2022-05-03: News Headlines

Robert S. Becker (2022-05-03). So, which clandestine cabal controls the world? Will 'fatalistic defeatism' undermine both extremes? nationofchange.org If angry contrarians are right, and only illegitimate elections exist, why traffic in anything less than revolution?>

____ (2022-05-03). Biden administration sets up Disinformation Governance Board ahead of 2022 elections. wsws.org The Department of Homeland Security has announced the creation of a secretive Disinformation Governance Board as part of the US imperialist effort to control the anti-Russian narrative of the war in Ukraine during the 2022 elections.

____ (2022-05-03). Biden and Congress attack postal workers' health care with phony reform. wsws.org Falsely billed as a means of stabilizing the agency's finances,…

____ (2022-05-03). Pelosi pledges war "until victory is won" wsws.org The pledge by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi amounts to an unlimited commitment of treasure and blood to the pursuit of sweeping, open-ended war aims that threatens to draw the United States into what US President Joe Biden called "world war."

____ (2022-05-03). Australia: NSW teachers' strike—form rank and file committees, prepare political struggle against government! wsws.org Among teachers, health workers, aged care staff and broader sections, there is a mood of opposition and a desire to fight back. These oppositional sentiments do not find the slightest expression in the official federal election campaigns of the major parties or the media.

____ (2022-05-03). Sri Lanka: Opposition JVP seeks to divert mass struggle into dead-end of parliamentary politics. wsws.org The JVP is promoting a fantasy—that an election and a new bourgeois government will be able to wave away the immense crisis of global and Sri Lankan capitalism and thus solve all the social ills facing working people.

____ (2022-05-03). Workers speak to SEP Australian election candidates on the impact of social inequality. wsws.org "The major parties do not care how people live," one young worker stated.

____ (2022-05-03). New York grand jury, impaneled to consider charges against Trump, expires without issuing indictment. wsws.org While District Attorney Alvin Bragg has stated the investigation is ongoing, Trump will not face any criminal charges related to his business empire in the near future.

Staff (2022-05-03). Evo Morales: "No nos perdonaron a nosotros que los indios encabezamos esta Revolución Democrática y Cultural" cubadebate.cu Llegó al estudio de la televisión sudando, en pulóver, con la humildad esa que lo acompaña a todos lados. Venía de la presentación de un libro del pensamiento de Raúl Castro en la Feria del Libro, en medio del sopor de las tardes habaneras. Le quedaba menos de 24 horas en Cuba, donde cumplió un ajetreado programa, y aun así accedió a esta conversación con nuestro pueblo a través de la Mesa Redonda…

____ (2022-05-03). Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending right to abortion. wsws.org The decision is an assault on the democratic rights of the entire population. Its content is politically, legally and morally abhorrent.

____ (2022-05-03). China's Liaoning sees growth in int'l freight train services. ecns.cn Northeast China's Liaoning Province launched its 100th China-Europe freight train, which departed from its capital of Shenyang on Sunday, according to local transport authorities.

Moderator (2022-05-02). Hedges: The Age of Self-Delusion. scheerpost.com "Portion Control." [Original illustration by Mr. Fish] | By Chris Hedges | Original to ScheerPost | Blinded by what Barbara Tuchman calls "the bellicose frivolity of senile empires," we are marching ominously towards war with Russia. How else might we explain Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's public declaration that the US goal is to "weaken Russia" and Joe Biden's request for another $33 billion in "emergency" military and economic aid (half of what Russia spent on its military in 2021) for Ukraine? | The same cabal of generals and politicians that drained the state of trillions of dollars in the debacles i…

____ (2022-05-02). Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Lee visit Ukraine, Poland to strengthen NATO alliance. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioMay 2, 2022 Polish president talks Ukraine with top US lawmaker Duda hosted Pelosi at the presidential palace in Warsaw…. Pelosi was accompanied by a Congressional delegation that included Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, Barbara Lee of California and Jason Crow of Colorado, according to officials. "We are happy with this visit, which comes …

____ (2022-05-02). Pelosi pledges "victory" in Kiev, Republicans back dispatch of troops, hint use of nuclear weapons. wsws.org Washington continued at full tilt into an all-out war with Russia over the weekend, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Kiev, Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger proposed to send US troops to Ukraine, and Republican congressman Michael McCaul raised the prospect of the United States using nuclear weapons against Russia.

_____ (2022-05-02). Ukraine: The American Tyranny Of Power. popularresistance.org The history of the US intelligence operations goes back to World War II. Stephen Bandera was released from prison by OSS officers in 1944. Bandera was a Nazi operative whose militia slaughtered Poles, Jews and communist workers on the eastern front. The OSS/CIA recruited Bandera so he could fight the advancing Soviet Union. In all the years since then, the CIA has never had an annual audit of its trillion dollar budget, and of course nothing has changed. | Just over ten years ago the CIA initiated its National Endowment for Democracy (NED) "Orange Revolution" to once more cravenly attempt to thwart the Russians,…

Martin Hart-Landsberg (2022-05-02). It's past time for a $15 federal minimum wage. mronline.org President Biden's 2022 State of the Union Address included a call for a $15 federal minimum wage. According to an Economic Policy Institute study, a phased increase to a $15 federal minimum wage by 2025 would raise the earnings of 32 million workers—21% of the workforce, no small thing.

Ann Brown (2022-05-02). Fact Check: Joe Biden Set Up A 'Ministry Of Truth' Within Department Of Homeland Security To Police Information Online. moguldom.com President Joe Biden wants to fight the spread of lies and he has approved a disinformation board group to operate within the Department of Homeland Security that will monitor information spread via the internet. The board has already been compared to George Orwell's "Ministry of Truth" — a fictional department in the dystopian novel "1984" in which …

Ann Brown (2022-05-02). Black Support For Biden And Democrats Collapses Double Digits Before Midterms. moguldom.com There's more bad polling news for President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. Support from Black voters has fallen by double digits, according to a new CNN poll. This does not bode well for Dems in the critical midterm elections. Back in 2021, Sen. Cory Booker warned that the Democrats would need the Black vote to win …

Mouris Salloum George (2022-05-02). México y EE.UU.: La llamada. globalizacion.ca Estados Unidos -Andrés Manuel López Obrador y Joe Biden, respectivamente-, es un aliciente para ambas naciones en medio de las oleadas de migrantes que quieren invadir al país vecino a través de México. | "Esta no fue una llamada en la…

Staff (2022-05-02). Saudis feel let down by America, says Prince Turki Al-Faisal. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 02 (MNA) — Former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador Prince Turki Al-Faisal blames President Biden's policies for US energy shortage and that Saudis feel let down.

____ (2022-05-02). U.S. gov't spending package fuels historical inflation: report. ecns.cn Inflation rose to 8.54 percent in March from 7.57 percent in February, having skyrocketed throughout President Joe Biden's first year in office, his signature multi-trillion dollar spending package was blamed as one of the drivers of inflation, Fox Business has reported.

Candice Bernd (2022-05-02). Labor Leaders Vow United Front Against Amazon Amid New Warehouse Union Election. truthout.org UPDATE: Workers at the LDJ5 Amazon sorting center voted 618-380 against unionization, according to a Monday tally by the National Labor Relations Board. There were no contested ballots. Sixty-one percent of eligible workers turned out to vote. Amazon Labor Union Attorney Seth Goldstein

Adriaan Alsema (2022-05-02). Colombia on alert about possible violence during elections. colombiareports.com Colombia's Interior Ministry said it would prioritize security measures in historically violent regions to prevent the possible interference of illegal armed groups. According to Interior Minister Daniel Palacios, the government…

Paulo Cabral (2022-05-02). Bolsonaro & rival Lula hold dual rallies ahead of Brazil election. america.cgtn.com Competing rallies were held across Brazil on this Labor Day, fueled by passion on both ends of the political spectrum.

____ (2022-05-02). Australian Labor Party's election launch pitches for corporate backing on restructuring and war. wsws.org Labor leader Albanese declared that Labor governments were the only ones that "reshape the economy," while accusing the Coalition government of committing a "foreign policy failure" by allowing Solomon Islands to sign a security treaty with China.

____ (2022-05-02). East Timor's presidential election won by Jose Ramos-Horta. wsws.org Ramos-Horta becomes head of state amid an escalating economic crisis wracking the impoverished country, and sharpening geo-strategic tensions in the region fuelled by US imperialism's preparations for war against China.

Larry Hanley (2022-05-02). Public Universities Need More Democracy, Not More Administrators. truthout.org The current crisis in higher education leadership is on full display at California State University (CSU) — the nation's largest four-year public university system. Take the case of former CSU Chancellor Joseph Castro. | Castro's problems began with an underling — Fresno State's Vice President of Student Affairs Frank Lamas — who was the subject of ongoing sexual harassment complaints and investigations. In 2018, Castro "enthusiastically" nominated his colleague to become the next president of CSU San Marcos. But later, as complaints about his VP's behavior avalanched, Castro authorized a $260,0…

Staff (2022-05-02). Raúl sobre el Primero de Mayo: "Tengo el corazón lleno de alegría" cubadebate.cu El general de Ejército Raúl Castro aseguró sentirse muy feliz al comprobar el respaldo de millones de cubanos a la Revolución durante las multitudinarias marchas por el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores. "Tengo el corazón lleno de alegría", dijo Raúl Castro en un vídeo compartido en Twitter por el Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC).

____ (2022-05-02). The CIA Democrats and their media courtiers celebrate the "end" of the COVID pandemic. wsws.org Some 2,600 corporate journalists, capitalist politicians and Hollywood celebrities were packed into a Washington ballroom despite the worst global pandemic in 100 years.

____ (2022-05-02). Mélenchon turns back on his voters to negotiate with French social democrats. wsws.org Mélenchon's return to talks with a discredited, reactionary party shows that he aims not to mobilize his 7.7 million voters, but to push them to the right.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-05-02). Celebrity Fatigue? After Spotify Parts Ways With Obama Podcast, Netflix Dumps Meghan Markle's Cartoon Series. moguldom.com The streaming world had been reeling from subscriber, stock and revenue losses, and some projects with big names attached have been canceled as a result. Some are wondering if celebrity fatigue has anything to do with it. Former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama as well as the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle …

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-05-02). LA Times Editorial Board Endorses Karen Bass For LA Mayor: Where Does She Stand On Reparations Though? moguldom.com In a packed mayoral race, the Los Angeles Times has endorsed veteran activist-turned-politician Rep. Karen Bass for the seat. In an article published on Sunday, May 1, the LA Times wrote, "Voters are fortunate to have an extraordinarily qualified, battle-tested, mission-driven leader on the ballot." Bass has represented California's 37th congressional district since 2011, covering …

_____ (2022-05-02). 'You've Got To Shut It Down': Lessons From Wisconsin's 2011 Worker Uprising. popularresistance.org Wisconsin – With the passage of Act 10 in 2011, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, Republican Gov. Scott Walker declared war on the labor movement in general and on public sector workers specifically. Act 10 was a hammer blow that essentially stripped collective bargaining rights from public sector workers, made it much more difficult for workers to organize, and forced unions to take massive concessions on healthcare, retirement benefits, and much more. Soon after, in 2015, Walker signed legislation that turned Wisconsin into a "right to work" state, issuing another blow to unions in a state once he…

Anonymous103 (2022-05-02). Drugs Inspiration Chains Ukrainian Soldiers On Front Lines. southfront.org

____ (2022-05-02). Stricter measures in Beijing over holiday. ecns.cn Medics take swab samples from residents for nucleic acid testing at Balizhuang subdistrict in Chaoyang district, Beijing, April 29, 2022."The city has completed two rounds of nucleic acid testing for everyone living or working in 11 districts this week, in addition to Chaoyang district, which began testing earlier."

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