2023-06-22: News Headlines

Anonymous Contributor (2023-06-22). Reflections on the Campaign Against the Turning Point USA/BLEXIT event in NYC. itsgoingdown.org Report on recent antifascist organizing campaign in New York City against Turning Point USA. From Monday, June 12th to Friday, June 16th, 2023, we — an informal coalition of NYC antifascists — launched a targeted campaign to shut down a Turning Point USA and BLEXIT event in our city. While the event ultimately did happen, we…

Mark Felton (2023-06-22). Video: The Secret Post-War Transfer of Ukrainian Nazi SS to Britain and Canada. globalresearch.ca

Peter Novak (2023-06-22). 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 (2023-06-22). Modi's State Visit: Biden Embraces Indian Leader Despite Rights Crackdown. democracynow.org President Joe Biden is hosting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a four-day state visit this week amid growing concerns about the Indian leader's human rights record. Modi has been prime minister since 2014, during which time he has cracked down on dissent, curtailed the free press, targeted Muslims and other minorities and pushed an aggressive form of Hindu nationalism that violates the pluralistic vision of modern India's founders. For years, Modi was banned from even entering the United States over his role in anti-Muslim riots in 2002 that left over 1,000 dead in Gujarat, where Modi was the…

Monica Moorehead (2023-06-22). The real answer to end state repression. workers.org Two recent developments prove once again that police terror and extralegal terrorism are inextricably tied to white supremacy under capitalism. On June 2, an African American mother of four children, Ajike Owens, was fatally shot by her white neighbor, 58-year-old Susan Lorincz, in Ocala, Florida. Ajike Owens The 35-year-old Owens, . . . |

teleSUR, nama, DRL (2023-06-22). Petro asegura que capitalismo no resolverá crisis climática. telesurtv.net El mandatario colombiano aseguró, además, que las medidas propuestas por Bruselas son demasiado dependientes de la empresa privada.

Peninsula Peace & Justice Center (2023-06-22). Thursday 6/22: Pride, Prejudice & Corporate P.R: Corporate Capitalism and Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Rania Khalek (2023-06-22). The Rise and Fall of US Dollar Supremacy & How Sanctions Backfire w/ Prabhat Patnaik. thealtworld.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS1yrs58DPE | The power of the dollar sustains U.S. imperialism. But rising multipolarity, an overuse of U.S. sanctions, the rise of alternative trading arrangements that sidestep the dollar, and a very obvious crisis of western capitalism have led to panic about a decline in dollar hegemony. What gives the dollar so much power in the first place? What would a world without dollar hegemony look like? What would it mean for those in the imperial core who benefit from this system? How about those in the third world on whose backs dollar hegemony is built? And where does the war in Uk…

WSWS (2023-06-22). Pseudo-left Socialist Alternative supports nationalist, pro-business indigenous Voice to Australian parliament. wsws.org Socialist Alternative acknowledges that the Voice to parliament has not emerged from the demands of Aboriginal workers and youth and will do nothing to address their plight, but insists that the Labor government's policy must be supported.

Editor (2023-06-22). On the dialectics of socialism and western Marxisms' purity fetish. mronline.org Gabriel Rockhill "one of my favorite jokes that I've heard about the socialist project is the following: socialism looks good on paper, but in reality… you just get invaded by the United States."

Fight Back (2023-06-22). FRSO fund drive surpasses $70,000. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – The Freedom Road Socialist Organization Fund Drive has now surpassed $70,000 and more money is coming in every day. | FRSO Organizational Secretary Tom Burke states, "The FRSO online fundraiser was a grand success. Now we need a push to achieve our final goal. The money we spend will make us bigger, badder and bolder in advancing the cause of the American working class." | Burke also urged local FRSO groups to follow up on folks who have made pledges. | To contribute to the fundraising drive, go to FRSO.org and hit the donate button. You can also donate by mailing a check made out to "Lucy Parso…

Jan Lust (2023-06-22). Political Crisis in Peru: From the Left to Right-Wing Authoritarianism. socialistproject.ca

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 knowing the hidden . . . |

Staff (2023-06-22). Biden Calls Xi Jinping a "Dictator": China-U.S. Relations and a Growing Multipolar World. democracynow.org Officials in Beijing have denounced U.S. President Joe Biden for describing Chinese President Xi Jinping as a "dictator," calling it a breach of diplomatic protocol. Biden's remark at a fundraising event this week came just days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China to help thaw relations at a time of growing competition and suspicion between the two superpowers. "What Biden said, in fact, is true in every word," says Ho-fung Hung, professor of political economy and sociology at Johns Hopkins University, though he adds that China's response is also expected, as…

Staff (2023-06-22). Democratic Elites FEAR Kennedy In 2024. trofire.com America's Lawyer E58: Voices are growing louder calling for the Democratic Party to have a REAL primary for the 2024 nomination, but the Party is scared as the non-Biden candidates start to gain momentum. The drug company Merck is suing the federal government so that they can continue to price gouge consumers with their over-priced …

Sharon Zhang (2023-06-22). Chapter of "Moms Group" Attacking CRT Plastered a Hitler Quote on Its Newsletter. truthout.org An Indiana chapter of the far right hate group Moms for Liberty posted a newsletter on Wednesday featuring a quote from Adolf Hitler on the front page — and is now attacking the news outlet that first reported on the incident. As IndyStar reported this week, the Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty — a group most recently in the news for being labeled an extremist group by the Southern… |

Richard Becker (2023-06-22). How Daniel Ellsberg exposed the U.S. war machine and became a top enemy of empire. liberationnews.org Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level military analyst who courageously exposed four administrations' criminal war on Vietnam and went on to become a leading peace and civil liberties activist, died on June 16 at the age of 92.

Cinnamon Janzer, Next City. (2023-06-22). What Ohio's Co-Op Evangelists Learned From Spain's Union Co-Op Network. popularresistance.org For his 91st birthday three years ago, Bob Moore, the namesake behind the ubiquitous Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods brand, surprised his employees during a celebration of his 91st birthday. He unveiled an Employee Stock Ownership Plan that, as of April that year, turned his roughly 600 employees into co-op owners of a company that generated more than $50 million in annual sales in 2018. | While Bob's Red Mill might be one of the most high-profile examples of an employee-owned business in the U.S., it's far from the only one—especially in Ohio. | For more than a decade, Co-op Cincy has been working to both cre…

infobrics (2023-06-22). By sending Transcarpathian POWs to Hungary, Moscow is saving their lives. infobrics.org Kiev started a genocidal campaign of compulsory recruitment of Transcarpathia's ethnic Hungarian citizens, generating concern for their safety in Budapest.

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