THE FEMINIST RESPONSE TO RIMPAC AND THE U.S. WAR AGAINST CHINA ~~ By Christine Ahn | June 28, 2022

 \https://fpif.org/the-feminist-response-to-rimpac-and-the-u-s-war-against-china/

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~ 

Wide spectrum of class struggles at Labor Notes conference ~~ Martha Grevatt posted on June 26, 2022

 https://www.workers.org/2022/06/65072

~~recommended by collectivist action  ~~

Latin America's leftward swing ~~ GRAYSON QUAY JUNE 23, 2022

https://theweek.com/feature/briefing/1014553/latin-america-leftward-swing?utm_campaign=afternoon_newsletter_20220623&utm_source=afternoon_newsletter&utm_medium=email&refid=36BED5BDCFB46680B79067A53235BAC0 

With Gustavo Petro's win in Colombia, leftist leaders now hold power in 9 Central and South American countries

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

U.S. gov’t body plots to break up Russia in name of ‘decolonization’ ~~ Ben Norton

 https://mronline.org/2022/06/27/u-s-govt-body-plots-to-break-up-russia-in-name-of-decolonization/

~~recommended by collectivist action  ~~

The Remaking of the Second Amendment Duncan Hosie and Reva Siegel

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2022/06/10/the-remaking-of-the-second-amendment/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%2006-26-22%20Batkin%20Arjini%20Earnest%20HosieSiegel&utm_content=NYR%2006-26-22%20Batkin%20Arjini%20Earnest%20HosieSiegel+CID_6f6cb399392c9424b9dd8295eb8d4bb0&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=The%20Remaking%20of%20the%20Second%20Amendment

Gun rights advocates holding Second Amendment rally at which police officer Dick Heller spoke, at the State Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, January 31, 2020

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

When It Comes to Gun Violence, Mental Health Matters and the Left Should Fight for It ~~ Tatiana Cozzarelli June 13, 2022

 https://www.leftvoice.org/when-it-comes-to-gun-violence-mental-health-matters-and-the-left-should-fight-for-it/

In the aftermath of the recent wave of mass shootings we need a mental health overhaul and it’s the Left that needs to fight for it.

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Sexual liberation and the Russian Revolution ~~ Dan Healey/Colin Wilson

https://socialistworker.co.uk/features/sexual-liberation-and-the-russian-revolution/

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Beyond Revenge, What Does Jane’s Revenge Want? ~~ Judith Levine

 https://theintercept.com/2022/06/16/janes-revenge-abortion-rights/

The attacks on anti-abortion centers express a necessary militant fury. But the conflation of militance with violence is a mistake.

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Nation’s largest union of nurses condemns Supreme Court overturn of constitutional right to abortion

 https://mronline.org/2022/06/27/nations-largest-union-of-nurses-condemns-supreme-court-overturn-of-constitutional-right-to-abortion/

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Food nationalism crisis threat looms over Asia ~~By WILLIAM PESEKJUNE 22, 2022

 https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/food-nationalism-crisis-threat-looms-over-asia/

Food inflation is upending all that investors and policymakers thought they knew about 2022

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Public school privatization privileges profits over learning June 23, 2022 ~ BY JOEL WENDLAND-LIU AND BRANDON MICHAEL CHEW

 https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/public-school-privatization-privileges-profits-over-learning/

THE RIGHT WON BY PLAYING THE LONG GAME—WHAT IS THE LEFT’S RESPONSE? ~~ BY MARC STEINERJUNE 21, 2022

  https://therealnews.com/the-right-won-by-playing-the-long-game-what-is-the-lefts-response?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Real+News+Network&utm_campaign=088c59c1b9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_06_22_02_28_Vijay&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_020676f7fe-088c59c1b9-425023606&mc_cid=088c59c1b9&mc_eid=2d87b78d5

From stacking the courts and overturning Roe to enriching the oligarchy and empowering an electoral minority, the right has played the long game and won. The left needs its own long-term vision of change.

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Unaccountable Patriarchs and their Handmaid Force Girls and Women to Give Birth

 

This set of material posted below is not just  a list of 3 specific articles, instead each of the 3 recommended websites has anywhere from 30 - 50 entries covering a wide range of aspects of the issue.

“Roe v Wade, June 2022”, Various / Anon, A collection of 198 Articles on the issue of Abortion Rights published in The Guardian including 9 posted today, June 24^th 2022 and another 11 posted during June of 2022, in The Guardian, < https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/roe-v-wade >

“Roe v. Wade Overturned: Our Latest Resources: What you need to know: Data, analysis and more from Guttmacher experts”, June 24, 2022, Anon, Another collection of various resources published in the Guttmacher Institute's website, including an interactive map, 8 items in a section labeled as “Key Evidence and Data”, articles 3 of them posted in June of 2022 and a great number posted earlier, 4 video clips, Guttmacher Institute, at < https://www.guttmacher.org/abortion-rights-supreme-court >

“roe v wade”, June 24, 2022, Various / Anon, A collection of about 35 articles that appear to have published today, plus many others published and previously by The Independent, The Independent, < https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/roe-v-wade?CMP=ILC-refresh >.

~~ Recommended by dmorista ~~

The Logic of Stupid Poor People ~~ Tressie McMillan Cottom

 https://redsails.org/the-logic-of-stupid-poor-people/

~~ recommended by an old friend ~~

The Perils of Pessimism Why Anxious Nations Are Dangerous Nations By Daniel W. Drezner

 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2022-06-21/perils-pessimism-anxious-nations?utm_medium=promo_email&utm_source=promo_1&utm_campaign=jun22-camp1-domeall-panel-a&utm_content=20220622&utm_term=promo-email-all-dom

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth ~~ Jess Spear

 https://mronline.org/2022/06/18/the-necessity-of-ecosocialist-degrowth/

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Eric Greitens' Death Squad Politics ~~ Spencer Ackerman

https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/eric-greitens-ad-seal-domestic-violence 

An accused rapist who trades on his Navy SEAL credentials fantasizes about a violent purge. He likes boasting that the cops are with him. Haha, j/k…unless..?

Youths Suing Government over Climate Change

 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/youths-sue-european-governments-over-fossil-fuel-energy-pact-2022-06-20/

~~ and ~~

https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-lawsuit-washington-youth-2536683798.html

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Texas GOP Platform Calls For Abolishing 1965 Voting Rights Act, Stripping LGBTQ Community of ‘Special Legal Entitlements’ ~~ Alex GriffingJun 20th, 2022, 1:33 pm

 https://www.mediaite.com/politics/texas-gop-platform-calls-for-abolishing-1965-voting-rights-act-stripping-lgbtq-community-of-special-legal-entitlements/

~~ recommended by larrymotuz ~~

Summit of the Americas Flops While Workers Summit Exposes Cracks in the Imperial Façade ~~ ROGER HARRIS

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/17/summit-of-the-americas-flops-while-workers-summit-exposes-cracks-in-the-imperial-facade/

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Brazil’s Election: A Looming Crisis for Washington ~~ NICHOLAS ZIMMERMAN AND ROBERTO SIMON | JUNE 13, 2022

 https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/brazils-election-a-looming-crisis-for-washington%EF%BF%

A meeting between the two presidents in Los Angeles foreshadowed bigger trouble ahead, as Bolsonaro looks set to challenge the vote.

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Capitalism is killing our children ~~ Betsey Piette posted on June 17, 2022

 https://www.workers.org/2022/06/64878/

It is incomprehensible that Washington politicians could sit through the hours of gut-wrenching testimony from the loved ones of victims of recent gun violence in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, and not be moved. Yet this seems to be the case.

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

The Wisdom of Erich Fromm ~~ Compiled by Collectivist Action

 ~~ compiled by collectivist action ~~

What the Republican Party is About ~~ Ethan Grey

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/13/2103841/-This-Ex-Republican-Just-Tweeted-The-Best-Thread-About-What-The-GOP-Is-About-Ever?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended 

~~ recommended by Freeze Peach with introduction by dmorista

US, China cashing in on global arms trade shakeup ~~ By TERRENCE GUAYJUNE 8, 2022

  

https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/us-china-cashing-in-on-global-arms-trade-shakeu

Reliability and desirability of Russian arms now in question, opening the way for US and Chinese makers to seize the market

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Few of The President's Men ~~ Spencer Ackerman

 https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/january-6-treason-normalcy-cheney-barr?utm_source=email

A bitter irony of the January 6 Committee is that it's paving a road to rehab for Constitutional vandals like Bill Barr.

“Mapping US Imperialism”, June 3, 2022, Anon,

 https://mapliberation.org/articles/mapping_imperialism.html 

Recommended by dmorista

Boudin Gets Recalled ~~ Darrell Owens

 https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/boudin-gets-recalled

Yo, wait until the results come out before jumping to conclusions. Also it's okay to say the "A-word."

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

'Revolting': Senate Panel Adds Another $45 Billion to Biden's Military Budget ~~ Kenny Stancil

 https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/17/revolting-senate-panel-adds-another-45-billion-bidens-military-budget

"The Pentagon's ever-growing budget is quite simply a theft from American people enriching some of the wealthiest corporations in this country," said one critic. "It's disgraceful."

Trump’s Site Truth Social Has Been Banning Users Over Posts on Jan. 6 Hearings ~~ Chris Walker

 https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-site-truth-social-has-been-banning-users-over-posts-on-jan-6-hearings/

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

(added by NB...  a little levity for a Friday am)

Dirty Laundry ~~ ALEX PRESS

  

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2902/a-labor-organizer-s-account-of-a-wrenching-and-divisive-union-drive-24938

A labor organizer’s account of a wrenching and divisive union drive

ON THE LINE: A STORY OF CLASS, SOLIDARITY, AND TWO WOMEN'S EPIC FIGHT TO BUILD A UNION BY DAISY PITKIN. CHAPEL HILL, NC: ALGONQUIN BOOKS.

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

How a new generation is combatting digital surveillance ~~ Nate File

 https://mronline.org/2022/06/07/how-a-new-generation-is-combatting-digital-surveillance/

~~recommended by collectivist action ~~

The working class and the global capitalist crisis a WW commentary ~~ Larry Holmes posted on May 27, 2022

 https://www.workers.org/2022/05/64293/

~~recommended by collectivist action ~~

The Ultimate Sign of American Collapse: America’s Epidemic of Massacres Is a Sign of a Collapsing Society ~~ Umair Haque

 < https://eand.co/the-ultimate-sign-of-american-collapse-489d2f204dd >

~~ recommended by dmorista ~~

How monsters who beat Jews to death in 1944 became America’s favorite “Freedom Fighters” in 1945—with a little help from their friends at CIA (Part 2) ~~ Even Reif (Posted Jun 13, 2022)

 https://mronline.org/2022/06/13/how-monsters-who-beat-jews-to-death-in-1944-became-americas-favorite-freedom-fighters-in-1945/

~~recommended by collectivist action ~~

Uvalde Families Should Take Gunmakers to Court ~~ Timothy L. O'Brien

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-26/can-uvalde-families-sue-gunmakers-sandy-hook-showed-the-way#xj4y7vzkg 

Moral Crusade or Class Interest? Does the US Working Class Have a Material Interest in Ukraine? ~~ RICHARD MOSER

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/10/moral-crusade-or-class-interest-does-the-us-working-class-have-a-material-interest-in-ukraine/

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Iran removing 27 surveillance cameras at nuclear sites: IAEA

 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/9/iaea-says-fatal-blow-to-nuclear-deal-as-iran-removes-cameras

~~recommended by emil karpo ~~

A Coup. A Plan. A Conspiracy.

 

https://eand.co/a-coup-a-plan-a-conspiracy-the-day-they-tried-to-kill-american-democracy-88a671d92c3e

The Findings Are Every Bit as Bad as We “Alarmists” Said. It’s Time for America to Wake Up to the Awful Truth

The US Has No Endgame in Ukraine AN INTERVIEW WITH MARCUS STANLEY

https://jacobin.com/2022/06/us-russia-ukraine-war-peace-negotiations?mc_cid=a9cc812da0&mc_eid=2206b60e8c

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

JUNE 9, 2022 There Are Better Ways for Societies to Address Inflation Than by Hiking Interest Rates ~~ RICHARD D. WOLFF

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/09/there-are-better-ways-for-societies-to-address-inflation-than-by-hiking-interest-rates/

Rejecting war is not enough: racism dooms peace ~~ CLAUDIA WEBBEJUNE 7, 2022

 https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/rejecting-war-is-not-enough-racism-dooms-peace/

The othering of non-white, non-European people serves to diminish the reality of their suffering

~~recommended by emil karpo ~~

TWO YEARS SINCE GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH, HAS ANYTHING CHANGED IN THE U.S.?

 https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/two-years-since-george-floyds-death-has-anything-changed

~~recommended by collectivist action ~~

Appeals court upholds 8-year sentence of Des Moines activist in Dakota Access Pipeline sabotage ~~ William Morris

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2022/06/06/dakota-access-pipeline-dapl-protestor-sentence-jessica-reznicek/7535555001/

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~

Montana’s Rivers and Streams Belong to Everyone. We Have to Protect Them From the Rich. ~~ WILLEM MORRIS

 https://jacobin.com/2022/06/montana-public-stream-access-labor-unions-wealthy

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

“Shipping Chaos Is the Latest Sign that Capitalism Is Eating Itself”, May 31, 2022, ~~ Grace Blakeley, Tribune,

  https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/05/globalisation-shipping-global-trade >.

Capitalism rests on a network of privately-owned infrastructure, with shipping at its heart – but now the industry is in chaos as the profiteering of rentier corporations sends the world system into meltdown.

~~ recommended by dmorista ~~

Mass shootings, Empire, and racist, copaganda dog whistles ~~ Margaret Kimberley (Posted Jun 02, 2022)

 https://mronline.org/2022/06/02/mass-shootings-empire-and-racist-copaganda-dog-whistles/

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Punishing the Criminalized Sector of the Working Class ~~ James Kilgore

punishing-the-criminalized-sector-of-the-working-class/

NB note - please refer to the link above for the footnotes to this article.

Four Day Work Week ~~ The Guardian

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/06/the-guardian-view-on-a-four-day-week-policies-needed-to-make-it-a-reality

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/06/thousands-workers-worlds-biggest-trial-four-day-week?CMP=share_btn_tw

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Landmark California Task Force Calls for “Comprehensive Reparations” for Slavery ~~ Marjorie Cohn

 https://truthout.org/articles/landmark-california-task-force-calls-for-comprehensive-reparations-for-slavery/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=faa9e7c8-7fe6-4539-98f1-31658ce8aa03

~~ recommended by alteng ~~

A Few Amendments to the Second ~~ MATTHEW STEVENSON

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/03/a-few-amendments-to-the-second/

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Kathy Boudin, Tireless Fighter for Justice — Rest in Power ~~ Bill Ayers May 09, 2022

 https://truthout.org/articles/kathy-boudin-tireless-fighter-for-justice-rest-in-power/

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

A Political Autobiography by David Gilbert - 10/13/08

https://www.thejerichomovement.com/profile/gilbert-david

~~ Recommended by collecctivist action ~~

Remembering Hubert Harrison, the Father of Harlem Radicalism ~~ Jeffrey B. Perry April 27, 2021 3

 https://www.aaihs.org/remembering-hubert-harrison-the-father-of-harlem-radicalism/

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

She was jailed for losing a pregnancy. Her nightmare could become more common ~~ Sam Levin

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/03/california-stillborn-prosecution-roe-v-wade

Chelsea Becker, prosecuted for murder after her stillbirth, spent 16 months in jail: ‘Why did the hospital call police?’

BRITAIN’S RAIL WORKERS ARE POISED TO STRIKE AGAINST AUSTERITY ~~ BY KARL HANSEN JUNE 1, 2022

https://therealnews.com/britains-rail-workers-are-poised-to-strike-against-austerity?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Real+News+Network&utm_campaign=6e14a527e5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_06_01_04_14_Prison&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_020676f7fe-6e14a527e5-425023606&mc_cid=6e14a527e5&mc_eid=2d87b78d52 

Forty thousand rail workers across 16 companies in Britain have voted to strike. Their strike would be the biggest rail walk-off in decades, against funding cuts that would destroy Britain’s rail system as we know it.

~~recommended by emil karpo ~~ 

1,500 White People Lynch a Black Man on Illinois Courthouse Lawn ~~ On this dayJun 03, 1893 ~~

 https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jun/03

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Racist and Violent Ideas Jump From Web’s Fringes to Mainstream Sites ~~ Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson June 1, 2022

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/technology/fringe-mainstream-social-media.html

Despite some efforts by the largest tech companies to limit the spread of hateful content, it often remains only a click or two away.

NB note, there are some interesting graphics which the Blogger template would not accept.  They are:  tracking the Buffalo murderer's online activity and videos he watched in the last few months.  Also, can't get rid of the huge spaces.  Despite these setbacks, it seemed worthwhile to post this article anyway

Erdogan says he won't let 'terrorism-supporting' countries enter NATO ~~ Daren Butler

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/erdogan-says-wont-let-terrorism-supporting-countries-enter-nato-media-2022-05-29/

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

When Settler Society Erased Them, These First Nations Fought Back ~~ Zeahaa Rehman

https://portside.org/2022-05-29/when-settler-society-erased-them-these-first-nations-fought-back

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

THE BROOKLYN HOLOGRAM STUDIO RECEIVING MILLIONS FROM THE CIA ~~Lee Fang, Jack Poulson May 27 2022, 6:00 a.m.

 

https://theintercept.com/2022/05/27/metaverse-cia-military-hologram-looking-glass-factory/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

In-Q-Tel — the CIA’s venture capital arm — and the military are investing heavily in the metaverse. There are growing concerns they’re wasting taxpayer money.

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine WILLIAM HARTUNG

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/26/the-major-weapons-makers-cash-in-worldwide-not-just-in-ukraine/

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~