2021-06-04: News Headlines

Tim Wheeler (2021-06-04). Washington State victories: Tax the rich, curb emissions, stop gun violence. peoplesworld.org OLYMPIA, Wash.—A capital gains tax on the state's billionaires. A "cap and trade" tax on global-warming gases. Legislation to curb police murder of African Americans and other people of color. A ban on "open carry" of firearms at street demonstrations and on the state's capitol grounds. These are only a few of the landmark bills …

WSWS (2021-06-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Seamen and civil servants in Greece walk out against laws restricting right to strike; UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency workers in Wales continue walk outs over COVID safety; 24-hour public sector strike in Lebanon over poverty and unemployment; Lesotho general strike of textile workers enters second week.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-06-04). How the Tulsa Race Massacre Was a Violent Act of Racist Economic Injustice. counterpunch.org One hundred years after the worst instance of racist mob violence in 20th-century America, the Tulsa Race Massacre is finally getting the attention it is due. The 1921 terrorist attack by an armed white mob against a prosperous Black community is perhaps one of the clearest and most extreme illustrations of how many African Americans

Staff (2021-06-04). Headlines for June 4, 2021. democracynow.org Activists Call U.S. Plan to Ship 25 Million COVID Vaccine Doses Abroad "Deeply Insufficient", WHO Warns of Surging COVID-19 Cases in Africa as Vaccine Shipments Come to "Near Halt", Chinese Authorities Ban Hong Kong Vigil Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre, Arrest Organizer, Peruvian Presidential Runoff Pits Ex-Dictator's Daughter Against Socialist School Teacher, 89 Politicians Killed in Run-up to Mexican Midterm Elections, Lawyers for Guantánamo Prisoner Challenge Judge's Order Permitting Use of Info Obtained by Torture, Watchdog Says Pentagon Grossly Misrepresented Civilian Casualties from U.S. Military, U.N. Sa…

Staff (2021-06-04). U.S. Finally Offers to Send Vaccines Abroad, But Lack of Global Plan Leaves Poorer Nations in Crisis. democracynow.org The Biden administration on Thursday announced that the U.S. will donate 25 million surplus doses of COVID-19 vaccines to developing countries, pledging to donate a total of 80 million doses by July. Economist Jeffrey Sachs says rich countries have enough production capacity to speed up vaccine distribution and immunize the whole world within the next year. "There's massive supply, but there's no plan for allocation," he says. We also speak with South African health justice activist Fatima Hassan, who says the global vaccine imbalance comes down to political will. "Even now countries are still sitting around a ta…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-06-04). From Negroland to Negro Bar, 20th Anniversary Folsom Juneteenth Freedom Celebration. indybay.org Normal community outreach, historical preservation standards and basic dignity remains elusive at Negro Bar / Negro Hill Mining District due to the historic seasonal hate crimes against humanity, cloaked as equity and inclusion in this latest effort to insist on second class citizenship for people of Pan African ancestry.

Staff (2021-06-04). UK's First Black Studies Professor Calls on African Diaspora to Unite. truthout.org As Black Lives Matter continues to flourish in the United States and beyond, many activists within the movement are calling for renewed internationalism and collaboration among people across the African Diaspora. In this exclusive interview, author, activist and Black radical scholar Kehinde Andrews issues the call: "We need to get back aligned with the revolutionary version of Pan-Africanism." | Andrews is founder of the Harambee Organization of Black Unity and professor of Black Studies at Birmingh…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-04). "Bolívar's Thinking Is Based On the Need for Human Progress" libya360.wordpress.com Alex Anfruns A conversation between Alex Anfruns and Christine Pic-Gillard, author of a new study: Bolívar (Ellipses, 2020) The political and humanist stature of Simón Bolívar, leading figure of the Liberation of Latin America, continues to powerfully inspire the left movements of the continent. Simón Bolívar, a 19th century Venezuelan statesman, embodied the progressive ideals…

Tomdispatch (2021-06-04). Lest we Forget: Trump's and Billionaires' Covid Profiteering, Debasing Science and Death on the scale of the Civil War. juancole.com By Nina Burleigh | — ( Tomdispatch.com) — Now that we're all unmasking and the economy seems set to roar into the 2020s, what will we remember about how disastrously, how malignantly, the Trump administration behaved as the pandemic took hold? And will anyone be held to account for it? The instinct to forget pandemics, …

Anonymous669 (2021-06-04). Taliban Fighters Ambushed Afghan Army Convoys In Maidan Wardak, Helmand (Photos, Video). southfront.org Taliban spacial forces, illustrative image | Taliban fighters have ambushed two convoys of the Afghan National Army (ANA) in the provinces of Maidan Wardak and Helmand. | The first military convoy came under attack near the village of Deh Afghanan in the central province of Maidan Wardak on June 1. | During the ambush, Taliban fighters destroyed a Humvee armored vehicle and a M1117 armored security vehicle of the ANA. The fighters also seized some weapons and ammunition. | #Taliban militants destroyed

Anonymous007 (2021-06-04). France Suspends Joint Military Operation In Mali To Punish Junta. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On June 3rd, France said that it was suspending its joint military operations with Malian forces "awaiting guarantees" that civilians return to positions of power. | This comes after on May 25th, the Malian military detained interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and stripped them of their powers after a dispute over a cabinet reshuffle, after the previous military coup in August 2020. | Assimi Goita, a colonel who led both coups and was Nda…

WSWS (2021-06-04). What capitalism has wrought—India's tsunami of infections and death, and pandemic of hunger and joblessness. wsws.org India's purported capitalist "rise"—so celebrated in the media in the west—has produced a malignant society that embodies and exemplifies the dysfunction, brutality and criminality of 21st century capitalism.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-04). Belarus, Crimea: Ukraine Prepares for Armed Conflict in North and South. libya360.wordpress.com Rick Rozoff The Ukrainian government has announced that it is shoring up security and military forces in the north of the country on its border with Belarus and to the south on what it calls the administrative border of the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea: the exact language of the government and the…

WSWS (2021-06-04). Macron demands Malian junta endorse French occupation of Mali. wsws.org Macron's arrogant statement came shortly after a new putsch by Mali's military junta removed the figurehead civilian president and prime minister it had installed.

John Feffer (2021-06-04). Democracy on the Precipice? counterpunch.org Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarussian dictator, snatches a dissident from midair. Military strongman Assimi Goita launches another coup in Mali. Benjamin Netanyahu escalates a military conflict to save his own political skin in Israel. In the United States, the Republican Party launches a full-court press to suppress the vote. Authoritarianism, like war, makes headlines. It's hard

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-06-03). From Negroland to Negro Bar, 20th Anniversary Folsom Juneteenth Freedom Celebration. indybay.org Normal community outreach, historical preservation standards and basic dignity remains elusive at Negro Bar / Negro Hill Mining District due to the historic seasonal hate crimes against humanity, cloaked as equity and inclusion in this latest effort to insist on second class citizenship for people of Pan African ancestry.

Staff (2021-06-03). The Second Amendment Was Created to Arm White People to Control Black People. truthout.org Do African Americans have Second Amendment rights? That's the question Emory University professor Carol Anderson set out to answer in her new book, The Second, which looks at the constitutional right to bear arms and its uneven application throughout U.S. history. She says she was prompted to write the book after the 2016 police killing of Philando Castile, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop after he told the officer he had a legal firearm. Anderson says the Second Amendment was alway…

Staff (2021-06-03). "The Second": Carol Anderson on the Racist Roots of the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms. democracynow.org Do African Americans have Second Amendment rights? That's the question Emory University professor Carol Anderson set out to answer in her new book, "The Second," which looks at the constitutional right to bear arms and its uneven application throughout U.S. history. She says she was prompted to write the book after the 2016 police killing of Philando Castile, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop after he told the officer he had a legal firearm. Anderson says the Second Amendment was always intended to be a means of arming white people to control the Black population. "There was this massive fear about these…

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-03). Heading toward summit: new NATO narrative depicts Russia as threat to world peace. mronline.org In recent months all U.S. geographical and several other military commands have branded Russia an adversary in all parts of the world, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from South America to North Africa, from West Asia to Eastern Europe, from cyberspace to outer space. | June 3, 2021…

teleSUR (2021-06-03). Nigerian Government Accuses Twitter of Supporting Secessionists. telesurenglish.net President Muhammadu Buhari's administration on Wednesday accused Twitter of having double standards and supporting the secessionists in Nigeria. | RELATED: | Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed took a swipe at Twitter after it deleted a tweet by Buhari who issued a warning to protesters in Nigeria. | "We have a country to rule, and we will do so to the best of our ability. Twitter's mission in Nigeria is ver…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-03). A Road to Victory for Chile. libya360.wordpress.com Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Recent political events in Latin America have given rise to a new subject that takes the lead in events based on novel behaviors that were not always understood by their predecessors. Now, it is the youth, women, environmentalists and indigenous peoples, among others, who are setting the course and pace of the…

Andy Kroll (2021-06-03). Swept into a Covid Hell of Profits. tomdispatch.com Now that we're all unmasking and the economy seems set to roar into the 2020s, what will we remember about how disastrously, how malignantly, the Trump administration behaved as the pandemic took hold? And will anyone be held to account for it? The instinct to forget pandemics, as I've pointed out when it came to the 1918 "Spanish flu," has historically been strong indeed. In these years, the urge to forget official malfeasance and move on has, it turns out, been at least as strong. Washington's failure to investigate and bring to account those who led the nation and ultimately the world into the folly of the Ira…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-03). From the "Post-Covid World" to the "New Post-World Order" libya360.wordpress.com Rafael Bautista S. Almost all the descriptions of the possible unfortunate outcome of the global quarantine insist on certifying a reality that no longer makes sense. The global plan-demic has definitively collapsed: a "post-covid world" no longer makes sense as a "world", and even less so in the terms that modernity boasted of promising, from…

Guest Contributor (2021-06-03). The Tigray Conflict: Ethiopia's Humanitarian Disaster — Harry Sanders. ukhumanrightsblog.com This article was written by Harry Sanders, a content writer for the Immigration Advice Service. Since November 2020, the Tigray region in the north of Ethiopia has been the epicentre of an awful (and hugely underreported) humanitarian disaster. War and violence have sent the region's inhabitants fleeing over the Ethiopian border in search of asylum, …

Anonymous007 (2021-06-03). First Fully Autonomous Drone Was Used To Hunt Haftar's Forces In Libya. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Military-grade autonomous drones can fly themselves to a specific location, pick their own targets and kill without the assistance of a remote human operator. | According to a United Nations report, for the first time ever, such a weapon was used in Libya against Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar's forces — the Libyan National Army. | The lethal autonomous weapons system (LAWS) was used back in March 2020. | The UN said that logistic convoys and retrea…

Anonymous669 (2021-06-03). ISIS Terrorists Killed Two Nigerien Soldiers, Captured Two Others In Diffa (Photos). southfront.org Illustrative image. | On May 31, ISIS terrorists attacked a post of the Nigerien Armed Forces in the Diffa region in the southeastern part of the country. | Heavy clashes broke out between the terrorists and Nigerien soldiers, who retreated from…

Medea Benjamin (2021-06-03). Biden Should Make Normalizing Relations with Cuba "A Priority" counterpunch.org Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for "Syringes to Cuba" as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign on his popular Facebook livestream. An energetic Cuban-American high school teacher in Seattle, Lazo created a group called Puentes de Amor, Bridges of Love, to unite Cuban Americans

Nina Burleigh (2021-06-03). How to Cash In on a Pandemic. counterpunch.org Now that we're all unmasking and the economy seems set to roar into the 2020s, what will we remember about how disastrously, how malignantly, the Trump administration behaved as the pandemic took hold? And will anyone be held to account for it? The instinct to forget pandemics, as I've pointed out when it came to

Moderator (2021-06-03). How to Make Obscene Amounts of Money Off a Pandemic. scheerpost.com Flickr] By Nina Burleigh / TomDispatch Now that we're all unmasking and the economy seems set to roar into the 2020s, what will we remember about how disastrously, how malignantly, the Trump administration behaved as the pandemic took hold? And will anyone be held to account for it? The instinct to forget pandemics, as I've pointed out when it came to the 1918 "Spanish flu… |

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-03). Rights groups sign letter denouncing human rights abuses in Egypt. peoplesdispatch.org 63 international human rights and civil society organizations signed a letter calling on the Egyptian government to "immediately end a crackdown on freedom of association, independent groups, and peaceful dissent," Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday, June 1. Among the prominent organizations that signed the letter are Access Now, Freedom House, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), EuroMed Rights, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), Odhikar Bangladesh, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Egyptian Human Rights Forum. | The letter urges the…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-03). Investigation confirms Ugandan forces shot unarmed people in November and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at an investigation into police killings during the November protests in Uganda, the lockout of ExxonMobil workers in the US, and more…

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