April, 2023

• 30 April

  Central Banking And The Illusion Of Control: Why Our Monetary System Keeps Failing Us – OpEd

  

  The recent economic situation in the US has revealed the Federal Reserve’s failure to achieve its own policy goals of price and growth stability. The current recessionary fears have arisen following historic inflation levels, that were caused by expansionary monetary policies during the Covid pandemic. The root of these failures …

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• 30 April

  May Day and Abolition

  

  “Murther, murther, murther, murther …” shouted Free-born John Lilburne from prison. “M’aidez, m’aidez,” says the international distress signal. Murder is the crime, and help is the need. That is the dynamic of the day, May Day. It’s methodology therefore requires answers to two questions: Who? Whom? We remember los martiros, …

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• 30 April

  It’s the Class War, Stupid: An Evening with Noam Chomsky

  

  In mid-April, we hosted renowned linguist, political analyst, and activist Noam Chomsky for a speaking and Q&A event at Lehigh University as part of the Douglas Dialogues forum. The event was attended by hundreds of students, faculty, and staff, and provided the Lehigh University community an opportunity to engage in …

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• 30 April

  Wagner Chief Threatens To Pull Out Of Bakhmut As Zelenskyy Calls For Modern Air Defenses

  

  Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russian paramilitary group Wagner, has threatened to withdraw his troops from the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut if ammunition supply problems are not resolved, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed for modern air-defense systems following one of the deadliest Russian strikes on civilian targets in recent …

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• 30 April

  Kazakhstan’s ‘Multi-Vector’ Foreign Policy Amidst The Ukraine War – Analysis

  

  Kazakhstan has maintained a distinctive stance regarding Russia’s military action in Ukraine. It has repeatedly emphasised the need for diplomacy to resolve the conflict. Kazakh authorities have also decried the results of referendums held in four Ukrainian cities of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia , which overwhelmingly voted to join …

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• 30 April

  ‘It’s Offensive’: NATO Bomb Victims’ Families ‘Ignored’ by Montenegro Government – Analysis

  

  Twenty-four years after NATO air strikes killed six people, including three children, in the Montenegrin village of Murino, the victims’ families have received no compensation and say consecutive governments have done nothing to help them. When the first bomb exploded on April 30, 1999 at a bridge near near the …

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• 30 April

  La dédollarisation passe à la vitesse supérieure

  

  Le dollar américain est essentiel à la projection de la puissance mondiale des États-Unis. Mais en 2022, la part du dollar dans les monnaies de réserve a diminué dix fois plus vite que la moyenne des deux dernières décennies. Il est désormais établi que le statut du dollar américain en …

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• 29 April

  PKK terrorist activities in Sweden stymie NATO membership bid, admits minister

  

  Terror group has ‘extensive work in Sweden to raise money and finance terrorist activities aimed at Türkiye,’ admits Foreign Minister Billstrom STOCKHOLM The Swedish foreign minister has admitted that the PKK terrorist organization’s extensive activities in his country are the reason Türkiye is preventing Sweden from joining NATO, an intergovernmental …

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• 29 April

  Turkish intelligence captures fugitive PKK terrorist abroad

  

  Rasim Akyol, a fugitive member of the PKK terrorist group, was brought to Türkiye after being captured by the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) in an unspecified country, security sources told media outlets Friday. Photos shared by security sources show Akyol at an undisclosed location between two Turkish flags. Akyol was …

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• 29 April

  Generals in Their Labyrinth

  

  The conflict in Sudan is multidimensional, and could generate instability that spreads to the broader region. Since April 15, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) across Sudan, especially in the capital Khartoum, has left more than 450 people dead and over 4,000 …

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