Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2020-06-15
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia's guidelines.
mronline.org/2020/06/15/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing

Let Them Eat Weapons: Trump's Bizarre Arms Race
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-06-15
In late May of this year, President Donald Trump's special envoy for arms control bragged before a Washington think tank that the U.S. government was prepared to outspend Russia and China to win a new nuclear arms race. "The president has made clear that we have a tried and true practice here," he remarked.
zcomm.org/zblogs/let-them-eat-weapons-trumps-bizarre-arms-race/

Buffalo Police Assault 75-Year-Old Longtime Peace Activist
Lu Aya | zcomm.org | 2020-06-15
Now Trump is attacking him too…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/buffalo-police-assault-75-year-old-longtime-peace-activist/

Listening to our Anger and Angst
Dr. Hakim | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-15
The family of a killed protester demand fair distribution of bread (Credit: Tolo News) COVID-19 is clarifying a significant source of global anger and angst: inequality. At the start of the COVID-19 crisis, Afghanistan had 300 ventilators, only one ventilator for every 110,000 Afghans. As a medical physician, I gasped, my heart racing at the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/listening-to-our-anger-and-angst/

Re-evaluating and recalibrating predictors of bacterial infection in children with cancer and febrile neutropenia
Gabrielle M Haeusler, Robert Phillips, Monica A. Slavin, Franz E Babl, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Francoise Mechinaud, Karin A. Thursky, Australian PICNICC study group and the PREDICT network | thelancet.com | 2020-06-15
Degree of marrow suppression (low platelets), features of inflammation (temperature) and clinical judgement (severely unwell) have been consistently shown to predict infection in children with FN. Recalibration of existing CDRs is a novel way to improve diagnostic performance of CDRs and maintain relevance over time.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30138-3/fulltext?rss=yes

Exploring the relationship between spousal violence during pregnancy and subsequent postpartum spacing contraception among first-time mothers in India
Lotus McDougal, Jay G. Silverman, Abhishek Singh, Anita Raj | thelancet.com | 2020-06-15
: Women who experience spousal abuse during pregnancy have different postpartum contraceptive use patterns. The unique needs of this population should be incorporated into antenatal and postpartum contraceptive counseling. Efforts to increase spacing contraception use in India must consider experiences of gender-based violence and coercion.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30158-9/fulltext?rss=yes

Workers' anger grows as auto companies continue coverup of COVID-19 in the factories
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
General Motors and Ford have made it an official policy not to report the number and locations of confirmed COVID-19 cases at their factories, while Fiat Chrysler has also apparently stopped reporting coronavirus cases.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/auto-j15.html

New cases of COVID-19 reach 8 million as Latin America still to peak
wsws.org | 2020-06-15
While the Western Hemisphere is currently the epicenter of the pandemic, there has been a new outbreak in China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/15/coro-j15.html

Health Passports — biosurveillance and pervasive health monitoring to be rolled out
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-15
By Rob Woodward — TruePublica: VST Enterprises Ltd (VSTE) the British cybersecurity company founded by tech entrepreneur Louis-James Davis announced recently that a 'sports health passport' style app was now in play to help kick start attendance at all British sporting events over the coming months as Britain emerges and recovers from Covid-19. VSTE want …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/health-passports-biosurveillance-and-pervasive-health-monitoring-to-be-rolled-out/

NYT Gives Up on Logic in News Reporting — Tells Readers of Risk of Relying on China, with Zero Argument
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-15
The NYT ran a piece with a headline that began "break the China Habit," and featured the subhead, "the risks of relying economically on the Asian superpower have never seemed clearer. But as the world tries to get moving again, it needs China more than ever." Perhaps the paper considered the risks so apparent that …
cepr.net/nyt-gives-up-on-logic-in-news-reporting-tells-readers-of-risk-of-relying-on-china-with-zero-argument/

What About the International Students?
Jimin Kang | thenation.com | 2020-06-15
What About the International Students?
thenation.com/article/world/international-students-coronavirus/

This tweet says it all
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-15
TruePublica Editor: There's no need for me to explain anything at all here. The image shows far-right thugs in a full-on Nazi salute aimed at the Met Police who are not just protecting statues and property but now more increasingly democracy itself. Hit the link and start reading a Twitter thread starting from Tom London …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/this-tweet-says-it-all/

The Struggle Against Police Is International. Our Solidarity Must Be Global
Austin C. McCoy | zcomm.org | 2020-06-15
These global expressions of solidarity underscore a long simmering discontent with state violence against Black and Indigenous people, and other communities of color…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-struggle-against-police-is-international-our-solidarity-must-be-global/

LSE Director: You cannot solve a global pandemic with national policies
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-15
By Dame Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics. One of the paradoxes of this pandemic is that even as we are forced to turn inwards, we need each other's cooperation more than ever. Most of us are becoming more self-reliant — staying at home, engaging less with others, even braving baking and …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/lse-director-you-cannot-solve-a-global-pandemic-with-national-policies/

Spike Lee Has Made His Most Ambitious Film Yet
David Sims | zcomm.org | 2020-06-15
Da 5 Bloods is a searing Vietnam War epic that speaks to this moment…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/spike-lee-has-made-his-most-ambitious-film-yet/

The Uprising Is Only Beginning: Building Power To Win Our Demands
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-15
The current uprising against police violence and racism is just beginning. It is rapidly shifting public consciousness on issues of policing, violence against Black people and others, and systemic racism. The movement is deepening and becoming broader as well as putting forward solutions and making demands. | The confluence of crises including recent police violence, the COVID-19 pandemic, and economic collapse along with the ongoing crises of lack of healthcare, poverty, inequality, homelessness, personal debt, and climate plus awareness of mirage democracy in the United States have created a historic moment ful…
popularresistance.org/the-uprising-is-only-beginning/

Pragmatic Advice For Peaceful Protests
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-15
It's imperative that all protests, whether about anti-racism or any other issue, remain peaceful and within the realm of the relevant laws of whichever country they're occurring in otherwise people could get hurt or worse. | The anti-racism protests that have erupted all throughout the West since the death of George Floyd in police custody at the end of last month have unfortunately transformed into a spree of urban terrorism that runs the risk of discrediting the noble message behind this movement. It's imperative that all protests, whether…

Pragmatic Advice For Peaceful Protests

Israel owns 90 nuclear warheads: Report
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
Israel is believed to possess between 80 and 90 nuclear warheads, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday. | In a report, SIPRI said Israel continues to pursue a policy of ambiguity regarding its nuclear program. | It said that the number of nuclear warheads in Israel rose to 90, up from 80 warheads in 2019. | "The nine nuclear-armed states–the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)–together possessed an estimated 13,400 nuclear weapons at the start of 2020," the S…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israel-owns-90-nuclear-warheads-report-3532114

Iran's coronavirus deaths near 9,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
A further 2,449 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 189,876, Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari said. | A total of 150,590 people have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, he said, adding that 2,765 remain at hospitals in critical conditions. | Some 1.269 million tests have been done in the country to date, Lari said. | Iran's daily number of COVID-19 cases dropped to around 800 in early May, but since authorities eased restrictions, daily figures have shown an upward trend, especially in the southwestern Khuzestan province. | Despite the rising number of in…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irans-coronavirus-deaths-near-9000-3532116

S.Africa: COVID-19 cases top 70,000, deaths at 1,480
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
South Africa saw a massive jump in coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, with 4,302 cases recorded, bringing the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 70,038.Zweli Mkhize, South Africa's health minister, also said in a statement that 57 more COVID-19 deaths had been recorded, bring the total fatalities to 1,480 with a mortality rate of 2.2%.Despite the high numbers of cases and deaths, health experts continue to applaud South Africa's mass testing campaign.South Africa has so far tested 1.12 million people for COVID-19, with 34,071 tests done over the weekend."The recoveries to date ar…
yenisafak.com/en/world/safrica-covid-19-cases-top-70000-deaths-at-1480-3532108

Turkey: Gov't budget balance posts $14B gap in Jan-May
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
The Turkish central government registered a budget deficit of 90.1 billion Turkish liras (some $14 billion) in January-May, the country's Treasury and Finance Ministry reported Monday.Turkey's budget revenue reached 389.1 billion Turkish liras ($60.8 billion) in the first five months of the year, up 12% year-on-year.Budget expenditures rose 15.7% on an annual basis to hit 479.2 billion Turkish liras (74.9 billion) from January to May — marking a 90.1 billion Turkish lira (some $60.8 billion) gap.The budget balance, excluding interest payments, posted a deficit of 25.1 billion Turkish liras ($4 billion) in the fi…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/turkey-govt-budget-balance-posts-14b-gap-in-jan-may-3532111

Irish parties agree coalition deal
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
Ireland's Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Green parties struck a deal to form a new coalition government on Monday that if ratified by grassroots members will end a months-long political deadlock, a government spokesman said.The agreement must be approved over the coming 10 days or so by members from each party, with the smaller Greens requiring two-thirds support, a higher bar than the larger two historic rival parties and which could yet scupper the deal.The parties want the new government in place before the end of June as the fractured parliament cannot pass any new laws, including those to uphold a 6.5 billion eu…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irish-parties-agree-coalition-deal-3532115

Coronavirus cases in Africa exceed 242,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
The number of coronavirus cases in Africa has reached 242,105, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.Death toll across 54 countries in the continent went up to 6,464, while recoveries stand at 109,977, bringing the total number of active cases to 125,664.The Southern Africa region recorded 73,600 cases, of which South Africa's number stood at 70,000 cases, and with the second most-affected country Zambia registering 1,400 cases.North Africa has 67,600 infections, West 51,300, East 26,700 and Central Africa 22,900.At least 2,700 people have died of the virus so far in North Africa, 1…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-cases-in-africa-exceed-242000-3532109

Muslim | man invents | corona-free bell | for | Hindu temple | in | India
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
In the wake of the deadly coronavirus, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across the world, a Muslim mechanic in India developed an innovative bell which can be rung without being touched for a major Shiva temple in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh. 62-year-old Nahru Khan equipped the bell with an electric sensor after temples were reopened in India with strict measures that included not touching bells to prevent the spread of the pandemic, reported the Indian Express.The development of the bell in question with its electric sensor technology is reportedly one-of-a-kind in India."It's a conta…
yenisafak.com/en/world/muslimman-inventscorona-free-bellforhindu-templeinindia-3532112

Turkey's indigenous electric train to serve by year-end
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
First Turkish-made electric train, with its tests to be conducted on Aug. 30, will start serving before the end of this year, transport and infrastructure minister said on Monday."Aluminum body production, painting, sandblasting tests of the train set were put into operation in 2019," Adil Karaismailoglu said during his visit to the Turkish Wagon Industry (TUVASAS) plant in the country's northwestern province of Sakarya.The design and operating speeds of the first train set produced were planned as 176 kilometers per hour (109.3 miles per hour), and 160 km/h (99.4 mi/h), respectively."We work on domestic-made hig…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-indigenous-electric-train-to-serve-by-year-end-3532107

Turkey, Russia to continue talks for truce in Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-15
Turkey will continue talks with Russia to reach a lasting cease-fire in Libya, said Turkey's foreign minister on Monday.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have "agreed to continue working together to establish a lasting cease-fire in Libya," Mevlut Cavusoglu told a joint press conference alongside his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif, who is visiting the Turkish capital Ankara.Libya's government, which enjoys recognition by the UN, has been under attack by warlord Khalifa Haftar's forces since April 2019, with more than 1,000 killed in the violence.After launching a counter…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-russia-to-continue-talks-for-truce-in-libya-3532113

Tehran-Istanbul direct flights to be resumed
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-15
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — Tehran-Istanbul direct flights, halted under the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, are to be resumed as of July 21.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159834/Tehran-Istanbul-direct-flights-to-be-resumed

Corporate Media Are Focusing on Race — and Dodging Class
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
Economic exploitation, hidden in plain sight…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834178.php

Fatal encounters with the cops in Oakland
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
Protest Against Police Brutality and Killer Cops:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/13/18834208.php

US tech giants aid police militarization and surveillance
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
Despite issuing statements of sympathy for protesters demanding an end to police violence and racism, tech corporations are integral to the increasing militarization of the police.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/13/18834213.php

Iranian, Turkish FMs hold meeting on regional developments
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-15
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met and held talks with his Turkish counterparts on the regional developments and bilateral relations.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159830/Iranian-Turkish-FMs-hold-meeting-on-regional-developments

U.S. President Trump sparks renewed interest in Juneteenth Celebrations Globally
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
"In 1535, the first enslaved Pan African were recorded in California. Spanish conquistadors brought enslaved Pan Africans for conquest and who were later breed with indigenous population (Afro-Latino) throughout "New Spain" and much, much later evolved into today's Republic of Mexico. Authentic Alta California History remains cloaked in slavery and secrecy that remains off limits for any principled dialogue as the California State Legislature prepares for a 2020 Juneteenth State Budget due next week.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834184.php

ILWU Work Action On W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
The ILWU on the West Coast will shut down all ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020 to stop police terror and systemic racism.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834196.php

Friday 6/19: ILWU Shutting Down W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
SSA Terminals 1717 Middle Harbor Road at the Port of Oakland to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834197.php

Friday 6/19: JUNETEENTH: West Coast Port Shutdown
International Longshore and Warehouse Union | indybay.org | 2020-06-15
Meet at 1717 Middle Harbor Road and caravan to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834195.php

The pandemic is giving rise to conspiracy theorists
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-15
Education Coral WynterIssue 1269 Australia QAnon conspiracy COVID-19 Donald TrumpJu…
greenleft.org.au/content/pandemic-giving-rise-conspiracy-theorists

Thousands march in Minneapolis to oppose police crimes
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-14
Minneapolis, MN — More than 3000 rallied on the Hennepin County Government Center Plaza, June 13, as people across the country rallied and marched against police crimes. The spirited rally was followed by a march through downtown streets. | The protest was initially called by Black Lives Matter Minnesota as an International Solidarity Day of Protest Against Police Terror. The Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar joined the effort, as a part of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repressions' National Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes. The Native Lives Matter Youth Alliance also join…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/14/thousands-march-minneapolis-oppose-police-crimes

The Corona Pandemic and Trump's Trade War against China: America's Dependence on "Made in China". Potential Disruption of the US Economy
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
Introduction | The US has been threatening China with trade sanctions for several years. At the outset of the Trump administration in January 2017, Washington not only envisaged punitive trade measures, it also called for "an investigation into China's trade practices" …
globalresearch.ca/the-corona-pandemic-and-trumps-trade-war-against-china-americas-dependence-on-made-in-china-potential-disruption-of-the-us-economy/5713552

Venezuela's Supreme Court Names New National Electoral Council
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-06-14
The Guaido-led opposition vowed to boycott legislative elections due to be held later this year.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14905

Corporate Media Are Focusing on Race — and Dodging Class
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
Economic exploitation, hidden in plain sight…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834178.php

'EU may recognize Palestinian state if Israel annexes W.Bank'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
The European Union's recognition of Palestine as a state would become "inevitable" if Israel moves forward with its controversial plan to annex the West Bank, Luxembourg's foreign minister has said. | Speaking to German weekly Der Spiegel, Jean Asselborn called for a tougher EU stance against the Israeli government's plan to annex significant parts of the West Bank. | "To simply write reproachful letters would be a humiliation for the EU and would significantly weaken its credibility," Asselborn stressed, suggesting stronger measures like economic sanctions or the recognition of Palestine as a state if Israel doe…
yenisafak.com/en/news/eu-may-recognize-palestinian-state-if-israel-annexes-wbank-3532034

Bill Gates and the Depopulation Agenda. Robert F. Kennedy Junior Calls for an Investigation
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
Robert F Kennedy Jr, an avid Defender of Children's Rights and anti-vaccination activist, has launched a petition sent to the White House, calling for "Investigations into the 'Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation' for Medical Malpractice & Crimes Against Humanity"
globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-and-the-depopulation-agenda-robert-f-kennedy-junior-calls-for-an-investigation/5710021

Washington Struggles to Manage the Crisis, but Israel Continues to Benefit
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
The self-inflicted cultural defenestration of what passes for Western Civilization in the United States continues apace. As George Orwell described the process in 1984 | "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every | …
globalresearch.ca/washington-struggles-manage-crisis-israel-continues-benefit/5715870

Health workers left in the lurch as pandemic spreads in Bangladesh
Umer Beigh | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-14
Bangladesh continues to see a high number of COVID-19 cases even two weeks after restrictions were eased. The first case was reported on March and restrictions were in place til May 31. Activist groups had raised concerns that the restrictions were eased without adequate preparations being put in place. Peoples Dispatch spoke to Manisha Chakraborty, International Secretary of the Socialist Student Front, shortly after the restrictions were eased to understand the situation. | Peoples Dispatch (PD): What is the situation in Bangladesh after the government declared the lifting of the nationwide restrictons? | Mani…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/14/health-workers-left-in-the-lurch-as-pandemic-spreads-in-bangladesh/

Video: The Hypersonic Strike Systems of the United States
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
Even two years ago, hypersonic weapons were barely an item of discussion among the US national security establishment. Today these weapons are all the rage. What accounts for that sudden emergence of US interest in this category of weapons, …
globalresearch.ca/video-hypersonic-strike-systems-united-states/5715862

Keeping the World Safe from Iran's Legitimate Nuclear Program?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
The above headlined Pompeo's hostile May 27 remarks on Iran. | Perpetuating the myth about an Iranian nuclear threat ignores what the whole world knows. | Throughout its existence since the 1950s, Iran's legitimate nuclear program had and still has no military …
globalresearch.ca/keeping-world-safe-iran-legitimate-nuclear-program/5715901

No End to US Hostility Toward Nonbelligerent North Korea
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
US hostility toward North Korea has nothing to do with national security. | North Korea never posed a threat to the US or any other country since the peninsula was divided post-WW II — just an invented one throughout this period….
globalresearch.ca/us-hostility-toward-nonbelligerent-north-korea/5715854

Donald Trump Peacenik? "The American Warrior, Noble and Righteous"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
From day one in office to now, Trump breached virtually all his positive pledges to the American people. | No "transferring power from Washington, DC, and giving it back to you, the people" occurred. | No governance serving all Americans equitably, "starting …
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-peacenik-the-american-warrior-noble-and-righteous/5715899

The Statues of White Supremacists. Why Were They Erected in the First Place? Take Them Down? Preserve the History of Their Ugly Past
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
The only thing controversial about taking down statues of white supremacist US and other Western figures is why they were erected in the first place, and why it took so long for a campaign to remove them. | In Britain, over …
globalresearch.ca/take-them-down-preserve-record-their-ugly-past/5715857

'Dirty political fight': Polish president slams Western media after his comparison of LGBT 'ideology' to communism makes headlines
rt.com | 2020-06-14
Polish President Andrzej Duda accused the Western media of "taking his words out of context" after numerous news articles claimed he equated LGBT "ideology" with communism in a speech. He insisted that he supports equality. | Duda's campaign speech on Saturday, in which he stated that LGBT is an ideology even more sinister than "Bolshevism," was picked up by numerous outlets worldwide. | The president is seeking re-election and conservative voters largely constitute his base. He is expected to face liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who is known for his pro-LGBT position, as his main rival. Extensive fore…
rt.com/news/491812-polish-president-lgbt-western-media/

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

The Movement to Uplift Black Lives and Defund Police Can No Longer Be Ignored
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
On May 25, 2020, the nation ignited after a bystander posted a horrific video of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for over eight minutes. | Now the movement to uplift Black lives, and to defund and dismantle police departments where officers disproportionately kill and brutalize African-American men and women, has grown to a point where it can no longer be ignored. | We'll hear from activists in Minneapolis, mourners in Houston, and we'll go to our archiv…
truthout.org/audio/the-movement-to-uplift-black-lives-and-defund-police-can-no-longer-be-ignored/

Three years on, the Grenfell tragedy epitomises the UK's brutal inequality, racism and injustice
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-06-14
On 14 June 2017, the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people. Three years later, bereaved families and survivors still don't have answers, meaningful change, or justice. And amid the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and growing protests against the UK's systemic racism, this anniversary is acutely poignant. Because the Grenfell tragedy epitomises the heart of inequality, racism, and injustice in the UK. | Th…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/06/14/three-years-on-the-grenfell-tragedy-epitomises-the-uks-brutal-inequality-racism-and-injustice/

Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime. The Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) i
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
The marriage of post-Lockdown and George Floyd protests has nurtured a rough beast that is still immune to any form of civilized debate in the U.S.: the Seattle Commune. | So what really is the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone cum …
globalresearch.ca/syria-seattle-commune-defies-us-regime/5715906

Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime. The Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
The marriage of post-Lockdown and George Floyd protests has nurtured a rough beast that is still immune to any form of civilized debate in the U.S.: the Seattle Commune. | So what really is the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone cum …
globalresearch.ca/syria-seattle-commune-defies-us-regime/5715906

Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime
Pepe Escobar | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-14
The marriage of post-Lockdown and George Floyd protests has nurtured a rough beast that is still immune to any form of civilized debate in the U.S.: the Seattle Commune. So what really is the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone cum People's Republic all about? Are the communards mere useful idiots? Is this a refined Occupy Wall …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/syria-in-seattle-commune-defies-the-u-s-regime/

Atlanta Police Shoot and Kill Rayshard Brooks as Protests Continue Worldwide
Jessica Corbett | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-14
"This is not the first time a black man has been killed for sleeping."
theantimedia.com/atlanta-police-shoot-kill-rayshard-brooks-as-protests-continue-worldwide/

Protests across Chicago mark National Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-14
Chicago, IL – Protesters demand the mass exoneration of everyone tortured and framed by Chicago cop Reynaldo Guevara. It was one of the three demonstrations that took place in Chicago, June 13. Cites across the U.S. participated in the National Day of Action to Stop Police Crimes called by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/14/protests-across-chicago-mark-national-day-action-stop-police-crimes

US State Propaganda Outlets Censor Black Lives Matter Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
With a budget that hovers around $100 million, RFE/RL broadcasts to something like to 22 countries in 26 languages. And the same censorship regime extends to just about every RFE/RL language division. | I've looked at about a dozen of them. Most have no coverage of the protests at all. A couple — like the Russian and Afghanistan division — do have a tiny protest stories, but they are given very little attention. | In the case of RFE/RL's Russian coverage, the protests are presented from the most reactionary perspective possible: denying racism and blaming the violence on organized armed anarchist comm…
popularresistance.org/us-state-propaganda-outlets-censor-black-lives-matter-protests/

George Floyd, Coronavirus And Inequality Stealing Black Lives
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
Several Black protesters have said, "If the police don't get you, the coronavirus will." Floyd pleaded for mercy as Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into his neck until Floyd could no longer breathe. His death triggered the protests of the past week. But the issues that have driven people to the streets are the same as those identified in the 1968 Kerner report. Over the years, the report has become a benchmark for racial progress. Though it is typically cited for indicting a white, paternalistic perspective in the news media, it also proclaimed "white racism" as the catalyst for the unrest, condemned polic…
popularresistance.org/george-floyd-coronavirus-and-inequality-stealing-black-lives/

A Tale Of Two Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
The rebellions in Hong Kong and Minneapolis have received vastly different responses from the U.S. ruling class. In Minneapolis, masses of people took to the streets on May 26th to express their outrage over the police murder of George Floyd and the many Black Americans who have shared a similar fate. The rebellion quickly spread to cities across the country with corporations, police stations, and even the CNN headquarters in Atlanta, GA all facing some form of property destruction. Protestors in Hong Kong have been treated with honor from the corporate media in stark contrast to the homegrown uprisings occurring…
popularresistance.org/a-tale-of-two-protests-2/

The World On Fire
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
Protests from London to Paris; from Berlin to Nairobi; from Toledo, Ohio, to Tokyo, Japan. | Protests in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and against police aggression and racism. | Protests stemming from the cruel brutality that led to the slow-motion killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn. | The solidarity from Sydney, Australia, stems in part from the long-standing discontent from the dark Aborigines, the Indigenous communities in Australia and New South Wales, who like Black folk in America, have suffered from generations of state repression. And how have the cops responded to this challenge? With tan…
popularresistance.org/the-world-on-fire/

Police in Armenia Says Arrested Over 250 Pro-Opposition Protesters Over Breach of Lockdown
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
YEREVAN (Sputnik) – Armenian police have detained over 250 people who gathered in front of the National Security Service (NSS) building in the capital of Yerevan over violation of social distancing rules, law enforcement said in a statement.
sputniknews.com/asia/202006141079613209-police-in-armenia-says-arrested-over-250-pro-opposition-protesters-over-breach-of-lockdown/

Thousands of Greek protesters sent message: "I can't breathe. Break the chains of exploitation!"
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-14
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following account by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) of the June 11 protests. | Thousands of workers protested in Athens and other Greek cities, on June 11, against the system that creates poverty and unemployment, war and refugees, racism and all forms of discrimination. | In Athens, starting with the rally in Syntagma, outside the Greek parliament and marching to the U.S. embassy, workers from all the sectors, from different workplaces, along with the self-employed, students and other young people, took part in the first rally organized after the end of the restric…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/14/thousands-greek-protesters-sent-message-i-can-t-breathe-break-chains-exploitation

Man arrested for urinating on memorial during London protest
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
A 28-year old man has been arrested on suspicion of urinating on the memorial of a murdered policeman during far-right protests in central London on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.The man is in custody in Essex, east of London, after presenting himself at a police station, the police said.Far-right protesters clashed in London on Saturday with anti-racist demonstrators and with police trying to keep the two sides apart.Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the violence, saying "racist thuggery has no place on our streets".The Westminster memorial honours PC Keith Palmer who was murdered while on duty at…
yenisafak.com/en/world/man-arrested-for-urinating-on-memorial-during-london-protest-3532032

Atlanta police offer $10,000 bounty for 'masked white woman' & others suspected of torching Wendy's amid Rayshard Brooks protests
rt.com | 2020-06-14
Authorities in Atlanta have offered a hefty reward and published photos of a woman suspected of setting a Wendy's restaurant on fire during the protest against the police killing of Rayshard Brooks at the fast-food's parking lot. | "Crime Stoppers Greater Atlanta is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the individuals responsible for starting a fire that led to the destruction of a Wendy's restaurant at 125 University Avenue," police said in a tweet on Sunday. | @StopCrimeATL is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the individu…
rt.com/usa/491813-atlanta-police-wendys-suspects/

Atlanta police officer sacked after another fatal shooting of a Black man
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-14
An Atlanta police officer has been sacked following the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks — a Black man. Another has been placed on administrative duty, the police department has announced.The shooting came at a time of heightened tension over police brutality and calls for reforms across the US following the death of Floyd in Minneapolis. Atlanta was one of the cities where large crowds of protesters took to the streets.Demonstrators, including members of Brooks' family, gathered outside the restaurant where he was shot.The moves follow the resignation of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields, who stepped down…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/06/14/atlanta-police-officer-sacked-after-another-fatal-shooting-of-a-black-man/

Protesters Take to the Streets in Atlanta After Police Kill Rayshard Brooks
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
Demands for accountability and sweeping reforms mounted Saturday after Atlanta police shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, Friday night amid a wave of global protests against police violence and systemic racism sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis late last month. | In a message to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Saturday, the Georgia NAACP tweeted that the city's police departm…
truthout.org/articles/protesters-take-to-the-streets-in-atlanta-after-police-kill-rayshard-brooks/

House Dems' Reforms Are Not Enough — Congress Must End Federal Policing Funding
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
The unending killing of Black people at the hands of police forces, and the sustained, relentless and highly visible police violence inflicted on protesters represent a grave and immediate national crisis. | The Justice in Policing Act put forth by House Democrats attempts to address this moment, but falls frighteningly short. We will not see any end to this crisis until the federal…
truthout.org/articles/house-dems-reforms-are-not-enough-congress-must-end-federal-policing-funding/

Fatal encounters with the cops in Oakland
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
Protest Against Police Brutality and Killer Cops:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/13/18834208.php

US tech giants aid police militarization and surveillance
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
Despite issuing statements of sympathy for protesters demanding an end to police violence and racism, tech corporations are integral to the increasing militarization of the police.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/13/18834213.php

U.S. Police: Why Nothing Will Change
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-14
With America in turmoil following the murder of George Floyd, the talk is all about police reform — defunding them, abolishing them, or subjecting them to greater federal oversight. It brings to mind the nineteenth-century British member of parliament who supposedly cried out in despair, "Reform! Reform! My God, aren't things bad enough as they are?" | But not to worry: short of revolution, nothing will happen. Once the shouting dies down and protesters go home, reform will be forgotten and the status quo will return in full force. Cops will tread more carefully, but only for a while. Eventually, they'll re…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/14/u-s-police-why-nothing-will-change/

In the War for Social Justice, Academic Freedom Is an Early Casualty
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-14
Debra J. SAUNDERS | In the war for social justice, academic freedom is an early casualty. | Consider the plight of UCLA Accounting Professor Gordon Klein. | A student sent Klein an email, screenshots of which were reviewed by Inside Higher Ed, that asked for "no-harm" grading for the final exam. (That term means counting a grade only if it improves a student's overall course grade.) The student also asked for shorter exams and extended deadlines for black students who attended protests after the death of George Floyd. | Inside Higher Ed described the email as "a request from students who identified themselves as…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/14/in-war-for-social-justice-academic-freedom-early-casualty/

[Commentary] Contact tracing: Can 'Big tech' come to the rescue, and if so, at what cost?
Pratik Sinha, Alastair E Paterson | thelancet.com | 2020-06-14
COVID-19 has resulted in a unique amalgamative failure of economics, healthcare, and society. Without an effective vaccine, the precise mechanism to resuming "normal" activity remains unknown. Public health consensus seems to align on the need to test, trace and isolate infected individuals with a stepwise repeal of lock-down measures. The infrastructure for contact-tracing, however, are woefully underdeveloped worldwide. In the US, it is estimated that 180,000 contact-tracers would be required and only 0.5% of that number currently exist [1].
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30156-5/fulltext?rss=yes

Philadelphia Police Threaten Unicorn Riot Reporter After Vigilante Assault
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-14
Philadelphia, PA — On Saturday evening dozens of armed vigilantes gathered in Marconi Plaza in South Philadelphia near a Christopher Columbus statue, ostensibly to "protect it" from vandalism. Several of the men assaulted our reporter on the scene and slashed his bike tires. Philadelphia police…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/philadelphia-police-threaten-unicorn-riot-reporter-after-vigilante-assault/

George Floyd Uprising in Minneapolis–Saint Paul — The First Two Weeks
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-14
Minneapolis, MN — Waves of rage tore through the Twin Cities community after a video of Minneapolis police officers mercilessly killing George Floyd went viral. Fires were lit across the world as a new movement spread rapidly with the goal of dismantling the police and…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/george-floyd-uprising-in-minneapolis-saint-paul-the-first-two-weeks/

Stop the Evictions Before They Start
David Rovics | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-14
Ôªø The system based on a combination of police brutality, mass imprisonment, and evictions at gunpoint may be collapsing, but if it's going to fall in the direction we want it to fall in, we need to push it that way. And if we want to make that happen, we have to organize to stop …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/stop-the-evictions-before-they-start/

Students and Staff Oppose COVID-Inspired Disaster Capitalism on US Campuses
Eleanor Bader | zcomm.org | 2020-06-14
345 colleges consider themselves at risk of closing due to anticipated under-enrollment for the 2020-21 academic year.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/students-and-staff-oppose-covid-inspired-disaster-capitalism-on-us-campuses/

Leaked: "Deadly" Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to treat Covid 19: How the World's Top Medical Journals, The Lancet and NEJM, Were Cynically Exploited by Big Pharma
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
Abstract and Background | A publishing scandal recently erupted around the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to treat Covid 19. It is also known as quinine and chloroquine, and is on the WHO list of essential medicines.[i] | The bark …
globalresearch.ca/leaked-deadly-hcq-world-top-medical-journals-lancet-nejm-exploited-big-pharma/5715859

Who should get COVID-19 testing?
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-14
Dr. Bobbi Pritt, a clinical microbiologist at Mayo Clinic, acknowledges that there seems to be a lot of confusion with the general public when it comes to COVID-19 testing. Terms like viral, molecular, serology and antibodies, and convalescent plasma have sprung up in everyday language when talking about COVID-19 — but do you really need …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/who-should-get-covid-19-testing/

Mayo Clinic launches neutralizing antibody test to advance COVID-19 therapies
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-14
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic has launched a new SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody test in support of the national Expanded Access Program for Convalescent Plasma and other critical research efforts to establish effective therapies and vaccines for COVID-19. The test will be available through Mayo Clinic Laboratories to select labs, blood banks, and biopharma clients in …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-launches-neutralizing-antibody-test-to-advance-covid-19-therapies/

Big 5 of COVID: Guess what is common to these top affected countries
Subodh Varma | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-14
The US, Brazil, Russia, India and the United Kingdom have larger than life leaders, but the pandemic has exposed their flaws, at great cost…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/14/big-5-of-covid-guess-what-is-common-to-these-top-affected-countries/

UN chief in 'support migrants' plea, as remittances drop by 20 per cent predicted
news.un.org | 2020-06-14
Marking International Day of Family Remittances, The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has released a message appealing for "people everywhere" to support migrants, at a time when remittances — the money migrants send home to support their families — have fallen by more than $100 billion, causing hunger, lost schooling and deteriorating health, for tens of millions of families.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066302

How the Coronavirus could be a Climate Game Changer
Sà∂ren Amelang | zcomm.org | 2020-06-14
"Nobody wants life to stay the way it was during the pandemic. But some new routines we should maintain, because they serve the environment and quality of life."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-the-coronavirus-could-be-a-climate-game-changer/

Corrupt Propositions: AstraZeneca and the Coronavirus Vaccine Drive
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
Putting your destiny into the hands of a drug company is much like seeking reassurances from an opportunistic pimp. The returns are bound to mixed, dressed up in deceptive language. The promises, however, are always remarkable. The back-breaking pace in …
globalresearch.ca/astrazeneca-public-institutions-coronavirus-vaccine-drive/5715891

Corporations Now Love 'Black Lives'–But What About Their Own Black Workers?
Toni Gilpin | zcomm.org | 2020-06-14
Never underestimate the American business community's capacity for hypocrisy…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/corporations-now-love-black-lives-but-what-about-their-own-black-workers/

Take a good hard look at the new Britain we all now live in
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-14
By TruePublica Editor: It's all desperately sad to watch, isn't it? At TruePublica we have consistently warned since David Cameron's 2015 electoral win that Britain was in grave danger. We warned that Cameron, little more than an over-privileged corporate public relations agent would usher in the decline of Britain leading to a proud nation circling …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/take-a-good-hard-look-at-the-new-britain-we-all-now-live-in/

The People Will Rise
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
There is only one solution for the insane mess that goes under the name of 'democracy' to day, and that is to return to human scale largely self governing communities. | This was the great cry that went up in 1381 …
globalresearch.ca/people-will-rise/5715890

Video: Ciao Giuletto: Giulietto Chiesa Intervista. La Voce Interiore della Siria
Giulietto Chiesa | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
globalresearch.ca/video-ciao-giuletto-giulietto-chiesa-intervista-la-voce-interiore-della-siria/5715392

The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?
Vicky Peláez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
This incisive and carefully researched article was first published by Global Research twelve years ago in March 2008. | Things have got worse since 2008. African-Americans and Latinos are routinely the victims of arbitrary arrest, incarceration and inhumane exploitation in America's …
globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

Collapse of the British Empire, The Round Table Movement, Canada's Untold History
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
This article was originally published by Matthew Ehret on The Canadian Patriot in November 2018. | Canada's struggle for existence as a sovereign nation has been caught between two opposing views of mankind represented by the British and American System of …
globalresearch.ca/collapse-of-the-british-empire-the-round-table-movement-canadas-untold-history/5715353

Opening India's food economy to demands of imperialism
Prabhat Patnaik | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-14
Every step in the direction of opening agriculture to global trade — as announced in the three ordinances by the Modi government — is a step towards reducing domestic food availability.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/14/opening-indias-food-economy-to-demands-of-imperialism/

I Reckon We Can Win This Thing
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-14
That seems to be the trend here currently. Things don't appear to necessarily be getting better or worse at this point in time, they're just accelerating. | It's all moving faster and faster. Major news events are getting closer and closer together, people are becoming more and more aware of more and more important dynamics they were previously asleep to, political movements are suddenly picking up steam in a way many analysts never expected to see in their lifetime, and America's previous revolutionary fig…

I Reckon We Can Win This Thing

I Reckon We Can Win This Thing
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-14
Everything keeps accelerating. | That seems to be the trend here currently. Things don't appear to necessarily be getting better or worse at this point in time, they're just accelerating. | It's all moving faster and faster. Major news events are getting closer and closer together, people are becoming more and more aware of more and more important dynamics they were previously asleep to, political movements are suddenly picking up steam in a way many analysts never expected to see in their lifetime, and Ame…

I Reckon We Can Win This Thing

Human Rights Expert Hopes COVID-19, Climate Change And Racial Injustice Are A 'Wake-Up Call'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
The optimistic way is to see Covid-19 as a trial run for what's on the way with climate change in the sense that it really is a crisis that has affected vast numbers of people that has shown up the importance of being prepared and the importance of listening to the warning signals, and the potential for totally disproportionate impact on different groups of the population–whether by gender, class, race and so on. Covid-19 could provide some sort of wake-up call to those of us who are pretending that climate change is going to be manageable and we don't really need to do anything until it actually starts to…
popularresistance.org/human-rights-expert-hopes-covid-19-climate-change-and-racial-injustice-are-a-wake-up-call/

Non-Black People Of Color Are Mobilizing To End Complicity In Black Death
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-14
The complicity of an Asian American officer in the murder of George Floyd is forcing Asian American communities across the country to face the ongoing ways in which we have benefited from and acted in complicity with broader systems of white supremacy. | Even though the vast majority of the police officers and vigilantes most directly responsible for killing Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and the countless other Black people who have been killed have been white, we Asian Americans, and other non-Black people of color, do not get to look away or make anti-Black racism a problem that whit…
popularresistance.org/non-black-people-of-color-are-mobilizing-to-end-complicity-in-black-death/

Government, not scientific advisors, to lead decisions over ending lockdown measures
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-14
Ministers rather than the government's scientific advisers will take the final decision on whether to ease the two-metre social distancing rule, chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.Sunak confirmed that Boris Johnson has ordered a "comprehensive review" of the rule in England as the government continues its lifting of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions.Ministers are bowing to intense pressure from Conservative MPs who see the easing of the two-metre rule as crucial to the further reopening of the economy.He said that it would look at the issue "in the round", drawing on advice from economists as well as scientific…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/14/government-not-scientific-advisors-to-lead-decisions-over-ending-lockdown-measures/

Number of Injured in Earthquake in Eastern Turkey Reaches 18
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
ANKARA (Sputnik) – People who have sustained injuries as a result of a magnitude 5.7 quake in the eastern Turkish province of Bingol count 18, Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Sunday.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006141079612990-number-of-injured-in-earthquake-in-eastern-turkey-reaches-18/

Iran records 107 new deaths from coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
Iran on Sunday confirmed 107 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,837. | A further 2,472 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 187,427, Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari said. | A total of 148,674 people have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, he said. | Some 1.244 million tests have been done in the country to date, Lari said. | Iran's daily number of COVID-19 cases dropped to around 800 in early May, but since authorities eased restrictions, daily figures have shown an upward trend, especi…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iran-records-107-new-deaths-from-coronavirus-3532036

World Blood Donor Day observed during pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
World Blood Donor Day this year once again will be held on June 14, but in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.It was established in 2004 to raise awareness of the need for safe blood, and to thank donors for their life-saving gift.The event provides a valuable opportunity to donors to celebrate and commemorate the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, a biologist and doctor who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the ABO blood group system.About 118.4 million blood donations are collected worldwide every year. Forty percent are collected in high-income countries — home to 16% of the world's population.About 13,300…
yenisafak.com/en/news/world-blood-donor-day-observed-during-pandemic-3532035

Delhi to use 500 railway coaches as hospital facilities to fight coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
The coaches will increase Delhi's capacity by 8,000 beds, home minister Amit Shah said on Twitter after a meeting with the capital's chief minister.The government will also ramp up testing in the city, especially in containment zones, conduct a door-to-door health survey of residents and provide sufficient supplies of oxygen cylinders and ventilators, he said.India is the fourth-worst affected country in the world, with cases steadily increasing. It reported a record single-day jump in cases on Sunday, adding nearly 12,000 confirmed infections and taking the total to more than 320,000, according to health ministr…
yenisafak.com/en/world/delhi-to-use-500-railway-coaches-as-hospital-facilities-to-fight-coronavirus-3532037

Top Russian officials' visit to Turkey postponed
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
A planned Sunday visit to Turkey by Russia's foreign and defense ministers has been postponed, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said.In a phone call, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov decided to hold contacts and negotiations between their deputy ministers in the days to come, said a ministry statement.Ministerial talks will also take place at a later date, it said.Russia's foreign and defense ministers were expected in Turkey for dialogue on regional issues.Moscow and Ankara frequently consult on the situation in Syria and Libya, and the two issues, particularly the lat…
yenisafak.com/en/news/top-russian-officials-visit-to-turkey-postponed-3532033

Turkey: Agricultural, animal production hub beyond region
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-14
Turkey is an agricultural and animal production hub in the region and even for countries beyond, with its high production capacity and food security standards, according to university agriculturalist Orhan Ozcatalbas.The country has the largest agricultural revenue in Europe and is second on a global scale, the professor at Akdeniz University's Agricultural Policy and Extension Department told Anadolu Agency.He said the pandemic increased the importance of food and supply security and the world started to discuss agricultural production's efficiency and capacity.Food security and safety topics will remain on the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-agricultural-animal-production-hub-beyond-region-3532028

Macron Says Over $560 Billion Allocated to Support French Economy Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
PARIS (Sputnik) – The French authorities have allocated about 500 billion euros ($562 billion) to support the country's economy amid the crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday.
sputniknews.com/europe/202006141079612820-macron-says-over-560-billion-allocated-to-support-french-economy-amid-covid-19-pandemic/

Scotland's Economy Severely Impacted By Coronavirus Pandemic – Report
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
A new report on Scotland's spending reveals that the country has been hit hard economically due to the coronavirus pandemic. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called on the UK government to extend their support for Scottish businesses and employees.
sputniknews.com/uk/202006141079611486-scotlands-economy-severely-impacted-coronavirus/

US Stock Futures Fall in Overnight Trading, Implying More Losses on Monday Morning
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
Investors have been concerned recently about reports of a second wave of coronavirus and a prolonged period of up to two years for the world's largest economy to recover from the pandemic.
sputniknews.com/us/202006141079613007-us-stock-futures-fall-in-overnight-trading-implying-more-losses-on-monday-morning/

Turkey Launches New Offensive Against Kurdish Militants in Iraq's North, Defence Ministry Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Turkish armed forces have launched Operation Claw-Eagle in northern Iraq against forces of the Kurdistan Workers' Party and the Kurdish People's Protection Units, referred jointly as PKK/YPG and designated as terrorists by Ankara, Turkish media reported on Monday, citing the country's Ministry of Defence.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006141079613043-turkey-launches-new-offensive-against-kurdish-militants-in-iraqs-north-defence-ministry-says/

Militants Shell Settlements in Syria's Latakia, Idlib, Aleppo, Russian Military Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-14
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* terrorist group has attacked settlements in Syria's provinces of Idlib, Aleppo, and Latakia, Rear Admiral Alexander Shcherbitsky, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry's centre for Syrian reconciliation, said on Sunday.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006141079612736-militants-shells-settlements-in-syrias-latakia-idlib-aleppo-russian-military-says/

COVID-19 has no effect on Armed forces' missions: Maj. Gen. Bagheri
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Chief of General Staff of Iranian Armed Force, Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri said that the Armed Forces have resumed their regular activities since mid-April after a short pause.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159794/COVID-19-has-no-effect-on-Armed-forces-missions-Maj-Gen-Bagheri

VIDEO: Deadly explosion in China
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas exploded on a highway near the Chinese city of Taizhou in Jiangxi Province which left 19 people dead and 166 others injured.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159804/VIDEO-Deadly-explosion-in-China

Iran refinery gas output registers annual growth: NIGC official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — The spokesperson of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Mohammadi Asgari, announced on Sunday that the average gas production at Iran's refineries stood at 674 million cubic meters per day which were 24 mcm/d more than the same time last year.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159798/Iran-refinery-gas-output-registers-annual-growth-NIGC-official

Iranian Red Crescent Society prepares 2000 livelihood foodstuff packages
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Iranian Red Crescent Society prepares some 2000 livelihood foodstuff packages in Azadi Indoor Stadium for distributing among the needy and underprivileged class of society.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/159802/Iranian-Red-Crescent-Society-prepares-2000-livelihood-foodstuff

FM Zarif lands in Turkey for bilateral talks
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Istanbul Airport, Turkey on Sunday for two-day visit.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159807/FM-Zarif-lands-in-Turkey-for-bilateral-talks

Austria felicitates Ghalibaf on election as Iran's Parl. speaker
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — President of the Austrian National Council Wolfgang Sobotka has sent a message to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf over his election as Parliament Speaker.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159791/Austria-felicitates-Ghalibaf-on-election-as-Iran-s-Parl-speaker

'Copper Notes of a Dream' to go to New Zealand's Doc Edge festival
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — Iranian documentary 'Copper Notes of a Dream' by Reza Farahmand will go on screen at the Oscar-qualifying Doc Edge Film Festival 2020, which will be held online in Auckland, New Zealand, from June 12 to July 5.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159774/Copper-Notes-of-a-Dream-to-go-to-New-Zealand-s-Doc-Edge-festival

Hashd al-Sha'abi launches anti-ISIL operation in Samarra
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Iraqi Hashd al-Sha'abi forces launched a new counter-terrorism operation in southern Samarra on Sunday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159806/Hashd-al-Sha-abi-launches-anti-ISIL-operation-in-Samarra

Maneuver to supply livelihood packages for needy children
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-14
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — In a ceremony on Sunday, with the participation of the Commander of Mohammad Rasulullah Division of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Yazdi, a maneuver on the distribution of livelihood packages for needy children was held in Tehran.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/159788/Maneuver-to-supply-livelihood-packages-for-needy-children

Economic revival, border openings & no tax hikes, Macron unveils his plans for post-Covid-19 France
rt.com | 2020-06-14
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the next stage of easing coronavirus restrictions in a televised address, two weeks ahead of delayed local elections which do not look promising for his party. The president attempted to lighten the mood of his fellow citizens by telling them France enters the "Green Zone" — a lower state of alert over the epidemic — starting Monday. That means that Paris restaurants in particular can now operate as normal, he said. | "The fight against the epidemic is not finished but I am happy about this first victory against the virus," Macron stated. He also promise…
rt.com/newsline/491810-macron-economic-revival-france-covid/

Couple falsely arrested by armed police receive apology and £200,000 police payout
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-14
A couple arrested when armed police stormed their home and held them for 36 hours over the Gatwick Airport drone chaos have received £200,000 in compensation and an apology.Paul and Elaine Gait have settled their claims for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment against Sussex Police, their legal team announced on Sunday.Drone sightings near the runways over a three-day period in December 2018 caused chaos, with the airport being repeatedly forced to close.Travellers excited for Christmas-time getaways were horrified as flights were cancelled in droves as police investigated the sightings.No-one has ever be…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/14/couple-falsely-arrested-by-armed-police-receive-apology-and-200000-police-payout/

Hospital's COVID-19 Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
Albuquerque, New Mexico — A prominent women's hospital here has separated some Native American women from their newly born babies, the result of a practice designed to stop the spread of COVID-19 that clinicians and health care ethicists described as racial profiling. | Lovelace Women's Hospital in Albuquerque implemented a secretive policy in recent months to conduct special coronavirus screenings for pregnant women, based on whether they appeared to be Native American, even if they…
truthout.org/articles/hospitals-covid-19-policy-separated-native-american-mothers-from-their-newborns/

Defunding the Police Is Not the End Goal. It's the First Step
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
For many of us, this current moment is all too reminiscent of 2016, following the deaths of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and Korryn Gaines, when it seemed like social media had nothing to share but Black death. However, instead of calls for increased police training, revised use of force policies and diversity in hiring, a new and important call has taken hold — defunding the police. | This could be because, for all intents and purposes, Minneapolis had a reformed police department. The city had dev…
truthout.org/articles/defunding-the-police-is-not-the-end-goal-its-the-first-step/

Spiraling Eviction Crisis Threatens More Renters With Homelessness
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-14
Tonya Cooper grew up on the south side of Newark, Ohio. Her dad suffered from alcoholism and severe personality disorders, ultimately landing him in a mental hospital. Her mom took odd jobs in the city when she could, but raising 17 kids — only eight survived — didn't leave much spare time for work. | The family moved frequently between shanty houses and shacks, and Cooper didn't have running water until she was in high school. She recalls vividly being teased at school for wearing dirty, m…
truthout.org/articles/spiraling-eviction-crisis-threatens-more-renters-with-homelessness/

U.S. President Trump sparks renewed interest in Juneteenth Celebrations Globally
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
"In 1535, the first enslaved Pan African were recorded in California. Spanish conquistadors brought enslaved Pan Africans for conquest and who were later breed with indigenous population (Afro-Latino) throughout "New Spain" and much, much later evolved into today's Republic of Mexico. Authentic Alta California History remains cloaked in slavery and secrecy that remains off limits for any principled dialogue as the California State Legislature prepares for a 2020 Juneteenth State Budget due next week.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834184.php

ILWU Work Action On W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
The ILWU on the West Coast will shut down all ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020 to stop police terror and systemic racism.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834196.php

Friday 6/19: ILWU Shutting Down W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
SSA Terminals 1717 Middle Harbor Road at the Port of Oakland to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834197.php

Friday 6/19: JUNETEENTH: West Coast Port Shutdown
International Longshore and Warehouse Union | indybay.org | 2020-06-14
Meet at 1717 Middle Harbor Road and caravan to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834195.php

The New Cold War With China
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-14
Michael T. KLARE | America's pundits and politicians have largely concluded that a new Cold War with China — a period of intense hostility and competition falling just short of armed combat — has started. "Rift Threatens U.S. Cold War Against China," as a New York Times headline put it on May 15th, citing recent clashes over trade, technology, and responsibility for the spread of Covid-19. Beijing's decision to subject Hong Kong to tough new security laws has only further heightened s…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/14/the-new-cold-war-with-china/

The Enemy Within: A Story of the Purge of American Intelligence
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-14
"Western Europe has only 20 to 30 more years of democracy left in it; after that it will slide, engineless and rudderless, under the surrounding sea of dictatorship, and whether the dictation comes from a politburo or a junta will not make that much difference." | — Willy Brandt (German Federal Chancellor, right before he stepped down in 1974) | Believe it or not, but the dystopic view that democracy is dead is by no measure a new idea. However, what might disturb you is where this design, in its contemporary form, really germinated from. | The idea that democracy is in a crisis and needs to be replaced with…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/14/enemy-within-story-purge-american-intelligence/

VIDEO: The EU Continues to Talk Utter Baloney About Libya
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-14
Although Obama's America is most often blamed for igniting Libya's chaos France, the UK and Italy's militaries played no less of a role.
strategic-culture.org/video/2020/06/14/video-eu-continues-to-talk-utter-baloney-about-libya/

USA Plan: Militarized Control of Population. The "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan"
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-14
The Rockefeller Foundation has presented the "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan", indicating the "pragmatic steps to reopen our workplaces and our communities". However, it is not simply a matter of health measures. The Plan prefigures a real hierarchical and militarized social model.
globalresearch.ca/usa-plan-militarized-control-population/5713839

Wikipedia Formally Censors The Grayzone
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
Internet encyclopedia giant Wikipedia is censoring independent news websites by adding them to an official blacklist of taboo "deprecated" media outlets. | The Grayzone is among the news websites targeted by the censorship campaign. Others include leftist and anti-imperialist outlets like MintPress News and the Latin American news broadcaster Telesur, along with several prominent right-wing political sites, including the Daily Caller. | The campaign to blacklist The Grayzone was initiated by Wikipedia editors who identify as Venezuelans and openly support the country's right-wing, US-backed opposition. These user…
popularresistance.org/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone/

The Coronavirus Reversal
Glenn Greenwald | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
The Abrupt, Radical Reversal in How Public Health Experts Now Speak About the Coronavirus and Mass Gatherings…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-coronavirus-reversal/

International Criminal Court oversight chief 'deeply regrets' US decision to target officials investigating Afghanistan war crimes
news.un.org | 2020-06-13
Responding to the decision of the United States Government to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) officials and their family members, O-Gon Kwon, President of the Assembly of States Parties, the body that oversees the ICC, denounced the measures which, he said, undermine the "endeavour to fight impunity and to ensure accountability for mass atrocities".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066292

International Criminal Court vs US exceptionalism
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-13
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha analyses the decision by the Donald Trump administration to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court. The ICC is conducting a probe into war crimes by the US in Afghanistan.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/13/international-criminal-court-vs-us-exceptionalism/

Service Prosecuting Authority drops all but one investigation into British war crimes in Iraq
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The British government is serving notice that it has no intention of honouring domestic or international law outlawing abuse, torture and murder by its military and security forces.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/iraq-j13.html

Police Have Long History of Responding to Black Movements by Playing the Victim
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
The protests across the country in response to the police killing of George Floyd have led to significant pressure on mayors and city councils. One of the most important demands has been for the defunding of police departments. | Activists in Minneapolis succeeded in getting the University of Minnesota and the public school system to cancel contracts they had with the M…
truthout.org/articles/police-have-long-history-of-responding-to-black-movements-by-playing-the-victim/

Seattle: The Demands Of Collective Black Voices At The CHAZ
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
In credit to the people who freed Capitol Hill, this list of demands is neither brief nor simplistic. This is no simple request to end police brutality. We demand that the City Council and the Mayor, whoever that may be, implement these policy changes for the cultural and historic advancement of the City of Seattle, and to ease the struggles of its people. This document is to represent the black voices who spoke in victory at the top of 12th & Pine after 9 days of peaceful protest while under constant nightly attack from the Seattle Police Department. These are words from that night, June 8th, 2020. | For ea…
popularresistance.org/seattle-the-demands-of-collective-black-voices-at-the-chaz/

People 'are just enjoying themselves': Get insight into life in Seattle's 'autonomous zone' (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-13
'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone', also known as CHAZ, has grabbed the attention of people in the US and beyond ever since it was established earlier this week. RT's Caleb Maupin got a sneak peek into what happens down there. | Established around an abandoned police precinct on June 8, a six-block area of downtown Seattle has since evolved into a sort of commune controlled by anti-police brutality protesters. But how are the Seattle would-be revolutionaries faring in their police-free social experiment? | "Mood here is completely peaceful," Desiree DeLoach, an American travel blogger and anti-capitalist, who foun…
rt.com/usa/491743-chaz-seattle-autonomous-zone-insight/

Right-wing violence escalates and white man urinates next to police memorial
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
A man urinated next to a memorial dedicated to the police officer killed in the Westminster terror attack amid violent clashes between far-right protesters and police in central London.Several hundred demonstrators, mostly white men, attended the protest organised by far-right groups, including Britain First, which claimed they wanted to protect statues such as Winston Churchill from vandalism. Meanwhile, anti-racist Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations were peaceful.But fights erupted in areas near the Houses of Parliament and Trafalgar Square, as demonstrators repeatedly assailed officers with foul-mouthed c…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/13/right-wing-violence-escalates-and-white-man-urinates-next-to-police-memorial/

As nationwide protests over police brutality continue, cities across the US cut and reallocate police funding
Eoin Higgins | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-13
"Policing doesn't work … Yet we keep supporting a system that is clearly broken."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/13/as-nationwide-protests-over-police-brutality-continue-cities-across-the-us-cut-and-reallocate-police-funding/

Black Lives Matter-Lansing event declares racism a public health crisis, confronts mayor
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-13
Lansing, MI – Police brutality protests continue in both Lansing and East Lansing after the downtown march on May 31 but they are not the only challenge to police brutality based in the Lansing metropolitan area. Black Lives Matter-Lansing and One Love Global hosted a live "Call to Action" on Facebook and Eventbrite. | After a spoken word performance and moment of silence for victims of racist violence, One Love Global CEO and Black Lives Matter-Lansing cofounder Angela Waters Austin spoke with panelists from the Ingham County Health Department about public health deficits experienced by African Americans and oth…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/13/black-lives-matter-lansing-event-declares-racism-public-health-crisis-confronts-mayor

Black Lives Matter-Lansing event declares racism a public health crisis, confronts mayor
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-13
Lansing, MI – Police brutality protests continue in both Lansing and East Lansing after the downtown march on May 31 but they are not the only challenge to police brutality based in the Lansing metropolitan area. Black Lives Matter-Lansing and One Love Global hosted a live "Call to Action" on Facebook and Eventbrite. | After a spoken word performance and moment of silence for victims of racist violence, One Love Global CEO and Black Lives Matter-Lansing cofounder Angela Waters Austin spoke with panelists from the Ingham County Health Department about public health deficits experienced by African Americans and oth…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/13/black-lives-matter-lansing-event-declares-racism-public-health-crisis-confronts-mayor

A view of the USA from Portugal: 'Not a riot — rebellion!
Manuel Raposo | workers.org | 2020-06-13
The author is a Portuguese left communist and editor of jornalmudardevida.net. This article was translated by WW Managing Editor John Catalinotto. Hundreds of demonstrators in Brazil gathered outside the office of Rio de Janeiro's governor on May 31, protesting the deaths of Black and favela youth at the hands of . . . | Continue reading A view of the USA from Portugal: 'Not a riot — rebellion! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49331/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-view-of-the-usa-from-portugal-not-a-riot-rebellion

French daily Le Figaro reports that Macron considering early resignation
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The coronavirus pandemic and the international protests against the police murders of George Floyd and Adama Traoré have profoundly destabilized the government.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/macr-j13.html

[Editorial] Medicine and medical science: Black lives must matter more
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
Emblematic of the profound sense of outrage at the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless other Black men and women at the hands of law enforcement, hundreds of thousands of protestors took to the streets in the USA and across the globe. They set aside the risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2, judging that what they were marching for was more immediately urgent. Marches have been held to draw attention to the continued murder by police of Black people and to the persistent, pervasive racism that exists across societies.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31353-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Minnesota Workers United labor contingent joins justice for George Floyd protest
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-13
Minneapolis, MN – On Thursday, June 11, 3200 protesters gathered at the Hennepin County Government Center demanding justice for George Floyd and real change. Protests had been going on daily, sometimes several per day, for 18 days since the police murder of George Floyd. | While a battle rages over the role of police 'unions,' members of at least seven unions organized and turned out to the protest as part of a labor contingent organized by Minnesota Workers United. The labor contingent also sent several speakers up to the stage to speak and demand justice for George Floyd and to make it clear that police have n…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/13/minnesota-workers-united-labor-contingent-joins-justice-george-floyd-protest

Minnesota Workers United labor contingent joins justice for George Floyd protest
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-13
Minneapolis, MN – On Thursday, June 11, 3200 protesters gathered at the Hennepin County Government Center demanding justice for George Floyd and real change. Protests had been going on daily, sometimes several per day, for 18 days since the police murder of George Floyd. | While a battle rages over the role of police 'unions,' members of at least seven unions organized and turned out to the protest as part of a labor contingent organized by Minnesota Workers United. The labor contingent also sent several speakers up to the stage to speak and demand justice for George Floyd and to make it clear that police have n…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/12/minnesota-workers-united-labor-contingent-joins-justice-george-floyd-protest

Antiracist protests for George Floyd circle the globe
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2020-06-13
The massive popular and antiracist reaction to the cop murder of George Floyd in the epicenter of world imperialism has inspired an equally massive reaction worldwide. Hundreds of thousands have marched, not only in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, but also against local manifestations . . . | Continue reading Antiracist protests for George Floyd circle the globe at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49301/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=antiracist-protests-for-george-floyd-circle-the-globe

Minnesota Workers United labor contingent joins justice for George Floyd protest
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-13
Minneapolis, MN – On Thursday, June 11, 3200 protesters gathered at the Hennepin County Government Center demanding justice for George Floyd and real change. Protests had been going on daily, sometimes several per day, for 18 days since the police murder of George Floyd. | While a battle rages over the role of police 'unions,' members of at least seven unions organized and turned out to the protest as part of a labor contingent organized by Minnesota Workers United. The labor contingent also sent several speakers up to the stage to speak and demand justice for George Floyd and to make it clear that police have n…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/13/minnesota-workers-united-labor-contingent-joins-justice-george-floyd-protest

Massive protests against gender-based violence in Nigeria force government to take measures
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-13
The cabinet has called on all state governments to implement Violence against Persons Prohibition Act (VAPPA), 2015, a key demand of protesters. The parliament's upper house also pushed legislation for protection of victims from stigma.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/13/massive-protests-against-gender-based-violence-in-nigeria-force-government-to-take-measures/

Trump steps up provocations and threats of military force
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
In a Fox News interview Thursday night, Trump labeled Seattle protesters "terrorists" and threatened to call out the military.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/trum-j13.html

Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-13
Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and mainstream media are falling all over themselves with censorship and spin jobs to get the narrative back under control as mass protests continue to sweep across America. | In 2017, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed in a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it is their responsibility to "quell information rebellions" and adopt a "mission statement" expressing their commitment to "prevent the fomenting of discord." | "Civil wars don't start…

Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns

Black Lives Matter protesters face violence from 'the British KKK'
Eliza Egret | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
Hundreds of racists turned up in London on 13 June to counter-protest a Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstration. As they became violent towards anti-racist protesters and police, one person called them "the British KKK". | The BLM march was officially called off because of concerns that it would be attacked. Witnesses claim that some people present were doing Nazi salutes and shouting "heil Hitler": | Does an…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/06/13/black-lives-matter-protesters-face-violence-from-the-british-kkk/

Claiming sympathy for protesters, US tech giants aid police militarization and surveillance
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
Verizon and AT&T are funding a group dedicated to militarizing local police and working with the security state to expand secret warrantless surveillance of the public.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/tech-j13.html

The world on fire
Mumia Abu-Jamal | workers.org | 2020-06-13
Guess what? The world is on fire! I don't mean environmental degradation or global warming; no, although that too is true. I refer to protests, not just all across the United States but all around the world. Imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal Protests from London to Paris; from Berlin to Nairobi; . . . | Continue reading The world on fire at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49297/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-world-on-fire

USA: Hate And Fury
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
The streets of the US are burning. Demonstrations by armed Trump supporters pressing for the opening of the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic have been replaced by protests for the umpteenth police murder of an African American citizen, in this case George Floyd. The reaction is reminiscent of the days of hate and fury that broke out in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who had beaten Rodney King a year earlier. Just two examples of the many that could be used, both recent and old, that demonstrates that American democracy has great difficulties applying within the country what it…
popularresistance.org/usa-hate-and-fury/

To Police Of Good Conscience: These Protests Are For You Too
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
To the police of good conscience: | What if all this demonstrating was also for you? What if the pain you are feeling right now — the pain of feeling misunderstood and mischaracterized — is connected to the same pain expressed by protesters in the streets of Minneapolis, Atlanta, Louisville and hundreds of other cities steeped in grief? You understand that suspicion of theft or fraud doesn't justify murder and whatever legal battles will unfold won't change the morality of that fact. | I know the protest chants and the opinion articles don't cover it all. It's a hard job and the criticism doesn't alwa…
popularresistance.org/to-police-of-good-conscience-these-protests-are-for-you-too/

Right-wing and anti-racism protesters scuffle in Britain
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Anti-racism protesters rallied again around Britain on Saturday, with scuffles breaking out in London as counter-demonstrators also came out to protect monuments targeted for their links to colonial history.Statues of historical figures including Winston Churchill – Britain's World War Two leader whom protesters call a xenophobe – were boarded up to try and minimize trouble.In Trafalgar Square, police separated two groups of about 100 people each, one chanting "Black Lives Matter", the other racial slurs. Some groups jostled, tossed bottles and cans, and set off fireworks, as riot police with dogs and horses line…
yenisafak.com/en/world/right-wing-and-anti-racism-protesters-scuffle-in-britain-3531993

The Heat: U.S. Race Relations & COVID-19
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-06-13
As protests against police brutality and racism sweep across the country, the focus is now shifting to police reform.
america.cgtn.com/2020/06/13/the-heat-u-s-race-relations-covid-19

Boris Johnson gives stern warning about attacking police, says protests 'subverted by violence'
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Following protesters clashing with police in London, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a warning to anyone targeting police and said demonstrations have been "subverted by violence." | "Racist thuggery has no place on our streets. Anyone attacking the police will be met with full force of the law," Johnson tweeted on Saturday. | The prime minister followed that by saying current protests over police brutality and racial inequality "breach current guidelines." | "These marches & protests have been subverted by violence and breach current guidelines. Racism has no part in the UK and we must work together to…
rt.com/usa/491748-boris-johnson-london-protests/

Video of unarmed black man shot by Atlanta police sparks massive outrage amidst George Floyd protests
rt.com | 2020-06-13
A video of two Atlanta police officers shooting an unarmed black man who later died is sparking massive outrage and accusations of police brutality and racism. Details of the case are still scarce. | Atlanta officers responded to a call of a suspicious person on Friday night that led them to a Wendy's drive-thru where 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was allegedly asleep in his car. | According to the George Bureau of Investigations (GBI), Brooks failed a field sobriety test and resisted when police tried to place him in custody. A stun gun was used by one of the officers, which Brooks tried to take, following whic…
rt.com/usa/491740-atlanta-pd-unarmed-black-man-george-floyd/

Argentina church transformed into a bar, pastors into waiters to protest coronavirus lockdown measures
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Pastor Daniel Cattaneo has reportedly reopened his church as a bar in order to comply with Argentina's Covid-19 lockdown measures, which he says "discriminate" against religious services. | Cattaneo and other pastors dressed as waiters this week and served their congregation while preaching, a clever way around current lockdown measures which, despite being eased back since Monday, still restrict church services from having more than 10 people while other businesses can reopen at 30-percent capacity, according to local media. | Social distancing measures were kept up and members of the congregation wore masks…
rt.com/news/491725-argentina-pastor-worship-bar-coronavirus/

Solidarity is vital. Here's why The Canary is going Green for Grenfell
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
On 14 June 2017, a fire at Grenfell Tower killed 72 people. Three years later, bereaved families and survivors still don't have answers, meaningful change or justice. And amid the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and growing protests against the UK's systemic racism, this anniversary is acutely poignant. | "Remember, Reflect, Unite": | This year, the anniversary won't take place on the streets. Campaign group Grenfell United have called for people to "remember, reflect and unite" from hom…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/06/13/solidarity-is-vital-heres-why-the-canary-is-going-green-for-grenfell/

Black Lives Matter protesters fill Trafalgar Square
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
Black Lives Matter protesters flocked to London's Trafalgar Square on the afternoon of Friday 12 June, as widespread demonstrations continued following the killing of George Floyd in the US.African American Floyd died after a white police officer held him down by pressing a knee into his neck in Minneapolis on25 May . | Participants in Friday's protest were warned of counter-rallies from the far-right and urged to "stay calm" if they encountered these. They marched to Trafalgar Square, passing Buckingham Palace on the way.(Dominic Lipinski/PA)(Dominic Lipinski/PA)(Kirsty O'Connor/PA)(Kirsty O'Connor/PA)Hundreds o…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/13/black-lives-matter-protesters-fill-trafalgar-square/

The Scourge of Islamophobia in Canada
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-13
Muslims in Canada deserve to feel what non-Muslims feel when they hear of a vicious crime or a foiled plot committed by someone who looks like them: abhorred by the crime but knowing the crime reflects the perpetrator alone. Any other thought process should never occur. | — Graeme Truelove, Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North (Nightwood Editions, 2020): location 35% | The police murder of George Floyd set off the powder keg filled by centuries of oppression of Black peoples in the United States. The United States has been beset by countrywide protests, some marred by violence of protestors and po…
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[Obituary] Jacob Plange-Rhule
Andrew Green | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
Physician, academic, and researcher who served as the Rector of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. Born on July 27, 1957, in Winneba, Ghana, he died from complications of COVID-19 in Accra, Ghana, on April 10, 2020, aged 62 years.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31326-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] COVID-19 vaccines for all?
Ann Danaiya Usher | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
If an effective COVID-19 vaccine is developed, how will it get to everyone in need? Ann Danaiya Usher reports on the initiatives being planned to ensure equitable access, and their shortcomings.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31354-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Offline: COVID-19–what we can expect to come
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
The verdicts are now coming in. In Mark Honigsbaum's updated edition of The Pandemic Century, he has included a new chapter on COVID-19. As a historian of epidemics, he offers his judgments about how countries have responded to what he calls "China's Chernobyl moment". His critique is sharp. For decades, we have known that the world is intrinsically and increasingly vulnerable to pandemics–and yet, "we failed to heed the warnings about Covid-19 and act when our actions could have prevented the outbreak from spinning out of control".
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[Correspondence] Increasing tobacco sales under the anti-smoking policy in China
Hailong Luo, Yuan Zhao | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
China joined the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2005, but tobacco control in China is still worrying.1 In the past decade, the Chinese Government has strengthened the publicity of anti-smoking campains in the media and increased the management of anti-smoking through policies. Nevertheless, paradoxically, tobacco sales have been rising.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30163-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] NICE guideline for rectal cancer: already out of date
Robert Glynne-Jones, Mark Harrison, Drostan Cheetham | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
As members of a colorectal multidisciplinary team, some of whom have contributed to previous National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance1 and European Society of Medical Oncology guidelines in rectal cancer,2 we disagree with the current recommendations in the update to NICE guidance that was published in 2020: "offer preoperative radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy to people with rectal cancer that is cT1-T2, cN1-N2, M0, or cT3-T4, any cN, M0."3…
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[Viewpoint] Clinical endpoint adjudication
Mohammed N Meah, Martin A Denvir, Nicholas L Mills, John Norrie, David E Newby | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
In pivotal clinical effectiveness trials, the primary endpoint needs to be precisely defined and quantified because any misclassification could introduce noise and possible bias, potentially leading to incorrect trial conclusions. This misclassification is commonly addressed by having an independent clinical endpoint adjudication committee where all relevant clinical information is provided and a panel of clinical experts categorises the primary endpoint, blind to treatment allocation. This strategy has been established as a basic cornerstone of modern robust trial methodology.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30635-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Accountability for medical participation in torture
Leonard Rubenstein | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
After revelations of the participation of US health professionals in torture of detainees in military or CIA custody in the wake of 9/11, citizens filed complaints to disciplinary and licensing boards in seven states against psychologists who had been publicly identified as having been part of the torture apparatus. All of the complaints were eventually dismissed, only one with an explanation. In light of the disciplinary bodies' resistance to investigate participation in torture, much less impose sanctions, colleagues and I, then representing Physicians for Human Rights, helped a New York legislator, Richard Got…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31325-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Acute liver failure — Authors' reply
R Todd Stravitz, William M Lee | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
We appreciate the additional insights provided by Sandro Vento and Francesca Cainelli regarding the incidence and diagnosis of acute liver failure in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Beyond the differences in known causal factors (viruses, drugs) between high-income countries and LMICs, the predominance of the indeterminate group in these regions is of concern to all. In our study,1 only 5% of patients remained indeterminate after thorough serological testing and review of history and available liver histology.
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[Correspondence] Major burns: debt recovery or ethics?
Nikolaos Arkoulis, Niall Martin | thelancet.com | 2020-06-13
As one of the UK's largest tertiary burns centres, St Andrew's Burns Service has an ethical obligation to raise awareness about issues that compromise the care of patients. In 2017, new regulations placed a legal requirement on Health Authorities to establish patients' eligibility for free National Health Service treatment.1 An increasing number of patients ineligible for free care have been admitted to the St Andrew's Burns Service and subsequently presented with large invoices as soon as they recover.
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Racial Justice Teach-in at Abolish ICE Camp in Aurora CO
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-13
AURORA, CO — The encampment at the GEO Group's ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado, is hosting a teach-in about reparations and racial justice. The Black Hammer will be leading the event. Yesterday was the end of week three for the encampment which is demanding the…
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PDF of June 11 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-06-13
Download 12-page PDF here. Tear down the walls: Prisons and class war; Texas jail is COVID hotspot. Special issue dedicated to George Floyd: Step one, movement demands 'DEFUND POLICE!' No Pride without justice!; Calif. Labor condemns murder; Racist monuments down; Why generals rebuked Trump; Police brutality in Buffalo; Journalists under . . . | Continue reading PDF of June 11 issue at Workers.org…
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Growing revolt by Black journalists
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-06-13
In an historic week that has witnessed demonstrations, too numerous to count, against police brutality in the aftermath of the brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25, another anti-racist movement is growing. As reports surface of police intentionally targeting journalists across the U.S, especially Black and . . . | Continue reading Growing revolt by Black journalists at Workers.org…
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Parallels between Minneapolis and Jerusalem are More than Skin Deep
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-13
It is hard to ignore the striking parallels between the recent scenes of police brutality in cities across the United States and decades of violence from Israel's security forces against Palestinians. A video that went viral late last month of a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, killing a black man, George Floyd, by pressing a …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/parallels-between-minneapolis-and-jerusalem-are-more-than-skin-deep/

Will there be another stock market crash in 2020?
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-13
The coronavirus restrictions have led to an unprecedented drop in economic activity. Because the UK's economy relies heavily on the services sector, it has suffered more than many European countries. However, the contraction is certainly global. Furthermore, the second Covid-19 wave has started too. For example, the US is seeing a rise in coronavirus hospitalisations, in …
truepublica.org.uk/newsbits/will-there-be-another-stock-market-crash-in-2020/

Who should get COVID-19 testing?
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-13
Dr. Bobbi Pritt, a clinical microbiologist at Mayo Clinic, acknowledges that there seems to be a lot of confusion with the general public when it comes to COVID-19 testing. Terms like viral, molecular, serology and antibodies, and convalescent plasma have sprung up in everyday language when talking about COVID-19 — but do you really need …
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How Thailand Contained COVID-19
Walden Bello | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
In politically turbulent Thailand, a public health system with popular support — not decrees from above — made all the difference…
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COVID-19 hot spot
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2020-06-13
Houston The National Black United Front in Houston toured the Harris County Jail on May 19, Malcolm X's 95th birthday, to observe the conditions facing the prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic. Black prisoners make up half of those incarcerated, despite being only 18 percent of the Harris County adult population. . . . | Continue reading COVID-19 hot spot at Workers.org…
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Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-13
Across the world, one of the biggest changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic is in the field of education. Programs from kindergarten through postsecondary have rapidly moved to a distance learning model. Online and remote instruction has its own unique challenges, and has required students and educators to be creative to stay connected. On the …
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Brazil registers world's second-highest COVID-19 toll as stock market soars
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The Brazilian stock market is responding to the unity of the whole ruling class around the back-to-work campaign and the brutal repression of social opposition.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/braz-j13.html

As COVID-19 Ravages the Garment Industry, It's Time for Consumers to Stand in Solidarity with the People Who Make Our Clothes
Shahidur Rahman | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
If there was any remaining debate about the sincerity of global fashion's commitment to the people and communities on which it depends, however, it was settled in the wake of the current COVID-19 crisis…
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Scottish government moves to end lockdown as COVID-19 deaths hit 4,000
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
Scotland has the third worst coronavirus death rate in the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/care-j13.html

FROM THE FIELD: COVID-19 restrictions leave migrant workers stranded
news.un.org | 2020-06-13
In countries across the world, tens of thousands of migrant workers are finding themselves stranded through travel restrictions, in the hope of curbing the spread of COVID-19.
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Mayo Clinic launches neutralizing antibody test to advance COVID-19 therapies
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-13
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic has launched a new SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody test in support of the national Expanded Access Program for Convalescent Plasma and other critical research efforts to establish effective therapies and vaccines for COVID-19. The test will be available through Mayo Clinic Laboratories to select labs, blood banks, and biopharma clients in …
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Video: Covid Nurse Exposes New York Hospital. People Have Been Lied To. It's Destroying Life. The Numbers are a Lie
Journeyman Pictures | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-13
Registered nurse, Erin Olszewski, spent a month at the epicenter of the epicenter, Elmhurst Hospital in NY. | After witnessing the same malpractice matching testimonies of other outspoken nurses in the U.S., she decided to wear a hidden camera to …
globalresearch.ca/video-covid-nurse-exposes-new-york-hospital/5715848

Ontario calls military into another for-profit long-term care facility ravaged by COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The vast majority of the care home deaths have been at for-profit facilities, where wages, staff levels and working conditions are generally even lower.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/onta-j13.html

UK businesses dramatically scaled back or shelved investment plans
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-13
Businesses have dramatically scaled back investment plans for the rest of the year in response to the uncertainty surrounding the future of the UK economy, according to a leading business survey. The Institute of Directors (IoD) said its confidence tracker revealed the Covid-19 crisis had driven down investment intentions among its members for the next 12 months by 11 …
truepublica.org.uk/newsbits/uk-have-dramatically-scaled-back-or-shelved-investment-plans/

As pandemic surges, White House presses ahead with back-to-work campaign
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
It is now indisputable that the Trump administration's campaign to prematurely reopen businesses has led to a surge in COVID-19 infections throughout the United States.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/pers-j13.html

Campaigners demand company that 'falsified data' loses coronavirus track-and-trace contract
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
Serco is one of the main companies contracted to deliver the NHS's coronavirus (Covid-19) contact tracing system. However, it has already admitted that it's unlikely this system would "evolve smoothly". This is one of the reasons why campaign group WeOwnIt is calling on health secretary Matt Hancock to: end Serco's role in contact tracing in England now. Pu…
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The next crisis? Losing the Amazon
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-13
If too much of the forest were to be degraded or lost, scientists worry that the whole area could be transformed into a savannah.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/13/the-next-crisis-losing-the-amazon/

Decades-long cover-up continues of assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The announcement settles none of the many unanswered questions about the first assassination of a European head of government in…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/palm-j13.html

A Tory MP's comments on a Palestinian political party show just how ridiculous 'terrorist' designations have become
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
The West's credibility when it comes to labeling others as 'terrorists' has always been highly suspect. Not least because Western nations have aided and abetted plenty of paramilitary groups of which they approve. And they've even been involved in the commission of state terror. Now, a furore over funding for a Palestinian politic…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/06/13/a-tory-mps-comments-on-a-palestinian-political-party-show-just-how-ridiculous-terrorist-designations-have-become/

US Navy deploys three aircraft carriers to Pacific against China
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The deployments underscore the strategic shift by the Pentagon from the so-called "war on terror" to great power competition that heightens the danger of conflict between nuclear-armed powers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/usch-j13.html

Racial Fault Lines and the Coronavirus
Andrew Moss | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
With almost 2.3 million people behind bars, the U.S. continues to have the highest number of prisoners in the world, a legacy of several decades of racially propelled policies of harsh sentencing and rapid prison building…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/racial-fault-lines-and-the-coronavirus/

Coronavirus exposes Britain's bogus self-employment problem
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-13
Millions of Britain's self-employed workers can now apply for financial aid to help them through the coronavirus crisis. The government has announced support of 80% of their average monthly earnings up to a cap of £7,500. It comes as a relief for many — there are 5.2 million registered self-employed people in the UK. But a …
truepublica.org.uk/newsbits/coronavirus-exposes-britains-bogus-self-employment-problem/

Tyson Opens Slaughterhouse Despite 1,000 Sick Workers
Martha Rosenberg | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
Even though 1,000 workers at Tyson's slaughterhouse in Waterloo, Iowa, have tested positive for the coronavirus, it has reopened. Tyson has said last week it would begin slaughtering pigs. The company promised that workers would receive daily screenings and access to nurse practitioners, but many who can transmit the coronavirus are asymptomatic. At 2 other Read…
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Long Read: The slow exodus of Palestinian Christians
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-13
By Jonathan Cook (25-minute read): Israel has exploited the steady decline in the numbers of Palestinian Christians to advance its claim that they are being hounded from the region by Muslim extremists. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches. It was inevitable that when the coronavirus pandemic reached the occupied …
truepublica.org.uk/global/long-read-the-slow-exodus-of-palestinian-christians/

VW leadership dispute prepares way for massive job cuts and austerity
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The current leadership dispute at VW ushers in a new phase of corporatist policy, aimed at preparing the company for global trade war at the expense of the workforce.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/auto-j13.html

The Pathos of Democracy
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-13
"I do believe God is working through you to try to call us together." — Matt Gaetz, R-Fla speaking to the brother of George Floyd | "Defund the police, abolish ICE, disarm Americans and then surrender our cities to the Antifa mob — if this is the rulebook for the new Woketopia, count me out!… Antifa has now designated Seattle their capital." — Matt Gaetz | "He [Matt Gaetz] represents, however, everything that is wrong with the modern Republican Party: from racism, anti-Semitism, and white nationalism; to conspiracism and anti-intellectualism; to a slavish and sycophantic loyalty to Donald Trump." — Mehdi Ha…
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-pathos-of-democracy/

Armed Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Home in Hebron
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-13
Several armed Israeli settlers attacked, late Friday evening, a Palestinian home in the West Bank city of Hebron, mainly between the colonial Israeli settlements of Kiryat Arba' and Giv'at Havout. Local Palestinian sources in Hebron city said that illegal Israeli settlers vandalized the home of Abdelkareem Al-Ja'bary by smashing its …
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Palestinian Family Forced to Demolish Two Apartment Buildings in East Jerusalem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-13
By means of harsh Israeli orders, in the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian family was forced to demolish its own apartment buildings, according to local sources. Palestinian sources in the village of Sur Baher in East Jerusalem, said that the Rabay'a family was forced to knock down its own …
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UN chief calls for Libya mass grave investigation
news.un.org | 2020-06-13
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has expressed deep shock at the discovery of mass graves in Libya over recent days, in territory that was recently in the hands of the so-called opposition Libyan National Army (LNA) led by General Khalifa Haftar.
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"Indian racism towards Black people is almost worse than white peoples' racism" An Interview with Arundhati Roy
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-13
We ourselves live in a pretty sick society that seems incapable of feelings of sisterhood, brotherhood, solidarity.
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Johnson ponders introducing a law to prevent foreign takeovers of UK firms
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-13
Business groups have warned that introducing a law to prevent foreign takeovers that threaten national security could have a "chilling" effect on investment in the UK. The government is said to be considering new rules that would mean directors could be jailed or companies could be fined hundreds of thousands of pounds for failing to …
truepublica.org.uk/newsbits/johnson-ponders-introducing-a-law-to-prevent-foreign-takeovers-of-uk-firms/

Churchill's grandson says the war leader wasn't a racist. But the excuses are wearing thin
Glen Black | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
Winston Churchill's grandson and former top Tory Nicholas Soames told LBC that he was "deeply shocked" to see the war leader's Westminster statue boxed up. Soames defended Churchill's legacy by saying he was a 'saviour of the Western world' and rubbished claims that Churchill was racist. But we're living in an age of rapidly expanding awareness about Britain's colonial history. And people are showing that these lies are wearing thin. | The old 'man of his time' excuse: | Soames' defence of Churchill rests on…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/06/13/churchills-grandson-says-the-war-leader-wasnt-a-racist-but-the-excuses-are-wearing-thin/

India: A massive explosion in Gujarat chemical plant kills 10 workers
wsws.org | 2020-06-13
The tragic loss of life and terrible injuries are a direct result of government and company indifference towards mandatory work safety measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/guja-j13.html

NATO's colonization of Ukraine under guise of partnership
Scott Ritter | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-13
NATO has extended yet another in a long line of "incentives" designed to tease Ukraine with the prospects of joining the transatlantic alliance, while stopping short of actual membership. | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has designated Ukraine as an "Enhanced Opportunity Partner," making it one of six nations (the others being Georgia, Sweden, Finland, Australia and Jordan) rewarded for their significant contributions to NATO operations and alliance objectives by having the opportunity for increased dialogue and cooperation with the alliance. | A main objective of this enhanced interaction is for N…

NATO’s colonization of Ukraine under guise of partnership

Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-13
In 2017, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed in a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it is their responsibility to "quell information rebellions" and adopt a "mission statement" expressing their commitment to "prevent the fomenting of discord." | "Civil wars don't start with gunshots, they start with words," the representatives were told by cold warrior think tank denizen Clint Watts. "America's war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media ba…

Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns

The govt, the Klan, cops and prisons
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-06-13
The following talk was given by Ted Kelly of Philadelphia during a May 16 webinar sponsored by the Prisoner Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party. I'll begin by quoting two different passages. The first is from Workers World Party founder Sam Marcy's book, "The Klan and the Government: Foes or . . . | Continue reading The govt, the Klan, cops and prisons at Workers.org…
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øLas tropas USA contra lxs manifestantes estadounidenses?
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2020-06-13
Traducción: redroja.net 5 de junio — Hace cuatro días, la Casa Blanca pidió al ejército estadounidense que se desplegara por las ciudades norteamericanas para "dominar" las calles. A lo largo de los tres días siguientes, dos antiguos integrantes de la Junta de Jefes del Estado Mayor conjunto de los ejércitos . . . | Continue reading øLas tropas USA contra lxs manifestantes estadounidenses? at Workers.org…
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Stop exploiting J-1 cultural workers
| workers.org | 2020-06-13
By Aleris Villegas and Lyn Neeley Each year about 300,000 cultural exchange workers — students, scholars and professors sponsored by U.S. employers — enter the country as J-1 workers. The J-1 Visa program promises job training for students, a way to share their culture, improve their English and explore life . . . | Continue reading Stop exploiting J-1 cultural workers at Workers.org…
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Stop exploiting J-1 cultural workers
Aleris Villegas and Lyn Neeley | workers.org | 2020-06-13
Each year about 300,000 cultural exchange workers — students, scholars and professors sponsored by U.S. employers — enter the country as J-1 workers. The J-1 Visa program promises job training for students, a way to share their culture, improve their English and explore life in the U.S. Last year, however, . . . | Continue reading Stop exploiting J-1 cultural workers at Workers.org…
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The Right To Refuse Unsafe Work Is More Important Than Ever
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a heavy toll on workers. Reports of job hazards grow increasingly dire as several governors and President Trump push past CDC guidelines to "reopen" the economy while forecasts predict soaring infections and deaths. | Some states at the direction of the Labor Department threaten termination of unemployment benefits for workers fearing return to dangerous jobs. A disturbing June 5 New York Times' report reveals how far those machinations have gone. The result: workers fired without pay or benefits or trapped in a deadly vice between poverty and disease. | In short, the news is terri…
popularresistance.org/the-right-to-refuse-unsafe-work-is-more-important-than-ever/

Group Behind Confederate Monuments Also Built A Memorial To The Klan
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
It was a Saturday. The mailman never comes to my door, but there was his knock. A couple days earlier I had ordered a book on Amazon that I had seen before only in a library. "Sorry to bother you," he said, "but I had to have you sign for this one." The return address on the padded manila envelope was a post office box in Charlotte, North Carolina. No name. | I cut the shipping tape and carefully pulled out the contents, wrapped inside a grocery bag. The worn 1941 first edition of Mrs. S.L. Smith's "North Carolina's Confederate Monuments and Memorials" — one of the only compilations by the United Daughters…
popularresistance.org/group-behind-confederate-monuments-also-built-a-memorial-to-the-klan/

International Lawyers Oppose Philippines Anti-Terrorism Bill
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
Over 100 international lawyers and lawyers' associations issued an open letter to President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, and members of the Congress of the Philippines. The urgent open letter was issued to express high levels of concern about the proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill in the Philippines, which has been harshly criticized for its violations of human rights norms. | As the letter notes, "The international community is alarmed by the apparent abuses of power and civil unrest that the law will bring about. It will suppress and criminalize free speech and dissent, labe…
popularresistance.org/international-lawyers-oppose-philippines-anti-terrorism-bill/

New Study: US Empire Is Falling But Will Not Fall Quietly
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-13
Where will the next war occur? Who will fight in it? Why will it occur? How will it be fought? This brief summarizes a series of reports that sought to answer these questions–looking out from now until 2030. The reports took the approach of examining these questions through the lenses of several trends–geopolitical, economic, environmental, legal, informational, and military–that will shape the contours of conflict. | Military history is littered with mistaken predictions about the future of warfare that have left forecasters militarily unprepared–sometimes disastrously so–for the co…
popularresistance.org/new-study-us-empire-is-falling-but-will-not-fall-quietly/

Covid-19: The "Great Equalizer"?
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-06-13
There is a meme circulating in this time of pandemic that we are all in this together, that COVID-19 is, as New York Governor Cuomo stated, the "great equalizer." From one vantage point, this appears to be true: as I write, news broke that a staff person to Vice President Pence and another to President Read…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/covid-19-the-great-equalizer/

St. Petersburg had lighter Covid-19 restrictions because residents are 'more educated' than Muscovites — vice governor
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Russia's varied local responses to the coronavirus have been the cause of much debate, and one leading St. Petersburg official couldn't resist using the city's relatively relaxed rules to take a jab at an old rival — Moscow. | Speaking to a local TV channel, Vice Governor Yevgeny Elin explained that his city did not impose a strict quarantine because the residents are better educated than people in Moscow. | "You can't compare Moscow and St. Petersburg. We did not introduce such severe restrictions like in Moscow," Elin said. "In our opinion, this is justified. This is not because we are smarter, but bec…
rt.com/russia/491734-stpetersburg-covid19-more-educated-muscovites/

COVID-19: Afghan Health Ministry reaches limit of tests
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Speaking at a gathering in the capital Kabul, Ahmad Jawad Osmani said from now on, any people with symptoms of COVID-19 would ultimately be considered as a positive case of the novel coronavirus infection."At present, we have laboratories in 11 provinces of Afghanistan and we plan to increase the number of services in all 34 provinces, but it takes time which is out of the control of the ministry," he said.Latest figures issued by the Health Ministry revealed that 556 cases proved positive after 1,045 samples were collected in the past 24 hours. The latest figures brought the tally of cases to 24,101 with 4,201 p…
yenisafak.com/en/world/covid-19-afghan-health-ministry-reaches-limit-of-tests-3531996

COVID-19 death toll rises in Oman, Bahrain, Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Health authorities in Oman, Bahrain and Libya confirmed new fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Saturday, while Morocco reported fresh infections. | The Omani Health Ministry said three patients had died from COVID-19, while 1,006 new cases were reported over the past 24 hours. | The country's confirmed cases now stand at 22,077, including 99 deaths, and 7,530 recoveries. | In Bahrain, the Health Ministry said the country's death toll rose to 37 after two people had died from the disease, while a further 444 new cases were registered, taking the figure to 17,713. | Libya's National Center for Disease Contr…
yenisafak.com/en/world/covid-19-death-toll-rises-in-oman-bahrain-libya-3531982

Pakistan: 2nd ex-premier tests positive for coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has tested positive for COVID-19, his son confirmed on Saturday.Gilani, the country's second ex-premier after Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to test positive in less than a week, joins a long and growing list of Pakistani politicians and parliamentarians infected by the coronavirus.His son, Ali Kasim Gilani, told reporters that his father had to appear before anti-corruption authorities a few days ago, despite the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases in the country.He said the former premier was now in self-isolation."Thank you [Prime Minister] Imran Khan's govt and Natio…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-2nd-ex-premier-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-3531979

COVID-19: New cases reported in China, South Korea
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
China confirmed 11 new novel coronavirus cases while South Korea reported 48, authorities said on Saturday.China's National Health Commission said in a statement that five of the cases were locally transmitted, all based in the capital Beijing, while the six others were from travelers overseas.The commission reported no deaths due to the virus in the last 24 hours.A total of 83,075 cases have been reported in the country so far, according to the statement.The epidemic has claimed the lives of 4,634 people while 78,367 others have recovered from the virus.Meanwhile, South Korea reported 48 more cases of the virus…
yenisafak.com/en/world/covid-19-new-cases-reported-in-china-south-korea-3531984

Pakistan: 2nd ex-premier tests positive for coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has tested positive for COVID-19, his son confirmed on Saturday.Gilani, the country's second ex-premier after Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to test positive in less than a week, joins a long and growing list of Pakistani politicians and parliamentarians infected by the coronavirus.His son, Ali Kasim Gilani, told reporters that his father had to appear before anti-corruption authorities a few days ago, despite the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases in the country.He said the former premier was now in self-isolation."Thank you [Prime Minister] Imran Khan's govt and Natio…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-2nd-ex-premier-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-3531983

Popular blood pressure medicines do not put patients at greater COVID-19 risk: study
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
New research offers reassuring evidence to hundreds of millions of people with high blood pressure that popular anti-hypertension drugs do not put them at greater risk from COVID-19 as some experts had feared.Two blood pressure-lowering drug classes, called ACE inhibitors and ARBs, came under scrutiny after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in April that 72% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients 65 or older had hypertension.ACE inhibitors and ARBs are thought to trigger activity along the same biological pathways used by the COVID-19 novel coronavirus to attack the lungs.Researchers at Oxfo…
yenisafak.com/en/life/popular-blood-pressure-medicines-do-not-put-patients-at-greater-covid-19-risk-study-3531988

Virus cases in Africa top 225,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
As Africa grapples with the fast-spreading coronavirus, the number of cases spiked to 224,105, according to a Saturday update by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.The virus took 100 days to infect 100,000 people in Africa since the first case was detected in mid-February, but then just 23 days to double to 200,000, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), in a pace that is accelerating.The update has it that 6,040 patients have died across 54 African countries.The number of people who have recovered from COVID-19 in the continent has reached 102,846, according to the update.Southern A…
yenisafak.com/en/world/virus-cases-in-africa-top-225000-3531989

Italy's PM says virus crisis should be opportunity to reform country
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Italy cannot afford to return to normality after the coronavirus emergency but should turn the crisis into an opportunity to reform the country, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Saturday."This is the time to work on a clear project to come out of the crisis," Conte said in the opening speech of a nine-day policy consultation in Rome."We must take advantage (of the situation) to turn the crisis into an opportunity, and remove all the obstacles that have slowed (Italy) down," he added.Conte said his coalition government was preparing a plan of reforms to simplify bureaucracy, push digital investments and green…
yenisafak.com/en/world/italys-pm-says-virus-crisis-should-be-opportunity-to-reform-country-3531977

Iran to re-impose virus restrictions if rules violated
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Iran has seen a spike in the number of coronavirus cases since the authorities relaxed a lockdown in mid-April. | "If we do not want to see the spike of the disease in the country [Iran] again, we must observe health instructions and avoid unnecessary travel," Rouhani said in a televised speech. | The Iranian president said his government has relaxed the restrictions on condition of abiding by the health rules to combat the virus. | He warned that if the people are in danger, the authorities will have to re-impose the restrictions again. | Iran's Health Ministry confirmed 71 fatalities and 2,410 cases due to t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iran-to-re-impose-virus-restrictions-if-rules-violated-3531985

Turkey arrests five FETàñ terror suspects
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
At least five suspects were arrested for suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETàñ), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup, Turkish authorities said on Saturday.In a statement, the provincial security directorate in Turkey's western Denizli province said police carried out anti-terror operations to arrest the suspects, all of whom were wanted by Turkish authorities and had arrest warrants against them.They were found at FETàñ cell houses, and some were holed up in secret compartments built specially for hiding, the statement added.Two suspects were remanded in custody, one was…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-arrests-five-feto-terror-suspects-3531992

On surprise visit, Libya Tobruk-based parliament speaker in Algeria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
The head of Libya's Tobruk-based parliament Aguila Saleh arrived in the neighboring Algeria on a surprise visit on Saturday.Algeria's official TV said that Suleiman Shanin, the head of the National People's Assembly, the first chamber of the Algerian parliament, and Foreign Affairs Minister Sabri Boukadoum received Saleh at the Algiers International Airport in the capital.The source did not mention the duration and objectives of the visit, which coincides with the Libyan army's victories over the militia of warlord Khalifa Haftar.On Friday, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in an interview with a local med…
yenisafak.com/en/world/on-surprise-visit-libya-tobruk-based-parliament-speaker-in-algeria-3531995

Fire on French nuclear submarine at Toulon extinguished
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
A fire on a nuclear submarine docked at the French Mediterranean port of Toulon was extinguished early on Saturday morning, the Defence Ministry said.Some 100 firefighters had been called in to tackle the blaze on the Perle, which lasted 14 hours and ended at around 00: 50 a.m. (2250 GMT). the ministry said. It confirmed an earlier statement that no nuclear material was aboard when the fire broke out on Friday.Nobody was hurt and no nuclear materials or weapons were on board the vessel, which was in dry dock for repairs, authorities said on Friday.Toulon is France's biggest naval base and is home to most of its fl…
yenisafak.com/en/world/fire-on-french-nuclear-submarine-at-toulon-extinguished-3531978

Turkey rescues 381 asylum seekers in a week
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Turkey rescued 381 asylum seekers over the past week, the Turkish Coast Guard Command said on Saturday.Between June 5 and 11, a total of 381 asylum seekers were held or rescued in 14 incidents, the coast guard said on Twitter.Three smugglers were also arrested, it added, sharing four photos from the rescue operations where the Turkish teams in full protective gear were seen taking asylum seekers' temperature.Turkey has been one of the main routes for asylum seekers wanting to reach Europe, especially since Syria's civil war started in 2011.Turkey hosts nearly four million Syrians, more than any other country in t…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-rescues-381-asylum-seekers-in-a-week-3531994

Turkish Coast Guard rescues 93 asylum seekers
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
The Turkish Coast Guard on Saturday rescued 93 asylum seekers who were pushed back by Greek forces into Turkish territorial waters, according to security sources.The asylum seekers of various nationalities initially set off for the Greek island of Lesbos (Midilli) from Ayvacik in Canakkale, northwestern Turkey.Their two rubber rafts were pushed back to Turkish territorial waters by the Greek Coast Guard, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.Turkey has been a key transit point for asylum seekers aiming to cross into Europe to start new lives, especially those fle…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-coast-guard-rescues-93-asylum-seekers-3531991

Albinism seen in 1 out of 17,000 people worldwide
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-13
Albinism affects one out of 17,000 people worldwide, said the head of the Istanbul-based Albinism Association, marking June 13, International Albinism Awareness Day (IAAD)."Albinism is a condition that occurs as a result of genetic changes that partially or completely prevent the production of melanin pigment, which gives color to living creatures," Serkan Ozorman told Anadolu Agency in an exclusive interview.Also the father of a 7-year-old albino son, Ozorman, 38, first joined the Albinism Association, founded in 2013 in Istanbul. He later joined the group's administration in December 2015, and has been serving…
yenisafak.com/en/life/albinism-seen-in-1-out-of-17000-people-worldwide-3531981

Knowledge-based firms showcase latest products in "Coronatech 2020" expo
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — More than 50 knowledge-based companies and startups put their latest products and achievements to the public view at an exhibition entitled "Surge in Production and Achievements in Fight against Coronavirus" entitled "Coronatech 2020" on Saturday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159759/Knowledge-based-firms-showcase-latest-products-in-Coronatech

Iranian envoy holds webinar with Iranian students in Japan amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Iranian Ambassador to Japan Morteza Rahmani Movahhed held a video-conference meeting on Saturday with Iranian students, researchers, and professors residing in Japan.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159758/Iranian-envoy-holds-webinar-with-Iranian-students-in-Japan-amid

Iran to unveil some defense achievements on Natl. Defense Industry Day: Brig. Gen
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Deputy Coordinator of Iranian Defense Ministry Brigadier General Saeed Shabanian said that the Islamic Republic will unveil some of its defense achievements on the National Defense Industry Day.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159762/Iran-to-unveil-some-defense-achievements-on-Natl-Defense-Industry

Islamic Development Organization's chief to address Parl. open session on Sun
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Head of Islamic Development Organization Hojatoeslam Mohammad Ghomi is to deliver a report on Iran's sociocultural status quo at the Parliament's open session on June 14.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159755/Islamic-Development-Organization-s-chief-to-address-Parl-open

Iran to use capsule hotels as accommodation for tourists
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — In a Saturday ceremony with the presence of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Minister Ali-Asghar Mounesan, the first capsule hotel imported to the country was unveiled to be used as a new type of recommendation for tourists.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159750/Iran-to-use-capsule-hotels-as-accommodation-for-tourists

Showing Iran as security threat, goal of US, Zionist regime: FM Zarif
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that distorting Iran's image and presenting it as a security threat is the main goal of the United States and Zionist regime.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159760/Showing-Iran-as-security-threat-goal-of-US-Zionist-regime

Historical Gharbalbiz Spring in Yazd
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
YAZD, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Gharbalbiz Spring with good heavenly weather is a natural attraction in the middle of the central deserts of Iran, between Mehriz and Yazd. It is called Gharbalbiz (meaning sieve) since it is made of so many holes located in the skirts of Gharbalbiz Mountain. Based on the archeological evidence, Gharbalbiz is among the most ancient attractions left from the Parthian dynasty in Yazd and in central Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/159733/Historical-Gharbalbiz-Spring-in-Yazd

Presence of PKK elements in Iran false claim: cmdr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — IRGC Ground Forces Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour rejected the claim of a Turkish official regarding the presence of PKK elements in Iran and noted that the IRGC has ensured security on the borders.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159753/Presence-of-PKK-elements-in-Iran-false-claim-cmdr

VIDEO: Truck carrying fish topples in Babol, Mazandaran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Hundreds of live fish spilt on a busy road in Babol, in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran. The incident happened after a truck carrying fish toppled midway.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159752/VIDEO-Truck-carrying-fish-topples-in-Babol-Mazandaran

Tehran to host intl. conference on polyolefin pipes on Monday
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-13
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — The first international conference on polyolefin pipes will be held by Jam Petrochemical Company in the form of specialized panels and sideline exhibitions.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159763/Tehran-to-host-intl-conference-on-polyolefin-pipes-on-Monday

#ExposeBillGates explodes on Twitter as conspiracy theorists vow to avoid Covid-19 vaccine connected to billionaire
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Bill Gates' omnipresence in the media during the Covid-19 pandemic has turned into a mass obsession with many, and conspiracy theorists got #ExposeBillGates trending on Twitter on a planned "day of action." | The coronavirus pandemic created a number of speculations around the Microsoft Founder over his support of extended lockdown measures, his large contributions to the World Health Organization, and past comments on vaccines. | "The public is finally waking up. I've never liked this guy and if you really listen to him talk and watch his interviews you'll know he DOESN'T have our best interest in mind," auth…
rt.com/usa/491749-expose-bill-gates-twitter-coronavirus/

'Don't make me come down there,' Cuomo warns New Yorkers in streets, but gets scolded for Covid-19 handling
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Responding to a video of New Yorkers flooding the streets despite the Covid-19 lockdown, Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted a warning only to be chastised for his own handling of the pandemic, especially in nursing homes. | "Don't make me come down there," Cuomo tweeted along with a video of New York's St. Mark's being inundated with citizens, most clearly ignoring social distancing and protective mask requirements the city has put in place to battle the spread of coronavirus. | Cuomo's warning landed with a bit of a thud on social media, mainly thanks to his controversial and now infamous decision to force nursing…
rt.com/usa/491744-cuomo-coronavirus-st-marks-new-york/

32.4% of Moscow doctors found to have coronavirus antibodies as Russia ramps up testing
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Almost a third of Moscow's doctors have Covid-19 antibodies, according to the most recent testing in the capital, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova announced on Saturday. | "In the first stage [of testing],15,500 doctors were examined in 60 institutions. Antibodies were detected in 16.5% in the initial examination," Golikova revealed. In the second stage, antibodies were detected in 32.4 percent of physicians. | On Wednesday, Anna Popova, the head of country's consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, announced that antibody testing had already been conducted on over half-a-million Russians throughout th…
rt.com/russia/491726-doctors-testing-coronavirus-antibodies/

Multiple rockets hit 'inside' Iraq's Taji base housing US troops — reports
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Several rockets have exploded within — or close to — the Camp Taji military base located north of Baghdad, according to multiple media reports. The facility, housing US troops, has repeatedly come under attacks lately. | A number of unguided rockets were fired at the military facility late on Saturday. At least two loud blasts were heard in the area of the camp, local media reported.The projectiles fell either close to, or within the premises of the base. There were no immediate reports of potential damage to the base or personnel. | The Camp Taji, located some 27km (17 miles) north of the Iraqi ca…
rt.com/news/491746-iraq-taji-base-attack/

UK lashes out at Washington for threatening ICC with sanctions, says justice must be done impartially & without fear
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should be able to work independently without fear of sanctions, the UK's foreign secretary said in an apparent jab at Washington, which threatened the body for probing US troops. | "The UK strongly supports the International Criminal Court in tackling impunity for the worst international crimes," Dominic Raab said. "We will continue to support positive reform of the court, so that it operates as effectively as possibly. ICC officials should be able to carry out their work independently and impartially, and without fear of sanction." | Earlier the Donald Trump ad…
rt.com/news/491729-britain-blasts-us-icc/

LGBT 'ideology' is even 'more destructive' than Bolshevism, says Polish president
rt.com | 2020-06-13
Poland's President Andrzej Duda has equated LGBT "ideology" to communism, warning that in a bid to indoctrinate the youth this "neo-Bolshevism" is even more harmful and destructive. | The conservative politician, who is seeking re-election, catered to his audience at a Saturday rally where he said that his parents' generation did not fight communism only to bow now to a new "ideology" that is "even more destructive to the human being." | That was Bolshevism. It was the ideologizing of children. Today, there are also attempts to push an ideology on us and our children, but different. It's totally new, but it is…
rt.com/news/491750-lgbt-ideology-communism-poland/

Magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits near Japan's Ryukyu Islands
rt.com | 2020-06-13
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has occurred at sea, near the southern Japanese islands of Ryukyu. So far, no tsunami warning has been issued. A powerful tremor was detected off the coast early on Sunday, the country's weather agency said. The epicenter is estimated to be around 160 km below the surface. | Despite the depth, the quake was felt in Okinawa, as well as Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, according to local media. No information on possible damage or casualties was immediately available.
rt.com/news/491737-japan-earthquake-ryukyu-naze/

British Airways' treatment of staff a national disgrace, say MPs
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-13
British Airways' treatment of its workforce during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic "is a national disgrace", MPs have claimed. | "Calculated": | A report by the Commons Transport Select Committee accused the airline of a "calculated attempt to take advantage" of the crisis by cutting up to 12,000 jobs and downgrading the terms and conditions of the bulk of its remaining employees. | The carrier insisted no decisions have been made and it's doing everything it can to "sustain the maximum number of jobs". | Other aviation companies have also announced thousands of redundancies, including easyJet, Ryanai…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/13/british-airways-treatment-of-staff-a-national-disgrace-say-mps/

As Trump Ignores COVID and Attacks Cities, Local Leaders Build for Our Future
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
The last several months have brought a heightened level of anxiety, anger and exhaustion — feelings that, for many of us, have existed at a steady elevation since the end of 2016. The events of these past few weeks, in particular, are a bleak reminder that the oppressive institutions that have allowed COVID-19 to ravage communities of color continue to perpetuate state-sanctioned and white supremacist violence against Black people in this country. | In the midst of it all, I've found li…
truthout.org/articles/as-trump-ignores-covid-and-attacks-cities-local-leaders-build-for-our-future/

Corporations Claiming to Love Black Lives Fight Against Living Wages and Unions
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
This story was originally published at Labor Notes. | Never underestimate the American business community's capacity for hypocrisy. | That's one of the lessons to be drawn from the explosive reaction to George Floyd's murder. As demonstrators began flooding streets, corporate PR departments flew into rapid response mode, issuing a flurry of agonized, apologetic pledges to do more to combat racism and inequality. | Such statements may, on a personal…
truthout.org/articles/corporations-claiming-to-love-black-lives-fight-against-living-wages-and-unions/

States That Expanded Mail Voting Are Seeing a Turnout Spike in Primary Elections
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
At least half of the states that held primaries last week saw increased turnout after expanding their mail-in voting systems — despite President Donald Trump's efforts to discourage other states from doing the same. | At least four of the eight states that held primary elections last Tuesday saw higher turnout tha…
truthout.org/articles/states-that-expanded-mail-voting-are-seeing-a-turnout-spike-in-primary-elections/

The Struggle Against Police Is International. Our Solidarity Must Be Global
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
The current uprising against racist police violence first erupted in the U.S., but it has now become an international movement. | Thousands of people in more than 40 countries have taken to the streets in a show of solidarity with Black Americ…
truthout.org/articles/the-struggle-against-police-is-international-our-solidarity-must-be-global/

The US Has Much to Gain From Increasing Scientific Cooperation With Cuba
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-13
For most of the past 60 years, the United States and Cuba have had very limited diplomatic ties. President Barack Obama started the process of normalizing U.S.-Cuba relations, but the Trump administration reversed this policy, sharply reducing interactions between the two countries. | Scientific c…
truthout.org/articles/the-us-has-much-to-gain-from-increasing-scientific-cooperation-with-cuba/

Thursday 6/11: #Equity For All Forum: Racial Equity in HEROES Act & End Anti-Black Police Brutality!
Faith in Action, NAACP, UNIDOS US, others | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/10/18834098.php

Is coronavirus Covid-19 stalking residents in Oakland, and Alameda County?
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834101.php

U.S. President Trump sparks renewed interest in Juneteenth Celebrations Globally
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
"In 1535, the first enslaved Pan African were recorded in California. Spanish conquistadors brought enslaved Pan Africans for conquest and who were later breed with indigenous population (Afro-Latino) throughout "New Spain" and much, much later evolved into today's Republic of Mexico. Authentic Alta California History remains cloaked in slavery and secrecy that remains off limits for any principled dialogue as the California State Legislature prepares for a 2020 Juneteenth State Budget due next week.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834184.php

Friday 6/19: ILWU Shutting Down W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
SSA Terminals 1717 Middle Harbor Road at the Port of Oakland to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834197.php

ILWU Work Action On W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
The ILWU on the West Coast will shut down all ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020 to stop police terror and systemic racism.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834196.php

Friday 6/19: JUNETEENTH: West Coast Port Shutdown
International Longshore and Warehouse Union | indybay.org | 2020-06-13
Meet at 1717 Middle Harbor Road and caravan to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834195.php

Pentagon Starts Bailing Out Defense Firms
Marcus Weisgerber | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-13
The Pentagon has begun to bail out U.S. companies that have seen large parts of their business dry up amid the coronavirus pandemic, in a bid to make sure they can still build weapons. | On Wednesday, officials announced that five mid-tier defense companies had received a total of $135 million to "help sustain defense-critical workforce capabilities in body armor, aircraft manufacturing, and shipbuilding," according to a Defense Department statement." These…
anti-empire.com/pentagon-starts-bailing-out-defense-firms/

Russia Aiming to Realize Greater Eurasia Dream
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-13
The Russian role will be to balance the hegemonic powers, as a guarantor of a new union of non-aligned nations | Pepe ESCOBAR | Professor Sergey Karaganov is informally known in influential foreign policy circles as the "Russian Kissinger" — with the extra bonus of not having to carry a "war criminal" tag from Vietnam and Cambodia to Chile and beyond. | Karaganov is the dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He's also the honorary chairman of Russia's Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. | In December…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/13/russia-aiming-to-realize-greater-eurasia-dream/

Narrative Control Operations Escalate as America Burns
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-13
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | In 2017, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed in a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it is their responsibility to "quell information rebellions" and adopt a "mission statement" expressing their commitment to "prevent the fomenting of discord." | "Civil wars don't start with gunshots, they start with words," the representatives were told by cold warrior think tank denizen Clint Watts. "America's war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/13/narrative-control-operations-escalate-as-america-burns/

Scheer Intelligence: The Cynical Forces Behind America's Forever Wars
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-12
American interventionism in the Middle East has resulted in two of the longest wars in U.S. history, and led to countless deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as widespread instability in the region. Nearly two decades into the so-called "War on Terror," concerns continue to arise about the U.S. military presence in the Mideast and its seeming inability to extricate itself after all these years. Patrick Cockburn is especially well-positioned to both ask and answer many of the questions stemming from what have become America's "Forever Wars" as an award-winning, courageous journalist who has spent several decade…
popularresistance.org/scheer-intelligence-the-cynical-forces-behind-americas-forever-wars/

Hawkish, Gov't Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands of Chinese Accounts
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-12
Twitter's decision came after close collaboration with a deeply controversial U.S. and Australian government-funded think tank that has been denounced by Australia's former ambassador in Beijing as "the architect of the China threat theory in Australia." | MPN– Social media giant Twitter announced yesterday that it had shut down over 170,000 accounts favorable to the Chinese Communist Party, as well as more than 1,000 Russian and 7,340 Turkish accounts it claimed were parroting Putin and Erdogan propaganda. Is this evidence of massive Chinese infiltration and control over Western social media? Not quite. Not…

Hawkish, Gov’t Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands of Chinese Accounts

Hawkish, Gov't Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands of Chinese Accounts
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-12
Twitter's decision came after close collaboration with a deeply controversial U.S. and Australian government-funded think tank that has been denounced by Australia's former ambassador in Beijing as "the architect of the China threat theory in Australia."
mintpressnews.com/hawkish-think-tank-twitter-decision-delete-chinese-accounts/268524/

Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-12
Still unable to convince a sufficient number of their countryfolk to support them, the Venezuelan opposition has turned their efforts towards convincing an international audience — primarily Americans — to support their cause. Part of that is spending inordinate amounts of time online, arguing in English on social media, creating bot networks, and editing Wikipedia articles. Many Wikipedia articles on Venezuela are particularly biased towards the opposition, containing numerous inaccuracies, falsehoods and non-sequiturs. | Now, a…
mintpressnews.com/project-venezuela-right-wing-activists-push-wikipedia-blacklist-mintpress-news/268534/

Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-12
A group of right-wing Venezuelans has managed to ban the use of a range of alternative media outlets covering Venezuela, including MintPress News. | MPN– Still unable to convince a sufficient number of their countryfolk to support them, the Venezuelan opposition has turned their efforts towards convincing an international audience — primarily Americans — to support their cause. Part of that is spending inordinate amounts of time online, arguing in English on social media, creating bot networks, and editing Wikipedia articles…

Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media

Trump Imposes Sanctions Against ICC Officials Investigating US War Crimes
Andrea Germanos | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-12
"The Trump administration's contempt for the global rule of law is plain."
theantimedia.com/trump-imposes-sanctions-against-icc-officials-investigating-us-war-crimes/

International Criminal Court Denounces 'Unprecedented Attacks' by US
Andrea Germanos | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-12
"An unacceptable attempt to interfere with the rule of law."
theantimedia.com/international-criminal-court-denounces-unprecedented-attacks-by-us/

Wikipedia Formally Censors The Grayzone as Regime-change Advocates Monopolize Editing
Ben Norton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia's guidelines. | This is part 1 in a series of investigative reports on …
globalresearch.ca/wikipedia-formally-censors-grayzone-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing/5715810

Turkey's big bet has put Libya in center of a global power struggle
M.K. Bhadrakumar | mronline.org | 2020-06-12
The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya's renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in the country. But the war is far from over.
mronline.org/2020/06/12/turkeys-big-bet-has-put-libya-in-center-of-a-global-power-struggle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turkeys-big-bet-has-put-libya-in-center-of-a-global-power-struggle

In the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards A New World Order? The Global Debt Crisis and the Privatization of the State
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
This is the true picture of what is happening. Poverty is Worldwide. While famines are erupting in Third World countries, closer to home, in the richest country on earth, "millions of desperate Americans wait in long crowded lines for handouts"
globalresearch.ca/towards-a-new-world-order-the-global-debt-crisis-and-the-privatization-of-the-state/5709755

Remember the "Fake" 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
A Worldwide public health emergency is unfolding, 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine are envisaged by the WHO.
globalresearch.ca/the-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-manipulating-the-data-to-justify-a-worldwide-public-health-emergency/14901

Michel Chossudovsky: Biographical Summary
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
There are a number of deliberate "errors" and omissions in Michel Chossudovsky's wikipedia entry. Defamatory statements. | The same applies to the wikipedia entry for Global Research which has been merged with Chossudovsky's entry. The objective is to smear GR. …
globalresearch.ca/michel-chossudovsky-biographical-summary/5580999

Uprising & Abolition: Angela Davis on Movement Building, "Defund the Police" & Where We Go from Here
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-12
The uprising against police brutality and anti-Black racism continues to sweep across the United States and countries around the world, forcing a reckoning in the halls of power and on the streets. The mass protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 have dramatically shifted public opinion on policing and systemic racism, as "defund the police" becomes a rallying cry of the movement. We discuss the historic moment with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis. "One never knows when conditions may give rise to a conjuncture such as the current one that rapidly shifts popular…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_historic_moment

Angela Davis: Dems & GOP Tied to Corporate Capitalism, But We Must Vote So Trump Is "Forever Ousted"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-12
"Neither party represents the future that we need in this country — both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism," Angela Davis says of the 2020 election. "We're going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_2020_race_biden_trump

Angela Davis: Dems & GOP Tied to Corporate Capitalism, But We Must Vote So Trump Is "Forever Ousted"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-12
"Neither party represents the future — both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism," Angela Davis says of the 2020 election. "We're going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_2020_race_biden_trump

Angela Davis: Toppling of Confederate Statues Reflects Reckoning with Slavery & Historical Racism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-12
The destruction and removal of racist monuments in cities across the United States during recent weeks is part of an overdue reckoning with "historical racisms that have brought us to the point where we are today," Angela Davis says. "Racism should have been immediately confronted in the aftermath of the end of slavery."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_toppling_monuments_to_racism

Angela Davis Slams Trump Rally in Tulsa, Massacre Site, on Juneteenth Celebration of End of Slavery
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-12
President Trump will resume holding indoor campaign events starting with a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 19, a day known as Juneteenth, that celebrates African Americans' liberation from slavery. The rally also falls on the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa race riots, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, in which white residents killed hundreds of their African American neighbors. Legendary scholar Angela Davis says it's important to recognize that Trump "represents a sector of a population in this country that wants to return to the past … with all of its white supremacy, with all of its…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_trump_juneteenth_maga

Police are the Enemy Within
Michael Yates | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
In 2017, Daniel Fetonte was elected to the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a rapidly growing left-wing organization in the United States. Fetonte was co-chair of the Austin, Texas, branch of the DSA and had been involved in labor union organizing for many years. However, he had also been employed by the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, the largest police union in the state, with a membership of 21,000 police officers.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/police-are-the-enemy-within/

Roaming Charges: The Ring of the Truncheon Thing
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
"If you insist on having statues of people who fought the U.S. military, how about Ho Chi Minh? For one thing, he actually won…" — Paulo L dos Santos + The Democrats are absolutely desperate to smother the Defund the Police movement (not just the slogan, but the abolitionist ideology driving it) before it totally…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/roaming-charges-the-ring-of-the-truncheon-thing/

Palestine Bleeds: Execution of Autistic Man is Not an Exception but the Norm
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
A 32-year-old man with the mental age of an 8-year-old child was executed by Israeli soldiers on May 30, while crouching behind his teacher near his special needs school in the Old City of Jerusalem. The cold-blooded murder of Iyad al-Hallaq might not have received much attention if it were not for the fact that…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/palestine-bleeds-execution-of-autistic-man-is-not-an-exception-but-the-norm/

Court of Human Rights Deals Major Blow To Israel's War On Palestine Solidarity
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-12
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously that the French highest court's 2015 criminal conviction of activists with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement advocating nonviolent boycotts of Israeli goods violated article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights. | Reacting to the breaking news, Rita Ahmad from the Palestinian-led BDS movement said: | This momentous court ruling is a decisive victory for freedom of expression, for human rights defenders, and for the BDS movement for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. It confirms a 2016 European U…
popularresistance.org/court-of-human-rights-deals-major-blow-to-israels-war-on-palestine-solidarity/

Livable Ecology, Not Police
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
I have never heard it louder than I did this morning. The Interstate highway, I-80, that is, two miles or so north of my abode in Iowa City. It's a highway to Hell in the heartland of the deranged Superpower that leads the world in per-capita Greenhouse Gassing. All those carbon-spewing, planet-cooking semi-trailers, cars, vans,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/livable-ecology-not-police/

Russians "Stirring Up Trouble": An Obama Retread Sees Moscow's Hand in US Protests
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
If one ventures into the vast wasteland of American television it is possible to miss the truly ridiculous content that is promoted as news by the major networks. One particular feature of media-speak in the United States is the tendency …
globalresearch.ca/russians-stirring-up-trouble-obama-retread-sees-moscow-hand-protests/5715743

The time is now to join a revolutionary organization: Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-12
If you have been out in the streets this past few weeks, the odds are good that you've been thinking about the difference between the kind of change this system has to offer, and the kind of change this country needs. Capitalism is failed system that thrives on exploitation, inequality and oppression. The reactionary and racist Trump administration has made the pandemic worse. The unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s. Monopoly capitalism is a dying system and we need to help finish it off. And that is exactly what Freedom Road Socialist Organization is working for. | Freedom…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/12/time-now-join-revolutionary-organization-join-freedom-road-socialist-organization

The time is now to join a revolutionary organization: Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-12
If you have been out in the streets this past few weeks, the odds are good that you've been thinking about the difference between the kind of change this system has to offer, and the kind of change this country needs. Capitalism is failed system that thrives on exploitation, inequality and oppression. The reactionary and racist Trump administration has made the pandemic worse. The unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s. Monopoly capitalism is a dying system and we need to help finish it off. And that is exactly what Freedom Road Socialist Organization is working for. | Freedom…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/12/time-now-join-revolutionary-organization-join-freedom-road-socialist-organization

Video: Attacks on US Forces and Facilities Continue in Iraq. Washington Rejects Iraqi Parliament Demand for US Troop Withdrawal
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Last night, two rockets struck the Green Zone in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The heavily fortified area houses some of the main Iraqi government offices and the US embassy. There were no immediate reports about casualties. No group has …
globalresearch.ca/video-attacks-us-forces-facilities-continues-iraq/5715757

ICC Probe of US War Crimes in Afghanistan. Trump Lashes Back. ICC is "Threat" to America
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
It is fairly well established that Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11 — the mother of all state-sponsored false flags, a pretext for the US to smash one nation after another. | US …
globalresearch.ca/trump-declares-national-emergency-orders-sanctions-icc-probe-us-war-crimes-afghanistan/5715813

Trump's Executive Order on Police. No Defunding, No Disbanding. "Our Police have been Letting Us Live in Peace." (sic)
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
It's being prepared for release in the coming days. More on it below. | In early February 2017, days after his inauguration, Trump signed what the White House called "pro-law and anti-crime executive orders (to) support the dedicated men and women …
globalresearch.ca/trump-executive-order-police/5715816

Living is no laughing matter
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-06-12
The United States government has withdrawn its support for the World Health Organisation (WHO) based on accusations that the WHO has not been forthcoming about the novel coronavirus and based on U.S. President Donald Trump's questioning of the WHO's independence from China, calling the organisation a 'puppet of China'.
mronline.org/2020/06/12/living-is-no-laughing-matter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-is-no-laughing-matter

US sanctions International Criminal Court over war crimes investigations in Afghanistan
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
US president Donald Trump has opposed investigations into war crimes committed by the US-led forces in Afghanistan since 2003. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo termed the ICC a 'kangaroo court'…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-over-war-crimes-investigations-in-afghanistan/

Syrian MP terms US sanctions as 'war crimes'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-12
TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — A member of the Syrian Parliament, Mohammad Fawaz, said that the US is committing war crimes by imposing new sanctions against Syria.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159718/Syrian-MP-terms-US-sanctions-as-war-crimes

Homage to Medgar Evers
Tim Wheeler | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-12
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army. He was born July 2, 1925, and was assassinated on June 12, 1963. Tim Wheeler wrote this poem in 1994. Behold the Mississippi …
peoplesworld.org/article/homage-to-medgar-evers/

Europe's top human rights court overturns French conviction of BDS activists
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
A French court had convicted 11 BDS activists for 'incitement to economic discrimination' after they organized a boycott protest against Israel outside a supermarket in France during the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2009-10…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/europes-top-human-rights-court-overturns-french-conviction-of-bds-activists/

Activists in Japan join the global Black Lives Matter movement
Shimbun Akahata | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-12
TOKYO–In response to the Black Lives Matter movement spreading from the United States to the rest of the world, several rounds of anti-racism demonstrations in Tokyo and Osaka have seen massive turnout–even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. On June 7, the chant "Black Lives Matter" echoed throughout downtown Osaka City. The rally was …
peoplesworld.org/article/activists-in-japan-join-the-global-black-lives-matter-movement/

Buffalo Police Assault 75-Year-Old Longtime Peace Activist
Lu Aya | zcomm.org | 2020-06-12
Now Trump is attacking him too…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/buffalo-police-assault-75-year-old-longtime-peace-activist/

Angela Davis on Movement Building, "Defund the Police" and Where We Go From Here
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-12
The uprising against police brutality and anti-Black racism continues to sweep across the United States and countries around the world, forcing a reckoning in the halls of power and on the streets. The mass protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 have dramatically shifted public opinion on policing and systemic racism, as "defund the police" becomes a rallying cry of the movement. We discuss the historic moment with legendary scholar and activist Angela Da…
truthout.org/video/angela-davis-on-movement-building-defund-the-police-and-where-we-go-from-here/

Klobuchar Worked With Law Enforcement Group to Increase Police Budgets
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-12
This article was produced by Sludge, an independent, ad-free investigative news site covering money in politics. Click here to support Sludge. | As activists around the country work to defund police departments, the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee is considering a senator who worked to boost police department budg…
truthout.org/articles/klobuchar-worked-with-law-enforcement-group-to-increase-police-budgets/

The scale of computational propaganda applied to get your consent
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-12
By TruePublica: The coronavirus crisis has exacerbated tensions over the role of disinformation in international politics. Indeed, few weeks seem to go by without the world's major powers trading accusations of carrying out disinformation campaigns. But while many reports focus on dramatic allegations of countries interfering in the affairs of rival nations, the Peace Research …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/the-scale-of-computational-propaganda-applied-to-get-your-consent/

Buffalo Cops–And All the Other Cops
Bruce Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
All we know is that a line of cops, for no apparent reason, charged a group of apparently peaceful demonstrators and began beating them, after which shots were fired, a car injured three police officers, one seriously, a woman was shot, and three people were arrested. Someone gave the order to attack, and they did.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/buffalo-cops-and-all-the-other-cops/

The Implications of Social Hierarchy and Questioning the Right to Rule
Jason Holland | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
Society must return to truth or cease to exist. — Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, 1892 In these times the establishment continues to bellow out hippie like rhetoric that we're all in this together, that we must find unity and peace, put down our differences, sing kum ba yah, and hug this shit out. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-implications-of-social-hierarchy-and-questioning-the-right-to-rule/

Colorado judge bans use of tear gas, says it violates one of many freedoms the US was built on
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-12
Citizens should never have to fear peaceful protest on the basis of police retaliation, especially not when protesting that very same police violence."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/12/colorado-judge-bans-use-of-tear-gas-says-it-violates-one-of-many-freedoms-the-us-was-built-on/

Israeli forces injure 3 photojournalists
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Three photojournalists along with dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were injured and suffocated by the Israeli army's live and rubber bullets, and tear gas.Murad Shtaiwi, coordinator of the Popular Resistance Committees in the town of Kafr Qaddum, Qalqilya, said the Israeli forces used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse peaceful demonstrators.Shtaiwi said three photojournalists and two Palestinians were injured, while tens of protesters suffered from tear gas suffocation.People in Kafr Qaddum organize weekly protests against Israeli occupation and against the Israeli settlement activities, whic…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israeli-forces-injure-3-photojournalists-3531906

Denver Police Served Temporary Restraining Order Amid Nationwide Protest Repression
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-12
Denver, CO — Late in the evening on June 5, 2020, Federal District Judge R. Brooke Jackson (PDF) ruled against the city and county of Denver in a class-action lawsuit filed on June 4. A Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) was put into place applying to…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/denver-police-served-temporary-restraining-order-amid-nationwide-protest-repression/

Media are slowly starting to be serious about police violence
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-12
As the George Floyd protests against police violence erupted around the nation, a massive amount of evidence of police brutality was widely captured through social media. Unfortunately, very little of it made it to mainstream outlets until much later.
mronline.org/2020/06/12/media-are-slowly-starting-to-be-serious-about-police-violence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=media-are-slowly-starting-to-be-serious-about-police-violence

Policing the Press: A Journalist on the Frontlines
aclu.org | 2020-06-12
Journalists covering protests against police brutality across the country are facing an influx of violence, suppression efforts, and arrests by police. Since the George Floyd protests began, there have been more than 400 claims of aggressions against the press, according to the U.S. Press Freedom tracker. Violations include being assaulted with pepper spray and rubber bullets, dealing with damaged equipment, and even facing arrest. This week, At Liberty is joined by Jared Goyette, a freelance reporter who was hit in the eye with a police projectile while covering a…
aclu.org/news/free-speech/policing-the-press-a-journalist-on-the-frontlines

A Second Wave of COVID-19 Looms Large—and It's Not Because of Protests
Derrick Z. Jackson | commondreams.org | 2020-06-12
To effectively combat the pandemic, we need a just response guided by science and accurate data. (Photo: CC) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/covid-19-text-with-us-flag.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/12/second-wave-covid-19-looms-large-and-its-not-because-protests?cd-origin=rss

Brazilian delivery workers strike in defense of their lives
wsws.org | 2020-06-12
Delivery workers have been carrying out strikes and protests in Brazil since April, connected to delivery workers' strikes around the world in countries like Spain, Ecuador and Argentina.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/12/braz-j12.html

Police Brutalize the Press
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Police brutalized reporters during the George Floyd protests. Not just a little. A lot. It was policy and it was egregious; something one would expect in a banana republic run by a tinpot dictator, not the home of the first amendment. But then the police, military and federal officers who flooded Washington D.C. in late…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/police-brutalize-the-press/

Police Violence: "Reform" is Not Enough
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Every few years, some particular instance of a pervasive phenomenon — police violence in the form of unjustified or at least highly questionable killings — "goes viral" with the result that America's cities explode in protest. Every time that happens, some American politicians complain about a non-existent "war on police," while others promise "reforms" such…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/police-violence-reform-is-not-enough/

Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime
Pepe Escobar | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-12
The marriage of post-Lockdown and George Floyd protests has nurtured a rough beast that is still immune to any form of civilized debate in the U.S.: the Seattle Commune. | So what really is the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone cum People's Republic all about? | Are the communards mere useful idiots? Is this a refined Occupy Wall Street experiment? Could it survive, logistically, and be replicated in NYC, L.A. and D.C.? | An outraged President Trump has described it as a plot by "domestic terrorists" in a city "run by radical left Democrats". He called for "LAW & ORDER" (in caps, according to his Tweetology). | Shades…

Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime

Communist Party of Turkey: Justice for George Floyd! Solidarity with the uprising!
Communist Party of Turkey | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-12
On behalf of the Communist Party of Turkey, we express our heartfelt support for the working people of the United States who took to the streets for protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd by racist policemen.
liberationnews.org/communist-party-of-turkey-justice-for-george-floyd-solidarity-with-the-uprising/

New Haven is Minneapolis: Racist police terror is alive and well in Connecticut
PSL Connecticut | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-12
New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker is among the many political officials across Connecticut who are trying to distance themselves from the state's long history and ever present epidemic of racist police terror. On May 29, in his first statement on the wave of protests that have spread across the country following the murder of George …
liberationnews.org/new-haven-is-minneapolis-racist-police-terror-is-alive-and-well-in-connecticut/

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-06-12
Unanimous strike vote at Dutch Tata steel plant while Nigerian doctors have set June 15 as the date for a nationwide walkout while employees of airline South African Express staged a protest in Pretoria, South Africa over non-payment of wages.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/12/wrks-j12.html

Cops TV Series Cancelled After 33 Seasons Amid Anti-Police Protests
The Mind Unleashed | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-12
The recent shift in the global consciousness will undoubtedly push networks to reconsider airing shows that glorify the police.
theantimedia.com/cops-tv-series-cancelled-after-33-seasons-amid-anti-police-protests/

Journalist Derrick Broze Arrested for Simply Covering a George Floyd Protest in Houston
Derrick Broze | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-12
Derrick Broze was arrested and jailed for 16 hours last week.
theantimedia.com/derrick-broze-arrested-covering-george-floyd-protest-in-houston/

Young Communists hit the streets in New York with Black Lives Matter
Maicol David Lynch | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-12
NEW YORK–"How do you spell racist? NYPD!" the crowd chanted as it proceeded up Fifth Avenue towards Central Park from Washington Square Park in Manhattan. The Young Communist League Organizing Committee of New York wasted no time mobilizing its members to participate in and even lead the dozens of protests which have taken the streets …
peoplesworld.org/article/young-communists-hit-the-streets-in-new-york-with-black-lives-matter/

It Won't Be Protests That Bring On The Next Big Wave Of COVID19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-12
As people across the nation and the world came out to protest the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, corporate media carried a warning: Demonstrations against police violence risk creating a major upsurge in the spread of the coronavirus. | As ABC (6/3/20) put it: | As thousands of demonstrators continue to protest the killing of George Floyd, health experts are worried that a second wave of Covid-19 infections could be sparked by the mass gatherings. | An opinion piece in USA Today (6/8/20) warned, "George Floyd Protests Create Risk of Deadly Coronavirus Resurgence." "The absence of social distan…
popularresistance.org/it-wont-be-protests-that-bring-on-the-next-big-wave-of-covid19/

Martin Gugino — The "Buffalo Protestor" And Our Friend
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-12
Martin Gugino worked together in Witness Against Torture for years, a close-knit group dedicated to closing the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo and opposing torture. Our community is beside itself. | None of us is surprised that it was Martin meeting the police line in a posture of non-violence. Martin is gentle, principled, and undaunted. Allied with the Catholic Worker tradition, he is also deeply committed to a tapestry of causes, from fair housing to immigrant rights. Guiding his activism is belief in the sacred power of non-violent resistance to injustice. If that makes him an "agitator," as Buffalo's police…
popularresistance.org/martin-gugino-the-buffalo-protestor-and-our-friend/

Who Supplied The Weapons Used Against #BLM Protesters?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-12
In response to the murder of George Floyd by a member of the Minneapolis police department on 25th May, thousands of people across the United States joined protests demanding justice for his killing, radical reform of police forces, and driving home the message that Black Lives Matter. Many of these protests face militarised police responses, including the use of rubber bullets, sting balls, stun grenades, battons, police charges, and chemical weapons like tear gas and pepper spray. | Twitter users have photographed a large number of canisters that were fired during the protest. Many appear to have been produced…
popularresistance.org/who-supplied-the-weapons-used-against-blm-protesters/

'What would Hattie McDaniel think?' HBO chief says removing 'Gone with the Wind' was 'no brainer'
rt.com | 2020-06-12
WarnerMedia chairman Bob Greenblatt says removing 'Gone with the Wind' from his company's streaming service was a "no brainer," despite the numerous protests against the decision. | "I don't regret taking it down for a second," Greenblatt told SiriusXM's 'The Jess Cagle Show' on Friday about the decision to nix the classic movie from the freshly-launched HBO Max. | He assured those offended by the film, which takes place during the Civil War, that a "disclaimer" will be added to the movie to warn about its content. | "We're going to bring it back with a proper context, and it's what we should have done," he sa…
rt.com/usa/491690-gone-with-the-wind-hbo-no-brainer/

EU warns COVID-19 health crisis not over yet, urges vigilance
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
The public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 epidemic in Europe is not over yet, the European Union's top health official warned on Friday, urging governments to remain vigilant and plough ahead with testing and tracing the population."This is not behind us yet. We need to be vigilant," EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides told EU health ministers in a videoconference, amid fears of a new surge in infections as EU states gradually reopen business and borders and after mass protests in recent days across the continent [ nL8N2DO589].
yenisafak.com/en/world/eu-warns-covid-19-health-crisis-not-over-yet-urges-vigilance-3531871

Anger ensues as India hunts anti-citizenship law protesters amid pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
A group of students protesting a controversial citizenship law in India accused the government of continuing to "witch-hunt" although the country is being enmeshed in COVID-19 pandemic.Organizer of the protest against the law — known as Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA which passed in the parliament last December and led to widespread protests across the country, drawing worldwide criticism — said the police continue to arrest participants despite the virus lockdown and claimed that "the government is misusing its power to create fear."More than 190 student groups in India have organized virtual protests in t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/anger-ensues-as-india-hunts-anti-citizenship-law-protesters-amid-pandemic-3531904

Families' sit-in against PKK terror continues in SE Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
A sit-in in southeastern Turkey by families pleading for the return of their children kidnapped by the YPG/PKK terror group has entered its 284th day.The protest started on Sept. 3, 2019, in Diyarbakir province outside the office of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), a party accused by the government of having links to the YPG/PKK.Solmaz Ovunc, whose son was abducted five years ago, said she has been staging a sit-in for 284 days and that she will continue the sit-in until the return of her son."HDP took my son and handed him over to the PKK. The PKK did not come and take my son from the neighborhood…
yenisafak.com/en/news/families-sit-in-against-pkk-terror-continues-in-se-turkey-3531905

Pentagon orders 'after action review' of National Guard's response to protests & rioting
rt.com | 2020-06-12
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has ordered a post-mortem review of the National Guard's performance after thousands of troops were summoned to American streets to manage mass protests and civil unrest over police brutality. | A Pentagon release on Thursday night said an "after action review" had been ordered to address a number of issues, including the "training, equipping, organizing, manning, deployment and employment" of Guard forces amid the demonstrations, with a focus on cooperation with law enforcement. | "In recent weeks, the National Guard has performed professionally and capably in support of law en…
rt.com/usa/491592-national-guard-action-review/

National Guard soldiers deployed to DC protests find GLASS SHARDS in pizza
rt.com | 2020-06-12
National Guard troops deployed to the US capital found broken glass in their pizza delivery, the Pentagon has confirmed, as nationwide protests against police brutality escalate into calls to get rid of law enforcement altogether. | Some 1,500 troops from South Carolina, Indiana, Maryland and Tennessee were sent to the capital last week to reinforce 1,300 members of the DC National Guard deployed to assist law enforcement with restoring order, as George Floyd protests escalated into looting and arson for several nights. | When two of the South Carolina soldiers ordered pizza delivered to the Marriott Marquis H…
rt.com/usa/491588-national-guard-glass-pizza/

'Do the protests now': Hillary Clinton's Covid-19 outrage over Trump rally during pandemic roasted
rt.com | 2020-06-12
Hillary Clinton has criticized President Donald Trump's upcoming Oklahoma rally over Covid-19 fears, but critics are blasting her as she's seen no problem with the mass protests across the nation over the death of George Floyd. | "If your rallies come with a liability waiver, you shouldn't be holding them," Clinton tweeted on Friday in response to a tweet revealing the president's Tulsa, Oklahoma rally includes a Covid-19 waiver form for attendees. | If your rallies come with a liability waiver, you shouldn't be holding them. t.co/J1BgdUec9k– Hillary Clinton…
rt.com/usa/491671-hillary-clinton-covid-19-trump-rally/

'Proud to be one of the 'bad actors' on RT,' says Rose McGowan after DHS report smearing channel for coverage of BLM protests
rt.com | 2020-06-12
American actress Rose McGowan said she is "proud" to be one of the so-called "bad actors" appearing on RT after the US Department of Homeland Security criticized the channel for covering protests over George Floyd's death. | In a bulletin reported this week, the DHS accused Russia, China and Iran of using state-owned media to "amplify criticism" of the US in relation to Floyd's death in May. The unarmed black man died at the hands of a police officer who kneeled on his neck for nine minutes ignoring his pleas for life. | On Friday, McGowan shared a screenshot of a headline about the DHS bulletin with the quote…
rt.com/usa/491655-rose-mcgowan-rt-dhs/

Trump slams Seattle mayor for describing 'anarchist takeover' as 'summer of love'
rt.com | 2020-06-12
President Donald Trump has blasted Seattle's mayor for describing the city's 'autonomous zone', a few blocks taken over by protesters who chased police out, as a place that could have a "summer of love." | "Seattle Mayor says, about the anarchists takeover of her city, 'it is a Summer of Love,'" tweeted the president on Friday. | "These Liberal Dems don't have a clue. The terrorists burn and pillage our cities, and they think it is just wonderful, even the death. Must end this Seattle takeover now!" | Seattle Mayor says, about the anarchists takeover of her city, "it is a Summer of Love". These Liberal Dems do…
rt.com/usa/491659-trump-seattle-mayor-summer-of-love/

'Breonna's Law': Louisville bans 'no-knock search warrants' after police killed black woman during night raid on her home
rt.com | 2020-06-12
The city of Louisville, Kentucky has banned police from invading homes without announcing their presence. This tactic prompted protests after plainclothes officers killed a black woman while raiding her apartment. | 'No-knock search warrants' are used in operations like drug busts, when officers want to prevent suspects from quickly destroying a stash of drugs or other evidence. | Three plainclothes narcotics detectives had this type of warrant when they arrived in the middle of the night at the apartment of a young black paramedic, Breonna Taylor, in March. According to police, they were investigating a drug…
rt.com/usa/491601-breonna-taylor-police-law/

French police defy mass gathering restrictions to protest chokehold ban after George Floyd killing
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-12
French police have defied a ban on mass gatherings, marching through central Paris to protest against new limits on arrest tactics and criticism of racism in their ranks. Limits to what they can do during arrests include a ban on chokeholds, following the killing of George Floyd in the US.Police brutality: Police unions chose the famed Champs-Elysees avenue, that was scene to violent clashes with protesters just a few months ago, to demonstrate against what they see as a lack of government support.The decision to ban chokeholds is part of government efforts to stem police brutality and racism amid global p…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/06/12/french-police-defy-mass-gathering-restrictions-to-protest-chokehold-ban-after-george-floyd-killing/

Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-12
The marriage of post-Lockdown and George Floyd protests has nurtured a rough beast that is still immune to any form of civilized debate in the U.S.: the Seattle Commune. | So what really is the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone cum People's Republic all about? | Are the communards mere useful idiots? Is this a refined Occupy Wall Street experiment? Could it survive, logistically, and be replicated in NYC, L.A. and D.C.? | An outraged President Trump has described it as a plot by "domestic terrorists" in a city "run by radical left Democrats". He called for "LAW & ORDER" (in caps, according to his Tweetology). | Shades…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/12/syria-in-seattle-commune-defies-us-regime/

As Nationwide Protests Over Police Brutality Continue, Cities Across the US Cut and Reallocate Police Funding
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-12
"You don't have to go full abolition to see that maybe sinking 1/3 of a city's general budget into police is a problematic investment." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/george_floyd_protest_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/12/nationwide-protests-over-police-brutality-continue-cities-across-us-cut-and?cd-origin=rss

Research Shows 'Linking Climate Policy to Social and Economic Justice Makes It More Popular'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-12
Amid persistent calls for a green and just recovery from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests against systemic racism and injustice, researchers on Friday detailed recent studies showing "policy packages that address the climate crisis alongside income inequality, racial injustice, and the economic crisis are more popular among voters." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/ue_green_new_deal_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/12/research-shows-linking-climate-policy-social-and-economic-justice-makes-it-more?cd-origin=rss

Washington steps up strategic bomber flights threatening Russia, China
wsws.org | 2020-06-12
As social anger grows over police brutality and the COVID-19 pandemic, the danger that the ruling elite will try to suppress class conflict with external wars is rising.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/12/nucl-j12.html

PDF of June 11 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-06-12
Download 12-page PDF here. Tear down the walls: Prisons and class war; Texas jail is COVID hotspot. Special issue dedicated to George Floyd: Step one, movement demands 'DEFUND POLICE!' No Pride without justice!; Calif. Labor condemns murder; Racist monuments down; Why generals rebuked Trump; Police brutality in Buffalo; Journalists under . . . | Continue reading PDF of June 11 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49257/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-june-11-issue

COVID-19 cases spike across the United States
wsws.org | 2020-06-12
Twelve US states–Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Michigan, Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, Delaware and Hawaii–have all seen a 25 percent or more spike in average cases within the last week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/12/cora-j12.html

Unmasking Racial Terror and Seeing Whiteness
Mark Schuller | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Tuesday was the funeral for George Floyd, killed by Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin on Memorial Day, as the U.S. COVID death toll approached 100,000. Floyd's murder was caught on tape: for eight minutes and 46 seconds, Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck. Floyd's words, "I can't breathe!" echoing Eric Garner's, killed…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/unmasking-racial-terror-and-seeing-whiteness/

Reopening in Sà£o Paulo is sending "population to the slaughterhouse," warns COVID-19 specialist
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
The city of Sà£o Paulo is in the orange phase, the second most critical of a five-level scale created by the state government to define the pandemic situation in each municipality, alongside the rules for loosening social isolation measures. | In this phase, the restricted opening of real estate trade, retail, shopping malls, dealerships and offices is allowed. | "We are sending the population to the slaughterhouse. The city of Sà£o Paulo opening [retail] today, with a rising death rate, shows a unique cynicism both from the governor of the state of Sà£o Paulo and now from the mayor of the city…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/reopening-in-sao-paulo-is-sending-population-to-the-slaughterhouse-warns-covid-19-specialist/

Child labour gains since 2000 'could be wiped out by COVID', UN warns
news.un.org | 2020-06-12
Huge gains made towards ending child labour over the last 20 years, risk being reversed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN said on Friday, in an appeal for governments to continue investing in measures that have helped reduce the number of youngsters working, by 94 million, since 2000.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066172

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-12
Across the world, one of the biggest changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic is in the field of education. Programs from kindergarten through postsecondary have rapidly moved to a distance learning model. Online and remote instruction has its own unique challenges, and has required students and educators to be creative to stay connected. On the …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-medical-education-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

COVID-19, Capitalist Crises, Class Resistance
Monty Neill | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
The Covid-19 pandemic arrived at a moment of multiple crises of the capitalist system: capital accumulation, ecology, governance, and science. The uprising following the murder of George Lloyd now accelerates the ongoing crisis of structural racism, which Covid-19 starkly illustrated. Each has a history, but as they come together now, it becomes essential to grasp…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/covid-19-capitalist-crises-class-resistance/

Second wave fears hits business confidence — Britain to fair worst of all developed countries
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-12
By TruePublica Editor: Right at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis TruePublica warned of a number of events in various articles that were inevitable despite what the mainstream media and government were saying. We clearly stated that the expected 20,000 fatality rate predicted by the government and their scientific advisors would be little more than …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/second-wave-fears-hits-business-confidence-britain-to-fair-worst-in-all-developed-countries/

COVID-19, Capitalist Crises, Class Resistance
Monty Neill | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
The Covid-19 pandemic arrived at a moment of multiple crises of the capitalist system: capital accumulation, ecology, governance, and science. The uprising following the murder of George Floyd now accelerates the ongoing crisis of structural racism, which Covid-19 starkly illustrated. Each has a history, but as they come together now, it becomes essential to grasp…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/covid-19-capitalist-crises-class-resistance/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Precautions for a summer of COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-12
With the onset of warmer weather and more and more states loosening their COVID-19 restrictions, lots of folks are wondering about some summer staples, like cookouts and a day at the beach or pool. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, an infectious disease specialist at Mayo Clinic, discusses how you can minimize your …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-precautions-for-a-summer-of-covid-19/

UAW threatens job losses at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant over COVID-19-related absences
wsws.org | 2020-06-12
The UAW's threats came the same day that Ford's Chief Operating Officer, Jim Farley, announced that the company expects production to return to pre-pandemic levels by July 6.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/12/ford-j12.html

Over 95% of UK "COVID19" Deaths Had "Pre-existing Condition"
OffGuardian | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Over 95% of "COVID Deaths" recorded in England and Wales had potentially serious "comorbidities" [other causes of mortality] according to statistics released by NHS England. | The latest figures make for pretty stark reading. Or, rather, they would make for stark …
globalresearch.ca/95-uk-covid19-deaths-had-pre-existing-condition/5715775

COVID-19 , "Global False Alarm". Leaked German Government Report
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
We bring to the attention of our readers details concerning the Leaked Report of Germany's Ministry of Interior. | What is at stake is a 93 page report entitled "Analysis of Crisis Management" drafted by a scientific panel appointed by the | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-global-false-alarm-leaked-german-government-report/5715840

Distortions and Attempts to Undermine the Cuban Medical Brigades Will Not Succeed
Bill Hackwell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
Cuban medical brigade returning from Italy (Photo: Ismael Fransisco Gonzalez) Every evening for the past two and a half months the people of Cuba have come out on their streets and porches to applaud and cheer for the 3,000 members of the Henry Reeve medical brigades who are fighting the Covid-19 pandemic on the front …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/distortions-and-attempts-to-undermine-the-cuban-medical-brigades-will-not-succeed/

Health experts concerned about indirect effects of COVID-19 on women and youth
news.un.org | 2020-06-12
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to escalate, the World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about its impact on women, children and young people.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066252

Over 95% of UK "COVID19" Deaths Had "Pre-existing Condition" (Died From Other Causes)
OffGuardian | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Over 95% of "COVID Deaths" recorded in England and Wales had potentially serious "comorbidities" [other causes of mortality] according to statistics released by NHS England. | The latest figures make for pretty stark reading. Or, rather, they would make for stark …
globalresearch.ca/95-uk-covid19-deaths-had-pre-existing-condition/5715775

The importance of self-care during difficult times
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-12
If you are struggling with overwhelming feelings, added anxiety, stress and fear, you are not alone. "We are in the midst of a dual pandemic of COVID-19 and social unrest caused by racism which affects all members of our communities," says Dr. Monica Taylor-Desir, co-chair of Diversity and Inclusion in Mayo Clinic's department of Psychiatry …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/the-importance-of-self-care-during-difficult-times/

UN chief calls for seafarers to be designated 'key workers', with many stranded at sea
news.un.org | 2020-06-12
Due to COVID-related travel restrictions, hundreds of thousands of the world's two million seafarers have been "stranded at sea for months", said the UN chief on Friday, calling for them to be categorized as "key workers", during the pandemic.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066262

Maryland: Privately-Operated Online Charter Schools Should Remain Illegal
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
It is no surprise that many are exploiting the "COVID Pandemic" to advance their narrow self-serving agendas. Charter school advocates are no exception. Crises often generate instability, chaos, and confusion that can make it easier for such forces to get away with antisocial policies and arrangements that would be far more difficult to implement under …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/maryland-privately-operated-online-charter-schools-should-remain-illegal/

Thailand: Key ASEAN Nation Emerges from COVID-19
Joseph Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
The Kingdom of Thailand plays a central role in the Southeast Asian ASEAN economic bloc. It has a population of nearly 70 million, the second largest economy in the region and hosts a key leg of China's One Belt, One …
globalresearch.ca/thailand-key-asean-nation-emerges-covid-19/5715752

The Corporate Origins of the Anti-Science "Reopen" Demonstrations
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Many of the same extreme right operatives who created the "Tea Party" are behind the anti-science and anti-intellectual spectacles opposing measures designed to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. And with much the same agenda. By now, that is not much of a secret, but it is nonetheless necessary to expose these roots, and to debunk the…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/the-corporate-origins-of-the-anti-science-reopen-demonstrations/

Covid-19 Hits the French Health System
Evan Jones | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
On 28 February the WHO issued a report on China's efforts to control the Coronavirus outbreak, highlighting the necessity for a comprehensive government-led response to the threat. On 29 February, the French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe chose to divert priorities from a Ministerial Council dedicated to Covid-19 by utilising article 49-3 of the Constitution to…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/covid-19-hits-the-french-health-system/

Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and the 1918 Influenza
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
The current Covid-19 epidemic has drawn comparisons to the 1918 influenza epidemic, often referred to as the Spanish flu or H1N1 virus. The influenza flu was devastating with an estimated 500 million people — one-third of the world's population — infected and 50 million died; in the U.S., about 675,000 deaths occurred and in New…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/two-pandemics-covid-19-and-the-1918-influenza/

Amid COVID-19 and climate change, UNHCR appeals for $186 million for Sahel refugee and displacement crisis
news.un.org | 2020-06-12
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has issued an urgent appeal for $186 million to provide lifesaving protection and assistance in the Sahel amidst fears that the conflict in the vast African region — exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — will spread.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066222

With Covid-19, We Need to Rethink the Youth Vote
Jazmin Kay | thenation.com | 2020-06-12
With Covid-19, We Need to Rethink the Youth Vote…
thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-youth-vote/

Amidst COVID-19 challenges, UN 'remains operational' across Central Africa
news.un.org | 2020-06-12
The coronavirus pandemic has compounded increasing economic, social and humanitarian challenges facing States and regional institutions across Central Africa, the regional UN envoy told the Security Council on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066232

Luxembourg government accused of abusing emergency powers
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
On June 10, Thursday, the Communist Party of Luxembourg (KPL) accused the government in the country of abusing the emergency powers in place to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. The Luxembourg government has threatened a military takeover of an inter-municipal waste recycling plant run by waste management company Sidor in Leudelange after the plant authorities refused to dispose of medical waste they are not authorized to handle. The plant management was concerned about the safety of the workers as they do not have a permit to handle hospital-specific waste. | KPL stated that the threat of an army takeover by the gover…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/luxembourg-government-accused-of-abusing-emergency-powers/

Congress Can Lead the Charge on Divesting From Law Enforcement
Kanya Bennett | aclu.org | 2020-06-12
As a former Hill staffer, I know how the sausage gets made: the backroom deals, the pet projects, and the extreme partisanship. Our current moment requires far more than the ego, moderation, and compromise that is typically reflected in federal legislation. This country's recognition — finally — of the devastation and destruction that comes from the over-policing and over-criminalization of Black bodies and communities warrants real, meaningful change. The acknowledgment that Black Lives Matter — finally — demands bold and visionary leadership at the national level., , That audacious vi…
aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/congress-can-lead-the-charge-on-divesting-from-law-enforcement

The assasination of Olof Palme and Nordic radical, anti-imperialist internationalism
Mikaela Nhondo Erskog | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
The recent "revelations" about the investigation into the assassination of Olof Palme have brought little closure to Swedes but offer a necessary reminder to revive his radical political legacy…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/the-assasination-of-olof-palme-and-nordic-radical-anti-imperialist-internationalism/

The assassination of Olof Palme and Nordic radical, anti-imperialist internationalism
Mikaela Nhondo Erskog | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
The recent "revelations" about the investigation into the assassination of Olof Palme have brought little closure to Swedes but offer a necessary reminder to revive his radical political legacy…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/the-assasination-of-olof-palme-and-nordic-radical-anti-imperialist-internationalism/

Movement grows against Trump's looting of taxpayers
Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-12
WASHINGTON–Progressives in Congress and in mass organizations, among them Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and the pro-worker group Public Citizen, are raising alarm over the Trump administration's refusal to release the names of corporations that have received bailouts from the $500 billion coronavirus stimulus package passed recently, and over plans by GOP Senate Majority …
peoplesworld.org/article/movement-grows-against-trumps-looting-of-taxpayers/

Requiem for Democracy
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | zcomm.org | 2020-06-12
Once again, after so many other times, Brazil's wealthy would rather run the risk of descending into dictatorship (if that's not what they wanted to begin with) rather than have the lower classes express their aspiration to be included in the nation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/requiem-for-democracy/

A Full-Blown Cold War With China Could Be Disastrous
Michael T. Klare | thenation.com | 2020-06-12
A Full-Blown Cold War With China Could Be Disastrous…
thenation.com/article/world/a-full-blown-cold-war-with-china-could-be-disastrous/

NATO's Call on 'Like-minded Nations' to Stand Up to the Rise of China Is Just a Desperate Bid for Global Relevance
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
As the influence of the US and Europe wanes in the face of a new geopolitical reality, their Cold War progeny, NATO, seeks to redefine itself as a global player. The problem is NATO is not capable of even stepping …
globalresearch.ca/nato-call-nations-stand-up-rise-china-desperate-bid-global-relevance/5715787

Battles over Education: Australia, China and Unsafe Universities
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-06-12
asia-pacificresearch.com/battles-education-australia-china-unsafe-universities/5629124

The New Cold War with China
Michael T. Klare | zcomm.org | 2020-06-12
How Will It Affect You?
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-new-cold-war-with-china/

Is Duque's servitude to financial patrons tanking Colombia's economy?
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
International institutions are increasingly somber about Colombia's future as President Ivan Duque and his finance minister seem to have no response to the coronavirus crisis. The president and Finance Minister…
colombiareports.com/is-duques-servitude-to-financial-patrons-tanking-colombias-economy/

Coronavirus spread in Colombia triggers orange alert in Bogota, curfew in Barranquilla
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
Colombia's capital Bogota declared an orange alert and port city Barranquilla decreed a curfew on Thursday as the coronavirus threatens to collapse the cities' healthcare systems. Bogota mayor Claudia Lopez…
colombiareports.com/coronavirus-spread-in-colombia-triggers-orange-alert-in-bogota-curfew-in-barranquilla/

'Narcos planned to frame cops who discovered Colombia's 2018 election fraud plot'
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
Police knew since last year that the drug lord whose organization conspired with Colombia's ruling party to rig the 2018 elections in favor of President Ivan Duque sought to jail…
colombiareports.com/narcos-planned-to-frame-cops-who-discovered-colombias-2018-election-fraud-plot/

Colombia's VP admits after 23 years brother is a convicted heroin trafficker
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
Colombia's Congress hadn't even begun investigating evidence of President Ivan Duque's ties to drug traffickers when local media revealed the brother of his vice-president is a convicted narco. News website…
colombiareports.com/even-brother-of-colombias-vp-turns-out-to-be-convicted-narco/

When honest cops are jailed you know Colombia has become a mafia state
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
The jailing of the policemen who discovered President Ivan Duque pseudo-party plotted with narcos to rig the 2018 elections ended all doubt Colombia has become a mafia state. It's not…
colombiareports.com/when-honest-cops-are-jailed-you-know-youre-in-a-mafia-state/

US Troops in Colombia "Associate with Illegal Groups", Killing Farmers, Seek to "Spark a War with Venezuela"
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Colombian senators on Wednesday said that U.S. troops that arrived in the South American country in early June are allowed to associate with illegal groups and seek an eventual international confrontation. | The Democratic Congressman Ivan Cepeda revealed that the current …
globalresearch.ca/colombia-us-troops-country-seek-international-conflict/5715771

'Narcos planned to frame cops who discovered Colombia's 2018 election fraud plot'
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
Police knew that the drug lord whose organization conspired with Colombia's ruling party to rig the 2018 elections in favor of President Ivan Duque since last year, according to an…
colombiareports.com/narcos-planned-to-frame-cops-who-discovered-colombias-2018-election-fraud-plot/

Colombia's VP admits after 23 years brother is a convicted heroin trafficker
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-12
Colombia's Congress hasn't even begun investigating evidence of President Ivan Duque's ties to drug traffickers or local media revealed the brother of his vice-president is a convicted narco. News website…
colombiareports.com/even-brother-of-colombias-vp-turns-out-to-be-convicted-narco/

Amid Push to 'Sell More Weapons Overseas,' Report Indicates Trump Moving to Expand Drone Exports
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-06-12
The expansion would come after a reinterpretation of an arms agreement between 35 nations. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/drones-reinterpret.jpg …
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Gates Foundation Meets w/ Contact Tracing Participants & H.R. 6666 Drafter Months BEFORE Coronavirus
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-06-12
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 (6/12/20). 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 …
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US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as 'Coronavirus'
Sen. Scott Jensen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
First published on April 15, 2020 | Senator Scott Jensen represents Minnesota. He's also a doctor. He appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingraham where he revealed a very disturbing piece of information. | Dr. Scott Jensen says the American Medical Association …
globalresearch.ca/hospitals-getting-paid-more-label-cause-death-coronavirus/5709720

Fighting For Our Future, Fighting Back Against Austerity
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Like many other cities across the US both big and small, Burlington, Vermont's economy has been hit hard by the fallout from the coronavirus epidemic. Because much of its economy depends on restaurants, bars, pubs and entertainment, the unemployment is higher than it has been in decades. As a result, tax revenues are down and…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/fighting-for-our-future-fighting-back-against-austerity-2/

Mining companies in DRC warned against confining workers at mining sites
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
Global mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been accused by trade unions of violating workers' rights in the name of the coronavirus pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/mining-companies-in-drc-warned-against-confining-workers-at-mining-sites/

The American Teaching Hospital: School for Psychopaths
David Penner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
Medicine has changed. We used to be a calling that catered to the public welfare, and our prime consideration was the patient. Now we are a business, and some of us practice as impersonal corporations, with the bottom line the profits, not the well-being of the patient." — From The Doctor, by Dr. Edward E. …
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What Do All Working People Have in Common?
Chuck Churchill | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
What do all working people have in common, regardless of so-called race or skin tone? A precarious existence under the domination of a political and economic system that has concentrated power into the hands of a tiny minority of the nation's (and world's) people — the big bankers and corporate owning class. This is the…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/what-do-all-working-people-have-in-common/

Glen Ford: Having Not Yet Won Any Real Power Over Police, This Is No Time for a Truce
Glen Ford | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-12
The oligarchs that rule the country and control both of its corporate parties and all of its major media want the people to believe that politics is limited to the electoral process, and that street activism, labor militancy, and community organizing are outside the realm of "real" politics.
mintpressnews.com/black-lives-matter-no-real-power-over-police-no-time-for-truce/268514/

What's next, a war between the police and the people, the birth of a police state?
Michael Payne | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-12
All those taking part in these efforts need to incorporate the ideas of the best and brightest Americans to help in making all this work.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/12/whats-next-a-war-between-the-police-and-the-people-the-birth-of-a-police-state/

Maritza Perez on Overpolicing & Drugs, Remington Gregg on Corporate Immunity
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-06-12
Media…
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Defunding the Paradigm
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
"To study the economic structure of this country, to know which hands control the wealth, and to which end, seems an academic exercise–and yet it is necessary, all of it is necessary, for discipline, for knowledge, and for power." — James Baldwin The paradigm in the title is described with Swiftian clarity by Marilynne Robinson:…
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Infiltrating Antifa: the Feds and Their Long History of Subversion
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
On May 31st, President Trump (or his people) tweeted: "The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization." Attorney General, William Barr, said: "The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly." Trump and Barr…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/infiltrating-antifa-the-feds-and-their-long-history-of-subversion/

Charley Crockett — "Welcome To Hard Times"
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
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That "Big Green Meltdown" & The Untouchables
Joyce Nelson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
In his June 9 piece for Counterpunch, entitled "Big Green Meltdown Over Planet of the Humans," Josh Schlossberg revealed the extent to which he was "shunned, censored, slandered and blacklisted" by many environmentalists because of his criticism of biomass energy a decade ago. He relates that experience to what has been happening currently with Big…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/that-big-green-meltdown-the-untouchables/

The Killing of George Floyd and the Final Fracturing of the Democratic Party, Labor, and Civil Rights Coalition
David Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
George Floyd being killed by a police officer in Minneapolis is not simply about the death of one Black man. His death also killed an historic but uneasy alliance among the Democratic Party, labor unions, and the civil rights movement. The reaction to his death is ending the last vestiges of the historic New Deal…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/the-killing-of-george-floyd-and-the-final-fracturing-of-the-democratic-party-labor-and-civil-rights-coalition/

A Mon Valley Memoir: Lessons From The Last Stand Of Steelworkers in Homestead
Steve Early | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Many younger radicals today are trying to figure out how to relate, personally and collectively, to the labor movement. Should they seek union staff jobs and become agents of workplace change that way? Or should they organize "on the shop-floor" itself– as a teacher, nurse, or UPS driver–and then seek elected, rather than appointed, union…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/a-mon-valley-memoir-lessons-from-the-last-stand-of-steelworkers-in-homestead/

The Fed Just Pulled Off Another Backdoor Bailout of Wall Street
Pam Martens, Russ Martens | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
The Federal Reserve has authorized 11 financial bailout programs thus far. Despite Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's reassurances at his press conferences that these programs are to help American families, a full 10 of these programs are actually bailouts of Wall Street banks or their trading units. The latest Wall Street bank bailout to come out…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/the-fed-just-pulled-off-another-backdoor-bailout-of-wall-street/

Where the Fault Line Lies
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
With Inauguration Day 2021 now "only" seven months away, it is becoming more likely than not that the world "as we know it" (more or less), will survive the Trump presidency. Trump becomes increasingly unhinged with each passing day but, with his allotted time in office running down, the prospects for resuming something like the…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/where-the-fault-line-lies/

Government-Granted Patent Monopolies and Structural Racism
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
No, I have not gone off the deep end, there is an important connection that I will get to in a moment. First, I want to be clear that I am not trying to take anything away from the immediate issue that has brought hundreds of thousands into the streets, the police killing of George…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/government-granted-patent-monopolies-and-structural-racism/

Will Science and Reason Save Us? The Liberal Left's False Wall of Defense
Gabriel Kuhn | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
Lies on social media, life-threatening health advice, "alternative facts," info wars, etc. It is easy to be concerned about the disregard for truthfulness, reflection, and sensibility involved in the far-right offensive that has entered government buildings around the world. Yet, it is also troubling that an increasing number of leftists embrace a neoliberal line of…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/will-science-and-reason-save-us-the-liberal-lefts-false-wall-of-defense/

Dams for the Breaching
David Yearsley | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-12
The Lockdown has sparked a renaissance in correspondence. I've been exchanging postcards with my mother and letters with my youngest nephew. Emails have gotten longer, more interesting, more personal, more fun. I'm not on FaceBook or any other social media, but I have received greetings and reports from high school teachers and childhood friends. Running…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/dams-for-the-breaching/

German Official Leaks Ministry of Interior Report Denouncing Corona as 'A Global False Alarm'
Daniele Pozzati | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Germany's federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from Germany's Ministry of the Interior. | | Wir machen unsere Leser auf die Zusammenfassung dieses wichtigen durchgesickerten Berichts aufmerksam, der …
globalresearch.ca/german-official-leaks-report-denouncing-corona-global-false-alarm/5714528

An Open Letter to the Israeli Government Condemning Annexation
Prof. Kevin Jon Heller | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Along with 102 of my fellow public international law scholars, I have signed the following open letter condemning Israel's plan to illegally annex large swathes of the West Bank. If you are interested in joining the list, please send an …
globalresearch.ca/open-letter-israeli-government-condemning-annexation/5715789

The US Admits They Are to Blame for Hunger in Syria
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
United States Special Envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, announced on Sunday that Washington had offered Syria a proposal to end the US sanctions. The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry in Damascus said that the statements by James Jeffrey constitute a …
globalresearch.ca/us-admits-blame-syrian-hunger/5715747

When Millions March against Police Killings. When the Chickens Come Home
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
Malcolm X made some comments on December 1 1963, less than two weeks after the murder of JFK. It was instantly misrepresented by the mainstream media (as they always seem to do, when dealing with any sort of perceived radical …
globalresearch.ca/when-chickens-come-home/5715754

Race and Crime in America
Ron Unz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
The recent wave of riots and looting has been the worst our country has seen in two generations, but some of the crucial underlying factors have been avoided by nearly our entire mainstream media, as well as by most conservative …
globalresearch.ca/race-crime-america/5715822

Crash of the Dollar? Is the US Dollar Doomed?
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
The US Dollar is in trouble. Many of us in the alternative media and several economists who were ignored by the mainstream media and others saw this coming many years ago. The mainstream media is now listening, in this case …
globalresearch.ca/mainstream-media-warning-us-dollar-doomed/5715764

Video: 9/11 Documentary on WTC Buildings: Spotlight On: SEVEN
AE911Truth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
PBS affiliates across the country today will begin airing a five-minute version of the new documentary SEVEN directed by Loose Change creator Dylan Avery about the explosive findings of the recently completed University of Alaska Fairbanks study on the destruction …
globalresearch.ca/short-version-new-documentary-seven-begins-airing-today-pbs/5715772

Israeli Tanks Destroy Main Water Pipe In Jordan Valley
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
Israeli military tanks destroyed, on Thursday at night, a main water pipe serving Palestinian communities in the northern Jordan Valley region, northeast of the occupied West Bank. Dirar Sawafta, a member of the Local Council of Bardala Village, in the northern Jordan Valley, told WAFA that a 200-meter-long water pipe was …
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Israeli Colonists Injure Another Palestinian Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
Illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, Thursday, a Palestinian man in the village of Burqa, north of Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, causing him fractures and bruises. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel's colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the colonists came from …
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Israeli Troops Abduct Two Palestinian Former Prisoners, Sentence Another
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
Israeli troops abducted early on Friday, two Palestinian ex-prisoners in the West Bank village of Burqa, north of Nablus city. According to Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, stated that Israeli troops invaded the Burqa village, earlier on Friday dawn …
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Israeli Colonists Attack A Man, Set Car On Fire Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists assaulted, on Wednesday at night, a Palestinian man and set a vehicle on fire, near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel's colonialist activities in northern West Bank, told WAFA News Agency …
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Israeli Forces Injure Five Palestinians, including Three Journalists at Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, five Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, near Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, stated that dozens of soldiers invaded the village, and …
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Illegal Israeli Colonists Invade Kifl Hares
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
Dozens of illegal colonial Israeli settlers stormed, late on Thursday night, the Palestinian West Bank village of Kifl Hares in the Salfit district, in central West Bank. Locals said the armed colonial settlers attacked several homes in the village while chanting racist slogans. They added that several colonists also climbed …
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Army Injures Many Palestinians In Ni'lin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent procession against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Ni'lin village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing dozens of Palestinians to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation. The procession started from the center of the village, and headed towards the …
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Soldiers Map House Of A Detainee In Preparation For Demolishing It
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
On Thursday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Ya'bad town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and mapped out the house of Nazmi Abu Bakr, a 49-year-old Palestinian imprisoned by Israel. The Israeli army is claiming that Abu Bakr is the Palestinian who dropped a brick on soldiers …
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Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Near Nahhalin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-12
Israeli soldiers abducted, Friday, a young Palestinian man from Nahhalin town, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Sobhi Zeidan, the head of Nahhalin Town Council, stated that several army jeeps invaded the town, before the soldiers abducted a young man, identified as Mohammad Afeef Fannoun. Zeidan added that …
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Trump's 'Caesar' Style Siege on Syria, A Sign of Impending Regional Failure
Tim Anderson | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-12
Would be emperor Donald Trump has announced the 'Caesar Syrian Civilian Protection Act', to tighten the genocidal siege on the Syrian people. Without a hint of irony, this new edict imposes even more serious obstacles to the Syrian people getting access to energy, food and medicines, while claiming its purpose is to 'protect' those same people. | However the move comes as (1) a shrinking US military presence faces resistance attacks in both Syria and Iraq, (2) Washington's allies are abandoning the US-led 'coalition' in Iraq, (3) Trump has undermined his local allies in Lebanon and Iraq, by threats and economic t…

Trump’s ‘Caesar’ Style Siege on Syria, A Sign of Impending Regional Failure

The Scourge of Islamophobia in Canada
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
Muslims in Canada deserve to feel what non-Muslims feel when they hear of a vicious crime or a foiled plot committed by someone who looks like them: abhorred by the crime but knowing the crime reflects the perpetrator alone. Any other thought process should never occur. — Graeme Truelove, Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/the-scourge-of-islamophobia-in-canada/

Libyan civil war intensifies amid growing international negotiations
wsws.org | 2020-06-12
The domestic and international parties of the civil war in Libya have recently intensified talks as Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli advanced on the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Haftar.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/12/liby-j12.html

Police target journalists
Calvin Deutschbein | workers.org | 2020-06-12
At 5 a.m. in Minneapolis on May 29, Omar Jimenez, a Black CNN reporter wearing press credentials and reporting live on camera on the rebellion against the police murder of George Floyd, was arrested along with the news crew. About a block away, a second CNN crew of white journalists . . . | Continue reading Police target journalists at Workers.org…
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Niger Journalist Samira Sabou Jailed, Charged with Cybercrime Over Facebook Post
commondreams.org | 2020-06-12
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ALBA-TCP member countries address post-pandemic economics in virtual conference
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-12
The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America — People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) held a high-level virtual conference to address…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/12/alba-tcp-member-countries-address-post-pandemic-economics-in-virtual-conference/

The Simple Way to Prevent Hedge Funds from Gaming Government Pandemic Research Funding: Don't Give Patent Monopolies
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-06-12
The Washington Post had an interesting piece on how a hedge fund managed to secure $16 million in public funds (10,000 food stamp person-years) for a shell company, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, which then used the money to contract for research with Emory University. When the results showed some promise, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics then sold the rights to …
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ro Khanna Introduce Bill to Increase Military Accountability for Civilian Casualties
Brett Wilkins | commondreams.org | 2020-06-12
Estimates of the number of civilians killed in the current war against terrorism, now in its 19th year, range from hundreds of thousands to over 2 million. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-05-10_at_3.11.21_pm.png …
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Humanity is Escaping From the Abusive Relationship With the Police State
Caitlin Johnstone | theantimedia.com | 2020-06-12
Things are only going to keep getting stranger from here.
theantimedia.com/humanity-is-escaping-from-the-abusive-relationship-with-the-police-state/

Biggest fall on Wall Street since March meltdown
wsws.org | 2020-06-12
The S&P 500 dropped by 5.9 percent after it had risen by 45 percent and returned to previous highs as a result of the boom in stocks following the injection of trillions of dollars into financial markets by the Fed.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/12/shar-j12.html

Don't Dismiss the Importance of Toppling a Statue
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
I did not expect to be returning to this issue so soon but I was surprised, to put it mildly, to discover that my last post on anti-racists toppling a statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol proved to be the most polarising article I have ever written. Given the many controversial …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/dont-dismiss-the-importance-of-toppling-a-statue/

Of Republics and Empires
Michael Howard | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-12
If I'm gonna die I'll die now, right here, fighting you. — Muhammad Ali to a white college student who challenged his opposition to the Vietnam War As has been made plain to the entire world, things are not going very well in the Land of the Free. Extreme police violence, normally reserved for poor …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/of-republics-and-empires/

It's Reckoning, Not Wrecking
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-12
People are asking: where does this end? The list of monuments and emblems slated for removal in the US and Europe is a daunting, ever-expanding one. | Some are labelled as glorifying racism, others for venerating war, imperialism and colonialism. | Statues to Christopher Columbus and Confederate leaders in the US have been toppled this week, so too have landmark effigies in Britain, Belgium, and other European countries. | The anger on both…

It’s Reckoning, Not Wrecking

How to defund and reimagine policing
Michelle Stewart | zcomm.org | 2020-06-12
People are rethinking policing and what it means for all members of our communities to be supported and safe. In other words: another world is possible when we defund and reimagine policing as we know it…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-to-defund-and-reimagine-policing/

Georgia's Elections Were A Voter Suppression Horror Show
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-12
Georgia's primary election could be a warning for what's to come when Americans head to the polls in November.
therealnews.com/stories/georgias-elections-were-a-voter-suppression-horror-show

Organizing for revolutionary power
Makasi Motema | workers.org | 2020-06-12
When the Third Precinct burned, the world trembled. The sacking of the Minneapolis police station by unarmed demonstrators last week was an unprecedented act of resistance. Never in living memory have the masses of oppressed people in the U.S. struck such a devastating blow against the ruling class and their . . . | Continue reading Organizing for revolutionary power at Workers.org…
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The anti-police uprising and the emergence of a vital force in the class struggle: youth
Larry Holmes | workers.org | 2020-06-12
Larry Holmes gave this speech, which has been slightly edited, on a Workers World Party webinar June 4 on "No to Martial Law! Defend the Uprising!" What we've seen over the last week is the largest national uprising against the police and systemic police racism in U.S. history. That's all . . . | Continue reading The anti-police uprising and the emergence of a vital force in the class struggle: youth at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49286/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-anti-police-uprising-and-the-emergence-of-a-vital-force-in-the-class-struggle-youth

The questions facing a revolutionary uprising
Makasi Motema | workers.org | 2020-06-12
When the Third Precinct burned, the world trembled. The sacking of the Minneapolis police station by unarmed demonstrators last week was an unprecedented act of resistance. Never in living memory have the masses of oppressed people in the U.S. struck such a devastating blow against the ruling class and their . . . | Continue reading The questions facing a revolutionary uprising at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49282/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-questions-facing-a-revolutionary-uprising

Funding shortfall affecting critical water, sanitation services in Yemen
news.un.org | 2020-06-12
Children in the heart of the world's worst humanitarian disaster need help more than ever, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, in an appeal for more support to provide basic services in Yemen.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1066192

US Bombers Are So Ridiculously Expensive Air Force Forced to Make Up for Low Numbers by Planning Cargo Planes for Combat
Kyle Mizokami | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-12
Editor's note: A decent article but which does not explain the background of why the Air Force is experimenting with using cargo planes in this way. Despite having a massive budget the hardware the service orders from the defense industry is so ridiculously expensive the stable just isn't large enough. That is also the reason the ancient but reliable B-52s are still kept in service (and indeed form the backbone of the nuclear and heavy bomber force) and will outlive far newer but overly-complicated and troubled machines like the B-1 from the corporate handout era: Curious taxpayers might wonder why we need the Lon…
anti-empire.com/us-bombers-are-so-ridiculously-expensive-air-force-forced-to-make-up-for-low-numbers-by-planning-cargo-planes-for-combat/

'Hey Siri, I'm Getting Pulled Over': iPhone Shortcut Allows Users to Record Police Stop
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-12
Users of Apple's iPhone with iOS 12 or newer software can employ a Siri Shortcut app called Police that, upon command, allows the device owner to alter a number of phone functions and initiate the recording of a possible police stop.
sputniknews.com/science/202006121079598772-hey-siri-im-getting-pulled-over-iphone-shortcut-allows-users-to-record-police-stop/

Turkey calls on Germany to lift travel warning
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Turkish foreign minister on Friday called on Germany to lift travel warning for Turkey.Speaking to German weekly Der Spiegel, Mevlut Cavusoglu commented on Germany's decision to lift travel warning for EU countries while extending it for all other countries until Aug. 31."It is hard to understand scientific reasons behind this decision," said Cavusoglu, and called on Berlin to also lift its travel warning for Turkey, which has successfully managed the pandemic process."German tourists are most warmly welcome. All kinds of hygiene measures will be taken against COVID-19 from the moment the German tourists start th…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-calls-on-germany-to-lift-travel-warning-3531907

Pakistan records over 6,000 more COVID-19 cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Pakistan on Friday recorded more than 6,000 coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, the highest single-day rise since the outbreak, according to official statistics on Friday.With 6,397 new cases, Pakistan's tally of coronavirus cases has reached 125,933, already surpassing China and Saudi Arabia, putting the country at number 15 worldwide in terms of cases, the data shows.Another 107 patients lost their lives due to COVID-19 across the country, bringing the death toll from the deadly virus to 2,463, while 40,247 patients have successfully recovered and discharged from the hospitals, according to the Health Min…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-records-over-6000-more-covid-19-cases-3531872

Turkey: COVID-19 narrows retail sales volume in April
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Turkey's retail sales volume shrank 19.3% on an annual basis in April due to coronavirus crisis, the country's statistical authority said on Friday.Food, drinks and tobacco sales in April grew 12.5% compared to the same month last year, according to TurkStat.Non-food — except automotive fuel — sales shrank 36.7% year-on-year in April while automotive fuel sales slipped 20.1%.Among non-food items, the volume of textile, clothing, and footwear sales deteriorated the most, falling 77.2% during the same period. It was followed by computers, books and telecommunications equipment sales with 35.6% and electronic good…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-covid-19-narrows-retail-sales-volume-in-april-3531866

Turkey's current account posts $5.06B gap in April
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Turkey's current account balance posted a $5.06 billion gap in April, widening from a $469 million deficit in the same month last year, the Turkish Central Bank announced on Friday.According to the balance of payments figures released by the bank, the country's 12-month rolling deficit totaled $3.3 billion.The figure beat market expectation of $4.1 billion deficit in the month as the coronavirus' impact started to be felt in earnest in mid-March and April.An Anadolu Agency survey on Thursday showed that a group of 16 economists' projections ranged from $2.2 billion to $5.2 billion for the fourth month of this yea…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/turkeys-current-account-posts-506b-gap-in-april-3531867

Turkish stocks down 0.87% at Friday's opening
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Turkey's benchmark stock index started the day at 108,201.50 points on Friday, down by 0.87% or 953.91 points from previous close.At Thursday's close, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index was down 0.57% at 109,155.41 points, with a daily trading volume of 16.1 billion Turkish liras ($2.4 billion).The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 6.8400 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) Friday, compared to 6.8220 at Thursday's close.The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate dropped to 7.7320 from 7.7610, and one British pound traded for 8.6270 Turkish liras, down from 8.6550 at the previous close.One barrel of Brent crude…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-stocks-down-087-at-fridays-opening-3531869

China says opposes US restrictions on Chinese students
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
China on Friday said it resolutely opposes any U.S. government move to restrict Chinese students from studying abroad, and urged the United States to do more things to enhance mutual exchanges and understanding."We will continue to support exchanges between Chinese and American students and welcome students from all countries, including the United States, to study in China," an education ministry spokesman said in a statement.Two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters last month the United States was planning to cancel the visas of thousands of Chinese graduate students believed by Washington to have l…
yenisafak.com/en/world/china-says-opposes-us-restrictions-on-chinese-students-3531911

UK to introduce EU border controls in stages from 2021
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Britain said on Friday it would introduce border controls in stages on European Union goods after the end of the Brexit transition period, to try to soften the blow for companies already battling the coronavirus pandemic.Reversing an original plan to impose full border controls on imports coming into Britain from the EU from next year, the government said it would introduce the changes in stages up until July 1, 2021, giving firms more time to deal with paperwork.Companies have long called on the government to give them more clarity about what new border checks will be in force at the end of this year, when the s…
yenisafak.com/en/world/uk-to-introduce-eu-border-controls-in-stages-from-2021-3531913

FETàñ 'infiltrated' US missions in Turkey, says Foreign Ministry
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
His comments came a day after a Turkish court sentenced Metin Topuz, a US Consulate employee, to eight years and nine months in prison on charges of helping FETO, the terror group behind the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey.Shortly after the court's decision, the US embassy questioned the decision, saying its observers "have seen no credible evidence to support this conviction and hope it will swiftly be overturned."In response, Hami Aksoy said Turkey anxiously observes how the US has become a safe haven for members of FETO."Essentially, Metin Topuz is not the only FETO affiliated person working in the US representati…
yenisafak.com/en/news/feto-infiltrated-us-missions-in-turkey-says-foreign-ministry-3531912

US to reduce troops in Iraq in coming months
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
The US has agreed to reduce its forces in Iraq during the coming months, said a joint statement issued by the two governments on Friday.The joint statement was released at the end of the strategic dialogue held between the two countries via video conferencing on Thursday."The US will also continue to hold dialogue with the Baghdad government on the status of the remaining forces," the statement said.The move comes in the light of developing bilateral security relations based on mutual interests.The agreement, however, did not disclose details regarding the number of troops that will be reduced and the period requ…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-to-reduce-troops-in-iraq-in-coming-months-3531870

UNHCR urges Greece to investigate refugee pushbacks
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
The UN Refugee Agency on Friday urged Greece to investigate multiple reports of pushbacks by Greek authorities at the country's sea and land borders, possibly returning migrants and asylum seekers to Turkey.UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch said at a twice-weekly UN press briefing that allegations of people being turned back had increased since March.He said reports indicate that several groups of people may have been summarily returned after reaching Greek territory."UNHCR has continuously addressed its concerns with the Greek government and has called for urgent inquiries into a series of alleged incidents reported…
yenisafak.com/en/world/unhcr-urges-greece-to-investigate-refugee-pushbacks-3531908

Turkey's industrial output down 31.4% y-o-y in April
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
Turkey's industrial production saw a decline of 31.4% year-on-year in April 2020, the country's statistical authority said on Friday.Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) revealed that all three main sub-indices — mining and quarrying, manufacturing, and the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning — dropped 14.5%, 33.3% and 14.9%, respectively, in April.Industrial production is considered a vital indicator for the economy as it is seen as a preliminary gauge for the GDP growth.Meanwhile, the figure, on a monthly basis, was also down 30.4% in April.On Wednesday, a total of nine experts surveyed by Anadol…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-industrial-output-down-314-y-o-y-in-april-3531865

Turkish economy sees total turnover down 20.9% in April
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
The Turkish economy's total turnover saw an annual decrease of 20.9% in April, the nation's statistical institute reported on Friday.The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said turnover in industry slipped 24.9% during the same period.On the services side, the turnover index declined 23.9% and the figure in trade fell 17.4% year-on-year.The construction sector's turnover dropped 19.6% on a yearly basis in the same month.The official report also revealed that Turkey's seasonally and calendar-adjusted total turnover index — shows monthly change — plunged 24.5% in April.According to TurkStat's definition, tu…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-economy-sees-total-turnover-down-209-in-april-3531864

Jakarta to ban single-use plastic bags starting July 1
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-12
The Indonesian capital of Jakarta will officially implement a ban on single-use plastic bags effective on July 1."The managers or administrators should require all tenants and business owners in shopping centers, supermarkets and traditional market to provide environmentally friendly shopping bags," said the Head of Environmental Agency of Jakarta Province Andono Warih on Thursday.The new obligation refers to the government's 2019 Regulation regarding The Obligation to Use Environmentally Friendly Shopping Bags, including reusable shopping bags made from any ingredients — such as dry leaves, paper, textile, poly…
yenisafak.com/en/world/jakarta-to-ban-single-use-plastic-bags-starting-july-1-3531868

Bald Men More Likely to Experience Severe COVID-19 Symptoms, Findings Suggest
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-12
Preliminary research has suggested that men, particularly those who are bald, are at a higher risk of suffering from severe COVID-19 symptoms.
sputniknews.com/society/202006121079598939-bald-men-more-likely-to-experience-severe-covid-19-symptoms-findings-suggest/

France Will Start Gradually Reopening Its Non-Schengen Borders on 1 July
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-12
At the same time, travel restrictions will continue to be in place on a reciprocal basis at the borders with Spain and the United Kingdom – countries that have registered the highest numbers of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Europe.
sputniknews.com/europe/202006121079598633-france-will-start-gradually-reopening-its-non-schengen-borders-on-1-july/

Iran Calls on French Analysts to Decipher Black Boxes Belonging to Downed Ukrainian Jetliner
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-12
Iranian investigators have requested that France's Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) read black boxes belonging to a Ukrainian jetliner that was downed in early January amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran.
sputniknews.com/world/202006121079598485-iran-calls-on-french-analysts-to-decipher-black-boxes-belonging-to-downed-ukrainian-jetliner/

Turkey Planning to Establish 2 Permanent Military Bases in Libya — Reports
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-12
ANKARA (Sputnik) – Turkey is planning to establish two permanent military bases in Libya as part of its continued support for the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak reported on Friday, citing military sources.
sputniknews.com/world/202006121079598431-turkey-planning-to-establish-2-permanent-military-bases-in-libya–reports/

Russian Embassy Says Fake Statement of US Official on Libya, Syria Will Further Spoil Relations
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-12
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Russian Embassy in the United States said the fake statement by a high-ranking US official, including recent remarks on the situation in Syria and Libya, will only spoil relations between Moscow and Washington even further.
sputniknews.com/world/202006121079598841-russian-embassy-says-fake-statement-of-us-official-on-libya-syria-will-further-spoil-relations/

Militants Shell Settlement in Syria's Idlib, Russian Military Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-12
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* terrorist group has attacked a settlement in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, Rear Admiral Alexander Shcherbitsky, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry's centre for Syrian reconciliation, said on Friday.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006121079598645-militants-shell-settlement-in-syrias-idlib-russian-military-says/

Taiwan Scrambles Fighters After Chinese Plane Nears Airspace Day After Missile Test
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-12
Taiwan's air force scrambled fighters to ward off a Chinese Y-8 aircraft on Friday after the plane crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait. The incident comes a day after Taiwan tested a new anti-air missile and at the end of a week of sparring over the autonomous island's airspace.
sputniknews.com/asia/202006121079598787-taiwan-scrambles-fighters-after-chinese-plane-nears-airspace-day-after-missile-test/

Friday Prayer in Arak after 110 days with health protocols in place
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-12
TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — The first Friday Prayer ceremony in Arak after the outbreak of coronavirus was held on June 12 while health protocols were in place.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/159714/Friday-Prayer-in-Arak-after-110-days-with-health-protocols-in

Iran categorically rejects UN Secretariat's allegations
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-12
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Iran has categorically rejected the allegations of the UN Secretariat, saying it has been under clear political pressure from the US and Saudi regimes.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159720/Iran-categorically-rejects-UN-Secretariat-s-allegations

Anti-Iranian circles seek to create fear regarding NPT: Ulyanov
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-12
TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said that anti-Iranian circles are striving to create fear and claim that the recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) calls for immediate action regarding the non-proliferation treaty.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159715/Anti-Iranian-circles-seek-to-create-fear-regarding-NPT-Ulyanov

Iran, Iraq discuss expansion of healthcare cooperation
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-12
TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — Iran's Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Msjedi and Iraqi Health Minister Hassan Mohammed al-Tamimi stressed the need for promoting cooperation in the health sector.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159706/Iran-Iraq-discuss-expansion-of-healthcare-cooperation

Withdrawal of US troops from Iraq affirmed by two sides: Iraqi PM
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-12
TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi says Baghdad and Washington have affirmed their commitment to the withdrawal of US troops from the Arab country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159716/Withdrawal-of-US-troops-from-Iraq-affirmed-by-two-sides-Iraqi

Sweden and Poland only EU nations who STILL haven't reached Covid-19 peak — EU health watchdog
rt.com | 2020-06-12
There are now just two European countries still headed for the height of their coronavirus outbreaks. Sweden — widely criticized for having chosen a different pandemic strategy — and Poland both expect a greater rise in numbers. | A paper published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) compares the number of coronavirus cases reported during a 14-day period in countries across Europe. While many EU states have already passed their most damaging two weeks, the lates…
rt.com/news/491675-european-union-poland-sweden-peak-coronavirus/

Bolton sparks rage with sudden claim to have evidence of Trump's 'transgressions' in promo press release for new book
rt.com | 2020-06-12
Ex-national security advisor John Bolton has released a juicy teaser for his new book, claiming to have evidence of Donald Trump's foreign policy "transgressions" prompting many to ask why he kept the information from Congress. | In a press release advertising his new book on Friday, Bolton, who was fired by Trump in September 2019, accuses his former boss of more "Ukraine-like transgressions" which allegedly spanned "the full range of his foreign policy." | Trump was impeached by the US House of Representatives last year for "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress." Democrats accused him of withholding…
rt.com/usa/491664-john-bolton-book-trump-impeachment/

'We're Russia, we're together': WATCH aerobatic team paint the skies on Russia Day
rt.com | 2020-06-12
In celebration of Russia Day, a group of daredevils took to the skies over the Moscow Region, sending a patriotic message to all Russians to stay strong and united in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. | The Perviy Polet (First Flight) squadron is the only aerobatic team in the country that uses propeller planes, including the iconic Yakovlev Yak-52 Soviet trainer aircraft. | Footage of the stunt, filmed by multiple cameras on the ground and on the wings of the planes, shows the team taking off from the airfield. Five machines fly in formation, writing "We're Russia! We're together!" with a trail of smok…
rt.com/russia/491617-russia-day-aerobatics-team/

Queen Elizabeth II unknowingly played key role in 1953 Iran coup after US officials confused her with SHIP…& lied about it
rt.com | 2020-06-12
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II got entangled in the 1953 coup d'etat in Iran after US diplomats mistook the RMS 'Queen Elizabeth' cruise ship for the newly enthroned royal, recently discovered documents suggest. | Shortly after ascending to the throne, the Queen inadvertently played a key role in the regime-change op that ousted Iran's Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, new research by Richard Aldrich, a professor at the University of Warwick, reveals. His work on the documents and cables will be featured in a Channel 4 documentary in Britain on Sunday. | The Iranian PM was targeted for his move to nationalize I…
rt.com/news/491668-queen-elizabeth-iran-coup/

Warren's plan to strip Confederate names from military bases sparks fiery debate between Republicans and Democrats
rt.com | 2020-06-12
The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved an amendment aiming to remove Confederate names from military bases, prompting heated reactions from conservatives. Liberals, meanwhile, are celebrating the plan. | "As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I filed an amendment to the annual defense bill last week to rename all bases named for Confederate generals. It's long past time to end the tribute to white supremacy on our military installations," Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) said of her amendment. | If put into action, the measure would require that military bases rename all posts…
rt.com/usa/491657-warren-military-bases-confederate-names/

Purple Lives Matter? Kristen Bell children's book preaching tolerance savaged for 'colorblindness' & ignoring real racism
rt.com | 2020-06-12
American actress Kristen Bell's debut into the world of children's literature has gotten off to a rocky start, with her story about a "purple person" widely condemned for trivializing racism — despite having nothing to do with it. | Bell says her first children's story — 'The World Needs More Purple People' — is meant to encourage kids to "look for similarities before differences" and to be inquisitive and open minded toward different viewpoints. Taking 'purple' to be a thinly veiled reference to skin color, however, netizens soon came out in force to denounce the story for brushing racism unde…
rt.com/usa/491692-kristen-bell-purple-people-book/

Declines in COVID-19 cases not due to herd immunity, says analysis
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-12
There is no evidence that declines in transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in some countries are the result of herd immunity, says new analysis.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198238/declines-covid-19-cases-herd-immunity-says

LMICs will face 'extreme strain' on health systems despite younger populations
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-12
Developing countries are likely to face extreme demand on health systems from COVID-19, despite having younger populations, according to researchers.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198235/lmics-will-face-extreme-strain-health

Global collaboration needed to solve coronavirus challenges
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-06-12
The leaders of Imperial and Tsinghua University have called for global collaboration to tackle coronavirus and other global challenges.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198154/global-collaboration-needed-solve-coronavirus-challenges

Trump and his far-right allies attack Seattle's Capitol Hill autonomous zone
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-06-12
US president Donald Trump has threatened to crush what he calls "ugly Anarchists", who recently declared the inner Seattle suburb of Capitol Hill an "autonomous zone", now known as CHAZ. | On the other side of the Atlantic, Britain's Channel 4 News has exposed a video platform that allows the far-right to openly express their hate-filled views. On exploring that platform The Canary found several videos attacking CHAZ and spreading disinformation. | Trum…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/06/12/trump-and-his-far-right-allies-attack-seattles-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone/

'The United Kingdom lies': Venezuelan government lambasts UK response to 'reconstruction' plans
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2020-06-12
Venezuelan foreign minister Jorge Arreaza has accused the UK government of lying in its response to an investigation by The Canary.Venezuela Reconstruction Unit: On 13 May, The Canary exposed a secretive unit within the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) planning for the "reconstruction" of Venezuela. Documents obtained under the Freedom…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/12/the-united-kingdom-lies-venezuelan-government-lambasts-uk-response-to-reconstruction-plans/

Mounting Pressure Forces Starbucks to Roll Back Ban on Supporting BLM at Work
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-12
Many corporations are trying to take advantage of heightened public outrage against police brutality and anti-Black racism following the police killing of George Floyd, penning statements saying "Black Lives Matter," yet failing in practice to back their employees who express solidarity with related movements on the job. But some of those companies are coming under heightening public pressure to end such policies that silence workers. | For example, Starbucks Coffee initially sent out a bar…
truthout.org/articles/starbucks-bans-employees-from-wearing-black-lives-matter-apparel-while-working/

Trump Rally-Goers Required to Agree Not to Sue If They Contract COVID-19
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-12
To register for a spot at President Donald Trump's first campaign rally since the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered much of the United States in March, prospective attendees must first agree not to sue either the Trump campaign or the venue if they contract coronavirus during the event — a requirement critics say is an attempt by the president's team to evade responsibility for moving ahead with a hazardous indoor gathering. | "By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent ri…
truthout.org/articles/trump-rally-goers-required-to-agree-not-to-sue-if-they-contract-covid-19/

Minneapolis Organizers Are Already Building the Tools for Safety Without Police
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-12
In 2018, members of the Minnesota grassroots groups Reclaim the Block and Black Visions Collective dropped a banner at Minneapolis City Hall. On it were two lists: on the left, three budget items on the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) budget, totaling $9 million. The right side was significantly longer, listing programs and organizations where the city could invest those $9 million to promote c…
truthout.org/articles/minneapolis-organizers-are-already-building-the-tools-for-safety-without-police/

Thursday 6/11: #Equity For All Forum: Racial Equity in HEROES Act & End Anti-Black Police Brutality!
Faith in Action, NAACP, UNIDOS US, others | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/10/18834098.php

Is coronavirus Covid-19 stalking residents in Oakland, and Alameda County?
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834101.php

U.S. President Trump sparks renewed interest in Juneteenth Celebrations Globally
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
"In 1535, the first enslaved Pan African were recorded in California. Spanish conquistadors brought enslaved Pan Africans for conquest and who were later breed with indigenous population (Afro-Latino) throughout "New Spain" and much, much later evolved into today's Republic of Mexico. Authentic Alta California History remains cloaked in slavery and secrecy that remains off limits for any principled dialogue as the California State Legislature prepares for a 2020 Juneteenth State Budget due next week.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/11/18834184.php

Corona epidemic and Yemen
C Dettwiler, U Gasche and N Ramseyer | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
Authorities first wanted to calm down and played down the pandemic. Afterward, they had to convince the population to keep unusual physical distance, to wash their hands well at all times, and to refrain from major events. Finally, they wanted the population to accept the week-long lockdown, with business closures, exit, and travel restrictions.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/10/18834084.php

ILWU Work Action On W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
The ILWU on the West Coast will shut down all ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020 to stop police terror and systemic racism.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834196.php

Friday 6/19: ILWU Shutting Down W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism
CSPTES | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
SSA Terminals 1717 Middle Harbor Road at the Port of Oakland to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834197.php

Friday 6/19: JUNETEENTH: West Coast Port Shutdown
International Longshore and Warehouse Union | indybay.org | 2020-06-12
Meet at 1717 Middle Harbor Road and caravan to Oscar Grant Plaza…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/12/18834195.php

Trump's 'Caesar' Style Siege on Syria, A Sign of Impending Regional Failure
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-12
Would be emperor Donald Trump has announced the 'Caesar Syrian Civilian Protection Act', to tighten the genocidal siege on the Syrian people. Without a hint of irony, this new edict imposes even more serious obstacles to the Syrian people getting access to energy, food and medicines, while claiming its purpose is to 'protect' those same people. | However the move comes as (1) a shrinking US military presence faces resistance attacks in both Syria and Iraq, (2) Washington's allies are abandoning the US-led 'coalition' in Iraq, (3) Trump has undermined his local allies in Lebanon and Iraq, by threats and economi…
ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/syria-crisis/4218-trump-caesar-style-siege.html

Tanzania Pioneers a Far Cheaper, Less Superstitious and Far More Rational 'Cure' for COVID Than Lockdowns
Tom Odula | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-12
Editor's note: Instead of 3 months of ruinous, masochistic, and superstitious lockdowns that the West opted for, Tanzania opted for 3 days of prayers. Both worked about as well except Tanzania's cure was far less costly in livelihoods and lives. Well done Magufuli! Brilliant! | Related: Tanzania President Questions Covid-19 Kits After Goat, Sheep and Pawpaw Samples Test 'Positive' | | Tanzania's president is again claiming the country is free of the coronavirus because of the power of prayer – s…
anti-empire.com/tanzania-pioneers-a-far-cheaper-less-superstitious-and-far-more-rational-cure-for-covid-than-lockdowns/

Great! Louisville Passes Law to Ban No-Knock Warrants. Now Can We Have the Same for Afghanistan?
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-12
Louisville bans no-knock search raids: | All 26 members of the Louisville Metro Council voted on Thursday to pass a ban on no-knock warrants, a measure known as "Breonna's Law," named after the former EMT who died in a police raid at her apartment. | The unanimously passed ordinance, which still needs to be approved by the mayor, bans any search warrant that does not re…
anti-empire.com/great-louisville-passes-law-to-ban-no-knock-warrants-now-can-we-have-the-same-for-afghanistan/

Another Month Another Trillion Added to US National Debt
Schiff Gold | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-12
On Tuesday, the national debt pushed above $26 trillion. | Just 35 days ago, the debt eclipsed $25 trillion. And 28 days before that, the national debt stood at a mere $24 million. | Meanwhile, the federal government just set a record for the biggest budget deficit in any fiscal year — with four months left to go. | May's budget shortfall came in at a staggering $398.8 billion, pushing the fiscal 2020 deficit to $1.88 trillion, according to the latest monthly US Treasury Department statement. | The previous budget defici…
anti-empire.com/another-month-another-trillion-added-to-us-national-debt/

Trump's Chip Ban Gives Huawei and South Korea an Enormous Incentive to Strike a Grand Bargain
David P. Goldman | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-12
A US ban on foreign companies' sales of chips to Huawei Technologies if American equipment or software is involved will undermine America's already-weakened position in the global semiconductor equipment market, industry sources say. | Chip fabricators will remove American equipment from production lines in order to maintain market share in China, the world's largest purchaser of semiconductors. | Samsung, the world's biggest fabricator of memory as well as logic chips after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, already has set up a small production line for top-of-the-line 7-nanometer chips using only…
anti-empire.com/trumps-chip-ban-gives-huawei-and-south-korea-an-enormous-incentive-to-strike-a-grand-bargain/

Congressional Budget Office: Will Take the US 10 Years to Catch Up to Where It Would Have Been Without Lockdowns
Mike "Mish" Shedlock | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-12
Editor's note: My personal hunch is that this is hugely optimistic. I think 3 months lost, are 3 months lost forever. It's a tall order to presume eventual convergence with where we would have been on any timescale. That said, even a convergence after a decade is still terrible news, especially when you consider how irrational and pointless the lockdowns were. | | Please consider a Comparison of CBO's May 2020 Interim Projections of GDP and Its January 2020 Baseline Projections. | CBO Key Points | CBO projects that over the 2020–2030…
anti-empire.com/congressional-budget-office-will-take-the-us-10-years-to-catch-up-to-where-it-would-have-been-without-lockdowns/

Dangerous Ideas and Our Cancel Culture
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-12
Micah MATTIX | HBO Max drops Gone with the Wind from its archive because to keep the title available "without an explanation and a denouncement of [its racist] depictions would be irresponsible." Ah, yes, let's avoid "irresponsibility." | I've never seen the film and have no desire to see it, but it's now the number 1 film at Amazon and number 5 at Apple. Pamela K. Johnson reminds us that Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy, became the first African American to…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/12/dangerous-ideas-and-our-cancel-culture/

Why the Sudden U.S. Keenness for Arms Control Talks With Russia?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-12
The answer to the above question comes down to one word: China. | U.S. envoy Marshall Billingslea is, rather belatedly, making enthusiastic sounds about arms control talks to be held with Russia later this month. The talks are scheduled for June 22 in Vienna. The Kremlin has confirmed the venue and discussions, with deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov representing the Russian side. | On announcing the June 22 meeting with Russia, Billingslea showed an unseemly haste to link…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/12/why-sudden-us-keenness-for-arms-control-talks-with-russia/

Why Does the Public Tolerate Its Biological Warfare?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-12
If the public will no longer tolerate its funding biological warfare, then when will the massive public demonstrations be organized throughout the world condemning the U.S., China, and other governments, that either participate in this R&D or else tolerate instead of clearly outlawing it — punish everyone in the given nation who participates in it? Why haven't these massive public demonstrations, against this R&D, already occurred?>…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/12/why-does-the-public-tolerate-its-biological-warfare/

Iran Air seals deal with Italy's Rimini airport
Press TV | iranian.com | 2020-06-12
AIRiminum, the company that operates Italy's Federico Fellini International Airport says it has signed a deal with Iran's flag carrier airline, Iran Air. The deal will ensure three flights per week connecting the Iranian capital and the seaside city of Rimini. The move is in line with efforts to revamp the airport named after the …
iranian.com/2020/06/11/iran-air-seals-deal-with-italys-rimini-airport/

US Confirms Plans to Further Reduce Number of Troops in Iraq
Sputnik News | iranian.com | 2020-06-12
The United States has confirmed its plans to further decrease the number of servicemen deployed to Iraq, the joint statement of the governments of the United States and Iraq said. "On the security partnership, the two countries recognised that in light of significant progress towards eliminating the Daesh* threat, over the coming months the US …
iranian.com/2020/06/11/us-confirms-plans-to-further-reduce-number-of-troops-in-iraq/

Zarif: Time to End Israel's Tyranny over Western Halls of Power
Tasnim News | iranian.com | 2020-06-12
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at the Zionist lobbies for "poisoning" US politics, saying the time has come to end Israeli influence on the Western decision-making bodies. In a post on his Twitter account on Thursday, the top Iranian diplomat pointed to an article published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about Israel's …
iranian.com/2020/06/12/zarif-time-to-end-israels-tyranny-over-western-halls-of-power/

No Economic Sovereignty Without Political Sovereignty
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
There is a current discussion on how much and what kind of funding Italy will receive from the European Union and under what conditions. Reassuring messages arrive from Brussels. But since such financing will be mostly provided in the form | …
globalresearch.ca/no-economic-sovereignty-without-political-sovereignty/5715742

Video: Hearing Is Not Like Seeing: NATO's Terrorists Burning Syrian Wheat Crops
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-12
A video clip shared by local farmers from Ras Al-Ayn showing an inferno burning their livelihood before their eyes, hundreds of acres of wheat on fire just as the crop is due to harvest. | We've been reporting about these fires …
globalresearch.ca/video-nato-terrorists-burning-syrian-wheat-crops/5715759

'This Is Cruel': DeVos Bars Certain Students, Including DACA Recipients, From Covid-19 Relief Funds
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-12
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sparked outrage Thursday by doubling down on an April guidance that bars U.S. higher education institutions from giving any federal coronavirus relief funds to foreign, undocumented, and certain other students. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/devos-cpac_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/12/cruel-devos-bars-certain-students-including-daca-recipients-covid-19-relief-funds?cd-origin=rss

Erasing 30 Years of Progress, Covid-19 Pandemic Could Lead to More Than One Billion People Living in Poverty: Study
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-12
The number of people living in poverty around the globe could eventually top one billion as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according researchers at Kings College London and Australian National University. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1207637957_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/12/erasing-30-years-progress-covid-19-pandemic-could-lead-more-one-billion-people?cd-origin=rss

Louisville Lawmakers Ban No-Knock Warrants as Advocates Escalate Demand for Arrests of Three Officers Who Killed Breonna Taylor
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-12
Racial justice advocates intensified their calls on Friday for Louisville, Kentucky authorities to arrest the three police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in March, after the city council unanimously voted to ban the type of warrant police used to enter Taylor's home. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1218336924_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/12/louisville-lawmakers-ban-no-knock-warrants-advocates-escalate-demand-arrests-three?cd-origin=rss

Greek-Italian Maritime Deal Disrupts Turkey's Endeavour for East Mediterranean Dominance
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Greece and Italy signed a historic agreement yesterday that demarcates the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of the two countries in the Ionian Sea. The agreement signed between Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio has …
globalresearch.ca/greek-italian-maritime-deal-disrupts-turkey-endeavour-east-mediterranean-dominance/5715635

The Afghan-Pakistani Rapprochement Complicates India's Hybrid War Plans
Andrew Korybko | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-06-11
asia-pacificresearch.com/afghan-pakistani-rapprochement-complicates-india-hybrid-war-plans/5629118

The Globalization of War. America's "Long War" against Humanity
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
America's hegemonic project in…
globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-war-americas-long-war-against-humanity/5426125

Historian Robin D.G. Kelley: Years of Racial Justice Organizing Laid Groundwork for Today's Uprising
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-11
As protests against police brutality and racism continue across the country, we speak with historian and UCLA professor of African American studies Robin D.G. Kelley. "We're not here by accident," Kelley says, crediting racial justice organizers for laying the groundwork for this moment over the last decade. "The real question now is whether or not this can be sustained."
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/11/robin_dg_kelley_social_movements

U.S. Passes 2 Million Coronavirus Cases as States Lift Restrictions, Raising Fears of a Second Wave
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-11
The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases has officially topped 2 million as states continue to ease stay-at-home orders and reopen their economies and more than a dozen see a surge in new infections. "I worry that what we've seen so far is an undercount and what we're seeing now is really just the beginning of another wave of infections spreading across the country," says Dr. Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/11/dr_craig_spencer

The Spirit of Hoover's FBI is Revived under New Cyber-Warfare Protocols
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-11
This week, the Grayzone's Gareth Porter exposed an important strategy led by the FBI to purge the internet of alternative media outlets who question the mainstream narratives being used to shepherd society into an Orwellian post-COVID world order. | Although FBI propagandists strewn throughout mainstream media have attempted to project the idea that the corrupt days of America's internal Gestapo operation led by J. Edgar Hoover are a thing of the past, the reality is that its days of COINTEL PRO, MK Ultra, assassinations and media manipulation of the 1960s and 1970s not only didn't go away but only amplified t…
ahtribune.com/us/4216-hoover-fbi-cyber-warfare-protocols.html

Black Lives and the Green New Deal
Jeremy Brecher | commondreams.org | 2020-06-11
Black Lives Matter mural being painted on a street of Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo: Office of Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Wikimedia Commons) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-06-11_at_2.41.15_pm.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/11/black-lives-and-green-new-deal?cd-origin=rss

Russia shoots down "Ridiculous" Trump demand for Arms Embargo on Tehran
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-06-11
The Neoconservative wing of the Trump administration, which is dying to drag the United States into a war with Iran, suffered an embarrassing setback on Monday when its latest flimsy scheme crashed and burned.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/russia-shoots-down-ridiculous-trump-demand-for-arms-embargo-on-tehran/

Amid Protests and Pandemic, Trump's Priority Is Protecting Profits
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-06-11
The power of the masters is indeed fragile. It can be restricted, even overturned, by a public dedicated to different goals. But that requires organization.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/amid-protests-and-pandemic-trumps-priority-is-protecting-profits/

Corporate Media Are Focusing on Race—and Dodging Class
Norman Solomon | commondreams.org | 2020-06-11
Police officers arrest protesters for breaking the curfew as they continued to protest demanding an end to police brutality and racial injustice over the death of George Floyd on June 4, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/new_york.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/11/corporate-media-are-focusing-race-and-dodging-class?cd-origin=rss

Thousands march for Black lives in Dallas
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-11
Dallas, TX – On Saturday, June 6, about 5000 people rallied in 100-degree weather at Belo Garden Park across the street from the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas, to demand justice for victims of police violence, community control of the police, and the resignation of Renee Hall, the chief of the Dallas Police Department. | The protest was called by the Dallas Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (DAARPR), Progressive Student Union at the University of Texas at Arlington American Muslims for Palestine Dallas, Migrante Texas, and Black Youth Project 100-Dallas. First the crowd heard spe…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/10/thousands-march-black-lives-dallas

Remembering the Crimes of Global Capitalism: "The Jakarta Method"
Grace Blakeley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Any self-identifying socialist will be met with the question at some point in their lives: How many people have been killed in the name of socialism? They might have pointed out in response that Soviet-style state socialism is about as …
globalresearch.ca/remembering-capitalism-crimes/5715682

Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Forms Around Emptied East Precinct
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-11
The first night in the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone that has formed in the wake of police giving up the week-long blockade of the East Precinct was rainy and peaceful and full of speeches from activists, agitators, poets, and socialist city council members. | "I guess whatever the fuck we're doing is effective," one organizer identified as Magik said over a megaphone early in the night as police were still clearing the area. "They are going to move up. They are going to get everybody out of here and we are free to move through these streets and protest and march." | "Yesterday we were on 11th and Pine.
popularresistance.org/capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-forms-around-emptied-east-precinct/

Video: Syrian Army Repelled Militant Attack in Southern Idlib. US Air Force C-130 Plane Crashed in Iraq
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
The Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces have repelled an attack on their positions in southern Idlib. | On June 8, forces of the Ghurfat Eamaliat wa-Harid al-Mu'minin coalition of al-Qaeda-linked militant groups stormed the villages of Tanjarah and Fattirah. …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-repelled-militant-attack-southern-idlib-us-air-force-c-130-plane-crashed-iraq/5715502

The Worst of All Possible Worlds? Echoes of Orwell's Dystopian 1984. Mass Surveillance, Police State Rule, Struggle to Survive
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Longterm harm caused by US policies at home and abroad are far removed from a Panglossian best of all possible worlds view. | What's going on has echoes of Orwell's dystopian 1984. | Both right wings of the US war party wage …
globalresearch.ca/worst-all-possible-worlds/5715673

Palestinians score huge victory against Israel's apartheid regime in a European court
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-06-11
Palestinians have scored a major victory against Israel's apartheid regime in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). | On 11 June, the ECHR passed a ruling on a French court's conviction of people boycotting Israeli goods to show solidarity with Palestinians. It found that the convictions violated the European Convention on Human Rights. | As the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement noted, the ruling has "major implications for anti-BDS state r…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/06/11/palestinians-score-a-huge-victory-against-israels-apartheid-regime-in-a-european-court/

Netanyahu hails Trump's sanctions against 'corrupt & biased' International Criminal Court
rt.com | 2020-06-11
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has praised US President Donald Trump and his administration for sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC). Both countries have been targeted by the court with probes into alleged war crimes. | "I would like to thank the president for his leadership in sanctioning the corrupt and biased international court obsessed with a witch hunt against Israel and the United States," Netanyahu said during a press conference on Thursday. | The Israeli PM has invoked the anti-Semitism card as well, claiming that the ICC ultimately believes that the "Jews living in their historic homelan…
rt.com/news/491568-netanyahu-trump-icc-sanctions/

Alternatives to Policing–The Case for Public Health and Community Development Investments
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-06-11
By Amber Yang As outrage sparks over police brutality, systemic racism, and socio-economic inequality, activists are calling to defund police. Despite other calls for anti-bias training, civilian review processes, and…
projectcensored.org/alternatives-to-policing-the-case-for-public-health-and-community-development-investments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alternatives-to-policing-the-case-for-public-health-and-community-development-investments

Israel's Arbitrary Detentions–MES EP.57
Marwa Osman | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-11
Tough Israel regularly arrests Palestinians and keeps them under illegal detention for months, the number of such arrests have risen in the last couple of months. In complete violation of all established human rights norms, Israel has continued the practice of holding Palestinian detainees without any charge or formal trial for months before they are formally charged with baseless accusations and unfairly tried or released. | To discuss this issue with us from Madrid is Alberto Garcia Watson, activist and member of the International Solidarity Movement. | Dozens of people in the southern countryside of Syria's no…

Israel's Arbitrary Detentions–MES EP.57

Black Lives Matter Movement in Seattle Occupies Six-Block "Autonomous Zone"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-11
Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Seattle flooded City Hall Tuesday night for an evening of speeches and protest as the movement took over a six block area in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and issued a list of demands to city government in an ongoing uprising that appears nowhere near over. | "We cannot have a pacified movement," activist N…
truthout.org/articles/black-lives-matter-movement-in-seattle-occupies-six-block-autonomous-zone/

In Landmark Ruling, European Court of Human Rights Sides With BDS Movement Over French Government
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-11
In a decision celebrated by international human rights advocates, a European court ruled Thursday that the conviction of 11 activists in France campaigning for a boycott of Israeli goods in solidarity with Palestinians "had no relevant and sufficient grounds" and violated their right to freedom of expression. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-9577120601.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/06/11/landmark-ruling-european-court-human-rights-sides-bds-movement-over-french?cd-origin=rss

Spain: Trial Begins for Former Salvadoran Colonel Accused of '89 Jesuit Massacre
Brett Wilkins | commondreams.org | 2020-06-11
Montano (pictured above), who was jailed after his extradition, was part of "a structure outside the law that gravely altered the public peace with executions of civilians and forced disappearances." (Photo: Democracy Now/Creative Commons) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/montano.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/11/spain-trial-begins-former-salvadoran-colonel-accused-89-jesuit-massacre?cd-origin=rss

"Equality Is the Soul of Liberty" Peaceful Protest in Palo Alto Pt. I
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-06-11
Speakers called for major structural change in policing policies, with some protesters demanding defunding of the Palo Alto Police Department at a rally of thousands on June 6. Photos here are of the rally at King Plaza. | Pt. II will feature photos of the 4 mile march through downtown streets and Palo Alto neighborhoods.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/09/18834041.php

More cases of US police brutality emerge as protests continue against murder of George Floyd
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
In recent days, Albuquerque police shot and critically injured a man in his mid-20s, New Jersey authorities released video of the fatal shooting last month of Maurice Gordon and Austin police released video of the 2019 murder of Javier Ambler.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/poli-j11.html

Capitalism and Coercion: Crisis in the Legitimacy of the U.S. State
Vince Montes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
The U.S. state appears to be facing a crisis of its legitimacy amid the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. The killing of George Floyd, yet another unarmed black man killed by the police, has erupted into popular protest. It is …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-state-legitimacy-under-attack/5715654

Native Americans pull down Christopher Columbus statue at Minnesota Capitol
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-11
Saint Paul, MN – On June 10, Native Lives Matter, AIM of Twin Cities and AIM Patrol of Minneapolis led a protest that pulled down the 10-foot tall statue of Christopher Columbus that had stood in front of the Minnesota State Capitol since 1931. A couple hundred people cheered as protesters put a rope around Columbus's neck and dozens pulled until the statue came crashing down face-first. | Generations of children in the U.S. have been taught that Christopher Columbus was a hero that 'discovered America'. But for generations, Native Americans have made clear that Columbus represents the start of a genocidal Europe…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/11/native-americans-pull-down-christopher-columbus-statue-minnesota-capitol

The DOJ and Attorney General Unlawful Actions in Response to Nationwide Protests against Racism
DOJ Alumni | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
We write to you as alumni of the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ" or the "Department"). Collectively, we have served in both career and high-ranking politically-appointed positions in both Republican and Democratic administrations. Some of us …
globalresearch.ca/doj-alumni-letter-inspector-general-michael-horowitz/5715703

The DOJ and Attorney General Unlawful Actions in Response to Nationwide Protests against Racism
DOJ Alumni | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Dear Mr. Horowitz: | We write to you as alumni of the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ" or the "Department"). Collectively, we have served in both career and high-ranking politically-appointed positions in both Republican and Democratic administrations. Some of us …
globalresearch.ca/doj-alumni-letter-inspector-general-michael-horowitz/5715703

Trump: Take back Seattle from 'domestic terrorists'
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
US President Donald Trump late Wednesday complained that "domestic terrorists" have taken over Seattle, Washington amid George Floyd protests, putting the blame on Democratic governor and mayor."Domestic Terrorists have taken over Seattle, run by Radical Left Democrats, of course. LAW ORDER," Trump said in one of his last tweets for the day.In a separate tweet, he urged Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to take back the control of the city."Radical Left Governor @JayInslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before," Tr…
yenisafak.com/en/news/trump-take-back-seattle-from-domestic-terrorists-3531780

WHO Believes That Mass Protests Are Important Even in a 'Pandemic' Provided They're More Popular Than WHO
Pien Huang | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-11
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization took time at its daily press conference to address another pressing issue: the wave of protests against police violence and racial injustice. The demonstrations began in the U.S. when George Floyd died on May 25 after a police officer had pressed a knee into his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while detaining him in Minneapolis. | The protests are now spreading around the world to Europe, Africa and other regions. | "WHO fully supports equality and the global movement against racism. We reject discrimination of all kinds," said WHO director…
anti-empire.com/who-believes-that-mass-protests-are-important-even-in-a-pandemic-provided-theyre-more-popular-than-who/

6 Steps Toward Building Trust Between Black Americans and the Police
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-11
Defunding will only invite more, and bigger, problems. | Corey BROOKS | The brutal treatment of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, by former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, has sparked protests across the country, as well as calls for abolishing police departments in major cities. Floyd's tragic death demands that we examine the underlying issues and systemic abuse within some police forces. But defunding the police will only invite more, and bigger, problems. | Instead, we should aim to restore the trust between the black community and the police, and implement commonsense reforms that will mak…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/11/6-steps-toward-building-trust-between-black-americans-and-police/

[Commentary] Covert family planning as a symbol of agency for young, married women
Andrew Gibbs, Abigail Hatcher | thelancet.com | 2020-06-11
Family planning has long been seen as both a marker and a potential driver of women's autonomy and overall population health. Family planning is strongly linked to child and women's health outcomes, and tends to be better for nearly every household measure [1,2].
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30137-1/fulltext?rss=yes

Social class, capitalism and the murder of George Floyd
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
As has happened so often in the past, the political establishment and media are promoting a racial narrative to conceal the social and economic basis of police brutality and deflect popular anger away from the capitalist system.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/pers-j11.html

Arizona reactivates hospital emergency plans as COVID-19 infections rise in 19 states
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
The pandemic in the United States sees surges in southern and western states as stay-at-home orders have been rescinded and back-to-work campaigns pushed through.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/usco-j11.html

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Precautions for a summer of COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-11
With the onset of warmer weather and more and more states loosening their COVID-19 restrictions, lots of folks are wondering about some summer staples, like cookouts and a day at the beach or pool. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, an infectious disease specialist at Mayo Clinic, discusses how you can minimize your …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-precautions-for-a-summer-of-covid-19/

The Eugenicist's Playbook: Politicized Science Is Making a Comeback in the Age of COVID-19
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-11
Racism has spread under the guise of science for centuries and continues today with claims that African American and other minority communities have a genetic predisposition to COVID-19.
mintpressnews.com/eugenicists-playbook-science-racism-comeback-age-covid-19/268489/

COVID-19 in Africa: WHO urges constant vigilance as cases top 200,000
news.un.org | 2020-06-11
COVID-19 is accelerating in Africa, with more than 200,000 cases and more than 5,600 deaths, the regional office for the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday.
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The importance of self-care during difficult times
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-11
If you are struggling with overwhelming feelings, added anxiety, stress and fear, you are not alone. "We are in the midst of a dual pandemic of COVID-19 and social unrest caused by racism which affects all members of our communities," says Dr. Monica Taylor-Desir, co-chair of Diversity and Inclusion in Mayo Clinic's department of Psychiatry …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/the-importance-of-self-care-during-difficult-times/

Get Ready to Pay the Costs of a New Cold War With China
Michael T. Klare | commondreams.org | 2020-06-11
Here's another thing a new Cold War guarantees: a significant increase in military spending at a time of ballooning national debt and a desperate need for investment in domestic economic recovery. (Photo: Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/china_0_0.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/11/get-ready-pay-costs-new-cold-war-china?cd-origin=rss

Colombia jails policemen who discovered 2018 election fraud conspiracy
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-06-11
A judge agreed to jail the policemen who discovered Colombia's ruling party plotted with the mafia to rig the 2018 elections in favor of President Ivan Duque. In a controversial…
colombiareports.com/colombia-jails-policemen-who-discovered-2018-election-fraud/

The Perfect Storm Approaches
David Helvarg | thenation.com | 2020-06-11
The Perfect Storm Approaches…
thenation.com/article/environment/coronavirus-hurricanes/

Will Corporate Accountability Be the Next Coronavirus Casualty?
Rick Claypool | commondreams.org | 2020-06-11
Can we trust corporations on their own to implement adequate protections against spread of the coronavirus? (Photo: CC) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/coronavirus-front-page-2.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/06/11/will-corporate-accountability-be-next-coronavirus-casualty?cd-origin=rss

Leaked CDC document shows new danger in continuing coronavirus plague
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-11
Despite cheerleading from GOP President Donald Trump, the raw numbers show the coronavirus pandemic still plagues the U.S., and a leaked document from the Centers for Disease Control adds we're not out of the woods. That's because, compared to the other nine nations which lead the world in total coronavirus cases, the U.S. showed a …
peoplesworld.org/article/leaked-cdc-document-shows-new-danger-in-continuing-coronavirus-plague/

The Truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Greg Mitchell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Chris Wallace of Fox News has published his first book, Countdown 1945. It's about the final days of the run-up to dropping the atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You might have hoped that it would be a bit contrarian …
globalresearch.ca/truth-about-hiroshima-nagasaki/5715689

Today's Movement for Racial Justice. The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prof. Sam Ben-Meir | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-11
Walking through the park this weekend I noticed a man on a bench reading Metaxas' acclaimed biography of German theologian and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer. And it occurred to me then and there that this is indeed a moment …
globalresearch.ca/dietrich-bonhoeffer-movement-racial-justice/5715694

Israeli Court Changes Prison Term to Life Sentence for Palestinian Arrested at Age 15
Staff | imemc.org | 2020-06-11
Two prisoners, both of whom were arrested when they were 15 years old, have had extensive sentences handed down by the Israeli Ofer Military Court. The now-19-year-old prisoner, Omar Samir Rimawi, had his sentence changed from 35 years to Life in prison with no possibility of parole. Hi co-defendant, Ahmad …
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Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Detainee Minutes After He Finished Serving A 15-Year Prison Sentence
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-11
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, a Palestinian man merely minutes following his release after he finished serving a prison sentence of fifteen years and six months, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS stated that the re-arrest of the detainee, Salah …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-abduct-a-palestinian-detainee-minutes-after-he-finished-serving-a-15-year-prison-sentence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soldiers-abduct-a-palestinian-detainee-minutes-after-he-finished-serving-a-15-year-prison-sentence

Iran's skyrocketing stock exchange signals historic political shift
Rostam Pourzal | mronline.org | 2020-06-11
In Iran, this spring brings a historic opportunity for neoliberal opposition parties personified by President Rouhani. The utopian dream will now get its first chance to prove itself as a cash-starved Islamic Republic embarks on its boldest ever embrace of privatization of state-owned companies.
mronline.org/2020/06/11/irans-skyrocketing-stock-exchange-signals-historic-political-shift/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=irans-skyrocketing-stock-exchange-signals-historic-political-shift

Report finds European lockdowns saved millions of lives, ending it threatens millions
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
The report is an indictment of governments' initial delays in implementing public health measures and a warning of the terrible consequences of the return to business as usual.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/euro-j11.html

Pandemic reveals worker exploitation in Texas meatpacking industry
Cooper Feste and Dariel Hernandez | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-11
Across Texas, workers, many of them Black or immigrants from Mexico and Central and South America, have been forced back to work at job sites that are unsafe and even deadly…
liberationnews.org/pandemic-reveals-worker-exploitation-in-texas-meatpacking-industry/

Millions of Ukrainian migrant workers forced to search for employment in Europe under unsafe conditions
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
Despite little health or legal protections, Ukraine's migrant workers are being forced to search for work in Europe's farms and factories to avoid unemployment and social destitution.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/ukra-j11.html

#ShutDownSTEM: Scientists strike, halt research to focus on Black lives
Jamal Rich | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-11
On June 10, the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) academic research community held a work-stoppage in response to the mass uprising following Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the countless other police murders and to challenge the racist ideas and institutions that still prevail in their own field. The Particles for Justice, organized by Black …
peoplesworld.org/article/shutdownstem-scientists-strike-halt-research-to-focus-on-black-lives/

AFL-CIO recommends actions to end police racism
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-11
WASHINGTON –In a comprehensive statement, the AFL-CIO General Board — heads of all its member unions — recommitted the labor movement to working towards implementing wide-ranging recommendations to attack systematic 401-year-old U.S. racism, notably including police racism. Those recommendations came from both the federation's own race commission after the previous notorious police murder, of Michael …
peoplesworld.org/article/afl-cio-recommends-actions-to-end-police-racism/

Trump agitates to restart the global nuclear arms race
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-11
By TruePublica: Time Magazine says Donald Trump is both "dangerous, impatient and foolish." EuroNews says Trump — "is a grave danger to the US and the world." The 2017 book entitled — The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, contains the essays from 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals describing the "clear and present …
truepublica.org.uk/united-states/trump-agitates-to-restart-the-global-nuclear-arms-race/

Pandemic intensifies growing mental health crisis in Australia
wsws.org | 2020-06-11
The government's promised spending displays the official contempt for those being devastated by mass unemployment and under-employment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/ment-j11.html

"Pandemic II" Is Already Your Fault & US Gov Is Using Seattle And The Two-Party System To Divide Us
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-06-11
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 (6/11/20). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/pandemic-2-already-your-fault-us-gov-using-seattle-two-party-system-divide-us/

Big oil and gas benefit from small business bailout funding
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-11
"The PPP was supposed to help small businesses keep their doors open and their employees on payroll through the pandemic."
nationofchange.org/2020/06/11/big-oil-and-gas-benefit-from-small-business-bailout-funding/

Rising threat of disintegration of Yemen and the role of the Islah party
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-11
Though the Southern Transitional Council in Aden is supported by the UAE, its real legitimacy is rooted in its attempts to counter the rising Saudi interference in Yemeni politics through puppets such as the Islah party…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/11/rising-threat-of-disintegration-of-yemen-and-the-role-of-the-islah-party/

Trump's Touted Troop Pullout From Germany Is More Rift Than Gift
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-06-11
The latest kerfuffle about Trump purportedly taking troops out of Germany is merely reactionary wheels-within-wheels of a bigger and systematic hostile US posture towards Russia. | President Donald Trump's reported order to withdraw nearly 10,000 US troops from bases in Germany has engendered frissons of angst about the future of NATO, the transatlantic relationship, and European security. The most preposterous reaction came from American and European security officials who called the move…

Trump’s Touted Troop Pullout From Germany Is More Rift Than Gift

Black Lives Matter Everywhere: Its Time To Defund The US Military
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-11
While the U.S. war on the black population at home is now exposed for all of America–and the world–to see, the victims of U.S. wars abroad continue to be hidden. Trump has escalated the horrific wars he inherited from Obama, dropping more bombs and missiles in 3 years than either Bush II or Obama did in their first terms. When retired generals speak out against Trump's desire to deploy active-duty troops on America's streets, we should understand that they are defending precisely this double standard. Just as we are exposing the rot in U.S. police forces and calling for defunding the police, so we mus…
popularresistance.org/black-lives-matter-everywhere-its-time-to-defund-the-us-military/

"I Can't Do It" Say Some GIs Being Deployed to Quell Uprisings
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-11
A number of United States military service members concerned about the possibility of being ordered by President Donald Trump to suppress uprisings in cities across the country are looking into ways they can personally abstain from such actions. | Dissent within the military was first detailed in reporting from Truthout senior editor/staff reporter Candice Bernd earlier this month. | An anony…
truthout.org/articles/i-cant-do-it-say-some-gis-being-deployed-to-quell-uprisings/

'Don't mention the war!' Episode of cult comedy Fawlty Towers scrubbed amid 'racism' purge
rt.com | 2020-06-11
The most famous episode of a 1970s sitcom, making fun of a British hotel dealing with German tourists, has been yanked from a BBC-run streaming service amid a censorship spree against anything that could be deemed "racist." | "The Germans" was one of the just twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers, a comedy starring John Cleese (of 'Monty Python' fame) as Basil Fawlty, the hapless owner of a struggling hotel in Devon, that featured the memorable punchline, "Don't mention the war!" | British media reported on Thursday that it has been pulled from the BBC's streaming service UKTV. | No official reason was given. Th…
rt.com/uk/491580-falwty-towers-episode-censored/

Coronavirus: Oman reports 1,067 new cases, 5 new deaths
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
Countries in the Middle East and North Africa region reported new COVID-19 cases and virus-linked fatalities on Thursday.In Oman, 1,067 new cases were registered over the past 24 hours, taking the total to 19,954, according to the Health Ministry.The Gulf country also confirmed five more deaths, bringing the tally to 89.A total of 6,632 patients have recovered from the virus so far.Minister of Health Dr. Ahmed Al Saeedi asked the public to limit family visits, and adhere to physical distance, wear face masks and observe precautionary measures.Bahrain's Health Ministry said that out of the 7,776 COVID-19 tests car…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-oman-reports-1067-new-cases-5-new-deaths-3531784

Turkey's Istanbul Airport partially resumes int'l flights
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
The Istanbul Airport partially resumed on Thursday to international flights, which have been suspended for two months as part of the normalization process from the novel coronavirus pandemic. Turkey's national flag carrier Turkish Airlines began scheduling flights again from Istanbul Airport to Germany, the UK and the Netherlands.Entry was limited only to passengers, who started to come to the airport early in the day and had their temperatures taken upon arrival with thermal camera.Social distance rules were also followed both by passengers and airport personnel.Turkish Airlines' first scheduled flight was made…
yenisafak.com/en/life/turkeys-istanbul-airport-partially-resumes-intl-flights-3531783

Norway mosque attacker sentenced to 21 years in prison
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
A Norwegian court on Thursday sentenced a man who staged an attack at a mosque to 21 years in prison, the maximum prison term possible, according to local media reports.On Aug. 10 last year, Philip Manshaus, killed his 17-years-old stepsister at home and stormed the nearest mosque during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in Baerum, outside Oslo.Manshaus opened fire on people in the mosque but was overpowered by one of the men in the mosque. One elderly man was injured.He was charged with the murder of his stepsister and the terrorist attack at the Al-Noor Islamic Center and found quilty, according to the Norwegia…
yenisafak.com/en/world/norway-mosque-attacker-sentenced-to-21-years-in-prison-3531778

Pakistan blasts 'extra-judicial' killing of 9 Kashmiris
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-11
Pakistan on Monday accused Indian security forces of killing nine Kashmiri youths in so-called security operations in disputed Jammu and Kashmir."Pakistan strongly condemns unabated extra-judicial killings of Kashmiri youth in acts of state-terrorism perpetrated by Indian occupation forces in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK)," Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, referring to killing of nine suspected militants in the last 24 hours in two separate gunfights in the Shopian district of the disputed valley."Several houses in the area were also destroyed and pellet guns and tear gas used against i…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-blasts-extra-judicial-killing-of-9-kashmiris-3531782

Greek Prime Minister Says Ready to Discuss Maritime Zones Delimitation With Turkey
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-11
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has confirmed his readiness to discuss maritime zones delimitation with Ankara, and in case of the latter's disagreements, the issue would be taken to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
sputniknews.com/world/202006111079588851-greek-prime-minister-says-ready-to-discuss-maritime-zones-delimitation-with-turkey/

3rd step in managing COVID-19 to fully comply with protocols: Pres. Rouhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA) — Stating that the third step in managing coronavirus is to fully observe health protocols, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, "We need to enter the stage of compensating economic losses caused by coronavirus."
en.mehrnews.com/news/159696/3rd-step-in-managing-COVID-19-to-fully-comply-with-protocols

Deputy FM names Aras Free Zone as Iran's 'highway' to Eurasian region
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-11
TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA) — Deputy Foreign Minister for the Economic Diplomacy Affairs Gholamreza Ansari said that Aras Free Zone in North West of the country enjoys great potentials that need to be tapped into.
en.mehrnews.com/news/159686/Deputy-FM-names-Aras-Free-Zone-as-Iran-s-highway-to-Eurasian

Ohio senate debates if racism is a health crisis. Lawmaker asks if black people catch Covid-19 because they don't wash their hands
rt.com | 2020-06-11
A senator in Ohio has landed himself in hot water after asking an expert witness whether the 'colored population' suffered more than others from the deadly coronavirus, owing to inadequate hygiene skills. | On Tuesday, during a meeting of the Senate Health Committee, Sen. Steve Huffman (R-Tipp City), who is white, asked the witness why the impact of Covid-19 has been worse on people of color than on white people. But he phrased his question in a way that can only be described as cringeworthy. | "Could it just be that African Americans or the colored population do not wash their hands as well as other groups, o…
rt.com/usa/491489-ohio-senator-black-hygiene/

One third of people with coronavirus could not be contacted by NHS Test and Trace
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-11
One third of people who tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19) either could not be reached by the NHS Test and Trace programme or failed to provide details of who they've had contact with, data shows. The results are based on the programme's first week of operation | Some 8,117 people who tested positive in England had their case transferred to the NHS Test and Trace contact tracing system. Of these, 5,407 (67%) were reached, while 2,710 (33%) were not reached. | "Functioning": | Baroness Harding, the head of the programme, admitted it was not yet at the "gold standard" but was now a "functioning serv…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/06/11/one-third-of-people-with-coronavirus-could-not-be-contacted-by-nhs-test-and-trace/

Social services association chief says under-resourcing caused thousands of lives to be lost 'prematurely in social care'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-11
Some 27% of social services directors said patients were discharged to providers where there wasn't sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE), a survey has found.The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass), which asked its members about the rapid discharge of patients to the community in March to free up hospital beds, also found that 24% said patients had been taken to settings where they couldn't self-isolate amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic."Ill-equipped and under-resourced": Adass president James Bullion said thousands of people "lost their lives prematurely in social car…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/06/11/social-services-association-chief-says-under-resourcing-caused-thousands-of-lives-to-be-lost-prematurely-in-social-care/

Thursday 6/11: #Equity For All Forum: Racial Equity in HEROES Act & End Anti-Black Police Brutality!
Faith in Action, NAACP, UNIDOS US, others | indybay.org | 2020-06-11
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/10/18834098.php

The Powers That Be Are Ecstatic That the Left Believes the Biggest Problem Right Now Are Statues of Dead White Men
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-11
In the US and the EU both, we've witnessed the biggest monetary heist in history. We're sailing into a depression that central banks have set up for us over the past two decades. And we're doing so in the worst possible condition thanks to the Draconian, harebrained and unnecessary lockdowns that the politicians imposed on us. | Several of Empire's wars and occupations continue in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria. Tension is being needlessly cultivated with China and Russia, and the entire architecture of nuclear arms control is just about done being thrown in that trash bin of history. | Simultaneously the…
anti-empire.com/the-powers-that-be-are-ecstatic-that-the-left-believes-the-biggest-problem-right-now-are-statues-of-dead-white-men/

Iran, Iraq reach deal on building 354km highway: Minister
Press TV | iranian.com | 2020-06-11
Iran's minister of transportation says an initial deal has been reached with neighboring Iraq to build a long highway that would ease traffic across the border and would help boost trade between the two neighboring countries. Mohammad Eslami said on Wednesday that the 354-kilometer highway would connect the city of Mehran on the western Iranian …
iranian.com/2020/06/11/iran-iraq-reach-deal-on-building-354km-highway-minister/

'Speaking of Looting…': Trump Admin. Refuses to Disclose Corporate Recipients of $500 Billion in Coronavirus Bailout Funds
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-11
Progressive critics and advocacy groups are responding with alarm and anger to the Trump administration's refusal to disclose the names of more than 4.5 million companies that have collectively received over $500 billion in corporate bailout money through a federal program created to provide businesses with relief from the coronavirus pandemic. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/steve_mnuchin_0_0.jpg …
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Urge your Reps to help end police violence!
Jon Rainwater | peaceaction.org | 2020-06-01
George Floyd should still be alive today. Since we can't bring him back to his family, we must take action for justice. We need to take action for justice for George as well as for Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Oscar Grant, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner and ALL the thousands of people whose names …
peaceaction.org/2020/06/01/urge-your-reps-to-help-end-police-violence/