Daily Archives: June 10, 2022

2022-06-10: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-10). Zelensky Aide Says Ukraine Losing Up To 200 Troops a Day. news.antiwar.com Mykhaylo Podolyak, a senior advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said Thursday that Ukraine The estimate is higher than the one offered by Zelensky last week, who said Ukraine was losing between 60 and 100 troops each day. Until last week, Kyiv had not been offering casualty rates, but now it seems Ukrainian officials are sharing their battlefield losses to get more arms from the West. | "The Russian forces have thrown pretty much everything non-nuclear at t…

Norman Solomon (2022-06-10). Media and Congress Enable Biden's Silence on Nuclear War Danger. indybay.org So many evasive words…

Angela (2022-06-10). Sunday 6/19: Shireen Abu Akleh Memorial: In-Person and Virtual Event. indybay.org Zoom and In-Person…

Poor People's Campaign (2022-06-10). Friday 6/17: National Memorial Service for Lives Lost to COVID, Gun Violence, War and Poverty w/ PPC. indybay.org Online via livestream: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/ | In-person at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C…

Socialist Alternative Bay Area (2022-06-10). Friday 6/10: Protest at Pelosi's Office: Do Not Surrender, Defend Abortion Rights! indybay.org On Mission St at 7th St in San Francisco, outside the courtyard of the Federal Building…

Norman Solomon (2022-06-10). Biden Refuses to Mention the Worsening Dangers of Nuclear War. zcomm.org Media and Congress Enable His Silence…

_____ (2022-06-10). Chad Declares Food Emergency, International Agencies Sound Alarm. popularresistance.org The World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have identified numerous states warranting immediate attention as the problems of climate change, internal conflict, economic downturns and the continuing war in Ukraine are exacerbating the current crisis. | In the Sahel region of Africa, the nation of Chad, is challenged by grain supplies which have dropped to dangerous lows forcing the transitional military-dominated government to declare a food emergency requesting that aid be sent into the country to avoid further food deficits. Chad has been severely impacted by drought leaving la…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-06-10). Summit of the Americas Marked by Brutal Police Repression. orinocotribune.com The opening day of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, was stained by brutal police repression of demonstrations. | The meeting has already been marred by controversy surrounding the White House's refusal to invite Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, giving rise to boycotts and complaints from many other nations of the Americas. Perhaps most notable was the refusal of Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to attend. | News outlets and social media platforms shared numerous videos of the scene in which a towering Los Angeles police officer violently attacked a woman who was speaking into…

Editor2 (2022-06-10). OAS 'Murderer' Almagro Confronted on Bolivia Coup. orinocotribune.com OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro had a meltdown on Tuesday as he was confronted by a U.S. activist of the Almagro was called a murderer, not only for backing the dictatorship of Jeanine Añez, but was also condemned for his role in trying to install failed coup leader Juan Guaido in Venezuela and for pushing for unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela. | Multiple counter-summits and a series of actions are being held in Los Angeles this week to counter to Biden's collapsed Summit of the A…

Anonymous811 (2022-06-10). DPR Court Sentenced Foreign Mercenaries To Death. southfront.org Shaun Pinner, Aidan Aslin, and Saadoun Brahim | On June 9, three foreign mercenaries were sentenced to death in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). The mercenaries include three young men Briton Shaun Pinner, Briton Aidan Aslin, and Moroccan Saadoun Brahim. According to DPR laws, the death penalty is carried out by firing squad. | Judge Alexander Nikulin handed down a death sentence to the guys, as the prosecution was able to make enough…

Editor2 (2022-06-10). How China Strengthened Food Security and Fought Poverty with State-Funded Cooperatives. orinocotribune.com By Joe Scholten | The world faces a food crisis due to war, sanctions, and inflation. China has shown how to strengthen food sovereignty, while fighting poverty, with state-funded agricultural cooperatives, government crackdown on waste, and investment in technology. | The Covid-19 pandemic, the ensuing supply-chain crisis, and high rates of inflation around the world have led to rising food prices and fears of famine. | These cascading and interlocking problems have pushed governments to prioritize economic self-sufficiency and food security. | China is leading the way in this struggle. Beijin…

Staff (2022-06-10). Colombia: Francia Márquez is the Key to Stopping the Fascist Hernández & Winning the Election. orinocotribune.com By Juan Diego Quesada Jun 3, 2022 | Until recently, Gustavo Petro understood politics as a solitary exercise. In his time as congressman he used his position to attack corruption or paramilitarism from the podium. As mayor of Bogota he was criticized by those around him for being reluctant to take the advice of others. Now he has understood that to be the next president of Colombia he needs the help of others, but especially that of Francia Márquez, his vice presidential running mate. | Márquez, an Afro woman who paid for her law studies by working as a maid, has become a phenomenon that has broken all the…

Contributing Writers (2022-06-10). NBC News just SMEARED real journalists in shameful hit piece/ Redacted with Clayton Morris. marktaliano.net READ MORE: Video: Award-Winning Canadian Journalist Eva Bartlett on Ukraine "Kill List" as Canadian Government Does Nothing Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre for Research on Globalization…

Vijay Prashad (2022-06-10). Land in South Africa Shall Be Shared Among Those Who Work It. dissidentvoice.org Sbongile Tabhethe works in the food garden at eKhenana land occupation in Cato Manor, Durban, 9 June 2020. Credit: New Frame / Mlungisi Mbele In March 2022, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres warned of a 'hurricane of hunger' due to the war in Ukraine. Forty-five developing countries, most of them on the African continent, …

Staff (2022-06-10). Shangri-La Dialogue: Citing Ukraine as factor, Japan PM announces "fundamental" military buildup. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Nikkei AsiaJune 10, 2022 Kishida: Japan to 'fundamentally' strengthen defense in 5 years Japan will "fundamentally reinforce Japan's defense capabilities within the next five years," Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed in Singapore on Friday, delivering a keynote address to open the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit. Kishida pledged to "secure a substantial increase" in the country's …

Staff (2022-06-10). Ukrainian nationalists' massacre of 100,000 Poles approaching 80th anniversary. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The First News (Poland)July 11, 2019 Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wo≈Çy≈Ñ massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years Today marks 76 years since the coordinated attack by Ukrainian nationalists on 99 Polish towns and villages in Wo≈Çy≈Ñ. Between 1943 and 1945, members of the Ukrainian …

Staff (2022-06-10). Georgia loses fifteen fighters in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rustavi 2June 10, 2022 Body of Georgian warrior GG, who was killed in Ukraine, transferred to Tbilisi A body of Georgian warrior GG, who was killed during the military hostilities near Batkmut in Ukraine, transferred to Tbilisi. *** 15 Georgian fighters have been killed on the territory of Ukraine since February 24. ==== Agenda.geJune 10, …

Staff (2022-06-10). NATO obligation: Finland, Montenegro to deliver more arms to Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Interfax-UkraineJune 10, 2022 Finland to send more defense equipment to Ukraine Finnish President Sauli Niinistà∂, at the suggestion of the government, decided that Finland would send additional assistance with military equipment to Ukraine, the Finnish Ministry of Defense reported. "[W]e will send a new package of defense materials," Finnish Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen said, the …

Staff (2022-06-10). Headlines for June 10, 2022. democracynow.org House Jan. 6 Committee Says Trump Was at Center of Attempted Coup, Michigan GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Ryan Kelley Arrested over Jan. 6 Riot, Maryland Gunman Who Killed 3 Arrested After Shootout with Police, Ukraine Asks Allies for Rapid Delivery of Heavy Weapons as Fight Rages in East, Blood Found in Boat Tied to Disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in Brazil, U.S. Secretary of State Dismisses Evidence Israel Killed Shireen Abu Akleh, U.S. Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin Meets Chinese Counterpart , Iran Has Begun Removing Nuclear Site Surveillance Cameras, Warns U.N., Michigan Police Officer Charged with…

Lucystock (2022-06-10). The Weekly Round-up: social care spending, Stafford statements and Ukraine's legal battle. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news: The recent Health and Care Act 2022 has come under scrutiny for introducing a cap on social care spending. From October 2023, the government will introduce a cap of £86,000 on the amount anyone in England will need to spend on their care over their lifetime. The cap will no longer count …

Evan Reif (2022-06-10). How Monsters Who Beat Jews To Death in 1944 Became America's Favorite "Freedom Fighters" in 1945—with a Little Help from their Friends at CIA. covertactionmagazine.com Part II of a 3 Part series on Fascism and the CIA in Ukraine "Terror will be not only a …

Global Research News (2022-06-10). Selected Articles: The War in Ukraine Marks the End of the American Century. "What's Left is a Steaming Pile of Dollar Denominated Debt" globalresearch.ca By It's true. The "full faith and credit" of the US Treasury is …

Nataliia Lomonosova (2022-06-10). Meet the Ukrainian leftists resisting Putin's war. zcomm.org Interview on the history and work of Sotsialnyi Rukh…

Lowkey (2022-06-10). Elon Musk, Proofpoint, and the Tentacles of the Surveillance State, with Alan MacLeod. mintpressnews.com The MintPress podcast "The Watchdog," hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Elon Musk is not some crusading rebel railing against the establishment; he's one of the key drivers of the U.S. surveillance…

Staff (2022-06-10). NATO naval group held exercise in Algeria. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Allied Maritime CommandJune 10, 2022 NATO ships conduct port visit in Algiers Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two (SNMCMG-2) visited Algiers, Algeria, from June 4-7 and conducted a subsequent Passing Exercise (PASSEX) with Algerian navy units in the vicinity of Algiers. SNMCMG2 crewmembers participated in several activities during the port visit organized by Algerian …

Staff (2022-06-10). NATO conducts large-scale missile and air defense drills in Northeast Europe. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOSupreme Headquarters Allied Powers EuropeJune 10, 2022 Ramstein Legacy 22 Exercise Enhances NATO Allied Air and Missile Defense Interoperability RAMSTEIN LEGACY 22 synchronises multiple NATO exercises including Ramstein Legacy (Surface Based Air and Missile Defence), Ramstein Guard (Electronic Warfare), and Ramstein Alloy (Live-Fly) to maximise the effectiveness of training with strong focus on tactical level …

Silke Otsch, Boris Ginner (2022-06-10). Tax evasion and avoidance and Democracy at a tipping point. indybay.org The biggest losses from tax evasion and avoidance are caused by multinational corporations, followed by wealthy individuals. Sums in the triple-digit billions of up to one trillion. Euros are evaded annually in the EU. Of the global private wealth of around 160 trillion. US dollars, between 21-32 trillion US dollars are undeclared via tax havens…

Staff (2022-06-10). Two Berlin events rally for Palestine, highlight women's role in liberation movement. samidoun.net Palestinian and solidarity organizers in Berlin, Germany, are organizing two events in the coming days for the liberation of Palestine. After the Berlin police banned all demonstrations commemorating the Palestinian Nakba on the weekend of 15 May and then repressed the spontaneous mobilizations in the streets for Palestine, a coalition of organizations resisting repression, including …

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-10). Mayo Clinic Minute: What to expect with COVID-19 vaccinations for youngest kids. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could grant emergency use authorization of a COVID-19 vaccination for the youngest kids later this month. Pfizer asked the agency to review data and authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months to 5 years.If the FDA committee recommends authorization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will still need to sign off on the vaccinations before they would go into the littlest of arms. Watch: The Mayo…

Contributing Writers (2022-06-10). Biden Administration Makes Available 10 Million Doses of COVID Vaccine for Kids Under 5 — Before FDA Authorizes Shot. marktaliano.net By Children's Health Defense Global Research, June 10, 2022 Children's Health Defense 9 June 2022 To receive Global Research's Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to …

Staff (2022-06-10). "Attempted Coup": First Public Jan. 6 Hearing Puts Trump at Center of Plan to Overturn 2020 Election. democracynow.org The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection held its first public hearing Thursday night, televised in primetime by all major networks except Fox News. We spend the hour featuring excerpts from the hearing, starting with Committee Chair Bennie Thompson's opening statement, in which he argued January 6 was the "culmination of an attempted coup" by Donald Trump, comparing the insurrection to the ransacking of Washington, D.C., by British forces more than two centuries ago.

Staff (2022-06-10). "From Protesters … to Insurrectionists": Jan. 6 Witness Describes Proud Boys' Violence at the Capitol. democracynow.org The white supremacist Proud Boys group and the far-right, anti-government Oath Keepers militia played an instrumental role in planning for a violent insurrection on the Capitol, according to the January 6 House committee, which aired new testimony from witnesses and the groups' leaders in its first public hearing Thursday night. British filmmaker Nick Quested was embedded with the Proud Boys and shared his footage with the committee. As the first of two live witnesses, he said he was "confused" when "a couple of hundred of Proud Boys were marching toward the Capitol."…

Staff (2022-06-10). "Bullshit": Bill Barr & Ivanka Trump Told House Jan. 6 Probe They Didn't Believe Stolen Election Lies. democracynow.org Donald Trump "engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the U.S. population that fraud had stolen the election from him," Congressmember Liz Cheney, vice chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack, said during Thursday's primetime hearing. "This was not true." We air excerpts from her presentation, which included a new video of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner dismissing concerns about the campaign to overturn the 2020 election as mere "whining."…

Staff (2022-06-10). Carnage & Chaos: "I Was Slipping in People's Blood" on Jan. 6, Says Brain-Injured Capitol Officer. democracynow.org The second witness who testified live in the first primetime hearing of the House select January 6 committee was Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, who suffered a traumatic brain injury as she tried to hold the line outside the Capitol with fellow officers. She was with officer Brian Sicknick, who she said appeared to have been sprayed in the face and was extremely pale. Sicknick died the next day. Sicknick's fiancee sat behind Edwards as she testified. Edwards said the pro-Trump mob included Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs, who is now facing federal seditious conspiracy charges. "What I saw was…

Staff (2022-06-10). "Hang Mike Pence": Watch Dramatic New Footage of Trump Mob Attacking Capitol on Jan. 6. democracynow.org The January 6 committee released new footage Thursday night showing a detailed timeline of the day of the insurrection. We feature the video they played that shows how Proud Boys and Oath Keepers marched from the National Mall — where Donald Trump delivered a speech pressuring Mike Pence to recertify the election results to deliver him a victory — to the Capitol Building to chants of "Hang Mike Pence," before they violently pushed through police barriers and broke into the government building chanting "Nancy."…

Jeremy Brecher (2022-06-10). Unions Making a Green New Deal From Below—Part 2. zcomm.org The unions and workers involved range across the entire workforce…

Staff (2022-06-10). Venezuela and Algeria Strengthen Relations & Support for Palestine, Sahrawis & Libya. orinocotribune.com As part of the strengthening of bilateral relations between Venezuela and Algeria, the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, in joint statements issued with his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, reported this Thursday, June 9, that both nations reiterated their solidarity and support to Palestine, the Saharawi Republic, and Libya. | Algeria is the second stop in President Maduro's international tour, which previously took him to Tàºrkiye, where he had a busy schedule of bilateral and cultural activities. For security concerns, related to the aggressive and violent policy of the White House to oust…

Frank Breslin (2022-06-10). A Purpose-Driven Life. dissidentvoice.org Once upon a time over the portals of the fabled Library of Alexandria were chiseled these words: "The Hospital for the Soul." This majestic phrase captured for all times the eternal dream of the pure and unfettered pursuit of knowledge and our need for quiet places like schools and libraries to find repose in renewing …

Allen Forrest (2022-06-10). Truth and Society. dissidentvoice.org

Kris Hamel (2022-06-10). Charges filed against killer cop in shooting death of Patrick Lyoya. liberationnews.org The horrific killing of Patrick Lyoya, a young worker and father of two, was caught on bodycam and video and outraged people in Grand Rapids and all of Michigan as well as nationally.

Amanda Yee (2022-06-10). Mounting public pressure forces DA to drop all charges against Queens, NY man. liberationnews.org In an unexpected turn of events in the courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Andrea Medina moved to drop five of the six charges against Churaman, on account of a technicality that he himself had discovered while studying law books in incarceration: due to Churaman's young age at the time of the crime, the case could not be tried in criminal court…

Clement Nocos (2022-06-10). Ontario election post-mortem: Strategy shift needed for the progressive left? canadiandimension.com On paper, one could argue there were winning odds stacked for the progressive electoral left in Ontario ahead of the 2022 provincial election. Doug Ford as premier of Ontario mishandled each wave of the pandemic,

G. Dunkel (2022-06-10). Hambre en àÅfrica Oriental: cientos de miles de personas amenazadas. workers.org Los precios de los alimentos se están disparando en todo el mundo. No sólo los precios del trigo y otros cereales, que es donde Estados Unidos y sus aliados de la Unión Europea han centrado su atención, sino también en productos como la mantequilla industrial y la leche en polvo, . . . |

Our Reporter (2022-06-10). SAD: Napak GISO shot Dead. plusnews.ug Police in Napak District is hunting for a group of suspected rustlers who killed the Gombolola Intelligence Officer of Lokopo sub-county. John Bosco Lopuli aged 28 was shot dead on Thursday at Nakichelet village, Akalale parish. Michael Longole the Karamoja Regional Police Spokesperson confirmed the incident saying the joint security team is hunting the killers …

A Guest Author (2022-06-10). AFL-CIO convention must unconditionally support Puerto Rico's unions — Commentary. workers.org This article is by a guest author who is a member of the construction trades and a member of the AFL-CIO. The 2022 convention of the AFL-CIO will be held in Philadelphia June 12-15. Every four years the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations meets in a convention to . . . |

Anand Naidoo (2022-06-10). The Heat: Summit of the Americas. america.cgtn.com The United States tries to display leadership at the Summit of the Americas, but are countries in the region following Washington's lead?>

Liberation Staff-Olympic Peninsula (2022-06-10). LGBTQ Pride on Washington's Olympic PeninsulaÔøº. liberationnews.org Local youth community organizers made history and kicked off Clallam County's Pride weekend with Sequim, Washington's first ever "Coming Out" Pride Picnic.

Leslie Feinberg (2022-06-10). Western colonizers imposed anti-gay laws throughout world — Lavender & Red, Part 112. workers.org The following is one installment of Feinberg's "Lavender & Red" series on the intersection of LGBTQ2S+ and socialist history, which appeared Sept. 27, 2007, in Workers World newspaper. The 120-part series was published between 2004 and 2008 and can be downloaded for free at workers.org/books. Sodomy laws, imposed on India . . . |

Arjae Red (2022-06-10). Buffalo, New York: No more rainbow capitalism! workers.org Buffalo, New York Credit: Ellie Dorritie At the Buffalo corporate-sponsored Pride Parade June 5, members and friends of Workers World Party hit the streets to distribute literature on the radical history of Pride and the struggle of the LGBTQ+ community against police violence — especially against Black and Brown trans . . . |

Our Reporter (2022-06-10). Museveni tasks Elgon, Teso leaders to lead campaign against cattle rustling. plusnews.ug President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has tasked the leaders of Sebei, Teso and Sebei sub regions to champion the end against the persistent cattle rustling that is spilling over from Karamoja. According to Museveni, the leaders in these regions plus Karamoja have a duty to ensuring security and peace prevails in the areas. He noted that …

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