Daily Archives: April 27, 2023

2023-04-27: News Headlines

krish-rad_ind (2023-04-27). Joe Biden's Petroleum Puppetry Is Pulling The Strings Of War And Environmental Racism. popularresistance.org

Martha Grevatt (2023-04-27). Akron, Ohio: outrage as grand jury refuses to charge cops in Jayland Walker's murder. workers.org Community demands justice for Jayland Walker, after grand jury refuses to charge killer cops, Akron, Ohio, April 18, 2023. The June 27 police murder of Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio, sparked mass protests last summer, drawing Black Lives Matter activists from around the country. After a high-speed car chase over . . . |

Collette Flanagan (2023-04-26). National Crisis in Policing Awaits United Nations Delegation. aclu.org In May 2020, a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for nine and a half minutes, ending his life. Nearly three years later, starting this week, United Nations experts on racial justice will embark on a first-of-its-kind visit to the United States to examine what has — and hasn't — changed since George Floyd's murder sparked a nationwide movement for Black lives. | Unfortunately, while calls for reform grew louder after Floyd's murder, concrete action has failed to materialize and Black people continue to face the brunt of police brutality. In January, five Memphis officers…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-26). Black Lives Remain in Danger Throughout the United States. orinocotribune.com By Abayomi Azikiwe — Apr 22, 2023 | Even after three years of mass demonstrations and urban rebellions in the United States, law-enforcement agencies and the entire legal system are still "justifying" the shooting deaths of African Americans and other oppressed peoples. | Jayland Walker, 25, was killed on June 27, 2022, after being chased outside his vehicle by the Akron, Ohio police. Walker was shot 46 times by eight different officers. All together the eight police officers fired 96 shots within 6.7 seconds. Walker had no criminal record and was employed as a delivery driver for DoorDash. | These police of…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-27). Democracy is defended by the struggles of the people: South Africa's Abahlali baseMjondolo marks UnFreedom Day. peoplesdispatch.org South Africa held its first democratic elections post apartheid on April 27, 1994. While the day is observed as 'Freedom Day', movements including Abahlali baseMjondolo have used it to highlight the continued repression and inequality faced by poor communities in the country…

teleSUR (2023-04-27). Venezuela Greets South Africa on the Anniversary of Freedom Day. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Venezuelan government saluted South Africa on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of Freedom Day, which pays tribute to the first post-apartheid elections held on April 27, 1994. | RELATED: | "This is a very significant date as it commemorates the end of the apartheid regime and the birth of a new South African national identity, based on respect for the human being and love for the Homeland," President Nicolas Maduro pointed…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-26). Belgium city of Liege becomes latest European city to sever ties with Israel. peoplesdispatch.org The resolution in the Liege city council, introduced by the left-wing Workers' Party, calls for the suspension of ties with Israel until its apartheid regime puts an "end to the system of violations of the rights of the Palestinian people and fully respects the obligations imposed by international law and various United Nations resolutions"

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-04-26). Reject bogus definition of anti-Semitism, human rights groups urge UN. electronicintifada.net Lobby wants expert to be fired for opposing oppression.

teleSUR (2023-04-27). Remains of 587 Genocide Victims Exhumed in Western Rwanda. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, remains of at least 587 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi have been exhumed in the Rusizi district of western Rwanda, the national broadcaster Rwanda Television reported. | RELATED: | "We have discovered the remains of 587 genocide victims since we started the search on March 23 of this year," said Oswald Kabera, a genocide survivor and member of IBUKA, an umbrella organization of genoci…

Chris Walker (2023-04-26). Poll: Less Than One-Quarter of Americans View MAGA Positively. truthout.org A new poll shows that public support for the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is low, suggesting that the far right movement that helped propel former President Donald Trump to the White House in 2016 may be dwindling. A nationwide NBC News poll published this week found that just 24 percent of Americans had a positive view of the MAGA movement, while 45 percent had a negative view. |

Kristian Williams (2023-04-26). Normandale Park Shooting Shows How Portland Police Facilitate Far Right Violence. truthout.org On April 18, Benjamin Smith was given a life sentence after pleading guilty to murder, attempted murder and assault, following his shooting of a group of unarmed women in Portland's Normandale Park. Every indication is that the February 2022 attack — which killed June Knightly and injured four others — was politically motivated, driven by Smith's anger over a racial justice demonstration that the… |

WSWS (2023-04-27). 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. wsws.org Workers, who are today confronted with the unfolding maelstrom of a new imperialist redivision of the world, the buildup of fascist forces, social counterrevolution and an ongoing pandemic and climate catastrophe, have a tremendous amount to learn from the heroic but also tragic experience of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Holocaust.

Rodney Atkinson (2023-04-27). Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump: The Left-Right Punch to Corporatist Fascism. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-26). Italian left marks liberation day from fascism, takes a stand against the policies of Giorgia Meloni government. peoplesdispatch.org Communists and other progressive sections celebrated the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Italy from fascism, while highlighting the fascist roots of the current government led by Giorgia Meloni…

Mothers on the March (2023-04-27). Friday 4/28: Free Palestine. indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery | San Francisco…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-04-27). The Israel-Palestine conflict: How the Palestinian resistance is changing the equation. greenleft.org.au Israel's politicians have always managed to unify around "security", writes Ramzy Baroud. But the cracks are widening.

Anonymous669 (2023-04-27). Shadowy Pro-Iran Group Warns Of Nearing Israeli Attack Through Iraqi Airspace. southfront.org Illustrative image. Source: the Israeli Air Force. | Israel is planning a surprise attack against Iran and its allies in the Middle East, a shadowy Iraqi armed group warned on April 27. | The group, known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq — 'Ashab al-Kahf, said in a statement that the attack will be carried out by the Israeli Air Force, adding that the United States will help Tel Aviv repel any response by the Axis of Resistance. | Senior intelligence officers from Israel, the U.S. and…

Anonymous (2023-04-27). Video: The youngest victims of Israel's missiles. electronicintifada.net Child survivors of Israeli assaults describe how their injuries shaped their lives.

David Cronin (2023-04-27). Palestinians get pittance as EU showers science grants on Israel. electronicintifada.net Internal paper demolishes myth that Brussels is a paragon of balance.

teleSUR, dcdc, DRL (2023-04-27). Empeora salud de preso palestino en huelga de hambre en Israel. telesurtv.net Según información del Ministerio para los Detenidos del país ocupado, más de un millón de palestinos han sido encarcelados desde el inicio de la ocupación israelí en 1967.

Editor (2023-04-26). Jeffrey Sachs on China's 'Historic' Push for Multipolar World to End US Domination. scheerpost.com By DemocracyNow! China is taking an increasingly assertive role in world affairs, helping to broker a restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, offering a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, and strengthening its relationships with European and Latin American powers. Last week, China continued its diplomatic outreach by offering to hold talks between Israel …

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-04-26). Texas college rolls out red carpet for war criminal Ehud Barak. electronicintifada.net Rice University's "Israel at 75" conference implicitly celebrates dispossession of Palestinians.

Ryan Cristián (2023-04-27). The COMIRNATY Illusion, The Transgender Psyop, East Palestine, Tucker & A Lot More(Compilation Show). thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/27/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

ecns.cn (2023-04-27). Joint efforts urged to solve Palestinian issue. ecns.cn Speaking at a United Nations Security Council open debate on the Middle East on Tuesday, Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the UN, stressed the need to adhere to the two-state solution and promote the resumption of peace talks.

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-04-26). US freight workers say it's time to nationalize the railroads. therealnews.com The train derailment disaster in East Palestine, Ohio catapulted the degraded condition of the US's freight rail network into national consciousness. But workers have been sounding the alarm for years. Long hours, short staffs, poor sick leave, and dangerously extended trains have raised the risks inherent in railroad operations for workers and the public in order to fatten the profit margins of corporate rail carriers. While the Department of Transportation has called for stricter regulation in the wake of East Palestine and other recent disasters, rank-and-file workers say it's not enough. The problem is…

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-04-26). Podcast Ep 75: Unpacking Zionism and global hypermilitarism. electronicintifada.net Author and scholar Nada Elia talks about her new book, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine.

Tatyana Tandanpolie (2023-04-27). Report Reveals More Damning Texts From Tucker Carlson in Dominion Lawsuit. truthout.org Fox's board of directors and executives discovered salacious, redacted private messages from former host Tucker Carlson the day before the trial for Dominion's defamation lawsuit against Fox was set to start, The New York Times reports. Though Fox's trial lawyers had these messages, which are reportedly worse than the anchor's discriminatory, inflammatory and often racist comments… |

SAM (2023-04-27). The Supreme Court Needs Term Limits. progressivehub.net SONALI KOLHATKAR | OTHERWORDS…

teleSUR, dcdc -DRL (2023-04-27). El papa Francisco critica el populismo liberal. telesurtv.net El jefe supremo de la Iglesia Católica insta a que se encuentren formulaciones para beneficiar a las poblaciones infantiles.

Editor (2023-04-26). Abortion is health care! Health care is a right! workers.org Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk could be described as a xenophobic, white-supremacist, science-loathing, male chauvinist pig. Even that characterization might be too generous! This Trump-appointed judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled April 7 to nullify the approval by the Food and Drug Administration — in . . . |

Julia Conley (2023-04-26). Oklahoma Woman's Experience Illustrates What Abortion Bans Really Look Like. truthout.org Mounting news reports since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year have detailed the experiences of pregnant people who have been denied lifesaving abortion care, and in the case of one woman in Oklahoma last month, the state's abortion ban effectively barred her from receiving cancer treatment. Jaci Statton, a 25-year-old mother of three, experienced heavy bleeding in February… |

SAM (2023-04-26). Supreme Court: States Can Sue Big Oil For Climate Malfeasance. progressivehub.net BILL MCKIBBEN | THE CRUCIAL YEARS…

Sharon Zhang (2023-04-26). AOC: Roberts Allows Supreme Court to Erode Rights But Won't Rein In Corruption. truthout.org Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has condemned Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for declining an invitation from the Senate to testify in an upcoming hearing regarding the ethics of the Supreme Court, as spurred by recent revelations of corruption among justices. On Tuesday, Roberts sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) saying that he "must… |

Sonali Kolhatkar (2023-04-26). It's Time for Supreme Court Term Limits. otherwords.org

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