Twitter Targets Accounts of MintPress and Other Outlets Covering Unrest in Bolivia
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-29
MintPress News, along with a number of independent Bolivian news outlets and journalists covering the unrest there, were all targeted for suspension at the same time.
mintpressnews.com/twitter-targets-accounts-mintpress-other-outlets-covering-unrest-bolivia/269074/
Aurora Police Violently Crackdown on Peaceful Vigil for Black Man Killed in Police Chokehold
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-29
Police in Aurora, Colorado violently cracked down on a group of peaceful protesters holding a vigil for a young black man killed by police late last year, bringing renewed attention to the push for police reform that has swept the nation.
mintpressnews.com/aurora-police-violently-crackdown-peaceful-vigil-black-man-killed-police-chokehold/269061/
Aurora Police Violently Crackdown on Peaceful Vigil for Black Man Killed in Police Chokehold
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-29
Police in Aurora, Colorado violently cracked down on a group of peaceful protesters holding a vigil for a young black man killed by police late last year, bringing renewed attention to the push for police reform that has swept the nation. | MPN– Clad in full riot gear, wielding batons and pepper spray, police in Aurora, Colo, broke up last night's vigil to the memory of 23-year-old massage therapist Elijah McClain — a man killed by the same police force last August. The day had begun with demonstrations organized by the local chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. At 8.30 p.m. a somber viol…
Aurora Police Violently Crackdown on Peaceful Vigil for Black Man Killed in Police Chokehold
Some Italian Thinkers Are Now Resisting Lies About the Soviet Union and World War II
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
Lying about world history is one of the main weapons of the Western imperialists, through which they are managing to maintain their control of the world. | European and North American countries are inventing and spreading a twisted narrative about almost …
globalresearch.ca/italian-thinkers-resisting-lies-about-soviet-union-wwii/5717279
US War Crimes: The Massacre at My Lai
Seymour M. Hersh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
This article was originally published on The New Yorker in January 1972. | Early on March 16, 1968, a company of soldiers in the United States Army's Americal Division were dropped in by helicopter for an assault against a hamlet known …
globalresearch.ca/massacre-my-lai/5717238
Trump used looted Venezuelan public money to build border wall with Mexico
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-29
Around $24 billion of Venezuelan public money was looted by the US government, and the Trump administration has used at…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/29/trump-stolen-venezuelan-money-border-wall-mexico/
Is the Deep State Attempting a Hybrid War in Mexico?
Nino Pagliccia | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
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 blueprint of concrete steps the opposition alliance will take to unseat AMLO." AMLO is Mexican…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/is-the-deep-state-attempting-a-hybrid-war-in-mexico/
Trump used looted Venezuelan public money to build border wall with Mexico
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-29
Around $24 billion of Venezuelan public money has been looted, and the Trump administration has used at least $601 million…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/29/trump-stolen-venezuelan-money-border-wall-mexico/
–°riminal Roots of Kosovo Further Exposed by Thaàßi's Indictment in The Hague
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
Serbian President Aleksandar Vuƒçiƒá was due to meet Kosovo leader Hashim Thaàßi on Saturday at the White House. This was at the behest of US envoy for Kosovo-Serbia negotiations, Richard Grenell, after his much-publicized success in organizing the meeting. However, …
globalresearch.ca/%d1%81riminal-roots-kosovo-exposed-thaci-indictment-hague/5717350
The Blundering British Political Class has Shown the Same Incompetence in Both Fighting Wars and Coronavirus
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
The government's controversial Prevent programme aims to stop individuals becoming terrorists, but it would be much more effective if it taught British political leaders not to engage in wars that become the seed-beds of terrorism.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/the-blundering-british-political-class-has-shown-the-same-incompetence-in-both-fighting-wars-and-coronavirus/
Suing China for COVID-19 Damages Rears Its Ugly Head Again
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
According to Courthouse News, Senate Judiciary Committee members discussed "amending the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) in order to hold China accountable for injury, losses and damages related to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus." | More on this below. | ***…
globalresearch.ca/suing-china-covid-19-damages-rears-ugly-head-again/5717120
Delisting Chinese Firms from US Exchanges. "Risks of Military Confrontation"… Destabilization of Capital Markets?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
US anti-China legislation dates from the mid-19th century, including measures to prohibit or limit emigration of its nationals to America. | Today, US war on China by other means rages with no end of it in prospect, things worsening, not improving, …
globalresearch.ca/delisting-chinese-firms-us-exchanges/5717340
No End to Illegal US Sanctions War on Iran
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
Since Iranians ended a generation of US installed fascist tyranny in 1979, both militant wings of its war party waged state terror on the Islamic Republic and its people. | Its main strategy has been and continues to be weaponized sanctions….
globalresearch.ca/no-end-illegal-us-sanctions-war-iran/5717272
Israel's illegal annexation plans for Palestine, 'disastrous' for wider Middle East — Bachelet
news.un.org | 2020-06-29
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned Israel on Monday not to proceed along the "dangerous path" of annexing a swathe of occupied Palestinian territory, urging the Government to listen to its own former senior officials along with the "multitude of voices around the world".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067392
The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of A "Universal Lockdown"
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
First published on May 1, 2020 | First comes the farce, an (almost) universal government lie around the globe about a deadly virus, WHO named COVID-19. The decision for a global lockdown — literally for the collapse of the world economy | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-cruelty-universal-lockdown/5710798
Taliban, Moscow, White House All Reject NYT's Reporting on Afghanistan Bounties
Dave DeCamp | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
On Friday, The New York Times reported that Russia offered Taliban-linked militants bounties for killing US troops in Afghanistan last year. The Times story was based on information they received from anonymous intelligence officials who were "briefed on the matter." …
globalresearch.ca/taliban-moscow-white-house-reject-nyt-reporting-afghanistan-bounties/5717300
Trump used looted Venezuelan public money to build border wall with Mexico
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-29
An estimated $24 billion of Venezuelan public money has been looted, and the Trump administration has used at least $601…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/29/trump-stolen-venezuelan-money-border-wall-mexico/
Trump Used Looted Venezuelan Public Money to Build Border Wall With Mexico
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-29
Around $24 billion of Venezuelan public money was looted by the US government, and the Trump administration has used at least $601 million of it to construct a militarized wall on the US-Mexico border. | Ben NORTON | Since the United States initiated a coup attempt against Venezuela's elected leftist government in January 2019, an estimated $24 billion worth of Venezuelan public assets have been stolen by Washington and member states of the European Union.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/29/trump-used-looted-venezuelan-public-money-build-border-wall-with-mexico/
How Palestine Advocates Can Support Black Struggle
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-29
Black people are one of the first and largest victims of Western colonialism and racial capitalism. We have never received justice for 500 years of racist violence and exploitation. | The US and most Western countries built their empires through profits from the Atlantic slave trade. | As an illegitimate settler colony that was built on the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population and enslavement of Africans, the US requires the continuous subjugation of Black and Indigenous people to maintain its imperial domination abroad. | Accordingly, the greatest internal threat to the US empire is that of a Black revo…
popularresistance.org/how-palestine-advocates-can-support-black-struggle/
Capitalism — The Cause Of COVID-19 Deaths
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-29
Does the COVID-19 virus operate differently in capitalist countries than in socialist countries? Based on a comparison of global numbers of fatalities, COVID-19 seems to appear in a more virulent form in capitalist countries. But is this even possible? | The impact of COVID-19 in capitalist countries is more than 20 to 50 times worse than in socialist countries or in countries with high levels of social mobilization. The longer and wider this virus spreads, the clearer this political difference becomes. | By every possible measure of COVID and of deaths due to a host of many other neglected sicknesses, it is clea…
popularresistance.org/capitalism-the-cause-of-covid-19-deaths/
Congress Must Hold President Trump Accountable!
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
Here is an abridged version of a letter sent on June 22, 2020, by me and two constitutional law experts Bruce Fein and Lou Fisher, to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerald Nadler, and the Committee's Vice Chairman, Jamie Raskin. It touches on where Congress has not exercised its constitutional authority to…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/congress-must-hold-president-trump-accountable/
Massive Case of Denial: COVID Surges in US, Tops 10M Globally, as Pence Touts "Remarkable Progress"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-29
As coronavirus cases top 10 million worldwide and spikes are being reported in 36 states, Vice President Mike Pence has touted "truly remarkable progress" on the pandemic. "This has just been a massive case of denial, of idiotic government policy, of the lack of any strategic planning, any really specific strategic goal," Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett says of the response to the pandemic. "We're in very, very dire straits right now."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/29/laurie_garrett_coronavirus
Blast kills 23 Afghans at a cattle market in southern Afghanistan
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
At least 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province and dozens were injured when rockets fell on a cattle market on Monday, said Afghan government and Taliban officials.The warring sides blamed each other for the attack on the open-air weekly cattle market in Sangin district where hundreds of villagers from neighbouring districts had gathered to trade sheep and goats.A spokesman for Helmand's governor said the several rockets fired by Taliban insurgents landed close to the cattle market, killing 23 civilians, including children.Taliban officials blamed the government officials for killing…
yenisafak.com/en/world/blast-kills-23-afghans-at-a-cattle-market-in-southern-afghanistan-3533221
Iran holds meeting with Taliban in Qatar
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — Senior leaders of the Taliban are currently stationed in Doha, Qatar, where Iran's special envoy for Afghanistan Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian holds a meeting with them on Sunday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160332/Iran-holds-meeting-with-Taliban-in-Qatar
To Save the United States From Collapse, College Campuses Must Emancipate Themselves From Social Justice Warriors
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-29
The American university is restructuring itself along the lines of Liberal foreign policy in that it seeks to utterly destroy the enemy — in this case, conservatism and nationalism. The strategy depends upon a take-no-prisoner approach that shuns debate and crucifies dissenters in order to turn America into an authoritarian socialist state. | It has become something of a cliché among many American parents to relay stories about the moment when their children return home from their first semester at college. These radicalized youth, exposed to the social justice curriculum of leftist teaching, shock their el…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/29/to-save-the-united-states-from-collapse-college-campuses-must-emancipate-themselves-from-social-justice-warriors/
The Blundering British Political Class Has Shown the Same Incompetence in Both Fighting Wars and Coronavirus
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-29
Patrick COCKBURN | The government's controversial Prevent programme aims to stop individuals becoming terrorists, but it would be much more effective if it taught British political leaders not to engage in wars that become the seed-beds of terrorism. | Consider the case of Khairi Saadallah, the suspect in the killing of three people in a park in Reading who came to the UK as a refugee from Libya in 2012 and was granted asylum in 2018. An ID card reportedly shows that he had been a member of the Union of the February 17 Revolution, one of the paramilitary groups that had fought Muammar Gaddafi the previous year. P…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/29/blundering-british-political-class-has-shown-same-incompetence-in-both-fighting-wars-coronavirus/
"Atrocious": Police Killed Elijah McClain in 2019. Why Did It Take Colorado So Long to Launch Probe?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-29
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has ordered a new investigation into the 2019 police killing of 23-year-old Elijah McClain in Aurora, which is facing renewed scrutiny and outrage amid the nationwide uprising against police brutality. McClain was walking home from a store last August when someone called 911 to report a "suspicious person." Three Aurora police officers who answered the call tackled McClain to the ground and placed him in a chokehold as he pleaded for his life, and medical responders who arrived then injected McClain with the powerful sedative ketamine. He suffered a cardiac arrest on the way to the h…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/29/elijah_mcclain_protests_new_investigation
Louisiana Activists Face 15 Years for "Terrorizing" Oil Lobbyist with Box of Plastic Pollution
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-29
Two environmental activists with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade face up to 15 years in prison for leaving a box of plastic pellets, found on the Texas coast, at the home of an oil and gas lobbyist in December. Advocates say the "terrorizing" felony charges reflect longtime attempts to criminalize environmental activists in Louisiana and come amid a campaign to block Formosa Plastics from building a new plant in St. James Parish, an area known as Cancer Alley. We speak with Anne Rolfes, director of the group Louisiana Bucket Brigade and one of those facing felony charges, and Gregory Manning, activist and pastor of…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/29/louisiana_formosa_plastics_cancer_alley
Selected Articles: US War Crimes: The Massacre at My Lai
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
If you look to Global Research as a resource for information and understanding, to stay current on world events, or to experience honesty and transparency in your news coverage, please consider making a donation or becoming a member. Your …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-us-war-crimes-massacre-my-lai/5717358
As Supreme Court Blocks Louisiana's Anti-Choice Law, Reproductive Rights Groups Breathe Sigh of Relief—and Prepare for Continued Fight
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-29
Reproductive rights groups on Monday expressed relief after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a restrictive anti-choice law in Louisiana, the latest state regulation blocking access to abortion care to be rejected by the high court. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/stop_war_on_women_1_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/29/supreme-court-blocks-louisianas-anti-choice-law-reproductive-rights-groups-breathe?cd-origin=rss
Chris Hedges On Contact: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-29
Chris Hedges discusses the extradition hearing of Julian Assange with lawyer, author and professor, Marjorie Cohn. | Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught from 1991 to 2016, and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild. | Professor Cohn is the editor of and a contributor to 'The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse', and 'Drones and Targeted Killings: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues'.
popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-on-contact-julian-assange-extradition-hearing/
Every American Should Watch Abby Martin's New Afghanistan War Documentary
MintPress News Desk | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-29
Abby Martin's new documentary, "Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy," is a tour de force, a must watch for every American seeking a holistic understanding of American's longest-running war.
mintpressnews.com/every-american-should-watch-abby-martin-afghanistan-war-exposed-an-imperial-conspiracy/269035/
Chris Hedges: My Student Comes Home
Chris Hedges | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-29
In 1990, Lawrence Bell was 14, orphaned and living in an abandoned house when three Camden cops pressured him to sign a confession of murder. Sunday, thanks to the dogged work of his laywer, he was freed.
mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-my-student-lawrence-bell-comes-home/269051/
"Trump Is the Worst Criminal in History, Undeniably"
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-06-29
Interview on the "absolutely unprecedented scope and scale" of the protests against the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and why Trump's refusal to act to stop the impending catastrophe of climate change makes him "the worst criminal in human history."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-is-the-worst-criminal-in-history-undeniably/
First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You're Praised for Sending in Aid
Sarah Lazare | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
The United Nations describes itself in its charter as an international moral authority created to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." But activists who are trying to end the U.S. war on Yemen say that, in a dark …
globalresearch.ca/first-you-bomb-starve-country-then-praised-sending-aid/5717333
Victory for San Mateo Co. Inmates After Ten Day Hunger Strike
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-06-29
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
Sudan on high alert ahead of mass protests
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Sudanese security forces have been placed on high alert on Monday ahead of mass protests by rival groups on the first anniversary of a power-sharing deal between the military and civilians. | Forces from the military and police have been deployed across the streets of Khartoum. Main roads and bridges leading to the army headquarters in the capital have been sealed, according to an Anadolu Agency reporter on the ground. | Activists have called for demonstrations on June 30 to pile pressure on the transitional government to implement "goals of the revolution" that ousted long-serving President Omar al-Bashir last y…
yenisafak.com/en/news/sudan-on-high-alert-ahead-of-mass-protests-3533246
Activists Erect 'Guillotine' Outside Jeff Bezos' House, Demand Destruction of Amazon
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-29
Jeff Bezos, the richest human on Earth, has long been the subject of anger amid accusations of overseeing poor working conditions, low wages, and of busting of organised labour movements.
sputniknews.com/us/202006291079751686-activists-erect-guillotine-outside-jeff-bezos-house-demand-destruction-of-amazon/
Concepts in Leader's letter to Western youth becoming 'clear and clearer: activist
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — A human rights activist believes that what the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei mentioned in his letter to the West's youth is becoming 'clearer' by the day.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160325/Concepts-in-Leader-s-letter-to-Western-youth-becoming-clear
Detroit police filmed driving SUV through crowd of protesters in blood-chilling VIDEO
rt.com | 2020-06-29
A terrifying video from Detroit shows a police vehicle forcefully breaking out of a circle of chanting protesters, carrying some of them on the hood. The department said the officer behind the wheel "tried to escape" the crowd. | Footage of the incident shows the SUV surrounded by dozens of activists. The vehicle suddenly accelerates and stops several times, as people around it scream in fear. Some of the protesters were knocked to the ground while others tried to cling to the hood as it was speeding away. | #NoJusticeNoPeace …
rt.com/usa/493220-detroit-police-ram-protesters/
Doctors for Assange Say UK May be Liable for His Torture
Doctors for Assange | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
In a new letter to the British medical journal The Lancet, Doctors for Assange say that the British government may be held legally responsible for the torture of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. | *** | Here is the doctors' statement followed by …
globalresearch.ca/doctors-assange-say-uk-liable-his-torture/5717261
Assange surprised by timing of new US indictment
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Julian Assange's lawyer said on Monday he was surprised U.S. authorities issued a new and wider indictment last week against the WikiLeaks founder whom they are seeking to extradite from Britain.Assange is wanted by U.S. authorities to stand trial for 18 offences including conspiring to hack government computers and espionage. Last year, the United States began extradition proceedings after he was dragged from London's Ecuadorean embassy where he had been holed up for almost seven years.The U.S. Department for Justice issued a second, superseding indictment last week which, it said, contained no new charges but b…
yenisafak.com/en/world/assange-surprised-by-timing-of-new-us-indictment-3533242
Water cooperation between States 'key' to Blue Nile dam project
news.un.org | 2020-06-29
The Blue Nile is "critical for the livelihoods and development" of Egyptians, Ethiopians and Sudanese, the top UN official for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs told the Security Council on Monday, urging those States to reach a construction agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067402
Uprising 2020: Space near New York City Hall occupied
Maicol David Lynch | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-29
NEW YORK — One month after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters in New York City are occupying the space outside City Hall until the budget vote set to take place on Tuesday, June 30. If passed, the New York Police Department's budget could be cut by one sixth: One billion dollars of …
peoplesworld.org/article/uprising-2020-space-near-new-york-city-hall-occupied/
Protest and the Post-Legitimation State
Paul A. Passavant | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, protests have spread across the United States (and the world). These protests force us to confront the question of state legitimacy in the United States today in a way that we have not considered in over fifty years. They also…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/protest-and-the-post-legitimation-state/
Anti-racism groups protest vilification of immigrants in Glasgow
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-29
In the aftermath of a stabbing incident in Glasgow, right-wing groups in the United Kingdom have been trying to whip up anti-immigrant sentiments. Anti-racism groups have insisted that the city welcomes refugees…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/29/anti-racism-groups-protest-vilification-of-immigrants-in-glasgow/
Torture of journalists triggers protests in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan State
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-29
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in a statement called it completely unacceptable for representatives of the security forces to commit acts of torture against journalists reporting from the region…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/29/torture-of-journalists-triggers-protests-in-pakistans-southwestern-balochistan-state/
Bad Polling Streak for Trump Reportedly has GOP Operatives Speculating if POTUS Could Drop Out
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-29
Criticism of the US administration's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and response to the protests sweeping the country following the death of black man George Floyd in police custody in late May has resulted in President Donald Trump's poll numbers trending downward lately.
sputniknews.com/us/202006291079744883-bad-polling-streak-for-trump-reportedly-has-gop-operatives-speculating-if-potus-could-drop-out/
Trump Shares Video of Couple Pointing Semi-Automatic Weapon at Protesters
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-29
President Donald Trump shared a tweet on Monday morning of a white St. Louis couple brandishing and pointing their guns in the direction of protesters against anti-Black racism and police violence who were marching toward the mayor's office. | While it's unclear what Trump intended by sharing…
truthout.org/articles/trump-shares-video-of-couple-pointing-semi-automatic-weapon-at-protesters/
Monday June 29 – Protest to Stop Eviction of 1921 Walnut St. Tenants
Posted By Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-29
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
Food is best vaccine against chaos, insists UN World Food Programme head
news.un.org | 2020-06-29
Tens of millions more people are likely to go hungry this year because of the COVID-19 crisis, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday, as it announced plans for a massive boost to its global aid operation so it can reach them.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067352
COVID19 PCR Tests Are Scientifically Meaningless
Torsten Engelbrecht | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
Lockdowns and hygienic measures around the world are based on numbers of cases and mortality rates created by the so-called SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests used to identify "positive" patients, whereby "positive" is usually equated with "infected." | But looking closely at the …
globalresearch.ca/covid19-pcr-tests-scientifically-meaningless/5717253
Tomorrow's World, Today
Collective 20 | zcomm.org | 2020-06-29
COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question that is now percolating, and even reverberating. And then came a white knee crushing a Black neck. A dream so long deferred suddenly exploded in city after city. What's next? From the social distancing, what? From the fumes and flames, what? From the bodies in Read…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/tomorrows-world-today/
The Gates / Fauci Vaccine Developed by Moderna. Video Featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Andrew Kaufman
Lila York | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
First published on May 29, 2020 | This is a four-minute video featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Andrew Kaufman that explains exactly what is in the Gates/Fauci covid19 vaccine currently being developed by Fauci's own vaccine company, Moderna. | Most | …
globalresearch.ca/vaccine-just-say-no/5714389
$2,000 Price Tag for Covid-19 Drug Shows Pharma Industry Is 'Out of Touch With Reality'
commondreams.org | 2020-06-29
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/06/29/2000-price-tag-covid-19-drug-shows-pharma-industry-out-touch-reality?cd-origin=rss
The Pandemic Shows the Importance of Funding Early Childcare and Education Infrastructure
Eileen Appelbaum | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
The COVID-19 pandemic that shut down the economy in March has led to sharp declines in employment and output. In December, women made up more than half the workforce; now, for the first time, women have lost jobs at a more rapid rate than men. They need to be able to return to employment in…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/the-pandemic-shows-the-importance-of-funding-early-childcare-and-education-infrastructure/
Extend cross border 'lifeline' into Syria, Lowcock urges Security Council
news.un.org | 2020-06-29
With COVID-19 cases in Syria multiplying, its economy in freefall, and some households cooking weeds to eat in order to survive, the UN's emergency relief coordinator is pressing the Security Council to extend its authorization for cross-border aid deliveries from Turkey.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067412
Massive case of denial: COVID surges in US, tops 10M globally, as Pence touts 'remarkable progress'
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-29
"This has just been a massive case of denial, of idiotic government policy, of the lack of any strategic planning, any really specific strategic goal."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/29/massive-case-of-denial-covid-surges-in-us-tops-10m-globally-as-pence-touts-remarkable-progress/
"Back to Normal" Thinking and Why Trump's Anti-Mask Stance Has Been So Deadly
Gleb Tsipursky | commondreams.org | 2020-06-29
President Donald Trump pretends to take a Covid-19 test while holding a swab during his visit of the Puritan Medical Products facility in Guilford, Maine on June 5, 2020. The facility said after Trump's visit it would have to discard tests that were made during the president's visit because he did not wear a face mask. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump-typhoid-mary_0.jpg …
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COVID-19 pandemic 'not even close to being over', WHO chief warns
news.un.org | 2020-06-29
Nearly six months after the new coronavirus first emerged, the COVID-19 pandemic is "not even close to being over", the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday.
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Covid-19 Means Good Times for the Pentagon
Mandy Smithberger | commondreams.org | 2020-06-29
While Americans are overwhelmed by the pandemic, the Pentagon and its boosters are exploiting the emergency to feather their own nests.(Photo: Master Sgt. Ken Hammond / U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/pentagon_2_0_0_0.jpeg …
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How a False Hydroxychloroquine Narrative Was Created. "Dangerous" When Used for Covid-19
Dr. Meryl Nass | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
It is remarkable that a series of events taking place over the past 3 months produced a unified message about hydroxychloroquine, and produced similar policies about the drug in the US, Canada, Australia, NZ and western Europe. The message is …
globalresearch.ca/how-false-hydroxychloroquine-narrative-created/5717275
DHS Watchdog Confirms: ICE is Failing to Protect Detained People From COVID
Eunice Cho | aclu.org | 2020-06-29
As cases of COVID-19 in immigration detention facilities have exploded in recent months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has continued to argue that it has done all that it possibly can to manage this crisis. A new report by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) — the department's oversight body — however, sheds new light on ICE's failure to do so, and the continued danger faced by detainees and detention staff alike. , , Notably, the OI…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/dhs-watchdog-confirms-ice-is-failing-to-protect-detained-people-from-covid
Manufactured Pandemic: Testing People for Any Strain of a Coronavirus, Not Specifically for COVID-19
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
First published by Global Research on March 27, 2020 | The following is from a medical forum. The writer, who is a widely respected professional scientist in the US, prefers to stay anonymous, because presenting any narrative different than the official …
globalresearch.ca/manufactured-pandemic-testing-people-any-strain-coronavirus-not-specifically-covid-19/5707781
Don't Neglect Funding Early Childcare and Education Infrastructure
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-06-29
AlterNet See article on original site The COVID-19 pandemic that shut down the economy in March has led to sharp declines in employment and output. In December, women made up more than half the workforce; now, for the first time, women have lost jobs at a more rapid rate than men. They need to be able to …
cepr.net/dont-neglect-funding-early-childcare-and-education-infrastructure/
The De-Trumpification of America
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
Let's assume that Donald Trump loses the election in November. Yes, that's a mighty big assumption, despite all the polls currently favoring the Democrats. If the economy begins to recover and the first wave of Covid-19 subsides (without a second wave striking), Donald Trump's reelection prospects could improve greatly. The Republican Party has a huge…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/the-de-trumpification-of-america/
Mass-Tracking COVI-PASS Immunity Passports Slated to Roll Out in 15 Countries
Raul Diego | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
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. | *** | Through the …
globalresearch.ca/mass-tracking-covi-pass-immunity-passports-slated-roll-out-15-countries/5717268
Defund the CEOs
Sam Pizzigati | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
America's dirtiest three-letter word may now be "CEO." Our ongoing economic meltdown is making that tag even dirtier. Chef executives the nation over have spent this past spring scheming to keep their pockets stuffed while their workers suffer wage cuts, layoffs, and even death by Covid-19. Not all CEOs, of course. Flacks for Corporate America…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/defund-the-ceos/
After 17 Months of Unlawful Detention, Court Orders Release of U.S. Resident Wrongfully Detained Under Patriot Act
Jonathan Hafetz | aclu.org | 2020-06-29
For well over a year, the U.S. government has held Adham Hassoun in a detention facility without trial, without criminal charge, and without end in sight. Today, a court ordered the government to release him and expressed contempt for the government's frivolous and alarming legal position: "Distilled to its core, [the government's] position is that [it] should be able to detain Mr. Hassoun indefinitely based on the executive branch's say-so, and that decision is insulated from any meaningful review by the judiciary. The record in this case demonstrates firsthand the danger of adopting [the governmentR…
aclu.org/news/national-security/after-17-months-of-unlawful-detention-court-orders-release-of-u-s-resident-wrongfully-detained-under-patriot-act
Arctic Heat Overwhelms Green Infighting Issues
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
Arctic temperatures are soaring to new records… and staying there, ever since May of this year. Truth be known, the Arctic's been heating up for years. Siberia recently hit 105 ∞F. That's not normal. It's 30 ∞F hotter than normal. Farther south, the Amazon rainforest is hit with a drought every 5 years like clockwork, not regular…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/arctic-heat-overwhelms-green-infighting-issues/
Bernie: Cut Pentagon by 10% to invest in education, health care, and housing
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-29
"And when we talk about real change it is incredible to me the degree to which Congress continues to ignore our bloated $740 billion defense budget–which has gone up by over $100 billion since Trump has been in office."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/29/bernie-cut-pentagon-by-10-to-invest-in-education-health-care-and-housing/
Biden backs strikers at Bath Iron Works
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-29
BATH, Maine–Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and a parade of other prominent politicians are supporting the 4,300 Machinists Local S6 workers forced to strike by their bosses at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine.
peoplesworld.org/article/biden-backs-strikers-at-bath-iron-works/
Bolton and the Pandemic
Mitchel Cohen | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
The corporate media is obsessing over John Bolton's views with regard to Donald Trump, but it is worth examining what they're not asking. Prior to the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic in March of 2020, there existed a commission known as the U.S. Pandemic Response Team. The PRT was formed under President George W. Bush and continued…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/bolton-and-the-pandemic/
Tales of Resistance: 'The Cheapest Gasoline in the World'
Jessica Dos Santos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
For two months, most gas stations in Caracas were closed. The few that were running, under military supervision, had car queues stretching for over a mile. And that taking into account that fuel was only to be sold to priority …
globalresearch.ca/cheapest-gasoline-world/5717257
Fear, lack of confidence push U.S. to restrict Chinese media
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-29
More concerns raised over bleak outlook for China-U.S. ties: observer…
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Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-29
~ | Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishing CIA press releases disguised as news. | ~ | The most influential news outlets in the western world uncritically parrot whatever they're told to say by the most powerful and depraved intelligence agencies on the planet, then tell you that Russia and China are bad because they have state media. | ~ | Imagine if a compulsive liar who you know for a fact constantly deceives people in order to hurt and exploit them told you your neighbor is going to kill you if you don't kill him first, and you go and kill your n…
Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-29
An assertion made by spooks is as far from evidence as you can possibly get. Really dumb that this needs to be said. | ~ | Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishing CIA press releases disguised as news. | ~ | The most influential news outlets in the western world uncritically parrot whatever they're told to say by the most powerful and depraved intelligence agencies on the planet, then tell you that Russia and China are bad because they have state media. | ~ | Imagine if a compulsive liar who you know for a fact constantly deceives people in order to hu…
Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Coronavirus Cases Surge As Nurses Demand States Close Until They Can Reopen Safely
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-29
The US experiences record-high coronavirus cases after ignoring the warnings of public health experts and medical professionals. We speak with National Nurses United President Zenei Cortez.
therealnews.com/stories/coronavirus-case-surge-nurses-demand-states-close-until-safe-reopen
5 Million Cases Worldwide, 650,000 Deaths Annually: The Seasonal Flu Virus is a "Serious Concern", But the Wuhan Coronavirus Grabs the Headlines
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
First published on January 27, 2020. Figures quoted for the coranavirus pertain to late January | The common flu virus will infect millions across the globe. It can be easily spread and will especially strike the young and the elderly. But …
globalresearch.ca/flu-bigger-concern-wuhan-virus-grabs-headlines/5701932
Great Minds Think Alike: Bolsonaro and Trump
Christopher Brauchli | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
Great minds think alike. And you probably thought the only thing those two great minds had in common was their love of hydroxychloroquine and their enthusiastic support for using it to combat the coronavirus. As the trump explained some weeks ago, during the period he was taking the drug, he'd received lots of letters…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/great-minds-think-alike-bolsonaro-and-trump/
After the Corona Lockdown: Neoliberal State Intervention "Won't Save Us"
MP Richard Burgon | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
After the coronavirus crisis, the state will likely play a much larger role in the economy. But its interventions will serve the interests of the wealthy — unless the Left gets organised, argues Richard Burgon. | *** |
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globalresearch.ca/after-the-corona-lockdown-neoliberal-state-intervention-wont-save-us/5717295
We Don't Need No Corporation
Jake Whitney | progressive.org | 2020-06-29
Shortly after announcing her candidacy for President, Elizabeth Warren appeared on MSNBC to discuss her plan to break up the Big Tech companies.
progressive.org/magazine/dont-need-no-corporation-whitney/
Public Enemy, Nas, & More For Rendition of Fight The Power
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/public-enemy-nas-more-for-rendition-of-fight-the-power/
An Open Letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom on Ethnic Studies
Alvaro Huerta | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
Dear Governor Gavin Newsom, As one of the few tenured Latina/o faculty members at the California State University (CSU)–the largest public university system in the country–I'm requesting that you sign Assembly Bill 1460 or AB 1460 (ethnic studies bill), once it reaches your desk. As a son of Mexican immigrants who was born in the State Capital, I'm neither asking nor…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/an-open-letter-to-california-governor-gavin-newsom-on-ethnic-studies/
Battering Rams for All
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
Battering Rams for All Pigs in the street sheep, lambs, and battering rams That slam, kabam Into John Doe's condos He can keep one But does he need fifty? Look at the city What you see is what you get No rent, no debt No homelessness, no war, no…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/battering-rams-for-all/
Arctic Heat Overwhelms Green Infighting Issues
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
Arctic temperatures are soaring to new records… and staying there, ever since May of this year. Truth be known, the Arctic's been heating up for years. Siberia recently hit 105 ∞F. That's not normal. It's 30 ∞F hotter than normal. | …
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/arctic-heat-overwhelms-green-infighting-issues/
Missouri River Breaks: How BLM Neglect Threatens a Wild and Scenic River and National Monument
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
One hundred forty-nine miles of the Missouri River in Montana is a designated Wild and Scenic River. It is also within the 375,000 acres Missouri River Breaks National Monument, which includes the Lewis and Clark and Nez Perce National Historic Trails. It is part of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Landscape Conservation System. The…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/missouri-river-breaks-how-blm-neglect-threatens-a-wild-and-scenic-river-and-national-monument/
Nothing Succeeds Like Secession: Suggested Demands for CHOP From a Friendly Panarchist Ally
Nicky Reid | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
I have always been fascinated by secessionist movements. It goes back to my childhood love of maps, flags and geography. I use to spend hours poring over atlases and fixating on the strange autonomous zones that only existed inside fluid borders drawn in dotted lines. Strange places no American ever spoke of, with exotic names…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/nothing-succeeds-like-secession-suggested-demands-for-chop-from-a-friendly-panarchist-ally/
On the Recession, Stimulus and Economic Recovery
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
As we get more data in, it seems increasingly likely that we are looking at a horrible and prolonged recession, not a complete economic collapse of Great Depression proportions. The May employment report showed a substantial bounce back in employment, with jobs up by more than 2.5 million from the April level. Retail sales had…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/on-the-recession-stimulus-and-economic-recovery/
Will South Korea's Moon Defy Trump and Improve Relations with North Korea?
Gregory Elich | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-29
North Korea is in the news again. As always, that means that it is time for mainstream journalists and establishment figures to reach for the handy cliché and to recycle received opinion as a substitute for thought. Terms like "provocation," "threat," and "aggression" abound. Not surprisingly, powerful political and military actors in the United States…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/29/will-south-koreas-moon-defy-trump-and-improve-relations-with-north-korea/
June 27, 1954: Elected Guatemalan Leader Overthrown in CIA-Backed Coup
Juan Gonzalez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
In similar fashion, the tragedy of modern Guatemala owes its origins to U.S. foreign policy. A garrison state for more than forty years, Guatemala was home to the longest and bloodiest civil war in Central American history. The roots of …
globalresearch.ca/june-27-1954-elected-guatemalan-leader-overthrown-cia-backed-coup/5717298
Sudan: Popular Struggles, Elite Compromises, and Revolution Betrayed
John Young | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
After more than six months of sustained and growing demonstrations across Sudan demanding the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir, on 11 April 2019 the military placed him under arrest and attempted to rule the country for an indeterminate period …
globalresearch.ca/sudan-popular-struggles-elite-compromises-revolution-betrayed/5717281
Modern Slavery and Woke Hypocrisy
Judith Bergman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
The news has been filled with reports about Black Lives Matter (BLM) supporters vandalizing and tearing down statues of slave traders, slave owners, and anyone who they perceive as having been historically involved with slavery. In Bristol, England, a statue …
globalresearch.ca/modern-slavery-woke-hypocrisy/5717316
EU Parliament Members Expose 5G Safety Authority Being Influenced by Telecom Industry
Environmental Health Trust | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
A new report released by European Members of Parliments Michèle Rivasi (Europe Écologie) and Dr. Klaus Buchner (àñkologisch-Demokratische Partei) accuses the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), an organization many governments consider an authority on the safety of 5G …
globalresearch.ca/eu-parliament-members-expose-5g-safety-authority-influenced-telecom-industry/5717265
An Illuminating Farmer-to-Farmer Story in Morocco
Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
Bill Nichols served as a volunteer consultant to the High Atlas Foundation (HAF) through the Farmer-to-Farmer Program (F2F) for two weeks in January 2020. Originally from New Mexico, now residing in Boston, Bill collaborated as an F2F volunteer with four …
globalresearch.ca/farmer-story-morocco/5717311
Video: The Concept of Social Distancing in Schools
Leigh Dundas | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
Many educators and parents are struggling with the concept of social distancing in schools. Here are some lesser known facts about social distancing and isolation: | ‚Ä¢ It was developed 70 years ago by the CIA to break down enemies of | …
globalresearch.ca/concept-social-distancing-schools/5717339
Video: UN Agenda 2030 Exposed
Rosa Koire | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
This video first published in May 2019 brings to the forefront an incisive and carefully documented understanding of the current corona crisis and its aftermath in the wake of the lockdown. | *** | UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan …
globalresearch.ca/video-un-agenda-2030-exposed/5717356
US-Iran Confrontation in Lebanon: Counter-measures and Escalation
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
It's looking like a long, hot summer, as tensions increase between Washington and Tehran, US elections approach, and the "maximum pressure" exercised by the US escalates. After Syria, it is Lebanon's turn. The country's financial failure has reached the point …
globalresearch.ca/us-iran-confrontation-lebanon-counter-measures-escalation/5717313
The Pandemic Risk of an Accidental Lab Leak of Enhanced Flu Virus: Unacceptably High
Lynn C. Klotz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
According to the World Health Organization, seasonal influenza viruses spread throughout the world in a year or two, infecting 10 to 25 percent of the world's population and causing some 290,000 to 650,000 deaths. With a world population of about …
globalresearch.ca/pandemic-risk-accidental-lab-leak-enhanced-flu-virus/5717329
Just Action for Refugees and Locals: Green Shoots on Greece's Samos Island
Chris Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
Recently, I had the opportunity to meet with Vasilis and Lene who have created Just Action, a new NGO on Samos. In the few months of its existence Just Action has more than lived up to its name distributing thousands …
globalresearch.ca/just-action-green-shoots-samos/5717250
While the World Burns, the Road Map to War with Iran Continues
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
Let's face it, the long prediction held by many all agree on one thing, the US empire is on the way into the dustbins of history, but not without a fight to the end. Geopolitically speaking, the US military-industrial complex …
globalresearch.ca/road-map-war-iran-continues/5717242
The Dutch Prosecution and the Judge Have Rigged the Outcome of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 Trial on a Charge that Requires No Proof
John Helmer | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
The Dutch Government has devised an evidence-proof scheme for ensuring the trial of the Russian government for the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 will end in a conviction. | This scheme will work without evidence to prove that the four …
globalresearch.ca/how-dutch-prosecution-judge-rigged-outcome-mh17-trial-charge-requires-no-proof/5717270
Kosovo Indictment Proves Bill Clinton's Serbian War Atrocities
James Bovard | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
President Bill Clinton's favorite freedom fighter just got indicted for mass murder, torture, kidnapping, and other crimes against humanity. In 1999, the Clinton administration launched a 78-day bombing campaign that killed up to 1500 civilians in Serbia and Kosovo …
globalresearch.ca/kosovo-indictment-proves-bill-clinton-serbian-war-atrocities/5717263
Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty Are Interconnected
Josué Rivas, The Nation, Magnum Foundation | thenation.com | 2020-06-29
Josué Rivas, The Nation, Magnum Foundation Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty Are Interconnected…
thenation.com/article/politics/black-liberation-indigenous-sovereignty/
Housing for All
Paul Larudee | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-29
Read Part I and Part II. In the best of economic times, large numbers of homeless Blacks, Indigenous peoples, and other disenfranchised, impoverished and marginalized members of our society live in squalor on our streets while much larger numbers of housing units sit empty. This is disgraceful, unacceptable and unjust, and it contributes to major …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/housing-for-all/
NWSL players take a knee during the national anthem
Anne M. Peterson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-29
(AP) Players for the Portland Thorns and the North Carolina Courage knelt during the national anthem Saturday when the National Women's Soccer League opened the Challenge Cup tournament in Utah. The players and coaches wore Black Lives Matter T-shirts in warmups before the game, which was nationally televised on CBS. The players also knelt during …
peoplesworld.org/article/nwsl-players-take-a-knee-during-the-national-anthem/
Pandemic Paves Way for Decarceration
Daniel Munczek Edelman | progressive.org | 2020-06-29
If we are really serious about reducing crime and the role of the police, improving access to employment and strengthening communities have been proven to work.
progressive.org/op-eds/pandemic-decarceration-munczek-edelman-200629/
Fake News With Special Guest Nolan Higdon
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-06-29
On this week's Project Censored Show, Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon discuss the topic of fake news and how it relates to Higdon's forthcoming book, "The Anatomy of Fake News: …
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Philippines: 7 anti-mining leaders arrested
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-29
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joined various organizations in denouncing the Duterte regime and its armed forces for the unlawful arrest of anti-mining leaders Datu Reynaldo Ayuma and six other Lumads at Purok 6, Barangay Blanco, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental on June 26. | "The Party calls on local and international environmentalist and human rights advocates to look into the escalating incidents of abuses perpetrated by the Duterte fascist regime against anti-mining communities while fast-tracking the enactment of the fascist Anti-Terror Bill (ATB)," stated Marco L. Valbuena, Information Officer, C…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/29/philippines-7-anti-mining-leaders-arrested
Philippines: 7 anti-mining leaders arrested
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-29
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joined various organizations in denouncing the Duterte regime and its armed forces for the unlawful arrest of anti-mining leaders Datu Reynaldo Ayuma and six other Lumads at Purok 6, Barangay Blanco, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental on June 26. | "The Party calls on local and international environmentalist and human rights advocates to look into the escalating incidents of abuses perpetrated by the Duterte fascist regime against anti-mining communities while fast-tracking the enactment of the fascist Anti-Terror Bill (ATB)," stated Marco L. Valbuena, Information Officer, C…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/29/philippines-7-anti-mining-leaders-arrested
Sow Hate, Reap Hate
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-29
Have you noticed what I have noticed–that of the trillions of words in print and on the air, there are precious few that are not garbage. Among the few commentators I read is The Saker. He sees the US in systemic collapse– thesaker.is/the-systemic-collapse-of-the-us-society-has-begun/ . | Other commentators who I read, such as Dmitry Orlov, see the collapse as economic in nature. As my readers know, I have a lot of my own to add to that analysis, principally the offshoring of US jobs and the financialization o…
5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern
Mark Serreze | zcomm.org | 2020-06-29
What is happening in the Arctic is very real and should serve as a warning to everyone who cares about the future of the planet as we know it.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/5-ways-the-extreme-arctic-heat-wave-follows-a-disturbing-pattern/
Imperial scientists show policymakers how UK can benefit from circular economy
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-29
How to transition to a circular economy, a topic rising up the economic and climate agendas, was the focus of The Forum's latest policy workshop.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197876/imperial-scientists-show-policymakers-uk-benefit
First Person: Looking to the skies to understand the climate crisis
news.un.org | 2020-06-29
Could studying the cosmos help us to fight the climate crisis? Two astronomers at the University of Hawaii think that knowledge of the solar system may help to slow down the warming of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Sunday 6/28: Planet of the Humans — Left Perspectives on Climate Solutions
IFCSS | indybay.org | 2020-06-29
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Academic Freedom: Redress for Denis Rancourt
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-29
Denis Rancourt is a person who is unafraid to challenge conventional wisdom. For example, he is skeptical about the scientific consensus around climate change, and recently, he looked at the meta-analyses of using masks and questions their effectiveness against viral respiratory infections. Whether Rancourt is right or not in his conclusions is consequential, but more …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/academic-freedom-redress-for-denis-rancourt/
Exposed: States Relying On 'House Of Cards' To Pay For Coal Mine Cleanup
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-29
For more than a century-and-a-half, the forests, streams, and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains have been scraped and gashed to unearth their heart of rich black coal. These lumps of hydrocarbons historically played a vital role in America's electricity mix, accounting for a third of the country's energy production as recently as 2008. | But over the past decade, a devastating combination of forces has pummeled the industry, from cheap natural gas and the falling cost of renewables to growing public pressure to respond to the climate crisis. U.S. coal production has dropped 40 percent since its peak 12 years a…
popularresistance.org/exposed-states-relying-on-house-of-cards-to-pay-for-coal-mine-cleanup/
Revolution or ruin
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-29
We know how the first paragraph begins. We've read about the changing climate for over twenty years, infrequently at first and then daily until we couldn't deny it any longer. The world is burning.
mronline.org/2020/06/29/revolution-or-ruin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=revolution-or-ruin
Sudan Holds Donors Conference to Salvage Its Economy
Kester Kenn Klomegah | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-29
During several years of the Omar al-Bashir administration, Sudan's economy was largely shattered due to political tyranny, deep-seated corruption and poor policies. Sudan has a population of 43 million (2018 estimates), nearly 80% live far below the poverty line despite …
globalresearch.ca/sudan-holds-donors-conference-salvage-economy/5717245
Empire Files: Afghanistan War Exposed
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-29
The perpetual occupation of Afghanistan has become so normalized and mostly serves as background noise to Americans. It's even jokingly referred to as the "Forever War," accepted as just a constant reality. A soldier dies now and again. A couple of dozen civilians get killed in another bombing. It's never enough to stir the population to pressure Washington to stop it. The endless war drags on. | Since 2001, almost one million US troops have been deployed to Afghanistan. Many repeatedly. Of those, 2,300 have died and the new revelation that nearly 4,000 mercenaries have also died fighting in Afghanistan, almost d…
popularresistance.org/empire-files-afghanistan-war-exposed/
US And Saudi Nuclear Program: The Trump Administration's Secrecy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-29
A recent report by the US House of Representatives revealed that Trump administration has accelerated the process of transferring "very sensitive" nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. | The US House of Representatives has revealed that the Donald Trump administration has tried to provide Saudi Arabia with highly sensitive and advanced nuclear technology as soon as possible, regardless of legal and security concerns, the report said. | The report also expressed concern about the Trump administration's secretive engagement with Saudi Arabia. | The report goes on to say that private companies that are in close contac…
popularresistance.org/us-and-saudi-nuclear-program-the-trump-administrations-secrecy/
COVID Surges in US as Pence Touts "Remarkable Progress"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-29
As coronavirus cases top 10 million worldwide and spikes are being reported in 36 states, Vice President Mike Pence has touted "truly remarkable progress" on the pandemic. "This has just been a massive case of denial, of idiotic government policy, of the lack of any strategic planning, any really specific strategic goal," Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett says of the response to the pandemic. "We're in very, very dire straits right now." | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may no…
truthout.org/video/covid-surges-in-us-as-pence-touts-remarkable-progress/
Supporting private sector, govt.'s top priority: Veep
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — Iranian First Vice President Es'hagh Jahangiri said that backing private sector is the main and top priority of the government, emphasizing that able and competent private sector will benefit for national interests and development of the country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160342/Supporting-private-sector-govt-s-top-priority-Veep
Pakistan reopens Kartarpur border for Sikh pilgrims
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Pakistan on Monday reopened Kartarpur crossing for Sikh pilgrims from neighboring India after a months-long closure, the Foreign Ministry said.The crossing, which was temporarily closed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been reopened on the eve of the death anniversary of 18th century Sikh King, Maharaja Ranjeet Singh, who ruled Punjab, which is currently divided between India, and Pakistan.The first batch of Sikh pilgrims arrived in Pakistan via Kartarpur border to attend the ceremonies in connection with the death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh.Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-reopens-kartarpur-border-for-sikh-pilgrims-3533218
Dollar extends losses with focus on US coronavirus cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
The dollar fell on Monday while the euro led gains by strengthening half a percent, though currency markets lacked clear direction as surging coronavirus cases kept economic optimism in check.The global death toll from COVID-19 reached half a million on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally. Cases surged in Southern and Western U.S. states, prompting California to order some bars to close in the first major rollback of efforts to reopen the economy.Elsewhere, profits at China's industrial firms rose for the first time in six months in May, suggesting the country's economic recovery is gaining traction – but the ne…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/dollar-extends-losses-with-focus-on-us-coronavirus-cases-3533219
Gilead prices COVID-19 drug candidate remdesivir at $2,340 per patient in US
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Gilead Sciences Inc has priced its COVID-19 drug candidate remdesivir at $390 per vial for the United States and governments of other developed countries, it said on Monday, setting the price of a five-day course at $2,340 per patient.The price for U.S. private insurance companies will be $520 per vial, the drugmaker said, which equates to a total of $3,120 per patient.Gilead has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) whereby the department and states will manage allocation to hospitals until September end.After this period, once supplies are less constrained, HHS wi…
yenisafak.com/en/life/gilead-prices-covid-19-drug-candidate-remdesivir-at-2340-per-patient-in-us-3533225
Cuban medical team in Guinea-Bissau to combat COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
North Caribbean country Cuba has sent a medical team to Guinea-Bissau, a tropical country in West Africa to help in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, said media reports on Tuesday.A 21-member medical team — 11 doctors and 10 nurses — arrived in the African country, where Cuba has already extended assistance in fighting the deadly Ebola epidemic from 2014-2016, the Africa news website reported.According to US-based Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resources Centre Guinea-Bissau has reported 1,614 COVID-19 cases so far with 22 deaths."Today we received this Cuban team who came to join another team already present her…
yenisafak.com/en/life/cuban-medical-team-in-guinea-bissau-to-combat-covid-19-3533249
Turkish Airlines to resume flights from Bangladesh
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
After more than three months, Bangladeshi authorities have permitted Turkey's flag carrier to fly international routes from Dhaka airport, according to official sources."Turkish Airlines, as well as Air Arabia, can resume international flights from Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on any day after July 1 with proper maintenance of COVID-19 social distancing and health guidelines," Muhammad Mafidur Rahman, chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), told Anadolu Agency late on Sunday.He added that Turkish Airlines flights could carry Bangladeshi and Turkish nationals along with transit passengers who…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/turkish-airlines-to-resume-flights-from-bangladesh-3533220
Kuwait International Airport to resume commercial flights from Aug 1
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Commercial flights at Kuwait International Airport will resume from Aug. 1, the government's communications office said on Monday, after being suspended in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Kuwait's cabinet agreed on a three-stage resumption starting at 30% capacity, the statement said.
yenisafak.com/en/world/kuwait-international-airport-to-resume-commercial-flights-from-aug-1-3533253
Claw-Tiger: Turkey neutralizes 41 terrorists in N.Iraq
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Turkey has neutralized 41 terrorists as part of Operation Claw-Tiger in northern Iraq and seized large number of weapons and ammunition, said the defense minister on Monday."All our troops burst on the pre-determined areas with attacking air operations. They are working day and night, and the efforts are ongoing to take these regions under control," Hulusi Akar said.His remarks came during a weekly meeting of chief of general staff, commanders of air, land and naval forces via a video link. The commander of Turkish Task Force in Afghanistan and the head of military representative of Turkey in NATO headquarters we…
yenisafak.com/en/news/claw-tiger-turkey-neutralizes-41-terrorists-in-niraq-3533252
Spain says PM off to Africa, EU's list of safe nations ready soon
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is to make his first international trip since the coronavirus crisis to west Africa on Tuesday for a summit on Sahel region issues with other heads of state including France's President Emmanuel Macron.The European leaders will be joined in Mauritania by heads of the so-called G5 Sahel states – also including Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger – and U.N. boss Antonio Guterres, Sanchez's office said in a statement.The region is plagued by jihadi violence.In another sign of travel slowly resuming after months of coronavirus lockdowns, Spain's Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez La…
yenisafak.com/en/world/spain-says-pm-off-to-africa-eus-list-of-safe-nations-ready-soon-3533245
Saudi, US officials call for extending UN arms embargo on Iran
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Saudi and U.S. officials on Monday urged the international community to extend a United Nations arms embargo on Iran, warning that letting the ban expire would allow Tehran to further arm its proxies and destabilise the region.Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, and U.S. Iran envoy Brian Hook were speaking at a joint news conference in Riyadh.The venue displayed weapons, including drones and missiles, that Saudi authorities accuse Tehran of sending to Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement and which they said were used in cross-border attacks on Saudi cities.
yenisafak.com/en/world/saudi-us-officials-call-for-extending-un-arms-embargo-on-iran-3533247
Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over killing of top general
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
On Jan. 3, a U.S. drone strike in Iraq killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force. Washington blamed Soleimani for masterminding attacks by Iran-aligned militias on U.S. forces in the region.
yenisafak.com/en/news/iran-issues-arrest-warrant-for-trump-over-killing-of-top-general-3533227
Iranian military prosecutor says human error led to shooting down of Ukrainian airliner
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
The shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner in Iran in January was due to human error and not an order from senior military authorities, the military prosecutor for Tehran province, Gholam Abbas Torki, said on Monday, Tasnim news agency reported.There was no indication that the downing of the airliner, which killed all 176 people aboard, was due to a cyber attack on Iran's missile or air defence systems, Torki said, adding that three people were under arrest related to the accident.
yenisafak.com/en/world/iranian-military-prosecutor-says-human-error-led-to-shooting-down-of-ukrainian-airliner-3533223
Kashmiri pro-freedom leader Syed Geelani steps down
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani on Monday stepped down from the leadership of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of several pro-freedom parties in the disputed region.The ailing 90-year-old leader, who has been under house arrest for the better part of the past decade, said in a purported audio clip: "I completely distance myself from the leadership of Hurriyat Conference in view of its present situation. All constituents of the forum have been informed about my decision through a detailed letter." | The primary reason behind his decision, as cited in the letter, appears to be a few decisions taken…
yenisafak.com/en/world/kashmiri-pro-freedom-leader-syed-geelani-steps-down-3533250
Turkish FM to attend conference on Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Turkey's top diplomat will participate in a teleconference Tuesday on the future of Syria and its region.Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his international counterparts will take part in the IV Brussels Conference, to be co-chaired by the European Union and the UN, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement."During the conference, which is the main platform for financial pledges for Syria, and regional countries hosting Syrians, including Turkey, donor countries and other stakeholders will declare their financial contributions for the period ahead," the statement said.The meeting aims to support effort…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-fm-to-attend-conference-on-syria-3533251
Over 1M cannabis roots seized in eastern Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-29
Acting on a tip, the local gendarmerie raided eight separate addresses in the province. They also confiscated 105 kilograms (231 pounds) of marijuana besides cannabis roots, the Bingol Governorate said in a statement.Two suspects were arrested in the operation.
yenisafak.com/en/news/over-1m-cannabis-roots-seized-in-eastern-turkey-3533254
Europeans' Trust in US as Global Leader Plummets Over 'Appalling' Handling of COVID-19 Pandemic
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-29
The world can no longer take for granted that the US aspires to be a global leader, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview with a group of six European newspapers on 26 June, suggesting that priorities be accordingly reappraised.
sputniknews.com/world/202006291079747722-europeans-trust-in-us-as-global-leader-plummets-over-appalling-handling-of-covid-19-pandemic/
Finnish PM Embroiled in 'Russian Influence' Scandal Over Fake Tweet About John Bolton's Book
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-29
In his behind-the-scenes book about his tenure at the White House, former National Security Adviser John Bolton has painted Donald Trump's administration in an unfavourable light. Among other things, the book claims Trump once asked his chief of staff whether Finland was a part of Russia.
sputniknews.com/europe/202006291079744046-finnish-pm-embroiled-in-russian-influence-scandal-over-fake-tweet-about-john-boltons-book/
Iran's Foreign Ministry Lambasts US, Europe for Funding 'Rogue Entity' MKO Terrorist Group
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-29
Earlier, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi on 25 June dismissed the US State Department's annual report on terrorism, claiming that the "biggest state sponsor of terrorism" was in no position to judge other countries.
sputniknews.com/world/202006291079744173-irans-foreign-ministry-lambasts-us-europe-for-funding-rogue-entity-mko-terrorist-group/
Reading Attack: Khairi Saadallah Shouted 'Allahu Akbar' During Park Stabbing, Court Hears
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-29
On 20 June, three people were killed and several others were injured in a stabbing attack in Forbury Gardens, Reading. Khairi Saadallah was arrested by police shortly after the incident. After being questioned under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000, Saadallah has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006291079749502-reading-attack-khairi-saadallah-shouted-allahu-akbar-during-park-stabbing-court-hears/
Arrest warrant issued for Trump: Iran's Judiciary official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — Tehran's prosecutor said that Iran's judiciary has issued an arrest warrant for Donald Trump regarding the assassination of Lt. General Soleimani.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160300/Arrest-warrant-issued-for-Trump-Iran-s-Judiciary-official
Iran's gas exports at 3.6bn cubic meter hike last year: deputy oil min
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — Iran's export of gas increased about 3.6 billion cubic meter last year [ended March 20, 2020], showing a 26 percent hike as compared to the same period of last year.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160321/Iran-s-gas-exports-at-3-6bn-cubic-meter-hike-last-year-deputy
Foreign Ministry spox presser
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) –Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi held a press conference on Monday, answering questions on a wide range of topics on regional and international developments.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160330/Foreign-Ministry-spox-presser
Iran censures naturalization of killing of civilians by US
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — In a tweet, on Sunday, Iran's ministry of foreign affairs lambasted normalization and de-tabooing of the killing of civilians in US military operations.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160340/Iran-censures-naturalization-of-killing-of-civilians-by-US
Iran, Croatia review bilateral ties, latest development on JCPAO
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — Iranian Ambassador to Zagreb Parviz Esmaieli met and held talks with Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grliƒá Radman on the expansion of bilateral ties and latest development on JCPAO.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160336/Iran-Croatia-review-bilateral-ties-latest-development-on-JCPAO
'The Trucker and the Fox' to go on screen at Flahertiana Intl. Film Fest
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 30 (MNA) — Iranian documentary 'The Trucker and the Fox' by Arash Lahooti will be screened at the 20th edition of International Documentary Film Festival Flahertiana in Russia.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160322/The-Trucker-and-the-Fox-to-go-on-screen-at-Flahertiana-Intl
Iran embassy objects over US ambassador remarks
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — Embassy of Iran in Lebanon has reacted to recent remarks of Dorothy Shea, US Ambassador to Lebanon.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160338/Iran-embassy-objects-over-US-ambassador-remarks
Iran strongly condemns terrorist attack in Pakistan's Karachi
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — In a message, Iranian Embassy to Pakistan, while expressing hope that the country would overcome sinister phenomenon of terrorism, strongly condemned the terrorist attack in the city of Karachi.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160344/Iran-strongly-condemns-terrorist-attack-in-Pakistan-s-Karachi
Iran's Oil Ministry explains outcome of NIGC complaint against Turkmengaz
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-29
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — The General Directorate of Public Relations of Iran's Oil Ministry has explained the outcome of the International Court of Arbitration's ruling regarding the dispute between the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) and Turkmengaz.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160334/Iran-s-Oil-Ministry-explains-outcome-of-NIGC-complaint-against
'False, sensational' clickbait: Van Jones hits back at Daily Beast over hit piece about Trump's police reform
rt.com | 2020-06-29
CNN contributor Van Jones has responded to a Daily Beast article accusing him of secretly working with President Donald Trump on a police reform executive order, saying he had nothing to do with it and demanding a retraction. | The article is based on "false, sensational charges — apparently designed to get clicks, shares, and likes," Jones tweeted on Monday. He added that he had visited neither Washington, DC nor the White House since the Covid-19 pandemic started, or been included in any meetings about police reform. | "I didn't know what was in the [executive order] until the day it was released," he s…
rt.com/usa/493296-van-jones-daily-beast-false/
Children at risk from falling UK vaccination rates, warn doctors
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-29
Children risk becoming 'unseen victims of the COVID-19 pandemic', with evidence suggesting they may be missing routine vaccinations, warn researchers.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198794/children-risk-from-falling-uk-vaccination
Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-29
Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198595/asteroid-impact-volcanoes-made-earth-uninhabitable
Flooding and water management a growing challenge, academics warn policymakers
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-29
Tackling an issue of growing environmental concern — water management and flooding — was the focus of The Forum's first ever online policy workshop.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197198/flooding-water-management-growing-challenge-academics
No new coronavirus deaths in Scotland for fourth day running — Sturgeon
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-29
Scotland has recorded no new deaths from people who have tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19) for a fourth consecutive day, first minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed. | Speaking at the Scottish government's coronavirus briefing, she said the latest figures showed no new deaths within the previous 24 hours, with the total remaining at 2,482. She said: This is the fourth day in a row when no deaths of patients confirmed through a test have been recorded in Scotland… | Now, of course, two of these days have been weekends and we know that registration can be artificially low at weekends, and we may see…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/29/no-new-coronavirus-deaths-in-scotland-for-fourth-day-running-sturgeon/
Johnson pledges spending blitz to heal economy after Covid-19
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-29
Boris Johnson has promised an infrastructure spending blitz to revitalise the battered UK economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.The prime minister said he is preparing for an effort comparable to Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal following the Great Depression in the US in the 1930s.As the first phase, the government is setting out details of a major schools rebuilding and refurbishment programme.Johnson is expected to make further commitments in a keynote speech on Tuesday.The prime minister has unveiled a major schools rebuilding programme (Steve Parsons/PA)Speaking on Times Radio, he said: "This is the…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/29/johnson-pledges-spending-blitz-to-heal-economy-after-covid-19/
Evidence does not support taking vitamin D for Covid-19, say health officials
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-29
There is "no evidence" to support taking vitamin D supplements for prevention or treatment of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, health officials have said. | In response to suggestions that vitamin D could reduce the risk of getting acute respiratory tract infections and Covid-19, health officials launched a rapid review of evidence. | Officials from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) examined five studies on the new coronavirus and vitamin D. They concluded that there's currently no evidence to support that taking vitamin D supplements will reduce the risk or severity…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/29/evidence-does-not-support-taking-vitamin-d-for-covid-19-say-health-officials/
China 'carrying out demographic genocide' against Uyghur Muslims
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-29
The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uyghurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population. This is taking place even as the government encourages some of the country's Han majority to have more children.While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known. This is according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents, and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor.The campa…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/06/29/china-carrying-out-demographic-genocide-against-uyghur-muslims/
116 California DNC Delegates Demand Pelosi Hold Floor Vote on Medicare for All
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-29
Urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to "forego political expediency and incrementalism" in favor of a bold solution to the healthcare crisis exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, 116 delegates elected to represent California at the Democratic National Convention issued an open letter Sunday demanding an up-or-down floor vote on the Medicar…
truthout.org/articles/116-california-dnc-delegates-demand-pelosi-hold-floor-vote-on-medicare-for-all/
Iran Issues Arrest Warrant for Trump Over Suleimani Assassination
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-29
The Iranian government on Monday issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and recommended that he face "murder and terrorism charges" over the January assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani that brought the two nations to the brink of all…
truthout.org/articles/iran-issues-arrest-warrant-for-trump-over-suleimani-assassination/
What's "Justice" in the Face of Police Killings? Full Societal Transformation
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-29
For a while now, the U.S. has been poised at the threshold of full-on fascism, and "I can't breathe" is the future to which those in charge appear willing to consign Black people. Fortunately, today, we're seeing multiracial and multi-class initiatives pushing the state and communities to respond differently to social conflict and, on a more ambitious level, pushing us all toward a more humane society. | Black people in the United States are oppressed in every sense of the term: institutional an…
truthout.org/articles/whats-justice-in-the-face-of-police-killings-full-societal-transformation/
The Fight's Not Over. Doctors Like Me Will Continue Pushing for Abortion Rights
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-29
When I was a medical student, I was one of thousands of students who received a mailing from an anti-abortion organization that included this so-called joke: | Q: What would you do if you were in a room with Hitler, Mussolini, and an abortionist and you had a gun with two bullets? | A: Shoot the abortionist twice. | I was infuriated that people were trying to scare me and my fellow students out of providing care that people need. At the time, only 12 percent of ob-gyn programs included abort…
truthout.org/articles/the-fights-not-over-doctors-like-me-will-continue-pushing-for-abortion-rights/
The chances of the Corona crisis
Ingar Solty | indybay.org | 2020-06-29
Public debt only became a problem after the bank bailouts… | Crises cause fear and reinforce deep-seated anxieties.. The market under capitalism is not an efficient distribution mechanism, but a means to enrich private corporations at the expense of society and its environment.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/29/18834741.php
California regulators approve 12 more new fracking permits during a global pandemic
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-06-29
On Monday, June 1, the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM), the agency responsible for regulating oil and gas in the state, quietly approved 12 new hydraulic fracturing permits to Aera Energy LLC for the Lost Hills Oil Field in Kern County, according to Food and Water Watch Action.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/27/18834669.php
Monday 7/6: LaborFest 2020: AB5, Tech Robber Barons and Slavery
Edward Escobar | indybay.org | 2020-06-29
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
Wednesday 7/8: LaborFest 2020: Labor & The Murals with Howard Pflanzer
Laborfest | indybay.org | 2020-06-29
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.
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Sunday 7/5: LaborFest 2020: Internecine Warfare, Class and The George Floyd Uprising
George Wright | indybay.org | 2020-06-29
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.
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Saturday 7/11: LaborFest 2020: The Film — "The Dirty War on The National Health Service"
Laborfest | indybay.org | 2020-06-29
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.
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Saturday 7/4: July 4th: INDEPENDENCE from WAR! Banner Drops
TOBY | indybay.org | 2020-06-29
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
John Bolton — Traitor to Common Decency
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-29
There are few men in modern American history more venal than Former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Calling Bolton a relic of the Cold War in his outlook on foreign policy is a kindness. | Bolton is a dangerous and pathetic creature whose entire life is an example of how incomplete men with a talent for violence can rise in a late-stage cesspit of political corruption. | He is simply someone who has never been in a fight in his life who lusts for the power to kill, main and destroy anyone who dares challenge him. A pathology he's had the dubious distinction of being able to act out in the real world on mor…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/29/john-bolton-traitor-to-common-decency/
'The God That Failed': Why the U.S. Cannot Now Re-Impose Its Civilisational Worldview
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-29
It was always a paradox: John Stuart Mill, in his seminal (1859), On Liberty, never doubted that a universal civilisation, grounded in liberal values, was the eventual destination of all of humankind. He looked forward to an 'Exact Science of Human Nature', which would formulate laws of psychology and society as precise and universal as those of the physical sciences. Yet, not only did that science never emerge, in today's world, such social 'laws' are taken as strictly (western) cultural constructs, rather than as laws or science. | So, not only was the claim to universal civilisation not supported by evidence,…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/29/god-that-failed-why-us-cannot-now-re-impose-its-civilisational-worldview/
The Roaring First-Timers From the Moscow V-Day Parade 2020
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-29
The 2020 Moscow Victory Day Parade took place in Moscow's Red Square on June 24, 2020 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of both the capitulation of Nazi Germany in the Second World War and the historic Moscow Victory Parade of 1945. Some of the military equipment were demonstrated to the broad public for the first time ever. Below is a brief guide to these magnificent first-timers.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/29/the-roaring-first-timers-from-the-moscow-v-day-parade-2020/
5G, Bill Gates' vaccine and a Wuhan lab: Understanding the conspiracy theory pandemic
Kathy Fairfax | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-29
Healthcare Fred FuentesIssue 1271 Australia COVID_19 conspiracy theoriesJune 29, 2020The past few months has seen a proliferation of memes and stories on social media linking COVID-19 to everything from…
greenleft.org.au/content/5g-bill-gates-vaccine-and-wuhan-lab-understanding-conspiracy-theory-pandemic
NYC Queer Liberation March honors Black lives
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-29
New York, NY – Over 10,000 people gathered in New York City for the second annual Queer Liberation March on June 28. The Queer Liberation March was first organized in 2019 as an anti-corporate alternative to the main Pride March. This year, the theme of the march was standing in solidarity with Black lives and against police brutality, demanding a 50% reduction of the NYPD's budget and police force. Black trans people were especially honored, due to the increased targeting they face by police and for hate crimes. The march was organized by the Reclaim Pride Coalition. | The march met at Foley Square with many dif…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/29/nyc-queer-liberation-march-honors-black-lives
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/
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
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
For Many Young People, Socialism Is as American as Apple Pie
Robert Scheer, Meagan Day | commondreams.org | 2020-06-28
Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders raises his fist as he addresses the Democratic Party's 61st Annual McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club dinner at SNHU arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on February 8, 2020. (Photo: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-1199572936_1_0.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/28/many-young-people-socialism-american-apple-pie?cd-origin=rss
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/
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
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
'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
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/
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/
"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
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/
Several Palestinian Workers Suffocate from Israeli Tear-Gas near Tulkarem
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-28
Several Palestinian workers suffocated, Sunday morning, after Israeli troops fired tear-gas at them, in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, near the Al-Tiba crossing into Israel, west of the city. Local activists on social media reported that tens of Palestinian workers were exposed, early Sunday morning, to tear gas, …
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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
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/
#DropOutHickenlooper, Say Indigenous Activists, After 'Disgraceful' Photos Surface of Former Gov in Imitative Native American Dress
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-28
"These actions are not missteps. They are not one-time, isolated incidents." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/hickenlooper_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/28/dropouthickenlooper-say-indigenous-activists-after-disgraceful-photos-surface-former?cd-origin=rss
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
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 …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-injure-a-number-of-palestinians-in-alaghwar-area/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-injure-a-number-of-palestinians-in-alaghwar-area
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
When War Against Black Americans Represents "Peace," We Must Redefine the Word
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-28
The world now knows about police brutality, what we American Negroes* have experienced as a matter of course since the slave patrols. The "peace officers" that purportedly swore to uphold and defend the Constitution by serving and protecting citizens like George Floyd, murdered him. Maybe "peace officer" seems absurd. The term evokes the Orwellian phrase "war is peace." | But it makes sense if we deconstruct "peace." The Pax Romana ("Roman Peace") denoted Roman Empire; the king's peace spans B…
truthout.org/articles/when-war-against-black-americans-represents-peace-we-must-redefine-the-word/
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, …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-injure-five-palestinians-in-northern-plains-of-west-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soldiers-injure-five-palestinians-in-northern-plains-of-west-bank
Coloradans demand justice for Elijah McClain
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-28
Aurora, CO – Denver Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) joined thousands in Aurora on June 27 to demand justice for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man murdered by police in August of 2019. In the wake of weeks of protests for George Floyd, as well as numerous call-ins, intense social media pressure, and petitions involving millions of signatures, McClain's case was reopened by Colorado Governor Jared Polis and his story has gone viral, garnering national attention. | The three officers who killed McClain had come in response to a call of a 'suspicious person,' who, it was made clear on the call, was unar…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/28/coloradans-demand-justice-elijah-mcclain
Coloradans demand justice for Elijah McClain
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-28
Aurora, CO – Denver Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) joined thousands in Aurora on June 27 to demand justice for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man murdered by police in August of 2019. In the wake of weeks of protests for George Floyd, as well as numerous call-ins, intense social media pressure, and petitions involving millions of signatures, McClain's case was reopened by Colorado Governor Jared Polis and his story has gone viral, garnering national attention. | The three officers who killed McClain had come in response to a call of a 'suspicious person,' who, it was made clear on the call, was unar…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/28/coloradans-demand-justice-elijah-mcclain
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/
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
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
FROM THE FIELD: Supporting Nepal's migrants, as overseas work dries up
news.un.org | 2020-06-28
Nepal is one most remittance-dependent countries in the world, with many Nepalese sending home around $8.79 billion from abroad. However, since the economic slowdown resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, work for many of them has dried up. The UN is supporting efforts to manage the large-scale influx of returnee workers.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067262
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
Mandatory Flu/COVID Vaccinations Begin In Tennessee Uni & Washington Mandates Masks "Inside & Out"
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-06-28
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 (6/28/20). 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/mandatory-flu-covid-vaccinations-begin-tennessee-uni-washington-mandates-masks-inside-out/
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
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
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
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
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
Amnesty International to TripAdvisor: Remove Listings in Israeli Settlements
AMNESTY International | imemc.org | 2020-06-28
This call to action was posted today by Amnesty International: As Israel steps up construction of illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), in brazen defiance of international law, Amnesty International is calling on TripAdvisor to urgently remove its listings in settlements and send a clear message that it …
imemc.org/article/amnesty-international-to-tripadvisor-remove-listings-in-israeli-settlements/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amnesty-international-to-tripadvisor-remove-listings-in-israeli-settlements
Israeli Troops Abduct Three Palestinian Youths in the West Bank
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-28
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday morning, two Palestinian youths from the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, in the southern West Bank. Official Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that Israeli forces broke into the homes of Belal Abu Alzaki and Qassam Halabiya, in Abu Dis town, east of Jerusalem. WAFA said that …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-three-palestinian-youths-in-west-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-three-palestinian-youths-in-west-bank
UN Secretary-General Appeals to Israel to Scrap Annexation Plan
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-28
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, appealed to the occupation state of Israel, to scrap its West Bank annexation scheme, pointing out that this act would constitute a "most serious violation of international law." Guterres expressed his hope for new negotiations, with the final aim being the long-proposed two-state …
imemc.org/article/un-secretary-general-appeals-to-israel-to-scrap-annexation-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=un-secretary-general-appeals-to-israel-to-scrap-annexation-plan
1080 European Lawmakers Sign Petition to Reject Israeli Annexation of West Bak
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-28
1080 lawmakers from 25 European countries signed a petition, last week, pressing their foreign ministers to reject the Israeli plans to annex large swaths of the occupied West Bank, Quds News Network reported. The lawmakers affirmed their support for the European Union (EU) foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, who stated …
imemc.org/article/1080-european-lawmakers-sign-petition-to-reject-israeli-annexation-of-west-bak/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1080-european-lawmakers-sign-petition-to-reject-israeli-annexation-of-west-bak
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
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/
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/
The Washington Post is Worried Its Path of Structuring Globalization to Redistribute Income Upward Could be Jeopardized
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-28
The Washington Post ran a piece on how patterns of globalization may be changed due to the pandemic. It is more than a bit confused in not distinguishing short-term effects from long-term effects and its inability to distinguish between problems caused by fiscal policy and policies caused by the fallout from the pandemic. The headline …
cepr.net/the-washington-post-is-worried-its-path-of-structuring-globalization-to-redistribute-income-upward-could-be-jeopardized/
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/
First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You're Praised for Sending in Aid
Sarah Lazare | commondreams.org | 2020-06-28
The war against the Yemenis by Saudi Arabia flaunts international law and basic humanitarian principles. (Photo: Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/uae-raytheon-carnage_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/28/first-you-bomb-and-starve-country-then-youre-praised-sending-aid?cd-origin=rss
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
Western conspiracy theories suggesting Covid-19 is man-made & was unleashed deliberately are not backed by evidence — Putin
rt.com | 2020-06-28
Allegations that the coronavirus pandemic was started by design, rather than accident, are not backed by evidence and are ultimately irrelevant, Vladimir Putin has said. He also revealed how often he is tested for Covid-19. | Some US politicians, including President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have claimed that the Covid-19 outbreak started as a leak from a biolab in Wuhan, China — the city where the disease was first recorded in December 2019. Pompeo once even stated that the virus was "man-made," in an apparent slip of the tongue. | "Claiming that [the pandemic] was caused by somebo…
rt.com/russia/493178-putin-covid-conspiracy-theories/
Siberian Forest Fires Increase by Fivefold in Week Since Record High Temperature
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-28
The number of fires in the vast north Asian region of Siberia increased fivefold this week, according to the Russian forest fire aerial protection service, as temperatures in the Arctic continued higher than normal in the latest sign of the ongoing climate crisis. | The news of the increase comes a week after the small Siberian town of Verkhoyansk reported a high temperature of 100.4 ∞ F on June 20, a reading that, if confirmed, would mark the hottest day ever recorded in the region…
truthout.org/articles/siberian-forest-fires-increase-by-fivefold-in-week-since-record-high-temperature/
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/
Karen privilege? #18minuteswithoutcheese trends over viral rant about bad restaurant service during Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-06-28
A tweet posted by the husband of a 'Karen' receiving bad restaurant service because she went 18 minutes without shredded cheese went viral, prompting debates about everything from race to Covid-19 lockdown measures. | "My wife, date night after 3+ months lockup in quarantine. Waiting for shredded cheese as it's the only way she can eat fajitas. We've asked four people, going on 18 minutes now," the account for the Opinionated Much? podcast — hosted by Jay S. Vicknair — tweeted along with a picture of a woman looking distraught at a table full of food at a Texas restaurant. | "We gotta quit blaming…
rt.com/usa/493190-18-minutes-without-cheese-coronavirus-twitter/
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
'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
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
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 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/
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/
Government Ministers Confirm Local Lockdown for Leicester Being Considered 'Within Days'
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
As the United Kingdom – England in particular – begins to loosen lockdown measures introduced to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, new cases are beginning to flare up in specific areas, leaving the government to consider the reimposition of lockdown measures in a localised form.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006281079740749-government-ministers-confirm-local-lockdown-for-leicester-being-considered-within-days/
'Hard Rain Going to Fall': Senior UK Civil Servant Reportedly to be Axed Amid Whitehall Revamp
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
The UK's most senior civil servant Sir Mark Sedwill has been reportedly at odds with Boris Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings, and was suggested by sources as a likely scapegoat for a spate of failings amid criticism of Downing Street's handling of the coronavirus crisis.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006281079740678–hard-rain-going-to-fall-senior-uk-civil-servant-reportedly-to-be-axed-amid-whitehall-revamp/
Facebook Ad Boycott Organizers Want Companies in Europe, Asia to Join Campaign
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
Over 160 mostly US companies have already joined the 'Stop Hate for Profit' campaign in the wake of George Floyd's death, with corporations including Coca Cola, Levi's, Starbucks, and Verizon agreeing to partially or fully freeze their Facebook ad buys next month, ostensibly to try to force the social media giant to tackle hateful content online.
sputniknews.com/world/202006281079742477-facebook-ad-boycott-organizers-want-companies-in-europe-asia-to-join-campaign/
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Promise to Unveil New 'Surprise' Weapons Soon
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
The announcement comes following a statement by a senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader last week that Tehran was done negotiating with US President Donald Trump and would defend itself should Washington make "any military move" against the Islamic Republic in the Persian Gulf.
sputniknews.com/military/202006281079739654-irans-revolutionary-guards-promise-to-unveil-new-surprise-weapons-soon/
Iran Creates Rocket Launcher, Anti-Tank Missile, Sniper Rifle to Save on Arms Imports — Photo, Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
The new weapons, developed by a Revolutionary Guards' agency responsible for military R&D, have been unveiled amid the Trump administration's ongoing effort to convince the international community to continue to enforce an arms embargo against Tehran after its October expiry date.
sputniknews.com/military/202006281079741543-iran-creates-rocket-launcher-anti-tank-missile-sniper-rifle-to-save-on-arms-imports–photo-video/
Glasgow Stabbings: Authorities Sought Profit While Taking in More Asylum Seekers, Katie Hopkins Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-28
Glasgow, a Scottish city that took in more than 4,000 asylum seekers according to 2019 data form the House of Commons Library, suffered a knife attack on Friday. The assault was carried out by a Sudanese-born 28-year-old man.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202006281079741191-glasgow-stabbings-authorities-sought-profit-while-taking-in-more-asylum-seekers-katie-hopkins-says/
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
University of Tennessee makes Covid-19 vaccine shot mandatory for students when available
rt.com | 2020-06-28
The University of Tennessee has become the first one to require students and faculty to receive vaccines for the flu and Covid-19 that is yet to be developed sparking "push back" from critics. | The mandate was pushed through as an emergency rule by the university's Board of Trustees, with the promise that it will soon become a permanent requirement. | "There may be some push-back, but we believe this is in the best interest of our students," UT System President Randy Boyd said. | There are medical and religious exemptions from the new rule, and students who only take online classes do not need to meet the req…
rt.com/usa/493192-university-tennessee-covid-19-vaccine/
Russia conspiracy theories are back! MSNBC asks Bolton if Trump is 'too afraid' to take on Putin because he helped get him elected
rt.com | 2020-06-28
MSNBC is still doing its best to spread the theory that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, thanks to an anonymous report from the New York Times claiming the nation paid militants to attack US troops in Afghanistan. | "Do you think that the president is afraid to make Putin mad because maybe Putin did help him win the election and he doesn't want to make him mad for 2020?" Chuck Todd asked of John Bolton in a Meet the Press interview on Sunday. | Completely disgraceful from NBC's Chuck Todd: | "Do you think that the president is afraid to make Putin mad because maybe Putin did help him win the e…
rt.com/usa/493185-collusion-chuck-todd-john-bolton-putin-trump/
2 dead, 4 injured after gunman rams car & opens fire at Walmart warehouse in California
rt.com | 2020-06-28
Authorities have neutralized an armed suspect who crashed his vehicle into a Walmart distribution center near Red Bluff, California and opened fire on employees, killing and injuring multiple people. | The incident happened around 3: 30pm during a shift change at the facility. The vehicle reportedly circled the parking lot several times before the suspect crashed it into the building. | At least 2 people dead in shooting at California Walmart distribution center, report says | The shooting by a man with "AR-type weapon" started about 3: 30 p.m. at the Walmart distribution center south of Red Bluff, authorities s…
rt.com/usa/493145-walmart-california-shooting-gunman/
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/
The Foster System Is a Battleground for the Racist War on Drugs
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-28
New York City's child welfare office took Ms. EO's older daughter from her in 2012, after she hit her child on the hand and caused a minor injury. Ms. EO, who identifies as someone with a substance use disorder, was struggling with drinking at the time, but says pointblank that "just because you have an addiction doesn't mean you can't be a good parent." She is currently fighting to be reunited with her youngest daughter, and they both want to be together. Her daughter was traumatized when separated from…
truthout.org/articles/the-foster-system-is-a-battleground-for-the-racist-war-on-drugs/
Let's Finally Get the Police Out of Pride
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-28
For decades, a battle has been raging in queer and trans communities about the relationship between our communities and the police. Pride celebrations mark the anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, in which queer and trans people fought back against the ongoing violence they faced at the hands of the police. That rebellion happened in the context of widespread anti-police politics of the 1960s and '70s, when uprisings against policing were raging across the country across movements against colonialism and racism. In the years…
truthout.org/articles/lets-finally-get-the-police-out-of-pride/
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
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
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
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/
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 resistanc…
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/
Global Covid-19 Cases Top 10 Million As HHS Secretary Warns 'Window is Closing' to Get Disease Back Under Control in US
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-28
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'Far-Right Ideology' of Trump Public Lands Nominee Why Senate Must Reject Him, Say Groups
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-28
"William Pendley is uniquely unqualified for this position." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/pendley.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/28/far-right-ideology-trump-public-lands-nominee-why-senate-must-reject-him-say-groups?cd-origin=rss
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
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
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
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/
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/
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”
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/
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
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
[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
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
[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
[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
[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
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
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
[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
[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/
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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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
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/
"Back to work" campaign in the US has led to surge in COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
The resurgence of the pandemic was the entirely foreseeable outcome of the homicidal campaign by the Trump administration, with the support of the Democrats and the media, to force workers back into factories and workplaces.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/pers-j27.html
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
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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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/
Dole Foods in Ohio hit by 230 COVID-19 cases as food processing plants globally are ravaged by infections
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
Food processing plants around the world continue to be hit by mass infections, even in countries that had largely stopped the spread of the disease.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/dole-j27.html
Back-to-work policy accelerates spread of COVID-19 in Turkey
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
The number of daily cases, which fell to 786 on June 2, the lowest level since the outbreak began, is again at 1,500.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/turk-j27.html
British government suppressed daily pandemic death toll by thousands
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
The government suppressed the extent of COVID-19 fatalities because its policies created the conditions for tens of thousands of needless deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/couk-j27.html
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
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/
Indonesia passes 50,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
Indonesia's coronavirus crisis is accelerating disastrously, even as the government pursues its criminal plans to reopen businesses and risk workers' lives for profit.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/indo-j27.html
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/
Why the rush to end the Canadian military's deployment in coronavirus-ravaged nursing homes?
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
From the start, the military's more than 20,000-strong COVID-19 deployment has been focused on protecting the interests of Canadian imperialism, at home and abroad.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/mili-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/
Australia's US-backed anti-China witch hunt escalates with raid on MP's home
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
The operation is another step towards branding anyone who challenges Australia's involvement in the US offensive against Beijing as a "foreign agent."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/raid-j27.html
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/
WHO warns of "very significant" coronavirus resurgence in Europe
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
The resurgence is driven by governments' reopening policy, whose aim is the full resumption of corporate profit-making, regardless of the threat to workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/euro-j27.html
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 …
imemc.org/article/dozens-of-palestinians-suffocate-from-israeli-fired-tear-gas-in-hebron/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dozens-of-palestinians-suffocate-from-israeli-fired-tear-gas-in-hebron
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 …
imemc.org/article/colonist-israeli-settlers-burn-a-hundreds-of-olive-trees-in-southern-nablus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colonist-israeli-settlers-burn-a-hundreds-of-olive-trees-in-southern-nablus
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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Palestinian Members of Israeli Parliament Call on Democrats to Oppose Annexation
Michael Arria | commondreams.org | 2020-06-27
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with US President Donald Trump prior to the President's departure from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 23, 2017 in Jerusalem. (Photo: Kobi Gideon/GPO via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bibi_trump_iran_0.jpg …
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Affrontement USA-Iran au Liban : contre-mesures et escalade
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-27
L'été promet d'être long et chaud, alors que la tension monte entre Washington et Téhéran à l'approche des élections américaines et avec le resserrement de la ´ pression maximale ª exercée par les USA. Après la Syrie, c'est maintenant au tour du Liban. L'échec financier du pays a atteint un point de non-retour. Les USA tentent de rendre le Hezbollah, le plus puissant des alliés de l'Iran, responsable des conséquences de cette grave situation économique, même si leurs propres porte-parole admettent le contraire. Cependant, l'Iran et son allié ont décidé que la société libanaise à laquelle appartient le…
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
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/
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/
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
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/
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/
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…
workers.org/2020/06/49688/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=students-and-workers-say-cops-off-our-campus
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…
workers.org/2020/06/49678/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-the-picket-line-138
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/
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/
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
Global trade unions issue empty calls for cruise and shipping seafarer action
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
An estimated 28,000 cruise ship crew members remain stranded at sea on ships all over the globe following restrictions implemented in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/ship-j27.html
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/
UK government refuses support to unemployed migrant workers facing destitution during pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-06-27
Although exact figures are difficult to obtain, it is estimated that up to 250,000 children could directly be threatened with poverty due to the "no recourse to public funds" status of their parents.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/27/nprf-j27.html
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
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
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/
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/
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
'You'd better listen, he shot a man in the face!': Dick Cheney shares mask advice, gets mocked & welcomed into #Resistance
rt.com | 2020-06-27
Former VP Dick Cheney hit trending status online after appearing in a photo urging the use of face masks, earning praise from the anti-Trump #Resistance as critics recalled his infamous 'hunting accident' and lies about Iraqi WMD. | The hawkish ex-vice president was seen in an image shared by his daughter, Liz — a GOP rep from Wyoming — on Friday, declaring "Dick Cheney says WEAR A MASK," followed by the hashtag "real men wear masks." The moralizing tweet was quickly met with mockery, many netizens finding it impossible not to mention Cheney's 2006 hunting mishap, which saw the VP blast Texas attorne…
rt.com/usa/493091-cheney-wear-mask-mocked/
Libyan refugee charged with murder in wake of Reading attack on gay men
rt.com | 2020-06-27
Libyan-born Khairi Saadallah has been charged with three counts of murder, following a mass stabbing in the town of Reading last week. The attack, initially investigated by UK's counter-terrorism police, targeted gay men. | The 25-year-old has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Saturday. The June 20 knife attack in a Reading park left three people dead and at least three others injured. | Although Saadallah had been investigated by British counter-terrorism police, there was no reference to terrorism in the charges listed. | Also…
rt.com/uk/493127-libyan-refugee-murder-charges-reading/
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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/
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/
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/
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'More idiotic rubbish': Ryanair trashes UK's 'air bridge' plan, calls for scrapping Covid-19 restrictions
rt.com | 2020-06-27
Ryanair, Europe's biggest low-cost airline, has blasted the UK's plan to relax anti-coronavirus measures through establishing so-called air bridges with certain countries, calling quarantine altogether "useless." | The plan will exempt travelers from the mandatory two-week quarantine. A full list of countries is set to be unveiled by the British government next week, and it is expected to include France, Greece and Spain. | While the plan has been designed to help air carriers, hard-hit by the Covid-19 fallout and enduring travel restrictions, the industry has not been very pleased with that limited lifting of…
rt.com/uk/493112-ryanair-idiotic-air-bridge/
Loyalty to US has led Germany & rest of EU into 'dead end' & they need to escape — top Russian Foreign Affairs official
rt.com | 2020-06-27
The cult of 'Atlanticism' has failed the European Union and dragged its members down a blind alley. That's according to Dmitry Novikov, a senior member of Russia's foreign policy establishment. | At a time when some of the states of Central and Western Europe are reassessing their place in the world — amid the rise of China, US political flux, Covid-19 and Brexit — Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken about the need for "constructive" dialogue with Russia. | Novikov was responding to comments Merkel made on Friday during an interview with selected liberal European newspapers such as the Guar…
rt.com/russia/493108-us-loyalty-eu-dead-end/
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/
Glasgow stabbing suspect was Sudanese asylum seeker 'fed up' with 'hellish' shelter conditions, reports claim
rt.com | 2020-06-27
Multiple media reports say the man who went on a stabbing rampage in Glasgow and who injured six before being shot dead by police, was a Sudanese refugee who had mental health issues and was put over the edge by hostel conditions. | …
rt.com/uk/493118-glasgow-stabbing-sudanese-report/
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. | t.co/HjottZHYQO
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. | New data from our Corona…
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
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
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
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/
Because Covid-19 Leaves 'No More Time for Half Measures,' Judge Orders Release of Children Held by ICE
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-27
Advocates are calling on the agency to also immediately release parents. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/border_2_0_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/27/because-covid-19-leaves-no-more-time-half-measures-judge-orders-release-children?cd-origin=rss
'Warning Sign of Major Proportions': Number of Siberian Forest Fires Increase Fivefold in Week Since Record High Temperature
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-27
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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
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
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/
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/
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/
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
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/
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/
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 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
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/
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
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
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
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
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
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
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/
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 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/
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/
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/
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
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/
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
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/
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 …
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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
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…
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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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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/
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/
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
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/
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.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1067192
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
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/
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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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
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
Jim Naureckas on Covid's Preventable Nightmare, Clare Garvie on Police Facial Recognition
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-06-26
Media…
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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/
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
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
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
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/
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
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
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…
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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/
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/
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/
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/
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.
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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
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
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
globalresearch.ca/what-were-benefits-locking-down/5717105
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
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 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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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"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 …
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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…
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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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!
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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, 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
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 …
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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…
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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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/25/18834578.php
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
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
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
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
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/
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/
$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/
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/
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/
'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.
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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/
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/
'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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
Thursday 7/2: Tackling Anti-Blackness in Immigrant Communities Discussion w/ United We Dream
United We Dream & others | indybay.org | 2020-06-26
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indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/26/18834612.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
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 …
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'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 …
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'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 …
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"Please Forgive Me," Said Elijah McClain As Three Cops Murdered Him
Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-26
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Homeless Philadelphians Moving Into Vacant City-Owned Homes
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-22
Philadelphia, PA — Housing advocates plan to reveal today that they've facilitated moving previously-unhoused city residents into "vacant, viable" homes in North Philly owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA). According to those who are helping families move in, a large number of usable residences…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/homeless-philadelphians-moving-into-empty-city-owned-homes/
Urge your Reps to help end police violence!
Jon Rainwater | peaceaction.org | 2020-06-01
George Floyd should still be alive today. Since we can't bring him back to his family, we must take action for justice. We need to take action for justice for George as well as for Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Oscar Grant, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner and ALL the thousands of people whose names …
peaceaction.org/2020/06/01/urge-your-reps-to-help-end-police-violence/