Daily Archives: June 20, 2020

2020-06-20: Social Media Postees

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De ‘Occupy’ a la ocupación: La israelización de la seguridad interior en EEUU
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-06-20
Uno de los primeros estudios exhaustivos sobre el entrenamiento de los funcionarios policiales locales y federales de los Estados Unidos…
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Trump at Tulsa as 21st Century Typhoid Mary
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-06-20
Science has laws, and we can’t change them by glaring at them or shouting at them or wearing a partisan campaign button…
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Defunding, disarming, defeating and abolishing the police
Daniel Taylor | mronline.org | 2020-06-20
Is abolishing the same as defunding? Does either one mean the police have been defeated? What does it mean when liberals start saying abolishing the police isn’t all that scary? A socialist take on an exciting set of slogans.
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Ten-Point Agenda for the Global South After COVID-19
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-06-20
Economies that are not allowed to plan their use of resources have floundered before the virus…
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Labor vs. police: Learning from working-class history
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-06-20
Led by oppressed youth, a working-class revolt has erupted, initially over the police lynching of George Floyd. It needs and deserves the unconditional solidarity of organized labor. Unfortunately, what top labor officials have delivered is something much less. GM strikers battle police on Jan. 11, 1937. Consider a recent statement . . . | Continue reading Labor vs. police: Learning from working-class history at Workers.org
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Massive Uprisings Confront White Supremacy
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2020-06-20
This transformational moment is becoming a transformational movement. The time to effect revolutionary change is now.
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NYC marches for Juneteenth
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-20
New York, NY – At noon, June 19, several hundred gathered outside of City Hall Park to celebrate, rally and march for Juneteenth. It was the first of several dozen actions happening throughout the boroughs and was called by the December 12th Movement. | Dozens upon dozens of the red, black and green flags were waving in the hands of protesters, as music played. The organizers ensured that protesters were wearing masks and kept social distance by lining them up to march. | This year’s Juneteenth has reached mainstream levels of attention as the country enters its 22nd day of protesting for Black lives. As protes…
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Protesters blockade Central Prison in North Carolina
Calvin Deutschbein | workers.org | 2020-06-20
June 13 marked the beginning of the third week of protests in Raleigh, N.C., the state capital and home of the murderous Raleigh Police Department and more than 70 other law enforcement agencies. Different days have drawn different groups with varying goals, but not a day has gone by without . . . | Continue reading Protesters blockade Central Prison in North Carolina at Workers.org
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NYC marches for Juneteenth
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-20
New York, NY – At noon, June 19, several hundred gathered outside of City Hall Park to celebrate, rally and march for Juneteenth. It was the first of several dozen actions happening throughout the boroughs and was called by the December 12th Movement. | Dozens upon dozens of the red, black and green flags were waving in the hands of protesters, as music played. The organizers ensured that protesters were wearing masks and kept social distance by lining them up to march. | This year’s Juneteenth has reached mainstream levels of attention as the country enters its 22nd day of protesting for Black lives. As protes…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/19/nyc-marches-…

[Comment] Framing health stories: Highlights 2020 photography competition open for submissions
Joanna Palmer | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
The video and pictures of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, USA, as police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck while he pleaded that he could not breathe, as well as photographs of subsequent anti-racism protests around the world, are some of the most powerful images this year. These pictures highlight the devastating impacts of structural racism and the deep inequities in our societies, and have given renewed urgency to the Black Lives Matter movement. This year has also brought moving and sometimes shocking photographs of health-care staff working in challenging conditions–too often…
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[Editorial] Global governance for COVID-19 vaccines
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered serious gaps in the health-care systems of many nations. In particular, it exposes a fragmented global governance system that does not have the structures to coordinate the pooling and sharing of resources needed to combat pandemics. Since the early days of the pandemic, medical protectionism has emerged as nations scrambled for their own stocks of personal protective equipment and ventilators. COVID-19 vaccines could be the next example. Already there is a danger of a vaccine bidding war, with governments competing for a limited number of doses, well before a vaccine even reac…
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[Correspondence] Antipsychotics for schizophrenia and substance misuse — Authors’ reply
Maximilian Huhn, Myrto Samara, Stefan Leucht | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
Alain Dervaux raises concerns about the generalisability of our findings in patients with schizophrenia who also have comorbid substance abuse disorder. Indeed, in our analysis we excluded studies in which patients had specific characteristics, such as first episode patients, patients with predominantly negative symptoms, treatment-resistant patients, and patients with comorbid substance abuse disorder (as stated in our protocol registered at PROSPERO, CRD42014014919). The basis of this decision was to preserve transitivity.
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[World Report] COVID-19 resurgence in Iran
Sharmila Devi | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
Iran was one of the first countries to experience a COVID-19 epidemic, and began relaxing restrictions in April, but cases have since rebounded. Sharmila Devi reports.
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[Correspondence] Testing rimegepant for migraine–time to revise the trial design? — Authors’ reply
Robert Croop, Peter J Goadsby, David A Stock, Richard B Lipton | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
We thank Sara Gasparini and colleagues for their critique of our work.1 In stating that single-attack studies of acute treatments for migraine with no active comparator have major problems in their methods, however, they ignore their own recommendation that clinical studies should take regulatory requirements and the needs of clinical practice into account.2 Studies of single migraine attacks are the global standard for establishing the efficacy of acute treatments of migraine and the cornerstone of regulatory approval in the USA.
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[Correspondence] Doing meaningful systematic reviews is no gravy train
Jaap J van Netten, Sicco A Bus, Nicolaas C Schaper, Jan Apelqvist, Benjamin A Lipsky | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
Richard Horton1 questions the reliability of systematic reviews. We agree that it is time to “hear this story”.1 However, we would like to suggest a way to move forward with meaningful systematic reviews.
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[Correspondence] Doing meaningful systematic reviews is no gravy train
Hans Lund, Carsten Juhl | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
Imagine all the scientific papers, it is not hard to do. But, imagine all these papers without any kind of syntheses or summing up: it would be returning to “intuition, unsystematic clinical experience, and pathophysiologic rationale as sufficient grounds for clinical decision making”.1 No doubt, a systematic review is not the perfect solution and faces a lot of challenges, not least the ones highlighted by Richard Horton2 and Ian Roberts.3…
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[Correspondence] Testing rimegepant for migraine–time to revise the trial design?
Sara Gasparini, Claudia Torino, Damiano Branca, Edoardo Ferlazzo, Umberto Aguglia | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
We read with interest the results of the phase 3 trial by Robert Croop and colleagues1 on the use of rimegepant for treatment of acute migraine. We feel that this study, like other similarly designed trials, has major problems in its methods, which suggests caution should be taken when examining the results.
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[World Report] Plain packaging ruling hailed as a victory for tobacco control
John Zarocostas | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
The decision of the World Trade Organization’s appeals body is expected to spur more countries to implement similar stringent packaging laws. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.
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[Comment] Men’s health: COVID-19 pandemic highlights need for overdue policy action
Peter Baker, Alan White, Rosemary Morgan | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
The COVID-19 pandemic is shining a cruel light on the state of men’s health globally. In 38 out of 43 countries for which provisional data were available, as of June 10, 2020, more men than women have died from COVID-19 despite a similar number of confirmed cases in each sex.1 In several countries, including the Netherlands, Dominican Republic, and Spain, about twice as many men as women have died from COVID-19.1 International Men’s Health Week on June 15–21 is an opportune time to focus attention on this issue and the need for a new and systematic approach to improve the health of men generally.
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[Articles] Effects of a high-dose 24-h infusion of tranexamic acid on death and thromboembolic events in patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding (HALT-IT): an international randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
The HALT-IT Trial Collaborators | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
We found that tranexamic acid did not reduce death from gastrointestinal bleeding. On the basis of our results, tranexamic acid should not be used for the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding outside the context of a randomised trial.
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[Correspondence] Cancer and cardiovascular disease
Jonathan P S Knisely, Sonia A Henry, Shahryar G Saba, Lindsay L Puckett | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
Helen Strongman and colleagues1 provide valuable information on cardiovascular consequences that affect adults surviving a wide range of common cancers. We are concerned that some important signals might be obscured by inadequate data on known risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
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[Correspondence] Antipsychotics for schizophrenia and substance misuse
Alain Dervaux | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
In their network meta-analysis of the efficacy and tolerability of 32 oral antipsychotics for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults, Maximillian Huhn and colleagues1 found some efficacy differences between antipsychotics. However, treatment studies in patients with schizophrenia have generally excluded those with past or current substance use disorders. A systematic review and meta-analysis showed that schizophrenia and substance use disorder comorbidity was highly prevalent among adults (41 ∑7%).
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[Correspondence] Cancer and cardiovascular disease — Authors’ reply
Helen Strongman, Alexander R Lyon, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Liam Smeeth, Krishnan Bhaskaran | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
We thank Nasra Alam and colleagues and Jonathan Knisely and colleagues for their comments about our cohort study.1…
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[Comment] The Lancet Commission on dengue and other Aedes-transmitted viral diseases
Annelies Wilder-Smith, Steven W Lindsay, Thomas W Scott, Eng Eong Ooi, Duane J Gubler, Pamela Das | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
The past 50 years have seen the emergence of epidemic arboviral diseases transmitted by the urban mosquito, Aedes aegypti. More than 120 countries are affected by frequent and cyclical dengue epidemics that result in an estimated annual 400 million infections and 100 million symptomatic cases.1 Chikungunya virus re-emerged in 2004 from east Africa and spread to Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Europe.2,3 Zika virus spread from sub-Saharan Africa through Asia and the Pacific to the Americas, where it caused a major outbreak associated with severe birth defects and neurological complications.
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[Comment] Wakley Prize Essay 2020: medicine and plain truths in a pandemic year
Niall Boyce, Bianca Brandon, Gabriella Merry, Joanna Palmer, Jonathan Pimm, Maneet Virdi | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
“Sorrow and Truth, sit you on either side of me, whilst I am relieved of this deadly burden…Lend me art, without any counterfeit shadowing, to paint and delineate to the life the whole story of this mortal and pestiferous battle.”1 When London-based Renaissance author Thomas Dekker came to write his account of the 1603 plague outbreak, he renounced the “silver-tongued muses”, feeling that only plain words and plain truth could do justice to the moment. Four centuries on, the COVID-19 pandemic demands a similar response.
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[Obituary] Larry Kramer
Andrew Green | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
HIV/AIDS and LGBT rights activist and author. Born in Bridgeport, CT, USA, on June 25, 1935, he died of pneumonia on May 27, 2020, in New York, NY, USA, aged 84 years.
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Washington DC protesters topple statue of Confederate general Albert Pike
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-20
Black Lives Matter protesters have toppled the only statue of a Confederate general in the US capital and set it on fire on Juneteenth — the day marking the end of slavery in the US. | Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11ft statue of Albert Pike, wrapped with chains, wobbled on its high granite pedestal before falling backwards. | Protesters then set a bonfire and stood around it in a circle as the statue burned, saying “No justice, no peace!” and “No racist police!”. | Eyewitness accounts and videos posted on social media indicated that police were on the scene but did not intervene. | Donal…
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California “Berning” for Ro Khanna to Chair the State’s Delegation to Democratic National
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Inclusion or charade?>…
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Columbus Statue Finally Removed from Telegraph Hill
Milestone in History | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
After decades of protest, going back in memory to 1992, the 500th Anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, when we were able to move the Columbus Genocide Parade from Market to Fisherman’s Wharf, the latest anti-racism movement, Black Lives Matter, finally moved the City & County of San Francisco to take down the Columbus monument outside Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill today.
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Tuesday 6/23: Community Meeting on Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests Pt. 2
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
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[Correspondence] Cancer and cardiovascular disease
Nasra Alam, Alison K Wright, Darren M Ashcroft, Andrew G Renehan | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
Helen Strongman and colleagues1 concluded that “survivors of most site-specific cancers had increased medium-term to long-term risk for one or more cardiovascular diseases compared with that for the general population.” The accompanying Comment2 argued that there should be further research into whether cancer should be included in cardiovascular risk prediction tools and refers to cardiovascular models such as Framingham3 and the Pooled Cohort Equations.4…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)30222-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Seeing COVID-19 through José Saramago’s Blindness
Daniel Marchalik, Dmitriy Petrov | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
Some 6 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the emotional devastation, socioeconomic impacts, and pressures on front-line health-care workers continue to shape our world. While words cannot always do justice to the extent of individual suffering from this disease, fiction can sometimes offer a way to process the present moment, and this feels particularly true of Portuguese writer José Saramago’s Blindness (1995).
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Tocilizumab for treatment of patients with severe COVID–19: A retrospective cohort study
Tariq Kewan, Fahrettin Covut, Mohammed J. Al–Jaghbeer, Lori Rose, K.V. Gopalakrishna, Bassel Akbik | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
In patients with severe COVID-19, tocilizumab was associated with significantly shorter duration of vasopressor support. Although not statistically significant, tocilizumab also resulted in shorter median time to clinical improvement and shorter duration of invasive ventilation. These findings require validation from ongoing clinical trials of Tocilizumab in COVID–19 patients.
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[Comment] Tranexamic acid for severe gastrointestinal bleeding
Anders Perner, Morten Hylander Mà∏ller | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
Severe gastrointestinal bleeding is frequent and associated with use of blood products and endoscopic and invasive procedures, including emergency surgery, which increases the risk of mortality.1 Interventions to stop bleeding include the use (often in an escalating manner) of proton-pump inhibitors, transfusion of blood products, therapeutic endoscopy, endovascular coiling, and open laparotomy.1,2 Tranexamic acid is also used in some patients in an attempt to inhibit blood clot breakdown by fibrinolysis that can occur in some cases.
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[Comment] Offline: A novel solution to live with coronavirus
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-06-20
“Could you spare half an hour for me to get your advice on a potential safe and effective (and rapid) way out of the UK’s current situation?” The text message was from a professor of medicine and epidemiology at an English university. I called him. He had an extraordinary proposal. Given where the country is now, he said, we needed more radical ideas about not only how to save lives but also how to save the economy. The country is collapsing. This coronavirus will be with us for some time. We can’t live in lockdown forever.
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NBA Players Face the Question: To Boycott or Not to Boycott
Dave Zirin | zcomm.org | 2020-06-20
Many players feel the issues of racial justice and stopping police violence are pressing, now is not the time for pro basketball…
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Trading One Uniform for Another
Suzanne Gordon | zcomm.org | 2020-06-20
Can Police Be “De-Militarized” When So Many Cops Are Military Veterans?>…
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Workers of Europe: Compete
Ola Innset | zcomm.org | 2020-06-20
In response to neoliberalism’s internationalism, European workers have turned to the nation state. It is time for the left to reclaim the narrative…
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Israeli Navy Forces Palestinian Fisherman off the Coast of Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-20
The Israeli Navy, early on Friday, forced Palestinian fishermen to flee the coast fearing for their lives, blocking their ability to provide for their families. According to Palestinian sources in the besieged coastal territory, Israeli Navy vessels intercepted fishermen sailing in the north of the Gaza strip, in the Al-Sudaniya …
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Refugee athletes stay focused on countdown to delayed Olympics
news.un.org | 2020-06-20
With the Tokyo Olympics delayed until 2021, UN News has spoken to two recipients of Refugee Athlete Scholarships, an initiative of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and UN refugee agency (UNHCR), to find out how COVID-19 lockdown measures are affecting their preparations for the games.
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From Toxic Food to Agrarian Disaster: Dirty Deals Done Dirt Cheap
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-20
During the early days of the coronavirus lockdowns, in some quarters there was a certain degree of optimism around. Although millions of people were suffering, the hope was that the Covid-19 crisis would shine light on societal and economic systems across the world, exposing some of the deep-rooted flaws of capitalism. There was a belief that people …
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Toppling a mass murderer
Deirdre Griswold | workers.org | 2020-06-20
It seems that in Britain, similar to here in the U.S., the ruling class has made sure to sing the praises of those who have committed the worst crimes against humanity in their “service” to the empire. Crowd downs statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, England. And, as here, the . . . | Continue reading Toppling a mass murderer at Workers.org
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Venezuelan oil output continues decline as refinery resumes operations
Ricardo Vaz | mronline.org | 2020-06-20
Venezuelan crude exports on track for 70 year low as Washington continues to target tankers and shipping companies.
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Challenging One of the Most Powerful Democrats in Congress
Jamaal Bowman | zcomm.org | 2020-06-20
In the Bronx, the second most economically unequal district in New York state, the insurgent primary campaign of former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman threatens to unseat 16-term Democratic congressmember Eliot Engel…
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Black Lives Matter in Bastrop, Texas
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2020-06-20
With the whole world exploding in support of the Black Lives Matter movement that is sweeping through large U.S. cities and small towns alike, Black Lives Matter may finally become a reality in Bastrop, Texas, for death row prisoner Rodney Reed. Outside court hearing for Rodney Reed, February 2015. WW . . . | Continue reading Black Lives Matter in Bastrop, Texas at Workers.org
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The statues of our discontent
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | zcomm.org | 2020-06-20
When statues come under assault, they leap from the past to become part of our present…
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Arab Leaders Express Criticism of Israeli Annexation Plans
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-20
Three key Arab countries, including Jordan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have expressed their opposition to the Israeli leadership’s plan to expropriate Palestinian lands, expected to be implemented in July. For his part, King Abdallah II of Jordan, asserted, in a phone conversation with the Emir of Abu …
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Poor People’s Moral Justice Jubilee Policy Platform
The Poor People’s Campaign | zcomm.org | 2020-06-20
Legislative and Policy Priorities of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival…
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Armed Extremist Groups Were Galvanized by GOP
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-06-20
These people did not spring up from the ground like mushrooms. They are products of a long-standing cultivation project undertaken by the Republican Party and its media allies to agitate and radicalize its political base…
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Reclaiming Our Homes fights water shutoff in El Sereno
Thomas Zenteno | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-20
Benito Flores reclaimed his home in El Sereno in March 2020 along with other families and elders seeking shelter from the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 cases began to rise throughout Los Angeles County, the 59,000 people without permanent shelter began to look for a way to stay “safer-at-home” as per the dictates of Los Angeles …
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‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚ÄãRe-embracing internationalism and class solidarity in the time of #BlackLivesMatter
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-20
The struggle against systemic racism and the police state in the U.S. is integral and linked to the struggle against U.S. wars of aggression overseas.
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Restrictions back as virus spreads in Australian state
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-20
Coronavirus restrictions were reimposed in Australia’s southern state of Victoria on Saturday, following a persistent rise in infections over the past few days.At a press conference, Premier Daniel Andrews said 25 cases — a two-month high — were recorded over the past day, making restrictions necessary to stem the virus’ spread.Under the new rules, gatherings at homes will be limited to five people, while plans to increase the number of people allowed in restaurants, libraries, and places of worship from 20 to 50 have been deferred until at least July 12.Expressing “disappointment” and “frustration,”
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An Australian state is set to reimpose restrictions as coronavirus cases increase
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-20
The Australian state of Victoria is set to reimpose household restrictions from Monday 22 June after recording double-digit increases in coronavirus (Covid-19) cases for a fourth consecutive day. | Daniel Andrews, the premier for Victoria, said household gatherings will be restricted to five guests and outdoor gatherings to 10 people until midnight on 12 July. | Andrews said Victoria recorded 25 new cases on Saturday 20 June, the biggest daily increase in two months. The planned easing of restrictions for cafes, restaurants and pubs, from a maximum of 20 guests to a maximum of 50, will be deferred for three weeks…
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Egypt asks UN intervention to resolve Nile dam dispute
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-20
Egypt has requested the UN Security Council to intervene to resolve a dispute with Ethiopia over a controversial Nile dam project.In a statement late Friday, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said it asked the Security Council to “intervene to affirm the importance of the three countries resuming the negotiations with goodwill…to reach a fair and balanced solution” over the Ethiopian dam.The ministry said the move came after negotiations to resolve the dispute over the Nile dam stalled “as a result of Ethiopian stances that are not positive”.Ethiopia is building a hydro-electric dam project on the Nile, which Egypt…
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Plan ahead with an advance directive for medical care decisions
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-20
While you never hope to use one, an advance directive outlines your preferences for medical care if you become ill and are unable to make decisions for yourself. An advance directive is a legal document that you can complete at any time. It allows you to decide what kind of medical care you want in …
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Mayo Clinic Q and A: COVID-19 and gastrointestinal concerns
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-20
Dear Mayo Clinic: I’ve been hearing so much information about COVID-19 that I’m worried that every ache or pain may be related. I have been having stomachaches and then I began having diarrhea. I’m wondering if those are symptoms of COVID-19 and if I should get tested? Answer: There is certainly a lot of information …
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National campaign, big names calling on COVID-19 survivors to help others defeat it
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-20
A national coalition, including Mayo Clinic, is launching a nationwide push for plasma donations to help fight COVID-19. The campaign has some big names behind it. Today a coalition of more than 30 organizations is launching a national donor recruitment campaign — “The Fight Is In Us” — with the goal of connecting survivors with …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ca…

Libyan premier arrives in Algeria for talks
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-20
The head of Libya’s internationally-recognized government on Saturday arrived in Algeria in an official visit to discuss the ongoing conflict in his country.According to the official Algerian TV network, Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad, Foreign Ministers Sabri Boukadoum and Interior Minister Kamel Beldjoud received Libyan premier Fayez al-Sarraj at the capital’s Houari Boumediene Airport.Al-Sarraj’s one-day visit is expected to focus on the latest developments in Libya.On Friday, Libyan local media said the country’s Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha and al-Sarraj would meet Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune…
yenisafak.com/en/news/libyan-premier-arr…

Serbians to go to general, local polls
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-20
As the world wrestles with the novel coronavirus pandemic, Serbia on Sunday will hold general, local, and autonomous region elections.Voters will head to the polls to determine the names and parties that will govern the country both locally and nationally for the next four years.In Serbia, the effect of the pandemic has disappeared for the most part, with casualty numbers and daily cases having decreased to the 50-100 band and major measures removed.More than 6.5 million voters have registered to cast their ballots and elect lawmakers from among 21 election lists competing to enter the 250-seat national assembly.
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India claims Pakistani drone shot down in Jammu and Kashmir
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-20
India’s border security forces on Saturday announced that they had shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) belonging to Pakistan at an outpost in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir.The Border Security Force (BSF) shot down the Pakistani Hexa copter drone allegedly carrying an assortment of arms at the Pansar border outpost in Kathua district.”Alert troops of BSF shot down a Pakistani Hexa copter drone carrying 01 M4 carbine machine (US Made), 02 filled magazines (60 Rds), 07 Chinese grenades,” the BSF said in a statement on Twitter.The aircraft was spotted by a BSF patrol at in the vicinity of the borde…
yenisafak.com/en/news/india-claims-pakis…

Africa: Virus cases pass 286,000, deaths near 7,700
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-20
According to the latest update, the death toll on the continent is now up to 7,693, while 132,412 people have recovered in 54 countries.With 91,800, Southern Africa leads in the number of cases, followed by North Africa with 77,200, West Africa 59,500, East Africa 30,000, and Central Africa with 28,000.At least 3,200 people have died in North Africa, 1,900 in Southern Africa, 1,100 in West Africa, 915 in East Africa, and 621 in Central Africa.Southern Africa also has the highest number of recoveries at 49,700, followed by North Africa’s 31,700, West Africa 26,500, Central Africa 12,400, and East Arica with 12,100…
yenisafak.com/en/world/africa-virus-case…

Turkey rejects UN group’s claims on activities in Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-20
Turkey has rejected “unfounded” allegations by the UN Human Rights Special Procedures.”We reject the unfounded and unfortunate allegations in the press release of the UN Human Rights Special Procedures,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement.Aksoy said Turkey, extending its support to the internationally recognized Libyan government upon its request and pursuant to UN resolutions, emphasized from the very beginning that there was no military solution to the conflict in Libya.”In this context, Turkey spares no effort to ensure a lasting and sustainable ceasefire and to reinvigorate the politica…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-rejects-un-…

Turkish sailors freed after 3-month captivity in Eritrea
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-20
Three Turkish sailors on a world tour detained in the East African country of Eritrea were freed Saturday as a result of Ankara’s intervention.Selim Ekmekcioglu, Ibrahim Ignak and Erman Lutfu Atamer regained their freedom under the instruction of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the intervention of Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, according to diplomatic sources.Seyda Ekmekcioglu told Anadolu Agency that her husband called her to say they had been freed.”I spoke to my husband for the first time today since April 25. H sounded fine. He said their condition was very good and that they were treated very well in…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkish-sailors-f…

Libya says 190 bodies found in mass graves by Haftar
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-20
The Libyan army said Saturday 190 corpses have been found in mass graves south of Tripoli and the city of Tarhuna since June 5. | In a statement, the army said 106 bodies, including children and women, were found with signs of torture inside a hospital morgue in Tarhuna on June 5. | A further 37 bodies were found in another hospital in the city, of which 14 corpses were identified, the military said. | According to the statement, 15 additional bodies were found in Qasr bin Ghashir area, south of Tripoli. The military said those bodies belonged to persons kidnapped by militia of warlord Khalifa Haftar. | The remai…
yenisafak.com/en/world/libya-says-190-bo…

Top Pakistani diplomat hails Bozkir’s UNGA presidency
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-20
Pakistan’s foreign minister on Saturday congratulated Turkey’s Volkan Bozkir on his election as president of the next session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).”On behalf of the people and government of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, I would like to extend my warm felicitation on your unanimous election by all member states as the President of the historic 75th Session of the UN General Assembly,” Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a letter.He said Bozkir’s unanimous election reflects the international community’s “trust and confidence” in his abilities to lead the UNGA “at this time of unprecedented global…
yenisafak.com/en/news/top-pakistani-dipl…

Navajo volunteers race with food and water as governments fail
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
When a young Dine’ man asked if anyone needed water and supplies, there were more than 100 responses. They are the blind, those without water, and those in hogans without phones. They are the young people living in tents in quarantine, they are the families living in tents.
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Wednesday 7/15: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State in the Age of Trump and Pandemic
Oakland Privacy | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Online via Zoom. | Check here: oaklandprivacy.org/next-meeting/ starting a few days before the meeting.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883430…

Saturday 7/25: Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #2
Oakland Asian Cultural Center | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Online: Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/19/1883434…

Saturday 7/11: Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #1
Oakland Asian Cultural Center | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Online: Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/19/1883434…

“I Can’t Breathe”: Remembering David Cross, Killed by Corrections Officers in Santa Cruz County Jail
Santa Cruz Police News | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
David Cross, a 44-year-old local plumber, was killed on September 18, 2005 in Santa Cruz County Jail while experiencing a mental health crisis. Corrections officers who responded that day to address his health issues decided Cross needed to be restrained, so they sat on his back as he lay on his stomach and “hog tied” him on the floor of the jail. Cross screamed, “I can’t breathe,” “I’m going to die,” and “Please get off me,” before his body went limp after 3 1/2 minutes of being restrained. Fast forward to 2020, and it is likely that many will see the killing of David Cross in a new light. The world is currently…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/17/1883429…

Monday 6/22: Houseless Community Mounts Defense Against Illegal Eviction
United Front Against Displacement | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Oakland City Hall | 1 Frank H Ogawa Plaza | Oakland, CA 94612…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883430…

Thursday 6/18: #HomeIsHere: Car Caravans for DACA SCOTUS Decision & BLM in SF Bay Area
SIREN & other groups | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Caravans in San Fransisco, San Jose, Oakland and throughout CA…
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Monday 6/22: #HomeIsHere DACA Digital Rally hosted by United We Dream
United We Dream & others | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Online rally…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883430…

Sunday 6/21: Defund the Police State: Call to Divert Police Funds to Communities of San Mateo County
Justice for Chinedu and others | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Courthouse Square | 2200 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063…
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The Questions Grow More Pressing
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
I’ve been persistently raising issues of police abuse with the SCPD. Most recently, I sent a letter to Chief Andy Mills with a variety of questions, following up on issues raised months (and often years) ago. He roplied. I responded to his reply a few days ago. So far no reply.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/17/1883429…

Millions of Black People slaughtered in Congo – for cellphones!
Nestor Machno | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
BLM is a pretty cool movement but why is it stopping in the 1st World? | Are smartphones more important than African Lives?>…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/17/1883428…

Friday 6/26: United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Ilona Gazarova | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Advocacy for Humankind is Hosting an Event for United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/17/1883429…

Victory! New York’s City Council Passes the POST Act
Nathan Sheard, EFF | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
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Wheaton Mayor signs Pride Week proclamation after making $1,000 Jeanne Ives contribution
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Pride Week Proclamation Signed By Mayor:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883429…

PG&E pleads guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for wildfire deaths
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
With the help of California Governor Gavin Newsom, Pacific Gas & Electric receives a mere slap on the wrist for what has been deemed the deadliest US corporate crime ever prosecuted.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883430…

Climate crisis and social transformation in the age of Corona
Norbert Trenkle | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Material wealth in the form of useful things and utilities is only a means subordinated to the objective of capital accumulation and is sacrificed when that objective can no longer be achieved… Without the state, capitalist society would fly apart immediately. The state, however, is an essential precondition for abstract wealth production and dependent on it.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883430…

Victory for the People of Oakland: OPD Restraining Order Restricts Teargas, Flashbangs & Projectiles
NLG-SF | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Judge issues Temporary Restraining Order against Oakland Police Department: A Victory for Oakland, A Victory for All…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883433…

Friday 6/19: Juneteenth Film Discussion of ‘Suppressed: The Fight To Vote’
Friends Committee on National Legislation | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Online via zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/17/1883428…

Street in Front of Fresno City Hall painted with “Black Lives Matter”
Peter Maiden | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Over four hundred people came out to downtown Fresno June 18 to paint “Black Lives Matter” in twenty foot tall letters on P Street where it passes in front of City Hall.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883432…

Friday 6/19: #SixNineteen: M4BL Juneteenth Livestream to Defend Black Lives (online)
Movement for Black Lives | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Online livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/19/1883433…

Friday 6/19: Workers’ Collective Mourns Victims of Covid19 and Broken Promise of Emancipation
Dwight A Ost | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
AMAZON FULFILLMENT CTR-6015 Giant Hwy-Richmond CA…
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Friday 6/19: NAACP Juneteenth Black Family Reuinon & Virtual Town Hall (1pm & 3pm)
NAACP | indybay.org | 2020-06-20
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/19/1883433…

Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure Ten Palestinians at Kufur Qaddoum Weekly Protest
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-19
Ten Palestinian civilians were injured, on Friday, by Israeli soldiers during the weekly peaceful demonstration against illegal settlements, in the northern West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, according to a local source. Morad Eshteiwi, coordinator of the popular resistance in the village, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli forces …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-shoot-i…

Israel To Demolish A Palestinian Home Near Occupied Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-06-19
The City Council in occupied Jersusalem informed, Thursday, a Palestinian family of a demolition order targeting their home in the Sawahra town, southeast of the occupied Palestinian capital. The home is owned by Yassin Taha Zaatra, and was built 10 years ago, sheltering him and his family. The property is …
imemc.org/article/israel-to-demolish-a-p…

From the Covid-19 Battle Can Come Unstoppable Citizen Power to Propel “Full Medicare for All” Through Congress
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
Frontline healthcare, transit, and grocery clerk workers are too busy risking their lives helping and saving people exposed to the deadly Covid-19 pandemic to see themselves emerging as the force that can overcome decades of commercial obstruction to full Medicare for All. These heroic, courageous, and selfless people are getting the job done, often without…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/from-the-cov…

The Caesar Act: The Latest Western Attack on Syria Didn’t Drop From a Plane
Eva Bartlett | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-19
As Syria struggles to recover from over a decade of US-imposed conflict, it faces a new deadly threat in the form of sweeping sanctions under the Caesar Act.
mintpressnews.com/caesar-act-latest-west…

Latino groups, AFL-CIO hail Supreme Court’s pro-DACA decision
Mark Gruenberg, Roberta Wood | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-19
WASHINGTON–Immigrant rights groups, the AFL-CIO and other human rights organizations hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 18 decision which effectively leaves in place the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and blocks President Donald Trump’s long campaign to end DACA and toss its 700,000 recipients — the Dreamers — out of the country. …
peoplesworld.org/article/latino-groups-a…

High Court says California can stay a sanctuary state
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-19
WASHINGTON–By a 7-2 vote, but without a written decision being issued, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled California can stay a sanctuary state for undocumented people — a position the state’s union movement strongly pushed to passage several years ago. Technically, the justices rejected the anti-Hispanic anti-migrant GOP Trump regime’s demand the justices hear the …
peoplesworld.org/article/high-court-says…

Climate Crisis: Keystone XL Supreme, Cap and Trade Takes Hit and California Geoengineering
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-19
The Trump administration tries to push Keystone XL to the US Supreme Court, California’s appellate court rules on cap and trade, and California’s governor backs away–but not really–from solar radiation geoengineering.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-k…

Supreme Court blocks Trump administration’s plan to “immediately end” DACA
wsws.org | 2020-06-19
A 5-4 majority cited the administration’s failure to provide a “reasoned explanation” as the basis for Trump’s decision to rescind an executive order issued by Obama in 2012.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/19/supr…

Supreme Court extends life of DACA in 5-4 ruling
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-19
“We took our power to the streets, the hallways of Congress, to the highest court in the land and we won.”
nationofchange.org/2020/06/19/supreme-co…

How DREAMers Defeated Trump: Supreme Court DACA Win Shows “Sustained Pressure of Activism” Works
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-19
In a 5-4 decision led by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Trump’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The federal program created by President Obama in 2012 protects from deportation about 700,000 immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children. Luis Cortes, one of the lawyers who defended DACA at the Supreme Court, says the key to the victory was being able to share the stories of DACA recipients. “What moved Chief Justice Roberts in our case was the stories,” says Cortes, who is a DACA recipient himself. We also speak with Erika Andiola, advo…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/19/daca_scot…

Ezra Young on Supreme Court LGBT Ruling
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-06-19
Media…
fair.org/home/ezra-young-on-supreme-cour…

Supreme Court DACA Win Shows “Sustained Pressure of Activism” Works
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-19
In a 5-4 decision led by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Trump’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The federal program created by President Obama in 2012 protects from deportation about 700,000 immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children. Luis Cortes, one of the lawyers who defended DACA at the Supreme Court, says the key to the victory was being able to share the stories of DACA recipients. “What moved Chief Justice Roberts in ou…
truthout.org/video/supreme-court-daca-wi…

Communist Party of India (Marxist) stages protest against government’s anti-people policies
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-19
The CPI(M) has demanded cash and grain transfers, 200 days of work under the rural employment scheme, an unemployment allowance and an end to the privatization of state enterprises…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/19/communist…

Lesser of Two Evils: Chomsky vs. Greenwald . . . and the Ignored Factor
Bruce E. Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
Noam Chomsky believes that it is so imperative that Trump be defeated that he will vote for Biden, while Glenn Greenwald challenges the political strategy of the lesser-of-two-evils dictum. It is difficult to imagine anyone more intellectually commanding than Chomsky, but Greenwald is no inferior. Chomsky and Greenwald are unbroken, rational warriors who apply contrasting…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/lesser-of-tw…

Do Not Belittle Protesters in the U.S. by calling their Struggle a “Color Revolution”
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-19
For almost a decade, I have been covering “Color Revolutions” in virtually all parts of the world. While making a film for TeleSur, I was facing Egyptian tanks, risking my life under sniper fire, getting roughed-up in the middle of clashes of the supporters of al-Sisi and Morsi. Together with Syrian commanders, I was also …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/do-not-belitt…

United Nations calls for reparations to confront legacy of slavery and colonialism
Combined Sources | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-19
GENEVA–Reparations should be paid and countries must confront the legacy of slavery and colonialism to better understand continuing “systematic discrimination,” according to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. She was speaking at the UN session in Geneva on Wednesday in an urgent debate in response to the killing of George Floyd at the …
peoplesworld.org/article/united-nations-…

Human Rights Council calls on top UN rights official to take action on racist violence
news.un.org | 2020-06-19
The UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, is to spearhead efforts to address systemic racism against people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, the Human Rights Council decided on Friday. The resolution — decided unanimously without a vote – follows a rare Urgent Debate in the Council earlier in the week, requested by the African group of nations, following the death of George Floyd in the US state of Minnesota.
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Russia Denies that Putin Tried to Block UN Security Council Recognition of Palestine
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-06-19
Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, denied that President Vladimir Putin had blocked a 2016 UN Security Council’s resolution that recognizes Palestinian statehood on the 1967 border lines. Zakharov’s remarks came during a press briefing on Wednesday, in which she responded to claims by an Israeli online newspaper, Israel …
imemc.org/article/russia-denies-that-put…

Yemen: Saudi Airstrike Kills Four Children as UN Removes Kingdom From List of Child Killers
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-19
Adrianne Lapar, director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict said the decision “sends the message that powerful actors can get away with killing children.”
mintpressnews.com/yemen-airstrike-kills-…

The ‘Palestinian Chair’: Exposing Israel’s Direct Role in US Violence
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers is, once more, shedding light on US-Israeli collaboration in the fields of security and crowd-control. From California to New York, and from Washington State to Minneapolis,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/the-palestin…

How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Against Them
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
Organized labor led no mass opposition to Trump’s presidency or the December 2017 tax cut or the failed U.S. preparation for and management of COVID-19. Nor do we yet see a labor-led national protest against the worst mass firing since the 1930s Great Depression. All of these events, but especially the unemployment, mark an employers’ class war against employees. The U.S. government directs it, but the employers as a class inspire and benefit the most from it.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/how-workers-…

Loose Cannon Pompeo. No Breakthroughs in US-China Meeting in Hawaii
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-19
On Wednesday, Pompeo met with China’s Yang Jiechi. | He holds several high-level positions in Beijing, including CPC Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission director. | Both officials met in Hawaii, the meeting requested by Pompeo at at a time of dismal …
globalresearch.ca/no-breakthroughs-us-ch…

Caesar Tries to Suffocate 17 Million Syrians
Rick Sterling | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-19
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 force Syria to change politically. This month, June 2020, the aggression reaches a new level …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/caesar-tries-…

Caesar Tries to Suffocate 17 Million Syrians
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-19
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 force Syria to change politically. This month, June 2020, the aggression reaches a new level with extreme sanctions known as the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act. | The new law is fraudulen…
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Barbaric U.S. Sanctions on Syria Are Futile Extension of Failed Regime-Change War
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-19
A total blockade of war-torn Syria is the desired effect of sweeping new sanctions imposed this week by the United States. The purpose is to prevent the Arab nation from achieving reconstruction and international normalization after suffering nearly a decade of war. | Washington’s objective is to make regime change in Damascus inevitable by making social conditions in the country as unbearable for the population as it possibly can. | With cruel Orwellian irony, the American sanctions implemented this week bear the words “Syria Civilian Protection Act”. | The U.S. legislation was passed by both parties in the Cong…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/19/ba…

Video: Idlib Al-Qaeda Promotes Its ‘Successes’ in Fight Against Syrian Army
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-19
The Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces are amassing their troops and equipment near the town of Ayn Issa in northern Raqqah. This town, located near the crossroad of the M4 highway and the Sanliurfa-Raqqah road, has been the …
globalresearch.ca/idlib-al-qaeda-promote…

Modi’s Major Himalayan Mistake Crushed the Indian Military’s Morale
Andrew Korybko | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-06-19
asia-pacificresearch.com/modi-major-hima…

Roaming Charges: Nothing But Rednecks for 400 Years, If You Check
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps Sample a look back, you look and find Nothing but rednecks for four hundred years, if you check — Public Enemy + Almost every violent act committed by police in the US is already illegal. Making these acts more illegal won’t change police behavior. Making these…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/roaming-char…

Roaming Charges: Nothing But Rednecks for 400 Years, If You Check
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps Sample a look back you look and find Nothing but rednecks for four hundred years, if you check — Public Enemy + Almost every violent act committed by police in the US is already illegal. Making these acts more illegal won’t change police behavior. Making these…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/roaming-char…

99 Years Later, Wounds of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Have “Never Been Remedied”
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-19
President Trump’s first campaign rally since the start of the pandemic takes place Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, despite a spike of COVID-19 cases there. Trump rescheduled the rally to Saturday after facing backlash for saying it would happen on Juneteenth — a celebration of African Americans’ liberation from slavery — amid a nationwide uprising against racism and police brutality. Tulsa is also the site of one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history, when a white mob in 1921 killed as many as 300 people in a thriving African American business district known as “Black Wall Street.” For more on this…
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/19/tulsa_okl…

Juneteenth: A Celebration of Black Liberation & Day to Remember “Horrific System That Was Slavery”
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-06-19
June 19 is Juneteenth, celebrating the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black people in the United States learned they had been freed from bondage. As momentum grows to enshrine it as a national holiday, we speak with author and historian Gerald Horne, who says that while the story of Juneteenth is “much more complicated and much more complex than is traditionally presented,” increased recognition of the day “provides an opportunity to have a thorough remembrance of this horrific system that was slavery.”
www.democracynow.org/2020/6/19/juneteent…

Ten-Point agenda for the Global South after COVID-19
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-06-19
In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly passed a New International Economic Order (NIEO), which was driven by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
mronline.org/2020/06/19/ten-point-agenda…

‘Black Lives Matter’ Is International
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-19
Corte Madera, California – The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th was the spark that ignited the tinder of accrued injustice throughout the US and globally. This injustice has deep antecedents in the US and indeed in much of what is now called the Global South. There is a shared history of colonial conquest of the Indigenous and the abominable institution of the enslavement of African peoples. | What happened has its roots in systemic oppression that has resonated internationally. Just as the police suffocated George Floyd, US unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua,…
popularresistance.org/black-lives-matter…

Speight of Black Men Found Hanged Sparks Fears of Wave of Racist Terror
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-19
As the nation grapples with long-simmering racial tensions reignited by the murder of George Floyd, a series of suspicious hanging deaths of black men is sparking fears of a new wave of anti-black terror.
mintpressnews.com/speight-of-suspicious-…

Polls: Four Weeks of Protest Have Radically Altered American Views on Police
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-19
American voters now support sweeping changes to policing; 83 percent want a ban on racial profiling, 92 percent want police to be required to wear body cameras and White Americans’ concern over police violence has increased by 50 percent since 2019.
mintpressnews.com/polls-four-weeks-of-pr…

Trump Signed a Bill Calling for Sanctions Against China’s So-called “Treatment of Uighurs”
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-19
Leaked excerpts from the upcoming memoir The Room Where It Happened has made stunning allegations against U.S. President Donald Trump. Former U.S. National Security Advisor, John Bolton, claims in his book that Trump attempted to interfere in a …
globalresearch.ca/trump-signed-bill-call…

California “Berning” for Ro Khanna to Chair the State’s Delegation to Democratic National
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-06-19
Inclusion or charade?>…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883431…

Sen Bernie Sanders calls out GOP for inadequately addressing police violence in new bill
Amanda Mills | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-19
“Now is not the time to think small or respond with superficial, bureaucratic proposals.”
nationofchange.org/2020/06/19/sen-bernie…

Struggle Theater: Don’t let theatrics shroud the reality of systemic oppression
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-19
America’s power brokers are hoping murals, kente cloth, and a series of half-baked legislative reforms will appease activists into giving up the fight for real change.
mronline.org/2020/06/19/struggle-theater…

Stir Crazy! Episode #57: Juneteenth!!
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-19
On today’s show: Action Now Chicago’s Deborah Harris, activist and recording artist Eze Jackson, and Detroit Action’s Branden Snyder. Hosted by Kim Brown. If you have questions/comments/suggestions for the show email us at stircrazy@therealnews.com
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episo…

San Antonio activists seek justice, demand reopening of police killings
Rachell Tucker | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-19
Like in other places around the country, thousands are in the streets in San Antonio demanding justice for victims of national significance like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, but also for local victims of police terror.
liberationnews.org/san-antonio-activists…

San Antonio activists seek justice, demand reopening of police killings
Rachell Tucker | liberationnews.org | 2020-06-19
Like in other places around the country, thousands are in the streets in San Antonio demanding justice for victims of national significance like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, but also for local victims of police terror.
liberationnews.org/san-antonio-activists…

The Gilets Jaunes And The Invention Of The Future
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-19
The revolt of the Gilets Jaunes has been interpreted and analyzed many times in many, sometimes completely opposing, ways. It has been largely viewed, by the right, especially, and most of the dominant media, as a quasi-fascist movement, a form of uncontrollable collective delinquency, in a word: a threat to democracy and existing institutions. | But even among those who were generally sympathetic to social movements, including many activists on the left, reservations about completely new forms of political action and wariness about individuals who do not quite fit in politically have remained very strong, someti…
popularresistance.org/the-gilets-jaunes-…

PANDER-MONIUM: Snapchat yanks cringeworthy Juneteenth filter that asked users to ‘smile to break chains’
rt.com | 2020-06-19
Snapchat has removed a Juneteenth-themed that encouraged users to “smile” to break the chains of slavery, something that was quickly flagged by social media users as an offensive attempt to pander to Black Lives Matter activists. | If users chose to use the filter, they could photograph themselves in front of an African flag with the words “Juneteenth” and “Freedom Day” captioned. The user was then told to smile as chains appear and then suddenly break, a clear nod to the day being a celebration of the end of slavery in the US. | The filter was disabled after numerous complaints and removed from the service in…
rt.com/usa/492422-snapchat-juneteenth-fi…

PANDERMONIUM: Snapchat yanks cringeworthy Juneteenth filter that asked users to ‘smile to break chains’
rt.com | 2020-06-19
Snapchat has removed a Juneteenth-themed that encouraged users to “smile” to break the chains of slavery, something that was quickly flagged by social media users as an offensive attempt to pander to Black Lives Matter activists. | If users chose to use the filter, they could photograph themselves in front of an African flag with the words “Juneteenth” and “Freedom Day” captioned. The user was then told to smile as chains appear and then suddenly break, a clear nod to the day being a celebration of the end of slavery in the US. | The filter was disabled after numerous complaints and removed from the service in…
rt.com/usa/492422-snapchat-juneteenth-fi…

PANDER-MONIUM: Snapchat yanks cringeworthy Juneteenth filter that asked users to ‘smile to break chains’
rt.com | 2020-06-19
Snapchat has removed a Juneteenth-themed that encouraged users to “smile” to break the chains of slavery, something that was quickly flagged by social media users as an offensive attempt to pander to Black Lives Matter activists. | If users chose to use the filter, they could photograph themselves in front of a Pan-African flag with the words “Juneteenth” and “Freedom Day” captioned. The user was then told to smile as chains appear and then suddenly break, a clear nod to the day being a celebration of the end of slavery in the US. | The filter was disabled after numerous complaints and removed from the service…
rt.com/usa/492422-snapchat-juneteenth-fi…

European Court of Human Rights Upholds Right to Boycott Israel
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-19
“Criminal conviction of activists involved in the BDS campaign boycotting products imported from Israel had no relevant and sufficient grounds and violated their freedom of expression” | That is the heading on the 11 June 2020 press statement from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), announcing that it had overturned the conviction by a French court of eleven individuals for engaging in BDS activity. | The Court ruled that their conviction violated Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights — the right to freedom of expression — which states: | “Everyone has the right to freedom o…
ahtribune.com/world/europe/4232-right-to…

The Narrative of the Leakers: “Collateral Murder” and the Assange Indictment
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
When the superseding indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia against Julian Assange on May 23, 2019, there was one glaring omission. It was an achievement, it might even be said the achievement, that gave the WikiLeaks publisher and the organisation justified notoriety. Collateral Murder, as the leaked…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/the-narrativ…

March set for RNC in Jacksonville: ‘We can’t breathe’
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-19
Jacksonville, FL — The Coalition to March on the RNC applied for permits from the city of Jacksonville, June 17, to hold a rally and march opposed to Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention. | The main slogan of the event will be “We Can’t Breathe — Defeat Donald Trump.” The Coalition to March on the RNC will seek to emphasize the Black-led struggle against police brutality under the past four years of Trump in office. The Coalition also stands for a people’s agenda — money for living-wage jobs, education, universal healthcare, peace and equality. | The Coalition to March on the RNC…
fightbacknews.org/2020/6/19/march-set-rn…

March set for RNC in Jacksonville: ‘We can’t breathe’
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-19
Jacksonville, FL — The Coalition to March on the RNC applied for permits from the city of Jacksonville, June 17, to hold a rally and march opposed to Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention. | The main slogan of the event will be “We Can’t Breathe — Defeat Donald Trump.” The Coalition to March on the RNC will seek to emphasize the Black-led struggle against police brutality under the past four years of Trump in office. The Coalition also stands for a people’s agenda — money for living-wage jobs, education, universal healthcare, peace and equality. | The Coalition to March on the RNC…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/19/march-se…

Russia to assess Arctic fuel spill damage by July 1
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-19
Russia’s environmental watchdog will finish its assessment of the damage done by last month’s fuel spill in the Arctic city of Norilsk by July 1, it said on Friday.Some 21,000 tonnes of diesel leaked into rivers and subsoil on May 29 in Norilsk, home to mining giant Norilsk Nickel , in an incident that Greenpeace has compared to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.
yenisafak.com/en/world/russia-to-assess-…

Eight SNA soldiers martyred in YPG/PKK attack in N Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-06-19
At least eight soldiers of the Syrian National Army (SNA) were martyred in an attack carried out by the YPG/PKK terrorist group in Afrin, northwestern Syria.From Tal Rifat district, terrorists attempted to infiltrate front lines in Bassouta region in the south of Afrin province.The terrorist group continued to target Syrian National Army and civilian settlements in Afrin and Azaz provinces from Tal Rifat despite a Turkey-Russia deal that foresees their withdrawal from the region.On Oct. 9, 2019, Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring to eliminate terrorists from northern Syria east of the Euphrates River in order…
yenisafak.com/en/news/eight-sna-soldiers…

Twin Histories: Segregation and Police Violence in Minneapolis
Nick Alexandrov | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
George Floyd’s murder tape gives sight, if you look closely, of a world little-named in pieces on his killing. Sustained police savagery marks this world, one city bureaucrats worked, long ago, to segregate, and more recently to keep that way. It is Minneapolis. And knowing its linked police and housing histories is crucial to making sense of today’s protests. These histories show a city saturated in violence–state-sanctioned violence.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/twin-histori…

The Movement for Black Lives Is a Small-Town Movement, Too
Karen Dolan | zcomm.org | 2020-06-19
In small towns around the country, often the places you would least expect, people are having protests with signs that say “Black Lives Matter,” “I Can’t Breathe,” and “Defund the Police.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-movement-for-b…

Was It Only “Fear Itself?”: FDR and Today
Gary Olson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-19
Police and National Guard Attacking Protestors Outside the White House in 2020 (Erin Schaff, New York Times) “Movement” politics is how the people flex their power, while electoral politics under the corporate duopoly is the domain of the moneyed classes. — Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report While it’s myth that after the stock market crash …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/was-it-only-f…

Riots: An All-American Tradition
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
The most noteworthy aspect of the series of popular demonstrations in response to the “police lynchings” of African-Americans that have occured over the last few years may well be how few riots have taken place. The term “riot” has been widely invoked to describe the protest movement that emerged in the wake of the Minneapolis…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/riots-an-all…

Conservatives Are Comparing Racial Justice Protestors to Maoists
John Feffer | zcomm.org | 2020-06-19
Right-wing “intellectuals” uncomfortable with the Black Lives Matter movement have latched onto a dubious historical analogy.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/conservatives-are-…

Policing Protest: the Dangers of Media Bias During Urban Uprisings
Peter Blackmer | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
Peter Blackmer is a Research Fellow at the Detroit Equity Action Lab, an initiative of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State University Law School.
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/policing-pro…

Mass protests against police violence expand in advance of Juneteenth rallies across the US
wsws.org | 2020-06-19
Demonstrations have taken place in 1,670 US towns and cities in response to the killing of George Floyd, other murderous acts of violence by police and the repression of protesters.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/19/prot…

What does the Israeli annexation plan mean for Palestinians?
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-19
On July 1, Israel is set to begin the annexation of as much as 30% of the West Bank. This move violates multiple international laws and treaties and has been met with widespread protests.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/19/what-does…

Living the Panther Dream — An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Member Aaron Dixon
Yoav Litvin | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white Policeman in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Captured on camera and viewed by millions, Floyd’s brutalization inspired an uprising in multiple cities across the United States and the world. In Seattle, WA, protesters in an area termed “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest,” (CHOP),…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/living-the-p…

Lebanon’s people are demanding structural change
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-19
Bachir Nakhal of the Lebanese Communist Party analyses the recent protests in Lebanon in the aftermath of the relaxation of COVID-19-related restrictions. He explains the key demands raised by the protesters and how the left has been organizing during the COVID-19 crisis.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/19/lebanons-…

Sydney car convoy protests bus privatisation
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-06-19
Transport Jim McIlroyIssue 1269 Australia bus privatisation May 1 Movement SydneyJune 19, 2020A car convoy of 40 cars, along with peop…
greenleft.org.au/content/sydney-car-conv…

Beatles-glorified Penny Lane NOT actually named after slave trader, museum finds
rt.com | 2020-06-19
There’s no evidence linking the legendary Liverpool street Penny Lane to slave trader James Penny, the city’s slavery museum has said. The street was recently vandalized, amid Black Lives Matter protests. | The widespread misconception that the road was named after an 18th-century slave merchant was debunked by the Liverpool-based International Slavery Museum (ISM) on Friday. | Penny Lane shot to international fame back in 1967, thanks to the Beatles song named after it, and its original street sign was included in the ISM’s display when the museum first opened in 2007. Now, however, “comprehensive research” h…
rt.com/uk/492416-penny-lane-slave-trade/

Minnesota mass gathering participants eligible for COVID-19 testing
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-06-19
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Minnesota Governor Tim Walz recently announced that any Minnesota resident who participated in a protest, vigil, or other mass gathering, including first responders, are eligible to receive a COVID-19 test. Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health System sites in Minnesota are helping to support public health departments in local communities and have …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mi…

Celebrating Juneteenth, the day the last enslaved Black people were freed in the US
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-06-19
People across the US and beyond are celebrating a key national day which has a much higher profile this year amid widespread anti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.Juneteenth — celebrated each year on 19 June — marks the day in 1865 when slavery was abolished in Texas — two and a half years after president Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.Now, with support growing for the racial justice movement, 2020 may be remembered as the year the holiday reached a new level of recognition.While the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved Black people in the South in 1863…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/06/19/ce…

City Bar Calls For Investigation Following Arrests Of Legal Observers
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-19
The New York City Bar Association on Wednesday called on Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York Police Department to “immediately investigate” the alleged targeting of nine legal observers earlier this month during a protest against police brutality in the Bronx. | In a statement, the City Bar said it was “gravely concerned” by what it called “concerted efforts” in New York, and across the country, to interfere with the work of observers at mass demonstrations protesting systemic racism and police killings of black Americans. | The City Bar specifically cited reports that legal observers associated with the Nation…
popularresistance.org/city-bar-calls-for…

Scheer Intelligence: The Powerful Past, Present And Future Of Black Lives Matter
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-19
Black Lives Matter was founded in 2013 after the murder of Trayvon Martin highlighted the dangers Black children, women and men face daily because of the color of their skin. The grassroots movement has protested against police violence and anti-black racism since then, and advocated for policy changes to address racial injustices. Despite having been active for the better part of a decade now, Black Lives Matter was recently launched into the global spotlight after the police assassination of George Floyd rocked the world. | On this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” Dr. Melina Abdullah, one of the Black L…
popularresistance.org/scheer-intelligenc…

European Parliament Condemns Racism in Any Form, Police Violence in US
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-19
BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — The European Parliament has adopted a resolution to condemn all forms of racism as well as the violence of US police during the ongoing protests.
sputniknews.com/europe/20200619107966883…

Trump Pledges Temp Checks, Masks & Sanitizer for Tulsa Rally Guests Amid COVID-19 Surge
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-19
As COVID-19 cases spike in Oklahoma’s Tulsa County, US President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has promised to give attendees at a Saturday rally temperature checks and to supply them with masks and hand sanitizer. The city has also lifted a downtown curfew put in place during recent anti-racist protests.
sputniknews.com/us/202006191079668493-tr…

New York City Marks Juneteenth as Thousands of Protesters Demand End to Police Brutality
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-19
NEW YORK (Sputnik) – Thousands of New York residents took gathered in lower Manhattan on Juneteenth to march to end police violence and systemic racism in the United States, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene.
sputniknews.com/us/202006191079668982-ne…

Trump warns ‘protesters, anarchists & agitators’ they face a ‘much different scene’ at his Oklahoma rally
rt.com | 2020-06-19
President Donald Trump has warned any “protesters, anarchists” and “agitators” who show up at his Oklahoma rally that they’ll be met with a very different response than police have shown during the George Floyd protests elsewhere. | Trump, who is due to hold his first political rally since the beginning of the pandemic on June 20, tweeted on Friday that “any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes” who head to the Oklahoma venue will be treated differently than they have been “in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis.” | Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Okl…
rt.com/usa/492397-trump-protesters-respo…

EU Parliament meddles into US affairs as it condemns Trump’s response to protests and declares ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’
rt.com | 2020-06-19
A lengthy resolution by the European Union legislators denounced US President Donald Trump for wanting to use force against rioters and condemned the “appalling death of George Floyd” and arrests of journalists. | In a 11-page resolution adopted on Friday with 493 votes in favor to 104 opposed — and 67 abstentions — the EU Parliament affirmed that “Black Lives Matter” and listed 36 more conclusions. The preamble ran out of letters of the alphabet. | Condemning the “appalling death of George Floyd” — a Minneapolis,…
rt.com/news/492419-eu-parliament-black-l…

Trump Issues Threat to Those Planning to Protest Tulsa Rally
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-06-19
President Donald Trump made an ambiguous but direct threat to anyone planning to protest his first campaign event in months, set to take place this Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. | “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” Trump wrote in a tweet on Friday. “It will be a much different scene!”
truthout.org/articles/trump-issues-threa…

Thursday 6/18: What Happened to Tamario Smith Protest
What Happened to Tamario Smith?!? | indybay.org | 2020-06-19
The Clock Tower | Pacific Avenue and Water Street, Downtown Santa Cruz…
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Tuesday 6/23: Community Meeting on Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests Pt. 2
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-06-19
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883431…

Columbus Statue Finally Removed from Telegraph Hill
Milestone in History | indybay.org | 2020-06-19
After decades of protest, going back in memory to 1992, the 500th Anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, when we were able to move the Columbus Genocide Parade from Market to Fisherman’s Wharf, the latest anti-racism movement, Black Lives Matter, finally moved the City & County of San Francisco to take down the Columbus monument outside Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill today.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/18/1883430…

Do Not Belittle Protesters in U.S. By Calling Their Struggle A “Color Revolution”!
ahtribune.com | 2020-06-19
For almost a decade, I have been covering “Color Revolutions” in virtually all parts of the world. While making a film for TeleSur, I was facing Egyptian tanks, risking my life under sniper fire, getting roughed-up in the middle of clashes of the supporters of al-Sisi and Morsi. | Together with Syrian commanders, I was also facing the terrorists in Idlib; challenged the Ukrainian fascists; encountering Bolivian indigenous elders high in the Altiplano, after the revolution of Evo Morales and MAS was crashed by the U.S.-sponsored coup in 2019. I regularly worked in Venezuela, Lebanon, and Iraq. And of course, ag…
ahtribune.com/us/4230-color-revolution.h…

Heroless America Is Losing Ideological Ground Quickly
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-19
Right now, as statues across America and beyond are being defaced and/or destroyed by Black Lives Matter protestors it is a good time to reflect on who the heroes on our monuments should be and ask ourselves if we even need any of these pieces of brass and concrete at all in the 21st century. Why does seemingly every country on Earth bother with using public space for the secular worship of dead political and military figures? What point do monuments even serve? | Regarding heroes it seems very evident that children have over time moved from having historical heroes to fantasy ones. It is hard to imagine, that in…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/19/he…

So It’s OK to Erase Soviet Statues, but Not Western Imperialist Ones?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-06-19
Statues commemorating colonizers, slavers and imperialists are toppling from their pedestals on both sides of the Atlantic in the wake of mass protests over the U.S. police killing of African-American man George Floyd. The surge in anti-racist public anger has widened to target other icons seen as glorifying racism and oppression of other peoples. | In recent days, the U.S. has seen statues dedicated to Christopher Columbus…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/06/19/so…

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Jenin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-19
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, into Jenin city and Jenin refugee camp, in northern West Bank, and abducted three young Palestinian men. Eyewitnesses said the undercover soldiers, driving a car with Palestinian license plates, infiltrated into Jenin, and kidnapped two young men, who remained unidentified at the time …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduc…

The Gilets Jaunes and the Invention of the Future
Pierre Dardot | zcomm.org | 2020-06-19
The politics of the Gilets Jaunes are often misunderstood or overlooked, yet the movement should be a point of reference for struggles across Europe…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-gilets-jaunes-…

The Political Economy of Covid-19
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
Governments around the world are attempting to prop up a failing capitalist system by — surprise! — throwing money at wealthy individuals and corporations, especially in the financial industry. In other words, in this time of unprecedented crisis and economic difficulty, it’s business as usual. We were here not much more than a decade ago,…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/the-politica…

PDF of June 18 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-06-19
This week’s issue is a 16-page PDF. Justice for Rayshard Brooks! Stonewall means unite and fight back! TEAR DOWN THE WALLS: Gov’t, Klan & the state; New hearing for Rodney Reed; Free Jalil, Mutulu! CeCe McDonald & right to self-defense; WORKERS STRUGGLES; COVID_19 CRISIS: the Bronx; domestic violence; ANTI_RACIST REBELLIONS: . . . | Continue reading PDF of June 18 issue at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/06/49447/?utm_source=rs…

Nixon-Trump vs. the Strategy of Tension
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-19
Nixon 68 is back with a vengeance, with President Trump placing himself as the guarantor/enforcer of Law & Order. | That slogan guaranteed Nixon’s election, and was coined by Kevin Phillips, then an expert in “ethnic voting patterns”. | Philips makes …
globalresearch.ca/nixon-trump-strategy-t…

Hundreds rally outside sheriff’s office demanding justice for Missouri woman killed by police
wsws.org | 2020-06-19
Friends, family and supporters turned out Thursday night in front of the Pettis County Sheriff’s Office in rural Sedalia, Missouri, demanding justice for 25-year-old Hannah Fizer.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/19/fize…

Unsimple Twists of Fate in an Election Year, a Pandemic Year, and Year Four of Donald Trump
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
What we expect comes to pass far more often than what we do not, though it can sometimes seem otherwise because an improbable turn of events is remarkable in ways that an expected outcome is not. Sudden transformations of longstanding states of affairs are especially remarkable, even when — indeed, especially when — they make…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/unsimple-twi…

Colonial History, Gunboat Diplomacy and China Bashing
Nora Fernandez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-19
I remember a sociology professor that was Maoist, a girl who belonged to a Maoist group and another one who studied Mandarin. A colorful magazine from China sold everywhere, picturing in glossy paper, clean, good looking youth of both sexes …
globalresearch.ca/history-gunboat-diplom…

Trump’s Incitement of Police Violence
Karl Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
Arrogance by police often mirrors the stance of individuals above the cops. I was in Manhattan two decades ago to give a lecture. A squad car with flashing lights was suddenly behind me. I pulled to the curb and got out of my car. My attire included a classic Brooks Brothers blue blazer and my…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/trumps-incit…

Hong Kong: Draft law on national security must comply with rights obligations
news.un.org | 2020-06-19
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday that her office was closely following developments as China’s top legislative body, the National People’s Congress, holds talks on a proposed national security law for Hong Kong.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/06/1…

Squashing the Vote
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
In late May, before the surge of Covid-19 cases in 22 states, Trump threatened to withhold aid to Michigan and Nevada over their plans to permit voting by mail. Such withholding is illegal. Trump alleged that vote by mail leads to voter fraud. This is hogwash. Trump’s fabrication about voter fraud is an attempt to…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/squashing-th…

Taxing large fortunes in Argentina: Who will be affected?
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-19
The bill that seeks to charge an extraordinary tax on the richest people in Argentina advances in the Chamber of Deputies. Only a very small percentage of Argentine society will have to pay it.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/19/taxing-la…

Bolton account of Trump White House: Another volley in the conflict within the US ruling elite
wsws.org | 2020-06-19
Press reviews indicate that Bolton’s book attacks Trump entirely from the right, expressing particular bitterness that the administration did not go to war against Iran.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/19/bolt…

Still Can’t Breathe
Beau Peters | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-19
Image source: Pixabay It seems almost ironic that it took an unknown pathogen sweeping like a wildfire around the globe to call the world’s attention to what black and brown people have understood for centuries. Or at least, it would be ironic, if it weren’t so heartbreakingly sad. The fact is that communities of color …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/still-cant-br…

Israeli Colonists Prevent Family From Reaching Its Home In Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-19
Several fanatic Israeli colonialist settlers prevented, on Friday evening, a Palestinian family from reaching their own home in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The family was trying to reach its home in Tal Romeida neighborhood, in the center of Hebron city. …
imemc.org/article/israeli-colonists-prev…

Bolivians demand freedom for female political prisoners and immediate general elections
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-06-19
A large group of Bolivians, mostly women, demonstrated in the capital, La Paz, on June 17. They demanded freedom for all female political prisoners, who have been arrested on false charges by the de-facto government led by far-right Jeanine àÅñez, after the coup against President Evo Morales in November 2019. In addition to the liberation of the political prisoners, they also called for immediate general elections in the country. àÅñez has been trying to delay the elections using the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext, in pursuit of her imperialist and neoliberal policies. | At around 10 am, wearing face…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/06/19/bolivians…

Union Leads West Coast Port Shutdown On Juneteenth
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-19
Former political prisoner Arthur League talks about the ILWU shutdown and the campaign to free Black political prisoners, some of whom have been imprisoned for over 50 years.
therealnews.com/stories/union-leads-west…

US jobless disaster intensifies as 1.5 million filed for unemployment last week
wsws.org | 2020-06-19
Mass joblessness in the US is unlike anything seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/19/unem…

Masks, gloves — the ocean is filling up with COVID trash
Joseph Winters | peoplesworld.org | 2020-06-19
Are oil companies the true heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic? That’s sure what they’d like you to think. In a recent flurry of “corporate reputation advertising” highlighted by Emily Atkin in the newsletter HEATED, oil and gas companies, plus the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) — an industry group that counts Chevron, Exxon, Citgo, and many others …
peoplesworld.org/article/masks-gloves-th…

Podcast: How the Democratic Party Unleashed Decades of Racial Injustice and Police Brutality on Communities of Color
Mnar Muhawesh | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-19
Margaret Kimberly and Monique Cullars Doty join MintCast to discuss how Democrats attempt to save face by co-opting justice movements, including Black Lives Matter, and the party’s roots in White supremacy.
mintpressnews.com/podcast-black-lives-ma…

Foreign Troops: What is too Close for Comfort?
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-19
Tensions in the skies. RT presented a news story of the United States intercepting a fleet of Russian bombers off the Alaskan coast. Four Russian Tu-95 bombers, accompanied by Su-35 and MiG-31 fighters jets, flew from Siberia toward Alaska where they were shadowed by US F-22 fighters. The US and NORAD admitted that the Russian …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/foreign-troop…

Reverse Logic: Trump Sanctions the International Criminal Court
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-19
The decision by the Trump administration to sanction members of the International Criminal Court defies logic, in so far as there is any logic to sanctions. As a policy tool, such tools are supposedly designed to target specific members of | …
globalresearch.ca/trump-sanctions-intern…

Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians In Tulkarem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-06-19
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, four young Palestinian men in Qaffin town, north of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, after invading and ransacking their homes. Media sources in Tulkarem said several army jeeps invaded the town, before the soldiers violently searched homes, causing damage, and abducted …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-abduct-four-p…

The Globalization of “Fast Food”. Behind the Brand: McDonald’s
Peter Salisbury | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-19
This article was first published in The Ecologist in 2011 | In the first of a major new series following on from the ground breaking Behind the Label, Peter Salisbury takes a look at one of the biggest brands in the …
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COVID-19: UN health agency warns of ‘new and dangerous phase’ as cases mount
news.un.org | 2020-06-19
The world is entering “a new and dangerous phase” of the COVID-19 pandemic, as infection rates continue to climb, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Juneteenth: A celebration of black liberation & day to remember “horrific system that was slavery”
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-19
Juneteenth is “much more complicated and much more complex than is traditionally presented,” increased recognition of the day “provides an opportunity to have a thorough remembrance of this horrific system that was slavery.”
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Containing the Black Lives Matter Movement: Democrats and Republicans Play Good Cop/Bad Cop
Roger Harris | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
A long smoldering and now massive popular response to injustice has been catalyzed by the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th. Even Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson concedes, “this was without precedent in the modern era.” A broad consensus critical of the coercive police function of the US state is building.
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US to Form Icebreaker Fleet for the Arctic. “Polar Security Cutter”
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-19
In the past few months, the United States has tightened its policies in the Arctic, as several measures show. For decades, Washington has not been concerned with strengthening its military presence at the poles, giving greater focus to other regions …
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump OK of Commercial Fishing in Atlantic Marine Monument

| globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-19
A federal lawsuit filed today says President Trump’s June 5 executive order allowing commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument was illegal. The lawsuit notes that the Antiquities Act allows presidents to create national monuments to …
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Tipping the Nuclear Dominos
Conn Hallinan | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-19
If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to re-start nuclear tests, it will complete the unraveling of more than 50 years of arms control agreements, taking the world back to the days when school children practiced “duck and cover,” and people built backyard bomb shelters.
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Why Do American Police Keep Shooting People In The Back?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-06-19
Despite promises of reform, police are still killing. PAR examines the case of Rayshard Brooks, shot in the back twice as he fled police, and speaks with James McLynas, who says his lack of law enforcement experience makes him the perfect candidate for sheriff.
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A time of reckoning for monuments to racism and genocide
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-19
With so many ongoing crises arguments about history may seem esoteric, but only by honestly redressing the sins of the past can we find ways to make a better future. Toppling monuments is just a start.
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Antifa movement: Anti-establishment rebels
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-19
A day after Donald Trump’s election victory, Hispanic students at Royal Oak High School in Michigan were harassed by their classmates who started chanting, “Build the wall!” Once installed in office, the White House occupant announced the immigration ban on Muslims and a few hours later, someone set fire to the local Islamic Center in …
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