Fire-Engulfed California Short on Firefighters as Prison "Slaves" Under COVID-19 Lockdown
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-06
It is the height of California's dangerous forest fire season. But despite blazes currently raging, the state's fire department is dangerously understaffed. That is because many firefighters today are not the burly full time professionals of another era, but underpaid convict laborers risking their lives for pennies. Almost 40 percent of California's firefighters are prisoners.
mintpressnews.com/california-prison-labor-firefighter-shortage-covid-19-lockdown/269174/

Guaido Representative Threatens FBI Investigation Into Journalists Exposing Her Dealings
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-06
From the Twitter account of her communications firm, Asymmetrica, Vanessa Neumann accused four journalists of a "criminal conspiracy" to support Venezuelan vice-president Delcy Rodriguez. "There is a price on your head," she threatened.
mintpressnews.com/vanessa-neumann-fbi-investigation-journalists-exposing-her-dealings/269194/

In 'Russian Bounty' story, evidence-free claims from nameless spies became fact overnight
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-07-06
Based upon a bombshell New York Times report (6/26/20), virtually the entire media landscape has been engulfed in the allegations that Russia is paying Taliban fighters bounties to kill U.S. soldiers.
mronline.org/2020/07/06/in-russian-bounty-story-evidence-free-claims-from-nameless-spies-became-fact-overnight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-russian-bounty-story-evidence-free-claims-from-nameless-spies-became-fact-overnight

Key U.S. ally indicted for organ trade murder scheme
Nicolas J. S. Davies | mronline.org | 2020-07-06
If the people of Kosovo can hold the CIA-backed gangsters who murdered their people, sold their body parts and hijacked their country accountable for their crimes, is it too much to hope that Americans can do the same and hold our leaders accountable for their far more widespread and systematic war crimes?>…
mronline.org/2020/07/06/key-u-s-ally-indicted-for-organ-trade-murder-scheme/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=key-u-s-ally-indicted-for-organ-trade-murder-scheme

Provocative US Military Drills Near Chinese Waters
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-06
Imagine how the US and world community would react if Chinese, Russian, or Iranian warships conducted military exercises in the Gulf of Mexico or off America's east or west coasts. | Bipartisan hardliners in Washington and establishment media might consider this …
globalresearch.ca/provocative-us-military-drills-near-chinese-waters/5717873

Venezuela denounces 'absurd decision' of UK to retain its gold reserves
Peoples Dispatch | mronline.org | 2020-07-06
A British high court ruled on July 2 that because the UK recognizes opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president, it does not have to give the government of Nicolás Maduro access to the reserves.
mronline.org/2020/07/06/venezuela-denounces-absurd-decision-of-uk-to-retain-its-gold-reserves/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuela-denounces-absurd-decision-of-uk-to-retain-its-gold-reserves

The Meaning of the 1811 Independence for Today's Venezuela
Nino Pagliccia | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
For any country the celebration of independence is of great historical importance and pride. July 5 marks the 209th anniversary of Venezuela's independence. The meaning of the term "independence" has certainly occupied central stage in the last 21 years of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Former President Hugo Chávez and current President Nicolás Maduro have…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/the-meaning-of-the-1811-independence-for-todays-venezuela/

Venezuela Is on a Path to Make Colonialism Obsolete
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-06
On June 29 the European Union (EU) slapped new sanctions against 11 Venezuelan individuals. Immediately President Nicolas Maduro responded by ordering the expulsion of the EU ambassador to the country. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned that Brussels would …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-make-colonialism-obsolete/5717877

States Can Require Presidential Electors to Follow Popular Vote, U.S. Supreme Court Rules
commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
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What does community control of police look like?
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-07-06
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Chicago-based activist and author Frank Chapman about his life story as well as…
thegrayzone.com/2020/07/06/what-does-community-control-of-police-look-like/

Is Taiwan Creating a "Coalition of Unrecognized States" by Recognizing Somaliland?
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-06
The Taiwanese government intends to compensate for its diplomatic problems in Africa by developing a relationship with the unrecognized Somaliland. The two sides announced just days ago that they are establishing official representative agencies in their respective territories. In recent …
globalresearch.ca/taiwan-creating-coalition-unrecognized-states-recognizing-somaliland/5717883

Trump's wrong, the Marxists are winning
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-06
Speaking at the White House, July 4, President Trump stated, "We are now in the process of defeating the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and people who in many instances have absolutely no clue what they are doing." He is wrong. The radical left and Marxists are beating him at every turn. | Trump is a failed political representative of a failed and dying economic system: monopoly capitalism. Trump's hatred of science, coupled with a profit-motivated health care system, has made the pandemic so much worse than it had to be. By every measure, the economy is entering a 1930s s…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/6/trump-s-wrong-marxists-are-winning

Trump rails against Marxism and "international socialism"
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
With his campaign trailing in the polls, the US president is resorting more and more to openly fascistic appeals.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/uspo-j06.html

St. Paul protests Israel's threat to annex West Bank
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-06
St. Paul, MN – On July 3, 55 people participated in Women Against Military Madness' weekly vigil for Palestine. This week's action was a joint call by both Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) and the Anti-War Committee (AWC) against the Israeli government's decision to illegally annex more Palestinian land and was a part of the international call for a Day of Rage. | Wearing masks and being physically distant in the midst of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, protesters held signs reading, "No to Israeli theft of Palestinian lands," and "Annexation is theft! End U.S. aid to Israel!" People were standing on all c…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/6/st-paul-protests-israel-s-threat-annex-west-bank-0

Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) to hold second online election rally
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The SEP's online meeting will discuss critical political developments in Sri Lanka and internationally and the tasks facing the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/slad-j06.html

The significance of the July 4 online discussion, "The Place of the Two American Revolutions: Past, Present and Future"
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The World Socialist Web Site marked the 244th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by hosting a discussion with five significant historians: Victoria Bynum, Clayborne Carson, Richard Carwardine, James Oakes and Gordon Wood.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/pers-j06.html

Vigils in New Zealand demand freedom for Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The Socialist Equality Group's Tom Peters spoke at one of the Wellington vigils, which was part of global protests held to mark the jailed WikiLeaks founder's birthday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/nzim-j06.html

Reparations and Other Scams: Israeli Survivors Live in Poverty and Are Starving?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-06
The issue of reparations and other compensation has been much in the news of late, most particularly in relationship to possible payments to descendants of slaves in the United States to compensate them for their disadvantages brought about by what …
globalresearch.ca/reparations-israeli-survivors-live-poverty-starving/5717851

Are the Democrats a Political Party or a CIA-Backed Fifth Column?
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-06
How do the Democrats benefit from the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests? | While the protests are being used to paint Trump as a race-bating white supremacist, that is not their primary objective. The main goal is to suppress and demonize …
globalresearch.ca/democrats-political-party-cia-backed-fifth-column/5717891

We Need a Global Green New Deal
Michael Galant | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
The global economy is collapsing. When the pandemic began, experts at the International Monetary Fund predicted that we would see the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. This week, they announced that it will be even worse than they thought. This disaster comes into a world already facing record inequality, desperate poverty, and a…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/we-need-a-global-green-new-deal/

Regulators Urged to Block Uber's "Domination Game" Acquisition of Postmates
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
"These destructive delivery apps… were built to monopolize an essential service and reap profits for investors." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/uber_postmates.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/07/06/regulators-urged-block-ubers-domination-game-acquisition-postmates?cd-origin=rss

Bountygate: Scapegoating Systemic Military Failure In Afghanistan
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-06
It took little more than a year for the president to come to grips with a reality that would be reflected in the findings of Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko, that there had been "explicit and sustained efforts by the U.S. government to deliberately mislead the public…to distort statistics to make it appear the United States was winning the war when that was not the case." | In November 2018, Trump turned on "Mad Dog", telling the former Marine General "I gave you what you asked for. Unlimited authority, no holds barred. You're losing. You're getting your ass kicked. You faile…
popularresistance.org/bountygate-scapegoating-systemic-military-failure-in-afghanistan/

Electoral College takes a hit: US Supreme Court rules states can PUNISH electors who ignore popular vote results
rt.com | 2020-07-06
The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that state governments have the right to penalize so-called 'faithless electors', members of the Electoral College who do not support the victor of their states' popular presidential vote. | Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the court's Monday ruling that states have the right to instruct their electors that they "have no ground for reversing the vote of millions of its citizens." That direction, she said, "accords with the Constitution — as well as with the trust of a Nation that here, We the People rule." | Over 30 states already require their Electoral College voters…
rt.com/usa/493965-supreme-court-faithless-electors-2020/

Trump rails against Marxism and "international socialism"
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
While the deadly COVID-19 pandemic raged, President Trump celebrated Independence Day by unabashedly promoting a fractured, fascist interpretation of American history.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/06/18834923.php

Sunday 7/5: What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
ZOOM meeting, log-in info at | icssmarx.org…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/04/18834860.php

Friday 7/10: Reforming the Cops: A Discussion on Movement Demands to Rein in the Police
Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
This discussion will be held on Zoom. | Register at http: //tiny.cc/July-10-mtg…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/04/18834861.php

Russian Bounties: Here We Go Again
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-06
In case you've been living in a cave the last few weeks, here's latest news scoop riling the United States: Russia has been paying the Afghan Taliban bounties for American scalps. | How do we know? Because the New York Times tells us so, and the Times is not the kind of paper to make stuff up. But how does the Times know it's true? Because sources say so, sources so super-sensitive and high up that it can't reveal their names. All it can say according to in a front-page exposé that r…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/06/russian-bounties-here-we-go-again/

Ambassadors Are Not Completely Useless, It Seems. Many Are Getting Their Hands Dirty in New Diplomacy
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-06
Diplomacy is in a crisis, re-emerging as something else more sinister and darker for its ambassadors. From Venezuela to Lebanon though, their time is up. Their dirty game is no longer a secret and it will be the starving Lebanese who will unseat them. | Diplomacy has been in the news quite a bit in late June. Yet it has still left many of us wondering if there is ever a real role for diplomats to play in this junk-news, social media-obsessed world which has reduced them to mere "waiters who are occasionally allowed to sit down" as Peter Ustinov once put it. | But Venezuela's President Nicholas Maduro, who the We…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/06/ambassadors-are-not-completely-useless-it-seems-many-are-getting-their-hands-dirty-in-new-diplomacy/

"He Wasn't Invited": How Trump's Racist Mt. Rushmore Celebration Violated Indigenous Sovereignty
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-06
Amid ongoing protests against systemic racism and state violence, Trump attacked protesters, vowed to defend statues of colonizers and white supremacists, and ignored Indigenous sovereignty over the area, when he held an Independence Day rally at Mount Rushmore, sparking even more protests that led to 15 arrests. "The Black Hills, or what we know as He Sápa, is the cultural center of our universe as Lakota people," says Indigenous scholar and activist Nick Estes, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico.
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/6/nick_estes_trump_mount_rush

Egyptian Activist Laila Soueif on the Jailing of Her Children & the Fight Against Authoritarianism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-06
Egyptian authorities have arrested scores of people, including doctors, medical workers, journalists, lawyers and activists, as the country grapples with the coronavirus outbreak. "Unlike nearly every other country in the Middle East, Egypt has not released thousands of prisoners as a precaution against the coronavirus. Instead, it's arrested more people and cut off communication," says Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous. One of the most high-profile arrests is that of Sanaa Seif, a film editor and the youngest member of one of Egypt's most prominent activist families. Sanaa's brother, Alaa Abd El…
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/6/egyptian_activist_laila_soueif_on_the

We Need a Global Green New Deal
Michael Galant | zcomm.org | 2020-07-06
The rules of the global economy got us into this mess. But rules can change…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-global-green-new-deal/

The Battle of Seattle was Fought by the Pro-war "Left" in Northern Syria
Max Parry | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-06
The ongoing series of protests, riots and unrest following the death of George Floyd culminated in the establishment of a self-declared "autonomous zone" by activists in Seattle, Washington, after police abandoned a local precinct in the city's Capitol Hill district. Lasting just three weeks until law enforcement retook the six block territory from occupants on …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/the-battle-of-seattle-was-fought-by-the-pro-war-left-in-northern-syria/

The Battle of Seattle Was Fought by the Pro-war "Left" in Northern Syria
Max Parry | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-06
The ongoing series of protests, riots and unrest following the death of George Floyd culminated in the establishment of a self-declared "autonomous zone" by activists in Seattle, Washington, after police abandoned a local precinct in the city's Capitol Hill district. | …
globalresearch.ca/battle-seattle-fought-pro-war-left-northern-syria/5717896

'Victory for environmental justice': Activists rejoice after $8bn Atlantic Coast Pipeline NIXED amid long-running legal battle
rt.com | 2020-07-06
The two energy companies behind the controversial 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline slated to run from West Virginia to North Carolina, said they are scrapping the project after it was on hold for years due to legal challenges. | In a joint statement on Sunday, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced they are pulling the plug on the project, which was first announced in 2014 and has faced fierce opposition from landowners and environmental activists, who claimed…
rt.com/usa/493882-atlantic-coast-pipeline-cancelled/

Seattle protester killed after being struck by car driving wrong way on closed interstate
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
Police blamed protesters after a man drove into a peaceful demonstration early Saturday morning, killing one person and critically injuring another.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/poli-j06.html

Greenpeace Celebrates Dakota Access Pipeline Shutdown
commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/07/06/greenpeace-celebrates-dakota-access-pipeline-shutdown?cd-origin=rss

To Defeat Systemic Racism, America Must End Endless War
Nima Gerami | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
The racism that permeates U.S. foreign policy today, writes Gerami, "is an extension of the belief in white supremacy that shaped the territorial and ideological boundaries of our nation from its inception." (Photo: U.S. Army Lt. Col. Mike Brady, Task Force Cyclone, 38th Infantry Division Public Affairs) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/afghan_peace_0_0_0.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/07/06/defeat-systemic-racism-america-must-end-endless-war?cd-origin=rss

Covid-19 Has Put Algeria's Peaceful Revolution on Hold
Abdo Shanan, The Nation, Magnum Foundation | thenation.com | 2020-07-06
Abdo Shanan, The Nation, Magnum Foundation Covid-19 Has Put Algeria's Peaceful Revolution on Hold…
thenation.com/article/world/algeria-covid-photo-essay/

Open Letter On COVID-19 And Humanitarian Disarmament
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-06
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy human and economic toll and shattered lives in many countries. The pandemic has also underscored that global solutions should be used to address global problems, in the current crisis and after it ends. Now is the moment to reflect on the world as it is and consider a better alternative for the future. A "new normal" should go beyond the field of public health to deal with other matters of ongoing international concern, including the humanitarian consequences of arms and armed conflict as well as peace and security more broadly. | Humanitarian disarmament, an approach to go…
popularresistance.org/open-letter-on-covid-19-and-humanitarian-disarmament/

Shield of the Union: How the Russian Navy Protected America in the Civil War
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-06
Strange things happen in civil wars: During the Russian Civil War in 1919, 13,000 U.S. troops were dispatched by President Woodrow Wilson to occupy the cities of Archangelsk in the Arctic and Vladivostok on the Pacific. | Half a century earlier, thousands of Imperial Russian Navy sailors and their officers flooded the cities of San Francisco and New York. But the circumstances were very different. They were there to defend the United States from foreign invasion — not to threaten it and they brilliantly succeeded in their tasks. | The incredible story is well told in "Friends in Peace and War: The Russian N…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/06/shield-union-how-russian-navy-protected-america-in-civil-war/

Oakland demonstrators say, 'Black Trans Lives Matter!'
Cassandra Lopez, Juan Lopez | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-06
OAKLAND–At the invitation of our godson, David Johnson, we headed to the "Black Trans Lives Matter" demonstration at Lake Merritt in Oakland June 12 with eager anticipation. It was another unique manifestation of the massive Black Lives Matter protests that have resulted from the police murders of Black people. In this case, it was members …
peoplesworld.org/article/oakland-demonstrators-say-black-trans-lives-matter/

Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure Palestinians in Hebron
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-06
During confrontations in Hebron, one Palestinian civilian, on Sunday, was shot and injured by Israeli forces, according to WAFA correspondent. In the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the Israeli military, stationed at flashpoint Shuhada Street, fired rubber-coated steel rounds and concussion grenades at Palestinian protesters, hitting one of …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-shoot-injure-palestinians-in-hebron/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-shoot-injure-palestinians-in-hebron

Sewing for justice: Connecticut Communist makes and distributes over 4,000 masks
Marcey Lynn Jones | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-06
On June 30, Marcey Lynn Jones marked 4,000 masks she had sewn since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. A member of the Winchester-Newhallville Club of the Communist Party USA in New Haven, Conn,, she has sewn masks for seniors, youth, community members, and participants in protests against systemic racism and police killings of Black people. She …
peoplesworld.org/article/sewing-for-justice-connecticut-communist-makes-and-distributes-over-4000-masks/

David Harvey's New Thesis "Capitalism is too Big to Fail": Is it?
Steve Ellner | zcomm.org | 2020-07-06
It is surprising that at this moment, when dire circumstances have generated a degree of hope, with the Black Lives Matter protests and such widespread disillusionment with the system, that Harvey comes up with this line of thinking…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/david-harveys-new-thesis-capitalism-is-too-big-to-fail-is-it/

Minnesota protesters demand justice for Isak Aden, Somali-American man killed by police
Wayne Nealis | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-06
EAGAN, Minnesota–The protest on the one-year anniversary of the murder of Isak Aden, 23, at the hands of police officers here was both a somber remembrance of his life and a militant event demanding the reopening of his case. Family members, former schoolmates, teachers, and a thousand supporters gathered July 1 at the site where …
peoplesworld.org/article/minnesota-protesters-demand-justice-for-isak-aden-somali-american-man-killed-by-police/

To 'Build Back Better,' We Must Ditch Public Financing of Fossil Fuels
commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Sandrine Dixson-Decl—êve, and Bas Eickhout | An Extinction Rebellion protester holds up a placard saying "Divest from climate change" on October 14, 2019 in London, England. (Photo: John Keeble/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-11809997791_0.jpg …
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The Protests We Should Be Having to Make the Super-Rich Very Afraid
Paul Buchheit | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
"As the climate crisis worsens and the surging global population overruns our depleted living spaces," writes Buchheit, "the world's super-rich will increasingly become the targets of undervalued and desperate human beings." (Photo: Unsplash/Pixabay/CC0) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/the_rich_are_winning_on_entitlements_0.jpg …
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Protesters Attacked By Police Are Suing To Vindicate Their Constitutional Rights
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-06
Victims of police abuse are filing litigation, and at least one judge has put a halt to some of the most egregious misconduct. Plaintiffs allege that police misconduct resulted in the violation of their First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. They charge that the LAPD used "indiscriminate and unreasonable force against thousands of protesters" and used unreasonable and excessive force by hitting "at least close to a thousand protesters with batons and/or 'rubbers bullets.'" Plaintiffs attest to being restrained with tight handcuffs, denied bathroom access and access to food or water, and provided insuffici…
popularresistance.org/protesters-attacked-by-police-are-suing/

Raleigh Black Lives Matter Protest Reaches 35th Day
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-06
For the 35th consecutive day, Black Lives Matter protesters chanted, made speeches, waved signs and marched across downtown Raleigh on Saturday. They are protesting SB 168 which lawmakers passed nearly unanimously with no discussion in the wee hours of the morning on June 27, would shield death investigation records from the public when they are shared with the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Those records are now considered public under state law. | "The fact that they're trying to … pass this over on us and act like it's no big deal like they're just gonna ignore us — that is why we're so mu…
popularresistance.org/raleigh-black-lives-matter-protest-reaches-35th-day/

Lebanese block roads in Beirut amid economic woes
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
Lebanese protesters blocked several roads in the capital Beirut on Monday, amid growing anger over deteriorating economic conditions in the country. | In a statement, Lebanon's traffic control room said demonstrators burned tires and blocked roads in the capital in protest of frequent power blackouts. | Drivers also staged a protest outside the headquarters of the Interior Ministry in the Sanayeh area of Beirut to demand the cancellation of mechanics and inspection fees. They also called for reducing fuel prices. | Lebanon's currency has taken a nosedive, losing around 70% of its value in recent months. Lira was…
yenisafak.com/en/world/lebanese-block-roads-in-beirut-amid-economic-woes-3533799

VIDEO: Huge protests against racism in New York
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Despite widespread crackdown on protesters, a large crowd took to the streets in New York to protest against racism and inequality.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160605/VIDEO-Huge-protests-against-racism-in-New-York

'You can't blame it on police', Atlanta mayor says after 8yo black girl shot dead during protest
rt.com | 2020-07-06
The mayor of Atlanta, Georgia gave an impassioned plea to disclose any information on the gunmen who shot up a car, killing an eight-year-old black girl inside, during a BLM protest. | The shooters need to be brought to justice, because as long as they are roaming free, they pose a threat to everyone, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said during an emotional press conference on Sunday. Staying silent regarding people like them will not keep people safe, and violence undermines the cause that has gained momentum in the past weeks, she said. | "In the civil rights movement there was a defined common enemy. We are figh…
rt.com/usa/493894-atlanta-child-killed-protesters/

'Keep this s**t in f**king New York': California woman faces vandalism charges after VIDEO shows her painting over BLM mural
rt.com | 2020-07-06
Martinez, California police have asked the public to help them identify a woman filmed covering a Black Lives Matter mural (which was greenlit by the city) while her partner argued that the "narrative of racism" is a liberal lie. | The incident took place on July 4th in front of the local courthouse, where a giant yellow-lettered 'Black Lives Matter' mural popped up earlier that day. | The mural in support of the ongoing protests against police brutality was approved by the city. However, it was in urgent need of restoration only a couple of hours into its existence after a woman, armed with cans of paint and…
rt.com/usa/493883-mural-blm-defaced-california/

White supremacy, or harmless gesture? Oregon police say cop accused of racist hand signal was simply checking protester was OK
rt.com | 2020-07-06
An Oregon trooper was accused of dog whistling a counter-protester at a Black Lives Matter event in Salem, but state police said it was just an innocent OK gesture. 4Chan pranksters who started the hand sign confusion may rejoice. | The Oregon State Police (OSP) said their investigation into a viral video allegedly showing a white power gesture shown by an officer to an opponent of BLM demonstrators has revealed no wrongdoing. | Footage from the anti-racism protest in Salem on Saturday shows cops on the scene tasked with separating BLM demonstrators from groups of counter-protesters. The video shows one of the…
rt.com/usa/493910-oregon-police-white-power/

Remember "Bloody Thursday" & Stop Racist Graffiti At SSA! Press Conf At Port Of Oakland
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
ILWU Local 34, ILWU Local 34 and ILWU IBU Bay Area members held a press conference on July 3, 2020 to protest Ku Klux Klan racist graffiti put up at the SSA terminal following the Juneteenth | Action. They also announced plans for commemoration of July 5, 2020 "Bloody Thursday" at the SSA Terminal…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/03/18834830.php

Anti-Fourth Celebration in Santa Cruz
Alex Darocy | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
To celebrate the holiday weekend without glorifying genocide, slavery and the settler state, community members in Santa Cruz organized a block party on July 4 at the Town Clock, which was followed by a protest march. An online post promoting the street party read: "This event is open to all members of the community who do not want to celebrate the foundations of this country being on stolen land. This is a space to share food, community and acknowledge the truth. We are choosing to honor those who have suffered genocide by the American government. This day is a sanitized holiday to erase indigenous nations and a…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834879.php

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Six Palestinians from West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-06
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli forces abducted several Palestinian civilians from across the occupied West Bank, overnight Saturday. Israeli forces assaulted Abdul Karim Khaled Abu Sal, before abducting him from Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern West Bank. The PPS added that Israeli …
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Israeli Troops Abduct Five Palestinians from the West Bank
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-07-06
Israeli Troops abducted early on Monday and late on Sunday night four Palestinian residents from different West Bank areas. Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli troop invaded the Bet Rema village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah and that Israeli soldiers broke into the home of Saher …
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Pyramids. Plantations. Projects. Penitentiaries
Tasha Jones | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
We went from Pyramids to Plantations, to Projects, to Penitentiaries and you think America has love for me/we — We went from Pyramids to Plantations, to Projects, to Penitentiaries, and you think America wants to give Us Free. 1 I was born at 8: 10 Died. Revived. Then, born again. With fight in my blood Storm…
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'Gains can be won if we stay united and in the street'
Nino Brown | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-06
What we are seeing today are the compounded contradictions of hundreds of years of racist and capitalist oppression…
liberationnews.org/gains-can-be-won-if-we-stay-united-and-in-the-street/

More than 170 killed in accident at Myanmar jade mine
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The disaster has highlighted the perilous conditions confronting oppressed miners in the industry, which provides large profits to sections of the country's military-dominated regime.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/jade-j06.html

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block on Asylum Transit Ban
commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
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Over 700 Joliet, Illinois nurses go on strike for better wages and safe working conditions
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
Strikes of health care workers are part of a growing global response of workers across industries to the dangers posed by government back-to-work drives.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/joli-j07.html

Key US Ally Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme
Nicolas J.S. Davies | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci in 2018. (Photo: Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/kosovo_.jpg …
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On Disposability and Rebellion: Insights From a Rank-and-File Insurgency
JoAnn Wypijewski | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
Unfolding in the pages of Mike Stout's new political memoir, Homestead Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years, is the radical history of a people too commonly believed to have none. It is a history largely absent from popular records of the political tumult of the 1960s and '70s, though its energy, militance and imagination grew…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/on-disposability-and-rebellion-insights-from-a-rank-and-file-insurgency/

New Jersey growers refuse to test migrant farm workers for COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The decision not to test these laborers, many of whom have traveled from states with rising rates of infection, creates the conditions for a public health disaster.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/blue-j06.html

Carnage and important historical lessons abound in book 'The Jakarta Method'
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-06
Beachgoers stumbling on human femur bones in the sand – just a few feet from world-class resorts. Families sifting through corpses, decayed beyond recognition and piled up on the beach, in search of missing loved ones. Roadways littered with human heads impaled on bamboo spears. Ordinary homes and buildings converted into charnel houses of unspeakable torture. Parents ripped from their beds in the middle of the night and led deep into the jungle by their captors, for all-night, around-the-clock execution sessions. | These are not scenes from some horror movie. They really happened in Indonesia. | Beginning with a…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/6/carnage-and-important-historical-lessons-abound-book-jakarta-method

How corporations and government finance the German trade unions
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
With the pandemic, which has led to the deepest international economic crisis since the 1930s, the role of unions as tools of the corporations is taking on a new dimension.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/germ-j06.html

'One Dyke's Theater' a monument to decades of lesbian life and creativity
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-06
I really didn't mean to write this review of a newly published collection of ten selected plays (1975-2014) by the self-dubbed "slightly world-renowned lesbian playwright" from San Francisco, Terry Baum. But the book sort of dropped in my lap and I couldn't put it down. I'm here to share the exciting news about this milestone …
peoplesworld.org/article/one-dykes-theater-a-monument-to-decades-of-lesbian-life-and-creativity/

Foreign Election Interference: Who is to Blame?
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
he New York Times has always taken the view that U.S. election interventions have "generally been aimed at helping non-authoritarian candidates" whereas Russia has "more often intervened to disrupt democracy or promote authoritarian rule." Too bad the Times could not interview Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh, Chile's Salvador Allende, or the Congo's Patrice Lumumba, who were targeted by the Central Intelligence Agency and replaced by brutal regimes that ruled for decades.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/foreign-election-interference-who-is-to-blame/

Say Her Name — Nekeya Moody Killed in February 2020 After Encounter with Minnesota Police
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-07-06
Minneapolis, MN — Nekeya Moody, a 37-year-old mother of five, died after a struggle with Ramsey County Sheriffs in February 2020. Moody's sister said she laid unresponsive and lacking medical care for 10 minutes. Today, July 5, Nekeya Moody would've turned 38. | On June 19,…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/say-her-name-nekeya-moody-killed-february-2020-after-encounter-with-minnesota-police/

Spiked Concerns: The Melbourne Coronavirus Lockdown
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-07-06
asia-pacificresearch.com/melbourne-coronavirus-lockdown/5629166

Biosphere Warming in Numbers
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
At this time, the Biosphere is warming at a rate of 3.03?10^15 Watts, which is equivalent to a temperature rate-of-rise of 0.0167 ∞C/year. The warming rate has been increasing steadily since the 19th century, when it was on average "zero" except for natural fluctuations (plus and minus) that were hundreds of times smaller than today's warming…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/biosphere-warming-in-numbers/

Mexican labor lawyer Susana Prieto Terrazas arrested, raising USMCA enforcement doubts
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-06
WASHINGTON–The arrest and detention in Mexico of prominent and outspoken pro-worker labor lawyer Susana Prieto Terrazas is raising questions about whether Mexico can implement its commitments under the new "free trade" pact with the U.S. and Canada, which took effect July 1. Susana Prieto Terrazas was arrested in May on charges of inciting a riot …
peoplesworld.org/article/mexican-labor-lawyer-susana-prieto-terrazas-arrested-raising-usmca-enforcement-doubts/

350.org on Suspension of Dakota Access Pipeline and Cancelation of Atlantic Coast Pipeline
commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
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Majority Black Prison Populations In Maryland See Disproportionate COVID-19 Spikes
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-06
Racial disparities in Maryland prisons are affecting COVID-19's spread, with majority white populations receiving protective equipment even as Jessup institutions with majority Black populations struggle to get supplies.
therealnews.com/stories/majority-black-prisons-jessup-maryland-covid-spikes

The Language of Vote Suppression
Andrew Moss | zcomm.org | 2020-07-06
The injustices in our electoral system present an enormous, continuing task: to challenge the lies, the racism, and the specific practices of vote suppression — while still motivating voters, particularly young voters, to cast their ballots and secure full representation as citizens of their communities and of the nation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-language-of-vote-suppression/

Israeli Settlers Shoot, Injure Two Palestinian Youths near Salfit
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-06
Illegal Israeli settlers shot and injured two Palestinian youths, on Sunday, in Bidya village, west of Salfit, in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said that a group of Israeli colonists attacked Palestinian families in Khillat Hassan area, opening fire at them, resulting in the …
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Israeli Authorities to Demolish Home of a Palestinian Prisoner in West of Jenin City
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-07-06
On Monday, Israeli authorities were reportedly endorsed a demolition order for the home of Palestinian prisoner, Nathmi Abubaker, 48, from the Y'abad village, south-west of Jenin City, in the West Bank. The official Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that Israeli occupation authorities jailed Abubaker after they had accused him of …
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BlackRock's rise shows the dark direction of monopoly capitalism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-06
Matt Taibbi concluded that the 2008 Wall Street bailout had…
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Nicaragua — Virtual Reality and Human Rights
Stephen Sefton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-06
Ever since January 2007, the Western human rights industry has attacked Nicaragua's Sandinista government for being undemocratic and repressive. For over a decade, Nicaragua's social and economic development and successive democratic elections repeatedly contradicted that mendacious narrative. Frustrated by Nicaragua's …
globalresearch.ca/nicaragua-virtual-reality-human-rights/5717908

Australian police confine Melbourne public housing residents indoors after COVID-19 outbreak
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The state Labor government opted for a police operation instead of having medical staff, social workers, and people in the community lead the necessary preventive measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/flat-j06.html

Judge Orders Dakota Access Pipeline to Shut Down
commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
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Why JPMorgan Chase Should Give $1 Billion to Black Neighborhoods in Chicago
Daniel Fernandez | thenation.com | 2020-07-06
Why JPMorgan Chase Should Give $1 Billion to Black Neighborhoods in Chicago…
thenation.com/article/activism/jamal-green-interview-reparations/

Why are we having a go at the statues of Leopold II?
Onno Vandewalle | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-06
Onno Vandewalle writes about the movement in the country to pull down the statues of Leopold II, and examines the brutal history of colonization and exploitation in the Congo…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/06/why-are-we-having-a-go-at-the-statues-of-leopold-ii/

Greek communists denounce government bill prohibiting demonstrations
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-06
A bill introduced by the New Democracy goverment permits the authorities to impose restrictions on the use of roads and spaces for demonstrations. It also enables authorities to ban demonstrations and penalize the organizers…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/06/greek-communists-denounce-government-bill-prohibiting-demonstrations/

Will Real-Life "Fighting Dems" Prove Irresistible?
Steve Early | zcomm.org | 2020-07-06
Jon Stewart's new Hollywood film, Irresistible, is well worth watching just because of the timeliness and relevance of its other subject matter–the Democratic Party's frantic recruitment of veterans to run for public office…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/will-real-life-fighting-dems-prove-irresistible/

British government reimposes welfare benefits sanctions as pandemic continues and unemployment rockets
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
By June, the number of job center claimants had risen by 126 percent since the start of the pandemic, to 2.8 million.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/sanc-j06.html

Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza again
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-06
Israeli fighter aircraft and attack helicopters conducted airstrikes targeting the besieged Palestinian Gaza strip late on July 5, Sunday. Local Palestinian media reported that the Israelis struck areas in the eastern part of Gaza, but no casualties were reported. At least one of the Israeli missiles struck an agricultural plot of land, resulting in a loud explosion in the eastern part of al-Zeitoun district of Gaza. The Israeli military later claimed that the airstrikes were conducted in response to rocket fire from Gaza earlier. | In a statement, the Israeli military said that they had targeted "underground fac…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/06/israeli-airstrikes-hit-gaza-again/

There's a Hidden Economic Trendline That is Shattering the Global Trade System
Marshall Auerback — Jan Frel | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has recently conceded: "In general, economic thinking has privileged efficiency over resilience, and it has been insufficiently concerned with the big downsides of efficiency." Policy across the globe is therefore moving in a more overtly nationalistic direction to rectify this shortcoming. COVID-19 has accelerated a process that was well…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/theres-a-hidden-economic-trendline-that-is-shattering-the-global-trade-system/

Minor League Teams Could Be Latest Casualties of COVID's Disaster Capitalism
Bill Fletcher | zcomm.org | 2020-07-06
Now is the time for action, not pity…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/minor-league-teams-could-be-latest-casualties-of-covids-disaster-capitalism/

Kidnapping Kids: As American as the Fourth of July
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
It's been two hundred forty-four years since the declaration of independence was sent by horseback to the peasants, city dwellers and plantation owners in the colonies on North America's eastern coast. Britain's subjects across the ocean took up their cry. "Damn the English and their East Indies Tea Company and damn their taxes, too." The…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/kidnapping-kids-as-american-as-the-fourth-of-july/

Oil Change International Response to Dakota Access Pipeline Shutdown
commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
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Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus
Lauren Weber and Laura Ungar and Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Hannah Recht and Anna Maria Barry-Jester | zcomm.org | 2020-07-06
The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/hollowed-out-public-health-system-faces-more-cuts-amid-virus/

The future of the global cruising industry: Layoffs, pay cuts and prolonged misery for crews
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
Cruise corporations are cutting jobs and denying workers repatriation to save their profits.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/crui-j06.html

Foreign Election Interference: Who is to Blame?
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
Ever since the Russian election interference in 2016, the New York Times has been blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for the new Cold War with the United States. On July 2, it ran a front-page article that headlined the United States "stands on the sidelines" while the Kremlin conducts a "wave of aggression." On July 1, the Times ran…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/foreign-election-interference-who-is-to-blame/

Why Canada—and the World—Deserve a Better Foreign Policy in Ottawa
Bianca Mugyenyi | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House February 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump-trudeau-955px_1.jpg …
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The Threat of Annexation is far from Over
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-06
Annexation by Israel of occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank was never likely to happen on July 1, as many observers assumed. The date was not a deadline; it was a window opened by the Israeli government to carry out annexation before US President Donald Trump leaves office. Unhappily for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/the-threat-of-annexation-is-far-from-over/

Coronavirus jackpot: Trump-connected lobbyists grab $10 billion of federal aid
Brian Slodysko | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-06
WASHINGTON (AP)–Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump's own ethics policy, according to a report. The lobbyists identified Monday by the watchdog group Public Citizen either worked in the Trump executive branch, served on …
peoplesworld.org/article/coronavirus-jackpot-trump-connected-lobbyists-grab-10-billion-of-federal-aid/

On Disposability and Rebellion: Insights From a Rank-and-File Insurgency
JoAnn Wypijewski | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
Homestead workers made beams for the Empire State Building. Their collective hand is embedded in the structures that millions encounter, unthinking, every day. Cross the Verrazano Narrows or the Golden Gate, that hand is there. Pose for a photograph at Rockefeller Center or the St. Louis Arch, it is there. Enter the United Nations building, curse the traffic on the Oakland Bay Bridge, depend on the Hoover Dam, it is there.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/on-disposability-and-rebellion-insights-from-a-rank-and-file-insurgency/

Over 300 children catch COVID-19 in Texas daycares
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The number of COVID-19 cases among children and staff members has skyrocketed since the state began reopening facilities in May.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/kids-j06.html

Criminalising Journalism: Australia's National Security Craze
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
There has been a lot of noise made in Australia about the need for broader protections when it comes to the fourth estate and the way it covers national security matters. In a country lacking a backbone in terms of constitutional free speech, journalists are left at the mercy of authorities when it comes to…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/criminalising-journalism-australias-national-security-craze/

A Just and Talented Government for Our Hazardous Age
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
In 1979, I joined the US Environmental Protection Agency where I served as an analyst until 2004. Those twenty-five years gave me a privileged opportunity to observe the workings of the government from within. I applauded EPA for banning DDT in 1972, about two years after President Richard Nixon brought the EPA into being. DDT…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/a-just-and-talented-government-for-our-hazardous-age/

Learning Not to Look Away
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
When those of us who are white are asked to engage with anti-racism, we are being asked to do something emotionally difficult: understand how we have benefited from a system that disadvantages and hurts others, so we can help dismantle it. If you oppose and abhor racism, as I hope most of us do, it…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/learning-not-to-look-away/

Trump and the GOP's Handling of Covid-19 Is Sheer Lunacy
Robert Reich | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
A boat taking part in a boat parade for the re-election of President Donald Trump passes by Point State Park on the Allegheny River on July 4, 2020 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Roughly 30 boats and a group of 50 supporters along the shoreline showed up for the event though over 10,000 people had signed up online for the event. (Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_lunacy.jpg …
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Australian Labor Party vote falls further in by-election
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The biggest swings against Labor occurred in Queanbeyan, a largely working-class city neighbouring Canberra, the national capital.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/labo-j06.html

Croatia's ruling HDZ wins parliamentary elections amid lowest ever voter turnout
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-06
Prime minister Andrej Plenkovic's current term was due to end in October. However, he chose to call for early elections riding on the popularity over his handling of the early phase of COVID-19 outbreak…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/06/croatias-ruling-hdz-wins-parliamentary-elections-amid-lowest-ever-voter-turnout/

Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin — Review (ft. Peter Coffin)
Radical Reviewer | mronline.org | 2020-07-06
Radical Reviewer and Peter Coffin review Vladimir Lenin's book Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism.
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US labor secretary says "reopening" will proceed in face of surging pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia declared that "Our workplaces can be very safe places to be," even as hospitalizations broke records in states across the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/scal-j06.html

Two US aircraft carriers in war games in South China Sea
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The "high-end" exercises sought to test US naval capabilities in a conflict with China involving both offensive operations using war planes and the defence of the ships from any counter-attack.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/usch-j06.html

'John Lewis: Good Trouble': A fine new documentary about a courageous life
Michael Berkowitz | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-06
When Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis was a kid, his parents brought him up to be religious and mindful of society's rules. But his grandfather also told him to engage in "good trouble, necessary trouble." Elder Lewis told his young grandson that sometimes good trouble would be needed to do what is right. …
peoplesworld.org/article/john-lewis-good-trouble-a-fine-new-documentary-about-a-courageous-life/

Two US aircraft carriers in war games in South China Sea
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The "high-end" exercises sought to test US naval capabilities in a conflict with China involving both offensive operations using war planes and defending the ships from any counter-attack.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/usch-j06.html

While the Shark Still Swims: Boris Johnson, Super Saturday and Super Responsibilities
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-06
By most accounts, the response of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the coronavirus pandemic has been abysmal. When the architect of the response himself catches the virus, he is either a more informed person for his sin or a buffoon in need of serious chastising. In June, the prime minister claimed pride in announcing …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/while-the-shark-still-swims-boris-johnson-super-saturday-and-super-responsibilities/

The US COVID-19 toll to hit 3 million cases as Texas health system nears collapse
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
The number of COVID-19 cases will reach 3 million today, and the pandemic surge is straining health systems across the south and southwest.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/usco-j06.html

Dakota Access Shutdown, Dominion Pipeline Decision Show Failures of Trump's Fossil Fuel Agenda
commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
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British Government Encourages Mass Emigration from Hong Kong to Affect China
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-06
In late June, China's National People's Congress passed Hong Kong's new national security law, later signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The new law imposes a special security regime in the autonomous territory of Hong Kong, prohibiting foreign interference …
globalresearch.ca/british-government-encourages-mass-emigration-hong-kong-affect-china/5717893

There's a Hidden Economic Trendline That is Shattering the Global Trade System
Marshall Auerback — Jan Frel | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has recently conceded: "In general, economic thinking has privileged efficiency over resilience, and it has been insufficiently concerned with the big downsides of efficiency." Policy across the globe is therefore moving in a more overtly nationalistic direction to rectify this shortcoming.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/theres-a-hidden-economic-trendline-that-is-shattering-the-global-trade-system/

The world can show how Pharma monopolies aren't the only way to fight COVID-19
Prabir Purkayastha | mronline.org | 2020-07-06
The U.S. has bought up almost all of the stock of remdesivir from Gilead, making it nearly impossible for this COVID-19 drug to be available anywhere else in the world.
mronline.org/2020/07/06/the-world-can-show-how-pharma-monopolies-arent-the-only-way-to-fight-covid-19/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-world-can-show-how-pharma-monopolies-arent-the-only-way-to-fight-covid-19

Over 700 Joliet, Illinois nurses go on strike for better wages and safe working conditions
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
Strikes of healthcare workers are part of a growing global response of workers across industries to the dangers posed by governments' back-to-work drive.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/joli-j07.html

Brazil's coronavirus cases top 1.5 million amid record unemployment
wsws.org | 2020-07-06
From March to May, some eight million workers lost their jobs, and more than half of the country's working age population have become unemployed.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/06/braz-j06.html

Progressive Luis Abinader, leads in presidential elections in Dominican Republic
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-06
Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), a center-left party, seems to have emerged as the front runner in the presidential elections held in Dominican Republic on July 5. The Central Electoral Board (JCE) of the Dominican Republic, after counting 41.16% of the votes, presented the preliminary results and announced that the PRM candidate was leading with 53.27% of votes. As of July 6 with 47.95% of the votes counted, Abinader maintains his lead with 52.44% of the vote share. | In second place is Gonzalo Castillo of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) with 37.66% of the votes, followed by for…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/06/progressive-luis-abinader-leads-in-presidential-elections-in-dominican-republic/

Black food spaces seed sovereignty
Eva Hershaw | zcomm.org | 2020-07-06
"We cannot depend on food aid, the charity of the philanthropic community, government agencies and non-profit organizations to feed poor people. We need to not only demand but also create the engines and processes of control."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/black-food-spaces-seed-sovereignty/

Jenny Zhang's Goo Aesthetics
Ana Cecilia Alvarez | thenation.com | 2020-07-06
Jenny Zhang's Goo Aesthetics…
thenation.com/article/culture/jenny-zhang-baby-first-birthday-poems-review/

Dozens of Lobbyists with Trump Ties Have Raked in at Least $10.5 Billion in Federal Aid During the Pandemic
commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
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Episode 96 — Jewish/Black Relations And Dialogue In Contentious Times With Rabbi Dan Ain
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-07-06
On today's episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon explore Jewish/Black Relations And Dialogue In Contentious Times With Rabbi Dan Ain. Along The Line is a…
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Donald Trump at 130,000 and Rising
Marshall Sahlins | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
Ride a cock story when all is gory,Tell all the people pro patria mori.With phones at his fingers and slams at his foes,He shall spread Covid wherever he goes.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/donald-trump-at-130000-and-rising/

Shrink Wall Street to Guarantee Good Jobs
Sarah Anderson | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
National Nurses United for an International Day of Action, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. (Photo: Flickr Glyn Lowe Photo Works, @glynlowe). | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/tax.wall_.street_0.jpg …
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VIDEO: Brushfire shuts down 14 freeway in north LA
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Brushfire scorched an estimated 1,100 acres in Santa Clarita and jumped the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway near Soledad Canyon Road, the Los Angeles County Fire Department reported, local media reported.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160608/VIDEO-Brushfire-shuts-down-14-freeway-in-north-LA

Wednesday 7/8: Why Radical Interventions are Needed Now to Stop the Climate Apocalypse
Sierra Club Loma Prieta | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
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indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834900.php

Authorities Must Block Uber's Anti-Competitive Acquisition of Postmates
commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/07/06/authorities-must-block-ubers-anti-competitive-acquisition-postmates?cd-origin=rss

Russia, Afghanistan And The Big Lie
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-06
There is no end to the Russiagate fraud. All major charges have been disproved. No one was convicted of the dreaded "collusion" that was reported endlessly for the last four years. Damning information is now declassified and casts doubt on the veracity of the whole story. CrowdStrike, the Democratic National Committee cybersecurity firm, admitted under oath they had no proof of hacking by Russia or anyone else. Robert Mueller ended his two-year-long, multi-million-dollar investigation with nothing except convictions for process crimes. | Why then did the New York Times print a story with an unnamed intelligence a…
popularresistance.org/russiaafghanistan-and-the-big-lie/

Family Of Murdered Army Specialist Accuses The Army Of A Cover-up
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-06
Violence against women in the military and at Fort Hood has been going on for a very long time. Twelve years ago, in 2008, I wrote an article "Is There an Army Cover-Up of Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers?" that detailed violence against women assigned to units from Fort Hood that were then located in Iraq. Now, twelve years later, the Army's handling of the investigation into SPC Guillen's disappearance was an affront to Guillen's family and to military women on Fort Hood. For three months the perpetrator of the murder of SPC Guillen roamed free on Fort Hood, capable of murdering other young women and showing s…
popularresistance.org/family-of-murdered-army-specialist-accuses-the-army-of-a-cover-up/

Seattle's CHOP Advanced The Movement For Black Lives
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-06
What is unthinkable, or was at the beginning of the month, is the power of the Black Lives Matter movement in the streets. The emergence of the autonomous zone is a pinnacle of that power, a significant victory. It demonstrates the ability of popular power to win the impossible from structures of white supremacy — the state and the propertied interests they represent. That victory, and the subsequent diminution of state violence, is a major step forward for community self-control and autonomy. It shows that ending anti-Black violence is the first and most basic step to honoring Black life. | But it is just…
popularresistance.org/seattles-chop-advanced-the-movement-for-black-lives/

Cops Off Campus And Out of Our Unions!
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-06
The union I am a part of, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) at the City University of New York (CUNY), voted not only to kick the cops off campus but also to drive the cop union out of the AFL-CIO, the national labor federation with which our parent union is affiliated. Before the June 25 delegate assembly where we voted on it, union members working in Rank and File Action drafted the resolution with these clear demands. The union leadership, who has regularly taken more conservative positions on a range of issues, offered a substitute resolution that expanded some language but dropped the demand on expelling…
popularresistance.org/cops-off-campus-and-out-of-our-unions/

Palestinian Community Sets Conditions On Support For Presidential Candidate
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-06
Members of the Palestinian community in the United States have issued a declaration of principles that included a set of preconditions to support federal candidates in the presidential elections later this year. | The document, signed by Palestinian cultural, political, social and academic figures, included 13 preconditions namely recognizing the Palestinian people's right to self-determination as an inalienable right as well as the need for the Israeli occupation to immediately and unconditionally end and the refugees' right to return to their homes in accordance with UN Resolution 194. | The Declaration conside…
popularresistance.org/palestinian-community-sets-conditions-on-support-for-presidential-candidate/

Washington Threatens Military Action Against Iran After UN Meeting
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-06
"The international community in general – and the UN Security Council in particular – are facing an important decision: do we maintain respect for the rule of law, or do we return to the law of the jungle by surrendering to the whims of an outlaw bully?" Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said of Washington's recent moves. Several delegates at the Security Council meeting criticized US President Donald Trump for pulling out of the Obama-era nuclear accord, challenging its ability to legally trigger the deal's sanctions "snapback". Russia's UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, called the US campaign "a maxim…
popularresistance.org/washington-threatens-military-action-against-iran-after-un-meeting/

How We Stopped Trump From Trashing a Critical Montana Roadless Area in Grizzly Habitat
Mike Garrity | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-06
There was never any scientifically-sound reason to clearcut and bulldoze new logging roads into the roadless lands tucked along the Continental Divide in Helena, Montana's backyard. But Trump's Forest Service is on a cut-and-run tear and decided to do it anyway using the excuse that it would save the city's water supply. The Alliance for the…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/how-we-stopped-trump-from-trashing-a-critical-montana-roadless-area-in-grizzly-habitat/

police spare no effort to offer service in Arbaeen ceremony
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Police chief Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari said that Providing security for pilgrims as well as facilitating the offering of service are among the top priorities of Police in the Arbaeen ceremonies.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160626/police-spare-no-effort-to-offer-service-in-Arbaeen-ceremony

Spanish antibody study shows 5% of population exposed to coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
Results from the final stage of a nationwide antibody study showed some 5.2% of Spain's population has been exposed to the coronavirus, health officials said on Monday, confirming findings from earlier stages.The study, which tested nearly 70,000 people across Spain three times over the past three months, found the virus' prevalence had not altered significantly since preliminary results were published in May.
yenisafak.com/en/world/spanish-antibody-study-shows-5-of-population-exposed-to-coronavirus-3533802

COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia near 170,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
The tally of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia has reached 169,106 on Monday, including 4,758 fatalities and 94,962 recoveries thus far.The latest figures showed 3,481 new cases and 76 fatalities in the last 24 hours, with most cases reported in Indonesia and Philippines.Indonesia, the hardest-hit country among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states, reported 64,958 cases of infection and 3,241 fatalities on Monday.In the last 24 hours, the government announced 1,209 new cases, including 70 fatalities.As many as 29,919 people have recovered from COVID-19 in the country.Meanwhile, the n…
yenisafak.com/en/world/covid-19-cases-in-southeast-asia-near-170000-3533822

Libya arrests Daesh/ISIS cell west of Tripoli
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
Libyan forces have dismantled a Daesh/ISIS cell in Az-Zawiyah city, west of the capital Tripoli, according to the Interior Ministry on Monday. | A ministry statement said the cell was planning "to carry out terrorist attacks and plots to harm security and stability and spread chaos in the country". | The statement, however, did not specify how many cell members were arrested. | On Sunday, the Joint Security Operations Room in Misrata city, 200 km east of Tripoli, announced the arrest of a Daesh/ISIS militant, who arrived in the country from Syria in 2016. | Earlier Monday, local Syrian sources said 300 mercenarie…
yenisafak.com/en/world/libya-arrests-daesh-isis-cell-west-of-tripoli-3533825

German army training dogs to detect COVID-19 infection
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
The German army is training its sniffer dogs to detect coronavirus in humans, the Hamburg-based news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Monday.In a joint project of the German army and the Foundation of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, sniffer dogs based at the military's K9 Dog Training Center in the western German town of Ulmen are being trained to detect coronavirus infections in human saliva.10 dogs — shepherds, spaniels, and retrievers — have been enrolled for the scientific study.The basis for the corona project was that sniffer dogs can not only detect explosives or drugs from the molecu…
yenisafak.com/en/world/german-army-training-dogs-to-detect-covid-19-infection-3533805

Greece closes its borders to Serbia amid pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
Greece has temporarily closed its borders to Serbian citizens on Monday morning in response to the rapid rise of COVID-19 cases.Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic described the decision as "unfortunate.""The decision will be periodically reviewed by Greece… we hope that other facts will be taken into account. It is obvious that Greece has an interest in foreign tourists coming, and most tourists are just coming from Serbia," said Dacic.Tourist operators in Serbia have also expressed frustration over the decision, describing it as unfair, and calling on tourist organizations in Greece to react.Greece's decisio…
yenisafak.com/en/world/greece-closes-its-borders-to-serbia-amid-pandemic-3533806

Traces of history fascinate Turkey's Patara visitors
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
The ancient city of Patara in Turkey's Mediterranean coast fascinates its visitors with traces of history and stories of people who once lived there.Located in the Kas district of southwestern Antalya province, Patara is known as the capital of the ancient Lycian civilization, which consisted of 23 cities in the middle of the first century BC.Chief excavator Havva Iskan Isik of Akdeniz University told Anadolu Agency that famous names from history frequently set foot to Patara.Isik said the first important person to come to the city was Tudhaliya IV, the king of Hittite Empire.Alexander the Great, she added, after…
yenisafak.com/en/life/traces-of-history-fascinate-turkeys-patara-visitors-3533821

China retreats from border clash site: Indian Army
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
Indian army sources claimed on Monday that Chinese troops began to withdraw from the Galwan Valley area in the northern Himalayan region of Ladakh, where recent clashes took place between the two sides.In a first sign of disengagement from the site of the June 15 clash Chinese troops were seen "dismantling tents and moving back in vehicles," an official from the Indian Army told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity.Defensive structures at patrolling point 14, the main site of the June 15 clash that killed 20 Indian soldiers including a colonel, were removed and the Chinese army moved back by "at least a mile…
yenisafak.com/en/world/china-retreats-from-border-clash-site-indian-army-3533800

Russian church leader says calls to turn Hagia Sophia into mosque threaten Christianity
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of Russia's Orthodox Church, said on Monday that calls to convert Istanbul's Hagia Sophia into a mosque posed a threat to Christianity.Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has proposed restoring the mosque status of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, an ancient building at the heart of both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires and now one of Turkey's most visited monuments.The proposal has been criticised by several religious and political leaders, including the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch, spirtual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, as well as Greece, France an…
yenisafak.com/en/world/russian-church-leader-says-calls-to-turn-hagia-sophia-into-mosque-threaten-christianity-3533803

PKK/YPG forcing children to join terror group in Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
The PKK/YPG terrorist organization has been trying to forcibly recruit children who lost their parents in the Syrian civil war, Turkish security sources told Anadolu Agency on Monday.Having suffered severe blows in recent years, the PKK/YPG has established teams to seek out and brainwash such children and teenagers, threatening them to join the terrorists' ranks if they did not cooperate.According to reports by security forces, these teams have pursued Syrian orphans between the ages of 10 and 15 and kidnapped them to terror camps to indoctrinate them with their ideology and train them for armed combat after turn…
yenisafak.com/en/news/pkk-ypg-forcing-children-to-join-terror-group-in-syria-3533827

Turkish official becomes plasma donor after beating COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
A local official in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul donated immune plasma twice after beating COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.Mukhtar Fatih Ekiz in Kartal district won his fight against the virus after a 40-day treatment, which he says was painful.Speaking to Anadolu Agency about the process, Ekiz said when the first coronavirus case was announced in Turkey on March 11, mukhtar offices were assigned to provide social assistance, which drew 3,000-4,000 people daily to his office.Ekiz said that in April, he started to show the symptoms of the disease — high fever, diarrhea, headache, weakness…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-official-becomes-plasma-donor-after-beating-covid-19-3533804

Wuhan raises flood alert level as rains batter China
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
The central Chinese city of Wuhan, epicentre of the new coronavirus pandemic, raised its flood alert level on Monday as torrential rain and thunderstorms battered swathes of the country, including the Yangtze river on which it sits.Wuhan upgraded its emergency flood response to Level II from Level III, the second highest on its four-tier scale, after days of heavy downpours submerged many of its roads.Authorities warned in March that Wuhan and other flood-prone cities on the Yangtze's middle reaches faced higher than usual levels of rainfall this year.Mayor Zhou Xianwang promised that crucial flood defence work w…
yenisafak.com/en/world/wuhan-raises-flood-alert-level-as-rains-batter-china-3533801

England to face Ireland and Pakistan in packed summer schedule
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
England will host Ireland in a three-match one-day international series starting on July 30 before taking on Pakistan in a packed summer calendar, the England & Wales Cricket Board announced on Monday.The Ireland squad will arrive in England and set up their base at the Ageas Bowl, Southampton on July 18, before facing world champions England in three ODIs at the same venue.The second and third ODIs between the two sides will be on Aug. 1 and Aug. 4 respectively.Ireland have only beaten England once in their 10 ODI encounters.Pakistan, who arrived in England on June 28 to quarantine themselves ahead of the bilate…
yenisafak.com/en/sports/england-to-face-ireland-and-pakistan-in-packed-summer-schedule-3533826

Turkey busts gang coordinating with drug sellers
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
At least 59 suspects have been remanded in Turkey as part of an operation to bust a large gang that was coordinating with drug sellers on streets, according to the country's interior minister on Monday."Blow to 'Albaylar Gang' coordinating street sellers as a result of one-year surveillance…" Suleyman Soylu said on Twitter, adding the gang was active in the Aegean province of Izmir.Soylu thanked all officials who took part in the operation.Crackdown on drugs, has, over the years, helped Turkey deal with narcoterrorism, or profits for terrorist groups from the illegal trade.
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-busts-gang-coordinating-with-drug-sellers-3533807

Germany has only a few hundred doses of remdesivir, says health minister
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
Germany has only a few hundred doses of COVID-19 antiviral remdesivir, the country's health minister Jens Spahn told European Union lawmakers on Monday, urging to move production of the drug to Europe."We do not have a huge inventory now, (it's) a few hundred doses that we have," he said at a video-conference hearing organised by the European Parliament.Spahn said he was working to ensure the drug could be produced in Europe. Its manufacturer Gilead Sciences Inc has no production facilities for remdesivir in Europe.
yenisafak.com/en/world/germany-has-only-a-few-hundred-doses-of-remdesivir-says-health-minister-3533819

US coronavirus deaths surpass 130,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
The overall rate of increase in U.S. deaths has continued to trend downward despite case numbers surging to record levels in recent days, but health experts warn that fatalities are a lagging indicator, showing up weeks or even months after cases rise.At least five states have already bucked the downward trend in the death rate, according to a Reuters analysis. Arizona had 449 deaths in the last two weeks of June, up from 259 deaths in the first two weeks of the month. The state posted a 300% rise in cases over the full month, the most in the country.Nationally, cases are approaching 3 million, the highest tally…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-coronavirus-deaths-surpass-130000-3533828

Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli prison
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
A Palestinian detainee held in Israel has died in custody, a local NGO said on Monday. | Sa'di al-Gharabli, 75, died at Assaf Harofeh medical center after his health deteriorated, the Handala Center for Detainees and Ex-detainees said in a statement. | Al-Gharabli, from the Gaza strip, was arrested by Israeli forces in 1994 and sentenced to a lifetime in prison. | According to the NGO, the Palestinian detainee had suffered prostate cancer, diabetes and blood pressure, accusing Israeli prison authorities of refusing to provide medical attention to him. | There was no comment from Israeli prison authorities on the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/palestinian-detainee-dies-in-israeli-prison-3533823

Turkish protective clothing, mask exports hit $573M
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
Turkey's protective clothing and mask exports reached $573.4 million in the first half of this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Istanbul Apparel Exporters' Association (IHKIB) on Monday."We saw a record high year-on-year growth in the figure with 986% in January-June," said Mustafa Gultepe, the head of IHKIB.Gultepe said Turkish companies accelerated works to meet the strong global demand for masks and protective clothes.The country exported $144.7 million worth of masks and $428.7 worth of protective clothes in the first six months of this year, Gultepe said.He underlined that the share of th…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkish-protective-clothing-mask-exports-hit-573m-3533824

Trudeau won't attend Washington summit, Mexican president says
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not attend talks in Washington this week to mark the start of a new North American trade deal, Mexico's president said, adding that the two leaders will instead talk by telephone later on Monday morning.President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday.Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference he will do a coronavirus test before leaving Mexico, and was prepared to do another one in the United States if he was required to do so.
yenisafak.com/en/news/trudeau-wont-attend-washington-summit-mexican-president-says-3533820

Qatar coronavirus cases exceed 100,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-06
With a population of about 2.7 million people, the energy-rich Gulf state has one of the world's highest per capita number of confirmed cases.
yenisafak.com/en/world/qatar-coronavirus-cases-exceed-100000-3533808

Israeli regime launches new spy satellite Ofek 16
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Electro-optical reconnaissance satellite will provide surveillance for military intelligence, Israeli regime claims.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160639/Israeli-regime-launches-new-spy-satellite-Ofek-16

Iran registers 2,613 new COVID-19 cases on Monday
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — According to the Iranian Health Ministry, the novel coronavirus disease has infected 2,613 people across the country in the past 24 hours.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160618/Iran-registers-2-613-new-COVID-19-cases-on-Monday

Abbas conditionally agrees to negotiate with Israeli regime
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — President of Palestinian Authority conditionally agreed to negotiate with Israeli regime based on UN resolutions.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160623/Abbas-conditionally-agrees-to-negotiate-with-Israeli-regime

A MoU inked between Iran's Navy, IAU for bilateral coop
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — A Research-Training Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed and sealed between Iran's Navy Force and Islamic Azad University (IAU) at Navy Command HQ, on Sun.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160596/A-MoU-inked-between-Iran-s-Navy-IAU-for-bilateral-coop

4.6-Richter quake jolts Afghanistan
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale hit Kabul in Afghanistan on Monday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160641/4-6-Richter-quake-jolts-Afghanistan

Face mask export banned:official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Regarding the red status of some provinces in Iran due to COVID-19, the exporting of face masks to other countries has been banned, said the secretary of the working group against coronavirus.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160609/Face-mask-export-banned-official

UNESCO ready to develop tourism coop. with Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — The Director General of Tourism Planning and Development Affairs said that United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is ready to boost tourism cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160615/UNESCO-ready-to-develop-tourism-coop-with-Iran

FM spokesman, Chinese envoy meet in Tehran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi met and held talks with Chinese Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua on Monday in Tehran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160617/FM-spokesman-Chinese-envoy-meet-in-Tehran

China, India to complete troop pullback from disputed border
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — China and India have agreed to complete troop pullback from the disputed border as soon as possible, Beijing says.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160620/China-India-to-complete-troop-pullback-from-disputed-border

Iraqi MP objects over US testing missile
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — A member of the Iraqi Parliament has voiced his objection over the US' testing missile in its embassy in Baghdad, calling on the Iraqi government to prevent such acts in the country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160633/Iraqi-MP-objects-over-US-testing-missile

Iran always defends unity, resistance of Palestinians
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — The Director General for the Middle East Affairs of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Islamic Republic of Iran always defends and supports the unity, amity and resistance of Palestinians.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160637/Iran-always-defends-unity-resistance-of-Palestinians

China ready to work with Iran for progressing practical coop
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that his country is ready to work with the Islamic Republic of Iran to make progress in practical cooperation.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160640/China-ready-to-work-with-Iran-for-progressing-practical-coop

'The World's Last House' to go on screen at Riurau Filmfest
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Iranian short piece 'The World's Last House', by Amir Gholami will take part in the 9th Riurau Film Festival in Spain.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160607/The-World-s-Last-House-to-go-on-screen-at-Riurau-Filmfest

Azerbaijan rejects rumors its airspace used to attack Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Azerbaijan has dismissed the rumors on the use of its airspace by unknown military aircraft to deliver airstrikes on Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160621/Azerbaijan-rejects-rumors-its-airspace-used-to-attack-Iran

Border Guards first defensive stronghold of country: cmdr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 07 (MNA) — The commander of IRGC Ground Force, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said on Monday that Border Guards are the first defensive stronghold of the country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160627/Border-Guards-first-defensive-stronghold-of-country-cmdr

Special 'coronavirus' ward in Hajar Hospital, Tehran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — With the onset of the second wave of coronavirus in the country, nurses and doctors at Hajar Hospital in Tehran are offering high-quality medical services to patients round-the-clock.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160613/Special-coronavirus-ward-in-Hajar-Hospital-Tehran

Russia opposes launch of JCPOA's 'dispute resolution'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-06
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — A senior Russian diplomat said that the launch of dispute resolution mechanism in JCPOA is not a good idea.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160622/Russia-opposes-launch-of-JCPOA-s-dispute-resolution

Statue for black abolitionist Frederick Douglass in NY state beyond repair after it was ripped down by vandals (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-06
A statue for Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became a prominent civil rights advocate, has been torn down from its pedestal in Rochester, New York. The damage to the monument is reportedly too significant to repair. | The statue was vandalized over the July 4th weekend, Rochester police told local media on Sunday. | Photos from the scene show an empty spot where the statue used to stand in Maplewood Park, as well as its debris scattered in the vicinity. The statue was lying 50 feet from its pedestal when officers found it. | The base of a Frederick Douglass statue torn down overnight here in Maplewood P…
rt.com/usa/493881-fredirick-douglass-statue-vandalized/

'Get a noose': Alleged attempted lynching investigated in Indiana (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-07-06
Officers with Indiana's Department of Natural Resources are investigating an alleged lynching attempt directed at a black man over the weekend, after multiple videos of the incident surfaced online. | Vauhxx Booker from Bloomington claims that on July 4 he was attacked by five white men while walking in a wooded area near Lake Monroe, simply because he's black and they were "looking to provoke a conflict." | "Get a noose," Booker alleges he heard one of them say after the men set upon him. | www.facebook.com/vauhxx/posts/10222147157086001 | At least three eyewitness videos have surfaced of the inciden…
rt.com/usa/493974-attempted-lynching-indiana-bloomington/

Statue for black abolitionist Frederick Douglass in NY state beyond repair after ripped down by vandals (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-06
A statue for Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became a prominent civil rights advocate, has been torn down from its pedestal in Rochester, New York state. The damage to the monument is reportedly too significant to fix it. | The statue was vandalized over the July 4th weekend, Rochester police told local media on Sunday. | Photos from the scene show an empty spot where the statue used to stand in Maplewood Park, as well as its debris scattered in the vicinity. The statue was lying some 50 feet from its pedestal, when officers found it. | The base of a Frederick Douglass statue torn down overnight here in…
rt.com/usa/493881-fredirick-douglass-statue-vandalized/

Statue for black abolitionist Frederick Douglass in NY state beyond repair after it was ripped down by vandals (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-06
A statue for Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became a prominent civil rights advocate, has been torn down from its pedestal in Rochester, New York. The damage to the monument is reportedly too significant to repair. | The statue was vandalized over the July 4th weekend, Rochester police told local media on Sunday. | Photos from the scene show an empty spot where the statue used to stand in Maplewood Park, as well as its debris scattered in the vicinity. The statue was lying 50 feet from its pedestal when officers found it. | The base of a Frederick Douglass statue torn down overnight here in Maplewood P…
rt.com/usa/493881-fredirick-douglass-statue-vandalized/

Country music legend Charlie Daniels dies at 83
rt.com | 2020-07-06
'Devil Went Down to Georgia' singer Charlie Daniels has died at 83 after suffering a stroke. Messages of love for the man's music and his political activism, especially against Hillary Clinton, have been flooding social media. | Don Murry Grubbs, the publicist for Daniels, confirmed the passing on Monday. The country singer is survived by his wife, Hazel, and son, Charlie Daniels Jr. He passed away at the Summit Medical Center in Hermitage, Tennessee. | Daniels was best known for his 1979 hit 'Devil Went Down to Georgia,' which he continued to play at concert venues. Before that early hit, however, the skilled…
rt.com/usa/493969-charlie-daniels-dead-benghazi/

Team GB sprinter 'considering legal action against Met' after stop and search
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-06
A Team GB sprinter is considering legal action against the Metropolitan Police after accusing officers of racially profiling her and her partner in a stop and search. | Commonwealth Games gold medallist Bianca Williams and her partner, Ricardo dos Santos, a Portuguese 400m sprinter, were stopped in west London on Saturday. | Williams, whose three-month-old son was in the car during the incident, called it an "awful experience" and believes the couple were targeted because they are black and drive a Mercedes. | "They (the officers) said there's a lot of youth violence and stabbings in the area and that the car loo…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/06/team-gb-sprinter-considering-legal-action-against-met-after-stop-and-search/

Asylum seekers in Glasgow 'malnourished with food not fit for human consumption'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-06
Dozens of asylum seekers in Glasgow are "malnourished with food not fit for human consumption", according to a charity supporting them.Positive Action In Housing (PAIH) has rallied around refugees in the city after Badreddin Abadlla Adam's attack at the Park Inn Hotel on West George Street.Officers shot the 28-year-old from Sudan after six people were injured in the incident on 26 June.The hotel was housing asylum seekers at the time. But campaign groups criticised the Mears Group, which the Home Office has subcontracted to carry out this process during the coronavirus pandemic.Badreddin Abadlla Adam died after b…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/06/asylum-seekers-in-glasgow-malnourished-with-food-not-fit-for-human-consumption/

Government accused of confusing holidaymakers over travel lists
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-06
Only 25 countries on government lists aimed at restarting foreign holidays are accessible for English visitors, according to new analysis. | Last week, the Department for Transport (DfT) named 74 countries and territories from where people will not need to quarantine if they return to or visit England from Friday. | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) published a separate list of 67 destinations which are exempt from its advisory against all non-essential travel. | But analysis by travel consultancy The PC Agency and consumer research agency AudienceNet found that just 25 locations included on the lists do…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/06/government-accused-of-confusing-holidaymakers-over-travel-lists/

Harry and Meghan say past wrongs of Commonwealth need to be acknowledged
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-06
The duke and duchess of Sussex warned that the Commonwealth's past wrongs need to be acknowledged in order to move forward, as they joined a discussion on justice and equal rights.Harry and Meghan both took part in the video call with young leaders in one of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust's (QCT) weekly sessions set up in response to the growing Black Lives Matter movement.The Commonwealth's past mistakes: The duke, whose grandmother the Queen is head of the Commonwealth, last week outlined his personal commitment to tackling institutional racism. Harry said: When you look across the Commonwealth, there is…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/06/harry-and-meghan-say-past-wrongs-of-commonwealth-need-to-be-acknowledged/

Boohoo to investigate alleged illegal practices at Leicester supplier
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-06
Online fashion giant Boohoo has said it will investigate alleged illegal practices at a supplier in Leicester after reports that staff were being paid less than minimum wage to work in poor conditions. | The fast-fashion retailer told investors on Monday that it will end relationships with any supplier it finds to have broken its code of conduct. | Shares in Boohoo sank in early trading as investors and traders digested a report from the Sunday Times which said workers in a Leicester factory making clothes destined for Boohoo were being paid as little as £3.50 an hour. | The report said the factory, which d…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/06/boohoo-to-investigate-alleged-illegal-practices-at-leicester-supplier/

£1.57bn support package 'shows important role arts will play in recovery'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-06
The government's £1.57bn support package for the arts is an acknowledgement that they have an "important" role to play in the nation's recovery, a theatre boss has said.Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of the Young Vic, told Times Radio that he and his colleagues are "relieved".The move has also been welcomed by the Tate, the Science Museum Group, the National Gallery and the Royal Shakespeare Company. | Kwei-Armah added: "When we heard last night, we slept for the first time since March."It is a real vindication that we have been listened to and that the government understands that we were dying on our…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/06/1-57bn-support-package-shows-important-role-arts-will-play-in-recovery/

PM wants driverless trains to be condition of future TfL bailout
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-06
Boris Johnson has said driverless trains should be a condition of a future bailout of Transport for London (TfL). | The government has given TfL a £1.6bn package to continue running services after a collapse in revenue in May 2020 due to the coronavirus lockdown. But that funding will run out in September 2020. | "Let's not be the prisoners of the unions": | On a visit to a site in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, where tech giant Siemens will open a rail manufacturing facility in 2022, Boris Johnson told reporters: You can run these trains without the need for somebody to be sitting in the driver's…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/06/pm-wants-driverless-trains-to-be-condition-of-future-tfl-bailout/

San Geronimo Valley Joins BLM
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
Quiet valley wakes up to Black Lives Matter…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834902.php

US Senate poised to pass National Juneteenth Holiday Bill S.4019
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
Since that final summer military campaign in Texas beginning June 18, 1865, people of Pan African Ancestry throughout the Diaspora have always celebrated Juneteenth in a big way.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834899.php

Wednesday 7/8: Policing Without the Police: Race, Technology and the New Jim Code
Haymarket Books | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834898.php

Thursday 7/9: COVID19 Pandemic & Its Hightened Impact on Latino Community
The Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/06/18834927.php

Assembling for Equity on the Fourth of July
Independence Day has Not Arrived | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
In late June the call went out to assemble in San Francisco for equity on the fourth of July, traditionally known as Independence Day. People said that America's Independence Day will have no value for them without significant social and economic changes. Some expressed it by saying "Independence Day has not arrived."
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834862.php

Thursday 7/9: Saving Life On Earth: Discussion on Contraception, Consumption and Conservation
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834896.php

"This Land is Your Land," by Woody Guthrie, performed by the Oakland Symphony
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
The Oakland Symphony Performing In The Midst Of The Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic Raging Across Our Nation!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/04/18834859.php

Thursday 7/9: How White Supremacy Built Wall Street (webinar)
SMPTWS | indybay.org | 2020-07-06
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/06/18834926.php

Netherlands 'Justice' Is Totally Corrupt: MH17 Case as Example
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-06
On Friday, July 3rd, the judge in the Netherlands court case against Russia as having fired a Buk missile that brought down the Malaysian Airlines plane that Ukrainian Air Traffic Control had instructed to fly over Ukraine's civil-war zone on 17 July 2014 ruled out any consideration of evidence from Russia.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/06/netherlands-justice-is-totally-corrupt-mh17-case-as-example/

How We Got Here: the Global Economy's 75-Year Stumble to the Precipice
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-06
Charles Hugh SMITH | Not only will there not be a recovery, but there can't be a recovery, as those brittle extremes have been lost for good. | How did the global economy end up teetering on a precarious financial precipice? To formulate a cogent answer, let's take a whirlwind tour of the history of the global economy 1946-2020. | Before we start the tour, I want to return briefly to my first Musings of the year, which was posted on January 4, 2020, before Covid-19 was officially announced on January 23, 2020. (The Musings Reports are sent weekly to patrons and subscribers at the $5/month or higher level.) | Inst…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/06/how-we-got-here-global-economy-75-year-stumble-to-precipice/

American Dreams of Relocating to New Zealand Soared as Nations Diverged on Covid-19 Response
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
Facing a president who continues to deny that the coronavirus pandemic is a major public health emergency and a federal government which has been reticent to offer robust economic relief to families, tens of thousands of Americans are looking to New Zealand as a potential escape plan. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1211049323_1_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/07/06/american-dreams-relocating-new-zealand-soared-nations-diverged-covid-19-response?cd-origin=rss

Fears of Going 'Through Hell Again' as US Covid Infection Rate Hits Record High for 27th Straight Day
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
"With American lives on the line, the question now is whether members of the Republican Party will continue to stand by in silence as the President peddles fiction about a deadly virus." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/mask.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/07/06/fears-going-through-hell-again-us-covid-infection-rate-hits-record-high-27th?cd-origin=rss

As Covid-19 Crisis Continues, UNEP and Global Partners Release 10-Point Plan to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide neared 11.5 million on Monday and the death toll topped 535,000, a new United Nations report detailed trends in human activity that are driving the emergence of zoonotic diseases and offered steps countries can take to prevent future pandemics. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/fruit_bats.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/07/06/covid-19-crisis-continues-unep-and-global-partners-release-10-point-plan-prevent?cd-origin=rss

'To Stand Up for What Is Morally Right': Progressive Insurgent Dr. Arati Kreibich Makes Case to Voters Before Tuesday's NJ Primary
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-06
"Our grassroots campaign has put in the work to talk to voters about why we need real change in this election." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/2.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/07/06/stand-what-morally-right-progressive-insurgent-dr-arati-kreibich-makes-case-voters?cd-origin=rss

Will the ICC Investigation Bring Justice for Palestine?
Triestino Mariniello | zcomm.org | 2020-07-05
Will the US succeed, once more, in blocking another international investigation?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/will-the-icc-investigation-bring-justice-for-palestine/

Palestine, Annexation and the Wrong Story
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
The other night I watched PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff. The report on the annexation (do I need to qualify or explain "annexation"? What other country has or is likely ever to declare its impending annexation of someone else's land …
globalresearch.ca/palestine-annexation-wrong-story/5717794

As 'Annexation' Looms, Let's Expand Our Compassion to Include Palestinians
David Hart | commondreams.org | 2020-07-05
A demonstrator holds up a sign during an anti-annexation protest in Tel Aviv on June 6th, 2020. (Photo: Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/palestine-wecantbreath-955px.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/07/05/annexation-looms-lets-expand-our-compassion-include-palestinians?cd-origin=rss

House Democrats Restrict Trump's Planned Withdrawal of Troops
Glenn Greenwald | zcomm.org | 2020-07-05
It should come as absolutely no surprise that House Democrats are finding common cause with Liz Cheney and other GOP warmongers to block any efforts to reduce even moderately the footprint of the U.S. military in the world or its decades-long posture of endless war…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/house-democrats-restrict-trumps-planned-withdrawal-of-troops/

The Unthinkable: Is a US-China War Possible? US War Ships in the South China Sea. A New Era of "Great Power Competition"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
The US is waging undeclared war on China by other means — aiming to undermine its growing prominence on the world stage. | Pompeo falsely calling China's new national security law "an affront to all nations," his endless war of words …
globalresearch.ca/us-china-war-possible/5717783

Is Washington Provoking India into a War with China?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a recent video conference suggested that the US might move some of its troops from Germany to the region around India, citing growing US security concerns in the Asian region. Given the dramatic …
globalresearch.ca/washington-provoking-india-war-china/5717789

Protesters Attacked by Police Are Suing to Vindicate Their Constitutional Rights
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2020-07-05
Researchers found not one police department in the 20 largest U.S. cities in compliance with minimum human rights standards.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/protesters-attacked-by-police-are-suing-to-vindicate-their-constitutional-rights/

Marxism is a humanism
T.P. Wilkinson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-05
It is many years ago that Jean-Paul Sartre wrote an essay, which was, in fact, the preface to his magnum opus, The Critique of Dialectical Reason, the title of which was "The Search for Method". A significant transformation from his critique of Heidegger, Being and Nothingness, Sartre attempted to liberate European Marxism from its captivity …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/marxism-is-a-humanism/

Video: String of ISIS Attacks Continues in Syrian Desert
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
Since the start of the week, the Syrian Army has repelled several ISIS attacks on its positions in the desert in central Syria. | The most recent attack took place in eastern Homs early on July 2 and became the largest …
globalresearch.ca/video-isis-attacks-continues-syrian-desert/5717763

Tampa protesters march to get charges dropped, community control of the police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-05
Tampa, FL – On the evening of July 3, 50 members of the community marched through downtown Tampa to demand that local State Attorney Andrew Warren drop charges on protesters arrested during the Justice for George Floyd movement. Many protesters from events over the past several weeks in Tampa face charges like unlawful assembly and inciting a riot, both of which have been commonly used by police across the country to repress activists. The organizers of the march and protest, Tampa Bay Community Action Committee (TBCAC), previously had a similar event after which 67 protesters had their cases dismissed. They say…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/5/tampa-protesters-march-get-charges-dropped-community-control-police

In Memoriam: Dr.Howard Croft 1941 — 2020
Various Contributors | zcomm.org | 2020-07-05
Members and activists who have long memories of his tireless work for empowerment of all residents of the District of Columbia contribute their recollections…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/in-memoriam-dr-howard-croft-1941-2020/

Israeli Forces Injure Six Palestinians in Nablus
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-05
Six Palestinians were injured, on Friday, when Israeli forces attacked a peaceful protest, in the village of Asira ash-Shamaliya, north of Nablus, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Dozens of protesters gathered for the Friday prayer, near the northern West Bank village, to protest the Israeli threat of confiscation. Israeli …
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Protest exposes Albuquerque's covered up police killings
Chris Banks | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-05
Dominic Smith, Orlando Abeyta, Valente Acosta-Bustillos. These are names you have probably never heard of.
liberationnews.org/protest-exposes-albuquerques-covered-up-police-killings/

Florida State students protest to take down statue of slave-owner
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-05
Tallahassee, FL – On July 4, over 70 students protested in front of the Westcott administration building at Florida State University to demand the removal of the statue of Francis Eppes, a large Leon County slave-owner who had funded the Confederacy. The protest was called by Tallahassee Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who also issued demands for the removal of Eppes from the criminology building and segregationist Doak Campbell from the stadium. | Students, holding signs reading, "No slave-owners on campus" and "Eppes must fall," marched to the new location of the Eppes statue. An American flag was drap…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/5/florida-state-students-protest-take-down-statue-slave-owner

We Need a New National Anthem
Ed Ciaccio | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-05
As we celebrate the 244th anniversary of our nation's Declaration of Independence, in the midst of demonstrations and protests against systemic racism and police brutality of African-Americans, it is time to consider replacing our national anthem with one more suitable to the values and priorities of the United States in 2020. There are many important …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/we-need-a-new-national-anthem/

Trump Regime Wants Legitimate Iranian Fuel Shipments to Venezuela Seized
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
No nation in world history more strongly professes support for democratic values and the rule of law while more egregiously breaching its proclaimed principles than the US. | It's been this way throughout the country's history, fleeting moments alone when positive …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-wants-legitimate-iranian-fuel-shipments-venezuela-seized/5717786

Riot declared in Portland for THIRD night this week as protesters besiege federal courthouse
rt.com | 2020-07-05
Portland police used tear gas against protesters who had erected barricades and shot fireworks at the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in the city. Friday was the third riot in Portland this week. | Several hundred activists marched on Friday evening into the streets around the courthouse in downtown Portland, bearing makeshift shields and diverse materials they used to erect some barricades, police said. | In the early hours of Saturday, the situation became increasingly volatile, with Portland police declaring a riot at around 4am local time. Officers deployed tear gas and pushed the protesters away from the cour…
rt.com/usa/493842-portland-third-riot-week-courthouse/

San Quentin Inmates On Hunger Strike
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-05
Several men incarcerated in California's San Quentin State Prison who have tested positive for COVID-19 have gone on a hunger strike to protest what they call "dismal" living conditions, KNTV in San Jose reported Wednesday. | More than 1,100 active coronavirus cases have been reported at San Quentin, California's oldest prison and home to the state's only death row. At least one person, a 71-year-old death row inmate, has died of complications from the coronavirus. | The hunger strike at San Quentin, north of San Francisco, began Monday, The Appeal reported. The strikers are protesting inhumane and cramped condit…
popularresistance.org/san-quentin-inmates-on-hunger-strike/

The Truth About Russian-Taliban Ties
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-05
The New York Times' latest fake news provocation alleging that Russia's military-intelligence agency GRU solicited the Taliban (officially designated as "terrorists" by Moscow) to assassinate American soldiers in Afghanistan has brought a lot of attention to Moscow's ties with the militant group. The truth, however, is just as intriguing than the fake news about them. On the surface, it's surprising enough that Russia has diplomatic contacts with the Taliban considering that the latter grew out of the 1980s Mujahiddin that defeated the USSR. | Casual observers could be forgiven for thinking that Russia still hold…
popularresistance.org/the-truth-about-russian-taliban-ties/

Facebook Groups Pivot To Attacks On Black Lives Matter
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-05
A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests of racial injustice. | These groups, which now boast a collective audience of more than 1 million members, are still thriving after most states started lifting virus restrictions. | And many have expanded their focus. | One group transformed itself last month from "Reopen California" to "California Patriots Pro Law…
popularresistance.org/facebook-groups-pivot-to-attacks-on-black-lives-matter/

Virus outbreak in Hebron 'out of control': Palestine
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila has described the coronavirus outbreak in the West Bank city of Hebron as "out of control".Speaking in an interview with Palestine TV, al-Kaila said 173 virus infections were registered in Hebron on Saturday.The health minister is set to visit the city on Sunday to check on the health situation there.According to the minister, 50 Palestinian medics have so far contracted the virus.As the cases continue to surge, al-Kaila expected that the Palestinian government would extend a lockdown imposed in the territories for five more days to stem the spread of the pandemic.On Wedne…
yenisafak.com/en/world/virus-outbreak-in-hebron-out-of-control-palestine-3533734

VIDEO: Iraqi nation protest Saudi's insult to Ayat. Sistani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Hundreds of Iraqi people gathered in front of Saudi Arabia's embassy in Baghdad on Sunday to protest against a cartoon published in Asharq al-Awsat that has insulted Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sistani.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160574/VIDEO-Iraqi-nation-protest-Saudi-s-insult-to-Ayat-Sistani

VIDEO: Protesters topple statue of Christopher Columbus in US
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Protesters against racial discrimination in the US have torn down a statue of Christopher Columbus in a park in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160575/VIDEO-Protesters-topple-statue-of-Christopher-Columbus-in-US

VIDEO: Protestors burn US flag outside White House
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — protesters burned an American flag near the White House on July 4, chanting "America was never great," just moments after President Donald Trump finished delivering a speech on the occasion of the US Independence Day.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160553/VIDEO-Protestors-burn-US-flag-outside-White-House

Baghdad to turn to UNSC to protest Turkey's attack
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Referring to the recent Turkish attacks on northern the country, Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman said that it is possible for Baghdad to turn to the Security Council to protest Turkey's attacks on its territory.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160556/Baghdad-to-turn-to-UNSC-to-protest-Turkey-s-attack

'F*ck the American flag': WATCH BLM protesters stomp on & BURN US flag outside White House (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-07-05
A group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, DC, has marked July 4th by trampling the American flag before setting it on fire, while arguing that the US state symbol represents "slavery, genocide and war." | Footage that shows protesters mocking the US flag began making rounds online on Saturday evening. | | © REUTERS/Leah Millis | One of the videos, filmed at a square outside the White House, an area which was officially named 'Black Lives Matter Plaza' in wake of the protests, shows a young black woman dancing on the American flag sprawled on the ground, as another female protester with a m…
rt.com/usa/493840-american-flag-burning-protesters/

'F**k the American flag': WATCH BLM protesters stomp on & BURN US flag outside White House (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-07-05
A group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington DC marked July 4 by trampling on the American flag before setting it on fire, arguing that the US state symbol represents "slavery, genocide and war." | Footage showing protesters mocking the US flag began making the rounds online on Saturday evening. | | © REUTERS/Leah Millis | One of the videos, filmed at a square outside the White House that was officially named 'Black Lives Matter Plaza' in the wake of the protests, shows a young black woman dancing on the American flag, as another female protester with a megaphone in her hand can be heard shout…
rt.com/usa/493840-american-flag-burning-protesters/

Friday 7/10: Reforming the Cops: A Discussion on Movement Demands to Rein in the Police
Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
This discussion will be held on Zoom. | Register at http: //tiny.cc/July-10-mtg…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/04/18834861.php

Sunday 7/5: What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
ZOOM meeting, log-in info at | icssmarx.org…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/04/18834860.php

ICE Out Of Marin Action at Marin County Jail
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
Activists demand County end cooperation with ICE and defunding of Sherriff's department.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/04/18834835.php

'We're in your house': Armed black protesters march through Georgia Confederate park
rt.com | 2020-07-05
Scores of armed black protesters marched through Stone Mountain Park in Georgia, calling for the removal of an infamous Confederate monument and warning "redneck" militias that "we're in your house." | Footage from the march, which brought out 100 to 200 demonstrators, showed heavily-armed black protesters marching through the park on Independence Day, leading some on social media to react with worry at what appeared to be a volatile situation as protests across the country have descended into violence. | "Threat. Counter threat. Because threats don't mean s**t to us. Ya'll been threatening us since Birmingham…
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Christopher Columbus statue toppled in Baltimore amid Black Lives Matter protests
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-05
Protesters in Baltimore pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the city's Inner Harbour. They used ropes to topple the statue on 4 July near the Little Italy neighbourhood, news outlets reported. | Protesters mobilised by the Black Lives Matter movement and the police killing of George Floyd have called for the removal of statues of Columbus, Confederate figures and others. They say the Italian explorer is responsible for the genocide and exploitation of Indigenous peoples in the Americas. | According to the Baltimore Sun, the city owned the statue. It was dedicated in 1984 by former mayor…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/07/05/christopher-columbus-statue-toppled-in-baltimore-amid-black-lives-matter-protests/

Woman struck by car during Seattle protest dies in hospital
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-05
A car drove onto a closed road and ploughed into people in a Black Lives Matter protest in Seattle on Saturday 4 July. The driver killed one protester and critically injured the other, authorities have said.Summer Taylor, 24, of Seattle died in the evening at Harborview Medical Centre, spokesperson Susan Gregg said.Officials said the car barrelled through a panicked crowd of protesters on Interstate 5 (I-5) in the early hours of 4 July, hitting Taylor along with Diaz Love, 32, of Portland.Video footage: Dawit Kelete of Seattle drove the car around vehicles that were blocking the I-5 and sped into the crowd…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/07/05/woman-struck-by-car-during-seattle-protest-dies-in-hospital/

Anti-Fourth Celebration in Santa Cruz
Alex Darocy | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
To celebrate the holiday weekend without glorifying genocide, slavery and the settler state, community members in Santa Cruz organized a block party on July 4 at the Town Clock, which was followed by a protest march. An online post promoting the street party read: "This event is open to all members of the community who do not want to celebrate the foundations of this country being on stolen land. This is a space to share food, community and acknowledge the truth. We are choosing to honor those who have suffered genocide by the American government. This day is a sanitized holiday to erase indigenous nations and a…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834879.php

Remember "Bloody Thursday" & Stop Racist Graffiti At SSA! Press Conf At Port Of Oakland
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
ILWU Local 34, ILWU Local 34 and ILWU IBU Bay Area members held a press conference on July 3, 2020 to protest Ku Klux Klan racist graffiti put up at the SSA terminal following the Juneteenth | Action. They also announced plans for commemoration of July 5, 2020 "Bloody Thursday" at the SSA Terminal…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/03/18834830.php

COVID-19: virus strain dominant worldwide is different from original in Wuhan
Sandipan Talukdar | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-05
According to a publication in Cell, the strain, which is named D614G, is a result of point mutation of the original strain. However, it is not associated with disease severity…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/05/covid-19-virus-strain-dominant-worldwide-is-different-from-original-in-wuhan/

Israeli Settlers Invade Town near Jenin, Threaten Palestinians near Hebron
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-05
Illegal Israeli settlers, Friday night, stormed areas south of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said the invasion prompted confrontations between Palestinian civilians who resisted the invasion, and illegal settlers who were protected by soldiers. Israeli forces provided cover for the colonists …
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'Completely Out of Control': China Says 'US Epidemic' Threat to Rest of the World
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-07-05
'In the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more countries and regions will be forced to suffer because of the US.' | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/florida-new-infections-07042020-955px.jpg …
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Hitler's Ideologues: The U.S. Racism that Bore Fruit in Mein Kampf
Jorge Majfud | commondreams.org | 2020-07-05
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Crapped out on the Delayed Postage Front
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-05
Barney came walking back into the living room from his kitchen holding a sandwich baggie and a bottle of cheap scotch. "I'm gonna teach that fuckin' post office a thing or two about losin' peoples unemployment checks," he announced. He took a pull off the bottle and his entire body trembled as he swallowed. I …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/crapped-out-on-the-delayed-postage-front/

CIA Information Warfare Succeeds: Occupation of Afghanistan Forced to Continue, Trump's Real Crimes in Afghanistan Ignored
Ben Barbour | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
On July 1st the House Armed Services Committee voted to hinder Donald Trump's ability to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. House Democrats on the committee teamed up with Republicans, including Liz Cheney (daughter of war-architect Dick Cheney), to pass …
globalresearch.ca/cia-information-warfare-succeeds-occupation-afghanistan-continue-real-crimes-afghanistan-ignored/5717797

A Statue of Hatuey
Don Fitz | zcomm.org | 2020-07-05
It is critical to realize that statues which go up are at least as important as the ones that come down. Perhaps the best nominee for a new statue is Hatuey…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-statue-of-hatuey/

How Ottawa is Driving Up the Cost of Infrastructure by Listening to Wall Street
Linda McQuaig | commondreams.org | 2020-07-05
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House February 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump-trudeau-955px_0.jpg …
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US Builds New Air Base in Syria
Press TV | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-05
The United States has built a new military base, including an airport for military aircraft, for its occupying forces in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah. Local sources told Syria's state news agency SANA on Wednesday that the new base and its airport had been established in Jazira Region, located between Um Kahif Village and Tal …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/us-builds-new-air-base-in-syria/

Netherlands 'Justice' Is Totally Corrupt: The Malaysian MH17 Court Case against Russia
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
On Friday, July 3rd, the judge in the Netherlands court case against Russia as having fired a Buk missile that brought down the Malaysian Airlines plane that Ukrainian Air Traffic Control had instructed to fly over Ukraine's civil-war zone on …
globalresearch.ca/netherlands-justice-corrupt-mh17-case/5717777

Moore's Planet of the Humans: More Misanthropic than Malthus
Roger D. Harris | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-05
In reverential tones with ominous background music, director of Planet of the Humans Jeff Gibbs intones about "the most terrifying realization I ever had." Gibbs instructs us, "Every expert I talked to wanted to bring my attention to the same underlying problem." It is "not the elephant but the herd of elephants in the room," …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/moores-planet-of-the-humans-more-misanthropic-than-malthus/

New Illegal Israeli Settlement Units Announced in Bethlehem
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-07-05
The so-called Israeli settlement council in the West Bank, announced on Sunday a new colonial illegal settlement project, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Chief for the Palestinian file for illegal colonial Israeli settlement in the Bethlehem city, Hassan Brega, confirmed earlier today that the so-called Israeli settlement council, …
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The US Military Has Its Knee on the Throat of the World
Ellen Taylor | zcomm.org | 2020-07-05
We must vanquish this shape-shifting, Orwellian spectre with which our overlords ensnare us, with their lies of "they hate our freedoms". Defund the Pentagon…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-us-military-has-its-knee-on-the-throat-of-the-world/

Scotland Could Place English in Quarantine as Independence Debate Heats Up
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
There's no doubt that Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has had a better pandemic than her English counterpart. Sturgeon's ratings have been consistently high throughout the crisis, with one survey revealing recently that 82% of people think she has handled it …
globalresearch.ca/scotland-could-place-english-quarantine-independence-debate-heats-up/5717753

Break Gilead's patent since US has bought all stock of Remdesivir
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-05
Trump is trying to improve his waning electoral chances by reserving all of Gilead's stock of Remdesivir to cover up his disastrous handling of the Covid-19 epidemic so far…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/05/break-gileads-patent-since-us-has-bought-all-stock-of-remdesivir/

Co Dependence Day. Voting will Not Solve Anything. Furthering Demand for Real Change in America
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
They'll be shooting off the fireworks, eating and drinking like ' Ants at a picnic' and sending 'Social Distancing' out the window. Why not? It's July 4th once again, a time to celebrate. Celebrate what? This pandemic is showing its …
globalresearch.ca/co-dependence-day-voting-will-not-solve-anything-furthering-demand-for-real-change-in-america/5717780

Israeli Troops Abduct a Palestinian Student in Ramallah
IMEMC Staff | imemc.org | 2020-07-05
Israeli troops abducted early on Sunday a Palestinian university student in the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israel soldiers, stationed on a mobile military roadblock, near the Khan Alahmar neighborhood, mainly on the Ramallah-Jericho street, intercepted student Majdy Abuzaid, 20, before they …
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The Racist Underpinnings of the American Way of War
Walden Bello | zcomm.org | 2020-07-05
The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country's wars…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-racist-underpinnings-of-the-american-way-of-war/

Benjamin Franklin and the International Dimensions of 1776. How an Age of Reason Was Subverted
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
This July 4th, a larger-than-usual shadow is cast upon America which has come face-to-face with some serious historic reckonings. While the existence of an oligarchy and international "deep state" should not be ignored as a political force of …
globalresearch.ca/international-dimensions-1776-how-age-reason-subverted/5717773

White Men in Suits, Original Sin, and Rumplestiltskin
Robert Shetterly | commondreams.org | 2020-07-05
The millers daughter happens upon the imp dancing around his fire in the forest while he is chanting his name, Rumplestiltskin. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/rumpelstiltskin_dances_around_fire-955px.jpg …
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The World Is Burning and Canada Will Not Extinguish It
Tyler Shipley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
It's hard to find things to celebrate right now. Between a dangerous virus and the dangerous police, the news cycle is even darker than usual. This week, Justin Trudeau and the Canadian establishment will try to interrupt that cycle and …
globalresearch.ca/world-burning-canada-will-not-extinguish/5717757

Video: Germany's Extra-parliamentary Inquiry on COVID-19
ACU | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
Dear fellow citizens, | Welcome to the ACU, the Extra-Parliamentary Corona Investigation Committee. If the Parliament does not do it, then we citizens are called upon to do it ourselves. | Extra-parliamentary Corona Committee of Inquiry, we will investigate why these …
globalresearch.ca/video-german-extra-parliamentary-inquiry-covid-19/5717766

Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure Seven Palestinians in Abu Dis
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-05
Israeli forces, on Friday evening, injured 23 Palestinians during an invasion into the town of Abu Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS). Soldiers stormed Abu Dis town, which elicited resistance among the local Palestinian civilians. The army used live rounds, rubber-coated steel rounds …
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Gil Scott-Heron spells out why "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-05
Consider the power that networks like Fox and CNN continue to wield over that nebulous thing called public opinion; the continued dominance of NBC and CBS.
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Next Steps in the Anti-Racist Struggle?
Gord Doctorow | zcomm.org | 2020-07-05
We need to make important and unifying decisions toward a just transition. And then we need to act…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/next-steps-in-the-anti-racist-struggle/

India should not be a pawn in US imperialist efforts against China
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-05
India and China are two sovereign and independent countries with their own set of strengths and problems. They need to sit and talk to resolve their issues on their own…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/05/india-should-not-be-a-pawn-in-us-imperialist-efforts-against-china/

Government of, for and by Everyone, Equally
Paul Larudee | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-05
Read Part I, Part II, and Part III. The US is ruled by a private club of a few hundred oligarchs and corporations. An uprising aimed at the police cannot succeed without taking economic and political power away from this club and redistributing it among the poor and disenfranchised, especially Blacks and Indigenous members of …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/government-of-for-and-by-everyone-equally/

Tracy Chapman — Talkin' About A Revolution (Official Music Video)
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-05
mronline.org/2020/07/05/tracy-chapman-talkin-about-a-revolution-official-music-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tracy-chapman-talkin-about-a-revolution-official-music-video

The Democrats' Disastrous, Militarist Climate Plan
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-05
Don't believe for a minute that the Democrats climate plan even means what it says. Its solutions include disastrous scams like "biofuels" and nuclear energy. It proposes no fundamental change in lifestyle, no reduction in personal consumption, and no halt or reduction in eating meat (but renewable energy production on land used for livestock, so that the same land can mitigate the unacknowledged damage it is doing). It offers no proposed federal budget with any major moving of the money to where it's needed, and no plan to extract any resources from billionaires and corporate giants. | This plan has been critici…
popularresistance.org/the-democrats-disastrous-militarist-climate-plan/

Iranian animation to go on screen at Venzuela's film festival
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) — Iran's animated short title 'I'm not Alice but here is Wonderland' will be screened at Five Continents International Film Festival in Venezuela.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160561/Iranian-animation-to-go-on-screen-at-Venzuela-s-film-festival

The Democrats' New Climate Plan: Improved But Weirdly Isolationist
Kate Aronoff | zcomm.org | 2020-07-05
Shaped by mass demand, Congressional Democrats' June 30th report on the climate crisis is a welcome improvement. But, in addition to its weak response to fossil fuel expansion, the report adopts an America First strategy to solve a global problem.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-democrats-new-climate-plan-improved-but-weirdly-isolationist/

Igbo Women Seek Biafra, Voice Nigeria's Bleak Future
Marie Okwo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
Nigeria is one of the largest by territory with population (estimated currently at 206 million) and huge economy in Africa. Situated on the southern coast on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, this country most often referred to …
globalresearch.ca/igbo-women-seek-biafra-voice-nigeria-bleak-future/5717759

Churchill, Columbus And Leopold All Fall Down
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-05
The perpetrators of crimes against humanity are often elevated to positions of respect and admiration. It all depends on who did the killing, and who was killed. Now the murderers are being called to account. The new movement in the United States against police and other state violence has inspired this welcome change taking place all over the world. The criminals are being exposed decades and even centuries after their atrocities took place. There is no statute of limitations for murder nor should there be for calling out people who have the blood of millions on their hands. The hand wringing over monument remov…
popularresistance.org/churchill-columbus-and-leopold-all-fall-down/

The Return Of The Anti-Antiwar Left
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-05
In the writings of Dreyfuss, The New York Times' Michelle Goldberg, Mother Jones' David Corn, The Atlantic's Franklin Foer, New York magazine's resident dolt Jonathan Chait, and many more besides, we can see the emergence of the anti-anti-Cold War Left, there has also reemerged alongside it the very vocal and ravenously unscrupulous anti-antiwar Left. And it is on the issue of the Syrian war on which the anti-antiwar Left has coalesced, inexplicably arguing for the wholesale takeover of a secular police state by the very same Islamist radicals who, if given the chance, would turn around and immediately kill them…
popularresistance.org/the-return-of-the-anti-antiwar-left/

On Contact: Patriotism And Dissent With Danny Sjursen
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-05
Former Army Major Danny Sjursen, a frequent contributor to Popular Resistance, urges people to consider themselves citizens of humanity and not of a nation. Sjursen is the author of "Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War" where he defines patriotism as wanting the country to live up to its aspirations, that dissents from the United States when it is wrong. When a country becomes an empire, Sjursen says it is our patriotic duty to dissent. Sjursen discusses three types of patriotism. Principled participatory patriotism takes the same sense of duty to urge the United States to become a better place t…
popularresistance.org/on-contact-patriotism-and-dissent-with-danny-sjursen/

Time To Rethink The US-ROK Alliance
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-05
Perhaps it's time for South Korea, then, to assert more independence and become a master of its own fate. Above all, that will require a reconsideration of the military alliance with the United States. | From a military point of view, South Korea doesn't need the presence of U.S. troops on the peninsula. They serve a largely symbolic function as a concrete sign of U.S. commitment. At some point, after the resolution of ongoing negotiations, South Korea will assume full operational control of military forces. After years of arms imports, South Korea's hardware advantage gives it a vast military superiority over th…
popularresistance.org/time-to-rethink-the-us-rok-alliance/

Your White Neighbor's 'Black Lives Matter' Yard Sign Is Not Enough
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-05
Despite my having grown up in the South, Portland is the most racist place I have ever lived. This is because being anti-racist isn't about using politically correct buzzwords and giving lip service to sensitive conversation topics. Being anti-racist is about constructing a landscape that is safe for dark people to inhabit. It is not about white people trying to prove they are "woke" by putting up yard signs. That is not even what "woke" means. "Woke" is a territory of open-eyed, unsuperficial, cultural awareness white people are nowhere close to occupying; they are not even in the neighborhood. But being anti-ra…
popularresistance.org/your-white-neighbors-black-lives-matter-yard-sign-is-not-enough/

White Supremacy And Segregation Under FDR's New Deal
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-05
Key New Deal programs failed Black Americans. The WPA and CCC could have been part of a segregation-busting project, but instead segregation was bolstered, as Blacks were relegated to separate work camps across the country, bringing Jim Crow to the North. The best jobs went to whites and out of the 10,000 WPA supervisors hired in the south, only 11 were Black. | This was one of the many concessions FDR made to the racist southern Democrats in his coalition, which bled over to the war mobilization where whites and Blacks served in segregated units. The backwardness of the South was forced upon the rest of the coun…
popularresistance.org/white-supremacy-and-segregation-under-fdrs-new-deal/

UAE restructures government, seeking more agility as it deals with coronavirus impact
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
The United Arab Emirates announced a broad government restructuring on Sunday, merging government entities and appointing new economy and industry ministers, and giving it a year to achieve new targets.The head of Abu Dhabi's national oil company ADNOC, Sultan al-Jaber, was named as industry and advanced technology minister and Abdullah al-Marri was appointed economy minister, as part of the restructuring announced by UAE Vice President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum on his official Twitter account.The energy and infrastructure ministries were merged under a single portfolio to be headed by the current ene…
yenisafak.com/en/world/uae-restructures-government-seeking-more-agility-as-it-deals-with-coronavirus-impact-3533730

A Novel Complaint
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-05
"Table one wants to see a manager." As a restaurant manager, my lap is a proverbial dumping ground where servers regularly invite grumpy and entitled customers to sit. In the prevailing I don't get paid enough to deal with this shit culture which permeates the service staffs in most eateries, the feces usually rises to …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/a-novel-complaint/

Jahangiri felicitates Independence Day of Algeria
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — In a message on Sunday, Iranian First Vice President Es'hagh Jahangiri felicitated Algerian government and nation on the country's Independence Day.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160576/Jahangiri-felicitates-Independence-Day-of-Algeria

Brazil reports 1,091 virus fatalities, 523 die in Mexico
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
Brazil Sunday reported 1,091 COVID-19 fatalities, while 523 more patients died in Mexico over the past 24 hours.The death toll in Brazil reached 64,265, according to the data by the country's Health Ministry.A total of 37,923 new cases were reported in the Latin America country, pushing the total count to 1,577,004.Meanwhile, the death toll in Mexico rose to 30,366 with 523 more fatalities, the Health Ministry data showed.The number of cases surged to 252,165, with 6,914 additions over the past 24 hours.So far 152,309 patients have recovered from the virus in the country.Mexico confirmed its first COVID-19 case…
yenisafak.com/en/world/brazil-reports-1091-virus-fatalities-523-die-in-mexico-3533729

Coronavirus claims more lives in Oman, Sudan
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
Health authorities in Oman and Sudan confirmed additional fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Sunday.In a statement, the Omani Health Ministry said ten people had died from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 213.A further 1,072 people tested positive for the virus, pushing the figure to 46,178, while 949 patients recovered, taking the overall recoveries to 27,917.In Sudan, the Health Ministry confirmed four fatalities due to the illness, while 117 new cases were recorded.Sudan's tally now stands at 9,767 cases, including 608 deaths, and 4,673 recoveries.Since originating…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-claims-more-lives-in-oman-sudan-3533738

Coronavirus claims more lives in Oman, Sudan
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
In a statement, the Omani Health Ministry said ten people had died from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 213.A further 1,072 people tested positive for the virus, pushing the figure to 46,178, while 949 patients recovered, taking the overall recoveries to 27,917.In Sudan, the Health Ministry confirmed four fatalities due to the illness, while 117 new cases were recorded.Sudan's tally now stands at 9,767 cases, including 608 deaths, and 4,673 recoveries.Since originating in China last December, the pandemic has claimed over 531,000 lives in 188 countries and regions.More than…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-claims-more-lives-in-oman-sudan-3533738

Jets hit Libya's al-Watiya airbase where Turkey may build base, sources say
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
Warplanes struck overnight at an airbase that was recently recaptured by Libya's internationally recognised government from eastern forces with help from Turkey, a military source with the eastern forces and a resident nearby said.The strikes were carried out by "unknown aircraft", the military source with the Libyan National Army (LNA) of eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar said.A resident at the nearby town of Zintan said explosions were heard from the direction of the base.Watiya's recapture in May by the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli marked the start of a sudden collapse of the LNA's 14-mo…
yenisafak.com/en/world/jets-hit-libyas-al-watiya-airbase-where-turkey-may-build-base-sources-say-3533731

Iran records highest daily COVID-19 fatalities
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
Iran on Sunday confirmed 163 more fatalities from coronavirus, the largest daily spike in the country since the outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus, bringing the nationwide death toll to 11,571.A further of 2,560 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the overall count to 240,438, Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said.She added that 3,168 patients remain in critical condition in the country.Since first appearing in China last December, the novel coronavirus has spread to at least 188 countries and regions. The US, Brazil and Russia are currently the countries hardest hi…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iran-records-highest-daily-covid-19-fatalities-3533743

Trump stopped West Bank annexation: Ex-Knesset speaker
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
The former Speaker of Knesset (Israel's parliament), Abraham Borg, said US President Donald Trump has halted the Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.In an interview with Italian daily "Il Fatto Quotidiano", Borg said Trump stopped the implementation of the annexation plan as "he doesn't have time to help Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in implementing the annexation of the West Bank and Jordan Valley".He described both Netanyahu and Trump as suffering from a "narcissistic paranoia, with no scrupulous and ethics who are ready to roll over anyone to save themselves and remain in power".W…
yenisafak.com/en/news/trump-stopped-west-bank-annexation-ex-knesset-speaker-3533736

Turkey sends medical aid to Azerbaijan amid COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
Turkey has sent medical supplies to Azerbaijan to contribute to country's fight against the novel coronavirus, Turkey's Embassy in Baku said on Sunday.The shipment included 30 ventilators, 55,000 overalls, 50,000 N95 face masks, 100,000 surgical masks, 5,000 glasses, 200,000 gloves, and 40,000 boxes of various medicines, said the embassy statement.It stressed that the aid sent to Azerbaijan is a "strong manifestation of the brotherhood" of the two countries' presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ilham Aliyev.The fight against the pandemic will only succeed if all countries show cooperation and solidarity, it added.
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-sends-medical-aid-to-azerbaijan-amid-covid-19-3533744

Turkey brings back 90,000 citizens from 130 countries during pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
Turkey has brought back more than 90,000 citizens from 130 countries so far as part of its evacuation efforts during the coronavirus pandemic, the country's top diplomat said on Sunday."We have successfully carried out the largest evacuation operation of the history of the Republic of Turkey, we brought back more than 90,000 citizens from 130 countries to our country," Mevlut Cavusoglu told a local tourism meeting in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya.His country also helped 90 countries to evacuate their 230,000 citizens from Turkey, Cavusoglu added."Thanks to the measures we have taken, we have become one…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-brings-back-90000-citizens-from-130-countries-during-pandemic-3533737

Turkey seizes large amount of PKK ammunition in N.Iraq
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
The Turkish military seized a large amount of ammunition as part of its anti-terror operation in northern Iraq, said the Turkish National Defense Ministry on Sunday.The ministry said in a written statement that search and sweep activities by commandos as part of the Operation Claw-Tiger seized four AK-47s, 40 hand grenades, as well as ammunition for RPG-7 rocket launcher and mortars, grenade throwers along with many others.The operation is successfully ongoing, it said.Turkey's operations Claw-Tiger and Claw-Eagle were launched last month to ensure the safety of the Turkish people and borders by neutralizing the…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-seizes-large-amount-of-pkk-ammunition-in-niraq-3533741

Iran's currency touches new low, sends shockwaves
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
There is a palpable buzz at Ferdowsi Square, one of the busiest intersections in the Iranian capital and the hub of foreign exchange market, these days. However, not many happy faces can be seen.The Iranian currency, rial, continues to lose its value against the US dollar, touching a record low every day. The impact of COVID-19 can be clearly seen on the financial market.The rial was trading at 217,000 (buy) and 218,000 (sell) on the unofficial market on Sunday, prompting many money exchange shops to down their shutters.In the past two weeks, the rial has continued to slide, dropping from 171,000 to 217,000. The…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irans-currency-touches-new-low-sends-shockwaves-3533735

Turkey extends condolences to Japan over deadly floods
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
Turkey on Sunday extended condolences to Japan over the deadly floods."We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of lives and extensive damage caused by floods and mudslides in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures, Japan," the Foreign Ministry said in a written statement."We extend our sincere condolences to the people and Government of Japan as well as to the relatives of those who lost their lives and wish a quick recovery to the injured," the ministry added.On Saturday, at least 15 people in the Kyushu island were killed, nine were missing and one was injured after heavy rain triggered floods and landslides in…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-extends-condolences-to-japan-over-deadly-floods-3533740

Pakistan: Opposition leader recovers from COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
Pakistan's main opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif has recovered from coronavirus after a weeks-long battle, the party announced on Sunday.Sharif, the president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), tested positive for the novel virus last month."By the grace of Allah, and nation's prayers, President, Pakistan Muslim League (N), Shehbaz Sharif's (latest) coronavirus test result is negative," party's spokeswoman Marriyum Aurungzeb said on Twitter.The doctors, she said, advised Shehbaz, who previously served the country's largest Punjab province as its chief minister thrice, to get his antibodies tests done for th…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-opposition-leader-recovers-from-covid-19-3533733

Can we hit the reset button on capitalism?
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
As the world tries to extricate itself from the web of hardships spun by the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing has become clearer than ever, which is that new ways of conceiving economics for the benefit of human well-being are urgently needed."In these early decades of the twenty-first century, the master story is economic: economic beliefs, values and assumptions are shaping how we think, feel and act," wrote F.S. Michaels in her book Monoculture: How One Story Is Changing Everything, winner of the 2011 NCTE George Orwell Award.Echoing her views, Kate Raworth, an Oxford University economist, proclaims that economics…
yenisafak.com/en/world/can-we-hit-the-reset-button-on-capitalism-3533732

Spain imposes second local coronavirus lockdown in two days
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
People living in A Marina along Spain's northern coast in the region of Lugo will not be able to leave the area from midnight on Sunday until Friday, two days before regional elections in Galicia on July 12.The regional government said people will be allowed to move around A Marina but only those who need to travel for work will be allowed to leave or enter the area.Regional Health minister Jesus Vazquez Almuina told a news conference on Sunday that the biggest outbreaks were linked to several bars in the area. Regional health authorities said there were now 258 cases in Galicia, of which 117 were in Lugo.Capacit…
yenisafak.com/en/world/spain-imposes-second-local-coronavirus-lockdown-in-two-days-3533746

Over 20 kg of heroin seized in eastern Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
Police seized over 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of heroin in eastern Turkey on Sunday, according to officials.Anti-drug police in the southeastern Gaziantep province launched an operation in the Ibni Sina neighborhood, the provincial security directorate said in a statement.During the operation, over 15 kg (33 lb) of heroin and 6.4 kg (14 lb) of methamphetamine were seized and a suspect arrested.Separately, more than 5.6 kg (12 lb) of heroin was seized in the Ipekyolu district of the eastern Van province.A sniffer dog found three packs of heroin hidden in three bags in a cargo distribution center.Two suspects, identi…
yenisafak.com/en/news/over-20-kg-of-heroin-seized-in-eastern-turkey-3533745

Turkey: 114 exit hospital after fireworks factory blasts
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-05
A total of 114 patients have been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for injuries from blasts in a fireworks factory in northwestern Turkey, said a local official on Sunday.Speaking to reporters following inspections at the site of the blast, Sakarya Governor Cetin Oktay Kaldirim said eight people are being treated in hospital, including one seriously wounded.Friday's explosions killed four people, and two of them have been laid to rest on Saturday, Kaldirim said."The two other people killed in the incident were identified, and our prosecutor's office is working to deliver them to their families."
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-114-exit-hospital-after-fireworks-factory-blasts-3533742

What high-tech military equipment can Iran offer world?
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Despite sanctions, Iran has been able to develop advanced military equipment and is ready to offer it for purchase in the world market.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160562/What-high-tech-military-equipment-can-Iran-offer-world

'Iran resumes saffron exports to some destinations'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — The deputy head of Iran's National Saffron Council informed that the country has resumed its exports of saffron to some countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160554/Iran-resumes-saffron-exports-to-some-destinations

24-hour monitoring of Iran's airspace duty of Air Defense
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — The Commander of Iranian Air Defence Force noted that 24-hour full protection and monitoring of Iran's airspace is the duty of Iran's Air Defence.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160567/24-hour-monitoring-of-Iran-s-airspace-duty-of-Air-Defense

Zarif addresses Parliament open session
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif answered the questions of the Iranian lawmakers in the open session of the Parliament on Sunday.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160569/Zarif-addresses-Parliament-open-session

Iran records 2,560 new cases, 163 deaths on Sunday
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — The novel coronavirus disease has infected 2,560 people across Iran in the past 24 hours, according to the Iranian Health Ministry.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160573/Iran-records-2-560-new-cases-163-deaths-on-Sunday

Pres. Rouhani stresses need for constructive coop. with Parl
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani emphasized the need for establishing constructive interaction and unity between the government and the Parliament.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160586/Pres-Rouhani-stresses-need-for-constructive-coop-with-Parl

Enemies afraid of Iran's increasing power
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) – Head of Ideological-Political Organization of the Ministry of Defense Hojatoleslam Seyyed Ziaeddin Aghajanpour said that enemies are fear of increasing power and authority of the Islamic Iran in the international arena.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160587/Enemies-afraid-of-Iran-s-increasing-power

Wearing masks mandatory in crowded places
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — National Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters announced on Sunday that wearing masks is mandatory in indoor and crowded places.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160588/Wearing-masks-mandatory-in-crowded-places

ISIL terrorists kill 2, including a child, in Nigeria
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Takrifi terrorists affiliated to ISIL have launched an attack against civilians in northeast Nigeria, killing two people, including a five-year-old child, according to a UN report.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160560/ISIL-terrorists-kill-2-including-a-child-in-Nigeria

AEOI to build a shed with more advanced equipment in Natanz
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) will construct a large shed with more advanced and sophisticated equipment in Natanz Nuclear Facility.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160584/AEOI-to-build-a-shed-with-more-advanced-equipment-in-Natanz

'250 major water, electricity projects to come on stream'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Iran's energy minister announced on Sunday that the country will have 250 major water and electricity projects online by the end of the present Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2021).
en.mehrnews.com/news/160580/250-major-water-electricity-projects-to-come-on-stream

Iran not to witness economic collapse: Rouhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Underling the ability of the CBI in controlling forex rates and in the fight against enemies' psychological warfare, the Iranian President assured on Sunday that the country's economy will not collapse.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160563/Iran-not-to-witness-economic-collapse-Rouhani

Suez Canal to be replaced by Chabahar corridor: official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-05
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Managing Director of Chabahar Free Zone Abdulrahim Kurdi said on Sunday that Suez Canal will be replaced by the Chabahar corridor in the future.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160581/Suez-Canal-to-be-replaced-by-Chabahar-corridor-official

It's Time to Declare Your Independence from Tyranny, America
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-05
The Declaration of Independence speaks volumes about the abuses suffered by early Americans at the hands of the British police state. Read it again, and ask yourself if the list of complaints tallied by Jefferson don't bear a startling resemblance to the abuses "we the people" are suffering today at the hands of the American police state.
globalresearch.ca/its-time-declare-your-independence-tyranny-america/5682536

Anti-Trump brigade rushes to school president over misleading clip implying he said Desert Storm op was in 'jungles of Vietnam'
rt.com | 2020-07-05
Trump critics were very quick to give the US president a history lesson after he seemingly mistook the Vietnam War for the Gulf War during his Independence Day speech… except that he didn't. | A short clip circulating on social media seemed to suggest that Donald Trump mistakenly said that Operation Desert Storm — an offensive against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the 1990 Gulf War — actually took place in "the dense fields and jungles of Vietnam" during his July 4 address. | Some Twitter warriors quickly jumped in to blast and mock the president for what looked like an embarrassing gaffe on Indep…
rt.com/usa/493843-trump-vietnam-desert-storm/

Acting Lib Dem leader calls for Farage to be investigated over trip to the US and breach of quarantine rules
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-05
Acting Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey has called on police to investigate whether Nigel Farage has broken quarantine rules. The former cabinet minister has written to the chief constable of the Kent constabulary questioning whether the Brexit Party leader had contravened coronavirus (Covid-19) guidelines. | The move followed the reopening of pubs across England on 4 July and a tweet from Farage from a bar. Farage insisted he had been back from a trip to the US for two weeks and had tested negative for coronavirus. | Letter to chief constable: | Davey wrote to chief constable Alan Pughsley, stating: I wri…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/05/acting-lib-dem-leader-calls-for-farage-to-be-investigated-over-trip-to-the-us-and-breach-of-quarantine-rules/

Alex Vitale, author of 'The End of Policing', explains what needs to come next
Slava Zilber | thecanary.co | 2020-07-05
The Canary interviewed Alex Vitale, professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. Vitale is also visiting professor at London South Bank University. Moreover, he is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. | If you had to announce The End of Policing in three or four sentences, what would you say?
thecanary.co/feature/2020/07/05/alex-vitale-author-of-the-end-of-policing-explains-what-needs-to-come-next/

Fire chiefs call for cladding answers ahead of Grenfell Inquiry restart
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-05
Fire chiefs have said it is "imperative" that an inquiry establishes why Grenfell Tower came to be covered in dangerous flammable cladding.The hearings into the disaster which, according to official figures, killed 72 people in 2017 will reopen on 6 July after being halted in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Attendance will be limited to comply with social distancing guidelines. Only members of the panel, the counsel to the inquiry, the witness giving evidence and their legal representative, support staff, and an invited journalist will be allowed to attend.Parliamentary committee debating the need to f…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/05/fire-chiefs-call-for-cladding-answers-ahead-of-grenfell-inquiry-restart/

Monday 7/13: LaborFest 2020: New Deal Art – Anita Brenner & Cultural Bridge-Builders
Harvey Smith | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
This is a free Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to register and to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/03/18834829.php

Sunday 7/12: LaborFest 2020: Technology, Lawsuits & How to Fight Union Busting
Laborfest | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
This is a free Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to register and to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/03/18834828.php

"This Land is Your Land," by Woody Guthrie, performed by the Oakland Symphony
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
The Oakland Symphony Performing In The Midst Of The Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic Raging Across Our Nation!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/04/18834859.php

The four walls are not what we think they are
Eva Illouz | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
As Thomas Hobbes put it, we will always be prepared to sacrifice a large part of our freedom for our security. For Arendt, modernity in general is characterized by the loss of the world. The private home cannot compensate for all that is lost. The private home must be a part of the "world." By being imprisoned, we have lost our freedom and the world itself.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834878.php

Monday 7/6: Occupy Tri-City
Southern Alameda County Resistance Network | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
In Fremont, exact address to be disclosed on day of event. Contact me on signal for exact details prior to Monday | 425-749-6678…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/04/18834855.php

Saturday 7/11: Paddle Out for Tamario Smith
Paddle Out for Tamario Smith | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
Cowells Beach, 21 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/04/18834857.php

Assembling for Equity on the Fourth of July
Independence Day has Not Arrived | indybay.org | 2020-07-05
In late June the call went out to assemble for equity on the fourth of July, traditionally known as Independence Day. People said that America's Independence Day will have no value for them without significant social and economic changes. Some expressed it by saying "Independence Day has not arrived."
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834862.php

Russia's Political Stability Ensured While the West Sinks
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-05
Despite what American and European commentators may think, there really is a deep desire among people to vote for their own sovereignty. And that impulse was on full display last week with the announcement of the results of Russia's public vote to approve the changes to its constitution. | The final tally put the vote at 78% in favor with a 65% voter turnout for the referendum. These are the most sweeping changes to Russia's constitution since it was ratified back in 1993, which vested the President with immense power. | And while the final package of reforms differed in one important aspect from the original one…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/05/russia-political-stability-ensured-while-west-sinks/

A Historical Reminder of What Defines the United States, As Told by a Former Slave
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-05
We live in tumultuous days… one could say "the end of an era". | It is clear that there is a storm coming, however, the question is will it be the sort of storm that provides sustenance and relief to drought-stricken and barren lands, or will it be the sort of storm that destroys indiscriminately and leaves nothing recognizable in its wake? | There is such a heavy tension in the air, the buildup we are told of centuries of injustice, oppression and murder. It feels like the entire world's burden has laid itself upon one culprit and that it is high time that that villain pay for past blood spilled. | That villai…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/05/a-historical-reminder-of-what-defines-united-states-told-by-former-slave/

VIDEO: Is There Really Such a Thing as White Privilege?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-05
From the restricted perspective of Segregation America or Apartheid South Africa — Yes. But from a greater historical perspective this idea is madness. Watch the video and read more in the article by Daniel Lazare.
strategic-culture.org/video/2020/07/05/video-is-there-really-such-a-thing-as-white-privilege/

Fear of Falling
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-05
Can Making Black Lives Matter Rescue a Failing State? | Rebecca GORDON | You know that feeling when you trip on the street and instantly sense that you're about to crash hard and there's no way to prevent it? As gravity has its way with you, all you can do is watch yourself going down. Yeah, that feeling. | I had it the other day on my way to a Black Lives Matter demonstration when I caught my toe on a curb and pitched forward. As time slowed down, I saw not my past, but my future, pass before my eyes — a future that would at worst include months of rehabbing a broken hip and at best a few weeks hobbling ar…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/05/fear-of-falling/