Daily Archives: April 4, 2022

2022-04-04: News Headlines

rqorinoco (2022-04-04). The U.S. empire uses engineered destabilization to delay its full demise. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Mar 30, 2022 | When it comes to the decline of U.S. hegemony, there are two sides to the story, one hopeful and the other bleak. One pertains to all of the ways that the empire's power is unambiguously diminishing, and to how this is opening the potential for workers democracy to spread to every part of the world. To how Washington has been unable to use its fascist Ukrainian proxy to crush the independence of the Donbass peoples, how Washington's subversion efforts in places like Hong Kong have failed, how the 2019 coup in Bolivia has been reversed, and other such positive developments. Th…

Ana Perdigón (2022-04-04). Venezuela Denounces New Terrorist Plans by Colombia's Iván Duque. orinocotribune.com This Saturday, April 2, President Nicolás Maduro denounced his Colombian counterpart Iván Duque for ordering extremist sectors of the Venezuelan right to deepen their terrorist attacks against the country. | During a phone call with the authorities of the Somos Venezuela movement, the Venezuelan president reported that sectors of the right met in Bogotá and received an order from Duque to deepen the terrorist attacks against public services, before the Colombian president ends his term. | The head of state warned: "Recently, they held a meeting of extremists in Bogotá and received an order from Iván Duque to deep…

Staff (2022-04-04). Venezuela Sends Best Wishes to Muslims for Ramadan. orinocotribune.com Caracas, April 3, 2022 ( Along with the official statement, Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Félix Plasencia wrote: "Happiness and health to all Muslim friends who live in our country, a…

Staff (2022-04-04). At least 12 dead in Ecuador prison violence. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 04 (MNA) — At least 12 prisoners died and another 10 were injured during a gang confrontation at a prison in Ecuador, the government said on Sunday, in a new episode of prison violence in the Andean country.

____ (2022-04-04). Vaccine Myocarditis: Mystery Solved? transcend.org 3 Apr 2022 – A Brazilian investigator may have identified the mechanism driving mRNA vaccine myocarditis. And the US CDC finally acknowledges the strongly increased risk in young males.

Editor2 (2022-04-03). Russia-Ukraine Conflict Highlights Racist Double Standard in the West. orinocotribune.com By Wu Chaolan — Mar 21, 2022 | The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has garnered widespread attention across the globe. The wall-to-wall coverage and outpouring of reactions to the Russia-Ukraine conflict from the West has raised eyebrows at its double standard toward other humanitarian crises, which has unsheathed flagrant racist and biased attitudes toward the value of non-white lives that also matter. | CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D'Agata, for instance, has faced a widespread backlash due to his discriminatory comments on the Ukraine crisis: "This isn't a place, with all due respect, like…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-03). Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing Through the Fog of the Information War. libya360.wordpress.com Gabriel Rockhill Participants of an annual event in honor of Stepan Bandera march through Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2021. (Genya Savilou/AFP) On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook what he referred to as a "special military operation … to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine." Western bourgeois media immediately decried these stated goals, regularly repeating that the allegations of…

teleSUR, SH (2022-04-03). Sectores en paro acuerdan dar tregua al Gobierno peruano. telesurtv.net El presidente Pedro Castillo comunicó que se reunirá con sus ministros a fin de adoptar medidas para poner fin a las protestas en Huancayo.

teleSUR, DRL, JL (2022-04-03). Incendio consume casi 100 locales comerciales en Santa Cruz. telesurtv.net Los comerciantes lamentaron la pérdida de casi 100 puestos de venta destruidos mientras la policía investiga las causas.

____ (2022-04-03). Colombia, Turkey, NATO, world's longest counterinsurgency and newest wars. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Ramirez was interviewed while in Turkey. She and her Turkish counterparts had the opportunity to compare notes on the counterinsurgency war in her nation and Turkey's against Kurds in Turkey, Iraq and Syria. Also see: Video: NATO chief, Colombian president unite against Russia over Ukraine, against Russia, China over Venezuela Hurriyet Daily NewsApril 2, 2022 …

teleSUR, SH (2022-04-03). Pdte. Maduro acusa a Iván Duque de planificar ataques contra Venezuela. telesurtv.net El presidente Maduro señaló que el blanco de los ataques sería el sistema eléctrico, así como el servicio de agua potable del país suramericano.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-03). Ecuadorian president restructures cabinet amid growing political crisis. peoplesdispatch.org On March 30, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso signed two Executive Decrees to separate the political and internal security functions of the Ministry of Government. He split up the entity to create a new Ministry of Interior and appointed two new ministers. Lasso swore in former assemblyman Francisco Jiménez as his new Minister of Government, and former police commander Patricio Carrillo as his new Minister of Interior. | "I want to emphasize that the decisions that have been made are aimed at solving the problems that citizens experience on a daily basis," said Lasso. He explained that the Ministry of Governm…

teleSUR, JCM (2022-04-03). Argentina reclama a Reino Unido reanudar diálogo sobre Malvinas. telesurtv.net Bajo el lema "Malvinas nos une", el Gobierno nacional realizará una serie de actos en todo el país para recordar los 40 años de la guerra.

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-04-03). Mudslides kill 14 in heavy rains in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 03 (MNA) — Heavy rains caused mudslides that killed at least 14 people insoutherncoastal cities and the Baixada Fluminense area of Rio de Janeiro state, according to state and local authorities on Saturday.

____ (2022-04-03). Chilean court sentences military personnel for burning alive student protesters in 1986. wsws.org The "Caso Quemados" (case of the burnt ones) occurred in the midst of demonstrations against depression-level unemployment, poverty and bloody repression under the Pinochet dictatorship.

teleSUR, DRL, JL (2022-04-03). Fallece Leonel Sánchez, histórico del fútbol chileno. telesurtv.net Con el deceso de Sánchez, se va uno de los jugadores más importantes del siglo XX en Chile.

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