2022-04-17: News Headlines

_____ (2022-04-16). Liberal Russophobia And War Propaganda. popularresistance.org The city of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts prohibit discrimination based upon race, color, gender, disability, religion, and national origin. Such discrimination is prohibited by most cities, states, and the federal government as well. But one wouldn't know that due to a plethora of discriminatory acts carried out against Russian nationals. The latest perpetrator is the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) , which announced that citizens of Russia and Belarus who reside in those countries will be barred from participating in the Boston marathon taking place on April 18, 2022. The war in Ukraine, years…

JANET (2022-04-16). What's the truth behind the Bucha and Kramatorsk events? iacenter.org By Richie Merino April 15, 2022 April 10 — Last weekend, Ukraine's President Vlodymyr Zelensky accused Russian troops of committing war crimes in the city of Bucha, near Kiev. Moscow immediately denied the allegations, calling them "baseless" and implying that Ukrainian right-wing nationalists, with support from the Kiev regime, staged the event, placing deceased bodies in the streets of Bucha in order to derail peace talks and distract the media from covering mounting evidence of war crimes committed by Ukraine's own military. Anti-NATO protest, Bratislava, Slovakia, Feb. 2. It's important to understand th…

Editor (2022-04-16). New York Times' ridiculous attack on me exposes its deceitful propaganda tactics. mronline.org The New York Times printed absurd claims about Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton in a smear piece, using an image of his face crossed out by a red line, without giving him an opportunity to comment. This hatchet job reflects the newspaper's long history of spreading false war propaganda for the U.S. government.

_____ (2022-04-16). We're Failing To Prepare Our Children For The Climate Fight. popularresistance.org Climate change is hurtling forward at frightening speed. And the American K-12 system still isn't remotely prepared to teach children about what they'll soon face. Today, the majority of students in U.S. schools get between zero and two hours of instruction per year about climate change—hardly enough time to discuss the political, cultural, and environmental ramifications of greenhouse gas emissions, let alone make space for the emotions elicited by such an existential threat. In some districts, climate education is actually disinformation, as teachers rely on materials created by the fossil fuel industry t…

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-04-16). Falk talks of West hypocrisy regarding refugees, occupation. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 16 (MNA) — Describing the reasons behind the West's double standards towards the issue of refugees and occupation, Richard Falk says the most immediate relevant answer is race, location, and control of the global humanitarian discourse.

Richard Horton (2022-04-16). [Comment] Offline: Finding hope under the Emperor's New Clothes. thelancet.com Multilateralism is dead. This seemed to be the conclusion of a London School of Economics seminar on global health and economic security, held last week. Wise economists who now bestride the worlds of academia and politics insisted that the era of globalisation was over. National sovereignty is everything. The future for multilateral institutions, such as WHO, is bleak. Global health protagonists spoke passionately about the importance of strengthening the agency—better resourcing and more teeth.

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