2023-06-27: News Headlines

Norman Solomon (2023-06-27). The USA's Systemic Racism Includes Its Wars. indybay.org "The problem of the color line" remains…

Atilio Borón (2023-06-27). Habermas and the war in Ukraine. mronline.org The prevailing rarefied ideological climate that Germany and most European countries are suffering from today makes a very cautious call for prudence and negotiation a criminal offense that deserves to be punished with ostracism.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-06-27). Community Confronts Neo-Nazis and Proud Boys Disrupting Kid's Pride Event in Sacramento, CA. itsgoingdown.org Report back on recent confrontation in Sacramento, CA against neo-Nazis and Proud Boys by local antifascists. On Saturday June 24th, the Sacramento Children's Museum was set to hold their pride event, a joyful all-ages celebration with food trucks, story time, and other fun, family-friendly events. Last year, this same event was attacked by White Lives…

thecommunists (2023-06-27). Sergei Lavrov on western imperialism, nazism and the rise of the global south. thecommunists.org The following interview with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was conducted by RT at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (Spief) in June. It is reproduced here with thanks. ***** RT: Hello, Mr Lavrov, thank you for agreeing to speak with us. Hello. RT: Let's start with Ukraine. As we all know, the western countries …

ecns.cn (2023-06-26). Draft law aimed at promoting patriotic education submitted to top legislature. ecns.cn The patriotic education of teenagers is to be highlighted in schools and families, with measures taken to help residents of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan enhance their sense of identity.

ecns.cn (2023-06-27). Draft patriotic education law viewed. ecns.cn The patriotic education of teenagers is to be highlighted in schools and families, with measures taken to help residents of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan enhance their sense of identity.


WSWS (2023-06-27). African Book Festival in Germany and the attack on Mohamedou Ould Slahi—another case of political censorship. wsws.org A pernicious form of political censorship is developing in German cultural circles and the media, involving the persecution of progressive artists and critics of the establishment on the basis of false accusations of anti-Semitism.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-26). No Matter How You Frame It, the ADL Is a Racist Organization. orinocotribune.com By Miko Peled — Jun 20, 2023 | The Biden administration has released the country's first national strategy for combating antisemitism, a landmark plan aimed at addressing a growing problem." This is from a The article starts with an outlin…

Roger McKenzie (2023-06-27). Victory in Peru as corporations denied right to exploit Indigenous lands. peoplesworld.org Activists welcomed on Saturday the decision by lawmakers to drop plans for a new law labelled a "Genocide Bill" by Peru's Indigenous people. The bill would have opened up Indigenous lands for industrial exploitation by domestic and foreign capital—particularly for the extraction of lithium, copper, and other precious minerals. In a dramatic reversal of fortune …

jamanetwork (2023-06-27). California's State Insurance Gender Nondiscrimination Act and Utilization of Gender-Affirming Surgery. jamanetwork.com To the Editor A recent study investigated the association of California's 2013 Insurance Gender Nondiscrimination Act and utilization of gender-affirming surgery, with the states of Washington and Arizona serving as controls.

jamanetwork (2023-06-27). California's State Insurance Gender Nondiscrimination Act and Utilization of Gender-Affirming Surgery—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In response to our study, Mr Das and Dr Drolet raise concern that the population was limited to inpatient gender-affirming surgery. Furthermore, they suggest that the period between 2016 and 2019 should be analyzed separately to account for the effects of Section 1557 of the ACA. This is an incorrect representation of the policy. Section 1557 was implemented in 2010 with the ACA. The final rule issued in 2016 by the Department of Health and Human Services clarified the interpretation and enforcement of the original law to include protections based on gender identity but did not issue new language expandi…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-27). Cancer and the LGBTQ+ community: Mayo Clinic expert addresses key topics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Being diagnosed with cancer is a hardship on its own, but it's especially challenging if a person is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Jewel Kling, M.D., director of women's health at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, explains that stigma and discrimination create barriers to healthcare, placing the LGBTQ+ community at heightened risk for certain forms of cancer due to delayed cancer screenings as well as challenges with survivorship care. Increased cancer risks…




Ben Norton (2023-06-27). US Woos India's Far-Right PM Modi To Help Wage New Cold War on China. orinocotribune.com By Ben Norton — Jun 24, 2023 | The US government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China. Biden doesn't care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities. | India's far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a historic trip to the United States this June. | President Joe Biden rolled out the proverbial

kwjorinoco (2023-06-27). Not-so-soft Coups and the Use of Blackouts in Honduras. orinocotribune.com By Ricardo Salgado — Jun 26, 2023 | These days, we are entering a new phase in Honduras in the attempt of the right to provoke a color revolution. | This time, the issue seems more organized: power stations that turn off their generators, constant blackouts, people who become enraged, go out to protest in various parts of the country, and even enter frenzies by firing at electrical power transformers. | Faced with allegations of commercial sabotage made by the progressive government, and while the president completed a successful tour of the People's Republic of China, the Honduran fascist right wing notes t…

Editor (2023-06-27). Declassified files expose British role in NATO's Gladio terror armies. mronline.org Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine?>

WSWS (2023-06-27). How Syriza's betrayals strengthened the extreme political right in Greece. wsws.org Based on an analysis of Syriza's class character as representative of an upper middle class strata, advancing a pro-capitalist programme, the International Committee of the Fourth International warned that it would rapidly renege on its promises and impose the austerity offensive demanded by Greece's creditors—leading to the strengthening of right-wing and fascistic forces.

WSWS (2023-06-27). Trump escalates fascistic rants against socialism and Marxism. wsws.org The ex-president has increasingly tied his return to power to an open embrace of McCarthyite anticommunism.

Phil Hearse (2023-06-26). Climate collapse, fascism and war. greenleft.org.au Phil Hearse explains how the global climate and migrant crises fuel fascism and war.

Ben Norton (2023-06-27). US Woos India's Far-Right PM Modi To Help Wage New Cold War on China. orinocotribune.com By Ben Norton — Jun 24, 2023 | The US government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China. Biden doesn't care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities. | India's far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a historic trip to the United States this June. | President Joe Biden rolled out the proverbial

kwjorinoco (2023-06-27). Not-so-soft Coups and the Use of Blackouts in Honduras. orinocotribune.com By Ricardo Salgado — Jun 26, 2023 | These days, we are entering a new phase in Honduras in the attempt of the right to provoke a color revolution. | This time, the issue seems more organized: power stations that turn off their generators, constant blackouts, people who become enraged, go out to protest in various parts of the country, and even enter frenzies by firing at electrical power transformers. | Faced with allegations of commercial sabotage made by the progressive government, and while the president completed a successful tour of the People's Republic of China, the Honduran fascist right wing notes t…

Editor (2023-06-27). Declassified files expose British role in NATO's Gladio terror armies. mronline.org Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine?>

WSWS (2023-06-27). How Syriza's betrayals strengthened the extreme political right in Greece. wsws.org Based on an analysis of Syriza's class character as representative of an upper middle class strata, advancing a pro-capitalist programme, the International Committee of the Fourth International warned that it would rapidly renege on its promises and impose the austerity offensive demanded by Greece's creditors—leading to the strengthening of right-wing and fascistic forces.

WSWS (2023-06-27). Trump escalates fascistic rants against socialism and Marxism. wsws.org The ex-president has increasingly tied his return to power to an open embrace of McCarthyite anticommunism.

Phil Hearse (2023-06-26). Climate collapse, fascism and war. greenleft.org.au Phil Hearse explains how the global climate and migrant crises fuel fascism and war.

Editor (2023-06-27). New Report Outlines How Golda Meir's Israel Poisoned Palestinian Land in Ethnic Cleansing Operation. scheerpost.com In the early 1970s, Golda Meir's government poisoned the lands of Aqraba in the West Bank to force out its Palestinian inhabitants and clear the way for an illegal Jewish settlement.

Hans Stehling (2023-06-27). The Influence of Christian Zionism on the 1947 Establishment of the State of Israel. globalresearch.ca

KATIE (2023-06-27). Palestinian civil society demands: end EU complicity in illegal and repressive Israeli surveillance. bdsmovement.net

KATIE (2023-06-27). UN again leaves Israel off "List of Shame" bdsmovement.net

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-06-27). Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial go on hunger strike. plenglish.com Ramallah, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) Three Palestinian inmates imprisoned by Israel continue an indefinite hunger strike that began ten days ago to denounce their imprisonment without charge or trial.

Staff (2023-06-27). Headlines for June 27, 2023. democracynow.org Putin Tells Wagner Mercenaries to Join Russian Military or Face Exile in Belarus, Zelensky Visits Frontline Troops; Biden Administration Announces New Arms for Ukraine, UNICEF Warns 100,000 Sudanese Child Refugees in Chad Face New Dangers, Israeli Settlers Storm Palestinian Village in West Bank, Torching Homes and Firing Guns, Supreme Court Orders Louisiana to Redraw Racially Gerrymandered Congressional Map, Supreme Court to Allow Sexual Assault Survivors to Sue Ohio State University, Supreme Court Sides with Biden on ICE Deportations, Audio Reveals Trump Showed "Highly Confidential" Document to Publi…

teleSUR- hvh, JCM (2023-06-27). Grupo Hezbolá derriba dron israelí en el sur del Líbano. telesurtv.net El dron israelí voló a una altitud media, cruzando unos siete kilómetros dentro del espacio aéreo libanés.

teleSUR (2023-06-27). Israel: Protesters Stage Fiery Rally Against Judicial Overhaul. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, hundreds of Israelis staged a fiery rally outside Justice Minister Yariv Levin's home, joining protesters nationwide in their opposition against the government's contentious judicial overhaul plan, which resumed earlier this week. | RELATED: | The protesters torched tires and used them to block the traffic around the home of Levin, the architect of the controversial legislation that aims to strip…

Lowkey (2023-06-26). Surviving the Nakba, a One State Solution and Being Cancelled, with Ghada Karmi. mintpressnews.com Discover the visionary solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as Lowkey interviews British-Palestinian intellectual Ghada Karmi," discussing her groundbreaking book and exposing the disturbing realities behind the cancellation of their London book launch.

Ahmed Al-Sammak (2023-06-27). Back to Gaza, after decades of prison and exile. electronicintifada.net The cause of Palestine demands sacrifices, says Jaber Ammar.

WSWS (2023-06-27). Federal investigation reveals "controlled release and burn" that poisoned East Palestine was unnecessary. wsws.org Investigators were told that the decision to vent and burn five train car loads full of highly toxic vinyl chloride was not necessary at a public hearing help last week by the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the cause of and response to the February 3rd derailment of a Norfolk Southern in East Palestine, Ohio.

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-27). Labor breaks election promise with new income management card. greenleft.org.au

thetyee (2023-06-27). 100 Years After the Racist Chinese Exclusion Act. thetyee.ca Chinese Canadians rallied unsuccessfully to fight the act a century ago.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-06-27). Supremo de Brasil reinicia vista que podría inhabilitar a Bolsonaro. telesurtv.net En la sesión del jueves pasado, el abogado del PDT, Walber Agra, hizo duras acusaciones contra el expresidente durante su discurso y mencionó intentos de golpe de estado en el país.

Jews United for Democracy & JCA (2023-06-27). Wednesday 7/5: Voting Rights, Election Laws, Supreme Court & More w/ Rick Hasen, UCLA Law Scholar. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Editor (2023-06-27). Supreme Court Keeps Navajo Nation Waiting for Water. scheerpost.com Decades of negotiations between the tribe and Arizona over water rights have proven fruitless. The court case was the Navajo Nation's bid to accelerate the process and secure water for its reservation.

Chris Walker (2023-06-27). Supreme Court Rejects Novel Theory That Could Have Upended US Elections. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a novel legal theory that would have limited the ability of courts to be a check on state legislatures' redrawing of state and congressional districts. On Tuesday, the High Court ruled, in Moore v. Harper, against the independent state legislature theory, a fringe idea that there is a constitutional separation between state courts and state legislatures that… |

Evan Milligan (2023-06-27). SCOTUS Ruled in Favor of Voting Rights. Southern Black Voters Made That Happen. truthout.org The Supreme Court this week allowed Louisiana to redraw its congressional districts to fairly represent Black voters. This action comes on the heels of the court's decision earlier this month in Allen v. Milligan, in which one of us was a key plaintiff, finding that Alabama's new congressional maps dilute the power of Black voters in the state. These developments deliver a much-needed victory for… |

Kevin Gosztola (2023-06-27). Clarence Thomas Encourages Constitutional Challenge To Whistleblower Law. thedissenter.org United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas effectively invited corporations accused of fraud to bring a constitutional challenge against the False Claims Act, which could dismantle a law that whistleblowers have depended on for over a century. | On June 16, Thomas issued a dissenting opinion in a case that involved the U.S. government's authority to dismiss False Claims lawsuits. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined Thomas in his dissent, with Kavanaugh declaring that it was his view that the Supreme Court should consider what Thomas raised in an "appropriate case."The False…

Mark Gruenberg (2023-06-27). Thousands turn out nationwide in marches for abortion rights. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Thousands of women and their supporters, including 2,500 who marched on the U.S. Supreme Court, hit the streets on June 24 to again march for abortion rights, marking the full year since the court's right-wing Republican-named five-justice majority eliminated that right nationwide. Mobilized by the Women's March, the campaigners not only denounced last year's ruling …

Sharon Zhang (2023-06-27). Delaware House Tees Up Bill to Allow Corporations to Vote. truthout.org The Delaware House has teed up a vote on a bill that would give businesses a vote in the town of Seaford, Delaware — a proposal with frightening implications for elections in a time when lawmakers are increasingly targeting voting rights. The bill allows Seaford — a town of roughly 8,500 people — to amend its charter to allow non-resident business owners to cast a vote in local elections… |

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