Daily Archives: June 5, 2021

2021-06-05: News Headlines

Luis Feliz León (2021-06-05). Can a Driver Uprising Make Food Apps Deliver? zcomm.org "There is no labor movement without organizing the new workforce, which just happens to be immigrant in New York"

Fight Back (2021-06-05). Day of Action June 8 to support the American Dream and Promise Act. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Legalization for All Network. | On June 8th, the Legalization for All (L4A) Network is calling for a national action urging the Senate to pass the American Dream and Promise Act, or the American Promise Act. | American Promise Act would permanently legalize people with DACA, TPS and DED. It passed the U.S. House in March 2021 and is currently sitting in the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety. The American Promise Act needs to pass the subcommittee, then the committee, before going on…

WSWS (2021-06-05). Unify the working class across the Indian subcontinent to fight the COVID-19 pandemic! wsws.org Only an international, scientific health strategy can defeat this highly contagious virus, which ignores borders and passports and infects people of all nationalities.

Anonymous007 (2021-06-05). Military Situation In Syria On June 5, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On June 4, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 39 times: 20 — in Idlib province, 10 — in Latakia province, 5 — in Hama province, 4 — in Aleppo province | On June 4, three Turkish soldiers were killed in northern Aleppo | On June 4, a US logistical convoy entered Syria via Semalka border crossing | On June 5, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces near Banin village | MORE ON THE TOPIC:…

_____ (2021-06-05). AFRICOM Military's Exercise. popularresistance.org Phoenix Express 2021, the AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise involving 13 countries in the Mediterranean Sea region, concluded last week. While its stated aim was to combat "irregular migration" and trafficking, the US record in the region indicates more nefarious interests…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-05). Consumer Health: Understanding migraine headaches. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org June is Migraine and Headache Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about migraines. Migraine headaches can cause severe throbbing pain or a pulsing sensation, usually on one side of the head, often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. A migraine usually lasts from four to …

Juliana C N Chan, Lee-Ling Lim, Jonathan E Shaw, Carlos A Aguilar-Salinas, Edward W Gregg, Lancet Commission on diabetes (2021-06-05). [Correspondence] Data on diabetes-specific distress are needed to improve the quality of diabetes care — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We fully agree with Jane Speight and colleagues' emphasis on the need to assess and manage diabetes-specific distress. In our Commission,1 we addressed, in no fewer than ten places, the possible causative and amplifying effects of psychosocial stress on diabetes self-management and disease control, and highlighted many of the contributing factors, such as rapid rural—urban migration, living conditions, social disparity, economics, work, family, and interpersonal relationships.Acknowledging the importance of diabetes-specific distress arising from worries about the condition's nature and quality of care, the…

Martha Grevatt (2021-06-04). 'Good riddance' to ICE detention in Ohio's Butler County. workers.org Cleveland Ohio immigrant rights organizations and attorneys held a virtual press conference May 28 to announce a win: Immigrants will no longer be subjected to the deplorable conditions of detention at the Butler County Jail, in Hamilton. Organizers are demanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement release everyone detained in the jail. . . . |

Thomas Klikauer — Catherine Link (2021-06-04). An Ordinary German Neo-Nazi Death Squad Man. counterpunch.org 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.

The Associated Press (2021-06-04). US Taps Groups to Pick Asylum-Seekers to Allow Into Country. latinorebels.com SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration has quietly tasked six humanitarian groups with recommending which migrants should be allowed to stay in the U.S. instead of being rapidly expelled from the country under federal pandemic-related powers that block people from seeking asylum.

teleSUR (2021-06-04). Egypt Sends Engineering Machinery and Teams to Gaza. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Egypt sent machinery and brigades for the reconstruction of Gaza, a Palestinian territory that suffered millions of dollars in losses as a result of 11 days of indiscriminate Israeli bombardment. | RELATED: | "Egyptian engineering machinery and brigades entered the Gaza Strip… through the Rafah border crossing to help remove rubble from destroyed houses," the news agency MENA reported. | The Egyptian coop…

Mark Gruenberg (2021-06-04). Coalition wants Congress to end immunity for federal police, agents. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—It's time to put a cap on ICE…and the Border Patrol…and the FBI…and any other federal law enforcement agent who illegally violates someone's civil rights, by making violators personally liable for damages when they do. Removing that immunity from prosecution for damages is, in so many words, what more than a dozen organizations, including pro-labor …

Anonymous669 (2021-06-04). New Round Of Intra-Rebel Clashes Left Three Dead In Northeastern Syria. southfront.org 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…

teleSUR (2021-06-04). Violence in Northwestern Nigeria Is Causing Humanitarian Crisis. telesurenglish.net Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday warned that violence between herders and farmers in Nigeria's Zamfara state is displacing thousands of people to areas where food and shelter are scarce. | RELATED: | "Our teams in Zamfara have seen an alarming increase in preventable diseases associated with lack of food, clean water, shelter, and vaccinations," said Dr. Godwin Emudanohwo from a hospital in Anka. | Viol…

Editor2 (2021-06-04). Venezuela's Migration: Why They Left. orinocotribune.com By Rosiris Berroteran — Jun 2, 2021 | Part I | Between 2000 and 2020, a large part of Venezuela's young working population Venezuela is a country with a young working population awaiting employment. The country has the installed capacity to process extra-heavy crude oil and metals, as well as to produce te…

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-04). Belarus, Crimea: Ukraine prepares for armed conflict in north and south. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Belarus, Crimea: Ukraine prepares for armed conflict in north and southRick Rozoff The Ukrainian government has announced that it is shoring up security and military forces in the north of the country on its border with Belarus and to the south on what it calls the administrative border of the territory of the Autonomous Republic …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-04). Belarus, Crimea: Ukraine Prepares for Armed Conflict in North and South. libya360.wordpress.com Rick Rozoff The Ukrainian government has announced that it is shoring up security and military forces in the north of the country on its border with Belarus and to the south on what it calls the administrative border of the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea: the exact language of the government and the…

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