(2023-06-28). The USA's Systemic Racism Includes Its Wars. indybay.org "The problem of the color line" remains…
(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.
(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…
(2023-06-28). Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela visits Orange County for Nakba 75 Tour. fightbacknews.org Santa Ana, CA — In commemoration of Nakba 75 – 75 years of Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation and apartheid – the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression organized a U.S. Nakba Day 75 tour in six cities around the U.S. | On the fourth day of the tour, May 18, Chief Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, grandson of the late Nelson Mandela, arrived in Southern California, where he was greeted by over 200 people who hailed from Arab, Chicano, Black and Native communities at Santa Ana High School in Orange County. | Mandela shared his thoughts and…
(2023-06-28). In Nazi diatribe, Trump calls for mass deportations of socialists and communists. wsws.org Trump speaks not just for himself. A substantial section of the ruling class is convinced that it confronts a massive social movement of workers that poses the greatest danger to its wealth and privileges.
(2023-06-28). Sudanese Army Urges Civilians to Fight Paramilitary Forces. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Force Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan urged those who are able to carry arms to join the fight against the paramilitary forces. | RELATED: | "We ask all the youth of my country and whoever can defend not to hesitate or delay in playing this patriotic role in the place of his residence or by joining the military units to get the honor of defending the country," said Al-Burhan in a speech broadcast by the official Sudan TV. | T…
(2023-06-28). 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…
(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.
(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…
(2023-06-28). Climate collapse threatens slide to fascism and war. mronline.org 
More and more, desperate people seeking refuge in Europe are not just fleeing from economic disaster and war. Many are also refugees from climate collapse.
(2023-06-28). The election of the far-right AfD in Sonneberg, Germany and the fight against fascism. wsws.org The election of Robert Sesselmann, the candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), as Sonneberg district administrator in the federal state of Thuringia casts a spotlight on the growing fascist danger in Germany.
(2023-06-28). Kremlin allows Wagner to continue operations in Belarus as Prigozhin defends coup attempt as legitimate "demonstration" wsws.org In the days following the collapse of a coup attempt by the fascistic warlord, ex-convict and billionaire Evgeny Prigozhin and his mercenary Wagner army, the Kremlin has made clear that it will allow the insurrectionists to continue their operations in neighboring Belarus.
(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
(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?>
(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…
(2023-06-28). The election of the far-right AfD in Sonneberg, Germany and the fight against fascism. wsws.org The election of Robert Sesselmann, the candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), as Sonneberg district administrator in the federal state of Thuringia casts a spotlight on the growing fascist danger in Germany.
(2023-06-28). Kremlin allows Wagner to continue operations in Belarus as Prigozhin defends coup attempt as legitimate "demonstration" wsws.org In the days following the collapse of a coup attempt by the fascistic warlord, ex-convict and billionaire Evgeny Prigozhin and his mercenary Wagner army, the Kremlin has made clear that it will allow the insurrectionists to continue their operations in neighboring Belarus.
(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
(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?>
(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…
(2023-06-27). CP says all out for strike struggles and coalition to defeat MAGA right. cpusa.org 
The National Committee of the Communist Party USA, that organization's top leadership, met in New York over the weekend with a declaration that the nationwide party organization is putting its full force behind a movement it expects will inflict a strategic defeat upon the MAGA right and its leader, "the fascist Donald Trump" as the ex-president was described by a top party leader Saturday morning. | The striking thing about the gathering of CPUSA leaders and activists at the Henry Winston Unity Hall is the diversity it represents when compared to any other political party in the nation. The hall was filled wi…
(2023-06-28). In Video: Hezbollah Downs, Captures Israeli Army Drone. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image. Source: Hezbollah Military Media. | On June 26, Hezbollah announced that its fighters had downed a drone of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) over southern Lebanon. | In a statement, the group said that the drone had penetrated some seven kilometers of Lebanese airspace before being downed."The Islamic Resistance shot down, with appropriate weapons, an Israeli drone… near the town of Zibqin in south Lebanon," the statement reads. | From its side, the IDF said that t…
(2023-06-28). Targeting Israel viewed as terrorism by Europol. electronicintifada.net Report portrays defenders of Palestinian rights as extremists.
(2023-06-28). Israel approves thousands of illegal settlement units in occupied West Bank. peoplesdispatch.org The sanction for 5,700 housing units was described by a Palestinian government official as an "open war against the Palestinian people." He added that "all settler colonialism in all the occupied Palestinian territories is illegitimate and illegal"
(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…
(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.
(2023-06-27). The Influence of Christian Zionism on the 1947 Establishment of the State of Israel. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-27). Palestinian civil society demands: end EU complicity in illegal and repressive Israeli surveillance. bdsmovement.net 
(2023-06-27). UN again leaves Israel off "List of Shame" bdsmovement.net 
(2023-06-28). Soaring Livestock Prices in Palestine Dim Joy of Eid. telesurenglish.net The Palestinians have felt the pinch of a high cost of living as they celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, after the prices of the livestock soared in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. | RELATED: | In a crowded livestock market in the West Bank city of Nablus, most of the visitors balked at the prohibitive prices even though vendors were willing to accept monthly installments.
(2023-06-28). Palestinian resistance increases in occupied territories. plenglish.com Tel Aviv, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina) The Palestinians have executed 167 attacks on roads in the occupied West Bank since early this year, compared to 114 more in the same period in 2022, official data published on Wednesday.
(2023-06-28). Four Sentenced to Prison After Dismantling an American Weapons Factory in Wales. palestineaction.org
(2023-06-27). Back to Gaza, after decades of prison and exile. electronicintifada.net The cause of Palestine demands sacrifices, says Jaber Ammar.
(2023-06-28). Labor breaks election promise with new income management card. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-06-27). What We Know About 'Microchip,' the FBI's Far-Right Judas. splcenter.org Eight years after he repeatedly hijacked Twitter's algorithm to hustle disinformation in service of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the pseudonymous radical-right poster known as "Microchip" has emerged as a key source for the FBI.
(2023-06-28). U.S. Supreme Court Gets It Right, For Once. progressive.org In a case about the ability of individuals to sue institutions that violated their federal rights, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling was right for once.
(2023-06-28). PSL Editorial — Moore v. Harper: Why the Court felt compelled to reject far-right elections theory. liberationnews.org 
This ruling is not the result of some miraculous change of heart on the part of the hardline reactionary justices. The Supreme Court makes decisions based on political calculations…
(2023-06-28). The Supreme Court provides authoritative guidance on the application of Article 2 to Coronial investigations and inquests. ukhumanrightsblog.com Introduction The advent of the Human Rights Act 1998, and the incorporation into domestic law of the Article 2 right to life, has transformed coronial investigations and inquests over the last two decades. Lord Bingham's magisterial creation of the 'enhanced' investigation and conclusion in R (Middleton) v West Somerset Coroner [2004] UKHL 10, [2004] 2 AC …
(2023-06-28). Progressives Prepare to Mobilize If Supreme Court Blocks Student Debt Relief. truthout.org A White House spokesperson on Tuesday would not say whether the Biden administration has an alternative plan to cancel student debt as borrowers and campaigners across the U.S. braced for — and prepared to mobilize in response to — a Supreme Court ruling on the Education Department's pending relief program. Asked during a briefing if the White House has any contingency plans in place for a… |
(2023-06-28). Over two thousand prisoners to be released in Afghanistan. plenglish.com Kabul, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina) The Supreme Court announced today that Mullah Hebatullah Ajundzada, leader of the Taliban, ordered the release of nearly 2,200 prisoners in Afghanistan, on the occasion of the celebration of Eid al Adha.
(2023-06-28). Wednesday 7/5: Voting Rights, Election Laws, Supreme Court & More w/ Rick Hasen, UCLA Law Scholar. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2023-06-28). Headlines for June 28, 2023. democracynow.org Supreme Court Rejects GOP's Radical "Independent State Legislature Theory", Canadian Wildfire Smoke Brings Hazy Skies to Europe, "Very Unhealthy" Air Alerts in U.S. Cities, Russian Missile Strikes Restaurant in Ukraine's Kramatorsk, Killing 9 and Wounding Dozens, Belarusian President Says He Convinced Wagner Chief to Call Off Mutiny in Russia, U.S. Sanctions Companies Profiting from Wagner Group Mining Concessions in Africa, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio Wins Reelection, Nurses in Texas and Kansas Hold One-Day Strike to Demand Safe Staffing Levels, DOJ Report Finds Mi…
(2023-06-28). SCOTUS Rejects Radical GOP Vote-Rigging "Theory," Could Still End Affirmative Action & Debt Relief. democracynow.org 
The Supreme Court's term is ending this week with rulings on several blockbuster cases. On Tuesday, voting rights advocates welcomed a decision in a major election law case that preserved checks and balances in elections. In a 6-3 decision, the justices dismissed the so-called independent state legislature theory that state lawmakers have nearly unlimited power to make rules for federal elections. This ruling will "empower state courts around the country to block gerrymanders, to police the legislatures and to keep legislators from trying to entrench themselves or advance their party with these egregi…
(2023-06-28). 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.
(2023-06-28). US Supreme Court rejects far-right "independent state legislature" theory. wsws.org While the Democrats are hailing the ruling as the salvation of democracy, workers would make a fatal error if they placed any confidence in the Supreme Court or looked to it to defend their basic rights.
(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…
(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… |
(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.
(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… |