2021-06-05: News Headlines

Danny Haiphong (2021-06-05). Off the Rails: New Report by Corporate-Funded Think-Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China. covertactionmagazine.com New report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world. Published in Railway Age magazine and written by the Information Technology Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the report sounds the alarm about China's growing high-speed rail sector amid escalations in the U.S.'s New Cold War against China, of which technology is a key component.

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-05). NATO summit: West to move China to back burner, Russia and Belarus to the front. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO summit: West to move China to back burner, Russia and Belarus to the frontAnd Turkey is celebrated as key cornerstone of NATORick Rozoff The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Jens Stoltenberg, gave an online address entitled "NATO 2030: a transatlantic agenda for the future" at an event co-sponsored by the Brookings …

WSWS (2021-06-05). Two high-rise workers in China killed in strong winds. wsws.org The death of the two workers, which was entirely avoidable, sparked widespread public anger over the exploitative and dangerous conditions in the high-rise construction industry.

WSWS (2021-06-05). The "Wuhan lab" lie and the political witch hunt against science. wsws.org Over the past week, the US media and the Biden administration have sought to legitimize the conspiracy theory that the world's leading scientists were engaged in a cover-up of the "Wuhan lab" origins of COVID-19.

WSWS repost (2021-06-05). The "Wuhan lab" lie and the political witch hunt against science. indybay.org Over the past week, the US media and the Biden administration have sought to legitimize the conspiracy theory that the world's leading scientists were engaged in a cover-up of the "Wuhan lab" origins of COVID-19.

Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd (2021-06-04). Schumer's Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire. counterpunch.org Despite an existential climate crisis, Senator Chuck Schumer's $250-billion "United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021" takes aim at China as the most pressing national security threat. In a Cold War declaration, the New York Democrat's proposed legislation reads like the last gasp of a dying empire, a plea from a panicked superpower losing

Medea Benjamin (2021-06-04). Schumer's Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire. zcomm.org The bill undermines Kerry's negotiated agreement with China, sabotaging an opportunity for the U.S. and China to partner on curbing emissions and sharing strategies for greening the Earth…

Editor2 (2021-06-04). US Spying all Over World Unacceptable, Intolerable, China Foreign Ministry Says. orinocotribune.com China says it is definitely "unacceptable and intolerable" that the US is spying on the leaders of its European allies and others around the world, stressing that Washington should be brought to justice. | Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Thursday that the US has been a champion of spying on other countries, including its own allies, and that the world deserves a responsible explanation. | "The US spying on its allies is unacceptable, let alone the bold action of tapping the whole world which is utterly intolerable. The United States has always been recognized as the world's number one secret t…

Gareth Porter (2021-06-04). Eisenhower rejected military chiefs' demand for nuclear war on China. zcomm.org Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg has released a shocking account showing how the Joint Chiefs pressed Eisenhower to launch a nuclear war on China…

Jonathan Latham — Allison Wilson (2021-06-04). A Chinese PhD Thesis Sheds Important New Light On The Origin of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. counterpunch.org One of the very earliest scientific papers from the COVID-19 pandemic era now has over 11,000 citations. Appearing in the scientific journal Nature on February 3rd 2020, Zhou et al., 2020 reported the genome sequence of a novel coronavirus isolated from patients with atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, China. Its senior author was leading coronavirus researcher

Chris Kanthan (2021-06-04). Debunking two myths — "China stole American jobs" and "America built China." nationofchange.org China succeeded by emulating the proven paths of other Asian Tigers, which relied on investment, manufacturing, and exports to build their nations.

Cesar Chelala (2021-06-04). Lessons from the Pandemic. counterpunch.org Since its start in Wuhan, Hubei province, in China, when a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown origin were reported in December of 2019, the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc with the economies and social fabric of most countries in the world. The differences in its evolution throughout the world permits us to draw some

Staff (2021-06-04). Headlines for June 4, 2021. democracynow.org Activists Call U.S. Plan to Ship 25 Million COVID Vaccine Doses Abroad "Deeply Insufficient", WHO Warns of Surging COVID-19 Cases in Africa as Vaccine Shipments Come to "Near Halt", Chinese Authorities Ban Hong Kong Vigil Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre, Arrest Organizer, Peruvian Presidential Runoff Pits Ex-Dictator's Daughter Against Socialist School Teacher, 89 Politicians Killed in Run-up to Mexican Midterm Elections, Lawyers for Guantánamo Prisoner Challenge Judge's Order Permitting Use of Info Obtained by Torture, Watchdog Says Pentagon Grossly Misrepresented Civilian Casualties from U.S. Military, U.N. Sa…

_____ (2021-06-04). A Truly Free Society Would Have No Official Narratives. popularresistance.org Many of Anthony Fauci's emails during the US Covid-19 outbreak last year have been obtained via Freedom of Information Act and published by BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post. Depending on what ideological echo chamber you inhabit you may have heard that they are completely innocuous or historically damning; the ones eliciting the most controversy right now include a scientist telling Fauci that the virus could potentially look engineered, and a zoologist linked to both the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the World Health Organization's Covid investigation thanking Fauci for supporting the natural origin theor…

WSWS repost (2021-06-04). Author of WSJ "Wuhan lab" story wrote lies about Iraqi "Weapons of Mass Destruction" indybay.org The lead writer of the Wall Street Journal piece that led to the embrace by the entire US media of the "Wuhan lab" theory was the co-author with Judith Miller of the discredited "aluminum tubes" story that helped launch the US invasion of Iraq.

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