[Comment] Offline: COVID-19–what we can expect to come
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
The verdicts are now coming in. In Mark Honigsbaum's updated edition of The Pandemic Century, he has included a new chapter on COVID-19. As a historian of epidemics, he offers his judgments about how countries have responded to what he calls "China's Chernobyl moment". His critique is sharp. For decades, we have known that the world is intrinsically and increasingly vulnerable to pandemics–and yet, "we failed to heed the warnings about Covid-19 and act when our actions could have prevented the outbreak from spinning out of control".
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31355-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Accountability for medical participation in torture
Leonard Rubenstein | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
After revelations of the participation of US health professionals in torture of detainees in military or CIA custody in the wake of 9/11, citizens filed complaints to disciplinary and licensing boards in seven states against psychologists who had been publicly identified as having been part of the torture apparatus. All of the complaints were eventually dismissed, only one with an explanation. In light of the disciplinary bodies' resistance to investigate participation in torture, much less impose sanctions, colleagues and I, then representing Physicians for Human Rights, helped a New York legislator, Richard Got…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31325-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Clinical Picture] Atrial septal defect and haemodynamic consequences of continuous positive airway pressure treatment
Rob Eerdekens, Sjoerd Bouwmeester | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
A 51-year-old man was referred to our department because of reduced exercise tolerance and breathlessness on exertion. He had a medical history of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS), which was being treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). He had complained of snoring and a loss of concentration when he was first diagnosed with OSAS, in 2012.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31251-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Review] Meningococcal disease and sexual transmission: urogenital and anorectal infections and invasive disease due to Neisseria meningitidis
Shamez N Ladhani, Jay Lucidarme, Sydel R Parikh, Helen Campbell, Ray Borrow, Mary E Ramsay | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
Neisseria meningitidis is an obligate human commensal bacterium that frequently colonises the upper respiratory tract. Person-to-person transmission occurs via direct contact or through dispersion of respiratory droplets from a carrier of the bacteria, and can lead to invasive meningococcal disease. Rare sporadic cases of meningococcal urogenital and anorectal infections, including urethritis, proctitis, and cervicitis, have been reported, typically following orogenital contact with an oropharyngeal meningococcal carrier.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30913-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Obituary] Jacob Plange-Rhule
Andrew Green | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
Physician, academic, and researcher who served as the Rector of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. Born on July 27, 1957, in Winneba, Ghana, he died from complications of COVID-19 in Accra, Ghana, on April 10, 2020, aged 62 years.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31326-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Acute liver failure
Sandro Vento, Francesca Cainelli | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
In their Seminar, R Todd Stravitz and William Lee1 state that estimates of the incidence of acute liver failure range from one case per million people per year to about 2000–3000 cases per year in the USA; that viral hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis E are the main causes of acute liver failure in "developing countries"; and that only about 5% of all diagnoses have indeterminate causes.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30046-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Questioning statin therapy for older patients
John Abramson, Curt Furberg, Nicholas Jewell, James M Wright | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
Single clinical trials have not yet determined whether statin therapy provides more benefit than harm to people older than 75 years with or without a history of vascular disease. The Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' Collaboration, which alone has access to patient-level data from most trials, is best able to answer these questions. However, we have several concerns about the Article by the Collaboration1 and the presentation of its results to the media.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33156-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Viewpoint] Clinical endpoint adjudication
Mohammed N Meah, Martin A Denvir, Nicholas L Mills, John Norrie, David E Newby | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
In pivotal clinical effectiveness trials, the primary endpoint needs to be precisely defined and quantified because any misclassification could introduce noise and possible bias, potentially leading to incorrect trial conclusions. This misclassification is commonly addressed by having an independent clinical endpoint adjudication committee where all relevant clinical information is provided and a panel of clinical experts categorises the primary endpoint, blind to treatment allocation. This strategy has been established as a basic cornerstone of modern robust trial methodology.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30635-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Aspirin for Lynch syndrome: a legacy of prevention
Matthew B Yurgelun, Andrew T Chan | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
Lynch syndrome–caused by pathogenic germline MLH1, MSH2, MSH2, PMS2, or EPCAM variants–is among the most common forms of inherited cancer susceptibility and predisposes to high risks of colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, and other malignancies. Frequent colonoscopies confer a substantial mortality benefit in Lynch syndrome carriers but have inherent limitations.1 Some Lynch syndrome-associated colorectal cancers bypass a precursor adenoma phase, thereby making such tumours impossible to prevent via colonoscopic polypectomy.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30973-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Articles] Cancer prevention with aspirin in hereditary colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome), 10-year follow-up and registry-based 20-year data in the CAPP2 study: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial
John Burn, Harsh Sheth, Faye Elliott, Lynn Reed, Finlay Macrae, Jukka-Pekka Mecklin, Gabriela Mà∂slein, Fiona E McRonald, Lucio Bertario, D Gareth Evans, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Judy W C Ho, Annika Lindblom, Patrick J Morrison, Jem Rashbass, Raj Ramesar, Toni Seppà§là§, Huw J W Thomas, Kirsi Pylvà§nà§inen, Gillian M Borthwick, John C Mathers, D Timothy Bishop, CAPP2 Investigators | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
The case for prevention of colorectal cancer with aspirin in Lynch syndrome is supported by our results.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30366-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] Medicine and medical science: Black lives must matter more
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
Emblematic of the profound sense of outrage at the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless other Black men and women at the hands of law enforcement, hundreds of thousands of protestors took to the streets in the USA and across the globe. They set aside the risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2, judging that what they were marching for was more immediately urgent. Marches have been held to draw attention to the continued murder by police of Black people and to the persistent, pervasive racism that exists across societies.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31353-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Increasing tobacco sales under the anti-smoking policy in China
Hailong Luo, Yuan Zhao | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
China joined the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2005, but tobacco control in China is still worrying.1 In the past decade, the Chinese Government has strengthened the publicity of anti-smoking campains in the media and increased the management of anti-smoking through policies. Nevertheless, paradoxically, tobacco sales have been rising.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30163-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] COVID-19 vaccines for all?
Ann Danaiya Usher | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
If an effective COVID-19 vaccine is developed, how will it get to everyone in need? Ann Danaiya Usher reports on the initiatives being planned to ensure equitable access, and their shortcomings.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31354-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] NICE guideline for rectal cancer: already out of date
Robert Glynne-Jones, Mark Harrison, Drostan Cheetham | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
As members of a colorectal multidisciplinary team, some of whom have contributed to previous National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance1 and European Society of Medical Oncology guidelines in rectal cancer,2 we disagree with the current recommendations in the update to NICE guidance that was published in 2020: "offer preoperative radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy to people with rectal cancer that is cT1-T2, cN1-N2, M0, or cT3-T4, any cN, M0."3…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30855-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Video: Attacks on US Forces and Facilities Continue in Iraq. Washington Rejects Iraqi Parliament Demand for US Troop Withdrawal
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Last night, two rockets struck the Green Zone in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The heavily fortified area houses some of the main Iraqi government offices and the US embassy. There were no immediate reports about casualties. No group has …
globalresearch.ca/video-attacks-us-forces-facilities-continues-iraq/5715757

Palestine Bleeds: Execution of Autistic Man is Not an Exception but the Norm
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
A 32-year-old man with the mental age of an 8-year-old child was executed by Israeli soldiers on May 30, while crouching behind his teacher near his special needs school in the Old City of Jerusalem. The cold-blooded murder of Iyad al-Hallaq might not have received much attention if it were not for the fact that…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/palestine-bleeds-execution-of-autistic-man-is-not-an-exception-but-the-norm/

Livable Ecology, Not Police
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
I have never heard it louder than I did this morning. The Interstate highway, I-80, that is, two miles or so north of my abode in Iowa City. It's a highway to Hell in the heartland of the deranged Superpower that leads the world in per-capita Greenhouse Gassing. All those carbon-spewing, planet-cooking semi-trailers, cars, vans,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/livable-ecology-not-police/

Wikipedia Formally Censors The Grayzone as Regime-change Advocates Monopolize Editing
Ben Norton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia's guidelines. | This is part 1 in a series of investigative reports on …
globalresearch.ca/wikipedia-formally-censors-grayzone-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing/5715810

Police are the Enemy Within
Michael Yates | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
In 2017, Daniel Fetonte was elected to the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a rapidly growing left-wing organization in the United States. Fetonte was co-chair of the Austin, Texas, branch of the DSA and had been involved in labor union organizing for many years. However, he had also been employed by the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, the largest police union in the state, with a membership of 21,000 police officers.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/police-are-the-enemy-within/

The time is now to join a revolutionary organization: Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-12
If you have been out in the streets this past few weeks, the odds are good that you've been thinking about the difference between the kind of change this system has to offer, and the kind of change this country needs. Capitalism is failed system that thrives on exploitation, inequality and oppression. The reactionary and racist Trump administration has made the pandemic worse. The unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s. Monopoly capitalism is a dying system and we need to help finish it off. And that is exactly what Freedom Road Socialist Organization is working for. | Freedom…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/12/time-now-join-revolutionary-organization-join-freedom-road-socialist-organization

The time is now to join a revolutionary organization: Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-12
If you have been out in the streets this past few weeks, the odds are good that you've been thinking about the difference between the kind of change this system has to offer, and the kind of change this country needs. Capitalism is failed system that thrives on exploitation, inequality and oppression. The reactionary and racist Trump administration has made the pandemic worse. The unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s. Monopoly capitalism is a dying system and we need to help finish it off. And that is exactly what Freedom Road Socialist Organization is working for. | Freedom…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/12/time-now-join-revolutionary-organization-join-freedom-road-socialist-organization

Trump Imposes Sanctions Against ICC Officials Investigating US War Crimes
Andrea Germanos | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-12
"The Trump administration's contempt for the global rule of law is plain."
theantimedia.com/trump-imposes-sanctions-against-icc-officials-investigating-us-war-crimes/

ICC Probe of US War Crimes in Afghanistan. Trump Lashes Back. ICC is "Threat" to America
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
It is fairly well established that Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11

Angela Davis: Dems & GOP Tied to Corporate Capitalism, But We Must Vote So Trump Is "Forever Ousted"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-12
"Neither party represents the future that we need in this country

Angela Davis: Dems & GOP Tied to Corporate Capitalism, But We Must Vote So Trump Is "Forever Ousted"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-12
"Neither party represents the future

Angela Davis: Toppling of Confederate Statues Reflects Reckoning with Slavery & Historical Racism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-12
The destruction and removal of racist monuments in cities across the United States during recent weeks is part of an overdue reckoning with "historical racisms that have brought us to the point where we are today," Angela Davis says. "Racism should have been immediately confronted in the aftermath of the end of slavery."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_toppling_monuments_to_racism

Angela Davis Slams Trump Rally in Tulsa, Massacre Site, on Juneteenth Celebration of End of Slavery
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-12
President Trump will resume holding indoor campaign events starting with a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 19, a day known as Juneteenth, that celebrates African Americans' liberation from slavery. The rally also falls on the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa race riots, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, in which white residents killed hundreds of their African American neighbors. Legendary scholar Angela Davis says it's important to recognize that Trump "represents a sector of a population in this country that wants to return to the past … with all of its white supremacy, with all of its…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_trump_juneteenth_maga

Uprising & Abolition: Angela Davis on Movement Building, "Defund the Police" & Where We Go from Here
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-12
The uprising against police brutality and anti-Black racism continues to sweep across the United States and countries around the world, forcing a reckoning in the halls of power and on the streets. The mass protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 have dramatically shifted public opinion on policing and systemic racism, as "defund the police" becomes a rallying cry of the movement. We discuss the historic moment with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis. "One never knows when conditions may give rise to a conjuncture such as the current one that rapidly shifts popular…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_historic_moment

[Correspondence] Major burns: debt recovery or ethics?
Nikolaos Arkoulis, Niall Martin | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
As one of the UK's largest tertiary burns centres, St Andrew's Burns Service has an ethical obligation to raise awareness about issues that compromise the care of patients. In 2017, new regulations placed a legal requirement on Health Authorities to establish patients' eligibility for free National Health Service treatment.1 An increasing number of patients ineligible for free care have been admitted to the St Andrew's Burns Service and subsequently presented with large invoices as soon as they recover.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30173-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Court of Human Rights Deals Major Blow To Israel's War On Palestine Solidarity
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-12
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously that the French highest court's 2015 criminal conviction of activists with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement advocating nonviolent boycotts of Israeli goods violated article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights. | Reacting to the breaking news, Rita Ahmad from the Palestinian-led BDS movement said: | This momentous court ruling is a decisive victory for freedom of expression, for human rights defenders, and for the BDS movement for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. It confirms a 2016 European U…
popularresistance.org/court-of-human-rights-deals-major-blow-to-israels-war-on-palestine-solidarity/

Trump's Executive Order on Police. No Defunding, No Disbanding. "Our Police have been Letting Us Live in Peace." (sic)
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
It's being prepared for release in the coming days. More on it below. | In early February 2017, days after his inauguration, Trump signed what the White House called "pro-law and anti-crime executive orders (to) support the dedicated men and women …
globalresearch.ca/trump-executive-order-police/5715816

Roaming Charges: The Ring of the Truncheon Thing
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
"If you insist on having statues of people who fought the U.S. military, how about Ho Chi Minh? For one thing, he actually won…"

In the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards A New World Order? The Global Debt Crisis and the Privatization of the State
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
This is the true picture of what is happening. Poverty is Worldwide. While famines are erupting in Third World countries, closer to home, in the richest country on earth, "millions of desperate Americans wait in long crowded lines for handouts"
globalresearch.ca/towards-a-new-world-order-the-global-debt-crisis-and-the-privatization-of-the-state/5709755

Remember the "Fake" 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
A Worldwide public health emergency is unfolding, 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine are envisaged by the WHO.
globalresearch.ca/the-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-manipulating-the-data-to-justify-a-worldwide-public-health-emergency/14901

Michel Chossudovsky: Biographical Summary
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
There are a number of deliberate "errors" and omissions in Michel Chossudovsky's wikipedia entry. Defamatory statements. | The same applies to the wikipedia entry for Global Research which has been merged with Chossudovsky's entry. The objective is to smear GR. …
globalresearch.ca/michel-chossudovsky-biographical-summary/5580999

Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-12
Still unable to convince a sufficient number of their countryfolk to support them, the Venezuelan opposition has turned their efforts towards convincing an international audience

Hawkish, Gov't Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands of Chinese Accounts
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-12
Twitter's decision came after close collaboration with a deeply controversial U.S. and Australian government-funded think tank that has been denounced by Australia's former ambassador in Beijing as "the architect of the China threat theory in Australia."
mintpressnews.com/hawkish-think-tank-twitter-decision-delete-chinese-accounts/268524/

Living is no laughing matter
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-06-12
The United States government has withdrawn its support for the World Health Organisation (WHO) based on accusations that the WHO has not been forthcoming about the novel coronavirus and based on U.S. President Donald Trump's questioning of the WHO's independence from China, calling the organisation a 'puppet of China'.
mronline.org/2020/06/12/living-is-no-laughing-matter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-is-no-laughing-matter

US sanctions International Criminal Court over war crimes investigations in Afghanistan
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
US president Donald Trump has opposed investigations into war crimes committed by the US-led forces in Afghanistan since 2003. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo termed the ICC a 'kangaroo court'…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-over-war-crimes-investigations-in-afghanistan/

Syrian MP terms US sanctions as 'war crimes'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-12
TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA)

Scheer Intelligence: The Cynical Forces Behind America's Forever Wars
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-12
American interventionism in the Middle East has resulted in two of the longest wars in U.S. history, and led to countless deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as widespread instability in the region. Nearly two decades into the so-called "War on Terror," concerns continue to arise about the U.S. military presence in the Mideast and its seeming inability to extricate itself after all these years. Patrick Cockburn is especially well-positioned to both ask and answer many of the questions stemming from what have become America's "Forever Wars" as an award-winning, courageous journalist who has spent several decade…
popularresistance.org/scheer-intelligence-the-cynical-forces-behind-americas-forever-wars/

Russians "Stirring Up Trouble": An Obama Retread Sees Moscow's Hand in US Protests
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
If one ventures into the vast wasteland of American television it is possible to miss the truly ridiculous content that is promoted as news by the major networks. One particular feature of media-speak in the United States is the tendency …
globalresearch.ca/russians-stirring-up-trouble-obama-retread-sees-moscow-hand-protests/5715743

Journalist Derrick Broze Arrested for Simply Covering a George Floyd Protest in Houston
Derrick Broze | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-12
Derrick Broze was arrested and jailed for 16 hours last week.
theantimedia.com/derrick-broze-arrested-covering-george-floyd-protest-in-houston/

Cops TV Series Cancelled After 33 Seasons Amid Anti-Police Protests
The Mind Unleashed | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-12
The recent shift in the global consciousness will undoubtedly push networks to reconsider airing shows that glorify the police.
theantimedia.com/cops-tv-series-cancelled-after-33-seasons-amid-anti-police-protests/

Young Communists hit the streets in New York with Black Lives Matter
Maicol David Lynch | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-12
NEW YORK–"How do you spell racist? NYPD!" the crowd chanted as it proceeded up Fifth Avenue towards Central Park from Washington Square Park in Manhattan. The Young Communist League Organizing Committee of New York wasted no time mobilizing its members to participate in and even lead the dozens of protests which have taken the streets …
peoplesworld.org/article/young-communists-hit-the-streets-in-new-york-with-black-lives-matter/

New Haven is Minneapolis: Racist police terror is alive and well in Connecticut
PSL Connecticut | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-12
New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker is among the many political officials across Connecticut who are trying to distance themselves from the state's long history and ever present epidemic of racist police terror. On May 29, in his first statement on the wave of protests that have spread across the country following the murder of George …
liberationnews.org/new-haven-is-minneapolis-racist-police-terror-is-alive-and-well-in-connecticut/

Europe's top human rights court overturns French conviction of BDS activists
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
A French court had convicted 11 BDS activists for 'incitement to economic discrimination' after they organized a boycott protest against Israel outside a supermarket in France during the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2009-10…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/europes-top-human-rights-court-overturns-french-conviction-of-bds-activists/

Denver Police Served Temporary Restraining Order Amid Nationwide Protest Repression
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-12
Denver, CO

Media are slowly starting to be serious about police violence
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-12
As the George Floyd protests against police violence erupted around the nation, a massive amount of evidence of police brutality was widely captured through social media. Unfortunately, very little of it made it to mainstream outlets until much later.
mronline.org/2020/06/12/media-are-slowly-starting-to-be-serious-about-police-violence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=media-are-slowly-starting-to-be-serious-about-police-violence

Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-12
The marriage of post-Lockdown and George Floyd protests has nurtured a rough beast that is still immune to any form of civilized debate in the U.S.: the Seattle Commune. | So what really is the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone cum People's Republic all about? | Are the communards mere useful idiots? Is this a refined Occupy Wall Street experiment? Could it survive, logistically, and be replicated in NYC, L.A. and D.C.? | An outraged President Trump has described it as a plot by "domestic terrorists" in a city "run by radical left Democrats". He called for "LAW & ORDER" (in caps, according to his Tweetology). | Shades…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/12/syria-in-seattle-commune-defies-us-regime/

EU warns COVID-19 health crisis not over yet, urges vigilance
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
The public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 epidemic in Europe is not over yet, the European Union's top health official warned on Friday, urging governments to remain vigilant and plough ahead with testing and tracing the population."This is not behind us yet. We need to be vigilant," EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides told EU health ministers in a videoconference, amid fears of a new surge in infections as EU states gradually reopen business and borders and after mass protests in recent days across the continent [ nL8N2DO589].
yenisafak.com/en/world/eu-warns-covid-19-health-crisis-not-over-yet-urges-vigilance-3531871

Families' sit-in against PKK terror continues in SE Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
A sit-in in southeastern Turkey by families pleading for the return of their children kidnapped by the YPG/PKK terror group has entered its 284th day.The protest started on Sept. 3, 2019, in Diyarbakir province outside the office of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), a party accused by the government of having links to the YPG/PKK.Solmaz Ovunc, whose son was abducted five years ago, said she has been staging a sit-in for 284 days and that she will continue the sit-in until the return of her son."HDP took my son and handed him over to the PKK. The PKK did not come and take my son from the neighborhood…
yenisafak.com/en/news/families-sit-in-against-pkk-terror-continues-in-se-turkey-3531905

Anger ensues as India hunts anti-citizenship law protesters amid pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
A group of students protesting a controversial citizenship law in India accused the government of continuing to "witch-hunt" although the country is being enmeshed in COVID-19 pandemic.Organizer of the protest against the law

Israeli forces injure 3 photojournalists
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Three photojournalists along with dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were injured and suffocated by the Israeli army's live and rubber bullets, and tear gas.Murad Shtaiwi, coordinator of the Popular Resistance Committees in the town of Kafr Qaddum, Qalqilya, said the Israeli forces used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse peaceful demonstrators.Shtaiwi said three photojournalists and two Palestinians were injured, while tens of protesters suffered from tear gas suffocation.People in Kafr Qaddum organize weekly protests against Israeli occupation and against the Israeli settlement activities, whic…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israeli-forces-injure-3-photojournalists-3531906

It Won't Be Protests That Bring On The Next Big Wave Of COVID19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-12
As people across the nation and the world came out to protest the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, corporate media carried a warning: Demonstrations against police violence risk creating a major upsurge in the spread of the coronavirus. | As ABC (6/3/20) put it: | As thousands of demonstrators continue to protest the killing of George Floyd, health experts are worried that a second wave of Covid-19 infections could be sparked by the mass gatherings. | An opinion piece in USA Today (6/8/20) warned, "George Floyd Protests Create Risk of Deadly Coronavirus Resurgence." "The absence of social distan…
popularresistance.org/it-wont-be-protests-that-bring-on-the-next-big-wave-of-covid19/

Who Supplied The Weapons Used Against #BLM Protesters?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-12
In response to the murder of George Floyd by a member of the Minneapolis police department on 25th May, thousands of people across the United States joined protests demanding justice for his killing, radical reform of police forces, and driving home the message that Black Lives Matter. Many of these protests face militarised police responses, including the use of rubber bullets, sting balls, stun grenades, battons, police charges, and chemical weapons like tear gas and pepper spray. | Twitter users have photographed a large number of canisters that were fired during the protest. Many appear to have been produced…
popularresistance.org/who-supplied-the-weapons-used-against-blm-protesters/

Homage to Medgar Evers
Tim Wheeler | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-12
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army. He was born July 2, 1925, and was assassinated on June 12, 1963. Tim Wheeler wrote this poem in 1994. Behold the Mississippi …
peoplesworld.org/article/homage-to-medgar-evers/

Activists in Japan join the global Black Lives Matter movement
Shimbun Akahata | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-12
TOKYO–In response to the Black Lives Matter movement spreading from the United States to the rest of the world, several rounds of anti-racism demonstrations in Tokyo and Osaka have seen massive turnout–even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. On June 7, the chant "Black Lives Matter" echoed throughout downtown Osaka City. The rally was …
peoplesworld.org/article/activists-in-japan-join-the-global-black-lives-matter-movement/

Buffalo Police Assault 75-Year-Old Longtime Peace Activist
Lu Aya | zcomm.org | 2020-06-12
Now Trump is attacking him too…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/buffalo-police-assault-75-year-old-longtime-peace-activist/

The scale of computational propaganda applied to get your consent
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-12
By TruePublica: The coronavirus crisis has exacerbated tensions over the role of disinformation in international politics. Indeed, few weeks seem to go by without the world's major powers trading accusations of carrying out disinformation campaigns. But while many reports focus on dramatic allegations of countries interfering in the affairs of rival nations, the Peace Research …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/the-scale-of-computational-propaganda-applied-to-get-your-consent/

Buffalo Cops–And All the Other Cops
Bruce Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
All we know is that a line of cops, for no apparent reason, charged a group of apparently peaceful demonstrators and began beating them, after which shots were fired, a car injured three police officers, one seriously, a woman was shot, and three people were arrested. Someone gave the order to attack, and they did.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/buffalo-cops-and-all-the-other-cops/

Buffalo Cops–And All the Other Cops
Bruce Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
All we know is that a line of cops, for no apparent reason, charged a group of apparently peaceful demonstrators and began beating them, after which shots were fired, a car injured three police officers, one seriously, a woman was shot, and three people were arrested. Someone gave the order to attack, and they did.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/buffalo-cops-and-all-the-other-cops/

Humanity is Escaping From the Abusive Relationship With the Police State
Caitlin Johnstone | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-12
Things are only going to keep getting stranger from here.
theantimedia.com/humanity-is-escaping-from-the-abusive-relationship-with-the-police-state/

Will Science and Reason Save Us? The Liberal Left's False Wall of Defense
Gabriel Kuhn | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Lies on social media, life-threatening health advice, "alternative facts," info wars, etc. It is easy to be concerned about the disregard for truthfulness, reflection, and sensibility involved in the far-right offensive that has entered government buildings around the world. Yet, it is also troubling that an increasing number of leftists embrace a neoliberal line of…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/will-science-and-reason-save-us-the-liberal-lefts-false-wall-of-defense/

The New Cold War with China
Michael T. Klare | zcomm.org | 2020-06-12
How Will It Affect You?
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-new-cold-war-with-china/

Police Violence: "Reform" is Not Enough
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Every few years, some particular instance of a pervasive phenomenon

PDF of June 11 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-06-12
Download 12-page PDF here. Tear down the walls: Prisons and class war; Texas jail is COVID hotspot. Special issue dedicated to George Floyd: Step one, movement demands 'DEFUND POLICE!' No Pride without justice!; Calif. Labor condemns murder; Racist monuments down; Why generals rebuked Trump; Police brutality in Buffalo; Journalists under . . . | Continue reading PDF of June 11 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49257/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-june-11-issue

Georgia's Elections Were A Voter Suppression Horror Show
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-12
Georgia's primary election could be a warning for what's to come when Americans head to the polls in November.
therealnews.com/stories/georgias-elections-were-a-voter-suppression-horror-show

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Precautions for a summer of COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-12
With the onset of warmer weather and more and more states loosening their COVID-19 restrictions, lots of folks are wondering about some summer staples, like cookouts and a day at the beach or pool. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, an infectious disease specialist at Mayo Clinic, discusses how you can minimize your …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-precautions-for-a-summer-of-covid-19/

Don't Dismiss the Importance of Toppling a Statue
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
I did not expect to be returning to this issue so soon but I was surprised, to put it mildly, to discover that my last post on anti-racists toppling a statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol proved to be the most polarising article I have ever written. Given the many controversial …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/dont-dismiss-the-importance-of-toppling-a-statue/

How to defund and reimagine policing
Michelle Stewart | zcomm.org | 2020-06-12
People are rethinking policing and what it means for all members of our communities to be supported and safe. In other words: another world is possible when we defund and reimagine policing as we know it…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-to-defund-and-reimagine-policing/

Of Republics and Empires
Michael Howard | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
If I'm gonna die I'll die now, right here, fighting you.

Mining companies in DRC warned against confining workers at mining sites
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
Global mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been accused by trade unions of violating workers' rights in the name of the coronavirus pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/mining-companies-in-drc-warned-against-confining-workers-at-mining-sites/

US Troops in Colombia "Associate with Illegal Groups", Killing Farmers, Seek to "Spark a War with Venezuela"
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Colombian senators on Wednesday said that U.S. troops that arrived in the South American country in early June are allowed to associate with illegal groups and seek an eventual international confrontation. | The Democratic Congressman Ivan Cepeda revealed that the current …
globalresearch.ca/colombia-us-troops-country-seek-international-conflict/5715771

NATO's Call on 'Like-minded Nations' to Stand Up to the Rise of China Is Just a Desperate Bid for Global Relevance
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
As the influence of the US and Europe wanes in the face of a new geopolitical reality, their Cold War progeny, NATO, seeks to redefine itself as a global player. The problem is NATO is not capable of even stepping …
globalresearch.ca/nato-call-nations-stand-up-rise-china-desperate-bid-global-relevance/5715787

Crash of the Dollar? Is the US Dollar Doomed?
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
The US Dollar is in trouble. Many of us in the alternative media and several economists who were ignored by the mainstream media and others saw this coming many years ago. The mainstream media is now listening, in this case …
globalresearch.ca/mainstream-media-warning-us-dollar-doomed/5715764

Unmasking Racial Terror and Seeing Whiteness
Mark Schuller | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Tuesday was the funeral for George Floyd, killed by Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin on Memorial Day, as the U.S. COVID death toll approached 100,000. Floyd's murder was caught on tape: for eight minutes and 46 seconds, Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck. Floyd's words, "I can't breathe!" echoing Eric Garner's, killed…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/unmasking-racial-terror-and-seeing-whiteness/

Infiltrating Antifa: the Feds and Their Long History of Subversion
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
On May 31st, President Trump (or his people) tweeted: "The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization." Attorney General, William Barr, said: "The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly." Trump and Barr…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/infiltrating-antifa-the-feds-and-their-long-history-of-subversion/

Colombia's VP admits after 23 years brother is a convicted heroin trafficker
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
Colombia's Congress hasn't even begun investigating evidence of President Ivan Duque's ties to drug traffickers or local media revealed the brother of his vice-president is a convicted narco. News website…
colombiareports.com/even-brother-of-colombias-vp-turns-out-to-be-convicted-narco/

When honest cops are jailed you know Colombia has become a mafia state
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
The jailing of the policemen who discovered President Ivan Duque pseudo-party plotted with narcos to rig the 2018 elections ended all doubt Colombia has become a mafia state. It's not…
colombiareports.com/when-honest-cops-are-jailed-you-know-youre-in-a-mafia-state/

Is Duque's servitude to financial patrons tanking Colombia's economy?
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
International institutions are increasingly somber about Colombia's future as President Ivan Duque and his finance minister seem to have no response to the coronavirus crisis. The president and Finance Minister…
colombiareports.com/is-duques-servitude-to-financial-patrons-tanking-colombias-economy/

Coronavirus spread in Colombia triggers orange alert in Bogota, curfew in Barranquilla
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
Colombia's capital Bogota declared an orange alert and port city Barranquilla decreed a curfew on Thursday as the coronavirus threatens to collapse the cities' healthcare systems. Bogota mayor Claudia Lopez…
colombiareports.com/coronavirus-spread-in-colombia-triggers-orange-alert-in-bogota-curfew-in-barranquilla/

'Narcos planned to frame cops who discovered Colombia's 2018 election fraud plot'
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
Police knew that the drug lord whose organization conspired with Colombia's ruling party to rig the 2018 elections in favor of President Ivan Duque since last year, according to an…
colombiareports.com/narcos-planned-to-frame-cops-who-discovered-colombias-2018-election-fraud-plot/

The US Admits They Are to Blame for Hunger in Syria
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
United States Special Envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, announced on Sunday that Washington had offered Syria a proposal to end the US sanctions. The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry in Damascus said that the statements by James Jeffrey constitute a …
globalresearch.ca/us-admits-blame-syrian-hunger/5715747

Trump's 'Caesar' Style Siege on Syria, A Sign of Impending Regional Failure
Tim Anderson | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-12
Would be emperor Donald Trump has announced the 'Caesar Syrian Civilian Protection Act', to tighten the genocidal siege on the Syrian people. Without a hint of irony, this new edict imposes even more serious obstacles to the Syrian people getting access to energy, food and medicines, while claiming its purpose is to 'protect' those same people. | However the move comes as (1) a shrinking US military presence faces resistance attacks in both Syria and Iraq, (2) Washington's allies are abandoning the US-led 'coalition' in Iraq, (3) Trump has undermined his local allies in Lebanon and Iraq, by threats and economic t…

Trump’s ‘Caesar’ Style Siege on Syria, A Sign of Impending Regional Failure

Battles over Education: Australia, China and Unsafe Universities
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-06-12
asia-pacificresearch.com/battles-education-australia-china-unsafe-universities/5629124

Covid-19 Hits the French Health System
Evan Jones | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
On 28 February the WHO issued a report on China's efforts to control the Coronavirus outbreak, highlighting the necessity for a comprehensive government-led response to the threat. On 29 February, the French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe chose to divert priorities from a Ministerial Council dedicated to Covid-19 by utilising article 49-3 of the Constitution to…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/covid-19-hits-the-french-health-system/

Thailand: Key ASEAN Nation Emerges from COVID-19
Joseph Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
The Kingdom of Thailand plays a central role in the Southeast Asian ASEAN economic bloc. It has a population of nearly 70 million, the second largest economy in the region and hosts a key leg of China's One Belt, One …
globalresearch.ca/thailand-key-asean-nation-emerges-covid-19/5715752

Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and the 1918 Influenza
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
The current Covid-19 epidemic has drawn comparisons to the 1918 influenza epidemic, often referred to as the Spanish flu or H1N1 virus. The influenza flu was devastating with an estimated 500 million people

COVID-19, Capitalist Crises, Class Resistance
Monty Neill | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
The Covid-19 pandemic arrived at a moment of multiple crises of the capitalist system: capital accumulation, ecology, governance, and science. The uprising following the murder of George Lloyd now accelerates the ongoing crisis of structural racism, which Covid-19 starkly illustrated. Each has a history, but as they come together now, it becomes essential to grasp…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/covid-19-capitalist-crises-class-resistance/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-12
Across the world, one of the biggest changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic is in the field of education. Programs from kindergarten through postsecondary have rapidly moved to a distance learning model. Online and remote instruction has its own unique challenges, and has required students and educators to be creative to stay connected. On the …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-medical-education-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

The importance of self-care during difficult times
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-12
If you are struggling with overwhelming feelings, added anxiety, stress and fear, you are not alone. "We are in the midst of a dual pandemic of COVID-19 and social unrest caused by racism which affects all members of our communities," says Dr. Monica Taylor-Desir, co-chair of Diversity and Inclusion in Mayo Clinic's department of Psychiatry …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/the-importance-of-self-care-during-difficult-times/

The Corporate Origins of the Anti-Science "Reopen" Demonstrations
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Many of the same extreme right operatives who created the "Tea Party" are behind the anti-science and anti-intellectual spectacles opposing measures designed to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. And with much the same agenda. By now, that is not much of a secret, but it is nonetheless necessary to expose these roots, and to debunk the…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/the-corporate-origins-of-the-anti-science-reopen-demonstrations/

COVID-19 , "Global False Alarm". Leaked German Government Report
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
We bring to the attention of our readers details concerning the Leaked Report of Germany's Ministry of Interior. | What is at stake is a 93 page report entitled "Analysis of Crisis Management" drafted by a scientific panel appointed by the | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-global-false-alarm-leaked-german-government-report/5715840

Distortions and Attempts to Undermine the Cuban Medical Brigades Will Not Succeed
Bill Hackwell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
Cuban medical brigade returning from Italy (Photo: Ismael Fransisco Gonzalez) Every evening for the past two and a half months the people of Cuba have come out on their streets and porches to applaud and cheer for the 3,000 members of the Henry Reeve medical brigades who are fighting the Covid-19 pandemic on the front …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/distortions-and-attempts-to-undermine-the-cuban-medical-brigades-will-not-succeed/

US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as 'Coronavirus'
Sen. Scott Jensen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
First published on April 15, 2020 | Senator Scott Jensen represents Minnesota. He's also a doctor. He appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingraham where he revealed a very disturbing piece of information. | Dr. Scott Jensen says the American Medical Association …
globalresearch.ca/hospitals-getting-paid-more-label-cause-death-coronavirus/5709720

Fighting For Our Future, Fighting Back Against Austerity
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Like many other cities across the US both big and small, Burlington, Vermont's economy has been hit hard by the fallout from the coronavirus epidemic. Because much of its economy depends on restaurants, bars, pubs and entertainment, the unemployment is higher than it has been in decades. As a result, tax revenues are down and…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/fighting-for-our-future-fighting-back-against-austerity-2/

Movement grows against Trump's looting of taxpayers
Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-12
WASHINGTON–Progressives in Congress and in mass organizations, among them Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and the pro-worker group Public Citizen, are raising alarm over the Trump administration's refusal to release the names of corporations that have received bailouts from the $500 billion coronavirus stimulus package passed recently, and over plans by GOP Senate Majority …
peoplesworld.org/article/movement-grows-against-trumps-looting-of-taxpayers/

That "Big Green Meltdown" & The Untouchables
Joyce Nelson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
In his June 9 piece for Counterpunch, entitled "Big Green Meltdown Over Planet of the Humans," Josh Schlossberg revealed the extent to which he was "shunned, censored, slandered and blacklisted" by many environmentalists because of his criticism of biomass energy a decade ago. He relates that experience to what has been happening currently with Big…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/that-big-green-meltdown-the-untouchables/

The Killing of George Floyd and the Final Fracturing of the Democratic Party, Labor, and Civil Rights Coalition
David Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
George Floyd being killed by a police officer in Minneapolis is not simply about the death of one Black man. His death also killed an historic but uneasy alliance among the Democratic Party, labor unions, and the civil rights movement. The reaction to his death is ending the last vestiges of the historic New Deal…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/the-killing-of-george-floyd-and-the-final-fracturing-of-the-democratic-party-labor-and-civil-rights-coalition/

What Do All Working People Have in Common?
Chuck Churchill | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
What do all working people have in common, regardless of so-called race or skin tone? A precarious existence under the domination of a political and economic system that has concentrated power into the hands of a tiny minority of the nation's (and world's) people

A Mon Valley Memoir: Lessons From The Last Stand Of Steelworkers in Homestead
Steve Early | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Many younger radicals today are trying to figure out how to relate, personally and collectively, to the labor movement. Should they seek union staff jobs and become agents of workplace change that way? Or should they organize "on the shop-floor" itself– as a teacher, nurse, or UPS driver–and then seek elected, rather than appointed, union…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/a-mon-valley-memoir-lessons-from-the-last-stand-of-steelworkers-in-homestead/

The Fed Just Pulled Off Another Backdoor Bailout of Wall Street
Pam Martens, Russ Martens | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
The Federal Reserve has authorized 11 financial bailout programs thus far. Despite Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's reassurances at his press conferences that these programs are to help American families, a full 10 of these programs are actually bailouts of Wall Street banks or their trading units. The latest Wall Street bank bailout to come out…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/the-fed-just-pulled-off-another-backdoor-bailout-of-wall-street/

Where the Fault Line Lies
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
With Inauguration Day 2021 now "only" seven months away, it is becoming more likely than not that the world "as we know it" (more or less), will survive the Trump presidency. Trump becomes increasingly unhinged with each passing day but, with his allotted time in office running down, the prospects for resuming something like the…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/where-the-fault-line-lies/

Dams for the Breaching
David Yearsley | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
The Lockdown has sparked a renaissance in correspondence. I've been exchanging postcards with my mother and letters with my youngest nephew. Emails have gotten longer, more interesting, more personal, more fun. I'm not on FaceBook or any other social media, but I have received greetings and reports from high school teachers and childhood friends. Running…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/dams-for-the-breaching/

Government-Granted Patent Monopolies and Structural Racism
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
No, I have not gone off the deep end, there is an important connection that I will get to in a moment. First, I want to be clear that I am not trying to take anything away from the immediate issue that has brought hundreds of thousands into the streets, the police killing of George…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/government-granted-patent-monopolies-and-structural-racism/

Defunding the Paradigm
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
"To study the economic structure of this country, to know which hands control the wealth, and to which end, seems an academic exercise–and yet it is necessary, all of it is necessary, for discipline, for knowledge, and for power."

ALBA-TCP member countries address post-pandemic economics in virtual conference
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America

Maryland: Privately-Operated Online Charter Schools Should Remain Illegal
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
It is no surprise that many are exploiting the "COVID Pandemic" to advance their narrow self-serving agendas. Charter school advocates are no exception. Crises often generate instability, chaos, and confusion that can make it easier for such forces to get away with antisocial policies and arrangements that would be far more difficult to implement under …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/maryland-privately-operated-online-charter-schools-should-remain-illegal/

Requiem for Democracy
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | zcomm.org | 2020-06-12
Once again, after so many other times, Brazil's wealthy would rather run the risk of descending into dictatorship (if that's not what they wanted to begin with) rather than have the lower classes express their aspiration to be included in the nation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/requiem-for-democracy/

Race and Crime in America
Ron Unz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
The recent wave of riots and looting has been the worst our country has seen in two generations, but some of the crucial underlying factors have been avoided by nearly our entire mainstream media, as well as by most conservative …
globalresearch.ca/race-crime-america/5715822

Over 95% of UK "COVID19" Deaths Had "Pre-existing Condition"
OffGuardian | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Over 95% of "COVID Deaths" recorded in England and Wales had potentially serious "comorbidities" [other causes of mortality] according to statistics released by NHS England. | The latest figures make for pretty stark reading. Or, rather, they would make for stark …
globalresearch.ca/95-uk-covid19-deaths-had-pre-existing-condition/5715775

An Open Letter to the Israeli Government Condemning Annexation
Prof. Kevin Jon Heller | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Along with 102 of my fellow public international law scholars, I have signed the following open letter condemning Israel's plan to illegally annex large swathes of the West Bank. If you are interested in joining the list, please send an …
globalresearch.ca/open-letter-israeli-government-condemning-annexation/5715789

When Millions March against Police Killings. When the Chickens Come Home
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Malcolm X made some comments on December 1 1963, less than two weeks after the murder of JFK. It was instantly misrepresented by the mainstream media (as they always seem to do, when dealing with any sort of perceived radical …
globalresearch.ca/when-chickens-come-home/5715754

Over 95% of UK "COVID19" Deaths Had "Pre-existing Condition" (Died From Other Causes)
OffGuardian | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Over 95% of "COVID Deaths" recorded in England and Wales had potentially serious "comorbidities" [other causes of mortality] according to statistics released by NHS England. | The latest figures make for pretty stark reading. Or, rather, they would make for stark …
globalresearch.ca/95-uk-covid19-deaths-had-pre-existing-condition/5715775

Video: 9/11 Documentary on WTC Buildings: Spotlight On: SEVEN
AE911Truth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
PBS affiliates across the country today will begin airing a five-minute version of the new documentary SEVEN directed by Loose Change creator Dylan Avery about the explosive findings of the recently completed University of Alaska Fairbanks study on the destruction …
globalresearch.ca/short-version-new-documentary-seven-begins-airing-today-pbs/5715772

German Official Leaks Ministry of Interior Report Denouncing Corona as 'A Global False Alarm'
Daniele Pozzati | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
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

The Scourge of Islamophobia in Canada
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
Muslims in Canada deserve to feel what non-Muslims feel when they hear of a vicious crime or a foiled plot committed by someone who looks like them: abhorred by the crime but knowing the crime reflects the perpetrator alone. Any other thought process should never occur.

The Implications of Social Hierarchy and Questioning the Right to Rule
Jason Holland | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
Society must return to truth or cease to exist.

Police target journalists
Calvin Deutschbein | workers.org | 2020-06-12
At 5 a.m. in Minneapolis on May 29, Omar Jimenez, a Black CNN reporter wearing press credentials and reporting live on camera on the rebellion against the police murder of George Floyd, was arrested along with the news crew. About a block away, a second CNN crew of white journalists . . . | Continue reading Police target journalists at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49270/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=police-target-journalists

Maritza Perez on Overpolicing & Drugs, Remington Gregg on Corporate Immunity
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-06-12
Media…
fair.org/home/maritza-perez-on-overpolicing-drugs-remington-gregg-on-corporate-immunity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maritza-perez-on-overpolicing-drugs-remington-gregg-on-corporate-immunity

Glen Ford: Having Not Yet Won Any Real Power Over Police, This Is No Time for a Truce
Glen Ford | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-12
The oligarchs that rule the country and control both of its corporate parties and all of its major media want the people to believe that politics is limited to the electoral process, and that street activism, labor militancy, and community organizing are outside the realm of "real" politics.
mintpressnews.com/black-lives-matter-no-real-power-over-police-no-time-for-truce/268514/

Organizing for revolutionary power
Makasi Motema | workers.org | 2020-06-12
When the Third Precinct burned, the world trembled. The sacking of the Minneapolis police station by unarmed demonstrators last week was an unprecedented act of resistance. Never in living memory have the masses of oppressed people in the U.S. struck such a devastating blow against the ruling class and their . . . | Continue reading Organizing for revolutionary power at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49282/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-questions-facing-a-revolutionary-uprising

The questions facing a revolutionary uprising
Makasi Motema | workers.org | 2020-06-12
When the Third Precinct burned, the world trembled. The sacking of the Minneapolis police station by unarmed demonstrators last week was an unprecedented act of resistance. Never in living memory have the masses of oppressed people in the U.S. struck such a devastating blow against the ruling class and their . . . | Continue reading The questions facing a revolutionary uprising at Workers.org…
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The anti-police uprising and the emergence of a vital force in the class struggle: youth
Larry Holmes | workers.org | 2020-06-12
Larry Holmes gave this speech, which has been slightly edited, on a Workers World Party webinar June 4 on "No to Martial Law! Defend the Uprising!" What we've seen over the last week is the largest national uprising against the police and systemic police racism in U.S. history. That's all . . . | Continue reading The anti-police uprising and the emergence of a vital force in the class struggle: youth at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49286/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-anti-police-uprising-and-the-emergence-of-a-vital-force-in-the-class-struggle-youth

Video: Hearing Is Not Like Seeing: NATO's Terrorists Burning Syrian Wheat Crops
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
A video clip shared by local farmers from Ras Al-Ayn showing an inferno burning their livelihood before their eyes, hundreds of acres of wheat on fire just as the crop is due to harvest. | We've been reporting about these fires …
globalresearch.ca/video-nato-terrorists-burning-syrian-wheat-crops/5715759

No Economic Sovereignty Without Political Sovereignty
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
There is a current discussion on how much and what kind of funding Italy will receive from the European Union and under what conditions. Reassuring messages arrive from Brussels. But since such financing will be mostly provided in the form | …
globalresearch.ca/no-economic-sovereignty-without-political-sovereignty/5715742

Iran Air seals deal with Italy's Rimini airport
Press TV | iranian.com | 2020-06-12
AIRiminum, the company that operates Italy's Federico Fellini International Airport says it has signed a deal with Iran's flag carrier airline, Iran Air. The deal will ensure three flights per week connecting the Iranian capital and the seaside city of Rimini. The move is in line with efforts to revamp the airport named after the …
iranian.com/2020/06/11/iran-air-seals-deal-with-italys-rimini-airport/

US Confirms Plans to Further Reduce Number of Troops in Iraq
Sputnik News | iranian.com | 2020-06-12
The United States has confirmed its plans to further decrease the number of servicemen deployed to Iraq, the joint statement of the governments of the United States and Iraq said. "On the security partnership, the two countries recognised that in light of significant progress towards eliminating the Daesh* threat, over the coming months the US …
iranian.com/2020/06/11/us-confirms-plans-to-further-reduce-number-of-troops-in-iraq/

UK to introduce EU border controls in stages from 2021
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Britain said on Friday it would introduce border controls in stages on European Union goods after the end of the Brexit transition period, to try to soften the blow for companies already battling the coronavirus pandemic.Reversing an original plan to impose full border controls on imports coming into Britain from the EU from next year, the government said it would introduce the changes in stages up until July 1, 2021, giving firms more time to deal with paperwork.Companies have long called on the government to give them more clarity about what new border checks will be in force at the end of this year, when the s…
yenisafak.com/en/world/uk-to-introduce-eu-border-controls-in-stages-from-2021-3531913

Why Does the Public Tolerate Its Biological Warfare?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-12
If the public will no longer tolerate its funding biological warfare, then when will the massive public demonstrations be organized throughout the world condemning the U.S., China, and other governments, that either participate in this R&D or else tolerate instead of clearly outlawing it

Why the Sudden U.S. Keenness for Arms Control Talks With Russia?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-12
The answer to the above question comes down to one word: China. | U.S. envoy Marshall Billingslea is, rather belatedly, making enthusiastic sounds about arms control talks to be held with Russia later this month. The talks are scheduled for June 22 in Vienna. The Kremlin has confirmed the venue and discussions, with deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov representing the Russian side. | On announcing the June 22 meeting with Russia, Billingslea showed an unseemly haste to link…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/12/why-sudden-us-keenness-for-arms-control-talks-with-russia/

Dangerous Ideas and Our Cancel Culture
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-12
Micah MATTIX | HBO Max drops Gone with the Wind from its archive because to keep the title available "without an explanation and a denouncement of [its racist] depictions would be irresponsible." Ah, yes, let's avoid "irresponsibility." | I've never seen the film and have no desire to see it, but it's now the number 1 film at Amazon and number 5 at Apple. Pamela K. Johnson reminds us that Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy, became the first African American to…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/12/dangerous-ideas-and-our-cancel-culture/

Great! Louisville Passes Law to Ban No-Knock Warrants. Now Can We Have the Same for Afghanistan?
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-12
Louisville bans no-knock search raids: | All 26 members of the Louisville Metro Council voted on Thursday to pass a ban on no-knock warrants, a measure known as "Breonna's Law," named after the former EMT who died in a police raid at her apartment. | The unanimously passed ordinance, which still needs to be approved by the mayor, bans any search warrant that does not re…
anti-empire.com/great-louisville-passes-law-to-ban-no-knock-warrants-now-can-we-have-the-same-for-afghanistan/

US Bombers Are So Ridiculously Expensive Air Force Forced to Make Up for Low Numbers by Planning Cargo Planes for Combat
Kyle Mizokami | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-12
Editor's note: A decent article but which does not explain the background of why the Air Force is experimenting with using cargo planes in this way. Despite having a massive budget the hardware the service orders from the defense industry is so ridiculously expensive the stable just isn't large enough. That is also the reason the ancient but reliable B-52s are still kept in service (and indeed form the backbone of the nuclear and heavy bomber force) and will outlive far newer but overly-complicated and troubled machines like the B-1 from the corporate handout era: Curious taxpayers might wonder why we need the Lon…
anti-empire.com/us-bombers-are-so-ridiculously-expensive-air-force-forced-to-make-up-for-low-numbers-by-planning-cargo-planes-for-combat/

Tanzania Pioneers a Far Cheaper, Less Superstitious and Far More Rational 'Cure' for COVID Than Lockdowns
Tom Odula | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-12
Editor's note: Instead of 3 months of ruinous, masochistic, and superstitious lockdowns that the West opted for, Tanzania opted for 3 days of prayers. Both worked about as well except Tanzania's cure was far less costly in livelihoods and lives. Well done Magufuli! Brilliant! | Related: Tanzania President Questions Covid-19 Kits After Goat, Sheep and Pawpaw Samples Test 'Positive' | | Tanzania's president is again claiming the country is free of the coronavirus because of the power of prayer – s…
anti-empire.com/tanzania-pioneers-a-far-cheaper-less-superstitious-and-far-more-rational-cure-for-covid-than-lockdowns/

Another Month Another Trillion Added to US National Debt
Schiff Gold | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-12
On Tuesday, the national debt pushed above $26 trillion. | Just 35 days ago, the debt eclipsed $25 trillion. And 28 days before that, the national debt stood at a mere $24 million. | Meanwhile, the federal government just set a record for the biggest budget deficit in any fiscal year

Trump's 'Caesar' Style Siege on Syria, A Sign of Impending Regional Failure
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-12
Would be emperor Donald Trump has announced the 'Caesar Syrian Civilian Protection Act', to tighten the genocidal siege on the Syrian people. Without a hint of irony, this new edict imposes even more serious obstacles to the Syrian people getting access to energy, food and medicines, while claiming its purpose is to 'protect' those same people. | However the move comes as (1) a shrinking US military presence faces resistance attacks in both Syria and Iraq, (2) Washington's allies are abandoning the US-led 'coalition' in Iraq, (3) Trump has undermined his local allies in Lebanon and Iraq, by threats and economi…
ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/syria-crisis/4218-trump-caesar-style-siege.html

Friday 6/19: JUNETEENTH: West Coast Port Shutdown
International Longshore and Warehouse Union | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
Meet at 1717 Middle Harbor Road and caravan to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834195.php

Corona epidemic and Yemen
C Dettwiler, U Gasche and N Ramseyer | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
Authorities first wanted to calm down and played down the pandemic. Afterward, they had to convince the population to keep unusual physical distance, to wash their hands well at all times, and to refrain from major events. Finally, they wanted the population to accept the week-long lockdown, with business closures, exit, and travel restrictions.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/10/18834084.php

Friday 6/19: ILWU Shutting Down W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
SSA Terminals 1717 Middle Harbor Road at the Port of Oakland to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834197.php

ILWU Work Action On W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
The ILWU on the West Coast will shut down all ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020 to stop police terror and systemic racism.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834196.php

Is coronavirus Covid-19 stalking residents in Oakland, and Alameda County?
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834101.php

Thursday 6/11: #Equity For All Forum: Racial Equity in HEROES Act & End Anti-Black Police Brutality!
Faith in Action, NAACP, UNIDOS US, others | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/10/18834098.php

U.S. President Trump sparks renewed interest in Juneteenth Celebrations Globally
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
"In 1535, the first enslaved Pan African were recorded in California. Spanish conquistadors brought enslaved Pan Africans for conquest and who were later breed with indigenous population (Afro-Latino) throughout "New Spain" and much, much later evolved into today's Republic of Mexico. Authentic Alta California History remains cloaked in slavery and secrecy that remains off limits for any principled dialogue as the California State Legislature prepares for a 2020 Juneteenth State Budget due next week.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834184.php

Global collaboration needed to solve coronavirus challenges
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-12
The leaders of Imperial and Tsinghua University have called for global collaboration to tackle coronavirus and other global challenges.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198154/global-collaboration-needed-solve-coronavirus-challenges

Iran categorically rejects UN Secretariat's allegations
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-12
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA)

UNHCR urges Greece to investigate refugee pushbacks
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
The UN Refugee Agency on Friday urged Greece to investigate multiple reports of pushbacks by Greek authorities at the country's sea and land borders, possibly returning migrants and asylum seekers to Turkey.UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch said at a twice-weekly UN press briefing that allegations of people being turned back had increased since March.He said reports indicate that several groups of people may have been summarily returned after reaching Greek territory."UNHCR has continuously addressed its concerns with the Greek government and has called for urgent inquiries into a series of alleged incidents reported…
yenisafak.com/en/world/unhcr-urges-greece-to-investigate-refugee-pushbacks-3531908

Turkey calls on Germany to lift travel warning
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Turkish foreign minister on Friday called on Germany to lift travel warning for Turkey.Speaking to German weekly Der Spiegel, Mevlut Cavusoglu commented on Germany's decision to lift travel warning for EU countries while extending it for all other countries until Aug. 31."It is hard to understand scientific reasons behind this decision," said Cavusoglu, and called on Berlin to also lift its travel warning for Turkey, which has successfully managed the pandemic process."German tourists are most warmly welcome. All kinds of hygiene measures will be taken against COVID-19 from the moment the German tourists start th…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-calls-on-germany-to-lift-travel-warning-3531907

Jakarta to ban single-use plastic bags starting July 1
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
The Indonesian capital of Jakarta will officially implement a ban on single-use plastic bags effective on July 1."The managers or administrators should require all tenants and business owners in shopping centers, supermarkets and traditional market to provide environmentally friendly shopping bags," said the Head of Environmental Agency of Jakarta Province Andono Warih on Thursday.The new obligation refers to the government's 2019 Regulation regarding The Obligation to Use Environmentally Friendly Shopping Bags, including reusable shopping bags made from any ingredients

FETàñ 'infiltrated' US missions in Turkey, says Foreign Ministry
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
His comments came a day after a Turkish court sentenced Metin Topuz, a US Consulate employee, to eight years and nine months in prison on charges of helping FETO, the terror group behind the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey.Shortly after the court's decision, the US embassy questioned the decision, saying its observers "have seen no credible evidence to support this conviction and hope it will swiftly be overturned."In response, Hami Aksoy said Turkey anxiously observes how the US has become a safe haven for members of FETO."Essentially, Metin Topuz is not the only FETO affiliated person working in the US representati…
yenisafak.com/en/news/feto-infiltrated-us-missions-in-turkey-says-foreign-ministry-3531912

Pakistan records over 6,000 more COVID-19 cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Pakistan on Friday recorded more than 6,000 coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, the highest single-day rise since the outbreak, according to official statistics on Friday.With 6,397 new cases, Pakistan's tally of coronavirus cases has reached 125,933, already surpassing China and Saudi Arabia, putting the country at number 15 worldwide in terms of cases, the data shows.Another 107 patients lost their lives due to COVID-19 across the country, bringing the death toll from the deadly virus to 2,463, while 40,247 patients have successfully recovered and discharged from the hospitals, according to the Health Min…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-records-over-6000-more-covid-19-cases-3531872

China says opposes US restrictions on Chinese students
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
China on Friday said it resolutely opposes any U.S. government move to restrict Chinese students from studying abroad, and urged the United States to do more things to enhance mutual exchanges and understanding."We will continue to support exchanges between Chinese and American students and welcome students from all countries, including the United States, to study in China," an education ministry spokesman said in a statement.Two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters last month the United States was planning to cancel the visas of thousands of Chinese graduate students believed by Washington to have l…
yenisafak.com/en/world/china-says-opposes-us-restrictions-on-chinese-students-3531911

Turkey: COVID-19 narrows retail sales volume in April
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Turkey's retail sales volume shrank 19.3% on an annual basis in April due to coronavirus crisis, the country's statistical authority said on Friday.Food, drinks and tobacco sales in April grew 12.5% compared to the same month last year, according to TurkStat.Non-food

Turkey's current account posts $5.06B gap in April
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Turkey's current account balance posted a $5.06 billion gap in April, widening from a $469 million deficit in the same month last year, the Turkish Central Bank announced on Friday.According to the balance of payments figures released by the bank, the country's 12-month rolling deficit totaled $3.3 billion.The figure beat market expectation of $4.1 billion deficit in the month as the coronavirus' impact started to be felt in earnest in mid-March and April.An Anadolu Agency survey on Thursday showed that a group of 16 economists' projections ranged from $2.2 billion to $5.2 billion for the fourth month of this yea…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/turkeys-current-account-posts-506b-gap-in-april-3531867

Turkish stocks down 0.87% at Friday's opening
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Turkey's benchmark stock index started the day at 108,201.50 points on Friday, down by 0.87% or 953.91 points from previous close.At Thursday's close, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index was down 0.57% at 109,155.41 points, with a daily trading volume of 16.1 billion Turkish liras ($2.4 billion).The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 6.8400 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) Friday, compared to 6.8220 at Thursday's close.The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate dropped to 7.7320 from 7.7610, and one British pound traded for 8.6270 Turkish liras, down from 8.6550 at the previous close.One barrel of Brent crude…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-stocks-down-087-at-fridays-opening-3531869

Turkish economy sees total turnover down 20.9% in April
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
The Turkish economy's total turnover saw an annual decrease of 20.9% in April, the nation's statistical institute reported on Friday.The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said turnover in industry slipped 24.9% during the same period.On the services side, the turnover index declined 23.9% and the figure in trade fell 17.4% year-on-year.The construction sector's turnover dropped 19.6% on a yearly basis in the same month.The official report also revealed that Turkey's seasonally and calendar-adjusted total turnover index

Turkey's industrial output down 31.4% y-o-y in April
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Turkey's industrial production saw a decline of 31.4% year-on-year in April 2020, the country's statistical authority said on Friday.Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) revealed that all three main sub-indices

US to reduce troops in Iraq in coming months
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
The US has agreed to reduce its forces in Iraq during the coming months, said a joint statement issued by the two governments on Friday.The joint statement was released at the end of the strategic dialogue held between the two countries via video conferencing on Thursday."The US will also continue to hold dialogue with the Baghdad government on the status of the remaining forces," the statement said.The move comes in the light of developing bilateral security relations based on mutual interests.The agreement, however, did not disclose details regarding the number of troops that will be reduced and the period requ…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-to-reduce-troops-in-iraq-in-coming-months-3531870

Video: Syrian Army Repelled Militant Attack in Southern Idlib. US Air Force C-130 Plane Crashed in Iraq
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
The Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces have repelled an attack on their positions in southern Idlib. | On June 8, forces of the Ghurfat Eamaliat wa-Harid al-Mu'minin coalition of al-Qaeda-linked militant groups stormed the villages of Tanjarah and Fattirah. …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-repelled-militant-attack-southern-idlib-us-air-force-c-130-plane-crashed-iraq/5715502

Video: Explosion Targets Russian Military Police Patrol in Northern Syria. Who Was Behind It?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
On June 9, an improvised explosive device exploded on the route of the patrol of the Russian Military Police near the town of Ayn al-Arab (also known as Kobani) in northern Syria. Initially, Kurdish sources claimed that at least 3 …
globalresearch.ca/video-ied-explosion-targets-russian-military-police-patrol-damaging-vehicle/5715643

Greek-Italian Maritime Deal Disrupts Turkey's Endeavour for East Mediterranean Dominance
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Greece and Italy signed a historic agreement yesterday that demarcates the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of the two countries in the Ionian Sea. The agreement signed between Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio has …
globalresearch.ca/greek-italian-maritime-deal-disrupts-turkey-endeavour-east-mediterranean-dominance/5715635

Defund the Police, defund the Military
MBNJSD | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-11
Defund the police, defund the military (Credit: CODEPINK) On June 1, President Trump threatened to deploy active-duty U.S. military forces against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters in cities across America. Trump and state governors eventually deployed at least 17,000 National Guard troops across the country. In the nation's capital, Trump deployed nine Blackhawk assault helicopters, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/defund-the-police-defund-the-military/

Defund the Police, Defund the Military
MBNJSD | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-11
Defund the police, defund the military (Credit: CODEPINK) On June 1, President Trump threatened to deploy active-duty U.S. military forces against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters in cities across America. Trump and state governors eventually deployed at least 17,000 National Guard troops across the country. In the nation's capital, Trump deployed nine Blackhawk assault helicopters, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/defund-the-police-defund-the-military/

Thousands march for Black lives in Dallas
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-11
Dallas, TX – On Saturday, June 6, about 5000 people rallied in 100-degree weather at Belo Garden Park across the street from the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas, to demand justice for victims of police violence, community control of the police, and the resignation of Renee Hall, the chief of the Dallas Police Department. | The protest was called by the Dallas Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (DAARPR), Progressive Student Union at the University of Texas at Arlington American Muslims for Palestine Dallas, Migrante Texas, and Black Youth Project 100-Dallas. First the crowd heard spe…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/10/thousands-march-black-lives-dallas

Thousands march for Black lives in Dallas
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-11
Dallas, TX – On Saturday, June 6, about 5000 people rallied in 100-degree weather at Belo Garden Park across the street from the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas, to demand justice for victims of police violence, community control of the police, and the resignation of Renee Hall, the chief of the Dallas Police Department. | The protest was called by the Dallas Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (DAARPR), Progressive Student Union at the University of Texas at Arlington American Muslims for Palestine Dallas, Migrante Texas, and Black Youth Project 100-Dallas. First the crowd heard spe…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/10/thousands-march-black-lives-dallas

European Court of Human Rights Deals Major Blow to Israel's War on Palestine Solidarity
Palestinian BDS National Committee | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
ECHR rules unanimously that French highest court's criminal conviction of Israel boycott advocates violates the European Convention on Human Rights' freedom of expression article | *** | The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously today that the French highest court's …
globalresearch.ca/european-court-human-rights-deals-major-blow-israel-war-palestine-solidarity/5715685

Don't Call Me Ishmael; Don't Call Me Israel‚Ää–‚ÄäCall Me One Democratic State!
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
"Who excavates Muslim Palestinian graves and mosques in [Palestine's] depopulated towns and why?", asks Haifa-based Palestinian advocate Jehad Abu-Rayya. | "Recently," he goes on, "these desecrations have been on the increase‚Ää–‚ÄäIn the village of Beit Jibreen, in the | …
globalresearch.ca/dont-call-me-ishmael-dont-call-me-israel%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8acall-me-one-democratic-state/5715649

U.S. Passes 2 Million Coronavirus Cases as States Lift Restrictions, Raising Fears of a Second Wave
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-11
The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases has officially topped 2 million as states continue to ease stay-at-home orders and reopen their economies and more than a dozen see a surge in new infections. "I worry that what we've seen so far is an undercount and what we're seeing now is really just the beginning of another wave of infections spreading across the country," says Dr. Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/11/dr_craig_spencer

Historian Robin D.G. Kelley: Years of Racial Justice Organizing Laid Groundwork for Today's Uprising
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-11
As protests against police brutality and racism continue across the country, we speak with historian and UCLA professor of African American studies Robin D.G. Kelley. "We're not here by accident," Kelley says, crediting racial justice organizers for laying the groundwork for this moment over the last decade. "The real question now is whether or not this can be sustained."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/11/robin_dg_kelley_social_movements

Seattle Protesters Declare Autonomous Zone Around Police Precinct After Heated Standoff with Police
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-11
In Seattle, protesters have barricaded a six-block autonomous zone, after protests were met with a violent police response. Amid a days-long standoff, police removed barricades and abandoned their East Precinct building, and protesters moved into the area, declaring it "Free Capitol Hill." We go to Seattle to speak with Omari Salisbury, a citizen journalist who has been live-streaming the uprising and police crackdown.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/11/seattle_capitol_hill_autonomous_zone

"He Didn't Deserve to Die Over $20": George Floyd's Brother Urges Congress to Stop Police Killings
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-11
A day after George Floyd's family laid him to rest in his hometown of Houston, his brother Philonise Floyd addressed lawmakers on Capitol Hill to demand an end to police violence. "I'm tired. I'm tired of pain," he told the House Judiciary Committee. "People of all backgrounds, genders and races have come together to demand change. Honor them. Honor George."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/11/philonise_floyd_capitol_hill

Russia shoots down "Ridiculous" Trump demand for Arms Embargo on Tehran
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-06-11
The Neoconservative wing of the Trump administration, which is dying to drag the United States into a war with Iran, suffered an embarrassing setback on Monday when its latest flimsy scheme crashed and burned.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/russia-shoots-down-ridiculous-trump-demand-for-arms-embargo-on-tehran/

Meet Wikipedia's Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation's regime-change operative CEO
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-11
Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales,…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-founder-and-wikimedia-foundations-regime-change-operative-ceo/

Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-11
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing/

The Spirit of Hoover's FBI is Revived under New Cyber-Warfare Protocols
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-11
This week, the Grayzone's Gareth Porter exposed an important strategy led by the FBI to purge the internet of alternative media outlets who question the mainstream narratives being used to shepherd society into an Orwellian post-COVID world order. | Although FBI propagandists strewn throughout mainstream media have attempted to project the idea that the corrupt days of America's internal Gestapo operation led by J. Edgar Hoover are a thing of the past, the reality is that its days of COINTEL PRO, MK Ultra, assassinations and media manipulation of the 1960s and 1970s not only didn't go away but only amplified t…
ahtribune.com/us/4216-hoover-fbi-cyber-warfare-protocols.html

Remembering the Crimes of Global Capitalism: "The Jakarta Method"
Grace Blakeley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Any self-identifying socialist will be met with the question at some point in their lives: How many people have been killed in the name of socialism? They might have pointed out in response that Soviet-style state socialism is about as …
globalresearch.ca/remembering-capitalism-crimes/5715682

Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Forms Around Emptied East Precinct
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-11
The first night in the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone that has formed in the wake of police giving up the week-long blockade of the East Precinct was rainy and peaceful and full of speeches from activists, agitators, poets, and socialist city council members. | "I guess whatever the fuck we're doing is effective," one organizer identified as Magik said over a megaphone early in the night as police were still clearing the area. "They are going to move up. They are going to get everybody out of here and we are free to move through these streets and protest and march." | "Yesterday we were on 11th and Pine.
popularresistance.org/capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-forms-around-emptied-east-precinct/

Amid Protests and Pandemic, Trump's Priority Is Protecting Profits
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-06-11
The power of the masters is indeed fragile. It can be restricted, even overturned, by a public dedicated to different goals. But that requires organization.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/amid-protests-and-pandemic-trumps-priority-is-protecting-profits/

Palestinians score huge victory against Israel's apartheid regime in a European court
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-06-11
Palestinians have scored a major victory against Israel's apartheid regime in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). | On 11 June, the ECHR passed a ruling on a French court's conviction of people boycotting Israeli goods to show solidarity with Palestinians. It found that the convictions violated the European Convention on Human Rights. | As the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement noted, the ruling has "major implications for anti-BDS state r…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/06/11/palestinians-score-a-huge-victory-against-israels-apartheid-regime-in-a-european-court/

The Afghan-Pakistani Rapprochement Complicates India's Hybrid War Plans
Andrew Korybko | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-06-11
asia-pacificresearch.com/afghan-pakistani-rapprochement-complicates-india-hybrid-war-plans/5629118

New Evidence Suggests Turkey Preparing for Libya-Style Military Intervention in Yemen
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-11
Turkey is sending advisors and weapons into Yemen and flexing its influence in the war-torn country as it seeks to expand its power across the Middle East.
mintpressnews.com/evidence-suggests-turkey-preparing-for-libya-style-military-intervention-in-yemen/268499/

The Worst of All Possible Worlds? Echoes of Orwell's Dystopian 1984. Mass Surveillance, Police State Rule, Struggle to Survive
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Longterm harm caused by US policies at home and abroad are far removed from a Panglossian best of all possible worlds view. | What's going on has echoes of Orwell's dystopian 1984. | Both right wings of the US war party wage …
globalresearch.ca/worst-all-possible-worlds/5715673

The Globalization of War. America's "Long War" against Humanity
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
America's hegemonic project in…
globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-war-americas-long-war-against-humanity/5426125

Flights Logs Suggest Bolivia Coup May Have Been Planned in Brazil
Alan Macleod | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-11
Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup in November.
theantimedia.com/flights-logs-suggest-bolivia-coup-may-have-been-planned-in-brazil/

Poster exhibition shows glimpses of dying capitalist system and flickers of a new world
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-11
"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay," wrote Marxist art historian Ernst Fischer seven decades ago, "Art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it." | The future of the world hangs in the balance. The coronavirus pandemic has deepened existing inequalities and issues while presenting unforeseen challenges to crumbling public infrastructure in many countries. This historic moment has revealed that there are two dominant paradigms, one that favors life and the well-being of the people, and one that favors capital and accumulation. | The corona-crisis has revealed th…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/11/poster-exhibition-shows-glimpses-of-dying-capitalist-system-and-flickers-of-a-new-world/

Israel and the US Step Up Efforts to Intimidate the Hague War Crimes Court
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
In the near-two decades since the International Criminal Court was set up to try the worst violations of international human rights law, it has faced harsh criticism for its highly selective approach to the question of who should be put …
globalresearch.ca/israel-us-step-up-efforts-intimidate-hague-war-crimes-court/5715642

Netanyahu hails Trump's sanctions against 'corrupt & biased' International Criminal Court
rt.com | 2020-06-11
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has praised US President Donald Trump and his administration for sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC). Both countries have been targeted by the court with probes into alleged war crimes. | "I would like to thank the president for his leadership in sanctioning the corrupt and biased international court obsessed with a witch hunt against Israel and the United States," Netanyahu said during a press conference on Thursday. | The Israeli PM has invoked the anti-Semitism card as well, claiming that the ICC ultimately believes that the "Jews living in their historic homelan…
rt.com/news/491568-netanyahu-trump-icc-sanctions/

[Commentary] Covert family planning as a symbol of agency for young, married women
Andrew Gibbs, Abigail Hatcher | thelancet.com | 2020-06-11
Family planning has long been seen as both a marker and a potential driver of women's autonomy and overall population health. Family planning is strongly linked to child and women's health outcomes, and tends to be better for nearly every household measure [1,2].
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30137-1/fulltext?rss=yes

AOC Introduces Bill to Ban Police Use of Teargas on Domestic Protests
Sebastian Murdock | zcomm.org | 2020-06-11
Though tear gas is banned in war, it's currently classified as a "riot control agent" that can be used for crowd control.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/aoc-introduces-bill-to-ban-police-use-of-teargas-on-domestic-protests/

Boogaloo Movement Is Trying to Hijack Anti-Racist Protests for a Race War
Mehdi Hasan | zcomm.org | 2020-06-11
These are heavily armed men, many of them with military training, looking for new and greater opportunities for violent protest…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/boogaloo-movement-is-trying-to-hijack-anti-racist-protests-for-a-race-war/

Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer
Paige Fernandez | aclu.org | 2020-06-11
This OpEd first appeared on Cosmopolitan., , Almost exactly six years after NYPD officers murdered Eric Garner in New York City, Minneapolis police officers murdered George Floyd. Activists, advocates, and protestors are still screaming "I can't breathe" and begging government officials for police reform that will end police violence in Black communities. But today's demands are bigger and bolder: Now, protesters are advocating for systemic changes that require a complete reimagining of law enforcement in the United…
aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/defunding-the-police-will-actually-make-us-safer

Native Americans pull down Christopher Columbus statue at Minnesota Capitol
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-11
Saint Paul, MN – On June 10, Native Lives Matter, AIM of Twin Cities and AIM Patrol of Minneapolis led a protest that pulled down the 10-foot tall statue of Christopher Columbus that had stood in front of the Minnesota State Capitol since 1931. A couple hundred people cheered as protesters put a rope around Columbus's neck and dozens pulled until the statue came crashing down face-first. | Generations of children in the U.S. have been taught that Christopher Columbus was a hero that 'discovered America'. But for generations, Native Americans have made clear that Columbus represents the start of a genocidal Europe…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/11/native-americans-pull-down-christopher-columbus-statue-minnesota-capitol

Native Americans pull down Christopher Columbus statue at Minnesota Capitol
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-11
Saint Paul, MN – On June 10, Native Lives Matter, AIM of Twin Cities and AIM Patrol of Minneapolis led a protest that pulled down the 10-foot tall statue of Christopher Columbus that had stood in front of the Minnesota State Capitol since 1931. A couple hundred people cheered as protesters put a rope around Columbus's neck and dozens pulled until the statue came crashing down face-first. | Generations of children in the U.S. have been taught that Christopher Columbus was a hero that 'discovered America'. But for generations, Native Americans have made clear that Columbus represents the start of a genocidal Europe…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/11/native-americans-pull-down-christopher-columbus-statue-minnesota-capitol

Capitalism and Coercion: Crisis in the Legitimacy of the U.S. State
Vince Montes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
The U.S. state appears to be facing a crisis of its legitimacy amid the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. The killing of George Floyd, yet another unarmed black man killed by the police, has erupted into popular protest. It is …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-state-legitimacy-under-attack/5715654

Growing anger among US workers as COVID-19 rips through workplaces
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
As plants and factories have become major centers of COVID-19 transmission, meat processing workers in Utah and sanitation workers in Philadelphia have protested to demand safe working conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/lead-j11.html

Greeks say no to education system which only serves capitalist needs
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-11
Teachers and students in Greece observed an education strike on June 9, Tuesday, and staged protests across the country denouncing a controversial education bill proposed by the conservative New Democracy (ND) government.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/11/greeks-say-no-to-education-system-which-only-serves-capitalist-needs/

The DOJ and Attorney General Unlawful Actions in Response to Nationwide Protests against Racism
DOJ Alumni | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
We write to you as alumni of the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ" or the "Department"). Collectively, we have served in both career and high-ranking politically-appointed positions in both Republican and Democratic administrations. Some of us …
globalresearch.ca/doj-alumni-letter-inspector-general-michael-horowitz/5715703

The DOJ and Attorney General Unlawful Actions in Response to Nationwide Protests against Racism
DOJ Alumni | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Dear Mr. Horowitz: | We write to you as alumni of the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ" or the "Department"). Collectively, we have served in both career and high-ranking politically-appointed positions in both Republican and Democratic administrations. Some of us …
globalresearch.ca/doj-alumni-letter-inspector-general-michael-horowitz/5715703

More cases of US police brutality emerge as protests continue against murder of George Floyd
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
In recent days, Albuquerque police shot and critically injured a man in his mid-20s, New Jersey authorities released video of the fatal shooting last month of Maurice Gordon and Austin police released video of the 2019 murder of Javier Ambler.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/poli-j11.html

A timeline of abuse by the New York Police Department
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
A peaceful protester arrested in New York City tells the WSWS about her experience…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/int2-j11.html

World over, people agitate against structural racism
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-11
Across the world, people are rising up against racial discrimination and injustice. These protests have been sparked by the murder of George Floyd in the US. But they are as much against the structural racism and oppression in their own contexts.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/11/world-over-people-agitate-against-structural-racism/

6 Steps Toward Building Trust Between Black Americans and the Police
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-11
Defunding will only invite more, and bigger, problems. | Corey BROOKS | The brutal treatment of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, by former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, has sparked protests across the country, as well as calls for abolishing police departments in major cities. Floyd's tragic death demands that we examine the underlying issues and systemic abuse within some police forces. But defunding the police will only invite more, and bigger, problems. | Instead, we should aim to restore the trust between the black community and the police, and implement commonsense reforms that will mak…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/11/6-steps-toward-building-trust-between-black-americans-and-police/

Russians Stirring Up Trouble: An Obama Retread Sees Moscow's Hand in Protests
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-11
If one ventures into the vast wasteland of American television it is possible to miss the truly ridiculous content that is promoted as news by the major networks. One particular feature of media-speak in the United States is the tendency of the professional reporting punditry to go seeking for someone to blame every time some development rattles the National Security plus Wall Street bubble that we all unfortunately live in. The talking heads have to such an extent sold the conclusion that China deliberately released a lethal virus to destroy western democracies that no one objects when Beijing is elevated from b…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/11/russians-stirring-up-trouble-obama-retread-see-moscow-hand-protests/

WHO Believes That Mass Protests Are Important Even in a 'Pandemic' Provided They're More Popular Than WHO
Pien Huang | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-11
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization took time at its daily press conference to address another pressing issue: the wave of protests against police violence and racial injustice. The demonstrations began in the U.S. when George Floyd died on May 25 after a police officer had pressed a knee into his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while detaining him in Minneapolis. | The protests are now spreading around the world to Europe, Africa and other regions. | "WHO fully supports equality and the global movement against racism. We reject discrimination of all kinds," said WHO director…
anti-empire.com/who-believes-that-mass-protests-are-important-even-in-a-pandemic-provided-theyre-more-popular-than-who/

"Equality Is the Soul of Liberty" Peaceful Protest in Palo Alto Pt. I
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-06-11
Speakers called for major structural change in policing policies, with some protesters demanding defunding of the Palo Alto Police Department at a rally of thousands on June 6. Photos here are of the rally at King Plaza. | Pt. II will feature photos of the 4 mile march through downtown streets and Palo Alto neighborhoods.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/09/18834041.php

Trump Refuses to Discuss Removing Confederate Names From Military Bases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-11
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday on social media that he would not engage in any discussions on renaming military bases that bear the names of Confederate generals. | The debate on removing Confederate names, symbols and monuments has been renewed in recent weeks, following a string of uprisings in cities across the U.S. after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, a Black man, in May. | Protesters across the country have removed monuments of Confederate generals and…
truthout.org/articles/trump-refuses-to-discuss-removing-confederate-names-from-military-bases/

Trump's Illegal Use of Military Against Uprisings Portends Battles Ahead
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-11
The backlash against Donald Trump's illegal show of military force against anti-racist protesters compelled him to withdraw the troops

Black Lives Matter Movement in Seattle Occupies Six-Block "Autonomous Zone"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-11
Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Seattle flooded City Hall Tuesday night for an evening of speeches and protest as the movement took over a six block area in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and issued a list of demands to city government in an ongoing uprising that appears nowhere near over. | "We cannot have a pacified movement," activist N…
truthout.org/articles/black-lives-matter-movement-in-seattle-occupies-six-block-autonomous-zone/

"I Can't Do It" Say Some GIs Being Deployed to Quell Uprisings
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-11
A number of United States service members concerned about the possibility of being ordered by President Donald Trump to suppress uprisings in cities across the country are looking into ways they can personally abstain from such actions. | Trump has promised to "deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem" of protest across the country in order to end demonstrations that have sprung up following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis more than two weeks ago. | On June 1, Trump ex…
truthout.org/articles/i-cant-do-it-say-some-gis-being-deployed-to-quell-uprisings/

Post-revolutionary blues? 'Warlord' of Seattle Autonomous Zone struggles to be the police he hates as real cops have 2nd thoughts
rt.com | 2020-06-11
A self-styled "warlord" of the Seattle Autonomous Zone (and local rapper) is quickly learning that policing is a tough job, struggling to maintain safety and order amid the newly minted commune's post-revolutionary hangover. | Raz Simone, self-appointed "warlord" of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), attempted to clear up some misunderstandings about the protest community, explaining to…
rt.com/usa/491566-seattle-autonomous-zone-warlord-police/

'Unconstitutional & illegal!' Seattle mayor shocked by Trump's 'threat to invade' & clear out anarchist zone
rt.com | 2020-06-11
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has rebuffed US President Donald Trump's vow to send in troops to remove protesters occupying an abandoned police station if local officials don't act, saying it would be an "illegal" invasion. | Responding to the president's remarks earlier on Thursday

Trump: Take back Seattle from 'domestic terrorists'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
US President Donald Trump late Wednesday complained that "domestic terrorists" have taken over Seattle, Washington amid George Floyd protests, putting the blame on Democratic governor and mayor."Domestic Terrorists have taken over Seattle, run by Radical Left Democrats, of course. LAW ORDER," Trump said in one of his last tweets for the day.In a separate tweet, he urged Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to take back the control of the city."Radical Left Governor @JayInslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before," Tr…
yenisafak.com/en/news/trump-take-back-seattle-from-domestic-terrorists-3531780

Philippines: Denounce threats against protesters using Covid-19 as pretext
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-11
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement of Marco Valbuena, Chief Information Officer, Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Party denounces the Philippine National Police, whose spokesperson today, June 5, disparaged the mass actions against the Anti-Terror Bill saying the protesters compromised public health. The PNP's statement is a thinly veiled threat against the people's civil and political rights. | The PNP has now set the stage to stop further protest actions in an attempt to stop the mounting protest movement against the ATB. Earlier today, in the name of "public health," polic…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/11/philippines-denounce-threats-against-protesters-using-covid-19-pretext

Philippines: Denounce threats against protesters using Covid-19 as pretext
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-11
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement of Marco Valbuena, Chief Information Officer, Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Party denounces the Philippine National Police, whose spokesperson today, June 5, disparaged the mass actions against the Anti-Terror Bill saying the protesters compromised public health. The PNP's statement is a thinly veiled threat against the people's civil and political rights. | The PNP has now set the stage to stop further protest actions in an attempt to stop the mounting protest movement against the ATB. Earlier today, in the name of "public health," polic…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/11/philippines-denounce-threats-against-protesters-using-covid-19-pretext

NYPD Accused Of Deliberately Targeting Legal Observers
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-11
On Thursday evening before curfew, Rex Santus was standing alone on a quiet Mott Haven street corner when he caught the attention of NYPD officers passing in an unmarked minivan. As eight officers surrounded him, the 28-year-old CUNY law student identified himself as a legal observer with the National Lawyers Guild, and explained his intention to monitor a nearby protest against racist police brutality. | The officers accused him of "illegal counter-surveillance against police," Santus said. They seized his notebook, reading from it and mocking him for writing that some cops had obscured their badge numbers. As t…
popularresistance.org/nypd-accused-of-deliberately-targeting-legal-observers/

Israel's Arbitrary Detentions–MES EP.57
Marwa Osman | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-11
Tough Israel regularly arrests Palestinians and keeps them under illegal detention for months, the number of such arrests have risen in the last couple of months. In complete violation of all established human rights norms, Israel has continued the practice of holding Palestinian detainees without any charge or formal trial for months before they are formally charged with baseless accusations and unfairly tried or released. | To discuss this issue with us from Madrid is Alberto Garcia Watson, activist and member of the International Solidarity Movement. | Dozens of people in the southern countryside of Syria's no…

Israel's Arbitrary Detentions–MES EP.57

Alternatives to Policing–The Case for Public Health and Community Development Investments
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-06-11
By Amber Yang As outrage sparks over police brutality, systemic racism, and socio-economic inequality, activists are calling to defund police. Despite other calls for anti-bias training, civilian review processes, and…
projectcensored.org/alternatives-to-policing-the-case-for-public-health-and-community-development-investments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alternatives-to-policing-the-case-for-public-health-and-community-development-investments

European Court of Human Rights backs BDS activists convicted in France, orders Paris to pay €101,000 in compensation
rt.com | 2020-06-11
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that France violated the rights of 11 pro-Palestinian activists when it convicted them for campaigning against Israeli goods, and has ordered the government to pay damages. | The criminal conviction against the activists with the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement "had no relevant and sufficient grounds," the ECHR said in its ruling on Thursday, arguing that their basic right to freedom of expression had been violated. The court ordere…
rt.com/news/491569-echr-france-bds-activists-compensation/

Women integral to battling coronavirus and pushing for lasting peace and security
news.un.org | 2020-06-11
The coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp focus the differentiated impacts that COVID-19 is having on women, including new obstacles to their meaningful participation in peace processes.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066162

Finnish communist youth slam proposal to remove friendship memorials
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-11
A Conservative MP in Finland has proposed the removal of the Hakaniemi World Peace Statue in Helsinki and the Friendship of Peoples Monument in Ità§keskus, both symbolic of friendship with the people of Russia…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/11/finnish-communist-youth-slam-proposal-to-remove-friendship-memorials/

Iran's skyrocketing stock exchange signals historic political shift
Rostam Pourzal | mronline.org | 2020-06-11
In Iran, this spring brings a historic opportunity for neoliberal opposition parties personified by President Rouhani. The utopian dream will now get its first chance to prove itself as a cash-starved Islamic Republic embarks on its boldest ever embrace of privatization of state-owned companies.
mronline.org/2020/06/11/irans-skyrocketing-stock-exchange-signals-historic-political-shift/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=irans-skyrocketing-stock-exchange-signals-historic-political-shift

National Guard Soldier Watched Her Own Brother Get Teargassed While Deployed
The Mind Unleashed | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-11
Many National Guard soldiers say they felt uncomfortable with the role they were asked to perform.
theantimedia.com/national-guard-soldier-watched-her-own-brother-get-teargassed-while-deployed/

The Migrant and the Moral Economy of the Elite
P. Sainath | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-11
The Mumbai-Nashik highway seemed busier under lockdown than in normal times. People moved any way they could. Bimlesh Jaiswal, who lost one leg in an accident years ago, travelled 1,200 km from Panvel, Maharashtra, to Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, on a gearless scooter, with his wife and three-year-old daughter. "Who shuts down a country with a four-hour notice?" he asks. Come on Bimlesh, you know the answer to that one.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/11/the-migrant-and-the-moral-economy-of-the-elite/

Pandemic reveals worker exploitation in Texas meatpacking industry
Cooper Feste and Dariel Hernandez | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-11
Across Texas, workers, many of them Black or immigrants from Mexico and Central and South America, have been forced back to work at job sites that are unsafe and even deadly…
liberationnews.org/pandemic-reveals-worker-exploitation-in-texas-meatpacking-industry/

Millions of Ukrainian migrant workers forced to search for employment in Europe under unsafe conditions
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
Despite little health or legal protections, Ukraine's migrant workers are being forced to search for work in Europe's farms and factories to avoid unemployment and social destitution.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/ukra-j11.html

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Precautions for a summer of COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-11
With the onset of warmer weather and more and more states loosening their COVID-19 restrictions, lots of folks are wondering about some summer staples, like cookouts and a day at the beach or pool. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, an infectious disease specialist at Mayo Clinic, discusses how you can minimize your …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-precautions-for-a-summer-of-covid-19/

Nord Stream 2 Trade Geopolitics: Towards a US-Germany "Tariff War". Washington Threatens Germany with Sanctions
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
The United States continues to threaten Germany with sanctions if the European country proceeds with the Nord Stream 2 project

Trump hails Confederate names, monuments, and military bases
John Wojcik, C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-11
WASHINGTON–Donald Trump said yesterday he would "not even consider" renaming Army installations that honor Confederate traitors who fought to protect an autocratic slave regime in the South that was based on white supremacy. Over 600,000 Americans perished in the Civil War, fighting to stop that dictatorship's attempt to keep Black people in chains and destroy …
peoplesworld.org/article/trump-hails-confederate-names-monuments-and-military-bases/

Report finds European lockdowns saved millions of lives, ending it threatens millions
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
The report is an indictment of governments' initial delays in implementing public health measures and a warning of the terrible consequences of the return to business as usual.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/euro-j11.html

PDF of June 11 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-06-11
Download 12-page PDF here. Tear down the walls: Prisons and class war; Texas jail is COVID hotspot. Special issue dedicated to George Floyd: Step one, movement demands 'DEFUND POLICE!' No Pride without justice!; Calif. Labor condemns murder; Racist monuments down; Why generals rebuked Trump; Police brutality in Buffalo; Journalists under . . . | Continue reading PDF of June 11 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49257/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-june-11-issue

What does 'build back better' really mean? One of the world's top CEOs give us his take
news.un.org | 2020-06-11
UN chief António Guterres, has warned of an "unparalleled economic shock", as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. So, going forward, can the private sector "build back better" to reorder…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066152

AFL-CIO recommends actions to end police racism
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-11
WASHINGTON –In a comprehensive statement, the AFL-CIO General Board

UN chief urges continued international support for Mali amid growing terrorist threat
news.un.org | 2020-06-11
The UN Secretary-General has stressed the need for continued international commitment to Mali, as the country continues to navigate the path to political stability while confronting numerous obstacles, including terrorism, and now the COVID-19 pandemic.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066102

Colombia jails policemen who discovered 2018 election fraud conspiracy
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-11
A judge agreed to jail the policemen who discovered Colombia's ruling party plotted with the mafia to rig the 2018 elections in favor of President Ivan Duque. In a controversial…
colombiareports.com/colombia-jails-policemen-who-discovered-2018-election-fraud/

My Abortion Allowed Me to Control My Own Destiny. Millions of Others Deserve The Same Chance
Minouche Kandel | aclu.org | 2020-06-11
I never expected to get an abortion. But I knew I could tell my mother. I grew up in New York and abortion was still illegal when I was born. One of my earliest memories is being in the car with my mother when she turned to me and told me that if I ever needed an abortion, I should let her know, because she "knew a lot of doctors." My mother survived the Holocaust by hiding in a Catholic boarding school in the South of France. Her parents were active in the Jewish French resistance, and my grandmother helped my grandfather escape from Beaune-la-Rolande, a French-run Nazi transit camp which fed Jews to Auschwit…
aclu.org/news/reproductive-freedom/my-abortion-allowed-me-to-control-my-own-destiny-millions-of-others-deserve-the-same-chance

8 months after coup in Bolivia, another report debunks claims of electoral fraud
Zoe PC | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-11
A new study published by researchers from the United States debunks the claim of the Bolivian far-right and the Organization of American States that Evo Morales' party had committed electoral fraud in the 2019 general elections…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/11/8-months-after-coup-in-bolivia-another-report-debunks-claims-of-electoral-fraud/

US Sanctions Drive Oil Tankers Away from Venezuela
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-06-11
Washington seeks to choke off Venezuela's main source of income.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14904

Syria Caesar's Law: Who Does it Target, and How Will it Affect President Assad? 1/3
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-11
In mid-June, the US sanctions against Syria will escalate, with the enactment of " Caesar's Law", sanctions designed to "pursue individuals, groups, companies, and countries that deal with the Damascus government." This law

Viruses & imperialism
Tony Norfield | mronline.org | 2020-06-11
Despite conspiracy theories, there is no evidence whatsoever that the virus was manufactured in or escaped from a laboratory, in China or anywhere else. Such accusations ignore how easy viral transmission can be when other factors come into play.
mronline.org/2020/06/11/viruses-imperialism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=viruses-imperialism

COVID-19 in Africa: WHO urges constant vigilance as cases top 200,000
news.un.org | 2020-06-11
COVID-19 is accelerating in Africa, with more than 200,000 cases and more than 5,600 deaths, the regional office for the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066142

Mayo Clinic Q and A: Repetitive motion injuries during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-11
Dear Mayo Clinic: Earlier this year, I began experiencing some pain in my right hand and wrist. I am a systems engineer and have always done a fair amount of typing at work. Now with the COVID-19 pandemic, I am working at home and spending even more time on a keyboard. I'm finding the pain …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-q-and-a-repetitive-motion-injuries-during-covid-19/

Arizona reactivates hospital emergency plans as COVID-19 infections rise in 19 states
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
The pandemic in the United States sees surges in southern and western states as stay-at-home orders have been rescinded and back-to-work campaigns pushed through.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/usco-j11.html

Young maquiladora factory workers dying in droves in US/Mexico border towns
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
Defying the myth that COVID-19 primarily kills the elderly, young people who work in US-owned maquiladora factories in border towns such as Tijuana and Juarez are dying at alarming rates.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/maqu-j11.html

The Eugenicist's Playbook: Politicized Science Is Making a Comeback in the Age of COVID-19
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-11
Racism has spread under the guise of science for centuries and continues today with claims that African American and other minority communities have a genetic predisposition to COVID-19.
mintpressnews.com/eugenicists-playbook-science-racism-comeback-age-covid-19/268489/

COVID-19 highlights 'life and death' stakes for greater digital cooperation
news.un.org | 2020-06-11
Managing the digital divide better, has become "a matter of life and death" for people unable to access essential healthcare information during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief has told a virtual high-level meeting on rapid technological change.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066132

Transport for London refuses FOI requests into bus and transport COVID-19 deaths
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
The involvement of Deputy Mayor of London for Transport Heidi Alexander is proof of a cover-up reaching into the office of Labour's Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/lond-j11.html

Remote patient monitoring provides patients with comprehensive care at home
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-11
When patients are diagnosed with COVID-19, they are required to self-isolate until the infection is cleared, often for at least two weeks. Some of these patients will be at risk for complications. These patients need support at home in a comprehensive way. Providing that support was the goal of Mayo Clinic's Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/remote-patient-monitoring-provides-patients-with-comprehensive-care-at-home/

The importance of self-care during difficult times
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-11
If you are struggling with overwhelming feelings, added anxiety, stress and fear, you are not alone. "We are in the midst of a dual pandemic of COVID-19 and social unrest caused by racism which affects all members of our communities," says Dr. Monica Taylor-Desir, co-chair of Diversity and Inclusion in Mayo Clinic's department of Psychiatry …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/the-importance-of-self-care-during-difficult-times/

Christopher Columbus Statue Toppled in Saint Paul
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-11
Saint Paul, MN

Venezuelan Embassy Protectors hail legal victory
| workers.org | 2020-06-11
By Embassy Protectors, Popular Resistance The following is a slightly edited statement made by the Venezuelan Embassy Protectors on June 3. Washington, D.C.

Syrie La loi César: Qui vise-t-elle et comment affectera-t-elle le président Assad? 1/3
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-11
À la mi-juin, les sanctions américaines contre la Syrie vont s'intensifier, avec la promulgation de la ´ loi César ª, qui vise à ´ poursuivre les individus, les groupes, les entreprises et les pays qui ont des échanges avec le gouvernement de Damas ª. Cette loi, prétendument nommée en l'honneur d'un officier de l'armée syrienne qui a fait sortir clandestinement des milliers de photos d'actes de torture infligés par l'armée syrienne dans les pr…

Syrie La loi César: Qui vise-t-elle et comment affectera-t-elle le président Assad? 1/3

Israeli Court Changes Prison Term to Life Sentence for Palestinian Arrested at Age 15
Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-11
Two prisoners, both of whom were arrested when they were 15 years old, have had extensive sentences handed down by the Israeli Ofer Military Court. The now-19-year-old prisoner, Omar Samir Rimawi, had his sentence changed from 35 years to Life in prison with no possibility of parole. Hi co-defendant, Ahmad …
imemc.org/article/israeli-court-changes-prison-term-to-life-sentence-for-palestinian-arrested-at-age-15/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-court-changes-prison-term-to-life-sentence-for-palestinian-arrested-at-age-15

Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Detainee Minutes After He Finished Serving A 15-Year Prison Sentence
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-11
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, a Palestinian man merely minutes following his release after he finished serving a prison sentence of fifteen years and six months, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS stated that the re-arrest of the detainee, Salah …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-abduct-a-palestinian-detainee-minutes-after-he-finished-serving-a-15-year-prison-sentence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soldiers-abduct-a-palestinian-detainee-minutes-after-he-finished-serving-a-15-year-prison-sentence

Report: 340 Palestinians Abducted in May by Israeli Forces
Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-11
A new joint report by a coalition of Palestinian NGOs has found that Israeli forces abducted 340 Palestinians in the month of May 2020 and brought them to military bases for imprisonment and interrogation. In their monthly joint report, the NGOs stated that the recently imprisoned Palestinians include 25 children …
imemc.org/article/report-340-palestinians-abducted-in-may-by-israeli-forces/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-340-palestinians-abducted-in-may-by-israeli-forces

Leaked CDC document shows new danger in continuing coronavirus plague
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-11
Despite cheerleading from GOP President Donald Trump, the raw numbers show the coronavirus pandemic still plagues the U.S., and a leaked document from the Centers for Disease Control adds we're not out of the woods. That's because, compared to the other nine nations which lead the world in total coronavirus cases, the U.S. showed a …
peoplesworld.org/article/leaked-cdc-document-shows-new-danger-in-continuing-coronavirus-plague/

Six Tesla workers test positive for coronavirus at Bay Area factories
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
Less than a month after Tesla strongarmed local government into allowing a premature restart of production, six factory workers have tested positive for the coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/tesl-j11.html

The Perfect Storm Approaches
David Helvarg | thenation.com | 2020-06-11
The Perfect Storm Approaches…
thenation.com/article/environment/coronavirus-hurricanes/

German virologist Hendrik Streeck advocates "herd immunity"
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
The controversial virologist is recommending that more coronavirus infections be allowed to occur over the summer months.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/herd-j11.html

Assassination of Indigenous leader Domingo Choc sparks outrage
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-11
In the early hours of June 6, Indigenous leader Domingo Choc Che was burned alive by a group of neighbors, in the Chimay community, in the municipality of San Luis, in the El Petén department of Guatemala. The people who perpetrated this horrendous crime accused Domingo of being a "witch". | His murder has prompted indignation across the country. The Indigenous population has fiercely rejected the persecution of those who practice Mayan spiritualism. Conservative Christian religious groups, evoking a nefarious practice of colonial rule, encourage and carry out this persecution in labeling Indigenous spirituality…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/11/assassination-of-indigenous-leader-domingo-choc-sparks-outrage/

Big oil and gas benefit from small business bailout funding
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-11
"The PPP was supposed to help small businesses keep their doors open and their employees on payroll through the pandemic."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/11/big-oil-and-gas-benefit-from-small-business-bailout-funding/

"Pandemic II" Is Already Your Fault & US Gov Is Using Seattle And The Two-Party System To Divide Us
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-06-11
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (6/11/20). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/pandemic-2-already-your-fault-us-gov-using-seattle-two-party-system-divide-us/

Open Wounds: Sweden Drops the Killing of Olof Palme Case
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
It's the sort of thing that ruffled the image of a composed and tranquil existence. In some countries, doing away with political leaders is a periodic affair, deemed necessary to clean the stables. But in Sweden, change is barely discernible, …
globalresearch.ca/sweden-drops-olof-palme-case/5715660

Snowpiercer (2013): The Fate of Capitalism as a Globalist Runaway Train
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
"Western countries see the rest of the world as their playing field fit only for exploitation."

Today's Movement for Racial Justice. The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prof. Sam Ben-Meir | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Walking through the park this weekend I noticed a man on a bench reading Metaxas' acclaimed biography of German theologian and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer. And it occurred to me then and there that this is indeed a moment …
globalresearch.ca/dietrich-bonhoeffer-movement-racial-justice/5715694

Video: Who Wants to be a Slave? The Technocratic Convergence of Humans and Data
Daniel Broudy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Marshall McLuhan observed in the 1960s that humans are toolmakers whose tools eventually reshape them. | Fifty years hence, we suggest that the aphorism should include 'rewire' humans as the present age of the internet serves as the global nervous system …
globalresearch.ca/who-wants-slave-technocratic-convergence-humans-data/5715696

The Role of Police in a Racist-Capitalist Society. Defunding and Dismantling the US Police Being Fiercely Debated
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Since the videotaped violent murder of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, there has been an upsurge in antiracist and anti-police brutality demonstrations and rebellions spanning across the United States. | When Darnella Frazier, the 17-year-old woman …
globalresearch.ca/defunding-dismantling-police-debated-united-states/5715657

The Truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Greg Mitchell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Chris Wallace of Fox News has published his first book, Countdown 1945. It's about the final days of the run-up to dropping the atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You might have hoped that it would be a bit contrarian …
globalresearch.ca/truth-about-hiroshima-nagasaki/5715689

New York Is Putting Billionaires Above Schools
Jake Jacobs | progressive.org | 2020-06-11
Educators face a new wave of layoffs, but Andrew Cuomo doesn't want to upset his monied donors.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/new-york-billionaires-above-schools-jacobs-200611/

Natural Gas Is Destroying the Climate and Our Lungs
Sandy Barnard | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2020-06-11
The debate over stoves is heating up. American foodies insist that food tastes better when cooked on a gas stove than on an electric, while others point out that stove preference is cultural, and electric stoves are the chef's preference in Asian countries. Often missing from this debate is the environmental and health perspective, which makes clear that natural gas has run its course. | F…
peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/06/11/natural-gas-is-destroying-the-climate-and-our-lungs/

Rising threat of disintegration of Yemen and the role of the Islah party
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-11
Though the Southern Transitional Council in Aden is supported by the UAE, its real legitimacy is rooted in its attempts to counter the rising Saudi interference in Yemeni politics through puppets such as the Islah party…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/11/rising-threat-of-disintegration-of-yemen-and-the-role-of-the-islah-party/

#ShutDownSTEM: Scientists strike, halt research to focus on Black lives
Jamal Rich | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-11
On June 10, the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) academic research community held a work-stoppage in response to the mass uprising following Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the countless other police murders and to challenge the racist ideas and institutions that still prevail in their own field. The Particles for Justice, organized by Black …
peoplesworld.org/article/shutdownstem-scientists-strike-halt-research-to-focus-on-black-lives/

Sri Lankan workers and youth denounce police murder of George Floyd
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
"White and black must unite and fight against persecution and repression."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/floy-j11.html

Homeless thrown back onto the streets as UK lockdown ends
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
The Tories feel free to abandon the pose of concern for the fate of the homeless and dump then back where they came from.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/home-j11.html

Johnson's approval rating plummets as Britain hits worst C-19 death per million in the world
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-11
By TruePublica: As of June 9th, a YouGov tracker has seen the approval rating of the governments' handling of the Covid crisis plummet. About half (49%) of the population disapprove to the question

Trump agitates to restart the global nuclear arms race
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-11
By TruePublica: Time Magazine says Donald Trump is both "dangerous, impatient and foolish." EuroNews says Trump

Selected Articles: Israel's Illegal Annexation of West Bank
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
If you look to Global Research as a resource for information and understanding, to stay current on world events, or to experience honesty and transparency in your news coverage, please consider making a donation or becoming a member. Your …
globalresearch.ca/israel-illegal-annexation-west-bank/5715704

5G, the New Track of the Arms Race
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
At Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada

Iran, Iraq reach deal on building 354km highway: Minister
Press TV | iranian.com | 2020-06-11
Iran's minister of transportation says an initial deal has been reached with neighboring Iraq to build a long highway that would ease traffic across the border and would help boost trade between the two neighboring countries. Mohammad Eslami said on Wednesday that the 354-kilometer highway would connect the city of Mehran on the western Iranian …
iranian.com/2020/06/11/iran-iraq-reach-deal-on-building-354km-highway-minister/

Experts tell royal commission: 'Warming climate to blame for Black Summer fires'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-11
Climate crisis Jim McIlroyIssue 1268 Australia Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Black SummerJune 11, 2020The national bushfire roya…
greenleft.org.au/content/experts-tell-royal-commission-warming-climate-blame-black-summer-fires

Experts tell royal commission: Warming climate to blame for Black Summer fires
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-11
Climate crisis Jim McIlroyIssue 1268 Australia Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Black SummerJune 11, 2020The national bushfire roya…
greenleft.org.au/content/experts-tell-royal-commission-warming-climate-blame-black-summer-fires

The EU Continues to Talk Utter Baloney About Libya. But What's the Real Reason Its Warships Are in the Eastern Mediterranean?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-11
It's often said that the EU plays no role whatsoever in the conflict in Libya and takes no side. And given that Italy, being the odd man in Europe, supports the incumbent government and its ragtag coalition of soldiers and militias it employs fighting under the so-called GNA

How the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Emiratis Took Washington
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-11
Morgan PALUMBO, Jessice DRAPER | It was a bare-knuckle brawl of the first order. It took place in Washington, D.C., and it resulted in a KO. The winners? Lobbyists and the defense industry. The losers? Us. And odds on, you didn't even know that it happened. Few Americans did, which is why it's worth telling the story of how Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari money flooded the nation's capital and, in the process, American policy went down for the count. | The fight began three years ago this month. Sure, the pugilists hadn't really liked each other that much before then, but what happened in 2017 was the foreign-policy e…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/11/how-the-saudis-qataris-and-emiratis-took-washington/

The Powers That Be Are Ecstatic That the Left Believes the Biggest Problem Right Now Are Statues of Dead White Men
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-11
In the US and the EU both, we've witnessed the biggest monetary heist in history. We're sailing into a depression that central banks have set up for us over the past two decades. And we're doing so in the worst possible condition thanks to the Draconian, harebrained and unnecessary lockdowns that the politicians imposed on us. | Several of Empire's wars and occupations continue in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria. Tension is being needlessly cultivated with China and Russia, and the entire architecture of nuclear arms control is just about done being thrown in that trash bin of history. | Simultaneously the…
anti-empire.com/the-powers-that-be-are-ecstatic-that-the-left-believes-the-biggest-problem-right-now-are-statues-of-dead-white-men/

Everything Was Ready for a Color-Revolution Coup Against Trump but He Refused to Bite
CJ Hopkins | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-11
So, the GloboCap-Resistance Minneapolis Putsch appears to have not gone exactly to plan. Once again, Trump failed to go full-Hitler, despite their best efforts to goad him into doing so. They gave it quite a good shot, however. It was more or less a textbook regime-change op, or "color revolution," or whatever you call it. All the essential pieces were in place. All they needed Trump to do was declare himself dictator and impose martial law, so the generals could step in and remove him from office. | Unfortunately for the Resistance, Trum…
anti-empire.com/everything-was-ready-for-a-color-revolution-coup-against-trump-but-he-refused-to-bite/

Children More Likely to Be Hit by Lightning Than Die of Coronavirus, Oxford-Cambridge Analysis Finds
Robert Halfon | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-11
School children under the age of 15 are more likely to be hit by lightning than die from coronavirus, new figures suggest, amid mounting pressure for the government to get more to get pupils back into classrooms as quickly as possible. | Scientists from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford have called for "rational debate" based on the "tiny" risk to children and have suggested that it might be better for youngsters to be exposed to the virus early so they are protected in later life when…
anti-empire.com/children-more-likely-to-be-hit-by-lightning-than-die-of-coronavirus-oxford-cambridge-analysis-finds/

Country Formerly Known as Spain Decides to Institute a Permanent COVID Dystopia, Flog Itself to Death
Armstrong Economics | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-11
FROM A READER IN SPAIN FROM A FORMER COMMUNIST STATE: | The new law in Spain for the "new normality" has been approved. Spain is in full partnership with Bill Gates. They've hammered out some of the final details of the rules. Spain will no longer be a destination for tourists. They are clearly cutting off 12% of GDP just to start. | So, masks are obligatory in all closed spaces (work, office, schools, transport, shops, etc… even at home when you receive friends/family who are not living with you in the same household –…
anti-empire.com/country-formerly-known-as-spain-decides-to-institute-a-permanent-covid-dystopia-flog-itself-to-death/

Corona epidemic and Yemen
C Dettwiler, U Gasche and N Ramseyer | indybay.org | 2020-06-11
Authorities first wanted to calm down and played down the pandemic. Afterward, they had to convince the population to keep unusual physical distance, to wash their hands well at all times, and to refrain from major events. Finally, they wanted the population to accept the week-long lockdown, with business closures, exit, and travel restrictions.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/10/18834084.php

California Reparations AB 3121 – Did the Roman Catholic Church Endorse Slavery?
excerpt | indybay.org | 2020-06-11
Today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi courageously led the Congressional Leadership through a special ceremony in Emancipation Hall, Washington D.C. In the Rotunda of the California State Capitol is a celebration of Spanish State Sponsored Terrorism with the Roman Catholic Church blessing. If Restorative Justice is possible, then full and accurate consideration is essential. As the California State Legislature considers AB 3121 let courageous leadership flow from sea to shinning sea.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/08/18833966.php

Is coronavirus Covid-19 stalking residents in Oakland, and Alameda County?
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-11
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834101.php

Thursday 6/11: #Equity For All Forum: Racial Equity in HEROES Act & End Anti-Black Police Brutality!
Faith in Action, NAACP, UNIDOS US, others | indybay.org | 2020-06-11
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/10/18834098.php

U.S. President Trump sparks renewed interest in Juneteenth Celebrations Globally
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-11
"In 1535, the first enslaved Pan African were recorded in California. Spanish conquistadors brought enslaved Pan Africans for conquest and who were later breed with indigenous population (Afro-Latino) throughout "New Spain" and much, much later evolved into today's Republic of Mexico. Authentic Alta California History remains cloaked in slavery and secrecy that remains off limits for any principled dialogue as the California State Legislature prepares for a 2020 Juneteenth State Budget due next week.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834184.php

"I Can't Breath" ILWU 10 & 34 Speak Out About Lynching of George Floyd & Action
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-11
ILWU 10 president Trent Willis & ILWU 34 president Keith Shanklin talk about the murder of George Floyd and the systemic racist attacks on longshore workers and their families. They also discuss the shutdown of West Coast docks on Juneteenth June 19th to commemorate the emancipation of Blacks and the fight today.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/09/18834059.php

UPRISING: The Democratic Party Exists To Co-Opt & Kill Authentic Change
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-11
Watch them. Watch Democrats and their allied media and corporate institutions try to sell the public a bunch of words and a smattering of feeble, impotent legislation to mollify the masses, without ever giving the people the real changes that they actually need.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/09/18834071.php

US Passes 2 Million COVID Cases Amid Reopening, Raising Fears of Second Wave
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-11
The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases has officially topped 2 million as states continue to ease stay-at-home orders and reopen their economies and more than a dozen see a surge in new infections. "I worry that what we've seen so far is an undercount and what we're seeing now is really just the beginning of another wave of infections spreading across the country," says Dr. Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. | TRANSCRI…
truthout.org/video/us-passes-2-million-covid-cases-amid-reopening-raising-fears-of-second-wave/

Police Are Building Surveillance Networks of Private Security Cameras in Cities
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-11
Log onto Nextdoor.com, the message board of choice for Washington, D.C.'s most affluent neighborhoods, and, alongside photos of lost keys and microwaves for sale, there are clips from security cameras. | "Man attempting to enter parked cars (possibly armed with visible gun)" reads one post by "Simon J." from July 10, 2018, featuring a grainy image of a Black man walking beside a van. Further posts by Simon J., published in the Nextdoor forum for D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood reveal that t…
truthout.org/articles/police-are-building-surveillance-networks-of-private-security-cameras-in-cities/

Social services association chief says under-resourcing caused thousands of lives to be lost 'prematurely in social care'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-11
Some 27% of social services directors said patients were discharged to providers where there wasn't sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE), a survey has found.The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass), which asked its members about the rapid discharge of patients to the community in March to free up hospital beds, also found that 24% said patients had been taken to settings where they couldn't self-isolate amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic."Ill-equipped and under-resourced": Adass president James Bullion said thousands of people "lost their lives prematurely in social car…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/11/social-services-association-chief-says-under-resourcing-caused-thousands-of-lives-to-be-lost-prematurely-in-social-care/

One third of people with coronavirus could not be contacted by NHS Test and Trace
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-11
One third of people who tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19) either could not be reached by the NHS Test and Trace programme or failed to provide details of who they've had contact with, data shows. The results are based on the programme's first week of operation | Some 8,117 people who tested positive in England had their case transferred to the NHS Test and Trace contact tracing system. Of these, 5,407 (67%) were reached, while 2,710 (33%) were not reached. | "Functioning": | Baroness Harding, the head of the programme, admitted it was not yet at the "gold standard" but was now a "functioning serv…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/11/one-third-of-people-with-coronavirus-could-not-be-contacted-by-nhs-test-and-trace/

Coronavirus transmission slowed in the UK but epidemic may continue for months
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-11
COVID-19 has slowed in the UK, but despite a drop in transmission rate the epidemic remains likely to continue for months, according to new analysis.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198114/coronavirus-transmission-slowed-uk-epidemic-continue

'Don't mention the war!' Episode of cult comedy Fawlty Towers scrubbed amid 'racism' purge
rt.com | 2020-06-11
The most famous episode of a 1970s sitcom, making fun of a British hotel dealing with German tourists, has been yanked from a BBC-run streaming service amid a censorship spree against anything that could be deemed "racist." | "The Germans" was one of the just twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers, a comedy starring John Cleese (of 'Monty Python' fame) as Basil Fawlty, the hapless owner of a struggling hotel in Devon, that featured the memorable punchline, "Don't mention the war!" | British media reported on Thursday that it has been pulled from the BBC's streaming service UKTV. | No official reason was given. Th…
rt.com/uk/491580-falwty-towers-episode-censored/

WATCH as Russian police bike is OBLITERATED during high-speed crash in Moscow
rt.com | 2020-06-11
A Moscow cop suffered serious injuries after his motorbike crashed into a taxi during a high-speed chase. The impact was so powerful that the bike was shattered into pieces, while the officer was sent flying into the air. | The freak accident occurred in the Russian capital on Thursday afternoon, with surveillance footage surfacing online shortly afterwards. | The disturbing video shows a police motorbike approaching an intersection at high speed and crashing into a taxi, which was turning left. The bike apparently passed a red light. | The impact appears to have been very powerful, as the vehicle was liter…
rt.com/russia/491548-moscow-police-bike-crash/

Biden indulges fantasy of Trump refusing to leave office in November, says election-stealing is his 'single greatest concern'
rt.com | 2020-06-11
Joe Biden says he has "great concern" that Donald Trump will not only "steal" the 2020 presidential election, but could also refuse to leave the White House should he lose. | 'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah is one of a growing number of liberals concerned about November's election, partly due to recent reports out of Georgia showing people waiting hours in line to cast their ballots. | "What is the plan up until November, to make sure the people can vote, everybody can, whether it's Republican or Democrat, black or white, has the opportunity to vote without being in a line that's six hours long?" Noah asked Bide…
rt.com/usa/491559-biden-greatest-concern-trump-steal-election/

'Weapons of oppression': Scottish Parliament votes for suspension of UK rubber bullets, tear gas and riot-shield exports to US
rt.com | 2020-06-11
The Scottish Parliament has voted for the immediate suspension of UK rubber bullet, tear gas and riot-shield exports to the US, in a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement following the death of George Floyd. | The motion, which was overwhelmingly backed by Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs)

'Literally putting a band-aid on racism': Iconic bandage company goes woke in latest corporate pander-fest
rt.com | 2020-06-11
Band-Aid has released a line of bandages in five different skin tones, pledging to donate to Black Lives Matter to combat systemic racism. Unfortunately for its woke aspirations, the joke is right there in the brand name. | The brand posted an image of its new bandage colors fanned out from light to dark to Instagram on Thursday, accompanied by a verbose and somewhat stilted paean to diversity ("we are committed to launching a range of bandages in light, medium and deep shades of Brown and Black skin tones…") and a promise to make a donation to Black Lives Matter. | Tellingly, the size of the donation was…
rt.com/usa/491583-band-aid-skin-tones-racism/

Envoy calls on UNODC to facilitate extradition of Iranian financial criminals
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA)

3rd step in managing COVID-19 to fully comply with protocols: Pres. Rouhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA)

Iran says possible to send Flight 752 black box to third country
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA)

AIPAC has poisoned US politics for years, says Iran Foreign Minister
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA)

Beauties of Fandoqlu Forest in NW Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
NAMIN, Jun. 11 (MNA)

Iran's police bust over 2 tons of drugs in SE Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA)

Iran's Zarif to visit Moscow next week: Russia
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA)

Deputy FM names Aras Free Zone as Iran's 'highway' to Eurasian region
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA)

Iran, Iraq underline development of bilateral coop
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA)

Corporate Looting, Crushing the Vote, Salting Wounds, Unmaking History
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-11
The drug war, the for-profit health care system and now…
sputniknews.com/radio-political-misfits/202006111079589213-corporate-looting-crushing-the-vote-salting-wounds-unmaking-history/

'Tarnished the Badge': US Cops Seen Lounging, Eating in Lawmaker's Office Amid Looting – Photos
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-11
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is demanding a group of Chicago Police Department officers come forward and face "the strongest possible action" after surveillance footage showed them eating food, napping and relaxing in the office of US Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) amid active looting and other criminal activity.
sputniknews.com/us/202006111079589183-tarnished-the-badge-us-cops-seen-lounging-eating-in-lawmakers-office-amid-looting—photos/

'Illegal Act': Beijing Denounces US Flight Over Taiwan as 'Provocative Incident'
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-11
After Taipei allowed a US Navy cargo plane to fly across Taiwan on Monday, Beijing accused Washington of being "provocative," denouncing the action as "illegal." China regards Taiwan as a rebellious province, and the island's airspace as its own, so US support for Taipei walks a fine line.
sputniknews.com/asia/202006111079588916-illegal-act-beijing-denounces-us-flight-over-taiwan-as-provocative-incident/

Johnson & Johnson to Begin Human Trials of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate in July
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-11
American pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson revealed Wednesday that it would expedite the development of its vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, by initiating human trials in late July instead of September, as it had initially planned.
sputniknews.com/science/202006111079588831-johnson–johnson-to-begin-human-trials-of-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-in-july/

Greek Prime Minister Says Ready to Discuss Maritime Zones Delimitation With Turkey
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-11
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has confirmed his readiness to discuss maritime zones delimitation with Ankara, and in case of the latter's disagreements, the issue would be taken to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
sputniknews.com/world/202006111079588851-greek-prime-minister-says-ready-to-discuss-maritime-zones-delimitation-with-turkey/

EASA awards first certification for fully electric commercial aircraft
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
The EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certified a fully electric two-seater airplane, the Pipistrel Velis Electro, for the first time, the aviation body announced Thursday.The first type certification worldwide of a fully electric aircraft will pave the way for environmentally sustainable and emission-free aviation, the statement noted.Calling the move an exciting breakthrough, EASA Executive Director Patrick Ky said: "This is the first electric aircraft EASA has certified but it will certainly not be the last, as the aviation industry pursues new technologies to reduce noise and emissions and to improve the susta…
yenisafak.com/en/technology/easa-awards-first-certification-for-fully-electric-commercial-aircraft-3531787

Cherry season ensues in Idlib, Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
Syrian civilians have started harvesting cherries in the Idlib de-escalation zone in the northwest of the country amid relatively secure environment since cease-fire agreement inked between Turkey and Russia on March 5.Idlib is home to hundreds of thousands of cherry trees.However, farmers returning to their homes after the cease-fire have been badly affected by skyrocketing fertilization, tree pruning, transportation and fuel prices."We suffered a lot during the migration period. We returned to our land after the cease-fire. We look forward to this month every year," Syrian farmer Haci Ahmet Muhammad told Anadol…
yenisafak.com/en/world/cherry-season-ensues-in-idlib-syria-3531785

Norway mosque attacker sentenced to 21 years in prison
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
A Norwegian court on Thursday sentenced a man who staged an attack at a mosque to 21 years in prison, the maximum prison term possible, according to local media reports.On Aug. 10 last year, Philip Manshaus, killed his 17-years-old stepsister at home and stormed the nearest mosque during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in Baerum, outside Oslo.Manshaus opened fire on people in the mosque but was overpowered by one of the men in the mosque. One elderly man was injured.He was charged with the murder of his stepsister and the terrorist attack at the Al-Noor Islamic Center and found quilty, according to the Norwegia…
yenisafak.com/en/world/norway-mosque-attacker-sentenced-to-21-years-in-prison-3531778

Pakistan blasts 'extra-judicial' killing of 9 Kashmiris
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
Pakistan on Monday accused Indian security forces of killing nine Kashmiri youths in so-called security operations in disputed Jammu and Kashmir."Pakistan strongly condemns unabated extra-judicial killings of Kashmiri youth in acts of state-terrorism perpetrated by Indian occupation forces in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK)," Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, referring to killing of nine suspected militants in the last 24 hours in two separate gunfights in the Shopian district of the disputed valley."Several houses in the area were also destroyed and pellet guns and tear gas used against i…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-blasts-extra-judicial-killing-of-9-kashmiris-3531782

England's COVID-19 test and trace 'not perfect but fit for purpose'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
England's COVID-19 Trace and Track is functioning effectively nationwide even though it can still be improved, programm…
yenisafak.com/en/world/englands-covid-19-test-and-trace-not-perfect-but-fit-for-purpose-3531788

Coronavirus: Oman reports 1,067 new cases, 5 new deaths
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
Countries in the Middle East and North Africa region reported new COVID-19 cases and virus-linked fatalities on Thursday.In Oman, 1,067 new cases were registered over the past 24 hours, taking the total to 19,954, according to the Health Ministry.The Gulf country also confirmed five more deaths, bringing the tally to 89.A total of 6,632 patients have recovered from the virus so far.Minister of Health Dr. Ahmed Al Saeedi asked the public to limit family visits, and adhere to physical distance, wear face masks and observe precautionary measures.Bahrain's Health Ministry said that out of the 7,776 COVID-19 tests car…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-oman-reports-1067-new-cases-5-new-deaths-3531784

India reports largest single-day jump in COVID-19 cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
The death toll due to the novel coronavirus in India rose to 8,102 and the number of cases reached 286,579 after the highest single-day spike of 357 fatalities and 9,996 cases reported in the past 24 hours, according the Ministry of Health on Thursday.According to the data, the number of active cases stands at 137,448, while 141,028 people have recovered so far.Maharashtra continues to remain the worst-affected state with 94,041 cases, followed by Tamil Nadu with 36,841 and Delhi with 32,810.So far, healthcare professionals have performed 5,213,140 tests as of June 11, 9.00 a.m. (1530GMT), said the Indian Council…
yenisafak.com/en/world/india-reports-largest-single-day-jump-in-covid-19-cases-3531781

Turkey's Istanbul Airport partially resumes int'l flights
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
The Istanbul Airport partially resumed on Thursday to international flights, which have been suspended for two months as part of the normalization process from the novel coronavirus pandemic. Turkey's national flag carrier Turkish Airlines began scheduling flights again from Istanbul Airport to Germany, the UK and the Netherlands.Entry was limited only to passengers, who started to come to the airport early in the day and had their temperatures taken upon arrival with thermal camera.Social distance rules were also followed both by passengers and airport personnel.Turkish Airlines' first scheduled flight was made…
yenisafak.com/en/life/turkeys-istanbul-airport-partially-resumes-intl-flights-3531783

Ethiopia urges Egypt to stop pressure over Nile dam
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
Ethiopia has urged Egypt to stop "exerting external diplomatic pressure" while the trilateral talks on the Nile dam Ethiopia is constructing have resumed between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on Tuesday.The call came in a press release issued by the Ministry of Water Resources, Irrigation and Energy at the end of the second-day of trilateral talks on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.The negotiations restarted recently after the collapse of US-sponsored talks last February with Ethiopia quitting, saying US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin openly sided with Egypt by calling on Ethiop…
yenisafak.com/en/world/ethiopia-urges-egypt-to-stop-pressure-over-nile-dam-3531786

Dangerous US Military Presence In Poland And Eastern Europe
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-11
Washington is upping the ante on Moscow. The message appears to be 'surrender to western capital or we will continue to militarily encircle your nation'. A new and deadly arms race that could easily lead to a shooting war is underway with the US leading the pack. | The US has chosen Poland as the perfect location to sharpen the tip of the Pentagon's spear. | The US already has roughly 4,000 troops in Poland. Warsaw has signed an agreement with Washington that provides for setting up storage of Pentagon heavy military equipment in its territory. The Polish side provides the land and the US-NATO are supplying the m…
popularresistance.org/dangerous-us-military-presence-in-poland-and-eastern-europe/

Confederate Statues And Christopher Columbus Toppled
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-11
People are showing their anger at the white supremacy and racism that continue in the United States in multiple ways. Confederate statutes have become a target in Richmond, which served as the capital of the Confederate States of America for almost the whole US Civil War. On Monument Avenue, the statue of Davis, a Mississippi Democrat who served as the president of the Confederacy from 1861 until 1865, was among three statutes torn down within the past week in Richmond. Saturday, a statue of Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham was toppled from its pedestal. Tuesday, a statue of Christopher Columbus was to…
popularresistance.org/confederate-statues-and-christopher-columbus-toppled/

Black Lives Matter Everywhere: Its Time To Defund The US Military
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-11
While the U.S. war on the black population at home is now exposed for all of America–and the world–to see, the victims of U.S. wars abroad continue to be hidden. Trump has escalated the horrific wars he inherited from Obama, dropping more bombs and missiles in 3 years than either Bush II or Obama did in their first terms. When retired generals speak out against Trump's desire to deploy active-duty troops on America's streets, we should understand that they are defending precisely this double standard. Just as we are exposing the rot in U.S. police forces and calling for defunding the police, so we mus…
popularresistance.org/black-lives-matter-everywhere-its-time-to-defund-the-us-military/

Fortress On A Hill: Interview With Larry Wilkerson
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-11
Powerful. That's how I'd describe today's episode. A deep dive into the mind of COL(R) Larry Wilkerson, his career as a U.S. Army officer to include combat in Vietnam, his close professional relationship with Colin Powell, his time at the State Department during the Bush II era, his thoughts on various conflicts to include Iraq and Syria, and his thoughts on the murder of George Floyd amidst the COVID-19 era. | Lawrence Wilkerson's last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department's Policy Planning staff under the directorsh…
popularresistance.org/fortress-on-a-hill-interview-with-larry-wilkerson/

Black Workers Face Two Of The Most Lethal Preexisting Conditions For COVID-19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-11
"We're all in this together" has become a rallying cry during the coronavirus pandemic. While it is true that COVID-19 has affected everyone in some way, the magnitude and nature of the impact has been anything but universal. Evidence to date suggests that black and Hispanic workers face much more economic and health insecurity from COVID-19 than white workers. | Although the current strain of the coronavirus is one that humans have never experienced before, the disparate racial impact of the virus is deeply rooted in historic and ongoing social and economic injustices. Persistent racial disparities in health sta…
popularresistance.org/black-workers-face-two-of-the-most-lethal-preexisting-conditions-for-covid-19/

Health Workers March To Expose Racism As A Health Crisis
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-11
Seattle, WA – Dr. Nkeirika Banda's phone was vibrating. "I'm scared to check it," said the HealthPoint family medicine resident. Her mom, who lives in Zambia, is a worrier

Palestine Bleeds: Israel's Execution of an Autistic Man is Not an Exception but the Norm
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-10
In recent years, the Israeli army has upgraded its code of conduct, adopting a shoot-to-kill policy of any Palestinian they suspect of attempting to harm Israeli occupation soldiers, even when the alleged Palestinian 'attacker' is no longer posing a threat.
mintpressnews.com/israel-execution-eyad-hallaq-not-exception-but-norm/268455/

Now Comes the Davos Global Economy "Great Reset". What Happens After the Covid-19 Pandemic?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
For those wondering what will come after the Covid19 pandemic has successfully all but shut down the entire world economy, spreading the worst depression since the 1930s, the leaders of the premier globalization NGO, Davos World Economic Forum, have just …
globalresearch.ca/davos-great-reset/5715515

Buffalo Police Assaulted a 75-Year-Old Longtime Peace Activist, Now Trump Is Attacking Him Too
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-10
We look at the story of peace activist Martin Gugino, who was hospitalized in critical condition after being pushed to the ground by a police officer in Buffalo last week

"Out of Options in Terms of Reform": Khalil Gibran Muhammad on the Racist History of Police in U.S
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-10
Protests in defense of Black lives and calls to defund the police continue across the U.S., from Los Angeles to Minneapolis and New York. We speak with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, about the significance of this moment and the history of policing in the U.S. "We haven't seen a moment like this in at least half a century," Muhammad says. "It's hard to know for sure where we're going to go from this moment, but it's clear that when we look at the history of po…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/10/khalil_gibran_muhammad_history_us_policing

"Justice Will Be Served": Family Pays Tribute to George Floyd and Demands Change at Houston Funeral
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-10
A private funeral was held in Houston Tuesday for George Floyd, two weeks after a Minneapolis police officer killed him by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd's death has sparked protests against police brutality and racism across the United States and around the world. We play excerpts from the funeral service and hear from Floyd's family and dignitaries.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/10/george_floyd_funeral_houston

There's a Crisis in US Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
U.S. economic policy now focuses on what is already the worst business cycle downturn since the 1929 crash. As data accumulate, it may well prove to be the worst in global capitalism's entire history. Forty million jobless U.S. workers find incomes lost, savings disappearing and over-indebted family finances worsening.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/theres-a-crisis-in-us-capitalism/

How Western Media Confines US Imperialism To The Past
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-10
Many of the newspapers that

Brazil: New Arrests in Relation to Marielle Franco's Murder
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
The Public Prosecution Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ) Wednesday ordered the arrest of firefighter Maxwell Simoes Correa who has been accused of being involved in the murder of the Socialist councilor Marielle Franco and her driver on March 14, 2018. | RELATED: | Brazil: Marielle Franco's Murder Suspects to Trial | According to police investigations, Co…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-New-Arrests-in-Relation-to-Marielle-Francos-Murder-20200610-0001.html

Defund the Police, Defund the Military
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-06-10
Together we must seize this moment to move from incremental reform to real systemic change, not just within the U.S. but throughout the racist, neocolonial world that is policed by the U.S. military…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/defund-the-police-defund-the-military/

Amid Protests and Pandemic, Trump's Priority Is Protecting Profits
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-06-10
The power of the masters is indeed fragile. It can be restricted, even overturned, by a public dedicated to different goals. But that requires organization.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/amid-protests-and-pandemic-trumps-priority-is-protecting-profits/

Noam Chomsky: Amid Protests and Pandemic, Trump's Priority Is Protecting Profits
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-10
Many years ago, social scientist Bertram Gross saw "friendly fascism"

Moving Street Protests from Futility to Utility
Ralph Nader | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-10
The nationwide street protests following the gruesome murder of George Floyd, who was pinned to the ground and choked by a Minneapolis police officer and three accomplices, were spontaneous and diverse. No leaders, charismatic or otherwise put out the call for people to turn out in the face of militarized police legions. It was a wondrous …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/moving-street-protests-from-futility-to-utility/

#DefundThePolice and more: An agenda for real reform
Jesse Jackson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-10
As the worldwide demonstrations continue two weeks after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, the question is whether outrage will lead to real reforms? Fundamental reforms would begin with ending the "qualified immunity" of police, curbing the militarization of police forces, transferring funds and functions to social agencies, imposing residency requirements, and …
peoplesworld.org/article/defundthepolice-and-more-an-agenda-for-real-reform/

#DefundThePolice and more: An agenda for real reform
Jesse Jackson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-10
As the worldwide demonstrations continue two weeks after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, the question is whether outrage will lead to real reforms. Fundamental reforms would begin with ending the "qualified immunity" of police, curbing the militarization of police forces, transferring funds and functions to social agencies, imposing residency requirements, and …
peoplesworld.org/article/defundthepolice-and-more-an-agenda-for-real-reform/

Trump Regime Wants 84 Million Iranians Ill-Nourished and Starved
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
Trump regime hardliners want imports of food, medicines, medical equipment, and other humanitarian goods blocked from entering Iran. | They want the world community going along with a high crime against humanity on the Iranian people. | They want them denied treatment …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-wants-84-million-iranians-ill-nourished-starved/5715548

Suppressing the Truth, Sustaining The Lie. Censorship is the "New Normal" in America
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
Censorship is the new normal in the US. They're increasingly threatening speech, press, and academic freedoms

Afghanistan: US Troops Drawdown Depends On Taliban Commitment
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
U.S. troops still won't perform a complete withdraw from Afghanistan as the Taliban has not yet met the conditions required to it, commander for the Middle East Gen. Frank McKenzie said on Wednesday. | RELATED: | Pakistan, U.S. Seek to Restart Afghan Peace Talks | Even when there are supposedly less than 9000 soldiers in the Middle East country and, as reported by Mckenzie, 8,600 of them could return to the U.S in July, the drawdown is subject to a very specific condition, in order to preserve…
telesurenglish.net/news/Afghanistan-US-Troops-Drawdown-Depends-On-Taliban-Commitment-20200610-0013.html

Cristina Lombana, the village idiot of Colombia's Supreme Court?
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-10
The seemingly endless absurdities of magistrate Cristina Lombana are increasingly becoming an embarrassment for Colombia's Supreme Court. Lombana has been a problem ever since President Ivan Duque appointed the former…
colombiareports.com/cristina-lombana-the-village-idiot-of-colombias-supreme-court/

What is Next for Palestinian Popular Resistance in Gaza? Speaking to Journalist Wafaa Aludaini
Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/what-is-next-for-palestinian-popular-resistance-in-gaza-speaking-to-journalist-wafaa-aludaini/

The Corruption of Science. The Hydroxychloroquine Lancet Study Scandal. Who Was Behind It? Anthony Fauci's Intent To Block HCQ on Behalf of Big Pharma
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
The Guardian has revealed the hydroxychloroquine study scandal which was intent on blocking HCQ as a cure for COVID-19. "Dozens of scientific papers co-authored by the chief executive of the US tech company behind the Lancet hydroxychloroquine study scandal are …
globalresearch.ca/the-corruption-of-science-the-hydroxychloroquine-lancet-study-scandal-who-was-behind-it-anthony-faucis-intent-to-block-hcq-on-behalf-of-big-pharma/5715568

The Corruption of Science. The Hydroxychloroquine Lancet Study Scandal. Who Was Behind It? Anthony Fauci's Intent To Block HCQ on Behalf of Big Pharma
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
The Guardian has revealed the hydroxychloroquine study scandal which was intent on blocking HCQ as a cure for COVID-19. "Dozens of scientific papers co-authored by the chief executive of the US tech company behind the Lancet hydroxychloroquine study scandal …
globalresearch.ca/the-corruption-of-science-the-hydroxychloroquine-lancet-study-scandal-who-was-behind-it-anthony-faucis-intent-to-block-hcq-on-behalf-of-big-pharma/5715568

The Corona "Global False Alarm", the Campaign against Racism and Neoliberalism
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
"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

In Astonishing Move, Both Defense Secretary Esper and Joint Chiefs Chair Milley Tell Troops to Defend Constitution and People's Freedom, Not President
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
President Trump really went a bridge too far with his bizarre Bible photo op and his order for federal troops to attack peaceful White House protesters to allow him to exit his white house bunker and walk unimpeded across the street to a church to have his photo taken holding it up (after having it…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/in-astonishing-move-both-defense-secretary-esper-and-joint-chiefs-chair-milley-tell-troops-to-defend-constitution-and-peoples-freedom-not-president/

Flights Logs Suggest Bolivia Coup May Have Been Planned in Brazil
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-10
Flight logs of the Bolivian presidential jet show that on November 11, the day of the coup, the aircraft was not in La Paz or any other Bolivian airport, but flying to Brazil's capital Brasilia.
mintpressnews.com/flights-logs-suggest-bolivia-coup-was-planned-in-brazil/268464/

Bernie Sanders Is Not Done Fighting
Bernie Sanders | zcomm.org | 2020-06-10
When you break it down to what we are fighting for, it turns out that a lot of what we're fighting for already exists in other countries on earth…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/bernie-sanders-is-not-done-fighting/

Militarized Police, A Gift from Israel?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
The killing of black man George Floyd by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has produced the highest level of national unrest seen in the United States since the 1960s. Tens of thousands of protesters are demonstrating against racism and …
globalresearch.ca/militarized-police-gift-israel/5715540

Seattle Protesters Occupy 6-Block 'Autonomous Zone' Around Police Precinct
Eoin Higgins | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-10
"We cannot have a pacified movement."
theantimedia.com/seattle-protesters-occupy-6-block-autonomous-zone-around-police-precinct/

UK: Johnson government demands police repression of George Floyd protests
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
Tory MPs as well as Labourites denounced "thuggery" and "violent" protesters, focusing on the tearing down of the statue of a Bristol slave trader Edward Colston.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/prot-j10.html

Rewriting History: The Problem with Toppling Our Monuments
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
On Sunday a statue to the 19th century English merchant Edward Colston was seized from its pedestal and violently hurled into Bristol harbour by a group of protestors demonstrating as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. The incident has …
globalresearch.ca/rewriting-history-toppling-monuments/5715579

Police, Protests, And Human Transformation: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-10
One of the many good things coming out of these protests is a widening mainstream awareness of what a garbage president Obama was. | ~ | "Without the police you'd have vigilantism!" | Vigilantism? You mean like when a band of armed thugs inflict extrajudicial violence upon someone who pissed them off? Like the police do constantly? | ~ | Right wingers seem completely incapable of distinguishing between the ideology that's all about holding massive demonstrations with the goal of dismantling the police and the ideology that's all about kneeling in front of cameras wearing Kente cloth. This makes cross-ideological…

Police, Protests, And Human Transformation: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Another Brewing Scandal: Saudi Arms Sales, the Ghost of a Reporter, and America's Oil War in Yemen
Charlotte Dennett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
George Floyd by police, followed by the president's calls for military intervention against protestors, are causing words like "dictatorship," "authoritarianism," and even "fascism" to become part of the national discourse. But the president has been dismantling …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-arms-sales-ghost-reporter-america-oil-war-yemen/5715517

Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians in Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-10
Many Palestinians suffered, late on Tuesday at night, from the severe effects of teargas inhalation after Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters towards a peaceful Palestinian protest in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Local media sources and eyewitnesses reported that the …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-injure-several-palestinians-in-hebron-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soldiers-injure-several-palestinians-in-hebron-3

Another Brewing Scandal: Saudi Arms Sales, the Ghost of a Reporter, and America's Oil War in Yemen
Charlotte Dennett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
The brutal killing of George Floyd by police, followed by the president's calls for military intervention against protestors, are causing words like "dictatorship," "authoritarianism," and even "fascism" to become part of the national discourse. But the president has been dismantling …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-arms-sales-ghost-reporter-america-oil-war-yemen/5715517

Police terror, COVID-19 are women's issues
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-06-10
Justice for Breonna Taylor protest, Louisville, Ky., May 29. These slightly edited remarks were given by Monica Moorehead at a June 7 International Women's Alliance webinar: "Building our militant global women's movement to resist imperialism in the time of COVID-19." This series of International Women's Alliance webinars could not have . . . | Continue reading Police terror, COVID-19 are women's issues at Workers.org…
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India's COVID-19 Cases Surge With Nearly 10,000 New Infections
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
India reported Wednesday a new surge of nearly 10,000 COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, with a total caseload of 276,583, the fifth-highest in the world, as the country emerges from its lockdown. | RELATED: | New Protests in Kashmir as Indian Troops Kill Nine Rebels | The health ministry confirmed 9,985 new cases and 274 deaths in the last 24 hours. A total of 7,745 people have died from the virus. | Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and New Delhi are the worst-hit states. | The s…
telesurenglish.net/news/Indias-COVID-19-Cases-Surge-With-Nearly-10000-New-Infections-20200610-0016.html

Dominican Republic: Police Put Down Anti-Racism Protest
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
Dominican Republic's Santo Domingo conservative organizations and police Tuesday confronted anti-racism activists who claimed justice for George Floyd in a demonstration. | RELATED: | Dominicans Head to Polls to Vote in Municipal Elections | "Those nationalists came and threw themselves at us and the police, instead of taking the attitude of protecting us, what they did was to stop us," said Reconocido (recognized) non-governmental organization leader Ana Maria Belique. | Reconocido…
telesurenglish.net/news/dominican-republic-police-sofocates-an-anti-racism-protest-20200610-0009.html

US Navy to Bar Confederate Flags From Ships, Aircraft, Bases
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
The United States Navy is working to ban the Confederate battle flag from all public spaces on Navy installations, ships, and aircraft it was announced Tuesday, as the military and the country grapples with questions about racial inequality. | RELATED: | Mourners Gather at George Floyd Memorial as Protests Continue | The Navy made the move amid protests across the U.S. and other countries sparked by the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed on May 25 after four white police…
telesurenglish.net/news/U.S.-Navy-to-Bar-Confederate-Flags-From-Ships-Aircraft-Bases-20200609-0031.html

Protests erupt in Syria as the economy collapses
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
The Syrian pound has fallen precipitously following Lebanon's economic crisis last October and now the US's Caesar Act allowing President Donald Trump to impose fresh sanctions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/syri-j10.html

Soldiers Abduct Six Palestinians In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-10
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, six young Palestinian men, after the army invaded the al-'Isawiya town, in occupied Jerusalem, and attacked protesters. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the town, and fired gas bombs at many Palestinians protesting the invasion. They added that the soldiers also chased many …
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The Bravery of Marching for Black Lives in the Middle of a Pandemic
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-06-10
The Bravery of Marching for Black Lives in the Middle of a Pandemic…
thenation.com/article/society/protest-coronavirus-justice/

2014-16 vs Today: What Made the Mass BLM Protests Today So Much Larger than Five Years Ago?
Peter Crowley | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
As protests continue to mount over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, what has turned the Black Lives Matter protests of 2014-2016 into mass protests today? Has the zeitgeist shift so much in the past five years? Did people truly started to realize that the police have unchecked power…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/2014-16-vs-today-what-made-the-mass-blm-protests-today-so-much-larger-than-five-years-ago/

Trump Loves Democracy…in Hong Kong
Charles Pierson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
As you run from the tear gas militarized police are firing as you protest racist murders by cops, you can take solace in the fact that the Trump Administration is terribly upset that democracy is being crushed in Hong Kong.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/trump-loves-democracyin-hong-kong/

President Trump Is Seeking Another Victim
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
On George Floyd final viewing day and celebration of his life (under the Democratic Party supervision), the fascistic minded President Trump is seeking another victim! He has tweeted: "Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year …
globalresearch.ca/president-trump-seeking-another-victim/5715531

Still Protesting After All These Years
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
On Wednesday, June 4, I joined thousands of marchers in Kitchener, Ontario, the town in which I live, to protest racism and police brutality. I have, in the last few years, participated in local events in support of Palestinian self-determination …
globalresearch.ca/protesting-after-all-these-years/5715553

Rights experts condemn use of force against journalists covering US protests
news.un.org | 2020-06-10
Journalists covering ongoing protests denouncing systemic racism and police brutality in the United States must be able to do their job in peace, two experts on the right to freedom of expression said on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066022

It's time for a new approach to end police brutality
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-06-10
The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May has been followed by waves of protests and outrage across the US and the world. Unfortunately, there's little new in any of this, as we've been here before with US police assaulting and killing Black people. And these attacks and killings have also been followed by mass protests and unrest. | Dr Cornel West, who referred to George Floyd's killing as "a lynching at the highest level" said it's: 400 years of Black people…
thecanary.co/video/2020/06/10/its-time-for-a-new-approach-to-end-police-brutality/

Youth protests and worker strikes show mounting social opposition in Brazil
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
Strikes and job actions are intersecting with protests of tens by thousands of youth who have joined the international wave of demonstrations against police violence.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/braz-j10.html

Tampa Bay students lead rally for community control of the police, justice for George Floyd
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-10
Tampa, FL – On Monday, June 8, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Tampa Bay Community Action Committee (TBCAC) led a crowd of around 500 on a march through the historic neighborhood of Ybor City to demand community control of the police in the Tampa Bay Area. The march ended at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) building, where protesters demanded charges be dropped for the hundreds of protesters arrested by HCSO over recent weeks. | Elizabeth Kramer, an organizer with TBCAC, stated, "The vast majority of arrested protesters have been completely peaceful, and the manner in which HC…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/10/tampa-bay-students-lead-rally-community-control-police-justice-george-floyd

Tampa Bay students lead rally for community control of the police, justice for George Floyd
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-10
Tampa, FL – On Monday, June 8, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Tampa Bay Community Action Committee (TBCAC) led a crowd of around 500 on a march through the historic neighborhood of Ybor City to demand community control of the police in the Tampa Bay Area. The march ended at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) building, where protesters demanded charges be dropped for the hundreds of protesters arrested by HCSO over recent weeks. | Elizabeth Kramer, an organizer with TBCAC, stated, "The vast majority of arrested protesters have been completely peaceful, and the manner in which HC…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/10/tampa-bay-students-lead-rally-community-control-police-justice-george-floyd

George Floyd laid to rest as nationwide protests over police violence continue
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
The murder of Floyd, caught on bystander cellphone video in excruciating detail, has served as a catalyst for the largest nationwide and international outpouring of political opposition in decades.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/floy-j10.html

Proponents of racial politics react with hostility to multi-racial protests against police murder of George Floyd
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
Democratic Party officials and their black nationalist supporters have denounced white "outside agitators."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/race-j10.html

US protests: The challenge is how to rise above the violence inherent in state power
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-10
By Jonathan Cook

Prisoner Solidarity Committee of WWP: Ôªø'NYPD's racist brutality a death sentence for protesters'
| workers.org | 2020-06-10
New York city cops prepare to brutally attack and arrest protestors. DE BLASIO: RELEASE ALL PROTESTERS FROM JAIL NOW! A statement of the Prisoner Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party June 10

"Equality Is the Soul of Liberty" Peaceful Protest in Palo Alto Pt. I
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-06-10
Speakers called for major structural change in policing policies, with some protesters demanding defunding of the Palo Alto Police Department at a rally of thousands on June 6. Photos here are of the rally at King Plaza. | Pt. II will feature photos of the 4 mile march through downtown streets and Palo Alto neighborhoods.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/09/18834041.php

Khalil Gibran Muhammad Discusses the Significance of Calls to Defund the Police
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-10
Protests in defense of Black lives and calls to defund the police continue across the U.S., from Los Angeles to Minneapolis and New York. We speak with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, about the significance of this moment and the history of policing in the U.S. "We haven't seen a moment like this in at least half a century," Muhammad says.
truthout.org/video/khalil-gibran-muhammad-discusses-the-significance-of-calls-to-defund-the-police/

Woman hit by police horse at London protest 'shocked' by force's response
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-10
A woman who was hit by a police horse at a Black Lives Matter protest on Saturday said she was "shocked" by the police response to the incident.Mounted police were brought in to control the largely peaceful protest, which was attended by thousands in London.However, after an officer fell from her horse after riding into a traffic light, the animal ran on to the street in Whitehall, knocking down nursing student Jessie Tieti Mawutu in an incident which she said left her "traumatised".Mawutu told the PA news agency that local authorities could not process her complaint about the incident, which has now been referre…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/10/woman-hit-by-police-horse-at-london-protest-shocked-by-forces-response/

Amazon Puts One-Year Moratorium on Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-10
Tech giants question whether face detecting technologies should be used by law enforcement agencies, as protests against police brutality continue in the United States following the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.
sputniknews.com/us/202006101079579536-amazon-puts-one-year-moratorium-on-police-use-of-facial-recognition-technology/

HBO Max pulls 'Gone with the Wind' over racist portrayals
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-10
HBO Max has removed war epic film "Gone with the Wind" from its recently launched streaming service over its depiction of slavery, parent WarnerMedia said on Wednesday, joining other media companies that have pulled controversial TV shows as demand for racial sensitivity increases across the country.The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police triggered protests in the United States against racial inequality, while also forcing companies to check deep-seated racism prevalent in popular shows and films that are deemed insensitive.ViacomCBS Inc did not renew "Cops" and Netflix Inc pulled "Little Bri…
yenisafak.com/en/world/hbo-max-pulls-gone-with-the-wind-over-racist-portrayals-3531692

UN dispatches 57 trucks carrying aid to Syria's Idlib
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-10
The UN on Wednesday dispatched a total of 57 trucks carrying humanitarian aid for needy people in Idlib city of northwestern Syria.Truckloads of supplies entered the Syrian city through the Cilvegozu border crossing of 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-escalation zone forged under an agreem…
yenisafak.com/en/world/un-dispatches-57-trucks-carrying-aid-to-syrias-idlib-3531696

Ecuador: Two Inmates Die in Lacatunga's Prison Riot
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
Ecuador's National Service for the Comprehensive Care of Adults Deprived of their Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) Thursday reported two convicts died after an inmate riot in North Central Sierra Regional prison, located in Lacatunga, in Cotopaxi province. | RELATED: | Ecuador: New Protests Rejecting Moreno's Economic Measures | "The two dead are Walter M., who was serving a sentence for the crime of rape, and Kelvin V., who was sentenced for the crime of murder," SNAI informe…
telesurenglish.net/news/ecuador-two-inmates-died-in-lacatungas-prison-riot–20200610-0002.html

The Roots Of Violent Protest: Violent Cops
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-10
You will be shocked, simply SHOCKED, to learn that after decades of researching effective methods for police response to large crowd actions, researchers have found

Defund The Police, Then Abolish It
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-10
The United States' powder keg of racial capitalism, searing inequality and violent policing, compounded by the state's ruinously indifferent response to a global pandemic and a sputtering economy, has finally exploded. Mass protest has shaken the country, with more than 40 cities instituting curfews and 23 states calling in a total of 17,000 National Guard troops to stamp out the uprisings. | The eruption of righteous fury pulsating around the US represents a historic moment not seen since America's last mass urban rebellions, the "long hot summer" of 1967 and the 1968 uprisings following Martin Luther King Jr.'s…
popularresistance.org/defund-the-police-then-abolish-it/

We Won't Win the Climate Fight Without Youth Leadership
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-10
Jamie Margolin, 18, youth climate lawsuit litigant and founder of youth-led climate activist group Zero Hour, gets a lot done. | By noon on a typical day in school, as Margolin chronicles in her guide for youth activists, Youth to Power, she has already posted on Zero Hour and her own social media, responded to DMs and emails, done her homework, gone to classes, fielded m…
truthout.org/articles/we-wont-win-the-climate-fight-without-youth-leadership/

The Police Have Been Spying On Black Reporters And Activists for Years
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-10
On Aug. 20, 2018, the first day of a federal police surveillance trial, I discovered that the Memphis Police Department was spying on me. | The ACLU of Tennessee had sued the MPD, alleging that the department was in violation of a 1978 consent decree barring surveillance of residents for political purposes. One of the first witnesses called to the stand: Sgt. Timothy Reynolds, who is white. To get intel on activists and organizers, including those in the Black Lives Matter movement, he'd posed on Facebook as a "man of color," befriending people and trying to infiltrate closed circles.
popularresistance.org/the-police-have-been-spying-on-black-reporters-and-activists-for-years/

100 Cuban Doctors to Remain in Kenya Until the End of the Year
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
Kenya's Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe Wednesday confirmed that his country has renewed an agreement for a brigade of Cuban doctors to continue collaborating in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Italy Recommends Cuban Medical Brigade for Nobel Peace Prize | …
telesurenglish.net/news/100-Cuban-Doctors-to-Remain-in-Kenya-Until-the-End-of-the-Year-20200610-0006.html

Palestinian authority hints at declaration of sovereign state if Israel continues with annexation plan
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-10
Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shatyyeh reiterated PA's rejection of the so-called Peace Plan proposed by US president Donald Trump, and said that the PA has devised a counterproposal…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/10/palestinian-authority-hints-at-declaration-of-sovereign-state-if-israel-continues-with-annexation-plan/

America's Forever Wars Have Come Home
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-10
From their front porches, regular citizens watched a cordon of cops sweep down their peaceful street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Rankled at being filmed, the cops exceeded their authority and demanded that people go inside their houses. When some of them didn't obey quickly enough, the order

Iran Urges UN to Prevent the US From Extending Sanctions
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
Iran's President Hassan Rohani Wednesday urged members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to curb U.S. attempts to extend sanctions against his country. | RELATED: | Iran Condemns CIA Agent Involved in Soleimani's Murder | Next October, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a 2015 nuclear deal popularly known as "The Arms Embargo", will be lifted as agreed in the UNSC resolution 2231. | Currently, however, the United States does not recognize this international agre…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Urges-UN-to-Prevent-the-US-From-Extending-Sanctions-20200610-0003.html

With Latest Lunacy, Trump Has Moved Into Nixon Territory
Jon Schwarz | zcomm.org | 2020-06-10
And Perhaps Beyond…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/with-latest-lunacy-trump-has-moved-into-nixon-territory/

The Political Narrative Around the Origins of COVID-19 is Starting to Crumble
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-10
Confusing messages surrounding COVID-19's transmissibility are laying bare the factional tug of war over how to blame China for the pandemic without implicating the West.
mintpressnews.com/political-narrative-around-origins-of-covid-19-crumbling/268444/

EU calls for immediate ceasefire in Libya and an end to all foreign intervention
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-10
The statement comes even as the warring factions in the country are backed by various EU members and are supplied arms by them. The conflict in Libya has escalated over the past few weeks…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/10/eu-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-libya-and-an-end-to-all-foreign-intervention/

'The Ascent': 1970s Soviet film affirms deeply human values in dangerous times
David Fields | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-10
The Ascent is not the type of movie you would expect about World War II–or the Great Patriotic War, as it was known in the Soviet Union where the film was made. First, a little background: The Soviet Union generally boosted the heroics of that war in popular culture whenever possible, and for good reason. …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-ascent-1970s-soviet-film-affirms-deeply-human-values-in-dangerous-times/

Israeli Forces Demolish Several Palestinian Homes in Occupied East Jerusalem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-10
Israeli troops reportedly knocked down, on Tuesday morning, a number of Palestinian-owned homes in the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem. Head of the Palestinian committee for defending Palestinian lands in the Sawarha neighborhood, Youmis Ja'far, told media outlets that Israeli soldiers, backed by armored vehicles, invaded the neighborhood and forced local …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-demolish-several-palestinian-homes-in-occupied-east-jerusalem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-demolish-several-palestinian-homes-in-occupied-east-jerusalem

Why Washington Keeps Lobbying for War in the Middle East
Jessica Draper, Morgan Palumbo | thenation.com | 2020-06-10
Why Washington Keeps Lobbying for War in the Middle East…
thenation.com/article/world/why-washington-keeps-lobbying-for-war-in-the-middle-east/

Insect Decline From Pesticides Will Impact Food: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
A new report released Tuesday draws attention to the worldwide decline in insects and warned of the impact that this could have on global food cultivation and ecosystems. | RELATED: | Insects Replace Pesticides in Spain's 'Sea of Plastic' | The publication entitled Insect Atlas, which comes from two progressive networks: Brussels-based Friends of the Earth and Berlin-based Heinrich Bà∂ll Foundation after the results found, made calls for global policies to boost the conservation of a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Insect-Decline-From-Pesticides-Will-Impact-Food-Report-20200610-0011.html

Liberal Leaders Aiding and Abetting Rioters. Just the Latest Campaign Strategy to Usurp Trump
Robert Bridge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
In a fractious election year that has already witnessed Russiagate, impeachment and a pandemic, Americans are now forced to contend with the malignant scourge of rioting and looting following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a white …
globalresearch.ca/liberal-leaders-aiding-abetting-rioters-latest-campaign-strategy-usurp-trump/5715538

Colombia's finance minister open to universal basic income, but fails to see urgency
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-10
Colombia's finance minister promised Congress on Tuesday he would look into the possibility of implementing a universal basic emergency income in response to the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus….
colombiareports.com/colombias-finance-minister-opens-to-universal-basic-income-but-fails-to-see-urgency/

The prosecutors trying to make Colombia's 2018 election rigging plot go away
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-10
The policemen who coincidentally discovered ties between drug traffickers and Colombia's ruling party found out the hard way organized crime has also infiltrated the Prosecutor General's Office. Major Yefferson Tocarruncho…
colombiareports.com/the-prosecutors-trying-to-make-colombias-2018-election-rigging-plot-go-away/

How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19
Don Fitz | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/how-che-guevara-taught-cuba-to-confront-covid-19/

Microsoft Says it Supports Racial Justice. Will it Refuse to Power Discriminatory Police Surveillance?
Matt Cagle | aclu.org | 2020-06-10
As major tech companies rush to claim solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, they're being rightfully called out for the ways their products and workplace conditions actively undermine the rights and safety of Black people. IBM has listened and stopped development of face recognition, a technology that supercharges police surveillance and has repeatedly been shown to disproportionately misidentify Black and Brown people. Amazon announced today that it would stop selling the tec…
aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/microsoft-says-it-supports-racial-justice-will-they-refuse-to-power-discriminatory-police-surveillance

Microsoft Says it Supports Racial Justice. Will it Refuse to Power Discriminatory Police Surveillance?
Matt Cagle | aclu.org | 2020-06-10
As major tech companies rush to claim solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, they're being rightfully called out for the ways their products and workplace conditions actively undermine the rights and safety of Black people. IBM has listened and stopped development of face recognition, a technology that supercharges police surveillance and has repeatedly been shown to disproportionately misidentify Black and Brown people. Amazon announced today that it would stop selling the te…
aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/microsoft-says-it-supports-racial-justice-will-they-refuse-to-power-discriminatory-police-surveillance

Peru Tops 200,000 COVID-19 Cases
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
The number of COVID-19 cases in Peru surpassed 200,000 on Tuesday, less than a month after the coronavirus caseload topped 100,000 in the country. | RELATED: | Peru: Cuban Medical Brigade Sent to Help Fight COVID-19 | A total of 1,227,691 tests for the virus have been carried out so far, with 203,736 positive cases, the health ministry said in its latest report. | The South American country has registered 5,738 deaths from the disease, representing the third-highest death toll in Latin America and the Caribbean after Brazil and Mexico. | "Out of all the people who tested positive, to date 92,929 of them have…
telesurenglish.net/news/Peru-Tops-200000-COVID-19-Cases-20200610-0005.html

Spain: Gov't Decrees Mask Use as Mandatory
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
Spain's government Thursday announced that mask use on public transportation and common spaces would be mandatory as a COVID-19 precautionary measure. | RELATED: | Spain: Tourist Activities Will Gradually Resume in July | "I would like to emphasize here the mandatory use of the mask in the terms you already know, whenever a distance of 1.5 meters cannot be maintained," Health Minister Salvador Illa briefed in a press conference. | The norm is part of the decree-law on urgent prevent…
telesurenglish.net/news/spain-govt-decreed-mask-use-as-mandatory-20200610-0010.html

Flood In Ghana's Capital Kills At Least Six People
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
A downpour that hit Accra, Ghana's capital, killed at least six people according to the information given by the authorities Tuesday. | RELATED: | Ghana: Wildcat Gold Miners Perish From Mercury Seeking Riches | George Ayisah, a spokesperson for the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), confirmed that the victims, a child among them, died on Tuesday in Okai-Koi North, a suburb of the capital. | The NADMO rescue team saved 300 citizens in two of the city's worst-hit a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Flood-In-Ghanas-Capital-Kills-At-Least-Six-People-20200610-0012.html

Dictionary Merriam-Webster to Edit 'Racism' Entry Upon Request
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
U.S. dictionary Merriam-Webster will update its definition of the term racism after a young Black woman from Missouri contacted the editorial team saying the current definition does not reflect the oppression of black people as it should, media have reported. | RELATED: | Thousands of People Attend George Floyd's Funeral in Houston | Kennedy Mitchum, 22, a recent graduate of Drake University in Iowa, emailed the dictionary last month, following the killing of black U.S. citizen G…
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COVID-19: 'Unparalleled economic shock' threatens development hopes and gains
news.un.org | 2020-06-10
As the diverse and severe impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be felt across the world, an "unparalleled economic shock" is putting development gains at risk, the UN chief told a meeting of high-powered business leaders on Wednesday.
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COVID-19 cases rise rapidly after South Asia's governments abandon lockdowns
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have all recorded dramatic increases in COVID-19 infections and deaths over the past week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/saco-j10.html

Remote patient monitoring provides patients with comprehensive care at home
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-10
When patients are diagnosed with COVID-19, they are required to self-isolate until the infection is cleared, often for at least two weeks. Some of these patients will be at risk for complications. These patients need support at home in a comprehensive way. Providing that support was the goal of Mayo Clinic's Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/remote-patient-monitoring-provides-patients-with-comprehensive-care-at-home/

California labor condemns police murder of George Floyd
Dave Welsh | workers.org | 2020-06-10
International Longshore Workers Union leaders traveled from California to Houston to attend George Floyd's memorial service, June 8. This is big. Seemingly out of nowhere, the "silent majority" of the working class took to the streets in towns and cities across the land

Decades of struggle: Dallas-Fort Worth pushes back racism
Alex Colwell and Mark Herrera | workers.org | 2020-06-10
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas June 2

Throughout COVID-19 recovery, 'plummeting' clean energy costs can help climate action
news.un.org | 2020-06-10
As COVID-19 hits the fossil fuel industry, a new UN report published on Wednesday shows that renewable energy is more cost-effective than ever

COVID-19 eruptions increasing in US meatpacking plants, logistics centers
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
As all levels of government abandon any attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, workplaces are increasingly becoming vectors of transmission.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/covi-j10.html

The COVID-19 Lockdown In Rural Virginia
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
What if you live in a small college town in a rural county in the mountainous area of Virginia, the county with a population of 100,000 and the town 30,000 (along with 30,000 students during the academic year), where 91 people have so far tested positive for the virus with 1 fatality?
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/the-covid-19-lockdown-in-rural-virginia/

The fate of international students in the US in the era of COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
As the COVID-19 pandemic deepens the crisis of American society, US colleges and international students face a precarious future.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/scra-j10.html

Swiss left groups intensify campaign to save jobs and public services amid pandemic
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-10
The Swiss Party of Labor (PST-POP) has initiated a campaign to institute a Corona Solidarity Tax to help people in distress due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while the Swiss Communist Party has sought a parliamentary initiative to legally prohibit layoffs during this period of crisis…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/10/swiss-left-groups-intensify-campaign-to-save-jobs-and-public-services-amid-pandemic/

Decades of struggle: Dallas-Fort Worth pushes back racism
| workers.org | 2020-06-10
By Alex Colwell and Mark Herrera Decades of struggle: Dallas-Fort Worth pushes back racism Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas June 2

Still much to learn about new coronavirus: WHO
news.un.org | 2020-06-10
Research is ongoing to determine how the virus that causes COVID-19 can be transmitted by people who show no symptoms of the disease, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) told journalists on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066062

California labor condemns police murder of George Floyd
Dave Welsh | workers.org | 2020-06-10
This is big. Seemingly out of nowhere, the "silent majority" of the working class took to the streets in towns and cities across the land

Mayo Clinic Q and A: Repetitive motion injuries during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-10
Dear Mayo Clinic: Earlier this year, I began experiencing some pain in my right hand and wrist. I am a systems engineer and have always done a fair amount of typing at work. Now with the COVID-19 pandemic, I am working at home and spending even more time on a keyboard. I'm finding the pain …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-q-and-a-repetitive-motion-injuries-during-covid-19/

Victims of neoliberalism, poor countries face consequences in healthcare systems
Brasil de Fato | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-10
Healthcare is a political choice. The statement, presented by the Dossier n ∫ 29 of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, launched on Tuesday (9), is based on the crisis scenario deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic in four countries that have suffered the effects of neoliberal governments in recent years: Brazil , Argentina, South Africa, and India. | The study depicts the way in which, during the fight against covid-19, healthcare agents are considered essential, while it is widely recognized that they are not guaranteed many rights. However, the analysis argues that such evident neglect results fr…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/10/victims-of-neoliberalism-poor-countries-face-consequences-in-healthcare-systems/

Domestic violence: 'The epidemic within the pandemic'
Sue Davis | workers.org | 2020-06-10
"My husband won't let me leave the house" has become an all-too-familiar cry for help since the mandatory lockdown was instituted in early March

We Don't Need No Stinking Vaccine for COVID-19
Jeff Harris | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
A Glaring Omission | With the 24/7 media circus coverage of Covid-19 I find it particularly interesting that there is an obvious glaring omission of some extremely important facts relative to dealing with a virus, especially one that is allegedly so …
globalresearch.ca/we-dont-need-vaccine-covid-19/5715559

COVID-19 spreads in US auto plants as officials hide information from workers
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
Three new cases of coronavirus were confirmed among workers at General Motors' assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri, in recent days.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/auto-j10.html

Nine Council Members Vow to Disband Minneapolis Police
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-10
Minneapolis, MN

Bridgestone tire defends safety "playbook" as infections rise at Iowa plant
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
Working with United Steelworkers Local 1301, Bridgestone has continued production despite rising infections among workers and the surrounding community.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/desm-j10.html

PPS: "Israeli Soldiers Abduct 19 Palestinians In West Bank"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-10
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn and morning hours, 19 Palestinians during extensive invasions and violent searches of homes across the occupied West Bank. In Hebron, in southern West Bank, the soldiers invaded Yatta town, south of the city, and abducted …
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Army Confiscates 160 Dunams Of Palestinian Lands In Qalqilia
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-10
The Israeli military issued, Wednesday, military orders for the illegal confiscation of privately-owned Palestinian lands in the Qalqilia governorate, in northern West Bank. Mohammad Abu Sheikh, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel's colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the orders were handed to many residents, informing them of the …
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Israeli Troops Abduct a Palestinian Youth Who Suffers From Epilepsy
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-10
Israeli troops abducted, on Tuesday at night a young man who suffers from epilepsy, near the illegal Itamar colony, built on Palestinian lands near Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The father of the abducted young man, Ghassan Nasasra, said that he was informed about the …
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Organization of the Islamic Cooperation To Meet Over Israeli Annexation Plan
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-10
Palestinian Authority's (PA) Minister of Foreign Affairs, Riyad Al-Malki, on Tuesday, said that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), comprising of dozens of Islamic and Arab nations, will convene on Wednesday, at the foreign ministers' level over planned Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Al-Malki said in a statement, that …
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Israeli Military Invades Parts of Northern Gaza As Israeli Navy Attacks Fishermen
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-10
Israeli troops invaded, earlier Wednesday, Palestinian lands near Beit Lahia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, while Israeli navy ships attacked fishermen off the coast of Gaza. Local Palestinian sources in northern Gaza said that several armored Israeli vehicles, including a bulldozer, invaded …
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Army Issues Demolition, Halt Construction, Orders Targeting Buildings Near Salfit
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-10
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit in central West Bank, and handed several residents demolition orders and notices for halting construction, allegedly for not being licensed by Israel. Dr. Tamer Rayyan, the head of Qarawat Bani Hassan Town Council, stated that the soldiers …
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Training a Dog
Jon Crawford | thenation.com | 2020-06-10
Training a Dog…
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Israel Loses Its Best
Lawrence Davidson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
Emigration In 2012 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on a poll suggesting that at least one-third of Israelis would consider emigrating abroad if the opportunity presented itself. This was not to be temporary phenomenon. An updated 2018 Newsweek article stated that…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/israel-loses-its-best/

Eternal Fixation: The Madeleine McCann Disappearance Show
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
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 Peter Pierce's The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety (1999). In wide spaces, innocence…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/eternal-fixation-the-madeleine-mccann-disappearance-show/

Grizzly Miracle: Grand Teton's 399 Emerges with Quadruplets
Louisa Willcox | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
Grand Teton's matriarch, Grizzly 399, is perhaps the most famous grizzly bear alive. And she has recently performed a miracle, emerging with four new cubs! If there ever was a mom capable of commanding this tiny but vivacious army, it is the maestro mother, bear 399. Her feat is remarkable for several reasons. For one,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/grizzly-miracle-grand-tetons-399-emerges-with-quadruplets/

The Madness of Donald
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
Trump's racism was manifest before he took office with his "birtherism" campaign against President Barack Obama, but the media were similarly late in referring to Trump as a "racist." And for the past three and a half years, Trump's mental instability has been manifest, but references to his steady deterioration are rare and oblique. His compulsive need to be better and smarter than everyone around him borders on the psychotic.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/the-madness-of-donald/

A New Amityville Horror Only Billionaires Can Stop
Sam Pizzigati | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
Remember The Amityville Horror, the 1979 hair-on-edge thriller that would become one of America's most popular scary movies ever? The horror may soon be returning, this time in real life. Amityville the movie revolves around an actual 1974 mass murder that took place in Amityville the village, a suburb east of New York City in…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/a-new-amityville-horror-only-billionaires-can-stop/

Dominating Cities and Dominating the Narrative
David Rovics | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
What I am saying here is familiar to many people with a knowledge of actual history, rather than the fantasy version in the textbooks. But actual history is a hidden thing, and therefore frequent reminders are necessary. Here's my effort in this regard for today. We can call it an editorial. Trump wants riot police…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/dominating-cities-and-dominating-the-narrative/

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Ending Emergency Unemployment Insurance Supplements
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-10
The Republicans have been working hard to ensure that the $600 weekly supplement to unemployment insurance benefits, which was put in place as part of the pandemic rescue package, is not extended beyond the current July 31 cutoff. They argue that we need people to return to work. They do have a point. The supplement …
cepr.net/ending-emergency-unemployment-insurance-supplements/

A Better Health Care System?
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2020-06-10
Despite glitches during the pandemic, the VA provides a model for the nation.
progressive.org/magazine/a-better-health-care-system-jaffe/

Ultimately, All Monuments Are Ozymandias
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
The great philosopher John Stuart Mill probably did more than anyone to map out the proper boundaries of the individual and the state in the western model of political democracy. Furthermore, he talked not just of the state but of …
globalresearch.ca/all-monuments-ozymandias/5715582

Political ABCs: The Difference Between "Cop" and "Crook", Maybe It Is Just a Badge?
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
While it may be common knowledge that fire departments originated as private organisations to defend the interests of property insurers, it has probably been forgotten that in the US police were originally the hired gangs of landowners and merchant-industrialists. As …
globalresearch.ca/political-abcs-difference-between-cop-crook-maybe-badge/5715525

A Nation in Turmoil. Elections Looming. The Militarization of U.S. Police Forces
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."– George Santayana | Watch and see: this debate over police brutality and accountability is about to get politicized into an election-year referendum on who should occupy the White House….
globalresearch.ca/a-nation-in-turmoil-elections-looming-the-militarization-of-u-s-police-forces/5715523

The Davos Reset 2021 Agenda of the World Economic Forum. A New Phase of Economic and Social Destruction?
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
On June 3, 2020, as a consequence of the "global health crisis", the World Economic Forum WEF in Geneva announced a "unique twin summit" for January 2021 in Davos, Switzerland.(1) The theme should be "The Great Reset". The WEF defines …
globalresearch.ca/davos-reset-2021-agenda-world-economic-forum/5715508

The Greek "Bail-out" Program: A Colossal Failure
Dimitris Konstantakopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
Read Part I here. | A colossal failure | If we judge the Greek program not on the basis of our own criteria, but on the basis of the goals it set itself and of its predictions, we can safely say …
globalresearch.ca/greek-bail-out-program-colossal-failure/5715528

Abolish the Police, Abolish the Military, Abolish ICE: Dismantle Systems of Oppression
William Hawes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
In this crucial moment, all of us who desire change should begin to think very carefully about a unified message and a coherent, organizing principle in the fight against endemic racism and police brutality in this country. I believe the …
globalresearch.ca/abolish-police-abolish-military-abolish-ice-dismantle-systems-oppression/5715569

Two Million Arab Lives Don't Matter
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
The hypocrisy of the Black Lives Matter movement is astounding. BLM and its followers shout down those who insist all lives matter, regardless of race. In the BLM universe, skin pigmentation is the determinate, as it is for all racists….
globalresearch.ca/two-million-arab-lives-dont-matter/5715513

Die Davos-Reset-2021-Agenda des Weltwirtschaftsforums WEF
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-10
Am 3. Juni 2020 kàºndigte das World Economic Forum WEF in Genf als Folge der ‚Äûglobalen Gesundheitskrise" fàºr Januar 2021 einen ‚Äûeinzigartigen Zwillingsgipfel" in Davos in der Schweiz an. (1) Das Thema soll lauten: ‚ÄûThe Great Reset", oder auf Deutsch …
globalresearch.ca/die-davos-reset-2021-agenda-des-weltwirtschaftsforums-wef/5715511

As Amazonian wildfire season approaches, we must protect the vulnerable forest
Daniel Ross | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-10
Jair Bolsonaro's aggressive deregulation and exploitation of the Amazon's resources threatens the entire planet.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/10/as-amazonian-wildfire-season-approaches-we-must-protect-the-vulnerable-forest/

A consumer economy?
Michael Dawson | mronline.org | 2020-06-10
Richard Heinberg is a very important scholar and an apparently lovely human being. His books are always penetrating, and both his contribution to and his review of Michael Moore's corporate-green-censored movie, Planet of the Humans, demonstrate his continuing efforts to speak crucially unheard truths.
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Baghdad Central on Hulu: Where is the outrage?
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
Baghdad Central, a six-part series on Hulu, is a crime drama set in the wake of the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/bagh-j10.html

Step one, movement demands 'DEFUND POLICE!'
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-06-10
June 8

FTP! Cops out of labor movement, youth in!
Editor | workers.org | 2020-06-10
The American Federation of Labor was founded in 1886 and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1935. The two union federations merged in 1955. For most of this time police organizations

EDITORIAL: °Defiende a lxs resistentes y al levantamiento!
Editor | workers.org | 2020-06-10
°La gente se levanta, se levanta contra la violencia policial! La furia ardiente se encendió en una tormenta de fuego en todo Estados Unidos cuando la policía linchó a George Floyd en Minneapolis el 25 de mayo. Philadelphia, June 6 Inmediatamente hubo indignación pública, después de ver cómo los supremacistas . . . | Continue reading EDITORIAL: °Defiende a lxs resistentes y al levantamiento! at Workers.org…
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Rebellion, Confusion and Kente Cloth: The Establishment Can't Handle Black Lives Matter
Margaret Kimberley | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-10
Suddenly, workers are publicly criticizing their bosses. Politicians are backpedaling and newspapers face revolts when they are caught spreading propaganda. In Europe and the United States monuments to genocidaires are defaced and pulled down.
mintpressnews.com/establishment-democrats-cant-handle-black-lives-matter/268422/

Masked | gangs in Greece recorded forcing migrant boats back to Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-10
Shocking photos were released by The Times newspaper from footage seen by its reporters showing a group of organized masked men pushing migrant boats into Turkish waters in the Aegean Sea to prevent them from reaching Greece."Footage seen by The Times shows two men in balaclavas boarding a boat packed with men, women and children. They remove the outboard motor and leave the boat to drift," it reported on Wednesday.The video was filmed and shared by a migrant on the bo…
yenisafak.com/en/world/maskedgangs-in-greece-recorded-forcing-migrant-boats-back-to-turkey-3531694

Sex Work is Real Work, and it's Time to Treat it That Way
LaLa B Holston-Zannell | aclu.org | 2020-06-10
Sex workers aren't always a part of the conversation about police brutality, but they should be. Police regularly target, harass, and assault sex workers or people they think are sex workers, such as trans women of color. The police usually get away with the abuse because sex workers fear being arrested if they report. If we lived in a world that didn't criminalize sex work, sex workers could better protect themselves and seek justice when they are harmed. , , Protecting sex workers from police viole…
aclu.org/news/lgbt-rights/sex-work-is-real-work-and-its-time-to-treat-it-that-way

Black Lives Matter solidarity: No Pride without justice!
Minnie Bruce Pratt | workers.org | 2020-06-10
Fifty-one years ago cops assaulted and arrested LGBTQ2+ people

Founder of Iran Studies Center, Tel Aviv University: Israel is pistachios for Iran
The Iranian | iranian.com | 2020-06-10
"I have news for you. Israel is half of the city of Tehran, in terms of population. You don't go through such a revolution for a tiny small country which is peanuts, or maybe in this case you say pistachios for the Iranians. We are nothing. You don't create a revolution because of the state …
iranian.com/2020/06/09/founder-of-iran-studies-center-tel-aviv-university-israel-is-pistachios-for-iran/

Iran To Shut Down Several TV Channels Beaming Programs To Other Countries
RFE | iranian.com | 2020-06-10
Iran's state television may have to shut down several foreign language channels due to financial strains caused by sanctions, mismanagement, falling viewership figures and long-standing differences between the state broadcaster and the presidential administration. Payman Jebelli, the head of the external services of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Broadcasting organization (IRIB) told Fars news agency …
iranian.com/2020/06/10/iran-to-shut-down-several-tv-channels-beaming-programs-to-other-countries/

Iran to Take Legal Action If S Korean Banks Fail to Release Funds: CBI Chief
Tasnim News | iranian.com | 2020-06-10
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran called on South Korean banks to release Iran's oil money frozen under US pressure, warning that the Islamic Republic reserves the right to take legal action under international law. "It is appalling to see that (South) Korean banks have conveniently neglected their obligations, common international financial agreements, and …
iranian.com/2020/06/10/iran-to-take-legal-action-if-s-korean-banks-fail-to-release-funds-cbi-chief/

Excavations reveal rare find of Bronze Age culture in Iran
Tehran Times | iranian.com | 2020-06-10
Iran has recently unearthed a rare Bronze Age culture, related settlements and relics following to rounds of excavation in a plain near the north-central city of Qom. "Archaeological excavations carried out at a broad natural sandy-gravel hill named Tepe Yousef Khan has revealed relics and remains which are related to the Kura–Araxes culture known as …
iranian.com/2020/06/10/excavations-reveal-rare-find-of-bronze-age-culture-in-iran/

The True Plight of Black Americans
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-10
Walter E.WILLIAMS | While it might not be popular to say in the wake of the recent social disorder, the true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called "systemic racism." Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities. | Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and Philadelphia. The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by liberal Democrats. Some cities

Christopher Steele's Very Stupid Dossier
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-10
"Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." So declared Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. But he was wrong. The gods don't make them mad

Sir Dearlove Joins Anti-China Counter-Gang Operation
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-10
Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove's new role as anti-China provocateur gives us the opportunity to look into the mind of empire and see how our society is being played to acquiesce to an agenda that will ultimately lead to WW III. By adding his voice to those Anglo-American fanatics blaming China for creating COVID-19 in a lab and intentionally spreading it around the world, Sir Dearlove has demonstrated a classic case of "gang/counter-gang operations" practiced by the British Empire for centuries.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/10/sir-dearlove-joins-anti-china-counter-gang-operation/

OOOPS: Black Business Ownership Collapses by 41% in US Lockdowns
Michael Sasso | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-10
The Covid-19 economic shutdown has hurt African American businesses the most among racial and ethnic groups in U.S., with a 41% decline of black owners from February to April, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows. | While the pandemic has hit entrepreneurs across the board, closing some 3.3 million small businesses at least temporarily, the sidelining of 440,000 African Americans was especially severe. Black own…
anti-empire.com/ooops-black-business-ownership-collapses-by-41-in-us-lockdowns/

Corona epidemic and Yemen
C Dettwiler, U Gasche and N Ramseyer | indybay.org | 2020-06-10
Authorities first wanted to calm down and played down the pandemic. Afterward, they had to convince the population to keep unusual physical distance, to wash their hands well at all times, and to refrain from major events. Finally, they wanted the population to accept the week-long lockdown, with business closures, exit, and travel restrictions.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/10/18834084.php

California Reparations AB 3121 – Did the Roman Catholic Church Endorse Slavery?
excerpt | indybay.org | 2020-06-10
Today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi courageously led the Congressional Leadership through a special ceremony in Emancipation Hall, Washington D.C. In the Rotunda of the California State Capitol is a celebration of Spanish State Sponsored Terrorism with the Roman Catholic Church blessing. If Restorative Justice is possible, then full and accurate consideration is essential. As the California State Legislature considers AB 3121 let courageous leadership flow from sea to shinning sea.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/08/18833966.php

Food Not Bombs 40th Anniversary – Co-Founder Keith McHenry Interview
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2020-06-10
Interview with Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs, on the on-going struggle to feed and house the unhoused people of Santa Cruz, California during the coronavirus pandemic. Originally broadcast on "Transformation Highway" on KZSC, 88.1 FM.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/08/18833956.php

George Floyd's murderer, Derek Chauvin's June 8 court date
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-10
George Floyd's Murderer, Derek Chauvin:…
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AFA-CWA Pres Sara Nelson Likes ILWU Action On June 9th To Act In Memorial To George Floyd
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-10
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

"I Can't Breath" ILWU 10 & 34 Speak Out About Lynching of George Floyd & Action
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-10
ILWU 10 president Trent Willis & ILWU 34 president Keith Shanklin talk about the murder of George Floyd and the systemic racist attacks on longshore workers and their families. They also discuss the shutdown of West Coast docks on Juneteenth June 19th to commemorate the emancipation of Blacks and the fight today.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/09/18834059.php

UPRISING: The Democratic Party Exists To Co-Opt & Kill Authentic Change
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-10
Watch them. Watch Democrats and their allied media and corporate institutions try to sell the public a bunch of words and a smattering of feeble, impotent legislation to mollify the masses, without ever giving the people the real changes that they actually need.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/09/18834071.php

Georgia Election Condemned as Result of Deliberate GOP Voter Suppression
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-10
Photos of would-be Georgia voters standing

Trump Mulls Replacing Jared Kushner After Blaming Him for Tanking Poll Numbers
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-10
Though President Donald Trump publicly praised his son-in-law Jared Kushner as "my star" on Monday, he has privately fumed about his top adviser over his sagging poll numbers, according to Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman. | Trump and Kus…
truthout.org/articles/trump-mulls-replacing-jared-kushner-after-blaming-him-for-tanking-poll-numbers/

Met Police accused of racism after rapper Wretch 32's father is Tasered at home
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-10
Police are facing calls for a watchdog investigation after rapper Wretch 32's father was Tasered by police in his home. | Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and human rights group Amnesty have urged the Independent Office for Police Conduct to launch an inquiry into what happened. | Oliver Feeley-Sprague from the charity said it "beggars belief" that the Metropolitan Police internal standards department found no misconduct had occurred. | Footage posted online showed 62-year-old Millard Scott tumbling downstairs at his north London home after an officer is heard to warn: "Police officer with a Taser. Stay where you are."
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/10/met-police-accused-of-racism-after-rapper-wretch-32s-father-is-tasered-at-home/

Neil Ferguson talks modelling, lockdown and scientific advice with MPs
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-10
Imperial's Neil Ferguson told MPs that introducing lockdown measures in the UK a week earlier would have reduced deaths by at least half.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198155/neil-ferguson-talks-modelling-lockdown-scientific

Top EU official BACKS Twitter in fact-checking 'war' with Trump, says Europe should take same approach
rt.com | 2020-06-10
Twitter has received unexpected support in its fact-checking war with US President Donald Trump. The EU Commission's vice president for values and transparency,Vera Jourova, said it has taken exactly the approach Europe needs. | Jourova, who leads the bloc's own crusade against disinformation, waded into the Trump-Twitter dispute, praising the instant messaging service for "promoting the facts" instead of taking down the president's tweets altogether. | "I support the Twitter reaction to tweets of President Trump," she said during a press conference. "They did not delete it. We all can see it. They provided fa…
rt.com/news/491451-eu-twitter-fact-check-trump/

Poland to open EU borders on Saturday, allow international flights from Tuesday
rt.com | 2020-06-10
Poland will open its borders with fellow European Union countries on Saturday and allow international flights from next Tuesday, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday. The country closed its borders to visitors in March to stop the spread of the coronavirus. | "In some countries… this pandemic is still behaving in a very disturbing way," Morawiecki said, adding that Warsaw will now limit opening borders to EU states. | Poland has seen a recent rise in infections, mostly around coal mines in the south. On Monday, 599 new cases were reported

Minneapolis PD scrambles to 'reform,' distancing itself from officers' union as threat of defunding looms
rt.com | 2020-06-10
The chief of police in Minneapolis has cut off talks with the police union and proposed an 'early warning' system for officer misconduct, as he struggles to save the force from a City Council determined to disband it. | Medaria Arradondo pledged a "thorough review" of the city's contract with the police, announcing on Wednesday that his department was pulling out of negotiations with the union to make major changes to how policing is done in Minneapolis. The chief promised to implement an early warning system that will allow supervisors to spot problematic conduct more quickly and hinted that changes to existi…
rt.com/usa/491443-minneapolis-police-reform-defund/

'Our history will not be tampered with!' Trump rules out renaming US military bases named after Confederate generals
rt.com | 2020-06-10
US President Donald Trump has declared opposition to renaming a dozen military bases that bear the names of Civil War generals who fought for the Confederacy, saying they are part of history and a proud military heritage. | Mentioning Fort Bragg, Fort Hood and Fort Benning by name, Trump tweeted on Wednesday that the "Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage" and "history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom." | "My Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations," he added. | It has been suggested that we should rena…
rt.com/usa/491457-trump-rejects-renaming-bases-confederacy/

Call Russia 'sponsor of TERROR'! Imperial-minded House Republicans urge return to Cold War footing & drastic sanctions policy
rt.com | 2020-06-10
The largest House GOP caucus has released a 'national security strategy' that envisions escalating sanctions against China and Russia, more war on terrorism in the Middle East, and a Cold War-type infowar, among other things. | The 120-page proposal unveiled by the Republican Study Committee on Wednesday is pitched as "a conservative, solutions-oriented plan for preserving American leadership around the globe." | It offers a laundry list of possible actions agains…
rt.com/usa/491455-call-russia-sponsor-terror-republicans/

Putin stresses importance of Libya ceasefire in phone call with Erdogan
rt.com | 2020-06-10
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday and stressed the importance of a ceasefire in Libya as soon as possible, the Kremlin's press service said. | The two leaders expressed "mutual concern over the mass armed clashes ongoing in the country," the statement said. Putin also stressed the need for renewed inter-Libyan dialogue. | Discussing Syria, Putin and Erdogan underlined the need to implement Russian-Turkish agreements on the Idlib de-escalation zone. | The presidents discussed joint efforts during the coronavirus pandemic, and noted the…
rt.com/newsline/491412-putin-libya-ceasefire-erdogan/

Thomas Lane, one of ex-cops charged over George Floyd's death posts $750,000 bail & leaves jail
rt.com | 2020-06-10
One of the four Minneapolis police officers charged over the killing of George Floyd has been released from custody after making bail, which had been conditionally set at $750,000. | Former officer Thomas Lane was released from the Hennepin County Jail on Wednesday afternoon, local media reported, citing jail records. Lane is charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter in relation to Floyd's death in late May. The victim was killed after fellow officer Derek Chauvin pressed a knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest. | Lane's attorney, Earl Gray, has said the case…
rt.com/usa/491471-thomas-lane-floyd-bail-jail/

Thomas Lane, one of ex-cops charged in George Floyd's death posts $750,000 bail & leaves jail
rt.com | 2020-06-10
One of the four Minneapolis police officers charged for the killing of George Floyd has been released from custody after making bail, which had been conditionally set at $750,000. | Former officer Thomas Lane was released from the Hennepin County Jail on Wednesday afternoon, local media reported, citing jail records. Lane is charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter in relation to Floyd's death in late May, who was killed after fellow officer Derek Chauvin pressed a knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest. | Lane's attorney, Earl Gray, has said the case against…
rt.com/usa/491471-thomas-lane-floyd-bail-jail/

Rocket blast hits Baghdad's Green Zone, triggers sirens at US embassy on eve of 'strategic dialogue'
rt.com | 2020-06-10
At least one rocket was fired into the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in the Iraqi capital, with a loud blast reported in the area. The attack reportedly resulted in no casualties and only minor damage. | A Katyusha rocket landed within the Green Zone in the early hours of Thursday morning, setting off sirens at the US embassy, Reuters reported, citing a witness. Nobody was killed in the blast, according to Iraq's Security Media Cell, which added that the rocket is believed to have been fired from a nearby sports stadium. | A local reporter shared footage of the aftermath of the explosion, purporting to…
rt.com/news/491469-iraq-green-zone-rocket/

Cracked silo at under-construction UK nuclear plant releases DUST CLOUD after accident
rt.com | 2020-06-10
A silo at Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset has suffered structural damage, releasing a cloud of granulated slag into the surrounding area and temporarily halting work on the joint French-Chinese venture. | The 115-foot (35-meter) tower buckled at around 7: 30 am local time on Wednesday. Although initial reports were of an explosion, the smoke was in fact a cloud of Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBS), which was being used to reinforce the concrete, according to a spokesperson with Electricite de France (EDF). | No one was injured and no radiation was released in the incident, according to…
rt.com/uk/491445-hinkley-nuclear-accident-cloud/

Iran at forefront of fight against drug trafficking: cmdr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

Iranian Parliament's open session on Jun. 10
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

Iran, Russia voice concern over humanitarian crisis in Yemen, Syria
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

Palestinian people have no choice but resort to resistance: Deputy FM
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

Roads min. says grounds paved to connect holy shrines of Iran, Iraq
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

Iranian embassy in Madrid planning for fourth direct flight to Tehran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

Be ashamed of crying wolf over detention of an Iranian
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

Homegrown defense systems protecting Iranian sky: deputy cmdr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

Army chief names 'enhancing military readiness' as force's main mission
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

'I Can't Breathe' gallery in Tehran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

Senegal congratulates Ghalibaf on election as new Parl. Speaker
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

WHO in talks with S Arabia on delaying Hajj ritual due to pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-10
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA)

Semantic Arguments, George Floyd Laid to Rest, Arming Iran, Trump Sued
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-10
Defunding the police might be the current focus, but this fight must be for so much…
sputniknews.com/radio-political-misfits/202006101079579779-semantic-arguments-george-floyd-laid-to-rest-arming-iran-trump-sued/

US Carriers Reagan, Nimitz Sail Into Pacific After Monthslong Absence of American Warships
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-10
The US Navy has come roaring back from the COVID-19 lockdowns of months past, now having three aircraft carriers underway in the Pacific Ocean.
sputniknews.com/asia/202006101079579724-us-carriers-reagan-nimitz-sail-into-pacific-after-monthslong-absence-of-american-warships/

CNN Mocks Trump Camp for Demand it Withdraw Poll Showing Biden Leads President in 2020 Race
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-10
US President Donald Trump's campaign has issued a cease and desist letter to CNN and threatened to pursue further legal actions over a recent "anti-Trump poll" that it claims was part of an attempt to "misinform and mislead actual voters."
sputniknews.com/us/202006101079579955-cnn-mocks-trump-camp-for-demand-it-withdraw-poll-showing-biden-leads-president-in-2020-race/

COVID-19 Hospitalizations Rise in Several States, While Millions of Americans Remain Uninsured
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-10
On this episode of The Critical Hour, Dr. Wilmer Leon is joined by Dr. Margaret Flowers, physician and co-editor of Popular Resistance.
sputniknews.com/radio_the_critical_hour/202006101079579840-covid-19-hospitalizations-rise-in-several-states-while-millions-of-americans-remain-uninsured/

North Korea: US Has No Standing to Comment on Inter-Korean Affairs
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-10
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) criticized the United States on Thursday, saying the US has no standing to comment on internal Korean affairs. Earlier this week, Pyongyang severed contact with Seoul over propaganda distribution by defectors in the South.
sputniknews.com/asia/202006101079579355-north-korea-us-has-no-standing-to-comment-on-inter-korean-affairs/

Spain's Andalusia Fines Belgian Prince for Breaking Coronavirus Rules – Reports
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-10
MADRID (Sputnik) – Belgian Prince Joachim has been fined for breaking a mandatory quarantine shortly after arriving in Spain last month, Spanish media said Wednesday.
sputniknews.com/europe/202006101079579133-spains-andalusia-fines-belgian-prince-for-breaking-coronavirus-rules—reports/

Erdogan, Putin discuss Libya, Idlib over phone
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-10
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday spoke over the phone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the latest situation in Libya and Idlib, northwestern Syria.According to the Turkish Communications Directorate, the two leaders also discussed regional issues and steps to be taken in…
yenisafak.com/en/news/erdogan-putin-discuss-libya-idlib-over-phone-3531700

Saudi Arabia records 36 new virus deaths
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-10
Saudi Arabia confirmed 36 additional deaths from the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, according to the health ministry.A ministry statement said 3,717 new infections and 1,615 recoveries were registered over the past 24 hours.The kingdom's confirmed cases from coronavirus now stand at 112,288, including 819 deaths, and 77,954 recoveries.The pandemic has claimed more than 411,900 lives in 188 countries and regions since originating in China's Wuhan city last December. The US, Brazil and Russia are currently the worst-hit countries.Over 7.26 million cases have been reported worldwide, while more than 3.38 million pe…
yenisafak.com/en/world/saudi-arabia-records-36-new-virus-deaths-3531701

Saudi Arabia records 36 new virus deaths
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-10
A ministry statement said 3,717 new infections and 1,615 recoveries were registered over the past 24 hours.The kingdom's confirmed cases from coronavirus now stand at 112,288, including 819 deaths, and 77,954 recoveries.The pandemic has claimed more than 411,900 lives in 188 countries and regions since originating in China's Wuhan city last December. The US, Brazil and Russia are currently the worst-hit countries.Over 7.26 million cases have been reported worldwide, while more than 3.38 million people have recovered so far, according to figures compiled by the US' Johns Hopkins University.
yenisafak.com/en/world/saudi-arabia-records-36-new-virus-deaths-3531701

Turkish defense company distributes aid in Pakistan
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-10
Turkey's leading defense company Roketsan on Wednesday distributed food packages among 1,000 families in Pakistan through the Turkish Red Crescent.The food packages distribution event held in Rawalpindi, a city adjacent to the capital Islamabad, was attended by Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan Ihsan Mustafa Yurdakul and the country's head of the Turkish Red Crescent Carlos Camilo.The ongoing coronavirus crisis and earlier lockdown has deprived a large number of poor families and daily wage workers of their source of income in Pakistan.Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Camilo said the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affecte…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-defense-company-distributes-aid-in-pakistan-3531698

Turkey to reopen tourism facilities: Minister
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-10
Speaking to CNN Turk, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy commented on the revival of tourism in the country."In tourism, there is no other country that has done certification better and more reliable than Turkey," the minister said.The country's main priority in this process is to resume air traffic to all countries, he added.Turkey on Wednesday reported 2,241 more recoveries, 17 deaths and 922 more cases of the coronavirus.To a question about the reopening of Hagia Sophia for worship, Ersoy said: "If the court decision comes through [to open Hagia Sophia for worship], I will not be worried about tourism, we will find a solution.
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-to-reopen-tourism-facilities-minister-3531702

Dr. Anthony Fauci says 'worst pandemic' far from over
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-10
A top US infectious disease expert has said that the coronavirus outbreak turned to be his "worst nightmare," and that the fight against its spread is far from over.Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made the remarks Tuesday during a virtual appearance at the BIO Digital health-care conference."In a period of four months, it has devastated the whole world," Fauci said. "And it isn't over yet. And it's condensed in a very, very small time frame."He stressed that the pandemic is "very different" from other outbreaks such as Ebola and HIV due to its fast transmissio…
yenisafak.com/en/world/dr-anthony-fauci-says-worst-pandemic-far-from-over-3531697

Turkey: 'City of gladiators' ready for visitors
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-10
The ancient city of Kibyra, also known as the "city of gladiators," in southwestern Turkey is set to become a new tourist hotspot.The 2,300-year-old city is located among juniper and cedar forests in the Golhisar district of Burdur province at an altitude of 1,350 meters (4,429 feet).The town, where excavations began in 2006, fascinates visitors with its monumental buildings.It is admired by many for its magnificent 10,400-person-capacity stadium built with Roman and Byzantine architectural tradition, its odeon (music house) covered with the Medusa mosaic, the Late Roman bath, agoras, main street, theatre with a…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-city-of-gladiators-ready-for-visitors-3531695

Tanzania s COVID Free by 'God's Will': President Maghufuli
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-10
Tanzania's President John Magufuli Sunday affirmed his nation is COVID-19 free due to prayer powers. | RELATED: | US Navy to Bar Confederate Flags From Ships, Aircraft, Bases | "Coronavirus in our country has been removed by the powers of God," Magufuli declared at a church service in Dodoma, Tanzania's capital. | Tanzania's health authorities said no positive cases for COVID-19 have been reported over the last six weeks, so the unofficial toll is superior to official reports of…
telesurenglish.net/news/tanzania-is-covid-free-by-gods-will-president-maghufuli-says–20200610-0004.html

US Postal Service covers up COVID-19 death toll in New York City
wsws.org | 2020-06-10
"There are people that have been gone for weeks, and people who have been gone who never came back."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/10/usps-j10.html

Roads Removal: a Big Win for Grizzlies in the Northern Rockies
Mike Garrity | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-10
When the Forest Service puts a berm of dirt across a road in our national forests to protect endangered species like grizzly bears or provide secure habitat for elk, the Forest Service pretends that that road no longer exists and is no longer a threat to wildlife. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Despite the…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/10/roads-closed-a-big-win-for-grizzlies-in-the-northern-rockies/

Hispanic Americans On The Front Lines Of COVID-19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-10
Workforce needs are changing and immigrants and Americans of all kinds are critical to the fight, response, and recovery that we face in the coming months. As the country continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Hispanic Americans are playing an important role on the front lines in healthcare, food supply, education, and biomedical industries. There are 2.2 million Hispanic healthcare workers (or 13.0% of the total workforce) nationwide, almost one-third of which are immigrants. Hispanic Americans are even more prominent in another essential sector of the U.S economy: the food supply chain. Hispanic workers are…
popularresistance.org/hispanic-americans-on-the-front-lines-of-covid-19/

ILWU, ILA, And Teamsters Take Action In Honor Of George Floyd
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-10
Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters laid down their tools in a work stoppage for eight minutes and forty-six seconds, the precise measure of time that George Floyd, handcuffed and helpless to resist, was forced to endure a policeman's lethal knee on his neck. Killed by Minneapolis police on May 25, Floyd was buried today in Houston. | Trent Willis, president of ILWU Local 10, Keith Shanklin, president of ILWU Local 34, and Gabriel Prawl, former Secretary/ Treasurer of ILWU Local 52 in S…
popularresistance.org/ilwu-ila-and-teamsters-take-action-in-honor-of-george-floyd/

Why Covid-19 Racial Disparities Make The Case For Medicare For All
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-10
The racial disparities of COVID-19 have received much attention. Blacks are dying at a higher rate that is typically more than double the rate of whites. But we need to move beyond naming the problem of fighting for solutions. Medicare for All would go a long way to beginning to address racial disparities in health care in general and for COVID-19 in particular. | The obvious and immediate need of black and other working-class populations caught in the teeth of the pandemic is the right to health care treatment without the burden of cost. Even before the pandemic, lower-income, Latino, and younger workers were mo…
popularresistance.org/why-covid-19-racial-disparities-make-the-case-for-medicare-for-all/

The Network In Defense Of Humanity Demands Justice For George Floyd
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-10
The Network in Defense of Humanity adds its voice to those of thousands in the United States and around the world who are demanding Justice for George Floyd. | The image of a man of African descent being killed by a racist policeman is very common in the United States. In fact, the police murder about a thousand people annually; a disproportionate number of them are Black. | George Floyd's murder was no different, but it has been on an exponential level since the scene of his death by torture was documented in detail as he told the white policeman "I can't breathe"–first he appealed to his torturer, then to…
popularresistance.org/the-network-in-defense-of-humanity-demands-justice-for-george-floyd/

Video: Egypt Sends Battle Tanks to Libyan Border as Haftar Forces Retreat Under Turkish Strikes
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-09
The Turkish involvement in the Libyan conflict allowed the Government of National Accord (GNA) to turn the tide of the battle of Tripoli and even develop further success by expanding control over a notable chunk of northern Libya. | After capturing …
globalresearch.ca/video-egypt-sends-battle-tanks-libyan-border-haftar-forces-retreat-under-turkish-strikes/5715404

The US and Israel Hope to Scare the Hague War Crimes Court off from Helping Palestine
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-09
In the near-two decades since the International Criminal Court was set up to try the worst violations of international human rights law, it has faced harsh criticism for its highly selective approach to the question of who should be put on trial. Created in 2002, the court, it was imagined, would act as a deterrent …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-us-and-israel-hope-to-scare-the-hague-war-crimes-court-off-from-helping-palestine/

Palestinian solidarity with George Floyd
Susan Abulhawa | workers.org | 2020-06-09
The following remarks were prepared for a rally at LOVE Park in Philadelphia on June 4. My name is Susan Abulhawa, from Workers World Party, and I bring revolutionary greetings and solidarity from Palestine, where Palestinians have been marching in the streets of Jerusalem, Ramallah, Haifa, Gaza and beyond in . . . | Continue reading Palestinian solidarity with George Floyd at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49209/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-solidarity-with-george-floyd

Immigration Agents Target People at Police Brutality Protests, Including a U.S. Citizen Military Vet
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-09
As protests against police brutality continue nationwide, immigrant rights advocates are sounding the alarm over the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at some of the demonstrations. A viral video showed a group of ICE agents working with the New York City Police Department to detain a protester at a George Floyd rally in New York City last week, and advocates say agents held the man on the ground as they pointed three guns at him and handcuffed and searched him. He was reportedly released after agents found a military veteran's ID on him, and is a U.S. citizen of Puerto Rican descent. We spea…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/9/mizue_aizeki

"Essential Labor, Expendable Lives": Mass Transit Workers Worry About Safety as NYC Begins to Reopen
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-09
As New York City begins to partially reopen, we look at what it means for the nation's largest public transportation system. "It's a very stressful and dangerous situation," says Seth Rosenberg, a subway operator, shop steward with the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and a member of a small coalition of transit workers called Local 100 Fightback. "The safety measures are not in place to protect transit workers or riders."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/9/nyc_transit_safety

Amid Protests & Pandemic, 200+ Unhoused People Sheltering in Minneapolis Hotel Now Face Eviction
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-09
We go to Minneapolis, where the community has taken over a Sheraton hotel to provide shelter to more than 200 unhoused people amid protests and the pandemic. Now they face eviction. "Using hotels for emergency housing is an obvious answer," says Rosemary Fister, community organizer. "They are largely vacant as we enter an economic depression in the midst of a global pandemic."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/9/minneapolis_sanctuary_hotel

Hong Kong's 'pro-democracy' movement allies with far-right US politicians that seek to crush Black Lives Matter
Ajit Singh | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-09
As a Hong Kong protest leader promotes far-right condemnations of US anti-racism demonstrations and activists shut down a Black Lives…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/09/hong-kongs-far-right-us-politicians-crush-black-lives-matter/

From Occupation to 'Occupy': The Israelification of American domestic security
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-09
One of the first comprehensive surveys of Israeli training of US local and federal law enforcement officials. By Max Blumenthal…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/09/occupation-occupy-israel-us-police/

Defund the Police, Defund the Military
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies | commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
Members of the National Guard join police on the fourth day of protests on May 29, 2020 in Minneapolis. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/national-guard-floyd.jpg …
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Malcolm or MLK?
J.P. Linstroth | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-09
Two weeks ago, the world witnessed a murder of an innocent Black man, George Floyd, what many, including Jesse Jackson, called a "public lynching" in broad daylight, at the hands of a white policeman. It was a brutal killing by the manner in which Minneapolis policeman, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee into Floyd's neck, slowly…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/09/malcolm-or-mlk/

One Way To Deal With Cops Who Lie? Blacklist Them
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-09
Kim Gardner has dropped more than 100 cases that relied on statements from the 29 officers who got on the list for alleged lying, abuse or corruption. And she won't accept new cases or search-warrant requests from them, either. | From Philadelphia to Houston to Seattle, district attorneys recently elected on platforms of criminal justice reform are building similar databases of their own. Often known as "do not call" lists, they are also called "exclusion lists" or "Brady lists" after a famous Supreme Court decision requiring prosecutors to disclose to defense lawyers information about unreliable police officers…
popularresistance.org/one-way-to-deal-with-cops-who-lie-blacklist-them/

Police Attacking Protestors, Journalists and Doctors While Defending Racist Attackers
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-09
A man in a black sedan car barrels towards a large Seattle demonstration protesting the killing of George Floyd. After he stops, he gets out and shoots a protestor at point blank range. The crowd scatters in terror. The man, still brandishing his weapon, casually walks through the mayhem towards the line of police, and is apprehended without incident. The police surround him, facing the crowd, shielding him from a non-e…
mintpressnews.com/police-attacking-protestors-journalists-doctors-defending-racist-attackers/268340/

Tear down the racist statues, end racist debt and pay for equalizing reparations
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-09
The statues are coming down. The most recent avalanche began in the United States after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police and the uprising it occasioned. In Philadelphia, the city removed a statue of former police commissioner Frank Rizzo; the mayor agreed with the protesters who called for its immediate removal, saying that…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/09/tear-down-the-racist-statues-end-racist-debt-and-pay-for-equalizing-reparations/

Arrest of Sudanese war crimes suspect 'extremely significant': UN rights chief
news.un.org | 2020-06-09
The arrest of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman, commonly known as Ali Kushayb, an alleged former Janjaweed militia leader in the restive Darfur region of Sudan, has been hailed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as an "extremely significant development".
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The Brexit Crisis Led to Totally Incompetent Leadership at a Time of Unprecedented Calamity. Now We are Paying for It
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-09
Britain is failing to cope with the Covid-19 epidemic as well as other countries in Europe and East Asia have. Out of 62,000 excess deaths in the UK, says former chief scientific officer Sir David King, "40,000 excess deaths could have been avoided if government had acted responsibly". The failure is devastating: on a single…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/09/the-brexit-crisis-led-to-totally-incompetent-leadership-at-a-time-of-unprecedented-calamity-now-we-are-paying-for-it/

Pentagon War Game Includes Scenario for Military Response to Domestic Generation Z Rebellion
Nick Turse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-09
In the face of protests composed largely of young people, the presence of America's military on the streets of major cities has been a controversial development. But this isn't the first time that Generation Z

ACLU, BLM Seek Emergency Court Order Barring Use of Chemical Weapons on Protesters in Seattle
commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
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1000 protesters brave Tropical Storm Cristobal to rally in Tally against police brutality
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-09
Tallahassee, FL

Police targeting NLG legal observers at Black Lives Matter protests
National Lawyers Guild | mronline.org | 2020-06-09
Since protests have spread to all 50 states in response to the police murders of George Floyd and countless other Black people, law enforcement has responded with a violent show of force against protestors as well as journalists, street medics, and legal support.
mronline.org/2020/06/09/police-targeting-nlg-legal-observers-at-black-lives-matter-protests/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=police-targeting-nlg-legal-observers-at-black-lives-matter-protests

The world stands up against racism
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-09
Following the brutal murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis and the outbreak of protests across the US, people across the world have mobilized in solidarity and to raise the banner of anti-racism in their own contexts…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/09/the-world-against-racism/

Historic protests topple monuments of racism
Minnie Bruce Pratt | workers.org | 2020-06-09
People poured through U.S. streets the first week of June, as if answering Martin Luther King Jr.'s cry: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." Those torrents of people are carrying out a mighty change through the U.S., and a prime example is pulling down . . . | Continue reading Historic protests topple monuments of racism at Workers.org…
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Over 200 Unhoused People Sheltering in Minneapolis Hotel Now Face Eviction
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-09
We go to Minneapolis, where the community has taken over a Sheraton hotel to provide shelter to more than 200 unhoused people amid protests and the pandemic. Now they face eviction. "Using hotels for emergency housing is an obvious answer," says Rosemary Fister, community organizer. "They are largely vacant as we enter an economic depression in the midst of a global pandemic." | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now…
truthout.org/video/over-200-unhoused-people-sheltering-in-minneapolis-hotel-now-face-eviction/

Tory councillor calls slave trader a 'hero' after Bristol statue toppling
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-09
A Conservative Party councillor has described 17th century slave trader Edward Colston as a "hero" to the city of Bristol, claiming that his statue was pulled down by a "criminal mob".According to the BristolLive website, Cllr Richard Eddy, who represents the ward of Bishopsworth on Bristol City Council, condemned the toppling of the controversial statue amid protests stemming from the killing of George Floyd in police custody in the US.Floyd died last month after a police officer in Minneapolis restrained him by holding a knee on his neck

Driver plows through BLM protesters in Indianapolis, then makes a run for it (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-09
Stomach-wrenching video has captured a woman driving her minivan through a group of protesters in Indianapolis on the city's 11th straight day of anti-racism and police brutality protests in the wake of George Floyd's death. | The group of about 50 protesters was in the downtown Monument Circle area when a municipal truck arrived to take down barricades but was blocked by the protesters for a time. The minivan driver went to drive around the truck, struck several protesters and accelerated away from the scene, as captured in eyewitness video from the incident. | www.facebook.com/chan.harris.1/posts/323…
rt.com/usa/491262-woman-minivan-through-protesters-indianapolis/

The Heat: U.S. protests fallout in U.S
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-06-09
Demands for racial justice and an end to police brutality continue in the United States. As the white police officer accused of killing African American George Floyd makes a court appearance.
america.cgtn.com/2020/06/09/the-heat-u-s-protests-fallout-in-u-s

DC National Guardsmen Test Positive for COVID-19 After Largely Forgoing Face Masks During Protests
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-09
After being deployed to police tens of thousands of protesters in Washington, DC, for more than a week, the city's National Guard garrison has registered cases of COVID-19. The guardsmen rarely wore masks during their patrols.
sputniknews.com/us/202006091079570795-dc-national-guardsmen-test-positive-for-covid-19-after-largely-forgoing-face-masks-during-protests/

Over 600 Groups And Families Of People Killed By Police Call For UN Investigation
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-09
The undersigned family members of victims of police killings and civil society organizations from around the world, call on member states of the UN Human Rights Council to urgently convene a Special Session on the situation of human rights in the United States in order to respond to the unfolding grave human rights crisis borne out of the repression of nationwide protests. The recent protests erupted on May 26 in response to the police murder of George Floyd | in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was only one of a recent string of unlawful killings of unarmed Black people by police and armed white vigilantes. | We ar…
popularresistance.org/600-groups-families-of-people-killed-by-police-call-for-un-investigation/

As domestic violence rises during coronavirus lockdown, India deserves a special focus
Amira Khan | thecanary.co | 2020-06-09
Trigger warning: this article mentions cases of sexual violence that may cause some readers distress. | Women around the world have been suffering from an increase in domestic violence during coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic lockdowns. And this seems to be the case in India, where around a third of women have reportedly experienced such violence in their lives. Indeed, a 2018 pol…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/06/09/as-domestic-violence-rises-during-coronavirus-lockdown-india-deserves-a-special-focus/

Sri Lankan president establishes military taskforce: Another step toward dictatorship
wsws.org | 2020-06-09
The working class can stop the threat of a dictatorship only by mobilising its independent strength to overthrow capitalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/09/sril-j09.html

Sports round-up: Players advance Black Lives Matter message
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-09
The organic, non-violent uprisings nationwide following the murder of George Floyd by a former Minneapolis police officer–coupled with Trump's divisive, inherently racist response to the atrocity and his use of military force against American citizens–have forced the nation to look inwards and firmly draw a line in the sand of what is and isn't acceptable within our democracy …
peoplesworld.org/article/sports-round-up-players-advance-black-lives-matter-message/

COVID-19 Unveils Need for Fair Taxation Movement at the State Level
Ben Chin | commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
"Unless states dramatically raise revenue, even with the federal help that has been promised," warns Chin, "they will be forced to make dramatic cuts, further depressing demand." (Image: Getty/iStock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/taxation_states_austerity.jpg …
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How the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Emiratis Took Washington
Morgan Palumbo, Jessica Draper | commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
After all, the efforts of both sides to deepen their ties with the military-industrial complex and increase their sway in Congress have ensured that the real interests of this country played second fiddle to those of Middle Eastern despots. Certainly, their acts helped ensure near historic levels of arms sales to the region, while prolonging the wars in Yemen andSyria, and so contributing to death and devastation on an almost unimaginable scale. (Photo: Campaign Against Arms Trade/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/yemen_0_0.jpeg …
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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/

Prioritizing Physician Mental Health as COVID-19 Marches On
Abbasi J. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-06-09
This Medical News article is an interview with the University of New Mexico's Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, about the pandemic's mental toll on health care workers–and how they and their employers can safeguard their emotional well-being.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766525

Chinese doctor's death rekindles anger over health system
wsws.org | 2020-06-09
Wuhan City Central Hospital's website published nothing about Hu Weifeng's death from COVID-19 and his colleagues were barred from being interviewed by the media.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/09/chin-j09.html

New UN report highlights link between gender, climate and security
news.un.org | 2020-06-09
Even as countries buckle under the devastating social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, they must consider the links between gender inequality and crisis, particularly in communities affected by climate change and conflict.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065982

Why Covid-19 Racial Disparities Make the Case for Medicare for All
Dean E. Robinson | commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
Medical workers take in patients at a special coronavirus intake area at Maimonides Medical Center on April 6, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/coronavirus_5.jpg …
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National Guard Soldier Who Deployed to DC Identified as Neo-Nazi
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-09
Columbus, OH

Designing Technology to Protect Civil Liberties During the Pandemic
Sarah Manski | commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
To ensure public participation in this joint effort to slow the spread of the virus, citizens must be able to trust these new public health applications. (Photo: Monsitj/iStock via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/artificial_intelligence_0.jpg …
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Public health expert who slammed government coronavirus response speaks out against antisemitism attacks
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-06-09
A public health expert has come under attack, accused of "radical leftism" and antisemitism. | Professor John Ashton was chair of the UK Public Health Association and was north west regional director of public health between 1993 and 2006. He made a number of high profile media appearances earlier in the year, including interviews on Newsnight, Panorama, and as a panelist on Question Time. Ashton was highly critical of the Conservative go…
thecanary.co/exclusive/2020/06/09/public-health-expert-who-slammed-government-coronavirus-response-speaks-out-against-antisemitism-attacks/

Can the Russian Health Care System Cope With the Coronavirus?
Estelle Levresse | thenation.com | 2020-06-09
Can the Russian Health Care System Cope With the Coronavirus?
thenation.com/article/world/russia-coronavirus-health-care/

Paradigms Take Years to Shift
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-09
Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law. In just the last week, the Minneapolis school board resolved to cut their contract with city police in the schools. The mayor of Los Angeles announced that his city was considering cutting the city's police budget by some…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/09/paradigms-take-years-to-shift/

A Trip From Utopia to Distopia
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-09
Utopia: a place in which human society, natural conditions, etc., are so ideally perfect that there is complete contentment. Dystopia: a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. You can't get much further away from the news than on the north shore of Montana's largest water body, Fort Peck Lake. While cattle and bison…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/09/a-trip-from-utopia-to-distopia/

Health care worker layoffs surge in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota
wsws.org | 2020-06-09
Essentia Health of Duluth, Minnesota, is engaging in job destruction to cover the impact of the pandemic on its bottom line and the losses incurred with the nosedive of a building project.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/09/esse-j09.html

Justin Trudeau: Campaigning for a Seat on the UN Security Council
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-09
Justin Trudeau is campaigning aggressively for a seat on the UN Security Council. Over the past month he has called about two dozen world leaders and recently organized calls with groupings of UN ambassadors from the Americas, Africa, Arab states and Asia. Just prior to the pandemic the PM attended the African Union Summit in …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/justin-trudeau-campaigning-for-a-seat-on-the-un-security-council/

Georgia's Toxic Primary Mess Is Unacceptable in Any Democracy
commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
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The Health Risks of 5G Radiofrequency Radiation Technology
Prof. Tom Butler | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-09
Inroduction | This short critical review explores the findings of extant research on the health risks posed by 5G technologies that emit radiofrequency radiation (RFR)1. It also provides evidence that the processes by which policy decisions have been made concerning the …
globalresearch.ca/review-health-risks-radiofrequency-radiation-employed-5g-technology-implications-uk-policymaking/5715481

New Jersey becomes the first state to add the climate crisis to their curriculum
Amanda Mills | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-09
nationofchange.org/2020/06/09/new-jersey-becomes-the-first-state-to-add-the-climate-crisis-to-their-curriculum/

Bradley Spent Millions on Voter Suppression, Union Busters, Climate Deniers, and Right-Wing Media in 2019
David Armiak | commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
Bradley gave a total of $6.4 million to further fund its web of climate change deniers in 2019. (Photo: Screenshot) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bradley-foundation-building-900×508.jpg …
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'Chilling Harbinger' for November as Georgia Primary Plagued by Long Lines and Voting Machines Problems
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
Reports of hourslong lines, issues with voting machines, and not enough poll workers in Georgia Tuesday led advocates to warn that problems with the state's primary election foreshadow what could happen nationwide in November's general election. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12188457441.jpg …
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'This Is the Problem' Say Critics as Police Union Recruits Fired Officers to New Jobs in Florida
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
A Florida police organization's promise to hire any officers who are fired or who leave their jobs amid the nationwide uprising over police brutality was indicative of a toxic law enforcement community that rewards severe misconduct, critics said Tuesday. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1217797816_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/09/problem-say-critics-police-union-recruits-fired-officers-new-jobs-florida?cd-origin=rss

In Age of Unrest and Economic Decline, Critics Cry Foul as GOP Refuse to Provide Additional Covid-19 Aid for Suffering Communities
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
"Communities of color can't wait for you to slow walk more coronavirus aid." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/mcconnell_3_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/09/age-unrest-and-economic-decline-critics-cry-foul-gop-refuse-provide-additional-covid?cd-origin=rss

'Your Turn, Amazon and Microsoft': Civil Liberties Advocates Applaud IBM Decision to Ditch Facial Recognition
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-09
"This huge IBM move will force other large tech companies to take a stand, even if their silence is their statement." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1080200068_1.png …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/09/your-turn-amazon-and-microsoft-civil-liberties-advocates-applaud-ibm-decision-ditch?cd-origin=rss

Food Not Bombs 40th Anniversary – Co-Founder Keith McHenry Interview
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2020-06-09
Interview with Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs, on the on-going struggle to feed and house the unhoused people of Santa Cruz, California during the coronavirus pandemic. Originally broadcast on "Transformation Highway" on KZSC, 88.1 FM.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/08/18833956.php

George Floyd's murderer, Derek Chauvin's June 8 court date
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-09
George Floyd's Murderer, Derek Chauvin:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/07/18833942.php

"Stick to Sports" Has Gone by the Wayside on Right-Leaning Sports Talk Radio
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-09
Donald Trump's near-frantic desire to reopen the national economy in order to salvage his reelection hopes has been about as subtle as an earthquake in a nail gun factory. He has found support for this push from within his voter base, from certain portions of the business community, and from conservative governors in less-populated states where COVID-19 has not (yet) done substantial damage. | It is a high-risk gamble fraught with lethal consequences that are already being felt. While cities li…
truthout.org/articles/stick-to-sports-has-gone-by-the-wayside-on-right-leaning-sports-talk-radio/

Grenfell Inquiry plans to resume on 6 July
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-09
The inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire is planning to resume in four weeks, officials have said.The second phase of the investigation into the disaster was halted on 16 March by chair Martin Moore-Bick as the coronavirus pandemic hit. The third anniversary of the fire, which happened on 14 June 2017, takes place this Sunday.At least one panel member fell ill with suspected Covid-19, and there were concerns over the safety of other participants.Martin Moore-Bick (Stefan Rousseau/PA)6 July is now the intended date for hearings to resume, with limited numbers of people in the room, the inquiry said on Tuesday.In a…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/09/grenfell-inquiry-plans-to-resume-on-6-july/

George Floyd's body arrives at church for private funeral
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-09
George Floyd's body has arrived at a church in Houston, Texas, for a private funeral to be followed by his burial.The service caps off six days of mourning for the Black man whose killing inspired a global reckoning over police brutality and racial injustice.Floyd was to be laid to rest next to his mother in the suburb of Pearland. He cried out for his mother as a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee on his neck on 25 May.About 6,000 people attended a public memorial on Monday in Houston, where Floyd grew up.Mourners pay respects to George Floyd during a public visitation (AP/David J. Phillip, Pool)Und…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/06/09/george-floyds-body-arrives-at-church-for-private-funeral/

Police chief ousted for backing 'gun-toting' vigilantes who defended small town from alleged 'Antifa threat'
rt.com | 2020-06-09
Amid rumors of an impending Antifa invasion, a number of armed individuals gathered in the small town of Snohomish, Washington, and were praised for doing so by the town's sheriff. He has now been demoted for his support. | Snohomish Police Chief Keith Rogers was ousted amid a slew of complaints after his vocal support for a gathering of several hundred "armed vigilantes" who converged on the town of 9,000 inhabitants on May 31. | www.facebook.com/SnohomishPD/posts/1412336185625305 | Rogers was criticized for referring to the gathering as a "festive night of tailgating and celebratory pleasantries." De…
rt.com/usa/491299-police-chief-ousted-vigilantes-antifa/

Israeli annexation plan 'very dangerous': Russia
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Israel's "dangerous" plans to annex Palestinian territories could provoke further discontent and violence, dooming prospects for a two-state solution, warned a top Russian diplomat on Tuesday.In the near future the new coalition government of Israel "may begin practical steps" to implement its stated plans to annex Palestinian territories, said Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia's deputy foreign minister."We believe that such a development would be very dangerous. We agree with the assessments and warnings in this regard, which are reflected in the latest decisions of the Arab League on this issue."The Arab League has cond…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israeli-annexation-plan-very-dangerous-russia-3531568

Six PKK/KCK suspects arrested in southern Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Turkish police have arrested six people for their alleged links to the PKK/KCK terror group, security sources said on Tuesday.As part of an investigation launched by prosecutors in the southern Mersin province, arrest warrants were issued for nine people for their alleged involvement in the so-called youth camp of the terror group, the office of provincial prosecutors said in a written statement.The suspects were rounded up in operation conducted by the local gendarmerie forces, while remaining three suspects are wanted.Many digital materials and documents related to the terror group were seized in the searches a…
yenisafak.com/en/news/six-pkk-kck-suspects-arrested-in-southern-turkey-3531566

Turkish charities send 3 truckloads of aid to Idlib
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Three truckloads of humanitarian aid gathered by various charity association in Turkey were sent Tuesday to vulnerable people in war-torn Idlib, northwestern Syria, where millions of people are in need of assistance due to internal conflict in the country.Several relief organizations and benefactors collaborated to prepare the humanitarian aid which included water, flour and dry food.The trucks carrying supplies arrived in Turkey's southern Hatay province to be transferred to Idlib.The aid will be distributed among residents of rural areas in Idlib.Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011, when the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkish-charities-send-3-truckloads-of-aid-to-idlib-3531572

Turkey brings back over 300 citizens from Canada
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Turkey on Tuesday brought back 301 citizens stranded in Canada due to the coronavirus lockdown as part of the country's ongoing evacuation efforts.A Turkish Airlines flight conducted the fourth repatriation flight from Canada.The plane from Toronto Pearson International Airport safely landed at Istanbul Airport at 12.25 p.m. local time (0925GMT).The citizens were carried to the terminal by buses, and their temperatures were taken there.Observing the social distancing rules, the passengers filled special information forms, and after passing passport controls, they received their luggage and left the airport.The Tu…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-brings-back-over-300-citizens-from-canada-3531595

Turkish Airlines remains top brand in Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Turkey's flag carrier Turkish Airlines remained to be the most valuable brand in the country in 2020, according to a leading London-based independent branded business valuation and strategy consultancy firm on Tuesday.The carrier's brand value increased to $1.98 billion in 2020, versus $1.73 billion in 2019, according to the 14th edition of Brand Finance's Turkey 100 report.Established in 1933 with a fleet of five aircraft, Turkish Airlines currently has a fleet of some 350 aircraft flying to around 320 worldwide destinations, except during the pandemic period.The state-lender Ziraat and private-lender Garanti fo…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-airlines-remains-top-brand-in-turkey-3531571

The Rest Of The World Sees Uprisings, Not Riots
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-09
U.S. officials, whether Democrat or Republican, pretend that only other countries violate human rights. Every year, the State Department issues a report on worldwide human rights with the heaviest criticism aimed at enemies du jour such as China, Russia, and Iran. | Human rights, as defined by U.S. officials, include freedom of the press, maintaining an independent judiciary, and civil rights. But most of the world, the United Nations included, goes further, saying human rights include the right to a job, health care, and housing, among other things. | Not surprisingly, U.S. leaders never mention authoritative in…
popularresistance.org/the-rest-of-the-world-sees-uprisings-not-riots/