Marc Steiner (2023-06-20). Shasta County is a new blueprint for neo-fascists nationwide. therealnews.com 
Shasta County, California has become a laboratory for far-right activists in search of power. The county has long been a Republican outpost in a blue state, but since the COVID-19 pandemic, local politics have taken a hard right turn. A recall election in 2022 swept a moderate Republican majority from the County Board of Supervisors in favor of a new class of extremists. Buoyed by popular discontent with mask mandates and school closures, Shasta's newly elected rulers have turned their sights on eliminating voting machines, purging "Critical Race Theory" and LGBTQ-friendly content from schools, and trying t…
David Miller, MintPress News. (2023-06-20). US And UK Government Propaganda Specialists Collaborated With Nazis. popularresistance.org A MintPress investigation has found that a host of Western government officials, intelligence agents and assets have been directly involved in intimate collaboration with Nazi groups and individuals since at least 2014. This has included involvement in creating and operating the Nazi-run kill list in Ukraine, which MintPress revealed recently. | While Western media have belatedly been forced to concede that there are Nazi influences in Ukraine, many journalists have insisted that the visible fascist patches on uniforms are only there to troll Russians and that they are insignificant and a gift to Russian propagan…
Peter Novak (2023-06-21). Who determines the rules of the "rules-based world order"? indybay.org Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States – as well as the European Union with G7 observer status – that is the global West, for too long imagined that it was the world. In fact, colonialist exploitation and forced labor – in the case of Germany, also the Nazi policy of robbery – were the foundation of its power. But the world has changed.
Staff (2023-06-21). Protest Song Of The Week: 'John Wayne Was a Nazi' By Fucked Up & The Halluci Nation. shadowproof.com Originally published at Ongoing History of Protest Music John Wayne slaughtered our Indian brothersBurned their villages and raped their mothersNow he has given them a white man's lord'Live by this, or die by my sword!' These are lyrics from "John Wayne Was A Nazi" a scathing tune by hardcore pioneers MDC. The single was originally …
David Miller (2023-06-20). How US and UK Government Propaganda Specialists Collaborated with Nazis in Ukraine. mintpressnews.com 
The prominent role of Banderite Neo-Nazis in Ukraine's government propaganda operations suggests that Nazi apologism has spread into the core institutions of its government — perhaps more than the dominant Western view is able to admit.
Anonymous Contributor (2023-06-20). Neo-Nazis Blocked and Kicked Out of Pride Celebration in Chico, CA. itsgoingdown.org Report back on successful community defense of Pride in so-called Chico, California against neo-Nazis. On Wednesday, June 14th, the Chico LGBT Center hosted a drag story hour for kids and their families, one of several recent Pride events. It was a beautiful and hot valley day with music and fun outfits as families and friends…
Roosevelt Institute (2023-06-21). Capital in the 2020s (with Thomas Piketty). indybay.org Inequality is not an accident. It's not like the weather. It actually is being driven by the way capitalism is functioning. You know what we need? We need state intervention, we need government action, and we need that to be very, very, very big. That is when he proposes a policy that seems like it's common sense now, but at the time, the idea of a wealth tax of 2 percent sounds radical.
Mike Pappas, Dimitri Mugianis (2023-06-21). Capitalist Hegemony in Psychedelic Medicine. dissidentvoice.org 
Excitement around psychedelics continues to grow with thousands set to attend the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver this week. Proponents in the psychedelic space have promoted a strategy to focus on the "medicalization" to gain wider societal acceptance. But this could lead psychedelics to come under greater control, ensuring that they serve as profitable tools to maintain the status quo.
Fight Back (2023-06-20). Event on FRSO program held in Orlando. fightbacknews.org Orlando, FL – On July 3, the Orlando District of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) held a Political Program release discussion at a meeting attended by over 30 people representing other progressive forces in the area. | In an effort to build a unified progressive base in Orlando, FRSO Orlando members Jacob Muldoon, Edmund Anglero and Diego Gonzalez discussed the history of struggle in the United States, FRSO and their goal of building a new communist party, and the united front against monopoly capitalism. | "FRSO believes that only through a strategic alliance of the oppressed nations and working clas…
Motasem A. Dalloul (2023-06-21). Will Israel's Offensive Against Jenin End Palestinian Resistance? socialistproject.ca 
Israeli occupation forces and border police carried out a broad offensive on Monday morning against the occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. The Israeli troops killed at least five Palestinians and wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 91 others, 23 of whom are in a critical condition. | According to the Israeli military, the occupation forces detained two wanted Palestinians, but they were caught in an ambush on their way out of the refugee camp. Apparently eight soldiers and border police were wounded in roadside blasts and gunfire. | The evacuation of the wounded Israel…
Staff (2023-06-21). Teamsters and the Class Struggle. soundcloud.com On today's episode Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss UPS workers voting 97% for a strike for better conditions, better pay, and more full-time work. What does this militant vote among hundreds of thousands of UPS workers mean for the strength of the labor struggle? Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of …
Tanupriya Singh (2023-06-20). Socialist Party of Zambia President Fred M'membe Threatened with Arrest. towardfreedom.org A warrant was issued June 15 against Socialist Party of Zambia President Fred M'membe, who alleged the police, in collaboration with ruling party cadre who had been drafted into government security, intended to abduct him. Peoples Dispatch reports.
WSWS (2023-06-20). Sri Lankan SEP demonstrates in Colombo against privatisation and government repression. wsws.org The protest was part of the SEP's campaign to mobilise the working class against the government's austerity measures on the basis of a socialist program.
Fight Back (2023-06-20). FRSO and other organizations demand Tallahassee become an LGBTQ+ sanctuary city. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – The Tallahassee District of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Florida State University Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) held a rally outside of the Leon County courthouse, June 17, to demand that Tallahassee become a sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ people. | Organizers are taking action to prevent the Tallahassee Police Department from arresting people based on gender identity when using public restrooms. | Activists have advocated for the city to allow drag performers to access any venue without discrimination. Furthermore, v…
Brittani Banks (2023-06-20). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Headlines in This News Package: Climate Change Is Intensifying Humanitarian Crisis in War-Affected Yemen One in Five Children in Pakistan Are Suffering From Wasting, Says UN Report Socialist Party of Zambia President Fred M'membe Faces Threat of Arrest Millions in the U.S. Ration Medicine as Big Pharma Fights to Keep Prices High [NEWS ITEM …
Staff (2023-06-21). Teamsters and the Class Struggle. soundcloud.com On today's episode Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss UPS workers voting 97% for a strike for better conditions, better pay, and more full-time work. What does this militant vote among hundreds of thousands of UPS workers mean for the strength of the labor struggle? Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of …
Tanupriya Singh (2023-06-20). Socialist Party of Zambia President Fred M'membe Threatened with Arrest. towardfreedom.org A warrant was issued June 15 against Socialist Party of Zambia President Fred M'membe, who alleged the police, in collaboration with ruling party cadre who had been drafted into government security, intended to abduct him. Peoples Dispatch reports.
WSWS (2023-06-20). Sri Lankan SEP demonstrates in Colombo against privatisation and government repression. wsws.org The protest was part of the SEP's campaign to mobilise the working class against the government's austerity measures on the basis of a socialist program.
Fight Back (2023-06-20). FRSO and other organizations demand Tallahassee become an LGBTQ+ sanctuary city. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – The Tallahassee District of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Florida State University Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) held a rally outside of the Leon County courthouse, June 17, to demand that Tallahassee become a sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ people. | Organizers are taking action to prevent the Tallahassee Police Department from arresting people based on gender identity when using public restrooms. | Activists have advocated for the city to allow drag performers to access any venue without discrimination. Furthermore, v…
Brittani Banks (2023-06-20). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Headlines in This News Package: Climate Change Is Intensifying Humanitarian Crisis in War-Affected Yemen One in Five Children in Pakistan Are Suffering From Wasting, Says UN Report Socialist Party of Zambia President Fred M'membe Faces Threat of Arrest Millions in the U.S. Ration Medicine as Big Pharma Fights to Keep Prices High [NEWS ITEM …
Eric A. Gordon (2023-06-20). Socialist Eugene V. Debs celebrated in a graphic biography. peoplesworld.org 
Bernie Sanders called him "the most effective and popular leader that the American working class has ever had… one of the most important Americans of the 20th century." Yet his face has never appeared on a U.S. postage stamp, an achievement emblematic of having "made it" in the American history books. We speak of the …
Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-20). On the Dialectics of Socialism and Western Marxism's Purity Fetish. orinocotribune.com By Gabriel Rockhill — Jun 13, 2023 | This is a transcript from Gabriel's presentation at the book launch of Carlos Garrido's The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism, which you may purchase Noah Khrachvik: Our next speaker is Gabriel Rockhill. Gabriel Rockhill is a Franco-American philosopher, cultural critic and activist. He is the founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. His books include Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogatio…
jamanetwork (2023-06-20). USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Depression and Suicide Risk in Adults. jamanetwork.com This 2023 Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for depression in the adult population, including pregnant and postpartum persons and older adults (B recommendation) and concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for suicide risk in the adult population, including pregnant and postpartum persons and older adults (I statement).
jamanetwork (2023-06-20). USPSTF Review: Depression and Suicide Risk Screening. jamanetwork.com This systematic review to support the 2023 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement on depression and suicide risk screening summarizes published evidence on the benefits and harms of screening for, and treatment of, depression and suicide risk in primary care settings, including during pregnancy and postpartum.
jamanetwork (2023-06-20). Screening for Depression and Suicide Risk in Adults. jamanetwork.com This JAMA Patient Page describes the pros and cons of screening for depression and suicide risk in adults.
jamanetwork (2023-06-20). Reframing the Key Questions Regarding Screening for Suicide Risk. jamanetwork.com In this issue of JAMA, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updates earlier recommendations, endorsing screening for depression in adults while finding insufficient evidence to recommend for or against screening for suicide risk. Our views regarding those recommendations are informed by our work in suicide prevention research and quality improvement (G.E.S., J.E.R., and U.W.), clinical practice (G.E.S. and U.W.), lived experience of suicidal ideation (U.W.), and experience of family suicide loss (J.E.R.).
Joe Piette (2023-06-21). Incarcerees organize unprecedented seminar against life sentences. workers.org 
For some Pennsylvania state legislators, incarcerated people belong in prison, no questions asked. "Lock 'em up and throw away the key," as the reactionary saying goes. State policies that sustain the mass incarceration of Black and Brown people and members of impoverished communities hinge on people not seeing the hidden . . . |
Editor (2023-06-20). Haiti: Stop the destruction of a Nation. mronline.org 
Ever since the Haitian people successfully overthrew slavery and colonialism in 1804, they have been subjected to interventions and policies by the French and U.S. governments—from devastating "debt" collection to brutal military occupation, from coups to neocolonial puppet dictatorships—designed to destroy their existence as sovereign people, as an independent nation.
_____ (2023-06-20). Holocaust Researcher Who Outraged Poland Has No Regrets: 'We Need to Understand Our Past'. strategic-culture.org After receiving an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University, Prof. Barbara Engelking, who claims that the Poles 'simply failed' in their treatment of Jews during World War II, tells Haaretz about the threats she has faced from a government trying to court the nationalist right | By Ofer ADERET | Prof. Barbara Engelking, who last month voiced criticism of Polish-Jewish relations during World War II, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University on Thursday. Engelking, who is the founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, told Haaretz that she is determined to contin…
John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-06-21). FBI Make-Work Entrapment Schemes: Creating Criminals in Order to Arrest Them. dissidentvoice.org 
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146 We're not dealing with a government that exists to serve its people, protect their liberties and ensure their happiness. Rather, we are the unfortunate victims of the diabolical machinations …
_____ (2023-06-20). Time Is Running Out Both for Zelensky and NATO. Operation 'Meat Grinder' Needs to Start. strategic-culture.org Few if any western pundits ask themselves "if it's going well, then why the immediate demand of NATO membership? Where's the crisis?" | Can NATO expect to survive its policy on blinded dogma escalation in the longer term or face a period of decline, even expiration? Seems far-fetched? Not when you examine the timeline of the past two years and you observe the direction this war machine business empire conglomerate is heading under the leadership of Washington. | At Vilnius we are expected to believe that despite the summer offensive going well for Ukraine's army — which is a lie perpetuated by western media…
By Lawrence DAVIDSON | In late May, the Biden administration released a 60-page In recent decades there has been an outburst of such hate and bias that is doing harm to many groups worldwide. It appears to be part of a resurgent fascism which, in turn, appears to be a backlash against liberal trends. | This reactionary p…
If the political culture in the U.S. changes, someone might open a museum dedicated to the victims of capitalism or the U.S. empire, whose death toll would be much greater than the 100 million blamed on Communism, writes CovertAction Magazine's Jeremy Kuzmarov. | (Click on the image to enlarge)…
As the Communist Party of the United States entered the fourth full year of the Great Depression in 1933, its leadership recognized that a major consolidation and refocus of Party effort was necessary to reach the vast potential of the moment. The communist movement had been established in the U.S. for 15 years by that point, and some advances had been made in rooting the Party in certain key sectors — but not in others.The left and socialist organizations were all growing amidst th …
