2020-06-23: News Headlines

RT (2020-06-22). US expands work visa ban to protect American jobs from 'millions of aliens' from India, Mexico & China. rt.com US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order putting new restrictions on foreign work visas until the end of 2020, a move the administration said is needed as the economy suffers in the wake of Covid-19 lockdowns. | Signed on Monday evening, the order freezes several types of work visas — including the H1B for highly skilled workers — which the White House says will keep some 500,000 American jobs from going to foreign employees, part of what it deemed an "America-first recovery." | "American workers compete against foreign nationals for jobs in every sector of our economy, including again…

Ben Norton (2020-06-22). Documentos filtrados revelan plan derechista para derrocar al Presidente AMLO de México. thegrayzone.com Oligarcas mexicanos y los partidos del establishment político, con ayuda de los medios, Washington y Wall Street, se han unido…

Ben Norton (2020-06-22). Documentos filtrados revelan plan para derrocar al presidente AMLO de México. thegrayzone.com Oligarcas mexicanos y los partidos del establishment político, con ayuda de los medios, Washington y Wall Street, se han unido…

Nino Pagliccia (2020-06-22). Canada's UN Security Council Loss Shows Its "Foreign Policy Weaknesses" globalresearch.ca India, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, and Kenya after a second round, won the June 17 elections at the 74th United Nations Assembly for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for a two-year term starting on January 1, 2021. | The …

Nino Pagliccia (2020-06-22). Canada's UN Security Council Loss Shows Its Foreign Policy Weaknesses and Might Embolden a Reform Movement. counterpunch.org India, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, and Kenya after a second round, won the June 17 elections at the 74th United Nations Assembly for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for a two-year term starting on January 1, 2021. The biggest loser was Canada in its competition with Ireland and Norway for two seats available.

Vijay Prashad (2020-06-21). Ten-Point Agenda for the Global South after COVID-19. dissidentvoice.org Jorge González Morales (Mexico), Capitalism, 2020 Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly passed a New International Economic Order (NIEO), which was driven by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The resolution laid out a clear plan for the structural transformation of the world system, which …

Ben Norton (2020-06-21). Leaked Documents Reveal Right-wing Oligarch Plot to Overthrow Mexico's President Lopez Obrador (AMLO). globalresearch.ca Mexico's oligarchs and establishment political parties have united in a secret alliance to try to remove left-wing President López Obrador from power, with help from the media, Washington, and Wall Street. Leaked documents lay out their devious strategy. | *** | Some …

Julia Thomas (2020-06-20). Sowing solidarity: Reflections on Zapatismo from the International Gathering of Women Who Struggle. peoplesdispatch.org At the inauguration of the international gathering of women who struggle, the women members of the Zapatista National Liberation Army welcomed the arrival of thousands of sisters from around the world with a performance in formation, bows and arrows at their sides, on liberated sacred land in Chiapas, Mexico. The attendees traveled from 49 countries — in collectives or movements, as individuals, with their children, in a caravan of buses — to participate in the Encuentro de mujeres from December 26-29, 2019. | The Zapatistas, an autonomous Indigenous movement of armed people that launched their uprisi…

_____ (2020-06-20). Leaked Documents Reveal Right-Wing Oligarch Plot to overthrow Mexico's AMLO. strategic-culture.org Mexico's oligarchs and establishment political parties have united in a secret alliance to try to remove left-wing President López Obrador from power, with help from the media, Washington, and Wall Street. Leaked documents lay out their devious strategy. | Ben NORTON | Some of the most powerful forces in Mexico are uniting in a campaign to try to topple the country's first left-wing president in decades, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. And they apparently have support in Washington and on Wall Street. | Known popularly as AMLO, the Mexican leader is a progressive nationalist who campaigned on the promise to "end the…

WSWS (2020-06-20). Death of two workers sparks wildcat strike by 3,200 workers at auto parts plant in Matamoros, Mexico. wsws.org When news broke that Luciano Romero Contreras, a 48-year-old janitor at Plant 52, had died the previous day, workers downed tools and began discussions at the facility and on social media.

teleSUR (2020-06-19). Mexico: Enforced Disappearances at Anti-Police Brutality Rally. telesurenglish.net Mexico's Jalisco State Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ) Thursday denounced police brutality during protests demanding justice for Giovanni Lopez in early June. | RELATED: | "At least eight minors and four women were arbitrarily and violently deprived of their liberty, besides the kidnappings that have not yet been fully determined," CEDHJ states. | On June 4, the citizens of Guadalajara marched towards the local government's hea…

_____ (2020-06-19). 'Black Lives Matter' Is International. popularresistance.org Corte Madera, California – The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th was the spark that ignited the tinder of accrued injustice throughout the US and globally. This injustice has deep antecedents in the US and indeed in much of what is now called the Global South. There is a shared history of colonial conquest of the Indigenous and the abominable institution of the enslavement of African peoples. | What happened has its roots in systemic oppression that has resonated internationally. Just as the police suffocated George Floyd, US unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua,…

teleSUR (2020-06-19). 22 Children Get COVID-19 at El Salvador's Public Centers. telesurenglish.net The El Salvador University's Institute of Human Rights (DHUES) Thursday denounced that 22 minors became ill with COVID-19 while they were in the custody of public institutions. | RELATED: | "Twenty-two children and adolescents from the Social Integration Complex for Children and Adolescents (CISNA) had tested positive for COVID-19," the DHUES reported. | "We call on the President, the Health Health, and the National…