Twitter targets accounts of MintPress and other outlets covering unrest in Bolivia
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-07-03
MintPress News, along with a number of independent Bolivian news outlets and journalists covering the unrest there, were all targeted for suspension at the same time.
mronline.org/2020/07/03/twitter-targets-accounts-of-mintpress-and-other-outlets-covering-unrest-in-bolivia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=twitter-targets-accounts-of-mintpress-and-other-outlets-covering-unrest-in-bolivia

A Russian Bounty Is Bad. What's Shocking and Outrageous Is the War
Andrew McCormick | thenation.com | 2020-07-03
A Russian Bounty Is Bad. What's Shocking and Outrageous Is the War.
thenation.com/article/world/russian-bounty-afghanistan-war/

UK Court Denies Venezuela $1bn in Gold Needed to Fight Virus
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
The United Kingdom's High Court has blocked the Venezuelan government's effort to recover 31 tons of the nation's gold held by the Bank of England (BoE). | In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the court said it "unequivocally recognised opposition …
globalresearch.ca/uk-court-denies-venezuela-1bn-gold-needed-fight-virus/5717681

Could U.S. Capitalism Turn Nationalist?
Richard D. Wolff | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
Will we see a transition to a post-capitalist global system of quite differently organized enterprises, political institutions (including nation-states), and movements of productive resources and products across its geography?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/could-u-s-capitalism-turn-nationalist/

Revolutionary Possibilities: Could U.S. Capitalism Turn Nationalist?
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
The Trump administration has turned sharply toward economic nationalism. It attacks and undermines the World Trade Organization, NATO, and the UN. Trump and other top officials explicitly insult many world leaders. He imposes high tariffs. Official statements renew and sustain Cold War-type attacks on China, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. Trump flirts openly with nationalists who…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/revolutionary-possibilities-could-u-s-capitalism-turn-nationalist/

Another reason to tear down the walls: Ohio jail 100% COVID-positive
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-07-03
Cleveland, Ohio In a recent report, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance stated that the Morrow County Correctional Facility in Mt. Gilead is the first county jail in the state to be 100 percent COVID-positive. The jail, holding local prisoners as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, is also the first . . . | Continue reading Another reason to tear down the walls: Ohio jail 100% COVID-positive at Workers.org…
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Socialists Are Beating Jeff Bezos in Seattle (Again)
Kshama Sawant | thenation.com | 2020-07-03
Socialists Are Beating Jeff Bezos in Seattle (Again)…
thenation.com/article/economy/bezos-seattle-amazon-tax/

Class, Race and Power
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
Since the onset of the Great Recession, a debate has persisted over creating what is described— depending on one's premises, as either a trans-ideological working class movement or a red-brown alliance of socialists with fascists. 'Socialist' in this configuration is a classless movement that maps quite remarkably to the base of the Democratic Party.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/class-race-and-power/

Smearing Black Lives Matter…From the Left
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
Over the past fifty-three years as a socialist, I have seen repeated calls for purifying the left of capitalist influences, both governmental and corporate. The latest flare-up was a Jacobin article titled "Don't Let Blackwashing Save the Investor Class" by Cedric Johnson, a black African American studies professor. Just as Deep Throat advised Bob Woodward…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/smearing-black-lives-matter-from-the-left/

The China-India Trade War: Indian Boycott of Chinese Goods
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
The level of India's economic boycott against Chinese imports will depend on how the two countries resolve their border conflicts and if Indian industry is capable of offsetting the shortage of Chinese goods entering the country. Although the call to …
globalresearch.ca/indian-boycott-chinese-goods-against-own-national-interests/5717644

US Imposes Additional Economic Sanctions Against Venezuela and Iran
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
The US government is seeking to economically drown Venezuela and Iran by wanting to seize fuel that Tehran is sending to Caracas. This is part of a sustained aggressive and illegal policy against both countries. The US Attorney's Office requested …
globalresearch.ca/us-imposes-additional-economic-sanctions-against-venezuela-iran/5717688

The Racist Counter-Revolution of 1776
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
This essay originally appeared six years ago on Telesur English as a review of Gerald Horne's important book The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America (New York, 2014). I offer it for re-publication and hopefully wider readership in the wake of the great 2020 George Floyd uprising, which…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/the-racist-counter-revolution-of-1776/

On Contact: Ecosocialism with Victor Wallis
Victor Wallis | mronline.org | 2020-07-03
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to writer, teacher and activist Victor Wallis about the prospect and need for ecosocialism. Wallis' book is entitled 'Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism'.
mronline.org/2020/07/03/on-contact-ecosocialism-with-victor-wallis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-contact-ecosocialism-with-victor-wallis

More than 1000 at Day of Rage against Israeli annexation in NYC
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-03
Bay Ridge, NY – On Wednesday, July 1, over 1000 people gathered in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to rally and march against the planned Zionist annexation of the West Bank. The international Day of Rage was locally organized by Within Our Lifetime and the NY4Palestine coalition. | The rally began at 4 p.m., but the crowd had already started growing before the start time. As the crowd swelled, Palestine flags waving by the dozens, a motley handful of counter-protesters gathered across the street. They had a few Israeli flags and none of them were wearing masks. While they attempted to chant, the pro-Palestine crowd easily…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/3/more-1000-day-rage-against-israeli-annexation-nyc

Will the ICC Investigation Bring Justice for Palestine?
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-03
In the past, there have been many attempts at holding accused Israeli war criminals accountable. Particularly memorable is the case of the late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, (known, among other nicknames, as the 'Butcher of Sabra and Shatila') whose victims attempted to try him in a Belgian Court in 2002. Like all other efforts, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/will-the-icc-investigation-bring-justice-for-palestine/

Connecting the Dates — US Media Used To Stop The 'Threat' of Peace
Lee Camp | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
This is not a column defending Donald Trump. Across my career I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been shown to read more.) No, this is a column about context. When The New York Times reports anonymous sources from the intelligence community…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/four-giant-reasons-to-remove-the-statues-from-a-robert-e-lee-descendant/

Podcast Panel: Israeli Annexation Could Turn the West Bank Into a Gaza-Style Open Air Prison
Mnar Muhawesh | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-03
Palestinian academic Ramzy Baroud, Israeli activist Miko Peled and documentary filmmaker Robert Inkalesh join MintPress to discuss the implication of Israel's coming annexation of the Palestinian West Bank.
mintpressnews.com/podcast-israel-annexation-west-bank-into-gaza-style-open-air-prison/269161/

Tearing Down the Idols of Colonialism: Why Tunisia, Africa Must Demand French Apology
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was intended to discuss bilateral relations, trade, etc. But it was also a missed opportunity, where Tunisia could have formally demanded an apology from France for the decades of French colonialism, which has shattered the social and political fabric of this North…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/tearing-down-the-idols-of-colonialism-why-tunisia-africa-must-demand-french-apology/

Adjudicating the Chomsky-Greenwald Dispute on Lesser-Evil Voting
Chris Wright | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
There are, at long last, so many newly awakened leftists in this country that in the aggregate they can have a tangible effect on the elections…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/adjudicating-the-chomsky-greenwald-dispute-on-lesser-evil-voting/

Trump and Pence — Step Aside for Professional Pandemic Scientists and Managers
Ralph Nader | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
Major changes in society can be accomplished by a fast-emerging, broad-based civic jolt so obvious and persuasive that it overwhelms the entrenched powers…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-and-pence-step-aside-for-professional-pandemic-scientists-and-managers/

Australian Journalist Threatened With Prosecution For Exposing War Crimes
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-03
In another major assault on press freedom, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) journalist Dan Oakes has been threatened with prosecution for his role in exposing war crimes committed by the country's Special Forces soldiers in Afghanistan. | The Australian Federal Police (AFP) issued a statement last night, confirming that they had sent a brief of evidence to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), following a protracted investigation targeting the ABC. | The AFP indicated that the probe began after it received "a referral on 11 July, 2017, from the Chief of the Defence Force and then-Acting…
popularresistance.org/australian-journalist-threatened-with-prosecution-for-exposing-war-crimes/

UK Denies Venezuela Access To Its Gold For Food And Medicine
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-03
The United Kingdom's High Court Thursday decided that opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido can access 31 tons of Venezuelan gold held in the Bank of England, which prevents President Nicolas Maduro's administration from using those resources to fight the pandemic. | The ruling about this monetary reserve valued at over US $ 1 billion occurs after months of disputes between Venezuela and the Bank of England, which denied the constitutionally constituted government access to its own resources | On May 14, the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) sued the Bank of England to obtain and sell the Venezuelan gold bars. | The Sout…
popularresistance.org/uk-denies-venezuela-access-to-its-gold-for-food-and-medicine/

100 Jewish Lawyers And Judges Call On Israel To Halt Annexation Plans
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-03
Palestine Legal joins widespread international condemnation of Israel's annexation attempts in the West Bank and highlights legal resources for protesters participating in Wednesday's Day of Rage against annexation in the U.S. | We recognize that this is the latest move in 70+ years of Israel's efforts to annex — or fully colonize — Palestinian land. We also recognize that the failure of international law to protect Palestinians or hold Israel accountable further highlights the importance of grassroots efforts to resist Israel's colonization and ethnic cleansing plans, including mass protests. | We sh…
popularresistance.org/100-jewish-lawyers-and-judges-call-on-israel-to-halt-annexation-plans/

Bounty-Hunter Hoax to Kill U.S.-Russia Relations
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-03
Relations between the United States and Russia have already been badly wounded during recent years, largely as a result of baseless allegations such as Moscow interfering in American elections, colluding with President Donald Trump, or regarding other international developments, from the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, to purported war crimes in Syria, to the alleged poisoning of British double-agent Sergei Skripal in England. | But the latest U.S. media effort claiming Russian military intelligence involvement in sponsoring Taliban assassins or "bounty hunters" to target American troops in Afghanis…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/03/bounty-hunter-hoax-to-kill-us-russia-relations/

India's Modi Terminates His Weibo Diplomacy
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-03
What started out as a promising relationship with China is now one struggling to find a direction | MK BHADRAKUMAR | The common perception among Indian analysts, widely articulated in the country's media, is that the government's options to "hit back" at China for whatever has happened in eastern Ladakh during the past two months are very limited. | The reported erasure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "official page" on the Chinese social media website Weibo can only reinforce that impression. It simply doesn't add up. | If reports are to be believed, Modi's official page on Weibo "went blank" on Wednesday with…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/03/india-modi-terminates-his-weibo-diplomacy/

"America's Moment of Reckoning": Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Cornel West on Uprising Against Racism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-03
Scholars Cornel West and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor respond to the global uprising against racism and police violence following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. "We're seeing the convergence of a class rebellion with racism and racial terrorism at the center of it," said Princeton professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. "And in many ways, we are in uncharted territory in the United States."
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/3/americas_moment_of_reckoning_keeanga_yamahtta

"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-03
In a Fourth of July holiday special, we hear the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, he gave one of his most famous speeches, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro." He was addressing the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. This is actor James Earl Jones reading the speech during a performance of historian Howard Zinn's acclaimed book, "Voices of a People's History of the United States." He was introduced by Zinn.
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/3/what_to_the_slave_is_4th

Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-03
Amid a worldwide uprising against police brutality and racism, we discuss the historic moment with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis. She also responds to the destruction and removal of racist monuments in cities across the United States, and the 2020 election.
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/3/angela_davis_on_abolition_calls_to

Roaming Charges: Mutiny of the Bounties!
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
+ If I recall, there were serious discussions inside the White House about turning the Afghan War into a bounty hunting operation led by mercenaries on contract with Erik Prince. I'm pretty sure many elements of that scheme have been in place since 1979 at the beginning Carter's secret war and have continued in one…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/roaming-charges-mutiny-of-the-bounties/

Selected Articles: Annexation of Palestine. Crime against Humanity
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
We hope that by publishing diverse view points, submitted by journalists and experts dotted all over the world, the website can serve as a reminder that no matter what narrative we are presented with, things are rarely as cut and …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-why-should-we-stop-israel-annexation-west-bank/5717693

Trump and Pence — Step Aside for Professional Pandemic Scientists and Managers
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
Major changes in society can be accomplished by a fast-emerging, broad-based civic jolt so obvious and persuasive that it overwhelms the entrenched powers. The most urgent job is for people to organize to get Trump and Pence to step aside from their bungling, making-matters-worse mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic. The White House should let a…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/trump-and-pence-step-aside-for-professional-pandemic-scientists-and-managers/

Video: Syria Prepares for Military Confrontation with Turkey in Northeast
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
The Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces have put their forces on high alert in response to the new round of aggressive actions by the Turkish Army and its proxies in northeastern Syria. | Several convoys of government forces, including …
globalresearch.ca/video-syria-prepares-military-confrontation-turkey-northeast/5717643

Politicians of Color Should Not be Immune From Criticism
Jeff Cohen | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
To me, being an anti-racist activist means that one consistently challenges the structures of racist exclusion, exploitation, repression and incarceration It does not mean that one must defend or praise establishment politicians of color. Forty years ago, I was an activist and leader in the battle against police racism, brutality and repression in Los Angeles.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/politicians-of-color-should-not-be-immune-from-criticism/

Leeds, England: Black Lives Matter
| workers.org | 2020-07-03
By Kadesh Anderson Kadesh Anderson is a Black Lives Matter activist and journalist in Leeds, England. Leeds, England — On June 21 in Hyde Park, over 5,000 people came out in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protest. With social distancing measures in place, people came together with their banners . . . | Continue reading Leeds, England: Black Lives Matter at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/49830/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leeds-england-black-lives-matter

Over 800 Afghan civilians have lost their lives in six months: UN Assistance Mission
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-03
In a recent spate of at least 56 violent incidents, members of Afghanistan's civil society, religious leaders, healthcare workers, members of the judiciary, civil society activists, non-governmental organizations and journalists have been deliberately attacked…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/03/over-800-afghan-civilians-have-lost-their-lives-in-six-months-un-assistance-mission/

COINTELPRO: How the U.S. state dealt with the last radicalization
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-03
Twenty-one-year-old Black Panther Party deputy chair Fred Hampton and his comrade Mark Clark were assassinated in a 1969 pre-dawn raid in Chicago. Arguably the most talented and politically astute of the Panther leaders, Hampton was renowned for inspiring activists of all colours. But he was betrayed by William O'Neal, his bodyguard and the Panthers' head …
mronline.org/2020/07/03/cointelpro-how-the-u-s-state-dealt-with-the-last-radicalization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cointelpro-how-the-u-s-state-dealt-with-the-last-radicalization

'Attempt to instigate civil war in Ethiopia foiled'
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
The Ethiopian prime minister on Friday said violence in the country over the past three days was an attempt to instigate a civil war and that it has now been foiled.Abiy Ahmed was speaking at a meeting with senior civil and army officials in the capital Addis Ababa, according to state channel ETV.So far, "87 people lost their lives in the violence including four police officers," ETV quoted Oromia police commissioner as saying.Abiy said instigators of the violence have been arrested thanks to security forces.Violence started in the Horn of Africa country on Tuesday following the death of Ethiopian activist and ar…
yenisafak.com/en/world/attempt-to-instigate-civil-war-in-ethiopia-foiled-3533618

Copenhagen's Little Mermaid labelled 'racist fish'
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
Denmark woke up on Friday to the words "racist fish" scrawled across the base of the "Little Mermaid", the bronze statue honouring Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale that perches on a rock in the sea off a pier in Copenhagen.Police said it had not yet identified the perpetrators. The 107-year-old sculpture, which is visited by one million tourists each year, has been vandalised before, including by anti-whaling campaigners and pro-democracy activists, twice suffering decapitation."We consider it vandalism and have started an investigation," a spokesman for the Copenhagen police said.Protesters of the Bla…
yenisafak.com/en/world/copenhagens-little-mermaid-labelled-racist-fish-3533614

The Incredible Stitch-up of Julian Assange
Rod Driver | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
What the US and Britain are attempting is not a legal form of extradition, it is extraordinary rendition — the ILLEGAL transfer of a person from one country to another…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-incredible-stitch-up-of-julian-assange/

WATCH: Police 'army' blasts non-lethal rounds at BLM protesters in Portland as riot declared
rt.com | 2020-07-03
For the second night in three days, Portland police have declared a riot in the city, opening fire on protesters with non-lethal munitions outside the Multnomah County Justice Center. | The demonstration had remained peaceful throughout the night but then all hell broke loose when, at 11: 45pm local time, a group of protesters set fire to a piece of wood, prompting a police response which escalated as people refused to leave the area and continued protesting. | @PortlandPolice central precinct, police responded and were promptly surrounded by an angry mob. pic.twitter.com/y…
rt.com/usa/493660-riot-declared-portland-blm-protest/

Cal Democrats Not Paying Unemployment Claims; Pro-War Feinstein
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
From the home front, with the California Supermajority Democratic Legislature & Governor contracting out to process millions of unemployment claims, many unpaid for months, to California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein voting to continue the blood for oil illegal occupation and war in Afghanistan, the Democratic Party insists with every move it is the same as the Republican Party.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/03/18834824.php

'Day of Rage' protests annexation of Palestinian land
Liberation staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-03
In the U.S.,Palestinians and their supports found ways in the midst of a pandemic to make clear that the Palestinian struggle for liberation will continue, and support for it will grow.
liberationnews.org/day-of-rage-protests-annexation-of-palestinian-land/

From rebellion to revolution
Eugene Puryear | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-03
A profound rebellion against racism has been sweeping the country for a month. Millions have taken to the streets in every part of the country, shaking public opinion. Elite institutions, individuals and corporate brands are scrambling to offer symbolic sacrifices at the altar of racial justice in the hopes they will be spared from the righteous wrath in the streets. | At the same time the police are wantonly attacking protestors and continuing to murder Black people, making a mockery of all the "official" declarations of "anti-racism." | Hidden in just this fact is the most important lesson: The capitalist syste…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/03/from-rebellion-to-revolution/

New York City's police budget cut falls short
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-03
In New York City, protests have continued almost daily, one month after the murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis. Similar to cities across the country, protesters and movements have raised the demand that the city administration cut all funding for the police department, or defund the police. On June 30, the city council passed the budget for the 2021 fiscal year and despite sustained protests and a one week protest occupation outside city hall, councillors resolved to only cut 1 billion from the New York Police Department (NYPD) budget. | The budget cuts, even though significant, still leaves…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/03/new-york-citys-police-budget-cut-falls-short/

Anatomy of a counter-insurgency
Martin Schoots-McAlpine | mronline.org | 2020-07-03
The defanging of the George Floyd Uprising was not accidental but was rather a deliberate attempt on the part of the American ruling class to regain social control in the wake of the largest and most militant protests in recent memory. This article examines the dimensions of how this defanging took place: how, within the …
mronline.org/2020/07/03/anatomy-of-a-counter-insurgency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anatomy-of-a-counter-insurgency

Challenging the French Republic's Color-Blindness
Philippe Marlière | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
George Floyd's killing by a policeman in Minneapolis reverberated across the world in an unprecedented fashion. On all continents, young people took to the streets to pay tribute to Floyd. They protested against police brutality which they regarded as 'systemic'. Citizens expressed their anger at the racial profiling of Black people by the police. Those…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/challenging-the-french-republics-color-blindness/

Give Me Liberty, Give You Death
Frank Joyce | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
So, here we are again at the granddaddy of all of the official U.S. celebrations of militarism and white power. Only the hard won observances of Labor Day and MLK's birthday are exceptions. Independence Day this year though is different. That's because of COVID 19 and the eruption of protest over the ongoing murders of…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/give-me-liberty-give-you-death/

Trump's decision to celebrate 4 July at Mt Rushmore is a big 'f**k you' to Indigenous people and anti-racism campaigners
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-07-03
The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May sparked protests and anger across the globe. Floyd's killing reminded the world of the danger to Black people's lives. It reminded us too that the abuse and murder of Bl…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/07/03/trumps-decision-to-celebrate-4-july-at-mt-rushmore-is-a-big-fk-you-to-indigenous-people-and-anti-racism-campaigners/

Chileans carry out a two-day national protest against Piñera's government
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-03
The national strike has been called in rejection of the national government, its mishandling of the health and economic emergencies and the lack of food and aid for vulnerable population…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/03/chileans-carry-out-a-two-day-national-protest-against-pineras-government/

Seattle's CHOP Went Out With Both a Bang and a Whimper
Arun Gupta | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
"Greed drowned out the protests.Everyone is fighting to be a leader because they want to be in the meeting with the mayor and say, 'Defund the police and fund my organization.'"
zcomm.org/znetarticle/seattles-chop-went-out-with-both-a-bang-and-a-whimper/

Lawyers Get No Bail In Property Damage Case, Face 45 Years In Prison
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-03
The Center for Constitutional Rights and a coalition of other civil rights organizations are calling on federal prosecutors to release on bail two New York attorneys who are accused of throwing Molotov cocktails into an empty New York police car during protests in Brooklyn on May 30. The lawyers — Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman — are facing a minimum of 45 years in prison if convicted on the federal charges. The two were initially released on bail, but then the federal government challenged the bail conditions, sending them back to pretrial detention — a move that shocked many in the legal co…
popularresistance.org/lawyers-get-no-bail-in-property-damage-case-face-45-yeatr-in-prison/

US Exposed For Funding Last Year's Hong Kong Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-03
Imagine how the American government would react if multiple Chinese state agencies such as Xinhua were exposed secretly helping protest groups across the United States to evade surveillance and crackdowns by law enforcement agencies. | Washington would probably threaten China with war. Roughly, though, the little-known but powerful US Agency for Global Media has been doing just that in Hong Kong. It oversees funding for various news and information operations around the world, including Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. | About US$2 million was earmarked for the protest movement in Hong Kong, but has now been…
popularresistance.org/us-exposed-for-funding-last-years-hong-kong-protests/

'Racist' elk statue targeted by mob to be removed, after inferno causes 'severe' damage to Portland landmark (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-03
A sculpture of an elk that has graced downtown Portland, Oregon, for 120 years is to be taken down by city authorities, after protesters set the statue on fire. Police have asked the public to help identify the vandals. | On Wednesday night, demonstrators defaced the seemingly benign statue and lit a series of fires around its base, quickly engulfing the horned effigy in flames. | Portland Police said in a statement that the city's Regional Arts Council had determined that the damage to the base was "so severe" that the landmark would have to be removed for public safety reasons. Officials fear the statue coul…
rt.com/usa/493706-portland-elk-statue-removed-damange/

Vandals spray-paint and BURN Portland's 'Promised Land' statue (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-03
Rioters in Oregon used fireworks to torch the 'Promised Land' statue depicting a pioneer family at the end of the Oregon Trail. The vandals also laid siege to the city's Justice Center in what police deemed a "riot." | The city of Portland is known nationwide as a hotbed of left-wing activism, and protesters there have embraced the 'Black Lives Matter' cause with gusto. After incinerating a statue of an elk on Wednesday, a mob of rioters returned to Chapman Square on Thursday night, where they soon began sho…
rt.com/usa/493730-portland-riot-statue-fire/

Civil rights groups sue N.Carolina town over protest ban – but where were they when 3 other states banned pipeline protests?
rt.com | 2020-07-03
The ACLU and other groups have sued Graham, North Carolina, calling the city's ban on "demonstrations of two or more people" while under a declared emergency unconstitutional. They've remained silent on similar laws, though. | Graham violated protesters' First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly and speech with the law, which bars two or more people (or even a single person carrying a sign) from assembling without a protest permit during a declared state of emergency, the suit, filed on Thursday, states. The Alamance County Sheriff's Office announced last Friday that no further protest permits would be iss…
rt.com/usa/493778-aclu-carolina-lawsuit-pipeline-protests/

Saturday 7/11: San Lorenzo Valley: Black Lives Matter Protest
Black Lives Matter SLV | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
Meet at San Lorenzo Valley High School, 7105 Hwy 9, Felton…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834811.php

The Trouble With 'White Privilege'
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-03
In the wake of the tumultuous Back Lives Matter protests, "white privilege" is the phrase of the day. Everyone uses it, and everyone seems to know what it means. | After all, whites could attend better public schools back in the days of Jim Crow, they could live in better neighborhoods, and they could go to colleges and universities from which blacks were expressly barred. They could enter a store or walk down a street without having to worry about being lynched if they said something wrong to a member of another race, and they could vote without fear of someone burning down their house. | So isn't this the "w…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/03/the-trouble-with-white-privilege/

Caesarean delivery rates and analgesia effectiveness following injections of sterile water for back pain in labour: A multicentre, randomised placebo controlled trial
Nigel Lee, Yu Gao, Sally L. Collins, Lena B. Mà•rtensson, Wendy Randall, Toni-Marie Rowe, Sue Kildea | thelancet.com | 2020-07-03
Compared to placebo, injections of sterile water did not reduce rates of caesarean delivery. For the main secondary outcome of pain relief the intervention did result in significantly more women reporting at least 30% and 50% reduction in pain for up to 90 min. Water injections have no effect on birth outcomes though can be an effective treatment for the relief of labour-related back pain.Funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30191-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Scoring systems for predicting mortality for severe patients with COVID-19
Yufeng Shang, Tao Liu, Yongchang Wei, Jingfeng Li, Liang Shao, Minghui Liu, Yongxi Zhang, Zhigang Zhao, Haibo Xu, Zhiyong Peng, Fuling Zhou, Xinghuan Wang | thelancet.com | 2020-07-03
Old age, CHD, LYM%, PCT and DD were independently related to mortality. CSS was useful for predicting in-hospital mortality and complications, and it could help clinicians to identify high-risk patients with poor prognosis.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30170-X/fulltext?rss=yes

SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical features and pregnancy outcomes
Asma Khalil, Erkan Kalafat, Can Benlioglu, Pat O'Brien, Edward Morris, Tim Draycott, Shakila Thangaratinam, Kirsty Le Doare, Paul Heath, Shamez Ladhani, Peter von Dadelszen, Laura A. Magee | thelancet.com | 2020-07-03
The risk of iatrogenic preterm birth and caesarean delivery was increased. The available evidence is reassuring, suggesting that maternal morbidity is similar to that of women of reproductive age. Vertical transmission of the virus probably occurs, albeit in a small proportion of cases.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30190-5/fulltext?rss=yes

PDF of July 2 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-07-03
Download the 12-page PDF. Win in california: Cops out of schools! Free Mumia! Abolish the FOP! On the move Save…
workers.org/2020/07/49793/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-july-2-issue

Security Council, General Assembly Never Held Israel Accountable for Violations of UN Principles
Michael Jansen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
Seventy-five years ago, 50 countries signed the UN Charter at a conference in San Francisco in ceremonies attended by 3,500 delegates and 2,500 media representatives and observers from non-governmental organisations. Representing 80 per cent of the world's population, the signatories …
globalresearch.ca/security-council-general-assembly-never-held-israel-accountable-violations-un-principles/5717685

No Israeli War on Lebanon Before the Next US Elections
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
There is no doubt that, since Ben Gurion, the Zionist ideology adheres to the principle of superior strength, harassing and seizing opportunities to surprise the enemy, exploiting the opponent's weaknesses and assessing the enemy's position before striking. But there …
globalresearch.ca/no-israeli-war-lebanon-before-next-us-elections/5717673

A Statue of Hatuey
Don Fitz | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-03
If you look at a US $20 bill, you might notice Andrew Jackson nervously watching statues of Columbus and Robert E. Lee coming down and wondering if his face is going to disappear from currency. As Democrats ponder which militarist they wish to glorify in the next round of monuments, it is critical to realize …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/a-statue-of-hatuey/

US unemployment rate dips, but millions remain jobless or face wage cuts
wsws.org | 2020-07-03
Despite Trump's claims that the "economy is roaring back," joblessness remains at depression levels while the reopening of businesses has produced a surge of COVID-19 cases.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/03/jobs-j03.html

White Nationalists on the Attack
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
On Monday, June 22nd, Pvt. Ethan P. Melzer, 22, was charged with planning an ambush of members of his unit during an upcoming deployment with the help of an "occult-based neo-Nazi" group known as the "Order of the Nine Angles" and a related group known as the "RapeWaffen Division." Melzer was stationed in Vicenza, Italy, and…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/white-nationalists-on-the-attack/

"No One Has Died from the Coronavirus"
Rosemary Frei | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
A high-profile European pathologist is reporting that he and his colleagues across Europe have not found any evidence of any deaths from the novel coronavirus on that continent. | Dr. Stoian Alexov called the World Health Organization (WHO) a "criminal medical …
globalresearch.ca/no-one-has-died-coronavirus/5717668

US Downing of Iranian Airliner Gone From History
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
This article was first published on July 2, 2018, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 on July 3, 1988. Having found no evidence, Western powers continue to blame Russia for…
globalresearch.ca/us-downing-iranian-airliner-gone-history/5646167

'Help raise our voice': Dialogue with Dr. Medhat Abbas, Gaza
Pippa Bartolotti | workers.org | 2020-07-03
Dr. Medhat Abbas has been director general of primary health care in Shifa Hospital and Al Aqsa in Gaza. He spent time in the Ministry of Health International Relations Department and has extensive experience in Health Services Management. Dr. Abbas is at the forefront of community health services and management . . . | Continue reading 'Help raise our voice': Dialogue with Dr. Medhat Abbas, Gaza at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/49812/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=help-raise-our-voice-dialogue-with-dr-medhat-abbas-gaza

In the U.S., the Second Wave Is Already Here
John Feffer | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
While Europe and Asia track down three-digit infection spikes at worst, the U.S. is dealing with over 40,000 a day…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/in-the-u-s-the-second-wave-is-already-here/

Trump's Contagion Road Show Heads West
George Ochenski | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
The last thing any thinking person would do when faced with this crisis is take steps to make it worse. Yet, that's just what's happening as Trump seeks to halt federal funds for testing when the medical professionals are advising just the opposite…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-contagion-road-show-heads-west/

Police and the Wealth of Nations: Déjà Vu or Unfinished Business?
Peter Linebaugh | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
In the 1960s there was a wave of rioting, municipal rebellion, and challenges to property in the USA. In order to see that wave from a working-class point of view I went over to England to study riots and crime. In those days the theory was that the working-class could bring an end to capitalism, but historically before the working-class was "made," it consisted of a mob of the poor given to crimes. The horrid ones against people — assault, rape, murder — were relatively few. The ones against property – highway robbery, burglary, shop-lifting, house-breaking, pocket-picking – tended to be new, i.e., f…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/police-the-wealth-of-nations-deja-vu-or-unfinished-business/

On the Road to Justice with im/migrant TPS holders
a guest author | workers.org | 2020-07-03
By G. Lechat Inspired by the great Civil Rights Movement and in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, immigrant Temporary Protected Status recipients organizing with Alianza TPS Nacional are forging a "Road to Justice." This is the name they gave their 200+ car caravan that converged on Washington, D.C., June 23-24 . . . | Continue reading On the Road to Justice with im/migrant TPS holders at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/49822/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-the-road-to-justice-with-im-migrant-tps-holders

Nigeria third worst COVID-19-affected African country
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-03
According to official data, Nigeria has 6.3% of the COVID-19 cases on the African continent, while South Africa accounts for around 37%. However, Nigeria has conducted only 0.67 tests per 1,000 people, when the figure in South Africa stands at 27.48 tests every 1,000 people…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/03/nigeria-third-worst-covid-19-affected-african-country/

Israel Awaits US Authorization to Annex West Bank
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
Since the beginning of June, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to annex the West Bank, even calling on the armed forces to prepare for an invasion. Netanyahu's plan, he said, was to annex the territory of the West …
globalresearch.ca/israel-awaits-us-authorization-annex-west-bank/5717650

Cop Pulled A Gun On Woman's Unarmed Son, Then Used Facebook Posts Against Her In Court
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-03
PAR investigates police use of Facebook posts in the cases of Korryn Gaines, Arturo Adame, and Michael Avery, and follows Erica Hamlett's fight for accountability for an off-duty officer who pulled a gun on her child while he waited for a bus.
therealnews.com/stories/cop-pulled-a-gun-on-womans-unarmed-son-then-used-facebook-posts-against-her-in-court

The Mask as a Symbol of Subjugation
Bill Willers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-03
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. — The New England Journal of Medicine, May 21, 2020 (T)hey told us exactly what was coming, and advised us to shut up and follow orders. Tragically, most people have done just that. — CJ Hopkins, 2020 It's …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/the-mask-as-a-symbol-of-subjugation/

When Rogue States Sanction the International Criminal Court
Richard Falk | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
Even Orwell would be at a loss to make sense of some of the recent antics of leading governments. We would expect Orwell to be out-satirized by the American actions to impose penalties and sanctions on officials of the International Criminal Court, not because they are accused of acting improperly or seem guilty of some…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/when-rogue-states-sanction-the-international-criminal-court/

As COVID Burns Through the South and West, Trump Fans the Flames
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
Donald Trump would step on the dead faces of his own supporters in the street if he believed doing so would carry him closer to victory in November…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/as-covid-burns-through-the-south-and-west-trump-fans-the-flames/

A Requiem for George Floyd
John Davis | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
However complicit we may be in sustaining the historical-racial schema in this country, we can all now agree that, 'Black Lives Matter', but the tag's emblazonment across the country, and internationally, remains a hollow gesture unless there is meaningful collective action to create a social environment in which all black lives can indeed flourish – and matter.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/a-requiem-for-george-floyd/

Haiti: U.S. deports mortgage fraudster, backs repression
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-07-03
Emmanuel "Toto" Constant was in charge of FRAPH (the Revolutionary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti) during the 1991-94 coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide when this death-squad organization killed 3,000 people and wounded and maimed many more. During that time, he was also on the CIA's payroll. In . . . | Continue reading Haiti: U.S. deports mortgage fraudster, backs repression at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/49815/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=haiti-u-s-deports-mortgage-fraudster-backs-repression

The US Military Has Its Knee on the Throat of the World
Ellen Taylor | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
The 2021 Defense Budget is making its way through Congress. The annual drama of this event has always been of particular interest to residents of the north Pacific Coast, as the US Navy's nursery lies only twelve miles off our coast. This is where many of the weapons purchased by Congress take their first baby…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/the-us-military-has-its-knee-on-the-throat-of-the-world/

Why are Certain Christians Democratic and Others Authoritarian?
AEAWRWA | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
Why are certain Christians democratic and other Christians authoritarian, yet both profess belief in the same Bible and God? Why do some Christians emphasize personal authenticity and others biblical authority? Why do certain Christians want to empower people, and other Christians want to gain power over people? Why do some Christians believe that the goal…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/why-are-certain-christians-democratic-and-others-authoritarian/

The Desire to Kill
Steve Martinot | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
They don't know how to stop. They just don't know how. It doesn't matter how many people march in how many cities calling for the police to stop killing people, they don't stop. If a private affair is in progress, and someone says, "don't go in there," common decency would dictate that one not enter…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/the-desire-to-kill/

The War on Kitsch
David Yearsley | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
With all the talk of meddling in U. S. elections and bounties on U.S. soldiers, it's no small wonder that a Russian named Berlin can still claim to have composed this nation's best-loved song. Born in the Russian Empire in 1888, the immigrant Irving Berlin wrote both the words and the music to…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/the-war-on-kitsch-2/

What do 6 months of COVID-19 pandemic tell us about USA?
Sunil Freeman | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-03
Given the government's catastrophic profit-driven response and the lack of a vaccine, it's possible this pandemic is only in its early stages.
liberationnews.org/what-do-6-months-of-pandemic-tell-about-usa/

As Infection Rates Soar, Trump Says Virus Could Just 'Disappear'
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-07-03
As Infection Rates Soar, Trump Says Virus Could Just 'Disappear'…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-coronavirus-infection-rates/

Whose Freedom Do We Celebrate On The Fourth of July
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-03
What, to the descendants of those left out of the Declaration of Independence, is the Fourth of July?
therealnews.com/stories/whose-freedom-do-we-celebrate-on-the-fourth-of-july

Drawn Away from Reality in Plain View
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
"By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain," several false posts on Facebook and Twitter stated." "An extremely credible source has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud."
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/drawn-away-from-reality-in-plain-view/

A Statue of Hatuey
Don Fitz | mronline.org | 2020-07-03
As monuments to Columbus and confederate heroes topple and Democrats ponder which militarist they wish to glorify in their replacements, 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, who led the first guerrilla …
mronline.org/2020/07/02/a-statue-of-hatuey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-statue-of-hatuey

Cameroon and Nigeria: the Risk of Breathing
J.B. Gerald | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-03
There is a long history of human rights violations by Cameroon's government against its Anglophone people. Brutalized by war with Boko Haram, the Cameroon military is now engaged in low intensity warfare against militant Anglophone separatists. On May 15, 2019 for instance, Cameroon's military attacked Anglophone Separatist Bamenda, burning 70 dwellings and stores in retaliation …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/cameroon-and-nigeria-the-risk-of-breathing/

Family of 65-year-old Kashmiri civilian says he was killed by security forces
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-03
A civilian was allegedly killed by the Indian security forces in the Sopore district of Kashmir, according to his family. Following the incident, pictures of the deceased's grandson sitting on top of his dead body drenched in blood went viral on social media, triggering widespread condemnation…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/03/family-of-65-year-old-kashmiri-civilian-says-he-was-killed-by-security-forces/

How might Covid-19 change our schools long-term?
Diana Adjadj | nationofchange.org | 2020-07-03
What happens in the short-term will certainly be determined within the next several weeks. How institutions will deal with the longer-term impacts of this crisis are yet to be seen.
nationofchange.org/2020/07/02/how-might-covid-19-change-our-schools-long-term/

Communist youth in Austria resist fascist mobilizations
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-03
On July 1, Wednesday, the Communist Youth of Austria (KJO) brought out a statement calling for resistance against the rising fascist and racist manifestations in Vienna and other Austrian cities. The statement by the Vienna committee of the KJO was made in the backdrop of an attack by right-wing Turkish nationalists against a Kurdish gathering in Vienna on June 24, and the clashes that followed it. Last week's events have also led to some diplomatic hostility between Austria and Turkey. | According to reports, a group called Grey Wolves comprising right-wing sections within the Turkish diaspora in Vienna was resp…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/03/communist-youth-in-austria-resist-fascist-mobilizations/

Israel's Annexation Plans Explained in Nine Questions
Daniel Hilton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
The Israeli government has suggested that plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank could be revealed from 1 July. | Such a move has been condemned by Israel's allies and rivals alike as a dangerous escalation that could destabilise …
globalresearch.ca/israel-annexation-plans-explained-nine-questions/5717677

House Democrats Set to Give 850,000 Acres of Nevada Wildlife Refuge to Military

| globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
In a stunning development in the ongoing controversy over proposed military bombing range expansion in Nevada, the Democrat-led House Armed Services Committee today approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would give the U.S. Air Force jurisdiction …
globalresearch.ca/house-democrats-give-850000-acres-nevada-wildlife-refuge-military/5717683

Colombians march for dignity against state violence
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-03
Despite the national lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Colombian people continue to suffer at the hands of security forces and far-right armed groups. A series of assassinations of social leaders shook Colombia last weekend. In less than 24 hours, 4 Indigenous, peasant and social leaders were killed. The news of the rape of a 13-year-old Indigenous Embera girl by 7 soldiers has also sparked mass outrage.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/03/colombians-march-for-dignity-against-state-violence/

Profit Shares Soared After the Great Recession: News You Can't Get at the New York Times
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-07-03
Apparently Steven Rattner, a regular columnist at the New York Times, is unable to get government data on corporate profits. That is what readers must conclude from his column on the strength of the stock market in spite of a plunging economy. While Rattner rightly points to the fact that interest rates on bonds are …
cepr.net/profit-shares-soared-after-the-great-recession-news-you-cant-get-at-the-new-york-times/

India Unlocked: World's "Biggest Lockdown" and Workers' Long March
Pratyush Chandra | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-03
At times, states compete to showcase merchandise and relative productive capacities. Other times, many of these states sell misery to gain access to economic packages, charities and loans. Today is the time when they compete to show off their capacity to impose the most efficient lockdown on their citizenry. Of course, the priority is to …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/india-unlocked-worlds-biggest-lockdown-and-workers-long-march/

Remdesivir for Covid-19: $1.6 Billion for a "Modestly Beneficial" Drug?
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recently "bought" all of Gilead Science's Remdesivir for $1.6 billion. "500,000 doses at $3,200 per patient — to be available to American hospitals but not for other countries"[6] | That's $1.6 …
globalresearch.ca/remdesivir-covid-19-1-6-trillion-modestly-beneficial-drug/5717690

Is the nation opening its soul?
Robert Koehler | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
The ghosts of the past that are returning to the present moment could be the harbingers of unimaginable change…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-the-nation-opening-its-soul/

Imagining a New Mount Rushmore
Lawrence Weschler | thenation.com | 2020-07-03
Imagining a New Mount…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-independence-day-monument/

Criminalising Journalism: Australia's National Security Craze
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-07-03
asia-pacificresearch.com/criminalising-journalism-australia-national-security-craze/5629159

PSL gains ballot status in New Mexico
Chris Banks | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-03
The U.S. electoral system is rigged to give only the two ruling-class parties a competitive chance to win.
liberationnews.org/psl-gains-ballot-status-in-new-mexico/

My Adventures in the Matriarchy
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
I'm not talking about a fairytale matriarchy from long ago and far away. I'm talking about a matriarchy here and now in northern California. I live in one, though I imagine that some might say that it's not a true matriarchy. Maybe not, but as far as I'm concerned it's as close to a true…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/my-adventures-in-the-matriarchy/

On the Road to Justice with im/migrant TPS holders
| workers.org | 2020-07-03
By G. Lechat Inspired by the great Civil Rights Movement and in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, immigrant Temporary Protected Status recipients organizing with Alianza TPS Nacional are forging a "Road to Justice." This is the name they gave their 200+ car caravan that converged on Washington, D.C., June 23-24 . . . | Continue reading On the Road to Justice with im/migrant TPS holders at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/49822/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-the-road-to-justice-with-im-migrant-tps-holders

The Biden Problem
Barbara Ransby | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
Social Movements Must Defeat Trump & Also Hold Dems Accountable…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-biden-problem/

Huge COVID Case-counting Deception at the CDC
Jon Rappoport | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
For this piece, we have to enter the official world (of the insane)–where everyone is quite sure a new coronavirus was discovered in China and the worthless diagnostic tests mean something and the case numbers are real and meaningful. Once …
globalresearch.ca/huge-covid-case-counting-deception-cdc/5717670

Hollywood and the Pentagon are cheating on the American public
Jon Skolnik | mronline.org | 2020-07-03
Most propaganda machines are not observable to the naked eye, but the military-entertainment complex hides in plain sight. Long have Hollywood and the Pentagon worked together in what has been called a relationship of "mutual exploitation," producing war agitprop for the masses. Who is the victim amid all this exploitation?>…
mronline.org/2020/07/03/hollywood-and-the-pentagon-are-cheating-on-the-american-public/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hollywood-and-the-pentagon-are-cheating-on-the-american-public

Protecting migrant workers in Kuwait: a Resident Coordinator's blog
news.un.org | 2020-07-03
In Kuwait, the UN has played an important role in countering xenophobic rhetoric, falsely blaming the spread of COVID-19 on migrant workers. In this opinion piece, Tarek El Sheikh, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the country, highlights the efforts being made to safeguard the rights of foreign residents.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/07/1067652

Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf Military Personnel Trained in Britain as Yemen War Continues
Phil Miller | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
New data shows Britain's Royal Air Force trained Saudi personnel in 2019 on fighter jets used to bomb civilians in Yemen — a country on the brink of famine — while UK soldiers coached other forces in the Saudi-led coalition …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-gulf-military-personnel-trained-britain-yemen-war-continues/5717679

Unions Fight to Save South African Airways
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-03
The Spokesperson of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, talks about the ongoing struggle to ensure that the national carrier, South African Airways, can be saved. She explains why the unions have stridently opposed a plan to 'rescue' the airline presented by Business Rescue Practitioners and questions the logic of the plan. She also details the proposals the unions are putting forward to make sure that the airline and its employees' interests are safeguarded.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/03/unions-fight-to-save-south-african-airways/

US Buys Up Remdesivir: We Must Break Patents for Access to COVID-19 Drug
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-03
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha points out that countries must use the compulsory licence clause to make sure the drug is available to all. He also analyses how this might be a prelude to similar acts once a vaccine is available.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/03/us-buys-up-remdesivir-we-must-break-patents-for-access-to-covid-19-drug/

A statue of Hatuey
Don Fitz | mronline.org | 2020-07-03
As monuments to Columbus and confederate heroes topple and Democrats ponder which militarist they wish to glorify in their replacements, 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, who led the first guerrilla …
mronline.org/2020/07/02/a-statue-of-hatuey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-statue-of-hatuey

Is the Fourth of July Worth Celebrating?
Westenley Alcenat | thenation.com | 2020-07-03
Is the Fourth of July Worth Celebrating?
thenation.com/article/society/juneteenth-independence-day/

Countries Ranked on "Democracy" in 2020
Eric Zuesse | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-03
NATO and its supporters and member-nations are hiding the fact that the predominant belief in many of these nations is that they're dictatorships that merely pontificate 'democracy' to other nations. NATO, which is America's propagandistically 'pro-democracy' military alliance against Russia and against China, polled the people in 53 countries — some of which are in …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/countries-ranked-on-democracy-in-2020/

Perhaps it's time those accusing the left of antisemitism look in the mirror
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-07-03
Labour leader Keir Starmer recently sacked shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey after she shared an interview on social media that he said contained an "antisemitic conspiracy theory". Starmer claims he wants to se…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/07/03/perhaps-its-time-those-accusing-the-left-of-antisemitism-look-in-the-mirror/

Tokyo olympics and Fukushima 'revival'
Lau Kin Chi | mronline.org | 2020-07-03
At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics a young man born on the day of Hiroshima nuclear bombing was selected to be the last torch bearer on the relay, to signify that Japan had stood up from nuclear ruin. In an attempt to replicate the 1964 Olympic theme, the Abe government has constructed the idea of a …
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What Happens When Wildfires and Covid Collide?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-03
COVID-19 may make the impacts of the west's wildfire season more deadly, hitting aging and vulnerable communities the hardest.
therealnews.com/stories/what-happens-when-wildfires-and-covid-collide

The Coming Pandemic-Induced Eviction Crisis
Meagan Day | zcomm.org | 2020-07-03
If federal unemployment benefits are not extended when they expire next month, millions of households will be facing both steep rent and unemployment with no assistance. And that means mass evictions…
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Jessica González on Facebook's Promotion of Hate
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-07-03
Media…
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Behind the walls: a summary
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2020-07-03
Case numbers in the thousands At least 48,764 cases of COVID-19 have been reported among prisoners. The data suggest that even these numbers may be underreported. Texas leads in the number of cases with 7,757, followed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons with 6,621 cases. Ohio, Michigan, California and Tennessee . . . | Continue reading Behind the walls: a summary at Workers.org…
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The U.S. Military Is the World's Biggest Climate Destroyer. No to War and Occupation! No to Environmental Degradation
Alison Bodine | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-03
Talk by Alison Bodine at the United National Antiwar Coalition National Conference held from February 21–23, 2020, at the People's Forum in New York City. | *** | To begin, I hope everyone has been able to see actions across Canada in …
globalresearch.ca/us-military-world-biggest-climate-destroyer-no-war-occupation-no-environmental-degradation/5717658

Green structural adjustment in the World Bank's resilient cities
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-03
Cities across the world are facing a double-barreled existential problem: how to adapt to climate change and how to pay for it.
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Erdogan says Turkey to 'keep a close watch' on developments in Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
"Work between Turkey and Libya's legitimate government must continue very seriously and decisively," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.Erdogan also underlined that Ankara wants to "keep a close watch" on the developments in Libya as he informed that Turkish defense minister arrived in the civil-war-torned northern African country on Friday.Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Guler arrived in Libya to review the activities carried out under a memorandum of understanding between the two countries.Following the military ceremony at the Mitiga International A…
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Fortnite goes woke? Hit game to host new series of conversations about 'race in America'
rt.com | 2020-07-03
Epic Games, the developer of the massively popular Fortnite, has announced that it will air a series of conversations about race, featuring "prominent" black voices from various sectors. | The hit game, estimated to be played by a staggering 350 million people worldwide, will host the conversation series titled 'We The People' on Saturday. The program will be aired in the game's Battle Royale game mode. | Viewers will hear from speakers who include Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue. | Welteroth headed the magazine until September 2017 and was praised for injecting more social justice and p…
rt.com/usa/493772-fortnite-race-conversation-floyd/

Dead or In Prison
| workers.org | 2020-07-03
By Nanon Williams Workers World received this letter from Williams, a Texas prisoner. In the first week of June 2020, all the inmates at the Ramsey Unit in Rosharon, Texas, were tested for COVID-19. On the 6th and 7th of June, medical personnel and guards came to our cellblock 7 . . . | Continue reading Dead or In Prison at Workers.org…
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As tourists trickle back to resorts, Greeks have modest expectations
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
Shops shuttered and streets abandoned, the island of Rhodes is pinning its hopes on a trickle of tourists to salvage what is left of a holiday season decimated by the coronavirus pandemic.One of Greece's busiest resort islands, the cobbled streets of the imposing medieval city of Rhodes town were empty this week. At this rate, only a few hotels will open this year, locals say."We have never experienced anything like this, not at least for the past 50 to 60 years," said Manolis Markopoulos, head of the hoteliers association in Rhodes.Greece opened its regional airports, including in Rhodes, to travellers this week…
yenisafak.com/en/world/as-tourists-trickle-back-to-resorts-greeks-have-modest-expectations-3533622

Cuba's Two Pandemics: The Coronavirus And The US Embargo
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-03
As soon as the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in Cuba, our country mobilized all its resources to contain the spread of the virus. | Our healthcare workers go door to door checking people for possible symptoms. Those with symptoms are transferred to specially designated centers to receive treatment, mostly with medication developed by Cuba's own pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The medical examinations and treatments are all provided free of charge. | As of June 20, 85 people have died of COVID-19 in Cuba. Our mortality rate of 3.9 percent is very low compared to the rest of the world. We reached the p…
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Black Immigrants On The Front Lines Of COVID-19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-03
As the country continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Black immigrants — immigrants who identify as Black regardless of country or region of birth — are playing an important role on the front lines in healthcare, food supply, education, and biomedical industries. Black immigrants make up a significant portion of healthcare workers. In 2018, there were more than 560,000 Black immigrant workers in the healthcare sector. These workers made up 3.4 percent of all healthcare workers, a share almost three times their share of the U.S. population. In the food industry at large, there are over 223,000 Black immigrant…
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Trump Used Looted Venezuelan Public Money To Build Border Wall
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-03
Since the United States initiated a coup attempt against Venezuela's elected leftist government in January 2019, up to $24 billion worth of Venezuelan public assets have been seized by foreign countries, primarily by Washington and member states of the European Union. | President Donald Trump's administration has used at least $601 million of that looted Venezuelan money to fund construction of its border wall with Mexico, according to government documents first reviewed by Univision. | During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump insisted countless times that he would "make Mexico pay" to build a gargantuan wall…
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World Rebukes US Over Iran
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-03
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday sought to reassert America's waning influence on the world stage, challenging the U.N. Security Council to extend a U.N. arms embargo that is due to expire in October. Instead, America's top diplomat received a scolding from friends and foes alike in the 15-nation council, which roundly criticized Washington for withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal two years ago without a clear plan to limit Tehran's nuclear activities. | On a day when the European Union pointedly excluded the United States from a "safe list" of countries permitted to travel to the 27-member bloc, the c…
popularresistance.org/world-rebukes-us-over-iran/

Shell: Latest Oil Company To Do A Belly Flop
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-03
We're halfway through 2020, and I think we can all safely say it's been a pretty terrible year. There's been so much terrible stuff in the past two months alone, I can't even remember the bad stuff that happened in January. But I'm sure it sucked. | So I'll take minor bits of good news where I can get it. And the latest is Shell writing down $22 billion on its balance sheets, making it the latest oil company to acknowledge that things are probably not going back to the way they were. | The company announced it expected the dip in value to be driven by both its oil and gas sides of the business on Tuesday. The pro…
popularresistance.org/shell-latest-oil-company-to-do-a-belly-flop/

CFMMEU places green ban on Parramatta Museum historic sites
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-07-03
Workers & unions Jim McIlroyIssue 1271 Australia construction forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) Powerhouse MuseumJuly 3, 2020The Co…
greenleft.org.au/content/cfmmeu-places-green-ban-parramatta-museum-historic-sites

China's COVID-19 complex to produce over 100M vaccine
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
China has completed the construction of a research laboratory and workshop complex in the city of Wuhan for producing vaccines to combat COVID-19 or coronavirus pandemic, the state-run media said on Friday.While the laboratory is capable to research and study pathogenic virus vaccines, the workshop will produce over 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine annually, reported Xinhua news agency, quoting the China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm).The complex was earlier hit by the coronavirus pandemic, which first emerged in Wuhan city located in Central China's Hubei province last December.China National…
yenisafak.com/en/world/chinas-covid-19-complex-to-produce-over-100m-vaccine-3533629

Russia reports less than 7,000 cases for 8th day in row
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
Russia on Friday reported less than 7,000 new coronavirus for the eight consecutive day.A total of 6,718 cases were reported over the past 24 hours, raising the tally to 667,883, with active cases making up about a third of the total, the country's emergency task force said in a daily report.The virus claimed 176 lives over the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 9,859 while recoveries went up by 8,915 to reach 437,893, it added.Earlier this week, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said the country will continue increasing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests despite declining case numbers, to "identify new…
yenisafak.com/en/world/russia-reports-less-than-7000-cases-for-8th-day-in-row-3533635

Erdogan dispels accusations about Hagia Sophia
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
Turkey's president said Friday that accusations against the country about Hagia Sophia directly target its sovereignty.Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of a mosque in Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will always protect the rights of Muslims and the minorities living in the country.A Turkish court is about to announce its verdict on converting the 6th-century structure to a mosque.The Hagia Sophia was used as a church for 916 years. In 1453, it was converted into a mosque by Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II when the empire conquered Istanbul.Following the restoration work during the Ottoman era and…
yenisafak.com/en/world/erdogan-dispels-accusations-about-hagia-sophia-3533634

Pakistani FM Qureshi tests positive for COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, according to reports.'This afternoon I felt a slight fever and immediately quarantined myself at home. I have now tested positive for Covid 19. By the grace of Allah, I feel strong and energetic," Qureshi said on Twitter.He said he will continue to carry his duties from his home and requested the public to keep remember in their prayers.Previously, the country's two former prime ministers, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif, several cabinet members, lawmakers, and politicians ha…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistani-fm-qureshi-tests-positive-for-covid-19-3533633

Pakistan: 15 Sikh pilgrims die in van-train collision
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
At least 15 killed when a passenger van collided with a train near the northeastern Punjab province on Friday, said a railway official. The van was carrying a total of 25 Sikh Pilgrims when it crashed with Shah Hussain Express at 52 number railway crossing in Sheikhupura, near Lahore, the provincial capital, said Qurat ul Ain, a spokeswoman of the country's railway authorities, in a statement.Prime Minister Imran Khan took notice of the accident and offered condolences to the victims' families.
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistan-15-sikh-pilgrims-die-in-van-train-collision-3533617

'Top-level visit shows importance EU attaches to Turkey'
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell's upcoming visit to the Turkish capital reflects the importance the EU places on its relations with Turkey, the bloc's chief foreign policy spokesperson said on Friday. | Borrell will meet Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday in Ankara, Peter Stano confirmed. | The top diplomats will "discuss the overall relations and in particular the recent developments and tensions in our relations between the EU and Turkey, and between Turkey and individual member states," Stano explained. | He stressed that "the trip and the exchanges are the expressions of the importance…
yenisafak.com/en/world/top-level-visit-shows-importance-eu-attaches-to-turkey-3533628

Top Iran security body says cause of incident at Natanz nuclear site identified
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
Iran's top security body said on Friday the cause of an incident and fire at the Natanz nuclear site had been determined and will be announced later, semi-official news agency Tasnim reported."Investigations by the relevant agencies have accurately determined the cause of the incident… at the Natanz nuclear complex," spokesman Keyvan Khosravi said, according to Tasnim. "Due to security considerations, the cause and manner of the incident will be announced at a convenient time."Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation initially reported an "incident" had occurred early on Thursday at Natanz. It later published a photo…
yenisafak.com/en/world/top-iran-security-body-says-cause-of-incident-at-natanz-nuclear-site-identified-3533636

Turkey condoles with Myanmar over deadly landslide
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Turkey was deeply saddened that the landslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar has resulted in loss of at least 162 lives, while more than 54 were injured and unknown number of people went missing."We extend our heartfelt condolences to the relatives of those who lost their lives and to the friendly people of Myanmar, wish speedy recovery to those injured, and hope that the missing will be safely found soon," the ministry added.The landslide in the state of Kachin was caused by heavy rains, triggering a "muddy wave" which buried the miners collecting…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-condoles-with-myanmar-over-deadly-landslide-3533637

Close to 50 organized crime suspects remanded in Turkish custody
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
As many as 49 people in Turkey were remanded in custody on Friday for their alleged links to organized crime.On June 26, Turkish security forces had arrested 75 suspects in the western Izmir province during an operation against an organized crime group.The suspects were sent to the Izmir Courthouse.Forty-nine of them were remanded in custody by the court for their alleged involvement in organized crime, including drug trafficking and forming a crime syndicate.While 21 of the suspects were released by the court under judicial control, five others were released.* Writing by Fahri Aksut…
yenisafak.com/en/world/close-to-50-organized-crime-suspects-remanded-in-turkish-custody-3533630

Russia to reopen embassy in Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
Russia has decided to reopen its embassy in Libya, the Interfax news agency cited Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Friday.Lavrov said a ceasefire in the Libyan conflict, proposed by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi alongside Libya's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar in Cairo on June 6, fitted into decisions taken at an international conference in Berlin regarding the situation in the North African country.Lavrov was speaking at the start of a meeting with the speaker of Libya's pro-Haftar eastern parliament, Aguila Saleh.
yenisafak.com/en/world/russia-to-reopen-embassy-in-libya-3533620

Macron names Jean Castex as prime minister in government overhaul
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named Jean Castex, a top civil servant and local mayor who orchestrated France's exit from its coronavirus lockdown, as prime minister in a high-stakes cabinet reshuffle.Castex will be tasked be forming the next government, the Elysee Palace said in a short statement. He replaces Edouard Philippe, who resigned earlier on Friday.
yenisafak.com/en/world/macron-names-jean-castex-as-prime-minister-in-government-overhaul-3533619

Indigenous leaders angry about coronavirus risk from Brazilian military visit
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
Leaders of an isolated indigenous Yanomami community in Brazil have complained that a military mission to protect them from the coronavirus brought greater risk of infection to their people through contact with outsiders including journalists.Federal prosecutors said they were investigating the visit for ignoring the wishes of Yanomami communities to remain isolated from society, violating rules of social distancing and distributing chloroquine to indigenous people.On Tuesday and Wednesday, soldiers brought medical supplies by helicopter to outposts on the border with Venezuela and assembled Yanomami families to…
yenisafak.com/en/news/indigenous-leaders-angry-about-coronavirus-risk-from-brazilian-military-visit-3533615

EU grants conditional clearance to COVID-19 antiviral remdesivir
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
The EU executive said the drug, produced by Gilead Sciences Inc, was the first medicine authorised in the European Union for treating COVID-19 following a "rolling review" begun by the European Medicines Agency at the end of April.The agency reviews data as they become available on a rolling basis, while development is still ongoing.The Commission said on Wednesday it was in negotiations with Gilead to obtain doses of remdesivir for the 27 European Union countries.However, that may prove difficult after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it had secured all of Gilead's projected production…
yenisafak.com/en/world/eu-grants-conditional-clearance-to-covid-19-antiviral-remdesivir-3533623

Turkey accuses France of committing crimes in Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
Turkey's ruling party spokesman on Friday accused France of committing crimes in civil war-torn Libya."France has committed crimes in Libya," said Omer Celik, spokesman for the Justice and Development (AK) Party.Celik said as France's crimes have surfaced with mass graves, it is posing as a human rights defender to get away with the crimes by blaming Turkey.Recalling France's colonial history, he said: "France is guilty.""[France] cannot cover those mass graves by excessive attacks on Turkey or on our president."Libya has been torn by civil war since the ouster of late ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The country's…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-accuses-france-of-committing-crimes-in-libya-3533621

Growing number of mercenaries to Sirte deepens conflict in Libya: Analysis
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-03
By Ferhat Polat – The writer is a researcher at the TRT World Research CentreOver the past two months, there has been a drastic change on the ground in Libya as forces loyal to the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) have pushed Haftar's self-declared Libyan National Army (LNA) to the borders of the coastal city of Sirte, some 450 km east of Tripoli, and Al-Jufra airbase in central Libya.Since January this year, Turkey has intervened determinedly in the Libyan conflict, providing air support, weapons, and technical assistance to the UN-backed government, and this Turkish support has rec…
yenisafak.com/en/world/growing-number-of-mercenaries-to-sirte-deepens-conflict-in-libya-analysis-3533632

Khaf-Herat railway to come on stream in Nov
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-03
TEHRAN, Jul. 04 (MNA) — Khaf-Herat Railway will become operational before the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2021).
en.mehrnews.com/news/160490/Khaf-Herat-railway-to-come-on-stream-in-Nov

Iran, Iraq discuss expansion of defense coop
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-03
TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) — Iranian and Iraqi military officials discussed on the ways to expand security and defense cooperation between the two countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160481/Iran-Iraq-discuss-expansion-of-defense-coop

Tehran hosts 12th Doors & Windows Exhibition
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-03
TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) — The 12th Specialized Doors & Windows Technology International Exhibition was inaugurated at Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds on Thu July 02.
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Armed forces ready to respond to any US despicable move
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-03
TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Defense (MoD) Brigadier General Amir Hatami said that Iran's Armed forces is ready to respond to any US malicious move authoritatively.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160488/Armed-forces-ready-to-respond-to-any-US-despicable-move

105 recorded violations by US-Saudi aggression in Yemen
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-03
TEHRAN, Jul. 04 (MNA) — The US-Saudi aggression has committed 105 violations of truce against Yemen's Hodeidah during the past 24 hours.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160485/105-recorded-violations-by-US-Saudi-aggression-in-Yemen

No more slaves and masters: Twitter engineers BAN whole range of terms in fight for 'more inclusive language'
rt.com | 2020-07-03
Twitter's engineering team will systematically purge a list of offensive terms from its source code and internal documents in the name of political correctness. Terms like "master" and "slave" will go, as will gendered pronouns. | "We're starting with a set of words we want to move away from using in favor of more inclusive language," Twitter Engineering announced on Wednesday. | Among the terms to be terminated are "whitelist" and "blacklist," "master" and "slave," which will be replaced with "allowlist" and "denylist," and "leader" and "follower" respectively. Gendered pronouns such as "guys" will be swapped…
rt.com/news/493764-twitter-bans-offensive-language/

France to probe ex-PM & minister over handling of Covid-19 — prosecutors
rt.com | 2020-07-03
France's former prime minister Edouard Philippe and its health officials will be the targets of a probe into the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors say. | Health minister Olivier Véran and his predecessor Agnès Buzyn will be investigated, along with Philippe, the attorney general said. | The probe comes after nine complaints were found to be admissible by the Court of Justice of the Republic "on the sole count of abstention from fighting a disaster." | | Edouard Philippe arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace. © Reuters / Christian Hartmann | Philippe resi…
rt.com/news/493758-france-investigate-pm-coronavirus/

US govt providing unsterile Covid-19 screening supplies amid surge in testing demand, claims Washington state
rt.com | 2020-07-03
Medical supplies sent by the federal government to help with coronavirus testing have been too slow to arrive and have failed quality control checks, according to Washington state's top health official. | A US government program aimed at supporting nationwide testing efforts has been "beset by logistical problems that impede our pandemic response and undermine our shared goals," Washington state Secretary of Health John Wiesman wrote in a letter to US Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brett Giroir. | Wiesman claimed that his state had received around 250,000 bulk-packaged swabs from the federal government…
rt.com/usa/493650-washington-sterile-covid-tests-supplies/

The right time to defund cops? NYC gun crime hitting new heights as city culls police budget by $1bn
rt.com | 2020-07-03
Three people were murdered in New York overnight into Thursday, in line with a grim trend that saw police responding to the highest number of shootings in over 20 years last month amid a leftist push to divest from the force. | …
rt.com/usa/493659-new-york-crime-surge-police/

'Great news!' Trump hails falling coronavirus daily death counts, brushes off concerns over spike in cases
rt.com | 2020-07-03
US President Donald Trump has argued that the recent surge in coronavirus cases is explained by "massive" and ramped up screenings for the illness, while celebrating the fall in daily fatalities as "great news." | The president took to Twitter late on Thursday night to repurpose what has been widely deemed gloomy news about the course of the pandemic, saying the case spike is, in fact, a function of expanded testing around the country. | "There is a rise in coronavirus cases because our testing is so massive and so good, far bigger and better than any other country. This is great news, but even better news is…
rt.com/usa/493648-trump-coronavirus-cases-tests/

Germany joins tiny host of European nations by making 'upskirting' punishable crime
rt.com | 2020-07-03
German MPs have followed their UK and French colleagues, backing legislation that carries a fine or even a prison term for taking unsolicited photos under somebody's clothing. | The Bundestag voted in favor of a law on "improving privacy protection" this Friday, thus outlawing the practice. | From now on, anyone trying to film under somebody's clothing in order to see their underwear or private parts will face a fine or a maximum prison term of up to two years. Under existing laws, upskirting was deemed a minor offence punishable only by a small fine. | Minister Christine Lambrecht, who championed the legislat…
rt.com/news/493709-germany-upskirting-criminal-offense/

British MoD taught Saudi troops how to 'stay popular with the press,' as 100s trained in UK last year — report
rt.com | 2020-07-03
Amid the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, some of its soldiers were taught in the UK how to look good in front of the world's media in case of any "potential wrongdoing," a new report says. | Ministry of Defence data published by Declassified UK reveals that hundreds of Saudis entered the country for training at six Royal Air Force (RAF) sites in 2019. As the Saudis arrived, their country's campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels entered its fourth year, and a ban on UK-made weapons exports to the desert kingdom came into effect, in response to growing human-rights concerns. | Although the UK's training of…
rt.com/uk/493777-saudi-military-training-uk/

Exploring the sun and targeting cancer: News from the College
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-07-03
Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/199094/exploring-targeting-cancer-news-from-college

Germany agrees plan to phase out coal as energy source by 2038
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-03
German politicians have finalised the country's long-awaited phase-out of coal as an energy source, backing a plan that environmental groups say is not ambitious enough.Bills approved by both houses of parliament on 3 July envision shutting down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 and spending some 40 billion euros to help affected regions cope with the transition.The plan is part of Germany's "energy transition", an effort to wean Europe's biggest economy off planet-warming fossil fuels and generate all of the country's considerable energy needs from renewable sources.Achieving that goal is made harder than…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/07/03/germany-agrees-plan-to-phase-out-coal-as-energy-source-by-2038/

After thousands of coronavirus deaths in care homes, government announces regular testing programme for staff and residents
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-03
Staff and residents in care homes for people over 65 or with dementia will be regularly tested for coronavirus (Covid-19) from week beginning 6 July, the government has announced.The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) announced a new social care testing strategy on 3 July. As part of the strategy, staff will be tested weekly, while residents will receive a test every 28 days. This is in addition to intensive testing in any care home facing an outbreak or at increased risk of a flare-up, the department added.The repeat testing programme will be rolled out over the next four weeks to all care homes for the…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/07/03/after-thousands-of-coronavirus-deaths-in-care-homes-government-announces-regular-testing-programme-for-staff-and-residents/

Wales and Scotland hit out at UK government's 'shambolic' actions on quarantine
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-03
The UK government's handling of the easing of quarantine restrictions for international arrivals has been "shambolic", according to the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales.Following weeks of speculation, transport secretary Grant Shapps announced on 3 July that people returning to or visiting England from around 60 countries and overseas territories deemed to have low rates of coronavirus, such as Spain and France, will not need to self-isolate.His department was unable to convince the devolved administrations to sign off on the plan before it was made public.Grant Shapps said the announcement was good…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/03/wales-and-scotland-hit-out-at-uk-governments-shambolic-actions-on-quarantine/

Tory government splashes £400m of taxpayers' cash on a bankrupt satellite company
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-03
The government has taken a major stake in the failed satellite company OneWeb, in a drive to develop a sovereign UK space capability. | The UK is part of a consortium with India's Bharti Global which won a bidding war for the company, which went bankrupt earlier this year while trying to develop a space network to deliver broadband. | Ministers hope it will compensate for the loss of access to the EU's Galileo programme in the wake of Brexit. | The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the UK and mobile operator Bharti are each investing 500 million US dollars ( £400m), with Britain a…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/03/tory-government-splashes-400m-of-taxpayers-cash-on-a-bankrupt-satellite-company/

Community Safety Without Police: Interview with CAHOOTS / White Bird coordinator Tim Black
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
Interview with Tim Black, operations coordinator at CAHOOTS / White Bird Clinic in Eugene, Oregon discussing 30 years of community-based safety and security instead of policing.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/02/18834819.php

Newsom Administration Rushes Forward with Delta Tunnel Project During A Pandemic
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
"The decision to move forward with trying to obtain a federal permit using a set proposal, intakes and tunnel corridor so soon after the scoping period ended, and during a Pandemic, shows that state never had any intention of considering stakeholder input," said Regina Chichizola, co-director of Save California Salmon.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/03/18834826.php

Friday 7/3: "BLACK LIVES MATTER" / Anti-War Light Brigade
Toby Blomé | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
I-80 Pedestrian pedestrian bridge, south of University Ave. | Gather at 8: 50 pm in open parking area, southwest corner of University Ave. Short walk to get up to the bridge. | Accessed by west side frontage road.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/03/18834823.php

Saturday 7/4: 4th of July: "Defund Police, Defund Pentagon, Fund Community & Life!"
cynthia papermaster | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
1: 00 – SF City Hall | 1: 30 – 762 Fulton, Black Lives Matter street mural | 2: 00 – Divisadero & Broadway, Nancy Pelosi's House | 3: 00 – Bayview Hunters Point, 11 Innes Court, Lennar office…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/02/18834815.php

Saturday 7/4: Fuck the Fourth, Love Your Friends
Santa Cruz for Abolition | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
Clocktower, Pacific Avenue and Water Street, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834813.php

Monterey Zoo Faces Scrutiny Over Elephant Deaths
PETA | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
Salinas, Calif. [June 30, 2020] — PETA has just obtained necropsies for two elephants, Paula and Kristy, who died at the Monterey Zoo in 2019–and the reports raise serious questions about the level of care that the animals received prior to their deaths.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/02/18834818.php

Patients Demand SF General Remove Zuckerberg Name
Michael Petrelis | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
Zuckerberg's name on SF General Hospital must be deleted…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/03/18834827.php

Friday 7/3: Plague-Time Play-Time
Craig Baldwin | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
ATA GALLERY, 992 Valencia Street…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/02/18834821.php

Acoma Pueblo Simon Ortiz: Trump's Self-Celebration Reflected in Mount Rushmore Imperialism
Simon Ortiz | indybay.org | 2020-07-03
Acoma Pueblo poet, professor and author Simon Ortiz reflects on the egotism and arrogance of Trump and his self-celebration, as Trump plans to inject himself into the Black Hills during the coronavirus pandemic.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/02/18834814.php

Seriously, Get the Hell Out of Afghanistan
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-03
The continued Afghanistan occupation is like if the police stormed a house, shot a bunch of people, realized they got the wrong house and they'd never find the guy they were looking for by staying there, stayed anyway, moved in, and then years later said they can't move out because they heard a rumor that the neighbors are trying to make them leave.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/03/seriously-get-the-hell-out-of-afghanistan/

#DefundThePolice the Real Strategy Behind the Hashtag
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-03
The demands of revolutionaries are purposely vague. They always have to do with some feelings-based desire like "freedom" or ending "oppression". The government can create a law, remove a tax, or do all sorts of specific things, but there is nothing that they can do to make you feel freedom or non oppressed. In today's America regardless of any factual evidence there are some who feel like they live in a freedom packed utopia while others claim that they are living under the heel of Hitler 2.0. Both of these positions are based on intuition and feelings not a universal rational freedom scale, which simply could n…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/03/defundthepolice-real-strategy-behind-hashtag/

Britain's Disorder and Decline
Brian Cloughley | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-03
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is no longer united, as most recently illustrated by the vastly dissimilar tactics to control the Covid-19 pandemic taken by England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This follows the differences of opinion in each region concerning the disastrous Brexit decision to quit the European Union, as…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/britains-disorder-and-decline/

51 Years After Stonewall, New York's Queer Liberation March Faces Police Violence
Jay Walker | thenation.com | 2020-07-03
51 Years After Stonewall, New York's Queer Liberation March Faces Police Violence…
thenation.com/article/society/queer-liberation-march-police-violence/

Last Process: 179 Postees: 2020-07-04 02:14 GMT (22:14 EST)

"Russia is Paying the Taliban": Afghan Bounty Scandal Comes at Suspiciously Important Time for US Military Industrial Complex
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
The latest scandal, like others before it, is based on scant testimony by anonymous officials and has had the effect of pushing liberal opinion on US foreign policy into a far more hawkish direction. | *** | Based on anonymous intelligence …
globalresearch.ca/afghan-bounty-scandal-comes-suspiciously-important-time-us-military-industrial-complex/5717605

Lee Camp: How the Media Used the Bounty Scandal to Stop the 'Threat' of Peace in Afghanistan
Lee Camp | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-02
This is not a column defending Donald Trump. | Across my career, I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been shown to read more.) | No, this is a column about context. When The New York Times reports anonymous sources from the intelligence community say Russia paid Taliban fighters to kill American soldiers, context is very important. | Some of that context is that Mike Pompeo said, "I was the CIA director — We lied, we cheated, we sto…
mintpressnews.com/connecting-dates-us-media-used-stop-threat-peace-afghanistan/269150/

Russia Did It Again — Chasing the Bounty Hunters
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
Russia did it again. This time Moscow is accused of "paying to kill Americans". How criminal! | Such things only Americans would do — Washington, the Pentagon, CIA…. Because killing and have killed is in their mindset and bloodstream. That's what …
globalresearch.ca/russia-did-it-again-chasing-bounty-hunters/5717549

Israeli Settlers Steal Water, Raze Palestinian-owned Lands near Nablus
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-02
Illegal Israeli settlers, Wednesday, levelled large stretch of Palestinian-owned land, in the northern West Bank districts of Nablus and Qalqilia, local sources said. Palestinian official who monitors Israeli settlement activity in the area, Ghassan Daghlas, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that illegal Israeli colonists, accompanied by a bulldozer, proceeded to …
imemc.org/article/illegal-israeli-settlers-raze-palestinian-owned-lands-steal-water-near-nablus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=illegal-israeli-settlers-raze-palestinian-owned-lands-steal-water-near-nablus

Biden Compared Indicted War Criminal to "George Washington"
Jeremy Kuzmarov | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
In 2010, current Democratic Party presidential hopeful Joe Biden Jr. referred to Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader Hashim Thaci as the "George Washington of Kosovo." On June 24th, it was reported that Thaci had to cancel a trip to Washington because of his indictment by the Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity. These…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/biden-compared-indicted-war-criminal-to-george-washington/

Israel Guilty of Crimes against Humanity, Genocide: 2013 Judgment of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
Israel is currently in the process of implementing the illegal annexation of Palestinian lands. The issue of "illegality" must be put in context. We are dealing with a broader issue: Crimes against Humanity and Genocide against the People of Palestine. …
globalresearch.ca/kuala-lumpur-tribunal-finds-israel-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-genocide/5359404

Israel Guilty of Crimes against Humanity, Genocide against the People of Palestine
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
Israel is currently in the process of implementing the illegal annexation of Palestinian lands. The issue of "illegality" must be put in context. We are dealing with a broader issue: Crimes against Humanity and Genocide against the People of Palestine. …
globalresearch.ca/kuala-lumpur-tribunal-finds-israel-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-genocide/5359404

Trump's Record on Foreign Policy: Lost Wars, New Conflicts and Broken Promises
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
On June 13, President Donald Trump told the graduating class at West Point, "We are ending the era of endless wars." That is what Trump has promised since 2016, but the "endless" wars have not ended. Trump has dropped | …
globalresearch.ca/trump-record-foreign-policy-lost-wars-new-conflicts-broken-promises/5717561

Lost Wars, New Conflicts and Broken Promises
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-07-02
Trump's Record on Foreign Policy…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/lost-wars-new-conflicts-and-broken-promises/

We Must Not Let Masters of Capital Define the Post-COVID World
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-07-02
Those who have primary responsibility for the multiple crises that imperil us today are hard at work, relentlessly, to ensure that the system they created, and from which they have greatly benefited, will endure…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-must-not-let-masters-of-capital-define-the-post-covid-world/

Some Conspiracy Theories Are for Real
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-02
What is the best way to debunk a conspiracy theory? Call it a conspiracy theory, a label which in and of itself implies disbelief. | What is the best way to debunk a conspiracy theory? Call it a conspiracy theory, a label which in and of itself implies disbelief. The only problem with that is there have been many actual conspiracies both historically and currently and many of them are not in the least theoretical in nature. Conspiracies of several kinds brought about American participation in both world wars. And however one feels about President Donald Trump, it must be conceded that he has been the victim of a…

Some Conspiracy Theories Are for Real

Touting Dubious Remdesivir Over Promising Hydroxychloroquine for Treating COVID-19
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
An analysis published by Emory (Law) Corporate Governance and Accountability Review is appropriately titled: | "Thick as Thieves? Big Pharma Wields its Power with the Help of Government Regulation." | Big Pharma controls the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). | Its primary …
globalresearch.ca/touting-remdesivir-over-hydroxychloroquine-treating-covid-19/5717581

Historic Constitutional Changes in Russia
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
In January during an address to Russian lawmakers, Vladimir Putin proposed long overdue changes to the country's out-of-date Constitution. | They include what Sputnik International called "a heavy focus on social and organizational/governance issues" — notably guaranteeing a living wage and …
globalresearch.ca/historic-constitutional-changes-russia/5717576

Venezuela denounces 'absurd decision' of UK to retain its gold reserves
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-02
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…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/02/venezuela-denounces-absurd-decision-of-uk-to-retain-its-gold-reserves/

America's Two Right-Wing Parties Keep Accusing Each Other Of Being Far-Left
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-02
has a new Spanish-language ad out claiming that President Trump is cut from the same cloth as leftist leaders Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolas Maduro. This is not the first time the Biden campaign has done this, with the same comparison made to Spanish-speaking voters in Florida ads last month. | The hashtag #ComradeTrump is trending on Twitter as of this writing because a

America’s Two Right-Wing Parties Keep Accusing Each Other Of Being Far-Left

The Fourth Estate Has Murdered America. The NYT "Made Up The Story"?
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
The "news service" of multi-billionaire Bloomberg echoes the New York Times lie that Russia paid the Taliban to kill US occupying troops: | "Lawmakers from both U.S. political parties demanded President Donald Trump hold Russia accountable over allegations it offered cash …
globalresearch.ca/fourth-estate-murdered-america/5717542

Tear Gas and Clubs in Lafayette Square Were Just the Beginning
Dave Lindorff | thenation.com | 2020-07-02
Tear Gas and Clubs in Lafayette Square Were Just the Beginning…
thenation.com/article/activism/occupy-black-lives-matter/

We are in Palestine, Habibi, and Palestine is Heaven
Vijay Prashad | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-02
Sliman Mansour (Palestine), Revolution Was the Beginning, 2016. Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. It is impossible to be calm about the fate of the Palestinian people. Since 1948, they have been denied their country and denied their right to exist. One United Nations resolution upon another has said that …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/we-are-in-palestine-habibi-and-palestine-is-heaven/

Video: Internal Tensions Do Not Stop Militants from Provocations in Southern Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
Late on June 30, fighting resumed near the villages of Kansafrah, Al-Ruwayha and Bayanin in southern Idlib between the Syrian Army and Turkish-backed militants. Intense artillery shelling also targeted positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham across the Jabal Al-Zawiyah area. Pro-militant …
globalresearch.ca/video-internal-tensions-not-stop-militants-provocations-southern-idlib/5717546

Protests erupt across Palestine against Israeli annexation plan
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-02
Protesters gathered in major West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jericho and Bethlehem, as well as in Gaza city in Gaza, to put forth a united Palestinian front against Israel's illegal, unilateral actions…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/02/protests-erupt-across-palestine-against-israeli-annexation-plan/

Israeli annexation of West Bank: More stolen land as time runs out for occupation
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-02
The Israeli apartheid regime is poised to commit a new crime against Palestine: the annexation of up to 30% of the West Bank. As things stand Israel effectively controls Palestine, with the heroic people of Gaza confined to an open prison and the hapless Palestinian Authority serving as accomplices to the occupation. | The significance of the annexation is twofold. First, it codifies the theft of Palestinian land. It is a statement to one and all, "We are stealing this, and it is ours forever." Second, it is the declaration of the end of a solution that was never really a solution at all, the so-called 'two state…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/2/israeli-annexation-west-bank-more-stolen-land-time-runs-out-occupation

Israeli annexation of West Bank: More stolen land as time runs out for occupation
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-02
The Israeli apartheid regime is poised to commit a new crime against Palestine: the annexation of up to 30% of the West Bank. As things stand Israel effectively controls Palestine, with the heroic people of Gaza confined to an open prison and the hapless Palestinian Authority serving as accomplices to the occupation. | The significance of the annexation is twofold. First, it codifies the theft of Palestinian land. It is a statement to one and all, "We are stealing this, and it is ours forever." Second, it is the declaration of the end of a solution that was never really a solution at all, the so-called 'two state…
fightbacknews.org/2020/7/2/israeli-annexation-west-bank-more-stolen-land-time-runs-out-occupation

US Media Used To Stop The 'Threat' Of Peace
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
This is not a column defending Donald Trump. | Across my career I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been shown to read more.) | No, this is a column about context. When The New York Times reports anonymous sources from the intelligence community say Russia paid Taliban fighters to kill American soldiers, context is very important. | Some of that context is that Mike Pompeo said, "I was the CIA director — We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses." So we know for certain that U.S. intelligence ag…
popularresistance.org/media-used-to-stop-the-threat-of-peace/

Anti-Russia War Fever Spreads On Capitol Hill
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
Groups of congressional Republicans and Democrats have visited the White House over the past two days for briefings on allegations that the Russian military intelligence agency GRU offered bounties to Taliban fighters who killed American soldiers in Afghanistan. | They have emerged bristling with demands for retaliation, with one Republican senator declaring, "I want to hear their plan for Taliban and GRU agents in body bags"–in other words, for military action by the United States against Russia, possessor of the world's second largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. | The "Russian bounties" campaign is a fa…
popularresistance.org/anti-russia-war-fever-spreads-on-capitol-hill/

What Price Will Israel Pay For Annexing The Last Of Palestine?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
The systematic and collective appropriation of Palestinian land by the State of Israel is not an accident of British colonial history. Palestinians are not the Chagos Islanders of the Eastern Mediterranean, a people considered by the UK government to be too weak and scattered to bother about. | The dispossession of Palestinian land was a product of British foreign policy. Lord Balfour may not have intended a Jewish state when he issued his declaration in 1917 recognising the rights of Jews to set up a "homeland", a deliberately ambiguous phrase. At that point, two percent of Palestine was owned by Jews. | In an e…
popularresistance.org/what-price-will-israel-pay-for-annexing-the-last-of-palestine/

History Provides Clues Into Israel's West Bank Annexation
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
Palestine has been annexed, occupied, stolen, and Palestinians have been dispossessed, exiled, caged, detained, subjected to an apartheid regime, and killed by the state of Israel for over seven decades. Every few years the world wakes up to protest some aspect of Israeli apartheid, occupation, or a massacre, and then it returns safely to its deep slumber. | Every so often, Israel manages to awaken the angst of the European Union and other international organizations with some announcement or another, a murderous attack on Palestinians, a declaration of annexation or "sovereignty," and then, as if under the influ…
popularresistance.org/history-provides-clues-into-israels-west-bank-annexation/

Crime reports in Seattle 5 TIMES higher amid 'narcotics use & violent crime' in CHOP zone
rt.com | 2020-07-02
Seattle saw a 525-percent spike in crime reports due to violence and turmoil within the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, according to figures released by the city's mayor as she authorized police to clear the site. | Mayor Jenny Durkan's executive order to oust the protesters from the self-proclaimed six-block cop-free zone states the "narcotics use and violent crime, including rape, robbery, assault, and increased gang activity" since 'CHOP' first appeared in early June. | In less than a month, the self-declared "autonomous zone" has seen two deadly shootings and a serious hike in reported incidents of cr…
rt.com/usa/493612-crime-spike-seattle-chop-protesters/

Wednesday 7/1: The Fight for Reproductive Rights: A Supreme Court Briefing
DJCFPD | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Online via Zoom & livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834786.php

Saturday 7/4: The Place of the Two American Revolutions in the Past, Present and Future
World Socialist Web Site | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
This event will be streamed live throughout the world on July 4th at 1: 30 pm EDT, 10: 30 am PDT at www.wsws.org/live.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834801.php

Barbara Ransby on the Biden Problem: Social Movements Must Defeat Trump & Also Hold Dems Accountable
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-02
Amid a mass uprising against racism and state violence, social movements are not just fighting hostility and backlash from President Trump, but also dealing with a "Biden problem," according to historian, author and activist Barbara Ransby. "I think it's fair to say that Joe Biden is not our dream candidate, by any means," she says. "We should be critical of Joe Biden. We should be ready to hold Joe Biden accountable come January. But we should be clear about the need to defeat Trump in November."
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/2/barbara_ransby_trump_biden_2020

Did the Army Ignore a Soldier's Murder? Questions Mount over Vanessa Guillén Disappearance
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-02
The U.S. Army says it has a suspect in custody in connection with the disappearance of Vanessa Guillén, a missing 20-year-old Fort Hood soldier whose family says her remains were likely found in a shallow grave near the Texas Army base. A second suspect in the case — a soldier who the Guillén family lawyer named as Aaron Robinson — killed himself in Killeen, Texas, as officers approached. The news comes after months of anguish for Vanessa Guillén's family, who say she was sexually harassed by a higher-up prior to her disappearance and that the military was slow to investigate when she went missing. We…
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/2/vanessa_guillen_fort_hood_disappearance_murder

The Untold History of Mount Rushmore: A KKK Sympathizer Built Monument on Sacred Lakota Land
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-02
As tribal governments call on President Trump to cancel his Mount Rushmore Independence Day celebration, we look at why Native Americans have long pushed for the removal of the monument carved into the sacred Black Hills and designed by a sculptor with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. "This place is very, very sacred to our people," says Nick Tilsen, president and CEO of the NDN Collective. "Stealing our land and then carving the faces of four white men who were colonizers, who committed genocide against Indigenous people, is an egregious act of violence."
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/2/nick_tilsen_mount_rushmore_trump

The Untold History of Mount Rushmore: A Friend of the KKK Built Monument on Sacred Lakota Land
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-02
As tribal governments call on President Trump to cancel his Mount Rushmore Independence Day celebration, we look at why Native Americans have long pushed for the removal of the monument carved into the sacred Black Hills and designed by a sculptor with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. "This place is very, very sacred to our people," says Nick Tilsen, president and CEO of the NDN Collective. "Stealing our land and then carving the faces of four white men who were colonizers, who committed genocide against Indigenous people, is an egregious act of violence."
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/2/nick_tilsen_mount_rushmore_trump

Tearing Down the Idols of Colonialism: Why Tunisia, Africa Must Demand French Apology
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-02
The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was intended to discuss bilateral relations, trade, etc. But it was also a missed opportunity, where Tunisia could have formally demanded an apology from France for the decades of French colonialism, which has shattered the social and political fabric of this North …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/tearing-down-the-idols-of-colonialism-why-tunisia-africa-must-demand-french-apology/

UK 'Recognized' Juan Guiado as Venezuela President, Rules High Court in Gold Dispute
Al Arabiya | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
Britain has "recognized" Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country's president, the UK High Court has ruled, in case over who controls the country's gold reserves stored in London. | High court judge Nigel Teare handed down a Judgment ruling …
globalresearch.ca/uk-recognized-juan-guiado-venezuela-president-rules-high-court-gold-dispute/5717602

UK Court Denies Venezuela $1bn in Gold Needed to Fight Virus
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-07-02
Caracas vowed to appeal the "outrageous" decision recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's head of state.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14929

Saharawi activist Mahfouda Bamba Lefkir, "I left the small prison just to enter the big one"
Equipe Media | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-02
After six months in jail on a politically-motivated charge, Saharawi Human rights activist Mahfouda Bamba Lefkir has been released but enjoys only partial freedom…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/02/saharawi-activist-mahfouda-bamba-lefkir-i-left-the-small-prison-just-to-enter-the-big-one/

Saharawi activist Mahfouda Bamba Lefkir, "I left the small prison just to enter the big one"
Equipe Media | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-02
After six month imprisonment for a politically-motivated charge, Saharawi Human rights activist Mahfouda Bamba Lefkir enjoys only partial freedom…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/02/saharawi-activist-mahfouda-bamba-lefkir-i-left-the-small-prison-just-to-enter-the-big-one/

Convocatoria Jornadas Ecofeministas antiextractivistas
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Convocatoria 4 y 5 de julio | JORNADAS ECOFEMINISTAS ANTIEXTRACTIVISTAS POR EL BUEN VIVIR…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834780.php

NYC activists reclaim spirit of Stonewall: Black, queer resistance
Ray Emerson | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-02
Fifty-one years since the original Stonewall Rebellion, it is clear the racist system of capitalism cannot bring about liberation for any oppressed people.
liberationnews.org/nyc-activists-reclaim-spirit-of-stonewall-black-queer-resistance/

The Kafkaesque Imperium: Julian Assange and the Second Superseding Indictment
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
The Kafkaesque Imperium has taken yet another absurd step towards mean absurdity with another superseding indictment against Julian Assange. This move by the US Department of Justice seems to have surprised those involved in his extradition proceedings. Mark Summers QC, one of the members of the Assange legal team, did not conceal his astonishment at…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/the-kafkaesque-imperium-julian-assange-and-the-second-superseding-indictment/

Progressive Pulses Among the Ruins of Riot
John O'Kane | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
The violence that erupted from the mostly-peaceful demonstrations around the killing of George Floyd has subsided, though many businesses in Long Beach are now boarded up. In addition to the property damage itself–in many instances not covered by insurance because deemed "domestic terrorism"–these protective measures have a chilling effect on efforts to participate in the…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/progressive-pulses-among-the-ruins-of-riot/

Oslo is dead
Gershon Baskin | zcomm.org | 2020-07-02
For Israelis, the Palestinian issue of peace has been off the agenda for many years. For Palestinians, the issue of peace has never seemed further away from their daily reality…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/oslo-is-dead/

Friday 7/3: Virtual Independence Day Rally: Climate Change & Systemic Racism in America
Fire Drill Fridays, Greenpeace, others | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Online via livestream: www.facebook.com/firedrillfriday/…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834790.php

The storm of protest in the United States
John Bellamy Foster | mronline.org | 2020-07-02
"Neofascism has its source in monopoly-finance capital, at the apex of the system, but depends for its existence on the ability to mobilize, with the help of a fàºhrer-like figure such as Trump, a very considerable part of the overall population."
mronline.org/2020/07/02/the-storm-of-protest-in-the-united-states/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-storm-of-protest-in-the-united-states

Minneapolis: No cops or corporations at Pride, escalating fight for justice!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-02
Minneapolis, MN – On June 28, the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar held the fourth annual protest at Twin Cities Pride, with over 10,000 in attendance. The organizing came on the heels of the Minneapolis rebellion for Justice for George Floyd. The ad hoc coalition of 100+ groups organized a Pride protest and celebration in a two-week timeframe. This was due to winning their demands of corporations and cops out of Pride. It is a victory that was built on the founding of the organization almost five years ago after the murder of Jamar Clark in 2015. This year's protest demanded: Justice for George Floyd an…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/2/minneapolis-no-cops-or-corporations-pride-escalating-fight-justice

Project Censored's 2020 Summer Reading List
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-07-02
From COVID-19 to unprecedented unemployment levels and nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism, the Summer of 2020 is like none other in recent history. In the midst of…
projectcensored.org/project-censoreds-2020-summer-reading-list/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=project-censoreds-2020-summer-reading-list

A Call for Radical Humanism: The Left Needs to Return to Class Analyses of Power
Julian Vigo | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
How do white people live with themselves? This is the presumed ethical position emanating from liberal corners in the aftermath of the recent protests around the US. While a seemingly thought-provoking question nudging white folks to contemplate "their racism," the problem with this question is the question itself. Indeed the minute we individualize what are…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/a-call-for-radical-humanism-the-left-needs-to-return-to-class-analyses-of-power-2/

Palestinians Protest Israel's Annexation Plans in Gaza, Ramallah
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-02
Thousands of Palestinians participated in a large rally in Gaza, on Wednesday, expressing their rejection of the occupation states annexation plans, Quds News Network reported. Political leaders and civilians attended the demonstration, raising Palestinian flags and reciting slogans against the expropriation of the Palestinian Jordan Valley, and other parts of …
imemc.org/article/palestinians-protest-israels-annexation-plans-in-gaza-ramallah/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinians-protest-israels-annexation-plans-in-gaza-ramallah

French health workers take to streets seeking higher wages, recruitment
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-02
The call for the mobilization was given by major trade unions, including the General Confederation of Labor (CGT)and health workers collectives like L'Inter-Urgences and Collectif Inter-Hà¥pitaux also joined the protests.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/02/french-health-workers-take-to-streets-seeking-higher-wages-recruitment/

Saturday 7/11: San Lorenzo Valley: Black Lives Matter Protest
Black Lives Matter SLV | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Meet at San Lorenzo Valley High School, 7105 Hwy 9, Felton…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834811.php

Wednesday 7/1: #Protest to the Polls: NAACP in Conversation w/ Sybrina Fulton, Mother of Trayvon Martin
NAACP | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834783.php

Protesters Switch Destination at Last Minute, March on Menlo Park Police Station Pt 1
Remembering Black Lives Murdered | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
A June 25 rally was purportedly to target FaceBook for paying for a substation and police salaries near their headquarters in Menlo Park.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834750.php

Sunday 7/5: Protest at Gov Newsom's House : No State Execution By Covid-19
No Justice Under Capitalism | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Meet: At Noon in front of the Planet Fitness at Northridge Plaza parking lot–4840 San Juan Ave, Fair Oaks, CA 95628 (just outside Sacramento) | We will then head to Newsom's house and rally till sundown: 7640 Tobia Way, Fair Oaks, CA 95628…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834748.php

Oakland Police Banned from Using Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Grenades at Protests
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Interview with Walter Riley, civil rights attorney with the National Lawyers Guild, on the June 18, 2020 temporary restraining order banning Oakland police from using tear gas, rubber bullets, flash bang grenades and other "battlefield weapons" during current Black Lives Matter protests.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/29/18834743.php

Beyond the Toppling of Colonial Monuments, a Rethinking of History and Accountability Is Vital
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-02
When Chile erupted in protests over the neoliberal politics of President Sebastian Pinera and the dictatorship legacy of Augusto Pinochet, the indigenous Mapuche population embarked upon the tearing down of colonial monuments and statues occupying Chilean public spaces. The news was of paramount importance for Chile's reclamation of its historical memory, in particular as during the dictatorship, legal references to the Mapuche were removed. | Elsewhere in the world, the Chilean struggle to preserve the people's historical memory did not res…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/02/beyond-the-toppling-of-colonial-monuments-a-rethinking-of-history-and-accountability-is-vital/

The Growing Police Union-White Supremacist Alliance
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-02
Within the U.S. labor movement there exists a far right-wing Trojan Horse that is bent on perpetuating police violence and murder of people of color and resisting all attempts at police reform, including criminal prosecution of police officers who commit wanton acts of murder and other forms of physical violence. The Trojan Horse is the police union "blue line," the corruption of which is coming to light in a number of jurisdiction following the police killing of George Floyd, an African-American, in Minneapolis, an act that set off massive protests around the United States and the world. | At the pinnacle of the…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/02/the-growing-police-union-white-supremacist-alliance/

Killing Koalas: The Promise of Extinction Down Under
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-02
The British conservationist Gerald Durrell once remarked that the koala was "the most boring of animals". Its brain size, proportionally the smallest of any mammal, evolved to cope with its slow metabolism. But the spectacle of these singed, toasted animals was a terrifyingly cruel one to behold. As good stretches of Australia burned over the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/killing-koalas-the-promise-of-extinction-down-under/

Former PM Mahathir Calls on Muslims to Focus on Fighting Israeli Regime
Islam Times | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
In an interview with a Lebanese-based media on Wed., Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said, "Muslims must stop fighting among themselves and focus on 'Israeli enemy' instead." | "I know that there are great powers that seek instability among Islamic countries, but | …
globalresearch.ca/mahatir-calls-muslims-focus-on-fighting-israeli-regime/5717577

Jon Fosse's Existential Doppelgà§ngers
Dustin Illingworth | thenation.com | 2020-07-02
Jon Fosse's Existential Doppelgà§ngers…
thenation.com/article/culture/jon-fosse-other-name-novel-review/

Arctic Heat Overwhelms Green Infighting Issues
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-02
Arctic temperatures are soaring to new records… and staying there, ever since May of this year. Truth be known, the Arctic's been heating up for years. Siberia recently hit 105 ∞F. That's not normal. It's 30 ∞F hotter than normal. Farther south, the Amazon rainforest is hit with a drought every 5 years like clockwork, not regular …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/arctic-heat-overwhelms-green-infighting-issues/

J Street Facing New Pressure to Back Conditioning Aid to Israel
Ryan Grim | zcomm.org | 2020-07-02
More than 1,000 former and current members of J Street U are calling on the group's leadership to get behind a legislative effort to condition funding of the state of Israel if it goes forward with illegally annexing Palestinian territory…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/j-street-facing-new-pressure-to-back-conditioning-aid-to-israel/

Alt Trump Rallies
Peter Kuper | thenation.com | 2020-07-02
(But read the fine print.)…
thenation.com/article/politics/unnatural-history/

'We Are Not Even Beginning to Be Over This Pandemic'
Gregg Gonsalves | thenation.com | 2020-07-02
'We Are Not Even Beginning to Be Over This Pandemic'…
thenation.com/article/society/schuchat-truth-pandemic-coronavirus/

We Won't Have a Truly Global Economy Until People Start Taxing It That Way
Marshall Auerback | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
Major talks between the United States and the European Union to establish a shared tax framework for multinational companies broke down on the issue of seeking to secure an agreement on digital taxation. Big tech, which is heavily a U.S. creation, has long been in the sights of European economies, as their profits and revenues have…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/we-wont-have-a-truly-global-economy-until-people-start-taxing-it-that-way/

Black Visibility Matters–and Not Just During Trauma
Ernest Owens | thenation.com | 2020-07-02
Black Visibility Matters–and Not Just During Trauma…
thenation.com/article/culture/black-visibility-trauma-media/

Killing Koalas: The Promise of Extinction Down Under
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-07-02
asia-pacificresearch.com/killing-koalas-promise-extinction-down-under/5629156

Soldiers Abduct A Lawyer, Who Previously Spent 9 Years In Prison, While His French Wife, Child, Were Deported
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-07-02
Israeli soldiers abducted, two days ago, a Palestinian lawyer with French citizenship, from occupied Jerusalem, a former political prisoner who was previously imprisoned for more than nine years, and moved him to the al-Maskobiyya interrogation facility. The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers abducted Salah Hammouri while …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-abduct-a-lawyer-who-previously-spent-9-years-in-prison-while-his-french-wife-child-were-deported/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soldiers-abduct-a-lawyer-who-previously-spent-9-years-in-prison-while-his-french-wife-child-were-deported

Barbarism Begins at Home
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
This article was originally published on Asia Times. | Greece invented the concept of barbaros. Imperial Rome inherited it as barbarus. | The original meaning of barbaros is rooted in language: an onomatopoeia meaning "unintelligible speech" as people go "bar bar …
globalresearch.ca/barbarism-begins-home/5717547

The public sends a strong message to the government over its obsession with outsourcing companies like Serco
John Ranson | thecanary.co | 2020-07-02
Just 15% of the public supports the involvement of private companies like Serco in the coronavirus (Covid-19) test and trace programme. | Poll: | Polling company Survation conducted the research of behalf of We Own It, a group that campaigns for public ownership of public services. On 24 and 25 June, over 2,000 people were asked the question: Contract tracing refers to the identification of people who have recently come into close contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus. The contract tracing programme is intended to help us get out of lockdown safely. Which of the following do you thin…
thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2020/07/02/the-public-sends-a-strong-message-to-the-government-over-its-obsession-with-outsourcing-companies-like-serco/

Honorary Particle Physicist D.J. Trump Discovers "Want'em Mechanics"
Mark W. Bradley | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-02
According to an iconoclastic article in the latest issue of "Science Weakly" (an online publication aimed at highly motivated [but poorly educated] science buffs), part-time honorary particle physicist Dr. D.J. Trump has finally uncovered the illusive corollary to Niels Bohr's Quantum Theory, upon which modern subatomic physics is founded. Dr. Trump is believed to have …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/honorary-particle-physicist-d-j-trump-discovers-wantem-mechanics/

Workers in Germany express their solidarity with striking Fiat Chrysler workers
wsws.org | 2020-07-02
The strikes at two Detroit Fiat Chrysler plants in Jefferson North and Sterling Heights against intolerable health and safety conditions for production workers have met with a powerful response from workers in Germany.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/02/germ-j02.html

Cuban Spies Disguised as Doctors
Roger Stoll | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-02
The European Union now excludes travelers from the COVID-ridden U.S., but welcomes those from the virtually COVID-free Cuba. Cuba, the country that sends doctors and infectious disease specialists around the world to fight the pandemic, the country the U.S. has held in contempt for 60 years, villified with every epithet and sanctioned and embargoed and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/cuban-spies-disguised-as-doctors/

The Untold History of Mount Rushmore
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/the-untold-history-of-mount-rushmore/

BLS jobs report shows U.S. employment crash continues
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-02
WASHINGTON–Donald Trump's happy talk today notwithstanding, the nation's current depression, the employment crash caused by closures forced by the coronavirus pandemic, continues, the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows. That's because 1.445 million more people applied for regular state unemployment benefits, and another 839,563 sought special federal benefit checks in the week ending June …
peoplesworld.org/article/bls-jobs-report-shows-u-s-employment-crash-continues/

The United States owes Black America reparations
Khury Petersen-Smith | zcomm.org | 2020-07-02
Following centuries of exploitation, theft and discrimination, here is what a reparative economic agenda should entail…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-united-states-owes-black-america-reparations/

Venezuela Sets Parliamentary Election Date, Increases Number of Lawmakers
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-07-02
Venezuelans will elect 277 deputies to congress this December.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14930

Substance Matters More Than Symbols
Frank Scott | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-02
The current wake-up call being experienced by more Americans about historic racism is leading to hopeful actions but if all that results is removal of symbolic remnants of a wretched past these may lead to very little substantial change of the present and future. The rush to remove statues, change street names, remove written distortions …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/substance-matters-more-than-symbols/

The Untold History of Mount Rushmore: A KKK Sympathizer Built Monument on Sacred Lakota Land
Democracy Now! | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-02
As tribal governments call on President Trump to cancel his Mount Rushmore Independence Day celebration, we look at why Native Americans have long pushed for the removal of the monument carved into the sacred Black Hills and designed by a sculptor with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. "This place is very, very sacred to …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/the-untold-history-of-mount-rushmore-a-kkk-sympathizer-built-monument-on-sacred-lakota-land/

Moore, WNBA star, helps free wrongly-convicted Missouri prisoner
Associated Press | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-02
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was freed from prison Wednesday after a county prosecutor declined to retry his case, punctuating years of work by WNBA star Maya Moore and other supporters who argued he was falsely convicted of burglary and assault charges. Moore was on hand when Jonathan Irons, 40, walked out …
peoplesworld.org/article/moore-wnba-star-helps-free-wrongly-convicted-missouri-prisoner/

Zionist Political Violence: Patterns and Motives
Dr. Zuhair Sabbagh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
This attempt to tackle the issue of Zionist political violence will not constitute a quantitative and historical research, but will seek to explore the patterns and to analyze the motives behind the violent political practices carried out by the Zionist …
globalresearch.ca/zionist-political-violence-patterns-motives/5717555

Germany-US Relations in Crisis: Former German Chancellor Says U.S.-EU Alliance Could Now End
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
A German equivalent to UK's Financial Times and America's Wall Street Journal is the Dusseldorf Handelsblatt or "Commerce Sheet," which headlined on June 30th, "Former Chancellor Schrà∂der: USA Ending Transatlantic Partnership". | They reported: | Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schrà∂der has | …
globalresearch.ca/former-german-chancellor-says-us-eu-alliance-could-now-end/5717583

PDF of July 2 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-07-02
Download the 12-page PDF. Win in california: Cops out of schools! Free Mumia! Abolish the FOP! On the move Save…
workers.org/2020/07/49793/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-july-2-issue

The Growing Police Union-White Supremacist Alliance
Wayne Madsen | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-02
The election of Trump as president made a bad situation involving white supremacists and neo-Nazis serving in U.S. law enforcement agencies much worse. | Within the U.S. labor movement there exists a far right-wing Trojan Horse that is bent on perpetuating police violence and murder of people of color and resisting all attempts at police reform, including criminal prosecution of police officers who commit wanton acts of murder and other forms of physical violence. The Trojan Horse is the police union "blue line," the corruption of which is coming to light in a number of jurisdiction following the police killing o…

The Growing Police Union-White Supremacist Alliance

Mobilizing people who are "disenfranchised and ignored"
Jamaal Bowman | zcomm.org | 2020-07-02
Interview with Jamaal Bowman on NY Primary Upset, Rent Strikes, Police Brutality & Opposing West Bank Annexation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/mobilizing-people-who-are-disenfranchised-and-ignored/

We Take Homelessness for Granted. The Pandemic Should Change That
Mary Kate Bacalao | thenation.com | 2020-07-02
We Take Homelessness for Granted. The Pandemic Should Change That.
thenation.com/article/society/homelessness-coronavirus-pandemic/

Health Workers Filed Over 4,000 Complaints With OSHA, Some Still Died
Christina Jewett | zcomm.org | 2020-07-02
Federal officials rapidly closed many complaints without issuing citations, raising new questions over government inaction…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/health-workers-filed-over-4000-complaints-with-osha-some-still-died/

It's Not Just Meat: All Farm and Food Workers Are in Peril
Stan Cox | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
COVID-19 outbreaks are now reaching far beyond the meatpacking industry. Migrant farmworkers in fruit orchards and vegetable fields, long the targets of intense exploitation, are seeing their health put in even greater jeopardy as they're pushed to feed an increasingly voracious supply chain in pandemic-time.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/its-not-just-meat-all-farm-and-food-workers-are-in-peril/

The New (Pathologized) Totalitarianism
C. J. Hopkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-02
It was always going to come to this … mobs of hysterical, hate-drunk brownshirts hunting down people not wearing masks and trying to get them fired from their jobs, "no mask, no service" signs outside stores, security staff stopping the mask-less from entering, paranoid pod people pointing and shrieking at the sight of mask-less shoppers …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/the-new-pathologized-totalitarianism/

COVID Masks: The Latest Faux Conservative Outrage
Thom Hartmann | zcomm.org | 2020-07-02
They don't care about you; they just want the economy opened back up to make money…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-masks-the-latest-faux-conservative-outrage/

Dangerous Game: How the Wreckage of Russiagate Ignited a New Cold War
Kyle Anzalone | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
It's been nearly four years since the myth of Trump-Russia collusion made its debut in American politics, generating an endless stream of stories in the corporate press and hundreds of allegations of conspiracy from pundits and officials. But despite netting …
globalresearch.ca/how-wreckage-russiagate-ignited-new-cold-war/5717606

Autoworkers at FCA Trenton Engine call for rank-and-file safety committees to fight COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-07-02
Autoworkers at the FCA Trenton Engine Plant south of Detroit called on their co-workers to build rank-and-file safety committees to fight the spread of COVID-19 in factories and save lives.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/02/tren-j02.html

As COVID-19 cases surge, Texas GM workers demand closure of factory
wsws.org | 2020-07-02
Just days after Fiat Chrysler workers in Detroit halted production, GM workers in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area are demanding the closure of Arlington Assembly.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/02/lead-j02.html

The Great Wall of Wokeness
Haydar Khan | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
"Invincibility lies in the defense." — Sun Tzu Does there exist a political force, partisan or populist, organized or decentralized, that can liberate the U.S. citizenry from the clutches of the neoliberal order? As I wrote in Feb. of last year, the neoliberal order seemed impervious to partisan defeat because its roots lie in a…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/the-great-wall-of-wokeness/

Time to Rethink the US-ROK Alliance
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
North Korea has blown up the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong. It is threatening an all-out pamphlet war in response to defectors sending anti-regime propaganda to the north. South Korea's unification minister has stepped down after failing to meet with his North Korean counterparts during his 14-month tenure. Pyongyang is not happy about the balloons…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/time-to-rethink-the-us-rok-alliance/

Get Cops Out of Schools: A Factsheet
Uma Nagarajan-Swenson | zcomm.org | 2020-07-02
Educators are waking up to the grave emotional and developmental harm school resource officers cause. School districts must reallocate their resources…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/get-cops-out-of-schools-a-factsheet/

Unemployment insurance claims show crisis continuing
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-02
San José, CA – The latest report by the Labor Department on Thursday, July 2 indicated new claims for aid for unemployed showed no improvement for the third week in a row. While new claims for the regular state unemployment insurance benefits did fall by 50,000 from last week's report, to 1.43 million, new claims for the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or PUA actually rose by 110,000 from last week's report, to 840,000. Taken together, new claims for the two main programs to aid the unemployed totaled 2.27 million for the week ending June 27, slighting more than the previous week and the same as two week…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/2/unemployment-insurance-claims-show-crisis-continuing

Already hollowed-out U.S. health system faces even more cuts
Associated Press, Kaiser Health News | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-02
The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources to confront the worst health crisis in a century. Marshaled against a virus that has sickened at least 2.6 million in the U.S., killed more than 126,000 people and cost tens of millions of jobs and $3 trillion in federal rescue …
peoplesworld.org/article/already-hollowed-out-u-s-health-system-faces-even-more-cuts/

Over 160 jade miners killed in Myanmar's landslide
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-02
The disaster occurred in northern Kachin State's Hpakant township and was triggered by heavy rainstorm. The number of deaths is expected to rise as scores of miners remain missing…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/02/over-160-jade-miners-killed-in-myanmars-landslide/

US adds 50,000 COVID-19 cases in single-day spike, reopening reversed in several States
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-02
The fresh surge in the daily reported cases in the US has pushed several State administrations to reconsider plans to reopen their economies…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/02/us-adds-50000-covid-19-cases-in-single-day-spike-reopening-reversed-in-several-states/

Herd immunity and COVID-19: What you need to know
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-07-02
Curious as to whether herd immunity against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) might slow the spread of the disease? Understand how herd immunity works and what experts are saying about its potential impact on the COVID-19 pandemic. Why is herd immunity important? Herd immunity occurs when a large portion of a community (the herd) becomes immune to …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/herd-immunity-and-covid-19-what-you-need-to-know/

Mayo Clinic experts to help guide Delta Air Lines COVID-19 safety measures
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-07-02
Industry leaders in health and travel formalize partnership to transform the future of safe flying ROCHESTER, Minn. — Delta Air Lines and Mayo Clinic, a global leader in serious and complex medical care, are deepening their relationship to provide additional safety and COVID-19 infection control measures for customers and employees. The collaboration is another significant …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/delta-engages-mayo-clinic-experts-to-advise-on-making-travel-even-safer/

Why Canada Failed the 'Ben Franklin Challenge' in 1776. Canada and the British Empire
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing." — Benjamin Franklin | July 1st is a strange day in Canada. From Pacific to …
globalresearch.ca/why-canada-failed-ben-franklin-challenge-1776/5717556

Video: Interview with Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Nurse During the Canada Day Rally in Ottawa
LUBA | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
Transcript: July 1, 2020 — Canada Day | Interview with Nurse Luba, Parliament Building Ottawa, On Canada | . | . | . | Excerpts of Interview | Mark: I am here in front of the House of Commons, Parliament building, Ottawa, a lot of great …
globalresearch.ca/video-interview-intensive-care-unit-nurse-during-canada-day-rally-ottawa/5717558

Black, trans, working-class legacy of Pride at Tallahassee's BLM Stonewall March and Rally
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-02
Tallahassee, FL – Tallahassee residents assembled at 12: 30 p.m. at Cascades Park, June 28 to launch a march to the capitol. Organizers and volunteers with the Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) pre-decorated the capitol steps and breezeway with rainbow flags, banners, signs and hand-painted portraits to honor the Black and brown working-class trans women who led the Stonewall Riots in New York City 51 years ago. Organizers distributed masks, water, snacks, bumper stickers and printed copies of Fight Back! to the 150-plus people in attendance. Attendees spread out across the entire capitol lawn to abide…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/2/black-trans-working-class-legacy-pride-tallahassee-s-blm-stonewall-march-and-rally

Community and workers unite against racist coffee shop owner in Pasco, Wa
Matthew Sakamoto | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-02
Racist coffee shop owner resigns under pressure after threatening workers for solidarity.
liberationnews.org/community-and-workers-unite-against-racist-coffee-shop-owner-in-pasco-wa/

How Did Police Unions Get So Powerful?
Ross Barkan | thenation.com | 2020-07-02
How Did Police Unions Get So Powerful?
thenation.com/article/society/police-unions-nypd-history/

Why You Should Give A F*ck | Ep. 4 | Voter Rights
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-02
We discuss your rights as a voter, and how in many places those rights are under attack from people in power.
therealnews.com/stories/why-you-should-give-a-voting-rights-laws

First aid for snakebites
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-07-02
If a snake bites you, call 911 or your local emergency number immediately, then take these first-aid steps. Most snakes aren't dangerous to humans. Only about 15% worldwide and 20% in the United States are venomous. In North America, these include the rattlesnake, coral snake, water moccasin and copperhead. Their bites can cause severe injuries …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/first-aid-for-snakebites/

Over 78% Russian voters support amendments to the constitution
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-02
The amendments to the current constitution, which was adopted in 1993, will among other things allow incumbent president Vladimir Putin to contest again for…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/02/over-78-russian-voters-support-amendments-to-the-constitution/

Mahatir Calls on Muslims to Focus on Fighting Israeli Regime
Islam Times | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
In an interview with a Lebanese-based media on Wed., Mahathir Mohamad said, "Mislims must stop fighting among themselves and focus on 'Israeli enemy' instead." | "I know that there are great powers that seek instability among Islamic countries, but we are | …
globalresearch.ca/mahatir-calls-muslims-focus-on-fighting-israeli-regime/5717577

Mezan: "Marking the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Al Mezan Highlights Abuse of 92 Children Crossing Gaza's Buffer Zone"
Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights | imemc.org | 2020-07-02
Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Press Release: To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Al Mezan highlights its recent monitoring and documentation concerning the torture and abuse of Palestinian children attempting to cross the Israeli-imposed buffer zone, or access-restricted area, in Gaza.
imemc.org/article/mezan-marking-the-international-day-in-support-of-victims-of-torture-al-mezan-highlights-abuse-of-92-children-crossing-gazas-buffer-zone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mezan-marking-the-international-day-in-support-of-victims-of-torture-al-mezan-highlights-abuse-of-92-children-crossing-gazas-buffer-zone

Stir Crazy! Episode #62: Fourth of July is Cancelled
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-02
On today's show: Journalist Justine Barron, TRNN visual producer Andrew Corkery, and political commentator Marcus Ferrell. Hosted by Kim Brown. If you have comments/questions/suggestions email us at stircrazy@therealnews.com…
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-62-fourth-of-july-is-cancelled

Israeli Forces Order Halt Construction, Confiscation to Palestinians in West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-02
The Israeli military, on Wednesday, distributed confiscation notices to Palestinian owners of hundreds of dunams of agricultural lands in Jab'a village, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said the lands to be confiscated are owned by the Masha'leh and Tous …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-order-halt-construction-confiscation-to-palestinians-in-west-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-order-halt-construction-confiscation-to-palestinians-in-west-bank

Different Name for the Same Old Crap
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-02
Somewhere along the way I became an associate. Before that I was a waiter who became a server. Hell, I've even been periodically transformed from a barkeep into a mixologist. The dishwashers are now sanitation engineers. The door person has become the valet. The people who used to be housekeepers are now room attendants. By …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/different-name-for-the-same-old-crap/

Disbelief, Belief and the Perils of Pandemic Re-opening
Kim C. Domenico | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
The dominant authorities in our lives are destructive; they lack nurturance — the love which sustains others…But the trap of rejecting them is more than a matter of hoping finally to get them to care…This [rejecting] imagination is wholly under the aegis of the existing order. It disbelieves, but only to dream of someone else,…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/disbelief-belief-and-the-perils-of-pandemic-re-opening/

New Democratic Climate Action Plan Is Woefully Inadequate
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
"This is not an emergency response." | That is how Laura Berry, director of research and policy at the Climate Mobilization (TCM), responded to reporting on a congressional "action plan" for the planetary emergency from the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, which the panel and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled Tuesday. | The climate roadmap features hundreds of policy proposals under 12 key pillars. Specifically, the 538-page plan calls for selling only zero-emissions vehicles by 2035, net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 2040, and net-zero U.S. emissions economy-wid…
popularresistance.org/new-democratic-climate-action-plan-is-woefully-inadequate/

Tuesday 7/7: Environmental Racism: People of Color & Indigenous on Front Lines of Climate Change
The Climate Reality Project | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834789.php

The Fed Is Bailing Out Polluters While Cities Struggle
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
Ever since bailout talk began this spring, climate campaigners have worried funds would be funneled to Big Oil and other polluting giants. Now it seems that fear was more than justified. While economic recovery money is being disbursed through multiple channels, including the Main Street Lending Program and various tax breaks, on Sunday the Federal Reserve released the list of bonds it has purchased so far through its BlackRock-managed Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility, in its attempt to prop up the investment-grade corporate bond market. | The Fed's disclosures show the institution is making it easier f…
popularresistance.org/the-fed-is-bailing-out-polluters-while-cities-struggle/

Workers Filed More Than 4,100 Complaints About Protective Gear
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
COVID-19 cases were climbing at Michigan's McLaren Flint hospital. So Roger Liddell, 64, who procured supplies for the hospital, asked for an N95 respirator for his own protection, since his work brought him into the same room as COVID-positive patients. | But the hospital denied his request, said Kelly Indish, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 875. | On March 30, Liddell posted on Facebook that he had worked the previous week in both the critical care unit and the ICU and had contracted the virus. "Pray for me God is still in control," he wrote. He died April 10.
popularresistance.org/workers-filed-more-than-4100-complaints-about-protective-gear/

Testing Is Not Causing Case Counts To Rise
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have repeatedly attributed the increase in the coronavirus case count in the United States to an increase in testing. | "We're doing so much testing, so much more than any other country," Trump said in an interview with CBN News on Monday. "And to be honest with you, when you do more testing, you find more cases. And then they report our cases are through the roof." | "I would just encourage you all, as we talk about these things, to make sure and continue to explain to your citizens the magnitude of increase in testing," Pence said on a call with the nation's…
popularresistance.org/testing-is-not-causing-case-counts-to-rise/

Bolivia: Añez Wants To Jail The Favored Candidate In The Coming Elections
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
Bolivia's de facto president, Jeanine Añez, is losing more and more of her mask obscuring democracy that, with the complicity of the United States and the European Union, she had to put on to justify the violent overthrow of Evo Morales in November of last year. | Now, in a fragrant demonstration that in Bolivia there are no constitutional guarantees and that persecution is the rule of order, a coup is being prepared against the presidential candidate of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), Luis Arce Catacora. | In a confirmation of the validity of the lawfare method (judicial war) against popular leaders, the le…
popularresistance.org/bolivia-anez-wants-to-jail-the-favored-candidate-in-the-coming-elections/

De-Militarizing The United States
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
The reliance on military instruments of power to implement foreign policy has expanded the role of the Department of Defense at the expense of the Department of State. The State Department's budget is less than one-tenth of the defense budget, and smaller than the budget of the intelligence community. There are more soldiers and sailors in military marching bands than there are Foreign Service Officers. The decline of the Agency for International Development, and President Bill Clinton's dissolution of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the United States Information Service have contributed to the overal…
popularresistance.org/de-militarizing-the-united-states/

An Historic Rant
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-02
We don't need another post about "these times." We can all pretty much agree that shit is weird — that we're confused, bewildered and feel like we're on a boat captained by Bond villains heading towards a waterfall, stuck in a cyclone, trying to build rafts out of shoelaces and hope. | Indeed, the discussion of where we are has hit a bit of a monotonous groove, a broken record type feel that just grates at us whenever we hear it. Someone just needs to kick the turntable and get us another round of beers. | A more interesting Pilsner pondering — one that's at once more mysterious and more clarifying [m…
popularresistance.org/an-historic-rant/

'The Twilight Zone': 'Meet in the Middle' explores the price of human connection
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-02
Editor's note: A review and analysis of Jordan Peele's 'The Twilight Zone' season two episode one. Spoilers ahead. "What kind of compromise goes into a connection with another human being?" — 'The Twilight Zone' Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone has returned and is currently airing all 10 episodes of the second season on the streaming service …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-twilight-zone-meet-in-the-middle-explores-the-price-of-human-connection/

Schools told to keep children apart in year group 'bubbles' on full return in autumn
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-02
Schools in England have been told to keep children in class or year-sized "bubbles" and avoid creating "busy corridors" when all pupils return in September.Government guidance — on how to get all children back after the summer break following up to six months at home — says older pupils should be encouraged to be kept away from other groups of students and staff.The whole school, or all pupils in a year group, may have to self-isolate at home if schools have two or more confirmed coronavirus cases within a fortnight, the advice says.But the guidance also says school closures "may not be necessary" if th…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/02/schools-told-to-keep-children-apart-in-year-group-bubbles-on-full-return-in-autumn/

Trump's Contagion Road Show Heads West
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-02
It's like a Stephen King horror novel where a nation is swept by a deadly and uncontrollable disease, sickening millions and killing over 100,000 citizens. Ignoring the advice of top infectious disease specialists who say, "Don't go to large-scale gatherings," a crazed president insists on holding rallies for the sole purpose of boosting his rapidly…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/02/trumps-contagion-road-show-heads-west/

SDS challenges University Senate vote for unrepresentative Campus Safety Committee
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-02
Minneapolis, MN – A proposal to amend faculty senate bylaws and create a new Campus Safety Committee failed to garner enough votes to pass during a June 29 University Senate meeting, open only to voting members. The proposed committee would "advise and consult with the President, the responsible senior administrators, and the Vice President for University Services on policies and major decisions relating to campus and public safety at the University," and would be made up of faculty, academic professional members, students, civil service members, and ex officio representatives. | Critics of the proposal from Stud…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/2/sds-challenges-university-senate-vote-unrepresentative-campus-safety-committee

SDS challenges University Senate vote for unrepresentative Campus Safety Committee
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-02
Minneapolis, MN – A proposal to amend faculty senate bylaws and create a new Campus Safety Committee failed to garner enough votes to pass during a June 29 University Senate meeting, open only to voting members. The proposed committee would "advise and consult with the President, the responsible senior administrators, and the Vice President for University Services on policies and major decisions relating to campus and public safety at the University," and would be made up of faculty, academic professional members, students, civil service members, and ex officio representatives. | Critics of the proposal from Stud…
fightbacknews.org/2020/7/2/sds-challenges-university-senate-vote-unrepresentative-campus-safety-committee

PM's father Stanley Johnson's visit to Greece angers MPs
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-02
Boris Johnson's father Stanley has been criticised by MPs after flying to Greece despite government advice urging against non-essential international travel. | The 79-year-old arrived in Athens on Wednesday 1 July to visit his mountain villa. He shared a video of his plane landing in the capital on social media platform Instagram. | He also posted a picture of himself wearing a face mask, which appeared to be taken in an airport. Johnson flew to Athens via Bulgaria, the Daily Mail said, because the Greek government has banned direct flights from the UK until mid-July.
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/07/02/pms-father-stanley-johnsons-visit-to-greece-angers-mps/

Germany tells Turkey travel warning will be regularly reviewed
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Germany will keep reviewing travel advice for Turkey, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told his Turkish counterpart on Thursday, saying any decisions were coordinated with the EU and based on reliable data on infections and the health situation.Turkey is disappointed that the EU has excluded it, along with the United States and others, from a list of countries recommended for non-essential travel and has called on it to correct its "mistake".Speaking to reporters after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Berlin, Maas said reviews of the situation took place every two weeks."Further steps will follo…
yenisafak.com/en/world/germany-tells-turkey-travel-warning-will-be-regularly-reviewed-3533537

India's 1st plasma bank at service of COVID-19 patients
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
India on Thursday opened the country's first blood plasma bank in the capital Delhi to improve access to blood plasma required in the treatment of novel coronavirus patients."People were facing difficulty in acquiring blood plasma. This plasma bank will thus help in accessing it, but it will only work if people come forward to donate blood plasma," Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said during bank inauguration.People who have recovered from COVID-19 develop antibodies against the disease in their blood, known as convalescent plasma. This can then be transfused into critical patients to boost their immune re…
yenisafak.com/en/world/indias-1st-plasma-bank-at-service-of-covid-19-patients-3533539

More Pak-Afghan border points to reopen to boost trade
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Pakistan on Thursday announced it will reopen two more border crossings with Afghanistan to boost trade between the neighbors.Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan's special representative for Afghanistan, said the crossings are likely to be reopened before mid-July."Pakistan will open Angor Adda and Kharlachi border crossings for trade with Afghanistan. After necessary arrangements by both sides, the two crossings are likely to become operational on 12 July," he tweeted.Last month Islamabad reopened the Torkham, Chaman, and Ghulam Khan border crossings, after they were closed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic."In the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/more-pak-afghan-border-points-to-reopen-to-boost-trade-3533545

Italy should compensate India in marine shooting dispute: arbitration court
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
The court said it was up to India and Italy to decide the amount of compensation warranted in the so-called Enrica Lexie case, which has soured relations between the two countries in recent years.The marines, part of a military team on anti-pirate duty protecting the Italian oil tanker Enrica Lexie in 2012, say they mistook Indian fishermen for pirates and fired warning shots which accidentally killed the two fishermen.
yenisafak.com/en/world/italy-should-compensate-india-in-marine-shooting-dispute-arbitration-court-3533563

Turkish resort city ready for safe tourism season
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Turkey's Mediterranean resort city of Antalya is fully set up to ensure safe tourism and a virus-free environment, according to Ukraine's envoy to Turkey."We see that visits from Ukraine started well. There are serious preparations for safe tourism in Antalya, we had the chance to see them ourselves by visiting like a tourist," Ambassador Andrii Sybiha said during a meeting with Ersin Yazici, Antalya's governor.Sybiha said Antalya is a very beautiful city and is not only the capital of Turkish tourism but also agriculture.Telling how flights from Ukraine to Antalya started on Wednesday, he called on more Ukrainia…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkish-resort-city-ready-for-safe-tourism-season-3533540

US economy gains 4.8M jobs; unemployment falls to 11.1%
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
The unemployment rate in the US dropped to 11.1% in June as the economy gained 4.8 million jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday.Data released a day early because of the July 4 holiday reflected the continued resumption of economic activity that was curtailed in March and April due to the coronavirus pandemic, which pushed job losses to Great Depression-era levels.The unemployment rate declined 2.2 points from 13.3% in May and the number of jobless Americans fell by 3.2 million to 17.8 million.Employment in leisure and hospitality rose sharply and notable job gains also occurred in retail, education…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-economy-gains-48m-jobs-unemployment-falls-to-111-3533557

Africa lost almost $55 billion in travel and tourism due to pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Africa countries have lost almost $55 billion in travel and tourism revenues in three months due to the coronavirus pandemic, the African Union commissioner for infrastructure and energy said on Thursday.Amani Abou-Zeid told a news conference that due to the prolonged lockdown and border closures to curb the spread of the virus, the air industry will be greatly impacted."Some airlines in the continent will not make it post-COVID-19," she said.
yenisafak.com/en/world/africa-lost-almost-55-billion-in-travel-and-tourism-due-to-pandemic-3533543

Trump says jobs report proves US economy 'roaring back'
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday at a press briefing celebrated a government report showing the country gained 4.8 million jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 11.1% last month, when states began allowing businesses to reopen from strict shutdowns aimed at containing the coronavirus pandemic."Today's announcement proves that our economy is roaring back," Trump said, rattling off different sectors that saw job gains according to the monthly report. "These are historic numbers."
yenisafak.com/en/world/trump-says-jobs-report-proves-us-economy-roaring-back-3533559

Erdogan arrives in Doha for official visit
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
urkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived Thursday afternoon in the Qatari capital, Doha on a day-long official visit.Qatari Defense Minister Khalid bin Muhammad Al-Attiyah and other officials received the Turkish president at the airport.Erdogan is scheduled to meet with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to discuss "mutual relations between the two friendly and brotherly countries."Erdogan is flanked by Finance Minister Berat Albayrak and National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.He is also accompanied by Turkey's Communications Director Fahrettin Altun, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin and intel…
yenisafak.com/en/world/erdogan-arrives-in-doha-for-official-visit-3533558

Israel registers highest daily rise in virus cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Israel on Thursday confirmed 966 new cases of the novel coronavirus, the highest single-day spike since the virus was first detected on Feb. 21, the country's Health Ministry said.The country reported two more deaths from the virus over the past 24 hours, the ministry said in a statement.Israeli authorities have so far reported 26,452 infections, including 324 deaths and 17,481 recoveries.The number of active cases, which dropped below 2,000 last month, rose to 8,647 after a spike in recent days.Israel lifted most of the COVID-19-related restrictions after the daily number of virus cases dropped below 20 last mon…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israel-registers-highest-daily-rise-in-virus-cases-3533538

Turkey demands apology from France
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Turkey's foreign minister on Thursday demanded an apology from France for misleading NATO and EU about recent tensions in the Mediterranean."France did not tell the truth to both NATO and EU. The claim that our ships locked is not true. We proved that and gave the documents to NATO. And NATO saw the reality," said Mevlut Cavusoglu in a joint news conference with his German counterpart Heiko Maas."Our expectation from France is to apologize to us for not providing the true information," he added. France last week claimed that Turkey harassed one of its vessels taking part in a NATO mission in the Mediterranean. Tu…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-demands-apology-from-france-3533541

Hungary not to open borders at EU's request, says PM
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
"For now, we cannot support the EU's request because that would be against the health interests of the Hungarian people," Victor Orban said.Hungary, which joined the EU in 2004, opened its borders to Serbian citizens early June.This week the 27-member bloc added 14 states to the list of non-EU countries whose citizens can resume travel to the EU from July 1.The countries are Serbia, Montenegro, Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay. China is also on the register, but only on the condition of reciprocal action by the Chinese authorities…
yenisafak.com/en/world/hungary-not-to-open-borders-at-eus-request-says-pm-3533546

Three tons of manure used for explosives seized in Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Turkish security forces in an operation against the PKK/KCK terrorist organization in eastern Van province seized 3 tons of manure used for making explosives, the governor's office announced Thursday in a written statement.The provincial gendarmerie command continues efforts to unveil activities of the terrorist organization in the region, said the statement.The operation was conducted based on a tip about a large amount of artificial fertilizer buried in the ground in the rural area of Baskale district to be used in the preparation of handmade explosives in attacks against the military facilities, public institu…
yenisafak.com/en/news/three-tons-of-manure-used-for-explosives-seized-in-turkey-3533560

Turkey's chemical exports up 10.2% in June
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Turkey's chemical sector exports rose by 10.2% year-on-year in June, a local association said Thursday.The Istanbul Chemical and Chemical Products Exporters' Association (IKMIB) said the exports reached $1.42 billion in June.This figure totaled to $8.64 billion in the first half of the year.In June, the sector's main export destinations were Iraq, the Netherlands and Germany.Turkey's overall exports were $13.5 billion in June, up 15.8% on a yearly basis, the Turkish trade minister announced earlier on Thursday.
yenisafak.com/en/economy/turkeys-chemical-exports-up-102-in-june-3533562

India marks $5.2B for indigenous military projects
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
India on Thursday earmarked 389 billion Indian rupees ($5.2 billion) for the design and development of indigenous military equipment, according to a statement by the Ministry of Defense. Following a meeting of the country's defense acquisition council, the Ministry of Defense announced that the approved proposals included acquisitions worth 311.3 billion rupees ($4.1 billion) from domestic defense industry firms.The country also green lighted the purchase of additional fighter jets from Russia, including the procurement of 21 Mikoyan MIG-29 along with upgrading of 59 existing aircraft, costing 74.18 billion rupee…
yenisafak.com/en/world/india-marks-52b-for-indigenous-military-projects-3533561

Germany planning 42.5 bln eur in tax relief to 2024
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Germany is planning tax cuts totalling 42.5 billion euros over the period to 2024, with 7 billion euros of cuts planned in 2021 alone, Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Thursday, adding that the cabinet would agree the measures at the end of July.According to the newspaper, these latest measures to stimulate the recovery of Europe's largest economy will include an increase in individuals' tax-free income allowance as well as increases to the income thresholds at which higher income tax rates kick in.Families will also receive extra money for each child they have, the paper reported.
yenisafak.com/en/economy/germany-planning-425-bln-eur-in-tax-relief-to-2024-3533555

3-year-old Kashmiri boy caught in political web of words
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Disturbing images of a toddler sitting on the chest of his slain grandfather in the Indian-administered Kashmir have stirred a debate, with former government officials, journalists and analysts saying the child has been made a "propaganda tool."Omar Abdullah, former chief minister of the region, said that everything becomes a "propaganda tool" in the bloody violence in Kashmir."A three year old toddler has to have his misery broadcast to the whole world to drive home the "we good they bad" message. We would have got the point without his misery being filmed shared so please don't," Abdullah wrote on Twitter.Amnes…
yenisafak.com/en/world/3-year-old-kashmiri-boy-caught-in-political-web-of-words-3533554

Turkish firms to produce unmanned mini-tank
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
Turkish defense firms Aselsan and Katmerciler have signed an agreement to produce an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), according to a press release issued on Thursday.Under the deal, worth nearly $671,000, Katmerciler will start delivering the UGV, also known as a "mini-tank," in 2021, the firm said in the statement. The vehicle and all of its parts, including the remote-control system, were developed by Katmerciler, it said.The mini-tank can be fitted with several types of equipment, such as observation, targeting, and weapons systems, Katmerciler said.The UGV can operate in difficult climatic and road conditions,…
yenisafak.com/en/technology/turkish-firms-to-produce-unmanned-mini-tank-3533542

Over 2,100 more virus cases reported in Southeast Asia
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-02
The number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asian countries increased to 155,291 on Thursday, including 4,475 fatalities and 88,697 recoveries.A total of 2,120 new cases, 57 deaths, and 1,885 recoveries were recorded over the past 24 hours in member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.Indonesia, the worst-hit in the region, reported 1,624 new infections, its highest daily figure since the first cases on March 2, bringing the total to 59,394.The country's death toll climbed to 2,987 with 53 more fatalities, while recoveries increased by 1,072 to reach 26,667.Restrictions in the capital Jakarta ha…
yenisafak.com/en/world/over-2100-more-virus-cases-reported-in-southeast-asia-3533553

Iran agrees to compensate downed plane victims' families
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-02
TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) –Sweden's foreign minister says Tehran has agreed to compensate the families of the foreign victims of the shot down plane.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160472/Iran-agrees-to-compensate-downed-plane-victims-families

India welcomes setting up FTZ in Chabahar
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-02
TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) — Indian government welcomed setting up a Free Trade Zone [FTZ] in Iran's Chabahar Port.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160466/India-welcomes-setting-up-FTZ-in-Chabahar

COVID-19 CP therapy needed to treat patients
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-02
TEHRAN, Jul. 02 (MNA) — During the science promotion meeting organized by Mustafa Science and Technology Foundation, prominent figures discussed the convalescent plasma (CP) therapy to treat COVID-19 patients.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160463/COVID-19-CP-therapy-needed-to-treat-patients

Iran to overcome sanctions relying on its capabilities
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-02
TEHRAN, Jul. 02 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament Speaker's Special Adviser for International Affairs said that Islamic Republic of Iran will overcome sanctions relying upon its capabilities and potentials.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160468/Iran-to-overcome-sanctions-relying-on-its-capabilities

Intl. Motorcycling, Automobile Academy inaugurated
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-02
TEHRAN, Jul. 02 (MNA) — The First International Academy of Iranian Motorcycling and Automobile Federation was inaugurated on Thu.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/160461/Intl-Motorcycling-Automobile-Academy-inaugurated

FM Zarif hopes for developing ties with Belarus
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-02
TEHRAN, Jul. 02 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his hope for developing bilateral ties between Iran and Belarus.
en.mehrnews.com/news/160465/FM-Zarif-hopes-for-developing-ties-with-Belarus

The Heat: COVID-19 surges in U.S
Mike Walter | america.cgtn.com | 2020-07-02
Coronavirus is surging in the United States with the death toll now over 127,000.
america.cgtn.com/2020/07/02/the-heat-covid-19-surges-in-u-s

Couriers from rivaling food delivery companies stage mass brawl in Moscow (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-07-02
Couriers from two of Russia's major food delivery companies, sporting their branded uniforms, were filmed engaging in a fight in Moscow… apparently to the disappointment of hungry customers waiting for their orders. | The 'battle' took place in a McDonald's parking lot and involved the employees of Delivery Club in green and Yandex.Eda in yellow. | –í –ú–æ–Å–∫–≤–µ –Å–µ–≥–æ–¥–Ω–è –ø–Ä–æ–∏–∑&ndas…
rt.com/russia/493640-food-delivery-couriers-brawl-moscow/

UN suspends two observers in Israel after viral VIDEO of sex in official car
rt.com | 2020-07-02
Two employees of the United Nations mission in Israel have been suspended without pay after a viral video showed a sex act in their official vehicle, as it drove down a major street in Tel Aviv. | The two men were identified as staff members of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), a military observer mission in Israel, and were placed on unpaid leave on Thursday. | The 18-second video shows a man in a white uniform, in the back seat of the marked UN vehicle, being straddled by a woman wearing a red dress as another man looks on from the front seat. | The incident took place on HaYarkon St…
rt.com/news/493643-un-israel-sex-video-scandal/

SJW mob tears into 'racist' white woman after she holds black woman at gunpoint in viral clip — but full video tells another story
rt.com | 2020-07-02
A face-off in Michigan that culminated with a black woman held at gunpoint has set the internet alight, with Twitter quick to pronounce the incident a hate crime. However, things aren't always so black and white. | The encounter was captured on video by a black woman, with the footage going viral on Thursday. In it, a white woman points a handgun at the black woman filming, screaming at her to "get away," while the black woman calls for the police, and accuses the white woman of trying to hit her with her vehicle. | pic.twitter.com/lWksZwXITDР🦋Makay (@makaysmith10)
rt.com/usa/493636-white-woman-karen-gun/

Convalescent blood plasma given to COVID-19 patients
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-07-02
An Imperial researcher discussed a trial giving UK COVID-19 patients blood plasma from people who have recovered from coronavirus, in a recent talk.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198955/convalescent-blood-plasma-given-covid-19-patients

COVID-19 vaccine technology can be used for future pandemics, says expert
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-07-02
The researcher developing a potential new coronavirus vaccine said the technology behind it could also be used for future pandemics, in a recent talk.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198953/covid-19-vaccine-technology-used-future-pandemics

Beavers born in Essex 'for first time since Middle Ages'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-02
Beavers have been born in Essex for the first time since the Middle Ages, conservationists have said.The mammals had been hunted to extinction for their meat, fur and scent glands in the UK by the beginning of the 16th Century but have since been reintroduced. | A pair of Eurasian beavers were brought to the Spains Hall Estate in Finchingfield last year as part of a project to help reduce flood risk.They were the first to be brought to Essex in 400 years, and now they have had two babies — known as kits.Darren Tansley, river catchment coordinator at Essex Wildlife Trust, said: "We always hoped that having be…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/07/02/beavers-born-in-essex-for-first-time-since-middle-ages/

No further extension to furlough scheme, says Johnson
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-02
Boris Johnson has said there will be no further extension to the government's furlough scheme. His comments come despite a fresh wave of job losses across the country. | Ministers are facing calls to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), following the announcement this week of thousands of lay-offs in the retail and aviation sectors. CJRS has protected more than 9 million jobs during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. | But in an interview with the Evening Standard, Johnson insisted it was not "healthy" for either the economy or the employees concerned to extend the scheme: We've spent £120 b…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/02/no-further-extension-to-furlough-scheme-says-johnson/

BBC cutting around 450 jobs across England
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-02
The BBC has announced plans to cut around 450 jobs across England.The broadcaster said that BBC England must save £25m by the end of March 2022.BBC England is the home of the corporation's local radio stations and regional TV news, and according to the BBC will "undergo a significant reinvention".It comes after the BBC last month said it was axing more than 150 roles in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.Outgoing BBC director-general Lord Tony Hall (Dominic Lipinski/PA)Last month outgoing director-general Lord Tony Hall launched a programme of voluntary redundancy across the BBC.The BBC already had an &po…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/02/bbc-cutting-around-450-jobs-across-england/

China warns of 'corresponding measures' over UK 'interfering' in Hong Kong
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-02
China has said it reserves "the right to take corresponding measures" if the UK pushes forward with its plan to give three million Hong Kong residents the right to settle in the country. | Boris Johnson accused Beijing of a "clear and serious breach" of its treaty with Britain by imposing a much-criticised national security law on the territory. | The prime minister said he would introduce a route for people with British National (Overseas) (BNO) status to apply for visas to live and work in the UK and apply for citizenship. | In response, the Chinese Embassy in the UK said such a move would be in breach of "inte…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/02/china-warns-of-corresponding-measures-over-uk-interfering-in-hong-kong/

Go die! -Corona crisis shows that social Darwinist ideas are taken up by left wing politic
Rebecca Maskos | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Rebecca Maskos and Stephan Weigand, two leftists from Germany, wrote a text to tackle the German left's socialdarwinist and ableist stances in the face of the Corona crisis. The text focuses only on current excesses of socialdarwinism of the German left, but maybe some of it may apply to other countries as well. | We think that it's really bothering how people who otherwise are the first ones to fight every "-ism" can't understand how much ableism towards disabled and ld people they spread in their criticism of the government's epidemiological interventions to flatten the curve. (This criticism was pretty widespr…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834799.php

Acoma Pueblo Simon Ortiz: Trump's Self-Celebration Reflected in Mount Rushmore Imperialism
Simon Ortiz | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Acoma Pueblo poet, professor and author Simon Ortiz reflects on the egotism and arrogance of Trump and his self-celebration, as Trump plans to inject himself into the Black Hills during the coronavirus pandemic.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/02/18834814.php

Thursday 7/2: Rally At Alameda County Health Department-No Protection For Workers At Tesla & In Alameda
Workers Solidarity Action Network | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Alameda Department of Public Health | 1000 Broadway, Oakland…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834777.php

Saturday 7/4: The Nightmare Must End: Trump Pence Out Now!
Refuse Fascism | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Meet at 24th and Mission St. San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834800.php

Saturday 7/4: 4th of July: "Defund Police, Defund Pentagon, Fund Community & Life!"
cynthia papermaster | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
1: 00 – SF City Hall | 1: 30 – 762 Fulton, Black Lives Matter street mural | 2: 00 – Divisadero & Broadway, Nancy Pelosi's House | 3: 00 – Bayview Hunters Point, 11 Innes Court, Lennar office…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/02/18834815.php

Sunday 7/5: March for Black Lives: Reclaim South San Francisco
Russell Lee | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
In front of the South San Francisco Municipal Building, 33 Arroyo Drive, South San Francisco, CA 94080…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834803.php

Friday 7/3: ICE Out of Marin Plans Large Demonstration at County Jail
ICE Out of Marin | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Marin County Jail…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834810.php

Saturday 7/4: Fuck the Fourth, Love Your Friends
Santa Cruz for Abolition | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Clocktower, Pacific Avenue and Water Street, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834813.php

Oakland's Jack London Square is named after a racist dog
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
A 1996 Monument Of Jack London At Jack London Square:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834749.php

Tuesday 7/7: It's Not Working! The Erosion of Labor Rights in America (webinar)
KQED | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Livestream: www.youtube.com/KQED…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834792.php

July 1st March In Piedmont To Demand Multi-Millionaire Stop Profiteering
Posted By Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Hundreds of Low-Income East Bay Residents To March to Piedmont Home of Multi-Millionaire to Demand He Stop Profiteering at the Expense of Black and Brown Communities and Instead Help Finance a Just Recovery for All!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/30/18834785.php

Gilead Sciences cashes in on COVID-19
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Profit-minded Foster City-based pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences sets a price for its unproven new anti-COVID-19 treatment.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834798.php

Sunday 7/19: Stranded: A Window into the Health of Marine Mammal Populations
Seymour Center at Long Marine Lab | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834809.php

Sunday 7/5: Commemorate Bloody Thursday At SSA-STOP Racist Attacks On Docks & Fisher Racist Privatiza
CSPTS | indybay.org | 2020-07-02
SSA | 1717 Middle Harbor Rd, Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/01/18834794.php

How 'News'-Media Lie and Get Away With It
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-02
Eric ZUESSE | Lots of U.S. invasions are based on blatant lies by the U.S. Government and its stenographic 'free press' (which is just as controlled by America's 788 billionaires as the Soviet Union's press was controlled by its Communist Party), but this will discuss only one instance, which is especially well-documented: | On 26 May 2004, the New York Times published an editorial headlined "The Times and Iraq", which seemed to apologize for so…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/02/how-news-media-lie-and-get-away-with-it/

Some Conspiracy Theories Are for Real
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-02
What is the best way to debunk a conspiracy theory? Call it a conspiracy theory, a label which in and of itself implies disbelief. The only problem with that is there have been many actual conspiracies both historically and currently and many of them are not in the least theoretical in nature. Conspiracies of several kinds brought about American participation in both world wars. And however one feels about President Donald Trump, it must be conceded that he has been the victim of a number of conspiracies, first to deny him the GOP nomination, then to insure that he be defeated in the presidential election, and su…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/02/some-conspiracy-theories-are-for-real/

How the USA stole 14,000 Cuban children
Barry Healy | greenleft.org.au | 2020-07-02
Barry HealyIssue 1272 AustraliaJuly 2, 2020Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children | By Deborah Shnookal | University of Florida Press, 2020, 313 pp., $85 | Since the successful Cuban Revolution in January 1959 successive US governments have waged both overt and covert war against Cuba. The most violent of these was the Bay of Pigs fiasco in April 1961. | But around the same time, the US decid…
greenleft.org.au/content/how-usa-stole-14000-cuban-children

Operation Peter Pan: How the United States stole 14,000 Cuban children
Barry Healy | greenleft.org.au | 2020-07-02
Latin America & the Caribbean Barry HealyIssue 1271 Australia Cuba Operation Peter PanJuly 2, 2020 | Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children | By Deborah Shnookal | Univers…
greenleft.org.au/content/operation-peter-pan-how-united-states-stole-14000-cuban-children

Selected Articles: Trump's Foreign Policy
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-02
We hope that by publishing diverse view points, submitted by journalists and experts dotted all over the world, the website can serve as a reminder that no matter what narrative we are presented with, things are rarely as cut and …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-trump-foreign-policy/5717594