JUNE
1 THROUGH 10
 JUNE
10, 2020 Trump
Built His Own Green Zone. He Got the Wall He Deserves. Intercept
Purges
Will ‘Screw’ Nearly 16.7 Million Out of Their Right To Vote. ... Nearly
16.7 million men and women have been purged from the US voter roles in an act
which may well decide the 2020 general election for the incumbent US President
Donald Trump. Greg
Palast The
NYT Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year’s Coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods
Peddled by the U.S., its Media, and the NYT. Intercept
JUNE
10, 2020
EASY MONEY Companies
Are Using Pandemic to Squeeze Money From Incarcerated People Like Me TruthOut
Hospitals
Got Bailouts and Furloughed Thousands While Paying C.E.O.s Millions. ... Dozens
of top recipients of government aid have laid off, furloughed or cut the pay of
tens of thousands of employees. NYTimes
Five
questions for new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer about his UK and US national
security establishment links. ... The public deserves answers about the UK’s
new opposition leader and his relationship with the British national security
establishment, including the MI5 and the Times newspaper, his former role in the
Julian Assange case and his membership in the intelligence-linked Trilateral Commission.
GrayZone
The
mystery of which US businesses are profiting from the coronavirus bailout. ...
Government refuses to say which large companies have taken money, while small
firms on the margins have been left in the dark. Guardian
DeRay
Mckesson got his start in the corporate school privatization movement. .. Before
becoming a media celebrity backed by banks and large corporations, activist DeRay
Mckesson was a ruthless school administrator and close ally of Teach for America,
boosting the education privatization movement and its attacks on teachers’
unions. GrayZone
Kenneth Copeland
Says Christians Who Vote Correctly Will Be ‘Blessed Financially’ ...Multimillionaire
prosperity gospel preacher and Trump evangelical adviser Kenneth Copeland held
a “virtual victory campaign” at his Eagle Mountain International Church
in Texas last weekend, during which he declared that God will financially reward
people who vote according to the Bible. Right
Wing Watch
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Dark
Money Pours Into West Virginia Ahead of State Supreme Court Election. ... A Republican
Party group funded by the shadowy Judicial Confirmation Network is among the groups
spending big ahead of West Virginia's Supreme Court elections. Sludge
Atlantic
hurricane season already record-breaking — and minority communities disproportionately
at risk. ... In three years of TV news hurricane coverage, major broadcasters
failed to mention specific risks to communities of colour. Independent
He
Tweeted That He Was the Leader of Antifa. Then the FBI Asked Him to Be an Informant.
Intercept
Extremely
Long Lines At Georgia Polling Places Lead To Claims Of Voter Suppression. ...
Many voters had to wait hours to cast ballots in the state’s primary on Tuesday
at polling places where there were also reports of defective machines. HuffPost
(Oldie
Goldie) Story of 20-ton cocaine seizure on container ship breaks down MadCow
Related: Wiki
and Ship Seized With 20 Tons Of Cocaine Has Italian Billionaire Ties. Forbes
The
Spanish Right Wants to Create Another Venezuela. ... Ever since the PSOE and Unidas
Podemos formed a governing coalition in January, Spain’s right-wing opposition
has denied its democratic legitimacy. Calls for police mutiny and resistance against
the COVID-19 lockdown show how the Spanish right is imitating its Latin American
counterparts, seeking to create a climate of chaos that can bring down the government.
Jacobin
JUNE
10, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS In
2016 Police killed 1093 people in the US. In the UK was 3 (three) that year. In
2018, Demark and Switzerland it was zero. 
Who
Does This Protect? Minnesota Authorities Admit Officers Slashed Car Tires During
Protests. ... Medics. News crews. Random people that were just here to protest
-tires slashed. CommonDreams
Top
16 Euphemisms US Headline Writers Used for Police Beating the Shit Out of People.
FAIR
“We
Don’t Have Time to Wait”: Minneapolis Anti-Police Brutality Organizer
Kandace Montgomery on Defunding the Police. Intercept
AG
Barr Defends Force Against D.C. Protesters, Says ‘They Were Not Peaceful’.
... The attorney general said he ordered the street outside of the White House
to be cleared and that Trump’s photo-op at a nearby church was unrelated.
(Also, Barr says pepper spray not a chemical irritant) HuffPost Black
Lives Matter: Aerial images show protests around the world after George Floyd’s
death. ... Vast numbers emerge to take part in historic demonstrations despite
pandemic. Independent
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9, 2020 US
states have spent the past 5 years trying to criminalize protest. Grist
Israel
Continues to be Rewarded for Killing American Sailors: Remembering the USS Liberty.
CounterPunch
The
“Left” Is Cheering On Censorship & The Left Always Pays - with Chris
Hedges. Dore
Show 
Trump
Throws Garbage Can Through McDonald’s Window Before Looting $2,000 In Big
Macs. >Go
A
Powerful Petrochemical Lobbying Group Advanced Anti-Protest Legislation in the
Midst of the Pandemic. Intercept 'Despicable':
Outrage After Trump Declares Friday a 'Great Day' for George Floyd. ... "A
truly stunning level of tone-deafness." CommonDreams Witness:
Manuel Ellis was having 'friendly' talk with officers before he was beaten. ...
Account of events leading to man’s death in Tacoma, Washington, differs widely
from police version. Guardian The
murder of Iyad al-Hallaq is the face of Israeli annexation. ... With the killing
of Iyad al-Hallaq and Israel's plan to legitimize land theft, we must echo the
slogan inspired by protests in the U.S.: 'Palestinian Lives Matter.' +972
A
Vast Array of Emergency Powers. Zero Self-Control. ... Trump’s disregard
for democracy is so blatant, top military leaders have started to intervene. The
Nation ''No
One Is Free When Others Are Oppressed': Thousands in Spain, UK Rally at US Embassies
in Solidarity With America's Anti-Racist Uprising. ... "There's children
of all ages and older adults here. They are going to experience what we have experienced
and we have to try to make that not happen." CommonDreams A
Counterfeit $20 Bill. ... When you have privilege, a crime is a 'mistake,' and
when you don't, a mistake becomes a crime. ScheerPost
Five
questions for new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer about his UK and US national
security establishment links. ... The public deserves answers about the UK’s
new opposition leader and his relationship with the British national security
establishment, including the MI5 and the Times newspaper, his former role in the
Julian Assange case and his membership in the intelligence-linked Trilateral Commission.
GrayZone
Media
Downplay Global South Leadership on Covid-19. ... Only Westerners, it seems, are
deserving of praise. FAIR JUNE
9, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS As
we build a revolutionary consciousness we must never place our faith in violence,
even as we understand that violence, especially by vigilantes, criminals and militarized
police forces, will be used against us. Our strength is our truth. And this truth
terrifies our power elites. - Chris Hedges In
Veto-Proof Majority, Minneapolis City Council Says It Will Dismantle Police Department.
... “Decades of police reform efforts have proved that the Minneapolis Police
Department cannot be reformed,” nine city council members said Sunday. HuffPost
Related: What Happened to Crime in Camden? Often ranked as one of
the deadliest cities in America, Camden, New Jersey, ended 2017 with its lowest
homicide rate since the 1980s. City
Lab 'Gross
Abuse of Authority': AOC, Pressley Join Probe Into Trump Use of Predator Drones
to Surveil Protesters. CommonDreams (2014)
The Rhetoric of Violence. ... TruthDig Shocker:
US state propaganda outlets censor Black Lives Matter protests. ... It’s
hard for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty to sell the USA as a shining example
of civil liberties and democracy when the internet is drowning in pics of American
killer cops beating down on anyone in sight. GrayZone ‘They
set us up’: US police arrested over 10,000 protesters, many non-violent.
... police regularly use pepper spray, rubber bullets, teargas and batons Guardian
NYT’s
meltdown on Tom Cotton recalls its four op-ed pieces justifying slaughter of Gaza
demonstrators. Mondoweiss
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JUNE
8, 2020 FBI
launches open attack on ‘foreign’ alternative media outlets challenging
US foreign policy. ... Under FBI orders, Facebook and Google removed American
Herald Tribune, an alternative site that publishes US and European writers critical
of US foreign policy. The bureau’s justification for the removal was dubious,
and it sets a troubling precedent for other critical outlets. GrayZone The
last time the Insurrection Act was invoked by a US president, it was George HW
Bush, who sent Marines into LA to crush the Rodney King protests. His AG at the
time was Bill Barr. Bush was praised this week as model presidential “healer
in chief” by a Bible-wielding Nancy Pelosi. Barr denies police are systemically
racist as protests sweep US. Guardian
Trump
orders agencies cut environment reviews, citing 'economic emergency' ... Changes
could hurt communities of color, which are more likely to live with pollution
due to decades of environmental racism. Market
Watch Israeli
settlers speak out against US-backed annexation plan. ... Settler leader says
Trump plan ‘endangers the existence of the state of Israel’ Guardian
“The
Ruling Elite Has Lost All Legitimacy” - Chris Hedges int erview on Jimmy
Dore show. YouTube I
Remember the Lynchings of the 60s. They’re Still Happening. CounterPunch/Hightower
NYPD
Uses Aggressive Tactics On Peaceful Demonstrators Out After Curfew. .. “I
can’t believe what I just witnessed & experienced,” New York City’s
public advocate said after sharing a video of police using batons on demonstrators.
HuffPost Rural
cops get militarized. ... Pentagon gives guns, armored vehicles and battlefield
gear to rural Western counties. HCN US
police state faces revolt as Trump expands it at home and abroad. ... Dr. Gerald
Horne on the George Floyd protests, the black freedom struggle, and Trump’s
expansion of the US police state at home and around the world. GrayZone Hopeful
that Minneapolis policing will change? Meet the police union's chief Bob Kroll,
who described George
Floyd as a ‘violent criminal’, has a history of resisting any reform
of a department with a history of racial abuse. Guardian
Donald
Trump: 'This is a great day' for George Floyd – video. Guardian
Democrats
Praise Joe Biden For Being Only Candidate Able To Talk Down To Americans Like
The Stupid, Slack-Jawed Dumdums They Really Are. >
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JUNE
8, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS 'Deeply
Disturbing': New York Supreme Court Judge Rules Protesters Can Be Detained Indefinitely 
The
Police Are Targeting Protest Medics. ... This would be a war crime in a combat
zone. HuffPost Brooklyn
Man Was Arrested for Curfew Violation. The FBI Interrogated Him About His Political
Beliefs. Intercept "This
is suspension of habeas corpus, it is unconstitutional," said Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez. CommonDreams Pentagon
War Game Includes Scenario for Military Response to Domestic Gen Z Rebellion.
Intercept 'This
Is Criminal': Law Enforcement Seizes Thousands of Masks Sent to Help Protect Protesters
From Coronavirus. ... "It appears they want to ensure that people who protest
are susceptible to the same deadly pandemic that they have failed miserably at
stopping." CommonDreams Verizon
and AT&T Partner With Pro-Police Militarization Lobbying Group. ... The National
Sheriff's Association, which counts the telco giants as "platinum partners,"
lobbies Congress to make the Defense Department's 1033 military equipment transfer
program permanent. Sludge 'American
Secret Police'? Trump Deployment of Unidentified Law Enforcement Officials Across
DC Sparks Alarm. ... "The United States would normally condemn this tactic
if used by dictators of other countries, and its use here directly threatens our
democracy." CommonDreams
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WEEKEND
OF JUNE 5-7, 2020 Weekend
read: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. By David Quammen
- Examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing
a process called “spillover” where illness originates in wild animals
before being passed to humans and discusses the potential for the next huge pandemic.
Indie
Bound Author interview - David Quammen has tracked the spillover
of viruses from animals to humans for more than a decade. To avoid future pandemics,
he says, we must rethink our relationship with nature and recognize how our choices
can lead to dangerous disruptions of the natural world. Yale
NORTON
I, Emperor of the United States - History
Examples
of police violence Twitter
(Remember, during Katrina,
New Orleans police were involved in widespread looting as well as private
security firms running around without any kind of ID shooting people. ) William
Barr’s Vast, Nameless Army Is Being Brought To Bear On D.C. Protesters. ...
Federal law enforcement officers are operating on American streets without identification,
which experts say breeds a culture of impunity. HuffPost
'They're
Afraid': GOP Ripped for Enabling Trump as McConnell Blocks Resolution Condemning
Assault on Peaceful Protesters. CommonDreams
Killed
at Home: Legal Battle Reopened over 2011 Police Shooting of Elderly Black Ex-Marine
in NY. DemocracyNow
ENVIRONMENT
US ranks
24th in the world on environmental performance. ... Analysis by Yale and Columbia
universities shows US lagging far behind other industrialized countries in a range
of categories. Guardian Who
killed Berta Ca´ceres? Behind the brutal murder of an environment crusader.
... Could there ever be justice for someone like Berta in a country like Honduras,
where impunity reigns supreme? Guardian
The Next Pandemic
Could Easily Come From Our Factory Farms. ...As people point fingers at the dangers
of “wet markets,” it’s easy to overlook the closer to home problem
of factory farms. Our next zoonotic pandemic could easily come from a factory
farm. FWW Global
Meat Giants Fuel Major Future Risk of Creating Next Pandemic, Investor Group Warns.
... "Factory farming is both vulnerable to pandemics and guilty of creating
them." CommonDreams Animal
Rights Activists Uncover the Locations of Thousands of Factory Farms. Intercept
Animal feedlots
are a likely threat to drinking water in Minnesota, says report ... Manure from
the state’s 80 million farm animals risks overloading its rivers and lakes
with nitrogen and phosphorus. Guardian
Sixth mass extinction
of wildlife accelerating, scientists warn. ... Analysis shows 500 species on brink
of extinction -- as many as were lost over previous century. Guardian
New
Trump public land rules will let Alaska hunters kill bear cubs in dens. ... The
‘amazingly cruel’ move by the National Park Service reverses Obama-era
regulations which also affect wolves and coyotes. Guardian
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Trump’s
Anti-Blackness Is Overt in Protest Response and Covert in Policymaking. TruthOut
Racist
War Criminal George W. Bush’s Thoughts on George Floyd Are More Salt in the
Wound. TruthOut
Melina
Abdullah: The Only Way White Supremacy Is Defeated. ... The professor and activist
dissects the dangers of Donald Trump's presidency, the legacy of the Black Power
Movement and more. ScheerPost
In
a bizarre moment this week, Trump had protesters violently cleared from the front
of a church so he could have his photo taken while brandishing a bible. ... I'm
an expert on fascism and I know what Trump's actions during the George Floyd protests
look like. ... For a long time, I avoided using the word, instead preferring 'narcissist'
or 'plutocrat'. But this week it became clear I was wrong. Independent
The
Coup Against ‘The Most Loyal Ally'. CounterPunch
'He
wears the armor of God': evangelicals hail Trump's church photo op. ... The president’s
appeal to his base amid protests was derided by some Christians. Others saw a
victory in a world of evil. Guardian
Venezuelan
Embassy Protection Collective wins legal victory in face of hostile Obama-appointed
judge & govt prosecution. ... The sentencing of the final four from the Venezuelan
Embassy Protection Collective marked another defeat for Juan Guaidó and
his DC-based coup administration. Prior to handing it down, however, an Obama-appointed
judge delivered an unhinged law-and-order tirade denigrating the defendants. GrayZone WEEKEND
OF JUNE 5-7, 2020 -
REBELLION NEWS How
to Take Photos at Protests Safely -- and Responsibly Before you pull out your
camera and post to social media, here’s how to protect yourself and others.
Wired
How
to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid If you're planning
on hitting the streets, here's what you need to know. Wired
White
House Forced to Retract Claim Viral Videos Prove Antifa Is Plotting Violence.
Intercept
Police
Shove, Make AP Journalists Stop Covering New York Protest. ... Journalists have
faced aggressive police and protesters during demonstrations across the U.S. over
the killing of George Floyd. HuffPost
New
York Police Are Attacking Protesters -- They Know They Won’t Face Consequences.
... After a police dispatcher noted protester movement near the 77th Precinct,
a voice on the same channel replies clearly: “Shoot those motherfuckers.”
Just as clear was the immediate response: “Don’t put that over the air.” Intercept
Hedges/Dore:
The Real Looting Of America CNN Won’t Show You. ... Chris Hedges on The Jimmy
Dore Show discuss the roots of this terrible moment in American history. ScheerPost “Total
Domination”: Popular Rebellion in the Shadow of Trumpism-Fascism. CounterPunch/Street
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JUNE
4, 2020 CoronaVirus
Rhapsody YouTube
How
the Washington Post Accommodates Disinformation. CounterPunch Where
did policing go wrong? ... Crime has been down for decades, but incarceration
is still sky-high and brutality cases keep tearing the country apart. Does policing
in America need a fundamental re-think? Taibbi 'He
Must Resign': Attorney General Barr Personally Ordered Police Assault on Peaceful
DC Protesters, Report Says. ... "AG Bill Barr's behavior has been deeply
problematic since he was sworn in, but now it has become truly dangerous. He needs
to resign." CommonDreams
WAR
IS WHAT DEFINES US An
Unavoidable Recognition of Failure: Trump’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan.
CounterPunch/Cockburn
More
Than 70 Children Killed in Just 10 Airstrikes In Afghanistan, Report Finds. Intercept Trump’s
War on Arms Control and Disarmament. CounterPunch
The
End of War As We Know It? ... The future of forever wars. Tom
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US Has a Long History of Weaponizing Aid to Other Countries. TruthOut
Senate
Republicans strike more somber tone about protests — but most stay silent
on Trump's protest rhetoric. ... 'The overwhelming issue for us is after you stop
the rioting — which we will — what are you going to do about the problem
that led to protest?' Trump ally Graham says. Independent
The
Sadism of American Power. CounterPunch
Donald
Trump’s Antifa Bogeyman Has a Long, Proud History of Fighting Fascists. ...
Donald Trump has threatened to ban “Antifa” as a terrorist organization.
But you can’t ban a set of ideas. As long as we face the threat of a violent,
authoritarian right, anti-fascism will remain an essential force Jacobin This
Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation. CounterPunch 'How
did we get here?': Trump has normalised mayhem and the US is paying the price.
Guardian How
Much Violence and Destruction is Enough for Depraved American Leaders and Their
Subjects? CounterPunch JUNE
4, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Chris
Hedges: The Treason of the Ruling Class. They have destroyed our capitalist democracy
and replaced it with a mafia state. ScheerPost/Hedges How
to Organize a Protest or March
Hollaback Trump’s
Push to ‘Dominate’ Protesters Moves Barr to Forefront. MSN 'Do
the Right Thing': Veterans Call On National Guard Members to Refuse to Deploy
Against Protesters. ... "It is asinine for a rich man hiding in a bunker
to ask these troops, most of whom probably signed up to pay for access to college
and healthcare, to take actions that will inevitably lead to more violence and
haunt them for the rest of their lives." CommonDreams A
Short History of U.S. Law Enforcement Infiltrating Protests. ... When Harry, George,
Tom, and Joe showed up at a warehouse outside Philadelphia rented by protesters,
organizers were immediately suspicious. ... It is a historical fact, that law
enforcement frequently infiltrates progressive political movements using agent
provocateurs who urge others to engage in violence.. Intercept The
rightwing groups behind wave of protests against Covid-19 restrictions. ... Protesters
in Michigan and other states claim to speak for ordinary citizens, but are also
supported by street-fighting far-right groups. Guardian
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JUNE
3, 2020 Trump
Goes Authoritarian on the George Floyd Protests. NYMagazine In
America, the Rich Get Immunity. The Rest of Us Get “Law and Order”.
... America is a country that eagerly hands out get-out-of-jail-free cards to
the rich and powerful, and rubber bullets, tear gas, and jail sentences to the
rest. The protesters on the street this weekend were trying to change that. Jacobin/Sirota Is
the U.S. Headed Towards Tyranny? Timothy Snyder Discusses | Amanpour and Company.
YouTube EASY
MONEY
It's all
about cash The
Real Looting Of America CNN Won’t Show You. .. Chris Hedges on The Jimmy
Dore Show discuss the roots of this terrible moment in American history. SheerPost 'Grotesque':
While 41 Million People Lost Jobs Due to Covid-19, US Billionaires Grew Nearly
$500 Billion Richer. ... "Billionaire wealth is surging at the same time
that millions face suffering, hardship, and loss of life. This is a grotesque
indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. society." CommonDreams Who
Exactly Is Doing the Looting, and Who’s Being Looted? ... We live in an Orwellian
era, in which working-class people pilfering convenience store goods is called
“looting.” Rich people stealing hundreds of billions of dollars, on
the other hand, is just well-functioning “public policy.” Jacobin Call
for POC Solidarity: Wealth Is Inherently Built on the Suffering of Others. ...
Do not make the mistake of projecting your rage at 'rioters', rage at the system
that created the NECESSITY for riots. SheerPost Forget
“Looting.” Capitalism Is the Real Robbery. TruthOut Corporate
Immunity, Mitch McConnell’s Priority for Coronavirus Relief, Is a Longtime
Focus of the Conservative Right. Intercept Corporate
Rescue ... How the Fed Bailed Out the Investor Class Without Spending a Cent.
Intercept For
America’s Wealthiest, the Pandemic is a Time to Profit. CounterPunch Trump
Boosts Nuclear Weapons Spending, Fueling a New Arms Race. ... Spending by the
world’s nine nuclear nations climbed to nearly $73 billion in 2019, nearly
half of it by the United States alone. TruthOut
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devastating’: why fired US police officers frequently get their jobs back.
... The officers involved in George Floyd’s death were fired – but rehiring
police after termination for misconduct increases the likelihood of abuse, experts
say. Guardian People
Can Only Bear So Much Injustice Before Lashing Out. ... As the media denounces
the Minneapolis protesters, it’s worth remembering that it takes incredible
strength to practice nonviolence in the face of murder and oppression. The
Nation Microsoft
sacks journalists to replace them with robots. ... Users of the homepages of the
MSN website and Edge browser will now see news stories generated by AI. Guardian Dark
Money Spending Rises Above $100 Million as IRS Ends Donor Reporting Rules. TruthOut Trump
Admin Finalizes Rule That Could Protect Foreign Dark Money in Elections. ... The
rule, which takes effect today, allows dark money nonprofits to cease reporting
information to the IRS that the government would need to enforce campaign finance
laws. Sludge
JUNE
3, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS 
What
Is the Insurrection Act And Does it Give Trump the Authority to Send Military
Troops Into States? Here’s What To Know. Time
This
Is What a Revolution Looks Like. TruthOut Minneapolis
Neighborhoods Defend Against Police and White Supremacists. TruthOut “A
Declaration of War Against Americans”: Trump Threatens to Deploy Military
to Quell Protests. DemocracyNow When
Rioting Works. ... Rioting is a rational response to grinding poverty and oppression.
And though it’s not always the case, research shows that it can be effective
in winning social change. Jacobin Minneapolis
Neighborhoods Defend Against Police and White Supremacists. TruthOut Scroll
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2, 2020
Do
not make the mistake of projecting your rage at 'rioters', rage at the system
that created the NECESSITY for riots. "I
Took the Helmet Off and Laid the Batons Down': Michigan Sheriff and Police Didn't
Disperse Their Town's Protest -- They Joined It. ... "Do I think this has
solved the issue between police and unarmed black, human beings? No. But I do
believe that this type of leadership is a positive step in the right direction
and gives me hope for black men and women around the world and for all of humanity."
CommonDreams
Fire,
pestilence and a country at war with itself: the Trump presidency is over. ...
A pandemic unabated, an economy in meltdown, cities in chaos over police killings.
All our supposed leader does is tweet. Guardian
Assange,
Craig Murray, et al Update Assange
misses court hearing amid calls in Australia for his release. ... WikiLeaks founder
‘too ill’ to attend extradition hearing in London via videolink. Guardian Arrests
of two Scottish Journalists spark international outrage. Civil
Liberty Scotland Please
Sign the Open Letter. Craig
Murray
Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray Indicted. Popular
Risistance Defend
Mark Hirst. Craig
Murray A
Letter to Humza Yousaf WOS. Scroll
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White
Supremacist Provocateurs Are Tipping America’s Protests Into a Race War.
... In the George Floyd protests, white supremacists are using the same playbook
as the race war accelerationists of the 1960s. But it’s coinciding with widespread
unemployment, a deep recession and a careless administration in the White House.
Haaretz Minneapolis
police leader defending George Floyd’s killers tied to ‘white power’-
linked biker gang. ... From The Grayzone vault: The record of a pro-Trump Minneapolis
police leader defending the killers of George Floyd reveals a past marred in accusations
of racist violence, including charges from fellow police officers that he once
wore a “white power” badge on his motorcycle jacket. GrayZone Don’t
Fall for the Myth of the “Outside Agitator” in Racial Justice Protests.
... Whenever mass protests of any kind kick off, defenders of the status quo immediately
accuse protesters as being duped by “outside agitators.” Don’t
fall for it — the lie of the outside agitator is designed to weaken protests
and downplay our widespread anger at injustice. Jacobin Related:
The Lost History of Antifa. ... 72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look
back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa. Jacobin
Vincent
Bevins: The ‘Mass Murder Program’ Behind America’s Rise to Power.
... In a new book, the journalist explores the Cold War massacres in Asia and
Latin America that still define global political dynamics today. ScheerPost White
Supremacy is the Virus; Police are the Vector. CounterPunch “No
Matter How Different the Movements Were, the LAPD Targeted Every One of Them”.
... From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the
’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal, lawless repression
of the LAPD. In a rollicking new book, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener tell the story
of a decade of explosions. Jacobin
Policing
in the US is not about enforcing law. It’s about enforcing white supremacy.
... Police treatment of two CNN reporters at a George Floyd protest shows the
US has opposite systems of justice – one for white people, one for people
of color. Guardian Goodness
Gracious, David Ignatius!!. CounterPunch Minneapolis
police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck had 18 previous internal
complaints against him. .. Derek Chauvin was involved in multiple cases of police
violence. Independent
Congress
Is Alarmingly Close to Handing Trump Dangerous Spying Powers. ... And Adam Schiff,
of all people, is the one giving it to him. GenMedium Without
Anger Over Inequality and Lynchings, We Have No Hope for Democracy. TruthOut Why
Does W.E.B. Du Bois Matter Today? CounterPunch Noam
Chomsky: Mutual Aid Is Rising — and It’s Key to Our Survival. TruthOut
June
2, 2020 - COVID-19 NEWS 'People
are going to go hungry': pandemic effects could leave 54m Americans without food.
... Demand for aid at food banks has soared since coronavirus has forced the economy
to close and resulted in millions out of work. Guardian
With
Over 100,000 Dead and Depression-Level Unemployment, Sanders Calls McConnell's
Sandbagging of Covid-19 Relief 'Incomprehensible'. ... "Our most vulnerable
communities are hungry, desperate and under enormous emotional stress. The American
people want action from Congress and they want it NOW." CommonDreams
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JUNE
2, 2020 "I
Took the Helmet Off and Laid the Batons Down': Michigan Sheriff and Police Didn't
Disperse Their Town's Protest -- They Joined It. ... "Do I think this has
solved the issue between police and unarmed black, human beings? No. But I do
believe that this type of leadership is a positive step in the right direction
and gives me hope for black men and women around the world and for all of humanity."
CommonDreams
Fire,
pestilence and a country at war with itself: the Trump presidency is over. ...
A pandemic unabated, an economy in meltdown, cities in chaos over police killings.
All our supposed leader does is tweet. Guardian
Assange,
Craig Murray, et al Update Assange
misses court hearing amid calls in Australia for his release. ... WikiLeaks founder
‘too ill’ to attend extradition hearing in London via videolink. Guardian Arrests
of two Scottish Journalists spark international outrage. Civil
Liberty Scotland Please
Sign the Open Letter. Craig
Murray
Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray Indicted. Popular
Risistance Defend
Mark Hirst. Craig
Murray A
Letter to Humza Yousaf WOS. Scroll
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White
Supremacist Provocateurs Are Tipping America’s Protests Into a Race War.
... In the George Floyd protests, white supremacists are using the same playbook
as the race war accelerationists of the 1960s. But it’s coinciding with widespread
unemployment, a deep recession and a careless administration in the White House.
Haaretz Minneapolis
police leader defending George Floyd’s killers tied to ‘white power’-
linked biker gang. ... From The Grayzone vault: The record of a pro-Trump Minneapolis
police leader defending the killers of George Floyd reveals a past marred in accusations
of racist violence, including charges from fellow police officers that he once
wore a “white power” badge on his motorcycle jacket. GrayZone Don’t
Fall for the Myth of the “Outside Agitator” in Racial Justice Protests.
... Whenever mass protests of any kind kick off, defenders of the status quo immediately
accuse protesters as being duped by “outside agitators.” Don’t
fall for it — the lie of the outside agitator is designed to weaken protests
and downplay our widespread anger at injustice. Jacobin Related:
The Lost History of Antifa. ... 72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look
back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa. Jacobin
Vincent
Bevins: The ‘Mass Murder Program’ Behind America’s Rise to Power.
... In a new book, the journalist explores the Cold War massacres in Asia and
Latin America that still define global political dynamics today. ScheerPost White
Supremacy is the Virus; Police are the Vector. CounterPunch “No
Matter How Different the Movements Were, the LAPD Targeted Every One of Them”.
... From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the
’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal, lawless repression
of the LAPD. In a rollicking new book, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener tell the story
of a decade of explosions. Jacobin
Policing
in the US is not about enforcing law. It’s about enforcing white supremacy.
... Police treatment of two CNN reporters at a George Floyd protest shows the
US has opposite systems of justice – one for white people, one for people
of color. Guardian Goodness
Gracious, David Ignatius!!. CounterPunch Minneapolis
police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck had 18 previous internal
complaints against him. .. Derek Chauvin was involved in multiple cases of police
violence. Independent
Congress
Is Alarmingly Close to Handing Trump Dangerous Spying Powers. ... And Adam Schiff,
of all people, is the one giving it to him. GenMedium Without
Anger Over Inequality and Lynchings, We Have No Hope for Democracy. TruthOut Why
Does W.E.B. Du Bois Matter Today? CounterPunch Noam
Chomsky: Mutual Aid Is Rising — and It’s Key to Our Survival. TruthOut
June
2, 2020 - COVID-19 NEWS 'People
are going to go hungry': pandemic effects could leave 54m Americans without food.
... Demand for aid at food banks has soared since coronavirus has forced the economy
to close and resulted in millions out of work. Guardian
With
Over 100,000 Dead and Depression-Level Unemployment, Sanders Calls McConnell's
Sandbagging of Covid-19 Relief 'Incomprehensible'. ... "Our most vulnerable
communities are hungry, desperate and under enormous emotional stress. The American
people want action from Congress and they want it NOW." CommonDreams
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JUNE
1, 2020 "As
the state increases the level of violence against non-violent dissent, we must
never respond with violence. The use of violence against the state is a gift."
- Chris Hedges Police
Erupt in Violence Nationwide. ... National guard and MPD sweeping our residential
street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light
em up” and targeting reporters. Slate
Racist
Killing and Impunity. Craig
Murray Cornel
West Says 'Neo-Fascist Gangster' Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America
as 'Failed Social Experiment'. ... "I thank God people are in the streets,"
said the Harvard philosopher and activist. "Can you imagine this kind of
lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don't care? People are
callous?" CommonDreams
Minnesota
governor mobilises National Guard and suggests protests are being manipulated
by 'domestic terrorists'. ... 'Cartels are trying to take advantage of the chaos'.
Independent
ELECTION
NEWS Right-Wing
Group Seeks to Purge Up to 800,000 Voters in Pennsylvania, a Key Battleground
State. Intercept
Texas
Supreme Court: Voters don’t qualify for mail-in ballots due to lack of COVID
immunity. McClatchy
Joe
Biden Wants to Be the Anti-Trump -- So Why Does He Support Building Trump’s
Signature Border Wall? ... Professional Democrats used to paint Donald Trump’s
border wall as the symbol of everything that was grotesque about him. But now
that Joe Biden has come out in favor of it, they’ve offered barely a whisper
of protest. Jacobin
Trump’s
Reelection Strategies Are Killing a Massive Number of People. But that doesn't
mean he'll lose. TruthOut
Election spending
boosted by secret money tops $100M as IRS ends donor reporting rules OpenSecrets
Conservative
“Dark Money” Network Rebranded to Push Voting Restrictions. TruthOut
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To
Students and Teachers Targeted by the Israel Lobby. CounterPunch
Related: Why Does Israel Celebrate Its Terrorists: Ben Uliel and the Murder
of the Dawabsheh Family. CounterPunch
US
Border Patrol Denounced as 'Rogue Agency' for Using Predator Drone to Spy on Minneapolis
Protests. ... "This is what happens when leaders sign blank check after blank
check to militarize police, CBP, etc while letting violence go unchecked."
CommonDreams
Twitter
Warns Trump Tweet Glorifies Violence as He Signs Executive Order to Weaken Social
Media. ... “Trump has prospered through his use of social media and its attention-hoarding
algorithms to basically disinform and misinform people,” says Ramesh Srinivasan,
professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California,
Los Angeles. DemocracyNow
Louisiana
Bill Would Mandate 3-Year Minimum Sentence For Trespassing On Fossil Fuel Sites.
... The legislation could inflict harsh new punishments on Black protesters opposing
a massive complex of plastics plants on what are likely slave burial grounds.
HuffPost
At
Least 9 Million US Households With Children Are 'Not At All Confident' They'll
Be Able to Afford Food Next Month, Census Survey Finds. ... "Even if they
*do* end up getting food, you have to understand the mental and physical toll
of living with that kind of fear, and how that affects relationships, work, health,
and everything else." CommonDreams
Downing
Street condemned over ‘vindictive’ treatment of openDemocracy. ... Number
10’s ban on openDemocracy asking questions at COVID-19 briefings part of
a “Trumpian” attack on press freedom, say free speech campaigners. openDemocracy
No,
We Should Not Condemn Uprisings Against Police Murders Like George Floyd’s.
... The uprising in response to George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police
officer this week has led to predictable calls to condemn looting. But the real
looting in our society comes from the military, the police, the pharmaceutical
companies, private equity, the landlords, the real estate speculators, and the
billionaires — not protesters against police brutality. Jacobin
Does
Neo-Feudalism Define Our Current Epoch?. CounterPunch
President
Amplifies 'Cowboys for Trump' Calls for Executing Democrats. ... "Thank you
Cowboys," Trump tweeted. CommonDreams
American
violence in the time of coronavirus
Author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz puts armed
‘reopen’ protests in their historical context. HCN
George
Floyd death: Tweet showing difference between Michigan and Minneapolis protests
goes viral. ... Tweet compares Minneapolis protests with stay-at-home demonstrations
in April. Independent
The
War on Public Schools Continues, Only Now It’s Considered Reinvention’.
... CounterSpin interview with Diane Ravitch on pandemic school privatization.
FAIR
June
1, 2020 - COVID-19 NEWS How
The Science Of Vaccination Is Taught (Or Not) In U.S. Schools. ... As scientists
race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, teachers say teaching about the issue has
become increasingly tricky. HuffPost
The
Plot To Steal Your Unemployment Benefits. ... Workers receiving unemployment are
wrongly told they have to go back to work despite serious health conditions. Trump:
U.S. Is Terminating Relationship With World Health Organization. ... Trump said
the U.S. would be “redirecting” money to “other worldwide and deserving
urgent global public health needs,” without providing specifics. HuffPost
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JUNE
22, 2020 John
Bolton Is Telling the Truth but Let’s Not Forget His Horrible, Dangerous
Career. Intercept
Instead
of Vote on Covid-19 Relief, Senate GOP Confirms 'Anti-Healthcare' McConnell Protégé
Justin Walker to Lifetime Judgeship. ... "Another shameful step in the McConnell/Trump
takeover of our judiciary." CommonDreams
How
Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Against Them. CounterPunch
ELECTION
NEWS Lesser
of Two Evils: Chomsky vs. Greenwald . . . and the Ignored Factor. ... Noam Chomsky
believes that it is so imperative that Trump be defeated that he will vote for
Biden, while Glenn Greenwald challenges the political strategy of the lesser-of-two-evils
dictum. CounterPunch
As
States Struggle With Vote-by-Mail, “Many Thousands, If Not Millions”
of Ballots Could Go Uncounted in November. Intercept
Voting Rights
Advocates Warn of Impending 'Disaster' in Kentucky After Bid to Increase Slashed
Number of Polling Sites Fails. ... Jefferson County has a population of roughly
767,000 and will have just one polling location. CommonDreams
f We Don’t
Have Democracy, What The Hell Do We Have? ... Is the 2020 election already stolen?
Can we steal it back? (Yes and hell yes!) Why were 17 million Americans purged
from the voter rolls between 2014 and 2016? Greg
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Leaked
documents reveal right-wing oligarch plot to overthrow Mexico’s AMLO. ...Mexico’s
economic oligarchs and establishment political parties have united in a secret
alliance to try to remove left-wing President López Obrador from power,
with help from the media, Washington, and Wall Street. Leaked documents lay out
their devious strategy. Gray
Zone Western
Media Rehabilitate Brazil’s Criminal Ex-Justice Minister for Presidential
Run. ... Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro resigned from his post in the
far-right Bolsonaro government on April 24, accusing the president of “political
interference” in the country’s police force. Western corporate media
apparently saw no irony in the allegations made by the former judge, who played
an instrumental role in an “anti-corruption” witch hunt aimed at illegally
jailing former President Luis Ignacio “Lula” da Silva and destroying
his left-wing Workers’ Party. FAIR
'Their
Masks Are Off': Facebook Removes Trump Ads Using Nazi Concentration Camp Symbol
Used to Signify Political Prisoners. ... "Nazis used the red triangle to
mark political prisoners and dissidents, and now Trump and the RNC are using it
to smear millions of people protesting racist police violence." CommonDreams
Trump
Plutocrats and Plunderers Confront ‘Black Lives Matter’ ScheerPost
Press
freedom violations (June 3) at George Floyd protests by the numbers: a shocking
and unprecedented level of attacks on journalists. FPF
A
$3.5 Million Fine But 'No Prison For Anyone' After PG&E Pleads Guilty to Felony
Manslaughter of 84 People. ... "As far as actual change, to save lives, that
is not happening," said the daughter of one victim killed in the 2018 Camp
Fire in Paradise. CommonDreams
With
the World Focused on the Pandemic, Israel Prepares to Annex Large Swaths of the
West Bank. Intercept
The
Prophecies of Q. The
Atlantic JUNE
22, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Almost
every violent act committed by police in the US is already illegal. Making these
acts more illegal won’t change police behavior. Making these murderous acts
public with body cam footage hasn’t changed police behavior. There are only
2 things which will: disarming & defunding the police. The
Necessity of Rebellion. CounterPunch How
to Topple a Statue Using Science. ... Bring that sucker down without anyone getting
hurt. Popular
Science Armed
Extremist Groups Aren’t Lone Wolves -- They Were Galvanized by the GOP. TruthOut
Two
Brooklyn Lawyers Accused of Throwing Molotov Cocktails Are the Public Face of
Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Dissent. Intercept
Hundreds
of armed counter-protesters confront Black Lives Matter rally in Ohio. ... Counter-protesters
harassed group of peaceful demonstrators with rifles, bats and racial slurs in
mostly white town of Bethel. Guardian
The
AFL-CIO’s Police Union Problem Is Bigger Than You Think. ... After the near
murder of a 75-year-old man on a sidewalk in Buffalo, New York, the city’s
police union, the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association, responded with organized
demonstrations of support for the officers who shoved the elderly man to the ground.
Intercept
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WEEKEND
OF JUNE 19-21, 2020 Weekend
Read: Propaganda and the Public Mind by Noam Chomsky. In this collection of
interviews with David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky interrogates the institutions that
shape the public mind in the service of power and profit. Whether discussing U.S.
military involvement in Colombia, the attack on Social Security, the rise of HMOs,
or growing inequality worldwide, Chomsky shows how ordinary citizens have the
power to make meaningful change. Alternative
Radio Press
freedom violations (June 3) at George Floyd protests by the numbers: a shocking
and unprecedented level of attacks on journalists. FPF
Neil
Gorsuch Is Still Not Your Friend. ... Neil Gorsuch’s leading role in expanding
employment discrimination protections to LGBTQ people has prompted some praise
for the hard-right Supreme Court justice. But before the hagiographies start,
we should recall his full record — one that includes backing Donald Trump’s
Muslim ban, opposition to unions, homophobia, and more. Jacobin ENVIRONMENTAL
NEWS 'This
Is Why We Continue to Fight': Indigenous Leaders Outraged as Trans Mountain Pipeline
Spills 50,000 Gallons of Crude Oil. CommonDreams
Revealed:
more than 1,000 metric tons of microplastics rain down on US parks and wilderness.
... A survey of 11 remote western locations found that, over a year, the fragments
had traveled through the atmosphere like rain or water particles. Guardian
How
Europe’s “Trash Market” Offloads Pollution on Its Poorest Countries.
... For decades, Europe’s big economies outsourced the problem of pollution
by literally shipping their trash to China. When Beijing banned the toxic trade
in 2018, it could have served as a wake-up call — but instead, the big polluters
have rerouted their garbage to low-wage, low-regulation countries inside the European
Union. Jacobin
In
Latest Legal Blow to Trump and Dirty Energy, Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block
on Keystone XL Permit. CommonDreams
The
Pandemic Won’t Stop Climate Chaos -- That Will Require Changing Our Economic
System. ... The COVID-19 lockdown has resulted in a drastic short-term fall in
carbon emissions. Without structural change, however, we’re still on a disastrous
trajectory. To avoid calamity, we need to transform our economic system. Jacobin
Experts
Say $17.5 Billion Writedown by BP Prove Oil Giant Knows 'Reserves of Oil and Gas
Increasingly Worthless' CommonDreams
'Quietly
Putting Hundreds of Species at Risk,' Trump Opens 5,000 Square Miles of Atlantic
Ocean to Commercial Fishing. ... "Ancient and slow-growing deep sea corals,
endangered large whales and sea turtles, and an incredible array of fish, seabirds,
sharks, dolphins and other wildlife—these are the species and habitats that
will pay the price."
CommonDreams The
Problem With Chainsaw Medicine: the Forest Service’s Move to Cut Oregon’s
Big Trees. CounterPunch
In
'Targeted Strike' Against Environmental and Racial Justice, Trump EPA Curbs State
Power to Reject Fossil Fuel Projects. ..."This president and this administration
are at war with justice and well-being -- particularly for the communities that
lack these fundamentals the most." CommonDreams Planet
of the Censoring Humans. ... The campaign to remove Michael Moore’s new documentary
from the Internet – led by Moore’s erstwhile progressive “allies”
– is a significant advance in the censorship revolution. Taibbi
In
Latest Legal Blow to Trump and Dirty Energy, Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block
on Keystone XL Permit. CommonDreams
Save
the Insects, Save the Farmers, Save Ourselves: New Global Report Calls for End
of Industrial Agriculture. CommonDreams
The Virtues of
Not Eating Animals. CounterPunch
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Livable
Ecology, Not Police. CounterPunch/Street Redacting
photos on the go: An in-field guide. ...Photos and how we share them can present
risks to the people and sensitive information we capture in them. In this guide,
we discuss how to safely redact photos on the go. FPF 'It
Was a Fake Meat Shortage': Reporting Suggests Industry Sacrificed Workers During
Pandemic to Keep Exports Moving. ... "Our country sacrificed the lives of
meat workers to protect the business of meat companies." CommonDreams The
Police Aren’t Very Good At Their Main Job: Solving Crimes. ... What the statistics
-- and my personal experiences -- show about how little we should expect when
we are crime victims. HuffPost Democrat
Facing Progressive Primary Challenge Signs Letter Supporting Cuts to Social Security
— Then Quietly Walks It Back at Home. Intercept Trump
Willing to Kill Hundreds of Thousands of Americans in Effort to Win Election.
... More and more of it will be his fault if he goes around the country staging
20,000-strong rallies, as he plans to start doing soon. ScheerPost ‘Immunity
Shouldn’t Be Part of the Conversation’ ... CounterSpin interview with
Remington Gregg on corporate immunity FAIR
From
Trans Rights to Black Lives Matter, Trump Supporters Are Outnumbered. TruthOut
Nonsense
About China That “Everybody” Knows. ... I want to do a bit more beating
up on a NYT piece this morning on breaking ties with China. There is a widely
held view in policy circles that the pandemic showed that our extensive economic
ties with China are a bad thing. I will ask a simple question, how? CounterPunch/Baker
GEO
Group’s Blundering Response to the Pandemic Helped Spread Coronavirus in
Halfway Houses. Intercept
WEEKEND
JUNE 19-21, 2020
REBELLION NEWS Atlanta
Cop Who Shot Rayshard Brooks in the Back Charged With 11 Counts—Including
Felony Murder. ... "Make no mistake, the swiftness of this investigation
is the result of people marching and demanding accountability." CommonDreams
“Movements
Work”: As Activists Occupy Seattle’s Capitol Hill, City Bans Tear Gas,
Expels Police Union. DemocracyNow
Police
Are Building Surveillance Networks of Private Security Cameras in Cities. TruthOut Livable
Ecology, Not Police. CounterPunch/Street
The
Police Aren’t Very Good At Their Main Job: Solving Crimes. What the statistics
-- and my personal experiences -- show about how little we should expect when
we are crime victims. HuffPost
Moving
Street Protests from Futility to Utility. CounterPunch/Nader
Police
Have Long History of Responding to Black Movements by Playing the Victim. TruthOut
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JUNE
18, 2020 Cynicism
and Warmongering. ... The BBC plumbed the depths of hypocrisy in dressing up the
final episode of the Salisbury Poisonings as a homage to Dawn Sturgess while systematically
lying about the facts of her death, yet again to cover up the implausibility of
the official narrative. Craig
Murray Teachers’
Unions Are Demanding Police-Free Schools. ... A major lesson from the recent teachers’
strike wave was the necessity for unions to bargain for the common good of the
entire working class. By joining the nationwide protests against police brutality
and demanding police-free schools, teachers’ unions have taken that lesson
to heart. Jacobin
This
Hurricane Season, the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Complicating Disaster Response Plans.
Intercept
WAR
IS WHAT DEFINES US Once
Again, the US Military Wants Your Kids. ... This summer, military recruiters continue
focusing their efforts on twenty-two American cities with large numbers of black
and Latino young people. Jacobin Eugene
Debs Was an American Hero. ... On June 16, 1918, Eugene Debs gave the anti-war
speech that would soon send him to prison. His arrest sparked a nationwide movement
to secure his release — and forced the government to finally recognize the
free speech rights of wartime dissenters. Jacobin
Time
to 'Reinvest in People' and 'Cut Weapons of War': Barbara Lee Unveils Plan to
Cut Up to $350 Billion From Pentagon. ... "Redundant nuclear weapons, off-books
spending accounts, and endless wars in the Middle East don't keep us safe."
CommonDreams
NYT
Erases US Occupation’s Role in Prolonging Taliban Insurgency. FAIR Patrick
Cockburn: The Cynical Forces Behind America’s Forever Wars. ... The journalist
examines the disastrous inevitability of America’s failures in the Middle
East as the region continues to reel from decades of U.S.-sponsored turmoil. SheerPost Why
Washington Keeps Lobbying for War in the Middle East. ... Saudi, Qatari, and Emirati
lobbyists continue to jockey for power with near-endless streams of capital. The
Nation Massacres
as a weapon of ethnic cleansing during the Nakba. ... From April 1st to May 14,
1948 -- before Israel was declared, before the British left, and before any Arab
soldier entered Palestine to save it -- Zionist militias essentially conquered
Palestine. Mondoweiss
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Activists
Catalog Nearly 600 Videos of Officer Violence Against Protesters. TruthOut Corporate
Media Are Focusing on Race -- and Dodging Class. CounterPunch
'An
abuse of power': alarm grows over top Trump lieutenant directing force at protesters.
Guardian
Corporate
Media Are Focusing on Race–and Dodging Class. CounterPunch
Glenn
Greenwald and Richard Medhurst discuss Assange, the whitewashing of Bush's crimes
by Democrats, and more. Video
“Defenders
of Democracy” Aren’t Bothered by Its End in Bolivia. ... A new study
is the latest to undermine widespread claims of electora fraud by Bolivia’s
Evo Morales. It isn’t the first such debunking — yet democracy remains
betrayed in Bolivia, and “pro-democracy” voices don’t seem too
bothered. Jacobin
'An
abuse of power': alarm grows over top Trump lieutenant directing force at protesters.
Guardian
British
Leaders Have No Idea How Bad Slavery Was. CounterPunch/Cockburn
Surrounded
by Liars and Lickspittles, Trump Dares COVID to Kill Him. TruthOut
Press
freedom violations (June 3) at George Floyd protests by the numbers: a shocking
and unprecedented level of attacks on journalists. FPF
GOP
Money Flowing to Super PAC Backing Rep. Eliot Engel, Documents Show. Intercept
JUNE
18, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Henry
Giroux: Black Lives Matter Rebellions Are Pushing for Structural Change. TruthOut
Why
Are Corporations Really Supporting the George Floyd Protests? YouTube
16
Mind-Blowing Facts About the Police. ... Also: Naomi Karavani dives into the many
examples of police departments breaking the rules to crush dissent from the Black
Lives Matter crowd. Youtube
The
misinformation militia. ... A few days ago, a troop of vigilantes carrying assault
weapons showed up at a small, peaceful, Black Lives Matter march in Snohomish
convinced they were going to be heading off a violent invasion of antifa-led looters.
As it turned out, it was the vigilantes themselves who allegedly committed violent
acts when some of them roughed up a few local high school kids in unprovoked attacks.
Seattle
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JUNE
17, 2020 Protesters,
Here’s How to Set Up a Cheap Burner Phone. .... taking to the streets to
demand justice, you may want to leave your phone at home. ... you are at risk
of getting arrested or assaulted by police. Cops might confiscate your phone and
search it regardless of whether or not they’re legally allowed to, or they
might try to break it, especially if it contains photos or video of their violent
or illegal actions. Intercept
UN Human
Rights Council Agrees to Hold Hearing Focused on 'Racial Inequality and Discrimination'
That Characterizes American Society. ... "The protests the world is witnessing
are a rejection of the fundamental racial inequality and discrimination that characterise
life in the United States for black people." CommonDreams
Poor
sad #BunkerBoy: Now Trump wants to edit real life, like an episode of "The
Apprentice" ... While the country melts down, Trump tries to reshoot reality
so we won't know he's total chickens**t "Bunker Boy" Salon
JUNE
17, 2020 EASY MONEY
It's all about cash Corporations
Will Seize Opportunities to Profit From the Pandemic. TruthOut
Leading
US Retirees 'Like Lambs to the Slaughter,' Trump Labor Dept. Quietly Offers Up
401k Plans to Private Equity. CommonDreams
GOP
Money Flowing to Super PAC Backing Rep. Eliot Engel, Documents Show. Intercept
GOP
Money Flowing to Super PAC Backing Rep. Eliot Engel, Documents Show Intercept Trump
Just Fulfilled His Billionaire Pal’s Dream. ... Trump just changed the rules
to let Wall Street’s most predatory industry get its hands on hundreds of
billions of dollars of ordinary workers’ retirement savings. Now his friends
in private equity are celebrating. Jacobin As
Calls to Defund the Police Grow Louder, Joe Biden Wants to Give Them More Money.
Intercept The
Fed Just Pulled Off Another Backdoor Bailout of Wall Street. CounterPunch Martin
Luther King Knew That There’s Nothing Peaceful About Nonviolence If You’re
Doing It Right. Jacobin Joe
Biden and Top Democrats Won’t Defund Police -- But Our Cities Can. TruthOut Police
Budgets, Austerity, and Tax Cuts for the Rich Are Colliding in Democratic States
and Cities. Intercept
Democrats
Push Reforms That Will Not Fundamentally Change Policing. ... Proposals for police
reform by Democrats are distressingly similar to prior proposals that have done
nothing to fundamentally change policing. ShadowProof
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The
misinformation militia. ... A few days ago, a troop of vigilantes carrying assault
weapons showed up at a small, peaceful, Black Lives Matter march in Snohomish
convinced they were going to be heading off a violent invasion of antifa-led looters.
Seattle
Times Maria
Ressa’s Libel Conviction Is a Blow to Press Freedom. Intercept
“Putin’s
Gonna Get Me”. Craig
Murray 'All
lies': how the US military covered up gunning down two journalists in Iraq. ...
Former Reuters journalist Dean Yates was in charge of the bureau in Baghdad when
his Iraqi colleagues Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh were killed. A WikiLeaks
video called Collateral Murder later revealed details of their death. Guardian The
Three-Letter Word That Triggered a Revolution. ... 55 years ago, a congressman
made a single addition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that changed everything.
The
Atlantic JUNE
17, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS
New report shows
that 64% of civilian complaints against NYPD officers were filed by or on behalf
of young black people ages 8 to 18 who claimed to have been mistreated after being
stopped for innocuous activities like high-fiving and carrying backpacks…. 
Man
shot as New Mexico protesters try to remove Spanish conquistador statue. ... Police
name militia group member arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery as mayor
condemns ‘unacceptable act of violence’ Guardian
The
misinformation militia. ... A few days ago, a troop of vigilantes carrying assault
weapons showed up at a small, peaceful, Black Lives Matter march in Snohomish
convinced they were going to be heading off a violent invasion of antifa-led looters.
Seattle
Times
The
Democrats Who Created the System of Overpolicing Won’t Be the Ones to Dismantle
It. ... Mass protests across the country have beat back police repression and
won public support for scaling back police power. The Democrats who built the
overpolicing and mass incarceration regime now feel left out and want to channel
that energy back into familiar territory: getting them reelected. Jacobin Will
the Death of George Floyd Mark the Rebirth of America? CounterPunch “This
Has to Stop”: Court Rejects Qualified Immunity for Officers Who Shot Wayne
Jones 22 Times. Intercept 19
dead in a decade: the small American city where violent police thrive Guardian 8:46
- Dave Chappelle YouTube Camden
Is Not a Blueprint for Disbanding the Police. TruthOut Trump’s
Illegal Use of Military Against Anti-Racist Uprisings Portends Battles Ahead.
TruthOut
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JUNE
16, 2020 Whistleblower
cops who challenged the white wall of silence,. ShadowProof
Hack-for-hire
group targeted climate activists behind #ExxonKnew campaign. ... The hackers,
dubbed ‘Dark Basin’, went after thousands of individuals and hundreds
of institutions, a report finds. Guardian
ICC
Denounces 'Unprecedented Attacks' by Trump Administration. ... "An attack
on the ICC also represents an attack against the interests of victims of atrocity
crimes, for many of whom the court represents the last hope for justice."
CommonDreams
ELECTION
NEWS Election
2020: The Nightmare Scenario. ... Palast and Josh Fox discuss the nightmare scenario
presented by Article XII of the United States Constitution and ponder the elephant
in the room: Do we have strength to challenge what could be a total coup? GregPalast Georgia
Shows How Serious the Threat of Voter Suppression Will Be This November. ... Time
has almost run out. The
Nation New
Campaign Prepares Mass Mobilization Should Trump Refuse to 'Leave Willingly' If
Defeated in November. ... "Preparing for the possibility of Trump refusing
to concede isn't just reasonable, it's the responsible thing to do." CommonDreams Trump
stokes division with racism and rage – and the American oligarchy purrs.
... The president is the best thing that ever happened to the corporate elite,
a distraction on the lines of the old Jim Crow. Guardian
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Very
Good People Alert, Tulsa Edition…Tulsa Police Department Maj. Travis Yates
told a Tulsa talk radio host this week that police probably weren’t shooting
enough black people: “All of the research says we’re shooting African-Americans
about 24 percent less than we probably ought to be, based on the crimes being
committed,” The
Corporate Origins of the Anti-Science “Reopen” Demonstrations. CounterPunch
It’s
a Class War Now Too. CounterPunch
Kevin
Cooper: Those Eyes. ... In the history of racist violence against Blacks, something
remained the same in those oppressors, across time and place. ScheerPost
Feds
proceed with Chaco drilling plan while tribes distracted by pandemic Navajo
Times How
the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Emiratis Took Washington. CounterPunch
ICE
Plans to Spend $18 Million on Thousands of New Tasers. ... As protests against
police brutality sweep the U.S. and demands to defund police multiply, Immigration
and Customs Enforcement is seeking thousands of new “conductive energy weapons”
— what the general public commonly refers to as tasers — and training
at a U.S. military base on how to use them. Intercept
Government
Surveillance of Activists and Labor Organizers Is Alive and Well. Recently revealed
emails show that a wide range of public entities were used to police a California
graduate workers strike. It’s part of a long tradition of government agencies
spying on labor organizers and radicals — but now with cross-agency coordination
and ever-expanding budgets. Jacobin JUNE
16, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Biden
introduced a “Police Officer’s Bill of Rights” 8 times as a senator
that restricted the ability for police departments to investigate their own officers
accused of misconduct 
Chris
Hedges: Gaslighted by the Ruling Class. ... Police take the knee. NASCAR and the
U.S. Marine Corps ban the display of the Confederate flag. Nancy Pelosi uses a
kente scarf as a political prop. Joe Biden, one of the driving forces behind militarized
police, the massive expansion of mass incarceration and the doubling and tripling
of sentences, speaks at George Floyd’s funeral. The National Football League
apologizes for its insensitivity to racism, although no teams appear to be negotiating
with Colin Kaepernick. ScheerPost
Police Killings are a Political Tactic. CounterPunch
Locking
Up the Lower Class. ... New data suggests that class disparities are the main
reason for the gap in black-white incarceration rates. Jacobin
Related: Bureau of Labor Statistics - race, economic, social status. Download
report 
Mass
Incarceration: New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both? Peoples
Policy Project Download
mass incarceration full paper House
Dems’ Reforms Are Not Enough -- Congress Must End Federal Policing Funding.
TruthOut
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15, 2020 NYT
Erases US Occupation’s Role in Prolonging Taliban Insurgency. ... The New
York Times’ senior correspondent in Afghanistan, Mujib Mashal, somehow managed
to write a 3,700+ word article “How the Taliban Outlasted a Superpower: Tenacity
and Carnage” (5/26/20) that purported to explain how the Taliban managed
to “outlast a superpower through nearly 19 years of grinding war,” without
examining at all how the US contributed to reviving and sustaining the Taliban
insurgency. FAIR
Face
masks critical in preventing spread of COVID-19
Study found that wearing a
face mask stopped person-to-person spread of the virus. Science
Daily Meet
Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change
operative CEO. ... Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial
interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran
US regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher.
GrayZone
Related: Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates
monopolize editing. ... On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates
and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media
outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia’s
guidelines. GrayZone Trump
Sanctions War Crimes Court To Silence Investigations Into U.S. Misconduct. ...
His executive order threatens top officials on the International Criminal Court
with economic penalties for looking into potential U.S. war crimes. HuffPost The
News Media Is Destroying Itself. ... A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed
the American press. ... Sometimes it seems life can’t get any worse in this
country. Already in terror of a pandemic, Americans have lately been bombarded
with images of grotesque state-sponsored violence, from the murder of George Floyd
to countless scenes of police clubbing and brutalizing protesters. Taibbi Trump
Administration Refuses To Disclose Which Businesses Received $500 Billion In Government
Bailout. ...  The
move will prevent oversight of 4.5 million businesses that took a government Paycheck
Protection Program loan. One critic called it “unconscionable, jaw-dropping
corruption.” HuffPost
Roads
Closed: a Big Win for Grizzlies in the Northern Rockies. ... When the Forest Service
classifies a road in our national forests as “closed” to protect endangered
species like grizzly bears or provide secure habitat for elk, the public assumes
the road is effectively closed to motorized use. Unfortunately, that is not the
case. CounterPunch ‘Trump
Judges Are Showing Just How Extreme They Are’. ... CounterSpin interview
with Elliot Mincberg about Trump's judicial appointments. FAIR Alone
and Afraid: Welcome to Chickenhawk America. ... What sort of government continues
to wage wars at home and abroad when even its soldiers and veterans balk? ScheerPost How
to Prevent Future Pandemics: Fix the Broken Food System. ... There is a common
link between many past pandemics and the one we are facing today: the human consumption
of animals. Can we change the current food system without changing habits and
minds? Sentient
Media . Iowa
Quietly Passes Its Third Ag-Gag Bill After Constitutional Challenges. Intercept Kamala
Harris prosecuted a mentally ill woman shot by SF police. The jury didn’t
buy it. Mercury
News JUNE
15, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Police
Are Building Surveillance Networks of Private Security Cameras in Cities. TruthOut
Activists Catalog Nearly 600 Videos of Officer Violence Against Protesters.
TruthOut As
Calls to Defund the Police Grow Louder, Joe Biden Wants to Give Them More Money.
Intercept Martin
Luther King Knew That There’s Nothing Peaceful About Nonviolence If You’re
Doing It Right. Jacobin Joe
Biden and Top Democrats Won’t Defund Police -- But Our Cities Can. TruthOut
Democrats
Push Reforms That Will Not Fundamentally Change Policing. ... Proposals for police
reform by Democrats are distressingly similar to prior proposals that have done
nothing to fundamentally change policing. ShadowProof
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OF JUNE 12-14, 2020 Weekend
Read: How the Irish Invented Slang
by Daniel Cassidy. Cassidy proves that U.S. slang has its strongest wellsprings
in nineteenth-century Irish America. “Jazz” and “poker”, “sucker”
and “scam” all derive from Irish. While Demostrating this, Cassidy simultaneously
traces the hidden history of how Ireland fashioned America, not just linguistically,
but through the Irish gambling underworld, urban street gangs, and the powerful
political machines that grew out of them. Cassidy uncovers a secret national heritage,
long discounted by our WASP-dominated culture. CounterPunch
Noam Chomsky:
Amid Protests and Pandemic, Trump’s Priority Is Protecting Profits. .. Many
years ago, social scientist Bertram Gross saw “friendly fascism” —
an insidious authoritarianism that denies democratic rights for corporate ends
without the overt appearance of dictatorship — as a possible political future
of the United States. Today, that future has arrived. TruthOut
Wikipedia
formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing. ...
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan
opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone
on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia’s guidelines.
GrayZone
(Note: this isn't the first time WikiPedia has pulled stunts like this) WEEKEND
OF JUNE 12-14, 2020
ENVIRONMENT Revealed:
more than 1,000 metric tons of microplastics rain down on US parks and wilderness
...A survey of 11 remote western locations found that, over a year, the fragments
had traveled through the atmosphere like rain or water particles Guardian
'Exceptionally
Troubling': Researchers Show Hack-for-Hire Operation Targeted Groups Fighting
for Climate Action and Net Neutrality. ... "If the investigation demonstrates
that Exxon is behind these attacks, it only shows how far the fossil fuel industry
will go to silence critics." CommonDreams
Thirsty future
for American West, as ”megadrought” grips some of the fastest-growing
U.S. cities. ... Battles over water have long plagued the West. Salon
Defending
Land and Water From Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19. CounterPunch
US
south-west in grip of historic ‘megadrought’, research finds. ... Intensified
by climate change, the current 20-year arid period is one of the worst on record,
with wide-ranging effects Extinction
Chronicles 'Quietly
Putting Hundreds of Species at Risk,' Trump Opens 5,000 Sq Miles of the Atlantic
to Commercial Fishing. ... "Ancient and slow-growing deep sea corals, endangered
large whales and sea turtles, and an incredible array of fish, seabirds, sharks,
dolphins and other wildlife—these are the species and habitats that will
pay the price."
CommonDreams Large
contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought.
Science
Related: Thirsty Future for American West, as ”Megadrought”
Grips Some of the Fastest-Growing U.S. Cities. FairWarning
Grizzly
Deaths: Time to Admit to Yellowstone’s Killing Crisis. CounterPunch
Jane
Goodall Warns Humanity Will Be 'Finished' After Covid-19 Without Ending 'Absolute
Disrespect for Animals and the Environment'. ... "Our disrespect for wild
animals and our disrespect for farmed animals has created this situation where
disease can spill over to infect human beings." CommonDreams
Bureau
of Land Management leaders have lost their way. ... A former state director argues
narrow interests have dominated the agency’s direction. HCN
Last Stand in
the Big Woods. CounterPunch
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the Rage; Notice the Silence’ On
Being 'This
Is by Design': Georgia Election Disaster Condemned as Product of Deliberate GOP
Voter Suppression. CommonDreams
There’s
a Crisis in US Capitalism. ... The capitalist enterprises that produce goods and
services are distinctively organized around the conflicted relationship of employer
and employees and the competitive relationship of markets. CounterPunch/Wolff
There’s
a Much Better Way to Create Forest Jobs Than Ron Wyden’s Big Timber Welfare
Act, Pass NREPA Instead. CounterPunch
Dalai
Lama to release album of mantras and teachings set to music. ... ‘Music has
the potential to reach many more people,’ says the Tibetan spiritual leader.
Guardian
The
border wall threatens decades of binational wildlife conservation. ... Binational
groups are preserving migratory corridors and restoring degraded areas in the
Borderlands. Will the landscape be severed? HCN
The
Descent of America. ... Complaints about American decline have been commonplace
since at least the Vietnam War era. CounterPunch
LAPD
officers attack homeless man Charf Lloyd with projectiles, in a photo taken by
Kirk Tsonos.
Media
Are Slowly Starting to Be Serious About Police Violence. FAIR
The
Betrayal by the Black Elite. ... Chris Hedges continues his conversation with
Dr. Cornel West to discuss the way in which the black prophetic tradition has
been supplanted by black elitism and individualism. YouTube
Becoming
a Latin American-Style Dictatorship: Trump on the Brink. DSA
Right-wing
Lawmakers Always Knew West Bank Land-grab Law Would Be Struck Down. ... With legal
advisors making it clear that the move was unconstitutional, lawmakers sought
to come out of the process unscathed.
Haaretz Media
Downplay Global South Leadership on Covid-19. ... Only Westerners, it seems, are
deserving of praise. FAIR
WEEKEND
OF JUNE 12-14, 2020
REBELLION NEWS Six
years ago, Congress was overwhelmingly pro-police militarization. Nancy Pelosi,
Eliot Engel & 350+ lawmakers of both parties joined together to vote against
Rep. Grayson's amendment to end transfers of military equipment to local police
in 2014 Police
Brutality Against Protesters Only Stoked the Anti–Police Brutality Movement.
Jacobin
Buffalo
Police Assaulted a 75-Year-Old Longtime Peace Activist, Now Trump Is Attacking
Him Too. DemocracyNow
Related: White House Doubles Down On Trump’s Smear Against Protester
Shoved By Police. ... “They’re questions that need to be asked,”
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said of the president’s inflammatory
tweet. HuffPost
How
the Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Is Trying to Hijack Anti-Racist Protests for a
Race War. Intercept
In
Big Cities, It’s Democrats Who Have Poured Money Into Policing. ... Democratic
mayors of Los Angeles, New York and Minneapolis have treated bloated police budgets
as sacrosanct. ITT
Donald
Trump Is Afraid of Us All — His Barricaded White House Is Proof. TruthOut
This
Is the Problem' Say Critics as Police Union Recruits Fired Officers to New Jobs
in Florida. ... "Systemic racism in action." CommonDreams
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11, 2020 The
Madness of Donald. ... Nobody in his right mind would have made such remarks in
the wake of the brutal and sadistic murder of George Floyd. CounterPunch
Crisis
Interviews: Looking Beyond the Pandemic. The COVID-19 outbreak has grown into
a global pandemic. With cities closing down and the death toll rising, civilization
is struggling to find ways to overcome the crisis. The pandemic has changed the
world. The long-range effects, however, are not yet clear. On
Demand The
Brexit Crisis Led to Totally Incompetent Leadership at a Time of Unprecedented
Calamity. Now We are Paying for It. CounterPunch
New
Poll Shows Political Risks of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Bailout of Corporate
Lobbyists. Intercept
WAR
IS WHAT DEFINES US British
soldiers unlikely to face Iraq war prosecutions as more than 1,000 allegations
dismissed . ... Only one case still being considered, says director of Service
Prosecution Authority. Independent
NATO
Returns to Libya to Challenge Russia. CounterPunch
The
U.S., like Israel, is wielding the violence of an occupying power. ... The killing
of George Floyd and the ensuing protests bear striking parallels to similar events
in Israel-Palestine. Despite their differences, the mechanisms of repression operate
in the same way. +972
Media
Buries George W. Bush’s Lies and Atrocities. CounterPunch
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Ultimately,
All Monuments are Ozymandias. Craig
Murray Noam
Chomsky: Trump Has Adopted a “Viva Death!” Approach to the Presidency.
TruthOut
Racist
Violence Can’t Be Separated From the Violence of Neoliberal Capitalism. TruthOut/Giroux The
Politics of the Pandemic, with Noam Chomsky. Alternative
Radio Turd
Blossom Surfaces Again. CounterPunch JUNE
11, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS We
don’t mind being accused of police brutality. They haven’t seen anything
yet. – Miami Police Chief Walter Headley in 1967. Trump
Floats Conspiracy That 75-Year-Old Buffalo Protester Pushed By Police Was ‘A
Set Up’. ... Graphic video showed two police officers shoving Martin Gugino
to the ground, seriously injuring him. HuffPost
Hong
Kong’s ‘pro-democracy’ movement allies with far-right US politicians
that seek to crush Black Lives Matter. ...As a Hong Kong protest leader promotes
far-right condemnations of US anti-racism demonstrations and activists shut down
a Black Lives Matter rally in the city, Hong Kong organizers forge close ties
with hardline Republicans in Washington. Gray
Zone Seattle
Protesters Tear-Gassed Just Hours After City’s 30-Day Ban on Its Use. TruthOut
Yes,
American police act like occupying armies. They literally studied their tactics.
... The founders of modern policing quelled foreign uprisings. ‘Demilitarizing’
police will be harder than taking away their tanks. Guardian
Minneapolis
City Council Vows to Dismantle Police Dept. After Mass Protests & Grassroots
Organizing. DemocracyNow
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23 THROUGH 30
JUNE
30, 2020 Government
Attacks Media As People’s Media Reveals The Truth. .. Government attacks
on the media are escalating as the battle for the narrative grows in importance.
For the last decade, stories produced and amplified by the democratized media
have put the power structure at risk. Popular
Resistance To
Shift Funds From 'Endless Wars' to 'Human Needs,' Sanders Unveils Amendment to
Slash Pentagon Budget by $74 Billion. ... "It is time for us to truly focus
on what we value as a society and to fundamentally transform our national priorities."
CommonDreams
JUNE
30, 2020 EASY MONEY
It's all about cash We
Aren’t Entering Into an Economic Recovery — Another Crash Is Coming.
... Stock markets across the world are rallying as lockdowns lift and central
banks pump money into the economy. But the economy isn’t on the mend -- on
the contrary, this will likely be a calm before the storm of yet another devastating
crash. Jacobin
Mapping
Corruption: Donald Trump’s Executive Branch. ... An inquiry into how the
Trump administration transformed Washington. American
Prospect SEC
Regulators: Private Equity Is on a Crime Spree. ... Securities and Exchange Commission
regulators recently issued a scathing report that reads like a last-ditch plea
for help in reeling in private equity billionaires, who have all but free rein
to fleece whoever they want, whenever they want. Jacobin
How
Racism is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order. ... U.S. capitalism
survived because it found a solution to the basic problem of its instability,
its business cycles. Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their
awful effects, its survival required making those effects somehow socially tolerable.
CounterPunch/Wolff 'Big
Banks Couldn't Be Happier': Stocks Surge as Trump Regulators Gut Restrictions
on Risky Wall St Gambling. ... The rollback, noted the Wall Street Journal, hands
"Wall Street one of its biggest wins of the Trump administration." CommonDreams
The
Supreme Court Has Given the Green Light to Bosses and Financial Managers to Steal
From Workers. Jacobin We’re
Dying From Coronavirus. Corporations Are Getting Rich Off It. ... The 2008 bailout
was a giant giveaway to corporate America. 2020 is more of the same. Jacobin
The
Supreme Court Is Still Repeatedly Ruling in Favor of the Ultra-Wealthy. ... The
Supreme Court has made some surprising recent rulings defending rights for LGBT
people and immigrants. Those rulings should be applauded — but they also
shouldn't distract us from how the court is continuing to erode democracy and
worsen inequality with new rulings that are huge boons for the rich. Jacobin
US
Drinking Beer, Producing Cars and Military Tech at the Expense of Mexican lives.
... Fridges in Mexico are empty of beer because production has ceased as the product
isn’t considered essential. However, US company Constellation Brands is defying
local orders and forcing Mexican workers to continuing producing its Corona and
Modelo beers for export to US consumers. CounterPunch
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Glenn
Greenwald breaks down new 'bogus' charges against Julian Assange. YouTube
Donald
Trump’s re-election playbook: 25 ways he'll lie, cheat and abuse his power.
... From now until November, opponents of the most lawless president in history
face a fight for democracy itself. Guardian
Bannon
aims to make a comeback in circle of Trump influencers ahead of election. ...
Trump fired him in 2017, but recently Bannon praised his former boss on Fox News
and Trump is rumored to have spoken positively of him in return. Guardian
'Warning
Sign of Major Proportions': Number of Siberian Forest Fires Increase Fivefold
in Week Since Record High Temperature. "The Arctic is figuratively and literally
on fire." Common
Dreams Controversial
Data-Mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser’s Biography After She
Joins Campaign. Intercept
The
American Press Is Destroying Itself
A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed
the American press. Taibbi
Meet
the far-right oligarchs working to topple Mexico’s progressive President
AMLO. ... A Trump-like Mexican oligarch, Gilberto Lozano, is leading a coalition
of corporate leaders and far-right fanatics called FRENA to try to overthrow President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The
GrayZone First
You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You’re Praised for Sending in Aid. ...
The perverse diplomatic charade of Saudi Arabia starting a fire then getting credit
for providing fire blankets. ITT
How
a US and Qatari regime change deception produced ‘Caesar’ sanctions
driving Syria towards famine. ... Like the mysterious figure it is named for,
the Caesar sanctions bill is the product of an elaborate deception by shadowy
US- and Gulf-backed operatives. Instead of protecting Syrian civilians, the unilateral
measures are driving them towards hunger and death. Gray
Zone JUNE
30, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Black
Lives Matter Wants to End Police Brutality. History Suggests It Will Go Much Further.
Intercept
The
War Zone Is America . ... The threat of armed violence shapes the major life decisions
of so many people of color today. ScheerPost
What
Law Did We Break? ... How the NYPD Weaponized a Curfew Against Protesters and
Residents. Intercept
Corporate
Media Looks to Purveyors of State Violence Abroad to Condemn State Violence at
Home. FAIR
Racism
and the Neoliberal Consensus. CounterPunch
Trump Ramps Up Misuse Of The Military For Political Gain. ... “The idea of
fighting American citizens on American soil is not what the military does and
not what the American people expect the military to do,” one critic said.
HuffPost
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29, 2020 US
Government Expands Assange Indictment To Criminalize Assistance Provided To Edward
Snowden. ShadowProof
Copy
of indictment Capitalism
and the Throttling of Democracy in India. .... The deregulation of international
capital flows (financial liberalisation) has effectively turned the planet into
a free-for-all bonanza for the world’s richest capitalists. CounterPunch
ELECTION
NEWS A
New Voting Crisis: Kentucky Closes 95% of Polling Places, Leaving Louisville with
Just One. DemocracyNow
We
Still Have Apartheid Elections. ... They're hostile to counting the vote in the
United States for voters of color and for young people, that's just the truth.
We still have an apartheid vote counting system and they will do everything to
get in your way. Craig
Palast Trump
Suggests Navy Sent $5 Billion to Wisconsin Firm to Help Him Win Election. Intercept
'Systematic
Assault on Legitimacy of Our Election': Trump Launches Conspiratorial Attack on
Mail-In Voting. ... The president is "laying the groundwork for an election
challenge," warned Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government
Ethics. CommonDreams
'An
embarrassment': Trump's justice department goes quiet on voting rights. ... The
justice department, led by William Barr, has been quiet when it comes to protecting
the right to vote, former department lawyers say. Guardian
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Lawlessness
in Trump’s Fascist State: Bill Barr and the Ghost of Fascism. ... the debilitating
pronouncements of William Barr, Trump’s Attorney General, regarding his defense
of unchecked executive authority, which he believes should be unburdened by any
sense of political and moral accountability. CounterPunch
Truly
Shameful BBC Israeli Propaganda ... In a genuinely outrageous piece of victim
blaming, BBC News just blamed Palestinian intransigence in refusing to accept
Israeli annexation of the West Bank for the deaths of Palestinian children caused
by the Israeli blockade of medical supplies to Gaza. Craig
Murray The
End of Asylum? Supreme Court Sides with Trump Administration on Fast-Tracking
Deportations. ... he Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory
Thursday when it ruled the government can fast-track deportations of asylum seekers
without first allowing them to fight for their cases in front of a judge. DemocracyNow
The
Far Right’s Absurd War on Masks. ... The chief cultural signifier of our
times is this: Wearing a mask. Or not. CounterPunch/Hightower Jeremy
Corbyn’s Opponents Burned the House Down to Stop Him — Now Keir Starmer
Is King of the Ashes. ... By sacking Rebecca Long-Bailey on a trumped-up pretext,
Keir Starmer has set the seal on a drastic shift to the right for the British
Labour Party. That shift comes just as the key arguments by Jeremy Corbyn’s
opponents to justify a break with his left leadership have been falling apart
in the face of overwhelming evidence. Jacobin
The
secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US. ... Wildlife
Services kills thousands of animals at ranchers and farmers’ behest. But
it operates with little oversight – and critics describe it as out of control.
Guardian
MONDAY
JUNE 29, 2020
REBELLION NEWS Chokehold
on Diplomat Exposes Israel’s Special Type of Apartheid. CounterPunch
Law
Enforcement Scoured Protester Communications and Exaggerated Threats to Minneapolis
Cops, Leaked Documents Show. Intercept
The
FBI has a history of targeting black activists. That's still true today. ... The
FBI has long disrupted and discredited civil rights leaders. It should put its
authorities to better use by holding officers accountable. Guardian
“The
Cops Are With the Fascists”: How Police Terror and Trumpism Converge. TruthOut
Repair
& Revive: Rev. William Barber on Fighting Racism, Poverty, Climate Change,
War & Nationalism. DemocracyNow
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OF JUNE 26-28, 2020 Weekend
Read: Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country.
by. Sierra Crane Murdoch. The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation,
and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it -- an
urgent work of literary journalism. Indie
Bound The
Fusion Centers Are Probably Working Overtime ... It’s not just that we have
no idea what their work really is, we also don’t have a clue about how much
it costs. ScheerPost
FBI Expands Ability to Collect Cellphone Location Data, Monitor Social Media,
Recent Contracts Show. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation may be watching
what you tweet and where people gather. Intercept
JUNE
26-28, 2020
ENVIRONMENT New
Mexico Groups Appeal EPA’s Dirty Water Rule Download
Press Release 
In
Minnesota, Ellison Announces Climate Lawsuit Against Exxon, Koch, and API. ..."There
are no more worthy targets of a climate fraud lawsuit than Exxon, Koch Industries,
and API: the unholy trinity of climate denial." CommonDreams
'It's
only important if you eat food': inside a film on the honeybee crisis. Guardian
Related: Xerces Society
Amazon
Rainforest Hit By Killer Droughts. CounterPunch
Revealed: millions
of Americans can’t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade. Guardian
Request to Turn
Off Nestlé Spigot Despite Decades of Water-Taking in the San Bernardino
National Forest. ... Despite Expired Permit Harming Strawberry Creek, Court Allows
National Forest and Nestlé to Continue with Business as Usual. CommonDreams
Clean water is
a human right. In America it’s more a profit machine. ... When it comes to
water infrastructure, America’s challenges resemble those of a developing
country. It’s time for that to change. Guardian
How did wildlife
groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature? ... We need strong campaigns
to confront environmental collapse. Instead, we get weakness and complicity Guardian Scroll
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Feds
Set To Cut Coronavirus Testing Funds As COVID-19 Cases Soar. ... Federal testing
centers in five states will either transition to state control or be closed. HuffPost
WikiLeaks
Founder Julian Assange Faces New Indictment In U.S. ... A new Justice Department
indictment accuses Assange of recruiting hackers at conferences to provide WikiLeaks
with classified information. HuffPost
DOJ's
New WikiLeaks Indictment Has Significant, Convenient Plot Holes. Gizmodo
The
Persecution of Julian Assange. Glenn Greenwood - Update YouTube
The
UK and Boris Johnson on the Skids. CounterPunch
Do
Not Mourn the White Saviours of Department for International Development (DfID).
... It is a very good discipline to ask yourself how much cash those employees
of charities campaigning to keep DFID make personally from DFID. It is an interesting
paradox that if they appear not to be employed by DFID, they are almost certainly
lining their own pockets with a very great deal more DFID cash than actual DFID
employees. Craig
Murray Trump
Made a Racist Joke in a Phoenix Megachurch and the Crowd Went Wild. Intercept
New
Report Highlights 'Thirst for Justice, Dignity, and Equality' Amid Increased Attacks
on Human Rights. ... "The coming year provides a vital opportunity for a
renewed commitment to the transformative idea of human rights." CommonDreams
With
Demand 'Echoing Across the World,' UN Chief Calls on Israel to Abandon Illegal
Annexation Plan. ... European MPs and international NGOs have also denounced annexation
and demanded a "just solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
CommonDream WEEKEND
JUNE 26-29, 2020
REBELLION NEWS Interactive
Map Shows Police Using Violence Against Peaceful Protesters in 125 Cities and
40 States. CounterPunch
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the map Bravo
You Heroes: Columbus OH Police Mace Double Amputee, Take His Legs, Leave Him Writhing.
CommonDreams
Trump
Attacks Anti-Fascists But Is Silent on Boogaloo & Far-Right Groups Engaged
in Deadly Violence. DemocracyNow
Revealed:
millions of Americans can’t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade. Guardian
Risk
of coronaviruses increases as wildlife moves from farms to restaurants, study
finds. ... The seven-year project in Vietnam found that by the time field rats
bred for consumption reach restaurants, more than half have a coronavirus. Independent
Bill
de Blasio Knows That Cops Protect Capital. Jacobin
Criticism
and censorship of Michael Moore. Chris Hedges/Jeff Gibs interview on Planet of
the Humans. YouTube
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JUNE
25, 2020 Press
freedom violations (June 3) at George Floyd protests by the numbers: a shocking
and unprecedented level of attacks on journalists. FPF
The
BoJo Follies. The ‘Five O’Clock Follies’ was the name given during
the Vietnam War to US military press briefings that were infamous for announcing
non-existent victories and wildly exaggerated numbers for enemy casualties. CounterPunch/Cockburn Redacting
photos on the go: An in-field guide. ...Photos and how we share them can present
risks to the people and sensitive information we capture in them. In this guide,
we discuss how to safely redact photos on the go. FPF
WAR
IS WHAT DEFINES US Bush,
Powell, Bolton…War Criminals
Against Trump! NYT
Erases US Occupation’s Role in Prolonging Taliban Insurgency. FAIR
Trump
Sanctions the International Criminal Court. CounterPunch
Palestinian
Scholar Noura Erakat: Israeli Forces Killed My Cousin on His Sister’s Wedding
Day. DemocracyNow
Eliot
Engel Is One of the Democrats’ Worst Warmongers in Congress. Jacobin
Patrick
Cockburn: The Cynical Forces Behind America’s Forever Wars. ... The journalist
examines the disastrous inevitability of America’s failures in the Middle
East as the region continues to reel from decades of U.S.-sponsored turmoil. SheerPost
Why
Washington Keeps Lobbying for War in the Middle East. ... Saudi, Qatari, and Emirati
lobbyists continue to jockey for power with near-endless streams of capital. The
Nation Massacres
as a weapon of ethnic cleansing during the Nakba. ... From April 1st to May 14,
1948 -- before Israel was declared, before the British left, and before any Arab
soldier entered Palestine to save it -- Zionist militias essentially conquered
Palestine. Mondoweiss
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William
Barr Has Turned the Justice Department Into a Law Firm With One Client: Donald
Trump. Intercept
Big
Tech Is Using the Pandemic to Push Dangerous New Forms of Surveillance. TruthOut
AI
Responsible For Wrongful Arrest In First Known U.S. Case. ... A man was wrongfully
arrested after facial recognition software mismatched his driver’s license
photo to surveillance video of someone shoplifting, according to an ACLU complain.
HuffPost
New
York Times hires opinion editor from a news site critical of Israel. ... Greenwald,
The Intercept founder, has openly criticized Israel and its political leadership,
while the publication’s reporters have frequently scrutinized Israel’s
right-wing government. JPost JUNE
25, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS DNC
'Snubs' Climate Movement Just as Greenpeace Endorses Democratic Panel's Visionary
Plan. .. "There are more big bank executives on the Democratic platform drafting
committee than there are climate activists or millennials." CommonDreams
As Teddy Roosevelt’s
Statue Falls, Let’s Remember How Truly Dark His History Was. Intercept
'This Is Why We March':
Poll Shows Overwhelming US Support for Police Reform, Increased Accountability.
... Among other major changes, large majorities of the American public want clear
standards for police misconduct and prosecution of officers guilty of excessive
force. CommonDreams
Moving Street
Protests from Futility to Utility. CounterPunch/Nader
The Rebellion
Against Racial Capitalism. Intercept
Livable
Ecology, Not Police. CounterPunch/Street
Police
Have Long History of Responding to Black Movements by Playing the Victim. TruthOut
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JUNE
24, 2020
It
would seem to be a rule of history that as the actual power of a state declines,
the pageantry increases. Certainly in the last days of the Byzantine empire were
marked by a court protocol so elaborate and time-consuming that the arrival of
the Turks must have been a relief to everyone. Now, as our own imperial republic
moves gorgeously into its terminal phase, it is please and useful to contemplate
two centuries of American court life, to examine those personages who have lived
in the White House and borne those two simple awful titles, "The President,"
"The First Lady" and, finally to meditate on that peculiarly American
religion, President-worship.
- Gore Vidal Noam
Chomsky: “Trump Is the Worst Criminal in History, Undeniably”. ... Chomsky
talks about the “absolutely unprecedented scope and scale” of the protests
against the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the importance
of Lula’s presidency in Brazil, and why Donald Trump is “the worst criminal
in human history.” Jacobin
Comparing
the Republican Party’s Response to Coronavirus alongside Climate Change:
Remember The Past, Think About The Present and Consider The Future. ... The GOP's
response to the novel coronavirus sheds light on how other crises will play out
under their leadership - what can be done to change the future? TarBell
While renaming things and removing disgraced figures from buildings, it seems
like this would be one of
the first to go.
As
Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Face Criminal Probes, Barr Fires Top Prosecutor; Tries
to Replace Him with Banks’ Former Lawyer, Jay Clayton. WS
on Parade Trump,
Bolton, and Pompeo: Loathsome Peas in a Pod. ... For nearly a year and a half,
from April 2018 to September 2019, the Trump administration was in the hands of
a “war cabinet.” With Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State, and John Bolton
as National Security Adviser, Donald Trump created one of the most aggressive
foreign policy teams in the history of the presidency. Bolton and Pompeo were
fixated on going to war against Iran... CounterPunch
Brexit
Leader Allowed To Attend Trump Rally With A ‘National Interest’ Travel
Ban Waiver
Nigel Farage and other VIPs were flown to and from Tulsa in jets
chartered by the Trump campaign for a rally that wound up drawing less than 6,200
people. HuffPost
No,
We’re Not All Antifa Now. But We Should Be. CounterPunch
No,
You Won’t Smear Our Fight Against Israeli Apartheid as “Antisemitic”
Jacobin
Do
Black Lives Matter to Big Conservation Groups? CounterPunch
John
Bolton Is Telling the Truth, but Let’s Not Forget His Horrible, Dangerous
Career. Intercept
Israel
leverages dubious ‘Nuclear Archives’ to re-enlist IAEA in campaign against
Iran. ... The International Atomic Energy Agency has once again lent itself to
the political interests of the United States and Israel, provoking a needless
conflict with Iran. Gray
Zone
North Carolina ‘Ag-Gag’ Law Aimed At Suppressing Whistleblowers Struck
Down By Federal Court. Shadow
Proof JUNE
24, 2020
REBELLION NEWS The
Paths To Reform Are Dead: Confronting The Myopic Ruling Elite w/ Chris Hedges.
Last
Born in the Wilderness Do
Black Lives Matter to Big Conservation Groups? CounterPunch As
Teddy Roosevelt’s Statue Falls, Let’s Remember How Truly Dark His History
Was. ... New York City’s American Museum of Natural History announced Sunday
that it will remove its famous statue of President Teddy Roosevelt from its sidewalk
entrance. Intercept Lawmakers
Welcome IG Probe Into Violent Police Clearing of Lafayette Square. ... "The
White House narrative is contradicted by video evidence, eyewitness accounts,
and even its own past statements. Frankly, it has no credibility at this point."
Trump
Demands Life in Prison for Three Black Lives Matter Protesters. ... Colinford
Mattis, Urooj Rahman, and Samantha Shader are political prisoners. In late May,
the three activists were arrested for alleged property destruction during the
protests that broke out across the country. All three are still being held in
jail without bail and are facing life in prison on federal charges. Left
Voice
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JUNE
23, 2020
‘‘Twenty-four-hour
news networks are built for one thing, and that’s 9/11. There are very few
events that would justify being covered 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So
in the absence of urgency, they have to create it. You create urgency through
conflict.’’
- Jon Stewart Michael
Moore Presents Planet of the Humans Full Documentary Directed by Jeff Gibbs. YouTube
Related: Criticism and censorship of Michael Moore with Chris
Hedges and Jeff Gibbs. YouTube
2020
is our last chance to avert climate catastrophe, says energy chief. ... The International
Energy Agency releases its Sustainable Recovery Plan and says governments have
a 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to reduce global emissions. Independent
JUNE
23, 2020 EASY MONEY
It's all about cash No
Oversight of $1.5 Billion Electric Project Raises Alarm over Privatization of
Puerto Rico’s Power. DemocracyNow
We’ve
Always Had the Money for Medicare for All -- We’ve Just Given It to Corporations
Instead. ... Since 2008, the US has spent $20–35 trillion on corporate bailouts.
It’s about the same “unaffordable” amount that Medicare for All
has been projected to cost -- used for lining corporate pockets instead of providing
health care to people who need it. Jacobin
The
GOP Is Getting Back to Business as Usual -- Trying to Gut Social Programs. TruthOut
Don’t
Let Disaster Capitalists “Reimagine” Public Education.... Bill Gates,
Andrew Cuomo, and other corporate education reformers are trying to use this moment
of crisis to push through free-market school reforms. Their agenda is the exact
opposite of what we actually need: a fully funded public education system that
attacks racial and class inequalities. Jacobin
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Is
Israel Poised to Admit it Annexed the West Bank? YouTube/Greenwald
With
'Systemic Violations' of Worker Rights, US Comes in Dead Last in Labor Rankings
of Wealthy Nations. ... The U.S. was identified as a country w here "the
government and/or companies are engaged in serious efforts to crush the collective
voice of workers, putting fundamental rights under threat." CommonDreams
The
GOP Is Getting Back to Business as Usual -- Trying to Gut Social Programs. TruthOut
Donald
Trump Is a Menace to American Democracy. But He Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere.
Jacobin
Federal
media chief Michael Pack installs Trump loyalists to leadership posts, memo says.
CNBC
Trump
Wants to Create Election Chaos by Killing the Post Office. TruthOut
Authorities
Transferred Hundreds of People Between Shadowy Immigration Prisons, Ignoring Coronavirus
Threat. Intercept
Crisis
PR & the Pentagon’s Budget. PR
News JUNE
23, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Not
Just “Cops”: It’s Time to End the Entertainment Industry’s
Anti-Black, Pro-Police Programming. Intercept
Corporations
Are Bankrolling US Police Foundations Without Public Oversight. TruthOut
Demilitarization
of Police Means Disrupting the Army-to-Police Pipeline. ... Demilitarizing police
is an urgent demand in this moment. But with the police force and army so entwined
— both in terms of personnel and weaponry — demilitarization won’t
be easy. Jacobin
Mass
Incarceration: New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both? Peoples
Policy Project Congressional
Democrats Supported Violent Force Against Protesters in 2010. TruthOut
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