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News 6/5/26 News Anon 3.0 06-06-26 03:11:16 No.2832493

Palestinian factions to meet on Gaza, with role for Abbas rival likely topic
Several Palestinian factions are set to discuss Gaza's future at a meeting in Egypt on Saturday, where the possibility of a role for Mohammed Dahlan, a rival of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, is likely to come up, sources told AFP. Another meeting between representatives of mediators of the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas is planned for Sunday, according to a Palestinian political source, who said Nikolai Mladenov, high representative for Gaza in US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, was also expected to attend.
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-factions-meet-gaza-amid-abbas-rival-likely-topic

Israel maintains deadly attacks despite US-brokered deal with Lebanon
The strikes hit residential areas, buildings and roads, while a major demolition was carried out in Bab al-Thaniya. Israeli warplanes also hit close to Jabel Amel Hospital, targeting the Bank Audi area. Two people were killed in Habboush, including a doctor, reported the state-run National News Agency (NNA). In Doueir, a young man was killed and another suffered serious injuries due to an attack by an Israeli warplane, said NNA.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/5/israel-maintains-attacks-despite-us-brokered-deal-with-lebanon
https://archive.ph/jyJmu

India called on to arrest Israeli reservist holidaying in country
Brussels-based organisation the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) filed an urgent complaint with Indian officials on Tuesday relating to Eitan Gilboa, who is in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. Submitted to the Indian police, home affairs ministry and immigration bureau, the complaint identified Gilboa as a reservist in the 271st Combat Engineering Battalion.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-called-arrest-israeli-reservist-holidaying-in-country

Uttarakhand: Muslims at Receiving End, Another Mosque Sealed Amid Protests
With Assembly elections fast approaching in Uttarakhand, the minority Muslim community which has been at the receiving end of wrath of the ruling BJP/RSS dispensation for the past nearly nine years, are being cornered and targeted in every possible way by the Hindutva brigade having the patronage of the State administrative machinery and police. An old mosque at Thano village area of Dehradun, which has been existence since 1978, was sealed by the authorities of Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) for being ‘illegal’ on the persistent demand of the Hindutva groups owing allegiance to the ruling party.
https://www.newsclick.in/uttarakhand-muslims-receiving-end-another-mosque-sealed-amid-protests

Philippine Senate reopens after 2 days but impasse among senators remain
Cayetano said he and his majority bloc of senators did not show up at the Senate partly as a “protest” and to prevent rival senators from wresting control of the upper chamber. The 11 senators who oppose Cayetano criticized the decision and called on him to resign. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appealed for the absent senators to immediately return to work, saying the Senate impasse would stymie legislation needed by the poverty-stricken country to overcome an energy emergency sparked by the war in the Middle East.
https://www.newsclick.in/uttarakhand-muslims-receiving-end-another-mosque-sealed-amid-protests

NSW police sergeant avoids jail over death of 16-year-old Indigenous teenager Jai Wright
An emotional cry rang out from the gallery as the officer was sentenced to a two-year intensive corrections order – a term of imprisonment served outside jail. “No sentence can ever measure the value of a human life, especially not a life tragically lost so young, a life not fully lived, a life that matters,” the judge, Jane Culver, said.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/05/jai-wright-indigenous-teenager-collision-death-police-officer-avoids-jail-ntwnfb

Nine killed in fresh drone strike on South Darfur, ‘sniper deployment’ amid rising intertribal Kassala tensions
At least nine civilians were killed in a fresh drone attack on the town of Kubum in South Darfur on Thursday, four days after an earlier strike killed 20 people. The attack came as rights groups warned of escalating tribal tensions in the region, while tribal leader Mohamed El Amin Turk accused unnamed parties of deploying snipers in Kassala ahead of a rally by his supporters.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/nine-killed-in-fresh-drone-strike-on-south-darfur-sniper-deployment-amid-rising-intertribal-kassala-tensions

‘Family values’ African charter condemned by rights groups as regressive and dangerous
The charter was drawn up by a core group of African lawmakers, led by Ugandan government ministers, at the annual inter-parliamentary conference on family values and sovereignty, a controversial meeting that has become known for shaping anti-homosexuality legislation. The objective of the 2026 conference, which was held in Ghana for the first time this week and attended by representatives from 20 countries, was to advance the charter by garnering enough support to take it to the African Union general assembly next February, when it would be put to a vote.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/05/ghana-african-charter-family-values-gender-women-sex-lgbtq-reproductive-rights

US throws support behind Bolivia's president as unrest grows
Washington is pledging emergency aid to Bolivia and warning against attempts to topple President Rodrigo Paz as his government faces mounting protests aND worsening shortages. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that "the United States is watching", vowing continued support to Paz in the fight against "narco-terrorists" who profit "from death and destruction in our hemisphere".
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260605-us-throws-support-behind-bolivia-s-president-as-unrest-grows
https://archive.ph/WyZIT

Ecuador's disappeared: Inside one family's search for answers
Since early December, Fault Lines has spent time with families who are pushing for accountability and pleading with the government to learn what happened to their loved ones. In some cases, they have spent years without receiving any direct response. “It gets harder every time my nephew asks when his father will come home and I don’t have any answers,” said Rosario Villon, whose brother, Jonathan Villon, has been missing for almost a year and a half.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2026/6/4/ecuadors-disappeared-inside-one-familys-search-for-answers
https://archive.ph/AV35A

German asylum benefits cuts violate EU law, top court rules
The ECJ was asked to interpret the rights of an Afghan asylum-seeker, identified as FB, whose asylum application had been rejected by Germany and who was due to be deported to Romania, where he first claimed asylum in 2021. While FB waited to be transferred he was provided food, heated accommodation, and hygiene and healthcare, but received no assistance for clothing and other household items. A law in Germany slashed benefits for rejected asylum-seekers in what activists described as "bed, bread, and soap" subsistence.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-asylum-benefits-cuts-violate-eu-law-top-court-rules/a-77424233
https://archive.ph/lHAj4

Anti-war campaigners to mobilise for peace amid Trump's illegal war
The International Conference Against War on June 20 in London will hear from dozens of campaigners, trade unionists, academics and experts to “raise the alarm” and create a “network which will organise for peace, oppose the revitalised US imperial project and fight for the livelihood” of working people.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/anti-war-campaigners-mobilise-peace-amid-trumps-illegal-war

News Anon 3.0 06-06-26 03:31:47 No.2832495

Memo orders ICE to stop reporting deaths of newly released detainees
The move, first reported by the Washington Post, rescinds a 2021 policy implemented by the Biden administration that required ICE to report to Congress and investigate deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release. The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody. Detainees with brain damage or suffering from infection, for instance, have died shortly after ICE released them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/05/ice-deaths-data-memo

San Francisco’s Case Against Pro-Palestinian Activists Who Blocked Bridge Heads to Jury
The Tax Day demonstration was part of an international movement — activists also shut down traffic on Interstate-880 in Oakland, and staged similar protests in San Diego, Seattle, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Chicago and across Mexico, Vietnam and Australia. In her final statement, Assistant District Attorney Angela Roze quoted a person who was stuck on the Golden Gate Bridge that day: “We all have a right to protest, but I should have had a right to leave,” she said. “In this case, the defendants unilaterally decided to take that right away from everyone on the road.”
https://www.kqed.org/news/12086262/san-franciscos-case-against-pro-palestinian-activists-who-blocked-bridge-heads-to-jury

DOGE Wanted to Falsely List Millions of People as Dead in Social Security Database: Whistleblower
Schofield said a DOGE employee told him in a phone call that they wanted to add 2.7 million living people to SSA’s “Death Master File,” cutting them off from essential financial services so they would either leave the country voluntarily or show up to local SSA offices to complain, where they would be promptly arrested.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-doge-whistleblower

Pratt's lead over Raman continues to shrink in LA mayor's race as candidates battle to face Bass in November
On Thursday, with 64% of the vote counted, Bass widened her lead over Pratt to nearly six percentage points, holding 35% to Pratt's 29% and Raman's 23%. The race for second place tightened even more on Friday with Raman gaining ground to 24.9% and Pratt dropping to 28.2%
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/los-angeles-mayoral-race-bass-raman-pratt-2026/

OP/ED News Anon 3.0 06-06-26 03:43:25 No.2832496

California Primaries: Cracks in the Democratic Coalition and Promising Results for Socialists
Midterm primary elections rarely receive much attention. But in a year when control of the congress hangs in the balance, California’s primaries have raised a lot of eyebrows. As one of the few states with open run-off primaries — where only the top two winners, regardless of party, are allowed to advance to the general election — its elections have become a barometer for national politics. And if Tuesday’s results are any indication of the sentiment of the rest of the electorate, the Democrats could be in trouble come November. Though the party establishment seems to have fended off several challenges from both the Right and the Left, including a progressive challenge for Nancy Pelosi’s house seat in District 11, the results reveal that when given a choice, many voters are opting for candidates to the Left of the Democrats. In Los Angeles, in particular, progressive challengers performed well and candidates associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) won several elections and will advance in many others.
https://www.leftvoice.org/california-primaries-cracks-in-the-democratic-coalition-and-promising-results-for-socialists/

How Secret Pro-Israel Money Flooded the Labour Party and Ended with a Ban of Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur
Piker and Uygur were not banned by the Labour Party—they were banned by the Labour Together party. The primary architect of the Labour Together project is Morgan McSweeney, who was, until recently, Starmer’s chief of staff and widely understood as the real force running the government. McSweeney resigned in February after it was revealed he had pushed Peter Mandelsohn as the UK’s ambassador to the U.S., despite knowing of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. I know McSweeney’s capacity for destroying free speech—and especially criticism of Israel—first-hand. I have been investigating the Labour Together Project since 2021, setting out my findings in my book, “The Fraud.” As a result, I was one of multiple journalists targeted by Labour Together. I was reported by Labour Together to the UK’s cybersecurity agency, in an apparent attempt to catalyze criminal investigations into me and my colleagues. I was forced to fend off repeated allegations, briefed to the media by Labour Together, that I was under investigation by the UK’s security services on the basis of ludicrous suggestions that my colleagues and I at the small anti-corruption non-profit Shadow World Investigations were patsies of Russia. The allegations are totally false, and obviously so, not least because we have faced legal and extra-legal threats for reporting on the corruption of Russian oligarchs. In 2026, the Guardian confirmed that, despite Labour Together’s best efforts, the UK’s security services declined to open an investigation into me based on tawdry and fabricated conspiracy theories.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hasan-piker-cenk-uygur-uk-ban-keir-starmer-labour-together

Giving Rights to Robots Is a Bad Idea: Review of The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots by Lisa Siraganian (Verso, 2026)
Philosophical debates don’t often make the news. But the problem of personhood regularly finds its way into the headlines. The first few weeks of this year alone saw a surge of interest in the topic. In January, the Guardian theatrically warned policy makers not to entertain Silicon Valley hype about artificial intelligence deserving personhood recognition. Then in February, Maori politician Teanau Tuiono introduced a bill into the New Zealand Parliament to recognize whales as legal persons. Soon after, a coalition of indigenous tribes granted the Colorado River legal personhood in an effort to save it from overexploitation and the climate crisis. In the same week, Puerto Rico’s MAGA governor Jenniffer González granted zygotes legal personality, potentially criminalizing miscarriage and medically necessary abortion. There would seem to be rich ideological confusion afoot when venture capitalists, environmentalists, indigenous activists, and misogynists alike latch on to the same solution to their problems. Philosopher Lisa Siraganian’s new book, The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots, is an attempt to understand the roots of this confusion. Whether applied to progressive or reactionary causes, Siraganian argues, these new personhoods are doomed to fail because they are based on corporate legal personhood. Such a conception not only impoverishes what it means to be a person, Siraganian warns, but it is also simply not capable of protecting the vulnerable from capitalism.
https://jacobin.com/2026/06/rights-corporate-personhood-ai-environment

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