(2023-06-23). Thursday 6/22: Pride, Prejudice & Corporate P.R: Corporate Capitalism and Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2023-06-23). Petro asegura que capitalismo no resolverá crisis climática. telesurtv.net El mandatario colombiano aseguró, además, que las medidas propuestas por Bruselas son demasiado dependientes de la empresa privada.
(2023-06-23). Podemos electoral debacle in Spain exposes bankruptcy of Revolutionary Left (IR) group. wsws.org IR's complaint that "the 'progressive' management of capitalism has gone very wrong" amounts to an exposure of this party's decade-long support for the anti-worker Podemos party.
(2023-06-22). Starbucks is latest corporation ditching Pride to protect profits, showing rainbow capitalism's limits. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Somebody tell Starbucks's bosses that June is Pride Month. They've gone in the other direction. An internal memo, leaked to Starbucks Workers United—the Service Employees-backed group that's aiding the grassroots union organizing drive at the coffee giant—orders local store managers to take down and remove all pro-LGBTQ material from their stores. This is, of course, …
(2023-06-23). The idea of degrowth communism was Marx's last breakthrough—and perhaps most important. mronline.org 
Even if Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito had not written
(2023-06-22). Remembering Gary Dotterman: Anti-racist Oklahoman, Vietnam vet for peace, and irrepressible gay Communist. peoplesworld.org 
Fighter against racism and Jim Crow segregation in 1960s Oklahoma. Vietnam vet turned peace activist. Advance man for Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign who was standing next to the candidate the night he was assassinated. Gay rights pioneer who pushed the Communist Party USA to turn away from its homophobic past. Advocate of socialism on …
(2023-06-22). On the dialectics of socialism and western Marxisms' purity fetish. mronline.org 
Gabriel Rockhill "one of my favorite jokes that I've heard about the socialist project is the following: socialism looks good on paper, but in reality… you just get invaded by the United States."
(2023-06-24). Correspondence] Treatments for major depression. thelancet.com Here we raise several concerns regarding the Review by Steven Marwaha and colleagues.1 First, the concept of treatment-resistant depression does not have reliable criteria for research and is conceptually empty. The key question remains whether the disorder is resistant to treatment, or whether treatments are less effective. For example, an individual participant level of analysis of clinical trial data revealed small average differences between antidepressants and placebo.2…
(2023-06-24). Correspondence] Latent bipolar disorder. thelancet.com Anita Thapar and colleagues' Seminar1 raised a word of caution about suicidality and latent bipolar disorder.1,2 Of note, we recently showed that 4 years before the onset of the illness, various features can be predictive of manifest bipolar disorder, and suicidality is the main one (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0 ∑82, 95% CI 0 ∑75—0 ∑88).3 It is known that major depression is usually the first manifestation of bipolar disorder (appendix). When bipolar disorder is the underlying disorder, antidepressants might trigger full-fledged bipolar disorder and worsen the course…
(2023-06-24). Correspondence] Treatments for major depression — Authors' reply. thelancet.com Alain Braillon and colleagues outline several judgements about novel treatments for depression and argue that treatment-resistant depression does not have reliable research criteria. Although we are aware of the debate concerning multiple treatment-resistant depression1 definitions, their specificity, and precision, we used the widely accepted definition of not responding to at least two treatments that is consistent with approximately 50% of definitions that are used in the literature.2 We believe this was a pragmatic and reasonable choice, as the alternative is to not investigate therapy for people who have not…
(2023-06-22). Gail Walker arrested after trying to meet Senator Bob Menendez. plenglish.com Washington, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Several activists with the National Network on Cuba, CODEPINK, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace were arrested on Thursday after trying to have a meeting with New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez in his office in Washington, DC. Activists were attempting to meet with Menendez to urge him to lift the US blockade against Cuba and take Cuba off the US's State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
(2023-06-23). Four Civilians Killed In Drone Attacks On Hama, Lattakia In Western Syria (Photos). southfront.org 
File image. | Four civilians were killed in two separate attacks with armed drones that targeted towns in the western Syrian governorates of Hama and Lattakia. | The town of Salhab in the western Hama countryside was bombarded by a drone on June 22 afternoon. The attack claimed the lives of a woman and two children. At least two other civilians were wounded. Material losses were also reported. | On June 23 morning, a similar drone attack targeted al-Qardahah in the northern Lattakia countryside, the ho…
(2023-06-23). "It's also time for weapons": Germany's Protestant church assembly under the shadow of war. wsws.org High-ranking representatives of the state, the government and the Bundeswehr (armed forces) were given a platform in Nuremberg to oppose the prevailing anti-war sentiment and to convince the population to embrace the official course of war.
(2023-06-23). Western Weapons Supplied To Ukraine Has Already Surfaced Near Israel's Border: Netanyahu. southfront.org 
Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with U.S.-made Javelin missiles during military exercises in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on December 23, 2021. Photo: Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service. | Weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine have already surfaced near Israel's border, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post newspaper in an interview that was published on June 22. | Answering questions on his government stance with regard to providing military…
(2023-06-23). Scott Ritter joins on Ukraine's failing offensive and NATO's End Game (we're back!). thealtworld.com The channel is BACK from vacation with special return guest and former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter to discuss the latest in the Ukraine conflict and geopolitics!
(2023-06-22). Gail Walker arrested after trying to meet Senator Bob Menendez. plenglish.com Washington, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Several activists with the National Network on Cuba, CODEPINK, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace were arrested on Thursday after trying to have a meeting with New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez in his office in Washington, DC. Activists were attempting to meet with Menendez to urge him to lift the US blockade against Cuba and take Cuba off the US's State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
(2023-06-23). Four Civilians Killed In Drone Attacks On Hama, Lattakia In Western Syria (Photos). southfront.org File image. | Four civilians were killed in two separate attacks with armed drones that targeted towns in the western Syrian governorates of Hama and Lattakia. | The town of Salhab in the western Hama countryside was bombarded by a drone on June 22 afternoon. The attack claimed the lives of a woman and two children. At least two other civilians were wounded. Material losses were also reported. | On June 23 morning, a similar drone attack targeted al-Qardahah in the northern Lattakia countryside, the ho…
(2023-06-23). "It's also time for weapons": Germany's Protestant church assembly under the shadow of war. wsws.org High-ranking representatives of the state, the government and the Bundeswehr (armed forces) were given a platform in Nuremberg to oppose the prevailing anti-war sentiment and to convince the population to embrace the official course of war.
(2023-06-23). Western Weapons Supplied To Ukraine Has Already Surfaced Near Israel's Border: Netanyahu. southfront.org Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with U.S.-made Javelin missiles during military exercises in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on December 23, 2021. Photo: Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service. | Weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine have already surfaced near Israel's border, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post newspaper in an interview that was published on June 22. | Answering questions on his government stance with regard to providing military…
(2023-06-23). Scott Ritter joins on Ukraine's failing offensive and NATO's End Game (we're back!). thealtworld.com The channel is BACK from vacation with special return guest and former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter to discuss the latest in the Ukraine conflict and geopolitics!
(2023-06-22). More Weapons Go to Ukraine but What Will it Do With Those? libya360.wordpress.com Moon of Alabama Ukraine's counter-offensive has failed and it has no chance of a victory in the war. Its best possibility to still sustain for a while is to now build several new defense lines and to pull back to those. Instead it is continuing to attack on too many fronts with little gains and large losses. Yesterday the…
(2023-06-22). Scott Ritter: On Horseradish & Nuclear War. scheerpost.com 
When Vladimir Putin was recently asked about the potential use of nuclear weapons in the context of Ukraine, an understanding of back-alley Russian slang was needed to understand his response.
(2023-06-22). Ukrainian counteroffensive falters amid mass casualties. wsws.org Despite billions of dollars in weapons and training, Ukraine's vaunted counteroffensive continues to falter as tens of thousands of soldiers are sent to their deaths.