(2023-06-07). Paul Krugman's dishonest apologetics for Ukrainian fascism. wsws.org The New York Times published yesterday a column by Paul Krugman dismissing the role of Ukrainian fascists in the mass murder of Jews and Soviet citizens during World War II and minimizing as mere "shadows" their prominence in the present NATO proxy war against Russia.
(2023-06-07). Cornel West on Running for President, Ending Ukraine War & Taking on "Corporate Duopoly" of Dems & GOP. democracynow.org 
Cornel West, the iconic academic and social critic, has declared his candidacy for president of the United States in the 2024 election. He is running with the People's Party, a progressive alternative to the two major parties that grew out of Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign. With 2024 shaping up to be a rematch between "neofascist" Donald Trump and "milquetoast neoliberal" Joe Biden, West says voters need a real alternative focused on tackling inequality, racism, war and corporate greed. "There's an indifference to the plight of the vulnerable," West tells Demo…
(2023-06-07). 1,000 anti-fascist demonstrators detained in Leipzig, Germany police kettle for hours. wsws.org The increasingly use of state violence against youth, peaceful protesters and workers shows that it is impossible to wage‚ÄÜ ‚ÄÜ war abroad without waging class war at home.
(2023-06-06). Protests in Germany after anti-fascists sent to five years in prison. mronline.org 
Protests erupted across Germany after the Dresden regional court in Germany sentenced the anti-fascist activist Lina E. and three others for several alleged militant actions against fascists and for forming a criminal organization.
(2023-06-06). Fighting back against the homophobic religious right's hateful misuse of sacred literature. peoplesworld.org 
There is a pattern in the religious right to use—and to misuse—religious texts and traditions to support their revanchist, fascist agenda. It is important to understand this and have the tools to push back because it is important to not let the religious right have a "copyright" on religion and spirituality. Real spirituality has always …
(2023-06-07). Mainstream Propaganda Finally Admits Trying to Whitewash Openly Nazi Affiliation of Kiev Regime Forces. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-07). Journalists Are Asking Ukrainian Soldiers to Hide Their Nazi Patches, NYT Admits. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-07). Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook. otherwords.org The 1920s were both good and bad times for the Jews of Germany. | They'd been granted the same legal rights as other Germans and were established in respected professions. They were mostly treated as worthy of dignity. But that changed as antisemites scapegoated Jews for all of Germany's woes — from the loss of World War I to the hyperinflation that had ruined so many lives. | Nazis not only stereotyped Jews as rich, cunning, and devious, but also likened them to revolting vermin — including lice, rats, snakes, and cockroaches. They were depicted as creepy, smelly, disease-ridden, sub-human. | Attacki…
(2023-06-06). Those 'Dam' Russians… Now They're Flooding Themselves for Propaganda! strategic-culture.org It's not the Russians who are perverse and barbaric. It's the Western regimes and their Nazi terrorist front in Ukraine. | Western media would have its consumers believe that Russians are the most devious, perverse, and self-destructive people on Earth. Following a flood of jaw-dropping, biblical proportions in the Russian-controlled Kherson region this week, the Western media The R…
(2023-06-06). State Department Falsely Accuses Roger Waters of Antisemitism. news.antiwar.com The State Department has falsely accused rock legend Roger Waters, a co-founder of Pink Floyd, of antisemitism over a recent performance in Germany. Waters has come under criticism for a May 17 show in Berlin where he donned an outfit that resembled a Nazi uniform, part of a performance of the legendary Pink Floyd album …
(2023-06-06). Patrick Lawrence: First There Were Neo-Nazis, Then There Were No Nazis, Then There Were. scheerpost.com 
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I tell you, serving as a New York Times correspondent these days cannot be easy. You have to convey utter nonsense to your readers while maintaining a straight face and a serious demeanor. You have to suggest the Russians may have exploded a drone over the Kremlin, that …
(2023-06-07). Following Ukraine steps, Poland now uses Russophobia to crush dissent. infobrics.org The specter of anti-Russian nationalism haunts Europe: Russophobic discourse and the rewriting of history is used today both in Ukraine and Poland as a pretext to persecute and even outlaw dissent.
(2023-06-07). Train horror in India: Another crime of decaying capitalism. mronline.org 
The deadliest train crash in India in more than a quarter of a century has killed nearly 300 passengers and injured more than 1,000. It is a tragedy that has horrified the world and exposed the criminal neglect of basic infrastructure by the ultra-right regime of Hindu chauvinist Narendra Modi and the capitalist governments that preceded it.
(2023-06-07). Pacifica's CRD Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports;Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill. indybay.org Pacifica's Capitalism, Race & Democracy On Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports; Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill; South Africa Stands Up to the ICC…
(2023-06-06). Why China's socialist economy is more efficient than capitalism. mronline.org 
The difficulty the U.S. faces in its current attempts to damage China's economy was analysed in detail in the article "The U.S. is trying to persuade China to commit suicide". Reduced to essentials, the U.S. problem is that it possesses no external economic levers powerful enough to derail China's economy.
(2023-06-06). What is "Pride" without Organization and Political Power?>. podcasters.spotify.com In this episode I interrogate the capture of "pride month" and the uselessness of the commodification or "representation" or LGBTQIA+ folks if they do NOT have FIRST political power. We talk about what organizing is and what it isn't, and how to get involved, plus some examples of how reactionism and fat right ideology seeps in even to the progressive, anarchists, socialist or communists formations, organizations and groups and how to root it out…
(2023-06-07). Council in charge of Chile's new Constitution will assume functions. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) The Chilean Constitutional Council will assume its functions to draft a new Constitution to replace the one imposed by Pinochet's dictatorship in 1980, which established the foundations of the current neoliberal model.
(2023-06-06). Marc Steiner: My life in the Civil Rights Movement. therealnews.com 
TRNN show host Marc Steiner's Rise of the Right series has followed the ascendance of far-right political forces domestically and internationally. In a special episode of The Marc Steiner Show, TRNN Editor-in-Chief takes the mic to put Marc in the hot seat. From a childhood in Baltimore among family members who had survived the Holocaust, Marc's activism in the 1960s and 70s took him from the ranks of SNCC to organizing alongside the Young Patriots of the Black Panther's Rainbow Coalition. Marc looks back on his life as an organizer and journalist, and how it frames his understanding of our present moment.
(2023-06-07). Train horror in India: Another crime of decaying capitalism. mronline.org The deadliest train crash in India in more than a quarter of a century has killed nearly 300 passengers and injured more than 1,000. It is a tragedy that has horrified the world and exposed the criminal neglect of basic infrastructure by the ultra-right regime of Hindu chauvinist Narendra Modi and the capitalist governments that preceded it.
(2023-06-07). Pacifica's CRD Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports;Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill. indybay.org Pacifica's Capitalism, Race & Democracy On Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports; Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill; South Africa Stands Up to the ICC…
(2023-06-06). Why China's socialist economy is more efficient than capitalism. mronline.org The difficulty the U.S. faces in its current attempts to damage China's economy was analysed in detail in the article "The U.S. is trying to persuade China to commit suicide". Reduced to essentials, the U.S. problem is that it possesses no external economic levers powerful enough to derail China's economy.
(2023-06-06). What is "Pride" without Organization and Political Power?>. podcasters.spotify.com In this episode I interrogate the capture of "pride month" and the uselessness of the commodification or "representation" or LGBTQIA+ folks if they do NOT have FIRST political power. We talk about what organizing is and what it isn't, and how to get involved, plus some examples of how reactionism and fat right ideology seeps in even to the progressive, anarchists, socialist or communists formations, organizations and groups and how to root it out…
(2023-06-07). Council in charge of Chile's new Constitution will assume functions. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) The Chilean Constitutional Council will assume its functions to draft a new Constitution to replace the one imposed by Pinochet's dictatorship in 1980, which established the foundations of the current neoliberal model.
(2023-06-06). Marc Steiner: My life in the Civil Rights Movement. therealnews.com TRNN show host Marc Steiner's Rise of the Right series has followed the ascendance of far-right political forces domestically and internationally. In a special episode of The Marc Steiner Show, TRNN Editor-in-Chief takes the mic to put Marc in the hot seat. From a childhood in Baltimore among family members who had survived the Holocaust, Marc's activism in the 1960s and 70s took him from the ranks of SNCC to organizing alongside the Young Patriots of the Black Panther's Rainbow Coalition. Marc looks back on his life as an organizer and journalist, and how it frames his understanding of our present moment.
(2023-06-06). Spy on your fellow (pro-Palestinian) students to get a scholarship. mronline.org 
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) offers scholarships to proponents of the world's most aggressive European settler colonial outpost. It's a small part of a broader campaign to harass internationalist activism at Canadian universities.
(2023-06-07). Labor must join the fight to Stop Cop City. therealnews.com 
The 2020 protests that took place in the immediate wake of Minneapolis police murdering George Floyd were a historic call for America to reckon with its racist, oppressive system of state-sanctioned police violence. Three years later, rather than a reckoning, that same system, along with the political and business elites propping it up, are giving us "Cop City" (ie, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, the Atlanta Police Foundation's 85-acre, $90-million police militarization and training complex where law enforcement from around the US and beyond will, among other things, train for urban warfare scen…
(2023-06-06). Our "Abnormal New Normal". Bored, Bludgeoned, and Tired: "When Covid Hit, the Iron Fist of the Ruling 'Elites' came Down Hard" globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-07). How Empire Fabricates Atrocities. dissidentvoice.org 
Another atrocity. Yesterday, the dam holding back the waters for the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was destroyed releasing a massive flood surge, imperilling people and places below the dam on the Dnieper River. Both sides blamed each other. From the Russian standpoint, it makes no sense to blow up the dam. According to Russian Defense …
(2023-06-07). Tracing Ukraine's path from marketisation to war. greenleft.org.au Chris Slee reviews Yuliya Yurchenko's book, Ukraine and the Empire of Capital. Published in 2018, it traces Ukraine's evolution since 1991, when the Soviet Union was dissolved and Ukraine became independent.
(2023-06-07). 'Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict'. greenleft.org.au Chris Slee reviews Yuliya Yurchenko's book, Ukraine and the Empire of Capital. Published in 2018, it traces Ukraine's evolution since 1991, when the Soviet Union was dissolved and Ukraine became independent.
(2023-06-07). 15 Reasons Why Mass Media Employees Act Like Propagandists. scheerpost.com 
By Caitlin Johnstone / CaitlinJohnstone.com If you watch western news media with a critical eye you eventually notice how their reporting consistently aligns with the interests of the US-centralized empire, in almost the same way you'd expect them to if they were government-run propaganda outlets. The New York Times has reliably supported every war the US …
(2023-06-06). Telecom union leader calls on Sri Lankan government to maximise profits at state-owned enterprises. wsws.org Union calls for increased involvement in the government's restructuring and privatisation policies are not new and saw the elimination of over 2,000 Telecom jobs between 2000 and 2006.
(2023-06-06). How Housing Segregation Shaped America's 'Gayborhoods'. aclu.org For much of the last century, the "American dream" has centered on homeownership by married, white families. Alongside
(2023-06-07). IFC, Fosun to improve healthcare access in Africa. ecns.cn Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co Ltd announced its partnership with the International Finance Corp (IFC) on Tuesday to help build a pharmaceutical production facility and distribution hub in the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire.
(2023-06-07). Qilu shipping cancer drug to U.S. ecns.cn Amid an ongoing cancer drug shortage, the United States Food and Drug Administration has been working with Chinese drugmaker Qilu Pharmaceutical Co Ltd to import the oncological medication cisplatin.
(2023-06-07). Science Saturday: Pharmacists play key role in clinical research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org When people think of a pharmacist, they usually think of someone dispensing medication. Pharmacists do fill prescriptions, but there's another type of pharmacist who plays a vital role in clinical research. The research pharmacist is skilled in making the clinical trial part of drug development possible. Indeed, research pharmacists are part of multidisciplinary teams that investigate new pharmaceuticals and drugs developed for patient care. There are two types of research pharmacists at Mayo Clinic. One…