(2022-06-04). NATO Chief Says Ukraine Shouldn't Drop Goal of Driving Russia Out of Crimea. news.antiwar.com In an interview with The Washington Post, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine shouldn't avoid declaring ambitious war aims of driving Russia out of the eastern Donbas region and the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia has controlled since 2014. "They have the right to say that they are fighting for the whole of Ukraine," Stoltenberg said. …
(2022-06-04). Spanish Court Orders Mike Pompeo to Testify on CIA Plot to Kill Julian Assange. news.antiwar.com Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been summoned to appear in a Spanish court to testify on whether the CIA planned to assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was the head of the agency, the Spanish newspaper ABC reported. Yahoo News reported last year that in 2017, the CIA plotted to kidnap Assange, …
(2022-06-04). [Comment] Offline: WHO's erasure of Palestinians must cease. thelancet.com Global health is a graveyard of good intentions. WHO's Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, gave a widely admired address to the World Health Assembly last week. He spoke of "the profound consequences of conflict" for health and concluded his speech with these words: "Unless we seek peace, we will find war. Today, and every day, we have a choice—we make the choices. And today, and every day, we must choose health for peace, and peace for health. Peace, peace, peace." One choice his agency has made is to erase the existence of over 5 million people from its "comprehensive" assessment of world health…
(2022-06-04). Maduro's Success: Principled Resistance to Imperialism Pays Off. orinocotribune.com By Francisco Dominguez Jun 1, 2022 | The world has been stunned by a double wonder: Bolivarian Venezuela's political survival and its miraculous economic recovery: the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has reported that it expects the Venezuelan economy to grow for the first time since 2014, by 5 per cent, one of the highest in the region. | Venezuela's rate of inflation has come down from something like 10 million per cent, as reported by CNBC in 2019, and described as the "biggest economic disaster in modern history" by the Washington Post in the same year, to 7.1 per cent in Septemb…
(2022-06-04). Venezuelan Opposition Infighting: Former Allies of Leopoldo López Criticize Him for Abandoning Them. orinocotribune.com The fight within the Venezuelan extreme right is becoming more evident every day. Recently, one of Leopoldo López's former allies who participated in destabilizing events in Venezuela, has denounced the opposition figure for abandoning those who had backed him. | Eduardo Figueroa Marchena, an officer of the Bolivarian Air Force who betrayed his oath by participating in the conspiracy that became known as Golpe Azul, in February 2015, denounced Leopoldo López during an event in the University of Oviedo, Spain. | Figueroa Marchena, as spokesperson for the group of soldiers and civilians who have been part of variou…
(2022-06-04). President Maduro Presents Report of Venezuela's Fight Against Colombian TANCOL Paramilitaries. orinocotribune.com 
On Thursday, June 2, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, presented an assessment of Operation Bolivarian Shield 2022 and the fight against TANCOL paramilitary and drug trafficking gangs that enter Venezuela from Colombia and have tried to take over different areas of the country. | President Maduro urged the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) to dismantle all these Tancol groups physically, territorially, logistically, militarily, politically, and socially. | The president reported that 257 structures and camps belonging to TANCOL groups in Apure state have been destroyed, of which 23 were laboratorie…
(2022-06-04). Neo-liberalism and anti-inflationary policy. mronline.org 
Central banks all over the capitalist world are raising, or are about to raise, interest rates as a means of countering the currently rampant inflation, which is certain to push a world economy that is barely recovering from the effect of the pandemic, back towards stagnation and greater unemployment.
(2022-06-04). [World Report] Warnings over doctor shortages amid Italian health reforms. thelancet.com As the Italian Health Ministry plans changes to primary care, health workers associations warn of a shortage of staff. Marta Paterlini reports.
(2022-06-04). [Perspectives] Harold Gillies and the battleground of surgical innovation. thelancet.com The damaged faces of soldiers treated by Harold Gillies have become something of a staple of popular culture since the World War 1 centenary. Thus, "shocking pictures" of "horribly disfigured" servicemen have featured in British tabloids, their faces assembled into a jarring photo-mosaic, showing a damaged mass of missing jaws and blown-away noses before being salvaged, corrected, and filled in by the pioneering New Zealander and so-called father of plastic surgery. Historians of medicine have recounted how the case photographs of the patients Gillies treated have even made their way into video games.
(2022-06-04). Iran warns against attempts to undermine IAEA credibility. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 04 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman warned against undermining and weakening the credibility of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
(2022-06-04). Iran welcomes extension of ceasefire in Yemen. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 04 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman welcomed the agreement reached between parties involved in Yemen war at the proposal of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy to extend the ceasefire in Yemen for another two months.