China and Russia urge independent probe into Canada’s treatment of indigenous people as anger over mass-grave discovery rages (www.rt.com)
US and Japan block deal to end coal at G7 (www.politico.eu)
“Days of negotiations at the G7 leaders summit in Cornwall failed to set an end-date for coal after the U.S. and Japan blocked a deal.”
Trump praises Nigeria for widely condemned Twitter ban (www.foreigner.fi)
Russia to remove dollar assets from National Wealth Fund (www.cnbc.com)
Russia will completely remove U.S. dollar assets from its National Wealth Fund (NWF), while increasing the share of the euro, Chinese yuan and gold. Russia on Wednesday said it plans to spend up to 400 billion roubles annually from the NWF in a bid to boost state investment in infrastructure projects and finance its development...
Florida kids, 12 and 14, fire at deputies after breaking into home, sheriff says (www.tampabay.com)
Ryanair jet forced to land in Berlin after bomb threat (www.france24.com)
Where have I heard this story before? Sanctions on Germany when?
Arizona ‘refurbishes’ its gas chamber to prepare for executions, documents reveal (www.theguardian.com)
The state of Arizona is preparing to kill death row inmates using hydrogen cyanide, the same lethal gas that was deployed at Auschwitz.
US caught spying on EU ‘allies’ again…not like the Europeans will do anything about it (www.rt.com)
Whilst the European Union talks of matters such as “strategic autonomy” and idealizes itself as a unified, independent force for good in the world, the reality could not be further from the truth. Espionage revelations are just the tip of the iceberg of a variety of ways in which the United States has, through its...
US-funded Belarusian regime-change activist (blogger) arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine [The Grayzone] (thegrayzone.com)
I might honestly begin posting on world news to help debunk the propaganda spread by other posters.
Facebook’s Secret Rules About the Word “Zionist” Impede Criticism of Israel (theintercept.com)
In the words of one Facebook moderator who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity to protect their job, in practice the policy “leaves very little wiggle room for criticism of Zionism” at a time when precisely that ideology is subject to intense scrutiny and protest.
Palestine-Israel conflict
“When the Nazis gassed the Jews, the world was silent. Now the world is silent while the Israelis harass, humiliate, and steal away land from the Palestinians.”...
US Again Blocks UN Security Council Statement on Gaza, Jersualem Violence [Antiwar] (news.antiwar.com)
Biden isn't ending the Afghanistan War, he's privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain (thegrayzone.com)
South Indian variant of COVID 15 times more lethal, highly infectious (thefederal.com)
[INDIA] Serum's Covishield At ₹ 400 A Dose For States, 600 For Private Hospitals (www.ndtv.com)
Covishield will be sold at ₹ 400 a shot to states and ₹ 600 to private hospitals, the Serum Institute of India (SII) said today, days ahead of a new round of vaccinations from May 1 that will include all above 18....
UK Parliament unanimously declares the Chinese government is committing a Genocide against Uyghurs in historic first - Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (ipac.global)
Hong Kong democracy leaders found guilty over peaceful 2019 protest (www.theguardian.com)
Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments (archive.is)
I feel really upset about the US Attack on Iran.
Does anyone else feel that they should start respecting other countries and other ways of social organization?