GEOECONOMICS

IMF WARNS U.S. CONGRESS on fiscal mismanagement, bloated defence expenditures and the national debts of $34 Trillion

CHINESE DREAMS ARISING chris kanthan == India as a Tool to Contain China — Geopolitics Explained

CAMPAIGN for CHINA to COMMIT ECONOMIC SUICIDE john ross; read also STORM China’s overcapacity narrative

UK freezes London property linked to Putin ally icij

ASIA-PACIFIC

The US smuggled a mid-range missile into The Philippines in Northern Philippines on 17 Apr. Another provocative act like the Bay of Pig Cuba Crisis in the early 60s and creating another Gulf of Tonkin incident prior to the Vietnan War; see also U.S. moves previously banned missiles closer to China and Russia la lucha ♤♤ USS TYPHON thinkchina ■■ Philippines Eyes More Israeli Weapons as China Tensions Grow defensepost

ANZAC DAY: Australia’s imperial romance with white Anglo-American global dominance Greg Lockhart

Marcos–Duterte mega-dynasty on the rocks Danilo Araña Arao,UP Diliman

Ethnic Karen Guerrillas in Myanmar Leave a Town That Army Lost 2 Weeks Ago as Rival Group Holds Sway usnews

Maldives leader’s big win, what’s next? Al Jazeera

GEOPOLITICS

China Says US Military Aid For Taiwan Increases Risk Of Conflict antiwar •• The US Is on the Path to War with China thescotthortonshow

Australia’s coming battles in the US–China Tech War Marina Yue Zhang, University of Technology Sydney; Mark Dodgson, University of Queensland; David Gann, University of Oxford

Iran, Pakistan Pledge Commitment to Afghan Stability in Joint Statement tolonews

5 Times NATO HAS POSED A THREAT TO HUMANITY tiktok

ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

The report – entitled How Big Tech and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex – was authored by Roberto J. González, a professor of cultural anthropology at San José State University, for the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs.

Alarm Over Growing Role Of Big Tech In US Military-Industrial Complex

Socialist Climate Struggle For a World Worth Living in international socialist alternative

MONOPOLY OF THE BOMB would be CATASTROPHIC counterspin

UK WATER SUPPLIER DROWN in DEBTS malaymail

CAMBODIA CANAL is a daring GEO-ECONOMIC PROJECT andrew Korybko

UKRAINE 🇺🇦

10th Year ANNIVERSARY of ANTI-COUP al mayadeen

FOREVER WAR chas freeman

As the U.S. doubles down on Ukraine, it will probably demand another offensive which will of course fail. What it really wants is for Europe to fight Russia while keeping itself out of the mess. It pretends that its capabilities are limitless even as they are obviously not. In due fact, Éric Denécé, director of the French Centre for Intelligence Studies already has 6 that the US is slowly abandoning Ukraine so that it will become exclusively a European problem.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the defensive line (FOX) of the Ukrainian army is in the process of breaking down, (msn) whilst improvishing the Ukrainians.

G A z A

HEZBOLLAH in support of GAZA Palestine Chronicle

Israel Is Turning Hospitals Into Mass Graves CaitlinJohnstone ■■ THE COLONNA REPORT commissioned by the UN in the wake of Israeli allegations, found that Unrwa had regularly supplied Israel with lists of its employees for vetting, and that “the Israeli government has not informed Unrwa of any concerns relating to any Unrwa staff based on these staff lists since 2011”

UNITED STATES OF HYPOCRISY counterpunch On April 18, a proposal was submitted to the United Nations Security Council to admit Palestine as a full member, thus effectively recognizing the state of Palestine. Of the fifteen members of the Security Council, twelve voted in favor, two abstained, and the United States, using its veto power, opposed it. This, after frantic lobbying by the U.S. of the other nations on the Security Council to convince at least one of them to vote with the U.S., so the U.S. would not have to stand alone, again, in its support for the apartheid regime of Israel.

AL MAYADEEN

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

HAARETZ

INTIFADA

MIDDLE EAST EYE

PALESTINE CHRONICLE

THE TRICONTINENTAL

Where ELITES of the GLOBAL NORTH are afraid to talk about PALESTINE vijay prashad