Schumer's Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire
Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
Despite an existential climate crisis, Senator Chuck Schumer's $250-billion "United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021" takes aim at China as the most pressing national security threat. In a Cold War declaration, the New York Democrat's proposed legislation reads like the last gasp of a dying empire, a plea from a panicked superpower losing…
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Schumer's Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2021-06-04
The bill undermines Kerry's negotiated agreement with China, sabotaging an opportunity for the U.S. and China to partner on curbing emissions and sharing strategies for greening the Earth…
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Headlines for June 4, 2021
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-06-04
Activists Call U.S. Plan to Ship 25 Million COVID Vaccine Doses Abroad "Deeply Insufficient", WHO Warns of Surging COVID-19 Cases in Africa as Vaccine Shipments Come to "Near Halt", Chinese Authorities Ban Hong Kong Vigil Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre, Arrest Organizer, Peruvian Presidential Runoff Pits Ex-Dictator's Daughter Against Socialist School Teacher, 89 Politicians Killed in Run-up to Mexican Midterm Elections, Lawyers for Guantánamo Prisoner Challenge Judge's Order Permitting Use of Info Obtained by Torture, Watchdog Says Pentagon Grossly Misrepresented Civilian Casualties from U.S. Military, U.N. Sa…
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Another police murder protested — 'We're here for Vincent'
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2021-06-04
East Cleveland, Ohio A cross section of Cleveland area community activists turned out May 31 to express solidarity with the family of 18-year-old Vincent Belmonte, killed Jan. 5 by East Cleveland cops. Police stopped him while he was driving his partner to work, chased him and shot him in the . . . | Continue reading Another police murder protested — 'We're here for Vincent' at Workers.org…
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French unions respond to housing crisis
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2021-06-04
In France, activists hold a banner saying "A roof is a right" According to the French housing alliance Right to Housing (DAL–Droit au Logement), cops are prepared to evict 30,000 families starting June 1. Some 130,000 families have been notified that they need to leave their homes immediately, while tens . . . | Continue reading French unions respond to housing crisis at Workers.org…
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Palestinian Authority rounds up activists
Tamara Nassar | electronicintifada.net | 2021-06-04
After life of resistance, former Birzeit student dies by Israeli fire.
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UK's First Black Studies Professor Calls on African Diaspora to Unite
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-06-04
As Black Lives Matter continues to flourish in the United States and beyond, many activists within the movement are calling for renewed internationalism and collaboration among people across the African Diaspora. In this exclusive interview, author, activist and Black radical scholar Kehinde Andrews issues the call: "We need to get back aligned with the revolutionary version of Pan-Africanism." | Andrews is founder of the Harambee Organization of Black Unity and professor of Black Studies at Birmingh…
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Sunrise Movement Calls on Biden to Stop Compromising With Republicans on Climate
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-06-04
As President Joe Biden looks to cut an infrastructure deal with Senate Republicans by dramatically curtailing the size and scope of his American Jobs Plan, activists with the youth-led Sunrise Movement gathered outside the White House Friday morning to make clear that compromising on climate action to appease the GOP is unacceptable. | Varshini Prakash, Sunrise…
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Colombia: "The Government Murders with Impunity Because the US Empire is Behind it."
Carlos Aznarez | orinocotribune.com | 2021-06-03
By Carlos Aznarez — May 31, 2021 | Cecilia Zamudio is a Colombian writer, poet, journalist and artist, and like many of her compatriots lives these days with great concern for what means the repressive escalation of the government of Iván Duque, but also with deep satisfaction to the patriotism that the Colombian people starring a national productive strike that has passed the month of duration, With her we talked about all these contingencies, in order to further sharpen the efforts of internationalist solidarity with the struggle of that people. | Day after day, Uribism in government continues to develop a…
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Greater Idlib: Militants Targeted Syrian Army Battle Tank With Guided Missile
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-06-03
Illustrative image. | On June 3, militants of the al-Fateh al-Mubeen Operations Room targeted a battle tank of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near the government-held town of Kafr Nabil in the southern countryside of Idlib. | The battle tank was reportedly hit with an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM). Opposition activists claimed that the tank's crew were killed or wounded. | Click to see full-size map. Source: (@Suriyakmaps) on Twitter, Via…
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Biden Should Make Normalizing Relations with Cuba "A Priority"
Medea Benjamin | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-03
Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for "Syringes to Cuba" as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign on his popular Facebook livestream. An energetic Cuban-American high school teacher in Seattle, Lazo created a group called Puentes de Amor, Bridges of Love, to unite Cuban Americans…
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Oil Prices Edge Lower Amid Mixed U.S. Inventories Data
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
Oil prices inched lower on Thursday as traders pored through a mixed U.S. fuel inventory report. | For July delivery, the West Texas Intermediate lost 2 cents to settle at 68.81 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude for August delivery decreased 4 cents to close at 71.31 dollars a barrel on the London ICE Futures Exchange. | RELATED: | Guyana: Activists Sue Government Over Offshore Exxon Drilling | U.S. crude oil inventories decreased by 5.1 millio…
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Activists Aim To Block Israeli Ships From US Ports In Solidarity With Palestinians
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-06-03
Palestinian rights activists are aiming to block ships operated by an Israeli shipping line from unloading cargo in key US port cities as part of a campaign to pressure Israel over its numerous violations of international law. | The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (Aroc), which is leading the effort, told Middle East Eye on Wednesday that its "Block the Boat" campaign had successfully prevented a ship operated by Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd from docking in Oakland, California. | Zim, considered the 10th largest shipping company in the world, told MEE in an email that delays at the port prevented it f…
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Two Centuries Of 'The Imperialist, Warmongering, Hate-Filled Guardian'
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-06-03
In contrast to Media Lens modestly marking a mere two decades in July, the Guardian has been deluging itself with praise on reaching two centuries this year. Not that we would expect otherwise. As editor Katherine Viner proclaimed in a long, celebratory essay: 'The Guardian is not the only newspaper to declare that it has …
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Globalink | U.S. Empire of Hacking Stirs up Wrath in Europe, Concerns of Int'l Community
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
Recent reports of U.S. spying on European politicians with the help of Danish intelligence have stirred up wrath in Europe, and concerns of international community.
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What happened to the municipalists in Spain?
Kate Shea Baird | zcomm.org | 2021-06-03
For four years, municipalists held power in cities across Spain. Their successes and setbacks hold important lessons for municipalist activists and organizers today…
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