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News 4/4/26 News Anon 3.0 05-04-26 00:59:46 No.2768150

German men need military permit for extended stays abroad
While the law requires men to request the permit, the spokesperson clarified, it also obliges the military career center to issue it, if "no specific military service is expected during the period in question.” "Since military service under current law is based exclusively on voluntary participation, such permissions must generally be granted,” the official added. Acknowledging the "profound" impact of the amended conscription law, the Defense Ministry said it is working on new rules for exceptions to the exit permit requirement.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-men-need-military-permit-for-extended-stays-abroad/a-76662677
https://archive.ph/PIaQR

‘No to war’: Austria blocks US warplanes from its airspace
Earlier on Thursday, Austria announced it had banned U.S. military aircraft involved in the Iranian conflict from using its airspace, citing the country's neutrality law. “There have indeed been requests and they were refused from the outset,” Colonel Michael Bauer, spokesperson for the Defense Ministry, told POLITICO.
https://www.politico.eu/article/austria-blocks-us-warplane-overflights-citing-neutrality/
https://archive.ph/MoIpI

Cap prices now to save jobs and industry, unions demand
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “Already struggling before the war, Trumpflation has sent gas prices soaring — further piling the pressure on some of Britain’s key industries like chemicals, ceramics and glass. “Trump’s war must not put jobs in critical industries at risk. “The government should urgently bring forward a temporary targeted gas price cap, to stabilise the price of gas for critical industries and protect UK manufacturing, and speed up the energy price support scheme making sure it reaches crucial sectors.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cap-prices-now-save-jobs-and-industry-unions-demand

Israel shifts strategy in Lebanon amid losses to Hezbollah
Rather than accelerating the advance, however, this expansion appears to reflect mounting pressure on Israeli forces to reinforce positions and sustain operations in the face of continued Hezbollah attacks. According to Lebanese media, more than 100 Israeli tanks and vehicles have been targeted since the start of the latest confrontation, with multiple attacks reported in a single day at times. Meanwhile, Israeli media reports that at least 10 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Lebanon, and dozens more have been injured.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-shifts-strategy-lebanon-amid-losses-hezbollah

Pro-Palestine rallies sweep Syria amid Gaza genocide and Israeli occupation
Thousands of Syrians across the country have taken to the streets in widespread pro-Palestine protests, condemning a new law approved by Israel’s apartheid legal system that allows the execution of Palestinian prisoners - a law that does not apply to Jews - as well as the continued occupation of Syrian territory. Demonstrations erupted on Friday afternoon in Damascus and spread across Daraa, Quneitra, Aleppo, Latakia, Homs and Idlib, as well as Palestinian refugee camps including Yarmouk and Khan al-Sheikh.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-palestine-rallies-sweep-syria-amid-gaza-genocide-and-israeli-occupation

South Korean factory fire investigation exposes indifference to safety
Two weeks since the deadly blaze in Daejeon, South Korea that killed 14 workers and injured 60 more at an auto parts plant, the investigation has revealed the complete disregard for safety that led up to the tragedy. These disasters are not unpredictable accidents, but are the result of capitalism’s relentless drive for profit at the expense of the working class.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/04/jzpq-a04.html

China moves to regulate digital humans, bans addictive services for children
The Cyberspace Administration of ‌China's proposed rules would require prominent "digital human" labels on all virtual human content and prohibit digital humans from providing "virtual intimate relationships" to those under 18, according to rules published for public comment until May 6.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-moves-regulate-digital-humans-bans-addictive-services-children-2026-04-03/

Argentina offers reward for fugitive Chilean ex-guerrilla Apablaza ahead of Kast visit
Argentina's government on Friday offered a reward of 20 million pesos — roughly $14,000 — for information leading to the capture of Galvarino Apablaza, former leader of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), wanted by Chilean courts as the alleged mastermind of the 1991 assassination of Senator Jaime Guzmán and the kidnapping of businessman Cristián Edwards.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/03/argentina-offers-reward-for-fugitive-chilean-ex-guerrilla-apablaza-ahead-of-kast-visit

Cuba pardons over 2,000 prisoners in Holy Week ‘humanitarian gesture’
Authorities said the decision was a “humanitarian gesture” during Holy Week and resulted from a review process assessing the nature of the offences, inmates’ behaviour during incarceration, the portion of the sentence already served and health conditions.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cuba-pardons-over-2000-prisoners-holy-week-humanitarian-gesture

News Anon 3.0 05-04-26 01:48:44 No.2768173

US satellite firm Planet Labs announces blackout on war on Iran images
The US company announced the decision in an email to customers on Saturday, with news agencies quoting it as saying the government had asked satellite imagery providers ⁠to impose an “indefinite withhold of imagery”. The restriction expands upon a 14-day delay on imagery of the Middle East that Planet Labs implemented last month, which extended an initial 96-hour delay, a move the firm said was meant to prevent adversaries from using the imagery to attack the US and its allies.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/5/us-satellite-firm-planet-labs-announces-blackout-on-war-on-iran-images
https://archive.ph/lyIHm

List of Programs Trump 2027 Budget Proposal Would Cut
Here is an overview of programs that would be cut: Job Corps (eliminated, –$1.6bn) Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) (–$395m) OSHA Susan Harwood Training Grants (eliminated) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) (defunded) Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) reductions (–$46m)
https://www.newsweek.com/list-of-programs-trump-2027-budget-proposal-would-cut-11780685
https://archive.ph/jRPQ6

More than 20 people injured after driver crashes into crowd at Louisiana parade
The driver, who has not been publicly identified, is in custody, according to a statement from the Iberia parish sheriff’s office. Some of the injuries are believed to be serious, authorities said. Eleven people were transported by ground and two by air, according to first responders.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/louisiana-parade-car-crash

Message to Senate Dems: No Confirmation of New AG Without Commitment on Epstein Files Release
With Pam Bondi fired from her position as US attorney general, progressive campaigners on Friday said that Democrats in the Senate, although they are in the minority, must use the leverage they have to force a release of all the remaining files concerning convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bondi-trump-epstein

OP/ED News Anon 3.0 05-04-26 02:05:37 No.2768183

Why socialist Cuba is more democratic than the U.S
The renewed escalation of hostility by the Trump administration towards Cuba—through tightened sanctions, political pressure, and open ideological aggression—once again exposes a fundamental contradiction. A country that presents itself as the "global model of democracy" continues to treat a small socialist island as a persistent threat. This is not a coincidence. It points to something deeper: what is being contested is not “democracy” in the abstract, but two fundamentally different ways of organizing power in society. At a moment when Cuba faces intensified economic pressure and systematic attempts at destabilization, a simple question emerges: if Cuba is truly “undemocratic,” why must it be constantly attacked, isolated and discredited? And, just as importantly, what does it reveal about the United States that it invests so much effort in undermining it?
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/04/why-socialist-cuba-is-more-democratic-than-the-us.html

Crypto Is Flailing
It feels like just yesterday when crypto markets last crashed hard. Back in 2022, what had been a wildly careening celebrity- and media-fueled hype train suddenly was a smoldering wreckage. Those were the days of Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud-riddled FTX exchange, which went belly up along with a slew of other big crypto projects. The price of Bitcoin, the largest and most trend-setting of thousands of cryptocurrencies, dropped from its high of over $64,000 in 2021 to barely hitting $17,000 by 2022’s end. Along with Bitcoin, all things crypto sank. It felt at the time as though we all awoke from a bizarre collective dream in which mass-produced JPGs of cartoon monkeys had sold for prices that rivaled those of an average home, and trading made-up digital tokens on your phone promised to deliver unthinkable riches for the brave of heart. In the wake of crypto’s crash, most people preferred to tune out anything that included words like “blockchain,” “NFTs,” or “Bitcoin.” Even when prices for crypto recovered in 2024, the cringey backwash of 2022 clung on within mainstream public opinion. And then came Donald Trump.
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/crypto-trump-etfs-stablecoins-regulation

Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed Chapter XII [end]: The Peasants’ Congress
I sat one evening in a traktir—a kind of lower-class inn—across the street from the gates of Smolny; a low-ceilinged, loud place called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” much frequented by Red Guards. They crowded it now, packed close around the little tables with their dirty table-cloths and enormous china tea-pots, filling the place with foul cigarette-smoke, while the harassed waiters ran about crying “Seichass! Seichass! In a minute! Right away!” In one corner sat a man in the uniform of a captain, addressing the assembly, which interrupted him at every few words. “You are no better than murderers!” he cried. “Shooting down your Russian brothers on the streets!” “When did we do that?” asked a worker. “Last Sunday you did it, when the yunkers——” “Well, didn’t they shoot us?” One man exhibited his arm in a sling. “Haven’t I got something to remember them by, the devils?” The captain shouted at the top of his voice. “You should remain neutral! You should remain neutral! Who are you to destroy the legal Government? Who is Lenin? A German——” “Who are you? A counter-revolutionist! A provocator!” they bellowed at him. When he could make himself heard the captain stood up. “All right!” said he. “You call yourselves the people of Russia. But you’re not the people of Russia. The peasants are the people of Russia. Wait until the peasants——” “Yes,” they cried, “wait until the peasants speak. We know what the peasants will say…. Aren’t they workingmen like ourselves?”
In the long run, everything depended upon the peasants. While the peasants had been politically backward, still they had their own peculiar ideas, and they constituted more than eighty per cent of the people of Russia. The Bolsheviki had a comparatively small following among the peasants; and a permanent dictatorship of Russia by the industrial workers was impossible…. The traditional peasant party was the Socialist Revolutionary party; of all the parties now supporting the Soviet Government, the Left Socialist Revolutionaries were the logical inheritors of peasant leadership—and the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, who were at the mercy of the organised city proletariat, desperately needed the backing of the peasants….
https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed/1919/10days/10days/ch12.htm

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