Daily Archives: May 1, 2022

2022-05-01: News Headlines

Paul Haeder (2022-05-01). May Day is International 'Thank a Worker' Day. dissidentvoice.org "As far as I'm concerned, those people don't exist." — Arizona Republican Governor Jack Williams, telling farm workers they'd be arrested if they were to strike and boycott during harvest seasons (May 1972). May Day harkens back to celebrations of spring, a renewal and fertility. In Rome, I witnessed one such event: the festival of …

Staff (2022-05-01). Pelosi visits Kyiv, meets with Ukraine president. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA) — US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has met with Ukraine's president during a visit to the country's capital, Kyiv.

Staff (2022-05-01). Biden pretende llevarse de Rusia los mejores científicos e innovadores. cubadebate.cu Joe Biden quiere llevarse de Rusia los mejores científicos e innovadores tecnológicos de Vladimir Putin. De esta forma, el gobierno de Biden le apunta a los rusos con experiencia en semiconductores, tecnología espacial, ciberseguridad, ingeniería nuclear, inteligencia artificial y tecnologías de propulsión de cohetes.

Editor (2022-05-01). Ralph Nader: The Dems Are Totally Useless Against the Trumpian GOP Onslaught. scheerpost.com Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), who is in charge of the Senate November campaigns, wants to tax 100 million low-income Americans and sunset Social Security and Medicare. [ By Ralph Nader | There is something about entrenched bureaucracies that transcend nations and cultures. When bureaucracies are confronted with unanticipated or new challenges, they freeze — like a deer facing headlights. | Sears, Roebuck and Company saw Walmart coming out of Arkansas for years and spreading all over the country, but the Sears bosses could…

Staff (2022-05-01). International Women's Federation Congress in Venezuela Ends with Meeting at Miraflores Palace. orinocotribune.com The 17th Congress of the International Democratic Federation of Women (FDIM), held during April 27-30 in Caracas, Venezuela, ended on Saturday, April 30. As part of the activities of the closing ceremony, FDIM presented its feminist work agenda in a meeting with the Venezuelan Minister for Women, Diva Guzmán; Vice President Delcy Rodríguez; and President Nicolás Maduro at Miraflores Palace. | Lorena Peña, the current president of FDIM, gave a presentation of the resolutions approved during the international congress. She highlighted the challenges faced by women in their struggle against patriarchy and imperia…

WorkWeek (2022-05-01). WorkWeek 4-28-22 Protest At AFL-CIO On Gov Funding & El Golpe,US Labor, the CIA, & Coup. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the collaboration of the AFL-CIO with the CIA and National Endowment For Democracy NED in the attacks on trade unionists at the Mexico City Ford assembly plant and also against South African BTR workers who were on strike. The AFL-CIO gave millions to Zulu Chief Buthelezi who then organized thugs to attack and murder union strikers and their families.

_____ (2022-04-30). The Real Zelensky: From Celebrity Populist To Unpopular Neoliberal. popularresistance.org A comedic actor who rose to the country's highest office in 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky was virtually unknown to the average American, except perhaps as a bit player in the Trump impeachment theater. But when Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Zelensky was suddenly transformed to an A-list celebrity in US media. American news consumers were bombarded with images of a man who appeared overcome by the tragic events, possibly in over his head, but ultimately sympathetic. It didn't take long for that image to evolve into the khaki-clad, tireless hero governing over a scrappy little democracy and single-handed…

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2022-04-30). Dangerous Crossroads: Putin Warns the US to Back Off in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca The Western narrative of the two-month old war in Ukraine imbued with the rhetoric of "democracy versus autocracy," has dramatically changed with the assertion by the US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin at a news conference in Poland Monday following …

Staff (2022-04-30). Venezuela and US Delegations May Meet in Trinidad and Tobago. orinocotribune.com Representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and US President Joe Biden may meet once more in Trinidad and Tobago, to continue negotiations on the shipment of oil from Venezuela to the United States, claimed According to an article published by The Economist, the representatives of the Venezuelan government to participate in this high-level meeting may be the Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, and Foreign Affairs Minister Félix Plasencia. The Econo…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-04-30). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

Staff (2022-04-30). Estados Unidos: Un segundo hombre se declara culpable por el asalto al Capitolio. cubadebate.cu Un hombre vinculado con una organización ultraderechista se declaró este viernes culpable de conspirar para la sedición por el asalto al Capitolio. Brian Ulrich, de 44 años y natural del estado de Georgia, admitió ante el juez que conspiró para impedir que el ganador de las elecciones de noviembre de 2020 y actual presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, fuese investido.

____ (2022-04-30). 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.

____ (2022-04-30). Biden lacks real courage to curb sky-high inflation rates. ecns.cn U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has recently taken note of the U.S. 40-year record-high inflation rates, and said that lowering a select number of Trump-era tariffs could prove helpful. Nonetheless, Yellen's proposed solution seems short-sighted.

_____ (2022-04-30). Peace Movement Needs To Demand Dismantling Of NATO. popularresistance.org During World War II an "unnatural alliance" was created between the United States, Great Britain, and the former Soviet Union. What brought the three countries together—the emerging imperial giant (the United States), the declining capitalist power (Great Britain), and the first socialist state (the Soviet Union)—was the shared need to defeat fascism in Europe. Rhetorically, the high point of collaboration was reflected in the agreements made at the Yalta Conference, in February 1945, three months before the German armies were defeated. | At Yalta, the great powers made decisions to facilitate democra…

JANET (2022-04-30). 'One dream to re-unite Korea'. iacenter.org By Brenda Ryan April 29, 2022 A march calling for reunification of Korea and an end to U.S.-South Korea war games rallied in New York City on April 23. The protest began at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza with chants of "Stop the U.S. war machine from North Korea to the Philippines," "No more war drills" and "End the Korean War — 70 years is enough." People proceeded to the Republic of Korea Permanent Mission to the United Nations and then formed a human chain to the Permanent Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the U.N. to unite the two Koreas. New York City, April 23. WW Photo: Brenda Ryan "Sin…

Staff (2022-04-30). Entregan título honorífico de Héroe del Trabajo de la República de Cuba (+ Fotos). cubadebate.cu De manos de Miguel Díaz-Canel, primer secretario del Comité Central del Partido y presidente de la República, afiliados destacados de siete sindicatos recibieron este viernes el Título Honorífico de Héroes y Heroínas del Trabajo de la República de Cuba.

Staff (2022-04-30). Ukrainian warplane shells Russian territory. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 30 (MNA) — The local Governor of Russia's Bryansk Region Aleksandr Bogomaz has said that a Ukrainian warplanes attacked the governorate early on Saturday.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-30). Sharing Mayo Clinic: Gabriel Ryan wasn't supposed to live. Today, he is thriving. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Eric and Micayla Ryan were experienced parents. They had three children already and thought this ultrasound would be as routine as the ones that had come before. They knew what to expect. Or so they thought. But instead of reassurance, this ultrasound revealed a problem: cysts on the kidneys of the Goodhue, Minnesota, couple's fourth child. Their doctor arranged for the Ryans to meet with specialists at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, some 30 miles away,…

____ (2022-04-30). 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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