Foreign Policy/Imperialism

IMF Forecasts Lowest Growth in Decades as World Leaders Descend on Washington for Meetings

April 13, 2023
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Global Growth Remains Low Amidst Debt Concerns, War and Inflation, Says IMF

The challenges to the global economy and slow economic growth will continue this year, said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. Delivering her traditional “curtain raiser” speech before the opening of the IMF and World Bank Spring meetings, she anticipated a 3% growth this year, below 3.4% last year.

Emergency march for Palestine held after recent raids and urban seiges

On the 21st of October, Palestinians and their supporters met at the Washington Momument and marched through the streets of DC. They were protesting a string of raids and seiges of Palestinian cities by the Israeli government.

Video-two clips of the march by a participant 42 sec

Putin may have dug his own grave too deep for negotiations over Ukraine to pull him out

A diplomatic end to this war with or without Ukraine joining NATO means Putin joins the ranks of Russian dictators who have lost expensive wars.Next to go historically has been their heads. Putin digs his grave deeper and deeper every time he loses a battle, eventually he will push the people of Russia one step too far. His "partial mobilization" of 300,00 reservists has already led to "mass protests" in Moscow with thousands of arrests. Wonder if these are just protests or something more,like the desperately needed riots? Don't bet on the Washington Post for THAT answer, as what works in Moscow also works in Washington.

Protesters rally at Dept of Injustice against planned extradition of Julian Assange

On the 17th of May, protesters showed up at the so-called "Department of Justice" to demand that the US cease and desist its efforts to extradite Julian Assange. Julian Assange is one of the founder of Wikileaks, where embarrassing leaks governments try to keep secret are published. One of these was the famous "Collateral Murder" video from Afghanistan showing a US gunship shooting up an ambulance.

Video highlights of the rally 1 min 28 sec

Still from video by John Zangas

The Shortwave Report 03/25/22 Listen Globally!

This week's show features stories from France 24, Sputnik Radio, and Radio Havana Cuba.http://youthspeaksout.net/swr220325.mp3 (29:00)   (If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {33MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)        From FRANCE- British Royalty Prince William and Kate Middleton visited Jamaica to att

The Shortwave Report 03/18/22 Listen Globally!

This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, Sputnik Radio, and Radio Havana Cuba.http://youthspeaksout.net/swr220318.mp3 (29:00)   (If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {33MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)        From GERMANY-Germany and most other European countries are greatly increasing t

The Shortwave Report 03/04/22 Listen Globally!

This week's show features stories from NHK Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Radio Havana Cuba.http://youthspeaksout.net/swr220304.mp3 (29:00)   (If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {33MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)        From JAPAN- A brief update on Covid in Japan.

Anonymous hacks entire Russian Ministry of Defense, Twitter removes links

On the 25th of February, Anonymous kicked off cyberattacks on Putin's invasion of Ukraine in a very big way. In addition to knocking both Gazprom and the Russian Ministry of "Defense" (MoD)off the Internet, they cracked the MoD server and published everything they found. A Twitter post linked to the captured data-and Twitter cravenly took the post down.

Ukrainians protest at White House, Russian Embassy against Putin's invasion and war

On the 23ed of February, Russian fascist dictator Putin launched his long-expected invasion of Ukraine. As Ukraine's military and guerilla groups mounted resistance to the invasion, protesters gathered from Moscow to Washington DC to oppose this assault. In DC, protests have been taking place at the White House every day, with big ones on weekends. Still more protests have been taking place at the Russian Embassy.

Video-Sat 3-5 protest demands ban on Russian oil

Video highlights of big Feb 27 White House protest

Video from ongoing protests at the Russian Embassy Sat 2-26-2022

Video highlights of the Feb 24 White House protest

Feb 27: Ukrainian flags nearly block view of White House in Lafayette Sq

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