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La ´ guerre douce ª menée par les USA contre l'Iran et ses alliés se tourne contre Washington
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-23
En 2016, l'administration américaine sous Barack Obama a rédigé la loi César pour soumettre la Syrie, mais a jugé qu'il valait mieux la reléguer aux oubliettes. Le président Donald Trump et son administration estiment que le temps est venu de la dépoussiérer. Pour l'Iran, la politique de Trump est une véritable manne tombée du ciel, car elle pousse l'administration américaine dans les brans de Téhéran. L'Iran récolte aujourd'hui d'énormes bénéfices régulièrement, des alliés solides et des bastions de résistance des suites de la politique boiteuse des USA au Moyen-Orient. Motivé par la menace de la mise en &asymp…

La « guerre douce » menée par les USA contre l'Iran et ses alliés se tourne contre Washington

Clopidogrel Noninferior to Ticagrelor With Less Bleeding
Slomski A. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-06-23
Among older patients with acute coronary syndrome, platelet inhibition with clopidogrel significantly reduced bleeding risk without increasing thrombotic events compared with ticagrelor, a noninferiority trial in The Lancet reported.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767326

Reading terror suspect fought in US-British proxy war to overthrow Libya's Gaddafi
wsws.org | 2020-06-23
Saadallah and his family have connections to the British-based group of Libyans who were opposed to the rule of the country's then-leader, Colonel Gaddafi.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/23/saad-j23.html

Sisi on the warpath in Libya
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-23
Egyptian military poised to intervene directly if Turkish-backed forces recapture Sirte | Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA), which controls most of the west of the country, was right to accuse Egyptian President Abdelfattah as-Sisi of 'beating the drums of war' in the statement he made on Saturday while touring an army base in western Egypt. In a carefully-scripted announcement, Sisi declared that the Libyan city of Sirte and the nearby al-Jufra airbase, which the GNA is intent on recapturing, are a 'red line' for Egypt. He gave every impression that the Egyptian military was poised to intervene to supp…

Sisi on the warpath in Libya

Extreme weather 'record' likely in Arctic Circle, says UN weather agency WMO
news.un.org | 2020-06-23
Reports that temperatures in a Russian town in the Arctic Circle likely reached a record 38C (100.4F), last weekend, have been approved by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) pending final verification, it said on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066882

Minneapolis police reform coalition keeps pressure on mayor and state lawmakers
Wayne Nealis | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-23
MINNEAPOLIS–Disgust and indignation sum up Minneapolis community leaders' reaction to Mayor Jacob Frey's latest move to address police crime and brutality in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. At a press conference on the morning of Monday, June 22, they alleged the mayor's action was designed to keep their voices out of the …
peoplesworld.org/article/minneapolis-police-reform-coalition-keeps-pressure-on-mayor-and-state-lawmakers/

Ministers in Westminster bubble believe voters trust them
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-23
By Josiah Mortimer: Speaking in the House of Lords on last week, Green peer Baroness Natalie Bennett raised the idea that countries with more cooperative, democratic political systems have higher levels of public trust in politics — and in their governments' handling of the current pandemic. Cabinet Office minister Lord True replied: "I strongly disagree …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/ministers-in-westminster-bubble-believe-voters-trust-them/

America Is Exceptional in All the Wrong Ways
Robert Reich | commondreams.org | 2020-06-23
This pandemic has exposed what has long been true: On the global stage, America is the exception, but not in the way we would like to believe. (Photo: Screenshot) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-06-23_at_4.22.39_pm.png …
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Whistleblowing, the Pandemic and a 'Law and Order' System of Injustice
Z3K3 | zcomm.org | 2020-06-23
America, my country deemed an African American fighting for his civil rights as a threat to national security…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/whistleblowing-the-pandemic-and-a-law-and-order-system-of-injustice/

More Mind Reading as Washington Post Pushes Another Round of Pandemic Checks as Stimulus
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-23
For some reason, reporters feel it is part of their job to read politicians' minds. We got another taste of this in a Washington Post news story pushing the idea of sending out another big check as a stimulus. The piece begins by telling readers: "President Trump has told aides he is largely supportive of …
cepr.net/more-mind-reading-as-washington-post-pushes-another-round-of-pandemic-checks-as-stimulus/

UK students in precarious situation during the pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-06-23
An online petition demanding the reimbursement of all this year's fee due to the pandemic has gathered 345,731 signatures as of the time of writing. Another one, that only asks for refunds for the third semester, has 109,282 signatures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/23/stud-j23.html

Alternatives to Policing: Putting the Power and Money Back Into Our Communities
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-06-23
Project Censored researcher and author Amber Yang, a Restorative Justice and Wellness Coordinator at Novato High School in Marin County, California rejoins the show along with Phoebe Smith, a long-time…
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'There Is No Political Solution': Accelerationism in the White Power Movement
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2020-06-23
In December 2018, a man named Rinaldo Nazzaro purchased 30 acres of remote land in Republic, Washington, a city of roughly 1,000 people about an hour's drive south of the Canadian border. The tract was meant to serve as a training ground for a terroristic white power group he founded earlier that year called The Base.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/06/23/there-no-political-solution-accelerationism-white-power-movement

Sexual violence against children during armed conflict, vastly under-reported
news.un.org | 2020-06-23
While warring parties agreed to more than 30 action plans, road maps, command orders and other measures to better protect children in 2019 — the highest number in any one year — rape and other forms of sexual violence remain vastly under-reported, including against boys, the leading UN advocate on the issue told the Security Council on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066962

Virtual Poor People's Campaign Rally Draws Crowd of More Than a Million
Sarah Anderson | zcomm.org | 2020-06-23
The virtual rally lifted up people who are living the interconnected injustices that have been the campaign's focus for the past two years: systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism and the war economy…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/virtual-poor-peoples-campaign-rally-draws-crowd-of-more-than-a-million/

Podur's "The Path of the Unarmed"
Dave Markland | zcomm.org | 2020-06-23
Frequent Z writer Justin Podur is in the midst of writing what appears to be a young adult-aimed book of fiction (sci-fi perhaps) that seeks to relate what a "leftist," revolutionary point of view is. Entitled "The Path of the Unarmed," the story describes the political education of a youth named Unarmed Warrior who receives Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/podurs-the-path-of-the-unarmed/

Students Not Suspects: the movement to defund and remove school police
Mathew González | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-23
On June 16, during a closed-door Los Angeles Unified School District board meeting, members from Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Students Deserve, and other members of the Students Not Suspects Coalition gathered on the corner of Lucas Avenue and Third street, near downtown Los Angeles, before marching toward the LAUSD building. Surrounded by a crowd …
liberationnews.org/students-not-suspects-the-movement-to-defund-and-remove-school-police/

EDITORIAL — Stonewall significa unirse para luchar
Editor | workers.org | 2020-06-23
Los gobernantes reaccionarios de los EE.UU. intentan desalentar, dividir y derrotar a los pobres, los oprimidos y los trabajadores de cualquier manera posible, en cualquier oportunidad posible. Sylvia Rivera, miembro de Young Lords, veterana de Stonewall Uprising, fundadora de Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR). Mire la táctica de operaciones psicológicas . . . | Continue reading EDITORIAL — Stonewall significa unirse para luchar at Workers.org…
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Russia to abandon flat tax after almost two decades, will start moving back to progressive system — Putin
rt.com | 2020-06-23
Russia is planning to introduce a progressive tax regime, adding a 15% tax bracket for those earning over five million rubles ($72,000) a year, President Vladimir Putin said. The money will be used to treat severely ill children. | In a televised address on Tuesday, Putin explained that a tax hike would raise approximately 60 billion rubles a year ($870 million), with Russia's highest earners paying an extra two percent tax on their income. The rate for all other Russians will remain unchanged at 13 percent. | He said that the tax increase will be used to treat children with serious illnesses, removing the nee…
rt.com/russia/492744-putin-progressive-tax-regime/

UK citizens' climate assembly backs green pandemic recovery and lifestyle shift
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-23
The UK's first national citizens' assembly on climate breakdown has backed changes to the economy and lifestyles that will drive down emissions in the wake of coronavirus.A report shows "striking" agreement within the citizens' assembly that steps taken by the government to help the economy recover should also cut greenhouse gases and that green changes to lifestyles should be encouraged.Climate Assembly UK was commissioned by six parliamentary select committees and asked to examine how the country meets its legal target to cut greenhouse gases to zero overall by mid-century.More than 100 people, who are represen…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/23/uk-citizens-climate-assembly-backs-green-pandemic-recovery-and-lifestyle-shift/

Another New Study Points to the Dangers of Geoengineering the Climate
Derrick Broze | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-06-23
A recently published study from MIT casts doubt on the safety of the science of geoengineering and outlines potential dangers of the controversial field. A new study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology is adding to the growing list of concerns around the controversial science of geoengineering. Researchers have found that geoengineering techniques could significantly change …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/science/another-new-study-points-dangers-geoengineering-climate/

Stir Crazy! Episode #58: It's Just Getting Started
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-23
On today's show: TRNN climate reporter Aman Azhar and TRNN managing editor Marc Steiner. Hosted by Kim Brown. If you have questions/comments/suggestions for the show email us at stircrazy@therealnews.com…
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-58-its-just-getting-started

'France's hypocritical, ill-conceived strategy jeopardizing Libya's political stability'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-23
Recently, France, an ally of warlord Haftar, accused [1] Turkey of thwarting cease-fire efforts by breaking a UN arms embargo.Until December last year, Haftar maintained a military edge over the legitimate government of Libya thanks to significant support from a number of countries, including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Russia and France. Turkey signed a military pact with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in November 2019, and since then it has provided significant military support, first and foremost armed drones and air defense systems, which have shifted the balance on the ground i…
yenisafak.com/en/news/frances-hypocritical-ill-conceived-strategy-jeopardizing-libyas-political-stability-3532774

Meet BlackRock, The New Great Vampire Squid
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-23
BlackRock has been called "the most powerful institution in the financial system," "the most powerful company in the world" and the "secret power." It is the world's largest asset manager and "shadow bank," larger than the world's largest bank (which is in China), with over $7 trillion in assets under direct management and another $20 trillion managed through its Aladdin risk-monitoring software. BlackRock has also been called "the fourth branch of government" and "almost a shadow government", but no part of it actually belongs to the government. Despite its size and global power, BlackRock is not even regulated…
popularresistance.org/meet-blackrock-the-new-great-vampire-squid/

'Workers First' Car Caravans Drive Mass Turnouts Nationwide
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-23
From Fairbanks to San Juan and from Bangor to Honolulu, workers nationwide turned out June 17 in car caravans, at press conferences, and in call-ins to lawmakers to demand solons "Put Workers First For Racial And Economic Justice." | Their top demands are additional economic aid during the coronavirus pandemic, for workers, not bosses, and for racial justice and economic justice and to force the federal government to order employers to provide anti-coronavirus protective gear. | To make their views heard, at least 1,000 cars, festooned with posters and flags, honked their way to Capitol Hill from two sites in the…
popularresistance.org/workers-first-car-caravans-drive-mass-turnouts-nationwide/

Feeding The People In Times Of Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-23
In its 2019-2023 Strategic Plan for Nicaragua, the United Nations World Food Program said that "In the last decade… Nicaragua is one of the countries that has reduced hunger the most in the region," while the government reports that chronic child malnutrition dropped from 21.7 percent in 2006 to 11.1 percent in 2019 for children under 5 years of age. Nicaragua was also one of the first countries to achieve Millennium Development Goal Number 1 of cutting undernutrition in half from 2.3 million in 1990-1992 to 1 million in 2014-2016, placing it among the countries of the region that had reduced hunger the most in…
popularresistance.org/feeding-the-people-in-times-of-pandemic/

Livin' On Tulsa Time: Infiltrating 'Trump Country' To Fly A Different Flag
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-23
Once spotted — read: ironically snitched on by onlooking National Guardsmen — our group was rapidly swarmed by a boatload of aggressive, somewhat violent, police officers. | My Marine Corps infantry veteran buddy was shoved to the ground and hit his head (thankfully without serious injury) with the rest quickly shepherded to the exits. Arrest seemed imminent, but in the end only the three climbers — plus a distinctly soft-spoken and older Vietnam veteran "packing" only a camera — were actually booked. There was some crowd jeering directed our way during the exit march, with one memorable…
popularresistance.org/livin-on-tulsa-time-infiltrating-trump-country-to-fly-a-different-flag/

Frontline public servants lauded for 'remarkable acts of service to humankind'
news.un.org | 2020-06-23
As the world continues to grapple with the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday paid tribute to frontline public sector workers for their "remarkable acts of service to humankind", marking Public Service Day.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066922

COVID-19 crisis has reminded society of the importance of public services
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-23
On Public Service Day, we spoke to Jammu Anand of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation Employees Union in India. He spoke about the different crises being faced by the public sector right now.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/23/covid-19-crisis-has-reminded-society-of-the-importance-of-public-services/

Hunter's millions: Ukrainian MP reveals new 'Biden-Poroshenko' tapes, claims VP's son was paid 'protection money' by Burisma
rt.com | 2020-06-23
More tapes of what appear to be Joe Biden's phone calls with the former president of Ukraine have surfaced, along with documents showing how much his son Hunter was paid by Burisma, a gas company desperate to avoid prosecution. | Ledgers show payments of $3.4 million from Burisma to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, the company co-founded by Hunter Biden, for "consulting services," former prosecutor Konstantin Kulyk and Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach revealed on Monday in Kiev. | Kulyk added that these services clearly amounted to "political protection of Burisma" and its owner Mykola Zlochevsky by US vice president at the…
rt.com/news/492755-biden-poroshenko-burisma-ukraine-tapes/

Public services workers demand greater investment amid pandemic
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-23
On Public Service Day, workers around the world are demanding greater investments and the rolling back of neoliberal policies. These policies have undervalued the essential services provided by those employed in this sector…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/23/public-service-workers-demand-greater-investment-amid-pandemic/

Italian cities see bicycle boom after COVID-19 lockdown
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-23
Italy has seen a surge in bicycle sales since the government ended its coronavirus lockdown as people steer clear of public transport and respond to government incentives to help the environment.Some 540,000 bikes have been sold nationwide since shops across the country reopened in early May, according to sector lobby Ancma, a 60% increase in the first month compared to the same period in 2019.To keep people off metros and buses and avoid road congestion, the government has offered to contribute up to 500 euros ($562.70) for city-dwellers who buy traditional or "pedal-assisted" electrical bicycles.The subsidy, wh…
yenisafak.com/en/world/italian-cities-see-bicycle-boom-after-covid-19-lockdown-3532784

French StopCovid app led to 1.8 million activations as of June 22
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-23
France's state-supported "StopCovid" contact-tracing app has been downloaded by 1.9 million people, roughly 2% of the population, leading to 1.8 million activations as of June 22, digital affairs minister Cedric O said on Tuesday.The "StopCovid" smartphone app, which was launched on June 2, warns users if they have come into contact with anyone infected with the coronavirus to help to contain the epidemic as France emerges from lockdown.
yenisafak.com/en/technology/french-stopcovid-app-led-to-18-million-activations-as-of-june-22-3532782

'Kashmir militants bent on stopping demographic change'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-23
Militancy in Indian-administered Kashmir remains the same, by and large, but countering India's demographic plans appears to be its primary focus now, experts say. On Aug. 5, 2019, Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi scrapped two pieces of legislation that guaranteed Kashmir an autonomous political status besides barring people outside Jammu and Kashmir from buying land or applying for government jobs in the disputed region.Recently, amid the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, New Delhi introduced domicile laws that made an unspecified number of its citizens eligible for jobs and residency in Jammu and…
yenisafak.com/en/news/kashmir-militants-bent-on-stopping-demographic-change-3532781

Trials with Oxford COVID-19 vaccine start in Brazil
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-23
Trials will count on 2,000 health workers volunteers in Sao Paulo and 1,000 people in Rio de Janeiro.Brazil's health regulator Anvisa approved human clinical trials for this potential vaccine, developed by Oxford and supported by AstraZeneca Plc, earlier in June. Brazil, where the disease is still rife, is the first country outside the United Kingdom to start testing the Oxford vaccine.Researchers expect to launch the vaccine by year-end.
yenisafak.com/en/life/trials-with-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-start-in-brazil-3532786

Spain pushes clean energy decree to speed renewable rollout
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-23
Spain's cabinet approved on Tuesday a decree aimed at smoothing the rollout of renewable energy generation, with measures to combat speculation in the market, cut red tape and overhaul an outdated auction system to reassure investors and lower prices.Spain wants to make use of rich natural resources including prodigious sunlight both to reduce pollution and create jobs, in response to the devastation the coronavirus has wrought on an economy that relies heavily on tourism and cars.It follows plans being developed by the European Union (EU) to use low-carbon investments to battle the downturn. Spain is working on…
yenisafak.com/en/world/spain-pushes-clean-energy-decree-to-speed-renewable-rollout-3532783

Indonesian Muslim scholars worried by Europe Islamophobia
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-23
Indonesian Muslim intellectuals have voiced their concerns following a recent report on mounting Islamophobia in western countries.A report published Sunday by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), a think tank based int eh Turkish capital Ankara, outlined the discrimination and xenophobia that many Muslims face in European countries. The European Islamophobia Report 2019 recounted many Islamophobic developments that occurred last year in both Europe and across the world."The elections to the European parliament and to several national parliaments saw a further rise in popularity of…
yenisafak.com/en/news/indonesian-muslim-scholars-worried-by-europe-islamophobia-3532780

Turkish students commemorate anniversary of Korean war
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-23
Yunus Emre Institute in Seoul has prepared a memorial video with Turkish students living in South Korea on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Korean War.In a written statement, the Yunus Emre Institute said the video also included Sude Kaya Surenoglu, the granddaughter of Korean War veteran Rafet Surenoglu and currently a student at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.Speaking in Korean, Turkish students in the video said: "Today is the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, which displayed South Korea's struggle to become a strong democratic country. As Turkey, exactly 70 years ago from today, we proudly…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkish-students-commemorate-anniversary-of-korean-war-3532776

UK quarantine policy will be led by public health, says PM Johnson
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-23
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that any changes to the country's quarantine policy would be based on public health guidance and not a desire to open up the economy."We will have a policy on air bridges that is based on public health," he told lawmakers in parliament as he announced an easing of some lockdown measures in England on Tuesday.Britain has a 14-day quarantine policy in place for arrivals into the country from abroad, but the government has said it is looking at "air bridges" which would allow restriction-free travel between countries with low infection rates.
yenisafak.com/en/world/uk-quarantine-policy-will-be-led-by-public-health-says-pm-johnson-3532785

US Homeland Security to Probe Nigel Farage Dodging COVID-19 Travel Ban to Attend Donald Trump Rally
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-23
British politician and leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage put in an appearance at Donald Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 20 June, sparking speculations as to how he was able to dodge a US ban on individuals travelling from the UK under the presidential proclamation to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
sputniknews.com/world/202006231079694845-us-homeland-security-to-probe-nigel-farage-dodging-covid-19-travel-ban-to-attend-donald-trump-rally/

US Military's 'Unprecedented' Deployment to Asia-Pacific Risks Confrontation With China – Think Tank
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-23
The US military is deploying "unprecedented" numbers of soldiers to the Asia-Pacific region, AFP reported Tuesday, citing a senior Chinese official.
sputniknews.com/military/202006231079701587-us-militarys-unprecedented-deployment-to-asia-pacific-risks-confrontation-with-china—think-tank/

Two Militants, One Soldier Killed in Intensified Anti-Militancy Operations in Kashmir
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-23
New Delhi (Sputnik): Indian security forces have stepped up operations to eliminate militants from Kashmir since the region was stripped of its special status in August 2019. According to security forces, they have shot and killed about 35 militants in June alone in the twin districts of Pulwama and Shopian in South Kashmir.
sputniknews.com/india/202006231079694078-two-militants-one-soldier-killed-in-intensified-anti-militancy-operations-in-kashmir/

Norway's Oldest Party Favours Joining EU
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-23
Despite having twice opted out of the European Community and the European Union following referendums in 1972 and 1994, Norway is seeing a shift in both public opinion and party politics toward Brussels.
sputniknews.com/europe/202006231079694137-norways-oldest-party-favours-joining-eu/

New Season, New You: Husky Gets Summertime Blowout
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-23
Huskies are beautiful dogs originating from Siberia, Russia; however, as majestic-looking as these snow dogs are, they become high-maintenance for their owners when warm temperatures come about and they shed their coats.
sputniknews.com/videoclub/202006231079700618-new-season-new-you-husky-gets-summertime-blowout/

Afghanistan seeking to expand Parliamentary ties with Iran: Afghan official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-23
TEHRAN, Jun. 24 (MNA) — Speaker of Afghanistan's House of the People Mir Rahman Rahmani congratulated Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on his election as the Iranian Parliament Speaker.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160116/Afghanistan-seeking-to-expand-Parliamentary-ties-with-Iran-Afghan

Saudi Arabia bans international pilgrims for this year's hajj
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-23
TEHRAN, Jun. 23 (MNA) — Saudi Arabia made the decision to restrict this year's hajj, or pilgrimage to the sacred Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina, for pilgrims arriving from abroad due to coronavirus-related epidemiological precautions, Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah said on Monday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160103/Saudi-Arabia-bans-international-pilgrims-for-this-year-s-hajj

US shares draft resolution with UNSC to extend arms embargo on Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-23
TEHRAN, Jun. 23 (MNA) — With the ban on arms transactions with Iran set to expire in October under terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, the US has shared its prepared anti-Iranian draft resolution with members of the UN Security Council, sources say.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160110/US-shares-draft-resolution-with-UNSC-to-extend-arms-embargo-on

Europe played into hands of two fools: Shamkhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-23
TEHRAN, Jun. 23 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani asked why Europe ignored the common stupidity of the two incompetent idiots in leaving JCPOA and played into their hands by issuing an anti-Iranian resolution.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160114/Europe-played-into-hands-of-two-fools-Shamkhani

Iran incessantly monitoring enemies' movements: intelligence min
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-23
TEHRAN, Jun. 23 (MNA) — The unknown soldiers of Imam Zaman [May God Hasten His Reappearance] are thoroughly monitoring the malicious movements of criminal imperialist, usurper regime of Israel and sworn enemies of the country incessantly.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160119/Iran-incessantly-monitoring-enemies-movements-intelligence

Electricity Monitoring Center, Shahroud Power Plant inaugurated concurrently
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-23
SHAHROUD, Jun. 23 (MNA) — Shahroud Power Plant and Electricity Industry Monitoring Center were inaugurated simultaneously on Tue. through video conference in the presence of Energy Minister Eng. Reza Ardakanian, Chief Executive of Iran's Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution Management Company [TAVANIR] Mohammad Hassan Motavalizadeh and Managing Director of Iran's Thermal Power Plants Holding Company Mohsen Tarztalab.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160117/Electricity-Monitoring-Center-Shahroud-Power-Plant-inaugurated

The Heat: U.S. election campaign
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-06-23
Amid the ongoing pandemic, U.S. Donald Trump holds his first campaign rally.
america.cgtn.com/2020/06/23/the-heat-u-s-election-campaign

Farage investigated by US Homeland Security over trip to attend Trump Tulsa rally
rt.com | 2020-06-23
A US congressman who chairs the Committee on Homeland Security has launched an investigation into Nigel Farage after the Brexit Party leader apparently flew to America to attend a Donald Trump rally during the Covid-19 pandemic. | US Democrat representative Bennie G Thompson sent a letter to Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of Homeland Security, on Monday, requesting "all relevant documents" on the decision to "waive the travel ban for Mr Farage," saying it raised "troublin…
rt.com/uk/492674-farage-investigated-trip-trump-tulsa/

SECOND German region REIMPOSES Covid-19 lockdown after slaughterhouse outbreak
rt.com | 2020-06-23
A second German district is reimposing lockdown measures following an outbreak of Covid-19 at the Toennies meat factory in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which saw 1,500 employees testing positive for the virus. | Officials said on Tuesday that the Warendorf district in the northern and most populous state would be placed under lockdown again, just hours after the neighboring district of Guetersloh made the same decision. | Also on rt.com | | German region RETURNS TO LOCKDOWN over Covid-19 outbreak at meat factory | The Toennies slaughterhous…
rt.com/news/492745-second-german-coronavirus-lockdown/

'Unrealistic': Russia says it won't pressure China to join nuclear talks on Washington's behalf
rt.com | 2020-06-23
US expectations that China will join nuclear arms control talks are unrealistic, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said, noting the only way forward is bilateral dialogue between Moscow and Washington. | Ryabkov pointed out that he made that clear to US special envoy for arms control Marshall Billingslea as the two met in Vienna on Monday for negotiations on prolonging the New START Treaty, which expires in February. | "We quite thoroughly explained to them why counting on China joining [the negotiations] is unrealistic," Ryabkov said, noting that Moscow will not pressure Beijing the way Washingt…
rt.com/news/492749-russia-us-china-nuclear-vienna/

WATCH LIVE: Moscow marks 75 years since victory over Nazis with iconic parade on Red Square
rt.com | 2020-06-23
The traditional Victory Day parade, rescheduled from May 9 due to the coronavirus pandemic, is taking place on Red Square in Moscow. | The huge event features 13,000 troops, 234 military vehicles and 75 aircraft. | The new date wasn't chosen at random, as the first Victory Parade was held in the same location on June 24, 1945. In memory of this occasion, state-of-the-art hardware as well as historic World War II uniforms and weapons are on display along the Kremlin walls.
rt.com/news/492759-red-square-parade-victory-day/

Moscow marks 75 years since victory over Nazis with traditional parade on Red Square (FULL VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-23
The traditional Victory Day parade, rescheduled from May 9 due to the coronavirus pandemic, is taking place on Red Square in Moscow. | The huge event features 13,000 troops, 234 military vehicles and 75 aircraft. | The new date wasn't chosen at random, as the first Victory Parade was held in the same location on June 24, 1945. In memory of this occasion, state-of-the-art hardware as well as historic World War II uniforms and weapons are on display along the Kremlin walls. | Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
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First volunteer receives Imperial COVID-19 vaccine
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-23
The first healthy volunteer has now received a candidate coronavirus vaccine developed by Imperial researchers.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198533/first-volunteer-receives-imperial-covid-19-vaccine

Parliamentarians hear of 'high chance' of coronavirus vaccine
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-23
Two of Imperial's leading coronavirus experts gave evidence to the House of Lords about their research to tackle COVID-19…
imperial.ac.uk/news/198557/parliamentarians-hear-high-chance-coronavirus-vaccine

Virus numbers surge globally as many nations ease lockdowns
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-23
The number of global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases has continued to surge in many large countries which have been lifting lockdowns, including the US, even as new infections stabilise or drop in parts of western Europe.In the UK, Department of Health figures for 22 June recorded 958 new cases and 15 deaths over the previous day. The government is looking to reopen cinemas and museums and health secretary Matt Hancock has described the virus as being "in retreat".India has been recording about 15,000 n…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/23/virus-numbers-surge-globally-as-many-nations-ease-lockdowns/

Hospitality bosses not meaningfully consulted over pre-lockdown plans, MPs told
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-23
Hospitality firms and leaders were not "meaningfully consulted" over Government plans to tell customers to avoid pubs and restaurants, in the run up to lockdown, a trade body boss told MPs. Furthermore, they've had very little warning to prepare for lockdown easing. | Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality, said more businesses shut down than the sector had previously predicted, as consumer demand for takeaway food and deliveries plunged in March. | The comments came as she was questioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) select committee, alongside Just Eat's UK boss Andr…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/23/hospitality-bosses-not-meaningfully-consulted-over-pre-lockdown-plans-mps-told/

Eton headmaster apologises to former pupil for racism
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-23
The headmaster of Eton College has reportedly apologised to a black former pupil for the racism he was subjected to during his studies in the 1960s.Writer Dillibe Onyeama told the BBC he was bullied daily during his four years at the elite fee-paying school.Fellow students used slurs and asked if he had maggots in his hair, and Onyeama was accused of cheating when he performed well while having any poor performance attributed to his race.Onyeama, who is Nigerian, detailed his experiences in a book when he finished school in 1969.Three years later, he…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/23/eton-headmaster-apologises-to-former-pupil-for-racism/

Radical Mothering for Abolitionist Futures Post-COVID-19
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-23
The initial effects of COVID-19 coupled with the current uprisings against police violence have torn us from our common sense of normalcy. This sudden shift in the toxic state of living under the violence of racial capitalism, white supremacy, and settler colonialism affords us the opportunity to uplift centuries of communal wisdom that abound all around us. The current pandemic made it increasingly apparent that capitalism, not simply COVID-19, is the disaster. | The killing by white vigilantes (including an ex…
truthout.org/articles/radical-mothering-for-abolitionist-futures-post-covid-19/

Trump Responds to COVID-19 Spike by Cracking Down on Immigration
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-23
The number of new COVID-19 cases are spiking in several states, but President Trump did not announce new public health responses on Monday. Instead, he issued an executive order extending and expanding suspensions of immigration and guest worker programs until the end of the year. The White House is also moving to push lower-wage workers out of the H-1B visa program, and it barred asylum seekers from gaining lawful employment for one year after filing a claim. | Meanwhile, the administration is already w…
truthout.org/articles/trump-responds-to-covid-19-spike-by-cracking-down-on-immigration/

It's Trump vs. Bolton, and I'm Rooting for a Meteor
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-06-23
Source: Truthout Trump and Bolton Photo by Gints Ivuskans/Shutterstock.com I thought it was over in September 2019, when Donald Trump and his third national security adviser, the execrable John Bolton, got into a "You're Fired/I Quit!" fight on the front page of all the papers. "Maybe he's really gone now," I thought wistfully of Read…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/its-trump-vs-bolton-and-im-rooting-for-a-meteor/

Kentucky Closes 95 Percent of Polling Places, Leaving Louisville With Just One
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-23
As primary voters head to the polls in New York, Kentucky and Virginia, they face long lines, even as President Trump continues to attack mail-in voting, falsely claiming it leads to fraud. Kentucky has reduced the number of polling places from 3,700 to just 170 — a 95% reduction. "There's the potential for record turnout," notes Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of Black Voters Matter, despite such suppression tactics. | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Co…
truthout.org/video/kentucky-closes-95-percent-of-polling-places-leaving-louisville-with-just-one/

Trump's Arizona Trip Showcases the Biggest Failures of His Presidency
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-23
After his debacle in Tulsa, a huge failure with an abysmal turnout and what may still have been a super-spreader event for a deadly virus, Donald Trump needs to set low expe…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-arizona-trip-showcases-the-biggest-failures-of-his-presidency/

Defund the Police. Invest in Black Farmers
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-23
For years, I lived two blocks from Cup Foods — the corner store that George Floyd was killed in front of by Minneapolis police on May 25. | That store is like many of the others in this country where working-class, Black and Brown folks get a fair amount of their food. Walk into these stores, and you will also find overpriced daily necessities, such as shampoo and deodorant, as well as an ample supply of junk food. To Cup Foods's credit, they do stock fresh fruits and vegetables. Still, the supply that they can offer is…
truthout.org/articles/defund-the-police-invest-in-black-farmers/

Disease, Power and Capitalism
Stefan Bollinger | indybay.org | 2020-06-23
Have you tried DeepL.com, academia.edu, grin.com or grammarly.com? Send me your comments and/or discoveries – as we await the reopening of the libraries and the Biden landslide! Will the great comedian Stephan Colbert be the dark horse candidate at the last moment? Marc…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/22/18834464.php

Sins of "The Father" Torn Down, A New Way Forward At Hand
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-23
Be ye not afraid, "the nakedness and drunkenness of our fathers" can no longer be tolerated as a bastardized translation of a moral compass of divinity.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/21/18834400.php

Covid-19 Will Accelerate March of the Robots
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-23
Tech revolution threatens an unemployment crisis in China and developed world after gathering pace during pandemic | Gordon WATTS | They have been compared to quantum leaps in humanity's historic journey. But they are more like Grand Canyon-style jumps in our evolution. | During the past 200 years, technological revolutions have expanded the borders of globalization and have dragged millions of people out of poverty. Yet they have come at a price. | The Fourth Industrial Revolution will be no different. | Already the landscape is changing dramatically with China at the forefront of this brave, new world for some…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/23/covid-19-will-accelerate-march-of-the-robots/

Stop the Madness of Congressional
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-23
Stephen MOORE | The coronavirus shutdown has flattened multiple industries across America — everything from airlines and manufacturers to hospitals, retailers, oil and gas producers, and restaurants. Many of the 30 million small and large businesses in the country have reported a 30% reduction in revenues. Amid the carnage, one sector of the economy is thriving like never before in the history of the republic: the government. | Congress has already spent more than $2 trillion on phases one, two, three and 3 1/2 of coronavirus relief packages. The irresponsible bill from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would rais…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/23/stop-the-madness-of-congressional/

NATO 2030: How to Make a Bad Idea Worse
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-23
Just when you thought the leaders of NATO could not push the limits of insanity any further, something like NATO 2030 is announced. | After helping blow up the Middle East and North Africa, dividing the Balkans into zones of war and tension, turning Ukraine upside down using armadas of neo Nazis, and encircling Russia with a ballistic missile shield, the leaders of this Cold War relic have decided that the best way to deal with instability of the world is… more NATO. | In a June 8th online event co-sponsored by the Atlantic Council, NATO…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/23/nato-2030-how-make-bad-idea-worse/

Report: Economic implications of Covid-19 and Brexit 2021
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-23
By TruePublica Editor: Best for Britain is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to keep campaigning for the closest possible future relationship with Europe. They commissioned a report, which was put together by the Social Market Foundation to analyse the double whammy effect of the pandemic and Brexit (both with and without a deal) on …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/report-economic-implications-of-covid-19-and-brexit-2021/

La Nato al timone della politica estera italiana
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-23
I ministri della Difesa della Nato (per l'Italia Lorenzo Guerini, Pd), riuniti in videoconferenza il 17/18 giugno, hanno preso una serie di ´decisioni per rafforzare la deterrenza dell'Alleanza ª. Nessuno perà≤ in Italia ne parla, né sui media (social compresi) né …
globalresearch.ca/la-nato-al-timone-della-politica-estera-italiana/5716802

Police Violence and Racism Have Always Been Tools of Capitalism
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
The system-wide challenges the United States faces with policing are entrenched and deeply rooted. When the historical and current practices of police are examined, it is evident police have been designed to uphold the status quo including racial injustice and …
globalresearch.ca/police-violence-racism-tools-capitalism/5716633

Trump Slams Guaidó While Expressing Openness in Speaking with Maduro
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
In what potentially could be a radical change in Washington's policy towards Venezuela, U.S. president Donald Trump confessed that he has had doubts about his decision to recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president of the South American country. Trump …
globalresearch.ca/trump-slams-guaido-expressing-openness-speaking-maduro/5716640

Billions of children are being punished by the pandemic
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-22
Vijay Prashad writes about the deep impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on children who are suffering disproportionately amid the pandemic with limited access to education and higher levels of violence…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/22/billions-of-children-are-being-punished-by-the-pandemic/

Top 6 Reasons Trump's Racist Attack on Ilhan Omar at Empty Stadium Is a Lie
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
African Muslims have been central to American history and American success. Ilhan Omar has been an American citizen longer than Melania Trump, and stands in a tradition of contributing to this country. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ilhan_omar-trump-incite-violence_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/22/top-6-reasons-trumps-racist-attack-ilhan-omar-empty-stadium-lie?cd-origin=rss

UN Chief calls for reparations to amend slavery's legacy
teleSUR Desk | mronline.org | 2020-06-22
The U.N.'s Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet urged countries to confront legacy of slavery and colonialism.
mronline.org/2020/06/22/un-chief-calls-for-reparations-to-amend-slaverys-legacy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=un-chief-calls-for-reparations-to-amend-slaverys-legacy

Message to My Young Readers in Hong Kong
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-22
For months, this has been a story that I want to share with young readers in Hong Kong. Now it seems to be the really appropriate time when the ideological battle between the West and China is raging, and as a result of it, Hong Kong and the entire world is suffering. I want to …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/message-to-my-young-readers-in-hong-kong/

Economic Terrorism: U.S. "Caesar" Act Tries to Suffocate 17 Million Syrians
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Since 2011, the US and allies have promoted, trained and supplied militants trying to bring about "regime change" in Damascus. Having failed in that effort, they have tried to strangle Syria economically. The goal has always been the same: to …
globalresearch.ca/economic-terrorism-u-s-caesar-act-tries-to-suffocate-17-million-syrians/5716577

Trump walks back Maduro olive branch after Biden challenges his commitment to Venezuelan regime change
rt.com | 2020-06-22
US President Donald Trump has reaffirmed support for his administration's regime change policy in Venezuela, reversing course on negotiation after Democratic rival Joe Biden attacked his "admiration" for "dictator" Nicolas Maduro. | Trump would "only meet with Maduro to discuss one thing: a peaceful exit from power!" the president tweeted on Monday, walking back comments he made in an Axios interview, where he hinted he would "maybe think about" meeting with the Venezuelan leader. | "Unlike the radical left, I will ALWAYS stand against socialism and with the people of Venezuela," Trump added, proclaiming his o…
rt.com/news/492626-trump-biden-maduro-regime-change/

'Assad must go' no more, says US envoy for Syria. Except US policy is still regime change by another name
rt.com | 2020-06-22
While special envoy James Jeffrey says the US no longer demands regime change in Syria, only "change of behavior," his explanation shows this distinction is without a difference and no November election results will change it. | "We're not demanding total victory, we're not saying that Assad has to go," Jeffrey said on Monday, during a live event hosted by the Middle East Institute and moderated by MEI director Charles Lister. | Instead, he explained, the goal of the Caesar Syria Civil…
rt.com/news/492629-usa-sanctions-syria-jeffrey/

Israel leverages dubious 'Nuclear Archives' to re-enlist IAEA in campaign against Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-22
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/22/israel-nuclear-archives-iaea-iran/

Israel leverages dubious 'Nuclear Archives' to secure new IAEA demands on Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-22
The International Atomic Energy Agency has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and Israel,…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/22/israel-nuclear-archives-iaea-iran/

Israel leverages dubious 'Nuclear Archives' to re-enlist IAEA in campaign against Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-22
The International Atomic Energy Agency has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and Israel,…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/22/israel-nuclear-archives-iaea-iran/

Guaido Lauds Takeover of Venezuela's Bolivia Embassy
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-06-22
Venezuela's self-declared "interim president" Juan Guaido is said to share a "beam of light" relationship with Bolivia's de facto president.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14916

Biden Bashes Trump's Willingness to Meet with Venezuela's Maduro
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-06-22
The White House insisted that Trump "has not lost confidence" in opposition leader Guaido.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14915

Trump Cold On Guaidó
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
In an Oval Office interview with Axios on Friday, President Trump suggested he's had second thoughts about his decision to recognize Juan Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and said he is open to meeting with dictator Nicolás Maduro. | Driving the news: Asked whether he would meet with Maduro, Trump said, "I would maybe think about that. … Maduro would like to meet. And I'm never opposed to meetings — you know, rarely opposed to meetings. | "I always say, you lose very little with meetings. But at this moment, I've turned them down." | The big picture: Trump also indicated he doesn't have much c…
popularresistance.org/trump-cold-on-guaido/

Biden And His Ventriloquists Keep Out-Hawking Trump
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-22
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | In response to Trump suggesting an openness to scaling back his administration's murderous Venezuela policy and meeting with President Nicolás Maduro, whoever runs Biden's Twitter account for him seized upon the moment to assert that the former vice president will be doing no such thing if elected commander-in-chief. | "Trump talks…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/22/biden-and-his-ventriloquists-keep-out-hawking-trump/

US Air Force Dispatches Surveillance Planes to Island Off Venezuela's Coast
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
The US Air Force has dispatched two surveillance aircraft to a base just off the Venezuelan coast for what it calls "counter-narcotics operations." The move comes as Washington looks to enhance its "maximum pressure" against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
sputniknews.com/latam/202006221079692415-us-air-force-dispatches-surveillance-planes-to-island-off-venezuelas-coast/

What History Shows Us About Responding to Coronavirus
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
Interview on the challenges of responding to the coronavirus, the future of our relationship to technology, and history's lessons for moving forward…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-history-shows-us-about-responding-to-coronavirus/

Massive Uprisings Confront White Supremacy
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
That's not a chip on my shoulder. | That's your foot on my neck. | — Malcolm X | On May 25, a Minneapolis police officer tortured George Floyd to death in what his brother, Philonise Floyd, called "a modern-day lynching in broad …
globalresearch.ca/massive-uprisings-confront-white-supremacy/5716599

Syrians confirm death of missing relatives by photos
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians searching for their relatives have stepped up their efforts after the US adopted the Caesar Act, a law which imposes sanctions on the Syrian regime for war crimes.Families, who have long given up on ever finding their relatives, click on web links where photos of people killed in regime prisons are posted, in a desperate attempt to confirm the death of their loved ones.Imaduddin Rasit, the founding member of a France-based association monitoring Syrian casualties of war and prisoners, said more than 6,000 photos of people tortured to death were shared on the internet.The photos we…
yenisafak.com/en/news/syrians-confirm-death-of-missing-relatives-by-photos-3532719

A Ridiculous Debate on Sexual Orientation, But a Welcome Ruling
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
The Supreme Court just affirmed a right I thought I always had: not to be fired for my sexual orientation. The 6-3 ruling found that, under existing civil rights legislation against sex-based discrimination, it's illegal for employers to discriminate against their employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity. It feels ridiculous that this needed…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/a-ridiculous-debate-on-sexual-orientation-but-a-welcome-ruling/

How to Defeat Trump Without Campaigning for Biden
David Duhalde | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
Socialists and other Bernie Sanders supporters can play a critical role in defeating right-wing populism while building a left-wing alternative for the long term–by going down-ballot.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-to-defeat-trump-without-campaigning-for-biden/

If You Want Joe Biden to Govern More Like FDR Than Jamie Dimon, Vote for Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in New York and Kentucky
Alan Minsky | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) holds hands with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) during his speech at a campaign rally in Queensbridge Park on October 19, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo: Kena Betancur/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bernie-sanders-ocasio-cortez-queens-rally-endorsement-saturday.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/22/if-you-want-joe-biden-govern-more-fdr-jamie-dimon-vote-bernie-sanders-tuesday-new?cd-origin=rss

Study: COVID-19 Exacerbating America's Massive Wealth Inequality and Racial Divide
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-22
Black Americans are dying at almost three times the rate whites are, with Latinos and Native Americans also dying at elevated levels to the rest of the population.
mintpressnews.com/study-covid-19-exacerbating-americas-massive-wealth-inequality-and-racial-divide/268833/

Why So Few American Muslims Serve in the US Military
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-22
Despite the large and active recruitment drives targeting them, a heightened level of casual and toxic Islamophobia within the ranks of America's Armed Forces is alienating many Muslim Americans who might otherwise consider joining.
mintpressnews.com/american-muslims-serve-armed-forces-islamaphobia/268778/

NYPD Cop Caught Choking Man On Camera Has Long History of Attacking Black People
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-22
Afanador has a long history of violence and brutality towards those he is charged with protecting and serving, especially to African-Americans. | MPN- Barely a week after the state made the practice a criminal offense, New York Police Department officer David Afanador was caught on camera yesterday choking a black man unconscious. Video of the incident in Queens shows Afanador and other officers apprehending 35-year-old Ricky Bellevue as his companions plead for his safety: "Stop choking him bro… He's choking him! let him go!" o…

NYPD Cop Caught Choking Man On Camera Has Long History of Attacking Black People

Police Lessons from Cuba
Reese Erlich | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
A group of muscular cops carrying semi-automatic pistols and batons slowly move through the crowd at the end of an outdoor salsa concert. My friends and I have a bottle of rum, and I think for sure the cops will …
globalresearch.ca/police-lessons-from-cuba/5716648

US Economic Embargo‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã on Syria Is 'Crime Against Humanity'
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
The US economic embargo against Syria which doesn't have the approval of the UN Security Council is a "crime against humanity," a Canadian political commentator has said. | *** | Mark Taliano added that the United States and its allies are supporting …
globalresearch.ca/us-economic-embargo%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b-syria-crime-against-humanity/5716583

Five Black & Brown Men Have Been Recently Found Hanged in Public. Were Some of Them Lynched?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-22
As mass protests against racism and police brutality continue, at least five men — four Black and one Latinx — have been found hanging in public across the U.S. in recent weeks. We speak with Jacqueline Olive, director of "Always in Season," a documentary that examines the history of lynchings through the story of Lennon Lacy, an African American teenager who was found hanged from a swingset in 2014. "They deserve a full investigation," Olive says of the recent hangings,…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/us_public_hangings_lynching_history

Trump's Reelection Playbook: Racist Tropes & Downplaying COVID Pandemic by Slowing Down Testing
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-22
As the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 nears 120,000 and mass protests against police brutality and racism continue, President Trump faces condemnation for his remarks at his poorly attended campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he repeated racist terms like "kung flu" and lashed out at protesters. "You just see this tremendous impulse to divide," says Emily Bazelon, staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. "This is what has worked for Trump in the past. He is not going to change now."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/trump_tulsa_rally

Five Black & Brown Men Have Been Recently Found Hanged in Public. Were Some of Them Lynched?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-22
As mass protests against racism and police brutality continue, at least five men — four Black and one Latinx — have been found hanging in public across the U.S. in recent weeks. We speak with Jacqueline Olive, director of "Always in Season," a documentary that examines the history of lynchings through the story of Lennon Lacy, an African American teenager who was found hanged from a swing set in 2014. "They deserve a full investigation," Olive says of the recent hangings,…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/us_public_hangings_lynching_history

Trump Fires Top U.S. Prosecutor as William Barr Moves to Expand "Imperial Presidency"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-22
After a dramatic weekend showdown, the Trump administration has ousted Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan who led multiple prosecutions and investigations into allies of the president. We look at the extraordinary measures U.S. Attorney General William Barr took to protect Trump, with New York Times Magazine writer Emily Bazelon, who has profiled Barr. "He believes in a very strong executive presidency, a kind of imperial presidency in which a huge amount of power resides in the president," she says of the attorney general.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/william_barr_geoffrey_berman_firing

"Robert E. Lee Was a Brutal Slave Master": Activist's Call to Rename Louisiana School Goes Viral
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-22
We play a video that has now gone viral from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where community activist Gary Chambers Jr. calls out members of the Lee High School school board for their racism during a June 18 meeting to discuss a resolution to rename the school, which is named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Chambers urged members to choose a name in honor of people who fought slavery and racism, not someone who defended it, and addressed board member Connie Bernard, who had defended Robert E. Lee and was seen shopping on her computer during the meeting.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/gary_chambers_connie_bernard

Documentos filtrados revelan plan para derrocar al presidente AMLO de México
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-22
Oligarcas mexicanos y los partidos del establishment político, con ayuda de los medios, Washington y Wall Street, se han unido…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/22/boa-plan-derrocar-amlo-mexico/

Documentos filtrados revelan plan derechista para derrocar al Presidente AMLO de México
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-22
Oligarcas mexicanos y los partidos del establishment político, con ayuda de los medios, Washington y Wall Street, se han unido…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/22/boa-plan-derrocar-amlo-mexico/

Hundreds of thousands join the New Poor People's Campaign virtual March
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
WASHINGTON–From eradication of poverty, an end to U.S. racism, to dismantling the war machine and creating a Green New Deal with thousands of well-paying jobs–especially union jobs–hundreds of thousands of people demanded a complete reversal and creation of a better society in three virtual mass marches on D.C. the weekend of June 20-21. The point …
peoplesworld.org/article/hundreds-of-thousands-join-the-new-poor-peoples-campaign-virtual-march/

Hundreds of thousands join the New Poor People's Campaign virtual March
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
WASHINGTON–From eradication of poverty, an end to U.S. racism, to dismantling the war machine and creating a Green New Deal with thousands of well-paying jobs — especially union jobs — hundreds of thousands of people demanded a complete reversal and creation of a better society in three virtual mass marches on D.C. the weekend of …
peoplesworld.org/article/hundreds-of-thousands-join-the-new-poor-peoples-campaign-virtual-march/

US Media Propaganda Claiming that Putin Supported "Left-Wing Terrorists"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Politico's scandalous "report" alleging that Putin secretly supported and even possibly organized the left-wing terrorist activities of the "Baader-Meinhof Group" during his time with the KGB in East Germany is pure propaganda which is intended to serve the purpose of …
globalresearch.ca/politico-spreading-propaganda-claiming-putin-supported-left-wing-terrorists/5716653

Prime Minister Modi Can't Put the Genie of Indian Jingoism Back in the Bottle
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Prime Minister Modi released the genie of Indian jingoism after coming to power six years ago, irresponsibly hoping that the state-sponsored cultivation of hyper-nationalist sentiment would lead to the false domestic perception of the country as the "superpower" that it …
globalresearch.ca/modi-cant-put-genie-indian-jingoism-back-bottle/5716622

Sri Lankan SEP holds online meeting on global protests against police murders
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
Wije Dias, General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, delivered the main speech at an online meeting on the global protests against the police killings and moves towards autocratic methods of rule.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/wijw-j22.html

Don't forget that Human Rights Watch, not only OAS Chief Luis Almagro, helped a US-backed military coup in Bolivia
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
On November 10 of 2019, Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown and barely escaped the country alive. The military publicly "suggested" that he resign. The military and police also made it clear that they would not protect him from vigilantes who wanted to lynch him. His house was ransacked by opposition supporters the night he Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/dont-forget-that-human-rights-watch-not-only-oas-chief-luis-almagro-helped-a-us-backed-military-coup-in-bolivia/

Details of China's National Security Law Released
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Along with protecting China's national security, its legitimate right, the new law aims to counter months of US orchestrated violence and vandalism in Hong Kong. | They were and continue to be led by 5th column elements that rocked the city …
globalresearch.ca/china-national-security-law-released/5716611

PCHR Follows with Concern Continued Detention of Citizens on Grounds of Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) follows with concern the continued summonsing and detention of several Fatah Movement activists and cadres by the Internal Security Services (ISS) on grounds of a protest and social media posts on the 14th anniversary of the internal Palestinian division between Fatah and Hamas movements. …
imemc.org/article/pchr-follows-with-concern-continued-detention-of-citizens-on-grounds-of-freedom-of-expression-and-peaceful-assembly/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-follows-with-concern-continued-detention-of-citizens-on-grounds-of-freedom-of-expression-and-peaceful-assembly

Tampa Bay community honors life of murdered Tallahassee activist Oluwatoyin Salau
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
Tampa, FL – On June 20, Tampa Bay community members gathered at the Joe Chillura Courthouse Square to honor the life of Oluwatoyin "Toyin" Salau, who was sexually assaulted, abducted and murdered. Salau was a known Black Lives Matter activist in Tallahassee, Florida. Her death follows a recent wave of violence against, and murder of, Black people in the United States committed by the police, white vigilantes and others. | The vigil began at 7 p.m. and was co-hosted by the Tampa Bay Community Action Committee (TBCAC), Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Intersections of Tampa Advocates (ITA…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/22/tampa-bay-community-honors-life-murdered-tallahassee-activist-oluwatoyin-salau

Statue Wars come for JESUS as activist claims Christ and Virgin Mary are 'white supremacy'
rt.com | 2020-06-22
It began with Confederate generals and quickly escalated to Columbus and former US presidents; now the monument-removal crusade has come for Jesus, with racial activist Shaun King insisting the depictions are 'racist propaganda.' | "Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down," King tweeted on Monday. "They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been." | He also argued that all "murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down," calling them "a gross form [of] white supremacy… tools of oppr…
rt.com/usa/492639-shaun-king-jesus-racist/

Julian Assange's fiancé calls on the Australian government to secure his freedom
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
The "60 Minutes" program was the first substantive examination of Assange's plight by the Australian media since the coronavirus pandemic began.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/assa-j22.html

Immunity for US diplomat's wife involved in teen's death branded 'absurd,' critics blast UK double standards over Assange
rt.com | 2020-06-22
A former British ambassador has called US and UK claims that Anne Sacoolas — the wife of a US intelligence officer — had immunity, as "a palpable absurdity." Sacoolas is accused of killing Harry Dunn last year in a car crash. | …
rt.com/uk/492576-sacoolas-dunn-death-assange-extradition/

COVID 'exacerbating existing vulnerabilities' in Central African Republic: Lacroix
news.un.org | 2020-06-22
The Central African Republic (CAR) is making progress as it prepares for presidential and legislative elections in December, but the political situation is still fragile – and security conditions volatile – amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066862

Protesters in Compton demand justice for Andres Guardado, 18-year-old Latino man fatally shot by deputies
Nouran Salahieh | ktla.com | 2020-06-22
Hundreds gathered outside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Compton station Sunday to demand justice for Andres Guardado, an 18-year-old Latino man shot and killed by a deputy in an encounter near Gardena earlier this week. What started off as a peaceful demonstration later saw deputies using what appeared to be pepper balls or tear …
ktla.com/news/local-news/protesters-demanding-justice-for-andres-guardado-clash-with-deputies-in-compton/

Armed Protesters Peacefully March On Oklahoma Governor's Mansion
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
Between 150 and 200 protesters peacefully marched from the Ralph Ellison Library to the Governor's Mansion on Saturday to deliver a double-barreled message. | "We aren't going to allow people to come into our communities and brutalize us," event organizer Omar Chatman said before the event. "If you come into our community, know we are armed." | The 1000 Brothers and Sisters in Arms protest might not have approached its eponymous numbers, but it bore enough artillery to pop the National Rifle Association's buttons. | Community organizer Michael Washington was among the speakers who said the march was a response to…
popularresistance.org/armed-protesters-peacefully-march-on-oklahoma-governors-mansion/

Trading One Uniform for Another: Can Police Be "De-Militarized" When So Many Cops Are Military Veterans?
Steve Early, Suzanne Gordon | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Calls for de-militarization of law enforcement have gained new momentum in the wake of nationwide protests against police brutality. That process won't be easy in a nation where nearly one fifth of all cops are military veterans — including Derek Chauvin, George Floyd's killer in Minneapolis and Robert McCabe, one of two officers charged with felony…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/trading-one-uniform-for-another-can-police-be-de-militarized-when-so-many-cops-are-military-veterans/

Responding to mass protests against police brutality, Germany's Left Party appeals for a police state
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
Germany's Left Party has responded with open hostility to the mass protests against police violence that have spread around the world following the police murder of George Floyd.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/left-j22.html

Rapper Lil Baby's new single begins to address "The Bigger Picture"
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
Atlanta rapper Lil Baby has released a new song about the ongoing protests against racism and police brutality.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/lilb-j22.html

Building multinational unity for Black lives
Cathy Rojas | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-22
On June 14, a Black Lives Matter protest began in Jackson Heights, the most diverse urban area in the world, ending in the immigrant neighborhood of Corona, the epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic in New York City. The protest had an explicitly theme of "Multinational Unity for Black Lives," and united the multinational, largely immigrant …
liberationnews.org/building-multi-national-unity-for-black-lives/

Racism, COVID-19, and the fight for economic justice
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2020-06-22
While the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the United States were triggered by recent police murders of unarmed African Americans, they are also helping to encourage popular recognition that racism has a long history with punishing consequences for black people that extend beyond policing.
mronline.org/2020/06/22/racism-covid-19-and-the-fight-for-economic-justice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=racism-covid-19-and-the-fight-for-economic-justice

Black Communities Can Not Wait Any Longer. The Time to Divest Is Now
Gillian Ganesan | aclu.org | 2020-06-22
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, we are seeing a massive popular political realignment around the role and scope of policing in the United States, led by Black organizers and Black-led movement groups. More than ever before, this movement is calling for divestment from police departments and reinvestment into the life-affirming services that help communities thrive. Further still, these protests are not confined to cities and towns across America — they have crossed our borders and are taking place globally., , These calls are being heard, and the power of the people has already led to momentu…
aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/black-communities-can-not-wait-any-longer-the-time-to-divest-is-now

Tens of thousands rally in French-occupied Mali for resignation of president
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
The protests are driven by anger over rising inequality, the government's negligent response to the coronavirus pandemic, and extrajudicial killings by security forces.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/mali-j22.html

Playing the Mao Card
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
In their effort to transform their discomfort with the current #BlackLivesMatter protests into a superficially sophisticated critique, right-wing "intellectuals" in the United States and Europe have latched onto a dubious historical analogy. When former congressman Newt Gingrich, the National Review's David Harsanyi, Breitbart's Joel Pollak, and other right-wingers look at the protests against police violence,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/playing-the-mao-card/

Protesting for Black Lives in Trump Country
Mesha Jefferson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
I grew up biracial in a small, conservative town. Still, after living for years in Austin, moving back to one was a culture shock — it felt like going back in time. For the last three years I've lived in Volusia County, Florida — home to Daytona Beach, many small towns and suburbs, and a…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/protesting-for-black-lives-in-trump-country/

Palestinians Set up Protest Camp in Al-Aghwar Area to Challenge Israeli Annexation Plan
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
Palestinians, including locals, political factions, Palestinian Authority (PA) officials, international solidarity individuals and some high-ranking international representatives, are heading, on Monday morning, to the northern West Bank area of Al-Aghwar in the Jordan Valley, in a bid to defend the region, amidst an anticipated Israeli annexation, early next month. Local …
imemc.org/article/palestinians-set-up-protest-camp-in-al-aghwar-area-to-challenge-israeli-annexation-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinians-set-up-protest-camp-in-al-aghwar-area-to-challenge-israeli-annexation-plan

Juneteenth: ILWU shuts down 29 ports along the West Coast
Judy Greenspan | workers.org | 2020-06-22
Oakland, Calif. Taking bold stands against systemic racism and oppression is nothing new for the Bay Area's Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10. The union has organized work stoppages to protest many injustices from apartheid in South Africa to the police murder of Oscar Grant to the Israeli bombing . . . | Continue reading Juneteenth: ILWU shuts down 29 ports along the West Coast at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49579/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=juneteenth-ilwu-shuts-down-29-ports-along-the-west-coast

National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression brings CPAC demand to Minneapolis
Wayne Nealis | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
MINNEAPOLIS–Community control of the Minneapolis police took a step toward that goal at a forum hosted by the Twin Cities Justice for Jamar Clark Coalition on Thursday, June 18. The Coalition has played a leading role in organizing protests and actions demanding justice for George Floyd, murdered by MPD officer Derek Chauvin. Special guest Frank …
peoplesworld.org/article/national-alliance-against-racist-and-political-repression-brings-cpac-demand-to-minneapolis/

Fort Lauderdale community commemorates Juneteenth with rally and march
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
Fort Lauderdale, FL – About 400 members of the surrounding communities gathered in downtown Fort Lauderdale to commemorate Juneteenth and demand an end to police violence. The event was sponsored by several local organizations, including SEIU Local 32BJ, Black Lives Matter Alliance of Broward, Broward Dream Defenders, and the New Florida Majority. The event began at 3 p.m. at Bubier Park, where those in attendance listened to speeches, chanted, and even danced. | The atmosphere was both festive and somber, joyful yet ripe with anger. As the protesters marked the holiday meant to celebrate the ending of slavery i…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/21/fort-lauderdale-community-commemorates-juneteenth-rally-and-march

This rebellion is more than about police violence–a WW commentary
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-06-22
An earth-shattering rebellion against police violence and systemic racism just completed its fourth week, culminating with tens of thousands of protesters in the streets on Juneteenth (June 19) on a countrywide scale. That is the historic day that the chains of enslaved people of African descent were finally broken from . . . | Continue reading This rebellion is more than about police violence–a WW commentary at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49590/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-rebellion-is-more-than-about-police-violence-a-ww-commentary

UN dispatches 36 trucks carrying aid to Idlib, Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The UN on Monday dispatched a total of 36 trucks carrying humanitarian aid for needy people in Idlib city of northwestern Syria.Truckloads of supplies entered the Syrian city through the Cilvegozu border crossing of Turkey's southern Hatay province.The aid will be distributed among residents of Idlib and nearby rural areas.Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced, according to UN estimates.Idlib falls within a de-escalation zone forged under an agreement…
yenisafak.com/en/world/un-dispatches-36-trucks-carrying-aid-to-idlib-syria-3532716

The War Zone Is America
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
As a military spouse and therapist, it's clear to me that, these days, whether people of color or not, active-duty servicemen and women, as well as veterans, generally face a host of difficulties in this country. They range from problems accessing much needed responsive healthcare services to social isolation from a civilian population that understands little about their experiences, to chronic illnesses and injuries they suffer, to repeated deployments in America's forever wars. | Now, add to all that the current showdown between highly militarized police and Black Lives Matter protesters, as well as the preside…
popularresistance.org/the-war-zone-is-america/

Turkey sends 6 truckloads of aid to Idlib, Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Two Turkish charities on Monday sent six trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Idlib, northwestern Syria, where millions of people are in need of assistance due to internal conflict in the country.Truckloads of supplies, including flour, clothing and dry food, by Adana Dosteller and Eskisehir Gunisigi charities, entered Idlib through the Yayladagi border crossing of Turkey's southern Hatay province.The aid will be distributed among families living in tents in Idlib.Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.Hundreds of thousands of people h…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-sends-6-truckloads-of-aid-to-idlib-syria-3532698

Riot Police Deployed in the Hague Against Anti-Lockdown Protesters, Hundreds Arrested
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
As thousands of people gathered in central Hague on Sunday to voice concerns over the government's COVID-19 restrictions, agents in riot gear, mounted police units and water cannon were sent to disperse the crowd.
sputniknews.com/europe/202006221079683904-riot-police-deployed-in-the-hague-against-anti-lockdown-protesters-hundreds-arrested/

Wednesday 6/24: On Common Ground: Black Businesses Through Pandemic and Protest
KQED | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
Virtual/Online Event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/19/18834349.php

Private Profit Kaiser v Protests
Support HR 1384 Medicare for All | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
Private profit Kaiser Permanente, a major medical provider in this backward country that still does not have socialized medicine unlike the rest of the industrialized world, sent an Email on June 20, 2020 at 1: 12 AM to its members telling us how to exercise our First Amendment right to protest. So that you know that this statement is not contrived, here is the outrageous blame-the-protest for failures of private profit medicine message:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/20/18834357.php

New Research Suggests Racial Justice Protests Have Not Led to Covid-19 Transmission Spike
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
New research released Monday suggests the nationwide anti-police brutality demonstrations which erupted in the U.S. after the killing of George Floyd have not led to widespread transmission of the coronavirus, as some public experts feared they would. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1251064012_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/22/new-research-suggests-racial-justice-protests-have-not-led-covid-19-transmission?cd-origin=rss

Global variation in the prevalence of suicidal ideation, anxiety and their correlates among adolescents: A population based study of 82 countries
Tuhin Biswas, James G. Scott, Kerim Munir, Andre M.N. Renzaho, Lal B. Rawal, Janeen Baxter, Abdullah A. Mamun | thelancet.com | 2020-06-22
Suicidal ideation and anxiety are common among adolescents although their prevalence has predominantly been studied in high income countries. This study estimated the population prevalence of suicidal ideation and anxiety and their correlates with peer support, parent-adolescent relationship, peer victimization, conflict, isolation and loneliness across a range of low-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income countries and high-income countries (LMICHICs).
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30139-5/fulltext?rss=yes

Homeless Philadelphians Moving Into Vacant City-Owned Homes
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-22
Philadelphia, PA — Housing advocates plan to reveal today that they've facilitated moving previously-unhoused city residents into "vacant, viable" homes in North Philly owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA). According to those who are helping families move in, a large number of usable residences…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/homeless-philadelphians-moving-into-empty-city-owned-homes/

Further evidence of the criminality of the New York Democratic administration response to the COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
A Wall Street Journal analysis of the response by New York state to the COVID-19 pandemic paints a horrifying picture of preventable mass death in New York City hospitals.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/wall-j22.html

COVID-19 Medicine Pricing, Transparency Bills Are a Matter of Life and Death
commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/06/22/covid-19-medicine-pricing-transparency-bills-are-matter-life-and-death?cd-origin=rss

Doctors launch High Court challenge against Government over PPE inquiry
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-22
Doctors and campaigners have launched a High Court challenge against the Government over its refusal to hold an urgent public inquiry into PPE shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Doctors Associations reports that scores of frontline healthcare workers have died while battling the Covid-19 crisis, while widespread complaints over PPE shortages for medics have been …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/doctors-launch-high-court-challenge-against-government-over-ppe-inquiry/

Missing: 505 COVID Masks Destined for Baghdad Hospital via UPS
Claudia Lefko | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
Iraqi medics arrive at the capital Baghdad's suburb of Sadr City on May 21, 2020, to test residents for COVID-19, as part of measures taken by the authorities aimed at containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/baghdad_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/22/missing-505-covid-masks-destined-baghdad-hospital-ups?cd-origin=rss

Bangladesh's Garment Workers Are Being Treated as Disposable
Taslima Akhter, The Nation, Magnum Foundation | thenation.com | 2020-06-22
Taslima Akhter, The Nation, Magnum Foundation Bangladesh's Garment Workers Are Being Treated as Disposable…
thenation.com/article/world/bangladesh-garment-workers-covid-19/

Coronavirus spreading among agriculture and seafood workers in the US
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
While immigrant farm workers are considered essential by the federal government, there have been no nationwide mandates placed on the agriculture industry to protect them from COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/farm-j22.html

Poor turnout, hate speech, COVID infections mark Trump's Tulsa rally
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
TULSA, Okla.–President Donald Trump addressed his flop of a rally Saturday in a speech that tried to convince his supporters that literally everywhere they turn there are "left-wing radicals" waiting for Joe Biden to be elected so that they can make their move and destroy the American way of life. He praised Confederate statues and …
peoplesworld.org/article/poor-turnout-hate-speech-covid-infections-mark-trumps-tulsa-rally/

Virtual Poor People's Campaign Rally Draws Crowd of More Than a Million
Sarah Anderson | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
The virtual rallies over the weekend organized by the Poor People's Campaign "lifted up people who are living the interconnected injustices that have been the campaign's focus for the past two years: systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism and the war economy. Many spoke of how the Covid-19 pandemic has only deepened existing inequalities." (Photo: Poor People's Campaign) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-06-22_at_11.38.50_am.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/22/virtual-poor-peoples-campaign-rally-draws-crowd-more-million?cd-origin=rss

COVID-19 flares again in China
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
While still relatively small, the outbreak is a warning that the highly infectious coronavirus can rapidly re-emerge if restrictions are removed.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/chin-j22.html

Countries urged to act over potential HIV drug shortages, within next two months
news.un.org | 2020-06-22
Stocks of medication for HIV patients could run out in the next two months, because of higher costs linked to lockdowns and COVID-19 border closures, UNAIDS said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066782

Not only to stay alive, but to stay human: An interview with Pavel Égàºez
Tings Chak | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-22
Designer Tings Chak spoke at length with Ecuadorian artist Pavel Égàºez about revolutionary art, the crisis of capitalism and his series 'Cuarentena' which seeks to address the human suffering provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/22/not-only-to-stay-alive-but-to-stay-human-an-interview-with-pavel-eguez/

Quebec Solidaire backs Canadian elites' disastrous handling of COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
The pseudo-left Quebec Solidaire has endorsed the reckless, premature back-to-work drive which puts profits before human lives.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/coqs-j22.html

Former Amazon worker Jana Jumpp says the nearly 1,600 COVID-19 cases she has counted in warehouses are "just the tip of the iceberg"
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
Jana Jumpp has tracked cases across 244 locations worldwide, including 236 in the US, and she has counted at least nine Amazon worker deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/amaz-j22.html

Global Experts, Alarmed at Signs US Has 'Given Up' Fight to Stop Covid-19
Julia Conley | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
"The U.S. will endure much higher, persistent negative effects from something that other countries have solved; we'll normalize it and convince ourselves nothing can be done"
zcomm.org/znetarticle/global-experts-alarmed-at-signs-us-has-given-up-fight-to-stop-covid-19/

Media Begging for a 'Second Wave'
Dr. Thomas Price | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
The media is churning out countless alarmist stories each day about the threat of COVID-19 and the dangers of societal reopening. "Risk of new lockdown rises with fear of second COVID-19 wave," writes Reuters, as on…
globalresearch.ca/media-begging-second-wave/5716646

Everyday Poverty Crises
David Altheide | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Most people would agree that the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 brought many hardships that qualified as a crisis of epic proportion, the worst since the Spanish Flu in 1918. But most Americans overlook how ordinary these hardships are for millions of their poor neighbors. People suffered world-wide. Covid-19 affected many Americans in numerous ways. After…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/everyday-poverty-crises/

Child Care in the Time of COVID-19
Martha Burk | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Child care in the time of coronavirus is one of the most challenging financial and logistical hurdles facing families. But while it's certainly much more difficult now with many child care facilities closed, it's far from a new problem. Most families — single-parent and two-parent alike — struggled with child care even in normal times,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/child-care-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

Michigan stagehands to rally June 24 for unemployment extension
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
Grand Rapids, MI – Union stagehands and gig workers are rallying to extend unemployment at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on June 24 at 10 a.m. | "We need unemployment to 'Extend to the end!'" said one of the organizers, Walter Shink, a union stagehand. Shink is worried that there is no end date for the COVID-19 crisis. For stagehands who work at large concert arenas, inside theaters or at corporate shows, there is no return to work. Most events are not set to come back until 2021. | "Workers are the ones who pay into unemployment. That money belongs to us. In this crisis it should be paid out to those w…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/22/michigan-stagehands-rally-june-24-unemployment-extension

New York Governor Cuomo reopens economy as COVID-19 infection rate rises across US
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
Governor Cuomo is implementing a reopening scheme that will reverse dramatic declines in COVID-19 infection and death rates effected by lockdown measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/cuom-j22.html

WHO reports largest single day increase in COVID-19 cases
news.un.org | 2020-06-22
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases over the course of Sunday, registering more than 183,000 new infections in 24 hours, bringing the total to some 8.8 million cases worldwide, with more than 465,000 deaths.
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Everyday Poverty Crises
stclair | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Most people would agree that the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 brought many hardships that qualified as a crisis of epic proportion, the worst since the Spanish Flu in 1918. But most Americans overlook how ordinary these hardships are for millions of their poor neighbors. People suffered world-wide. Covid-19 affected many Americans in numerous ways. After…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/everyday-poverty-crises/

La Vorágine en la Que Todos Vivimos
Javier Sierra | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
En su obra maestra, el autor colombiano José Eustasio Rivera narra la extrema explotación laboral y violencia en el Amazonas de Colombia durante el boom del caucho a principios del siglo 20. La tituló La Vorágine, el gran tumulto. Hoy vivimos en Estados Unidos una vorágine sin precedentes, en la confluencia de un movimiento popular …
peoplesworld.org/article/la-voragine-en-la-que-todos-vivimos/

Over 100 U.S. Organizations Urge Biden to Support Equality for Palestinians
commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
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How Biden Can Prove He's Serious About Busting Corporate Monopolies
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-06-22
Washington Monthly See article on original site At the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, Americans quickly learned just how unprepared the country was for a pandemic. One of the most alarming revelations was that the U.S. had nowhere near the number of ventilators and other life-saving medical equipment it needed to fight the virus. That's …
cepr.net/how-biden-can-prove-hes-serious-about-busting-corporate-monopolies/

If We're Going to Defund Militarized Police Departments, Why Not Add the Pentagon?
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
When Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a resolution recently to cut $350 billion from the Defense budget, the only media outlets that covered her bill were independent progressive ones. In a statement on her website Lee said,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/if-were-going-to-defund-militarized-police-departments-why-not-add-the-pentagon/

Profit Move Underlies Trump Push to Place Foreign Aid Spending Under White House Control
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-22
The Trump administration is angling to move billions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid directly into the State Department, partially bypassing USAID and giving the White House near-total discretionary control over how and to who those funds are allocated around the world.
mintpressnews.com/profit-move-underlies-trump-push-place-usaid-foreign-aid-spending-white-house-control/268865/

John Bolton, the Room Where It Happened
Dr. Ludwig Watzal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
The title of John Bolton's revenge insinuates highly explosive internal affairs by a guy who's, besides the Chief of Staff, the most important person besides the President in the White House. John Bolton was President Donald Trump's Adviser for …
globalresearch.ca/john-bolton/5716590

U.S. Leads a Coalition of One Against China
Ted Galen Carpenter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
American diplomatic and military support for Taiwan has grown dramatically during the Trump years. The administration has taken steps to boost that support, but Congress also has pushed its own initiatives. One key measure was the passage of the Taiwan …
globalresearch.ca/us-leads-coalition-one-against-china/5716618

India and China rush troops, weaponry to disputed border region
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
India has placed on the "highest alert" the 300,000 troops it has arrayed along its 3,500-kilometer border with China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/inch-j22.html

Coronavirus Rent Freezes Are Ending—and A Wave of Evictions Will Sweep America
Emily A. Benfer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
A woman wearing a mask walks past a wall bearing graffiti asking for rent forgiveness in Los Angeles on May 1, 2020. (Photo: Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images file) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/forgiverent.jpg …
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Colorado Adopts Mandatory Vaccinations for Children
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Since the arrival of the coronavirus, the use of and familiarity with vaccines has dramatically increased prompting a more aware and questioning public. With little more than a 48 hour public notice, many Coloradans were enjoying a brilliant Sunday afternoon …
globalresearch.ca/colorado-adopts-mandatory-vaccinations-children/5716592

California Governor Hands Out Fracking Permits on Behalf of Big Oil
Steve Horn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
On June 1, in the midst of the turmoil created by the coronavirus pandemic and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration quietly issued 12 fracking permits to Aera Energy, a joint venture owned …
globalresearch.ca/gavin-newsom-hands-out-fracking-permits-connected-driller/5716661

L.A. County reports 1,784 new coronavirus cases, 11 deaths
Los Angeles Times | ktla.com | 2020-06-22
Los Angeles County public health officials on Sunday reported 1,784 new cases of the coronavirus and 11 related deaths. The county now has recorded more than 83,000 cases of the virus and over 3,120 deaths. The continued rise in new cases came amid the first weekend of more businesses sectors reopening, as bars, card rooms and …
ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-reports-1784-new-coronavirus-cases-11-deaths/

World coronavirus cases rocket past 9 million as pandemic accelerates
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
Public health expert warns that infections will not come in waves, but as "one very, very difficult forest fire of cases."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/covi-j22.html

Corporations continue to slash workforces in Britain
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
Employers are using every opportunity to exploit the pandemic crisis and further slash costs as they shed thousands of workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/redu-j22.html

Bermuda-Based Big Oil Corporation's Taxpayer Bailout Exemplifies Trump Administration's Fear Of Transparency
commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
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The Rhetoric of Democracy-building in Ukraine. NATO and the Militarization of Eastern Europe
Lital Khaikin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Buying Freedom on the Free Market | Obscured by the mythology of pursuing economic and political autonomy, Ukraine plays the latest role in a long, unfolding process of western corporate, political and military interests establishing the "territorial integrity" not of independent …
globalresearch.ca/linking-people-reforms-rhetoric-democracy-building-ukraine/5716573

Maeve in America: I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
Maeve Higgins | progressive.org | 2020-06-22
Stimulus money is shoveled into airlines and corporations while newspapers are left scrabbling for scraps.
progressive.org/magazine/read-the-news-today-oh-boy-higgins/

GenderGate and the End of Philosophy
M. G. Piety | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
A debate has arisen among philosophers concerning a couple of papers published recently in the prestigious journal Philosophical Studies. The first paper, "Are women adult human females?" by Alex Byrne (January, 2020) attempts to refute what Byrne identifies as "the orthodox view among philosophers," that…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/gendergate-and-the-end-of-philosophy/

No, We're Not All Antifa Now. But We Should Be
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
"I've occasionally encountered mass hysteria in other countries," Nicholas Kristof writes at the New York Times. "In rural Indonesia, I once reported on a mob that was beheading people believed to be sorcerers, then carrying their heads on pikes. But I never imagined that the United States could plunge into such delirium." Kristof's writing about…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/no-were-not-all-antifa-now-but-we-should-be/

The Final 100 Seconds
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Never before this year 2020 has the world-famous Doomsday Clock registered only "100 seconds-to-midnight." According to the Science & Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, since WWII, the world has never been so perilous.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/the-final-100-seconds/

Do Black Lives Matter to Big Conservation Groups?
Fiore Longo | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
You are walking through the rainforest with your best friend. Sunlight sparkles through the leaves and the two of you are chatting and laughing. Birds tweet, monkeys hoot, and perhaps that was the sound of a forest elephant you heard in the distance. Suddenly you hear the crack of a rifle: your best friend collapses, crumpled, and you fall to your knees to catch them as their blood pours over your hands and stains your clothes.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/do-black-lives-matter-to-big-conservation-groups/

Canada's UN Security Council Loss Shows Its Foreign Policy Weaknesses and Might Embolden a Reform Movement
Nino Pagliccia | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
India, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, and Kenya after a second round, won the June 17 elections at the 74th United Nations Assembly for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for a two-year term starting on January 1, 2021. The biggest loser was Canada in its competition with Ireland and Norway for two seats available.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/canadas-un-security-council-loss-shows-its-foreign-policy-weaknesses-and-might-embolden-a-reform-movement/

Koan: In Memory of Thích Qu·∫£ng ƒê·ª©c
Desiree Hellegers | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Koan In memory of Thích Qu·∫£ng ƒê·ª©c For a week, we have studied the grain of the wood, seen how the floor grows golden in the afternoon light. We eat our meals in silence, see how white beans glow like moons on silver, and after- wards, we dedicate the merit of these things we eat…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/koan-in-memory-of-thich-quang-duc/

To Make Crime, Create Laws
Kathleen Wallace | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
It is generally considered a beneficial thing for politicians to have on their resumés–that they sponsored many laws during their time in Congress. But how beneficial is that to the rest of us? The vast majority of these laws are the babblings of those shit kids gone adult who wanted 900 rules for an average game…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/to-make-crime-create-laws/

Why Race is Everything in America
J.P. Linstroth | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
The issues of 'race' and 'racism' have been with us since the founding of our august republic. Unfortunately, they are perniciously still with us today. They were the reason we fought the Civil War (1861-1865) and have mired our history throughout. There is no period in our history, the history of the United States, when…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/why-race-is-everything-in-america/

What Lies Ahead: Tulsa 1921 or Somewhere We Haven't Built Yet?
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown and the experience of those who lived two and a half years enslaved, denied the news that the Civil War was over and the North had won. We don't always know what moment we are living in. Or what lies on the other side of…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/what-lies-ahead-tulsa-1921-or-somewhere-we-havent-built-yet/

Having Sucked America Dry, Tech Giants Seek New Markets Beyond Reach of US Antitrust Laws
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-22
An aggressive push to consolidate companies in the tech sector, coupled with the world's ever-increasing dependence on digital platforms and tools, is quickly leading to a crisis of sovereignty.
mintpressnews.com/tech-companies-seek-new-markets-beyond-reach-us-antitrust-laws/268843/

US Senate Initiates Legislation Which Would Categorize Cuba's Medical Missions as "Human Trafficking Operations"
Raul Diego | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
In what has already become a parody of a shrinking empire's habit of clutching at the vestiges of its Cold-War era mistakes, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and fellow war-hungry reactionaries in the United States Senate, Rick Scott (R-FL) …
globalresearch.ca/rubio-cruz-bill-would-deem-cuba-medical-missions-human-trafficking-operation/5716660

The Multiple Hands of British Intelligence. "The Real British Empire is A Nasty Beast"
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
In my last article, I reviewed the case of Gough Whitlam's firing at the hands of the Queen's Governor General Sir John Kerr during a dark day in November 1975 which mis-shaped the next 45 years of Australian …
globalresearch.ca/from-dodgy-dossiers-sacking-whitlam-british-empire-stands-exposed/5716651

Global Research Provides Penetrating Analysis of World Events
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Dear Readers, | Our annual Global Research fundraiser was launched last week. We would like to thank all of you who have contributed so far. We still have a long way to go to reach our target of $20,000 over the …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-provides-penetrating-analysis-of-world-events/5716695

Canada's UN Security Council Loss Shows Its "Foreign Policy Weaknesses"
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
India, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, and Kenya after a second round, won the June 17 elections at the 74th United Nations Assembly for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for a two-year term starting on January 1, 2021. | The …
globalresearch.ca/canada-unsc-loss-shows-foreign-policy-weaknesses-embolden-reform-movement/5716575

June 22, 1941: Nazi Germany Attacks the Soviet Union
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
War against the Soviet Union was what Hitler had wanted from the beginning. He had already made this very clear on the pages of Mein Kampf, written in the mid-1920s. Furthermore, as a German historian has recently convincingly demonstrated, it …
globalresearch.ca/june-22-1941-nazi-germany-attacks-soviet-union/5716670

Commemorating Juneteenth: The Continuing Unresolved Issues from the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Author's Note: The following is the text of a speech delivered on June 19, 2010 on the 145th anniversary of Juneteenth. This address is being republished in honor of the 155th commemoration of Juneteenth in light of the resurgence …
globalresearch.ca/juneteenth-continuing-unresolved-issues-civil-war-thirteenth-amendment/5716582

School of the Americas: Training Torturers & Secret Police for US-Backed Dictators Since 1946
Kit O'Connell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
This article was originally published in December 2015. | For the past 69 years, many of the most notorious U.S.-backed South American dictators, along with their secret police and torturers, have learned their dark arts from a secretive American training facility….
globalresearch.ca/school-of-the-americas-training-torturers-secret-police-for-us-backed-dictators-since-1946/5647471

Compulsory Vaccination That Genetically Alters the Human Body … No Longer a "Human Being"?
Prof. Claudia von Werlhof | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Will the "Gate(s)keepers" of the so-called Corona-pandemic force a vaccination upon us, without which we will not be allowed to return to normality? What is really meant by the "new normality"? | It is these questions that are intensely debated at …
globalresearch.ca/compulsory-vaccination-no-longer-human-being/5716572

Muslim Heroines Find Their Way into New American Literature
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Years ago in John Killens's writers' workshop of largely African Americans, one member woefully explains the thwarted plot of her novel in progress: — how, despite her effort to feature a Black hero: "By the second chapter, I had …
globalresearch.ca/muslim-heroines-find-way-new-american-literature/5716630

The Multiple Hands of British Intelligence. "The Real British Empire is A Nasty Beat"
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
In my last article, I reviewed the case of Gough Whitlam's firing at the hands of the Queen's Governor General Sir John Kerr during a dark day in November 1975 which mis-shaped the next 45 years of Australian …
globalresearch.ca/from-dodgy-dossiers-sacking-whitlam-british-empire-stands-exposed/5716651

Anti-Palestinian and Anti-Arab Racism: When Will Racism Become the Defining Experience of Israel's Founding?
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Today we are experiencing in the American public space an electric historic occurrence. We are, as a society, finally passing vocal moral judgment on anti-Black racism, which has emerged as an intensely emotive issue. | Anti-Black racism is no longer acceptable …
globalresearch.ca/when-will-racism-become-defining-experience-israel-founding/5716623

CIA Acknowledges Its Trove of Cyber Warfare Tools Was Exposed by WikiLeaks in 2017
Kevin Reed | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
A newly-released 2017 internal review of security practices at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) confirms that the top secret agency had developed an arsenal of cyber espionage tools and would not have known about the massive "Vault 7" data hack …
globalresearch.ca/cia-acknowledges-trove-cyber-warfare-tools-exposed-wikileaks-2017/5716615

Video: "How the High Death Rate in Care Homes Was Created on Purpose"
James Corbett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Rosemary Frei has an MSc in molecular biology. She has been a freelance medical writer and journalist for twenty-two years, and is now an independent investigative journalist. | In the following interview with James Corbett, she explains that at the …
globalresearch.ca/how-high-death-rate-care-homes-created-purpose/5716637

Israeli Troops Abduct 18 Palestinians in Pre-Dawn Invasions
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
Israeli troops abducted, on Monday, several Palestinian residents, across the West Bank and the internationally-recognized occupied Jerusalem, in continuation of widespread Israeli military crackdown on the Palestinian population. In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli troops invaded the al-'Isawiya neighborhood, local sources reported. This is a neighborhood in East Jerusalem that has …
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Palestinian Brothers Begin Demolishing their own Home in East Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
Palestinian brothers, Feras and Iyad Da'na, on Sunday, began tearing down their under-construction home in Silwan neigborhood in East Jerusalem, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. The men received the demolition order from the Israeli municipality, under the pretext of non-licensing, although, the men stated that they had attempted to obtain …
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Colonist Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian-owned Vehicles in Northern Nablus
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
Several armed Israeli settlers attacked, early on Monday, several Palestinian-owned vehicles in north of the West Bank city of Nablus. Local Palestinian sources in both Nablus and Jenin cities, confirmed that the armed Israeli colonists attacked Palestinian-owned vehicles, while running on a road between both Nablus and Jenin, mainly in …
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Israeli Military Issues Stop Work Orders for Palestinian-owned Homes, Barns in West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
Israeli military forces ordered, on Sunday morning, to halt the construction of Palestinian-owned homes, agricultural facilities, and a water well in the occupied West Bank. Coordinator of the popular committees in Hebron, Rateb Al-Jabour, told media outlets that Israeli troops in Burin village in the southern West Bank, ordered local …
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Soldiers Injure A Palestinian Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
Israeli soldiers injured, Monday, a Palestinian man near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and took him to an Israeli hospital. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that the young man, who remained unidentified at the time of this report, was shot with live Israeli army fire on …
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Israeli Soldier Found Dead Near Military Base, Investigation Underway
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
An Israeli soldier that went missing on Thursday night, was found dead outside the army base in southern Israel, on Saturday, the Times of Israel reported. The military identified the deceased as Staff Sgt. Adiel Fishler, who was serving in the 460th Armored Brigade at the Shizafon army Base.
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Israeli Forces Arrest Palestinian Young Women at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
Israeli police assaulted and arrested five Palestinian young women, and an Al-Aqsa guard, on Sunday, inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque, located in the southern occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem, Quds Press reported. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic) said in a brief statement, "The occupation forces arrested five girls and …
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Illegal Israeli Colonists Attack Palestinian Property Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, Monday, Palestinian property in Beitillu village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Local sources said the colonists infiltrated into the village and punctured the tires of many cars, in addition to writing racist graffiti. They added that the colonists fled …
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Do Black Lives Matter in Iowa?
Dave Leshtz | thenation.com | 2020-06-22
Do Black Lives Matter in Iowa?
thenation.com/article/society/black-lives-matter-iowa/

Suspected assailant in Reading terrorist attack was known to UK intelligence agencies
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
If the assailant is Saadallah, it would be the second terrorist attack carried out in Britain by a Libyan national–who was known to UK intelligence agencies–in the space of three years.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/read-j22.html

Reparations and the Palestinian Right of Return: Two Sides of the Same Bloody Coin
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-22
Both in Israel and the US, conversations about reparations and the Palestinian right of return are stifled by arguments explaining why injustice must go on and a yearning for the status quo.
mintpressnews.com/reparations-palestinian-right-of-return-two-sides-same-bloody-coin/268817/

Germany: Trial begins in murder of CDU politician Walter Làºbcke
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
The 46-year-old neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst is accused of having shot Kassel District President Walter Làºbcke on his terrace on the night of June 2, 2019.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/lubc-j22.html

Milwaukee: Families deliver complaints and march against Wauwatosa Police Department
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
Milwaukee, WI – The families of Alvin Cole, Jay Anderson, Jr., and Antonio Gonzales ("Thee 3"), along with organizers from the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the Community Task Force MKE, and their supporters, mobilized in the early afternoon of June 18. | Their purpose was to deliver complaints to Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber and to Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride before marching to Mayfair Mall. The event was focused on winning justice for "Thee 3", all murdered by the same person: Joseph Anthony Mensah of the Wauwatosa Police Department. | Responding to a July 2015 911 call pl…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/21/milwaukee-families-deliver-complaints-and-march-against-wauwatosa-police-department

Philippines: Government forces go on killing spree, 4 peasants murdered in Samar, Iloilo
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the Duterte regime and its armed forces and agents for the killing spree in Northern Samar and Iloilo, June 20, that resulted in the deaths of four civilians and wounding of three others. Three of those killed were peasants and another was a local youth leader. | According to Marco L. Valbuena, Information Officer, Communist Party of the Philippines, "The killing spree clearly aims to terrorize the peasant masses amid growing political and socioeconomic unrest across the country. These were perpetrated at a time that the Duterte fascist regime is fast-tracking…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/22/philippines-government-forces-go-killing-spree-4-peasants-murdered-samar-iloilo

One Question: How Can We Use the Pandemic to Organize Workers?
progressive.org | 2020-06-22
How Can We Use the Pandemic to Organize Workers?
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progressive.org/magazine/one-question-use-pandemic-organize-workers/

Let's Work to End Racial Wealth Divide
Chuck Collins | progressive.org | 2020-06-22
Even before the pandemic, our research at the Institute for Policy Studies found that median white families had literally dozens of times more wealth than median Black or Latinx families.
progressive.org/op-eds/work-to-end-racial-wealth-divide-ocampo-collins-200622/

The New York Times Doesn't Like It When Workers Have Job Security: The Case of Japan
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-22
The New York Times had a fascinating piece pointing out that Japan's unemployment rate has barely budged in response to the pandemic recession, even as the U.S. rate (adjusted for measurement issues) has topped 15.0 percent. But the piece comes with an important warning: "Critics say it makes companies reluctant to take risks in hiring …
cepr.net/the-new-york-times-doesnt-like-it-when-workers-have-job-security-the-case-of-japan/

Let's Work to End Racial Wealth Divide
Omar Ocampo | progressive.org | 2020-06-22
Even before the pandemic, our research at the Institute for Policy Studies found that median white families had literally dozens of times more wealth than median Black or Latinx families.
progressive.org/op-eds/work-to-end-racial-wealth-divide-ocampo-collins-200622/

The GOP Back to Business as Usual — Gutting Social Programs
Sasha Abramsky | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
The accelerating efforts to gut the safety net represent an extraordinary effort to martial federal power to corral employees back to work, despite the accelerating pandemic…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-gop-back-to-business-as-usual-gutting-social-programs/

Hands off the monuments to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant!
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
The justifiable demand for the removal of monuments to defenders of slavery and inequality has been unfairly accompanied by attacks against memorials to the men who led the American Revolution and the Civil War.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/pers-j22.html

Seattle longshore workers stop work on Juneteenth
Jim McMahan | workers.org | 2020-06-22
Seattle Longshore workers and supporters in Seattle marched on Juneteenth ((June 19, 1865, is the date the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas during the Civil War) as part of a strike of 29 ports from California to Canada. Seattle's Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Locals 52 and 19 marched, along with . . . | Continue reading Seattle longshore workers stop work on Juneteenth at Workers.org…
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The Cold War is back and Trump is no Truman
Thomas Magstadt | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-22
When the curtain went up on the rolling crisis that was the Cold War, Harry Truman was president. Donald Trump is no Truman.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/22/the-cold-war-is-back-and-trump-is-no-truman/

NATO grants Ukraine enhanced status as US steps up military aid
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
Amid the most profound economic crisis since the Great Depression, the imperialist powers are responding to the growing class tensions by escalating their drive to war.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/ukra-j22.html

ILWU shuts down 29 ports for Juneteenth, Movement for Black Lives
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-22
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union made a significant intervention into the national uprising against racism by organizing the Juneteenth West Coast Port Shutdown on June 19, closing down 29 ports in the U.S. and Canada. This act of solidarity is in keeping with the union's long tradition of fighting racism and for working-class unity. …
liberationnews.org/ilwu-shuts-down-29-ports-for-juneteenth-movement-for-black-lives/

Trump Gets One Right: U.S. Should Pull its Troops from Germany
Shaan Sachdev | progressive.org | 2020-06-22
The President's pledge to reduce troops in Germany faces resistance from war hawks on both sides of the aisle.
progressive.org/dispatches/us-should-pull-troops-from-germany-sachdev-200622/

EDITORIAL — Celebrando Juneteenth durante un levantamiento
Editor | workers.org | 2020-06-22
Juneteenth conmemorado el 19 de junio, los africo-americanos conmemoran el aniversario del día en 1865 cuando las tropas sindicales llegaron a la isla de Galveston para informar a la gente esclavizada en Texas que el atroz sistema de esclavitud había terminado. El anuncio retrasado obligó a aproximadamente a 250.000 afrodescendientes . . . | Continue reading EDITORIAL — Celebrando Juneteenth durante un levantamiento at Workers.org…
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Finishing the unfinished revolution — from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter — a WW commentary
Larry Holmes | workers.org | 2020-06-22
The following is a slightly edited talk given June 19 by Larry Holmes, Workers World Party First Secretary, during the WWP webinar on "Juneteenth and the Black Lives Matter Rebellion." Larry Holmes. WW Photo: Liza Green This Juneteenth is probably going to be one of the biggest Juneteenths in a . . . | Continue reading Finishing the unfinished revolution — from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter — a WW commentary at Workers.org…
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Greta Thunberg Says Covid-19 Should Be Global Wake-Up Call to 'Act With Necessary Force' to Tackle Climate Emergency
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
In a new radio program, the Swedish teenager details and reflects on her travels around the world the past year as a youth climate leader. | | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/greta_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/22/greta-thunberg-says-covid-19-should-be-global-wake-call-act-necessary-force-tackle?cd-origin=rss

Amy Klobuchar ends bid to become Biden's running mate in favor of a "woman of color"
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
Who will be Biden's running mate now that Amy Klobuchar is out of contention? The political record and background of the leading candidates reveals that nearly every one of them is a "law and order" Democrat with a record of defending the police.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/20/18834355.php

Agricultural products of Tarom, Zanjan province
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
Zanjan, Jun. 23 (MNA) — Tarom is one of the towns in Zanjan province with different agricultural products. The town is called 'Iran's India' due to its untouched nature and good climate.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160064/Agricultural-products-of-Tarom-Zanjan-province

Libya defends efforts to take Sirte, Jufra from Haftar
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The Libyan Defense Ministry said Monday the return of the central city of Sirte and al-Jufra base to the government's control would serve the best interests of all brotherly and friendly countries."It serves the interests of all brothers and friends to return Sirte and al-Jufra to the control of the state," ministry undersecretary Salah Al-Namroush said in a statement published by the government-led Operation Volcano of Rage."We expect from all brothers and friends to support the legitimate government to achieve stability on the entire Libyan territory," he said.He said reports by experts of the UN Security Counc…
yenisafak.com/en/world/libya-defends-efforts-to-take-sirte-jufra-from-haftar-3532720

Murder bad, Orange Man worse? NYT 'fact checkers' excuse rampant homicide to embarrass Trump
rt.com | 2020-06-22
The New York Times will seemingly disregard sky-high homicide rates in America's cities if doing so makes President Donald Trump look bad. To much of the media, the only facts that matter are those that hurt Trump. | The US president is known for his bombastic declarations, hyperbole, and generous use of superlatives. In his nearly four years in office, that has provided plenty of material for journalists to churn out 'fact checking' articles cross-examining his wilder claims in an effort to cut the larger-than-life leader down to size. | If anyone was wondering at what point 'owning the president' takes prece…
rt.com/usa/492637-nyt-trump-fact-check/

Germany arrests suspected Assad regime torturer
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
German police arrested a Syrian former secret service employee on suspicion of crimes against humanity, officials said on Monday. | Alaa M., who arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2015, was arrested in the central state of Hesse on Friday, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office said in a statement. | The suspect worked for the military intelligence as a doctor, and he was strongly suspected of torturing inmates in 2011 at an Assad regime prison in the city of Homs. | The prosecutors accused the Assad regime of using brutal force to suppress the political opposition, torturing and murdering many of them in prisons…
yenisafak.com/en/world/germany-arrests-suspected-assad-regime-torturer-3532708

Turkish security forces nab explosives belonging to PKK
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Security forces in southeastern Turkey seized explosives and ammunition on Monday belonging to the PKK/YPG terror organization.According to the local authorities in Hakkari province, the forces located and launched an operation on a hideout of the terror group. Searching the area, the local gendarmerie forces seized at least five handmade explosives totaling 8.5 kilograms (18 pounds), nine detonators, four rocket launchers, cables and other explosive materials they found buried underground.The explosives were destroyed at the scene.In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a te…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-security-forces-nab-explosives-belonging-to-pkk-3532721

ILWU shuts down West Coast ports to honor Juneteenth
Michelle Kern, Alex Farr | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
OAKLAND, Calif.–In honor of Juneteenth, 29 West Coast ports–all the major ports from Vancouver, Canada to San Diego–were shut down for eight hours June 19 by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Here in Oakland, an estimated 10,000 marchers gathered at the Oakland SSA terminal port at a 10 a.m. rally to hear union and …
peoplesworld.org/article/ilwu-shuts-down-west-coast-ports-to-honor-juneteenth/

Okinawa Residents Warned of Chlorine Gas Exposure After Fire Erupts at US Military Hazmat Facility
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
Residents of Okinawa, Japan learned Monday morning that they should seek treatment if they experience signs of chlorine gas or smoke exposure after a fire broke out at a hazardous materials facility at the U.S. air base there. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1180625220_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/22/okinawa-residents-warned-chlorine-gas-exposure-after-fire-erupts-us-military-hazmat?cd-origin=rss

Gavin Newsom Hands Out Fracking Permits To Connected Driller
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
On June 1, in the midst of the turmoil created by the coronavirus pandemic and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration quietly issued 12 fracking permits to Aera Energy, a joint venture owned by ExxonMobil and Shell. The fracking permits are the latest example of California's oil industry benefiting from regulatory or deregulatory action during the COVID-19 pandemic and came just months after the Newsom administration said it supported taking actions to "manage the decline of oil production and consumption in the state." Aera, which also received 24 permits from the…
popularresistance.org/gavin-newsom-hands-out-fracking-permits-to-connected-driller/

The Secret Reason Billionaires Love A Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
Most billionaires don't work harder, don't think harder, and don't know more. They have nothing over your average person except: a) luck b) sometimes inheriting a fortune and c) being more sociopathic. So I guess you could say they're extraordinary on the sociopathy front. They are more willing to crush other humans to get what they want and thereby they are more able to get what they want. Billionaires in the U.S. have seen their fortunes skyrocket, increasing by 12.5 percent since the pandemic began. The Institute for Policy Studies released a study "showing that, in the eight weeks between March 18 and May 14,…
popularresistance.org/the-secret-reason-billionaires-love-a-pandemic/

Sadiq Khan: Windrush legacy must see end to 'hostile environment' for immigrants
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-22
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called on the government to learn from the suffering endured by the Windrush generation and end the "hostile environment" faced by immigrants in the capital.Ministers should help Londoners by increasing funding to the immigration sector and cutting its "extortionate" fees, Khan said in a statement."Many of the Windrush Generation and their families are still struggling to access the advice and support they need, and it is clear that too many Londoners are still being failed by an immigration system that is prohibitively expensive and simply not fit for purpose," he said."I'm proud that…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/22/sadiq-khan-windrush-legacy-must-see-end-to-hostile-environment-for-immigrants/

Military standoffs apart, Chinese investments roar in India
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Amid the clamor to boycott Chinese goods and cut trade ties, in the wake of the killing of its 20 soldiers in a border clash, experts in India have warned that it will inflict more damage to the country itself.Out of $92 billion worth annual trade, Indian exports account for just $18 billion, according to the figures available with India's Commerce Ministry.Videos of Indians breaking and burning functional Chinese appliances, such as television sets, have been doing the rounds in social media. Ramdas Athawale, a government minister, even demanded a ban on restaurants selling Chinese food.But a fact check suggests…
yenisafak.com/en/world/military-standoffs-apart-chinese-investments-roar-in-india-3532700

South Korea battling 2nd wave of coronavirus: Official
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Health authorities in South Korea on Monday urged for an amplified guard against coronavirus, saying that it was battling a "second wave" of the novel infection.The country has seen a rise in new virus cases for some time now. However, the latest number of cases i.e. 17, is the lowest since May 26.It has reported a total of 12,438 cases thus far, including 280 deaths, and 10,881 recoveries after successfully suppressing the first wave, which began this February."We originally predicted that the second wave to emerge in fall or winter," Yonhap News Agency quoted Jeong Eun-kyeong, chief of Korea Centers for Disease…
yenisafak.com/en/world/south-korea-battling-2nd-wave-of-coronavirus-official-3532704

No second wave of coronavirus: US White House adviser Kudlow
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday there is no second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, even though there are some flare-ups in states such as Florida, and it is unlikely there will be widespread shutdowns across the country."There are some hotspots. We're on it," Kudlow said in an interview with CNBC. "We know how to deal with this stuff now. It's come a long way since last winter and there is no second wave coming."
yenisafak.com/en/world/no-second-wave-of-coronavirus-us-white-house-adviser-kudlow-3532717

No new coronavirus deaths in Netherlands as cases fall
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The Netherlands registered 69 new coronavirus cases on Monday, and no deaths from the disease, the country's health authorities said in their daily update.It was the first 24-hour period with no new deaths registered by the National Institute of Health (RIVM) since March 9.Dutch cases have declined gradually since reaching a peak at the start of April. Lockdown measures have been gradually phased out, though social distancing rules remain in place.
yenisafak.com/en/world/no-new-coronavirus-deaths-in-netherlands-as-cases-fall-3532715

'No-swab' saliva test for coronavirus piloted in Britain
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
A weekly coronavirus testing regime using a "no-swab" saliva test is being trialled in Southampton, southern England, and could result in a simpler and quicker way to detect outbreaks of the virus, the British government said on Monday."Saliva testing could potentially make it even easier for people to take coronavirus tests at home, without having to use swabs," said Health Secretary Matt Hancock."This trial will also help us learn if routine, at-home testing could pick up cases of the virus earlier."More than 14,000 doctors and health workers, other essential workers and university staff and their households wi…
yenisafak.com/en/world/no-swab-saliva-test-for-coronavirus-piloted-in-britain-3532697

Muslim bloc to address situation in Kashmir
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) "upon the request of Pakistan" will hold an emergency meeting at the level of foreign ministers over the current situation in Jammu and Kashmir, according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Monday.Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will also participate in the Emergency Meeting of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir, where "possible joint actions within the OIC concerning the ongoing problems regarding human rights and freedoms in Kashmir will be discussed," said the statement.Additionally, foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Niger, Pakistan and Saudi Arab…
yenisafak.com/en/news/muslim-bloc-to-address-situation-in-kashmir-3532706

EU raises 'serious concern' over Egypt's Libya remarks
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The EU is concerned about the recent surge in declarations on Libya as they work against the de-escalation of the conflict, the bloc's chief spokesman for the foreign policy said on Monday, commenting on the Egyptian president's threat of military intervention. | "The people of Libya … do not need more escalation, do not need more confrontation. In this light, the recent escalation of declarations, statements, and the interference by outside actors is a source for serious concern," EU spokesman Peter Stano said. | He also reminded international actors involved in the conflict to "work on diffusing the tensions,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/eu-raises-serious-concern-over-egypts-libya-remarks-3532718

Libyan government exposes Haftar's financial corruption
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The documents published by the government-led Operation Volcano of Rage showed the illegal seizure of state land and property by the Military Investment Authority, an economic arm of Haftar's militia.They also revealed that the warlord had illegally seized assets of agricultural projects and investment projects in Libya.The government earlier revealed that Haftar's Military Investment Authority had signed an agreement with the Union of Italian Fishing in March 2019 under which Italian fishing boats were allowed to fish in Libya's territorial waters in return for 10.000 euros ($11,100) a month for 5 years.In 2016,…
yenisafak.com/en/news/libyan-government-exposes-haftars-financial-corruption-3532709

Libya's Sarraj meets AFRICOM commander
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
A closed meeting began Monday between Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, the US ambassador in Tripoli Richard Norland, and commander of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Gen. Stephen Townsend, according to local media.The two US officials arrived at Zuwarah Airport, west of Tripoli, Libya Al-Ahrar TV channel reported, citing anonymous sources.Interior Minister Fathi Bashaga and the military commander of the western region, Osama al-Juweili, were present at the meeting.Officials are yet to comment on the reported news.* Writing by Mahmoud Barakat…
yenisafak.com/en/world/libyas-sarraj-meets-africom-commander-3532707

Tourist visits to Turkey drop in January-May period
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
By Aysu BicerANKARA (AA) – Turkey received more than 4.2 million foreign visitors during the first five months of this year, according to new data released by the Culture and Tourism Ministry on Monday.Due to the pandemic, the number of foreigners visiting the country plummeted 66.35% in the January-May period on an annual basis, according to the data.Turkey's historic metropolitan city of Istanbul was the top destination for tourists, hosting 54.86% of all visitors — around 2.3 million.This is followed by the northwestern Edirne province with 13.27% or nearly 570,000 foreign visitors in the same period.The Medi…
yenisafak.com/en/world/tourist-visits-to-turkey-drop-in-january-may-period-3532705

Turkish training plane crashes, 2 pilots survive
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
According to Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), the Hurkus aircraft crashed during a test flight in Ankara's Beypazari district at around 12.30 p.m. local time (0930GMT).The two military pilots — one active duty, one retired — were taken to the hospital for health checks, said a TAI statement.Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), gendarmerie, and health teams went to the crash scene after learning of the incident.The cause of the crash is unknown and will be investigated, said the statement.Based in Ankara, TAI serves the aerospace and defense industries by manufacturing unmann…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-training-plane-crashes-2-pilots-survive-3532722

Herbal Pill to Cure Covid-19 Patients in 5-14 Days, Indian Ayurvedic Firm Claims
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
New Delhi (Sputnik): Based in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, Patanjali Ayurved is known for promoting the ancient Ayurvedic system of medicine in the country and in different parts of the world. The drug has been developed as the country with a population of 1.3 billion people is witnessing a spike in COVID-19 cases.
sputniknews.com/india/202006221079680758-herbal-pill-to-cure-covid-19-patients-in-5-14-days-indian-ayurvedic-firm-claims/

Spokesperson Refutes Story That Bolton Will Vote For Democrat Biden Over Trump
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
The former Trump appointee is set to release a memoir on Tuesday detailing his days as the national security adviser for US President Donald Trump. Excerpts of the book have already sparked a wave of criticism against his former boss.
sputniknews.com/us/202006221079683887-bolton-to-vote-for-democrat-biden-as-trump-doesnt-represent-republican-cause/

Ex-Indian Prime Minister Hits Out at Modi Over 'No Intrusion' in Ladakh Remark Amid China Tensions
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
New Delhi (Sputnik): Indian PM Narendra Modi triggered a wave of discontent with his statement that 'no one intruded into our territory' following the India-China border skirmish on 15 June, when 20 Indian soldiers were killed. The remark rattled several retired army officer who called it disrespectful to the memory of fallen servicemen.
sputniknews.com/world/202006221079685081-ex-indian-prime-minister-hits-out-at-modi-over-no-intrusion-in-ladakh-remark-amid-china-tensions/

Leader of India's Traders' Body Detained While Attempting to Burn Chinese Goods
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
New Delhi (Sputnik): After an unprecedented border clash between India and China along the Line of Control in Ladakh, there has been growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the country. The traders' body kicked off a boycott campaign against Chinese goods in Delhi on 10 June.
sputniknews.com/india/202006221079685884-leader-of-indias-traders-body-detained-while-attempting-to-burn-chinese-goods/

Mr Bean Helps WHO Promote Social Distancing and Coronavirus Safety
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
The World Health Organisation is looking to promote safety guidelines to keep people safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Rowan Atkinson and the writers of the famous Mr Bean comedy character have agreed to work with the international body and support their efforts.
sputniknews.com/world/202006221079692004-mr-bean-helps-who-promote-social-distancing-and-coronavirus-safety/

Schools Uniforms Could Disappear in UK to Prevent Coronavirus Spread, MP Warns
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
The government of the United Kingdom is looking to send students back to school as lockdown measures introduced to prevent the spread of coronavirus begin to loosen. Certain measures are being introduced to ensure the safety of pupils and stop classrooms becoming outbreak centers.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006221079691020-schools-uniforms-could-disappear-in-uk-to-prevent-coronavirus-spread-mp-warns/

Netizens Enraged as Full Page Tennessee Newspaper Ad Declares 'Islam' Will 'Detonate Nuclear Device'
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
The published ad was paid for by a religious group referring to itself as "Ministry of Future for America", who defined their mission "to proclaim the final warning message" of the Christian Bible.
sputniknews.com/viral/202006221079684134-netizens-enraged-as-full-page-tennessee-newspaper-ad-declares-islam-will-detonate-nuclear-device/

UNWTO chief thanks Iran for adopting measures against COVID-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization thanked the Iranian government for adopting necessary measures regarding the pandemic.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160072/UNWTO-chief-thanks-Iran-for-adopting-measures-against-COVID-19

Iran ready to share anti-corona expertise with Afghanistan: official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) –Iran's Treatment Deputy of Health and Medical Education Ministry, Qasem Jan-Babaei said in a meeting with Afghanistan's Deputy of Public Health Ministry that Iran is ready to share some anti-corona successful expertise with Afghanistan.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160055/Iran-ready-to-share-anti-corona-expertise-with-Afghanistan-official

No foreign provocation can undermine Iran-Afghanistan close relation: Foreign Ministry
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in its twitter account on Monday wrote that no ill-intended foreign provocation can undermine Iran-Afghanistan close relation.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160063/No-foreign-provocation-can-undermine-Iran-Afghanistan-close-relation

China not to support resolution that escalates tension: spox
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — In response to IAEA anti-Iranian resolution, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said that China does not support a resolution that would increase tensions.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160078/China-not-to-support-resolution-that-escalates-tension-spox

IAEA's anti-Iran resolution, final nail in the coffin of Iran's relations with West
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 23 (MNA) — The IAEA Board of Governors' recent resolution, while having been the final nail in the coffin of Iran's relations with the West, could serve as an opportunity if the government plays its cards right.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160060/IAEA-s-anti-Iran-resolution-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-Iran-s

Iran to send black box of Ukrainian plane to France: Zarif
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held phone talk with his Canadian counterpart Francois-Philippe Champagne and said that the Islamic Republic will send the black box of the Ukrainian plane to France in the upcoming days.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160081/Iran-to-send-black-box-of-Ukrainian-plane-to-France-Zarif

Impressive Zomorrod waterfall in N Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
HAVIQ, Jun. 22 (MNA) — Located some 9km south of Haviq city in Gilan province, Zomorrod Waterfall bestows tranquility to tourists. There are two waterfalls in the area with the larger one having a 15m height and a smaller one having a 12m height with stair-like appearance. These are also being referred to as 'Twin Waterfall'.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160056/Impressive-Zomorrod-waterfall-in-N-Iran

Tehran condemns ratification of anti-Iranian human rights resolution by UNHRC
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — The Spokesperson of the Iranian ministry of foreign affairs Abbas Mousavi censured approval of an anti-Iranian human rights resolution in the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
en.mehrnews.com/news/160066/Tehran-condemns-ratification-of-anti-Iranian-human-rights-resolution

Necessary measures to be taken to prevent illegal transit on Iranian-Afghan borders
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Caretaker of the Afghan Foreign Ministry Mohammad Hanif Atmar in a joint statement on Monday emphasized that necessary and drastic measures will be taken to prevent illegal transit on borders of the two countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160084/Necessary-measures-to-be-taken-to-prevent-illegal-transit-on

IRGC Navy to establish permanent base in Indian Ocean: navy cmdr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy Commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said that IRGC is looking to establish a permanent base in the Indian Ocean by the end of the current Iranian year.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160061/IRGC-Navy-to-establish-permanent-base-in-Indian-Ocean-navy-cmdr

NPC plans to diversify butane chain items
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — The first project in the butane chain in Mahshahr will be ready for operation with the aim of commercial production of three important and new items, parallel with planning for realization of the second petrochemical leap in Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160075/NPC-plans-to-diversify-butane-chain-items

Iraq launches 3rd phase of "Heroes of Iraq"
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) –A spokesman for the Iraqi Armed Forces announced that the third phase of the "Heroes of Iraq" operation has been launched by the participation of Hashd Alsha'abi forces.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160076/Iraq-launches-3rd-phase-of-Heroes-of-Iraq

US expands work visa ban to protect American jobs from 'millions of aliens' from India, Mexico & China
rt.com | 2020-06-22
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order putting new restrictions on foreign work visas until the end of 2020, a move the administration said is needed as the economy suffers in the wake of Covid-19 lockdowns. | Signed on Monday evening, the order freezes several types of work visas — including the H1B for highly skilled workers — which the White House says will keep some 500,000 American jobs from going to foreign employees, part of what it deemed an "America-first recovery." | "American workers compete against foreign nationals for jobs in every sector of our economy, including again…
rt.com/usa/492641-trump-expands-visa-ban/

Fake news or about-face? Bolton DENIES he's voting for Biden after the Telegraph reports him saying so in interview
rt.com | 2020-06-22
Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton has refuted a report by the Telegraph that he plans to cast his ballot for Joe Biden, the Democrat rival of his former boss, as he continues to tout his tell-all book in the media. | …
rt.com/usa/492530-telegraph-biden-bolton-book-voting/

Trump warns of 'RIGGED' election, claims millions of mail-in ballots will be forged by foreign powers
rt.com | 2020-06-22
The upcoming presidential election will be the scandal of the century, Donald Trump has predicted, stating that the use of mail-in ballots opens the door to widespread vote fraud as well as foreign meddling. | In one of his signature all-caps tweets, the US leader expressed his concerns about November's contest against Democrat Joe Biden. | "RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!" shrieked Trump's tweet. | RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL B…
rt.com/usa/492579-trump-election-rigged-mail-ballots/

Trump says he gave 'wacko' John Bolton a chance, just to hear 'differing points of view'
rt.com | 2020-06-22
Calling him a "wacko" and a "liar," President Donald Trump has mockingly defended his decision to hire warhawk adviser John Bolton, who recently unleashed a tirade of criticism at his old boss in a tell-all book. | "I gave John Bolton, who was incapable of being Senate confirmed because he was considered a wacko, and was not liked, a chance," Trump tweeted on Monday. | "I always like hearing differing points of view," he added, before issuing a damning appraisal of the former national security advisor's time in the administration, whom he called an incompetent "liar." | I gave John Bolton, who was incapable of…
rt.com/usa/492591-trump-wacko-john-bolton/

Fool me twice? Bolton says Iran had yellowcake uranium, echoing bogus claims that led to Iraq war
rt.com | 2020-06-22
Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton has claimed Israeli agents found "yellowcake uranium" in Iran in 2018, channeling the discredited intelligence used by the George W. Bush administration to justify invading Iraq. | Israel's Mossad retrieved "human-processed uranium" that was "perhaps yellowcake (uranium oxide in solid form)" during a "daring raid on Iran's nuclear archives" in 2018, the mustachioed warmonger declared in his controversial Trump administration memoir, 'The Room Where It Happened'. The discovery, Bolton alleged, was substantiated when the International Atomic Energy Agency subsequen…
rt.com/news/492619-bolton-yellowcake-iran-iraq-israel/

US slaps 'foreign missions' restrictions on 4 more Chinese state media outlets
rt.com | 2020-06-22
The US State Department has reclassified four Chinese news outlets as "foreign missions," declaring them "propaganda outlets" and imposing strict controls on their ability to employ journalists and conduct business in the US. | Chinese outlets Global Times, China Central Television, China News Service, and People's Daily have joined a growing list of state-run outlets subjected to intensified scrutiny as the media war between Beijing and Washington heats up. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus announced the additions on Monday, proclaiming the named organizations are "effectively controlled by the gove…
rt.com/usa/492634-state-dept-media-chinese-restrictions/

Outcry & cheers as Teddy Roosevelt statue in NYC to be dismantled over 'depicting black & indigenous people as racially inferior'
rt.com | 2020-06-22
The New York mayor ordered the removal of a statue of Theodore Roosevelt on horseback, flanked by a Native American man and an African man, arguing it feeds into racial stereotypes. | "The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement on Sunday. | De Blasio noted that the city authorities sided with the museum, calling the idea to get rid of the "problematic" statue, "the right decision" at the "right time." The NYC mayor was ap…
rt.com/usa/492529-roosevelt-theodore-statue-removal/

Seoul says military option on the table over Pyongyang's plans to drop leaflets prompted by its people's 'unquenchable anger'
rt.com | 2020-06-22
South Korea has warned it's ready for an armed response against the North's plans to drop leaflets if it violates the two states' military agreement. Equipment is reportedly being set up to spread the leaflets "deep inside South." | South Korean defense authorities said on Monday they are closely watching Pyongyang's leafleting methods and are leaving a military response option on the table. Kim Jun-rak, the spokesperson of the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff, stressed that Seoul was prepared to take military action if any aerial vehicle is flown over the Demilitarized Zone, which would violate the 2018 inter-Ko…
rt.com/news/492580-south-korea-military-leaflets/

Macron accuses Turkey of playing 'dangerous game' in Libya, calls its standoff with French ship example of NATO 'brain death'
rt.com | 2020-06-22
French President Emmanuel Macron has denounced Ankara's 'dangerous game' of meddling in Libya and said the illegal targeting of a French frigate by a Turkish ship proved correct his comments about 'brain death' of NATO. | "Turkey is playing a dangerous game in Libya and is violating all of its commitments made at the Berlin conference," Macron said on Monday, referring to the January meeting co-sponsored by Ankara and Moscow. | Describing the situation in Libya as "intolerable," Macron called for "an end to foreign interference and the unilateral acts of those who wish to gain new positions by favoring war."
rt.com/news/492638-macron-turkey-libya-nato/

Gunfire & hit-and-runs leave 2 dead, 12 injured as block party in Charlotte, NC ends in tragedy (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-22
An impromptu party in Charlotte, North Carolina descended into chaos after a shooting killed two people. Several others were wounded by gunfire and injured by vehicles that plowed through the fleeing crowd. | Hundreds of people reportedly flooded onto the streets on Sunday night as part of the ongoing Juneteenth celebrations — the holiday that marks when the last African slaves in the South learned they had been freed. However, the festivities came to a screeching halt after emergency services responded to a call about a pedestrian in the area being hit by a car. Gunfire broke out moments after first resp…
rt.com/usa/492556-charlotte-2-dead-shooting-party-video/

Threat of lone wolf attacks 'growing' in UK, Home Secretary Patel warns after Reading stabbing spree
rt.com | 2020-06-22
The man who stabbed three people to death in Reading wasn't part of any terror group, the UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel has told Parliament, warning that the threat of such lone attackers was on the rise in the country. | "The terrorist threat that we face is complex, diverse and rapidly changing. It is clear that the threat posed by lone actors is growing," Patel said as she appeared before MPs to report on Saturday's incident in Reading. | A man brought a knife to a local park and used it to attack people who were relaxing there. He was able to kill three people and injure three others before being detaine…
rt.com/uk/492621-lone-attacker-threat-uk-patel/

'Storm on the horizon,' NYPD commissioner warns, as data shows city shootings up 358 PERCENT
rt.com | 2020-06-22
Shootings in New York City increased by a massive 358 percent over the last seven days, compared with the same time last year. The skyrocketing numbers have prompted the police commissioner to warn the worst is yet to come. | There were 12 shootings during the seven-day period in question last year, while 2020 has seen 55. More than 70 people were wounded in the 55 shootings, with at least 19 injured on Saturday when the city saw over a dozen incidents, most of which occurred in the Bronx. In one of these incidents, a man died after being shot in the neck while washing his car. | "It takes a long time to turn…
rt.com/usa/492617-nyc-shootings-358-percent/

United States COVID-19 model passes Codecheck
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-22
The software behind a major Imperial study warning of a potential US coronavirus resurgence has received a Codecheck endorsement.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198534/united-states-covid-19-model-passes-codecheck

White House Defies Public Health Orders and Ends COVID Screening for Visitors
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-22
Even though half a dozen of President Donald Trump's campaign staffers tested positive for coronavirus while setting up for his campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last weekend, the White House began ending its mandatory screening process for every visitor who entered the grounds. | Tents, where staffers were running temperature checks and asking visitors questions over possible symptoms, were seen being brought down on Monday,…
truthout.org/articles/white-house-defies-public-health-orders-and-ends-covid-screening-for-visitors/

Big Tech Is Using the Pandemic to Push Dangerous New Forms of Surveillance
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-22
For more than two decades, the ankle shackle has remained the standard electronic monitoring (EM) device. While cellphones, tablets, smartwatches and laptop computers evolved, the black plastic band remained — bulging out under socks and scraping the skin off criminalized legs. Even at this stage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, many of these devices require a landline phone to function. They retain ancestral ties to the analog age. | COVID-19 and decarceration are bringing rapid chan…
truthout.org/articles/big-tech-is-using-the-pandemic-to-push-dangerous-new-forms-of-surveillance/

"Soul Searching" Will Not Stop the Police Murders of Black People
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-22
As police relentlessly murder Black people across the United States — and a multiracial movement led by young Black people surges in the streets to stop them — many elected officials strike a somber and philosophical tone. Reflecting on the killing of George Floyd, Joe Biden remarked on May 29 that, "The pain is…
truthout.org/articles/soul-searching-will-not-stop-the-police-murders-of-black-people/

WHO Reports Largest Single-Day Increase in Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-22
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this week that Sunday saw the highest number of new cases of coronavirus across the globe since the pandemic began. | More than 183,000 new cases were reported within a 24-hour time period around the world, WHO said, with Brazil tracking the highest amount during that time, counting 54,771 new cases. The United States had the second-highest single-day incr…
truthout.org/articles/who-reports-largest-single-day-increase-in-confirmed-coronavirus-cases/

Trump Spreads Baseless Claims About Foreign Powers Counterfeiting Ballots
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-22
President Donald Trump is continuing to push back against the idea of expanding mail-in voting for the upcoming 2020 elections, baselessly arguing that the practice is rife with fraud. | Many voting experts and lawmakers are hoping to expand mail-in (or absentee) voting due to concerns some voters have of voting in-person due to the coronavirus, or the possibility that infection rates could rise again by November and thus deter voter participation. | Trump, however, tweeted on Monday morning tha…
truthout.org/articles/trump-spreads-baseless-claims-about-foreign-powers-counterfeiting-ballots/

Trump Got a Humiliating Comeuppance in Tulsa. Expect New Lows From His Campaign
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-22
We have endured five long years of bombast, bullying and unreconstructed bullshit — from a Trump campaign that knew no shame to a Trump administration that knows no truth. Now, however, following the president's broad-spectrum rally calamity in Tulsa on Saturday night, there is finally the sense of a reckoning in the air. | The man who would be king was finally brought low, not by his own eternally despicable behavior, but by his inability to put butts in the seats, to get the "rating…
truthout.org/articles/trump-got-a-humiliating-comeuppance-in-tulsa-expect-new-lows-from-his-campaign/

Firing of Top US Prosecutor Fuels Barr's Move to Expand "Imperial Presidency"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-22
After a dramatic weekend showdown, the Trump administration has ousted Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan who led multiple prosecutions and investigations into allies of the president. We look at the extraordinary measures U.S. Attorney General William Barr took to protect Trump, with New York Times Magazine writer Emily Bazelon, who has profiled Barr. "He believes in a very strong executive presidency, a kind of imperial presidency in which a huge amount of power resides in the presi…
truthout.org/video/firing-of-top-us-prosecutor-fuels-barrs-move-to-expand-imperial-presidency/

Time To Shut It Down! A Day Of Action & ILWU Juneteenth At Port Of Oakland
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
The ILWU initiated Committee Against Police Terror and Systemic. Racism rallied at the Port of Oakland on Juneteenth which is June 19, 2020. At the Port a rally was held before the march.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/20/18834384.php

Sins of "The Father" Torn Down, A New Way Forward At Hand
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
Be ye not afraid, "the nakedness and drunkenness of our fathers" can no longer be tolerated as a bastardized translation of a moral compass of divinity.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/21/18834400.php

U.S. Threats Cannot Deter Cuba's Internationalist Approach
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-22
As the U.S. continues its defunding of international organisations, the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) is next in line, as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared his country's funding conditional upon "U.S. values". The mismanagement of funds, particularly at UN institutions, is a well-known occurrence. However, the corruption existing at international institutions reflects the obscure, or non-existent process, of accountability, which capitalism encourages in order to maintain the monopoly over human rights rhetoric. | Under U.S. President Donald Trump, pointing out corruption is becoming a veneer…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/22/us-threats-cannot-deter-cuba-internationalist-approach/

Selected Articles: US Sanctions on Syria
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
If you look to Global Research as a resource for information and understanding, to stay current on world events, or to experience honesty and transparency in your news coverage, please consider making a donation or becoming a member. Your …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-us-sanctions-syria/5716666

House Dems Introduce Bill to Prevent Big Pharma Price-Gouging During Covid-19 Pandemic
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
On the heels of polling that showed 88% of Americans worry Big Pharma will exploit the ongoing pandemic to hike drug prices, House Democrats on Monday introduced two bipartisan bills to prevent price-gouging for Covid-19 treatments and vaccines and to strengthen oversight of federal spending on coronavirus research and development. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12137062381_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/22/house-dems-introduce-bill-prevent-big-pharma-price-gouging-during-covid-19-pandemic?cd-origin=rss

'Poverty Is a Policy Choice': Studies Detail How Poorest Saved by Covid-19 Stimulus—and Why More Is Needed
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
"When you look at the size of the government response, it makes sense." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/food_trump_coronavirus_0_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/22/poverty-policy-choice-studies-detail-how-poorest-saved-covid-19-stimulus-and-why?cd-origin=rss

115+ Groups Urge Biden (and Trump) to Support 'Fair and Just Foreign Policy Regarding Israel and Palestinian Rights'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
More than 115 organizations on Monday urged Joe Biden and President Donald Trump to adopt a U.S. policy toward the Israeli government and Palestinian people that is "based on the principles of equality and justice for all." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/palestinians_kushner_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/22/115-groups-urge-biden-and-trump-support-fair-and-just-foreign-policy-regarding?cd-origin=rss

Calling Pandemic a 'Pivotal Moment' to Make Lasting Changes for Families, Economists Demand $50 Billion In Relief for Child Care Industry
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
One hundred economists called on federal lawmakers to pass an immediate investment of $50 billion into the U.S. childcare industry, writing that as with many aspects of the economy, the coronavirus pandemic illustrated the precarious nature in which childcare centers operate. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-667089932_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/22/calling-pandemic-pivotal-moment-make-lasting-changes-families-economists-demand-50?cd-origin=rss

Corporate Interests Nervous as Progressive Democrats Surge Ahead of NY and Kentucky Primaries
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
"They were always going to have more money on their side. But we have the better candidate, with better ideas, and a better campaign." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1220622079.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/22/corporate-interests-nervous-progressive-democrats-surge-ahead-ny-and-kentucky?cd-origin=rss

Video: The Closing Down of the Global Economy and the Corona Crisis. Poverty is Worldwide
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-21
This video featuring Prof. Michel Chossudovsky was first released on April 20, 2020 | Scroll down | *** | Millions of people have lost their jobs, and their lifelong savings. In developing countries, poverty and despair prevail. | While the lockdown is presented to …
globalresearch.ca/video-the-closing-down-of-the-global-economy-and-the-corona-crisis-poverty-is-worldwide/5716565

Ten-Point Agenda for the Global South after COVID-19
Vijay Prashad | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-21
Jorge González Morales (Mexico), Capitalism, 2020 Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly passed a New International Economic Order (NIEO), which was driven by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The resolution laid out a clear plan for the structural transformation of the world system, which …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/ten-point-agenda-for-the-global-south-after-covid-19/

United Nations Sets Up Inquiry Into Racism After George Floyd Death
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-21
Geneva – The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday condemned discriminatory and violent policing after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month and ordered a report on "systemic racism" against people of African descent. | The 47-member-state forum unanimously adopted a resolution brought by African countries. The mandate also asks U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to examine government responses to peaceful protests, including alleged use of excessive force, and deliver findings in a year's time. | Philonise Floyd, the brother of the Black man whose death under the knee of a whit…
popularresistance.org/united-nations-sets-up-inquiry-into-racism-after-george-floyd-death/

Just released! A new book: 'What Road To Socialism?'
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2020-06-21
"What Road to Socialism?" is a new Workers World anthology released in paper and other formats on May 16, just days before the massive international movement erupted in protest against the horrific police murder of George Floyd. This book expresses confidence that militant, new people's movements will inevitably arise against . . . | Continue reading Just released! A new book: 'What Road To Socialism?' at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49534/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=just-released

Trump Having 2nd Thoughts on Guaido, Would Meet Maduro: Axios
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-21
United States President Donald Trump would consider meeting his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro after losing faith in Washington-backed Juan Guaido, an exclusive interview from Axios revealed Sunday. | RELATED: | Venezuela Reveals Proof of Guaido's Involvement in Foiled Plot | Asked whether he would meet with Maduro, Trump said that he "would maybe think about that. … Maduro would like to meet. And I'm never opposed to meetings — you know, rarely opposed to meeting…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Having-2nd-Thoughts-on-Guaido-Would-Meet-Maduro-Axios-20200621-0008.html

Video: Syrian Army Repels Large ISIS Attack Near Ithriyah
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-21
At least 6 soldiers were killed and 9 others were injured in an ISIS attack on a Syrian Army checkpoint near the town of Ithriyah, located on the Hama-Aleppo road. According to pro-government sources, at least 5 ISIS members were …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-repels-large-isis-attack-near-ithriyah/5716541

Democratizing Energy to Counter the Climate Catastrophe
Lavinia Steinfort | zcomm.org | 2020-06-21
The economic recovery as well as a Green New Deal will only be meaningful if we take our country-wide energy systems out of the market and into democratic public ownership…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/democratizing-energy-to-counter-the-climate-catastrophe/

An academic explains exactly what is driving the media's love affair with Keir Starmer
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-06-21
The British media's U-turn in its attitude towards the Labour Party since the departure of Jeremy Corbyn as leader has been swift and extraordinary to watch. After years of berating the party and its leadership, many establishment journalists have now opened their loving arms to…
thecanary.co/feature/2020/06/21/an-academic-explains-exactly-what-is-driving-the-medias-love-affair-with-keir-starmer/

Leaked Documents Reveal Right-wing Oligarch Plot to Overthrow Mexico's President Lopez Obrador (AMLO)
Ben Norton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-21
Mexico's oligarchs and establishment political parties have united in a secret alliance to try to remove left-wing President López Obrador from power, with help from the media, Washington, and Wall Street. Leaked documents lay out their devious strategy. | *** | Some …
globalresearch.ca/leaked-documents-reveal-right-wing-oligarch-plot-overthrow-mexico-amlo/5716540

'They'd have machine guns out for them': Trump says CHAZ would have no chance if rightwing instead of anarchists occupying Seattle
rt.com | 2020-06-21
US President Donald Trump said if "people slightly to the right" attempted to occupy a portion of a city — like those protesting police brutality did in Seattle — they would have been dealt with swiftly. | "Could you imagine if people just even slightly to the right tried to take over Seattle, they'd have machine guns out to get them," Trump said at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday evening. | Trump was referring to the 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' (CHAZ) run by activists in downtown Seattle. The 'cop-free' zone, fenced off by barricades, was carved out by a loose collective of Blac…
rt.com/usa/492478-trump-machine-guns-seattle-chaz/

'I'll beat your ass!' BLM activists threaten Trump supporters in Tulsa as police fire pepper balls at protesters (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-21
Police used non-lethal weapons to disperse a crowd of protesters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where US President Donald Trump held a campaign event. BLM activists, meanwhile, threatened Trump supporters with violence. | Protesters gathered downtown during and after Trump's speech. Though the demonstrations were largely peaceful, police occasionally fired pepper balls to control the crowd. | Loud arguments broke out between Black Lives Matter activists and Trump supporters. Some protesters threatened to "beat up" their opponents, and told them to "go away." | UNHINGED: BLM protesters threatening to "beat" Trump Suppo…
rt.com/usa/492482-blm-trump-rally-tulsa/

Confusion reigns after Pussy Riot co-founder detained in Moscow – Pyotr Verzilov says he was questioned over 2019 protests
rt.com | 2020-06-21
Pyotr Verzilov, a controversial Russian shock artist and co-founder of 'punk' art collectives Pussy Riot and Voina along with ex-wife Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, says police have questioned him over last year's Moscow protests. | The activist was detained at a rented apartment in the Russian capital on Sunday. Between two and 10 people forced their way into the flat and Verzilov "disappeared" afterwards, according to MediaZona — an alternative media outlet created as a spin off from Pussy Riot — which cited eyewitnesses. Footage circulating online shows the door of the flat badly damaged in the aftermath…
rt.com/russia/492513-pussy-riot-verzilov-detained/

Another Social Leader Killed in Colombia, Tally at 138 in 2020
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-21
Another social leader was murdered in Colombia in the southwestern department of Cauca, local media informed Sunday, marking the 138th in 2020 alone according to the Institute for Development and Peace. | RELATED: | Another Social Leader Killed in Colombia During COVID-19 Curfew | Gracelito Micolta was a member in the community council of Alto Guapi. Local reports said he was traveling in canoe to participate in a city meeting when he was intercepted by alleged irregular military g…
telesurenglish.net/news/Another-Social-Leader-Killed-in-Colombia-Tally-Now-at-138-in-2020-20200621-0006.html

Foreigners who seek destabilization must leave region: cmdr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy Commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said that foreign countries threaten regional peace and must leave the Persian Gulf.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160026/Foreigners-who-seek-destabilization-must-leave-region-cmdr

Minnesota legislature fails to address police crimes in special session
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-21
St. Paul, MN – On June 19, family members of several people killed by the police in Minnesota, along with their supporters, protested outside the State Capitol building in Saint Paul. The legislature was called into special session last week to deal with issues postponed by COVID-19, but the murder of George Floyd led to protesters to rush to demand meaningful action on police accountability. | The Minnesota house of representatives was working on a bill, House File 93, which, along with other positive reforms, would change the statute of limitations on police crimes. Right now, technicalities exist that allow ki…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/21/minnesota-legislature-fails-address-police-crimes-special-session

The Rebellion Against Police Repression Must Guard Against All Enemies
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-21
The masses are in motion and public opinion about U.S. policing has rapidly shifted in three short weeks. George Floyd and Breonna Taylor's assassination at the hands of U.S. police departments unleased a flood of anger toward the special bodies of armed forces that occupy the streets of Black American communities across the country. New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Washington D.C. have seen tens of thousands of people march several miles per day demanding that police departments be defunded or abolished altogether. Protestors of all hues have been brutalized and journalists have been targeted wi…
popularresistance.org/the-rebellion-against-police-repression-must-guard-against-all-enemies/

The Struggle For Justice Continues In Post-Coup Bolivia
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-21
History is in the veins of La Paz, Bolivia, in the archives of the streets, the stains left by burning barricades, the bullet holes that scar government buildings. It marks the city itself. | Indigenous rebel Túpac Katari launched his 1781 siege against the Spanish from what is now the hilltop K'illi K'illi park. President Villarroel was hung from a lamp post by an angry crowd in the Plaza Murillo in 1946. Machine gun fire rained down in the San Pedro neighborhood during a coup in 1979. Protesters pulled train cars from the tracks and onto a highway during an uprising in 2003, blocking the military from entering…
popularresistance.org/the-struggle-for-justice-continues-in-post-coup-bolivia/

British police say Reading stabbing attack treated as terrorist act
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-21
British police on Sunday said that a stabbing attack in a southern English town that left three people dead and another three injured was being treated as a terrorist attack but that there was no intelligence on any further attacks."This was an atrocity," Britain's top counter-terrorism officer, Neil Basu, said, adding that unarmed police officers had tackled the attacker.Basu said that counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation and that the attack is not linked to the Black Lives Matter protest in the same park in Reading a few hours before Saturday's attack.
yenisafak.com/en/world/british-police-say-reading-stabbing-attack-treated-as-terrorist-act-3532656

Trump's Tulsa rally has low turnout, but Biden has none at all — and aids to both candidates stumble to explain it
rt.com | 2020-06-21
Fox News' Chris Wallace has confronted advisers of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, grilling them on their presidential campaigns' failures. Neither of them seem to produce a good explanation besides campaign speeches. | Fox News Sunday turned out to be quite eventful, as its host faced campaign advisers for both of the presidential candidates. Wallace spoke with Trump's 2020 campaign spokeswoman, Mercedes Schlapp, about poor attendance of Saturday's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where whole sections of the arena were seen empty. | The spokeswoman blamed the poor turnout on Black Lives Matter protesters, who were…
rt.com/usa/492524-trumps-biden-campaign-troubles/

How fragile is CHAZ? Video shows 'warlord' begging for paramedics to go inside & save man's life after shooting
rt.com | 2020-06-21
Two separate shootings in Seattle's 'autonomous zone' have highlighted the fragility of the experiment. Victims had to be taken to hospital in private cars because city rescuers would not go inside the potentially dangerous area. | The shootings happened minutes apart on Saturday night inside Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) — also called CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest) — leaving one person dead and another one in critical condition. The tragic outcome for one of the victims may have been influenced by the fact paramedics were unable to reach the scene of the shooting and treat the…
rt.com/usa/492487-chaz-shooting-medics-wait/

I'm Protesting for a World That Affirms My Black Son's Life Matters
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-21
During a recent Black Lives Matter march in New York City, I got a text with a photo of my son. The screen showed an image of him in bed, smiling in that goofy, mischievous way he smiles. I pressed the phone to my chest, and then held it up. His face bobbed between protest signs. I protested for him. I want a world where his life matters. | He was born into danger. He is half Puerto Rican, half Black. When I looked at the phone, I saw his big eyes, so open to new experience, on the screen. As I marched,…
truthout.org/articles/im-protesting-for-a-world-that-affirms-my-black-sons-life-matters/

Wednesday 6/24: On Common Ground: Black Businesses Through Pandemic and Protest
KQED | indybay.org | 2020-06-21
Virtual/Online Event…
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Private Profit Kaiser v Protests
Support HR 1384 Medicare for All | indybay.org | 2020-06-21
Private profit Kaiser Permanente, a major medical provider in this backward country that still does not have socialized medicine unlike the rest of the industrialized world, sent an Email on June 20, 2020 at 1: 12 AM to its members telling us how to exercise our First Amendment right to protest. So that you know that this statement is not contrived, here is the outrageous blame-the-protest for failures of private profit medicine message:…
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True nature of the capitalist state revealed
Christian Noakes | workers.org | 2020-06-21
The Department of Justice has given the Drug Enforcement Agency the power to surveil the people participating in the nationwide uprising against police brutality. At first glance, this might be perplexing to some. Why would an agency that focuses on drug trafficking take action against those fighting for racial justice? . . . | Continue reading True nature of the capitalist state revealed at Workers.org…
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Comedian D.L. Hughley tests positive for COVID-19 after collapsing onstage during performance in Tennessee
Associated Press | ktla.com | 2020-06-21
Comedian D.L. Hughley announced he tested positive for COVID-19 after collapsing onstage during a performance in Nashville, Tennessee. The stand-up comedian, 57, lost consciousness while performing at the Zanies comedy nightclub on Friday night and was hospitalized, news outlets reported. On Saturday, Hughley posted a video on Twitter in which he said he was treated …
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Bolivia: Hospitals Close Due to Staff Exposure With COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-21
At least two hospitals in Bolivia closed Saturday as staff members had exposure with COVID-19 positive cases without proper protective gear and safety protocols. | RELATED: | Bolivia Gov't Threatens to Continue Closing Community Radios | "We closed the Viedma hospital because 90 people had contact with patients (who tested positive to the infections disease)," the Hospital Director Juan Jose Mendoza, told local media. | Viedma was designated to attend coronavirus cases but…
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COVID, Identity Politics, and the Global Ruling Elite. What is the Game Plan After the Elections?
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-21
The following is my opinion based on more than a decade and a half of research into ruling elites. Please be aware this sort of commentary is now considered domestic terrorism by the FBI, the national security state, and …
globalresearch.ca/covid-identity-politics-global-ruling-elite/5716556

On International Yoga Day, UN spotlights power of ancient practice to help ease COVID stress
news.un.org | 2020-06-21
The UN celebrates the sixth annual International Day of Yoga on 21 June, recognizing the ancient practice as a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, and a powerful tool for dealing with the myriad stresses brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Afghanistan: UN condemns attacks on healthcare amid COVID-19 pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-06-21
Fifteen attacks on healthcare in Afghanistan were recorded during the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report published on Sunday by the UN Assistance Mission in the country, UNAMA.
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Global Experts Alarmed at Trump's Handling of COVID-19: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-21
Global public health experts are aghast at United States President Donald Trump's comments that he will not call for more economic shutdowns even as COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise due to a reopening of the economy. | RELATED: | Trump Not to Close the US Economy Even If COVID-19 Cases Rise | Ten states in the U.S. have reported this week their highest seven-day average since the pandemic started. Yet, Trump and other leaders are pushing citizens to return to work and their…
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Here's what Johnson forgot to mention about the 'wonder drug' treatment for coronavirus
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-06-21
On 16 June 2020, UK prime minister Boris Johnson hailed a dexamethasone study as the "biggest breakthrough yet" in the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19). There's no denying the study was a breakthrough that could potentially save many lives. | But the government didn't tell the whole story. Nor of how a very different outcome to the pandemic could have been achieved given that the drug was successfully trialled elsewhere for a related condition. | Announcement: | The Evening Standard
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For a Racism-Free 22nd Century, We Need a Billionaire-Free 21st
Sam Pizzigati | commondreams.org | 2020-06-21
"The novel coronavirus just keeps coming — and so do the billions for America's top billionaires," the author writes. (Photo: Sean Davis/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0/) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/billionaire-free-21st.jpg …
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John Bolton and Liberals' Irrational Hatred of Trump
Richard Eskow | commondreams.org | 2020-06-21
Then-U.S. national security adviser John Bolton attends a media briefing during the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2018 in New York City. (Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bolton-resistance-eskow.jpg …
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Russia Can Play Crucial Role in Calming China-India Conflict
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-21
Russia is the only power with bona fides and credibility as an honest broker for resolving the India-China conflict. | The timing of a Russia-India-China summit next week could not be more apt following a deadly skirmish in the disputed Himalayan region which resulted in dozens of military casualties. | The summit scheduled for June 22 of the RIC (Russia-India-China) group was initiated weeks ago by Moscow. It will…

Russia Can Play Crucial Role in Calming China-India Conflict

Displaced Indigenous Community Maintains Camp in Bogota
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-21
At least 370 people from the Embera community, displaced from their places of origin due to violence in their territories, have been maintaining a camp in a park in Bogotá, Colombia for two weeks. | RELATED: | UN: Colombia's Cocaine Production Increased By 1.5% in 2019 | In the Third Millennium Park, located a few blocks from the Casa de Nariño, headquarters of the government, the indigenous people improvised camps with sticks and plastic, according to reports in the local press.
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Bolivia De-Facto Gov't Enacts Law, Elections Sept. 6
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-21
Bolivia's de facto President Jeanine Añez announced that she will enact the Elections Law, to be held on Sept. 6 without further delay, after being accused for several weeks of using the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to grab power. | RELATED: | Bolivia's Coup-Born Regime Closes Embassies in Nicaragua, Iran | "I am going to enact the law," Añez said Sunday in a televised message to the country. | The announcement came hours after a meeting she held with the president of B…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-A-Law-Will-Be-Enacted-to-Set-the-Elections-Date–20200621-0011.html

Cyclone Amphan Is a Warning for the United States
Basav Sen | commondreams.org | 2020-06-21
A Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) volunteer uses a megaphone to urge residents to evacuate to shelters ahead of the expected landfall of Cyclone Amphan in Khulna on May 19, 2020. India and Bangladesh began evacuating more than two million people May 18 as a cyclone barrelled towards their coasts, with officials racing to ready extra shelters amid fears of coronavirus contagion in cramped refuges. (Photo: Kazi Shanto/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/amphan-lessons-us.jpg …
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When Racist Old White Guys with too Much Money are Allowed to Employ People
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-21
Say what you will about corporate human-resources departments, but the one thing they effectively do is keep low-grade morons with a propensity for power trips in line. Though managers and owners with inherent tendencies to be upright prick machines will always invent ways to be walking fingernails against a chalkboard, at least the specter of …
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1921 racist terror in Tulsa
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-06-21
This slightly edited article first appeared in the March 16, 2005, issue of Workers World. "The morning that the riot started we heard the shooting … just a couple of blocks from the end of Greenwood on Archer. After we heard the shooting, I came to … Jackson's Funeral Home. . . . | Continue reading 1921 racist terror in Tulsa at Workers.org…
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Could We Have Some Silence Please?
Christine E. Black | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-21
At my Quaker Meeting, occasionally someone will say, "Could we have some silence please?" especially during a business meeting, which we call Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business. Someone may request silence when the discussion becomes too contentious, …
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"Palestinians are Also in A Historic Moment": When Will the Statue of Theodor Herzl Fall?
Adriaan Alsema | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-21
Medium has just introduced Momentum, a Medium blog about the fight against anti-Black racism. Medium's announcement says, | Momentum is a blog that captures and reflects the moment we find ourselves in, one where rampant anti-Black racism is leading to | …
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Israeli Military Expands A Settlers-only Bypass Road in Bethlehem City
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-21
Israeli military forces in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, commenced on Sunday, the expansion of an existing illegal bypass road, between the colonial settlements of Beitar Illit and Nahal Gvaot, which lie within the illegal settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, in western Bethlehem city. Deputy-mayor of Nahaleen village, west …
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Israeli Forces Arrest Fourteen Palestinians, Including Two Children
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-21
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS), reported that Israeli forces detained fourteen Palestinians across the West Bank, on Saturday night and Sunday morning, nine of whom were abducted by Israeli police from Al-'Isawiya town in East Jerusalem. The nine abductees were identified as Hassan Yasser Darwish, 14, Muhammad Murad Dari, Omar …
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Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure Three Palestinians, Cause Suffocation near Ramallah
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-21
Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinian youths, on Saturday night, in the central West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, when the Israeli military invaded the village. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel rounds and tear-gas canisters towards Palestinian youths in …
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Israel has Forced 20 East Jerusalem Families to Demolish Their own Homes in 2020
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-21
New statistical figures, released by the East Jerusalem-based Center for Economic and Social Rights, show that since early 2020, Israeli occupation authorities have forced 20 Palestinian households in East Jerusalem, to knock down their own newly-built homes themselves. Director of the center, Ziyad Alhamoury, confirmed that the demolition orders issued by …
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Israeli Forces Abduct Several Palestinian Civilians in West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-21
Israeli forces abducted Palestinian civilians, overnight Friday, from various parts of the occupied West Bank, Quds News Network reported. Local sources said that Israeli forces abducted Ali Abu Saleh from Arrabah village, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. In Qabatya, south of Jenin, undercover Israeli forces arrested …
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Egypt has 'International Support' to Intervene in Libya: Sisi
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-21
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said on Saturday that any intervention by his country in Libya has international legitimacy, a claim that has been described as "a declaration of war." | RELATED: | Tripoli Gov't Vows to Retake Libya's East Held by Haftar | "Any direct intervention by the Egyptian state has now gained international legitimacy," said El-Sisi, who inspected military units on Saturday at an airbase near the border with Libya. | The Egyptian President said his countr…
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To Our Confederate Dead: Take It Down
Danica Jorden | zcomm.org | 2020-06-21
Rounding out the city's first Juneteenth, about three hundred people gathered in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina this Friday evening, converging around a large stone monument in the square surrounding the State Capitol building. By 9 pm, one of the monument's bronze statues, which depict armed Confederate soldiers from the state's Civil War period, had been Read…
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Episode 94 — The Right Wing SnowFlakes with Steve Macek
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-06-21
On today's episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon explore right wing victimhood with Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication and Media…
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Botswana Dehorns 100 Wild Rhinos to Protect Them From Poachers
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-21
Botswana dehorned at least 100 wild rhinoceros between March and May this year in order to save them from the marauding poachers in the northwestern part of the southern African country, an official said Sunday. | RELATED: | Cuba's 1st White Rhino Calf Born in Over 15 Years | Cyril Taolo, the acting director in Botswana's department of wildlife and national parks, made this revelation during a virtual media briefing held via a live broadcast through the national television, Botswana Televisi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Botswana-Dehorns-100-Wild-Rhinos-to-Protect-Them-From-Poachers-20200621-0002.html

UK : Construction Begins on World's Biggest Liquid Air Battery
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-21
Construction is beginning on the "world's largest liquid air battery," which will store renewable electricity and reduce carbon emissions from fossil-fuel power plants. | RELATED: | Yes, Carbon Emissions Are Falling, But It Won't Save the Planet | The project near Manchester, U.K., will use spare green energy to compress air into a liquid and store it. When demand is higher, the liquid air is released back into a gas, powering a turbine that puts the green energy back into the gr…
telesurenglish.net/news/UK–Construction-Begins-on-Worlds-Biggest-Liquid-Air-Battery-20200620-0007.html

Books Protect History, Cash Protects Privacy
Bill Willers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-21
But to judge everyone from the past based on the values of today — there truly is no end to how much of history would need to be erased. — Simon Black History is punctuated by wars, and it's the winners whose explanations become the records that following generations assume to be as reliable as …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/books-protect-history-cash-protects-privacy/

STEM workers join call to 'Strike for Black Lives'
calvin deutschbein | workers.org | 2020-06-21
On June 10, thousands of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) educators and workers around the U.S. and worldwide organized the #ShutDownSTEM and #ShutDownAcademia one-day work stoppage in solidarity with the ongoing Black uprising. Grassroots Black gender-oppressed STEM organizers galvanized their co-workers to join in the nationwide call for #AStrikeForBlackLives. . . . | Continue reading STEM workers join call to 'Strike for Black Lives' at Workers.org…
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Amy Klobuchar ends bid to become Biden's running mate in favor of a "woman of color"
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-21
Who will be Biden's running mate now that Amy Klobuchar is out of contention? The political record and background of the leading candidates reveals that nearly every one of them is a "law and order" Democrat with a record of defending the police.
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Britain's Last Gasp — Realising Life After Brexit
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-21
This week marks four years of political acrimony in the guise of Brexit — the most divisive and toxic ideology to hit Britain since the Second World War. Having reached nothing more than a negotiated stalemate with the EU, the likelihood is that Britain will inextricably tie itself to a form of Atlantasism that will …
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Why Has COVID-19 Not Led To More Humanitarian Releases?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-21
Jalil Muntaqim, a Black Panther imprisoned since 1971, is one of thousands of elderly prisoners the United States has refused to free during the pandemic. | In 1971, two weeks shy of his twentieth birthday, Anthony Bottom, a young Black Panther, along with another Panther, Albert Nuh Washington, were arrested following a shootout with San Francisco police. The pair would be tried along with a third man, Herman Bell, for a separate attack: the May killing of two New York City police officers. They were convicted and sentenced to twenty-five years to life, the maximum penalty in New York at the time. The judge who…
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How We Sold Soviet Union And Czechoslovakia For Plastic Shopping Bags
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-21
For months, this has been a story that I want to share with young readers in Hong Kong. Now it seems to be the really appropriate time when the ideological battle between the West and China is raging, and as a result of it, Hong Kong and the entire world is suffering. | I want to say that none of it is new, that the West already destabilized so many countries and territories, brainwashed tens of millions of young people. | I know, because in the past, I was one of them. If I weren't, it would be impossible to understand what is now happening in Hong Kong. | I was born in Leningrad, a beautiful city in the Soviet…
popularresistance.org/how-we-sold-soviet-union-and-czechoslovakia-for-plastic-shopping-bags/

Yemeni Capital Struck By Heaviest Air Strikes In Years
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-21
It was around 6: 45am (03.45 GMT) on Tuesday morning when Hussein al-Samie's son began crying, woken by an earth-shattering air strike that targeted al-Nahdain Mountain in the middle of Sanaa. | Samie's son, Shadi, is four years old. He has no memory of the relentless air strikes that pounded the Houthi-held capital in 2015 and 2016 when the Saudi-led coalition first entered Yemen's war. | Tuesday's raid shook Samie's house to its core, and with no experience of blasts this heavy and this close, Shadi's nerves have been frayed as well. | "There were fiercer air strikes in 2015, but we adapted to the bombing then,"
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Black New Orleans Waste Workers Build Power Against A Crisis
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-21
Sanitation workers in New Orleans have been out on strike for over a month now. On May 5, a group of sanitation workers, also known as "hoppers" (because they hop on and off the trucks to empty trash cans), walked off the job after frustrations around low pay and lack of safety equipment boiled over. They have held firm to their demands and to their brothers on the strike lines for over a month now. "All we're trying to do is to get what we're asking for, and then get back to work. We just want fair treatment," Jonathan Edward, who's been a hopper for over a decade, said. They are not alone–workers around t…
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Doctors feeling increased levels of exhaustion, stress and concerns over NHS capacity
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-21
Doctors are feeling high levels of exhaustion and have little confidence they can manage the huge backlog of missed patient care, research shows. | A survey by the British Medical Association (BMA) of more than 7,000 doctors between June 16 and 18 showed an increase in stress levels among the workforce. | Many have little confidence in the NHS's ability to deal with the large backlog of missed, cancelled and postponed care, the union said. | Some also fear that the health service does not have the capacity to manage a second spike in coronavirus (Covid-19) infection levels. | There has been a slight increase in t…
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L.A. Metro bus adjustments to promote social distancing take effect Sunday
Los Angeles Times | ktla.com | 2020-06-21
A number of changes to Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus service took effect Sunday as the agency sought to promote social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic. Metro added trips to 95 bus lines and increased the frequency of stops on some heavily-used lines, the agency said in a news release. It is also adjusting …
ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-metro-bus-adjustments-to-promote-social-distancing-take-effect-sunday/

Tennessee newspaper apologizes after ad promising nuclear bomb from Islam in July based on 'Bible prophecies'
rt.com | 2020-06-21
The Tennessean has found themselves in hot water on social media and apologizing following a paid advertisement in their newspaper promising Islam will drop a nuclear bomb on the city of Nashville on July 18. | "Dear citizens of Nashville," the full-page ad read. "We are under conviction to not tell you but provide evidence that on July 18, 2020, Islam is going to detonate a nuclear device in Nashville, Tennessee." | Included above the text is an image of President Donald Trump and Pope Francis with burning US flags behind them. In small print above the image is the label "paid advertisement." | The text is s…
rt.com/usa/492525-tennessean-nuclear-bomb-nashville-ad-islam/

Ethiopians marvel at once-in-decades solar eclipse
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-21
Parts of Ethiopia witnessed a solar eclipse that lasted hours starting in the early hours on Sunday.People living in Wollega in Oromia, Ajibara and Lalibella in Amhara and numerous places in Afar woke up to a spectacular fire ring, as up to 90% of the sun was blocked by the moon.First visible in Central and East Africa starting from the Republic of Congo, the eclipse passed over Oman, Yemen, Pakistan, India and China, covering parts of the Pacific Ocean, according to Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute.Many people in Ethiopia, however, missed the once-in-decades sight due to lack of protective grasse…
yenisafak.com/en/world/ethiopians-marvel-at-once-in-decades-solar-eclipse-3532658

Virus death toll rises in Kuwait, Bahrain
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-21
Kuwait confirmed six more fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Sunday, while Bahrain registered one death. | In a statement, the Kuwaiti Health Ministry said 505 more infections and 513 recoveries were recorded over the past 24 hours. | The country's toll now rose to 39,650 cases, including 326 deaths, and 31,240 recoveries. | In Bahrain, the Health Ministry said one patient had died from the disease. | The Gulf state's infections now stand at 21,331, including 61 deaths, and 15,790 recoveries. | Since originating in China last December, the pandemic has claimed over 464,500 lives in 188 countries and regio…
yenisafak.com/en/world/virus-death-toll-rises-in-kuwait-bahrain-3532663

OIC to hold emergency meeting on Jammu and Kashmir
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-21
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir will hold an emergency meeting via videoconference on Monday to discuss the latest situation in the disputed territory.The online meet will bring together the foreign ministers of the Jammu And Kashmir Contact Group member states: Azerbaijan, Niger, Pakistan Saudi Arabia and Turkey, the OIC said in a statement."The meeting is part of a series of continuous Jammu And Kashmir Contact Group meetings to address the issue," OIC Secretary General Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen was quoted as saying. The OIC, founded in 1967 and consists of 67 coun…
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13-year-old girl killed amid gunfire at Kashmir border
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-21
A 13-year-old girl was allegedly killed in Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday in an exchange of gunfire along the border with the Indian-administered side of the region, according to the Pakistani military.Amid heightened tensions between the South Asian nuclear rivals, the Pakistani Army accused Indian border forces of targeting civilians on the Pakistani side of the disputed Kashmir valley, claiming that the girl's mother and a 12-year-old boy were also injured due to "indiscriminate" fire."Indian Army Troops initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation in Hajipir and Bedori Sectors along LOC [Line…
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Turkey conveys condolences to UK over knife attack
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-21
Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke to Dominic Raab over the phone, according to diplomatic sources who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.During the conversation, Cavusoglu expressed sorrow over the stabbing incident, and said that he shared the pain of the families of the deceased and the injured.Raab thanked Cavusoglu for his good wishes.On Saturday night, a knife-wielding man killed three people and seriously wounded three others in the town of Reading, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the capital London.Thames Valley Police have declared it as a terrorist incident.
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PM Johnson says Britain will not hesitate to learn any lesson from latest terrorist attack
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-21
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he was appalled and sickened by a stabbing spree in a southern English town which police said was an act of terrorism.Johnson said the government would make changes to the law if required."If there are changes that need to be made to our legal system to stop such events happening again, we will not hesitate to take that action," Johnson said.
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Video: Ex-Cop Charged With George Floyd's Murder Verbally Assaulted in Grocery
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-21
J. Alexander Keung is one of the former police officers charged with the 25 May killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, Minneapolis. Keung was released from jail on a $750,000 bond on Friday.
sputniknews.com/us/202006211079683211-video-ex-cop-charged-with-george-floyds-murder-verbally-assaulted-in-grocery/

Iran still experiencing first wave of COVID-19: Health Min
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) –Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education, Saeed Namaki said that we are experiencing the first wave of coronavirus pointing to the increasing cases of patients in Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160008/Iran-still-experiencing-first-wave-of-COVID-19-Health-Min

Iran's Shamkhani, Afghanistan's Atmar hold meeting in Tehran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani met and held talks with Mohammad Haneef Atmar, the current acting Minister of Afghanistan's Foreign Affairs in Tehran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160032/Iran-s-Shamkhani-Afghanistan-s-Atmar-hold-meeting-in-Tehran

Iran-China comprehensive 25-yr coop. plan approved
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — The Cabinet of Ministers in a meeting on Sun., headed by President Hassan Rouhani, approved the final draft of a 25-year comprehensive cooperation between Islamic Republic of Iran and China.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160038/Iran-China-comprehensive-25-yr-coop-plan-approved

Partial solar eclipse over sky of Iranian capital
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — Stargazers in Tehran watched a partial solar eclipse on Sunday morning from 09: 04 to 11: 38 local time.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160027/Partial-solar-eclipse-over-sky-of-Iranian-capital

There is no difference between Europe, US: Amir-Abdollahian
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament Speaker's Special Adviser for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that there is no difference between Europe and the US, and some European countries are the main US' agents.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160014/There-is-no-difference-between-Europe-US-Amir-Abdollahian

Parl. National Security Commission mulls over IAEA BoG's resolution against Iran: Spox
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — Spokesman for the Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Abolfazl Amouei said that the Commission in its first meeting mulled over the illegal resolution issued by the Board of Governors [BoG] of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160036/Parl-National-Security-Commission-mulls-over-IAEA-BoG-s-resolution

Observing last solar eclipse of century in Iran's provinces
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
SHAHR-E-KORD, Jun. 21 (MNA) — The last solar eclipse of the century took place on Sunday morning June 21. The annular solar eclipse happens when the moon is farther than the Earth and creates conditions which remains an annular of sun around the moon.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160031/Observing-last-solar-eclipse-of-century-in-Iran-s-provinces

CBI governor Hemmati says Iraq 'good opportunity' for exports
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — Governor of Central Bank of Iran Abdolnaser Hemmati said that Iran's export volume of products to neighboring Iraq and its foreign exchange resources obtained is good opportunity for the country that should be used optimally.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160003/CBI-governor-Hemmati-says-Iraq-good-opportunity-for-exports

Iran calls for urgent clarification of judge Mansuri's cause of death
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — Inviting Romanian ambassador to Iranian foreign ministry in Tehran, the Islamic Republic called for Romania to announce the cause of death of the Iranian judge Golamreza Mansouri as soon as possible.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160030/Iran-calls-for-urgent-clarification-of-judge-Mansuri-s-cause

'Headless' to go on screen at 2020 Cannes Film Market
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — Iranian movie 'Headless', directed by Kaveh Sajjadi Hosseini, will be screened at the the 2020 Cannes Film Market (the Marche du Film) in France.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160020/Headless-to-go-on-screen-at-2020-Cannes-Film-Market

Iran to start holding exhibitions as of July 2: IIEC
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-21
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — The Chief Executive of Iran International Exhibitions Company [IIEC] said on Sunday that both domestic and foreign exhibitions will be held in the country from July 2 according to the scheduled program.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160017/Iran-to-start-holding-exhibitions-as-of-July-2-IIEC

China blame game: White House adviser says Beijing 'created' coronavirus, 'open question' whether it was deliberate
rt.com | 2020-06-21
Unfazed by the lack of evidence, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro went on accusing China of creating Covid-19, possibly even purposefully, as he was grilled about the US readiness for the pandemic. | Asked by CNN's Jake Tapper what the president and his team are doing to prepare for a potential second wave of the coronavirus, Navarro quickly launched into a diatribe about China. | "China created this pandemic," he said. "They hid the virus. They created that virus. And they sent over hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens here to spread that around and around the world," he said. "Whether they did th…
rt.com/usa/492522-tennessean-nuclear-war-ad/

The Guardian's sister paper forces YouTube to again terminate 'far-right' channel The Iconoclast, doxes man behind it
rt.com | 2020-06-21
The liberal newspaper the Observer has prodded YouTube into re-suspending "the most successful and toxic British far-right" anonymous channel and has unmasked the individual running it. | The Observer, the sister newspaper of British liberal heavyweight the Guardian, has joined campaigners in celebrating a victory over YouTube channel 'The Iconoclast'. It's author will no longer be able to use Google's video platform to deliver messages of hate and white suprema…
rt.com/uk/492512-observer-gets-iconoclast-suspended/

'Just blame the Russians!' Moscow's deputy UN envoy mocks Nikki Haley over blaming US unrest on Russia
rt.com | 2020-06-21
The only task US officials seemingly have is finding a way of pinning the blame for literally any incident on Moscow, Russia's deputy UN envoy jokingly said as former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley did just that. | The ex-UN envoy apparently decided to jump on the bandwagon of Russia bashers and put all the blame for the massive riots gripping the US following the murder of an African American by a cop on Moscow. | Haley stated in a Twitter post that "playing up" the "allegations" of police abuse in America has been the new tactics of Russian intelligence apparently hell bent on disrupting yet another US…
rt.com/news/492523-nikki-haley-us-unrest-russia/

Murders, violence on the rise in NYC as footage shows man killed washing his car, 92yo woman randomly assaulted (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-21
New York City has reported a major increase in murders and shootings. The news comes as a man was killed in the city while washing his car, and a 92-year-old woman was assaulted in a seemingly random attack. | "Earlier today, police officers from the 75th Precinct responded to a call of a male shot in front of 334 Milford Street. When they arrived, they discovered a 35-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the neck," the NYPD's Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison tweeted, along with video of the disturb…
rt.com/usa/492514-new-york-murder-crime-rates/

A homeless NHS worker says coronavirus emergency shelter gave her a fresh start
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-21
A rough sleeper has shared how the coronavirus pandemic gave her life a fresh start after she was provided with emergency accommodation.Susan, an NHS worker in her 50s, became homeless after she was evicted in October last year after complaining to her landlord about her accommodation.The Dublin-born hospital administrator found herself one of the 5,000 or so people out on the streets after sofa-surfing and staying in cheap hostels for a time.By January she was looking for shelter on the streets of Manchester in winter, despite being employed. | "It was almost like I didn't really believe this was happening," she…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/21/a-homeless-nhs-worker-says-coronavirus-emergency-shelter-gave-her-a-fresh-start/

Your Boss's Personal Beliefs Should Not Dictate Your Health Care
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-21
As a practicing OB/GYN, I have the privilege of taking care of patients seeking reproductive health care, including birth control. I have patients who have started on birth control pills because they don't want to be pregnant. I have patients who have decided to get a hormonal IUD to prevent pregnancy and treat heavy bleeding. I have patients with complex medical problems who make decisions that balance the management of their medical problems, consideration of the risks of pregnancy and the impact that d…
truthout.org/articles/your-bosss-personal-beliefs-should-not-dictate-your-health-care/

The President's "Comeback Celebration" in Tulsa Tanked
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-21
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale on Monday tweeted that more than 1 million people had registered for tickets to President Donald Trump's much-hyped rally at the end of the week in Tulsa, Oklahoma. | Two hours before the event kicked off, the campaign sent out more than 1 million text messages: "The Great American Comeback Celebration's almost here! There's still space!" | In total, fewer than 6,200 people showed up to…
truthout.org/articles/the-presidents-comeback-celebration-in-tulsa-tanked/

Time To Shut It Down! A Day Of Action & ILWU Juneteenth At Port Of Oakland
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-21
The ILWU initiated Committee Against Police Terror and Systemic. Racism rallied at the Port of Oakland on Juneteenth which is June 19, 2020. At the Port a rally was held before the march.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/20/18834384.php

Russia Can Play Crucial Role in Calming China-India Conflict
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-21
The timing of a Russia-India-China summit next week could not be more apt following a deadly skirmish in the disputed Himalayan region which resulted in dozens of military casualties. | The summit scheduled for June 22 of the RIC (Russia-India-China) group was initiated weeks ago by Moscow. It will be held by teleconference between the foreign ministers. The event predates the flare-up in dangerous tensions between New Delhi…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/21/russia-can-play-crucial-role-in-calming-china-india-conflict/

Nuclear Rivals Clash in the Himalayas
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-21
Eric MARGOLIS | Last week, the world's most populous nations, India and China, both nuclear armed, clashed in the high Himalayan region of Ladakh. | At least 20 Indian troops died and 12 were reportedly taken prisoner before a cease-fire went into effect. So far, there were no reports of Chinese casualties. | Ladakh is one of the world's most remote, obscure and inhospitable places, a plateau averaging 4,200 meters altitude (about 14,000 feet) with frigid temperatures, scant oxygen, little rainfall, and howling winds. This bleak moonscape has long been called 'Little Tibet' because of its semi-nomadic ethnic Tibe…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/21/nuclear-rivals-clash-in-the-himalayas/