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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to lift or waive all sanctions on Iran as agreed under a 2015 deal aimed at stopping Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. Guterres also urged the United States to “extend the waivers with regard to the trade in oil with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and fully renew waivers for nuclear non-proliferation projects.”
An article on the media silence of new details of the fit-up
The Weird, Creepy Media Blackout On Recent Assange Revelations
And Craig Murray
Bangladesh has cancelled plans to build 10 coal-fired power plants
https://news.trust.org/item/20210628095424-sfkag/
When Bangladesh in 2010 produced an energy masterplan, “coal was cheap and the best option after gas”, Hossain said. But dramatically falling prices for solar power and somewhat cheaper natural gas have changed the picture, he added. “Considering all this, we thought we needed to be more renewable,” he said.
About 3.5% of the country’s power comes from renewable energy, a percentage the nation plans to boost to 40% by 2041.
Javaid Rehman, the U.N. investigator on human rights in Iran has called for an independent inquiry into allegations of state-ordered executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 and the role played by President-elect Ebrahim Raisi as Tehran deputy prosecutor.
The Netherlands’ defence minister said that Russian fighter jets armed with air-to-surface missiles had harassed a Dutch navy frigate in the Black Sea earlier this month, conducting mock attacks and jamming communication systems.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/netherlands-says-russian-jets-buzzed-warship-in-black-sea-2475587
Hmmm?…so it was a coordinated NATO incursion into those waters
I think being foremost a union, the IWW will always have to prioritise current class struggle with their revolutionary aspirations. They have evolved and modified their tactics over the course of their existence and still have internal debates on how to operate within changing industrial relation laws
A few years ago there was a controversy within IWW when a branch promoted the co-op alternative
https://libcom.org/blog/co-operatives-capitalism-iww-18022012
But there are still members who seek to remind other Wobblies of their grand goal.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-iww-and-abolition-of-wages.html
A rare critique of Wolff and co-ops by some IWW-ers
You can’t win without a fight: Why worker cooperatives are a bad strategy
What to note is that it is not against terrorist ISIS/ISIL targets but Iranian-supported militias, just as Israel has been doing and it will inevitably raise tensions when there is supposed to be talks on Iranian sanctions
More revelations suggesting a frame-up
Assange Prosecution Relied On False Testimony From A Diagnosed Sociopath And Convicted Pedophile
In similar scenes that we saw previously in Delhi, the poor flee Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, to avoid lockdown and hoping for sanctuary from the economic pain on their livelihoods in their hometowns and villages.
It seems the Batley and Spen by-election might also be interesting.
Seems identity politics will feature with Galloways on opposing rights for trans and appealing for solidarity with Palestine to Muslim voters
Will serial party-founder George Galloway receive another trouncing that he got in the recent Scottish Elections?
I don’t believe in magic
I don’t believe in I-ching
I don’t believe in Bible
I don’t believe in Tarot
I don’t believe in Hitler
I don’t believe in Jesus
I don’t believe in Kennedy
I don’t believe in Buddha
I don’t believe in Mantra
I don’t believe in Gita
I don’t believe in Yoga
I don’t believe in Kings
I don’t believe in Elvis
I don’t believe in Zimmerman
I don’t believe in BeatlesUFO reports from the horse’s mouth
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf
No thanks to the SPGB. All thanks to the working class, and in particular, women
Perhaps, more thanks to the female contribution and inclusion into the war effort and the fact that the Suffragettes along with the Pankhursts (with the notable and noble exception of Sylvia) all became jingoist war-mongers, sending men possessing the vote and also those without that democratic right, off to die in the trenches of the Somme and Ypres.
Perhaps their loyalty to capitalism and the government of the day persuaded the powers-to-be that they could be trusted with the vote.
If we are to re-assess SPGB history, what is your opinion, Paula, on the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, fought to preserve “democracy” we were told?
