The Victims of MH17 Deserve More than the Shoddy Lies Perpetrated by Politicians and Media
James ONeill | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-09
The ABCs Insider program broadcast each Sunday morning is one of the ABCs most watched and most important programs. The three guests are drawn from the country's mainstream media outlets. This is perhaps itself a limitation considering the broad range …
globalresearch.ca/victims-mh17-deserve-more-than-shoddy-lies-politicians-media/5715458

Radical Reforms: Disbanding Police Forces in the US
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-09
"I've been saying for the last several years … American policing is at a crossroads."

No-win: Britain's Inevitable International Car Crash
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-09
Leaving aside personal political allegiances for one moment, it should not be forgotten that without doubt, the cabinet run by Boris Johnson is the least experienced to lead the country, probably since the first Labour party win in 1924. It …
globalresearch.ca/britain-international-car-crash/5715451

Viral video forces police to back down in Buffalo, N.Y
| workers.org | 2020-06-09
By Victor Enrique June 7

Police and Their Apologists Have Already Lost the Argument
Caitlin Johnstone | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-09
Videos have made it clear that the institution of policing in America is completely sick from coast to coast, right down to its very culture.
theantimedia.com/police-and-their-apologists-have-already-lost-the-argument/

The Democratic Party Exists to Co-Opt and Kill Movements
Caitlin Johnstone | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-09
Barack Obama made a whole political career out of this.
theantimedia.com/the-democratic-party-exists-to-co-opt-and-kill-movements/

Harry Dodge's 'My Meteorite' Is Like a Wonderful Sculpture
Taliah Mancini | thenation.com | 2020-06-09
Harry Dodge's 'My Meteorite' Is Like a Wonderful Sculpture…
thenation.com/article/culture/harry-dodge-my-meteorite-interview/

How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19
Don Fitz | zcomm.org | 2020-06-09
Che's vision to redesign medical care so that it would encompass Cuba and extend beyond its borders laid the foundation for its eclipsing US corporate medicine today…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-che-guevara-taught-cuba-to-confront-covid-19/

Che, Chez and Ross Cannard: Organic Farming, Sonoma, California
Jonah Raskin | zcomm.org | 2020-06-09
Why is it guerrilla-style farming? Because it's bucking big, corporate agriculture that relies on big machines, and that chews up and spits out workers all day long. Also because it builds soil rather than depletes it…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/che-chez-and-ross-cannard-organic-farming-sonoma-california/

New UN report highlights link between gender, climate and security
news.un.org | 2020-06-09
Even as countries buckle under the devastating social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, they must consider the links between gender inequality and crisis, particularly in communities affected by climate change and conflict.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065982

German Pesticide and Chemical Co's gets £1bn UK bailout despite mammoth dividend plan
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-09
By Zach Boren: Chemicals manufacturers BASF and Bayer have been given enormous payouts of Covid-19 support cash from the British government just weeks after announcing plans to distribute billions to shareholders in dividends. The world's largest chemicals company BASF, which makes agricultural, industrial and automotive products at its eight UK plants, has received £1 billion …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/german-pesticide-and-chemical-cos-gets-1bn-uk-bailout-despite-mammoth-dividend-plan/

Chinese doctor's death rekindles anger over health system
wsws.org | 2020-06-09
Wuhan City Central Hospital's website published nothing about Hu Weifeng's death from COVID-19 and his colleagues were barred from being interviewed by the media.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/09/chin-j09.html

FROM THE FIELD: The UN's mission to transform agriculture, for people and planet
news.un.org | 2020-06-09
How can agriculture become better able to resist major international shocks such as climate change, and health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic?>…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065912

UK: Postal workers at Bridgewater walk out as six COVID-19 cases confirmed at Wellingborough
wsws.org | 2020-06-09
Workers have faced threats of disciplinary action such as "wilful delay of the mail," which can lead to instant dismissal.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/09/roya-j09.html

Shutdowns stopped 60 million Covid-19 infections in the U.S., new research finds
Jordan Davidson | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-09
The two studies provide fresh evidence that the severe economic sacrifice the COVID-19 shutdowns caused were worth it to save many millions of lives.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/09/shutdowns-stopped-60-million-covid-19-infections-in-the-u-s-new-research-finds/

Australian government ending COVID-19 childcare scheme
wsws.org | 2020-06-09
The abrupt announcement is part of a broader roll-back of limited relief measures introduced in response to the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/09/chil-j09.html

On the Front Lines
Sharon Johnson | progressive.org | 2020-06-09
Community health centers play a vital role in the age of COVID-19.
progressive.org/magazine/on-the-front-lines-johnson/

Prioritizing Physician Mental Health as COVID-19 Marches On
Abbasi J. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-06-09
This Medical News article is an interview with the University of New Mexico's Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, about the pandemic's mental toll on health care workers–and how they and their employers can safeguard their emotional well-being.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766525

Act now to avert COVID-19 global food emergency: Guterres
news.un.org | 2020-06-09
Although the COVID-19 pandemic could push nearly 50 million more people into extreme poverty, this and other dire impacts of the crisis can be avoided if countries act immediately to shore up global food security, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065962

We Need a Universal Basic Income Now and After COVID-19
Jack Delaney | zcomm.org | 2020-06-09
In easing pandemic uncertainty and promoting a post-pandemic recovery, a permanent UBI with large investments in social programs will increase solidarity, ease poverty and stabilize a volatile market that's headed toward depression…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-universal-basic-income-now-and-after-covid-19/

We're Working to Safeguard Our Democracy and Our Health
Dale Ho | aclu.org | 2020-06-09
No one should have to choose between their health and their vote, but during the Wisconsin primary, an estimated 19,000 Milwaukeeans were forced to risk their health to cast their primary ballots. More than 50 Milwaukee County voters have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and were identified as having been infectious or infected at the time of voting; more than half of them had no other known po…
aclu.org/news/voting-rights/were-working-to-safeguard-our-democracy-and-our-health

Black teenager shot by white cop: The play 'Scraps' for home viewing
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-09
The Matrix Theatre Company's award-winning production of Scraps by Geraldine Inoa is now available for viewing on the company's Youtube page. In a provocative mash-up of poetry, realism, and expressionism, Scraps boldly chronicles how the family and friends of a black teenager shot by a white police officer struggle to cope in the aftermath. Set …
peoplesworld.org/article/black-teenager-shot-by-white-cop-the-play-scraps-for-home-viewing/

Sports round-up: Players advance Black Lives Matter message
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-09
The organic, non-violent uprisings nationwide following the murder of George Floyd by a former Minneapolis police officer–coupled with Trump's divisive, inherently racist response to the atrocity and his use of military force against American citizens–have forced the nation to look inwards and firmly draw a line in the sand of what is and isn't acceptable within our democracy …
peoplesworld.org/article/sports-round-up-players-advance-black-lives-matter-message/

The Descent of America
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-09
Complaints about American decline have been commonplace since at least the Vietnam War era. In the late 1980s, declinism experienced an upsurge with the publication of The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, by Paul Kennedy, which warned of the dangers of imperial overstretch. Even America's putative victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/09/the-descent-of-america/

Saudi Arms Sales, the Ghost of a Reporter, and America's Oil War in Yemen
Charlotte Dennett | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-09
IG Steve Linick, who accused Pompeo of misconduct, has become the latest victim in a string of politically motivated firings of government watchdogs. If the president's bunker mentality isn't disturbing enough, a deeper look into this scandal shows how racism lies at the heart of Trump's and Pompeo's foreign policy. And how oil, most notably in the Middle East, and most particularly, in Yemen, is the driving force.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/09/saudi-arms-sales-the-ghost-of-a-reporter-and-americas-oil-war-in-yemen/

UK: Virus infection rate increases as Johnson government continues ending lockdown
wsws.org | 2020-06-09
Since imposing a lockdown on March 23, Johnson and government ministers have proclaimed keeping the "R" rate below 1 as the precondition for ending the lockdown. But ending the lockdown continues.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/09/ukco-j09.html

Justin Trudeau: Campaigning for a Seat on the UN Security Council
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-09
Justin Trudeau is campaigning aggressively for a seat on the UN Security Council. Over the past month he has called about two dozen world leaders and recently organized calls with groupings of UN ambassadors from the Americas, Africa, Arab states and Asia. Just prior to the pandemic the PM attended the African Union Summit in …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/justin-trudeau-campaigning-for-a-seat-on-the-un-security-council/

Keep marching: From streets to voting booth and back again
Joe Sims | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-09
With a nationwide uprising over the public execution of George Floyd, and Trump's use of military force in D.C.'s Lafayette Square, the country has entered an extremely dangerous period. Institutionalized racist police violence, always present, is now front and center in the COVID-sparked economic crisis. The pandemic, along with the uprising against racist violence, has …
peoplesworld.org/article/keep-marching-from-streets-to-voting-booth-and-back-again/

Health care worker layoffs surge in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota
wsws.org | 2020-06-09
Essentia Health of Duluth, Minnesota, is engaging in job destruction to cover the impact of the pandemic on its bottom line and the losses incurred with the nosedive of a building project.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/09/esse-j09.html

Problem of external debt in the third world
Prabhat Patnaik | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-09
There is a massive problem of external debt building up for the Third World, of which the recent Argentine debt crisis was only one manifestation. At the root of the problem is the collapse of primary commodity prices in the world market which began in April 2011. | In March and April 2020, this fall of course has been precipitous, but even if we leave aside these two months, which fall within the pandemic period, we find that between April 2011 and December 2019, there has been a 38% fall in the All Commodity Price Index prepared by the International Monetary Fund or IMF (base 2016). | Since a large number of…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/09/problem-of-external-debt-in-the-third-world/

The BlackRock COVID Bail Out Plan Written BEFORE The "Crisis" & US Gov's Lockdown "Success" Story
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-06-09
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (6/8/20). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/the-blackrock-covid-bail-out-plan-written-before-the-crisis-us-govs-lockdown-success-story/

The BlackRock COVID Bail Out Plan Written BEFORE The "Crisis" & US Gov's Lockdown "Success" Story
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-06-09
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (6/8/20). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/the-blackrock-covid-bail-out-plan-written-before-the-crisis-us-govs-lockdown-success-story/

Stephen Smith, progressive W.V. candidate, turns campaign into anti-COVID battalion
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-09
CHARLESTON, W. VA.–Going into the start of this year's West Virginia gubernatorial election campaign, Stephen Smith, director of a grassroots kids and families coalition for the last six years, knew what he had to do. As the progressive in the race, Smith faced two establishment candidates in the state's June 9 Democratic primary: Ben Solango …
peoplesworld.org/article/stephen-smith-progressive-w-v-candidate-turns-campaign-into-anti-covid-battallion/

Milwaukee: Families of Alvin Cole, Jay Anderson, Jr., march with Milwaukee Alliance demanding 'Justice for Thee 3'
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-09
Milwaukee, WI – On the afternoon of June 6, over 200 people rallied on the corner of North 76th and West Burleigh Streets near the Milwaukee-Wauwatosa border to stand with the family of Alvin Cole, as well as members of the family of Jay Anderson, Jr. Both Cole and Anderson, along with Antonio Gonzales, were all murdered by Joseph Anthony Mensah, a member of the Wauwatosa Police Department (WPD). Despite these three killings, Mensah still works for WPD. The rally was called co-organized by the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (MAARPR). | Alvin Cole was killed by Officer Mensah in early F…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/8/milwaukee-families-alvin-cole-jay-anderson-jr-march-milwaukee-alliance-demanding-justice-th

Milwaukee: Families of Alvin Cole, Jay Anderson, Jr., march with Milwaukee Alliance demanding 'Justice for Thee 3'
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-09
Milwaukee, WI – On the afternoon of June 6, over 200 people rallied on the corner of North 76th and West Burleigh Streets near the Milwaukee-Wauwatosa border to stand with the family of Alvin Cole, as well as members of the family of Jay Anderson, Jr. Both Cole and Anderson, along with Antonio Gonzales, were all murdered by Joseph Anthony Mensah, a member of the Wauwatosa Police Department (WPD). Despite these three killings, Mensah still works for WPD. The rally was called co-organized by the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (MAARPR). | Alvin Cole was killed by Officer Mensah in early F…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/8/milwaukee-families-alvin-cole-jay-anderson-jr-march-milwaukee-alliance-demanding-justice-th

Police, the Blue Gang that Terrorizes America
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-09
One thing is clear, a majority of American people are unwilling to accept the brutal killing of African Americans by police. What is also clear is that a minority, and it is a strong and very well armed, albeit ignorant and brutal minority, that encourage police crimes and from whose numbers police are too often recruited. | The explosion happening now in the US was predicted, since 9/11 the American people have become "terror suspects" within their own country, a nation no one recognizes, a surveillance state, a police state, a nation drowning in corruption and one now ruled by a dictator. | It has become popula…

Police, the Blue Gang that Terrorizes America

New Jersey becomes the first state to add the climate crisis to their curriculum
Amanda Mills | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-09
nationofchange.org/2020/06/09/new-jersey-becomes-the-first-state-to-add-the-climate-crisis-to-their-curriculum/

Trump is Not the Problem
John O'Kane | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-09
The Trump-bashing among the slate of Democratic candidates for president never got beyond the occasional blurb that Trump is not the problem. An extended discussion about what this means was neither compatible with the time limit on responses in the debates nor the agenda limits of the candidates themselves. Trump's outrageous tweets and comments to…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/09/trump-is-not-the-problem/

A Trip From Utopia to Distopia
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-09
Utopia: a place in which human society, natural conditions, etc., are so ideally perfect that there is complete contentment. Dystopia: a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. You can't get much further away from the news than on the north shore of Montana's largest water body, Fort Peck Lake. While cattle and bison…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/09/a-trip-from-utopia-to-distopia/

Turd Blossom Surfaces Again
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-09
Just when you thought reality-based thinking couldn't take any more hits and still stand, up pops Karl Rove

End Police, With the Utmost Respect for Farmers
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-09
End Police, With the Utmost Respect for Farmers Perhaps you won't believe it Incredulous as you are But my father's father fought In the army of the Tsar In 1916 he deserted And would've been caught, and shot Lucky for us, though, Before they could get him The empire vanished

Can We Survive Our Collective Stupidity?
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-09
I have come to the conclusion that collectively Americans are mentally and emotionally stupid. On any given day there is endless evidence that this is the case. Just a few selections from news of the last couple of days should suffice to establish the point. | Instead of reforming police training as a rational response to George Floyd's death from an aggressive restraint technique, the Minneapolis city council voted to disband the Minneapolis police. Council woman Lisa Bender responded to a citizen's question what she is supposed to do if she faces a threat in her home and there are no police to call: "Yes, I hea…

Can We Survive Our Collective Stupidity?

Army Demolishes A Home, Displacing disabled Mother, 8 Children, In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-09
The Israeli authorities demolished, Tuesday, a Palestinian home in Ras al-Amoud neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, displacing 10 Palestinians, including a physically challenged mother and eight children. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) stated that dozens of soldiers, police officers and personnel of the City …
imemc.org/article/army-demolishes-a-home-displacing-disabled-mother-8-children-in-jerusalem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=army-demolishes-a-home-displacing-disabled-mother-8-children-in-jerusalem

Demolition Orders Delivered to Several Palestinians Structures in West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-09
Israeli forces, on Monday, delivered demolition orders against several Palestinian-owned structures in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. In the northern West Bank village of Hares, the Palestinian owners of a 100 dunam plot containing a park, an unpaved road, retaining walls, a playground and a storage space, …
imemc.org/article/demolition-orders-delivered-to-several-palestinians-structures-in-west-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=demolition-orders-delivered-to-several-palestinians-structures-in-west-bank

Palestinian Tents, Agricultural Structures, Greenhouse Demolished by Israeli Authorities
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-09
The Israeli 'civil administration' invaded al-'Isawiya neighborhood in East Jerusalem, on Monday and proceeded to demolish agricultural structures belonging to Ahmad Abed Mahmoud, and Abed Nemer Mahmoud, according to Quds News Network. Also on Monday, the Israeli military dismantled and seized a Palestinian-owned greenhouse in the village of al-Sawahreh al-Sharqiya, …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-tents-agricultural-structures-greenhouse-demolished-by-israeli-authorities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-tents-agricultural-structures-greenhouse-demolished-by-israeli-authorities

Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Young Woman Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-09
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday afternoon, a young Palestinian woman at a military roadblock near Nablus city, in northern West Bank. Mohammad 'Azem, the Mayor of Sebastia Palestinian town, northwest of Nablus, said the abducted young woman has been identified as Lian Nizar Kayed, 22, from Sebastia. 'Azem added that …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-a-young-woman-near-nablus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-soldiers-abduct-a-young-woman-near-nablus

Israeli Soldiers Abduct 22 Palestinians In West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-09
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, twenty-two Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS office in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, said the soldiers abducted seven Palestinians …
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Israeli Settlers Puncture Palestinian-owned Vehicles, Vandalize Homes
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-09
Illegal Israeli settlers, on Monday, punctured the tires of Palestinian-owned vehicles, in the occupied West Bank town of As-Sawiya, south of Nablus Alray reported. Palestinian official, Ghassan Daghlas, monitors illegal settlement activities said that Israeli colonists stormed the town of As-Sawiya and cut the tires of more than eight vehicles. …
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Inauthentic Behavior: SouthFront is the Latest Victim of the Facebook Banhammer
Rick Sterling | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-09
The censorship of alternative media is becoming more widespread. The latest victim to fall to Facebook and YouTube's overzealous banhammer is well-known conflict watchdog website, SouthFront.
mintpressnews.com/inauthentic-behavior-southfront-latest-victim-facebook-banhammer/268408/

Selected Articles: Censorship and Injustice Amid COVID-19
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-09
The COVID-19 War in Japan: Is National Face-Saving More Important than the People's Lives? | By Prof. Joseph H. Chung, June 09, 2020 | The bad choice of policy priority was shown with the arrival of the cruiser Diamond Princess on …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-censorship-injustice-amid-covid-19/5715485

Nà£o há soberania económia se nà£o existir soberania política
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-09
Actualmente, discute-se quanto e que financiamento a Itália receberá da Unià£o Europeia e sob que condiàßàµes. Chegam mensagens tranquilizadoras de Bruxelas. Mas como tais financiamentos serà£o concedidos em grande parte, sob a forma de empréstimos, vários economistas alertam que existe …
globalresearch.ca/nao-ha-soberania-economia-se-nao-existir-soberania-politica/5715398

Niente sovranità economica senza quella politica
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-09
Si discute attualmente su quanti e quali finanziamenti l'Italia riceverà dall'Unione europea e a quali condizioni. Da Bruxelles arrivano messaggi tranquillizzanti. Ma poiché tali finanziamenti saranno forniti per la maggior parte sotto forma di prestiti, diversi economisti avvertono che c'è …
globalresearch.ca/niente-sovranita-economica-senza-quella-politica-2/5715474

Niente sovranità economica senza quella politica
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-09
Si discute attualmente su quanti e quali finanziamenti l'Italia riceverà dall'Unione europea e a quali condizioni. Da Bruxelles arrivano messaggi tranquillizzanti. Ma poiché tali finanziamenti saranno forniti per la maggior parte sotto forma di prestiti, diversi economisti avvertono che c'è …
globalresearch.ca/niente-sovranita-economica-senza-quella-politica/5715394

Johnson government falls in behind Washington's economic war with China
wsws.org | 2020-06-09
The "Get Brexit Done/Global Britain" perspective has been exposed as a chimera.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/09/hong-j09.html

The Pentagon's Battle Space Is Expanding
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-09
On 1 June the US Air Force Times reported that two B-1B Lancer nuclear bombers based in South Dakota had just completed a "long-range training flight" to the Black Sea during which they carried out manoeuvres to practice using "a long-range missile designed to target and destroy enemy ships." This deployment was "especially important to prepare B-1 crews to counter new and emerging threats and to be ready for a conflict against a major power, as outlined in…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/09/the-pentagons-battle-space-is-expanding/

Somalia: Trapped in Revolution and Instability
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-09
Somalia's brutal arid landscape and unfortunate colonial borders keep the nation a dry well packed powder keg waiting for the next spark.
strategic-culture.org/video/2020/06/09/somalia-trapped-in-revolution-and-instability/

Liberal Leaders Aiding and Abetting Rioters Just the Latest Campaign Strategy to Usurp Trump
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-09
In a fractious election year that has already witnessed Russiagate, impeachment and a pandemic, Americans are now forced to contend with the malignant scourge of rioting and looting following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a white cop. Now, many Democrats seem content to the let the whole house burn down to achieve some sort of twisted justice . | To get a true sense of the mob mentality that is now leading the United States straight to the abyss, you could do no worse than a visit to the nation's embattled capital. There, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser recently evicted 1,200 members of the…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/09/liberal-leaders-aiding-and-abetting-rioters-just-latest-campaign-strategy-usurp-trump/

Food Not Bombs 40th Anniversary – Co-Founder Keith McHenry Interview
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2020-06-09
Interview with Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs, on the on-going struggle to feed and house the unhoused people of Santa Cruz, California during the coronavirus pandemic. Originally broadcast on "Transformation Highway" on KZSC, 88.1 FM.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/08/18833956.php

UPRISING: The Democratic Party Exists To Co-Opt & Kill Authentic Change
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-09
Watch them. Watch Democrats and their allied media and corporate institutions try to sell the public a bunch of words and a smattering of feeble, impotent legislation to mollify the masses, without ever giving the people the real changes that they actually need.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/09/18834071.php

George Floyd's murderer, Derek Chauvin's June 8 court date
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-09
George Floyd's Murderer, Derek Chauvin:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/07/18833942.php

"I Can't Breath" ILWU 10 & 34 Speak Out About Lynching of George Floyd & Action
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-09
ILWU 10 president Trent Willis & ILWU 34 president Keith Shanklin talk about the murder of George Floyd and the systemic racist attacks on longshore workers and their families. They also discuss the shutdown of West Coast docks on Juneteenth June 19th to commemorate the emancipation of Blacks and the fight today.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/09/18834059.php

AFA-CWA Pres Sara Nelson Likes ILWU Action On June 9th To Act In Memorial To George Floyd
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-09
ILWU Local 10, 34 and all west coast locals will be stopping work on June 9,2020 to remember George Floyd who was murdered by the police in Minneapolis. Also there will be a West Coast shutdown of all Ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020. CWA AFA President Sara Nelson supported the action…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/08/18833960.php

Budget Time: Transfer Police Budget to Services for the Workingclass
Name of the Game Is Money | indybay.org | 2020-06-09
On June 7, 2020, around 3 p.m., a march of a few thousand young people was seen on Bay Street, coming from the Marina, turning onto Columbus and filled the entire length of Columbus to Stockton, where it turned for a block to Vallejo, the heart of the working class Chinese immigrant community, where they stood and chanted "Black Lives Matter" outside a police station.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/07/18833940.php

"Stick to Sports" Has Gone by the Wayside on Right-Leaning Sports Talk Radio
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-09
Donald Trump's near-frantic desire to reopen the national economy in order to salvage his reelection hopes has been about as subtle as an earthquake in a nail gun factory. He has found support for this push from within his voter base, from certain portions of the business community, and from conservative governors in less-populated states where COVID-19 has not (yet) done substantial damage. | It is a high-risk gamble fraught with lethal consequences that are already being felt. While cities li…
truthout.org/articles/stick-to-sports-has-gone-by-the-wayside-on-right-leaning-sports-talk-radio/

Grenfell Inquiry plans to resume on 6 July
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-09
The inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire is planning to resume in four weeks, officials have said.The second phase of the investigation into the disaster was halted on 16 March by chair Martin Moore-Bick as the coronavirus pandemic hit. The third anniversary of the fire, which happened on 14 June 2017, takes place this Sunday.At least one panel member fell ill with suspected Covid-19, and there were concerns over the safety of other participants.Martin Moore-Bick (Stefan Rousseau/PA)6 July is now the intended date for hearings to resume, with limited numbers of people in the room, the inquiry said on Tuesday.In a…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/09/grenfell-inquiry-plans-to-resume-on-6-july/

Minister forced to backtrack on care homes policy claims
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-09
A minister has become embroiled in a row after apparently saying that policies blamed for the high rate of Covid-19 deaths in care homes were based on scientific advice. | The movement of elderly patients into residential care without testing them for coronavirus in order to free up hospital beds has been blamed for the high death toll in care homes

George Floyd's body arrives at church for private funeral
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-09
George Floyd's body has arrived at a church in Houston, Texas, for a private funeral to be followed by his burial.The service caps off six days of mourning for the Black man whose killing inspired a global reckoning over police brutality and racial injustice.Floyd was to be laid to rest next to his mother in the suburb of Pearland. He cried out for his mother as a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee on his neck on 25 May.About 6,000 people attended a public memorial on Monday in Houston, where Floyd grew up.Mourners pay respects to George Floyd during a public visitation (AP/David J. Phillip, Pool)Und…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/06/09/george-floyds-body-arrives-at-church-for-private-funeral/

Nature-friendly farming delivers for wildlife, climate and profits, charity says
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-09
Nature-friendly farming can deliver for wildlife, carbon storage and profits, the National Trust has said after an audit of a farm run by the conservation charity.Wimpole Home Farm is a 1,419-acre mixed arable and livestock farm near Cambridge, which has been run using organic, wildlife friendly and sustainable farming methods for the past 12 years, the Trust said.A full "health check" of Wimpole's wildlife and how it is storing carbon has revealed benefits for the environment, as well as public access through a network of footpaths and financial returns from growing food, the charity said.The findings are publis…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/09/nature-friendly-farming-delivers-for-wildlife-climate-and-profits-charity-says/

Imperial and France's CNRS expand partnership with joint PhDs and data projects
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-09
Imperial and France's CNRS have further strengthened their links by announcing new joint PhD projects and the first awards of a big data seed fund.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197877/imperial-frances-cnrs-expand-partnership-with

Eiffel Tower reopens on June 25, after longest closure since WWII
rt.com | 2020-06-09
Paris's iconic Eiffel Tower will welcome back visitors on June 25, after its longest closure since World War II, those responsible for its management said on Tuesday. | One of France's most popular tourist attractions, it had been forced to shut for more than three months, owing to the coronavirus pandemic. | Wearing a face mask will be compulsory for all visitors aged 11 or older after the reopening, according to Reuters. | The French government started to ease lockdown measures in the country from mid-May, the Palace of Versailles reopened on June 6 and the Louvre will welcome back visitors from July 6.
rt.com/newsline/491320-france-paris-eiffel-tower/

Austria 'may open borders' to Italy & over 20 European states as Salzburg Festival begins on August 1
rt.com | 2020-06-09
Austria will reopen its borders to Italy and more than 20 other European countries next week, officials were quoted as saying on Tuesday. The move could ease tensions with Rome after Vienna singled its southern neighbor out for continued coronavirus-related checks. | Details of the decision will be finalized at a ministerial meeting on Wednesday, Reuters reported, citing officials. The Foreign Ministry has not commented on the report. | The Salzburg Festival of classical music, Europe's top festival, announced on Tuesday it will stage a reduced 100th anniversary celebration, with capacities limited to about 50…
rt.com/newsline/491283-austria-salzburg-borders-italy/

NOT 'very rare': WHO WALKS BACK claim on asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-06-09
The World Health Organization has qualified its bombshell claim that asymptomatic people rarely infect others with Covid-19, scrambling to explain how its earlier statement was misinterpreted and based on a "misunderstanding." | WHO coronavirus lead Maria Van Kerkhove attempted on Tuesday to clear up controversy around her previous claim that asymptomatic transmission was "very rare," insisting she had been speaking based on the results of just "two or three" studies. To claim asymptomatic transmission is rare globally would be a "misunderstanding," she explained. | "I was just responding to a question, I wasn…
rt.com/news/491327-who-reverses-coronavirus-asymptomatic-transmission/

Apple 'planning to ditch Intel's chips' in big hardware move
rt.com | 2020-06-09
Tech giant Apple is reportedly on the cusp of announcing a shift to its own main processors in Macs, ending a 15-year partnership with Intel Corp. The move comes two years after a major security flaw was found in Intel processors. | …
rt.com/news/491336-apple-macs-replacing-intel-chips/

Police chief ousted for backing 'gun-toting' vigilantes who defended small town from alleged 'Antifa threat'
rt.com | 2020-06-09
Amid rumors of an impending Antifa invasion, a number of armed individuals gathered in the small town of Snohomish, Washington, and were praised for doing so by the town's sheriff. He has now been demoted for his support. | Snohomish Police Chief Keith Rogers was ousted amid a slew of complaints after his vocal support for a gathering of several hundred "armed vigilantes" who converged on the town of 9,000 inhabitants on May 31. | www.facebook.com/SnohomishPD/posts/1412336185625305 | Rogers was criticized for referring to the gathering as a "festive night of tailgating and celebratory pleasantries." De…
rt.com/usa/491299-police-chief-ousted-vigilantes-antifa/

Iran's re-export of fishery products to EU kicks off despite US sanctions
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
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Iran records 2,095 new COVID-19 infections, 74 deaths
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA)

Rouhani stresses expansion of economic coop. with Kyrgyzstan
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA)

Hassan Nasrallah condoles demise of Abdullah Shallah
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA)

All Iranian soldiers ready for self-sacrifice to preserve security
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA)

Iranian coppersmith from North Khorasan
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

MP calls on intelligence min. to pursue perpetrators of martyr Soleimani's assassination
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA)

5.7-Richter quake jolts southern Fars province
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA)

A trip to Nahavand's nature in Hamedan Prov
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA)

Belarus congratulates Ghalibaf on election as new Parl. Speaker
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA)

Police confiscate 265 kg illicit drugs in central Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA)

Hashd al-Sha'abi foils ISIL attack on Iraqi oil facility
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA)

World Oceans Day: get united to protect precious waterbodies
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-09
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA)

New York Assembly Passes Bill Removing Protections for Police Officer Disciplinary Records
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-09
On Tuesday evening, the New York Assembly passed a bill by a 101-43 vote that would allow disciplinary records of police officers to be released. It would repeal a law that has been used since 1976 to prevent the public from becoming aware of police misconduct.
sputniknews.com/us/202006091079571213-new-york-assembly-passes-bill-removing-protections-for-police-officer-disciplinary-records/

Turkish charities send 3 truckloads of aid to Idlib
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Three truckloads of humanitarian aid gathered by various charity association in Turkey were sent Tuesday to vulnerable people in war-torn Idlib, northwestern Syria, where millions of people are in need of assistance due to internal conflict in the country.Several relief organizations and benefactors collaborated to prepare the humanitarian aid which included water, flour and dry food.The trucks carrying supplies arrived in Turkey's southern Hatay province to be transferred to Idlib.The aid will be distributed among residents of rural areas in Idlib.Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011, when the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkish-charities-send-3-truckloads-of-aid-to-idlib-3531572

Turkish FM hails World Accreditation Day
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Mevlut Cavusoglu in a statement said there are a range of sectors such as food, tourism, environment and technology which benefit from accreditation policies.Technical troubles in global trade, he said, have been overcome due to accreditation services, which proved their worth during the coronavirus outbreak with evaluation of masks and protective equipment.Referring to the Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK), Cavusoglu said the organization is a source of confidence both for Turkey and the region.TURKAK, he said, quickly adapted itself to the latest requirements amid the pandemic, and played its role in increa…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-fm-hails-world-accreditation-day-3531596

Senior YPG/PKK terrorist neutralized in eastern Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Turkish security forces "neutralized" a wanted terrorist in the eastern province of Elazig, the Interior Ministry announced Tuesday.The operation by security forces neutralized at least two terrorists, including Salih Ekinci, a terrorist responsible for martyring Turkish security forces.He was in charge for the so-called "Amed" province's "Ape Musa" region in Elazig."Terrorist Salih Ekinci was among those responsible for a terrorist attack carried out by YPG/PKK on March 19, 2018, martyring one soldier and one village guard along the Diyarbakir-Hani-Topcular highway," said a ministry statement.Ekinci, codenamed "
yenisafak.com/en/news/senior-ypg-pkk-terrorist-neutralized-in-eastern-turkey-3531567

Six PKK/KCK suspects arrested in southern Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Turkish police have arrested six people for their alleged links to the PKK/KCK terror group, security sources said on Tuesday.As part of an investigation launched by prosecutors in the southern Mersin province, arrest warrants were issued for nine people for their alleged involvement in the so-called youth camp of the terror group, the office of provincial prosecutors said in a written statement.The suspects were rounded up in operation conducted by the local gendarmerie forces, while remaining three suspects are wanted.Many digital materials and documents related to the terror group were seized in the searches a…
yenisafak.com/en/news/six-pkk-kck-suspects-arrested-in-southern-turkey-3531566

Turkey arrests 86 FETàñ terror suspects
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Turkish police on Tuesday arrested at least 86 people in two separate probes for their suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETàñ), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup.Istanbul prosecutors said the arrests came after they issued warrants for 44 suspects, including active-duty members of the Turkish Armed Forces and other professions, after they were found to be using payphones to stay in touch with terror affiliates.A prosecutors' statement said that in another investigation, prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 114 suspects, including 21 on active duty.Seeking the total 158 suspec…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-arrests-86-feto-terror-suspects-3531594

Turkish Airlines remains top brand in Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Turkey's flag carrier Turkish Airlines remained to be the most valuable brand in the country in 2020, according to a leading London-based independent branded business valuation and strategy consultancy firm on Tuesday.The carrier's brand value increased to $1.98 billion in 2020, versus $1.73 billion in 2019, according to the 14th edition of Brand Finance's Turkey 100 report.Established in 1933 with a fleet of five aircraft, Turkish Airlines currently has a fleet of some 350 aircraft flying to around 320 worldwide destinations, except during the pandemic period.The state-lender Ziraat and private-lender Garanti fo…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-airlines-remains-top-brand-in-turkey-3531571

Turkey brings back over 300 citizens from Canada
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Turkey on Tuesday brought back 301 citizens stranded in Canada due to the coronavirus lockdown as part of the country's ongoing evacuation efforts.A Turkish Airlines flight conducted the fourth repatriation flight from Canada.The plane from Toronto Pearson International Airport safely landed at Istanbul Airport at 12.25 p.m. local time (0925GMT).The citizens were carried to the terminal by buses, and their temperatures were taken there.Observing the social distancing rules, the passengers filled special information forms, and after passing passport controls, they received their luggage and left the airport.The Tu…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-brings-back-over-300-citizens-from-canada-3531595

Global economy to diminish by about 5.2%: World Bank
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
The World Bank on late Monday predicted the global economy will diminish by about 5.2% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, indicating it one of the four most severe downturns in 150 years."In all, the pandemic is expected to plunge a majority of countries into recession this year, with per capita output contracting in the largest fraction of countries since 1870," the bank said in its June report.The report indicated that advanced economies are expected to shrink by 7% in 2020.As for China, the country's economy is projected to slow to 1% in 2020

Pangolin scales removed from Chinese medicine list
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
China removed the pangolin scales from an official 2020 list of traditional medicines as part of efforts to protect the population of the world's most-trafficked mammal in the wild, local media reported on Tuesday.Following Friday's move of upgrading the protection level of the pangolin, China took another step towards the pangolin or its original Malay name "pengguling," which is seen as "positive signal" and believed to eradicate one of the most dangerous threats to pangolins, the Global Times daily reported."The latest version of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia for 2020 does not include pangolins, which means the ma…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pangolin-scales-removed-from-chinese-medicine-list-3531587

Cornflakes for lunch! German parents say open school before mum goes nuts
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Manage a global team of 3,500 people? No problem, says Katrin Lehmann, head of customer innovation and maintenance at German business software company SAP.Do it while looking after four kids, including home schooling 10-year-old Benno? It almost finished her off."I was going nuts," she said. "All of them eat different things and they all complain, whatever you do. I said, right: cornflakes for lunch."Germany experienced far lower death rates than other large European countries from the coronavirus, and has been quicker than many to begin easing lockdown measures. But schools have been slow to reopen, and working…
yenisafak.com/en/news/cornflakes-for-lunch-german-parents-say-open-school-before-mum-goes-nuts-3531591

Robot built for Japan's ageing workforce finds coronavirus role
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Mira Robotics developed its "ugo" robot to reinforce greying Japan's shrinking workforce, but as the coronavirus threat persists, the Japanese startup is offering its machine as a tool in the fight against the outbreak, the company's CEO said."The coronavirus has created a need for robots because they can reduce direct contact between people," Ken Matsui told Reuters at his company's workshop in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. "We've had inquiries from overseas, including from Singapore and France."The latest feature of the remote-controlled or so-called avatar robot is a hand attachment that uses ultraviolet light to kill…
yenisafak.com/en/technology/robot-built-for-japans-ageing-workforce-finds-coronavirus-role-3531588

Armed group halts production at Libya's largest oilfield
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Libya's El-Sharara oilfield, the country's largest, was forced to stop production on Tuesday as an armed group stormed the facility, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said."This is a criminal act that amounts to treachery against the Libyan people and national economy as the closure will cause the public treasury more losses," NOC said in a statement.On Sunday, El-Sharara oilfield resumed production after a months-long hiatus.On Jan. 17, warlord Khalifa Haftar's militia closed Az-Zuwaytinah port, claiming that oil revenues were being used by the internationally-recognized Government of National Accord.El-Sharara…
yenisafak.com/en/world/armed-group-halts-production-at-libyas-largest-oilfield-3531573

Israeli annexation plan 'very dangerous': Russia
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Israel's "dangerous" plans to annex Palestinian territories could provoke further discontent and violence, dooming prospects for a two-state solution, warned a top Russian diplomat on Tuesday.In the near future the new coalition government of Israel "may begin practical steps" to implement its stated plans to annex Palestinian territories, said Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia's deputy foreign minister."We believe that such a development would be very dangerous. We agree with the assessments and warnings in this regard, which are reflected in the latest decisions of the Arab League on this issue."The Arab League has cond…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israeli-annexation-plan-very-dangerous-russia-3531568

Iraq confirms full commitment to new OPEC oil deal
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Iraq has confirmed its full commitment to the new agreement between OPEC and non-OPEC nations who will continue curbing their crude productions for an additional month, OPEC said in a statement on Tuesday.Iraq's Minister of Oil Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismaael confirmed in a phone call with Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Salman his country's full commitment to the decisions taken by OPEC nations last Saturday, according to the statement.The two ministers discussed the current conditions and recent oil market developments, and the efforts undertaken by the 23-member nations of OPEC to restore balan…
yenisafak.com/en/news/iraq-confirms-full-commitment-to-new-opec-oil-deal-3531569

Lockdowns prevented 3.1 million deaths in Europe: Study
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-09
Two months of lockdown measures across Europe have saved 3.1 million lives in Europe, according to a new study.According to the study conducted by scientists at Imperial College London, strict measures, such as school closures, in 11 European countries played a significant role in slowing the pandemic.In the study, published in the journal Nature, the scientists analyzed data from 11 countries

Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes | June 13·µó ∞ 2020
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-09
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following call from the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | Over the past two weeks as Minneapolis and the rest of country have erupted in outrage over the murder of George Floyd by law enforcement–a spark which has ignited the collective experience of police terror across America going back as far as the institution of police has existed here–we have seen law enforcement double down on their crimes. As authorities dragged their feet to charge the four officers responsible for killing George Floyd, demonstrations have been met with su…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/8/day-action-stop-police-crimes-june-13-2020

Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes | June 13·µó ∞ 2020
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-09
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following call from the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | Over the past two weeks as Minneapolis and the rest of country have erupted in outrage over the murder of George Floyd by law enforcement–a spark which has ignited the collective experience of police terror across America going back as far as the institution of police has existed here–we have seen law enforcement double down on their crimes. As authorities dragged their feet to charge the four officers responsible for killing George Floyd, demonstrations have been met with su…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/8/day-action-stop-police-crimes-june-13-2020

The Rest Of The World Sees Uprisings, Not Riots
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-09
U.S. officials, whether Democrat or Republican, pretend that only other countries violate human rights. Every year, the State Department issues a report on worldwide human rights with the heaviest criticism aimed at enemies du jour such as China, Russia, and Iran. | Human rights, as defined by U.S. officials, include freedom of the press, maintaining an independent judiciary, and civil rights. But most of the world, the United Nations included, goes further, saying human rights include the right to a job, health care, and housing, among other things. | Not surprisingly, U.S. leaders never mention authoritative in…
popularresistance.org/the-rest-of-the-world-sees-uprisings-not-riots/

Debt Strike Needed As Debt Collectors Keep Coming After Millions Of People
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-09
Over the past couple decades, Capital One, Lugo's pursuer, helped lead the way in transforming the nation's local courts into collection machines. As recently as the 1990s, these courts conformed to the picture most people have in their heads, primarily working as a venue where a judge resolved disputes between two sides represented by a lawyer. Now the most common type of case is debt collection, a recent Pew Charitable Trusts report found. Lining up against debtors who are almost never represented by an attorney, debt collection companies win millions of court judgments each year, which then allow them to seize…
popularresistance.org/debt-strike-needed-as-debt-collectors-keep-coming-after-millions-of-people/

What is Next for Palestinian Popular Resistance in Gaza?
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-08
Wafaa Aludaini is a witness to many of Gaza's recent tragedies and also never-ending resistance. She experienced the violent Israeli occupation, the subsequent blockade on the impoverished Strip, and several wars that resulted in the death and wounding of tens of thousands of Palestinians. But none of Israel's wars impacted Aludaini's life as much as …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/what-is-next-for-palestinian-popular-resistance-in-gaza/

You Can Be An Anti-Imperialist, Support African-Americans, And Also Oppose Terrorism
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-08
The false narrative that's being propagated in the Alt-Media Community alleging that opposition to Antifa's nationwide spree of urban terrorism disqualifies one from being an anti-imperialist and supporter of African-Americans deserves to be directly debunked because it amounts to nothing more than an attempt to trick people into accepting the selective "normalization" of terrorist means to ideological ends. | Many In The Alt-Media Community Showed Their True Terrorist-Supporting Face | " The Alt-Media Community Betrayed Average Americans",…

You Can Be An Anti-Imperialist, Support African-Americans, And Also Oppose Terrorism

Colectivo de Protección de la Embajada de Venezuela logra victoria legal frente a una juez hostil nombrada por Obama y la fiscalía del gobierno
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-08
La sentencia contra los cuatro miembros del Colectivo de Protección de la Embajada de Venezuela, quienes fueron los últimos ocupantes…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/07/colectivo-embajada-venezuela-jueza-fiscalia/

Challenging Authority, the Only Viable Option for Positive Change
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
State-sponsored class warfare rages. Ongoing for decades, it's all about governance of, by, and for the privileged few at the expense of most others. | What's untenable persists with no end of it in prospect, no plan for improving the lives …
globalresearch.ca/challenging-authority-viable-option-positive-change/5715275

What America and the World Need Now: Dismantle Big Money Power, Get Money Out of Politics. End Institutional Racism
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Mass protests in the US and elsewhere over racist killings of Black men like George Floyd aren't good enough. | They divert attention from an array of core issues ignored by officialdom and establishment media. | Justice won't be served unless they're …
globalresearch.ca/what-america-world-need-now/5715380

Rahm Emanuel, the Worst Man for the Moment
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-06-08
The American Prospect See article on original site "The moment has come for our nation to deal with systemic racism. To deal with the growing economic inequity that exists in our nation, to deal with the denial of the promise of this nation." No, that was not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren speaking–it …
cepr.net/rahm-emanuel-the-worst-man-for-the-moment/

Dr Bouthaina Shaaban speaks to Vanessa Beeley, Damascus
Vanessa Beeley | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-08
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban on the hybrid war strategy being waged by the West, Israel, Turkey, Gulf States against Syria and her allies. | We had a meeting, during which we discussed most aspects of the maximum pressure campaign the sado-barbaric US Coalition is imposing upon Syria and all the nations who would defend her or provide economic support, trade and military collaboration. | Covid19 was discussed and the deliberate westernization of this alleged "pandemic" to further tighten the screws on an already economically devastated country that has endured 10 years of war, plagued by the various terrorist gangs cr…

Dr Bouthaina Shaaban speaks to Vanessa Beeley, Damascus

80 Lawmakers Demand Trump Ditch Any Thought of Resuming 'Dangerously Provocative' Nuclear Tests
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-08
"When Americans say that they want and need tests, they weren't talking about the nuclear kind." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump-testing-nukes.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/08/80-lawmakers-demand-trump-ditch-any-thought-resuming-dangerously-provocative-nuclear?cd-origin=rss

Pushed by National Uprising, Democratic Lawmakers Unveil Legislation to Overhaul Policing
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-08
The new measure includes provisions to ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants and limits transfers of military-grade equipment to local law enforcement. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/police-reform-bill.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/08/pushed-national-uprising-democratic-lawmakers-unveil-legislation-overhaul-policing?cd-origin=rss

Governor Cuomo: Avoid Budget Cuts by Not Rebating Stock Sales Tax to Wall Street!
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is basking in the popularity of his meticulous Covid-19 news briefings and simultaneously predicting a pandemic-driven $61 billion state deficit over four years. Astonishingly, the Governor electronically rebates an existing tiny stock transfer sales tax back to Wall Street. This stock transfer sales tax, bringing in an estimated 13 to…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/governor-cuomo-avoid-budget-cuts-by-not-rebating-stock-sales-tax-to-wall-street/

Decolonise our future
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-06-08
OpenDemocracy See article on original site Biological and climate emergency is a reality, but there is no justice in how its causes and consequences are divided up between the Global North and the Global South. The median person in the US consumes 44 million calories per day. The human body requires intake of 2 thousand …
cepr.net/decolonise-our-future/

Decolonize Our Future
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-06-08
OpenDemocracy See article on original site Biological and climate emergency is a reality, but there is no justice in how its causes and consequences are divided up between the Global North and the Global South. The median person in the US consumes 44 million calories per day. The human body requires intake of 2 thousand …
cepr.net/decolonise-our-future/

Marx, ecology and industrial agriculture
Martin Empson | mronline.org | 2020-06-08
British climate activist and socialist Martin Empson writes on why the fight against climate change must be a fight for system change and for socialism.
mronline.org/2020/06/08/marx-ecology-and-industrial-agriculture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marx-ecology-and-industrial-agriculture

"The Time Is Now": Tens of Thousands in NYC March for Justice, Peace & an End to Racist Police
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-08
As hundreds of thousands took to the streets nationwide and around the world to call for police accountability and demand Black lives matter in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, Democracy Now! spoke to some of the people who joined the historic protests Saturday in New York City.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/8/nyc_protest_voices

Defund the Police: Linda Sarsour & Mychal Denzel Smith on What Meaningful Change Would Look Like
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-08
Amid growing calls in New York City for police accountability, Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to shift some of the city's funding for police and reallocate it to social services. We get response from Linda Sarsour, longtime Palestinian American Muslim organizer and co-founder of Until Freedom, which along with others has led the push to institute meaningful change. We also speak with author Mychal Denzel Smith, who notes that "one thing that's come of this global pandemic of COVID-19 is an understanding of what constitutes essential, what do we actually need. And police have shown that they are inessential."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/8/bill_de_blasio_nypd_police_funding

The End of Policing: Alex Vitale on How Cops & Their Unions Cover Up Inequality, Exploitation
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-08
Professor Alex Vitale argues the answer to police violence is not "reform." It's defunding. The author of "The End of Policing" says the movement to defund the police is part of "a long story about the use of police and prisons to manage problems of inequality and exploitation." He asks, "Why are we using police to paper over problems of economic exploitation?" He also discusses the role of police unions. "They become, in many cities, the locus, the institutional hub, for a whole set of right-wing 'thin blue line' politics that believe that policing is not only effective but it's the most desirable way to solve o…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/8/alex_vitale_end_of_policing

Minneapolis City Council Vows to Dismantle Police Dept. After Mass Protests & Grassroots Organizing
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-08
After nearly two weeks of historic protests, the Minneapolis City Council has announced it will move to dismantle the city's police department in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. "We've got to create a system of public safety that works for everybody," says Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/8/minneapolis_police_abolition

CIA's Forgotten Coup Against 'The Most Loyal Ally'
John Pilger | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-08
The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer "personal" and the property of Buckingham Palace. Why does this matter? | Secret letters written in 1975 by the Queen and her man in Canberra, Sir John Kerr, can now be released by the National Archives. On November 11, 1975, Kerr infamously sacked the reformist government of prime minister Gough Whitlam, and delivered Australia into the hands of the United States. | Today, Australia is a vassal state bar none: its politics, intelligence agencies,…
anti-empire.com/cias-forgotten-coup-against-the-most-loyal-ally/

Dozens Abducted by Israeli Forces in Occupied Palestine
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-08
Occupying Israeli forces have kidnapped dozens of Palestinians Monday in a series of raids across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center said in a report. | RELATED: | What's Next for Palestinian Popular Resistance in Gaza? Speaking to Journalist Wafaa Aludaini | Citing local sources, the report said at least 29 Palestinians were abducted, including a woman and three minors, after Israeli forces broke into…
telesurenglish.net/news/Dozens-Abducted-by-Israeli-Forces-in-Occupied-Palestine-20200608-0013.html

WAFA: Israel Committed 27 Violations Against Journalists in May 2020
The Palestinian News & Info Agency | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
The Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA) said in a report, on Sunday, that it has documented 27 violations committed by the Israeli occupation forces against journalists and media institutions working in the occupied Palestinian territories during May. The report on Israeli violations against journalists states that these violations included …
imemc.org/article/wafa-israel-committed-27-violations-against-journalists-in-may-2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wafa-israel-committed-27-violations-against-journalists-in-may-2020

No Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state's worst nightmare

No Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad
Ajamu Baraka | commondreams.org | 2020-06-08
The ruling class is befuddled and confused about how to respond to the ongoing street demonstrations sparked by the murder of George Floyd. (Photo: EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/blm_5.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/08/no-compromise-no-retreat-defeat-war-against-africanblack-people-us-and-abroad?cd-origin=rss

FBI Launches Open Attack on 'Foreign' Alternative Media Outlets Challenging US Foreign Policy
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Under FBI orders, Facebook and Google removed American Herald Tribune, an alternative site that publishes US and European writers critical of US foreign policy. The bureau's justification for the removal was dubious, and it sets a troubling precedent for other …
globalresearch.ca/fbi-launches-open-attack-foreign-alternative-media-outlets-challenging-us-foreign-policy/5715296

Russian Diplomats Expelled from Czechia Because of Likely Fake News Story
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The secret services of Czechia had first informed its government in April that it had damning evidence against two Russian diplomats in the country that would warrant their expulsion. It was alleged, without any evidence given publicly, that Russian diplomats …
globalresearch.ca/russian-diplomats-expelled-czechia-likely-fake-news-story/5715340

The Subversion of New York City's Official Policy to Curb Police Brutality
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-08
In early November 1966, my sister and I‚Äïarmed with a bucket of home-made paste, a wide brush, and a thick roll of "Vote No" posters‚Äïheaded off from my student apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan to plaster the surrounding area with the signs. The Patrolman's Benevolent Association (PBA), a very powerful police union, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-subversion-of-new-york-citys-official-policy-to-curb-police-brutality/

Montreal Police Disperse Peaceful Protesters With Tear Gas
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-08
Demonstrators were gassed Monday in Montreal, Canada as they were protesting against racism and police brutality. | RELATED: | Europe Protests in Support of US Anti-Racist Uprising Continue | Protester gathered in the center of this Canadian city to march peacefully, as part of the global display of repudiation stirred by George Floyd's murder last May 25, suffocated to death when in custody by U.S police. | This is the second time in a week when people take Montreal streets to…
telesurenglish.net/news/Montreal-Police-Disperse-Peaceful-Demonstrators-With-Gas-20200608-0011.html

Trump's Path to Historical Ignominy
Wayne Madsen | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-08
History has always treated harshly those tyrants and strongmen who have been gratuitously violent toward their subjects and citizens and believed in purposely creating misery for their charge. Donald John Trump, the third impeached president of the United States, decided to clear peaceful protesters gathered a full block from the White House, so he could have his photograph taken standing in front of a church. It was not any church, but St. John's Episcopal Church, dubbed the "Church of the Presidents," owing to the several chief executives who have worshiped there over the decades. | To prepare for Trump's photo…

Trump’s Path to Historical Ignominy

"Light 'Em Up": Warrior-Cops Are the Law–and Above the Law–as Violence Grips America
William Astore | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
From their front porches, regular citizens watched a cordon of cops sweep down their peaceful street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Rankled at being filmed, the cops exceeded their authority and demanded that people go inside their houses. When some of them didn't obey quickly enough, the order

Joseph Bolognia, 54, Philly Police Inspector off the streets, facing possible attempted murder charge
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-08
When we thought we had seen it all, we then get this pig faced motherfucker and his Trumpist Nazi friends. Watch him bash the head of a teenage (white) girl during an attack on peaceful demonstrators. This guy has a lifetime history of far more than the complaints on record, it goes much further with allegations yet to be proven of a police "special squad" working with human traffickers and drug dealers, keeping them safe and protecting them from prison for cash. Time that was looked into and a couple of dozen Philly boys in blue sent to do a few decades of federal time including for felony murder, what they do w…

Joseph Bolognia, 54, Philly Police Inspector off the streets, facing possible attempted murder charge

Buffalo, New York mayor protects police in attack on 75-year-old
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
The Democratic mayor's comments follow another week of vicious police assaults against peaceful protesters across the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/poli-j08.html

Trump's Path to Historical Ignominy
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-08
History has always treated harshly those tyrants and strongmen who have been gratuitously violent toward their subjects and citizens and believed in purposely creating misery for their charge. Donald John Trump, the third impeached president of the United States, decided to clear peaceful protesters gathered a full block from the White House, so he could have his photograph taken standing in front of a church. It was not any church, but St. John's Episcopal Church, dubbed the "Church of the Presidents," owing to the several chief executives who have worshiped there over the decades. | To prepare for Trump's photo…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/08/trumps-path-to-historical-ignominy/

Thousands in New York City March for Justice, Peace and an End to Racist Police
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-08
As hundreds of thousands took to the streets nationwide and around the world to call for police accountability and demand Black lives matter in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, Democracy Now! spoke to some of the people who joined the historic protests Saturday in New York City. | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AMY GOODMAN: We end this broadcast in the streets of New York, where hundreds of…
truthout.org/video/thousands-in-new-york-city-march-for-justice-peace-and-an-end-to-racist-police/

Trump's New White House Barrier Transformed Into Black Lives Matter Memorial
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-08
As peaceful protests continued to flower and grow in U.S. cities and around the world over the weekend, a newly-erected security fence established around the White House in Washington, D.C. became what one reporter described as a " crowd-sourced memorial wall"

Giving drivers £6,000 to switch to electric car would be 'fantastic move'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-08
Motoring and environmental groups have welcomed the prospect of a new car scrappage scheme encouraging motorists to switch to electric vehicles. | The AA described it as "fantastic" while Greenpeace said it would be "moving in the right direction". | Boris Johnson is considering launching plans to give drivers up to £6,000 to exchange their petrol or diesel car for an electric model, the Daily Telegraph reported. | In March the government reduced the maximum grant available for electric car buyers under the Plug-In Car Grant by £500 to £3,000. | But it has been urged to help manufacturers hit ha…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/08/giving-drivers-6000-to-switch-to-electric-car-would-be-fantastic-move/

Belgian Police Warn of Strikes After Clashes During Anti-Racism Protests in Brussels
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-08
BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – Belgium's two biggest police trade unions on Monday warned of a strike following riots in central Brussels, which started as a peaceful rally against racism.
sputniknews.com/europe/202006081079560295-belgian-police-warn-of-strikes-after-clashes-during-anti-racism-protests-in-brussels/

The police murder of George Floyd sparks mass protests throughout the world
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-08
This weekend, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth will protest the police murder of George Floyd, not only in the United States, but in Australia, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Brazil, South Korea and many other countries.
mronline.org/2020/06/08/the-police-murder-of-george-floyd-sparks-mass-protests-throughout-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-police-murder-of-george-floyd-sparks-mass-protests-throughout-the-world

Teen students lead Nashville's largest ever protest against racist police violence
Albert Bender | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
NASHVILLE–A huge gathering of protesters–led by students–congregated at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in downtown Nashville the evening of Thursday, June 4, to protest the horrific murder of George Floyd and the overall issue of racist police violence. The Bicentennial Mall Park is composed of 19 mostly grassy acres with plaques commemorating area history from ancient Indigenous times to the 20th Century. By the estimates …
peoplesworld.org/article/teen-students-lead-nashvilles-largest-ever-protest-against-racist-police-violence/

The Mask Revolution
Israel Shamir | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-08
Who could have guessed that the Floyd protest was the best Coronavirus vaccine? The same people that warned us that the virus is the deadliest plague and staying-at-home is the only escape, now commanded us to march amongst throngs, shoulder-to-shoulder against police! It appears they have the dreadful pandemic under their command, on tap: now …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-mask-revolution/

Ten Days that May Have Changed the World. Mass Protests across America
Richard Greeman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Sparked by the police murder of George Floyd and fueled by Minneapolis authorities' reluctance to arrest and charge the murderer's three police accomplices, mass protests have been sweeping across the US with an intensity not seen since the 1960s. In …
globalresearch.ca/ten-days-may-have-changed-world/5715292

Tear Gas Is Banned in International Warfare—-Why Are Police Using It on U.S. Civilians?
Janea Wilson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
On June 2, President Trump threatened to deploy military troops against Americans in response to nationwide protests after the recent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Trump's suggestion to use military force against U.S. civilians shocked many–but in fact police …
globalresearch.ca/tear-gas-banned-international-warfare-why-police-using-us-civilians/5715285

Camouflage: How the Israeli Left Continues to Hoodwink Us with Corrupted Slogans
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
To reach the hearts and minds of Americans, the Zionist Israeli Left is manipulating the Black Lives Matter movement. The slogans and images of protestors coming out of Tel Aviv continue to hoodwink the world with a sudden and self-serving …
globalresearch.ca/israeli-left-continues-hoodwink-us-corrupted-slogans/5715302

Progressives in Ireland unite to demand justice for George Floyd
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-08
Marches in solidarity with the anti-racist protests in the US were held, defying police restrictions, in Dublin in the Irish Republic and Belfast in Northern Ireland. Protesters, however, adhered to the COVID-19 safety protocol…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/08/progressives-in-ireland-unite-to-demand-justice-for-george-floyd/

Police killing of Giovanni López sparks protests, political crisis in Mexico
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
Protests broke out in Guadalajara and Mexico City after footage surfaced of the brutal arrest of López, who died of his wounds the next day, for not wearing a COVID-19 facemask.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/mexi-j08.html

Houston protests police murder of George Floyd
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Houston, TX – The police murder of George Floyd, the catalyst of a national and now global wave of mass demonstrations against anti-Black racism and police brutality, took place in Minneapolis. But Floyd was a son of Houston, Texas, a longtime and much beloved neighborhood personality of the Third Ward, one of the city's historic centers of African-American life. Judging by the sheer size of the recent protests in Houston, Floyd's home city will never forget him. | The largest demonstration in Floyd's honor in Houston occurred on Tuesday, June 2, when an estimated 60,000 people came downtown for a march and rally…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/houston-protests-police-murder-george-floyd

The U.S. rebellion for black lives
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-08
As protests rage across America against police brutality and systemic racism, Akunna Eneh, an activist from Boston, argues that the movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd has exposed the true face of American society.
mronline.org/2020/06/08/the-u-s-rebellion-for-black-lives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-u-s-rebellion-for-black-lives

Houston protests police murder of George Floyd
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Houston, TX – The police murder of George Floyd, the catalyst of a national and now global wave of mass demonstrations against anti-Black racism and police brutality, took place in Minneapolis. But Floyd was a son of Houston, Texas, a longtime and much beloved neighborhood personality of the Third Ward, one of the city's historic centers of African-American life. Judging by the sheer size of the recent protests in Houston, Floyd's home city will never forget him. | The largest demonstration in Floyd's honor in Houston occurred on Tuesday, June 2, when an estimated 60,000 people came downtown for a march and rally…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/houston-protests-police-murder-george-floyd

Tens of thousands continue UK protests against racism and police brutality
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
More than 100,000 people across Britain continued to protest the death of George Floyd over the weekend.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/pruk-j08.html

For This to Slip Would Be the 'End of Empire'
Alastair Crooke | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-08
A hot humid day, but a gentle, warm breeze is blowing. The smoke and tear gas swirl gently to and fro, hanging in the dense, sweaty air, as shafts of dazzling sunlight scythe through the smokiness at sharp angles. A mass protest is forming. Youths are chattering; people moving aimlessly. It still has not solidified into purpose, yet the raw tenseness of the coming conflict hangs, as palpably as does the smoke in the air. It is evident

The BBC just showed utter disregard for Black lives and the UK's racism
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-06-08
On 7 June, Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol tore down a statue of Edward Colston

Australian protesters speak out: "The class systems need to be abolished"
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
The demonstrations were "a great show of people power and it's a great show of how the world should move forward."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/auin-j08.html

Thousands protest across South Florida against police violence
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Miami, FL – Thousands took to the streets of Miami June 6, to protest police violence against Black and brown communities in the U.S. and to continue demanding justice for George Floyd. Protesters called for arresting killer cops in all cities, demilitarizing the police, and community control over the police. They took to the streets and marched for miles along Biscayne Avenue, from the Torch of Friendship at Bayside all the way to Wynwood. | There were two different marches happening simultaneously in Miami plus several others in cities like Miramar and Davie in Broward County. | There were also several actions…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/thousands-protest-across-south-florida-against-police-violence

Amazon workers declare support for mass protests as management imposes pay cut
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
Amazon workers expressed solidarity with the protests, even as the company, which provides facial recognition software to police departments, feigned concern over racism and inequality.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/amaz-j08.html

Thousands protest across South Florida against police violence
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Miami, FL – Thousands took to the streets of Miami June 6, to protest police violence against Black and brown communities in the U.S. and to continue demanding justice for George Floyd. Protesters called for arresting killer cops in all cities, demilitarizing the police, and community control over the police. They took to the streets and marched for miles along Biscayne Avenue, from the Torch of Friendship at Bayside all the way to Wynwood. | There were two different marches happening simultaneously in Miami plus several others in cities like Miramar and Davie in Broward County. | There were also several actions…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/thousands-protest-across-south-florida-against-police-violence

The global protests and the fight against capitalism
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
The global wave of demonstrations against police violence is the response to decades of unending war, the destruction of basic democratic rights, and a massive concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny ruling elite.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/pers-j08.html

Ten Days that May Have Changed the World: an Internationalist Perspective
Richard Greeman | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
Sparked by the police murder of George Floyd and fueled by Minneapolis authorities' reluctance to arrest and charge the murderer's three police accomplices, mass protests have been sweeping across the U.S. with an intensity not seen since the 1960s. In over 150 cities, African Americans and their allies have flooded the streets, braving the Covid…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/ten-days-that-may-have-changed-the-world-an-internationalist-perspective/

RIP George Floyd and Solidarity with Those Fighting Back
subMedia | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-08
It's been a historic and heavy two weeks in the US, following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department. Calls for justice have grown from a mid-sized protest outside a precinct to a nation-wide uprising, leading Donald Trump to run to his bunker and threaten to call in the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/rip-george-floyd-and-solidarity-with-those-fighting-back/

Hundreds of thousands join protests against police violence across Europe
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
The size and wide geographical spread of the protests over Floyd's murder reflect broad-based opposition to racism and police violence around the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/euro-j08.html

Protesting in Phoenix for Dion Johnson, another Black man killed by police
Mathew Tanner | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
PHOENIX, Ariz.–People in Phoenix are angry. The situation here may seem identical to the rest of the nation: spontaneous protest and civil unrest in response to the murder of George Floyd. And Arizona officials and local Phoenix leaders have pushed the idea that an amorphous, subversive criminal element of rioters and looters is descending on Phoenix, …
peoplesworld.org/article/protesting-in-phoenix-for-dion-johnson-another-black-man-killed-by-police/

Millions march in cities and towns in every part of the US to oppose racism and police violence
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
The demonstrations over the weekend to protest the police murder of George Floyd, among the biggest nationwide mobilizations of workers and youth in US history, signaled a new stage in the movement of the American working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/demo-j08.html

Rescind, Reform, and Fight: 3 Steps for Racial Justice
Candice Francis, Abdi Soltani | thenation.com | 2020-06-08
Rescind, Reform, and Fight: 3 Steps for Racial Justice…
thenation.com/article/society/protest-california-aclu/

Families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile Join 600+ Groups Urging UN Probe of US Police Violence
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-08
Relatives of four black Americans killed by police—George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile—joined with over 600 rights groups Monday to demand a United Nations probe into racist policing and law enforcement's violent suppression of ongoing mass protests against police brutality and systemic racism in the United States. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1217563267.png …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/08/families-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-michael-brown-and-philando-castile-join-600?cd-origin=rss

'It Was—Then as Now—Clearly a Coup': NYT Finally Gets Around to Reporting OAS Fraud Election Claims in Bolivia Were Bogus
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-08
"For those paying close attention to the 2019 election, there was never any doubt that the OAS' claims of fraud were bogus." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bolivia_protests_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/08/it-was-then-now-clearly-coup-nyt-finally-gets-around-reporting-oas-fraud-election?cd-origin=rss

For This to Slip Would Be the 'End of Empire'
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-08
A hot humid day, but a gentle, warm breeze is blowing. The smoke and tear gas swirl gently to and fro, hanging in the dense, sweaty air, as shafts of dazzling sunlight scythe through the smokiness at sharp angles. A mass protest is forming. Youths are chattering; people moving aimlessly. It still has not solidified into purpose, yet the raw tenseness of the coming conflict hangs, as palpably as does the smoke in the air. It is evident

Couldn't Bury Your Father Because of Lockdown? Public Health Experts Have a New Exciting Message for You: "ACAB!"
Dan Diamond | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-08
For months, public health experts have urged Americans to take every precaution to stop the spread of Covid-19–stay at home, steer clear of friends and extended family, and absolutely avoid large gatherings. | Now some of those experts are broadcasting a new message: It's time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism. | "We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus," Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, tweeted on Tuesday. "In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the ha…
anti-empire.com/couldnt-bury-your-father-because-of-lockdown-public-health-experts-have-a-new-exciting-message-for-you-acab/

Tuesday 6/9: Community Meeting on Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/07/18833916.php

Black Lives Matter! Labor Rally & March In SF
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
Hundreds of Northern California trade unionists marched and rallied in San Francisco Hunters Point Bay View district to protest the murder of George Floyd and many other Black workers and youth. Some community members also spoke out about the murders.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833881.php

San Rafael Says "Say Their Names"
Downtown Protest | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
28 names on a cardboard sign…Black Americans murdered by police. There are many many more, protesters lamented.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833846.php

Police kill unarmed 22-year-old man in Vallejo, California
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
The Vallejo, California Police Department has a well-established track record of brutality and murder. | On Tuesday, June 2, Vallejo police gunned down an unarmed 22-year old whose last text sent was one asking his sisters to sign a petition protesting the police murder of George Floyd.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833865.php

Seattle Protesters Tear-Gassed Just Hours After City's 30-Day Ban on Its Use
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-08
In spite of assurances from Seattle leaders last week that there would be a 30-day ban on the use of tear gas, demonstrators were still subjected to the chemical agent in the city on Sunday evening. | Both Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Chief of Police Carmen Best had emphasized that a temporary ban on tear gas would be in place while its e…
truthout.org/articles/seattle-protesters-tear-gassed-just-hours-after-citys-30-day-ban-on-its-use/

Former cop Derek Chauvin appears in court over George Floyd's murder, with bail set at $1.25mn
rt.com | 2020-06-08
The former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd has appeared in court for the first time over the death. Floyd's killing while in police custody sparked widespread protests against police brutality. | Derek Chauvin appeared at the short hearing at Hennepin County District Court via video link, and the judge set bail at $1.25 million without conditions or $1 million with conditions. According to the terms outlined, if posting the lower bail amount, Chauvin would have to avoid contact with Floyd's family, and refrain from handling firearms and conducting any police work. | Derek Cha…
rt.com/usa/491237-chauvin-court-bail-floyd-murder/

Boris Johnson Says Protesters Who Engage in Vandalism Will 'Face Full Force of Law'
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-08
A wave of protests against racial inequality and police brutality has swept through the United Kingdom over the death of African American man George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, with instances of police officers attacked and historic monuments vandalised by protesters.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006081079559911-boris-johnson-says-protesters-who-engage-in-vandalism-will-face-full-force-of-law/

UN sends 72 truckloads of aid to Idlib, Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
The UN on Monday sent 72 truckloads of humanitarian aid to northwestern Syria, where millions of people are in need of assistance due to internal conflict in the country.The trucks carrying supplies entered Idlib, Syria through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey's southern Hatay province.The aid will be distributed among residents of Idlib and nearby rural areas.Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced, according to UN estimates.Idlib falls within a de-…
yenisafak.com/en/world/un-sends-72-truckloads-of-aid-to-idlib-syria-3531501

White | cops wash | feet | of black | protesters | during | demonstration | in US
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
As tens of thousands of people take part in Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the world over the killing of George Floyd, the U.S. state of North Carolina played host to the most interesting form of protest witnessed yet. White cops and demonstrators washed the feet of black protesters to show their solidarity against racism and police brutality.The event was reportedly organized by ex-priest Faith Wokom; because according to the Christian belief, foot-washing represents love and humility. Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, was filmed gasping for air and pleading for breath as now-fired police officer…
yenisafak.com/en/world/whitecops-washfeetof-blackprotestersduringdemonstrationin-us-3531486

US Veterans, Including Active Duty, Reject Militarization Against Demonstrators
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-08
The United States is in the midst of a mass uprising against police violence, but also a whole list of grievances such as the lack of jobs, health care, education and more. Sustained protests have been going on for two weeks defying curfews and severe repression by police. The national guard has been deployed to 23 states and President Trump threatened to deploy the military against people expressing their First Amendment rights. We speak with Danny Sjursen, a retired Major and spokesperson for About Face: Veterans Against the War, about how members of the military are responding to current events. Veterans have…
popularresistance.org/veterans-active-duty-reject-militarization/

Violence Towards Protesters Shows Why Many Want To Abolish Police
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-08
Welcome to the Real News. I'm Kim Brown. After several sustained days of protest in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd on May 25th, the epicenter of this latest uprising movement, Minneapolis, is experiencing an over militarized response with Minnesota National Guard troops joining alongside Minneapolis Police Department and the Minnesota State Police law enforcement agencies in attempting to quell the uprisings. But organizers on the ground there are using their ingenuity to coordinate mutual aid and redistribution efforts, plus providing a platform for the solution to the crisis of over-policing and…
popularresistance.org/violence-towards-protesters-shows-why-many-want-to-abolish-police/

Arresting Justice: Victimizing the Victimizers Won't End the Policing Crisis
Paul M. Renfro | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
In the wake of the brutal slayings of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Tony McDade in Tallahassee, and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, demonstrators nationwide and throughout the world have trained their anger on racialized police brutality and state violence, more broadly. While many have expressed support for decarceration, abolition, and cuts to police budgets, some of these same activists and commentators have petitioned for the arrest and prosecution of those responsible.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/arresting-justice-victimizing-the-victimizers-wont-end-the-policing-crisis/

Demolition Notices, Halt Construction Ordered by Israeli Military
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
Israeli forces notified two Palestinian home owners, on Sunday, of the order to demolish their homes in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, according to a local activist. Popular committee coordinator in Yatta, Rateb al-Jabour, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli soldiers notified two …
imemc.org/article/demolition-notices-halt-construction-ordered-by-israeli-military/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=demolition-notices-halt-construction-ordered-by-israeli-military

Time Served and $25 a Month in Fines in First Sentencing of Kings Bay Plowshares Anti-Nuclear Activists
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-08
"I don't apologize for it," said sentenced activist Elizabeth McAlister. "I think the weapons are completely destructive of life." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/kbp_group_2_signs_horiz.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/08/time-served-and-25-month-fines-first-sentencing-kings-bay-plowshares-anti-nuclear?cd-origin=rss

Turkish government arrests opposition and Kurdish deputies
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
Increasingly unpopular, due to the botched official response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government is lashing out at bourgeois opposition parties.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/turk-j08.html

Bolsonaro government attempted to censor Brazil's coronavirus case count and death toll
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
There are now more than 7 million officially confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, an increase of one million cases in nine days, and more than 400,000 dead.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/covi-j08.html

China Sends Sixth COVID-19 Aid Installment as Venezuela Thanks 'True Friends'
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-06-08
The country is relaxing it's lockdown on a week-on-week-off basis despite rising cases.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14901

Russian Academician Arbatov's Washington Leanings, Recommends Moscow to Avoid a Strategic Alliance with China
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
If there were a Russian version of the website PropOrNot, Academician Arbatov could find himself listed there as "American agent/dupe." | Arbatov directs the International Security Center of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of …
globalresearch.ca/russian-academician-arbatov-washington-leanings/5715364

Group Warns USDA May Be Quietly Trying to Outsource Chicken Processing to China
commondreams.org | 2020-06-08
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/06/08/group-warns-usda-may-be-quietly-trying-outsource-chicken-processing-china?cd-origin=rss

US: Minneapolis Council Pledge New Alternative Police Model
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-08
The city council of Minneapolis Sunday announced that the city's police department would implement a new model after the killing of George Floyd. | RELATED: | China's Exports Rose in May, While Imports Fell Amid COVID-19 | "In Minneapolis and cities across the U.S., it is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe," Minneapolis city council president Lisa Bender said. | Minneapolis councilmembers pledged to build a community-led police model, as an alte…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-minneapolis-council-pledged-for-an-alternative-police-model-20200608-0002.html

Oil Price Wars, Covid-19 Havoc and the Evolving US-China Trade War
John A. Mathews | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The US-China relationship continues to sour under the impact of Covid-19, with the Trump administration threatening to cut all ties with China in a move that would divide the world into two competing trade entities.1 It's been a bad …
globalresearch.ca/oil-price-wars-covid-19-us-china-trade-war/5715308

Russian Academician Arbatov's Washington Leanings
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-08
If there were a Russian version of the website PropOrNot, Academician Arbatov could find himself listed there as "American agent/dupe." | Arbatov directs the International Security Center of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He demonstrates his Washington leanings by his recommendation that Russia avoid a strategic alliance with China. This, of course, is a Washington position. It seems curious coming from a Russian security expert at a time when US foreign policy is dominated by neoconservatives who are hostile to both Russia and China because the two…

Russian Academician Arbatov’s Washington Leanings

Trump confers with Modi over explosive India-China border dispute
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
Intensifying the US strategic offensive against China, the Trump administration has publicly sided with India, and is goading New Delhi on in its border standoff with Beijing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/inch-j08.html

India and Australia sign military pact amid tense border conflict with China
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
The Modi-Morrison "summit" occurred just two days after US President Trump reiterated his support for India's confrontation with China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/inau-j08.html

The Arctic Northern Sea Route: Russia Conducts Record-Breaking Delivery of LNG to China
Malte Humpert | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Russia is one step closer to achieving year-round navigation in the Arctic. An ice-capable tanker made the earliest delivery of LNG to China via the Northern Sea Route. | *** | For the past several years a fleet of fifteen specialized Arc7 …
globalresearch.ca/arctic-ice-melts-russia-conducts-record-breaking-delivery-lng-china/5715336

Che, Chez and Ross Cannard: Organic Farming, Sonoma, California
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
On an overcast Friday morning near the end of spring, Juan Umaña rolled up his shirt sleeves and went to work in a newly ploughed field with rich black soil on an organic farm in Sonoma County, California, an hour or so North of the Golden Gate Bridge. Born and raised in Colombia, with a tattoo…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/che-chez-and-ross-cannard-organic-farming-sonoma-california/

This week in history: June 8-14
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
25 years ago: France ends moratorium on nuclear weapons testing in the PacificOn June 13, 1995, the French government announced that it would resume nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific. French President Jacques Chirac decided to end the three-year moratorium on nuclear testing, citing France's "higher interests," just shy of the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima in World War Two–earning himself the hostile label "Hirochirac."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/twih-j08.html

Coronavirus: World Bank confirms deepest recession since World War Two
news.un.org | 2020-06-08
The COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5.2 per cent this year, representing the deepest recession since World War Two, and triggering a dramatic rise in extreme poverty, the World Bank said Monday in its latest Global Economic Prospects report.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065902

Communalism and Coronavirus: India's New Strain of Virus
Parul Verma | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-06-08
asia-pacificresearch.com/communalism-coronavirus-india-new-strain-virus/5629099

Congressional Dems unveil big police reform package
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
WASHINGTON–Responding to the mass movement for comprehensive change in the nation's police departments

No time to take 'foot off the pedal' as coronavirus pandemic worsens: WHO
news.un.org | 2020-06-08
The COVID-19 pandemic is worsening globally, with more than 136,000 cases recorded on Sunday: the highest number in a single day, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065892

The government just gave the corporate press £35m of your money
Nathan Sparkes | thecanary.co | 2020-06-08
The economic effects of coronavirus (Covid-19) are being felt by people and businesses all over the UK. But spare a thought for Rupert Murdoch, Daily Mail owner the 4th Viscount Rothermere, Telegraph owners the Barclay brothers, and Gannett (the multi-billion-dollar US company of which one subsidiary is Newsquest, which owns dozens of local newspapers across the UK). They must have been struggling because the newspapers they own, having taken a break from bashing folk on the poverty line for 'taking state handouts', have grab…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/06/08/the-government-just-gave-the-corporate-press-35m-of-your-money/

German corporations seize on pandemic to implement mass layoffs and welfare cuts
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
In close cooperation with the German government, major firms are using the coronavirus crisis to prepare for global trade war and carry out long-planned attacks on the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/cuts-j08.html

FROM THE FIELD: Pacific islanders confront twin threats of climate change and coronavirus
news.un.org | 2020-06-08
People living on an isolated island community in the Pacific Ocean are finding ways to reduce their dependence on expensive imported food while promoting climate resilient farming techniques, thanks to a programme supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065852

Syria: Will the Great Middle Eastern War Begin in the Levant?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The world is in turmoil. 2020 has already brought major multiple crises, with the Iranian-American clash in Iraq which followed the US assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, and the COVID-19 health pandemic and economic disaster that struck all …
globalresearch.ca/syria-great-middle-eastern-war/5715326

The Gaza Strip Under Israeli Military Siege
Dr. Zuhair Sabbagh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The following article aims at providing a critical analysis of the Israeli policies towards the colonized Gaza Strip and its Palestinian people. Consequently, it will concentrate on the Military Siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, and on the deliberate Israelipolicy …
globalresearch.ca/gaza-strip-under-israeli-military-siege-question-security-war-crimes/5715311

America's Fracking Industry: Donald Trump's Lost Dream for World Energy Domination
Felix Imonti | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Donald Trump has no solution to the crisis in the domestic hydraulic fracturing industry that won't have dire consequences for the economy. The survival of the industry lies in Saudi Arabia. | It was not until 2013 that the real potential …
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-lost-dream-world-energy-domination/5715299

Eternal Fixation: The Madeleine McCann Disappearance Show
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
The "lost child" endures as motif and theme, the stalking shadow of much literature, the background to a society's anxiety. The child, often deemed innocent, becomes the ink blot of loss in such disappearance. In Australia, it was captured by …
globalresearch.ca/madeleine-mccann-disappearance-show/5715361

Not Just "A Few Bad Apples": U.S. Police Kill Civilians at Much Higher Rates than Other Countries
Alexi Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
There is no question that the number of police killings of civilians in the U.S.

Drone Wars at Ten #3: What's Next? A Peek at the Future
Chris Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
In this final post to mark our 10th birthday, I want to peek a little into the future, looking at what we are facing in relation to drone warfare in the coming years. Of course predicting the future is always …
globalresearch.ca/drone-wars-what-next-peek-future/5715276

Give Venezuela Back Its Gold: Case Goes to London Court
Venezuela Solidarity Campaign | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Venezuelan authorities appeared in court in London last Thursday May 28 to demand that the Bank of England comply with instructions to sell part of the 31 tons of gold it holds on behalf of Venezuela. | Venezuelan Central Bank President …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-gold-case-goes-london-court/5715322

Remembering Francois Houtart
Lau Kin Chi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Three years ago, on this day, Francois Houtart left us. | He died in his sleep in the early hours of June 6 in Quito. It was only when I was working on his autobiography after his death that I learnt …
globalresearch.ca/remembering-francois-houtart/5715316

Colonialism and Racism. To America, Black Lives Only Sometimes Matter
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
There is no doubt that colonialism and racism sit at the root of America's domestic problems. The push to dominate others abroad is directly linked to the belief that those who are different at home should also be dominated. | There …
globalresearch.ca/america-black-lives-only-sometimes-matter/5715306

Global Research: Honest Journalism in Uncertain Times
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-08
Dear Readers, | We regularly receive feedback from you telling us how important the articles we publish are to you, especially in today's tumultuous and uncertain times. We thank you, and pledge that we will continue to deliver our daily dose …
globalresearch.ca/keep-diversity-and-transparency-in-media-alive/5640591

62% Of Big Oil, Gas, And Mining Corporations Score Small Business Bailout Funds
commondreams.org | 2020-06-08
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/06/08/62-big-oil-gas-and-mining-corporations-score-small-business-bailout-funds?cd-origin=rss

'Stand strong' for justice over impunity, Security Council hears
news.un.org | 2020-06-08
In tackling the myriad global challenges posed by COVID-19, the world must not ignore the perils of endemic hatred and division, and instead, "stand strong" in the face of those who favour impunity over justice, a senior UN judge told the Security Council on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065922

"Unprecedented" transfer of personal NHS information to shady tech Co's
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-08
By Mary Fitzgerald and Corri Crider: Hours before facing court proceedings from openDemocracy over its massive NHS COVID-19 data deal with private tech firms, the UK government has caved to pressure and released all the contracts governing its deals with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and controversial AI firms Faculty and Palantir. The contracts, released to openDemocracy …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/unprecedented-transfer-of-personal-nhs-information-to-shady-tech-cos/

Air Pollution, Mental Illness, and Covid-19
Graham Peebles | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-08
Lockdowns imposed in response to Covid-19 forced millions of people to stay at home, businesses closed and a widespread hush descended. The major beneficiary of the controls has been the natural environment; in particular there has been a dramatic reduction in air pollution everywhere. But as countries begin to lift restrictions, road traffic levels are …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/air-pollution-mental-illness-and-covid-19/

10,000-plus march against police crimes in Jacksonville FL
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Jacksonville, FL – On Saturday, June 6, over 10,000 residents of Jacksonville came out to an historic march hosted by the Jacksonville Community Action Committee. This march came a week after 3500 people gathered on the headquarters of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) to demand: Release of body camera footage being held hostage by JSO; an end to excessive force, by instituting community control via a Civilian Police Accountability Council; and transparency in testing and reporting of COVID-19 for those in JSO custody. | With the June 6 march being the largest civil rights demonstration in the city's histor…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/10000-plus-march-against-police-crimes-jacksonville-fl

10,000-plus march against police crimes in Jacksonville FL
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Jacksonville, FL – On Saturday, June 6, over 10,000 residents of Jacksonville came out to an historic march hosted by the Jacksonville Community Action Committee. This march came a week after 3500 people gathered on the headquarters of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) to demand: Release of body camera footage being held hostage by JSO; an end to excessive force, by instituting community control via a Civilian Police Accountability Council; and transparency in testing and reporting of COVID-19 for those in JSO custody. | With the June 6 march being the largest civil rights demonstration in the city's histor…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/10000-plus-march-against-police-crimes-jacksonville-fl

World Oceans Day: Don't be colour blind, help blue oceans keep the planet green
news.un.org | 2020-06-08
The COVID-19 pandemic is a "sharp reminder" of how we are all intimately connected to each other and to nature, the UN chief said on Monday, World Oceans Day.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065872

Solidarity is the world's 'best line of defence': UN General Assembly president
news.un.org | 2020-06-08
Back in September, the world committed to a landmark political declaration on universal health coverage. Now, in the throes of the COVID-19 crisis, the President of the UN General Assembly has reiterated the importance of investing in health as "an investment in human capital, social and economic development and the empowerment of all people".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065932

Three Missouri Voters Explain Why Everyone Should be Able to Vote by Mail in 2020
Leila Rafei | aclu.org | 2020-06-08
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way the world operates, but as the presidential election approaches, many states have failed to respond when it comes to voting. The safest way to vote during the pandemic is to vote by mail, but state restrictions block many voters from doing so. The ACLU has sued 10 states for restricting access, including Missouri, where the state legislature just voted to expand acce…
aclu.org/news/voting-rights/three-missouri-voters-explain-why-everyone-should-be-able-to-vote-by-mail-in-2020

How Endless War Contributes to Police Brutality
Bonnie Kristian | zcomm.org | 2020-06-08
This dynamic is deliberate: Police officers are explicitly trained to conceive of themselves as warriors in battle, always on high alert and prepared to kill…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-endless-war-contributes-to-police-brutality/

Black Lives Matter movement sweeps the world
Combined Sources | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered this weekend in cities far from the United States to express anger over the death of George Floyd, a sign that the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality is resonating with wider calls to address racism from Australia to Asia to Europe. In Berlin, where police said 15,000 people rallied …
peoplesworld.org/article/black-live-matter-movement-sweeps-the-world/

Israel Continues to be Rewarded for Killing American Sailors: Remembering the USS Liberty
Raouf Halaby | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
June 8, 1967 stands as yet another "date of infamy" in the annals of American history. And even though numerically the dead and wounded American servicemen numbered in the hundreds instead thousands, June 8, 1967 is as heinous a date of infamy as the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the 9/11 attacks on…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/israel-continues-to-be-rewarded-for-killing-american-sailors-remembering-the-uss-liberty/

Charles Dickens put ordinary people at the heart of the story
Jenny Farrell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
The English novelist Charles Dickens was born in 1812, during the Napoleonic Wars, into the lower petty bourgeoisie, whose life experience partly overlapped with that of the proletariat. He died on June 9, 1870, at the age of 58. We write this on the 150th anniversary of his death. Although Dickens's authorial perspective always remained …
peoplesworld.org/article/charles-dickens-put-ordinary-people-at-the-heart-of-the-story/

Conn. health workers demand PPE, honor their lost
Gil Netter | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-08
NEW LONDON, Conn.

"Light 'Em Up"
William J. Astore | zcomm.org | 2020-06-08
Warrior-Cops Are the Law

German government's stimulus package: €50 billion for automakers, €1 billion for childcare
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
Like the previous bailouts, the latest package showers cash on the rich, concealed behind a few modest rations for families and will produce a further increase in social inequality.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/germ-j08.html

NYT Says Farmers to Get 10 Million Food Stamp Person Years of Government Aid
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-08
That is not precisely what the newspaper said because it prefers to use really big numbers that it knows are meaningless to almost all of its readers. It instead told readers that the aid is expected to be $16 billion. This is in addition to the 7.5 million food stamp person-years that farmers got in …
cepr.net/nyt-says-farmers-to-get-10-million-food-stamp-person-years-of-government-aid/

NYT Says Farmers to Get 10 Million Food Stamp Person Years of Government Aid
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-08
That is not precisely what the newspaper said because it prefers to use really big numbers that it knows are meaningless to almost all of its readers. It instead told readers that the aid is expected to be $16 billion. This is in addition to the 7.5 million food stamp person years that farmers got …
cepr.net/nyt-says-farmers-to-get-10-million-food-stamp-person-years-of-government-aid/

The Enemy is Government-Granted Patent Monopolies, not the Market
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-08
(This is the first entry in an exchange with Leigh Phillips. I am responding to a piece he wrote in Jacobin last week about the drug industry's response to the pandemic.) Leigh Phillips had a very useful piece in Jacobin on how patent protections are impeding progress in developing and distributing vaccines or treatments for …
cepr.net/the-enemy-is-government-granted-patent-monopolies-not-the-market/

New Jersey health department whistleblowers' letter highlights criminality of state's pandemic response
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
A letter by anonymous officials makes clear that thousands of deaths were the result of deliberate policy decisions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/newj-j08.html

Behind Covid Crisis: Agriculture Bill Amendment Aims to Deregulate GMOs in the UK
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-08
By Beyond GMO: It wasn't so long ago we reported a shambolic debate in the House of Lords, led by Viscount Ridley, which introduced the idea of deregulating GMOs in the UK. Advocates on both sides of the House showed how little they really understood the issues, but that doesn't mean the issues went away. …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/behind-covid-crisis-agriculture-bill-amendment-aims-to-deregulate-gmos-in-the-uk/

The purveyors of death cough up loose change for Yemen
wsws.org | 2020-06-08
It was no surprise that the response to the aid appeal was a noxious combination of hypocrisy, indifference and bullying.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/08/yeme-j08.html

'Why Minneapolis?': How Deep Surveillance of Black Muslims Paved the Way for George Floyd's Murder
Vanessa Taylor | progressive.org | 2020-06-08
The city has a long history of spying on its Black residents.
progressive.org/dispatches/deep-surveillance-black-muslims-taylor-200608/

The Fires This Time and Next
John G. Russell | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
George Floyd is dead, murdered by a policeman while three others stood by and did nothing to protect him. Eric Garner is dead, murdered by a policeman while at least seven others milled about and did nothing to protect him. Over the decades, countless and uncounted black men, women, and children have died, killed in the custody of police. Some of these deaths and the preludes to them have been captured by cellphone cameras and uploaded to social media. Many more have not.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/the-fires-this-time-and-next/

Minneapolis: 'Disband, defund,' or community control, of the police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Minneapolis, MN – On June 7, Minneapolis officials tried to pull one over on the people again, in the guise of promising real change after the murder of George Floyd. Nine city council members declared a "commitment to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department." The announcement was made at community meeting held by Black Visions and Reclaim the Block, two grassroots organizations that have been calling on the council to divest from MPD since 2018. | Even if the proposal comes to pass, it will do little to deliver true justice and to avenge the victims who have been brutalized and murdered by the police over th…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/8/minneapolis-disband-defund-or-community-control-police

Minneapolis: 'Disband, defund,' or community control, of the police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-08
Minneapolis, MN – On June 7, Minneapolis officials tried to pull one over on the people again, in the guise of promising real change after the murder of George Floyd. Nine city council members declared a "commitment to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department." The announcement was made at community meeting held by Black Visions and Reclaim the Block, two grassroots organizations that have been calling on the council to divest from MPD since 2018. | Even if the proposal comes to pass, it will do little to deliver true justice and to avenge the victims who have been brutalized and murdered by the police over th…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/8/minneapolis-disband-defund-or-community-control-police

Israeli Shabak Claims Arresting A Palestinian Believed To Be Behind The Death Of A Soldier During Jenin Invasion
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
The Israeli Security Agency (Shabak) lifted, on Sunday evening, a gag order on the abduction of a Palestinian who is believed to be behind the death of an Israeli soldier during an invasion into Ya'bad town, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, on May 12, 2020. The Shabak …
imemc.org/article/israeli-shabak-claims-arresting-a-palestinian-behind-the-death-of-a-soldier-during-jenin-invasion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-shabak-claims-arresting-a-palestinian-behind-the-death-of-a-soldier-during-jenin-invasion

Kevin Alexander Gray on KPFA
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
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An Unknowable Tragedy: Sundarbans After Cyclone Amphan‚Äã
Subhankar Banerjee | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
Asuper cyclone named Amphan struck Sundarbans on Wednesday, May 20, and continued north causing widespread destruction. A transnational nursery of universal importance, Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest on Earth and is situated on a delta formed by the confluence of three rivers–the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and the Meghna–on the Bay of Bengal spanning across south…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/an-unknowable-tragedy-sundarbans-after-cyclone-amphan%e2%80%8b/

Understanding the New Unemployment Numbers
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
Seventy-three percent of the unemployed report being on temporary layoffs. The May jobs numbers were considerably better than most analysts had expected with the economy reportedly adding 2,509,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate fell by 1.4 percentage points to 13.3 percent. This improved labor market picture should not have been surprising since many businesses across…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/understanding-the-new-unemployment-numbers/

Media Buries George W. Bush's Lies and Atrocities
James Bovard | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
Former president George W. Bush has returned to the spotlight to give moral guidance to America in these troubled times. In a statement released on Tuesday, Bush announced that he was "anguished" by the "brutal suffocation" of George Floyd and declared that…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/media-buries-george-w-bushs-lies-and-atrocities/

This is the Most Important Presidential Election Since the Last Presidential Election
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
Every four years without fail (and usually a little earlier in each quadrennial cycle), both "major" American political parties wind up and toss the same slow, fat pitch across the public's plate: This is the most important presidential election of our lifetimes. Maybe even the most important presidential election EVER. You gotta vote. And this…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/this-is-the-most-important-presidential-election-since-the-last-presidential-election/

Black Politics and Liberation: A CounterPunch Reading List
CounterPunch Editors | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
What It Feels Like to be Black in America by Kevin Alexander Gray What Does Black Lives Matter Want? by Robin D.G. Kelley Black Subjugation in America by Kim Scipes Until We Win: Black Labor and Liberation in the Disposable Era by Kali Akuno With or Without White People, Black Lives Matter by George Payne…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/cpreader/

Grizzly Deaths: Time to Admit to Yellowstone's Killing Crisis
Louisa Willcox | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
Recovery of grizzly bears

Israeli Soldiers Abduct 23 Palestinians In Occupied Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, 23 Palestinians, most of them are members of Fateh Movement, from their homes in several parts of occupied East Jerusalem, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported. Silwanic stated that the soldiers conducted violent searches of dozens of homes in …
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Four Palestinians, including a Child Abducted by Israeli Forces and Police
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
Israeli police abducted, on Sunday, abducted four Palestinians, including a child, from occupied east Jerusalem the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said that police forces stormed as-Sa'diyya neighborhood in Silwan district, and abducted a child, identified as Yazan Haddad. Also in Silwan, police abducted two young men after storming …
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Israeli Colonist Injures A Palestinian Child In Her Eye
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
An illegal Israeli colonialist settler attacked, Sunday, a Palestinian child in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, causing an injury in one of her eyes, in addition to cuts and bruises. Media sources said the colonist assaulted the child, identified as Mariam Yasser Najeeb, 11, while playing and riding her …
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Israeli Military Razes Land in Gaza, Sets up Mobile Homes in West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-08
The Israeli military invaded the blockaded Gaza Strip, on Monday morning, and razed land in the Abu Safiya area. A local monitor told Quds Press, that military vehicles, including 3 bulldozers intruded into and proceeded to level Palestinian lands, east of Jabalia, northern besieged Gaza Strip. In the occupied West …
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America Is trying to Ban Korea, Taiwan and China (!) From Selling Chips to Huawei If They've Been Made With US-Made Tools
David P. Goldman | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-08
Editor's note: In the long run why would anyone continue buying American machine tools? | | South Korea has told Washington that restrictions on semiconductor sales to Huawei and other Chinese companies are "unacceptable," according to industry sources. | Seoul is trying to mediate between Beijing and Washington following the US Commerce Department's May 18 announcement that sales of computer chips to companies on its "entity list" will require a license if they are produced with US technology, even if they are produced overseas by foreign companies. | After the US temporarily banned exports of high-end smar…
anti-empire.com/america-is-trying-to-ban-korea-taiwan-and-china-from-selling-chips-to-huawei-if-theyre-printed-with-us-made-machine-tools/

Syria Sends Advisors to Aid US Rebels
Addison Blu | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-08
WASHINGTON

Syria: Will the Great Middle Eastern War Begin in the Levant?
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-08
The world is in turmoil. 2020 has already brought major multiple crises, with the Iranian-American clash in Iraq which followed the US assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, and the COVID-19 health pandemic and economic disaster that struck all continents and stole the lives of over 400 thousand people around the world, costing tens of millions of jobs. None of this, however, prevented America from imposing even more sanctions on Iran, Syria and Venezuela. Iran

COVID-19, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter: The Battle for Control of the Internet
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-08
Many observers have noted that the time through which we are living now seems unprecedented. We are all experiencing an amazing convergence of so many monumental developments that combine into a fast-moving narrative. In recent days the focus suddenly shifted from COVID-19 and compulsory vaccines to insurrection and anarchy from within. Suddenly the vaccine czar, Bill Gates, has been swept from the center stage of current events. Suddenly multi-billionaire Gates has been upstaged by multi-billionaire George Soros. | What is going on? What are the themes of continuity and disjuncture that characterize the stran…
ahtribune.com/world/4209-covid-19-antifa-black-lives-matter.html

Colombia (Audio) Por la liberacià≤n de la Madre Tierra
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
La liberación de la Madre Tierra sigue bien parada, juntando fuerzas.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833859.php

Private prison corporations profit from civil unrest in Washington D.C
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
Letter From Nancy Pelosi To The Impeached President Donald J. Trump:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/05/18833845.php

Sunday 6/7: National Service of Mourning for Poor & Low-income Workers Lost to COVID-19 (PPC)
Poor Peoples Campaign & partners | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
Online livstream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833870.php

AFA-CWA Pres Sara Nelson Likes ILWU Action On June 9th To Act In Memorial To George Floyd
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-08
ILWU Local 10, 34 and all west coast locals will be stopping work on June 9,2020 to remember George Floyd who was murdered by the police in Minneapolis. Also there will be a West Coast shutdown of all Ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020. CWA AFA President Sara Nelson supported the action…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/08/18833960.php

Police Violence in Minneapolis Affirms Why Cops Have No Place in Labor Movement
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-08
The police have no place in the labor movement. They are an anti-labor institution and share no interests with the working class. For over 200 years, they have operated at the behest of white elites to ensure that workers remain divided by race. The fact that police are unionized should not distract us from this fundamental fact. | Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, the most recent in a long line of casualties that tog…
truthout.org/articles/police-violence-in-minneapolis-affirms-why-cops-have-no-place-in-labor-movement/

Worker Surveillance Is on the Rise, and Has Its Roots in Centuries of Racism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-08
As technology advances, so do the ever-watching eyes of the world's largest companies. High-tech workplace surveillance is troubling to workers who are organizing for a union and now have to work around not just management, but also seemingly omniscient machines. But as public conversation around workplace technology focuses on automation, a whole realm of technology is being developed so that companies can surveil their workers in order to manage their productivity, make hiring and promotion…
truthout.org/articles/worker-surveillance-is-on-the-rise-and-has-its-roots-in-centuries-of-racism/

Minneapolis City Council Members Pledge to Abolish the Police Department
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-08
A veto-proof majority of Minneapolis city council members pledged on Sunday to vote in favor of a resolution disbanding the city's police force and replacing it with a broad system of community responses to the city's issues. | Nine councilmembers announced their intent to "dismantle" and "abolish" the police department and system of policing currently in place in Minneap…
truthout.org/articles/minneapolis-city-council-members-pledge-to-abolish-the-police-department/

New Zealand eradicates coronavirus
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-08
New Zealand has eradicated the coronavirus from its shores after health officials reported on Monday that the final person known to have been infected had recovered.The news swiftly led to the country's government announcing all forms of public events can again take place without limitations or social distancing guidelines.It has been 17 days since the last new case was reported in New Zealand, and Monday also marked the first time since late February there had been no active cases.Health officials caution that new cases could be imported into the country, which has closed its borders to everybody but citizens an…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/06/08/new-zealand-eradicates-coronavirus/

Survey highlights loneliness of young people during lockdown
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-08
More than half of young people who said their wellbeing has been affected by the coronavirus lockdown have experienced loneliness, analysis suggests. | An Opinions and Lifestyle Survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that 50.8% of those aged 16 to 24 said they were lonely during the lockdown. | By contrast, just under a quarter (24.1%) of people aged 55 to 69 who reported their wellbeing as being affected by the lockdown said they had felt lonely. | The ONS said this echoes previous research exploring chronic loneliness, showing that people in younger age groups were most likely to report lone…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/08/survey-highlights-loneliness-of-young-people-during-lockdown/

Million-pound fund a "step change" for innovative coronavirus research
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-08
Community Jameel and Imperial College London have created a new fund to support the scale-up of crucial COVID-19 projects.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197914/million-pound-fund-step-change-innovative-coronavirus

Lockdown and school closures in Europe may have prevented 3.1m deaths
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-08
Large-scale lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions in Europe have been successful in reducing the transmission levels of SARS-CoV-2.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198074/lockdown-school-closures-europe-have-prevented

Countries must work together on CO2 removal to avoid dangerous climate change
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-08
The Paris Agreement lays out national quotas on CO2 emissions but not removal, and that must be urgently addressed, say the authors of a new study.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197993/countries-must-work-together-co2-removal

'We KNEW a pandemic would happen': It's UNCLEAR if EU will handle 2nd Covid-19 wave any better, Austrian ex-FM tells RT
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Covid-19 did not come out of the blue but the EU still had trouble uniting its members, Austria's retired chief diplomat told RT, adding there is no certainty the bloc will perform better when the deadly virus makes a comeback. | "That there will be pandemics, everybody knew it, and plans had been there," Karin Kneissl, former Austrian foreign minister, told RT. | Ahead of the coronavirus pandemic, every EU member had had both a national crisis strategy and a plan how to tackle it on a coordinated EU level, she explained. | Given such plans "do exist," she said it was puzzling…
rt.com/news/491181-kneissl-eu-covid-second-wave/

WHO warns of Covid-19 rebound risk, says pandemic is 'WORSENING' globally
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Now is not the time to become complacent and drop our guard about the coronavirus as the pandemic is still growing globally, World Health Organization officials have warned. | Despite some improvements in infection rates in Europe, the global Covid-19 situation is "worsening" yet again, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday during an online press briefing. Sunday, June 7, had most reported cases in a single day so far of the outbreak, he added. | According to Tedros, active surveillance and contact tracing are still essential to ensure the virus doesn't rebound.
rt.com/news/491236-who-coronavirus-worsening-rebound-warning/

'We KNEW a pandemic would happen': UNCLEAR whether EU will handle 2nd Covid-19 wave any better, ex-Austrian FM tells RT
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Covid-19 did not come out of the blue but the EU still had trouble uniting its members, Austria's retired chief diplomat told RT, adding that there's no certainty the bloc will perform better if the deadly virus makes a comeback. | "That there will be pandemics, everybody knew it, and plans had been there," Karin Kneissl, the former Austrian foreign minister, told RT. | Ahead of the coronavirus pandemic, every EU member state had had both a national crisis strategy and a plan for tackling it on a coordinated EU level, she explained. | Given such plans "do exist," she said it was puzzling "why there was not mor…
rt.com/news/491181-kneissl-eu-covid-second-wave/

Tunisian president ends coronavirus curfew
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Tunisia on Monday ordered an end to a curfew imposed in March to help slow the spread of coronavirus. Announcing President Kais Saied's decision, his office cited success in controlling the disease. | Shops, businesses, mosques, cafes and hotels in the country had already been reopened after the government locked down nearly all ordinary business for months. | The country has recorded 1,048 cases of Covid-19 and 48 deaths, compared with nearly 10,000 cases in neighboring Algeria, Reuters reported. | Tunisians returned to mosques and cafes on June 4, and international borders will reopen fully by the end of the…
rt.com/newsline/491214-tunisia-ends-curfew-president/

WATCH: Mysterious FIREBALL lights up skies in eastern US, burns so bright it was seen from Canada
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Stunning video shows an incredibly bright fireball lighting up the skies above Tennessee, but the as-yet-unexplained phenomenon was so bright that it was visible from as far north as Canada. | The American Meteor Society received at least 120 reports from 12 states across the US –and several from Ontario in Canada– about an extremely bright object in the sky. Despite the number of observers, so far only one video of the fireball has appeared online. | Fireball caught over Knoxville, TN last night | This fireball has been see from IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV & Ontario! We received 1…
rt.com/usa/491209-mysterious-fireball-eastern-united-states-video/

WATCH Russian army SHOOT burning Siberian oil well with anti-tank gun to put out fire
rt.com | 2020-06-08
The Russian Defense Ministry helped put out a blaze at an oil well in the Irkutsk region by demolishing the burning wellhead with point-blank fire from an anti-tank gun flow into the remote area of Siberia. | Soldiers from the Central Military District, still wearing their Covid-19 protection masks, can be seen maneuvering the T-12 cannon off a trailer, and positioning it mere 180 meters (200 yards) away from the burning wellhead, then repeatedly shooting it with 100-mm shells. | The operation was carried out "with jeweler's precision," the Defense Ministry said in a statement accompanying the video. | With…
rt.com/russia/491243-russia-gun-oil-well-fire/

Isn't that racist? Kentucky governor vows to 'prioritize' free healthcare for African Americans
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear intends to 'put dollars' into ensuring all of the state's African-American residents have healthcare, citing 'inequalities' in Covid-19 treatment

WATCH Russian Army SHOOT burning Siberian oil well with anti-tank gun to put out fire
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Russia's Defense Ministry has carried out an unusual operation in Eastern Siberia. Soldiers helped put out a blaze at an oil well by demolishing the burning wellhead with point-blank fire from an anti-tank gun. | Troops from the Central Military District, still wearing their Covid-19 protection masks, can be seen maneuvering the T-12 cannon off a trailer, and positioning it a mere 180 meters (200 yards) away from the target, then repeatedly shooting it with 100mm shells. | The operation, in the Irkutsk region, was carried out "with a jeweler's precision," the Defense Ministry said in a statement accompanying t…
rt.com/russia/491243-russia-gun-oil-well-fire/

Isn't that racist? Kentucky governor vows to 'prioritize' free healthcare for African-Amerians
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear intends to 'put dollars' into ensuring all of the state's African-American residents have healthcare, citing 'inequalities' in Covid-19 treatment

Putin praises Egypt's efforts towards Libyan settlement in phone call with President Sisi
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Cairo's diplomatic efforts towards Libya's settlement in a telephone conversation with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatah el-Sisi on Monday, the Kremlin press service said. | The presidents "confirmed a mutual bid towards continuing coordination with an aim to ensure the soonest end of warfare and the launch of intra-Libyan talks under the UN auspices," the Kremlin said. | The phone call was initiated by Egypt. Sisi briefed Putin on the talks in Cairo on June 6 with President of the Libyan House of Representatives Aguila Saleh and Commander of the Libyan National Army…
rt.com/newsline/491220-putin-egypt-libya-sisi/

WHO urges states to press on with efforts to contain pandemic and prevent second peaks
rt.com | 2020-06-08
The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries on Monday to press on with efforts to contain the coronovirus, saying the pandemic was worsening globally and has not peaked in Central America. | "More than six months into the pandemic, this is not the time for any country to take its foot off the pedal," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an online briefing in Geneva. | The top emergencies expert, Mike Ryan, said cases of infection in Central American countries were still on the rise. He called for international support for the region. | Ryan also said the need now was to focus on prevent…
rt.com/newsline/491228-who-contain-global-america/

North Korea vows to sever ALL communications with Seoul
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Pyongyang will cut off inter-Korean hotlines with Seoul, the government has threatened, insisting the south stop defectors from sending leaflets and other material across the DMZ, North Korean media reported. | Insisting the south must "pay the price" for tolerating "anti-Republican acts," on Tuesday the North Korean government said it would begin severing communications with Seoul, starting with a number of hotlines established between the two sides. | "The direct communication line between the Central Committee headquarters building and the Blue House will be completely blocked and discarded," Pyongyang said…
rt.com/news/491248-pyongyang-cuts-communication-lines-seoul/

North Korea vows to sever ALL communications with Seoul
rt.com | 2020-06-08
Pyongyang will cut off inter-Korean hotlines with Seoul, the government has threatened, insisting the South should stop defectors from sending leaflets and other material across the DMZ, North Korean media reported. | Demanding that the South must "pay the price" for tolerating "anti-republican acts," on Tuesday the North Korean government said it would begin severing communications with Seoul, starting with a number of hotlines established between the two sides. | "The direct communication line between the Central Committee headquarters building and the Blue House will be completely blocked and discarded," Py…
rt.com/news/491248-pyongyang-cuts-communication-lines-seoul/

Sticking to JCPOA sole way to tackle nuclear issue: China
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

US imposes new sanctions against Iranian tankers
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Tehran Univ. to host Intl. Conference on "Coronavirus Battlefield"
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

2,043 new coronavirus infections confirmed in Iran: spokseman
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Hashd al-Sha'abi, Iraqi Army launch op. against ISIL near Syrian border
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Leader thanks crew of oil tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Silkworm farm in NE Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
BOJNOURD, Jun. 08 (MNA)

VIDEO: Canadian former MP talks of racial violence, police brutality over Floyd's death
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Nature of Lake Soha to Laton waterfall with breathtaking views
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
ARDABIL, Jun. 09 (MNA)

Iranians stranded in Kazakhstan return home amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Indian ship evacuating nationals from Iranian port of Bandar Abbas
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Authority of Armed forces due to popularity: Ghalibaf
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

New bridge between Iran-Turkmenistan, source of strengthening ties between two nations'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Raeisi condemns West's hosting Iranian financial criminals
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Surge in production, key to resolve problems for entering new century: Pres. Rouhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-08
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

Google Says Will Roll Out COVID-19 Alerts on Affected Public Transit, Available Test Sites
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-08
NEW YORK (Sputnik) – Google announced that it will soon roll out novel coronavirus alerts that will help users avoid affected public transit systems and also know in advance if they are eligible to go to a particular testing site.
sputniknews.com/world/202006081079559687-google-says-will-roll-out-covid-19-alerts-on-affected-public-transit-available-test-sites/

US Nimitz Carrier Group Deploys After Crew Finishes Coronavirus Training, Quarantine
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-08
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US aircraft carrier Nimitz and elements of its strike group (NIM CSG) sailed into the Pacific after the entire crew completed a 14-day quarantine, tested negative for the novel coronavirus and practiced mitigation protocols while being tested during a pre-deployment cruise, the US Navy announced in a press release.
sputniknews.com/us/202006081079560223-us-nimitz-carrier-group-deploys-after-crew-finishes-coronavirus-training-quarantine/

Libya's National Oil Corporation Resumes Production at El Feel Oilfield
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-08
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Monday announced that oil production has resumed at the El Feel field in the southern part of the country, one day after resuming work at the Sharara field, and said that it was lifting force majeure on exports from both oilfields.
sputniknews.com/africa/202006081079559814-libyas-national-oil-corporation-resumes-production-at-el-feel-oilfield/

Turkish Central Bank to back import-cutting investments
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Turkey will continue to back investments that will reduce imports and increase exports, said Berat Albayrak, the country's treasury and finance minister, on Monday.Citing a recent announcement that the Turkish Central Bank would start reallocating its Turkish Lira rediscount credits for firms, Albayrak said a total of 400 million Turkish liras ($59 million) would be provided to companies with a maximum maturity of 10 years.By the end of March, the bank announced that Turkish lira rediscount credits of up to 60 billion Turkish liras ($8.9 billion) would be extended to exporting and FX-earning services to contain…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/turkish-central-bank-to-back-import-cutting-investments-3531485

Turkey orders 149 people detained for suspected FETàñ links
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Turkish security authorities on Monday launched multiple operations in various provinces to arrest terror suspects affiliated with the FETO

'Hunger is worse than corona': Sudanese demand end to lockdown amid economic woes
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Like many Sudanese, car mechanic Mohamed Othman says the government must end its coronavirus lockdown now so that he can get back to work because "me and my family have no other source of income".The transitional civilian government, which runs Sudan under a power-sharing deal with the army, ordered most businesses, markets, schools and mosques to shut and imposed travel restrictions nearly two months ago.But it is facing growing demands to end the restrictions from a population mired in poverty and facing annual inflation of nearly 100% as well as complaints that promised aid for poorer Sudanese has failed to ma…
yenisafak.com/en/world/hunger-is-worse-than-corona-sudanese-demand-end-to-lockdown-amid-economic-woes-3531499

Turkey exported 2,000 respirators during virus pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
During medical supply shortages in many countries worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic, Turkey managed to manufacture and export some 2,000 life-saving mechanical ventilators around the globe, including 1,500 to Brazil, said Turkey's technology and industry minister on Monday.Turkey also developed methods to produce two different medicines which it had previously imported, Mustafa Varank told an online meeting on COVID-19 vaccine and medicine projects.With severe shortness of breath a hallmark of the novel coronavirus, ventilators have been a critical need amid the global pandemic.Numerous countries faced diff…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-exported-2000-respirators-during-virus-pandemic-3531495

Turkey's first lady marks World Oceans Day
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Turkey's first lady on Monday marked the occasion of June 8, World Oceans Day."Water is life. Oceans are the home of countless species. Let's remember once again on June 8 #WorldOceans Day that the cleanliness of the oceans, seas and coasts is vital for our world," Emine Erdogan said on Twitter.She underlined that seas and oceans are the "common frontier" of all countries in the world, and called to act with a "common conscience" on this matter."If we can make #ZeroWaste philosophy a lifestyle that includes seas as well, we can carry the vast blues to the future," Erdogan said."Our children do not deserve a futur…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-first-lady-marks-world-oceans-day-3531487

Turkey's auto production tops 415,000 in Jan-May
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Automakers in Turkey produced 415,454 vehicles, including automobiles, light commercial vehicles, and tractors, in January-May, according to a sectoral report released on Monday.In the first five months of 2020, Turkey's auto production dropped 35% on a yearly basis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said the Automotive Manufacturers Association.The report said nearly 80% of manufactured vehicles were exported, marking a 38% annual decline to 331,391 units as most of the country's export markets implemented coronavirus-related lockdown measures.The country's automotive exports totaled some $9 billion in the five-month…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-auto-production-tops-415000-in-jan-may-3531483

Turkey introduces new regulations amid normalization
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Turkey revised Monday coronavirus measures for the normalization from the outbreak.An official letter by the Health Ministry, which was sent to governors' offices in 81 provinces as well as all health institutions of Turkey, said that some of the restrictions that had been implemented due to the outbreak are partially or totally lifted.According to the new rules, patient visits will be allowed for one person to meet the needs of the inpatient and the visit will be paid after working hours. Visits are not allowed in intensive and palliative care units.On condition of complying with the rules set up by the ministry…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-introduces-new-regulations-amid-normalization-3531482

Economies of Turkey, Italy to bounce: Italian chamber
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Turkey and Italy's economies will bounce in the manufacturing and tourism sectors when the wheels restart to turn amid the pandemic, the head of Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Monday.All countries plan to reactivate their economies to revive the global trade after the COVID-19 outbreak, Livio Manzini stressed in a press release.Several experts and economists believe Turkey will have an important role in global supply chains after the pandemic period, especially in its region.Turkey and Italy have $20 billions of bilateral trade volume, he said, adding: "This shows we are in second place among th…
yenisafak.com/en/news/economies-of-turkey-italy-to-bounce-italian-chamber-3531480

UK reports lowest daily COVID-19 deaths
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Britain on Monday reported 55 new coronavirus-related deaths, the lowest since the lockdown that started on March 23. The death toll rose to 40,597.The official figures released by the Department of Health and Social Care show a total of 287,399 people have tested positive so far.The country has now reported less than 100 deaths for a second day; however, the official reported numbers have been smaller during the outbreak due to lower reporting at weekends.No new deaths have been reported at London hospitals on Monday, according to the National Health Service England.- Mandatory self-isolationThe UK began imposin…
yenisafak.com/en/world/uk-reports-lowest-daily-covid-19-deaths-3531502

Iran's death toll from coronavirus surpasses 8,350
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
Iran on Monday confirmed 70 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,351. | A further 2,043 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 173,832, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said. | According to the spokesman, 136,360 people have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, while 2,619 patients remain in critical condition. | Some 1.1 million tests have been conducted in the country so far, according to the spokesman. | Iran sees an upward trend in daily infections in many provinces, especially in the s…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irans-death-toll-from-coronavirus-surpasses-8350-3531481

Germany: Suspect arrested over plans to attack Muslims
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-08
German police arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack against Muslims, officials announced on Monday.The suspect talked about his plans during an anonymous internet chat last week, state prosecutor's office in the northern German city of Celle said in a statement.He wanted to carry out an attack similar to the 2019 mosque shootings in New Zealand's Christchurch, to draw attention from the international media, the prosecutors said.Police found arms, hard drives, far-right publications and documents, during searches at the apartment of the suspect in the northern city of Hildesheim.Ge…
yenisafak.com/en/world/germany-suspect-arrested-over-plans-to-attack-muslims-3531503

There's a Much Better Way to Create Forest Jobs Than Ron Wyden's Big Timber Welfare Act, Pass NREPA Instead
Mike Garrity | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-08
Oregon's Democratic Senator Ron Wyden recently introduced a bill (S.3684) that uses the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to throw another $10.6 billion into the Forest Service budget. That's on top of the $5.7 billion Congress already appropriated to the agency this year and comes out to a whopping $45 million a day, most of which would be…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/08/theres-a-much-better-way-to-create-forest-jobs-than-ron-wydens-big-timber-welfare-act-pass-nrepa-instead/

Joe Biden Is A Racist Who Loves Police Brutality
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-08
Biden's history of enthusiastic racism stretches back decades. From the moment he entered the U.S. Senate in the early 1970s, he vocally opposed busing to achieve school desegregation. "Opposing busing" has long been racist code for opposing Black and brown children going to school with white children. At a time when "separate but equal" was beginning to become politically unpalatable, Biden's leadership against busing, in the most generous possible interpretation, provided cover for segregationists to continue their work. He has spent his life fighting for policies that make life worse for Black, Indigenous, and…
popularresistance.org/joe-biden-is-a-racist-who-loves-police-brutality/

FBI Launches Open Attack On 'Foreign' Alternative Media Outlets Challenging US Foreign Policy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-08
The FBI has publicly justified its suppression of dissenting online views about US foreign policy if a media outlet can be somehow linked to one of its adversaries. The Bureau's justification followed a series of instances in which Silicon Valley social media platforms banned accounts following consultations with the FBI. | In a particularly notable case in 2018, the FBI encouraged Facebook, Instagram and Google to remove or restrict ads on the American Herald Tribune (AHT), an online journal that published critical opinion articles on US policy toward Iran and the Middle East. The bureau has never offered a clea…
popularresistance.org/fbi-launches-open-attack-on-foreign-alternative-media-outlets/

What Next As The Whip Of Reaction Fails To Cow The Masses?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-08
Over the last two years, more Americans were killed by police than Americans were killed in combat in Afghanistan over the last 18 years. ‚ĨMore Americans were killed by police in the last three years than people were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. ‚Ä™Combine this with a devastating economic crisis and pandemic, and it is easy to understand why a tipping point has been reached, as the accumulated rage and humiliation of centuries spills over onto the streets. | Earlier this year, in the 2020 draft Perspectives for the Coming American Revolution, we wrote the following:…
popularresistance.org/what-next-as-the-whip-of-reaction-fails-to-cow-the-masses/

DeRay Mckesson got his start in the corporate school privatization movement
Drew Franklin | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-07
Before becoming a media celebrity backed by banks and large corporations, activist DeRay Mckesson was a ruthless school administrator and…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/07/deray-mckesson-tfa-corporate-school-privatization/

Media Downplay Global South Leadership on Covid-19
Alan MacLeod | commondreams.org | 2020-06-07
German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks to the Chancellery while accompanied by her bodyguards in Berlin on May 13, 2020. (Photo: Michael Kappeler/Picture Alliance via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/merkel_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/07/media-downplay-global-south-leadership-covid-19?cd-origin=rss

Message from Freedom Road Socialist Organization to the June 6 solidarity actions in Germany
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-07
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Freedom Road Socialist Organization to Rebell, the youth league of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD). | Freedom Road Socialist Organization salutes Rebell, the youth league of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, and all the participants in the June 6 solidarity actions that are standing with the great struggle against racist discrimination that is unfolding in the U.S. | The police murder of George Floyd and the rebellion in Minneapolis have set the U.S. ablaze with protests

Palestine Is Gone! Gone! راحت فلسطين
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
Lately, a particular memory/image of my grandmother Sitti Fattoum has been coming back to me vividly. She'd be sitting in a chair, maybe watching TV, or at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee, when suddenly, without provocation, she …
globalresearch.ca/palestine-gone-%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%aa-%d9%81%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b7%d9%8a%d9%86/5715237

PLO Official Condemns Israeli Violations in Occupied East Jerusalem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-07
Senior Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee, condemned on Sunday, what she described as Israeli violations across the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, in light of the recent Israeli entry ban, imposed on a grand Palestinian Muslim scholar. In a statement, issued by Ashrawi earlier today, the senior …
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Israeli Troops Shoot, Wound Five Palestinians in Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-07
On Saturday afternoon, Israeli occupying soldiers in Kufur Qaddoum village, on the outskirts of the Palestinian West Bank city of Qalqilia, reportedly shot and wounded five local Palestinian peaceful protestors with rubber-coated steel bullets. Local Palestinian sources said that an Israeli army troop attacked a peaceful protest near the Omar …
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Protesters attacked by the police and their allies have the moral right to defend themselves
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-06-07
Across the US, Black Lives Matter protesters are under violent attack by the police and the national guard. Far-right white supremacists are also visible. But people can only take so much, and if attacked, protesters have a moral right to defend themselves. | State violence: | The assaults on protesters by police and the national guard have been widespread. | For example, in Chicago: | Has nobody in charge of US police realised that everyone has mobile phones and that their violence against protesters will be filmed and sent around the globe? Each mindless attack on peaceful protesters adds fuel to the fl…
thecanary.co/global/2020/06/07/protesters-attacked-by-the-police-and-their-allies-have-the-moral-right-to-defend-themselves/

After peaceful protests, NSW Police take their violent revenge
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-07
Anti-racism Pip HinmanIssue 1268 Australia Black Lives Matter rally NSW Police Force SydneyJune 7, 2020Numbers count. The 50…
greenleft.org.au/content/after-peaceful-protests-nsw-police-take-their-violent-revenge

'You talk like Goebbels': Global Times editor-in-chief shoots back at Pompeo's parallels between China & Nazi Germany
rt.com | 2020-06-07
The editor-in-chief of a major Chinese tabloid slammed Mike Pompeo for comparing his country to Nazi Germany, likening his words to those of Hitler's propaganda chief and reminding the secretary of state of America's endless wars. | Hu Xijin took to Twitter on Sunday venting his anger about Mike Pompeo's remarks. | "You are inciting radical hostility and ripping the world apart. You aren't like a top diplomat, instead, you talk like Goebbels of Nazi Germany. I'm worried that world peace will eventually be destroyed by extreme politicians like you," he wrote. | You are inciting radical hostility and ripping the…
rt.com/news/491131-pompeo-goebbels-china-nazi/

Cops and protesters brawl in London, as PM declares demonstrations 'subverted by thuggery'
rt.com | 2020-06-07
After a peaceful demonstration at the US embassy, some 'Black Lives Matter' protesters in London showed up at Downing Street where the scene grew more chaotic. Police clashed with the crowd in an attempt to restore order. | The gathering at London's US embassy on Sunday drew thousands of people, and was the city's fourth 'Black Lives Matter' demonstration in a week. However, once the crowd dispersed, not everyone went home. Droves of people marched on Whitehall, rattling barriers outside Prime Minister Boris…
rt.com/uk/491141-london-protests-clashes-police/

National Guard Troops Refuse Trump's Race War
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
Courage to Resist is currently assisting members of the National Guard who resisted Trump's orders to violently attack people on the streets of Washington DC peacefully and lawfully protesting racial injustice. Now that Trump is threatening to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to send active-duty troops in cities across the US, it's time for every member of the military to search their conscience. We want to make sure we're there to support the brave men and women who continue to refuse these illegal orders. | One Guardsmen who is resisting Trump's orders originally hoped to join medical missions assisting in natural…
popularresistance.org/national-guard-troops-refuse-trumps-race-war/

Europe Protests in Support of US Anti-Racist Uprising Continue
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-07
Demonstrations against racism and calling for justice for George Floyd have continued Sunday across Europe in countries like the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, and Hungary among others. | RELATED: | Canada: Indigenous Groups Demand Probe After Shooting of Woman | Thousands of people gathered Sunday outside the British parliament and the United States embassy in London in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, despite official warnings to stay away for fea…
telesurenglish.net/news/Europe-Protests-in-Support-of-US-Anti-Racist-Uprising-Continue-20200607-0009.html

Denver labor rally calls for justice for George Floyd, victims of police violence
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-07
Denver, CO – Protests for George Floyd and other victims of police violence have continued into their second week in Denver, with thousands joining the struggle for justice. Saturday, June 6 saw a coalition of numerous labor unions join together to demand justice. Speakers from Teamsters Local 455, SEIU Local 105 and CWA Local 7777 emphasized the need for unity between the labor movement and anti-racist groups, noting that solidarity between the two groups is essential to ending police terror. | Zee Rainey, a steward from Teamsters Local 455 stated, "There's no hate unless we divide." The group then marched to t…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/7/denver-labor-rally-calls-justice-george-floyd-victims-police-violence

Thousands Protest Against Police Violence Outside US Embassies in UK and Spain
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-07
After the U.S. saw its largest demonstrations yet over the police killing of George Floyd, massive demonstrations kicked off Sunday outside of the U.S. embassies in the United Kingdom and Spain as thousands gathered in a show of solidarity with America's uprising against law enforcement brutality and systemic racial injustice. | Thousands of Britons fl…
truthout.org/articles/thousands-protest-against-police-violence-outside-us-embassies-in-uk-and-spain/

Taking a knee not enough? VIDEO shows Massachusetts police chief LYING FACE DOWN at urging of BLM protesters
rt.com | 2020-06-07
A video on social media shows the head of police in Webster, Massachusetts expressing his solidarity with Black Lives Matter activists by lying face down on the ground, prompting applause from protesters

Woke Justice: Philadelphia Inquirer chief editor loses job over 'Buildings Matter, Too' headline
rt.com | 2020-06-07
Stan Wischnowski, top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, faced the need to resign as the newspaper dared to question the consequences of the riots damaging the city's historic center. | The headline, which read "Buildings Matter, Too," sat atop a Tuesday column that in all respects was sympathetic to the crowds of protesters and rioters, even going as far as calling the smashing and burning of historic shopfronts "a just and justified response" to police brutality. Columnist Inga Saffron lamented though, that these buildings

Austin Police Department Allegedly Fakes Thank-You Notes Amid Floyd Protests, Receives Backlash
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-07
In every state and in almost every major city across the United States, as well as in many cities around the world, ongoing massive demonstrations against police brutality provoked by the killing of African-American George Floyd at the hands of white police officers last month are looking increasingly like a cultural movement.
sputniknews.com/us/202006071079550162-austin-police-department-allegedly-fakes-thank-you-notes-amid-floyd-protests-receives-backlash/

Chemical Weapon Use Is Dangerous In A Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
When Amira Chowdhury joined a protest in Philadelphia against police violence on Monday, she wore a mask to protect herself and others against the coronavirus. But when officers launched tear gas into the crowd, Chowdhury pulled off her mask as she gasped for air. "I couldn't breathe," she said. "I felt like I was choking to death." | Chowdhury was on a part of the Vine Street Expressway that ran underground. Everyone panicked as gas drifted into the dark, semi-enclosed space, she said. People stomped over her as they scrambled away. Bruised, she scaled a fence to escape. But the tear gas found her later that eve…
popularresistance.org/chemical-weapon-use-is-dangerous-in-a-pandemic/

China's Exports Rose in May, While Imports Fell Amid COVID-19
News Agencies | telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-07
China's exports rose by 1.4 percent year on year in yuan terms to 1.46 trillion yuan (about US$205.74 billion) in May, official data published Sunday revealed. | RELATED: | Trump Bans Chinese Airlines From Flying to the United States | However, imports fell by 12.7 percent to 1.01 trillion yuan last month, resulting in a trade surplus of 442.75 billion yuan, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) added. Foreign trade of goods decreased by 4.9 percent year on year in May to 2…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chinas-Exports-Rose-in-May-While-Imports-Fell-Amid-COVID-19-20200607-0010.html

Tripoli Gov't Vows to Retake Libya's East Held by Haftar
telesurenglish.net | 2020-06-07
The United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj promised Sunday to retake the country's east after launching an offensive Saturday to capture the strategic city of Sirte from the eastern-based forces of General Khalifa Haftar. | RELATED: | Libya's Haftar Backs Ceasefire Following Series of Losses | "Libya will not be completed without its east," Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha added. | Sirte is the traditional boundary between L…
telesurenglish.net/news/Tripoli-Govt-Vows-to-Retake-Libyas-East-Held-by-Haftar-20200607-0006.html

"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

Gangster State Capitalism
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
Hanne Herland of the European Herland Report has just had her book published in which she argues that the ruling elite has resurrected feudalism by financializing the economy and offshoring middle class jobs. The title is New Left Tyranny, …
globalresearch.ca/gangster-state-capitalism/5715241

George Floyd Is the Spark but Systemic Issues Are the Fuel
Keith Lamb | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
As a European growing up in the Cold War with the image of America as the land of liberty and freedom the scenes of carnage that we see today are truly saddening. Superficially this is a problem of racial discrimination …
globalresearch.ca/george-floyd-spark-systemic-issues-fuel/5715239

Who Is the Source of Violence in the US?
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-07
The 1% is the source of violence in the U.S. Antifa is nothing but a flag which is carried mostly by "secret informants" rather than by a few politically confused Antifa disciples! | The Trump Administration is using this name to …
globalresearch.ca/source-violence-us/5715243

Bringing the coral reefs back to life
news.un.org | 2020-06-07
Coral reefs are being killed by the climate crisis, which is leading to rising sea temperatures. "Cryopreservation", a pioneering scientific technique, could be one way to help save them.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1065632

Israeli Troops Demolish Palestinian-owned Stands at Qalandia Checkpoint
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-07
Israeli Troops reportedly knocked down, on Sunday, several Palestinian-owned grocery stands near the Israeli-controlled Qalandia checkpoint, to the north of internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that an Israeli army bulldozer began knocking down the stands, owned by vendors and some other small commercial outlets, abruptly …
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Indigenous youth leader: 'We are rising up against police brutality against First Nations people'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-07
Anti-racism Paul GregoireIssue 1268 Australia First Nations Black deaths in custody Black Lives MatterJune 7, 2020On J…
greenleft.org.au/content/indigenous-youth-leader-we-are-rising-against-police-brutality-against-first-nations-people

Gumbaynggirr custodians stop work in Nambucca State Forest
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-07
Environment Kerry Smith Issue 1268 Australia Nambucca Heads State ForestJune 7, 2020Gumbaynggirr custodians are claiming a hard-fought victory by stopping the NSW Forestry Corporation from logging cultural sites in the Nambucca State forest. | On June…
greenleft.org.au/content/gumbaynggirr-custodians-stop-work-nambucca-state-forest

FBI Launches Open Attack on 'Foreign' Alternative Media Outlets Challenging U.S. Foreign Policy
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-07
Thus the question of "attribution" has become the FBI's key lever for censoring alternative media that publishes critical content on U.S. foreign policy, or which attacks mainstream and corporate media narratives. If an outlet can be somehow linked to a foreign adversary, removing it from online platforms is fair game for the feds.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/07/fbi-launches-open-attack-foreign-alternative-media-outlets-challenging-us-foreign-policy/

They Don't Care About the Data, and They Never Have
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-07
Allan STEVO | The number of viruses in you, or any other perfectly healthy human, at this moment outnumber your own cells by a factor of 100, as virologist Dr. John Mokili points out: "In the human holobiont, the 10^13 human cells are outnumbered 10-fold by bacteria and 100-fold by viruses." Is the world really turning upside down over a virus? | Data Is Readily Available Today Like Never Before | We live in the age of the Internet. That means with a few clicks, viewpoints that used to take hours of librar…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/07/they-dont-care-about-the-data-and-they-never-have/

Colombia (Audio) Por la liberacià≤n de la Madre Tierra
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-06-07
La liberación de la Madre Tierra sigue bien parada, juntando fuerzas.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833859.php

Imperial social enterprise to accelerate low-cost COVID-19 vaccine
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-07
Imperial College London has formed a new social enterprise VacEquity Global Health (VGH) to bring its COVID-19 vaccine to the world.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198053/imperial-social-enterprise-accelerate-low-cost-covid-19

630 kg of illicit drugs seized in S Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-07
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA)

US senator Scott says China trying to sabotage vaccine development
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-07
The United States has evidence China is trying to slow down or sabotage the development of a COVID-19 vaccine by Western countries, Republican senator Rick Scott said on Sunday."We have got to get this vaccine done. Unfortunately we have evidence that communist China is trying to sabotage us or slow it down," he said during an interview on BBC TV."China does not want us … to do it first, they have decided to be an adversary to Americans and I think to democracy around the world."Asked what evidence the United States had, Scott declined to give details but said it had come through the intelligence community."Thi…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-senator-scott-says-china-trying-to-sabotage-vaccine-development-3531416

More On Mueller's Forensics-Free Findings
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-07
At the time of our Memo, it was already clear that Mueller's findings would be fatally incomplete. We were virtually certain that Mueller's report would lack the forensic findings that we VIPS had arrived at through the kind of rigorous investigation that the FBI avoided doing. So we gave our Memo to you with the title: "Mueller's Forensics-Free Findings". | Sans forensics, Mueller's report fell far short of Rosenstein's earlier commitment "to ensure a full and thorough investigation". It was also clear to us that relying for forensics on CrowdStrike, a private cyber-security firm of checkered reputation, picked…
popularresistance.org/more-on-muellers-forensics-free-findings/

[Perspectives] Indigenous populations: left behind in the COVID-19 response
Kaitlin Curtice, Esther Choo | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
Scholar Annie Belcourt described Native American populations in the USA as having lives that are "challenging and short". Globally, across countries and populations, Indigenous peoples face a greater burden of disease than non-Indigenous peoples, including cardiovascular disease and HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, and have higher infant and maternal mortality and lower life expectancy. Their health is impacted by epigenetic stressors of generational oppression and violence, including disproportionate numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous women, lower educational attainment, and persistent poverty.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31242-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] COVID-19 vaccine development pipeline gears up
Asher Mullard | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
Vaccine makers are racing to develop COVID-19 vaccines, and have advanced ten candidates into clinical trials. But challenges remain. Asher Mullard reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31252-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Healthier societies for healthy populations
Healthier Societies for Healthy Populations Group | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
The COVID-19 pandemic makes the importance of health and wellbeing clear. The pandemic's implications for societies are far reaching. Yet the response to this pandemic and the creation and promotion of health and wellbeing require action beyond the health sector–and beyond the usual ways of working in global health. Governments are not adequately tackling inequality, ongoing economic crises, or continuing environmental damage, which undermines the health of current and future generations. For example, tobacco and alcohol use, unhealthy diets, air pollution, and insufficient physical exercise contribute to m…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31039-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Journal of a plague year
Phil Withington | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year is one of the best single accounts of an epidemic written in English. Published anonymously in 1722 as a contribution to public debates about the prospect of plague reaching Britain from the French port of Marseilles, it takes the form of the literary memoir by "H.F." during London's "great plague" of 1665. The sources for the memoir and its status as fact or fiction are complicated. Defoe clearly had strong opinions, informed by continental initiatives, about how societies and people should respond to plague and he used Restoration London as a place to rehearse them.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31243-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Regenerative medicine: challenges and opportunities
Giulio Cossu, Robin Fears, George Griffin, Volker ter Meulen | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
In 2018, the Lancet Commission on stem cells and regenerative medicine1 reported how, despite an exponential growth in experimental therapies, there had been limited clinical uptake. Regenerative medicine comprises various novel approaches such as cell and gene therapy that have produced life-saving therapies for a few genetic diseases affecting blood or skin. Enthusiasm about the broad potential of regenerative medicine led to a gap between expectations and the realities of translating technologies into clinical practice.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31250-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Review] Quality of primary health care in China: challenges and recommendations
Xi Li, Harlan M Krumholz, Winnie Yip, Kar Keung Cheng, Jan De Maeseneer, Qingyue Meng, Elias Mossialos, Chuang Li, Jiapeng Lu, Meng Su, Qiuli Zhang, Dong Roman Xu, Liming Li, Sharon-Lise T Normand, Richard Peto, Jing Li, Zengwu Wang, Hongbing Yan, Runlin Gao, Somsak Chunharas, Xin Gao, Raniero Guerra, Huijie Ji, Yang Ke, Zhigang Pan, Xianping Wu, Shuiyuan Xiao, Xinying Xie, Yujuan Zhang, Jun Zhu, Shanzhu Zhu, Shengshou Hu | thelancet.com | 2020-06-06
China has substantially increased financial investment and introduced favourable policies for strengthening its primary health care system with core responsibilities in preventing and managing chronic diseases such as hypertension and emerging infectious diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, widespread gaps in the quality of primary health care still exist. In this Review, we aim to identify the causes for this poor quality, and provide policy recommendations. System challenges include: the suboptimal education and training of primary health-care practitioners, a fee-for-service payment s…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30122-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Urge your Reps to help end police violence!
Jon Rainwater | peaceaction.org | 2020-06-01
George Floyd should still be alive today. Since we can't bring him back to his family, we must take action for justice. We need to take action for justice for George as well as for Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Oscar Grant, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner and ALL the thousands of people whose names …
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Action Alert: Call Your Rep to Cut Pentagon Spending
Paul Kawika Martin | peaceaction.org | 2020-05-12
☎️🗣Call your Reps. to ✂ Pentagon spending Over the last few weeks, we've alerted you that the Pentagon is trying to direct funds for COVID-19 relief into its own bloated coffers. In the last three years alone