2021-06-20: News Headlines

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-20). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Why discussing racism with children matters. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Children are always watching and learning behaviors from those around them, and parents are usually a child's first role model. But when it comes to discussing racism with children, parents and caregivers may wonder how to begin the conversation about race and bias, and what is age-appropriate to discuss with their children. The American Academy …

_____ (2021-06-20). Who Is a 'Terrorist' in Biden's America? strategic-culture.org By Whitney WEBB | Far from being a war against "white supremacy," the Biden administration's new "domestic terror" strategy clearly targets primarily those who oppose US government overreach and those who oppose capitalism and/or globalization. | In the latest sign that the US government's War on Domestic Terror is growing in scope and scale, the White House on Tuesday revealed the nation's first ever

Naomi LaChance (2021-06-20). How Pro-Palestine Activists and Union Workers are Blocking Israeli Trade in Port Cities. counterpunch.org Hundreds of activists and union workers successfully prevented a container ship owned by an Israeli company from docking and unloading its cargo in Oakland, California, earlier this month in protest of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Then on June 9, people in Vancouver, Canada, gathered to stop the same ship. These and other "Block the […] | To read this article, In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to…

Donald Monaco (2021-06-20). U.S. Criminality in Occupied Palestine. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at

Anonymous669 (2021-06-20). US Marines To Develop New System Armed With Israeli-Made Loitering Munitions. southfront.org Screen grab from a promotional video by Uvision showing a canister-launch system for the Hero munition based on the US JLTV vehicle. | On June 17, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) awarded Mistral, Inc. a contract to design, build and test the Organic Precision Fires — Mounted (OPF-M) system. | Mistral teamed with Israel's UVision LTD to deliver the USMC with advanced loitering munition capabilities based on last's Hero 120 system. | UVision's Hero family of loitering systems includes Hero-30, Hero-70, Hero-120, He…

Ben Debney (2021-06-20). Capitalism Can't Innovate on Ideas. counterpunch.org Innovation is said to be the mainstay of capitalist ideology, one of the supreme virtues of a system built to reward individual initiative. The genius of capitalism, according to Bill Gates, rests in 'its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest.' Potential for big financial returns on innovation, he adds, 'unleashes a broad set […] | To read this article, In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set t…

Liberation Staff Seattle (2021-06-20). Seattle PD crackdown can't stop #blocktheboat movement vs. Israeli apartheid. zcomm.org As part of the global movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction Apartheid Israel, the Block the Boat movement has emerged to engage in peaceful direct action to stop the unloading of Israeli ships and cargo…

Benjamin Barber (2021-06-20). Black Voters Matter Holds Freedom Ride Across the South. zcomm.org The Freedom Ride for Voting Rights will kick off with a Juneteenth celebration in Jackson, Mississippi, and make stops in seven states, concluding with a June 26 rally in Washington, DC.

Thomas Meyer (2021-06-20). Alternatives to capitalism: Buen Vivir. indybay.org Capitalism is seen primarily as a system of institutional and racist oppression, and it implies a way of life that sees nature only as a raw material to be exploited. The claim is thus to break with the capitalist mode of production and life in order to create "other forms of life that are not determined by capital accumulation" (ibid., 37). The aim is a "return to use values" (ibid., 39).

Haidar Eid (2021-06-20). Video: Why Israel is an apartheid state. greenleft.org.au Haidar Eid, Jeff Halper, Noura Mansour and Arie Huybregts discuss why Israel is an apartheid state.

G. Dunkel (2021-06-19). 140 protests against racism, cops, far right sweep France. workers.org Marches and rallies against racism, the far right and police violence took place in over 140 communities in France June 12. These "Marches for Liberty" were scheduled to be held a few weeks before regional elections, where the far-right National Rally (RN/Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen's party) will try to . . . |

Liberation Staff (2021-06-19). Honor the history of Juneteenth by continuing the fight for Black liberation! liberationnews.org Juneteenth has long been a day of celebration and remembrance of the centuries-long struggle of African Americans to win freedom from bondage, as well as the ongoing struggle today to end racism and win full liberation. Because of the historic uprising last summer and renewed wave of struggle for Black liberation, the government has now …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-19). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Why discussing racism with children matters. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Children are always watching and learning behaviors from those around them, and parents are usually a child's first role model. But when it comes to discussing racism with children, parents and caregivers may wonder how to begin the conversation about race and bias, and what is age-appropriate to discuss with their children. The American Academy …

Robert Mackey (2021-06-19). European Soccer Stars Refuse to Yield to Racist Fans. zcomm.org Young athletes who represent increasingly multiracial European nations insist on taking a knee to protest racism…

Staff (2021-06-19). Black Womanist Theology Offers Hope in the Face of White Supremacy. truthout.org The language of "American racial reckoning" has been frequently cited since the tragic murder of George Floyd and the raising of American consciousness regarding its history of systemic racism. The ongoing murders of Black people by the police, and the profound ways in which Black people must continue to struggle against forms of anti-Black inequity across various political, social and economic indices, prove that there needs to be a robust reckoning. And yet, these realities perpetuate forms of anti-B…

Martha Grevatt (2021-06-19). Ballot initiative advances to hold police accountable. workers.org On June 16, Citizens for a Safer Cleveland announced success in collecting 15,000+ petition signatures for a ballot initiative addressing the major public safety issue of racist police brutality. If the signatures are approved, voters can decide in November to hold police accountable through a commission that includes community activists . . . |

Answer Coalition (2021-06-19). Seattle Block the Boat movement vs. Israeli apartheid. answercoalition.org &nbsp…

Juan Cole (2021-06-19). Iran's Leading Candidate for President is a far right Notorious Hanging Judge. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Polling suggests that Ebrahim Raisi will likely win Iran's presidential election. So who is he? An official Iranian point of view on Raisi goes this way: He was born in 1960 into a family of clerics claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad in the Nowghan district of Mashhad, the largest …

The Lancet (2021-06-19). [Editorial] Protecting refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic. thelancet.com This World Refugee Day, June 20, coincides with 70 years of the 1951 Refugee Convention, a multilateral treaty that shaped the standards that provide the bedrock of international protection for refugees against discrimination and violation of their human rights. The COVID-19 pandemic has weighed heavily on the 26 ∑3 million refugees worldwide today. International guidelines and national programmes to curb transmission have not always considered the needs of refugees living in densely populated shelters without water and sanitation facilities.

Fight Back (2021-06-19). Freedom Road Socialist Organization to hold online meeting for general members. fightbacknews.org There has never been a better time to join and learn about revolutionary organization than now. On June 24 at 7 p.m. Eastern time, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) will hold an online meeting through Zoom to welcome the growing number of general members who have chosen to join FRSO over the past year. | During the meeting, leading comrades will explain the principles and ideas behind FRSO, and provide an overview of the exciting work being done on the ground by comrades all over the United States. From the George Floyd Rebellion of last summer to the strong display of solidarity for Palestine this year…

Marjorie Cohn (2021-06-19). Affordable Care Act Survives Right-Wing Attack in Supreme Court. zcomm.org In a long-awaited decision, the Supreme Court rejected a right-wing challenge to the Affordable Care Act in California v. Texas, preserving health insurance for 21 million people…

Phyllis Bennis (2021-06-19). The Real Danger of Israel's New Government. juancole.com By Phyllis Bennis | — ( Foreign Policy in Focus) — The new Israeli government takes office already largely paralyzed. With eight diverse parties, they agree only on two things. One, they want to get rid of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Check — that's done. Two, given the unlikeliness of reaching agreement on any major …

Ramzy Baroud (2021-06-19). On Trumpism and Netanyahu-ism. zcomm.org How Benjamin Netanyahu Won America and Lost Israel…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-06-19). Global War on Humanity: America's Unceasing Pursuit of Hegemony. globalresearch.ca Essentially what we're looking at is a broader historical perspective on how the US de facto supported Nazi Germany with a view to destroying the Soviet Union as well as weakening the British Empire and competing empires including of course France, Belgium, Holland, etc. And those countries today are no longer colonial powers.

The Conversation (2021-06-19). As new Israeli Gov't Bombs Gaza, Relations with Palestine are on a Knife Edge— and will Stay There. juancole.com By Tony Walker | — ( The Conversation) — The Israel-Palestine conflict has experienced its first violent spasm in the term of a new Israeli government. However, hostilities have since been contained, for the time being. Provocative demonstrations this week in Arab East Jerusalem involving Israeli proto-nationalists chanting "death to Arabs" were met with a …

Stop US Aid to Israel (2021-06-19). 6/15/21 Israel Bombs Gaza, Palestine Breaking Cease Fire. indybay.org The 4th largest military in the world thanks to US taxpayers giving $4 billion a year above the table to the American military base, apartheid settler colony known as Israel is at this moment bombing the open air prison known as Gaza, a part of Palestine, which population of 1.7 million is 45% children, and has no military and no air raid shelters. See twitter.com/hashtag/FreePalestine?src=ha… | twitter.com/hashtag/SaveGaza?src=hashtag…

Angela (2021-06-19). Saturday 6/19: The Tide is Shifting: Palestine Advocacy in 2021. indybay.org Webinar…

Staff (2021-06-19). 19 June, Manchester: Rally in Solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners. samidoun.net Saturday, 19 June 12 pm Piccadilly Gardens Manchester, England Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1015380345870452… Join us on the streets of Manchester in solidarity with Palestine, to demand the release of prisoners locked up by Israel and to build the boycott! Responding to the Samidoun call for action, we stand with the six hunger strikers and for the release of all political prisoners. As imperialism continues to back the Zionist state, we also demand the release of Issam Hijjawi, imprisoned by the British state and Georges Abdallah, locked up for four decades in a French jail. Victory to the Palestin…

Staff (2021-06-19). 19 June, NYC: Palestine Contingent on Juneteenth: You Can't Stand for Palestinian Liberation without Standing for Black Liberation. samidoun.net Saturday, 19 June 12 pm Frederick Douglass Square, Brooklyn, NY (Formerly Nostrand & Jefferson) Info: www.instagram.com/p/CQM1rMngxWD/ Stand with the December 12 Movement and Sistas' Place You cannot stand for Palestinian liberation without standing for Black Liberation. If you've been showing up for protests for Palestine, you should also be showing up for Black liberation. This Saturday on June 19th we will join the December 12th movement at Frederick Douglass Square in Brooklyn to commemorate Juneteenth. Join us as we wave the New Afrikan flag and show solidarity with our Black Comrades fighting for li…

Staff (2021-06-19). 19 June, Toulouse: Palestine Stand — Free Georges Abdallah! samidoun.net Saturday, June 19, 2021 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Metro Capitole Toulouse, France Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/226569835718031 As part of the international week of action for the liberation of Georges Abdallah , Collectif Palestine Vaincra is organizing a Palestine Stand at the exit of the Capitole metro station in Toulouse, France on Saturday June 19 from 4 pm to 6 pm. Lebanese communist and Palestinian resistance fighter, Georges Abdallah has been imprisoned in France since 1984 and eligible for release since 1999. He has become the longest-held political prisoner in Europe. To support him is to support the…

Eds. (2021-06-19). Celebrating Pride Month: Honoring the movement to end discrimination against LGBTQ people amid record-breaking year for anti-trans laws. mronline.org June is Pride Month—a time set aside to honor the Stonewall uprising, which launched the movement to end discriminatory laws against LGBTQ people—and to remember the many important cultural and legislative victories since that pivotal summer in 1969. | June 19, 2021…

Staff (2021-06-19). 19 June, Berlin: Grup Yorum concert and demonstration for freedom. samidoun.net Saturday, 19 June 4: 00 pm Oranienplatz Berlin, Germany Resistance and revolutionary arts festival in the fight against fascism and Zionism — Berlin Samidoun invites you to take part in this popular, artistic festival with the revolutionary band "Grup Yorum" from Turkey. Members of this band have given their lives in hunger strikes for freedom and in solidarity with political prisoners in Turkey. Together, we celebrate revolutionary solidarity and common struggle against colonialism and fascism! We support Grup Yorum, who will present a number of their song about the Intifada and Palestinian resistance. Many…

Michael F. Brown (2021-06-19). Democrats giddy at rise of Bennett and Lapid. electronicintifada.net DMFI busy promoting new Israeli government.

Angela (2021-06-19). Friday 6/18: A Black Lens on Palestinian Liberation. indybay.org Online…

_____ (2021-06-19). Myths & Facts about genocide: What's happening in Xinjiang, China. popularresistance.org The Biden Administration has chosen to echo the same propaganda claims against China that were made by Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Both the Trump & Biden administration are charging the Chinese government with the crime of genocide against a minority people, the Uighurs, in Xinjiang Autonomous Region in western China. This campaign coincides with an economic war with China, which includes tariffs and sanctions. It also comes as the Pentagon has announced a new military doctrine which prioritizes and prepares the United States with a war on China.

_____ (2021-06-19). Myths And Facts About Genocide. popularresistance.org The Biden Administration has chosen to echo the same propaganda claims against China that were made by Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Both the Trump and Biden administrations are charging the Chinese government with the crime of genocide against a minority people, the Uighurs, in Xinjiang Autonomous Region in western China. This campaign coincides with an economic war with China, which includes tariffs and sanctions. It also comes as the Pentagon has announced a new military doctrine which prioritizes and prepares the United States with a war on China. | What are the facts? Is China actually carrying out…

Jean-Marie Chauvier (2021-06-19). Nazi Germany Invaded the Soviet Union: 80 years since Operation Barbarossa… globalresearch.ca This article by Jean-Marie Chauvier was first published on June 22, 2016 On 22nd June, 2021 it will have been 80 years since the commencement of Operation Barbarossa, the Hitlerian invasion of the Soviet Union, the war of extermination, …

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2021-06-19). UN shows green light to Zionists for crimes against children. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 20 (MNA) — Expressing disgust for not designating Zionist regime in UN's blacklist, Hamas movement in a statement announced that UN shows green light to Israel to commit crimes against Palestinian children.

WSWS (2021-06-19). Kurdish HDP member brutally murdered in far-right attack on party offices in Turkey. wsws.org Deniz Poyraz was killed by fascist assailant Onur Gencer in an armed attack on the Izmir regional offices of the Kurdish nationalist Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

WSWS (2021-06-19). US Capitol Police hired fascistic military contractor to train emergency response unit. wsws.org Testifying before the House Administration Committee, Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton revealed that Northern Red, a private military contractor used for years by multiple government agencies, features neo-Nazi iconography on its website, uniforms and social media accounts.

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-19). NATO nations, Israel conclude groundbreaking F-35 war games said to target Iran. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO nations, Israel conclude groundbreaking F-35 war games said to target IranRick Rozoff The nine-day Falcon Strike 21 air combat exercises in Italy ended on June 17. The website of NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Command Europe reported that 600 personnel and F-35 fifth-generation combat aircraft from Britain, Israel, Italy and the U.S. participated in "complex …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-19). United States celebrates Juneteenth. peoplesdispatch.org June 19th or Juneteenth is celebrated across the United States commemorating the end of slavery. Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the announcement by General Gordon Granger in 1865, proclaiming freedom for enslaved people in Texas. Today, many remind that while there is much to celebrate, there are many struggles to be fought to end white supremacy and for the full liberation of Black people.

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