(2023-06-26). Climate collapse, fascism and war. greenleft.org.au 
Phil Hearse explains how the global climate and migrant crises fuel fascism and war.
(2023-06-25). Yes, We Have Home-Grown Fascists. tomdispatch.com One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had stuck little folded squares of paper under the windshield wipers of the cars parked on the street beside us. My father picked one up and read it. I saw his face grow dark with anger. "What is it, Papa?" "It's a message from people who think that all Jews should be killed." This would have been in the late 1950s, a time when the Nazi extermination of millions of Jews in Europe was still fresh in the American consciousness. Not, you might have thought, a good season for sowing murderous antisemitism in lower Manhat…
(2023-06-26). Jerusalem's Armenian Community Fears Erasure After Controversial Land Deal. scheerpost.com 
A shady property deal threatens to transform part of the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City into a luxury resort. "It will change the status quo and the entire picture of Jerusalem," says Armenian activist Hagop Djernazian.
(2023-06-26). The far-right politics of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wsws.org Kennedy Jr. has garnered support from billionaire libertarians, anti-vaccine zealots and Trump co-conspirators for centering his presidential campaign on opposition to all COVID-19 mitigation measures, anti-immigrant border policies and a zealous adherence to "American free market capitalism."
(2023-06-25). Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2023. greenleft.org.au 
From peasant farms to world history to cities in crisis, Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important new books for greens and reds.
(2023-06-25). Thursday 6/22: Pride, Prejudice & Corporate P.R: Corporate Capitalism and Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2023-06-25). Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits. socialistproject.ca 
Artificial intelligence (AI) and how it's going to change the world is a popular topic of conversation these days. There is concern that it will generate ever-more deceptive Then there's the seemingly…
(2023-06-26). Ralph Nader: The Surging Arrogance of Corporatism. scheerpost.com 
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org Most heads of giant corporations are drunk with their own power. These corporate CEOs push the envelope in ways that harm defenseless people. They believe they can get away with anything, and they do, with few exceptions. The few corporate crime prosecutions keep declining from Obama to Trump to Biden, …
(2023-06-26). 50 Years Later, Families Demand Justice For The Disappeared In Uruguay. popularresistance.org Excavations by forensic anthropologists at a notorious military base in Toledo, Uruguay have unearthed human remains. It is likely that the remains are those of one the many victims of the campaign of forced disappearance carried out by the state during the military dictatorship that began five decades ago. | The remains are the first to be discovered in over a decade, and a painful reminder of the lengths the military went to permanently disappear dissidents and leftists in a campaign that lasted 12 years. For families of the missing, the news has brought a mix of emotions. This is only the seventh person recove…
(2023-06-26). New US diplomatic provocations fuel tensions with China. wsws.org US Secretary of State Blinken's trip to China, supposedly to ease tensions, has been swiftly followed by Biden's denunciation of Xi as "a dictator" and the fuelling of allegations of Chinese spying from Cuba.
(2023-06-25). Guatemala Update: Candidate Mulet Accuses the Ruling Party. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, around 9.3 million Guatemalans will elect a president, vice president, 160 legislators, 20 legislators for the Central American Parliament, and 340 municipal authorities. Nineteen politicians compete to reach the Presidency. | RELATED: | Among them, former First Lady Sandra Torres, former United Nations official Edmond Mulet, and Zuri Rios, the daughter of former dictator Efrain Rios-Montt, lead the latest voting intention polls. Below are the major ev…
(2023-06-25). Women War Criminals: A Vital Cog in NATO's Plans of World Conquest. strategic-culture.org Although Chairman Mao told us that women hold up half the sky, he failed to expound on what proportion of NATO's war crimes women are responsible for. | Although China's Chairman Mao Zedong famously told us that women hold up half the sky, he failed to expound on what proportion of NATO's war crimes women are responsible for. | We must, first of all, realise that new-born baby girls do not enter the world as newly-minted war criminals but, as Hillary Clinton, Greta Thunberg, Victoria Nuland and Ursula von der Leyen all show, they are groomed to it, just as the architects of Hitler's Final Solution or any other ps…
(2023-06-25). President Maduro Affirms Venezuela's Resolute Stand Against Empire on Carabobo Battle Anniversary" orinocotribune.com To commemorate Bolivarian Army Day and the 202nd anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo, President Nicolás Maduro has asserted that Venezuela will never surrender to any empire. | "Here we are, 202 years later, with the same spirit, with the same love for our homeland, and telling the empires of the world: Venezuela will not surrender to any empire, Venezuela is heading towards the century of power," President Maduro said on Saturday, June 24, during the official event for the commemoration of the historic Battle of Carabobo, held at the Paseo Monumental del Campo de Carabobo, in Carabobo state. | Maduro highlight…
(2023-06-25). Why the RFK Jr., Rogan, Musk Outrage Machine Doesn't Bother Big Pharma. cepr.net It's been hard to miss the screaming on the Internet because Dr. Peter Hotez has refused to debate RFK Jr. over vaccine safety. I think Farhad Manjoo did a good job laying out the case against Dr. Hotez debating Kennedy in a column last week. But I think there is a more fundamental question worth …