(2022-06-20). Ukraine Parliament Passes New Laws Seeking To Purge Russian Culture. news.antiwar.com Ukraine's Parliament passed two bills that will restrict Russian music and books. If President Volodymyr Zelensky signs the legislation, it will be a significant step forward in Kiev's attempt to purge the Russian culture. The first bill will place heavy restrictions on any author who held Russian citizenship after the collapse of the Soviet Union …
(2022-06-20). War In Ukraine Day 117: Preliminary Results Of June. southfront.org 
Destroyed equipment of Kyiv's forces | Since the liberation of Kherson, Melitopol and Mariupol as well as the stabilization of the frontline around Kharkiv, units of the Russian Armed Forces have been mainly focused on the elimination of Kyiv's military grouping in the region of Donbass. | As of June 20, Russian forces have been finishing the elimination of Kyiv's garrison in the industrial zone of Severodonetsk and liberation of Zolotoe. | The grouping of Kyiv troops that remains in the Azot plant in Severodonetsk is de-f…
(2022-06-20). Biden Tells Americans to Sacrifice for the Nazis of Ukraine. globalresearch.ca Back in February, when Russia went into Ukraine to denazify and disarm the country, the corporate media declared brave and patriotic Ukrainians would push the Russians out and eventually retake Crimea and the Donbas. In order to do this, we …
(2022-06-20). Tryzub: The National Revolution Fantasized by Ukranian Nationalists. libya360.wordpress.com Laurent Brayard Among the many ultranationalist organisations with a whiff of the sulphur, there is now Trizub, referring to the Ukrainian nationalist symbol of the Trident. The Ukraine is full of such groups and parties, in what is described in the West as folklore, but its origins lie both in the history of the Ukrainian…
(2022-06-20). Western Media and Politicians Prefer to Ignore the Truth about Civilians Killed in Donetsk Shelling/By Eva Bartlett. marktaliano.net 
By Eva Bartlett Global Research, June 20, 2022 Internationalist 360 ∞ 16 June 2022 When Kiev's guilt in attacks on a maternity hospital cannot be denied, it's simply brushed under the carpet Following intense Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk on June 13, some Western media sources, in tandem with outlets in Kiev, unsurprisingly claimed that the attack — which killed …
(2022-06-20). Western Media and Politicians Prefer to Ignore the Truth about Civilians Killed in Donetsk Shelling. globalresearch.ca When Kiev's guilt in attacks on a maternity hospital cannot be denied, it's simply brushed under the carpet | Following intense Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk on June 13, some Western media sources, in tandem with outlets in Kiev, unsurprisingly claimed that …
(2022-06-20). China's Long War on Poverty. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Martinez In late 2020, the Chinese government announced that its goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2021 (the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China) had been met. At the start of the targeted poverty alleviation program in 2014, just under 100 million people were identified as living below the poverty…
(2022-06-20). Chris Hedges: The Triumph of Death. mintpressnews.com It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented. So is the refusal of the global ruling elite to pursue measures that might mitigate the devastation. We accelerate the extraction of fossil fuels, wallow in profligate consumption, including our consumption of livestock, and make new wars as if we are gripped by a Freudian death wish. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — Conquest, War, Famine and Death — gallop into the 21st century. | Those who rule, servants of corporations and the global billionaire class, accompany the suicidal folly by cementing into p…
(2022-06-20). "Global NATO": Upcoming Summit Intended to Transform the "Atlantic Alliance". New "Strategic Concept" Envisaged. globalresearch.ca Special "partner nations" have been invited to the NATO summit to be held in Madrid, Spain, from June 29-30. In addition to the leaders of the 30 NATO member states, the leaders of South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand…
(2022-06-20). Despite Unspeakable Hardships, Migrants Keep One Billion People Alive. transcend.org 15 Jun 2022 — Here goes another fact: 230 million migrant workers are now a major life-saving source for up to one billion people starving in the world's poorest communities, as well as a vital lifeline for the economy of their countries of origin.
(2022-06-20). A Juneteenth Message from HEAT, SF City College Students, Faculty, and Supporters. indybay.org Juneteenth is partly about the right to a free public education and that is being destroyed at SF City College. Fighting the 80 billionaires in SF is part of the fight for free public education for all.
(2022-06-20). Iran Drops Call for IRGC Delisting to Be Part of Nuclear Deal. news.antiwar.com The US has ruled out removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the terror watchlist, and has used that refusal to stall the ongoing nuclear talks. Iran is trying to break that stalemate. | Iran has Iran had often suggested this was just a possible topic, and taking it off the table may allow the nuclear talks to…
(2022-06-20). TUC unions make eleventh hour attempt to sabotage UK rail strikes. wsws.org The letter was an attempt to sabotage a strike that no trade union bureaucrat in the UK wants to take place. It confirmed that the only thing preventing a rotten sellout of rail workers is the refusal of the Johnson government to accept the unions' terms of surrender.
(2022-06-20). The AFL-CIO's Official New Goal: Continued Decline. popularresistance.org The single best measurement of the strength of labor unions is union density‚Äâ—‚Äâthe percentage of the total workforce that is unionized. Nothing makes the crushing decline of unions in America more intelligible than the fact that at their height in the mid-20th century, one in three workers was a union member, and today, scarcely one in 10 is. All of the downstream damages to the working class‚Äâ—‚Äâlower relative wages, higher economic inequality, less political power‚Äâ—‚Äâflow from this de…
(2022-06-20). Tens Of Thousands Demand Action At Rally On Eve Of UK Rail Strikes. popularresistance.org The protest held on the eve of ahead of this week's national rail strikes by 50,000 rail workers on June 21, 23 and 25. | Seeking to maintain control of an emerging strike wave, the union bureaucracy pulled out all the stops. Even so, while the demo was somewhat larger than the annual TUC protests in recent years, it was much smaller than that held in 2011 of around 200,000, called after the Conservative government came to power and first launched a savage austerity offensive. | Organized amid a powerful sentiment among workers for taking on the Johnson government and the employers, the turnout testifies to the d…
(2022-06-20). Yellow Vest Win: The end of unions as Western leftism's hereditary kings. thesaker.is by Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker blog The 51-day general strike of 2019-20  ; the longest labor movement in French history  ; was the best of times and the worst…
(2022-06-20). On Juneteenth, US Government Claims It Recommits To Justice But Black America Ask How: Reparations. moguldom.com The country celebrates Juneteenth as a federal holiday today, June 20, 2022, after Joe Biden signed the legislation on June 17, 2021. Juneteenth National Independence Day is the 12th legal public holiday and commemorates the day Union soldiers led by Gen. Gordon Granger arrived on June 19, 1865, in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, …
(2022-06-20). Mass actions against President Kais Saied's rule intensify in Tunisia. peoplesdispatch.org Tunisia witnessed numerous protests on Sunday, June 19. The country's largest trade union UGTT observed a national strike last week, while judges have decided to extend their strike for a third consecutive week…
(2022-06-20). "Fight poverty, not the poor!": Thousands rally in Washington DC. peoplesdispatch.org 
Labor unions, civil society and religious groups joined the Poor People's Campaign on June 18 to demand justice and redressal for the 140 million people in the US facing poverty and growing insecurity…
(2022-06-20). What's the story behind inflation? mronline.org 
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the rate of inflation rose to 8.6% in May, the latest high in a period of rapid growth in prices following the COVID-19 recession in March 2020. Indeed, inflation is now higher than it has been in the past 40 years.
(2022-06-20). Palestine Action permanently shutters Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit's London headquarters. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Palestine Action on the shuttering of the second Elbit Systems location in Britain after the Elbit Oldham factory! Elbit Systems is an Israeli arms manufacturing company with multiple locations across Britain. After less than two years of direct actions, Elbit's London headquarters, the location of numerous and costly actions, …
(2022-06-20). Non-Aligned Countries Are Now 'Fence Sitters' for the Political West. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic The political West seems to have lost any semblance of understanding geopolitics and diplomacy, while some might argue it has completely lost grasp of logic and reality. The belligerent power pole simply refuses to let go of the notion it has supposedly "won" the (First) Cold War. While this idea might have held…
(2022-06-20). Taiwan: Red Lines and Strategic Ambiguity. libya360.wordpress.com Stefania Fusero On May 5, 2022, the State Department amended its Taiwan factsheet removing the part in which it acknowledged that Taiwan is a part of China and stated that the US does not support Taiwan's independence. While Washington has said the update does not reflect a change in its policy, it has clearly increased both…
(2022-06-20). Rail strikes 'start of wider industrial unrest' amid cost crisis. ecns.cn The general secretary of the union representing railway workers has warned that the United Kingdom could face a summer of strike action across the board because of people being pushed to breaking point by the cost of living crisis.
(2022-06-20). Hung parliament emerges from French legislative elections in debacle for Macron. wsws.org Jean-Luc Mélenchon's party won a record 142 seats amid an upsurge of strikes and protests, but the neo-fascist National Rally also won a record 89 seats.
(2022-06-20). W.H.O to declare Public Health Emergency of International Concern over COVID Vaccine-Induced Shingles (Monkeypox). globalresearch.ca The World Health Organization is set to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the end of June 2022 over Covid-19 vaccine-induced shingles which all member states including the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Europe …
(2022-06-20). Is There Life After Death? transcend.org 16 Jun 2022 – A review of 'James and Whitehead on Life after Death' by David Ray Griffin – The meaning of death, and whether humans do or do not survive it in some form, has always obsessed people, from the average person to the great artists and thinkers. Death is the mother of philosophy and all the arts and sciences.
(2022-06-20). Unión Eléctrica pronostica afectaciones al servicio por déficit de generación. cubadebate.cu La Unión Eléctrica pronostica que a partir de las 08: 00 horas se comenzará a afectar el servicio por déficit de capacidad de generación, con un máximo de 350 MW en el horario del mediodía. Para el horario pico se estima una disponibilidad de 2 556 MW y una demanda máxima de 2 750 MW, para un déficit de 194 MW, por lo que se pronostican afectaciones.
(2022-06-20). Australian Labor government prepares to cut disability services. wsws.org Minister Bill Shorten is moving to slash NDIS services as rapidly as politically possible, regardless of Labor's election vows to improve the scheme.
(2022-06-20). Will the Global South Break Free from Dollarized Debt? transcend.org 9 Jun 2022 – In his latest book, economist Michael Hudson pits socialism against finance capitalism and tears apart the 'dream civilization' imposed by the 1 percent.
(2022-06-20). Mayo Clinic expert speaks of significance of Lyme disease uptick. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Lyme disease has infected more than 14% of the world's population, according to a new study. "It's significant," says Dr. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic. "If you look at the numbers and how it breaks down in regions across the United States, in some areas, that exceeds 50% seropositivity. That means people are walking around with antibodies in their blood that are detectable. That shows they've been exposed to Lyme disease at some…
(2022-06-20). Saint Michael's health care workers' strike in Newark, New Jersey at crossroads. wsws.org The "compromise" being worked out between St. Michael's Medical Center, the Jersey Nurses Economic Security Organization and the federal mediator would abandon everything workers have been fighting for.
(2022-06-20). Stella Assange: 'We Are Going To Fight This'. popularresistance.org Julian Assange's wife and one of his lawyers on Friday vowed to fight the decision of British Home Secretary Priti Patel to sign an extradition order earlier in the day sending imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to the United States to face trial on espionage and computer intrusion charges. | "This is the outcome that we have been concerned about for the last decade," Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson told a London press conference. "This decision is a grave threat to freedom of speech, not just for Julian, but for every journalist, editor and media worker." | She said he faced up to 175 years in a U.S.
(2022-06-20). Sickout cripples New Jersey commuter rail service. wsws.org The job action on Friday signals a growing determination among transit workers for a counteroffensive against lost wages and deteriorating working conditions.
(2022-06-20). Three groups vie to shore up discredited Australian university trade union. wsws.org In a revealing sign of the collapse of the NTEU's support, three teams within the union are contesting elections for its top posts in order to head off the discontent among university workers.
(2022-06-20). Viceprimer ministro cubano se reúne con presidenta del Senado ruso. cubadebate.cu La presidenta del Consejo de la Federación de Rusia conversó este lunes con Ricardo Cabrisas sobre el estado actual de la colaboración bilateral. En el cordial y afectuoso encuentro, calificado así por la parte cubana, ambos intercambiaron también sobre el papel que deben desempeñar ambos parlamentos para impulsar la cooperación entre Moscú y La Habana.
(2022-06-20). China deepens agriculture cooperation with BRICS nations. ecns.cn It is still harvest season in Mato Grosso, Brazil, but farmer Eleonor Ogliari is already reserving corn seeds from the China-Brasil Agriculture Science Industrial Park, ready for the next planting season.
(2022-06-20). Workers at five Atlantic City casinos vote overwhelmingly to strike. wsws.org Casino workers in Atlantic City are facing a contract struggle with a union that has repeatedly betrayed them in the past.
(2022-06-20). Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Patients, Executive Director Highlighted in American Association for Cancer Research Cancer Disparities Progress Report. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — The American Association for Cancer Research today released its Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2022. The publication aims to raise awareness of the enormous toll that cancer exacts on racial and ethnic minorities and other diverse and medically underserved populations in the United States while highlighting areas of recent progress in reducing cancer health disparities. The report also provides specific recommendations for achieving health equity, a fundamental human right for all people regardless…
(2022-06-20). An Endless Stream of Scary Official Enemies. globalresearch.ca Any government that is a national-security state needs big official enemies — scary ones, ones that will cause the citizenry to continue supporting not only the continued existence of a national-security state form of government but also ever-growing budgets for …
(2022-06-20). UK rail strikes could last for six months till X-Mas: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — The British Rail Network has threatened that its staff may go on a six-month strike in the country.
(2022-06-20). Sri Lankan SEP public meeting on "The lessons of the mass uprising in Sri Lanka" wsws.org Workers and youth need to urgently draw political lessons from the past three months of anti-government strikes and protests so as to advance the struggle against brutal austerity measures of the Rajapakse regime.
(2022-06-20). If The Streets Of America Are This Chaotic Now, What Will They Be Like When Things Really Start Hitting The Fan? globalresearch.ca If you are not alarmed by what is happening to our largest cities, you should check to see if you still have a pulse. Once upon a time, the beautiful new cities that our forefathers constructed were the envy of …
(2022-06-20). On Juneteenth Weekend Parents, Teacher & Student Speak Out At Liberated Parker Elementary. indybay.org On the Juneteenth weekend a student, parents and a teacher spoke out at the occupied Parker Elementary school which has turned into a liberation school in Oakland.
(2022-06-20). Advocates call for reparations for Black Americans. america.cgtn.com The 'Why We Can't Wait' coalition is calling on President Biden to issue an executive order for a commission to study the legacy of slavery and consider reparations.
(2022-06-20). Juneteenth Is About Black Liberation — Not Union Busting. popularresistance.org For corporations, June has long been a time to adopt a facade of progressiveness while profiting from performing inclusivity of LGBTQ+ people. But in the past two years, a new occasion has fallen prey to this co-optation: Juneteenth. | June 19 — or Juneteenth — commemorates the day that the final enslaved people in the U.S. were emancipated. On this day in 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, a union general announced in Galveston, Texas that "in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free." At the time, 250,000 Black people we…
(2022-06-20). Report: US Secretly Reviews and Approves Many Israeli Airstrikes in Syria. globalresearch.ca According to a report
(2022-06-20). The peaceful revolution of Colombia's "nobodies" colombiareports.com The historic election victory of Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro is largely due to a massive increase in voter turnout. According to the National Registry, Sunday's turnout was 58%, the highest…
(2022-06-20). Michigan Medicine nurses describe intolerable conditions at union-organized protest to University of Michigan regents. wsws.org Several dozen Michigan Medicine nurses and supporters participated in a protest to the UM Board of Regents organized by the MNA-UMPNC union. The contract covering 6,200 nurses expires June 30, and the union has failed to even schedule a strike vote.
(2022-06-20). Open Letter To Labor Notes About Relationship To US NED Funded AFL-CIO "Solidarity Center" indybay.org Retired UAW Local 909 president Frank Hammer challenges Labor Notes about their relationship with the US NED funded "Solidarity Center" in Mexico and the US. The AFL-CIO International Departmen AIFLD t was involved in the attack and murder of Mexico City Ford workers yet Labor Notes has refused to cover this issue and the fact that the "Solidarity Center" is now receiving $75 million a year from the National Endowment for Democracy which was set up by the US government and CIA.
(2022-06-20). Vote NO on the Providence St. Vincent sellout contract! Build rank-and-file committees to fight for safe staffing, good wages and benefits! wsws.org Are you a nurse at Providence St. Vincent? Let us know what you think about the contract and what health care workers should be fighting for. Please also register for the upcoming Health Care Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting this coming Sunday, June 26, at 11: 00 a.m. PT.
(2022-06-20). Wednesday 6/29: Decolonial Futures & Environmental Justice: Panel Talk w/ Ecofeminist Dr. Vandana Shiva. indybay.org Virtual event via Zoom…
(2022-06-20). St. Petersburg 2022 Forum Sets the Stage for the "War of Economic Corridors" globalresearch.ca The St. Petersburg in 2022 is even more crucial as it directly connects …
(2022-06-20). Saturday 7/16: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Red Deal – Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.
(2022-06-20). Papua New Guinea election campaign amid escalating crises. wsws.org While none of the contesting parties is addressing the burning issues facing the working class and rural poor, election-related violence is erupting.
(2022-06-19). Sarah Nelson and Joe Burns speak at Labor Notes conference in Chicago. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL—Sarah Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, spoke on a panel with labor negotiator and author Joe Burns. They discussed how to fight the big corporate firms in the transportation sector in talk titled "Using the Railway Labor Act to Our Advantage." They highlighted how different labor laws for the transportation sector benefit their ability to lead the flight attendant union in struggle with big corporate owners. | Joe Burns explained, "Railway workers formed one of the most militant unions in our history, shutting down the whole country with strikes in 1877,…
(2022-06-19). Apple retail workers vote to unionize a store in Maryland. popularresistance.org Workers at Apple's Towson Town Center store in Maryland have voted to unionize, with 65 yeses and 33 nos. Around 110 employees were eligible to vote in the election. | The store is the first Apple retail location in the US to hold a union election, after organizers in Atlanta withdrew their petition to hold a union vote, which had been scheduled to take place in early May.