[Perspectives] A sudden glittering
Margaret McCartney | thelancet.com | 2021-06-05
I got to know Andrew O'Hagan's writing through the London Review of Books. He is a writer who often starts from a position of a proper kind of disinterest, able to disconcert us and make us reassess our presumed certainties. In his short novel Mayflies, O'Hagan tells us about friendship, music, cancer, and euthanasia.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01200-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Clinical Picture] Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion and hypothalamic hypocortisolism in neuromyelitis optica
Charidimos Tsagkas, Silke Schà§fer, Annette Baumgartner, Jannis Màºller, Tim Sinnecker, Matthias Mehling, Jan Gerrit van der Stouwe, Susan Felder, Anneza Panagiotou, Eliska Potlukova, Bettina Winzeler, Marleen Carina Scholz, Katharina Timper, Kristine Blackham, Christian H Nickel, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Roland Bingisser, Philippe Lyrer, Ludwig Kappos, àñzgàºr Yaldizli | thelancet.com | 2021-06-05
A 35-year-old woman presented to our emergency room with a 3-day history of dizziness, nausea, and fatigue. The patient said she had been diagnosed with a brain tumour 2 years earlier; at that time, she reported having diplopia as well as dizziness and fatigue. A stereotactic tumour biopsy was considered, but not done because she made a full recovery with high-dose steroid treatment.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00986-7/fulltext?rss=yes

New Round Of Intra-Rebel Clashes Left Three Dead In Northeastern Syria
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-06-04
Illustrative image. | On June 3, clashes broke out between militants of the Turkish-backed Hamzah Division in the Turkish-occupied part of northeastern Syria. | The clashes, which were the result of personal disagreements, took place in the town of Ras al-Ain, right on the border with Turkey as well as in the nearby village of al-Duwaira. Heavy weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades and large-caliber machine guns, were reportedly used during the clashes. | "The reason behind the clashes was that one militant refu…
southfront.org/new-round-of-intra-rebel-clashes-left-three-dead-in-northeastern-syria/

List Of Turkish Soldiers Killed By Kurdish Forces In Northern Syria Gets Longer
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-06-04
Turkish forces are seen near Mount Barsaya, northeast of Afrin, Syria January 23, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi | On June 4, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that one of its service members had been killed in Syria. | According to the ministry, the service members was killed in an attack in the area of Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo. The Kurdish-majority area was occupied by the Turkish military and its Syrian proxies more than three years ago. | The service member was most likely killed…
southfront.org/list-of-turkish-soldiers-killed-by-kurdish-forces-in-northern-syria-gets-longer/

New COVID-19 wave in Taiwan exposes government's lack of preparation
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
The outbreak also reveals that no country is safe from the pandemic as long as the virus is allowed to move freely anywhere in the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/taiw-j04.html

Women's Rights and Debt Oppression in Central Asia
Dr Elmira Satybaldieva | globalresearch.ca | 2021-06-04
On 15 April …
globalresearch.ca/debt-oppression-central-asia/5746948

Author of WSJ "Wuhan lab" story wrote lies about Iraqi "Weapons of Mass Destruction"
WSWS repost | indybay.org | 2021-06-04
The lead writer of the Wall Street Journal piece that led to the embrace by the entire US media of the "Wuhan lab" theory was the co-author with Judith Miller of the discredited "aluminum tubes" story that helped launch the US invasion of Iraq.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/01/18842892.php

Headlines for June 4, 2021
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-06-04
Activists Call U.S. Plan to Ship 25 Million COVID Vaccine Doses Abroad "Deeply Insufficient", WHO Warns of Surging COVID-19 Cases in Africa as Vaccine Shipments Come to "Near Halt", Chinese Authorities Ban Hong Kong Vigil Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre, Arrest Organizer, Peruvian Presidential Runoff Pits Ex-Dictator's Daughter Against Socialist School Teacher, 89 Politicians Killed in Run-up to Mexican Midterm Elections, Lawyers for Guantánamo Prisoner Challenge Judge's Order Permitting Use of Info Obtained by Torture, Watchdog Says Pentagon Grossly Misrepresented Civilian Casualties from U.S. Military, U.N. Sa…
www.democracynow.org/2021/6/4/headlines

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
Seamen and civil servants in Greece walk out against laws restricting right to strike; UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency workers in Wales continue walk outs over COVID safety; 24-hour public sector strike in Lebanon over poverty and unemployment; Lesotho general strike of textile workers enters second week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/wkrs-j04.html

[Research Paper] Convalescent plasma therapy in patients with moderate-to-severe COVID-19: A study from Indonesia for clinical research in low- and middle-income countries
Marliana S. Rejeki, Nana Sarnadi, Retno Wihastuti, Vininta Fazharyasti, Wisvici Y. Samin, Frilasita A. Yudhaputri, Edison Johar, Neni Nurainy, Novilia S. Bachtiar, David H. Muljono | thelancet.com | 2021-06-04
This study highlights the safety of CP therapy. Although improvements were observed, we could not conclude that the outcomes were solely due to CP treatment. Further randomised controlled trials that cover different disease stages with pre-donation NAb measurements using locally applicable strategies are warranted.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00211-X/fulltext?rss=yes

What capitalism has wrought–India's tsunami of infections and death, and pandemic of hunger and joblessness
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
India's purported capitalist "rise"–so celebrated in the media in the west–has produced a malignant society that embodies and exemplifies the dysfunction, brutality and criminality of 21st century capitalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/kjsp-j04.html

Indian autoworkers denounce governments, companies and unions for making them work amid deadly pandemic
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
Summing up his experience with the trade unions, one worker told the WSWS, "Earlier I thought only management and governments are against us, but now, I realize our union joined them long ago."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/inau-j04.html

Friday 6/11: STOP Criminal Insanity Of Holding Tokyo Olympics In Middle Of Pandemic-Lives Over Profit
No Nukes Action | indybay.org | 2021-06-04
San Francisco Japanese Consulate | 275 Battery St./California St. | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/03/18842915.php

The pandemic has starkly revealed that the unions are organically bound to the capitalist class and its state
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
The following speech was delivered by SEP (Sri Lanka) Political Committee member M. Devarajah to a May 30 meeting organized by the SEP in Sri Lanka.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/devr-j04.html

The pandemic has starkly revealed that the unions are organically bound to the capitalist class and its state
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
The following speech was delivered by SEP (Sri Lanka) Political Committee member M. Thevarajah to a May 30 meeting organized by the SEP in Sri Lanka.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/devr-j04.html

An Ordinary German Neo-Nazi Death Squad Man
Thomas Klikauer — Catherine Link | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
The biography of German Neo-Nazi death-squad leader Franco Albrecht — known in the German press only as Franco A — begins in the city of Offenbach in 1989. Franco Albrecht's mother, a local woman, had married an Italian immigrant, a man whose grandfather served in Hitler's navy and had Germanic runes engraved on his tombstone.
counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/an-ordinary-german-neo-nazi-death-squad-man/

How Getting a Vaccine in India Is a 'Privilege' Especially For Those in Rural Areas
Ruhi Bhasin | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
If the month of April was marked by images of endless rows of burning funeral pyres from major Indian cities, the images of floating bodies in the Ganges River near the north Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in May were a grim reminder of the unchecked spread of the virus in rural India…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/how-getting-a-vaccine-in-india-is-a-privilege-especially-for-those-in-rural-areas/

ISIS Claimed Responsibility For Explosion That Left 23 Causalities In Iraq's Baghdad (Video)
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-06-04
Screen grab from the bombing video. | ISIS has claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion that rocked the Shiite-majority district of al-Kadhimiya in the northern outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on June 3. | The the terrorist group said that the explosion, which targeted a gathering of Shiite worshipers near a local Shrine in the district, was orchestrated by its security cells in Baghdad. | Initial, Iraqi security sources claimed that the explosion was the result of an "accident" caused by a faulty gas cylinder.
southfront.org/isis-claimed-responsibility-for-explosion-that-left-23-causalities-in-iraqs-baghdad-video/

Echo Of Karabakh War: Three Killed In Mine Explosion In Azerbaijani Kalbajar Region
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-06-04
Illustrative image | On June 4, private media outlet in Azerbaijan, Trend News Agency, reported that three people were killed and four people were wounded as a result of the mine explosion in Azerbaijan's Kalbajar district. | According to a joint statement made by the Azerbaijani Prosecutor's General Office and the Interior Ministry, a car with employees of TV channels and news agencies sent to Kalbajar district to carry out their official duties hit a mine in the direction of Susuzlug village of Kalbajar distr…
southfront.org/echo-of-karabakh-war-three-killed-in-mine-explosion-in-azerbaijani-kalbajar-region/

Protasevich Speaks Of The Artificial Nature Of The Protests, Bankrolling, Organizers
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-06-04
Click to see full-size image | Belarusian opposition figure and co-founder of the Nexta Telegram channel, Roman Protasevich said that the financing of the ex-presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya comes from the funds of Lithuanian taxpayers and interested businessmen."First, indeed, part of it is at the expense of Lithuanian taxpayers. Lithuanian taxpayers, in fact, support foreign politicians from their own pockets. Partly these are private sponsors. That is, private businessmen, representatives of the bu…
southfront.org/protasevich-speaks-of-the-artificial-nature-of-the-protests-bankrolling-organizers/

Greater Idlib: Militants Targeted Syrian Army Battle Tank With Guided Missile
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-06-03
Illustrative image. | On June 3, militants of the al-Fateh al-Mubeen Operations Room targeted a battle tank of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near the government-held town of Kafr Nabil in the southern countryside of Idlib. | The battle tank was reportedly hit with an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM). Opposition activists claimed that the tank's crew were killed or wounded. | Click to see full-size map. Source: (@Suriyakmaps) on Twitter, Via…
southfront.org/greater-idlib-militants-targeted-syrian-army-battle-tank-with-guided-missile/

Kurdish Forces' ATGMs Inflicted Losses On Turkish-Backed Militants In Northern Aleppo
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-06-03
Illustrative image, fighters of the Afrin Liberation Forces. Via the Hawar News Agency (ANHA). | On June 3, Kurdish fighters carried out a number of attacks on Turkish forces in the northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo. | At noon, the fighters, who are believed to be affiliated with the People's Protection Units or the Afrin Liberation Forces, destroyed a military vehicle of Turkish-backed militants near the town of Basselhâya in the southern part of occupied Afrin with an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM). | A few hours late…
southfront.org/kurdish-forces-atgms-inflicted-losses-on-turkish-backed-militants-in-northern-aleppo/

Toxic legacy, part 2: Fighting for justice after chemical warfare in Vietnam
Amiad Horowitz | peoplesworld.org | 2021-06-03
The following article is the second in a two-part series on U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam. The first part, which can be read here, dealt with the history of Agent Orange and its use by the U.S. military in Southeast Asia. This installment covers the stories of the victims and their battle for justice. "If …
peoplesworld.org/article/toxic-legacy-part-2-fighting-for-justice-after-chemical-warfare-in-vietnam/

Toxic legacy, part 2: Fighting for justice after chemical warfare in Vietnam
Amiad Horowitz | peoplesworld.org | 2021-06-03
The following article is the second in a two-part series on U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam. The first part, which can be read here, dealt with the history of Agent Orange and its use by the U.S. military in Southeast Asia. This installment covers the stories of the victims and their battle for justice. "If …
peoplesworld.org/article/toxic-legacy-part-2-fighting-for-justice-after-chemical-warfare-in-vietnam/

State Department's Blinken calls for strengthening NATO military cooperation with Asia-Pacific nations
Rick Rozoff | antibellum679354512.wordpress.com | 2021-06-03
State Department's Blinken calls for strengthening NATO military cooperation with Asia-Pacific nationsRick Rozoff The U.S. Statement Department web page shared a brief, paragraph-long, account of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's comments to a virtual NATO foreign ministers on June 1 presided over by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The cyber conference was held in advance of …
antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/06/03/state-departments-blinken-calls-for-strengthening-nato-military-cooperation-with-asia-pacific-nations/

Update on Mumia's Case and MOVE — Chavista Chronicles from Caracas interview with Suzanne Ross
Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza | orinocotribune.com | 2021-06-03
Caracas, June 03, 2021 (OrinocoTribune.com)–In the latest episode of Chavista Chronicles from Caracas we had the pleasure of interviewing Suzanne Ross. Ross has been active in the international solidarity movement since the US war in Vietnam, and has visited Venezuela four times in the past ten years to support the Bolivarian Republic's struggle for self determination faced with US intervention and aggression. | Ross began supporting the cause of Mumia Abu-Jamal when he was on death row and scheduled for execution in 1995. She has played a key role in building the impressive Free Mumia movement which contin…
orinocotribune.com/update-on-mumias-case-and-move-chavista-chronicles-from-caracas-interview-with-suzanne-ross/

Malcolm Gladwell Claims Satan Won WWII But Jesus Does Drone Strikes
David Swanson | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-03
I wish I were joking, even a little. Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Bomber Mafia, maintains that Haywood Hansell was essentially Jesus tempted by the Devil when he refused to burn Japanese cities to the ground. Hansell was replaced, and Curtis LeMay put in charge of U.S. bombings of Japan during WWII. LeMay, Gladwell tells us, was…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/03/malcolm-gladwell-claims-satan-won-wwii-but-jesus-does-drone-strikes/

Video: Nasrallah Pronounced Dead by MSM Amid Deepest Crisis in Lebanese History
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2021-06-03
Lebanon is in …
globalresearch.ca/video-nasrallah-pronounced-dead-msm-amid-deepest-crisis-lebanese-history/5746862

Suicidal Games: Tokyo's Coronavirus Olympics
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-06-03
TOKYO, JAPAN — MARCH 05: A man wearing a face mask walks near the Olympic Rings in Odaiba on March 5, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | A pandemic crisis. A state of emergency. Overwhelming public opinion bristling with alarm. Notwithstanding these factors, Tokyo is still on track to host the Olympics that was cancelled last year in response to the global pandemic. The first sports team — Australia's softball crew — has touched down.
southfront.org/suicidal-games-tokyos-coronavirus-olympics/

The Terrible Toll of India's Second COVID-19 Wave
Sanket Jain | progressive.org | 2021-06-03
After decades of refusing to invest in health care, the Indian government has left many rural communities with few options to control the virus's spread.
progressive.org/latest/terrible-toll-india-second-covid-wave-jain-210603/

Biden Reveals Plans to Share COVID-19 Vaccines
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
On Thursday, the White House revealed that president Joe Biden's plan to share COVID-19 vaccines with the rest of the world, as he pledged earlier in the year following criticism for the hoarding of vaccines and the raw materials export ban hindered vaccine production in India. | RELATED: | Biden Supports Suspension of Covid-19 Vaccine Patents | According to the press release, the U.S. will allocate around 75 percent of the first batch of 25 million doses to the COVAX mechanism, includi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Biden-Reveals-Plans-to-Share-COVID-19-Vaccines-20210603-0026.html

Two agonizing years of devastation
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-06-03
Ever since the outbreak of the pandemic, first recorded in India end January 2020, this Modi government's preoccupation had never been on combating the pandemic in right earnest and saving people's lives but on continuing to relentlessly pursue the unfolding of the RSS project. | June 3, 2021…
mronline.org/2021/06/03/two-agonizing-years-of-devastation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-agonizing-years-of-devastation

'Minamata' brings the horror of industrial pollution to life
Barry Healy | greenleft.org.au | 2021-06-03
Barry Healy reviews a new film about the industrial mercury poisoning of a Japanese village and the photographer who exposed the story to the world.
greenleft.org.au/content/minamata-brings-horror-industrial-pollution-life

Barbara Lee Introduces Bill to Help Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-06-03
The Vietnam War ended in 1975, but Vietnamese people today continue to suffer the effects of Agent Orange, the deadly dioxin-containing chemical weapon that the U.S. sprayed over 12 percent of South Vietnam from 1961-1971, poisoning both the people and the land. | Descendants of the approximately 2 to 4 million Vietnamese people, hundreds of thousands of U.S. Vietnam veterans, and Vietnamese-Americans who were exposed to the toxin continue to record disproportionate rates of congenital disabilities…
truthout.org/articles/barbara-lee-introduces-bill-to-help-vietnamese-victims-of-agent-orange/

Sri Lankan health workers support International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
wsws.org | 2021-06-03
"We in the health service and all sectors of workers want to eradicate this deadly disease, but capitalist big businesses want to continue their profiteering."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/03/iwar-j03.html

Sri Lankan health workers support International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
wsws.org | 2021-06-03
"We in the health service and all sectors of workers want to eradicate this deadly disease, but capitalist big businesses want to continue their profiteering."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/03/iwar-j03.html

Rights groups sign letter denouncing human rights abuses in Egypt
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-06-03
63 international human rights and civil society organizations signed a letter calling on the Egyptian government to "immediately end a crackdown on freedom of association, independent groups, and peaceful dissent," Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday, June 1. Among the prominent organizations that signed the letter are Access Now, Freedom House, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), EuroMed Rights, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), Odhikar Bangladesh, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Egyptian Human Rights Forum. | The letter urges the…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/06/03/rights-groups-sign-letter-denouncing-human-rights-abuses-in-egypt/