Monthly Archives: June 2024

2024-06-25: News Headlines

Robert Inlakesh (2024-06-25). Media Claims of Hezbollah Weapons at Beirut Airport Echo Gaza Reports. mintpressnews.com On Sunday, The Telegraph published an article alleging that whistleblowers had informed them that Hezbollah was storing a range of missiles and explosives at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon. The report attempted to link this claim to the catastrophic Beirut Port explosion in 2020. | However, the British media outlet has since retracted the original article and replaced it with another piece that covers Lebanese refutations of the allegations. | An article published by The Telegraph, claiming it had acquired knowledge from unnamed sources about the presence of Iranian-made weapons being s…

Lewis Raven Wallace, Truthout. (2024-06-25). Queer Activists Are Making BDS A Key Question Of Pride This Year. popularresistance.org Every June, as rainbow boas and blue and pink banners unfurl, and jello shots and plastic cups of light beer tumble onto the streets, borne by tens of thousands of happy gays, a cultural battle ensues. Pride season is here, and everyone is pissed. | On one side of the battle, you have the corporate gays, the nonprofit-industrial complex of LGBTQ organizations, the glitzy and boozy Pride parades and parties, and the representation of gay and trans identity as a fully assimilated, capitalism-compatible lifestyle. | On the other, you have all of us who recognize that Pride emerged from a legacy of anti-police uprisi…

Gerry Condon (2024-06-25). Veteran's Trial Will Highlight Weapons Manufacturers' Complicity in Gaza Genocide. counterpunch.org This Wednesday, June 26, Jack Gilroy, an 89-year-old veteran, will tell a court in Endicott, New York why he was compelled to deliver a letter to weapons manufacturer BAE Systems, protesting their weapons shipments to Israel, and why he should not be convicted of trespassing. "This case is not about trespass," said Jack Gilroy, who

bwitanek (2024-06-25). Protected Speech Slate-of-80 Moves Forward — Two Dozen on Board Already — As NJ Senate Loads Ammunition into Weapons of War on NJ Citizens and Residents Via Repressive Legislation Mandating Loyalty to Israel's Genocide. fightbackbetter.com Editor's Update — Two dozen respondents have already expressed interest in joining the slate. This effort is entirely do-able! paccusa/…

CounterPunch News Service (2024-06-25). Veteran's Trial to Highlight BAE Systems, Inc. Complicity in Genocide. counterpunch.org ENDICOTT, NY — On Wednesday, June 26, 2 pm, in Endicott Village Court, 225 Jefferson Avenue, Jack Gilroy, an 89-year-old former machine gunner in occupied Austria, will tell the court why he was compelled to deliver a letter to weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, and should not be convicted of trespass. Gilroy, a member of Veterans For Peace

infobrics (2024-06-25). Russia should immediately start shooting down all NATO ISR assets. infobrics.org In order to avoid immediate escalation, Moscow could first down the USAF's Northrop Grumman RQ-4B "Global Hawk" and its naval version, the MQ-4C "Triton". This could serve as a warning shot, followed by manned aircraft such as the US Navy's Boeing P-8A "Poseidon" in case the war criminals in Washington DC refuse to back down and stop with their terrorist attacks. While it may seem like an extreme measure, when dealing with entities that freely use terrorism as a military tactic, then they should be treated precisely as terrorists and given no quarter.

Staff (2024-06-25). Journalist Antony Loewenstein on Assange's Release, WikiLeaks & Israeli Drones Killing Gaza Reporters. democracynow.org We discuss the plea deal and release of Julian Assange with Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein, and the reaction in Assange's home country of Australia to his release and WikiLeaks's legacy, which he says helped open the door to whistleblowers and leakers in the era of digital journalism. Loewenstein, the author of The Palestine Laboratory, also discusses the state of press freedom in Israel's war on Gaza. The Israeli military doesn't view Palestinian journalists as journalists, he argues. Instead, it views them as "akin to terrorists" to justify its targeting of them, an…

Lucia Posteraro (2024-06-25). European financial institutions invest billions in arms companies that sell weapons to Israel. fidh.org

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar (2024-06-25). BlackRock — No Compromise with Evil. Allied to Israel's Weapons Industry. globalresearch.ca

Democracy Now! (2024-06-25). Democracy Now! 2024-06-25 Tuesday. democracynow.org Headlines for June 25, 2024; Julian Assange Is Free: WikiLeaks Founder's Brother Gabriel Shipton on End of Decadelong Legal Saga; Press Freedom Advocates Celebrate Julian Assange's Release, But Warn of Impact of Plea Deal; Journalist Antony Loewenstein on Assange's Release, WikiLeaks & Israeli Drones Killing Gaza Reporters; NYC Congestion Pricing: Advocates Slam NY Gov for Halting Plan to Reduce Emissions, Fund Mass Transit | Headlines for June 25, 2024; Julian Assange Is Free: WikiLeaks Founder's Brother Gabriel Shipton on End of Decadelong Legal Saga; Press Freedom Advocates Celebrate Juli…

Editor (2024-06-25). Jun 25, 2024. sitrepworld.info This Song Will Lift Your Spirit | Oceans — Hillsong United Julian Assange Is Free! by Joe Lauria 'Draft Notice' from the Shop of Horrors, by Dennis Kucinich Here It Comes, by James Howard Kunstler Putin's "war" to re-shape the American Zeitgeist, by Alastair Crooke Bring Back Capitalism !?, by Matt Taibbi Stumbling Into Ruin: Reflections on senescence, amnesia, and war, by John Leake Belief in eternal progress has been a driving element of liberalism for generations, by eugyppius We're all buying more nukes. Here are the five main reasons why, by Martin Jay American Pravda: JFK, LB…

Rhoda Wilson (2024-06-25). The overhyped threat of a human bird flu pandemic is a hoax to "reset" our food system. expose-news.com If the bird flu were to suddenly be transmissible from person to person, there would be every reason to suspect gain-of-function bioweapons research. But, all the hype about whether the bird flu …

El Frente (2024-06-25). Germany — Protest/US military base. pressenza.com European demonstrators have gathered in a German city to demand the closure of the US military base at Ramstein. | Protesters from Germany, Austria and France gathered in the southwestern German city of Kaiserslautern on Saturday to demand the closure of the US Air Force's Ramstein air base and to call on Western countries to seek non-violent solutions to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. | Protestor Mona Aranea said: "The permission that NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Alliance) states are giving to Ukraine to attack Russian targets in Russia with NATO weapons, with weapons sent from Germany, from the…

themoscowtimes (2024-06-25). Elderly Woman Killed in Ukrainian Drone Strikes on Western Russia, Officials Say. themoscowtimes.com Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defense forces downed or intercepted 29 Ukrainian drones over the southwestern Belgorod region.

WSWS (2024-06-25). An actor of the anti-establishment, Donald Sutherland, dies aged 88. wsws.org Unlike Jane Fonda, who has done everything in her power to make the public forget her onetime radical days and views, Sutherland retained a general hostility to capitalism until his death.

Prabhat Patnaik (2024-06-25). AI and employment. mronline.org This problem, it must be noted, relates exclusively to the application of AI under capitalist conditions; but, capitalism being the reality over much of the world, the threat of AI to the working people remains extremely serious.

newleftreview (2024-06-25). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Editor (2024-06-25). Cuba tells the United States there is only one Cuba. mronline.org Far from being a sign of the U.S. government softening its economic and financial siege on Cuba and contributing to help Cuba's private sector, this new policy attempts to destroy the core of the ideological makeup of Cuban socialism.

ecns.cn (2024-06-25). (W.E. Talk) How to meet the challenges posed by AI using Marxism views. ecns.cn In the latest W.E. Talk with China News Service, Xu Feng, deputy director of the United Front Theory Department at the Central Institute of Socialism, said that the answer to the question of whether there will be an emergence of autonomous consciousness as a result of AI's autonomous learning is still controversial, and the standards and criteria for examining it are varied.In his opinion, there is still a high probability that humankind will be able to control AI as much as possible and make it work for humankind and will not rapidly go in the direction of alienation and dissimulation."ÄÄ"&…

aljazeera (2024-06-25). 'Britain's on its knees': The broken UK town backing Nigel Farage. aljazeera.com Clacton, with high unemployment and low immigration, looks set to finally deliver the right-wing populist to parliament.

| Peter Boyle | (2024-06-25). Why ecosocialism is not just a good idea but a necessity. socialist-alliance.org As the climate emergency and extinction crises deepen, there is no choice but to struggle to democratise the economy so that it can be made to serve social needs and ecological sustainability. Peter Boyle reports.

english.almanar.com.lb (2024-06-25). Hezbollah Drones Strike Israeli Brigade Headquarters of 91st Division in Nahal Gershom Area. english.almanar.com.lb In solidarity with the people of occupied Palestine and the resistance in the Gaza Strip and amidst Zionist aggression on several villages in South Lebanon, the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon persistently targeted on Tuesday Israeli occupation soldiers and sites near the Lebanese-Palestinian borders. Hezbollah's Military Media released consecutive statements outlining the attacks and their outcomes: …

english.almanar.com.lb (2024-06-25). Islamic Resistance launched an air attack with a squadron of suicide drones on one of the headquarters of the 91st Division in the Nahal Gershom area, targeting the locations of the enemy's officers and soldiers, which led to a number of injuries and a fire outbreak: statement. english.almanar.com.lb

presstv.ir (2024-06-25). Hezbollah: All sensitive Israeli targets within range; Tel Aviv seeks to make up for losses. presstv.ir Hezbollah says waging war on Lebanon will not help the Israeli regime make up for its defeats.

presstv.ir (2024-06-25). Russia downs dozens of Ukrainian drones. presstv.ir Russia says its forces have shot down 30 drones fired by Ukraine over border regions between the two countries, amid reports of casualties.

presstv.ir (2024-06-25). Lebanon to sue UK's Telegraph for 'ridiculous' report against Hezbollah. presstv.ir Lebanon vows to sue British daily The Telegraph over a media report alleging Hezbollah is storing weapons at Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport.

hindustantimes (2024-06-25). As Israel Fails With Brute Force, New Plan To Kill Hamas War Leaders? Main Weapon Man Dead, Says IDF. hindustantimes.com The Israeli Army, on June 24, claimed to have killed a senior Hamas weapons expert. The slain Muhammad Salah was an operative in Hamas' weapons manufacturing headquarters. Salah was reportedly eliminated by an Israeli Air Force aircraft on IDF intel. Separately, IDF added that troops continue to operate in Rafah and Central Gaza. Watch for more.

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2024-06-23: News Headlines

Larry Johnson (2024-06-23). The United States and Ukraine Have a Math Problem. sonar21.com Despite U.S. claims that it will supply Ukraine what it needs to fight the Russians, the math on the U.S. side does not add up. What do I mean? If you calculate what the United States is producing and subtract what Ukraine is using up with daily fires — whether we are talking 155 mm howitzers, ATACMS or Patriot missiles — the United States is falling way short. | Let's take the Patriot missile as one example. In 2010, Lockheed Martin had produced over 10,000 Patriot missiles. Can we agree that this quantity was not held solely by the United States? According to Wikipedia, the United States built…

noemail (2024-06-23). Moscow Mulls Nuclear Timing Amid Rising Threats. devdiscourse.com Moscow may change the timing for use of its nuclear weapons if threats against Russia increase, the RIA state news agency cited Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the Russian lower house's defence committee, as saying on Sunday. The former general's comments follow recent warnings by President Vladimir Putin that Moscow may change its nuclear doctrine, which lays out the conditions in which such weapons could be used.

Staff (2024-06-23). Report: Hezbollah storing Iranian weapons, ammo at Beirut's civil airport. haaretz.com After The Telegraph reported that Hezbollah has been accumulating Iranian weapons at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport, the Israeli army said it would 'have no choice but to respond' if Hezbollah attacks civilians from the site…

Staff (2024-06-23). IDF soldier seriously wounded by drone as Hezbollah targets northern Israel. haaretz.com Hezbollah claims responsibility for drones fired to Upper Galilee ‚ñ Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says 37,598 Palestinians killed in Strip since war started ‚ñ Netanyahu on U.S. withholding arms shipments: 'Main mass stayed behind' ‚ñ IDF says a drone that headed toward Israel from the east was intercepted overnight ‚ñ Israeli solider killed in operational accident in southern Gaza…

Editor (2024-06-23). Jun 23, 2024. sitrepworld.info ùï∞ùñëùñôùñçùñéùñì — The Rains of Castamere Our Rulers Are Literally Driving Us Crazy, by Caitlin Johnstone Ruling Class Finally Awakens to the Reality of America's Decline, by Simplicius Biden Is In Full Denial As He Escalates His Wars, by Philip Giraldi Aearnur's newletter foresees major exposure, crash of Western media scams, by Don Hank SC Editorial: A new multipolar security system based on 'Pax Rossiya' The Role of…

ecns.cn (2024-06-23). China freezes, sanctions Lockhead Martin entities. ecns.cn China announced countermeasures on Lockheed Martin's entities and high-level management personnel on Friday, freezing their movable, immovable and other kinds of property.

Dean Baker (2024-06-23). The Washington Post Wants You Think the Economy Is Awful #45,706. cepr.net Even though we have had the longest streak of below 4.0 percent unemployment in 70 years, and real wages are rising, especially at the bottom end of the wage distribution, the major media outlets insist the economy is terrible. The Washington Post is setting the pace with the lead story on its homepage headlined "Millennials …

Alina Ramos Martin (2024-06-23). Defense intercepts 33 Ukrainian drones in four Russian regions. plenglish.com In the statement published Sunday on its official Telegram page, it is specified that most of these unmanned aerial vehicles (28) were intercepted in Bryansk province; two were also shot down in Smolensk province; the same number in Lipetsk; and one in Tula province. | Aleksandr Bogomaz, the governor of Bryansk region, reported that an attempted terrorist attack was perpetrated against this territory on Sunday. | He added that, thanks to the professionalism of the anti-aircraft defense, these attacks did not cause any casualties or destruction, all drones were repelled and all targets were eliminated. | Russian…

Margarita Labarca Goddard (2024-06-23). Biden, Trump or neither? pressenza.com The President of the United States is the most powerful man in the world, I don't think anyone doubts that. Perhaps that status will be short-lived, but for now it is. He is backed by money, weapons, including nuclear weapons, and an economy that affects the rest of the planet. This president can intervene and even invade any country he wants and almost always succeeds. There are a few exceptions, starting with Vietnam, but come on, today it dominates the whole of Europe, which not so long ago was quite autonomous, and now even France grovels before the Yankee president. There is no need to dwell on this subject…

Inter Press Service (2024-06-23). European Nuclear Deterrent a Harebrained Illegal Proposal. pressenza.com It is quite astonishing and clearly insane, that Manfred Weber, the German leader of the European Union's center-right European People's Party, now expected to come in first in the European Parliament election scheduled on June 6-9th, is calling for the EU's own nuclear "deterrent"—arguing that the US-stationed nuclear weapons in five NATO states, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherland, and Turkey, may be inadequate protection for Europe's security should Trump, that great friend of Russia, be elected! | By Alice Slater | There is a total disconnect from reality in the Western world. It is driven by what h…

hindustantimes (2024-06-23). Putin's Rage On Full Display; Destroys Ukraine's Western Arms Warehouses In Missile & Drone Strikes. hindustantimes.com The Russian Army, on June 22, claimed to have attacked Western-supplied air weapon depots in Ukraine. The Russian Defence Ministry said the warehouses, storing western-supplied weapons, were attacked with long-range air and sea-based weapons and drones. The Russian army reportedly also attacked Ukraine's Northeastern city of Kharkiv.

Associated Press (2024-06-23). Ukraine war: US-supplied weapons proving successful inside Russia — 'we can do a lot'. scmp.com Ukrainian forces pushed Russian positions back, and even mounted small offensive actions, after Washington allowed Kyiv to use US-supplied weapons for limited strikes in Russian territory.

newleftreview (2024-06-23). Oliver Eagleton: Stakeholder Capitalism, Again. newleftreview.org Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair's Third Way.

Monthly Review (2024-06-23). Two (wrong) views on Marx, degrowth, and productivism (plus John Bellamy Foster on ecosocialism and degrowth). links.org.au Monthly Review — The myth of Prometheanism in Marx's thought, revived by two opposite extremes on the issue, has resulted in the erection a "Tower of Babel" that threatens to extinguish much that has been achieved by Marxian ecology.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-06-23). Mayo Clinic Minute: Coping with cancer-related fatigue. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org People can experience cancer-related fatigue before, during and after treatments. This is different from the typical tiredness. At times, your arms and legs might feel heavy, making it hard to move. It may be challenging to even get out of bed in the morning. Cancer-related fatigue can take a toll mentally too. It can sometimes lead to depression and other emotional distress. Dr. Touré Barksdale, a Mayo Clinic cancer rehabilitation and palliative medicine specialist, gives…

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