(2024-06-12). Israel launches ground attack on Rafah's Shaboura refugee camp. newarab.com 
The Israeli army reportedly used drones and bombed homes, The New Arab's Arabic-language sister site, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed said, citing eyewitness reports. | Five residential areas have b…
(2024-06-12). The Coming Months of Crazy. davidswanson.org Whether or not Frank Zappa ever really said it, politics is indeed the entertainment division of the military industrial complex. It is the circenses of the panem et circenses, the circuses of the bread and circuses. Audio and video here: davidswanson.org/talk-world-radio-the-coming-months-of-crazy As we normalize genocide, increase the risk of nuclear war, lock in climate collapse, …
(2024-06-12). Headlines for June 12, 2024. democracynow.org Hamas and Islamic Jihad Respond to U.N. Ceasefire Plan, U.N. Inquiry on Gaza Finds Israel Committed War Crimes Including Starvation, Torture and Murder, Israeli Strike on Lebanon Kills Hezbollah Commander, "15,000 Kids Dead Is Not Self-Defense!": Protesters Confront Jake Sullivan over Gaza Assault, Hunter Biden Found Guilty of Three Felony Gun Charges, 49 Drown and 140 Others Feared Lost at Sea as Boat Ferrying Refugees Sinks Off Yemen's Coast, Malawian Vice President Saulos Chilima Confirmed Dead After Plane Crash, Biden Administration Will Allow Arms Shipments to Ukrainian Unit with Neo-Nazi P…
(2024-06-12). UK drones reportedly helping Israel to find Gaza captives. newarab.com 
British and American officials and drones are assisting Israel in efforts to find The official said drones operated by the UK and US have gathered information that Israeli drones haven't been able to, mostly because of the huge numbers of The high numbers of US and UK drones mean that more of the Gaza Strip…
(2024-06-12). Over 1.5 million foreign Muslims arrive in Mecca for Hajj. newarab.com 
Saudi officials say more than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in the country by Tuesday, the vast majority by air, from across the world. | More are expected, and hundreds of thousands of Saudis and…
(2024-06-12). Unemployment in India: Reflective of Demand-Constraint System. orinocotribune.com By Prabhat Patnaik — Jun 8, 2024 | A distinction is drawn in economics between demand-constrained systems and resource-constrained systems (which for simplicity and symmetry we shall call supply-constrained systems). In the former, an increase in output can occur if there is a rise in aggregate demand without causing any scarcity-induced inflation. In the latter, output is constrained either by capacity being fully used up, or by the scarcity of some critical input or of foodgrains or of the labour force, so that a rise in aggregate demand, instead of raising output, simply causes scarcity-induced inflation.
(2024-06-12). Biden Admin Endorses Trump's Saudi Foreign Policy. scheerpost.com 
Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz bumping fists in Jeddah on July 15, 2022. (Saudi Press Agency, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0) By As'ad AbuKhalil / Consortium News Like every president before him, Joe Biden has decided to elevate relations between the U.S. and the Saudis. He is now finalizing a potentially historic …
(2024-06-12). Stoltenberg: NATO Is 'Adapting' Its Nuclear Arsenal to 'Current Security Environment'. news.antiwar.com NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the alliance was discussing the "adaption" of its nuclear arsenal to the "current security environment" amid soaring tensions with Russia. He listed two examples of NATO's "adaptation," the Netherlands acquiring F-35 fighter jets that could drop US nuclear weapons stored in the country and the US modernizing its …
(2024-06-12). Dr. Francis Boyle: Covid injections meet the criteria for biological weapons and weapons of mass destruction. expose-news.com Last week, the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals agreed that mandating covid-19 "vaccines" violates the individual human rights of teachers and other staff of Los Angeles School Unified Districts ("LAUSD"), remanding …
(2024-06-12). SIROTA'S SIGNALS: America's Biggest Ponzi Scheme. levernews.com Where can you find America's biggest and most rapacious Ponzi scheme of all? What stage of capitalism is it when you need a new regulation to ban banks from repossessing prosthetic limbs? How could governments get a two-to-one return on their investments? When will the country take the simplest step possible to improve the electricity grid? The answers to these questions and more can be found below in today's edition of Sirota's Signals, a weekly dose of must-read stories, missed nuggets, and worthwhile distractions from Lever founder David Sirota, exclusively for paid subscribers. | This full story is for p…
(2024-06-12). (VIDEO) Workers, mothers, socialists: How Claudia and Karina became fighters for a new system — PSL roundtable. liberationnews.org 
In this roundtable discussion, Claudia and Karina are joined by Caro Yao, a campaign volunteer and organizer with the PSL, to discuss motherhood under capitalism, the fight against patriarchy and their respective journeys in becoming not only organizers themselves but socialists fighting for revolution in our lifetime.
(2024-06-12). Pride archives: Love and solidarity on tap for Pulse workers in Orlando. peoplesworld.org 
This article is part of the People's World 100th Anniversary Series. Eight years ago, at around 2 a.m. on June 12, 2016, gunman Omar Mateen entered the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando armed with multiple weapons. Once inside, he opened fire, killing 49 people and wounding 53 more. Shortly after arriving at Pulse, which was …
(2024-06-12). U.S. decides to supply weapons directly to Ukraine's fascist Azov Battalion. peoplesworld.org 
Only two weeks ago, the Biden administration lifted its ban on the use of U.S. arms by Ukraine inside of Russia. It also said U.S. troops, under the umbrella of NATO, could even end up directly battling against Russians inside of Ukraine. To add insult to injury this week, the Biden administration has now lifted …
(2024-06-12). US lifts ban on sending weapons to Ukraine's controversial Azov brigade. aljazeera.com Washington says 'no evidence' of abuses in unit, which was originally set up as a volunteer force in 2014.
(2024-06-12). Talk World Radio: The Coming Months of Crazy. davidswanson.org AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube. VIDEO: This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the coming months of crazy. Whether or not Frank Zappa ever really said it, politics is indeed the entertainment division of the military industrial complex. It is …
(2024-06-12). What's Going On?! znetwork.org Capitalism, sexism, racism, and authoritarianism. Four plagues. Each corrupts. Each perverts, robs, and kills.
(2024-06-12). Russia and Belarus begin second stage of tactical nuclear weapons drills. aljazeera.com Moscow says the exercises are a response to 'daily provocations' from the United States and its European allies.
(2024-06-12). President Raisi has died, but the Axis of Resistance lives on! thecommunists.org On 19 May 2024, President Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi of the Islamic Republic of Iran lost his life in a helicopter crash along with several companions, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. We in the CPGB-ML send our deep condolences to the heroic Iranian people on the occasion of this great tragedy, which is all the greater …
(2024-06-12). Malawi announces 21-day mourning for vice president Chilima. independent.co.ug 
LILONGWE, Malawi | Xinhua | Malawi has announced a 21-day mourning period for Vice President Saulos Chilima, who died in a plane crash Monday along with eight others onboard the aircraft. Minister of Information and Digitalization Moses Kunkuyu made the announcement late Tuesday, adding that the remains of the vice president will be accorded state …