(2022-06-20). Colombia's first ever left-wing president: Gustavo Petro wins historic election. What does it mean? multipolarista.com Gustavo Petro won Colombia's June 19 election, becoming its first ever left-wing president. We analyze what this means for Latin America, the US, Venezuela, the military, paramilitary groups, the powerful oligarchy, and social movements.
(2022-06-20). Honduras: Xiomara Castro's Government, Advancing Along a Mined Road. orinocotribune.com By Giorgio Trucchi — Jun 15, 2022 | On January 27, Xiomara Castro took office as president of Honduras. It was a vibrant speech in which she made it clear that she was going to receive a country in bankruptcy, plundered, with a debt totaling more than 20 billion dollars, and with a clientelist structure practically intact of corruption and impunity, which in the last 12 years has been taking over public and private spaces. | A people devastated by poverty — almost 74% of the population and with % in absolute misery — and hopelessness. A growing number of people looking northward, not so much at…
(2022-06-20). Senate panel approves record US military budget for 2022-2023. wsws.org The 23-3 bipartisan vote demonstrates the support of both the Democrats and Republicans for a massive increase in Pentagon spending, including for the war in Ukraine.
(2022-06-20). Julian Assange faces extradition and state murder while the war criminals he exposed walk free. wsws.org While they claim to be defending "democracy" in Ukraine, the US and its allies are persecuting a journalist for exposing their war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(2022-06-20). No absolute majority for Macron following legislative elections: Interior Ministry. ecns.cn French President Emmanuel Macron will not have an absolute majority in the upcoming National Assembly following the second round of legislative elections held on Sunday.
(2022-06-20). Australian Labor government prepares to cut disability services. wsws.org Minister Bill Shorten is moving to slash NDIS services as rapidly as politically possible, regardless of Labor's election vows to improve the scheme.
(2022-06-20). Macron's alliance leads legislative elections without absolute majority: reports. ecns.cn President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance Ensemble is leading the French legislative elections without winning the absolute majority in the new National Assembly, French news channel BFMTV reported on Sunday.
(2022-06-20). Texas Republican Party passes resolution declaring Biden government illegitimate. wsws.org The largest state Republican Party in the country affirmed the central axis of Trump's coup: that the 2020 election was subject to massive electoral "fraud" and that Biden is not the duly elected president.
(2022-06-20). Open Letter To Labor Notes About Relationship To US NED Funded AFL-CIO "Solidarity Center" indybay.org Retired UAW Local 909 president Frank Hammer challenges Labor Notes about their relationship with the US NED funded "Solidarity Center" in Mexico and the US. The AFL-CIO International Departmen AIFLD t was involved in the attack and murder of Mexico City Ford workers yet Labor Notes has refused to cover this issue and the fact that the "Solidarity Center" is now receiving $75 million a year from the National Endowment for Democracy which was set up by the US government and CIA.
(2022-06-20). Hung parliament emerges from French legislative elections in debacle for Macron. wsws.org Jean-Luc Mélenchon's party won a record 142 seats amid an upsurge of strikes and protests, but the neo-fascist National Rally also won a record 89 seats.
(2022-06-20). Three groups vie to shore up discredited Australian university trade union. wsws.org In a revealing sign of the collapse of the NTEU's support, three teams within the union are contesting elections for its top posts in order to head off the discontent among university workers.
(2022-06-20). Iran steps up diplomacy ahead of Biden trip to region. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 20 (MNA) — Iran has ramped up its diplomatic efforts to dispel misunderstandings in the West Asia region amid ongoing efforts from the West to build a coalition against Tehran during US President Joe Biden's upcoming visit to the region.
(2022-06-20). Papua New Guinea election campaign amid escalating crises. wsws.org While none of the contesting parties is addressing the burning issues facing the working class and rural poor, election-related violence is erupting.
(2022-06-19). Washington and NATO are still hindering Syria's reconstruction and are looting oil, gas and wheat/ By Prof. Anderson / Press TV, 26 Feb 2022. marktaliano.net READ MORE: Biden Regime Continues to Steal Food from Syria (syrianews.cc) Interview with Doctor Bassam Barakat On the USA illegal burning of Syrian Wheat Fields/Compiled By Tom Duggan & Nana Lancaster Biden Forces Smuggle Out 83 Tankers Loaded with Stolen Syrian Oil/ By Arabi Souri Biden Occupation Forces Plunder More Syrian Oil/ By Miri Wood…
(2022-06-19). Washington and NATO are still hindering Syria's reconstruction and are looting oil, gas and wheat/ By Prof. Anderson. marktaliano.net READ MORE: Interview with Doctor Bassam Barakat On the USA illegal burning of Syrian Wheat Fields/Compiled By Tom Duggan & Nana Lancaster Biden Forces Smuggle Out 83 Tankers Loaded with Stolen Syrian Oil/ By Arabi Souri Biden Occupation Forces Plunder More Syrian Oil/ By Miri Wood…
(2022-06-19). Historic victory for Gustavo Petro in Colombia's elections. colombiareports.com 
Progressive Senator Gustavo Petro became Colombia's first progressive president-elect since the 1930's after a historic vote on Sunday. According to the National Registry, Petro defeated the runner-up, the allegedly corrupt…
(2022-06-19). Iraq's Sunnis, Kurds Try to Persuade Sadr to Rejoin Political Process. news.antiwar.com Over the past week, key Shi'ite Moqtada al-Sadr had his entire bloc resign from parliament and announced he is stepping away from politics. Despite this, he continues to loom large and is driving the political process. | Whoever the Shi'ite ruling faction is, the Kurdish Democrats and the biggest Sunni Arab bloc will surely find a spot in the coalition. Those groups, however, That's understandable, as Sadr's huge number of followers are going to be aligned agai…
(2022-06-19). Biden Regime Continues to Steal Food from Syria/ By Miri Wood. marktaliano.net Original Link Here: Biden Regime Continues to Steal Food from Syria (syrianews.cc) Biden regime has stolen more Syrian wheat. On 18 June, American illegals in the Levantine Republic moved forty trucks filled with the country's grain, moving them into Iraq via criminal use of the al Walid Crossing in the al Yarubiyah region of Hasakah …
(2022-06-19). Biden meet with genocidal Saudi dictator exposes hypocrisy of "democratic" foreign policy. liberationnews.org 
The administration has announced that Biden will be meeting with notorious murderer and dictator Muhammad bin Salman while in Saudi Arabia…
(2022-06-19). Apple retail workers vote to unionize a store in Maryland. popularresistance.org Workers at Apple's Towson Town Center store in Maryland have voted to unionize, with 65 yeses and 33 nos. Around 110 employees were eligible to vote in the election. | The store is the first Apple retail location in the US to hold a union election, after organizers in Atlanta withdrew their petition to hold a union vote, which had been scheduled to take place in early May.
(2022-06-19). March Protests Union-Busters. popularresistance.org The June 7 Starbucks union win in Memphis, Tennessee, showed that the bosses' tried-and-true, union-busting tactics aren't working like they used to. In the face of the February racist firing of the Memphis 7, election tampering by the bosses and constant anti-union interference, workers at that store still voted 11-3 for the union. | Workers' victories at Starbucks, Amazon and other workplaces are happening in the face of anti-union retaliation campaigns, with more firings and cuts in workers' hours and benefits. | That's why activists with Workers Assembly Against Racism (WAAR) hit the streets June 9 with a 'Ma…
(2022-06-19). Gustavo Petro wins historic elections in Colombia. peoplesdispatch.org Preliminary results from Colombia's second round presidential race indicate the victory of the left-wing Historic Pact coalition led by Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez. The duo had received 40% of the votes cast in the first round, 10 points shy of a first round victory. The progressive duo was facing off against political outsider Rodolfo Hernández of the League of Anti-Corruption Governors movement who received just under 47% of the vote in the precount. | The period leading up to these elections have been marked by irregularities, violence, and strong media campaigns demonizing the progressive candidates. Da…
(2022-06-19). Roger Waters pens letter in support of the Colombian people. peoplesdispatch.org Ahead of the second round of presidential elections in Colombia, renowned musician and activist Roger Waters wrote a letter expressing his support of the Colombian people and their struggle for justice. | To all my Comrades in Colombia. | Today is the second round of your Presidential Election. I have been following the election from afar, I was very excited after the first round when the center left candidate was leading, I even expressed my joy to sympathetic politicians in other South American countries. "Don't get too excited" They warned, "The right wing will go to any lengths to subvert the will of the peop…
(2022-06-19). Why Fathers Should Join the Fight for Universal Paid Leave. aclu.org When Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said he would be taking time off from his cabinet position to spend time with his husband Chasten and his two new children, he was But, as the secretary made clear in his response, raising a newborn is…
(2022-06-19). Calling For A Radical Break With The Status Quo Of Incrementalism. popularresistance.org While Democrats march around in Washington DC pretending they care about quality of life for poor people, it's important to remember who actually walks the walk as opposed to just talking the talk. | A joint press conference held by the Philadelphia-based Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign with the Black Alliance for Peace, shared these words of wisdom via zoom on June 16, 2022. Note that the PPEHRC operates as the Poor People's Army, a well-established organization that has struggled and won housing for single mothers and their children. Details about attending their August boot camp to learn how it's d…
(2022-06-19). Labor Notes 2022: Which Way Forward For The Movement? popularresistance.org After decades of decline and stagnation, U.S. Labor stands at a crossroads. On one side is the same old path of the labor bureaucracy that has sold its soul to the Democratic Party and which has no vision for a renewed labor movement beyond further entrenching itself in the U.S. state. On the other side are the thousands of new young activists and workers marching to the beat of a new grassroots unionism who have the potential to build a national movement to organize millions of workers from below. The formation of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) and the victory at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, as well as t…
(2022-06-19). Queridos amigos, lamento anunciar un genocidio: Dra. Naomi Wolf sobre el "Informe confidencial" de Pfizer. globalizacion.ca 
He estado en silencio durante algunas semanas. Perdóname. | La verdad es que me he quedado casi sin palabras —o el equivalente literario de eso— porque recientemente he tenido la poco envidiable tarea de tratar de anunciar al mundo que en…
(2022-06-19). The COVID Pandemic and the mRNA Vaccine: What Is the Truth? Dr. Russell L. Blaylock. globalresearch.ca The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history. Official lies in an unending stream led by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and UN agencies.
(2022-06-19). Asesor de Seguridad Nacional de EE.UU. da positivo a Covid-19. telesurtv.net La Casa Blanca confirmó el jueves que el presidente Biden, quien saldrá de gira pronto, dio negativo a la enfermedad.
(2022-06-19). Uruguay conmemora natalicio de prócer José Artigas. telesurtv.net El hondo pensamiento republicano de José Artigas lo llevó a ser considerado entre los grandes próceres de América.
(2022-06-19). China accomplishes world's 1st optical all-sky survey by commercial telescope. ecns.cn China's commercial space telescope Yangwang-1 completes an optical survey of the whole sky.Su Meng, the founder and CEO of Origin Space, said during its stay in orbit, Yangwang-1 carried out sky survey observation, atmospheric luminous observation, night remote monitoring and asteroid observation.
(2022-06-19). Colombia's election observers say voters received tainted ballots. colombiareports.com Colombia's election observers warned on Sunday that voters were given tainted ballots that could disqualify their votes. According to the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE), voters were given ballots with signs…
(2022-06-19). Cradle of Civilization: Niuheliang Site. ecns.cn The Niuheliang site lies on a mountain ridge bordering Jianping county and Lingyuan city in Chaoyang, Northeast China's Liaoning province. The site dates back to between 5,500 and 5,000 years ago, a time period in the late Neolithic era and defined by Chinese archaeologists as the Hongshan Culture.
(2022-06-18). Report: US MQ-1C Gray Eagle Drone Sale to Ukraine Has Been Paused. news.antiwar.com Reuters reported on Friday that a Biden administration plan to sell Ukraine four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones to Ukraine The MQ-1C Gray Eagle can be armed with hellfire missiles and can fly for about 30 hours. If sold to Kyiv, the drone would give Ukrainian forces the capabilities to carry out airstrikes deep inside Russian territory. | Sources told Reuters that the plan to sell the drones to Ukraine was…
(2022-06-18). Migrant Children Jailed in Inhumane Conditions Under Biden. scheerpost.com 
By Anna Flagg and Julia Preston / During their harrowing journey from Venezuela to the Texas border, the three Zaragoza children liked to imagine the refuge they would find when they reached the United States, a place where they would finally be free from hunger and police harassment and could simply be kids. | Instead, when they reached the border in March, they were detained — dirty with mud from the Rio Grande and shivering with cold — in frigid cinder block cells. They spent sleepless nights…
(2022-06-18). th anniversary of Watergate. america.cgtn.com years ago, a botched burglary of the Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate building in Washington kicked off a scandal that would bring down a president. Learn more about insider.
(2022-06-18). Colombia to hold elections without any ceasefires. colombiareports.com 
Colombia's second round of elections will be held on Sunday without any ceasefires between the military and illegal armed groups. Guerrilla groups ELN and the Southeastern Bloc did announce a…
(2022-06-18). The main challenges for Colombia's incoming president. colombiareports.com Colombia's President Ivan Duque will leave the winner of Sunday's election with a flurry of crises and a state apparatus that has been devastated by corruption. The misrule of the…