Daily Archives: June 16, 2021

2021-06-16: News Headlines

Norman Solomon (2021-06-16). How Democrats and Progressives Undermined the Potential of the Biden-Putin Summit. indybay.org Echoing the warmongers…

Medea Benjamin (2021-06-16). Why Democracies in G7 and NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership. progressive.org When President Biden meets with the leaders of democratic countries, he represents a country that is, in many ways, an undemocratic outlier rather than a leader among democratic nations.

_____ (2021-06-16). Solemn Vigil at Shannon Remembers Child Victims of War. popularresistance.org Sunday June 13th saw us returning to Shannon Airport to recommence our monthly peace vigils. We had around 20 peace activists there, watched by around 20 Gardai. | Inside the airport, security personnel, including an Irish army patrol, protecting three US Marine Corps Hercules KC-130J warplanes that had landed the previous night. They stayed overnight at Shannon, meaning that their crews and military passengers were almost certainly in local hotels for the night.

Louis Proyect (2021-06-16). Was American Indian Overhunting Responsible for the Near-Extinction of the Buffalo? counterpunch.org In the 1990s, there were repeated attempts to debunk the idea of an ecological Indian. Scholars and activists with seemingly little in common all sought to portray the Indian as wasteful of natural resources, if not even worse than the European settlers who have left the USA resembling a toxic dump as the 21st century

imperial.ac.uk (2021-06-16). Mark Carney — 'Divest' from companies without credible net zero plans. imperial.ac.uk Companies must set net zero emissions targets and devise plans for adapting their business models for a low emission world, says Mark Carney.

Norman Solomon (2021-06-15). How Democrats and Progressives Undermined the Potential of the Biden-Putin Summit. indybay.org Echoing the warmongers…

Rainer Shea (2021-06-15). US Empire's Final Collapse Draws Nearer as Latin America Further Resists Washington's Grip. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — June 11, 2021 | Modern imperialism, like the socioeconomic system it's based upon, is a house of cards. Capitalism, the socioeconomic system that it depends on to continue functioning, wouldn't be able to go on if its range of market control were to shrink too much. This is because capitalism's natural tendency towards growth inevitably creates for it a crisis of overproduction, which can only be alleviated by perpetually expanding its market control. As Michael Parenti

Steve Lalla (2021-06-15). #HandsOffVenezuela Monthly Picket Draws Attention to Canada's Role in Blockade of Venezuela. orinocotribune.com June 13 (Special for Orinoco Tribune)—On Friday, June 11, the fourth monthly US/Canada Hands Off Venezuela picket action drew together diplomats, activists and labor organizers from Canada and Venezuela for a discussion about the economic blockade of Venezuela and a protest of the criminal coercive measures imposed by the US and its ally Canada. | The virtual event

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-15). Indigenous-led climate justice activists vow to continue resisting Enbridge pipeline in US. peoplesdispatch.org Around 250 protesters who are opposing a controversial pipeline project in the State of Minnesota in the United States have been arrested over the past few days.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-15). 'Anti-encroachment' demolitions target Karachi's working class and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the ongoing 'anti-encroachment' drive affecting poor and working class communities in the city of Karachi in Pakistan, the joint communique presented by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its anti-China and anti-Russia stance, the violent attack on a protest against the police killing of Winston Smith Jr. in the city of Minneapolis and the ongoing struggle by Indigenous communities and climate activists against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline in the US.

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2021-06-15). Why Democracies in G7 and NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership. dissidentvoice.org Photo credit: BPM Media — Protest at G7 summit in Cornwall UK The world has been treated to successive spectacles of national leaders gathering at a G7 Summit in Cornwall and a NATO Summit in Brussels. The U.S. corporate media have portrayed these summits as chances for President Biden to rally the leaders of the …

Medea Benjamin (2021-06-15). Why Democracies in G7 & NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership. zcomm.org The key to a peaceful, sustainable and prosperous future for all the world's people, including Americans, lies in working together, learning from each other and adopting policies that serve the public good…

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2021-06-15). Why democracies in G7 & NATO should reject US leadership. nationofchange.org Ordinary people in other countries are right to be wary of the Pied Piper of American "leadership," but their rulers should be too.

Mark Gruenberg (2021-06-15). AFL-CIO leader: No coincidence unions and voting rights under attack simultaneously. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—Labor's strong campaign to preserve and strengthen voting rights, joined by those of civil rights, religious, and civic allies, took center stage at a key session of the AFL-CIO's Northeast Regional meeting for union leaders and activists. But speakers, including federation Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, the keynoter, didn't neglect other causes, especially the Protect the …

Manlio Dinucci (2021-06-15). NATO Summit: The American Empire Deploys Troops for Battle. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at @

Manlio Dinucci (2021-06-15). The American Empire of the West Deploys Troops for Battle. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at @

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