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Zelensky slaps sanctions on ‘Hero of Ukraine’

1Apr

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Ukraine

Zelensky slaps sanctions on ‘Hero of Ukraine’

Vyacheslav Boguslaev, the ex-president of Ukrainian aerospace giant Motor Sich, had previously been detained on treason charges Vyacheslav Boguslaev © Motor Sich Vyacheslav Boguslaev, a former president of Ukrainian aerospace giant Motor Sich, was included on a sanctions list by President Vladimir Zelensky on Saturday. He was recently fired as the head of the aircraft-engine manufacturer and had been accused of treason by Kiev. Boguslaev, 83, who had been at the helm of Motor Sich since 1991, was awarded the ‘Hero of Ukraine’ honor for his accomplishments back in 2000. He is also a former politician, who served as an MP for several terms and held various advisory positions under a number of Ukrainian presidents, from Leonid Kravchuk to Viktor Yanukovich. In...

1Apr

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Russia

Russia boosts ammunition production

The country’s defense industry has become much more efficient, Sergey Shoigu has claimed Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu © Sputnik / Vadim Savitskii Russia has significantly boosted production of ammunition to support its troops in the Ukraine conflict, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Saturday. Shoigu delivered his remarks as he met with top military officials at the headquarters of the joint staff of the Russian armed forces, according to the ministry’s statement. There, he was briefed on the current battlefield situation while also raising the issue of supplying the army with munitions. During the gathering, the minister assured those assembled that “the provision to troops of weapons of destruction is currently under constant control”&...

Erdogan rubber-stamps Nordic nation’s NATO membership

1Apr

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NATO, Turkey

Erdogan rubber-stamps Nordic nation’s NATO membership

Finland is set to become the 31st member of the US-led military bloc President Joe Biden of the United States of America (L) and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey talk during the G20 Summit on November 15, 2022 in Nusa Dua, Indonesia © Getty Images / Leon Neal/Getty Images Finland is poised to join after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the decision of his parliament to ratify the Nordic country’s passage into the US-led organization. Erdogan’s decision was confirmed in a document posted to Türkiye’s official journal, Resmi Gazete, on Saturday, which stated that approval was authorized by the office of the president on Friday. The signature brings to an end a protracted ratification process which began last summer when Finland, as well as...

Another grain-trading giant to exit Russia

1Apr

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Russia

Another grain-trading giant to exit Russia

The move is expected to give domestic companies more control over the nation’s vast food resources, the agency claims © AFP / STRINGER Chicago-based Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) has joined the latest exodus of commodities traders opting to pull out from Russia, the world’s top wheat exporter, Bloomberg reports on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company is reportedly reviewing its 50% stake in a joint venture with Russian partner Aston, which was launched five years ago to processes corn for producing sweeteners and starches for the food and beverage industry in the country. Earlier this week, Bloomberg cited unnamed sources as saying that the company’s rivals Cargill and Glencore-backed Viterra, the two biggest Western exporters of Russia...

Syria: Suffers third night of Nazi strikes

1Apr

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Syria, ZIO-NAZI

Syria: Suffers third night of Nazi strikes

The latest Nazi air raid reportedly targeted the central Homs province, following strikes on Damascus FILE PHOTO © AP / Maya Alleruzzo Syria's air defenses have been activated in response to a wave of Nazi aggression for the third time in four days, the state Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Sunday. The attack came from the Lebanese airspace at around 00:35am local time, targeting the city of Homs and its surroundings, an unnamed military official told SANA. The military source confirmed “some material damages” and at least five injuries among soldiers, after air defenses failed to intercept some of the missiles. The latest Nazi air raid came after two nights of strikes on the Syrian capital and its suburbs. The first barrage of missi...

Amazon Rainforest Destabilizes the World

1Apr

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Environment

Amazon Rainforest Destabilizes the World

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Vlad Hilitanu. A new 40-year study discovered the eye-opening fact that what happens in the Amazon Rainforest impacts the entire Earth system. This puts an exclamation point on the fact that the Amazon Rainforest, the planet’s most crucial source of life support, is in deep trouble mainly because of massive deforestation. The Amazon River Basin is the world’s largest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests combined, the Congo Basin and Indonesia, and roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States covering 40% of South America including parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana Suriname and French Guiana. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF): “The Amazon is of vital importance becaus...

Fascists in the Courts and the Need to Abandon Liberal Surrender and Complicity

1Apr

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USA

Fascists in the Courts and the Need to Abandon Liberal Surrender and Complicity

BY PAUL STREET Sometimes it is hard to know who is worse: the Christian white nationalist neofascists who keep pushing the nation further right or the hollow and passive resistance of the fake-opposition Weimar Democrats who keep accommodating the ever more mainstreamed far right. But we don’t have to choose. The fascisation of US politics and policy reflects, among other things, a symbiotic, even “co-dependent” dance between the Republikaner right and those aligned with the not-so leftmost of the two dominant capitalist parties – the dismal Dems. Take the right-wing women-hating war on abortion rights in the United States over the past year and a half. It was clear as day that the nation’s Christian fascist Supreme Court was going to deep-six Roe v. Wade&nbs...

A (Bad) Trip to the Most Radioactive Place in America

1Apr

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Russia, USA

A (Bad) Trip to the Most Radioactive Place in America

BY JOSHUA FRANK The following is an adapted excerpt from the preface of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America (Haymarket Books, 2022) *** If you’re like any number of people I’ve talked to over the last few years, you aren’t really sure what Hanford is all about. Maybe you haven’t even heard of the place; I certainly wouldn’t blame you. It is, after all, off the beaten path. The Hanford Nuclear Site is located in eastern Washington State. It’s far from Seattle, three hours to the Idaho border, on the banks of the Columbia River, and a couple of hundred miles upstream from Portland, Oregon. I won’t inundate you with all the details just yet; we’ll get to all of that later. But here’s a modest primer: Hanford was home to the US government...

1Apr

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USA

Child Labor is Back…with a Vengeance!

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: E. F. Brown – Public Domain Child labor is back. That’s because rich corporations and their political parasites want it back. What better way, they doubtless imagine, for penniless, unaccompanied migrant children to spend their time than performing dangerous tasks in slaughterhouses or moiling with toxic cleansers in factories? What else are these kids going to do with their time? Go to school? Not likely, if our oligarchs have it their way. Corporate billionaires need workers, especially post-Great Resignation, when millions of employees, after remembering thanks to covid that life is short, basically said “You can take this lousy job and shove it.” As a result, it’s a tight labor market, despite the Federal Reserve’s best efforts to boost un...

1Apr

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USA

This is Fascism, SVB Bailout Edition

BY ROB URIE FacebookTwitterRedditEmail Photograph Source: SWinxy – CC BY-SA 4.0 The very public failure of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) is raising concerns of a renewed wave of bank failures that threatens Western economies. The subtext is residual fear that the earlier (mid-2000’s) bank crisis was never adequately addressed. The very bankers who sank the banking system back then were handed trillions in public largesse to cover their losses, but the system of Wall Street provision of credit to fuel capitalism was never reconsidered. As then Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner put it, ‘the US doesn’t do nationalization (of banks).’ Part of the political calculus behind the earlier bailouts was the role of Wall Street in support of American imperialism. Neoliberalism...