(2026-06-17). 'Welfare Not Warfare' Protest Demands Halt To Europe's Rearmament. popularresistance.org On Sunday, June 14, over 12,000 people joined the "Welfare Not Warfare" protest in Brussels, organized by more than 800 civil society organizations, trade unions, and movements to oppose EU and NATO rearmament. "The coalition rejects the idea that Europe's security can be bought through a massive rearmament project that starves social budgets and escalates confrontation," the Stop ReArm Europe platform wrote in the protest announcement. | "Ongoing wars, occupation, genocide, and military violence are shaping lives around the world — from Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon to Yemen, Sudan, and the Democratic Repub…
(2026-06-17). In landmark case, UK judge sentences pro-Palestine activists as terrorists. mondoweiss.net 
In a UK first, a judge sentenced four Palestine Action activists to terrorism charges for a direct action protest against an Elbit Systems factory. The move sparks fears the ruling could set a dangerous precedent for those opposing Israel's genocide.
(2026-06-17). 2 more University of Michigan anti-genocide protesters released on bond in conspiracy frame-up. wsws.org Federal prosecutors are criminalizing encrypted messaging, political slogans, and protest organizing as felony conspiracies in a legal dragnet against anti-war activity.
(2026-06-17). Media's Hasan Piker Meltdown Is About Silencing Dissent. popularresistance.org Former high-ranking Biden administration officials should arguably be facing charges at the International Criminal Court for complicity in the Gaza genocide. Instead, they're embraced by polite society and enjoy influential posts in corporate media, academia and Washington think tanks. | Their concealment of Biden's declining mental faculties helped precipitate 2024's disastrous electoral results. | Democratic leaders in Congress, ostensibly in an oppositional role, continue to respond to Trump's militaristic authoritarianism, both at home and abroad, with characteristic fecklessness and even tacit support.