The Self Determination Of Native Americans Hinges On This Supreme Court Case
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-25
A case brought before the United States Supreme Court by three Native American women, who have been representing themselves, may decide the future of the 1975 Indian Self Determination Act. Clearing the FOG speaks with Charmaine White Face, a petitioner in the case, about her fight to stop the privatization of an Indian Health Service facility, Sioux San Hospital in Rapid City South Dakota, that serves 325 tribes in the area. She describes how the privatization is harming the health of the people who use this historic hospital. To her knowledge, this is the first effort to privatize an Indian Health Service hospi…
popularresistance.org/the-self-determination-of-native-americans-hinges-on-this-supreme-court-case/

"We're cannon fodder, that's all"–Indian health care workers cry out for basic PPE as official deaths skyrocket past 300,000
wsws.org | 2021-05-25
Health care workers in India and around the globe face horrific working conditions that have contributed to more than 17,000 deaths from COVID-19 among them worldwide.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/25/inhc-m25.html

Lessons from Vietnam: Elections that can't be bought
Amiad Horowitz | peoplesworld.org | 2021-05-25
We Americans are used to the never-ending and increasingly costly cycle of U.S. electoral campaigns. Theoretically, elections are supposed to happen once every two to six years depending on the office and, one would think, campaigns for those elections would coincide with the election schedule. The reality is quite different. The 2020 election is barely …
peoplesworld.org/article/lessons-from-vietnam-elections-that-cant-be-bought/

Liberty Steel workers face uncertainty after Stocksbridge plant sale
Editorial Team | challenge-magazine.org | 2021-05-25
5,000 workers are worried for their livelihoods after the UK's third largest steel producer, Liberty Steel, announced plans to sell off it's Stocksbridge plant in order to pay off the debts owed by the company. The back door deal made in Dubai between Indian steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta and Investment Bank Credit Suisse will be Continue reading "Liberty Steel workers face uncertainty after Stocksbridge plant sale"
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Defense Against Numbness
He CX. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-05-25
In this narrative medicine essay, an Asian American physician discusses how her race has played a role in interactions with patients, both negatively and positively, and how these exchanges have provided a lens through which to see mutual recognition and shared experience.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2780321

The Pentagon Papers at 50: What's Left Out is Crucial
Paul Ryder | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-25
June 13 will be the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the secret Pentagon Papers, a vast collection of internal U.S. decision-making documents on the Vietnam War. The Papers provoked questions about how the war could have been waged through six presidencies in a row: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon,…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/25/the-pentagon-papers-at-50-whats-left-out-is-crucial/

Wednesday 5/26: Protest at Chevron HQ! Free Myanmar!
Coalition Against Chevron in Myanmar | indybay.org | 2021-05-25
6001 Bollinger Canyon San Ramon, California…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/24/18842735.php

Military Situation In Iraq On May 25, 2021 (Map Update)
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-05-25
Click to see full-size image | On May 23, a logistical convoy of the US military was targeted by an IED attack in the Basrah area | On May 24, Iraqi resistance groups fired at least five rockets at Ain Al Asad Airbase in western Iraq's Anbar province. | On May 24, ISIS attacked Iraqi Federal Police point near Riyadh town. Three officers were wounded | On May 24, sporadic clashes between the PKK and Turkish Armu continue in northern Iraq | On May 24, artillery of the PMU shelled ISIS positions in the T…
southfront.org/military-situation-in-iraq-on-may-25-2021-map-update/

Armenian Soldier Reportedly Killed In Fire-Fight On Armenian-Azerbaijani Border
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-05-25
Illustrative image | The Azerbaijani armed forces opened fire on the positions of the Armenian army near the village of Verin Shorzha in the Gegharkunik region on May 25, according to the press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry."On May 25, at about 14: 20 near the border village of Verin Shorzha, Gegharkunik region of Armenia, the enemy fired at Armenian positions. The details of the incident are being specified," the statement says. | An Armenian soldier was killed as a result of the fire-fight that began after…
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COVID-19 breaks out in Taiwan, with daily case numbers above 100
wsws.org | 2021-05-24
Despite the resurgence of the pandemic globally, Taipei continued to ease restrictions, leading to what is now a dangerous outbreak.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/24/taiw-m24.html

Rivers are Key to Restoring the World's Biodiversity
Alessandra Korap Munduruku, Darryl Knudsen, Irikefe V. Dafe | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-24
Alessandra Korap Munduruku is a Munduruku Indigenous woman leader from Indigenous Reserve Praia do Ândio in the Brazilian Amazon. She is a member of Pariri, a local Munduruku association, as well as the Munduruku Wakoborûn Women's Association. In 2020, Alessandra won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her work defending the culture, livelihoods and rights of Indigenous peoples in Brazil. | Darryl Knudsen is the executive director of International Rivers. He has 20 years' experience channeling the power of civil society movements to create enduring, positive change toward social and environmental justice…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/24/rivers-are-key-to-restoring-the-worlds-biodiversity/

Olympic sized Covid problems for Japan ahead of the Summer Games
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2021-05-24
The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games are now two months away, and the situation does not look good. Current polls show over 80 per cent of the population want the games cancelled. The results are not surprising following the extension of a Covid-19 state of emergency in Tokyo and nine other major cities. Still, there have been no calls by …
peoplesworld.org/article/olympic-sized-covid-problems-for-japan-ahead-of-the-summer-games/

Time for a New Box
John Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-24
Though his story has been widely disseminated by now, before Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong he sent a box of classified documents by snail mail from Hawaii (marked mysteriously "from B. Manning") to a writer in New York, which made its way, unopened, from person to person until it reached journalists Laura Poitras and …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/time-for-a-new-box/

International observers arrive in Syria ahead of elections
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-05-24
Damascus, Syria – On May 23, an international solidarity delegation arrived in Syria to observe elections set to take place on Wednesday, May 26, when voters will decide the next president of the Syrian Arab Republic. | Syria has been under attack since 2011 when a mix of reactionary militias and foreign mercenaries, some armed and funded by the U.S. and its regional allies, violently seized control of parts of the country with the aim of toppling the anti-imperialist government. Lacking internal unity or coherent popular legitimacy, by 2018 these groups were largely defeated by Syrian forces. Portions of the cou…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/5/24/international-observers-arrive-syria-ahead-elections

Time for a New Toolbox
John Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-24
Though his story has been widely disseminated by now, before Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong he sent a box of classified documents by snail mail from Hawaii (marked mysteriously "from B. Manning") to a writer in New York, which made its way, unopened, from person to person until it reached journalists Laura Poitras and …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/time-for-a-new-toolbox/

Let Lebanon be Lebanon: Paris should Stop Threatening Beirut with EU Sanctions
John Hickman | juancole.com | 2021-05-24
John Hickman "Governing Lebanon is surely more daunting than governing France."[1] That pearl of wisdom in an essay defending consociational democracy by University of Pennsylvania political scientist Brendan O'Leary has never been more accurate. A delicate balance of domestic interests with institutional vetoes at the best of times, Lebanese politics has been stalemated for months …
juancole.com/2021/05/lebanon-threatening-sanctions.html

Syrian Refugees and Residents Abroad Vote Massively in Presidential Elections
Saheli Chowdhury | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-24
May 23 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)–On Thursday, May 20, Syrian refugees and residents in different countries around the world voted in massive numbers at Syrian diplomatic missions that were turned into polling centers for the presidential elections. This was the first day of voting in a two-day process–within Syria, citizens will go to polls on May 26. | The generally peaceful electoral process was only marred by xenophobic attacks against Syrian voters in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed one voter, reported Syria News. | The first country to open the polling centers was Australia, where Syrians reg…
orinocotribune.com/syrian-refugees-and-residents-abroad-vote-massively-in-presidential-elections/

Wednesday 5/26: Protest at Chevron HQ! Free Myanmar!
Coalition Against Chevron in Myanmar | indybay.org | 2021-05-24
6001 Bollinger Canyon San Ramon, California…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/24/18842735.php

Another Turkish Officer Killed In Iraqi Kurdistan
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-05-24
Click to see full-size image | On May 24, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported that a 25-year-old serviceman of the Turkish Armed Forces had died during the operation in northern Iraq. He was injured during the landing and died of wounds in the hospital. | The same day, the Turkish Defense Ministry has published a video of the elimination of four Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters in the Iraqi province of Dakuk. According to the Turkish special services, two pickup trucks loaded with weapons, which…
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Belarus Scrambles Fighter Jet, Forces Civilian Plane To Land And Arrests Opposition Figure
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-05-24
Click to see full-size image | On May 23rd, Belarusian authorities scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land. | When the civilian plane landed, authorities arrested an opposition figure who was on board, drawing condemnation from Europe and the United States. | Roman Pratasevich was arrested after the flight in which he was traveling was diverted to Belarus, allegedly after a bomb threat, in what the opposition and Western officials…
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Ruralist's Lament: It's Alive!
Richard Rhames | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-24
We've been farming this plot of land for going on half a century. The fields lay between the ledges and the glacial erratics, and we're only the most recent tillers since "Robert Cole, Yeoman" established a homestead here in 1769. The farm buildings Cole erected were obliterated in a great fire that burned much of…
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