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Keep that funky groove going, Baltimore.

Rebellion in Baltimore

– The folks in Baltimore are saying enough of the violence and demand change to a failed system. The riot in the city is just fury citizens there have

– Here are five things to keep in mind when listening and reading about what’s happening in Baltimore

– Max Blumenthal: “You Will Be Surprised Who the Outside Agitators Really Are in Baltimore”

– For the last damn time, there is no conspiracy of gangs to unite to fight police

– Natasha Lennard: “Baltimore didn’t go from peace to violence. The violence was there all along”

– The narrative on what’s happening in Baltimore is ignorant of the history of police brutality along with other problems in the city

– A solution to the crisis in Baltimore is to provide a real sense of justice in the community

– Dave Zirin: “Apartheid Games: Baltimore, Urban America, and Camden Yards”

– More than one-third of households in Baltimore are in poverty; You wonder why they are angry

– Leave it to the media, already struggling to find its reason to exist, to blame protesters for being out of control

– President Barack Obama: I do not believe it is right to use violence in Baltimore

– Those cop unions in Maryland, indeed elsewhere, are a major obstacle in implementing reforms for police accountability. It’s true, they stopped reforms last month

Overall

– Part six of eight with John Kiriakou about the White House’s role in the lead up to the Iraq War in 2003

– Internal opposition in Pakistan to the Saudi-led war in Yemen may be forcing Pakistan away from Saudi Arabia

Middle East

– Journalist Joe Lauria joins The Real News to explain what Saudi Arabia’s end goal is in Yemen and why they don’t want peace

– Representative of the Syrian opposition will meet with officials of the United Nations to discuss peace talks

– Near Golan Heights, under Israeli control, Syrian rebels fought with militants tied to the Islamic State

– Saudi Arabia arrested at least 93 people for an alleged plot to attack the U.S. embassy in the country

– More than 300,000 people have been driven from their homes in Yemen as a result of the conflict

Asia and Oceania

– Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, joins The Real News to talk about the nuclear ambitions of North Korea

– Nations near the South China Sea are cautious of China’s presence as they say it is obsessed with getting oil

– John Pilger: “What Australian Elites Don’t Understand About Freedom”

– At least 10,000 people are feared dead as a result of the 7.8 earthquake striking Nepal

Africa

– The Nigerian military said it rescued at least 200 women from Boko Haram

– The United Nations criticized migrant detention centers in Libya and said they were in”dire conditions”

– An audit in Nigeria found the state-owned oil company overpaid the government millions of dollars

Europe 

– Sweden will allow Julian Assange to appeal the arrest warrant over his alleged rape

– Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras re-shuffled his negotiating team with Yanis Varoufakis, the finance minister, holding a less powerful role

– Vice President Joseph Biden called for the Kiev government to stamp out corruption

Latin America, Caribbean and Canada

– Rage can not only be found in Baltimore as the same could be found in Mexico over the consequences of neoliberalism

– Good to hear a strong left showing in Argentina ahead of the elections there later this year

Surveillance Planet

– Some lawmakers want to curtail the power of intelligence agencies in mass surveillance. More could be found here

Financial Matters

– Gallup: While less Americans identify as middle-class, more identify as working class

– Sri Lanka provided money for public relations companies in the West to promote the image of the country

– The current structure of capitalism we have allow for abuse not only by police officers, but private police. This is even worse

– European oil companies are writing off oil assets in Libya as a result of the high tensions there

– President Obama remained hopeful during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be passed in both of their countries

Labor’s a-Brewing

– Truck drivers in California want the companies they work for to classify them as employees, not contractors, and return their wages that were stolen

– The collapse of a convention center being constructed in Saudi Arabia left 10 Pakistani workers and one Indian worker dead

Politics US 

Washington USA

– The question in Washington D.C., well one of them, is whether the Supreme Court will officially recognize same-sex marriage as a right to be protected

– An expert in a Supreme Court case over executions did most of his research on drugs.com; Hooray! Democracy at work!

– Funny how a group financed by the Koch Brothers, those libertarians, protested gay marriage outside the Supreme Court

– Two-thirds of government agencies do not fulfill FOIA requests; Hooray! Democracy at work!

– The Department of Homeland Security do not feel Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) proposal, which is to strip citizenship of Americans fighting for terrorists, is a good idea

– A number of Senators called for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to correct injustices caused by FBI in cases leading to convictions

– Bill Clinton: Mass incarceration, a mistake I helped caused during my tenure, must end now

– The Senate rejected calls to make the nuclear agreement with Iran a treaty to be voted on

Anytown USA

– The Los Angeles Police Commission announced it would provide body cameras for LAPD officers

Health, Hunger and Homelessness

– Tyson Foods announced it would no longer use antibiotics for its poultry

The Second Sex

– When talking about the victims of police brutality, we must not forget about black women like Rekia Boyd

– Qatar announced a $1 billion plan to capture wasted gas and help the environment

– The largest fracking firm in Utah hired Patrick O’Brien as its new CEO. O’Brien is known for his role in BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010; This falls under Planet Earth because…well…I’m sure you know

– In North Carolina, private wells filled with water were tainted with coal waste, thanks to Duke Energy. Duke Energy realized its faults and would provide free water bottles

– Royal Dutch Shell want an injunction from a court to prevent Greenpeace activists from blocking equipment used for Arctic drilling

Mixed Bag

– A new study found the use of the n-word on Google could be correlated with the mortality rate of blacks in certain rural areas

– Those who are transgender and autistic can teach a lot to us about what gender is

– Spain will raise the minimum age to marry from 14 to 16 years old

Break Time

– Renegades of Funk [Rage Against the Machine]