(2024-06-29). UK: Gaza fuels election anger. presstv.ir Britain's tightly controlled political system is facing new challenges from independent candidates, especially in light of the country's ongoing support for the genocide in Gaza.
(2024-06-29). Hundreds Of Kenyan Police Arrive In Port-Au-Prince. popularresistance.org 400 Kenyan police officers arrived on June 25 in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. The deployment of 600 more is expected to follow in the coming days and weeks. The arrival of the Kenyan police force was authorized by the United Nations Security Council, which last year approved the dispatch of foreign law enforcement forces to the Caribbean country. The dispatch occurred the same day that Kenyan police killed eight protesters in Kenya who were protesting the unpopular neoliberal Finance Bill 2024. | The armed mission in Haiti supposedly to stop the advance of gangs, which in recent months have controlled, accord…
(2024-06-29). Glenn Greenwald: SCOTUS Protects Biden Administration's Social Media Censorship Program. scheerpost.com
(2024-06-29). Australia: University of Melbourne threatens about 20 pro-Palestinian students with disciplinary action. wsws.org The move is the latest in a series of coordinated attacks by university managements, the corporate media and the political establishment in Australia against the rights to protest and freedom of expression of students on campus.
(2024-06-29). ANC's crushing electoral defeat: A nightmare of coalitions, splits and neoliberal crisis. links.org.au Gunnett Kaaf — Voters have rejected the ANC, but other mainstream parties are not viable alternatives to exit the neoliberal crisis. That's why South Africa is in the throes of a deepening political and social crisis.
(2024-06-29). Perspectives] Illness politics and social media mobilisation. thelancet.com Stories are circulating widely in mainstream media and on social media about Joe Biden's age and his capacity to handle the demands of the US presidency. This discussion of Biden's age is not new and connects to a phenomenon I call illness politics—the way illness and disability figure in both mainstream and more radical politics. For a 2023 cover of The New Yorker magazine, for example, cartoonist Barry Blitt created an image entitled The Race for Office that portrayed Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump in a footrace with each other.