While former Vice President Joe Biden has been limited in his campaign efforts due to the coronavirus pandemic,
the presumptive Democratic nominee has continued to hold virtual town
halls, remote interviews with the press, started a podcast and, more
recently, has held several in-person roundtables.
Here's
a look at several incorrect and misleading claims Biden has made during
these events and interviews over the past several weeks.
He lied. That's what CNN's saying, he lied. Now once upon a time, the press wouldn't say that. But, you may remember, Paul Krugman had a hissy fit in 2016 and insisted that lie be used. So NYT began saying "lie" -- when it came to Donald Trump.
Why can't we say lie with regard to Joe Biden? Fair's fair.
Here are some of Joe's recent lies documented by CNN:
Blocking judges
During a June 10 town hall
with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
Biden was asked about older judges stepping down to allow Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to usher new judges through the Senate.
In response Biden suggested that Senate Democrats should somehow block
that from happening.
"At this
point if he does that I'm going to urge the Democrats in the U.S. Senate
to block the ability to have a vote on those judges," Biden said. "We
only have 140-some days left to go. We are not going to let that
happen."
Facts First: It's unclear how Biden would propose stopping Senate Republicans from approving judges because Republicans only need a simple majority -- which they currently have -- to approve judges.
In
2013, Senate Democrats -- under the leadership of Harry Reid -- removed
the filibuster for many Presidential nominations. Senate Republicans
now only need 51 votes to break a filibuster and approve a judicial
nomination. They currently hold 53 seats.
Hispanic unemployment
During a June 5 speech on the economy, Biden twice claimed that Hispanic unemployment had increased in that day's jobs report.
Condemning
comments President Donald Trump made on George Floyd, Biden said "the
fact that he did so on the day when black unemployment rose, Hispanic
unemployment rose, black youth unemployment skyrocketed tells you
everything you need to know about this man."
Later, Biden said, "Latino [unemployment] jumped to over 37%."
Facts First: The jobs report showed that Hispanic unemployment decreased, not increased.
A
readout of Biden's speech shows that in referencing the "jump to over
37%" Biden was supposed to say "Latino youth unemployment," which would
have been correct.
"Latino youth
unemployment jumped to over 37 percent," the readout says. However,
Biden incorrectly said Hispanic unemployment had risen twice during the
speech.
According to the report,
in May the Hispanic or Latino unemployment fell from 16.7% to 15.1%
while the Hispanic youth unemployment rate increased from 35.8% to
37.4%.
NAACP endorsement
In
an interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God on May 22, Biden
falsely claimed that the NAACP has endorsed him "every time I've run."
Facts First: The NAACP does not endorse candidates.
While Biden does have a lifetime
membership with the organization and recently participated in an NAACP
town hall, the organization has a policy of not endorsing candidates.
After the comment from Biden, the organization issued a statement "to clarify that the NAACP is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse candidates for political office at any level."
White supremacy
In a June 16 interview
on Instagram with actress and musician Keke Palmer, Biden claimed that
Trump has not acknowledged the problem of White supremacy.
"You
know the President has talked about the systematic racism," Palmer
said, "but whenever he's asked...he just says that the answer is a
better economy, that's what will fix it. But I really don't think that's
the answer."
Palmer went on to ask Biden what his plan was to eradicate White supremacy in the US.
"Well
first of all, I don't even think Trump's even acknowledged White
supremacy," Biden said. "He doesn't even acknowledge it," Biden later
added.
Facts First: Trump has condemned White supremacy but only recently said "there probably is some" systemic racism in the US.
Following the mass shootings in Ohio and Texas in August 2019, Trump in prepared remarks
said that "in one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and
White supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no
place in America."
Two days after
the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, during
which Heather Heyer was killed, Trump issued a statement
condemning racism, specifically "the KKK, neo-Nazis, White
supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we
hold dear as Americans."
This
statement came a few days after Trump suggested there were "very fine
people on both sides" of the rally and protest, a statement for which he
has been sharply criticized by Biden and others.
Trump
has also been criticized for not being as forceful or persistent in
criticizing White supremacist violence as he has about terrorism by
Islamic extremists or crime by undocumented immigrants -- and he has
himself used racist rhetoric.
Regardless, it's not true that he has not acknowledged the problem of White supremacy at all.
Several days after the Instagram interview
with Biden, Trump addressed systemic racism -- potentially for the
first time in his Presidency -- in an interview with the Wall Street
Journal on June 17.
"I'd like to
think there is not" systemic racism, Trump told the journal, "but
unfortunately, there probably is some. I would also say it's very
substantially less than it used to be."
Joe can't stop lying.
And his supporters better start calling it out so he stops because, come October, people aren't going to be playing nice with him -- and by people, I mean the press.
MARVEL AGENTS OF SHIELD. Vickey e-mailed saying "Thank you for covering the show. I can't stand to watch it. I had my hopes up when they killed Coulsen but he's still on and worse than ever. No one I know watches it anymore. Hope you can stick in until the end."
I will stick in until the end. I thought the show would get better when they killed him too but they brought him back as a synthetic or something with the character's memories. He's hideous and dull.
Vickey's e-mail made me think about the ratings.
This season debuted with the lowest ratings ever. 1.8 million viewers watched. Less people watched the season debut than watched last season's cliffhanger. Each episode has gotten less and less viewers with the last episode getting 1.3 million viewers.
I think we're all tired of them treating Mac like an extra and of Clark Gregg's mincing Twinkels. The show should have let him go but they keep forcing him down our throats. No one wants to see him.
Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Friday, June 26, 2020. In the US, Howie Hawkins now appears to be the
Green Party's presidential nominee, Turkey continues to terrorize
northern Iraq as a new death and a video of children playing makes
clear. the Iraqi forces arrest some members of a militia, and much more.
"The two governing parties are governing over a failed state," Hawkins said Wednesday in an interview. "Look at the coronavirus. We have four percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the deaths."
And the Green Party, he said, is still very much relevant even as a debate continues to roil the Democratic Party over how far progressives should carry the platform. Figures like Senator Bernie Sanders retain a sizeable following the party, pushing into the party's mainstream issues like universal access to Medicare.
But Hawkins believes Sanders's impact falls short.
"He's moved the debate to the left, but not the policy," Hawkins said. "Medicare for all was his signature issue. A lot of the Democratic candidates had to relate to that. But now you've got Biden who said if it crosses my desk, I'll veto it."
Hawkins listed four "life or death issues" he's running on: The pandemic, a Green New Deal to combat climate change, fighting economic inequality through a job guarantee and fighting nuclear proliferation.
Asked about criminal justice reform in the wake of George Floyd's killing, Hawkins said, "it's good to redistribute" some police funding to aid the homeless or drug addiction.
He's not, however, in favor of abolishing police departments entirely.
"You're going to need somebody, I don't care if you call them police or not, to go out and apprehend people who are dangerous," Hawkins said.
Jill Stein.
As feminists, we wondered six weeks ago, what do we do?
Roseanne had already imploded. (Cindy Sheehan has a story to tell and then some.) She couldn't and wouldn't campaign, she apparently wouldn't pay workers she hired for her campaign, she was an embarrassment.
And so was Jill Stein.
As feminists, do we call it as it is?
We debated that for three days. Jill wasn't going to win the presidency. In fact, it was obvious she was running off the limited votes she did have a shot at.
But did we tell the truth on that? Did we call her out?
We crossed the line on gender with the decision -- a feminist one (not "the" feminist one) -- that she was running for public office and therefore had to be treated the same as anyone else would even if, in the closing weeks, we were going to tear her apart.
But . . .
Having dealt with the feminist issue, we still had the issue of third parties.
Was it really fair to beat up on a third party candidate?
Adding to the problems, one of us (Ava) is involved with a lifelong Green (Jess), has a child by him, has made a home with him.
And Jess was very clear that Jill Stein was "a f**king idiot but the Greens need to be on ballots." And they were. Texas, for example. We heard from Billie who early voted for Jill Stein. She was so excited because Jill Stein was on the ballot. She didn't have to write her in. Right there on the Texas ballot was the Green Party.
What do we do?
In the end, we decided, "We don't promote her. We don't mention her. That's true here, that's true at Third."
So we bit our tongues.
As she ran a stupid campaign. As she made a fool of herself and the Green Party. (Granted, it's a party that loves to make a fool of itself.)
She -- and others -- did a debate with Larry King. A debate that did not include all. A new hurdle was invented.
Green Party members, you know what a hurdle is, right? It's what keeps your candidate out of the so-called presidential debates every four years. Why the hell would you take part in a debate that did not invite everyone who made it onto a state's ballot as a presidential candidate?
Because hypocrisy is a charge you live to embrace?
Maybe so.
Supposedly the Green Party is opposed to war.
So when Tim Arango reported the White House was negotiating with Nouri to send more troops back into Iraq, Jill Stein should have led on that.
But she's a politician which is just a whore without the desire to please a customer.
So Jill ignored it.
She ignored a lot.
Six weeks ago, in fact, after Barack cratered in the first debate, she and her campaign began going after Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
Huh?
You're a Green. You're on the left. The high profile left vote getter just imploded on national TV. It's the perfect time for you to pick up some of his voters.
But you refuse to try. You rush to go after Romney and Ryan instead.
Why is that?
Because you are not a real party.
Because you will forever be the little sister of the Democratic Party.
Because every four years, you start off with promise and end up revealing just how craven and disgusting you are.
If we are offering commentary four years from now, please note, being a Green will not save you. Being third party will not save you.
Jaber Al Jaberi, an Iraqi member of parliament, told The National that the CTS raid on Kataib Hezbollah was an attempt to exert state authority and a test to see what the reaction might be.
Starting
in the United States where another party has a presidential nominee.
Until the Democratic Party's national convention formalizes things, Joe
Biden is the presumed presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. By
the same token (until the Green Party holds its national convention next
month and formalizes it), Howie Hawkins is now the presumed presidential nominee for the Green Party.. Chris Baker (SYRACUSE.COM) reports:
A Syracuse activist and campaign season mainstay has secured enough support to run for president as the Green Party’s candidate.
Howie Hawkins locked up enough Green Party delegates over the weekend to represent the party in November’s election.
His
running mate is Angela Walker, an activist from Wisconsin who
previously ran for vice president with the Socialist Party USA.
“Mounting
unnecessary deaths from Covid-19 and the uprising against racism have
revealed how the two governing parties are presiding over a failed
state,” Hawkins said in a press release. “The Green Party is the
alternative: Medicare for All, the full-strength Green New Deal, an
Economic Bill of Rights, and ending militarized policing at home and
abroad.”
Howard Gresham Hawkins (born December 8, 1952) is an American trade unionist and environmental activist from New York. A co-founder of the Green Party of the United States, Hawkins is the party's presumptive presidential nominee. His primary campaign issues include enacting an eco-socialist Green New Deal,
which he first proposed in 2010, and building a viable, independent
working-class political and social movement in opposition to the
Democratic and Republican parties and capitalism in general.[2]
Hawkins has played leading roles in anti-war,[3] anti-nuclear,[4] and pro-worker movements since the 1960s. Hawkins is a retired teamster and construction worker; from 2001 until his retirement in 2017, Hawkins worked the night shift unloading trucks for UPS.[5][6]
Hawkins has run for various offices on twenty-four occasions, all unsuccessfully.[7] He was New York's Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006. In 2010, Hawkins ran as the Green Party's candidate for Governor of New York, which restored ballot status for the party when it received more than the necessary 50,000 votes. In 2014, Hawkins ran again for the same office and received five percent of the vote. Hawkins ran a third time for Governor of New York in 2018, and ran for Mayor of Syracuse in 2017.
Hawkins has played leading roles in anti-war,[3] anti-nuclear,[4] and pro-worker movements since the 1960s. Hawkins is a retired teamster and construction worker; from 2001 until his retirement in 2017, Hawkins worked the night shift unloading trucks for UPS.[5][6]
Hawkins has run for various offices on twenty-four occasions, all unsuccessfully.[7] He was New York's Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006. In 2010, Hawkins ran as the Green Party's candidate for Governor of New York, which restored ballot status for the party when it received more than the necessary 50,000 votes. In 2014, Hawkins ran again for the same office and received five percent of the vote. Hawkins ran a third time for Governor of New York in 2018, and ran for Mayor of Syracuse in 2017.
"The two governing parties are governing over a failed state," Hawkins said Wednesday in an interview. "Look at the coronavirus. We have four percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the deaths."
And the Green Party, he said, is still very much relevant even as a debate continues to roil the Democratic Party over how far progressives should carry the platform. Figures like Senator Bernie Sanders retain a sizeable following the party, pushing into the party's mainstream issues like universal access to Medicare.
But Hawkins believes Sanders's impact falls short.
"He's moved the debate to the left, but not the policy," Hawkins said. "Medicare for all was his signature issue. A lot of the Democratic candidates had to relate to that. But now you've got Biden who said if it crosses my desk, I'll veto it."
Hawkins listed four "life or death issues" he's running on: The pandemic, a Green New Deal to combat climate change, fighting economic inequality through a job guarantee and fighting nuclear proliferation.
Asked about criminal justice reform in the wake of George Floyd's killing, Hawkins said, "it's good to redistribute" some police funding to aid the homeless or drug addiction.
He's not, however, in favor of abolishing police departments entirely.
"You're going to need somebody, I don't care if you call them police or not, to go out and apprehend people who are dangerous," Hawkins said.
At his Twitter feed yesterday, Howie noted that Senator Bernie Sanders is calling for a 10% reduction in Pentagon spending while the:
Green Party Prez ticket is calling for a 75% cut - not 10% -in military budget. To pay for a #GreenNewDeal
that goes to 100% renewable energy by 2030, zero carbon emissions, halt
to new fossil fuels, living wage jobs for all, single payer health
care. Vote Green for a change.
In this community, Ann and Mike
have endorsed Howie -- but they have made clear (read what they wrote)
that this is not, "I'm voting Howie regardless!" If Howie doesn't run a
real campaign, they are not voting for him. Jill Stein's campaign in
2012 was pathetic. If you're new to that observation, see Ava and my "Let the fun begin (Ava and C.I.)" written the day after the 2012 election:
Jill Stein.
As feminists, we wondered six weeks ago, what do we do?
Roseanne had already imploded. (Cindy Sheehan has a story to tell and then some.) She couldn't and wouldn't campaign, she apparently wouldn't pay workers she hired for her campaign, she was an embarrassment.
And so was Jill Stein.
As feminists, do we call it as it is?
We debated that for three days. Jill wasn't going to win the presidency. In fact, it was obvious she was running off the limited votes she did have a shot at.
But did we tell the truth on that? Did we call her out?
We crossed the line on gender with the decision -- a feminist one (not "the" feminist one) -- that she was running for public office and therefore had to be treated the same as anyone else would even if, in the closing weeks, we were going to tear her apart.
But . . .
Having dealt with the feminist issue, we still had the issue of third parties.
Was it really fair to beat up on a third party candidate?
Adding to the problems, one of us (Ava) is involved with a lifelong Green (Jess), has a child by him, has made a home with him.
And Jess was very clear that Jill Stein was "a f**king idiot but the Greens need to be on ballots." And they were. Texas, for example. We heard from Billie who early voted for Jill Stein. She was so excited because Jill Stein was on the ballot. She didn't have to write her in. Right there on the Texas ballot was the Green Party.
What do we do?
In the end, we decided, "We don't promote her. We don't mention her. That's true here, that's true at Third."
So we bit our tongues.
As she ran a stupid campaign. As she made a fool of herself and the Green Party. (Granted, it's a party that loves to make a fool of itself.)
She -- and others -- did a debate with Larry King. A debate that did not include all. A new hurdle was invented.
Green Party members, you know what a hurdle is, right? It's what keeps your candidate out of the so-called presidential debates every four years. Why the hell would you take part in a debate that did not invite everyone who made it onto a state's ballot as a presidential candidate?
Because hypocrisy is a charge you live to embrace?
Maybe so.
Supposedly the Green Party is opposed to war.
So when Tim Arango reported the White House was negotiating with Nouri to send more troops back into Iraq, Jill Stein should have led on that.
But she's a politician which is just a whore without the desire to please a customer.
So Jill ignored it.
She ignored a lot.
Six weeks ago, in fact, after Barack cratered in the first debate, she and her campaign began going after Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
Huh?
You're a Green. You're on the left. The high profile left vote getter just imploded on national TV. It's the perfect time for you to pick up some of his voters.
But you refuse to try. You rush to go after Romney and Ryan instead.
Why is that?
Because you are not a real party.
Because you will forever be the little sister of the Democratic Party.
Because every four years, you start off with promise and end up revealing just how craven and disgusting you are.
If we are offering commentary four years from now, please note, being a Green will not save you. Being third party will not save you.
So
if Howie decides that the way to campaign is to come on like the kid
sister of the Democratic Party, Mike and Ann are out the door.
Journalist Chris Hedges has endorsed Howie. The Green Party of New Jersey issued the following:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 25th, 2020
The Green Party of New Jersey is proud to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and activist Chris Hedges endorsed all GPNJ candidate campaigns for 2020. They are: Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker for President and Vice-President, Madelyn Hoffman for U.S. Senate, and Craig Cayetano for Council in Ward 3 in Hawthorne.
In his letter of endorsement, Chris Hedges writes, “I endorse the Green Party campaigns of candidates Howie Hawkins for President and Angela Walker for Vice President; the campaign of Madelyn Hoffman for U.S. Senate; and the special election campaign of Craig Cayetano for town council, Ward 3, in the town of Hawthorne. These candidates embody Green Party values. They know that the mainstream political parties have not, and will not, invest in people rather than corporations. They will never reform the systems of social control embodied in the police, the war industry, and prisons.”
He continued, “These candidates are facing important deadlines for filing petitions to place them on the November ballot. They need our help in obtaining the signatures to meet election requirements…We must step outside the system, to pit power against power, as tens of thousands of courageous men and women are doing in hundreds of American cities. This process of radical change will not be easy. It will not happen quickly or in one election cycle. It is a process, especially given the ecocide and corporate serfdom that confronts us, that we must embrace as a moral imperative. Voting is a small part of this process, but it sends an important signal to the ruling elites that their time is up, or soon to be up. We must stop fearing them. They must start fearing us.”
Madelyn Hoffman faces a July 6th deadline (technically July 7th at 4pm) for submitting signatures. Her petitions can be signed on-line here: www.hoffmanforsenate.com/petition. Anyone eligible to vote in New Jersey who has not signed another petition for U.S. Senate may sign this petition.
Craig Cayetano faces the same deadline for submitting signatures. His signatures can be submitted on-line here: https://www.cayetano4council.com/candidate_petition To sign for Cayetano, you must live in the third ward of Hawthorne.
Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker have until July 26th, 2020 (technically July 27th at 4:00pm) to submit their petitions. Anyone in New Jersey eligible to vote who has not signed anyone else’s petition for President, can sign these petitions. Please help these Green Party candidates get on the ballot in November so they can carry this fight to the voting booth.
The link for electronic signatures for the Hawkins for President campaign is: hawkins20.us/njpetition.
Continued Hedges, “Our enemy is the tiny cabal of corporate oligarchs who have seized control of the two ruling parties, the three branches of government, the media, academia, our health services, and the economy. They have usurped our rights to exclusively serve corporate profit. This is especially true in New Jersey, which has one of the most corrupt Democratic Party machines in the nation.”
He concludes, “Thank you for supporting the Green Party. The Green Party and its candidates stand unequivocally with those in the streets fighting institutionalized racism and those organizing strikes and work stoppages among frontline workers. The party seeks to express and honor the aspirations of those leading the current generational and class revolt shaking the foundations of New Jersey, the nation, and the world.”
June 25th, 2020
The Green Party of New Jersey is proud to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and activist Chris Hedges endorsed all GPNJ candidate campaigns for 2020. They are: Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker for President and Vice-President, Madelyn Hoffman for U.S. Senate, and Craig Cayetano for Council in Ward 3 in Hawthorne.
In his letter of endorsement, Chris Hedges writes, “I endorse the Green Party campaigns of candidates Howie Hawkins for President and Angela Walker for Vice President; the campaign of Madelyn Hoffman for U.S. Senate; and the special election campaign of Craig Cayetano for town council, Ward 3, in the town of Hawthorne. These candidates embody Green Party values. They know that the mainstream political parties have not, and will not, invest in people rather than corporations. They will never reform the systems of social control embodied in the police, the war industry, and prisons.”
He continued, “These candidates are facing important deadlines for filing petitions to place them on the November ballot. They need our help in obtaining the signatures to meet election requirements…We must step outside the system, to pit power against power, as tens of thousands of courageous men and women are doing in hundreds of American cities. This process of radical change will not be easy. It will not happen quickly or in one election cycle. It is a process, especially given the ecocide and corporate serfdom that confronts us, that we must embrace as a moral imperative. Voting is a small part of this process, but it sends an important signal to the ruling elites that their time is up, or soon to be up. We must stop fearing them. They must start fearing us.”
Madelyn Hoffman faces a July 6th deadline (technically July 7th at 4pm) for submitting signatures. Her petitions can be signed on-line here: www.hoffmanforsenate.com/petition. Anyone eligible to vote in New Jersey who has not signed another petition for U.S. Senate may sign this petition.
Craig Cayetano faces the same deadline for submitting signatures. His signatures can be submitted on-line here: https://www.cayetano4council.com/candidate_petition To sign for Cayetano, you must live in the third ward of Hawthorne.
Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker have until July 26th, 2020 (technically July 27th at 4:00pm) to submit their petitions. Anyone in New Jersey eligible to vote who has not signed anyone else’s petition for President, can sign these petitions. Please help these Green Party candidates get on the ballot in November so they can carry this fight to the voting booth.
The link for electronic signatures for the Hawkins for President campaign is: hawkins20.us/njpetition.
Continued Hedges, “Our enemy is the tiny cabal of corporate oligarchs who have seized control of the two ruling parties, the three branches of government, the media, academia, our health services, and the economy. They have usurped our rights to exclusively serve corporate profit. This is especially true in New Jersey, which has one of the most corrupt Democratic Party machines in the nation.”
He concludes, “Thank you for supporting the Green Party. The Green Party and its candidates stand unequivocally with those in the streets fighting institutionalized racism and those organizing strikes and work stoppages among frontline workers. The party seeks to express and honor the aspirations of those leading the current generational and class revolt shaking the foundations of New Jersey, the nation, and the world.”
Gloria La Riva
is a presidential nominee. She's running for the Party for Socialism
and Liberation as well as for the Peace and Freedom Party.
There are two other people who have their party's presidential nomination.
Joseph Kishore is the Socialist Equality Party's presidential candidate.
And Jo Jorgesen is the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee.
Turning to Iraq where Turkey continues to terrorize the Iraqi people.
Call
it Operation Claw-Eagle, call it Operation Claw-Tiger, it's terrorism
under any name. Turkey is violating international law and it is
violating Iraq's sovereignty. This morning, ALJAZEERA reports:
On Thursday evening, a Turkish strike hit a pickup truck in a rural
area north of the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah, said local official
Kameran Abdallah.
"It killed one man who was in the car," said Abdallah, without being able to specify whether the victim was a civilian or fighter. "The six wounded consisted of two women, two children and two men, all members of the same family."
On Friday, Baghdad issued a statement calling on Turkey to end its breach of Iraqi airspace and sovereignty, in which a number of civilians were killed, according to local media reports.
"It killed one man who was in the car," said Abdallah, without being able to specify whether the victim was a civilian or fighter. "The six wounded consisted of two women, two children and two men, all members of the same family."
On Friday, Baghdad issued a statement calling on Turkey to end its breach of Iraqi airspace and sovereignty, in which a number of civilians were killed, according to local media reports.
"These actions are a flagrant violation of the principle
of good neighbourliness, and a clear violation of international
agreements," said the statement issued by Iraq's presidential office.
Since "Claw-Tiger" began, at least five civilians have been killed and hundreds of families have fled their homes.
The Socialist Alliance issued the following:
The
Socialist Alliance of Australia condemns the Turkish state’s escalation
of illegal cross border air strikes against Kurdish and Yezidi
communities in northern Iraq and north-east Syria (Rojava).
We call upon the Australian government to immediately convey the strongest objection to these raids to the Turkish Ambassador to Australia and to recall the Australian Ambassador to Turkey as an act of protest. The Australian government should also call upon NATO and the UN Security Council to act immediately to stop this aggression and to terminate all military aid and supply to Turkey.
The Socialist Alliance extends its unconditional solidarity to the victims of this Turkish military aggression and pledges to continue to build solidarity actions in Australia.
June 26, 2020
We call upon the Australian government to immediately convey the strongest objection to these raids to the Turkish Ambassador to Australia and to recall the Australian Ambassador to Turkey as an act of protest. The Australian government should also call upon NATO and the UN Security Council to act immediately to stop this aggression and to terminate all military aid and supply to Turkey.
The Socialist Alliance extends its unconditional solidarity to the victims of this Turkish military aggression and pledges to continue to build solidarity actions in Australia.
June 26, 2020
The Socialist Alliance is not the
only one calling out Turkey's actions. Christian Peacemaker
Teams, USCIRF, the Arab League, the UAE, Egypt and
Saudi Arabia have all condemned the actions of the Turkish government. RUDAW reports that the PUK political party has also called out the Turkish government:
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (PUK) has called the Thursday
bombing of the Kuna Masi resort a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty,
attributing the unclaimed attack to Turkey, and calling on the Iraq’s
presidencies to respond “urgently”.
The PUK bloc in Iraqi parliament issued a statement Friday regarding the airstrike of the Kuna Masi resort in Sharbazhir town in northeastern of Sulaimani province, in which one unidentified fighter was killed and six civilians were injured, according to Shaho Osman, head of Sharbazhir town told Rudaw on Thursday.
An unknown warplane conducted an airstrike targeted Kuna Masi tourist resort in northeastern Sulaimani province on Thursday killed at least one unidentified fighter, and wounded six civilians.
“Continuous violation of Turkish warplanes to the Iraqi sovereignty is a clear disrespect to the formal memorandum the Iraqi government handed over to the Turkish ambassador,” the statement reads.
The PUK bloc also called on the Iraqi Foreign Ministry and the Iraqi representative to the United Nations Security Council to request the convening of an emergency Security Council session to suspend the Turkish military operations inside Iraqi territory and issue a resolution to compensate the families of civilians who have been killed by the military operation.
The PUK bloc in Iraqi parliament issued a statement Friday regarding the airstrike of the Kuna Masi resort in Sharbazhir town in northeastern of Sulaimani province, in which one unidentified fighter was killed and six civilians were injured, according to Shaho Osman, head of Sharbazhir town told Rudaw on Thursday.
An unknown warplane conducted an airstrike targeted Kuna Masi tourist resort in northeastern Sulaimani province on Thursday killed at least one unidentified fighter, and wounded six civilians.
“Continuous violation of Turkish warplanes to the Iraqi sovereignty is a clear disrespect to the formal memorandum the Iraqi government handed over to the Turkish ambassador,” the statement reads.
The PUK bloc also called on the Iraqi Foreign Ministry and the Iraqi representative to the United Nations Security Council to request the convening of an emergency Security Council session to suspend the Turkish military operations inside Iraqi territory and issue a resolution to compensate the families of civilians who have been killed by the military operation.
Other news out of Iraq involves a raid.
AFP reports, "Iraqi security forces arrested more than a dozen pro-Iran fighters
overnight, in their first raid against those accused of anti-US rocket
attacks, Iraqi officials told AFP early Friday. Elite fighters from Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service raided a
headquarters in southern Baghdad used by Kataeb Hezbollah, a pro-Iran
faction also identified as Brigade 45 of the Hashed al-Shaabi military
forces." Mina Aldroubi (THE NATIONAL) adds:
“Indeed the reaction by the so-called axis of resistance was strong,
where their armed and hysterical response revealed a lot about them,
their capabilities and their non-compliance with the laws of the state,”
Mr Al Jaberi said.
And ALJAZEERA notes:
Al Jazeera's Simona Foltyn, reporting from Baghdad,
said Iraq's elite Counter Terrorism Service seized at least 10 rockets
during the operation, which was "carried out an in effort to pre-empt an
impending rocket attack on the Green Zone and Baghdad International
Airport, both of which house US troops".
"Subsequently, dozens of armed Kataib Hezbollah fighters arrived in
the Green Zone and laid siege to one of the buildings belonging to the
Counter Terrorism Service, demanding the release of the detainees,
claiming they were arrested illegally without an arrest warrant," she
said.
Let's wind down with this:
We are so excited to announce the launch of Ms. magazine's very first podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin!
You read Ms. online and in print. You follow along on social media. Now, keep up with the feminist movement and even more of Ms.’s substantive, unique reporting with your new favorite podcast.
Tune in for our premiere episode on Tuesday, June 30 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or MsMagazine.com. 
Get a sneak peek of the feminist analysis, insightful conversations and exciting guests to come: a trailer is available now! We hope you’ll give it a listen, subscribe and rate the podcast.
On the Issues is a show where we report, rebel, and tell it like it is. Join host Dr. Michele Goodwin as she and special guests tackle the most compelling issues of our times, centering your concerns about rebuilding our nation and advancing the promise of equality.
Listen to a trailer for On the Issues with Michele Goodwin now — on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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Meet Your On the Issues Host: Dr. Michele Goodwin is a frequent contributor to Ms. magazine and on MsMagazine.com.
She is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine
and also serves on the executive committee and national board of the
ACLU. Dr. Goodwin is a prolific author and an elected member of the
American Law Institute, as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar
Foundation and the Hastings Center. Her most recent book, Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and The Criminalization of Motherhood, is described as a "must read."
Tune in Tuesday, June 30 for the first episode of On the Issues with Michele Goodwin—Policing in America: A Tale of Race, Sex and Violence. Professor Goodwin and her guests will ask critical questions like: where are the women in the field of policing? And why does it matter?
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