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Images of the Day:
The worker who becomes a policeman in the service of the capitalist state, is a bourgeois cop, not a worker. Of late years, these policemen have had to do much more fighting with revolutionary workers than with Nazi students. Such training does not fail to leave its effects. And above all: every policeman knows that though governments may change, the police remains. — Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What it is and how to fight it
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement, and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. … If money … comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt. — “Capital”, Volume One, Part VIII, Chapter 31, (the) “Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist”
Videos of the Day:
U.S.
26 Million Trees Died in California Forests in Just One Year: The mortality rate is unprecedented and will fuel the state’s fire season. By Taylor Hill
Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters!:
Obama Administration Approved Gulf Fracking During Deepwater Horizon Disaster Hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) technology has been widely used to maximize oil-and-gas production in the Gulf of Mexico in recent years, and the government allows offshore drillers to dump fracking chemicals mixed with wastewater directly into the Gulf, according to documents released to Truthout and the Center for Biological Diversity under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). By Mike Ludwig
1982 Estimates of the Nuclear Power Killing Fields: ”Calculation of Reactor Accident Consequences”: A 1982 study by Sandia Labs, New Mexico commissioned by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life These policies are typically called redlining, in that they drew a bright red line between the areas where black families could and couldn’t get loans. by Alvin Chang 
The Prejudice of the Justice System — Same Judge — Non White Defendant: Stanford trial judge overseeing much harsher sentence for similar assault case : Raul Ramirez to be sentenced to three years in prison for case with similarities to Stanford sexual assault case for which Brock Turner will serve only six months
Labor:
Economy:
Britain: Hands off Corbyn! Defeat the Blairite coup! The fat is on the fire. A right-wing coup is under way to oust Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. This shabby coup, instigated by Labour’s Tory Tendency, has been prepared a long time ago by those who never accepted his democratic election by an overwhelming majority. They are the Blairites: right-wing Tories who infiltrated the Labour Party to further their careers. They are indistinguishable from the Tories in their dress, manners, outlook and ideas. by Socialist Appeal – Britain
I walked from Liverpool to London. Brexit was no surprise Thatcherism devastated communities throughout industrial England that have never recovered. Their pain explains why people voted to leave in the EU referendum By Mike Carter
Despite the Brexit Vote, the Odds Are Against Britain Leaving the EU The Brexit vote shows that a majority of the British voters understand that the UK government represents interests other than the interests of the British people. As difficult as the British know it is to hold their own government to account, they understand they have no prospect whatsoever of holding the EU government to account. During their time under the EU, the British have been reminded of historical times when law was the word of the sovereign. By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
French Cops Claim They’re Too Tired to Keep Policing Massive Protests by Counter Current News Editorial Team
Denouncing Violent Tactics of ‘Political Mafia,’ Tens of Thousands March in Mexico City Protesters marched against the government’s violent response to Oaxacan teacher strikes, as well as Peña Nieto’s policies of privatization and repression by Lauren McCauley
State Terrorism and Education, the New Speculative Sector in the Stock Market: The reasons why the Mexican government wants to impose the Educational Reform, even if it means killing people, as with the massacre in Nochixtlán by repressive state forces on June 19, are rooted in economic objectives guided by international financial organizations. The reform, proposed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with the OECD-Mexico Agreement to Improve the Quality of Education in Schools of Mexico, aims to lay the groundwork to shift education from being a State responsibility to instead being resolved in the realm of the financial market. By Renata Bessi and Santiago Navarro F. 
The Spanish elections: a poisoned chalice for the ruling class by Jorge Martín and Arturo Rodríguez
Health, Education, and Welfare:
Praise the Lord!
Quotes of the Day:
Decrying ‘Jim Crow 2.0,’ Advocates Demand Updated Voting Rights Before Election Recently passed measures blocking same day voter registration or requiring certain forms of voter ID are having clear impact on largely Democratic voting blocs. By Lauren McCauley 
Environment:
The Market Just Held a Stress Test: Morgan Stanley, Met Life and Citigroup Flunk By Pam Martens and Russ Martens 
World: