Trump Risks Losing Washington's Closest Allies to Defend Megacorporations that Support Biden
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
The Wall Street Journal said that the U.S. is preparing tariffs against a range of trading partners unless they back off proposals to impose taxes that would fall heavily on major American internet companies. The threat of tariffs is against …
globalresearch.ca/trump-risks-losing-washington-closest-allies-defend-megacorporations/5716073
From Occupation to 'Occupy': The Israelification of American Domestic Security
Max Blumenthal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
In October, the Alameda County Sheriff's Department turned parts of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley into an urban battlefield. The occasion was Urban Shield 2011, an annual SWAT team exposition organized to promote "mutual response," …
globalresearch.ca/occupy-israelification-american-domestic-security/5716074
British Leaders Have No Idea How Bad Slavery Was
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
Conservative leaders snigger at protesters seeking the removal of statues memorialising those whose fortunes came from the exploitation of slaves. The leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, implied facetiously this week that such demands are on a par with seeking to knock down Stonehenge on the grounds that it once could have been…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/british-leaders-have-no-idea-how-bad-slavery-was/
2nd Covid-19 Wave and the US Economy
Jack Rasmus | zcomm.org | 2020-06-16
The Capitalist state in the 21st century in the USA today is engaged in a massive subsidization of Capitalism itself on a grand scale never experienced or even envisioned before…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/2nd-covid-19-wave-and-the-us-economy/
Hawkish, Gov't funded think tank behind Twitter decision to delete thousands of Chinese accounts
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-06-16
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."
mronline.org/2020/06/16/hawkish-govt-funded-think-tank-behind-twitter-decision-to-delete-thousands-of-chinese-accounts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hawkish-govt-funded-think-tank-behind-twitter-decision-to-delete-thousands-of-chinese-accounts
Meet Wikipedia's Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation's regime-change operative CEO
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2020-06-16
Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran U.S. regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher.
mronline.org/2020/06/16/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-founder-and-wikimedia-foundations-regime-change-operative-ceo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-founder-and-wikimedia-foundations-regime-change-operative-ceo
The Uprising Is Only Beginning: Building Power To Win Our Demands
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-16
The current uprising against police violence and racism is just beginning. It is rapidly shifting public consciousness on issues of policing, violence against Black people and others, and systemic racism. The movement is deepening and becoming broader as well as putting forward solutions and making demands. The confluence of crises including recent police violence, the COVID-19 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-uprising-is-only-beginning-building-power-to-win-our-demands/
Let Them Eat Weapons: Trump's Bizarre Arms Race
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-06-16
The price tag for this enormous nuclear buildup, which will occur over the next three decades, has been estimated as at least $1.5 trillion…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/let-them-eat-weapons-trumps-bizarre-arms-race/
Trump Hammers Cuba While Cuba Cures the Sick
Medea Benjamin | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-16
Credit: Cubacooperation A team of 85 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Peru on June 3 to help the Andean nation tackle the coronavirus pandemic. That same day, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another tightening of the sanctions screws. This time he targeted seven Cuban entities, including Fincimex, one of the principal financial institutions …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/trump-hammers-cuba-while-cuba-cures-the-sick/
Trump Hammers Cuba While Cuba Cures the Sick
Medea Benjamin | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-16
Not content to sabotage Cuba's domestic health sector, the Trump administration has been attacking Cuba's international medical assistance, from the teams fighting coronavirus to those caring for underserved communities in 164 countries.
mintpressnews.com/trump-sanctions-cuba-while-cuba-battles-coronavirus-world/268592/
Who Deserves a Nobel Prize During a Pandemic?
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
A few weeks ago, I was talking to Noam Chomsky about the state of the world. At one point, Noam smiled and said that he is not aware of any German doctors in Italy, even though both countries are in the European Union; instead, Cuban and Chinese doctors went to Italy to help the Italians…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/who-deserves-a-nobel-prize-during-a-pandemic/
Who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize in a time of pandemic?
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-06-16
A few weeks ago, I was talking to Noam Chomsky about the state of the world. At one point, Noam smiled and said that he is not aware of any German doctors in Italy, even though both countries are in the European Union; instead, Cuban and Chinese doctors went to Italy to help the Italians …
mronline.org/2020/06/16/who-deserves-the-nobel-peace-prize-in-a-time-of-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-deserves-the-nobel-peace-prize-in-a-time-of-pandemic
Who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize in a time of pandemic?
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-16
A few weeks ago, I was talking to Noam Chomsky about the state of the world. At one point, Noam smiled and said that he is not aware of any German doctors in Italy, even though both countries are in the Eu…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/16/who-deserves-the-nobel-peace-prize-in-a-time-of-pandemic/
Israel's Illegal Annexation of Palestine
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising to annex portions of the West Bank, liberal critics here in the US and across Europe are in a tizzy. They have been quick to point fingers blaming this crisis on Netanyahu and …
globalresearch.ca/annexation-debate-american-european-responsibility/5716080
Annexation of Palestine or "Uneventful Occurrence"‚Ää–‚ÄäWhat Do You See?
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Israeli soldier executing the kidnapping of several Nahalin villagers southeast of Bethlehem in the West Bank, including Mohammad Afif Fannoun, on June 12, 2020. | When you visualize it, as I try to, what does Israel's forthcoming annexation of parts of …
globalresearch.ca/annexation-uneventful-occurrence%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8awhat-do-you-see/5716065
Is the 'Second Wave' Another Coronavirus Hoax?
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Just a week or so ago the mainstream media and thousands representing the "medical community" told us we must throw out the "stay-at-home" orders and go to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of …
globalresearch.ca/second-wave-another-coronavirus-hoax/5716083
Video: Al-Qaeda Factions Create New Coalition in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Early on June 14, the Russian Aerospace Forces reportedly carried out airstrikes on positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham near the villages of al-Bara and Deir Sunbul in southern Idlib. Since the signing of the new de-escalation agreement with Turkey on …
globalresearch.ca/video-al-qaeda-factions-create-new-coalition-idlib/5716058
Convicted US Spy, Sentenced in Moscow on Charges of Espionage
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
On Monday, a Moscow court sentenced US spy Paul Whelan to 16 years imprisonment. | Charged with espionage, he was caught red-handed in December 2018 and arrested after accepting a flash drive with sensitive information from an undercover Russian Federal Security …
globalresearch.ca/convicted-us-spy-russian-political-prisoners-america/5716119
Hundreds march to defend DACA for immigrant youth, support movement against police terror
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-16
Minneapolis, MN – With the Supreme Court set to rule on their future, almost 1000 immigrant youth and their supporters marched on June 12 to defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that shields 800,000 young immigrants from deportation. | Organized by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), the march started outside of Senator Amy Klobuchar's office on Washington Avenue and marched to the Hennepin County Jail in downtown Minneapolis. | The march was very spirited, and speakers and chants made repeated connections between the fight against deportation and the fight of Blac…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/16/hundreds-march-defend-daca-immigrant-youth-support-movement-against-police-terror
Civil Rights Activist Annie Chambers Is Marching Again Against Police Brutality
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-16
Reverend Annie Chambers marched for civil rights with Dr. Martin Luther King throughout the 60s. This month she took to the streets to demand an end to police brutality when Baltimore City joined the nationwide movement calling for justice for George Floyd, a Black man killed by police in Minnesota. | The lifelong organizer says that while history repeats itself, racism is even worse than in her youth. "In the 50s and 60s we were taught to suffer. We got beat and shot and attacked by dogs. And you heard what Donald Trump say–get the dogs out on them," Chambers said in a phone interview with The Real News on…
therealnews.com/columns/civil-rights-activist-annie-chambers-is-marching-again-against-police-brutality
Buffalo Police Assault 75-Year-Old Longtime Peace Activist
Lu Aya | zcomm.org | 2020-06-16
Now Trump is attacking him too…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/buffalo-police-assault-75-year-old-longtime-peace-activist/
The Narrative of the Leakers: Collateral Murder and the Assange Indictment
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-16
When the superseding indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia against Julian Assange on May 23, 2019, there was one glaring omission. It was an achievement, it might even be said the achievement, that gave the WikiLeaks publisher and the organisation justified notoriety. Collateral Murder, as the leaked …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-narrative-of-the-leakers-collateral-murder-and-the-assange-indictment/
The Narrative of the Leakers: Collateral Murder and the Assange Indictment
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
When the superseding indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia against Julian Assange on May 23, 2019, there was one glaring omission. It was an achievement, it might even be said the …
globalresearch.ca/collateral-murder-assange-indictment/5716068
Why Cuban doctors should receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-16
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba has taken an active role in extending international solidarity to nations hard-hit by the virus. So far, they have sent medical brigades to 27 countries to assist in the fight against coronavirus. Due to Cuba's extraordinary commitment to humanity, to public health and to internationalism, a group of human rights organizations and social movements across the world have launched a campaign to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Cuba's Henry Reeve medical brigade. | On the website of the campaign, the campaign organizers explain "
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/16/why-cuban-doctors-should-receive-the-nobel-peace-prize/
July 1: Call To Action To Confront Israeli Annexation, Free Palestine
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-16
We know that many Palestinians in exile and supporters of Palestine are, like Samidoun's members, engaged in the uprisings and mass mobilizations taking to the streets to confront anti-Black racism and demand the defunding and dismantling of police and other structures of oppression. Confronting Israel's annexation plans — fully backed by U.S. imperialism and inspired by Zionist racism — also comes as part of the global fightback against racism, colonialism and imperialism. Israel's crimes are backed by $3.8 billion in military aid from the U.S. each year as well as unlimited diplomatic, political and…
popularresistance.org/july-1-call-to-action-to-confront-israeli-annexation-free-palestine/
Food Sovereignty Activists See The Pandemic Crisis As Pivotal For Change
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-16
Disaster brings change, however. Many grassroots organizations and movements are trying to seize the moment to propose alternatives, and in some cases, to begin implementing them. Some are breathing new life into proposals made before the COVID-19 crisis began. It has been a chance for this alternative system to prove its value. "Conventional farmers lost their crop because they lost their market when restaurants closed and the distribution chains broke down," Garcia explains. "Puerto Rico still gets most of its food from outside, so the supply problems meant the supermarkets didn't have food on the shelves. Pric…
popularresistance.org/food-sovereignty-activists-see-the-pandemic-crisis-as-a-pivotal-moment-for-change/
Journalists expose CIA spying on Assange and demand his freedom
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-16
This is a summary of a significant recent online discussion about those spying on Julian Assange and figures close to the Trump administration and the CIA.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/15/18834243.php
"Equality Is the Soul of Liberty" Peaceful Protest in Palo Alto Pt. II
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-06-16
At a rally in Palo Alto's King Plaza on June 6, protesters called out loudly for defunding the Palo Alto Police Department. After the rally of thousands, they marched a 4.6 mile route through the city.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/16/18834261.php
Goodbye, Columbus: Bree Newsome Bass on the Movement to Topple Racist Statues Across the Globe
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-16
As protesters worldwide continue to topple monuments to racists, colonizers and Confederates as part of the wave of demonstrations against racism and state violence, we speak to Bree Newsome Bass, artist and antiracist activist based in North Carolina, who five years ago was arrested at the state Capitol in South Carolina after scaling a 30-foot flagpole to remove the Confederate flag. She says the current backlash against racist symbols reflects "impatience with the pace of incremental progress" both in the United States and elsewhere. "People are tired of centuries of colonialism and white supremacist ideology.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/16/bree_newsome_bass_racist_monuments_symbols
Selected Articles: Towards the Annexation of Palestine
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Dear Readers, | We regularly receive feedback from you telling us how important the articles we publish are to you, especially in today's tumultuous and uncertain times. We thank you, and pledge that we will continue to deliver our daily dose …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-israelification-american-domestic-security/5716103
Climate Crisis: Trump's Regulatory Attack, DNC On Climate, California Fires, And Brazil COVID Chaos
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-16
Under the cover of COVID-19 and protests, Trump hacks away at bedrock environmental law. Plus, a Democratic Party committee lays out its climate platform, wildfires erupt in California, and climate chaos engulfs Brazil and the Amazon Rainforest.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-trumps-regulatory-attack-dnc-on-climate-california-fires-and-brazil-covid-chaos
Colombians mobilize against hunger and state negligence
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-16
Thousands mobilized against state negligence, repression and the precarious conditions that communities are forced to endure amid the global health crisis. The protests were attacked by the police and ESMAD agents…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/16/colombians-mobilize-against-hunger-and-state-negligence/
Trump at West Point: Un-Policing the World
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
Donald Trump claims to be the law-and-order president of the United States. There does not seem much sign of this as the stitching of the Republic gets undone. Protestors have been given a considerable roughing up across several states; police forces are in retreat before proposals of defunding while protocols for arrests are being changed.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/trump-at-west-point-un-policing-the-world/
Systemic Racism and the Killing of Rayshard Brooks
F. Elizabeth Dahab | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
The killing of 27 year old Rayshard Brooks on Friday, June 12th, in Atlanta, Georgia, occurred less than three weeks after the murder of George Floyd. Both were killed by a white police officer. It seems that 18 days of protests over the May 25 murder of Floyd did not deter from this new heinous…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/systemic-racism-and-the-killing-of-rayshard-brooks/
LA demands community control of police, Justice for George Floyd and Richard Castillo
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-16
Los Angeles, CA – On June 13, Centro CSO held a protest at the corner of Houston and Soto Streets in Boyle Heights, less than a block from where killer LAPD cop Frank Hernandez was caught on video brutally attacking Richard Castillo on April 27. Protesters demanded community control of the police and justice for George Floyd, Castillo and all victims of police terror. | Organized as part of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression's Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes, the event also celebrated the recent prosecution of Officer Hernandez after a campaign led by Centro CSO. | On June 9, after…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/16/la-demands-community-control-police-justice-george-floyd-and-richard-castillo
Tampa protesters claim partial victory, vow to continue struggle
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-16
Tampa, FL – On Monday, June 15, State Attorney Andrew Warren announced he would be dropping criminal cases against 67 protesters arrested in downtown Tampa on June 2. | On the previous day, June 14, over 200 protesters gathered at Joe Chillura Courthouse Square in downtown Tampa and demanded State Attorney Warren drop the charges against protesters arrested at Justice for George Floyd rallies in recent weeks. The protest also joined with the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repressions call for a day of action against police crimes. The protest raised demands for community control of the police, def…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/16/tampa-protesters-claim-partial-victory-vow-continue-struggle
Seattle's 60,000-strong march propels anti-racist struggle in Washington state
Jim McMahan | workers.org | 2020-06-16
Seattle June 13 — Some 60,000 people, propelled by the ongoing global struggle against racist police repression, took part in Seattle's June 12 march and statewide general strike. The march, called and led by Black Lives Matter of Seattle and Martin Luther King County (BLMSKC), followed two weeks of protests . . . | Continue reading Seattle's 60,000-strong march propels anti-racist struggle in Washington state at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49381/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seattles-60000-strong-march-propels-anti-racist-struggle-in-washington-state
Nightly Rally To Seattle's West Precinct Takes Detour, Shuts Down I-5
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-16
Every night around 7 pm, demonstrators now march from the Capitol Hill Organized Protest to the Seattle Police Department's West Precinct. The downhill rally culminates with a handful of speakers who speak out against police brutality. Tonight, the rally ended with an unexpected detour–onto I-5. Speakers spoke on the steps of the West Precinct on Virginia Street for around 30 minutes. There were no police in sight, only a barricade set up in anticipation of the rally. | Demonstrators spoke on a bullhorn about SPD's use of tear gas, calling it a war crime and demanding justice. Organizer David Lewis talked a…
popularresistance.org/nightly-rally-to-seattles-west-precinct-takes-detour-shuts-down-i-5/
Parallels Between Minneapolis And Jerusalem Are More Than Skin Deep
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-16
It is hard to ignore the striking parallels between the recent scenes of police brutality in cities across the United States and decades of violence from Israel's security forces against Palestinians. | A video that went viral late last month of a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, killing a black man, George Floyd, by pressing a knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes has triggered a fortnight of mass protests across the US — and beyond. | The footage was the latest disturbing visual evidence of a US police culture that appears to treat Black Americans as an enemy — and a reminder that rog…
popularresistance.org/parallels-between-minneapolis-and-jerusalem-are-more-than-skin-deep/
The Police May Pull The Trigger, But It's The System That Kills
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-16
Fifty years ago this year, I published my first book, entitled Rebels in Eden — an exploration of mass political violence in America focusing on the uprisings that had by then incinerated substantial portions of the inner city communities of Los Angeles, New York, Newark, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington, as well as scores of smaller towns and cities.[i] Those riots were far more destructive than anything experienced in the protests following the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery by police and ex-police officers. The sixties uprisings killed several hundred people…
popularresistance.org/the-police-may-pull-the-trigger-but-its-the-system-that-kills/
Protests good, playgrounds bad? NYC mayor chews out locals reopening kids' parks after cheering on George Floyd marchers
rt.com | 2020-06-16
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had harsh words for parents and neighborhood groups "taking the law into their own hands" by cutting locks on city playgrounds, but has continued to defend the protesters who crowd city streets. | The mayor scolded New Yorkers for busting open padlocked playgrounds, during a press conference on Tuesday at which he reminded reporters that the sites are set to remain closed until "Phase 2" of post-coronavirus reopening. | "We're not going to allow people to take the law into their own hands." @BilldeBlasio says playg…
rt.com/usa/492045-deblasio-playgrounds-protests-hypocrisy/
India summons Pakistani ambassador after embassy staff detained following road accident
rt.com | 2020-06-16
Pakistan's ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry in New Delhi after two Indian embassy employees were held by Pakistani police, following an alleged hit-and-run incident in Islamabad on Monday. | The ambassador was handed a protest note against what India called "abduction and torture" of the staff of its embassy, officially called the High Commission. The two men were "video-graphed and coerced to accept a litany of fictitious allegations and concocted charges," the statement by the ministry read. | The embassy employees were "kept in illegal custody for more than 10 hours" and were released only af…
rt.com/news/492052-india-pakistan-embassy-staff-arrest/
Fatal encounters with the cops in Oakland
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-16
Protest Against Police Brutality and Killer Cops:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/13/18834208.php
US tech giants aid police militarization and surveillance
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-16
Despite issuing statements of sympathy for protesters demanding an end to police violence and racism, tech corporations are integral to the increasing militarization of the police.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/13/18834213.php
The Long Blue Line Connecting Police Brutality to Drone Strikes
Robtel Neajai Pailey, Amy Niang | thenation.com | 2020-06-16
The Long Blue Line Connecting Police Brutality to Drone Strikes…
thenation.com/article/world/antiblack-racism-africa-us/
About Hancock's promised contact tracing app
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-16
By Kathleen Hall: At the height of lockdown, a contact-tracing app was presented to the British public as their greatest hope of freedom. One mobile phone app would safely and securely track those with whom you came into close proximity, and automatically alert you if any of them became infected with Covid-19 so you could …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/about-hancocks-promised-contact-tracing-app/
How the New York City School System Failed the Test of Covid-19
Sarah Jaffe | thenation.com | 2020-06-16
How the New York City School System Failed the Test of Covid-19…
thenation.com/article/society/schools-teachers-covid/
South African education minister Angelina Motshekga must resign, says union
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-16
The Educators Union of South Africa is seeking the resignation of education minister Angelina Motshekga following the spike in COVID-19 cases after schools reopened. The unions had warned against reopening schools…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/16/south-african-education-minister-angelina-motshekga-must-resign-says-union/
The Big Plantation, The "Digital Billionaires", the Militarization of Law Enforcement, the Surveillance State
John Steppling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
European Left-wing political scientists find difficult to understand that the colonial contradiction is at the heart of our present, they think it's a conceptual error, something anachronistic, that the joyful postmodernity — the one that delivers their Macs to them …
globalresearch.ca/big-plantation/5716077
Defund The Police Movement Gains Momentum As Police Killings Continue
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-16
"What have the police been good for?" Samantha Master of Organize Black said. "They have not prevented crime." | Organizing Black, the group she works with, had just shut down a street in downtown Baltimore, blocking it off with cars so that others could paint 'Defund the Police' in giant letters in front of Baltimore's City Hall. It was June 12, and inside of City Hall, the city council was considering cuts to the police budget, interrogating Commissioner Michael Harrison and other members of command about the Baltimore Police Department's budget of more than half a billion dollars a year. | "What we know is tha…
therealnews.com/columns/defund-the-police-movement-gains-momentum-as-police-killings-continue
The Rich are Defunding Our Democracy
Sam Pizzigati | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
How can you tell if you're living in a democracy? The answer can get rather complicated. Simple yardsticks can often confuse more than clarify. Take the notion that you have democracies where you have elections. Ballots over bullets. Sounds good. But authoritarians have been brazenly manipulating elections — to cement their rule — for generations.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/the-rich-are-defunding-our-democracy/
The Return of the 'Hamburgs'? White Vigilantes, the Chicago Police, and Anti-Fascism in Chicago
Joe Allen | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
Chicago has seen some of the largest and most militant demonstrations in the United States during the two weeks that followed the murder of George Floyd. Thirty thousand people marched and rallied on June 6 in Union Park, for example. While demonstrators have suffered repeated acts of violence by the Chicago Police Department and seen…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/the-return-of-the-hamburgs-white-vigilantes-the-chicago-police-and-anti-fascism-in-chicago/
Not the Way It Was: Spike Lee's Shallow Film on Viet Nam
Mike Hastie | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
It is now 2: 00AM in Portland, Oregon. I just got through watching Spike Lee's 2hr. and 35min. film on Viet Nam. I have two words to describe this film: EXTREMELY SHALLOW. I was very disappointed in Spike Lee. I thought he had more depth. Not only did he make the Vietnamese in the film look…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/not-the-way-it-was-spike-lees-shallow-film-on-viet-nam/
Cold War Bully: the Life and Crimes of Roy Cohn
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
Ever since the spring of 1954, when I was a precocious 12-year-old kid who watched the Army-McCarthy hearings on TV, I have loved to hate Roy Cohen (1927-1986), Joe McCarthy's co-conspirator and dark twin. One year earlier, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg died in the electric chair at Sing Sing–the single most significant event in my…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/cold-war-bully-the-life-and-crimes-of-roy-cohn/
Donald Trump: Finally Caught Crossing A Red Line
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
Donald Trump has crossed many red lines over the past three and a half years, but he has finally crossed one that could cost him politically. The trappings of his fascist march to St. John's Episcopal Church and his blasphemous display of a bible (held backwards and upside down) in front of the church have elicited significant criticism, including from the highest military and civilian leaders of the Pentagon. The military obviously didn't share the view of Trump's press spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnaney, who compared the president's bible-toting stroll to something "Like Churchill…inspecting bombing damage…."
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/donald-trump-finally-caught-crossing-a-red-line/
From Emmett Till to George Floyd
Dan Wakefield | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
Several years ago a man called me and apologized for taking my time, but explained he had to speak with me since he was writing about the Emmett Till murder trial and "you are the only one who was there who is still alive." I am still here, and I now see headlines comparing the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis to that of Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/from-emmett-till-to-george-floyd/
Living With Global Warming
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-16
I modeled mathematically the thermal imbalance of our biosphere, which we call global warming, so as to gain my own quantitative understanding of the interplay of the two major effects that give rise to this phenomenon. This is a "toy model," an abstraction of a very complicated planetary phenomenon that teams of scientists using supercomputers…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/16/living-with-global-warming/
Rees-Mogg's 'absurd' anti-democratic plan voted down
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-16
There was uproar from many MPs, democracy campaigners and the wider public to Jason Rees-Mogg's proposal to shut down virtual government, which ended, embarrassingly as a U-turn. By Josiah Mortimer — Electoral Reform Society: Tory Ministers had initially seemed intent on shutting down virtual engagement altogether. But the absurd images of MPs queueing for a …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/rees-moggs-absurd-anti-democratic-plan-voted-down/
Curious Coincidence: The Birth of Donald Trump and the Struggle to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Thomas Gaulkin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
The 45th president of the United States made his first international appearance on June 14, 1946. According to Donald Trump's birth certificate, he was born at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York at 10: 54 a.m. | Five minutes …
globalresearch.ca/curious-coincidence-birth-donald-trump-struggle-abolish-nuclear-weapons/5716085
Nestlé's Close Relationship to the Swiss Government
Franklin Frederick | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Last week several articles were published in the Swiss, Canadian and US press informing that Nestlé S.A. was considering to sell all its bottled water brands in the US and Canada. As written in this article: | "Nestlé S.A.'s Board …
globalresearch.ca/nestle-may-sell-bottled-water-brands-us-canada-what-behind-maneuver/5716057
Nestlé's Close Relationship to the Swiss Government
Franklin Frederick | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Last week several articles were published in the Swiss, Canadian and US press informing that Nestlé S.A. was considering to sell all its bottled water brands in the US and Canada. As written in this article: | "Nestlé S.A.'s Board | …
globalresearch.ca/nestle-may-sell-bottled-water-brands-us-canada-what-behind-maneuver/5716057
Global Research Annual Fundraiser
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Dear readers, | For the next four weeks we will be asking for your help to reach a fundraising goal of $20,000. Since September 2001, almost 19 years, GlobalResearch.ca has delivered a daily flow of 20+ insightful news articles & analysis …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-annual-fundraiser/5716047
A Model to Achieve the Model for Development in Morocco
Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
There may be irony in Morocco now reconsidering and revamping its development model, which is its national guiding frameworks for social and environmental fulfillment. I have long been and remain a believer in Morocco's existing frameworks for the people's development. …
globalresearch.ca/model-achieve-development-morocco/5716121
The Last Days of a Free Serbia?
Joshua Tartakovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Although it may not seem this way, Serbia is in fact in a far more fragile condition than visitors may imagine. | Elections to the parliament will be held in several days, but the outlook of the country is not expected …
globalresearch.ca/last-days-free-serbia/5716088
Does Trump Really Want to End American Interventionism?
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has achieved a position of global hegemony, acting as a kind of world police. Washington has constructed a new world order and its militaries travel the world in wars and …
globalresearch.ca/does-trump-really-want-end-american-interventionism/5716109
Israeli Settlers Vandalise Palestinian-owned Property near Nablus
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-16
Illegal Israeli settlers committed vandalism of Palestinian-owned property by damaging solar panels, on Monday, in the village of Aqraba, south of Nablus city, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official monitoring Israel's colonialist activities in the northern West Bank, said that colonists attacked the homes of …
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Checking Off Stephen Miller's Wish List
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-06-16
Checking Off Stephen Miller's Wish List…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-immigration-tulsa-rally/
Smashing the Illusion 'Farmer Clout:' Part II
Brad Wilson | zcomm.org | 2020-06-16
This is Part II Part I is here: zcomm.org/zblogs/smashing-the-illusion-farmer-clout-a-white-paper-by-brad-wilson/ (Continuing from Part I.) Specific Farm State Data I've also started crunching the commodity crop numbers for various "farm states," such as states where House and Senate Agriculture Committee members are based. For example, Iowa (Tom Harkin, Charles Grassley & Steve King, Leonard Boswell) and Kansas Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/smashing-the-illusion-farmer-clout-part-ii/
After Rayshard Brooks murder by Atlanta police, NAARPR demands community control of the police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-16
Chicago, IL – Frank Chapman, Executive Director of the recently formed National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, today, June 15, called for immediate passage of legislation establishing democratic community control of the police in every city and town across the nation. | Chapman stated, "This is really the only way the people will have the power to make the changes that everyone is demanding in the wake of countless murders by police. This is the only way to stop the killings, torture and brutality — a virtual war against Black and brown communities." | "What is it going to take? How many…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/16/after-rayshard-brooks-murder-atlanta-police-naarpr-demands-community-control-police
After Rayshard Brooks murder by Atlanta police, NAARPR demands community control of the police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-16
Chicago, IL – Frank Chapman, Executive Director of the recently formed National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, today, June 15, called for immediate passage of legislation establishing democratic community control of the police in every city and town across the nation. | Chapman stated, "This is really the only way the people will have the power to make the changes that everyone is demanding in the wake of countless murders by police. This is the only way to stop the killings, torture and brutality — a virtual war against Black and brown communities." | "What is it going to take? How many…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/16/after-rayshard-brooks-murder-atlanta-police-naarpr-demands-community-control-police
The Fight to Protect Abortion Access Amid the Pandemic
Jordan Smith | zcomm.org | 2020-06-16
"The governor and attorney general's ban put Texas patients in heart-breaking situations — it was politics at its worst."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-fight-to-protect-abortion-access-amid-the-pandemic/
Science Saturday: A discovery step toward cell replacement therapy for diabetes
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-16
In what could be a step toward cell replacement therapy for diabetes, Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered how to manufacture cells capable of generating a hormone that regulates low blood sugar. Quinn Peterson, Ph.D. and his team have developed a new method of mass producing a cell product containing the hormone glucagon that is capable of protecting against hypoglycemia …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-a-discovery-step-toward-cell-replacement-therapy-for-diabetes/
Colombia: US Troops In Country Seek International Conflict
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-16
Colombian senators on Wednesday saidthat 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 manuals of the U.S. special forces (SFAB) that arrived in Colombia "mention the function of advising non-governmental militias and illegal partners." | "We can end up like Libya, a destroyed state that has become a field for the multinational oil companies," the opposition congressman added. | The arrival of U.S. military personnel in the country…
popularresistance.org/colombia-us-troops-in-country-seek-international-conflict/
Corporations Now Love 'Black Lives'–But What About Their Own Black Workers?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-16
Never underestimate US business community's capacity for hypocrisy. | That's one of the lessons to be drawn from the explosive reaction to George Floyd's murder. As demonstrators began flooding streets, corporate PR departments flew into rapid response mode, issuing a flurry of agonized, apologetic pledges to do more to combat racism and inequality. | Such statements may, on a personal level, be sincere: the depth of righteous pain and anger expressed by African Americans has induced widespread soul-searching, even in executive suites. Yet this high-profile hand-wringing is used to uncouple the outpouring of outr…
popularresistance.org/corporations-now-love-black-lives-but-what-about-their-own-black-workers/
Act On Dr. King's Call To Tackle Evils Of Racism, Economic Exploitation And War
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-16
Martin Luther King, Jr. King called us to address "Three major evils–the evil of racism, the evil of poverty and the evil of war" to the consternation of the establishment. It is time to tell the truth about the US-Russian relationship and US complicity in driving the nuclear arms race if we are ever to reverse it as well as the race to weaponize space. Perhaps, by addressing the triple evils, we can fulfill King's dream and the mission envisioned for the United Nations, to end the scourge of war! At a minimum, we should be promoting UN Secretary-General António Guterres' call for a global ceasefire while o…
popularresistance.org/dr-kings-call-to-tackle-evils-of-racism-economic-exploitation-and-war/
NATO's Colonization Of Ukraine Under Guise Of Partnership
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-16
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has designated Ukraine as an "Enhanced Opportunity Partner," making it one of six nations (the others being Georgia, Sweden, Finland, Australia, and Jordan) rewarded for their significant contributions to NATO operations and alliance objectives by having the opportunity for increased dialogue and cooperation with the alliance. | The main objective of this enhanced interaction is for NATO and Ukraine to develop operational capabilities and interoperability through military exercises which will enable Ukrainian military personnel to gain practical hands-on experience in…
popularresistance.org/natos-colonization-of-ukraine-under-guise-of-partnership/
COVID-19: Indonesia to reopen schools in low-risk areas
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Indonesia will reopen schools located in low risk areas starting July after months of closure due to coronavirus, the Education Ministry said Tuesday.Sri Wahyuningsih, a ministry official, said in a webinar that the reopening of schools will be carried out in phases depending on the level of education and the provisions of the health protocols."Middle and high schools will start to reopen in July, elementary schools in September, while kindergartens will be the last to reopen in November at the earliest," said Wahyuningsih.She said that only 6% of all schools in the country are located in low risk areas."Despite…
yenisafak.com/en/world/covid-19-indonesia-to-reopen-schools-in-low-risk-areas-3532204
Virus case tally rises in Kuwait, Morocco
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Kuwait confirmed new fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, while Morocco reported fresh infections. | The Kuwaiti Health Ministry said five people died from COVID-19 and 257 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours. | The country's tally now stands at 36,095 confirmed cases, including 303 deaths, and 28,206 recoveries. | In Morocco, 36 fresh cases and 52 recoveries were recorded, according to the Health Ministry. | Morocco's total cases now stand at to 8,921 including 212 deaths and 7,880 recoveries. | After emerging last December in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the virus has spread to at least…
yenisafak.com/en/world/virus-case-tally-rises-in-kuwait-morocco-3532222
Norwegian Air to resume first foreign route after lockdown
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Norwegian Air will resume flights between Copenhagen and the Danish city of Aalborg from July 1, making it the carrier's first route outside Norway following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it said in a statement on Tuesday.The budget airline is currently operating just seven aircraft on domestic routes in Norway and has furloughed or terminated the employment of some 7,300 staff, or about 90% of its staff following the novel coronavirus outbreak.
yenisafak.com/en/world/norwegian-air-to-resume-first-foreign-route-after-lockdown-3532202
'22% of world population at risk of severe COVID-19'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
According to the study published by The Lancet medical journal, an estimate of 1.7 billion people or 22% of the global population "have at least one underlying condition that puts them at increased risk of severe COVID-19 if infected.""Estimates of the number of individuals at increased risk were most sensitive to the prevalence of chronic kidney disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic respiratory disease," it added.The researchers said the study focused on underlying health conditions for considering the number of individuals that might need to be shielded or vaccinated as the global pandemic unfo…
yenisafak.com/en/news/22-of-world-population-at-risk-of-severe-covid-19-3532210
Britain tells banks to prepare for pandemic debt pile
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
British banks need to accelerate preparations for dealing with businesses unable to repay money they borrowed to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, the national financial sector regulator said on Tuesday.Over 900,000 businesses have taken out state-backed loans worth around 38 billion pounds ($48 billion) under schemes introduced to help companies deal with the impact of lockdowns, banking industry body UK Finance said on Tuesday.Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Chair Charles Randell said some of the debt incurred would turn out to be unaffordable and this would need to be tackled fast to avoid hurting a recove…
yenisafak.com/en/world/britain-tells-banks-to-prepare-for-pandemic-debt-pile-3532227
World Bank approves $1 billion for health, education in Congo
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
The World Bank said on Tuesday it had approved $1 billion in funding for Democratic Republic of Congo's education and health systems that have been weakened by years of under-funding, conflict and mismanagement.The financing comprises $800 million to support free primary school education and $200 million to improve maternal and child health."This funding is all the more important because it will help alleviate the economic and social consequences of the coronavirus affecting the poorest," said Jean-Christophe Carret, World Bank country director.The funding includes $435 million in grants and $565 million in credi…
yenisafak.com/en/world/world-bank-approves-1-billion-for-health-education-in-congo-3532224
'Turkey, India trade grows steadily'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Trade volume between Turkey and India has posted a steady growth for the last two years, a business council head has said."Surpassing $8 billion trade volume, of which $7 billion are imports and $1.2 billion exports, we achieved our target last year," Tevfik Donmez, head of the Turkey-India Business Council of Turkey's Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK), told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday.The two countries set a bilateral trade volume target of $10 billion for 2020, and $25 billion for 2023, he said."Despite a 20-25% decrease in foreign trade in the first and second quarter of 2020, we believe we will catch up b…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-india-trade-grows-steadily-3532208
Pakistan felicitates D-8 states on 23rd anniversary
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Pakistan's prime minister on Tuesday extended felicitations to member states of D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation on its 23rd anniversary.In his message, Imran Khan said the organization has made significant contribution in promoting solidarity, and strengthening cooperation among the brotherly countries since its inception in Istanbul in 1997."I would like to extend warmest felicitations, on behalf of the government and people of Pakistan and my own behalf, the people of D-8 Members States," Khan said.D-8, representing over one billion population with a combined GDP of $4 trillion, has tremendous potenti…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-felicitates-d-8-states-on-23rd-anniversary-3532200
Lavrov: Russia, Turkey, Iran to hold summit on Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Ankara, Moscow and Tehran agreed to hold a videoconference and then a face-to-face meeting on the Syrian settlement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced on Tuesday.The presidents of the three countries will discuss Syrian issues in a videoconference and then will hold a summit in Tehran, Lavrov said at a news conference following a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif."Today, we confirmed the agreement of the three presidents of the Astana format countries that the summit will be held in Tehran within terms that will be determined considering the situation developing due to the c…
yenisafak.com/en/world/lavrov-russia-turkey-iran-to-hold-summit-on-syria-3532225
NATO concerned by Russia's growing presence in E.Med
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Russia's growing presence in the Eastern Mediterranean region is a cause for concern for NATO, the military alliance's chief said on Tuesday."NATO is also concerned about the increased Russian presence in the eastern Mediterranean in general, in Syria, but also, of course, in Libya. And we have to follow and monitor that very closely," Jens Stoltenberg said in response to a question in an online news conference ahead of the NATO defense ministers meeting on June 17-18.He said the situation in Libya was not on the meeting agenda, but could be discussed, adding: "It has a direct impact on the security of especially…
yenisafak.com/en/world/nato-concerned-by-russias-growing-presence-in-emed-3532228
Mines planted by Haftar forces kill 39 civilians south of Tripoli
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Landmines planted by warlord Khalifa Haftar's militia have killed 39 civilians south of the Libyan capital Tripoli, according to the country's national mine action authority on Tuesday. | In a statement, the Libyan Center for Mine Clearance and War Remnants said 71 civilians were also injured by Haftar's explosives. | It, however, did not specify a date for the casualties. | The Libyan army recently inflicted heavy blows to Haftar and liberated Tripoli and Tarhuna, in addition to other strategic locations, including Al-Watiya airbase, from his militia. | The internationally recognized government has been under at…
yenisafak.com/en/world/mines-planted-by-haftar-forces-kill-39-civilians-south-of-tripoli-3532226
Turkish forces defuse bombs planted by Haftar in Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Anadolu Agency teams monitored the team in Salahaddin province, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from Tripoli's city center.The bombs were defused by the teams in collaboration with the Turkish Air Forces.The mines and explosives planted in the surroundings are made from a specific wire, which is very hard to detect, and are placed near houses and doorways.Some of the destroyed bombs had high explosive impact, which were used in the former Soviet countries, said the experts.Teams took extra care of securing their own lives, and keeping the buildings intact for the civilians.The Libyan army also found anti-personnel and…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkish-forces-defuse-bombs-planted-by-haftar-in-libya-3532229
Turkey assessing damages from earthquake
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Emergency workers are carrying out relief work in Turkey's eastern province of Bingol after two powerful earthquakes hit the region.At least one person was killed and dozens injured after an earthquake on Sunday was followed by tremors on Monday.The country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has dispatched 148 vehicles and more than 1,000 personnel to the affected region.In the first stage, AFAD said 500,000 Turkish liras ($73,000) were sent to the Bingol Governorship to be used in emergency supplies.It said earthquake victims were provided with 4,308 tents, 7,200 sleeping bags, 3,300 beds and 2…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-assessing-damages-from-earthquake-3532220
Germany has no detailed information about US troop withdrawals: FM
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-16
Germany has not received any detailed information from the United States about troop withdrawals, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Tuesday during a visit to Warsaw. Maas also said U.S soldiers presence on German soil is key for German and U.S. defence. U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to cut the number of U.S. troops stationed in Germany, a senior U.S. official said earlier in June.
yenisafak.com/en/world/germany-has-no-detailed-information-about-us-troop-withdrawals-fm-3532206
Post-corona world, 'a completely different world': Pres. Rouhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that world after the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is a completely different world.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159891/Post-corona-world-a-completely-different-world-Pres-Rouhani
EU failed to pursue independent policy against US: Zarif
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday that Europeans have not been able to pursue an independent policy against the US regarding the Iran's arms embargo.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159877/EU-failed-to-pursue-independent-policy-against-US-Zarif
US CENTCOM terrorists' cmdr. repeats baseless accusations on Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — General Kenneth F. McKenzie, Commander of the United States Central Command [CENTCOM] in West Asia on Tue. repeated baseless and unfounded accusations against Islamic Republic of Iran and called Iran as a great threat.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159889/US-CENTCOM-terrorists-cmdr-repeats-baseless-accusations-on
Report of UN Sec. Gen. beyond his power: FM Zarif
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the report submitted by the UN Secretary General António Guterres about Iran is beyond his power, adding that UN secretary general has issued a completely false, undue and out-of-authority report.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159894/Report-of-UN-Sec-Gen-beyond-his-power-FM-Zarif
Iran, Bosnia-Herzegovina emphasize need for strengthening parliamentary ties
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 17 (MNA) — Islamic Republic of Iran and Bosnia-Herzegovina stressed the need for strengthening and broadening bilateral parliamentary ties.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159892/Iran-Bosnia-Herzegovina-emphasize-need-for-strengthening-parliamentary
'Do not worsen conditions, if you cannot make improvements'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — In the wake of the E3 call for more cooperation between Iran, IAEA, the Permanent Representative to the international organizations in Vienna Kazem Gharibabadi criticized the E3 for their weak stance and measures towards the JCPOA case and urged them to prevent creating an unnecessary crisis.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159863/Do-not-worsen-conditions-if-you-cannot-make-improvements
US National Security Council supports IAEA's allegations against Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — US National Security Council supported the allegations made by the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) against Iran and called for taking measures against the country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159893/US-National-Security-Council-supports-IAEA-s-allegations-against
Kyrgyzstan parl. Speaker congratulates Ghalibaf election
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA)_Kyrgyzstan parliament speaker wrote in a congratulatory message to Mohamad Bagher Ghalibaf that the Iranian Parliament election meets Iranian people's demand and will influence the country's development positively.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159876/Kyrgyzstan-parl-Speaker-congratulates-Ghalibaf-election
VIDEO: Russia, Iran sign declaration on enhancing role of intl. law
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 17 (MNA) — Moscow and Tehran signed a declaration today on enhancing the role of international law.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159886/VIDEO-Russia-Iran-sign-declaration-on-enhancing-role-of-intl
VIDEO: Iranian, Russian foreign ministers meet in Moscow
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met and held talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on Tuesday in Moscow. Zarif arrived in the Russian capital on Tuesday morning after a two-day visit to Turkey.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159879/VIDEO-Iranian-Russian-foreign-ministers-meet-in-Moscow
Hashd al-Sha'abi mounts operation against ISIL in S Iraq
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-16
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — Iraqi PMU, better known as Hashd al-Sha'abi, the force has started an operation against ISIL terrorists in southern regions of Iraq.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159883/Hashd-al-Sha-abi-mounts-operation-against-ISIL-in-S-Iraq
Trump's 'AIDS vaccine' gaffe torn apart on social media — but was it really a gaffe?
rt.com | 2020-06-16
US President Donald Trump is being savaged for praising the government scientists who'd "come up with the AIDS vaccine," with his haters holding it up as proof of incipient dementia. But it's not as outlandish as it sounds. | Trump made the remark during a press conference on Tuesday before signing an executive order on police reform, making a momentary diversion to update reporters on the progress towards a vaccine against Covid-19. Predicting researchers will have "a very successful vaccine, therapeutic, and cure" before the end of 2020, he hailed the "incredible scientists and doctors" who'd come up with "m…
rt.com/usa/492058-trump-aids-vaccine-claim-coronavirus/
WATCH Iran's Zarif remove face mask with relief during Moscow talks with Lavrov, after taking it on & off repeatedly (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-16
Social distancing's no hurdle for talks between trusted allies, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov appeared to show as he arrived to meet Iran's Javad Zarif without a face mask. Zarif was more careful, but soon opted to remove his, too. | Zarif is one of the first high-ranking foreign visitors to land in Moscow and engage in face-to-face talks with Lavrov in the wake of the coronavirus lockdown. In recent months, the Russian foreign minister has held meetings only via video call. | When the two officials appeared before the journalists, Zarif was sporting a mask, which he merely removed for a brief photoshoot. Lavrov…
rt.com/news/492018-zarif-lavrov-russia-iran-facemask/
Summer 2020 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant News Alert!
Lee Siu Hin, Immigrant Solidarity Network | indybay.org | 2020-06-16
Justice for George Floyd, Black Lives Matter! Multi-Ethnic Unity Against Racism & Police Brutality!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/16/18834260.php
From the irrationalism of the market to the irrationalism of life in neoliberalism
Patrick Schreiner | indybay.org | 2020-06-16
The only thing that matters is whether the market rewards the efforts or not. By definition, compulsion does not come from the market. The distribution results of functioning markets are always just and superior to any other distribution variant, according to Hayek.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/15/18834241.php
Floundering NATO Tries to Surface by Confronting China
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-16
On June 8 Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of the U.S.-NATO military alliance, gave a speech at NATO's new billion dollar headquarters in Brussels. It was followed by a selection of patsy questions, but in spite of the trite predictability of Stoltenberg's statements and the eager friendliness of the questioners, enough was said to indicate that NATO is still on the lookout for enemies to attempt to justify its continuing shaky existence. | New on the Stoltenberg list is China, which is a long way f…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/16/floundering-nato-tries-to-surface-by-confronting-china/
Why U.S. Is a Major Human Rights Violator
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-16
The U.S. State Department annually publishes an extremely biased report on human rights around the world. Conveniently, the report omits one of the most systemic violators of human rights on the planet. Under Donald Trump, the United States has graduated from systemic human rights violator to human rights pariah, as witnessed by recent murders and assaults by police of innocent people on the streets of America. Although the United States has historically been more than willing to criticize the human rights policies of other countries, including in the venue of the United Nations, it has bristled at attempts to ha…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/16/why-us-is-major-human-rights-violator/
Facebook accerchia l'Africa
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Molte industrie e società di servizi stanno fallendo o ridimensionandosi a causa del lockdown e della conseguente crisi. C'è invece chi ha guadagnato da tutto questo. Facebook, Google (proprietario di YouTube), Microsoft, Apple e Amazon — scrive The New York …
globalresearch.ca/facebook-accerchia-lafrica/5716049
O Facebook circunda a àÅfrica
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-16
Muitas indústrias e empresas de serviàßos està£o a falhar ou a redimensionar-se devido ao 'lockdown' e à crise consequente. Ao contrário, existe quem ganhou com tudo isto. O Facebook, Google (proprietário do YouTube), Microsoft, Apple e Amazon — escreve o …
globalresearch.ca/o-facebook-circunda-a-africa/5716053
Poland Is Likely to Receive Germany-based American Soldiers to Pressurise Russia
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
According to American media, U.S. President Donald Trump plans to withdraw 9,500 American soldiers from Germany. U.S. troop numbers in Germany will be reduced to about 25,000 at a time when Warsaw insists on the strengthening of American military presence …
globalresearch.ca/poland-receive-germany-based-american-soldiers-pressurise-russia/5716018
Amid George Floyd Protests, Democrats Are Choosing a "Tough on Crime" Ticket
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-15
Despite national demands for sweeping police reform, Biden appears likely to choose Kamala Harris, famous for her conservative, "lock them up" stance on crime, as his running mate. | MPN– Amid an anti-police movement that has swept the country, the Democratic Party is choosing to run on a "tough on crime" ticket for November. A new Reuters exclusive reports that California senator and former prosecutor Kamala Harris is the clear…
Amid George Floyd Protests, Democrats Are Choosing a “Tough on Crime” Ticket
Amid George Floyd Protests, Democrats Are Choosing a "Tough on Crime" Ticket
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-15
Despite national demands for sweeping police reform, Biden appears likely to choose Kamala Harris, famous for her conservative, "lock them up" stance on crime, as his running mate.
mintpressnews.com/police-reform-protests-biden-democrats-choosing-tough-on-crime-harris-running-mate/268552/
Trump Rips up Decades-Old WMD Treaty in Order to Sell Drones to Saudi Arabia
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-15
The Missile Technology Control Regime is the latest in a list of longstanding international agreements that the Trump administration has withdrawn from, often to the benefit of Saudi Arabia and US arms dealers.
mintpressnews.com/trump-rips-up-decades-old-wmd-treaty-sell-drones-saudi-arabia/268562/
Pragmatic Advice For Peaceful Protests
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-15
It's imperative that all protests, whether about anti-racism or any other issue, remain peaceful and within the realm of the relevant laws of whichever country they're occurring in otherwise people could get hurt or worse. | The anti-racism protests that have erupted all throughout the West since the death of George Floyd in police custody at the end of last month have unfortunately transformed into a spree of urban terrorism that runs the risk of discrediting the noble message behind this movement. It's imperative that all protests, whether…
Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2020-06-15
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.
mronline.org/2020/06/15/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing
Turkey's Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle
M. K. Bhadrakumar | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya's renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in the country. But the war is far from over. Haftar's dream of capturing Tripoli from the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj has been…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/turkeys-big-bet-has-put-libya-in-center-of-a-global-power-struggle/
Turkey's Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-15
M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya's renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in the country. But the war is far from over. | Haftar's dream of capturing Tripoli from the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj has been dashed. Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) has retreated from several cities northwest…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/15/turkeys-big-bet-has-put-libya-center-global-power-struggle/
"He Wanted to Hurt Me": New York Protester Hospitalized After NY Officer Shoved Her to the Ground
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-15
In a rare development, a New York police officer has been charged with assault, criminal mischief, harassment and menacing, after a viral video showed him violently shoving a peaceful protester to the ground as he shouted an expletive and a misogynistic slur. We speak with Dounya Zayer about the attack she faced during a protest against police brutality in Brooklyn on May 29 and how she suffered a seizure and was hospitalized with a concussion. We're also joined by one of her attorneys, Tahanie Aboushi.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/15/dounya_zayer_nypd_attack
The Killing of Rayshard Brooks: Atlanta Police Shoot Dead Unarmed Man Who Fell Asleep in His Own Car
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-15
Protests have erupted in Atlanta, where the police killing of unarmed African American man Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot has outraged residents. The autopsy revealed that Brooks was shot in the back as he was running away, and the death has been ruled a homicide by the county medical examiner. Brooks's killing comes as protests against racism and police violence continue across the country. The Atlanta police chief has already resigned, and the officer who shot Brooks has been fired. "What we saw happen to Mr. Brooks is unfortunately something that we continue to see repeated in our communities all acr…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/15/rayshard_brooks_atlanta
Police Anti-Bias Trainer Shot in Groin by San Jose Cops at Protest: "It's Clear This Isn't Working"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-15
As protests against racism and police violence continue across the United States, we speak with Derrick Sanderlin, a San Jose community organizer who has spent years training police on avoiding implicit bias toward people of color, but an officer from the same police department shot him in the groin with a rubber bullet during a May 29 protest against racism and police violence, rupturing Sanderlin's testicle and possibly affecting his ability to have children.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/15/derrick_sanderlin_san_jose
The Military Must be De-Funded Along with the Police
Dan Kovalik | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
The fascist tactics used by our Western governments in the Global South will inevitably be brought home to be used against us. In the case of the US, these tactics have surely been introduced here, and we are now seeing this clearly as our police, sometimes backed by the military itself, are battling protestors in the streets in the same manner that a military force does as a foreign occupying power.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/the-military-must-be-de-funded-along-with-the-police/
We Need a Green New Deal to Confront the Economic Crash and Climate Crisis
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-15
"Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to 'normality', trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality." — Arundhati Roy, "
truthout.org/articles/we-need-a-green-new-deal-to-confront-the-economic-crash-and-climate-crisis/
Ireland: 3 Parties Will Rule, Left-Wing Sinn Fein Pushed Aside
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-15
The two main right-wing parties in Ireland, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, along with the Green Party, agreed Monday to govern in coalition with a rotating prime minister, leaving Sinn Fein out despite their big win in the polls in February. | RELATED: | Irish Right-Wing Parties, Greens to Hold Post-Election Talks | The agreement covers the next five years, with Leo Varadkar (Fine Gael ) and Micheal Martin (Fianna Fail) alternately holding the head of government. Varadkar, who has bee…
telesurenglish.net/news/Ireland-Three-Parties-Will-Rule-Sinn-Fein-Dethroned-20200615-0020.html
The Uprising Is Only Beginning: Building Power to Win Our Demands
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
The current uprising against police violence and racism is just beginning. It is rapidly shifting public consciousness on issues of policing, violence against Black people and others, and systemic racism. The movement is deepening and becoming broader as well as …
globalresearch.ca/uprising-only-beginning-building-power-win-our-demands/5715993
Let Them Eat Weapons: Trump's Bizarre Arms Race
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-06-15
In late May of this year, President Donald Trump's special envoy for arms control bragged before a Washington think tank that the U.S. government was prepared to outspend Russia and China to win a new nuclear arms race. "The president has made clear that we have a tried and true practice here," he remarked.
zcomm.org/zblogs/let-them-eat-weapons-trumps-bizarre-arms-race/
President Maduro: United States Is Living An Anti-Racist Spring
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-15
President Maduro said that the US is experiencing an anti-racist spring, in reference to the massive protests for the murder of George Floyd. | "People on the street are saying who Donald Trump is every day," said the Venezuelan president during his participation on Monday in the TV show "Between Values," in which he also asserted that the American people "live an anti-racist spring". | On the other hand, he stressed that historical figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are more present today than ever among Americans who fight for their rights. "They are the martyrs for a future hope, for a new societ…
popularresistance.org/president-maduro-united-states-is-living-an-anti-racist-spring/
Trump's Illegal Use of Military Against Anti-Racist Uprisings Portends Battles Ahead
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
The backlash against Donald Trump's illegal show of military force against anti-racist protesters compelled him to withdraw the troops — for now. But we must continue raising the illegality of this use of the military and pushing for barriers …
globalresearch.ca/trump-illegal-use-military-against-anti-racist-uprisings-portends-battles-ahead/5715944
Do Deep State Elements Operate Within the Protest Movement?
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
"Revolutions are often seen as spontaneous. It looks like people just went into the street. But it's the result of months or years of preparation. It is very boring until you reach a certain point, where you can organize mass …
globalresearch.ca/do-deep-state-elements-operate-within-protest-movement/5715983
Corporate Media Are Focusing on Race — and Dodging Class
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
Economic exploitation, hidden in plain sight…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834178.php
If Israel Annexes Part of West Bank, Palestine "Will Declare Statehood on 1967 Borders"
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
Palestinian officials "are stepping up pressure on Israel to cancel its planned annexation of part of the West Bank". | If Israel proceeds, "they will immediately declare a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip." | The Palestinian government threatened …
globalresearch.ca/palestine-declare-statehood-1967-borders-if-israel-annexes-west-bank-lands/5715963
America's Supernational Sovereignty
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
One of the most disturbing aspects of American foreign policy since 9/11 has been the assumption that decisions made by the United States are binding on the rest of the world, best exemplified by President George W. Bush's warning that …
globalresearch.ca/america-supernational-sovereignty/5716014
America's Supernational Sovereignty
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-15
Iran and Syria again on the receiving end of sanctions | One of the most disturbing aspects of American foreign policy since 9/11 has been the assumption that decisions made by the United States are binding on the rest of the world, best exemplified by President George W. Bush's warning that "there was a new sheriff in town." Apart from time of war, no other nation has ever sought to prevent other nations from trading with each other, nor has any government sought to punish foreigners using sanctions with the cynical arrogance demonstrated by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The United States uniquely seeks to pen…
Moving Street Protests from Futility to Utility
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/moving-street-protests-from-futility-to-utility/
U.S. government's legitimacy crisis calls out for socialist solutions
Joel Wendland-Liu | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-15
Trump lies. Habitual dishonesty, whether it is masking the jobs crisis, the pandemic, or downplaying racism, is his signature feature. It has cost lives and threatens democracy. Trump's lies have never been more deadly than in the past three months. Two million U.S. cases of COVID-19 have been accompanied by more than 117,000 deaths. Experts …
peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-governments-legitimacy-crisis-calls-out-for-socialist-solutions/
Iranian Missiles Used to Attack Saudi Arabia?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
Since taking office, the Trump regime upped the stakes in Washington's long war by other means on Iran. | US hostility toward the Islamic Republic has nothing to do with a national security threat that doesn't exist. | It's all about its …
globalresearch.ca/iranian-missiles-used-attack-saudi-arabia/5716020
US Supreme Court refuses to hear challenges to qualified immunity doctrine shielding police from lawsuits
rt.com | 2020-06-15
The US law doctrine, protecting police and other public officials from lawsuits, is not going to be reexamined by the country's Supreme Court. The decision comes amid nation-wide protesting against police brutality. | The US Supreme Court issued an unsigned order on Monday announcing its decision to decline hearing any further cases that seek to reconsider the doctrine of 'qualified immunity'. According to the doctrine, a police officer cannot be personally liable — and thus cannot receive a civil suit — unless their actions violate "clearly established" law or court rulings. Conceptually, the idea w…
rt.com/usa/491924-scotus-upholds-qualified-immunity/
US Supreme Court greenlights pipeline cutting through Appalachian Trail in decision activists say could put other land at risk
rt.com | 2020-06-15
The US Supreme Court has handed a victory to the Trump administration, ruling that construction can continue on a $7.5 billion gas pipeline, which would run under the Appalachian Trail, in a major defeat for environmentalists. | The 7-2 decision threw out the ruling of a lower court which had canceled the pipeline's permit. Dominion Energy Inc. and the Trump administration had appealed the previous ruling. | The pipeline would run approximately 600 miles from West Virginia to North Carolina. About half a mile w…
rt.com/usa/491901-appalachian-trail-pipeline-supreme-court/
Supreme Court Ruling on LGBTQ Rights Defangs Trump's Attack on Trans Health Care
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-15
The Supreme Court's ruling on anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people is not only an extraordinary victory for workplace equity, it also provides strong legal pushback against Donald Trump's attempts to roll back health care discrimination protections for LGBTQ people. | The Supreme Court on Monday unambiguously ruled that discrimination against employees for…
truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-ruling-on-lgbtq-rights-defangs-trumps-attack-on-trans-health-care/
Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian-owned Livestock Barn in Jordan Valley
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-15
In the agriculturally-rich northern West Bank area of Al-Aghwar, Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian-owned livestock tent, according to a local activist. Palestinian activist, Aref Daraghma, told Palestinian media sources that Israeli soldiers invaded Um Liqya rural neighborhood and began tearing down a tent, used by local farmers as a livestock …
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Buffalo Police Assault 75-Year-Old Longtime Peace Activist
Lu Aya | zcomm.org | 2020-06-15
Now Trump is attacking him too…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/buffalo-police-assault-75-year-old-longtime-peace-activist/
Remembering Connecticut community leader Juana (Wanda) Tirado
Vic Viera | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-15
Juana (Wanda) Tirado, long time activist and community organizer in Connecticut, passed away on May 14, 2020. She was for several years a leader in the Connecticut District of the Communist Party. Wanda is being remembered as not only a comrade but a mother, friend, and warrior. On Nov. 18, 1963, Wanda was born to …
peoplesworld.org/article/remembering-connecticut-community-leader-juana-wanda-tirado/
To Deal With Police, We Must Understand Why They Even Exist
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-15
The recent protests across the country following the murder of George Floyd have elevated the demands to defund and abolish the police. This comes on the heels of the nationwide resurgence of a movement for community control of police led by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. We speak with author and activist Max Rameau of Pan African Community Action about the role of police in the bigger picture of the evolution of human beings as protectors of private property and wealth, the pitfalls of defunding police if this dynamic is not addressed and what community control of police looks lik…
popularresistance.org/police-understand-why-they-even-exist/
New Online Database of Police Brutality Videos Highlights 'Casual Cruelness' of Law Enforcement
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-15
As attempts to collect videos of police violence quickly became unwieldy, two activists created a public database comprising what has become hundreds of cases. However, one technologist told Sputnik the list is just a drop in the bucket, and the practice is much older than cellphone videos.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202006151079624905-new-online-database-of-police-brutality-videos-highlights-casual-cruelness-of-law-enforcement/
A close up look at the global context for Hong Kong's struggle
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-15
Democracy Alex Salmon & Mark TanIssue 1269 China Hong KongJune 16, 2020Unfree Speech: The threat to Global Democracy & Why We Must Act, Now | Joshua Wong & Jason Y.Ng | Penguin Books | London, 2020 | 268pp, $19.99 | Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua W…
greenleft.org.au/content/close-look-global-context-hong-kongs-struggle
Activists re-establish Kangaroo Point protest blockade after police break it up
ALEX | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-15
Anti-racism Refugees & migrants Alex BainbridgeIssue 1269 Australia refugee rights Kangaroo Point detainees
greenleft.org.au/content/activists-re-establish-kangaroo-point-protest-blockade-after-police-break-it
Julian Assange called. To talk about the pandemic's effect on capitalism & politics!
Yanis Varoufakis | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-15
Yanis Varoufakis writes about receiving a call from Julian Assange, who is in Belmarsh prison awaiting a hearing in an extradition appeal by the US.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/15/julian-assange-called-to-talk-about-the-pandemics-effect-on-capitalism-politics/
Request for Compassionate Release of Julian Assange
Clare Daly | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
FAO The Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP | Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State for Justice | CC The Hon Bob Neill MP | UK Commons Justice Committee Chair | Dear Sir, | REQUEST FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE OF JULIAN ASSANGE | As current and former …
globalresearch.ca/request-compassionate-release-julian-assange/5715950
Assange and Varoufakis warn why the prevailing economic crisis could lead to fascism
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-06-15
On the day the far right clashed with police in London, economist Yanis Varoufakis spoke by phone with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently held in custody in Belmarsh prison. Their conversation was abou…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/06/15/assange-and-varoufakis-warn-why-the-prevailing-economic-crisis-could-lead-to-fascism/
UN to Hold Hearing Over 'Systemic' US Racism, Police Brutality
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-15
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) agreed Monday to hold an emergency debate Wednesday on "systemic racism, police brutality and violence against peaceful protests" in the United States and elsewhere. | RELATED: | Putin Condemns 'Mayhem and Rioting' at US Anti-Racism Protests | UNHRC's decision followed a request last week by Burkina Faso on behalf of 54 African countries in response to the killing on May 25, of George Floyd, a black U.S. citizen, under the knee of…
telesurenglish.net/news/UN-to-Hold-Hearing-Over-Systemic-US-Racism-Police-Brutality-20200615-0019.html
Colombia: 200 FARC Ex-Combatants Killed Since Peace Agreements
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-15
The Alternative Revolutionary Force of the Commons (FARC) party denounced Monday that the ex-combatant Mario Tellez Restrepo was murdered in North Santander, Colombia, marking 200 killed ex-fighters since the peace agreements were signed on Sept. 26, 2016. | RELATED: | Unknown Assailants Kill Son of Former FARC Combatant | Restrepo, a father of three, was working on the field when he was shot down by people who have not been identified yet. This killing marks the 26th alone in 2020 so fa…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-200-FARC-ex-combatants-killed-since-peace-agreements-20200615-0017.html
Germany's Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party organise police violence against peaceful demonstrators
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
The police attacks are part of an effort to criminalise anti-capitalist tendencies.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/hamb-j15.html
The Joys of Diversity and Multicullturalism Have Come Home to Roost
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-15
Hi Dumbshit American. Have you had enough of diversity and multiculturalism? If not, vote a Democrat president, and the second wave of peaceful protests will loot and burn down your homes and neighborhoods. Be sure you understand that diversity means no more white statues and white history, because they are racist. Multiculturalism means no more white civilization, which is racist. You may have to give up your language as well, because English is racist. | I have been telling you for years that you are living The Camp of the Saints. Having failed to become aware, you have no idea what is happening. When it finall…
The Joys of Diversity and Multicullturalism Have Come Home to Roost
Unfinished Revolution: Where Do The George Floyd Protests Go From Here?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-15
Will we release some steam for a few days, be satisfied with the prosecution and (if we're lucky) conviction of a few cops, accept a few reforms of a police system that will never be accountable to anyone else but their maker — the ruling class? Will we settle for mere survival, be content not to be killed, so that we can live under the peace of everyday violence and robbery forced upon our communities, our health, and our lives? | Will we hang onto illusions that equate equal opportunity with being as exploited as a vanishing group of white, middle-class workers are or as a few black and brown faces rising…
popularresistance.org/unfinished-revolution-where-do-the-george-floyd-protests-go-from-here/
Israel owns 90 nuclear warheads: Report
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
Israel is believed to possess between 80 and 90 nuclear warheads, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday. | In a report, SIPRI said Israel continues to pursue a policy of ambiguity regarding its nuclear program. | It said that the number of nuclear warheads in Israel rose to 90, up from 80 warheads in 2019. | "The nine nuclear-armed states–the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)–together possessed an estimated 13,400 nuclear weapons at the start of 2020," the S…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israel-owns-90-nuclear-warheads-report-3532114
Human Rights Council picks up again after COVID suspension, to hold racism debate
news.un.org | 2020-06-15
After a three month long COVID-19-enforced break, the Human Rights Council resumed on Monday, giving the green light to a rare Urgent Debate on racism, alleged police brutality and violence against protesters sickened by the killing of American George Floyd in police custody.
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Residents protest after woman dies in police custody in Harper Woods, Michigan
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
Priscilla Slater was found unresponsive in a holding cell in Harper Woods on the east side of Detroit this week amid international protests against police brutality.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/harp-j15.html
Rio de Janeiro: Police Violence and Solidarity
Brett Heinz | cepr.net | 2020-06-15
On May 31, hundreds of people in Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city in Brazil, joined protesters around the world in marching against police brutality. While the protest was in solidarity with the wave of Black Lives Matter protests in the US following the killing of George Floyd, Brazilian protesters were marching against their …
cepr.net/rio-de-janeiro-police-violence-and-solidarity/
Listening to our Anger and Angst
Dr. Hakim | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-15
The family of a killed protester demand fair distribution of bread (Credit: Tolo News) COVID-19 is clarifying a significant source of global anger and angst: inequality. At the start of the COVID-19 crisis, Afghanistan had 300 ventilators, only one ventilator for every 110,000 Afghans. As a medical physician, I gasped, my heart racing at the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/listening-to-our-anger-and-angst/
Cut Overseas Police Training Programs
Jeremy Kuzmarov | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has ignited protests across the United States and calls to demilitarize and defund the police. A similar demand should be made to cut overseas police training programs including in Afghanistan. The U.S. government has long adopted overseas police training as a cornerstone of nation building and counterinsurgency…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/cut-overseas-police-training-programs/
Will the Death of George Floyd Mark the Rebirth of America?
Nick Turse | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
They were relegated to the protest equivalent of a ghetto. Their assigned route shunted them to the far fringes of the city. Their demonstration was destined for an ignominious demise far from any main thoroughfare, out of sight of most apartment buildings, out of earshot of most homes, best viewed from a dinghy bobbing in…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/will-the-death-of-george-floyd-mark-the-rebirth-of-america/
Trump at West Point: Un-Policing the US World
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
Donald Trump claims to be the law-and-order president of the United States. There does not seem much sign of this as the stitching of the Republic gets undone. Protestors have been given a considerable roughing up across several states; police …
globalresearch.ca/trump-west-point-un-policing-us-world/5715948
The protests against police murder: The way forward
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
The fight against police violence must be connected to the struggles of the working class, in the United States and internationally, against inequality, war and the capitalist system.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/pers-j15.html
Protests against police violence and racism continue in New Zealand
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
Tens of thousands of people joined another day of protests as part of the global movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd by US police.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/nzpr-j15.html
35 years after MOVE bombing, communities denounce police terror
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-06-15
Philadelphia A protest against Philadelphia Police Terror on June 13 drew around 1,500 demonstrators to the Osage Avenue site where Philadelphia police dropped a military-grade bomb on the MOVE organization on May 13, 1985. Eleven Black men, women and children were murdered after police and city officials ordered fire fighters . . . | Continue reading 35 years after MOVE bombing, communities denounce police terror at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49373/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=35-years-after-move-bombing-communities-denounce-police-terror
ILWU planning Juneteenth work stoppage
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-15
San Francisco, CA — The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Coast Longshore Division is planning a large-scale work stoppage June 19. | According to the union, "On Friday, June 19, 2020, the ILWU Coast Longshore Division will stop work for eight hours on the first shift in 29 West Coast ports from Bellingham, Washington to San Diego, California in observance of Juneteenth. This action follows on the heels of the June 9, 2020 action in which the ILWU Coast Longshore Division stopped work coastwide at 9: 00 a.m. for nine minutes in honor of George Floyd, adding to the chorus of voices protesting police…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/15/ilwu-planning-juneteenth-work-stoppage
ILWU planning Juneteenth work stoppage
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-15
San Francisco, CA — The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Coast Longshore Division is planning a large-scale work stoppage June 19. | According to the union, "On Friday, June 19, 2020, the ILWU Coast Longshore Division will stop work for eight hours on the first shift in 29 West Coast ports from Bellingham, Washington to San Diego, California in observance of Juneteenth. This action follows on the heels of the June 9, 2020 action in which the ILWU Coast Longshore Division stopped work coastwide at 9: 00 a.m. for nine minutes in honor of George Floyd, adding to the chorus of voices protesting police…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/15/ilwu-planning-juneteenth-work-stoppage
Black Lives Matter in Alpine, Texas
| workers.org | 2020-06-15
This protest march and rally, in the small town of Alpine, Texas, might have been a common scene in the tumultuous summer of 1968, but this was June 6, 2020. Not Dallas or Houston or San Antonio, but in Alpine. Hundreds mobilized in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and against . . . | Continue reading Black Lives Matter in Alpine, Texas at Workers.org…
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Moscow protest leader Navalny faces community service & large fine if found guilty of libeling elderly WWII veteran
rt.com | 2020-06-15
Russian authorities have opened a defamation case against Alexei Navalny, after he called a World War II veteran a "traitor" for expressing his support for Russia's proposed constitutional changes. | The protest leader has been accused of posting "deliberately false information" by the Russian Investigative Committee, and he is said to have "pursued the goal of spreading slander among a wide range of people." | On June 2, the nationalist Kremlin critic shared a video published by RT which featured various Russian people — including an Olympian, a doctor, and a mother. In the clip, the participants shared…
rt.com/russia/491894-navalny-defamation-case-veteran/
Don't ask, don't tell? NYC mayor directs contact tracers not to question people about attending BLM protests
rt.com | 2020-06-15
The army of contact tracers hired by New York City to conduct the 'test and trace' campaign to weed out coronavirus infection vectors will reportedly not be allowed to ask people if they attended Black Lives Matter protests. | Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on May 8 that NYC would be hiring hundreds of Covid-19 contact tracers to help bring the coronavirus, which wreaked havoc on the densely-populated city's population, to heel. The city has witnessed 210,000 cases resulting in at least 17,193 deaths from the infection. | However, before May came to an end, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, sparki…
rt.com/usa/491876-nyc-contact-tracers-blm-protests/
Atlanta Organizer: Rayshard Brooks Killing Shows Urgent Need to Dismantle Police
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-15
Protests have erupted in Atlanta, where the police killing of unarmed African American man Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot has outraged residents. The autopsy revealed that Brooks was shot in the back as he was running away, and the death has been ruled a homicide by the county medical examiner. Brooks's killing comes as protests against racism and police violence continue across the country. The Atlanta police chief has already resigned, and the officer who shot Brooks has been fired. "What we…
truthout.org/video/atlanta-police-shoot-dead-unarmed-man-who-fell-asleep-in-his-own-car/
Fatal encounters with the cops in Oakland
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
Protest Against Police Brutality and Killer Cops:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/13/18834208.php
US tech giants aid police militarization and surveillance
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
Despite issuing statements of sympathy for protesters demanding an end to police violence and racism, tech corporations are integral to the increasing militarization of the police.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/13/18834213.php
Re-evaluating and recalibrating predictors of bacterial infection in children with cancer and febrile neutropenia
Gabrielle M Haeusler, Robert Phillips, Monica A. Slavin, Franz E Babl, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Francoise Mechinaud, Karin A. Thursky, Australian PICNICC study group and the PREDICT network | thelancet.com | 2020-06-15
Degree of marrow suppression (low platelets), features of inflammation (temperature) and clinical judgement (severely unwell) have been consistently shown to predict infection in children with FN. Recalibration of existing CDRs is a novel way to improve diagnostic performance of CDRs and maintain relevance over time.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30138-3/fulltext?rss=yes
Exploring the relationship between spousal violence during pregnancy and subsequent postpartum spacing contraception among first-time mothers in India
Lotus McDougal, Jay G. Silverman, Abhishek Singh, Anita Raj | thelancet.com | 2020-06-15
: Women who experience spousal abuse during pregnancy have different postpartum contraceptive use patterns. The unique needs of this population should be incorporated into antenatal and postpartum contraceptive counseling. Efforts to increase spacing contraception use in India must consider experiences of gender-based violence and coercion.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30158-9/fulltext?rss=yes
Classical musicians face unprecedented challenges amid COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
The New York Philharmonic and other orchestras are canceling performances for the rest of this year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/filt-j15.html
Workers' anger grows as auto companies continue coverup of COVID-19 in the factories
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
General Motors and Ford have made it an official policy not to report the number and locations of confirmed COVID-19 cases at their factories, while Fiat Chrysler has also apparently stopped reporting coronavirus cases.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/auto-j15.html
Striking Spanish Nissan workers boo unions and Podemos mayor of Barcelona
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
This points to the explosive conflict emerging between the working class and the pseudo-left and the unions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and an upsurge of class struggle.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/niss-j15.html
COVID-19: Preparations for southern flu season must be a priority: WHO's Tedros
news.un.org | 2020-06-15
Despite the ongoing global response to COVID-19, the world cannot lose sight of the significant public health risk posed by influenza, which affects every country every year and takes its own deadly toll, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Monday.
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We Won't Address Our Mass Incarceration Crisis Until We Rethink Our Approach to "Violent Crime"
April Rodriguez | aclu.org | 2020-06-15
During the COVID-19 pandemic, jails and prisons have become infection hot spots due to notoriously unhygienic conditions and the inability to socially distance. Overcrowded facilities — a symptom of our longstanding national addiction to mass incarceration — are creating an unconstitutional health crisis. Advocates are calling upon judges across the country to release medically vulnerable people from prison and jails. But despite acknowledgment of the urgency from Attorney General William B…
aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/we-wont-address-our-mass-incarceration-crisis-until-we-rethink-our-approach-to-violent-crime
New Study Suggests COVID Was Spreading Earlier/Far Less Deadly & Trump's BlackRock Take Over
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-06-15
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 (6/15/20). 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/new-study-suggests-covid-was-spreading-earlier-far-less-deadly-trumps-blackrock-take-over/
Bank of England Infringes Human Rights: Venezuelan Central Bank
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-15
The Bank of England (BoE) is "putting lives at risk" by denying access to gold reserves, Legal representatives of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) denounced Monday. | RELATED: | Venezuela: Gold Kept at Bank Of England Needed To Fight COVID | BoE refuses to release around US$1.13 billion of gold reserves which the South American nation could use to fight the health emergency derived from the COVID-19 outbreak. Venezuela is seeking to get a court order for the urgent release of abo…
telesurenglish.net/news/Lawyers-Bank-Of-England-Infringes-Human-Rights-With-Venezuela-20200615-0018.html
US: FDA Revokes Emergency Use Of Hydroxychloroquine
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-15
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Monday revoked the authorization for the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine (CHQ) to treat certain hospitalized patients with COVID-19 as a clinical trial is unavailable nor feasible. | RELATED: | Study Confirms Chloroquine's Ineffectiveness in Facing COVID-19 | On April 7, the FDA approved the emergency use for an abbreviated new drug application for hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets to address ongoing shortages of the drug…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-FDA-Revokes-Emergency-Use-Of-Hydroxychloroquine-20200615-0021.html
New cases of COVID-19 reach 8 million as Latin America still to peak
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
While the Western Hemisphere is currently the epicenter of the pandemic, there has been a new outbreak in China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/coro-j15.html
New cases of COVID-19 reach 8 million with Latin America still to peak
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
While the Western Hemisphere is currently the epicenter of the pandemic, there has been a new outbreak in China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/coro-j15.html
Health Passports — biosurveillance and pervasive health monitoring to be rolled out
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-15
By Rob Woodward — TruePublica: VST Enterprises Ltd (VSTE) the British cybersecurity company founded by tech entrepreneur Louis-James Davis announced recently that a 'sports health passport' style app was now in play to help kick start attendance at all British sporting events over the coming months as Britain emerges and recovers from Covid-19. VSTE want …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/health-passports-biosurveillance-and-pervasive-health-monitoring-to-be-rolled-out/
The United States Needs Black Nationalism, Now
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
Malcolm X campaigned for Black Nationalism. The assassination of Malcolm by the devil white class should have proved to everyone that his strategy was the only way. He outlined that nationalism was the tool that countries used to free themselves from imperialism. Ho Chi Minh for example understood that in order to eventually achieve communism…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/the-united-states-needs-black-nationalism-now/
Bob Dylan's Explosive Song "Murder Most Foul", History of the JFK Assassination and "The Interview"
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
Imagine this: A so-called presidential historian for a major television network publishes an interview in the most famous newspaper in the world with the most famous singer/songwriter in the world, who has recently written an explosive song accusing the U.S. …
globalresearch.ca/bob-dylans-explosive-song-murder-most-foul-history-of-the-jfk-assassination-and-the-interview/5715945
Nurses outraged over US hospital chain bailouts, layoffs and bloated CEO pay
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
The largest health care corporations and hospital chains have collected billions in federal grants and laid off tens of thousands of health care workers, while compensating top executives hundreds of millions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/16/hosp-j15.html
Racism, lack of jobs as workers face social pandemic
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-06-15
June 12 — On June 5, President Donald Trump was over the moon with joy. The numbers were "stupendous," "AMAZING" and "INCREDIBLE." The Dow Jones stock index was up by 829 points, or 3.2 percent, so speculators who bet right made billions. It didn't last. June 11 saw a decline . . . | Continue reading Racism, lack of jobs as workers face social pandemic at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49363/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=racism-lack-of-jobs-as-workers-face-social-pandemic
NYT Gives Up on Logic in News Reporting — Tells Readers of Risk of Relying on China, with Zero Argument
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-15
The NYT ran a piece with a headline that began "break the China Habit," and featured the subhead, "the risks of relying economically on the Asian superpower have never seemed clearer. But as the world tries to get moving again, it needs China more than ever." Perhaps the paper considered the risks so apparent that …
cepr.net/nyt-gives-up-on-logic-in-news-reporting-tells-readers-of-risk-of-relying-on-china-with-zero-argument/
Nonsense About China that "Everyone" Knows
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-15
I want to do a bit more beating up on a NYT piece this morning on breaking ties with China. There is a widely held view in policy circles that the pandemic showed that our extensive economic ties with China are a bad thing. I will ask a simple question, how? First to get over …
cepr.net/nonsense-about-china-that-everyone-knows/
Woman veteran of Long March, Wang Dingguo °presente!
Lyn Neeley | workers.org | 2020-06-15
Wang Dingguo, the oldest female veteran of the Chinese Red Army's Long March, died at the age of 107 on June 9. (China Daily, June 11) When Wang was 20 years old in 1933, she joined the Chinese Communist Party after running away from a five-year marriage she had been . . . | Continue reading Woman veteran of Long March, Wang Dingguo °presente! at Workers.org…
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Queens does its part to reform the New York City police
Gabe Falsetta, Tina Nannarone | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-15
As demonstrations take place around the city, state, and country, Queens has also taken to the streets to demand an end to the racist behavior of the New York Police Department. Queens, New York City's most ethnically diverse borough, was until recently the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. Last year Queens was the focus of …
peoplesworld.org/article/queens-does-its-part-to-reform-the-new-york-city-police/
Towards a Digital Police State? Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair Calls for Coronavirus Digital IDs to Prove 'Disease Status'
Paul Smeaton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
'Unless you're able to record some of this data in a way that people can use it's going to be difficult to go back to anything like a near normal in things like transport,' said Tony Blair. | *** | Former U.K. …
globalresearch.ca/former-uk-prime-minister-calls-coronavirus-digital-id-prove-disease-status/5715968
The Scandal of "Modern Slavery" in the Trade of Masks and Gloves
Jane Feinmann | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the reliance of the NHS on disposable medical instruments and protective clothing–but their trade hides a murky world of modern slavery and labour abuse, writes Jane Feinmann | *** | The failure of the NHS to provide …
globalresearch.ca/scandal-modern-slavery-trade-masks-gloves/5715959
What About the International Students?
Jimin Kang | thenation.com | 2020-06-15
What About the International Students?
thenation.com/article/world/international-students-coronavirus/
Take a Good Hard Look at the New Britain We All Now Live in
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
It's all desperately sad to watch, isn't it? At TruePublica we have consistently warned since David Cameron's 2015 electoral win that Britain was in grave danger. We warned that Cameron, little more than an over-privileged corporate public relations agent would …
globalresearch.ca/new-britain-we-all-now-live/5716012
Reinvigorating the UN?
Graham Peebles | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
Whatever corner of the world one happens to live in, the most pressing issues of the day affect everyone. Pandemics/epidemics and the environmental emergency; war and terrorism; poverty and food insecurity; overpopulation and the displacement of persons. Such crises cannot be limited by borders or controlled by nation states; no government or corporate power can…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/reinvigorating-the-un/
Defund the Police, Invest in Communities
Ken Makin | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
Five years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division released a damning report on the Ferguson, Missouri police department. "Ferguson's law enforcement practices are shaped by the city's focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs," the report summary concluded, "contributing to a pattern of unconstitutional policing" and practices that…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/defund-the-police-invest-in-communities/
Dismantling a Complex Ideology: Thoughts on the BLM Movement
Shelby Seth | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
On Sunday, May 31, 2020, over 700 people joined me and my friends in solidarity to fight against white supremacy and the institutions that uphold them in the United States. The sun was shining, the wind was there to keep us cool, and love was reigning for all of us. This day all came about…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/dismantling-a-complex-ideology-thoughts-on-the-blm-movement/
The Day President Kennedy (Almost) Broke the Embargo on Cuba
Cesar Chelala | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
President Kennedy is just one of many famous historical figures who loved to smoke cigars. Sigmund Freud was a big addict, smoking up to 20 cigars a day, which probably caused the mouth cancer that led to his death. In a conversation with Carl Gustav Jung, where they were probably discussing the allegoric meaning of…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/the-day-president-kennedy-almost-broke-the-embargo-on-cuba/
Symbols are Invested with Power. Don't Dismiss the Importance of Toppling a Statue
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/symbols-are-invested-with-power-dont-dismiss-the-importance-of-toppling-a-statue/
In Other Words
John G. Russell | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
I think I've done more for the black community than any other president. And let's take a pass on Abraham Lincoln, because he did good, but although it's always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result. –Donald Trump (June 14, 1946- Present) I didn't do nothing serious man please please please I can't…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/in-other-words/
A Bittersweet Juneteenth
Diallo Brooks | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
Americans may or may not know there's more than one Independence Day in the United States. In addition to the Fourth of July holiday all Americans recognize, black Americans commemorate our ancestors' freedom from slavery on Juneteenth. Two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, General Gordon Grander formally issued an order carrying out…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/a-bittersweet-juneteenth/
Cornel West: What It Means to Be Human
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/cornel-west-what-it-means-to-be-human/
The "Restoration Grazing" Argument Fell Flat in Court
Erik Molvar | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-15
Last summer, in a remote corner of the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, in the one spot with just a little cell reception, I sat in my car listening by phone to attorneys argue before the U.S. District Court of Oregon more than a thousand miles away. The attorneys for conservation groups (Western Watersheds Project, Center…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/15/the-restoration-grazing-argument-fell-flat-in-court/
Statues Fall Amidst Civil War: The Coup vs. the Woke Revolution
Alastair Crooke | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-15
The woke ideologues will likely split the U.S. Blues into Old Guard and the new, 'soft totalitarians', Alastair Crooke writes. | In earlier articles, I noted that America has been skirting the precarious cliff-edge of ancient antagonisms, dating back to the Civil War — Red versus Blue. The two irreconcilable visions of American life: on the one side, the 'Federalists', who partly have morphed into cosmopolitan 'Sorosites', and claim the moral high ground on matters of life; and on the other, a tradition of state co-sovereignty, dating back to the 1871 (the Articles of Confederacy). That divide remains. It i…
Statues Fall Amidst Civil War: The Coup vs. the Woke Revolution
100 Years Ago: Far-Right Coup against Germany's Weimar Republic. The March 1920 Kapp Putsch against Social Democracy
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
A century ago, on 13 March 1920, a far-right coup d'etat was implemented against the nascent Weimar Republic, known as the Kapp Putsch, which stood as an early warning signal for the Nazi Party's rise. The author here had intended …
globalresearch.ca/100-years-ago-kapp-putsch-general-erich-ludendorff/5715952
Interview: Stacey Abrams Breaks Down Georgia's (Latest) Election Meltdown
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2020-06-15
"When you break the machinery of democracy for some, you break it for everyone, and that's really what we saw."
thenation.com/article/politics/stacey-abrams-georgia-primary/
This tweet says it all
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-15
TruePublica Editor: There's no need for me to explain anything at all here. The image shows far-right thugs in a full-on Nazi salute aimed at the Met Police who are not just protecting statues and property but now more increasingly democracy itself. Hit the link and start reading a Twitter thread starting from Tom London …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/this-tweet-says-it-all/
It Sure Looks Like Trump and Adelson Have Cut a Deal on Annexation
Philip Weiss | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
Sheldon Adelson, the Israel-loving, Iran-war-craving casino baron, talks to Donald Trump all the time, and for good reason, he and wife Miriam are the biggest Republican donors, poised to give as much as $200 million this year. Now …
globalresearch.ca/trump-adelson-have-cut-deal-annexation/5715987
Private Prisons in the United States
The Sentencing Project | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
Private prisons in the United States incarcerated 121,718 people in 2017, representing 8.2% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased 39%. | However, the private prison population reached …
globalresearch.ca/private-prisons-united-states/5716026
UK Counter-terror Programme Targeted "Black Asian Ethnic Minority" (BAME) Women Using Social Media "Influencers"
Ian Cobain | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
More evidence is emerging of the British government developing motivational online media platforms targeted at young women as part of a covert counter-terrorism campaign. | Security officials have acknowledged that a Facebook page and Instagram account entitled Stoosh were created as …
globalresearch.ca/uk-counter-terror-programme-targeted-black-asian-ethnic-minority-bame-women-using-social-media-influencers/5715980
Minnesota Cops 'Trained by Israeli Forces in Restraint Techniques'
Steve Sweeney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
Officers from the US police force responsible for the killing of George Floyd received training in restraint techniques and anti-terror tactics from Israeli law-enforcement officers. | Mr Floyd's death in custody last Monday, the latest in a succession of police killings …
globalresearch.ca/minnesota-cops-trained-israeli-forces-restraint-techniques/5715977
Comfortably Numb… On Jesus Radio! Preachers Do Not Touch Upon Injustice, Prejudice or Economic Unfairness
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
(As a preface to this column, this writer has been an adherent of the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. Thus, I believe wholeheartedly in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, and that he was truly 'Anointed with the Christ spirit'.)…
globalresearch.ca/comfortably-numb-on-jesus-radio-preachers-do-not-touch-upon-injustice-prejudice-or-economic-unfairness/5715974
A Camp Darby il Comando italiano delle operazioni speciali e psicologiche
Antonio Mazzeo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
Martedਠ9 giugno è stata issata la bandiera italiana; venerdਠ12 l'inaugurazione della nuova sede del Comando delle Forze Speciali dell'Esercito (COMFOSE), presente il ministro della Difesa Lorenzo Guerini. L'area a nord della grande base di Camp Darby, in Toscana, …
globalresearch.ca/a-camp-darby-il-comando-italiano-delle-operazioni-speciali-e-psicologiche/5716041
US Congress "Caesar's Law" Directed against Syria: Who Does It Target and How Will It Affect President Assad?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
In mid-June, the US sanctions against Syria will escalate, with the enactment in Congress of " Caesar's Law", sanctions designed to "pursue individuals, groups, companies, and countries that deal with the Damascus government." This law — purportedly named after …
globalresearch.ca/syria-caesar-law-who-does-it-target-and-how-will-it-affect-president-assad/5715970
A Knee on Our Throats
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
For two months now, most of America has endured a government-imposed lockdown. I hate to use that word — lockdown — as it connotes locking prisoners into their cells during prison disturbances. But it is the word that the government …
globalresearch.ca/knee-our-throats/5715976
NATO's Colonization of Ukraine Under Guise of Partnership
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
NATO has extended yet another in a long line of "incentives" designed to tease Ukraine with the prospects of joining the transatlantic alliance, while stopping short of actual membership. | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has designated Ukraine as an | …
globalresearch.ca/nato-colonization-ukraine-under-guise-partnership/5715965
Today's Science Deniers: What We Owe Galileo After 400 Years
Prof Susan Babbitt | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
On June 22, 1633, a sick and beaten old man, on his knees, had to "abjure, curse and detest" his view that "the earth moves and is not the centre of the world." It was "one of the most deplorable …
globalresearch.ca/todays-science-deniers-what-we-owe-galileo-after-400-years/5715961
How Private Prisons Are Profiting Under the Trump Administration
Hauwa Ahmed | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-15
There are more people behind bars in the United States than there are living in major American cities[1] such as Phoenix or Philadelphia. According to a 2018 report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, nearly 2 million adults[2] were …
globalresearch.ca/how-private-prisons-profiting-under-trump-administration/5715989
Israeli Warplanes Strike the Besieged Gaza Strip
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-15
Israeli artillery and warplanes struck many targets throughout the besieged Gaza Strip, on Monday night Quds News Network reported. No casualties were reported at the time of this report. Local sources said the Israeli heavy weaponry fired shelled two shells, at an area to the east of Khan Younis, central …
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Eight Palestinians, Including one Minor Detained by Israeli Forces in West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-15
Israeli forces arrested seven Palestinian civilians across the occupied West Bank, on Sunday at dawn, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Society. Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinian civilians from the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, identified as; 1. Osaid Al-Din Abu Shaira, 17, from Aida refugee camp, 2.
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Palestinian-owned Home Demolished by Israeli Forces in Shu'fat Refugee Camp
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-15
Israeli bulldozers, accompanied by occupation forces, on Monday, demolished a Palestinian-owned building in the Shu'fat refugee camp, near Jerusalem in the southern occupied West Bank, Alray reported. Local sources said that Israeli forces stormed the Ras Shehadeh neighborhood of the Refugee Camp, and proceeded to demolish a two storey house, …
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Fourteen Palestinians Detained by Israeli Forces across West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-15
Israeli forces, on Monday, abducted 14 Palestinians from several areas of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said that Israeli police arrested five Palestinians after ransacking their houses in the al-Tur neighborhood of East Jerusalem, southern West Bank. Sources added that police assaulted two brothers …
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Two Palestinian Homes Demolished Inside Israel
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-15
Israeli forces, on Sunday, demolished two Palestinian-owned homes in Lod city, inside the Green Line or 1949 Armistice Line, Arab 48 website reported. The website said that bulldozers accompanied by Israeli police, invaded the homes on Sunday morning, and proceeded to demolish them under the pretext that the under-construction homes …
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Dozens of Israeli Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-15
Several Israeli Settlers, on Monday, stormed the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa mosque of the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem. The group was lead by Israeli leader, Yehuda Glick, local sources said. Palestinian sources including Muslim worshipers, present at the scene, told media outlets that Israeli soldiers ensured full protection for the …
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Palestinian Child Sentenced to Ten Years by Israeli Authorities
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-15
The Israeli administration, on Sunday, sentenced Palestinian child, Hammoudeh Khader Sheikh, to 10 years in prison, Quds News Network reported. The boy, 15, from occupied East Jerusalem, southern West Bank, was shot and injured by occupation soldiers on August 15, 2019, while with his friend Naseem Imkafeh, 15, whom the …
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Israeli Soldiers Re-arrest Palestinian Immediately after his Release
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-15
Palestinian prisoner, Salah Hussein, was released on Sunday, when he met his 5 year old son for the first time, accompanied by his wife, Quds News Network reported. Hussein just completed fifteen years in Israeli prison held his son, Ali, for the first time since he was born. Ali was …
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Settlers Assault Palestinian Man in Hebron, Storm Nearby Village
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-15
Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Dabouyia assaulted a Palestinian man on Shuhada Street in Hebron, southern West Bank, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Similarly, illegal settlers from the Kiryat Arba colony in Hebron attacked Palestinian homes and vehicles, causing property damage. On Saturday, illegal Israeli settlers stormed the …
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Trans Mountain pipeline spews 50,000 gallons of oil on indigenous land
Olivia Rosane | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-15
peoplesworld.org/article/trans-mountain-pipeline-spews-50000-gallons-of-oil-on-indigenous-land/
The Struggle Against Police Is International. Our Solidarity Must Be Global
Austin C. McCoy | zcomm.org | 2020-06-15
These global expressions of solidarity underscore a long simmering discontent with state violence against Black and Indigenous people, and other communities of color…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-struggle-against-police-is-international-our-solidarity-must-be-global/
Venezuela Slams Interpol Arrest of CLAP Contractor in Cape Verde
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-06-15
Colombo-Venezuelan Alex Saab was detained on a Washington-issued arrest warrant en route to Iran, where he reportedly looked to negotiate food and medicine import contracts.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14906
Iraq: UN probe into ISIL atrocities making 'real progress', Security Council hears
news.un.org | 2020-06-15
The special UN Investigative Team probing ISIL atrocities in Iraq is making "real progress," its chief said on Monday, as it begins to pinpoint the perpetrators of some of the worst crimes committed by the terrorist group during its years-long occupation of large swathes of the country.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066352
High stakes in the battle for Sirte
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-15
With Algeria engaging in the search for a political solution in Libya, Haftar could be on his way out | A desperate race is on between the rival political and military alliances in Libya, with each side trying to improve its position on the ground maximize its gains to strengthen its hand in any future negotiations. The current battle for the central city of Sirte between the Turkish-backed forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) and Gen. Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) — supported by Egypt, the UAE and France — will be crucial in determining the outcome. | Sirte is an invaluable…
Essential Workers Need Better Safety Net
Michael Felsen | progressive.org | 2020-06-15
Essential workers — often low-wage, and disproportionately Black, brown, and immigrants — have been far more likely to contract the virus than those who've stayed home.
progressive.org/op-eds/essential-workers-safety-net-felsen-200615/
American Exceptionalism Is on the Ropes and the End of the Petrodollar Is Nigh
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-15
From the border wall rhetoric to trade wars, Trump is effectively setting up the implosion of the dollar and couching it as pseudo nationalistic populism.
mintpressnews.com/american-exceptionalism-on-the-ropes-end-of-the-us-dollar-is-nigh/268575/
Episode 93 — The Richmond Revolution, East Bay Collective, and the Post-Police Future w/Lavonia Bobo, Armond Corshawn, Samone Anderson, Lee Bidemi Animashaun, and Todd Davis
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-06-15
On today's episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon explore The Richomond Revolution and East Bay Collective following the murder of George Floyd with Lavonia Bobo,…
Author Dan Kovalik joins the program to explain why the "humanitarian" wars of the U.S. and its allies only make life even worse for the people they ostensibly protect. Then…
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Body count grows in Trump drive to kill off seniors
Alex Lawson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-15
Donald Trump started in earnest soon after his election to endanger the health and lives of America's seniors by putting Social Security and Medicare cuts in every single one of his budget proposals. Further endangering their health and lives, he is now holding giant rallies in the middle of a pandemic that has already killed …
peoplesworld.org/article/body-count-grows-in-trump-drive-to-kill-off-seniors/
LSE Director: You cannot solve a global pandemic with national policies
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-15
By Dame Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics. One of the paradoxes of this pandemic is that even as we are forced to turn inwards, we need each other's cooperation more than ever. Most of us are becoming more self-reliant — staying at home, engaging less with others, even braving baking and …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/lse-director-you-cannot-solve-a-global-pandemic-with-national-policies/
Divesting From a Distance
Daniel Papscun | progressive.org | 2020-06-15
Students were winning the fight for a fossil fuel-free campus–then the pandemic happened.
progressive.org/dispatches/divesting-from-a-distance-papscun-200615/
140 Trump admin sanctions ICC officials
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/trum-j15.html
'Trump Heights': The newest Israeli-approved illegal settlements in occupied Golan Heights
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-15
The Golan Heights is Syrian territory occupied by Israel following the 1967 war. Israeli settlement activities inside the occupied territories are in complete violation of international laws…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/15/trump-heights-the-newest-israeli-approved-illegal-settlements-in-occupied-golan-heights/
Fascistic candidates gain in Republican Party
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
Marjorie Taylor Greene's campaign produced an ad last week in which she brandished an assault rifle and warned "antifa" demonstrators to "stay the hell out of northwest Georgia."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/repu-j15.html
Spike Lee Has Made His Most Ambitious Film Yet
David Sims | zcomm.org | 2020-06-15
Da 5 Bloods is a searing Vietnam War epic that speaks to this moment…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/spike-lee-has-made-his-most-ambitious-film-yet/
Members Of Congress Receive COVID-19 Small Business Loans
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-15
Members of Congress obtained disaster loans for their businesses through the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). | The program has been embroiled in controversy since it launched in March. Large corporations received multimillion-dollar loans. Minority-owned businesses were shut out of aid. Seventy-four members of Congress own businesses or have relatives or spouses who own businesses. Of this number, only 14 of them responded to repeated inquiries stating that they did not apply for federal loans, including those with considerable wealth. The CARES Act does contain a conflict of in…
popularresistance.org/members-of-congress-receive-covid-19-small-business-loans/
Will The Death Of George Floyd Mark The Rebirth Of America?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-15
I you had told me that, in the span of a few months, a novel coronavirus that dates back only to last year and systemic American racism that dates back to 1619 would somehow intersect, I wouldn't have believed it. If you had told me that a man named George Floyd would survive Covid-19 only to be murdered by the police and that his brutal death would spark a worldwide movement, leading the council members of a major American city to announce their intent to defund the police and Europeans halfway across the planet to deface monuments to a murderous nineteenth-century monarch who slaughtered Africans, I would have…
popularresistance.org/will-the-death-of-george-floyd-mark-the-rebirth-of-america/
The Uprising Is Only Beginning: Building Power To Win Our Demands
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-15
The current uprising against police violence and racism is just beginning. It is rapidly shifting public consciousness on issues of policing, violence against Black people and others, and systemic racism. The movement is deepening and becoming broader as well as putting forward solutions and making demands. | The confluence of crises including recent police violence, the COVID-19 pandemic, and economic collapse along with the ongoing crises of lack of healthcare, poverty, inequality, homelessness, personal debt, and climate plus awareness of mirage democracy in the United States have created a historic moment ful…
popularresistance.org/the-uprising-is-only-beginning/
Army hails medical staff efforts, service under Covid-19 pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-15
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — In a ceremony held on Monday in Tehran's Shariati Hospital, the Iranian Army expressed gratitude for the efforts and services of the medical staff under the outburst of the coronavirus pandemic.
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S.Africa: COVID-19 cases top 70,000, deaths at 1,480
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
South Africa saw a massive jump in coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, with 4,302 cases recorded, bringing the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 70,038.Zweli Mkhize, South Africa's health minister, also said in a statement that 57 more COVID-19 deaths had been recorded, bring the total fatalities to 1,480 with a mortality rate of 2.2%.Despite the high numbers of cases and deaths, health experts continue to applaud South Africa's mass testing campaign.South Africa has so far tested 1.12 million people for COVID-19, with 34,071 tests done over the weekend."The recoveries to date ar…
yenisafak.com/en/world/safrica-covid-19-cases-top-70000-deaths-at-1480-3532108
Iran's coronavirus deaths near 9,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
A further 2,449 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 189,876, Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari said. | A total of 150,590 people have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, he said, adding that 2,765 remain at hospitals in critical conditions. | Some 1.269 million tests have been done in the country to date, Lari said. | Iran's daily number of COVID-19 cases dropped to around 800 in early May, but since authorities eased restrictions, daily figures have shown an upward trend, especially in the southwestern Khuzestan province. | Despite the rising number of in…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irans-coronavirus-deaths-near-9000-3532116
Irish parties agree coalition deal
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
Ireland's Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Green parties struck a deal to form a new coalition government on Monday that if ratified by grassroots members will end a months-long political deadlock, a government spokesman said.The agreement must be approved over the coming 10 days or so by members from each party, with the smaller Greens requiring two-thirds support, a higher bar than the larger two historic rival parties and which could yet scupper the deal.The parties want the new government in place before the end of June as the fractured parliament cannot pass any new laws, including those to uphold a 6.5 billion eu…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irish-parties-agree-coalition-deal-3532115
Turkey: Gov't budget balance posts $14B gap in Jan-May
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
The Turkish central government registered a budget deficit of 90.1 billion Turkish liras (some $14 billion) in January-May, the country's Treasury and Finance Ministry reported Monday.Turkey's budget revenue reached 389.1 billion Turkish liras ($60.8 billion) in the first five months of the year, up 12% year-on-year.Budget expenditures rose 15.7% on an annual basis to hit 479.2 billion Turkish liras (74.9 billion) from January to May — marking a 90.1 billion Turkish lira (some $60.8 billion) gap.The budget balance, excluding interest payments, posted a deficit of 25.1 billion Turkish liras ($4 billion) in the fi…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/turkey-govt-budget-balance-posts-14b-gap-in-jan-may-3532111
Muslim | man invents | corona-free bell | for | Hindu temple | in | India
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
In the wake of the deadly coronavirus, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across the world, a Muslim mechanic in India developed an innovative bell which can be rung without being touched for a major Shiva temple in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh. 62-year-old Nahru Khan equipped the bell with an electric sensor after temples were reopened in India with strict measures that included not touching bells to prevent the spread of the pandemic, reported the Indian Express.The development of the bell in question with its electric sensor technology is reportedly one-of-a-kind in India."It's a conta…
yenisafak.com/en/world/muslimman-inventscorona-free-bellforhindu-templeinindia-3532112
Coronavirus cases in Africa exceed 242,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
The number of coronavirus cases in Africa has reached 242,105, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.Death toll across 54 countries in the continent went up to 6,464, while recoveries stand at 109,977, bringing the total number of active cases to 125,664.The Southern Africa region recorded 73,600 cases, of which South Africa's number stood at 70,000 cases, and with the second most-affected country Zambia registering 1,400 cases.North Africa has 67,600 infections, West 51,300, East 26,700 and Central Africa 22,900.At least 2,700 people have died of the virus so far in North Africa, 1…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-cases-in-africa-exceed-242000-3532109
Turkey's indigenous electric train to serve by year-end
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
First Turkish-made electric train, with its tests to be conducted on Aug. 30, will start serving before the end of this year, transport and infrastructure minister said on Monday."Aluminum body production, painting, sandblasting tests of the train set were put into operation in 2019," Adil Karaismailoglu said during his visit to the Turkish Wagon Industry (TUVASAS) plant in the country's northwestern province of Sakarya.The design and operating speeds of the first train set produced were planned as 176 kilometers per hour (109.3 miles per hour), and 160 km/h (99.4 mi/h), respectively."We work on domestic-made hig…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-indigenous-electric-train-to-serve-by-year-end-3532107
Turkey, Russia to continue talks for truce in Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
Turkey will continue talks with Russia to reach a lasting cease-fire in Libya, said Turkey's foreign minister on Monday.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have "agreed to continue working together to establish a lasting cease-fire in Libya," Mevlut Cavusoglu told a joint press conference alongside his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif, who is visiting the Turkish capital Ankara.Libya's government, which enjoys recognition by the UN, has been under attack by warlord Khalifa Haftar's forces since April 2019, with more than 1,000 killed in the violence.After launching a counter…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-russia-to-continue-talks-for-truce-in-libya-3532113
Report: 85% of Independent US Restaurants May Close by Year's End Due to Pandemic
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-15
A new report commissioned by the Independent Restaurant Coalition reveals that as many as 85% of US independent restaurants may be forced to close down by the end of the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
sputniknews.com/us/202006151079624766-report-85-of-independent-us-restaurants-may-close-by-years-end-due-to-pandemic/
Jeff Bezos Willing to Testify Before Congressional Antitrust Committee, Says Amazon Representative
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-15
Lawmakers in the United States have been pushing to receive confirmation from the CEOs of large tech companies to testify before an antitrust committee over anti-competitive behaviour, especially the use of third-party sellers and data collection.
sputniknews.com/us/202006151079624323-jeff-bezos-willing-to-testify-before-congressional-antitrust-committee-says-amazon-representative/
Police Rescue Chinese Billionaire from Attempted Kidnapping
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-15
Midea founder He Xiangjian's son alerted local police after escaping from the family's high-security mansion and swimming across a nearby river. No one was injured during the incident and the billionaire's family were found safe. Chinese police are currently investigating the incident.
sputniknews.com/asia/202006151079624073-police-rescue-chinese-billionaire-from-attempted-kidnapping-/
Trump Says Bolton Would Be Breaking Law by Publishing Book Detailing POTUS 'Misconduct'
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-15
The release of a book of former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton, titled "The Room Where It Happened", was set to take place on 12 May, but the date has been pushed to 23 June as the administration of US President Donald Trump halted the memoir for a prepublication security review.
sputniknews.com/us/202006151079624348-trump-says-bolton-would-be-breaking-law-by-publishing-book-detailing-potus-misconduct/
North Korea Reviewing Plans to Send Troops Into Disarmed Border Areas
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-15
North Korean military leaders announced on Tuesday they were reviewing plans to reoccupy parts of the inter-Korean border disarmed by a previous agreement with Seoul. The move comes amid continued deterioration of relations between the two Koreas fueled by the activities of North Korean defectors in the South.
sputniknews.com/asia/202006151079624400-north-korea-reviewing-plans-to-send-troops-into-disarmed-border-areas/
Tehran-Istanbul direct flights to be resumed
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-15
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — Tehran-Istanbul direct flights, halted under the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, are to be resumed as of July 21.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159834/Tehran-Istanbul-direct-flights-to-be-resumed
Iran, Iraq eyeing cooperation in oil industry
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-15
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh held a phone talk with his Iraqi counterpart Ehsan Abdul Jabbar on expanding bilateral cooperation in the oil industry.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159846/Iran-Iraq-eyeing-cooperation-in-oil-industry
Three European countries call for more cooperation between Iran, IAEA
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-15
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) –Three European countries have called for more cooperation between Iran and the IAEA, following a recent meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159849/Three-European-countries-call-for-more-cooperation-between-Iran
Iranian, Turkish FMs hold meeting on regional developments
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-15
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met and held talks with his Turkish counterparts on the regional developments and bilateral relations.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159830/Iranian-Turkish-FMs-hold-meeting-on-regional-developments
'No evidence of benefit': FDA says hydroxychloroquine no longer approved for Covid-19 emergency use
rt.com | 2020-06-15
US regulators have revoked emergency approval for the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. Doctors will still be able to prescribe the drug, recently taken by President Donald Trump himself, for off-label use. | Citing the "totality of scientific evidence available," Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Chief Scientist Denise M. Hinton wrote on Monday that it was "no longer reasonable to believe" that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) may be effective against the novel coronavirus, as outlined in the emergency a…
rt.com/usa/491919-fda-hydroxychloroquine-emergency-revoked/
'Information heroes'?! Reporters Without Borders hails White House press corps for pandemic coverage
rt.com | 2020-06-15
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has praised journalists who distinguished themselves with courageous work on the Covid-19 pandemic — whistleblowers and reporters who were jailed and persecuted — and the White House press corps. | The press organization published a list of 30 "information heroes" whose "courage, perseverance or capacity to innovate has helped to circulate reliable and vital information" during the coronavirus outbreak which has infected close to eight million people worldwide as of Mond…
rt.com/usa/491920-information-heroes-journalism-press-adversity/
EU launches website to help travelers navigate complicated patchwork of border reopenings
rt.com | 2020-06-15
Countries across the EU have begun to reopen their borders, but the complex mixture of sundry rules is baffling would-be travelers. As a result, the EU has launched a website to help people navigate various Covid-19 restrictions. | A number of EU governments have started to open their borders on Monday after weeks of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic — but no single strategy has been developed to organize this process. Many states have banned countries with worrying coronavirus levels and have developed their own limitations and guidelines for incoming visitors. Various restrictions are being adjust…
rt.com/news/491906-eu-borders-opening-travel-advice/
2021 Oscars date postponed due to coronavirus pandemic
rt.com | 2020-06-15
Although the US economy will be long opened up by then, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has pushed next year's Oscars back by two months. The coronavirus pandemic has already forced the delay of dozens of movies. | The Academy announced the delay on Monday. The awards ceremony, originally due to take place on Sunday, February 28, will now be held on Sunday, April 25. Nominations will be announced in March. | The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns hit Hollywood hard. Production only resumed in Los Angeles county on Friday, and many movie theaters across the US remain closed. AMC Thea…
rt.com/usa/491929-oscars-postponed-coronavirus-diversity/
N. Macedonia to hold elections on July 15 to back EU membership bid
rt.com | 2020-06-15
Political parties in North Macedonia agreed on Monday to hold parliamentary elections on July 15, despite a persistent level of coronavirus infections. Nevertheless, the move is seen as a crucial step for the landlocked Balkan country's EU membership bid. | The newest NATO member's elections will also be a test of support for the pro-EU policies of the Social Democrats of former Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. After talks with Kristijan Mickoski, the head of the main opposition and nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party, Zaev said the country needed a functional government. | "We cannot bear a bigger crisis than this with a…
rt.com/newsline/491855-macedonia-elections-eu-membership/
eBay execs mailed bloody mask & LIVE INSECTS to couple who criticized company
rt.com | 2020-06-15
Six former eBay employees and executives have been charged with stalking after they hounded a couple who criticized the e-commerce giant in a newsletter. The group mailed threats to the pair, and sent them live cockroaches. | The victims, a Massachusetts couple, published an online newsletter "critical of eBay and other e-commerce companies," US Attorney Andrew Lelling explained at a press conference on Monday. | Their missive put them on the radar of eBay's Global Intelligence Center, and a harassment campaign began, Lelling continued. | eBay, despite its great usefulness, has never felt lovable and humane to…
rt.com/usa/491916-ebay-stalking-mail-cockroaches/
Hamas calls for Palestinians' unity and resistance against Israeli plans to annex West Bank areas
rt.com | 2020-06-15
The Hamas movement has called for unity among Palestinians against Israeli plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. "We call for the annexation project to be confronted with resistance in all forms," said Salah al-Bardawil, a senior official of the Islamist movement, on Monday. | "We call on our people to transform this hardship into an opportunity to get the Palestinian project back on track," AFP quoted the official as saying. | Despite deep divisions between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Bardawil called for a "union of the political class." He called fo…
rt.com/newsline/491892-hamas-palestinians-israel-west/
'Conniving human scum': North Korea is very angry at the South, but it's not Seoul's attention it wants
rt.com | 2020-06-15
Things in the Koreas seem to have taken a turn for the worse again. North Korea is threatening military action against the South, seemingly over some propaganda leaflets. But Pyongyang's real target is not so petty — or so close. | With North Korean media referring to the South as "conniving" and "human scum," and communications now cut off between the two, inter-Korean relations risk hitting a dangerously low point. What exactly sparked Pyongyang's seemingly sudden fit of rage — and is it really one? A closer analysis reveals several factors at play. | It's raining balloons : | What initial…
rt.com/news/491912-angry-north-south-korea/
WATCH Russian jets 'intercept' US strategic bombers over Baltic Sea
rt.com | 2020-06-15
US B-52H strategic bombers have again been spotted near Russian borders, forcing its Baltic Sea Fleet's Su-27 fighter jets to take to the skies and monitor their actions, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. | Video released by Moscow showed all stages of the 'intercept' — from the pilot in full gear rushing towards his jet to the Su-27s gaining on the American nuclear-capable bombers and "foreign surveillance planes" above the neutral waters. | NATO aircraft have frequently been spotted close to Russian airspace above Baltic and Black Sea frontiers in recent years. The flights, which Moscow deems provo…
rt.com/russia/491915-russia-jets-us-bombers-baltics/
Imperial to begin first human trials of new COVID-19 vaccine
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-15
Clinical researchers are this week set to begin human trials of a new coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers at Imperial College London.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198314/imperial-begin-first-human-trials-covid-19
Face coverings: What does the law say?
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-15
Face coverings are now mandatory on public transport in England.Passengers caught not complying with the regulations risk being fined £100 and removed from services.We take a look at the new laws: — What is new?Legislation called The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020 came into force on Monday.– What does this mean?It is mandatory to wear a face covering — meaning anything which covers someone's nose and mouth — while using public transport unless you have a reasonable excuse.The rules apply in England and in English a…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/15/face-coverings-what-does-the-law-say/
Surrounded by Liars and Lickspittles, Trump Dares COVID to Kill Him
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-15
Trump campaign officials are spending $400,000 on aggressive pro-Trump ads that ran in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. As I noted last week, these are three places Trump has little chance of winning in 2020 — he lost D.C. in 2016 by a margin of 86.8 points. So why run them? Answer: So Trump will see them during his voracious daily consumption of television and think his…
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Florida Has Largest Daily COVID-19 Spike After RNC Moves to Jacksonville
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-15
Officials in Florida expressed concern about public safety as coronavirus infections hit a record number for the third straight day following the Republican National Committee's decision to relocate part of its annual convention to Jacksonville. | The state saw at least 2,581 new confirmed cases on Saturday, a 35% increase over the previous day. It was th…
truthout.org/articles/florida-has-largest-daily-covid-19-spike-after-rnc-moves-to-jacksonville/
FDA Strips "Emergency Use" Authorization for Trump's "Game-Changer" COVID Drug
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-15
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is rescinding its recommendations on use of a drug once touted by President Donald Trump to be a "game-changer" in the fight against coronavirus. | Hydroxychloroquine was previously given "emergency use" authorization for patients hoping it could help in the treatmen…
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Trump Adviser Complains Boost in Unemployment Benefits Is Too Generous
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-15
With the U.S. jobless rate still at levels not seen since the Great Depression and coronavirus-induced mass layoffs continuing across the nation, millionaire White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow complained Sunday that the $600-per-week increase in unemployment insurance authorized by the CARES…
truthout.org/articles/trump-adviser-complains-boost-in-unemployment-benefits-is-too-generous/
When White People Call the Cops on Black People, They Lay Bare Classic US Racism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-15
By now, everyone should be familiar with the incident in Central Park, when a white woman named Amy Cooper confronted a Black man named Christian Cooper (no relation) and called the police on him, claiming that he was threatening her. The incident was captured on a video that went viral, and the retribution to Amy Cooper was swift. She was excoriated on social media, fired from her job, temporarily had her dog taken from her (the same dog she refused to put on a leash), and now, Gov. Andre…
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U.S. President Trump sparks renewed interest in Juneteenth Celebrations Globally
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
"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
Friday 6/19: ILWU Shutting Down W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
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 | 2020-06-15
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
Friday 6/19: JUNETEENTH: West Coast Port Shutdown
International Longshore and Warehouse Union | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
Meet at 1717 Middle Harbor Road and caravan to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834195.php
American Delusions About COVID-19
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-15
China and South Korea have set examples to the world how to see economies open and productive while taking sensible precautions to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic. By contrast, U.S. libertarians and President Donald Trump on the right, one world liberal internationalists on the soft left have both cost scores of thousands of lives with their childish ideological fantasies and sheer incompetence. | Oblivious to how the global pandemic has already transformed the zeitgeist, Hegel's "Spirit of the Age" the Old Right and Old Left across the United States continue to trade their old accusations at each other, oblivious…
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Statues Fall Amidst Civil War: The Coup vs. the Woke Revolution
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-15
In earlier articles, I noted that America has been skirting the precarious cliff-edge of ancient antagonisms, dating back to the Civil War — Red versus Blue. The two irreconcilable visions of American life: on the one side, the 'Federalists', who partly have morphed into cosmopolitan 'Sorosites', and claim the moral high ground on matters of life; and on the other, a tradition of state co-sovereignty, dating back to the 1871 (the Articles of Confederacy). That divide remains. It is — as it has long been — aside from the FDR era, an overarching frame. Yet, to further roil and complicate an alread…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/15/statues-fall-amidst-civil-war-the-coup-vs-the-woke-revolution/
Israel's Military Occupation Must Be Discussed in the Colonial Context
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-15
In June 1967, Israel displaced over 400,000 Palestinians as a result of the Six-Day War. The Naksa (setback) is the most prominent wave of Palestinians expulsion after the 1948 Nakba, resulting in Israel seizing the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and the West Bank. Decades later, the UN Security Council still feels it accomplished its duty through Resolution 242 which considers Israel's withdrawal from the occupied territories a "principle", rather than an obligation. | The Naksa is synonymous with Israel's military…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/15/israels-military-occupation-must-be-discussed-in-the-colonial-context/
The pandemic is giving rise to conspiracy theorists
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-15
Education Coral WynterIssue 1269 Australia QAnon conspiracy COVID-19 Donald TrumpJu…
greenleft.org.au/content/pandemic-giving-rise-conspiracy-theorists
DNC's Climate Council Urges Party to Go Beyond Biden Plan, Calling for Fracking Ban and $16 Trillion Renewable Energy Investment
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-15
The Democratic National Committee on Monday attempted to dismiss its own climate council as an "insurgent" group that isn't "taken seriously" after the panel released policy guidance that goes far beyond presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's own climate platform. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1166022598_1.jpg …
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Experts Say $17.5 Billion Writedown by BP Prove Oil Giant Knows 'Reserves of Oil and Gas Increasingly Worthless'
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-15
"Big Oil is finally admitting what we've been saying for the last ten years: their reserves of oil and gas are increasingly worthless because there's no way to safely, or profitably, produce them." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/14929149601_0481140f45_o2.jpg …
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'Any Conversation With Me Is Classified,' Trump Claims as He Warns Bolton Over New Book
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-15
"If the book gets out, he's broken the law and I would think that he would have criminal problems—I hope so." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bolton_trump_iran_1.png …
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Thousands march in Minneapolis to oppose police crimes
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-14
Minneapolis, MN — More than 3000 rallied on the Hennepin County Government Center Plaza, June 13, as people across the country rallied and marched against police crimes. The spirited rally was followed by a march through downtown streets. | The protest was initially called by Black Lives Matter Minnesota as an International Solidarity Day of Protest Against Police Terror. The Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar joined the effort, as a part of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repressions' National Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes. The Native Lives Matter Youth Alliance also join…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/14/thousands-march-minneapolis-oppose-police-crimes
Thousands march in Minneapolis to oppose police crimes
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-14
Minneapolis, MN — More than 3000 rallied on the Hennepin County Government Center Plaza, June 13, as people across the country rallied and marched against police crimes. The spirited rally was followed by a march through downtown streets. | The protest was initially called by Black Lives Matter Minnesota as an International Solidarity Day of Protest Against Police Terror. The Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar joined the effort, as a part of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repressions' National Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes. The Native Lives Matter Youth Alliance also join…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/14/thousands-march-minneapolis-oppose-police-crimes
Sanders Proposes 10% Cut to Pentagon Budget For Social Programs
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-14
United States Senator Bernie Sanders announced Friday he will introduce an amendment in the coming days to cut the Department of Defense's US$740 billion budget by 10 percent and redirect that money toward healthcare, housing, and education in the poorest communities. | RELATED: | US Tops World's $1.9 Trillion Military Spending in 2019: Report | "Instead of spending US$740 billion on the Dept. of Defense, let's rebuild communities at home devastated by poverty and incarceration,"
telesurenglish.net/news/Sanders-Proposes-10-Cut-to-Pentagon-Budget-For-Social-Programs-20200614-0006.html
The Corona Pandemic and Trump's Trade War against China: America's Dependence on "Made in China". Potential Disruption of the US Economy
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
Introduction | The US has been threatening China with trade sanctions for several years. At the outset of the Trump administration in January 2017, Washington not only envisaged punitive trade measures, it also called for "an investigation into China's trade practices" …
globalresearch.ca/the-corona-pandemic-and-trumps-trade-war-against-china-americas-dependence-on-made-in-china-potential-disruption-of-the-us-economy/5713552
All the Lies Trump Told the West Point Graduates About American Militarism
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2020-06-14
President Donald Trump and United States Military Academy superintendent Darryl A. Williams salute alongside graduating cadets as the national anthem is played during commencement ceremonies at Plain Parade Field at the United States Military Academy on June 13, 2020 in West Point, New York. Trump addressed the graduating class of 1,107 cadets during a socially-distanced ceremony held amid the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo: John Minchillo-Pool/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-12196373061.jpg …
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Venezuela's Supreme Court Names New National Electoral Council
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-06-14
The Guaido-led opposition vowed to boycott legislative elections due to be held later this year.
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Corporate Media Are Focusing on Race — and Dodging Class
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
Economic exploitation, hidden in plain sight…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834178.php
'EU may recognize Palestinian state if Israel annexes W.Bank'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
The European Union's recognition of Palestine as a state would become "inevitable" if Israel moves forward with its controversial plan to annex the West Bank, Luxembourg's foreign minister has said. | Speaking to German weekly Der Spiegel, Jean Asselborn called for a tougher EU stance against the Israeli government's plan to annex significant parts of the West Bank. | "To simply write reproachful letters would be a humiliation for the EU and would significantly weaken its credibility," Asselborn stressed, suggesting stronger measures like economic sanctions or the recognition of Palestine as a state if Israel doe…
yenisafak.com/en/news/eu-may-recognize-palestinian-state-if-israel-annexes-wbank-3532034
Bill Gates and the Depopulation Agenda. Robert F. Kennedy Junior Calls for an Investigation
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
Robert F Kennedy Jr, an avid Defender of Children's Rights and anti-vaccination activist, has launched a petition sent to the White House, calling for "Investigations into the 'Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation' for Medical Malpractice & Crimes Against Humanity"
globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-and-the-depopulation-agenda-robert-f-kennedy-junior-calls-for-an-investigation/5710021
Washington Struggles to Manage the Crisis, but Israel Continues to Benefit
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
The self-inflicted cultural defenestration of what passes for Western Civilization in the United States continues apace. As George Orwell described the process in 1984 | "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every | …
globalresearch.ca/washington-struggles-manage-crisis-israel-continues-benefit/5715870
Health workers left in the lurch as pandemic spreads in Bangladesh
Umer Beigh | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-14
Bangladesh continues to see a high number of COVID-19 cases even two weeks after restrictions were eased. The first case was reported on March and restrictions were in place til May 31. Activist groups had raised concerns that the restrictions were eased without adequate preparations being put in place. Peoples Dispatch spoke to Manisha Chakraborty, International Secretary of the Socialist Student Front, shortly after the restrictions were eased to understand the situation. | Peoples Dispatch (PD): What is the situation in Bangladesh after the government declared the lifting of the nationwide restrictons? | Mani…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/14/health-workers-left-in-the-lurch-as-pandemic-spreads-in-bangladesh/
Video: The Hypersonic Strike Systems of the United States
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
Even two years ago, hypersonic weapons were barely an item of discussion among the US national security establishment. Today these weapons are all the rage. What accounts for that sudden emergence of US interest in this category of weapons, …
globalresearch.ca/video-hypersonic-strike-systems-united-states/5715862
The Statues of White Supremacists. Why Were They Erected in the First Place? Take Them Down? Preserve the History of Their Ugly Past
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
The only thing controversial about taking down statues of white supremacist US and other Western figures is why they were erected in the first place, and why it took so long for a campaign to remove them. | In Britain, over …
globalresearch.ca/take-them-down-preserve-record-their-ugly-past/5715857
No End to US Hostility Toward Nonbelligerent North Korea
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
US hostility toward North Korea has nothing to do with national security. | North Korea never posed a threat to the US or any other country since the peninsula was divided post-WW II — just an invented one throughout this period….
globalresearch.ca/us-hostility-toward-nonbelligerent-north-korea/5715854
Keeping the World Safe from Iran's Legitimate Nuclear Program?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
The above headlined Pompeo's hostile May 27 remarks on Iran. | Perpetuating the myth about an Iranian nuclear threat ignores what the whole world knows. | Throughout its existence since the 1950s, Iran's legitimate nuclear program had and still has no military …
globalresearch.ca/keeping-world-safe-iran-legitimate-nuclear-program/5715901
Donald Trump Peacenik? "The American Warrior, Noble and Righteous"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
From day one in office to now, Trump breached virtually all his positive pledges to the American people. | No "transferring power from Washington, DC, and giving it back to you, the people" occurred. | No governance serving all Americans equitably, "starting …
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-peacenik-the-american-warrior-noble-and-righteous/5715899
Sudan's Democratic Revolution is Being Undermined by the United States
Stephen Zunes | commondreams.org | 2020-06-14
Sunset over the Blue Nile river and downtown Khartoum with its Corinthia hotel and GNPOC Tower, Khartoum, Sudan. (Photo: Arik Alojants) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/sunset-blue-nile-river-downtown-khartoum-corinthia-hotel-gnpoc-tower-sudan.-photo-arik-alojants1.jpg …
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Venezuela Denounces Arbitrary Arrest of Alex Saab by Interpol
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-14
The Venezuelan government described the arrest of businessman Alex Saab by Interpol on Saturday as an arbitrary detention that seeks to infringe on the rights of citizens in the Bolivarian Republic. | RELATED: | Venezuela: Supreme Court Designates New Electoral Authorities | Saab was traveling through the island-nation of Cape Verge on Saturday when Interpol arbitrarily arrested him and prevented him from returning home. | According to a statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Min…
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'Dirty political fight': Polish president slams Western media after his comparison of LGBT 'ideology' to communism makes headlines
rt.com | 2020-06-14
Polish President Andrzej Duda accused the Western media of "taking his words out of context" after numerous news articles claimed he equated LGBT "ideology" with communism in a speech. He insisted that he supports equality. | Duda's campaign speech on Saturday, in which he stated that LGBT is an ideology even more sinister than "Bolshevism," was picked up by numerous outlets worldwide. | The president is seeking re-election and conservative voters largely constitute his base. He is expected to face liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who is known for his pro-LGBT position, as his main rival. Extensive fore…
rt.com/news/491812-polish-president-lgbt-western-media/
Young Activist Found Hanging From Tree Near City Hall, Cops Claim It Was Suicide
The Mind Unleashed | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-14
Many people believe it was a hate crime.
theantimedia.com/young-activist-found-hanging-from-tree-near-city-hall-cops-claim-it-was-suicide/
The Movement to Uplift Black Lives and Defund Police Can No Longer Be Ignored
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
On May 25, 2020, the nation ignited after a bystander posted a horrific video of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for over eight minutes. | Now the movement to uplift Black lives, and to defund and dismantle police departments where officers disproportionately kill and brutalize African-American men and women, has grown to a point where it can no longer be ignored. | We'll hear from activists in Minneapolis, mourners in Houston, and we'll go to our archiv…
truthout.org/audio/the-movement-to-uplift-black-lives-and-defund-police-can-no-longer-be-ignored/
'Media? I don't give a sh*t!': Reporter shoved as police chase protesters in Portland (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-14
Police used smoke bombs, flash bangs and brute force to disperse George Floyd protesters in Portland who grew aggressive as night fell. One local reporter got shoved in the process despite shouting he was part of the media. | It was a heated night in Portland as riot police were deployed to prevent protesters from allegedly establishing an 'autonomous zone' — similar to CHAZ in Seattle. | After a peaceful rally earlier in the day, another group of around 1,000 people attempted to dismantle the security fence erected around the Multnomah County Justice Center. | The police said they charged at the proteste…
rt.com/usa/491805-portland-protest-floyd-police/
Three years on, the Grenfell tragedy epitomises the UK's brutal inequality, racism and injustice
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-06-14
On 14 June 2017, the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people. Three years later, bereaved families and survivors still don't have answers, meaningful change, or justice. And amid the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and growing protests against the UK's systemic racism, this anniversary is acutely poignant. Because the Grenfell tragedy epitomises the heart of inequality, racism, and injustice in the UK. | Th…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/06/14/three-years-on-the-grenfell-tragedy-epitomises-the-uks-brutal-inequality-racism-and-injustice/
Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime. The Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
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 …
globalresearch.ca/syria-seattle-commune-defies-us-regime/5715906
Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime. The Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) i
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
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 …
globalresearch.ca/syria-seattle-commune-defies-us-regime/5715906
Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime
Pepe Escobar | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-14
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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/syria-in-seattle-commune-defies-the-u-s-regime/
Protests Break Out in Atlanta After Killing of Rayshard Brooks
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-14
Hundreds of people protested Saturday night in the city of Atlanta in protest of the death on Friday of an African-American shot by a police officer. | RELATED: | Trump's Threat to Send Military Is Illegal, Seattle Mayor Warns | Protesters blocked Interstate 85 and Interstate 75 by disrupting the passage of vehicles, including police cars. | Rayshard Brooks, 27, was killed Friday by a local police officer when he was arrested for falling asleep inside his vehicle in the parking…
telesurenglish.net/news/Protests-Break-Out-in-Atlanta-After-Killing-of-Rayshard-Brooks-20200614-0004.html
Putin Condemns 'Mayhem and Rioting' at US Anti-Racism Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-14
Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized Sunday the violence and mayhem during the anti-racism protests in the United States. | RELATED: | Protests Break Out in Atlanta After Killing of Rayshard Brooks | "If this fight for natural rights, legal rights, turns into mayhem and rioting, I see nothing good for the country," Putin said in an interview with Rossiya-1 television, adding that in his country they "have never supported this." | The Russian president said he supports U.
telesurenglish.net/news/Putin-Condemns-Mayhem-and-Rioting-at-US-Anti-Racism-Protests-20200614-0009.html
African Countries Call for Urgent UN Debate Over Racism
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-14
African countries on Friday called on the United Nation Human Rights Council to urgently debate racism and police impunity, amid growing protests over George Floyd's death in the United States and other parts of the world. | RELATED: | 'Stop the Pain', George Floyd's Brother Demanded From Congress | In a letter written on behalf of 54 African countries, Burkina Faso's ambassador to the UN in Geneva asked the UN's top rights body for an "urgent debate" on "racially inspired human ri…
telesurenglish.net/news/African-Countries-Call-for-Urgent-UN-Debate-Over-Racism-20200613-0012.html
Atlanta Police Shoot and Kill Rayshard Brooks as Protests Continue Worldwide
Jessica Corbett | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-14
"This is not the first time a black man has been killed for sleeping."
theantimedia.com/atlanta-police-shoot-kill-rayshard-brooks-as-protests-continue-worldwide/
Protests across Chicago mark National Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-14
Chicago, IL – Protesters demand the mass exoneration of everyone tortured and framed by Chicago cop Reynaldo Guevara. It was one of the three demonstrations that took place in Chicago, June 13. Cites across the U.S. participated in the National Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes called by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/14/protests-across-chicago-mark-national-day-action-stop-police-crimes
Protests across Chicago mark National Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-14
Chicago, IL – Protesters demand the mass exoneration of everyone tortured and framed by Chicago cop Reynaldo Guevara. It was one of the three demonstrations that took place in Chicago, June 13. Cites across the U.S. participated in the National Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes called by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/14/protests-across-chicago-mark-national-day-action-stop-police-crimes
US State Propaganda Outlets Censor Black Lives Matter Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
With a budget that hovers around $100 million, RFE/RL broadcasts to something like to 22 countries in 26 languages. And the same censorship regime extends to just about every RFE/RL language division. | I've looked at about a dozen of them. Most have no coverage of the protests at all. A couple — like the Russian and Afghanistan division — do have a tiny protest stories, but they are given very little attention. | In the case of RFE/RL's Russian coverage, the protests are presented from the most reactionary perspective possible: denying racism and blaming the violence on organized armed anarchist comm…
popularresistance.org/us-state-propaganda-outlets-censor-black-lives-matter-protests/
George Floyd, Coronavirus And Inequality Stealing Black Lives
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
Several Black protesters have said, "If the police don't get you, the coronavirus will." Floyd pleaded for mercy as Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into his neck until Floyd could no longer breathe. His death triggered the protests of the past week. But the issues that have driven people to the streets are the same as those identified in the 1968 Kerner report. Over the years, the report has become a benchmark for racial progress. Though it is typically cited for indicting a white, paternalistic perspective in the news media, it also proclaimed "white racism" as the catalyst for the unrest, condemned polic…
popularresistance.org/george-floyd-coronavirus-and-inequality-stealing-black-lives/
A Tale Of Two Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
The rebellions in Hong Kong and Minneapolis have received vastly different responses from the U.S. ruling class. In Minneapolis, masses of people took to the streets on May 26th to express their outrage over the police murder of George Floyd and the many Black Americans who have shared a similar fate. The rebellion quickly spread to cities across the country with corporations, police stations, and even the CNN headquarters in Atlanta, GA all facing some form of property destruction. Protestors in Hong Kong have been treated with honor from the corporate media in stark contrast to the homegrown uprisings occurring…
popularresistance.org/a-tale-of-two-protests-2/
The World On Fire
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
Protests from London to Paris; from Berlin to Nairobi; from Toledo, Ohio, to Tokyo, Japan. | Protests in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and against police aggression and racism. | Protests stemming from the cruel brutality that led to the slow-motion killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn. | The solidarity from Sydney, Australia, stems in part from the long-standing discontent from the dark Aborigines, the Indigenous communities in Australia and New South Wales, who like Black folk in America, have suffered from generations of state repression. And how have the cops responded to this challenge? With tan…
popularresistance.org/the-world-on-fire/
Police in Armenia Says Arrested Over 250 Pro-Opposition Protesters Over Breach of Lockdown
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
YEREVAN (Sputnik) – Armenian police have detained over 250 people who gathered in front of the National Security Service (NSS) building in the capital of Yerevan over violation of social distancing rules, law enforcement said in a statement.
sputniknews.com/asia/202006141079613209-police-in-armenia-says-arrested-over-250-pro-opposition-protesters-over-breach-of-lockdown/
Thousands of Greek protesters sent message: "I can't breathe. Break the chains of exploitation!"
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-14
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following account by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) of the June 11 protests. | Thousands of workers protested in Athens and other Greek cities, on June 11, against the system that creates poverty and unemployment, war and refugees, racism and all forms of discrimination. | In Athens, starting with the rally in Syntagma, outside the Greek parliament and marching to the U.S. embassy, workers from all the sectors, from different workplaces, along with the self-employed, students and other young people, took part in the first rally organized after the end of the restric…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/14/thousands-greek-protesters-sent-message-i-can-t-breathe-break-chains-exploitation
Thousands of Greek protesters sent message: "I can't breathe. Break the chains of exploitation!"
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-14
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following account by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) of the June 11 protests. | Thousands of workers protested in Athens and other Greek cities, on June 11, against the system that creates poverty and unemployment, war and refugees, racism and all forms of discrimination. | In Athens, starting with the rally in Syntagma, outside the Greek parliament and marching to the U.S. embassy, workers from all the sectors, from different workplaces, along with the self-employed, students and other young people, took part in the first rally organized after the end of the restric…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/14/thousands-greek-protesters-sent-message-i-can-t-breathe-break-chains-exploitation
Man arrested for urinating on memorial during London protest
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
A 28-year old man has been arrested on suspicion of urinating on the memorial of a murdered policeman during far-right protests in central London on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.The man is in custody in Essex, east of London, after presenting himself at a police station, the police said.Far-right protesters clashed in London on Saturday with anti-racist demonstrators and with police trying to keep the two sides apart.Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the violence, saying "racist thuggery has no place on our streets".The Westminster memorial honours PC Keith Palmer who was murdered while on duty at…
yenisafak.com/en/world/man-arrested-for-urinating-on-memorial-during-london-protest-3532032
Defunding will not solve anything, it's the 'system' that is broken — police commander Travis Yates to RT
rt.com | 2020-06-14
Protesters in the US are calling for law enforcement defunding, but that would hardly solve anything since the problem lies with how the state manages the policing system, Travis Yates, a police commander in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said. | Many Americans that have joined the protests against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's killing by a cop are not demanding the authorities defund the police or abolish the law enforcement system entirely. This idea has been declared the "main goal" by anarchists who created an "autonomous zone" in Seattle and was even supported by some celebrities earlier. | However, th…
rt.com/usa/491753-us-police-system-broken-defunding/
Atlanta police offer $10,000 bounty for 'masked white woman' & others suspected of torching Wendy's amid Rayshard Brooks protests
rt.com | 2020-06-14
Authorities in Atlanta have offered a hefty reward and published photos of a woman suspected of setting a Wendy's restaurant on fire during the protest against the police killing of Rayshard Brooks at the fast-food's parking lot. | "Crime Stoppers Greater Atlanta is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the individuals responsible for starting a fire that led to the destruction of a Wendy's restaurant at 125 University Avenue," police said in a tweet on Sunday. | @StopCrimeATL is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the individu…
rt.com/usa/491813-atlanta-police-wendys-suspects/
Atlanta police officer sacked after another fatal shooting of a Black man
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-14
An Atlanta police officer has been sacked following the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks — a Black man. Another has been placed on administrative duty, the police department has announced.The shooting came at a time of heightened tension over police brutality and calls for reforms across the US following the death of Floyd in Minneapolis. Atlanta was one of the cities where large crowds of protesters took to the streets.Demonstrators, including members of Brooks' family, gathered outside the restaurant where he was shot.The moves follow the resignation of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields, who stepped down…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/06/14/atlanta-police-officer-sacked-after-another-fatal-shooting-of-a-black-man/
Protesters Take to the Streets in Atlanta After Police Kill Rayshard Brooks
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
Demands for accountability and sweeping reforms mounted Saturday after Atlanta police shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, Friday night amid a wave of global protests against police violence and systemic racism sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis late last month. | In a message to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Saturday, the Georgia NAACP tweeted that the city's police departm…
truthout.org/articles/protesters-take-to-the-streets-in-atlanta-after-police-kill-rayshard-brooks/
House Dems' Reforms Are Not Enough — Congress Must End Federal Policing Funding
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
The unending killing of Black people at the hands of police forces, and the sustained, relentless and highly visible police violence inflicted on protesters represent a grave and immediate national crisis. | The Justice in Policing Act put forth by House Democrats attempts to address this moment, but falls frighteningly short. We will not see any end to this crisis until the federal…
truthout.org/articles/house-dems-reforms-are-not-enough-congress-must-end-federal-policing-funding/
Fatal encounters with the cops in Oakland
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
Protest Against Police Brutality and Killer Cops:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/13/18834208.php
US tech giants aid police militarization and surveillance
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
Despite issuing statements of sympathy for protesters demanding an end to police violence and racism, tech corporations are integral to the increasing militarization of the police.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/13/18834213.php
U.S. Police: Why Nothing Will Change
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-14
With America in turmoil following the murder of George Floyd, the talk is all about police reform — defunding them, abolishing them, or subjecting them to greater federal oversight. It brings to mind the nineteenth-century British member of parliament who supposedly cried out in despair, "Reform! Reform! My God, aren't things bad enough as they are?" | But not to worry: short of revolution, nothing will happen. Once the shouting dies down and protesters go home, reform will be forgotten and the status quo will return in full force. Cops will tread more carefully, but only for a while. Eventually, they'll re…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/14/u-s-police-why-nothing-will-change/
In the War for Social Justice, Academic Freedom Is an Early Casualty
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-14
Debra J. SAUNDERS | In the war for social justice, academic freedom is an early casualty. | Consider the plight of UCLA Accounting Professor Gordon Klein. | A student sent Klein an email, screenshots of which were reviewed by Inside Higher Ed, that asked for "no-harm" grading for the final exam. (That term means counting a grade only if it improves a student's overall course grade.) The student also asked for shorter exams and extended deadlines for black students who attended protests after the death of George Floyd. | Inside Higher Ed described the email as "a request from students who identified themselves as…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/14/in-war-for-social-justice-academic-freedom-early-casualty/
[Commentary] Contact tracing: Can 'Big tech' come to the rescue, and if so, at what cost?
Pratik Sinha, Alastair E Paterson | thelancet.com | 2020-06-14
COVID-19 has resulted in a unique amalgamative failure of economics, healthcare, and society. Without an effective vaccine, the precise mechanism to resuming "normal" activity remains unknown. Public health consensus seems to align on the need to test, trace and isolate infected individuals with a stepwise repeal of lock-down measures. The infrastructure for contact-tracing, however, are woefully underdeveloped worldwide. In the US, it is estimated that 180,000 contact-tracers would be required and only 0.5% of that number currently exist [1].
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Philadelphia Police Threaten Unicorn Riot Reporter After Vigilante Assault
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-14
Philadelphia, PA — On Saturday evening dozens of armed vigilantes gathered in Marconi Plaza in South Philadelphia near a Christopher Columbus statue, ostensibly to "protect it" from vandalism. Several of the men assaulted our reporter on the scene and slashed his bike tires. Philadelphia police…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/philadelphia-police-threaten-unicorn-riot-reporter-after-vigilante-assault/
George Floyd Uprising in Minneapolis–Saint Paul — The First Two Weeks
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-14
Minneapolis, MN — Waves of rage tore through the Twin Cities community after a video of Minneapolis police officers mercilessly killing George Floyd went viral. Fires were lit across the world as a new movement spread rapidly with the goal of dismantling the police and…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/george-floyd-uprising-in-minneapolis-saint-paul-the-first-two-weeks/
Stop the Evictions Before They Start
David Rovics | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-14
Ôªø The system based on a combination of police brutality, mass imprisonment, and evictions at gunpoint may be collapsing, but if it's going to fall in the direction we want it to fall in, we need to push it that way. And if we want to make that happen, we have to organize to stop …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/stop-the-evictions-before-they-start/
Students and Staff Oppose COVID-Inspired Disaster Capitalism on US Campuses
Eleanor Bader | zcomm.org | 2020-06-14
345 colleges consider themselves at risk of closing due to anticipated under-enrollment for the 2020-21 academic year.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/students-and-staff-oppose-covid-inspired-disaster-capitalism-on-us-campuses/
Chile's Health Minister Resigns as Pandemic Hits Hard
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-14
Chile's Health Minister, Jaime Manalich, resigned Saturday amid controversy over the official death toll from COVID-19 in the country that the ministry presented to the World Health Organization (WHO) and citizens. | RELATED: | COVID-19: Brazil and Chile Criticized for Their Data Management | The departure was announced by President Sebastian Piñera, who said that Manalich had spared "no effort" in carrying out his "difficult and noble duty" to protect Chileans' health. He repl…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chiles-Health-Minister-Resigns-as-Pandemic-Hits-Hard-20200613-0010.html
Mayo Clinic launches neutralizing antibody test to advance COVID-19 therapies
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-14
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic has launched a new SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody test in support of the national Expanded Access Program for Convalescent Plasma and other critical research efforts to establish effective therapies and vaccines for COVID-19. The test will be available through Mayo Clinic Laboratories to select labs, blood banks, and biopharma clients in …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-launches-neutralizing-antibody-test-to-advance-covid-19-therapies/
Leaked: "Deadly" Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to treat Covid 19: How the World's Top Medical Journals, The Lancet and NEJM, Were Cynically Exploited by Big Pharma
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
Abstract and Background | A publishing scandal recently erupted around the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to treat Covid 19. It is also known as quinine and chloroquine, and is on the WHO list of essential medicines.[i] | The bark …
globalresearch.ca/leaked-deadly-hcq-world-top-medical-journals-lancet-nejm-exploited-big-pharma/5715859
Who should get COVID-19 testing?
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-14
Dr. Bobbi Pritt, a clinical microbiologist at Mayo Clinic, acknowledges that there seems to be a lot of confusion with the general public when it comes to COVID-19 testing. Terms like viral, molecular, serology and antibodies, and convalescent plasma have sprung up in everyday language when talking about COVID-19 — but do you really need …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/who-should-get-covid-19-testing/
Brazil Tops 850,000 COVID-19 Cases as Virus Plagues Country
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-14
In the last 24 hours, Brazil has registered 892 new deaths from the virus with 21,704 new cases, according to the health ministry. | RELATED: | Covid-19: Brazil Will Produce China's Coronavac | Sao Paulo, the epicenter of the virus in Brazil and the country's most populous state, has registered 172,875 cases and 10,581 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro with 78,836 cases and 7,592 deaths, and Ceara with 76,429 cases and 4,829 deaths. | Brazil, with the second-highest number of cases in the worl…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Tops-850000-COVID-19-Cases-as-Virus-Plagues-Country-20200614-0003.html
Big 5 of COVID: Guess what is common to these top affected countries
Subodh Varma | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-14
The US, Brazil, Russia, India and the United Kingdom have larger than life leaders, but the pandemic has exposed their flaws, at great cost…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/14/big-5-of-covid-guess-what-is-common-to-these-top-affected-countries/
UN chief in 'support migrants' plea, as remittances drop by 20 per cent predicted
news.un.org | 2020-06-14
Marking International Day of Family Remittances, The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has released a message appealing for "people everywhere" to support migrants, at a time when remittances — the money migrants send home to support their families — have fallen by more than $100 billion, causing hunger, lost schooling and deteriorating health, for tens of millions of families.
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How the Coronavirus could be a Climate Game Changer
Sà∂ren Amelang | zcomm.org | 2020-06-14
"Nobody wants life to stay the way it was during the pandemic. But some new routines we should maintain, because they serve the environment and quality of life."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-the-coronavirus-could-be-a-climate-game-changer/
Corrupt Propositions: AstraZeneca and the Coronavirus Vaccine Drive
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
Putting your destiny into the hands of a drug company is much like seeking reassurances from an opportunistic pimp. The returns are bound to mixed, dressed up in deceptive language. The promises, however, are always remarkable. The back-breaking pace in …
globalresearch.ca/astrazeneca-public-institutions-coronavirus-vaccine-drive/5715891
Take a good hard look at the new Britain we all now live in
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-14
By TruePublica Editor: It's all desperately sad to watch, isn't it? At TruePublica we have consistently warned since David Cameron's 2015 electoral win that Britain was in grave danger. We warned that Cameron, little more than an over-privileged corporate public relations agent would usher in the decline of Britain leading to a proud nation circling …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/take-a-good-hard-look-at-the-new-britain-we-all-now-live-in/
Corporations Now Love 'Black Lives'–But What About Their Own Black Workers?
Toni Gilpin | zcomm.org | 2020-06-14
Never underestimate the American business community's capacity for hypocrisy…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/corporations-now-love-black-lives-but-what-about-their-own-black-workers/
The People Will Rise
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
There is only one solution for the insane mess that goes under the name of 'democracy' to day, and that is to return to human scale largely self governing communities. | This was the great cry that went up in 1381 …
globalresearch.ca/people-will-rise/5715890
State Money Funded Ecuador's 2018 Referendum: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-14
A campaign for a 2018 constitutional referendum pushed by President Lenin Moreno aimed to fight corruption in Ecuador was allegedly financed corruptly with millions of dollars from public funds, a local media revealed Sunday. | RELATED: | Ecuador: Ex-President Bucaram Detained for Alleged Corruption | Citing sources close to Ecuador's Moreno, reporters presented in a video on social media documents reportedly revealing that the campaign for the referendum was run using state res…
telesurenglish.net/news/Public-Resources-Funded-Ecuadors-2018-Anti-Corruption-Campaign-Report-20200614-0010.html
The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?
Vicky Peláez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
This incisive and carefully researched article was first published by Global Research twelve years ago in March 2008. | Things have got worse since 2008. African-Americans and Latinos are routinely the victims of arbitrary arrest, incarceration and inhumane exploitation in America's …
globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
Collapse of the British Empire, The Round Table Movement, Canada's Untold History
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
This article was originally published by Matthew Ehret on The Canadian Patriot in November 2018. | Canada's struggle for existence as a sovereign nation has been caught between two opposing views of mankind represented by the British and American System of …
globalresearch.ca/collapse-of-the-british-empire-the-round-table-movement-canadas-untold-history/5715353
Video: Ciao Giuletto: Giulietto Chiesa Intervista. La Voce Interiore della Siria
Giulietto Chiesa | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
globalresearch.ca/video-ciao-giuletto-giulietto-chiesa-intervista-la-voce-interiore-della-siria/5715392
Legal Scholars: Annexation of Occupied West Bank a "Flagrant Violation of Bedrock Rules of International Law"
The Palestinian News & Info Agency | imemc.org | 2020-06-14
More than 100 public international law scholars have signed an open letter addressed to top Israeli government officials condemning Israel's plan to illegally annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank. "We, the undersigned, scholars of public international law, are writing to express our grave concern regarding the intention of …
imemc.org/article/legal-scholars-annexation-of-occupied-west-bank-a-flagrant-violation-of-bedrock-rules-of-international-law/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legal-scholars-annexation-of-occupied-west-bank-a-flagrant-violation-of-bedrock-rules-of-international-law
Egypt Accuses Ethiopia of Hindering Nile Dam Talks
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-14
Egypt and Sudan said Saturday that talks over a dam on the Nile River will resume Monday, amid Egyptian accusations that "many fundamental issues" are still rejected by Ethiopia, the third party to the talks. | RELATED: | Libya's Haftar Backs Ceasefire Following Series of Losses | After months of hiatus, Sudanese, Egyptian, and Ethiopian water and irrigation ministers restarted talks last week with observers from the United States, the European Union, and South Africa. | Egypt's irri…
telesurenglish.net/news/Egypt-Accuses-Ethiopia-of-Hindering-Nile-Dam-Talks-20200614-0007.html
Latam Journalists Ask the UN to Help Free Palestinian Peers
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-14
Hundreds of Latin American journalists and media institutions have called last week on the United Nations (U.N.) to urgently intervene for the release of the Palestinian journalists currently held in Israeli prisons across the Israeli-occupied territories. | RELATED: | Life Sentence Sought for Jewish Settler Killer of Palestinian Family | The Journalist Support Committee has issued Thursday a statement to confirm that at least 20 journalists were currently locked in Israeli jails wher…
telesurenglish.net/news/LatAm-Journalists-Ask-the-UN-to-Help-Freeing-Palestinian-Peers–20200614-0008.html
I Reckon We Can Win This Thing
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-14
Everything keeps accelerating. | That seems to be the trend here currently. Things don't appear to necessarily be getting better or worse at this point in time, they're just accelerating. | It's all moving faster and faster. Major news events are getting closer and closer together, people are becoming more and more aware of more and more important dynamics they were previously asleep to, political movements are suddenly picking up steam in a way many analysts never expected to see in their lifetime, and Ame…
Opening India's food economy to demands of imperialism
Prabhat Patnaik | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-14
Every step in the direction of opening agriculture to global trade — as announced in the three ordinances by the Modi government — is a step towards reducing domestic food availability.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/14/opening-indias-food-economy-to-demands-of-imperialism/
Rename the Army Posts—These 10 Soldiers Deserve the Honor
Andrew Bacevich & Danny Sjursen | commondreams.org | 2020-06-14
Top row, from left: memorial to Robert Gould Shaw in Boston; Alvin York; a bust of Lt. Henry Flipper; then-Capt. Josephine Nesbit; bottom row, from left: Daniel Inouye in 1959; George McGovern in 1972; Chief Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson in 1969; a bust of Geronimo in the museum at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma. (Photos: Associated Press) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/blank_955_x_500.jpg …
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I Reckon We Can Win This Thing
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-14
That seems to be the trend here currently. Things don't appear to necessarily be getting better or worse at this point in time, they're just accelerating. | It's all moving faster and faster. Major news events are getting closer and closer together, people are becoming more and more aware of more and more important dynamics they were previously asleep to, political movements are suddenly picking up steam in a way many analysts never expected to see in their lifetime, and America's previous revolutionary fig…
Human Rights Expert Hopes COVID-19, Climate Change And Racial Injustice Are A 'Wake-Up Call'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
The optimistic way is to see Covid-19 as a trial run for what's on the way with climate change in the sense that it really is a crisis that has affected vast numbers of people that has shown up the importance of being prepared and the importance of listening to the warning signals, and the potential for totally disproportionate impact on different groups of the population–whether by gender, class, race and so on. Covid-19 could provide some sort of wake-up call to those of us who are pretending that climate change is going to be manageable and we don't really need to do anything until it actually starts to…
popularresistance.org/human-rights-expert-hopes-covid-19-climate-change-and-racial-injustice-are-a-wake-up-call/
Non-Black People Of Color Are Mobilizing To End Complicity In Black Death
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
The complicity of an Asian American officer in the murder of George Floyd is forcing Asian American communities across the country to face the ongoing ways in which we have benefited from and acted in complicity with broader systems of white supremacy. | Even though the vast majority of the police officers and vigilantes most directly responsible for killing Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and the countless other Black people who have been killed have been white, we Asian Americans, and other non-Black people of color, do not get to look away or make anti-Black racism a problem that whit…
popularresistance.org/non-black-people-of-color-are-mobilizing-to-end-complicity-in-black-death/
Government, not scientific advisors, to lead decisions over ending lockdown measures
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-14
Ministers rather than the government's scientific advisers will take the final decision on whether to ease the two-metre social distancing rule, chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.Sunak confirmed that Boris Johnson has ordered a "comprehensive review" of the rule in England as the government continues its lifting of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions.Ministers are bowing to intense pressure from Conservative MPs who see the easing of the two-metre rule as crucial to the further reopening of the economy.He said that it would look at the issue "in the round", drawing on advice from economists as well as scientific…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/14/government-not-scientific-advisors-to-lead-decisions-over-ending-lockdown-measures/
Number of Injured in Earthquake in Eastern Turkey Reaches 18
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
ANKARA (Sputnik) – People who have sustained injuries as a result of a magnitude 5.7 quake in the eastern Turkish province of Bingol count 18, Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Sunday.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006141079612990-number-of-injured-in-earthquake-in-eastern-turkey-reaches-18/
World Blood Donor Day observed during pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
World Blood Donor Day this year once again will be held on June 14, but in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.It was established in 2004 to raise awareness of the need for safe blood, and to thank donors for their life-saving gift.The event provides a valuable opportunity to donors to celebrate and commemorate the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, a biologist and doctor who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the ABO blood group system.About 118.4 million blood donations are collected worldwide every year. Forty percent are collected in high-income countries — home to 16% of the world's population.About 13,300…
yenisafak.com/en/news/world-blood-donor-day-observed-during-pandemic-3532035
Iran records 107 new deaths from coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
Iran on Sunday confirmed 107 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,837. | A further 2,472 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 187,427, Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari said. | A total of 148,674 people have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, he said. | Some 1.244 million tests have been done in the country to date, Lari said. | Iran's daily number of COVID-19 cases dropped to around 800 in early May, but since authorities eased restrictions, daily figures have shown an upward trend, especi…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iran-records-107-new-deaths-from-coronavirus-3532036
Delhi to use 500 railway coaches as hospital facilities to fight coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
The coaches will increase Delhi's capacity by 8,000 beds, home minister Amit Shah said on Twitter after a meeting with the capital's chief minister.The government will also ramp up testing in the city, especially in containment zones, conduct a door-to-door health survey of residents and provide sufficient supplies of oxygen cylinders and ventilators, he said.India is the fourth-worst affected country in the world, with cases steadily increasing. It reported a record single-day jump in cases on Sunday, adding nearly 12,000 confirmed infections and taking the total to more than 320,000, according to health ministr…
yenisafak.com/en/world/delhi-to-use-500-railway-coaches-as-hospital-facilities-to-fight-coronavirus-3532037
Top Russian officials' visit to Turkey postponed
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
A planned Sunday visit to Turkey by Russia's foreign and defense ministers has been postponed, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said.In a phone call, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov decided to hold contacts and negotiations between their deputy ministers in the days to come, said a ministry statement.Ministerial talks will also take place at a later date, it said.Russia's foreign and defense ministers were expected in Turkey for dialogue on regional issues.Moscow and Ankara frequently consult on the situation in Syria and Libya, and the two issues, particularly the lat…
yenisafak.com/en/news/top-russian-officials-visit-to-turkey-postponed-3532033
Turkey: Agricultural, animal production hub beyond region
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
Turkey is an agricultural and animal production hub in the region and even for countries beyond, with its high production capacity and food security standards, according to university agriculturalist Orhan Ozcatalbas.The country has the largest agricultural revenue in Europe and is second on a global scale, the professor at Akdeniz University's Agricultural Policy and Extension Department told Anadolu Agency.He said the pandemic increased the importance of food and supply security and the world started to discuss agricultural production's efficiency and capacity.Food security and safety topics will remain on the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-agricultural-animal-production-hub-beyond-region-3532028
Macron Says Over $560 Billion Allocated to Support French Economy Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
PARIS (Sputnik) – The French authorities have allocated about 500 billion euros ($562 billion) to support the country's economy amid the crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday.
sputniknews.com/europe/202006141079612820-macron-says-over-560-billion-allocated-to-support-french-economy-amid-covid-19-pandemic/
Scotland's Economy Severely Impacted By Coronavirus Pandemic – Report
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
A new report on Scotland's spending reveals that the country has been hit hard economically due to the coronavirus pandemic. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called on the UK government to extend their support for Scottish businesses and employees.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006141079611486-scotlands-economy-severely-impacted-coronavirus/
US Stock Futures Fall in Overnight Trading, Implying More Losses on Monday Morning
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
Investors have been concerned recently about reports of a second wave of coronavirus and a prolonged period of up to two years for the world's largest economy to recover from the pandemic.
sputniknews.com/us/202006141079613007-us-stock-futures-fall-in-overnight-trading-implying-more-losses-on-monday-morning/
Turkey Launches New Offensive Against Kurdish Militants in Iraq's North, Defence Ministry Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Turkish armed forces have launched Operation Claw-Eagle in northern Iraq against forces of the Kurdistan Workers' Party and the Kurdish People's Protection Units, referred jointly as PKK/YPG and designated as terrorists by Ankara, Turkish media reported on Monday, citing the country's Ministry of Defence.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006141079613043-turkey-launches-new-offensive-against-kurdish-militants-in-iraqs-north-defence-ministry-says/
Militants Shell Settlements in Syria's Latakia, Idlib, Aleppo, Russian Military Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* terrorist group has attacked settlements in Syria's provinces of Idlib, Aleppo, and Latakia, Rear Admiral Alexander Shcherbitsky, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry's centre for Syrian reconciliation, said on Sunday.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006141079612736-militants-shells-settlements-in-syrias-latakia-idlib-aleppo-russian-military-says/
COVID-19 has no effect on Armed forces' missions: Maj. Gen. Bagheri
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Chief of General Staff of Iranian Armed Force, Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri said that the Armed Forces have resumed their regular activities since mid-April after a short pause.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159794/COVID-19-has-no-effect-on-Armed-forces-missions-Maj-Gen-Bagheri
VIDEO: Deadly explosion in China
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas exploded on a highway near the Chinese city of Taizhou in Jiangxi Province which left 19 people dead and 166 others injured.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159804/VIDEO-Deadly-explosion-in-China
Austria felicitates Ghalibaf on election as Iran's Parl. speaker
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — President of the Austrian National Council Wolfgang Sobotka has sent a message to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf over his election as Parliament Speaker.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159791/Austria-felicitates-Ghalibaf-on-election-as-Iran-s-Parl-speaker
Iranian Red Crescent Society prepares 2000 livelihood foodstuff packages
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Iranian Red Crescent Society prepares some 2000 livelihood foodstuff packages in Azadi Indoor Stadium for distributing among the needy and underprivileged class of society.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/159802/Iranian-Red-Crescent-Society-prepares-2000-livelihood-foodstuff
FM Zarif lands in Turkey for bilateral talks
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Istanbul Airport, Turkey on Sunday for two-day visit.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159807/FM-Zarif-lands-in-Turkey-for-bilateral-talks
'Copper Notes of a Dream' to go to New Zealand's Doc Edge festival
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — Iranian documentary 'Copper Notes of a Dream' by Reza Farahmand will go on screen at the Oscar-qualifying Doc Edge Film Festival 2020, which will be held online in Auckland, New Zealand, from June 12 to July 5.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159774/Copper-Notes-of-a-Dream-to-go-to-New-Zealand-s-Doc-Edge-festival
Iran refinery gas output registers annual growth: NIGC official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — The spokesperson of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Mohammadi Asgari, announced on Sunday that the average gas production at Iran's refineries stood at 674 million cubic meters per day which were 24 mcm/d more than the same time last year.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159798/Iran-refinery-gas-output-registers-annual-growth-NIGC-official
Hashd al-Sha'abi launches anti-ISIL operation in Samarra
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Iraqi Hashd al-Sha'abi forces launched a new counter-terrorism operation in southern Samarra on Sunday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159806/Hashd-al-Sha-abi-launches-anti-ISIL-operation-in-Samarra
Maneuver to supply livelihood packages for needy children
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — In a ceremony on Sunday, with the participation of the Commander of Mohammad Rasulullah Division of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Yazdi, a maneuver on the distribution of livelihood packages for needy children was held in Tehran.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/159788/Maneuver-to-supply-livelihood-packages-for-needy-children
Economic revival, border openings & no tax hikes, Macron unveils his plans for post-Covid-19 France
rt.com | 2020-06-14
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the next stage of easing coronavirus restrictions in a televised address, two weeks ahead of delayed local elections which do not look promising for his party. The president attempted to lighten the mood of his fellow citizens by telling them France enters the "Green Zone" — a lower state of alert over the epidemic — starting Monday. That means that Paris restaurants in particular can now operate as normal, he said. | "The fight against the epidemic is not finished but I am happy about this first victory against the virus," Macron stated. He also promise…
rt.com/newsline/491810-macron-economic-revival-france-covid/
Disturbing NEW VIDEO shows cop standing guard as George Floyd dies
rt.com | 2020-06-14
New video footage from the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin shows fellow officer Tou Thao standing between Floyd and a crowd of horrified bystanders, who plead with Thao to intervene and save Floyd's life. | A graphic video clip released by Floyd family attorney Benjamin Crump on Sunday shows the killing of Floyd from a new angle, and casts police officer Tou Thao in a damning light. | "This is beyond disturbing, even harder to watch than the first video," Crump captioned the five-minute clip. "Tou Thao stood guard as Derek Chauvin MURDERED George Floyd … while witnesses of the executi…
rt.com/usa/491808-george-floyd-new-video/
Couple falsely arrested by armed police receive apology and £200,000 police payout
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-14
A couple arrested when armed police stormed their home and held them for 36 hours over the Gatwick Airport drone chaos have received £200,000 in compensation and an apology.Paul and Elaine Gait have settled their claims for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment against Sussex Police, their legal team announced on Sunday.Drone sightings near the runways over a three-day period in December 2018 caused chaos, with the airport being repeatedly forced to close.Travellers excited for Christmas-time getaways were horrified as flights were cancelled in droves as police investigated the sightings.No-one has ever be…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/14/couple-falsely-arrested-by-armed-police-receive-apology-and-200000-police-payout/
Hospital's COVID-19 Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
Albuquerque, New Mexico — A prominent women's hospital here has separated some Native American women from their newly born babies, the result of a practice designed to stop the spread of COVID-19 that clinicians and health care ethicists described as racial profiling. | Lovelace Women's Hospital in Albuquerque implemented a secretive policy in recent months to conduct special coronavirus screenings for pregnant women, based on whether they appeared to be Native American, even if they…
truthout.org/articles/hospitals-covid-19-policy-separated-native-american-mothers-from-their-newborns/
Spiraling Eviction Crisis Threatens More Renters With Homelessness
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
Tonya Cooper grew up on the south side of Newark, Ohio. Her dad suffered from alcoholism and severe personality disorders, ultimately landing him in a mental hospital. Her mom took odd jobs in the city when she could, but raising 17 kids — only eight survived — didn't leave much spare time for work. | The family moved frequently between shanty houses and shacks, and Cooper didn't have running water until she was in high school. She recalls vividly being teased at school for wearing dirty, m…
truthout.org/articles/spiraling-eviction-crisis-threatens-more-renters-with-homelessness/
Defunding the Police Is Not the End Goal. It's the First Step
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
For many of us, this current moment is all too reminiscent of 2016, following the deaths of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and Korryn Gaines, when it seemed like social media had nothing to share but Black death. However, instead of calls for increased police training, revised use of force policies and diversity in hiring, a new and important call has taken hold — defunding the police. | This could be because, for all intents and purposes, Minneapolis had a reformed police department. The city had dev…
truthout.org/articles/defunding-the-police-is-not-the-end-goal-its-the-first-step/
U.S. President Trump sparks renewed interest in Juneteenth Celebrations Globally
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
"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
ILWU Work Action On W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
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
Friday 6/19: ILWU Shutting Down W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
SSA Terminals 1717 Middle Harbor Road at the Port of Oakland to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834197.php
Friday 6/19: JUNETEENTH: West Coast Port Shutdown
International Longshore and Warehouse Union | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
Meet at 1717 Middle Harbor Road and caravan to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834195.php
The New Cold War With China
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-14
Michael T. KLARE | America's pundits and politicians have largely concluded that a new Cold War with China — a period of intense hostility and competition falling just short of armed combat — has started. "Rift Threatens U.S. Cold War Against China," as a New York Times headline put it on May 15th, citing recent clashes over trade, technology, and responsibility for the spread of Covid-19. Beijing's decision to subject Hong Kong to tough new security laws has only further heightened s…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/14/the-new-cold-war-with-china/
The Enemy Within: A Story of the Purge of American Intelligence
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-14
"Western Europe has only 20 to 30 more years of democracy left in it; after that it will slide, engineless and rudderless, under the surrounding sea of dictatorship, and whether the dictation comes from a politburo or a junta will not make that much difference." | — Willy Brandt (German Federal Chancellor, right before he stepped down in 1974) | Believe it or not, but the dystopic view that democracy is dead is by no measure a new idea. However, what might disturb you is where this design, in its contemporary form, really germinated from. | The idea that democracy is in a crisis and needs to be replaced with…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/14/enemy-within-story-purge-american-intelligence/
VIDEO: The EU Continues to Talk Utter Baloney About Libya
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-14
Although Obama's America is most often blamed for igniting Libya's chaos France, the UK and Italy's militaries played no less of a role.
strategic-culture.org/video/2020/06/14/video-eu-continues-to-talk-utter-baloney-about-libya/
USA Plan: Militarized Control of Population. The "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan"
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
The Rockefeller Foundation has presented the "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan", indicating the "pragmatic steps to reopen our workplaces and our communities". However, it is not simply a matter of health measures. The Plan prefigures a real hierarchical and militarized social model.
globalresearch.ca/usa-plan-militarized-control-population/5713839
Amid Growing Death Toll in Brazil, Bolsonaro's Handling of the Covid-19 Pandemic Condemned as 'Pitiful'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-14
Brazil is now second only to the United States in terms of both Covid-19 cases and deaths, and its daily death toll is the highest in the world—conditions that public health officials within and beyond the South American country continue to partly blame on far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's "reckless" response to the pandemic. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12194079811.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/14/amid-growing-death-toll-brazil-bolsonaros-handling-covid-19-pandemic-condemned?cd-origin=rss
Wikipedia Formally Censors The Grayzone
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
Internet encyclopedia giant Wikipedia is censoring independent news websites by adding them to an official blacklist of taboo "deprecated" media outlets. | The Grayzone is among the news websites targeted by the censorship campaign. Others include leftist and anti-imperialist outlets like MintPress News and the Latin American news broadcaster Telesur, along with several prominent right-wing political sites, including the Daily Caller. | The campaign to blacklist The Grayzone was initiated by Wikipedia editors who identify as Venezuelans and openly support the country's right-wing, US-backed opposition. These user…
popularresistance.org/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone/
The Coronavirus Reversal
Glenn Greenwald | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
The Abrupt, Radical Reversal in How Public Health Experts Now Speak About the Coronavirus and Mass Gatherings…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-coronavirus-reversal/
Black Lives Don't Matter to the Supreme Court
Fred Silverman , Robert Barnett | commondreams.org | 2020-06-13
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts arrives to the Senate chamber for impeachment proceedings at the U.S. Capitol on January 16, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/john_roberts_impeachment_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/13/black-lives-dont-matter-supreme-court?cd-origin=rss
NYT Erases US Occupation's Role in Prolonging Taliban Insurgency
Joshua Cho | commondreams.org | 2020-06-13
Taliban members gathered under a tree in March in Alingar District of Laghman Province, Afghanistan. (Photo: Jim Huylebroek/New York Times) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/nyt-taliban-photo-1024×5121.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/13/nyt-erases-us-occupations-role-prolonging-taliban-insurgency?cd-origin=rss
International Criminal Court vs US exceptionalism
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-13
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha analyses the decision by the Donald Trump administration to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court. The ICC is conducting a probe into war crimes by the US in Afghanistan.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/13/international-criminal-court-vs-us-exceptionalism/
International Criminal Court oversight chief 'deeply regrets' US decision to target officials investigating Afghanistan war crimes
news.un.org | 2020-06-13
Responding to the decision of the United States Government to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) officials and their family members, O-Gon Kwon, President of the Assembly of States Parties, the body that oversees the ICC, denounced the measures which, he said, undermine the "endeavour to fight impunity and to ensure accountability for mass atrocities".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066292
Service Prosecuting Authority drops all but one investigation into British war crimes in Iraq
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The British government is serving notice that it has no intention of honouring domestic or international law outlawing abuse, torture and murder by its military and security forces.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/iraq-j13.html
Mexico: The Pandemic Undermines the Search for the Disappeared
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-13
The relatives of 61,367 missing people are now facing new obstacles to find their loved ones as the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down the field search operations in Mexico. | RELATED: | Mexico's Human Rights Defenders: Giovanni Lopez Was Executed | "Our rhythm changed completely and drastically due to the pandemic," said Leticia Hidalgo, an activist with the United Forces for Our Disappeared, an organization that operates in Monterrey city, in the state of Nuevo Leon. | During…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-The-Pandemic-Undermines-the-Search-for-the-Disappeared-20200613-0005.html
VIDEO claims to show man threatening people with MACHETE inside activist-held 'autonomous zone' in Seattle
rt.com | 2020-06-13
A video surfaced online purportedly showing a machete-wielding man scaring people inside the 'autonomous' CHAZ enclave set up by activists in the middle of Seattle, Washington. Police have warned of lawlessness in the area. | The short clip that has been circulating on social media shows a man in dark clothes holding what appears to be a machete while strolling near tents set up on a sports field. At one point, the man starts waving his weapon as several bystanders seem to become concerned about his behavior. | Activists established the 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' (CHAZ) in downtown Seattle earlier this…
rt.com/usa/491700-seattle-zone-machete-video/
CHAZ 2.0? Nashville protesters descend on Tennessee Capitol as governor vows 'autonomous zones will not be tolerated'
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Taking cues from Seattle, protesters in Nashville are attempting to create their own "autonomous zone" near the Tennessee Capitol, but the governor is having none of it, warning that "lawlessness" will not stand in his state. | A small group of demonstrators showed up to Nashville's Legislative Plaza near the state capitol on Friday, setting up a tent and tables, laying out food and even informally renaming the area to "Ida B. Wells Plaza" after the famed civil rights leader. The move mirrors a similar effort in Seattle, where activists have occupied several city blocks and an abandoned police station for near…
rt.com/usa/491697-nashville-autonomous-zone-not-tolerated/
I was hacked, Seattle autonomous zone 'warlord' says, as old homophobic tweets surface from his account
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Raz Simone, the self-appointed 'warlord' of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), blames a hacker for "old" tweets, after users found decade-old homophobic posts — similar to what once happened to MSNBC host Joy Reid. | Simone, a rap musician and activist, has risen to prominence as a leading figure in the CHAZ experiment, and his newfound status has brought with it new scrutiny of his record. This week, some right-wing outlets delved deep into his digital footprint and allegedly dug up some unsavory tweets from 2010 in which a homophobic slur was used. The screenshots of the now-deleted tweets have b…
rt.com/usa/491701-mysterious-hackers-seattle-warlord/
Police Have Long History of Responding to Black Movements by Playing the Victim
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
The protests across the country in response to the police killing of George Floyd have led to significant pressure on mayors and city councils. One of the most important demands has been for the defunding of police departments. | Activists in Minneapolis succeeded in getting the University of Minnesota and the public school system to cancel contracts they had with the M…
truthout.org/articles/police-have-long-history-of-responding-to-black-movements-by-playing-the-victim/
Seattle: The Demands Of Collective Black Voices At The CHAZ
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
In credit to the people who freed Capitol Hill, this list of demands is neither brief nor simplistic. This is no simple request to end police brutality. We demand that the City Council and the Mayor, whoever that may be, implement these policy changes for the cultural and historic advancement of the City of Seattle, and to ease the struggles of its people. This document is to represent the black voices who spoke in victory at the top of 12th & Pine after 9 days of peaceful protest while under constant nightly attack from the Seattle Police Department. These are words from that night, June 8th, 2020. | For ea…
popularresistance.org/seattle-the-demands-of-collective-black-voices-at-the-chaz/
Seattle cops banned from using tear gas & stun grenades amid 'anarchist takeover' endorsed by mayor
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Seattle Police have been ordered to stop using pepper spray, tear gas and flash-bang grenades following a lawsuit, further tying their hands as the so-called 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' sprouted around their abandoned precinct. | Handed down by US District Judge Richard Jones on Friday, the order concludes that "on some occasions [Seattle police] used less-lethal weapons disproportionately and without provocation," having a "chilling" effect on free speech amid ongoing demonstrations over police brutality. | "What brings the parties to this Court today are peaceful protesters desiring to engage in their rig…
rt.com/usa/491695-seattle-police-non-lethal-weapons/
People 'are just enjoying themselves': Get insight into life in Seattle's 'autonomous zone' (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-13
'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone', also known as CHAZ, has grabbed the attention of people in the US and beyond ever since it was established earlier this week. RT's Caleb Maupin got a sneak peek into what happens down there. | Established around an abandoned police precinct on June 8, a six-block area of downtown Seattle has since evolved into a sort of commune controlled by anti-police brutality protesters. But how are the Seattle would-be revolutionaries faring in their police-free social experiment? | "Mood here is completely peaceful," Desiree DeLoach, an American travel blogger and anti-capitalist, who foun…
rt.com/usa/491743-chaz-seattle-autonomous-zone-insight/
Right-wing violence escalates and white man urinates next to police memorial
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
A man urinated next to a memorial dedicated to the police officer killed in the Westminster terror attack amid violent clashes between far-right protesters and police in central London.Several hundred demonstrators, mostly white men, attended the protest organised by far-right groups, including Britain First, which claimed they wanted to protect statues such as Winston Churchill from vandalism. Meanwhile, anti-racist Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations were peaceful.But fights erupted in areas near the Houses of Parliament and Trafalgar Square, as demonstrators repeatedly assailed officers with foul-mouthed c…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/13/right-wing-violence-escalates-and-white-man-urinates-next-to-police-memorial/
As nationwide protests over police brutality continue, cities across the US cut and reallocate police funding
Eoin Higgins | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-13
"Policing doesn't work … Yet we keep supporting a system that is clearly broken."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/13/as-nationwide-protests-over-police-brutality-continue-cities-across-the-us-cut-and-reallocate-police-funding/
Black Lives Matter-Lansing event declares racism a public health crisis, confronts mayor
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-13
Lansing, MI – Police brutality protests continue in both Lansing and East Lansing after the downtown march on May 31 but they are not the only challenge to police brutality based in the Lansing metropolitan area. Black Lives Matter-Lansing and One Love Global hosted a live "Call to Action" on Facebook and Eventbrite. | After a spoken word performance and moment of silence for victims of racist violence, One Love Global CEO and Black Lives Matter-Lansing cofounder Angela Waters Austin spoke with panelists from the Ingham County Health Department about public health deficits experienced by African Americans and oth…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/13/black-lives-matter-lansing-event-declares-racism-public-health-crisis-confronts-mayor
Black Lives Matter-Lansing event declares racism a public health crisis, confronts mayor
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-13
Lansing, MI – Police brutality protests continue in both Lansing and East Lansing after the downtown march on May 31 but they are not the only challenge to police brutality based in the Lansing metropolitan area. Black Lives Matter-Lansing and One Love Global hosted a live "Call to Action" on Facebook and Eventbrite. | After a spoken word performance and moment of silence for victims of racist violence, One Love Global CEO and Black Lives Matter-Lansing cofounder Angela Waters Austin spoke with panelists from the Ingham County Health Department about public health deficits experienced by African Americans and oth…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/13/black-lives-matter-lansing-event-declares-racism-public-health-crisis-confronts-mayor
A view of the USA from Portugal: 'Not a riot — rebellion!
Manuel Raposo | workers.org | 2020-06-13
The author is a Portuguese left communist and editor of jornalmudardevida.net. This article was translated by WW Managing Editor John Catalinotto. Hundreds of demonstrators in Brazil gathered outside the office of Rio de Janeiro's governor on May 31, protesting the deaths of Black and favela youth at the hands of . . . | Continue reading A view of the USA from Portugal: 'Not a riot — rebellion! at Workers.org…
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French daily Le Figaro reports that Macron considering early resignation
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The coronavirus pandemic and the international protests against the police murders of George Floyd and Adama Traoré have profoundly destabilized the government.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/macr-j13.html
[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
Minnesota Workers United labor contingent joins justice for George Floyd protest
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-13
Minneapolis, MN – On Thursday, June 11, 3200 protesters gathered at the Hennepin County Government Center demanding justice for George Floyd and real change. Protests had been going on daily, sometimes several per day, for 18 days since the police murder of George Floyd. | While a battle rages over the role of police 'unions,' members of at least seven unions organized and turned out to the protest as part of a labor contingent organized by Minnesota Workers United. The labor contingent also sent several speakers up to the stage to speak and demand justice for George Floyd and to make it clear that police have n…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/12/minnesota-workers-united-labor-contingent-joins-justice-george-floyd-protest
Antiracist protests for George Floyd circle the globe
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2020-06-13
The massive popular and antiracist reaction to the cop murder of George Floyd in the epicenter of world imperialism has inspired an equally massive reaction worldwide. Hundreds of thousands have marched, not only in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, but also against local manifestations . . . | Continue reading Antiracist protests for George Floyd circle the globe at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49301/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=antiracist-protests-for-george-floyd-circle-the-globe
Minnesota Workers United labor contingent joins justice for George Floyd protest
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-13
Minneapolis, MN – On Thursday, June 11, 3200 protesters gathered at the Hennepin County Government Center demanding justice for George Floyd and real change. Protests had been going on daily, sometimes several per day, for 18 days since the police murder of George Floyd. | While a battle rages over the role of police 'unions,' members of at least seven unions organized and turned out to the protest as part of a labor contingent organized by Minnesota Workers United. The labor contingent also sent several speakers up to the stage to speak and demand justice for George Floyd and to make it clear that police have n…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/13/minnesota-workers-united-labor-contingent-joins-justice-george-floyd-protest
Minnesota Workers United labor contingent joins justice for George Floyd protest
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-13
Minneapolis, MN – On Thursday, June 11, 3200 protesters gathered at the Hennepin County Government Center demanding justice for George Floyd and real change. Protests had been going on daily, sometimes several per day, for 18 days since the police murder of George Floyd. | While a battle rages over the role of police 'unions,' members of at least seven unions organized and turned out to the protest as part of a labor contingent organized by Minnesota Workers United. The labor contingent also sent several speakers up to the stage to speak and demand justice for George Floyd and to make it clear that police have n…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/13/minnesota-workers-united-labor-contingent-joins-justice-george-floyd-protest
Massive protests against gender-based violence in Nigeria force government to take measures
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-13
The cabinet has called on all state governments to implement Violence against Persons Prohibition Act (VAPPA), 2015, a key demand of protesters. The parliament's upper house also pushed legislation for protection of victims from stigma.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/13/massive-protests-against-gender-based-violence-in-nigeria-force-government-to-take-measures/
Lebanon: Mass Night Protests as the National Currency Dives
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-13
Citizens took to the streets for the second night in a row to protest against Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab who has failed to control the strong depreciation of the Lebanese pound (L £) against the U.S. dollar. | RELATED: | Lebanon's Govt. to Inquire Into Causes of Currency Devaluation | In Beirut, the country's capital, protesters burned tires, cut roads, and confronted security forces. At least eleven people were injured, according to the Red Cross. | "In our co…
telesurenglish.net/news/Lebanon-Mass-Night-Protests-as-the-National-Currency-Dives-20200613-0007.html
Trump steps up provocations and threats of military force
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
In a Fox News interview Thursday night, Trump labeled Seattle protesters "terrorists" and threatened to call out the military.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/trum-j13.html
The world on fire
Mumia Abu-Jamal | workers.org | 2020-06-13
Guess what? The world is on fire! I don't mean environmental degradation or global warming; no, although that too is true. I refer to protests, not just all across the United States but all around the world. Imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal Protests from London to Paris; from Berlin to Nairobi; . . . | Continue reading The world on fire at Workers.org…
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Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-13
Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and mainstream media are falling all over themselves with censorship and spin jobs to get the narrative back under control as mass protests continue to sweep across America. | In 2017, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed in a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it is their responsibility to "quell information rebellions" and adopt a "mission statement" expressing their commitment to "prevent the fomenting of discord." | "Civil wars don't start…
Black Lives Matter protesters face violence from 'the British KKK'
Eliza Egret | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
Hundreds of racists turned up in London on 13 June to counter-protest a Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstration. As they became violent towards anti-racist protesters and police, one person called them "the British KKK". | The BLM march was officially called off because of concerns that it would be attacked. Witnesses claim that some people present were doing Nazi salutes and shouting "heil Hitler": | Does an…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/06/13/black-lives-matter-protesters-face-violence-from-the-british-kkk/
Claiming sympathy for protesters, US tech giants aid police militarization and surveillance
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
Verizon and AT&T are funding a group dedicated to militarizing local police and working with the security state to expand secret warrantless surveillance of the public.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/tech-j13.html
USA: Hate And Fury
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
The streets of the US are burning. Demonstrations by armed Trump supporters pressing for the opening of the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic have been replaced by protests for the umpteenth police murder of an African American citizen, in this case George Floyd. The reaction is reminiscent of the days of hate and fury that broke out in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who had beaten Rodney King a year earlier. Just two examples of the many that could be used, both recent and old, that demonstrates that American democracy has great difficulties applying within the country what it…
popularresistance.org/usa-hate-and-fury/
To Police Of Good Conscience: These Protests Are For You Too
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
To the police of good conscience: | What if all this demonstrating was also for you? What if the pain you are feeling right now — the pain of feeling misunderstood and mischaracterized — is connected to the same pain expressed by protesters in the streets of Minneapolis, Atlanta, Louisville and hundreds of other cities steeped in grief? You understand that suspicion of theft or fraud doesn't justify murder and whatever legal battles will unfold won't change the morality of that fact. | I know the protest chants and the opinion articles don't cover it all. It's a hard job and the criticism doesn't alwa…
popularresistance.org/to-police-of-good-conscience-these-protests-are-for-you-too/
Right-wing and anti-racism protesters scuffle in Britain
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Anti-racism protesters rallied again around Britain on Saturday, with scuffles breaking out in London as counter-demonstrators also came out to protect monuments targeted for their links to colonial history.Statues of historical figures including Winston Churchill – Britain's World War Two leader whom protesters call a xenophobe – were boarded up to try and minimize trouble.In Trafalgar Square, police separated two groups of about 100 people each, one chanting "Black Lives Matter", the other racial slurs. Some groups jostled, tossed bottles and cans, and set off fireworks, as riot police with dogs and horses line…
yenisafak.com/en/world/right-wing-and-anti-racism-protesters-scuffle-in-britain-3531993
The Heat: U.S. Race Relations & COVID-19
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-06-13
As protests against police brutality and racism sweep across the country, the focus is now shifting to police reform.
america.cgtn.com/2020/06/13/the-heat-u-s-race-relations-covid-19
Video of unarmed black man shot by Atlanta police sparks massive outrage amidst George Floyd protests
rt.com | 2020-06-13
A video of two Atlanta police officers shooting an unarmed black man who later died is sparking massive outrage and accusations of police brutality and racism. Details of the case are still scarce. | Atlanta officers responded to a call of a suspicious person on Friday night that led them to a Wendy's drive-thru where 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was allegedly asleep in his car. | According to the George Bureau of Investigations (GBI), Brooks failed a field sobriety test and resisted when police tried to place him in custody. A stun gun was used by one of the officers, which Brooks tried to take, following whic…
rt.com/usa/491740-atlanta-pd-unarmed-black-man-george-floyd/
Boris Johnson gives stern warning about attacking police, says protests 'subverted by violence'
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Following protesters clashing with police in London, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a warning to anyone targeting police and said demonstrations have been "subverted by violence." | "Racist thuggery has no place on our streets. Anyone attacking the police will be met with full force of the law," Johnson tweeted on Saturday. | The prime minister followed that by saying current protests over police brutality and racial inequality "breach current guidelines." | "These marches & protests have been subverted by violence and breach current guidelines. Racism has no part in the UK and we must work together to…
rt.com/usa/491748-boris-johnson-london-protests/
CDC reminds every public event is Covid-19 risk… after weeks of mass protests & just as Trump is set to hold own rally
rt.com | 2020-06-13
The CDC has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over and that states may be forced to reintroduce lockdowns — just as President Trump prepares to resume his campaign rallies after weeks of crowded protests nationwide. | "If cases begin to go up again, particularly if they go up dramatically, it's important to recognize that more mitigation efforts such as what were implemented back in March may be needed again," the health agency's deputy director for infectious diseases, Jay Butler, told reporters on Friday. | Every activity that involves interacting with others has some degree of risk right n…
rt.com/usa/491696-cdc-trump-rally-protests/
Argentina church transformed into a bar, pastors into waiters to protest coronavirus lockdown measures
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Pastor Daniel Cattaneo has reportedly reopened his church as a bar in order to comply with Argentina's Covid-19 lockdown measures, which he says "discriminate" against religious services. | Cattaneo and other pastors dressed as waiters this week and served their congregation while preaching, a clever way around current lockdown measures which, despite being eased back since Monday, still restrict church services from having more than 10 people while other businesses can reopen at 30-percent capacity, according to local media. | Social distancing measures were kept up and members of the congregation wore masks…
rt.com/news/491725-argentina-pastor-worship-bar-coronavirus/
Solidarity is vital. Here's why The Canary is going Green for Grenfell
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
On 14 June 2017, a fire at Grenfell Tower killed 72 people. Three years later, bereaved families and survivors still don't have answers, meaningful change or justice. And amid the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and growing protests against the UK's systemic racism, this anniversary is acutely poignant. | "Remember, Reflect, Unite": | This year, the anniversary won't take place on the streets. Campaign group Grenfell United have called for people to "remember, reflect and unite" from hom…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/06/13/solidarity-is-vital-heres-why-the-canary-is-going-green-for-grenfell/
Black Lives Matter protesters fill Trafalgar Square
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
Black Lives Matter protesters flocked to London's Trafalgar Square on the afternoon of Friday 12 June, as widespread demonstrations continued following the killing of George Floyd in the US.African American Floyd died after a white police officer held him down by pressing a knee into his neck in Minneapolis on25 May . | Participants in Friday's protest were warned of counter-rallies from the far-right and urged to "stay calm" if they encountered these. They marched to Trafalgar Square, passing Buckingham Palace on the way.(Dominic Lipinski/PA)(Dominic Lipinski/PA)(Kirsty O'Connor/PA)(Kirsty O'Connor/PA)Hundreds o…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/13/black-lives-matter-protesters-fill-trafalgar-square/
The Scourge of Islamophobia in Canada
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-13
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. | — Graeme Truelove, Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North (Nightwood Editions, 2020): location 35% | The police murder of George Floyd set off the powder keg filled by centuries of oppression of Black peoples in the United States. The United States has been beset by countrywide protests, some marred by violence of protestors and po…
ahtribune.com/world/americas/canada/4219-scourge-of-islamophobia.html
[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
[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
[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".
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[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
[Correspondence] Acute liver failure — Authors' reply
R Todd Stravitz, William M Lee | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
We appreciate the additional insights provided by Sandro Vento and Francesca Cainelli regarding the incidence and diagnosis of acute liver failure in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Beyond the differences in known causal factors (viruses, drugs) between high-income countries and LMICs, the predominance of the indeterminate group in these regions is of concern to all. In our study,1 only 5% of patients remained indeterminate after thorough serological testing and review of history and available liver histology.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30054-4/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
[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
[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
[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
Racial Justice Teach-in at Abolish ICE Camp in Aurora CO
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-13
AURORA, CO — The encampment at the GEO Group's ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado, is hosting a teach-in about reparations and racial justice. The Black Hammer will be leading the event. Yesterday was the end of week three for the encampment which is demanding the…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/racial-justice-teach-in-at-abolish-ice-camp-in-aurora-co/
Growing revolt by Black journalists
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-06-13
In an historic week that has witnessed demonstrations, too numerous to count, against police brutality in the aftermath of the brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25, another anti-racist movement is growing. As reports surface of police intentionally targeting journalists across the U.S, especially Black and . . . | Continue reading Growing revolt by Black journalists at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49336/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=growing-revolt-by-black-journalists
Parallels between Minneapolis and Jerusalem are More than Skin Deep
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-13
It is hard to ignore the striking parallels between the recent scenes of police brutality in cities across the United States and decades of violence from Israel's security forces against Palestinians. A video that went viral late last month of a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, killing a black man, George Floyd, by pressing a …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/parallels-between-minneapolis-and-jerusalem-are-more-than-skin-deep/
PDF of June 11 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-06-13
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
Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-13
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/
Will there be another stock market crash in 2020?
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-13
The coronavirus restrictions have led to an unprecedented drop in economic activity. Because the UK's economy relies heavily on the services sector, it has suffered more than many European countries. However, the contraction is certainly global. Furthermore, the second Covid-19 wave has started too. For example, the US is seeing a rise in coronavirus hospitalisations, in …
truepublica.org.uk/newsbits/will-there-be-another-stock-market-crash-in-2020/
Brazil registers world's second-highest COVID-19 toll as stock market soars
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The Brazilian stock market is responding to the unity of the whole ruling class around the back-to-work campaign and the brutal repression of social opposition.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/braz-j13.html
FROM THE FIELD: COVID-19 restrictions leave migrant workers stranded
news.un.org | 2020-06-13
In countries across the world, tens of thousands of migrant workers are finding themselves stranded through travel restrictions, in the hope of curbing the spread of COVID-19.
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Video: Covid Nurse Exposes New York Hospital. People Have Been Lied To. It's Destroying Life. The Numbers are a Lie
Journeyman Pictures | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-13
Registered nurse, Erin Olszewski, spent a month at the epicenter of the epicenter, Elmhurst Hospital in NY. | After witnessing the same malpractice matching testimonies of other outspoken nurses in the U.S., she decided to wear a hidden camera to …
globalresearch.ca/video-covid-nurse-exposes-new-york-hospital/5715848
Beijing Shuts Down Food Market Due to New COVID-19 Cases
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-13
Beijing's health authorities Saturday reinstated confinement measures after a new coronavirus outbreak was detected in the Xinfadi market, which is located in the Fengtai district in the southwest of the city. | RELATED: | Covid-19: Beijing Pauses Schools Due To Fear Of Outbreak | So far, 517 samples have been carried out among traders and employees at the Xinfadi market. Of these, 45 have tested positive for the virus. | On local authorities' orders, Beijing's largest wholesale fresh-…
telesurenglish.net/news/china-new-quarantine-in-11-suburbs-after-local-rebound-20200613-0004.html
COVID-19 hot spot
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2020-06-13
Houston The National Black United Front in Houston toured the Harris County Jail on May 19, Malcolm X's 95th birthday, to observe the conditions facing the prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic. Black prisoners make up half of those incarcerated, despite being only 18 percent of the Harris County adult population. . . . | Continue reading COVID-19 hot spot at Workers.org…
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UK businesses dramatically scaled back or shelved investment plans
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-13
Businesses have dramatically scaled back investment plans for the rest of the year in response to the uncertainty surrounding the future of the UK economy, according to a leading business survey. The Institute of Directors (IoD) said its confidence tracker revealed the Covid-19 crisis had driven down investment intentions among its members for the next 12 months by 11 …
truepublica.org.uk/newsbits/uk-have-dramatically-scaled-back-or-shelved-investment-plans/
Campaigners demand company that 'falsified data' loses coronavirus track-and-trace contract
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
Serco is one of the main companies contracted to deliver the NHS's coronavirus (Covid-19) contact tracing system. However, it has already admitted that it's unlikely this system would "evolve smoothly". This is one of the reasons why campaign group WeOwnIt is calling on health secretary Matt Hancock to: end Serco's role in contact tracing in England now. Pu…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/13/campaigners-demand-company-that-falsified-data-loses-coronavirus-track-and-trace-contract/
As COVID-19 Ravages the Garment Industry, It's Time for Consumers to Stand in Solidarity with the People Who Make Our Clothes
Shahidur Rahman | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
If there was any remaining debate about the sincerity of global fashion's commitment to the people and communities on which it depends, however, it was settled in the wake of the current COVID-19 crisis…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/as-covid-19-ravages-the-garment-industry-its-time-for-consumers-to-stand-in-solidarity-with-the-people-who-make-our-clothes/
How Thailand Contained COVID-19
Walden Bello | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
In politically turbulent Thailand, a public health system with popular support — not decrees from above — made all the difference…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-thailand-contained-covid-19/
Ontario calls military into another for-profit long-term care facility ravaged by COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The vast majority of the care home deaths have been at for-profit facilities, where wages, staff levels and working conditions are generally even lower.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/onta-j13.html
Scottish government moves to end lockdown as COVID-19 deaths hit 4,000
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
Scotland has the third worst coronavirus death rate in the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/care-j13.html
Mayo Clinic launches neutralizing antibody test to advance COVID-19 therapies
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-13
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic has launched a new SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody test in support of the national Expanded Access Program for Convalescent Plasma and other critical research efforts to establish effective therapies and vaccines for COVID-19. The test will be available through Mayo Clinic Laboratories to select labs, blood banks, and biopharma clients in …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-launches-neutralizing-antibody-test-to-advance-covid-19-therapies/
As pandemic surges, White House presses ahead with back-to-work campaign
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
It is now indisputable that the Trump administration's campaign to prematurely reopen businesses has led to a surge in COVID-19 infections throughout the United States.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/pers-j13.html
Who should get COVID-19 testing?
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-13
Dr. Bobbi Pritt, a clinical microbiologist at Mayo Clinic, acknowledges that there seems to be a lot of confusion with the general public when it comes to COVID-19 testing. Terms like viral, molecular, serology and antibodies, and convalescent plasma have sprung up in everyday language when talking about COVID-19 — but do you really need …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/who-should-get-covid-19-testing/
Russia to Produce COVID-19 Vaccine in September
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-13
Russia's Social Policy Deputy Minister Tatyana Golikova Saturday announced that her country will begin producing a coronavirus vaccine in large doses from September. | RELATED: | Russia Registers a New Drug to Treat COVID-19: ILSIRA | The Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology will be the leading institution in this process, in coordination with the Defense Ministry, which reported that 50 soldiers volunteered to participate in the vaccine's clinical trials that will begin i…
telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-to-Produce-COVID-19-Vaccine-in-September-20200613-0002.html
The next crisis? Losing the Amazon
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-13
If too much of the forest were to be degraded or lost, scientists worry that the whole area could be transformed into a savannah.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/13/the-next-crisis-losing-the-amazon/
Decades-long cover-up continues of assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The announcement settles none of the many unanswered questions about the first assassination of a European head of government in…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/palm-j13.html
A Tory MP's comments on a Palestinian political party show just how ridiculous 'terrorist' designations have become
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
The West's credibility when it comes to labeling others as 'terrorists' has always been highly suspect. Not least because Western nations have aided and abetted plenty of paramilitary groups of which they approve. And they've even been involved in the commission of state terror. Now, a furore over funding for a Palestinian politic…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/06/13/a-tory-mps-comments-on-a-palestinian-political-party-show-just-how-ridiculous-terrorist-designations-have-become/
US Navy deploys three aircraft carriers to Pacific against China
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The deployments underscore the strategic shift by the Pentagon from the so-called "war on terror" to great power competition that heightens the danger of conflict between nuclear-armed powers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/usch-j13.html
Tyson Opens Slaughterhouse Despite 1,000 Sick Workers
Martha Rosenberg | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
Even though 1,000 workers at Tyson's slaughterhouse in Waterloo, Iowa, have tested positive for the coronavirus, it has reopened. Tyson has said last week it would begin slaughtering pigs. The company promised that workers would receive daily screenings and access to nurse practitioners, but many who can transmit the coronavirus are asymptomatic. At 2 other Read…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/tyson-opens-slaughterhouse-despite-1000-sick-workers/
Long Read: The slow exodus of Palestinian Christians
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-13
By Jonathan Cook (25-minute read): Israel has exploited the steady decline in the numbers of Palestinian Christians to advance its claim that they are being hounded from the region by Muslim extremists. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches. It was inevitable that when the coronavirus pandemic reached the occupied …
truepublica.org.uk/global/long-read-the-slow-exodus-of-palestinian-christians/
Coronavirus exposes Britain's bogus self-employment problem
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-13
Millions of Britain's self-employed workers can now apply for financial aid to help them through the coronavirus crisis. The government has announced support of 80% of their average monthly earnings up to a cap of £7,500. It comes as a relief for many — there are 5.2 million registered self-employed people in the UK. But a …
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Racial Fault Lines and the Coronavirus
Andrew Moss | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
With almost 2.3 million people behind bars, the U.S. continues to have the highest number of prisoners in the world, a legacy of several decades of racially propelled policies of harsh sentencing and rapid prison building…
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VW leadership dispute prepares way for massive job cuts and austerity
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The current leadership dispute at VW ushers in a new phase of corporatist policy, aimed at preparing the company for global trade war at the expense of the workforce.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/auto-j13.html
Bolivia: Añez Decides Not to Enact September Election Date
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-13
Bolivia's coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez on Friday decided not to promulgate the law that sets the elections' new date, previously scheduled for September, and asked Congress to justify it with an epidemiological study. | RELATED: | OAS Must Retract Its Accusations on Electoral Fraud in Bolivia | Añez asked the Senate for an epidemiological report to show that it is completely safe to hold the presidential elections on Sunday, Sep. 6. | Senate President Eva Copa received…
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The Pathos of Democracy
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-13
"I do believe God is working through you to try to call us together." — Matt Gaetz, R-Fla speaking to the brother of George Floyd | "Defund the police, abolish ICE, disarm Americans and then surrender our cities to the Antifa mob — if this is the rulebook for the new Woketopia, count me out!… Antifa has now designated Seattle their capital." — Matt Gaetz | "He [Matt Gaetz] represents, however, everything that is wrong with the modern Republican Party: from racism, anti-Semitism, and white nationalism; to conspiracism and anti-intellectualism; to a slavish and sycophantic loyalty to Donald Trump." — Mehdi Ha…
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Palestinian Family Forced to Demolish Two Apartment Buildings in East Jerusalem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-13
By means of harsh Israeli orders, in the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian family was forced to demolish its own apartment buildings, according to local sources. Palestinian sources in the village of Sur Baher in East Jerusalem, said that the Rabay'a family was forced to knock down its own …
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Armed Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Home in Hebron
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-13
Several armed Israeli settlers attacked, late Friday evening, a Palestinian home in the West Bank city of Hebron, mainly between the colonial Israeli settlements of Kiryat Arba' and Giv'at Havout. Local Palestinian sources in Hebron city said that illegal Israeli settlers vandalized the home of Abdelkareem Al-Ja'bary by smashing its …
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The US Vows to Withdraw Troops From Iraq Without Deadline
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-13
A day after the U.S.-Iraq Strategic Dialogue resumed its activities, the U.S. Department of State (DOE) Friday assured its country's commitment to withdraw its troops from the Middle East's country, although it did not define a timetable. | RELATED: | Over 1 Million People Join March Against US Presence in Iraq | "The two countries recognised that in light of significant progress towards eliminating the ISIS threat, over the coming months the U.S. would continue reducing forces f…
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UN chief calls for Libya mass grave investigation
news.un.org | 2020-06-13
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has expressed deep shock at the discovery of mass graves in Libya over recent days, in territory that was recently in the hands of the so-called opposition Libyan National Army (LNA) led by General Khalifa Haftar.
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Minneapolis City Council Votes to Abolish Police Force
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-13
The Minneapolis City Council (MCC) Friday unanimously approved a resolution to replace the Police department with a community-run public security system. | RELATED: | Minneapolis Police Officer Released Under Bail | The resolution states that George Floyd's murder is a "tragedy" that evidenced that the reforms to the Police department are not enough to prevent violence against black people. | "The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, by Minneapolis police officers is a tragedy that shows tha…
telesurenglish.net/news/Minneapolis-City-Council-Votes-to-Abolish-Police-Force-20200613-0008.html
Targeting the ICC: Misguided Sanctions Imposed Yet Again
George A. Lopez | commondreams.org | 2020-06-13
Afghan children look on as a U.S. soldier from the Provincial Reconstruction team (PRT) Steel Warriors patrols in the mountains of Nuristan Province on Dec. 19, 2009. (Photo: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/afghan_war_civilians_1.jpg …
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Guyana: Granger Asks CARICOM to Stay out of Internal Affairs
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-13
Guyana's Interim President David Granger Friday attacked Caribbean Community (CARICOM) representatives by asking them to stay out of his country's internal political affairs until the electoral process is over. | RELATED: | Guyana: High Court Urges Recount in Largest Electoral District | Granger's attack came two days after St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves stated that CARICOM would not allow the theft of these elections. | "We will not stand idly by or…
telesurenglish.net/news/guyana-granger-asks-caricom-to-stay-out-of-internal-affairs-20200613-0006.html
India: A massive explosion in Gujarat chemical plant kills 10 workers
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The tragic loss of life and terrible injuries are a direct result of government and company indifference towards mandatory work safety measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/guja-j13.html
Churchill's grandson says the war leader wasn't a racist. But the excuses are wearing thin
Glen Black | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
Winston Churchill's grandson and former top Tory Nicholas Soames told LBC that he was "deeply shocked" to see the war leader's Westminster statue boxed up. Soames defended Churchill's legacy by saying he was a 'saviour of the Western world' and rubbished claims that Churchill was racist. But we're living in an age of rapidly expanding awareness about Britain's colonial history. And people are showing that these lies are wearing thin. | The old 'man of his time' excuse: | Soames' defence of Churchill rests on…
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"Indian racism towards Black people is almost worse than white peoples' racism" An Interview with Arundhati Roy
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-13
We ourselves live in a pretty sick society that seems incapable of feelings of sisterhood, brotherhood, solidarity.
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Johnson ponders introducing a law to prevent foreign takeovers of UK firms
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-13
Business groups have warned that introducing a law to prevent foreign takeovers that threaten national security could have a "chilling" effect on investment in the UK. The government is said to be considering new rules that would mean directors could be jailed or companies could be fined hundreds of thousands of pounds for failing to …
truepublica.org.uk/newsbits/johnson-ponders-introducing-a-law-to-prevent-foreign-takeovers-of-uk-firms/
"Indian racism towards Black people is almost worse than white peoples' racism" An Interview with Arundhati Roy
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-13
We ourselves live in a pretty sick society that seems incapable of feelings of sisterhood, brotherhood, solidarity.
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Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-13
In 2017, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed in a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it is their responsibility to "quell information rebellions" and adopt a "mission statement" expressing their commitment to "prevent the fomenting of discord." | "Civil wars don't start with gunshots, they start with words," the representatives were told by cold warrior think tank denizen Clint Watts. "America's war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media ba…
NATO's colonization of Ukraine under guise of partnership
Scott Ritter | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-13
NATO has extended yet another in a long line of "incentives" designed to tease Ukraine with the prospects of joining the transatlantic alliance, while stopping short of actual membership. | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has designated Ukraine as an "Enhanced Opportunity Partner," making it one of six nations (the others being Georgia, Sweden, Finland, Australia and Jordan) rewarded for their significant contributions to NATO operations and alliance objectives by having the opportunity for increased dialogue and cooperation with the alliance. | A main objective of this enhanced interaction is for N…
Stop exploiting J-1 cultural workers
| workers.org | 2020-06-13
By Aleris Villegas and Lyn Neeley Each year about 300,000 cultural exchange workers — students, scholars and professors sponsored by U.S. employers — enter the country as J-1 workers. The J-1 Visa program promises job training for students, a way to share their culture, improve their English and explore life . . . | Continue reading Stop exploiting J-1 cultural workers at Workers.org…
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øLas tropas USA contra lxs manifestantes estadounidenses?
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2020-06-13
Traducción: redroja.net 5 de junio — Hace cuatro días, la Casa Blanca pidió al ejército estadounidense que se desplegara por las ciudades norteamericanas para "dominar" las calles. A lo largo de los tres días siguientes, dos antiguos integrantes de la Junta de Jefes del Estado Mayor conjunto de los ejércitos . . . | Continue reading øLas tropas USA contra lxs manifestantes estadounidenses? at Workers.org…
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Stop exploiting J-1 cultural workers
Aleris Villegas and Lyn Neeley | workers.org | 2020-06-13
Each year about 300,000 cultural exchange workers — students, scholars and professors sponsored by U.S. employers — enter the country as J-1 workers. The J-1 Visa program promises job training for students, a way to share their culture, improve their English and explore life in the U.S. Last year, however, . . . | Continue reading Stop exploiting J-1 cultural workers at Workers.org…
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The govt, the Klan, cops and prisons
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-06-13
The following talk was given by Ted Kelly of Philadelphia during a May 16 webinar sponsored by the Prisoner Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party. I'll begin by quoting two different passages. The first is from Workers World Party founder Sam Marcy's book, "The Klan and the Government: Foes or . . . | Continue reading The govt, the Klan, cops and prisons at Workers.org…
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The Right To Refuse Unsafe Work Is More Important Than Ever
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a heavy toll on workers. Reports of job hazards grow increasingly dire as several governors and President Trump push past CDC guidelines to "reopen" the economy while forecasts predict soaring infections and deaths. | Some states at the direction of the Labor Department threaten termination of unemployment benefits for workers fearing return to dangerous jobs. A disturbing June 5 New York Times' report reveals how far those machinations have gone. The result: workers fired without pay or benefits or trapped in a deadly vice between poverty and disease. | In short, the news is terri…
popularresistance.org/the-right-to-refuse-unsafe-work-is-more-important-than-ever/
Group Behind Confederate Monuments Also Built A Memorial To The Klan
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
It was a Saturday. The mailman never comes to my door, but there was his knock. A couple days earlier I had ordered a book on Amazon that I had seen before only in a library. "Sorry to bother you," he said, "but I had to have you sign for this one." The return address on the padded manila envelope was a post office box in Charlotte, North Carolina. No name. | I cut the shipping tape and carefully pulled out the contents, wrapped inside a grocery bag. The worn 1941 first edition of Mrs. S.L. Smith's "North Carolina's Confederate Monuments and Memorials" — one of the only compilations by the United Daughters…
popularresistance.org/group-behind-confederate-monuments-also-built-a-memorial-to-the-klan/
International Lawyers Oppose Philippines Anti-Terrorism Bill
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
Over 100 international lawyers and lawyers' associations issued an open letter to President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, and members of the Congress of the Philippines. The urgent open letter was issued to express high levels of concern about the proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill in the Philippines, which has been harshly criticized for its violations of human rights norms. | As the letter notes, "The international community is alarmed by the apparent abuses of power and civil unrest that the law will bring about. It will suppress and criminalize free speech and dissent, labe…
popularresistance.org/international-lawyers-oppose-philippines-anti-terrorism-bill/
New Study: US Empire Is Falling But Will Not Fall Quietly
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
Where will the next war occur? Who will fight in it? Why will it occur? How will it be fought? This brief summarizes a series of reports that sought to answer these questions–looking out from now until 2030. The reports took the approach of examining these questions through the lenses of several trends–geopolitical, economic, environmental, legal, informational, and military–that will shape the contours of conflict. | Military history is littered with mistaken predictions about the future of warfare that have left forecasters militarily unprepared–sometimes disastrously so–for the co…
popularresistance.org/new-study-us-empire-is-falling-but-will-not-fall-quietly/
St. Petersburg had lighter Covid-19 restrictions because residents are 'more educated' than Muscovites — vice governor
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Russia's varied local responses to the coronavirus have been the cause of much debate, and one leading St. Petersburg official couldn't resist using the city's relatively relaxed rules to take a jab at an old rival — Moscow. | Speaking to a local TV channel, Vice Governor Yevgeny Elin explained that his city did not impose a strict quarantine because the residents are better educated than people in Moscow. | "You can't compare Moscow and St. Petersburg. We did not introduce such severe restrictions like in Moscow," Elin said. "In our opinion, this is justified. This is not because we are smarter, but bec…
rt.com/russia/491734-stpetersburg-covid19-more-educated-muscovites/
Covid-19: The "Great Equalizer"?
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
There is a meme circulating in this time of pandemic that we are all in this together, that COVID-19 is, as New York Governor Cuomo stated, the "great equalizer." From one vantage point, this appears to be true: as I write, news broke that a staff person to Vice President Pence and another to President Read…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/covid-19-the-great-equalizer/
COVID-19: Afghan Health Ministry reaches limit of tests
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Speaking at a gathering in the capital Kabul, Ahmad Jawad Osmani said from now on, any people with symptoms of COVID-19 would ultimately be considered as a positive case of the novel coronavirus infection."At present, we have laboratories in 11 provinces of Afghanistan and we plan to increase the number of services in all 34 provinces, but it takes time which is out of the control of the ministry," he said.Latest figures issued by the Health Ministry revealed that 556 cases proved positive after 1,045 samples were collected in the past 24 hours. The latest figures brought the tally of cases to 24,101 with 4,201 p…
yenisafak.com/en/world/covid-19-afghan-health-ministry-reaches-limit-of-tests-3531996
COVID-19: New cases reported in China, South Korea
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
China confirmed 11 new novel coronavirus cases while South Korea reported 48, authorities said on Saturday.China's National Health Commission said in a statement that five of the cases were locally transmitted, all based in the capital Beijing, while the six others were from travelers overseas.The commission reported no deaths due to the virus in the last 24 hours.A total of 83,075 cases have been reported in the country so far, according to the statement.The epidemic has claimed the lives of 4,634 people while 78,367 others have recovered from the virus.Meanwhile, South Korea reported 48 more cases of the virus…
yenisafak.com/en/world/covid-19-new-cases-reported-in-china-south-korea-3531984
Pakistan: 2nd ex-premier tests positive for coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has tested positive for COVID-19, his son confirmed on Saturday.Gilani, the country's second ex-premier after Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to test positive in less than a week, joins a long and growing list of Pakistani politicians and parliamentarians infected by the coronavirus.His son, Ali Kasim Gilani, told reporters that his father had to appear before anti-corruption authorities a few days ago, despite the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases in the country.He said the former premier was now in self-isolation."Thank you [Prime Minister] Imran Khan's govt and Natio…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-2nd-ex-premier-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-3531983
COVID-19 death toll rises in Oman, Bahrain, Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Health authorities in Oman, Bahrain and Libya confirmed new fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Saturday, while Morocco reported fresh infections. | The Omani Health Ministry said three patients had died from COVID-19, while 1,006 new cases were reported over the past 24 hours. | The country's confirmed cases now stand at 22,077, including 99 deaths, and 7,530 recoveries. | In Bahrain, the Health Ministry said the country's death toll rose to 37 after two people had died from the disease, while a further 444 new cases were registered, taking the figure to 17,713. | Libya's National Center for Disease Contr…
yenisafak.com/en/world/covid-19-death-toll-rises-in-oman-bahrain-libya-3531982
Pakistan: 2nd ex-premier tests positive for coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has tested positive for COVID-19, his son confirmed on Saturday.Gilani, the country's second ex-premier after Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to test positive in less than a week, joins a long and growing list of Pakistani politicians and parliamentarians infected by the coronavirus.His son, Ali Kasim Gilani, told reporters that his father had to appear before anti-corruption authorities a few days ago, despite the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases in the country.He said the former premier was now in self-isolation."Thank you [Prime Minister] Imran Khan's govt and Natio…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-2nd-ex-premier-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-3531979
Virus cases in Africa top 225,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
As Africa grapples with the fast-spreading coronavirus, the number of cases spiked to 224,105, according to a Saturday update by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.The virus took 100 days to infect 100,000 people in Africa since the first case was detected in mid-February, but then just 23 days to double to 200,000, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), in a pace that is accelerating.The update has it that 6,040 patients have died across 54 African countries.The number of people who have recovered from COVID-19 in the continent has reached 102,846, according to the update.Southern A…
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Popular blood pressure medicines do not put patients at greater COVID-19 risk: study
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
New research offers reassuring evidence to hundreds of millions of people with high blood pressure that popular anti-hypertension drugs do not put them at greater risk from COVID-19 as some experts had feared.Two blood pressure-lowering drug classes, called ACE inhibitors and ARBs, came under scrutiny after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in April that 72% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients 65 or older had hypertension.ACE inhibitors and ARBs are thought to trigger activity along the same biological pathways used by the COVID-19 novel coronavirus to attack the lungs.Researchers at Oxfo…
yenisafak.com/en/life/popular-blood-pressure-medicines-do-not-put-patients-at-greater-covid-19-risk-study-3531988
Italy's PM says virus crisis should be opportunity to reform country
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Italy cannot afford to return to normality after the coronavirus emergency but should turn the crisis into an opportunity to reform the country, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Saturday."This is the time to work on a clear project to come out of the crisis," Conte said in the opening speech of a nine-day policy consultation in Rome."We must take advantage (of the situation) to turn the crisis into an opportunity, and remove all the obstacles that have slowed (Italy) down," he added.Conte said his coalition government was preparing a plan of reforms to simplify bureaucracy, push digital investments and green…
yenisafak.com/en/world/italys-pm-says-virus-crisis-should-be-opportunity-to-reform-country-3531977
Iran to re-impose virus restrictions if rules violated
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Iran has seen a spike in the number of coronavirus cases since the authorities relaxed a lockdown in mid-April. | "If we do not want to see the spike of the disease in the country [Iran] again, we must observe health instructions and avoid unnecessary travel," Rouhani said in a televised speech. | The Iranian president said his government has relaxed the restrictions on condition of abiding by the health rules to combat the virus. | He warned that if the people are in danger, the authorities will have to re-impose the restrictions again. | Iran's Health Ministry confirmed 71 fatalities and 2,410 cases due to t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iran-to-re-impose-virus-restrictions-if-rules-violated-3531985
Turkey arrests five FETàñ terror suspects
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
At least five suspects were arrested for suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETàñ), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup, Turkish authorities said on Saturday.In a statement, the provincial security directorate in Turkey's western Denizli province said police carried out anti-terror operations to arrest the suspects, all of whom were wanted by Turkish authorities and had arrest warrants against them.They were found at FETàñ cell houses, and some were holed up in secret compartments built specially for hiding, the statement added.Two suspects were remanded in custody, one was…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-arrests-five-feto-terror-suspects-3531992
On surprise visit, Libya Tobruk-based parliament speaker in Algeria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
The head of Libya's Tobruk-based parliament Aguila Saleh arrived in the neighboring Algeria on a surprise visit on Saturday.Algeria's official TV said that Suleiman Shanin, the head of the National People's Assembly, the first chamber of the Algerian parliament, and Foreign Affairs Minister Sabri Boukadoum received Saleh at the Algiers International Airport in the capital.The source did not mention the duration and objectives of the visit, which coincides with the Libyan army's victories over the militia of warlord Khalifa Haftar.On Friday, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in an interview with a local med…
yenisafak.com/en/world/on-surprise-visit-libya-tobruk-based-parliament-speaker-in-algeria-3531995
Fire on French nuclear submarine at Toulon extinguished
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
A fire on a nuclear submarine docked at the French Mediterranean port of Toulon was extinguished early on Saturday morning, the Defence Ministry said.Some 100 firefighters had been called in to tackle the blaze on the Perle, which lasted 14 hours and ended at around 00: 50 a.m. (2250 GMT). the ministry said. It confirmed an earlier statement that no nuclear material was aboard when the fire broke out on Friday.Nobody was hurt and no nuclear materials or weapons were on board the vessel, which was in dry dock for repairs, authorities said on Friday.Toulon is France's biggest naval base and is home to most of its fl…
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Turkey rescues 381 asylum seekers in a week
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Turkey rescued 381 asylum seekers over the past week, the Turkish Coast Guard Command said on Saturday.Between June 5 and 11, a total of 381 asylum seekers were held or rescued in 14 incidents, the coast guard said on Twitter.Three smugglers were also arrested, it added, sharing four photos from the rescue operations where the Turkish teams in full protective gear were seen taking asylum seekers' temperature.Turkey has been one of the main routes for asylum seekers wanting to reach Europe, especially since Syria's civil war started in 2011.Turkey hosts nearly four million Syrians, more than any other country in t…
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Turkish Coast Guard rescues 93 asylum seekers
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
The Turkish Coast Guard on Saturday rescued 93 asylum seekers who were pushed back by Greek forces into Turkish territorial waters, according to security sources.The asylum seekers of various nationalities initially set off for the Greek island of Lesbos (Midilli) from Ayvacik in Canakkale, northwestern Turkey.Their two rubber rafts were pushed back to Turkish territorial waters by the Greek Coast Guard, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.Turkey has been a key transit point for asylum seekers aiming to cross into Europe to start new lives, especially those fle…
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Albinism seen in 1 out of 17,000 people worldwide
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Albinism affects one out of 17,000 people worldwide, said the head of the Istanbul-based Albinism Association, marking June 13, International Albinism Awareness Day (IAAD)."Albinism is a condition that occurs as a result of genetic changes that partially or completely prevent the production of melanin pigment, which gives color to living creatures," Serkan Ozorman told Anadolu Agency in an exclusive interview.Also the father of a 7-year-old albino son, Ozorman, 38, first joined the Albinism Association, founded in 2013 in Istanbul. He later joined the group's administration in December 2015, and has been serving…
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Knowledge-based firms showcase latest products in "Coronatech 2020" expo
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — More than 50 knowledge-based companies and startups put their latest products and achievements to the public view at an exhibition entitled "Surge in Production and Achievements in Fight against Coronavirus" entitled "Coronatech 2020" on Saturday.
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Islamic Development Organization's chief to address Parl. open session on Sun
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Head of Islamic Development Organization Hojatoeslam Mohammad Ghomi is to deliver a report on Iran's sociocultural status quo at the Parliament's open session on June 14.
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Iran to use capsule hotels as accommodation for tourists
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — In a Saturday ceremony with the presence of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Minister Ali-Asghar Mounesan, the first capsule hotel imported to the country was unveiled to be used as a new type of recommendation for tourists.
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Presence of PKK elements in Iran false claim: cmdr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — IRGC Ground Forces Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour rejected the claim of a Turkish official regarding the presence of PKK elements in Iran and noted that the IRGC has ensured security on the borders.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159753/Presence-of-PKK-elements-in-Iran-false-claim-cmdr
Iranian envoy holds webinar with Iranian students in Japan amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Iranian Ambassador to Japan Morteza Rahmani Movahhed held a video-conference meeting on Saturday with Iranian students, researchers, and professors residing in Japan.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159758/Iranian-envoy-holds-webinar-with-Iranian-students-in-Japan-amid
Historical Gharbalbiz Spring in Yazd
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
YAZD, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Gharbalbiz Spring with good heavenly weather is a natural attraction in the middle of the central deserts of Iran, between Mehriz and Yazd. It is called Gharbalbiz (meaning sieve) since it is made of so many holes located in the skirts of Gharbalbiz Mountain. Based on the archeological evidence, Gharbalbiz is among the most ancient attractions left from the Parthian dynasty in Yazd and in central Iran.
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Iran to unveil some defense achievements on Natl. Defense Industry Day: Brig. Gen
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Deputy Coordinator of Iranian Defense Ministry Brigadier General Saeed Shabanian said that the Islamic Republic will unveil some of its defense achievements on the National Defense Industry Day.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159762/Iran-to-unveil-some-defense-achievements-on-Natl-Defense-Industry
Showing Iran as security threat, goal of US, Zionist regime: FM Zarif
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that distorting Iran's image and presenting it as a security threat is the main goal of the United States and Zionist regime.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159760/Showing-Iran-as-security-threat-goal-of-US-Zionist-regime
VIDEO: Truck carrying fish topples in Babol, Mazandaran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Hundreds of live fish spilt on a busy road in Babol, in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran. The incident happened after a truck carrying fish toppled midway.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159752/VIDEO-Truck-carrying-fish-topples-in-Babol-Mazandaran
Tehran to host intl. conference on polyolefin pipes on Monday
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — The first international conference on polyolefin pipes will be held by Jam Petrochemical Company in the form of specialized panels and sideline exhibitions.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159763/Tehran-to-host-intl-conference-on-polyolefin-pipes-on-Monday
32.4% of Moscow doctors found to have coronavirus antibodies as Russia ramps up testing
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Almost a third of Moscow's doctors have Covid-19 antibodies, according to the most recent testing in the capital, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova announced on Saturday. | "In the first stage [of testing],15,500 doctors were examined in 60 institutions. Antibodies were detected in 16.5% in the initial examination," Golikova revealed. In the second stage, antibodies were detected in 32.4 percent of physicians. | On Wednesday, Anna Popova, the head of country's consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, announced that antibody testing had already been conducted on over half-a-million Russians throughout th…
rt.com/russia/491726-doctors-testing-coronavirus-antibodies/
#ExposeBillGates explodes on Twitter as conspiracy theorists vow to avoid Covid-19 vaccine connected to billionaire
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Bill Gates' omnipresence in the media during the Covid-19 pandemic has turned into a mass obsession with many, and conspiracy theorists got #ExposeBillGates trending on Twitter on a planned "day of action." | The coronavirus pandemic created a number of speculations around the Microsoft Founder over his support of extended lockdown measures, his large contributions to the World Health Organization, and past comments on vaccines. | "The public is finally waking up. I've never liked this guy and if you really listen to him talk and watch his interviews you'll know he DOESN'T have our best interest in mind," auth…
rt.com/usa/491749-expose-bill-gates-twitter-coronavirus/
'Don't make me come down there,' Cuomo warns New Yorkers in streets, but gets scolded for Covid-19 handling
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Responding to a video of New Yorkers flooding the streets despite the Covid-19 lockdown, Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted a warning only to be chastised for his own handling of the pandemic, especially in nursing homes. | "Don't make me come down there," Cuomo tweeted along with a video of New York's St. Mark's being inundated with citizens, most clearly ignoring social distancing and protective mask requirements the city has put in place to battle the spread of coronavirus. | Cuomo's warning landed with a bit of a thud on social media, mainly thanks to his controversial and now infamous decision to force nursing…
rt.com/usa/491744-cuomo-coronavirus-st-marks-new-york/
Multiple rockets hit 'inside' Iraq's Taji base housing US troops — reports
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Several rockets have exploded within — or close to — the Camp Taji military base located north of Baghdad, according to multiple media reports. The facility, housing US troops, has repeatedly come under attacks lately. | A number of unguided rockets were fired at the military facility late on Saturday. At least two loud blasts were heard in the area of the camp, local media reported.The projectiles fell either close to, or within the premises of the base. There were no immediate reports of potential damage to the base or personnel. | The Camp Taji, located some 27km (17 miles) north of the Iraqi ca…
rt.com/news/491746-iraq-taji-base-attack/
UK lashes out at Washington for threatening ICC with sanctions, says justice must be done impartially & without fear
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should be able to work independently without fear of sanctions, the UK's foreign secretary said in an apparent jab at Washington, which threatened the body for probing US troops. | "The UK strongly supports the International Criminal Court in tackling impunity for the worst international crimes," Dominic Raab said. "We will continue to support positive reform of the court, so that it operates as effectively as possibly. ICC officials should be able to carry out their work independently and impartially, and without fear of sanction." | Earlier the Donald Trump ad…
rt.com/news/491729-britain-blasts-us-icc/
LGBT 'ideology' is even 'more destructive' than Bolshevism, says Polish president
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Poland's President Andrzej Duda has equated LGBT "ideology" to communism, warning that in a bid to indoctrinate the youth this "neo-Bolshevism" is even more harmful and destructive. | The conservative politician, who is seeking re-election, catered to his audience at a Saturday rally where he said that his parents' generation did not fight communism only to bow now to a new "ideology" that is "even more destructive to the human being." | That was Bolshevism. It was the ideologizing of children. Today, there are also attempts to push an ideology on us and our children, but different. It's totally new, but it is…
rt.com/news/491750-lgbt-ideology-communism-poland/
Magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits near Japan's Ryukyu Islands
rt.com | 2020-06-13
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has occurred at sea, near the southern Japanese islands of Ryukyu. So far, no tsunami warning has been issued. A powerful tremor was detected off the coast early on Sunday, the country's weather agency said. The epicenter is estimated to be around 160 km below the surface. | Despite the depth, the quake was felt in Okinawa, as well as Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, according to local media. No information on possible damage or casualties was immediately available.
rt.com/news/491737-japan-earthquake-ryukyu-naze/
Oscars so woke: Academy to enforce new 'diversity & representation' standards on Hollywood
rt.com | 2020-06-13
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is jumping on the woke bandwagon, announcing changes to ensure even more "diversity" of the Oscars, setting up an 'inclusion and equity' office and mandating lectures on racism. | Surfing the wave of calls for "racial justice" in the US over the past two weeks, the Academy announced several initiatives on Friday, as part of its 'Aperture 2525' program. CEO Dawn Hudson said there was "much more work to be done in order to ensure equitable opportunities across the board," calling the issue "urgent" and adding that the Academy will amend and continue to look at its…
rt.com/usa/491694-academy-awards-diversity-changes/
British Airways' treatment of staff a national disgrace, say MPs
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
British Airways' treatment of its workforce during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic "is a national disgrace", MPs have claimed. | "Calculated": | A report by the Commons Transport Select Committee accused the airline of a "calculated attempt to take advantage" of the crisis by cutting up to 12,000 jobs and downgrading the terms and conditions of the bulk of its remaining employees. | The carrier insisted no decisions have been made and it's doing everything it can to "sustain the maximum number of jobs". | Other aviation companies have also announced thousands of redundancies, including easyJet, Ryanai…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/13/british-airways-treatment-of-staff-a-national-disgrace-say-mps/
As Trump Ignores COVID and Attacks Cities, Local Leaders Build for Our Future
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
The last several months have brought a heightened level of anxiety, anger and exhaustion — feelings that, for many of us, have existed at a steady elevation since the end of 2016. The events of these past few weeks, in particular, are a bleak reminder that the oppressive institutions that have allowed COVID-19 to ravage communities of color continue to perpetuate state-sanctioned and white supremacist violence against Black people in this country. | In the midst of it all, I've found li…
truthout.org/articles/as-trump-ignores-covid-and-attacks-cities-local-leaders-build-for-our-future/
Corporations Claiming to Love Black Lives Fight Against Living Wages and Unions
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
This story was originally published at Labor Notes. | Never underestimate the American business community's capacity for hypocrisy. | That's one of the lessons to be drawn from the explosive reaction to George Floyd's murder. As demonstrators began flooding streets, corporate PR departments flew into rapid response mode, issuing a flurry of agonized, apologetic pledges to do more to combat racism and inequality. | Such statements may, on a personal…
truthout.org/articles/corporations-claiming-to-love-black-lives-fight-against-living-wages-and-unions/
The US Has Much to Gain From Increasing Scientific Cooperation With Cuba
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
For most of the past 60 years, the United States and Cuba have had very limited diplomatic ties. President Barack Obama started the process of normalizing U.S.-Cuba relations, but the Trump administration reversed this policy, sharply reducing interactions between the two countries. | Scientific c…
truthout.org/articles/the-us-has-much-to-gain-from-increasing-scientific-cooperation-with-cuba/
The Struggle Against Police Is International. Our Solidarity Must Be Global
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
The current uprising against racist police violence first erupted in the U.S., but it has now become an international movement. | Thousands of people in more than 40 countries have taken to the streets in a show of solidarity with Black Americ…
truthout.org/articles/the-struggle-against-police-is-international-our-solidarity-must-be-global/
States That Expanded Mail Voting Are Seeing a Turnout Spike in Primary Elections
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
At least half of the states that held primaries last week saw increased turnout after expanding their mail-in voting systems — despite President Donald Trump's efforts to discourage other states from doing the same. | At least four of the eight states that held primary elections last Tuesday saw higher turnout tha…
truthout.org/articles/states-that-expanded-mail-voting-are-seeing-a-turnout-spike-in-primary-elections/
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 | 2020-06-13
Online…
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Is coronavirus Covid-19 stalking residents in Oakland, and Alameda County?
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic:…
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U.S. President Trump sparks renewed interest in Juneteenth Celebrations Globally
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
"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
ILWU Work Action On W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
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
Friday 6/19: ILWU Shutting Down W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
SSA Terminals 1717 Middle Harbor Road at the Port of Oakland to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834197.php
Friday 6/19: JUNETEENTH: West Coast Port Shutdown
International Longshore and Warehouse Union | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
Meet at 1717 Middle Harbor Road and caravan to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834195.php
Pentagon Starts Bailing Out Defense Firms
Marcus Weisgerber | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-13
The Pentagon has begun to bail out U.S. companies that have seen large parts of their business dry up amid the coronavirus pandemic, in a bid to make sure they can still build weapons. | On Wednesday, officials announced that five mid-tier defense companies had received a total of $135 million to "help sustain defense-critical workforce capabilities in body armor, aircraft manufacturing, and shipbuilding," according to a Defense Department statement." These…
anti-empire.com/pentagon-starts-bailing-out-defense-firms/
Russia Aiming to Realize Greater Eurasia Dream
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-13
The Russian role will be to balance the hegemonic powers, as a guarantor of a new union of non-aligned nations | Pepe ESCOBAR | Professor Sergey Karaganov is informally known in influential foreign policy circles as the "Russian Kissinger" — with the extra bonus of not having to carry a "war criminal" tag from Vietnam and Cambodia to Chile and beyond. | Karaganov is the dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He's also the honorary chairman of Russia's Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. | In December…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/13/russia-aiming-to-realize-greater-eurasia-dream/
Narrative Control Operations Escalate as America Burns
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-13
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | In 2017, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed in a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it is their responsibility to "quell information rebellions" and adopt a "mission statement" expressing their commitment to "prevent the fomenting of discord." | "Civil wars don't start with gunshots, they start with words," the representatives were told by cold warrior think tank denizen Clint Watts. "America's war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/13/narrative-control-operations-escalate-as-america-burns/
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on COVID, Race, Polls and the Great American Experiment
Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-13
commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/further/weird_tease_trump_follow_me_101566846_10163770651940441_148003653897158656_n.jpg …
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 — primarily Americans — to support their cause. Part of that is spending inordinate amounts of time online, arguing in English on social media, creating bot networks, and editing Wikipedia articles. Many Wikipedia articles on Venezuela are particularly biased towards the opposition, containing numerous inaccuracies, falsehoods and non-sequiturs. | Now, a…
mintpressnews.com/project-venezuela-right-wing-activists-push-wikipedia-blacklist-mintpress-news/268534/
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
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
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/
Klobuchar Worked With Law Enforcement Group to Increase Police Budgets
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-12
This article was produced by Sludge, an independent, ad-free investigative news site covering money in politics. Click here to support Sludge. | As activists around the country work to defund police departments, the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee is considering a senator who worked to boost police department budg…
truthout.org/articles/klobuchar-worked-with-law-enforcement-group-to-increase-police-budgets/
Policing the Press: A Journalist on the Frontlines
aclu.org | 2020-06-12
Journalists covering protests against police brutality across the country are facing an influx of violence, suppression efforts, and arrests by police. Since the George Floyd protests began, there have been more than 400 claims of aggressions against the press, according to the U.S. Press Freedom tracker. Violations include being assaulted with pepper spray and rubber bullets, dealing with damaged equipment, and even facing arrest. This week, At Liberty is joined by Jared Goyette, a freelance reporter who was hit in the eye with a police projectile while covering a…
aclu.org/news/free-speech/policing-the-press-a-journalist-on-the-frontlines
Police Violence: "Reform" is Not Enough
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Every few years, some particular instance of a pervasive phenomenon — police violence in the form of unjustified or at least highly questionable killings — "goes viral" with the result that America's cities explode in protest. Every time that happens, some American politicians complain about a non-existent "war on police," while others promise "reforms" such…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/police-violence-reform-is-not-enough/
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/
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/
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 — known as Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA which passed in the parliament last December and led to widespread protests across the country, drawing worldwide criticism — said the police continue to arrest participants despite the virus lockdown and claimed that "the government is misusing its power to create fear."More than 190 student groups in India have organized virtual protests in t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/anger-ensues-as-india-hunts-anti-citizenship-law-protesters-amid-pandemic-3531904
Amid COVID-19 and climate change, UNHCR appeals for $186 million for Sahel refugee and displacement crisis
news.un.org | 2020-06-12
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has issued an urgent appeal for $186 million to provide lifesaving protection and assistance in the Sahel amidst fears that the conflict in the vast African region — exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — will spread.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066222
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/
Amidst COVID-19 challenges, UN 'remains operational' across Central Africa
news.un.org | 2020-06-12
The coronavirus pandemic has compounded increasing economic, social and humanitarian challenges facing States and regional institutions across Central Africa, the regional UN envoy told the Security Council on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066232
Child labour gains since 2000 'could be wiped out by COVID', UN warns
news.un.org | 2020-06-12
Huge gains made towards ending child labour over the last 20 years, risk being reversed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN said on Friday, in an appeal for governments to continue investing in measures that have helped reduce the number of youngsters working, by 94 million, since 2000.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066172
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/
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/
The American Teaching Hospital: School for Psychopaths
David Penner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
Medicine has changed. We used to be a calling that catered to the public welfare, and our prime consideration was the patient. Now we are a business, and some of us practice as impersonal corporations, with the bottom line the profits, not the well-being of the patient." — From The Doctor, by Dr. Edward E. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-american-teaching-hospital-school-for-psychopaths/
Maritza Perez on Overpolicing & Drugs, Remington Gregg on Corporate Immunity
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-06-12
Media…
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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/
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
Israeli Colonists Injure Another Palestinian Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
Illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, Thursday, a Palestinian man in the village of Burqa, north of Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, causing him fractures and bruises. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel's colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the colonists came from …
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Army Injures Many Palestinians In Ni'lin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent procession against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Ni'lin village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing dozens of Palestinians to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation. The procession started from the center of the village, and headed towards the …
imemc.org/article/army-injures-many-palestinians-in-nilin-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=army-injures-many-palestinians-in-nilin-2
Libyan civil war intensifies amid growing international negotiations
wsws.org | 2020-06-12
The domestic and international parties of the civil war in Libya have recently intensified talks as Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli advanced on the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Haftar.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/12/liby-j12.html
The Simple Way to Prevent Hedge Funds from Gaming Government Pandemic Research Funding: Don't Give Patent Monopolies
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-12
The Washington Post had an interesting piece on how a hedge fund managed to secure $16 million in public funds (10,000 food stamp person-years) for a shell company, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, which then used the money to contract for research with Emory University. When the results showed some promise, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics then sold the rights to …
cepr.net/the-simple-way-to-prevent-hedge-funds-from-gaming-government-pandemic-research-funding-dont-give-patent-monopolies/
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ro Khanna Introduce Bill to Increase Military Accountability for Civilian Casualties
Brett Wilkins | commondreams.org | 2020-06-12
Estimates of the number of civilians killed in the current war against terrorism, now in its 19th year, range from hundreds of thousands to over 2 million. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-05-10_at_3.11.21_pm.png …
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It's Reckoning, Not Wrecking
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-12
People are asking: where does this end? The list of monuments and emblems slated for removal in the US and Europe is a daunting, ever-expanding one. | Some are labelled as glorifying racism, others for venerating war, imperialism and colonialism. | Statues to Christopher Columbus and Confederate leaders in the US have been toppled this week, so too have landmark effigies in Britain, Belgium, and other European countries. | The anger on both…
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…
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Funding shortfall affecting critical water, sanitation services in Yemen
news.un.org | 2020-06-12
Children in the heart of the world's worst humanitarian disaster need help more than ever, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, in an appeal for more support to provide basic services in Yemen.
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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
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 — shows monthly change — plunged 24.5% in April.According to TurkStat's definition, tu…
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Queen Elizabeth II unknowingly played key role in 1953 Iran coup after US officials confused her with SHIP…& lied about it
rt.com | 2020-06-12
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II got entangled in the 1953 coup d'etat in Iran after US diplomats mistook the RMS 'Queen Elizabeth' cruise ship for the newly enthroned royal, recently discovered documents suggest. | Shortly after ascending to the throne, the Queen inadvertently played a key role in the regime-change op that ousted Iran's Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, new research by Richard Aldrich, a professor at the University of Warwick, reveals. His work on the documents and cables will be featured in a Channel 4 documentary in Britain on Sunday. | The Iranian PM was targeted for his move to nationalize I…
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Declines in COVID-19 cases not due to herd immunity, says analysis
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-12
There is no evidence that declines in transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in some countries are the result of herd immunity, says new analysis.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198238/declines-covid-19-cases-herd-immunity-says
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
Mounting Pressure Forces Starbucks to Roll Back Ban on Supporting BLM at Work
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-12
Many corporations are trying to take advantage of heightened public outrage against police brutality and anti-Black racism following the police killing of George Floyd, penning statements saying "Black Lives Matter," yet failing in practice to back their employees who express solidarity with related movements on the job. But some of those companies are coming under heightening public pressure to end such policies that silence workers. | For example, Starbucks Coffee initially sent out a bar…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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Zarif: Time to End Israel's Tyranny over Western Halls of Power
Tasnim News | iranian.com | 2020-06-12
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at the Zionist lobbies for "poisoning" US politics, saying the time has come to end Israeli influence on the Western decision-making bodies. In a post on his Twitter account on Thursday, the top Iranian diplomat pointed to an article published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about Israel's …
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