_____ (2022-06-26). Is the Ghost of a Murdered Official Stalking the Former President of the ROK? journal-neo.org The audience may remember the high-profile scandal in inter-Korean relations in which "Kim Jong-un apologized for the death of a South Korean citizen". This murky story is now entering its second round, potentially very unpleasant for Moon Jae-in and his administration. The author covered this topic back in the day, but since the NEO text fell …

____ (2022-06-26). Hong Kong Palace Museum to open on July 2. ecns.cn Located in West Kowloon Cultural District, the Hong Kong Palace Museum is expected to open to the public in July. A total of 914 cultural treasures from the Palace Museum in Beijing will be on display at the opening exhibition of the museum. The museum covers an area of 13,000 square meters and the total construction area is about 30,000 square meters. It has seven floors and nine exhibition halls, with a total exhibition area of 7,800 square meters.

Dave Id (2022-06-26). SCOTUS Overturns Roe v Wade: The Dissent of Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. indybay.org Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan: "Today, the Court discards that balance. It says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of. A State can force her to bring a pregnancy to term, even at the steepest personal and familial costs."

____ (2022-06-26). 914 cultural relics from Beijing to be on display in Hong Kong. ecns.cn A total of 914 cultural relics from the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing are to be on display in the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-06-25). Terrapiattismo geopolitico dell'Italia. globalresearch.ca L'Italia, mentre chiede a Washington di essere ammessa alla Five Eyes, la più potente alleanza spionistica mondiale a guida Usa, boicotta il Forum economico internazionale di San Pietroburgo a scapito dei propri interessi nazionali. | Due eventi — uno a Occidente …

Editor (2022-06-25). Inflation Sparks Global Wave of Protests for Higher Pay, Aid. scheerpost.com By Aya Batrawy / AP Rising food costs. Soaring fuel bills. Wages that are not keeping pace. Inflation is plundering people's wallets, sparking a wave of protests and workers' strikes around the world. This week alone saw protests by the political opposition in Pakistan, nurses in Zimbabwe, unionized workers in Belgium, railway workers in Britain, Indigenous people in Ecuador, hundreds …

_____ (2022-06-25). US Prepares to Oust Erdogan. journal-neo.org After Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially announced his intention to run in the upcoming 2023 presidential elections in Turkey, the current White House administration gave a clear signal to its Western "allies" to intensify the campaign against the current Turkish leader and prepare measures to oust him. Although there is no talk of a coup d'état …

TeleSUR, ldp, SH (2022-06-25). 82 palestinos heridos en brutal represión en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Las autoridades de emergencia reportaron que cuatro palestinos son atendidos por lesiones y presentar síntomas de asfixia en la localidad de Beita.

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2022-06-25). Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity. globalresearch.ca World leaders are meeting in Glasgow at COP-26. All eyes are now on "the imminent dangers of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions". The "climate emergency" is a timely instrument of propaganda used to distract people from questioning "the real crisis", namely the Covid-19 "plandemic".

Talha Burki (2022-06-25). [World Report] COVID-19 in North Korea. thelancet.com 1 month ago, North Korea declared its first COVID-19 cases. Information is scare, but the outbreak now appears to be huge, amid a food crisis and without mass vaccination. Talha Burki reports.

Gavin O'Reilly (2022-06-25). Victoria electoral de Gustavo Petro: øRumbo a un cambio de régimen en Colombia? globalizacion.ca La victoria de Gustavo Petro en las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia del domingo, que marca la primera vez que Bogotá elige a un jefe de estado de izquierda, no fue el único evento geopolítico de gran alcance que tuvo lugar…

WSWS (2022-06-25). India and the US send envoys to Sri Lanka amid worsening economic crisis. wsws.org Prime Minister Wickremesinghe told parliament that the country was "facing a far more serious situation" than the current shortages of fuel and other essentials and warned of "a possible fall to rock bottom."

Joanna Palmer (2022-06-25). [Comment] Sharpening the focus on powerful health stories: Highlights 2022 photography competition open for submissions. thelancet.com Syrian photographer Sameer Al-Doumy's photograph of two boys playing on swings in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, on the first day of a ceasefire in February, 2016, captures a moment of happiness and release amid years of conflict.1 Some 2 months later, a photograph by Karam al-Masri, taken after an attack on the Al-Quds hospital in Aleppo, shows a child crying desperately next to the body of his dead brother, having also lost other family members during the Syrian conflict.1 These powerful images highlight poignant personal moments and the devastating impacts of conflict on individual lives in a protracted conflic…

Anonymous669 (2022-06-25). Turkish Military Continues Expansion In Greater Idlib, Builds New Position Near Key Highways. southfront.org Turkish army vehicles and military personnel are seen near the Turkish-Syrian border on October 12, 2019. IMAGE: Reuters / Murad Sezer | On June 25, the Turkish military established a new position near the town of Mjdlya in the southern part of the Syrian region of Greater Idlib, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. | The London-based monitoring group said that the Turkish military deployed battle tanks, armored personnel carriers and anti-tank guided missile systems at the new position. | Mjdlya is l…

Richard Horton (2022-06-25). [Comment] Offline: The UK, a knave among nations. thelancet.com In 2015, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Health published an admiring report, The UK's Contribution to Health Globally—Benefiting the Country and the World. They identified four sectors where Britain added important value. The UK had shown consistent global leadership towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Tens of thousands of health workers across Africa and Asia had received education and training through National Health Service volunteering. The UK was the only G7 nation to meet the 0 ∑7% GNI target for donor aid.

____ (2022-06-25). Unknown liquid released on train near Japan's Tokyo, 2 girls hospitalized. ecns.cn An unknown liquid was released in a train on Friday in Japan's Chiba Prefecture, close to Tokyo, local media quoted investigators as saying.

____ (2022-06-25). Siren sounded in US military base in Baghdad. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) —Local Iraqi media on Saturday evening reported that the sirens sounded inside a military base belonging to US terrorist forces in Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq.

Deweylaura (2022-06-25). Abortion rights: Today we mourn, tomorrow we organize! cpusa.org The Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is a horrific setback for women, their partners, their families, and society overall. As expected, the court overturned Roe v. Wade, making abortion rights susceptible to the whims of extreme-right state legislators. A woman may not get an abortion in Texas, but a …

_____ (2022-06-25). US Prepares to Oust Erdogan. journal-neo.org After Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially announced his intention to run in the upcoming 2023 presidential elections in Turkey, the current White House administration gave a clear signal to its Western "allies" to intensify the campaign against the current Turkish leader and prepare measures to oust him. Although there is no talk of a coup d'état …

Dave Id (2022-06-25). SCOTUS Overturns Roe v Wade: The Dissent of Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. indybay.org Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan: "Today, the Court discards that balance. It says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of. A State can force her to bring a pregnancy to term, even at the steepest personal and familial costs."

The Conversation (2022-06-25). America's religious Communities are divided over the issue of Abortion. juancole.com Interview by Kalpana Jain, The Conversation | &#1 ; Interviewed: Luis Josué Salés, Scripps College; Rachel Mikva, Chicago Theological Seminary; Samira Meht University of Colorado Boulder; Steven K. Green, Willamette University; Susan M. Shaw; Oregon State University. Since the first indications that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, following a …

John J. Mearsheimer (2022-06-25). The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine War: A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer. juancole.com Robert Schumann Center for Advanced Studies: "Professor John J. Mearsheimer will discuss the current Russian invasion on Ukraine whilst exploring the potential causes and consequences of the crisis. In this lecture, Prof. Mearsheimer will aim to focus on both the origins of the war in Ukraine and some of its most important consequences. He will …

____ (2022-06-25). Hong Kong Palace Museum to open on July 2. ecns.cn Located in West Kowloon Cultural District, the Hong Kong Palace Museum is expected to open to the public in July. A total of 914 cultural treasures from the Palace Museum in Beijing will be on display at the opening exhibition of the museum. The museum covers an area of 13,000 square meters and the total construction area is about 30,000 square meters. It has seven floors and nine exhibition halls, with a total exhibition area of 7,800 square meters.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-25). Mayo Clinic Minute: Reducing dementia risks. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org More than 55 million people worldwide are believed to be living with dementia, according to the World Health Organization. And women are likely to be twice as affected by dementia as men. Dementia is an umbrella term for a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking and social abilities. It's not one disease. And Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. Dr. Ronald Petersen, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Mayo Clinic, says…

____ (2022-06-25). Unknown liquid released on train near Japan's Tokyo, 2 girls hospitalized. ecns.cn An unknown liquid was released in a train on Friday in Japan's Chiba Prefecture, close to Tokyo, local media quoted investigators as saying.

Talha Burki (2022-06-25). [World Report] COVID-19 in North Korea. thelancet.com 1 month ago, North Korea declared its first COVID-19 cases. Information is scare, but the outbreak now appears to be huge, amid a food crisis and without mass vaccination. Talha Burki reports.

Joanna Palmer (2022-06-25). [Comment] Sharpening the focus on powerful health stories: Highlights 2022 photography competition open for submissions. thelancet.com Syrian photographer Sameer Al-Doumy's photograph of two boys playing on swings in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, on the first day of a ceasefire in February, 2016, captures a moment of happiness and release amid years of conflict.1 Some 2 months later, a photograph by Karam al-Masri, taken after an attack on the Al-Quds hospital in Aleppo, shows a child crying desperately next to the body of his dead brother, having also lost other family members during the Syrian conflict.1 These powerful images highlight poignant personal moments and the devastating impacts of conflict on individual lives in a protracted conflic…

TeleSUR, ldp, SH (2022-06-25). 82 palestinos heridos en brutal represión en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Las autoridades de emergencia reportaron que cuatro palestinos son atendidos por lesiones y presentar síntomas de asfixia en la localidad de Beita.

WSWS (2022-06-25). India and the US send envoys to Sri Lanka amid worsening economic crisis. wsws.org Prime Minister Wickremesinghe told parliament that the country was "facing a far more serious situation" than the current shortages of fuel and other essentials and warned of "a possible fall to rock bottom."

____ (2022-06-25). 914 cultural relics from Beijing to be on display in Hong Kong. ecns.cn A total of 914 cultural relics from the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing are to be on display in the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Richard Horton (2022-06-25). [Comment] Offline: The UK, a knave among nations. thelancet.com In 2015, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Health published an admiring report, The UK's Contribution to Health Globally—Benefiting the Country and the World. They identified four sectors where Britain added important value. The UK had shown consistent global leadership towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Tens of thousands of health workers across Africa and Asia had received education and training through National Health Service volunteering. The UK was the only G7 nation to meet the 0 ∑7% GNI target for donor aid.

Jordan Schachtel (2022-06-24). Ukraine is a Mess: Celeb Visits, Banned Books, Ethnic Cleansing, A Broken War Effort, Sponsored by the "Free World" globalresearch.ca Ukraine is a total mess. A mess of epic proportions. | | And sponsored by the "Free World," which, in 2022, hardly resembles anything having to do with freedom or any semblance of western tradition. | Let's absorb the headlines of the past …

Editor (2022-06-24). A Lemming Leading the Lemmings: Slavoj Zizek and the Terminal Collapse of the Anti-War Left. scheerpost.com By Jonathan Cook / MintPress News Have you noticed how every major foreign policy crisis since the U.S. and U.K.'s invasion of Iraq in 2003 has peeled off another layer of the left into joining the pro-NATO, pro-war camp? It is now hard to remember that many millions marched in the U.S. and Europe against …

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-24). US Military Conducts Taiwan Strait Flyover Amid Heightened Tensions. news.antiwar.com On Friday, a US Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane "A US Navy P-8A Poseidon transited the Taiwan Strait in international airspace on June 24. The United States will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows including within the Taiwan Strait," US Indo-Pacific Command said in a stat…

_____ (2022-06-24). Washington Splits Asia in Two. journal-neo.org The modern world is torn by contradictions: the US and its allies, accustomed to global domination, seek to maintain and expand their position at the expense of the interests of other countries, leading to crises and conflicts. In the Middle East, wars have been raging for decades, and in Europe, fighting has broken out in …

_____ (2022-06-24). A Few Words about Sexism &#1 ; Japan's Experience. journal-neo.org In the current stage of the Great Game &#1 ; the global geopolitical power struggle in which the contestants are behaving more and more like the inmates of a madhouse &#1 ; the world is seeing words take on new meanings. And one of the most important words in this Newspeak is "sexism." This term, or rather …

Rann Miller (2022-06-24). Opinion: Confronting Racism In Sports Media Out Of The Mouths Of Whites. moguldom.com Growing up, I hated Duke basketball. Although I couldn't express it as masterfully as ESPN journalist Bomani Jones' takedown of the program, at 8 years old I knew the program didn't represent me — not like the Fab Five. As an adult, I've learned that these programs don't represent Black people at all — only …

Editor (2022-06-24). Deadly Games: The Labour Casualties of Qatar's World Cup. scheerpost.com By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch A sordid enterprise, nasty, crude and needless. But the World Cup 2022 will be, should anyone bother watching it, stained by one of the highest casualty rates amongst workers in its history, marked by corruption and stained by a pharisee quality. The sportswashers, cleaning agent at the ready, will be …

Anonymous765 (2022-06-24). ISIS Strikes Again In Central Syria. southfront.org |

Walden Bello (2022-06-24). Reflections on a Path-Breaking Campaign for Democratic Socialism in the Philippines. fpif.org In the Philippines, as in the U.S., the "left" presents itself "the 'progressive' tail of the liberal elite." Our campaign made room for an actual progressive agenda.

Staff (2022-06-24). Continúa Feria Internacional de Energías Renovables en La Habana. cubadebate.cu La segunda edición de la Feria Internacional de Energías Renovables continuó este jueves en Pabexpo, La Habana, con la presencia del viceprimer ministro y Comandante de la Revolución, Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, y el titular de Energía y Minas, Liván Arronte Cruz. En la jornada también se desarrolló el seminario de eficiencia energética.

Dr. Robert Malone (2022-06-24). Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Analysis Re-do: "Serious adverse events of special interest": Dr. Malone. globalresearch.ca There has been a bit of a stir lately concerning…

AutumnSun (2022-06-24). Free Leonard Peltier Santa Cruz 6-20-2022. indybay.org The benefit was held at The Spot and was sponsored by Barrios Unidos and The American Indian Movement and others.

____ (2022-06-24). HK screens inspirational celebratory film. ecns.cn Hong Kong people have a new option to mark the anniversary of the city's return－a celebratory film themed around ordinary people chasing their dreams over the past quarter-century. The film's screening citywide was on Thursday.

Anonymous669 (2022-06-24). Al-Qaeda's HTS Calls On Palestinian Hamas Not To Restore Relations With Damascus. southfront.org Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, has called on the Palestinian Hamas Movement to refrain from restoring relations with the Damascus government. | In a statement released on June 23, the terrorist group's public relations arm, the Department of Political Affairs, said that it was badly shocked by recent

Joe Glenton (2022-06-24). As Afghans dig through earthquake rubble, their wealth remains in the hands of US banks. thecanary.co Afghans in the east of the country have spent several days digging through rubble, often by hand, following an earthquake. The disaster hit both Afghanistan and Pakistan on The Taliban gove…

____ (2022-06-24). Hong Kong celebrates 25th anniversary of return to motherland. ecns.cn Lanterns are hung above an overbridge in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, June 23, 2022. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland.

WSWS (2022-06-24). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org India: Haryana childcare workers hold three-day protest; Pakistan: Health care workers in Islamabad oppose privatisation; Australia: Sydney commuter rail workers impose bans; Australian airline pilots vote to strike at Regional Express.

_____ (2022-06-24). Brazil: Officials Working With Indigenous Peoples Go On Strike. popularresistance.org On Thursday, officials from the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) paralyzed their activities and joined the national day of protests called to reject the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and ethnologist Bruno Araujo-Pereira in the Brazilian Amazon. | Carrying banners calling for justice, human rights defenders and environmental activists gathered in Brasilia and other Brazilian cities to demand protection for the Indigenous Peoples and demand that the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro open an exhaustive investigation into "the chain of crime in the Amazon." | In Rio de Janeiro, social activists paid tr…

Maryam Jameela (2022-06-24). Fascist Tories want to scrap the Human Rights Act. thecanary.co A new And th…

____ (2022-06-24). Emirati gas facility targeted in Iraq again (+VIDEO). en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 24 (MNA) — The Emirati Company's facility "Dana Gas" in northern Iraq, which was recently attacked, was again targeted by a rocket on Friday.

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2022-06-24). Raed Jarrar on Biden's Saudi Trip, Lindsay Koshgarian on People Over Pentagon. fair.org (cc photo: Joe Flood) | This week on CounterSpin: Elite news media are saying that Biden has to go to Saudi Arabia in July despite his pledges to make the country a "pariah" for abuses including the grisly murder of a Washington Post contributor, because…stability? Shaking hands with Mohammed bin Salman makes sense, even in the context of denying Cuba and Venezuela participation in the Americas Summit out of purported concerns about their human rights records, because…gas prices? It's hard to parse corporate media coverage of Biden's Saudi visit, because that coverage obscures rather than illuminates what's…