2022-06-15: News Headlines

This Week in Fascism (2022-06-15). This Week in Fascism #130: Neo-Nazis, Proud Boys and Groypers Heed Call from GOP to Attack LGBTQ Community. itsgoingdown.org Welcome fellow antifascists! This week, public hearings have started to take place on the attempted pro-Trump coup on January 6th. While neoliberals are putting a lot into these hearings &#1 ; just like they did the Mueller investigation and Trump's (two) impeachments &#1 ; if history has shown us anything, its that these spectacles rarely result in…

Dissident Voice Communications (2022-06-15). Former US President Bush Condemns "brutal invasion of Iraq" in Public Gaffe. dissidentvoice.org WION — While speaking at an event, Former US President George W Bush condemned the full-scale invasion by Russia as "brutal" and "unjustified." However, he mistakenly said "invasion of Iraq." In no time, he corrected himself: "I mean, Ukraine."

Global Research News (2022-06-15). Selected Articles: US Department of Defense Finally Comes Clean — Admits in Public Document that There Are 46 US Military-Funded Biolabs in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca By The Pentagon on Thursday finally admitted…

CJ Baker (2022-06-15). Protest Song Of The Week: 'Spitting Off the Edge of the World' By Yeah Yeah Yeahs. shadowproof.com The influential indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs released their first tune in close to a decade, "Spitting Off the Edge of the World." It's on their upcoming album, "Cool It Down," out September 30.

Tomdispatch (2022-06-15). My Pandemic in Three Acts: Dealing with the Disease that Never Seems to Leave Town. juancole.com By Nina Burleigh | &#1 ; ( Tomdispatch.com) &#1 ; On New Years' Eve 2019, Americans celebrated the advent of the roaring '20s with fireworks and champagne, amid ominous news alerts from China. Surely that virus would stay on the other side of the planet. I cringe at how entitled we felt then. Covid-19 has now wiped …

Omar Ahmed (2022-06-15). In Demolishing Muslim protestors' homes, India is taking a Leaf from of Israel's Book. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) &#1 ; Over the weekend Indian authorities bulldozed several homes belonging to Muslims in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). The homeowners were alleged to have taken part in organised protests on Friday in response to inflammatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) made by the now …

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-15). Slim your screen time with this summer challenge. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org OWATONNA, Minn. — Many people spend too much time staring at a screen. While screens are a part of today's culture, reducing screen time can have health benefits, including improved physical health, decreased obesity and higher quality sleep. This summer, Mayo Clinic Health System encourages people to make the most of life by living life fully — present and in the moment. They can join Mayo Clinic Health System for a free virtual challenge to…

BayAction2FreeAssange (2022-06-15). Sunday 7/3: Julian Assange Birthday Rally #FreeAssangeNOW. indybay.org Harry Bridges Plaza – The Embarcadero at Market- Across from the Ferry Building…

Edward Curtin (2022-06-15). Is There Life After Death? dissidentvoice.org Life is entwined with death from the start, for death is the price we must pay for being born, even though we don't choose it, which may be why some people who are very angry at the deal, decide to choose how and when they will die, as if they are getting revenge on someone …

Juan Cole (2022-06-15). This Week's Climate Disasters in the US are Giving us a Glimpse of our Future if we don't Stop CO2. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) &#1 ; We're only midweek, but we have already seen serial disasters across the United States that have been exacerbated by the climate emergency, caused by human beings burning coal, methane gas and petroleum. So writes Mihai Andrei at ZME Science. I put it to you that this first paragraph at the …

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-15). Science Saturday: Link found between key gene and two neurodegenerative diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Gene expression can amplify the risk of neurodegenerative diseases for patients, but researchers are still figuring out which genes have an outsized effect on risk and why. In a new paper published in Nature, Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators have zeroed in on variants of one gene critical for nerve cell function that ups the ante for patients with Lou Gehrig's Disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). "This finding helps clarify a new direction…

Anonymous103 (2022-06-14). Nationalist Units Shot Ukrainian Servicemen Who Tried To Surrender In Novomikhailovka &#1 ; Russian MoD. southfront.org | On June 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Ukrainian army continues to suffer significant losses, especially since in recent weeks cases have become more frequent when units of Ukrainian nationalists shot surrendering Ukrainian servicemen in the back. | The report of the Russian Ministry of Defence reads: | "So, after conducting firepower preparation to the offensive of Russian troops in the area of the settlement of Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, more than 30 serv…

Anonymous811 (2022-06-14). Harvest In Ukraine In 2022 Will Be Two Times Less Than In 2021. southfront.org | Taras Vysotsky, representative of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, spoke about the prospects of the harvest in his country at a briefing of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. He provided an analysis, which indicates that in 2022 the harvest from the fields of Ukraine will be about 65 million tons. This is 40% less than last year's harvest. | According to Mr Vysotsky, the harvest may be even smaller, about 60 million tons of grain. He explained that the decline was…

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-06-14). FBI: Ukraine Fighter and US Fugitive Craig Lang Armed by Colombia To Overthrow Venezuela Gov't. mintpressnews.com Lang, who is wanted for two murders in the United States, was "able to obtain firearms from law enforcement in Bogota" to fight Venezuela's government.

Fight Back (2022-06-14). Interview with Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviewed Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon, the international coordinator for the Bolivarian Socialist Council of Workers at the Workers' Summit of the Americas which took place June 10-12 in Tijuana, Mexico. | Fight Back!: Why are you here at the Workers Summit of the Americas? | Jacobo Torres de Leon: We are here as a general response to the exclusion of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua from the USA's Summit of the Americas, on the part of the U.S. administration. They don't have the right to exclude any country. We question this and how they treat the countries of the Americas. Th…

Staff (2022-06-14). Leila y Lidy caen ante Suiza y dicen adiós al mundial de voleibol de playa. cubadebate.cu Leila Martínez y Lidiannis Echevarría cedieron en tres parciales ante la pareja suiza de Bà∂bner y Vergé-Dépré y perdieron todas las opciones de seguir con vida en el Campeonato Mundial de Voleibol de Playa que acoge la ciudad italiana de Roma. este miércoles Noslen Díaz y Jorge Luis Alayo inician en la ronda de 32 la etapa de eliminación directa.

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-06-14). Organizaciones denuncian alza de policías asesinados en Haití. telesurtv.net La Red Nacional en Defensa de DD.HH señaló que 44 agentes del orden habían sido asesinados desde junio del 2021.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-14). People's Summit for Democracy Ends with a Bold Plan. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Participants of the People's Summit for Democracy protest the exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the Summit of the Americas. Photo: Kamikia Kisedje On the final day of the People's Summit, organizers, volunteers, and attendees marched by the hundreds to the Summit of the Americas The organizers of the People's Summit for Democracy were…

_____ (2022-06-14). "Summit of Exclusion" Backfires on Biden. popularresistance.org While hosting the Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles last week, the Biden administration sought to ostracize Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela by excluding them due to an alleged "lack of democratic space and human rights situations". The resulting backlash caused these three countries to be the most discussed topic inside and outside the summit venue, as governments and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean questioned whether the United States has the right or moral authority to pass judgment on the form of government each nation chooses. There was also plenty of skepticism about whether the…

Editor2 (2022-06-14). 2 Years Since Diplomat Alex Saab Was Abducted for Defying US Sanctions. orinocotribune.com Today, June 12, marks two years since the kidnapping of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Nain Saab, while on a humanitarian mission to Iran, his third mission to the country, to try to alleviate the effects of the U.S. economic warfare against Venezuela. | Saab, an accredited diplomat protected under the Vienna Convention, was abducted in Cape Verde without an arrest warrant or Interpol alert, and was

Staff (2022-06-14). President Maduro Discusses Counter-Blockade Strategies with Iran's Oil Minister. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro met this Monday, June 13, with Iran's Oil Minister Javad Owji and discussed measures to face the illegal sanctions imposed against the peoples of both countries. | The meeting was reported by the Venezuelan president this Monday, in the framework of his visit to Iran, which began on Friday. Among other concerns, the two nations seek to strengthen their cooperation in the fields of science and technology, agriculture, transportation, energy, tourism, defense, and culture. | "I had a pleasant meeting with the Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji," President Maduro posted on his Twitt…

Bruce Lerro (2022-06-14). Aryan Right-Wing Mythology for the New Age: Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade and Joseph Campbell. dissidentvoice.org Orientation My three-year stint in the New Age In 1984 at the age of 36, I decided to return to school with the intention of becoming an art therapist. I attended Antioch University in San Francisco for my undergraduate degree and then went to a New Age spirituality school the following year for my master's …

Shawgi Tell (2022-06-14). "Booming" Economy Leaves Millions Behind: Part Eight. dissidentvoice.org Economic and social disasters continue to increase worldwide. There is no "healthy recovery" from the pandemic. The level of irreparable harm being caused by the inability and unwillingness of the ruling elite to solve any problems, even small problems, is glaring. With no sense of shame or irony, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, …

Anonymous Contributor (2022-06-14). Libre Las Tres: Mexican Feminists Held as Political Prisoners. itsgoingdown.org Call to support feminist political prisoners facing charges for engaging in a series of occupations in so-called Mexico. photo: @Usagii_ko On April 15th, around 200 police officers in Mexico City arrested three women that had occupied and turned the office of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission building (CNDH) into a housing sanctuary for women that…

Colin Todhunter (2022-06-14). Pouring Poison and Planting Seeds of Dependency. dissidentvoice.org Do you remember the iconic Union Carbide image from the 19 s or early 1960s? The one with the giant hand coming from the sky, pouring pesticides onto Indian soil. The blurb below the image includes the following: Science helps build a new India — India has developed bold new plans to build its economy and …

Final Straw (2022-06-14). Final Straw: Support Jessica Reznicek and Navigating Conflict in Movement. itsgoingdown.org Long-running anarchist radio show and podcast, The Final Straw, presents an interview with a supporter of Water Protector Jessica Reznicek. Listen and Download HERE First up, Charlotte speaks about their friend, political prisoner and water defender Jessica Reznicek who just had an appeal denied of an 8 year sentence and terrorism enhancement for sabotaging the…

Staff (2022-06-14). Más de 800 días contra la covid en Cuba: Avanzado control de la enfermedad, pero es clave mantener percepción de riesgo. cubadebate.cu El pasado 11 de junio, Cuba llegó a los 822 días de enfrentamiento al SARS-CoV-2, un virus que puso a prueba los sistemas sanitarios de todo el mundo y que nos ha hecho vivir una compleja pandemia.

Staff (2022-06-14). Microsoft retira el Internet Explorer, que cede su espacio al Edge. cubadebate.cu Luego de 27 años en servicio, el soporte de Internet Explorer será retirado este 15 de junio por Microsoft. La compañía anunció en un comunicado que el popular navegador, incorporado como un componente del paquete Windows 95, dejará su lugar definitivamente al nuevo Edge, que integrará los sitios web y aplicaciones basados en el antiguo explorador.

Staff (2022-06-14). Nacionalistas disparan por la espalda a militares ucranianos que se disponían a rendirse. cubadebate.cu El Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia informó este martes que en las últimas semanas aumentaron los incidentes en que nacionalistas ucranianos dispararon por la espalda a soldados de las Fuerzas Armadas de Ucrania que se disponían a rendirse. Como resultado de esas acciones, 32 militares ucranianos resultaron heridos y muertos.

Marjorie Cohn (2022-06-14). Torture Memo Lawyer John Yoo Devises Theory for Stealing Presidential Elections. zcomm.org Twisting the law to fit his nefarious agenda isn't new to Yoo…

David Giesen (2022-06-14). Sunday 7/3: Fulfilling the Promise of America, a symposium. indybay.org ZOOM video meet: | zoom.us/j/94131824284?pwd=RzI0ZEY1eEkrbkxFemNOMHFHbUZXZz09

La Peña (2022-06-14). Friday 6/17: Baila Community Dance Party. indybay.org La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705…

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-06-14). Wednesday 6/15: Labor History: A key to unlocking workers' power today. indybay.org Online via Zoom | To register: bit.ly/FSFD-Labor

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-06-14). Pdte. de Venezuela se reúne con líder parlamentario de Kuwait. telesurtv.net Nicolás Maduro y Marzouq Al-Ghanim compartieron las experiencias legislativas de los parlamentos de ambos países.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-06-14). 2022 California Juneteenth – National Freedom Day. indybay.org In the coming years over 100 California cities with @100,000+ residents will begin to discover our unique California Juneteenth Legacy, helping manifest equity and greater inclusion throughout the 5th largest economy in the world. Today, "Mining for Freedom" or the authentic "Golden Legacy" of our California USCT who fought, bleed and died for freedom is a fierce debate impacting future generation.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-06-14). Pdte. venezolano llega a Catar en visita de Estado. telesurtv.net Desde 2016 Venezuela y Catar han impulsado acciones conjuntas para avanzar en la cooperación dentro de la OPEP.

Staff (2022-06-14). Costa Rica venció a Nueva Zelanda y es el último clasificado al Mundial Catar 2022. cubadebate.cu Con su victoria por la mínima frente a Nueva Zelanda gracias al gol del extremo Joel Campbell en el minuto 3, el once del país centroamericano completa el cuadro de competidores del Mundial Catar 2022, que arrancará el 18 de noviembre, donde comenzará jugando en el Grupo E junto a España, Alemania y Japón.

United We Dream (2022-06-14). Wednesday 6/15: DACA Tenth Anniversary: Then, Now and Beyond! Celebration & Action Rally. indybay.org Virtual celebration & action rally…

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-06-14). Cuba y Panamá conversan de cara a negociaciones migratorias. telesurtv.net La comitiva cubana realiza la visita por motivo de la VI Ronda de Conversaciones sobre Temas Migratorios Panamá-Cuba.

Staff (2022-06-14). OMS convoca a su Comisión de Emergencia ante proliferación de la viruela del mono. cubadebate.cu La Organización Mundial de la Salud ha convocado para el 23 de junio una reunión de su Comisión de Emergencia ante lo que el director general de la organización, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, consideró "preocupante" proliferación de casos de la viruela símica, que plantea la necesidad de una mayor coordinación entre los países.

Staff (2022-06-14). Hoy, Cubadebate en Mesa Redonda: øCómo leer al Che en nuestros días? mesaredonda.cubadebate.cu Jóvenes investigadores son convocados por Cubadebate para debatir en la Mesa Redonda de este martes sobre el pensamiento del Che, su vigencia y sus lecturas para estos tiempos.

Peoples' Dispatch (2022-06-14). Bolivia: Court sentences former coup president Jeanine àÅñez to 10 years' prison. greenleft.org.au A Bolivian court has found Jeanine àÅñez and former police and military chiefs guilty for their role in crimes committed during the coup against then-president Evo Morales in November 2019, reports Peoples Dispatch.

Labor Video Project (2022-06-14). WCCUSD Union Busting Attack On Adult School Teachers United Leadership. indybay.org The WCCUSD school district terminated the president and vice president of the Adult School Teachers United in a union busting attack. The president Ken Ryan and vice president Kristen Pursley discuss their termination, the reason behind it and the attack on adult education and ESL by not only the District by the Democrats in the legislature and governor.

United We Dream (2022-06-14). Wednesday 6/15: DACA Décimo Aniversario – °Antes, Ahora y Más Allá! Celebración y Reuinon para la Acción. indybay.org Virtual celebration & action rally…

Staff (2022-06-14). Chapeando: Mallory contra las madres cubanas (+ Podcast). cubadebate.cu Sin quitar razones a quejas por las carencias y también por efectos no desdeñables de insensibilidad y burocracia, no sobra alertar sobre la vigencia absoluta de esas prácticas inspiradas en el viejo pero nunca abandonado memorando de Mallory.

Submedia.tv (2022-06-14). System Fail 13: The Spoils of Empire. itsgoingdown.org System Fail from sub.Media takes a look at global news from an anarchist perspective. In the wake of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, we take a look at some of the recent resistance waged by two nations rendered stateless by British cartographers. First we visit Palestine where tensions have flared into several violent confrontations between…

Staff (2022-06-14). Entregan Premio Anual de Inmunología a trabajo investigativo sobre la vacuna anticovid Soberana 02. cubadebate.cu Investigadores cubanos recibieron el Premio Anual de Inmunología Jorge Gavilondo Cowley in Memoriam por el trabajo investigativo "Diseño, desarrollo y evaluación preclínica de Soberana 02: una vacuna cubana contra la COVID-19", informó el Instituto Finlay de Vacunas. El premio fue entregado en el Congreso Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Inmunología.

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-06-14). Presidente Nicolás Maduro finaliza visita a Kuwait. telesurtv.net Fue la última actividad del mandatario venezolano la cual concluyó con la conformación de una Comisión Mixta con Kuwait.

____ (2022-06-13). Summit of the Americas Fails: Boycott by Presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala. transcend.org 7 Jun 2022 – As the US government's Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

____ (2022-06-13). Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (14 Jun 1928 — 9 Oct 1967). transcend.org Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956—59), and guerrilla leader in South America, Guevara was a medical doctor specialized in leprosy. Traveling around South America, he observed conditions that spurred his revolt against poverty and capitalist exploitation, adopting Marxist ideology, theory and practices. He is revered by many as a martyred cultural hero, having become an iconic cult figure as a symbol of anti-imperialist struggles everywhere.

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