Morsi's Legacy: Unlikely Democrat, Reluctant Martyr
Eric Walberg | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-20
Morsi surrounded by his minders Mohamed Morsi (1951–2019) was the fifth President of Egypt (30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013), deposed by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in a coup d'état July 3, 2013. In his last words, Morsi accused the government of "assassinating" him through years of poor prison conditions. Morsi is survived by …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/morsis-legacy-unlikely-democrat-reluctant-martyr/

Professor Stuart Rees to speak at SEP rally to defend Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2019-06-20
"The rally must increase public awareness of the outrageous injustice if Julian is extradited to the US to face a possible 170 years in prison."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/20/rees-j20.html

Italy: Captain in court for saving people in distress at sea
wsws.org | 2019-06-20
Pia Klemp, who has rescued about 5,000 people in distress in a total of six missions, faces up to 20 years imprisonment and heavy fines.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/20/klem-j20.html

Trump's America and Egypt's Dictatorship Deserve Each Other
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-06-20
He was the first duly elected president in the Arab world and the first in Egyptian history. Now Mohammed Morsi is dead, collapsing on June 17 in his glass cage during his show trial in Cairo–a victim, it seems, of criminal negligence during a brutal six-year stint in prison. His death only highlights the distinct malevolence of a military junta that (illegally) overthrew Morsi in a coup. He languished in an Egyptian prison system that's incarcerated thousands of others–critics of the regime, mostly–in a co…
truthdig.com/articles/trumps-america-and-egypts-dictatorship-deserve-each-other/

They Are Concentration Camps — and They Are Also Prisons
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-20
The words "Holocaust" and "concentration camp" were trending on Twitter on Tuesday. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had referred to the prison camps that migrant children are being kept in as "concentration camps," and a virtual war erupted. The feigned outrage of conservatives was loud. Some argued that the Holocaust was a singular event, to which no parallel should be claimed. Meanwhile, many historians and people personally connected to the Holocaust insisted that the comparison was valid. | As a Native writer and a Jewish writer, respective…
truthout.org/articles/they-are-concentration-camps-and-they-are-also-prisons/

Shady contractors jailed in Bay area and on Long Island
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-20
Minnesota isn't the only state that's cracking down on construction wage theft. New York is, too, and the feds did in Northern California. The two cases from opposite ends of the country illustrate the prevalence of cut-rate contractors who routinely exploit their workers, especially immigrant workers, shorting them of pay and overtime, all to line …
peoplesworld.org/article/shady-contractors-jailed-in-bay-area-and-on-long-island/

Floridians Are Suing a Cop Fired for Planting Drugs in Their Vehicles
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-20
In October 2017, Derek Benefield was driving in the Florida Panhandle's Jackson County when he was pulled over for allegedly swerving into the opposite lane. Once at the car, sheriff's deputy Zachary Wester claimed to smell marijuana and conducted a search of the vehicle, which, he reported, turned up methamphetamine and marijuana. Despite insisting the drugs weren't his, Benefield, who was already on probation, was arrested, charged $1,100 in fines and court fees, and sentenced to one year in county jail. | Benefield was seven months into his sentence when, in September 2018, the state attorney's office dropp…
truthout.org/articles/floridians-are-suing-a-cop-fired-for-planting-drugs-in-their-vehicles/

The US Must Repair Historic and Current Racism
Howie Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-20
On this Juneteenth, we must confront the impacts of racism dating back to the founding of the United States with the slave trade of Black people brought from Africa, Jim Crow segregation, and policies that continue to this day that cause wealth inequality, disinvestment in Black communities, police violence, mass incarceration, and white nationalist violence. …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/the-us-must-repair-historic-and-current-racism/

The US Must Repair Historic and Current Racism
Howie Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-20
On this Juneteenth, we must confront the impacts of racism dating back to the founding of the United States with the slave trade of Black people brought from Africa, Jim Crow segregation, and policies that continue to this day that cause wealth inequality, disinvestment in Black communities, police violence, mass incarceration, and white nationalist violence. …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/the-us-must-repair-historic-and-current-racism/

87yo woman tasered by Georgia police, excessive force lawsuit pending (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-06-20
Harrowing footage has been released showing the arrest of an 87-year-old Syrian woman who was tasered by Georgia police, despite their dispatcher being made aware that she could not speak English. | …
rt.com/usa/462288-87yo-tased-by-police-georgia/

Punk band files lawsuit against surveillance by German intelligence agency
wsws.org | 2019-06-20
The injunction seeks to ensure that the 2018 intelligence agency report, which lists the band in the category "left-wing extremist music scene," should no longer be published.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/20/saxo-j20.html

Punk band files lawsuit against surveillance by German intelligence agency
wsws.org | 2019-06-20
The injunction seeks to ensure that the 2018 intelligence agency report, which lists the band in the category "left-wing extremist music scene," should no longer be published.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/20/saxo-j20.html

New York Passes Historic Farmworker Fair Labor Law
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-20
New law ends 80 Years of Exclusion and Discrimination in State Labor Law… | The National Employment Law Project applauds New York State for passing the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act, which redresses longstanding discrimination against the workers who plant, harvest, and produce our most basic sustenance. By closing a racially motivated loophole in New York's labor laws, farmworkers will at last be paid overtime wages, have safe housing, and be protected when forming a union. | "While the farming workforce may have shifted from Black workers to Latinx workers, the Jim Crow practice of denying them basic…
www.blackstarnews.com/ny-watch/politics/new-york-passes-historic-farmworker-fair-labor-law.html

San Fancisco City Workers Hold Juneteenth Protest at City Hall
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2019-06-20
Photos: Leon Kunstenaar | Say Discrimination is Pervasive in Supposedly Progressive City…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/19/18824101.php

Actor Danny Glover tells US politicians it's time to pay up for the damage caused by slavery
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-20
The debate over reparations for descendants of slaves has reached Congress with an impassioned plea from actor Danny Glover to address compensation for America's blighted heritage of racism. | Glover, who told a House Judiciary panel that his great-grandfather was enslaved, called a national reparations policy "a moral, democratic and economic imperative". | It was Congress's first hearing in a decade on the topic and comes amid a growing discussion in the Democratic Party on reparations and sets up a potential standoff with Republicans. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, for example, opposes the idea. | Glo…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2019/06/20/actor-danny-glover-tells-us-politicians-its-time-to-pay-up-for-the-damage-caused-by-slavery/

Juneteenth 2019: The US Must Repair Historic and Current Racism
Howie Hawkins | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-20
On this Juneteenth, we must confront the impacts of racism dating back to the founding of the United States with the slave trade of Black people brought from Africa, Jim Crow segregation, and policies that continue to this day that …
globalresearch.ca/juneteenth-2019-us-must-repair-historic-current-racism/5681163

The White Man's Biden
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-20
The Democrats have a problem. Some unreconstructed ghosts from the party's gruesome racist past are rattling their chains, thanks to yet another very public blunder by former Senator and Vice President Joe Biden, the seeming frontrunner in the 2020 presidential race. | Biden, who apparently hasn't met a vicious conservative he doesn't like and respect, stepped on a whole series of rakes over the last several days, and his standing as the establishment pick for the nomination is setting the party up for another calamity at the polls. | Biden attended a big-dollar fundr…
truthout.org/articles/the-white-mans-biden/

On Juneteenth, SF City Workers Demand Firing Of HR Director Micki Callahan
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-06-20
On Juneteenth day June 19, 2019 in San Francisco African American workers and others protested and spoke out against the systemic racism against African American workers. They also called for the immediate resignation of Human Resources Director Micki Callahan who has helped the racists and also promoted managers who engaged in racism and corruption…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/19/18824090.php

Ilhan Omar re-tweets video of CNN contributor claiming US could be on the road to 'death camps'
rt.com | 2019-06-20
Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar appears to be supporting fellow representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, after AOC sparked uproar for comparing detention centers at the US border to Nazi concentration camps. | …
rt.com/usa/462342-ilhan-omar-aoc-death-camps/

Israeli Holocaust museum schools AOC on concentration camps after comparison to migrant facilities
rt.com | 2019-06-20
The Israeli Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem lit up US Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez online for comparing US migrant detention centers to fascistic concentration camps, even offering to help educate her. | …
rt.com/usa/462252-yad-vashem-aoc-holocaust-response/

Supreme Court Undermines Religious Neutrality In Permitting Giant Governmental Cross
aclu.org | 2019-06-20
The decision ignores our constitutional commitment to official religious neutrality. | Today, the Supreme Court announced that a governmental display of a 40-foot-tall Latin cross as a war memorial for all veterans does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The decision ignores our constitutional commitment to official religious neutrality and is a slap in the face to non-Christian veterans.
aclu.org/blog/religious-liberty/government-promotion-religion/supreme-court-undermines-religious-neutrality

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband insists Johnson's comments impacted on her
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-19
The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has insisted that comments made by Boris Johnson when he was foreign secretary "enabled a propaganda campaign" against her by Iran.Richard Ratcliffe directly contradicted claims by Mr Johnson in the Tory leadership TV debate that his remarks as foreign secretary had no bearing on the fate of the mother-of-one, who is in prison in Iran on spying charges.Apology: Mr Johnson was forced to apologise in 2017 after wrongly stating to a House of Commons committee that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been in Iran to teach journalists.Referring to the remarks, Mr Ratcliffe told BB…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/06/19/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffes-husband-insists-johnsons-comments-impacted-on-her/

It's Bad Journalism to Take Cops at Their Word
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-19
When mainstream news outlets fail to fact-check the police, they fail their readers and they fail our society. | Time and time again, by uncritically presenting claims made by police as truths, mainstream news outlets condone and enable the scourges of police violence, racism and mass incarceration in our communities. | This is true throughout the country, but a closer look at recent newspaper articles in Chicago, where I live and take part in anti-prison organizing, illustrates the dynamics of these journalistic failures. | Misleading Coverage of Bail Reform in Chicago: | Just last week, Superintenden…
truthout.org/articles/its-bad-journalism-to-take-cops-at-their-word/

Prosecution falters in poisoning of Flint water
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2019-06-19
Five years after it was confirmed that the water supply of Flint, Michigan, was a danger to human health, charges have been–at least temporarily–dropped against eight former and present officials who had been facing up to 20 years in prison for a host of felonies. These included charges of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/19/prosecution-falters-in-poisoning-of-flint-water/

NGO Demands European Leaders Allow Refugees to Disembark
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-19
German non-governmental organization Sea-Watch rescued 43 migrants off the coast of Libya and now is requesting European leaders immediate authorization to disembark the refugees who have been waiting for a port for seven days. | RELATED: | German Boat Captain Faces 20 Yrs in Prison for Saving Refugees | "Many of the rescued need medical care and suffer from dehydration due to seasickness. The disembarkation of a part of the group had a strong psychological effect on the peopl…
telesurenglish.net/news/NGO-Demands-European-Leaders-Allow-Refugees-to-Disembark-20190619-0017.html

Trump blasts free press, political opponents at his campaign kick-off
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-19
ORLANDO, Fla. — Attacking the free press and calling for jailing of his political opponents Trump sounded exactly like the autocratic right-wing extremist he is at his official campaign kickoff here last night. Most of the speech, none of which dealt with the dangerous war moves his administration is making in the Mideast, was aimed …
peoplesworld.org/article/trump-blasts-free-press-political-opponents-at-his-campaign-kick-off/

Celebrating Juneteenth With Bold New Ideas
Jessicah Pierre | commondreams.org | 2019-06-19
That divide won't close without bold, structural reform to match the structural injustices that created it — from slavery itself to Jim Crow, red lining, and mass incarceration. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/shutterstock_1035122308.jpeg…
commondreams.org/views/2019/06/19/celebrating-juneteenth-bold-new-ideas?cd-origin=rss

Bureau of Land Management Sued Again Over Climate Impacts of Oil and Gas
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-19
An environmental group based in New Mexico is suing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) related to climate change. It's the second lawsuit the agency has faced over its approval of oil and gas leases on public lands in recent years. | WildEarth Guardians has filed a lawsuit against BLM and the Department of Interior, asking a federal court in New Mexico to vacate 210 oil and gas leases…
truthout.org/articles/bureau-of-land-management-sued-again-over-climate-impacts-of-oil-and-gas/

Chicago police have a serious problem with pointing guns at children
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-19
A family in Illinois has filed a lawsuit claiming that Chicago police officers used excessive force against an 8-year-old child during a raid on their home. | Chicago police arrived at the Wilson family home on March 15th with a search warrant and ordered Dominique Wilson and her three children out of the home at riflepoint. They then handcuffed multiple family members, including 8-year-old Royal Wilson. Royal was handcuffed for 35-40 minutes and suffered bruising to his wrists. | The lawsuit claims that not only was excessive force used but that all three children are traumatized at being held at gunpoint and…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/19/chicago-police-have-a-serious-problem-with-pointing-guns-at-children/

Trump's Bureau of Land Management Is Being Sued Again Over Climate Impacts
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-19
An environmental group based in New Mexico is suing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) related to climate change. It's the second lawsuit the agency has faced over its approval of oil and gas leases on public lands in recent years. | WildEarth Guardians has filed a lawsuit against BLM and the Department of Interior, asking a federal court in New Mexico to vacate 210 oil and gas leases…
truthout.org/articles/bureau-of-land-management-sued-again-over-climate-impacts-of-oil-and-gas/

Women's World Cup: Championship U.S. team still earn less than men
Brian Wakamo | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-19
The Women's World Cup is now underway. Taking place in France, the tournament features 24 of the best women's national teams throughout the world. It's also a stage for widespread gender discrimination. Prior to the tournament, the distribution of tickets was absolutely botched by the infamously incompetent folks at FIFA. And here in the United …
peoplesworld.org/article/womens-world-cup-championship-u-s-team-still-earn-less-than-men/

Queens District Attorney Candidate Councilman Rory Lancman: I'll "Directly Confront The Racism" In Criminal Justice System
Colin Benjamin | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-19
Councilman Lancman told the Black Star News he's the best candiate because he will "confront racism" in criminal justice… | On Tuesday, Councilman Rory Lancman told the Black Star News he's the best candidate to be the next Queens District Attorney because "I'm the one most willing to directly confront the racism and discrimination against poor people that permeates the criminal justice system." | Lancman is running against six other candidates in the June 25 primary race. The other six candidates are: Tiffany Cabán, Mina Malik, Jose Nieves, Betty Lugo, Judge Gregory Lasak, and Queens Borough President Mel…
www.blackstarnews.com/ny-watch/politics/queens-district-attorney-candidate-councilman-rory-lancman-i%E2%80%99ll-

Queens District Attorney Candidate Councilman Rory Lancman: I'll "Directly Confront The Racism" In Criminal Justice System
Colin Benjamin | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-19
Councilman Lancman told the Black Star News he's the best candiate because he will "confront racism" in criminal justice… | On Tuesday, Councilman Rory Lancman told the Black Star News he's the best candidate to be the next Queens District Attorney because "I'm the one most willing to directly confront the racism and discrimination against poor people that permeates the criminal justice system." | Lancman is running against six other candidates in the June 25 primary race. The other six candidates are: Tiffany Cabán, Mina Malik, Jose Nieves, Betty Lugo, Judge Gregory Lasak, and Queens Borough President Mel…
www.blackstarnews.com/ny-watch/politics/queens-district-attorney-candidate-councilman-rory-lancman-i%E2%80%99ll-

'Lies, Distortion, Nonsense': Bernie Sanders Slams Trump Speech
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-19
United States Senator Bernie Sanders slammed President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign speech in a live-stream response minutes after the president launched his incumbent bid. | RELATED: | Pro-Trump Fox News Poll: Bernie Sanders Leads US President by 9% for 2020 Election | "We have a president who is a racist, who is a sexist, who is…
telesurenglish.net/news/Lies-Distortion-Nonsense-Bernie-Sanders-Slams-Trump-Speech-20190619-0006.html

'I will NOT be compared to shooter who murdered my classmates' — pro-gun activist Parkland survivor
rt.com | 2019-06-19
Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv hit back against ex-GOP congressman David Jolly for comparing him to a school shooter over racist comments he made online years ago. Harvard recently revoked Kashuv's admission over the controversy. | …
rt.com/usa/462216-parkland-activist-responds-shooter/

The persecution of Caster Semenya
LeiLani Dowell | workers.org | 2019-06-19
The ongoing persecution of South African runner Caster Semenya by the International Association of Athletics Federations has shone a spotlight on the ways sports, under the patriarchal structures of capitalism and imperialism, are used to police and define, in the most unscientific and racist way, rigid definitions of gender. Caster . . . | Continue reading The persecution of Caster Semenya at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/06/18/the-persecution-of-caster-semenya/

South African MP involved in 'racist incident' in Cape Town
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-19
Cape Town's popular V & A Waterfront apologized to South African MP Phumzile van Damme for its handling of what van Damme described as an incident of racism. | FILE — REUTERS | Van Damme explained that it all began during a visit on Tuesday to V & A. | She says she was standing in a queue when she had a quarrel with the mother of a family at one of the supermarkets. The mother allegedly told her she would "push [her] aside". | "Then when I went out, she was standing there with her family in a threatening manner. And I went to her and said, 'why are you looking at me in a threatening manner?' Then she said, '…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/19/south-african-mp-involved-in-racist-incident-in-cape-town/

Stacey Abrams to Speak at Clarence Mitchell Luncheon during NAACP's 110th National Convention
Austyn Ross | naacp.org | 2019-06-19
The Honorable Stacey Abrams will speak on the importance of ending voter suppression during the annual NAACP Convention in Detroit BALTIMORE — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's foremost civil rights organization, has announced that politician, lawyer and author Stacey Abrams will be speaking at the prestigious Clarence Mitchell …
naacp.org/latest/stacey-abrams-speak-clarence-mitchell-luncheon-naacps-110th-national-convention/

Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson Refutes McConnell's Claim That Reparations For Slave Descendants Is "Unworkable"
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-19
Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson rejects Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's claim that reparations are "unworkable." | June 19th, also known as "Juneteenth," celebrates the end of slavery. On this day in 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with the news that the Civil War was over. | Today, on the anniversary of "Juneteenth", the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties will hold a hearing on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The purpose of the hearing is to examine the legacy of…
www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/policy/presidential-candidate-marianne-williamson-refutes-mcconnell%E2%80%99s

Black Boys Aren't "Wolf Packs" and Abusive Prosecutors Aren't "Lone Wolves"
aclu.org | 2019-06-18
Ava Duvernay's "When They See Us" brings to light the racism that turned five innocent boys into the so-called "Central Park Five." | Ava Duvernay's new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrowing story of the five Black and Latinx boys wrongfully imprisoned for the rape and near murder of a young woman in New York's Central Park in 1989. In this telling, she tackles racist practices that echo to the past, but are very much present in the current era of mass incarceration. | The story is as complex as it is damning. Duvernay chronicles how police, prosecutors, judges, jailers, and the media worked in conc…
aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-criminal-justice/black-boys-arent-wolf-packs-and-abusive-prosecutors

Julian Assange Indictment "Criminalizes the News Gathering Process," Says Pentagon Papers Lawyer
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-18
A London judge has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appear before a court in February 2020 to face a full extradition hearing. Prosecutors in the U.S. have indicted Assange on 18 counts, including 17 violations of the Espionage Act. This is the first-ever case of a journalist or publisher being indicted under the World War I-era law. Assange said that his life was "effectively at stake" if the U.K. honors a U.S. request for his extradition. Assange is currently serving a 50-week sentence in London's Belmarsh Prison for skipping bail in 2012. We speak with James Goodale, former general counsel of The Ne…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/18/pentagon_papers_lawyer_julian_assange_case

Egypt's former president Morsi buried in Cairo
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-18
Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi was buried early Tuesday morning under heavy security a day after his dramatic collapse and death inside a Cairo courtroom. | Deposed President Mohamed Mursi greets his lawyers and people from behind bars at a court wearing the red uniform of a prisoner sentenced to death, during his court appearance with Muslim Brotherhood members on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, June 21, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh /File Photo | Abdul-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud a member of Morsi's defense team said he was buried at a cemetery in the Cairo's eastern district of Nasr City. | This was despit…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/18/egypts-former-president-morsi-buried-in-cairo/

Charles E. Ruthenberg: The first leader of the Communist Party USA
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-18
At the time of his death in 1927, he was lauded as "one of the most indicted and imprisoned workers" in the history of the American labor movement. Yet today, few know the name Charles Emil Ruthenberg. When he passed away suddenly at the age of 44, he cheated a Michigan prison of its next …
peoplesworld.org/article/charles-e-ruthenberg-the-first-leader-of-the-communist-party-usa/

Carnegie Medal Awarded for the First Time to a Black Woman
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-18
Dominican-American slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo is the first black woman to be awarded the Carnegie medal which is the United Kingdom's oldest and most prestigious children's book award, recognizing writing and illustration in books for children and young people. | RELATED: | US: Understaffed Prison Mailrooms Cause Ban on Book Donations | Acevedo is the daughter of Dominican immigrant parents and the piece that won her the award is her debut book "The Poet X," which is the story…
telesurenglish.net/news/Carnegie-Medal-Awarded-for-the-First-Time-to-a-Black-Woman–20190618-0019.html

Charles E. Ruthenberg: The first leader of the Communist Party USA
CERTFLCPU | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-18
At the time of his death in 1927, he was lauded as "one of the most indicted and imprisoned workers" in the history of the American labor movement. Yet today, few know the name Charles Emil Ruthenberg. When he passed away suddenly at the age of 44, he cheated a Michigan prison of its next …
peoplesworld.org/article/charles-e-ruthenberg-the-first-leader-of-the-communist-party-usa/

Shrewsbury 24 flying picket Terry Renshaw: "Only the power of the working class, not the official courts, is going to provide any perspective for freeing Julian Assange."
wsws.org | 2019-06-18
The former building worker explains, "To defend class war prisoners like Julian Assange, the perspective has got to be to raise the awareness and mobilise the masses."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/18/inte-j18.html

Julian Assange Indictment "Criminalizes the News Gathering Process"
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-18
A London judge has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appear before a court in February 2020 to face a full extradition hearing. Prosecutors in the U.S. have indicted Assange on 18 counts, including 17 violations of the Espionage Act. This is the first-ever case of a journalist or publisher being indicted under the World War I-era law. Assange said that his life was "effectively at stake" if the U.K. honors a U.S. request for his extradition. Assange is currently serving a 50-week sentence in London's Belmarsh Prison for skipping bail in 2012. We speak with James Goodale, former general counsel of The…
truthout.org/video/julian-assange-indictment-criminalizes-the-news-gathering-process/

Morsi, Egypt's freely elected and imprisoned president, killed by regime
Aboulfotouh Kandil | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-18
After six years of solitary confinement at a secret prison, Egypt's legitimate president, Mohamed Morsi, died yesterday after the latest in a string of judges ignored pleas to deal with his failing health. He has suffered from numerous medical conditions including heart failure and diabetes for years and has had not received necessary medical attention …
peoplesworld.org/article/morsi-egypts-freely-elected-and-imprisoned-president-killed-by-regime/

Brazil: Odebrecht to Avoid Bankruptcy Through Recovery Plan
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-18
The Brazilian construction conglomerate, Odebrecht (ODB), which has admitted to paying out about US$7.88 billion in bribes over the past 20 years to win public contracts in Latin American countries, requested to file for bankruptcy protection Monday before a Sao Paulo court. The measure would allow the corporation to negotiate "recovery plan" with its creditors with the hope to avoid a shutting its doors. | RELATED: | Another Senior Peruvian Politician Gets Jail For Corruption | G…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Odebrecht-to-Avoid-Bankruptcy-Through-Recovery-Plan-20190618-0005.html

Mohamed Morsi: Six Years After Coup, Egypt's First Democratically Elected President Dies in Court
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-18
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, 67, died Monday after collapsing while in a glass cage inside a Cairo courtroom. The Muslim Brotherhood leader was elected in 2012 in Egypt's first, and still only, democratic election. He was overthrown a year later in a military coup led by Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Morsi's death comes as el-Sisi continues to jail tens of thousands of people in what the Associated Press has described as the heaviest crackdown on dissent in Egypt's modern history. In his final comments, Morsi insisted he was still Egypt's legitimate president. Morsi spent the last…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/18/egypt_mohamed_morsi_dead_at_67