Above Photo: Opening day of the Bicentennial Congress of Peoples of the World in Caracas, Venezuela. June 21, 2021. Photo: Twitter @dannyshawcuny Venezuela has launched a bold call for unity among the left at the International Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples of the World, taking place this week…

Above Photo: Mary Annette Pember/Indian Country Today Three people were arrested Monday at a prayer lodge along the Mississippi River near an Enbridge construction site as questions persist that the pipeline work is worsening water shortages in northern Minnesota. According to the Aitkin County sher…

Above Photo: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters The new Israeli government takes office already largely paralyzed. With eight diverse parties, they agree only on two things. One, they want to get rid of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Check — that’s done. Two, given the unlikeliness of reaching agreement o…

The corporate media claim that President Biden went easy on Vladimir Putin outside the G7 meeting, but that’s only because Biden preferred to sic the imperial press hounds on the Russian president “The United States has declared Russia an enemy and openly supports people who want to bring about…

Above Photo: Marc A. Hermann Even the most transit-rich cities in America are failing to connect people without cars — who tend to be disproportionately low-income or people of color — to job opportunities, a new analysis finds. Analysts at TransitCenter comprehensively measured disparities in p…

Above Photo: Thomas Hawk / CC BY-NC 2.0 A wave of evictions could wash across the city next month, tenant attorneys say, even as lawmakers scramble to prevent widespread displacement. “I’m afraid that we’re talking about thousands of people,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and…

Above Photo: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press Untested claim seeks $600 million in various damages, alleges federal government negligence A lawsuit alleging RCMP systematically brutalized Indigenous people in Northern Canada can proceed as a class action despite objections from the government, Federal…

Above Photo: AFP Belarus’ defense minister says there is “irrefutable” evidence of the involvement of the United States in a coup attempt in the European country. Viktor Khrenin said on Wednesday that Belarusian investigators now know that US government agencies were involved in preparations�…

US and Israel Vote ‘No’ as 184 Nations Condemn American Blockade of Cuba Above Photo: Joaquin Hernandez/Xinhua via Getty Images “The U.N. vote… on Cuba was a chance for President Biden to show global leadership,” said CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin. “He failed miserably.” Peace and…

Above Photo: Esther Horvath Warming of the surface of the Arctic is matched by a colder polar vortex high in the atmosphere, which is speeding the breakdown of the Earth’s shield against ultraviolet rays. After sampling the atmosphere above the Arctic for more than a year during the MOSAiC resear…

Above photo: Woman votes in Iranian election. Reuters. It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners to win the election. Indeed, on Saturday, June 19, the conservative E…

This is Part 2 of Consortium News’ multi-part series on the 50th Anniversary of Sen. Mike Gravel obtaining the Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg and the consequences Gravel faced for revealing the top secret documents in Congress, just hours before the Supreme Court decided the case on June 3…

Above Photo: Press TV The move has been criticized by activists as an attempt by the US government to censor unfavorable content, an attack on the freedom of the press, and a deliberate act of hostility On Tuesday, June 22, the US government “seized” several news websites, alleging their involve…

Above Photo: Berta Caceres in the Rio Blanco region of western Honduras. Caceres was assassinated in 2016. (Goldmanprize.org) The Biden administration says it wants to counter the corruption that’s driving displacement. Does that apply to U.S. allies in Honduras? On her recent trip to Guatemala an…

In one of the largest public employee organizing drives California has seen in over a decade, some 17,000 graduate student researchers at the University of California may soon become union members. Student Researchers United, a committee of graduate student researchers, filed a petition for union ce…

Social Cost of Emissions: ‘One of the Most Important Numbers That No One Has Ever Heard Of’ Above Photo: David McNew/Getty Images An analysis for Friends of the Earth finds the social cost of CO2 calculates to at least 15 times the Biden administration’s current figure, which is set to be fina…

Above Photo: Members of the United Mine Workers of America protested in New York City Tuesday, June 22, 2021, showing solidarity with striking miners in Alabama. About 14 striking Alabama mine workers have taken their case to Wall Street this morning. Chanting “no contract, no coal,” the miners…

Above Photo: John Perivolaris / Flickr Two new campaigns aim to raise awareness about illegal pushbacks on Europe’s borders and call for the abolition of the EU’s border agency Frontex, respectively. The European Union’s border regime has been rapidly expanding in the past years, especially si…

Above Photo: Mike Gravel/YouTube This month is the 50th anniversary of the release of the Pentagon Papers, the top secret study of the war in Southeast Asia, which showed that U.S. leaders knew the war was lost but continued the killing and dying anyway. Driven by his conscience, one of the study…

Why is more effort is put into trying to discredit CCOP, while the ruling class is pulling all stops to hoodwink the public with actual reformism, like the George Floyd Act. “The system and its minions will never create anything that challenges the function of its police.” That Community Control…

Above Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images This June, a dangerously low-flying helicopter operated by the Department of Homeland Security descended on the largest civil disobedience action yet against the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota. In an attempt to disperse the crowd, hundreds of demonstrators were…

Above Photo: @bamnecessary / Twitter A group of retired Peruvian officers has called on the country’s military to refuse to recognize socialist candidate Pedro Castillo’s projected victory in the presidential election unless vote fraud allegations are thoroughly investigated. Peru’s elitist r…

Above Photo: Amazonians United Chicagoland Facebook page Dispersed But Undaunted Chicago Amazon warehouse workers were put in a tough spot, and made the best of it. In January, the company hit workers in Chicago’s DCH1 delivery station with a devastating one-two punch. First, Amazon was shutting d…

Above Photo: Bob Brown / AP The Mountain Valley Pipeline and others awaiting approval are nails in America’s climate coffin. And most are concentrated among vulnerable communities. Four years of President Donald Trump have cost America dearly. We lost our global leadership on addressing climate ch…

China, allies seek probe into indigenous children’s remains in Canada Above Photo: Jennifer Gauthier/ Reuters GENEVA, June 22 (Reuters) – China and its allies called on Tuesday for an independent investigation into the discovery last month of the remains of more than 200 indigenous children at a…