17 June 2021 — CovertAction Magazine
By John Quigley
NATO headquarters in Brussels. [Source: americansecurityproject.org]
The NATO proclamation—promoted at its annual summit this week—that a cyber attack could trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty heightens the risk of military confrontation with Russia or China.
17 June 2021 — Indian Punchline
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and US President Joe Biden shake hands before their summit in Geneva, June 16, 2021On the diplomatic stage, there is nothing to beat Russian-American summits in sheer theatrics. When the leaders of the two most powerful nuclear powers on earth sit face to face, anything can happen.
17 June 2021 — — Origin: Institute of Race Relations
This week we draw attention to a new article by Liz Fekete, Looking Back to Look Forward: imagining a world without state violence, published by the Stuart Hall Foundation as part of their Imagined Futures series. At a time when social movements are coming together in collective opposition to laws that exclude and dehumanise, the IRR’s director shows how the abolitionist arguments they draw on are rooted in history.
13 June 2021 — The New Dark Age
by Don Fitz and the Green Party of St. Louis
People the world over are opposing fossil fuel extraction in an incalculable number of ways. It is now clear that burning fossil fuels threatens millions of Life forms and could be laying the foundation for the extermination of Humanity. But what about “alternative” energy? As progressives stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those rejecting fossil fuels and nuclear power, should we despise, ignore, or commend those who challenge the menace to their homes and their communities from solar, wind and hydro-power (dams)? The Green Party of St. Louis/Gateway Green Alliance gave its answer with unanimous approval of a version of the statement below in May, 2021.
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16 June 2021 — Socialist Project
In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe. At the same time, the struggle against water privatization has continued to pick up pace; from the re-municipalization of water in Grenoble in 2000, to the United Nations declaration of water as a human right in 2010.
17 June 2021 — Tricontinental
Women farmers from Punjab and Haryana protest at the Tikri border in Delhi, 24 January 2021.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On 26 June 2021, tens of thousands of Indian farmers will gather in front of the government offices in India’s twenty-eight states. They will come to commemorate the completion of seven months of their nation-wide protest against the extreme right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This gathering will be part of a long cycle of protests that started on 26 November 2020 as part of a day-long general strike of 250 million Indian workers and peasants. Since November, tens of thousands of farmers, or kisans, have surrounded India’s capital, New Delhi, forming a Kisan [Farmers’] Commune. This Commune came to being 150 years after the Paris Commune, out of whose defeat, Marx wrote, would rise the next experiment with socialist democracy. The Kisan Commune, standing alongside Venezuela’s comunas and South Africa’s land occupations, is one such experiment.
17 June 2021 — Michael Roberts Blog
I have argued in many posts that ‘profits call the tune’ in capitalist accumulation. What I mean by that is that any change in business profits (and profitability) will lead to changes in business investment – and not vice versa over time.
17 June 2021 — Land Destroyer
June 17, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO) – The US Marine Corps has after nearly a century of integrating tanks into its fighting forces, abandoned armored warfare in favor of missiles and drones to “confront China” in the Indo-Pacific region.
16 June 2021 — Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch Team / June 15, 2021
London’s Metropolitan Police have been accused of ‘misrepresenting Covid rules’ after warning that protesting is against the law.
The Met posted a message on social media on Monday warning anti-lockdown protesters that gatherings above 30 people are illegal.
Madeleine Stone said: “Police forces across the country have consistently misrepresented Covid rules and regulations, leading to unprecedented numbers of unlawful fines and prosecutions.
“It is staggering that the Met Police continue to mislead the public about their right to protest.
“This is policing untethered from the law, and it poses a grave threat to our rights and our democracy.”
Morning Star – Met Police still ‘misusing’ Covid powers against protesters, campaigners charge
The New Dark Age 