Basta !!! Free Chelsea Manning & Julien Assange Oakland Weekly Friday Vigil
Orion Edmonson | indybay.org | 2019-06-29
Fruitvale and macarthur oakland 94602…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/28/18824269.php

SEP wins support for Assange and Manning at Sri Lanka's Peradeniya university
wsws.org | 2019-06-29
Tenishan, an agriculture student, asked: "Is it democratic to imprison journalists who have revealed war crimes?"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/29/slas-j29.html

At G20, Trump Seeks Fresh Start With Putin After End of Mueller Inquiry
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-28
(ANTIWAR.COM) — President Trump arrived in Osaka, Japan on Thursday evening, and is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday afternoon. This will be their first meeting since last year in Helsinki, and a huge deal, as US and Russia relations have been suffering mightily in recent years. Trump and other officials have …

At G20, Trump Seeks Fresh Start With Putin After End of Mueller Inquiry

Pompeo touts Indo-US alliance, bullies New Delhi
wsws.org | 2019-06-28
India's ruling elite is determined to double-down on its reckless gamble that it can realize its great-power ambitions by serving as US imperialism's junior partner.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/28/pomp-j28.html

War Against Iran? Some Trumpists Oppose It
Michael T. Klare | thenation.com | 2019-06-28
War Against Iran? Some Trumpists Oppose It.
thenation.com/article/war-iran-bolton-pompeo-pentagon/

Trump Will Stumble Into War Against Iran–Unless We Stop Him
Michael T. Klare | thenation.com | 2019-06-28
Trump Will Stumble Into War Against Iran–Unless We Stop Him…
thenation.com/article/war-iran-bolton-pompeo-pentagon/

SPLC: Sentencing of James Alex Fields Jr., who killed Heather Heyer at 'Unite the Right,' will not heal victims or their families
Keegan Hankes, Intelligence Project | splcenter.org | 2019-06-28
James Alex Fields Jr., who was sentenced to life in prison today for murdering a woman who was protesting a white supremacist rally two years ago, is a remorseless killer and a domestic terrorist.
splcenter.org/news/2019/06/28/splc-sentencing-james-alex-fields-jr-who-killed-heather-heyer-unite-right-will-not-heal

US Special Envoy Abrams Welcomes Venezuela's Former Intelligence Chief to the US, Reaffirms Trump's Commitment to Ousting Maduro
Paul Dobson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-28
United States Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams has publicly welcomed Venezuela's ex-intelligence chief to the country after he deserted and joined efforts to oust President Nicolas Maduro. | Manuel Cristopher Figuera, who served as chief of the Bolivarian …
globalresearch.ca/abrams-welcomes-venezuelas-former-intelligence-chief-us-reaffirms-trumps-commitment-ousting-maduro/5681989

States Move to Take Over Fight Against Gerrymandering
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-28
A Supreme Court ruling could empower both parties to become even more aggressive in drawing districts to their benefit after the 2020 census.
truthdig.com/articles/states-move-to-take-over-fight-against-gerrymandering/

'Fiasco for democracy' as right-wing supreme court gives green light to partisan gerrymandering
Jake Johnson | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-28
In a decision voting rights advocates warned could open the floodgates for even more extreme and undemocratic redistricting than what is already in place throughout the nation, the right-wing Supreme Court effectively condoned partisan gerrymandering Thursday by ruling that the practice is beyond its constitutional reach. The ruling was 5-4 along party lines, with conservative …
nationofchange.org/2019/06/28/fiasco-for-democracy-as-right-wing-supreme-court-gives-green-light-to-partisan-gerrymandering/

Headlines for June 28, 2019
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-28
Supreme Court Says Partisan Gerrymandering Can't Be Challenged in Federal Courts, Trump Threatens to Delay Census After Supreme Court Blocks Adding Citizenship Question, Kamala Harris Takes on Joe Biden over Working with Segregationists and His Opposition to Busing, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Decries New Border Bill as an Unacceptable Betrayal, U.S. Helps Block Progress at German Climate Summit as Europe Sizzles in Record Heat, With a Smile, Trump Tells Putin at G20 Not to Meddle in U.S. Elections, Trump's Chief of Diplomatic Protocol Resigns After Accused of Carrying Whip at Work, Brazilian Air Force Officer…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/28/headlines

Supreme Court Hands GOP Big Victory on Gerrymandering, Ensuring "Massive Election Rigging"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-28
The Supreme Court hands down two major decisions. The first is a victory for Republicans, allowing extreme partisan gerrymandering to continue. The other temporarily blocks the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question on the 2020 census. We get response from Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones, a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center and author of "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America." He says the ruling that federal courts can't resolve claims of partisan gerrymandering is "almost guaranteed to facilitate massive election rigging in the future."
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/28/supreme_court_hands_gop_big_victory

Supreme Court Stops Trump From Weaponizing the Census Against Immigrants—For Now
commondreams.org | 2019-06-28
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/06/28/supreme-court-stops-trump-weaponizing-census-against-immigrants-now?cd-origin=rss

US Supreme Court halts Trump plan for citizenship question in 2020 census
wsws.org | 2019-06-28
The delay may only be temporary, as the high court remanded the issue to a lower court, giving the administration a further opportunity to revive its effort to lower the official count of immigrants residing in the United States.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/28/scot-j28.html

Georgia Tried to Ban Abortion, So We Sued
aclu.org | 2019-06-28
Abortion bans place people in danger, and Georgia's is no exception. | Alabama. Arkansas. Kentucky. Ohio. And today, Georgia. That's the list of states where the ACLU has had to go to court over the last few months to challenge laws banning abortion. | The Georgia law bans abortion at six weeks of pregnancy and is in clear violation of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade. In fact, that is the whole point of the law. Georgia politicians, including Governor Brian Kemp, emboldened by President Trump's appointment of two new justices to the Supreme Court, think this is their chance to get the court to take aw…
aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/abortion/georgia-tried-ban-abortion-so-we-sued

Calling Trump's Rationale "Contrived," Supreme Court Halts Citizenship Question
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-28
In a surprise decision, Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by the four liberal members of the Supreme Court — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor — halted the Trump administration's plans, at least temporarily, to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. | The Court thought the stated motive for adding the question seemed "contrived," and sent the case, Department of Commerce v. New York, back to the federal district court to review whether the government can come up with a lega…
truthout.org/articles/calling-trumps-rationale-contrived-supreme-court-halts-citizenship-question/

Supreme Court to Rule on Trump Bid to End 'Dreamers' Program
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-28
WASHINGTON–Adding a high-stakes immigration case to its election-year agenda, the Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether President Donald Trump can terminate an Obama-era program shielding young migrants from deportation. | The justices' order sets up legal arguments for late fall or early winter, with a decision likely by June 2020 as Trump campaigns for re-election. The president ordered an end to the program known as DACA in 2017, sparking protests and a congressional effort to salvage it. | That effort failed, but federal courts in California, New York, Virginia and Washington, D.C., have bloc…
truthdig.com/articles/supreme-court-to-rule-on-trump-bid-to-end-dreamers-program/

Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Partisan Gerrymandering
Yurij Rudensky, Annie Lo | commondreams.org | 2019-06-28
By barring the federal courts' oversight of partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has made it harder to fight for fair maps. (Image: Circle Creative Studio) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/us.jpeg…
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With 'Devastating' Consequences in the Balance for Hundreds of Thousands, Supreme Court Agrees to Weigh Trump's Move to End DACA
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-28
Trump has tried to "use immigrant youth as a bargaining chip to advance an extremist, anti-immigrant agenda" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/scotus-daca-trump.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/28/devastating-consequences-balance-hundreds-thousands-supreme-court-agrees-weigh?cd-origin=rss

'The Damage Has Been Done': Despite Court Ruling, Experts Say Trump Succeeded in Making Immigrant Communities Fearful of Census
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-28
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of the Trump administration's attempt to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, rights advocates said Friday, the damage to immigrant communities across the country is likely already done. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-115229094811.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/28/damage-has-been-done-despite-court-ruling-experts-say-trump-succeeded-making?cd-origin=rss

SCOTUS Hands GOP Gerrymandering Victory, Ensuring "Massive Election Rigging"
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-28
The Supreme Court hands down two major decisions. The first is a victory for Republicans, allowing extreme partisan gerrymandering to continue. The other temporarily blocks the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question on the 2020 census. We get response from Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones, a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. He says the ruling that federal courts can't resolve claims of partisan gerrymandering is "almost guaranteed to facilitate massive election rigging in the future." | TR…
truthout.org/video/scotus-hands-gop-gerrymandering-victory-ensuring-massive-election-rigging/

Basta !!! Free Chelsea Manning & Julien Assange Oakland Weekly Friday Vigil
Orion Edmonson | indybay.org | 2019-06-28
Fruitvale and macarthur oakland 94602…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/28/18824269.php

Watch the Sydney rally to free Assange live!
wsws.org | 2019-06-28
The SEP rally is among the first events to be held since the WSWS International Editorial Board called for the formation of a Global Defence Committee to demand freedom for Assange and Manning.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/28/live-j28.html

From Cyber War to Omnicide?
Paul Atwood | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-28
Will the Justice Department and all those calling for the heads of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange now demand that the publishers of the hallowed New York Times be punished for their transgression of revealing our government's cyber warfare against Russia? The front page article is titled "U.S. Buries Digital Land Mines To Menace Russia's Power Grid." Many citizens undoubtedly feel that this is just payback for the long decreed turpitude of the Russians for interfering with our "democracy." Of course there is nothing new about this…the cyber warfare that is. One could make the case that such has been ongoing…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/28/from-cyber-war-to-omnicide/

Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo Bay prisoner David Hicks, demands freedom for Assange and Manning
wsws.org | 2019-06-28
"There's only one word to describe the victimisation and persecution of Assange and Manning, and that word is barbaric."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/28/terr-j28.html

The Military Industrial Complex Loves Left Wing Hawk Adam Schiff
John Kiriakou | mintpressnews.com | 2019-06-28
If there was any doubt at all that Adam Schiff is in the grip of the military-industrial complex, one doesn't have to rely just on his stated positions on Iran, Venezuela, and China to make the situation any clearer. Just take a look at his donors.
mintpressnews.com/why-the-military-industrial-complex-loves-left-wing-hawk-adam-schiff/260069/

Hawks Behind Trump's Back
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-27
Iran is not provoking but is provoked by a group that wants a war between the U.S. and Iran. Recently, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Advisor John Bolton, and CIA director Gina Haspel all favored a …
globalresearch.ca/hawks-behind-trumps-back/5681724

Facial recognition technology and the US military-intelligence apparatus
wsws.org | 2019-06-27
The banning of facial recognition software by major California cities has exposed the advanced use of biometrics and artificial intelligence by the domestic surveillance state and the Pentagon war machine.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/27/faci-j27.html

Attorney General James' Statement Praising U.S. Supreme Court Decision To Disallow Census Citizenship Question
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-27
Supreme Court has temporarily disallowed the asking of the citizenship question by the Trump Administration on the 2020 Census… | NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, in Department of Commerce v. New York: | "Every single person in this country deserves to be counted, plain and simple. We are pleased with the Supreme Court's decision today. | "This one question could have caused a substantial undercount, particularly of noncitizens and Latinos. Thanks to the Court, the census will remain a tool for deliv…
www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/news/attorney-general-james%E2%80%99-statement-praising-us-supreme-court-decision

The GOP's Power Grabs Grow Bolder by the Day
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-27
This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. | On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases highlighting the collision between partisan power grabs and setting the ground rules for two of the most important elections in America–those for U.S. House and state legislative chambe…
truthdig.com/articles/the-gops-power-grabs-grow-bolder-by-the-day/

Statements by Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, on Supreme Court's Democracy Rulings
Austyn Ross | naacp.org | 2019-06-27
Statement on Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek: "The Court's rulings today upend our democratic principles by allowing party politics to determine the outcomes of our elections. Extreme partisan gerrymandering has infected our electoral process for far too long. Exercise of the franchise, which many fought and even died for, must not be …
naacp.org/latest/statements-derrick-johnson-president-ceo-naacp-supreme-courts-democracy-rulings/

SPLC: Supreme Court decision not to stop politicians from rigging voting maps hurts our democracy
splcenter.org | 2019-06-27
The Supreme Court decided today that federal courts have no role in regulating state legislatures' gross abuses of power when drawing political lines.
splcenter.org/news/2019/06/27/splc-supreme-court-decision-not-stop-politicians-rigging-voting-maps-hurts-our-democracy

Right-Wing Supreme Court Gives Green Light to Partisan Gerrymandering
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-27
In a decision voting rights advocates warned could open the floodgates for even more extreme and undemocratic redistricting than what is already in place throughout the nation, the right-wing Supreme Court effectively condoned partisan gerrymandering Thursday by ruling that the practice is beyond its constitutional reach. | The ruling was 5-4 along party lines, with conservative Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion. | "Today, five Supreme Court Justices turned their backs on hundreds of thousands of people in Maryland…
truthout.org/articles/right-wing-supreme-court-gives-green-light-to-partisan-gerrymandering/

Leaders Hail U.S. Supreme Court's Repudiation of Trump's Bid to add Citizen Question in Census 2020
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-27
Egg on his face. Trump is repudiated by SCOTUS in Census ploy. Photo: Gage Skidmore | Elected representatives and activist have praised the move by the U.S. Supreme Court to block the Trump administration's attempt to add a citizen question to the 2020 Census and the president has asked his advisors if the count can be delayed. Opponents of Trump's bid to include a citizenship question feared it would have resulted in gross undercounts. | "The Supreme Court's decision to block the Trump Administration's inclusion of a citizenship question on the U.S. Census is an important win for our count…
www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/white-house/leaders-hail-us-supreme-courts-repudiation-of-trumps-bid-to

Supreme Court's Gerrymandering Decision a Danger to Democracy
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-27
Justice Kagan's minority opinion calls out the threat that the decision represents to our right to vote and to our democratic future. Suzanne Almeida of Common Cause discusses the implications…
therealnews.com/stories/supreme-courts-gerrymandering-decision-a-danger-to-democracy

MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY CYRUS VANCE JR. ANNOUNCES HATE CRIME CONVICTION IN UNION SQUARE SUBWAY ATTACK
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-27
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. today announced the trial conviction of WILLIE AMES, 49, for attacking two men on the platform of the Union Square subway station after making derogatory statements about Mexican-Americans. | A New York State Supreme Court jury found the defendant guilty of Assault in the Second and Third Degrees as Hate Crimes and Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree. He is expected to be sentenced on July 12, 2019. | "This defendant's crime was more than a violation of our laws — it was a violation of our New York values," said District Attorney Vance. "As a jury has…
www.blackstarnews.com/ny-watch/crime/manhattan-district-attorney-cyrus-vance-jr-announces-hate-crime

Citizenship question on 2020 census? SCOTUS says it's complicated
rt.com | 2019-06-27
The Supreme Court has effectively blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, arguing that the government's reasoning for the proposal was inadequately explained. | …
rt.com/usa/462840-citizenship-question-census-supreme-court/

A loss and a win: Supreme Court OKs gerrymandering, blocks census citizenship question
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-27
WASHINGTON–Workers, including African-Americans, Latinos, and other minorities, lost one of the biggest U.S. Supreme Court decisions in years, as the justices, on a party-line 5-4 vote, allowed political gerrymandering to continue. The majority called gerrymandering "a political question" only the states can solve. But those same groups got a split decision on the other key …
peoplesworld.org/article/a-loss-and-a-win-supreme-court-oks-gerrymandering-blocks-census-citizenship-question/

A loss and a win: Supreme Court OKs gerrymandering, blocks census citizenship question
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-27
WASHINGTON–Workers, including African-Americans, Latinos, and other minorities, lost one of the biggest U.S. Supreme Court decisions in years, as the justices, on a party-line 5-4 vote, allowed political gerrymandering to continue. The majority called gerrymandering "a political question" only the states can solve. But those same groups got a split decision on the other key …
peoplesworld.org/article/a-loss-and-a-win-supreme-court-oks-gerrymandering-blocks-census-citizenship-question/

Supreme Court Finds that Wilbur Ross Lied To Put Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census
aclu.org | 2019-06-27
The ruling affirms that the Trump administration cannot offer pretextual reasons to cover up its anti-immigrant attacks. | This morning, the Supreme Court told the country what we and our clients have long known: that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross provided a false reason for his decision to add a citizenship question to the Decennial Census. The court explained that the Trump administration's stated reason for adding a citizenship question–enf…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/supreme-court-finds-wilbur-ross-lied-put-citizenship-question-2020-census

A Whistleblower Pointed to ICE Abuse of Solitary Confinement. Now Pressure Mounts for Congressional Investigation
Maryam Saleh | theintercept.com | 2019-06-27
A government watchdog wants a full accounting for abuses against people detained by ICE — and how an internal whistleblower came to be ignored.
theintercept.com/2019/06/27/ice-solitary-confinement-abuse-watchdog/

#Candles for Assange Independence Action @ Mime Troupe Delores Park
BACFJA | indybay.org | 2019-06-27
Delores Park, San Francisco | Dolores St. & 19th St. | San Francisco, CA 94114…
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Watch: Chris Marsden's speech to Paris meeting to demand freedom for Assange and Manning
wsws.org | 2019-06-27
The speech was delivered by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden to a meeting hosted by the Parti de l'égalité socialiste on June 23.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/27/cmss-j27.html

Join the Sydney rally this Saturday demanding freedom for Julian Assange!
wsws.org | 2019-06-27
The demonstration will insist that the Australian government take immediate action to prevent the WikiLeaks founder's extradition to the US, where he faces life imprisonment or the death penalty.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/27/rall-j27.html

For a global campaign to prevent Julian Assange's rendition to the US!
wsws.org | 2019-06-27
On June 20 the WSWS issued a call for the formation of a Global Defence Committee to secure freedom for Wikileaks founder and class-war prisoner Julian Assange.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/27/meet-j27.html

'Oops, we did it again!' NSA caught illegally collecting Americans' phone data
rt.com | 2019-06-27
The NSA has been caught improperly collecting Americans' phone data yet again, just months after a similar incident forced them to (supposedly) purge hundreds of millions of records captured without FISA authorization. | …
rt.com/usa/462770-nsa-caught-unauthorized-surveillance/

At Last, Robert Mueller Will Testify Before Congress
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-26
There's a scene in the film "Goodfellas" where the main character, Henry Hill, explains the economic ethos of his compatriots: "Business bad? F–k you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? F–k you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? F–k you, pay me." | I've been muttering something similar at Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and the House Democratic committee chairs since Robert Mueller released his Russian election interference report on April 18: "Nervous about the election? F–k you, subpoena Mueller. Oh, not enough support in the polls for impeac…
truthout.org/articles/at-last-robert-mueller-will-testify-before-congress/

It's a 'crime' Mueller 'terminated' messages between FBI agents Strzok & Page — Trump
rt.com | 2019-06-26
US President Donald Trump accused former special counsel investigator Robert Mueller of scrubbing communications between FBI agents investigating his 2016 presidential campaign for alleged ties to Moscow. | …
rt.com/usa/462753-trump-mueller-terminated-messages/

Trump's policies are killing people, but impeachment still waits on Mueller
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-26
Some, including the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, are hoping Robert Mueller will tip the scales somehow so that everyone will be demanding impeachment after he testifies publicly before Congress on July 17. Those of us who are skeptical can be forgiven for not holding our breath until then. Mueller has already said he …
peoplesworld.org/article/trumps-policies-are-killing-people-but-impeachment-still-waits-on-mueller/

Special ex-Prosecutor will meet Committees of U.S.Lower House
plenglish.com | 2019-06-26
26 de junio de 2019, 00: 25Washington, Jun 26 (Prensa Latina) Former special prosecutor Robert Mueller will testify before the House of Representatives" Intelligence and Judicial Committees on July 17, the head of the legislative group, Jerrold Nadler, announced here.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=43731&SEO=special-ex-prosecutor-will-meet-committees-of-u.s.lower-house