2022-04-23: News Headlines

Staff (2022-04-23). Russia warns Israel against assisting Ukraine militarily. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 23 (MNA) — Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov has warned that Moscow will introduce retaliatory measures against Israel in case the Tel Aviv regime supplies Ukraine with military equipment and aid.

Revolution Books (2022-04-23). Tuesday 4/26: The War in Ukraine: NO U.S./NATO WAR WITH RUSSIA! NO WORLD WAR 3! indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

WorkWeek (2022-04-23). WorkWeek 4-21-22 Attack On NY MTA Public & Workers, Amazon Workers Support/DC Assange Demo. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the Attack On NY MTA Public & Workers, Amazon Workers Support, DC Assange Support Demo, Chris Hedges On Imperialist War & Censorship, SF Redistricting & Racism, LA Gentrification & A Labor Candidate…

Leon Kunstenaar (2022-04-23). SF People's Earth Day Protest and March. indybay.org Protesters demand end to Bay Area's environmental racism…

Fight Back (2022-04-23). Los Angeles: 7th annual May Day set for Boyle Heights. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – On May 1, Centro CSO is holding its 7th annual International Workers Day march and rally in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. The attendees are meeting at the intersection of N Mathews Street and E Chavez Avenue at noon, before marching towards downtown. The march will stop for a protest at LAPD Hollenbeck, then continue towards Mariachi Plaza where a list of speakers and musical entertainment is planned. This year's march has been endorsed by a number of other local organizations such as Black Lives Matter-LA, the Check the Sheriff's Coalition, CSULA MEChA, LA Catholic Worker, U.S. Palestinian C…

Staff (2022-04-23). Russia Cancels Assault on Mariupol Azovstal Steel Plant. orinocotribune.com Russian troops have taken control of the entire city of Mariupol, except for the Azovstal plant, and have been planning a final attack after making countless calls to the Neo-nazi Azov Battalion for their surrender. | Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Thursday, April 21, called off an operation to storm the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol, where more than 2,000 Ukrainian militants remain holed up, according to the Russian military. | In a meeting with Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, the head of state demanded that the plant be locked down so that "not even a fly can get in or out," while another o…

Othering & Belonging Institute UC Berkeley (2022-04-23). Tuesday 4/26: "Innocent Until Proven Muslim": Book Talk on Islamophobia & Muslim Experience Since 9/11. indybay.org Online event…

Yoppy Pieter, Marlous L Grijsen (2022-04-23). [Perspectives] Picturing health: the burden of leprosy in eastern Indonesia. thelancet.com Leprosy impacts impoverished communities in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), with over 200‚Äâ000 new cases recorded annually worldwide. This infectious disease is caused by Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis and primarily affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Effective multidrug therapy is available and, with early detection and treatment, leprosy is curable. Yet disease management can be complicated by immune-mediated reactions, which may cause irreversible nerve damage and lead to lifelong disabilities that are associated with stigmatisation and discrimination.

teleSUR, lvm, JGN (2022-04-23). ONU expresa preocupación por escalada de violencia israelí en Palestina. telesurtv.net "Los responsables de cualquier violación deben rendir cuentas", expresó la vocera del ACNUDH, Ravina Shamdasani.

teleSUR, mcs, MER (2022-04-23). Represión israelí deja cuatro palestinos heridos en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Durante la represión, varios manifestantes resultaron asfixiados por los gases lacrimógenos que arrojaron las fuerzas de Israel.

teleSUR, JCM (2022-04-23). Denuncian cierre del cruce entre Israel y la Franja de Gaza. telesurtv.net Las fuerzas israelíes atacaron la Franja de Gaza tras el disparo de un cohete desde el enclave palestino hacia Israel.

xinhuanet (2022-04-23). Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers after protest against Pence visit. xinhuanet.com Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes after a protest against the visit of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Jerusalem, in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Jan. 23, 2018.

Staff (2022-04-23). Calendar of Resistance: Take Action for Palestine! samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international supporters of Palestine to escalate their organizing and struggle to confront massacres and ethnic cleansing and support Palestinian resistance throughout the entire land of Palestine. (The list below will be constantly updated — please share the link with your friends and comrades!) These events are …

Oakland Insider (2022-04-23). Rocket Taylor Kohles exposed for racist gentrification. indybay.org So-called activists Rocket Taylor Kohles was recently exposed for racist gentrification.

WSWS (2022-04-23). US Supreme Court upholds exclusion of Puerto Rico residents from supplemental income benefit. wsws.org The ruling reflects the American ruling elite's contempt for the impoverished population, whose workers and youth rose up in mass protests three years ago that toppled the Democratic Party aligned governor.

San Francisco Labor Council (2022-04-23). Sunday 5/1: Bay Area Labor May Day Parade & Rally. indybay.org Parade will begin at Market Street and the Embarcadero in San Francisco and will march up to the Civic Center, where the rally will be held.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-22). What explains Israel's violent provocations in Palestine? peoplesdispatch.org Rania Khalek of BreakThrough News talks about the recent attacks by Israel on Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem, especially the Al-Aqsa mosque. She talks about the settler colonial project, the compulsions of extreme-right wing Israeli politics, and the resistance of generations of Palestinians. She also talks about the regional responses to these latest attacks.

_____ (2022-04-22). Witness To A Social Crime: The Reality Of US Immigrant Child Detention. popularresistance.org In the corporate media, political establishment and middle class "left," the sound of sanctimonious appeals to America's responsibility to defend democracy in Ukraine has grown deafening. Without a shred of critical thought, the Mighty Wurlitzer of war propaganda gets spinning. We are told that a Ukrainian government riddled with neo-Nazis is a beacon of democratic hope, that American bombs are being sent to save lives, that American sanctions which choke the world's food supplies and throw hundreds of millions into the path of starvation are necessary humanitarian measures. | The biggest lie of all is that the U…

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). Turkey makes NATO ally Greece offer it better not refuse. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkey and its weapons have recently established a record in Syria, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Ethiopia and Ukraine that Athens would be wise to heed is the message from Greece's NATO ally and neighbor. ==== Hurriyet News AgencyApril 22, 2022 Defense minister urges Greece to respond to Turkey's call for 'friendship' Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). Biden: U.S. prepared to supply weapons for interminable war in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Interfax-UkraineApril 22, 2022 Biden: USA can supply Ukraine with weapons for long time The United States is capable of supplying Ukraine with weapons for a long time, U.S. President Joe Biden has said on Thursday. "We have the capacity to do this for a long time," he said, answering a journalist's question about how long …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). Japan intensifies hard-line stance on islands "illegally occupied" by Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kyodo NewsApril 22, 2022 Japan shifts to hard-line stance on territorial dispute with Russia Tokyo has switched to a hard-line stance in its decades-long territorial dispute with Moscow following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, stating in its annual foreign policy report released Friday that four northern islands are "illegally occupied" by Russia. *** The report highlighted …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). Coup-threatened Georgia: ruling party exposes "NGO clan" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com On the role of "NGOs' in fomenting coups in Georgia, and the wars that inevitably follow them, see item below the news report. The United National Movement is the party founded by Mikheil Saakashvili, who returned from Ukraine late last year, where he held a major post in the government of Volodymyr Zelensky, to launch …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). Azerbaijan: "We have proved to the whole world how to wage a war in the 21st century" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The leadership of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Japan and Finland got the message on how to "liberate occupied territories" from Russia. === Azeri Press AgencyApril 22, 2022 President Ilham Aliyev: "Although war is over, the territorial claims against us are not over yet" "We have proved to the whole world how to wage a war in …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). India blocs Japanese Air Self-Defense Force flight for Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Nikkei AsiaApril 22, 2022 Japan reworks Ukraine aid plan after India blocks military plane Japan is redrawing its plan for transporting humanitarian aid supplies to displaced Ukrainians after India reportedly refused to let Self-Defense Forces aircraft land in the country. The plan was for an Air Self-Defense Force plane to pick up relief items at …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). France to deliver howitzers, anti-tank missiles for war in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com UkrinformApril 22, 2022 Macron announces supply of Milan anti-tank systems, Caesar howitzers to Ukraine French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the supply of Milan anti-tank missiles and Caesar self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine. *** "We are delivering significant equipment, from Milan to Caesar. I think we have to continue on this route. Always with the red …

San Jose City College (2022-04-22). Wednesday 4/20: Global Geopolitics from Ukraine to the Middle East. indybay.org Join Zoom meeting: sjeccd-edu.zoom.us/j/5088214551 | Zoom meeting ID: 508 821 4551 | International dial-in numbers available: zoom.us/u/aM3amGqtL

_____ (2022-04-22). The Persian Gulf is Now Taking an Independent Geopolitical Stance. journal-neo.org In the new reality, by its blunt intervention in Russia's special operation in Ukraine expressed not only in political support, but also in supplying weapons for the Kiev's nazi authorities, the Biden administration has already begun to develop and deploy its new global strategy. Apparently, this strategy is based around creating tough competition with other …

Max Parry (2022-04-22). Synthetic Left Joins Corporate Right in Getting Ukraine War Wrong. covertactionmagazine.com Since the Russian military operation to de-Nazify and de-militarize Ukraine began in late February, there is a common misperception that …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). Combat-ready: NATO in talks to deploy yet more troops to eastern flank. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioApril 22, 2022 NATO allies in talks to send more troops to eastern flank: Polish official A senior Polish national security official said on Friday that the NATO alliance was discussing ways to boost troop numbers on its eastern edge amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. *** "Talks are under way to expand the NATO …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-22). Ukraine: A New Consensus on Whiteness? libya360.wordpress.com Ajamu Baraka A march of the Azov Battalian, Svoboda, and other far-right radical groups in Kiev, October 14, 2017. (Photo: Reuters / Gleb Garanich) The Biden administration and corporate media cover up the existence of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine. They are disappeared from the official narrative in order to get public buy-in…

_____ (2022-04-22). The Chris Hedges Report With Dr. Cornel West. popularresistance.org Dr. Cornel West is the most important standard bearer for the Black prophetic tradition, the most important intellectual and spiritual movement in our history. Rooted in the experience of American racism, capitalist exploitation, and imperialism, this tradition has provided an ongoing critique of our economic, social, and political institutions and beliefs, as well as calling out the country's spiritual bankruptcy. In this premiere episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Dr. West joins Chris Hedges to discuss the decay of the American empire, the struggle to show international solidarity in the face of escalating mil…

WSWS (2022-04-22). Macron-Le Pen debate shows rising danger of far-right dictatorship in France. wsws.org The debate showed above all the very limited character of the differences separating Macron from a political descendant of the collaboration with Nazism in France.

Ann Brown (2022-04-22). Political Scientist Dr. Ricky Jones: They Are Calling Me Racist And Anti-Semitic Because Of Not Abandoning Quintez Brown. moguldom.com Political scientist Dr. Ricky Jones is getting major backlash for supporting his former student, Quintez Brown, a 21-year-old community activist who faces up to life in prison. Brown is charged with shooting at Democratic mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg, who is Jewish, on Feb. 14 in Louisville, Kentucky. Jones is a professor and chairman of the University of …

Ann Brown (2022-04-22). Black Mayor In Tennessee Town Declares Confederate History Month. moguldom.com April has been designated Confederate History Month in Livingston, Tennessee, where Mayor Curtis Hayes, who is Black, signed a proclamation delegating a monthlong celebration of the history of the Confederacy. Hayes, who once received an NAACP diversity award, made the announcement from his desk while flanked by six white members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), Black …

Editor (2022-04-22). 2005-22′: The crisis of western capitalism behind the left and far right radicalism. mronline.org It is simply impossible to understand what is going on now in the world if we don't take into consideration the crisis the globally dominant Western capitalism has been facing since 2008.

Edgar Reyes (2022-04-22). Los Angeles rally demands a free Palestine. liberationnews.org On April 21, local organizations led an emergency rally at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles.

Staff (2022-04-22). New York demonstration takes the streets of Manhattan for Palestine. samidoun.net On Wednesday, 20 April, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of midtown Manhattan in response to a call for an emergency demonstration to stand with Palestine and support the Palestinian liberation struggle, following attacks on al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestinian cities and villages throughout occupied Palestine. On Wednesday, after protesting outside the Israeli mission to …

_____ (2022-04-22). Israeli Authorities Prod Extremist Militias Into Seeking 'Vigilante Justice'. popularresistance.org Be'er Sheva / Lydd, Occupied Palestine – In cities across 1948-occupied Palestine (modern-day Israel), Israelis are taking up arms to defend against so-called Palestinian terror. | A wave of Palestinian-initiated attacks against Israelis occurred just before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in March, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to call on civilians to arm themselves. "Whoever has a gun license, this is the time to carry a gun," Bennett said in a video statement following the violence. | His request was met, as Israeli settlers in the Naqab, Lydd, and the Occupied West Bank have organized arme…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2022-04-22). Israel deploys tear gas drones against al-Aqsa worshippers. electronicintifada.net
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teleSUR, SH (2022-04-22). Nueva represión en la mezquita Al-Aqsa deja decenas de heridos. telesurtv.net Según la Media Luna Roja al menos 31 palestinos resultaron heridos este viernes producto del accionar policial israelí.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-22). Ramadan month marks an intensified attack on Palestine. peoplesdispatch.org Israel has intensified its offensive on Palestinians across occupied territories since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. On Monday April 18, Israeli war planes bombed besiged Gaza near the city of Khan Younis at midnight. The forces have also attacked Al-Aqsa mosque several times since the beginning of the month of Ramadan, injuring and arresting hundreds of worshippers there.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-22). For second Friday in a row, Israeli forces attack worshipers at Al-Aqsa in East Jerusalem. peoplesdispatch.org Israeli forces fired rubber bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas on the worshipers leading to at least 31 Palestinians getting injured, two of them critically. Journalists and paramedics were also injured…

teleSUR, DRL (2022-04-22). Palestina advierte sobre suspensión del reconocimiento a Israel. telesurtv.net El presidente palestino Mahmoud Abbas Abu exigió a EE.UU. que intervenga ante la gravedad de la situación en Jerusalén.

Staff (2022-04-22). Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces in Al-Aqsa. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 22 (MNA) — Local media in occupied Palestine reported that the Israeli reime security forces clashed with the Palestinians again in Al-Aqsa Mosque and dozens of Palestinians were injured in the clashes.

Rann Miller (2022-04-22). Opinion: How Florida Has Added To Its Racist Education By Subtracting Black People From Math. moguldom.com We have officially reached the point in the critical race theory backlash where they're now banning math textbooks. The Florida Department of Education rejected 54 math textbooks — 28 of them because they "incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including [critical race theory]" — according to a DOE statement. Of course, Gov. Ron DeSantis endorsed …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). Turkish-Indonesian strategic partnership: NATO's gateway to ASEAN. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkey joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1952 along with Greece after both nations had served their apprenticeship by deploying troops for the Korean War. Three years later Turkey became the main pivot in the founding of the Central Treaty Organization, modeled after NATO.A year earlier the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, also modeled after …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). Turkey commemorates life of Chechen separatist warlord. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The piece is beyond eulogy and approaching hagiography.The Kremlin's strategic partner Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened a public park dedicated to Dzhokhar Dudayev, first president of the "Chechen Republic of Ichkeria," last December, triggering a fierce reaction from current Chechen president, Ramzan Kadyrov.Turkey is not through with Chechnya and with Dagestan, Ingushetia and the Tatars in …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). German chancellor: NATO-Russia clash could trigger third world war, nuclear war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Scholz's logic at times (see below) is not only tortuous but torturous. His main message, though, seems unequivocal. Der SpiegelApril 22, 2022 "There Cannot Be a Nuclear War" Excerpts from interview. The SPD is a party of peace, but it has never been pacifist. The two great postwar Social Democratic chancellors, Willy Brandt and Helmut …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-22). Air defense, armored vehicles: Britain trains Ukrainian troops at home, in Poland. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Polish RadioApril 22, 2022 UK training Ukrainian troops in Poland: Johnson Ukrainian troops are being trained in Poland to use anti-aircraft defence equipment donated by the British government, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed. "I can say that we're currently training Ukrainians in Poland in the use of the anti-aircraft defences," Johnson told reporters …

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