(2021-06-04). Schumer's Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire. counterpunch.org Despite an existential climate crisis, Senator Chuck Schumer's $250-billion "United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021" takes aim at China as the most pressing national security threat. In a Cold War declaration, the New York Democrat's proposed legislation reads like the last gasp of a dying empire, a plea from a panicked superpower losing
(2021-06-04). The Geneva Summit: Biden and Putin Need to Pull Back From the Nuclear Brink. counterpunch.org When Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16, relations between their countries will be the most fraught since the Cold War ended 30 years ago. Recent Russian provocations — the hacking of sensitive U.S. government and corporate computers, meddling in the last two U.S. presidential elections,
(2021-06-04). Vicious Wave of Repression Sparks Global Movement to Free Iran's Political Prisoners. counterpunch.org She should imagine thousands of people in the court room, standing next to her and demanding: #FreeNahid That's what Mariam Claren told her imprisoned mother, a 66-year-old, dual German-Iranian citizen and women's rights activist, before her first Iranian court appearance on April 28. As the world's attention concerning Iran largely focuses on the nuclear negotiations
(2021-06-04). Eisenhower rejected military chiefs' demand for nuclear war on China. zcomm.org Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg has released a shocking account showing how the Joint Chiefs pressed Eisenhower to launch a nuclear war on China…
(2021-06-04). Tensions between Washington and Moscow mount in lead-up to summit. wsws.org The United States and NATO are conducting massive military exercises in the Arctic and along Russia's European frontier as anxieties grow in Moscow over the economic and political pressures it is facing.
(2021-06-04). Democracy on the Precipice? counterpunch.org Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarussian dictator, snatches a dissident from midair. Military strongman Assimi Goita launches another coup in Mali. Benjamin Netanyahu escalates a military conflict to save his own political skin in Israel. In the United States, the Republican Party launches a full-court press to suppress the vote. Authoritarianism, like war, makes headlines. It's hard
(2021-06-04). Biden to Confront Putin with Human Rights Issue. globalresearch.ca The American media …
(2021-06-03). Central Syrian Insurgency: ISIS Attacks Continue Despite Russian, Syrian Airstrikes. southfront.org 
Illustrative image | More than 110 airstrikes have targeted ISIS hideouts in Syria's central region, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on June 2. | At least 100 of the airstrikes were carried out by warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS), while the rest were conducted by Syrian military helicopters. The airstrikes targeted hideouts of ISIS cells in the outskirts of the towns of al-Sholah in western Deir Ezzor and al-Sukhnah in eastern Homs. | "Russian reconnaissance planes flew over d…
(2021-06-03). Military Situation In Syria On June 3, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On June 3, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 40 times: 20 — in Idlib province, 10 — in Latakia province, 8 — in Hama province, 2 — in Aleppo province | On June 2, several people were wounded in a car explosion in Jarablus city | On June 2, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled YPG positions near Minnagh Airbase | On June 2, ISIS claimed responsibility for an IED attack targeting a SAA vehicle nea…
(2021-06-03). Heading toward summit: new NATO narrative depicts Russia as threat to world peace. mronline.org 
In recent months all U.S. geographical and several other military commands have branded Russia an adversary in all parts of the world, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from South America to North Africa, from West Asia to Eastern Europe, from cyberspace to outer space. | June 3, 2021…
(2021-06-03). Philanthropist Bill Gates Invests in "Advanced" Reactor Nuclear Technology. globalresearch.ca Investing in nuclear …
(2021-06-03). Iranian ship, petrochemical plant hit by fires amid threats from Israel. wsws.org Tensions have mounted in the context of an imminent change of government in Israel and continuing talks in Vienna on reviving the Iran nuclear deal.
(2021-06-03). The Nuclearization of Space. counterpunch.org "BACK TO THE FUTURE NASA'S NEW NUCLEAR VISION" was the headline emblazoned on the cover this past month of the leading U.S. aerospace trade publication, Aviation Week & Space Technology. "More than sixty years after the U.S. began serious studies into nuclear propulsion for space travel, NASA is taking the first steps on a new
(2021-06-03). Argentina To Start Large-Scale Production of Sputnik V Vaccine. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti informed that COVID-19 Sputnik V vaccines will be soon produced in the South American nation, following the approval by the Russian Gamaleya Institute of the doses' samples produced in Richmond labs. | RELATED: | Vizzotti confirmed that the three batches of the vaccine components 1 and 2 were able to meet the standards, so progress will be made in importing a…
(2021-06-03). Pentagon to Use War Games to Smuggle Weapons to Ukrainian Army, Extremist Formations for War in Donbass: Russian Defense Ministry. globalresearch.ca Today's TASS cites …
(2021-06-03). Russia to Ditch US Dollar? globalresearch.ca Russia's sovereign wealth …
(2021-06-03). Democracy: On the Precipice? juancole.com ( Foreign Policy in Focus) — If we extrapolate from the current trend lines, democracy will be gone in a couple decades, melted away like the polar ice. But although down, democracy is not out. By John Feffer | June 2, 2021 Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarussian dictator, snatches a dissident from midair. Military strongman Assimi …
(2021-06-03). NATO chieftain blasts Belarus and Russia, hails German troops in neighboring Lithuania. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO chieftain blasts Belarus and Russia, hails German troops in neighboring LithuaniaRick Rozoff June 22, 1941: Nazi Germany unleashes history's largest invasion force (three million troops) against Soviet Russia along an 1,800-mile front stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov into the Caucasus. Germany …
(2021-06-03). Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad: A Soviet masterpiece about World War II appears in English for the first time. wsws.org The English translation of Stalingrad will not only finally introduce a broad readership to a masterpiece of world literature, but it will also help new generations, especially young people, to understand the enormous impact of the October Revolution.