WSWS (2022-06-09). President of PEN Germany resigns after demanding more weapons for Ukraine. wsws.org This comparison of Hitler's war of extermination against the Soviet Union—in which almost 30 million Soviet citizens, including countless victims from Ukraine as well as millions of Jews, were murdered— with the Putin regime's war against Ukraine amounts to a brazen trivialisation of Nazi crimes.

Workers World Party (2022-06-09). PDF of June 9 issue. workers.org Download the PDF. Profit-hungry company lures youth to guns editorial: LGBTQ+ for socialism: 'We want to live!' PRIDE: Class roots of anti‚Äëtrans laws Events challenge police, corporate control, transphobia Labor fights back: Lockout by war profiteers Seattle museum union Boston baristas strike Tear down the walls: Palestine Freedom Tunnel Stop . . . |

Socialist Alternative Bay Area (2022-06-09). Friday 6/10: Protest at Pelosi's Office: Do Not Surrender, Defend Abortion Rights! indybay.org On Mission St at 7th St in San Francisco, outside the courtyard of the Federal Building…

Erica Caines (2022-06-09). The Empire's 'Front Yard' and the Monroe Doctrine. orinocotribune.com By Erica Caines -Jun 2, 2022 | We used to talk about, when I was a kid in college, about "America's backyard." It's not America's backyard. Everything south of the Mexican border is America's front yard. And we're equal people. We don't dictate what happens in any other part of that — of this continent or the South American continent. We have to work very hard on it. But the trouble is: we're having great difficulty making up for the mistakes that were made the last four years, and it's going to take some time. | Remarks by President Biden in Press Conference JANUARY 19, 2022 | The claims levie…

Abe Asher (2022-06-09). San Francisco Elites Scapegoated Boudin for the City's Problems. zcomm.org It Worked…

Amarynth (2022-06-08). Sitrep Operation Z: Denazification and Demilitarization by the hundreds. thesaker.is By Amarynth for the Saker Blog This will function as an open thread on the SMO in the Ukraine. To start it off, we look at the early morning Russian…

Noreply (2022-06-08). I Am Getting Tired Writing Posts With "No Shit" Or "Duh" Titles))). smoothiex12.blogspot.com Or, if you wish with "We told you so" titles. I wrote so much about US "intel" and how it is not really an intel that I don't have time to list all those occasions. But numbers of VSU (Nazi) losses during SMO which begin to circulate now give an impression on the progress of Russian operation in 404. Of course, all this info has a massive geopolitical impact, especially on the United States which, as always, came up with absolute BS narrative which is collapsing really fast. Well, NYT decided to start steering clear of this whole Russia "lost in Ukraine" BS it promoted together with neocon crazies, and begins thi…

Anonymous103 (2022-06-08). 800 Civilians Taken Hostage In Azot Plant In Severodonetsk Report. southfront.org About 800 civilians are "sheltering" at the Azot chemical plant in the city of Severodonetsk. This was reported by the Agence France-Presse (AFP), citing the lawyer of the owner of the enterprise. "About 800 civilians took refuge in the shelters of the Azot chemical plant owned by Dmytro Firtash's Group DF," the lawyer of the Ukrainian tycoon Lanny J. Davis said in a statement. | According to the statement, the civilians include about 200 out of 3,000 factory workers and about 600 resident…

WSWS (2022-06-08). Podemos plans to join NATO summit in Madrid against Russia, China. wsws.org The reactionary operatives who run Podemos are trying to square the circle, claiming to be a party of the left and of opposition to NATO, while participating in waging NATO wars.

_____ (2022-06-08). Haiti And The Americas Syllabus. popularresistance.org What does it mean to defend our Americas? For the Black Alliance for Peace, defending our Americas begins with a re-drawing of the map of the Americas. No longer can the United States stand at the center of the hemisphere, upholding an eternal whiteness while imposing a suffocating capitalism. Instead, for BAP, Haiti is the center of the Americas. Solidarity with Haiti is key to the defense of the Americas. Haiti endures the original territory of Black emancipation from slavery, of Black independence from colonialism, and Black resistance to racism and global capitalism. | Yet Haiti has also become the region's l…

WSWS (2022-06-08). Paula Rego dies aged 87. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is republishing an article posted August 15, 2021 reviewing the largest ever retrospective of Paula Rego's work, mounted by Tate Britain.

Thom Hartmann (2022-06-08). When the US Is Truly Run by These Fascists It Will Be Too Late. commondreams.org We can't pretend we don't know what's happening and where it will lead if it's not stopped—the question is what we will do about it.

Contributing Writers (2022-06-08). Award-Winning Canadian Journalist Eva Bartlett on Ukraine Kill List As Canadian Government Does Nothing. marktaliano.net READ MORE: Canadan Journalist Added to List of Proclaimed 'Enemies of Ukraine' On Ukraine's war on Donbass, Russia's denazification operation, and being on Ukraine's Kill List "One less traitor": Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition/ By Max Blumenthal and Esha Krishnaswamy…

Dave Clennon (2022-06-08). It's Showtime in Ukraine! dissidentvoice.org Let our bleeding proxy negotiate a settlement, NOW. Since early January, the corporate media have been proving their loyalty and their usefulness to the US foreign policy establishment. With faultless show-business efficiency, they manufactured an international political superstar, at least in Europe and the English speaking world. Vladimir Zelensky appeared on media screens, seemingly everywhere, …

Mike Walter (2022-06-08). The Heat: COVID-19 and Mental Health. america.cgtn.com The coronavirus pandemic has killed millions across the globe including over one million here in the United States. And, while the loss of loved ones has been devastating for families, the fallout has also left huge numbers struggling with mental health issues. Depression and anxiety …

Yves Engler (2022-06-08). Educating Journalists about Canada's Propaganda System an Eyeopener. dissidentvoice.org Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. —Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, April 1, 1997 Propaganda isn't a euphemism for how the other side controls information. Nor is it simply about jailing journalists or shuttering media outlets. A serious discussion of the matter must look …

JANET (2022-06-08). Mumia Abu-Jamal: When the empire calls. iacenter.org By Mumia Abu-Jamal June 6, 2022 Mumia Abu-Jamal The following message from political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was prepared for the Workers' Summit in Tijuana, Mexico, June 10-12, which is being held in response to President Joe Biden's Summit of the Americas. My brothers, sisters and comrades in Tijuana, I welcome you, delegates of the excluded. People from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and beyond. Many of you come from poor nations, countries with relatively low GDP, like Cuba, for example, which has a GDP roughly equal to Ghana. As I write from the richest nation on earth, I have to add that I also write from a na…

Staff (2022-06-08). Escándalo en Cumbre de las Américas: Vocera de un grupo de trabajo renuncia bajo amenazas. cubadebate.cu La vocera original del grupo de trabajo de Gobernabilidad Democrática, de la cumbre que se celebra en Los àÅngeles, ha decidido renunciar a sus funciones, se conoció este miércoles. En una declaración, explicó las presiones a las que ha sido sometida por los organizadores del evento, en una especie de aplicación de una política fascista.

Rhoda Feng (2022-06-08). The Pain Profiteers. zcomm.org Two new books reveal the distortion of the U.S. health care system by financial operators…

Climate Psychology Alliance of North America (2022-06-08). Friday 6/10: When Climate Anxiety Leans Right: Eco-Fascism, Buffalo NY and Roe. indybay.org Online event for free…

Kahlil Wall-Johnson (2022-06-07). 'Either you Join NATO or We will Make the Canaries Independent'. orinocotribune.com By Kahlil Wall-Johnson Jun 6, 2022 | A recent interview with former Spanish politician José Manuel Otero has revealed further details regarding his country's entry into NATO and attests to the double-dealing politics of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). | Prior to Spain's absorption into NATO, Otero was minister of the presidency and then minister of education. According to a recent

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-06). Russia Says It Will Take More Ukrainian Territory to Defend Against Longer-Range Weapons. news.antiwar.com On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow will push Ukrainian forces further back from the Russian border in response to Western nations giving Kyiv longer-range weapons. "The longer the range of the systems that will be delivered, the further we will move back the Nazis from that line from which threats to …

Contributing Writers (2022-06-06). Canada and the Banderites/ By Thierry Meyssan. marktaliano.net Original Link Here: Canada and the Banderites, by Thierry Meyssan (voltairenet.org) In previous articles, Thierry Meyssan has shown how the Banderites, collaborators of the worst Nazi exactions in Ukraine and Poland, came to power in Kiev, in the young independent Ukraine. He shows here that, for eighty years, Banderite immigrants have been embedded in the …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-06). 'Beacon of Democracy': Kiev Regime's Practice of Kidnapping People Spirals Out of Control. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic Ever since the Obama administration orchestrated the 2014 Euromaidan color revolution (US/NATO's weapon of choice when hijacking entire nations), the mainstream media have been feeding the political West's populace the narrative of Ukraine being the "freedom and democracy lighthouse in the dictatorial post-Soviet darkness". However, after the start of Russia's special military operation more than three months ago, this…

Kevin Mwanza (2022-06-06). Billionaire George Soros: Civilization May Not Survive The War In Ukraine. moguldom.com Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros said he believes civilization might not survive the war in Ukraine if it degenerates into a third world war. His advice to avoid this is a quick and decisive defeat of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Soros warned that open societies are under siege, autocratic regimes are rising and the …

Alan Macleod (2022-06-06). The Frontman of Empire: How Bono's "Activism" Serves the Powerful. mintpressnews.com Bono presents himself as a radical activist ruffling feathers and standing up for the world's oppressed. In reality, he has not done or said anything in decades that discomforts the political and economical rulers of the world, which is precisely why he is constantly invited into the halls of power.

Rqorinoco (2022-06-06). NYPD and Far-Right Forces Collude in Physical Assault on a Socialist and Anti-Racist Space. orinocotribune.com The People's Forum in New York City attacked by the far-right, enabled by the police | Since our founding in 2018, our space, The People's Forum (TPF) has been the target of multiple attacks by the far-right on both social media and in our location. We have managed to defend our space which operates on values and principles of social justice and people power. Most recently a coalition of anti-vaxxers, Cuban and Venezuelan anti-communists, and other far-right reactionaries have increased their attacks on TPF. Today, over a dozen officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD) entered TPF, uninvited, and acted as…

WSWS (2022-06-06). David North in Prinkipo: A tribute to Leon Trotsky. wsws.org While in Turkey for discussions with the comrades of the Socialist Equality Group (Turkey), David North visited Trotsky's final residence during his exile (1929-33) on the island of Prinkipo, and paid tribute to the life of the great theorist of world socialist revolution.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-06). Cancer and mental health: Mayo Clinic expert dispels myths. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minnesota — Everyone with cancer experiences it differently and all emotions are valid and important, regardless of the mix or intensity. Shawna Ehlers, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic psychologist and psycho-oncology expert, helps patients cope with the burden of their cancer diagnosis. That includes dispelling myths that stress in their lives caused their cancer or that depression must be suffered through during cancer treatment. "If I had one thing that I could tell all cancer…

____ (2022-06-06). U.S. Global Empire of Violence! transcend.org 31 May 2022 – The U.S. says weapons, weapons, and more weapons, are the solution for everything! More weapons for Ukraine! Arm teachers in schools! Put armed guards everywhere!

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-06-05). DHS 'Concerned' over Nazis Returning to US after Fighting in Ukraine, Why Isn't the Media? orinocotribune.com By Alexander Rubinstein — | US corporate media has provided glowing coverage to Paul Gray, a notorious American white nationalist fighting in Ukraine. A DHS document warns he's not the only US fascist drawn to Kiev. | As the United States undergoes a national mourning process over a spate of mass shootings, American white nationalists with documented histories of violence are attaining combat experience with advanced US-made weapons in a foreign proxy war. | That's according to the Department of Homeland Security, which has been gathering intelligence on Americans who have joined the ranks of t…

_____ (2022-06-05). US Attempt to Stage an Armed Conflict in GBAR has Failed. journal-neo.org Since the Russian armed forces' special operation to denazify Ukraine was launched on February 24, the US and Britain have been actively trying to create a "second front" against Russia in Central Asia (CA). To this end, the United States has taken active steps to foment, through controlled NGOs, media and US intelligence capabilities, zones …

JANET (2022-06-05). Where is the war in Ukraine going? How should the peace movement respond? iacenter.org For antiwar, anti-racist and working-class activists, a May 23 webinar on the role of the U.S., NATO and Ukrainian neo-Nazis in provoking and prolonging the war in Ukraine provides an antidote to the poisonous propaganda in the U.S. corporate media. Credit: UNAC Those who missed the webinar live can catch it by visiting the home page of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) at unacpeace.org. Hundreds of people are viewing it daily, and millions could learn from it. The webinar's strength was that the speakers were not only knowledgeable, articulate and convincing, they covered the questions from diverse an…

William Rivers Pitt (2022-06-05). GOP Wants to Blame Biden for Inflation. What About COVID and Capitalism? truthout.org Two years ago, I was afraid of going to the grocery store, lest I encounter COVID-19 lurking by the bananas or swirling around some unmasked dunderhead coughing purposefully beneath a MAGA hat. That fear The Republicans, on cue, have fanned out to al…

Fight Back (2022-06-05). Workers and Communist Parties Greet the FRSO'S 9th Congress. fightbacknews.org ‚Ä¢ Liberation Party (Argentina) | ‚Ä¢ Workers Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) | ‚Ä¢ Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) | ‚Ä¢ New Communist Party of Britain | ‚Ä¢ Communist Party of Greece (KKE) | ‚Ä¢ Fronte Popolare (Italy) | ‚Ä¢ Communist Party of the Philippines | ‚Ä¢ International League of Peoples' Struggles – Jose Maria Sison | ‚Ä¢ Communist Party, Sweden | ‚Ä¢ The Labour Party of Turkey (EMEP) | ‚Ä¢ Socialist Unity Party (U…

WSWS (2022-06-05). UK: Workers speak to the World Socialist Web Site at Sheffield Arbourthorne food bank. wsws.org Arbourthorne is a working-class district of a city formerly associated with the steel, engineering and mining industries, where 44 percent of children are officially living in poverty.

Rqorinoco (2022-06-05). Tiananmen Protests Reading List. orinocotribune.com By Qiao Collective — Jun 4, 2022 | More than thirty years later, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 remain a touchstone of a Western mythology spun to challenge the fundamental legitimacy of the Communist Party of China. By collapsing the diverse and often contradictory demands of protesters into a simplistic call for Western-style capitalist democracy, the West's selective memory of June 4 continues to inform liberal platitudes to "stand with the Chinese people" against their government, reifying the universality of Western capitalism and U.S. global hegemony in the process. This reading list compile…

Andy Kroll (2022-06-05). Blowback for the Twenty-First Century. tomdispatch.com Once upon a time, long, long ago — actually, it was early in the year 2000 — I was involved in publishing Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. It had been written by the eminent scholar of Asia, former CIA consultant, and cold warrior Chalmers Johnson. I was his editor at Metropolitan Books. In its introduction, using a word Americans were then (as now) all too uncomfortable with, he bluntly summed up his professional life by labeling himself "a spear-carrier for empire." And he described the origins of his book's title this way: Ominously enough, he added, "All around the world to…

Contributing Writers (2022-06-06). Canada and the Banderites/ By Thierry Meyssan. marktaliano.net Original Link Here: Canada and the Banderites, by Thierry Meyssan (voltairenet.org) In previous articles, Thierry Meyssan has shown how the Banderites, collaborators of the worst Nazi exactions in Ukraine and Poland, came to power in Kiev, in the young independent Ukraine. He shows here that, for eighty years, Banderite immigrants have been embedded in the …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-06). 'Beacon of Democracy': Kiev Regime's Practice of Kidnapping People Spirals Out of Control. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic Ever since the Obama administration orchestrated the 2014 Euromaidan color revolution (US/NATO's weapon of choice when hijacking entire nations), the mainstream media have been feeding the political West's populace the narrative of Ukraine being the "freedom and democracy lighthouse in the dictatorial post-Soviet darkness". However, after the start of Russia's special military operation more than three months ago, this…

Kevin Mwanza (2022-06-06). Billionaire George Soros: Civilization May Not Survive The War In Ukraine. moguldom.com Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros said he believes civilization might not survive the war in Ukraine if it degenerates into a third world war. His advice to avoid this is a quick and decisive defeat of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Soros warned that open societies are under siege, autocratic regimes are rising and the …

Rqorinoco (2022-06-06). NYPD and Far-Right Forces Collude in Physical Assault on a Socialist and Anti-Racist Space. orinocotribune.com The People's Forum in New York City attacked by the far-right, enabled by the police | Since our founding in 2018, our space, The People's Forum (TPF) has been the target of multiple attacks by the far-right on both social media and in our location. We have managed to defend our space which operates on values and principles of social justice and people power. Most recently a coalition of anti-vaxxers, Cuban and Venezuelan anti-communists, and other far-right reactionaries have increased their attacks on TPF. Today, over a dozen officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD) entered TPF, uninvited, and acted as…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-06). Cancer and mental health: Mayo Clinic expert dispels myths. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minnesota — Everyone with cancer experiences it differently and all emotions are valid and important, regardless of the mix or intensity. Shawna Ehlers, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic psychologist and psycho-oncology expert, helps patients cope with the burden of their cancer diagnosis. That includes dispelling myths that stress in their lives caused their cancer or that depression must be suffered through during cancer treatment. "If I had one thing that I could tell all cancer…

____ (2022-06-06). U.S. Global Empire of Violence! transcend.org 31 May 2022 – The U.S. says weapons, weapons, and more weapons, are the solution for everything! More weapons for Ukraine! Arm teachers in schools! Put armed guards everywhere!

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-06-05). DHS 'Concerned' over Nazis Returning to US after Fighting in Ukraine, Why Isn't the Media? orinocotribune.com By Alexander Rubinstein — | US corporate media has provided glowing coverage to Paul Gray, a notorious American white nationalist fighting in Ukraine. A DHS document warns he's not the only US fascist drawn to Kiev. | As the United States undergoes a national mourning process over a spate of mass shootings, American white nationalists with documented histories of violence are attaining combat experience with advanced US-made weapons in a foreign proxy war. | That's according to the Department of Homeland Security, which has been gathering intelligence on Americans who have joined the ranks of t…

_____ (2022-06-05). US Attempt to Stage an Armed Conflict in GBAR has Failed. journal-neo.org Since the Russian armed forces' special operation to denazify Ukraine was launched on February 24, the US and Britain have been actively trying to create a "second front" against Russia in Central Asia (CA). To this end, the United States has taken active steps to foment, through controlled NGOs, media and US intelligence capabilities, zones …

JANET (2022-06-05). Where is the war in Ukraine going? How should the peace movement respond? iacenter.org For antiwar, anti-racist and working-class activists, a May 23 webinar on the role of the U.S., NATO and Ukrainian neo-Nazis in provoking and prolonging the war in Ukraine provides an antidote to the poisonous propaganda in the U.S. corporate media. Credit: UNAC Those who missed the webinar live can catch it by visiting the home page of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) at unacpeace.org. Hundreds of people are viewing it daily, and millions could learn from it. The webinar's strength was that the speakers were not only knowledgeable, articulate and convincing, they covered the questions from diverse an…

William Rivers Pitt (2022-06-05). GOP Wants to Blame Biden for Inflation. What About COVID and Capitalism? truthout.org Two years ago, I was afraid of going to the grocery store, lest I encounter COVID-19 lurking by the bananas or swirling around some unmasked dunderhead coughing purposefully beneath a MAGA hat. That fear The Republicans, on cue, have fanned out to al…

Fight Back (2022-06-05). Workers and Communist Parties Greet the FRSO'S 9th Congress. fightbacknews.org ‚Ä¢ Liberation Party (Argentina) | ‚Ä¢ Workers Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) | ‚Ä¢ Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) | ‚Ä¢ New Communist Party of Britain | ‚Ä¢ Communist Party of Greece (KKE) | ‚Ä¢ Fronte Popolare (Italy) | ‚Ä¢ Communist Party of the Philippines | ‚Ä¢ International League of Peoples' Struggles – Jose Maria Sison | ‚Ä¢ Communist Party, Sweden | ‚Ä¢ The Labour Party of Turkey (EMEP) | ‚Ä¢ Socialist Unity Party (U…

WSWS (2022-06-05). UK: Workers speak to the World Socialist Web Site at Sheffield Arbourthorne food bank. wsws.org Arbourthorne is a working-class district of a city formerly associated with the steel, engineering and mining industries, where 44 percent of children are officially living in poverty.

Rqorinoco (2022-06-05). Tiananmen Protests Reading List. orinocotribune.com By Qiao Collective — Jun 4, 2022 | More than thirty years later, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 remain a touchstone of a Western mythology spun to challenge the fundamental legitimacy of the Communist Party of China. By collapsing the diverse and often contradictory demands of protesters into a simplistic call for Western-style capitalist democracy, the West's selective memory of June 4 continues to inform liberal platitudes to "stand with the Chinese people" against their government, reifying the universality of Western capitalism and U.S. global hegemony in the process. This reading list compile…

Andy Kroll (2022-06-05). Blowback for the Twenty-First Century. tomdispatch.com Once upon a time, long, long ago — actually, it was early in the year 2000 — I was involved in publishing Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. It had been written by the eminent scholar of Asia, former CIA consultant, and cold warrior Chalmers Johnson. I was his editor at Metropolitan Books. In its introduction, using a word Americans were then (as now) all too uncomfortable with, he bluntly summed up his professional life by labeling himself "a spear-carrier for empire." And he described the origins of his book's title this way: Ominously enough, he added, "All around the world to…

Benjamin Norton (2022-06-04). US Congress candidate Geoff Young: Abolish CIA, stop arming Nazis, end drug war. multipolarista.com US Congress candidate Geoff Young, who is running in Kentucky on an anti-war platform, explains why he wants to abolish the CIA, dismantle AFRICOM, end the war on drugs, and stop arming Nazis in Ukraine.

Fight Back (2022-06-04). 9th Congress of Freedom Road Socialist Organization: Seize the time, the future is bright! fightbacknews.org With the successful conclusion of the 9th Congress of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a real leap has been made in our efforts to build a serious, revolutionary organization that can make meaningful contributions to the people's struggle. It is also clear that we are continuing to make progress in our efforts to construct a new communist party, one that can stand at the forefront of the fight for socialism. | Beneath a brilliant red banner reading, "Freedom Road Socialist Organization 9th Congress: Seize the time, the future is bright!" a packed hall of delegates and members of came together to adopt…

_____ (2022-06-05). US Attempt to Stage an Armed Conflict in GBAR has Failed. journal-neo.org Since the Russian armed forces' special operation to denazify Ukraine was launched on February 24, the US and Britain have been actively trying to create a "second front" against Russia in Central Asia (CA). To this end, the United States has taken active steps to foment, through controlled NGOs, media and US intelligence capabilities, zones …

Gordon Duff (2022-06-04). International Red Cross as a sponsor of the Nazi regime in Ukraine Smuggling Arms. thealtworld.com Once upon a time, in ancient times, no one remembers any more, when in the north of Africa freedom and democracy decided to overthrow the old bloody dictator, one of the very famous international humanitarian organizations decided to help the oppressed people. | This organization was called the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, this organization was located in Geneva and declared with all its appearance that the employees of this organization are not just fighters for peace, but personify the Conventions on international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians. | This organization could…

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-06-04). The US Empire Will Be Defeated By The US Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article: | ‚ùñ | Empire managers: Putin invaded Ukraine! | Public: Oh no! What should we do about it? | Empire managers: Greatly increase military spending, work to weaken Russia, and censor dissenting opinions. | Public: Wait, aren't those things you've always wanted to do anyway? | Empire managers: Hush. | ‚ùñ | Russian propaganda poses a much smaller threat to the western world than the various government agendas that are being rolled out under the justification of fighting Russian propaganda. | ‚ùñ | Fuel prices are soa…

Stephen Faulkner (2022-06-04). Reasons to be Hopeful: Reflections on the Second SAFTU Congress. socialistproject.ca The second congress of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has just drawn to a close. More than 700 delegates from all of its affiliates gathered to discuss how best to address the challenges presented by the crisis in the global economy and in South Africa. A summary of the decisions that were taken, and the issues to be addressed, are encapsulated in the I was present throughout and took copious notes of the proceedings. The mainstream media, as usual, focused on th…

Fight Back (2022-06-04). 9th Congress of Freedom Road Socialist Organization: Seize the time, the future is bright! fightbacknews.org With the successful conclusion of the 9th Congress of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a real leap has been made in our efforts to build a serious, revolutionary organization that can make meaningful contributions to the people's struggle. It is also clear that we are continuing to make progress in our efforts to construct a new communist party, one that can stand at the forefront of the fight for socialism. | Beneath a brilliant red banner reading, "Freedom Road Socialist Organization 9th Congress: Seize the time, the future is bright!" a packed hall of delegates and members of came together to adopt…

Staff (2022-06-04). International Union of Left Publishers condemns attack on The People's Forum. peoplesdispatch.org [On Friday, June 3, a far-right coalition attempted to occupy The People's Forum, a socialist and anti-racist space in New York. They were reportedly abetted by the police who were present at the space but allowed the physical attacks and verbal harassment of the staff and guests of The People's Forum. The International Union of …

_____ (2022-06-03). Homeland Security Is Concerned About Nazis Returning To The US After The Fighting In Ukraine. popularresistance.org

World Beyond War (2022-06-03). Hundreds Protest North America's Largest Weapons Fair. socialistproject.ca Hundreds of lobbyists in Ottawa represent arms dealers not only competing for military contracts, but also lobbying the government to shape the policy priorities to fit the military equipment they are hawking. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, BAE, General Dynamics, L-3 Communications, Airbus, United Technologies, and Raytheon all have offices in Ottawa to facilitate access to government officials, most of them within a few blocks of Parliament. CANSEC and its predecessor, ARMX, have faced staunch opposition for over three decades. In April 1989, Ottawa City Council responded to opposition to the arms…

Editor (2022-06-02). The Chris Hedges Report: How to Defeat the Billionaire Class. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / Since being elected to office in 2013, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and her socialist party have been locked in a bitter battle against the city's moneyed elites, who have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into a corporate PAC called "A Better Seattle" and saturated television and digital platforms with negative advertising. Sawant is hated because she is effective. Following a three-year struggle against the richest man in the world—Jeff Bezos[m…

Nick Grover (2022-06-02). Fund Public Transit, Not a New Highway. socialistproject.ca During a press conference in Ottawa on Monday (May 30), Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford focused on his plan to "help" commuters by widening a five-kilometre stretch of Highway 417 from six lanes to eight because this is, clearly, the defining election issue for Ottawa voters. Reviving this plan, originally drafted in 2016, is puzzling since construction of the city's LRT Line 2 is now underway on that exact stretch. | But there's a more fundamental problem with highway expansion: it doesn't work. | We've known for decades that widening roads doesn't reduce congestion. New space attracts more…

Michael Arney (2022-06-02). New York redistricting results: Gerrymandering, confusion, lower primary turnout. peoplesworld.org Albert Einstein once said, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." He was one of the world's greatest physicists (and a socialist). But he was not a fortune-teller looking at this year's elections in New York State. No one has yet voted. Yet already we have changed the rules to …

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-02). Cancer and mental health: Mayo Clinic expert dispels myths. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minnesota — Everyone with cancer experiences it differently and all emotions are valid and important, regardless of the mix or intensity. Shawna Ehlers, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic psychologist and psycho-oncology expert, helps patients cope with the burden of their cancer diagnosis. That includes dispelling myths that stress in their lives caused their cancer or that depression must be suffered through during cancer treatment. "If I had one thing that I could tell all cancer…

José Steinsleger (2022-06-01). Ucrania: Neonazismo y rusofobia. globalizacion.ca Uno. Densa historia política de Europa y sus inescrutables conflictos de identidad nacional. Dígale español a un vasco, y verá lo que pasa. Dígale inglés a un escocés, y verá lo que pasa. Y mientras esperamos que en Ucrania nórdicos …

WSWS (2022-06-01). German government and opposition agree on €100 billion special fund for war. wsws.org On Friday, the federal government plans to pass the so-called "Special Fund for the Bundeswehr" to the tune of 100 billion euros. This is the biggest rearmament offensive since the fall of Hitler's Third Reich.

WSWS (2022-06-01). Pseudo-left Socialist Alliance promotes Australia's new right-wing Labor government. wsws.org The pseudo-left is seeking to subordinate workers and young people to a right-wing government that has already made crystal clear its agenda of war and austerity.

WSWS (2022-06-01). The way forward for students and youth in the fight against school shootings. wsws.org The IYSSE urges young people to look honestly at our society. What does the phenomenon of mass violence say about the health of modern-day capitalism?