalities who stand out for their respectable influence in different political circles, from any side. One of them is Tibisay Lucena. She has achieved this because she met all the conditions to defend electoral institutions and the Constitution. | This recognition has been due to a long career in important public positions, with crucial functions for Venezuelan political life. Originally from Barquisimeto, the capital of Lara, she graduated as a sociologist from the Central University of Venezuela. In the 1990s, she pursued an academic ca…

Prof Nicolas Boeglin (2023-04-13). Guyana contra Venezuela: a propósito del rechazo de la CIJ de la excepción preliminar de Venezuela, declarándose competente. globalizacion.ca

Staff (2023-04-13). Venezuela Pays Respects to Former CNE President Tibisay Lucena. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, in a funeral chapel, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez honored Tibisay Lucena, expressing the pain felt by the public at her departure. Rodríguez recognized Lucena as a unique woman, an exceptional republican, a Venezuelan patriot, and a first class soldier of the homeland. | Cabinet members, along with other authorities and representatives of the diplomatic corps, honored and accompanied relatives and close friends of the former president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas. | After participating in the first honor guard together with Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos, Ele…

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