Nice appreciation of News from Nowhere by Willam Morris' from @Culturesmatter. As EP Thompson famously commented: "Morris was a Marxist & a Utopian, but we must not allow either a hyphen or a sense of contradiction to enter between the two terms." https://mronline.org/2018/04/10/dreaming-of-communism-news-from-nowhere/

Journalists who claim the US military can deescalate conflict are either delusional or dishonest: "It is the most heavily armed, most violent organization in the world," and wherever it engages, conflict will persist. From @FAIRmediawatch. https://mronline.org/2018/04/10/u-s-isnt-leaving-syria-but-media-lost-it-when-possibility-was-raised/

Intriguing article from @ISS_blog on financialization: "deep US trade deficits…arguably represent a new form of advanced capitalist imperialism, the emergence of a system of tributes whereby states around the world…subsidise US-centred capitalism." https://mronline.org/2018/04/10/the-imperial-intentions-of-trumps-trade-war-babble/

João Pedro Stédile of the National Coordination of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement #MST, is urging on demonstrations this Friday in response to Lula's imprisonment over the weekend. From @Brasil_de_Fato. https://mronline.org/2018/04/09/landless-workers-movement-leader-lula-will-be-freed-if-people-take-to-the-streets/

To the extent that there is a "recycling crisis," it is a crisis "of privatised waste management and recycling systems…. If you’re prepared to break with the 'logic' of the market," the problem could easily be resolved. From @RedFlag_news. https://mronline.org/2018/04/09/recycling-crisis-is-capitalist-business-as-usual/

@ajitbirsingh provides an excellent summary of the geopolitical struggle between China & the US "As animosity increases, US rhetoric towards China calls to mind the virulent anti-communism of the Cold War & racist “yellow peril” phantoms of decades past" https://mronline.org/2018/04/09/chinas-rise-threatens-u-s-imperialism-not-american-people/

An anonymous analysis about collusion between the State Dept. & Bolivian mass media to defeat the 2016 referendum on term limits. Tactics mirror those used by #darkmoney PACs in the US, and were most likely pioneered in Latin America to begin with. From Mint Press News.

An article from @CADTM_int by MR author Éric Toussaint about the seventh annual South Asia regional workshop, "International Financial Institutions, Debt and Microcredit," which was held this past weekend in Sri Lanka. https://mronline.org/2018/04/07/we-struggle-against-illegitimate-public-and-private-debt-which-are-at-the-core-of-the-capitalist-system/

A short video interview of Aijaz Ahmad, commenting on war in the Middle East. From @newsclickin. https://mronline.org/2018/04/09/prof-aijaz-ahmad-on-syria-u-s-and-palestine/

After a recent trip to Israel, "none of the 11 Democrats on the trip has spoken out against Israel’s actions." The groveling of U.S. politicians on Israel is truly revolting. From @Mondoweiss. https://mronline.org/2018/04/07/pelosi-and-9-dems-had-excellent-meeting-with-netanyahu-even-as-israel-sent-dozens-of-snipers-to-gaza/