Daily Archives: April 18, 2022

2022-04-18: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-04-17). Terrorist group planned to kidnap German health minister. wsws.org The fact that law enforcement authorities have felt compelled to carry out three large-scale raids against right-wing extremist subversives within just two weeks is proof of the extent of the fascist danger in Germany.

_____ (2022-04-17). Move To Unionize Tour Could Rewrite How Theater Industry Operates. popularresistance.org On April 12, the New York Times broke the story that the theater actors union Actors' Equity Association is, for the first time in over 20 years, attempting to unionize a workplace. Inspired by recent wins at Amazon and Starbucks, actors and stage managers on the non-union national tour of the musical Waitress are moving to unionize after being contacted by Equity, as the union is known in the theater industry. This attempt represents one of the biggest developments in labor organizing within the theater industry in years and has the potential to largely rewrite the way that the theater industry operates. | This…

_____ (2022-04-17). NATO's 'Weapons For Peace' Program And Russia's Diplomatic Demarche. popularresistance.org Karen DeYoung reported for the Washington Post Thursday that Russia sent a formal diplomatic note to the United States on Tuesday, accusing Washington and its NATO clients of insidiously subverting peace process with Ukraine initiated at the Istanbul talks on March 29, and the subsequent withdrawal of Russian forces from the outskirts of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy, thus ending the month-long offensive in Ukraine. | The document, titled "On Russia's concerns in the context of massive supplies of weapons and military equipment to the Kiev regime," was forwarded to the State Department by the Russian Embassy in Washin…

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