(2022-06-30). VIDEO: Ask Prof Wolff: What the NYTimes Gets Wrong About Inflation. scheerpost.com 
By Richard Wolff / Democracy At Work A Patron of Economic Update asks: "Christopher Leonard, author of "The Lords of Easy Money" has a piece in the 6/11/22 NYT (www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/op…) that addressed the issue of inflation's cause(s). He danced around your principal point, without actually saying it, namely that capitalism is in its death throes. …
(2022-06-29). While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army "The Most Lethal Weapon," War Profiteer BAE Systems Stock Soars. mronline.org 
The Russian Interior Ministry reported that it had destroyed U.S.-made howitzers through use of attack drones.
(2022-06-29). CIA And Western Special Ops Commandos Are In Ukraine. popularresistance.org The CIA and special operations forces from NATO members Britain, France, Canada, and Lithuania are physically in Ukraine, helping direct the proxy war on Russia, according to a report in The New York Times. | These Western forces are on the ground training and advising Ukrainian fighters, overseeing weapons shipments, and managing intelligence. | At least 20 countries are part of a US Army-led coalition, guiding Ukraine in its fight against Russian troops. | Some Ukrainian combatants are even using US flag patches on their equipment. | This is all according to a June 25 report in The New York Times, titled "Comma…
(2022-06-29). Michael Hudson interviewed by Ben Norton (Multipolarista). thesaker.is Economist Michael Hudson on inflation and Fed plan to cut wages: A depression is coming…
(2022-06-29). Biden Administration Throws Support Behind F-16 Sale To Turkey. news.antiwar.com On Wednesday, the Biden administration expressed public support for an F-16 sale to Turkey, which came the day after Ankara lifted its objection to Sweden and Finland joining NATO. Back in October, Turkey requested to buy 40 Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets and nearly 80 modernization kits for its current fleet of warplanes. Wednesday marked …
(2022-06-29). A Lemming Leading the Lemmings: Slavoj Žižek and the Terminal Collapse of the Anti-War Left. orinocotribune.com 
By Jonathan Cook — Jun 23, 2022 | Have you noticed how every major foreign policy crisis since the US and UK's invasion of Iraq in 2003 has peeled off another layer of the left into joining the pro-NATO, pro-war camp? | It is now hard to remember that many millions marched in the US and Europe against the attack on Iraq. It sometimes feels like there is no one left who is not cheerleading the next wave of profits for the West's military-industrial complex (usually referred to as the "defense industry" by those very same profiteers). | Washington learned a hard lesson from the unpopularity of its 2003 attack…
(2022-06-29). What Warren Buffett knows that you don't  ; Part 1. peoplesdispatch.org Warren Buffett, the world's richest stock market investor, says that he bets on companies that are like "strong economic castles with a long-lasting economic moat around them". He means that he invests in companies that don't have competition. There is another name for it  ; monopolies. In other words, Buffett knows that only monopolies succeed in Capitalism. It is a secret that no one told you.
(2022-06-29). Construction workers in Zurich demand better working conditions and a fair contract. peoplesdispatch.org 
On June 25, more than 15,000 people marched in the Swiss city of Zurich in a demonstration called by construction workers and trade unions. They were demanding fairer contracts and better working conditions. Trade unions, including Unia and Syna, on behalf of the masons and construction workers organized the rally, with laborers from other sectors and progressive groups including the Swiss Party of Labor (PST), Youth of Labor Party, Communist Party, Communist Youth, Movement For Socialism and more, participating in solidarity. In the mobilization, the workers expressed their opposition to work schedules dictated…
(2022-06-29). What 5 Economists Say About The Probability Of Recession Striking America. moguldom.com Economists agree that high inflation, rising interest rates, uncertainty and market volatility have increased the likelihood that the U.S. economy will be hit with a recession. When President Joe Biden said that there was "nothing inevitable about a recession," former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers disagreed, saying that a recession was "almost inevitable" in the next two years. …
(2022-06-29). Growing Hope for Humanity: 65 Countries in Vienna Say No to Atomic Weapons in TPNW Declaration. scheerpost.com 
By Rafael de la Rubia / Pressenza In Vienna, a total of 65 countries with many others as observers and a large number of civil organisations, on Thursday 24 June and for three days, aligned themselves in the face of the threat of the use of atomic weapons and committed themselves to work for their …
(2022-06-29). UK's Truss wants to send weapons to Taiwan amid China tension. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss suggested that the UK should provide the UK should send Taiwan weapons to Taiwan.
(2022-06-29). Sardasht Chemical weapons victims remembered in Tehran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — A commemoration ceremony was held at Sacred Defense Garden Museum on Wednesday concurrent with the anniversary of brutal chemical bombing of Sardasht by the Iraqi Ba'athist regime in 1987.
(2022-06-29). Three Turkish Drone Strikes Hit Northern, Northeastern Syria In Single Day (Photos). southfront.org 
On June 28, Turkish combat drones carried out three airstrikes on areas held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern and northeastern Syria. | In the early morning hours, two drone strikes hit the village of Khana Sri in the northeastern al-Hasakah countryside. The strikes destroyed two vehicles. | The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that one of the vehicles was being used by the SDF, while the other was carrying civilian workers who were building fortifications…
(2022-06-29). Explosions Reported At US Base In Syria's Al-Omar Oil Fields. southfront.org 
U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment provide security support during mission on Sept. 9, 2018, at an undisclosed location in Syria. (Cpl. Gabino Perez/Marine Corps) | Late on June 28, a series of explosions rocked the US-led coalition's base in al-Omar oil fields in the southeastern countryside of Syria's Deir Ezzor. | The explosions took place inside the base, known as the Green Village, as well as in the sky over it. At the time of the explosions, a warplane, most like…