(2021-05-28). Colombia Turns on Media Amid Barrage of Lies and Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Adriaan Alsema — May 26, 2021 | Public support for Colombia's mass media has plummeted as they persistently contradict citizen reporting, a poll confirmed. | According to pollster Invamer, public approval of the news media dropped from 41% to 31% since ongoing anti-government protests began on April 28. | The approval of "the media" in Colombia has been dropping for a decade, but plummeted in May after a wave of social media reports on police brutality was blatantly contradicted by mass media. | Media approval | Colombians become their own reporters | While citizens reported extreme violence by the sec…
(2021-05-28). La crisis latente en la frontera colombo-panameña. globalizacion.ca El heterogéneo flujo migratorio que ingresa a Panamá a través de la frontera con Colombia tiende a continuar y crecer. Pese a la dureza y letalidad de los caminos que penetran al territorio panameño a través de la selva, es…
(2021-05-28). øColombia va por el petróleo venezolano? globalizacion.ca Colombia, desde hace décadas continua con la escalada de guerra sucia contra la guerrilla, para "supuestamente proteger" sus reservas de petróleo. E igualmente, EE.UU. la está apoyando con su fachada de búsqueda de "narco-terroristas", pero su intención es establecer condiciones…
(2021-05-28). U.S.-backed commandos kill blind Colombian revolutionary leader. fightbacknews.org On May 17, a U.S.-backed Colombian commando unit, acting like bounty hunters, illegally crossed into the Venezuelan state of Zulia to murder Colombian rebel leader Jesus Santrich. Like the criminal gangsters they are, the commandos cut off his left finger to verify his identity to claim the $1 million bounty cosponsored by the U.S. State Department and the Colombian President Ivan Duque. | One might be forced to ask the question: why would the U.S. and Colombian governments place a $1 million bounty for a dead-or-alive capture of a blind 55-year-old former peace negotiator who was in a small mountain town near th…
(2021-05-28). Colombia's protests and the coming revolt against authoritarian neoliberalism. nationofchange.org It leaves one wondering whether the Andean country is becoming more like its most important ally as many in the western press insist, or if the politics of the United States and its allies are becoming more like those of Colombia.
(2021-05-28). Foreign Affairs Minister Arreaza's Forceful Response to Biden's Advisor, Juan González. orinocotribune.com Following pessimistic and meddlesome remarks made this Wednesday, May 26, by Juan González, advisor to the US president Joe Biden, assuring that political pressure on President Nicolás Maduro will persist if the dialogue between the opposition and Chavismo "fails," the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza responded to the Colombian González. | "The dialogue has been fruitful and has generated peace thanks to the willingness of Venezuelans," wrote Arreaza on Twitter. "You should occupy yourself with your two countries: main producer of narcotics (Colombia) and the main consumer (United States), and re…
(2021-05-28). Solidarity shown with Colombia. greenleft.org.au A vigil at Tarndanyangga (Victoria Square), in Adelaide, on May 24 was organised to show solidarity with the people of Colombia and to mark the more than 47 people who have been killed by security forces since April 28. | Police and military forces in Colombia are violently repressing those who are mobilising against new neoliberal tax changes. A four-day national strike was organised in April.
(2021-05-28). President Bashar Al-Assad Won Re-election with 95.1% of the Total Votes. globalresearch.ca President Bashar Assad…
(2021-05-28). Putin Assured Support To Bashar Al-Assad In Fight Against Terrorism With Wave Of Russian Airstrikes On ISIS. southfront.org 
The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) combat operations against ISIS cells in Syria's central region are picking up, the Syrian Observatory…
(2021-05-28). Syrian Security Forces Clash With Protesters In Daraa City (Video). southfront.org 
Screen grab from the protest video. | Late on May 27, Syrian security forces clashed with pro-opposition protesters in the southern city of Daraa, a former stronghold of the rebels. | Dozens of opposition supporters took to the streets in the southern part of Daraa, known as Daraa al-Balad, to protest against the presidential elections which saw President Bashar al-Assad The gathering was pea…
(2021-05-28). Headlines for May 28, 2021. democracynow.org U.N. Human Rights Chief Says Israel May Have Committed War Crimes in Gaza, African Nations Need 20 Million AstraZeneca Doses Within Weeks to Complete Vaccinations , Public Citizen Says a $25 Billion Investment Could Vaccinate the World, Senate GOP Ready to Filibuster Commission on January 6 Insurrection , Biden Reportedly Offered Japan Ambassadorship to Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Amazon Announces Deal to Acquire MGM Studios; WarnerMedia to Merge with Discovery , Elizabeth Warren Grills Bank CEOs for Preying on Customers During Pandemic, San Jose Gunman Expressed Hate for Co-Workers for Years, Had History…
(2021-05-28). Israel Rejects U.S. Decision To Re-Open Consulate In East Jerusalem. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 27th, Israeli authorities rejected the US plan to reopen its consulate in East Jerusalem, local media reported. | Israel's Ambassador in Washington, Gilad Erdan, said that the government firmly opposes the move to reopen the consulate catering for the Palestinians within what he described as Israel's "sovereign territory". | According to the Jerusalem Post, the issue was raised during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blink…
(2021-05-28). Bashar Al-Assad Elected For His 4th Term As Syrian President. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | In an expected outcome, Syria's incumbent president Bashar al-Assad won the May 26th election with 95.1% of the vote. | Assad's government said the election shows Syria is functioning normally despite the decade-old conflict. | Syria's parliament speaker, Hammouda Sabbagh announced the results at a news conference, saying voter turnout was around 78%, with more than 14 million Syrians taking part. | The Speaker went on to say that the second candidate to…
(2021-05-28). How America Does Regime-Change Propaganda. southfront.org 
Illustrative image | Written by Eric Zuesse. | In the case of Saddam Hussein, it was by lying about "WMD" and about Saddam's being behind Al Qaeda. | In the case of Muammar Qaddafi, it was by lying about Qaddafi's being hated (instead of supported) by most Libyans. | In the case of Bashar al-Assad, it was by lying about Assad's being hated (instead of supported) by most Syrians. | In the case of Xi Jinping, it is by lying about Xi's being a dictator. | In the case of Vladimir Putin, it is by lying about Putin's being…
(2021-05-28). Russia, Pakistan To Build New North-South Gas Pipeline. southfront.org 
Illustrative image | On May 28, Russia and Pakistan have signed an agreement to build the North-South gas pipeline, also known as the Pakistan Stream. The document signed by Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov and Pakistani Ambassador to Russia Shafkat Ali-Khan allows to begin in the near future the construction of the pipeline, according to the Russian Ministry of Energy."The signing of this protocol will allow our companies to begin the realization of the project in the very near future, thereby helpi…
(2021-05-28). "Somos conejillos de indias humanos": Las alarmantes tasas de víctimas de las vacunas de ARNm requieren acción urgente. globalizacion.ca 
*** | A medida que surgen datos oficiales del gobierno en Europa y EE. UU. Sobre el alarmante número de muertes y parálisis permanente, así como otros efectos secundarios graves de las vacunas experimentales de ARNm, está quedando claro que se…
(2021-05-28). Medical Tyranny in Chicago. globalresearch.ca No longer is …
(2021-05-28). Roaming Charges: Back to the Future in Gaza. counterpunch.org It's been said many times but unfortunately can't be said often enough that the conflation of criticism of Israeli atrocities with anti-semitism is a deliberate tactic even though it demeans the toxicity of real anti-semitism. You almost get the sense that if anti-semitism didn't exist, it would serve Israel's strategic interest to bomb it into being, as a kind of permanent shield against popular outrage over its human rights crimes.
(2021-05-28). What Must be Done to Really Stop Child Killing: Israel et al. counterpunch.org "Why would you just send a missile to them and kill them?" a 10 year old girl in Gaza 2021 Massacre — 67 Gazan children killed and 2 Israeli children. 2014 Massacre — 582 Gazan children killed and 1 Israeli child. [1] 2009 Massacre 345 Palestinian children, 0 Israeli. 2006 Massacre — high accuracy missiles
(2021-05-28). The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Violence of Forgetting. aclu.org In the early 1920's, Black Americans were under the siege of direct and indirect racial violence with widespread lynchings, Jim Crow laws, and race riots across the country. And yet the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma was thriving. Its streets were lined with successful Black-owned businesses and Black professionals. The district was so successful that the area was dubbed "Black Wall Street." | But 100 years ago, on May 31, 1921, a white mob of several thousand murdered up to 300 Black residents, and destroyed almost every Black business, church, and home in the 35-square-block neighborhood.
(2021-05-28). U.S. Marks 100th Anniversary of Tulsa Race Massacre, When White Mob Destroyed "Black Wall Street" democracynow.org 
Memorial Day marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, when the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma — known as "Black Wall Street" — was burned to the ground by a white mob. An estimated 300 African Americans were killed and over 1,000 injured. Whites in Tulsa actively suppressed the truth, and African Americans were intimidated into silence. But efforts to restore the horrific event to its rightful place in U.S. history are having an impact. Survivors testified last week before Cong…
(2021-05-28). 100th Anniversary of Tulsa Massacre Should Remind Us Why Reparations Are Needed. truthout.org 
Memorial Day marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, when the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma — known as "Black Wall Street" — was burned to the ground by a white mob. An estimated 300 African Americans were killed and over 1,000 injured. Whites in Tulsa actively suppressed the truth, and African Americans were intimidated into silence. But efforts to re…
(2021-05-28). Tuesday 6/1: 100 Years Since the Tulsa Massacre: A Talk by Carl Dix at Rev Bks NY, Viewing in Berkeleye. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…
(2021-05-28). A Historian of the Tulsa Race Massacre Confronts the Myth of Objectivity. thenation.com A Historian of the Tulsa Race Massacre Confronts the Myth of Objectivity…
(2021-05-29). [World Report] Africa's need for more COVID-19 clinical trials. thelancet.com Few treatments and vaccines are being tested in Africa, leaving a lack of data for the COVID-19 response. Munyaradzi Makoni reports from Cape Town, South Africa.
(2021-05-29). [World Report] Yemen's health system has "collapsed", warns UN. thelancet.com The ongoing conflict is exacerbating the effects of COVID-19 as aid agencies warn of a worsening humanitarian situation. Sharmila Devi reports.
(2021-05-29). [World Report] Cambodia ends controversial COVID-19 restrictions. thelancet.com Strict policies that prevented hundreds of thousands of people from leaving home, and left many without food or supplies for weeks, have been lifted. Megan Tatum reports.
(2021-05-29). [Perspectives] Cultures of contagion. thelancet.com The Science Gallery Bengaluru's online exhibition CONTAGION opened in April, 2021, just as India approached a staggering 20 million reported cases of COVID-19, a number likely to be a vast undercount. The alarming second wave of COVID-19 in India gives this exhibition an immediacy and relevance.
(2021-05-28). Vijay Prashad on India, Covid and Modi. fair.org 
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(2021-05-29). U.S., EU threaten Belarus while defending pro-Nazi forces. workers.org 
Western imperialists and their media pundits are once again crying "foul" against the sovereign government of Belarus and its duly elected president, Alexander Lukashenko. On May 23, a Ryanair passenger plane, scheduled to fly from Greece to Lithuania, was forced to land in Minsk, Belarus. Neo-Nazi Roman Protasevich taking part . . . |
(2021-05-29). A salute to Madeline Davis. workers.org 
Madeline Davis, a mentor, role model and trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community of Buffalo, N.Y., died April 28 at the age of 80. Born in Buffalo, Davis was an activist there for most of her life. A salute to Madeline Davis. With Elizabeth Kennedy, Davis co-authored "Boots of Leather, Slippers . . . |
(2021-05-29). Overrepresented in prisons: LGBTQ2S+ people. workers.org 
At every stage in the criminal injustice system, LGBTQ2S+ people are overrepresented, including within the juvenile justice system. Queers Demand a World Without Prisons: "We reject hate crimes legislation, 'gender-responsive' prisons, and all other measures that use gay rights rhetoric to expand the systems that murder and imprison us. We . . . |
(2021-05-29). Intoxication culture and the working class — WW commentary. workers.org 
By Devin Cole and Princess Harmony Intoxication culture is made up of the social cues and forces which push workers and oppressed people into using drugs or alcohol. Our entire society — U.S. society — has been drowned in this intoxication. Whether cis or trans, straight or queer, everyone is . . . |
(2021-05-29). Israel Post Ceasefire: When the Dreams of Israelis Collide with the Hopes of Palestinians. globalresearch.ca "Terrorize the civilian population, assuring maximal destruction of property and cultural resources… The daily life of the Palestinians must be rendered unbearable: They should be locked up in cities and towns, prevented from exercising normal economic life, cut off from …
(2021-05-29). [Perspectives] A history of US police violence. thelancet.com In 2020, the murder of George Floyd broadcast US police violence to the world. But police killings especially directed against Black men were not new. The US codes these as "deaths by legal intervention", which comprise mainly police uses of force. In 2017, such deaths were in the top ten causes of death for Black men aged 15—34 years. And this ranking used a measure known to undercount by 50% the actual number of deaths related to police encounters. In the USA, the risk of death after a police encounter is 2 ∑5 times higher for Black men than for white men, and Black people are also less likely to be a…
(2021-05-29). [Correspondence] Inappropriate use of global health metrics for analysis of the determinants of health. thelancet.com Current global health metrics have been criticised in terms of their usefulness and accountability.1 However, there is an additional point on their value for evidence-based decision making that could be added. Many studies use these global health metrics to analyse determinants of changes in health outcomes over time across countries.2—5 This is usually not an appropriate use of these data. The use of modelling to impute missing values, and smoothing of reported outcomes over time to reduce measurement error, that is standard in creating global health metrics (eg, by the Institute for Health Metrics and the…
(2021-05-29). [World Report] 800‚Äà000 South Sudanese to lose access to health care. thelancet.com The International Organization for Migration warns that primary care services will cease unless donors contribute. Sharmila Devi reports.
(2021-05-29). [Obituary] John Irwin Harper. thelancet.com First UK professor of paediatric dermatology. He was born in Southend-on-Sea, UK, on May 26, 1950, and died in London, UK, following a heart attack on April 5, 2021, aged 70 years.
(2021-05-29). [Comment] Pragmatic but flawed: the NICE guideline on chronic pain. thelancet.com The 2021 UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance on chronic pain1 (chronic primary pain, chronic secondary pain, or both) and the management of chronic primary pain among people older than 16 years has prompted debate among clinicians. The NICE recommendations on assessment of chronic pain, with person-centred assessment at its heart, make good sense and are to be welcomed. But the recommendations on chronic primary pain are more controversial.
(2021-05-29). [Editorial] Rethinking chronic pain. thelancet.com To live with chronic pain is to live with daily challenges around simple tasks that others take for granted. It often means being disbelieved, stigmatised for not getting better, or judged as not coping. It might mean living with poor mental health and self-esteem, absenteeism from school or work, the breakdown of relationships, and socioeconomic disadvantage. For society, the costs are staggering: low back pain is the leading cause of years lost to disability and chronic pain costs billions of dollars through health system expenditures, productivity losses, reduced quality of life, and informal care.
(2021-05-28). What Must be Done to Really Stop Child Killing: Israel et al. counterpunch.org "Why would you just send a missile to them and kill them?" a 10 year old girl in Gaza 2021 Massacre — 67 Gazan children killed and 2 Israeli children. 2014 Massacre — 582 Gazan children killed and 1 Israeli child. [1] 2009 Massacre 345 Palestinian children, 0 Israeli. 2006 Massacre — high accuracy missiles
(2021-05-28). How It All Went Wrong: the Global Response to COVID-19. counterpunch.org The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response was never likely to hand down a rosy report with gobbets of praise. Organised by the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last May, the panel's gloomy assessment was grim: the COVID-19 pandemic could have been avoided. Almost nothing in the main report could be seen
(2021-05-28). Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Committee hears report on pandemic from Dr. Benjamin Mateus. wsws.org Dr. Mateus stressed COVID-19 is a global phenomenon that can only be combatted by means of an internationally-coordinated response led by the working class.
(2021-05-28). Students back on UK campuses amid explosive growth of Indian covid variant. wsws.org The reopening of campuses last September led to the massive spread of covid, forcing thousands of students to self-isolate after travelling away from friends and family, and the government is repeating the same reckless policy, recommending that all students be "eligible to return to in-person teaching and learning."
(2021-05-28). Red Capital, Red Baiting, Yellow Peril. counterpunch.org For many Americans China has been such a perpetual threat that when Covid arrived it could easily become the "China Virus" even for those who weren't avid Trumpers. China-the-enemy has been secure in our collective minds ever since the 1949 revolution brought communism to power, piling on a menace that the Soviets had already managed
(2021-05-28). Workers tell Harvey Norman to support pay rise. greenleft.org.au Around 100 people joined a protest outside Harvey Norman on May 28 to support the Australian Council of Trade Union's submission for a 3.5% increase to workers through the annual wage review. | Billionaire retailer Gerry Harvey's company has proposed that any raise to the country's lowest-paid workers be delayed by six months. | This would amount to a wage cut. | Despite increasing its profits 116% during six months of the COVID-19 shut downs, Harvey Norman has insisted on keeping all the $22 million JobKeeper allowance that was paid to it. | Other employers have argued for no increase at all. | Australian Counci…
(2021-05-28). COVID pandemic spawns vaccine billionaires amid global mass death. wsws.org The profits reaped off vaccine production have produced nine new billionaires, amid record deaths and a denial of vaccinations for the vast majority of the world's population.
(2021-05-28). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Guidelines and nuances of wearing a face mask. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Recent COVID-19 masking guidelines announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, continue to generate a public conversation. "The decision about masking needs to be nuanced," says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "Wearing a mask should be based on the risk of infection, the percentage of the …
(2021-05-28). Mayo Clinic offers COVID-19 walk-in vaccine clinics in Minnesota. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic in Rochester and at its Health System sites continue to offer patients, visitors and staff additional convenient opportunities to be vaccinated for COVID-19. All domestic and international patients, visitors and staff who want to be vaccinated for COVID-19 have a couple of opportunities to do so at walk-in clinics this week: Mayo Clinic …
(2021-05-28). Video: How COVID Vaccines Can Cause Blood Clots and More: Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi. globalresearch.ca Doctors for COVID …
(2021-05-28). Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi Interview: COVID Vaccine Blood Clot Risk Was Known, Ignored & Buried. globalresearch.ca Joining us today is Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, here to discuss …
(2021-05-28). The safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines for children. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine is now available to children ages 12 through 15 in the U.S. Here's what parents, caregivers and children need to know about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, the possible side effects, and the benefits of getting vaccinated. This is written by Mayo Clinic Staff and you can …
(2021-05-28). Neutralising antibodies can be marker of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy. peoplesdispatch.org One issue with vaccines against COVID-19 is the process of gauging their efficacy. Scientists have tried to zero in on a marker that can be easily detected and will show what level of efficacy a vaccine. One such marker can be the neutralizing antibodies that are found in the blood after a vaccine dose has been administered. | The latest study published in the
(2021-05-28). Selected Articles: The Battle to Suppress Hydroxychloroquine as a Cheap and Effective Drug for the Treatment of COVID-19. globalresearch.ca 
Dear Readers, | These are important articles. Please send them to your family, friends and colleagues. | Forward this selection by email, post on social media, spread the word. |
(2021-05-28). BLM: American Revolution Spreads Around the Globe. indybay.org The world changed not only because of COVID-19 pandemic beyond 2020. Political and economic crisis has led to growing of various protest movements. The widest and most active emerged in the USA. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement gained the largest extent. It demands from the American government not even reforms but revolutionary changes in the national social political course concerning people of color.
(2021-05-28). Demanding Decarceration by San Jose D.A. indybay.org We call on San Jose D.A. to free our people, free 'em all NOW! Decarceration will not wait while he builds his new brand as a "progressive prosecutor"! We are in solidarity with people inside who have been locked up for over a year during COVID, hunger striked over horrible conditions and make the demand for liberation.
(2021-05-28). L.A. City Council votes to support closing SoCalGas Aliso Canyon gas storage facility. indybay.org "Governor Gavin Newsom, stop ignoring the other health crisis right here in LA," said Matt Pakucko, co-founder of Save Porter Ranch and 14-year resident of Porter Ranch, at the press conference. "You shut down the entire state. It's time to shut down this health disaster. It is as real as Covid for the thousands of people that are continually sickened by this fossil fuel dinosaur."
(2021-05-28). Undocumented and LGBTQ (Part 8, COVID Edition). latinorebels.com Latino Rebels Radio: May 28, 2021…
(2021-05-28). Cops and colonizers out of LGBTQ+ Pride! Statement of LGBTQ+ Caucus of Workers World Party. workers.org 
As we head into Pride month 2021 — after more than a year of being locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic — we are still plagued by twin epidemics of rampant racist police terror against the Black and Brown communities and U.S.-armed Israeli bombings and murder of Palestinian people . . . |
(2021-05-28). Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine graduates ease physician shortage in world affected by COVID-19 pandemic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Ninety-eight students took part in commencement events on Friday, May 21, at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine ? Arizona Campus and Sunday, May 23, at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. This is the first multistate commencement for Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and the first commencement for the inaugural class of students …
(2021-05-28). Mayo Clinic updates masking, in-person meeting guidance. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidance on May 13 stating that people who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 do not need to socially distance or wear a mask indoors in most settings. This updated guidance excluded certain environments, including health care facilities. Mayo Clinic has reviewed its guidance for masking, distancing and …
(2021-05-28). Indian and Sri Lankan workers and students explain why they are attending the May 30 meeting on India's COVID-19 catastrophe. wsws.org SEP members in Sri Lanka and the ICFI supporters in India spoke with workers and students who plan to attend this Sunday's meeting.
(2021-05-28). PODCAST: BDS and the Battle for Free Speech. liberationnews.org 
Journalist Abby Martin, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), and CAIR won a major victory for free speech and the right to protest in solidarity with Palestine in a May 24 federal court ruling.
(2021-05-28). UN to probe Israeli repression against Palestinians as a whole. electronicintifada.net Not a single EU state voted in favor of the resolution.
(2021-05-28). The Invasion of Gaza: Part of a Broader Israeli Military-Intelligence Agenda. globalresearch.ca Israeli tanks and infantry entered Gaza in an all out ground offensive.
(2021-05-28). Lenin went to dance in the snow to celebrate the Paris Commune and the Soviet Republic. mronline.org 
The workers of Paris created the Commune on 18 March, building on the wave of revolutionary optimism that first lapped on the shores of France in 1789 and then again in 1830 and 1848. | May 28, 2021…
(2021-05-28). UN Human Rights Council forms commission to probe rights violations in Palestine; Israel won't cooperate. peoplesdispatch.org The commission will investigate violations of all humanitarian and human rights laws in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel over the past two months…
(2021-05-28). Israeli Bombs Killed 66 Kids in Gaza Including 12 Who Were Getting Help for Trauma from Past Attacks. democracynow.org 
As the United Nations human rights chief warns Israel may have committed war crimes in Gaza, we look at how Israel killed 12 Palestinian children being treated for trauma from past Israeli bombings. Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, says Gaza has become "the home of hopelessness," particularly for young people in the besieged territory. "We humanitarian workers are sick and tired of building and rebuilding and see it all torn down again," Egeland says of Israel's repeated attacks on Gaza. "We are accumulating rubble, we're accumulating dead children, and we're accumulating hopelessn…
(2021-05-28). "Xinjiang in My Eyes": Debunking the Lies and Anti-China Propaganda Focusing on China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. globalresearch.ca This article is …
(2021-05-28). The Dominic Cummings Show. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | The former chief strategist for Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in a stroppy mood before the UK parliamentary Health and Science committee. For
(2021-05-28). Construction worker suffers life-threatening injuries after 30-foot fall at Amazon site in Massachusetts. wsws.org The worker was on the roof of an Amazon facility under construction when he fell through the skylight to the ground.
(2021-05-28). Amazon's Meteoric Rise in Global Capitalism. indybay.org Amazon's meteoric rise is, in our view, a key moment in global capitalism. The company's rise to power reflects the increasing influence of neoliberal politics and corporate power in general. It represents a major shift in the global political economy, what we call Amazon capitalism.
(2021-05-28). Irish Parliament first in EU to Condemn Creeping Israeli "Annexation" of Palestinian West Bank. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Kerry O'Shea at the Irish Examiner reports that the Irish Dail (parliament) on Wednesday night passed a resolution accusing Israel of having committed the crime of "annexing" the Palestinian territories. Ireland is the first European Union state to make such a declaration. The motion also condemned Hamas for indiscriminately firing …
(2021-05-28). "This will Change the World" zcomm.org Dutch Court orders Shell to reduce CO2 by 45% by 2030…
(2021-05-28). Turkey's Military Engagement with the "Lublin Triangle" (Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine) Aims to "Balance Russia" globalresearch.ca Poland's agreement to …
(2021-05-28). From Zapata to the Zapatistas: Mexico's "other" Commune. roarmag.org 
"What is the Commune, that Sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?" Karl Marx asked in The Civil War in France, his manifesto-like analysis written for the International Workers' Association. For the case of the Paris Commune, which lasted for barely 72 days between March 18 and May 28, 1871, Marx seemed to have his answer ready: "Its true secret was this. It was essentially a working-class government, the product of the struggle of the producing against the appropriating class, the political form at last discovered under which to work out the economical emancipation of labor." | What happened, according to…
(2021-05-28). We keep us safe: the transformative justice movement. roarmag.org 
Protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally near Washington D.C., US — June 6, 2020. Photo: Johnny Silvercloud / Shutterstock.com | This essay was produced in collaboration with the In the early days of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, the sight of Minneapolis' Third Precinct police station in flames was something many had never before imagined.
(2021-05-28). May 28, NYC: CUNY Must Divest! Rally and Press Conference for Palestine. samidoun.net 
Friday, 28 May 3: 00 pm John Jay College 524 W 59th St New York City Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/2951785921811362/ This event will publicize the CUNY Statement for Palestine and then march to CUNY offices. See latest statement updates at the link. CUNY Community Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian People [To add your name, please click here or email cuny.solidarity.letter@gmail.com] We, members of the City University of New York community, stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine resisting the violence and oppression of Israeli settler colonial and apartheid rule. We condemn the brut…
(2021-05-28). This Memorial Day also remember the African Americans murdered by police. peoplesworld.org 
Michael Brown's lifeless body lay uncovered on hot asphalt, his blood pooling beneath him for hours on that fateful summer day in 2014. Brown died at the hands of a white Ferguson, Mo. police officer following a questionable altercation. The officer was not wearing a body camera, and no one captured cell phone video of …
(2021-05-28). What corporate media got wrong about this brutal arrest caught on bodycam. therealnews.com 
The differences between how PAR and local media covered the arrest and tasering of a cab driver in Toledo, Ohio, are striking. We explore this discrepancy as an example of the ways mainstream media propagates official law enforcement narratives and runs cover for police overreach.
(2021-05-28). How 'Justice for George Floyd!' shook the ruling class to the core. mronline.org 
On May 25, 2020, 44-year-old white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on 46-year-old unarmed Black man George Floyd's neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, sadistically murdering him. | May 28, 2021…
(2021-05-28). Suspected police hand in death of youth in Swaziland sparks mass protests. peoplesdispatch.org 
The alleged role of the police in the death of Thabani Nkomonye has led to huge protests. Security forces attacked his memorial service and arrested student protesters, including Bafanabakhe Sacolo, secretary general of the Swaziland National Union of Students…
(2021-05-28). Free Palestine! End all U.S. aid to Israel! liberationnews.org 
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) joins with people from across the country who are marching and rallying in solidarity with the the Palestinian people in their heroic struggle for self-determination, liberation and the right of return. Over the past three weeks, millions have taken to the streets in cities and towns across the …
(2021-05-28). May 29, Washington DC: National March for Palestine endorsed by 100+ organizations #March4Palestine. samidoun.net 
Saturday, May 29 3 pm — 8 pm Lincoln Memorial Washington, DC Info page: www.ampalestine.org/NationalMarch Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is honoured to join American Muslims for Palestine and over 100 organizations nationwide to march on Washington on Saturday, May 29 and demand to #SanctionIsrael. As the call to the rally notes: "We need to go big and bold right now for Palestinian liberation now that a ceasefire has gone into effect. No return to the status quo. It is time for Israeli settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, military occupation, and blockade to be dismant…
(2021-05-28). Biden's nominee for OSHA chief fights GOP for virus standards. peoplesworld.org 
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(2021-05-28). Report: U.S. police have killed 1068 people since Floyd's death. mronline.org 
U.S. police officers have killed at least 1068 people since the killing of African-American George Floyd by physical force by an officer a year ago, a report by a police watchdog group indicates. | May 28, 2021…
(2021-05-28). 29 May, Paris: Advance premier of "Fedayin: The Struggle of Georges Abdallah" samidoun.net 
The documentary film Fedayin, the Struggle of Georges Abdallah will be screened in preview on Saturday, May 29 at 6 p.m. at the Luminor cinema in Paris as part of the Festival Ciné-Palestine and with the participation of the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah . Tickets for the screening are already sold out! However, you can catch other events of the Festival — see the schedule and more info on Facebook: www.facebook.com/FestivalCinePalestine/ Fedayin, the Struggle of Georges Abdallah retraces the course of an indefatigable Arab communist and fighter for Palestine. From the Pales…
(2021-05-28). In Revolution, Shareholders vote Climate Activist Hedge Funders onto Board of ExxonMobil. juancole.com 
By Mark DesJardine and Tima Bansal | — One of the most expensive Wall Street shareholder battles on record could signal a big shift in how hedge funds and other investors view sustainability. Exxon Mobil Corp. has been fending off a so-called proxy fight from a hedge fund known as Engine No. 1, which blames …
(2021-05-28). California Assembly bill aims to remove derogatory term 'alien' from state law. peoplesworld.org 
SACRAMENTO — Assemblywoman Luz Rivas's (D-Arleta) Assembly Bill 1096 was approved by the California Assembly Thurs., May 20, with bipartisan support and will now move on to the State Senate. It is expected that that bill will also pass in the Senate. AB 1096 eliminates the offensive term "alien" from all state codes. The legislation …
(2021-05-28). Everyone benefits from public media, but nobody talks about funding it. therealnews.com 
As the world of digital media becomes more and more saturated, it's harder than ever for left-leaning independent media to make an impact.
(2021-05-28). Community rallies in support of vandalized Planned Parenthood clinic in Chicago. liberationnews.org 
This vandalism occurred as part of a broader nationwide assault on reproductive rights.
(2021-05-28). Texas' prison plantation model was a brutal remnant of slavery. therealnews.com 
Prisoners were used for agricultural work and overseen by other prisoners using a structure that barely differed from the one used during slavery, as scholar and author Robert Chase explains.
(2021-05-28). Chicago ordinance bringing laid-off hotel workers back to work stalls. peoplesworld.org 
CHICAGO—Marie Lourdie Pierre-Jacques, a naturalized Haitian immigrant who was a banquet server in Swissotel in Chicago's Loop, gave her life to her job for 18 years. She almost had her first baby at the hotel. After only six weeks of leave, she returned to work. After that, her first son called her sister "Mommy" and …
(2021-05-28). North Africa and the Middle-East: A new wave of debt. Part 6. mronline.org 
We deepen our analysis by focusing on various regions. After Latin America and the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa, we continue with the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA). | May 28, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-05-28). Social reproduction feminism or socialist feminism? mronline.org 
On Susan Ferguson's book "Women and Work: Feminism, Labour and Social Reproduction." | May 28, 2021 | Review…
(2021-05-28). Iraqi Security Forces Thwarted Rocket Attack In Baghdad (Photos). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image. | On May 28, the Iraqi Security Media Cell announced that the Federal Police had thwarted a rocket attack on an unspecified target in the capital Baghdad. | An improvised rocket launched loaded with three "Katyusha" [107 mm] rockets and wired to a timer was found in the al-Jihad neighborhood, which is located around 5 kilometers to the east of Baghdad International Airport. | "A security force uncovered a rocket launcher prepared to targ…
(2021-05-28). Houthi Drones Strike Back With New Attack On Saudi Arabia. southfront.org 
Illustrative image, source: the Houthis media wing | On May 28, the Saudi-led coalition announced that it had foiled a drone attack by the Houthis (Ansar Allah) on the Kingdom territory. | In a brief statement, the coalition claimed that a drone had been "intercepted" and "destroyed" over the southern part of Saud Arabia. The drone, whose type was not identified, was allegedly launched from Yemen. | "The Houthi terrorist militia continues its attempts to target civilians and civilian objects … We take operational me…
(2021-05-28). Combat Footage: PKK Fighters Attacked Turkish Military Post Near Border With Iran. southfront.org 
Screen grab from the Gerilla TV video. | On May 28, the Gerilla TV released footage of a recent attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on the Turkish military near the border with Iran. | The attack, which took place on May 13, targeted a military position near the Gàºrbulak border gate in the eastern Turkish province of Aƒürƒ±. | During the attack, PKK fighters targeted the position with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles. In a statement, the PKK claimed that "many" Turkish service…
(2021-05-28). Three Turkish Proxy Groups Merged In New Formation In Northern Syria. southfront.org 
File image. | On May 28, three Turkish-backed armed groups in northern Syria merged in a new formation led by the Syrian National Army (SNA) called the 13th Division. | In a joint statement, the groups, the Mehmed the Conqueror Division, the Samarkand Brigade and the Waqqas Brigade, said that the step is meant organize military forces in Turkish-occupied areas in northern and northeastern Syria. | The three groups are among the smallest factions of the SNA, which was formed in 2017 to unify Turkish-backed groups and pla…
(2021-05-28). Satellite Image Of Russian Heavy Bombers In Hmeimim Air Base Surfaced Online. southfront.org 
File image. | On May 28, defense observer The bombers were
(2021-05-28). US Jews Are Increasingly Breaking With Israel to Support Palestinian Liberation. truthout.org 
The bombs Israel has dropped on Palestinian homes have reverberated around the globe, fueling a seismic shift within the U.S. Jewish community. More than ever, U.S. Jews are condemning the violence and calling upon Congress to end U.S. military funding to Israel. | Thanks in part to decades of grassroots activism, a generation is increasingly awakening to the gruesome sights in Gaza, and American Jews of all ages are recognizing that support for Palestinians is not incongruous with embraci…
(2021-05-28). Sanders Warns That Dragging Out Talks With GOP Could Lose Congress for Dems. truthout.org 
As the White House's fruitless infrastructure talks with Republican lawmakers
(2021-05-28). Gaetz Says Supporters Should "Use" the "Second Amendment" Against Tech Companies. truthout.org 
During a so-called "America First" rally in Georgia on Thursday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) advocated for violent actions against tech companies that have banned certain right-wing users. |
(2021-05-28). Forget the GOP Plan. Climate Activists Want $10 Trillion for Infrastructure. truthout.org 
As President Biden haggles with Republicans on infrastructure, youth climate activists continue pushing for the bold vision of a Green New Deal. Sunrise Movement activist Lily Gardner says Biden should forget the GOP and listen to young people, who are fired up about the prospect of a Civilian Climate Corps that would create thousands of jobs combatting the climate crisis and building a sustainable future. | Music by TRANSCRIPT: | Th…
(2021-05-28). Palestinian Nurse: We've Been Occupied for 73 Years. A Ceasefire Is Not Enough. truthout.org 
Left Voice interviewed Mohammad Samara, a nurse from the West Bank, during the increased assault on Palestinian people and their land. We spoke about his experience seeing the disparities in healthcare and the recent strike on May 18. | Thanks a lot for being willing to do this interview with us, it means a lot. Could you start by telling us your name, where you live and what you do for work? | My name is Mohammed Samara, and I live in Nablus in Palestine. I work at Refugee Surgical Hospital P…
(2021-05-28). '1619 Project': Progressive educators oppose reactionary curriculum. workers.org 
By Andy Terhune Right-wing lawmakers in 15 states are passing legislation that will require public school teachers to teach a nationalist narrative of history, which ignores the genocidal, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant and oppressive history of the United States. Specific legislation differs among the 15 states, but they all include a . . . |
(2021-05-28). '1619 Project': Progressive educators oppose reactionary legislation. workers.org By Andy Terhune Right-wing lawmakers in 15 states are passing legislation that will require public school teachers to teach a nationalist narrative of history, which ignores the genocidal, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant and oppressive history of the United States. Specific legislation differs among the 15 states, but they all include a . . . |
(2021-05-28). Detengamos la matanza de los lobos. peoplesworld.org 
Esta locura de querer acabar con los lobos en varios estados, no es más que una cruel masacre sin sentido, al no permitirle a los científicos o ambientalistas dar su opinión para controlar la población de lobos en el país. Legisladores y políticos prefieren la vía rápida de permitir la matanza de estos importantes e …
(2021-05-28). The Paris Commune: 'In future we will turn the guns on you'. peoplesworld.org 
As we mark the 150th anniversary of the French proletariat's heroic first bid to set up La Commune in Paris, let us examine German playwright Bertolt Brecht's interpretation of this great event in his play The Days of the Commune. The Commune broke out spontaneously on March 18, 1871. War with Germany, hardship, unemployment, and …
(2021-05-28). Microsoft Reveals Another Alleged CyberAttack By Nobelium. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 27th, Microsoft It allegedly targeted government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and NGOs."This wave of attacks targeted approximately 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 different organizations. While organizations in the United Stat…
(2021-05-28). Broken Dreams: Kiev Not Invited To NATO's Closed Meeting, Still Not Member. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 26th, Ukraine complained that there had been no progress in NATO's "open-door" policy to Ukrainian membership. | It also failed understand why it was not invited to the Western military alliance's summit., when it is not a member yet. | NATO meets on June 14 in Brussels in the hope of repairing transatlantic ties under U.S. President Joe Biden amid growing tensions with Russia."We understand the desire of the allies to hold a closed summit … but we do not understand ho…
(2021-05-28). Dossier no. 40: The challenges facing Brazil's left. mronline.org 
If the social consequences of adopting an ultra-neoliberal project weren't enough already, the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the gross mismanagement and negligence in combatting the virus have led to the worst-case social, economic, and health scenarios. | May 27, 2021…
(2021-05-28). North Macedonia Acknowledges Risk of Greater Albania Project. globalresearch.ca For the first …
(2021-05-28). Sunday 5/30: San Francisco Caravan: End the U.S. Blockade of Cuba! indybay.org Gather at 1875 Marin Street, San Francisco…
(2021-05-28). UBER/Ride Share Gig Drivers Protest Against Rip-offs & CA Prop 22 At UBER World HQ. indybay.org A rally was held of UBER, Lyft and Rideshare workers to protest the lack of healthcare and the cost shifting by these companies having the state pay for healthcare.
(2021-05-28). Necropolis Now: The U.S. Assault on Iraqi Healthcare. counterpunch.org The recent Baghdad hospital fire, Western reporters told Iraq, is a "you" problem. The Washington Post blamed the country's "endemic corruption" for the 82 deaths. The New York Times denounced its "mismanagement" and "legacy of decrepit infrastructure." And the Wall Street Journal, quoting Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, cited "negligence." But Iraqi healthcare wasn't always
(2021-05-28). Actions for Peace by Canadians: In Support of the People of Palestine. globalresearch.ca The Regina Peace …
(2021-05-28). Watch: How Britain wanted a Jewish Ulster in Palestine. electronicintifada.net Zionist project viewed as useful for the empire.
(2021-05-28). This Time, the World and the International Criminal Court Is Watching. commondreams.org "Despite attacks against the ICC, the court is proceeding with its investigation of war crimes in Palestine." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gaza_15_0.jpg …
(2021-05-28). Friday 5/28: Vigil for Palestine. indybay.org Liberty Bell (1415 Truxtun Ave, Bakersfield, CA)…
(2021-05-28). Wednesday 5/26: San Diego Rally for Palestine. indybay.org Federal Building, 880 Front St, San Diego…
(2021-05-28). Wednesday 5/26: Making Sense of Palestine Today: A Panel (Part 1 of 3). indybay.org Zoom…
(2021-05-28). America's New Generation of Pro-Palestinian Voices. zcomm.org The conversation has to change before the policy can change. And right now we are seeing a radical change in the conversation surrounding Palestine."
(2021-05-28). "Israel Must End the Siege of Gaza" zcomm.org Interview on the fight for a Palestine free from occupation and why the Biden administration needs to end its military support for Israel…
(2021-05-28). Letters From Minsk: Lee Harvey Oswald Comes in for the Cold War. counterpunch.org This is the tenth in a series about train and bicycle rides from Switzerland to Belarus, in those carefree days before pandemic lockdowns. Unlike my hunt for the Hotel Garni, I found Lee Harvey Oswald's Minsk apartment in less than fifteen minutes, as the American defector was given a place to live in an elegant
(2021-05-28). For the immediate reinstatement of London bus driver David O'Sullivan! wsws.org At its latest meeting, the CERSC adopted a resolution in support of David O'Sullivan, who was fired by UK bus operator Metroline for fighting for workplace protections amid the raging pandemic.
(2021-05-28). Vaccinating the World: If We Had Grown Ups in Charge. zcomm.org The pandemic is a full out emergency that should have led us to do everything possible to stem its spread as quickly as possible…
(2021-05-28). What Does It Mean to be a Woman, a Mother and a Grandmother in Gaza? counterpunch.org Don't think that I'm addressing this to both genders out of concern for gender equality or to ensure gender-sensitive language. No. I want each of you, man or woman — those that God placed outside of Gaza, whether you're Palestinian or not — to try to seriously imagine yourselves in Gaza now, even for just
(2021-05-28). 'This Is the Price of War': Israeli Newspaper Publishes Photos of All 67 Palestinian Children Killed in Gaza Onslaught. globalresearch.ca Human rights advocates …
(2021-05-28). Thursday 5/27: The Gaza Monologues. indybay.org Zoom…
(2021-05-28). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Operating theatre nurses' national one-day pay strike in France; Port Ravenna dockers in Italy ready to strike to block transport of military hardware for use against Gaza; national warning strikes by retail workers across Germany over pay; Stoppages at some UK schools and Liverpool University…
(2021-05-28). CODEPINK Statement on the Biden Administration's $753 billion Proposed Pentagon Budget. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Tensions Growing in Arctic Airspace. globalresearch.ca Russia is increasing …
(2021-05-28). How to End the U.S. Prison State Quick and Easy. counterpunch.org A few weeks ago I covered the mind-blowing facts about American prisons that should make anyone and everyone rethink/detest/abhor the entire institution. Now, I want to examine the reasons people find themselves locked up in the largest prison state in the world (the Land of the Free) and see if we can't decrease the number of inmates
(2021-05-28). A small GOP-dominated Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Coalition is waging a frightening campaign for nuclear rearmament. juancole.com (Responsible Statecraft) — Democrats might control the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government right now, but a small Republican-dominated Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Coalition exercises outsized influence in a frightening campaign for nuclear rearmament. The coalition, comprising six senators from states that house, develop, or test underground land-based nuclear weapons, is pushing a …
(2021-05-28). Biden's Eloquence About George Floyd Is Likely to Soon Ring Hollow. indybay.org Black Lives Matter can't just be a slogan…
(2021-05-28). Alabama miners and supporters denounce assault by UMWA officials and isolation of Warrior Met strike. wsws.org Miners and community members have denounced the United Mine Workers officials who attacked two members of the "Dixieland of the Proletariat" podcast, falsely believing they were representatives of the World Socialist Web Site.
(2021-05-28). Bizarre propaganda offensive begins against New Zealand. challenge-magazine.org The Five Eyes is an "intelligence alliance" compromising of Canada, the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand that began as a World War 2 tool but for most of its existence been a weapon against socialist states. | Its primary function currently is to compile resources for propaganda attacks on China and supposedly validate a whole range of hyperbolic claims about Beijing. | With the population of New Zealand being only about 2% that of the United States' alone, many would correctly assume that Wellington's contribution to this arrangement isn't substantial. A paper from the small country's government estimated th…
(2021-05-28). A Modernist Superpower Emeritus Belatedly Faces the Postmodern World. counterpunch.org As we await the first Biden administration national security strategy (NSS), presuming it to be a roadmap of sorts from the present to the future, let us remember the opening words of wisdom from The Sound of Music's "Do-Re-Mi": "Let's start at the very beginning\A very good place to start." Whatever strategic end-state the Biden
(2021-05-28). Johns Hopkins Prof: Half of Americans Have Natural Immunity; Dismissing It Is 'Biggest Failure of Medical Leadership'. globalresearch.ca A professor with …
(2021-05-28). Anti-Chavista Deputy Bertucci: 'US Policy Towards Venezuela to Change in Coming Months'. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, May 27, Venezuelan deputy to the National Assembly (AN), Javier Bertucci, said that the policy of the United States with respect to Venezuela will change in the coming months, and that between June and July, high-level officials from Joe Biden's administration are expected to visit Venezuela. | "The policy of the United States is going to change in the coming months, because they want results and have not seen them in the last two years," said Bertucci, who is also a member of the AN Special Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation, and Peace, in an interview granted to Sputnik. | "There are some is…
(2021-05-28). Time to Buy a New Toolbox. counterpunch.org Stasi Officer: What do you have to tell us? Citizen: I've done nothing. I know nothing. Officer: You've done nothing, know nothing. You think we imprison people on a whim? Citizen: No — Officer: — If you think our humanistic system capable of such a thing that alone would justify your arrest. — Scene from
(2021-05-28). Lorena's 'Alcance' (A Latino USA Podcast). latinorebels.com One year after her passing, we remember the life and explore the legacy of Lorena Borjas, known as the mother of the translatina community in Queens, New York.
(2021-05-28). Larry Summers is Fretting About Inflation Again. counterpunch.org Larry Summers has a column in the Washington Post warning about inflationary risks to the economy, due to what he considers an excessively large recovery package from the Biden administration. Summers notes the extraordinarily high rate of inflation in the first quarter and warns us that worse is ahead if corrective measures are not taken
(2021-05-28). According to Reuters 500,000 Barrels of Diesel Arrived in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, May 27, Reuters news agency Venezuela's diesel shortage, another consequence of the "sanctions" imposed by the United States and promoted by the opposition sector and former deputy Juan Guiadó, primarily affects food transportation…
(2021-05-28). Bayer considers putting an end to US glyphosate sales. nationofchange.org "Removing glyphosate from residential use would be a step in the right direction."
(2021-05-28). 'Any Attacks on al-Quds Means Regional War'. orinocotribune.com Hezbollah's secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gave a televised speech to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the liberation of South Lebanon from the Israeli occupation, arguing any aggression against Jerusalem al-Quds or its holy sites would mean regional war. |
(2021-05-28). Australian government prepares to slash disability services. wsws.org Claiming that the NDIS is "unsustainable," the government is planning to impose so-called "independent" assessments to determine eligibility to the scheme.
(2021-05-28). Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden to meet in mid-June. wsws.org The summit comes amid high bilateral tensions and ongoing discussions in Washington about the orientation of US foreign policy in light of the growing conflict with China.
(2021-05-28). The City of Cambridge Just Had Its Charlottesville Moment. counterpunch.org People across the US political spectrum reacted in horror at Donald Trump's comments on white supremacist violence in Charlottesville: "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides" Trump only dug the hole deeper when he explicitly condemned the KKK and neo-Nazis, but
(2021-05-28). Bolivia's former government minister Arturo Murillo arrested in the US. peoplesdispatch.org The former government minister and his chief of staff are accused of receiving bribes from a US company in exchange for a multi-million USD contract with the Bolivian government and using the US financial system to launder those funds. Both are fugitives from Bolivian justice in the same case, among others…
(2021-05-28). The Hell of the Same: Capitalism Breaks Down and Homogenizes Life, Disconnects the Past, Present and Future. counterpunch.org "Capitalism is often interpreted as a religion. However, if religion is understood in terms of Religare, as something that binds, then capitalism is anything but a religion because it lacks any force to assemble, to create community…And what is essential to religion is contemplative rest, but this is the antithesis of Capital. Capital never rests.
(2021-05-28). 'Kids Need to Be Loved': Preventing Youth Suicide. progressive.org One father uses his own son's suicide to help other parents and caregivers understand how to support struggling teens.
(2021-05-28). Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo sends police against striking waste workers. wsws.org On Tuesday, several hundred Paris garbage collectors and sewage workers demonstrated against the civil service reforms due to take effect on January 1, 2022, by occupying City Hall.
(2021-05-28). UK billionaire wealth explodes amid devastation of the working class. wsws.org The richest 250 people on the Rich List increased their wealth by 16.3 percent, up to £658.1 billion. The 171 billionaires increased their combined wealth by £106.5 billion (21.7 percent) to £597.3 billion.
(2021-05-28). Expand funding for remote learning, support staff and ventilation upgrades in Tennessee schools! wsws.org We demand the immediate closure of schools and full financial support for parents who must stay home with their children. All reopening plans must be subordinated to the demands of science, not private profit!
(2021-05-28). Vax Passports: Where Your State Stands. globalresearch.ca A lay of …
(2021-05-28). Major tire companies explore the use of dandelions for a more sustainable material to rubber. nationofchange.org Dandelion rubber tires will lessen the amount of landfill waste, decrease deforestation and reduce the economic burden of rubber tree cultivation, experts said…
(2021-05-28). The China-Pakistan Love Affair. counterpunch.org May has been the lovefest month for China and Pakistan. Criticizing legalism, moralism, and sentimentalism of American politics, Hans Morgenthau (1904-1980) argued for a policy based on national interests in foreign affairs. In theory, emotionality is rarely part of any bilateral calculus. However, Pakistan and China have forged a geopolitical romance, frequently reaffirmed in magniloquence
(2021-05-28). Writer Fiona Kidman supports demand for continued investigation of Pike River mine disaster. wsws.org The WSWS spoke with writer and poet Fiona Kidman, who for several years has supported the fight by families of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster victims for a full investigation to uncover the precise causes of the disaster, and for justice for the 29 men who died.
(2021-05-28). ost Americans Don't Approve of Animal Testing, Will the U.S. Congress Finally Pass Legislation to End It? counterpunch.org The life of a mouse or a rat is an unenviable one. Chances are that if you're in the urban wild, you must contend with deadly traps, poisons and broom-wielding humans. If you're a country-dweller, you might have it a bit easier, but then again you may be blown to smithereens by a shotgun or
(2021-05-28). Fourteen killed in cable car crash in Italy. wsws.org Three people have been arrested under suspicion of causing a cable car to crash in the northern Italian mountainside resort town of Stresa, killing 14 people, including two children.
(2021-05-28). Trial of army officer Franco A. sheds light on fascist network in German state apparatus. wsws.org The Federal Prosecutor's Office accuses Franco A. of preparing a "serious crime endangering the state," using a fake refugee identity, and planning terrorist attacks on politicians and public institutions to "change political conditions in the Federal Republic of Germany in line with his right-wing extremist ideas."
(2021-05-28). Future of Australian steelworks in doubt as UK fraud office investigates Gupta. wsws.org Thousands of jobs are threatened at Whyalla and Tahmoor as GFG seeks refinancing after the Greensill collapse.
(2021-05-28). Once more on the issue of anti-Semitism in Germany. wsws.org The millions in Germany and around the world, including many Jewish workers and young people, who are horrified by the murderous wars pursued by Israel and its imperialist backers and protest against this, are not anti-Semites.
(2021-05-28). Australian court finds government has duty to protect young people from climate crisis. popularresistance.org Eight teenagers and an octogenarian nun had sought an injunction to prevent Ley approving a proposal by Whitehaven Coal to expand the Vickery coalmine in northern New South Wales, arguing the minister had a common law duty of care to protect younger people against future harm from climate change.
(2021-05-28). History of World War II: Operation Barbarossa. Did Stalin Foresee Hitler's Invasion? globalresearch.ca In attacking eastwards …
(2021-05-28). WSWS publishes Chinese translation of call for International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees. wsws.org The WSWS is publishing today a
(2021-05-28). We Need a Break from Fossil fuels. progressive.org With global oil profits plummeting, it is an opportune time to analyze the true economic, health and environmental impacts of the leasing system involved in fossil fuel extraction.
(2021-05-28). Companies Paying Starvation Wages Whine That Workers Aren't Interested. counterpunch.org Everyone knows American corporations from McDonalds to Walmart pay starvation wages. So now so-called leaders like Montana governor Greg "Punch a Journalist" Gianforte won't distribute federal benefits, because people live better on those than on wages. Well, raise the wretched wages. They're pitifully low. Or, as senator Bernie Sanders' staff director Warren Gunnels put it:
(2021-05-28). Operation Condor 2.0: Behind Aznar's Award to Guaidó and the Atlas Network. libya360.wordpress.com Karen Méndez Loffredo Interview with Julián Macías Tovar, researcher and editor of Pandemia Digital. Former President José María Aznar presented the 10th FAES Freedom Award to former Venezuelan MP Juan Guaidó. The event was also attended by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida and the…
(2021-05-28). Israel attacks, kills children amid broad crackdown. electronicintifada.net Killing of 17-year-old may amount to extrajudicial execution.
(2021-05-28). Hey Kids, Tax Increases are Supposed to Slow Growth. cepr.net Sometimes budget battles can get confusing, which is why it is important to keep your eye on the ball. That's good advice for readers of the Washington Post's article on President Biden's proposed budget for 2022. The short piece deals with various aspects of the budget and then gets to Biden's proposed tax increases: "Conservatives …
(2021-05-28). Senate clears passage of economic warfare legislation directed at China. wsws.org The bipartisan legislation would spend more than $200 billion to boost US manufacturers of semiconductors and fund research on other strategic goods.
(2021-05-28). Sherry Buchanan:The Women Warriors Who Stopped the U.S. Genocide in Vietnam. scheerpost.com Photo courtesy of Sherry Buchanan] Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play The Vietnam War—or, as it is more accurately called in Vietnam, the American War—has become an inextricable and tragic part of the fabric of both Vietnamese and American society. America's Cold War intervention in the Asian country was as much an act of neocolonialism as it was a consequence of the country's… |
(2021-05-28). 3 Tacoma cops charged with killing innocent man. nationofchange.org Pierce County Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Clark determined Ellis's death to be a homicide caused by hypoxia due to physical restraint.
(2021-05-28). Mali is Just the Latest: US Africa Command Trained Troops Behind at Least Seven Coups in 13 Years. libya360.wordpress.com Morgan Artyukhina While the US Army School of the Americas is infamous for training right-wing guerrilla forces across Latin America, less well-known are the Pentagon's military training programs in Africa, including the Flintlock exercises for the G5 Sahel nations, nearly all of which have experienced military coups in the last 13 years. On Thursday, Malian…
(2021-05-28). Mapping Faultlines: Battles over airspace, geopolitics in Belarus. peoplesdispatch.org Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent incident in Belarus where a plane carrying dissident and anti-government activist Roman Protasevich was made to land and he was detained…
(2021-05-28). Constitutional crisis grips Samoa. wsws.org The dispute between competing factions of the ruling elite is riven by increasing social, economic and, above all, geo-political tensions.
(2021-05-28). Ten killed in mass shooting in San Jose, California, at public transit maintenance yard. wsws.org Public transportation worker Samuel James Cassidy shot and killed nine co-workers as well as himself at a maintenance yard in San Jose on Wednesday. While motives remain unclear, such violent outbursts must be seen as a product of a profoundly diseased society.
(2021-05-28). The Long Silence of Bao Ninh. counterpunch.org In the fall of 2018, Rohit Inani, a freelance journalist based in New Delhi, contacted CounterPunch contributor Marc Levy after reading his 1998 interview with Bao Ninh. Rohit, who admires Ninh's work, asked to be put in touch with Ninh. Several weeks later, with help from the Joiner Institute, and the Vietnamese Writer's Association, Rohit
(2021-05-28). Labor tries to block Inner West Council's de-amalgamation referendum. greenleft.org.au In a major victory for democracy, the Inner West Council (IWC) decided on May 24 to conduct a referendum of residents on de-amalgamation at the next local government election. | Five Greens and three independent councillors supported the motion to allow the community to have a direct say in the forced amalgamation of three inner west councils in 2016. Five Labor and two Liberal councillors voted against. | But on May 26, councillors were notified by the council's general manager that three Labor councilors who are not standing for reelection — Anna York, Lucille McKenna and Sam Iskandar — had tabled a…
(2021-05-28). Water activists win against Adani. greenleft.org.au In a victory for people power, the Federal Court found, on May 25, that the federal government had failed to apply the "water trigger" test when assessing — and approving — Adani's North Galilee Water Scheme (NGWS) in April 2019. | The NGWS refers to a pipeline that would The "water trigger" refers to The Environment Prot…
(2021-05-28). Activists stop armed vehicles entering Land Forces weapons expo. greenleft.org.au In a spectacular start to the Disrupt Land Forces, a week-long festival of resistance, anti-militarism activists blocked two military vehicles from entering the Brisbane Convention Centre on May 27. | Four people climbed on top of a Rheinmetall's armed drone and Ripleys armed truck as they entered the Brisbane Convention Centre for the arms industry sales conference. More than 300 arms manufacturers will be showcasing their products from June 1-3. | Disrupt Land Forces spokesperson Margaret Pestorius said that the Land Forces represents "a convergence of so many issues of militarism in our society". | "The 300 co…
(2021-05-28). Video: US Civil Rights veteran Bob Zellner on 'Sons of the South'. greenleft.org.au A new film, Son of the South, tells the story of Bob Zellner who broke from his Alabama Ku-Klux-Klan heritage to become the first white Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organiser — and nearly got lynched for it. | Zellner spoke with Barry Healy, expanding on the film's story to include his radical trajectory from the 1960s onwards.
(2021-05-28). Labor 'out coaled' in Upper Hunter. greenleft.org.au The New South Wales Nationals' narrow victory in the Upper Hunter byelection has saved the scandal-plagued government of Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Deputy Premier John Barilaro. | The election was made necessary by the resignation of Nationals' MP Michael Johnsen, after the NSW Police announced it was investigating a rape allegation against him. | The government risked losing its majority and the pressure was on Labor to win Upper Hunter for the first time. Working-class voters in Muswellbrook and Singleton, in the centre of the electorate, had helped Labor build up its vote to nearly 30%, making the seat win…
(2021-05-28). 'Your Legacy Is… What You Deliver': Climate Movement Says Biden Budget Not Bold Enough. commondreams.org "Biden, your legacy is not what you propose, but what you deliver." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/evanweber-sunrisemovement-2600×1361.jpg …
(2021-05-28). Despite Risks, Climate Activists Lead Fight Against Oil Giant's Drilling Projects in Uganda. commondreams.org "We cannot drink oil. This is why we cannot accept the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline," says Ugandan climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/stopeacop-2600×1361.jpg …
(2021-05-28). Amazen: Because Who Needs Bathroom Breaks Or A Living Wage When You Have A Mobile Despair Closet? commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/further/mindful_tease_19841.jpg …
(2021-05-28). Rights Groups Applaud Reintroduction of MORE Act to Reverse Harms of War on Drugs. commondreams.org Prioritizing marijuana reform that begins to undo the harm caused by the failed war on drugs "should be a no-brainer," said the Drug Policy Alliance. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/marijuana-dispensary-more-act1300x681.jpg …
(2021-05-28). Serious Injuries From Merck's Gardasil HPV Vaccine Significantly Underreported, Study Shows. globalresearch.ca Most people are …
(2021-05-28). Jan. 6 Commission Latest Casualty of GOP's Anti-Democratic Campaign. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). NARAL Pro-Choice America Applauds President Biden's Historic Presidential Budget For Advancing Reproductive Freedom. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Sanders Statement on Republicans Blocking Insurrection Commission. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Save Democracy, End the Filibuster. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Here's How to End the Filibuster and Protect Democracy. commondreams.org "Code Red! Unless the filibuster is eliminated—at the very least as it pertains to Voting Rights and Civil Rights laws—what's left of American democracy is dead." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/end_filibuster.jpg …
(2021-05-28). Republican Senators Turn Backs on Nation, Refuse to Even Debate Creating January 6th Insurrection Commission. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Advocates Weigh in Following Bipartisan Jan. 6 Commission Vote: It's Time to Eliminate the Filibuster and Protect Our Democracy. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Oil Change International Response to Biden Budget, Fossil Fuel Subsidies Removal. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Statement on President Biden's Budget Proposal. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). The U.S. Has an Opportunity for a Better Strategy to Address Climate Displacement. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). House Leader Reintroduces History-Making Legislation To Repeal Marijuana Prohibition. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Statement on January 6 Commission Vote. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Sunrise Movement Responds to Biden Budget Proposal: Your Legacy Is Not What You Propose, But What You Deliver. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Biden Administration Proposes to Allow Oil Companies to Disturb Polar Bears, Walruses in Alaska's Arctic. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Business Leaders Call on G7 to Back Plans to End Multinational Tax Avoidance. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Following Mitch McConnell's Filibuster of the Bipartisan January 6th Commission, Stand Up America Renews Its Call to Abolish the Filibuster. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Many Members of the Republican Party Are Not Conservatives, They're Extremists. commondreams.org "By mislabelling the radical members of the Republican Party 'conservative,' the mainstream media gives them a veneer of respectability." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/djt.jpg …
(2021-05-28). Biden Budget Fails to Fully Confront Fossil Fuels. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). Biden Budget Fails to Address Extinction Crisis. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-28). This Week's Most Popular Articles. globalresearch.ca …
(2021-05-28). Three Imperial projects launched to decarbonise heating and cooling. imperial.ac.uk Three Imperial College London initiatives are among 11 new UKRI-funded projects aimed at decarbonising the heating and cooling of buildings.
(2021-05-28). 'Bipartisan' Is How Republicans Say 'Sucker!'. thenation.com 'Bipartisan' Is How Republicans Say 'Sucker!'
(2021-05-28). PPP loans may have helped save the music and guitar building industry. indybay.org Eastern Kentucky Guitar Show…
(2021-05-28). Friday 5/28: Return of the Zim Ship: Bay Area Get Ready to Block The Boat AGAIN. indybay.org Port of Oakland…
(2021-05-28). Permanent Vigil Installed to Honor Black and Brown People Killed by Police. indybay.org Communique about vigil installation and explanation of why vigils honoring black and brown people are so important.
(2021-05-28). George Floyd's Death, The Working Class & Capitalism With IBT808 Pres Chris Silvera. indybay.org Chris Silvera, the president of IBT Local 808 talks about racism and the continuing murders one year after the death of George Floyd. He also discusses the failure of the national unions to stand up to the racists, sexist and xenophobic attacks of former president Trump.
(2021-05-28). Los Altos Commemorates Death of George Floyd with March/Rally. indybay.org Justice Vanguard is a grassroots racial justice organization that focuses on creating change through education and positive awareness. The youth group organized a 1.5 mile march from Los Altos High School to a busy intersection at the border of Mountain View and Los Altos, where students and community members spilled into the street, blocked traffic and rallied on the busy El Camino Real.
(2021-05-28). Wednesday 5/26: Care Not Cops coalition/network. indybay.org 2180 Milvia St, Berkeley CA 94704…
(2021-05-28). Two Bay Area Unions Call for Mumia Abu-Jamal's Immediate Release. indybay.org This motion on MOVE and Mumia Abu-Jamal was adopted by both the Oakland Education Association (OEA) on May 20 and the Adult School Teachers United (ASTU), Richmond, CA on May 22. The OEA will be releasing their statement soon.
(2021-05-28). Right Now! Please take action for Russell Maroon Shoatz. indybay.org Today's action campaign has begun!
(2021-05-28). George Floyd Action In SF's Fillmore. indybay.org On May 22 people gathered in San Francisco's Fillmore District to mark the one year anniversary of George Floyd's death.
(2021-05-28). 2021 Stockton Juneteenth Historic Waterfront District. indybay.org Generations of enslavement and affliction, chattel slavery and horrors of captive bondage ended after the bloody battles of the US Civil War where over 700,000 white men Confederate and Union soldiers, died on and off the battlefield to secure the hard fought freedoms we enjoy today. Vestiges of post traumatic episodes on all fronts continues today and May is Mental Health Month to help end the stigma of getting help.
(2021-05-28). SF Green Party Endorsement Against Latest Pacifica Bylaw Proposal. indybay.org The SF Greens is urging a no vote to the latest bylaw proposals for Pacifica.
(2021-05-28). Endangered Sacramento Winter Chinook Salmon are dying before spawning below Keswick. indybay.org On Friday, May 21, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) reported that endangered winter-run Chinook salmon are dying before they can spawn from exposure to water released from Shasta Dam that is too hot for fish to survive.
(2021-05-28). White Terrorist Murders 8 San Jose VTA Employees. indybay.org White Terrorist Samuel Cassidy murdered 8 individuals at a VTA rail yard.
(2021-05-28). Sunday 6/6: Red Road to DC Totem Pole Journey. indybay.org Tyrrell Park, 1305 E Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz…
(2021-05-28). An American Sports Icon's Legacy of LGBTQ Rights. thenation.com An American Sports Icon's Legacy of LGBTQ Rights…
(2021-05-28). Mayo Clinic Q and A: 21st century stroke prevention strategies. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A family member had a stroke a month ago. I'm 45 years old, and I maintain a healthy lifestyle with regular exercise and a good diet. What steps can I take to make sure this doesn't happen to me? ANSWER: A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of your brain is interrupted …
(2021-05-28). Consumer Health: What do you know about inflammatory bowel disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World IBD Day will be observed on Wednesday, May 19, which makes this a good time to learn more about how these disorders are similar and different. Inflammatory bowel disease, also known as IBD, is an umbrella term used to describe disorders that involve chronic inflammation of your digestive tract. Inflammatory bowel disease can be …
(2021-05-28). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Detecting and treating thoracic aortic aneurysms. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A thoracic aortic aneurysm is a weakened area in the major blood vessel that feeds blood to the body. When the aorta is weak, blood pushing against the vessel wall can cause it to bulge like a balloon. This is called an aneurysm. Depending on the cause, size and growth rate, your thoracic aortic aneurysm …
(2021-05-28). Consumer Health: What do you know about Lou Gehrig's disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is ALS Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about Lou Gehrig's disease, which is also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive nervous system disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing loss of muscle control. More than 5,000 people …
(2021-05-28). AI-enabled EKGs find difference between numerical age and biological age significantly affects health, longevity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — You might be older ? or younger ? than you think. A new study found that differences between a person's age in years and his or her biological age, as predicted by an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled EKG, can provide measurable insights into health and longevity. The AI model accurately predicted the age …
(2021-05-28). Mayo Clinic Minute: Think 'FAST' to recognize a stroke. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Stroke is the No. 5 cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the U.S., according to the American Stroke Association. May is National Stroke Awareness Month. If someone is suffering a stroke, every second counts. And the faster a patient receives treatment, the better the odds for a positive outcome. Watch: The …
(2021-05-28). Mayo named a 2021 DiversityInc No. 4 on the Top Hospitals and Health Systems for Diversity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DiversityInc announced its annual Top 50 Companies for Diversity listings. Mayo Clinic was named to two specialty lists this year — No. 4 on the Top Hospitals and Health Systems list, up from No. 7 in 2020, and a new entry onto the Top Companies for People with Disabilities list at No. 19. DiversityInc's listing is …
(2021-05-28). Consumer Health: Meditation for healthy living. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Meditation Day will be observed on Friday, May 21, which makes this a good time to learn more about the benefits of meditation. Meditation is a type of mind-body medicine that's been practice for thousands of years. Of the many forms of meditation, most have in common a quiet setting, a comfortable position, focused …
(2021-05-28). Mayo Clinic Minute: Tips to 'stop the bleed' in an emergency. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org If you came upon an emergency where a person is bleeding, would you know what to do? During National Trauma Month, May 20 is acknowledged as Stop the Bleed Day — a day to teach people how to take to control of serious bleeding. In this demonstration, Gwen Meyer, a Trauma Center nurse and trauma …
(2021-05-28). Dr. Prathibha Varkey named president of Mayo Clinic Health System. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Prathibha Varkey, M.B.B.S., has been named president of Mayo Clinic Health System, effective August 16, 2021.Dr. Varkey will partner with Mary Jo Williamson, chief administrative officer, Mayo Clinic Health System, to lead the strategy and operations of the health system's 17 hospitals and nearly 50 community clinics across Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin."We're …
(2021-05-28). Science Saturday: Macrophage communication is key during viral infection. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A new finding from Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues may suggest treatment options for severe viral infections and new avenues for research into tissue regeneration after injury. The paper, published in Immunity, examines the work of immune cells called macrophages that stay deep in the lungs. These cells are found in the part of the lungs …
(2021-05-28). Consumer Health: Recovering from a stroke. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about stroke and stroke rehabilitation. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and a major cause of serious disability for adults. More than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year, according to the Centers …
(2021-05-28). Consumer Health: Understanding the link between depression and pain. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. It affects how you feel, think and behave, and it can lead to emotional and physical problems. Depression and pain are closely related. Depression can cause pain, and pain can cause depression. Sometimes pain and depression create a vicious cycle …
(2021-05-28). Mayo Clinic Cancer Center joins national call to get HPV vaccinations back on track. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has joined 71 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in calling on the nation's health care providers, parents and young adults to help get HPV vaccinations back on track. HPV causes several types of cancers, and nearly everyone gets infected with HPV by age 50. "Mayo Clinic recommends …
(2021-05-28). México — Las elecciones intermedias más importantes. globalizacion.ca Podría decirse desde un punto de vista cuantitativo que es así porque van a liza las gobernaciones de 15 estados, los 500 escaños de la Cámara de Diputados, de 30 asambleas legislativas, cientos de presidentes municipales, miles de alcaldías, sindicaturas…
(2021-05-28). Marco Rubio García, monomaniaco y mitómano. globalizacion.ca Sin duda alguna el senador republicano Marco Rubio García en EEUU, se ha convertido en el estratega de presión contra Cuba y Venezuela. Su verborrea barata, repetitiva, politiquera y mentirosa, lo hace ser un monomanà¨aco y mentiroso. | Su última perla…
(2021-05-28). Estados Unidos y China: Urbanidad e intervencionismo. globalizacion.ca Podemos entender que el presidente Bolsonaro irrespetara y atacara al presidente de la República de Corea, Moon Jae-in, al confundirlo con el presidente de la RPD de Corea, Kim Jong-un, y que se burlara del primero llamándole una y otra…
(2021-05-28). NYC's Nail Salon Workers Are Still Fighting For a Fair Wage. latinorebels.com As the city slowly recovers, Clara Wheatley-Schaller, Political Coordinator for Workers United, says it's the perfect time to reimagine the future of the industry…
(2021-05-28). They're Not Conservatives, They're Extremists. zcomm.org By mislabelling the radical members of the Republican Party "conservative," the mainstream media gives them a veneer of respectability…
(2021-05-28). Andrew Yang Doesn't Know What He's Talking About. thenation.com Andrew Yang Doesn't Know What He's Talking About…
(2021-05-28). Housing Alone Won't Solve California's Homelessness Problem. thenation.com Housing Alone Won't Solve California's Homelessness Problem…
(2021-05-28). Lori Lightfoot's New Press Policy Is All Too Convenient. thenation.com Lori Lightfoot's New Press Policy Is All Too Convenient…
(2021-05-28). The Great Outdoors Was Made for White People. thenation.com The Great Outdoors Was Made for White People…
(2021-05-28). The Other Epidemic Killing Americans. thenation.com The Other Epidemic Killing Americans…
(2021-05-28). Their Extinction = Our Extinction. thenation.com Their Extinction = Our Extinction…
(2021-05-28). How a Third Reconstruction Could End American Poverty. zcomm.org The Third Reconstruction should aim to end — once and for all — the oligarchy of rich Whites by creating an America in which all are equal at the voting booth, the school, the clinic and the workplace…
(2021-05-28). Thank social movements for Biden's bold moves on government spending. zcomm.org In spite of the rising popularity of concepts such as the "Overton Window," the importance of grassroots organizing is still being underestimated…
(2021-05-28). Great Power Competition Is Escalating to Dangerous Levels. zcomm.org Great power competition has emerged as a key priority for U.S. foreign policy under the Biden administration. In fact, we may be already at the start of a new New Cold War…
(2021-05-27). Saturday 5/29: From Colombia to Palestine: Abolish State Terror. indybay.org Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles, CA…
(2021-05-27). Development, Climax and Polarizing Elements of Peru's 2nd Round of Elections. libya360.wordpress.com Franco Vielma Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, in the final stretch of their political campaigns (Photo: As Perú) The second round for the presidential election in Peru is, as few others, extremely crucial for the Andean nation, both for the singularity of the preceding political framework and for the electoral political moment itself. Peru is…
(2021-05-27). Chile: Elections pave the way to a new country. greenleft.org.au The elections for Chile's Constitutional Convention show a massive public desire for true social-political transformation and, crucially, provide the means to achieve it. | Elections to the Constituent Convention charged with writing a new Constitution for Chile have yielded a result nobody expected. The left went into the elections divided across many lists, the right was united under one banner, the parties of the social-liberal Concertación [Coalition of Parties for Democracy] under another. | Of the 155 seats, polls predicted that the Concertación list would get 45 seats, the right wing coalition, Vamos por C…
(2021-05-27). Assad Wins Syria's Presidential Election. telesurenglish.net Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has won his fourth seven-year term in the 2021 presidential race, the Syrian parliament announced on Thursday. | Hamoudeh Sabbagh, the parliament speaker, said that Assad won 95.1 percent of the vote as opposed to 88.7 percent in the 2014 election. | RELATED: | He said that about 14 million of the estimated 18 million eligible voters inside and outside Syria cast their votes, with a turno…
(2021-05-27). AU Day Celebration: Venezuelan Diplomat Calls on African Leaders to Resist Oppression. orinocotribune.com Today May 25, 2021 is being celebrated across the continent as Africa Day in commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963. | As part of the celebration, many statements have been made to celebrate the continent and also tackle various issues happening within the continent. | Venezuela's Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union, Ambassador Alex Saab in a statement on the occasion of the celebration said it is a day of liberation from foreign control and oppression and is worth celebrating. | Citing himself as someone who has suffered injustice over his detention a…
(2021-05-27). 'We are Confident Cape Verde Constitutional Court will Finally Provide Alex Saab the Justice he has been Denied': Jose-Manuel Pinto Monteiro. orinocotribune.com By Jose-Manuel Pinto Monteiro — May 26, 2021 | Arbitrarily detained in Cabo Verde since June 12, 2020, pending his extradition to the United States of America, Ambassador Alex Saab tirelessly continues his fight for his freedom in the face of injustice. | Armed with courage and resilience, the Venezuelan diplomat has launched his appeal to the Constitutional Court of Cabo Verde, which has the power to render the justice which has been denied him this past one year. In this latest filing, Ambassador Saab pleads the abusive and unconstitutional nature of both his detention and the extradition procedure which e…
(2021-05-27). The US Appoints Temporary Chargé D'Affaires in El Salvador. telesurenglish.net The U.S. State Department (DoS) on Wednesday appointed Jean Manes as Chargé d'Affairs ad Interim to El Salvador, following almost four months without a designated ambassador to this Central American nation. | RELATED: | The DoS said Manes' experience would serve to improve negotiations to tackle irregular migration to the U.S., an issue that has become a cornerstone of President Joe Biden's political agenda with cen…
(2021-05-27). White House embraces "Wuhan Lab" conspiracy theory. wsws.org On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden publicly embraced the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 may have been released from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, ordering the US intelligence agencies to produce a report within 90 days into the potentially man-made origins of the disease.
(2021-05-27). Dr. Monica Gandhi on the Origins of COVID-19, Vaccine Equity, the Debate over Masks & More. democracynow.org 
President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate the origins of COVID-19 as new questions are being raised over whether an accidental leak from a Chinese virology lab is to blame for the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal reports three employees of the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with COVID-like symptoms in the autumn of 2019 and were hospitalized in November of that year, before the first recorded case of COVID-19. China has criticized the Biden administration's call for a new probe, saying the lab leak hypothesis is a "conspiracy created by U.S. intelligence agencies." In March,…
(2021-05-27). What The New Acceptability of the Lab Leak Origin Tells Us About Media Outlets. zcomm.org If "objective" reporting on matters of "science" is basically subject to fashion trends, how much faith should you put in assertions about economics or diplomacy?>
(2021-05-27). Venezuela's Arreaza: World Must Respond to State Violence in Colombia (Desaparecidos, Mass Graves & Bloody Repression). orinocotribune.com 
Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Minister, Jorge Arreaza, reacted strongly to the discovery of the bodies of young protesters during the national strike in Colombia, emphasizing that "the world must responded" to the state violence that has been taking place in that country for several weeks already. | Through his official Twitter account @jaarreaza, the senior Venezuelan official wrote: "From #Venezuela we have been warning for years about the seriousness of the situation of state violence and of all kinds of paramilitary groups in #Colombia. What has happened in recent weeks is nothing more than a magnification of d…
(2021-05-27). Colombian Police Unleash Another Night of Terror in Bogota. telesurenglish.net Colombia's Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron (ESMAD) on Wednesday injured 82 people after cracking down on a peaceful protest in Bogota with expired tear gas canisters and firearms. | RELATED: | According to the Red Cross, 60 injured people suffered eye and respiratory tract damages, 15 protesters received head, face, arm, and leg wounds, and three citizens got thorax, cranioencephalic, or cervical traumas. | Videos spread on social netw…
(2021-05-27). Colombian Senators Do Not Remove Defense Minister From Office. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Colombian Senate voted against the dismissal of Defense Minister Diego Molano, who has been accused by human rights defenders of allowing a wave of police brutality that has left 43 citizens dead so far. | RELATED: | With 69 votes against and 31 in favor, the Senate dism…
(2021-05-27). Colombia To Purchase 'Emergency' Weapons To Quell Protests. telesurenglish.net Senator Ivan Cepeda on Wednesday denounced that Colombia's President Ivan Duque will urgently buy new tear gas cartridges and grenades in Brazil to crackdown on protesters. | RELATED: | "Duque says he wants to negotiate, but he is planning to purchase ammunition from the Brazilian CONDOR Chemical Industry company to continue massacring the Colombian people," Cepeda highlighted. | On Wednesday, the National Police's Administrative…
(2021-05-27). "We are Human Guinea Pigs": Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action. globalresearch.ca Official US and EU data confirm alarming numbers of deaths and permanent paralysis as well as other severe side effects from the experimental mRNA vaccines. It is now clear that we are being asked to be human guinea pigs in an experiment that could alter the human gene structure and far worse.
(2021-05-27). Israel Rejects UN Commission on Attacks to Gaza Strip. telesurenglish.net Israel rejected on Thursday the creation of a commission on the Gaza strip proposed by the United Nations Security Council. The UN aims to investigate massacres during the latest round of attacks despite Israel's maintaining that it has acted according to international law. | RELATED: | "Israel rejects outright the resolution adopted today (Thursday, 27 May 2021) by the United Nations Human Rights Council, a body with a built-in…
(2021-05-27). Tulsa Commemorates Centenary of 1921 Race Massacre. globalresearch.ca May 31-June 1 …
(2021-05-27). In the News: From the USA to Gaza: The New Global Movement Against Racism & Repression. liberationnews.org 
The panel discusses the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, the Palestinian people's continuing resistance after 11 days of massacres by Israeli forces, and how the mass movements that developed around the issues of racist police violence and the oppression of Palestinians have changed the world.
(2021-05-27). Selected Articles: The 'Great Reset': A Technocratic Agenda that Waited Years for a Global Crisis to Exploit. globalresearch.ca 
By Previously coined as the "Tulsa Riot", was in actuality a full-scale assault on the rights of African Americans to live in peace and stability in the …
(2021-05-27). Dominic Cummings hearing exposes Tory COVID massacre. challenge-magazine.org 
Excoriating claims were made by former Chief Aide to the Prime Minister Dominic Cummings in a 7-hour parliamentary inquiry hearing this week. The inquiry was launched to uncover the horrible mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic under the Tory government that so far has left at least 130,000 dead. Cummings testified against Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, with whom he was often present in making major decisions surrounding the pandemic.
(2021-05-27). COVID'S "Olympic" Strain Feared During Summer Tokyo Games. telesurenglish.net The head of the Japan Doctors Union, Dr. Naoto Ueyama, has issued a warning related to the upcoming Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo, explaining that the convergence of thousands of athletes from all over the world could create an 'Olympic' strain of Covid-19, as Japan currently battles a fourth wave of the virus. | RELATED: | Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Dr. Ueyama highlighted how proceeding with the Olympic games would bring toge…
(2021-05-27). The New York Times Says 200,000,000 People Have Been Infected with Covid in the United States (sort of). cepr.net This is the implication of its analysis of likely Covid deaths and infections in India. Its central estimate assumes a case fatality rate of 0.3. This means that for every thousand people who get infected, three will die. There have been roughly 600,000 reported deaths from Covid, since the pandemic began. If this is 0.3 …
(2021-05-27). Life Insurance and COVID-19; Something Doesn't Make Sense. globalresearch.ca You would think …
(2021-05-27). Mass Vaccination Triggers Spike in Cases, Deaths. globalresearch.ca COVID cases have …
(2021-05-27). The Dominican Republic Extends COVID-19 Emergency. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader extended the COVID-19 state of emergency for 45 additional days starting on May 30. | RELATED: | His decision seeks to address an increase in COVID-19 contagions. So far, this country has reported 286,269 cases and 3,613 related deaths. | Until June 11, a daily curfew will rule from 8 p.m to 5 a.m. in the National District and the Santo Domingo province, where COVI…
(2021-05-27). Italy: Protests slam G20 health summit, demand free, universal vaccines. greenleft.org.au Leftist parties and trade unions in Italy organised demonstrations and health workers went on strike on May 21—22 to protest the neoliberal agenda behind the G20 Global Health Summit in Rome and the anti-people policies of Italy's Mario Draghi-led government. | Progressive sectors in Italy demonstrated at the Global Health Summit in Rome, which took place on May 21—22, to demand free and universal vaccination against COVID-19. | Organisations such as Potere al Popolo (Power to the People), the Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC), Giovani Comuniste e Comunisti (GC), Communist Youth Front (FGC), Union…
(2021-05-27). 18 Connecticut Teens Hospitalized for Heart Problems After COVID Vaccines, White House Says Young People Should Still Get the Shots. globalresearch.ca One week after …
(2021-05-27). Guatemala Relaxes Entry Requirements for Immunized Travelers. telesurenglish.net Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday informed that travelers who have been fully immunized with a certificated vaccine will not have to present any negative COVID-19 test to enter the country. | RELATED: | "All vaccinated persons will access the country without health restrictions as long as they have received the last injection at least 14 days before the trip," Civil Aeronautics Director Francis Argueta explained.
(2021-05-27). A Caring World Needs a Sharing World to End the COVID-19 Pandemic. counterpunch.org After three months of dithering, the Biden administration eventually agreed to a temporary waiver of patent rights for the COVID-19 vaccines. The proposal by South Africa and India for a waiver on intellectual property rights in the World Trade Organization has found support from a large number of countries and more than 400 public health
(2021-05-27). Covid-19 Vaccines Lead to New Infections and Mortality: The Evidence is Overwhelming. globalresearch.ca Vaccination has spread worldwide. And everywhere it has been followed by a dramatic rise in new infections and mortality. How many deaths and severe accidents will it take for governments, WHO, health agencies FDA, EMA, to look at the proven results of this experimental pseudo-vaccination?
(2021-05-27). The Heat: Coronavirus pandemic — more than 1.7 billion vaccine doses given globally. america.cgtn.com 
New Covid-19 cases drop dramatically in the United States. Plus more than 1.7 billion doses of the vaccine have been administered globally — but hot spots still remain. When will it end?>
(2021-05-27). No Tokyo Olympics: As COVID Spikes in Japan, Calls Grow to Cancel Games. IOC Refuses. Who Profits? democracynow.org 
Pressure is growing on organizers to cancel the Tokyo Olympics as Japan struggles to contain a fourth wave of COVID-19 cases. The games, which were delayed by a year due to the pandemic, are scheduled to begin July 23 even though less than 3% of the Japanese population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, one of the lowest rates in the developed world. Jules Boykoff, author and former Olympic athlete who played for the U.S. Olympic soccer team, says the "extremely lopsided" contracts the International Olympic Committee signs with host countries give the body ultimate authority over whether or not to cancel…
(2021-05-27). Headlines for May 27, 2021. democracynow.org Transit Worker Fatally Shoots 9, Then Himself, at San Jose Rail Yard, Senate Republicans Blast Biden's ATF Nominee over His Support for Gun Controls, Texas "Constitutional Carry" Bill to Allow People to Openly Carry Handguns Without Permits, Dutch Court Orders Shell Oil Company to Halve Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030, Australia Orders Coronavirus Lockdown for 7 Million; Taiwan Battles Its Worst COVID Outbreak, Biden Orders Probe into COVID-19 Origins; States Offer Prizes to Vaccinated Residents, Iran Nuclear Deal Talks Offer Hope as IAEA Head Expresses Concern over Uranium Enrichment, Another Political Candidat…
(2021-05-27). Infectious Disease Expert: Only Way to Get to Immunity Is to Vaccinate the World. truthout.org 
President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate the origins of COVID-19 as new questions are being raised over whether an accidental leak from a Chinese virology lab is to blame for the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal reports three employees of the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with COVID-like symptoms in the autumn of 2019 and were hospitalized in November of that year, before the first recorded case of COVID-19. China has criticized the Biden administratio…
(2021-05-27). How are the Children? – Silent Screams. indybay.org How could adults do this to them when the risk of contracting Covid-19 is extremely low compared to other risks in life? A lost generation is growing up under our eyes. Those who remain silent and only watch are sinning against growing, still malleable souls and against the future of all of us.
(2021-05-27). The Battle to Suppress Hydroxychloroquine as a Cheap and Effective Drug for the Treatment of Covid-19. globalresearch.ca The campaign against HCQ is carried out through slanderous political statements, media smears, not to mention an authoritative peer reviewed "evaluation" published on May 22nd by The Lancet, which was based on fake figures and test trials.
(2021-05-27). La COVID-19 ha confirmado que el mundo necesita de sistemas sanitarios resilientes. globalizacion.ca Intervención del Doctor José Angel Portal Miranda, Ministro de Salud Pública de Cuba en la 74 ™ Asamblea Mundial de la Salud | Tema: "Poner fin a esta pandemia, prevenir la siguiente: construir juntos un mundo más saludable, seguro y justo". | Señora…
(2021-05-27). Australia: Victorian state government announces lockdown amid outbreak of Indian COVID variant. wsws.org While infection numbers remain low, the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, including in the state capital of Melbourne, and more than 10,000 people have been deemed as contacts of confirmed cases.
(2021-05-27). Trades Union Congress investigation into underreporting of UK workplace Covid-19 deaths confirms its own role in endangering workers. wsws.org Rather than demand the prosecution of employers who have acted in a criminally negligent way, the TUC report urges, "Employers should be encouraged to make retrospective reports to account for this."
(2021-05-27). Testimony by former Johnson advisor exposes UK "herd immunity" policy. wsws.org During seven hours of questioning, Cummings showed how the refusal of the government to take any measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in January, February and most of March 2020 laid the basis for mass deaths.
(2021-05-27). America Cannot Afford Another Lost Decade for Black Workers. counterpunch.org Black workers have been hit hardest by the pandemic. We are more likely to lose income because of Covid-related layoffs and shutdowns, and by last August—five months into the pandemic—Black unemployment was nearly double that of white unemployment. But the impact is not just economic. We are three times more likely to be exposed to
(2021-05-27). Social-democrats takes lead in Austrian students union elections. peoplesdispatch.org The turnout for these Austrian Students' Union (àñH) elections was just 15.79% due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the disenchantment of the students with the insensitive policies of the government with the complicity of the previous àñH leadership…
(2021-05-27). Developing countries desperately need COVID-19 financing. mronline.org 
International cooperation must ensure significantly more official foreign exchange financing to supplement innovative domestic financing for urgently needed spending for relief, recovery and reform. | May 27, 2021…
(2021-05-27). Hyundai and Renault-Nissan forced to shut Indian plants due to worker unrest over lack of COVID-19 protections. wsws.org The autoworkers' job action underscores that it is the global working class that is the main source of opposition to the ruling elite's criminal "open economy" policy, which prioritizes capitalist profit over saving workers' lives.
(2021-05-27). Full extent of UK government's "herd immunity" policy revealed by Dominic Cummings. wsws.org During seven hours of questioning, Cummings showed how the refusal of the government to take any measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in January, February and most of March 2020 laid the basis for mass deaths.
(2021-05-27). Taliban Threatens Neighboring Countries Over Hosting US Troops Leaving Afghanistan (Map Update). southfront.org 
Taliban fighters during "Operation al-Khandagh" | The Taliban has warned Afghanistan's neighbors against allowing the US to use their territory or airspace for any future military operations against the war-torn country. | The warning came in response to plans to reposition some US troops in the region to carry out counter-terrorism missions in Afghanistan once the US and the NATO are out from the country. | In a statement released on May 26, the Taliban called the plans a "grave historical mistake and a disgrace," warni…
(2021-05-27). Today I Saw Syrians Dancing and Celebrating Life, and a Return to Peace — but, of Course, the Western Media Won't Report that. globalresearch.ca Although the West …
(2021-05-27). Video: The Corona Crisis and the Engineered Destabilization of the Global Economy. Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca First published on May 19, 2021 | Visit and follow us on Instagram …
(2021-05-27). Manufacturing Consent for War: 70 Years of CIA Coups, Assassinations, False Flag Operations and Mass Murder. orinocotribune.com 
By Jeremy Kuzmarov — May 21, 2021 | A Review of Vijay Prashad's book, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, with foreword by Evo Morales (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020). | [Source: During his confirmation hearing in February, the CIA's latest director William J. Burns continued a long Agency tradition of playing up the threat from Russia and China along with North Korea, and said that Iran should not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon. | Vijay Prashad's new book Washington Bullets: A…
(2021-05-27). Palestinians, allies keep up fight against Israeli apartheid. workers.org 
Across the U.S., the Palestine solidarity movement has stayed in the streets — rallying, marching and chanting "Free, free Palestine." Recurring themes include the demand to cut all U.S. aid to Israel and assertions that a cease-fire is not enough, the occupation must end, and that "it is not a . . . |
(2021-05-27). Venezuelan diplomat kidnapped: Release Alex Saab! workers.org 
Nearly a year ago, on June 12, 2020, Alex Saab was pulled off a plane at an U.S. demand for his arrest, during a refueling stop in the Republic of Cabo Verde, a small and very poor island archipelago nation off the West Coast of Africa. Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat . . . |
(2021-05-27). Days Before Approving Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, State Department Agreed to Contentious Bomb Sale to Israel. globalresearch.ca Today, the Biden …
(2021-05-27). Eisenhower rejected military chiefs' demand for nuclear war on China, classified account of '58 Taiwan Strait crisis reveals. thegrayzone.com Fearing a new conflict over Taiwan, Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg has released a shocking account showing how the Joint Chiefs pressed Eisenhower to launch a nuclear war on China. A previously censored account of the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis that was sponsored by the Pentagon has been published in full by the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg. The report provides a hair-raising portrait of a reckless US military leadership relentlessly pressing President Dwight Eisenhower for the authority to carry …
(2021-05-27). Workers Stage Global Day of Action to #MakeAmazonPay. commondreams.org "Workers, not Bezos, make Amazon's world run," says @Progressive International's Casper Gelderblom. "Around the world, the workers producing Amazon's profits are standing up to claim their rights." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/makeamazonpay-2600×1361.jpg …
(2021-05-27). Ecuador: CONAIE President Jaime Vargas — It's Time to Unite. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun NewsJaime Vargas, President of Ecuador's CONAIE. April 24, 2021. Photo: Kawsachun Coca President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Jaime Vargas, spoke to Radio Kawsachun Coca/Kawsachun News during his recent visit to Villa Tunari, Trópico of Cochabamba for a RUNASUR commission meeting. Vargas, who is an indigenous leader of the Amazonian…
(2021-05-27). "This will Change the World:" Dutch Court orders Shell to reduce CO2 by 45% by 2030. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — In a historic ruling, a tribunal in the Netherlands has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell must reduce its and its customers' carbon dioxide emissions by 45 percent by 2030 from its 2019 base, according to Le Soir. Shell had already committed to a 20 percent reduction by that date, but …
(2021-05-27). The Strategic Significance of the Syrian Elections. globalresearch.ca The Hybrid War …
(2021-05-27). It's Time to Break Big Pharma's Grip on Healthcare and Empower Medicare to Negotiate Cheaper Drug Prices. commondreams.org "More than 85% of voters in a January 2021 poll agreed that lower drug prices should be a top priority for the Biden administration." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/lower_drug_prices-1.jpg …
(2021-05-27). How Israel's violence is enacted through discriminatory land-use policies. juancole.com 
By Irit Katz and Haim Yacobi | — On May 21, a ceasefire was agreed to between Israel, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, putting an end to a bloody 11-day conflict. Despite the relative calm that has ensued, the violence of these past weeks across Israel-Palestine has unveiled distinct urban fronts. Expropriations and restrictive planning threaten …
(2021-05-27). Palestine's Moment: Despite Massive Losses, Palestinians Have Altered the Course of History. dissidentvoice.org 
The 'Palestinian Revolt of 2021' will go down in history as one of the most influential events that irreversibly shaped collective thinking in and around Palestine. Only two other events can be compared with what has just transpired in Palestine: the revolt of 1936 and the First Intifada of 1987. The general strike and rebellion of 1936-39 …
(2021-05-27). US-funded Belarusian Regime-Change Activist Arrested on Plane Joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine. orinocotribune.com 
By Ben Norton — May 26, 2021 | Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government's media apparatus. | A high-profile Belarusian regime-change activist whose detention on a forcibly grounded airplane caused an international scandal has extensive links to neo-fascist groups, which his political sponsors in Western capitals have conveniently overlooked. | Right-wing activist Roman Protasevich was traveling on the Irish airliner Ryanair on May 23 when the plane crossed int…
(2021-05-27). One year after George Floyd murder, NYC demands: 'Jail killer cops! Defund the police!'. liberationnews.org 
On May 25, thousands of protesters took to the streets of New York City to commemorate the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Beginning as a rally of a few hundred across the street from Brooklyn's Barclays Center, the crowd grew as the march began and …
(2021-05-27). Greetings from "New Normal" Germany! dissidentvoice.org 
On April 1, 1933, shortly after Hitler was appointed chancellor, the Nazis staged a boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany. Members of the Storm Troopers ("die Sturmabteilung," or the "Storm Department," as I like to think of them) stood around outside of Jewish-owned stores with Gothic-lettered placards reading "Germans! Defend yourselves! Do not buy from …
(2021-05-27). What has the working class gotten from the Biden administration so far? peoplesworld.org 
Reports say Biden has dropped his limited proposals to cancel student loan debt. The most recent draft of the administration's budget eliminates key promises, including a public option for health insurance, important programs to address climate change, and a proposed wealth tax. The White House claimed that it took these steps to strengthen its position …
(2021-05-27). Greenlight: Israeli Military Weapons Keep Finding Their Way into Palestinian Organized Crime. mintpressnews.com 
No one knows just how large an arsenal Palestinian crime families possess, but it is clear that it is dangerously large and that had these weapons been used to kill Jewish Israelis, or as part of the Palestinian fight against Zionism, Israeli authorities would have confiscated them long ago.
(2021-05-27). GOP offers inadequate infrastructure plan that lets the rich off free. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Republican senators outlined a $928 billion infrastructure proposal Thursday that drastically slashes what President Joe Biden has proposed and sets things up so that the wealthy, unlike the rest of the country, will pay nothing toward fixing the nation's crumbling infrastructure. In fact, in what is perhaps the most unacceptable part of their "counter-offer" to …
(2021-05-27). March of Solidarity with Palestine in Caracas (+ Photos). orinocotribune.com 
Hundreds of Venezuelans mobilized in Caracas this Tuesday, May 25, in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people and denouncing the 11 days of criminal aggression and bombardment of Gaza by Israel. The march started from Plaza El Indio in Chacao, east of Caracas, and ended at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN), in Torre Parque el àÅvila. | The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) delivered to the UN a statement in support of Palestine, stating that both "the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the PSUV express their strong rejection and condemnation against the acts of extermination ca…
(2021-05-27). Capitalism in Crisis: The Dictatorship of the Banks. liberationnews.org 
This interview is an episode of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it. You can follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Brian and Prof. Wolff continue a series of discussions about the basics of Marxism — a method …
(2021-05-27). Book highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism. peoplesworld.org 
Few books capture the dynamism and energy of what is now called the long civil rights movement better than Lindsey R. Swindall's The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955. Additionally, Swindall could not have picked two better organizations to illustrate the impact of mid-1930s to mid-1950s struggles for …
(2021-05-27). In Ôªøa historic ruling, Ôªøa Dutch court ordered fossil fuel giant Shell to cut its CO2 emissions 45% by 2030. therealnews.com 
"This is a landslide victory for climate justice," said Sara Shaw of Friends of the Earth International.
(2021-05-27). Transit workers, AFL-CIO mourn mass shooting at union meeting. peoplesworld.org 
SAN JOSE, Calif. (PAI)—Perhaps it was inevitable in an era of mass shootings nationwide, but one finally hit the union movement personally, at the Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority in San Jose, Calif., on May 26. It's the 15th mass shooting in the U.S. so far this year. The death toll of ten, including the …
(2021-05-27). Recently Detained Belarussian neo-Nazi "Journalist" Protasevich Served in Canadian Backed neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. orinocotribune.com 
By Aidan Jonah — May 25, 2021 | Update: Purported "journalist" Protasevich confirmed beyond a doubt to be a neo-Nazi who fought with Canadian backed Azov Battalion for a year. | Belarusian "journalist" Raman Protasevich has come into the news after being arrested by Belarusian police on May 23. Protasevich has been described as a brave journalist fighting for democracy, the typical description of suspicious figures salivated over by mainstream media. | Notably, the Belarussian government argues that "The Ryanair plane made an emergency landing due to a bomb threat on 23 May in Minsk, which later turned out t…
(2021-05-27). Dominic Cummings is our Machiavelli: with Brexit, lies served him, now the truth does. dissidentvoice.org 
Remember how Dominic Cummings played a blinder over Brexit, spinning a web of deceptions, funnelled through politicians and the media, to persuade the public that Britain needed to quit the European Union so urgently it should do so on any terms, even ones that would sabotage the country's interests. Well, he just did a Brexit …
(2021-05-27). 10 new albums to help heal the world. greenleft.org.au 
Here's a look back at May's political news and the best new music that related to it. You can also listen to a podcast of this column, including the music, 1. GOJIRA – FORTITUDE : | On May 1, a
(2021-05-27). Syrian Mercenaries Are Faking Illness To Return From Libya: Monitoring Group. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries in Libya are faking illness in order to return to their country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on May 27. | According to the London-based monitoring group, the mercenaries are doing this because Turkey has not withdrawn any group from Libya in a while. | "A small number of mercenaries returned to Syria after they provided medical reports and falsified some of them by bribing the leaders of Turkish-backed factions, amid widespread discont…
(2021-05-27). Syrian Army Stormed Northern Daraa Town After Attack On Intelligence Center, Police Station (Videos). southfront.org 
Illustrative image | The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) stormed Dael in the northern countryside of Daraa following a large hit-and-run attack on government buildings in the town. | Late on May 26, unidentified gunmen attacked the Ba'ath Party office, where a detachment of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate is deployed, as well as the local police station in Dael. Heavy clashes broke out in the town. Moreover, local sources reported hearing at least two large explosions. | According to the pro-opposition Horan Free League n…
(2021-05-27). Israeli Military Dropped Leaflets With Photos Of Senior Syrian Officer, Hezbollah Commander Over Al-Quneitra. southfront.org 
File image. | On May 27, the Israeli military dropped leaflets with photos of Syrian Arab Army (SAA) officers and commanders of Lebanon's Hezbollah over the southern Syrian governorate of al-Quneitra. | Brig. Gen. Hussein Hammouch, commander of the 1st Corps' 90th Brigade, and Munir Ali Naeem Shaito, a senior commander of Hezbollah, can be both seen in the photos. | Shaito, also known as "Jawad Hashim" and "Haj Hashim," is reportedly one of Hezbollah's top commanders in al-Qunitra and a personal advisor to Brig. Gen.
(2021-05-27). Warren Proposes $1.9T in Investments in Energy Research, American Manufacturing. truthout.org 
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Rep. Andy Levin (D-Michigan) introduced two bills on Thursday aimed at investing federal funds in green technology. | The first bill, the Buy Green Act of 2021, would commit $1.5 trillion over the next decade to invest in American clean energy manufacturing. As a press release on the bill
(2021-05-27). Eric Carle Has Died. "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Reminds Us How to Live. truthout.org 
The little holes throughout the book, the ones milled through the pictures of food — that's where your heart goes, carried by tiny questing fingers seeking form, substance, input, delight. The painted art leaps from the page at every turning, 22 lines from beginning to end, a feast by moonlight, and then … a beautiful butterfly! | The
(2021-05-27). Elizabeth Warren Slams Jamie Dimon Over Overdraft Fees Amid Pandemic. truthout.org 
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., "No matter how you try to spin it," Warren declared, "this past year has shown that corporate profits are more important to your bank than offering just a little help to struggling families even when we're in the midd…
(2021-05-27). Talks Between Biden, GOP on Infrastructure Could Go Past Memorial Day Deadline. truthout.org 
The Biden administration has abandoned its deadline of Memorial Day weekend to finish negotiations on an infrastructure package in the hopes of reaching a bipartisan deal with Republicans. | Citing three sources in the White House,
(2021-05-27). Your National Political Committee newsletter — We must struggle together. dsausa.org 
Enjoy your May National Political Committee (NPC) newsletter! Our NPC is an elected eighteen-person body (including two YDSA members who share a vote) which functions as the board of directors of DSA. Read on for more! From the National Political Committee TONIGHT, Thursday 5/27 — Immigrants' Rights Working Group Farmworkers Act call PRO Act Weekend…
(2021-05-27). Black Lives Matter movement sparks electoral defeat for FOP. workers.org 
Protesters call on Krasner to "Free Mumia" in Philadelphia, March 12. Philadelphia For decades, the endorsement of the powerful Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police was sought by almost every candidate running for office in the city and throughout Pennsylvania. Through the power of its purse strings, the FOP has been . . . |
(2021-05-27). The First World War, Cecile Rhodes and Conspiracy Facts. southfront.org 
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(2021-05-27). Military Situation In Donetsk People's Republic On May 27, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | 1. UAF in Novomikhailovka shelled DPR positions in Luganskoe with a BMP-1 | 2. UAF in Granitnoe shelled DPR positions in Novaya Marievka with grenade launchers | 3. DPR forces in Gorlovka shelled UAF positions in Krymske with 120-mm artillery | 4. DPR forces in Gorlovka shelled UAF positions in Pivdenne with large-caliber machine guns | 5. DPR forces in Spartak targeted UAF positions in Avdiivka with 120-mm artillery | 6. DPR forces in Donetsk city targeted UAF po…
(2021-05-27). Military Situation In Yemen On May 27, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 85 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On May 26, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 8 airstrikes on the Sarwah area | On May 26, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on the Hazm area | On May 26, the Saudi-led forces downed two Ansar Allah drones in Marib province | On May 27, sporadic clashes between Ansar Allah and Saudi-led forces continued…
(2021-05-27). Military Situation In Syria On May 27, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 26, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 42 times: 21 — in Idlib province, 14 — in Latakia province, 3 — in Hama province, 4 — in Aleppo province | On May 26, unknown militants attacked two government buildings in Daraa that were designated as polling centers for the presidential election. Minor damage was reported | On May 26, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Kafr Uwaid…
(2021-05-27). Russia Delivers Mi-8 And Mi-24 Helicopters To Central African Republic. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Russian Ministry of Defensed delivered Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters to the Central African Republic (CAR). | This was reported in the Telegram channel "New Military Columnist". | There is also a video that proves the delivery. | A heavy transport aircraft An-124-100, part of the 224th air detachment of the Russian Defense Ministry, delivered domestic multipurpose helicopters to Central Africa. The footage shows the Russian military delivering the helicopters at the local airfield. |
(2021-05-27). Azerbaijan Takes 6 Armenian Servicemen Prisoner In Nagorno-Karabakh. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 27th, 6 Armenian soldiers were arrested and taken prisoner by Azerbaijani troops in Nagorno-Karabakh's Kalbajar province. | Both sides blame the other for the situation. Armenia claimed that Azerbaijan encroached on its territory, and it has been doing so since May 12th. The Armenian soldiers were conducting repair work on a base in a border region, and the Azerbaijani troops surrounded them and took them captive."The Azerbaijani troops, who have infiltrated into Arme…
(2021-05-27). Creating and Designing A Man Cave In 2021. southfront.org 
Sponsored post: | Illustrative image | If the lockdowns bored you to the bone and you want to spend time the productive way, there's a great lineup of projects you can do. One of them is a man cave with all the good stuff — a hidden retreat for every guy of culture. | With all that's occurred in the past year, everyone deserves a break. If travel to a pristine white beach is not an option due to outstanding restrictions, the only place you could turn to is your home. If you want a sanctuary to crash into, so…
(2021-05-27). All the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask. mronline.org 
2018, when president Xi Jinping lauded Marx as the greatest thinker of modern times at the closing speech of a 2-week celebration of his 200th anniversary and reaffirmed China's commitment to his vision of communism, many on the left—and the right—were willing to take him seriously. | May 27, 2021…
(2021-05-27). How American support for Israel erases Palestinian identity. mronline.org 
We must not lose sight of what lies behind Israel's unbridled use of force: American support. | May 27, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-05-27). U.S.-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine. mronline.org 
Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the U.S. government's media apparatus. | May 27, 2021…
(2021-05-27). Mumia Abu-Jamal's spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP. mronline.org 
An interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal. | May 27, 2021 | Interview…
(2021-05-27). Spain Receives Venezuela's Formal Request for Leopoldo López Extradition (+ Orlando Figuera Case). orinocotribune.com Spain's Minister for Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation, Arancha González Laya, confirmed that Spain has already received the formal request for the extradition of the Venezuelan fugitive from justice, Leopoldo López. | Without providing any further explanation regarding the expected response to the request, the Spanish minister stated that they would "follow the procedure as usual," Europa Press agency reported. | On May 11, the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) authorized a request to be issued to the government of Spain for the extradition of the ultra-rightist and opposition leader Leopoldo López Men…
(2021-05-27). Tenet Healthcare begins replacing striking nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts. wsws.org The Massachusetts Nurses Association is being thoroughly exposed for its treacherous role in preventing a wider struggle among nurses in Massachusetts.
(2021-05-27). Venezuela: Maduro Hails Special Economic Zone 'Opportunities'. venezuelanalysis.com PDVSA has reportedly signed confidential agreements with 20 companies to increase crude production in 106 fields as the government increasingly turns to the private sector.
(2021-05-27). Pakistan Demands Deployment of Peacekeeping Forces in Palestine. telesurenglish.net A senior Pakistani minister has said that an international protection force should be deployed in Palestine to protect innocent people from repeated Israeli aggression and atrocities. | RELATED: | "If international peacekeeping troops can be deployed in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Far East, then why Palestine be an exception," Pakistan's Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, said while addressin…
(2021-05-27). From BLM to Palestine: Only a Marriage of Movements can Counter a Marriage of Empires. dissidentvoice.org On this one-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder, I'm thinking about settler colonial nations who routinely spend great amounts of capital to militarily and politically repress indigenous and popular uprisings led by the most historically oppressed peoples of the world. The United States and Israel—two settler-colonial nation states whose drive to exterminate and replace indigenous …
(2021-05-27). WHA Approves Resolution on Health Conditions in Palestine. telesurenglish.net The World Health Assembly (WHA) on Wednesday approved a draft resolution on health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. | RELATED: | The resolution was submitted by countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, according to the decision made last year in the WHA, which is the highest decision-making body…
(2021-05-27). Activists Shut Down Second Israeli Arms Factory In A Week. popularresistance.org Members of Palestine Action group force closure of second Elbit factory, as two activists are arrested at Leicester factory shut down last week…
(2021-05-27). Saturday 5/29: National March for Palestine. indybay.org Lincoln Memorial | Washington, DC…
(2021-05-27). Israel, US and UK vote against World Health Assembly decision to improve health facilities in Palestine. peoplesdispatch.org The draft decision that was critical of continuing Israeli occupation was adopted after a heated debate. While a majority of countries supported it, Israel was joined by the US, UK, Canada and Germany, among others who alleged it to be "political" in nature…
(2021-05-27). "Health Security": This Biden Proposal Could Make the US a "Digital Dictatorship" globalresearch.ca A "new" proposal …
(2021-05-27). Court Rules Australian Government Has Duty to Protect Children, Environment From Climate Impacts. commondreams.org Fridays for Future founder Greta Thunberg called the Australian ruling "a huge win for the whole climate movement." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/australia-climate-2600×1361.jpg …
(2021-05-27). Gaza resistance: beginning of the end for apartheid Israel? thegrayzone.com Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Beirut-based journalist Laith Marouf about what Israel's latest war on Gaza means for Palestinian resistance. Marouf analyzes the new military capacity demonstrated by Hamas during the war and examines how the region might respond to Israeli aggression in the future. He also provides context on the political failures of the Palestinian Authority in The West Bank to respond to the needs and desires of the Palestinian people.
(2021-05-27). On the Ethics of Non-Palestinians Promoting Nonviolence. orinocotribune.com By Benay Blend — May 24, 2021 | In "The Violence Debate: Teaching the Oppressed how to Fight Oppression" (2010), Ramzy Baroud "Whether in subtle or overt ways," Baroud
(2021-05-27). Despite massive losses, the Palestinians have altered the course of history. zcomm.org The Palestinians won because, once more, they emerged from the rubble of Israeli bombs as a whole, a nation determined to win its freedom at any cost…
(2021-05-27). The Ceuta 'invasion': Exploiting young Moroccans desperate for a future. greenleft.org.au When thousands of Moroccan migrants reached Ceuta — a Spanish enclave on the north coast of Africa, bordered by Morocco — exhausted from the swim, they found they had been duped. Moroccan authorities had set in motion a wave of migration, to punish Spain for providing hospital care to the leader of the Polisario Front, which is leading the struggle to end Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. | The Spanish fairy tale begins…: | The first "invaders" appeared at dawn on May 17. Stealthily swimming ashore at El Tarajal beach in Ceuta, Spain's Moroccan enclave, they quickly overcame the resist…
(2021-05-27). As over 50 refugees drown, UN condemns EU's Mediterranean migrant policy. wsws.org The UN human rights commission branded the EU as jointly responsible for hundreds of entirely preventable deaths in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year.
(2021-05-27). Your Opinion Doesn't Matter. Protests Matter. counterpunch.org Your opinion doesn't matter—not by itself. No matter how heartfelt or important to you personally, your thoughts about Gaza or legal weed or the war on skinny jeans don't mean anything merely because they reside inside your brain. Your opinion matters only if you express it. Expression of an opinion doesn't change anything unless it's
(2021-05-27). Telecommuting and the Post-Pandemic City. progressive.org Remote work can maximize workers' options, but it also has its drawbacks.
(2021-05-27). Russia to Supply 200 Million Sputnik V Doses to UNICEF. telesurenglish.net Russian authorities announced on Thursday an agreement with the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) to supply 200 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine. | RELATED: | The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said in a statement that it "is proud to support UNICEF and its partners' global efforts to ensure equal and wide access to coronavirus vaccines for all countries. Vaccination is the best way to defeat the pandemic, help…
(2021-05-27). The 'Great Reset': A Technocratic Agenda that Waited Years for a Global Crisis to Exploit. globalresearch.ca First published in November 2020 | In the face of a global pandemic, an un-elected body of global bureaucrats based in Davos, Switzerland has asked the world to trust its vision of a technocratic "great reset," knowing full well the public …
(2021-05-27). Teachers union and pseudo-left embrace Sà£o Paulo government's herd immunity policy. wsws.org After sabotaging the teachers strike against school reopenings, pseudo-left organizations and the APEOESP teachers union have maintained a complacent silence about the easing of pandemic restrictions in Sà£o Paulo.
(2021-05-27). One Year After the Murder of George Floyd: What Happened to Racism and Police Abuse in the U.S. During the Biden Era? libya360.wordpress.com Misión Verdad George Foyd became an icon of the anti-racial protests in the United States (Photo: AFP) May 25th marked the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by the police, an event that together with the pandemic and the presidential elections, constitutes one of the most important social processes of 2020 in the…
(2021-05-27). American Arms Makers Are Making a Killing Off of Israel's Slaughter in Gaza. globalresearch.ca Major arms and …
(2021-05-27). Bombensichere Freundschaft. Petition ‚ÄûIn Solidarità§t mit Gaza" globalresearch.ca Dreimal in Folge …
(2021-05-27). Gaza: The Epicentre of Resistance. globalresearch.ca Once again the …
(2021-05-27). The Spotlight on Israel Apartheid Must Not Fade. counterpunch.org Unlike ever before, Israel is finally seeing some major pushback that is international in scope. With its ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign exemplified by the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, its attacks on worshippers at one of the holiest sites in Islam, Al Aqsa, and on the holiest of holidays, and its murderous and criminal assault on the captive population of Gaza, Israel has been put in an uncomfortable spotlight. But the key to dismantling its entrenched apartheid system lies in keeping that spotlight fixed, especially now that a ceasefire has been implemented. If attenti…
(2021-05-27). Australian workers and youth condemn Israeli assault on Gaza. wsws.org One worker at the Sydney protest said: "A lot of the war, conflict and violence that we see is the big world countries fighting over resources, money and oil. And it all ultimately costs the lives and the blood of the working people of the world."
(2021-05-27). Venezuela Denies Hampering Guyana's Independence in 1966. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Ministry (MPPRE) rejected statements by Guyana's President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, who accused the Bolivarian nation of impeding his country's independence in May 26, 1966. | RELATED: | "President Ali distances himself from historical reality to feed a victimizing and negative matrix regarding the just Venezuelan claim on the Essequibo territory whose origin is prior to the granting of i…
(2021-05-27). Lee Camp: How to End the US Prison State Quick and Easy. mintpressnews.com 2.3 million people are behind bars in the United States. Here's the quick way to get that number down to… zero. (Give or take a few)…
(2021-05-27). Lee Camp: How to End the U.S. Prison State Quick and Easy. scheerpost.com Truthout] By Lee Camp / Original to ScheerPost Editor's Note: This is the second installment of Lee Camp's analysis of mass incarceration in the U.S. Read the first part here. A few weeks ago I covered the mind-blowing facts about American prisons that should make anyone and everyone rethink/detest/abhor the entire institution. Now, I want to examine the reasons people find themselves locked up in… |
(2021-05-27). Meet the Senate Nuke Caucus, Busting the Budget and Making the World Less Safe. commondreams.org "The coalition, comprising six senators from states that house, develop, or test underground land-based nuclear weapons, is pushing a wasteful and dangerous $1.7 trillion, decades-long plan to produce new nuclear weapons, some with warheads 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/tester_daines-1.jpg …
(2021-05-27). Video: War-torn Syria Takes to the Voting Polls. globalresearch.ca In Iraq, attacks …
(2021-05-27). TOMORROW: Panel on Alternative Media — Coordination, Cooperation & Socialism (Orinoco Tribune 2 Ω-Year-Anniversary). orinocotribune.com Orinoco Tribune is celebrating 30 months of existence with a panel to discuss alternative media, its importance and the need for better coordination and cooperation in the battle against mainstream media (MSM) and capitalism. | Alternative media outlets and writers have been proliferating in recent years, and a significant number of them are counter-hegemonic, anti-imperialist and socialist. This is a positive phenomenon, but there is sometimes more competition than cooperation among these new information options. | In this panel we hope to address the issue from a constructive perspective, taking into considerat…
(2021-05-27). Bernie Monk, father of Pike River victim: "10 years on, we still haven't got justice" wsws.org Bernie Monk, whose son Michael died at the age of 23 in New Zealand's Pike River mine in 2010, made these remarks at the Socialist Equality Group's recent webinar, "Ten years after the Pike River mine disaster: Political lessons in the fight for truth about the deaths of 29 miners."
(2021-05-27). Spanish trade unions betray workers at Puerto Real Airbus plant. wsws.org The union bureaucracies are working hand in glove with the Spanish Socialist Party-Podemos government against the working class.
(2021-05-27). Bolivia Host First Summit of Indigenous Women of Abya Yala. telesurenglish.net The first Summit of Indigenous Women of Abya Yala (Latin America) concluded on Friday in Bolivia with representatives from more than 20 countries gathered at the Union of South American Nations, located in San Benito, Cochabamba. | RELATED: | The participants discussed climate change, food insecurity, femicides, decolonization, and patriarchy as well the existing laws to protect women. The proposals will be presented a…
(2021-05-27). Debts, Deficits, and Patent Monopolies. cepr.net Yes, it is spring. The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and the deficit hawks are whining. The proximate cause is President Biden's new budget, which will push the ratio of government debt to GDP to its highest level ever. The question is whether this should bother anyone who has a life? The projections …
(2021-05-27). Bolivia Reports 5.3-Percent Economic Growth in 2021. telesurenglish.net The Bolivian economy shows signs of reanimation, growing 5.3 percent in the first four months of 2021, Finance Minister Marcelo Montenegro said. | RELATED: | Bolivia reported an equilibrium in the trade balance, and exports exceeded imports, according to the Minister's statements on the Bolivian TV. "Several sectors are advancing and driving the increase in financial activities, including mining, construction, and telecom…
(2021-05-27). For the First Time, Big Oil Is Held Liable for Climate Change. popularresistance.org Hundreds of thousands of farmers, workers and members of trade unions, student and women organizations observed a protest at thousands of places across India on Wednesday, May 26. The day marked the completion of six months of the historic farmers' protest against the three contentious farm laws passed by the government of Narendra Modi. Farmers across India have opposed the laws, saying it will dismantle vital state regulations, reduce the price they get for their produce and lead to greater corporate entry in agriculture.
(2021-05-27). US Blockade Caused $65 Million in Losses on Cuba's Telecom. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Cuba's Telecommunications Deputy Minister Wilfrido Gonzalez denounced that the U.S. blockade has severely affected his country's telecommunications sector. | RELATED: | "Between April and December 2020, the U.S. blockade has caused damages to this field worth US$65 million," Gonzalez said, adding that the Cuban telecommunications company ETECSA had been restricted from accessing technologies and equipment l…
(2021-05-27). Why can't Britain's journalists call Israel an apartheid state? electronicintifada.net Press union rejects Palestinian plea.
(2021-05-27). Shell Just Got Wrecked in Dutch Court. globalresearch.ca A court in …
(2021-05-27). International delegation visits Douma day before Syrian elections. fightbacknews.org Douma, Syria – On Tuesday, May 25, one day before the Syrian election, an international delegation, which includes a number of observers from the U.S., visited the war-torn cities of Douma and Jobar just outside Damascus. The observers viewed tunnel networks used by terrorists during the six-year occupation of the city and spoke to residents who had returned after the city was liberated in 2018 by the Syrian Arab Army. | Soldiers guided the delegation through the city riddled with rubble and bullet holes as far as the eye can see. The area had been occupied by the Saudi-backed Jaish al Islam from 2012 until 2018.
(2021-05-27). Chloroquine Is a Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread. globalresearch.ca This article was …
(2021-05-27). "I Don't Know of a Bigger Story in the World" Right Now Than Ivermectin: NY Times Best-Selling Author. globalresearch.ca Michael Capuzzo, a …
(2021-05-27). Vox Populist: Going Big Can Secure the Future. progressive.org It's time for the United States to pursue a future of true greatness created by a people united in building a strong nation for the common good.
(2021-05-27). 375 Venezuelans Came Back to Their Homeland This Week. telesurenglish.net Venezuelan government continues to advance in the "Return to the Homeland" plan through which 375 Venezuelans came back to their country this week. | RELATED: | Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Rander Peña noted that over 200,000 citizens have returned from different parts of the world under this Plan after they had suffered discrimination and xenophobia. | On Thursday morning, a flight brought 278 Venezuelans f…
(2021-05-27). CPEC Speeds Economic Development for Pakistan and Region: PM. telesurenglish.net Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will bring economic development not only for Pakistan but also for the entire region, according to the Prime Minister Office. | RELATED: | The all-weather strategic cooperative partnership between Pakistan and China is unprecedented, the prime minister said while chairing a review meeting here on the progress of the CPEC projects an…
(2021-05-27). Middle America: Joe Biden's Progressive Presidency. progressive.org Who would have guessed that Biden would attack not only the virus and Trump's toxic politics, but also the anti-government legacy of Ronald Reagan?
(2021-05-27). Congo Orders Evacuation of Goma Village After Volcano Eruption. telesurenglish.net Congo's authorities ordered a partial evacuation of the Goma village on Thursday as the city is suffering several earthquakes following the weekend's volcano eruption. | RELATED: | The United Nations reported that over 20,000 people are homeless, and 40 are still missing as villagers flee with their belongings to neighboring Rwanda. At least more than 3000 homes were destroyed, with dozens to follow as the streets crack due to t…
