Editor (2023-05-20). China, India, and the Emerging New World Order. scheerpost.com

Anonymous834 (2023-05-20). Fears Of Abandonment: Australia, Biden And Cancelling The Quad Visit. southfront.org Click to see the full-size image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | Much needless fuss has been generated by President Joe Biden's cancellation of his visit to Australia for the Quad meeting, a now regular gathering of leaders from the US, Japan, India and Australia. He had other things on his mind: dealing with fractious debt ceiling negotiations taking place back in the United States. | Students of US history would, or should have appreciated, the two phenomena that speckle the fiscal landsc…

WSWS (2023-05-19). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org India: Tamil Nadu contract nurses protest; West Bengal public school teachers oppose poverty-level wages; Sri Lankan Inland Revenue Department workers strike over pay cut; Australia: Cleanaway waste collection workers New South Wales strike; NSW paramedics and patient transfer officers impose work bans.

WSWS (2023-05-19). Sri Lankan public health system in crisis as doctors warn of rising dengue fever infections. wsws.org The Wickremesinghe government's response to the worsening health crisis is revealed in its 2023 budget, with 539 billion rupees for the military-police repressive apparatus and just 322 billion rupees for health.

Elif Hindié (2023-05-20). Correspondence] DESTINY-Breast03 trial: some questions remain. thelancet.com Sara A Hurvitz and colleagues reported updated results from DESTINY-Breast03, a randomised phase 3 trial comparing trastuzumab deruxtecan to trastuzumab emtansine in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer previously treated with trastuzumab and a taxane.1 Previously, in DESTINY-Breast01, trastuzumab deruxtecan showed efficacy as third-line HER2-based treatment after trastuzumab emtansine, which led to accelerated approval in December, 2019.2 These results were consolidated in DESTINY-Breast02, in which the trastuzumab deruxtecan group had better overall survival than the investigator's choice group…

Sara A Hurvitz, Giuseppe Curigliano, Anton Egorov, Shahid Ashfaque, Javier Cortés (2023-05-20). Correspondence] DESTINY-Breast03 trial: some questions remain — Authors' reply. thelancet.com Elif Hindié noted that the optimal treatment sequencing of trastuzumab deruxtecan is still not defined. We agree that the optimal treatment sequence of trastuzumab deruxtecan after disease progression and the outcomes of post-trial therapies are important to investigate. DESTINY-Breast03 was a global trial with participation from 15 different countries. Although data were collected on…

teleSUR (2023-05-19). Tsunami Warning Triggered by 7.7 Quake in New Caledonia. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) of Australia issued a tsunami warning for Lord Howe Island in response to a seismic event with a magnitude of 7.7 that occurred at 02: 57 GMT in the southeastern region of the Loyalty Islands. | Related: | According to the BOM, a hazardous phenomenon of rip currents, large waves, and powerful ocean currents, potentially coupled with a localized overflow onto the adjacent sho…

Saurav Sarkar, In These Times. (2023-05-20). Starbucks Union Workers Have A New Strategy To Win A First Contract. popularresistance.org It's a truism in labor circles that winning a first contract can be even more difficult than winning a union election. The ongoing year-plus battle between Starbucks and its unionizing baristas is proving that adage correct. | According to data from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), as of May 10, workers had won union elections at 308 Starbucks stores since December 2021‚Äâ—‚Äâyet not a single shop has come close to reaching a first contract. (Each Starbucks that has unionized is legally a separate bargaining unit organized into Workers United, an SEIU affiliate.)…

Staff (2023-05-20). Resistance meets repression: Spontaneous march commemorates #Nakba75 in Berlin despite police bans. samidoun.net On Monday, 15 May, anonymous Palestinian, Arab and internationalist youth in Berlin, Germany, marched through Sonnenallee, one of the central streets of Berlin's Arab community, in a spontaneous demonstration commemorating 75 years of ongoing Nakba and 75 years of Palestinian resistance and defying German state repression. This action came after the Berlin police once again …

Anonymous669 (2023-05-20). U.S. Will Allow Allies To Supply F-16 Fighter Jets To Ukraine. southfront.org An F-16C Fighting Falcon assigned to the 85th Test Evaluation Squadron shoots an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM over testing ranges near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., March 19, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Hoskins) | The United States will train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 jet fighters and cooperate with its allies to deliver the warplane to Ukraine, national security advisor Jake Sullivan announced on May 20, confirming Washington's participation in…

Anonymous834 (2023-05-20). Can Western Air Defense Systems Protect Ukraine Properly? southfront.org Click to see the full-size image | Written by Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts. | On May 16, Ukraine claimed its air defenses intercepted six Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and shot them down amid "exceptionally dense" barrage fired — supposedly thanks to the arrival of Patriots, among other Western combat systems. Kinzhals are supposed to be able to overcome all existing air defense systems, and Moscow denies its Kinzhals were intercepted. | Kiev also claims to ha…

ecns.cn (2023-05-20). Insights | CEIBS professor: China plays absolutely important role in Southeast Asia. ecns.cn The role that China plays in Southeast Asia is absolutely important, said Bala Ramasamy, professor of Economics at China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS), during an interview with China News Network."ÄÄ "ÄÄ…

ecns.cn (2023-05-20). InsightsÔΩúKazakhstani scholar: China of significance in Kazakhstan's modernization process. ecns.cn Dr. Ikboljon Qoraboyev, Associate Professor of International Relations at Maqsut Narikbayev KAZGUU University, noted that the economic and trade relations between China and Kazakhstan reached new heights in 2022, with the bilateral trade volume of $30 billion.

ecns.cn (2023-05-20). President Xi Jinping puts forth eight proposals for cooperation between China and Central Asian countries. ecns.cn On the morning of May 19, President Xi Jinping chaired the China-Central Asia Summit at the Xi'an International Convention Center in Shaanxi Province. He put forth eight proposals for cooperation between China and Central Asian countries in his keynote speech.

ecns.cn (2023-05-20). President Xi proposes four principles on how to build a China-Central Asia community with a shared future. ecns.cn On the morning of May 19, President Xi Jinping chaired the China-Central Asia Summit at the Xi'an International Convention Center in Shaanxi Province. He proposed four principles on how to build a China-Central Asia community with a shared future in his keynote speech.

ecns.cn (2023-05-20). President Xi Jinping puts forward four propositions on what kind of Central Asia to be built. ecns.cn On the morning of May 19, President Xi Jinping chaired the China-Central Asia Summit at the Xi'an International Convention Center in Shaanxi Province. He put forward four propositions on what kind of Central Asia to be built in his keynote speech.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-20). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-20). Be safe when flooding occurs. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org LA CROSSE, Wis. — With the snowmelt and recent rains, the National Weather Service says major flooding has occurred or is forecast along the Mississippi River in portions of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Health care professionals at Mayo Clinic Health System have several health-related tips to stay safe if the water rises. "First and foremost, be safe. Do not walk, swim, drive or ride in a car through floodwaters," says Michael Bassett, M.D., family medicine…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-20). Mayo Clinic in a new era of discoveries with rapid genome sequencing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org National DNA Day on April 25 marks the discovery of DNA's double helix in 1953 and the Human Genome Project's completion in 2003. The discovery of DNA's double helix structure 70 years ago propelled a revolutionary shift toward individualized medicine. Today, new genome sequencing technologies could help Mayo Clinic scientists fuel a new whirlwind of genomics discoveries. One of the sophisticated sequencing technologies, arriving at Mayo Clinic in May, will give the ability to put…

MEE staff (2023-05-20). Turkey elections: Diaspora flock to polls for runoff. middleeasteye.net Turkey elections: Diaspora flock to polls for runoff | Voting is open for nationals living abroad until 24 May in unprecedented second round of presidential election | Sat, 05/20/2023 – 16: 06 | Turkish nationals living in Kuwait cast their votes in the second round of Turkey's presidential election, in Kuwait City on 20 May 2023 (AFP) | Turkish citizens living abroad have begun voting in the second round o…

John Zarocostas (2023-05-20). World Report] With the COVID-19 PHEIC over, what next? thelancet.com With the formal declaration of a public health emergency of international concern ending, what are the implications for international response efforts? John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.

Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga, Wangeci Gatei, Florian Tinuga, William Mngupe Patrick Mwengee, Zabulon Yoti, Ntuli Kapologwe, Tumaini Nagu, Maheshi Swaminathan, Abel Makubi (2023-05-20). Correspondence] Tanzania's COVID-19 vaccination strategy: lessons, learning, and execution. thelancet.com Tanzania has taken an unusual route in the COVID-19 pandemic response. In early 2021, Tanzania was reported to have refused COVID-19 vaccines.1 In response, the Tanzanian Government explained the country's position, arguing there were concerns with initial vaccine safety but pointing out that the country was ready to work with the international community in the fight against COVID-19.2 After the appointment of a presidential task force in April, 2021, to establish the country's direction on COVID-19 response, as initially recommended by an expert committee,3 Tanzania joined COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX)…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-19). More US Activists Face Harassment From Authorities Upon Return From Cuba. orinocotribune.com Days after members of a youth delegation were detained when returning to the US from Cuba, another batch of activists who were also on the island as part of the May Day Brigade, faced similar harassment | On May 7, several members of the US-based National Network on Cuba (NNOC) who had participated in the May Day Brigade, were detained and harassed by US Customs and Border Protection upon arrival to the United States from Cuba. | The NNOC released a

scorinoco (2023-05-19). Mexico: AMLO Condemns US Government Funding of Opposition Groups. orinocotribune.com The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has condemned the US government's funding of the Mexican opposition through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). As evidence, he highlighted the recent

scorinoco (2023-05-19). President Maduro Meets With Communist Party of China Delegation. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has held a meeting with a visiting delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) with the aim of strengthening relations of cooperation and friendship. | The meeting was held at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Wednesday, May 17. | The CPC delegation was led by the vice minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, Lin Mingxiang. | The Venezuelan president stated that Venezuel…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Young leaders from the US pledge to fight blockade of Cuba. peoplesdispatch.org Hear from some of the 150 young organizers from the US that traveled to Cuba as part of the 2023 May Day Brigade with the International Peoples' Assembly…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Palestinians oppose provocative Israeli 'flag march'. peoplesdispatch.org The march is held annually by illegal Israel settlers and other right-wing and ultra-nationalist Israelis to mark 'Jerusalem day', on which the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem started in 1967 following Israel's victory over neighboring Arab states in the six-day war…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Ecuadorian opposition rejects dissolution of parliament. peoplesdispatch.org The majority of Ecuador's political parties have rejected the dissolution of the National Assembly, arguing that the grounds established in the constitution to dissolve it, do not exist at the moment…

Editor (2023-05-19). US National Security Experts Call for Peace in Ukraine. scheerpost.com Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies amplify upon a full-page ad in The New York Times on Tuesday calling the war an "unmitigated disaster" and urging Biden and U.S. Congress to help bring it speedily to an end.

Press Associates (2023-05-19). NLRB: You can't discriminate by banning only Black Lives Matter masks. peoplesworld.org SEATTLE—Companies—in this case Fred Meyer and QFC stores in Washington state—can't cite dress codes to ban workers from wearing Black Lives Matter masks and buttons on the job and allow everything else. And they can't send "offending" workers home without pay, either. So said National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Mara-Louise Anzalone in a …

Andrew Korybko (2023-05-19). The Top Five Takeaways From Kissinger's Interview About The Emerging World Order. thealtworld.com Casual observers of International Relations might not have the interest or time to read Henry Kissinger's lengthy interview in full, which is why the present piece will draw attention to the top five takeaways. | Global affairs guru Henry Kissinger gave a

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Fighting Between Sudanese Army and RSF Has Disastrous Impact in Darfur As Hundreds of Thousands Are Displaced. towardfreedom.org More than 700,000 people have been internally displaced in Sudan since April 15, when an armed conflict began between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service reports.

teleSUR (2023-05-19). AI To Replace 10,000 BT Group Telecom Workers by 2030. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, British multinational telecommunications holding company BT announced its plan to cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030, about 40 percent of its global workforce. Such layoffs are partly due to BT's adaptation to new technologies including artificial intelligence. | RELATED: | "There is a sort of 10,000 reduction from that sort of automated digitisation – we will be a huge beneficiary of AI. I believe generative AI is a huge leap forw…

teleSUR (2023-05-19). Russia's 2nd Largest Bank Plans to Open Office in Iran. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Deputy Governor for International Affairs of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Mohsen Karimi said that Russia's second-largest bank VTB plans to set up a representative office in Tehran. | RELATED: | Two Iranian banks are laying the groundwork to set up branches in Russia, as both countries have stepped up financial cooperation in the face of tough U.S. sanctions. | Iran had requested Russia's Central Bank…

Mairead Skehan Gillis, Will Hodgkinson (2023-05-19). Boston May Day: 'They say cut back, we say fight back!'. workers.org The following talk was presented by Workers World Party representatives Mairead Skehan Gillis and Will Hodgkinson on May 1, 2023, in Boston. Mairead Skehan Gillis: Boston, May 1, 2023. Good evening and happy International Workers Day/Month to all of the workers across the world! We are so glad to be . . . |

Martha Grevatt (2023-05-19). Nakba commemoration in Cleveland: 'Today South Africa, tomorrow Palestine'. workers.org Cleveland Chief Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, grandson of the late South African President Nelson Mandela, was the keynote speaker at a Nakba (Great Catastrophe) commemoration in Cleveland on May 17. He is the tribal chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council and a member of South Africa's Parliament, representing the African National . . . |

WSWS (2023-05-19). Greek general election takes place amid mass discontent with rotten political set-up. wsws.org It is an indictment of SYRIZA—the doyen of pseudo-left parties internationally—that despite a further four years in opposition, it is unable to offer anything to convince workers it would shape their lives for the better.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-05-20). Communist parties discuss ideas at meeting in Geneva. plenglish.com Geneva, Switzerland, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of the communist parties of Nicaragua, Cuba, Türkiye, Uruguay, Italy, Portugal, Sri Lanka and South Korea participated today in this city in a meeting to discuss political work in those countries.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). One-third of school students in Sri Lanka go without an adequate breakfast. peoplesdispatch.org Sri Lanka has been grappling with an acute economic crisis since last year. This has aggravated the problem of food insecurity in the country…

ecns.cn (2023-05-19). 2 bodies found after fishing vessel capsizes in Indian Ocean. ecns.cn Two bodies were found on Thursday afternoon after a Chinese deep-sea fishing vessel capsized on Tuesday in the Indian Ocean with a 39-member crew on board, the Ministry of Transport said on Thursday.

infobrics (2023-05-19). India slams European sanction threats for refining and selling Russian oil. infobrics.org New Delhi defends its interests despite constant Western pressure.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-19). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-05-18). India Accuses Reporter For Defense News Of 'Espionage'. thedissenter.org The following article was made possible by paid subscribers. Support independent journalism on secrecy, whistleblowers, and press freedom. Subscribe and get a A correspondent for Defense News was arrested in a raid by India's Central Bureau of Investigation and accused of "collecting confidential information" about the country's military in violation of the Official Secrets Act. | CBI claimed that Vivek Raghuvanshi had been investigating India's Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO), the research and development arm…

Tanya Wadhwa, People's Dispatch. (2023-05-19). President Lasso Dissolves Parliament Through 'Cross Death' Mechanism. popularresistance.org Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, on Wednesday, May 17, at 7 am, signed a presidential decree to activate the "cross-death" constitutional tool and dissolved the National Assembly, the country's unicameral parliament. The decision came a day after the legislature began an impeachment hearing against Lasso, who stands accused of the crime of embezzlement of public funds. With this decision, the impeachment process against Lasso was canceled, which could have removed him from office. | In a televised address to the nation, Lasso explained that he had applied article 148 of the Constitution that grants him the p…

WSWS (2023-05-19). Sri Lankan public health system in crisis as doctors warn of rising dengue fever infections. wsws.org The Wickremesinghe government's response to the worsening health crisis is revealed in its 2023 budget, with 539 billion rupees for the military-police repressive apparatus and just 322 billion rupees for health.

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WSWS (2023-05-18). Sri Lankan ruling party demonises last year's mass uprising. wsws.org The Wickremesinghe government's denigration of last year's mass movement that forced out President Gotabhaya Rajapakse is in preparation for state repression against the working class and rural masses.

Elif Hindié (2023-05-20). Correspondence] DESTINY-Breast03 trial: some questions remain. thelancet.com Sara A Hurvitz and colleagues reported updated results from DESTINY-Breast03, a randomised phase 3 trial comparing trastuzumab deruxtecan to trastuzumab emtansine in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer previously treated with trastuzumab and a taxane.1 Previously, in DESTINY-Breast01, trastuzumab deruxtecan showed efficacy as third-line HER2-based treatment after trastuzumab emtansine, which led to accelerated approval in December, 2019.2 These results were consolidated in DESTINY-Breast02, in which the trastuzumab deruxtecan group had better overall survival than the investigator's choice group…

Sara A Hurvitz, Giuseppe Curigliano, Anton Egorov, Shahid Ashfaque, Javier Cortés (2023-05-20). Correspondence] DESTINY-Breast03 trial: some questions remain — Authors' reply. thelancet.com Elif Hindié noted that the optimal treatment sequencing of trastuzumab deruxtecan is still not defined. We agree that the optimal treatment sequence of trastuzumab deruxtecan after disease progression and the outcomes of post-trial therapies are important to investigate. DESTINY-Breast03 was a global trial with participation from 15 different countries. Although data were collected on…

teleSUR (2023-05-18). Myanmar: Destruction & Death Toll Increase After Cyclone Mocha. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, as per the report released by the government, the death toll from Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar has escalated to 48, many people remain missing and the amount of destroyed establishments increase. | Related: | Most of the deaths have been reported in Myanmar's coastal Rakhine state, on the Bay of Bengal. However, unconfirmed reports put the death toll much higher (near 200), especially in camps where the internally displaced Rohingya minorit…

teleSUR (2023-05-19). Tsunami Warning Triggered by 7.7 Quake in New Caledonia. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) of Australia issued a tsunami warning for Lord Howe Island in response to a seismic event with a magnitude of 7.7 that occurred at 02: 57 GMT in the southeastern region of the Loyalty Islands. | Related: | According to the BOM, a hazardous phenomenon of rip currents, large waves, and powerful ocean currents, potentially coupled with a localized overflow onto the adjacent sho…

John Zarocostas (2023-05-20). World Report] With the COVID-19 PHEIC over, what next? thelancet.com With the formal declaration of a public health emergency of international concern ending, what are the implications for international response efforts? John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.

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Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga, Wangeci Gatei, Florian Tinuga, William Mngupe Patrick Mwengee, Zabulon Yoti, Ntuli Kapologwe, Tumaini Nagu, Maheshi Swaminathan, Abel Makubi (2023-05-20). Correspondence] Tanzania's COVID-19 vaccination strategy: lessons, learning, and execution. thelancet.com Tanzania has taken an unusual route in the COVID-19 pandemic response. In early 2021, Tanzania was reported to have refused COVID-19 vaccines.1 In response, the Tanzanian Government explained the country's position, arguing there were concerns with initial vaccine safety but pointing out that the country was ready to work with the international community in the fight against COVID-19.2 After the appointment of a presidential task force in April, 2021, to establish the country's direction on COVID-19 response, as initially recommended by an expert committee,3 Tanzania joined COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX)…

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović (2023-05-19). "Collective Security" and the United Nations System of International Relations. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Young leaders from the US pledge to fight blockade of Cuba. peoplesdispatch.org Hear from some of the 150 young organizers from the US that traveled to Cuba as part of the 2023 May Day Brigade with the International Peoples' Assembly…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Palestinians oppose provocative Israeli 'flag march'. peoplesdispatch.org The march is held annually by illegal Israel settlers and other right-wing and ultra-nationalist Israelis to mark 'Jerusalem day', on which the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem started in 1967 following Israel's victory over neighboring Arab states in the six-day war…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Ecuadorian opposition rejects dissolution of parliament. peoplesdispatch.org The majority of Ecuador's political parties have rejected the dissolution of the National Assembly, arguing that the grounds established in the constitution to dissolve it, do not exist at the moment…

teleSUR (2023-05-19). AI To Replace 10,000 BT Group Telecom Workers by 2030. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, British multinational telecommunications holding company BT announced its plan to cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030, about 40 percent of its global workforce. Such layoffs are partly due to BT's adaptation to new technologies including artificial intelligence. | RELATED: | "There is a sort of 10,000 reduction from that sort of automated digitisation – we will be a huge beneficiary of AI. I believe generative AI is a huge leap forw…

Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga, Wangeci Gatei, Florian Tinuga, William Mngupe Patrick Mwengee, Zabulon Yoti, Ntuli Kapologwe, Tumaini Nagu, Maheshi Swaminathan, Abel Makubi (2023-05-20). Correspondence] Tanzania's COVID-19 vaccination strategy: lessons, learning, and execution. thelancet.com Tanzania has taken an unusual route in the COVID-19 pandemic response. In early 2021, Tanzania was reported to have refused COVID-19 vaccines.1 In response, the Tanzanian Government explained the country's position, arguing there were concerns with initial vaccine safety but pointing out that the country was ready to work with the international community in the fight against COVID-19.2 After the appointment of a presidential task force in April, 2021, to establish the country's direction on COVID-19 response, as initially recommended by an expert committee,3 Tanzania joined COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX)…

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović (2023-05-19). "Collective Security" and the United Nations System of International Relations. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Young leaders from the US pledge to fight blockade of Cuba. peoplesdispatch.org Hear from some of the 150 young organizers from the US that traveled to Cuba as part of the 2023 May Day Brigade with the International Peoples' Assembly…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Palestinians oppose provocative Israeli 'flag march'. peoplesdispatch.org The march is held annually by illegal Israel settlers and other right-wing and ultra-nationalist Israelis to mark 'Jerusalem day', on which the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem started in 1967 following Israel's victory over neighboring Arab states in the six-day war…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Ecuadorian opposition rejects dissolution of parliament. peoplesdispatch.org The majority of Ecuador's political parties have rejected the dissolution of the National Assembly, arguing that the grounds established in the constitution to dissolve it, do not exist at the moment…

teleSUR (2023-05-19). AI To Replace 10,000 BT Group Telecom Workers by 2030. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, British multinational telecommunications holding company BT announced its plan to cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030, about 40 percent of its global workforce. Such layoffs are partly due to BT's adaptation to new technologies including artificial intelligence. | RELATED: | "There is a sort of 10,000 reduction from that sort of automated digitisation – we will be a huge beneficiary of AI. I believe generative AI is a huge leap forw…

teleSUR (2023-05-19). Russia's 2nd Largest Bank Plans to Open Office in Iran. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Deputy Governor for International Affairs of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Mohsen Karimi said that Russia's second-largest bank VTB plans to set up a representative office in Tehran. | RELATED: | Two Iranian banks are laying the groundwork to set up branches in Russia, as both countries have stepped up financial cooperation in the face of tough U.S. sanctions. | Iran had requested Russia's Central Bank…

Mairead Skehan Gillis, Will Hodgkinson (2023-05-19). Boston May Day: 'They say cut back, we say fight back!'. workers.org The following talk was presented by Workers World Party representatives Mairead Skehan Gillis and Will Hodgkinson on May 1, 2023, in Boston. Mairead Skehan Gillis: Boston, May 1, 2023. Good evening and happy International Workers Day/Month to all of the workers across the world! We are so glad to be . . . |

Martha Grevatt (2023-05-19). Nakba commemoration in Cleveland: 'Today South Africa, tomorrow Palestine'. workers.org Cleveland Chief Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, grandson of the late South African President Nelson Mandela, was the keynote speaker at a Nakba (Great Catastrophe) commemoration in Cleveland on May 17. He is the tribal chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council and a member of South Africa's Parliament, representing the African National . . . |

Ana Perdigón (2023-05-19). Imperialist Logic: Yes to Guillermo Lasso, No to Pedro Castillo. orinocotribune.com In less than six months, Latin America has witnessed two congressional closures, in the nations of Ecuador and Perú. However, the treatment by international media of the measures taken by Pedro Castillo and Guillermo Lasso is entirely hypocritical. | The inconsistency of media such as El Clarín and Infobae in reviewing the dissolution of Congress by the president of Perú, Pedro Castillo, and the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, was evident this Wednesday, May 17, when Lasso announced the dissolution of the Ecuadorian National Assembly. | In international media, Castillo's actions were described as a self-co…

ecns.cn (2023-05-19). China gets new financial regulator. ecns.cn The National Administration of Financial Regulation, China's new financial regulator, was officially unveiled on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-19). Macao updates national security law. ecns.cn China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) on Thursday deliberated on and passed an amendment to the Law on Safeguarding National Security.

ecns.cn (2023-05-19). President Xi Jinping puts forward four propositions on what kind of Central Asia to be built. ecns.cn On the morning of May 19, President Xi Jinping chaired the China-Central Asia Summit at the Xi'an International Convention Center in Shaanxi Province. He put forward four propositions on what kind of Central Asia to be built in his keynote speech.

ecns.cn (2023-05-19). President Xi proposes four principles on how to build a China-Central Asia community with a shared future. ecns.cn On the morning of May 19, President Xi Jinping chaired the China-Central Asia Summit at the Xi'an International Convention Center in Shaanxi Province. He proposed four principles on how to build a China-Central Asia community with a shared future in his keynote speech.

ecns.cn (2023-05-19). President Xi Jinping puts forth eight proposals for cooperation between China and Central Asian countries. ecns.cn On the morning of May 19, President Xi Jinping chaired the China-Central Asia Summit at the Xi'an International Convention Center in Shaanxi Province. He put forth eight proposals for cooperation between China and Central Asian countries in his keynote speech.

Editor (2023-05-19). US National Security Experts Call for Peace in Ukraine. scheerpost.com Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies amplify upon a full-page ad in The New York Times on Tuesday calling the war an "unmitigated disaster" and urging Biden and U.S. Congress to help bring it speedily to an end.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-05-19). Cuba commemorates José Martí's fall in the battle field. plenglish.com Havana, May 19 (Prensa Latina) Cuba on Friday commemorates the 128th anniversary of the death of its National Hero José Martí, during a surprising and unequal battle against the Spanish colonial forces in "Dos Rios", in eastern Cuba.

infobrics (2023-05-19). Second largest Swedish party wants Stockholm to prepare for 'Swexit'. infobrics.org The Swedish government must be prepared to leave the EU, as the troubled bloc should not take its national interests for granted. The Sweden Democrats leader insists that the government must ensure it's ready in case such a decision is ever made by the Swedish people and to formally legitimize any threat to withdraw from the EU in future negotiations with Brussels.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-05-19). Cuba to host event on children and adolescents. plenglish.com Matanzas, Cuba, May 19 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban western province of Matanzas will hold the 1st "Growing to the Future" International Congress on Children and Adolescents, scheduled from May 28 to June 1 at the Plaza America Convention Center in Varadero.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-05-19). University of Havana to hold International Convention in Cuba. plenglish.com Havana, May 19 (Prensa Latina) More than 2,500 delegates from Cuba and 38 other countries will participate in the 1st Saberes-UH 2023 International Convention, sponsored by the University of Havana, the director of Institutional Communication at that educational center, Yanicet Napoles, infoirmed.

Leo Ensel (2023-05-19). Renationalizing Soviet History and Who breaks the International Rules? indybay.org The construction of differentiated historical narratives that overcome one-dimensional perpetrator-victim polarizations in discourse with other affected nations and integrate one's own complicity step by step is an extremely laborious, painful process. It will probably take decades, as the struggle to come to terms with the past in Germany has shown.

Meg Sherman (2023-05-19). WikiLeaks as Scapegoat for the Political Establishment. dissidentvoice.org Julian Assange is in prison, indefinitely and in blatant contravention of humanitarian norms. The US national security state has spoken and put its foot down, in a show of power which has subverted the true course of democracy. Sadly, the political will to sustain the persecution counteracts the political will to terminate it, though in …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-19). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-19). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-19). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-19). Mayo Clinic in a new era of discoveries with rapid genome sequencing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org National DNA Day on April 25 marks the discovery of DNA's double helix in 1953 and the Human Genome Project's completion in 2003. The discovery of DNA's double helix structure 70 years ago propelled a revolutionary shift toward individualized medicine. Today, new genome sequencing technologies could help Mayo Clinic scientists fuel a new whirlwind of genomics discoveries. One of the sophisticated sequencing technologies, arriving at Mayo Clinic in May, will give the ability to put…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). Fighting Between Sudanese Army and RSF Has Disastrous Impact in Darfur As Hundreds of Thousands Are Displaced. towardfreedom.org More than 700,000 people have been internally displaced in Sudan since April 15, when an armed conflict began between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service reports.

Ramzy Baroud, MintPress News. (2023-05-19). Netanyahu's Mistake: A Fragmented Israel Faces Palestinian Unity. popularresistance.org All Israeli wars on the Palestinians throughout the years have been promoted and justified by Tel Aviv in the name of 'security' and 'fighting terrorism.' | Israel's biggest challenge throughout many of these wars was hardly the Palestinian Resistance, however steadfast and resilient. The challenge has always been Tel Aviv's ability to kill many Palestinians, including civilians, without tarnishing its image internationally as an oasis of democracy and civilization. | Israel has been losing the public relations battle rapidly so, and now, it is losing a different kind of battle as well.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-19). The Bilderbergers meet in secret for the 69th time. expose-news.com The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, a secretive conclave of global power brokers, kicked off yesterday in Lisbon, Portugal, with issues on the agenda including transnational threats, artificial intelligence, and America's leadership in world …

Robert Hunziker (2023-05-19). Tossing Neoliberalism into the Dumpster. dissidentvoice.org It's official, according to a speech by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the United States is jumping off the neoliberal globalization bandwagon (a root cause of domestic extremism) and it couldn't come soon enough as institutions of government are sucking up more and more angry exhaust fumes from constituents, as well as encountering a world …

UFCLP (2023-05-19). Petition-Hands Off Namibian Labor Lawyer Hewat Beukes & the Dismissed Union Miner Leaders. indybay.org An international campaign to end the terrorism against Namibian labor lawyer Hewat Beukes and for the rehiring of 9 union leaders of the Rossing uranium mine owned by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation and the Namibian government. This union busting drive is also going on at other mines throughout Namibia.

Tanya Wadhwa (2023-05-18). Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso dissolves parliament through 'cross death' mechanism. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, on Wednesday, May 17, at 7 am, signed a presidential decree to activate the "cross-death" constitutional tool and dissolved the National Assembly, the country's unicameral parliament. The decision came a day after the legislature began an impeachme…

teleSUR (2023-05-18). Lasso's Cross-death Denounced Before Constitutional Court. telesurenglish.net Ecuador's Constitutional Court received several claims of unconstitutionality against the "death cross" decree used by President Guillermo Lasso to dissolve the National Assembly the day before. | RELATED: | The claims were filed by a group of former assembly members led by Esteban Torres, recently elected second vice-president of the dissolved Assembly. | The cross-death has specific causes "and none of those ca…

Fight Back (2023-05-18). LGBTQ delegation witnesses how "Love is the law" in Cuba. fightbacknews.org Havana, Cuba – It's hard to imagine when you live under state governments banning gender-affirming healthcare, but 100 miles off of Florida's shore is an island striking unrelenting blows against bigotry. | From May 7 to 14, I joined a US delegation of LGBTQ activists who traveled to Cuba. The group took part in the country's annual "working days against homophobia and transphobia." This year's working days were special because they followed the passage of Cuba's groundbreaking Families Code. | On May 3, a few days ahead of the full delegation's arrival, a part of the group attended the International Trans Iden…

Ann Brown (2023-05-18). Doc Rivers Receives Walking Papers From 76ers, Another Black Playoff Coach Terminated. moguldom.com National Basketball Association team the Philadelphia 76ers has fired coach Doc Rivers after its recent playoff loss to the Boston Celtics. The team dismissed Rivers on May 16 after the Sixers were eliminated in the Eastern Conference semifinals for a third straight season. The team lost 112-88 in Game 7 to the Boston Celtics on May 14. …

Ann Brown (2023-05-18). Who Is Victor Wembanyama? Some Say The Best Basketball Prospect Ever In NBA Draft. moguldom.com Victor Wembanyama is a French professional basketball player, and the National Basketball Association wants him. Some critics are saying he's the "most hyped NBA prospect since LeBron James," Yahoo reported. NBA scouts have been courtside in France watching Wembanyama work. The San Antonio Spurs won the 2023 NBA draft lottery on May 16, giving them …

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-05-18). Understanding the highly complex world of Western China analysis. mronline.org Former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby was interviewed on The National Review's Charles CW Cooke Podcast, where he provided some very high-level analysis on the tensions around China, Taiwan, and the United States.

Editor (2023-05-18). Indonesia launches national payment system to replace VISA, MasterCard. mronline.org Dicky Kartikoyono the Head of Strategic Management and Governance Department of the Central Bank, says that Indonesia will launch its very own national payments system to be used in state-owned institutions and enterprises.

Editor (2023-05-18). Amnesty International Global Report: Recorded Executions Highest in Five Years Reflects Increases in the Middle East and North Africa. scheerpost.com By Death Penalty Information Center According to an annual death penalty report by Amnesty International, 2022 saw the highest number of recorded executions since 2017, primarily due to increases in just a handful of countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The report also noted a slight decrease in the number of newly imposed …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). Canada Played a Key Role in Neoliberalizing Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Peter Korotaev Canadian foreign minister Melanie Joly on the left, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov on the top right and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the bottom right. | Image credit: CGTN, FC Dynamo Kyiv and Fox News The 2019 'Ukraine Reform Conference' in Toronto The 'Ukraine Reform Conference' is as an annual event…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). The Splendor of a Thousand Suns: Hiroshima and Imperial Forgetfulness. libya360.wordpress.com Gonzalo Armúa Underwater atomic test carried out at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Photograph: United States Government Navy Joe Biden's visit to Hiroshima in the framework of the G7 once again brings to the surface the cynical memory of an empire that 78 years ago unleashed the power of "a thousand suns" on a defenseless population….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). Ukraine: How Western Nations Pushed for Privatization of Agriculture and the Devastating Consequences. libya360.wordpress.com Peter Korotaev A farmer on his farmland in Western Ukraine. Image credit: CGTN. Part I: Ukraine's Privatized Agriculture: A Hungry Guarantor of Global Food Security Former Canadian ambassador to Ukraine Roman Waschuk said Ukraine is a country where the IMF does 'economic experiments'. Ukraine is a laboratory for testing radical neo-liberal policies, irrespective of the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). Ukraine's Neoliberalism on Steroids & Europe's Economic Suicide. libya360.wordpress.com To analyze the conflict in Ukraine, political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by economic geographer Mick Dunford. They discuss the aggressive neoliberal reforms being imposed by the Ukrainian government and Europe's suicidal policies. Transcript: geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/… You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: ‚Ä¢ Radhika Desai & M… Geopolitical Economy Report: De-dollarization…

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2023-05-18). A timely call for peace in Ukraine by US national security experts. nationofchange.org This intervention by an important group of U.S. national security experts comes at a time when Ukraine is delaying its long-promised spring offensive to avoid "unacceptable" losses, and a return to the negotiating table can therefore save countless lives.

MEE correspondent (2023-05-18). Iranian press review: Russia to modernise Iran's outdated oil and gas industry. middleeasteye.net Iranian press review: Russia to modernise Iran's outdated oil and gas industry | Meanwhile, Savak informant linked to dissidents killed under shah dies, the judiciary prosecutes MP who revealed the 'SUV-gate' corruption case, and plane tickets are hard to find | Thu, 05/18/2023 – 11: 35 | An Iranian man passes by the oil equipment during the International Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical…

MEE staff (2023-05-18). Tunisia: Rached Ghannouchi sentencing part of 'aggressive crackdown' by Kais Saied. middleeasteye.net Tunisia: Rached Ghannouchi sentencing part of 'aggressive crackdown' by Kais Saied | Amnesty International calls Ennahda party head's sentencing part of 'deeply worrying pattern' as Tunisia's democracy unravels | Thu, 05/18/2023 – 20: 00 | Rached Ghannouchi was sentenced in absentia to a year in prison in the most high-profile escalation of an authoritarian crackdown by President Kais Saied (AFP) | The sent…

MEE staff (2023-05-18). Turkey elections: Opposition candidate Kilicdaroglu promises to expel all refugees. middleeasteye.net Turkey elections: Opposition candidate Kilicdaroglu promises to expel all refugees | Pitching for nationalist votes, Kemal Kilicdaroglu again accuses Erdogan of letting '10 million' people into the country | Thu, 05/18/2023 – 14: 23 | Leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the joint presidential candidate of the Nation Alliance, Kemal Kilicdaroglu gives a press conference in Ankara on 18 May 2023…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-18). Israeli restrictions on foreign entry into West Bank denounced by rights group. peoplesdispatch.org A new report released by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) on Tuesday, May 16, has

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-18). GOP Tax Cut Plan Would Add $3.5T to Deficit, Congressional Budget Office Finds. truthout.org As Republicans threaten to tank the entire U.S. economy in order to force through massive cuts to federal programs and climate initiatives, supposedly to reduce the national debt, a new report finds that one of the GOP's parallel efforts to make permanent a deluge of massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy would undo all of the "savings" from their debt limit package and pile trillions… |

Staff (2023-05-18). Headlines for May 18, 2023. democracynow.org U.N. Warns Global Heating Is Poised to Set Records and May Exceed 1.5 ∞C Within Five Years, Eight Killed as Torrential Rains Bring Massive Flooding to Northern Italy, Burma's Government-in-Exile Says Death Toll from Cyclone Mocha Has Topped 400, Climate Activists at Africa Energies Summit in London Demand End to Fossil Fuel Projects, U.N. Appeals for $3 Billion in Emergency Aid to Sudan as Humanitarian Disaster Spirals, Accusations of Voting Issues in Turkey as Erdoƒüan's Rival Appeals to Nationalists Ahead of Runoff, Florida Signs Draconian Anti-Trans Laws, as Texas GOP Advances Bill…

Staff (2023-05-18). Cuba Reaches 1 Million Tourists So Far in 2023. orinocotribune.com Cuba broke the figure of 1 million visitors received so far in 2023, thus surpassing the number of visitors who arrived in the Caribbean country on the same date in 2022, reported Juan Carlos García Granda, Minister of Tourism. | In the context of the 41st International Tourism Fair (FITCuba-2023), the minister of tourism, after announcing the news, stated that, despite the obstacles, the goal of reaching 3.5 million foreign vacationers proposed for the year will not be given up. | He reiterated that one of the major limitations, in addition to the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imp…

Staff (2023-05-18). President Maduro: Venezuela Must Participate in Worldwide De-dollarization Trend. orinocotribune.com During the fourth broadcast of his television program Con Maduro+, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that Venezuela will join the de-dollarization initiative that is advancing globally: "Venezuela must join the initiative of de-dollarization of the world." | President Maduro noted that Venezuela has been a pioneer in the search for alternatives to the US dollar to circumvent the "sanctions" imposed by the United States and its allies, while he denounced the political use of the US currency due to its position as the dominant international reserve currency in the world financial system. The president highli…

teleSUR (2023-05-18). Biden and Kishida Meet Before the Start of the G7 Summit. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held a meeting prior to the start of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima on Friday. | RELATED: | "Joe and I will review the issues of the G7 summit in Hiroshima and we will do some last-minute coordination," Kishida said, expressing his hope that the G7 summit serves to show an "unbreakable will" in defense of the international liberal order created after World War II wit…

unitedEditor (2023-05-18). The opposition handed over election victory to Erdoƒüan. unitedworldint.com The severe economic crisis, the earthquake that hit 11 cities, the presidential system that does not function, millions of illegal immigrants, the lack of merit in state institutions, the injustice in income distribution, the electoral alliance that disturbs the nationalist voters (the AKP's electoral alliance with HàúDAPAR, which is close to the Türkiye-based ethnic Kurdish …

unitedEditor (2023-05-18). The Global Multipolarity Conference. unitedworldint.com The institutions Nova Resistência (Brazil), the New International Order Initiative Türkiye), the International Eurasian Movement (Russia), the Thinkers' Forum (China) and the International Russophile Movement organized a 'Global Multipolarity Conference' on April 29th, 2023. Hundreds of personalities from all over world participated in the conference in part personally and in part online. The Foreign Minister …

WSWS (2023-05-18). Communication Workers Union unites with management to enforce revisions at Parcelforce. wsws.org Before any member has cast a single vote on the deal proposed to end the national dispute on the surrender terms offered by the CWU leadership, it is being treated as an accomplished fact.

WSWS (2023-05-18). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org National strike in Belgium against "social dumping" by Delhaize and other companies to drive down wages and conditions; continuing strikes and protests across Iran over cost of living, pay and conditions involving pensioners, Haft Tappeh sugarcane workers as strike leaders of offshore gas workers arrested; Nigerian doctors give union mandate for indefinite stoppage over pay, unions call five-day warning strike…

WSWS (2023-05-18). Railroaders face cuts in unemployment and sickness benefits due to debt ceiling, end of federal COVID emergency. wsws.org The federally administered benefits had been exempted budget sequestration until President Biden ended the pandemic national emergency declaration last month.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-19). One-third of school students in Sri Lanka go without an adequate breakfast. peoplesdispatch.org Sri Lanka has been grappling with an acute economic crisis since last year. This has aggravated the problem of food insecurity in the country…

infobrics (2023-05-19). India slams European sanction threats for refining and selling Russian oil. infobrics.org New Delhi defends its interests despite constant Western pressure.

Kevin Gosztola (2023-05-18). India Accuses Reporter For Defense News Of 'Espionage'. thedissenter.org The following article was made possible by paid subscribers. Support independent journalism on secrecy, whistleblowers, and press freedom. Subscribe and get a A correspondent for Defense News was arrested in a raid by India's Central Bureau of Investigation and accused of "collecting confidential information" about the country's military in violation of the Official Secrets Act. | CBI claimed that Vivek Raghuvanshi had been investigating India's Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO), the research and development arm…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-18). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Brittani Banks (2023-05-17). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Headlines in This News Package: Erdoƒüan Upsets Opposition Hopes of Victory, Run-off With Kƒ±lƒ±àßdaroƒülu Expected in Turkey's Presidential Race India's Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party Suffers Blow in Karnataka State Elections Fighting Between Sudanese Army and RSF Has Disastrous Impact in Darfur as Hundreds of Thousands Are Displaced Colombian President Gustavo Petro Warns of Coup Plot …

infobrics (2023-05-17). Iran's Trade With BRICS Exceeds $34 Billion in 11 Months. infobrics.org Iran's trade with BRICS member states, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, reached 43.28 million tons worth $34.98 billion during the first 11 months of last Iranian year…

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Ryan Black (2023-05-17). A Year After The Racist Massacre In Buffalo At Tops Market. progressivehub.net INDIA WALTON…

People's Dispatch. (2023-05-18). Mexico Refuses To Hand Over Trade Bloc Presidency To Peru. popularresistance.org Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), on Monday, May 15, once again refused to hand over the pro tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru's de facto president of Peru, Dina Boluarte. President AMLO said that there was a consensus between Mexico, Colombia and Chile not to give the presidency of the alliance to Peru. | "There are four countries [in the bloc]: Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru. And the opinion of the president of Colombia is similar to mine and the president of Chile. He is [also] not interested in giving Peru the presidency of this group called the Pacific Alliance… We c…

WSWS (2023-05-18). Sri Lankan ruling party demonises last year's mass uprising. wsws.org The Wickremesinghe government's denigration of last year's mass movement that forced out President Gotabhaya Rajapakse is in preparation for state repression against the working class and rural masses.

Tanupriya Singh (2023-05-17). Kenya's 'anti-people' Finance Bill met with widespread opposition as cost of living soars. peoplesdispatch.org Amid rising debt payments the Kenyan government has proposed new tax and levy regimes in the Finance Bill 2023. Unions and left forces, especially the Communist Party of Kenya, have argued that the measures will further burden workers while they are already struggling under an economic crisis…

teleSUR (2023-05-18). Myanmar: Destruction & Death Toll Increase After Cyclone Mocha. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, as per the report released by the government, the death toll from Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar has escalated to 48, many people remain missing and the amount of destroyed establishments increase. | Related: | Most of the deaths have been reported in Myanmar's coastal Rakhine state, on the Bay of Bengal. However, unconfirmed reports put the death toll much higher (near 200), especially in camps where the internally displaced Rohingya minorit…

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-17). U.S. Virgin Islands Issues Subpoena: We Want To Talk To Elon Musk About Jeffrey Epstein. moguldom.com The U.S. Virgin Islands has subpoenaed Twitter owner Elon Musk for documents in its lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, which it has accused of helping enable the sexual abuse of girls by pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2021 while awaiting trial. The largest investment bank in the world by revenue, JP Morgan was sued …

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infobrics (2023-05-19). Second largest Swedish party wants Stockholm to prepare for 'Swexit'. infobrics.org The Swedish government must be prepared to leave the EU, as the troubled bloc should not take its national interests for granted. The Sweden Democrats leader insists that the government must ensure it's ready in case such a decision is ever made by the Swedish people and to formally legitimize any threat to withdraw from the EU in future negotiations with Brussels.

Staff (2023-05-18). Headlines for May 18, 2023. democracynow.org U.N. Warns Global Heating Is Poised to Set Records and May Exceed 1.5 ∞C Within Five Years, Eight Killed as Torrential Rains Bring Massive Flooding to Northern Italy, Burma's Government-in-Exile Says Death Toll from Cyclone Mocha Has Topped 400, Climate Activists at Africa Energies Summit in London Demand End to Fossil Fuel Projects, U.N. Appeals for $3 Billion in Emergency Aid to Sudan as Humanitarian Disaster Spirals, Accusations of Voting Issues in Turkey as Erdoƒüan's Rival Appeals to Nationalists Ahead of Runoff, Florida Signs Draconian Anti-Trans Laws, as Texas GOP Advances Bill…

Leo Ensel (2023-05-18). Renationalizing Soviet History and Who breaks the International Rules? indybay.org The construction of differentiated historical narratives that overcome one-dimensional perpetrator-victim polarizations in discourse with other affected nations and integrate one's own complicity step by step is an extremely laborious, painful process. It will probably take decades, as the struggle to come to terms with the past in Germany has shown.

UFCLP (2023-05-18). Petition-Hands Off Namibian Labor Lawyer Hewat Beukes & the Dismissed Union Miner Leaders. indybay.org An international campaign to end the terrorism against Namibian labor lawyer Hewat Beukes and for the rehiring of 9 union leaders of the Rossing uranium mine owned by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation and the Namibian government. This union busting drive is also going on at other mines throughout Namibia.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). The Splendor of a Thousand Suns: Hiroshima and Imperial Forgetfulness. libya360.wordpress.com Gonzalo Armúa Underwater atomic test carried out at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Photograph: United States Government Navy Joe Biden's visit to Hiroshima in the framework of the G7 once again brings to the surface the cynical memory of an empire that 78 years ago unleashed the power of "a thousand suns" on a defenseless population….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). Canada Played a Key Role in Neoliberalizing Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Peter Korotaev Canadian foreign minister Melanie Joly on the left, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov on the top right and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the bottom right. | Image credit: CGTN, FC Dynamo Kyiv and Fox News The 2019 'Ukraine Reform Conference' in Toronto The 'Ukraine Reform Conference' is as an annual event…

infobrics (2023-05-19). Second largest Swedish party wants Stockholm to prepare for 'Swexit'. infobrics.org The Swedish government must be prepared to leave the EU, as the troubled bloc should not take its national interests for granted. The Sweden Democrats leader insists that the government must ensure it's ready in case such a decision is ever made by the Swedish people and to formally legitimize any threat to withdraw from the EU in future negotiations with Brussels.

Staff (2023-05-18). Headlines for May 18, 2023. democracynow.org U.N. Warns Global Heating Is Poised to Set Records and May Exceed 1.5 ∞C Within Five Years, Eight Killed as Torrential Rains Bring Massive Flooding to Northern Italy, Burma's Government-in-Exile Says Death Toll from Cyclone Mocha Has Topped 400, Climate Activists at Africa Energies Summit in London Demand End to Fossil Fuel Projects, U.N. Appeals for $3 Billion in Emergency Aid to Sudan as Humanitarian Disaster Spirals, Accusations of Voting Issues in Turkey as Erdoƒüan's Rival Appeals to Nationalists Ahead of Runoff, Florida Signs Draconian Anti-Trans Laws, as Texas GOP Advances Bill…

Leo Ensel (2023-05-18). Renationalizing Soviet History and Who breaks the International Rules? indybay.org The construction of differentiated historical narratives that overcome one-dimensional perpetrator-victim polarizations in discourse with other affected nations and integrate one's own complicity step by step is an extremely laborious, painful process. It will probably take decades, as the struggle to come to terms with the past in Germany has shown.

UFCLP (2023-05-18). Petition-Hands Off Namibian Labor Lawyer Hewat Beukes & the Dismissed Union Miner Leaders. indybay.org An international campaign to end the terrorism against Namibian labor lawyer Hewat Beukes and for the rehiring of 9 union leaders of the Rossing uranium mine owned by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation and the Namibian government. This union busting drive is also going on at other mines throughout Namibia.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). The Splendor of a Thousand Suns: Hiroshima and Imperial Forgetfulness. libya360.wordpress.com Gonzalo Armúa Underwater atomic test carried out at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Photograph: United States Government Navy Joe Biden's visit to Hiroshima in the framework of the G7 once again brings to the surface the cynical memory of an empire that 78 years ago unleashed the power of "a thousand suns" on a defenseless population….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). Canada Played a Key Role in Neoliberalizing Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Peter Korotaev Canadian foreign minister Melanie Joly on the left, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov on the top right and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the bottom right. | Image credit: CGTN, FC Dynamo Kyiv and Fox News The 2019 'Ukraine Reform Conference' in Toronto The 'Ukraine Reform Conference' is as an annual event…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). Desperation at the US Border. libya360.wordpress.com Natalia Marques Migrants are interviewed as they wait in the La Plaza bus terminal in Brownsville, Texas (Photo: The Party for Socialism and Liberation) Thousands of migrants, driven by economic warfare waged by the US, find themselves in conditions of despair at the southern US border There is a humanitarian crisis at the southern border…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). Ukraine: How Western Nations Pushed for Privatization of Agriculture and the Devastating Consequences. libya360.wordpress.com Peter Korotaev A farmer on his farmland in Western Ukraine. Image credit: CGTN. Part I: Ukraine's Privatized Agriculture: A Hungry Guarantor of Global Food Security Former Canadian ambassador to Ukraine Roman Waschuk said Ukraine is a country where the IMF does 'economic experiments'. Ukraine is a laboratory for testing radical neo-liberal policies, irrespective of the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-18). Ukraine's Neoliberalism on Steroids & Europe's Economic Suicide. libya360.wordpress.com To analyze the conflict in Ukraine, political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by economic geographer Mick Dunford. They discuss the aggressive neoliberal reforms being imposed by the Ukrainian government and Europe's suicidal policies. Transcript: geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/… You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: ‚Ä¢ Radhika Desai & M… Geopolitical Economy Report: De-dollarization…

Ann Brown (2023-05-18). Who Is Victor Wembanyama? Some Say The Best Basketball Prospect Ever In NBA Draft. moguldom.com Victor Wembanyama is a French professional basketball player, and the National Basketball Association wants him. Some critics are saying he's the "most hyped NBA prospect since LeBron James," Yahoo reported. NBA scouts have been courtside in France watching Wembanyama work. The San Antonio Spurs won the 2023 NBA draft lottery on May 16, giving them …

Ann Brown (2023-05-18). Doc Rivers Receives Walking Papers From 76ers, Another Black Playoff Coach Terminated. moguldom.com National Basketball Association team the Philadelphia 76ers has fired coach Doc Rivers after its recent playoff loss to the Boston Celtics. The team dismissed Rivers on May 16 after the Sixers were eliminated in the Eastern Conference semifinals for a third straight season. The team lost 112-88 in Game 7 to the Boston Celtics on May 14. …

Editor (2023-05-18). Indonesia launches national payment system to replace VISA, MasterCard. mronline.org Dicky Kartikoyono the Head of Strategic Management and Governance Department of the Central Bank, says that Indonesia will launch its very own national payments system to be used in state-owned institutions and enterprises.

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-05-18). Understanding the highly complex world of Western China analysis. mronline.org Former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby was interviewed on The National Review's Charles CW Cooke Podcast, where he provided some very high-level analysis on the tensions around China, Taiwan, and the United States.

Staff (2023-05-18). Cuba Reaches 1 Million Tourists So Far in 2023. orinocotribune.com Cuba broke the figure of 1 million visitors received so far in 2023, thus surpassing the number of visitors who arrived in the Caribbean country on the same date in 2022, informed Juan Carlos García Granda, Minister of Tourism. | In the context of the 41st International Tourism Fair (FITCuba-2023), the minister of tourism, after announcing the news, stated that, despite the obstacles, the goal of reaching 3.5 million foreign vacationers proposed for the year will not be given up. | He reiterated that one of the major limitations, in addition to the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imp…

Staff (2023-05-18). President Maduro: Venezuela Must Participate in Worldwide De-dollarization Trend. orinocotribune.com During the fourth broadcast of his television program Con Maduro+, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that Venezuela will join the de-dollarization initiative that is advancing globally: "Venezuela must join the initiative of de-dollarization of the world." | President Maduro noted that Venezuela has been a pioneer in the search for alternatives to the US dollar to circumvent the "sanctions" imposed by the United States and its allies, while he denounced the political use of the US currency due to its position as the dominant international reserve currency in the world financial system. The president highli…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-18). Israeli restrictions on foreign entry into West Bank denounced by rights group. peoplesdispatch.org A new report released by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) on Tuesday, May 16, has

Tunde Osazua, Black Agenda Report. (2023-05-18). National Conference For Black Self-Determination And Pan-African Unity. popularresistance.org From June 23rd to the 25th, a historic gathering of Black radical organizers will take place in the city of Atlanta, hosted by Community Movement Builders . The National Black Radical Organizing Conference will serve as a rallying point for individuals dedicated to our collective liberation struggle. Under the theme of "Unity in our Lifetime: Connecting the National Black Struggle for Self-Determination with Pan-Africanism," this conference aims to propel our movement to new heights and reaffirm our unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic oppression. | During conference keynotes, panels, plenaries, workshop…

Editor (2023-05-18). Amnesty International Global Report: Recorded Executions Highest in Five Years Reflects Increases in the Middle East and North Africa. scheerpost.com By Death Penalty Information Center According to an annual death penalty report by Amnesty International, 2022 saw the highest number of recorded executions since 2017, primarily due to increases in just a handful of countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The report also noted a slight decrease in the number of newly imposed …

Tanya Wadhwa (2023-05-18). Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso dissolves parliament through 'cross death' mechanism. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, on Wednesday, May 17, at 7 am, signed a presidential decree to activate the "cross-death" constitutional tool and dissolved the National Assembly, the country's unicameral parliament. The decision came a day after the legislature began an impeachme…

unitedEditor (2023-05-18). The Global Multipolarity Conference. unitedworldint.com The institutions Nova Resistência (Brazil), the New International Order Initiative Türkiye), the International Eurasian Movement (Russia), the Thinkers' Forum (China) and the International Russophile Movement organized a 'Global Multipolarity Conference' on April 29th, 2023. Hundreds of personalities from all over world participated in the conference in part personally and in part online. The Foreign Minister …

unitedEditor (2023-05-18). The opposition handed over election victory to Erdoƒüan. unitedworldint.com The severe economic crisis, the earthquake that hit 11 cities, the presidential system that does not function, millions of illegal immigrants, the lack of merit in state institutions, the injustice in income distribution, the electoral alliance that disturbs the nationalist voters (the AKP's electoral alliance with HàúDAPAR, which is close to the Türkiye-based ethnic Kurdish …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-18). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-18). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-18). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

ecns.cn (2023-05-18). China inaugurates new national financial regulatory administration. ecns.cn China's new national financial regulatory administration held its opening ceremony on Thursday, closing the operations of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission. "ÄÄ…

ecns.cn (2023-05-18). National Financial Regulatory Administration officially unveiled in Beijing. ecns.cn China's National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) was officially established in Beijing on Thursday, marking an important step for China's financial supervision reform.

ecns.cn (2023-05-18). Fuzhou celebrates International Museum Day with night show. ecns.cn Fujian Museum in east China's Fujian Province will be the country's main venue for this year's International Museum Day, which falls on May 18.

ecns.cn (2023-05-18). Research vessel 'Tansuo-2' docks at Fujian pier to mark International Museum Day. ecns.cn The ship is 87.2 meters long and 18.8 meters wide, with a full-load displacement of 6,800 tons . It can carry 60 researchers and has a maximum speed of 14.2 knots and a cruising range of 15,000 nautical miles.

ecns.cn (2023-05-18). Zhangjiajie's 'Avatar' mountains enveloped in clouds. ecns.cn A sea of clouds floats in mountain peaks after rain, creating a fantastical "Avatar" world in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, central China's Hunan Province, May 17, 2023.

ecns.cn (2023-05-18). Major indicators show China's continuous economic recovery. ecns.cn China's economy has maintained its recovery momentum as shown by major indicators upward trend during the Jan to April period, according to statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2023-05-18). A timely call for peace in Ukraine by US national security experts. nationofchange.org This intervention by an important group of U.S. national security experts comes at a time when Ukraine is delaying its long-promised spring offensive to avoid "unacceptable" losses, and a return to the negotiating table can therefore save countless lives.

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-05-18). New donation to the Guayabera Museum in Cuba. plenglish.com Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, May 18 (Prensa Latina) The Guayabera House-Museum in this city on Thursday received a new donation from Mariela Castro, director of the National Center for Sexual Education, as part of the Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.

teleSUR (2023-05-18). Lasso's Cross-death Denounced Before Constitutional Court. telesurenglish.net Ecuador's Constitutional Court received several claims of unconstitutionality against the "death cross" decree used by President Guillermo Lasso to dissolve the National Assembly the day before. | RELATED: | The claims were filed by a group of former assembly members led by Esteban Torres, recently elected second vice-president of the dissolved Assembly. | The cross-death has specific causes "and none of those ca…

teleSUR (2023-05-18). Biden and Kishida Meet Before the Start of the G7 Summit. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held a meeting prior to the start of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima on Friday. | RELATED: | "Joe and I will review the issues of the G7 summit in Hiroshima and we will do some last-minute coordination," Kishida said, expressing his hope that the G7 summit serves to show an "unbreakable will" in defense of the international liberal order created after World War II wit…

WSWS (2023-05-18). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org National strike in Belgium against "social dumping" by Delhaize and other companies to drive down wages and conditions; continuing strikes and protests across Iran over cost of living, pay and conditions involving pensioners, Haft Tappeh sugarcane workers as strike leaders of offshore gas workers arrested; Nigerian doctors give union mandate for indefinite stoppage over pay, unions call five-day warning strike…

WSWS (2023-05-18). Communication Workers Union unites with management to enforce revisions at Parcelforce. wsws.org Before any member has cast a single vote on the deal proposed to end the national dispute on the surrender terms offered by the CWU leadership, it is being treated as an accomplished fact.

WSWS (2023-05-18). Railroaders face cuts in unemployment and sickness benefits due to debt ceiling, end of federal COVID emergency. wsws.org The federally administered benefits had been exempted budget sequestration until President Biden ended the pandemic national emergency declaration last month.

Staff (2023-05-17). "The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace": Nat'l Security Experts Demand U.S. Push to End Ukraine War. democracynow.org More than a dozen former U.S. national security officials have released an open letter calling for a diplomatic end to the Russia-Ukraine war. The call for peace was published as a full-page ad Tuesday in The New York Times and organized by the Eisenhower Media Network. They called the war an "unmitigated disaster" that the U.S. should work to end before it escalates into a nuclear confrontation. We speak with Dennis Fritz, director of the Eisenhower Media Network and a retired command chief master sergeant of the U.S. Air Force. "The majority of my life has been in and out of the Pentagon, and…

Staff (2023-05-17). Headlines for May 17, 2023. democracynow.org North Carolina Bans Abortion After 12 Weeks as GOP Lawmakers Override Governor's Veto, Nebraska Lawmakers Advance Bill to Ban Abortion & Ban Gender-Affirming Medical Care, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Florida Hold Elections, Talks over Debt Ceiling Remain Stalled as GOP Pushes Sweeping Cuts, Biden to Head to Hiroshima for G7 Summit But Cuts Rest of Asia Trip Short, Chinese Special Envoy Arrives in Ukraine to Push for War to End, Costs of War Project: Post-9/11 Wars Have Resulted in 4.5 Million Deaths, Ecuador: Guillermo Lasso Dissolves National Assembly to Block Impeachment Push, Biden Administration Grants K…

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-05-17). Business As Usual: Shutdown or Not, the Police State Will Continue to Flourish. dissidentvoice.org There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. —Ludwig von Mises Once again, the police state is up to its old tricks, stoking tensions over whether or not the government is forced to shut down, even partially, due to a default on the national debt. Yet …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-17). An Historical Background to the US/NATO Proxy War Against Russia. libya360.wordpress.com Ian Beddowes Today the USA and its NATO allies have an overwhelming military presence throughout the world and are still trying to push that even further. They have the whole world divided into military commands. They have funded extremists everywhere, jihadists in the Middle East, Nazis in Ukraine. To call Russia imperialist' in the present…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-17). Polisario Front: 50 Years of Struggles and Victories. libya360.wordpress.com Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein May 10, marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario), the legitimate representative of the Saharawi people in their struggle for self-determination. Likewise, this coming May 20 people will commemorate half a century since the beginning of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-17). Escaping Debt Slavery: Ethiopia, Africa, and the IMF. libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison In 1987, at the Organization for African Unity, Thomas Sankara said, "Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa." Ethiopia might actually be better off if the US keeps the IMF from signing off on its latest loan request. The US is holding up Ethiopia's request for a $2 billion loan from the International…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-17). Russian Kinzhal Missile Strikes US Patriot System in Kiev: The Fundamental Disadvantage West Faces. libya360.wordpress.com Update on the conflict in Ukraine for May 17, 2023 — Russia's Ministry of Defense and US officials confirm Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles successfully targeted US-made Patriot air defense systems; — Patriot systems launched approximately 30 missiles over 2 minutes, representing tens of millions of dollars of missiles that were already in short supply; —…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-17). A Humanist Response to the Reactionary Advance of the Far Right. libya360.wordpress.com Javier Tolcachier The electoral victories of Gustavo Petro, Xiomara Castro, Gabriel Boric, Pedro Castillo, the return of MAS to the Bolivian government and Lula to the Brazilian presidency, together with the electoral victories of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Alberto Fernández inaugurated a new wave of progressive governments in Latin America. As a result of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-17). G20 Policy Advisors Are Tired of America's Self-Serving 'Rules-Based International Order'. libya360.wordpress.com Igor Makarov The 'Global South' is starting to question whether Western countries, and primarily the US, should be allowed to continue dictating the international agenda Last week, in Mumbai, I attended the Think 20 interim conference. It describes itself as an "idea bank" for the G20 that brings together think tanks and high-level experts to…

Ann Brown (2023-05-17). Top Sports Journalist Michael Wilborn: My Son Can't Buy Ja Morant's Shoes Due To Promotion Of Wannabe Gangsta Lifestyle. moguldom.com The latest gun-flashing incident involving basketball player Ja Morant has upset many; veteran sports reporter Michael Wilborn, for one, has had enough. National Basketball Association star Morant, who plays for the Memphis Grizzlies, was suspended another time after a video surfaced recently on social media showing the star guard holding a gun. The latest video …

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-05-17). President of Ecuador Dissolves National Assembly Amid Impeachment Trial. orinocotribune.com The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, dissolved the National Assembly on Wednesday morning while the impeachment trial against him for corruption and money laundering was underway. The decision brings memories of a similar constitutional decision taken by Peruvian President Pedro Castillo a few months ago that ended very differently, with Castillo's controversial arrest and harsh criticism by the White House and its regional pundits. | In a televised address to the nation on Wednesday, May 17, Lasso announced the application of the muerte cruzada or cross death mechanism and dissolved the parliament through…

scorinoco (2023-05-17). As Ecuador's Impeachment Drama Races to a Conclusion, Lasso and the Country Face 3 Options. orinocotribune.com By Sylvan Hardy — May 15, 2023 | As the clock ticks down to an impeachment vote in the National Assembly that could remove President Guillermo Lasso from office, political and legal experts agree he faces three options. | The first is to allow the impeachment trial to play through to the end in the belief the opposition does not have the 92 votes necessary to send him packing. Support for this scenario gained traction last week when 88 members of the Assembly voted to continue the impeachment trial. Lasso supporters and many political observers believe that the 88 votes for the trial equal the number of vote…

Staff (2023-05-17). Venezuela's National Assembly Approves Bill for Protection of Assets Abroad. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) unanimously approved the Bill for the Protection of Assets, Rights and Interests of the Republic and its Entities Abroad in its second discussion on Tuesday. The bill is a tool to counter the failed US-led "regime change" operation to oust President Nicolás Maduro that, in reality, affects millions of Venezuelans, especially the most vulnerable ones. | After the bill was approved on Tuesday, May 16, the president of the National Assembly (AN), Deputy Jorge Rodríguez, agreed to apply "exemplary" sanctions against the people involved in the dispossession of property and assets…

Staff (2023-05-17). PSUV and Communist Party of China Ratify Cooperation Agreements. orinocotribune.com Venezuela and China continue to deepen political alliances. This time, Caracas served as the venue for an official meeting between the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the Communist Party of China (CPC), organizations sharing deep anti-imperialist principles. | Vice President of the PSUV Diosdado Cabello received the CPC delegation, led by the deputy minister for the international department of the Central Committee of the CPC, Li Mingxiang. | High-level members of the PSUV leadership also participated in the meeting: Vice President of Organization Pedro Infante; Vice President of Training Tania Día…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-17). Libyan parliament suspends Fathi Bashagha as prime minister of Sirte-based government. peoplesdispatch.org The failure of the two rival administrations in Libya to agree on a new electoral law is delaying the national elections and endangering the fragile ceasefire achieved through UN mediation in November 2020…

Patrícia de Matos (2023-05-17). From Asia to Latin America: global agro-ecological produce debuted at the MST Fair. peoplesdispatch.org National borders were no longer enough to encompass the products that arrived at the National Agrarian Reform Fair, which began on May 11 and ran until last Sunday, May 14, at the àÅgua Branca Park, in Sà£o Paulo, Brazil. | For the first time in its history, the event received international delegations from Asia, Europe and Latin America who brought with them products developed from agroecological growing processes. | According to Cássia Bechara, a national leader with the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) and an organizer of the internationalist stall that brought together agroecological product…

Tanya Wadhwa (2023-05-17). Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso dissolves parliament through "cross death" mechanism. peoplesdispatch.org Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, on Wednesday, May 17, at 7 am, signed a presidential decree to activate the "cross-death" constitutional tool and dissolved the National Assembly, the country's unicameral parliament. The decision came a day after the legislature began an impeachment hearing against Lasso, who stands accused of the crime of embezzlement of public funds. With this decision, the impeachment process against Lasso was canceled, which could have removed him from office. | In a televised address to the nation, Lasso explained that he had applied article 148 of the Constitution that grants him the p…

Michael Fox (2023-05-17). Families of the detained see echoes of dictatorial past in El Salvador's gang crackdown. therealnews.com El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is a millennial social media sensation, who has ruled with an iron fist over the last year, instituting a state of exception and locking up 65,000 suspected gang members. For much of the country, his policies have been an overwhelming success, slashing crime rates like never seen. But, thousands of family members of the detained say their loved ones are innocent. On May 1, they led a huge International Workers Day march against the government. Their stories, and the signs they carry, are eerily reminiscent. In the 1970s and '80s, 30,000 innocent civilians were detained,…

unitedEditor (2023-05-17). "The pro-American political program has lost in the elections" unitedworldint.com United World International author Yunus Soner provided an interview to Russia Today commeting on the elections in Türkiye. Below we present the transcript of the interview. Thanks for joining us today again. 5% difference between the two main candidates. Were you surprised by the results? Yes, I fully agree with your correspondent here in Istanbul. …

teleSUR (2023-05-17). Ecuador: Electoral Council Announces Deadline To Call Elections. telesurenglish.net Ecuador's National Electoral Council (CNE) reported Wednesday that the deadline to call new legislative and presidential elections expires in seven days. | RELATED: | The president of the CNE, Diana Atamaint, said in a press conference that "as of tomorrow begins the seven-day term to make the call, that is, the term to call expires on May 24, 2023." | The electoral process will last 90 days, said Atamaint while pointi…

teleSUR (2023-05-17). Colombian Government And ELN Resume Peace Talks. telesurenglish.net The Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) announced Wednesday the resumption of peace negotiations after the pause requested by the guerrillas due to statements made by President Gustavo Petro. | RELATED: | "We are resuming the ordinary sessions of the Dialogue Table, after having carried out a first exchange of clarifications on the recent interventions of the president, Gustavo Petro," the parties said in a joint stat…

teleSUR (2023-05-17). Ecuador Might Have a New Government in Up to Six Months. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday afternoon, the National Electoral Council (CNE) will offer details on the organization of early elections, once President Guillermo Lasso dissolved Parliament through executive decree 741. | RELATED: | Invoking the Constitution's Article 148, his decree asks the CNE to call early elections due to the "serious internal political upheaval." Through this resource, Lasso avoided being dismissed in an impeachme…

teleSUR (2023-05-17). WHO Europe Urges Vigilance Over MPOX. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Office for Europe launched a new campaign called "Eliminating MPOX: Placing affected populations at the heart of our response" to highlight the potential risk of a significant monkeypox (MPOX) outbreak. | RELATED: | Although mpox is no longer considered a public health emergency of international concern, recent reports from WHO Europe show an increase in cases, with 17 new infecti…

WSWS (2023-05-17). Tens of thousands of excess deaths recorded in 2022 in England and Wales. wsws.org The onset of the pandemic, which is still killing people, exposed, exacerbated and compounded the crisis in the National Health Service and public health generally.

Brenda Norrell (2023-05-17). Defenders of Paiute Massacre Site from Lithium Mine Prepare for Restraining Order. indybay.org Live from Ox Sam Camp at Peehee Mu'huh (Thacker Pass) — The defenders of the Paiute Massacre Site are prepared to be served with a restraining order. Lithium Americas of Canada is targeting two non-Indians, in order to distract from the fact that Paiute descendants of a survivor of the massacre here are leading the ceremony and road blockade. Ox Sam Camp said late today, Monday, that Lithium Nevada is filing an application for a temporary order for protection against harassment in the workplace in the Justice Court in the Township of Union Humboldt County, Nevada.

ecns.cn (2023-05-17). Xi urges all-out rescue efforts after fishing vessel capsizes. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out rescue efforts after a Chinese fishing vessel capsized in Indian Ocean on early Tuesday morning.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-17). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

WSWS (2023-05-17). Modi and his far-right BJP suffer a major reversal in Karnataka state election. wsws.org India's ruling party has lost power in Karnataka, the country's eighth-most populous state, after mounting a vile communalist campaign fronted by the country's prime minister, the would-be autocrat Narendra Modi.

infobrics (2023-05-16). India-Russia Economic Relations: The New Dimensions. infobrics.org In the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine war, India has been purchasing oil from Russia at a discounted price. The US has not opposed this decision publicly but earlier this year, some US officials had alluded to the possibility of imposing sanctions on India for purchase of Russian oil, though the US later on clarified that Washington was not "looking to sanction India"

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-16). Thousands of Muslims in India's Kerala Protest Rising Islamophobia, Hindu Fascism. orinocotribune.com Thousands of Muslims in India's southern state of Kerala have rallied to protest growing Islamophobia and violence against Muslims across the country amid rising Hindu nationalism. | Protesters chanted slogans against Hindutva fascism, a right-wing political ideology based on Hindu nationalism aimed at establishing India as a Hindu nation — rather than a secular state, as well as growing Islamophobia, media outlets in the country reported Monday. | According to the reports, the peaceful protest rally on Saturday was organized by the Kerala Muslim Jama-ath Federation (KMJF) to mark its 40th anniversary in th…

Thierry Meyssan (2023-05-16). Imran Khan and the independence of Pakistan. thealtworld.com Pakistan has never been independent. It has always remained a toy in the hands of the United Kingdom and the United States. During the Western war against the Afghan communist regime, it became a rear base for Bin Laden's mujahideen and Arab fighters. However, for the past decade, a cricket champion like no other has been trying to liberate it, make peace with India and create social services: Imran Khan. | The Pakistani population is rising up against its army and its political personnel. Everywhere, demonstrations are forming in support of the former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, who has just been released but is…

Thierry Meyssan (2023-05-16). Imran Khan y la independencia de Pakistán. thealtworld.com Pakistán nunca ha sido realmente independiente. Su independencia fue sólo formal y desde entonces ese país ha sido un juguete en manos del Reino Unido y de Estados Unidos. Durante la guerra de Occidente contra el gobierno comunista afgano, Pakistán fue utilizado como base de retaguardia de los muyahidines y para los yihadistas árabes de Osama ben Laden. Pero hace una década, un campeón de cricket convertido en jefe de gobierno, Imran Khan, comenzó a tratar de liberar el país, de negociar la paz con la India y de crear servicios sociales para sus compatriotas. | La población pakistaní se levanta hoy contra el ejér…

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Baya weaver bird builds nest in Yunnan. ecns.cn Baya weaver birds are found across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The male birds usually work tirelessly to build nests during their breeding season.

People's Dispatch. (2023-05-17). Italy: Trade Unions Continue Mobilizations Against Labor Policies. popularresistance.org Mainstream trade unions in Italy, including the Italian General Confederation of Labor (CGIL), the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions (CISL), and the Italian Labor Union (UIL), organized a major demonstration in Milan on Saturday, May 13. The unions denounced the economic policies of the right-wing government led by Giorgia Meloni, including proposed cuts to public services and social welfare programs, along with lack of investment in job creation. Cadres from various political groups including the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) also participated and expressed solidarity with workers.

People's Dispatch. (2023-05-16). US Seizes Web Domains Related To Lebanese Resistance Group Hezbollah. popularresistance.org The US seized over a dozen web domains belonging to the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah and others on Thursday, May 11. The US Department of Justice claimed that the web domains were operated by persons or groups who had been sanctioned by the US government. | Most of these domains were registered in the US and belonged to Al Manar TV which is affiliated to Hezbollah, such as almanarnews.org, manarnews.org, and almanartv.org, among others. | Other prominent web domains include sites belonging to Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem and the website related to the Islamic Resistance Support Ass…

teleSUR (2023-05-17). Zimbabwe Import Duty Suspension on Basic Goods to Last 6 Months. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Zimbabwean authorities officially announced the suspension of import duties on essential goods intended to mitigate the prevalent price escalations will last for six months. | Related: | "Import duty on the 14 basic commodities will remain suspended for six months in order to ensure their availability at competitive prices," Monica Mutsvangwa, Minister of Publicity and Broadcasting Services, said during a post-cabinet media b…

teleSUR (2023-05-17). UN G. Assembly Declares Nov. 26 World Sustainable Transport Day. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution concerning the designation of November 26 as the annual commemoration of World Sustainable Transport Day. | Related: | The resolution extends an invitation to all member states of the United Nations, UN affiliated organizations, regional as well as international organizations, and civil society to participate in celebrating World Sustainable Transport Day.

Fight Back (2023-05-17). Milwaukee commemorates the 137th anniversary of the Bay View Massacre. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On Sunday, May 7, 150 people gathered for the annual commemoration of the Bay View Massacre. 137 years ago, in May 1886, over 14,000 union workers gathered outside the Milwaukee Iron Company Rolling Mill in demand of an eight-hour workday. These unionists had shut down every single business in the city of Milwaukee except the rolling mills in Bay View. As they were marching towards the mills, Governor Jeremiah Rusk ordered 250 national guard members be posted outside to prevent any striker from entering – these orders included shooting the marchers on sight and resulted in the death of seven peopl…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-05-17). Georgian Airways receives permit to fly to Russia. plenglish.com Tbilisi, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Georgia's national air carrier Georgian Airways received a permit on Tuesday to carry daily flights to Russia starting on May 20, the country's Civil Aviation Agency announced.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-17). End the 'Memoricide': Planting for Nakba Day. orinocotribune.com By Lois Griffiths — May 15, 2023 | May 15, Nakba Day, is an important date for the Palestinian people. It's the day when Palestinians commemorate their history and their culture. While Israeli nationalists and Zionist supporters celebrate the forming in 1948 of the State of Israel, the 'Birth' of Israel, Palestinians remember the Nakba, the catastrophe, ie, what was done to the indigenous people. | It's a memory that the Israeli regime has tried to outlaw, to erase. Decades ago Israel deliberately renamed, ie 'Hebrewized ', villages and geographical locations. Some destroyed villages were covered over with p…

ecns.cn (2023-05-17). China, Japan defence ministers talk over direct line. ecns.cn Defense ministers of China and Japan held a conversation through a direct telephone line for the first time as part of a maritime and aerial communication mechanism on Tuesday, China's Ministry of National Defense said.

ecns.cn (2023-05-17). China opposes any country interfering in the South China Sea issue under the pretext of U.S.-Philippines bilateral security guidelines. ecns.cn When commenting on bilateral security guidelines between the U.S. and the Philippines, Tan Kefei, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, said on Tuesday that China firmly opposes any country interfering in the South China Sea issue and undermining China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests under the pretext of so-called bilateral treaties."ÄÄ…

National Animal Rights Day, Bay Area (2023-05-17). Sunday 6/4: National Animal Rights Day 2023 – NARD 13. indybay.org Unity Park, Richmond, CA…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-17). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-17). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-17). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-17). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Medea Benjamin (2023-05-16). A Timely Call for Peace in Ukraine by U.S. National Security Experts. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović (2023-05-16). The Theoretical Concept of Geopolitics in International Relations and Global Politics. globalresearch.ca

Andy Kroll (2023-05-16). China and the Axis of the Sanctioned. tomdispatch.com A photo Beijing released on March 6th of Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a seismic shock in Washington. There was the Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party standing between Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's National Security Council, and Saudi National Security Adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban. They were awkwardly shaking hands on an agreement to reestablish mutual diplomatic ties. That picture should have brought to mind a 1993 photo of President Bill Clinton hosting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn as they agreed to the Oslo Acco…

teleSUR (2023-05-16). Venezuela Approves Law For The Protection Of Assets Abroad. telesurenglish.net The Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) unanimously approved on Tuesday the Law for the Protection of Assets, Rights and Interests of the Republic and its entities abroad. | RELATED: | The law was unanimously approved in second discussion during the ordinary session of the Parliament. The president of the National Assembly Jorge Rodríguez said that "it is justice, deputies, for the homeland, for life, for the futu…

teleSUR (2023-05-16). Impeachment Trial Against President Lasso Continues In Ecuador. telesurenglish.net The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, defended himself on Tuesday in the political trial against him that is taking place in the country's National Assembly. | RELATED: | Lasso is accused of the alleged crime of embezzlement in the management of the state-owned shipping company Flota Petrolera Ecuatoriana (Flopec). Congress requires 92 out of 137 votes to dismiss Lasso. | The Ecuadorian President spent less t…

teleSUR (2023-05-16). Legislators Start Political Trial Against Ecuadorean President. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the National Assembly began a plenary meeting at 10: 17 local time to initiate the impeachment trial against Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso. | RELATED: | With the presence of 109 out of 137 legislators, the impeachment session began with the interventions of the two interpellants, which should last two hours. Later, Lasso is expected to attend the National Assembly to defend himself for three hours…

teleSUR (2023-05-16). President Maduro Backs Bill to Protect Venezuelan Assets Abroad. telesurenglish.net President Nicolas Maduro expressed his support for the "Bill for the Protection of the Venezuela's Assets, Rights, and Interests Abroad", which will be submitted to its second plenary discussion in the National Assembly on Tuesday. | RELATED: | "With all my energy, spirit, and strength, I ask for the support of the entire country for this bill that the National Assembly is analyzing to protect our assets in the world," he sai…

teleSUR (2023-05-16). 1st Human Trial of Oral Drug Against Radioactive Contamination. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said that the U.S. has initiated an inaugural clinical trial involving an experimental oral medication designed to remove radioactive contaminants in the body. | Related: | The trail aims to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and processing profile of the experimental drug HOPO 14-1 through a dose escalation regimen in healthy adult participants. | The clinical trial is being conducted at a site in Plymouth, Michigan. Th…

Ana Perdigón (2023-05-16). Cabello Reminds Opposition that CNE Is Venezuela's Electoral Institution. orinocotribune.com The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, confirmed that the National Electoral Council (CNE) is the organization responsible for elections in Venezuela. | During a press conference, Cabello spoke about statements by opposition leaders who say they do not want the CNE to participate in the primary elections of the opposition. | "With the CNE, it will be known how many participated," said Cabello. "They will be exposed. T…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-16). A Fraternal Hand: The American Tradition of Socialist Democracy and Chinese Socialism. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos L. Garrido There is a glaring paradox at the core of the American project. On the one hand, it proclaims its national self-determination with the values of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, right to revolution, and to a government of, by, and for the people. On the other hand, the rights to life, liberty,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-16). Biden Can Be Charming, but Beijing Should Be Wary. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. Bhadrakumar Pope Francis (L) meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a private audience at The Vatican, May 13, 2023 Simply put, the foreplay has begun. It is not the Ukrainian counteroffensive, stupid! Russia — and China — should expect some nasty surprises. President Vladimir Zelensky's tour of Rome, Berlin and Paris has been…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-16). Brazil: How Small Family Farms Are Adapting to Climate Change. libya360.wordpress.com Zoe Sullivan (Image by Camila Cordeiro) Alexandre Pires is at the forefront of expanding opportunities for low-income rural populations and family farms in Brazil. Just a few days before the first round of Brazil's most recent elections, Alexandre Pires was dancing with fellow progressives. Hundreds of people, many wearing red shirts, a nod to Brazil's Workers' Party, had…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-16). "Independent" Ukrainian "Kill List": Run by Nazi Junta, Backed by NATO and Washington. libya360.wordpress.com David Miller Late last year, my name was added to a blacklist published online by the Ukraine Center for Countering Disinformation. I joined over ninety others deemed to be "speakers who promote narratives consonant with Russian propaganda." These included Manuel Pineda and Clare Daly, both leftist Members of the European Parliament (MEP); Also counted are people…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-16). North Korea Warns NATO is Creeping into Asia. libya360.wordpress.com Countercurrents Collective South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks during a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden at the NATO summit in Madrid on June 29. | KENNY HOLSTON / THE NEW YORK TIMES North Korea's Foreign Ministry has claimed NATO is seeking to increase its influence in Asia, citing growing "military collusion" with Japan, which…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-16). Sowing Seeds of Plunder: A Lose-Lose Situation in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Colin Todhunter War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine's Agricultural Land: Oligarchs and financial interests are expanding control over Ukraine's agricultural land with help and financing from Western financial institutions. It's a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying to defend their land, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-16). Sudan: The Latest Victim of the Global Hegemonists' Grand Arab World Delusions. libya360.wordpress.com Ebrahim Hashem The current turbulence in Sudan has not come out of nothing. Sudan's present trouble stems from deliberate attempts by some foreign hegemonists to destabilize the Arab world and hijack its sovereignty for their own selfish gains. The year 2003 was when delusional globalists in Washington and London, supported by peers in some other…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-16). The Roots of Cowardice of Today's Subaltern Intellectuals. libya360.wordpress.com Yusuf Serunkuma Yusuf Serunkuma slams the cowardice of intellectuals today, who display self-censorship and contentment with the status quo, in contrast with an earlier generation of activists and subaltern scholars. Serunkuma argues that this did not happen overnight, rather it has taken years of manufacturing conformity and consent. There is a less discussed component about…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-16). Ukraine: Did Russia Obliterate Depleted Uranium Munitions Delivered by the UK? libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic On May 13, Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) launched a massive all-out strike against numerous targets under the control of the Kiev regime forces. Among other things, the VKS hit several key munitions depots in Western Ukraine, including one in the city of Ternopol. According to the official announcement by the Russian Ministry of…

jamanetwork (2023-05-16). VA, NIH Launch Major Study of Veterans With Gulf War Illness. jamanetwork.com A new study sponsored by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will enroll people who served in the 1990-1991 era Gulf War to better understand Gulf War illness, according to a statement. The 5-year study, called the VA-NIH Investigative Deep Phenotyping of Gulf War Veterans Health, will investigate participants' immune, metabolic, and autonomic nervous systems.

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-16). 16 nation NATO armor exercise: international forces that might join in event of a conflict. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Stars and StripesMay 15, 2023 Texas troops bring scouts, tanks together in new way at Bavaria exercise A Texas-based brigade used the rough terrain and rainy weather at the Army's training grounds in Bavaria to test new battlefield tactics that combine scouts and tanks. The Combined Resolve 18 exercise marked the rollout of the armored …

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-16). NATO posts video taunting Russia at its border. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com May 15, 2023Multinational Corps Northeast NATO is committed to safeguarding Latvia's security …An important component of NATO's deterrence and defence posture is military presence in the eastern part of Alliance territory, including Latvia. NATO has increased its military presence in the Baltic Sea region…Allies are committed to deploying robust and combat-ready forces on the Alliance's …

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-16). Turkey: NATO-sponsored air combat drills include partners Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOAllied Air CommandMay 11, 2023 Türkiye hosts Exercise Anatolian Eagle with Allies and Partners Türkiye hosted the exercise Anatolian Eagle out of 3rd main Jet Base Konya and provided the multinational participants with realistic combat training opportunities in a high-threat environment from May 5 to 12, 2023. The NATO E-3A provided support through command and …

Staff (2023-05-16). "Deplorable": Former Sen. Doug Jones Slams Tuberville for Defending White Nationalists in Military. democracynow.org As President Biden warned Saturday that white supremacy is the "most dangerous terrorist threat" facing the United States, and members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front marched Sunday on the National Mall, we look at how Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is under fire for expressing support for white nationalists in the U.S. military. Tuberville is a major backer of Donald Trump. In 2020, he defeated Democrat Doug Jones, who served in the Senate from 2018 to 2021 and was a U.S. attorney who successfully prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan involved in the 1963 Birmingham,…

Staff (2023-05-16). Report from U.S.-Mexico Border as Title 42 Ends: Human Rights Violations, Funerals & Makeshift Camps. democracynow.org We host a roundtable discussion on the human rights crisis unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border and the impact of President Biden ending the Trump-era pandemic policy known as Title 42 last Thursday, after it had been used to expel nearly 3 million migrants without due process. Guerline Jozef is co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, an immigrant advocacy organization that provides humanitarian assistance to Haitians and other Black immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa; Erika Guevara-Rosas is a human rights lawyer and Americas director for Amnesty International; and Erika Pinheiro is an…

Staff (2023-05-16). Colombia and Venezuela to Search for Remains of Colombian Paramilitary Victims (+Mancuso). orinocotribune.com The Colombian and Venezuelan governments will begin the search for the remains of Colombians who disappeared in the border area, victims of decades of Colombian paramilitary violence. This comes after statements made by Salvatore Mancuso, a former leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group. | The AUC is a dismantled, powerful far-right paramilitary organization financed by the Colombian oligarchy, government and multinational corporations that terrorized the Colombian countryside from 1997 until 2006. Many analysts point to a direct link between this criminal organization, the C…

Jake Johnson (2023-05-16). Biden Admin Says Mountain Valley Pipeline Can Run Through National Forest. truthout.org The U.S. Forest Service on Monday gave a green light for the 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline to run through the Jefferson National Forest, a decision that sparked outcry from conservationists who say the Biden administration is ignoring the fracked gas project's potentially devastating impacts on the environment and wildlife. The Forest Service's new Record of Decision (ROD) approves… |

Joey Grostern, Adam Barnett, DeSmog. (2023-05-16). Cabinet Ministers Join Climate Science Deniers At National Conference. popularresistance.org The National Conservatism (NatCon) conference kicks off today in Westminster, London, featuring a roster of high-profile speakers drawn from the upper reaches of the government and the conservative right. | A DeSmog analysis has found climate denial and a hostility to net zero to be a common feature among many of the individuals speaking at the three-day summit. | The gathering comes as Rishi Sunak's government — which is already off track to meet the UK's climate commitments — pursues new fossil fuel extraction, and prominent figures in the right-wing media continue to cast doubt over net zero policy…

Eisenhower Media Institute, Institute for Public Accuracy. (2023-05-16). Former National Security Officials In New York Times Ad: 'War Is A Racket'. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, a group of former high-ranking national security fellows, the Eisenhower Media Network, released an open letter appearing as a full-page ad in the New York Times, calling for a diplomatic end to the Russia-Ukraine war. | The ad — which can be seen here — includes an important timeline of events and a map showing U.S./NATO military bases near Russia and a comparison of what that would look like if the "shoe were on the other foot." | The letter states: "The immediate cause of this disastrous war in Ukraine is Russia's invasion. Yet the plans and actions to expand NATO to Russia's borders se…

Anonymous103 (2023-05-16). Chief Of Ukrainian Intelligence Insists "Kiev Is Terrorist" But Its Sponsors Do Not Care. southfront.org click to see full-size image | The terrorist Kiev regime is openly declaring its responsibility for terrorist attacks against the Russians. The so-called "international community" is turning a blind eye and continues arming the terrorists in Ukraine. | On May 16, the narcissistic head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Major General Kirill Budanov once again de facto took responsibility for assassinations of Russian public figures. He makes such claims on a regular basis and…

Elijah Magnier (2023-05-16). One of the Most Important Presidential Elections This Year Heads to 2nd Round. thealtworld.com On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Jamarl Thomas and Melik Abdul discussed several domestic and international topics, including Türkiye's presidential election results over the weekend. | Mark Sleboda — International Relations and Security Analyst | Elijah Magnier — Veteran War Correspondent | Steve Abramowicz — Host of Mill Creek View Podcast | Ted Harvey — Former State Senator in Colorado & Chairman of StopJoe.com | Kiji Noh — Journalist, Political Analyst & Writer | In the first hour, international relations and security analyst Mark Sleboda spoke with the Fault Lines team abou…

Ramona Wadi (2023-05-16). The symbolic Nakba commemoration at the UN exposed Israel's hatred of the truth. thealtworld.com "The thought that an international organisation could mark the establishment of one of its member states as a catastrophe or disaster is both appalling and repulsive,"

Special to People's World (2023-05-16). International Workers Day roundtable highlights organizing and solidarity. peoplesworld.org NEW HAVEN, Conn.—As images of recent workers' gains, struggles, and actions projected onto the screen and the sounds of labor music ranged outside of the New Haven Peoples Center on to the street, everyone who entered felt an inviting atmosphere of labor solidarity for the People's World May Day rally: "International Workers Day 2023 — …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-16). Steelworkers win vote at Blue Bird bus plant in Georgia. peoplesworld.org FORT VALLEY, Ga.—In a big win for the Steelworkers and a big break in the normally union-hostile South, workers at the Blue Bird school bus company plant in rural Fort Valley, Ga., voted for the union on May 12, 697-435. The bargaining unit would cover 1,350 workers, the National Labor Relations Board reports. Total employment …

Cameron Orr (2023-05-16). Right to Counsel: Jersey City tenants fight for free lawyers in eviction struggles. peoplesworld.org JERSEY CITY, N.J.—Two years ago, a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition showed that a full-time worker in the U.S. needs to earn at least $25.82 per hour to rent a two-bedroom apartment, and $21.25 per hour for a one-bedroom apartment. The federal minimum wage, however, has been frozen at $7.25 since 2009. …

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). G7 members should ask the US to stop bludgeoning and‚ÄÇcurbing other countries in the name of national security: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn No one is more qualified than the U.S. to‚ÄÇbe called out for‚ÄÇeconomic coercion, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin responded.

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Submersible engineer gets national award. ecns.cn "I am homesick, basking in the bright moonlight, as two ships sail for the Mariana Trench. Innovating and exploring, we strive together, to roam the hadal trench 10,000 meters down."

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Hong Kong resident given life sentence for espionage. ecns.cn Born in May 1945, Leung holds permanent residency in the Hong Kong Special Administration Region and also possesses a United States passport, the court said.According to provisions of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Suzhou's national security bureau detained him on April 15, 2021, on suspicion of spying.

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Fast-lane entry and exit services restored in Shanghai. ecns.cn Fast-lane entry and exit services at all ports in Shanghai were restored on Monday, facilitating the cross-border travel of Chinese citizens and foreign nationals.

Jubilee USA Network (2023-05-16). African Catholic Bishops Urge G7 Action on Debt, Bank Reform and Aid to Navigate Africa Crises. indybay.org Africa Faith Leaders Urge Passage of New York Taxpayers and International Debt Crises Protection Act (S4747, A2970)…

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2023-05-16). How People's Movements Globally Are Resisting Western Imperialism. popularresistance.org Leaders of the G7 countries, the United States and its Western Imperialist partners plus Japan, will meet this week in Hiroshima to discuss ways to escalate the war on China. As they lead us closer to global and potentially nuclear war, the significance of the location is offensive to people's movements. Clearing the FOG speaks with Rhonda Ramiro, the spokesperson for BAYAN-USA and a leader of the US chapter of the International League of People's Struggle, about protests being planned against the G7 Summit and how people can participate virtually. She also discusses campaigns in the US against state repression a…

WIN (2023-05-16). OPENING THE FRONT LINE AGAINST APARTHEID! A celebration of the mass strikes of 1973. indybay.org There will be an international panel on the 1973 anniversary of the South Africa Duban worker uprising against the apartheid regime.

WSWS (2023-05-16). IYSSE holds successful anti-war meetings in Munich, Bochum and Frankfurt. wsws.org Under the title "The war in Ukraine and how to stop it," the IYSSE shed light on the historical, economic and political causes of the war and an international socialist strategy to end it.

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Deflation not present in China's economy. ecns.cn On a monthly basis, the prices were down slightly by 0.1 percent, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics released on Tuesday.The market demand has a limited leverage on driving up prices in short term, said NBS spokesperson Fu Linghui.

midwesternmarx (2023-05-16). The IMF and its Ideological Orphans By: àÅlvaro García Linera. midwesternmarx.com There was a time when the International Monetary Fund's "recommendations" on how to reorganize an economy were read, defended and executed as if they were a divine mandate. Those were the 90s of the last century, when every study of the course of the world economy or agreement reached with this or that country, not only emanated an enlightened historical optimism with what was being proposed, but was also accompanied by a blind endorsement that went from ministers o …

midwesternmarx (2023-05-16). "Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages" By: Peoples Dispatch. midwesternmarx.com The International People's Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians' continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel ​Around 800,000 people are believed to have been displaced during the Nakba in 1948. Today's Israel is built over the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages which were destroyed by Zionist militias during Israel's formation in 1948, said professor and …

midwesternmarx (2023-05-16). The Debt Ceiling Debate Is a Massive Deception Against the Public. By: Richard D. Wolff. midwesternmarx.com ​Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily deceived raises the question that will provoke those historians: How could this happen?​The U.S. Congress has imposed successive ceilings on the national debt, each one higher than the last. Ceilings were intended to limit the amount of federal borrowing. But the same U.S. Congress so mana …

WSWS (2023-05-17). Sri Lankan government launches a massive security operation in Colombo. wsws.org Last weekend's security operation is to ready the police, military and other sections of the state apparatus to deal with the inevitable eruption of working-class struggles against the government and its IMF austerity policies.

Brenda Norrell (2023-05-16). Defenders of Paiute Massacre Site from Lithium Mine Prepare for Restraining Order. indybay.org Live from Ox Sam Camp at Peehee Mu'huh (Thacker Pass) — The defenders of the Paiute Massacre Site are prepared to be served with a restraining order. Lithium Americas of Canada is targeting two non-Indians, in order to distract from the fact that Paiute descendants of a survivor of the massacre here are leading the ceremony and road blockade. Ox Sam Camp said late today, Monday, that Lithium Nevada is filing an application for a temporary order for protection against harassment in the workplace in the Justice Court in the Township of Union Humboldt County, Nevada.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-16). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Baya weaver bird builds nest in Yunnan. ecns.cn Baya weaver birds are found across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The male birds usually work tirelessly to build nests during their breeding season.

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People's Dispatch. (2023-05-16). US Seizes Web Domains Related To Lebanese Resistance Group Hezbollah. popularresistance.org The US seized over a dozen web domains belonging to the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah and others on Thursday, May 11. The US Department of Justice claimed that the web domains were operated by persons or groups who had been sanctioned by the US government. | Most of these domains were registered in the US and belonged to Al Manar TV which is affiliated to Hezbollah, such as almanarnews.org, manarnews.org, and almanartv.org, among others. | Other prominent web domains include sites belonging to Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem and the website related to the Islamic Resistance Support Ass…

People's Dispatch. (2023-05-15). US Further Militarizes The Border As COVID-Era Restrictions Expire. popularresistance.org On May 11, Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy, expired—precipitating a surge in migrants crossing the US—Mexico border. Title 42 used the COVID-19 public health emergency as an excuse to swiftly expel migrants to Mexico. The expiration of the policy has fueled a surge in migration across the Southern border as migrants reportedly are trying to get into the US either before Title 42 restrictions expire to avoid Biden's new immigration measures, or after, fueled by a rumor that the end of Title 42 will make immigration easier. | Although Biden campaigned on being more "humane" towards migrants, th…

Chris Slee (2023-05-15). Tamils commemorate Mullivaikkal massacre. greenleft.org.au Tamils rallied to commemorate the massacre of tens of thousands of Tamils by the Sri Lankan armed forces in Mullivaikkal in the north of the island of Sri Lanka in May 2009. Chris Slee reports.

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ecns.cn (2023-05-16). G7 members should ask the US to stop bludgeoning and‚ÄÇcurbing other countries in the name of national security: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn No one is more qualified than the U.S. to‚ÄÇbe called out for‚ÄÇeconomic coercion, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin responded.

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Submersible engineer gets national award. ecns.cn "I am homesick, basking in the bright moonlight, as two ships sail for the Mariana Trench. Innovating and exploring, we strive together, to roam the hadal trench 10,000 meters down."

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Hong Kong resident given life sentence for espionage. ecns.cn Born in May 1945, Leung holds permanent residency in the Hong Kong Special Administration Region and also possesses a United States passport, the court said.According to provisions of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Suzhou's national security bureau detained him on April 15, 2021, on suspicion of spying.

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). G7 members should ask the US to stop bludgeoning and‚ÄÇcurbing other countries in the name of national security: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn No one is more qualified than the U.S. to‚ÄÇbe called out for‚ÄÇeconomic coercion, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin responded.

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Submersible engineer gets national award. ecns.cn "I am homesick, basking in the bright moonlight, as two ships sail for the Mariana Trench. Innovating and exploring, we strive together, to roam the hadal trench 10,000 meters down."

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Hong Kong resident given life sentence for espionage. ecns.cn Born in May 1945, Leung holds permanent residency in the Hong Kong Special Administration Region and also possesses a United States passport, the court said.According to provisions of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Suzhou's national security bureau detained him on April 15, 2021, on suspicion of spying.

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Fast-lane entry and exit services restored in Shanghai. ecns.cn Fast-lane entry and exit services at all ports in Shanghai were restored on Monday, facilitating the cross-border travel of Chinese citizens and foreign nationals.

Jubilee USA Network (2023-05-16). African Catholic Bishops Urge G7 Action on Debt, Bank Reform and Aid to Navigate Africa Crises. indybay.org Africa Faith Leaders Urge Passage of New York Taxpayers and International Debt Crises Protection Act (S4747, A2970)…

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2023-05-16). How People's Movements Globally Are Resisting Western Imperialism. popularresistance.org Leaders of the G7 countries, the United States and its Western Imperialist partners plus Japan, will meet this week in Hiroshima to discuss ways to escalate the war on China. As they lead us closer to global and potentially nuclear war, the significance of the location is offensive to people's movements. Clearing the FOG speaks with Rhonda Ramiro, the spokesperson for BAYAN-USA and a leader of the US chapter of the International League of People's Struggle, about protests being planned against the G7 Summit and how people can participate virtually. She also discusses campaigns in the US against state repression a…

National Animal Rights Day, Bay Area (2023-05-16). Sunday 6/4: National Animal Rights Day 2023 – NARD 13. indybay.org Unity Park, Richmond, CA…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-16). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-16). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-16). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-16). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Staff (2023-05-16). Colombia and Venezuela to Search for Remains of Colombian Paramilitary Victims (+Mancuso). orinocotribune.com The Colombian and Venezuelan governments will begin the search for the remains of Colombians who disappeared in the border area, victims of decades of Colombian paramilitary violence. This comes after statements made by Salvatore Mancuso, a former leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group. | The AUC is a dismantled, powerful far-right paramilitary organization financed by the Colombian oligarchy, government and multinational corporations that terrorized the Colombian countryside from 1997 until 2006. Many analysts point to a direct link between this criminal organization, the C…

WIN (2023-05-16). OPENING THE FRONT LINE AGAINST APARTHEID! A celebration of the mass strikes of 1973. indybay.org There will be an international panel on the 1973 anniversary of the South Africa Duban worker uprising against the apartheid regime.

ecns.cn (2023-05-16). Deflation not present in China's economy. ecns.cn On a monthly basis, the prices were down slightly by 0.1 percent, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics released on Tuesday.The market demand has a limited leverage on driving up prices in short term, said NBS spokesperson Fu Linghui.

Ann Brown (2023-05-15). Study: Smoking Too Much Weed Increases Risk of Heart Disease. moguldom.com Medical advice on weed keeps getting more and more confusing. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, drugs containing cannabinoids (a type of chemical in marijuana) may help treat certain rare forms of epilepsy, nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy, and loss of appetite and weight loss associated with HIV/AIDS. It has …

Ann Brown (2023-05-15). Black America Responds To Ja Morant Getting Suspended Over Displaying Gun, Again. moguldom.com National Basketball League star Ja Morant is in hot water—again. The Memphis Grizzlies player has been suspended another time after a video surfaced recently on social media showing the star guard holding a gun. The video popped up on May 13, and the Grizzlies announced the suspension on May 14, two months after the NBA …

ecsorinoco (2023-05-15). Trinidad & Tobago Resume Commercial Flights With Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, air operations between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago resumed with the arrival of flight BW300 of Caribbean Airlines at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía. | The Venezuelan Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago, reported via Twitter that Caribbean Airlines has reintroduced flights to Caracas. | The flight's departure from Trinidad and Tobago's capital city, Port of Spain, from the Piarco International Airport, was held with a ribbon cutting ceremony and serenade by the Herencia VZ Group. | The event was attended by the Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Richie Sookhai and the Venezuelan A…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). Africa Rising: Nkosi Mandela on South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid. libya360.wordpress.com Mnar Adley In 1999, South African anti-apartheid activist and revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela visited Gaza and said, "We know too well our freedom is not complete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Since his death in 2013, Mandela's unifying message of decolonization reverberated across the globe. The anti-colonial, anti-apartheid struggle that he led to end…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). Imran Khan's Arrest and Pakistan's Struggle for Stability. libya360.wordpress.com F.M. Shakil The brief arrest of the former PM has again unleashed political turmoil in Pakistan, amid speculation that powerful military opponents may have orchestrated the unrest for their own interests. Following the spectacular arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan over an alleged corruption case on 9 May, Pakistan veered into anarchy and mayhem for…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). Russia and Central Asia: A Great Peaceful Game. libya360.wordpress.com Timofei Bordachev The most important question for the Central Asian Five may be their ability to overcome the trap where they're at a level of development when the destruction of the state is impossible, but so is reaching a new level in terms of the quality of life of the population. It is unlikely that Russia wants its most important southern neighbours to be in a position where the gap is insurmountable, writes Valdai Club Programme…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). Russia in Latin America: Putting an End to Washington's Hegemony. libya360.wordpress.com Pablo Jofre Leal Today, in the international concert, the United States and its allies seek to counteract the growing influence of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This, in terms of concretizing a vision and practice of a multilateral policy that breaks with the hegemony that…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). The President of the Republic of Korea's Visit to the United States: An Analysis of Key Documents and Statements. libya360.wordpress.com Konstantin Asmolov Having described the course of the visit, let's move on to a more in-depth analysis of the main statements, which include the joint statement of the two presidents on the results of the summit, speech by Yoon Suk-yeol in Congress, and partly his speech at Harvard, where he developed some of the theses expressed earlier….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). Ukraine's 'Counteroffensive' — Myth or Reality? libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter As we approach mid-May, the question on everyone's mind is "where is the big Ukrainian counteroffensive"? This much-touted event has been percolating in the western mainstream media and social media channels since the Fall of 2022, when the commanding general of the Ukrainian armed forces, Valeri Zaluzhnyi, informed the US and NATO-led Ukraine…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar Prof. Michael Hudson's new book, "The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization's Oligarchic Turning Point" is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the new one is being born at breakneck speed. Prof. Hudson's main thesis…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). Why the US is Arming Morocco and Working to Combat Russian Influence in Algeria. libya360.wordpress.com Robert Inlakesh The United States government is deeply entrenched in fuelling an arms race between Morocco and Algeria, as the "New Cold War" opens another front in Northern Africa, the feud threatens a devastating conflict. The war in Ukraine has only exacerbated the crisis. Algeria has announced that its ties with Morocco have reached "the…

Robert Reich (2023-05-15). The first step to fixing the electoral collegeÔøº. nationofchange.org If we keep up the fight and get enough states on board, America will never again elect a president who loses the national popular vote.

Telesur English. (2023-05-15). Japanese Rally Against G7 Summit In Hiroshima. popularresistance.org Over 200 Japanese people rallied at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in a protest against the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) summit, carrying banners reading "No War Accomplices" and "No G7." | "Japan is saying it will send a peaceful message of abolishing nuclear weapons to the world through this summit, but at the same time it is seeking to rely on nuclear weapons to achieve 'national security.' This is contradictory," said Ichiro Yuasa, a Peace Depot spokesperson. | Participant Fumi Akiyama said that Japan's use of Hiroshima, which had suffered the atomic bombing during World War II, to hold the G7 summit compl…

WSWS (2023-05-15). "UPS destroys human beings": Current and former UPS workers speak out as contract deadline looms. wsws.org With a July 31 strike deadline looming at UPS, 340,000 workers across the US are determined to win back concessions bargained away over generations by the pro-corporate bureaucracy of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

WSWS (2023-05-15). The Clarios strike and the global counteroffensive of the working class. wsws.org The issuance of an injunction against Clarios workers shows that the ruling class views the walkout as a struggle with far-reaching national and international implications.

infobrics (2023-05-15). BRICS Strengthens Its Position in Latin America. infobrics.org Brazil has increasingly become involved in the structures and institutions of the international organization – BRICS…

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-15). NATO to conduct large-scale submarine warfare drills in North Atlantic. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com UK Defence JournalMay 14, 2023 NATO strengthens anti-submarine readiness in major exercise NATO is set to enhance its capabilities with a large-scale Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) exercise, Exercise Dynamic Mongoose, involving twelve allied nations. This pivotal display of international cooperation is set to kick off in the North Atlantic on April 24th. *** Not only will …

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-15). "We, the democratic, pro-Western political parties of Georgia" vow NATO membership, "de-occupation" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaMay 12, 2023 Pro-Western Opposition Parties: "Georgia Faces International Isolation" Pro-Western opposition parties issued a joint statement today accusing the ruling Georgian Dream of "once again" threatening Georgia's European and Euro-Atlantic future, saying the country is facing the real risk of the international isolation and of being left in Russia's sphere of influence…. The …

_____ (2023-05-15). National Decline — 13 Years Of Tory Failure. truepublica.org.uk By Graham Vanbergen: The local elections confirmed what was on the mind of the electorate. They voted tactically to get rid of a political party that has emphatically failed at everything it has touched. And it is true to say that the continued divisive output from senior Tories is yet more evidence of their failure …

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-05-15). Cuba celebrates International Family Day with inclusive code. plenglish.com Havana, May 15 (Prensa Latina The Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party (PCC), Roberto Morales, said on Monday that Cuba is celebrating the International Family Day with a very inclusive legal standard, which typifies and recognizes them from the viewpoint of multiplicity.

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-05-15). Chris Hedges: Harriet Tubman And The Battle For America's Symbols. popularresistance.org The debate over America's symbols and monuments has sharpened with the growing mass movement for racial justice in the past decade. The lionization of slave-owners and genocidaires has been pointed out by many as in contradiction to the ideals of democracy and racial justice so often touted as national core values. In the midst of this debate, the decision by the US Treasury to place Harriet Tubman alongside Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill starting in 2030 has incited controversy. Howard University professor of political science Clarence Lusane joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the Harriet Tubman dollar bil…

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Beijing to build global platform for science and technology. ecns.cn The 2023 Zhongguancun Forum is scheduled to be held in Beijing from May 25 to 30, and State leaders, foreign dignitaries, heads of international science and technology organizations, diplomatic envoys and business representatives will be invited to the opening ceremony.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Chinese Embassy in Myanmar rescues nationals forced to involve in telecom fraud. ecns.cn The Chinese Embassy in Myanmar has rescued several nationals lured by criminal organizations and smuggled into Myawaddy in southeastern Myanmar to engage in telecom fraud on the pretext of "high-salary recruitment", said the embassy in a notice released on Sunday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). 7 Chinese nurses win international honor for courage, devotion. ecns.cn Seven Chinese nurses have received this year's Florence Nightingale Medal, making China the country with the largest single number of recipients this year, according to the Red Cross Society of China.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). International equestrian event sets stage for Asian Games. ecns.cn The First China Hangzhou (Tonglu) International Equestrian Open kicked off on Saturday in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in a bid to test the Tonglu Equestrian Centre and perfect services for the Asian Games later this year.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Young contestants shine at international event. ecns.cn Contestants taking part in the English Speaking Union's 2023 International Public Speaking Competition pose for a group photo during the semifinal in London, England on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). CIIE 2023 draws more new companies, startups. ecns.cn More new companies and start-ups are expected to participate in this year's China International Import Expo compared to the fifth one, with an initial planning of 500 start-ups and projects, said a spokesperson during its media briefing on Sunday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Urban workers saw salaries rise in 2022. ecns.cn The employed in urban areas saw their annual salaries increase in 2022, and those in positions requiring higher technical skills and knowledge earned the top salaries, according to the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Supervision tightened on cosmetic medicine. ecns.cn Eleven central departments including the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Public Security recently released a guideline to strengthen supervision of the medical cosmetology industry to regulate the industry's development and protect consumers' rights.

ecsorinoco (2023-05-15). Trinidad & Tobago Resumes Commercial Flights With Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, air operations between Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago resumed with the arrival of flight BW300 of Caribbean Airlines at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía. | This was reported by the Venezuelan Embassy in Trinidad & Tobago, via Twitter, stating that Caribbean Airlines has reintroduced flights to Caracas. | The flight's departure from Trinidad & Tobago's capital city, Port of Spain, from the Piarco International Airport, was held with a ribbon cutting ceremony and a serenade by the Herencia VZ Group. | The event was attended by the Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, Richie Sookhai and t…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-05-15). Khartoum is under new bombings despite truce in Jeddah. plenglish.com Khartoum, May 15 (Prensa Latina) The capital of Sudan continued under air and artillery attacks by both sides, despite the recent agreements reached with international mediation in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Friday.

Ken Cosentino, Last Real Indians. (2023-05-15). Tipi Erected At Thacker Pass; Law Enforcement Issues Final Warning. popularresistance.org Peehee Mu'huh, Nevada – On Thursday, the Humboldt County Sheriff's department issued a final warning to Indigenous land defenders at Thacker Pass. Members of law enforcement are demanding that the land defenders vacate a service road leading into the lithium mining operation. The Indigenous land defenders have erected a tipi on a proposed water line, set to feed lithium development at the rate of 500,000 gallons for every ton of lithium processed. | Dorece Sam, an enrolled member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, spoke during a Facebook livestream on Friday, saying "Mother's Day is coming up. This here…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-15). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

WSWS (2023-05-14). "Every day, people are getting injured": Amazon workers speak out following death of 20-year old in Amazon warehouse in Indiana. wsws.org Last week's article in the WSWS about the death of 20 year-old Caes David Gruesbeck at an Amazon warehouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana has generated considerable discussion among Amazon workers, who have drawn comparisons to conditions in their own facilities.

People's Dispatch. (2023-05-15). US Further Militarizes The Border As COVID-Era Restrictions Expire. popularresistance.org On May 11, Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy, expired—precipitating a surge in migrants crossing the US—Mexico border. Title 42 used the COVID-19 public health emergency as an excuse to swiftly expel migrants to Mexico. The expiration of the policy has fueled a surge in migration across the Southern border as migrants reportedly are trying to get into the US either before Title 42 restrictions expire to avoid Biden's new immigration measures, or after, fueled by a rumor that the end of Title 42 will make immigration easier. | Although Biden campaigned on being more "humane" towards migrants, th…

Anonymous669 (2023-05-14). Syria Extends UN Permission On Cross-Border Aid Delivery. southfront.org Syria flag (flickr). | Syria has extended permission to use two border crossings to deliver post-earthquake aid for three more months, the country's ambassador to the United Nations announced on May 13. "Syria has decided to extend the permission it granted to the UN and its specialized agencies to use the two border crossings of Bab Alsalama and al-Ra'i for an additional period of three months ending on 13 August," ambassador Bassam Sabbagh said on Twitter. | "This decision is based on Sy…

infobrics (2023-05-15). BRICS Strengthens Its Position in Latin America. infobrics.org Brazil has increasingly become involved in the structures and institutions of the international organization – BRICS…

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Rick Rozoff (2023-05-15). NATO to conduct large-scale submarine warfare drills in North Atlantic. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com UK Defence JournalMay 14, 2023 NATO strengthens anti-submarine readiness in major exercise NATO is set to enhance its capabilities with a large-scale Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) exercise, Exercise Dynamic Mongoose, involving twelve allied nations. This pivotal display of international cooperation is set to kick off in the North Atlantic on April 24th. *** Not only will …

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-05-15). Chris Hedges: Harriet Tubman And The Battle For America's Symbols. popularresistance.org The debate over America's symbols and monuments has sharpened with the growing mass movement for racial justice in the past decade. The lionization of slave-owners and genocidaires has been pointed out by many as in contradiction to the ideals of democracy and racial justice so often touted as national core values. In the midst of this debate, the decision by the US Treasury to place Harriet Tubman alongside Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill starting in 2030 has incited controversy. Howard University professor of political science Clarence Lusane joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the Harriet Tubman dollar bil…

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Chinese Embassy in Myanmar rescues nationals forced to involve in telecom fraud. ecns.cn The Chinese Embassy in Myanmar has rescued several nationals lured by criminal organizations and smuggled into Myawaddy in southeastern Myanmar to engage in telecom fraud on the pretext of "high-salary recruitment", said the embassy in a notice released on Sunday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). 7 Chinese nurses win international honor for courage, devotion. ecns.cn Seven Chinese nurses have received this year's Florence Nightingale Medal, making China the country with the largest single number of recipients this year, according to the Red Cross Society of China.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). International equestrian event sets stage for Asian Games. ecns.cn The First China Hangzhou (Tonglu) International Equestrian Open kicked off on Saturday in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in a bid to test the Tonglu Equestrian Centre and perfect services for the Asian Games later this year.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Young contestants shine at international event. ecns.cn Contestants taking part in the English Speaking Union's 2023 International Public Speaking Competition pose for a group photo during the semifinal in London, England on Thursday.

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ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Urban workers saw salaries rise in 2022. ecns.cn The employed in urban areas saw their annual salaries increase in 2022, and those in positions requiring higher technical skills and knowledge earned the top salaries, according to the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Supervision tightened on cosmetic medicine. ecns.cn Eleven central departments including the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Public Security recently released a guideline to strengthen supervision of the medical cosmetology industry to regulate the industry's development and protect consumers' rights.

ecsorinoco (2023-05-15). Trinidad & Tobago Resumes Commercial Flights With Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, air operations between Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago resumed with the arrival of flight BW300 of Caribbean Airlines at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía. | This was reported by the Venezuelan Embassy in Trinidad & Tobago, via Twitter, stating that Caribbean Airlines has reintroduced flights to Caracas. | The flight's departure from Trinidad & Tobago's capital city, Port of Spain, from the Piarco International Airport, was held with a ribbon cutting ceremony and a serenade by the Herencia VZ Group. | The event was attended by the Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, Richie Sookhai and t…

Jubilee USA Network (2023-05-15). African Catholic Bishops Urge G7 Action on Debt, Bank Reform and Aid to Navigate Africa Crises. indybay.org Africa Faith Leaders Urge Passage of New York Taxpayers and International Debt Crises Protection Act (S4747, A2970)…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-15). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-15). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Urban workers saw salaries rise in 2022. ecns.cn The employed in urban areas saw their annual salaries increase in 2022, and those in positions requiring higher technical skills and knowledge earned the top salaries, according to the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Supervision tightened on cosmetic medicine. ecns.cn Eleven central departments including the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Public Security recently released a guideline to strengthen supervision of the medical cosmetology industry to regulate the industry's development and protect consumers' rights.

ecsorinoco (2023-05-15). Trinidad & Tobago Resumes Commercial Flights With Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, air operations between Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago resumed with the arrival of flight BW300 of Caribbean Airlines at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía. | This was reported by the Venezuelan Embassy in Trinidad & Tobago, via Twitter, stating that Caribbean Airlines has reintroduced flights to Caracas. | The flight's departure from Trinidad & Tobago's capital city, Port of Spain, from the Piarco International Airport, was held with a ribbon cutting ceremony and a serenade by the Herencia VZ Group. | The event was attended by the Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, Richie Sookhai and t…

Jubilee USA Network (2023-05-15). African Catholic Bishops Urge G7 Action on Debt, Bank Reform and Aid to Navigate Africa Crises. indybay.org Africa Faith Leaders Urge Passage of New York Taxpayers and International Debt Crises Protection Act (S4747, A2970)…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-15). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-15). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-15). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-15). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

The Cradle (2023-05-15). Biden Unilaterally Extends 'National Emergency' Targeting Syria. globalresearch.ca

WIN (2023-05-15). OPENING THE FRONT LINE AGAINST APARTHEID! A celebration of the mass strikes of 1973. indybay.org There will be an international panel on the 1973 anniversary of the South Africa Duban worker uprising against the apartheid regime.

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-15). "We, the democratic, pro-Western political parties of Georgia" vow NATO membership, "de-occupation" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaMay 12, 2023 Pro-Western Opposition Parties: "Georgia Faces International Isolation" Pro-Western opposition parties issued a joint statement today accusing the ruling Georgian Dream of "once again" threatening Georgia's European and Euro-Atlantic future, saying the country is facing the real risk of the international isolation and of being left in Russia's sphere of influence…. The …

WSWS (2023-05-15). The Clarios strike and the global counteroffensive of the working class. wsws.org The issuance of an injunction against Clarios workers shows that the ruling class views the walkout as a struggle with far-reaching national and international implications.

WSWS (2023-05-15). "UPS destroys human beings": Current and former UPS workers speak out as contract deadline looms. wsws.org With a July 31 strike deadline looming at UPS, 340,000 workers across the US are determined to win back concessions bargained away over generations by the pro-corporate bureaucracy of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Ann Brown (2023-05-15). Study: Smoking Too Much Weed Increases Risk of Heart Disease. moguldom.com Medical advice on weed keeps getting more and more confusing. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, drugs containing cannabinoids (a type of chemical in marijuana) may help treat certain rare forms of epilepsy, nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy, and loss of appetite and weight loss associated with HIV/AIDS. It has …

Ann Brown (2023-05-15). Black America Responds To Ja Morant Getting Suspended Over Displaying Gun, Again. moguldom.com National Basketball League star Ja Morant is in hot water—again. The Memphis Grizzlies player has been suspended another time after a video surfaced recently on social media showing the star guard holding a gun. The video popped up on May 13, and the Grizzlies announced the suspension on May 14, two months after the NBA …

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Beijing to build global platform for science and technology. ecns.cn The 2023 Zhongguancun Forum is scheduled to be held in Beijing from May 25 to 30, and State leaders, foreign dignitaries, heads of international science and technology organizations, diplomatic envoys and business representatives will be invited to the opening ceremony.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). CIIE 2023 draws more new companies, startups. ecns.cn More new companies and start-ups are expected to participate in this year's China International Import Expo compared to the fifth one, with an initial planning of 500 start-ups and projects, said a spokesperson during its media briefing on Sunday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Fast-lane entry and exit services restored in Shanghai. ecns.cn Fast-lane entry and exit services at all ports in Shanghai were restored on Monday, facilitating the cross-border travel of Chinese citizens and foreign nationals.

Robert Reich (2023-05-15). The first step to fixing the electoral collegeÔøº. nationofchange.org If we keep up the fight and get enough states on board, America will never again elect a president who loses the national popular vote.

_____ (2023-05-15). National Decline — 13 Years Of Tory Failure. truepublica.org.uk By Graham Vanbergen: The local elections confirmed what was on the mind of the electorate. They voted tactically to get rid of a political party that has emphatically failed at everything it has touched. And it is true to say that the continued divisive output from senior Tories is yet more evidence of their failure …

teleSUR (2023-05-15). Venezuela to Encourage Scientific Training Among Young People. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Science and Technology Minister Gabriela Jimenez announced that Venezuela will encourage the study of careers related to chemistry and petrochemistry through its Scientific Route program. | RELATED: | As part of these educational efforts, young students from the National Institute for Socialist Training and Education (INCES) toured the National Center for Chemical Technology (CNTQ) facilities located in Caracas Cit…

teleSUR (2023-05-15). BRICS Attracts Interest From a Number of Countries: Pandor. telesurenglish.net Naledi Pandor, South Africa's Foreign Affairs Minister addressed the South African line ministry on 'Strengthening Partnerships for a Fairer and More Equitable Global System'. | RELATED: | She noted that one way to advance the context of global cooperation is to create influential formations that will work with the United Nations to promote an inclusive forward-looking international development agenda. BRICS can play such a transformative role.

teleSUR (2023-05-15). Fighting in Darfur Kills 280 Sudanese: NRC. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) reported that at least 280 people died over the weekend in the city of Geneina, the capital of the West Darfur region. | RELATED: | This escalation of violence occurs despite the fact that the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) signed an agreement on Thursday to guarantee the safe flow of international aid and protect civilians and humanitarian personnel. | Signed in the Saudi city of…

teleSUR (2023-05-15). Japanese Rally Against G7 Summit in Hiroshima. telesurenglish.net Over 200 Japanese people rallied at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in a protest against the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) summit, carrying banners reading "No War Accomplices" and "No G7." | RELATED: | "Japan is saying it will send a peaceful message of abolishing nuclear weapons to the world through this summit, but at the same time it is seeking to rely on nuclear weapons to achieve 'national security.' This is contradictory," said Ichiro…

teleSUR (2023-05-15). 392 Yemeni Citizens Evacuated From Sudan. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Yemen's state television station has reported that within the preceding 24 hours, a sum of 392 Yemeni nationals were successfully returned from Sudan and arrived safely in their home country. | Related: | The Yemeni national airline, Yemenia, made the transportation of its citizens by means of two outbound flights to facilitate their repatriation. | On Sunday, the first flight, transporting a total of 197 individuals, arrive…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-05-15). Cuba celebrates International Family Day with inclusive code. plenglish.com Havana, May 15 (Prensa Latina The Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party (PCC), Roberto Morales, said on Monday that Cuba is celebrating the International Family Day with a very inclusive legal standard, which typifies and recognizes them from the viewpoint of multiplicity.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-05-15). Khartoum is under new bombings despite truce in Jeddah. plenglish.com Khartoum, May 15 (Prensa Latina) The capital of Sudan continued under air and artillery attacks by both sides, despite the recent agreements reached with international mediation in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). G7 members should ask the US to stop bludgeoning and‚ÄÇcurbing other countries in the name of national security: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn No one is more qualified than the U.S. to‚ÄÇbe called out for‚ÄÇeconomic coercion, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin responded.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). Russia and Central Asia: A Great Peaceful Game. libya360.wordpress.com Timofei Bordachev The most important question for the Central Asian Five may be their ability to overcome the trap where they're at a level of development when the destruction of the state is impossible, but so is reaching a new level in terms of the quality of life of the population. It is unlikely that Russia wants its most important southern neighbours to be in a position where the gap is insurmountable, writes Valdai Club Programme…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). Ukraine's 'Counteroffensive' — Myth or Reality? libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter As we approach mid-May, the question on everyone's mind is "where is the big Ukrainian counteroffensive"? This much-touted event has been percolating in the western mainstream media and social media channels since the Fall of 2022, when the commanding general of the Ukrainian armed forces, Valeri Zaluzhnyi, informed the US and NATO-led Ukraine…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar Prof. Michael Hudson's new book, "The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization's Oligarchic Turning Point" is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the new one is being born at breakneck speed. Prof. Hudson's main thesis…

Editor (2023-05-14). 'We're a community': These Groups are Working to Bail Out Incarcerated Women in Time for Mother's Day. scheerpost.com The National Bail Out effort is a collective of local and national Black-led organizations that plan Mama's Day Bail Out events around the country.

JANET (2023-05-14). Okefenokee Swamp threatened by proposed strip mine. iacenter.org By Dianne Mathiowetz May 10, 2023 Atlanta A years-long struggle by the Muskogee Creek Nation and environmentalists to preserve the Okefenokee Swamp, home of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, is ramping up its campaign to stop Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals from strip mining the eastern edge of this unique ecosystem. Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia. Opponents say that what is at risk is a 650-square-mile wilderness, located in southern Georgia and extending to the Florida border. The area is the largest carbon reserve in the U.S. and the source of the Suwannee and St. Marys Rivers. (garivers.org) Home to count…

JANET (2023-05-14). Stop U.S. harassment of anti-imperialist activists! iacenter.org By Arjae Red May 10, 2023 The 150-person May Day 2023 delegation to Cuba With the workers' movement on the rise in the U.S. and around the world, May Day activities for 2023 were in full swing over the last few days. Also in evidence were attempts by the U.S. government to repress those individuals who believe in expressing international solidarity with the working class and oppressed nations worldwide. One notable event was the 2023 May Day youth delegation to Cuba, in which an estimated 150 young activists from a variety of anti-imperialist organizations took part in a multiday brigade to the island country, to…

José David Delgado (2023-05-14). Venezuela's NGO Oversight Law to Ensure Transparency. orinocotribune.com The role of NGOs in Venezuela has been discussed and questioned in the last few months, as the Venezuelan National Assembly continues work on an NGO oversight bill. According to Deputy Diosdado Cabello, a member of the Permanent Commission of Integral Social Development, "62 NGOs operate in the country, and none of them have a social purpose, but a political one, which is contrary to the laws of the nation." | Similarly, a few weeks ago, Deputy Julio Chávez stated that some NGOs both inside and outside the country have been identified as working "to generate destabilization." He named as an example the NGO Sipas…

Kenny Stancil (2023-05-14). US Sold Weapons to Nearly 60 Percent of World's Authoritarian Nations in 2022. truthout.org President Joe Biden claims that the United States is leading "democracies" in a fight against "autocracies" to establish a peaceful international order, but his administration approved weapons sales to nearly three-fifths of the world's authoritarian countries in 2022. That's according to a new analysis conducted by Security Policy Reform Institute co-founder Stephen Semler and published Thursday… |

Peter Koenig (2023-05-14). WHO's Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before in Human History. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-05-14). Israel agrees to ceasefire in Gaza amid mounting provocations against Palestinians. wsws.org Netanyahu has refused to cancel a march of right-wing Israeli nationalists through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, one of Islamic Jihad's conditions for a ceasefire.

Peter Koenig (2023-05-14). International Banking "Crisis" — It's Only the Beginning. globalresearch.ca

Vijay Prashad (2023-05-14). In the Factories There Is Wealth, but There Is No Life: The 18th Newsletter. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — May 4, 2023 | Dear friends, | Greetings from the desk of In late 2022, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released a fascinating

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Ecuador: Lasso's Impeachment Process Kicks Off on Tuesday. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, National Assembly President Virgilio Saquicela convened legislators for a session in which Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso will be impeached on embezzlement charges. | RELATED: | According to the complaints compiled by investigative journalists and formally presented by progressive legislators, this right-wing politician incurred in embezzlement since he knew about the alleged irregularities in a contract signed between the state-o…

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Iranian FM Lauds Progress in Tehran-IAEA Cooperation. telesurenglish.net Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the exchange of delegations between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is continuing and both sides are "satisfied" with the progress being made in the technical aspect. | RELATED: | He made the remarks when commenting on the latest developments in the cooperation with IAEA in an interview with the official news agency IRNA, which was…

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Argentines Hold Subnational Elections in Three Provinces. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Argentines residing in Tierra del Fuego, La Pampa and Salta go to the polls to elect their provincial governors, legislators, mayors, and councilors. | RELATED: | In Tierra del Fuego, the electoral competition for governor includes Hector Stefani (Republican Proposal), Pablo Blanco (Together for Change) and Gustavo Melella (Forge Concertation), who is the current governor and has the support of groups progressives like La Ca…

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Kenyan Conservation Efforts Hit by Death of Six Lions. telesurenglish.net On Saturday evening, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the Big Life Foundation (BLF) confirmed that herdsmen killed six lions. | RELATED: | The incident happened after a group of nine subadult lions broke into a livestock enclosure near Mbirikani in the southern county of Kajiado, which is close to the Amboseli National Park on Friday night, killing 12 goats and a dog. BLF rangers responded immediately, pushing the lions away from the ho…

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Sudan Announces to Extend Airspace Closure. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, Sudan's Civil Aviation Authority extended the closure of airspace until May 23 amid continued armed conflict between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Humanitarian aid and foreign evacuation operations are excluded from this closure. | RELATED: | Since the outbreak of the clashes on April 15, the country's airspace has been closed as air navigation systems at Khartoum International Airport have been affected by the c…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-14). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-13). India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party suffers blow in Karnataka State elections. peoplesdispatch.org The opposition Indian National Congress (INC) won a decisive victory in the southern State of Karnataka defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP in a keenly-watched election…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-13). India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party suffers blow in Karnataka State elections. peoplesdispatch.org The opposition Indian National Congress (INC) won a decisive victory in the southern State of Karnataka defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP in a keenly-watched election…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Anonymous669 (2023-05-14). Syria Extends UN Permission On Cross-Border Aid Delivery. southfront.org Syria flag (flickr). | Syria has extended permission to use two border crossings to deliver post-earthquake aid for three more months, the country's ambassador to the United Nations announced on May 13. "Syria has decided to extend the permission it granted to the UN and its specialized agencies to use the two border crossings of Bab Alsalama and al-Ra'i for an additional period of three months ending on 13 August," ambassador Bassam Sabbagh said on Twitter. | "This decision is based on Sy…

Peter Koenig (2023-05-14). WHO's Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before in Human History. globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2023-05-14). International Banking "Crisis" — It's Only the Beginning. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Iranian FM Lauds Progress in Tehran-IAEA Cooperation. telesurenglish.net Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the exchange of delegations between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is continuing and both sides are "satisfied" with the progress being made in the technical aspect. | RELATED: | He made the remarks when commenting on the latest developments in the cooperation with IAEA in an interview with the official news agency IRNA, which was…

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Argentines Hold Subnational Elections in Three Provinces. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Argentines residing in Tierra del Fuego, La Pampa and Salta go to the polls to elect their provincial governors, legislators, mayors, and councilors. | RELATED: | In Tierra del Fuego, the electoral competition for governor includes Hector Stefani (Republican Proposal), Pablo Blanco (Together for Change) and Gustavo Melella (forge concertation party), who is the current governor and has the support of groups progressives like…

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Kenyan Conservation Efforts Hit by Death of Six Lions. telesurenglish.net On Saturday evening, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the Big Life Foundation (BLF) confirmed that herdsmen killed six lions. | RELATED: | The incident happened after a group of nine subadult lions broke into a livestock enclosure near Mbirikani in the southern county of Kajiado, which is close to the Amboseli National Park on Friday night, killing 12 goats and a dog. BLF rangers responded immediately, pushing the lions away from the ho…

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Sudan Announces to Extend Airspace Closure. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, Sudan's Civil Aviation Authority extended the closure of airspace until May 23 amid continued armed conflict between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Humanitarian aid and foreign evacuation operations are excluded from this closure. | RELATED: | Since the outbreak of the clashes on April 15, the country's airspace has been closed as air navigation systems at Khartoum International Airport have been affected by the c…

teleSUR (2023-05-14). 3rd Presidential Candidate Sinan Ogan Votes in Ankara. telesurenglish.net Sinan Ogan, candidate of the nationalist Ancestral Alliance (ATA) of three parties, has voted at Kocatepe Mimar Kemal Anatolian High School in Ankara. | Related: | "I call on all of our citizens to cast their votes and I hope this election passes safely and peacefully," told reporters after casting his vote. | Ogan is presently contending for the presidential office as the third candidate, alongside the…

teleSUR (2023-05-14). Chinese FM Proposes Three Principles for China-Europe Relations. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Qin Gang, the State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China, presented three fundamental principles aimed at preserving the stable development of China-European relations amidst the current backdrop of interlaced and tumultuous international circumstances. | Related: | "China and Europe are two globally influential powers, two vast markets, and two great civilizations. I deeply felt, through the visit, a strong willingness of the E…

Martin Hacthoun (2023-05-14). Síntesis band wins the Cubadisco 2023 Grand Prize. plenglish.com In the category of Son and Peasant Tradition, the winner was the album Memorias (Memories), of Pancho Amat y su Cabildo del Son. The awards were presented last night at the gala held at the Avellaneda Hall of the National Theater in this capital. | Other first prize winners were Rolando Luna for Mi alma en canciones (My soul in songs), in the Instrumental category, and Los Muñequitos de Matanzas with the record 70 Years of Rumba Power, in the Rumbera Tradition and Ritual categories. | Meanwhile, Batanga, by El Nene y la Orquesta Estrellas de Areito, won first place in Traditional Varied. | Other winners were Haba…

Martin Hacthoun (2023-05-14). Mexico donated statistical information devices to Cuba. plenglish.com Havana, May 13 (Prensa Latina) Mexico donated to Cuba mobile devices that will be used to carry out the Population and Housing Census, the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) reported.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-14). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-14). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-14). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-14). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Cindy Farquhar, People's World. (2023-05-14). Golden Rule Peace Boat Brings Message Of Nuclear Disarmament. popularresistance.org Baltimore, MD—Do you know about the back story behind the U.S., U.K., and USSR signing the "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water" in 1963? | It is a very dramatic tale, involving illegal arrests in international waters, switching missions from one ship to another, children tasting nuclear fallout as it came down like snow—and it all began with Hiroshima. | The atomic bomb which the U.S. dropped on that Japanese city on Aug. 6, 1945, caused Albert Bigelow to leave his military career as a Navy captain just before his date of retirement.

Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. (2023-05-14). China's Report On US Cyber Attacks Only Scratches Surface Of Washington's Impunity. popularresistance.org U.S. political leaders and media analysts often hype "threats" from abroad in order to justify an increasingly aggressive foreign policy. China is now considered a top "threat" from significant elements of the U.S. political establishment and is regularly accused of conducting cyber espionage and other forms of snooping. Often, these accusations reflect the actual policies carried out by the U.S. government regardless of which political party holds majority power. On May 4, China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (NCVERC) and internet security company 360 offered verifiable proof of this in a jo…

ecns.cn (2023-05-14). Senior officials of China, U.S. hold candid, in-depth talks in Vienna. ecns.cn Director Wang fully elaborated on China's serious position on the Taiwan question. The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, Ukraine and other international and regional issues of mutual interest, Wang added.

ecns.cn (2023-05-14). U.S. repatriates two carved stone relics to China. ecns.cn On Tuesday afternoon local time, authorized by China's National Cultural Heritage Administration, the Chinese Consulate-General in New York and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York held a handover ceremony, during which the US handed to the Chinese government two important Chinese cultural relics which had been illegally transported overseas and seized in investigations.

ecns.cn (2023-05-14). Urban workers saw salaries rise in 2022. ecns.cn The employed in urban areas saw their annual salaries increase in 2022, and those in positions requiring higher technical skills and knowledge earned the top salaries, according to the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-14). Supervision tightened on cosmetic medicine. ecns.cn Eleven central departments including the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Public Security recently released a guideline to strengthen supervision of the medical cosmetology industry to regulate the industry's development and protect consumers' rights.

ecns.cn (2023-05-14). Comicomment: U.S.' crazy fiscal cliff maneuvers. ecns.cn The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that a U.S. debt default prompted by failure to raise the country's debt ceiling would have "very serious repercussions" for the U.S. economy as well as the global economy.

Jubilee USA Network (2023-05-14). African Catholic Bishops Urge G7 Action on Debt, Bank Reform and Aid to Navigate Africa Crises. indybay.org Africa Faith Leaders Urge Passage of New York Taxpayers and International Debt Crises Protection Act (S4747, A2970)…

unitedEditor (2023-05-14). UWI discloses report of Ukrainian intelligence: Zelensky attempted to divide Crimean Tatars by planting spies. unitedworldint.com By I≈üƒ±kgàºn Akfƒ±rat An intelligence report by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) classified as "secret" revealed that Zelensky's government has planted spies on the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, recruited agents from Crimean Tatars and tried to divide the movement. According to a 6-page signed and sealed document United World International has obtained …

WIN (2023-05-14). OPENING THE FRONT LINE AGAINST APARTHEID! A celebration of the mass strikes of 1973. indybay.org There will be an international panel on the 1973 anniversary of the South Africa Duban worker uprising against the apartheid regime.

Michael Welch (2023-05-13). National Citizens Inquiry: Canada's Response to COVID-19. globalresearch.ca

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-05-13). Fighting between Sudanese army and RSF has disastrous impact in Darfur as hundreds of thousands are displaced. peoplesdispatch.org While the national capital Khartoum has seen the most intense battles between the army and the paramilitary RSF, most of the internal displacements are occurring in Darfur due to escalating armed conflict between militias. The region already has most of Sudan's 3.7 million Internally Displaced Persons…

The Lancet (2023-05-13). Editorial] The future of nursing: lessons from a pandemic. thelancet.com In early 2020, as part of a worldwide campaign to raise the profile of nursing, WHO, the International Council of Nurses (ICN), and Nursing Now published the first State of the World's Nursing report, setting out a global strategy for nursing. At the time, we highlighted how the report could inform policy dialogues and promote recognition of the potential of nursing to enable universal health coverage, and emphasised how crucial the subsequent years would be to show the impact of nursing. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven just how important these messages were.

Adrian P Mundt, Carlos Ibáñez (2023-05-13). Correspondence] Beyond the dichotomy of drug regulations and prohibitions. thelancet.com Based on observations around the US opioid crisis and cannabis legalisation in Uruguay, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch and Diederik Lohman made a call to the public health community to challenge drug prohibition.1 It remains unspecified whether the call suggests legalising all drugs internationally or refers to advocating for evidence-based drug policy. The US opioid epidemic, related to legal prescription drugs in a specific geopolitical context, has health outcomes which differ from those of cannabis or other drugs.

Fight Back (2023-05-13). Big online FRSO fundraiser set for May 25. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — A major online fundraising evert featuring Frank Chapman – of the FRSO Central Committee and Executive Director of National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression – will take place on the evening of May 25. The event, which will also feature Labor Commission Chair Cherrene Horazuk and Standing Committee member Fern Figueroa is part of the $130,000 fund drive that will help FRSO expand its national office and put more full-time organizers in the field. | The event is set for Thursday May 25, 5 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Mountain, 7 p.m. Central and d 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Register for Zo…

Kyle Anzalone (2023-05-13). Washington Will Increase Military Presence in the Persian Gulf. news.antiwar.com National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby announced a plan to expand America's military posture in the Middle East. The move comes as Washington hijacked an Iranian fuel tanker, provoking Iran to seize two ships in the Persian Gulf. Kirby told reporters on Friday , "Today, the Department of Defense will be making a series of …

Anonymous669 (2023-05-13). Russian Lancet Loitering Munitions Hit 15 Howitzers, Combat Vehicles (Videos). southfront.org MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | Between May 4 and 13, Russian news sources shared videos documenting 15 recent strikes with Lancet loitering munitions against military equipment Kiev forces in the special military operation zone. | The pinpoint strikes destroyed or damaged the following pieces of military equipment: | Five…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-13). Macron's Democracy: Repression and Austerity. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Loffredo reports from Paris for The Grayzone, covering the national uprising against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to impose neoliberal austerity measures through unpopular pension reforms. Hear from the protest rank-and-file as they describe repression at the hands of militarized police, arbitrary jailing, and their fight against the billionaire president's aggressive rollback of economic…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-13). Nicaragua: What We Learned About Agroecology. libya360.wordpress.com Rick Kohn As part of a seminar course at the University of Maryland, students travel to Nicaragua to see firsthand how the country has confronted the challenges of hunger and poverty and achieved food self-sufficiency. At the University of Maryland's College of Agriculture, we have developed a seminar course titled "Sustainable Agriculture and Environment in Nicaragua" offered…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-13). Sudan: Hundreds of Thousands in Darfur Displaced by a Conflict that is Swiftly Becoming a Civil War. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni UNHCR staff with refugees from Sudan in Chad. Photo: UNHCR/Colin Delfosse While the national capital Khartoum has seen the most intense battles between the army and the paramilitary RSF, most of the internal displacements are occurring in Darfur due to escalating armed conflict between militias. The region already has most of Sudan's 3.7…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-13). UNSC Arria Meeting "Freedom of Religion in Ukraine: Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church" libya360.wordpress.com Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at Arria-formula meeting of UNSC members "Situation with freedom of religion and belief in Ukraine: persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church" Introductory remarks We welcome all participants of the Arria -formula meeting of UN Security Council member states that we called to draw attention to an unprecedented situation. The canonical…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-05-13). Honduras and Chile strengthening bilateral cooperation. plenglish.com The agreement provides the strengthening of the National Geographic System with the use of knowledge transfer in standards and Geonodo technology (web application), so as to guarantee the interoperability of the platforms implemented by the IP, Canal 8 television reported. It also promotes greater use of geographic data and takes advantage of territorial information and transparent access to information by Honduran citizens and institutions. | The pact institutes the donation of the referred web application as a way of guaranteeing the life cycle of the geographic information from the survey through mobile device…

Keerti Gopal (2023-05-13). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: New York's Green New Deal. levernews.com After a long hiatus and much demand, we have some good news about good news — our weekly round-up, You Love To See It, is back! This reader-favorite series, exclusively for paid subscribers, is a round-up of progress, victories, and action steps in the fight for a thriving democracy. I'm Keerti Gopal, formerly a Fulbright/National Geographic Fellow in Taiwan and The Lever's new editorial fellow, and I'll be bringing a much-needed dose of optimism to your inbox each week.This week: New York State takes a lead on fossil-fuel phase outs, train and plane riders get some federal backup, workers stand up to Am…

Misión Verdad (2023-05-13). Blocking the Blockade: Venezuela's New Law to Protect Assets Abroad. orinocotribune.com The National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela has

WSWS (2023-05-13). Australia: At Port Kembla protest, unions and pseudo-left set a nationalist trap for anti-war sentiment. wsws.org Attendees looking for a perspective through which they can advance a fight against war will have been sorely disappointed by the official line advanced by speakers at the rally.

WSWS (2023-05-13). After Title 42: Biden steps up deadly violence, repression at southern border. wsws.org The brutal and anti-democratic policies of both capitalist parties, in defiance of international laws guaranteeing asylum rights, have produced a nightmare scene at the southern border.

Michael Welch (2023-05-13). National Citizens Inquiry: Canada's Response to COVID-19. globalresearch.ca

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-05-13). Fighting between Sudanese army and RSF has disastrous impact in Darfur as hundreds of thousands are displaced. peoplesdispatch.org While the national capital Khartoum has seen the most intense battles between the army and the paramilitary RSF, most of the internal displacements are occurring in Darfur due to escalating armed conflict between militias. The region already has most of Sudan's 3.7 million Internally Displaced Persons…

Fight Back (2023-05-13). Big online FRSO fundraiser set for May 25. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — A major online fundraising evert featuring Frank Chapman – of the FRSO Central Committee and Executive Director of National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression – will take place on the evening of May 25. The event, which will also feature Labor Commission Chair Cherrene Horazuk and Standing Committee member Fern Figueroa is part of the $130,000 fund drive that will help FRSO expand its national office and put more full-time organizers in the field. | The event is set for Thursday May 25, 5 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Mountain, 7 p.m. Central and d 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Register for Zo…

Jubilee USA Network (2023-05-13). African Catholic Bishops Urge G7 Action on Debt, Bank Reform and Aid to Navigate Africa Crises. indybay.org Africa Faith Leaders Urge Passage of New York Taxpayers and International Debt Crises Protection Act (S4747, A2970)…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

WIN (2023-05-13). OPENING THE FRONT LINE AGAINST APARTHEID! A celebration of the mass strikes of 1973. indybay.org There will be an international panel on the 1973 anniversary of the South Africa Duban worker uprising against the apartheid regime.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-13). Russian Lancet Loitering Munitions Hit 15 Howitzers, Combat Vehicles (Videos). southfront.org MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | Between May 4 and 13, Russian news sources shared videos documenting 15 recent strikes with Lancet loitering munitions against military equipment Kiev forces in the special military operation zone. | The pinpoint strikes destroyed or damaged the following pieces of military equipment: | Five…

Adrian P Mundt, Carlos Ibáñez (2023-05-13). Correspondence] Beyond the dichotomy of drug regulations and prohibitions. thelancet.com Based on observations around the US opioid crisis and cannabis legalisation in Uruguay, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch and Diederik Lohman made a call to the public health community to challenge drug prohibition.1 It remains unspecified whether the call suggests legalising all drugs internationally or refers to advocating for evidence-based drug policy. The US opioid epidemic, related to legal prescription drugs in a specific geopolitical context, has health outcomes which differ from those of cannabis or other drugs.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-05-13). Russian cosmonauts complete new spacewalk. plenglish.com Moscow, May 13 (Prensa Latina) Russian cosmonauts Serguei Prokopiev and Dimitri Petelin completed this Saturday a new extravehicular walk out of the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) informed.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-13). India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party suffers blow in Karnataka State elections. peoplesdispatch.org The opposition Indian National Congress (INC) won a decisive victory in the southern State of Karnataka defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP in a keenly-watched election…

WSWS (2023-05-12). At least 22 people killed in boat accident in southern Indian state of Kerala. wsws.org The Kerala High Court conceded the tragedy was a result of "the deadly cocktail of callousness, greed and official apathy."

WSWS (2023-05-12). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org India: 30,000 West Bengal state government workers fight for higher allowances and permanency; Sri Lankan consumer investigation officers strike for safe working conditions; Australia: Tomago Aluminium maintenance workers on strike for higher pay.

infobrics (2023-05-12). Geopolitical Significance of Connectivity Projects in Caspian Region and India's Role There. infobrics.org The geopolitics of the Caspian region has been undergoing a rapid change in recent years due to the geopolitical realignment in…

infobrics (2023-05-12). India and Russia Plan Big on Transport Corridors — Mundra to Saint Petersburg, Chennai to Vladivostok. infobrics.org FESCO, one of the largest private transport and logistics companies in Russia, has announced that it has signed an agreement with an Indian logistics group to develop maritime transportation between the two countries…

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Dian Maria Blandina, People's Dispatch. (2023-05-13). Sudan's Crisis And The Hidden Hands Of The IMF. popularresistance.org Sudan is experiencing its fourth week of conflict between two military factions, which has caused the death of over 700 people. Sudanese civilians have fled the capital and the country altogether while the fighting continues with no end in sight. Commentators have so far focused on the military factions and ethnic conflicts. A reductive explanation has been given for the food crisis in Sudan, such as economic crisis, climate change, and the Ukraine war. The significance of macroeconomic policies and the institutions that promote them at the root of these crises tend to be overlooked. | Toppling over the breadbask…

WSWS (2023-05-12). After unleashing IMF austerity, Sri Lankan president initiates "compensation" welfare program for the poor. wsws.org Wickremesinghe's initiative is a cynical and desperate attempt to dissipate rising popular anger over brutal government attacks on social conditions.

WSWS (2023-05-13). Australia: At Port Kembla protest, unions and pseudo-left set a nationalist trap for anti-war sentiment. wsws.org Attendees looking for a perspective through which they can advance a fight against war will have been sorely disappointed by the official line advanced by speakers at the rally.

WSWS (2023-05-13). After Title 42: Biden steps up deadly violence, repression at southern border. wsws.org The brutal and anti-democratic policies of both capitalist parties, in defiance of international laws guaranteeing asylum rights, have produced a nightmare scene at the southern border.

The Lancet (2023-05-13). Editorial] The future of nursing: lessons from a pandemic. thelancet.com In early 2020, as part of a worldwide campaign to raise the profile of nursing, WHO, the International Council of Nurses (ICN), and Nursing Now published the first State of the World's Nursing report, setting out a global strategy for nursing. At the time, we highlighted how the report could inform policy dialogues and promote recognition of the potential of nursing to enable universal health coverage, and emphasised how crucial the subsequent years would be to show the impact of nursing. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven just how important these messages were.

Adrian P Mundt, Carlos Ibáñez (2023-05-13). Correspondence] Beyond the dichotomy of drug regulations and prohibitions. thelancet.com Based on observations around the US opioid crisis and cannabis legalisation in Uruguay, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch and Diederik Lohman made a call to the public health community to challenge drug prohibition.1 It remains unspecified whether the call suggests legalising all drugs internationally or refers to advocating for evidence-based drug policy. The US opioid epidemic, related to legal prescription drugs in a specific geopolitical context, has health outcomes which differ from those of cannabis or other drugs.

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Anonymous669 (2023-05-13). Russian Lancet Loitering Munitions Hit 15 Howitzers, Combat Vehicles (Videos). southfront.org MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | Between May 4 and 13, Russian news sources shared videos documenting 15 recent strikes with Lancet loitering munitions against military equipment Kiev forces in the special military operation zone. | The pinpoint strikes destroyed or damaged the following pieces of military equipment: | Five…

ecns.cn (2023-05-13). Senior officials of China, U.S. hold candid, in-depth talks in Vienna. ecns.cn Director Wang fully elaborated on China's serious position on the Taiwan question. The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, Ukraine and other international and regional issues of mutual interest, Wang added.

ecns.cn (2023-05-13). U.S. repatriates two carved stone relics to China. ecns.cn On Tuesday afternoon local time, authorized by China's National Cultural Heritage Administration, the Chinese Consulate-General in New York and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York held a handover ceremony, during which the US handed to the Chinese government two important Chinese cultural relics which had been illegally transported overseas and seized in investigations.

ecns.cn (2023-05-13). Urban workers saw salaries rise in 2022. ecns.cn The employed in urban areas saw their annual salaries increase in 2022, and those in positions requiring higher technical skills and knowledge earned the top salaries, according to the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-13). Supervision tightened on cosmetic medicine. ecns.cn Eleven central departments including the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Public Security recently released a guideline to strengthen supervision of the medical cosmetology industry to regulate the industry's development and protect consumers' rights.

ecns.cn (2023-05-13). Comicomment: U.S.' crazy fiscal cliff maneuvers. ecns.cn The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that a U.S. debt default prompted by failure to raise the country's debt ceiling would have "very serious repercussions" for the U.S. economy as well as the global economy.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-13). Russian Lancet Loitering Munitions Hit 15 Howitzers, Combat Vehicles (Videos). southfront.org MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | Between May 4 and 13, Russian news sources shared videos documenting 15 recent strikes with Lancet loitering munitions against military equipment Kiev forces in the special military operation zone. | The pinpoint strikes destroyed or damaged the following pieces of military equipment: | Five…

ecns.cn (2023-05-13). Senior officials of China, U.S. hold candid, in-depth talks in Vienna. ecns.cn Director Wang fully elaborated on China's serious position on the Taiwan question. The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, Ukraine and other international and regional issues of mutual interest, Wang added.

ecns.cn (2023-05-13). U.S. repatriates two carved stone relics to China. ecns.cn On Tuesday afternoon local time, authorized by China's National Cultural Heritage Administration, the Chinese Consulate-General in New York and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York held a handover ceremony, during which the US handed to the Chinese government two important Chinese cultural relics which had been illegally transported overseas and seized in investigations.

ecns.cn (2023-05-13). Urban workers saw salaries rise in 2022. ecns.cn The employed in urban areas saw their annual salaries increase in 2022, and those in positions requiring higher technical skills and knowledge earned the top salaries, according to the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-13). Supervision tightened on cosmetic medicine. ecns.cn Eleven central departments including the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Public Security recently released a guideline to strengthen supervision of the medical cosmetology industry to regulate the industry's development and protect consumers' rights.

ecns.cn (2023-05-13). Comicomment: U.S.' crazy fiscal cliff maneuvers. ecns.cn The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that a U.S. debt default prompted by failure to raise the country's debt ceiling would have "very serious repercussions" for the U.S. economy as well as the global economy.

Jubilee USA Network (2023-05-13). African Catholic Bishops Urge G7 Action on Debt, Bank Reform and Aid to Navigate Africa Crises. indybay.org Africa Faith Leaders Urge Passage of New York Taxpayers and International Debt Crises Protection Act (S4747, A2970)…

Keerti Gopal (2023-05-13). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: New York's Green New Deal. levernews.com After a long hiatus and much demand, we have some good news about good news — our weekly round-up, You Love To See It, is back! This reader-favorite series, exclusively for paid subscribers, is a round-up of progress, victories, and action steps in the fight for a thriving democracy. I'm Keerti Gopal, formerly a Fulbright/National Geographic Fellow in Taiwan and The Lever's new editorial fellow, and I'll be bringing a much-needed dose of optimism to your inbox each week.This week: New York State takes a lead on fossil-fuel phase outs, train and plane riders get some federal backup, workers stand up to Am…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-13). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

WIN (2023-05-13). OPENING THE FRONT LINE AGAINST APARTHEID! A celebration of the mass strikes of 1973. indybay.org There will be an international panel on the 1973 anniversary of the South Africa Duban worker uprising against the apartheid regime.

Staff (2023-05-13). Fighting between Sudanese army and RSF has disastrous impact in Darfur as hundreds of thousands are displaced. peoplesdispatch.org Over 700,000 people have been internally displaced in Sudan since April 15 when the armed conflict began between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). Its spokesperson, Paul Dillon, said at a press briefing in Geneva on May 9 that the number …

Misión Verdad (2023-05-13). Blocking the Blockade: Venezuela's New Law to Protect Assets Abroad. orinocotribune.com The National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela has

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-05-13). Russian cosmonauts complete new spacewalk. plenglish.com Moscow, May 13 (Prensa Latina) Russian cosmonauts Serguei Prokopiev and Dimitri Petelin completed this Saturday a new extravehicular walk out of the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) informed.

Jubilee USA Network (2023-05-13). African Catholic Bishops Urge G7 Action on Debt, Bank Reform and Aid to Navigate Africa Cr. indybay.org Africa Faith Leaders Urge Passage of New York Taxpayers and International Debt Crises Protection Act (S4747, A2970)…

WSWS (2023-05-12). 75 years since Israel's foundation: The Nakba and the struggle for Jewish-Arab unity. wsws.org The Zionist utopia of a national state in which the Jews of the world could find sanctuary has led instead to a headlong descent into police state forms of rule, the emergence of fascism, the eruption of civil war and war with the Palestinians and Israel's Arab neighbours.

Matteo Lambertini, Eva Blondeaux, Giancarlo Bisagni, Silvia Mura, Sabino De Placido, Michelino De Laurentiis, Alessandra Fabi, Anita Rimanti, Andrea Michelotti, Mauro Mansutti, Antonio Russo, Filippo Montemurro, Antonio Frassoldati, Antonio Durando, Stefania Gori, Anna Turletti, Stefano Tamberi, Ylenia Urracci, Piero Fregatti, Maria Grazia Razeti, Roberta Caputo, Carmine De Angelis, Valeria Sanna, Elisa Gasparini, Elisa Agostinetto, Evandro de Azambuja, Francesca Poggio, Luca Boni, Lucia Del Mastro (2023-05-12). Articles] Prognostic and clinical impact of the endocrine resistance/sensitivity classification according to international consensus guidelines for advanced breast cancer: an individual patient-level analysis from the Mammella InterGruppo (MIG) and Gruppo Italiano Mammella (GIM) studies. thelancet.com This large analysis with long-term follow-up provides evidence on the prognostic and clinical impact of the currently adopted endocrine resistance/sensitivity classification in patients with HR+/HER2‚àí advanced BC. This classification may be considered a valid tool to guide clinical decision-making and to design future ET trials in the metastatic setting.

Chris Hedges (2023-05-12). Harriet Tubman and the battle for America's symbols. therealnews.com The debate over America's symbols and monuments has sharpened with the growing mass movement for racial justice in the past decade. The lionization of slave-owners and genocidaires has been pointed out by many as in contradiction to the ideals of democracy and racial justice so often touted as national core values. In the midst of this debate, the decision by the US Treasury to place Harriet Tubman alongside Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill starting in 2030 has incited controversy. Howard University professor of political science Clarence Lusane joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the Harriet Tubman doll…

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-12). Letter Carriers prep for national 'Stamp Out Hunger' food drive. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —The Letter Carriers are preparing for your generosity, expressed through their annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive, scheduled for May 13. That day, on postal routes and at post offices, they'll collect boxes and bags of non-perishable food from generous customers to be sorted and redistributed at local pantries, shelters, charities and similar sources …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-12). Workers confront bosses at Starbucks headquarters, NLRB backs them. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—Starbucks workers seeking to unionize the giant coffee chain have had a busy and hectic time, centered around a May Day march on its Manhattan headquarters to demand the firm sit down and bargain contracts with workers at unionized stores, as a group. So did a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge in …

Mnar Adley (2023-05-12). Africa Rising: Nkosi Mandela on South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid. mintpressnews.com Nelson Mandela's grandson and member of the African National Congress, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, joins Mnar Adley in this exclusive interview to deconstruct Africa's rise against colonialism, and its fight against Israeli apartheid.

teleSUR (2023-05-12). German Railway Workers on Nationwide Strike. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Railway and Transport Union (EVG) called for a national strike from the evening of Sunday 14 till midday Tuesday 16. | RELATED: | Rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has already canceled all long-distance trains, but regional and freight traffic will also be affected. | The two previous warning strikes had only lasted for half a day. After the latest round of negotiations ended without an agreement in late April, the EVG u…

teleSUR (2023-05-12). UK Economy Grows 0.1 Pct in Q1 2023. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) informed that the United Kingdom's economy grew by 0.1 percent in the first quarter (Q1) of this year. | RELATED: | The construction sector grew by 0.7 percent, the production sector by 0.1 percent, and manufacturing by 0.5 percent. Despite the expansion, the country's quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) is still 0.5 percent below its pre-COVID-19 level (fourth quarter of 2019). | The UK remains the only…

teleSUR (2023-05-12). Venezuelans to Opine About Bill to Protect Assets Abroad. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Venezuela's National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez called for a public consultation of the "Bill for the Protection of the Republic's Assets, Rights and Interests Abroad." | RELATED: | This consultation process will involve law students and teachers, members of the Communal Parliament, heads of parliamentary blocs in each State, and representatives of justice and security institutions. | In the next two mo…

Vanessa Beeley (2023-05-12). "Peace in the Middle East is sending Western Globalists and Israel into a tailspin." thealtworld.com Quantum Nurse www.quantumnurse.life presents: | Freedom International Livestream | On May 9, 2023 Thursday @ 12: 00 PM EST 5: 00 PM UK 6: 00 PM Germany | Guest: Vanessa Beeley | Topic: "Peace in the Middle East is sending Western Globalists and Israel into a tailspin."

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-05-12). Nurses in Portugal strike for adequate staffing on International Nurses' Day. peoplesdispatch.org Two nurses' trade unions in Portugal launched a one-day strike on International Nurses' Day to fight for better staffing and working conditions. More protests are expected in the coming months with private sector nurses also likely to join in…

scorinoco (2023-05-12). Venezuela: Opposition Leader Manuel Rosales Endorses CNE's Technical Assistance in Primary Elections. orinocotribune.com Manuel Rosales, governor of the Venezuelan state of Zulia and president of the opposition party Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) highlighted the importance of the technical assistance of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in the opposition primaries. "How can I say that I do not want this CNE and then go to the presidential elections?" he said at a press conference in Caracas on Wednesday, May 10. | "I cannot deny the validity of the automated system that made me governor and that allowed us to win in other states, and in Barinas," Rosales stated, referring to the electoral victories of the opposition in the regional elec…

scorinoco (2023-05-12). Bolivia Considering Using Yuan for Trade with China. orinocotribune.com Bolivia is considering "not transacting" in US dollars and instead using the Chinese national currency, the yuan, to carry out its international transactions with China, joining Brazil and Argentina in the de-dollarization trend. | The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, stated in a press conference on Wednesday, May 10, that Bolivia is considering shifting to yuan in its bilateral trade with China, given that Argentina and Brazil, the two largest economies in the region, are already trading in yuan in their commercial activities with China. | Arce said that although the Latin American region has traditionally been…

Staff (2023-05-12). Colombia's Defense Minister Meets With Venezuelan Counterpart in Caracas. orinocotribune.com The Colombian minister for national defense, Iván Velásquez, met with his Venezuelan counterpart, Vladímir Padrino, in Caracas this Thursday, May 11. Both agreed on several issues, among which the increase in the military presence at illegal border crossings stands out, as covered by the joint statement made public after the meeting. | The meeting held between the national defense ministers is the third in less than a year, after President Gustavo Petro took office and resumed diplomatic ties with Venezuela after ties had been left almost paralyzed by former president Iván Duque in an attempt to oust Venezuelan P…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-12). "Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages" mronline.org The International People's Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians' continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Imran Khan: "I Will Come Back with a Strong Government" libya360.wordpress.com Dure Akram Former Prime Minister Imran Khan during the interview with Dure Akram Sometimes, a lot can change in a day. While it was only on Monday that United World spoke with former prime minister Imran Khan at his heavily-guarded residence in Lahore, the 70-year-old has since then been arrested from the capital Islamabad by…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Joà£o Paulo Rodrigues: "The Parliamentary Investigation Against MST is an Opportunity to Dispute Ideas" libya360.wordpress.com José Eduardo Bernardes The national leader of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), Joà£o Paulo Rodrigues. Photo: Guilherme Santos/Sul21 The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the MST (Landless Workers' Movement), articulated by Bolsonaro supporters and the ruralist group in the Chamber of Deputies, installed last week, has not yet held its first session. Under the control of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Brazil: Why is the MST So Frightening? libya360.wordpress.com Frei Beto Foto: Leonardo Milano The MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra/Landless Workers Movement), which I saw born and to which I remain linked, is the most popular, combative and democratic popular movement in Brazil. Today, it gathers around 500 thousand settled families and 100 thousand families in camps. It fights for a fundamental…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Chile: The Pinochet Tsunami. libya360.wordpress.com Juan Pablo Cárdenas Although in their electoral evaluations, political parties tend to ignore their defeats and always express their squeamishness about the winners, this time in Chile no one failed to appreciate the resounding triumph of the Republican Party and the right-wing as a whole. For decades, no single party had been able to win…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). America Faces Major Hurdles Trying to Form 'Asia-Pacific NATO'. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg with the leaders of Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea during the NATO summit at the Ifema Congress Center in Madrid, on June 29, 2022. | PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP/GETTY IMAGES While serving as the UK Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss (also one of the fast-track prime ministers shortly after…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Donetsk Civilians Live in Constant Fear of Ukrainian Shelling. libya360.wordpress.com Eva Karene Bartlett Heavy Ukrainian shelling of central Donetsk on April 28 killed nine civilians — including an eight-year-old girl and her grandmother — and injured at least 16 more. The victims were burned alive when the minibus they were in was hit by a shell. Another tragic day for the people of the Donbass. More Ukrainian war crimes, slaughtering 9 civilians in Donetsk…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Canada: Green Party Co-Leaders Succumb to Moral Cowardice in a Time of War. libya360.wordpress.com Dimitri Lascaris Green Party of Canada co-leaders Jonathan Pedneault and Elizabeth May walking down a street. On January 31, 2023, Green Party leader Elizabeth May gave a press conference in which she revealed that the Green Party under her leadership now supports the transfer of weapons to Ukraine. As I explained in a post I…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-12). It would be healthier and safer for humanity to sign an agreement with the Columbian drug cartel than with WHO, says MEP. expose-news.com The third International Covid Summit was held at the European Parliament last week, on 3 May. The Members of the European Parliament ("MEPs") who attended said it was a historic event. The …

Eric Zuesse (2023-05-12). China's Government Calls US Government an International Outlaw. dissidentvoice.org Wang Wenbin, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, held his regular press conference in Beijing, on May 11th, and answered a reporter's question: "It was reported that the G7 Summit to be held in Japan will ask China to abide by international rules. Do you have any comment?" by saying that those countries are hypocritical for accusing …

Anonymous103 (2023-05-12). China's Government Calls America's Government an International Outlaw. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Wang Wenbin, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, held

Anonymous669 (2023-05-12). Iranian Economy Minister Arrives In Saudi Arabia, As Kingdom Appoints Ambassador To Tehran. southfront.org File image. | On May 11, Iran's minister of finance and economic affairs arrived in the Saudi city of Jeddah in the first visit to the kingdom by a senior Iranian official since the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries. | The semi-official Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) said that Ehsan Khandouzi arrived in Jeddah leading an economic delegation. The minister was welcomed at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah by officials of the Saudi government, Islamic Developmen…

Anonymous669 (2023-05-12). Turkish Drone Strike Kills Kurdish Official In Northern Syria. southfront.org A Bayraktar Akƒ±ncƒ± combat drone. Source: the Turkish Ministry of National Defense. | On May 11, a Turkish combat drone targeted a vehicle on the M4 highway to the south of the town of Kobane in Syria's northern region. | Kobane, which is located in the northern Aleppo countryside, is a key stronghold of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). | The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, said that the strike killed…

WSWS (2023-05-12). Amazon worker killed in fulfillment center accident in Fort Wayne, Indiana. wsws.org Caes David Gruesbeck, a 20-year-old forklift driver, died on Monday from injuries from an accident involving an overhead conveyor system.

infobrics (2023-05-12). Geopolitical Significance of Connectivity Projects in Caspian Region and India's Role There. infobrics.org The geopolitics of the Caspian region has been undergoing a rapid change in recent years due to the geopolitical realignment in…

infobrics (2023-05-12). India and Russia Plan Big on Transport Corridors — Mundra to Saint Petersburg, Chennai to Vladivostok. infobrics.org FESCO, one of the largest private transport and logistics companies in Russia, has announced that it has signed an agreement with an Indian logistics group to develop maritime transportation between the two countries…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-12). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

teleSUR (2023-05-11). Wildfires Threaten Indigenous Communities in Canada. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, at least nine indigenous communities in northwest Canada are threatened by wildfires that have burned thousands of hectares of forest. | RELATED: | Currently, the province of Alberta has 82 active fires, 29 of which are out of control. The communities most affected are those of the Little Red River Cree Indian Nation, located about 550 kilometers north of the city of Edmonton, in the far north of Alberta. | Throu…

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People's Dispatch. (2023-05-12). Pakistan Rocked By Protests As Imran Khan Is Sent To Custody. popularresistance.org Massive protests broke out across Pakistan on May 9, Tuesday, after the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. On Wednesday, a court sent the leader of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) into eight days of detention with the National Accountability Bureau. A separate judge also indicted him in a case relating to unlawful selling of state gifts [known as the Toshakhana case]. | Protesters set fire to buildings in various parts of the country. There have been reports of deaths during the protests though the exact toll is not clear yet. The Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported that three people had been…

WSWS (2023-05-12). After unleashing IMF austerity, Sri Lankan president initiates "compensation" welfare program for the poor. wsws.org Wickremesinghe's initiative is a cynical and desperate attempt to dissipate rising popular anger over brutal government attacks on social conditions.

The Lancet (2023-05-13). Editorial] The future of nursing: lessons from a pandemic. thelancet.com In early 2020, as part of a worldwide campaign to raise the profile of nursing, WHO, the International Council of Nurses (ICN), and Nursing Now published the first State of the World's Nursing report, setting out a global strategy for nursing. At the time, we highlighted how the report could inform policy dialogues and promote recognition of the potential of nursing to enable universal health coverage, and emphasised how crucial the subsequent years would be to show the impact of nursing. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven just how important these messages were.

Adrian P Mundt, Carlos Ibáñez (2023-05-13). Correspondence] Beyond the dichotomy of drug regulations and prohibitions. thelancet.com Based on observations around the US opioid crisis and cannabis legalisation in Uruguay, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch and Diederik Lohman made a call to the public health community to challenge drug prohibition.1 It remains unspecified whether the call suggests legalising all drugs internationally or refers to advocating for evidence-based drug policy. The US opioid epidemic, related to legal prescription drugs in a specific geopolitical context, has health outcomes which differ from those of cannabis or other drugs.

WSWS (2023-05-12). A profile of global battery maker Clarios: Company leading drive for low-wage EV workforce. wsws.org The Clarios strike in Ohio is a critical fight for all autoworkers as the auto transnationals seek to force the cost of electric vehicle production onto the backs of workers.

Matteo Lambertini, Eva Blondeaux, Giancarlo Bisagni, Silvia Mura, Sabino De Placido, Michelino De Laurentiis, Alessandra Fabi, Anita Rimanti, Andrea Michelotti, Mauro Mansutti, Antonio Russo, Filippo Montemurro, Antonio Frassoldati, Antonio Durando, Stefania Gori, Anna Turletti, Stefano Tamberi, Ylenia Urracci, Piero Fregatti, Maria Grazia Razeti, Roberta Caputo, Carmine De Angelis, Valeria Sanna, Elisa Gasparini, Elisa Agostinetto, Evandro de Azambuja, Francesca Poggio, Luca Boni, Lucia Del Mastro (2023-05-12). Articles] Prognostic and clinical impact of the endocrine resistance/sensitivity classification according to international consensus guidelines for advanced breast cancer: an individual patient-level analysis from the Mammella InterGruppo (MIG) and Gruppo Italiano Mammella (GIM) studies. thelancet.com This large analysis with long-term follow-up provides evidence on the prognostic and clinical impact of the currently adopted endocrine resistance/sensitivity classification in patients with HR+/HER2‚àí advanced BC. This classification may be considered a valid tool to guide clinical decision-making and to design future ET trials in the metastatic setting.

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teleSUR (2023-05-12). German Railway Workers on Nationwide Strike. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Railway and Transport Union (EVG) called for a national strike from the evening of Sunday 14 till midday Tuesday 16. | RELATED: | Rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has already canceled all long-distance trains, but regional and freight traffic will also be affected. | The two previous warning strikes had only lasted for half a day. After the latest round of negotiations ended without an agreement in late April, the EVG u…

teleSUR (2023-05-12). UK Economy Grows 0.1 Pct in Q1 2023. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) informed that the United Kingdom's economy grew by 0.1 percent in the first quarter (Q1) of this year. | RELATED: | The construction sector grew by 0.7 percent, the production sector by 0.1 percent, and manufacturing by 0.5 percent. Despite the expansion, the country's quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) is still 0.5 percent below its pre-COVID-19 level (fourth quarter of 2019). | The UK remains the only…

teleSUR (2023-05-12). Venezuelans to Opine About Bill to Protect Assets Abroad. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Venezuela's National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez called for a public consultation of the "Bill for the Protection of the Republic's Assets, Rights and Interests Abroad." | RELATED: | This consultation process will involve law students and teachers, members of the Communal Parliament, heads of parliamentary blocs in each State, and representatives of justice and security institutions. | In the next two mo…

Mnar Adley (2023-05-12). Africa Rising: Nkosi Mandela on South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid. mintpressnews.com Nelson Mandela's grandson and member of the African National Congress, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, joins Mnar Adley in this exclusive interview to deconstruct Africa's rise against colonialism, and its fight against Israeli apartheid.

ecns.cn (2023-05-12). U.S. hegemony over postwar order slammed. ecns.cn The international order that must be defended is the order based on the United Nations Charter and rules, rather than an order designed to serve the United States hegemony and the interests of small blocs, officials and experts said.

ecns.cn (2023-05-12). Exit, entry policies optimized. ecns.cn China will fully restore fast-lane entry and exit services at all ports starting on Monday, facilitating the cross-border travel of Chinese citizens and foreign nationals.

teleSUR (2023-05-12). German Railway Workers on Nationwide Strike. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Railway and Transport Union (EVG) called for a national strike from the evening of Sunday 14 till midday Tuesday 16. | RELATED: | Rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has already canceled all long-distance trains, but regional and freight traffic will also be affected. | The two previous warning strikes had only lasted for half a day. After the latest round of negotiations ended without an agreement in late April, the EVG u…

teleSUR (2023-05-12). UK Economy Grows 0.1 Pct in Q1 2023. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) informed that the United Kingdom's economy grew by 0.1 percent in the first quarter (Q1) of this year. | RELATED: | The construction sector grew by 0.7 percent, the production sector by 0.1 percent, and manufacturing by 0.5 percent. Despite the expansion, the country's quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) is still 0.5 percent below its pre-COVID-19 level (fourth quarter of 2019). | The UK remains the only…

teleSUR (2023-05-12). Venezuelans to Opine About Bill to Protect Assets Abroad. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Venezuela's National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez called for a public consultation of the "Bill for the Protection of the Republic's Assets, Rights and Interests Abroad." | RELATED: | This consultation process will involve law students and teachers, members of the Communal Parliament, heads of parliamentary blocs in each State, and representatives of justice and security institutions. | In the next two mo…

Mnar Adley (2023-05-12). Africa Rising: Nkosi Mandela on South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid. mintpressnews.com Nelson Mandela's grandson and member of the African National Congress, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, joins Mnar Adley in this exclusive interview to deconstruct Africa's rise against colonialism, and its fight against Israeli apartheid.

ecns.cn (2023-05-12). U.S. hegemony over postwar order slammed. ecns.cn The international order that must be defended is the order based on the United Nations Charter and rules, rather than an order designed to serve the United States hegemony and the interests of small blocs, officials and experts said.

ecns.cn (2023-05-12). Exit, entry policies optimized. ecns.cn China will fully restore fast-lane entry and exit services at all ports starting on Monday, facilitating the cross-border travel of Chinese citizens and foreign nationals.

ecns.cn (2023-05-12). G7 has constantly violated and disrupted rules: Chinese FM spokesperson. ecns.cn While asking China to abide by international rules, the G7 itself has constantly violated and disrupted rules, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said at a news briefing on Thursday.

Federico Fuentes (2023-05-12). Michael Lebowitz, presente! (1937—2023). greenleft.org.au Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19. With his death, the international left has lost one of its most insightful and original thinkers, writes Federico Fuentes.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-12). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-12). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-12). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-12). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Richard D. Wolff, Popular Resistance. (2023-05-12). The Debt Ceiling Debate Is A Massive Deception Against The Public. popularresistance.org Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily deceived raises the question that will provoke those historians: How could this happen? | The U.S. Congress has imposed successive ceilings on the national debt, each one higher than the last. Ceilings were intended to limit the amount of federal borrowing. But the same U.S. Congress so managed its taxing and spending that it created ever more excesses of spending over tax revenues (deficits). Those excesses required borrowing…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Imran Khan: "I Will Come Back with a Strong Government" libya360.wordpress.com Dure Akram Former Prime Minister Imran Khan during the interview with Dure Akram Sometimes, a lot can change in a day. While it was only on Monday that United World spoke with former prime minister Imran Khan at his heavily-guarded residence in Lahore, the 70-year-old has since then been arrested from the capital Islamabad by…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Joà£o Paulo Rodrigues: "The Parliamentary Investigation Against MST is an Opportunity to Dispute Ideas" libya360.wordpress.com José Eduardo Bernardes The national leader of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), Joà£o Paulo Rodrigues. Photo: Guilherme Santos/Sul21 The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the MST (Landless Workers' Movement), articulated by Bolsonaro supporters and the ruralist group in the Chamber of Deputies, installed last week, has not yet held its first session. Under the control of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Brazil: Why is the MST So Frightening? libya360.wordpress.com Frei Beto Foto: Leonardo Milano The MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra/Landless Workers Movement), which I saw born and to which I remain linked, is the most popular, combative and democratic popular movement in Brazil. Today, it gathers around 500 thousand settled families and 100 thousand families in camps. It fights for a fundamental…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Chile: The Pinochet Tsunami. libya360.wordpress.com Juan Pablo Cárdenas Although in their electoral evaluations, political parties tend to ignore their defeats and always express their squeamishness about the winners, this time in Chile no one failed to appreciate the resounding triumph of the Republican Party and the right-wing as a whole. For decades, no single party had been able to win…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Donetsk Civilians Live in Constant Fear of Ukrainian Shelling. libya360.wordpress.com Eva Karene Bartlett Heavy Ukrainian shelling of central Donetsk on April 28 killed nine civilians — including an eight-year-old girl and her grandmother — and injured at least 16 more. The victims were burned alive when the minibus they were in was hit by a shell. Another tragic day for the people of the Donbass. More Ukrainian war crimes, slaughtering 9 civilians in Donetsk…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-12). Canada: Green Party Co-Leaders Succumb to Moral Cowardice in a Time of War. libya360.wordpress.com Dimitri Lascaris Green Party of Canada co-leaders Jonathan Pedneault and Elizabeth May walking down a street. On January 31, 2023, Green Party leader Elizabeth May gave a press conference in which she revealed that the Green Party under her leadership now supports the transfer of weapons to Ukraine. As I explained in a post I…

Eric Zuesse (2023-05-12). China's Government Calls US Government an International Outlaw. dissidentvoice.org Wang Wenbin, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, held his regular press conference in Beijing, on May 11th, and answered a reporter's question: "It was reported that the G7 Summit to be held in Japan will ask China to abide by international rules. Do you have any comment?" by saying that those countries are hypocritical for accusing …

Jubilee USA Network (2023-05-12). African Catholic Bishops Urge G7 Action on Debt, Bank Reform and Aid to Navigate Africa Cr. indybay.org Africa Faith Leaders Urge Passage of New York Taxpayers and International Debt Crises Protection Act (S4747, A2970)…

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-05-12). Nurses in Portugal strike for adequate staffing on International Nurses' Day. peoplesdispatch.org Two nurses' trade unions in Portugal launched a one-day strike on International Nurses' Day to fight for better staffing and working conditions. More protests are expected in the coming months with private sector nurses also likely to join in…

scorinoco (2023-05-12). Bolivia Considering Using Yuan for Trade with China. orinocotribune.com Bolivia is considering "not transacting" in US dollars and instead using the Chinese national currency, the yuan, to carry out its international transactions with China, joining Brazil and Argentina in the de-dollarization trend. | The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, stated in a press conference on Wednesday, May 10, that Bolivia is considering shifting to yuan in its bilateral trade with China, given that Argentina and Brazil, the two largest economies in the region, are already trading in yuan in their commercial activities with China. | Arce said that although the Latin American region has traditionally been…

scorinoco (2023-05-12). Venezuela: Opposition Leader Manuel Rosales Endorses CNE's Technical Assistance in Primary Elections. orinocotribune.com Manuel Rosales, governor of the Venezuelan state of Zulia and president of the opposition party Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) highlighted the importance of the technical assistance of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in the opposition primaries. "How can I say that I do not want this CNE and then go to the presidential elections?" he said at a press conference in Caracas on Wednesday, May 10. | "I cannot deny the validity of the automated system that made me governor and that allowed us to win in other states, and in Barinas," Rosales stated, referring to the electoral victories of the opposition in the regional elec…

Staff (2023-05-12). Colombia's Defense Minister Meets With Venezuelan Counterpart in Caracas. orinocotribune.com The Colombian minister for national defense, Iván Velásquez, met with his Venezuelan counterpart, Vladímir Padrino, in Caracas this Thursday, May 11. Both agreed on several issues, among which the increase in the military presence at illegal border crossings stands out, as covered by the joint statement made public after the meeting. | The meeting held between the national defense ministers is the third in less than a year, after President Gustavo Petro took office and resumed diplomatic ties with Venezuela after ties had been left almost paralyzed by former president Iván Duque in an attempt to oust Venezuelan P…

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-12). Workers confront bosses at Starbucks headquarters, NLRB backs them. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—Starbucks workers seeking to unionize the giant coffee chain have had a busy and hectic time, centered around a May Day march on its Manhattan headquarters to demand the firm sit down and bargain contracts with workers at unionized stores, as a group. So did a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge in …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-12). Letter Carriers prep for national 'Stamp Out Hunger' food drive. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —The Letter Carriers are preparing for your generosity, expressed through their annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive, scheduled for May 13. That day, on postal routes and at post offices, they'll collect boxes and bags of non-perishable food from generous customers to be sorted and redistributed at local pantries, shelters, charities and similar sources …

Anonymous103 (2023-05-12). China's Government Calls America's Government an International Outlaw. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Wang Wenbin, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, held

Anonymous669 (2023-05-12). Iranian Economy Minister Arrives In Saudi Arabia, As Kingdom Appoints Ambassador To Tehran. southfront.org File image. | On May 11, Iran's minister of finance and economic affairs arrived in the Saudi city of Jeddah in the first visit to the kingdom by a senior Iranian official since the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries. | The semi-official Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) said that Ehsan Khandouzi arrived in Jeddah leading an economic delegation. The minister was welcomed at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah by officials of the Saudi government, Islamic Developmen…

Anonymous669 (2023-05-12). Turkish Drone Strike Kills Kurdish Official In Northern Syria. southfront.org A Bayraktar Akƒ±ncƒ± combat drone. Source: the Turkish Ministry of National Defense. | On May 11, a Turkish combat drone targeted a vehicle on the M4 highway to the south of the town of Kobane in Syria's northern region. | Kobane, which is located in the northern Aleppo countryside, is a key stronghold of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). | The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, said that the strike killed…

Chris Hedges (2023-05-12). Harriet Tubman and the battle for America's symbols. therealnews.com The debate over America's symbols and monuments has sharpened with the growing mass movement for racial justice in the past decade. The lionization of slave-owners and genocidaires has been pointed out by many as in contradiction to the ideals of democracy and racial justice so often touted as national core values. In the midst of this debate, the decision by the US Treasury to place Harriet Tubman alongside Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill starting in 2030 has incited controversy. Howard University professor of political science Clarence Lusane joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the Harriet Tubman doll…

ecns.cn (2023-05-12). Senior officials of China, U.S. hold candid, in-depth talks in Vienna. ecns.cn Director Wang fully elaborated on China's serious position on the Taiwan question. The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, Ukraine and other international and regional issues of mutual interest, Wang added.

ecns.cn (2023-05-12). U.S. repatriates two carved stone relics to China. ecns.cn On Tuesday afternoon local time, authorized by China's National Cultural Heritage Administration, the Chinese Consulate-General in New York and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York held a handover ceremony, during which the US handed to the Chinese government two important Chinese cultural relics which had been illegally transported overseas and seized in investigations.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-12). It would be healthier and safer for humanity to sign an agreement with the Columbian drug cartel than with WHO, says MEP. expose-news.com The third International Covid Summit was held at the European Parliament last week, on 3 May. The Members of the European Parliament ("MEPs") who attended said it was a historic event. The …

Vanessa Beeley (2023-05-12). "Peace in the Middle East is sending Western Globalists and Israel into a tailspin." thealtworld.com Quantum Nurse www.quantumnurse.life presents: | Freedom International Livestream | On May 9, 2023 Thursday @ 12: 00 PM EST 5: 00 PM UK 6: 00 PM Germany | Guest: Vanessa Beeley | Topic: "Peace in the Middle East is sending Western Globalists and Israel into a tailspin."

Dianne Mathiowetz (2023-05-11). Okefenokee Swamp threatened by proposed strip mine. workers.org Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia. Atlanta A years-long struggle by the Muskogee Creek Nation and environmentalists to preserve the Okefenokee Swamp, home of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, is ramping up its campaign to stop Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals from strip mining the eastern edge of this unique ecosystem. Opponents say that . . . |

Staff (2023-05-11). WHO Says Mpox No Longer A Global Health Emergency. telesurenglish.net World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Thursday that mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is no longer a global health emergency. | RELATED: | "Yesterday, the monkeypox emergency committee met and recommended to me that the global outbreak of monkeypox no longer represents a public health emergency of international concern," Tedros told a press conference. | According to the WHO chief…

teleSUR (2023-05-11). Venezuela and Colombia Sign Security and Defense Agreement. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Defense Ministers Ivan Velasquez (Colombia) and Vladimir Padrino (Venezuela) met in Caracas to address issues related to border protection and security. | RELATED: | During the meeting, the Venezuelan authorities formalized the delivery of three Colombian Navy boats that were found by the National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) in the Orinoco River, in the state of Bolivar in 2020. | Since then, those boats had remaine…

_____ (2023-05-11). U.S. Remains Largest Military Spender by Far. strategic-culture.org The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's data shows that Washington spends three times as much on its military than China, the second-largest spender, Ashik Siddique reports. | By Ashik SIDDIQUE | World military spending reached a new record high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, according to new data published by the That's up 3.7 percent since the previous year, including the steepest increase am…

Ana Perdigón (2023-05-11). Mexico's AMLO Refers to OAS as 'Useless'. orinocotribune.com The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, suggested that the Organization of American States (OAS) should disappear, because "it is useless." | During his morning press conference on Wednesday, the Mexican president asked those present if they knew what good the OAS had done. He pointed out that the only thing the international organization has done is "to endorse all authoritarian plots against legitimate, legal, and popular governments in Latin America." | "The OAS has no moral or political authority," added the Mexican president. "But it is not necessary, nor is it convenient to answer them, they a…

cameron orr (2023-05-11). SACP greets NY comrades on May Day. cpusa.org The following greeting was sent by Blade Nzimande, National Chair of the South African Communist Party, to the May Day event organized by the CPUSA and its YCL in NYC on May 1st, 2023. On this May Day, the South African Communist Party (SACP) wishes to salute the pioneering struggles by militant workers in …

Cindy Farquhar (2023-05-11). Golden Rule Peace Boat visits Baltimore, bringing message of nuclear disarmament. peoplesworld.org BALTIMORE—Do you know about the back story behind the U.S., U.K., and USSR signing the "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water" in 1963? It is a very dramatic tale, involving illegal arrests in international waters, switching missions from one ship to another, children tasting nuclear fallout as it came …

Dan Cohen (2023-05-11). 'Bwa Kale' — Haiti Erupts Into Anti-Gang Uprising. orinocotribune.com By Dan Cohen — May 2, 2023 | Plagued by crime, insecurity and corruption, Haiti's masses spawn a leaderless movement to crush gangs. How far will it go? | On April 23, after a night of heavy gunfire in the second district and surrounding neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince, Haitian National Police (PNH) received information that several gang members were traveling through the area. Early the following morning in the Canapé-Vert neighborhood, police stopped a public transportation minibus and found 14 men

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-11). Jake Sullivan Meets With China's Top Diplomat in Vienna. news.antiwar.com National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with China's top diplomat for two days in Vienna this week, marking the highest level of in-person engagement between the two nations since President Biden and President Xi Jinping held talks in Bali last November. According to a White House readout, Sullivan and Wang Yi, director of China's Central …

Dian Maria Blandina (2023-05-11). Sudan's crisis and the hidden hands of the IMF. peoplesdispatch.org As the people of Sudan continue to experience conflict and violence, the role played by international financial institutions is often ignored. Decades of IMF-imposed austerity policies and cuts on spending played a huge role in the deterioration of living conditions in the country…

ecns.cn (2023-05-11). China's huge cosmic-ray observatory LHAASO approved for operation. ecns.cn China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) – one of the country's key national science and technology infrastructure facilities, passed national acceptance procedures on Wednesday evening, hoping to reveal athe origin of cosmic rays, a century-old mystery.

Editor (2023-05-11). The IMF and its ideological orphans. mronline.org There was a time when the International Monetary Fund's "recommendations" on how to reorganize an economy were read, defended and executed as if they were a divine mandate.

Fight Back (2023-05-11). FRSO Spring Fund Drive hits $35,000, more success ahead. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — The Freedom Road Socialist Organization Spring Fund Drive hit the $35,000 mark May 11, with more money coming in daily. The fund drive aims at raising $130,000, allowing for an expansion of our national office, more publications and putting more full-time organizers in the field. | The fund drive comes at time when FRSO is experiencing a period of rapid expansion, which includes establishing many new local organizations. | Mick Kelly, the political secretary of FRSO states, "We are building a large, nationwide organization that is capable of building large-scale struggles. We are buildin…

Hendrik Sybrandy (2023-05-11). Content creators talk about the cost of the TikTok ban. america.cgtn.com Montana has become the first U.S. state to ban the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, claiming it's a national security threat. However, a number of tech companies and content creators say banning the app nationwide would cost them a valuable platform and money.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). Elections in Türkiye: Challenges Facing Erdogan. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara López On May 14, Türkiye will hold presidential and parliamentary elections in which citizens will elect the new president of the country and the 600 deputies of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The head of state will be elected in the first round only if he/she reaches 50%+1 of the votes; otherwise, the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). Liberal Democracy in Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Nicholas Mwangi March 20, 2023 saw major street protests held in Kenya, Tunisia, and South Africa. The latter was aimed at a total shutdown of the economy and the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa amidst the energy crisis and load shedding. The protests were led by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party. In Kenya and Tunisia, the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). Liberia and the Challenges of US Imperialism. libya360.wordpress.com Djibo Sobukwe For those who are concerned about the US interference and its debilitating colonial and neocolonial impact on Africa, the study of Liberia is instructive. As professor Niels Hahn argues in his book, Two Centuries of US Military Operations in Liberia, Challenges of Resistance and Compliance: "Liberia is the country in Africa where the United…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). Sudan: The Mamushkas' War. libya360.wordpress.com Guadi Calvo Refugees from Sudan's civil war Three weeks after the beginning of the conflict, after the cease-fires agreed upon by the parties have failed one after the other, and without any international or regional force having been able to push forward a proposal to at least stop the death, the Sudanese continue to kill…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). The Arrest of Imran Khan: The Naked Face of Fascism in Pakistan. libya360.wordpress.com Aasma Wadud Imran Khan's popularity skyrocketed after the regime change, and now he is considered Pakistan's most loved, embraced, and acknowledged leader After the forced regime change has been rough for Imran Khan, PTI's leaders, voters, supporters, journalists, social media activists, and the general public, the PDM government came to power with a fascist mindset…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). What's Behind the Attack against Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement? libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch In the Atalaia, Alagoas, the Carlos Marighella Brigade of the MST, organized tree planting next to the Paraíba River. Photo: Mykesio Max The Chamber of Deputies, dominated by the right, has set up a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry to investigate "the real purpose" of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement The Landless Rural Workers'…

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-05-11). The Government Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone. dissidentvoice.org There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. —James Madison How far would you really go to secure the nation's borders in the so-called name of national security? Would you give the government limitless amounts …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-11). Teamsters win vote at Cincinnati Airport's DHL. peoplesworld.org CINCINNATI—By a two-to-one ratio among voters, Teamsters Local 100 won the union recognition vote among 1,100 DHL Express ramp and tug workers at the air cargo firm's biggest hub, the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. The National Labor Relations Board has already certified the victory, Teamsters spokeswoman Kara Deniz reported. The company website was silent about …

Olivia Rosane (2023-05-11). Unexpected melting of Greenland glacier might double sea level rise projections. peoplesworld.org A glacier in the north of Greenland is melting faster and in a different way than scientists previously thought, and this has troubling implications for the future speed of global sea-level rise. The new discovery was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Monday. The scientists found that warming ocean water had melted a cavity in …

Patrick Delaney (2023-05-11). Ex-Pfizer VP Michael Yeadon: Covid Vaxx Push a 'Supranational Operation' Intended to 'Maim and Kill Deliberately'. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-11). "Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages" peoplesdispatch.org The International People's Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians' continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel…

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-11). NATO military brass oversees large-scale, multinational Swedish war games. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOSupreme Headquarters Allied Powers EuropeMay 11, 2023 Director SHAPE Partnerships visits Exercise Aurora 23 in Sweden SHAPE's Deputy Chief of Staff Partnerships Directorate visited Exercise Aurora 23 from May 7 to 10, 2023, Sweden's largest annual home defence exercise, designed to test the nations defensive plans across all force domains. Rear Admiral Gunnstein Bruà•sdal was …

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-11). New AFRICOM/NATO military outpost: Ivory Coast. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton regime overthrew the Ivorian government of President Laurent Gbagbo with the assistance of French and United Nations troops in 2011, at the time it was also attempting to also overthrow governments in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. What has subsequently been deemed the rules-based international disorder. — RR ==== U.S. Army …

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-11). U.S. senators appeal to Blinken, Power to insure Georgians vote right way. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rustavi 2May 11, 2023 US Senators appeal to the US Secretary of State to establish a long-term observation mission in Georgia for the 2024 elections US Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Jim Risch have sent a letter to the US Secretary of State and the head of the Agency for International Development, in which they appeal …

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-11). Ocasio-Cortez Flames CNN for "Profoundly Irresponsible" Trump Town Hall. truthout.org Following a CNN town hall with Donald Trump on Wednesday night during which the former president peddled dangerous lies on nationally-broadcasted TV for over an hour, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) condemned the network for giving a platform to Trump at all, calling the debacle a "profoundly irresponsible" move from one of the largest news networks in the U.S. |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-11). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

midwesternmarx (2023-05-11). Countries worldwide are dropping the US dollar: De-dollarization in China, Russia, Brazil, ASEAN By: Ben Norton. midwesternmarx.com The global de-dollarization campaign is gaining momentum, as countries around the world seek alternatives to the hegemony of the US dollar. China, Russia, Brazil, India, ASEAN nations, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are now using local currencies in trade.(Se puede leer esta nota en español aquí.)The global de-dollarization campaign is gaining momentum, as countries around the world seek alternatives to the hegemony of the US dollar.China and Russia are trading in their own currencies.B …

teleSUR (2023-05-11). Wildfires Threaten Indigenous Communities in Canada. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, at least nine indigenous communities in northwest Canada are threatened by wildfires that have burned thousands of hectares of forest. | RELATED: | Currently, the province of Alberta has 82 active fires, 29 of which are out of control. The communities most affected are those of the Little Red River Cree Indian Nation, located about 550 kilometers north of the city of Edmonton, in the far north of Alberta. | Throu…

unitedEditor (2023-05-11). "Old global power structures are changing" unitedworldint.com By Dure Akram for UWI reporting from Lahore, Pakistan In an interview to UWI, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan speaks of India's foreign policy as an example to follow, calls Afghanistan "a future life line" and blames his government of not establishing according relations "due to fear from the U.S.". Mr. Khan also predicts …

Amitabha Roychowdhury (2023-05-10). Multilateral banks debunk Indian government's claims on growth rate. peoplesdispatch.org The so-called theory of trickle-down effect projected by the government (high prosperity of the rich flows down to enhance the economic welfare of the poor) has been debunked by the data on the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the country, rising poverty, unemployment, and the perpetually rising prices…

Anand Naidoo (2023-05-10). The Heat: India History Controversy. america.cgtn.com Is India trying to erase its Muslim past? Street and city names are being changed. Now the Indian government is ordering revisions to school textbooks, scrubbing or minimizing references to Islamic rule in the country. Critics claim the changes help promote the Hindu nationalist vision …

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Federico Fuentes (2023-05-12). Michael Lebowitz, presente! (1937—2023). greenleft.org.au Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19. With his death, the international left has lost one of its most insightful and original thinkers, writes Federico Fuentes.

Olivia Rosane (2023-05-11). Unexpected melting of Greenland glacier might double sea level rise projections. peoplesworld.org A glacier in the north of Greenland is melting faster and in a different way than scientists previously thought, and this has troubling implications for the future speed of global sea-level rise. The new discovery was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Monday. The scientists found that warming ocean water had melted a cavity in …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-11). Teamsters win vote at Cincinnati Airport's DHL. peoplesworld.org CINCINNATI—By a two-to-one ratio among voters, Teamsters Local 100 won the union recognition vote among 1,100 DHL Express ramp and tug workers at the air cargo firm's biggest hub, the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. The National Labor Relations Board has already certified the victory, Teamsters spokeswoman Kara Deniz reported. The company website was silent about …

Cindy Farquhar (2023-05-11). Golden Rule Peace Boat visits Baltimore, bringing message of nuclear disarmament. peoplesworld.org BALTIMORE—Do you know about the back story behind the U.S., U.K., and USSR signing the "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water" in 1963? It is a very dramatic tale, involving illegal arrests in international waters, switching missions from one ship to another, children tasting nuclear fallout as it came …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-11). Mayo Clinic Minute: How to reduce your stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, but Mayo Clinic health care professionals suggest spotting the signs and reducing stroke risk should be part of everyday awareness. A stroke happens every 40 seconds in the U.S., and the likelihood of stroke increases with age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/iShun0adjek Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 55) is in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-11). Consumer Health: 3 types of head and neck cancers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three types of cancer that affect these areas of the body. Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50. Among the many types of head and neck cancers are…

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newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-11). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-11). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-11). "Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages" peoplesdispatch.org The International People's Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians' continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel…

Dian Maria Blandina (2023-05-11). Sudan's crisis and the hidden hands of the IMF. peoplesdispatch.org As the people of Sudan continue to experience conflict and violence, the role played by international financial institutions is often ignored. Decades of IMF-imposed austerity policies and cuts on spending played a huge role in the deterioration of living conditions in the country…

_____ (2023-05-11). U.S. Remains Largest Military Spender by Far. strategic-culture.org The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's data shows that Washington spends three times as much on its military than China, the second-largest spender, Ashik Siddique reports. | By Ashik SIDDIQUE | World military spending reached a new record high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, according to new data published by the That's up 3.7 percent since the previous year, including the steepest increase am…

Patrick Delaney (2023-05-11). Ex-Pfizer VP Michael Yeadon: Covid Vaxx Push a 'Supranational Operation' Intended to 'Maim and Kill Deliberately'. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-11). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-11). Save lives this Take Back Day; safely dispose of unused medications. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Dispose of unneeded medications safely during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 22. Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Olmsted Medical Center, Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will host a community drop-off event to collect unused or expired medications. "The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Violent Crimes Enforcement Team (VCET) are proud to team up with Mayo Clinic and other…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-11). "Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages" peoplesdispatch.org The International People's Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians' continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel…

Dian Maria Blandina (2023-05-11). Sudan's crisis and the hidden hands of the IMF. peoplesdispatch.org As the people of Sudan continue to experience conflict and violence, the role played by international financial institutions is often ignored. Decades of IMF-imposed austerity policies and cuts on spending played a huge role in the deterioration of living conditions in the country…

_____ (2023-05-11). U.S. Remains Largest Military Spender by Far. strategic-culture.org The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's data shows that Washington spends three times as much on its military than China, the second-largest spender, Ashik Siddique reports. | By Ashik SIDDIQUE | World military spending reached a new record high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, according to new data published by the That's up 3.7 percent since the previous year, including the steepest increase am…

Patrick Delaney (2023-05-11). Ex-Pfizer VP Michael Yeadon: Covid Vaxx Push a 'Supranational Operation' Intended to 'Maim and Kill Deliberately'. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-05-11). "Show strength again" and "lead": the German Bundeswehr advertises for World War Three. wsws.org Early last week, the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) launched a "cross-media image campaign." Like earlier media campaigns, it glorifies militarism and nationalism, but this time aims even more openly to prepare the public for a new world war and to recruit the necessary cannon fodder.

WSWS (2023-05-11). Teamsters negotiators violate their own pledge not to start national talks at UPS until after supplemental deals. wsws.org In spite of its "militant" posturing, the Teamsters bureaucracy is under immense pressure to work out a deal before the July 31 deadline to avoid a strike by 340,000 UPS workers.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). Liberal Democracy in Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Nicholas Mwangi March 20, 2023 saw major street protests held in Kenya, Tunisia, and South Africa. The latter was aimed at a total shutdown of the economy and the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa amidst the energy crisis and load shedding. The protests were led by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party. In Kenya and Tunisia, the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). Liberia and the Challenges of US Imperialism. libya360.wordpress.com Djibo Sobukwe For those who are concerned about the US interference and its debilitating colonial and neocolonial impact on Africa, the study of Liberia is instructive. As professor Niels Hahn argues in his book, Two Centuries of US Military Operations in Liberia, Challenges of Resistance and Compliance: "Liberia is the country in Africa where the United…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). Sudan: The Mamushkas' War. libya360.wordpress.com Guadi Calvo Refugees from Sudan's civil war Three weeks after the beginning of the conflict, after the cease-fires agreed upon by the parties have failed one after the other, and without any international or regional force having been able to push forward a proposal to at least stop the death, the Sudanese continue to kill…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). The Arrest of Imran Khan: The Naked Face of Fascism in Pakistan. libya360.wordpress.com Aasma Wadud Imran Khan's popularity skyrocketed after the regime change, and now he is considered Pakistan's most loved, embraced, and acknowledged leader After the forced regime change has been rough for Imran Khan, PTI's leaders, voters, supporters, journalists, social media activists, and the general public, the PDM government came to power with a fascist mindset…

Walter Smolarek (2023-05-11). May Day in Havana: International solidarity to resist the US blockade. greenleft.org.au This year's May Day celebration in Cuba was interrupted by severe storms that knocked out electricity in much of the country, but this didn't dampen the spirits of more than 150 activists from the United States visiting on a solidarity delegation, reports Walter Smolarek.

cameron orr (2023-05-11). SACP greets NY comrades on May Day. cpusa.org The following greeting was sent by Blade Nzimande, National Chair of the South African Communist Party, to the May Day event organized by the CPUSA and its YCL in NYC on May 1st, 2023. On this May Day, the South African Communist Party (SACP) wishes to salute the pioneering struggles by militant workers in …

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-05-11). The Government Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone. dissidentvoice.org There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. —James Madison How far would you really go to secure the nation's borders in the so-called name of national security? Would you give the government limitless amounts …

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-11). NATO military brass oversees large-scale, multinational Swedish war games. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOSupreme Headquarters Allied Powers EuropeMay 11, 2023 Director SHAPE Partnerships visits Exercise Aurora 23 in Sweden SHAPE's Deputy Chief of Staff Partnerships Directorate visited Exercise Aurora 23 from May 7 to 10, 2023, Sweden's largest annual home defence exercise, designed to test the nations defensive plans across all force domains. Rear Admiral Gunnstein Bruà•sdal was …

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-11). New AFRICOM/NATO military outpost: Ivory Coast. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton regime overthrew the Ivorian government of President Laurent Gbagbo with the assistance of French and United Nations troops in 2011, at the time it was also attempting to also overthrow governments in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. What has subsequently been deemed the rules-based international disorder. — RR ==== U.S. Army …

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-11). U.S. senators appeal to Blinken, Power to insure Georgians vote right way. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rustavi 2May 11, 2023 US Senators appeal to the US Secretary of State to establish a long-term observation mission in Georgia for the 2024 elections US Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Jim Risch have sent a letter to the US Secretary of State and the head of the Agency for International Development, in which they appeal …

ecns.cn (2023-05-11). China National Offshore Oil reaches historical high. ecns.cn Oil and gas production of China National Offshore Oil Corp reached a historical high last year and has further ensured domestic energy security, the company said on Thursday during a press conference in Beijing.

ecns.cn (2023-05-11). China to fully restore fast-track port entry, exit on May 15. ecns.cn China will fully resume fast-track entry and exit at ports to further facilitate the exchange of Chinese nationals and foreign personnel from May 15, the National Immigration Administration (NIA) announced on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-11). Three-River-Source National Park announces public ban from core protected areas. ecns.cn Tourism, expeditions and crossing activities are all forbidden in the core protected areas of the Three-River-Source National Park, the administration of the park said.

ecns.cn (2023-05-11). China's huge cosmic-ray observatory LHAASO approved for operation. ecns.cn China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) – one of the country's key national science and technology infrastructure facilities, passed national acceptance procedures on Wednesday evening, hoping to reveal athe origin of cosmic rays, a century-old mystery.

ecns.cn (2023-05-11). CPI edges up 0.1% while PPI comes down 3.6% in April: China's statistics bureau. ecns.cn Consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge for inflation, edged up slightly in April in China by 0.1 percent year-on-year, and down 0.1 percent from March, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-11). China's cosmic ray observatory LHAASO passes acceptance test. ecns.cn China's LHAASO passed national acceptance procedures on Wednesday. It will offer a perspective on revealing the origin of cosmic rays.

Editor (2023-05-11). The IMF and its ideological orphans. mronline.org There was a time when the International Monetary Fund's "recommendations" on how to reorganize an economy were read, defended and executed as if they were a divine mandate.

Ana Perdigón (2023-05-11). Mexico's AMLO Refers to OAS as 'Useless'. orinocotribune.com The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, suggested that the Organization of American States (OAS) should disappear, because "it is useless." | During his morning press conference on Wednesday, the Mexican president asked those present if they knew what good the OAS had done. He pointed out that the only thing the international organization has done is "to endorse all authoritarian plots against legitimate, legal, and popular governments in Latin America." | "The OAS has no moral or political authority," added the Mexican president. "But it is not necessary, nor is it convenient to answer them, they a…

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-11). Jake Sullivan Meets With China's Top Diplomat in Vienna. news.antiwar.com National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with China's top diplomat for two days in Vienna this week, marking the highest level of in-person engagement between the two nations since President Biden and President Xi Jinping held talks in Bali last November. According to a White House readout, Sullivan and Wang Yi, director of China's Central …

Dianne Mathiowetz (2023-05-11). Okefenokee Swamp threatened by proposed strip mine. workers.org Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia. Atlanta A years-long struggle by the Muskogee Creek Nation and environmentalists to preserve the Okefenokee Swamp, home of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, is ramping up its campaign to stop Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals from strip mining the eastern edge of this unique ecosystem. Opponents say that . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-05-11). G7 has constantly violated and disrupted rules: Chinese FM spokesperson. ecns.cn While asking China to abide by international rules, the G7 itself has constantly violated and disrupted rules, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said at a news briefing on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-11). China's CPI up 0.1% in April. ecns.cn China's consumer price index, the main gauge of inflation, rose 0.1 percent in April on a yearly basis, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-05-11). Fast-track entry at ports to be fully restored. ecns.cn The National Immigration Administration: Fast-track entry at ports will be fully restored from May 15th.

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-11). Biden unilaterally extends 'national emergency' targeting Syria. thecradle.co

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-11). Consumer Health: Recognizing the signs of irritable bowel syndrome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is IBS Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. Research suggests that about 12% of people in the U.S. have irritable bowel syndrome, and it's more common among women than men and in people younger than 50, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Irritable bowel syndrome is a chronic condition that affects the large intestine. Even though the digestive…

teleSUR (2023-05-11). Earthquake Shakes Mexico City, Seismic Alert Did Not Activate. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday evening, an earthquake measuring 3.0 on the Richter scale was detected in Mexico City, as reported by the National Seismological Survey. However, despite the presence of multiple alert systems within the city, none activated. | Related: | The government of the capital relayed a brief communiqué indicating that the observed movement did not satisfy the criteria for a seismic alert "because the energy estimate, in the first se…

teleSUR (2023-05-11). President: Tunisia Remains Safe Despite Synagogue Shooting. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, President Kais Saied of Tunisia assured that the safety of the nation will be maintained, following the tragedy that occurred on Tuesday which involved the fatal shooting of at least five individuals at a synagogue. | Related: | "I want to reassure the Tunisian people and the whole world that Tunisia will remain safe despite this type of attempt intended to disturb its stability," Saied said in a statement. | During a National Securi…

teleSUR (2023-05-11). US Agents Carry Out Drill to Contain Mass Migration. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday night, U.S. National Guard and the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) carried out a control drill at the international port of San Ysidro, which could be clearly seen from the city of Tijuana in Mexico. | RELATED: | Held before the completion of Title 42, this security drill sought to measure the ability of the agents to close the border access in case thousands of asylum seekers try to cross…

thecommunists (2023-05-11). The human cost of bauxite-alumina mining in Jamaica. thecommunists.org Depicted on Jamaica's $500 note is one of the country's greatest national heroes, an imposing, mystical figure known simply as Nanny, one of the leaders of Jamaica's legendary Maroons. The Maroons were a resistance movement composed mainly of escaped slaves, who rose up against British colonial oppression in a series of wars between the mid-17th …

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-05-10). As elections approach, Turkey hopes for change. peoplesdispatch.org Turkey will be holding elections for its national parliament and presidency on May 14. Early polls indicate that long-term ruling President Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) are, for the first time in the past two decades, facing a tough challenge in both the elections. This is a critical election for the country. | Dr. ≈ûebnem Korur, president of the Turkish Medical Association, spoke to Peoples Dispatch about the mood on the ground. Looking at the health sector and the working conditions of health workers, she talks about the outcome the country's health wor…

_____ (2023-05-10). The Difference Between Secrets and Lies. strategic-culture.org Can the White House even understand the difference? | By Philip GIRALDI | Recent developments in Washington relating to Ukraine and the Middle East remind me that there is a big difference between maintaining secrecy when a situation warrants it and lying over issues where there is no compelling reason to do so beyond political expediency. Having spent more than twenty years in American intelligence agencies where secrecy was the operative norm, I would illustrate that difference as follows: a legitimate secret would be something like not revealing information that would place people or vital national interests i…

Brittani Banks (2023-05-10). Why There Is a Growing Student Absentee Rate—and How Community Schools Can Fix It. independentmediainstitute.org School absentee rates that increased dramatically during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic have not declined. In fact, they're getting worse, according to a September 2022 research analysis posted on the blog site of Attendance Works, a national nonprofit that advocates for reducing "chronic absenteeism" in schools. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing at least …

Derrick Broze (2023-05-10). NTP Advisory Board Unanimously Votes to Accept Report on Fluoride's Toxicity. thelastamericanvagabond.com The truth about fluoride's toxicity is one step closer to being released to the public, but will industry influence prevent its release? On May 4, the U.S. National Toxicology Program's (NTP) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) unanimously voted to accept the recommendations of the BSC working group relating to the NTP's report on fluoride's toxicity.

WSWS (2023-05-11). Mass protests erupt across Pakistan after military seizes opposition leader Imran Khan. wsws.org After a mass movement of workers and rural masses chased Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapakse from power last year, the Pakistani ruling class fears these protests could trigger a mass working class upsurge.

WSWS (2023-05-11). IMF-dictated debt restructuring will deepen economic instability in Sri Lanka. wsws.org Sri Lanka's corporate banks have reaped exorbitant profits while consecutive Colombo governments have placed the full burden of the economic crisis on workers and the rural masses.