(2021-06-30). Fallo de Corte Suprema: Intolerancia tras hoja de higo de la religión. workers.org 
El fallo del 17 de junio del Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos, en el caso Fulton contra Filadelfia, representa un ataque intolerante a los derechos de las personas LGBTQ2S+. Afuera de la Corte Suprema, el 8 de octubre de 2019, exigiendo protección legal contra la discriminación de LGBTQ2S+. En . . . |
(2021-06-29). The Christian Right Used COVID to Win Rampant Religious Exemptions. truthout.org 
On a Friday evening in April, the Supreme Court quietly issued a short decision that opened the floodgates for religious entities to claim an exemption from just about any law. Tandon v. Newsom didn't center on a traditionally hot-button issue like abortion or LGBTQ rights; it focused on COVID-19. While the case received little attention outside of the legal world, it marked the culmination of more than 30 years of legal strategy by Christian conservatives who have sought ever-broader leeway to flout t…
(2021-06-29). Friday 7/9: Walnut Creek: Deadline for Democracy Sidewalk Rally for Voting Rights. indybay.org Intersection of Ygnacio Valley Road and Civic Drive, Walnut Creek 94596 | This is a peaceful event. Follow current COVID safety guidelines.
(2021-06-29). Peter Thiel Will Pay Zero in Federal Income Tax on His $5 Billion in Gains. commondreams.org "Today, six Supreme Court justices… sanctioned the United States' use of punitive, prolonged, and arbitrary detention as a means of immigration enforcement and deterrence."
(2021-06-29). House Will Vote Tuesday on Removing Confederate Statues From Capitol. truthout.org 
Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are set to vote Tuesday on a bill that, if enacted, would remove statues of Confederate figures as well as replace the bust of a Supreme Court jurist who authored what is considered one of the worst decisions in the country's history. | The bill promoted by Democrats
(2021-06-29). Disadvantaged Farmers Deserve Help. progressive.org Racism in agriculture is a historic fact that must be confronted directly.
(2021-06-29). Organizing in the midnight hour: an interview with Rodrigo Nunes. roarmag.org 
People raise their fists during a Black Lives Matter protest in London, UK — June 6, 2020. Vincenzo Lullo / Shutterstock.com | With the Doomsday Clock currently set at
(2021-06-29). China and Russia Quiet about US Past Genocides and Ongoing Genocide in the Middle East and Africa. dissidentvoice.org The world facing desperate situations of climate change, planetary degradation and nuclear war preparation desperately needs protection from inhumane deceiving war promoting Western media, and from where shall it come if not from the bountiful and powerful two great designated adversaries of the Western powers, China, the world's most populous nation and largest economy, and …
(2021-06-29). The West's Audacity of Sanctioning: The Latest Case is Belarus. dissidentvoice.org On 23 May 2021 President Lukashenko ordered the Ryanair plane, flying from Athens to Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, carrying his Nazi-schooled threatening opponent and activist Protasevich and his girlfriend, to be diverted to Minsk. He did so after having received a message of a bomb threat on board the plane from the Swiss e-mail provider …
(2021-06-29). Saturday 6/26: Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. indybay.org Santana Row | Stevens Creek & Winchester…
(2021-06-29). Sunday 6/27: #Demilitarize: Los Angeles to Palestine (Divest from Weapons Manufacturing). indybay.org Boeing | 1916 E Imperial Hwy, El Segundo, CA | (On the corner of PCH & Imperial Hwy)…
(2021-06-29). Saturday 6/26: Solidarity with Palestine weekly protest. indybay.org Corner of Ocean Street and Water Street; Santa Cruz…
(2021-06-29). UAE Company Cracks Down On 'Block The Boat' Picket Line In Canada. popularresistance.org A small town in northern British Columbia was recently the backdrop for a chilling display of how Emirati influence and power can be used to attempt to suppress popular support for Palestine. On June 14, Prince Rupert was the scene of a Block The Boat community picket against the Israeli Zim Volans ship that had been chased away from Oakland. For a day and a half, members of ILWU 505 had respected the picket line and the Volans had sat idle. Eventually, an emergency injunction was granted, and the Volans was finally unloaded and left for Shanghai, China.
(2021-06-29). International commission indicts American policing system for "crimes against humanity" therealnews.com 
A long-awaited international report investigating racist violence perpetrated by US police is very damning; through literature, writer and translator Joanna Chen navigates the violence of Israeli occupation.
(2021-06-29). New Israeli Government Approves 31 Settlement Projects In The West Bank. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | In its first such expected decision, the brand-new Israeli government announced 31 settlement projects in the West Bank. | The Civil Administration's High Planning Subcommittee gave the green light to 31 projects, including the building of a mall in Mishor Adumim, a special needs school in the settlement of Elkana, and synagogues and Jewish seminaries in Karnei Shomron and Kfar Adumim. | Responding to the move, the Yesha Council settlement umbrella group demanded that the High Planning Su…
(2021-06-29). YouTube Reverses Course on "Permanent" Ban of Media Watchdog Right Wing Watch. truthout.org 
The media watchdog group Right Wing Watch (RWW), which monitors and publicizes the activity of far-right political organizations, was "permanently" suspended from YouTube on Monday over multiple (but unspecified) violations of the platform's community guidelines. This presumably occurred because RWW frequently reposts videos originally posted by right-wing activist groups, some of them overtly white supremacist or fascist in nature. Ironically enough, as RWW pointed out, most of those groups h…
(2021-06-29). What Price "Defense"? tomdispatch.com President Biden's first Pentagon budget, released late last month, is staggering by any reasonable standard. At more than $750 billion for the Defense Department and related work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy, it represents one of the highest levels of spending since World War II — far higher than the peaks of the Korean or Vietnam wars or President Ronald Reagan's military buildup of the 1980s, and roughly three times what China spends on its military. Developments of the past year and a half — an ongoing pandemic, an intensifying mega-drought, white supremacy activities, and racial…
(2021-06-29). Israel's damage of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip. juancole.com By Rasha Kaloti " — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Last May, Israel launched a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip following weeks of increased violence towards Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The violence by Israeli police was towards Palestinians who were demonstrating the decision to forcibly evict 28 Palestinian families …
(2021-06-29). UAE, Israeli leaders embrace over dead Palestinian bodies. electronicintifada.net Abu Dhabi inaugurates opening of Israeli embassy.
(2021-06-29). Short recollections of World War II. wsws.org These recollections about the Nazi-Soviet war of 1941—45 were written by Yuri Primakov, who experienced the war as a teenager, and is now 94 years old.
(2021-06-29). Protests take place for fifth straight day against Palestinian Authority after activist dies in custody. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinian journalists also staged a vigil outside the UN office to protest against the PA security forces for attacking and intimidating them while they were covering the protests, and demanded protection…
(2021-06-29). Palestinians demand end of Abbas presidency after death of activist. wsws.org The protests highlight the growing anger on the part of the Palestinians towards the Palestinian Authority over terrible economic and social conditions amid the PA's systemic corruption.
(2021-06-29). Palestinians demand end of Abbas presidency after death of activist. wsws.org The protests highlight the growing anger towards the Palestinian Authority over terrible economic and social conditions amid systemic corruption.
(2021-06-29). American History: Trying — and Failing — to Feel Patriotic on the Fourth of July. globalresearch.ca
(2021-06-29). Hidden Cemeteries at Residential Schools: Churches and Canada Responsible for Genocide. indybay.org Chief Cadmusn Delmore of the Cowessess First Nation said 751 unmarked graves were found at Marieval Residential School. In 2008 — thirteen years ago — Hidden from History published a list of 28 mass graves at residential schools and hospitals in Canada. The information comes from historical accounts and eyewitness testimony of survivors who witnessed fellow students being tortured and murdered.
(2021-06-29). The Shingwauk Files: Documenting Genocide at Native Residential Schools in Canada. indybay.org Mohawk Nation News said, "Each unmarked grave is a separate crime scene and criminal investigation. We know who did the crime. We want to know the specifics of the individuals involved, just like the Nuremberg trials."
(2021-06-29). Vento di tempesta Atlantica nel Mar Nero. globalresearch.ca L'Ucraina e gli Stati Uniti ospitano l'esercitazione nel Mar Nero con la partecipazione e il sostegno di 32 paesi in totale: Albania, Australia, Brasile, Bulgaria, Canada, Danimarca, Egitto, Estonia, Francia, Georgia, Grecia, Israele, Italia, Giappone, Lettonia, Lituania, Moldavia, Marocco, Norvegia, Pakistan, Polonia, Romania, Senegal, Spagna, Corea del Sud, Svezia, Tunisia, Turchia, Ucraina, Emirati Arabi Uniti e Regno Unito.
(2021-06-29). Wednesday 7/7: Voting Rights Now! Sidewalk Rally for Democracy in Pacifica. indybay.org Intersection of CA-1 and Reina Del Mar @ 1 Reina Del Mar, Pacifica, CA 94044…
(2021-06-29). The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania — book review. mronline.org The idea that there was anything remotely worthy about Britain's imperial past has been steadily losing credibility, despite the Johnson government's disgraceful and offensive insistence to the contrary. | June 29, 2021…
(2021-06-28). Friday 7/9: Walnut Creek: Deadline for Democracy Sidewalk Rally for Voting Rights. indybay.org Intersection of Ygnacio Valley Road and Civic Drive, Walnut Creek 94596 | This is a peaceful event. Follow current COVID safety guidelines.
(2021-06-28). New Jersey State Supreme Court Opposes Public Interest, Endorses Segregated Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org 
Consistent with an antisocial neoliberal outlook, the New Jersey State Supreme Court ruled on June 22, 2021 that seven segregated charter schools in Newark can continue to expand. While the court made some perfunctory statements suggesting that it was critical of the well-documented harm caused by privately-operated charter schools, everyone knows that this is a …
(2021-06-28). 'Incredible Victory' for Trans Rights: Supreme Court Rejects School Bathroom Case. commondreams.org "We call for calm and to avoid escalation in all its forms," the Iraqi statement added.
(2021-06-28). Should Justice Breyer Retire? Adam Cohen Says 82-Year-Old Can Prevent 7-2 Conservative Majority. democracynow.org 
We speak with legal writer and author Adam Cohen about the growing question of whether liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer should step down so that he can be replaced while there is a Democratic president and Senate. Justice Breyer is 82 and the oldest member of the high court. "If Breyer doesn't step down now, there's a very real chance that Republicans will eventually fill that seat and maybe turn a 6-3 conservative majority, which has already been terrible, into a 7-2 conservative majority," Cohen says.
(2021-06-28). "Setback for Unions": Farmworkers Fought to Allow Unions Access During Breaks. Supreme Court Says No. democracynow.org 
The Supreme Court has ruled 6 to 3 that a California labor law violated the constitutional rights of property owners by giving union organizers access to workers on privately owned farms during their work breaks. The union-busting decision strikes down a crucial part of a landmark 1975 labor law that was the United States' first to recognize agricultural workers' rights to collective bargaining and grew out of efforts by the United Farm Workers to demand better pay and working conditions for California's agricultural workers. "This ruling is a setback for unions, for workers' rights," says Camila Chávez, executiv…
(2021-06-28). Supreme Court Allows Gavin Grimm's Victory To Stand. popularresistance.org Washington — The Supreme Court today declined to hear Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, allowing lower court decisions in support of transgender students to stand. | The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit have both ruled that the school board violated Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause by prohibiting Grimm from using the same restrooms as other boys and forcing him to use separate restrooms. | The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear Grimm's case at an earlier stage of the litigation in 2017, but the case was sent back to…
(2021-06-28). 'Incredible Victory' for Trans Rights: Supreme Court Rejects School Bathroom Case. scheerpost.com Wikimedia Commons) By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams In what civil rights advocates hailed as "an incredible victory," the United States Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of Gavin Grimm, a former Virginia high school student who in 2015 sued his county board of education over its policy of denying transgender pupils use of restrooms corresponding with their gender identity. |
(2021-06-28). Supreme Court slices and dices 1789 law protecting non-citizens. nationofchange.org International law in the 21st century has expanded to include the protection of human rights.
(2021-06-28). Harsh Response From Minsk: Belarus Withdrew From EU's Eastern Partnership, Prepared More Surprises For Brussels. southfront.org 
Illustrative image: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) and his Belarus' counterpart Alexander Lukashenko walk in as they attend a session of the Supreme State Council of the Union State at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 3, 2015. AFP PHOTO / POOL / SERGEI KARPUKHIN | On June 28, Belarus suspended its participation in the EU's Eastern Partnership initiative, according to the statement by the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. Such a move was a response to the introduction of new sanctions against 78 persons an…
(2021-06-28). Curated Discourse, Narrative Artists and the Coming Conflicts. strategic-culture.org If sanctions are not lifted, Iran will hit back. And Israel will try to deter Iran from pursuing its nuclear programme. The two will clash. | Here we go again. The narrative is being set. President Assad's name cannot not be uttered in the West, save with a 'chemical weapons', and a 'killing his own people' gibe. It is just not permitted — even though this truth is
(2021-06-28). Loyalty oaths for teachers in Florida's new Red Scare. peoplesworld.org 
The Red Scare is back in Florida. As was reported by People's World last month, the Republican-led government of the state has been ramping up its attacks on democracy with a special focus on using the state education system to spread anti-communist ideology. Anti-communism almost always goes hand in hand with the promotion of racism …
(2021-06-28). US Hospital Sued for Firing Doctor Over Her Pro-Palestine Views. telesurenglish.net Dr. Fidaa Wishah, born and raised in Gaza, said in a recent Facebook post that Zionists have a "thirst to kill our Palestinian children." | Wishah posted on Facebook on Monday where she said Palestinians would "expose the #massacre and #genocide you #zionists are proud of." | RELATED: | "A state based on atrocity, inhumanity, racism and cannibalism never lasts long," Wishah continued. "Hey #israel … your end is c…
(2021-06-28). UN Human Rights Body Urges to "Start Dismantling Racism" telesurenglish.net The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet urged countries on Monday to "start dismantling racism" as systemic racism is largely present in police forces across North America, Europe, and Latin America. | RELATED: | "I am calling on all states to stop denying and start dismantling racism; to end impunity and build trust; to…
(2021-06-28). UN rights office highlights policing reforms to address systemic racism. news.un.org Radical policing reforms are needed to address systemic racism affecting people of African descent around the world, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday, as her Office published a series of recommendations prompted by the killing of George Floyd.
(2021-06-28). UN Calls on Nations to End 'Untenable' Status Quo of Systemic Racism. commondreams.org It's as if we humans have been driving blindly into the future, navigating only by what we can see of the past in the rear-view mirror.
(2021-06-28). Hue and Cry: Racial Erasure and the Unbearable "Tonnage" of Color. counterpunch.org Black lives matter, especially, it seems, when they are transmogrified into white ones — or light ones. This has meant that the opportunity to tell stories, both historical and fictional, focused on black lives has been squandered in a quest, as Quixotic as it is contradictory, to convince ourselves that color doesn't matter, and that issues of race and racism can be engaged without confronting them honestly and directly.
(2021-06-28). Hollow justice of the settler state. electronicintifada.net Israel's high court rubber-stamps subjugation of Palestinians.
(2021-06-28). Israeli Researchers: 'Rare Autoimmune Disease' Linked to Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine. globalresearch.ca
(2021-06-28). Dispossession of the Indigenous People's Lands, Missing Children: The Canadian Greenhouse and Genocide. globalresearch.ca
(2021-06-28). 30 June, Montreal: Free Palestine — Justice for Nizar Banat! Down with PA collaboration with Israel! samidoun.net 
Wednesday, 30 June 5: 30 pm Israeli Consulate-Montreal 1 Westmount Square, Westmount, Quebec Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/238405081138094/ Justice for Nizar Banat! Freedom for Palestine — down with the PA coordination and collaboration with the Israeli occupation! Join us to demand an end to the Oslo regime of security coordination that works in the interests of the Israeli colonial occupation. Demand justice for Nizar Banat, brutally murdered by Palestinian Authority "security forces," trained by Canada, the U.S. and the European Union to serve Israeli interests. We struggle for a free Palestine…
(2021-06-28). A Litany of Failure: Nearly 20 Years Later, the US is Still Bombing Iraq, and Iraq is Still Condemning Israeli Occupation of Palestine. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — When the architects of the illegal 2003 Bush Administration war on Iraq imagined the country nearly twenty years later, they did not foresee that the US would still be bombing it in 2021 in revenge for Iraqi militia attacks on US troops. In fact, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of …