(2022-04-04). Save the Planet, Behead the Military Budget. transcend.org 30 Mar 2022 – Why, why, why, as our ecosystem collapses, as millions flee the horrors of war and poverty, as the pandemic continues, as WWIII and a nuclear Armageddon rears its evil head, does ever-expanding, global militarism remain our primary national purpose? This question stabs me as President Whoever announces his proposed military budget, as Congress increases it, as the media shrugs.
(2022-04-04). The report on Ontario's natural resources the government didn't want you to read. thenarwhal.ca Even as it details how human activity is hurting wetlands and waterways, it focuses on the wealth generated by natural resources.
(2022-04-04). Briefing: World hunger and the war in Ukraine. mronline.org 
The New Cold War is rapidly heating up, with severe consequences for people around the world. Our new series, Briefings, provides the key facts on these matters of global concern.
(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…
(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…
(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.
(2022-04-03). More Quick Thoughts on the March Jobs Report — Good News on Inflation. cepr.net Many of us have highlighted both the strong pace of job growth and the drop in unemployment in March. This is great news. We are now looking at a labor market that is as strong as at any point in the last fifty years. This should be cause for celebration, but all the Republicans have …
(2022-04-03). Medicare For All Is Not Enough. popularresistance.org We have long advocated for single-payer national health insurance. By eliminating private insurers and simplifying how providers are paid, single-payer would free up hundreds of billions of dollars now squandered annually on insurance-related bureaucracy. The savings would make it feasible to cover the uninsured and to eliminate the cost barriers that keep even insured patients from getting the care they need. And it would free patients and doctors from the narrow provider networks and other bureaucratic constraints imposed by insurance middlemen. We still urgently need this reform. | However, the accelerating co…