Informed Leftist

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Tossed-Aside Headlines

1. Ukraine-Russia Update: European leaders consider sending troops to Ukraine as Russian territorial advances in Eastern Ukraine forces Kyiv’s troops to retreat further West. US official Victoria Nuland, whose country’s homeless population grew to 6530,000 last year, boasted that the latest US$60-billion aid bill to Ukraine is “going right back into the US economy to make … weapons.” After Sweden, Denmark dropped its investigation into the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, claiming insufficient evidence. Navalny died of a blood clot, contrary to Western accusations of murder against Putin.

2. Palestine-Israel Update: A UN expert said that Israel, which is blocking 2,000 aid trucks from entering Gaza, is deliberately starving Palestinians, as infants begin to die of starvation. Netanyahu vowed to invade Rafah refugee camp, regardless of a ceasefire, which could be reached by Monday according to Biden. Hamas denied Reuters’s claim that the resistance group has lost 6,000 fighters since Oct 7. More than half of British exporters report higher shipping costs due to Yemen’s blockade. Aaron Bushnell, a US airman, set himself on fire in Washington, DC, in front of the Israeli embassy in protest of his country’s complicity in genocide.

3. Ahead of Mexico’s general election in early June, the US and its bourgeois press are slandering the country’s left-wing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), with accusations of colluding with drug cartels, while simultaneously admitting they have no proof.

4. Sudan Update: At least 12 people died in clashes between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the country’s capital, Khartoum, as the nearly nationwide telecom blackout reaches its third week.

5. A report by Australian think tank Lowy Institute found that China is now the world’s top diplomatic power, ahead of the US.