(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…
(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…
(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
(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/…
(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
(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.
(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…
(2024-06-25). European financial institutions invest billions in arms companies that sell weapons to Israel. fidh.org
(2024-06-25). BlackRock — No Compromise with Evil. Allied to Israel's Weapons Industry. globalresearch.ca
(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…
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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…
(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 …
(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…
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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"&…
(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.
(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.
(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: …
(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 
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.