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They like the house that slavery and genocide built, and where global capitalism now rules. They fear anything that might create disorder in the House of Europe, just as their counterparts in Black America fear anything that might disturb the tranquility of the U.S. ruling class and its institutions. The House Negroes are truly international, always ready to put out fires in their masters many houses around the globe. — International House Negroes Defend European Union
Since last Thursday’s EU referendum, some 172 right wing Labour MPs have put their name to a vote of no confidence in their leader Jeremy Corbyn. They claim that Corbyn is ‘unelectable’, despite winning the biggest mandate of any party leader in British history. Even leaders proven to be ‘unelectable’, such as Ed Miliband, are now calling for Corbyn to resign. In reality, these Blairite MPs are opposed to Corbyn’s program of a £10 an hour living wage, mass council house building, free education, and nationalisation of the railways. — Saving Labour From Blairism: the Dangers of Confining the Debate to Existing Members
At one point, Corbyn was heckled by a Blairite plant in a sharp suit (who has since been identified as a Lib Dem candidate), who had been hovering on the edge of the rally, regarding his role in the Remain campaign. This actually drew out the best part of his speech, where he explained that decades of Tory and New Labour austerity had laid the basis for the Brexit vote amongst swathes of the working class. Needless to say, the assembled media rushed straight to the heckler, and these creatures of the 1% gave him top billing on their report. Jeremy and John deserve enormous credit for standing up to the tirade of personal abuse they’re facing, and have shown enormous reserves of strength and courage not to buckle. It is clear that the right-wing expected them to throw in the towel, and are now desperately scrabbling around to find a candidate to face him in an election. The candidate, likely Angela Eagle, will be a sacrificial lamb, as the Blairites prepare to split the Party. — Momentum and #KeepCorbyn events spread across Britain
Videos of the Day:
U.S.
Supreme Court Eliminates Political Corruption! (By Defining It Out of Existence): Yet by overturning the bribery conviction of Bob McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia, the Supreme Court this week just extended its incredible run of decisions driven by the concern that America has too many restrictions on money in politics. By Jon Schwarz
US Politics’ True Bipartisan Consensus: Capitalism Is Untouchable: The economic aim of both major US political parties is, in the end, the same: to protect and reinforce the capitalist system. By Richard D. Wolff
Where Are The Drone Casualty Figures the White House Promised Months Ago?: Despite months of repeated promises, the White House has yet to release its estimate of civilian casualties from the administration’s drone program – a delayed disclosure the New York Times Editorial Board described as “too little, too late.” By Alex Emmons
The Collapse of Western Democracy: Democracy no longer exists in the West. In the US powerful private interest groups, such as the military-security complex, Wall Street, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness and the extra-active industries of energy, timber and mining, have long exercised more control over government than the people. But now even the semblance of democracy has been abandoned. By Paul Craig Roberts
Why is NATO So Irrational Today? by Jan Oberg 
The Three Harpies are Back!: Those were the days when Libya (“We came, we saw, he died”) offered to the world a full-blooded humanitarian imperialist spectacle starring Three American Harpies: Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice, actually four if Hillary’s mentorette and soul mate, Madeleine Albright, was included. by Pepe Escobar 
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Stokely Carmichael Quote 
International House Negroes Defend European Union: The international House Negro is a bi-product of 500 years of European plunder and conquest of the planet. When the European Union was threatened by the exit of Britain, “house Negroes of all colors on both sides of the Atlantic acted like their own worlds were coming to end.” A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
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Momentum and #KeepCorbyn events spread across Britain: As the Blairites continue to plot their coup against Corbyn, mass meetings and rallies of Corbyn supporters have begun to sprout up in city after city across the country. A rebellion of Labour members against the careerists in the Parliamentary Labour Party has begun. by Socialist Appeal
After Brexit: Reckoning With Britain’s Racism and Xenophobia : There is no denying that the EU suffers from a range of problems, including a democracy deficit. But although many who voted to leave the EU did not do so out of racist or xenophobic reasons, the Brexit campaign in Britain was fought on the grounds of xenophobia and racism and can only exacerbate social fissures around race and nationality By Laleh Khalili
Greece in crisis – Part One: George Soros’s medicine – worse than the disease: Greece has been in and out of the news headlines, as other more pressing events push it into the background, such as the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, or the risk of a Brexit vote in the UK referendum on the EU, or the tumultuous class conflict gripping France. Nonetheless, Greece remains the weak point within the EU. Its crisis is being “managed”, i.e. delayed, but the country moves inexorably onwards towards a major crisis that will affect the whole of Europe. by Fred Weston
Health, Education, and Welfare:
We Live in an Age of Disintegration: We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory between Pakistan and Nigeria, there are at least seven ongoing wars—in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and South Sudan. These conflicts are extraordinarily destructive. They are tearing apart the countries in which they are taking place in ways that make it doubtful they will ever recover. Cities like Aleppo in Syria, Ramadi in Iraq, Taiz in Yemen, and Benghazi in Libya have been partly or entirely reduced to ruins. By Patrick Cockburn 
U.S. Foreign Policy 
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Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters:
12:46 PM EST on June 28th, 2016 | Highly radioactive ‘glass’ rained on Tokyo — Fukushima nuclear fuel with 500 Trillion Bq/kg found — “Significant consequences for human health” — Scientists: This changes understanding of disaster… Extreme importance… Our ideas of health implications should change… Do not discuss on social media
Why Is MetLife Tanking in Tandem With Wall Street Banks? By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
Saving Labour From Blairism: the Dangers of Confining the Debate to Existing Members by Thomas Barker