(2021-06-15). New revelations of abusive conditions confronting immigrant workers in Australian meatworks industry. wsws.org One labour hire operator wrote: "Women need to see themselves like men, men need to see themselves like beasts, beasts need to see themselves as robots."
(2021-06-15). Canada-Hosted Donors' Conference: Venezuelaphobia at the Service of the Billionaire Class. orinocotribune.com By Pierre LeBlanc — Jun 13, 2021 | The Canadian government has proudly announced that it is hosting an International Donors' Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants on June 17, 2021. Once again, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, at the beckoning of their corporate giant and US State Department ventriloquists, are orchestrating this well worn albeit disingenuous "humanitarian aid" charade. It is but another chapter in the 20-year-long US-led litany of failed attempts at overthrowing a duly elected government and grinding into a pulp Venezuelans'
(2021-06-15). Uttar Pradesh 2022: What May Be The Shape of Things to Come? zcomm.org How far the politics of Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath may meet the scale of the BJP's alienation from the bulk of the populace given the migrant crisis and the cruel collapse of empathy during the second phase remains a question…
(2021-06-15). Turkey 'Colonizes' Iraqi Kurdistan. Kurdish Factions Fly At Each Other's Throats. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by On April 23, the Turkish military launched its latest military operation in Iraqi Kurdistan, against archenemy the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party). This time the forces of Iraqi Kurdistan (the Peshmerga) are also playing a role. Some Kurds already fell victim to the bullets of other Kurds. And the risk of a large-scale intra-Kurdish conflict is growing by the day. | Operation Claw-Lightning is a cross-border military…
(2021-06-15). Indigenous Organizers Defend Menominee River. popularresistance.org The Menominee River forms Wisconsin's Northeastern border with Michigan, winding for about 120 miles and opening into Lake Michigan's Green Bay. About thirty-five miles from the mouth of the river sits the proposed location of the Back Forty Mine, a project by the Canadian mining company, Aquila Resources. | The open pit mine that the company intends to dig out of land a mere 150 feet from the Menominee River in Michigan would be deeper than the height of the tallest building in Wisconsin, at 750 feet. The proposed mine will extract gold and sulfide from the banks of the river. | Opponents of the mining project w…
(2021-06-15). Lara Trump Says People Living on Southern Border Should "Get Guns and Be Ready" truthout.org 
Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, "I don't know what you tell the people that live at the southern border," Trump ranted during a Saturday interview…
(2021-06-15). Effects of Eptinezumab vs Placebo on Headache Pain and Most Bothersome Symptom in Migraine Attack. jamanetwork.com This randomized clinical trial assesses the effect of intravenous eptinezumab vs placebo on times to headache pain freedom and absence of most bothersome symptom (nausea, photophobia, or phonophobia) among patients experiencing a moderate to severe migraine attack.
(2021-06-15). Acute Treatments for Episodic Migraine in Adults. jamanetwork.com This systematic review and meta-analysis assesses the benefits and harms associated with acute treatments for episodic migraine, including pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies, with a focus on pain-related outcomes, function, and adverse events.
(2021-06-15). Acute Treatment for Migraine. jamanetwork.com Acute treatment for migraine, also called abortive or symptomatic treatment, is used at the time of a migraine attack with the aim of relieving both pain and the associated symptoms of migraine such as photophobia, phonophobia, and nausea. Available data and expert consensus agree that acute treatment should be reliably and quickly effective, have a low incidence of symptom recurrence, be safe and free from bothersome adverse effects that negate the functional benefits of treatment, and be accessible and affordable. Despite the availability of migraine-specific therapies and nonspecific analgesic acute treatments…
(2021-06-15). Consumer Health: Treating cluster headaches. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org June is Migraine and Headache Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about one of the most painful types of headache: the cluster headache. Cluster headaches occur in cyclical patterns or cluster periods that can last from weeks to months. During a cluster period, headaches usually occur daily, sometimes several times …
(2021-06-14). How Delivery Workers Are Organizing To Take On The Apps. popularresistance.org More than 2,000 food couriers snarled traffic in Times Square through pouring rain in protest April 21 demanding better working conditions and protection from violent assaults. The mass demonstration was organized by Los Deliveristas Unidos, a loose network of immigrant gig workers that was born in the strife of the pandemic last year through online chat groups on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Telegram. Since then, Los Deliveristas have coalesced into an organization with support from the Brooklyn-based Worker's Justice Project (WJP), a worker center that organizes immigrants in construction and service sector jobs. WJ…
(2021-06-14). Venezuela conference another example of Liberal hypocrisy. popularresistance.org On the one-year anniversary of Canada's defeat in its bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council the Trudeau government is hosting an International Donors' Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants. While it may sound like a humanitarian endeavor, it's the latest phase in Canada's multipronged effort to overthrow Nicolás Maduro's government, which has included plotting with the opposition to anoint an alternative president.
(2021-06-14). Venezuela Conference Another Example Of Liberal Hypocrisy. popularresistance.org Was it conscious? Did someone at Global Affairs say, 'we should organize a lofty sounding conference that's a cover for our pro-US and corporate policy on the anniversary of the international community rejecting Trudeau's liberal imperialism'? | On the one-year anniversary of Canada's defeat in its bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council the Trudeau government is hosting an International Donors' Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants. While it may sound like a humanitarian endeavor, it's the latest phase in Canada's multipronged effort to overthrow Nicolás Maduro's government…
(2021-06-14). Around 1.5 million Lebanese in need, top UN humanitarian official there warns. news.un.org As Lebanon endures one of its worst financial and economic crises ever, the UN estimates that over the next eight months around $300 million is needed to provide vital aid to around 1.5 million Lebanese and 400,000 migrant workers living there.
(2021-06-14). Fears for migrant children facing 'detention' at Dover. thecanary.co There are fears that unaccompanied child migrants arriving in Dover will be "detained" at a controversial facility, after Kent County Council announced it cannot take in any more. | Large numbers of migrant children travelling to the UK on small boats has led to a repeat of the "unthinkable" situation, where the council says its resources are "significantly overwhelmed". | The announcement came as more people allegedly reached Dover on Monday morning. The high numbers of English Channel crossings in May and June look set continue. | No new resolution: | On Thursday, Kent County council leader Roger Gough…
(2021-06-14). Panic Attacks Highlight Stress at Shelters for Migrant Kids. latinorebels.com The conditions raise concerns about why it is taking more than a month on average to release the children when most have family in the United States.
(2021-06-14). Why vegans should focus on farmworkers' rights. nationofchange.org The harsh reality is that, in the realm of factory farming, workers are mistreated nearly as often as their animal counterparts.
(2021-06-14). An Analysis of China's Borderland History Offers a Left Case for the Uyghurs. counterpunch.org This essay discusses the frontier borderlands of East Asia from the seventeenth through nineteenth century. I analyze Chinese dynastic political practice, its legacy on early twentieth and twenty-first century geopolitics, as well as the need for American progressive positioning regarding the Uyghurs. In my view, commentary on this issue needs to be firmly rooted in leftist opposition to international human rights abuses, (Pukr) while resisting Sinophobia, US militarism, and Cold War exaggeration and intervention. I highlight these borders by looking at multiple frontiers geographically and thematically. Generall…
(2021-06-14). Protecting Borders, Not Life. globalresearch.ca Remember the Space …
(2021-06-14). Central America to UN: Declare Region High Risk Area. telesurenglish.net The Central American Integration System (SICA) countries will ask the United Nations (UN) to declare the region as highly vulnerable and at high risk to natural phenomena, which are partly responsible for the growing migration to the United States. | RELATED: | "One of the things that most concerns us is the issue of disasters that we are experiencing on a recurring basis. Therefore, the Central American Integration Syste…
(2021-06-14). Consumer Health: Treating cluster headaches. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org June is Migraine and Headache Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about one of the most painful types of headache: the cluster headache. Cluster headaches occur in cyclical patterns or cluster periods that can last from weeks to months. During a cluster period, headaches usually occur daily, sometimes several times …
(2021-06-14). Kamala Harris and The Americas. orinocotribune.com By Erica Caines — June 10, 2021 | In March, the White House announced that Vice President Harris' tour of the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) allows her the opportunity to advance on the world stage as a "clean up woman" after the exposure of the Biden administration's continuation of migran…
(2021-06-14). Protecting Borders, Not Life. counterpunch.org Remember the Space Force? You know, the sixth branch of the U.S. military, officially created in 2019, "establishing space as a warfighting domain and guaranteeing that the United States will dominate in that environment just like all others." Thus declared President Donald Trump at the time, unleashing a Hollywood script on the global and perhaps the intergalactic