Viral video forces police to back down in Buffalo, N.Y
| workers.org | 2020-06-09
By Victor Enrique June 7

How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19
Don Fitz | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-09
Beginning in December 1951, Ernesto "Che" Guevara took a nine-month break from medical school to travel by motorcycle through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. One of his goals was gaining practical experience with leprosy. On the night of his twenty-fourth birthday, Che was at La Colonia de San Pablo in Peru swimming across the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/how-che-guevara-taught-cuba-to-confront-covid-19/

German Pesticide and Chemical Co's gets £1bn UK bailout despite mammoth dividend plan
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-09
By Zach Boren: Chemicals manufacturers BASF and Bayer have been given enormous payouts of Covid-19 support cash from the British government just weeks after announcing plans to distribute billions to shareholders in dividends. The world's largest chemicals company BASF, which makes agricultural, industrial and automotive products at its eight UK plants, has received £1 billion …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/german-pesticide-and-chemical-cos-gets-1bn-uk-bailout-despite-mammoth-dividend-plan/

Russian Diplomats Expelled from Czechia Because of Likely Fake News Story
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The secret services of Czechia had first informed its government in April that it had damning evidence against two Russian diplomats in the country that would warrant their expulsion. It was alleged, without any evidence given publicly, that Russian diplomats …
globalresearch.ca/russian-diplomats-expelled-czechia-likely-fake-news-story/5715340

Dr Bouthaina Shaaban speaks to Vanessa Beeley, Damascus
Vanessa Beeley | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-08
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban on the hybrid war strategy being waged by the West, Israel, Turkey, Gulf States against Syria and her allies. | We had a meeting, during which we discussed most aspects of the maximum pressure campaign the sado-barbaric US Coalition is imposing upon Syria and all the nations who would defend her or provide economic support, trade and military collaboration. | Covid19 was discussed and the deliberate westernization of this alleged "pandemic" to further tighten the screws on an already economically devastated country that has endured 10 years of war, plagued by the various terrorist gangs cr…

Dr Bouthaina Shaaban speaks to Vanessa Beeley, Damascus

What America and the World Need Now: Dismantle Big Money Power, Get Money Out of Politics. End Institutional Racism
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Mass protests in the US and elsewhere over racist killings of Black men like George Floyd aren't good enough. | They divert attention from an array of core issues ignored by officialdom and establishment media. | Justice won't be served unless they're …
globalresearch.ca/what-america-world-need-now/5715380

Challenging Authority, the Only Viable Option for Positive Change
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
State-sponsored class warfare rages. Ongoing for decades, it's all about governance of, by, and for the privileged few at the expense of most others. | What's untenable persists with no end of it in prospect, no plan for improving the lives …
globalresearch.ca/challenging-authority-viable-option-positive-change/5715275

What is Next for Palestinian Popular Resistance in Gaza?
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-08
Wafaa Aludaini is a witness to many of Gaza's recent tragedies and also never-ending resistance. She experienced the violent Israeli occupation, the subsequent blockade on the impoverished Strip, and several wars that resulted in the death and wounding of tens of thousands of Palestinians. But none of Israel's wars impacted Aludaini's life as much as …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/what-is-next-for-palestinian-popular-resistance-in-gaza/

Colectivo de Protección de la Embajada de Venezuela logra victoria legal frente a una juez hostil nombrada por Obama y la fiscalía del gobierno
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-08
La sentencia contra los cuatro miembros del Colectivo de Protección de la Embajada de Venezuela, quienes fueron los últimos ocupantes…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/07/colectivo-embajada-venezuela-jueza-fiscalia/

The Subversion of New York City's Official Policy to Curb Police Brutality
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-08
In early November 1966, my sister and I‚Äïarmed with a bucket of home-made paste, a wide brush, and a thick roll of "Vote No" posters‚Äïheaded off from my student apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan to plaster the surrounding area with the signs. The Patrolman's Benevolent Association (PBA), a very powerful police union, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-subversion-of-new-york-citys-official-policy-to-curb-police-brutality/

Marx, ecology and industrial agriculture
Martin Empson | mronline.org | 2020-06-08
British climate activist and socialist Martin Empson writes on why the fight against climate change must be a fight for system change and for socialism.
mronline.org/2020/06/08/marx-ecology-and-industrial-agriculture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marx-ecology-and-industrial-agriculture

You Can Be An Anti-Imperialist, Support African-Americans, And Also Oppose Terrorism
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-08
The false narrative that's being propagated in the Alt-Media Community alleging that opposition to Antifa's nationwide spree of urban terrorism disqualifies one from being an anti-imperialist and supporter of African-Americans deserves to be directly debunked because it amounts to nothing more than an attempt to trick people into accepting the selective "normalization" of terrorist means to ideological ends. | Many In The Alt-Media Community Showed Their True Terrorist-Supporting Face | " The Alt-Media Community Betrayed Average Americans",…

You Can Be An Anti-Imperialist, Support African-Americans, And Also Oppose Terrorism

WAFA: Israel Committed 27 Violations Against Journalists in May 2020
The Palestinian News & Info Agency | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
The Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA) said in a report, on Sunday, that it has documented 27 violations committed by the Israeli occupation forces against journalists and media institutions working in the occupied Palestinian territories during May. The report on Israeli violations against journalists states that these violations included …
imemc.org/article/wafa-israel-committed-27-violations-against-journalists-in-may-2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wafa-israel-committed-27-violations-against-journalists-in-may-2020

FBI Launches Open Attack on 'Foreign' Alternative Media Outlets Challenging US Foreign Policy
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Under FBI orders, Facebook and Google removed American Herald Tribune, an alternative site that publishes US and European writers critical of US foreign policy. The bureau's justification for the removal was dubious, and it sets a troubling precedent for other …
globalresearch.ca/fbi-launches-open-attack-foreign-alternative-media-outlets-challenging-us-foreign-policy/5715296

No Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state's worst nightmare

The U.S. rebellion for black lives
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-08
As protests rage across America against police brutality and systemic racism, Akunna Eneh, an activist from Boston, argues that the movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd has exposed the true face of American society.
mronline.org/2020/06/08/the-u-s-rebellion-for-black-lives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-u-s-rebellion-for-black-lives

Demolition Notices, Halt Construction Ordered by Israeli Military
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
Israeli forces notified two Palestinian home owners, on Sunday, of the order to demolish their homes in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, according to a local activist. Popular committee coordinator in Yatta, Rateb al-Jabour, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli soldiers notified two …
imemc.org/article/demolition-notices-halt-construction-ordered-by-israeli-military/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=demolition-notices-halt-construction-ordered-by-israeli-military

The police murder of George Floyd sparks mass protests throughout the world
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-08
This weekend, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth will protest the police murder of George Floyd, not only in the United States, but in Australia, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Brazil, South Korea and many other countries.
mronline.org/2020/06/08/the-police-murder-of-george-floyd-sparks-mass-protests-throughout-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-police-murder-of-george-floyd-sparks-mass-protests-throughout-the-world

Ten Days that May Have Changed the World. Mass Protests across America
Richard Greeman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Sparked by the police murder of George Floyd and fueled by Minneapolis authorities' reluctance to arrest and charge the murderer's three police accomplices, mass protests have been sweeping across the US with an intensity not seen since the 1960s. In …
globalresearch.ca/ten-days-may-have-changed-world/5715292

Tear Gas Is Banned in International Warfare—-Why Are Police Using It on U.S. Civilians?
Janea Wilson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
On June 2, President Trump threatened to deploy military troops against Americans in response to nationwide protests after the recent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Trump's suggestion to use military force against U.S. civilians shocked many–but in fact police …
globalresearch.ca/tear-gas-banned-international-warfare-why-police-using-us-civilians/5715285

Camouflage: How the Israeli Left Continues to Hoodwink Us with Corrupted Slogans
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
To reach the hearts and minds of Americans, the Zionist Israeli Left is manipulating the Black Lives Matter movement. The slogans and images of protestors coming out of Tel Aviv continue to hoodwink the world with a sudden and self-serving …
globalresearch.ca/israeli-left-continues-hoodwink-us-corrupted-slogans/5715302

Progressives in Ireland unite to demand justice for George Floyd
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-08
Marches in solidarity with the anti-racist protests in the US were held, defying police restrictions, in Dublin in the Irish Republic and Belfast in Northern Ireland. Protesters, however, adhered to the COVID-19 safety protocol…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/08/progressives-in-ireland-unite-to-demand-justice-for-george-floyd/

The Mask Revolution
Israel Shamir | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-08
Who could have guessed that the Floyd protest was the best Coronavirus vaccine? The same people that warned us that the virus is the deadliest plague and staying-at-home is the only escape, now commanded us to march amongst throngs, shoulder-to-shoulder against police! It appears they have the dreadful pandemic under their command, on tap: now …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-mask-revolution/

Minneapolis City Council Vows to Dismantle Police Dept. After Mass Protests & Grassroots Organizing
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-08
After nearly two weeks of historic protests, the Minneapolis City Council has announced it will move to dismantle the city's police department in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. "We've got to create a system of public safety that works for everybody," says Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/8/minneapolis_police_abolition

"The Time Is Now": Tens of Thousands in NYC March for Justice, Peace & an End to Racist Police
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-08
As hundreds of thousands took to the streets nationwide and around the world to call for police accountability and demand Black lives matter in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, Democracy Now! spoke to some of the people who joined the historic protests Saturday in New York City.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/8/nyc_protest_voices

Defund the Police: Linda Sarsour & Mychal Denzel Smith on What Meaningful Change Would Look Like
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-08
Amid growing calls in New York City for police accountability, Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to shift some of the city's funding for police and reallocate it to social services. We get response from Linda Sarsour, longtime Palestinian American Muslim organizer and co-founder of Until Freedom, which along with others has led the push to institute meaningful change. We also speak with author Mychal Denzel Smith, who notes that "one thing that's come of this global pandemic of COVID-19 is an understanding of what constitutes essential, what do we actually need. And police have shown that they are inessential."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/8/bill_de_blasio_nypd_police_funding

The End of Policing: Alex Vitale on How Cops & Their Unions Cover Up Inequality, Exploitation
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-08
Professor Alex Vitale argues the answer to police violence is not "reform." It's defunding. The author of "The End of Policing" says the movement to defund the police is part of "a long story about the use of police and prisons to manage problems of inequality and exploitation." He asks, "Why are we using police to paper over problems of economic exploitation?" He also discusses the role of police unions. "They become, in many cities, the locus, the institutional hub, for a whole set of right-wing 'thin blue line' politics that believe that policing is not only effective but it's the most desirable way to solve o…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/8/alex_vitale_end_of_policing

Trump's Path to Historical Ignominy
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-08
History has always treated harshly those tyrants and strongmen who have been gratuitously violent toward their subjects and citizens and believed in purposely creating misery for their charge. Donald John Trump, the third impeached president of the United States, decided to clear peaceful protesters gathered a full block from the White House, so he could have his photograph taken standing in front of a church. It was not any church, but St. John's Episcopal Church, dubbed the "Church of the Presidents," owing to the several chief executives who have worshiped there over the decades. | To prepare for Trump's photo…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/08/trumps-path-to-historical-ignominy/

CIA's Forgotten Coup Against 'The Most Loyal Ally'
John Pilger | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-08
The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer "personal" and the property of Buckingham Palace. Why does this matter? | Secret letters written in 1975 by the Queen and her man in Canberra, Sir John Kerr, can now be released by the National Archives. On November 11, 1975, Kerr infamously sacked the reformist government of prime minister Gough Whitlam, and delivered Australia into the hands of the United States. | Today, Australia is a vassal state bar none: its politics, intelligence agencies,…
anti-empire.com/cias-forgotten-coup-against-the-most-loyal-ally/

Giving drivers £6,000 to switch to electric car would be 'fantastic move'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-08
Motoring and environmental groups have welcomed the prospect of a new car scrappage scheme encouraging motorists to switch to electric vehicles. | The AA described it as "fantastic" while Greenpeace said it would be "moving in the right direction". | Boris Johnson is considering launching plans to give drivers up to £6,000 to exchange their petrol or diesel car for an electric model, the Daily Telegraph reported. | In March the government reduced the maximum grant available for electric car buyers under the Plug-In Car Grant by £500 to £3,000. | But it has been urged to help manufacturers hit ha…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/08/giving-drivers-6000-to-switch-to-electric-car-would-be-fantastic-move/

Teen students lead Nashville's largest ever protest against racist police violence
Albert Bender | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
NASHVILLE–A huge gathering of protesters–led by students–congregated at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in downtown Nashville the evening of Thursday, June 4, to protest the horrific murder of George Floyd and the overall issue of racist police violence. The Bicentennial Mall Park is composed of 19 mostly grassy acres with plaques commemorating area history from ancient Indigenous times to the 20th Century. By the estimates …
peoplesworld.org/article/teen-students-lead-nashvilles-largest-ever-protest-against-racist-police-violence/

Protesting in Phoenix for Dion Johnson, another Black man killed by police
Mathew Tanner | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
PHOENIX, Ariz.–People in Phoenix are angry. The situation here may seem identical to the rest of the nation: spontaneous protest and civil unrest in response to the murder of George Floyd. And Arizona officials and local Phoenix leaders have pushed the idea that an amorphous, subversive criminal element of rioters and looters is descending on Phoenix, …
peoplesworld.org/article/protesting-in-phoenix-for-dion-johnson-another-black-man-killed-by-police/

Houston protests police murder of George Floyd
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Houston, TX – The police murder of George Floyd, the catalyst of a national and now global wave of mass demonstrations against anti-Black racism and police brutality, took place in Minneapolis. But Floyd was a son of Houston, Texas, a longtime and much beloved neighborhood personality of the Third Ward, one of the city's historic centers of African-American life. Judging by the sheer size of the recent protests in Houston, Floyd's home city will never forget him. | The largest demonstration in Floyd's honor in Houston occurred on Tuesday, June 2, when an estimated 60,000 people came downtown for a march and rally…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/houston-protests-police-murder-george-floyd

RIP George Floyd and Solidarity with Those Fighting Back
subMedia | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-08
It's been a historic and heavy two weeks in the US, following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department. Calls for justice have grown from a mid-sized protest outside a precinct to a nation-wide uprising, leading Donald Trump to run to his bunker and threaten to call in the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/rip-george-floyd-and-solidarity-with-those-fighting-back/

The BBC just showed utter disregard for Black lives and the UK's racism
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-06-08
On 7 June, Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol tore down a statue of Edward Colston

Houston protests police murder of George Floyd
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Houston, TX – The police murder of George Floyd, the catalyst of a national and now global wave of mass demonstrations against anti-Black racism and police brutality, took place in Minneapolis. But Floyd was a son of Houston, Texas, a longtime and much beloved neighborhood personality of the Third Ward, one of the city's historic centers of African-American life. Judging by the sheer size of the recent protests in Houston, Floyd's home city will never forget him. | The largest demonstration in Floyd's honor in Houston occurred on Tuesday, June 2, when an estimated 60,000 people came downtown for a march and rally…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/houston-protests-police-murder-george-floyd

Thousands protest across South Florida against police violence
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Miami, FL – Thousands took to the streets of Miami June 6, to protest police violence against Black and brown communities in the U.S. and to continue demanding justice for George Floyd. Protesters called for arresting killer cops in all cities, demilitarizing the police, and community control over the police. They took to the streets and marched for miles along Biscayne Avenue, from the Torch of Friendship at Bayside all the way to Wynwood. | There were two different marches happening simultaneously in Miami plus several others in cities like Miramar and Davie in Broward County. | There were also several actions…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/thousands-protest-across-south-florida-against-police-violence

Thousands protest across South Florida against police violence
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Miami, FL – Thousands took to the streets of Miami June 6, to protest police violence against Black and brown communities in the U.S. and to continue demanding justice for George Floyd. Protesters called for arresting killer cops in all cities, demilitarizing the police, and community control over the police. They took to the streets and marched for miles along Biscayne Avenue, from the Torch of Friendship at Bayside all the way to Wynwood. | There were two different marches happening simultaneously in Miami plus several others in cities like Miramar and Davie in Broward County. | There were also several actions…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/thousands-protest-across-south-florida-against-police-violence

For This to Slip Would Be the 'End of Empire'
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-08
A hot humid day, but a gentle, warm breeze is blowing. The smoke and tear gas swirl gently to and fro, hanging in the dense, sweaty air, as shafts of dazzling sunlight scythe through the smokiness at sharp angles. A mass protest is forming. Youths are chattering; people moving aimlessly. It still has not solidified into purpose, yet the raw tenseness of the coming conflict hangs, as palpably as does the smoke in the air. It is evident

Couldn't Bury Your Father Because of Lockdown? Public Health Experts Have a New Exciting Message for You: "ACAB!"
Dan Diamond | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-08
For months, public health experts have urged Americans to take every precaution to stop the spread of Covid-19–stay at home, steer clear of friends and extended family, and absolutely avoid large gatherings. | Now some of those experts are broadcasting a new message: It's time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism. | "We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus," Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, tweeted on Tuesday. "In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the ha…
anti-empire.com/couldnt-bury-your-father-because-of-lockdown-public-health-experts-have-a-new-exciting-message-for-you-acab/

San Rafael Says "Say Their Names"
Downtown Protest | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
28 names on a cardboard sign…Black Americans murdered by police. There are many many more, protesters lamented.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833846.php

Police kill unarmed 22-year-old man in Vallejo, California
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
The Vallejo, California Police Department has a well-established track record of brutality and murder. | On Tuesday, June 2, Vallejo police gunned down an unarmed 22-year old whose last text sent was one asking his sisters to sign a petition protesting the police murder of George Floyd.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833865.php

Black Lives Matter! Labor Rally & March In SF
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
Hundreds of Northern California trade unionists marched and rallied in San Francisco Hunters Point Bay View district to protest the murder of George Floyd and many other Black workers and youth. Some community members also spoke out about the murders.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833881.php

Tuesday 6/9: Community Meeting on Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/07/18833916.php

UN sends 72 truckloads of aid to Idlib, Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
The UN on Monday sent 72 truckloads of humanitarian aid to northwestern Syria, where millions of people are in need of assistance due to internal conflict in the country.The trucks carrying supplies entered Idlib, Syria through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey's southern Hatay province.The aid will be distributed among residents of Idlib and nearby rural areas.Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced, according to UN estimates.Idlib falls within a de-…
yenisafak.com/en/world/un-sends-72-truckloads-of-aid-to-idlib-syria-3531501

White | cops wash | feet | of black | protesters | during | demonstration | in US
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
As tens of thousands of people take part in Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the world over the killing of George Floyd, the U.S. state of North Carolina played host to the most interesting form of protest witnessed yet. White cops and demonstrators washed the feet of black protesters to show their solidarity against racism and police brutality.The event was reportedly organized by ex-priest Faith Wokom; because according to the Christian belief, foot-washing represents love and humility. Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, was filmed gasping for air and pleading for breath as now-fired police officer…
yenisafak.com/en/world/whitecops-washfeetof-blackprotestersduringdemonstrationin-us-3531486

Violence Towards Protesters Shows Why Many Want To Abolish Police
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-08
Welcome to the Real News. I'm Kim Brown. After several sustained days of protest in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd on May 25th, the epicenter of this latest uprising movement, Minneapolis, is experiencing an over militarized response with Minnesota National Guard troops joining alongside Minneapolis Police Department and the Minnesota State Police law enforcement agencies in attempting to quell the uprisings. But organizers on the ground there are using their ingenuity to coordinate mutual aid and redistribution efforts, plus providing a platform for the solution to the crisis of over-policing and…
popularresistance.org/violence-towards-protesters-shows-why-many-want-to-abolish-police/

US Veterans, Including Active Duty, Reject Militarization Against Demonstrators
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-08
The United States is in the midst of a mass uprising against police violence, but also a whole list of grievances such as the lack of jobs, health care, education and more. Sustained protests have been going on for two weeks defying curfews and severe repression by police. The national guard has been deployed to 23 states and President Trump threatened to deploy the military against people expressing their First Amendment rights. We speak with Danny Sjursen, a retired Major and spokesperson for About Face: Veterans Against the War, about how members of the military are responding to current events. Veterans have…
popularresistance.org/veterans-active-duty-reject-militarization/

Give Venezuela Back Its Gold: Case Goes to London Court
Venezuela Solidarity Campaign | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Venezuelan authorities appeared in court in London last Thursday May 28 to demand that the Bank of England comply with instructions to sell part of the 31 tons of gold it holds on behalf of Venezuela. | Venezuelan Central Bank President …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-gold-case-goes-london-court/5715322

China Sends Sixth COVID-19 Aid Installment as Venezuela Thanks 'True Friends'
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-06-08
The country is relaxing it's lockdown on a week-on-week-off basis despite rising cases.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14901

America's Fracking Industry: Donald Trump's Lost Dream for World Energy Domination
Felix Imonti | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Donald Trump has no solution to the crisis in the domestic hydraulic fracturing industry that won't have dire consequences for the economy. The survival of the industry lies in Saudi Arabia. | It was not until 2013 that the real potential …
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-lost-dream-world-energy-domination/5715299

Drone Wars at Ten #3: What's Next? A Peek at the Future
Chris Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
In this final post to mark our 10th birthday, I want to peek a little into the future, looking at what we are facing in relation to drone warfare in the coming years. Of course predicting the future is always …
globalresearch.ca/drone-wars-what-next-peek-future/5715276

Syria: Will the Great Middle Eastern War Begin in the Levant?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The world is in turmoil. 2020 has already brought major multiple crises, with the Iranian-American clash in Iraq which followed the US assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, and the COVID-19 health pandemic and economic disaster that struck all …
globalresearch.ca/syria-great-middle-eastern-war/5715326

Russian Academician Arbatov's Washington Leanings, Recommends Moscow to Avoid a Strategic Alliance with China
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
If there were a Russian version of the website PropOrNot, Academician Arbatov could find himself listed there as "American agent/dupe." | Arbatov directs the International Security Center of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of …
globalresearch.ca/russian-academician-arbatov-washington-leanings/5715364

Global Research: Honest Journalism in Uncertain Times
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Dear Readers, | We regularly receive feedback from you telling us how important the articles we publish are to you, especially in today's tumultuous and uncertain times. We thank you, and pledge that we will continue to deliver our daily dose …
globalresearch.ca/keep-diversity-and-transparency-in-media-alive/5640591

The Gaza Strip Under Israeli Military Siege
Dr. Zuhair Sabbagh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The following article aims at providing a critical analysis of the Israeli policies towards the colonized Gaza Strip and its Palestinian people. Consequently, it will concentrate on the Military Siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, and on the deliberate Israelipolicy …
globalresearch.ca/gaza-strip-under-israeli-military-siege-question-security-war-crimes/5715311

Oil Price Wars, Covid-19 Havoc and the Evolving US-China Trade War
John A. Mathews | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The US-China relationship continues to sour under the impact of Covid-19, with the Trump administration threatening to cut all ties with China in a move that would divide the world into two competing trade entities.1 It's been a bad …
globalresearch.ca/oil-price-wars-covid-19-us-china-trade-war/5715308

Not Just "A Few Bad Apples": U.S. Police Kill Civilians at Much Higher Rates than Other Countries
Alexi Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
There is no question that the number of police killings of civilians in the U.S.

The Arctic Northern Sea Route: Russia Conducts Record-Breaking Delivery of LNG to China
Malte Humpert | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Russia is one step closer to achieving year-round navigation in the Arctic. An ice-capable tanker made the earliest delivery of LNG to China via the Northern Sea Route. | *** | For the past several years a fleet of fifteen specialized Arc7 …
globalresearch.ca/arctic-ice-melts-russia-conducts-record-breaking-delivery-lng-china/5715336

Colonialism and Racism. To America, Black Lives Only Sometimes Matter
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
There is no doubt that colonialism and racism sit at the root of America's domestic problems. The push to dominate others abroad is directly linked to the belief that those who are different at home should also be dominated. | There …
globalresearch.ca/america-black-lives-only-sometimes-matter/5715306

Eternal Fixation: The Madeleine McCann Disappearance Show
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The "lost child" endures as motif and theme, the stalking shadow of much literature, the background to a society's anxiety. The child, often deemed innocent, becomes the ink blot of loss in such disappearance. In Australia, it was captured by …
globalresearch.ca/madeleine-mccann-disappearance-show/5715361

Remembering Francois Houtart
Lau Kin Chi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Three years ago, on this day, Francois Houtart left us. | He died in his sleep in the early hours of June 6 in Quito. It was only when I was working on his autobiography after his death that I learnt …
globalresearch.ca/remembering-francois-houtart/5715316

Israeli Shabak Claims Arresting A Palestinian Believed To Be Behind The Death Of A Soldier During Jenin Invasion
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
The Israeli Security Agency (Shabak) lifted, on Sunday evening, a gag order on the abduction of a Palestinian who is believed to be behind the death of an Israeli soldier during an invasion into Ya'bad town, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, on May 12, 2020. The Shabak …
imemc.org/article/israeli-shabak-claims-arresting-a-palestinian-behind-the-death-of-a-soldier-during-jenin-invasion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-shabak-claims-arresting-a-palestinian-behind-the-death-of-a-soldier-during-jenin-invasion

"Unprecedented" transfer of personal NHS information to shady tech Co's
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-08
By Mary Fitzgerald and Corri Crider: Hours before facing court proceedings from openDemocracy over its massive NHS COVID-19 data deal with private tech firms, the UK government has caved to pressure and released all the contracts governing its deals with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and controversial AI firms Faculty and Palantir. The contracts, released to openDemocracy …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/unprecedented-transfer-of-personal-nhs-information-to-shady-tech-cos/

Air Pollution, Mental Illness, and Covid-19
Graham Peebles | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-08
Lockdowns imposed in response to Covid-19 forced millions of people to stay at home, businesses closed and a widespread hush descended. The major beneficiary of the controls has been the natural environment; in particular there has been a dramatic reduction in air pollution everywhere. But as countries begin to lift restrictions, road traffic levels are …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/air-pollution-mental-illness-and-covid-19/

Behind Covid Crisis: Agriculture Bill Amendment Aims to Deregulate GMOs in the UK
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-08
By Beyond GMO: It wasn't so long ago we reported a shambolic debate in the House of Lords, led by Viscount Ridley, which introduced the idea of deregulating GMOs in the UK. Advocates on both sides of the House showed how little they really understood the issues, but that doesn't mean the issues went away. …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/behind-covid-crisis-agriculture-bill-amendment-aims-to-deregulate-gmos-in-the-uk/

The government just gave the corporate press £35m of your money
Nathan Sparkes | thecanary.co | 2020-06-08
The economic effects of coronavirus (Covid-19) are being felt by people and businesses all over the UK. But spare a thought for Rupert Murdoch, Daily Mail owner the 4th Viscount Rothermere, Telegraph owners the Barclay brothers, and Gannett (the multi-billion-dollar US company of which one subsidiary is Newsquest, which owns dozens of local newspapers across the UK). They must have been struggling because the newspapers they own, having taken a break from bashing folk on the poverty line for 'taking state handouts', have grab…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/06/08/the-government-just-gave-the-corporate-press-35m-of-your-money/

10,000-plus march against police crimes in Jacksonville FL
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Jacksonville, FL – On Saturday, June 6, over 10,000 residents of Jacksonville came out to an historic march hosted by the Jacksonville Community Action Committee. This march came a week after 3500 people gathered on the headquarters of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) to demand: Release of body camera footage being held hostage by JSO; an end to excessive force, by instituting community control via a Civilian Police Accountability Council; and transparency in testing and reporting of COVID-19 for those in JSO custody. | With the June 6 march being the largest civil rights demonstration in the city's histor…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/10000-plus-march-against-police-crimes-jacksonville-fl

10,000-plus march against police crimes in Jacksonville FL
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Jacksonville, FL – On Saturday, June 6, over 10,000 residents of Jacksonville came out to an historic march hosted by the Jacksonville Community Action Committee. This march came a week after 3500 people gathered on the headquarters of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) to demand: Release of body camera footage being held hostage by JSO; an end to excessive force, by instituting community control via a Civilian Police Accountability Council; and transparency in testing and reporting of COVID-19 for those in JSO custody. | With the June 6 march being the largest civil rights demonstration in the city's histor…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/10000-plus-march-against-police-crimes-jacksonville-fl

Congressional Dems unveil big police reform package
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
WASHINGTON–Responding to the mass movement for comprehensive change in the nation's police departments

Communalism and Coronavirus: India's New Strain of Virus
Parul Verma | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-06-08
asia-pacificresearch.com/communalism-coronavirus-india-new-strain-virus/5629099

Minneapolis: 'Disband, defund,' or community control, of the police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Minneapolis, MN – On June 7, Minneapolis officials tried to pull one over on the people again, in the guise of promising real change after the murder of George Floyd. Nine city council members declared a "commitment to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department." The announcement was made at community meeting held by Black Visions and Reclaim the Block, two grassroots organizations that have been calling on the council to divest from MPD since 2018. | Even if the proposal comes to pass, it will do little to deliver true justice and to avenge the victims who have been brutalized and murdered by the police over th…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/8/minneapolis-disband-defund-or-community-control-police

"Light 'Em Up"
William J. Astore | zcomm.org | 2020-06-08
Warrior-Cops Are the Law

Charles Dickens put ordinary people at the heart of the story
Jenny Farrell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
The English novelist Charles Dickens was born in 1812, during the Napoleonic Wars, into the lower petty bourgeoisie, whose life experience partly overlapped with that of the proletariat. He died on June 9, 1870, at the age of 58. We write this on the 150th anniversary of his death. Although Dickens's authorial perspective always remained …
peoplesworld.org/article/charles-dickens-put-ordinary-people-at-the-heart-of-the-story/

How Endless War Contributes to Police Brutality
Bonnie Kristian | zcomm.org | 2020-06-08
This dynamic is deliberate: Police officers are explicitly trained to conceive of themselves as warriors in battle, always on high alert and prepared to kill…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-endless-war-contributes-to-police-brutality/

Conn. health workers demand PPE, honor their lost
Gil Netter | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
NEW LONDON, Conn.

Black Lives Matter movement sweeps the world
Combined Sources | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered this weekend in cities far from the United States to express anger over the death of George Floyd, a sign that the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality is resonating with wider calls to address racism from Australia to Asia to Europe. In Berlin, where police said 15,000 people rallied …
peoplesworld.org/article/black-live-matter-movement-sweeps-the-world/

Israeli Soldiers Abduct 23 Palestinians In Occupied Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, 23 Palestinians, most of them are members of Fateh Movement, from their homes in several parts of occupied East Jerusalem, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported. Silwanic stated that the soldiers conducted violent searches of dozens of homes in …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-23-palestinians-in-occupied-jerusalem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-soldiers-abduct-23-palestinians-in-occupied-jerusalem

Israeli Colonist Injures A Palestinian Child In Her Eye
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
An illegal Israeli colonialist settler attacked, Sunday, a Palestinian child in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, causing an injury in one of her eyes, in addition to cuts and bruises. Media sources said the colonist assaulted the child, identified as Mariam Yasser Najeeb, 11, while playing and riding her …
imemc.org/article/israeli-colonist-injures-a-palestinian-child-in-her-eye/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-colonist-injures-a-palestinian-child-in-her-eye

NYT Says Farmers to Get 10 Million Food Stamp Person Years of Government Aid
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-08
That is not precisely what the newspaper said because it prefers to use really big numbers that it knows are meaningless to almost all of its readers. It instead told readers that the aid is expected to be $16 billion. This is in addition to the 7.5 million food stamp person years that farmers got …
cepr.net/nyt-says-farmers-to-get-10-million-food-stamp-person-years-of-government-aid/

America Is trying to Ban Korea, Taiwan and China (!) From Selling Chips to Huawei If They've Been Made With US-Made Tools
David P. Goldman | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-08
Editor's note: In the long run why would anyone continue buying American machine tools? | | South Korea has told Washington that restrictions on semiconductor sales to Huawei and other Chinese companies are "unacceptable," according to industry sources. | Seoul is trying to mediate between Beijing and Washington following the US Commerce Department's May 18 announcement that sales of computer chips to companies on its "entity list" will require a license if they are produced with US technology, even if they are produced overseas by foreign companies. | After the US temporarily banned exports of high-end smar…
anti-empire.com/america-is-trying-to-ban-korea-taiwan-and-china-from-selling-chips-to-huawei-if-theyre-printed-with-us-made-machine-tools/

Syria Sends Advisors to Aid US Rebels
Addison Blu | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-08
WASHINGTON

Syria: Will the Great Middle Eastern War Begin in the Levant?
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-08
The world is in turmoil. 2020 has already brought major multiple crises, with the Iranian-American clash in Iraq which followed the US assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, and the COVID-19 health pandemic and economic disaster that struck all continents and stole the lives of over 400 thousand people around the world, costing tens of millions of jobs. None of this, however, prevented America from imposing even more sanctions on Iran, Syria and Venezuela. Iran

COVID-19, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter: The Battle for Control of the Internet
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-08
Many observers have noted that the time through which we are living now seems unprecedented. We are all experiencing an amazing convergence of so many monumental developments that combine into a fast-moving narrative. In recent days the focus suddenly shifted from COVID-19 and compulsory vaccines to insurrection and anarchy from within. Suddenly the vaccine czar, Bill Gates, has been swept from the center stage of current events. Suddenly multi-billionaire Gates has been upstaged by multi-billionaire George Soros. | What is going on? What are the themes of continuity and disjuncture that characterize the stran…
ahtribune.com/world/4209-covid-19-antifa-black-lives-matter.html

Sunday 6/7: National Service of Mourning for Poor & Low-income Workers Lost to COVID-19 (PPC)
Poor Peoples Campaign & partners | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
Online livstream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833870.php

Private prison corporations profit from civil unrest in Washington D.C
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
Letter From Nancy Pelosi To The Impeached President Donald J. Trump:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833845.php

Colombia (Audio) Por la liberacià≤n de la Madre Tierra
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
La liberación de la Madre Tierra sigue bien parada, juntando fuerzas.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833859.php

AFA-CWA Pres Sara Nelson Likes ILWU Action On June 9th To Act In Memorial To George Floyd
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
ILWU Local 10, 34 and all west coast locals will be stopping work on June 9,2020 to remember George Floyd who was murdered by the police in Minneapolis. Also there will be a West Coast shutdown of all Ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020. CWA AFA President Sara Nelson supported the action…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/08/18833960.php

New Zealand eradicates coronavirus
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-08
New Zealand has eradicated the coronavirus from its shores after health officials reported on Monday that the final person known to have been infected had recovered.The news swiftly led to the country's government announcing all forms of public events can again take place without limitations or social distancing guidelines.It has been 17 days since the last new case was reported in New Zealand, and Monday also marked the first time since late February there had been no active cases.Health officials caution that new cases could be imported into the country, which has closed its borders to everybody but citizens an…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/06/08/new-zealand-eradicates-coronavirus/

Survey highlights loneliness of young people during lockdown
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-08
More than half of young people who said their wellbeing has been affected by the coronavirus lockdown have experienced loneliness, analysis suggests. | An Opinions and Lifestyle Survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that 50.8% of those aged 16 to 24 said they were lonely during the lockdown. | By contrast, just under a quarter (24.1%) of people aged 55 to 69 who reported their wellbeing as being affected by the lockdown said they had felt lonely. | The ONS said this echoes previous research exploring chronic loneliness, showing that people in younger age groups were most likely to report lone…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/08/survey-highlights-loneliness-of-young-people-during-lockdown/

Lockdown and school closures in Europe may have prevented 3.1m deaths
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-08
Large-scale lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions in Europe have been successful in reducing the transmission levels of SARS-CoV-2.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198074/lockdown-school-closures-europe-have-prevented

Hashd al-Sha'abi, Iraqi Army launch op. against ISIL near Syrian border
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Leader thanks crew of oil tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Sticking to JCPOA sole way to tackle nuclear issue: China
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

US imposes new sanctions against Iranian tankers
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

2,043 new coronavirus infections confirmed in Iran: spokseman
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Tehran Univ. to host Intl. Conference on "Coronavirus Battlefield"
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Silkworm farm in NE Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
BOJNOURD, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Nature of Lake Soha to Laton waterfall with breathtaking views
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
ARDABIL, Jun. 09 (MNA)

VIDEO: Canadian former MP talks of racial violence, police brutality over Floyd's death
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Surge in production, key to resolve problems for entering new century: Pres. Rouhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Iranians stranded in Kazakhstan return home amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Authority of Armed forces due to popularity: Ghalibaf
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Raeisi condemns West's hosting Iranian financial criminals
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

New bridge between Iran-Turkmenistan, source of strengthening ties between two nations'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Indian ship evacuating nationals from Iranian port of Bandar Abbas
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Germany: Suspect arrested over plans to attack Muslims
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
German police arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack against Muslims, officials announced on Monday.The suspect talked about his plans during an anonymous internet chat last week, state prosecutor's office in the northern German city of Celle said in a statement.He wanted to carry out an attack similar to the 2019 mosque shootings in New Zealand's Christchurch, to draw attention from the international media, the prosecutors said.Police found arms, hard drives, far-right publications and documents, during searches at the apartment of the suspect in the northern city of Hildesheim.Ge…
yenisafak.com/en/world/germany-suspect-arrested-over-plans-to-attack-muslims-3531503

Turkey orders 149 people detained for suspected FETàñ links
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Turkish security authorities on Monday launched multiple operations in various provinces to arrest terror suspects affiliated with the FETO

Economies of Turkey, Italy to bounce: Italian chamber
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Turkey and Italy's economies will bounce in the manufacturing and tourism sectors when the wheels restart to turn amid the pandemic, the head of Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Monday.All countries plan to reactivate their economies to revive the global trade after the COVID-19 outbreak, Livio Manzini stressed in a press release.Several experts and economists believe Turkey will have an important role in global supply chains after the pandemic period, especially in its region.Turkey and Italy have $20 billions of bilateral trade volume, he said, adding: "This shows we are in second place among th…
yenisafak.com/en/news/economies-of-turkey-italy-to-bounce-italian-chamber-3531480

Iran's death toll from coronavirus surpasses 8,350
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Iran on Monday confirmed 70 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,351. | A further 2,043 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 173,832, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said. | According to the spokesman, 136,360 people have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, while 2,619 patients remain in critical condition. | Some 1.1 million tests have been conducted in the country so far, according to the spokesman. | Iran sees an upward trend in daily infections in many provinces, especially in the s…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irans-death-toll-from-coronavirus-surpasses-8350-3531481

UK reports lowest daily COVID-19 deaths
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Britain on Monday reported 55 new coronavirus-related deaths, the lowest since the lockdown that started on March 23. The death toll rose to 40,597.The official figures released by the Department of Health and Social Care show a total of 287,399 people have tested positive so far.The country has now reported less than 100 deaths for a second day; however, the official reported numbers have been smaller during the outbreak due to lower reporting at weekends.No new deaths have been reported at London hospitals on Monday, according to the National Health Service England.- Mandatory self-isolationThe UK began imposin…
yenisafak.com/en/world/uk-reports-lowest-daily-covid-19-deaths-3531502

Turkey exported 2,000 respirators during virus pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
During medical supply shortages in many countries worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic, Turkey managed to manufacture and export some 2,000 life-saving mechanical ventilators around the globe, including 1,500 to Brazil, said Turkey's technology and industry minister on Monday.Turkey also developed methods to produce two different medicines which it had previously imported, Mustafa Varank told an online meeting on COVID-19 vaccine and medicine projects.With severe shortness of breath a hallmark of the novel coronavirus, ventilators have been a critical need amid the global pandemic.Numerous countries faced diff…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-exported-2000-respirators-during-virus-pandemic-3531495

Turkey's auto production tops 415,000 in Jan-May
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Automakers in Turkey produced 415,454 vehicles, including automobiles, light commercial vehicles, and tractors, in January-May, according to a sectoral report released on Monday.In the first five months of 2020, Turkey's auto production dropped 35% on a yearly basis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said the Automotive Manufacturers Association.The report said nearly 80% of manufactured vehicles were exported, marking a 38% annual decline to 331,391 units as most of the country's export markets implemented coronavirus-related lockdown measures.The country's automotive exports totaled some $9 billion in the five-month…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-auto-production-tops-415000-in-jan-may-3531483

Turkey introduces new regulations amid normalization
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Turkey revised Monday coronavirus measures for the normalization from the outbreak.An official letter by the Health Ministry, which was sent to governors' offices in 81 provinces as well as all health institutions of Turkey, said that some of the restrictions that had been implemented due to the outbreak are partially or totally lifted.According to the new rules, patient visits will be allowed for one person to meet the needs of the inpatient and the visit will be paid after working hours. Visits are not allowed in intensive and palliative care units.On condition of complying with the rules set up by the ministry…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-introduces-new-regulations-amid-normalization-3531482

'Hunger is worse than corona': Sudanese demand end to lockdown amid economic woes
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Like many Sudanese, car mechanic Mohamed Othman says the government must end its coronavirus lockdown now so that he can get back to work because "me and my family have no other source of income".The transitional civilian government, which runs Sudan under a power-sharing deal with the army, ordered most businesses, markets, schools and mosques to shut and imposed travel restrictions nearly two months ago.But it is facing growing demands to end the restrictions from a population mired in poverty and facing annual inflation of nearly 100% as well as complaints that promised aid for poorer Sudanese has failed to ma…
yenisafak.com/en/world/hunger-is-worse-than-corona-sudanese-demand-end-to-lockdown-amid-economic-woes-3531499

Turkish Central Bank to back import-cutting investments
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Turkey will continue to back investments that will reduce imports and increase exports, said Berat Albayrak, the country's treasury and finance minister, on Monday.Citing a recent announcement that the Turkish Central Bank would start reallocating its Turkish Lira rediscount credits for firms, Albayrak said a total of 400 million Turkish liras ($59 million) would be provided to companies with a maximum maturity of 10 years.By the end of March, the bank announced that Turkish lira rediscount credits of up to 60 billion Turkish liras ($8.9 billion) would be extended to exporting and FX-earning services to contain…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/turkish-central-bank-to-back-import-cutting-investments-3531485

Turkey's first lady marks World Oceans Day
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Turkey's first lady on Monday marked the occasion of June 8, World Oceans Day."Water is life. Oceans are the home of countless species. Let's remember once again on June 8 #WorldOceans Day that the cleanliness of the oceans, seas and coasts is vital for our world," Emine Erdogan said on Twitter.She underlined that seas and oceans are the "common frontier" of all countries in the world, and called to act with a "common conscience" on this matter."If we can make #ZeroWaste philosophy a lifestyle that includes seas as well, we can carry the vast blues to the future," Erdogan said."Our children do not deserve a futur…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-first-lady-marks-world-oceans-day-3531487

FBI Launches Open Attack On 'Foreign' Alternative Media Outlets Challenging US Foreign Policy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-08
The FBI has publicly justified its suppression of dissenting online views about US foreign policy if a media outlet can be somehow linked to one of its adversaries. The Bureau's justification followed a series of instances in which Silicon Valley social media platforms banned accounts following consultations with the FBI. | In a particularly notable case in 2018, the FBI encouraged Facebook, Instagram and Google to remove or restrict ads on the American Herald Tribune (AHT), an online journal that published critical opinion articles on US policy toward Iran and the Middle East. The bureau has never offered a clea…
popularresistance.org/fbi-launches-open-attack-on-foreign-alternative-media-outlets/

Joe Biden Is A Racist Who Loves Police Brutality
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-08
Biden's history of enthusiastic racism stretches back decades. From the moment he entered the U.S. Senate in the early 1970s, he vocally opposed busing to achieve school desegregation. "Opposing busing" has long been racist code for opposing Black and brown children going to school with white children. At a time when "separate but equal" was beginning to become politically unpalatable, Biden's leadership against busing, in the most generous possible interpretation, provided cover for segregationists to continue their work. He has spent his life fighting for policies that make life worse for Black, Indigenous, and…
popularresistance.org/joe-biden-is-a-racist-who-loves-police-brutality/

What Next As The Whip Of Reaction Fails To Cow The Masses?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-08
Over the last two years, more Americans were killed by police than Americans were killed in combat in Afghanistan over the last 18 years. ‚ĨMore Americans were killed by police in the last three years than people were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. ‚Ä™Combine this with a devastating economic crisis and pandemic, and it is easy to understand why a tipping point has been reached, as the accumulated rage and humiliation of centuries spills over onto the streets. | Earlier this year, in the 2020 draft Perspectives for the Coming American Revolution, we wrote the following:…
popularresistance.org/what-next-as-the-whip-of-reaction-fails-to-cow-the-masses/

With new life, Afghan peace push a race against time
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-07
A continuing cessation of hostilities and an uptick in exchange of Taliban and government prisoners has given the Afghan peace process, often fragile and near collapse at times, a new lease on life.Analysts believe the three main sides in the decades-long conflict

Fortress On A Hill: Interiew With Kevin Zeese
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance stops by the podcast to discuss his path to becoming an activist during protests in the 60's and 70's, what he's learned from Ralph Nader, police brutality and militarization, Kevin's long standing work on the Vietnam war and Venezuela, and the dynamics of "lesser evil voting." | Kevin Zeese is a public interest attorney who has worked for economic, racial and environmental justice since graduating from George Washington Law School in 1980. | He co-directs PopularResistance.org which works to build the independent movement for transformational change. Kevin co-hosts, "Clearing th…
popularresistance.org/fortress-on-a-hill-interiew-with-kevin-zeese/

Fortress On A Hill: Interview With Kevin Zeese
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance stops by the podcast to discuss his path to becoming an activist during protests in the 60's and 70's, what he's learned from Ralph Nader, police brutality and militarization, Kevin's long standing work on the Vietnam war and Venezuela, and the dynamics of "lesser evil voting." | Kevin Zeese is a public interest attorney who has worked for economic, racial and environmental justice since graduating from George Washington Law School in 1980. | He co-directs PopularResistance.org which works to build the independent movement for transformational change. Kevin co-hosts, "Clearing th…
popularresistance.org/fortress-on-a-hill-interiew-with-kevin-zeese/

The Illusion of Economic Recovery Began in the US
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
Protracted main street depression conditions have existed in the US since 2008 with no relief for ordinary Americans in prospect. | Before economic collapse this year, unemployment exceeded 20%, Labor Department numbers rigged to pretend otherwise. | The so-called U-3 BLS number …
globalresearch.ca/illusion-economic-recovery-began-us/5715250

WOLA: Media's 'Left' Source for Pro-Coup Propaganda in Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | zcomm.org | 2020-06-07
The US blockade is a naked expression of imperial might, which WOLA and other Western propaganda amplifiers hide behind empty rhetoric about "democracy" and "human rights."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/wola-medias-left-source-for-pro-coup-propaganda-in-venezuela/

Shocker: US state propaganda outlets censor Black Lives Matter protests
Yasha Levine | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-07
It's hard for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty to sell the USA as a shining example of civil liberties…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/07/us-propaganda-censor-black-lives-matter-protests/

DeRay Mckesson got his start in the corporate school privatization movement
Drew Franklin | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-07
Before becoming a media celebrity backed by banks and large corporations, activist DeRay Mckesson was a ruthless school administrator and…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/07/deray-mckesson-tfa-corporate-school-privatization/

Message from Freedom Road Socialist Organization to the June 6 solidarity actions in Germany
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-07
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Freedom Road Socialist Organization to Rebell, the youth league of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD). | Freedom Road Socialist Organization salutes Rebell, the youth league of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, and all the participants in the June 6 solidarity actions that are standing with the great struggle against racist discrimination that is unfolding in the U.S. | The police murder of George Floyd and the rebellion in Minneapolis have set the U.S. ablaze with protests

Palestine Is Gone! Gone! راحت فلسطين
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
Lately, a particular memory/image of my grandmother Sitti Fattoum has been coming back to me vividly. She'd be sitting in a chair, maybe watching TV, or at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee, when suddenly, without provocation, she …
globalresearch.ca/palestine-gone-%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%aa-%d9%81%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b7%d9%8a%d9%86/5715237

PLO Official Condemns Israeli Violations in Occupied East Jerusalem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-07
Senior Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee, condemned on Sunday, what she described as Israeli violations across the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, in light of the recent Israeli entry ban, imposed on a grand Palestinian Muslim scholar. In a statement, issued by Ashrawi earlier today, the senior …
imemc.org/article/plo-official-condemns-israeli-violations-in-occupied-east-jerusalem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plo-official-condemns-israeli-violations-in-occupied-east-jerusalem

Arab Group to Convene at UN over Israeli Annexation Plan
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-07
Palestine's mission at the United Nations (UN) reportedly announced on Saturday, that a meeting involving Arab countries' representatives at the international organization, will be convened this Monday, within Palestinian efforts underway, to challenge Israeli government's plans to annex large parts of the Palestinian West Bank, to the occupation state of …
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Bolivia Under Dictatorship: US The Real Power
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
A little more than six months after the coup d'état (10-11 November 2019) against President Evo Morales in Bolivia, now exiled in Argentina, he warned of the serious situation his country is facing under a de facto government headed by the self-proclaimed President Jeanine Añez, who in addition to repression involving massacres against the population and persecution and imprisonment of political leaders and militants, is systematically destroying the social and economic model and achievements of the overthrown government of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS). | Now that country is confronting the COVD-19 pandem…
popularresistance.org/bolivia-under-dictatorship-us-the-real-power/

Protesters attacked by the police and their allies have the moral right to defend themselves
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-06-07
Across the US, Black Lives Matter protesters are under violent attack by the police and the national guard. Far-right white supremacists are also visible. But people can only take so much, and if attacked, protesters have a moral right to defend themselves. | State violence: | The assaults on protesters by police and the national guard have been widespread. | For example, in Chicago: | Has nobody in charge of US police realised that everyone has mobile phones and that their violence against protesters will be filmed and sent around the globe? Each mindless attack on peaceful protesters adds fuel to the fl…
thecanary.co/global/2020/06/07/protesters-attacked-by-the-police-and-their-allies-have-the-moral-right-to-defend-themselves/

Israeli Troops Shoot, Wound Five Palestinians in Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-07
On Saturday afternoon, Israeli occupying soldiers in Kufur Qaddoum village, on the outskirts of the Palestinian West Bank city of Qalqilia, reportedly shot and wounded five local Palestinian peaceful protestors with rubber-coated steel bullets. Local Palestinian sources said that an Israeli army troop attacked a peaceful protest near the Omar …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-shoot-wound-five-palestinians-in-kufur-qaddoum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-shoot-wound-five-palestinians-in-kufur-qaddoum

After peaceful protests, NSW Police take their violent revenge
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-07
Anti-racism Pip HinmanIssue 1268 Australia Black Lives Matter rally NSW Police Force SydneyJune 7, 2020Numbers count. The 50…
greenleft.org.au/content/after-peaceful-protests-nsw-police-take-their-violent-revenge

Saturday 6/6: Peaceful Protest and March: King Plaza Palo Alto
Silence is Violence | indybay.org | 2020-06-07
In front of Palo Alto City Hall in MLK Jr. Plaza | 250 Hamilton Ave. | Palo Alto 94301…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833831.php

Friday 6/5: Say No to Racism – Peaceful Solidarity Protest (Palo Alto)
Community | indybay.org | 2020-06-07
Greer Park | 1127 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833822.php

Black Lives Matter protest in Sweden descends into violence and vandalism (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-07
The Swedish city of Gothenburg has been shaken by street violence, after an initially peaceful 'Black Lives Matter' protest turned into a riot. Police clashed with demonstrators, who threw stones and smashed storefronts. | Defying the Swedish government's coronavirus guidelines

'You talk like Goebbels': Global Times editor-in-chief shoots back at Pompeo's parallels between China & Nazi Germany
rt.com | 2020-06-07
The editor-in-chief of a major Chinese tabloid slammed Mike Pompeo for comparing his country to Nazi Germany, likening his words to those of Hitler's propaganda chief and reminding the secretary of state of America's endless wars. | Hu Xijin took to Twitter on Sunday venting his anger about Mike Pompeo's remarks. | "You are inciting radical hostility and ripping the world apart. You aren't like a top diplomat, instead, you talk like Goebbels of Nazi Germany. I'm worried that world peace will eventually be destroyed by extreme politicians like you," he wrote. | You are inciting radical hostility and ripping the…
rt.com/news/491131-pompeo-goebbels-china-nazi/

Cops and protesters brawl in London, as PM declares demonstrations 'subverted by thuggery'
rt.com | 2020-06-07
After a peaceful demonstration at the US embassy, some 'Black Lives Matter' protesters in London showed up at Downing Street where the scene grew more chaotic. Police clashed with the crowd in an attempt to restore order. | The gathering at London's US embassy on Sunday drew thousands of people, and was the city's fourth 'Black Lives Matter' demonstration in a week. However, once the crowd dispersed, not everyone went home. Droves of people marched on Whitehall, rattling barriers outside Prime Minister Boris…
rt.com/uk/491141-london-protests-clashes-police/

London police chief says 14 officers injured during anti-racism protests
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-07
Fourteen police officers were injured in "shocking and completely unacceptable" assaults during anti-racism protests in central London on Saturday, London police chief Cressida Dick said on Sunday.After a largely peaceful day, small numbers of protesters briefly clashed with mounted police on Saturday after thousands gathered to voice their anger at police brutality after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis."I am deeply saddened and depressed that a minority of protesters became violent towards officers in central London yesterday evening. This led to 14 officers being injured," Dick, who is Commissioner o…
yenisafak.com/en/world/london-police-chief-says-14-officers-injured-during-anti-racism-protests-3531424

National Guard Troops Refuse Trump's Race War
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
Courage to Resist is currently assisting members of the National Guard who resisted Trump's orders to violently attack people on the streets of Washington DC peacefully and lawfully protesting racial injustice. Now that Trump is threatening to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to send active-duty troops in cities across the US, it's time for every member of the military to search their conscience. We want to make sure we're there to support the brave men and women who continue to refuse these illegal orders. | One Guardsmen who is resisting Trump's orders originally hoped to join medical missions assisting in natural…
popularresistance.org/national-guard-troops-refuse-trumps-race-war/

Movement to Defund Police Gains 'Unprecedented' Support Across US
Sam Levin | zcomm.org | 2020-06-07
Activists say the way to stop police brutality and killings is to cut law enforcement budgets and reinvest in services. Some lawmakers now agree…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/movement-to-defund-police-gains-unprecedented-support-across-us/

Ramadan Shalah: Palestinian advocate of Jerusalem
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-07
Palestinians have bid farewell to the former head of Islamic Jihad group, Ramadan Shalah, who died at hospital on Saturday.Born in the Gaza Strip in 1958, Shalah left to Egypt to pursue his study in the field of economics.During his study in Egypt, Shalah met with Palestinian activist Fathi Shqaqi with whom he co-founded the Islamic Jihad group.Graduating from university in 1981, he returned to Gaza where he became a professor of economics at the Islamic University.Shalah was known for his fiery sermons against the Israeli occupation, which prompted Israeli authorities to put him under house arrest and banned him…
yenisafak.com/en/world/ramadan-shalah-palestinian-advocate-of-jerusalem-3531422

Denver labor rally calls for justice for George Floyd, victims of police violence
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-07
Denver, CO – Protests for George Floyd and other victims of police violence have continued into their second week in Denver, with thousands joining the struggle for justice. Saturday, June 6 saw a coalition of numerous labor unions join together to demand justice. Speakers from Teamsters Local 455, SEIU Local 105 and CWA Local 7777 emphasized the need for unity between the labor movement and anti-racist groups, noting that solidarity between the two groups is essential to ending police terror. | Zee Rainey, a steward from Teamsters Local 455 stated, "There's no hate unless we divide." The group then marched to t…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/denver-labor-rally-calls-justice-george-floyd-victims-police-violence

Denver labor rally calls for justice for George Floyd, victims of police violence
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-07
Denver, CO – Protests for George Floyd and other victims of police violence have continued into their second week in Denver, with thousands joining the struggle for justice. Saturday, June 6 saw a coalition of numerous labor unions join together to demand justice. Speakers from Teamsters Local 455, SEIU Local 105 and CWA Local 7777 emphasized the need for unity between the labor movement and anti-racist groups, noting that solidarity between the two groups is essential to ending police terror. | Zee Rainey, a steward from Teamsters Local 455 stated, "There's no hate unless we divide." The group then marched to t…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/denver-labor-rally-calls-justice-george-floyd-victims-police-violence

Eight Minutes, Forty-six Seconds … Remembering George Floyd
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
Eight minutes, forty-six seconds is a long time: a long time when you are meditating; a long time while waiting for a protest march to pass; a long time with your finger on the video button of your phone following …
globalresearch.ca/eight-minutes-forty-six-seconds-our-thoughts-are-with-george-floyd/5715247

Police kill unarmed 22-year-old man in Vallejo, California
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-07
The Vallejo, California Police Department has a well-established track record of brutality and murder. | On Tuesday, June 2, Vallejo police gunned down an unarmed 22-year old whose last text sent was one asking his sisters to sign a petition protesting the police murder of George Floyd.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833865.php

San Rafael Says "Say Their Names"
Downtown Protest | indybay.org | 2020-06-07
28 names on a cardboard sign…Black Americans murdered by police. There are many many more, protesters lamented.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833846.php

Tuesday 6/9: Community Meeting on Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-06-07
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/07/18833916.php

Top Recipients of Police Money Include Trump and Leading Congressional Democrats
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-07
Police reform is now a congressional priority following nationwide protests against police violence and systemic racism after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Many of the protests in cities across the country, including Washington, D.C., have been met with militarized force and violence. | Black Lives Matter, one of the main organizing bodies behind the protests, has long fought for transparency and accountability in response to police violence against Black communities. With Fl…
truthout.org/articles/top-recipients-of-police-money-include-trump-and-congressional-democrats/

Thousands Protest Against Police Violence Outside US Embassies in UK and Spain
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-07
After the U.S. saw its largest demonstrations yet over the police killing of George Floyd, massive demonstrations kicked off Sunday outside of the U.S. embassies in the United Kingdom and Spain as thousands gathered in a show of solidarity with America's uprising against law enforcement brutality and systemic racial injustice. | Thousands of Britons fl…
truthout.org/articles/thousands-protest-against-police-violence-outside-us-embassies-in-uk-and-spain/

Protesters pull down statue of slave trader and push it into harbour
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-07
Protesters in Bristol have pulled down the controversial statue of a 17th Century slave trader.The bronze memorial to Edward Colston situated in Bristol city centre since 1895, was torn down after crowds left College Green.It had been the subject of an 11,000-strong petition to have it removed.Protesters throw the statue of Edward Colston into Bristol harbour (Ben Birchall/PA)Images showed crowds rushing to stamp on the statue, which stood in Colston Avenue, before it was rolled along the road and pushed into the harbour.Earlier, protester John McAllister, 71, tore down black bin bags used to hide the statue to d…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/07/protesters-pull-down-statue-of-slave-trader-and-push-it-into-harbour/

Woke Justice: Philadelphia Inquirer chief editor loses job over 'Buildings Matter, Too' headline
rt.com | 2020-06-07
Stan Wischnowski, top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, faced the need to resign as the newspaper dared to question the consequences of the riots damaging the city's historic center. | The headline, which read "Buildings Matter, Too," sat atop a Tuesday column that in all respects was sympathetic to the crowds of protesters and rioters, even going as far as calling the smashing and burning of historic shopfronts "a just and justified response" to police brutality. Columnist Inga Saffron lamented though, that these buildings

Black Lives Matter UK: Protesters in Bristol Pull Down Statue of Slave Trader
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-07
An 18ft bronze statue of Bristol-born 17th century slave trader Edward Colston was erected in 1895 and has long been a point of controversy as it pays tribute to the city's role in the slave trade.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006071079549825-black-lives-matter-uk-protesters-in-bristol-pull-down-statue-of-slave-trader/

NYT Opinion Editor Resigns After Op-Ed by Senator Cotton Calls For Using Troops Amid Protests
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-07
The op-ed that raised unrest in the editorial office of the New York Times was written by GOP Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and called for using military force to quell ongoing and widespread protests against police brutality over the death of George Floyd. Earlier, opinion editor James Bennet defended the piece and apologized.
sputniknews.com/us/202006071079550363-new-york-times-opinion-editor-resigns-after-op-ed-by-senator-calls-for-using-troops-amid-protests/

Austin Police Department Allegedly Fakes Thank-You Notes Amid Floyd Protests, Receives Backlash
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-07
In every state and in almost every major city across the United States, as well as in many cities around the world, ongoing massive demonstrations against police brutality provoked by the killing of African-American George Floyd at the hands of white police officers last month are looking increasingly like a cultural movement.
sputniknews.com/us/202006071079550162-austin-police-department-allegedly-fakes-thank-you-notes-amid-floyd-protests-receives-backlash/

Chemical Weapon Use Is Dangerous In A Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
When Amira Chowdhury joined a protest in Philadelphia against police violence on Monday, she wore a mask to protect herself and others against the coronavirus. But when officers launched tear gas into the crowd, Chowdhury pulled off her mask as she gasped for air. "I couldn't breathe," she said. "I felt like I was choking to death." | Chowdhury was on a part of the Vine Street Expressway that ran underground. Everyone panicked as gas drifted into the dark, semi-enclosed space, she said. People stomped over her as they scrambled away. Bruised, she scaled a fence to escape. But the tear gas found her later that eve…
popularresistance.org/chemical-weapon-use-is-dangerous-in-a-pandemic/

How Endless War Contributes To Police Brutality
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
The indefensible death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers and the indiscriminate police violence in subsequent protests have returned police misconduct to the center of our national conversation. | It is not a conversation we may quickly or easily conclude. The problems in American policing are multitude and systemic, matters of both policy and culture. Much of this can only be corrected at the state or local level, and as there are around 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States, this is a monumental task. In very few cases could sweeping federal action affect any substantive…
popularresistance.org/how-endless-war-contributes-to-police-brutality/

Medical Workers Die-In To Protest Police Brutality
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
New York – Hundreds of medical workers at SUNY Downstate staged a die-in on Thursday to protest police brutality and the health disparities that affect black Americans. | Emergency medical residents and other hospital staff kneeled or lay on the ground for eight minutes and 46 seconds

Bringing the coral reefs back to life
news.un.org | 2020-06-07
Coral reefs are being killed by the climate crisis, which is leading to rising sea temperatures. "Cryopreservation", a pioneering scientific technique, could be one way to help save them.
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Bringing the coral reefs back to life
news.un.org | 2020-06-07
Coral reefs are being killed by the climate crisis, which is leading to rising sea temperatures. "Cryopreservation", a pioneering scientific technique", could be one way to save them.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065632

A Strategy for Global Democracy and Wealth Sharing
Peter Phillips | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
It is time for power to the people! | Global capitalist inequality contributes directly to health pandemics, environmental degradation, and mass poverty. Elite-corporate oligarchs control the governments and political parties. They use established militarized police states to protect their vast empires …
globalresearch.ca/strategy-global-democracy-wealth-sharing/5715255

Gangster State Capitalism
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
Hanne Herland of the European Herland Report has just had her book published in which she argues that the ruling elite has resurrected feudalism by financializing the economy and offshoring middle class jobs. The title is New Left Tyranny, …
globalresearch.ca/gangster-state-capitalism/5715241

"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

George Floyd Is the Spark but Systemic Issues Are the Fuel
Keith Lamb | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
As a European growing up in the Cold War with the image of America as the land of liberty and freedom the scenes of carnage that we see today are truly saddening. Superficially this is a problem of racial discrimination …
globalresearch.ca/george-floyd-spark-systemic-issues-fuel/5715239

Who Is the Source of Violence in the US?
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
The 1% is the source of violence in the U.S. Antifa is nothing but a flag which is carried mostly by "secret informants" rather than by a few politically confused Antifa disciples! | The Trump Administration is using this name to …
globalresearch.ca/source-violence-us/5715243

Cape Town Together: organizing in a city of islands
Writers' Community Action Network | zcomm.org | 2020-06-07
An emerging movement of self-organized, decentralized community action networks responds to the local realities of COVID-19 in Cape Town, South Africa…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/cape-town-together-organizing-in-a-city-of-islands/

The Slow Exodus of Palestinian Christians
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-07
‚Ä¢ To read this essay on the Americans for Middle East Understanding website, click here ‚Ä¢ For a PDF version, click here It was inevitable that when the coronavirus pandemic reached the occupied Palestinian territories, as it did in early March, it would find its first purchase in Bethlehem, a few miles south-east of Jerusalem …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-slow-exodus-of-palestinian-christians/

Unanswered Questions Drive Convalescent Plasma Research
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-07
Kari Houser donating convalescent plasma On Saturday, March 14, in southwest Wisconsin, a woman was working in her yard, raking and clearing the first spring weeds. She coughed a bit during the day, and felt some achiness in her lower back, some fatigue. It was in the high 30s that day, but she was warm …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/unanswered-questions-drive-convalescent-plasma-research/

MST presents Popular Agrarian Reform plan to overcome social and economic crisis
Brasil de Fato | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-07
In Brazil, the pandemic has affected the economy, politics, nature and has had more severe effects on the lives of the poorest workers. There is no clear optimistic scenario for the future, especially considering the federal government's stance in relation to the thousands of deaths and the deepening social crisis in the country. | For the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST by its Brazilian Portuguese acronym), the mobilization and organization of the people, which seeks to join forces to build a new national project, points to only one way forward: the construction of the Popular Agrarian Reform. | This Frida…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/07/mst-presents-popular-agrarian-reform-plan-to-overcome-social-and-economic-crisis/

Israeli Troops Demolish Palestinian-owned Stands at Qalandia Checkpoint
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-07
Israeli Troops reportedly knocked down, on Sunday, several Palestinian-owned grocery stands near the Israeli-controlled Qalandia checkpoint, to the north of internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that an Israeli army bulldozer began knocking down the stands, owned by vendors and some other small commercial outlets, abruptly …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-demolish-palestinian-owned-stands-at-qalandia-checkpoint/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-demolish-palestinian-owned-stands-at-qalandia-checkpoint

Intel Drop, June 7, 2020, Never Go Back
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-07
Right off, this is your chance. America is coming awake. | Don't be the same person, this was a lesson. 110,000 are dead, 85% over 60, us, our friends, for some parents and grandparents, lives cut short. | For healthcare workers, endless thousands sick, some extremely sick. For others, scars that will last a lifetime. | Time to be better people. No, this wasn't an accident, it wasn't natural and VT has been scrupulous in reporting. We stick by our first stories in March, Wuhan games, North Carolina. | Please, no attempts at "herd immunity." Also realize that your kids, no matter what you do, will probably see to…

Intel Drop, June 7, 2020, Never Go Back

Gumbaynggirr custodians stop work in Nambucca State Forest
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-07
Environment Kerry Smith Issue 1268 Australia Nambucca Heads State ForestJune 7, 2020Gumbaynggirr custodians are claiming a hard-fought victory by stopping the NSW Forestry Corporation from logging cultural sites in the Nambucca State forest. | On June…
greenleft.org.au/content/gumbaynggirr-custodians-stop-work-nambucca-state-forest

Indigenous youth leader: 'We are rising up against police brutality against First Nations people'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-07
Anti-racism Paul GregoireIssue 1268 Australia First Nations Black deaths in custody Black Lives MatterJune 7, 2020On J…
greenleft.org.au/content/indigenous-youth-leader-we-are-rising-against-police-brutality-against-first-nations-people

The Racist Public Execution of George Floyd Is a Transformative American Moment
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-07
The racist summary execution of Citizen Floyd has created an historic moment of truth for America and the new populism. The social violence we are starting to see in response to the twin-evils of the police state, whether by public executions by the police or COVID-lockdown and, is what we forecasted starting with pre-COVID analytic pieces like ' Rage and Bloodshed Ahead' and several essays afterward on that theme in March 2020. | Because there are hundreds of killing…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/07/the-racist-public-execution-floyd-transformative-american-moment/

They Don't Care About the Data, and They Never Have
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-07
Allan STEVO | The number of viruses in you, or any other perfectly healthy human, at this moment outnumber your own cells by a factor of 100, as virologist Dr. John Mokili points out: "In the human holobiont, the 10^13 human cells are outnumbered 10-fold by bacteria and 100-fold by viruses." Is the world really turning upside down over a virus? | Data Is Readily Available Today Like Never Before | We live in the age of the Internet. That means with a few clicks, viewpoints that used to take hours of librar…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/07/they-dont-care-about-the-data-and-they-never-have/

FBI Launches Open Attack on 'Foreign' Alternative Media Outlets Challenging U.S. Foreign Policy
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-07
Thus the question of "attribution" has become the FBI's key lever for censoring alternative media that publishes critical content on U.S. foreign policy, or which attacks mainstream and corporate media narratives. If an outlet can be somehow linked to a foreign adversary, removing it from online platforms is fair game for the feds.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/07/fbi-launches-open-attack-foreign-alternative-media-outlets-challenging-us-foreign-policy/

Sunday 6/7: National Service of Mourning for Poor & Low-income Workers Lost to COVID-19 (PPC)
Poor Peoples Campaign & partners | indybay.org | 2020-06-07
Online livstream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833870.php

Private prison corporations profit from civil unrest in Washington D.C
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-07
Letter From Nancy Pelosi To The Impeached President Donald J. Trump:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833845.php

Colombia (Audio) Por la liberacià≤n de la Madre Tierra
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-06-07
La liberación de la Madre Tierra sigue bien parada, juntando fuerzas.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833859.php

We Need a Universal Basic Income Now and After COVID-19
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-07
As the COVID-19 pandemic creeps into the summer, over 3 8 .5 million U.S. workers are now jobless. While an unforeseen era of social distancing takes hold, consumer purchasing has slowed to a crawl, labor markets face shortages and supply chains are interrupted. Unprecedented economic uncertainty for the world's population

Why Is the University of California Punishing Students During a Pandemic?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-07
In an experience now familiar to many, faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) logged onto Zoom on May 15 and stared into the online abyss. Hundreds of squares awaited us, some with actual faces, others with initials written on dark backgrounds. The alienation that we have experienced from teaching remotely, and the exhaustion of transforming our classes into an online format, both pale in comparison to the bizarre spectacle we were about to witness. One after another, we asked…
truthout.org/articles/why-is-the-university-of-california-punishing-students-during-a-pandemic/

Labour slams parliament voting and delay in making face masks compulsory on public transport
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-07
The way that parliament works during the current coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic needs to be reviewed, the shadow transport secretary has suggested. Speaking on Sky News' Sophy Ridge programme following a week in which MPs were required to queue in order to vote, Labour's Jim McMahon has backed a return to electronic voting. | He said: I do think we need to review the way that Parliament works. The frustration with Parliament of course is if it's at all avoidable, then it should be avoided and we can vote electronically, we can vote in 15 seconds, we don't have to be queuing up for 40 minutes. | Aside from it bein…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/07/labour-slams-parliament-voting-and-delay-in-making-face-masks-compulsory-on-public-transport/

Imperial social enterprise to accelerate low-cost COVID-19 vaccine
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-07
Imperial College London has formed a new social enterprise VacEquity Global Health (VGH) to bring its COVID-19 vaccine to the world.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198053/imperial-social-enterprise-accelerate-low-cost-covid-19

Netanyahu says Covid-19 won't diminish Israel's commitment to fighting Iran's nuclear program, urges 'crippling' sanction
rt.com | 2020-06-07
The coronavirus pandemic should not be an obstacle in fighting Iran, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said calling for harsh sanctions against Tehran after a critical report by the international nuclear watchdog. | The PM insisted that "coronavirus does not diminish our determination to act against Iranian aggression at all," vowing to do everything to prevent Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon. | "Iran systematically violates its commitments by hiding sites, by enriching fissile materials and other violations," Netanyahu said as he opened a government meeting on Sunday. | He called on the international comm…
rt.com/news/491120-iran-crippling-sanctions-iaea/

Mark Wahlberg accused of downplaying his own HATE CRIMES after mourning for George Floyd
rt.com | 2020-06-07
Actor Mark Wahlberg jumped on the bandwagon in paying his tributes to George Floyd, but he's now been accused of hypocrisy for his own history of hate crimes. For Wahlberg, it's a history he's tried

Enemies seek to damage Iran, Afghanistan friendly relations: police chief
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-07
TEHRAN, Jun. 07 (MNA)

Iran's petchem production capacity to increase by 107k tons
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-07
TEHRAN, Jun. 07 (MNA)

Omani speaker calls for boosting parliamentary ties with Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-07
TEHRAN, Jun. 07 (MNA)

Asalem-Khalkhal green road
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-07
KHALKHAL, Jun. 08 (MNA)

630 kg of illicit drugs seized in S Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-07
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

UK Pharma Giant AstraZeneca Seeking Biggest Merger in Industry History With US Rival Gilead
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-07
Drug companies across the world are racing to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Many have entered into profitably appealing corporate mergers to collaborate to meet the urgent global demand for an inoculation against the virus.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006071079549990-uk-pharma-giant-astrazeneca-seeking-biggest-merger-in-industry-history-with-us-rival-gilead/

Tory And Labour Neck and Neck in Opinion Polls as Coronavirus Crisis Deepens
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-07
The Conservatives were reelected in December 2019 with a majority of 80, as the opposition Labour Party suffered its worst defeat since 1935. Since that time, the country has seen the effects of the coronavirus as public opinion has begun to shift away from the Tory government.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006071079549871-tory-and-labour-neck-and-neck-in-opinion-polls-as-coronavirus-crisis-deepens/

Russia's Admiral Kasatonov Stealth Warship Completes State Sea Trials
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-07
The Admiral Kasatonov frigate is capable of destroying surface ships, convoys and airborne military units, along with searching and targeting submarines and providing anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and anti-missile defence.
sputniknews.com/military/202006071079550169-russias-admiral-kasatonov-stealth-warship-completes-state-sea-trials/

Representatives for Russian Billionare Deny Reports He Bought Munch's 'The Scream' For $120 Mln
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-07
"The Scream" is an iconic painting created by Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch, depicting a desperate human appearing to howl in pain, and is considered to be one of the most profound artistic symbols of anguish and anxiety in art. Munch painted four versions of the famous painting, two in paint and two in pastel.
sputniknews.com/society/202006071079549907-russian-billionare-abramovich-buys-munchs-the-scream-for-120-mln-reports-claim/

US senator Scott says China trying to sabotage vaccine development
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-07
The United States has evidence China is trying to slow down or sabotage the development of a COVID-19 vaccine by Western countries, Republican senator Rick Scott said on Sunday."We have got to get this vaccine done. Unfortunately we have evidence that communist China is trying to sabotage us or slow it down," he said during an interview on BBC TV."China does not want us … to do it first, they have decided to be an adversary to Americans and I think to democracy around the world."Asked what evidence the United States had, Scott declined to give details but said it had come through the intelligence community."Thi…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-senator-scott-says-china-trying-to-sabotage-vaccine-development-3531416

Japan declines to join US, others in condemning China for Hong Kong law
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-07
Japan will not join the United States, Britain and others in issuing a statement scolding China for imposing a new security law, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, citing officials from countries involved.The United Kingdom, the U.S., Australia and Canada condemned China on May 28 for imposing a law that they said would threaten freedom and breach a 1984 Sino-British agreement on the autonomy of the former colony.Tokyo separately issued a statement May 28, the day China's parliament approved the national security legislation, saying the nation was "seriously concerned" about the move, which observers fear coul…
yenisafak.com/en/world/japan-declines-to-join-us-others-in-condemning-china-for-hong-kong-law-3531417

Iran coronavirus deaths rise by 72 to 8,291
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-07
Iran on Sunday confirmed 72 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,291.A further 2,364 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 171,789, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said.According to the spokesman, 134,349 people have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, while 2,596 patients remain in critical condition.Iran's daily number of COVID-19 cases dropped to around 800 in early May, but daily figures show an upward trend in recent days after authorities took measures to ease restrictions.Despite…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iran-coronavirus-deaths-rise-by-72-to-8291-3531415

Don't celebrate victory over coronavirus too soon, Pope tells Italians
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-07
Pope Francis on Sunday warned Italians to not let their guard down against coronavirus now that infection rates have fallen and urged them to obey government rules on social distancing and wearing masks.Francis, addressing several hundred people in St. Peter's Square for his Sunday blessing, reacted to applause that broke out when he said their presence, albeit reduced, was a sign that Italy had overcome the acute phase of the pandemic."Be careful. Don't cry victory too soon," he cautioned them, departing from his prepared text.Nearly 34,000 people have died in Italy from the coronavirus, the fourth highest toll…
yenisafak.com/en/world/dont-celebrate-victory-over-coronavirus-too-soon-pope-tells-italians-3531419

Turkey | eyes safer waters as it delivers first software package for domestic | radar system
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-07
Turkey's coastal radar surveillance system project, which aims to detect illegal activities along western shores, has received its first software package, the country's Defense Industry Director said on Sunday."Turkey's territorial waters and coasts will be safer now with the implementation of domestic systems. We've currently delivered the first software package of 'The Coastal Surveillance Radar System Project' to the Turkish Coast Guard Command. It will entail surveillance stations equipped with radar, electro-optic and other sensors," ƒ∞smail Demir announced on his official Twitter account.The coas…
yenisafak.com/en/technology/turkeyeyes-safer-waters-as-it-delivers-first-software-package-for-domesticradar-system-3531418

More On Mueller's Forensics-Free Findings
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
At the time of our Memo, it was already clear that Mueller's findings would be fatally incomplete. We were virtually certain that Mueller's report would lack the forensic findings that we VIPS had arrived at through the kind of rigorous investigation that the FBI avoided doing. So we gave our Memo to you with the title: "Mueller's Forensics-Free Findings". | Sans forensics, Mueller's report fell far short of Rosenstein's earlier commitment "to ensure a full and thorough investigation". It was also clear to us that relying for forensics on CrowdStrike, a private cyber-security firm of checkered reputation, picked…
popularresistance.org/more-on-muellers-forensics-free-findings/

Rep. Ilhan Omar Surrenders to Israel Lobby
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-06
The nearly complete corruption of the U.S. republican form of government has largely come about due to the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court in January 2010 that basically permitted unlimited donor-spending on political campaigns based on the principle that providing money, normally through a political action committee (PAC), is a form of free speech. The decision paved the way for agenda-driven plutocrats and corporations to largely seize control of the formulation process for certain policies being promoted by the two national parties. | No one has benefited from the new rules more than the state…
ahtribune.com/us/israelgate/4206-ilhan-omar-surrenders.html

Ilhan Omar takes heat after backing call to disband Minneapolis police & replace with 'non-violent' alternative
rt.com | 2020-06-06
Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar has joined a growing call to disband the Minneapolis police force, arguing it is "beyond reform" after the killing of George Floyd. Critics have pilloried the suggestion as dangerous and "asinine." | The congresswoman took to Twitter on Friday to endorse an op-ed penned by a Minneapolis councilman, which urged the dissolution of the city's police department and "start fresh" after years of failed efforts at reform. Such improvements are impossible under a "system that is rotten," Omar said. | The Minnea…
rt.com/usa/491007-omar-disband-police-criticism/

George Floyd protest is 'for the benefit' of 'democratic struggles' abroad, says US group known for promoting regime change
rt.com | 2020-06-06
The National Endowment for Democracy, a soft-power group mostly known for splashing government dollars on pro-US influence campaigns overseas to enforce regime change, has endorsed protests against police brutality at home. | Also on rt.com | | America masterminded 'color revolutions' around the world. Now the very same techniques are being used at home | In a statement on Friday, the NED came out in support of the protests against the police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd, which, while originally peaceful, spiralled into violence, wreck…
rt.com/usa/491008-ned-endorses-protests-regime-change/

Belt and Road: Can China's Silk Road Survive Coronavirus?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
China's priority infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), faces enormous problems just seven years after it was proclaimed in 2013. Serious problems and charges of China luring poorer nations into what a leading Indian analyst termed a "debt …
globalresearch.ca/belt-and-road-can-chinas-silk-road-survive-coronavirus/5714768

The Corona "Global False Alarm", the Campaign against Racism and Neoliberalism
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
"The media is the most powerful entity on earth. Because they control the minds of the masses, they have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power…If you're not careful, the newspapers …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-neoliberalism-and-the-campaign-against-racism/5714970

Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective Wins Legal Victory
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-06
On the morning of June 3, four U.S. citizens from the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective (EPC) who engaged in a two-week-long standoff with right-wing Venezuelan exile hooligans and members of Juan Guaidó's coup administration entered a plea agreement with the U.S. government. | The chief Judge for the U.S. District Court District of Columbia, Beryl Howell, sentenced David Paul, Margaret Flowers, Kevin Zeese, and Adrienne Pine to six months of probation and fines totaling $750 each. Additionally, Judge Howell ordered the four defendants to stay away from the building which formally served as Venezuela's emb…
popularresistance.org/venezuelan-embassy-protection-collective-wins-legal-victory/

Joe Biden secures Democratic presidential nomination
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-06
Joe Biden has officially clinched the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, setting him up to meet Donald Trump for the leadership of a country beset by the coronavirus pandemic and civil unrest. Biden said in a statement: It was an honour to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded, and I am proud to say that we are going into this general election a united party. | Biden has been his party's presumptive nominee since rival Bernie Sanders ended his campaign in April. But the former vice president's campaign had suffered setbacks with allegations o…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/06/06/joe-biden-secures-democratic-presidential-nomination/

Cop pushes old white man over backwards, leaves victim bleeding and unconscious after head hits sidewalk hard
Dave Lindorff | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-06
This cancer of a creeping police state and of rampant brutality in our communities will continue and grow worse.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/06/cop-pushes-old-white-man-over-backwards-leaves-victim-bleeding-and-unconscious-after-head-hits-sidewalk-hard/

Five questions for new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer about his UK and US national security establishment links
Matt Kennard | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-06
The public deserves answers about the UK's new opposition leader and his relationship with the British national security establishment, including…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/05/five-questions-for-new-labour-leader-sir-keir-starmer-about-his-uk-and-us-national-security-establishment-links/

Italian communists to Freedom Road Socialist Organization: 'Fronte Popolare is at your side'
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-06
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Italian Marxist- Leninist organization Fronte Popolare. | Dear comrades of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, | In these days of pain, pride and struggle, Fronte Popolare is at your side. Our organization is supportive of those who are fighting for the dignity and rights of all women and men. The results of the mass uprising that exploded with the murder of George Floyd by a racist policeman are of decisive importance not only for American society and for the redemption of the nationalities and oppressed communities that make it up, but for…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/5/italian-communists-freedom-road-socialist-organization-fronte-popolare-your-side

Italian communists to Freedom Road Socialist Organization: 'Fronte Popolare is at your side'
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-06
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Italian Marxist- Leninist organization Fronte Popolare. | Dear comrades of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, | In these days of pain, pride and struggle, Fronte Popolare is at your side. Our organization is supportive of those who are fighting for the dignity and rights of all women and men. The results of the mass uprising that exploded with the murder of George Floyd by a racist policeman are of decisive importance not only for American society and for the redemption of the nationalities and oppressed communities that make it up, but for…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/5/italian-communists-freedom-road-socialist-organization-fronte-popolare-your-side

Rebellion against police exposes the haves and have-nots
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-06-06
Monica Moorehead delivered this talk as a panelist on a June 4 Workers World Party webinar "It is right to rebel against police terror." This rebellion has not only swept the U.S. but is electrifying the entire world, from Palestine to France to Iran to Africa. Every global sector of . . . | Continue reading Rebellion against police exposes the haves and have-nots at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49153/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rebellion-against-police-exposes-the-haves-and-have-nots

When did Venezuela's Economic Crisis begin?
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-06-06
The starting point for Venezuela's current depression has been the subject of some debate. It can get a bit technical, so I'll weigh in on it here. Looking at Real GDP Inflation adjusted (i.e. real) Gross Domestic Product (GDP ) is essentially a country's aggregate income. I say "essentially" because there is an adjustment that Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/when-did-venezuelas-economic-crisis-begin/

Trump Has Adopted a "Viva Death!" Approach to the Presidency
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-06-06
The protests are not just calling for an end to police brutality in Black communities, but for much more fundamental restructuring of social and economic institutions…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-has-adopted-a-viva-death-approach-to-the-presidency/

More Australian war crimes exposed in Afghanistan
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
The exposure of Ziauddin's killing highlights the years of coverups by successive Australian governments, both Liberal-National and Labor, of military abuses in the Middle East.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/afgh-j06.html

The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is "Agenda ID2020"
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
WHO has most likely received orders from "above", from those people who also manage Trump and the "leaders" (sic) of the EU, European Union. The final decision to go ahead NOW with COVID-19 pandemic, was taken in January 2020 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos – behind very much closed doors.
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-causes-effects-real-danger-agenda-id2020/5706153

American Oil Company Chevron's Crude Cargo Gets Embroiled In US Anti-Venezuela Sanctions
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
The day before, Reuters reported, citing unnamed US officials that the US Department of the Treasury was considering sanctioning more than 40 foreign oil tankers over their alleged involvement in the oil trade with Venezuela, which has been sanctioned by the US in its efforts to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
sputniknews.com/business/202006061079537545-american-oil-company-chevrons-crude-cargo-gets-embroiled-in-us-anti-venezuela-sanctions/

Governor Cuomo: Avoid Budget Cuts by Not Rebating Stock Sales Tax to Wall Street!
Ralph Nader | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-06
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is basking in the popularity of his meticulous Covid-19 news briefings and simultaneously predicting a pandemic-driven $61 billion state deficit over four years. Astonishingly, the Governor electronically rebates an existing tiny stock transfer sales tax back to Wall Street. This stock transfer sales tax, bringing in an estimated 13 to …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/governor-cuomo-avoid-budget-cuts-by-not-rebating-stock-sales-tax-to-wall-street/

Governor Cuomo: Avoid Budget Cuts by Not Rebating Stock Sales Tax to Wall Street
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-06-06
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during his daily news conference amid the coronavirus outbreak on March 20, 2020. (Photo: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/cuomo_1.jpg …
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Video: Let Us Free Ourselves From the Virus of War
Comité No Guerra no Nato | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
The complete video produced by the Italian Committee No War No NATO, in collaboration with Global Research. Giulietto Chiesa's last words focussed on Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Information, and Freedom for Julian Assange.
globalresearch.ca/let-us-free-ourselves-from-the-virus-of-war/5713554

[Comment] Offline: COVID-19 and the ethics of memory
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
Lockdowns are lifting. Lives are returning. And livelihoods are being gradually reclaimed. Very tentatively, societies are beginning to put the pandemic behind them. There are understandable fears of flare-ups. In the UK, several scientists who advise government are warning that ending strict home curfews is premature. There are still about 2000 new cases of infection being diagnosed daily in the UK (the figure in Italy is around 500) and the test, trace, and isolate system remains incomplete. According to WHO, total confirmed cases of COVID-19 are now approaching 6 million globally, with almost 400‚Ä&…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31279-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Healthier societies for healthy populations
Healthier Societies for Healthy Populations Group | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
The COVID-19 pandemic makes the importance of health and wellbeing clear. The pandemic's implications for societies are far reaching. Yet the response to this pandemic and the creation and promotion of health and wellbeing require action beyond the health sector–and beyond the usual ways of working in global health. Governments are not adequately tackling inequality, ongoing economic crises, or continuing environmental damage, which undermines the health of current and future generations. For example, tobacco and alcohol use, unhealthy diets, air pollution, and insufficient physical exercise contribute to m…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31039-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Indigenous populations: left behind in the COVID-19 response
Kaitlin Curtice, Esther Choo | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
Scholar Annie Belcourt described Native American populations in the USA as having lives that are "challenging and short". Globally, across countries and populations, Indigenous peoples face a greater burden of disease than non-Indigenous peoples, including cardiovascular disease and HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, and have higher infant and maternal mortality and lower life expectancy. Their health is impacted by epigenetic stressors of generational oppression and violence, including disproportionate numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous women, lower educational attainment, and persistent poverty.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31242-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] Salient lessons from Russia's COVID-19 outbreak
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
Alexander Myasnikov, Russia's COVID-19 information chief, said in mid-April that it would be "impossible" for Russians to get the virus, estimating the probability of extensive spread in Russia at "0 ∑0%". This hubris has been sorely exposed. As of June 2, Russia has 423‚Äà186 cases, the third most in the world, while relatively few deaths from COVID-19 (5031) have been recorded. The rapid spread of the epidemic in Russia has highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the health system, and presents the traditionally strong Russian leadership with a new challenge.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31280-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] COVID-19 vaccine development pipeline gears up
Asher Mullard | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
Vaccine makers are racing to develop COVID-19 vaccines, and have advanced ten candidates into clinical trials. But challenges remain. Asher Mullard reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31252-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Regenerative medicine: challenges and opportunities
Giulio Cossu, Robin Fears, George Griffin, Volker ter Meulen | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
In 2018, the Lancet Commission on stem cells and regenerative medicine1 reported how, despite an exponential growth in experimental therapies, there had been limited clinical uptake. Regenerative medicine comprises various novel approaches such as cell and gene therapy that have produced life-saving therapies for a few genetic diseases affecting blood or skin. Enthusiasm about the broad potential of regenerative medicine led to a gap between expectations and the realities of translating technologies into clinical practice.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31250-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Clinical Picture] Neuropathy, encephalopathy, status epilepticus, and acute intermittent porphyria
Mohamed Ahmed Ahmed, Mahmoud Abdelnabi, Abdallah Almaghraby, Fatma R Elkafrawy, Karim Ziada | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
A 23-year-old man was admitted to our hospital in status epilepticus–he had been having repeated episodes of generalised tonic-clonic seizures without gaining consciousness between them. He was in a wheelchair. He was intubated and the seizures were controlled with midazolam and he was then transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU). On examination his blood pressure (BP) was 220/110 mm Hg, and his heart rate was 120 beats per min. He was given labetalol and his blood pressure lowered.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31045-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Journal of a plague year
Phil Withington | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year is one of the best single accounts of an epidemic written in English. Published anonymously in 1722 as a contribution to public debates about the prospect of plague reaching Britain from the French port of Marseilles, it takes the form of the literary memoir by "H.F." during London's "great plague" of 1665. The sources for the memoir and its status as fact or fiction are complicated. Defoe clearly had strong opinions, informed by continental initiatives, about how societies and people should respond to plague and he used Restoration London as a place to rehearse them.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31243-5/fulltext?rss=yes

The association between exposure to childhood maltreatment and the subsequent development of functional somatic and visceral pain syndromes
Joht Singh Chandan, Deepiksana Keerthy, Dawit Tefra Zemedikun, Kelvin Okoth, Krishna Margadhamane Gokhale, Karim Raza, Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Julie Taylor, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
Background: Childhood maltreatment is a global public health issue linked to a vast mortality and morbidity burden. This study builds on current literature to explore the risk of developing central sensitivity syndromes (CSS) (consisting of somatic and visceral pain syndromes) subsequent to childhood maltreatment exposure.Methods: A retrospective population based open cohort study using the UK primary care database, 'The Health Improvement Network,' between 1st January 1995-31st December 2018. 80,657 adult patients who had experienced childhood maltreatment or maltreatment related concerns (exposed patients) were…
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30136-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Review] Quality of primary health care in China: challenges and recommendations
Xi Li, Harlan M Krumholz, Winnie Yip, Kar Keung Cheng, Jan De Maeseneer, Qingyue Meng, Elias Mossialos, Chuang Li, Jiapeng Lu, Meng Su, Qiuli Zhang, Dong Roman Xu, Liming Li, Sharon-Lise T Normand, Richard Peto, Jing Li, Zengwu Wang, Hongbing Yan, Runlin Gao, Somsak Chunharas, Xin Gao, Raniero Guerra, Huijie Ji, Yang Ke, Zhigang Pan, Xianping Wu, Shuiyuan Xiao, Xinying Xie, Yujuan Zhang, Jun Zhu, Shanzhu Zhu, Shengshou Hu | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
China has substantially increased financial investment and introduced favourable policies for strengthening its primary health care system with core responsibilities in preventing and managing chronic diseases such as hypertension and emerging infectious diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, widespread gaps in the quality of primary health care still exist. In this Review, we aim to identify the causes for this poor quality, and provide policy recommendations. System challenges include: the suboptimal education and training of primary health-care practitioners, a fee-for-service payment s…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30122-7/fulltext?rss=yes

JFK, MLK, RFK, 50 Years of Suppressed History: New Evidence on Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
Fifty years of research shows that three humane visions of global peace were thwarted by three covert assassinations. In each case eyewitness accounts were written out of history. In each case the "lone gunman" fiction denied society a true understanding of the deep politics of history…
globalresearch.ca/50-years-of-suppressed-history-new-evidence-on-the-assassination-of-john-f-kennedy-martin-luther-king-and-robert-f-kennedy/5329847

Police brutality protesters gather in Lansing and Grand Rapids
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-06
Grand Rapids, MI – Protesters gathered in several major Michigan cities last weekend, including Grand Rapids and Lansing, demanding justice for the Minneapolis Police Department's killing of George Floyd and for all victims of police brutality. | On Saturday, May 30, protesters in Grand Rapids gathered at Rosa Parks Circle for what was planned to be a silent march through the city. Instead, protesters crowded around the Grand Rapids Police Department shouting, "I can't breathe!" "No justice, no peace!" "Hands up! Don't shoot!" and "Say his name: George Floyd!" Thousands of people surrounded the building containin…
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Police brutality protesters gather in Lansing and Grand Rapids
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-06
Grand Rapids, MI – Protesters gathered in several major Michigan cities last weekend, including Grand Rapids and Lansing, demanding justice for the Minneapolis Police Department's killing of George Floyd and for all victims of police brutality. | On Saturday, May 30, protesters in Grand Rapids gathered at Rosa Parks Circle for what was planned to be a silent march through the city. Instead, protesters crowded around the Grand Rapids Police Department shouting, "I can't breathe!" "No justice, no peace!" "Hands up! Don't shoot!" and "Say his name: George Floyd!" Thousands of people surrounded the building containin…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/6/police-brutality-protesters-gather-lansing-and-grand-rapids

WON'T TOUCH IT WITH A SIX-FOOT POLE: Pentagon Is Afraid Saving Taxpayers From Rioters Would Stain Its Sainted "Troops"
Mark Perry | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-06
The president had barely finished his remarks in the Rose Garden late on Monday afternoon, when senior retired and currently serving U.S. military officers weighed in on his threat to deploy military units to help end the nationwide demonstrations resulting from the killing of George Floyd. | While declaring he was an "ally of all peaceful protesters," Trump described the disturbances as "domestic acts of terror" and called on local law enforcement officials to "dominate the streets" to end them. But Trump's payoff quote sounded more like an explicit threat than a political ploy: "If a city or state refuses to ta…
anti-empire.com/wont-touch-it-with-a-six-foot-pole-pentagon-is-afraid-saving-taxpayers-from-rioters-would-stain-its-sainted-troops/

Saturday 6/6: Peaceful Protest and March: King Plaza Palo Alto
Silence is Violence | indybay.org | 2020-06-06
In front of Palo Alto City Hall in MLK Jr. Plaza | 250 Hamilton Ave. | Palo Alto 94301…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833831.php

Friday 6/5: Fire Jared Yuen – One Week After Peaceful Protest (San José)
JH | indybay.org | 2020-06-06
San José City Hall | 200 E Santa Clara St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833821.php

Friday 6/5: Say No to Racism – Peaceful Solidarity Protest (Palo Alto)
Community | indybay.org | 2020-06-06
Greer Park | 1127 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833822.php

Horse bolts through crowd as police harass demonstrators at peaceful Black Lives Matter rally
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-06
A horse bolted through a crowd of people in central London during a Black Lives Matter protest on Saturday 6 June. The incident took place after police mounted on horses clashed with protesters at a peaceful rally outside Downing Street.The London protest was carried out peacefully for much of Saturday afternoon, but scuffles began at around 6pm when police tried to harass protesters. Videos circulating on social media showed mounted police charging through protesters to try and disperse them. One officer appeared to fall off their horse, which then bolted

From White House to Golden Gate: Massive crowds rally nationwide to protest the death of George Floyd (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-06
Thousands of protesters flooded the main streets, squares and bridges in nationwide protest over the death of George Floyd, leading some to question whether a second wave of Covid-19 is imminent. | Chicago, Washington, DC and New York all saw large groups gather to march and demonstrate, all of which have been peaceful as of Saturday afternoon. | Massive, peaceful turnout today at Union Park in #Chicago. #blacklivesmatter‚úä&#63…
rt.com/usa/491074-george-floyd-protests-black-lives-matter/

TEXAS CHAINSAW counter-protester: Man arrested after confronting demonstrators with infamous 'massacre' weapon (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-06
A chainsaw-wielding Texan has been detained after threatening a group of demonstrators with his lumber-cutting mechanical tool. Thankfully, the altercation did not devolve into Hollywood-inspired violence. | A small group of seemingly peaceful protesters in McAllen, Texas briefly found themselves in a real-life slasher film, after a man with a chainsaw rushed at them while shouting profanities. | Footage of the bizarre incident shows a man pointing the deadly tool at protesters as he shouts at them. | "Move! Go home!" he yells above his roaring chainsaw. | He then uses a racial slur while warning against prote…
rt.com/usa/491014-texas-chainsaw-protesters-video-antifa/

Judge BLOCKS Denver police from using tear gas & plastic bullets on 'peaceful' protesters
rt.com | 2020-06-06
A federal judge in Denver has barred police from using tear gas, plastic bullets, and any projectiles against demonstrators, saying the threat to protesters' physical safety and free speech outweighs the threat to property. | R. Brooke Jackson, a US district court judge in Colorado, has granted a temporary restraining order against the Denver Police Department and those assisting local officers in suppressing the protests that have rocked the city in the case of four plaintiffs who acc…
rt.com/usa/491012-denver-police-ban-tear-gas/

Egyptian President Announces Cairo's New Peace Initiative for Libya Including Ceasefire
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
CAIRO (Sputnik) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi announced on Saturday Cairo's peace initiative for Libya that envisages ceasefire and conditions for a political settlement of the conflict.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006061079538349-egyptian-president-announces-cairos-new-peace-initiative-for-libya-including-ceasefire/

Protester explains how he was brutally assaulted by Secret Service officials in Washington, D.C
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
The demonstrator explained how federal officials provoked and then assaulted peaceful demonstrators outside the White House last weekend as protests against police brutality swept the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/brut-j06.html

Bhima Koregaon case: A comprehensive timeline
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-06
June 6 marks the second anniversary of the arrest of activists as part of the Elgar Parishad case in India. The case has been a dangerous instance of how dissent is being persecuted by India's current far-right wing government led by prime minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party. | On June 6, 2018, five activists were arrested for allegedly having participated and organized a series of violent clashes following a mass mobilization in the city of Pune on December 31, 2017. While the violence that occured was carried out by Hindu right-wing groups, the police had constructed a narrative that those resp…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/06/bhima-koregaon-case-a-comprehensive-timeline/

Bhima Koregaon case: A comprehensive timeline
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-06
June 6 marks the second anniversary of the arrest of activists as part of the Elgar Parishad case in India. The case has been a dangerous instance of how dissent is being persecuted by India's current far-right wing government led by prime minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party. | On June 6, 2018, five activists were arrested for allegedly having participated and organized a series of violent clashes following a mass mobilization in the city of Pune on December 31, 2017. While the violence that occurred was carried out by Hindu right-wing groups, the police had constructed a narrative that those res…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/06/bhima-koregaon-case-a-comprehensive-timeline/

Brazil's President Bolsonaro calls demonstrators "terrorists," threatens military repression
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
Gen. Hamilton Mourà£o viciously attacked protests against the murder of George Floyd and social inequality, calling for the arrest of demonstrators.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/bras-j06.html

Will U.S. troops be used against protesters?
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2020-06-06
June 5

Don't Shame Protesters and Park-Goers Over Covid-19 Spreading—Shame Corporations and the State
Natalie Shure | commondreams.org | 2020-06-06
Some of the highest risks for Covid-19 spread have been imposed by police. (Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/police_6.jpg …
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Mass protests erupt across Canada against police brutality and Trump
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
Protesters denounce Canadian police brutality and racism, following the US police murder of George Floyd.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/capr-j06.html

Keith Ellison and politicians: We demand justice for George and all victims of police crimes!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-06
St. Paul, MN – On Friday, June 5, the day after the Minneapolis memorial for George Floyd, and two days after all of his killers were finally charged for his murder, the building that houses the office of state Attorney General Keith Ellison was shut down by some 3000 protesters who came to demand more than charges in this single case. Organized by the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar (TCC4J), they called for re-opening all the cases of police homicide that district attorneys have failed to prosecute in counties across the state, and for community control of police to bring an end to police crimes agains…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/6/keith-ellison-and-politicians-we-demand-justice-george-and-all-victims-police-crimes

Keith Ellison and politicians: We demand justice for George and all victims of police crimes!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-06
St. Paul, MN – On Friday, June 5, the day after the Minneapolis memorial for George Floyd, and two days after all of his killers were finally charged for his murder, the building that houses the office of state Attorney General Keith Ellison was shut down by some 3000 protesters who came to demand more than charges in this single case. Organized by the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar (TCC4J), they called for re-opening all the cases of police homicide that district attorneys have failed to prosecute in counties across the state, and for community control of police to bring an end to police crimes agains…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/6/keith-ellison-and-politicians-we-demand-justice-george-and-all-victims-police-crimes

Lindsey Graham, Protests, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-06
Liberals are talking about Lindsey Graham's sexual orientation again. If you are more interested in the fact that Lindsey Graham is a hypocritical closeted gay Republican than you are in the fact that Lindsey Graham is a murderous war pig who advances mass military slaughter at every opportunity, your priorities are disordered. | Obviously Graham is so deep in the closet he's partied with the White Witch and Aslan the Lion, but the real scandal is that he is a closet psychopath. Jeffrey Dahmer didn't leave…

Lindsey Graham, Protests, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

The police murder of George Floyd sparks mass protests throughout the world
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
Hundreds of thousands of people have joined demonstrations in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/pers-j06.html

US autoworkers denounce police violence, Trump's moves to impose military dictatorship
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
The multi-ethnic, multi-racial protests against the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis have evoked widespread sympathy among autoworkers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/auto-j06.html

Israeli Troops Shoot, Injure Four Palestinians at Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-06
Israeli military reportedly wounded, on Friday, at least four Palestinians, as a result of Israeli soldier's shooting rubber-coated steel bullets towards the dozens of local Palestinian protesters in the West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, a part of the West Bank district of Qalqilia. Those wounded today were taking part …
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Protests against police crimes fill the streets of Salt Lake City
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-06
Salt Lake City, UT – Thursday, June 4 marks the sixth night in a row that downtown streets in Salt Lake City has been shut down due to protests for justice for George Floyd, Bernardo Palacios and all victims of police violence. After five strong days of protesting, chanting and marching against police brutality and its many victims, it does not appear that the nationwide movement will be losing any steam here in Utah. | At least 700 people gathered at the State Capitol June 4 in what started as a quiet gathering of speakers that turned into a march through downtown of about 2000. After a few short speeches and c…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/6/protests-against-police-crimes-fill-streets-salt-lake-city

Protests against police crimes fill the streets of Salt Lake City
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-06
Salt Lake City, UT – Thursday, June 4 marks the sixth night in a row that downtown streets in Salt Lake City has been shut down due to protests for justice for George Floyd, Bernardo Palacios and all victims of police violence. After five strong days of protesting, chanting and marching against police brutality and its many victims, it does not appear that the nationwide movement will be losing any steam here in Utah. | At least 700 people gathered at the State Capitol June 4 in what started as a quiet gathering of speakers that turned into a march through downtown of about 2000. After a few short speeches and c…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/6/protests-against-police-crimes-fill-streets-salt-lake-city

On Palestinian Naksa Day, Israeli Forces Suppress Marches across West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-06
Several Palestinian demonstrations were held on Friday, condemning the Israeli government's plan to annex more of the West Bank, were met with tear-gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets, fired by Israeli forces, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. The protests were held on the same day as the 53rd anniversary of …
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"I Can't Breathe" The George Floyd Protests with the Blacktivist Des Mims; Rev. Wanika K. Stephens and Kulwa Apara | Along the Line Ep.92
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-06-06
On today's episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon explore George Floyd protests with the Blacktivist Des Mims; Rev. Wanika K. Stephens and Kulwa Apara, Along The…
projectcensored.org/i-cant-breathe-the-george-floyd-protests-with-the-blacktivist-des-mims-rev-wanika-k-stephens-and-kulwa-apara-along-the-line-ep-92/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-cant-breathe-the-george-floyd-protests-with-the-blacktivist-des-mims-rev-wanika-k-stephens-and-kulwa-apara-along-the-line-ep-92

The Moral Authorty of the Lockdown Fetishists Is Gone. Thank the Protestors and Rioters
Daniel Horowitz | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-06
It was the biggest news story and most consequential policy decision of our lifetime. | The lockdowns destroyed potentially 53% of our GDP, paralyzed our health care system, shut down our education system, and induced a physical and mental health crisis along with a social, economic, and labor catastrophe that we still can't begin to conceptualize. | Yet we were told it…
anti-empire.com/the-moral-authorty-of-the-lockdown-fetishists-is-gone-thank-the-protestors-and-rioters/

The Establishment Only Dislikes Trump Because He Puts an Ugly Face on The Empire
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-06
Barack Obama has given his perfunctory speech about the Black Lives Matter protests taking place in America today, and it was every bit as full of pretty words and empty of actual substance as you'd expect from a president who spent eight years stagnating the progressive movement with empty hope narrative while advancing the same murderous oppressive agendas as his predecessors. | The former president talked about changes that need to be made as though he wasn't the most p…
ahtribune.com/us/americas-collapse/4208-trump-puts-an-ugly-face-on-the-empire.html

Police kill unarmed 22-year-old man in Vallejo, California
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-06
The Vallejo, California Police Department has a well-established track record of brutality and murder. | On Tuesday, June 2, Vallejo police gunned down an unarmed 22-year old whose last text sent was one asking his sisters to sign a petition protesting the police murder of George Floyd.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833865.php

San Rafael Says "Say Their Names"
Downtown Protest | indybay.org | 2020-06-06
28 names on a cardboard sign…Black Americans murdered by police. There are many many more, protesters lamented.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833846.php

Police Use of Tear Gas Could Make the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-06
When Amira Chowdhury joined a protest in Philadelphia against police violence on Monday, she wore a mask to protect herself and others against the coronavirus. But when officers launched tear gas into the crowd, Chowdhury pulled off her mask as she gasped for air. "I couldn't breathe," she said. "I felt like I was choking to death." | Chowdhury was on a part of the Vine Street Expressway that ran underground. Everyone panicked as gas drifted into the dark, semi-enclosed space, she said. People stomped ove…
truthout.org/articles/police-use-of-tear-gas-will-make-the-coronavirus-pandemic-worse/

Police Use of Tear Gas Could Make the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-06
Chowdhury was on a part of the Vine Street Expressway that ran underground. Everyone panicked as gas drifted into the dark, semi-enclosed space, she said. People stomped over her as they scrambled away. Bruised, she scaled a fence to escape. But the tear gas found her later that evening, inside her own house; as police unleashed it on protesters in her predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia, it seeped in. | "I can't even be in my own house without escaping the violence of the state," said C…
truthout.org/articles/police-use-of-tear-gas-will-make-the-coronavirus-pandemic-worse/

Black Lives Matter protests spread to three continents
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-06
Thousands of people have rallied in Europe and Australia to honour George Floyd and to voice support for the Black Lives Matter movement.The worldwide wave of solidarity following the killing of Floyd in Minneapolis also served to highlight racial discrimination outside the United States.In Paris, demonstrators tried to gather in front of the US Embassy, defying restrictions imposed by authorities because of the coronavirus pandemic. | They were met by riot police and French security forces sealed off the embassy behind an imposing ring of metal barriers and roadblocks."You can fine me 10,000 or 20,000 times, the…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/06/06/black-lives-matter-protests-spread-to-three-continents/

Thousands rally outside US embassy in Paris against police brutality in America & France (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-06
A huge crowd protested outside the US embassy in central Paris over George Floyd's death and the brutality of law enforcement in France, in violation of the ban on public gatherings introduced by the French capital. | Several hundred people came to Place de la Concorde, not far from the US embassy and the French Presidential Palace, despite the city authorities banning the rally due to the Covid-19 pandemic and violent outbursts during a similar event mid-week. | Plusieurs dizaines de personnes ont réussit à atteindre la Place de la Concorde, malgré le dispositif de police important autour de la zone. Ils récl…
rt.com/news/491065-france-floyd-protests-adama/

'We're coming to get you out of the White House': NBA champion sends warning to Trump amid George Floyd protests
rt.com | 2020-06-06
Former basketball star Stephen Jackson promised US President Donald Trump that he will not be re-elected this fall as protests against police brutality hit all of the states and receive support from overseas. | "I'm making you a promise, you will not be in the White House come November. You will not be reelected, I'm telling you now," Jackson, who won an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2003, said in a video posted on Instagram. | "We're coming to get you out of the White House," he said. | Jackson earlier told the media that he became a close friend of George Floyd years ago as they both grew…
rt.com/usa/491031-jackson-trump-floyd-protests/

Biden hits delegate target to cement Democratic nomination after gaffe-prone campaign as protests overshadow election
rt.com | 2020-06-06
Former Vice President Joe Biden has become the Democratic presidential nominee for 2020, scoring enough delegates to secure the nomination despite a string of embarrassing gaffes and major distractions from the race. | Also on rt.com | | Biden apologizes for telling black DJ he 'ain't black,' but his supporters were already making excuses for him | Though a number of contests remain in this year's primary season, Biden reached the threshold for his party's nomination on Friday night, winning support from 1,993 delegates, according to the Associated Press."
rt.com/usa/491010-biden-nomination-delegates-primary/

'We all bleed the same color': Thousands of demonstrators turn out for BLM protests across Germany (PHOTOS/VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-06
Huge rallies across Germany mark yet another European country to see anti-racism protests inspired by Black Lives Matter demonstrations that began in the US. | Videos and photographs show hundreds of people assembled on the banks of the Rhine River in the city of Cologne as they hold signs reading "End police brutality" and "We all bleed the same color." | Danke #Kà∂ln & es wird immer voller. (Alle tragen Masken & alle versuchen Abstand zu halten) | Was fà§llt auf? Mit 33Jahren gehà∂re ich zu den à§lteren Teiln…
rt.com/news/491038-cologne-germany-blm-protests-video/

New York Police Deputy Commissioner Says Looting Across City Intelligence Failure of NYPD
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – John Miller, the deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism of the New York Police Department (NYPD), said that looting across the city amid George Floyd protests was an intelligence failure of NYPD.
sputniknews.com/us/202006061079541963-new-york-police-deputy-commissioner-says-looting-across-city-intelligence-failure-of-nypd/

Fox News Mocked As 'Attack and Dethrone God' Warning Goes Viral on Twitter
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
As protests and demonstrations engulf the United States in opposition to police violence, some media platforms have suggested that those involved are part of an anti-capitalist movement infiltrated by the radical left.
sputniknews.com/viral/202006061079541615-fox-news-mocked-as-attack-and-dethrone-god-warning-goes-viral-on-twitter/

People in London Protest Against Police Brutality Following George Floyd's Death – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
Nationwide protests erupted in the United States and spread to other countries in late May following the death of African American man, George Floyd, during detention by police in Minneapolis.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006061079537495-people-in-london-protest-against-police-brutality-following-george-floyds-death—video/

Video: Thousands March Across Golden Gate Bridge in Black Lives Matter Protest, Blocking Traffic
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
San Francisco is one of many major US cities that has joined the wave of nationwide protests against police brutality sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody over a week ago.
sputniknews.com/us/202006061079541458-video-photo-thousands-march-across-golden-gate-bridge-in-black-lives-matter-protest/

Open Letter: African Writers In Solidarity With African Americans
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-06
We support the protests in the United States and across the world as our people demand justice for any and all racial killings whether by police or civilians. We are aware that these are not quiet protests. We do not expect it and neither should the United States of America. The killings were not done quietly. The police brutality and state sanctioned murders were done loudly with no fear of consequences from those who perpetrated them. | We acknowledge the African Union's condemnation of the United States government's continual terrorism towards African-Americans. We believe that the African Union can and should…
popularresistance.org/open-letter-african-writers-in-solidarity-with-african-americans/

More Than 10,000 People Reportedly Arrested At US Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-06
More than 10,000 people have been arrested in protests decrying racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death, according to an Associated Press tally of known arrests across the U.S. | The count has grown by the hundreds each day as protesters spilled into the streets and encountered a heavy police presence and curfews that give law enforcement stepped-up arrest powers. | Los Angeles has had more than a quarter of the national arrests, followed by New York, Dallas and Philadelphia. Many of the arrests have been for low-level offenses such as curfew violations and failure to disperse. Hundreds we…
popularresistance.org/more-than-10000-people-reportedly-arrested-at-us-protests/

Organizing against police brutality in Boston
| workers.org | 2020-06-06
By Queen-Cheyenne and Leighsandra Sheppard This talk was jointly read at the June 4 Workers World Party webinar on "It is right to rebel against police terror." Before we begin, we just want to inform everyone that we will be discussing police and military violence and our experiences on the . . . | Continue reading Organizing against police brutality in Boston at Workers.org…
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First Person: Collecting the 'Book of Life' for coral reefs
news.un.org | 2020-06-06
With the climate crisis threatening coral reefs around the world, a researcher in Hawaii is part of a team pioneering new techniques to preserve living coral sperm and larvae, and ultimately save the biodiversity and genetic diversity of coral reefs not just in Hawaii but across the world.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065642

Climate Crisis: Black Lives Matter, Looting Puerto Rico, And California's Environmental Racism
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-06
This week the climate justice movement says Black Lives Matter, disaster capitalists are still looting Puerto Rico, and California is neglecting to fix the environmental racism of its oil infrastructure.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-black-lives-matter-looting-puerto-rico-and-californias-environmental-racism

Climate Crisis: Black Lives Matter, Looting Puerto Rico, And California's Environmental Racism
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-06
This week the climate justice movement says Black Lives Matter, disaster capitalists are still looting Puerto Rico, and California is neglecting to fix the environmental racism of its oil infrastructure.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-black-lives-matter-looting-puerto-rico-and-californias-environmental-racism

The real looters pocketed $11.7 billion
Deirdre Griswold | workers.org | 2020-06-06
Who are the real looters? They wear elegant business suits, not hoodies or jeans. They dine at fancy restaurants, not hotdog stands. They hang out in boardrooms, not on street corners. Bankers Get Out of Jail Free Monopoly They don't rob banks. They ARE the banks. They are the U.S. . . . | Continue reading The real looters pocketed $11.7 billion at Workers.org…
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Syria: Will the Great Middle Eastern War Begin in the Levant?
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-06
The world is in turmoil. 2020 has already brought major multiple crises, with the Iranian-American clash in Iraq which followed the US assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, and the COVID-19 health pandemic and economic disaster that struck all continents and stole the lives of over 400 thousand people around the world, costing tens of millions of jobs. None of this, however, prevented America from imposing even more sanctions on Iran, Syria and Venezuela. Iran

La grande guerre du Moyen-Orient sera-t-elle déclenchée au Levant?
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-06
Le monde est en pleine tourmente. L'année 2020 a déjà apporté son lot de crises majeures. D'une part, l'affrontement USA-Iran à la suite de l'assassinat du major général Qassem Soleimani par les USA. D'autre part, la pandémie de COVID-19 et la catastrophe économique qu'elle entraàÆne, qui ont coûté la vie à environ 400 000 personnes dans le monde et fait perdre des dizaines de millions d'emplois. Rien de tout cela n'a cependant empêché les USA d'imposer encore plus de sanctions contre l'Iran, la Syrie et lu Venezuela. L'Iran, qui est déjà soumis à des sanctions maximales depuis 1979, a envoyé cinq pétrolier…

La grande guerre du Moyen-Orient sera-t-elle déclenchée au Levant?

China's Message to Donald: What Do You Want from Us?
Lin Liangduo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
Translated from Chinese for Global Research. | Enough is enough. Enough hypocrisy for this one world. | What do you want from us, anyway? What Do You Really Want from Us? | When we were the sick man of Asia, we were called …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-message-to-donald-what-do-you-want-from-us/5701954

The Slippery Slope to Despotism: Paved with Lockdowns, Raids and Forced Vaccinations
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
"You have no right not to be vaccinated, you have no right not to wear a mask, you have no right to open up your business… And if you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally …
globalresearch.ca/despotism-lockdowns-raids-forced-vaccinations/5713570

The Truth Behind the Murder of Robert F. Kennedy: Conspiracy and Cover-up
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
On June 6, 2020, we will be commemorating the passing of Robert F. Kennedy. His legacy will live. Below is Michael Welch's Global Research radio interview with William Pepper. A full transcript is included. | "I went there because I …
globalresearch.ca/the-truth-behind-the-murder-of-robert-f-kennedy-conspiracy-and-cover-up/5642703

The Tests: The Achilles Heel of the COVID-19 House of Cards
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
"The tool is not the problem, it's what we do with it." |

German Official Leaks Report Denouncing Corona as 'A Global False Alarm'
Daniele Pozzati | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
Germany's federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from Germany's Ministry of the Interior. | | Wir machen unsere Leser auf die Zusammenfassung dieses wichtigen durchgesickerten Berichts aufmerksam, der …
globalresearch.ca/german-official-leaks-report-denouncing-corona-global-false-alarm/5714528

Politics and Corruption at the World Health Organization (WHO)
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
This article, translated from French, was written prior to the Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic outbreak | *** | The WHO [OMS in French] is the World Health Organisation. 'WHO' in English

A Strategy for Global Democracy and Wealth Sharing
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-06-06
By Peter Phillips It is time for power to the people! Global capitalist inequality contributes directly to health pandemics, environmental degradation, and mass poverty. Elite-corporate oligarchs control the governments and…
projectcensored.org/a-strategy-for-global-democracy-and-wealth-sharing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-strategy-for-global-democracy-and-wealth-sharing

Turkish-Russian trade-off in Libya?
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-06
Moscow seems to have concluded that Haftar can't win, and opted to cut its losses | The success of forces aligned with Libya's UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) in taking full control of Tripoli, ending Gen. Khalifa Haftar's year-long siege of the capital, and going on to capture the town of Tarhouna, is a major triumph for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It was his decision to give his full military backing to the GNA that turned the tables both in the air and on the ground: crucially the squadrons of Bayrakdar drones he deployed, and the thousands of battle-hardened Islamist fighters he…

Turkish-Russian trade-off in Libya?

How to safely go to your doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-06
Are you wondering if it's time to schedule those doctor appointments you've been putting off? Restrictions related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are easing in many places, but you may still have concerns about COVID-19. Learn how to stay safe from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) while getting the care you need. Do your homework Before you …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-to-safely-go-to-your-doctor-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Australian government hands more cash to big business as recession deepens
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
The slump began before the main COVID-19 pandemic restrictions commenced, and has led to the greatest loss of livelihoods since the 1930s Great Depression.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/econ-j06.html

How to travel safely during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-06
Are you considering rescheduling travel that you put off because of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? Maybe you have work or family obligations that require you to travel. Yet worries about safe travel and lodging are holding you back. Get the facts about your travel options and learn how to protect yourself if you must travel. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/6-3-how-to-travel-safely-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

The COVID-19 Exposure
John Morrissey | zcomm.org | 2020-06-06
We must renew efforts to document the rapacious and unsustainable destructiveness of the capitalist web of life, and we must argue convincingly for other ways of living…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-covid-19-exposure/

As the world approaches 7 million cases of COVID-19, the pandemic casts a broader net
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
While governments move to open their economies there will be over 7 million cases and over 400,000 deaths by the end of the weekend.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/viru-j06.html

Racial inequalities contribute to higher unemployment rates in black communities, new research reveals
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-06
The "devastating effects of COVID-19 on the economic and physical well-being of black Americans were entirely predictable given persistent economic and health disparities."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/06/racial-inequalities-contribute-to-higher-unemployment-rates-in-black-communities-new-research-reveals/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: How information technology helps in the COVID-19 response
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-06
During to the COVID-19 pandemic, teleworking and distance learning has become a necessity. The new normal means many people needed technology to do their jobs, and that is certainly true at Mayo Clinic. Information technology (IT) has aided Mayo Clinic during the pandemic in two significant ways. One, thousands of employees moved out of their offices …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-how-information-technology-helps-in-the-covid-19-response/

This is how COVID-19 is affecting indigenous people
John Letzing | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-06
The indigenous also suffer from a relatively high degree of socio-economic marginalization that makes them more vulnerable. This dynamic is not new.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/06/this-is-how-covid-19-is-affecting-indigenous-people/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Expedited breast cancer treatment
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-06
During the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing that hasn't stopped is the need for cancer treatment. While patients might be hesitant to leave their homes for weeks at a time for treatment, there is a fast-track treatment option at Mayo Clinic for some breast cancer patients. Certain low-risk breast cancer patients can now complete their surgery and radiation …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-expedited-breast-cancer-treatment/

Over 20,000 tons of diesel spilled in Russian Arctic river
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
The catastrophe on the Ambarnaya underlies the dangers bound up with the "new scramble for the Arctic" by the major powers and corporations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/arct-j06.html

Collaborations with Grenfell Tower Inquiry must end after corporate witnesses granted legal immunity
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
The attorney general announced that any statements given to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry by companies cannot be used as evidence against them in a future prosecution.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/gren-j06.html

Don't believe the hype: Unemployment increased in May
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-06
San José, CA – Corporate-owned media is blaring that the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell in May to 13.3%, from 14.7% in April. This was far better than even the most optimistic economist expected and even led to at least one to declare that "the recession is over." Well, when something is too good to be true, it usually isn't true. | This report flies in the face of all the other reports on the job market in May. The Labor Department's own report on continuing unemployment insurance claims, including regular state unemployment insurance, the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), the federal Pandemic…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/5/don-t-believe-hype-unemployment-increased-may

UK: Prime Minister's Questions reveals Labour's complicity in Tory back-to-school campaign
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
Every capitalist party in the world is working on behalf of the corporations to impose a reckless return to "the new normal."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/star-j06.html

Don't believe the hype: Unemployment increased in May
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-06
San José, CA – Corporate-owned media is blaring that the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell in May to 13.3%, from 14.7% in April. This was far better than even the most optimistic economist expected and even led to at least one to declare that "the recession is over." Well, when something is too good to be true, it usually isn't true. | This report flies in the face of all the other reports on the job market in May. The Labor Department's own report on continuing unemployment insurance claims, including regular state unemployment insurance, the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), the federal Pandemic…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/5/don-t-believe-hype-unemployment-increased-may

Rally and March to Defund MPD after George Floyd: Day 12
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-06
Minneapolis, MN

Rally and March to Defund MPD after George Floyd: Day 12
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-06
MINNEAPOLIS

Julián Gil: "Our triumph and our victory should be the hope and strength in being together"
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-06
Two years have passed since social leader Julian Gil was detained in front of the office of Colombian social movement Congreso de los Pueblos. We share his reflections on his two years of incarceration…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/06/julian-gil-our-triumph-and-our-victory-should-be-the-hope-and-strength-in-being-together/

Julián Gil: "Our triumph and our victory are in the hope and strength of being together"
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-06
Two years have passed since social leader Julian Gil was detained in front of the office of Colombian social movement Congreso de los Pueblos. We share his reflections on his two years of incarceration…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/06/julian-gil-our-triumph-and-our-victory-are-in-the-hope-and-strength-of-being-together/

From George Floyd back to the structural violence of capitalism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-06
Across the country–in city after city–the people have erupted in righteous indignation to George Floyd's recorded lynching. His extrajudicial murder set off a rebellion that had been primed by the highly publicized white-vigilante murder of Ahmaud Arbery and the botched, "no-knock" police raid that killed Breonna Taylor in her bed.
mronline.org/2020/06/06/from-george-floyd-back-to-the-structural-violence-of-capitalism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-george-floyd-back-to-the-structural-violence-of-capitalism

DOJ Inspector General investigates prison guards killing inmate with pepper spray
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-06
"He died because of the mace. You do not mace an asthmatic…They murdered my son."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/06/doj-inspector-general-investigates-prison-guards-killing-inmate-with-pepper-spray/

Unanswered Questions Drive Convalescent Plasma Research
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-06
Kari Houser donating convalescent plasma On Saturday, March 14, in southwest Wisconsin, a woman was working in her yard, raking and clearing the first spring weeds. She coughed a bit during the day, and felt some achiness in her lower back, some fatigue. It was in the high 30s that day, but she was warm …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/unanswered-questions-drive-convalescent-plasma-research/

UK: After the clapping stops–The way forward for NHS workers
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
Things came to a head last week because it has become impossible for the government to maintain the charade of unity behind "our carers."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/clap-j06.html

The Shallow Deep-State Goes Deeper as It Moves Toward Martial Law
Edward Curtin | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-06
I am not trying to be cute and play with words. That title is meant to convey what it says, so let me explain. The people who own the United States and their allies around the world have a plan. It is so simple that it is extremely devious. Their plan has been in operation …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-shallow-deep-state-goes-deeper-as-it-moves-toward-martial-law/

Not So Young, Gifted, and Black
Simone L. Ward | zcomm.org | 2020-06-06
It is time to put words into action. Don't ask what you should do. Just do something. This is the information age. There is no excuse for inaction…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/not-so-young-gifted-and-black/

Plummeting vaccinations in the US and globally put millions of children at risk
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
WHO experts warn that at least 80 million of the world's children under the age of one are at risk of diseases such as diphtheria, measles and polio due to a massive decrease in routine immunizations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/decl-j06.html

What chance of pulling off a GCC reconciliation?
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-06
Trump is trying to get Saudi Arabia and the UAE to make up with Qatar, but only to rally them all against Iran | The feud within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has been brought back to pubic attention by US President Donald Trump's latest bid to ease it. He has reportedly been trying to persuade Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to re-open their airspace to Qatari airliners because its closure forces them to detour over Iran and earns the country a substantial income in over-flight fees. We haven't been told of details of these efforts, or whether they have made any headway. | The GCC crisis erupted in the summer of 2…

What chance of pulling off a GCC reconciliation?

Muslim Worshipers Perform Friday Prayers on Threatened Palestinian Land
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-06
Dozens of Muslim Palestinian worshipers reportedly performed Friday prayer, on the land of the village of Hares, in the Salfit District, northern occupied West Bank. According to the mayor of Hares, Omar Samara, said that this Friday's prayer is the second to be performed on the same piece of land …
imemc.org/article/muslim-worshipers-perform-friday-prayers-on-threatened-palestinian-land/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=muslim-worshipers-perform-friday-prayers-on-threatened-palestinian-land

Slain Palestinian's Home, Mourning Tents Invaded by Israeli Police in Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-06
Israeli police, on Thursday evening, invaded the home and mourning tent of Palestinian martyr, Eyad al-Hallaq, in Wad al-Jouz neighborhood in Occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said that the Israeli police searched the family home and mourning tent, showing grave disrespect, and provoking confrontations with locals, …
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Israeli Military and Police Forces Detain Palestinians, including Journalist
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-06
Israeli police detained four Palestinian youths from occupied Jerusalem, on Saturday, local sources reported. Sources told the Palestinian Information Center that the Israeli police closed the Bab al-Amud or Damascus Gate, one of the entrances to the Old City, for several hours. Police reportedly abducted three youths in the area, …
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Trump hails dubious May jobless report to boost stock market, back-to-work drive
wsws.org | 2020-06-06
An unexpected decline in the unemployment rate in May is being used by the White House to declare the pandemic-fueled economic crisis over.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/usjo-j06.html

Selected Articles: The Corona "Global False Alarm"
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-06
Israel Is, Like the US, Prime Target for New Mass Uprising | By Michael Jansen, June 05, 2020 | Having announced he would begin the process to annex portions of the occupied Palestinian West Bank on July 1, he must be …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-covid-19-neoliberalism-campaign-against-racism/5715188

A Cult of Death
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-06
I do not believe that a nation dies save by suicide. To the very last every problem is a problem of will; and if we will we can be whole. | G.K. Chesterton | I | It is not easy to comment on the period we are now living through. While most discussion is limited to news accounts and medical bulletins focused on a disease supposedly in circulation since the start of the year, a few more forward-looking critics are daring to report on the alleged mismanagement of the related emergency. In any case, it is already clear that the reactions and opinions triggered by the viral pathology, on which debate is strictly fixed…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/06/cult-of-death/

The Battle of Moscow
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-06
The Battle of Moscow was the first strategic defeat of the German army on the ground during the World War II. Moscow became the first capital city in continental Europe not to be captured as a result of German offensive.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/06/the-battle-of-moscow/

Will the U.S. Military Hammer Strike the Citizen Nails?
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-06
When the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems begin to look like nails. This year alone, the U.S. government will spend roughly $740 billion on its military, though the real figure when you add in all costs exceeds a trillion dollars. With so much "invested," as the Pentagon likes to say, in that military, there's a strong tendency to see it as the solution to the most stubborn problems. All problems become nails either to be whacked down or pulled out and discarded depending upon which end of the military hammer our rulers choose to employ. | Americans are used to "our" military being used to hammer h…
ahtribune.com/us/americas-collapse/4207-military-hammer-strike-the-citizen.html

Africa's Feeble Responses to Crawford Murders, Trump Cowardly in Total Silence
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-06
At last, some voices have been raised in Africa on Crawford's murder against none the continent's self-anointed latter-day savior — America of AFRICOM ignominy. It is a country where a sense of shame has no place in dispensing what America does best: dispensing misery and destruction, spread lies, mass slaughter and fake moral rectitude. The blatant shamelessness is to be found in an America whose president labeled African countries and Haiti as "shithole countries", but still negotiates…
ahtribune.com/world/4205-trump-cowardly-in-total-silence.html

The arrests of officers in the George Floyd murder is part of pacification campaign
WeCopwatch | indybay.org | 2020-06-06
What we have been seeing the last couple days is the beginning of a pacification campaign. Police violence is growing an uncontrollable and leaderless movement and now that the rabbit has the gun, the state is working on overdrive to pacify a popular rebellion before it creates space for substantial change. This campaign is layered and we must pay attention as:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833808.php

100,000 Covid19 deaths later, USA empire blames China instead
DLI | indybay.org | 2020-06-06
After getting lots of info and warnings on then emerging global Covid19 pandemic in January & February, the USA ruling elite chose to ignore and sidestep best practice measures to combat the impending disaster. Instead, both White House and Congress continued bipartisan bickering, in addition to simply blaming China and the WHO for not getting the word out sooner. This is the typical m.o. of a serial global bully, who offers nothing but wild criticism of others while doing nothing to resolve urgent problems.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/04/18833803.php

Sunday 6/7: National Service of Mourning for Poor & Low-income Workers Lost to COVID-19 (PPC)
Poor Peoples Campaign & partners | indybay.org | 2020-06-06
Online livstream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833870.php

Private prison corporations profit from civil unrest in Washington D.C
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-06
Letter From Nancy Pelosi To The Impeached President Donald J. Trump:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833845.php

As CO2 Levels Hit New High, Earth Experiences Its Hottest May on Record
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-06
The Earth just experienced its hottest May on record, scientists said Friday

Companies Are Using Pandemic to Squeeze Money From Incarcerated People Like Me
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-06
The sun is shining bright as it sits high in the clear blue sky. Its warmth comforts the skin as a light breeze blows. The view of the beach is breathtaking. Everyone there has a bright smile, and at first glance, one would think this was a snapshot of the perfect moment in time. | These are the types of photographs you'll find on the website linked to one of the largest communications providers for prisons and jails in the United States, Securus. Prison communications companies like Securu…
truthout.org/articles/companies-are-using-pandemic-to-squeeze-money-from-incarcerated-people-like-me/

Breaking With AFL-CIO, Affiliated Labor Council May Vote to Expel Police Union
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-06
The executive board of MLK Labor, the central body of labor groups which represents more than 150 unions and 100,000 workers in the Seattle, Washington, area approved a resolution Thursday giving an ultimatum to the Seattle Police Officers Guild: Address Seattle Police Department's systemic racism or face potential expulsion. | The Police Officers Guild represents and negotiates labor contra…
truthout.org/articles/breaking-with-afl-cio-affiliated-labor-council-may-vote-to-expel-police-union/

As UK braces for post-lockdown 'crime tsunami,' some turn to TRAINED DOGS for security
rt.com | 2020-06-06
The UK is bracing for a crime wave, with unemployment soaring and US riots on every screen. But unlike Americans, Brits cannot own guns

WHO's next? Quitting UN health body is an option unless it stops being 'partisan' & 'political', Brazil's Bolsonaro says
rt.com | 2020-06-06
Shortly after the WHO warned Latin America that lifting lockdowns would be premature, President Bolsonaro threatened to consider quitting the "partisan" entity. It comes as Brazil's Covid-19 cases surges past 600,000. | "I'm telling you right now, the United States left the [World Health Organization], and we're studying that [possibility], in the future," Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told journalists Friday. Eith…
rt.com/news/491013-brazil-considers-leaving-who/

Dutch farmers will kill 10,000 mink for fear of coronavirus. Are pigs and cattle next?
rt.com | 2020-06-06
Coronavirus deaths in the Netherlands have plummeted. Still, the government has ordered the slaughter of 10,000 captive mink, the first sign of a potential US-style mass cull. | Bred in captivity for their fur, mink are subjected to some appalling conditions throughout their short lives. However, the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a new threat into the lives of these creatures. After their handlers infected mink on Dutch farms with Covid-19 in April, and af…
rt.com/news/491071-netherlands-cull-mink-animals/

The Heat: Political Unrest in U.S. Amid Upbeat Economic News
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-06-06
Amid civil unrest and a global pandemic, some positive news in the United States, the economy adding 2.5 million jobs.
america.cgtn.com/2020/06/06/the-heat-political-unrest-in-u-s-amid-upbeat-economic-news

Iranians know very well chief of well-dressed terrorists in White House
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Iranian Parl. attacked by US-backed terrorists in 2017: Mousavi
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Al-Kazemi's cabinet completed after parliament's vote of confidence
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Many articles of US-Iraq strategic agreement to be amended: Iraqi politician
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 07 (MNA)

Tehran, Barcelona mull over technological experiences in battling COVID-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Desert locust to fuel hunger in Asia, Pacific: FAO
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Iran registers 2269 new COVID-19 infections, 75 deaths
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Pres. Rouhani felicitates Sweden on National Day
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

11 security personnel killed in Afghanistan bomb blast
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 07 (MNA)

US has no right to initiate anything under UNSCR 2231: Iran UN envoy
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Iran, Spain stress police diplomacy relations
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Iran can supply agricultural needs by implementing crop pattern: FAO expert
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Iran's 'foreign trade council' established to boost non-oil goods exports
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Neor Lake in Ardabil Prov
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
ARDEBIL, Jun. 06 (MNA)

German envoy to Iran to tender his resignation: report
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Responding to US president pointless, wrong: expert
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Agreement between OPEC members 'goes ahead' as predicted: Zanganeh
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

'Funfair' goes to Palm Springs film festival
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Michael White expelled due to disease exacerbation, human rights considerations: Iranian official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-06
TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA)

Early Rebound Expected for Asia Pacific Tourism Industry Hit by COVID-19, Says Senior APEC Official
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
APEC member states are looking for ways to revive the tourism sector, which prior to the coronavirus pandemic was the backbone for the region's SMEs, contributing $1.5 trillion to GDP.
sputniknews.com/interviews/202006061079540622-early-rebound-expected-for-asia-pacific-tourism-industry-hit-by-covid-19-says-senior-apec-official/

US Media Calls Russia's Mysterious Khabarovsk-Class Sub Potential 'Defining Submarine of 2020'
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
In addition to being a major component of Russia's overall naval doctrine, submarines are of crucial importance to the country's nuclear triad, with their silent operations lurking under the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic and Pacific guaranteeing a strategic response in the event of an enemy first strike.
sputniknews.com/military/202006061079537910-us-media-calls-russias-mysterious-khabarovsk-class-sub-potential-defining-submarine-of-2020/

Scientists Call For 'Urgent' Action to Prevent 'Probable' Second Coronavirus Outbreak
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
Calls for a public inquiry into Boris Johnson's widely criticised handling over the Covid-19 pandemic are picking up steam, with some arguing that if such action is not taken, the UK risks an even higher death toll.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006061079538249-UK-public-inquiry-coronavirus/

'Beware of the Dog': Secrets of Ancient Pompeii Mosaic Laid Bare by Archaeologist
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
As archaeologist Bethany Hughes explained, the mosaic in question served as the inspiration for "millions of modern doormats".
sputniknews.com/science/202006061079537580-beware-of-the-dog-secrets-of-ancient-pompeii-mosaic-laid-bare-by-archaeologist/

'Can't Stand to See This Punk in Office': Snoop Dogg Says He'll Vote For First Time in 2020
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
The US presidential election is scheduled for 3 November 2020, with incumbent President Donald Trump facing Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who has formally cinched the nomination, having secured the necessary number of delegates.
sputniknews.com/us/202006061079541356-cant-stand-to-see-this-punk-in-office-snoop-dogg-says-hell-vote-for-first-time-in-2020/

On the Brink? Western Countries Launch New Anti-China Alliance
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-06
With tensions continuing to boil between China and the West over a host of security and economic issues, the latter has decided to ramp up the confrontation to a new level.
sputniknews.com/world/202006061079537372-anti-china-west-alliance/

Qatar blockade enters fourth year: Timeline
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
On June 5, 2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt abruptly severed diplomatic relations with Qatar and imposed a land, sea, and air blockade in hopes of making it comply with a long list of demands. | The four states accuse Doha of supporting terrorism, an allegation vociferously denied by Qatar, describing the Saudi-led embargo as a violation of international law. | Over the past three years, Kuwait has been trying to resolve the rift, but without success so far. | Here is a timeline of landmark dates since the crisis started. | April 20, 2017 | The first of 13 Op-eds appears in U…
yenisafak.com/en/news/qatar-blockade-enters-fourth-year-timeline-3531351

Iraq parliament makes Ihsan Ismail oil minister: lawmakers
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
Iraq's parliament on Saturday approved Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismail as oil minister, lawmakers said.The parliament also approved the nomination of several other ministers including foreign, trade, justice and culture.Ismail is the chief of Iraq's state-run Basra Oil Company.
yenisafak.com/en/news/iraq-parliament-makes-ihsan-ismail-oil-minister-lawmakers-3531358

Libyan army liberates Wadi Wishka, moves to Sirte
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
The Libyan army on Saturday liberated Wadi Wishka area near the eastern city of Sirte from militias of warlord Khalifa …
yenisafak.com/en/news/libyan-army-liberates-wadi-wishka-moves-to-sirte-3531355

Libyan army launches operation to retake Sirte, Jufra
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
The Libyan army launched a military operation on Saturday to liberate cities in eastern and central Libya from militias of warlord Khalifa Haftar. | In a statement, military spokesman Abdel-Hadi Dara said the operation, code-named "Path of Victory", aims to liberate the cities of Sirte and Jufra and the towns of Wadi Wishka, Buerat, Jarif and Qasr Abu Haid from Haftar's forces. | He said warplanes struck two military vehicles belonging to Haftar south of Wadi Wishka. | For his part, army spokesman Mohammed Kanunu said government forces have been ordered to advance towards Wadi Wishka and Sirte. | He said Libyan w…
yenisafak.com/en/world/libyan-army-launches-operation-to-retake-sirte-jufra-3531350

Egypt's Sisi announces new Libya initiative with eastern-based leaders
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced a new initiative for Libya on Saturday alongside east Libya-based leaders, which proposes an elected leadership council and a ceasefire starting on June 8.Speaking alongside Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar and eastern parliament head Aguila Saleh in Cairo, Sisi said the agreement included a call for negotiations in Geneva and the exit of all foreign fighters from Libya.
yenisafak.com/en/news/egypts-sisi-announces-new-libya-initiative-with-eastern-based-leaders-3531352

Libyan speaker meets Haftar in Egypt
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi held talks Saturday in Cairo with Speaker of east Libya-based parliament Aquila Saleh and warlord Khalifa Haftar, according to an Egyptian presidential spokesman. | Bassam Radi said the talks came as "Libya's security is considered an extension of Egypt's national security, in addition to the impact of the current Libyan situation on the regional and international scene". | Speaking at a press conference following the talks, al-Sisi said he agreed with Saleh and Haftar to launch a political initiative to resolve the conflict in Libya. | The initiative, al-Sisi said, calls fo…
yenisafak.com/en/world/libyan-speaker-meets-haftar-in-egypt-3531354

Libyan army liberates Wadi Wishka, moves to Sirte
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
The Libyan army on Saturday liberated Wadi Wishka area near the eastern city of Sirte from militias of warlord Khalifa Haftar, a military spokesman said. | "Our forces managed to seize control of Wadi Wishka area and are advancing towards Buerat, 95 km from Sirte ," Ibrahim Beit al-Mal told Anadolu Agency. | Earlier Saturday, the Libyan army launched a military operation, code-named "Path of Victory", to capture the cities of Sirte and Jufra and the towns of Wadi Wishka, Buerat, Jarif and Qasr Abu Haid from Haftar's forces. | The move came one day after the army liberated the strategic city of Tarhuna

Italy hopes EU nations will open borders to Italians from June 15
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
Italy hopes other EU countries will reopen their borders to Italian citizens on June 15, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Saturday, as coronavirus travel restrictions across Europe are gradually eased.Italy – which has the world's fourth-highest COVID-19 death toll after the United States, Britain and Brazil – opened its doors to other EU citizens on June 3, but most European countries are still largely off-limits for Italian nationals."June 15 is an important date for many of our citizens," Di Maio told a news conference during a visit to neighbouring Slovenia.Slovenian Foreign Minister Anze Logar told the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/italy-hopes-eu-nations-will-open-borders-to-italians-from-june-15-3531360

Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 407 to 183,678
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 407 to 183,678, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Friday.The reported death toll rose by 33 to 8,646, the tally showed.
yenisafak.com/en/world/germanys-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-rise-by-407-to-183678-3531347

Iran's death toll from pandemic surpasses 8,200
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
Iran on Saturday confirmed 75 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,209. | A further 2,269 people tested positive for the virus, raising the overall count to 169,425, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said. | Jahanpour said 130,300 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, while 2,578 patients remain in critical condition. | Some 1.06 million tests have been conducted in the country so far, according to the spokesman. | The country continued seeing an upward trend in daily infections in many provinces, especia…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irans-death-toll-from-pandemic-surpasses-8200-3531353

Ireland's phased plan to ease coronavirus lockdown
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
Ireland has announced a revised schedule for gradually re-opening the economy over the coming months, speeding the easing of coronavirus restrictions.These are the measures planned in each of the remaining phases of the plan, which will be reviewed if there is a spike in the number of infections, hospital admissions or deaths.Phase 2: From June 8- Allow for people to travel within their own county, or up to 20 km from their homes, whichever is greater- A maximum of six people will be able to meet with each other indoors- All retail outlets can open (shopping centres to open June 15)- Public libraries a…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irelands-phased-plan-to-ease-coronavirus-lockdown-3531359

Turks stream out for first lockdown-free weekend in nearly two months
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
Turks streamed outside on Saturday for their first weekend without a coronavirus lockdown in nearly two months, the day after President Tayyip Erdogan suddenly scrapped a stay-at-home order.Cafes, restaurants and other facilities had reopened on Monday as infection rates slowed and restrictions on intercity travel had been lifted as the infection rate slowed.On Saturday, people flooded beaches and shores in Istanbul, and hundreds queued to get into parks. Others bought ice cream in the warm weather – under new hygiene rules. In the capital, Ankara, daytrippers caused traffic jams."The last time I was here was 70…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turks-stream-out-for-first-lockdown-free-weekend-in-nearly-two-months-3531357

Moscow's annual book fair draws crowds despite coronavirus curbs
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
Hundreds of Moscow residents flocked to an open-air book fair in Red Square on Saturday, though some publishing houses opted to stay away as city authorities keep most coronavirus restrictions in place.Organisers of the annual book fair, which was attended by 300,000 people last year, have implemented numerous measures to stem the spread of the virus – with chairs spaced one metre apart and temperature checks at the entrance."You either mourn that the industry is in crisis or go and take part in the book fair with all the precautions in place," said Natalia Eihwald from the Kompas-Gid children's publishing house,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/moscows-annual-book-fair-draws-crowds-despite-coronavirus-curbs-3531356

Pakistan appoints special envoy to Afghanistan
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
Pakistan has appointed a senior diplomat as its special ambassador to Afghanistan following spearheaded efforts to start intra-Afghan negotiations aimed at ending Washington's longest war in neighboring Afghanistan.Mohammad Sadiq Khan, who had served as Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan from 2008 to 2014, called on Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi soon after the announcement of his new assignment in capital Islamabad, a statement from the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.Khan, a former spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, would play "an effective role in strengthening ties" between the two neighboring cou…
yenisafak.com/en/news/pakistan-appoints-special-envoy-to-afghanistan-3531349

Warsaw hopes some US troops based in Germany will be moved to Poland
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-06
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday he hoped that some of the U.S. troops that are set to be removed from Germany will be reassigned to Poland.U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to cut the number of U.S. troops stationed in Germany, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. The move would reduce the U.S. troop presence in Germany by 9,500 troops from the 34,500 troops that are currently permanently assigned there."I deeply hope that as a result of the many talks that we had … part of the troops based today in Germany which are being removed by the United States … will inde…
yenisafak.com/en/world/warsaw-hopes-some-us-troops-based-in-germany-will-be-moved-to-poland-3531346

'Major Co-Option': Without Action, Hospitals' BLM Statements Are Performative
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-06
As the fight against racial inequality in the US has become a national, pervasive movement following the killing of Minneapolis, Minnesota, resident George Floyd, many corporations have argued that they too are helping in the struggle for justice. One anonymous doctor reminds Sputnik that these statements, without acts, are simply performative. | An academic physician based in Washington, DC, who wished to remain anonymous joined Radio Sputnik's Political Misfits on Friday to provide insight on performative allyship and how their own hospital is contributing to the problematic practice. | "I just witnessed major…
popularresistance.org/major-co-option-without-action-hospitals-blm-statements-are-performative/

More Than 17,000 Troops In 23 States And DC Activated
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-06
The National Guard has drastically increased its response to unrest sweeping America over what prosecutors say was the murder of a handcuffed black man by Minneapolis police. There are now more than 17,000 National Guard troops in 23 states and the District of Columbia have been activated to help quell the unrest. | That's more than a three-fold increase in just over a day. | "The hardest mission we do is responding in times of civil unrest," Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said in a statement posted on the NGB homepage ."The activation of Guard members in response to civil unre…
popularresistance.org/more-than-17000-troops-in-23-states-and-dc-activated/

Defeat The War Against The African/Black People In The US And Abroad
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-06
The ruling class is befuddled and confused about how to respond to the ongoing street demonstrations sparked by the murder of George Floyd. The mobilizations clearly disrupted their plans for "normalcy" with the forced opening of the economy. The ferocity of the demonstrations that had not been seen since the brief uprising in 92 in response to the Rodney King verdict seems to have caught the authorities completely by surprise. | In the 1992 street actions in Los Angeles the nation and the world saw the first multi-racial, multi-national street action that was very different from the Black rebellions that rocked…
popularresistance.org/defeat-the-war-against-the-african-black-people-in-the-us-and-abroad/

Police Unions: It's Time To Change The Law And End The Abuse
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-06
Collective action is the source of working people's power. It is the source of the labor movement's power. It is the source of power that has enabled workers to secure

Two U.S. Senators Determined to Stop Nord Stream 2 by Imposing Extra Sanctions
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
The Nord Stream 2 project involves the construction of two gas pipelines with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea. The gas pipeline will run through the …
globalresearch.ca/two-us-senators-determined-stop-nord-stream-2-imposing-extra-sanctions/5715141

US Carries Out First Airstrikes Against Taliban Since End of Afghan Ceasefire – Official
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-05
A ceasefire, which was part of the peace deal negotiated between the Afghan government and the Taliban with the mediation of the United States earlier this year, expired on 26 May.
sputniknews.com/world/202006051079528634-us-carries-out-first-airstrikes-against-taliban-since-end-of-afghan-ceasefire—official/

Goliath is not invincible
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-06-05
Last year, I walked with Mariela Machado in her housing complex known as Kaikachi in the neighbourhood of La Vega (Caracas, Venezuela). After Hugo Chávez was inaugurated president in 1999, a group of working-class residents of the city saw an empty piece of land and occupied it. Mariela and others went to the government and …
mronline.org/2020/06/05/goliath-is-not-invincible/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=goliath-is-not-invincible

George Floyd Protests: US Arrests Now Higher Than Hong Kong Protest Total Figures
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-05
While the world condemns China for its response to the Hong Kong protests, the numbers and the images make clear that the US has responded to its popular uprising with more force and less tolerance than Beijing…
mintpressnews.com/george-floyd-protests-us-arrests-now-higher-than-hong-kong-protest-total-figures/268292/

Fake Taxis Among the Latest Tools in the NYPD's Rights-Busting Crackdown on Protesters
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-05
The NYPD is famous for violating civil rights so it comes as no surprise that protests over the police brutality in the city have elicited a violent crackdown from the city's finest.
mintpressnews.com/fake-taxis-among-latest-tools-in-nypd-rights-busting-crackdown-on-protesters/268301/

George Floyd Protests: US Arrests Now Higher Than Hong Kong Protest Total Figures
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-05
While the world condemns China for its response to the Hong Kong protests, the numbers and the images make clear that the US has responded to its popular uprising with more force and less tolerance than Beijing | MPN– After just over a week of demonstrations, the number of Americans arrested in the George Floyd protests far exceeds that of over a year's worth of protests in Hong Kong. A survey of just 30 police departments conducted on Tuesday found that they had collectively detaine…

George Floyd Protests: US Arrests Now Higher Than Hong Kong Protest Total Figures

Extraordinary Disconnect Between Stock Prices and Economic Collapse
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
US equity prices are near or at all-time highs at a time of unprecedented economic collapse, a festering main street Depression, unemployment way higher than in the 1930s, with no prospect for a V-shaped recovery, only its illusion. | The Wall …
globalresearch.ca/extraordinary-disconnect-between-stock-prices-economic-collapse/5715159

Shahid Buttar vs. Pelosi + Leslie Lee + Rania Khalek + Eugene Puryear
Rania Khalek | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-05
Chat about protests and presidents and everything in between with Shahid Buttar: immigrant, constitutional lawyer, DJ, MC & poet running to replace Nancy Pelosi in CA-12; journalist, activist, author, former D.C. Statehood Green Party candidate, and former PSL candidate Eugene Puryear, fresh from reporting in Minneapolis; journalist, video producer, writer and host Rania Khalek; and writer, broadcast journalist and Struggle Session co-host Leslie Lee.

Shahid Buttar vs. Pelosi + Leslie Lee + Rania Khalek + Eugene Puryear

India: No need for federal agency to probe Muslim group
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-05
India's government said on Friday there is no need for separate probe by a federal agency into a gathering of a Muslim religious group in March, which has been blamed for the coronavirus outbreak in the country.The Tablighi Jamaat has recently faced public vilification in India, as the country's initial coronavirus cases in April were being linked to its gatherings, especially one in the capital New Delhi in March.In a written response on Friday, the government told the Supreme Court that the Delhi police's probe into the group's activities is "progressing on a day-to-day basis" and efforts are being made to comp…
yenisafak.com/en/world/india-no-need-for-federal-agency-to-probe-muslim-group-3531296

'Wolf Warrior Diplomacy': Israel's China Strategy in Peril
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
Israel's balancing act that allowed it to reap America's unconditional and, often, blind support, while slowly benefiting from China's growing economic influence and political prestige, is already floundering. Thanks to the heated cold war between the US and Chinese economic superpowers, the Israeli strategy of playing both sides is unlikely to pay dividends in the…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/wolf-warrior-diplomacy-israels-china-strategy-in-peril/

Paris denies that Guaido is hiding in French Embassy in Caracas as Venezuela demands he be handed over
rt.com | 2020-06-05
France has rejected allegations that Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has been holed up inside the nation's diplomatic mission in Caracas. Venezuelan authorities earlier labeled Guaido a "fugitive from justice." | "Juan Guaido is not at the French residence in Caracas. We have repeatedly confirmed this to the Venezuelan authorities," French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Agnes von der Muhll said. | Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza earlier claimed that Guaido, who was named 'interim president' by the opposition-controlled parliament last year, has been hiding inside the French Embassy, and deman…
rt.com/news/490878-venezuela-guiado-french-embassy/

Venezuelan FM says Guaido is holed up in French Embassy in Caracas, calls on Paris to 'hand over the fugitive'
rt.com | 2020-06-05
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has taken refuge at the French Embassy in the country's capital, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said. Guaido previously sought to shoot down the rumors, insisting he is "with the people." | "We cannot enter the premises of any country's embassy whatsoever, in this case Spain or France," Arreaza said on Thursday, referring to both Guaido and fellow opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, who fled to a Spanish diplomatic compound soon after a failed attempt to spark an insurrection in April 2019. Arreaza said this means that any arrest of the two men "is not possible." | We hop…
rt.com/news/490841-guaido-french-embassy-foreign-minister/

Dems Introduce Bill to Curb President's Insurrection Act Powers After Trump Threatens to Send Troops to Cities Across US
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-05
After President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the U.S. military in response to ongoing protests against police brutality and systemic racism in cities across the country, a group of Democratic senators on Thursday introduced legislation to curb the president's power to do so under the Insurrection Act of 1807. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/blumenthal_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/05/dems-introduce-bill-curb-presidents-insurrection-act-powers-after-trump-threatens?cd-origin=rss

The Path Beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share
Vandana Shiva | commondreams.org | 2020-06-05
The game billionaires play is not worthy of being called economy, either as care for the home, or as the art of living. It is exractive, naked money making, at war with life and creativity. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/stop_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/05/path-beyond-extinction-and-escape-return-earth-regenerate-and-share?cd-origin=rss

Video: Turkish-led Forces Capture Tripoli Airport and Advance Even Further
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
On June 3, the Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) announced a military offensive to capture Tripoli Airport from the Libyan National Army (LNA) and push the LNA back from the southern suburbs of the city of Tripoli itself. | GNA …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-led-forces-capture-tripoli-airport-advance-further/5715120

Jim Cramer: Coronavirus Pandemic Triggered 'One of the Greatest Wealth Transfers in History'
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-05
Small businesses are "dropping like flies," said the "Mad Money" host. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/wealth-transfer.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/05/jim-cramer-coronavirus-pandemic-triggered-one-greatest-wealth-transfers-history?cd-origin=rss

Watch: Police Pepper-Spray Black Filmmaker in Face at Peaceful Protest & Medics Help Him Survive
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-05
As the nationwide uprising in defense of Black lives continues, demonstrators are recording videos of police brutality on the streets. We speak with Chris Frierson, an African American documentary filmmaker and cameraman who was filming a Black Lives Matter protest on Saturday in Brooklyn, New York, when police moved in on demonstrators. As Frierson filmed, police pepper-sprayed him directly in the face. Chris kept on filming as he struggled to the sidewalk crying in agony from the pain. Within seconds, someone took his arm and guided him to volunteer medics who came to his aid. We air his footage and speak about…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/5/chris_frierson_filmmaker_pepper_sprayed

"Get Your Knee Off Our Necks": At Memorial for George Floyd, Mourners Condemn 400 Years of Racism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-05
In Minneapolis, members of George Floyd's family, loved ones and supporters gathered for a tribute to his life. During the memorial service, people stood in silence for eight minutes and 46 seconds

Our System Is Corroded: Carol Anderson on Rampant Police Violence and Assault on Voting Rights
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-05
On Thursday, disturbing new details were revealed in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old Black man who was chased, ambushed and shot dead by a group of white men in Georgia in what many have called a modern-day lynching. In a nearly seven-hour hearing, a state judge concluded all three men

Trump Has Adopted a "Viva Death!" Approach to the Presidency
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-06-05
The protests are not just calling for an end to police brutality in Black communities, but for much more fundamental restructuring of social and economic institutions…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-has-adopted-a-viva-death-approach-to-the-presidency/

Noam Chomsky: Trump Has Adopted a "Viva Death!" Approach to the Presidency
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-05
As protests against racist police violence rock the country, fascism ascends in the Trump White House and the COVID-19 pandemic persists, this country is at a pivotal moment. I spoke about this flash point in history with Noam Chomsky, known as the father of modern linguistics, who is one of the world's most prominent public intellectuals and the author of over 100 books, including Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Optimism Over Despair, Hopes and Prospects, Masters of Mankind and Who Rules the…
truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-trump-has-adopted-a-viva-death-approach-to-the-presidency/

Roaming Charges: Mad Bull, Lost Its Way
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
Trump the Brigand ranting about "law & order" in the Rose Garden, as tear gas deployed against nonviolent protesters swirls across the capital of a country that is mourning 105,000 dead and yet is still locking up kids in cages, pretty much capsulizes where the Republic stands at this fraught moment.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/roaming-charges-mad-bull-lost-its-way/

Solidarity Includes Wearing a Mask at Protests
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
The nationwide outpouring of protests during the last 10 days has provided a historic moral response to the murder of George Floyd. In one city after another, people braved tear gas, pepper spray, clubs and other weaponry

Confronting Institutional Racism
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
A week ago in Minneapolis, for all the world to see, a black man, George Floyd, was murdered by a policeman, Derek Chauvin. Protests broke out in nearly 100 American cities, and even worldwide, and have continued now for more than a week. Murders of black men by police in America are not new. They…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/confronting-institutional-racism/

[Letter] COVID-19: Compounding the health-related harms of human trafficking
Richard Armitage, Laura B Nellums | thelancet.com | 2020-06-05
Those affected by human trafficking are exposed to multiple severe health risks, including physical, sexual, and psychological violence, occupational hazards, and deprivation, and usually require urgent medical care to address the physical and psychological consequences of extreme exploitation [1]. COVID-19 threatens to exacerbate the health disparities faced by this vulnerable group.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30153-X/fulltext?rss=yes

WW statement in solidarity with rebellion
Workers World staff | workers.org | 2020-06-05
The following Workers World Party public statement was issued on June 4. In SOLIDARITY we demand: Withdraw the Police & National Guard! End Mass Arrests & Curfews! Drop All Charges! Hands Off Antifa! Stop Attacks on Anti-Racist Protesters! Smash White Supremacy! No Justice! No Peace! Black Lives Matter! Minneapolis protest . . . | Continue reading WW statement in solidarity with rebellion at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49129/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ww-statement-in-solidarity-with-rebellion

In response to George Floyd lynching, sports figures in solidarity with Black Lives Matter
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-06-05
"When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction. The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance. We have the right to fight back! Rest in Power George Floyd." Colin Kaepernick on . . . | Continue reading In response to George Floyd lynching, sports figures in solidarity with Black Lives Matter at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49123/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-response-to-george-floyd-lynching-sports-figures-in-solidarity-with-black-lives-matter

New U.S. military intervention subverts peace in Colombia and Venezuela
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-05
The United States Embassy in Bogotá announced on May 28 that the U.S. is sending 50 or so soldiers of the Army's 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) to Colombia. They would be carrying out consultations with Colombian Army commanders and providing them with technical assistance, both in order to fight narco-trafficking. The collaboration will …
peoplesworld.org/article/new-u-s-military-intervention-subverts-peace-in-colombia-and-venezuela/

Thank You, Peaceful Protesters!
Paul Cantor | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
Protest! No Justice No Peace. Sunday May 31st. Location: Stop & Shop. That was the message I received in my email Saturday. So Sunday I set out on a two mile walk to join the protest. And as I did so my mind took me on another trip entirely. First stop 2009. I am sitting…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/thank-you-peaceful-protesters/

Showdown on 16th Street
Jefferson Morley | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
The zone of incomprehension was about a foot wide. That was the distance separating a boisterous but peaceful crowd of several hundred protesters and a silent line of several dozen uniformed Airborne Rangers in downtown Washington DC on Wednesday night. A young black woman in long braids patrolled the zone with a bullhorn, alternately telling…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/showdown-on-16th-street/

What is the Bougaloo Movement?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-05
There has been persistent speculation that peaceful protests against racism and police brutality may have been infiltrated by white provocateurs.
mronline.org/2020/06/05/115274/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=115274

Police Brutality Protesters Met With More Brutality: Is Martial Law Next?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-05
Police across the US have met protesters with violence, tear gas, and rubber bullets. We speak with Otto the Watchdog, injured by police in Denver, and Tawanda Jones, who has led peaceful anti-brutality protests since her brother's death in custody.
therealnews.com/stories/police-brutality-protesters-more-brutality-is-martial-law-next

Lakota and Navajo respond as police blind and beat reporters and peaceful protesters
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-06-05
Lakota and Navajo respond, as news reporters and peaceful protesters are shot, blinded and beaten during Black Lives Matter protests. In Albuquerque, The Red Nation group was stalked and confronted by white vigilantes working with Albuquerque Police officers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/04/18833707.php

Friday 6/5: Fire Jared Yuen – One Week After Peaceful Protest (San José)
JH | indybay.org | 2020-06-05
San José City Hall | 200 E Santa Clara St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833821.php

Thursday 6/4: We Demand Justice Caravan – Peaceful Protest
One Richmond | indybay.org | 2020-06-05
Meet at JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/04/18833712.php

Pandemic and Digital Divide Threaten Accurate Census Count of Native Populations
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-05
Every 10 years, the U.S. government undertakes the largest peace-time mobilization effort to count the nation: the U.S. census. Census data is used in a variety of ways. It determines everything from how many congressional representatives communities have, the apportioning of federal funds for community needs, the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the health of the U.S. economy. | People from marginalized communities are…
truthout.org/articles/pandemic-and-digital-divide-threaten-accurate-census-count-of-native-populations/

ENTIRE emergency response team of Buffalo Police Department resigns over suspension of cops who pushed elderly protester
rt.com | 2020-06-05
All 57 members of the Buffalo Police Department's Emergency Response Team have quit their unit in protest after two officers were suspended without pay over their unprovoked attack on an elderly peaceful protester. | The officers resigned from their positions en masse on Friday after their colleagues were suspended without pay the previous night as a "show of support and disgust," local media reported. They have not quit the police department entirely, however. | The Erie County District Attorney is investigati…
rt.com/usa/490987-buffalo-riot-police-unit-resign/

ENTIRE emergency response team of Buffalo Police Department resigns over suspension of cops who pushed elderly protester
rt.com | 2020-06-05
All 57 members of the Buffalo Police Department's Emergency Response Team have quit their unit in protest after two officers were suspended without pay over their unprovoked attack on an elderly peaceful protester. | The officers resigned from their positions en masse on Friday after their colleagues were suspended without pay the previous night as a "show of support and disgust," local media reported. They have not quit the police department entirely, however. | The Erie County District Attorney is investigati…
rt.com/usa/490987-buffalo-riot-police-unit-resign/

'They don't do that': Governor Cuomo denies NYPD brutalized peaceful protesters despite video evidence
rt.com | 2020-06-05
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo denied accusations that New York City police officers have used batons against people peacefully protesting against the death of George Floyd, even though multiple videos show them doing so. | During a press briefing on Thursday, Cuomo called the allegations "incendiary rhetoric," asking the reporter who brought them up: "Do you think there's any sensible police officer who believes their job is bludgeoning a peaceful person with a baton?" | "It's not a fact! It's not even an opinion! That is a hyper-partisan rhetorical attack!" he continued, adding that NYPD officers "don't do t…
rt.com/usa/490837-cuomo-police-incendiary-rhetoric/

Racist Rizzo statue taken down
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-06-05
Philadelphia Philadelphia city officials removed the hated Frank Rizzo statue, long the target of demonstrations against police brutality and white supremacy, during the night of June 3. Rizzo was Philadelphia police commissioner from 1968 to 1971 and mayor from 1972 to 1980. In both roles, Rizzo targeted Black activists, including . . . | Continue reading Racist Rizzo statue taken down at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49132/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=racist-rizzo-statue-taken-down

ICE Wants to Deport Marc Petitpierre to Switzerland
Russell Mokhiber | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
People in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia will remember Marc Petitpierre as the political activist who would ride his Segway all over town. Petitpierre lived in Berkeley Springs for fourteen years from 1991 to 2005, when a divorce forced a move to Martinsburg. In Martinsburg, Petitpierre held jobs at McDonald's, Sheetz, FedEx and elsewhere. But his…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/ice-wants-to-deport-marc-petitpierre-to-switzerland/

Nijmie Zakkiyah Dzurinko: "State violence has many fronts"
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-05
Activist from Put People First! Pennsylvania discusses the denial of healthcare as an aspect of state violence and historic, systemic oppression of Black, Indigenous and working class people in the US…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/05/nijmie-zakkiyah-dzurinko-state-violence-has-many-fronts/

Enough Is Enough! Thousands Speak Out & Rally In SF Against Murder of George Floyd
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-05
Ten to fifteen thousand youth, activists and fighters against racism rallied and marched against the murder of George Floyd.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/04/18833714.php

How Endless War Contributes to Police Brutality
Bonnie Kristian | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
The indefensible death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers and the indiscriminate police violence in subsequent protests have returned police misconduct to the center of our national conversation. | It is not a conversation we may quickly …
globalresearch.ca/how-endless-war-contributes-to-police-brutality/5715179

Israel Is, Like the US, Prime Target for New Mass Uprising
Michael Jansen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be very worried over the US-wide protests by African-Americans and their supporters against the murder by smothering of a black man by a white police officer on May 25. | Having announced he would begin …
globalresearch.ca/israel-prime-target-new-mass-uprising/5715175

The Murder of George Floyd: Racism and the Dark History of Slavery Colonialism. How it Relates to France
Sianny Rooney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
Riots have sparked all over US' cities for more than a week now for the extrajudicial killing of a black man named George Floyd on May 25 in Minnesota, USA. Similar protests on police's violence after the death of George …
globalresearch.ca/murder-george-floyd-relates-dark-history-slavery-colonialism-comparison-france/5715133

Police Use Contact Tracing and Big Tech to Identify Protesters
MassPrivatel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
Countless warnings about how law enforcement could use contact-tracing apps to monitor people have gone unheeded. | As BGR.com revealed police are using contact tracing to identify protester's affiliations. | "According to Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harringon, officials there have been | …
globalresearch.ca/police-use-contact-tracing-big-tech-identify-protesters-updated/5715177

Obama's Essay on Protests: Maintaining the Status Quo
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
Former President Barack Obama has weighed in on the current civil unrest and ongoing racial injustice. While most people recognize his intelligence, especially when compared to the irrational blustering of his successor, his calm, measured opinion on how the nation …
globalresearch.ca/obama-protests-maintaining-status-quo/5715184

Don't Stop Organizing
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis | thenation.com | 2020-06-05
Don't Stop Organizing…
thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-protest-inequality/

Protests spread in Chile as hospitals reach saturation point
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
The loss of life is the outcome of decades of pro-corporate policies that have led to a chronically underfunded health system, now on the verge of collapse and extreme poverty.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/chil-j05.html

Everywhere is War
Stanley L. Cohen | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
Like a chorus of obedient social referees, pundits of all pedigree and purpose, the political and the pompous have tripped over one another the last few days as they race to be the first and loudest to dictate to hundreds of thousands in the streets, in this country, what is and what is not acceptable protest. All that has been missing from this stew of politically correct is announcing to the world, from statehouses and zoom alike, is the mascot… some of my best friends are …
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/everywhere-is-war-3/

A Tale of Two Americas
Tracey L. Rogers | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
As protests and riots spread like wildfire across the nation in response to the death of George Floyd and other black people at the hands of white police officers, I cannot help but recall an old African Proverb: "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/a-tale-of-two-americas/

Generals Are Not the People's Ally
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
James Mattis is not a friend of the people protesting in the streets. He is the same murdering general he always was. People who think otherwise are only fooling themselves. He still thinks shooting people is "sometimes fun." He still supports the ongoing presence of US military around the globe. He still believes the US…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/generals-are-not-the-peoples-ally/

As US protests Show, the Challenge is How to Rise Above the Violence Inherent in State Power
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
Here is one thing I can write with an unusual degree of certainty and confidence: Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin would not have been charged with the (third-degree) murder of George Floyd had the United States not been teetering on a knife edge of open revolt. Had demonstrators not turned out in massive numbers on the streets…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/as-us-protests-show-the-challenge-is-how-to-rise-above-the-violence-inherent-in-state-power/

Why is it so Hard to Hold Police Accountable?
aclu.org | 2020-06-05
Police are supposed to "protect and serve" the community, but that's a far cry from what modern-day policing often looks like in our country. The recent murders of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and others highlight the need for drastic systemic change, yet again, as Americans across the country take to the streets in protest., , "The reason I'm out here is because I have two college degrees, but yet I'm still treated like I'm nothing," one protester in Brooklyn told At Liberty this week. "I'm tired of hearing, there are a few rotten apples. There's not a few rotten apples.
aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/why-is-it-so-hard-to-hold-police-accountable

German protests in solidarity with George Floyd and against police violence
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
The brutal video-recorded murder has shocked people in Germany and many have taken to the streets in protest.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/germ-j05.html

Police And Their Apologists Have Already Lost The Argument
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-05
Social media has been flooded with an endless stream of footage of police brutality as Black Lives Matter protests continue throughout the United States. As of this writing everyone's talking about a 75 year-old man who was knocked unconscious after being forcefully shoved for getting in a police officer's way at a protest in Buffalo, New York, but it will soon be replaced by other headline-grabbing videos of physical assault by…

Police And Their Apologists Have Already Lost The Argument

Washington's Hong Kong Hypocrisy Backfires
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-05
The mass protests raging across the United States over the police killing of yet another African-American man have had the salutary effect of exposing Washington's rank hypocrisy in international relations. | In particular, before the gruesome death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers on May 25, President Donald Trump and Congressional lawmakers were building a provocative campaign of vilification against China. That campaign was related to groundless claims that Beijing had engaged in an alleged cover-up of the coronavirus pandemic. | U.S. efforts to undermine China were given added impetus after Bei…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/05/washingtons-hong-kong-hypocrisy-backfires/

Stop The Police Murders & Repression! Fruitvale Plaza Rally After Murder Of George Lloyd
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-05
A rally was held at the Oscar Grant/Fruitvale BART Plaza in Oakland on June 1 to protest the murder of George Lloyd and many many others by the police.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/03/18833694.php

Law Enforcement Seizes Thousands of Masks Sent to Protect Protesters From COVID
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-05
In an effort to help protect protesters from Covid-19 and prevent the spread of the virus, an advocacy organization sent thousands of cloth masks that read "Defund Police" and "Stop Killing Black People" to major cities across the U.S. as demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd continue to grow nationwide. | But as HuffPost's Ryan Reilly reported late Thursday, law e…
truthout.org/articles/law-enforcement-seizes-thousands-of-masks-sent-to-protect-protesters-from-covid/

Trump's Antifa Conspiracy Theory Attempts to Erase Powerful Black-Led Organizing
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-05
The George Floyd protests have swept the country in a spontaneous explosion of rage. Their scope and intensity have equaled the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, which inspired nationwide actions. | But some widespread theories on the right are circulating about the protests that are attempting to undermine the work of Black-led organizing efforts. The right widely claims that anti-fascists (antifa) or "anarchists" are behind the violence, while some liberal officials initially claimed white supr…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-antifa-conspiracy-theory-attempts-to-erase-powerful-black-led-organizing/

GRAPHIC VIDEO shows officers pushing protester, knocking him UNCONSCIOUS, then claim he 'tripped'
rt.com | 2020-06-05
A chilling video captured an elderly protester being shoved to the ground by officers in Buffalo as they moved in to clear the area after the curfew. The man could be seen lying motionless while bleeding from his ear. | Graphic footage shows police officers swarming the area in front of City Hall in Buffalo, New York right after its 8pm curfew went into effect on Thursday. As police advance on protesters, a man with what looks like a smartphone in his hand approaches the officers leading the procession in an attempt to confront them. | WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO | Just about an hour ago, police officers shove man…
rt.com/usa/490839-buffalo-police-graphic-fall/

Philadelphia man accused of assaulting police sees charges dropped after VIDEO shows officer smashing his head with BATON
rt.com | 2020-06-05
A student accused of attacking a policeman during a protest in Philadelphia has been cleared of wrongdoing, with footage of the incident belying the assault allegations and showing officers unleashing batons on demonstrators. | All charges were dropped against the 21-year-old student, Evan Gorski, on Wednesday after prosecutors viewed online videos of the encounter, according to Gorski's attorney, R. Emmett Madden. | "The police were lying. We had a protest against police brutality, and then police brutalize my client and try to frame him for a crime he didn't commit," Madden said. | #phillyprotest
rt.com/usa/490840-philadelphia-student-police-beating/

Trump campaign blasts Twitter for CENSORSHIP as George Floyd clip taken down due to copyright claim
rt.com | 2020-06-05
US President Donald Trump's campaign team slammed Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey for "censoring" its video, made amid the police brutality protests and unrest across American cities. | The clip, titled 'Healing, Not Hatred', was posted on Twitter on Thursday, but has been taken down due to what appears to be an unspecified copyright claim. | Twitter and @Jack are censoring this uplifting and unifying message from President Trump after the #GeorgeFloyd tragedy. | The…
rt.com/usa/490847-trump-campaign-twitter-floyd-censorship/

Patrol officer SET ON FIRE during police brutality protests over 'Mexican George Floyd' (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-05
A police officer was set on fire while confronting a group of demonstrators in Mexico. Protests and rioting in the country were triggered by the death of a local man shortly after his detention. | The incident occurred in the city of Guadalajara, the capital of Mexico's western state of Jalisco. The video circulating on social media shows a group of police officers on motorcycles in a standoff with protesters. At one point, a man wearing a mask and dark sunglasses pours flammable liquid on the back of one of the officers and sets him on fire. | The policeman runs and falls to the pavement as fellow officers an…
rt.com/news/490864-mexico-protests-police-fire/

What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-05
Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: When coronavirus and protests collideAustralian authorities are taking legal action to try to stop a Black Lives Matter protest scheduled for Saturday in Sydney, citing the risk of an outbreak of COVID-19 given the thousands expected to attend.French police have also banned a demonstration planned for Saturday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Paris because of what they said were risks of social disorder and health dangers from large gatherings.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Robert Redfiel…
yenisafak.com/en/life/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-coronavirus-right-now-3531289

Veterans Protest Trump's Threats To Send Active Duty Military To Cities
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-05
Army veteran Aubrey Rose cuts a striking figure at Denver's ongoing protests

Nation mourns George Floyd as uprising against racism continues
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-05
Beneath the backdrop of unrelenting coast-to-coast multi-racial protests, six days of mourning began for George Floyd with a memorial service at North Central University in Minneapolis. Mr. Floyd was murdered May 25 in a public extrajudicial racist police execution. Others joined in prayer, left flowers, cards, played music, and sang at a memorial created at …
peoplesworld.org/article/nation-mourns-george-floyd-as-uprising-against-racism-continues/

Push Back: US Police State Faces Revolt
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-05
Dr. Gerald Horne on the George Floyd protests, the black freedom struggle, and Trump's expansion of the US police state at home and around the world. | Historian and author Gerald Horne discusses the US uprisings against police brutality and systemic racism sparked by George Floyd's killing; the devastating impact of the US government's decades-old war on the black freedom struggle; the ongoing "Russia-baiting" of the protests; and how, amidst the suffering and repression at home, the U.S. government, in bipartisan fashion, continues to attempt to impose its will on countries abroad, from China to Venezuela. | Gu…
popularresistance.org/push-back-us-police-state-faces-revolt/

Black Misleaders Seek To End Protest
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-05
The aftermath of George Floyd's murder at the hands of Minneapolis, Minnesota police has created a national political crisis. The revulsion caused by this latest killing caught on camera spawned protests in Minneapolis and all over the country. Black people are the angriest, knowing they are at risk of the same treatment and because most police killings rarely result in convictions. | But the mass actions present a problem for the rulers. Anger boiled beneath the surface after years of the race to the bottom austerity regime, the worsening economic collapse in the wake of the COVID-19 quarantine, and another Demo…
popularresistance.org/black-misleaders-seek-to-end-protest/

Turkish parliament expels three opposition MPs convicted for dissident acts
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-05
Two of the MPs from the pro-Kurdish HDP have been convicted of belonging to a "terrorist organization" and the other from the Republican People's Party has been persecuted for providing information to a journalist…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/05/turkish-parliament-expels-three-opposition-mps-convicted-for-dissident-acts/

Trump intensifies campaign to brand domestic opposition as terrorism
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
The White House's planned use of anti-terrorism units to apprehend "agitators" is aimed at criminalizing opposition to police violence and the policies of the oligarchy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/pers-j05.html

Philippines begins lifting lockdown despite rising infection rates
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
President Duterte is seeking to suppress any opposition to the premature reopening through the extension of his emergency powers and a new anti-terrorism bill.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/phil-j05.html

Portland holds vigil honoring victims of state violence
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-05
Portland, OR – A casket sat at the bottom of the steps of Terry Shrunk plaza, as a sizeable crowd gathered to remember the lives of the most recent victims of state terror carried out by our nation's police force, May 29. | Impassioned speeches, song and poetry filled the plaza as speakers stressed the need for continual action and solidarity against racism and institutional white supremacy. | "The reality is, is that white America has accepted the fact that black and brown bodies are expendable. That in order for you to feel secure, we have been silenced while our bodies continue to pile up," said Portland City…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/5/portland-holds-vigil-honoring-victims-state-violence

Portland holds vigil honoring victims of state violence
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-05
Portland, OR – A casket sat at the bottom of the steps of Terry Shrunk plaza, as a sizeable crowd gathered to remember the lives of the most recent victims of state terror carried out by our nation's police force, May 29. | Impassioned speeches, song and poetry filled the plaza as speakers stressed the need for continual action and solidarity against racism and institutional white supremacy. | "The reality is, is that white America has accepted the fact that black and brown bodies are expendable. That in order for you to feel secure, we have been silenced while our bodies continue to pile up," said Portland City…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/5/portland-holds-vigil-honoring-victims-state-violence

May confirmed as warmest on record, CO2 levels hit new high despite COVID economic slowdown
news.un.org | 2020-06-05
Last month was the warmest May on record and carbon dioxide levels also hit a new high despite the economic slowdown from COVID-19, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday, in an urgent appeal for Member States to renew their efforts to tackle climate threats.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065732

We Cannot Postpone Climate Talks Until 2021
Ilana Cohen | thenation.com | 2020-06-05
Lawmakers need to wake up: Climate change and the injustices it generates won't break for Covid-19. So the United Nations Climate Change Conference can't, either.
thenation.com/article/environment/climate-conference-postpone/

Because Imperialists Rape: Anarcha-Feminism In the Ashes of the MeToo Era
Nicky Reid | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
The MeToo Movement died last month. It bled out slowly as it limped to the barn. It's hard to say who the triggerman was behind the coup de grace, but it wasn't Joe Biden. That derelict beast is anything but a feminist and this wound was clearly self-inflicted. My guess is the artery was severed…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/because-imperialists-rape-anarcha-feminism-in-the-ashes-of-the-metoo-era/

Russia's Invitation to G7 Summit Sparks Debate
Kester Kenn Klomegah | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
The rescheduling of the Group of Seven (G7) summit from late June to September and Russia's invitation to participate alongside Australia, India and South Korea has sparked discussions among both Russian officials and experts. | The Kremlin reported that Russian President …
globalresearch.ca/russia-invitation-g7-summit-sparks-debate/5715186

First Person: Countering COVID-19 misinformation in Venezuela
news.un.org | 2020-06-05
The virus of false information and fake news which has proliferated globally as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, has not spared the crisis-wracked South American country, Venezuela. But the United Nations there is countering the misinformation by making sure that Venezuelans receive trustworthy and reliable information about the deadly virus.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065682

The Corona Crisis: BS is Running Wild! Where does One Start?
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
Well, let's go to that sea of new human interest corporate commercials saying how they all 'Care about you during this pandemic'. | All those nice and decent companies want to see you through this, of course IF you use their …
globalresearch.ca/the-corona-crisis-bs-is-running-wild-where-does-one-start/5715130

The World Desperately Needs the Wisdom of Bobby Kennedy Now More than Ever
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
Today's fires which have spread across America in the wake of George Floyd's murder at the knee of Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin has presented America with the chance to do some serious soul searching. It has also presented …
globalresearch.ca/world-desperately-needs-wisdom-bobby-kennedy-now/5715149

Beyond Nuclear Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging High-Level Radioactive Waste Dump for Entire Inventory of US "Spent" Reactor Fuel
Beyond Nuclear | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
Today the non-profit organization Beyond Nuclear filed an appeal with the U.S. Cou…
globalresearch.ca/beyond-nuclear-files-federal-lawsuit-challenging-high-level-radioactive-waste-dump-entire-inventory-us-spent-reactor-fuel/5715160

The Media Has Conveniently Forgotten George W. Bush's Many Atrocities
James Bovard | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
Former president George W. Bush has returned to the spotlight to give moral guidance to America in these troubled times. In a statement released on Tuesday, Bush announced that he was "anguished" by the "brutal suffocation" of George Floyd…
globalresearch.ca/media-forgotten-george-w-bush-many-atrocities/5715170

Video: COVID-19 "Fake" Data in Italy: Politician Slams False Numbers: Vittorio Sgarbi
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
Vittorio Sgarbi, MP (Forza Italia) slammed the closure of 60% of Italian businesses: A decision which was taken on the basis of an alleged 25,000 Coronavirus deaths. "It's not true," he said. | . | According to the National Institute of Health, …
globalresearch.ca/video-covid-19-fake-data-in-italy-politician-slams-false-numbers-vittorio-sgarbi/5712274

Human COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Unnecessary, Uninformative, and Unethical
William A. Haseltine | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
Deliberately infecting healthy human volunteers with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in order to test the efficacy of potential COVID-19 vaccines is unnecessary, uninformative, and unethical. And it risks destroying trust in the integrity of science and medicine for generations to come. | …
globalresearch.ca/human-covid-19-vaccine-trials-unnecessary-uninformative-unethical/5715182

Gangster State Capitalism
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-05
Hanne Herland of the European Herland Report has just had her book published in which she argues that the ruling elite has resurrected feudalism by financializing the economy and offshoring middle class jobs. The title is New Left Tyranny, but it is about gangster state capitalism. | www.amazon.com/NEW-LEFT-TYRANNY-Authoritarian-Destruction/dp/1949586081/ | Historically, capitalism freed labor from bondage by making labor the private proper…

Gangster State Capitalism

The Six-Day War: The Myth of an Israeli David Versus an Arab Goliath
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-05
The son of an Israeli General, Miko Peled reflects on the nefarious intent behind what was presented to the world as the heroic triumph of an outmatched Israel vs its aggressive Arab neighbors.
mintpressnews.com/six-day-war-myth-of-an-israel-david-versus-arab-goliath/268270/

As 42.6 Million Americans File for Unemployment, Billionaires Add Half a Trillion Dollars to Their Cumulative Wealth
Chuck Collins | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
In a turbulent week across the nation, the wealth of U.S. billionaires surged past half a trillion dollars since the beginning of the pandemic unemployment. The announcement on June 4th that an additional 1.9 million more have filed for unemployment in the last week means that 42.6 million Americans have filed since March 18th, according…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/as-42-6-million-americans-file-for-unemployment-billionaires-add-half-a-trillion-dollars-to-their-cumulative-wealth/

Teachers in Greece gear up for another mobilization against controversial bill on education
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-05
The new bill for education proposed by the conservative New Democracy (ND)-led government in Greece has been opposed by teachers, students and parents across the country…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/05/teachers-in-greece-gear-up-for-another-mobilization-against-controversial-bill-on-education/

If Trump sends the US military into states, it will ignite a peoples' revolution
Michael Payne | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-05
Can America and its Democracy withstand the attacks that are being made upon it from forces, not from without, but from within this country? What we desperately need, at this time, is a peoples' revolution.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/05/if-trump-sends-the-us-military-into-states-it-will-ignite-a-peoples-revolution/

Trump's War on Democracy
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
"I've had a lot of wars of my own. I'm really good at war. I love war…."

Teachers in Greece gear up for another mobilization against controversial bill on education
Chrisoula Lampoudi | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-05
The new bill for education proposed by the conservative New Democracy (ND)-led government in Greece has been opposed by teachers, students and parents across the country…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/05/teachers-in-greece-gear-up-for-another-mobilization-against-controversial-bill-on-education/

How Has Bolivia's de Facto Regime Taken Advantage of COVID-19 to Consolidate Its Power and Repress Political Rivals?
Lola Allen | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
On April 29, Bolivia's de facto president, Jeanine àÅñez, announced that the country would be moving into a "dynamic quarantine" phase on May 11. This decision was intended to alleviate the social and economic repercussions of the pandemic by loosening lockdown restrictions. However, the most heavily affected areas ‚Äï located primarily in poor communities ‚Äï…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/how-has-bolivias-de-facto-regime-taken-advantage-of-covid-19-to-consolidate-its-power-and-repress-political-rivals/

Demonstrators must protect themselves, and others, from COVID-19: UN health agency
news.un.org | 2020-06-05
Demonstrators who want to go into the street to make their voices heard, should take every precaution against catching or passing on the coronavirus, as the global pandemic is far from over, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065702

Taxing large fortunes, a tool of social justice
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-05
Several countries around the world are discussing a tax on large fortunes to deal with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The question of combating extreme inequality is a political decision that governments have to make. | According to an Oxfam study, since 2015, the richest population, which accounts for 1% of the total, has more wealth than the rest of the planet. Small elites of countries seize an increasing proportion of national income, while hundreds of millions of people still do not have access to potable drinking water or enough food for their families. | The gap between rich and poor people wid…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/05/taxing-large-fortunes-a-tool-of-social-justice/

UAW withholds information six days after Louisville Ford worker tests positive for COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
Workers were outraged at the United Auto Workers union for concealing information about the spread of the deadly disease at the Kentucky Truck Plant.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/ford-j01.html

CoronaShock: Five key questions about China and COVID-19
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-05
Since the world first heard about COVID-19 in December 2019, nearly every corner of the planet has been affected by this pandemic. Based on what media around the world is saying, it's hard to know what is true and what is not.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/05/coronashock-five-key-questions-about-china-and-covid-19/

Racism is a Public Health Crisis
Jaelani Turner-Williams | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
We're facing a state of emergency. Not only has the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic risen above 105,000 in the United States alone, but it seems to be disproportionately lethal for Black Americans. While COVID-19 is still a growing pandemic, it's unmasking itself as a racial injustice as well. A growing number of communities…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/racism-is-a-public-health-crisis-2/

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Brian Gilmore | progressive.org | 2020-06-05
COVID-19 is taking a deadly toll on African Americans.
progressive.org/magazine/blacklash-gilmore/

London bus drivers face COVID-19 disaster: Build rank-and-file safety committees!
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
Unite has signed off on the Johnson government's COVID-19 transport plan despite the serious and imminent danger it poses to drivers and the travelling public.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/busd-j05.html

How do you resist a hybrid war amid a pandemic?
Zoe PC | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-05
The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked a series of unexpected challenges in countries across the world. However amid the uncertainty, crisis and tragedy, we have seen traces of a more humane society based in solidarity. In several countries, States have committed to paying the salaries of workers that lost their jobs, some have implemented a basic income, and the healthcare systems have been re-nationalized. These measures have shown not only that it is not antagonistic to protect and support the people but long term it is actually better for the economy. On the international level, China and Cuba stand out for showi…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/05/how-do-you-resist-a-hybrid-war-amid-a-pandemic/

Trump's Election to Lose
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
Will the riots that swept the country following the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police enable Donald Trump's reelection? No one must have been more upset by the Covid-19 pandemic than Trump. His concern for the fate of the 100,000 people who have lost their lives and the 1.65 million Americans infected seems…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/trumps-election-to-lose/

Rushing a Vaccine to Market for a Vanishing Virus
Ellen Brown | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-05
More than 100 companies are competing to be first in the race to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. It's a race against time, not because the death rate is climbing but because it is falling

Mayo Clinic Minute: Why tobacco users should call it quits
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-05
Tobacco users have an increased risk of becoming very sick if they contract the virus that causes COVID-19. If you use tobacco and want to stop, consider World No Tobacco Day on Sunday, May 31 as a start date. "During this time when the COVID-19 pandemic has made maintaining the health of ourselves and our …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-minute-why-tobacco-users-should-call-it-quits/

Managing levels of specific protein, mineral early in COVID-19 may prevent severe illness
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-05
PHOENIX ? Managing levels of calcium in the blood and the protein albumin early on in COVID-19 may prevent patients from progressing to severe illness and death, a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in the journal Gastroenterology found. The findings are based on the remarkably similar clinical features and autopsy results of patients who died …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/managing-levels-of-specific-protein-mineral-early-in-covid-19-may-prevent-severe-illness/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: What we know about virus transmission
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-05
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most common mode of transmission for COVID-19 is through close contact from person to person. While it is possible that someone can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose or possibly their eyes, this …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-what-we-know-about-virus-transmission/

Hundreds of jobs axed as News Corp Australia shuts regional and suburban newspapers
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
The Murdoch-owned company, like other media conglomerates, has seized on the COVID-19 crisis to drastically restructure operations and drive up profits.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/medi-j05.html

World Environment Day: COVID-19 crisis demands fundamental rethink
news.un.org | 2020-06-05
The COVID-19 health crisis should be seen as a clarion call to "fundamentally rethink our relationship" with natural ecosystems and shrinking biodiversity, the UN cultural agency chief said on Friday, World Environment Day.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065772

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Health and Human Services plays key role in supporting Americans amid COVID-19 crisis
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-05
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a unique situation that has required work across federal and state agencies to support communities and frontline workers during this challenging time. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has played a key role by providing effective health and human services and fostering advances in medicine, public health …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-health-and-human-services-plays-key-role-in-supporting-americans-amid-covid-19-crisis/

Alberta's hard-right premier dismisses coronavirus as "influenza"
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
Kenney's callous remark is part of his government's reckless back-to-work policy, and underscores the broad support within Canada's ruling elite for a criminal "herd immunity" strategy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/kenn-j05.html

Going Back to Work in a Pandemic
Denita Jones | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
I'm terrified of going back to work. It's hard enough for the kids

Under cover of his chaos, Trump destroys more environment protections
Kevin Freking, Ellen Knickmeyer | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-05
WASHINGTON (AP)

Mass reopenings worldwide have accelerated the coronavirus pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
There are now more than 100,000 new cases of the coronavirus around the world each day, and at least 3,000 new deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/covi-j05.html

HBO's Foray into Fake News Amounts to Little More Than Corporate News Propaganda "After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News"
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-06-05
A documentary film review by Nolan Higdon HBO's After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News benefits from strong storytelling but falls short of addressing the central problems associated…
projectcensored.org/hbos-foray-into-fake-news-amounts-to-little-more-than-corporate-news-propaganda-after-truth-disinformation-and-the-cost-of-fake-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hbos-foray-into-fake-news-amounts-to-little-more-than-corporate-news-propaganda-after-truth-disinformation-and-the-cost-of-fake-news

Lockdowns for the many, impunity for the few
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-05
"I was born in this county. I have never come across ill-feeling like this about anything. Everyone feels it is one law for us and one law for them. That is so unfair."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/05/lockdowns-for-the-many-impunity-for-the-few/

Say Their Names!
Peter Linebaugh | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
Benjamin Bowsey, John Glover, and the Delivery of Newgate, 6 June 1780 We might say that there were two ways of understanding broad, social phenomena including whole social systems. We can understand them by their structure or we can understand them by their origin. This goes for capitalism and the class struggle inherent to it. When…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/say-their-names/

Police Abuse in America's Barrios
Alvaro Huerta | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
Growing up on the mean streets of East Los Angeles–Ramona Gardens public housing project or Big Hazard projects–I witnessed/experienced police abuse. For myself, along with childhood homeboys and siblings, it occurred so frequently, where I naively thought that all Americans feared the cops. It first starts as fear; it then morphs into hate. "Hands up."
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/police-abuse-in-americas-barrios/

The Battle Over Free Speech Online is a Volcano That's Ready to Blow
Marshall Auerback | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
Donald Trump threatened to close Twitter down a day after the social media giant marked his tweets with a fact-check warning label for the first time. The president followed this threat up with an executive order that would encourage federal regulators to allow tech companies to be held liable for the comments, videos, and other…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/the-battle-over-free-speech-online-is-a-volcano-thats-ready-to-blow/

Dam Nation and Woody Guthrie
David Yearsley | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
It is a miracle–even if not as great as the natural one it describes–that a song so simple, so welcoming, so resolute, so reassuring, so optimistic as Woody Guthrie's "Roll on, Columbia" is not dragged down by the ironies that eddy around it. The song springs from a clever musical pun. Guthrie re-used the music…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/dam-nation-and-woody-guthrie/

BlackRock is Bailing Out Its ETFs with Fed Money and Taxpayers Eating Losses; It's Also the Sole Manager for $335 Billion of Federal Employees' Retirement Funds
Pam Martens, Russ Martens | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
BlackRock, the international investment management firm run by billionaire Larry Fink, has played an outsized role in Federal Reserve bailouts of Wall Street. As it turns out, it's also been quietly managing hundreds of billions of dollars for more than five million federal government employees in their retirement plan, known as the Thrift Savings Plan…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/blackrock-is-bailing-out-its-etfs-with-fed-money-and-taxpayers-eating-losses-its-also-the-sole-manager-for-335-billion-of-federal-employees-retirement-funds/

I'm Outraged by Trump's Church Photo-Op
Sister Karen M. Donahue | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-05
n the book of Jeremiah, the Hebrew prophet shares instructions from God about entering a place of worship. "Stand at the gate of the house of the Lord and proclaim this message there," God tells the prophet. "Reform your ways and your deeds so that I may dwell with you in this place." You can…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/im-outraged-by-trumps-church-photo-op/

Burnt out buildings: Just property damage or a visualization of pain?
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-05
ST. LOUIS–The night before last was filled with tumultuous, wholly justified, demonstrations against racism and the murder of another Black man by law enforcement; it ended with the eruption of flames and gunfire–accompanying similar scenes nationwide. It is the morning after. The smell of tear gas, damp wood, gun powder, and chemical fire retardant still …
peoplesworld.org/article/burnt-out-buildings-just-property-damage-or-a-visualization-of-pain/

America has its knee on the necks of Black & Brown People
Don Rojas | zcomm.org | 2020-06-05
Our struggles moving forward must be guided by the principles of "nonviolent revolution" and inspired by all our fallen ancestors who gave their lives in the fight to liberate Black and Brown people here and around the world…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/america-has-its-knee-on-the-necks-of-black-brown-people/

Zambia's bid for IMF rescue deal thwarted by Washington's anti-China campaign
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
Zambia has been caught in the crosshairs of US President Donald Trump's reckless campaign to undermine China, which he views as a threat to US global dominance.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/zamb-j05.html

Smartphone Cameras Are The Windows Into Society's Soul
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-05
In ages past we knew hardly anything about what was going on in a given civilization. Mythology about a population's history were handed down around campfires in the form of verbal tradition from generation to generation. When the written word came around we invented something called "history", which was really just records of the ancient propaganda from whoever happened to have won the most recent war. Then later on we got very clever and invented something called "journalism", which was really just whatever stories the people who controlled the media wanted told. | None of these presentations were particularly…

Smartphone Cameras Are The Windows Into Society’s Soul

End the Oppression of Native Women
Diana Oldham | progressive.org | 2020-06-05
Indigenous women are killed at a rate ten times higher than the U.S. national average.
progressive.org/op-eds/end-oppression-of-native-women-oldham-200605/

On Strawmen and Racism
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-05
Paul Craig Roberts, a staunch opponent of police brutality in his writings, seeks to deny white racism or argue that we are all racist. In a recent article, he writes, "If white people are racist, how was Obama twice elected president of the United States?" With all due respect, the question is puerile. First, as …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/on-strawmen-and-racism/

From US to UK: shared legacies of black struggle
Wail Qasim | zcomm.org | 2020-06-05
Far too often, we think of police brutality in the US as exceptional. Families on both sides of the Atlantic tell stories that prove otherwise. Black Britain must be heard…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/from-us-to-uk-shared-legacies-of-black-struggle/

Turkish Trotskyists call for independent working class action against the pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
Sosyalist Eşitlik opposes the reckless back-to-work campaign and the reopening of non-essential workplaces and schools as the pandemic continues to spread.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/turk-j05.html

Israeli Settlers Chop Down Dozens of Olive Trees near Nablus
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-05
Illegal Israeli settlers, on Thursday, destroyed dozens of several year old olive trees in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, northern occupied West Bank, according to a local official. Munir Qadous, with the human rights group, Yesh Din, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli colonists snuck into Palestinian …
imemc.org/article/israeli-settlers-chop-down-dozens-of-olive-trees-near-nablus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-settlers-chop-down-dozens-of-olive-trees-near-nablus

Israel Bans Sheikh Sabri from Al-Aqsa for Four Months
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-05
Israeli occupation authorities in the internationally-recognized city of occupied East Jerusalem, reportedly imposed, on Thursday, a four-month-long entry ban on Muslim scholar and Imam of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri. According to the Israeli order, the senior Palestinian Muslim scholar and former Mufti of Jerusalem, will be banned from …
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Grassley blocks Trump nominees over watchdog firings
Matthew Daly | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-05
WASHINGTON (AP)

De Blasio Staffers Demand `Radical Change from Mayor' in Open Letter
Shant Shahrigian | zcomm.org | 2020-06-05
Two-hundred thirty-six current and former staffers for Mayor de Blasio signed an open letter calling on him to live up to the promises of reform that initially drew them to work for him. One demand is to cut the $6 billion police budget by 1/6…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/de-blasio-staffers-demand-radical-change-from-mayor-in-open-letter/

Swedish health officials admit "herd immunity" policy led to "too many" deaths
wsws.org | 2020-06-05
Sweden's policy has been lauded internationally by mouthpieces for the financial elite and big business, who were determined to force working people back to their jobs as soon as multi-billion bailouts for the financial oligarchy were completed.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/05/swed-j05.html

Mounting Death Toll and Confirmed Covid-19 Cases in Brazil Increase Anger Over Bolsonaro's Response
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-05
The rising number of confirmed Covid-19 cases and related deaths in Brazil is leading to further condemnation of how President Jair Bolsonaro has responded to the pandemic—which, as of Friday afternoon, had left over 34,000 Brazilians dead and nearly 615,000 infected, according to the Johns Hopkins global tracker. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12177721131.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/05/mounting-death-toll-and-confirmed-covid-19-cases-brazil-increase-anger-over?cd-origin=rss

World Environment Day Provokes Warnings That 'To Care for Humanity, We Must Care for Nature'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-05
As a pandemic that's killed over 393,000 people rages on and demonstrations demanding racial justice continue across the globe, the international community on Friday marked World Environment Day with scientifically supported warnings about the importance of protecting nature for the future of humanity. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1721666621_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/05/world-environment-day-provokes-warnings-care-humanity-we-must-care-nature?cd-origin=rss

5G, the New Track of the Arms Race
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-05
At Nellis air base in Nevada

PDF of June 4 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-06-05
Download 12-page PDF here. Not a riot

Somalia: Erratic U.S. Policy Failure Doesn't Get Noticed. But a U.S. Diplomat Struggling With an End-of-Career Crisis Might
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-05
Churchill is believed to have once said that "diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions." If that is true, then can we assume that Washington's man in East Africa has lost his edge? Or perhaps just his mind. | There is a fable of a senior foreign office official from London in colonial times visiting a 'District Officer' in East Africa. They both venture out into the dessert in a Land Rover and the official asks his khaki clad DO three questions. | "What is the name of the tribe in this area?" | "What language do they speak?" | And "where is drinking water her…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/05/somalia-erratic-us-policy-failure-doesnt-get-noticed-but-us-diplomat-struggling-end-career-crisis-might/

The Revolution the U.S. Needs Will Not Be Televised
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-05
When Gil Scott-Heron released the iconic song it was a cry for racial justice. But it was far deeper than that. Because Scott-Heron spoke the truth that media was subordinate to power. | That's why he knew the revolution he spoke of would never be on television, the most powerful form of media in the world at the time. Controlled by very few because technology had not transformed communication, corporate media crafted whatever narratives it and those it was subordinate to wanted. | And those narratives are always sick, divisive and foremost fake. | Today social media companies are supposed to act as democratized…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/05/revolution-us-needs-will-not-be-televised/

'Great Power Competition' Is a Cheap Slogan Justifying Cold War
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-05
The fact is, we cannot afford a confrontation with China, no matter how it is packaged. | Daniel LARISON | The hawks that speak loudest about the importance of great power competition don't have the first clue what the U.S. needs to do to remain competitive against other major powers. This has become impossible to miss in the growing push for pursuing a confrontational China policy. | "Great power competition" has become the slogan that hawks now use to justify never-ending increases to the military budget without paying any attention to the importance of developing the social, intellectual, and economic resource…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/05/great-power-competition-cheap-slogan-justifying-cold-war/

The Hydroxychloroquine Enigma
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-05
For most people, the outbreak of a new severe respiratory disease in China did not ring alarm bells

The arrests of officers in the George Floyd murder is part of pacification campaign
WeCopwatch | indybay.org | 2020-06-05
What we have been seeing the last couple days is the beginning of a pacification campaign. Police violence is growing an uncontrollable and leaderless movement and now that the rabbit has the gun, the state is working on overdrive to pacify a popular rebellion before it creates space for substantial change. This campaign is layered and we must pay attention as:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833808.php

G7 Finance Ministers Discuss COVID-19 Debt & Transparency Impacts for Developing Countries
Zachary Conti | indybay.org | 2020-06-05
Amidst questions of upcoming G7 meeting dates and which countries are participating, G7 Finance Ministers met virtually about economic issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The G7 meeting focused on aid, debt and transparency issues affecting developing countries impacted by the coronavirus.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/04/18833730.php

100,000 Covid19 deaths later, USA empire blames China instead
DLI | indybay.org | 2020-06-05
After getting lots of info and warnings on then emerging global Covid19 pandemic in January & February, the USA ruling elite chose to ignore and sidestep best practice measures to combat the impending disaster. Instead, both White House and Congress continued bipartisan bickering, in addition to simply blaming China and the WHO for not getting the word out sooner. This is the typical m.o. of a serial global bully, who offers nothing but wild criticism of others while doing nothing to resolve urgent problems.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/04/18833803.php

Bill Barr Thinks He's in Command and Can Wage War in Our Cities
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-05
Since becoming Donald Trump's attorney general, Bill Barr has given several speeches to police organizations. This is not unusual for someone in his position, but Barr's comments have often been controversial. Last December he made the outrageous comment that "communities" have to "start showing more than they do the respect and support that law enforcement deserves and if communities don't give that respect, they might find themselves without the protection they need." It was bad enough that it hit the ev…
truthout.org/articles/bill-barr-thinks-hes-in-command-and-can-wage-war-in-our-cities/

Employment Jumps 2.5 Million in May, as Unemployment Falls to 13.3 Percent
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-05
The May jobs numbers were considerably better than most analysts had expected with the economy reportedly adding 2,509,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate fell by 1.4 percentage points to 13.3 percent. This improved labor market picture should not have been surprising since many businesses across the country had reopened by the survey week in mid-April. The high number of unemployment insurance claims, continuing through May, likely gave a wrong picture, as delays in processing caused claims t…
truthout.org/articles/employment-jumps-2-5-million-in-may-as-unemployment-falls-to-13-3-percent/

BAME staff account for 60% of coronavirus health worker deaths and faced the greatest PPE shortages
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-05
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff account for 60% of frontline healthcare worker deaths with coronavirus, new analysis indicates.The PA news agency has verified the deaths of 166 frontline UK healthcare workers with coronavirus (Covid-19) since the start of March this year.Of those, 100 workers came from BAME backgrounds, while 39 (23%) were white and 27 (16%) were of unknown ethnic origin.The figures include people who were working in roles shortly before their deaths where they were likely to come into contact with patients.Staff at care homes have not been included in the figures as not enough reli…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/05/bame-staff-account-for-60-of-coronavirus-health-worker-deaths-and-faced-the-greatest-ppe-shortages/

Huge fire devastates Amazon warehouse & trucks in California (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-05
A fire ripped through an Amazon warehouse in Redlands, California, with work trucks also set ablaze, briefly closing a nearby highway. | Video from the scene shows smoke billowing out of the fulfillment center, and fire engulfing multiple Amazon trailers and trucks outside the building. | Redlands – Major Fire 3rdAlarm t.co/s0n6fgGxYw– 564FIRE (@564FIREPhoto) June 5, 2020 | The blaze was reported at 5: 50am local time. Firefighters have not reported any injuries from…
rt.com/usa/490932-amazon-warehouse-fire-california/

Arctic oil spill: Russian watchdog 'revealed violations' in Norilsk thermal power plant's operations in 2017
rt.com | 2020-06-05
Russia's Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service (Rostechnadzor) revealed violations in the operation of tanks at the combined heat and power plant CHPP-3 in Norilsk, in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Region, in 2017, according to the SPARK database. During inspections in the fall of 2017, Rostechnadzor found irregularities in the operation of two tanks for fuel storage at the thermal power plant that belongs to the Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company (NTEC), which is part of the Nornickel group. | The watchdog also said the company had failed to conduct repair work which had been planned earlier at…
rt.com/newsline/490872-russia-norilsk-power-violations/

Just 20% of coronavirus cases responsible for 80% of transmissions according to explosive new research
rt.com | 2020-06-05
The latest research into so-called "superspreader events" could inform public policy across the world, to help fight the widely feared "second wave" of coronavirus infections, but without the need for strict lockdowns. | A "superspreader" is an infected person who transmits a virus to a large number of people. A growing body of evidence has found that superspreaders account for the vast majority of coronavirus transmissions. | In the latest study on superspreaders, epidemiologists in Hong Kong analyzed over 1,000 coronav…
rt.com/russia/official-word/490868-majority-coronavirus-infected-dont-spread/

Twitter users blast Trump over out-of-context 'great day for George Floyd' quote. It was about 'equal justice,' not jobs numbers
rt.com | 2020-06-05
Twitter erupted in a rage after reports that Donald Trump said the murdered George Floyd would be "happy" about good US jobs figures. It turned out the president wasn't talking about jobs figures when he made the comment at all. | During remarks at the White House on Friday, Trump took time to boast about figures showing unemployment had fallen to 13.3 percent with 2.5 million jobs added in May, as the economy begins to rebound following the Covid-19 lockdown. | Many reporters on Twitter were then quick to share shortened versions of a clip in which Trump said Floyd was hopefully "looking down right now and sa…
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Oxygen treatment: Russian doctors experimenting with PRESSURE CHAMBERS to defeat Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-06-05
As the world researches vaccines and cures, it is no secret that defeating Covid-19 is everyone's top priority. In Moscow, some scientists are using a completely different, experimental technique: hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). | The procedure works by placing a patient in a pressure chamber and having them breathe in oxygen-rich air. In the chamber, air pressure is much higher than the body is used to, meaning the lungs can breathe in much more pure oxygen, speeding up natural healing processes. | "The procedure aims to avoid transferring the patient to an artificial lung ventilation apparatus," said Serge…
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Erdogan cancels Turkey's weekend lockdown after public backlash but warns of rise in coronavirus cases
rt.com | 2020-06-05
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he had decided to cancel a weekend lockdown announced late on Thursday, following a public backlash. | The Interior Ministry said earlier that the stay-at-home order in 15 cities could help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, continuing the policy of weekend lockdowns. | Erdogan explained in a series of tweets on Friday that the government had to impose the weekend lockdown after daily new Covid-19 cases rose from around 700 to nearly 1,000. | "However, the reactions we received from our people pushed us to re-evaluate the decision," the president said,…
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Spain rules out reopening borders to foreign tourists before July
rt.com | 2020-06-05
Spain plans to further ease the coronavirus lockdown in its two biggest cities from Monday, but will not start reopening its borders to foreign tourists before July 1, according to the government. | Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Friday that some restrictions would be lifted in Madrid and Barcelona, which have so far lagged behind the rest of the country's easing program. | From Monday, bar and restaurant customers will be allowed to sit inside rather than on outdoor terraces, and children will be able to play outside at any time of day. | Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto said on Thursday that land borders…
rt.com/newsline/490917-spain-borders-foreign-tourists/

VIDEO shows 'persons of interest' in murder of retired black cop David Dorn, 'killed by looters'
rt.com | 2020-06-05
Police have released surveillance footage showing several individuals inside the ransacked pawn shop in St. Louis where retired police captain David Dorn was gunned down, deeming them "persons of interest" in the case. | Captured by several surveillance cameras inside the shop, the video shows a group of men snooping around the looted property around the time Dorn was killed. At least two of them appear to be armed, the footage shows. | RECOGNIZE THESE SUBJECTS? | They're persons of interest in the murder of Ret. Capt. David Dorn. | Anyone with info should call our Homicide Div directly @ 314-444-5371, or if y…
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CCTV footage released by police shows armed people in looted shop near where black cop David Dorn was killed
rt.com | 2020-06-05
Police have released surveillance footage showing several individuals inside the ransacked pawn shop in St. Louis where retired police captain David Dorn was gunned down, deeming them "persons of interest" in the case. | Captured by several surveillance cameras inside the shop, the video shows a group of men snooping around the looted property around the time Dorn was killed. At least two of them appear to be armed, the footage shows. | RECOGNIZE THESE SUBJECTS? | They're persons of interest in the murder of Ret. Capt. David Dorn. | Anyone with info should call our Homicide Div directly @ 314-444-5371, or if y…
rt.com/usa/490985-police-capitan-murder-suspects/

China urges Facebook to drop 'ideological bias' after it slaps warning labels on 'state-controlled media' pages
rt.com | 2020-06-05
The Chinese government has accused Facebook of "ideological bias" after the social media giant announced plans to put warning labels on Chinese "state-controlled" media pages including Xinhua and CCTV. | The Chinese news agency and TV channel are among the outlets which Facebook has designated as "wholly or partially under editorial control of a state", based on the opinion of unnamed experts. Beijing criticized the change on Friday, saying social media platforms should not create obstacles for traditional media. | "We hope that the relevant social media platform can put aside the ideological bias and hold an…
rt.com/usa/490881-china-scolds-facebook-labeling/

Moscow slams Prague for 'fabricated provocation' as false 'ricin poisoning plot' leads to Russian diplomats' expulsion
rt.com | 2020-06-05
The Czech government has expelled two Russian diplomats for allegedly tricking the country's special services with a fake poisoning plot. The Russian embassy branded the accusations as a "provocation." | The decision to expel the Russian diplomats in Prague was announced by Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek at a joint media conference on Friday. | The prime minister said the high-profile media scandal over an alleged Kremlin plot to kill the mayor of Prague and two municipal officials with ricin poison was actually a ruse. The tip-off about the planned assassination came from a Ru…
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Iranian ship sinks off Iraqi coast
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-05
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Foreign Ministry delivers initial report on Iranian ship's sinking in Iraqi port
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-05
TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA)

Iran urges lifting of 'all inhumane sanctions' against Syria
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-05
TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA)

Iran COVID-19 update: 2886 new cases, 63 deaths in 24 hours
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-05
TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA)

FM Zarif calls for release of all Iranians imprisoned in US
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-05
TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA)

Unblocking Iran's resources in foreign banks must be seriously pursued: Rouhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-05
TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA)

Iran releases American convict due to Islamic Kindness
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-05
TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA)

G20 States Pledge Over $21 Billion to Fight COVID-19
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-05
G20 member countries on Friday pledged more than $21 billion to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Trump Expected to Waive Spate of Environmental Reviews Citing COVID-19 Pandemic 'Economic Emergency'
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-05
At the start of year, Donald Trump's administration proposed overhauling National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews that he labelled as "outrageously slow and burdensome," seeking to speed approval for infrastructure projects, including oil and gas pipelines.
sputniknews.com/us/202006051079528405-trump-expected-to-waive-spate-of-environmental-reviews-citing-covid-19-pandemic-economic-emergency/

US Military Claims China Using COVID-19 as Cover for Increased South China Sea Activity
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-05
The commander of the United States Forces Japan and the Fifth Air Force at Yokota Air Base has issued a warning, alleging that Beijing's increased maritime activity in the South China Sea will continue following the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Ready for take-off! Turkey certifies 53 airports as anti-virus ready
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-05
Turkey has certified 53 of its airports as having taken all necessary measures against the spread of COVID-19, the nation's transport and infrastructure minister said on Friday."In addition to six airports that were previously certified, 47 more airports have become entitled to carry the certificate of 'airworthy' as of today," Adil Karaismailoglu said in a statement.He noted that all the precautionary measures are applied at every stage of travel."The priority of the airports that earned the certificate is our public health and safety," Karaismailoglu stressed.Turkey resumed domestic flights on Monday and is set…
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Russia nearing 450,000 coronavirus cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-05
The number of COVID-19 cases in Russia approached 450,000 on Friday. As many as 449,834 people are being treated of the virus, including 8,726 confirmed over the last 24 hours, the country's emergency task force said in a daily report.Meanwhile, over the same period, recoveries rose by 8,057 and reached 212,680, it added.So far, the authorities have not been able to overcome a negative trend in mortality, with the virus claiming over 100 lives for 11th day in a row

Saudi Arabia reimposes curfew in Jeddah for two weeks
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-05
Saudi Arabia has reimposed a curfew in the Red Sea city of Jeddah 3 p.m to 6 a.m for two weeks starting on Saturday due to the spread of the coronavirus, and suspended work in offices, state news agency SPA reported.SPA said prayers in the city's mosques had also been suspended.
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Poland to open borders with the Baltic states next week, says Lithuanian PM
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-05
Poland and the Baltic States will open their borders to each other next week in an easing of travel restrictions put in place due to the pandemic, Lithuanian Prime Minister said on Friday after a video conference with his Polish counterpart.The Baltic states – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – opened their common borders on May 15, creating the first so called "travel bubble" within the European Union in a bid to jump-start economies stalled by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus."We agreed that free movement between the Baltic States and Poland will be restored next week," Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skver…
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Turks living in Europe to reunite with homeland soon
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-05
The roads used often by expats in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany opened completely, via Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Bulgaria.As of Thursday, June 4, Austria decided to open its borders to all its neighbors except Italy, and it was announced that health checks will be terminated, especially in Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Hungary, and quarantine and test conditions will be lifted.In Hungary, another country on the route to Turkey, the border crossings can be made at certain times of the day without prior permission, according to the government's regulation o…
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