Monthly Archives: April 2022

2022-04-28: News Headlines

Conyey Slaughter (2022-04-28). Social Media Usage Negatively Influences the Psychological Well-being of Young Adults. indybay.org I am interested in how the use of social media influences the psychological well-being of adolescent children and young adults to understand how young people utilize social media to evaluate their identity and how social media impacts their relationships…

Staff (2022-04-28). Díaz-Canel Denounces Cuba's Exclusion from Summit of the Americas. orinocotribune.com The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, denounced the exclusion of his country from the Summit of the Americas, which is scheduled to take place in June in Los Angeles, California, USA. | In a message posted on his Twitter account, Díaz-Canel gave his support to the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, who demanded a response from the US government as to whether or not Cuba would be invited to the summit. | Díaz-Canel stated that, by not inviting Cuba to the summit, the US is only intensifying its blockade policy. | "We support the denunciations made by our Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, regar…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-27). Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part III: Crimes of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front. libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison Mass grave site uncovered by Gondar University research team. (Photo: Twitter @Hermela22) BAR contributor Ann Garrison reports on conditions in Ethiopia. The discovery of mass graves and underground prisons in Ethiopia has exposed the crimes of the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front or TPLF, the U.S. puppets who tyrannized Ethiopia for 27 years with…

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2022-04-27: News Headlines

Conyey Slaughter (2022-04-27). Social Media Usage Negatively Influences the Psychological Well-being of Young Adults. indybay.org I am interested in how the use of social media influences the psychological well-being of adolescent children and young adults to understand how young people utilize social media to evaluate their identity and how social media impacts their relationships…

Amiad Horowitz (2022-04-26). Corporate media steps up false claims about human rights in Vietnam. peoplesworld.org On April 23rd, the European Union passed the Digital Services Act. This new law, designed to protect European Union citizens from illegal content online, requires the giant internet monopolies such as Meta (Facebook), Google, and Twitter to take appropriate actions to tackle illegal online content. Should the tech giants fail to live up to the …

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-26). Georgian president, would-be junta jefe hails Albright as architect of "new geopolitical world" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Agenda.geApril 26, 2022 Georgian President: Madeleine Albright "a woman who inspired the next generation of leaders" President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili on Tuesday hailed the legacy of the late former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright by calling her "a woman who inspired the next generation of leaders". Zourabichvili tweeted her tribute to Albright …

WSWS (2022-04-26). GEO shuts down University of Illinois Chicago grad workers strike, seeking to push through sellout agreement. wsws.org Announcing the deal to end the strike in a tweet shortly after midnight, GEO stated that grad workers had "won," pointing to an abysmal minimum pay of over $24,000 by the end of the contract.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-04-26). Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin Issues Blanket Pardons For Closed Marijuana Convictions. moguldom.com Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Randall Woodfin issued a blanket pardon for people who have closed marijuana convictions on the 420 holiday — again. Woodfin, 40, signed an executive order for the pardons in a video posted to the Birmingham official Twitter accounts on Wednesday, April 20. Four twenty is the day the cannabis community celebrates marijuana …

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