2021-06-09: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-06-09). Stop the censorship of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones! wsws.org Jones's suspension from Twitter comes less than 10 days after she was officially designated as a whistleblower by the state of Florida.

Caitlin Johnstone (2021-06-09). Mainstream Politics Offer Pretend Revolutions to a Discontented Public. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Jun 7, 2021 | In 2008 the American public was fed up with the disastrous status quo politics of George W Bush, so they came together and elected a progressive candidate who campaigned on hope and change to replace him. | But no progress happened; the hope and change never came. Barack Obama continued and expanded all of his predecessor's most depraved policies at home and abroad, and it wasn't long before the initial elation wore off and the illusion that things were looking up evaporated. It was as if Bush had never left office. | Worn out and disgusted by crushing neoliberal policies…

Anonymous669 (2021-06-09). Landmine Blast Killed Russian Service Member, Injured Others In Northeastern Syria (Video). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Hawar News Agency (ANHA). | On June 9, a Russian service member was killed and three others were wounded in a landmine blast in northeastern Syria. | The incident took place near the Turkish-occupied village of al-Assadiyah in northern al-Hasakah. A Russian military unit was patrolling the frontline separating Turkish forces from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) when one of its vehicle was hit by the landmine. | According to the Hawar News Agency, the body of the Russian service me…

Anonymous669 (2021-06-09). Landmine Blast Killed Russian Service Member, Injured Others In Northeastern Syria (Video). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Hawar News Agency (ANHA). | On June 9, a Russian service member was killed and three others were wounded in a landmine blast in northeastern Syria. | The incident took place near the Turkish-occupied village of al-Assadiyah in northern al-Hasakah. A Russian military unit was patrolling the frontline separating Turkish forces from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) when one of its vehicles was hit by the landmine. | According to the Hawar News Agency, the body of the Russian service m…

Cesar Chelala (2021-06-09). It's Not Only Guns, It's Also The Culture. counterpunch.org Unrelenting mass shootings in the United States show that present gun laws are ineffective to stem the increasing tide of gun deaths in the country. Although controlling gun sales is important, it is not sufficient to control gun violence in the country. Violence is not only the result of gun ownership. Violence is multifaceted and

Michael Snyder (2021-06-09). Over 90% of the News You See on Television Is Owned and Controlled by Just 5 Giant Corporations. globalresearch.ca The way that …

Stop "New Day" Fake News Campaign (2021-06-09). Lying Does Not "Nurture" Relationships! Pacifica New Day Fake News Tactics. indybay.org The Pacifica "New Day" faction put out fake news that Jane Fonda had endorsed their corporate bylaw proposal. They were caught in a lie which was answered by the Pacifica Counsel. These tactics have been supported by their KPFA on air hosts who have used their names and credibility to put out fake news. | They also engaged in red baiting tactics by charging that Pacifica has been taken over by the Green Party and Workers World Party.

David Swanson (2021-06-08). Talk World Radio: Alexandra Klein on Ending the Death Penalty. warisacrime.org Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube. This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing that barbaric vestige of uncontrollable ignorance and sadism, capital punishment. Our guest is Alexandra Klein. Professor Alexandra Klein researches and teaches in the area of …

_____ (2021-06-08). Mainstream Politics Offer Pretend Revolutions To A Discontented Public. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | In 2008 the American public was fed up with the disastrous status quo politics of George W Bush, so they came together and elected a progressive candidate who campaigned on hope and change to replace him. | But no progress happened; the hope and change never came. Barack Obama continued and expanded all of his predecessor's most depraved policies at home and abroad, and it wasn't long before the initial elation wore off and the illusion that things were looking up evaporated. It was as if Bush had never left office. | Worn out and disgusted by crushing neoliberal policies at home and murder…

_____ (2021-06-08). Mainstream Politics Offer Pretend Revolutions To A Discontented Public. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | But no progress happened; the hope and change never came. Barack Obama continued and expanded all of his predecessor's most depraved policies at home and abroad, and it wasn't long before the initial elation wore off and the illusion that things were looking up evaporated. It was as if Bush had never left office. | Worn out and disgusted by crushing neoliberal policies at home and murderous neoconservative policies abroad, Americans elected a political neophyte who ran on a populist platform which criticized both Bush and Obama. Trump promised to "drain the swamp", end the wars, and fight t…

WSWS (2021-06-08). Twitter censors account of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones. wsws.org Jones has been censored because she has been one of the most forthright and well-known opponents of the homicidal policy of herd immunity—dubbed "social murder" by the British medical journal BMJ—promoted by Florida Governor DeSantis and former President Donald Trump.

Dan Dinello (2021-06-08). Jim Crow and "Lost Cause" 2.0: Trump's Big Lie and GOP Plot to Suppress the Vote. juancole.com Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) — Big Lie propaganda, that the 2020 election was stolen, rewrites history and fuels the current Republican war on democracy. Similarly, Confederate Lost Cause propaganda incited a wave of anti-democratic laws and rewrote the history of the Civil War by asserting that slavery did not cause the War and that …

_____ (2021-06-08). Resistance And Aid. popularresistance.org In the villages, cities and regions of Rojava, in the predominantly Kurdish north east of Syria, political upheaval has resulted in the largely decentralised self-administration of many areas, including health, economy, law, education and internal security. The Rojava revolution led to both the secularisation and democratisation of institutions that had, until then, been controlled by an elitist-centralist national state. But what exactly does this mean? How is Rojava's decentralisation expressed in everyday life? Located in north eastern Rojava, Amûdê County demonstrates what decentralisation and self-administra…

Stop "New Day" Fake News Campaign (2021-06-08). Lying Does Not "Nurture" Relationships! Pacifica New Day Fake News Tactics. indybay.org The Pacifica "New Day" faction put out fake news that Jane Fonda had endorsed their corporate bylaw proposal. They were caught in a lie which was answered by the Pacifica Counsel. These tactics have been supported by their KPFA on air hosts who have used their names and credibility to put out fake news. | They also engaged in red baiting tactics by charging that Pacifica has been taken over by the Green Party and Workers World Party.

David Perlman, Ashly Jordan (2021-06-08). Why We Should Abolish the Senate. counterpunch.org While mainstream media focus on issues related to 'bipartisanship' in the United States Senate, and on issues of Senate procedures such as decisions to use or allow use of the filibuster, or supermajority requirements for bill passage or bill consideration, they ignore a more fundamental issue: the deliberate choice to have both a Senate and

WSWS (2021-06-08). German trade unions support destruction of jobs and worksite closures at Lufthansa Technik. wsws.org Lufthansa Technik GmbH, a subsidiary controlled 100 percent by Lufthansa, plans to close its worksites in Bremen, Dàºsseldorf, Hannover, and Leipzig, while the closure of sites in Hamburg and Frankfurt is taking place in stages.

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