(2023-05-28). De-Dollarisation Clashes With India-China Border Dispute. popularresistance.org The global de-dollarisation trend is not totally a bed of roses, or at least there are thorns in the roses that have to be taken into account. While de-dollarisation seems to be an irreversible trend on the global scale, at regional levels it is running into bilateral or regional political tensions. In this regard, one of the most prominent cases is in Asia: the India-China border dispute. | In April 2023, the Chinese national currency, yuan, ranked third in international trade settlements made through the US-dominated SWIFT system. According to data from the system itself, yuan's share in April was "record high,…
(2023-05-27). Participants of G20 meeting in India debate on combating corruption. plenglish.com New Delhi, May 27 (Prensa Latina) The second meeting of the G20 Working Group, held in Rishikesh, ended with agreements on enhancing the effectiveness of the authorities responsible for preventing and combating corruption.
(2023-05-27). UN rapporteur warns over sexual abuse of minors in Uruguay. plenglish.com Montevideo, May 27 (Prensa Latina) Sexual exploitation and abuse of minors is common in Uruguay today, the United Nations special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, Mama Fatima Singhateh, warned.
(2023-05-27). Avalancha deja al menos 10 muertos en el norte de Pakistán. telesurtv.net La mayoría de las víctimas eran nómadas que traían su ganado desde la provincia de Punjab a pasturar por los verdes pastos de esta zona.
(2023-05-28). InsightsÔΩúInternational relations expert: G7 has transformed into a containment machine for other countries. ecns.cn Linjie Chou Zanadu, senior research fellow at the European Center for Peace and Development, claimed that G7's mission has never changed: to guard the interest of those imperial powers. In addition, Chou explained that G7 members intentionally exclude other countries that are not 100 percent in line with the Western ideological camp. Therefore, G7 is highly racist and is now an ultra neo-liberal institution.
(2023-05-28). U.S. companies, products welcome to enter China through CIIE. ecns.cn More enterprises from the United States are welcome to bring their high-quality products and services to the Chinese market through the sixth China International Import Expo.
(2023-05-28). Assange's Life is in 'Hands of Australian Government,' Says Wife. orinocotribune.com By Anadolu Staff — May 22, 2023 | ANKARA (AA) — The wife of the WikiLeaks founder has said that Julian Assange's life is "in the hands of the Australian government" and called for his release. | Stella Assange, who is also part of her husband's legal team, contended that Assange's release from prison has never been closer, urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to "make it happen," Australia's SBS News reported on Monday. | "It is important to recognize that Australia plays an important role and can secure Julian's release," Assange told the National Press Club. | "Julian's life is in the hands of the A…
(2023-05-28). Mayo Clinic Minute: What are the benefits, risks of sleeping with melatonin gummies? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Many people rely on melatonin gummies to help them get a good night's sleep. But a recent study finds that these over-the-counter supplements may not reliably contain the advertised amount of melatonin. According to the National Institutes of Health, about 19% of adults in the U.S. don't get enough sleep, and some of those sleep-deprived people use melatonin supplements to help them catch some z's. Dr. Erik St. Louis, a Mayo Clinic neurologist, says melatonin…
(2023-05-28). Mayo neuroscientists discover unknown brain area involved in movement. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It's long been accepted that the part of the brain called the primary motor cortex controls body movements. Certain groups of cells direct specific movements — for example, of the feet, hands or tongue. The cells of the primary motor cortex are organized as a type of topographical map of corresponding body parts in the central sulcus, a fold in the brain's outermost layer called the cerebral cortex. Mayo Clinic scientists and their international collaborators…
(2023-05-28). Biden Labor Board Restores Right To Use Heated Language. popularresistance.org In a landmark May Day ruling called Lion Elastomers, the National Labor Relations Board restored the rights of union representatives to use heated language, including occasional profanity, during arguments with management. | The Board ordered employer Lion Elastomers to reinstate steward Joseph Colone with full back pay going back to a 2018 discharge. | The ruling reversed the Trump era's infamous General Motors decision, which had upended 70 years of precedent protecting workers' rights to use strong language when pressing union points during grievance discussions and other meetings.
(2023-05-28). President Dissolves Congress in Ecuador Good, in Peru Bad. orinocotribune.com By Yves Engler — May 25, 2023 | Last week right-wing Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso dissolved the national assembly. In stark contrast to their response to a similar move by the leftist president of Peru five months ago, Ottawa effectively supported the measure. | As he was on the cusp of being impeached over corruption allegations Lasso dissolved the national assembly. He called on military leaders to endorse his initiative, sent police to take over Congress and cut internet connections to the legislature. The constitutional provision Lasso cited to dissolve the national assembly has never been employ…
(2023-05-27). Resistance Festival today, Saturday 27 May, in Brussels, Belgium, welcomes Lowkey, Osloob, Raj'een, Achille and more! samidoun.net 
On Saturday, 27 May, Brussels, Belgium will be home to the Resistance Festival, a political, cultural and artistic festival in support of the Palestinian resistance and confronting 75 years of Nakba, occupation and racism. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, together with many Palestinian, Arab and international associations, is organizing the Resistance Festival in Bethlehem Square …
(2023-05-27). Early elections mark political scenario in Ecuador. plenglish.com On Thursday, the National Electoral Council (CNE) officially called citizens to participate in the general elections, to choose a new president and 137 assembly members, which will take place next August 20, and the probable runoff would be, if necessary, on October 15. | The elected candidates will be sworn in between September and November 2023, and will be in office until May 2025, when new general elections will be held, as planned. | Until Friday, five pre-candidates had confirmed their interest in the presidency in view of the electoral process after the current president, Guillermo Lasso, dissolved Congre…
(2023-05-27). School Bus Workers Win Strike In Marlborough, Ratify Contract. popularresistance.org Marlborough, Massachusetts — Following a three-day strike, bus workers at North Reading Transportation (NRT) have overwhelmingly voted to ratify their first Teamster contract. These bus workers are represented by Teamsters Local 170 and provide student transportation for Marlborough Public Schools. | The agreement covers 65 workers and includes wage increases, Teamsters 401(k) with company contributions, and holiday and attendance bonuses. | "What happened here in Marlborough is yet another clear indication that strikes work," said Shannon George, Local 170 Secretary-Treasurer.
(2023-05-27). Harry Belafonte was more than a Civil Rights activist but a genuine internationalist. iacenter.org By Monica Moorehead and Pedro de la Hoz May 1, 2023 The great Jamaican-identified artist, Civil Rights activist and internationalist, Harry Belafonte, died from congestive heart failure at age 96 on April 25, 2023. Despite becoming the first Black person to win a TV Emmy award in 1960, a Broadway Tony award in 1954 and selling millions of recordings, Belafonte experienced racist discrimination firsthand, like most Black entertainers in the 1950s and 1960s, including his good friend, the late actor Sidney Poitier. Belafonte was an important political organizer and financial backer of the Civil Rights Movement led…
(2023-05-27). Spanish state accuses web magazine of 'glorification of terrorism'. iacenter.org May 22, 2023 The following is a May 20 statement by the Editorial Collective of La Haine, a web news magazine that publishes anti-imperialist, anti-fascist and anti-capitalist articles, calling for solidarity to stop a new attempt by the Spanish authorities to target the collective for its publication of news and opinion. See Lahaine.org. Translation: John Catalinotto Amnesty for all (Basque political prisoners). A colleague of our media has been called to appear May 23, 2023, before Judge Ismael Moreno of the Audiencia Nacional [National Court], under investigation for "glorification of terrorism." The case invo…
(2023-05-27). U.S. national security veterans counter Ukraine war drive. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto May 22, 2023 On May 16 a full-page advertisement appeared in the New York Times. Under the headline "The U.S. should be a force for peace in the world," 15 veterans of the U.S. security apparatus endorsed an analysis of the war in Ukraine that confronted head-on the tidal wave of lies from the Biden administration and the corporate media. Protesters outside the White House, Washington, D.C., Jan. 27, 2022. The Eisenhower Media Network placed the ad. The EMN is an organization of veterans of the U.S. military, police and/or foreign policy establishment, who once served the state apparatus. In t…
(2023-05-27). Cuban hero conducts extensive work program in Laos. plenglish.com Vientiane, May 27 (Prensa Latina) The Hero of the Republic of Cuba and national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), Gerardo Hernandez, is continuing his visit to Laos, where he is carrying out an extensive work program.
(2023-05-27). Global solidarity event in Lebanon: Palestine is the cause of all. plenglish.com The participants of the event discussed the confrontation with the ambitions of the West and the United States, the centrality of the Palestinian cause and the urgency of moving towards a multipolar order. | The positions of solidarity towards Palestine on the part of intellectuals, popular communicators, academics and journalists focused on strengthening unity, rejecting normalization of relations with Israel, and demanding greater condemnation from the international community. | Lisandro Brusco, militant of the Movimiento Amplio de Izquierda-Rosario of Argentina, stressed the need to strengthen the resistance…
(2023-05-27). PDVSA and Chevron advance negotiations on oil production. plenglish.com The meeting, held on Friday, was attended by the president of the US multinational oil company, Javier La Rosa, and his team, and served to "advance in the strengthening of oil production", the head of Empresa Petróleos de Venezuela wrote on Twitter. | On December 2, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic and the US company signed important contracts that gave continuity to the operations and oil production of that company in the South American nation. | The agreements, framed in the Constitution of the Venezuelan Republic and the laws that govern the national oil industry, were aimed at continuing with produc…
(2023-05-27). The Experience of Nicaragua in Managing the Covid Pandemic. orinocotribune.com 
By Coleen Littlejohn — May 27, 2023 | Nicaragua, the third poorest country in Latin America, has a population of approximately 6.7 million people but has the most extensive and well-equipped public health system in Central America. Since 2018, Nicaragua has had a pharmaceutical plant with the capacity to produce 12 million influenza vaccines per year and plans to produce antiviral drugs, such as Interferon Alfa/2B, and Covid vaccines. The National Reference Diagnostic Center is one of the pioneer laboratories of molecular biology in Latin America, second in the region. Recently, the government inaugurated th…
(2023-05-27). Former Serb Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic's 2003 Murder Remains Unsolved. covertactionmagazine.com Suspicion lingers that he was killed with the assistance of the CIA or other Western intelligence services when he began to question U.S. regional designs in the aftermath of the 1990s Balkan Wars. The right of humanitarian intervention, if it exists as a category in international law, is premised on the 'good faith' of those …
(2023-05-27). Correspondence] Shelter is key to delivering on COP27 commitments. thelancet.com As detailed in the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change,1 the risks of climate change for human health are profound, and internationally coordinated efforts (eg, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]) are essential to the response. The most noteworthy outcome of the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27), held in November, 2022, was the commitment to addressing loss and damage associated with climate change. Specifically, direction was given to address disproportionate losses and damages incurred to "the most vulnerable populations and the ecosystems on which…
(2023-05-27). World Report] Diagnostics get global recognition. thelancet.com A raft of new recommendations on diagnostics, including establishing national strategies and adopting lists of essential diagnostics, have been welcomed by experts. Udani Samarasekera reports.
(2023-05-27). Argentina adopting U.S. dollar to fight inflation would be 'insane' neocolonialism, says economist Ha-Joon Chang. mronline.org 
Right-wing politicians in Argentina want to adopt the US dollar as the national currency to fight inflation. Development economist Ha-Joon Chang said this is "insane", warning dollarization would make the Latin American nation a "colony".
(2023-05-27). US and European powers scramble to acquire critical minerals necessary for EV vehicle production. wsws.org The US and its European and Japanese allies are trying to coordinate their increasingly nationalist, protectionist measures to create a battery supply chain as an alternative to China.