(2022-04-23). IAEA mission to visit Ukraine's Chernobyl plant. ecns.cn The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Friday its expert mission would travel to Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26 to help ensure the facility's safety.
(2022-04-23). If You Only Follow Mainstream McNews, You Have No Clue About Ukraine. orinocotribune.com 
By Deborah L. Armstrong — Apr 13, 2022 | Or anything else, for that matter. | I wanted to write a simple article about the top ten independent journalists you need to read or watch in order to have at least a basic grasp of what is going on in Ukraine. | After jotting down a list of my favorite go-to indies and crowdsourcing more lists from others, I quickly realized that just picking ten of them would not be fair to anyone. Not fair to the journalists, and not fair to their potential audience. | Since western corporate-controlled media dominates the global conversation about Ukraine, it's easy to forget jus…
(2022-04-23). Tuesday 4/26: The War in Ukraine: NO U.S./NATO WAR WITH RUSSIA! NO WORLD WAR 3! indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…
(2022-04-23). Adopted boy thriving after liver transplant. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Serena and Jon Krejchi from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, knew they were in for a medical journey when they decided to adopt a toddler named Ary from India. At only 1 Ω years old, Ary Krejchi had liver disease among a host of other serious medical conditions that required immediate care. After a harrowing journey back to the U.S. amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the couple took their little boy straight to Mayo Clinic, where, thanks to his…
(2022-04-23). Stop the execution of Melissa Lucio! Abolish the death penalty! wsws.org The SEP calls on workers and youth in the US and internationally to organize protests to demand a halt to Lucio's execution, her release from death row and the immediate convening of a new trial to prove her innocence.
(2022-04-23). Calendar of Resistance: Take Action for Palestine! samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international supporters of Palestine to escalate their organizing and struggle to confront massacres and ethnic cleansing and support Palestinian resistance throughout the entire land of Palestine. (The list below will be constantly updated — please share the link with your friends and comrades!) These events are …
(2022-04-23). Xi Jinping elected delegate to 20th CPC National Congress. ecns.cn The Communist Party of China (CPC) Guangxi Zhuang autonomous regional congress was held in Nanning city from Thursday to Friday to elect the region's delegates to the 20th National Congress of the CPC. Xi Jinping, a candidate nominated by the CPC Central Committee and put to vote in the Guangxi electoral unit, was elected by a unanimous vote.
(2022-04-23). COVID-19 infection may accelerate aging: study. ecns.cn An international team led by Chinese scientists identified in a recent study a new risk of COVID-19: it ages you beyond your years.
(2022-04-23). Sri Lankan big business demands a "bipartisan national government" wsws.org The corporate elite fears that, unless the mass protests are brought rapidly to an end, a far broader political movement will erupt talks with the IMF are concluded and the extent of the austerity measures is revealed.
(2022-04-23). Official: Xinjiang workers protected. ecns.cn Labor and employment policies in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region are in line with the international labor and human rights standards. In fact, they are fully compliant with the International Labour Organization's guidance, said the head of the legislative affairs commission of the regional legislature.
(2022-04-23). China to hold over 200 popular-science space activities. ecns.cn More than 200 space activities will be held as the Space Day of China approaches, said an official with the China National Space Administration (CNSA) Thursday.
(2022-04-23). Remembering Wire Coat Hangers Before Roe v. Wade. indybay.org On a national day of action on April 21, abortion rights activists in Berkeley, California cried out that the constitutional right to abortion is under threat. Interview with woman who says she does not regret two abortions is .mp4 27 seconds long.
(2022-04-23). More national parks planned to save biodiversity. ecns.cn A group of new national parks will be established this year in key ecological regions around China to boost sustainable development and provide more public eco-products for a shared community of mankind, a senior official with the national forestry authority said on Thursday.
(2022-04-23). The US Empire Strikes Back: Russi Takes the Hits, China Lives in Fear. indybay.org The US Empire Strikes Back: Russia Takes the Hits, China Lives in Fear | Russia and China are no match for the United States' Instruments of National Power. The Pale Blue Dot's existence is at risk if nuclear weapons are employed by either one or both sides.
(2022-04-23). Mayo Clinic Minute: 'Liver in a box' is saving lives with new technology. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It is new technology called "liver in a box," and it's improving outcomes for patients who receive lifesaving transplants. April is National Donate Life Month, which helps raise awareness about the importance of organ donation. According to Lifesource, more than 11,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a lifesaving liver donation. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/TOR3KjXs9KM Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 09) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo…
(2022-04-23). Malaysia says to release body of Kim Jong Nam to DPRK. news.xinhuanet.com Malaysia will release the body of Kim Jong Nam to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and allow its nationals to leave, after the nine stranded Malaysian citizens in DPRK were freed, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a statement on Thursday.
(2022-04-23). Manila Int'l Auto Show kicks off. news.xinhuanet.com Visitors attend the Manila International Auto Show at the World Trade Center in Pasay City, the Philippines.
(2022-04-23). [Correspondence] Advanced endoscopy unit in Gaza: first year of activity. thelancet.com Knowledge and its dissemination know no national borders. International collaborations occur all the time—including medicine. Such collaborations should be driven by medical impact considerations and not be constrained by administrative issues. Cross-border collaborations involve a degree of interoperability and common approaches based on mutual trust and understanding between organisations that often operate in diverse cultural, scientific, and legal environments. Gastroenterology and endoscopy have been slowly developing in Gaza since 2000, despite an ongoing shortage of resources and professional trainin…
(2022-04-23). Sunday 5/1: Bay Area Labor May Day Parade & Rally. indybay.org Parade will begin at Market Street and the Embarcadero in San Francisco and will march up to the Civic Center, where the rally will be held.
(2022-04-22). These dark times are also filled with light: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org 
In early March, Argentina's government came to an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a $45 billion deal to shore up its shaky finances. This deal was motivated by the government's need to pay a $2.8 billion instalment on a $57 billion IMF stand-by loan taken out under former President Mauricio Macri in 2018.
(2022-04-22). Ukraine: A New Consensus on Whiteness? libya360.wordpress.com Ajamu Baraka A march of the Azov Battalian, Svoboda, and other far-right radical groups in Kiev, October 14, 2017. (Photo: Reuters / Gleb Garanich) The Biden administration and corporate media cover up the existence of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine. They are disappeared from the official narrative in order to get public buy-in…
(2022-04-22). Biden: U.S. prepared to supply weapons for interminable war in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Interfax-UkraineApril 22, 2022 Biden: USA can supply Ukraine with weapons for long time The United States is capable of supplying Ukraine with weapons for a long time, U.S. President Joe Biden has said on Thursday. "We have the capacity to do this for a long time," he said, answering a journalist's question about how long …
(2022-04-22). Turkey makes NATO ally Greece offer it better not refuse. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkey and its weapons have recently established a record in Syria, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Ethiopia and Ukraine that Athens would be wise to heed is the message from Greece's NATO ally and neighbor. ==== Hurriyet News AgencyApril 22, 2022 Defense minister urges Greece to respond to Turkey's call for 'friendship' Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on …
(2022-04-22). Japan intensifies hard-line stance on islands "illegally occupied" by Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kyodo NewsApril 22, 2022 Japan shifts to hard-line stance on territorial dispute with Russia Tokyo has switched to a hard-line stance in its decades-long territorial dispute with Moscow following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, stating in its annual foreign policy report released Friday that four northern islands are "illegally occupied" by Russia. *** The report highlighted …
(2022-04-22). Coup-threatened Georgia: ruling party exposes "NGO clan" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com On the role of "NGOs' in fomenting coups in Georgia, and the wars that inevitably follow them, see item below the news report. The United National Movement is the party founded by Mikheil Saakashvili, who returned from Ukraine late last year, where he held a major post in the government of Volodymyr Zelensky, to launch …
(2022-04-22). Azerbaijan: "We have proved to the whole world how to wage a war in the 21st century" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The leadership of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Japan and Finland got the message on how to "liberate occupied territories" from Russia. === Azeri Press AgencyApril 22, 2022 President Ilham Aliyev: "Although war is over, the territorial claims against us are not over yet" "We have proved to the whole world how to wage a war in …
(2022-04-22). India blocs Japanese Air Self-Defense Force flight for Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Nikkei AsiaApril 22, 2022 Japan reworks Ukraine aid plan after India blocks military plane Japan is redrawing its plan for transporting humanitarian aid supplies to displaced Ukrainians after India reportedly refused to let Self-Defense Forces aircraft land in the country. The plan was for an Air Self-Defense Force plane to pick up relief items at …
(2022-04-22). France to deliver howitzers, anti-tank missiles for war in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com UkrinformApril 22, 2022 Macron announces supply of Milan anti-tank systems, Caesar howitzers to Ukraine French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the supply of Milan anti-tank missiles and Caesar self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine. *** "We are delivering significant equipment, from Milan to Caesar. I think we have to continue on this route. Always with the red …
(2022-04-22). Global Divide: 76% of Humanity (& Nearly All Poorer Nations of Color) Did Not Vote to Kick Russia Off the UN Human Rights Council. libya360.wordpress.com Roger Stoll "In general, in a deep conflict, the eyes of the downtrodden are more acute about the reality of the present." — Immanuel Wallerstein (The Modern World System, Introduction, p. 4) Introduction On April 7 the UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution intended to signal support for the US/NATO effort in Ukraine. This…
(2022-04-22). The myth of Bucha, a 21st-century Timi≈üoara. iacenter.org By Fausto Giudice April 21, 2022 The author is the organizer of the Tlaxcala Network, which publishes progressive articles from around the world in various languages. This article is available in full in English, German, French and Italian at tlaxcala-int.blogspot.com, along with information on its author. April 9. The mayor of Bucha, a residential suburb of 36,000 people northwest of Kiev, Ukraine, announced April 1 that the city was "liberated" the day before, on March 31, from Russian occupiers. At the same time, the Ukrainian police announced that they had launched a hunt for "saboteurs" and "Russian agents d…
(2022-04-22). Combat-ready: NATO in talks to deploy yet more troops to eastern flank. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioApril 22, 2022 NATO allies in talks to send more troops to eastern flank: Polish official A senior Polish national security official said on Friday that the NATO alliance was discussing ways to boost troop numbers on its eastern edge amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. *** "Talks are under way to expand the NATO …
(2022-04-22). Daniel Ellsberg: Putin Is Already Using His Nuclear Weapons. scheerpost.com Daniel Ellsberg in Dresden on February 22nd 2016. [Photo by Dr. Bernd Gross] | Click to subscribe on: Nuclear brinkmanship is reaching a boiling point as the war in Ukraine enters its third month. Although the US. and NATO have refrained from putting tr…
(2022-04-22). Myanmar — –°aught between India and China. journal-neo.org 
Myanmar is a relatively small country on the Indochina peninsula. Its close neighbors are India, China and the other countries on the peninsula, Its geographical position means that it serves as a buffer zone between the two competing Asian giants, yet its role is not limited to that. In terms of land access, India is …
(2022-04-22). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org South Korea: Webzen online game workers to strike; India: Tamil Nadu government medical technicians demand reinstatement; Seven West Media lifts lockout at Western Australia print facility; Air New Zealand suspends cabin crew over rolling strikes…
(2022-04-22). Isaiah Andrews: Justice delayed, justice denied for 45 years. workers.org 
Cleveland In 1974, two months after his wedding, Isaiah Andrews' spouse Regina Andrews was murdered. That was just the beginning of a lifelong ordeal. Andrews, who passed away this month in Cleveland, spent the next 45 years in jail for a murder he did not commit. Isaiah Andrews, seated, with . . . |
(2022-04-22). 2005-22′: The crisis of western capitalism behind the left and far right radicalism. mronline.org 
It is simply impossible to understand what is going on now in the world if we don't take into consideration the crisis the globally dominant Western capitalism has been facing since 2008.
(2022-04-22). Migratory birds of mass destruction. mronline.org 
Highly sensitive materials from the Ukrainian biological laboratories were exported to the U.S. in early February just before the Russian special operation began, and the rest were ordered to be destroyed lest they fell into Russian hands. But the cover-up was only partially successful. Indeed, Russia is in possession of highly incriminating evidence.
(2022-04-22). Heat waves melt ice at both poles of Earth. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel April 21, 2022 Inuit celebration July 4, 2016, in Utqiaƒ°vik, the northernmost community in Alaska, before the ice had broken up. Photo: Paddy Colligan. The climate crisis is real. Millions of people throughout the world are suffering and dying from floods and rising sea levels, droughts, stronger hurricanes and more intense tornadoes — several out of their normal season. Wind and ice storms, blizzards, heat waves, cold snaps, wildfires and mudslides are more frequent. Melting or structurally disintegrating "rotten ice" threatens the livelihood of Arctic people who rely on ice to hunt.
(2022-04-22). "When I Have the Land": 200 years in search of Agrarian Reform. mronline.org 
On April 17, 1996, 19 peasants of the Brazilian Landless Movement were assassinated in the municipality of Eldorado Dos Carajás, in the south of the state of Pará. The event took place during a peaceful mobilization organized to demand the expropriation of idle land from local landowners.
(2022-04-22). Defying imperialist pressure, China and Solomon Islands sign security pact. wsws.org Prime Minister Sogavare has defied intense diplomatic pressure from Washington and Canberra to proceed with the agreement which gives China an expanded role in the South Pacific.
(2022-04-22). These Dark Times Are Also Filled with Light. popularresistance.org In early March, Argentina's government came to an Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a $45 billion deal to shore up its shaky finances. This deal was motivated by the government's need to pay a $2.8 billion instalment on a $57 billion IMF stand-by loan taken out under former President Mauricio Macri in 2018. This loan — the largest loan in the financial institution's history — sharpened divides in Argentinian society. The following year, the Macri administration was ousted in elections by the center-left Frente de Todos coalition which campaigned on a sharp anti-austerity, anti-IM…
(2022-04-22). The Chris Hedges Report With Dr. Cornel West. popularresistance.org Dr. Cornel West is the most important standard bearer for the Black prophetic tradition, the most important intellectual and spiritual movement in our history. Rooted in the experience of American racism, capitalist exploitation, and imperialism, this tradition has provided an ongoing critique of our economic, social, and political institutions and beliefs, as well as calling out the country's spiritual bankruptcy. In this premiere episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Dr. West joins Chris Hedges to discuss the decay of the American empire, the struggle to show international solidarity in the face of escalating mil…
(2022-04-22). Amid Global Uncertainty, ALBA Movements Forges Unity and Hope. libya360.wordpress.com Zoe AlexandraLaura Capote and Gonzalo Armúa of ALBA Movements Operative Secretary. The continental platform of social movements will hold its third continental assembly in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to analyze the current situation and define strategies for the next period. The continental platform, ALBA Movements, will hold its third continental assembly in Buenos Aires, Argentina from…
(2022-04-22). Today, Birthday of Our Mother Earth. libya360.wordpress.com Ollantay Itzamná Celebrating the birthday of Mother Earth means to think and celebrate the difficult existence of Mother Earth herself, with identity, dignity, rights, her own stories. If we continue to remember April 22 with the sole purpose of raising awareness or seeking human welfare on the Planet, we continue on the self-destructive path of…
(2022-04-22). Turkey Admits Three Of Its Soldiers Were Killed While Taking Part In New Northern Iraq Operation. southfront.org 
On April 22, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that three soldiers were killed while taking part in Operation…
(2022-04-22). Malaysia says to release body of Kim Jong Nam to DPRK. news.xinhuanet.com Malaysia will release the body of Kim Jong Nam to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and allow its nationals to leave, after the nine stranded Malaysian citizens in DPRK were freed, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a statement on Thursday.
(2022-04-22). Sunday 5/1: May Day – International Workers' Day. indybay.org Gather at Roosevelt Park | Santa Clara & 19th Streets, San José | March to San José City Hall…
(2022-04-22). Khatami says Intl. Quds Day rallies anger enemies. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 22 (MNA) — The interim leader of Friday Prayers in the Iranian capital of Tehran has called for massive turnout in the International Quds Day rallies, saying the day provokes the ire of the enemies of Muslims.
(2022-04-22). Iran to hold trade exhibition in Kazakhstan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 22 (MNA) — Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Affairs announced plans to organize an international exhibition of export capabilities and potentials of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kazakhstan's Almaty.
(2022-04-22). Gansu launches first international freight train via China-Laos Railway. ecns.cn A freight train departed Dunhuang City, northwest China's Gansu Province, for Thailand's Bangkok on Thursday morning.