2021-06-27: News Headlines

Staff (2021-06-27). US and European Union Blockade on Venezuela Is Collapsing: Here is Some Evidence. orinocotribune.com The recent change in discourse by Juan Guaidó, affirming that he now aspires to negotiations with the Venezuelan government, seems to have its root in the United States that may be thinking about reversing some sanctions, just as President Nicolás Maduro had asserted a few days ago. And once again the administration of Joe Biden is urging for broad negotiations with specific deadlines to be carried out so that "in Venezuela there are free and fair elections." This was stated on Thursday, June 24, by Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of the US State Department. | Sherman's post on her social media, carrying this messa…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-27). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 vaccination rates stalling, infections from the delta variant rising. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Summer and fall are going to be a dangerous time for people in the U.S. who have not been vaccinated for COVID-19, according to Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "I really think this exponential rise in the number of sequences that are delta must be taken …

Anonymous669 (2021-06-27). US Combat Drone Caught Flying Over ISIS Stronghold In Central Syria (Video). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. | US MQ-9 Reaper combat drones are flying over Syria's central region where Syrian government forces have been combating ISIS with support from the Russian Aerospace Forces, According to the Russian news outlet, US combat drones are flying over the region, in violation of the deconfliction mechanism with Russia, in order to carry out suspicious intelligence activities. The outlet shared a video showing one of the drones a…

Anonymous669 (2021-06-27). Struggle For Power In Greater Idlib: Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham To Expel Senior Chechen Leader. southfront.org Muslim Abu Walid al-Shishani while leading an offensive in northern Lattakia in 2014. | Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has asked senior Chechen leader Muslim Abu Walid al-Shishani to join its ranks or leave the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib along with its militants within a month, several Syrian opposition sources reported on June 27. | Al-Shishani, whose real name is Murad Iraklievich Margoshvili, is a Georgian citizen. He reportedly fought against Russian government…

Anonymous007 (2021-06-27). Military Situation In Donetsk People's Republic On June 27, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | 1. UAF in Pesky shelled DPR positions in Veseloe with 120-mm artillery | 2. UAF in Pesky shelled DPR positions in Donetsk city with 120-mm artillery | 3. UAF in Krasnogorovka shelled DPR positions in Staromikhailovka with 120-mm artillery | 4. UAF in Granitnoe shelled DPR positions in Novaya Marievka with 120-mm artillery | 5. UAF in Vodyanoe shelled DPR positions in Leninskoe with 120-mm artillery | 6. UAF in Talakovka shelled DPR positions in Zaichenko wit…

Anonymous007 (2021-06-27). Military Situation In Syria On June 27, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On June 26, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 36 times: 22 — in Idlib province, 7 — in Latakia province, 4 — in Hama province, 3 — in Aleppo province | On June 26, three people were killed by a car bomb attack in Afrin city | On June 26, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SDF positions in Kuzliyah village | On June 26, heavy clashes were reported between the Turkish-backed forces and SDF near…

Moderator (2021-06-27). The Seeds of the Next Nagorno-Karabakh War. scheerpost.com kaurmar / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] By Maj. Danny Sjursen / Antiwar This past September, Turkey and Israel encouraged Azerbaijan's " mini-Stalin" of a strongman to forcefully seize the disputed mountainous patch of Armenian-inhabited Caucasus-earth known as Nagorno-Karabakh. These treaty or decisively de-facto allies, respectively, armed and backed Baku's decision to take what's been called a "frozen… |

Clean Energy Wire (2021-06-27). German Transport Ministry advised that Electric Cars must Dominate new Sales by 2025, eyeing 1 Mn. EVs on Road this Year. juancole.com By Edgar Meza | — Handelsblatt ( Clean Energy Wire ) — Electric cars will need to account for most new registrations in Germany in just four years and the end of new combustion engine cars will have to begin in 2030, says a report by the National Platform Future of Mobility (NPM) for the …

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-27). German envoy on Ukraine joining NATO: everyone afraid of direct war with Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com German envoy on Ukraine joining NATO: everyone afraid of direct war with RussiaRussian Foreign Ministry responds The UKRINFORM website on Saturday featured a brief article on German ambassador to Ukraine, Anka Feldhusen, discussing the prospects of her host country becoming a NATO member. Feldhusen has an extensive tenure in the country, having been attached to …

Relative of Seth (2021-06-27). Germany Axis Alert Puzzle. indybay.org Since Sig Sauer was spotted in India more information about the Axis appear in Internet which analyses who were involved inside SS at 2nd World War. I just quoted some "random" rare puzzle pieces to inform…

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-27). The iron fist is in place: Azerbaijan's war. An historical parallel. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The iron fist is in place: Azerbaijan's war. An historical parallel. "We are the winning country. We have destroyed Armenia." On June 26, president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev gave an address on his nation's Armed Forces Day that in terms of tone and content can't help inviting comparison to the speeches of a national leader …

Staff (2021-06-26). Join the Twitterstorm now! #IsraelApartheidNation stop sports-washing colonialism at #TDF2021. samidoun.net Read the original French call to action at Collectif Palestine Vaincra. From June 26 to July 18, the 2021 edition of the Tour de France welcomes an Israeli team called "Israel Start-Up Nation" . Supported by the pro-Israeli far right, the participation of this team in one of the biggest sports competitions in the world serves a clear objective: to promote and normalize Israeli apartheid. Faced with this blatant attempt to sports-wash Israeli crimes, many organizations are mobilizing and calling for a twitterstorm on Saturday June 26 at 12 p.m. using the hashtags #IsraelApartheidNation and #TDF2021! Dégageons Isra…

Staff (2021-06-26). Join the Twitterstorm now! #IsraelApartheidNation stop sports-washing colonialism at #TDF2021. samidoun.net Read the original French call to action at Collectif Palestine Vaincra. From June 26 to July 18, the 2021 edition of the Tour de France welcomes an Israeli team called "Israel Start-Up Nation" . Supported by the pro-Israeli far right, the participation of this team in one of the biggest sports competitions in the world serves a clear objective: to promote and normalize Israeli apartheid. Faced with this blatant attempt to sports-wash Israeli crimes, many organizations are mobilizing and calling for a twitterstorm on Saturday June 26 at 12 p.m. using the hashtags #IsraelApartheidNation and #TDF2021! twitte

Staff (2021-06-26). Final Declaration of ALBA-TCP's 19th Summit for Heads of State & Government: Unity, Fair Vaccine Distribution & Opposition to Illegal Sanctions. orinocotribune.com The Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, read the Final Declaration of the 19th Summit of Heads of State and Government, repudiating the aggressive and coercive measures exercised by the United States and Europe, advocating for a fair distribution of vaccines and medical supplies to combat COVID-19, and supporting and promoting respect for the sovereignty and the unity processes of the countries that make up ALBA-TCP, among other issues. | The document was put to a vote and was approved by the delegations present. Llorenti…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-26). Final Declaration of ALBA-TCP's 19th Summit for Heads of State & Government: Unity, Fair Vaccine Distribution & Opposition to Illegal Sanctions. libya360.wordpress.com The Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, read the Final Declaration of the 19th Summit of Heads of State and Government, repudiating the aggressive and coercive measures exercised by the United States and Europe, advocating for a fair distribution of vaccines and medical supplies…

Staff (2021-06-26). 26 June, Online Event: #Save_Israa event with sister and son of Palestinian prisoner Israa Jaabis (Arabic, Spanish). samidoun.net Saturday, 26 June Online Event (Live translation: Arabic and Spanish) 12 pm Pacific -3 pm Eastern — 9 pm central Europe — 10 pm Palestine Join on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/81577264737 Many people may not know why so many Palestinians are imprisoned in Israeli jails. We must understand that, when living under occupation, any reason or no reason (for example, in the case of administrative detention) may be used to imprison those who fight for their natural, human and political rights. In the Zionist occupation prisons and interrogation rooms, systematic torture is considered routine and legal, espec…

WSWS (2021-06-26). Migrants killed and wounded by far-right attacks in Spain. wsws.org The Socialist Party-Podemos government is politically implicated in the recent upsurge of xenophobic, anti-migrant attacks in Spain.

Geoff Watts (2021-06-26). [Obituary] Ayman Abu Al-Ouf. thelancet.com Leading physician in the Gaza Strip. Born in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, on Aug 19, 1971, he was killed by an air raid on Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestinian territory, on May 16, 2021, aged 49 years.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-26). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 vaccination rates stalling, infections from the delta variant rising. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Summer and fall are going to be a dangerous time for people in the U.S. who have not been vaccinated for COVID-19, according to Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "I really think this exponential rise in the number of sequences that are delta must be taken …

teleSUR (2021-06-26). Iran To Start Production of COVID-19 Sputnik V Vaccine. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, officials from the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced that Iran would be the first country in the Middle East to produce the Russian-developed Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. | RELATED: | "The home-produced Sputnik V vaccine will join the general vaccination campaign next week," Iranian government's spokesman Ali Rabiei said. | Iran's newly elected President Ebrahim Raisi declared that his gov…

Editorial Team (2021-06-26). Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigns. challenge-magazine.org This comes after a disastrous term as Health Secretary which has seen countless scandals as well as Hancock's oversight over the worst handling of COVID-19 in all of Europe, which has now killed over 128,000 people. Nevertheless, the Prime Minister and Conservative Party had continued to back Hancock, refusing to sack the health secretary despite the pressure to do so from the general public.

Editor2 (2021-06-26). Operation Barbarossa: Myths and Reality. orinocotribune.com By Jacques R. Pauwels — Jun 22, 2021 | Eighty years ago, June 22, 1941: Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa, the attack against the Soviet Union… War against the Soviet Union was what Hitler had wanted from the beginning. He had already made this very clear in the pages of Mein Kampf, written in the mid-1920s. As a German historian, Rolf-Dieter Màºller, has convincingly demonstrated in a well-documented study, it was a war against the Soviet Union, and not against Poland, France, or Britain, that Hitler was planning to unleash in 1939. On August 11 of that year, Hitler explained to Carl J. Burckhardt…

Staff (2021-06-26). CNE: European Union Technical Mission to Arrive in Venezuela on July 6. orinocotribune.com A technical mission to evaluate the participation of electoral observers from the European Union for the November 21 mega-elections will arrive in Venezuela on July 6, reported the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) through a post on its Twitter account. | "The European Union informed the #CNE of the arrival of an exploratory mission on July 6, 2021," stated…

teleSUR (2021-06-26). European Union To Observe Venezuela's Subnational Elections. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Chargé d'affaires of the European Union (EU) to Venezuela Duccio Bandini confirmed an exploratory mission to assess European electoral observation in the subnational elections to take place on Nov. 21. | RELATED: | National Electoral Council (CNE) President Pedro Calzadilla informed that seven officials would integrate the mission, which will visit the South American country from July 6 until July.

ecns.cn (2021-06-26). Sino-Russian experts hold webinar to mark CPC's 100 years. ecns.cn A webinar to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held in Beijing on June 24. Experts from China and Russia interpreted the successful experience of the CPC's development, expansion and its historic contribution to the development of China and to the world.

Global Voices (2021-06-26). Turkey's Night of the Living Sea Snot: Global Heating, Industrial Pollution Endanger Marmara Sea. juancole.com By Doga Celik | — ( GlobalVoices.org ) — The Marmara Sea is a pristine body of water, extending from the Dardanelles Strait to the Bosphorus. Since late May, the Marmara sea has been making international headlines for an unfortunate reason. 'Sea snot' and its causes A slimy, organic foam named "sea snot", officially known …

teleSUR (2021-06-26). European Leaders Strongly Reject Hungarian PM's Anti-LGTBIQ Law. telesurenglish.net On Friday, European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen considered starting a violation claim against the widely criticized LGTBIQ+ harming law passed by Hungary's Parliament. | RELATED: | Von der Leyen added she had sent several letters to Budapest expressing her concern since the measure violates LGBTIQ+ community rights and European values. | EC President's statements came after 17 Heads of State and Government signed…

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-26). Kosovo in Crimea: Ukraine, Turkey exploit Tatar genocide charge against Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kosovo in Crimea: Ukraine, Turkey exploit Tatar genocide charge against Russia The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry marked the annual Crimean Tatar National Flag Day (initiated in 2010) with a denunciation of Russia's alleged occupation of Crimea as would have been expected. The government in Kiev inevitably refers to the peninsula as temporarily occupied Crimea and regularly …

WSWS (2021-06-26). Divisions over Russia policy erupt inside EU at Brussels summit. wsws.org After British and Russian forces nearly clashed in Black Sea waters off the Russian coast, bitter conflicts over relations with Russia erupted at the EU summit in Brussels.

Frances Moore Lappé, Richard R. Rowe (2021-06-26). The Real Fraud: Republicans' Voter-Fraud Scare. commondreams.org Setting the record straight is our duty to democracy itself.

Relative of Seth (2021-06-26). Germany Axis Alert Puzzle. indybay.org Since Sig Sauer was spotted in India more information about the Axis appear in Internet which analyses who were involved inside SS at 2nd World War. I just quoted some "random" rare puzzle pieces to inform…

Molly Shah (2021-06-26). Gorillas workers in Germany launch a wildcat strike. zcomm.org German delivery startup Gorillas touts its employee benefits and non-exploitative workplace. But its workers have found that employee status doesn't automatically protect them from the perils of the gig economy…

DW (2021-06-26). Greece: Unions launch general strike against labor reforms. zcomm.org Workers' organizations have called for rejection of a controversial bill that they fear will dismantle the eight-hour work day. Demonstrations are planned across the country…

Nick Cunningham (2021-06-26). 'Massive' methane leaks found coming from oil and gas sites in Europe. nationofchange.org It is at these sites—storage tanks, pipelines, liquefied natural gas import terminals—where methane is leaking in large volumes.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-26). Workers across Italy protest killing of trade union leader Adil Belakdhim. peoplesdispatch.org Adil Belakdhim was killed when a truck ran into a picket line of protesting logistics workers on June 18. Si Cobas, the union to which he belonged, has termed it the culmination of attacks on workers across the country…

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-26). Defense minister, military chiefs: Turkey has killed, "neutralized"over 18,000 Kurds in six years. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Defense minister, military chiefs: Turkey has killed, "neutralized"over 18,000 Kurds in six years Turkey's defense minister, Hulusi Akar, recently toured a military base in his nation's southeast where most of Turkey's 20 million Kurds live. He was joined at the base in Malatya by the chiefs of the three main branches of Turkey's armed forces: …

WSWS (2021-06-26). Turkish TPI workers sacked after rebelling against union-backed contract. wsws.org Anger erupted among workers at TPI Composites factories in Turkey, which employ some 3,800 workers, after the union imposed a pro-company contract.

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-26). NATO openly identifies Russia as target of impending Black Sea war games. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO openly identifies Russia as target of impending Black Sea war games NATO's military arm, Supreme Headquarters Allied Command Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium (marking its 70th anniversary this year), issued a press release on the Sea Breeze war games that will begin in the Black Sea on June 28. Coming as they do immediately …

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