10 June 2021 — Tricontinental
Faisal Laibi Sahi (Iraq), Cafe 2, 2014.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Each month, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) releases a monthly food price index. The release on 3 June showed that food prices have surged by 40%, the largest rise since 2011. The impact of this food price rise will grievously hit developing countries, most of whom are major importers of food staples.
10 June 2021 — Michael Roberts Blog
This weekend, the leaders of the ‘free world’ are flying (and helicoptering) into Cornwall, at the tiny end of England, for the first physical meeting of the G7 nations. As they increase the carbon footprint sharply through extensive fossil fuel activity, the G7 agenda will include dealing with climate change, global ‘action’ on the COVID pandemic and the state of the world economy.
10 June 2021 — Jonathan Cook
New Left Review – 10 June 2021
Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times reflecting on Israel’s 11-day destruction of Gaza is a showcase for the delusions of liberal Zionism: a constellation of thought that has never looked so threadbare. It seems that every liberal newspaper needs a Thomas Friedman – the UK’s Guardian has Jonathan Freedland – whose role is to keep readers from considering realistic strategies for Israel-Palestine, however often and catastrophically the established ones have failed. In this case, Friedman’s plea for Joe Biden to preserve the ‘potential of a two-state solution’ barely conceals his real goal: resuscitating the discourse of an illusory ‘peace process’ from which everyone except liberal Zionists has moved on. His fear is that the debate is quietly shifting outside this framework – towards the recognition that Israel is a belligerent apartheid regime, and the conclusion that one democratic state for Palestinians and Jews is now the only viable solution.
10 June 2021 — The New Dark Age
On the Politics of Victory and Defeat: How Gaza Dethroned the King of Israel
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/06/on-the-politics-of-victory-and-defeat-how-gaza-dethroned-the-king-of-israel/
National Coalition Calls On Biden To Halt Weapons Sales To Israel
https://popularresistance.org/national-coalition-calls-on-biden-to-halt-weapons-sales-to-israel/
10 June 2021 — Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch Team
Home Secretary Priti Patel has supported plans for police to publish more bodycam footage of events to tackle “misleading” social media videos.
She told the annual Police Federation of England and Wales conference “I will not let the police be subjected to trial by social media.”
9 June 2021 — Craig Murray
We are racing to lodge our application to the Supreme Court by Friday, so I am just going to post an email I just sent my legal team:
9 June 2021 — Peoples Dispatch
An anti-militaristic spectre is haunting Europe: trade unions, social movements and political organizations are mobilizing against war and against the next NATO summit in Brussels.
by European Secretariat of the International Peoples’ Assembly
September 5-6, 2015, Helsinki, international conference “Nato and Russia in the Baltic Sea Area” organized by “No war-No Nato” committee
On June 14, 2021 NATO will hold a “Summit of Allied Leaders” at its headquarters in Brussels. According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenber, the meeting “is a unique opportunity to reinforce NATO as the enduring embodiment of the bond between Europe and North America.” The summit will follow a “Group of Seven” (G7) meeting of leaders in the UK from June 11-13.
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