(2023-06-19). Belarusian Coup Plotters Train in Poland. news.antiwar.com A group of Belarusian exiles is receiving training in Poland to prepare for a day when they return to Belarus to take on the government of President Alexander Lukashenko, The Times reported on Sunday. The Times spoke with Belarusians who were training in a field behind a business park in Poznan, Poland. The training was …
(2023-06-19). NATO Chief Says No Formal Invite for Ukraine to Join Alliance at Vilnius Summit. news.antiwar.com NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that NATO will not offer a formal invitation to Ukraine to join the alliance at the upcoming summit in Vilnius that will be held from July 11-12. "At the Vilnius Summit and in the preparations for the Summit, we're not discussing to issue a formal invitation," Stoltenberg said at …
(2023-06-19). NYT: Western Countries Have Sent Broken Weapons to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The New York Times reported Monday that the US and its Western allies have shipped weapons to Ukraine that were broken and needed repair or were only useful for spare parts. The report also said that Ukraine has not received weapons from contractors that it has paid for. As of the end of 2022, the …
(2023-06-19). Taiwanese Analysts to Join US-Japan Taiwan Strait War Game. news.antiwar.com Taiwanese military experts will join US and Japanese analysts in conducting war game simulations for a potential conflict with China in the Taiwan Strait, The South China Morning Post reported Monday. It will mark the first time that Taiwanese analysts join the tabletop exercises, demonstrating the increasing preparations for war in the region. The event …
(2023-06-19). US Navy Rehearses Docking Nuclear-Armed Submarine in South Korea. news.antiwar.com The arrival of a large US nuclear-powered submarine in South Korea was a "dress rehearsal" for the docking of a nuclear-armed submarine, Nikkei Asia reported Monday. The guided-missile submarine (SSGN) USS Michigan docked in Busan on Friday. The USS Michigan was initially commissioned in the 1980s as a ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) that was armed …
(2023-06-19). Dan Ellsberg's Parting Plea: Don't Wait. original.antiwar.com
(2023-06-19). Bronx Antiwar Coalition chases military recruiters out of college career fair. workers.org 
The Bronx Antiwar Coalition successfully chased U.S. Army recruiters out of a student career fair June 11. The fair was hosted by U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat at the City University of New York in The Heights (BMCC), in the predominantly Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights. The Coalition organized the anti-recruitment . . . |
(2023-06-20). Saturday 6/17: Marxist Transgender Liberation and LGBTQ Rights in Actually Existing Socialist Countries. indybay.org San Jose Peace & Justice Center (48 S 7th St #101, San Jose, CA 95112)…
(2023-06-20). Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Dead at 92. indybay.org Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst-turned-peace activist who revealed that the U.S. government had been lying about its devastating war on Vietnam, died Friday (June 16), four months after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 92.
(2023-06-20). The U.S. is blaming China for its own drug crisis. What's really going on? peacepivot.org The U.S. is blaming China for its own drug crisis. Last week, the U.S. government sanctioned 17 companies and individuals in China and Mexico for fentanyl-related production, in an attempt to deflect blame for the opioid crisis. This issue clearly requires international cooperation, not one-sided accusations. But the same politicians slinging dirt at China have …
(2023-06-20). China ready to advance ties with Germany. ecns.cn Premier Li Qiang underlined the importance of China's relations with Germany, saying Beijing stands ready to work with Berlin to uphold peace, development and cooperation in order to promote global stability, prosperity and growth.
(2023-06-19). A Compassionate Spy… How an American Spy for the Soviets Saved the World From an Atomic Holocaust. strategic-culture.org Dave Lindorff's film, A Compassionate Spy, explains much of why the world is facing an abysmal situation today. | Toward the end of World War Two, the U.S. leadership had plans to use their newly developed atomic weapon not against Nazi Germany or Japan, but rather primarily to destroy the Soviet Union. A new documentary film, A Compassionate Spy, tells how that abomination against world peace was prevented. | In this interview, award-winning journalist Dave Lindorff who co-produced the movie reveals the background and nerve-racking details of this little-known spy story. | A young American physicist named Ted…
(2023-06-19). Climate change is intensifying humanitarian crisis in war-affected Yemen. peoplesdispatch.org A fact sheet prepared by SIPRI and NUPI warns that the climate crisis in Yemen needs urgent international attention as competition over scarce water resources and fertile land may jeopardize the possibility of peace in the country…
(2023-06-19). Ukraine Violated Peace Agreement Approved in Turkey, Putin Reveals. orinocotribune.com Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed during an African leaders meeting in St. Petersburg that Russian forces had withdrawn from Kiev and other regions of Ukraine last year in compliance with a peace agreement reached in Turkey, as part of an African mediation mission to Russia. | However, during the meeting with the members of the African delegation, who were entrusted with presenting an initiative to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, Putin informed them that Kiev had declined to sign the pact following the voluntary departure of Russian troops. | The Russian head of state presented the document negotiated by…
(2023-06-19). Mali Demands That UN Troops Leave. orinocotribune.com Bamako's top diplomat said the international peacekeeping mission has become "part of the problem" | Mali has called on the United Nations to end its decade-long peacekeeping mission "without delay," saying the international military force has only fueled tensions and instability in the African country. | Addressing the UN Security Council on Friday, Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said officials are willing to continue coordination with the UN, but demanded an end to its "stabilization mission." The UN force, known as MINUSMA, was deployed in 2013 in response to the Tuareg rebellion in the northern part o…
(2023-06-19). Putin Reveals Details About the Defunct Draft March 2022 Peace Treaty with Ukraine. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-19). Russia-Ukraine Crisis: The Meandering Roadmap to Ultimate Peaceful Settlement. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-19). The Arms Dealer Behind the African Peace Mission to Ukraine. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-19). Our Systems Reward Dysfunction And Destruction: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | Our civilization is sick because all its systems ensure that human behavior is driven by profit, and health isn't profitable. Nobody gets rich from everyone staying healthy all the time. The gears of capitalism will still keep turning if its populace is made shallow and dull by bad education and crappy art made for profit. Billionaires aren't made by leaving forests and oceans unmolested, consuming less, mining less, drilling less, using less energy. The economy doesn't soar when the world is at peace and nations are working together in harmony. | I…
(2023-06-19). A History of Ceasefires & Peace in Ukraine. transcend.org 14 Jun 2023 – Negotiations, ceasefires, armistices and peace agreements are as old as wars themselves. Every war ends with some version of one of them. To stop the killing in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, people of conscience must do everything they can to make negotiations for a ceasefire become a reality.
(2023-06-19). Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92. transcend.org 16 Jun 2023 – Leaker of the top-secret history of the Vietnam War that enraged the Nixon administration–serving as the catalyst for White House-directed burglaries and "dirty tricks" that snowballed into the Watergate scandal–died today in California. He was 92. Rest in Peace Daniel Ellsberg.
(2023-06-19). International Criminal Court Advancing Global Injustice, Unaccountability and Criminal Agenda against Guardians of Peace. transcend.org "Rise, O' all you intelligent, righteous humanoids". Just as the war in Ukraine has become a festering sore in the politically motivated, combined, western, proxy war against Russia, the plight of Palestinians is a chronic human rights violation, festering, as an ulcer, already systemic in its manifestations, generated by Israel in its ongoing philosophy of ethnic cleansing. In reality it is a genocide, which is obfuscated by various institutes and governments for their personal support of the Zionist agenda.
(2023-06-19). Summer Fundraising — Please Pitch In. transcend.org Dear reader, please partner with TMS by contributing financially to our Peace Journalism. A troubled world needs our solutions as most leaders have gone berserk with their warmongering, fear-inducing militarism, and war-dependent economies. Our heartfelt thanks.
(2023-06-19). Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (5). transcend.org Quoted from the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi.
(2023-06-19). Shooting in Illinois, at Least 1 Killed and 20 Injured. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, at least one person was killed and 22 were injured when a group of people gathered in a strip mall in Willowbrook, Illinois to celebrate Juneteenth. | Related: | Authorities described the gathering as a peaceful "celebration of Juneteenth" that began at 6 p.m. Saturday. | "At approximately 12: 25 AM, police were called away due to a 911 call alleging a fight had broken out nearby," the DuPage County Sheriff's Offi…
(2023-06-19). Africa's 10 Point Peace Plan: Mission: President Cyril Ramaphosa. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-19). President Xi's letter boosts confidence for Taiwan people. ecns.cn People from Taiwan said the congratulatory letter from Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, has boosted their confidence in the integrated and peaceful development across the Taiwan Strait.
(2023-06-20). Renuncia rector del CNE de Venezuela. telesurtv.net La renuncia de Picón ocurre días después que otros ocho rectores principales y suplentes también presentaran su dimisión a sus respectivos cargos.
(2023-06-20). Finaliza Festival de Teatro Progresista Venezuela 2023. telesurtv.net El festival se llevó a cabo en todo el país, y contó con más de 1.000 artistas de 128 agrupaciones.
(2023-06-19). Alex Saab, Hostage of the Hybrid War Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Francisco Dominguez — Jun 17, 2023 | The case is a terrifying example of the US's continuing commitment to illegal, unilateral intervention and 'regime change,' where no country is truly safe. | June 12 2023 was the third anniversary of the illegal kidnapping and imprisonment by the US of Alex Saab. | Because the brutality and cruelty of the US blockade was wreaking havoc on the economy and millions of the most vulnerable in Venezuela were being deliberately denied their human rights to the most basic necessities of daily life, President Nicolas Maduro tasked Saab with travelling around the world procurin…
(2023-06-19). Nicolás Maduro Makes Historic Trip to Brazil for South American Presidents' Summit By: Global News Service. midwesternmarx.com Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro participated in a joint press conference on May 29 from the Planalto Palace in Brasília, highlighting the importance of resuming ties. The press conference was held following a bilateral meeting between the heads of state ahead of the South American Presidents' Summit.As Lula told media, "This is a historic moment. After eight years, President Nicolás Maduro is bac …