Trump Regime Imposes Visa Restrictions on Chinese Officials
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
Unacceptable Trump regime actions toward China keeps widening the rift between both countries. | Crossing one red line after another risks crossing one of no return. | US hostility toward China is all about its growing prominence on the world stage — …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-imposes-visa-restrictions-chinese-officials/5717189

What Happens if Congress and the White House Let Unemployment Benefits Expire?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
According to Labor Department figures, over 47 million US workers filed for unemployment benefits. | The true number is likely much higher as countless numbers of unemployed US workers haven't been able to file so far — many more to come …
globalresearch.ca/what-happens-congress-white-house-let-unemployment-benefits-expire/5717194

Video: Idlib Militants Use Battle Tanks to Kill Each Other Under Turkish Nose
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
ISIS announced a new series of attacks against the Syrian Army in the Homs-Deir Ezzor desert. According to the terrorist group's news agency Amaq, ISIS cells ambushed an army unit near the town of al-Sukhna killing 2 soldiers, injuring a …
globalresearch.ca/video-idlib-militants-use-battle-tanks-kill-each-other-under-turkish-nose/5717182

Trump's Second Thoughts on Juan Guaido are Not Enough
Steve Ellner | zcomm.org | 2020-06-28
After the president's change of heart on Venezuela, and the waning of Juan Guaidó and his party, the entire Washington political establishment have a lot of explaining to do…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-second-thoughts-on-juan-guaido-are-not-enough/

'Ordinary' Israelis Don't Perceive Themselves as Ordinary People
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
On reading the enduring horrific daily news coming out of Palestine/Israel relating to the ongoing Jewish-state Nakba, I invariably feel a strong desire to discuss what is often the elephant in the room. It's an issue constantly on the minds …
globalresearch.ca/ordinary-israelis-dont-perceive-themselves-ordinary-people/5717085

Is the Deep State Attempting a Hybrid War in Mexico?
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
An important article by journalist Ben Norton appeared on the online outlet The Grayzone describing the content of a leaked document that consists "of an executive summary of 'Project BOA,' outlining what it calls a 'plan of action' — a …
globalresearch.ca/deep-state-attempting-hybrid-war-mexico/5717180

Trump Unloads on Bolton After Bolton Unloads on Trump
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
John Bolton's new memoir "The Room Where It Happened," which came out two days ago in spite of White House attempts to block it, is the standard kiss and tell that senior American politicians and officials tend to write …
globalresearch.ca/trump-unloads-bolton-after-bolton-unloads-trump/5717048

"COVID Cases" Versus the Real Virus
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
Media and governments globally are blanketing the world with the phrase "Covid Cases". Enter any three digit number plus "Covid Cases" into Google, and you'll get an idea of the magnitude of the brainwash. | Why is the phrase meaningless apart …
globalresearch.ca/covid-cases-versus-real-virus/5717201

Israeli Troops Injure A number Of Palestinians In Alaghwar Area
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-28
Israeli troops injured on Sunday morning a number of Palestinian residents in the Alaghwar area of the West Bank. Local Palestinian sources reported that the injuries, caused to the residents, came during Israeli army's crackdown on a local peaceful march in the Atouf neighborhood in the northern Alaghwar area of …
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Soldiers Injure Five Palestinians In Northern Plains Of West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-28
Israeli soldiers injured, on Saturday evening, five Palestinians during protests that erupted in 'Atouf village in the West Bank's Northern Plains after the soldiers prevented dozens of residents from participating in the national conference against the illegal Israeli annexation and apartheid policies. The head of 'Atouf Village Council, Abdullah Bisharat, …
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The Test Set: Another Brick in the COVID-19 Disinformation Game Plan
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
Do you want the true answer, or do you want the answer given by propaganda, official government versions and the mainstream media? | I will give you the true, medical answer: the tests do not answer any of these questions, they …
globalresearch.ca/the-test-set-another-brick-in-the-covid-19-disinformation-game-plan/5717040

The Test Set: Another Brick in the COVID-19 Disinformation Game Plan
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
In COVID-19, the tests attempt to answer the following fundamental questions: | Are you infected? Are you contagious? Have you been infected? Are you immune (protected) to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and for how long? | Do you want the true answer, or …
globalresearch.ca/the-test-set-another-brick-in-the-covid-19-disinformation-game-plan/5717040

Why Iran Won't be Broken
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
This article was originally published on Asia Times. | So what's goin' on in Iran? How did the Islamic Republic really respond to Covid-19? How is it coping with Washington's relentless "maximum pressure"? | These questions were the subject of a …
globalresearch.ca/why-iran-wont-broken/5717177

Fear in the JFK Assassination: Continued Secrecy, Fraudulent Autopsy
Jacob G. Hornberger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
Read part 1 here. | Let's now move to the autopsy that the U.S. military conducted on the President John F. Kennedy's body on the evening of the assassination, November 22, 1963. | Texas law required the autopsy to be …
globalresearch.ca/fear-jfk-assassination/5717167

Progressives Plan to Push Big Cuts to Defense Spending
Alex Emmons | zcomm.org | 2020-06-28
"In the midst of the worst public health crisis in over 100 years and the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, we do not need to authorize $740.5 billion in bombs, weapons, fighter jets and endless wars."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/progressives-plan-to-push-big-cuts-to-defense-spending/

US Plans to Break Up China: CIA Funding for Terrorists, Narco-trafficking and Proxies
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
The "loss" of China in 1949 was perhaps the biggest blow to strike American hegemony in…
globalresearch.ca/us-plans-splinter-china-cia-funding-terrorists-narco-trafficking-proxies/5717186

Greta Thunberg criticises leaders who want selfies with her to 'look good'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-28
Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has hit out at world leaders for taking pictures with her to "look good".The 17-year-old became a global star thanks to her climate activism. She gave a powerful speech at the United Nations (UN) climate change summit in September 2019, in which she told world leaders: You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words… how dare you!"It makes them seem like they care": As part of a series she's made for Swedish radio about her campaigning, Thunberg revealed that German chancellor Angela Merkel had queued up to have a "selfie" with her at the internatio…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/06/28/greta-thunberg-criticises-leaders-who-want-selfies-with-her-to-look-good/

Victory for San Mateo Co. Inmates After Ten Day Hunger Strike
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-06-28
Protesters' voices have finally been heard after a 10 day hunger strike at San Mateo County's Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City. [Photo of anti-police brutality activist Missy at a rally at the historic old courthouse in Redwood City on June 21.]…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/27/18834650.php

US Killer Cops Mastered 'Fascist Israel's Technique Proudly Used On Palestinians'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-28
"Thank goodness there's an uprising," Waters told RT's 'Going Underground' on Tuesday, referring to the wave of protests and riots sweeping the US since the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis last month. "It's about time." | The kneeling chokehold that killed Floyd was described by Waters as "an Israeli technique, proudly developed by the IDF in the occupied territories in Palestine." | An Israeli national police spokesman recently denied that his country's police force uses such a measure on suspects, and added that Israeli counterterrorism officers never taught the move to American polic…
popularresistance.org/us-killer-cops-mastered-fascist-israels-technique-proudly-used-on-palestinians/

Government Attacks Media As People's Media Reveals The Truth
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-28
Government attacks on the media are escalating as the battle for the narrative grows in importance. | For the last decade, stories produced and amplified by the democratized media have put the power structure at risk. People saw government documents showing war crimes and violations of international law. We all saw police killing unarmed people and extreme militarized violence in response to nonviolent protests. These stories have been magnified by people realizing they are the media and sharing stories in their networks on a variety of platforms. | To maintain control, the power structure needs to stop people fr…
popularresistance.org/government-attacks-media-peoples-media/

Ten Point Agenda For The Global South
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-28
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 was in the throes of a crisis at the time. But, the NIEO was set aside and the world order was shaped in a neoliberal direction; this neoliberal orientation furthered the crisis and brought us to this current cul-de-sac of human possibilities. | Our team at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research developed a ten-point agenda for a post-COVID-19 world. Last week, I pr…
popularresistance.org/ten-point-agenda-for-the-global-south/

The Struggle To Protect The Sacred Place Where Life Begins
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-28
As the Trump administration neared the end of its first year in office in 2017, it seemed environmental activists had lost one of the most hard-fought battles in the movement's history. Thanks to a last-minute maneuver by Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Congressional Republicans succeeded in passing legislation allowing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR. Some of the worst fears of environmental and Indigenous rights groups for what might happen under the administration appeared to be coming true. | However, two and a half years later, no drilling or seismic testing has taken place in the re…
popularresistance.org/the-struggle-to-protect-the-sacred-place-where-life-begins/

Activists Charged With Felonies After Delivering Formosa Plastic Pollution To Lobbyists
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-28
Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves on felony charges after months' earlier delivering plastic pollution pulled from Texas waters to fossil fuel lobbyists' homes. The two posted bond and were released later the same day. | "The women are accused of terrorizing oil and gas lobbyists by giving them a file box full of plastic pellets found in Texas bays near a plastic manufacturing facility owned by Formosa Plastics," NOLA.com reports. | Rolfes and McIntosh a…
popularresistance.org/activists-charged-with-felonies-after-delivering-formosa-plastic-pollution-to-lobbyists/

Masked and distanced, Spanish PM Sanchez hits the campaign trail
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wore a mask and avoided shaking hands with supporters at a political rally on Sunday as the coronavirus pandemic prompted changes to campaigning ahead of regional elections.Polls in the Basque Country and Galicia on July 12 will be the first since Spain went into lockdown in March. Restrictions were eased on June 21, and Spaniards have been adapting to social distancing and precautionary measures in everyday life."The enemy of Spain is the virus," Socialist Sanchez told a reduced group of about 100 party faithful — all wearing masks and sitting the recommended 1.5 metres apar…
yenisafak.com/en/world/masked-and-distanced-spanish-pm-sanchez-hits-the-campaign-trail-3533145

Joe Biden Election Campaign Discloses Over One Third of Staff People of Colour, Majority Female
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
White House hopeful Joe Biden has been evading questions over the diversity of his campaign staff since the Democratic primaries, with the issue now pushed to the forefront amid the continuing protests against racism and police brutality erupting across the country in the wake of the death of black man George Floyd in police custody.
sputniknews.com/us/202006281079739235-joe-biden-election-campaign-discloses-over-one-third-of-staff-people-of-colour-majority-female/

Trump Tax Cuts Architect Says Nancy Pelosi Will Be Biden's 'Co-President' if He Wins
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
On Thursday, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden surged ahead of Donald Trump in battleground states crucial for a 2020 victory in 19 different polls by four pollsters, with the president's flagging approval ratings thought to be connected to his handling of coronavirus and the protests that followed the death of George Floyd.
sputniknews.com/us/202006281079742126-trump-tax-cuts-architect-says-nancy-pelosi-will-be-bidens-co-president-if-he-wins/

VIDEO: Protesters in Colorado shut down highway
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The protesters in US' Colorado shut down Highway 225 Saturday in a peaceful demonstration calling for justice in the death of Elijah McClain who died last August during a confrontation with Aurora police officers.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160281/VIDEO-Protesters-in-Colorado-shut-down-highway

UN privileges status quo over both peace and justice: American scholar
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — Kevin Barret who has been known as one of America's best-known critics of the war on terror, says the United Nations cannot be considered as "a genuinely democratic international organization", arguing it has instead been as an "instrument of American and Western soft power".
en.mehrnews.com/news/160285/UN-privileges-status-quo-over-both-peace-and-justice-American

Friday 7/3: Free Julian Assange Global Birthday Vigil
BAACFJA | indybay.org | 2020-06-28
BayAction2FreeAssange.org joins #Candles4Assange for Julian Assange's Global Birthday Vigil | Friday, July 3 ≥·µà, Noon-1PM | British Consulate, 1 Sansome St., San Francisco | *Masks & social distancing please | For those w medical conditions/unable to attend : Please follow @Action4assange livestream noted in details…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834630.php

Monday June 29 – Protest to Stop Eviction of 1921 Walnut St. Tenants
Posted By Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-28
Protect The Tenants During The Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic: | The tenants at 1921 Walnut St are facing eviction and displacement from their rent-controlled apartments and unwittingly find themselves in a "David v's Goliath" struggle with the Regents of the University of California!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/27/18834695.php

Angela Davis on "Mainstream Feminism"
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-28
counterpunch.org/2020/06/27/angela-davis-on-mainstream-feminism/

US Middle East Wars Far from Over
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
Despite what appears to be a terminal decline of US influence over the Middle East, Washington has no intentions of gracefully abandoning its aspirations of regional hegemony. | Air strikes carried out against Syria by Washington's Israeli proxies, a mysterious explosion …
globalresearch.ca/us-middle-east-wars-far-from-over/5717174

Building an Antiwar Perspective: Ten Questions to Guide a Reset of Canada's Foreign Policy
Bianca Mugyenyi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
With Canada suffering two consecutive defeats in its effort to gain a United Nations Security Council seat, the time has come to fundamentally reassess our foreign policy. | Ten years ago, the Conservative government's failure was largely explained as a rebuke …
globalresearch.ca/ten-questions-guide-reset-canada-foreign-policy/5717199

Phony Experts with Veiled Conflicts of Interest Polluting Debates on GMOs, Glyphosate, Endocrine Disruptors
Jonathan Matthews | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
One of France's leading daily papers, Le Monde, just published an article on how "a group of toxicologists with tenuous expertise and veiled conflicts of interest are working to derail the implementation of European regulations" on endocrine disruptors — synthetic …
globalresearch.ca/phony-experts-veiled-conflicts-interest-polluting-debates-endocrine-disruptors-glyphosate-gmo/5717172

The Sin Just Continues!
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
You know, nations commit sins just as individuals do. Sometimes there is a marriage between individuals and nations that sin as one. This is the case of my dear country, the place of my birth and actually the only country …
globalresearch.ca/sin-just-continues/5717197

Soldiers Invade Home Of Slain Palestinian In Occupied Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-28
Dozens of soldiers invaded, on Saturday at night, the home of a young Palestinian man, on the first anniversary of his death by Israeli army fire, in the al-'Isawiya town, in occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stormed and ransacked the home of Mohammad Samir Obeid, who was only …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-invade-home-of-slain-palestinian-in-occupied-jerusalem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soldiers-invade-home-of-slain-palestinian-in-occupied-jerusalem

Rogue States Sanction the International Criminal Court
Richard Falk | zcomm.org | 2020-06-28
It should be appreciated that while geopolitical actors can get away with murder, their rogue behavior is a precedent for all states, and weakens what procedures exist to uphold the most basic norms of international law…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/rogue-states-sanction-the-international-criminal-court/

System Fail #1: Riots across America
subMedia | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-28
The pilot episode of subMedia's brand new show, System Fail, looks at the incendiary riots that have swept across the United States in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, and the state's desperate attempts to bring things back under control. Featuring an interview with Oluchi Omeoga, co-founder and core organizer of the Black …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/system-fail-1-riots-across-america/

Trump's Pandemic Failure Means A Second Great Depression Is Looming
Annie Lowrey | zcomm.org | 2020-06-28
Ending the pandemic was the only thing the government could have done to save the economy, Trump's botched response means without a second massive federal intervention millions of US families who are just keeping their head above water will sink…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-pandemic-failure-means-a-second-great-depression-is-looming/

Meet journalist Beritan Canà∂zer, a threat to Turkish misogyny
Eliza Egret | thecanary.co | 2020-06-28
When I first interviewed Kurdish women journalists in 2015, I was in awe at their bravery. As reporters in Bakur (the majority-Kurdish area of Turkey), they risked prison, faced death threats from the police, and were even targeted with live ammunition while reporting. | That year, journalist Beritan Canà∂zer was arrested and imprisoned by Turkey for 'propagandising for a terrorist organisatio…
thecanary.co/feature/2020/06/28/meet-journalist-beritan-canozer-a-threat-to-turkish-misogyny/

How Racism Gets Taught and Misrepresented in Our Schools
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-28
The not-so-subtle purpose of compulsory schooling is to ensure a populace subservient to the status quo which primarily serves the ruling class. What we call education is derived from a Prussian model designed to reward individuals based on how well they stay in line and do as they're told through the process of grading. It's …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/how-racism-gets-taught-and-misrepresented-in-our-schools/

Burger Chef and Dan Died on the Same Day
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-28
If you're like most 16 year old males, there's a better than average chance that the suit inventory in your wardrobe consists of a total of one. And by suit I mean the matching sport coat and pants that was purchased on clearance from a discount warehouse that has as much chance of staying in …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/burger-chef-and-dan-died-on-the-same-day/

The Coronavirus pandemic, ecological catastrophe and global capitalism: an interlocking phenomenon
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-28
The COVID-19 pandemic has unravelled the close structural links between the climate crisis and the global capitalist mode of production.
mronline.org/2020/06/28/the-coronavirus-pandemic-ecological-catastrophe-and-global-capitalism-an-interlocking-phenomenon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-coronavirus-pandemic-ecological-catastrophe-and-global-capitalism-an-interlocking-phenomenon

Sunday 6/28: 'The Condor & The Eagle' New Film & Discussion on Climate & Indigenous Rights (online)
Unitarian Univeralist Association | indybay.org | 2020-06-28
Online/virtual…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834619.php

Kosovo and Metohija is an Integral Part of Serbia
Živadin Jovanović | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-28
The real question is not whether the status of Kosovo and Metohija should be negotiated; the actual questions to be asked are: On which basis? About what? Whom with? | The sole legitimate basis is that Kosovo and Metohija is an …
globalresearch.ca/kosovo-and-metohija-is-an-integral-part-of-serbia/5717047

Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Boycott Police Work In Wake Of Killings
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-28
The tide of reckoning on systemic racism and police brutality that has been sweeping through institutions — including scientific ones — has reached universities' normally reclusive mathematics departments. A group of mathematicians in the United States has written a letter calling for their colleagues to stop collaborating with police because of the widely documented disparities in how US law-enforcement agencies treat people of different races and ethnicities. They concentrate their criticism on predictive policing, a maths-based technique aimed at stopping crime before it occurs. | The letter, dated…
popularresistance.org/mathematicians-urge-colleagues-to-boycott-police-work-in-wake-of-killings/

McCarthyism Down Under
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-28
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison held a somber press conference on Friday to announce that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) had conducted a raid on a sitting member of the New South Wales parliament all because, so far, he'd said favorable things about China and had traveled to the country. | The Murdoch-owned Australian newspaper reported that the office and Sydney home of NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane had been raided because he "has repeatedly praised Beijing, even describing Chinese President Xi Jingping's response to the COVID-19 pande…
popularresistance.org/mccarthyism-down-under/

Families Of Deceased Workers Sue Tyson Over Outbreak At Meatpacking Plant
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-28
The families of three workers who died after contracting the coronavirus in an Iowa meat plant outbreak sued Tyson Foods and its top executives Thursday, saying the company knowingly put employees at risk and lied to keep them on the job. | The lawsuit alleges that Tyson officials were aware the virus was spreading at the Waterloo pork processing plant by late March or early April but kept that information from employees and the public. | As the outbreak grew, the company failed to implement safety measures, allowed some sick and exposed employees to remain on the production line, and falsely assured workers and…
popularresistance.org/families-of-deceased-workers-sue-tyson-over-outbreak/

Detroit Fiat Chrysler Workers Halt Production For Second Day
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-28
Workers continued their courageous production stoppage at the Fiat Chrysler Jefferson North Assembly Plant (JNAP) in Detroit on Friday. Workers on "B crew" entered the plant at 4: 30 p.m. and refused to work under conditions where basic safety and health protocols, including social distancing measures and cleaning guidelines, are being flouted by the corporation and the United Auto Workers union (UAW) in order to maximize profits. | Production at the plant remained at a standstill due to the workers' action against the corporation and the UAW and a lack of labor due to the refusal of workers to report for work out…
popularresistance.org/detroit-fiat-chrysler-workers-halt-production-for-second-day/

Trump denies being told about Russian bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
The White House on Saturday also denied that Trump was briefed on U.S. intelligence regarding the affair but it did not address the merits of the intelligence. The Director of National Intelligence also said Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were not briefed, and called the Times report inaccurate."Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an 'anonymous source' by the Fake News @nytimes. Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us," Trump tweeted, calling on the newspaper to…
yenisafak.com/en/world/trump-denies-being-told-about-russian-bounties-to-kill-us-troops-in-afghanistan-3533148

Global coronavirus cases top 10 million
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
Global coronavirus cases have exceeded 10 million on Sunday, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University.The worldwide tally of virus-linked deaths has reached 499,124, while the number of recoveries tops five million.The US remains the worst-hit country with over 2.5 million infections, while its death toll exceeds 125,500.Brazil, which has the largest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Latin America, has the second-highest number of infections worldwide with 1.31 million.Russia, India, Italy, Spain and the UK are also among the hardest-hit countries in the world.China, the ground zero…
yenisafak.com/en/world/global-coronavirus-cases-top-10-million-3533133

China reports 17 new COVID-19 cases, including 14 in Beijing
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
Mainland China on Sunday reported 17 new coronavirus cases, mostly in the Chinese capital of Beijing.The National Health Commission said 17 new infections were confirmed on Saturday, down from 21 a day earlier.In Beijing, 14 new confirmed cases were reported, down from 17 a day earlier.Since June 11 when Beijing reported its first case in the current outbreak, stemming from a sprawling wholesale food centre in the southwest of the capital, 311 people in the city of more than 20 million have contracted the virus.Mainland China reported three new so-called imported cases on Friday, infections linked to travellers a…
yenisafak.com/en/world/china-reports-17-new-covid-19-cases-including-14-in-beijing-3533128

COVID-19 cases in Africa exceed 371,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
The number of coronavirus cases in Africa reached 371,548 on Sunday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.According to the health agency's latest update, 9,484 people have died across the continent, which has 54 countries.At least 178,407 patients have also recovered.South Africa has the most cases with 131,800 while Egypt follows with 63,900.Nigeria in West Africa recorded 24,100 infections, Cameroon in Central Africa 12,600 and Sudan in East Africa 9,300.Southern Africa, one of the five geographical regions in the continent, stands as the most affected with 137,000 cases.North Africa recor…
yenisafak.com/en/world/covid-19-cases-in-africa-exceed-371000-3533143

'Fit as a butcher's dog': UK PM does press ups to show coronavirus recovery
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson did some press ups to show he was "as fit as a butcher's dog" in an interview with the Mail on Sunday newspaper, just months after he fought for his life in hospital against the coronavirus.Johnson, well known for staging eye-catching stunts during the campaign to leave the European Union and as London's mayor, used the interview to unveil plans to spend on infrastructure to help Britain "bounce back" after the coronavirus lockdown.But the British leader was also keen to show he was returned to health after being in intensive care in April after testing positive for the corona…
yenisafak.com/en/world/fit-as-a-butchers-dog-uk-pm-does-press-ups-to-show-coronavirus-recovery-3533141

Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 256 to 193,499
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 256 to 193,499, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday.The reported death toll rose by three to 8,957.
yenisafak.com/en/world/germanys-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-rise-by-256-to-193499-3533129

Australia's Victoria state mandates coronavirus testing for travellers
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
Australia's Victoria state will implement mandatory coronavirus tests for returning travellers after a sharp spike in infections over the past two weeks, the state's premier said on Sunday.The country's second-most populous state had 49 new cases on Sunday, its highest in more than two months and the 12th consecutive day of double-digit rises. The rest of Australia has seen almost no infections."Much like a bushfire, putting this out is challenging," Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews told a press conference, alluding to wildfires at the end of last year that burnt through vast swaths of the country."Containing it,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/australias-victoria-state-mandates-coronavirus-testing-for-travellers-3533127

13 doctors die from coronavirus in Iraq
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
Iraqi authorities said Sunday 13 doctors have succumbed to coronavirus in the country since February.A further 775 doctors have contracted the virus, Abdulalameer al-Shimmary, head of Iraq's Doctors' Association, told Anadolu Agency."All doctors are doing their utmost efforts to provide services to patients at the available resources," he said.Fears have been growing across Iraq over the collapse of the country's health system amid a surge in infections.Iraq's confirmed virus cases have reached 43,262, including 1,660 deaths, and 19,983 recoveries.The government has imposed a partial curfew, banned gatherings an…
yenisafak.com/en/world/13-doctors-die-from-coronavirus-in-iraq-3533147

'Get Britain moving again', PM Johnson to unveil new infrastructure plan
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will launch a plan this week to get Britain "moving again" after the coronavirus lockdown, when the government will set out measures to boost infrastructure construction, interior minister Priti Patel said on Sunday.Johnson will make a speech on Tuesday to set out plans to fast-track building projects such as hospitals, schools, housing, and road and rail infrastructure, part of efforts to try to stem a fall in support for his government.The British leader has been criticised for his response to the coronavirus crisis, with opposition parties and some scientists saying the government…
yenisafak.com/en/world/get-britain-moving-again-pm-johnson-to-unveil-new-infrastructure-plan-3533135

US ambassador appears on Lebanese TV despite court-imposed ban
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
Lebanese media broadcast interviews with the U.S. ambassador on Sunday, ignoring a ruling by a judge who banned the diplomat from television for a year over remarks that criticised the powerful Shi'ite movement Hezbollah.Hezbollah is the main political force behind the Lebanese government. Washington considers the heavily armed pro-Iran movement to be a terrorist group.In an interview with Saudi-owned AlHadath television on Friday, U.S. ambassador Dorothy Shea said Hezbollah's behaviour was preventing Lebanon from properly dealing with a deep economic crisis.A Shi'ite judge in the southern city of Tyre ruled on S…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-ambassador-appears-on-lebanese-tv-despite-court-imposed-ban-3533142

Turkish soldier martyred by terrorists in N.Iraq
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
A Turkish soldier was martyred in a clash with terrorists in Operation Claw-Tiger zone in northern Iraq, according to the Turkish National Defense Ministry on Sunday.The ministry offered condolences to the family of the soldier and the Turkish nation.Turkey's operations Claw-Tiger and Claw-Eagle were launched last week to ensure the safety of the Turkish people and borders by neutralizing the threat of the PKK and other terrorist groups, who often use northern Iraq to plan cross-border attacks.In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, th…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-soldier-martyred-by-terrorists-in-niraq-3533138

Turkey criticizes US human trafficking report
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
The Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) 2020 affirmed Turkey's efforts against human trafficking but expressed disappointment that the country had not moved a level up yet, according to a statement."Turkey is home to more than 4 million displaced people, and takes on more and more migrants each year, due to the instabilities and conflicts in our region. Despite that, Turkey is fighting human trafficking quite decisively," the Foreign Ministry said.It went on to say that Turkey has implemented related deals and laws, created awareness in the society on the matter, sought and protected victims, and brought criminal…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-criticizes-us-human-trafficking-report-3533139

Armed gangs kill 12 in northwest Nigeria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
At least 12 people died Saturday in an armed attack in western Nigeria, according to local media.The deaths occurred when armed gangs attacked the Unguwar Yabo village in Zamfara state.The country's northwest sees occasional clashes between the herder Fulani people, one of the largest ethnic groups widely dispersed across West Africa, and neighboring sedentary tribes.The Fulani, who migrated to the south to graze animals, claim farmers have tried to steal their animals and attack their people.Armed groups sometimes take advantage of the conflicts and organize attacks.Nearly 2,000 people have lost their lives in t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/armed-gangs-kill-12-in-northwest-nigeria-3533126

Turkey key player in humanitarian aid to Syria: UN
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
The humanitarian situation in Syria remains alarming as it enters the 10th year of civil war, said a UN spokesman."There has been a reduction in fighting (in Syria), but that has not solved the problem for about 2.8 million people that are there who need our support. To help them, Turkey is a key player," Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told Anadolu Agency in an exclusive interview.Last month, 1,800 truckloads of aid crossed the border from Turkey to Idlib, northwestern Syria, Laerke noted.He said the country also helps the UN deliver aid in Syria.Laerk…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-key-player-in-humanitarian-aid-to-syria-un-3533144

Thousands in western Myanmar flee as army plans operations, monitors say
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-28
Thousands of villagers have fled their homes in Myanmar's Rakhine state after a local administrator warned dozens of village leaders that the army planned "clearance operations" against insurgents, a lawmaker and a humanitarian group said.But a government spokesman said late on Saturday an evacuation order issued by border-affairs officials had been revoked. Border affairs acknowledged issuing the order through the local administrator but said it affected fewer villages.The warning to the village leaders came in a letter written on Wednesday, which was seen by Reuters and verified by a state government minister,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/thousands-in-western-myanmar-flee-as-army-plans-operations-monitors-say-3533137

Labour's Starmer Outstrips Johnson as 'Preferred PM' Over Disapproval of Handling of Pandemic- Poll
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
Keir Starmer, who won the Labour leadership election in April and brought to an end his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn's tenure of close to five years, has been lambasting the prime minister for the "undermined public trust" in the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006281079738740-labours-starmer-outstrips-johnson-as-preferred-pm-over-disapproval-of-handling-of-pandemic–poll/

'Not My Fault I'm White': Ex-Formula 1 Boss Ecclestone Defends 'Black People More Racist' Statement
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
On Friday Former Formula One Boss Bernie Ecclestone came under fire after an appearance on CNN Sport, where he claimed that, in his opinion, in many cases…
sputniknews.com/uk/202006281079740278-not-my-fault-im-white-ex-formula-1-boss-ecclestone-defends-black-people-more-racist-statement/

Brussels Warns It May Restrict Chinese Investment in EU Unless Beijing Does More to Open Its Markets
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
China and the European Union recorded some €560 billion in trade in 2019, with the EU posting a trade deficit of €164 billion. The two sides have been working on a 'Comprehensive Agreement on Investment', aimed at creating 'new investment opportunities for European companies' in China, for over half a decade now.
sputniknews.com/business/202006281079741233-brussels-warns-it-may-restrict-chinese-investment-in-europe-absent-more-symmetry-in-market-access/

India Deploys Quick Reaction Air Defence System Amid Raging Chinese Jets, Helicopters Near Ladakh
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
New Delhi (Sputnik): India and China are engaged in massive deployments of troops, artillery, and heavy vehicles in the Ladakh region, including the Depsang Plains — very close to the Karakoram Pass. While the Indian Army has claimed that there was a "mutual consensus" on disengagement on 22 June, the military build-up continues by both sides.
sputniknews.com/world/202006281079738912-india-deploys-quick-reaction-air-defence-system-amid-raging-chinese-jets-helicopters-near-ladakh/

India Vows to Build Firewall Against China's Power Equipment, Reports Claim
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
New Delhi (Sputnik): China has conquered India's power sector market with its cost-effective equipment and quick delivery. As per government records, China accounts for around 40 percent of power plant imports, which India has failed to reduce despite making changes in the country's power policy in recent years.
sputniknews.com/asia/202006281079739427-india-vows-to-build-firewall-against-chinas-power-equipment-reports-claim/

Iran COVID-19 update: 2,489 new infections, 144 deaths in 24 hours
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — According to the Iranian Health Ministry, the novel coronavirus disease has infected 2,489 people across the country in the past 24 hours.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160286/Iran-COVID-19-update-2-489-new-infections-144-deaths-in-24

Iran, flagbearer in fight against narcotics in world: Gharibabadi
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Iran's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna, Kazem Gharibabadi said that Islamic Republic of Iran is forerunner and pioneer in the fight against narcotic drugs in the world.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160301/Iran-flagbearer-in-fight-against-narcotics-in-world-Gharibabadi

Black box of Ukrainian plane to be decoded on July 20: official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs Mohsen Baharvand said on Sunday that decoding the black box of the Ukrainian plane will begin on July 20, under the supervision of an Iranian team in France.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160296/Black-box-of-Ukrainian-plane-to-be-decoded-on-July-20-official

People's livelihood must be our main concern: Ghalibaf
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that the economy and people's livelihood must be the main concern of authorities at the present time.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160298/People-s-livelihood-must-be-our-main-concern-Ghalibaf

Golestan prov., hub of Iran's silkworm farms
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
GORGAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Golestan province, in north Iran, is one of the hubs of growing silkworms and producing silk in the country.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160280/Golestan-prov-hub-of-Iran-s-silkworm-farms

US preventing export of medicine needed for chemical victims: Foreign Ministry
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Referring to the remarks of FM Zarif, Iranian Foreign Ministry in its twitter account wrote that the United States is preventing export of the medicine needed for chemical warfare victims.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160292/US-preventing-export-of-medicine-needed-for-chemical-victims

Iranian police bust over 16 tons of narcotics in a week: official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Over 16 tons of illegal drugs have been busted by Iran's anti-narcotics police forces in the country in the last week, according to an official in Iran Drug Control Headquarters.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160283/Iranian-police-bust-over-16-tons-of-narcotics-in-a-week-official

Gasoline export to Venezuela trade deal: oil min
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Stressing Iran has not given gasoline to Venezuela for free, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said that exporting gasoline to Venezuela was a trade deal.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160284/Gasoline-export-to-Venezuela-trade-deal-oil-min

MEK, by all means a terror cult: Iran's Foreign Ministry
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq) is a terror cult.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160302/MEK-by-all-means-a-terror-cult-Iran-s-Foreign-Ministry

Find the (best) Iranian Realtors in Toronto
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Home buying is often an organized process, and it may take a year or more before the actual purchase time arrives.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160278/Find-the-best-Iranian-Realtors-in-Toronto

Fourth conference on innovation and ijtihad from the perspective of Ayatollah Khamenei
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-28
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Fourth conference on innovation and ijtihad from the perspective of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei will be held on June 29.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160299/Fourth-conference-on-innovation-and-ijtihad-from-the-perspective

Government 'supporting' Leicester amid chance of local lockdown
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-28
The government says it is supporting officials in Leicester in their battle against coronavirus (Covid-19) after a report the city could be subject to Britain's first local lockdown this week. | The Sunday Times said the government was preparing to impose the lockdown "within days" after a surge in coronavirus cases in the city. | The paper said health secretary Matt Hancock had been examining legal aspects of the shutdown. This was after it was revealed 658 new cases were recorded in the Leicester area in the two weeks leading up to 16 June. | twitter.com/Leicester_News/status/1276923808910315521?ref_src…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/28/government-supporting-leicester-amid-chance-of-local-lockdown/

WorkWeek On Police Unions, Police Terror, The AFL-CIO And Labor
WorkWeek | indybay.org | 2020-06-28
WorkWeek looks at the role of the police, police terror, labor and the AFL-CIO. The police have been expelled from the MLK Jr. Labor Council in Seattle after a debate and participants discuss the issue. Also WorkWeek looks at termination of Chicago ATU 241 bus driver and Executive Board member Erek Slater.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834620.php

Wednesday 7/8: LaborFest 2020: Labor & The Murals with Howard Pflanzer
Laborfest | indybay.org | 2020-06-28
This is a free LIVE Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to register and to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/27/18834673.php

Saturday 7/11: LaborFest 2020: The Film — "The Dirty War on The National Health Service"
Laborfest | indybay.org | 2020-06-28
This is a free Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to register and to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/27/18834688.php

Monday 7/6: LaborFest 2020: AB5, Tech Robber Barons and Slavery
Edward Escobar | indybay.org | 2020-06-28
This is a free Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to register and to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/27/18834666.php

Saturday 7/4: July 4th: INDEPENDENCE from WAR! Banner Drops
TOBY | indybay.org | 2020-06-28
I-80 Pedestrian Bridge, just south of University Ave. | Meet up in parking lot in southwest corner of I-80 & University Ave. at 9: 50am.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/27/18834655.php

Biden's Basement Strategy: Just Say Nothing
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-28
Patrick J. BUCHANAN | Some polls now have Joe Biden running ahead of Donald Trump by 10 points and sweeping the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. This vindicates the strategy Biden's advisers have adopted: | Confine Joe to his basement, no press conferences. Trot him out to recite carefully scripted messages for the cameras. Then lead him back to his stall. | This enables Biden to avoid the blazing questions that are dividing not only Democrats and Republicans but liberals and leftists. And most of these issues touch on the explosive subject of race. | Consider. California's legislature…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/28/biden-basement-strategy-just-say-nothing/

The Age of Chatham House and the British Roots of NATO
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-28
NATO secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's recent announcement of a NATO 2030 anti-nation state vision to extend the spheres of NATO's jurisdiction into the Pacific to contain China demonstrates a disturbing ideology which can lead nowhere but World War III if not nipped in the bud soon. | In my previous article NATO 2030: Making a Bad Idea Worse, I promised to shed light on the paradoxical situation of NATO's unabashed unipolar agenda on one hand and the many examples of President Trump's resistance t…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/28/the-age-of-chatham-house-and-the-british-roots-of-nato/

Impeachment Reminder of Our Toxic Foreign Aid
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-28
James BOVARD | Foreign aid to Ukraine helped spur the Democrats' effort to impeach and remove President Trump earlier this year. Ukraine was supposed to be on the verge of great progress until Trump pulled the rug out from under the heroic salvation effort by U.S. government bureaucrats. Unfortunately, Congress has devoted a hundred times more attention to the timing of aid to Ukraine than to its effectiveness. And most of the media coverage pretended that U.S. handouts abroad are as generous and uplifting as congressmen claim. | U.S. foreign aid has long fueled the poxes it promised to eradicate — especial…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/28/impeachment-reminder-of-our-toxic-foreign-aid/

Major Mexican Cartels: Drug Wars and Business
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-27
A previous report by South Front documented the heavy human, social and material costs of the drug wars in Mexico, which have devastated the country since the mid-2000s. In this report some of the major factors in the rapidly shifting …
globalresearch.ca/major-mexican-cartels-drug-wars-business/5717117

Progressives Must Fight With — and In — the Democratic Party
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
Gov. Newsom Should Give Democracy a Chance…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/25/18834580.php

PLO: Israeli Withholding of Slain Palestinian Bodies, Immoral
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-27
Executive Committee for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Saturday, condemned what it termed immoral Israeli withholding slain bodies of Palestinians, killed by Israel, the latest of which was the body of Ahmad Erekat, who was shot dead by Israeli troops, at a checkpoint near the West Bank southern city …
imemc.org/article/plo-israeli-captivation-of-palestinian-victims-dead-bodies-immoral-policy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plo-israeli-captivation-of-palestinian-victims-dead-bodies-immoral-policy

Antisemitism smears are being used to silence criticism of Israel. But supporters of Palestine won't shut up
Eliza Egret | thecanary.co | 2020-06-27
Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence that some readers may find disturbing. | Take a look at this image of 11-year-old Mahmoud Sawalhi, a Palestinian boy from Gaza. In 2018, an Israeli sniper shot him in the eye. The bullet went through his brain and shot through the top of his head. Yes, you read that correctly: the bullet went through his brain and shot through the top of his head. When his father rescued him off the g…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/06/27/antisemitism-smears-are-being-used-to-silence-criticism-of-israel-but-supporters-of-palestine-wont-shut-up/

Resist Evictions and Foreclosures
Ted Rall | zcomm.org | 2020-06-27
COVID-19 has created the ideal medium for a summer of continuous protest.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/resist-evictions-and-foreclosures/

Israeli atrocities on the rise
Abhijan Choudhury | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-27
Two recent reports released by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations in the occupied Palestinian Territories (OCHA oPT), on June 18 and 24, describe the blatant human rights violations and war crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian population in the three occupied Palestinian territories of West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. | The two reports cover May 2020 and the first fifteen days of June 2020, respectively, and compile data on acts committed by the Israeli government, armed forces and intelligence services to subjugate and oppress Palestinia…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/27/israeli-atrocities-on-the-rise/

As pandemic rages, Trump administration calls on Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
An overturn of the Affordable Care Act would wipe out health care coverage for as many as 23 million Americans.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/obam-j27.html

LGBTQ Pride At 50
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-27
Scranton, PA – LGBTQ Pride is turning 50 this year a little short on its signature fanfare, after the coronavirus pandemic drove it to the internet and after calls for racial equality sparked by the killing of George Floyd further overtook it. | Activists and organizers are using the intersection of holiday and history in the making — including the Supreme Court's decision giving LGBT people workplace protections — to uplift the people of color already among them and by making Black Lives Matter the centerpiece of Global Pride events Saturday. | "Pride was born of protest," said Cathy Renna, communica…
popularresistance.org/lgbtq-pride-at-50/

[World Report] LGBTQ discrimination in US health care under scrutiny
Susan Jaffe | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
A US Supreme Court ruling could undermine the Trump administration's plan to roll back some protections against sex discrimination. Susan Jaffe reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31446-X/fulltext?rss=yes

Supreme Court rulings: Mass fightback and solidarity win concessions
Minnie Bruce Pratt | workers.org | 2020-06-27
This is a slightly edited version of a talk given on a June 25 Workers World Party webinar on "LGBTQ2S+ and the Black Lives Matter movement." How fortunate we all are to be in the struggle together this particular June Pride Month — a month of historic uprising and outcry . . . | Continue reading Supreme Court rulings: Mass fightback and solidarity win concessions at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49692/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=supreme-court-rulings-mass-fightback-and-solidarity-win-concessions

Mentally Replace Everything Before "U.S. Intelligence Says" With "Blah Blah We're Probably Lying"
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-27
"Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill Troops, U.S. Intelligence Says", blares the latest viral headline from The New York Times. NYT's unnamed sources allege that the GRU "secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops", and that the Trump administration has known this for months. | To be clear, this is journalistic malpractice. Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishi…

Mentally Replace Everything Before “U.S. Intelligence Says” With “Blah Blah We’re Probably Lying”

Saturday 7/4: 4th of July SF Car Caravan: "Defund Police, Defund Pentagon, Fund Life!"
Codepink, Extiction Rebellion, VFP, more | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
Meet up 2pm at SF City Hall, Polk St. between Grove & McAllister; Caravan to Stop 1: Defund Police, Black Lives Matter street painting, Fulton & Webster; Caravan to Stop 2: Defund Pentagon, Nancy Pelosi's House, Broadway @ Divisadero; Caravan to Stop 3: Fund Life!, Bayview Hunters Point.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/25/18834600.php

Palestinian Civilians, Activists Protest Israeli Annexation in Kifl Hares
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-27
Palestinians protesting the Israeli occupation and its settlement activities, today clashed with Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank resulting in several injuries, all minor, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. In the northern West Bank village of Hares, east of Salfit, Israeli soldiers denied Palestinians access to village lands to …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-civilians-activists-protest-israeli-annexation-in-kifl-hares/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-civilians-activists-protest-israeli-annexation-in-kifl-hares

US Government Expands Assange Indictment To Criminalize Assistance
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-27
The United States government expanded their indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to criminalize the assistance WikiLeaks provided to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden when staff helped him leave Hong Kong. | Sarah Harrison, who was a section editor for WikiLeaks, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former spokesperson, and Jacob Appelbaum, a digital activist who represented WikiLeaks at conferences, are targeted as "co-conspirators" in the indictment [PDF], though neither have been charged with offenses. | No charges were added, however, it significantly expands the conspiracy to commit computer intrusion char…
popularresistance.org/us-government-expands-assange-indictment-to-criminalize-assistance/

'Rohingya issue, not Muslims v/s Buddhist paradigm'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
Maung Zarni, 56, scholar and activist, known for his opposition to the violence in Myanmar and his support to the Rohingya population said the Burmese military was taking advantage of strategic rivalry between China and India and blamed genocide of Rohingya to an institutional hate campaign.Born in a Burmese Buddhist family, Zarni said a campaign of ignorance was manufactured in his country through schools, mass media, and Buddhist organizations against Rohingya, which eventually culminated in the genocide."The Burmese public has been made ignorant of the facts about Islam and Muslims," said Zarni in an exclusive…
yenisafak.com/en/world/rohingya-issue-not-muslims-v-s-buddhist-paradigm-3533091

Bree Newsome Took Down the Confederate Flag 5 Years Ago. She's Still Organizing
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-27
Five years ago today, 30-year-old activist Bree Newsome Bass shocked the world by climbing a 30-foot flag pole and taking down the Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina State Capitol Building — a flag that state leaders had first raised in 1961 to tell the budding civil rights movement to "stay out!" | Almost 55 years later, Newsome put her boots, courage and backpack on, and defied those racist warnings in the most daring and audacious way possible, head-on. After taking the f…
truthout.org/articles/bree-newsome-took-down-the-confederate-flag-5-years-ago-shes-still-organizing/

DOJ's New WikiLeaks Indictment Has Significant, Convenient Plot Holes
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-27
In its push to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the U.K., the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday published a superseding indictment aimed at broadening "the scope of the conspiracy surrounding alleged computer intrusions with which Assange was previously charged." The names of certain organizations and individuals are masked, including that of a paid FBI informant who stole money from WikiLeaks and later confessed to having sex with nine underage boys in exchange for money and other valuables. | A decent chunk of the filing relates to Chelsea Manning, her interactions with Assange and other possi…
popularresistance.org/dojs-new-wikileaks-indictment-has-significant-convenient-plot-holes/

Free Julian Assange Global Birthday Vigil
BAACFJA | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
BayAction2FreeAssange.org joins #Candles4Assange for Julian Assange's Global Birthday Vigil | Friday, July 3 ≥·µà, Noon-1PM | British Consulate, 1 Sansome St., San Francisco | *Masks & social distancing please | For those w medical conditions/unable to attend : Please follow @Action4assange livestream noted in details…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834630.php

Friday 7/3: Free Julian Assange Global Birthday Vigil
BAACFJA | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
BayAction2FreeAssange.org joins #Candles4Assange for Julian Assange's Global Birthday Vigil | Friday, July 3 ≥·µà, Noon-1PM | British Consulate, 1 Sansome St., San Francisco | *Masks & social distancing please | For those w medical conditions/unable to attend : Please follow @Action4assange livestream noted in details…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834630.php

Iran, Iraq emphasize strengthening security, peace cooperation
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) — The Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq stressed the need for bolstering the development, peace and security cooperation between the two nations.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160258/Iran-Iraq-emphasize-strengthening-security-peace-cooperation

Brazilian health care workers strike for PPE and risk bonus
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
On Thursday, health care professionals in the Brazilian state of Piauí started an indefinite strike as their counterparts in Rio de Janeiro launched protests.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/braz-j27.html

ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Over Police Use Of Force During Anti-Racism Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-27
Denver – The ACLU of Colorado has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Black Lives Matter 5280 and other protesters against the City and County of Denver over police use of force during the protests against racism and police violence that erupted in the city last month after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. | The complaint alleges the use of force by Denver police, Denver sheriffs and Colorado State Patrol effectively "restricted, frustrated, and deterred" the First Amendment right of protesters in the city. The ACLU said police responded, "repeatedly with an overwhelming and unconstitutional use of forc…
popularresistance.org/aclu-files-federal-lawsuit-over-police-use-of-force-during-anti-racism-protests/

Minneapolis Protesters Remember Breonna Taylor, Highlight Police Brutality Against Black Women
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-27
Thousands of demonstrators have gathered at Powderhorn Park in southern Minneapolis, Minnesota, to honor the life of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who was murdered in her Louisville, Kentucky, home during a botched raid carried out by Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers on March 13.
sputniknews.com/us/202006271079732697-minneapolis-protesters-remember-breonna-taylor-highlight-police-brutality-against-black-women/

Demonstrators demand justice for 12 year old refugee Shukri Abdi in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-27
Demonstrators have gathered in London and other UK cities to demand "justice" for a 12-year-old Somali refugee on the one-year anniversary of her death.A huge crowd descended on the capital on Saturday 27 June in memory of Shukri Yahya Abdi, who drowned in the River Irwell in Bury, Greater Manchester, exactly one year ago. Many in the UK have renewed calls to demand a fair investigation into her death in the wake of recent Black Lives Matter protests.People with fists raised in the air carried a "Justice for Shukri" banner, and some wore T-shirts displaying the child's name.Protesters demanded 'justice for Shukri…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/27/demonstrators-demand-justice-for-12-year-old-refugee-shukri-abdi-in-the-wake-of-black-lives-matter-protests/

Tenderloin Rises Up Against UC Hastings Lawsuit
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
Speakers from organizations supporting the unhoused, law students, and community members protested UC Hastings move to clear black and brown residents from tent encampments in the middle of the pandemic. They started in front of the law school's Kane Hall and marched to the police station in the Tenderloin where they faced off with cops armed for battle.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/25/18834559.php

[Perspectives] Nature and nowness under lockdown
Rachel Clarke | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
"Death", wrote Saul Bellow in his acclaimed novel Humboldt's Gift, "is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything". 45 years have elapsed since he wrote these words, but they have surely never carried more weight. As we reel, stunned and awestruck, through the COVID-19 pandemic, the menace of death has inspired a profound attentiveness to–and gratitude for–the simplest moments of life. Amid the soaring death tolls, it has felt at times as though nothing–not least the natural world on our doorstep–will ever be taken for granted again.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31409-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] Access to health care under threat in Afghanistan
Sharmila Devi | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
Attacks on hospitals and high numbers of COVID-19 cases among health workers could hamper access to health care. Sharmila Devi reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31447-1/fulltext?rss=yes

Frontline nurses' burnout, anxiety, depression, and fear statuses and their associated factors during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China: A large-scale cross-sectional study
Deying HU, Yue KONG, Wengang LI, Qiuying HAN, Xin ZHANG, Li Xia ZHU, Su Wei WAN, Zuofeng LIU, Qu SHEN, Jingqiu YANG, Hong-Gu HE, Jiemin ZHU | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
The frontline nurses experienced a variety of mental health challenges, especially burnout and fear, which warrant attention and support from policymakers. Future interventions at the national and organisational levels are needed to improve mental health during this pandemic by preventing and managing skin lesions, building self-efficacy and resilience, providing sufficient social support, and ensuring frontline work willingness.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30168-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Offline: The second wave
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
The spectre of a second wave of COVID-19 hangs over us. Some infectious disease specialists believe that SARS-CoV-2 might be losing virulence. Most are less sanguine. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO's Director-General, reported last week that "the pandemic is accelerating"–across the Americas, south Asia, and the Middle East. "The world is in a new and dangerous phase", he said. "The virus is still spreading fast, it is still deadly, and most people are still susceptible." The shadow of the 1918 influenza pandemic darkens our perspective.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31451-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Aletha Maybank: AMA's Chief Health Equity Officer
Susan Jaffe | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
The world has changed in the year since the American Medical Association (AMA) named Aletha Maybank as its first Chief Health Equity Officer and founder of the AMA's Center for Health Equity, dedicated to eliminating the barriers to optimal health for all patients. COVID-19 has exposed health inequities that have always existed, Maybank said. But when US Government data omitted the disease's impact on Black, Hispanic, and Native American communities, she advocated for a change. "You can't fix something that you don't measure", she said.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31408-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Clinical Picture] Myocarditis in a 16-year-old boy positive for SARS-CoV-2
Massimiliano Gnecchi, Francesco Moretti, Emilio Maria Bassi, Sergio Leonardi, Rossana Totaro, Luciano Perotti, Valentina Zuccaro, Stefano Perlini, Lorenzo Preda, Fausto Baldanti, Raffaele Bruno, Luigi Oltrona Visconti | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
A 16-year-old boy was admitted to our emergency department, in Lombardy, complaining of intense pain in his chest–radiating to his left arm–which had started 1 h earlier. The day before he had a fever of 38 ∑3 ∞C that decreased after 100 mg of nimesulide. He reported no other symptoms, no medical history, and no contact with anyone with confirmed COVID-19.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31307-6/fulltext?rss=yes

A comparison of electronically-delivered and face to face cognitive behavioural therapies in depressive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Candice Luo, Nitika Sanger, Nikhita Singhal, Kaitlin Pattrick, Ieta Shams, Hamnah Shahid, Peter Hoang, Joel Schmidt, Janice Lee, Sean Haber, Megan Puckering, Nicole Buchanan, Patsy Lee, Kim Ng, Sunny Sun, Sasha Kheyson, Douglas Cho-Yan Chung, Stephanie Sanger, Lehana Thabane, Zainab Samaan | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
Although we found eCBT to have moderate evidence of effectiveness in reducing symptoms of depression, high heterogeneity among studies precludes definitive conclusions for all outcomes. With the current reliance and accessibility of technology to increasing number of people worldwide, serious consideration in utilizing technology should be given to maximize accessibility for depression treatments. Our results found eCBT is at least as effective as face to face CBT, thus eCBT should be offered if preferred by patients and therapists.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30186-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Primaquine for Plasmodium vivax malaria treatment — Authors' reply
Richard N Price, Walter R J Taylor, Kamala Thriemer, Nicholas J White, Nicholas P Day | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
We agree with Harin Karunajeewa and Robert James that radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria needs to be deployed more widely. The question is, how do we achieve this? Shortening the treatment course and thereby improving adherence is an important step in the right direction.1 Primaquine regimens are usually extended over 14 days to reduce the daily dose and thereby improve tolerability and safety. The main adverse event risk is haemolysis in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30217-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Biomarkers in Down syndrome can help us understand Alzheimer's disease
Elizabeth Head, Beau Ances | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
Down syndrome is associated with increased risk of developing early-onset Alzheimer's disease, primarily because of the overexpression of the APP gene on chromosome 21. People with Down syndrome, as a form of genetically determined Alzheimer's disease, represent one of the largest cohorts at risk of early-onset Alzheimer's disease because virtually all adults with Down syndrome will develop Alzheimer's disease by age 40 years.1 However, the age range for the onset of cognitive decline is wide (from 70 years).
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30916-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Articles] Clinical and biomarker changes of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome: a cross-sectional study
Juan Fortea, Eduard Vilaplana, Maria Carmona-Iragui, Bessy Benejam, Laura Videla, Isabel Barroeta, Susana Fernández, Miren Altuna, Jordi Pegueroles, Víctor Montal, Silvia Valldeneu, Sandra Giménez, Sofía González-Ortiz, Laia Muñoz, Teresa Estellés, Ignacio Illán-Gala, Olivia Belbin, Valle Camacho, Liam Reese Wilson, Tiina Annus, Ricardo S Osorio, Sebastián Videla, Sylvain Lehmann, Anthony J Holland, Daniel Alcolea, Jordi Clarimón, Shahid H Zaman, Rafael Blesa, Alberto Lleó | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
Alzheimer's disease in individuals with Down syndrome has a long preclinical phase in which biomarkers follow a predictable order of changes over more than two decades. The similarities with sporadic and autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease and the prevalence of Down syndrome make this population a suitable target for Alzheimer's disease preventive treatments.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30689-9/fulltext?rss=yes

James Learmonth Gowans
Geoff Watts | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
Immunologist and science administrator. He was born in Sheffield, UK, on May 7, 1924, and died in Oxford, UK, on April 1, 2020, aged 95 years.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31410-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] Generation coronavirus?
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
The catastrophic elements that have perpetuated the COVID-19 pandemic–global interconnectedness, climate change due to human activity, vast economic inequality, and deep veins of antiscience–have resulted in more than 9 million infections and almost 500‚Äà000 deaths worldwide. Although children might be less susceptible to infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and generally have better outcomes than adults, COVID-19 as a phenomenon weighs heavily on their health and wellbeing.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31445-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Seminar] Pancreatic cancer
Jonathan D Mizrahi, Rishi Surana, Juan W Valle, Rachna T Shroff | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
Pancreatic cancer is a highly fatal disease with a 5-year survival rate of approximately 10% in the USA, and it is becoming an increasingly common cause of cancer mortality. Risk factors for developing pancreatic cancer include family history, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and tobacco use. Patients typically present with advanced disease due to lack of or vague symptoms when the cancer is still localised. High quality computed tomography with intravenous contrast using a dual phase pancreatic protocol is typically the best method to detect a pancreatic tumour and to determine surgical resectability.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30974-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[Commentary] The resilience of Taiwan's health system to address the COVID-19 pandemic
Emeline Han, Shu-Ti Chiou, Martin McKee, Helena Legido-Quigley | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
A new book by world-leading economists gives clear advice on how to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic: "Act Fast and Do Whatever It Takes" [1]. Yet, countries that have done so are the exceptions rather than the rule — and one of them is Taiwan. With 446 cases and 7 deaths as 22nd of June 2020 in a population of 23.8 million, Taiwan has remained relatively unscathed so far despite its proximity to the virus epicentre [2]. How was Taiwan able to respond the way it did? Here, we examine Taiwan's response using the World Health Organization (WHO) health system building blocks [3].
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30181-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Primaquine for Plasmodium vivax malaria treatment
Harin Karunajeewa, Robert James | thelancet.com | 2020-06-27
The main reason conventional primaquine regimens last 14 days is because this was the time taken to repatriate US military personnel by ship following active service in the Korean War.1 We therefore congratulate Walter Taylor and colleagues2 for finally upending an absurdly impractical 60-year-old legacy and setting a new standard of care. However, convincing policy makers and practitioners to implement this new standard of care presents challenges relating to how risk is perceived and managed.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30242-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Bahrain: A Police State Built on Intimidation and Torture
The Alternative World | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-27
Exclusive– Welcome to Bahrain, the cemetery of the living, the home of chambers of death, the kingdom of widespread impunity, police brutality, extrajudicial killings and repression. | Welcome to Bahrain, where the most gruesome arts of torture are heinously and systematically practised by the security services, including the use of electro-shock devices, forced standing techniques, suspension in painful positions (while handcuffed and exposed to extreme cold or hot temperature), medical negligence, beatings, threats of rape or murder and sexual abuse, etc. in order to inflict permanent suffering on the peac…
thealtworld.com/thealtworld/bahrain-a-police-state-built-on-intimidation-and-torture

Black Lives Matter Wants to End Police Brutality
Jon Schwarz | zcomm.org | 2020-06-27
History Suggests It Will Go Much Further…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/black-lives-matter-wants-to-end-police-brutality/

Italian metalworkers demonstrate demanding better working conditions
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-27
On June 25, Thursday, major metalworkers unions in Italy gathered at Piazza del Popolo in Rome, demanding an improvement in work conditions post the COVID-19 crisis. The mobilization was called by unions, including the Federation of Italian Metal Mechanics (FIM), Italian Federation of Metal Workers (FIOM) and the Union of Italian Metal Mechanics Workers (UILM). The demonstrating workers alleged that many of the long-pending work-related disputes in the sector have not been resolved by the government. | FIOM general secretary Francesca Re David said, "You cannot think of leaving the COVID emergency while leaving u…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/27/italian-metalworkers-demonstrate-demanding-better-working-conditions/

COVID Is Skyrocketing in CA Prisons
Adnan Khan | zcomm.org | 2020-06-27
Why Haven't More People Been Released?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-is-skyrocketing-in-ca-prisons/

The socio-economic crisis is aggravating the health crisis in Peru
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-27
Peru is the second hardest hit country in Latin America and the seventh most severely affected nation globally by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite early and strict nationwide lockdown measures, the number of coronavirus cases have increased at an alarming rate. After 103 days of mandatory home quarantine and shutdown of economic activities, as of June 26, there are 272,364 confirmed cases of the coronavirus infection and 8,939 deaths due to the disease in the country. The capital Lima is the most affected region with 153,068 cases and 4,029 deaths. | Although Peru was one of the first Latin American countries to im…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/27/the-socio-economic-crisis-is-aggravating-the-health-crisis-in-peru/

Detroit Fiat Chrysler workers halt production for second day to demand COVID-19 protection
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
The mounting struggles by workers against the back-to-work drive highlight the immense power of the working class in the fight to halt the deadly pandemic and the corporate-government attack on jobs and living standards.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/jeff-j27.html

Rishi Sunak is still leaving hundreds of thousands of people behind while saying he wants 'to protect as many jobs as possible'
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-06-27
In March this year, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced several different schemes to offer financial support to businesses, employees, and self-employed people negatively affected by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The coronavirus job retention scheme ( CJRS) was one such scheme. It supports employees laid off because of coronavirus by paying up to 80% (maximum payment £2,500) of their monthly salary. | Additionally, HM Treasur…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/06/27/rishi-sunak-is-still-leaving-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people-behind-while-saying-he-wants-to-protect-as-many-jobs-as-possible/

Maritime workers: Essential and mistreated due to COVID
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-06-27
Over a million workers on 60,000 ships, moving hither and yon through the world's oceans, transport 80 percent of the world's trade. Container ships carrying cell phones, computers and frozen meat; ore, oil and chemical transports — all the necessities of modern life — need crews to move them safely . . . | Continue reading Maritime workers: Essential and mistreated due to COVID at Workers.org…
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South African Communist Party supports Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against Covid-19
| workers.org | 2020-06-27
The South African Communist Party (SACP) issued this statement on June 19. The South African Communist Party (SACP) welcomes the progressive thrust of the Joint Statement of the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity Against Covid-19. The statement was released on Thursday, 18 June 2020, following the summit, which was attended . . . | Continue reading South African Communist Party supports Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against Covid-19 at Workers.org…
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New York City officials accused of undercounting and mismanagement after dozens of homeless COVID-19 deaths reported
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
A new report gives an insight into the consequences of the city authorities' malign neglect as the virus spread amongst the homeless in the center of global finance.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/home-j27.html

COVID-19 cases rise in Louisiana but governor refuses to reverse economic reopening
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
The state's Democratic governor says restaurants, cafes, bars, shopping malls, gyms and many other businesses can operate at 50 percent occupancy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/loui-j27.html

Bayer agrees to pay $10 billion to settle RoundUp cancer cases
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-27
Bayer will have to pay between "$8.8 billion to $9.6 billion to resolve current Roundup lawsuits."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/27/bayer-agrees-to-pay-10-billion-to-settle-roundup-cancer-cases/

Social Credit Scores Are Already Here
Derrick Broze | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-06-27
People around the world are already being judged and denied access to financial services because of their social media data — and they don't even realize it. By now many of our readers are aware of the ongoing roll out of a nationwide social credit system in China. Starting in 2009, the Chinese government began …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/social-engineering/social-credit-scores-are-already-here/

Armed Israeli Settlers Burn Hundreds of Olive Trees south of Nablus
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-27
Colonist Israeli settlers set on fire to a Palestinian-owned farm land, on Saturday, in Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian chief of the profile for illegal Israeli settlements in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Daghlas, told media outlets that several armed Israeli colonists, from …
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Israeli Forces Detain Two Palestinians at Qalandia Terminal
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-27
A Palestinian man was detained by Israeli security guards, on Saturday, north of Jerusalem, at the Qalandia terminal, the Jerusalem Post reported. Israel Police claimed that the "knife-wielding" Palestinian man elicited the suspicion of the security forces. During the arrest, the Jerusalem Post further noted that two security guards were …
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Dozens of Palestinians Suffocate from Israeli Fired Tear-Gas in Hebron
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-27
In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on Friday, Palestinians confronted Israeli soldiers at the point between the Israeli-occupied section of the city and that of the Palestinian-controlled section, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said that dozens of Palestinians suffered the toxic effects of tear-gas inhalation, after …
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The absurdity of hiking oil prices amid lockdown and pandemic
Prabhat Patnaik | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-27
Taxing oil is the worst among all tax options when income sources have dried up. It will have the most deleterious effect on the level of output and employment…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/27/the-absurdity-of-hiking-oil-prices-amid-lockdown-and-pandemic/

Trump Using Pandemic to Wage War on Immigrants and Separate Families
Sonali Kolhatkar | zcomm.org | 2020-06-27
It looks like the president's goal is to make America white…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-using-pandemic-to-wage-war-on-immigrants-and-separate-families/

FROM THE FIELD: 'Major breakthrough' in fight against diseases spread by mosquitos
news.un.org | 2020-06-27
The UN nuclear agency (IAEA) has announced a major breakthrough in the bid to scale up technology designed to suppress disease-carrying mosquitos, and bring dengue, yellow fever and Zika under control.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067202

What will power the post-pandemic global economic recovery?
news.un.org | 2020-06-27
As governments try to kick-start their economies, the UN is calling for recovery plans to be built around low-carbon technologies, to avoid a return to fossil-fuel based business as usual.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067032

"Pandemic II" Is Here & SURPRISE It's YOUR Fault, Mask Hysteria, GM Mosquitoes, BIOMILQ & Bill Gates
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-06-27
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (6/26/20). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/pandemic-2-here-surprise-your-fault-mask-hysteria-gm-mosquitoes-biomilq-bill-gates/

Lessons from the pandemic for the municipalists in Spain
Kate Shea Baird | zcomm.org | 2020-06-27
The pandemic has damaged municipalism in Barcelona, but it has strengthened the municipalist hypothesis itself: our strength must be rooted in togetherness…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/lessons-from-the-pandemic-for-the-municipalists-in-spain/

What will power the post-pandemic global economic recovery?
news.un.org | 2020-06-27
As governments try to kick-start their economies, the UN is calling for recovery plans to be built around low-carbon technologies, to avoid a return to fossil fuel-based business as usual.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067032

Week in Review — June 21st — 27th
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-27
By TruePublica Editor: It's been another dreadful week for Britain's PM Boris Johnson and the wider Tory party — as if that was remotely possible — but succeed they did. The week before, pollsters confirmed that Johnson's handling of the pandemic has not impressed anyone and so new Labour leader Keir Starmer's popularity roared ahead …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/week-in-review-june-21st-27th/

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (Book)
Donna Luca | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-27
nationofchange.org/2020/06/27/rise-of-the-warrior-cop-the-militarization-of-americas-police-forces-book/

The Struggle for No Police in the Los Angeles Schools
Z3K3 | zcomm.org | 2020-06-27
Source: LA Progressive Photo by mikeledray/Shutterstock.com A great leap forward and victory is in sight On Tuesday, June 23, in Los Angeles, the decade's long struggle for No Police in the Schools had a major breakthrough. Los Angeles School Board member Monica Garcia introduced the most structural and hopeful motion to make "defund the police" Read…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-struggle-for-no-police-in-the-los-angeles-schools/

On the picket line
Sue Davis | workers.org | 2020-06-27
Workers stage 540 wildcats in support of BLM in June As of June 19, Payday Report's "Strike Tracking Map" showed 540 wildcat strikes in support of Black Lives Matter in the first three weeks of June. The week of June 8, #ShutDownStem strikes saw academic scientists go on strike at . . . | Continue reading On the picket line at Workers.org…
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Students and workers say: 'Cops off our campus!'
calvin deutschbein | workers.org | 2020-06-27
Abolitionists are renewing their calls to abolish or at least defund campus police departments. This was first raised in Minneapolis, and now the demand is starting in Austin and Dallas, Texas. Campus police departments are rarely less viciously racist than city police and have less predictable behavior, but they are . . . | Continue reading Students and workers say: 'Cops off our campus!' at Workers.org…
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From COVID-19 to climate change, human overpopulation is the big white elephant in the room
Carter Dillard | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-27
Experts warn that continued world population growth will make things worse.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/27/from-covid-19-to-climate-change-human-overpopulation-is-the-big-white-elephant-in-the-room/

How does COVID-19 causes the loss of smell?
Sandipan Talukdar | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-27
One of the myriad effects of COVID-19 is the loss of smell among some of the infected people. Rough estimates show that anywhere between 20% to 80% of the infected people suffer from this symptom. But how this happens still remains an elusive topic for the researchers. The open question is, does the virus enter the brain and impact the smell sensing part of it or does it affect the nose? More so, if the virus enters the brain, how does it do so? | Research and medical assessments hav…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/27/how-does-covid-19-causes-the-loss-of-smell/

Sunday 6/28: 'The Condor & The Eagle' New Film & Discussion on Climate & Indigenous Rights (online)
Unitarian Univeralist Association | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
Online/virtual…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834619.php

End of a Career. Obituary The "Swabian housewife"
Pepe Eggers | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
The "Swabian housewife" dominated politics. Now she is buried by her inventors, of all people. | The state is not a business or a housewife but can borrow and become indebted to help present and future generations. | Systemic change, not climate change! Fight ignorance, not immigrants!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834610.php

Irish parliament elects Micheál Martin as prime minister
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
Micheál Martin was elected as Ireland's new prime minister by parliament on Saturday to head a coalition tasked with tackling the economic repercussions of the coronavirus crisis and moving fast on climate action as demanded by its smallest member, the Greens.Martin's Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, Ireland's two dominant centre-right parties who have swapped power since emerging from opposing sides of Ireland's 1920s civil war, will rule together for the first time in the three-party government.Martin, who has held several senior ministries including health, trade, foreign affairs and education in previous administra…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irish-parliament-elects-michel-martin-as-prime-minister-3533098

Tehran Blast Took Place at Missile Production Facility, News Agency Claims, Citing Satellite Images
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-27
A large explosion woke up the residents of the Iranian capital with a huge dawn-like blaze seen to the east of the city. The blast, officially attributed to an explosion of a leaky gas tank, shattered windows in some buildings, but ultimately resulted in no casualties.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006271079736882-tehran-blast-took-place-at-missile-production-facility-news-agency-claims-citing-satellite-images/

Economic crisis deepens as pandemic surges
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-27
San José, CA – For the second week in a row, new applications for state unemployment insurance or UI did not drop by much, despite economists' expectations. New claims for the week ending June 20 were 1.48 million, down only 28,000 from last week's initial estimate. New applications for the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, fell by 42,000 to 728,000 last week. Together the PUA and state unemployment insurance applications topped 2.2 million, only slightly lower than the 2.27 million total for the week before. | Continuing claims for state unemployment insurance, PUA, the Federal Pandemic Emergency…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/26/economic-crisis-deepens-pandemic-surges

Economic crisis deepens as pandemic surges
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-27
San José, CA – For the second week in a row, new applications for state unemployment insurance or UI did not drop by much, despite economists' expectations. New claims for the week ending June 20 were 1.48 million, down only 28,000 from last week's initial estimate. New applications for the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, fell by 42,000 to 728,000 last week. Together the PUA and state unemployment insurance applications topped 2.2 million, only slightly lower than the 2.27 million total for the week before. | Continuing claims for state unemployment insurance, PUA, the Federal Pandemic Emergency…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/26/economic-crisis-deepens-pandemic-surges

People's Strike: An Open Letter To All Forces Fighting For Our Lives
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-27
The "normal" world roiled by this pandemic is deeply unequal, inequitable, exploitative, extractive, and repressive. It is deeply fractured around capitalist colonialism, racial oppression, gender, sexuality, nationality, and religion. It is this real world dystopia that has led to the needless death of more than 115,000 people in the United States of COVID-19, with at least 25,00 new infections daily. The vast majority of the infected and dead are Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. In the midst of the pandemic, it is this dystopian world that right-wing Republicans and neoliberal Democrats are determined to fo…
popularresistance.org/peoples-strike-an-open-letter-to-all-forces-fighting-for-our-lives/

The Pandemic As Part Of A Much Broader Crisis Of Civilisation
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-27
Covid-19 was first identified in November 2019 in the city of Wuhan. It is an infectious disease caused by a virus which is highly likely to have 'jumped' from a horseshoe bat to a human. This is widely known and yet it is striking how little is said about the actual implications. What are the impacts for us when humans can contract deadly diseases from animals? Is this normal? Or is it an isolated incident? | Sadly, such cases of viruses being transmitted to humans from vertebrates are certainly no exception. 60% of infectious diseases that affect humans originate from vertebrates. These are known as 'zoonotic'…
popularresistance.org/the-pandemic-as-part-of-a-much-broader-crisis-of-civilisation/

Bipartisan Crimes Against Humanity In The United States
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-27
Hundreds of people are unnecessarily dying every day with African Americans representing a disproportionate number of those deaths. Eighty million people are now without health coverage, millions are unemployed, over the next two months evictions will resume with an expected explosion of homelessness. And what is the response from the state that is tasked with the responsibility to promote and protect the fundamental human rights of its population? | While trillions of dollars were transferred to the corporate sector though the CARES Act meant to support the economy through the crisis, the state continues to igno…
popularresistance.org/bipartisan-crimes-against-humanity-in-the-united-states/

Why Is This Ongoing American "Revolution" Bound To Fail?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-27
Observed from outer space, the United States is in a revolutionary turmoil. Fires are burning, thousands of people are confronting police and other security forces. There are barricades, banners, posters, and there is rage. | Rage is well justified. Grievances run deep, through the veins of a confused and socially insecure population, in both cities and the countryside. Minorities feel and actually are oppressed. Indeed they have been disgracefully oppressed, since the birth of the country, over two centuries ago (see my latest report carried by this magazine). | There are some correct words uttered and written…
popularresistance.org/why-is-this-ongoing-american-revolution-bound-to-fail/

Postal Workers caravan delivers 2 million 'Save USPS' petitions to Washington
Mark Gruenberg | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
WASHINGTON–[June 23] Snaking its way from the Washington Navy Yard to the U.S. Senate, a caravan of cars driven by Postal Workers delivered petitions with two million names on them, demanding lawmakers enact the Heroes Act, including its $25 billion to save the U.S. Postal Service from financial devastation the coronavirus has caused to its revenues and potential subsequent collapse.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/25/18834578.php

Malaysia COVID-19 cases drop to 191
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
The number of active novel coronavirus cases dropped to 191 in Malaysia, according to health officials.General Directorate of Malaysian Health Ministry said cases increased to 8,606 with six additional infections while recoveries reached 8,294 with 23 patients leaving hospitals.A total of 121 patients died from the virus and the country did not report any deaths in the last 13 days.Malaysia has reported a single-digit case increase for the last four days and hopes to announce the stop of the spread of the virus in July.As part of COVID-19 measures, it declared a curfew March 18 and the normalization process began…
yenisafak.com/en/world/malaysia-covid-19-cases-drop-to-191-3533094

Turkey says close to 170,000 people recovered from COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
A total of 1,984 people beat COVID-19 over the past day, bringing the overall count to 169,182, Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter, citing the Health Ministry data."The number of recoveries is 612 more than the number of infected people. This number was 96 yesterday," Koca noted.The country's death toll from the virus rose to 5,082, as it reported 17 new fatalities in the past 24 hours.Some 984 patients remain in intensive care, added Koca.Health care professionals conducted 45,213 tests for the disease in the past day, raising the total count to over 3.23 million.According to the test results, the total number of in…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-says-close-to-170000-people-recovered-from-covid-19-3533103

Iran reports 125 more fatalities from coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
Iran on Saturday confirmed 125 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus, bringing the nationwide death toll to 10,364.A further 2,456 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 220,180, Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said.She added that a total of 180,661 people have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, adding that 2,928 patients remain in critical condition.Over 1.58 million tests have been conducted in the country to date, Lari noted.Since originating in China last December, the pandemic has claimed over 494,400 lives in 188 countries and regions.More than 9…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iran-reports-125-more-fatalities-from-coronavirus-3533087

Ethiopia to begin filling Nile dam in 2 weeks
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
Ethiopia will start filling its $5 billion hydroelectric dam on the Nile in two weeks, the government said on Saturday.The announcement came after an online summit of the leaders of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt convened by the African Union (AU) for negotiations on guidelines for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).A statement by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office said the three countries have agreed to continue the dialogue and reach a deal within the next two weeks."Ethiopia is scheduled to begin filling the GERD within the next two weeks, during which the remaining construction work will continue. It is i…
yenisafak.com/en/world/ethiopia-to-begin-filling-nile-dam-in-2-weeks-3533095

EU holds off decision on borders, Americans set to be excluded
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
European Union countries failed to settle on Friday on a final "safe list" of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July, with the United States, Brazil and Russia set to be excluded.Ambassadors from the 27 EU members convened from Friday afternoon to establish criteria for granting quarantine-free access from next Wednesday.A redrawn text of 10-20 countries was put to them, but many said they needed to consult first with their governments, diplomats said. The list did not include the United States, Brazil or Russia, one diplomat said.Discussions were continuing overnight, with the EU countries…
yenisafak.com/en/world/eu-holds-off-decision-on-borders-americans-set-to-be-excluded-3533090

'Existing tensions surfacing in new China-India row'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
The recent clashes between China and India are a manifestation of long-standing tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, according to an expert on South Asian geopolitics."The Himalayan border problem between Pakistan, India, and China is not a new issue — it goes back at least 70 years," Umit Alperen, a researcher and professor, said in an online discussion with Cemal Demir, head of the Istanbul-based South Asia Strategic Research Center (GASAM).China and India's military clash can be seen as the surfacing of a tension that has been there for some time, and an escalation accelerated by domestic, r…
yenisafak.com/en/world/existing-tensions-surfacing-in-new-china-india-row-3533099

Africa's coronavirus cases near 360,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
The number of coronavirus cases in Africa has reached 359,408, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday.The death toll has risen to 9,283. The number of patients who have recovered hit 173,057.South Africa is the worst affected in terms of cases with a whopping 124,600, while Egypt follows with 62,800.Nigeria in West Africa recorded 23,300 cases, Cameroon in Central Africa 12,600 and Sudan in East Africa 9,300.Egypt leads in terms of deaths losing 2,600 people to the virus, South Africa 2,300, Sudan 572, Nigeria 554 and Cameroon 313.Southern Africa registered 129,700 cases, 2,400 fat…
yenisafak.com/en/world/africas-coronavirus-cases-near-360000-3533086

Czech coronavirus cases rise just as holidays start
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
The Czech Republic recorded 168 new cases of the coronavirus on Friday, authorities said, the highest daily rise in cases since early April just as the country is starting the two-month summer holiday season.It was also the fourth day of the last 10 showing a daily increase of more than 100. Over the past week, the eastern region of Karvina has been by far the most affected by the rise in cases, according to the Health Ministry website.Friday was the last day of school for most children and students, with their families getting ready for the holidays. Many Czechs will spend their holidays in the country rather th…
yenisafak.com/en/world/czech-coronavirus-cases-rise-just-as-holidays-start-3533088

Italy sends army to seal off southern cluster of virus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
Earlier this week, regional authorities ordered to quarantine the buildings and put about 700 inhabitants — mainly Bulgarians and Roma — under lockdown for 15 days.After executing more than 740 swab tests, 43 of the buildings' residents tested positive for coronavirus, the regional governor said on Friday. He pledged tough security measures to stop the outbreak and keep all residents inside the red zone.As police forces surrounded the area two days ago, tensions spiked between the buildings' inhabitants, who live in precarious conditions and rely mainly on seasonal work, and some of Mondragone's residents, who…
yenisafak.com/en/world/italy-sends-army-to-seal-off-southern-cluster-of-virus-3533093

Italy sends army to seal off southern cluster of virus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
The Italian government sent soldiers on Friday to isolate a group of buildings in the southern town of Mondragone, where a new cluster of coronavirus among seasonal workers has sparked clashes with residents.Earlier this week, regional authorities ordered to quarantine the buildings and put about 700 inhabitants — mainly Bulgarians and Roma — under lockdown for 15 days.After executing more than 740 swab tests, 43 of the buildings' residents tested positive for coronavirus, the regional governor said on Friday. He pledged tough security measures to stop the outbreak and keep all residents inside the red zone.As…
yenisafak.com/en/world/italy-sends-army-to-seal-off-southern-cluster-of-virus-3533093

Indonesia reports biggest daily rise in coronavirus infections with 1,385 cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
Indonesia on Saturday reported its biggest daily increase in coronavirus infections with 1,385 new cases, taking the total to 52,812, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said.Yurianto also said there had been 37 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking the total number of fatalities to 2,720.Separately, local authorities said that nine people aboard a flight from Indonesia to Cambodia tested positive after reaching Cambodia. Of them, one was Indonesian and eight Cambodians.
yenisafak.com/en/world/indonesia-reports-biggest-daily-rise-in-coronavirus-infections-with-1385-cases-3533079

Turkish industries operated during pandemic, says Erdogan
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
Turkish industries have continued production to a large extent even during the pandemic, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.Speaking during the launch ceremony of an environmental project via video link, Erdogan said: "Our industries continued production to a large extent, even during the pandemic. I believe in the next phase, we can make up for our production losses during the pandemic."The project aims to stop pollution and improve agriculture in the surrounding areas in the Marmara region, northwestern Turkey.Erdogan said 520 new factories in organized industrial sites were opened in the first fiv…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-industries-operated-during-pandemic-says-erdogan-3533101

Turkish forces discover 2 PKK winter hideouts
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
A terrorist in the custody of Turkish security forces revealed the location of 2 PKK terror group's winter hideouts.The terrorist, identified by the initials M.A. with the codename Mervan, was nabbed on June 20 in the southeastern province of Adiyaman.In an operation on June 25-26, nine different places were searched.Along with the two hideouts, a rag of the terror group, a stove, a solar panel, six batteries, 400 meters of copper wire, 75 small batteries, documents belonging to the organization and many life supplies were seized.In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terr…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-forces-discover-2-pkk-winter-hideouts-3533083

Cricket: Pakistan to arrive in England on Sunday, then quarantine
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-27
Pakistan's team will arrive in England on Sunday before entering a two-week quarantine period ahead of their tour, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Friday.Three test matches and three T20 internationals are scheduled behind closed doors."They will start a 14-day isolation period at Blackfinch New Road, Worcester before transferring to Derbyshire's The Incora County Ground on July 13 to accelerate their preparation ahead of the first Test, which will include two four-day internal warm-up matches," an ECB statement said.The Pakistan Cricket Board said on Tuesday that a total of 10 players, includin…
yenisafak.com/en/sports/cricket-pakistan-to-arrive-in-england-on-sunday-then-quarantine-3533089

Tired of 'Reality TV-Presidency': Pundits Explain Biden's Sudden Popularity in Swing States
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-27
While Trump has already won a presidential election once despite polls suggesting he would be defeated, the discrepancy in numbers between him and his opponent, Joe Biden, is currently far greater than in 2016 between Trump and Clinton, meaning that POTUS might not succeed this time even with the Electoral College.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202006271079736086-tired-of-reality-tv-presidency-pundits-explain-bidens-sudden-popularity-in-swing-states/

Bolton Claims Case Against Huawei's CFO Not Politically Motivated, Ready to Testify to Prove It
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-27
The memoir of Trump's former national security adviser has already made a lot of noise over claims questioning POTUS' ability to govern the nation, but now the book is starting to affect the US case against a top Huawei executive, whose legal defence is intending to use the memoir in her favour.
sputniknews.com/us/202006271079736369-bolton-claims-case-against-huaweis-cfo-not-politically-motivated-ready-to-testify-to-prove-it/

Coca-Cola Says It's Pausing Social Media Advertising Amid Push to Deal With Racist Online Content
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-27
Quite a few corporate giants, like Unilever, Levi's, and Hershey's, have gone down the path of partially or fully freezing ad spending, in a bid to push social media platforms like Facebook to revise its policies over hate content.
sputniknews.com/us/202006271079734005-coca-cola-says-its-pausing-social-media-advertising-amid-push-to-deal-with-racist-online-content/

Glasgow Attacker Was Allegedly Sudanese National Who Threatened to Stab People, Reports Say
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-27
Six people, including one police officer, were injured in Glasgow, Scotland, in a knife attack, Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson said on 26 June. The police don't consider the stabbing a terrorist attack.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006271079736048-glasgow-attacker-was-allegedly-sudanese-national-who-threatened-to-stab-people/

Japan Awards First-Ever Ninja Studies Degree
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-27
A Japanese university has awarded the first-ever degree in ninja studies.
sputniknews.com/asia/202006271079732730-japan-awards-first-ever-ninja-studies-degree/

Dolphins Teach Each Other How to Become Better Hunters Using Tools, New Study Claims
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-27
They are one of the most intelligent animals in the world, with a complex form of communication, and are capable of self-awareness. Scientists know that the aquatic mammals use tools to play games and even to catch prey, something researchers think they are taught by their mothers.
sputniknews.com/science/202006271079734780-dolphins-teach-each-other-how-to-become-better-hunters-using-tools-new-study-claims/

COVID-19 cases surpass 220,000 in Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) — The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infected 2,456 people and claimed the lives of 125 patients in the past day, a senior health official said.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160241/COVID-19-cases-surpass-220-000-in-Iran

US, Europe back crimes of MEK: Mousavi
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi described the United States and Europe as a supporter of the crimes committed by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), that was responsible for assassination of Ayatollah Beheshti in 1981.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160237/US-Europe-back-crimes-of-MEK-Mousavi

Trump's talks offer with Venezuela, Iran doesn't mean policy shift: Argentinian Prof
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The head of the International Relations Area for the Observatory of International Trade at the National University of Lujan in Argentina believes that US hostile policies toward Iran and Venezuela will continue despite Donald Trump's willingness to talk with Tehran and Caracas.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160225/Trump-s-talks-offer-with-Venezuela-Iran-doesn-t-mean-policy

World Refugee Day: time for rally around Iran on humanitarian purposes
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — As I read the new Global Trends report issued last week from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, I cannot help but feel worried. 1 in 97 people worldwide has been forced to flee their homes. This represents 79.5 million people forcibly displaced in and out of their countries at the end of 2019 — an unprecedented number.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160250/World-Refugee-Day-time-for-rally-around-Iran-on-humanitarian

Indian bank eyes non-oil imports from Iran to sustain rupee-rial trade
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) — India's UCO Bank is exploring the avenues to keep the rupee payment mechanism with Iran alive, amid the challenges made by the US' unilateral sanctions.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160238/Indian-bank-eyes-non-oil-imports-from-Iran-to-sustain-rupee-rial

Iran ranks second in plasma therapy: IBTO
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) — CEO of the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization said that Iran is ranked as the second country for conducting the Convalescent Plasma Therapy plan, while the US falls one step behind Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160246/Iran-ranks-second-in-plasma-therapy-IBTO

So-called 'maximum pressure' to hit enemies themselves: Leader
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that enemies' efforts to bring the Iranian nation to its knees is futile.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160240/So-called-maximum-pressure-to-hit-enemies-themselves-Leader

Police seize over 1.4 tons of narcotics in Iran's Saravan
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) — Police forces of Sistan and Baluchestan have confiscated over 1.4 tons of illicit drugs in Saravan County, said the police chief on Saturday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160235/Police-seize-over-1-4-tons-of-narcotics-in-Iran-s-Saravan

Iran accounts for 90% of global opium confiscation
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Commander of the Border Guard of the Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran (NAJA) Second Brigadier General Ahmad Ali Goudarzi said on Sat. that Iran accounts for 90% of global opium confiscation.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160228/Iran-accounts-for-90-of-global-opium-confiscation

Police seize over 161 kg of illicit drugs in SW Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The anti-narcotics police forces of Iran's southwestern province of Bushehr have seized over 161 kilograms of different illicit drugs.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160260/Police-seize-over-161-kg-of-illicit-drugs-in-SW-Iran

Attack on Iraq's resistance HQ, failed plan for dismantling 'Hash al-Sha'abi'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The recent attack on Iraq's Hashd al-Sha'abi [Popular Mobilization Unit, PMU] Headquarters was aimed at conducting preparatory operations to assess the availability of conditions for dismantling this group.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160232/Attack-on-Iraq-s-resistance-HQ-failed-plan-for-dismantling-Hash

Hashd al-Sha'abi launches anti-ISIL operation in E Iraq
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) — Iraqi PMU, better known as Hashd al-Sha'abi announced on Saturday that the forces have launched an anti-ISIL operation in Diyala province.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160243/Hashd-al-Sha-abi-launches-anti-ISIL-operation-in-E-Iraq

Leader holds video conf. meeting with Judiciary officials
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) — On the occasion of the National Judiciary Week Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei held a meeting via videoconference with a number of Judiciary officials on Saturday.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160236/Leader-holds-video-conf-meeting-with-Judiciary-officials

EU rejects US lawmakers' call to designate Hezbollah as terrorist org
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-27
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) — European Union has rejected the call by a group of US senators to designate all of Hezbollah a terrorist organization and ban its activities in the continent.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160239/EU-rejects-US-lawmakers-call-to-designate-Hezbollah-as-terrorist

The Heat: Former U.S. Natl. Security Adviser's controversial memoir
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-06-27
As the title claims — John Bolton was in "the room where it happened." The Heat goes inside the pages of the former U.S. National Security Adviser's White House memoir.
america.cgtn.com/2020/06/27/the-heat-former-u-s-natl-security-advisers-controversial-memoir

Zuckerberg loses $7.2 BILLION after corporate ad boycott pressing Facebook to police 'hate speech'
rt.com | 2020-06-27
Plummeting Facebook shares have wiped out billions of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth. The impetus? Corporations such as Coca-Cola and Verizon have pulled their ads, demanding that Facebook censor hate speech. | Zuckerberg lost $7.2 billion, after Facebook's shares fell by 8.3 percent on Friday, Bloomberg reported. The dive in value happened after Unilever, one of the largest advertisers in the world, joined the list of major companies that suspended their ad campaigns on Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram. At around the same time, Coca-Cola said it was also pulling all its social-media ad…
rt.com/usa/493116-zuckerberg-facebook-boycott-ads/

Neil Ferguson on scientific advice, lockdown and countering new outbreaks
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-27
The UK may need "targeted" interventions to suppress coronavirus flare-ups as lockdown eases, says the head of Imperial's COVID-19 Response Team.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198773/neil-ferguson-scientific-advice-lockdown-countering

US states reverse reopening measures as coronavirus cases hit record high
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-27
Texas and Florida have clamped down on bars as the number of confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases per day in the US surged to an all-time high of 40,000.Texas governor Greg Abbott ordered all bars to close, while Florida banned alcohol at all such establishments.Health experts have said a disturbingly large number of cases are being seen among young people who are going out again, often without wearing masks or observing other social-distancing rules. Abbott said: It is clear that the rise in cases is largely driven by certain types of activities, including Texans congregating in bars. | New data from our Corona…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/27/us-states-reverse-reopening-measures-as-coronavirus-cases-hit-record-high/

US states reverse reopening measures as coronavirus cases hit record high
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-27
Texas and Florida have clamped down on bars as the number of confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases per day in the US surged to an all-time high of 40,000.Texas governor Greg Abbott ordered all bars to close, while Florida banned alcohol at all such establishments.Health experts have said a disturbingly large number of cases are being seen among young people who are going out again, often without wearing masks or observing other social-distancing rules. Abbott said: It is clear that the rise in cases is largely driven by certain types of activities, including Texans congregating in bars. | t.co/HjottZHYQO
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/27/us-states-reverse-reopening-measures-as-coronavirus-cases-hit-record-high/

Mother of murder victims says Met police officers 'dehumanised' her daughters by taking selfies at crime scene
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-27
The mother of two sisters who were murdered in a London park has criticised the Metropolitan Police after officers allegedly shared "inappropriate" photographs of the crime scene.Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, are believed to have been stabbed to death by a stranger at Fryent Country Park in north-west London. The incident occurred in the early hours of 6 June.Flowers at an entrance to Fryent Country Park following the murder (Dominic Lipinski/PA)While no one has been charged with their murder, two police officers have been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office. They were arrested afte…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/27/mother-of-murder-victims-says-met-police-officers-dehumanised-her-daughters-by-taking-selfies-at-crime-scene/

Undocumented Survivors Have Long Lived in Limbo. COVID-19 Is Making It Worse
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-27
Anna had recently given birth to her second daughter when two tall, masked strangers broke into her home in East-Central Texas. On that evening in early July 2010, the burglars came in through a backdoor and held a gun against Anna's head. One of them covered her mouth, telling her not to make a noise or they would shoot. The little girls started crying as they held onto their mother tightly. Anna, who is originally from Pakistan and asked to be identified by a pseudonym due to fears about he…
truthout.org/articles/undocumented-survivors-have-long-lived-in-limbo-covid-19-is-making-it-worse/

Corporations Avoid Billions in Taxes While Funding Police Foundations
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-27
Last week we reported on some of the major corporations that fund police foundations across the US, even as these very same corporations tout their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. But there's even more to this story: many of these corporate backers of the police pay no federal income taxes while receiving billions in corporate subsidies. As calls to defund…
truthout.org/articles/corporations-avoid-billions-in-taxes-while-funding-police-foundations/

House Fails to Override Trump's Student Loan Forgiveness Veto
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-27
The House of Representatives failed Friday to override President Donald Trump's veto of a bipartisan bill which would have restored Obama-era regulations to the student loan borrower defense program. | Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sought for years to dismantle the program, which offered financial relief to students deceived or defrau…
truthout.org/articles/house-fails-to-override-trumps-student-loan-forgiveness-veto/

Racial-communalist politics and the second assassination of Abraham Lincoln
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
To disrupt working-class and youth solidarity, the two capitalist parties and various reactionary elements in the upper-middle class are stooping to new lows to promote racial divisions.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/25/18834581.php

Thursday 7/2: Tackling Anti-Blackness in Immigrant Communities Discussion w/ United We Dream
United We Dream & others | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834612.php

WorkWeek On Police Unions, Police Terror, The AFL-CIO And Labor
WorkWeek | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
WorkWeek looks at the role of the police, police terror, labor and the AFL-CIO. The police have been expelled from the MLK Jr. Labor Council in Seattle after a debate and participants discuss the issue. Also WorkWeek looks at termination of Chicago ATU 241 bus driver and Executive Board member Erek Slater.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834620.php

Saturday 7/4: July 4th: INDEPENDENCE from WAR! Banner Drops
TOBY | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
I-80 Pedestrian Bridge, just south of University Ave. | Meet up in parking lot in southwest corner of I-80 & University Ave. at 9: 50am.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/27/18834655.php

First Municipal Ban on Predictive Policing in Santa Cruz
Oakland Privacy | indybay.org | 2020-06-27
On June 23, the Santa Cruz City Council voted 7-0 to ban the municipal use of predictive policing software and facial recognition technology in the central coast city. Santa Cruz becomes the eighth city to ban the use of facial recognition, joining San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley and the MA cities of Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline and Northampton, and the first city to ban predictive software.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834608.php

Now Is the Time to Shed Our Middle Eastern Burdens
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-27
Washington's decades-long obsessive hostility toward Iran has produced toxic results. It's apparent that the European allies increasingly chafe at that policy and want a change. Until now, the close U.S. ties with Saudi Arabia inhibited any chance of a meaningful policy change, despite European wishes for a more balanced stance toward Iran.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/27/now-is-the-time-to-shed-our-middle-eastern-burdens/

Racism and the Neoliberal Consensus
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
In the midst of protests and the reinvigorated Black Lives Matter movement, race is once again being put forward as the social axis most in need of rectification. From the perspective of 'racial capital,' the ills of capitalism can't be meaningfully addressed until white supremacy has been defeated. From a left perspective grounded in Marx and history, race is a product of capitalism, not its cause. The economic relationships of indentured servitude and slavery both preceded the concept of race. And the iterative view begins with economic relationships to claim that at some point race became a causal factor in it…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/racism-and-the-neoliberal-consensus/

Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx: 'Death to Slavery'
John Wight | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
On page 405 of the folio edition of the writings and speeches of Abraham Lincoln there is a letter dated January 19 1863. It is titled "To the Workingmen of Manchester, England" and begins: "I have the honor to acknowledge …
globalresearch.ca/abraham-lincoln-karl-marx-death-slavery/5717111

New US Anti-China Measure: Towards Rupture and Confrontation with China
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
Both right wings of the US one-party state are pushing things toward rupturing relations with China, risking direct confrontation. | The so-called Hong Kong Autonomy Act (HKAA) is the latest shoe to drop. | Unanimously approved by the Senate on Thursday, it's …
globalresearch.ca/new-us-anti-china-measure-towards-rupture-and-confrontation-with-china/5717126

Video: Clashes Rage Between Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham and Other Al-Qaeda Groups in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
After two days of fighting with militants from the rival militant coalition Fa Ithbatu, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has launched a large-scale attack in order to put an end to the resistance to its dominance in Greater Idlib. | According to pro-militant …
globalresearch.ca/video-clashes-rage-between-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-al-qaeda-groups-idlib/5717061

Progressives Must Fight With — and In — the Democratic Party
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
Gov. Newsom Should Give Democracy a Chance…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/25/18834580.php

Scheer Intelligence: For Many Young People, Socialism Is As American As Apple Pie
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-26
In the devastating aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, many young Americans who felt betrayed by capitalism were introduced to socialism by Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns. Meagan Day, a staff writer for the popular left-wing magazine Jacobin and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), serves as an example of how the Vermont senator radicalized a generation with a platform that called for policies like Medicare for All and tuition-free college. Day credits Sanders with her decision to choose socialism when she felt the time came to "pick a side" in American politics and has since been w…
popularresistance.org/scheer-intelligence-for-many-young-people-socialism-is-as-american-as-apple-pie/

How Is Biden Different From Trump When It Comes To Palestine?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-26
Biden pledges to keep the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, boasts of "unstinting support" for Israel, promises to fight the BDS movement and send military aid, and spins it as a way to somehow fight anti-Semitism in the U.S.
therealnews.com/stories/how-is-biden-different-from-trump-palestine

PDF of June 25 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-06-26
Download the 12-page PDF. Juneteenth: Racist cops, statues under siege; Finishing the unfinished revolution Black Trans Lives Matter; Uprising vs. cops and more; Tulsa reparations, 1921 to 2020; Workers resist racism, union-busting; Indigenous-Black solidarity; Colonizers, enslavers toppled; ILWU shuts down West Coast; Stop police terror! Palestine to U.S.; WORLD: Virus . . . | Continue reading PDF of June 25 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49647/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-june-25-issue

PA Political Circus: Why Abbas Must Hand the Keys over to the PLO
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political body that holds much sway or relevance, either to the Palestinian people or to Abbas' former benefactors, namely the Israeli and the American governments. So, when the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh, announced on…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/pa-political-circus-why-abbas-must-hand-the-keys-over-to-the-plo/

Sanders Unveils Amendment to Slash Pentagon Budget by $74 Billion
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-26
With the Senate preparing to vote on an annual defense policy bill calling for $740.5 billion in military spending for fiscal year 2021, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday delivered a floor speech in support of his new amendment aiming to cut the proposed Pentagon budget by 10% — a…
truthout.org/articles/sanders-unveils-amendment-to-slash-pentagon-budget-by-74-billion/

Resist Evictions and Foreclosures
Ted Rall | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
COVID-19 has created the ideal medium for a summer of continuous protest. Political protest demonstrations used to be weekend affairs in which angry leftists shouted at empty government offices before shuffling home Sunday afternoon to gear up for the workweek. With out of four workers having filed for unemployment and many more working from home, tens of…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/resist-evictions-and-foreclosures/

The Struggle for No Police in the Los Angeles Schools: a Great Leap Forward and Victory is in Sight
Eric Mann | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
On Tuesday, June 23, in Los Angeles, the decade's long struggle for No Police in the Schools had a major breakthrough. Los Angeles School Board member Monica Garcia introduced the most structural and hopeful motion to make "defund the police" a reality. Her motion, expressing gratitude to the national Black uprising, called for cutting the…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/the-struggle-for-no-police-in-the-los-angeles-schools-a-great-leap-forward-and-victory-is-in-sight/

UN Warns Many Will "Starve to Death" in Yemen as Saudi Fuel Blockade Hinders COVID-19 Battle
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-26
According to the Yemen Oil Company, at least 15 tankers carrying over 419,789 tons of fuel have been trapped at sea for over a month despite being checked and issued permits by both the Saudi-led Coalition and the UN, plunging Yemen into an unprecedented fuel shortage.
mintpressnews.com/houthi-officials-say-recent-attacks-on-saudi-arabia-are-retaliation-for-deadly-oil-blockade/268990/

Joe Biden Should Not Try to Out-Hawk Trump on Venezuela
David Smilde | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
Thousands gather in Caracas to protest Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. April 2019 (Photo: Helena1 / Shutterstock.com) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-06-26_at_11.10.04_am.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/26/joe-biden-should-not-try-out-hawk-trump-venezuela?cd-origin=rss

Geopolitical Destabilization: India's US-Backed "Decoupling" from China Is a Very Dangerous Development
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
For all intents and purposes, India seems to have unofficially decided to "decouple" itself from its "fellow" BRICS and SCO "partner" China, but this US-backed development is dangerous since the South Asian state might not be able to survive the …
globalresearch.ca/india-us-backed-decoupling-china-very-dangerous-development/5717070

The End of Asylum? Supreme Court Sides with Trump Administration on Fast-Tracking Deportations
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-26
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory Thursday when it ruled the government can fast-track deportations of asylum seekers without first allowing them to fight for their cases in front of a judge. The ACLU's Lee Gelernt argued the case in court on behalf of Tamil asylum seeker Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam. "It's a very serious decision and will adversely affect many, many asylum seekers," says Gelernt.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/26/scotus_ruling_fast_track_asylum_seeker

In Racial Justice Victory, Johnson & Johnson to Pay $2B to Women in Asbestos-Laced Baby Powder Suit
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-26
Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $2.1 billion to a group of women who developed ovarian cancer after using talcum powder contaminated with asbestos. Johnson & Johnson heavily marketed the powder to African American women despite warnings that the products could cause cancer. Six of the plaintiffs in the Johnson & Johnson case died before the trial started. Five more of the women have died since 2018. We get response from M. Isabelle Chaudry, senior policy manager at the National Women's Health Network, who says the company must ban the products globally and do more to address the harm it has caused, part…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/26/johnson_johnson_talcum_products_asbestos

One Bad Algorithm? Advocates Say Facial Recognition Reveals Systemic Racism in AI Technology
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-26
The controversy over police use of facial recognition technology has accelerated after a Black man in Michigan revealed he was wrongfully arrested because of the technology. Detroit police handcuffed Robert Williams in front of his wife and daughters after facial recognition software falsely identified him as a suspect in a robbery. Researchers say facial recognition software is up to 100 times more likely to misidentify people of color than white people. This week, Boston voted to end its use in the city, and Democratic lawmakers introduced a similar measure for federal law enforcement. "This is not an example o…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/26/racist_facial_recognition_technology_joy_buolamwini

Belgian parliament urges sanctions against Israel
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
The Belgian federal parliament adopted a resolution on Friday urging the government to prepare a list of countermeasures against Israel in case it annexes the occupied Palestinian territories.The resolution was proposed by the Green party, and passed with 101 votes in favor and 39 abstentions.The text calls the government to "play a leading role at European and multilateral level in order to set up a list of effective countermeasures to respond proportionately to any Israeli annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory."The resolution acknowledges the fact that some states might veto EU sanctions. So it sugge…
yenisafak.com/en/world/belgian-parliament-urges-sanctions-against-israel-3533031

War Crimes: US Destruction of North Korea Must Not be Forgotten
Brett Wilkins | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
For a brief moment in the summer of 1945 there was joy in Korea. | Koreans, who had suffered 35 years of of brutal Japanese colonial occupation prior to Tokyo's defeat in World War II, celebrated what they believed was their …
globalresearch.ca/us-destruction-north-korea-must-not-be-forgotten/5717079

Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration on Fast-Tracking Deportations
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-26
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory Thursday when it ruled the government can fast-track deportations of asylum seekers without first allowing them to fight for their cases in front of a judge. The ACLU's Lee Gelernt argued the case in court on behalf of Tamil asylum seeker Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam. "It's a very serious decision and will adversely affect many, many asylum seekers," says Gelernt.
truthout.org/video/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-administration-on-fast-tracking-deportations/

20 Million Could Lose Health Coverage As Trump Aims to End Obamacare
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-26
The Trump administration filed a late-evening briefing to the United States Supreme Court on Thursday, joining a number of states urging justices to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the signature health care law passed by the Obama administration. | Repeal of the ACA, which is sometimes called "Obamacare," could cause significant harm to the American people, particularly those who depend on the program to access health insurance through state exchanges. If the law were to end suddenly, it's es…
truthout.org/articles/20-million-could-lose-health-coverage-as-trump-aims-to-end-obamacare/

The Dangerous Incompetence of Narendra Modi and Jair Bolsonaro
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-06-26
Alarming news about the COVID-19 disease comes from Brazil and India, where the infection numbers are high, and the death count grows steadily…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-dangerous-incompetence-of-narendra-modi-and-jair-bolsonaro/

The Killing of Ahmad Erekat by Israeli Police Puts Western Media Bias on Full Display
Kathryn Shihadah | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-26
At a time when the world is crying out for justice, it behooves Israel to reverse its destructive policies toward Palestinians — and responsible journalism to ignore the bullies and tell the truth.
mintpressnews.com/killing-ahmad-erekat-israel-police-western-media-bias/269020/

Battleground States: The Time for Manufacturing Weapons of War Has Passed as a Viable Industry for Our Nation
Kathy Kelly | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
Promotional image of the Italian frigate the U.S. Navy is adapting for construction at Marinette. (Photo: Fincantieri) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-06-26_at_10.20.38_am.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/26/battleground-states-time-manufacturing-weapons-war-has-passed-viable-industry-our?cd-origin=rss

Manufacturing Weapons Isn't an Industry–It's a Death Sentence
Kathy Kelly | progressive.org | 2020-06-26
Trump visited a shipyard in Wisconsin this week to christen a new fleet of high-tech warships.
progressive.org/dispatches/manufacturing-weapons-death-sentence-kelly-200626/

Is America a Failed State? Trump's COVID Response Has Many Saying "Yes"
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-26
Evident by its response to COVID-19, its brutal crackdown on racial-justice protesters, and its inability to hold free and fair elections, experts are in agreement: the United States is a nation in decline.
mintpressnews.com/united-states-failed-state-trump-covid-19-response-has-many-saying-yes/268965/

Activists Urge US Dept of Agriculutre to Deny Deadly New Monsanto GMO-Herbicide Combo
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-26
The US is considering approving the product even as Monsanto juggles multiple multi-million dollar lawsuits from cancer patients over its deadly Roundup herbicide.
mintpressnews.com/activists-urge-department-of-agriculture-deny-monsanto-gmo-herbicide-combo/268979/

How Racism is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
U.S. capitalism survived because it found a solution to the basic problem of its instability, its business cycles. Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their awful effects, its survival required making those effects somehow socially tolerable. Systemic racism survived in…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/how-racism-is-an-essential-tool-for-maintaining-the-capitalist-order/

Imran Khan on Pakistani-US Relations: 'We Will Not Fight Their War'
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-26
New Delhi (Sputnik): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday took credit for holding successful peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban on behalf of the US, stating that the world has acknowledged Islamabad's efforts toward reconciliation in the region.
sputniknews.com/world/202006261079719292-imran-khan-on-pakistani-us-relations-we-will-not-fight-their-war/

Saturday 7/4: 4th of July SF Car Caravan: "Defund Police, Defund Pentagon, Fund Life!"
Codepink, Extiction Rebellion, VFP, more | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
Meet up 2pm at SF City Hall, Polk St. between Grove & McAllister; Caravan to Stop 1: Defund Police, Black Lives Matter street painting, Fulton & Webster; Caravan to Stop 2: Defund Pentagon, Nancy Pelosi's House, Broadway @ Divisadero; Caravan to Stop 3: Fund Life!, Bayview Hunters Point.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/25/18834600.php

The War That Time Forgot
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
I hear it all the time. The most crucial decision of this century was the vote to go to war against Iraq. It's meant to serve as a political line of demarcation, a sure-fire way to determine which politicians, celebrities and news personalities you can trust. But there's little question, to my mind at least,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/the-war-that-time-forgot-2/

Eastern Partnership of Post-Soviet States Gives Members False Illusions of Joining the EU
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
The Eastern Partnership is a joint policy initiative created in 2009 which aims to deepen and strengthen relations between the European Union (EU), its Member States and its six eastern neighbors: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Although many …
globalresearch.ca/eastern-partnership-gives-members-false-illusions-joining-eu/5717078

The Responsibility to Protect? Bipartisan Crimes Against Humanity in the U.S
Ajamu Baraka | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-26
Hundreds of people are unnecessarily dying every day with African Americans representing a disproportionate number of those deaths. 80 million people are now without health coverage, millions are unemployed, over the next two months evictions will resume with an expected explosion of homelessness. And what is the response from the state that is tasked with …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-responsibility-to-protect-bipartisan-crimes-against-humanity-in-the-u-s/

The Responsibility to Protect? Bipartisan Crimes Against Humanity in the U.S
Ajamu Baraka | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
Hundreds of people are unnecessarily dying every day with African Americans representing a disproportionate number of those deaths. 80 million people are now without health coverage, millions are unemployed, over the next two months evictions will resume with an expected explosion of homelessness. And what is the response from the state that is tasked with…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/the-responsibility-to-protect-bipartisan-crimes-against-humanity-in-the-u-s/

Colombia's Other Pandemic: Unchecked State Violence in the Time of COVID-19
Danny Shaw | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
The human rights group Indepaz reports that 800 activists have been killed in the past three and a half years in Colombia, since November 24, 2016, the date the government signed "the Peace Accord" with the FARC.[1] Taking advantage of society's fear and distraction, and the demobilization caused by the novel coronavirus, state and paramilitary…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/colombias-other-pandemic-unchecked-state-violence-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

How Atlanta community organized after police murdered Rayshard Brooks
Monica Johnson | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-26
By Monica Johnson The following is based upon a talk given by Monica Johnson, a Party for Socialism and Liberation activist in Atlanta, on a PSL national webinar June 18. She addressed community response to the police murder of Rayshard Brooks. This 27-year-old African-American man was shot twice in the back and killed by police …
liberationnews.org/how-atlanta-community-organized-after-police-murdered-rayshard-brook/

'Outrageous and Chilling': Police Condemned for Charging Peaceful Environmentalists With 'Terrorizing' in Louisiana
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
At least 40 U.S. climate and environmental advocacy groups on Friday rallied behind two Louisiana Bucket Brigade activists who are facing felony "terrorizing" charges for leaving a box of plastic pellets collected from Texas waters near a Formosa Plastics facility on the doorstep of a fossil fuel lobbyist in December 2019. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/lbb.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/26/outrageous-and-chilling-police-condemned-charging-peaceful-environmentalists?cd-origin=rss

Facebook bends the knee, agrees to censor Trump ads after mass advertiser boycott
rt.com | 2020-06-26
Facebook will change its policies to ban "hate speech" in advertisements on the platform, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced, after activists brigaded a number of major corporations to pull their ads from the platform. | "I am committed to making sure Facebook remains a place where people can use their voice to discuss important issues," Zuckerberg said on Friday. "But I also stand against hate or anything that incites violences or suppresses voting, and we're committed to removing that content too, no matter where it comes from." | This will include ads critical of "immigrants, migrants, refugees and asylum seeker…
rt.com/usa/493077-facebook-hate-speech-boycott/

We Must Defund Militarization From the Local Police to the Pentagon
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-26
In the wake of the global protests against the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, activists have begun to reclaim public spaces by destroying statues of conquerors, slave traders, white supremacists and colonizers. In the United States alone, protesters have torn down and defaced statues of Confederate generals in Richmond, Virginia; Nashville, Tenn…
truthout.org/articles/we-must-defund-militarization-from-the-local-police-to-the-pentagon/

'We Need More People Like' Regan Russell: Mourning and Justice Demanded Over Killing of Animal Rights Activist Regan Russell
Jenna McGuire, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
"She was the most peaceful, logical, kind, compassionate person that I've ever met." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/allanimals.jpeg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/26/we-need-more-people-regan-russell-mourning-and-justice-demanded-over-killing-animal?cd-origin=rss

Journalist Julian Assange Charged with New American Indictment
Dr. Leon Tressell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
On 24 June a US Federal Grad Jury issued a second superseding indictment against Journalist Julian Assange. | The new indictment incorporates the 18 charges from the first indictment and seeks to 'broaden the scope of the conspiracy' and asserts …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-charged-new-american-indictment/5717056

British foreign secretary accused of hypocrisy for praising UN 'values' despite UK treatment of Assange
rt.com | 2020-06-26
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has provoked anger after lauding the UK's role in the United Nations and its commitment to the "values" of the organization, with many disagreeing and pointing to the treatment of Julian Assange. | Raab posted on social media on Friday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the birth of the UN, when 50 nations, including the UK, came together to sign the Charter. | The foreign minister said: "Since then, we have played a crucial role in the @UN and remain committed to upholding its values." | 75 years ago, the üá¨üáß alongside 49…
rt.com/uk/493033-raab-assange-un-values/

Free Julian Assange Global Birthday Vigil
BAACFJA | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
BayAction2FreeAssange.org joins #Candles4Assange for Julian Assange's Global Birthday Vigil | Friday, July 3 ≥·µà, Noon-1PM | British Consulate, 1 Sansome St., San Francisco | *Masks & social distancing please | For those w medical conditions/unable to attend : Please follow @Action4assange livestream noted in details…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834630.php

US street-based projects are talking about more than just police reforms. They want outright liberation
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-06-26
On the west coast of America, authorities have threatened to send in police to retake Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). While on the east coast, the Black Lives Matter chair for Greater New York has called for armed "peace officers" to monitor police activity. | Meanwhile, all across the US, legislation is being introduced to reform policing in the wake of the killing of Black man George Floyd and the subsequent protests against police violence.
thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2020/06/26/us-street-based-projects-are-talking-about-more-than-just-police-reforms-they-want-outright-liberation/

Mines, mass graves: Haftar's human rights violations
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
An Anadolu Agency team in Libya has monitored the evidence of mines, mass graves, and executions left behind by the militias of warlord Khalifa Haftar as they retreated from south of the capital Tripoli as well as the city of Tarhuna, to the southeast. Libya's internationally recognized government has been under attack by Haftar's forces since April 2019, with more than 1,000 killed in the violence.This March, the Libyan government launched Operation Peace Storm to counter attacks on the capital, and recently retook strategic locations, including Al-Watiya airbase and the city of Tarhuna, Haftar's final stronghol…
yenisafak.com/en/world/mines-mass-graves-haftars-human-rights-violations-3533038

Saturday 6/27: Peaceful Protest for Black Lives Matter
Peaceful Protest for Black Lives Matter | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
Santa Cruz Clock Tower | Pacific Ave. and Water St., Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/24/18834551.php

COVID-19 Is Amplifying Racial Inequities, Educators Say
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-26
Baltimore Teachers Union President Diamonté Brown discusses a recent lawsuit over unpaid instructional days, global protests against racism, the movement to defund the police, and calls to remove officers from schools.
therealnews.com/stories/covid-19-coronavirus-amplify-racial-inequity-educators-teachers

Israeli Forces Shoot Nine Palestinians at Kufur Qaddoum Weekly March
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-26
Nine Palestinian civilians were shot and injured, on Friday, and dozens suffered from the toxic effects of tear-gas inhalation, when Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel rounds and tear-gas canisters at protestors in Kufur Qaddoum village, in the northern occupied West Bank. The regional coordinator of the Popular Resistance, Morad Eshteiwi, …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-shoot-nine-palestinians-at-kufur-qaddoum-weekly-march/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-shoot-nine-palestinians-at-kufur-qaddoum-weekly-march

2020: The year anti-fascists became terrorists
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-26
When police in Buffalo pushed an elderly man to the ground during a Black Lives Matter protest, cracking his skull in the process, the president went on Twitter to rhetorically ask whether the injured man was, in fact, part of "Antifa".
nationofchange.org/2020/06/26/2020-the-year-anti-fascists-became-terrorists/

Black workers resist union-busting Boston gentrifier
Workers World Boston bureau | workers.org | 2020-06-26
A June 16 action for eight laid-off workers — organized just four days after the announcement they had been fired — drew about 100 people. They were protesting at their place of work, College Bound Dorchester/Boston Uncornered, on a quiet residential street on the Tuesday morning. With these latest layoffs, . . . | Continue reading Black workers resist union-busting Boston gentrifier at Workers.org…
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The US Military Has A Boogaloo Problem
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-26
The U.S. military appears to have a brewing boogaloo problem. Active-duty military are flocking to online networks frequented by the anti-government movement, known for its meme culture and Hawaiian shirt-clad adherents, who are often called Boogaloo Bois. | "Boogaloo" is code for civil war, which is the ultimate goal of the movement, and some of its followers trade in memes glorifying violence against federal agents and crack jokes about the impending "Boog." Recently they've become regular fixtures at anti-lockdown and Black Lives Matter protests in states that allow open-carry of military-style firearms. | An…
popularresistance.org/the-us-military-has-a-boogaloo-problem/

The 'New' American Mercenary: A Pocket History
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-26
Though the bizarre story has been subsumed by other events, last month's aborted invasion of Venezuela should've hardly shocked anyone. The United States has long used mercenaries to do its bidding. They have provided Washington distance and deniability for unsavory operations. During the Cold War, the U.S. hoped this would limit domestic and international protest. Policymakers also discerned mercenary alternatives to bloody, expensive quagmires like the Vietnam or Iraq Wars. Traditionally, most of these hired guns were foreigners — ex-soldiers of declining European empires. | Much of this parallels the lat…
popularresistance.org/the-new-american-mercenary-a-pocket-history/

Ignoring MSM's Covid-19 warnings made Americans more likely to die, studies say. Unless they went to a BLM protest, says another
rt.com | 2020-06-26
Several US studies have blamed conservative media for high Covid-19 mortality, claiming pundits like Sean Hannity misled their viewers about the virus. But another study says liberals who also ignored official advice saved lives. | Seemingly determined to root out all "wrongthink" regarding the pandemic that has killed over 124,000 Americans so far, the Washington Post looked over a handful of recent academic papers analyzing media coverage of the outbreak and found — surprise! — that listening to Fox News' Sean Hannity shortens American lifespans. | "The end result, according to one of the studies,…
rt.com/usa/493070-conservative-media-kills-coronavirus-hannity/

Bad Villain: Could Not Being Hated as Clinton Be Key to Biden's Success?
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-26
The potential reasons for Biden's lead are numerous — to name but two major factors, Trump has been penalised by American voters for his perceived heavy-handed response to the protests which erupted nationwide in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers in May, and management of coronavirus pandemic.
sputniknews.com/us/202006261079729250-biden-trump-clinton-differences/

Applications for gun permits in Illinois jump 500 PERCENT, firearms & ammo sales skyrocket amid George Floyd protests
rt.com | 2020-06-26
Guns and ammunition are flying off the shelves in Illinois, new data shows. Americans have been loading up with weapons amid the Covid-19 outbreak and the riots sparked by the death of George Floyd. | More than 42,000 State of Illinois residents applied for a gun permit between June 1 and June 17, compared to just around 7,000 during the same period last year, the Chicago Tribune reports, citing police statistics. At the same time, the amount of applications filed in the first two weeks of June is close to the number of applications submitted in December, January and February combined. | Gun shops confirmed to…
rt.com/usa/492985-illinois-gun-sales-numbers/

"No Layoffs" "Stop The Greed" Frontline UCSF Workers Protest Cutbacks In Middle Of Covid
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
UCSF AFSCME 3299 Frontline healthcare workers and other union members from UC rallied and protested against the 3,000 cutbacks by UC management and regents. These cutbacks in the midst of a major pandemic will not only threaten the workers the care of the patients and the public.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/24/18834553.php

Tenderloin Rises Up Against UC Hastings Lawsuit
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
Speakers from organizations supporting the unhoused, law students, and community members protested UC Hastings move to clear black and brown residents from tent encampments in the middle of the pandemic. They started in front of the law school's Kane Hall and marched to the police station in the Tenderloin where they faced off with cops armed for battle.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/25/18834559.php

COVID-19 in 7780 pediatric patients: A systematic review
Ansel Hoang, Kevin Chorath, Axel Moreira, Mary Evans, Finn Burmeister-Morton, Fiona Burmeister, Rija Naqvi, Matthew Petershack, Alvaro Moreira | thelancet.com | 2020-06-26
This review provides evidence that children diagnosed with COVID-19 have an overall excellent prognosis. Future longitudinal studies are needed to confirm our findings and better understand which patients are at increased risk for developing severe inflammation and multiorgan failure.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30177-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Cops and a Coverup
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
Although murders of unarmed residents by police in the US affect Black people disproportionately, acts of police brutality and murder occur against people of all skin tones. It's clear that the legacy of slavery goes a lot towards explaining police killings of Black people. However, the rationales usually provided by modern police departments when any…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/cops-and-a-coverup/

U.N. Human Rights Council condemns racist violence
Lyn Neeley | workers.org | 2020-06-26
In the wake of international uprisings due to the lynching of George Floyd, the U.N. Human Rights Council held an emergency hearing on June 19. The council unanimously passed a resolution condemning systemic racism and racist police brutality against people of African descent in all countries, but particularly in the . . . | Continue reading U.N. Human Rights Council condemns racist violence at Workers.org…
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Syrians 'face unprecedented hunger amid impending COVID crisis'
news.un.org | 2020-06-26
Syrian communities devastated by years of civil war now face an "unprecedented" hunger crisis, just as urgent action is needed to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, UN humanitarians said on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067252

Australian unions support Queensland Labor government's public sector wage freeze
wsws.org | 2020-06-26
The pay "deferral" sets a new precedent for exploiting the COVID-19 emergency to intensify the ongoing corporate and government attack on the living and working conditions of workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/26/wage-j26.html

Voting By Mail Is Now a Necessity During COVID-19
Suzan DelBene, Earl Blumenauer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
Vote by mail is gaining traction across the country. (Photo: Getty) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-06-26_at_2.05.38_pm.png …
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Avoiding War With China
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
Relations between the U.S. and China have hit an all-time low. As the election nears, expect them to plunge lower. That's because Trump is campaigning against China, hoping for a surge of xenophobic hatred to sweep him back into the white house. The charge is that China caused Covid-19 — possibly in a lab, but…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/avoiding-war-with-china-2/

Workers on the Edge in Bangladesh. Covid Lockdown Undermines Garment Industry
Asad Ismi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
"COVID-19 will be a catastrophe for Bangladeshi garment workers." | I am speaking with Kalpona Akter, president of the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF). It is March 19. Governments around the world have ordered the temporary closure of …
globalresearch.ca/workers-edge-bangladesh/5717130

Mass-Tracking COVI-PASS Immunity Passports Slated to Roll Out in 15 Countries
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-26
COVI-PASS will determine whether you can go to a restaurant, if you need a medical test, or are due for a talking-to by authorities in a post-COVID world. Consent is voluntary, but enforcement will be compulsory.
mintpressnews.com/mass-tracking-covi-pass-immunity-passports-slated-roll-15-countries/269006/

Global partners require $31 billion to speed up COVID-19 medicines for all
news.un.org | 2020-06-26
More than $31 billion is needed over the next 12 months to develop medicines that will be effective against COVID-19, and make them available to all people, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners said on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067282

COVID-19 death march: India's migrant workers head home, heralding virus surge
B. Prasant | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-26
DELHI–The thin emaciated woman lay on her back by the side of the highway that leads away from Delhi towards Kolkata. Her arms akimbo, her knees folded together and drawn up, her body barely covered in a torn-to-strips cloth that had once been a red saree. Her eyes drew attention because they were wide open–death …
peoplesworld.org/article/covid-19-death-march-indias-migrant-workers-head-home-heralding-virus-surge/

In South Africa, mining workers have double the infection rate for COVID-19
Brasil de Fato | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-26
The rate of infection of the novel coronavirus among mining workers in South Africa is 330 per 100,000 inhabitants, more than double the average registered for the rest of the country's population — 160 per 100,000. From the 1474 positive cases confirmed within South African mines, 907 are still active, 563 patients recovered and four have died. | The information was released Monday (22nd) by the Minerals Council South Africa, which represents 90% of mining companies operating in the country. According to the same report, only 3,4% of miners are tested for t…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/26/in-south-africa-mining-workers-have-double-the-infection-rate-for-covid-19/

General Motors lays off 680 workers and eliminates third shift at its Spring Hill, Tennessee plant
wsws.org | 2020-06-26
The company has filed a 60-day notice of mass layoffs as sales decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/26/gmsh-j26.html

Will Covid Start a Trade War Over U.S. Meat Exports?
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
On June 21, the official China website posted that products from Tyson Foods' Springdale, Arkansas plant "that have arrived or are about to arrive in Hong Kong will be temporarily suspended by the customs department." Two days earlier, 455 Tyson Foods workers living in Benton and Washington counties in which Springdale is located were found…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/will-covid-start-a-trade-war-over-u-s-meat-exports/

As COVID-19 rages, America's meatpacking workers battle for their lives
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-26
As new COVID-19 infections surge to their highest levels since April, the deadly virus continues to ravage meatpacking plants across the nation. Companies are not implementing CDC guidelines for safe working conditions, so workers, their children, and union are finding ways to resist and demand action. The gruesome work of killing, cleaning, and deboning beef, …
peoplesworld.org/article/as-covid-19-rages-americas-meat-packing-workers-battle-for-their-lives/

Production stoppage continues Friday at Fiat Chrysler Jefferson North auto plant in Detroit over COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-06-26
Workers arriving Friday morning have continued a stoppage that began Thursday after reports of three cases of COVID-19 among workers in the factory.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/26/jeff-j25.html

As COVID-19 cases triple in a month, Latin American elites press ahead with back-to-work campaign
wsws.org | 2020-06-26
The ruling classes in the most unequal region of the world have based their response to the pandemic and the economic crisis it spurred on protecting their wealth and privileges at all costs.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/26/pers-j26.html

Jim Naureckas on Covid's Preventable Nightmare, Clare Garvie on Police Facial Recognition
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-06-26
Media…
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DR Congo: COVID-19 slows pace of reform, exacerbates fragile security situation
news.un.org | 2020-06-26
The head of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is asking the Security Council for its continued support as the mission adds the fight against COVID-19 to its to-do list, while also dealing with a fragile security situation in the east of the country.
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Australian military deployed in Melbourne as COVID-19 infection rate surges
wsws.org | 2020-06-26
The daily rate of new cases in Victoria is at its highest since early April.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/26/cvau-j26.html

COVID-19 ravages southeastern United States
wsws.org | 2020-06-26
Nine states are facing rising infection and death rates due to the criminal negligence of governments from the Texas state line on the west to the Atlantic Ocean.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/26/seco-j26.html

COVID-19 in Brazil: The people's response
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-26
The coronavirus pandemic has sent a shockwave through Brazil which as of June 26 stands second in the world with 1 million 228 thousand confirmed cases of coronavirus and 54 thousand deaths. Hospitals are at capacity and the country also has experienced one of the highest rates of death of medical professionals amid the pandemic. However, Brazil's social movements have not stood by idly. They have been organizing around a list of demands with regards to economic support to vulnerable populations, public health policies and above all protection of the people. They have also organized solidarity initiatives across…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/26/covid-19-in-brazil-the-peoples-response/

Why Prosecutors Keep Letting Police Get Away With Murder
Somil Trivedi | aclu.org | 2020-06-26
This piece was originally published in Slate., , Just one month ago, the world saw a video of Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin kneel on George Floyd's windpipe with an eerily calm demeanor, while officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane acted as the lookout men. Despite what we all saw, however, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman at first refused to arrest or indict any of the four men, insisting, "I will not rush to justice." This was keeping with his prosecutorial instinct…
aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/why-prosecutors-keep-letting-police-get-away-with-murder

Afghanistan, Garden of Empire: America's Multibillion Dollar Opium Harvest
Julien Mercille | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
By resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987, the UN General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the …
globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-garden-of-empire-americas-multibillion-dollar-opium-harvest/5324196

Class & Otherness: A Peculiar Dialectic
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
Nothing captures the contradictions of American social life more than then the recent announcement by Jeff Bezos in support for the Black Lives Matter movement. The founder of Amazon, the owner of the Washington Post and the richest person in the world issued a tweet calling for an end to…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/class-otherness-a-peculiar-dialectic/

How Amazon Used the Pandemic to Amass More Monopoly Power
Ron Knox, Shaoul Sussman | thenation.com | 2020-06-26
How Amazon Used the Pandemic to Amass More Monopoly Power…
thenation.com/article/politics/amazon-bezos-pandemic-monopoly/

At 18 years of the assassination of Maxi and Darío, the struggle multiplies!
Julián Inzaugarat | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-26
In 2002, Darío Santillán and Maximiliano Kosteki were assassinated in the entrance to the Avellaneda station following brutal repression by the Buenos Aires province police to a mobilization demanding salary increases, subsidies for unemployed and food for community kitchens.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/26/at-18-years-of-the-assassination-of-maxi-and-dario-the-struggle-multiplies/

18 year after assassination of Maxi and Darío in Argentina, the struggle intensifies!
Julián Inzaugarat | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-26
In 2002, Darío Santillán and Maximiliano Kosteki were assassinated in the entrance to the Avellaneda station following brutal repression by the Buenos Aires province police to a mobilization demanding salary increases, subsidies for unemployed and food for community kitchens.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/26/at-18-years-of-the-assassination-of-maxi-and-dario-the-struggle-multiplies/

CHOP-CHAZ Folds, Throws Support Behind Joe Biden
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
The kids squatting on the CHOP or CHAZ declared "autonomous zone" in Seattle have announced they are folding tents and going home. They also threw support behind Joe Biden, demonstrating they have the political understanding of a fence post….
globalresearch.ca/chop-chaz-folds-throws-support-behind-joe-biden/5717067

Voter Enthusiasm: Wrong Headed and Overrated
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
The conventional wisdom on presidential politics nowadays was described a century ago by William Butler Yeats: "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." "The best," in this case, would be voters gearing up grudgingly to vote for Joe Biden; "the worst" would be supporters of Donald Trump. The conventional…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/voter-enthusiasm-wrong-headed-and-overrated/

Bayer to pay $10 billion in cancer lawsuits over Roundup
Amanda Mills | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-26
"Even as we celebrate and congratulate those who made this day possible, millions of people are being exposed to glyphosate."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/26/bayer-to-pay-10-billion-in-cancer-lawsuits-over-roundup/

Wirecard: The German economy sinks into criminality
wsws.org | 2020-06-26
The company CEO was arrested in connection with the disappearance of 1.9 billion euros ($2 billion).
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/26/wire-j26.html

Call to Redirect $1 Billion of NYPD Budget to Harmed Communities
Jessica Corbett | zcomm.org | 2020-06-26
City leaders are urged to direct the money to…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/call-to-redirect-1-billion-of-nypd-budget-to-harmed-communities/

Iran 'world's worst state sponsor of terrorism', says US. Here's why that's utterly absurd
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-06-26
The US has just labeled Iran the "world's worst state sponsor of terrorism". This is completely absurd on multiple levels. Because not only is the criteria completely ridiculous, the US applies flagrant double standards to other countries in the region — not least its closest regional allies Israel and Saudi Arabia. | Furthermore, these three countries…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/06/26/iran-worlds-worst-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-says-us-heres-why-thats-utterly-absurd/

Independent UN rights experts call for decisive measures to protect 'fundamental freedoms' in China
news.un.org | 2020-06-26
The repression of "fundamental freedoms" by the Chinese Government prompted nearly 50 UN independent experts on Friday to express their continuing alarm, urging the country to "abide by its international legal obligations".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067312

US Must Return Its Political Prisoner Simón Trinidad to Colombia
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
Murderous violence and oligarchy were in charge in Colombia during the 20th century. Colombians by the millions were marginalized, impoverished, and/or displaced from small land holdings. Violence and the failings of liberal democracy turned Simón Trinidad into a revolutionary. Few in the United States and Europe know about him. Colombia's allies in both places overlook…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/us-must-return-its-political-prisoner-simon-trinidad-to-colombia/

'I Got Nicer Everything,' Says Man Who Ruins All He Touches
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-06-26
'I Got Nicer Everything,' Says Man Who Ruins All He Touches…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-rallies-coronavirus-europe/

Coronavirus spreads across US, surging to highest single-day count of new cases
wsws.org | 2020-06-26
The number of newly confirmed coronavirus cases across the US set a one-day record on Thursday as the pandemic spread and surged in states in the South and West.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/26/usco-j26.html

UFCW: Tyson rivals Smithfield in its disregard for workers
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-26
LOGANSPORT, Ind.–The now-infamous Smithfield pork production plant in South Dakota apparently has a "rival" of sorts among food processing factories that have become coronavirus pandemic hotspots. Welcome to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind., which had to shut for two weeks, from April 23-May 7, for complete cleaning and other measures after …
peoplesworld.org/article/ufcw-tyson-rivals-smithfield-in-its-disregard-for-workers/

Coronavirus is an SOS: Mend our broken relationship with nature, says UN and WHO
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-26
Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity's destruction of nature, according to leaders at the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International–and the world has been ignoring this stark reality for decades.
mronline.org/2020/06/26/coronavirus-is-an-sos-mend-our-broken-relationship-with-nature-says-un-and-who/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coronavirus-is-an-sos-mend-our-broken-relationship-with-nature-says-un-and-who

Nurses and support staff at HCA Healthcare set to strike California hospital over cuts and PPE shortages
wsws.org | 2020-06-26
One thousand nurses and support staff at HCA Healthcare are set to strike over concessions the hospital chain is demanding from frontline health care workers as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the US.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/26/hcas-j26.html

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman's Ouster: the Untold Story
Pam Martens, Russ Martens | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
A stake in the Park Lane Hotel in Manhattan was purchased with money looted from 1MDB According to the U.S. Justice Department (Photo Source: DOJ) There's something unsettling about the top law enforcement officer in the United States telling a brazen lie to the American people late on a Friday night when most folks have…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/u-s-attorney-geoffrey-bermans-ouster-the-untold-story/

John Brown's Body Today
Paul Buhle | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
John Brown's Body Lies a moldering in the grave His truth is marching on! it is difficult to comprehend today that thousands of white Americans, including my great great grandfather Ezra Fuller, were marching with Sherman through Georgia, facilitating the rebellion of slaves freeing themselves from their bondage. Union soldiers destroyed the means of production…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/john-browns-body-today/

Infiltrating Black Lives Matter: Cops, Feds, and White Supremacists
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a major step forward in the ongoing struggle for Civil Rights in the United States and around the world. BLM was founded in 2013, following the acquittal over what organizers describe as 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's murderer, the gated community watchman, George Zimmerman. The organization came to international attention in July…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/infiltrating-black-lives-matter-cops-feds-and-white-supremacists/

Lawlessness in Trump's Fascist State: Bill Barr and the Ghost of Fascism
Henry Giroux | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
Barr places the President above the law, defining him as a kind of unitary sovereign. In addition, he appears to relish in his role as a craven defender of Trump, all the while justifying a notion of blind executive authority in the face of Trump's endless lies, racist policies, and lawlessness that echo the dark era of the 1920s and 30s.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/lawlessness-in-trumps-fascist-state-bill-barr-and-the-ghost-of-fascism/

From "How Could He…" to "How Am I…": A Confession
Nicholas Buccola | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
The writer Robert Penn Warren once described the "national rhythm" on race matters to be one that swayed between "complacency and panic." There is a great deal of truth in this observation — especially among elites — and unless we can break that rhythm we seem doomed to remain trapped in what Ibram X. Kendi…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/from-how-could-he-to-how-am-i-a-confession/

The Big Green Lie
Stephen Corry | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
WWF recently released (June 5th, 2020) a short video[1] of British "national treasure" and conservation icon, Sir David Attenborough, telling us that "suddenly" saving the world is within reach. He says they know what to do and have a plan to build a stable, healthy world that we can benefit from forever. What's not to…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/the-big-green-lie/

Truth is Our Weapon and Shield — An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Billy X Jennings
Yoav Litvin | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
Truth and reconciliation commissions attempt to heal divided nations after the injustice has ceased. They rely on a process of education in which a reckoning with hard truths of systemic oppression lead to national accountability, reparations for victims, healing and potential unity. However, truth and reconciliation commissions, such as the one in South Africa, are…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/truth-is-our-weapon-and-shield-an-interview-with-black-panther-party-veteran-billy-x-jennings/

Indicting Hashim Thaàßi: The Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office Gets Busy
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
When it comes to the touchy, violent matter of Kosovar affairs, history keeps company with the devils of nationalism and vengeance. Serbia remains scornful of the aspirations of the territory, whose legitimacy it does not recognise; Kosovo remains spiteful of …
globalresearch.ca/indicting-hashim-thaci-kosovo-specialist-prosecutor-office-gets-busy/5717068

Stop Treating Israel as a State Above the Law and End Annexation
Saeb Erekat | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
With only a few days left until 1 July, the date included in the Israeli government coalition agreement to further advance the annexation of occupied Palestinian territory, it has become clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President…
globalresearch.ca/stop-treating-israel-state-above-law-end-annexation/5717099

MSM "Fake News" Against Syria. Describe Al Qaeda as "Rebels", Elected President as "Dictator"
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
The Editorial Board of The Washington Post published an opinion on June 24, "Syria's brutal dictatorship suffers a severe setback". It is an opinion; however, they must be held responsible for factually incorrect statements. | They call the Assad government of …
globalresearch.ca/msm-fake-news-directed-against-syria-new-us-sanctions-escalate-the-suffering-of-the-syrian-people/5717060

Fraud, Money Laundering and Narcotics. Impunity of the Banking Giants
Tom Burghardt | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
In an era characterized by economic collapse owing to gross criminality by leading financial actors, policy decisions and the legal environment have been shaped by oligarchs who quite literally have "captured" the state.
globalresearch.ca/fraud-money-laundering-and-narcotics-impunity-of-the-banking-giants-no-prosecution-of-hsbc/5317406

Again, What Were the Benefits of Locking Down?
Edward Peter Stringham | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
The school closures, stay home orders, shuttering of businesses, banning of elective surgeries, closure of physical entertainment events, blocked flights, and sudden imposition of a central plan — it all happened suddenly from mid-March in the course of only a …
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Spanish Government Moves Forward on Hypervigilance Project. Towards a Surveillance Police State
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
Several experts suggest that…
globalresearch.ca/spanish-government-moves-forward-hypervigilance-project/5717055

Iran Sets Conditions to Resume Negotiations with the US
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani announced Wednesday that Tehran will negotiate with Washington only within the framework of the nuclear agreement and under the condition that the U.S. side pays compensation to the Middle East country for the damage caused. | "We | …
globalresearch.ca/iran-sets-conditions-resume-negotiations-us/5717097

What's Happening to Michigan's Insects? A Farmer's Tale
Brian Allnutt | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
As a young farmer, Bill Westrate would walk outside most nights with a white sheet and black light to lure swarms of insects to the side of his barn in Cass County. "It would scare most people," he said. But …
globalresearch.ca/what-happening-michigan-insects-farmers-tale/5717082

Israeli Settlers Assault Palestinian Man, Place Caravans near Nablus
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-26
Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian resident, on Friday morning, beating him severely in the Douma village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian chief of the file on illegal Israeli settlement activities in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Daghlas, told media outlets that Israeli colonists assaulted Palestinian civilian, …
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PPS Report: 95% of Palestinian Detainees in Israeli Prisons Subjected to Torture
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-26
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) said in a report, issued Thursday, on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, which falls on June 26 of each year, that the torture practiced by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian prisoners, is not limited to the violent tactics …
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Israeli Troops Abduct Three Palestinians in the West Bank
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-26
Israeli troops abducted, earlier on Friday, three Palestinians from different parts of the occupied West Bank. In the northern West Bank governorate of Nablus, local sources confirmed that Israeli troops invaded Burqa village, north of Nablus city, and broke into several homes. The sources added that soldiers invaded and vandalized …
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Israeli Army Shells Gaza
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-26
Israeli war jets and tanks fired, late on Friday at night, several missiles, and shells, into Palestinian areas in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, causing damage. The Israeli army claimed it was retaliating to shells reportedly fired from Gaza. Media sources in Gaza said the army fired at least …
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Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians Near Jenin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-26
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday evening, two young Palestinian men at a military roadblock near Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped and searched many Palestinian cars at Barta'a military roadblock, southwest of Jenin, and interrogated several Palestinians while inspecting their ID …
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Taking the PiS… Trump Embraces Poland to Spite Germany and Russia
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-26
Trump is pandering to Polish reactionary politics to offend both Germany and Russia. But this president doesn't have a clue about the monster of reactionary forces in Poland that he is fomenting. | President Trump laid out his rationale while hosting his Polish counterpart at the White House. President Andrzej Duda who is allied with the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) was on his third visit to the White House this week since Donald Trump took office. He is the first foreign leader to be received in Pennsylvania Avenue since the pandemic lockdown. | For such an honor, Trump readily explained that the purpose o…

Taking the PiS… Trump Embraces Poland to Spite Germany and Russia

In central Mali, community fighting and impunity, 'overwhelming' efforts to protect civilians
news.un.org | 2020-06-26
Feeding an entrenched cycle of violence and reprisal, 580 civilians have been killed in Mali so far this year, as worsening security conditions and widespread impunity undermine efforts to protect people caught in intercommunal fighting, the UN Human Rights chief said on Friday.
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Defund means abolish police!
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-06-26
"Defund the police!" has leaped to the top of the demands that mass demonstrations have been making since the May 25 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. After that city's 3rd Police Precinct building burned to the ground to the cheers of a majority of the U.S. population, there . . . | Continue reading Defund means abolish police! at Workers.org…
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Episode 95 — What We Can Learn From The Kent State Murders with Mickey Huff
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-06-26
On today's episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon explore the Kent State Murders with Project Censored Director and the President of the Media Freedom Foundation,…
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LA City Attorney Cory Brente defends killer cops
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-26
Los Angeles, CA – After the murder of George Floyd, the Los Angeles Times published an article that looks at the connection between the Los Angeles Police Department and the Force Science Institute, a police training academy from Minnesota that creates fear among police toward civilians. The article spotlights the relationship between FSI and Cory Brente, the LA city attorney in charge of defending LAPD killer cops. The head of the Police Litigation Unit, Brente enjoys justifying LAPD killings of Chicano and Black victims. | Brente's most recent work was defending two-time killer cop Eden Medina. LAPD cop Medina…
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LA City Attorney Cory Brente defends killer cops
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-26
Los Angeles, CA – After the murder of George Floyd, the Los Angeles Times published an article that looks at the connection between the Los Angeles Police Department and the Force Science Institute, a police training academy from Minnesota that creates fear among police toward civilians. The article spotlights the relationship between FSI and Cory Brente, the LA city attorney in charge of defending LAPD killer cops. The head of the Police Litigation Unit, Brente enjoys justifying LAPD killings of Chicano and Black victims. | Brente's most recent work was defending two-time killer cop Eden Medina. LAPD cop Medina…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/26/la-city-attorney-cory-brente-defends-killer-cops

Defunding Police Must Be Paired With Demilitarization and Denuclearization
Owen Webster | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
Now more than ever, we need to divert funding from programs that threaten to push us closer to the brink of nuclear war. (Photo by Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images) | …
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Terror lynchings will not stop the freedom march
Kameron Hurt | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-26
Lynchings are a method of terror used by white supremacists from the slave ships, to plantations, to the big cities, to the voting booths…
liberationnews.org/terror-lynchings-will-not-stop-the-freedom-march/

America's War on Her Own Children
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-26
On April 29, 2020, a 16-year-old African American boy was involved in what institutional staff decided was a dangerous confrontation at a 'for profit' child prison run by a politically connected healthcare firm. | The child threw a piece of bread and was crushed to the ground, pleading for air, until his breathing stopped, and he went into cardiac arrest in a full George Floyd moment, one behind locked doors. | About the same time, four African Americans were found hanging in trees, all ruled suicides by police. | There is a tie in here, which we will be developing but first we will look at this Michigan case and…

America’s War on Her Own Children

"De-Socialized" Self-Identity and Liberating Self-Awareness
William Manson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-26
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates From our earliest years, we are over-socialized. An organized regimen of daily activity, we are taught, is the basis for a "productive" life. Such "productivity" — unlike immeasurables such as deepening self-awareness — is later concretely identifiable in such acquisitions as university degrees, "positions," "achievements," and so …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/de-socialized-self-identity-and-liberating-self-awareness/

New Dangers of US Space Strategy
Scott Ritter | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-26
With the recent release of its "Defense Space Strategy" document, the US Department of Defense has declared its intent to dominate what it terms the "fourth dimension of warfare." The US military relies upon space to fight its wars on earth; whether it can hold military control of space is another matter. The central question is: should the US be in the business of holding control of space? Much of the modern life that civilians around the world have grown accustomed to and take for granted depends on a space-based architecture of communications, navigation and remote sensing. These are all technologies that ener…

New Dangers of US Space Strategy

MLK Labor Council Kicks out Police Union — Statement by Seattle DSA
SeattleDSA | zcomm.org | 2020-06-26
One key next step will be campaigning for our unions, and the labor council, to officially support the demand to cut the Seattle Police budget by 50% and redirect those funds towards social services…
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ILWU leader: 'The way to invoke change is to deny labor'
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-26
The following are excerpts from a June 18 talk by Keith Shanklin, the President of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 34. Shanklin was a guest speaker at a June 18 PSL webinar. On June 19, the ILWU held a one-day strike, shutting down all 29 ports on the West Coast for eight hours in …
liberationnews.org/ilwu-leader-the-way-to-invoke-change-is-to-deny-labor/

Denying health crisis won't save jobs
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-06-26
June 21 — For the thirteenth week in a row, the number of initial claims the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts for unemployment insurance was over 1.5 million. Now every state plus the District of Columbia has begun the process of loosening the restrictions it had imposed in order to . . . | Continue reading Denying health crisis won't save jobs at Workers.org…
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Inside The US's Largest Maximum-Security Prison, COVID-19 Raged
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-26
While the novel coronavirus burned through Angola, as the country's largest maximum-security prison is known, officials insisted they were testing all inmates who showed symptoms, isolating those who got sick and transferring more serious cases to the hospital in Baton Rouge, about 60 miles to the south. | But from inside Angola's walls, inmates painted a very different picture — one of widespread illness, dysfunctional care and sometimes inexplicable neglect. They said at least four of the 12 prisoners who have died in the pandemic, including Williams, had been denied needed medical help for days because t…
popularresistance.org/inside-the-uss-largest-maximum-security-prison-covid-19-raged/

Amazon Rainforest Hit By Killer Droughts
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-26
Over the past 20 years, like clockwork, severe droughts have hit the Amazon every five years with regularity 2005, 2010, 2015. Of course, droughts have hit the Amazon rainforest throughout paleoclimate history, but this time it's different. The frequency and severity is off the charts. Recent data is starting to show 2020 as another dire …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/amazon-rainforest-hit-by-killer-droughts/

Bolton's Memoir Bolts from the Stable
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-26
President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton would have been confident. His indulgent The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir pitted him against the administration in a not infrequent battle over material that is published by former officials recounting their giddy days in high office. On June 17, the US government filed …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/boltons-memoir-bolts-from-the-stable/

Sunday 6/28: 'The Condor & The Eagle' New Film & Discussion on Climate & Indigenous Rights (online)
Unitarian Univeralist Association | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
Online/virtual…
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End of a Career. Obituary The "Swabian housewife"
Pepe Eggers | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
The "Swabian housewife" dominated politics. Now she is buried by her inventors, of all people. | The state is not a business or a housewife but can borrow and become indebted to help present and future generations. | Systemic change, not climate change! Fight ignorance, not immigrants!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834610.php

Hans Baer looks at how car dependence is driving us to extinction
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-26
Andrew ChuterIssue 1270 Australia ecosocialismJune 26, 2020Motor Vehicles, the Environment & the Human Condition: Driving to Extinction | By Hans A Baer | Lexington Books, 2019 | 258 pages | As the global climate emergency intensifies, this political ecological critique of the motor vehicle is timely and powerful. Melbourne Un…
greenleft.org.au/content/hans-baer-looks-how-car-dependence-driving-us-extinction

Will Big Oil Pay a Price for its Lies?
Tina Gerhardt | progressive.org | 2020-06-26
A new D.C. lawsuit targets the world's four largest oil companies for misleading consumers about climate change.
progressive.org/dispatches/will-big-oil-pay-a-price-for-its-lies-gerhardt-200626/

Repair & Revive
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II | zcomm.org | 2020-06-26
Interview on Fighting Racism, Poverty, Climate Change, War & Nationalism…
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Hans Baer looks at how car dependence is driving us to extinction
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-26
Andrew ChuterIssue 1270 Australia ecosocialismJune 26, 2020 | Motor Vehicles, the Environment & the Human Condition: Driving to Extinction | By Hans A Baer | Lexington Books, 2019 | 258 pages | As the global climate emergency intensifies, this political ecological critique of the motor vehicle is timely and powerful. Melbourne…
greenleft.org.au/content/hans-baer-looks-how-car-dependence-driving-us-extinction

CDC chief Redfield: 24 million may have coronavirus
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-26
WASHINGTON–The head of the federal Centers for Disease Control now estimates that 24 million people in the U.S., ten times the actual numbers recorded, may be ill from the coronavirus. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield provided that estimate in a June 25 conference call with other reporters, the same day his agency expanded the list …
peoplesworld.org/article/cdc-chief-redfield-24-million-may-have-coronavirus/

Constabulary Notes from Northern Vermont, or Why We Don't Need the Police
Judith Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-26
Most newspapers do not publish the entire police log. They pick out the juicy stuff–sex offenders, drug busts, fatal car crashes. Things you might consider legitimate police work–if you had not started to wonder, given recent evidence, whether any police work is legitimate. But setting aside the question of police violence, if we want to…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/26/constabulary-notes-from-northern-vermont-or-why-we-dont-need-the-police/

EU gives $4.4M grant for Turkish firms' tech projects
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
The EU Commission is giving backing to a number of Turkish firms' tech-related projects, said the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) on Friday.The commission will grant a total of ‚Ǩ4.4 million ($4.94 million) to Turkish companies with projects in the fields of nanotechnology, advanced materials, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and processing technologies, said a TUBITAK statement.Under the industrial leadership and competition component of Horizon 2020, an EU program promoting research and innovation, a total of eight projects at 11 companies (some done in…
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Workers Are Striking During The COVID18 Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-26
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed much about work in the United States: There have been countless examples of workers speaking out against unsafe work conditions and demanding personal protective equipment (PPE) to try and stay healthy and safe on the job. We also have seen that essential workers are often not paid commensurate with the critical nature of their work. Few U.S. workers have access to paid sick time or paid leave of any kind. And, when workers have advocated for health and safety protections or wage increase, they have often been retaliated against, and even fired for doing so. As a result, many…
popularresistance.org/workers-are-striking-during-the-covid18-pandemic/

Bolton Weaves A Tall Tale In His Venezuela Chapter
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-26
From the first paragraph of "Venezuela Libre", the ninth chapter of John Bolton's upcoming book, The Room Where It Happened, it is obvious that the tale Bolton spins is full of fabrications, half-truths, propaganda and the occasional kernel of truth. The chapter is a 35-page screed in which the infamous warmonger places blame for the Trump administration's disastrous Venezuela policy on everyone from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, to State Department bureaucrats and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and, of course, President Trump. The criticism also extends to opposition figure Juan Guaidó and Colombian Preside…
popularresistance.org/bolton-weaves-a-tall-tale-in-his-venezuela-chapter/

The Pandemic Of Hunger
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-26
In April, the World Bank predicted that the Brazilian economy would shrink by 5% of GDP by 2020. Now, in June, the prediction is 8% to 10%. And the government's expected 2% growth. | As the pandemic mainly affects self-employed and informal workers who, in order to survive, cannot be confined to their homes, the number of Brazilians in poverty is expected to increase this year from 41.8 million (2019) to 48.8 million people, equivalent to 23% of the population. | The poor are all those who survive on a daily income of less than R$27.5 ($5 USD) or a monthly income of less than R$825. This year there will be 7 mill…
popularresistance.org/the-pandemic-of-hunger/

Chicago's Neighborhoods Will Remain "Occupied" Until The City Defunds CPD
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-26
The book Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power, published last year, details the history of the Chicago Police Department's quasi-military occupation of the city's Black communities from the race riots of 1919 through the present day. Author Simon Balto, an assistant professor of African American history at the University of Iowa, demonstrates that "there is not a time in Chicago's history where the city was home to large percentages of black people, and in which they had a smoothly functioning relationship with the CPD." While most histories of mass incarceration start around…
popularresistance.org/chicagos-neighborhoods-will-remain-occupied-until-the-city-defunds-cpd/

Coast-to-coast rallies demand: Keep U.S. Postal Service viable
Joe Piette | workers.org | 2020-06-26
Rallies demanding the U.S. Senate approve funding that would "SAVE OUR POSTAL SERVICE" were held on June 23 from coast to coast. The message of the day: Include a $25 billion USPS rescue plan in the next Senate stimulus package. Without funding, it is projected the agency could run out . . . | Continue reading Coast-to-coast rallies demand: Keep U.S. Postal Service viable at Workers.org…
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Postal Workers caravan delivers 2 million 'Save USPS' petitions to Washington
Mark Gruenberg | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
WASHINGTON–[June 23] Snaking its way from the Washington Navy Yard to the U.S. Senate, a caravan of cars driven by Postal Workers delivered petitions with two million names on them, demanding lawmakers enact the Heroes Act, including its $25 billion to save the U.S. Postal Service from financial devastation the coronavirus has caused to its revenues and potential subsequent collapse.
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South Korea backs remdesivir for COVID-19, urges caution with dexamethasone
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
South Korea has added Gilead's anti-viral drug remdesivir to its coronavirus treatment guidelines in its first revision of recommendations since the outbreak began and urged caution in the use of the steroid therapy dexamethasone.South Korea, widely praised around the world for its handling of the pandemic without a full lockdown, has reported 12,602 coronavirus cases as of Thursday midnight, with 282 deaths.Remdesivir is designed to hinder certain viruses, including the new coronavirus, from making copies of themselves and potentially overwhelming the body's immune system. The drug previously failed trials as an…
yenisafak.com/en/world/south-korea-backs-remdesivir-for-covid-19-urges-caution-with-dexamethasone-3533027

US calls on NATO allies to spend more on security
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
The US Defense Minister Mark Esper on Friday reiterated the US call on NATO allies to spend 2% of their GDP on security and defense."We'll be discussing everything from Afghanistan to COVID response, to the important issues. Also, it means improving NATO readiness and to continue to urge all of our allies to meet their target goal of 2% of GDP," said Esper in a news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels."We've moved a good distance here in the last few years, but there's much more we need to do to ensure our collective security," he added.Stoltenberg, for his part, said: "We have man…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-calls-on-nato-allies-to-spend-more-on-security-3533030

Syria's hunger crisis worsens, COVID outbreak could intensify
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
Syria faces an unprecedented hunger crisis with over 9.3 million people lacking adequate food while the country's coronavirus outbreak, though apparently controlled for now, could still accelerate, U.N. aid agencies said on Friday.The World Food Programme (WFP) told a briefing in Geneva that the number of people short of essential foodstuffs had risen by 1.4 million in the past six months.Food prices had also soared by more than 200% in less than a year due to the freefall in neighbouring Lebanon's economy and COVID-19 lockdown measures in Syria, WFP spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said.After nine years of armed confl…
yenisafak.com/en/world/syrias-hunger-crisis-worsens-covid-outbreak-could-intensify-3533044

ASEAN leaders discuss post-pandemic recovery measures
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
Addressing the video-conference, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted the COVID-19 pandemic, which is hitting the region hard, as the theme of the summit.He lauded the spirit of solidarity and coordination among member countries in fighting the virus, and called for stronger cooperation to effectively cope with the pandemic."Vietnam will continue to closely work with other ASEAN member states in the battle," said Phuc.He also quoted a recent World Bank report, which projected that the global economy would experience a serious decline with a 5.2% contraction in global GDP."Per-capita income would…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/asean-leaders-discuss-post-pandemic-recovery-measures-3533034

Coronavirus continues to spread in Eurasian nations
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
Coronavirus cases and fatalities continued to surge across Eurasia countries on Friday.Armenia In Armenia, at least 759 more people were confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus, bringing the total to 23,247. The number of recoveries reached 12,149, and the death toll hit 410.A total of 105,046 tests have been conducted so far in the country, as 10,557 are still receiving treatment.UkraineIn Ukraine, the total number of recoveries reached 18,299, while the death toll rose to 1,086.The country has so far conducted 620,624 tests.The country extended the implementation of quarantine measures until July 31 amid t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-continues-to-spread-in-eurasian-nations-3533029

Japan has more than 100 new coronavirus cases for first time since May 9
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
Japan on Friday recorded more than 100 new coronavirus infections for the first time since May 9, hitting its highest daily total since it eased a lockdown that had closed bars, cinemas and other public venues, Kyodo News reported.Japan last week ended a curb on domestic travel, the last of a series of major restrictions imposed during a state of emergency declared in April. There were 54 new infections in Tokyo on Friday, according to public broadcaster NHK.
yenisafak.com/en/world/japan-has-more-than-100-new-coronavirus-cases-for-first-time-since-may-9-3533022

Russia to build four new nuclear power units
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
Preparations are underway in Russia to build four new power reactors, two in Leningrad and two in Smolensk, the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom announced on Friday.Rosatom Director-General Alexey Likhachev signed the agreement for the new generation VVER-1200 and VVER-TOI reactors, which are based on VVER technology developed by Rosatom, that Lihachev said "meets all current international safety requirements."The reactors are included in the country's scheme of electricity facility placement up to 2035, which was approved by the Russian government.Rosenergoatom, part of Rosatom, will be both the d…
yenisafak.com/en/world/russia-to-build-four-new-nuclear-power-units-3533042

FETàñ terror group members get life sentences in Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
A Turkish court on Friday gave aggravated life sentences to 86 Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETàñ) members for attempting to overthrow the constitutional order in a defeated 2016 coup.Ankara's Heavy Penal Court no: 23 handed down the sentences in the case, concerning the defendants' illegal actions at the Turkish Gendarmerie Command in the capital Ankara during the coup bid.In addition to the 86 aggravated life sentences, the court also handed out life sentences to 35 others, also for attempting to overthrow the constitutional order.In the same case, former Col. Erkan Oktem, who injured then-Counter-Te…
yenisafak.com/en/news/feto-terror-group-members-get-life-sentences-in-turkey-3533032

Turkey's oil imports down 18.1% in April 2020
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
Turkey's total oil imports dropped by 18.1% to 2.93 million tonnes in April this year compared to the same month last year, according to data of Turkey's energy watchdog on Friday.Crude oil imports, the category with the highest oil import volume, decreased by 1.1% during that period down to 2.35 million tonnes, Turkey's Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) said in its monthly oil market report.In April 2020, Turkey imported the highest amount of crude from Iraq at 1.46 million tonnes. Russia and Norway followed with 513,253 tonnes and 273,093 tonnes, respectively.Oil refinery product output decreased by 9.4…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/turkeys-oil-imports-down-181-in-april-2020-3533046

India grants thousands citizenship rights in Kashmir
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
As many as 25,000 people have been granted domicile certificates in Muslim-majority Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir since May 18, which local politicians believe is the beginning of disturbing demographic profile of the region.The certificate, a sort of citizenship right, entitles a person to residency and government jobs in the region, which till last year was reserved only for the local population.Last year on Aug. 5, when India revoked the semi-autonomous status of the region, it also scrapped the local special citizenship law, guaranteed under Article 35 (A) of the Indian Constitution.The law was barrin…
yenisafak.com/en/world/india-grants-thousands-citizenship-rights-in-kashmir-3533047

Turkey sets example to world in fight against drugs
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-26
Analyzing data compiled by the country's Health Ministry, Anadolu Agency found that Turkey uses a variety of methods and programs to combat drug use, including treatment, rehabilitation and social adaptation of former abusers.Political, bureaucratic, civic and scientific actors complement and reinforce each other in the country's nationwide efforts that have been organized on a multi-stakeholder structure that has been praised by the World Health Organization (WHO).WHO has since prepared an English-language publication on Turkey's program so other countries could benefit from its experiences.Turkey's anti-drug po…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-sets-example-to-world-in-fight-against-drugs-3533051

China Reportedly Warns US That Trade Deal Will Be at Risk if Washington Crosses 'Red Lines'
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-26
After reaching a milestone "Phase One" agreement on trade, which was intended to serve as a stepping stone to a comprehensive trade deal between Washington and Beijing, relations between the two started to spiral downwards. The US accused China of starting the COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely damaged American economy.
sputniknews.com/world/202006261079729740-china-reportedly-warns-us-that-trade-deal-will-be-at-risk-if-washington-crosses-red-lines/

Dow Slides 730 Points as US COVID-19 Cases Skyrocket, States Roll Back Reopening
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-26
US stocks plunged into red territory on Friday amid investor concerns over the effects that the recent surge in novel coronavirus cases may have on the strained economic recovery.
sputniknews.com/business/202006261079731516-dow-slides-700-plus-points-as-us-covid-19-cases-skyrocket-states-roll-back-reopening/

$1.4 Bln in COVID-19 Stimulus Payments Sent to More Than a Million Dead Americans
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-26
The US currently remains the worst-hit nation, with over 2.4 million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 124,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
sputniknews.com/us/202006261079723963-14-bln-in-covid-19-stimulus-payments-sent-to-more-than-a-million-dead-americans/

NASA Says Five Asteroids Will Fly Past the Earth This Weekend
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-26
Three of the celestial guests have been categorized by the space agency as Apollo asteroids, meaning that their orbit crosses that of our planet, which makes their visit potentially dangerous. At the same time, astronomers predict that a collision is highly unlikely.
sputniknews.com/science/202006261079731362-nasa-says-five-asteroids-will-fly-past-the-earth-this-weekend/

New Records Verified for Greatest Distance, Duration of Lightning Flashes – UN Agency
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-26
The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday announced new world records that were set by two so-called megaflashes, "the longest reported distance and the longest reported duration for a single lightning flash," which occurred in Brazil and Argentina, respectively.
sputniknews.com/world/202006261079731901-new-records-verified-for-greatest-distance-duration-of-lightning-flashes—un-agency/

FBI Claims Chinese Diplomats Recruiting US Scientists in Bid to Get Hands on Research and Technology
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-26
The bureau has been investigating Beijing's alleged activities for quite some time and last year filed an affidavit in a federal court. The claims come in line with Washington's rhetoric of accusing China of economic and industrial espionage on unprecedented scales.
sputniknews.com/us/202006261079727464-fbi-claims-chinese-diplomats-recruiting-us-scientists-in-bid-to-get-hands-on-research-and/

India Accuses China of Amassing Large Number of Arms, Troops Near Line of Actual Control Since May
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-26
New Delhi (Sputnik): On Wednesday, the Indian army claimed to have agreed to disengage its troops along the Line of Actual Control after several diplomatic and military level talks with China. However, alleged satellite images show that China has moved thousands of troops, artillery units, and armoured vehicles to a new area of northern Ladakh.
sputniknews.com/india/202006261079719134-india-accuses-china-of-amassing-large-number-of-arms-troops-near-line-of-actual-control-since-may/

'I Was Trying to Compress Maintenance Guy's Wound': Witness Details Hotel Stabbing in Glasgow
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-26
The police have indicated that they are continuing their investigation into the incident, however, they added that it is not being treated as a terrorist act. It comes five days after 25-year-old Khairi Saadallah, who came to the United Kingdom from Libya, stabbed to death three people in a park in Reading.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006261079731017-i-was-trying-to-compress-maintenance-guys-wound-witness-details-hotel-stabbing-in-glasgow/

Friday Prayer in Hamedan with health protocols in place
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-26
TEHRAN, Jun. 26 (MNA) — The first Friday Prayer ceremony in Hamedan was held on June 26 after a four-month hiatus due to the outbreak of coronavirus. All health protocols were in place during the event.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160204/Friday-Prayer-in-Hamedan-with-health-protocols-in-place

US desperately using economic terrors against Iranians: Foreign Ministry
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-26
TEHRAN, Jun. 26 (MNA) — In a tweet on Friday, Iranian Foreign Ministry wrote that US is desperately leading a global campaign to use economic terrors against Iranian.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160205/US-desperately-using-economic-terrors-against-Iranians-Foreign

Covid-19 was in Spanish sewage as early as MARCH 2019, study claims
rt.com | 2020-06-26
Traces of the novel coronavirus have been discovered in Barcelona sewage water months before the first case of the dreaded disease was reported in China, a new study by a group of Spanish researchers claims. | Scientists with the Enteric Virus Group at the University of Barcelona detected the presence of the virus in frozen samples of the city's wastewater collected as early as March 12, 2019. The group, led by Rosa Maria Pintó and Albert Bosch, was exploring the potential of wastewater analysis in…
rt.com/news/493085-covid-spain-march-2019-sewage/

Microsoft shuts up shop: Tech giant PERMANENTLY closing most of its retail stores
rt.com | 2020-06-26
In the face of Covid, Microsoft has announced a new approach to retail that involves shutting most of its brick-and-mortar stores and converting the remainder into experiential playgrounds. | Whilst the supply of nails for the coffin of physical retail seems limitless, the number of shops remaining on the high street is certainly not. | According to consultants PwC, the first half of 2019 witnessed a record number of stores closing in British high streets — a trend reflected a…
rt.com/news/493061-microsoft-retail-stores-closure/

Bill Gates says 'final hurdle' to distributing a Covid-19 vaccine will be convincing people to TAKE IT
rt.com | 2020-06-26
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates lamented the US is 'not even close' to doing enough to fight the pandemic, before warning that the vaccine he wants to inject into every human on the planet does require their consent first. | Speaking to Anderson Cooper at a CNN town hall on Thursday, Gates insisted the US was "experiencing a rebound" in Covid-19 infections even accounting for the increase in testing. That increase, the software tycoon reminded his interviewers, was accomplished by local governments in spite of – not because of – the White House. | Gates seemed miffed that Washington wasn't following his instr…
rt.com/usa/493068-gates-vaccine-consent-coronavirus/

Florida and Texas close bars and scale back reopening, after spike in Covid-19 cases
rt.com | 2020-06-26
The US states of Texas and Florida are shutting down bars and taking other measures to combat major rises in coronavirus infections, following their recent "reopening" after lockdown. | Florida set a one-day record for new cases on Friday, reporting 8,942 fresh infections, according to the state's department of health. The previous record was 5,508, which had been set only two days prior. | The spike in numbers has led to an announcement that, despite the state having previously endorsed the reopening of bars, on-site alcohol consumption will now be banned. Confirmation of the move was made by Halsey Beshears,…
rt.com/usa/493066-florida-bars-closed-coronavirus-texas/

'Chicago worse than Afghanistan': Trump blasts high crime rate in 'Democrat-run' cities, says it's like living in HELL
rt.com | 2020-06-26
US President Donald Trump said that Democratic Party mayors and the Barack Obama administration have done "virtually nothing" to combat violent crime in major American cities like Detroit and Chicago. | "Chicago is an example, it's worse than Afghanistan, it's worse than… Honduras," Trump told Fox News anchor Sean Hannity. | We have cities that are worse, in some cases — far worse. Take a look at Detroit. Take a look at what's happening in Oakland. Take a look at what's happening in Baltimore… These cities, it's like living in hell. | Trump said that these cities are "Democrat-run," blaming the Democr…
rt.com/usa/492975-trump-chicago-crime-rate/

'Trump wants to kill as many Americans as possible': Rob Reiner leads Hollywood's Trump Derangement Syndrome victims with a tweet
rt.com | 2020-06-26
'Misery' director and 'All in the Family' star Rob Reiner took his Trump criticism to a new level in a tweet claiming the president wants to kill American citizens before the presidential election in November. | Celebrities blasting Donald Trump is a fairly regular thing, but accusing the man of planning mass murder is something new — and a tactic apparently endorsed by Reiner. | "Trump's 2020 election platform: Kill as many Americans as possible," the 'Princess Bride' director tweeted on Friday to his one mil…
rt.com/usa/493074-rob-reiner-trump-coronavirus-kill-americans/

Turkey jails 121 people for life over botched 2016 coup attempt
rt.com | 2020-06-26
A Turkish court has handed down life sentences to 121 people found guilty of trying to overthrow the country's president back in 2016. The failed coup has triggered a massive purge, with thousands of Turks being fired or jailed. | The verdicts were announced by the court in Ankara on Friday. It found the defendants guilty of attempting to "violate the constitution" three years ago. | Some 35 individuals were given a life sentence for the crime, while another 86 received "aggravated" imprisonment for life. One of the defendants, a former military colonel, has been given a whopping nine "aggravated" life terms,…
rt.com/news/493052-turkey-coup-life-sentences/

NYT celebrates 'radical feminist' whose legacy was 'overshadowed' by '1 violent act'… shooting Andy Warhol
rt.com | 2020-06-26
The New York Times has left many scratching their heads over an article about feminist Valerie Solanas' activism being "overshadowed" by the small fact that she attempted to murder film director Andy Warhol. | "She made daring arguments in 'SCUM Manifesto,' her case for a world without men. But her legacy as a writer and thinker was overshadowed by one violent act," Bonnie Wertheim writes as part of the "overlooked no more" series for the paper, which looks to highlight "remarkable people" whos…
rt.com/usa/493083-new-york-times-solanas-andy-warhol/

Texas realtors ditch term 'master' for bedrooms and bathrooms, despite it having no connection to slavery
rt.com | 2020-06-26
The US war on offensive terms has claimed a new victim in the real estate sector, after a major association decided to call bedrooms and bathrooms "primary" rather than "master". | The decision by the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) was implemented in all its online listings on June 15, but was not noticed by the media until this week. The change may become a national industry standard, a statement from HAR cited by the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday said. | The…
rt.com/usa/493041-houston-realtors-master-bedroom/

Gaming giant Ubisoft investigates claims its employees engaged in sexual harassment, vowing to 'punish inappropriate behavior'
rt.com | 2020-06-26
French video-gaming company Ubisoft has acknowledged sexual misconduct claims raised against some of its employees, promising to investigate the allegations and to be more "inclusive" in the future. | It said it was aware of the allegations, which have circulated on social media, and released a statement about the issues on its website on Friday. While Ubisoft did not reveal whether its internal inquiry yielded any results, it preemptively apologized for the whole scandal. | "We want to start by apologizing to everyone affected by this — we are truly sorry," the company said, adding that it is "dedicated…
rt.com/news/493079-ubisoft-sexual-harassement-probe/

New coronavirus cases hit record high in US
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-26
The number of confirmed new coronavirus (Covid-19) cases per day in the US hit an all-time high of 40,000 — eclipsing the mark set during one of the deadliest stretches in late April. | The figure represents a resurgence that has led some governors to back track or at least pause the reopening of their states. | While the increase is believed to reflect, in part, greatly expanded testing, experts say there is ample evidence the virus is making a comeback, including rising deaths and hospitalisations in parts of the country, especially in the South and West. | Arizona, Texas and Florida are among the states…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/06/26/new-coronavirus-cases-hit-record-high-in-us/

Concerns raised about possible surge in forced marriages as lockdown eased
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-26
Campaigners fear there could be a spike in forced marriages as coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown restrictions continue to relax in the UK and once quarantine rules are lifted. | Charities say during the pandemic they've seen a surge in calls from people worried their parents are increasingly intent on marrying them off after living in close quarters amid the crisis. | They warn parents could now be planning to take their children abroad for weddings against their will, as soon as laws on self-isolating for 14 days on return to the UK are scrapped. | The warnings came as data gathered by the Forced Marriage Unit (FM…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/26/concerns-raised-about-possible-surge-in-forced-marriages-as-lockdown-eased/

With COVID Spiking in Sun Belt, Trump Leads GOP Governors Toward Electoral Ruin
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-26
President Trump traveled to Wisconsin on Thursday to tour a naval shipyard, where he bragged that he had the Navy steer a big contract Wisconsin's way, which can only be construed as an order to boost his electoral chances in the swing state. I suppose it's not surprising that he is so open about such things. After all, he was impeached for trying…
truthout.org/articles/with-covid-spiking-in-sun-belt-trump-leads-gop-governors-toward-electoral-ruin/

It's Time to Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-26
The COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the economy provides a golden opportunity for creating a fairer, more just and sustainable world as it shatters long-held assumptions about the economic and political order. Its impact on the energy industry in particular can boost support for tackling the existential threat of global warming by raising the prospect of nationalizing and eventually dismantling fossil fuel producing companies, a position argued passionately by one of the world's leading progressive economists, Robert Poll…
truthout.org/articles/its-time-to-nationalize-the-fossil-fuel-industry/

Florida Reports 9,000 New Coronavirus Cases In Biggest Daily Surge
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-26
Florida officials announced on Friday the largest single-day increase of new coronavirus cases in the state, eclipsing the previous record set just one day prior by a count of several thousand. | Out of 71,433 tests conducted within a 24-hour period in Florida, 8,942 cases came back positive for COVID-19, a rate of 13.05 percent. Both numbers were higher than the…
truthout.org/articles/florida-reports-9000-new-coronavirus-cases-in-biggest-daily-surge/

Colonized Loyalty: Asian American Anti-Blackness and Complicity
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-26
"Capitalism requires inequality and racism enshrines it." — Ruth Wilson Gilmore | In the United States, racism against Asian Americans, whether in a public rally, in the public space or in the classroom, has become routine. | In March 2020 Donald Trump called the coronavirus "Chinese Virus." On June 20, 2020, at an anemically attended rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Trump named the deadly coronavirus "Kung Flu…
truthout.org/articles/colonized-loyalty-asian-american-anti-blackness-and-complicity/

States Are Legally Required to Protect the Right to Vote
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-26
As the 2020 general election approaches, the Trump Administration and Republican-controlled states have ramped-up efforts to keep people of color from exercising their right to vote. Leaders of the Republican Party favor suppressing the votes of minority people, knowing they likely support Democratic candidates. In March 2020, The Guardian reported that Texas leads the South in closing vot…
truthout.org/articles/states-are-legally-required-to-protect-the-right-to-vote/

Racial-communalist politics and the second assassination of Abraham Lincoln
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
To disrupt working-class and youth solidarity, the two capitalist parties and various reactionary elements in the upper-middle class are stooping to new lows to promote racial divisions.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/25/18834581.php

Thursday 7/2: Tackling Anti-Blackness in Immigrant Communities Discussion w/ United We Dream
United We Dream & others | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834612.php

WorkWeek On Police Unions, Police Terror, The AFL-CIO And Labor
WorkWeek | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
WorkWeek looks at the role of the police, police terror, labor and the AFL-CIO. The police have been expelled from the MLK Jr. Labor Council in Seattle after a debate and participants discuss the issue. Also WorkWeek looks at termination of Chicago ATU 241 bus driver and Executive Board member Erek Slater.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834620.php

First Municipal Ban on Predictive Policing in Santa Cruz
Oakland Privacy | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
On June 23, the Santa Cruz City Council voted 7-0 to ban the municipal use of predictive policing software and facial recognition technology in the central coast city. Santa Cruz becomes the eighth city to ban the use of facial recognition, joining San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley and the MA cities of Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline and Northampton, and the first city to ban predictive software.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834608.php

Flagging U.S. Credibility at Vienna Arms Control Talks
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-26
A puerile propaganda stunt pulled by U.S. negotiators in Vienna this week ahead of talks with Russian counterparts was both at insult to China and a reprehensible distraction from credible bilateral business with Moscow on the vital issue of strategic security. | Ahead of talks with Russian delegates, the Americans took a stealthy photo of the venue contriving to show Chinese flags sitting atop vacant tables. | U.S. envoy Marshall Billingslea then tried to twitter-shame China by decl…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/26/flagging-us-credibility-at-vienna-arms-control-talks/

The Korean War Atrocities No One Wants to Talk About
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-26
When politicians or generals appear itching to pull the U.S. into another foreign war, remember that truth is routinely the first casualty. The blood of civilian victims of U.S. wars is the political version of disappearing ink. But the kinfolk and neighbors of those victims could pursue vengeance regardless of whether cover-ups con the American people.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/26/the-korean-war-atrocities-no-one-wants-to-talk-about/

In Support of President Putin's History of World War II
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-26
On 19 June President Vladimir Putin published an article on the origins of World War II. He wanted to demonstrate, with some documents from the rich Russian archives, that the USSR, contrary to the west's fake history, was far from being responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War. By fake history I mean that which is widely publicised, inter alia, by the European Parliament at Strasbourg and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The western reaction to Putin's article has been furious, outraged, and quite si…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/26/in-support-of-president-putin-history-world-war-ii/

Get Ready for 'Shock and Awe' Brexit Propaganda Campaign
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
The governments' overuse of militaristic, Churchillian and war-time cliches over Brexit and the pandemic is wearing thin and getting tiresome. But as Brexit day approaches, this is the mentality of a government obsessed with public relations. A mass propaganda invasion …
globalresearch.ca/shock-awe-brexit-propaganda-campaign/5717106

Get ready for 'Shock and Awe' Brexit propaganda campaign
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-26
By TruePublica Editor: The governments' overuse of militaristic, Churchillian and war-time cliches over Brexit and the pandemic is wearing thin and getting tiresome. But as Brexit day approaches, this is the mentality of a government obsessed with public relations. A mass propaganda invasion is to be aimed at every adult to overcome the Remainer enemy. …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/get-ready-for-shock-and-awe-brexit-propaganda-campaign/

Pandemic Pride: LGBTQ struggle continues, learns from Black Lives Matter
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-26
This weekend marks a half-century since the first Pride march took place on June 28, 1970. That initial event in New York City, called "Christopher Street Liberation Day," recalled the Stonewall Rebellion of a year earlier–the night a band of fed-up queers stood up, fought back, and launched a liberation struggle that transformed the world. …
peoplesworld.org/article/pandemic-pride-lgbtq-struggle-continues-learns-from-black-lives-matter/

NATO at the Helm of Italian Foreign Policy
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
NATO Defense Ministers (Lorenzo Guerini, Pd representing Italy) gathered by videoconference on June17/18, and made a series of "decisions to strengthen the Alliance's deterrence." However, nobody in Italy talks about it, neither the media (including social media) nor …
globalresearch.ca/nato-italian-foreign-policy/5717113

Selected Articles: NATO at the Helm of Italian Foreign Policy
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-26
Dear Readers, | We regularly receive feedback from you telling us how important the articles we publish are to you, especially in today's tumultuous and uncertain times. We thank you, and pledge that we will continue to deliver our daily dose …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-nato-italian-foreign-policy/5717131

Sex and the Stricken City: In Praise of Proximity
JoAnn Wypijewski | thenation.com | 2020-06-26
Sex and the Stricken City: In Praise of Proximity…
thenation.com/article/society/proximity-sex-solidarity-coronavirus/

As Covid-19 Hits War-Torn Nation, UNICEF Warns Millions of Yemeni Children at Risk of Starvation
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
"Children will be pushed to the brink of starvation and many will die." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/uni341696.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/26/covid-19-hits-war-torn-nation-unicef-warns-millions-yemeni-children-risk-starvation?cd-origin=rss

'Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud,' Trump Suggests $5 Billion Weapons Contract Awarded to Boost 2020 Chances in Wisconsin
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
Political observers said Friday that several shipbuilding companies may have grounds to file formal complaints the Government Accountability Office after President Donald Trump suggested the Navy awarded a contract to a Wisconsin company because of its status as a key swing state. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1252500407_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/26/saying-quiet-part-out-loud-trump-suggests-5-billion-weapons-contract-awarded-boost?cd-origin=rss

'Long Past Time': In Historic Vote, House Democrats Pass Legislation to Make DC the 51st State
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
Pro-democracy groups applauded House Democrats on Friday for passing historic legislation that would grant statehood to Washington, D.C. and give equal citizenship to the more than 700,000 people who live there. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1208491836.png …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/26/long-past-time-historic-vote-house-democrats-pass-legislation-make-dc-51st-state?cd-origin=rss

"Please Forgive Me," Said Elijah McClain As Three Cops Murdered Him
Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/further/elijah_tease_82104_screenshot20200624at12_1593001092060.png …

How a US and Qatari regime change deception produced 'Caesar' sanctions driving Syria towards famine
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-25
Like the mysterious figure it is named for, the Caesar sanctions bill is the product of an elaborate deception by…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/25/us-qatari-intelligence-deception-produced-the-caesar-sanctions-syria-famine/

How a US & Qatari regime change deception produced the 'Caesar' sanctions driving Syria towards famine
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-25
Like the mysterious figure it is named for, the Caesar sanctions bill is the product of an elaborate deception by…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/25/us-qatari-intelligence-deception-produced-the-caesar-sanctions-syria-famine/

UN Security Council Members Slam Illegal Israeli Annexation Scheme
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
Israeli settlements breach international law, an indisputable fact. | The UN Charter bans use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, as well as forcible acquisition of territory not its own. | A joint statement by nearly …
globalresearch.ca/un-security-council-members-slam-illegal-israeli-annexation-scheme/5717015

Video: Infighting Among Idlib Al Qaeda Radicals Resumes with Renewed Energy
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
Late on June 23, the Israeli Air Force conducted airstrikes on alleged Iranian-linked targets near al-Sukhna and Kabajab in central Syria and near Tel Al-Sahn in the countryside of as-Suwayda in southern Syria. A second wave of Israeli strikes early …
globalresearch.ca/video-infighting-among-idlib-radicals-resumes-renewed-energy/5716949

Progressives Must Fight With—and In—the Democratic Party
Norman Solomon | commondreams.org | 2020-06-25
130 Sanders delegates (including me) from congressional districts across the state—90 percent of all such Sanders delegates—have signed a statement calling for Khanna to be the delegation chair. (Photo: Michael Brochstein/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/khanna_coronavirus.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/25/progressives-must-fight-and-democratic-party?cd-origin=rss

Capitalism/The cause of COVID-19 deaths
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2020-06-25
China set up a system for checking the people entering residential buildings for COVID-19 symptoms. Here a security guard checks temperatures on Feb. 26 in Beijing. June 23 — Does the COVID-19 virus operate differently in capitalist countries than in socialist countries? Based on a comparison of global numbers of . . . | Continue reading Capitalism/The cause of COVID-19 deaths at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49636/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=capitalism-the-cause-of-covid-19-deaths

Soldiers Injure Many Palestinians In Jordan Valley
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-25
Israeli soldiers attacked, Thursday, dozens of Palestinians in Fasayel village, in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, causing dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation. The villagers, accompanied by several cabinet members and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officials, were trying to hold a meeting in the village, …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-injure-many-palestinians-in-jordan-valley/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soldiers-injure-many-palestinians-in-jordan-valley

PDF of June 25 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-06-25
Download the 12-page PDF. Juneteenth: Racist cops, statues under siege; Finishing the unfinished revolution Black Trans Lives Matter; Uprising vs. cops and more; Tulsa reparations, 1921 to 2020; Workers resist racism, union-busting; Indigenous-Black solidarity; Colonizers, enslavers toppled; ILWU shuts down West Coast; Stop police terror! Palestine to U.S.; WORLD: Virus . . . | Continue reading PDF of June 25 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49647/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-june-25-issue

U.S to Palestine, stop racist police terror!
calvin deutschbein | workers.org | 2020-06-25
Demilitarize!Durham2 Palestine at the annual Historic Thousands on Jones Street., joining over 200 social justice organizations,. Feb/ 8. Durham, N.C. As the uprising rocks the U.S., increasingly the veil over policing — a form of neocolonialism — is wearing thin. In the Triangle area of North Carolina, home of the . . . | Continue reading U.S to Palestine, stop racist police terror! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49627/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-s-to-palestine-stop-racist-police-terror

Fear in the John F. Kennedy Assassination. "Some Americans Consider the Possibility that it Was A Regime Change Operation"
Jacob G. Hornberger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
One of the fascinating phenomena in the JFK assassination is the fear of some Americans to consider the possibility that the assassination was actually a regime-change operation carried out by the U.S. national-security establishment rather than simply a murder carried …
globalresearch.ca/fear-in-the-john-f-kennedy-assassination-some-americans-consider-the-possibility-that-it-was-a-regime-change-operation/5717010

Role of sanctions in U.S. plan for world domination — a commentary
| workers.org | 2020-06-25
By Samuel Thomas Sanctions: This is the well-known method of spreading democracy and prosperity through death, starvation, shortages and economic collapse. Throughout U.S. history, this method of regime change, ostensibly intended to be implemented against countries at war or allied to a country at war with the U.S., they are . . . | Continue reading Role of sanctions in U.S. plan for world domination — a commentary at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49630/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=role-of-sanctions-in-u-s-plan-for-world-domination-a-commentary

Repair & Revive: Rev. William Barber on Fighting Racism, Poverty, Climate Change, War & Nationalism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-25
The Poor People's Campaign offered a counterpoint to President Trump's sparsely attended Tulsa campaign rally with a mass digital gathering that unveiled a policy platform to spur "transformative action" on five key issues of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and the threat of religious nationalism. "We have to repair and revive," says Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign. "That has to be a part of if we're truly going to ever be the democracy we claim to be on paper."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/25/poor_peoples_campaign_assembly_william_barber

How U.S. and Brazil Leadership That "Neglects Science" Led to Hemisphere's Worst Coronavirus Crises
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-25
As coronavirus infections worldwide approach 10 million, nearly half can be found in the two largest countries in the Americas: the United States and Brazil, which now has the worst infection rate in the world and could surpass the U.S. death toll next month. "What we see in the country is a reflection of the leadership that we have," says Marcia Castro, professor of demography, chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-chair of Harvard's Brazil Studies Program, noting far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has downplayed the pandemic's severity an…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/25/brazil_us_coronavirus_cases_surge_marcia

Vive la #Resistance? Pundits Twitter-duel after Lindsey Graham accuses Democrats of channeling French Revolution
rt.com | 2020-06-25
The Twitter mob has predictably begun to argue over the virtues and pitfalls of the French Revolution, after Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested that radicals have co-opted the Democratic Party and are marching the nation towards ruin. | The South Carolina lawmaker triggered a large number of blue checkmarks after accusing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive cohorts of spearheading "the most radical mob" in recent American history. | "It appears the French Revolution has now come to the Democratic Party," the Republican senator tweeted. | But his incendiary warning seemed to galvanize liberal Twitter p…
rt.com/usa/492864-french-revolution-graham-democrats-debate/

Progressive Candidates Surge Again as Trump Drags GOP Down
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-25
There are times in this business when all you can do is sit back and let the "wow" hop all over you like a jubilant pack of kangaroo mice turned loose upon the world. Why? Because I get to type this sentence: New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated her main primary opponent, conservative Democrat Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, by the razor-thin margin of 72-19. | Ha. Wow. Hop hop…
truthout.org/articles/progressive-candidates-surge-again-as-trump-drags-gop-down/

Coronavirus casts 'huge shadow' over Afghan life as multi-dimensional crisis continues
news.un.org | 2020-06-25
The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health emergency, but a multi-dimensional crisis for Afghanistan, dealing its people a painful blow just as Kabul and the Taliban prepare for peace talks in Qatar, the top UN official in the country says.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067162

Meet the far-right oligarchs working to topple Mexico's progressive President AMLO
José Argàºello | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-25
A Trump-like Mexican oligarch, Gilberto Lozano, is leading a coalition of corporate leaders and far-right fanatics called FRENA to try…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/25/frena-gilberto-lozano-mexico-coup-amlo/

Trump Admitted Relocation of American Soldiers to Poland Is Aimed Against Russia
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
It appears that despite achieving so-called independence from the Soviet Union and joining the EU and NATO in 2004, Lithuania does not have full sovereignty. In yesterday's negotiations with US President Donald Trump, the interests of Vilnius were not …
globalresearch.ca/trump-admitted-relocation-american-soldiers-poland-aimed-against-russia/5716996

Trump Unloads on Bolton After Bolton Unloads on Trump
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-25
John Bolton's new memoir "The Room Where It Happened," which came out two days ago in spite of White House attempts to block it, is the stand…

Trump Unloads on Bolton After Bolton Unloads on Trump

Racialized Militarism, Peacebuilding And Defunding The Military
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-25
As the Canadian government prepares to spend $1 billion on Raytheon missiles and related equipment, award a $19 billion contract for new fighter jets in 2022, and increase spending to $32.7 billion a year on the military by 2026, it is both timely and necessary to have a conversation about peacebuilding and the structures of violence. In this regard, the Canadian Peace Initiative has a campaign to establish a federal Department of Peace. And Eriel Tchekwie Deranger has urged NGOs advocating for a Green New Deal to: "center the destructive intertwined roles of capitalism, consumerism, militarism and colonialism as…
popularresistance.org/racialized-militarism-peacebuilding-and-defunding-the-military/

Boycotting Israel Is Not A Crime, Says European Human Rights Court
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-25
The EHRC overturned the French court's convictions of 12 BDS activists for "incitement to discrimination" in a watershed ruling for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
therealnews.com/stories/boycotting-israel-not-a-crime-european-human-rights-court-france

Democratizing Energy To Counter The Climate Catastrophe
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-25
Youth climate activists have been striking to demand immediate climate action from political powers. They conjoined the issues of climate and labor by calling for a global climate strike in September, 2019, in which a historic 7.6 million schoolkids, (grand)parents and workers from 185 countries participated. Over 70 trade unions around the world supported the strike and the number of climate groups that are demanding a just transition for fossil fuel workers are also steadily increasing. | The European landscape of climate activism is becoming densely populated. Numerous communities are defending nature together…
popularresistance.org/democratizing-energy-to-counter-the-climate-catastrophe/

Assange faces second indictment by US on charges of recruiting hacktivists
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-25
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will face a fresh indictment on charges of having "hired" and "conspired" with hacktivist groups, including Anonymous, LulzSec, and "a famous teenage hacker in Australia"
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/25/assange-faces-second-indictment-by-us-on-charges-of-recruiting-hacktivists/

US Government Expands Assange Indictment to Criminalize Assistance Provided to Edward Snowden
Kevin Gosztola | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
The United States government expanded their indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to criminalize the assistance WikiLeaks provided to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden when staff helped him leave Hong Kong. | Sarah Harrison, who was a section editor for WikiLeaks, …
globalresearch.ca/us-government-expands-assange-indictment-criminalize-assistance-provided-edward-snowden/5717008

US indictment of Assange based on testimony of FBI assets, convicted child molester
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
The indictment paints a picture of US operatives pouring through decade-old tabloid gossip and dredging up the most unsavoury creatures of their own intelligence agencies to fling mud at Assange.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/assa-j25.html

Digital tools being used to track people as never before, warns UN rights chief
news.un.org | 2020-06-25
The internet and new digital tools are being manipulated as never before to infringe on people's right to free assembly, the UN's top rights official said on Thursday, in a call for a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology during peaceful demonstrations.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067112

Saturday 6/27: Peaceful Protest for Black Lives Matter
Peaceful Protest for Black Lives Matter | indybay.org | 2020-06-25
Santa Cruz Clock Tower | Pacific Ave. and Water St., Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/24/18834551.php

Tuesday 6/23: Community Meeting on Police Response at Protests
San José Peace and Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-06-25
Zoom online meeting | Register in advance for this meeting: bit.ly/ComMtg0623 (or us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApd-yvrjIvGtIy2_uCkP4yNI3-5dheaEDs) | After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/23/18834486.php

Sunday 6/28: Sit. Walk. Listen. Because Black Lives Matter
Sit.Walk.Listen. | indybay.org | 2020-06-25
Henry J. Kaiser Memorial Park (19th st. and Telegraph ave), Oakland, CA | Dear siblings, these times are a great call for change. | As mindfulness practitioners, we can breathe for others who cannot. Let's bring the practice of peaceful compassionate nonviolence to the streets; to listen, to follow, and support black people. | As Thich Nhat Hanh once said: "Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity." | Together we can walk in peace, love, compassion and awareness.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/22/18834485.php

Sit, Bike, Skate, March on Washington
Jenna Ruddock | progressive.org | 2020-06-25
A photo essay from the ongoing protests against police brutality in the nation's capital.
progressive.org/dispatches/washington-dc-photo-essay-ruddock-200625/

Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the Neoliberal Color Revolution in America
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
"The protests, riots, violent and non-violent actions sweeping across the United States since May 25, including an assault on the gates of the White House, begin to make sense when we understand the CIA's Color Revolution playbook," writes economic researcher, …
globalresearch.ca/blm-neoliberal-color-revolution-america/5716946

A month after George Floyd's death, what has changed?
Anish R M | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-25
A month has passed by since the brutal killing of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The protests that erupted across the United States and continue to rage on have significantly altered the political landscape of the nation's politics. Much like the protests of 2014-15 sparked by the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the protests happening today have brought some of the perennial questions and unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement. | From talks about police reforms to abolition of the police, from the lingering Confederate legacy to colonial-settler and slave-ow…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/25/a-month-after-george-floyds-death-what-has-changed/

Words, Race, and the Pandemic
Rosamond S. King | progressive.org | 2020-06-25
The president's use of the term "Chinese virus," like his referring to antiracist protestors as "thugs" and "lowlifes," is part of his pattern of promoting racism and white supremacy.
progressive.org/op-eds/words-race-and-pandemic-king-200625/

FROM THE FIELD: Sudanese women ready to 'break taboos' and run for office
news.un.org | 2020-06-25
Since the 2019 Sudan protests, which ushered in a transitional government, and the promise of more rights, over a thousand women have felt emboldened to enter politics in a bid to enact lasting democratic change.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067092

Massive Uprisings Confront White Supremacy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-25
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 daylight." Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in all 50 states and Washington D.C.; the anti-racist uprisings continue. | Why do a majority of people in this country now support the Movement for Black Lives? Why have calls to defund and abolish the police entered the mainstream discourse? Why are people risking the deadly coronavirus to join the protests? And why are we seeing what may be the broadest popular movement in the history of the United Stat…
popularresistance.org/massive-uprisings-confront-white-supremacy/

Pre-emptive Strike Against Cancel Culture? Country Group Dixie Chicks Changes Name Amid US Protests
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
The protests, which began as a movement in opposition to police brutality and indifference towards the lives of African Americans, later morphed into rampant vandalism, with protesters eventually targeting monuments related to racism or slavery in any form and demanding the removal of statues of even some of the most famous historical figures.
sputniknews.com/us/202006251079721444-pre-emptive-strike-against-cancel-culture-country-group-dixie-chicks-changes-name-amid-us-protests/

Hundreds of National Guard troops activated in Washington DC & Wisconsin to protect monuments
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Some 400 National Guard troops have been activated in the nation's capital to protect historical monuments from vandalism, following a failed attempt by protesters to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson near the White House. | The guardsmen, who would be unarmed if deployed, were placed on standby Wednesday afternoon as heated demonstrations against police brutality and racism rage on around the country, driving calls for the removal of statues and monuments protesters see as celebrating slavery and other historical abuses. | "The District of Columbia National Guard has sent unarmed troops to guard monuments and…
rt.com/usa/492857-national-guard-wisconsin-dc-monuments/

'Nothing but house n***ers': DC protesters confront black cops, joking about contaminating their masks with Covid-19 (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Angry protesters have been filmed harassing black police officers at a protest in Washington DC, with one man saying they should "put some Covid" in their face masks, while another is heard calling the cops "house n***ers." | The video, shared on social media by Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott on Wednesday, shows the heated moment when Black Lives Matter protesters confront two black Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department officers. | "You should be ashamed of yourselves," one person shouts, as another insists that the black cops "ain't nothing but house n***ers" — an insulting historical refere…
rt.com/usa/492892-protesters-police-covid-masks/

Occupy meets BLM: Protesters camp outside New York's City Hall, demanding $1bn cut from NYPD budget
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Hundreds of protesters have been camped out in front of New York's City Hall for the past two nights, vowing to "occupy" it until Mayor Bill de Blasio agrees to cut $1 billion from the police budget and give it to social services. | …
rt.com/usa/492959-occupy-city-hall-nypd-budget/

US reports RECORD jump in coronavirus cases as states mull tougher restrictions, blaming anything but packed protests
rt.com | 2020-06-25
The US has broken its own record for the number of coronavirus cases recorded in a single day, with more than 38,000 new patients confirmed in the last 24 hours, topping a high set in April, as some states see infections spike. | …
rt.com/usa/492859-us-coronavirus-record-restrictions/

3 US cops fired after caught discussing 'slaughtering' black people & need for 2nd Civil War to 'wipe 'em off the map'
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Three police officers in North Carolina have lost their jobs after accidentally recording their own highly inflammatory conversations, in which they are heard discussing "slaughtering n****rs" and calling for a new Civil War. | Officers Kevin Piner, James Gilmore, and Jessie Moore were fired from the Wilmington Police Department on Wednesday, following an internal probe that revealed the three had inadvertently captured shocking racist remarks and praise for racial violence on dash cam video. | Soon after protests over the police killing of George Floyd kicked off in Wilmington earlier this month, a WPD office…
rt.com/usa/492860-north-carolina-racist-cops-fired/

Uber Drivers Protest Outside CEO's Home to Demand Labor Protections
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-25
On Wednesday morning, a caravan of around 50 Uber and Lyft drivers cruised down a quiet street in San Francisco's ritzy Pacific Heights' neighborhood and parked in front of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's home. One white van with a "Black Lives Matter" sign draped over the…
truthout.org/articles/uber-drivers-protest-outside-ceos-home-to-demand-labor-protections/

"No Layoffs" "Stop The Greed" Frontline UCSF Workers Protest Cutbacks In Middle Of Covid
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-25
UCSF AFSCME 3299 Frontline healthcare workers and other union members from UC rallied and protested against the 3,000 cutbacks by UC management and regents. These cutbacks in the midst of a major pandemic will not only threaten the workers the care of the patients and the public.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/24/18834553.php

Megakaryocytes and platelet-fibrin thrombi characterize multi-organ thrombosis at autopsy in COVID-19: A case series
Amy V. Rapkiewicz, Xingchen Mai, Steven E. Carsons, Stefania Pittaluga, David E. Kleiner, Jeffrey S. Berger, Sarun Thomas, Nicole M. Adler, David M. Charytan, Billel Gasmi, Judith S. Hochman, Harmony R. Reynolds | thelancet.com | 2020-06-25
In this series of seven COVID-19 autopsies, thrombosis was a prominent feature in multiple organs, in some cases despite full anticoagulation and regardless of timing of the disease course, suggesting that thrombosis plays a role very early in the disease process. The finding of megakaryocytes and platelet-rich thrombi in the lungs, heart and kidneys suggests a role in thrombosis.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30178-4/fulltext?rss=yes

The Two-Headed Hydra of Racism and Imperialism
Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-25
Black Lives Matter (BLM) has raised mass consciousness against the institution of police violence and the brutality it inflicts on Black communities around the country. The movement has placed the question of police brutality at the top of the political and juridical reform agenda. The naked display of the oppressive state apparatus has now forced everyone, from the fascist residents of the White House to the liberal democrats of the House, politicians speak of the need to reform policing–more training, more screening, more record-keepings, judicial vigilance, and other haphazard sutures for the centuries o…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/25/the-two-headed-hydra-of-racism-and-imperialism/

Debunking Trump and Corporate Media's WHO/China coverup conspiracy theories
Joshua Cho | mronline.org | 2020-06-25
The Trump administration suspended funding to WHO in April–the UN's primary infectious disease–fighting body–accusing it of "severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus," and of taking China's allegedly deceptive claims about its handling of COVID-19 at "face value." But corporate media had already been boosting these same talking points.
mronline.org/2020/06/25/debunking-trump-and-corporate-medias-who-china-coverup-conspiracy-theories/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=debunking-trump-and-corporate-medias-who-china-coverup-conspiracy-theories

Pandemic proves opportunity for industry power grab
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-25
By Tamasin Cave: The UK government has been "incredibly receptive" to businesses lobbying to shape its response to Covid-19 The decision to allow pubs and restaurants to reopen on July 4, before schools, and to relax social distancing, are the latest concessions to the alcohol industry during the Covid-19 crisis, after the government classified off-licences …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/pandemic-proves-opportunity-for-industry-power-grab/

New COVID-19 outbreaks in Germany and Berlin's inhumane quarantine conditions
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
Since June 13, 369 households, each containing one to 10 people, have been quarantined as a result of COVID-19 infections in one of Berlin's poorest districts.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/quar-j25.html

German Left alleges government complicity in COVID-19 outbreak at meat plant
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-25
The unsafe work conditions at a meat processing plant in Gàºtersloh, owned by Tà∂nnies Holding Group, has led to a severe outbreak of COVID-19 amongst its employees…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/25/german-left-alleges-government-complicity-in-covid-19-outbreak-at-meat-plant/

"Referendum in Russia exposes the sham of bourgeois democracy"
Muhammed Shabeer | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-25
Roman Kononenko from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation talks about the ongoing referendum in Russia on the constitutional reforms proposed by president Vladimir Putin. He also talks about how the country handled the COVID-19 pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/25/referendum-in-russia-exposes-the-sham-of-bourgeois-democracy/

Yemen: millions of children facing deadly hunger, amidst aid shortages and COVID-19
news.un.org | 2020-06-25
Millions of children in the heart of the world's worst humanitarian disaster could be pushed to the brink of starvation, due to huge shortfalls in humanitarian aid funding amid the coronavirus pandemic, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067082

The United States nears a new one-day high of COVID-19 infections
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
The United States neared a new one-day high in new cases of COVID-19, with 38,386 new infections, only a few hundred below the high set back on April 24 with 39,072 cases.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/usco-j25.html

COVID-19's far reaching impact on global drug abuse
news.un.org | 2020-06-25
More than 35 million people around the world now suffer from drug addiction, according to the latest annual report on the scourge, from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released on Thursday, which also analyzes the far-reaching impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global drug markets.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066992

UN tallies action so far to fight COVID-19, and roadmap out of the pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-06-25
Amid the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN has mobilized to save lives, control transmission of the virus and ease the economic fallout, Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists on Thursday, speaking at the virtual launch of his report on the Organization's response to the crisis…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067132

India rapidly emerging as epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
As a result of the Modi government's abandonment of lockdown measures, the coronavirus is spreading like wildfire in both urban slums and rural areas.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/indi-j25.html

First Person: Innovation brewing at Hawaii coffee farm
news.un.org | 2020-06-25
Innovation and experimentation are helping a coffee farm in the US state of Hawaii to prosper in a competitive market, an approach which has helped the company to get through the global COVID-19 pandemic.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066362

Maritime union intensifies campaign against job cuts in the UK ferry industry
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-25
P&O Ferries in the UK has announced plans to cut 1,100 jobs citing the crisis in the ferry services industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/25/maritime-union-intensifies-campaign-against-job-cuts-in-the-uk-ferry-industry/

Beyond COVID-19 Aid, Ethiopia Hoists Africa's Flag
Kester Kenn Klomegah | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
Ethiopia, by all standards, is a reputable country in East Africa. It gains popularly from different angles. In terms of politics, Ethiopia has been touted as a country with an excellent model of democracy in Africa. For his efforts in …
globalresearch.ca/beyond-covid-19-aid-ethiopia-hoists-africa-flag/5716986

COVID-19 cases rapidly surge in Texas
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
Texas confirmed over 5,000 cases for the first time on Tuesday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/texa-j25.html

New York Times column: Pandemic shows need to curtail "unnecessary" and "wasteful" doctor's visits
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
Dr. Sandeep Jauhar makes the remarkable argument that patients who have stopped going to the doctor during the COVID-19 outbreak "seem to have done OK," and concludes that Americans have too much access to health care.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/doct-j25.html

Detroit nurses' lawsuit exposes horrific conditions at Sinai-Grace Hospital as COVID-19 deaths spiked
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
Four nurses who worked at Sinai-Grace Hospital have filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Tenet corporation that operates the facility where dozens of people died from COVID-19 due to management's cost-cutting.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/detr-j25.html

Amazing facts about the virus
Deirdre Griswold | workers.org | 2020-06-25
Medical staff in Wuhan, China, celebrate after all coronavirus patients were discharged from temporary emergency hospital, March 9. Facts are stubborn things. Take the fact that the People's Republic of China, with four times the population of the U.S., has had far fewer COVID-19 deaths, even though it was the . . . | Continue reading Amazing facts about the virus at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49633/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amazing-facts-about-the-virus

London bus drivers' lives threatened by union collusion on inadequate COVID-19 measures
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
The Unite union is playing a crucial role for the government and Transport for London in policing the back-to-work drive and concealing the immense dangers facing bus and transport workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/lond-j25.html

Brazilian government hides scale of COVID-19 pandemic to promote criminal reopening
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
Different studies point to severe underreporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths, as outbreaks at working places spread across Brazil.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/braz-j25.html

Unite union facilitates cover-up of COVID-19 outbreak in UK meat processing plants
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
Meat processing factories across the world have become a breeding ground for the virus, and working in them is a potential death sentence.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/meat-j25.html

UK Health Ministry Has No Records on Turkish Protective Equipment (PPE) Fiasco and Won't Say if Files Destroyed
Ian Cobain | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
Department responsible tells MEE it has no documents about botched import of medical gear, raising concerns of cover-up ahead of inquiry into government's response to Covid-19 | *** | The British government's health ministry says it has no record whatsoever of its …
globalresearch.ca/uk-health-ministry-has-no-records-turkish-ppe-fiasco-wont-say-files-destroyed/5716910

IMF downgrades forecast for global economy
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
The global economy is predicted to take a $12 trillion hit over 2020 and 2021 with the COVID-19 pandemic having a "catastrophic" effect on the world labour market.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/imfr-j25.html

ACLU Comment on Bill Stopping Face Recognition Surveillance
commondreams.org | 2020-06-25
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/06/25/aclu-comment-bill-stopping-face-recognition-surveillance?cd-origin=rss

Amazon worker's job in limbo after seeking to take time off for injury
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
Seeking to take time off after breaking his wrist in a fall, the worker was denied access to his jobsite and had his identification card deactivated.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/fall-j25.html

Racial-communalist politics and the second assassination of Abraham Lincoln
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
In the one month since the killing of George Floyd, the mass, multi-racial and international demonstrations against police violence are in danger of being hijacked by a faction of the ruling class that is aggressively promoting a brand of racial-communal politics.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/pers-j24.html

Bernie Is Right: Unite to Dump Trump
Rand Wilson | zcomm.org | 2020-06-25
When there are only two viable electoral choices, the decision to choose a neoliberal over a neofascist does not mean support for the neoliberal cause…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/bernie-is-right-unite-to-dump-trump/

Biden surges to double point lead over Trump. But here's why that's nothing to celebrate
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-06-25
Presumptive Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden now holds a double-digit poll lead over president Donald Trump in the US presidential election race. Such an insurmountable lead makes an end to the Trump era seem all but inevitable, even at this early stage of the campaign. But progressives have little to celebrate. Because although the Trump presidency has been a sordid compendium of reactionary policies and shocking incompetence, a Biden presidency would represent a return to a status quo of neol…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/06/25/biden-surges-to-double-point-lead-over-trump-but-heres-why-thats-nothing-to-celebrate/

Bolton Weaves a Tall Tale in His Venezuela Chapter
Leonardo Flores | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
John Bolton's upcoming book, The Room Where It Happened, it is obvious that the tale Bolton spins is full of fabrications, half-truths, propaganda and the occasional kernel of …
globalresearch.ca/bolton-weaves-tall-tale-venezuela-chapter/5716948

Brazilian oligarchs sacrifice people for profit
Ryan Cecil Jobson | zcomm.org | 2020-06-25
Business leaders are using social media and political influence to spread coronavirus disinformation — and endangering thousands of lives…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/brazilian-oligarchs-sacrifice-people-for-profit/

US Sends Powerful Message to Iran, Venezuela as Warship Sails Near Caracas
Almasdar News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
The U.S. Naval Command in the southern region announced on Wednesday, that a warship belonging to it sailed near the Venezuelan coast, hours after an Iranian tanker was docked in the port of Caracas. | According to the Southern Command's official …
globalresearch.ca/us-sends-powerful-message-iran-venezuela-warship-sails-near-caracas/5717012

U.S. must return its political prisoner Simón Trinidad to Colombia
W. T. Whitney, Jr. | mronline.org | 2020-06-25
Simón Trinidad matters; his time has come. This leader of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) faced bizarre and unfounded criminal charges in a U.S. court. He's being held under the cruelest of conditions in a federal prison in Florence, Colorado. He will die there unless he is released. Simón Trinidad will be …
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U.S. coronavirus infection rate now highest since pandemic began
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-25
More than 45,500 new coronavirus infections were reported in the U.S. overnight, not by the federal government but by state health departments–blowing out of the water by some 11,000 the previous one-day record of 34,203 reached on April 25. The soaring infection rate in the U.S. is being driven by out-of-control outbreaks in the nation's …
peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-coronavirus-infection-rate-now-highest-since-pandemic-began/

The coronavirus crisis, the government's aid package and the attempt to strangle German art
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
On closer inspection, the German government's aid package proves to be a sham and a step towards neutering and strangling a diverse cultural landscape.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/germ-j25.html

Tuesday primaries show rising popular discontent with Democratic Party establishment
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
Voter turnout swelled despite the coronavirus threat, with many voters choosing to vote early or cast mail-in ballots.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/prim-j25.html

The U.S. Has always exploited immigrants during pandemics
Samantha Ortega | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-25
As our country continues to grapple with the coronavirus, we must ensure that the health of everyone, including migrants, is prioritized and protected.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/25/the-u-s-has-always-exploited-immigrants-during-pandemics/

Lack of accessible child care could cripple families and economic recovery
Martha Burk | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-25
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, regardless of their incomes. …
peoplesworld.org/article/lack-of-accessible-child-care-could-cripple-families-and-economic-recovery/

Listening to What Isn't Being Said
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-25
The chasm between what is often uttered on a corporate level and what is actually meant is as cavernous as the stale air which has moved in and taken up permanent residence between the ears of most District Managers. The words you actually hear pursing your employer's chapped lips are little more than the white …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/listening-to-what-isnt-being-said/

Masters of Space: Deep Space Strategy in the Age of Trump
Karl Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-25
The United States "must be capable of winning wars that extend into space," asserts a just-released "Defense Space Strategy" report. It is the first space strategy document issued by the U.S. since President Donald Trump, after declaring that the U.S. must achieve "dominance in space," signed a measure this past December authorizing establishment of a…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/25/masters-of-space-deep-space-strategy-in-the-age-of-trump/

Masters of Space: Deep Space Strategy in the Age of Trump
Karl Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-25
The United States "must be capable of winning wars that extend into space," asserts a just-released "Defense Space Strategy" report. It is the first space strategy document issued by the U.S. since President Donald Trump, after declaring that the U.S. must achieve "dominance in space," signed a measure this past December authorizing establishment of a Space Force.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/25/masters-of-space-deep-space-strategy-in-the-age-of-trump/

Having sucked America dry, tech giants seek new markets beyond reach of U.S. antitrust laws
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-25
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.
mronline.org/2020/06/25/having-sucked-america-dry-tech-giants-seek-new-markets-beyond-reach-of-u-s-antitrust-laws/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=having-sucked-america-dry-tech-giants-seek-new-markets-beyond-reach-of-u-s-antitrust-laws

India's internal emergency: A brutal chapter in authoritarianism
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-25
On the 45th anniversary of the imposition of India's notorious internal emergency, we take a look at what led to that decision and the impact it had on the country's democracy…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/25/indias-internal-emergency-a-brutal-chapter-in-authoritarianism/

Capitalism and the Throttling of Democracy in India
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
The deregulation of international capital flows (financial liberalisation) has effectively turned the planet into a free-for-all bonanza for the world's richest capitalists. Under…
globalresearch.ca/capitalism-throttling-democracy-india/5716965

Deregulating GMOs via the UK's Agriculture Bill — What Happens Next?
Pat Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
Recently we alerted our supporters to an amendment to the UK's Agriculture Bill, proposed by Julian Sturdy MP chair of the APPG for Science & Technology in Agriculture. If adopted the amendment would effectively deregulate GMOs. | We have been very …
globalresearch.ca/deregulating-gmos-agriculture-bill/5716993

Media Executive Warns that Big Tech Is Secretively Seizing "All the Power" over Information
Steve Watson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
Newspaper executive Peter Wright has slammed big tech for secretively developing and changing algorithms for news distribution without giving the industry any indication whatsoever of what they are doing. | Wright of DMG Media, which is the parent company of The …
globalresearch.ca/media-executive-warns-big-tech-secretively-seizing-all-power-over-information/5716990

The Struggle against Racism in the United States
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
"We beseech independent African states to help us bring our problem before the United Nations, on the grounds that the United States Government is morally incapable of protecting the lives and the property of 22 million African-Americans. And on the …
globalresearch.ca/united-nations-human-rights-council-holds-session-racism-united-states/5716957

UN Secretary General Urges 'Israel' to Cancel the Annexation of the West Bank
QUDSN | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
UN chief Antonio Guterres has called on 'Israel' to cancel plans to annex parts of the West Bank, saying such a decision would be "the most serious violation of international law." | Guterres said the Israeli annexation plans would be destructive. …
globalresearch.ca/un-chief-urges-israel-cancel-annexation-west-bank/5717005

UN Secretary General Urges 'Israel' to Cancel Annexation West Bank
QUDSN | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
UN chief Antonio Guterres has called on 'Israel' to cancel plans to annex parts of the West Bank, saying such a decision would be "the most serious violation of international law." | Guterres said the Israeli annexation plans would be destructive. …
globalresearch.ca/un-chief-urges-israel-cancel-annexation-west-bank/5717005

Meng, Huawei and Canadian Law: Soap, Rinse and Dry-Laundered
Harry Glasbeek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
Prologue | One of the graver risks for big-time criminals is that investigators will be able to identify them and their deeds by 'following the money'. The criminals have to hide the proceeds of their crimes. This is done by depositing …
globalresearch.ca/meng-huawei-canadian-law/5716975

The US "Soft War" on Iran and Its Allies Turns Against Washington
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
The US administration under Barack Obama drafted "Caesar's Law" in 2016 to subdue Syria but kept it in the drawer. President Donald Trump and his administration dusted it off and are now implementing "Caesar's Law". In fact, Trump's policy is …
globalresearch.ca/us-soft-war-iran-allies-turns-against-washington/5717001

Congressman Engel Bragged, 'I Sit Down with AIPAC on Every Piece of Legislation' Coming Out of Foreign Affairs Committee
Philip Weiss | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
Embattled congressman Eliot Engel, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has bragged that he sits down with the rightwing pro-Israel organization AIPAC on "every piece of legislation coming out of the Foreign Affairs Committee." | In a 2018 speech …
globalresearch.ca/engel-bragged-sit-down-aipac-every-piece-legislation-coming-out-foreign-affairs-committee/5716884

Hong Kong's Cartoonists Aren't Giving Up on Dissent
Rachel Cheung | thenation.com | 2020-06-25
Hong Kong's Cartoonists Aren't Giving Up on Dissent…
thenation.com/article/society/hong-kong-cartoons-national-security-law/

Israeli Troops Abduct Two Palestinians From Two West Bank Cities
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-25
Israeli troops abducted, early on Thursday morning, two Palestinian residents from two different West Bank cities. Local media outlets reported that Israeli soldiers, backed by armored vehicles, invaded the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem city, in northern West Bank. The sources said that the soldiers broke into and …
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Israeli Court Sentences A Detainee To Four Life Terms In Prison
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-25
An Israeli court on Wednesday sentenced a Palestinian detainee to four life terms, in addition to imposing a fine of 16 Million Shekels after convicting him of killing two Israeli soldiers and of wounding 7 settlers (causing a young woman to miscarry) in two separate incidents in the year 2018, …
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Israeli Troops Cause the Injury of Dozens of Palestinians in East Jerusalem
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-25
Israeli troops caused on Wednesday night the injury of at least thirty eight Palestinian residents in the occupied East Jerusalem, by means of shooting rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas in the village of Abu Deis, east of the occupied Palestinian city. The local Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said …
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Israeli Soldier Given Derisory Sentence for the Unlawful Killing of a Palestinian Fisherman
Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights | imemc.org | 2020-06-25
Press Release By Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: On 15 June 2020, an Israeli military court sentenced an Israeli soldier, who shot and killed 23-year-old Palestinian fisherman, Nawwaf al-Attar, off the coast of Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, to a derisory 45-day prison sentence to be served through military-related …
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PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (18 — 24 Jun 2020)
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-06-25
Summary Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multifaceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including invasions into Palestinian cities that are characterized with excessive use of force, assault, abuse and attacks on civilians. This week, the Israeli military's excessive use of force killed 1 civilian, rendered 22 injuries …
imemc.org/article/pchr-weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-18-24-jun-2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-18-24-jun-2020

Israeli Troops Abduct Two Palestinians From Two West Bank Cities
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-25
Israeli troops abducted early on Thursday morning two Palestinian residents from two different West Bank cities. Local media outlets reported that Israeli soldiers, backed by armored vehicles, invaded the Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem city in the West Bank. The sources said that the soldiers broke into and …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-two-palestinians-from-two-west-bank-cities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-two-palestinians-from-two-west-bank-cities

PCHR: Palestinian Civilian Shot and Killed by IOF at al-Container Checkpoint in Eastern Bethlehem
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-06-25
On Tuesday, 23 June 2020, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian after opening fire at his vehicle, which collided into the traffic island in the center of al-container military checkpoint, east of Bethlehem. The military claimed that the victim attempted to carry out a run-over attack, but according to the …
imemc.org/article/pchr-palestinian-civilian-shot-and-killed-by-iof-at-al-container-checkpoint-in-eastern-bethlehem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-palestinian-civilian-shot-and-killed-by-iof-at-al-container-checkpoint-in-eastern-bethlehem

Israeli Troops Injure Dozens of Palestinians in East Jerusalem
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-25
Israeli troops caused, on Wednesday night, the injury of at least thirty-eight Palestinians in the occupied East Jerusalem, after the army fired rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas bombs in the town of Abu Dis, east of the occupied Palestinian city. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that the …
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The Korean War and US 'Total Destruction' Began 70 Years Ago
Brett Wilkins | commondreams.org | 2020-06-25
Bombs dropped by a US Air Force B-26 Invader destroy civilian targets in Wonsan, Korea in 1951. (Photo: USAF Photo/Creative Commons) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/wonsan.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/25/korean-war-and-us-total-destruction-began-70-years-ago?cd-origin=rss

Johnson announces end of UK's lockdown
wsws.org | 2020-06-25
The bulk of the UK economy, barring "close proximity" venues such as nightclubs, soft-play areas, indoor gyms, swimming pools and spas, will reopen July 4. All schools will reopen in September.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/reop-j25.html

Selective Tolerance: AIPAC and its Pro-Apartheid Ilk Come to Bat for Black Lives Matter
Kathryn Shihadah | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-25
Pro-Israel groups in America are sending mixed signals: yes, we want equality for Black Americans; no, we do not want the same for Palestinians.
mintpressnews.com/selective-tolerance-aipac-pro-israel-apartheid-us-anti-racism-movement/268944/

The people will not be ignored, the time is now for CPAC!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-25
Chicago, IL – When it comes to police reform, the powers that be in Chicago have been negligent in their response to the demands of the people of this city and this nation. People across the country are calling for systemic police reforms now. The resounding voice of the people in the streets is, "We will not accept this anymore!" In Chicago, we're not new to this plaintive cry, unfortunately. We have the longest standing movement for community control of the police in the country, stretching back to the 1969 police murder of Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party. Yet our city is lagging behind every other majo…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/24/people-will-not-be-ignored-time-now-cpac

The people will not be ignored, the time is now for CPAC!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-25
Chicago, IL – When it comes to police reform, the powers that be in Chicago have been negligent in their response to the demands of the people of this city and this nation. People across the country are calling for systemic police reforms now. The resounding voice of the people in the streets is, "We will not accept this anymore!" In Chicago, we're not new to this plaintive cry, unfortunately. We have the longest standing movement for community control of the police in the country, stretching back to the 1969 police murder of Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party. Yet our city is lagging behind every other majo…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/24/people-will-not-be-ignored-time-now-cpac

US sanctions against international court staff a 'direct attack' on judicial independence
news.un.org | 2020-06-25
The decision by the United States to authorize sanctions targeting staff at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is "a direct attack to the institution's judicial independence", UN human rights experts said on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067142

Speak out against torture, an 'abhorrent denial of human dignity', urges UN chief
news.un.org | 2020-06-25
Torture is an "egregious abuse of human rights", UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday, the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067072

Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods': Black Lives Matter meets 'Rambo' [spoilers]
Dennis Broe | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-25
Spike Lee's new film for Netflix, Da 5 Bloods, about the aftereffects on African-American soldiers of the Vietnam War, opens spectacularly. A documentary sequence begins with Muhammad Ali detailing why he chooses not to fight: "My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother or some darker people…for big powerful America..for what?..They never lynched me, …
peoplesworld.org/article/spike-lees-da-5-bloods-black-lives-matter-meets-rambo-spoilers/

Temperatures reach record heights in the Arctic Circle this past weekend
Amanda Mills | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-25
"The Arctic is believed to be warming twice as fast as the global average."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/25/temperatures-reach-record-heights-in-the-arctic-circle-this-past-weekend/

The Oppressed Have the Moral Right to Decide How Best to Resist Their Oppression
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-25
Question: Should people from the oppressor group tell the oppressed people how to conduct their resistance? Should Jews tell Palestinians what form their resistance to Israeli oppression should take? During World War II should Germans have directed Jewish, Roma, Slavic resistance in the concentration camps? Nowadays, should whites be telling Blacks how to resist systemic …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-oppressed-have-the-moral-right-to-decide-how-best-to-resist-their-oppression/

Freedom Rider: Democrats move right and towards defeat
Margaret Kimberley | mronline.org | 2020-06-25
Besides not being Trump, the Democrats offer nothing, but think they can win with a candidate who has no constituency, charisma or any platform positions that would attract more voters.
mronline.org/2020/06/25/freedom-rider-democrats-move-right-and-towards-defeat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=freedom-rider-democrats-move-right-and-towards-defeat

Jon Stewart's 'Irresistible' Is Easy to Resist
Asher Luberto | progressive.org | 2020-06-25
New political comedy is too biting to be funny and too satirical to be serious.
progressive.org/dispatches/irresistible-film-easy-to-resist-luberto-200625/

[Spoiler-free] Review: 'Da 5 Bloods' reclaims narrative of Black soldiers in Vietnam
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-25
War is hell. War never really ends. And if, as a civilian observer, you find it important to experience the realities and complexities of war and racism, then Spike Lee's latest film Da 5 Bloods is required watching. But be warned, it will not be an easy viewing: There will be discomfort, anger, and tears. Following …
peoplesworld.org/article/spoiler-free-review-da-5-bloods-reclaims-narrative-of-black-soldiers-in-vietnam/

United Nations warns Israel against proposed annexation of parts of occupied West Bank
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-25
UN secretary general António Guterres said that if implemented, the annexation plan would constitute a most serious violation of international law and grievously harm the prospect of a two-state solution…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/25/united-nations-warns-israel-against-proposed-annexation-of-parts-of-occupied-west-bank/

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal now!
| workers.org | 2020-06-25
This statement was issued by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party. Contact the PSC at prisonersolidarity@gmail.com. THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY THE POLICE DICTATORSHIP OVER PHILADELPHIA CAN BEGIN TO END AND THE MESSAGE OF THE GLOBAL UPRISING BE HEARD: FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL NOW! At this moment of a . . . | Continue reading Free Mumia Abu-Jamal now! at Workers.org…
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ROAR Roundtable: COVID-19 and the climate crisis
John Bellamy Foster | mronline.org | 2020-06-25
If "everything affects and is affected by every other thing," we must respond to the dangers to human existence in the 21st century by changing the system, creating a different form of social metabolic reproduction. There is no other way.
mronline.org/2020/06/24/roar-roundtable-covid-19-and-the-climate-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roar-roundtable-covid-19-and-the-climate-crisis

Court backlog of criminal cases tops half a million but it's not just Covid
John Ranson | thecanary.co | 2020-06-25
Courts face a backlog of more than half a million criminal cases, official estimates show. Some of the rise comes as a result of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. But a critic of the government's approach has said the bulk of the problem has nothing to do with the pandemic. And the critic has cautioned against reducing the use of juries to clear the backlog. | The number of cases waiting to be heard by magistrates increased by 22% between the week ending 8 March and 17 May to around 484,000, according to provisional data published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). | However, outstanding crown court cases rose…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/25/court-backlog-of-criminal-cases-tops-half-a-million-but-its-not-just-covid/

Bolton's Memoir Bolts from the Stable
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-25
President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton would have been confident. His indulgent The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir pitted him against the administration in a not infrequent battle over material that is published by …
globalresearch.ca/bolton-memoir/5716967

DC Sues Fossil Fuel Giants for Decades of Spending Millions to 'Mislead Consumers and Discredit Climate Science in Pursuit of Profits'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-25
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine on Thursday sued fossil fuel giants BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell for "systematically and intentionally" misleading D.C. consumers about the role their products play in causing the climate crisis—following in the footsteps of other communities and states across the country, including Minnesota on Wednesday. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-9811581711.jpg …
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Rebuilding After Recession: A Plan For Jobs
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-25
Government investment in green technology and infrastructure is needed to create thousands of jobs and prevent a recession. | Working with unions and employers, the government has put in place the Job Retention Scheme and self-employed income support schemes, protecting the jobs and incomes of millions of workers during the coronavirus crisis. | But more is needed, and fast. Without further bold action from the government, we risk huge losses of jobs and livelihoods and possibly the deepest recession since the 1930s. The OECD estimates that unemployment could hit 11 per cent this year. But this is not inevitable,…
popularresistance.org/rebuilding-after-recession-a-plan-for-jobs/

Killing Them Softly With Sanctions
Tom Gallagher | commondreams.org | 2020-06-25
Economic sanctions in Iraq killed an estimated 350,000 Iraqis. (Photo: Adrian Dennis/EPA) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/iraq_sanctions_0.jpeg …
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In Seattle, a Yugoslavia Déjà Vu
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-25
Sensible people with a modicum of historical perspective are raising the question that until recently they dared only whisper: Quo vadis United States of America? | We can delegate to specialists debate over the ultimate nature and causes of the current unrest in the United States. The focus here is not on that but on one of the more ominous characteristics of the crisis, whatever its origins might be judged to be. In the Capitol Hill neighbourhood of Seattle two weeks ago, for the first time since the Civil War in the 1860s, something purporting to be a competing government was established on U.S. territory. So…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/25/in-seattle-a-yugoslavia-deja-vu/

Latin Americans Fighting Mining Companies During COVID19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-25
Over the years, the mining industry has taken advantage of dictatorship, disasters, and a variety of distractions to expand operations in Latin America. In the time of Covid-19, with entire populations under lockdown and economies falling apart, mining companies have also hopped on the pandemic profiteering bandwagon. | In Latin America, the areas of interest to mining companies whether they are exploring or digging for gold, silver, copper, iron ore, and other minerals can extend to vast areas of entire countries. Their activities also affect important ecosystems. These include high-altitude wetlands and glacier…
popularresistance.org/latin-americans-fighting-mining-companies-during-covid19/

What's The Alternative To Police In Schools?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-25
Thousands of Chicagoans have rallied in the past couple weeks behind the demand that Chicago Public Schools end its relationship with the police department. | But a small group of advocates have been working on this issue for years, and they've won significant progress in recent months. We don't know the impact of those changes yet — though we do know that alternatives to police in schools need much greater support. | A new Chicago Police Department policy implemented last August removed so-called school resource officers from involvement in day-to-day disciplinary matters. It requires screening of potentia…
popularresistance.org/whats-the-alternative-to-police-in-schools/

CHOP And The Juneteenth Longshore Strike
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-25
On June 19, the International Longshore and Warehouse Workers Union (ILWU), a militant union of 42,000 members, shut down 29 ports along the West Coast of the United States and Canada, as workers withheld their labor for 8 hours. The strike was organized to demonstrate the labor movement's solidarity with black lives after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, and held on the Juneteenth anniversary of the emancipation of the last chattel slaves in the US in 1865. | As part of the action, a mass demonstration marched through Oakland's port and downtown, with several thousand in attendance.
popularresistance.org/chop-and-the-juneteenth-longshore-strike/

A Better Health Care System?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-25
Suzanne Gordon, a longtime health care reporter and author of Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation's Veterans, says the VA "outperforms the private sector with one hand tied behind its back." | The VA delivers health care to around nine million veterans each year at more than 1,200 sites across the country. In Wounds of War, Gordon described the VA as resembling "the health care systems of almost all other industrialized nations: a full-service health care system that both pays for and delivers all types of care to those it serves." | The VA's health care providers are salari…
popularresistance.org/a-better-health-care-system/

Covid-19: NHS plans for second wave bigger than first
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-25
The Health Service Journal reports that health services in at least one of the NHS's seven regions are preparing to cope with a second peak of coronavirus demand more than twice the size as the first. By Alison Moore — HSJ: The NHS in the South East of England insisted this scenario was for …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/covid-19-nhs-plans-for-second-wave-bigger-than-first/

China's Huawei to build 1 bln pound research facility in England
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
The facility will employee around 400 people and focus on the production of optical devices for use in fibre-optic communication systems, the company said in a statement."The UK is home to a vibrant and open market, as well as some of the best talent the world has to offer," said Huawei Vice President Victor Zhang.British officials are currently reviewing how best to securely deploy Huawei equipment in the country's 5G networks, after granting the Chinese firm a limited role in January.($1 = 0.8045 pounds)…
yenisafak.com/en/technology/chinas-huawei-to-build-1-bln-pound-research-facility-in-england-3532969

Iraqi forces raid HQ of Iran-backed militia as US coalition denies any involvement
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Iraqi security forces have raided the headquarters of Kataib Hezbollah, capturing several leaders of the militia at the heart of US-Iranian conflict early this year. The US coalition rushed to distance itself from the operation. | Special forces from the Counter Terrorism Service carried out the raid in the early hours of Friday local time, at a base south of Baghdad, reportedly arresting nearly two dozen militiamen and several commanders. | Their fate remains unclear, however, as government officials insist they are in the custody of security services, while paramilitary sources claim all those detained have…
rt.com/news/492968-iraq-iran-raid-militia/

Bitcoin bolivars? Venezuela reportedly accepting crypto as payment for passport applications
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Venezuela's passport service is accepting Bitcoin as payment for some applications, according to people using the online system. The move suggests an increased shift to alternative payment systems in the South American state. | A screenshot of a Bitcoin (BTC) payment prompt on Venezuela's Administrative Service for Identification, Migration and Foreigners (SAIME) was posted to Reddit on June 23. Social media users on other platforms confirmed that the crypto…
rt.com/news/492936-venezuela-bitcoin-payment-passports/

Iran's coronavirus death toll tops 10,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
Iran on Thursday confirmed 143 additional fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 10,130.A further 2,595 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 215,096, Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari said.He said a total of 175,103 people have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, adding that 2,899 remain at hospitals in critical condition.Over 1.53 million tests have been conducted in the country to date, Lari said.After emerging in China last December, the virus has spread to at least 188 countries and regions.The p…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irans-coronavirus-death-toll-tops-10000-3532954

Global drug use soars 30% in 10 years: UN
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
Around 269 million people used drugs worldwide in 2018, 30% more than in 2009, while over 35 million people suffer from drug use disorders, a UN report said on Thursday.The report released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna also analyses the impact of COVID-19 on the drugs markets.While the pandemic effects are not yet fully known, the report said that border and other restrictions linked to the pandemic have already caused shortages of drugs on the street, leading to increased prices and reduced purity.The report noted that rising unemployment and reduced opportunities caused by the pandemic a…
yenisafak.com/en/life/global-drug-use-soars-30-in-10-years-un-3532962

UK COVID-19 death toll from confirmed cases rises by 149 to 43,230
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
Britain's official death toll from confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose by 149 to 43,230, the Department of Health said on Thursday.Including deaths from suspected cases of the disease, Britain's toll is over 54,000.
yenisafak.com/en/world/uk-covid-19-death-toll-from-confirmed-cases-rises-by-149-to-43230-3532968

WHO says 10th Ebola outbreak in DR Congo is over
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
A World Health Organization official announced Thursday the end of the 10th Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as no new cases were reported for more than 50 days.During a media briefing on COVID-19 and Ebola in Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa, commended the "leadership of the DRC president, and the sacrifice and perseverance of 16,000 front line responders and communities … who have brought about the end of this 10th Ebola outbreak in the country!"Moeti also thanked the people, health workers, including WHO experts, who either got ill, were injured or lo…
yenisafak.com/en/world/who-says-10th-ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo-is-over-3532957

Germany, France shore up political, financial aid to beleaguered WHO
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
France and Germany expressed political and financial backing for the World Health Organization (WHO) in its fight against the coronavirus on Thursday, with Berlin saying it would contribute a record half billion euros in funding this year.WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a news conference in Geneva, said the agency, criticised by the United States for being slow off the mark in tackling the pandemic, was getting the financial and political support it needed.U.S. President Donald Trump said last month that the United States was cutting ties with the "China-centric" WHO, but he has still not formal…
yenisafak.com/en/world/germany-france-shore-up-political-financial-aid-to-beleaguered-who-3532948

Bayer to pay up to $10.9 bln to settle bulk of Roundup weedkiller cancer lawsuits
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
The German drugs and pesticides maker has come to terms with about 75% of the 125,000 filed and unfiled claims overall, it said in a statement on Wednesday of the deal to end legal disputes it inherited with its $63 billion takeover of Monsanto in 2018.The settled cases over Roundup and other glyphosate-based weedkillers account for about 95% of those currently set for trial, it added."The Roundup settlement is the right action at the right time for Bayer to bring a long period of uncertainty to an end," Bayer Chief Executive Werner Baumann said. "Unfortunately, we have to pay an awful lot of money for a product…
yenisafak.com/en/life/bayer-to-pay-up-to-109-bln-to-settle-bulk-of-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-lawsuits-3532955

India says China amassed troops along border in violation of agreements
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
China has deployed large numbers of troops and weapons along a disputed Himalayan border in violation of bilateral agreements, India's foreign ministry said on Thursday, accusing Beijing of escalating tensions and triggering a deadly clash last week."At the heart of the matter is that since early May the Chinese side had been amassing a large contingent of troops and armaments along the LAC," ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava said in a briefing in New Delhi, referring to the Line of Actual Control, the de facto border."This is not in accordance with the provisions of our various bilateral agreements," he said,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/india-says-china-amassed-troops-along-border-in-violation-of-agreements-3532967

At least 250 Indians stranded in Pakistan return home
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
At least 250 Indian nationals stranded in Pakistan due to coronavirus restrictions were repatriated on Thursday.A total of 748 Indian nationals will return home over three days until June 27, Pakistan's Interior Ministry said in a statement.It said 250 more Indians will cross over from the Wagah-Attari land border near the northeastern city of Lahore on Friday, and the remaining 248 will go back on Saturday.The Indian citizens, some of them Kashmiri students studying in Pakistan, were stranded in different cities, including Lahore and the capital Islamabad, due to coronavirus-related lockdown.From March to May, P…
yenisafak.com/en/world/at-least-250-indians-stranded-in-pakistan-return-home-3532953

ECB to provide euro liquidity to non-euro area C.banks
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday announced it will offer euro loans against collateral to central banks outside the euro area to backstop funding markets amid the coronavirus pandemic."Eurosystem repo facility for central banks (EUREP) introduced as precautionary backstop to address pandemic-related euro liquidity needs outside euro area," the bank said in a statement.New facility will be available until June 2021 and allow a broad set of central banks to borrow euro against euro-denominated debt issued by euro area central governments and supranational institutions."EUREP addresses possible euro liqui…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/ecb-to-provide-euro-liquidity-to-non-euro-area-cbanks-3532952

The 674 steps: Eiffel Tower reopens, minus lifts, after virus break
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
The Eiffel Tower on Thursday welcomed its first visitors for three months – but with elevators still off-limits, they faced a long climb to sample its breathtaking views.Shut down in mid-March due to the coronavirus outbreak – its longest period out of action since World War Two – Paris's most famous landmark re-opened under strict hygiene and safety controls.All wearing face masks as directed on a hot and sunny day, tourists queued up for security checks at the entrance, where hand gel dispensers have been installed, before setting off up the 674 steps to the tower's second floor."It's great because I never was…
yenisafak.com/en/world/the-674-steps-eiffel-tower-reopens-minus-lifts-after-virus-break-3532965

Top Turkish diplomat attends SE Europe group meeting
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
Turkey's foreign minister on Thursday took part in a meeting of a group of southeastern European countries, including the Balkans.Mevlut Cavusoglu met his counterparts from South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) member states via video conference.Cavusoglu said on Twitter that they discussed regional cooperation and opportunities within SEECP during the coronavirus normalization process."Turkey is taking over 2020-21 Chairmanship of SEECP, the broadest regional organization in the Balkans. @TurkishCiOSEECP," he added.Next week, on July 1, Turkey is set to take over the SEECP chairmanship for one year.In…
yenisafak.com/en/news/top-turkish-diplomat-attends-se-europe-group-meeting-3532966

Indian capital readies vast quarantine centre as coronavirus cases mount
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
Authorities in New Delhi worked to convert a spiritual centre into a huge quarantine facility on Thursday as novel coronavirus cases in the Indian capital overtook the financial hub Mumbai for the first time.Delhi now has 70,390 coronavirus cases, with more than 40,000 detected in the last two weeks.That is more than Mumbai's 69,528, though the city, long considered one of India's biggest coronavirus hot spots, has seen a higher rate of deaths.Nationally, a record 16,922 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, federal data released on Thursday showed, taking total cases in the country to nearly half a milli…
yenisafak.com/en/world/indian-capital-readies-vast-quarantine-centre-as-coronavirus-cases-mount-3532958

Public vote on constitutional changes in Russia begins
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
Russians Thursday have started to vote on the constitutional changes that will allow the incumbent president to serve two more terms in office.The vote will last from June 25 to July 1 to avoid mass gatherings at the polls, associated with risks of the coronavirus spreading, the country's Central Election Commission (CEC) explained in a statement.The polling stations are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time (0500-1700GMT). The precinct election commissions issued recommendations for the residents of each house in their districts, indicating the best time for casting ballot to better organize the voter turnout.Ho…
yenisafak.com/en/world/public-vote-on-constitutional-changes-in-russia-begins-3532949

Magnitude-5.4 earthquake hits eastern Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
A magnitude-5.4 earthquake jolted Turkey's eastern province of Van on Thursday, according to the country's disaster agency.The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said the quake struck off the Ozalp district at 1.03 p.m. local time (1003 GMT). It originated at a depth of 6.9 kilometers.Van Governor Mehmet Emin Bilmez said some houses were damaged due to the tremors, and damage assessment studies are ongoing.No casualties have been reported so far.Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Twitter that further updates on the situation will be given to the public by Van Governorate and AFAD.Iran and T…
yenisafak.com/en/news/magnitude-54-earthquake-hits-eastern-turkey-3532946

Pakistan 'disappointed' with US terrorism report
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
Pakistan on Thursday said it was disappointed by a recent terrorism report by the US, saying it gave a selective and self-contradictory account of the country's efforts to counter terrorism and terrorist financing.In a Foreign Ministry statement, Islamabad said the US State Department's 2019 Country Report on Terrorism ignored its "crucial role" in degrading Al Qaeda in the region and "diminishing the threat that the terrorist group once posed to the world.""Similarly, the Report acknowledges the sharp decrease in the incidence of terrorist attacks in Pakistan. However, it neglects to explain that this was only p…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-disappointed-with-us-terrorism-report-3532964

Turkey says Libya's GNA demands Haftar withdraw from Sirte, Jufra
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
Libya's internationally recognised government demands that Khalifa Haftar's forces withdraw from the coastal city of Sirte and Jufra region as pre-conditions for ceasefire talks, Turkey said on Thursday.With Turkish military support, the Government of National Accord (GNA) has reversed a 14-month offensive on Tripoli by Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA), which is backed by Egypt, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told broadcaster CNN Turk that the United States, which Turkey has urged to take a more active role in Libya, was reluctant to play a "decisive role" in t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-says-libyas-gna-demands-haftar-withdraw-from-sirte-jufra-3532963

EU covering up Greek human rights violations, says Turkish spox
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
Turkey on Thursday slammed remarks by Greek and EU officials critical of Ankara's handling of the migrant issue along its borders, calling them an attempt to whitewash Athens' human rights violations.The remarks this Wednesday by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell at the Turkish-Greek border show Greece's effort to cover up its crimes against asylum seekers under the EU umbrella, said Hami Aksoy, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman."The fact that the EU Commission is a partner to this is exemplary," Aksoy said.Aksoy cited the words of Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Euro…
yenisafak.com/en/news/eu-covering-up-greek-human-rights-violations-says-turkish-spox-3532950

Daesh/ISIS suspect going on trial in Paris
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-25
A man accused of being a so-called "emir" of the terror group Daesh/ISIS is due for his day in court in Paris on Thursday, facing trial for his alleged offenses in Syria.Tyler Vilus, a.k.a., Abou Hafs, is accused of leading a terrorist group and committing murders in an organized gang in Syria in 2013-2015, among other offenses.Vilus was arrested on July 2, 2015, nearly five years ago to the day, while boarding a plane to Prague at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, and was later extradited to face trial.Turkey has long championed the repatriation of European nationals found to belong to terrorist groups.Vilus' phone,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/daesh-isis-suspect-going-on-trial-in-paris-3532947

US Breaks Record for Largest Single-Day Increase in COVID-19 Cases
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
The US on Wednesday saw its highest number of new COVID-19 cases in a single day, 36,880, since the outbreak began, according to a national tally maintained by the New York Times.
sputniknews.com/us/202006251079722855-us-breaks-record-for-largest-single-day-increase-in-covid-19-cases-/

Dubious 'Coronavirus Resistant' Products Flood Indian Market as Cases Continue to Spiral
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
New Delhi (Sputnik): With the number of COVID-19 cases in India crossing 400,000, the 'fear of being next' is causing panic among people. Therefore, the Indian government has been proactive in preventing people from getting lured by false ad campaigns marketing products as COVID-19 remedies or those that claim to protect against the virus.
sputniknews.com/india/202006251079709838-dubious-coronavirus-resistant-products-flood-indian-market-as-cases-continue-to-spiral/

Statues Trump COVID-19
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
US President Donald Trump seems to be more concerned with the defense of monuments than protecting his own citizens from dying of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.
sputniknews.com/cartoons/202006251079722734-statues-trump-covid-19/

Could the End of Flynn's Legal Battle Become the Beginning of Joe Biden's Election Troubles?
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
On Wednesday, the US federal court of appeals ordered District Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss the case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, as earlier requested by the DOJ. Foreign relations experts have discussed the Flynn case in the light of newly released documents unearthed by the general's defence team.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202006251079721264-could-the-end-of-flynns-legal-battle-become-the-beginning-of-joe-bidens-election-troubles/

Bolton's Book Has 'Misleading and Manipulative Presentations' of Erdogan-Trump Talks, Ankara Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
In his memoir published on 23 June, John Bolton claimed that US President Donald Trump was manipulated and easily influenced by the leaders of China, Russia, Turkey, and North Korea.
sputniknews.com/world/202006251079715134-boltons-book-has-misleading-and-manipulative-presentations-of-erdogan-trump-talks-ankara-says/

India Urges Russia to Deliver Igla-S Missile System ASAP Amid Border Tensions, Media Claims
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
New Delhi (Sputnik): Media outlets earlier reported that Indian authorities have decided to "pressure" Russia into expediting the delivery of its S-400 air defence missile system to New Delhi amid the latter's ongoing border face-off with China.
sputniknews.com/india/202006251079716198-india-urges-russia-to-deliver-igla-s-missile-system-asap-amid-border-tensions-media-claims/

Nepal Opposition MPs Move Resolution in Parliament to Reclaim Land Allegedly Encroached on by China
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
New Delhi (Sputnik): China has allegedly encroached on 36 hectares of land in four northern districts of Nepal by diverting the flow of rivers that act as a natural boundary. The Survey Division of Nepal's Agriculture Department reported the encroachment back in November 2019, but the K.P. Sharma Oli government put a lid on its claims.
sputniknews.com/india/202006251079715433-nepal-opposition-mps-move-resolution-in-parliament-to-reclaim-land-allegedly-encroached-on-by-china/

Nepal Rubbishes Reports of China Grabbing Its Land in Himalayan Region
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
New Delhi (Sputnik): Three opposition parliamentarians in Nepal had earlier put forth a motion in the House of Representatives asking to restore territory encroached upon by China through dialogue. There were also media reports quoting a "Nepali government department doc" that China had occupied 36 hectares in 4 of the nation's northern districts.
sputniknews.com/india/202006251079718142-nepal-rubbishes-reports-of-china-grabbing-its-land-in-himalayan-region/

India, China Swear Upon Past Agreements, New Confidence-Building Measures to Break Stand-off
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
New Delhi (Sputnik): India and China have been in a border stand-off along the 4,057km long Line of Actual Control since the last week of April. The tensions between the neighbours escalated last week when 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a violent face-off between the Indian Army and PLA.
sputniknews.com/india/202006251079709926-india-china-swear-upon-past-agreements-new-confidence-building-measures-to-break-stand-off/

Videos: Large Explosion, Flashes of Light Reported in Iran's Tehran
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
A large explosion occurred east of Tehran, Iran, late Thursday night, but it remains unclear what caused the event.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006251079722435-videos-large-explosion-flashes-of-light-reported-in-irans-tehran/

India, Pakistan Engage in Mortar Shelling, Firefight at Border
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
New Delhi (Sputnik): India and Pakistan, at odds over Jammu and Kashmir since independence, have been accusing each other of constant ceasefire violations across the Line of Control (LoC). While India claimed that Pakistan has violated the ceasefire over 2,000 times in 2020, Islamabad accused New Delhi of breaking the pact over 957 times.
sputniknews.com/world/202006251079716480-india-pakistan-engage-in-mortar-shelling-firefight-at-border/

Two Terrorists Killed, 5 Members of Pakistan-Based Terror Group Lashkar-e-Taiba Arrested in Kashmir
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
New Delhi (Sputnik): Indian security forces have been engaged in major counter-terror operations in the Kashmir Valley since April of this year. Security forces have eliminated more than 110 terrorists so far, with intelligence services claiming that infiltration attempts from the Pakistani border may witness a sharp increase this summer.
sputniknews.com/india/202006251079714300-two-terrorists-killed-5-members-of-pakistan-based-terror-group-lashkar-e-taiba-arrested-in-kashmir/

Calls to List Antifa as Terrorist Organisation in Sweden in the Wake of Black Lives Matter Riots
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
US President Donald Trump has argued the violent Black Lives Matter rallies that blossomed across the country following the death of African American George Floyd in police custody and which include looting and pillaging, are being led by Antifa, and pledged to designate it as a terrorist organisation, making it illegal on American soil.
sputniknews.com/europe/202006251079714365-calls-to-list-antifa-as-terrorist-organisation-in-sweden-in-the-wake-of-black-lives-matter-riots/

Norway Paves Way for Big Expansion of Arctic Oil Exploration Amid 'Challenging' Developments
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
Norway is western Europe's biggest oil producer and has built the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund worth over $1 trillion on the back of its oil wealth. In the words of Norwegian Energy Minister Tina Bru new discoveries are needed to uphold employment and value creation.
sputniknews.com/europe/202006251079715050-norway-paves-way-for-big-expansion-of-arctic-oil-exploration-amid-challenging-developments/

Jupiter's Europa Could Provide 'Best Chances' of Mapping Alien Life in Solar System, Scientists Say
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-25
While it's a riddle about whether or not life is harboured in the depths of cosmic bodies other than Earth, researchers are looking forward to NASA's Europa mission. It is already destined to go down in history given multiple promising theories about life-sustaining liquids on Jupiter's legendary moon.
sputniknews.com/science/202006251079716641-jupiters-europa-could-provide-best-chances-of-mapping-alien-life-in-solar-system-scientists-say/

Iran COVID-19 update: 2,595 new cases, 134 fatalities in past 24h
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-25
TEHRAN, Jun. 24 (MNA) — The Iranian Health Ministry announced 2,595 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, putting the total number of cases in the country at 215,096.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160183/Iran-COVID-19-update-2-595-new-cases-134-fatalities-in-past

Iran expresses concern about violation of CTBT by US, France
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-25
TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) — Addressing the 54th session of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission in Vienna on Thursday, Iran's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Kazem Gharibabadi reiterated Iran's support for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons and expressed worry about violation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) by the US and France.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160186/Iran-expresses-concern-about-violation-of-CTBT-by-US-France

VIDEO: Locust attack on pistachio gardens on Kerman
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-25
TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) — Locust swarms have attacked pistachio gardens in Rafsanjan, Kerman Province, southern Iran. As desert locust infestations in East Africa and South-West Asia have intensified in recent months, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided an additional $200,000 to further strengthen Iran's technical capacity to control Desert Locust.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160173/VIDEO-Locust-attack-on-pistachio-gardens-on-Kerman

UAE claims it is looking for good ties with Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-25
TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) — In his latest remarks on Thursday, UAE's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash has claimed that his country seeks good relations with Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160181/UAE-claims-it-is-looking-for-good-ties-with-Iran

Iran's information about Judge Mansouri's case limited to reports of Romanian media: spox
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-25
TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) — A spokesman of Iran's Judiciary Gholamhossein Esmaeili condemned Romania's lack of cooperation with Iran on the death case of Iranian Judge Mansouri, who lost his life in Romania, saying that the Islamic Republic has no more information about the case than what Romanian media have reported and a short quotation from Bucharest's Prosecutor.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160184/Iran-s-information-about-Judge-Mansouri-s-case-limited-to-reports

Countries' independence not US' plaything: Vaezi
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-25
TEHRAN, Jun. 26 (MNA) — In a tweet on Thursday, Iranian President's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi noted that countries' independence is not the US' plaything.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160187/Countries-independence-not-US-plaything-Vaezi

Iranian sky's guards poised to deter any threats: Ari Force cmdr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-25
TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) — The Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh vowed the Iranian nation on Thursday that the Air Force capable of and ready to respond any kind of threats.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160182/Iranian-sky-s-guards-poised-to-deter-any-threats-Ari-Force-cmdr

UNSC calls for implementation of JCPOA: Iran's amb
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-25
TEHRAN, Jun. 26 (MNA) –Iran's ambassador to the UN said that the UNSC members states unanimously called for full implementation of the JCPOA.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160188/UNSC-calls-for-implementation-of-JCPOA-Iran-s-amb

Arab Parl. ratifies unified strategy against Iran, Turkey
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-25
TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) — In its latest meeting on Wednesday, the Arab Parliament approved a unified hostile strategy against Iran and Turkey and put forward various accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160180/Arab-Parl-ratifies-unified-strategy-against-Iran-Turkey

IAIO delivers 3 Kosar jets to Army
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-25
TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) — In a ceremony on Thursday morning, Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO) delivered three Kosar jets to the Iranian Army.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160176/IAIO-delivers-3-Kosar-jets-to-Army

The Heat: U.S. immigration and DACA ruling
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-06-25
U.S. President Trump temporarily suspends new work visas, barring foreigners from seeking employment in the United States.
america.cgtn.com/2020/06/25/the-heat-u-s-immigration-and-daca-ruling

Covid-19 cases surge in Europe FOR FIRST TIME IN MONTHS as end of lockdowns 'accelerate transmissions' — WHO
rt.com | 2020-06-25
European countries have seen increases in Covid-19 cases since they began relaxing the restrictions that were containing the virus' spread, the World Health Organization has said. | "Last week, Europe saw an increase in weekly cases for the first time in months," Hans Kluge, the WHO's European regional director, said on Thursday. "Thirty countries have seen increases in new cumulative cases over the past two weeks," he added. | The easing of lockdowns and of other obligatory restrictive measures has led to "accelerated transmission" of coronavirus. This, in turn, may push Europe's health systems "to the brink…
rt.com/news/492930-covid-surges-europe-who/

Say what, Joe? Biden says over 120 MILLION Americans died of Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden got his numbers mixed up just a bit, getting the number of Americans who died from the coronavirus off by a factor of 1,000, as he ventured outside for a healthcare event in Pennsylvania. | "People don't have a job, people don't know where to go, they don't know what to do," Biden said on Thursday at a campaign event in Lancaster. | Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID. | Joe Biden is very confused. | He just falsely claimed 120 million Americans (more than one-third of the country) died from the coronavirus. | This is after he previously claimed 150 million Am…
rt.com/usa/492964-biden-americans-dead-coronavirus/

Texas slams brakes on its reopening process as coronavirus cases soar
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced that the state is halting its reopening process after hospitals were flooded with new Covid-19 cases and health officials raised fears of bed shortages. | "The last thing we want to do as a state is go backwards and close down businesses," Abbott said in a statement. "This temporary pause will help our state corral the spread until we can safely enter the next phase of opening our state for business." | The development comes as Texas, the US state with the second largest population, continues to report record increases in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. | More t…
rt.com/usa/492945-texas-halt-reopening-coronavirus-cases-spike/

165 workers test positive for Covid-19, as major outbreak hits meat factory in England
rt.com | 2020-06-25
A mass outbreak of coronavirus has struck a meat factory in West Yorkshire, England with a total of 165 employees testing positive for Covid-19, the local council confirmed on Thursday. | The first cases of the deadly virus at Kober factory in Cleckheaton — a supplier to Asda, the major UK supermarket — were confirmed by Health Secretary Matt Hancock earlier this week. The food factory had closed on June 18, but reopened once again on Tuesday. | The local Kirklees Council said the 165 positive cases are being chased up by the NHS Test and Trace program and workers are being advised to self-isolate f…
rt.com/uk/492923-test-positive-covid19-meat-factory/

'Black people don't give a damn about statues': BET founder mocks woke whites toppling monuments to assuage racial guilt
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Painfully woke white people yanking TV shows off the air and tearing down statues aren't helping the racial justice cause, according to the founder of Black Entertainment Television. He says black people "laugh at" these displays. | Removing Confederate statues does nothing for black people, billionaire TV magnate Robert Johnson told Fox News on Wednesday. "It's not going to give a kid whose parents can't afford college, money to go to college. It's not going to close the labor gap…and it's not going to take people off welfare or food stamps." | It's tantamount to rearranging deck chairs on a racial Titanic.
rt.com/usa/492937-bet-founder-mocks-woke-apologists-whiteness/

Democrats seethe as Trump calls them 'more unreasonable' than North Korea, China or Russia
rt.com | 2020-06-25
US President Donald Trump paid the opposition Democrats a backhanded compliment, saying in a speech that they were tougher to deal with and "far more unreasonable" than the governments of North Korea, China or Russia. | The Democrats in the USA are much tougher to deal with than any of these people that we deal with. They're far more unreasonable. And actually, they're a little crazy. | Trump made a comment as part of an anecdote during an address at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Wisconsin on Friday, prompting the DNC war room to accuse him of having "no idea what it means to be president" and daring to…
rt.com/usa/492969-trump-unreasonable-democrats-korea/

Democrats seethe as Trump calls them 'more unreasonable' than North Korea, China or Russia
rt.com | 2020-06-25
US President Donald Trump paid the opposition Democrats a backhanded compliment, saying in a speech that they were tougher to deal with and "far more unreasonable" than the governments of North Korea, China or Russia. | The Democrats in the USA are much tougher to deal with than any of these people that we deal with. They're far more unreasonable. And actually, they're a little crazy. | Trump made the comment as part of an anecdote during an address at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Wisconsin on Friday, prompting the DNC war room to accuse him of having "no idea what it means to be president" and daring t…
rt.com/usa/492969-trump-unreasonable-democrats-korea/

MASSIVE EXPLOSION rocks gas storage facility near military & research site outside Tehran (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-25
A major explosion outside Tehran has triggered speculation of an attack against an army base or a research site, but the Iranian military says it was an incident at a gas storage facility. | The blast did not take place at a military site, but in the "public area" nearby, defense ministry spokesman Davoud Abdi told state TV late Thursday night, adding that the blaze was quickly brought under control and that there were no casualties. | Massive explosion east of #Tehran in an area that looks like full of research facilities! The explo…
rt.com/news/492967-tehran-explosion-military-base/

MASSIVE EXPLOSION rocks gas storage facility near military & research site outside Tehran (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-25
A major explosion outside Tehran has triggered speculation of an attack against an army base or a research site, but the Iranian military says it was an incident at a gas storage facility. | The blast did not take place at a military site, but in the "public area" nearby, defense ministry spokesman Davoud Abdi told state TV late Thursday night, adding that the blaze was quickly brought under control and that there were no casualties. | Massive explosion east of #Tehran in an area that looks like full of research facilities! The explo…
rt.com/news/492967-tehran-explosion-military-base/

MASSIVE EXPLOSION rocks gas storage facility near military & research site outside Tehran (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-25
A major explosion outside Tehran has triggered speculation of an attack against an army base or a research site, but the Iranian military says it was an incident at a gas storage facility. | The blast did not take place at a military site. Rather, between 11pm and midnight local time, a gas tank exploded in the "public area" nearby, Defense Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Davoud Abdi told the media, adding that the blaze was quickly brought under control and there were no casualties. | Massive explosion east of #Tehran in an are…
rt.com/news/492967-tehran-explosion-military-base/

Lightning kills over 100 in one day as thunderstorms rage across northern India
rt.com | 2020-06-25
At least 107 people have been killed in lightning strikes in northern India, as the monsoon season continues to rage and the country's meteorological department issues fresh 'red alerts' of thunderstorms and heavy rain. | Lightning struck numerous districts across the northeastern states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar during heavy storms on Thursday. The majority of the victims were farmers working in the paddy fields when the squall hit, state disaster management officials reported. | Thunderstorms have so far claimed the lives of 83 residents in the Bihar region alone, and over 20 more died in the surrounding ar…
rt.com/news/492961-lightning-kills-india-monsoon-bihar/

Fighting words: Trump tweets that police are 'furious' over plan to paint BLACK LIVES MATTER in front of Trump Tower in NYC
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Bringing up a report that New York City wants to paint the words "Black Lives Matter" on Fifth Avenue, right outside his flagship property, US President Donald Trump said the city's police were mad about it. | Tweeting from a trip to Wisconsin on Thursday, Trump said he heard Mayor Bill de Blasio wanted to paint the city yellow with the name of the movement — and noted that some of its slogans are calling for the murder of police. | Told that @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio wants to paint the fabled & beautiful Fifth Avenue, right in front of Trump T…
rt.com/usa/492958-trump-tower-new-york-blm/

Russia says Poland should be aware of costs if it wants to obtain status of 'frontline state'
rt.com | 2020-06-25
Poland should be aware of the costs of obtaining the status of a 'frontline state', including implications for its own security, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Grushko said on Thursday. He was commenting on the US plans to relocate its forces from Germany to Poland. | "If Warsaw wishes to intentionally position itself in the capacity of a frontline state by accommodating foreign forces on a permanent basis, it is apparently aware of all related costs, including those that concern its own security," Grushko told TASS. | Speaking with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda on Wednesday, President Donald…
rt.com/newsline/492934-poland-costs-frontline-state/

AI call centre supports isolated households during COVID-19 pandemic
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-25
An AI call centre developed by an Imperial graduate is helping to identify households needing extra support during lockdown.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198634/ai-call-centre-supports-isolated-households

Countries around the world are taking swift action to quash Covid hotspots as England gets set to head to the pub
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-25
Governments and businesses are ramping up precautions after the number of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases increased in various parts of the world.Meanwhile, in the UK, where daily confirmed cases rose by 653 and deaths by 154, the government is pressing on with plans to ease lockdown in England, by far the worst affected of the four nations.Indonesia was expected to pass the 50,000 mark for confirmed infections on Thursday.In Melbourne, health workers planned to go door to door to test more than 100,000…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/25/countries-around-the-world-are-taking-swift-action-to-quash-covid-hotspots-as-england-gets-set-to-head-to-the-pub/

Walk-in centres to provide coronavirus testing in 'heart of communities'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-25
Walk-in centres for coronavirus (Covid-19) testing are to be set up to make it easier for people without cars to get tested for the virus.Six centres are being trialled in Newcastle, Rochdale, Leeds, Brent, Newham and Slough, with the latter described as a hybrid drive and walk through.The exact location of the centres has not been confirmed by officials but one is understood to be on a basketball court, and there have been reports they will spring up in empty shops and car parks.A source at the Department of Health and Social Care said officials were working on "walk through testing sites in England for people w…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/25/walk-in-centres-to-provide-coronavirus-testing-in-heart-of-communities/

Covid-19 ban on brass and woodwind instruments in churches, MPs told
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-25
Brass and woodwind instruments should not be used in churches to help combat the spread of Covid-19, MPs have been told.Conservative MP Andrew Selous, in his role as the Church of England's representative in the Commons, said there will be no cap placed on the number of people attending church services as long as Covid-secure guidelines are met.But he added singing and chanting are not allowed even at a distance, and there are certain instruments which cannot be used.Lichfield Cathedral (PA)Speaking in the Commons, Conservative Michael Fabricant asked when people will be allowed to return to evensong and enjoy th…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/25/covid-19-ban-on-brass-and-woodwind-instruments-in-churches-mps-told/

Russians begin voting on changes allowing Putin to stay in power until 2036
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-25
Polls have opened in Russia for a week-long vote on constitutional changes that would allow president Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036.The vote on a range of constitutional amendments, proposed by Putin in January, was initially scheduled for 22 April but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.It was later rescheduled for 1 July, with polling stations opening a week earlier and staying open for seven days in an effort to avoid crowds on the main voting day.The proposed amendments include a change in the constitution that would allow 67-year-old Putin, who has ruled Russia for over two decades…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/06/25/russians-begin-voting-on-changes-allowing-putin-to-stay-in-power-until-2036/

Leadership That Neglects Science Led to Worst COVID Crises in US and Brazil
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-25
As coronavirus infections worldwide approach 10 million, nearly half can be found in the two largest countries in the Americas: the United States and Brazil, which now has the worst infection rate in the world and could surpass the U.S. death toll next month. "What we see in the country is a reflection of the leadership that we have," says Marcia Castro, professor of demography, chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-chair o…
truthout.org/video/leadership-that-neglects-science-led-to-worst-covid-crises-in-us-and-brazil/

"The Cops Are With the Fascists": How Police Terror and Trumpism Converge
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-25
Kelly Hayes talks with grassroots strategist Ejeris Dixon about fascism, police violence and how we can fight back. | Note: This is a rush transcript and has been lightly edited for clarity. Copy may not be in its final form. | TRANSCRIPT : | Kelly Hayes: Welcome to "Movement Memos," a Truthout podcast about things you should know, if you want to change the world. I'm your host Kelly Hayes. In our last episode, Ejeris Dixon and I talked about what a left display book for solidarity might look…
truthout.org/audio/the-cops-are-with-the-fascists-how-police-terror-and-trumpism-converge/

Wendy's Chairman and Top Owner Is Trump Donor, Fundraiser and Friend
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-25
Earlier this month, the hashtag #WendysIsOverParty went viral on Twitter after Business Insider reported in May that James Bodenstedt, CEO of Muy! Companies, an owner of Wendy's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell franchises, had donated more than $400,000 to Donald Trump's reelection campaign. At the time of the reporting, Bodenstedt was set to join a roundtable discussion hosted by Trump on…
truthout.org/articles/wendys-chairman-and-top-owner-is-trump-donor-fundraiser-and-friend/

Oakland School Board Unanimously Votes to Disband Its Own Police Force
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-25
The Oakland Unified School District unanimously voted on Wednesday evening to disband its own police department. | The measure passed by the school board will redirect a police budget of $2.5 million to other programs for students. Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell supported the move. | "As an educator, I know that students and staff must be safe physically and emotionally. In r…
truthout.org/articles/oakland-school-board-unanimously-votes-to-disband-its-own-police-force/

Thursday 7/2: LaborFest 2020: South Africa & COVID & Class struggle
Herb Mintz | indybay.org | 2020-06-25
This is a internet Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to register and to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/23/18834522.php

Friday 7/3: LaborFest 2020: Film: "Sir, No Sir" — The GI Movement to End the Vietnam War
Herb Mintz | indybay.org | 2020-06-25
This is a internet Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to participate. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to register and to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/23/18834523.php

Trump Unloads on Bolton After Bolton Unloads on Trump
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-25
John Bolton's new memoir "The Room Where It Happened," which came out two days ago in spite of White House attempts to block it, is the standard kiss and tell that senior American politicians and officials tend to write to make money for their retirement. There should be no question but that Bolton has done his best to cast the president in as bad a light as possible,…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/25/trump-unloads-on-bolton-after-bolton-unloads-on-trump/

Human Nature: An Oppressive Construct
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-25
Rod DREHER | A reader sends in a link to this nine-minute New Yorker documentary about a woke young couple raising their child to be gender-neutral. I had to stop watching it out of pity for this kid. These loons are going to screw him or her up terribly, and he or she will hate them: | Blank-slate utopians, man. So very many of our problems today come from a refusal to accept givenness as a natural condition. | So many on the left today have forgotten human nature. In his sizzling monologue last night, Tucker Carlson featured a can't-make-this-stuff-up moment. I've cued the monologue clip to that moment:…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/25/human-nature-an-oppressive-construct/

Why a Socialized System Like Medicare for All Beats For-Profit Healthcare in One Chart of Covid-19 Infection Rates
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-25
"All countries successfully combatting this virus have robust public health systems, which provide for coordination of effort." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/cdc.jpeg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/25/why-socialized-system-medicare-all-beats-profit-healthcare-one-chart-covid-19?cd-origin=rss

After Attacking Medicare for All as 'Unrealistic' During Primary, Biden Says Healthcare a 'Right for All' Amid Pandemic
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-25
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden left some progressives perplexed Thursday when he spoke at length about healthcare during a campaign stop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania—making a number of points that would suggest he supports Medicare for All. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1222903471_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/25/after-attacking-medicare-all-unrealistic-during-primary-biden-says-healthcare-right?cd-origin=rss

US Sanctions Iranian Ship Captains as Russia Hosts Venezuelan FM
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-06-24
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov reiterated his opposition to US aggression in Venezuela.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14920

Young Activist Found Hanging From Tree Near City Hall, Cops Claim It Was Suicide
The Mind Unleashed | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-14
Many people believe it was a hate crime.
theantimedia.com/young-activist-found-hanging-from-tree-near-city-hall-cops-claim-it-was-suicide/