Trading One Uniform for Another: Can Police Be “De-Militarized” When So Many Cops Are Military Veterans?
Steve Early, Suzanne Gordon | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Calls for de-militarization of law enforcement have gained new momentum in the wake of nationwide protests against police brutality. That process won’t be easy in a nation where nearly one fifth of all cops are military veterans — including Derek Chauvin, George Floyd’s killer in Minneapolis and Robert McCabe, one of two officers charged with felony…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/trading-one-…

Rubio, Cruz bill would deem Cuba’s medical missions “human trafficking operation”
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-22
In an act of pure hypocrisy and obsessive cruelty, GOP Senators Marco Rubio, Rick Scott and Ted Cruz joined together to penalize developing nations who seek to take advantage of Cuba’s hands-on humanitarian work.
mronline.org/2020/06/22/rubio-cruz-bill-…

Protesters in Compton demand justice for Andres Guardado, 18-year-old Latino man fatally shot by deputies
Nouran Salahieh | ktla.com | 2020-06-22
Hundreds gathered outside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Compton station Sunday to demand justice for Andres Guardado, an 18-year-old Latino man shot and killed by a deputy in an encounter near Gardena earlier this week. What started off as a peaceful demonstration later saw deputies using what appeared to be pepper balls or tear …
ktla.com/news/local-news/protesters-dema…

Trump Slams Guaidó While Expressing Openness in Speaking with Maduro
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
In what potentially could be a radical change in Washington’s policy towards Venezuela, U.S. president Donald Trump confessed that he has had doubts about his decision to recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president of the South American country. Trump …
globalresearch.ca/trump-slams-guaido-exp…

Police Violence and Racism Have Always Been Tools of Capitalism
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
The system-wide challenges the United States faces with policing are entrenched and deeply rooted. When the historical and current practices of police are examined, it is evident police have been designed to uphold the status quo including racial injustice and …
globalresearch.ca/police-violence-racism…

Biden Bashes Trump’s Willingness to Meet with Venezuela’s Maduro
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-06-22
The White House insisted that Trump “has not lost confidence” in opposition leader Guaido.
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Police Lessons from Cuba
Reese Erlich | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
A group of muscular cops carrying semi-automatic pistols and batons slowly move through the crowd at the end of an outdoor salsa concert. My friends and I have a bottle of rum, and I think for sure the cops will …
globalresearch.ca/police-lessons-from-cu…

Hundreds of thousands join the New Poor People’s Campaign virtual March
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
WASHINGTON–From eradication of poverty, an end to U.S. racism, to dismantling the war machine and creating a Green New Deal with thousands of well-paying jobs — especially union jobs — hundreds of thousands of people demanded a complete reversal and creation of a better society in three virtual mass marches on D.C. the weekend of …
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Massive Uprisings Confront White Supremacy
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
That’s not a chip on my shoulder. | That’s your foot on my neck. | — Malcolm X | On May 25, a Minneapolis police officer tortured George Floyd to death in what his brother, Philonise Floyd, called “a modern-day lynching in broad …
globalresearch.ca/massive-uprisings-conf…

Details of China’s National Security Law Released
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Along with protecting China’s national security, its legitimate right, the new law aims to counter months of US orchestrated violence and vandalism in Hong Kong. | They were and continue to be led by 5th column elements that rocked the city …
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Economic Terrorism: U.S. “Caesar” Act Tries to Suffocate 17 Million Syrians
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Since 2011, the US and allies have promoted, trained and supplied militants trying to bring about “regime change” in Damascus. Having failed in that effort, they have tried to strangle Syria economically. The goal has always been the same: to …
globalresearch.ca/economic-terrorism-u-s…

US Economic Embargo‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã on Syria Is ‘Crime Against Humanity’
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
The US economic embargo against Syria which doesn’t have the approval of the UN Security Council is a “crime against humanity,” a Canadian political commentator has said. | *** | Mark Taliano added that the United States and its allies are supporting …
globalresearch.ca/us-economic-embargo%e2…

UN Chief calls for reparations to amend slavery’s legacy
teleSUR Desk | mronline.org | 2020-06-22
The U.N.’s Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet urged countries to confront legacy of slavery and colonialism.
mronline.org/2020/06/22/un-chief-calls-f…

A Ridiculous Debate on Sexual Orientation, But a Welcome Ruling
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
The Supreme Court just affirmed a right I thought I always had: not to be fired for my sexual orientation. The 6-3 ruling found that, under existing civil rights legislation against sex-based discrimination, it’s illegal for employers to discriminate against their employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity. It feels ridiculous that this needed…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/a-ridiculous…

Message to My Young Readers in Hong Kong
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-22
For months, this has been a story that I want to share with young readers in Hong Kong. Now it seems to be the really appropriate time when the ideological battle between the West and China is raging, and as a result of it, Hong Kong and the entire world is suffering. I want to …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/message-to-my…

Documentos filtrados revelan plan derechista para derrocar al Presidente AMLO de México
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-22
Oligarcas mexicanos y los partidos del establishment político, con ayuda de los medios, Washington y Wall Street, se han unido…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/22/boa-plan-derr…

Documentos filtrados revelan plan para derrocar al presidente AMLO de México
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-22
Oligarcas mexicanos y los partidos del establishment político, con ayuda de los medios, Washington y Wall Street, se han unido…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/22/boa-plan-derr…

How to Defeat Trump Without Campaigning for Biden
David Duhalde | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
Socialists and other Bernie Sanders supporters can play a critical role in defeating right-wing populism while building a left-wing alternative for the long term–by going down-ballot.
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If You Want Joe Biden to Govern More Like FDR Than Jamie Dimon, Vote for Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in New York and Kentucky
Alan Minsky | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) holds hands with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) during his speech at a campaign rally in Queensbridge Park on October 19, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo: Kena Betancur/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Five Black & Brown Men Have Been Recently Found Hanged in Public. Were Some of Them Lynched?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-22
As mass protests against racism and police brutality continue, at least five men — four Black and one Latinx — have been found hanging in public across the U.S. in recent weeks. We speak with Jacqueline Olive, director of “Always in Season,” a documentary that examines the history of lynchings through the story of Lennon Lacy, an African American teenager who was found hanged from a swing set in 2014. “They deserve a full investigation,” Olive says of the recent hangings,…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/us_public…

Five Black & Brown Men Have Been Recently Found Hanged in Public. Were Some of Them Lynched?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-22
As mass protests against racism and police brutality continue, at least five men — four Black and one Latinx — have been found hanging in public across the U.S. in recent weeks. We speak with Jacqueline Olive, director of “Always in Season,” a documentary that examines the history of lynchings through the story of Lennon Lacy, an African American teenager who was found hanged from a swingset in 2014. “They deserve a full investigation,” Olive says of the recent hangings,…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/us_public…

Trump’s Reelection Playbook: Racist Tropes & Downplaying COVID Pandemic by Slowing Down Testing
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-22
As the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 nears 120,000 and mass protests against police brutality and racism continue, President Trump faces condemnation for his remarks at his poorly attended campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he repeated racist terms like “kung flu” and lashed out at protesters. “You just see this tremendous impulse to divide,” says Emily Bazelon, staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. “This is what has worked for Trump in the past. He is not going to change now.”
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/trump_tul…

Don’t forget that Human Rights Watch, not only OAS Chief Luis Almagro, helped a US-backed military coup in Bolivia
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
On November 10 of 2019, Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown and barely escaped the country alive. The military publicly “suggested” that he resign. The military and police also made it clear that they would not protect him from vigilantes who wanted to lynch him. His house was ransacked by opposition supporters the night he Read…
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PM Netanyahu’s son Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian-Israelis from Tel Aviv
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
Injustice on racial grounds cries out for redress and for the achievement of equality of opportunity wherever it is found…
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Netanyahu Ties Corruption Trial To West Bank Annexation Plans
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-22
Netanyahu says his trial is not about corruption, but about the fate of Israel and the Jewish people. He demands Palestinians give their consent to Israeli annexation, leading to anti-annexation demonstrations in Israel.
therealnews.com/stories/netanyahu-corrup…

What History Shows Us About Responding to Coronavirus
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
Interview on the challenges of responding to the coronavirus, the future of our relationship to technology, and history’s lessons for moving forward…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-history-shows…

Syrians confirm death of missing relatives by photos
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians searching for their relatives have stepped up their efforts after the US adopted the Caesar Act, a law which imposes sanctions on the Syrian regime for war crimes.Families, who have long given up on ever finding their relatives, click on web links where photos of people killed in regime prisons are posted, in a desperate attempt to confirm the death of their loved ones.Imaduddin Rasit, the founding member of a France-based association monitoring Syrian casualties of war and prisoners, said more than 6,000 photos of people tortured to death were shared on the internet.The photos we…
yenisafak.com/en/news/syrians-confirm-de…

Trump Cold On Guaidó
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
In an Oval Office interview with Axios on Friday, President Trump suggested he’s had second thoughts about his decision to recognize Juan Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and said he is open to meeting with dictator Nicolás Maduro. | Driving the news: Asked whether he would meet with Maduro, Trump said, “I would maybe think about that. … Maduro would like to meet. And I’m never opposed to meetings — you know, rarely opposed to meetings. | “I always say, you lose very little with meetings. But at this moment, I’ve turned them down.” | The big picture: Trump also indicated he doesn’t have much c…
popularresistance.org/trump-cold-on-guai…

Biden And His Ventriloquists Keep Out-Hawking Trump
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-22
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | In response to Trump suggesting an openness to scaling back his administration’s murderous Venezuela policy and meeting with President Nicolás Maduro, whoever runs Biden’s Twitter account for him seized upon the moment to assert that the former vice president will be doing no such thing if elected commander-in-chief. | “Trump talks…
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DACA stays, fight for legalization for all!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by Legalization for All Network (L4A). | Los Angeles, CA – Early Thursday morning, June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA was an executive order signed June 15, 2012 by then-President Barak Obama and it protects hundreds of thousands of undocumented youth, allowing them to work and go to school without fear of arrest and deportation. | The 5-4 ruling was written by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/22/daca-sta…

Israel leverages dubious ‘Nuclear Archives’ to secure new IAEA demands on Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-22
The International Atomic Energy Agency has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and Israel,…
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/22/israel-nuclea…

Billions of children are being punished by the pandemic
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-22
Vijay Prashad writes about the deep impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on children who are suffering disproportionately amid the pandemic with limited access to education and higher levels of violence…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/22/billions-…

“Robert E. Lee Was a Brutal Slave Master”: Activist’s Call to Rename Louisiana School Goes Viral
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-22
We play a video that has now gone viral from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where community activist Gary Chambers Jr. calls out members of the Lee High School school board for their racism during a June 18 meeting to discuss a resolution to rename the school, which is named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Chambers urged members to choose a name in honor of people who fought slavery and racism, not someone who defended it, and addressed board member Connie Bernard, who had defended Robert E. Lee and was seen shopping on her computer during the meeting.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/gary_cham…

Trump Fires Top U.S. Prosecutor as William Barr Moves to Expand “Imperial Presidency”
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-22
After a dramatic weekend showdown, the Trump administration has ousted Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan who led multiple prosecutions and investigations into allies of the president. We look at the extraordinary measures U.S. Attorney General William Barr took to protect Trump, with New York Times Magazine writer Emily Bazelon, who has profiled Barr. “He believes in a very strong executive presidency, a kind of imperial presidency in which a huge amount of power resides in the president,” she says of the attorney general.
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/william_b…

US Media Propaganda Claiming that Putin Supported “Left-Wing Terrorists”
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Politico’s scandalous “report” alleging that Putin secretly supported and even possibly organized the left-wing terrorist activities of the “Baader-Meinhof Group” during his time with the KGB in East Germany is pure propaganda which is intended to serve the purpose of …
globalresearch.ca/politico-spreading-pro…

Prime Minister Modi Can’t Put the Genie of Indian Jingoism Back in the Bottle
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Prime Minister Modi released the genie of Indian jingoism after coming to power six years ago, irresponsibly hoping that the state-sponsored cultivation of hyper-nationalist sentiment would lead to the false domestic perception of the country as the “superpower” that it …
globalresearch.ca/modi-cant-put-genie-in…

Why So Few American Muslims Serve in the US Military
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-22
Despite the large and active recruitment drives targeting them, a heightened level of casual and toxic Islamophobia within the ranks of America’s Armed Forces is alienating many Muslim Americans who might otherwise consider joining.
mintpressnews.com/american-muslims-serve…

Study: COVID-19 Exacerbating America’s Massive Wealth Inequality and Racial Divide
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-22
Black Americans are dying at almost three times the rate whites are, with Latinos and Native Americans also dying at elevated levels to the rest of the population.
mintpressnews.com/study-covid-19-exacerb…

Algerian court sentences prominent Hirak activist to one year imprisonment
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-22
Amira Bouraoui, who has been convicted for her Facebook post, is part of the popular ongoing Hirak movement which calls for large-scale democratic reforms in Algeria…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/22/algerian-…

PCHR Follows with Concern Continued Detention of Citizens on Grounds of Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) follows with concern the continued summonsing and detention of several Fatah Movement activists and cadres by the Internal Security Services (ISS) on grounds of a protest and social media posts on the 14th anniversary of the internal Palestinian division between Fatah and Hamas movements. …
imemc.org/article/pchr-follows-with-conc…

Armed Protesters Peacefully March On Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
Between 150 and 200 protesters peacefully marched from the Ralph Ellison Library to the Governor’s Mansion on Saturday to deliver a double-barreled message. | “We aren’t going to allow people to come into our communities and brutalize us,” event organizer Omar Chatman said before the event. “If you come into our community, know we are armed.” | The 1000 Brothers and Sisters in Arms protest might not have approached its eponymous numbers, but it bore enough artillery to pop the National Rifle Association’s buttons. | Community organizer Michael Washington was among the speakers who said the march was a response to…
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Racism, COVID-19, and the fight for economic justice
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2020-06-22
While the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the United States were triggered by recent police murders of unarmed African Americans, they are also helping to encourage popular recognition that racism has a long history with punishing consequences for black people that extend beyond policing.
mronline.org/2020/06/22/racism-covid-19-…

Protests in Tunisia to demand jobs and better economic opportunities
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-22
Local trade unions in the country’s southern province of Tataouine have called for a general strike on June 22, Monday, against state brutality and in support of their demands…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/22/protests-…

National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression brings CPAC demand to Minneapolis
Wayne Nealis | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
MINNEAPOLIS–Community control of the Minneapolis police took a step toward that goal at a forum hosted by the Twin Cities Justice for Jamar Clark Coalition on Thursday, June 18. The Coalition has played a leading role in organizing protests and actions demanding justice for George Floyd, murdered by MPD officer Derek Chauvin. Special guest Frank …
peoplesworld.org/article/national-allian…

Italian communists protest restrictions on abortions introduced by Umbrian regional government
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-22
The Umbrian regional government of the conservative League party has announced that women will no longer be able to access pharmacological abortions in day hospitals or at home and will have to be hospitalized for three days to avail the procedure…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/22/italian-c…

Fort Lauderdale community commemorates Juneteenth with rally and march
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
Fort Lauderdale, FL – About 400 members of the surrounding communities gathered in downtown Fort Lauderdale to commemorate Juneteenth and demand an end to police violence. The event was sponsored by several local organizations, including SEIU Local 32BJ, Black Lives Matter Alliance of Broward, Broward Dream Defenders, and the New Florida Majority. The event began at 3 p.m. at Bubier Park, where those in attendance listened to speeches, chanted, and even danced. | The atmosphere was both festive and somber, joyful yet ripe with anger. As the protesters marked the holiday meant to celebrate the ending of slavery i…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/21/fort-lau…

Protesting for Black Lives in Trump Country
Mesha Jefferson | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
I grew up biracial in a small, conservative town. Still, after living for years in Austin, moving back to one was a culture shock — it felt like going back in time. For the last three years I’ve lived in Volusia County, Florida — home to Daytona Beach, many small towns and suburbs, and a…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/protesting-f…

Juneteenth: ILWU shuts down 29 ports along the West Coast
Judy Greenspan | workers.org | 2020-06-22
Oakland, Calif. Taking bold stands against systemic racism and oppression is nothing new for the Bay Area’s Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10. The union has organized work stoppages to protest many injustices from apartheid in South Africa to the police murder of Oscar Grant to the Israeli bombing . . . | Continue reading Juneteenth: ILWU shuts down 29 ports along the West Coast at Workers.org…
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Building multinational unity for Black lives
Cathy Rojas | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-22
On June 14, a Black Lives Matter protest began in Jackson Heights, the most diverse urban area in the world, ending in the immigrant neighborhood of Corona, the epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic in New York City. The protest had an explicitly theme of “Multinational Unity for Black Lives,” and united the multinational, largely immigrant …
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Minnesota Protests Feed Equality
Hadassah Patterson | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
Real change requires exposing the framework of systemic racism. Protesters want people to realize that racism exists on every cornerstone the country was built on…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/minnesota-protests…

Health workers across Belgium demand structural refinancing of healthcare
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-22
Health workers hit the streets in several Belgian cities on Thursday June 18 demanding the structural refinancing of healthcare, along with increased staff, employment guarantees, and better wages. Mobilizations were carried out in Brussels, Liège, Charleroi, Ghent, Hasselt, Sint-Truiden, Namur, and others. According to reports, 1,500 people staged a protest in front of the university hospital in Leuven (UZ Leuven). The Workers Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA) also expressed solidarity with the health workers’ protest. | The PTB/PVDA stated, “the white coats have already succeeded in getting the government to swallow…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/22/health-wo…

Playing the Mao Card
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
In their effort to transform their discomfort with the current #BlackLivesMatter protests into a superficially sophisticated critique, right-wing “intellectuals” in the United States and Europe have latched onto a dubious historical analogy. When former congressman Newt Gingrich, the National Review’s David Harsanyi, Breitbart’s Joel Pollak, and other right-wingers look at the protests against police violence,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/playing-the-…

New Research Suggests Racial Justice Protests Have Not Led to Covid-19 Transmission Spike
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
New research released Monday suggests the nationwide anti-police brutality demonstrations which erupted in the U.S. after the killing of George Floyd have not led to widespread transmission of the coronavirus, as some public experts feared they would. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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HS2 protests at west London site costing millions, judge told
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-22
HS2 bosses have told a judge that continued protests by campaigners opposed to the high-speed rail line running through a woodland area in west London are costing millions of pounds. | A lawyer representing HS2 told Judge David Holland about “relentless” incidents. | Barrister Tom Roscoe said the costs of delay and security were in the region of £16 million. | Judge Holland made an order banning unlawful protest activities in and around a construction site in Hillingdon in May 2019. | But Roscoe said protest had continued. | He said HS2 bosses wanted further orders preventing unlawful protest on land in the…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/20…

Turkey sends 6 truckloads of aid to Idlib, Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Two Turkish charities on Monday sent six trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Idlib, northwestern Syria, where millions of people are in need of assistance due to internal conflict in the country.Truckloads of supplies, including flour, clothing and dry food, by Adana Dosteller and Eskisehir Gunisigi charities, entered Idlib through the Yayladagi border crossing of Turkey’s southern Hatay province.The aid will be distributed among families living in tents in Idlib.Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.Hundreds of thousands of people h…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-sends-6-tr…

UN dispatches 36 trucks carrying aid to Idlib, Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The UN on Monday dispatched a total of 36 trucks carrying humanitarian aid for needy people in Idlib city of northwestern Syria.Truckloads of supplies entered the Syrian city through the Cilvegozu border crossing of Turkey’s southern Hatay province.The aid will be distributed among residents of Idlib and nearby rural areas.Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced, according to UN estimates.Idlib falls within a de-escalation zone forged under an agreement…
yenisafak.com/en/world/un-dispatches-36-…

Gazans protest Israeli plan to annex West Bank
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip staged a protest on Monday to reject an Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.Organized by the Joint Committee for Refugees, the demonstration was held in front the office of the UN refugee agency UNRWA in Gaza City, on the occasion of the World Refugee Day; which was marked on June 20.Speaking at the protest, Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leading member, called on donor countries to continue their funding to UNRWA.Radwan reiterated the committee’s rejection of “refugee resettlement projects and finding an alternative homeland for them”.”The right of return is individual an…
yenisafak.com/en/world/gazans-protest-is…

Do Not Belittle US Protesters By Calling Their Uprising A Color Revolution
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
Those who are promoting the term Color Revolution are actually confusing the situation. During the last years and decades, the West has been using many different tactics on how to overthrow governments, subvert legitimate movements and revolutions, and deter revolutionary and anti-colonialist struggle. Each has to be examined and exposed separately, individually. Otherwise, it would create indigestible, on purpose confusing mass, and further damage independence struggle. Otherwise, nihilism would be spread, and revolutionary zeal deterred. The protesters should be discouraged, let alone ridiculed. Those who are f…
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The War Zone Is America
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
As a military spouse and therapist, it’s clear to me that, these days, whether people of color or not, active-duty servicemen and women, as well as veterans, generally face a host of difficulties in this country. They range from problems accessing much needed responsive healthcare services to social isolation from a civilian population that understands little about their experiences, to chronic illnesses and injuries they suffer, to repeated deployments in America’s forever wars. | Now, add to all that the current showdown between highly militarized police and Black Lives Matter protesters, as well as the preside…
popularresistance.org/the-war-zone-is-am…

New Colorado Law Ends Immunity For Police
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
Colorado Governor Jared Polis on Friday signed into law a bill to remove the shield of legal immunity that has long protected police officers from civil suits for on-the-job misconduct, a measure civil libertarians hailed as landmark legislation. | The Colorado state legislature passed the sweeping police accountability bill last week in the wake of nationwide protests over unfair treatment of racial minorities by law enforcement, sparked by the death of an unarmed Black man under the knee of a white Minneapolis policeman last month. | Polis, a first-term Democrat, took the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, celebr…
popularresistance.org/new-colorado-law-e…

Riot Police Deployed in the Hague Against Anti-Lockdown Protesters, Hundreds Arrested
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
As thousands of people gathered in central Hague on Sunday to voice concerns over the government’s COVID-19 restrictions, agents in riot gear, mounted police units and water cannon were sent to disperse the crowd.
sputniknews.com/europe/20200622107968390…

New York Statue of Roosevelt to Be Removed as Museum Considers it ‘Racist’
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City will be removed amid protests against racial discrimination in the United States, the museum said in a statement.
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If people can go out & protest… they can also go out & VOTE’: Trump hammers claim mail-in votes lead to fraud
rt.com | 2020-06-22
Donald Trump has doubled down on his criticism of mail-in ballots saying the practice will lead to ‘all sorts of havoc’ and ‘millions’ of fraudulent votes, and argued that if people can protest they can go to a polling station. | In a tweet, the US president pondered on the chaotic nature and secrecy which he claims comes with voting by mail. | “If people can go out and protest, riot, break into stores, and create all sorts of havoc, they can also go out and VOTE — and keep our Election Honest. With millions of mail-in ballots being sent out, who knows where they are going, and to whom?” he contemplated.
rt.com/usa/492635-trump-protests-mail-in…

Wednesday 6/24: Uber Drivers Protest Outside Uber CEO’s Mansion in Pac Heights
Gig Workers Rising | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
3090 Dara Khosrowshahi House, the UBER CEO | FM Transmitter Details: Radio Station – 88.3 FM…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/22/1883446…

Monuments to Racists Fall in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
Bring Them All Down | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
Protesters pulled down statues of Junipero Serra and Francis Scott Key in Golden Gate Park this evening.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/19/1883435…

BLM Demonstrators Calling for Racial Justice March on Facebook HQ
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
On June 12, hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters demanded Facebook stop funding local police by marching on the social media giant’s headquarters in Menlo Park.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/21/1883440…

Sunday 6/21: Virtual Protest: Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington 2020 (3pm)
Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
Online via livestream (replay)…
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Private Profit Kaiser v Protests
Support HR 1384 Medicare for All | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
Private profit Kaiser Permanente, a major medical provider in this backward country that still does not have socialized medicine unlike the rest of the industrialized world, sent an Email on June 20, 2020 at 1: 12 AM to its members telling us how to exercise our First Amendment right to protest. So that you know that this statement is not contrived, here is the outrageous blame-the-protest for failures of private profit medicine message:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/20/1883435…

Juneteenth March and Rally at San Francisco City Hall
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
Nationwide and Bay Area protests continue as police continue to kill.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/20/1883436…

WATCH: Heroes: A Conversation with Albert Woodfox and Robert King (of the Angola 3)
FRHKS | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
Heroes: A Conversation with Albert Woodfox and Robert King (of the Angola 3) is a short video being released at this time to highlight another dimension of the protests taking place around the world supporting Black Lives Matter and to draw attention to racism in criminal justice systems around the world.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/21/1883440…

Wednesday 6/24: On Common Ground: Black Businesses Through Pandemic and Protest
KQED | indybay.org | 2020-06-22
Virtual/Online Event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/19/1883434…

Global variation in the prevalence of suicidal ideation, anxiety and their correlates among adolescents: A population based study of 82 countries
Tuhin Biswas, James G. Scott, Kerim Munir, Andre M.N. Renzaho, Lal B. Rawal, Janeen Baxter, Abdullah A. Mamun | thelancet.com | 2020-06-22
Suicidal ideation and anxiety are common among adolescents although their prevalence has predominantly been studied in high income countries. This study estimated the population prevalence of suicidal ideation and anxiety and their correlates with peer support, parent-adolescent relationship, peer victimization, conflict, isolation and loneliness across a range of low-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income countries and high-income countries (LMICHICs).
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PI…(20)30139-5/fulltext?rss=yes

Enormous dust cloud moving from the Sahara to U.S. this week
Olivia Rosane | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert is expected to reach the Southeastern U.S. by Wednesday. While the weather pattern driving the cloud is not unusual, the amount of dust is, according to KSLNewsRadio. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Colonel Doug Hurley snapped a photo from on board the International Space Station, as NDTV …
peoplesworld.org/article/enormous-dust-c…

L.A. County reports 1,784 new coronavirus cases, 11 deaths
Los Angeles Times | ktla.com | 2020-06-22
Los Angeles County public health officials on Sunday reported 1,784 new cases of the coronavirus and 11 related deaths. The county now has recorded more than 83,000 cases of the virus and over 3,120 deaths. The continued rise in new cases came amid the first weekend of more businesses sectors reopening, as bars, card rooms and …
ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-repo…

June 22, 1941: Nazi Germany Attacks the Soviet Union
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
War against the Soviet Union was what Hitler had wanted from the beginning. He had already made this very clear on the pages of Mein Kampf, written in the mid-1920s. Furthermore, as a German historian has recently convincingly demonstrated, it …
globalresearch.ca/june-22-1941-nazi-germ…

To Make Crime, Create Laws
Kathleen Wallace | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
It is generally considered a beneficial thing for politicians to have on their resumés–that they sponsored many laws during their time in Congress. But how beneficial is that to the rest of us? The vast majority of these laws are the babblings of those shit kids gone adult who wanted 900 rules for an average game…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/to-make-crim…

Reparations and the Palestinian Right of Return: Two Sides of the Same Bloody Coin
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-22
Both in Israel and the US, conversations about reparations and the Palestinian right of return are stifled by arguments explaining why injustice must go on and a yearning for the status quo.
mintpressnews.com/reparations-palestinia…

Freedom Rider: Churchill, Columbus and Leopold fall down
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-22
The discomfort caused to elites is of no concern to anyone who wants to strike at the heart of racism. Goodbye and good riddance to Churchill, Columbus, Leopold and all of their ilk, writes Margaret Kimberley.
mronline.org/2020/06/22/freedom-rider-ch…

Milwaukee celebrates Juneteenth amid historic upsurge of the Black liberation movement
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
Milwaukee, WI – Juneteenth or Jubilee Day is celebrated by people all across the country every year on June 19. It is a celebration of the day enslaved peoples in Texas found out they were free on June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This day is celebrated by Black Americans across the United States by gathering, drinking strawberry soda, and eating red velvet cake, red beans and rice, and watermelon. | Watermelons were one of the first fruits grown by newly freed people, who made a living by selling them, and strawberry soda was most likely one of the first drinks enjoyed by newly freed…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/22/milwauke…

Doctors launch High Court challenge against Government over PPE inquiry
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-22
Doctors and campaigners have launched a High Court challenge against the Government over its refusal to hold an urgent public inquiry into PPE shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Doctors Associations reports that scores of frontline healthcare workers have died while battling the Covid-19 crisis, while widespread complaints over PPE shortages for medics have been …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/doctors-launch-high-court-challenge-against-government-over-ppe-inquiry/

World coronavirus cases rocket past 9 million as pandemic accelerates
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
Public health expert warns that infections will not come in waves, but as “one very, very difficult forest fire of cases.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/covi…

Rally in Arlington, TX demands justice
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
Arlington, TX — The Progressive Student Union (PSU) rallied 30 students and community members, June 18, demanding community control and defunding of the Arlington Police Department. “We need to remember why we are doing this,” said Arlington resident Adara Arrie. “This is not something to post on social media for a trend. Change has not happened,” | This rally is one of the many across this country calling for community control of the police and less over-policing in our communities. | “The Arlington Police Department receives $66 million,” said PSU organizer Mark Napieralski, “we could use that money to…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/21/rally-ar…

CIA Acknowledges Its Trove of Cyber Warfare Tools Was Exposed by WikiLeaks in 2017
Kevin Reed | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
A newly-released 2017 internal review of security practices at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) confirms that the top secret agency had developed an arsenal of cyber espionage tools and would not have known about the massive “Vault 7” data hack …
globalresearch.ca/cia-acknowledges-trove…

Milwaukee: Families deliver complaints and march against Wauwatosa Police Department
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
Milwaukee, WI – The families of Alvin Cole, Jay Anderson, Jr., and Antonio Gonzales (“Thee 3”), along with organizers from the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the Community Task Force MKE, and their supporters, mobilized in the early afternoon of June 18. | Their purpose was to deliver complaints to Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber and to Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride before marching to Mayfair Mall. The event was focused on winning justice for “Thee 3”, all murdered by the same person: Joseph Anthony Mensah of the Wauwatosa Police Department. | Responding to a July 2015 911 call pl…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/21/milwauke…

Muslim Heroines Find Their Way into New American Literature
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Years ago in John Killens’s writers’ workshop of largely African Americans, one member woefully explains the thwarted plot of her novel in progress: — how, despite her effort to feature a Black hero: “By the second chapter, I had …
globalresearch.ca/muslim-heroines-find-w…

Having Sucked America Dry, Tech Giants Seek New Markets Beyond Reach of US Antitrust Laws
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-22
An aggressive push to consolidate companies in the tech sector, coupled with the world’s ever-increasing dependence on digital platforms and tools, is quickly leading to a crisis of sovereignty.
mintpressnews.com/tech-companies-seek-ne…

California Governor Hands Out Fracking Permits on Behalf of Big Oil
Steve Horn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
On June 1, in the midst of the turmoil created by the coronavirus pandemic and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration quietly issued 12 fracking permits to Aera Energy, a joint venture owned …
globalresearch.ca/gavin-newsom-hands-out…

ILWU shuts down West Coast ports to honor Juneteenth
Michelle Kern, Alex Farr | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
OAKLAND, Calif.–In honor of Juneteenth, 29 West Coast ports–all the major ports from Vancouver, Canada to San Diego–were shut down for eight hours June 19 by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Here in Oakland, an estimated 10,000 marchers gathered at the Oakland SSA terminal port at a 10 a.m. rally to hear union and …
peoplesworld.org/article/ilwu-shuts-down…

Media Begging for a ‘Second Wave’
Dr. Thomas Price | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
The media is churning out countless alarmist stories each day about the threat of COVID-19 and the dangers of societal reopening. “Risk of new lockdown rises with fear of second COVID-19 wave,” writes Reuters, as on…
globalresearch.ca/media-begging-second-w…

Global Research Provides Penetrating Analysis of World Events
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Dear Readers, | Our annual Global Research fundraiser was launched last week. We would like to thank all of you who have contributed so far. We still have a long way to go to reach our target of $20,000 over the …
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If We’re Going to Defund Militarized Police Departments, Why Not Add the Pentagon?
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
When Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a resolution recently to cut $350 billion from the Defense budget, the only media outlets that covered her bill were independent progressive ones. In a statement on her website Lee said,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/if-were-goin…

Profit Move Underlies Trump Push to Place Foreign Aid Spending Under White House Control
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-22
The Trump administration is angling to move billions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid directly into the State Department, partially bypassing USAID and giving the White House near-total discretionary control over how and to who those funds are allocated around the world.
mintpressnews.com/profit-move-underlies-…

Canada’s UN Security Council Loss Shows Its Foreign Policy Weaknesses and Might Embolden a Reform Movement
Nino Pagliccia | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
India, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, and Kenya after a second round, won the June 17 elections at the 74th United Nations Assembly for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for a two-year term starting on January 1, 2021. The biggest loser was Canada in its competition with Ireland and Norway for two seats available.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/canadas-un-s…

Victim of no other crime are expected to surrender their digital lives to such speculation and scrutiny
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-22
The scale and depth of the police’s mobile phone searches are incomparable with the police’s legislative powers to carry out physical searches. It would amount to police searching someone’s property and taking copies of all photographs, documents, letters, films, albums, books and files. These would be intrusive searches even for most suspects of crime. But …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/victim-of-no-other-crime-are-expected-to-surrender-their-digital-lives-to-such-speculation-and-scrutiny/

Anti-Palestinian and Anti-Arab Racism: When Will Racism Become the Defining Experience of Israel’s Founding?
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Today we are experiencing in the American public space an electric historic occurrence. We are, as a society, finally passing vocal moral judgment on anti-Black racism, which has emerged as an intensely emotive issue. | Anti-Black racism is no longer acceptable …
globalresearch.ca/when-will-racism-becom…

Do Black Lives Matter to Big Conservation Groups?
Fiore Longo | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
You are walking through the rainforest with your best friend. Sunlight sparkles through the leaves and the two of you are chatting and laughing. Birds tweet, monkeys hoot, and perhaps that was the sound of a forest elephant you heard in the distance. Suddenly you hear the crack of a rifle: your best friend collapses, crumpled, and you fall to your knees to catch them as their blood pours over your hands and stains your clothes.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/do-black-liv…

No, We’re Not All Antifa Now. But We Should Be
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
“I’ve occasionally encountered mass hysteria in other countries,” Nicholas Kristof writes at the New York Times. “In rural Indonesia, I once reported on a mob that was beheading people believed to be sorcerers, then carrying their heads on pikes. But I never imagined that the United States could plunge into such delirium.” Kristof’s writing about…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/no-were-not-…

The Final 100 Seconds
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Never before this year 2020 has the world-famous Doomsday Clock registered only “100 seconds-to-midnight.” According to the Science & Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, since WWII, the world has never been so perilous.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/the-final-10…

Homeless Philadelphians Moving Into Vacant City-Owned Homes
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-06-22
Philadelphia, PA — Housing advocates plan to reveal today that they’ve facilitated moving previously-unhoused city residents into “vacant, viable” homes in North Philly owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA). According to those who are helping families move in, a large number of usable residences…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/homeless-philadelphians-moving-into-empty-city-owned-homes/

Israeli Military Issues Stop Work Orders for Palestinian-owned Homes, Barns in West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
Israeli military forces ordered, on Sunday morning, to halt the construction of Palestinian-owned homes, agricultural facilities, and a water well in the occupied West Bank. Coordinator of the popular committees in Hebron, Rateb Al-Jabour, told media outlets that Israeli troops in Burin village in the southern West Bank, ordered local …
imemc.org/article/israeli-military-issue…

La Vorágine en la Que Todos Vivimos
Javier Sierra | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
En su obra maestra, el autor colombiano José Eustasio Rivera narra la extrema explotación laboral y violencia en el Amazonas de Colombia durante el boom del caucho a principios del siglo 20. La tituló La Vorágine, el gran tumulto. Hoy vivimos en Estados Unidos una vorágine sin precedentes, en la confluencia de un movimiento popular …
peoplesworld.org/article/la-voragine-en-…

Lawyers Press Downing Street To Publish Russia Report
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-22
By James Ball and Isobel Koshiw: Lawyers acting for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have written to Number 10 urging it to publish a long-overdue report by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) into Russian interference in the UK. The report by the ISC, parliament’s watchdog on intelligence matters, had been cleared for release by the …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/lawyers-press-downing-street-to-publish-russia-report/

Not only to stay alive, but to stay human: An interview with Pavel Égàºez
Tings Chak | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-22
Designer Tings Chak spoke at length with Ecuadorian artist Pavel Égàºez about revolutionary art, the crisis of capitalism and his series ‘Cuarentena’ which seeks to address the human suffering provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/22/not-only-…

Everyday Poverty Crises
David Altheide | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Most people would agree that the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 brought many hardships that qualified as a crisis of epic proportion, the worst since the Spanish Flu in 1918. But most Americans overlook how ordinary these hardships are for millions of their poor neighbors. People suffered world-wide. Covid-19 affected many Americans in numerous ways. After…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/everyday-pov…

American Museum of Natural History in New York to remove Theodore Roosevelt statue
Associated Press | ktla.com | 2020-06-22
The American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes colonial expansion and racial discrimination, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday. The bronze statue that has stood at the museum’s Central Park West entrance since 1940 depicts Roosevelt on horseback with …
ktla.com/news/local-news/american-museum…

Finishing the unfinished revolution — from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter — a WW commentary
Larry Holmes | workers.org | 2020-06-22
The following is a slightly edited talk given June 19 by Larry Holmes, Workers World Party First Secretary, during the WWP webinar on “Juneteenth and the Black Lives Matter Rebellion.” Larry Holmes. WW Photo: Liza Green This Juneteenth is probably going to be one of the biggest Juneteenths in a . . . | Continue reading Finishing the unfinished revolution — from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter — a WW commentary at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/06/49584/?utm_source=rs…

Michigan stagehands to rally June 24 for unemployment extension
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-22
Grand Rapids, MI – Union stagehands and gig workers are rallying to extend unemployment at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on June 24 at 10 a.m. | “We need unemployment to ‘Extend to the end!'” said one of the organizers, Walter Shink, a union stagehand. Shink is worried that there is no end date for the COVID-19 crisis. For stagehands who work at large concert arenas, inside theaters or at corporate shows, there is no return to work. Most events are not set to come back until 2021. | “Workers are the ones who pay into unemployment. That money belongs to us. In this crisis it should be paid out to those w…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/22/michigan…

School of the Americas: Training Torturers & Secret Police for US-Backed Dictators Since 1946
Kit O’Connell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
This article was originally published in December 2015. | For the past 69 years, many of the most notorious U.S.-backed South American dictators, along with their secret police and torturers, have learned their dark arts from a secretive American training facility….
globalresearch.ca/school-of-the-americas…

Canada’s UN Security Council Loss Shows Its “Foreign Policy Weaknesses”
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
India, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, and Kenya after a second round, won the June 17 elections at the 74th United Nations Assembly for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for a two-year term starting on January 1, 2021. | The …
globalresearch.ca/canada-unsc-loss-shows…

Palestinian Brothers Begin Demolishing their own Home in East Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
Palestinian brothers, Feras and Iyad Da’na, on Sunday, began tearing down their under-construction home in Silwan neigborhood in East Jerusalem, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. The men received the demolition order from the Israeli municipality, under the pretext of non-licensing, although, the men stated that they had attempted to obtain …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-brothers-b…

GenderGate and the End of Philosophy
M. G. Piety | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
A debate has arisen among philosophers concerning a couple of papers published recently in the prestigious journal Philosophical Studies. The first paper, “Are women adult human females?” by Alex Byrne (January, 2020) attempts to refute what Byrne identifies as “the orthodox view among philosophers,” that…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/gendergate-a…

Colorado Adopts Mandatory Vaccinations for Children
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Since the arrival of the coronavirus, the use of and familiarity with vaccines has dramatically increased prompting a more aware and questioning public. With little more than a 48 hour public notice, many Coloradans were enjoying a brilliant Sunday afternoon …
globalresearch.ca/colorado-adopts-mandat…

Why Race is Everything in America
J.P. Linstroth | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
The issues of ‘race’ and ‘racism’ have been with us since the founding of our august republic. Unfortunately, they are perniciously still with us today. They were the reason we fought the Civil War (1861-1865) and have mired our history throughout. There is no period in our history, the history of the United States, when…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/why-race-is-…

Commemorating Juneteenth: The Continuing Unresolved Issues from the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Author’s Note: The following is the text of a speech delivered on June 19, 2010 on the 145th anniversary of Juneteenth. This address is being republished in honor of the 155th commemoration of Juneteenth in light of the resurgence …
globalresearch.ca/juneteenth-continuing-…

Connecticut uprisings are the seeds of a better world
Gil Netter | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
NEW LONDON, Conn. — Black Lives Matter and racial justice rallies and marches have continued over several weeks across Southeastern Connecticut cities and towns. These events have involved people of all colors and ages in New London, Groton, Norwich, Mystic, East Lyme, Waterford, and Old Lyme. The events show people’s concerns over police violence against …
peoplesworld.org/article/connecticut-upr…

Unions accuse government of seeking to destroy South African Airways for the benefit of global capital
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-22
The Department of Public Enterprises, which had repeatedly assured the unions that the national airline will not be liquidated, came out in support of a so-called “business rescue plan” which will result in its effective liquidation…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/22/unions-ac…

Demonstrators in Tunisia demand freedom for George Abdallah and other revolutionaries in jail
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-22
Abdallah, a prominent Lebanese communist leader, has been languishing in a prison in France for the last 35 years. The demonstrations in Tunisian capital Tunis on Saturday were part of the International Week of Action between June 15-22…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/22/demonstra…

Child Care in the Time of COVID-19
Martha Burk | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Child care in the time of coronavirus is one of the most challenging financial and logistical hurdles facing families. But while it’s certainly much more difficult now with many child care facilities closed, it’s far from a new problem. Most families — single-parent and two-parent alike — struggled with child care even in normal times,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/child-care-i…

Voter suppression looms over the 2020 election
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
ATLANTA–You’ve heard or read about a wide range of ways the right wing is suppressing the votes of people it hates, but this takes the cake: Postage stamps, or lack of them, for absentee voters in the entire state of Georgia. It’s as bad as having one polling place for a county with 767,000 people …
peoplesworld.org/article/voter-suppressi…

The Rhetoric of Democracy-building in Ukraine. NATO and the Militarization of Eastern Europe
Lital Khaikin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Buying Freedom on the Free Market | Obscured by the mythology of pursuing economic and political autonomy, Ukraine plays the latest role in a long, unfolding process of western corporate, political and military interests establishing the “territorial integrity” not of independent …
globalresearch.ca/linking-people-reforms…

U.S. Leads a Coalition of One Against China
Ted Galen Carpenter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
American diplomatic and military support for Taiwan has grown dramatically during the Trump years. The administration has taken steps to boost that support, but Congress also has pushed its own initiatives. One key measure was the passage of the Taiwan …
globalresearch.ca/us-leads-coalition-one…

ILWU shuts down 29 ports for Juneteenth, Movement for Black Lives
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-22
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union made a significant intervention into the national uprising against racism by organizing the Juneteenth West Coast Port Shutdown on June 19, closing down 29 ports in the U.S. and Canada. This act of solidarity is in keeping with the union’s long tradition of fighting racism and for working-class unity. …
liberationnews.org/ilwu-shuts-down-29-po…

Koan: In Memory of Thích Qu·∫£ng ƒê·ª©c
Desiree Hellegers | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Koan In memory of Thích Qu·∫£ng ƒê·ª©c For a week, we have studied the grain of the wood, seen how the floor grows golden in the afternoon light. We eat our meals in silence, see how white beans glow like moons on silver, and after- wards, we dedicate the merit of these things we eat…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/koan-in-memo…

Everyday Poverty Crises
stclair | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Most people would agree that the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 brought many hardships that qualified as a crisis of epic proportion, the worst since the Spanish Flu in 1918. But most Americans overlook how ordinary these hardships are for millions of their poor neighbors. People suffered world-wide. Covid-19 affected many Americans in numerous ways. After…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/everyday-pov…

Countries urged to act over potential HIV drug shortages, within next two months
news.un.org | 2020-06-22
Stocks of medication for HIV patients could run out in the next two months, because of higher costs linked to lockdowns and COVID-19 border closures, UNAIDS said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1…

Global Experts, Alarmed at Signs US Has ‘Given Up’ Fight to Stop Covid-19
Julia Conley | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
“The U.S. will endure much higher, persistent negative effects from something that other countries have solved; we’ll normalize it and convince ourselves nothing can be done”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/global-experts-ala…

Trump in Tulsa: Fascist ranting and political debacle
wsws.org | 2020-06-22
The BOK Arena was less than half-filled, according to official estimates, a signal of the deepening crisis of the Trump administration and his reelection campaign.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/22/tuls…

Video: “How the High Death Rate in Care Homes Was Created on Purpose”
James Corbett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Rosemary Frei has an MSc in molecular biology. She has been a freelance medical writer and journalist for twenty-two years, and is now an independent investigative journalist. | In the following interview with James Corbett, she explains that at the …
globalresearch.ca/how-high-death-rate-ca…

What Lies Ahead: Tulsa 1921 or Somewhere We Haven’t Built Yet?
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown and the experience of those who lived two and a half years enslaved, denied the news that the Civil War was over and the North had won. We don’t always know what moment we are living in. Or what lies on the other side of…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/22/what-lies-ah…

Municipalist Politics and the Specter of Emancipation
Laura Roth | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
The past decade saw the rise of a new emancipatory politics, embodied in Spain’s municipalist movement. But to build the new, one must first overcome the old.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/municipalist-polit…

L.A. Theatre Works streams six free audio productions by Black playwrights
Special to People’s World | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
Good news for those who love old-fashioned radio theatre! L.A. Theatre Works, considered the world’s leading producer of audio theater, has chosen six titles by Black playwrights from its extensive collection of work to stream free on its website. They are all available to stream free of charge at latw.org/black-voices, now through Aug. 30. The …
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Seattle longshore workers stop work on Juneteenth
Jim McMahan | workers.org | 2020-06-22
Seattle Longshore workers and supporters in Seattle marched on Juneteenth ((June 19, 1865, is the date the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas during the Civil War) as part of a strike of 29 ports from California to Canada. Seattle’s Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Locals 52 and 19 marched, along with . . . | Continue reading Seattle longshore workers stop work on Juneteenth at Workers.org…
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Israeli Soldier Found Dead Near Military Base, Investigation Underway
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-22
An Israeli soldier that went missing on Thursday night, was found dead outside the army base in southern Israel, on Saturday, the Times of Israel reported. The military identified the deceased as Staff Sgt. Adiel Fishler, who was serving in the 460th Armored Brigade at the Shizafon army Base.
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Poor turnout, hate speech, COVID infections mark Trump’s Tulsa rally
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-22
TULSA, Okla.–President Donald Trump addressed his flop of a rally Saturday in a speech that tried to convince his supporters that literally everywhere they turn there are “left-wing radicals” waiting for Joe Biden to be elected so that they can make their move and destroy the American way of life. He praised Confederate statues and …
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US blows OECD tax reforms to bits
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-22
By Alex Cobham — Tax Justice Network: Boom. The US has blown up ‘BEPS 2.0’, the OECD’s tax reform process with the Financial Times reporting that US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has written to four European finance ministers to say that the US was “unable to agree even on an interim basis, changes to global …
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19-year old app developer believes coding can be a catalyst for change
Rich DeMuro | ktla.com | 2020-06-22
Coding is a foreign language to many, but one teenager believes it can be a catalyst for change. At just 19, Santa Clarita teen Sofia Ongele has already coded her first app. Now, she’s ready to take on a male dominated industry. Follow Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro on Instagram for more tech news, tips and gadgets! “I …
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US Senate Initiates Legislation Which Would Categorize Cuba’s Medical Missions as “Human Trafficking Operations”
Raul Diego | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
In what has already become a parody of a shrinking empire’s habit of clutching at the vestiges of its Cold-War era mistakes, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and fellow war-hungry reactionaries in the United States Senate, Rick Scott (R-FL) …
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EDITORIAL — Celebrando Juneteenth durante un levantamiento
Editor | workers.org | 2020-06-22
Juneteenth conmemorado el 19 de junio, los africo-americanos conmemoran el aniversario del día en 1865 cuando las tropas sindicales llegaron a la isla de Galveston para informar a la gente esclavizada en Texas que el atroz sistema de esclavitud había terminado. El anuncio retrasado obligó a aproximadamente a 250.000 afrodescendientes . . . | Continue reading EDITORIAL — Celebrando Juneteenth durante un levantamiento at Workers.org…
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The Final 100 Seconds
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-22
Never before this year 2020 has the world-famous Doomsday Clock registered only “100 seconds-to-midnight.” According to the Science & Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, since WWII, the world has never been so perilous.
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John Bolton, the Room Where It Happened
Dr. Ludwig Watzal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
The title of John Bolton’s revenge insinuates highly explosive internal affairs by a guy who’s, besides the Chief of Staff, the most important person besides the President in the White House. John Bolton was President Donald Trump’s Adviser for …
globalresearch.ca/john-bolton/5716590

Compulsory Vaccination That Genetically Alters the Human Body … No Longer a “Human Being”?
Prof. Claudia von Werlhof | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
Will the “Gate(s)keepers” of the so-called Corona-pandemic force a vaccination upon us, without which we will not be allowed to return to normality? What is really meant by the “new normality”? | It is these questions that are intensely debated at …
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The GOP Back to Business as Usual — Gutting Social Programs
Sasha Abramsky | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
The accelerating efforts to gut the safety net represent an extraordinary effort to martial federal power to corral employees back to work, despite the accelerating pandemic…
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The Multiple Hands of British Intelligence. “The Real British Empire is A Nasty Beat”
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
In my last article, I reviewed the case of Gough Whitlam’s firing at the hands of the Queen’s Governor General Sir John Kerr during a dark day in November 1975 which mis-shaped the next 45 years of Australian …
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The Multiple Hands of British Intelligence. “The Real British Empire is A Nasty Beast”
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-22
In my last article, I reviewed the case of Gough Whitlam’s firing at the hands of the Queen’s Governor General Sir John Kerr during a dark day in November 1975 which mis-shaped the next 45 years of Australian …
globalresearch.ca/from-dodgy-dossiers-sa…

Anne Sacoolas’s diplomatic immunity claim an absurdity — diplomacy expert
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-22
An expert on diplomacy has described the diplomatic immunity claim from Harry Dunn’s alleged killer as a “palpable absurdity”.Anne Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity after the teenager died in a crash outside a US military base in Northamptonshire on 27 August 2019.Ivor Roberts, a former British ambassador in Serbia, Ireland and Italy, said it was “wholly illogical … to waive immunity for a member of staff” at RAF Croughton and “not to do so for a member of his or her household”.Ivor Roberts said the immunity claimed by Anne Sacoolas was a ‘palpable absurdity’ (Chris Bacon/PA)Sacoolas’s claim to immunity is s…
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‘No-swab’ saliva test for coronavirus piloted in Britain
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
A weekly coronavirus testing regime using a “no-swab” saliva test is being trialled in Southampton, southern England, and could result in a simpler and quicker way to detect outbreaks of the virus, the British government said on Monday.”Saliva testing could potentially make it even easier for people to take coronavirus tests at home, without having to use swabs,” said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.”This trial will also help us learn if routine, at-home testing could pick up cases of the virus earlier.”More than 14,000 doctors and health workers, other essential workers and university staff and their households wi…
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Secret Trials Down Under: Witness J, Witness K and Bernard Collaery
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-22
There are few more spiteful things in political life than a security establishment attempting to punish a leaker or whistleblower for having exposed an impropriety. Such a tendency has no ideological stripe or colouring: it is common to all political systems. In Australia, it has become clear that secret trials are all the rage. The …
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115+ Groups Urge Biden (and Trump) to Support ‘Fair and Just Foreign Policy Regarding Israel and Palestinian Rights’
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
More than 115 organizations on Monday urged Joe Biden and President Donald Trump to adopt a U.S. policy toward the Israeli government and Palestinian people that is “based on the principles of equality and justice for all.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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House Dems Introduce Bill to Prevent Big Pharma Price-Gouging During Covid-19 Pandemic
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
On the heels of polling that showed 88% of Americans worry Big Pharma will exploit the ongoing pandemic to hike drug prices, House Democrats on Monday introduced two bipartisan bills to prevent price-gouging for Covid-19 treatments and vaccines and to strengthen oversight of federal spending on coronavirus research and development. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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COVID-19 Medicine Pricing, Transparency Bills Are a Matter of Life and Death
commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
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Calling Pandemic a ‘Pivotal Moment’ to Make Lasting Changes for Families, Economists Demand $50 Billion In Relief for Child Care Industry
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
One hundred economists called on federal lawmakers to pass an immediate investment of $50 billion into the U.S. childcare industry, writing that as with many aspects of the economy, the coronavirus pandemic illustrated the precarious nature in which childcare centers operate. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Missing: 505 COVID Masks Destined for Baghdad Hospital via UPS
Claudia Lefko | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
Iraqi medics arrive at the capital Baghdad’s suburb of Sadr City on May 21, 2020, to test residents for COVID-19, as part of measures taken by the authorities aimed at containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Corporate Interests Nervous as Progressive Democrats Surge Ahead of NY and Kentucky Primaries
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
“They were always going to have more money on their side. But we have the better candidate, with better ideas, and a better campaign.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Bermuda-Based Big Oil Corporation’s Taxpayer Bailout Exemplifies Trump Administration’s Fear Of Transparency
commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
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Coronavirus Rent Freezes Are Ending—and A Wave of Evictions Will Sweep America
Emily A. Benfer | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
A woman wearing a mask walks past a wall bearing graffiti asking for rent forgiveness in Los Angeles on May 1, 2020. (Photo: Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images file) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Virtual Poor People’s Campaign Rally Draws Crowd of More Than a Million
Sarah Anderson | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
The virtual rallies over the weekend organized by the Poor People’s Campaign “lifted up people who are living the interconnected injustices that have been the campaign’s focus for the past two years: systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism and the war economy. Many spoke of how the Covid-19 pandemic has only deepened existing inequalities.” (Photo: Poor People’s Campaign) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Four Years of Failure on Toxic Chemicals
Linda Reinstein | commondreams.org | 2020-06-22
In the past four years, as we’ve waited for the EPA to use the new power the law granted them, nearly 160,000 people have died from preventable asbestos-related diseases and the United States. (Photo: Carterdayne via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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London Stock Exchange chief named next Financial Conduct Authority boss
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-22
Nikhil Rathi has been appointed the next chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), responsible for regulating the UK’s banks.He was unveiled by chancellor Rishi Sunak and replaces interim chief executive Christopher Woolard, who took charge in January after former boss Andrew Bailey was appointed governor of the Bank of England.Rathi is expected to join in the autumn and will leave his current job as chief executive of the London Stock Exchange responsible for overseeing the UK markets.Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (second right) alongside new FCA chief Nikhil Rathi (far left), during his role as chi…
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Sadiq Khan: Windrush legacy must see end to ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-22
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called on the government to learn from the suffering endured by the Windrush generation and end the “hostile environment” faced by immigrants in the capital.Ministers should help Londoners by increasing funding to the immigration sector and cutting its “extortionate” fees, Khan said in a statement.”Many of the Windrush Generation and their families are still struggling to access the advice and support they need, and it is clear that too many Londoners are still being failed by an immigration system that is prohibitively expensive and simply not fit for purpose,” he said.”I’m proud that…
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Archaeologists discover new prehistoric circle near Stonehenge
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-22
A team of archaeologists have discovered a major new prehistoric monument just a short distance away from Stonehenge.Fieldwork and analysis have revealed evidence of 20 or more massive prehistoric shafts — more than 10 metres in diameter and five metres deep — forming a circle more than two kilometres in diameter around the Durrington Walls henge.Coring of the shafts suggest the features are Neolithic and excavated more than 4,500 years ago — around the time Durrington Walls was built.It is thought the shafts served as a boundary to a sacred area or precinct associated with the henge. | Experts fro…
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How to Destroy a National Health Service
Natasha Hakimi Zapata | thenation.com | 2020-06-22
How to Destroy a National Health Service…
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Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Are Being Treated as Disposable
Taslima Akhter, The Nation, Magnum Foundation | thenation.com | 2020-06-22
Taslima Akhter, The Nation, Magnum Foundation Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Are Being Treated as Disposable…
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Do Black Lives Matter in Iowa?
Dave Leshtz | thenation.com | 2020-06-22
Do Black Lives Matter in Iowa?
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When the KKK Played Against an All-Black Baseball Team
John Florio & Ouisie Shapiro | thenation.com | 2020-06-22
When the KKK Played Against an All-Black Baseball Team…
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Go Ahead and Destroy That Racist Statue (and Then the System Too)
Jillian Steinhauer | thenation.com | 2020-06-22
Go Ahead and Destroy That Racist Statue (and Then the System Too)…
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‘How about taking out guns too?’: Gamers react to removal of police cars from Fortnite in support of Black Lives Matter
rt.com | 2020-06-22
The decision to remove police cars from ‘Fortnite’ was a cop-out on part of Epic Games, the players argued. Some said the move was pointless, while others urged the developer to do much more for the cause. | Police vehicles will no longer be available in one of the most popular online video games, which has a fan base of around 350 million players, an unnamed source told the Wall Street Journal on Monday. | “I wouldn’t say it’s a political statement. I think it’s just us being sensitive about the issues many people in our audience are dealing with,” the source pointed out, referring to ongoing, and often viole…
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EU raises ‘serious concern’ over Egypt’s Libya remarks
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The EU is concerned about the recent surge in declarations on Libya as they work against the de-escalation of the conflict, the bloc’s chief spokesman for the foreign policy said on Monday, commenting on the Egyptian president’s threat of military intervention. | “The people of Libya … do not need more escalation, do not need more confrontation. In this light, the recent escalation of declarations, statements, and the interference by outside actors is a source for serious concern,” EU spokesman Peter Stano said. | He also reminded international actors involved in the conflict to “work on diffusing the tensions,…
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No new coronavirus deaths in Netherlands as cases fall
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The Netherlands registered 69 new coronavirus cases on Monday, and no deaths from the disease, the country’s health authorities said in their daily update.It was the first 24-hour period with no new deaths registered by the National Institute of Health (RIVM) since March 9.Dutch cases have declined gradually since reaching a peak at the start of April. Lockdown measures have been gradually phased out, though social distancing rules remain in place.
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Military standoffs apart, Chinese investments roar in India
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Amid the clamor to boycott Chinese goods and cut trade ties, in the wake of the killing of its 20 soldiers in a border clash, experts in India have warned that it will inflict more damage to the country itself.Out of $92 billion worth annual trade, Indian exports account for just $18 billion, according to the figures available with India’s Commerce Ministry.Videos of Indians breaking and burning functional Chinese appliances, such as television sets, have been doing the rounds in social media. Ramdas Athawale, a government minister, even demanded a ban on restaurants selling Chinese food.But a fact check suggests…
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Libyan government exposes Haftar’s financial corruption
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The documents published by the government-led Operation Volcano of Rage showed the illegal seizure of state land and property by the Military Investment Authority, an economic arm of Haftar’s militia.They also revealed that the warlord had illegally seized assets of agricultural projects and investment projects in Libya.The government earlier revealed that Haftar’s Military Investment Authority had signed an agreement with the Union of Italian Fishing in March 2019 under which Italian fishing boats were allowed to fish in Libya’s territorial waters in return for 10.000 euros ($11,100) a month for 5 years.In 2016,…
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Muslim bloc to address situation in Kashmir
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) “upon the request of Pakistan” will hold an emergency meeting at the level of foreign ministers over the current situation in Jammu and Kashmir, according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Monday.Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will also participate in the Emergency Meeting of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir, where “possible joint actions within the OIC concerning the ongoing problems regarding human rights and freedoms in Kashmir will be discussed,” said the statement.Additionally, foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Niger, Pakistan and Saudi Arab…
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Turkish security forces nab explosives belonging to PKK
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Security forces in southeastern Turkey seized explosives and ammunition on Monday belonging to the PKK/YPG terror organization.According to the local authorities in Hakkari province, the forces located and launched an operation on a hideout of the terror group. Searching the area, the local gendarmerie forces seized at least five handmade explosives totaling 8.5 kilograms (18 pounds), nine detonators, four rocket launchers, cables and other explosive materials they found buried underground.The explosives were destroyed at the scene.In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a te…
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Libya defends efforts to take Sirte, Jufra from Haftar
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
The Libyan Defense Ministry said Monday the return of the central city of Sirte and al-Jufra base to the government’s control would serve the best interests of all brotherly and friendly countries.”It serves the interests of all brothers and friends to return Sirte and al-Jufra to the control of the state,” ministry undersecretary Salah Al-Namroush said in a statement published by the government-led Operation Volcano of Rage.”We expect from all brothers and friends to support the legitimate government to achieve stability on the entire Libyan territory,” he said.He said reports by experts of the UN Security Counc…
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No second wave of coronavirus: US White House adviser Kudlow
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday there is no second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, even though there are some flare-ups in states such as Florida, and it is unlikely there will be widespread shutdowns across the country.”There are some hotspots. We’re on it,” Kudlow said in an interview with CNBC. “We know how to deal with this stuff now. It’s come a long way since last winter and there is no second wave coming.”
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Libya’s Sarraj meets AFRICOM commander
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
A closed meeting began Monday between Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, the US ambassador in Tripoli Richard Norland, and commander of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Gen. Stephen Townsend, according to local media.The two US officials arrived at Zuwarah Airport, west of Tripoli, Libya Al-Ahrar TV channel reported, citing anonymous sources.Interior Minister Fathi Bashaga and the military commander of the western region, Osama al-Juweili, were present at the meeting.Officials are yet to comment on the reported news.* Writing by Mahmoud Barakat…
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Germany arrests suspected Assad regime torturer
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
German police arrested a Syrian former secret service employee on suspicion of crimes against humanity, officials said on Monday. | Alaa M., who arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2015, was arrested in the central state of Hesse on Friday, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. | The suspect worked for the military intelligence as a doctor, and he was strongly suspected of torturing inmates in 2011 at an Assad regime prison in the city of Homs. | The prosecutors accused the Assad regime of using brutal force to suppress the political opposition, torturing and murdering many of them in prisons…
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South Korea battling 2nd wave of coronavirus: Official
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
Health authorities in South Korea on Monday urged for an amplified guard against coronavirus, saying that it was battling a “second wave” of the novel infection.The country has seen a rise in new virus cases for some time now. However, the latest number of cases i.e. 17, is the lowest since May 26.It has reported a total of 12,438 cases thus far, including 280 deaths, and 10,881 recoveries after successfully suppressing the first wave, which began this February.”We originally predicted that the second wave to emerge in fall or winter,” Yonhap News Agency quoted Jeong Eun-kyeong, chief of Korea Centers for Disease…
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Turkish training plane crashes, 2 pilots survive
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
According to Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), the Hurkus aircraft crashed during a test flight in Ankara’s Beypazari district at around 12.30 p.m. local time (0930GMT).The two military pilots — one active duty, one retired — were taken to the hospital for health checks, said a TAI statement.Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), gendarmerie, and health teams went to the crash scene after learning of the incident.The cause of the crash is unknown and will be investigated, said the statement.Based in Ankara, TAI serves the aerospace and defense industries by manufacturing unmann…
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Tourist visits to Turkey drop in January-May period
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
By Aysu BicerANKARA (AA) – Turkey received more than 4.2 million foreign visitors during the first five months of this year, according to new data released by the Culture and Tourism Ministry on Monday.Due to the pandemic, the number of foreigners visiting the country plummeted 66.35% in the January-May period on an annual basis, according to the data.Turkey’s historic metropolitan city of Istanbul was the top destination for tourists, hosting 54.86% of all visitors — around 2.3 million.This is followed by the northwestern Edirne province with 13.27% or nearly 570,000 foreign visitors in the same period.The Medi…
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Putin visits huge army church ahead of vote on extending his rule
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-22
President Vladimir Putin visited a huge new Orthodox Christian cathedral dedicated to the military on Monday as Russia prepares to vote on reforms that could let him stay in power until 2036.Putin, 67, addressed hundreds of soldiers to commemorate Russia’s remembrance day following a prayer ceremony led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Orthodox Church, at the Patriot cathedral, which opened earlier this month.”We have gathered here outside the walls of the main cathedral of the Russian armed forces to remember the heroes of the past with deep respect,” he said.The lavishly decorated cathedral, some 55 km (34 mile…
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Court Refuses To Block Information On Who Police Targeted In Social Media
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
Massachusetts’s highest court will not block the disclosure of police reports that could show the Boston police department has targeted Black and Latinx men for surveillance on social media. | Boston attorney Josh Raisler Cohn, who represents a man charged with several gun violations, began seeking the police reports in November 2018 to determine if the police have surreptitiously used the social media service, Snapchat, to target people of color. Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins appealed Ullmann’s order, but her office’s petition was denied. After an unsuccessful appeal to a single justice of the…
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Gavin Newsom Hands Out Fracking Permits To Connected Driller
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
On June 1, in the midst of the turmoil created by the coronavirus pandemic and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration quietly issued 12 fracking permits to Aera Energy, a joint venture owned by ExxonMobil and Shell. The fracking permits are the latest example of California’s oil industry benefiting from regulatory or deregulatory action during the COVID-19 pandemic and came just months after the Newsom administration said it supported taking actions to “manage the decline of oil production and consumption in the state.” Aera, which also received 24 permits from the…
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Atlanta Jail Task Force Recommends Razing Building, Creating Equity Center
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
Nearly a year after its creation, the Atlanta City Jail task force has recommended closing the jail, demolishing the building and replacing it with a Center for Equity that would support Atlantans’ needs. | The 26-page report was delivered to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on June 12, giving suggestions on how the city can change the institution and convert it into a space to serve Atlanta residents, particularly those from communities most affected by the criminal justice system. The report described a center “that will advance racial and economic equity, promote restorative justice, and invest in the well-b…
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The Secret Reason Billionaires Love A Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-22
Most billionaires don’t work harder, don’t think harder, and don’t know more. They have nothing over your average person except: a) luck b) sometimes inheriting a fortune and c) being more sociopathic. So I guess you could say they’re extraordinary on the sociopathy front. They are more willing to crush other humans to get what they want and thereby they are more able to get what they want. Billionaires in the U.S. have seen their fortunes skyrocket, increasing by 12.5 percent since the pandemic began. The Institute for Policy Studies released a study “showing that, in the eight weeks between March 18 and May 14,…
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Reworking Afro-Asian Solidarity in the Wake of George Floyd’s Killing
Yuichiro Onishi | zcomm.org | 2020-06-22
The reworking of Afro-Asian solidarity in the service of demilitarization is a politics of our time…
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Ex-Indian Prime Minister Hits Out at Modi Over ‘No Intrusion’ in Ladakh Remark Amid China Tensions
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
New Delhi (Sputnik): Indian PM Narendra Modi triggered a wave of discontent with his statement that ‘no one intruded into our territory’ following the India-China border skirmish on 15 June, when 20 Indian soldiers were killed. The remark rattled several retired army officer who called it disrespectful to the memory of fallen servicemen.
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Leader of India’s Traders’ Body Detained While Attempting to Burn Chinese Goods
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
New Delhi (Sputnik): After an unprecedented border clash between India and China along the Line of Control in Ladakh, there has been growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the country. The traders’ body kicked off a boycott campaign against Chinese goods in Delhi on 10 June.
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Netizens Enraged as Full Page Tennessee Newspaper Ad Declares ‘Islam’ Will ‘Detonate Nuclear Device’
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
The published ad was paid for by a religious group referring to itself as “Ministry of Future for America”, who defined their mission “to proclaim the final warning message” of the Christian Bible.
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Herbal Pill to Cure Covid-19 Patients in 5-14 Days, Indian Ayurvedic Firm Claims
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
New Delhi (Sputnik): Based in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, Patanjali Ayurved is known for promoting the ancient Ayurvedic system of medicine in the country and in different parts of the world. The drug has been developed as the country with a population of 1.3 billion people is witnessing a spike in COVID-19 cases.
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Spokesperson Refutes Story That Bolton Will Vote For Democrat Biden Over Trump
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-22
The former Trump appointee is set to release a memoir on Tuesday detailing his days as the national security adviser for US President Donald Trump. Excerpts of the book have already sparked a wave of criticism against his former boss.
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Officials visit Tehran-North highway project
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — Road Minister Mohammad Eslami, Head of Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, and Head of Mostazafan Foundation Parviz Fattah visited the section-2 of the Tehran-North highway project on Monday morning. The Tehran-North Freeway project consists of four sections spanning 121 km in total to connect the capital city Tehran to the northern Mazandaran Province.
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Necessary measures to be taken to prevent illegal transit on Iranian-Afghan borders
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Caretaker of the Afghan Foreign Ministry Mohammad Hanif Atmar in a joint statement on Monday emphasized that necessary and drastic measures will be taken to prevent illegal transit on borders of the two countries.
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Israel afraid of probable third Intifada
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) –A Zionist newspaper said that the Zionist regime’s security circles are extremely worried about the possibility of occurring third Intifada in the aftermath of annexing some parts of the West Bank to the occupied territories.
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UNWTO chief thanks Iran for adopting measures against COVID-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization thanked the Iranian government for adopting necessary measures regarding the pandemic.
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Iran ready to share anti-corona expertise with Afghanistan: official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) –Iran’s Treatment Deputy of Health and Medical Education Ministry, Qasem Jan-Babaei said in a meeting with Afghanistan’s Deputy of Public Health Ministry that Iran is ready to share some anti-corona successful expertise with Afghanistan.
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Iran to send black box of Ukrainian plane to France: Zarif
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held phone talk with his Canadian counterpart Francois-Philippe Champagne and said that the Islamic Republic will send the black box of the Ukrainian plane to France in the upcoming days.
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IRGC Navy to establish permanent base in Indian Ocean: navy cmdr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy Commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said that IRGC is looking to establish a permanent base in the Indian Ocean by the end of the current Iranian year.
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Impressive Zomorrod waterfall in N Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
HAVIQ, Jun. 22 (MNA) — Located some 9km south of Haviq city in Gilan province, Zomorrod Waterfall bestows tranquility to tourists. There are two waterfalls in the area with the larger one having a 15m height and a smaller one having a 12m height with stair-like appearance. These are also being referred to as ‘Twin Waterfall’.
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NPC plans to diversify butane chain items
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) — The first project in the butane chain in Mahshahr will be ready for operation with the aim of commercial production of three important and new items, parallel with planning for realization of the second petrochemical leap in Iran.
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IAEA’s anti-Iran resolution, final nail in the coffin of Iran’s relations with West
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-06-22
TEHRAN, Jun. 23 (MNA) — The IAEA Board of Governors’ recent resolution, while having been the final nail in the coffin of Iran’s relations with the West, could serve as an opportunity if the government plays its cards right.
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