(2023-06-22). Imperialist media can't stop lying about mosques in China. workers.org 
The writer participated in a delegation organized by the China/U.S. Solidarity Network that visited China from May 11 to May 31. Over the last few years, the U.S. media have routinely run stories accusing China of the erasure of Islam, in part based on the alleged mass demolition of mosques. . . . |
(2023-06-22). Hunger strike threat by Palestinian prisoners forces concessions. workers.org 
Credit: Samidoun.net Over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, who had been held without charges by Israeli authorities, were poised to launch a mass hunger strike beginning on June 18. But in a statement by The Administrative Detainees' Committee of the Palestinian prisoners' movement, the strike has been postponed. Why? Because the organized . . . |
(2023-06-22). The real answer to end state repression. workers.org 
Two recent developments prove once again that police terror and extralegal terrorism are inextricably tied to white supremacy under capitalism. On June 2, an African American mother of four children, Ajike Owens, was fatally shot by her white neighbor, 58-year-old Susan Lorincz, in Ocala, Florida. Ajike Owens The 35-year-old Owens, . . . |
(2023-06-22). Los incendios devastan las tierras y el aire indígenas. workers.org 
Algonquinos de las tierras de la Primera Nación del Lago Barriere, Quebec, Canadá. En todo el norte de Norteamérica, los incendios forestales siguen causando estragos, amenazando vidas y naciones indígenas y envenenando el aire de decenas de millones de personas. Originalmente agrupados en las Primeras Naciones que ocupan el oeste . . . |
(2023-06-22). By sending Transcarpathian POWs to Hungary, Moscow is saving their lives. infobrics.org Kiev started a genocidal campaign of compulsory recruitment of Transcarpathia's ethnic Hungarian citizens, generating concern for their safety in Budapest.
(2023-06-22). Gaining Currency: Latin America's Move to Shift Away from US Dollar. infobrics.org Experts say that a swift end to dollar dependence may not be possible, but more and more countries are signalling their intent to reduce reliance on the US greenback…
(2023-06-22). Shaky Foundations for the New Development Bank. infobrics.org
(2023-06-22). As 19 Countries Seek to Join BRICS, Is the World Experiencing a Change in the Balance of Power?>. infobrics.org Since its formation in 2006, the BRICS group has only accepted one new member in 2010. Now, 19 countries have formally or informally approached the body to become members as it prepares to hold its annual summit in South Africa…
(2023-06-22). BRICS+ should tread carefully with possible NATO-aligned 'Trojan horses'. infobrics.org It's expected that the political West will try to undermine and destabilize the emergence of a more firmly established multipolar world. Support for countries on the fringes of Greater Eurasia is geopolitically convenient, as it contributes to the policy of "strategic containment".
(2023-06-22). Zelensky admits progress in counteroffensive "slower than desired" infobrics.org Ukrainian president blasts those who think war "is a Hollywood movie".
(2023-06-22). Palestina condena construcción de asentamientos israelíes. telesurtv.net Los ministros de Netanyahu construyeron 1.000 nuevas unidades de asentamiento en la colonia de Eli.
(2023-06-22). Sindicatos se movilizan por mejoras laborales en Uruguay. telesurtv.net Por la implementación de iniciativas de mayor seguridad, los constructores uruguayos se concentraron ante las oficinas del Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social (MTSS).
(2023-06-22). Presidente de Brasil: países industrializados deben pagar la deuda que tienen con el planeta. telesurtv.net El mandatario indicó que quienes han contaminado el planeta desde el inicio de la revolución industrial, tienen una deuda histórica.
(2023-06-22). Autoridades confirman muerte de tripulación del submarino Titan. telesurtv.net El contraalmirante de la Guardia Costera, John Mauger, declaró que el campo de escombros es consistente con una implosión catastrófica del submarino.
(2023-06-22). Cuba: urge un nuevo y más justo orden financiero internacional. telesurtv.net Miguel Díaz Canel-Bermúdez interviene durante Cumbre por un Nuevo Pacto Financiero Global, que se celebra en París.
(2023-06-22). Concluye primera audiencia de juicio a expresidente Bolsonaro. telesurtv.net El abogado que representa a la acusación, Walber Agra, afirmó que Bolsonaro debía ser condenado por sus "abusos de poder", pero también por "prácticas golpistas".
(2023-06-22). Encuentran "escombros" en inmediaciones del Titanic. telesurtv.net Los expertos de EE.UU. y Canadá, reunidos en un centro de coordinación de operaciones en Boston desconocen si se trata del submarino perdido hace dos días.
(2023-06-22). Presidente cubano se reúne con líderes internacionales en París. telesurtv.net El mandatario cubano sostuvo un encuentro con el secretario general de la ONU en el Palacio de la Bolsa de París.
(2023-06-22). Cámara Baja de EE.UU. retira facilidad de visado a chilenos. telesurtv.net La aprobación se produce luego de que presidente de la Cámara Baja de EE.UU., Kevin McCarthy, criticara la Visa Waiver.
(2023-06-22). Congo alberga 600.000 desplazados en condiciones precarias. telesurtv.net Desde 1998, el este de la República Democrática Congo (RDC) está sumido en un conflicto alimentado por las milicias rebeldes y el Ejército.
(2023-06-22). Comunidades indígenas mantienen protestas en Jujuy, Argentina. telesurtv.net Se reportan alrededor de 20 cortes de ruta. Los piquetes coinciden con un paro de funcionarios públicos que reclaman aumentos salariales.
(2023-06-22). Petro asegura que capitalismo no resolverá crisis climática. telesurtv.net El mandatario colombiano aseguró, además, que las medidas propuestas por Bruselas son demasiado dependientes de la empresa privada.
(2023-06-22). Barbados exige transformación total de sistema financiero global. telesurtv.net En Cumbre por un Nuevo Pacto Financiero Global, Mia Mottley exige transformación absoluta y no una reforma del sistema financiero.
(2023-06-22). Se cumplen 37 años del gol de la "mano de Dios" de Maradona. telesurtv.net "Volvería a hacerlo una y mil veces; les robé la billetera sin que se dieran cuenta", dijo Diego años después.
(2023-06-22). Indígenas guatemaltecos rechazan candidatos pro militares. telesurtv.net En las elecciones, además de presidente y vicepresidente, se elegirá un nuevo Congreso (160 diputados) para el período 2024-2028.
(2023-06-22). Ocupante israelí mata a tres palestinos en un ataque con dron. telesurtv.net Las víctimas viajaban en un vehículo que recibió el impacto de un misil. Ejército israelí impidió que las ambulancias palestinas llegaran al lugar.
(2023-06-22). Presidente tico descalifica reclamo popular sobre educación. telesurtv.net Estudiantes y trabajadores en Costa Rica denunciaron en las calles que el Gobierno incumple presupuesto educativo.
(2023-06-22). Tribunal salvadoreño niega revisar detención de ambientalistas. telesurtv.net El tribunal consideró que los informes sobre la salud de los líderes ambientalistas detenidos están desactualizados.
(2023-06-22). Explosión en restaurante deja al menos 31 fallecidos en China. telesurtv.net Esta constituye la explosión más mortífera en China desde marzo de 2019, después de la producida en una planta química en la provincia oriental de Jiangsu.
(2023-06-22). Jamaica alcanza triunfo en Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe. telesurtv.net Competencias de voli de playa comenzaron dos días antes de la inauguración de los Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe.
(2023-06-22). Presidenta hondureña militariza cárceles tras violento motín. telesurtv.net La decisión impone el control de los militares en las cárceles a partir del 1ro de julio durante el período de un año.
(2023-06-22). Macron abre en París, Francia, Cumbre para un Nuevo Pacto Financiero Mundial. telesurtv.net El mandatario francés recordó en su discurso que la pandemia de la Covid-19 "incrementó la desigualdad".
(2023-06-22). øCómo se ha fortalecido la unidad latinoamericana y caribeña?>. telesurtv.net El Congreso Anfictiónico, instalado un 22 de junio de 1826 en Panamá, respondió a los sueños de integración que tenía Simón Bolívar.
(2023-06-22). Entregan honoris causa a gestor de la paz colombiano Francisco de Roux. telesurtv.net Con el reconocimiento entregado en una ceremonia realizada en la Ciudad de México se celebró la vida y obra del sacerdote jesuita colombiano, así como al pueblo de Colombia.
(2023-06-22). Choque múltiple deja cinco fallecidos y 14 lesionados en México. telesurtv.net El director de la Unidad de Protección Civil y Bomberos informó que las unidades de rescate continuarían los trabajos en la zona hasta lograr la extinción del incendio.
(2023-06-22). Detained and Interrogated by British Counter-Terrorism Police, with Journalist Kit Klarenberg. mintpressnews.com Last month, on his way back to Great Britain, MintPress contributor Kit Klarenberg was detained and interrogated. The investigative journalist was met at the airport by six anonymous plainclothes counter-terror officers, who seized his electronic devices, and memory cards and took his fingerprints and DNA. | Under Schedule Three, Section Four of the U.K. 2019 Counter-Terrorism and Border Act, they grilled him for over five hours, asking probing questions on everything from his opinions on the current British leadership to Vladimir Putin to 9/11. | Kit Klarenberg joins "MintCast" host Mnar Adley to discuss the inc…
(2023-06-22). The Irony of World Refugee Day: Celebrating, then Blaming the Victims. mintpressnews.com For World Refugee Day to matter, it must address the root causes of such complex and ongoing problems. Only an honest and deep understanding can serve as a starting point for a meaningful conversation and, hopefully, meaningful actions.
(2023-06-22). Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023): Chronicler of American carnage. wsws.org His works are so permeated with misanthropy and a hostility to human progress that his literary output represents a step back from the great American writers of the 20th century.
(2023-06-22). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Italian airport workers hold national 24-hour strike over pay and conditions, grounding 3,000 flights; UK refuse workers' pay strike at Cumberland and Sandwell councils spreads to Hertfordshire and Selby; general strike in Iranian city of Saqqez to protest attempts to limit access to grave of Mahsa Amini, murdered by morality police; Nigerian unions suspend national fuel subsidy strike on empty promise of negotiating concessions…
(2023-06-22). Pakistan on the brink of default as IMF pushes for still more austerity. wsws.org The Pakistan government has complained that the IMF has repeatedly shifted the "goal posts" for it accessing the desperately needed bailout loan, despite it agreeing to and imposing the US-dominated agency's savage austerity diktats.
(2023-06-22). Israel's settlers, army and far-right government attack the Palestinians on all fronts. wsws.org Far-right forces have repeatedly demanded the annexation of the West Bank—as has Netanyahu himself—in defiance of international law, in pursuit of their aim of establishing a Jewish Supremacist state in both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
(2023-06-22). London's Ukraine Recovery Conference plans imperialist looting operation. wsws.org Already being bled white militarily and demographically to weaken Russia, Ukraine faces the same fate economically at the hands of the US and European powers.
(2023-06-22). UK nurses' strike in danger: union leader claims action has "hit the end of the road" wsws.org If the turnout in the current ballot fails to reach the legal threshold, it will not be down to any lack of will to fight among nurses, but a massive vote of no confidence in Cullen and the bureaucracy she heads.
(2023-06-22). Hunter Biden plea deal intensifies political warfare in Washington. wsws.org The plea deal with federal prosecutors is both a cover-up of Hunter Biden's profiteering from the political connections of his father and fuel for false Republican and far-right claims of a legal double standard in comparison to the recent federal indictment of Donald Trump.
(2023-06-22). Australia records 205 COVID deaths, highest weekly figure since February. wsws.org With no public health measures in place, very low levels of vaccine-induced immunity, and a bubbling "variant soup," ordinary people now confront an unending cycle of infection and reinfection.
(2023-06-22). Ukrainian counteroffensive falters amid mass casualties. wsws.org Despite billions of dollars in weapons and training, Ukraine's vaunted counteroffensive continues to falter as tens of thousands of soldiers are sent to their deaths.
(2023-06-22). Two episodes at sea: The submersible Titan and hundreds of refugees drowned in the Mediterranean. wsws.org The nonstop media coverage of the North Atlantic episode is vastly different from the treatment devoted to last week's terrible tragedy off the Greek coast.
(2023-06-22). Biden Justice Department sought to avoid investigation of Trump over January 6 coup. wsws.org The lengthy exposé has been met with virtual silence from the White House, congressional Democrats and the corporate media as a whole.
(2023-06-22). Pseudo-left Socialist Alternative supports nationalist, pro-business indigenous Voice to Australian parliament. wsws.org Socialist Alternative acknowledges that the Voice to parliament has not emerged from the demands of Aboriginal workers and youth and will do nothing to address their plight, but insists that the Labor government's policy must be supported.
(2023-06-22). American Airlines fined $15,000 after worker was sucked into plane engine. wsws.org An Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) report stated that the airline did not provide "a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death of serious physical harm to employees that were exposed to ingestion and jet blast hazards."
(2023-06-22). Scapegoated nurse RaDonda Vaught fights for reinstatement of nursing license. wsws.org As nurses warned, Vaught's persecution has opened the door for increased attacks on healthcare workers made to pay for dangerous short staffing and conditions in hospitals driven by profit interests.
(2023-06-22). A quarter of Canadians report being impacted by record-breaking wildfire season. wsws.org Driven by the effects of capitalist-induced climate change, wildfires are continuing to burn out of control across the country, from Quebec in the east to British Columbia in the west and the Yukon and Northwest Territories in the north.
(2023-06-22). Former investigator of Colombia's Truth Commission forced into exile. colombiareports.com A former investigator of the Truth Commission has fled Colombia after two robberies and escalating death threats. According to the investigator, Edgar Celis, the prosecution is not interested in investigate…
(2023-06-22). Support for Petro wanes in Colombia's Congress. colombiareports.com Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has lost significant congressional support during his first year in office. Consequently, several of the government's reform proposals failed to get congressional approval. When Petro took…
(2023-06-22). "If You Challenge the FBI, they Will Crush You," Says Whistleblower at Congressional Hearing. covertactionmagazine.com Being an FBI agent was Stephen Friend's dream job. For eight and a half years working there, the Notre Dame graduate and Iraq War veteran investigated around 200 violent crimes, including human and sex-trafficking cases, and served five years as part of an FBI SWAT team. Friend did his job so well that he won …
(2023-06-22). Video: The Unipolar "One World Order" (OWO) and the Imposition of a "Global Government": Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun. Dr Mahathir Mohamad. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Sea Birds' Last Refuges: 4G and 5G Radiation Sickness from the Cell Towers. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Breaking. Video: BlackRock Recruiter Who 'Decides People's Fate' Says 'War Is Good for Business' While Spilling Info on Asset Giant. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Do Unjust Systems Want Student Debts to Continue Forever? globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Daniel Ellsberg: A Father's Legacy to His Son — and His Country. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). The Art of Diplomacy: Biden Blows Up Blinken's Mission to China. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Is Putin Bluffing on Redlines? Ask Putin. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Video: The Secret Post-War Transfer of Ukrainian Nazi SS to Britain and Canada. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Promoting Israeli Apartheid in Canadian Schools Not Okay. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Pentagon Says 'Accounting Error' Provides Extra $6.2 Billion in Ukraine Military Aid. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Daniel Ellsberg Is Lauded in Death by the Same Media that Lets Assange Rot in Jail. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Zelensky Admits Progress in Counteroffensive "Slower Than Desired", Divisions within NATO. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Civil Society Groups Warn About EU Digital ID Wallet Privacy, Discrimination Risks. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Ukraine's Long Road to Potential Admission to NATO. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Paris Summit, New Global Financing Pact: Expected Impact on Africa's Growth and Development. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Turbo Gallbladder Cancer: 61-Year-Old Michael Jones (United Airlines Flight Attendant) Died Within Three Months. 1000s of COVID-19 Vaccinated Are Having Gallbladder Problems. Are Lipid Nanoparticles to Blame? globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). World Refugee Day Marked by 108 Million Being Displaced. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Dimitri Lascaris' Canada-Wide Speaking Tour For Peace. globalresearch.ca Dimitri Lascaris will embark upon a Canada-wide speaking tour next week to report back to Canadians about his recent mission of peace to Russia. The title of the tour is "Making Peace With Russia, One Handshake At A Time." | In …
(2023-06-22). Trudeau Adds Parental Proponents of Traditional Family Values to His Enemies List. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Philippines: Knowing Who Your Friends Are. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Declassified Files Expose British Role in NATO's Gladio Terror Armies. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Australian Cricket Legend 52 Year-Old Shane Warne Died Suddenly From Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Heart Injuries on March 4, 2022. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). "Deep State" Abuse of AI: The Biggest Danger of AI and Yet Nobody Talks About It! globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-22). Selected Articles: African Peace Initiative Seeks to End War in Eastern Europe. globalresearch.ca 
By African Union (AU) member-states have refused to remain silent on the crisis between the Russian Federation and Ukraine since the beginning of the …
(2023-06-22). State and Local Governments Must Take Responsibility for Police Violence. aclu.org 
Last week, the Department of Justice issued a Police violence is common across police departments, and…
(2023-06-22). Police Should Not Be Allowed to Compel Our Cell Phone Passwords. aclu.org Our cell phones and other digital devices play a central role in our private lives, storing an unprecedented amount of our most personal information. While
(2023-06-22). Travel notes from Venezuela. uwidata.com 
In the heart of Latin America, there is an enchanting country nestled between the mountains and the Caribbean coastline, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela — a nation that has found itself at the center of a complex economic and political situation. During a month-long trip to this fascinating country, I had the opportunity to discover …
(2023-06-22). "Unlike Europe, Türkiye did not take instructions from the US" uwidata.com 
By àñzgàºr Altƒ±nba≈ü, reporting from Donetsk We met with Denis Pushilin, the President of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), at a university in Donetsk. Despite the war situation, our request conveyed to the press secretary was responded to positively within a day. We asked him about the current situation in the region, the prospects of …
(2023-06-22). 2023 and perception of the "third neighbor" in Mongolia: people's attitudes are changing. journal-neo.org 
(2023-06-22). Is the EU bribing and blackmailing Tunisia to crack down on migrants? peoplesdispatch.org The Workers' Party of Tunisia and human rights groups have condemned an agreement between the government and European countries which seeks to end "irregular migration." They say Tunisia will become a policeman for Europe and crack down on migrants…
(2023-06-22). Ecuador lacks strategic food reserve to deal with El Niño. plenglish.com Quito, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador lacks a strategic reserve of rice, corn and soybeans to deal with the consequences of El Niño—Southern Oscillation (ENSO), according to a report from the Primicias website.
(2023-06-22). Gestational diabetes cases increased during Covid-19 pandemic. plenglish.com According to a report from the American Society of Endocrinology, experts analyzed the characteristics of the biological mother, gestational weight gain and pregnancy outcomes, with the aim of exploring the number of cases of women with this disease and the factors underlying the change. | The researchers found significant increases in the pre-pregnancy body mass index, obesity and other risk factors for the disease. | "The study showed a progressive increase in the risk of gestational diabetes in the first and second year of the pandemic. | The incidence increased from 21 percent before the pandemic to 25 perce…
(2023-06-22). Minimal or Absent Evidence. dissidentvoice.org 
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." — Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980.
(2023-06-22). Expert Who Met With Biden Explains How AI Is Enabling Racism and Sexism. truthout.org We speak with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who met this week with President Biden in a closed-door discussion with other artificial intelligence experts and critics about the need to explore the promise and risk of AI. The computer scientist and coding expert has long raised alarm about how AI and algorithms are enabling racist and sexist bias. We discuss examples… |
(2023-06-22). The US Finally Realized The Futility Of Trying To Force India Into Vassalhood. thealtworld.com
(2023-06-22). Pepa Had Chance With Will Smith But Said He Was Too Nice, She Was Attracted To Thugs. moguldom.com Will Smith and Pepa, from the hit hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa, could have been rap's first power couple. In an interview, Pepa, born Sandra Denton, revealed that Smith was interested in dating her. But in a move, she says she now regrets, Pepa turned down his advances. This was before Smith was married to his first …
(2023-06-22). Tyrese To Hip-Hop Artists: Stop Taking Your Goofy A*s On Culture Vulture DJ Vlad Show. moguldom.com Actor and singer Tyrese has a word of advice to fellow entertainers—don't go on DJ Vlad's YouTube show. Vlad Lyubovny of VladTV, better known as DJ Vlad, has long been accused of being a culture vulture. Born Vladimir Lyubovny, he is a former rap mixtape DJ who transitioned to hip-hop video journalism when he launched …
(2023-06-22). Reflections on the Campaign Against the Turning Point USA/BLEXIT event in NYC. itsgoingdown.org Report on recent antifascist organizing campaign in New York City against Turning Point USA. From Monday, June 12th to Friday, June 16th, 2023, we — an informal coalition of NYC antifascists — launched a targeted campaign to shut down a Turning Point USA and BLEXIT event in our city. While the event ultimately did happen, we…
(2023-06-22). In Video: Ukrainian Assault Tactics Explained. southfront.org
(2023-06-22). In Video: Russian Airstrikes Hit Militants Near U.S. Garrison In Syria's Al-Tanf. southfront.org 
A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft in the sky over the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Photo: Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti | Su-24M fighter bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out a series of airstrikes against militants operating near the United States-led coalition garrison in the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf. | Video footage of the airstrikes surfaced on Twitter on June 22. However, it is still unclear when exactly they took place. The airstrikes reportedly t…
(2023-06-22). Saudi Arabia, Yemen's Houthis Swap Bodies (Video). southfront.org 
File image. | On June 21, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) announced that they have exchanged the bodies of fighters and soldiers who were killed during the war in Yemen with Saudi Arabia. | According to the Yemeni pro-Houthis Al-Masirah TV, the bodies were exchanged at the Saudi-Yemeni border where delegations from both sides met after weeks of negotiations in the kingdom. | The Saudi delegation received six of its soldiers and allied fighters, and the Houthis received 58 bodies. Footage aired by Al-Masirah showed body…
(2023-06-22). Syrian Druze In Occupied Golan Heights Clash With Israeli Police Over Wind Farm Project (Videos). southfront.org 
Druze face off against police during a protest against the construction of a new wind farm near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, June 21, 2023. (Israel Police) | On June 21, thousands of Druze residents of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights protested against Israeli plans to set up a wind farm near the town of Majdal Shams. | The protestors burned tyres on key roads in the Golan Heights. They also hurled rocks, fireworks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli police…
(2023-06-22). Syria's Elite Tiger Forces Join Republican Guard On Northern Region Front (Photos, Video). southfront.org 
(2023-06-22). Three Palestinian Fighters Killed In First Israeli Drone Strike On West Bank Since 2006 (Video, Photos). southfront.org 
Late on June 21, an Israeli drone strike killed three Palestinian fighters in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern…
(2023-06-22). Turkey, Syria Agreed On Russian Roadmap To Normalize Relations. southfront.org 
ILE IMAGE: ≈ûimal Màºldàºr — Anadolu Ajansƒ± | Turkey, Syria and Iran have agreed with the concept of a road map submitted by Russia to normalize relations between Ankara and Damascus, Russia's special presidential envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentyev told Sputnik on June 22. | Work on the roadmap draft began after a meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia, Türkiye, Syria and Iran that was held in Moscow on May 10. Deputy foreign ministers of the four countries met i…
(2023-06-22). Ukraine Struck Northern Crimea Bridge With British Storm Shadow Missiles (Videos). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image. Via Twitter. | Ukraine struck the Chongar bridge, which links the Crimean Peninsula and the Kherson region, with British-made Storm Shadow missiles overnight into June 22, acting governor of Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, announced."The road surface on the bridges has been damaged. There are no human casualties," the governor wrote on Telegram. | The governor noted that the bridge would be open for vehicles shortly, adding that traffic between the peninsula a…
(2023-06-22). NATO Missiles Strike To Invite Retaliation. southfront.org 
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(2023-06-22). Monday 7/3: Rally On Julian's Birthday To Free Julian Assange & IFJ Journalist Mumia Abu-jamal. indybay.org Harry Bridges Plaza | Across The Street From Ferry Building | San Francisco…
(2023-06-22). Wednesday 6/21: Bernal Heights Summer Solstice Music Stroll (free). indybay.org Bernal Heights | Cortland Avenue – between Mission and Bayshore Blvd | San Francisco, CA 94110 | FREE EVENT…
(2023-06-22). Thursday 6/22: Bernal Heights Summer Solstice Music Stroll (Free). indybay.org Bernal Heights | Cortland Avenue – between Mission and Bayshore Blvd | San Francisco, CA 94110 | FREE EVENT…
(2023-06-22). Interior Sec. Haaland Supports Digging into Paiute Massacre Site for Lithium. indybay.org Paiute Shoshone elders and youths were raided by police, and their Eagles Feathers were confiscated. Now, the foreign company Lithium Americas has filed a major lawsuit against the protectors of the Paiute Massacre Site. Interior Sec. Deb Haaland has further broken the people's hearts by voicing support for this violation of both sacred and human laws, imperiling future generations.
(2023-06-22). U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Peltier, Oak Flat and Line 5 in Final Report. indybay.org The priorities in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues final report include the release of imprisoned Leonard Peltier, the protection of Apaches sacred Oak Flat, and decommissioning Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline. Censored News looks at what is included in the final report, and what is not.
(2023-06-22). Ukrainian Offensive on "Pause" + US Meddling vs. China & North Korea. thealtworld.com I discuss with Garland Nixon and Dr. Wilmer Leon the ongoing Ukrainian offensive, claims that it is being "paused," as well as US provocations in the Pacific including with China over its island province of Taiwan, and North Korea.
(2023-06-22). 2024 Presidential Election Poses New Tests for Guardians and Guardrails of American Democracy. independentmediainstitute.org In May, David Becker welcomed dozens of elections officials and their allies in legal, policy and academic circles from around the U.S. to a "Summit on American Democracy" by doing what he has done many times since 2020's presidential election. He recited a crisp list of what should be indisputable facts affirming the fall's elections …
(2023-06-22). Why Are Archaeologists Unable to Find Evidence for a Ruling Class of the Indus Civilization? independentmediainstitute.org Little more than a century ago, British and Indian archaeologists began excavating the remains of what they soon realized was a previously unknown civilization in the Indus Valley. Straddling parts of Pakistan and India and reaching into Afghanistan, the culture these explorers unearthed had existed at the same time as those of ancient Egypt and …
(2023-06-22). Are We Living Through a De-Dollarization? independentmediainstitute.org De-dollarization is apparently here, "like it or not," as a May 2023 video by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a peace-oriented think tank based in Washington, D.C., states. Quincy is not alone in discussing de-dollarization: political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson outlined its mechanics across four shows between February and April 2023 in …
(2023-06-22). US-Based Black Radicals Convening In Atlanta, Georgia. popularresistance.org We are immersed in the irreversible contradictions of the end of the epoch of U.S. and European capitalist domination to a world in which for the first time in more than five hundred years, the Western world will no longer be in a position to establish the rules and enforce its "order" on a global scale without effective opposition from the 90 % that makes up the rest of global humanity. | But the white world is not ready to accept the end of white world supremacy without a fight. Under the leadership of the United States, the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination has demonstrated that it is prepared to use unrestraine…
(2023-06-22). 1 Year After "Roe" Overturn, Most Americans Say Ruling Has Been Bad for Country. truthout.org Nearly one year to the day that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights protections by upending precedent established in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, new polling shows that most Americans are opposed to the anti-abortion ruling. The survey, a CBS News/YouGov poll conducted on June 14-17, was published just days before the first anniversary of the Dobbs v. |
(2023-06-22). FL Org Gathers Signatures for Ballot Measure to Undo State's 6-Week Abortion Ban. truthout.org An effort to enshrine abortion rights in the Florida state constitution is gaining steam, and will likely be included on the 2024 general election ballot if current trends hold steady. However, the proposed amendment faces some hurdles before it can be accepted on the ballot, including passing muster in the state's conservative Supreme Court. For the petition to be considered… |
(2023-06-22). Responding to Censure, Schiff Says He'd Impeach Trump Again "in a Heartbeat" truthout.org On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) for his role in former President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial and in the January 6 committee investigating the Capitol attack. The censure measure passed in a 213-209 vote that went strictly along party lines (with six Republicans voting "present"). It passed after a similar… |
(2023-06-22). What Ohio's Co-Op Evangelists Learned From Spain's Union Co-Op Network. popularresistance.org For his 91st birthday three years ago, Bob Moore, the namesake behind the ubiquitous Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods brand, surprised his employees during a celebration of his 91st birthday. He unveiled an Employee Stock Ownership Plan that, as of April that year, turned his roughly 600 employees into co-op owners of a company that generated more than $50 million in annual sales in 2018. | While Bob's Red Mill might be one of the most high-profile examples of an employee-owned business in the U.S., it's far from the only one—especially in Ohio. | For more than a decade, Co-op Cincy has been working to both cre…
(2023-06-22). EPA sued for approving toxic herbicides with Agent Orange chemical. nationofchange.org The herbicides were re-registered by the EPA without full consideration of the risks or consultation with wildlife agencies—the experts—as the Endangered Species Act requires.
(2023-06-22). After the NFL, Aaron Maybin turned to his other talents. therealnews.com 
After four years as a professional linebacker for football teams in the U.S. and Canada, Aaron Maybin put down his helmet and picked up a range of new hats off the gridiron. As a public school teacher, artist, and activist, Maybin's best days are still yet to come. Studio Production: David Hebden, Cameron Granadino | Post-Production: David Hebden, Cameron Granadino | Opening Sequen…
(2023-06-22). Saturday 6/24: What's your beef? A walking tour addressing your social justice grief. indybay.org American Youth Hostel | 312 Mason Street | (meet in the lobby)…
(2023-06-22). Alibaba Group reshuffles top deck. ecns.cn Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's chairman and CEO Zhang Yong will step down from his current roles to focus on its cloud division, the Chinese tech heavyweight said on Tuesday.
(2023-06-22). China pushes its development of intelligent vehicles. ecns.cn China will support the commercial application of Level 3 and above autonomous driving systems, as part of its broader push to bolster the development of intelligent connected vehicles, the country's top industry regulator said on Wednesday.
(2023-06-22). Rapid 5G integration transforming real economy, society: MIIT. ecns.cn 5G technology has been integrated into 60 of 97 national economic categories after it entered commercial use four years ago, with over 50,000 application cases, said China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
(2023-06-22). 6-year-old Chinese boy becomes youngest Rubik's Cube player for A-level. ecns.cn Six-year-old Chinese boy Li Runsheng from Shaanxi competed in the professional Rubik's Cube A-level exam in Beijing to become the world's youngest Rubik's Cube player for that level on Saturday.
(2023-06-22). Insights | China's poverty reduction experience instructive for Latin America: Honduran official. ecns.cn One of the main things that Latin America could learn from China is the strategy used for poverty elimination, said Marcela Arias, minister at the Permanent Mission of Honduras to the UN and Other International Organizations based in Geneva, on Thursday in an interview with China News Network.
(2023-06-22). Youths called on to make contributions. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the opening ceremony of the congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
(2023-06-22). Mainland lifts ban on Taiwan sugar apples. ecns.cn The General Administration of Customs on the mainland lifted the ban on imports of sugar apples from Taiwan on Tuesday, after restricting them due to the detection of harmful pests since 2020.
(2023-06-22). Indonesia abuzz as first high-speed railway nears launch. ecns.cn The railway, a landmark project under the Belt and Road Initiative between China and Indonesia, is scheduled to start operating in mid August.
(2023-06-22). China extends NEV purchase tax breaks. ecns.cn China will extend purchase tax breaks on new energy vehicles to the end of 2027, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance.
(2023-06-22). Drug control body says U.S. smearing China over fentanyl. ecns.cn China's drug control authority has expressed strong dissatisfaction with the United States' smearing of China and sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals for allegedly involved in drugs.
(2023-06-22). Apart from China, which other countries celebrate Duanwu Festival?>. ecns.cn Duanwu Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month each year in China.
(2023-06-22). Barbecue restaurant explosion kills 31 in NW China's Ningxia. ecns.cn According to witnesses at the scene, a gas tank in the barbecue restaurant on the first floor exploded, detonating the gas pipeline on the second floor.
(2023-06-22). 2,000-year-old bronze drum discovered in South China's Guangxi. ecns.cn An ancient tomb that belongs to the Warring States Period (475BC-221BC) has recently been discovered in Pingguo, a city in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
(2023-06-22). 'All hatched': Eggs of endangered parrot seized at Guangzhou customs under good care. ecns.cn All 82 parrot eggs of a species belonging to Amazona have hatched and are under good care, after they were seized by customs in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province.
(2023-06-22). Xinjiang trip eye-opener for Japan's first tour group. ecns.cn After traveling some 4,100 kilometers, Osaka resident Youshi Yamazoe finally got a taste of the saying "One eyewitness weighs more than 10 hearsays".
(2023-06-22). Five people on missing Titanic tourist submersible. ecns.cn A small submarine carrying 5 tourists to a legendary wreckage, the Titanic, has gone missing off the east coast of Canada on Monday.
(2023-06-22). Large architectural site about 2,500 years ago discovered in Shaanxi. ecns.cn The architectural site provides data for studying layout and evolution of Yongcheng city and the architectural techniques of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty( 770-221 B.C.).
(2023-06-22). Main structure of artificial island on Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link completed>. ecns.cn The main structure of the east artificial island was completed on Tuesday, marking the official formation of the China's first underwater expressway interchange.
(2023-06-22). 'Dragon fleet' ignites festive atmosphere in Wuzhen. ecns.cn Seven traditional row boats decorated with lanterns float on the river, forming a unique scene of a "dragon fleet" at night and igniting the festive atmosphere in Wuzhen.
(2023-06-22). Culture Fact | Dragon Boat Festival. ecns.cn Every 5th day of the 5th month of Chinese lunar calendar marks Dragon Boat Festival. This year, the traditional Chinese festival falls on June 22.
(2023-06-22). Tourism set to expand during upcoming Dragon Boat Festival. ecns.cn Tourist trips expect to hit 100 million during this year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday, breaking through the figure of the same period in 2019, the CCTV reported on Wednesday.
(2023-06-22). 'CunBA' in SW China's Guizhou treats guests with 'High Mountains and Flowing Water'. ecns.cn The opening game of the Harmonious Countryside Basketball League (CunBA) was held in Taipan Village, Qiandongnan Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province on Tuesday night.
(2023-06-22). From farmland to stage of world champion: a fairy tale of 'Mother Dragon Boat Team'. ecns.cn The Dragon Boat Team consists of 24 members, the oldest being 59 and the youngest being 31. In order to prepare for a dragon boat competition, they have been training on the river for over a month, with a daily training time of up to 6 hours.
(2023-06-22). World's first railroad-bridge operating machine triples efficiency. ecns.cn "ÄÄ"Taihang," the world's first all-in-one machine for girder replacement, transport and erection was put into operation on Tuesday in Huanghua of Cangzhou City, north China's Hebei Province."ÄÄ…
(2023-06-22). Pandas enjoy zongzi ahead of Dragon Boat Festival. ecns.cn
(2023-06-22). Culture fact: Dragon Boat Festival in ancient Chinese poem. ecns.cn
(2023-06-22). Europe — fastest warming continent in world since 1980s, says WMO. mronline.org 
Temperatures over Europe have warmed significantly over the 1991-2021 period, at an average rate of about +0.5 ∞C per decade, making it the fastest warming region of all the WMO Regions…
(2023-06-22). Learning from David Graeber. mronline.org 
We ask a number of activists and academics to tell us what David Graeber's work meant to them and the salient message it still carries today.
(2023-06-22). New U.S. anti-immigrant measures: Militarization, and discrimination watches over the border. mronline.org 
It is hard to imagine it could get any worse, but another calamitous situation has been created at the U.S.-Mexico border due to the new policies implemented by Joe Biden's administration, which have forced hundreds of migrants to wait on the Mexican side.
(2023-06-22). On the dialectics of socialism and western Marxisms' purity fetish. mronline.org 
Gabriel Rockhill "one of my favorite jokes that I've heard about the socialist project is the following: socialism looks good on paper, but in reality… you just get invaded by the United States."
(2023-06-22). Biden's Refusal to Demand Accountability for Israeli Army Killings Is an Open Farce. scheerpost.com 
The State Department shrugged after the Israeli government said there would be no consequences for the barbaric killings of 80-year-old Omar Asaad and three-year-old Mohammed al-Tamimi.
(2023-06-22). Missing Links in Textbook History: Civil Rights and Human Rights. scheerpost.com 
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Human rights invented America. Ours was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded explicitly on such an idea. — Farewell address of President Jimmy Carter January 14, 1981 President Carter was right when he said that "human rights invented America," but he was not …
(2023-06-22). Scott Ritter: On Horseradish & Nuclear War. scheerpost.com 
When Vladimir Putin was recently asked about the potential use of nuclear weapons in the context of Ukraine, an understanding of back-alley Russian slang was needed to understand his response.
(2023-06-22). Shipwreck in Pylos. Open Letter by Over 180 Human Rights Organizations. scheerpost.com 
10 years after the two shipwrecks off Lampedusa, Italy, killing around 600 people and causing an immense public outcry, up to 600 people drowned off Pylos, Greece, in the Mediterranean Sea. On June 14, 2023, once again, the European border regime killed people exercising their right to seek protection. We are shaken! And we stand in solidarity with all survivors and with the families and friends of the deceased. We express our deep condolences and grief.
(2023-06-22). The Need to Reform American Labor Laws. scheerpost.com 
By Bernie Sanders / CounterPunch We are living in a moment where corporate America and the 1% have more economic and political power than they have ever had in the history of our country. The time is long overdue for Congress to stand up for the working families of our country, 60% of whom live …
(2023-06-22). The Unlimited Campaign Spending by Corporations and Billionaires Has Destroyed Democracy. scheerpost.com 
When corporations use their vast wealth to distort or seize control of the political process, they have ceased to operate within the constraints established at their creation. They are in violation of their own corporate charters and should be shuttered or sold off.
(2023-06-22). Zelensky Says Ukraine's Counteroffensive 'Slower Than Desired'. scheerpost.com 
(2023-06-22). Hunter Biden Pleads Guilty as Trump Awaits His Own Trial. thealtworld.com On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Jamarl Thomas and Melik Abdul discussed several topics from around the globe, including President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, pleading guilty to tax charges. | Mark Frost: Economist & Professor | Steve Gill: Attorney & CEO of Gill Media | Elijah Magnier: Veteran War Correspondent | In the first hour, the Fault Lines team spoke to Mark Frost about student loan payments resuming in the fall and the current issues with Medicaid after 1 million lose the federal assistance. | In the second hour, Steve Gill joined the show to discuss Hunter Biden pleading guilty to tax charges while…
(2023-06-22). Sunday 6/25: Equal Rights Advocates Contingent in San Francisco Pride Parade 2023. indybay.org Contingent meet up near Embarcadero in San Francisco | (exact location to be given after you RSVP)…
(2023-06-22). How students jump started a bold new campaign for debt abolition. nationofchange.org In response to these ongoing threats, students are once again taking action.
(2023-06-22). FRSO fund drive surpasses $70,000. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – The Freedom Road Socialist Organization Fund Drive has now surpassed $70,000 and more money is coming in every day. | FRSO Organizational Secretary Tom Burke states, "The FRSO online fundraiser was a grand success. Now we need a push to achieve our final goal. The money we spend will make us bigger, badder and bolder in advancing the cause of the American working class." | Burke also urged local FRSO groups to follow up on folks who have made pledges. | To contribute to the fundraising drive, go to FRSO.org and hit the donate button. You can also donate by mailing a check made out to "Lucy Parso…
(2023-06-22). Blockade Australia takes action in three ports. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). CPSU campaigns to restore the Commonwealth Employment Service. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Disability activists blockade Sydney Road, call for accessible tram stops. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Dramatic Arctic sea ice melt should not be a shock. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Environment coalition protests NT Labor's plans for more gas. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Jonno Sriranganathan: 'Aim for reforms that open up space for deeper radical change'. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Labor must be pushed on its inadequate housing plan. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). People, not politicians, will abolish the death penalty. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Protestors call on Vic Labor to save Barak Beacon housing estate. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Public housing activist: 'Supply, supply, supply' is no solution to the housing crisis. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Rally hears from public housing tenants fighting to stay in their homes. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Rich countries owe US$192 trillion in climate reparations to global South. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Voice to Parliament referendum confirmed to be held in next six months. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). 'Wall of gay' formed to defend drag story time. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). Video: Michael West on the scandal engulfing PricewaterhouseCoopers. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-22). The Rebellious Youths of Jenin are Not Terrorists. dissidentvoice.org On 20 June, the army invaded with great force the city of Jenin and killed several of its inhabitants. Today, Palestinians took an act of revenge and killed Israelis in the West Bank settlement of Eli. The cycle of bloodshed continues to turn and claim ever more and more victims, of both peoples. The Israelis …
(2023-06-22). Cuban higher education contributes to local development. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Ministry of Higher Education (MES) has been implementing a series of innovations in university admissions so as to contribute to the local development's interests in the municipalities.
(2023-06-22). Cuban president deplores damage caused by an explosion in Paris. plenglish.com Paris, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who is visiting France, regretted the damage caused by a blast on Wednesday, in the fifth district of Paris.
(2023-06-22). Panama seizes 26.2 tons of drugs. plenglish.com Fifty-six operations were carried out in different coastal areas and territorial waters of Panama, a press release stated. | A total of 17 tons of cocaine, 8.3 tons of marijuana, and 68 packages of cocaine paste, a drug similar to crack, have been seized, the SENAN reported. To date, 97 people in connection with drug trafficking have been detained in Panama.
(2023-06-22). President of Cuba participates in summit on New Financial Pact. plenglish.com Paris, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel participates in the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact on Thursday, a forum inaugurated by the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron.
(2023-06-22). How Does the US blockade Affect Food Production in Cuba? libya360.wordpress.com Alejandra Garcia Food production, marketing, and prices are some of the issues that most concern Cubans and is what most directly impacts our quality of life. Although this is a strategic and priority sector for Cuba, it is directly connected to the current economic situation of the country, aggravated by the impact of the US…
(2023-06-22). International Criminal Court Advancing Global Injustice, Unaccountability and Criminal Agenda against Guardians of Peace. libya360.wordpress.com Prof Hoosen Vawda "Rise, O' all you intelligent, righteous humanoids". Just as the war in Ukraine has become a festering sore in the politically motivated, combined, western, proxy war against Russia, the plight of Palestinians is a chronic human rights violation, festering, as an ulcer, already systemic in its manifestations, generated by Israel in its…
(2023-06-22). More Weapons Go to Ukraine but What Will it Do With Those? libya360.wordpress.com Moon of Alabama Ukraine's counter-offensive has failed and it has no chance of a victory in the war. Its best possibility to still sustain for a while is to now build several new defense lines and to pull back to those. Instead it is continuing to attack on too many fronts with little gains and large losses. Yesterday the…
(2023-06-22). "New Cold War Declaration" Pushes the World into a More Dangerous Situation. libya360.wordpress.com Dong Yifan 08/06/2023. Washington DC, United States. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits The White House where he is welcomed to The Oval Office by The President of the United States Joe Biden. The White House. Picture by Simon Walker / No 10 Downing Street British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden…
(2023-06-22). The Greater Eurasia Project: Building Bridges to Bury Atlanticism. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar If you're counting on Asia's many new power centers to compete and clash — don't. The Greater Eurasian Partnership is set to integrate them all — from the SCO, EAEU, and BRICS, to emerging new currencies — in order to replace the 'rules-based order.' On July 4, at a New Delhi summit, Iran will…
(2023-06-22). Sanders Bill Would Force Pentagon to Pass Audit — or Return Part of Its Budget. truthout.org A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation Wednesday that would require the Pentagon to return a portion of its enormous and ever-growing budget to the Treasury Department if it fails another audit in the coming fiscal year. The Audit the Pentagon Act, an updated version of legislation first introduced in 2021, comes amid mounting concerns over rampant price… |
(2023-06-22). Political Crisis in Peru: From the Left to Right-Wing Authoritarianism. socialistproject.ca 
(2023-06-22). Eyewitness Xinjiang: the reality vs. U.S. propaganda. iacenter.org By Sara Flounders June 19, 2023 The author is a co-director of the International Action Center and a contributing editor to Workers World newspaper. A slightly abridged version of this article was published in Global Times. U.S. imperialism's hostility to China is increasing — with military threats, new rounds of sanctions and increasingly wild fabrications. The media have been saturated with allegations of human rights abuses, forced labor, religious persecution and "genocide" — especially of Uygur and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. Sara Flounders, Lee Siu Hin and Arjae Red in front of Id Kah M…
(2023-06-22). The Other Americans: Prelude to Guatemala's Elections. progressive.org Guatemalans go to the polls on Sunday, June 25 to vote to elect a new president, 160 congressional representatives, hundreds of mayors, and twenty members of the Central American Parliament.
(2023-06-22). Environmental Groups Urge EPA Action on Methane Emissions From Landfills. truthout.org Joined by two residents of a community where emissions from landfills have forced them to live in the "center of a toxic wasteland," more than a dozen environmental and community advocacy groups on Thursday filed a petition with the Biden administration calling for a number of specific regulations to address the United States' third-largest source of methane pollution. A month after the… |
(2023-06-22). Private Equity Influence Is at the Heart of Cop City, Report Reveals. truthout.org In the dawn hours of June 6, the Atlanta City Council voted 11-4 to approve funding for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, an 85-acre police and fire training facility that plans to include a shooting range, a gym, and an urban environment simulation featuring an apartment building, a house, a nightclub, and a gas station. The city council vote is just the latest in a string of actions on… |
(2023-06-22). 3.2 million kids could be thrown off 'childcare cliff' in September—unless Congress acts. nationofchange.org "Congress must take action to tackle the childcare crisis now."
(2023-06-22). The Media Delusion That Daniel Ellsberg Blew The Whistle The 'Right Way'. thedissenter.org 
The following independent journalism was made possible by paid subscribers. Take advantage of this discount offer and *Below is a written version of the above video.Pentagon Papers whistleblower and longtime peace activist Daniel Ellsberg died at the age of 92 on June 16. | Several U.S. media segments on Ellsberg's life were very familiar to anyone who followed Ellsberg's in the last ten years as he spoke in defense of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Only this time media outlets did not have to w…
(2023-06-22). What Ohio's Co-op Evangelists Learned From Spain's Thriving Union Co-op Network. nextcity.org
(2023-06-22). Far-Right Opposition Primary Commission Opts for Elections Without Venezuela's National Electoral Council. orinocotribune.com
(2023-06-22). Lithium Nevada Lawsuit Aims To Stop Praying At Sacred Site. popularresistance.org
(2023-06-22). Starbucks Agrees To Settlement For Violating Workers Rights In Seattle. popularresistance.org
(2023-06-22). Julian Assange's Imprisonment Is The Intellectual Imprisonment of Us All. theduran.com
(2023-06-22). Reshaping American Racism, or REPLACING American Racism? theduran.com
(2023-06-22). Signs U.S. Secretly Organizing For Military Take-Over of Ukraine. theduran.com
(2023-06-22). Sudden Heat Increase in North Atlantic Seas Could Have Devastating Effects. ecowatch.com
(2023-06-22). Capitalist Hegemony in Psychedelic Medicine. leftvoice.org
(2023-06-22). An Alternative Meme for Money: Conclusion. realprogressives.org The monetary system provides the power to do good, and the power to do bad is the other side of the coin.
(2023-06-22). An Alternative Meme For Money, Part 7: Framing Deficits. realprogressives.org
(2023-06-22). Actor Danny Glover Becomes Honorary Member Of ILWU Local 10 On Juneteenth. indybay.org On Juneteenth ILWU Local 10 closed Ports throughout Northern California and made Danny Glover an honorary member of the Local.
(2023-06-22). Biden Blows Up Blinken's Diplomatic Mission to China. sonar21.com 
Dementia Joe does it again. Less than 24 hours after Secretary of State Blinken genuflected before the Chinese, assuring them that the United States really, really, really is sincere in…
(2023-06-22). Saturday 6/24: Rainbow Oasis: Pride Celebration Hang-Out w/ Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired. indybay.org Hosted at LightHouse Headquarters | Making SF PRIDE accessible for blind & visually impaired…
(2023-06-22). Bolsonaro faces trial that may disqualify him. plenglish.com Brasilia, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) The Superior Electoral Court of Brazil(ISE) began the trial against former President Jair Bolsonaro for attacks on the elective system, which may disqualify him from holding public office for eight years and subsequently leave him out of the presidential elections scheduled for 2026.
(2023-06-22). Latin American leaders participate in forum on new financial pact. plenglish.com More than a hundred heads of state and government were invited by President Emmanuel Macron for the two-day forum, focused on reaching consensus for a more reactive, fair and supportive financial system, and aimed at allowing confrontation inequalities, supporting the fight against climate change and materializing the goals of sustainable development. | Cuban President Díaz-Canel arrived in France in his capacity as president of the Group of 77 plus China. | On the other hand, the President of Colombia Gustavo Petro will participate in one of the six planned round tables, entitled "A new method: alliances for gr…
(2023-06-22). Biden's Asylum Policy Continues Tradition of US Cruelty to Haitians. truthout.org As the repressive Trump-Biden Title 42 asylum policy ended on May 11, migrant rights advocates hoped that humane asylum rules would follow. Title 42, which allowed the U.S. government to expel asylum seekers with no due process, led to nearly 3 million expulsions since Donald Trump initiated the ill-conceived policy in 2020. The Biden administration, however, "has made it a practice of recycling… |
(2023-06-22). DACA Recipients Are Under Attack Once Again. progressive.org Two recent legal challenges have placed more than 600,000 undocumented in danger of losing the only home they have known.
(2023-06-22). MOHAWK WARRIOR SOCIETY: HANDBOOK ON SOVEREIGNTY and SURVIVAL Podcast. indybay.org New! Listen to this powerful podcast by the Mohawk Warrior Society. Mohawk Nation News. "The Kahnistensera, Mohawk Mothers of kahnawake, kanesatake, and akwesasne knew Louis karonhiaktajeh Hall, and were greatly influenced by his stories, philosophy and farsightedness. This podcast reveals many of his past, current and future insights into what lay ahead for the Mohawks."
(2023-06-22). MOHAWK NATION NEWS: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DEMAND MORATORIUM ON QUEBEC LOGGING. indybay.org Mohawk Nation News — "Indigenous guardians of the ancestral territories of the Innu, Atikamekw and Mohawk are demanding a moratorium on logging in Quebec."
(2023-06-22). The migrant shipwreck near Greece is a horrible tragedy. But it wasn't an accident. therealnews.com 
This story originally appeared in Early last Wednesday, a fishing boat sank off the coast of Pílos, Greece. The vessel was overpacked with people trying to reach Europe — reports say there were up to 750 people on board. Greek authorities have stated that the coast guard rescued 104 survivors and that 78 people are confirmed to have died. Around 560 are still missing. Days after the wreck it is clea…
(2023-06-22). Thursday 6/22: One Year Without Roe: The Current State of Abortion Access w/ NARAL Pro-Choice. indybay.org Online teach-in…
(2023-06-22). Chinese-American worker and activist arrested for advocating for peace between US and China. peoplesdispatch.org Li Tang "Henry" Liang, a hotel worker active in his Boston local union, was suspended from his job after being indicted on federal charges…
(2023-06-22). Mayo Clinic Minute: How low testosterone can affect men's health. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Millions of men live with a testosterone deficiency. If left unchecked, this treatable condition may contribute to serious health problems like osteoporosis and lowered red blood cell production. During National Men's Health Week — June 12—18 — Dr. Gregory Broderick, a Mayo Clinic urologist, encourages men with symptoms of low testosterone to speak with their health care team. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/GRxb6-CyPxM Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (1: 07) is in the downloads at the end…
(2023-06-22). Addressing cancer concerns in the LGBTQ+ community. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org During June, many cities and towns around the U.S. and the world celebrate and raise awareness of the LGBTQ+ community's accomplishments and the ongoing fight for equality and acceptance. When it comes to health, the LGBTQ+ community faces increased cancer concerns. Stigma and discrimination create barriers to health care, placing the LGBTQ+ community at heightened risk for certain forms of cancer. Being aware of cancer risks and finding ways to overcome these challenges can be lifesaving. Mayo…
(2023-06-22). Consumer Health: Men's health and living a longer, healthier life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org June is Men's Health Month, and Men's Health Week will be observed June 12—18, which makes this a good time to learn about the top threats to men's health and what you can do to keep yourself healthy. Heart disease and cancer are two of the top three leading causes of death for men in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The good news is that healthy lifestyle choices can reduce…
(2023-06-22). Consumer Health: The lifesaving gift of blood donation. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World Blood Donor Day, which is observed Wednesday, June 14, is an effort by the World Health Organization to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products, and to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their lifesaving gifts of blood. Nearly 16 million blood components are transfused each year in the U.S., according to the American Red Cross. Daily needs include 29,000 units of red blood cells, 5,000 units of platelets and 6,500 units of plasma. People…
(2023-06-22). Science Saturday: Like filling a pothole — cell therapy for cartilage repair. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Growing up in the Netherlands, Daniel Saris, M.D., Ph.D., was exposed to the wonders of science at a young age. He listened to his father, a physicist, when he spoke at scientific conferences. His mother, an English teacher, encouraged learning about diverse societies. These experiences would grow into Dr. Saris' career as an orthopedic surgeon and regenerative medicine researcher. "I've always been intrigued with understanding how science and biology work and how we can use it…
(2023-06-22). Science Saturday: Study finds senescent immune cells promote lung tumor growth. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Macrophages are a type of white blood cell that are among the body's first line of defense against infection. In addition to killing harmful microorganisms, macrophages typically can initiate a response against tumors. However, macrophages, like other cells, can enter a state called senescence, which is linked to aging, disease and multiple physiological problems. When cells become senescent, they stop dividing, but they do not die and are not always eliminated from the body. They…
(2023-06-22). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Childhood eczema. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 2-year-old son has a new rash on his arms and back. His doctor said it looks like eczema. He is itching nonstop and that creates red, raw skin. It seems to be worse while he's lying in bed. No one in the house is getting good sleep because he's so uncomfortable. What can I do to help him feel better and get some rest? ANSWER: Itchy and uncomfortable skin is bothersome for adults,…
(2023-06-22). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Protein needs for performance. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I've taken up running and signed up for a half-marathon to keep me motivated. I know training puts a lot of wear and tear on the body, and I've heard protein is essential. How do I make sure I'm getting enough protein so I can perform at maximum ability? ANSWER: As you prepare for your upcoming distance race — or any other athletic event — you may be looking for ways to fine-tune your…
(2023-06-22). Mayo Clinic Minute: Testicular cancer is highly treatable. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org June is Men's Health Month. It's an opportunity to recognize the signs and symptoms of testicular cancer. The disease is not common. Just 1 in 250 men will develop testicular cancer at some point in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. Most of those cases are in young and middle-aged men. And usually, the cancer is highly treatable. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/PkWz0ZYinzo Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 10) is in the downloads at…
(2023-06-22). Mayo Clinic Minute: Can testicular cancer affect fertility? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It's a common concern among men who are diagnosed with testicular cancer. Will I be able to have children in the future? So what are the effects of testicular cancer and its treatment on fertility? Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/qr2TH1-s3eQ Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (0: 59) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network." Read the script. "When we first evaluate men with a new suspected testicular cancer,…
(2023-06-22). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Keeping children's teeth healthy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 7-month-old daughter recently got her first tooth. She likes to chew on her teething ring. I want to start good dental habits early and create a routine of brushing her teeth twice a day. When should I introduce a toothbrush so she can get comfortable with it? Do you have any other tips for establishing good oral hygiene early? ANSWER: Dental infections are one of the most common infections in children. Even though…
(2023-06-22). Reminding men of the importance of screenings during Men's Health Month. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org MANKATO, Minn. — June is National Men's Health Month, which is a great time to schedule an appointment with your primary care provider and learn which screenings you might be due for. Historically, men have been hesitant to seek medical attention when something seems wrong with their health. Also, men aren't as likely as women to have preventive screenings and checkups with their health care team. "This is a problem because early detection of a…
(2023-06-22). Mayo Clinic Minute: Preventing cancer for future generations of Black families. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The statistics are staggering. Black people are more likely to die from cancer than other racial and ethnic groups. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African Americans have the highest death rate from cancer overall. National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week is June 15—21. Dr. Kim Barbel Johnson, a Mayo Clinic family medicine physician with the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, says educating patients is essential to reducing and preventing cancer deaths…
(2023-06-22). Mayo Clinic Minute: Why Black women should consider screening for breast cancer earlier. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Age recommendations for when women should start yearly mammograms to screen for breast cancer vary. However, Mayo Clinic healthcare professionals have been firm for more than a decade that women should start breast cancer screening at age 40. Starting mammograms early is especially important for non-Hispanic Black women, who have higher rates of breast cancer compared to non-Hispanic white women. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Sandhya Pruthi, with Mayo Clinic's Breast Diagnostic Clinic and Mayo…
(2023-06-22). Celery: Not just for veggie trays. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Celery often is relegated to veggie trays where its built-in scoop makes it ideal for dipping. It's also used to add extra crunch to holiday stuffing, or tuna or chicken salad. But celery offers far more. Low in calories, rich in nutrients Celery is a nutrient-rich, low-calorie food. Two stalks of celery contain only 15 calories. Aside from its low calorie count, celery contains dietary fiber, vitamin K, and small amounts of vitamins A and…
(2023-06-22). Mayo Clinic Health System now offering Saturday appointments for cervical cancer screening. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org OWATONNA, Minn. — Cervical cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in women, with the American Cancer Society estimating that almost 14,000 new cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed in 2023. Of those cases, over 4,000 women will likely die from the disease. Fortunately, precancerous cervical lesions are easy to diagnose with a Pap test, or cervical cancer screening, leading to better outcomes for treatment. But for many women, finding…
(2023-06-22). Treating sleep apnea made easier: Upper airway stimulation therapy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A restful night's sleep is more than just rejuvenating, it improves your health, memory and mood. Yet for millions of U.S. adults, restful sleep is elusive because they have obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops partially or completely. These events can result in low oxygen levels and cause frequent episodes of waking. Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common form of sleep apnea, and occurs…
(2023-06-22). Is a cancer clinical trial right for me? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Clinical trials, also known as clinical studies, help medical researchers understand how to diagnose, treat and prevent cancer and other diseases and conditions. Healthcare professionals translate findings from clinical trials into treatments that can lead to longer, healthier lives for people with cancer. Clinical trials are an important option to consider if you're facing a cancer diagnosis. Joining a clinical trial may provide experimental treatment options you may not otherwise have. What is a clinical…
(2023-06-22). 6-15-2023 Media Only News Briefing: Air Quality Concerns. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Due to ongoing air-quality issues in Minnesota, Mayo Clinic hosted a media briefing June 15th, with Greg Vanichkachorn, M.D., M.P.H., Mayo Clinic Occupational Medicine specialist. Dr. Vanichkachorn answered questions about how small particles in the air affect the human body and how you can protect yourself. Journalists who have already registered on the News Network can log into their accounts to download a recording of the Zoom briefing found at the end of this post. Journalists who would like to access…
(2023-06-22). The importance of prioritizing mental health for the LGBTQ+ community. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org People who identify as LGBTQ+ are at greater risk of experiencing mental health conditions, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Jennifer Vencill, a Mayo Clinic psychologist, explains how added stressors can put members of the LGBTQ+ community at higher risk and what steps they can take to prioritize their mental health. Watch: The importance of mental health youtu.be/dHgTkKlmpVU Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 39) is in the downloads at…
(2023-06-22). Maximize memory function with a nutrient-rich diet. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Research suggests that the ability to maximize memory function may be related to what you eat. Following an eating plan that provides a healthier selection of dietary fats and a variety of plant foods rich in phytonutrients could positively affect your health. Phytonutrients are substances found in certain plants that are believed to be beneficial for human health and help prevent certain diseases. There's still much to learn about what makes up a brain-healthy diet. Studies are finding that…
(2023-06-22). Mayo Clinic expert addresses cancer disparities during Black Family Cancer Awareness Week. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Black people have the highest death rate and shortest survival rate of any racial or ethnic group for most cancers, according to the American Cancer Society. In Black men, prostate cancer death rates are more than double that of any other racial or ethnic group, and Black women are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women. These disparities are driving many efforts to raise awareness about cancer prevention…
(2023-06-22). Cancer and the LGBTQ+ community: Mayo Clinic expert addresses key topics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Being diagnosed with cancer is a hardship on its own, but it's especially challenging if a person is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Jewel Kling, M.D., director of women's health at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, explains that stigma and discrimination create barriers to healthcare, placing the LGBTQ+ community at heightened risk for certain forms of cancer due to delayed cancer screenings as well as challenges with survivorship care. Increased cancer risks…
(2023-06-22). Piero, His Beautiful Wife And Me Discussing… smoothiex12.blogspot.com what we usually discuss, plus my book. As you can see, I have been busy last few days.
(2023-06-22). Canadian Sanctions on Russia: Powerless Rage With a Boomerang Effect. orinocotribune.com
(2023-06-22). North Korea Slams Blinken's Recent China Visit as 'Begging Trip'. orinocotribune.com North Korea has ridiculed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's recent visit to China as a "disgraceful begging trip," further slamming it as a failure of policy aimed at exerting pressure on Beijing. | The rare visit was aimed at begging for the relaxation of tensions as the "attempt to press and restrain China may become a boomerang striking a fatal blow to the US economy," said North Korean international affairs analyst Jong Yong in a column published by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday. | "In a word, the US state secretary's recent junket can never be judged otherwise than a disgra…
(2023-06-22). New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners. truthout.org The documentary record of "mind control" experiments conducted by the United States and other governments during the Cold War is just the tip of the iceberg, and our collective ignorance is by design. In early 1973, as the fallout from the Watergate scandal exposed the need for greater congressional oversight of U.S. intelligence agencies, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ordered… |
(2023-06-22). Israel just murdered another footballer. PUMA is complicit. bdsmovement.net 
(2023-06-22). Thursday 6/22: Pride, Prejudice & Corporate P.R: Corporate Capitalism and Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2023-06-22). United Nations Adopts Legally Binding Treaty To Protect High Seas. popularresistance.org After years of discussions, the UN finally adopted the "Treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction" during the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) that was held in New York on Monday, June 19. | The legally binding treaty will govern the use of high seas, or seas beyond the territorial control of countries, with the objective of protecting its ecosystems from pollution, over-fishing and over-exploitation. | The treaty will form a part of the UN Convention on the Law of Sea, adopted in 1994, and will be open for sign…
(2023-06-22). Israeli settlers attack West Bank villages and towns for second day, one Palestinian killed and over 35 injured. peoplesdispatch.org The settler violence caused widespread damage to Palestinian property, with hundreds of cars and dozens of homes completely burnt…
(2023-06-22). Political crisis deepens in Moldova as Constitutional Court bans pro-Russian »òor party. peoplesdispatch.org »òor, which has six MPs in the current parliament, is a pro-Russian conservative populist party that has been organizing fierce protests against the government's attempts to integrate Moldova into the European Union (EU) and its failure to tackle the ongoing cost of living crisis in the country…
(2023-06-22). The Greater Eurasia project: Building bridges and breaking barriers. thealtworld.com If you're counting on Asia's many new power centers to compete and clash — don't. The Greater Eurasian Partnership is set to integrate them all — from the SCO, EAEU, and BRICS, to emerging new currencies — in order to replace the 'rules-based order.' | On July 4, at a New Delhi summit, Iran will finally become a That will be one of the key decisions of the summit, held via video-conference, along with the signing of a memorandum on the…
(2023-06-22). Who determines the rules of the "rules-based world order"? indybay.org Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States – as well as the European Union with G7 observer status – that is the global West, for too long imagined that it was the world. In fact, colonialist exploitation and forced labor – in the case of Germany, also the Nazi policy of robbery – were the foundation of its power. But the world has changed.
(2023-06-22). Daniel Ellsberg matters more than ever to global peace movements. peoplesdispatch.org Daniel Ellsberg released the 'Pentagon Papers' which gave new life to a generation struggling against the US war on Vietnam. Though he is no longer with us, his commitment and goals never mattered more to the peace movement…
(2023-06-22). Video: #Yes, It's a "Killer Vaccine": Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to precipitate the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.
(2023-06-22). Lithium Nevada Files Lawsuit Against Paiute Shoshone Protecting Massacre Site. indybay.org Lithium Nevada Corporation has filed a lawsuit against Protect Thacker Pass and seven people for opposing the Thacker Pass lithium mine. The lawsuit is similar to what is called a "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation," or SLAPP suit, aimed at shutting down free speech and protest. The suit aims to ban the prayerful land defenders from the area and force them to pay monetary damages which could total millions of dollars.
(2023-06-22). A new Third World debt crisis? The need for system change. geopoliticaleconomy.com Political economists Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Ann Pettifor discuss the growing debt crisis in the Global South and the urgent need for forgiveness and system change.
(2023-06-22). While pointing out international responsibility, the Fatah-dominated PA conceals its own. thealtworld.com As if further proof was necessary that the Palestinians have been abandoned by Ramallah, Fatah "The Palestinian people will not stand idle in the face of attacks and terrorism…
(2023-06-22). The Rise and Fall of US Dollar Supremacy & How Sanctions Backfire w/ Prabhat Patnaik. thealtworld.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS1yrs58DPE | The power of the dollar sustains U.S. imperialism. But rising multipolarity, an overuse of U.S. sanctions, the rise of alternative trading arrangements that sidestep the dollar, and a very obvious crisis of western capitalism have led to panic about a decline in dollar hegemony. What gives the dollar so much power in the first place? What would a world without dollar hegemony look like? What would it mean for those in the imperial core who benefit from this system? How about those in the third world on whose backs dollar hegemony is built? And where does the war in Uk…
(2023-06-22). The Power of Fiction in Social Change. inequality.org On May 19th, Tope Folarin — an award-winning novelist and executive director of the Institute for Policy Studies — and Chuck Collins — an IPS scholar and co-editor of Inequality.org — held a virtual discussion about Collins' new novel, Altar to An Erupting Sun. The novel looks back at several of the powerful U.S. social …
(2023-06-22). Europa: Muerte, racismo, indiferencia y complicidad institucionalizada. indybay.org "Directrices racistas europeas": | En naufragio frente a Grecia se ahogan cientos de migrantes…
(2023-06-22). Thursday 6/22: KPFA: Get Ian Masters Off the Air!! Why Does KPFFA Have A CIA-Connected Programmer? indybay.org KPFA | 1929 MLK Blvd/University | Berkeley…
(2023-06-22). Saturday 7/1: Benefit Book Sale for the 100K REVCOM Fund Drive. indybay.org Revolution Books | 2444 Durant Avenue, Berkeley…
(2023-06-22). Sunday 7/2: Benefit Book Sale for the $100K Revcom Fund Drive. indybay.org Revolution Books | 2444 Durant Avenue, Berkeley…
(2023-06-22). Friday 6/23: Bridge Bannering for Peace and Justice. indybay.org We'll be on the pedestrian bridge over Geary at Webster near Japantown in San Francisco.
(2023-06-22). Dear Climate Gremlin: We are still here. expose-news.com Yesterday five years ago, Greta Thunberg predicted climate change would "wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years." We didn't stop using fossil fuels …
(2023-06-22). Technocrats and their politicians lead us down a path to sickness and death. expose-news.com Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram parent Meta has now admitted that they incorrectly censored information about the pandemic under pressure from governments. In an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman released on …
(2023-06-22). War is really good for business, Ukraine is good for business. expose-news.com BlackRock Inc is the world's largest asset management company that's gained more notoriety as of late due to its large acquisitions. A BlackRock recruiter said it's easier for BlackRock to do things …
(2023-06-22). Vaccines not only cause SADS they also cause SIDS — and have done so for decades. expose-news.com Once A MidWestern Doctor ("MWD") realised the public was becoming aware of the covid-19 "vaccines" causing sudden adult death syndrome ("SADS"), MWD decided we'd reached a point where something else needed to …
(2023-06-22). How Daniel Ellsberg exposed the U.S. war machine and became a top enemy of empire. liberationnews.org 
Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level military analyst who courageously exposed four administrations' criminal war on Vietnam and went on to become a leading peace and civil liberties activist, died on June 16 at the age of 92.
(2023-06-22). Dr. Shiva Interview — 2024: Running For President In A Broken System. thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, PhD, here to discuss his presidential candidacy in the 2024 election. We discuss many of the important topics that are rarely addressed in corporate settings or debates. It is important to note that, in my opinion, this type of interivew less about challenging the candidate's ideas (or inserting my
(2023-06-22). Scott Ritter — 60,000 Troops Determined to Seize Bakhmut. thealtworld.com
(2023-06-22). Thursday 6/29: 1000 March San Francisco. indybay.org Outside 455 McCallister Street, Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco.
(2023-06-22). AOC Is Boycotting Modi's Address Over "Deeply Troubling" Human Rights Record. truthout.org Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and a number of other progressives in the House have announced that they're boycotting far right Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to Congress on Thursday, citing Modi's abysmal human rights record and erosion of free press and religion rights in India. Modi is slated to speak before Congress as part of a trip to the U.S. on an invite from… |
(2023-06-22). Chapter of "Moms Group" Attacking CRT Plastered a Hitler Quote on Its Newsletter. truthout.org An Indiana chapter of the far right hate group Moms for Liberty posted a newsletter on Wednesday featuring a quote from Adolf Hitler on the front page — and is now attacking the news outlet that first reported on the incident. As IndyStar reported this week, the Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty — a group most recently in the news for being labeled an extremist group by the Southern… |
(2023-06-22). Fight for Student Debt Relief Won't End With Supreme Court Ruling, AOC Vows. truthout.org With the Supreme Court expected to hand down its ruling on student debt forgiveness any week now, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is vowing to continue fighting for relief for borrowers even if the Supreme Court strikes it down. In a press conference with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez said that lawmakers in the caucus, as well as the Congressional Black… |
(2023-06-22). Graffiti All Over Transgender District Condemns Private Prisons. indybay.org Site of historic trans insurrection is currently a private mini-jail run by GEO Group…
(2023-06-22). Headlines for June 22, 2023. democracynow.org Nearly 40 Asylum Seekers Drown as Ship Sinks En Route to Canary Islands, Israeli Drone Strike in West Bank Kills Three Palestinians, Putin Claims Ukraine's Counteroffensive Hits "Lull" Due to Heavy Losses, Russian Court Denies Pretrial Release to Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich, More Progressives to Boycott Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Speech to Congress, Capitol Rioter Sentenced to 12+ Years in Prison for Attacking Officer with Stun Gun, House Republicans Censure Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-Russia Claims, House Speaker McCarthy Rejects Immediate Vote on Resolution t…
(2023-06-22). Modi's State Visit: Biden Embraces Indian Leader Despite Rights Crackdown. democracynow.org 
President Joe Biden is hosting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a four-day state visit this week amid growing concerns about the Indian leader's human rights record. Modi has been prime minister since 2014, during which time he has cracked down on dissent, curtailed the free press, targeted Muslims and other minorities and pushed an aggressive form of Hindu nationalism that violates the pluralistic vision of modern India's founders. For years, Modi was banned from even entering the United States over his role in anti-Muslim riots in 2002 that left over 1,000 dead in Gujarat, where Modi was the…
(2023-06-22). How AI Is Enabling Racism & Sexism: Algorithmic Justice League's Joy Buolamwini on Meeting with Biden. democracynow.org 
We speak with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who met this week with President Biden in a closed-door discussion with other artificial intelligence experts and critics about the need to explore the promise and risk of AI. The computer scientist and coding expert has long raised alarm about how AI and algorithms are enabling racist and sexist bias. We discuss examples, and she lays out what should be included in the White House's "Vision for Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Algorithmic Age."…
(2023-06-22). Biden Calls Xi Jinping a "Dictator": China-U.S. Relations and a Growing Multipolar World. democracynow.org 
Officials in Beijing have denounced U.S. President Joe Biden for describing Chinese President Xi Jinping as a "dictator," calling it a breach of diplomatic protocol. Biden's remark at a fundraising event this week came just days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China to help thaw relations at a time of growing competition and suspicion between the two superpowers. "What Biden said, in fact, is true in every word," says Ho-fung Hung, professor of political economy and sociology at Johns Hopkins University, though he adds that China's response is also expected, as…
(2023-06-22). FBI Can't Answer For Thousands of Crimes?? leecamp.com
(2023-06-22). Argentina: Repression Against Indigenous People in Jujuy (+Human Rights in Venezuela). orinocotribune.com 
Police repression of mass protests regarding provincial constitution reforms—threatening the right to protest and land workers' rights—have led to at least 68 people being arrested and 170 injured this Tuesday, June 20. The events in the lithium-rich province of Jujuy, Argentina, have mobilized spokespersons of the international community and human rights defenders around the world. | Reforms of the provincial constitution have deepened the differences between union organizations, indigenous communities, social movements, and the regional government of the opposition leader Gerardo Morales. Governor M…
(2023-06-22). Six US Citizens Indicted in Venezuela on Conspiracy Charges and Related Crimes (+Operation Gideon). orinocotribune.com According to a report by news outlet It is worth noting that six of the eight Americans detained are being prosecuted for conspiracy and related offenses. Two of the prosecuted have already sentenced to 24 years in prison each: Airan Berry and Luke Alexander Denman. According to…
(2023-06-22). US Non-Compliance With 'Mexico Talks' Agreement Affects Venezuela's Electrical Grid. orinocotribune.com When the "Second Agreement for the Social Protection of the People" was signed in Mexico, within the framework of the Dialogue and Negotiation Table, also known as the Mexico Talks, the priority consisted of addressing, with the expected unfrozen financial resources, the most decisive social and economic injuries to the Venezuelan population. These hardships occur as a consequence of the expansive and generalized use of US illegal "sanctions" including economic and wage limitations, difficulties in accessing food, reduced availability of vaccines and other supplies in public healthcare centers, and failures in bo…
(2023-06-22). Venezuela Completes First Phase of Dredging at Lake Maracaibo (+Oil Production). orinocotribune.com 
With the purpose of strengthening the country's aquatic sector, Venezuela's National Institute of Canalization (Incanal) successfully completed the first phase of its plan to bolster navigation in the Lake Maracaibo Lake, the Minister of Transportation Ramón Velásquez Araguayán announced. | Since December 2022, Chevron and other oil producing agents have complained about difficulties navigating the waters of the lake and its impact on oil-related operation and production. | A dredge is often needed to clean out the bed of water areas by scooping out mud, weeds, and waste so that vessels can travel. Shallow waters…
(2023-06-22). US Cuba solidarity activists arrested after trying to meet with Senator Bob Menendez, Sanctioner-in-Chief. peoplesdispatch.org Several activists with the National Network on Cuba, CODEPINK, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace were arrested on June 22 after trying to have a meeting with New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez in his office in Washington, DC. Activists were attempting to meet with Menendez to urge him to lift the US blockade against Cuba and take …
(2023-06-22). Democratic Elites FEAR Kennedy In 2024. trofire.com America's Lawyer E58: Voices are growing louder calling for the Democratic Party to have a REAL primary for the 2024 nomination, but the Party is scared as the non-Biden candidates start to gain momentum. The drug company Merck is suing the federal government so that they can continue to price gouge consumers with their over-priced …
(2023-06-22). Liberal and "Left" Silence on National Security Police State When Used against Trump and His Supporters. dissidentvoice.org The National Security police state now regards the Democratic Party as a more useful tool to criminalize opposition to US wars and maintain their control over the US government. We see this in the attack on the Uhuru Movement as being in the pay of Russia, in the imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange, in …
(2023-06-22). Peru's former prime minister Betssy Chávez arrested on rebellion and conspiracy charges. peoplesdispatch.org On Tuesday, June 20, the Peruvian National Police arrested former Prime Minister Betssy Chávez for the alleged crimes of rebellion and conspiracy against the state. Chávez was arrested at her home in the southern city of Tacna after the Supreme Court ordered 18 months of pre-trial detention for her. The charges against Chávez stem from
(2023-06-22). The critical evidence police kept secret in Baltimore's deadly trash chute case. therealnews.com 
In two separate incidents in separate years, Emily Hauze and Harsh Kumar were found dead at the bottom of a trash chute in the Park Charles apartments in Baltimore. Police ruled both incidents to be accidents, but could this truly just be a coincidence? Land of the Unsolved returns to the case, now with crucial evidence previously withheld from the public by police. | Production: Stephen Janis | Audio engineering: David Hebden |
| Transcript: | The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible. | Stephen Janis: | Anyone w…
(2023-06-22). Al menos 16 heridos deja explosión en varios edificios de París. telesurtv.net La emergencia hizo que las autoridades, encabezadas por el ministro del Interior, Gérald Darmanin, recomendaran a los ciudadanos que eviten desplazarse a esta zona.
(2023-06-22). Constitucional guatemalteco aparta de elecciones a otro partido. telesurtv.net La decisión se produjo cuando faltan cuatro días para las elecciones presidenciales en el país centroamericano.
(2023-06-22). Represión deja 170 heridos en provincia argentina de Jujuy. telesurtv.net Todo el oficialismo, encabezado por el presidente Alberto Fernández y la vicepresidenta, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, repudió la represión en Jujuy a cargo del gobernador Gerardo Morales.
(2023-06-22). Destacan avances entre Türkiye y Siria al concluir cumbre de Astaná. t.co La declaración conjunta también rechazó todos los intentos de crear "nuevas realidades sobre el terreno", incluidas las "iniciativas ilegítimas de autogobierno".
(2023-06-22). Presidente de Bolivia encabeza actos por Nuevo Año Andino Amazónico. telesurtv.net "Recibimos con mucho optimismo, desde Tiwanaku, el Año Nuevo Andino Amazónico y del Chaco 5.531", afirmó el mandatario.
(2023-06-22). China rechaza declaraciones del presidente de EE.UU., Joe Biden. telesurtv.net La vocera de la Cancillería china señaló que las palabras de Joe Biden "violan gravemente el protocolo diplomático".
(2023-06-22). Emiten 16 órdenes de arresto por caso Ayotzinapa en México. telesurtv.net La Jueza Segundo de Distrito en Procesos Penales Federales, Raquel Ivette Duarte Cedillo, emitió las órdenes.
(2023-06-22). Hallan muerto al autor del asesinato de dos estudiantes en Brasil. telesurtv.net Según las primeras informaciones del Instituto Médico Legal, el joven, que era tratado por esquizofrenia, al parecer se ahorcó dentro de la prisión.
(2023-06-22). El presidente de Brasil se reúne en Roma con su par italiano. telesurtv.net Previamente, Lula mantuvo una conversación con el exprimer ministro Massimo D'Alema, y una audiencia con la secretaria general del Partido Democrático Italiano, Elly Schlein.
(2023-06-22). Al menos dos muertos deja descarrilamiento de tren en Túnez. telesurtv.net La compañía anunció la apertura de una investigación para conocer las circunstancias de este accidente y delimitar responsabilidades.
(2023-06-22). Presidente de Brasil y papa Francisco se reúnen en El Vaticano. telesurtv.net También abordan la necesidad de luchar contra el hambre. Lula agradeció al pontífice por la "buena conversación sobre la paz en el mundo".
(2023-06-22). Cuba y Serbia acuerdan ampliar vínculos políticos y cooperación. telesurtv.net Mandatarios de ambas naciones sostienen conversaciones oficiales en Belgrado. Líder cubano se reúne con Presidente de AN serbia.
(2023-06-22). Suben a 46 las fallecidas tras reyerta en cárcel de Honduras. telesurtv.net Al Departamento de Medicina Forense de Tegucigalpa han ingresado 46 cuerpos. Se teme que esa cifra aumente en las próximas horas.
(2023-06-22). Instan a mayor cooperación internacional en ayuda de Haití. telesurtv.net Cancillerías de República Dominicana y Canadá reiteran que apoyarán una solución a largo plazo liderada por los propios haitianos a la actual crisis.
(2023-06-22). Colonos israelíes asesinan a joven palestino en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Asaltan la localidad de Turmus Aya, donde matan a Omar Jabara de un disparo en el pecho. Ejecutan un progromo contra varias aldeas.
(2023-06-22). Senado de Brasil aprueba a nominado por Lula a la Corte Suprema. telesurtv.net La aprobación en la cámara alta del Congreso del país suramericano se concretó por 58 votos a favor contra 18 en contra.
(2023-06-22). Abanderan a selección de Venezuela a los XXIV Juegos Centroamericanos. telesurtv.net Del 23 de junio al 8 de julio 472 atletas venezolanos (261 hombres y 211 mujeres) participarán en los XXIV Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe en El Salvador.
(2023-06-22). Arriba a Francia el presidente de Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel. telesurtv.net La Presidencia de Cuba confirmó que participará en la Cumbre para un Nuevo Pacto Financiero, los días 22 y 23 de junio en Francia.
(2023-06-22). Denuncian el asesinato de un líder social en Cesar, Colombia. telesurtv.net Se trata del el agricultor Temístocles Beltrán Beltrán, de 56 años, asesinado en su vivienda.
(2023-06-22). Detectan sonidos en área donde se busca el submarino Titan. telesurtv.net Autoridades estadounidenses han determinado que sonidos detectados en la zona de búsqueda del sumergible no son golpes.
(2023-06-22). Detienen a la exprimera ministra Betssy Chávez en Perú. telesurtv.net Titular de la Sala Penal Nacional del máximo tribunal decidió revertir dictamen que rechazaba encarcelar a Betssy Chávez.
(2023-06-22). El ABC de los XXIV Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe. telesurtv.net Se prevé que al evento regional asistan unos 5.000 atletas que competirán en unos 38 deportes y 53 disciplinas diferentes.
(2023-06-22). Belice es declarado por la OMS libre de malaria. telesurtv.net Belice, en las últimas tres décadas, ha logrado una reducción drástica de su carga de malaria o paludismo, de unos 10.000 casos en 1994 a cero reportes autóctonos en 2019.
(2023-06-22). Aumentan a 37 los heridos tras explosión en centro de París, Francia. telesurtv.net Según el ministro del Interior, Gérald Darmanin, es posible que en horas de la noche se encuentren otros cuerpos o personas vivas.
(2023-06-22). Avanza hacia las Antillas Menores la tormenta tropical Bret. telesurtv.net El NHC refirió además, que es probable el desplazamiento en horas de la tarde y la noche del jueves a través de las Antillas Menores.
(2023-06-22). Presidente argentino: hechos de represión y violencia estatal en Jujuy son inadmisibles. telesurtv.net El mandatario instó al gobernador de Jujuy, Gerardo Morales, a "cumplir con los estándares internacionales de derechos humanos".
(2023-06-22). Rusia destaca rol de tríada nuclear en equilibrio global. telesurtv.net El presidente Vladímir Putin apuntó que Rusia seguirá mejorando las fuerzas militares y señaló que constituye "nuestra prioridad".
(2023-06-22). Partes beligerante en Sudán reanudan combates tras fin de tregua. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con medios internacionales, desde la víspera se reportaron fuertes combates en la capital, Jartum.
(2023-06-22). Barbados Demands to Transform the Global Financial System. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley called for a transformation of the global financial system that goes beyond reforming international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). | RELATED: | "Global problems like the climate crisis show us that we simply cannot address modern issues with institutions, which were created for a very different world nearly…
(2023-06-22). Brazilian President Meets With Italian Leaders in Rome. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome, during a whirlwind visit to the capital. | RELATED: | This was his first visit with Meloni. They reportedly discussed the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and economic cooperation between Italy and Brazil. | Lula da Silva also met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri, and leader of the main opposition Democratic Party E…
(2023-06-22). Colombian Jesuit is Honored for His Contribution to Peace. telesurenglish.net The Jesuit University System (SUJ) awarded an Honoris Causa Doctorate to Father Francisco de Roux for his work at the head of the Truth Commission in Colombia. | RELATED: | "Father de Roux has become an emblematic figure in the search for peace in Colombia. For this reason, he has been the target of defamation, death threats and even execution attempts," the Ibeoamerican University highlighted on its website. | "A 'Reference of Peace' is t…
(2023-06-22). Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Arrives in France. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, as part of his European tour, arrived in France after holding a meeting with his Serbian counterpart Leksandar Vucic. | Related: | Díaz-Canel arrived in France at 9: 57 p.m. (local time) from Belgrade after an intense day of official visit to Serbia. | Otto Vaillant Frias, Cuban Ambassador to France, and Yahima Esquivel Moynelo, Cuba's representative to the United N…
(2023-06-22). Global Financing Summit to Address Climate-Related Issues. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, world leaders arrive in Paris to participate in the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, whose stated goal is to build a new contract between the countries of the North and the South to address global climate change. | RELATED: | The discussions are expected to jointly lay the foundation for a new global financing system capable of responding to new challenges, particularly those related to fighti…
(2023-06-22). Gustavo Petro Calls for a Marshall Plan Against Climate Change. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro demanded the implementation of a "Marshall Plan" to finance the fight against the consequences of global climate change. | RELATED: | "The climate crisis cannot be solved by the market because the market has created it," he said during the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact, currently taking place in Paris. | Directly addressing the European Commission President Ursula von…
(2023-06-22). Israel Demolishes Palestinian Prisoner's Family Home in West Bank. telesurenglish.net On Thursday predawn, the Israeli occupation forces blew up in Nablus the family home of a Palestinian prisoner Kamal Jouri, who is a member of the armed group called the Lions' Den and was arrested on February. | RELATED: | Israeli army forces, backed by armored vehicles and bulldozers, stormed the city to demolish his home. The 130-square-meter apartment was located on the second floor of a residential building…
(2023-06-22). Lula and Ramaphosa Talk About the BRICS and Ukraine in Paris. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, presidents Lula da Silva (Brazil) and Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa) held a meeting on the sidelines of the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact, which is taking place in Paris. | RELATED: | During their dialogue, they discussed issues related to the BRICS, an economic cooperation block led by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. These nations will hold a summit in August, when they deal with issues rel…
(2023-06-22). New Zealand Immigration Minister Resigns, Conflicts of Interest. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said in an official statement that Michael Wood has resigned as a minister of the New Zealand government over multiple "conflicts of interest." | Related: | According to Hipkins, Wood held "additional shareholdings" in the JM Fairey Family Trust, of which he is both a trustee and a beneficiary. Wood said he learned this after his resignation as the transport minister earlier this month d…
(2023-06-22). Survey Finds Housing Costs Behind California Homeless Crisis. telesurenglish.net To better understand why so many people end up homeless in California, a group of researchers conducted a statewide survey, which found that deep poverty and lack of affordable housing are to blame. | RELATED: | For most of the people living on the streets, they lost their homes simply because the cost of housing had become unsustainable, according to the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness rele…
(2023-06-22). Tanzania Will Not Grant Citizenship to Burundian Refugees. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Tanzanian authorities ruled out the possibility of granting citizenship to Burundian refugees staying in refugee camps in western Tanzania. | Related: | According to the director of the Refugee Services Department in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Sudi Mwakibasi, the government was instead mobilizing the Burundian refugees to volunteer to return to their country. | "I urge you to return to Burundi because the country is…
(2023-06-22). The Argentine President Condemns Violence in Jujuy. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez denounced the police brutality occurring in Jujuy, where Governor Gerardo Morales is attempting to implement a legal reform that restricts citizens' rights. | RELATED: | "Violence cannot be the response that a subnational government provides to the legitimate demands of communities. Denying the right to protest restricts constitutional liberties and hinders democratic life," he emphasized. | The…
(2023-06-22). Train-Truck Collision Injures 21 in Northern Czech Republic. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, police said that a passenger train and a truck collided in northern Czech Republic, injuring 21 people. | Related: | According to official reports, the accident happened at around 2 p.m. local time (1200 GMT) when the train with 65 passengers collided with the truck trailer carrying a digger at a level crossing in Straz nad Nisou, near the northern Czech city of Liberec. | Police reports state that "the level crossing was secur…
(2023-06-22). Zimbabwean President Hails Peaceful Nomination Process. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa hailed the peaceful conduct of the nomination process for candidates in the Aug. 23 general elections. | RELATED: | Electoral authorities across the country accepted applications from candidates for presidential, parliamentary, and local elections. | "So far, I am told that countrywide, the process is going very well. I am happy that Zimbabwe is now a mature democracy," he said. | Mnangagwa made th…
(2023-06-22). NHS Director of End-of-Life "Care" confirms Doctors lied about COVID being Cause of Death to create illusion of a Pandemic. expose-news.com Before Covid, four types of pneumonia added together were the highest cause of death in the UK. In a newly implemented Medical Examiner System to certify deaths, the Medical Examiner was certifying …
(2023-06-22). üéß LEVER TIME: Boots Riley On The Writers Strike, Organized Labor, And His New TV Show. levernews.com
(2023-06-22). Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages. thecommunists.org As at the time of writing, the workers at homelessness charity St Mungo's are entering their fourth week of strike action, fighting as so many workers across the country are doing to secure a wage rise that might offset the real-terms reduction they have suffered as a result of galloping inflation. Their demand for a …
(2023-06-22). The Superiority Conceit of the West Crumbles. indybay.org When people in the West are confronted with the knowledge that the feeling of their own superiority was a deception or swindle, the awakening will surely be traumatic. We should not gloat because the people who have never known anything but western propaganda are deceived and defrauded and in my eyes victims of a misanthropic ideology whose time has run out.
(2023-06-22). Can the European Leg of the Triad Break Free from the Atlantic Alliance? dissidentvoice.org 
Zoulikha Bouabdellah (Algeria), Envers Endroit Geometrique ('Geometric Reverse Obverse'), 2016. It is difficult to make sense of many events these days. France's behaviour, for instance, is hard to square. On the one hand, French President Emmanuel Macron changed his mind to support Ukraine's entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). On the other hand, …
(2023-06-22). Saturday 6/24: Santa Rosa: Bigger Than Roe! PRIDE Solidarity & Bodily Autonomy March. indybay.org Meet at Juilliard Park – gather by stone bridge | 227 Santa Rosa Avenue | Santa Rosa, CA, 95401…
(2023-06-22). Alert on high solar radiation levels in Ecuador. plenglish.com The provinces of Pichincha, Loja and Imbabura will be the most affected; therefore, authorities have suggested taking precautions such as the use of sunscreen, clothing that covers as much skin as possible and staying hydrated. | The Inamhi also called on people to be on alert since the predicted increase in temperature raises the probability of forest fires. | The warning comes at a time when Ecuador is preparing for the imminent arrival of El Niño—Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which is characterized by high temperatures. | In this regard, the Oceanographic and Antarctic Institute of the Navy of Ecuador (I…
(2023-06-22). Spanish duo Amistades Peligrosas to perform in Cuba. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) The Spanish duo Amistades Peligrosas is in Cuba to give a concert on Saturday as part of the A Bridge to Havana International Festival, to be held from June 23 to 25 in Havana.
(2023-06-21). Week of action demands STOP COP CITY! workers.org 
Stop Cop City Solidarity has called a Week of Action for June 24-July 1, beginning with a kickoff barbecue and continuing with multiple protests throughout Atlanta. The call to action states in part: "We must continue to uplift the spirit of our beloved comrade Tortuguita, who was murdered in cold . . . |
(2023-06-21). Incarcerees organize unprecedented seminar against life sentences. workers.org 
For some Pennsylvania state legislators, incarcerated people belong in prison, no questions asked. "Lock 'em up and throw away the key," as the reactionary saying goes. State policies that sustain the mass incarceration of Black and Brown people and members of impoverished communities hinge on people not knowing the hidden . . . |
(2023-06-21). Abolitionists celebrate Juneteenth in Houston. workers.org 
Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement activists participated in the 10th Annual Acres Homes Juneteenth Parade on June 17, with signs and banners on a truck and a shiny red jeep. Activists spoke on a sound system to the hundreds lining West Montgomery Road in Northwest Houston. Texas Death Penalty Abolition . . . |
(2023-06-21). BRICS Membership: A Game-Changer for Saudi Arabia's Economy?>. infobrics.org As Saudi Arabia prepares to potentially join the BRICS, there is much to consider in terms of the impact on the country's economy. While some may view this as a simple geopolitical move, it could have significant economic implications for the region and the world as a whole…
(2023-06-21). Russia's Rosneft May Set up Greenfield Refinery in India in a JV With State-owned Refiners. infobrics.org The Russian firm is understood to have held preliminary discussions with Indian government officials and executives at state-run refiners regarding a new project in India…
(2023-06-21). Expanding the BRICS Group Is a Compelling Opportunity for Growth and Cooperation. infobrics.org The rationale for expanding the current BRICS membership is clear…
(2023-06-21). China reciprocal response to US aggression. infobrics.org Even the mainstream propaganda machine acknowledges that "Taiwan is roughly 100 miles from mainland China, about the same distance Cuba is from Florida", effectively conceding that there's strategic equivalency between the two.
(2023-06-21). Kiev regime highlights its need for unlimited arms supply. infobrics.org Kiev's Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that only when Ukraine "wins" the war will it be able to say that the weapons were "enough".
(2023-06-21). "Ukrainian leaders gloss over Ukrainian antisemitism" — Times of Israel. infobrics.org Ukraine appeals for Israeli cooperation to fight Russia and Iran.
(2023-06-21). Palestinian killed in settler pogrom in West Bank town. electronicintifada.net Girl dies after being shot in head by Israeli soldier during Jenin raid.
(2023-06-21). Podcast Ep 79: Weaponising Anti-Semitism. electronicintifada.net Asa Winstanley's new book exposes how the Israel lobby brought down Jeremy Corbyn.
(2023-06-21). Abolish UK school inspectorate Ofsted—fully funded schools not punitive inspections! wsws.org The government announced minimal reforms and an inquiry, fearful that the outcry against Ofsted will coalesce with and further ignite the current struggle of teachers over pay, workload and education funding.
(2023-06-21). New strike dates announced as UK education unions promote below-inflation deals. wsws.org Tellingly, the education unions' main activity in recent weeks was to jump on a report by the Sunday Times, which published the leaked latest recommendations of the STRB, proposing a 6.5 percent wage rise for teachers for the 2023-24 pay round.
(2023-06-21). Craigavon postal worker speaks about dire working conditions after CWU blocks local industrial action. wsws.org Over 100 members of the Communication Workers Union sought to wage a fight against imposed revisions and the suspension of their two union reps back in February.
(2023-06-21). The Clarios strike and its lessons for the working class. wsws.org The Holland, Ohio workers fought a 40-day strike against the world's largest auto battery maker and the treachery of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy.
(2023-06-21). Teenage worker killed at Western Australian sandblasting plant. wsws.org Sixteen-year-old Hamiora Sharland was the fourth person to die in a workplace incident in WA or offshore in just two weeks.
(2023-06-21). International students in Australia speak about rental and cost-of-living crisis. wsws.org "The price of food has increased a lot since last year. It affects our budget. We have a small amount we get from our job. Most of the time we have to go beyond our budget, and it's not good, because we need to save our money."
(2023-06-21). UAW announces tentative agreement at GE Aviation, while Spirit AeroSystems workers to vote on contract proposal Wednesday. wsws.org Thousands of aviation workers at GE Aerospace and Spirit AeroSystems are voting on contracts this week, amid indications of substantial anger over meagre terms.
(2023-06-21). Fire in Chinatown electric-bike shop leaves 4 dead, highlighting the immense social crisis in New York City. wsws.org So far this year, there have been over 100 fires caused by e-bike batteries and 13 deaths in New York City.
(2023-06-21). CovertAction Bulletin — Debunking Media Lies: U.S. & Blinken Don't Want Peace with China. covertactionmagazine.com We begin today's show with a remembrance of whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who passed on June 16 at the age of 92…Then, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken ended his recent trip to China with a 35-minute meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 19th. Blinken had also met with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and top diplomat Wang Yi over the weekend. …
(2023-06-21). Operation Belisarius: Eurasianist Strategy for the West. uwidata.com United World International continues publishing papers that were presented to the Global Multipolarity Confernce held on April 29. The conference was organized by Nova Resistência (Brazil), the New International Order Initiative (Türkiye), the International Eurasian Movement (Russia), the Thinkers' Forum (China) and the International Russophile Movement. Today we present the speech of Alexander Wolfheze philosopher …
(2023-06-21). Turkish views on global politics. uwidata.com 
Türkiye's foreign policy between East and West is one of the most debated and questioned issues worldwide. On that matter, we interviewed Prof. Nur≈üin Ate≈üoƒülu Gàºney. Prof. Gàºney is Member of the Turkish Presidential Security and Foreign Policy Council. The Council was established in 2018 with Executive Order No1, following the introduction of the presidential …
(2023-06-21). Minnesota Inmate Calls on DOC to 'Value Us as Human'. unicornriot.ninja
(2023-06-21). Non-Fungible Tokens: Blockchain Technology and the Legal Framework. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the latest episode of Law Pod UK, Robert Kellar KC discusses the developing law on NFTs with Victoria Walters, library learning advisor at the Bristol campus of the University of Law. We are grateful to Victoria and the University for the permission to repost this interview. As Robert explains, the "token" is a crypto …
(2023-06-21). Mosaic Nature of Chinese-European Relations. journal-neo.org 
(2023-06-21). Algeria: independence and friendship with Russia. journal-neo.org 
(2023-06-21). Turkish Election: Horns of a Dilemma 4- Joe Biden and US-Western-EU Birds of Feather. journal-neo.org 
(2023-06-21). On Horseradish & Nuclear War. strategic-culture.org 
By Scott RITTER | Russian President Vladimir Putin is known for a lot of things — his "in your face" speeches, his marathon unscripted press conferences and his stoic impassiveness in the face of adversity come to mind. | One thing that doesn't jump out at the average observer is his earthy sense of humor. Long-time Putin watchers know that the Russian leader on occasion spices up his formal presentations with off-color quips which, unless one is well versed in colloquial Russian of the back-alley variety, can get missed by the casual listener. | During the June 16 discussion period of the plenary session o…
(2023-06-21). Understanding the Complexity: Why Some Opponents of U.S. Wars and Invasions Are Not on Ukraine's Side. strategic-culture.org By Elijah J. MAGNIER | Since February 2022, Russia has occupied and fought to annex Ukrainian territory violating international norms and territorial sovereignty. This Russian occupation can be seen as an uncomfortable contradiction for opponents of American wars and the US military's history of occupying other countries. This attitude is not based on a selective application of international law or Security Council resolutions. It stems from a broader disillusionment with superpowers' disregard for international law and their ability to find justifications for invading other states and extending their influence b…
(2023-06-21). African Peace Initiative Seeks to End War in Eastern Europe. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-21). During meeting with African delegates, Putin claims Ukraine withdrew from draft peace agreement last year under Western pressure. peoplesdispatch.org The African delegation led by South African President Cyril Ramaposha visited both Ukraine and Russia and met with the leaders to presented a 10-point peace proposal and offered mediation to end the war…
(2023-06-21). Poor People's Campaign State Fact Sheets — 2023. ips-dc.org