Daily Archives: June 21, 2021

2021-06-21: News Headlines

Editor2 (2021-06-21). China, Africa(ns), White Supremacy & the White Left. orinocotribune.com By Ahjamu Umi — Jun 17, 2021 | In the 1980s, during the cold war, white socialist groups from Marxist/Leninist, Maoist, Trotskyist, etc., tendencies throughout the U.S., were always quick to the draw in attacking our revolutionary Pan-Africanist ideology, work, and analysis. And despite doing everything in their power to differentiate themselves from white socialists, white anarchists as a whole, haven't historically been much better. This reality continues. For us, this has always been strange for what we believe are two distinct reasons. One, although the white socialist left typically desires to see socia…

Mark Gruenberg (2021-06-21). Not waiting for Congress, Justice Dept. to move on voting rights. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—Not waiting for the Republican-clogged U.S. Senate to act, the Democratic Biden administration's Justice Department will step up voting rights enforcement, big time. And it'll concentrate its resources—and its lawyers' talents—on states like Florida and Texas that are the biggest threats to voters, especially voters of color but also working-class voters in general. And …

Anonymous007 (2021-06-21). U.S. To Remove Defense Systems From Saudi Arabia, Other Middle Eastern Countries. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The US is about to remove defense systems to be removed from Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan and Saudi Arabia in order to allegedly reduce tensions with Iran, The Wall Street Journal said the Patriot anti-missile batteries were being removed from Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and that a separate…

Anonymous103 (2021-06-21). First Test Of Israeli Airborne Laser System Successfully Completed. southfront.org Illustrative image | On June 21, the Israeli Defense Ministry reported on successful tests of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) laser interception system installed on a plane. According to the reports, the target drones were launched at different ranges and flight altitudes, but each time they were shot down by the laser beam. | The first test of an airborne laser system was successfully completed, in what Defense Minister Benny Gantz hailed a major "tech…

Lekgantshi Console Tleane (2021-06-21). Solidarity, Not Bourgeoisie Interests, Will Lead to Peace in Israel/Palestine. counterpunch.org In her recent article on the new cabinet of Israel Ariel Gold excellently dispels the myth of a possible path that may be taken by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, especially with regards to the condition of the Palestinian people. The new cabinet is likely to continue with the established hostility towards any peaceful settlement with Palestinians, occasional battles with

Al-Shabaka (2021-06-21). Gaza's Summer: Destruction, Pandemic, and Climate Change. juancole.com By Asmaa Abu Mezied | — ( Al-Shabaka ) — In 2013, the UNDP warned of the increasing occurrence of dangerous heatwaves in Palestine over the coming years as a result of climate change. Indeed, at the end of August 2020, the Palestine Meteorological Office issued a warning about an impending heatwave, where the temperature …

Khaled Ghannam (2021-06-21). Sydney continues to show solidarity with Palestine. greenleft.org.au Khaled Ghannam reports on the latest rally in Sydney for Palestine, which continues to be attacked by Israel.

Sue Bolton (2021-06-21). Sue Bolton: Why I moved a Palestine solidarity motion on Moreland council. greenleft.org.au Sue Bolton reports on how a motion in solidarity with Palestine move at Moreland City Council was defeated by the casting vote of Labor Mayor Annalivia Carli-Hannan.

Juan Cole (2021-06-21). Far Right Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran Nuclear Talks for Tehran's Poor Rights Record (Israel has 200 Nukes and has Killed Thousands of Occupied Palestinians). juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — New extreme-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett came out on Sunday to argue that the election of an extreme-right Iranian cleric (Ebrahim Raisi) as president of that country should cause the Biden administration to back off reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Bennett called Raisi the "hangman of Tehran" and …

John Buell (2021-06-21). Central American Migrants: They're Here Because We Were There. juancole.com Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) — Democrats claim to defend an honest rendition of US history, one that will be attentive to the injustices inflicted by slavery and racism. Unfortunately, however, that honesty stops at the water's edge. While the president prepared for and conducted a widely- covered summit that among other things …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-21). 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 …

Patrick Cockburn (2021-06-21). The Rise and Fall of Netanyahu. counterpunch.org The rise of Benjamin Netanyahu was very like that of Donald Trump. Both won power as populist nationalist leaders exacerbating and exploiting polarisation within their own countries. Netanyahu inflated the threat from the Palestinians in the eyes of Israeli voters. Trump demonised blacks and immigrants.

Staff (2021-06-21). End Vaccine Apartheid: Summit on Vaccine Internationalism Demands Urgent Action to Help Global South. democracynow.org We look at the push to end what the World Health Organization is calling "vaccine apartheid," as many countries have yet to see a single COVID-19 vaccine shot amid mounting infections. "What we're looking for is an alternative to a system that has basically allowed for COVID-19 vaccines to be absolutely concentrated in the higher-income countries," says Carina Vance Mafla, former health minister of Ecuador, who co-chaired this weekend's emergency Summit on Vaccine Internationalism. She argues vaccine access can be improved by expanding vaccine "production in other countries … that have developed vaccine candida…

Staff (2021-06-21). Did U.S. Push Iran to Right? Hard-Line Cleric Wins Presidency; Nuclear Talks in Vienna Show Promise. democracynow.org Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi won the Iranian presidential election with about 62% of the vote. Raisi has headed Iran's judiciary since 2019 and is seen as a protégé and possible successor of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Turnout in the election was just 49% — the lowest since the 1979 Iranian revolution — and dozens of candidates were barred from running in the election, including former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Raisi appears to "have higher ambitions than just [the] presidency," says Nega Mortazavi, an Iranian American journalist and host of "The Iran Podcast." "He is preparing to be…

Labor Video Project (2021-06-21). Chris Hedges On US Imperialism, Zionism & The Rise Of Fascism In The US. indybay.org WorkWeek interviews Chris Hedges about imperialism, Zionism and the growth of fascist and rightwing forces.

Staff (2021-06-21). Trump Complained COVID Testing Would Lose Him the Election, New Book Says. truthout.org I have mostly failed to be impressed by the "blockbuster" books about the Trump administration that have come out over the years. Part of it is simple exhaustion; the man was screaming at me from the TV when most of these books came out, so who needs it? The "revelations" were few and far between because Trump's White House was itself an open book thanks to the leaks and the former president's own unfiltered bluster. He's a venal racist sexist blowhard who can't be trusted? GET OUT NO WAY. | Of a…

Staff (2021-06-21). Palestine blasts UN for not listing Israel as child killer. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has criticized the United Nations for leaving Israel off the annual blacklist of parties responsible for grave violations against children.

WSWS (2021-06-21). Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, ruling opponents have no standing to sue. wsws.org The highly technical character of the decision should not obscure the fact that there is powerful support in corporate America for the Affordable Care Act, which has provided a windfall for the for-profit health care industry.

Joanna Wuest, Briana Last (2021-06-21). Dark Money, the Supreme Court, and the Fate of LGBTQ+ Rights. thenation.com Dark Money, the Supreme Court, and the Fate of LGBTQ+ Rights…

Elie Mystal (2021-06-21). How the Supreme Court Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religious Bigotry. thenation.com How the Supreme Court Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religious Bigotry…

Middle East Monitor (2021-06-21). 20 Factories Destroyed, 5,000 Jobs Lost Due to Israel's Offensive on Gaza. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at

Fight Back (2021-06-21). Philippines: Expose AFP lies to cover-up the murder of civilians. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following June 19 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | | The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is weaving lies to cover up the murder of three civilians in Surigao del Sur by its fascist armed troops last Tuesday. | | On June 15 at around 1 p.m., local civilians Willy Rodriguez, Lenie Rivas and 12-year old Angel Rivas were mowed down by gunfire by armed troops of the AFP's 3rd Special Forces Battalion and 48th IB at Sitio Manluy-a, Km. 18, Barangay Diatagon, Lianga, Surigao del Sur. According to their families, their bodies were mangled, and A…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-21). Colombia: Analyzing the Strike from the Peoples' Congress. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Aznarez The national strike continues to be a topic of discussion in Colombia and the world. Also the repression and crimes of state terrorism of the government of Ivan Duque. That is why this week the Peoples' Tribunal condemned the regime for genocide. To talk about the current situation, we interviewed the leader of…

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-21). Tomorrow at noon: Belarus and 80th anniversary of Nazi invasion. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Tomorrow at noon: Belarus and 80th anniversary of Nazi invasionRick Rozoff As a scholar I know that a war of symbols has always been a harbinger of real military actions. In this regard, the claims of the collective West, especially Germany and Poland, to the moral high ground look inherently criminal. The Belarusian state news …

Shane Quinn (2021-06-21). Nazi Germany Prepares to Attack Russia—Analyzing Hitler's Access to Oil Sources. orinocotribune.com By Shane Quinn — Jun 17, 2021 | On 3 June 1941 a meeting of the Soviet Supreme Military Council was chaired in Moscow. Its goal was to ratify instructions for the Red Army's political workers, which would stress the need for vigilance and caution against the growing Nazi threat. | When Joseph Stalin's close associate, the Soviet politician Georgy Malenkov, read the paperwork regarding this conference he dismissed it by saying, "The document is formulated in primitive terms, as though we were going to war tomorrow". (1) | War was in fact just over two weeks away, and there was every need for Russian preparati…

teleSUR (2021-06-21). Venezuela Celebrates Martyrs' Day in Honor of Fabricio Ojeda. telesurenglish.net On June 21, Venezuela commemorates the Martyrs' Day in honor of Fabricio Ojeda, a revolutionary who headed the Patriotic Board to overthrow the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez (1952-1958). | RELATED: | Ojeda was a founding member of the Democratic-Republican Union (URD) party, through which he was elected lawmaker in 1958. At that time, he was also leading the Patriot…

Malcolm James Mitchell (2021-06-21). First-Person Singular: A Letter to My Fellow Black Chefs. progressive.org In 1962, my great-uncle James Baldwin wrote an essay to my father to help him navigate through a toxic and racist country. It inspired me to write my own to fellow Black chefs.

Brenda Norrell (2021-06-21). Censored News: The Twin Forces of Light and Darkness. indybay.org Duane Chili Yazzie, Dine', describes the Earth's defense to extractive industries and white supremacy. The Zapatistas have just arrived in Spain. At the same time, Yaqui Water Protectors are assassinated, and mass graves reveal genocide at residential schools. — Censored News…

Thomas Meyer (2021-06-21). 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).

Mark Guyula (2021-06-21). Yolngu leader condemns 14 years of racist NT Intervention. greenleft.org.au Fourteen years after the racist Northern Territory Intervention began, NT Aboriginal elder Yingiya Mark Guyula says the fight against it needs to continue.

Kamal Iranidoost (2021-06-21). New Zionist regime FM plans to visit UAE next week. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 21 (MNA) — Israeli regime foreign minister plans to visit the United Arab Emirates next week, making him the first regimes' minister on an official visit to the tiny Persian Gulf country that normalized ties with Israel last year.

Mohamed Kozbar (2021-06-21). Islamophobia: Four Years after Finsbury Park Attack, Canada Deaths Show Threat Undiminished. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at

Editorial Team (2021-06-20). Poetry Corner: December 1936, Spain by Clive Branson. challenge-magazine.org December 1936, Spain by Clive Branson, 16 June 1939 | Clive Branson was born in 1907. He became a skilled painter and studied at the Slade School of Art. At the age of 23 he exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy. He joined the ILP around 1927 but moved to the Communist Party in 1932. | Clive was active in the fight against the British Union of Fascists in London and played a leading role in the local Aid to Spain campaign, so naturally he enthusiastically volunteered for the International Brigades.

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…

Naomi LaChance (2021-06-20). How Pro-Palestine Activists and Union Workers are Blocking Israeli Trade in Port Cities. counterpunch.org Image by Hundreds of activists and union workers successfully

Ben Debney (2021-06-20). Capitalism Can't Innovate on Ideas. counterpunch.org Image by 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 of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries.' While 'driven by self-interest,' capitalism remains 'responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.' | This broad…

_____ (2021-06-20). Louisville And 20 Other Cities Plan March For Medicare For All, July 24. popularresistance.org We will begin at 11 AM in the park in front of the Federal Building where we have permission from the city to use the site. | We will have speakers (brief) and music then march and/or caravan to Breewayy, the square at 6th between Liberty and Jefferson. | There we will place flowers in honor of Breonna Taylor, to connect with her profession as a healer, and to link the struggle for health care with the fight to end systemic racism. We will return to where we began and share refreshments and socialize. | We will also be celebrating Medicare's 56th birthday. We hope you will join with us in demanding that Congress…

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

Labor Video Project (2021-06-20). Chris Hedges On US Imperialism, Zionism & The Rise Of Fascism In The US. indybay.org WorkWeek interviews Chris Hedges about imperialism, Zionism and the growth of fascist and rightwing forces.

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

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…

_____ (2021-06-20). 680 Global Leaders Urge Biden To End 'Israeli Oppression'. popularresistance.org More than 680 global leaders, from politicians and Nobel laureates to leading academics and peace advocates, have called on US President Joe Biden to honour his commitments towards protecting the human rights of Palestinians. | In an open letter published earlier this week, the group called on Biden to put "human rights at the centre of US foreign policy" and to "help bring an end to Israel's institutionalised domination and oppression of the Palestinian people". | "A sustainable and just peace — for all people — will remain elusive if US policy holds to a political status quo devoid of justice and ac…

_____ (2021-06-20). World's Nuclear Arms On High Operational Alert And Ready To Strike. popularresistance.org United Nations – The world's nine nuclear armed states have downsized their military arsenals, but made up for their loss by increasing the number of weapons on high operational alert, according to a new report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). | As a result, the world is increasingly within striking distance of nuclear weapons—either by accident or by design. | The most vulnerable region is Asia, which is home to four of the world's nine nuclear powers, namely, India, Pakistan, China and North Korea, the rest being the US, UK, France, Russia and Israel. | The study says the…

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.

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.

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…

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