Daily Archives: June 29, 2021

2021-06-29: News Headlines

Peter Koenig (2021-06-29). The West's Audacity of Sanctioning: The Latest Case is Belarus. dissidentvoice.org On 23 May 2021 President Lukashenko ordered the Ryanair plane, flying from Athens to Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, carrying his Nazi-schooled threatening opponent and activist Protasevich and his girlfriend, to be diverted to Minsk. He did so after having received a message of a bomb threat on board the plane from the Swiss e-mail provider …

Staff (2021-06-29). Headlines for June 29, 2021. democracynow.org Pacific Northwest's Stifling Heat Breaks All-Time Records for Second Straight Day, Moscow Storms Break Russia's Record-Setting June Heat Wave, Dozens of Youth Climate Activists Arrested at White House Demanding Action on Climate Crisis, "An Overt Political Blockade": Minnesota Police Barricade Line 3 Pipeline Protest Camp, Ethiopia Declares Ceasefire After Separatists Claim Tigray's Capital City , Iranian-Backed Militia Strikes Back After Biden Orders Bombings in Iraq and Syria, Federal Judge Throws Out Antitrust Lawsuits Seeking to Break Up Facebook , Trump Reportedly Asked to Send Coronavirus-Infected Americans…

Peter Koenig (2021-06-29). Radical De-Globalization: Finding Back Our Freedom and Sovereignty: Tyrants Don't Create Tyranny. Your Obedience Does. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on December 14, 2021 | People are waking up. | Art is being applied to protests. As very well demonstrated in Germany the Netherlands and Denmark — see video " …

Jay Janson (2021-06-29). China and Russia Quiet about US Past Genocides and Ongoing Genocide in the Middle East and Africa. dissidentvoice.org The world facing desperate situations of climate change, planetary degradation and nuclear war preparation desperately needs protection from inhumane deceiving war promoting Western media, and from where shall it come if not from the bountiful and powerful two great designated adversaries of the Western powers, China, the world's most populous nation and largest economy, and …

Rep. Ron Paul (2021-06-29). HMS Defender versus the Russian Military: The Danger of Believing Your Own Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-29). 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 …

Staff (2021-06-29). Russia records highest official Covid-19 death toll since start of pandemic, as nation fights sharp rise in cases of Delta variant. rt.com At least 652 people infected with coronavirus have died in Russia within the latest 24-hour recording period, government officials announced Tuesday morning. It marks the country's single most deadly day since the pandemic began. | The Covid-19 operational headquarters reported the grim milestone amid a steep rise in the number of positive tests for the infection over the past fortnight. More than 134,500 people are confirmed to have died with the virus overall since last March. | The largest number of daily deaths were recorded in Moscow, which accounted for 121 of the fatalities. The capital has consistently…

news.un (2021-06-29). Generation Equality: Alongside COVID lies an 'equally horrific pandemic' threatening women. news.un.org As the world grapples unevenly with the effects of COVID-19, "a parallel and equally horrific pandemic" has threatened half the world's population, the UN chief said on Tuesday, in the lead up to the Generation Equality Forum in France.

Anonymous007 (2021-06-29). Classified Documents Left At UK Bus Stop Outline "Thorough" Plan To Sail Through Russian Waters. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The loss and subsequent discovery at a bus stop, of all places, of documents with plans for the passage of the British Navy's Defender destroyer through Russian waters in the Black Sea is a mistake made by a "specific person." | This was stated during the hearings in the British Parliament by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the United Kingdom Jeremy Queen."It looks like it was a mistake. I don't want to talk about something until the results of the inv…

Anonymous007 (2021-06-29). Russia And China To Deepen Cooperation In Hopes Of "Multipolar System Of International Relations" southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On June 28th, a video conference took place place between President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping. | It coincided with the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Russian-Chinese Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation. | The Kremlin clarified that the presidents exchanged congratulations and assessed the current state and prospects for the development of strategic partnership between Russia and China.

Staff (2021-06-29). Sudden death of bitcoin billionaire leaves behind controversial crypto legacy. rt.com One of the world's biggest individual bitcoin holders, Mircea Popescu, has reportedly died in Costa Rica at the age of 41, leading to uncertainty over the $1 billion in cryptocurrency he leaves behind. | The billionaire drowned at Playa Hermosa de Garabito, Puntarenas, in Costa Rica, according to a Spanish-language publication, Popescu, a Romanian entrepreneur and blogger, launched bitcoin securities exchange M…

_____ (2021-06-29). Lessons From The Nation's Black Male Educators. popularresistance.org The place of Black men in higher education, both as students and as educators, has always been precarious—even before the pandemic. A U.S. Department of Education report found in 2016 that Black men made up just 2 percent of the nation's teaching workforce, representing the lowest population group in education. | As the realities of the pandemic set in last year, many school districts in the South were chastised for taking a lackluster approach to ensuring safe reopenings for their students. | For Everton Blair, an educator and the first Black member of the Gwinnett County, Georgia, Board of Education, open…

Patrick Cockburn (2021-06-29). Gunboat Diplomacy will not Revive Britain's Fading Power, Whatever Boris Johnson Thinks. counterpunch.org In the months before the first Gulf War in 1991 my late friend Christopher Hitchens took part in a television encounter in which he demolished the actor Charlton Heston who strongly supported the bombing of Iraq. Hitchens asked Heston to name the countries clockwise starting from Kuwait which shared a common border with Iraq. "Kuwait, Bahrain, Turkey, Russia, Iran," responded Heston, a list which must have come as a big surprise to the Russians and Bahrainis.

South Front (2021-06-29). Video: Syria's Greater Idlib and Al Qaeda Affiliates. globalresearch.ca

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-29). Turkey, Azerbaijan launch live-fire military exercise named after Ataturk. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkey, Azerbaijan launch live-fire military exercise named after AtaturkAs Turkey expands drone sales to NATO membersAnd Russian foreign minister to discuss military cooperation with Turkey Building on the triumphalism following their joint military assault against the small enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh last year, one in which the new Turco-Azeri "one nation, two states" federation with a …

Alex Salmon (2021-06-29). Turkey's invasion of Kurdistan protested. greenleft.org.au Alex Salmon reports on a protest against Turkey's invasion of southern Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) organised by the Kurdish community and supporters in Perth.

WSWS (2021-06-29). NATO begins massive anti-Russian Sea Breeze military exercises. wsws.org The largest ever NATO operation in the Black Sea begins just six days after Russian armed forced fired warning shots and then dropped four bombs in the path of HMS Defender, a British warship that entered Russia's territorial waters off Crimea.

Relative of Seth (2021-06-29). 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…

Staff (2021-06-28). Key Witness in US Case Against Julian Assange Admits to Lying to Get Immunity. truthout.org One of the main witnesses in Julian Assange's extradition case has admitted he made false claims against Assange in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a bombshell revelation that could have a major impact on the WikiLeaks founder's fate. Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if brought to the U.S., where he was indicted for violations of the Espionage Act related to the publication of classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. According to a new article in the Icelandic newspaper Stu…

Staff (2021-06-28). Attorney: U.S. Case Against Julian Assange Falls Apart, as Key Witness Says He Lied to Get Immunity. democracynow.org One of the main witnesses in Julian Assange's extradition case has admitted he made false claims against Assange in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a bombshell revelation that could have a major impact on the WikiLeaks founder's fate. Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if brought to the U.S., where he was indicted for violations of the Espionage Act related to the publication of classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. According to a new article in the Icelandic newspaper Stundin, the convicted hacker Sigurdur "Siggi" Thordarson falsely claimed he was a prominent WikiLeaks representative instru…

WSWS (2021-06-28). Key witness against Assange admits to lying in exchange for US immunity. wsws.org The US indictment against Assange is based on fabrications concocted by American spies and a convicted Icelandic conman and pedophile who functioned as their stool pigeon.

WSWS (2021-06-28). Key witness against Assange admits to lying in exchange for US immunity. wsws.org The US indictment against Assange is based on fabrications concocted by American spies and a convicted Icelandic conman and peodophile who functioned as their stoolpigeon.

Anonymous103 (2021-06-28). Harsh Response From Minsk: Belarus Withdrew From EU's Eastern Partnership, Prepared More Surprises For Brussels. southfront.org Illustrative image: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) and his Belarus' counterpart Alexander Lukashenko walk in as they attend a session of the Supreme State Council of the Union State at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 3, 2015. AFP PHOTO / POOL / SERGEI KARPUKHIN | On June 28, Belarus suspended its participation in the EU's Eastern Partnership initiative, according to the statement by the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. Such a move was a response to the introduction of new sanctions against 78 persons an…

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-28). NATO never held accountable for war crimes in Yugoslavia: Russian Foreign Ministry. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO never held accountable for war crimes in Yugoslavia: Russian Foreign Ministry Both Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova and the Russian government news agency TASS have been bolder in condemning NATO aggression in the past week than in any other time in memory. Recently Zakharova denounced the role of NATO nations in engineering the …

teleSUR (2021-06-28). UN Human Rights Body Urges to "Start Dismantling Racism" telesurenglish.net The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet urged countries on Monday to "start dismantling racism" as systemic racism is largely present in police forces across North America, Europe, and Latin America. | RELATED: | "I am calling on all states to stop denying and start dismantling racism; to end impunity and build trust; to…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-28). 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 …

Staff (2021-06-28). Spain's MEP Manu Pineda: 'There is a Global Movement Committed to a Multilateral World'. orinocotribune.com "There is a global movement that is committed to a multilateral world, that is why the empire targets China or Russia, because they can lead a process against the hegemony of the empire," said the European Parliament deputy and head of International Relations for the Communist Party of Spain, José Manuel "Manu" Pineda, during an interview this Sunday, June 27, on the television program Aquí con Ernesto Villegas [here with Ernesto Villegas], hosted by the journalist and Minister for Culture of Venezuela, Ernesto Villegas. | Pineda said that this movement "does not accept that there is a global policeman who tells…

Leela Anand (2021-06-28). Sit-in protest at Georgia Dept. of Labor demands state not cut federal UI. liberationnews.org Protesters demanded the Georgia state government retain, not slash, the $300 per week federal unemployment benefits that were extended under the CARES Act and American Rescue Plan Act during the pandemic.

Staff (2021-06-28). 30 June, Montreal: Free Palestine — Justice for Nizar Banat! Down with PA collaboration with Israel! samidoun.net Wednesday, 30 June 5: 30 pm Israeli Consulate-Montreal 1 Westmount Square, Westmount, Quebec Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/238405081138094/ Justice for Nizar Banat! Freedom for Palestine — down with the PA coordination and collaboration with the Israeli occupation! Join us to demand an end to the Oslo regime of security coordination that works in the interests of the Israeli colonial occupation. Demand justice for Nizar Banat, brutally murdered by Palestinian Authority "security forces," trained by Canada, the U.S. and the European Union to serve Israeli interests. We struggle for a free Palestine…

Anonymous103 (2021-06-28). New Violations Of Ceasefire Agreement In Northern Syria — Russian Defense Ministry. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Khaled Iskef. | The Russian Ministry of Defense has monitored new violations committed by the militants of the Al-Nusra Front organization, in the de-escalation area in northern Syria. | The Russian Reconciliation Center in Hmeimim stated that Al-Nusra terrorists had carried out 33 attacks on June 27, through rocket and artillery shells, most of them in Idlib countryside, which recorded 15 attacks, while 9 attacks were recorded in Latakia countryside, 4 attacks in the countryside of…

Anonymous007 (2021-06-28). Military Situation In Syria On June 28, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On June 27, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 33 times: 15 — in Idlib province, 9 — in Latakia province, 5 — in Hama province, 4 — in Aleppo province | On June 27, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Safuhin and Fatirah | On June 27, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Ariha town | On June 27, unknown gunmen killed an SDF commander in al-Hassan village…

Anonymous007 (2021-06-28). New-Age Cosmopolite: Former Al-Qaeda Commander Granted With Turkish Citizenship After Ukrainian One. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Ankara has given "former" al-Qaeda commander Manar Al-Shami Turkish citizenship. | As Turkish politicians continue to talk about deporting Syrian refugees back to Syria, former al-Qaeda commander Manar Al-Shami gets Turkish citizenship. — Lindsey Snell (@LindseySnell) Turkey has long supported the al-Qaed…

Anonymous007 (2021-06-28). NATO Exercise SeaBreeze 2021 Begins In The Black Sea, Featuring 32 Countries. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On June 28th, the NATO exercise Sea Breeze 2021 began, also including Ukraine."In the Black Sea region, NATO is strengthening deterrence and defense with joint exercises and maritime patrols such as the upcoming exercise SEA BREEZE 2021. This is good example to how Allies and Partners provide unique training opportunities, designed to enhance readiness, improve collaboration, and interoperability in the Black Sea region." | Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 will take part in the exercis…

Staff (2021-06-28). Russia calls for reform of UN Security Council: Lavrov says West has 'excessive representation' and it should include more nations. rt.com The "excessive representation of the West" in decision-making should be limited to create a more balanced world order, with more input from the global east and south, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. | Writing for Moscow daily Kommersant, Lavrov said Western nations had too much power on the United Nations Security Council, and the proposed limitations would democratize international relations. | The Security Council, made up of 15 countries, includes five permanent members: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. There are no permanent representatives from Africa,…

Editor (2021-06-28). Diplomacia entre ladrones. workers.org Para comprender la esencia de las reuniones en Europa, en las que Joe Biden ha estado hablando amablemente con los aliados imperialistas depredadores de Washington, debemos examinar su precedente histórico: la Conferencia de Berlín de 1884-1885 para dividir y saquear el continente africano. Reclamaciones europeas en àÅfrica, 1913. Se muestran . . . |

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-28). Police violence against protesters in Dusseldorf, Germany condemned. peoplesdispatch.org On Saturday, hundreds of people including journalists were injured in police action in Dusseldorf against those who were opposing a law mooted by the North Rhine-Westphalian (NRW) State government which would penalize certain kinds of protest…

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2021-06-28). RAND Corporation Once Again Spreading Anti-Russia Propaganda in Its Reports. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR (2021-06-28). China and Russia Reaffirm Bilateral Alliance. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping announced the extension of the 2001 Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Treaty (GNF). | RELATED: | Xi commented that the treaty has been a successful experience of close cooperation between both countries. "It represents a new type of international relations oriented towards peace and development", he stressed. | For his part, Putin stated…

Jay Janson (2021-06-28). Sadly China and Russia Remain Quiet on US Past Genocides and Ongoing Genocide in the Middle East & Africa. globalresearch.ca

Colin Todhunter (2021-06-28). Dystopian "Great Reset": "Own Nothing and Be Happy", Being Human in 2030. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on November 9, 2020 | The World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together international business and political leaders, economists and other high-profile individuals to discuss global issues. …

Relative of Seth (2021-06-28). 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…

_____ (2021-06-28). Increasing Pressure On China. popularresistance.org Each week the Pacific is getting even more crowded with military ships, submarines and aircraft from countries in the region and from outside. NATO countries- United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Netherlands- are sending military vessels and aircraft. The Russian navy conducted military maneuvers off Hawai'i. The U.S. is on the verge of creating a permanent Pacific naval task force as a part of its aggressive response to China's naval presence in the Pacific. The largest land exercise in Asia and the Pacific is taking place in Australia with 17,000 U.S. and Australian military. | In March 2021, President Biden…

WSWS (2021-06-28). All of France's regional presidents re-elected amid mass abstention. wsws.org Over 65 percent of voters abstained from the second round of the French regional elections, which saw social-democratic and Gaullist incumbents keep their seats.

WSWS (2021-06-28). Germany's defence ministry protects fascist networks in the armed forces. wsws.org Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer expressed her "fundamental confidence" in Germany's Special Forces Command (KSK), which despite a string of far-right scandals will not be disbanded.

WSWS (2021-06-28). This week in history: June 28-July 4. wsws.org 25 years ago: Yeltsin claims reelection as president of RussiaOn July 3, 1996, Boris Yeltsin won the Russian Federation's presidential runoff election in a vote widely viewed by the population as fraudulent. The election set the stage for future social upheavals and political crises in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

WSWS (2021-06-28). Leaked documents confirm UK discussed possible military response by Russia to Black Sea/Crimea provocation. wsws.org The documents confirm that the UK was aware of a possible hostile response by Russia and decided to proceed anyway.

WSWS (2021-06-28). No confidence motion tabled by far-right topples Sweden's Social Democrat-led government. wsws.org The successful no-confidence vote, the first in Swedish history, was initiated by Jimmy Akesson, head of the fascistic Sweden Democrats, and endorsed by the conservative Moderates and Christian Democrats, and ex-Stalinist Left Party…

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-28). Turkey expanding multinational Turkic Council to counteract CSTO, SCO in "Eurasian continent" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkey expanding multinational Turkic Council to counteract CSTO, SCO in "Eurasian continent" The foreign minister of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov, recently met with the secretary general of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States (Turkic Council), Baghdad Amreev, to discuss closer cooperation between the Central Asian nation and the Turkish-dominated bloc. Turkmenistan is the only Turkic-speaking former …

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