(2019-11-25). 'Atlantics (Atlantique)': An African 'Get Out' type of movie. peoplesworld.org 
Mati Diop's Atlantics, seen recently at the American Film Institute's annual film festival, is a clever, creative film that, like Jordan Peele's 2017 Get Out and 2019 Us, takes a look at a topical issue through the lens of horror movie genre conventions. Whereas Peele peeled back the layers of American racism and class inequality, …
(2019-11-25). Blinded Palestinian Journalist Exposes Israel's Increasing Violence Against Media. mintpressnews.com 
2018 saw a 52 percent increase in the number of violations against Palestinian press, the majority of them comprised physical abuse, arrests or detentions, questioning, preventing coverage and shutting down websites and social media accounts.
(2019-11-25). The Left Simply Can't Trust House Democrats. truthdig.com 
Last week, the Democratic leadership put an extension of the Patriot Act into a "continuing resolution" that averted a government shutdown. More than 95 percent of the Democrats in the House went along with it by voting for the resolution. Both co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Pramila Jayapal and Mark Pocan, voted yes. So did all 11 of the CPC's vice chairs. | It didn't have to be that way. House progressives could have thrown a monkey wrench into the Orwellian machinery. Instead, the cave-in was another bow to normalizing the U.S. government's mass surveillance powers. | "There's no other way t…
(2019-11-25). Likud MK: "Israelis Will Soon Be Able To Open Projects in Arab Gulf States" imemc.org Former Israeli Communications Minister, Ayyoub al-Qarra, an Arab Druze member of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, said that Israel was advancing its normalization ties with various Arab countries, and next year, Israelis will be able to open businesses and have normal political tries with Arab Gulf states. The Maan News agency …
(2019-11-25). International Law Is Clear on One Point: Israel's Settlements Are Illegal. globalresearch.ca US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made headlines around the world this week in announcing that the US had shifted its position, and no longer viewed Israeli settlements as a violation of international law. | In one of the stupider public …
(2019-11-25). Finally Charged and Lacking a Mandate to Govern, Netanyahu's Days are Numbered. dissidentvoice.org The decision to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three separate criminal counts pushes the country's already unprecedented electoral stalemate into the entirely uncharted territory of a constitutional crisis. There is no legal precedent for a sitting prime minister facing a trial — in Netanyahu's case, for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Former …
(2019-11-25). Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure Palestinian in Hebron. imemc.org A Palestinian was shot and injured, on Sunday evening, in the town of Beit Ummar, in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. Mohammed Awad, a media activist, said Israeli forces stationed near the illegal Israeli settlement of Karmi Tzur, fired …
(2019-11-25). Netanyahu's Likud Party Agrees to Hold Leadership Primaries. telesurenglish.net The Likud Party, led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced Sunday that it will hold primary elections within six weeks while PM Netanyahu currently faces trial on three charges of corruption. | RELATED: | Israel 1st Western Democracy to Expel HRW Worker: HRW Director | According to Israeli media reports, Netanyahu has agreed with the head of Likud's central com…
(2019-11-25). Attacking Palestine's Future. "Omnipresent are the Prison Guard Towers, the Barbed Wire, the Israeli Soldiers" globalresearch.ca Traveling across Palestine, as I did to give lectures earlier this year, means following a perpetually fresh trail of repression. | Omnipresent are the prison guard towers, the barbed wire, the Israeli soldiers with their massive guns and the separation wall….
(2019-11-25). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Nine Palestinians In Al-'Isawiya. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, nine Palestinians from their homes in the al-'Isawiya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and summoned several residents for interrogation, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported. Silwanic said the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes and interrogated many Palestinians …
(2019-11-25). Soldiers Injure Several Schoolchildren In Hebron. imemc.org Israeli soldiers Injured, Monday, dozens of Palestinian schoolchildren and residents, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed at Abu ar-Reesh military roadblock, at the southern entrance of the Old City of Hebron and the Ibrahimi Mosque, attacked dozens of …
(2019-11-25). Nuclear Lies and Broken Promises. counterpunch.org When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an economic meeting in the city of Sivas this September that Turkey was considering building nuclear weapons, he was responding to a broken promise. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the government of Iran of lying about its nuclear program, he was concealing one of the greatest subterfuges in the history of nuclear weapons. And the vast majority of Americans haven't a clue about either. More
(2019-11-25). Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Hebron. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, three Palestinians, including a former political prisoner, in Hebron governorate, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers stormed and ransacked many homes and interrogated several Palestinians while …
(2019-11-25). Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians, Including A child, In Bethlehem And Tubas. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday, a child and a young man in Bethlehem governorate, south of occupied East Jerusalem in the West Bank, and two near Tubas in northeastern West Bank. Several army jeeps invaded the al-'Azza refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, searched homes and abducted Nour Mahmoud Abu Tarboush, 14, …
(2019-11-25). Washington's Right-Wing Consensus on Israel Faces a Reckoning in Three New York Congressional Races. theintercept.com Eliot Engel and Jerry Nadler, among the most pro-Israel Democrats, are facing primaries from the left. Nita Lowey, another pro-Israel hawk, is retiring.
(2019-11-25). Turmoil or State Terror in Kashmir? India's "Hindutiva Project" globalresearch.ca "They weren't like us and for that reason deserved to be ruled" — Edward Said | The parallels with the Zionist state are impossible not to notice. This should be no surprise considering the close collaboration between Israel and India in …
(2019-11-25). History of US-Israel Relations, The State Department's "Fact Sheet". A War of "Terror Alliance" globalresearch.ca The State Department's (SD below) so-called "fact sheet" on Israel mixes facts with fiction. | SD: "The United States was the first country to recognize Israel as a state in 1948, and the first to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of …
(2019-11-25). The Trump Administration is Unlawfully Detaining a U.S. Resident Without Charge. aclu.org Adham | Hassoun completed his criminal sentence and was set to be released from prison almost | three years ago. But the government — now claiming unprecedented and | unconstitutional powers under the USA Patriot Act — continues to hold Adham in | detention, indefinitely and without charge. | We're | in court to secure his freedom. | Adham | has called the United States home for 30 years. Born in Lebanon to Palestinian | refugees, Adham and his family — like many other refugees — suffered…
(2019-11-25). Indian government uses police, paramilitaries to repress protests at Jawaharlal Nehru University. wsws.org The Modi government has vilified JNU students as "anti-national" and "urban Naxals" for opposing its relentless promotion of Hindu supremacism and imposition of pro-investor measures.
(2019-11-25). No Billionaires, No Fascists, No Warmongers To the Socialist Future. counterpunch.org There's probably no bigger sin in American politics than to imagine a world without war, inequality, and capitalism. Actually, imagining just a kinder, more equitable version of capitalism, one in which the existence of elite wealth is tempered by the peoples' right to health care, a college education, affordable housing, strong workplace unions, full reproductive More
(2019-11-25). Headlines for November 25, 2019. democracynow.org Navy Secretary Ousted amid Dispute over Accused War Criminal Eddie Gallagher, Released State Dept. Emails Implicate Pompeo in Giuliani Ukraine Plot, Bloomberg Jumps into 2020 Race by Buying Millions in Campaign Ads, Sen. Graham Blocked Armenian Genocide Resolution at White House Request, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Released from Hospital in Good Health, Hong Kong: Pro-Democracy Candidates Win Nearly 90% Seats in Local Elections, Security Forces Raid Offices of Egypt's Last Independent Media Outlet, Iraqi Security Forces Kill 13 Protesters amid Anti-Government Demonstrations, Israel Deporting Head of Human Rights Watch's…
(2019-11-25). Businessman buys Hitler hat & cigar box wants them out of 'wrong hands'… so he gives them to Israeli group. rt.com 
An entrepreneur purchased Nazi memorabilia off an auction, saying he wants them to be displayed at a Holocaust museum, instead of being used by neo-Nazis. | Abdullah Chatila, a Swiss investor and philanthropist of Lebanese origin, has bought several of the Nazi leader's personal belongings at an auction in Munich, Germany last week. He then donated all the items to Keren Hayesod — United Israel Appeal, an Israeli state-run fundraising organization, with hopes that they will be displayed at a Holocaust museum in Israel. | "It is extremely important to me that items from this painful historical era do not l…
(2019-11-25). Saudi Arabia condemns Trump administration's move to 'legalize' Israeli settlements in West Bank. rt.com 
Foreign ministers from Arab League countries slammed the US' decision to stop viewing Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal, during an extraordinary meeting. Even Washington's ally Saudi Arabia condemned the move. | The emergency gathering, held on Monday, to discuss the U-turn in the US' position on settlements was earlier requested by Palestine. The decision puts the whole Israeli-Palestinian peace process in jeopardy, while nullifying the US' role as a mediator in the decades-old conflict, Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said in a fiery televised speech. | The US announcement…
(2019-11-25). 'No other democracy': Human Rights Watch slams Israel's expulsion of director over BDS activism. rt.com 
Human Rights Watch has condemned the decision by Israel to deport Omar Shakir, HRW's director for Israel and Palestinian territories. Israel revoked his visa over activism on behalf of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS). | Shakir, a US citizen, was placed on a flight out of Ben Gurion International Airport on Monday, after the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the government's decision to expel him from Tel Aviv. The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Shakir has been an outspoken advocate of the BDS movement prior to his work at HRW, and that they have every right to expel him under a 20…
(2019-11-25). 'Cross our red lines & be destroyed': Iran's elite IRGC chief warns US, Israel and Saudi Arabia at large pro-govt rally. rt.com 
All external foes will be defeated if they make moves against Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander warned at a massive pro-government rally amid protests over fuel price hikes. | Major General Hossein Salami addressed people in downtown Tehran on Monday. He said that the country's rivals are "no longer capable of anything" in their attacks against the nation. | We have shown patience towards the hostile moves of America, the Zionist regime [Israel] and Saudi Arabia against the Islamic Republic of Iran… but we will destroy them if they cross our red lines. | Thousands have marched on t…
(2019-11-25). "Who's Next?" Israel Expels Human Rights Watch Director for Opposition to Illegal Israeli Settlements. commondreams.org Human Rights Watch on Monday vowed to continue fighting the violation of Palestinians' human rights by the Israeli government as the organization's director for the region was expelled from Israel. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-11-25). Not 'Free Stuff,' But Public Goods: Ocasio-Cortez Denounces Neoliberal Talking Points on Publicly-Funded Education and Housing. commondreams.org Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won applause and cheers from her constituents on Sunday at a town hall in The Bronx, where she expressed deep frustration with the routine dismissal of investment in public goods as "free stuff." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-11-25). NYC Students Strike to Demand Racial Equity in Nation's Largest—and Most Segregated—School District. commondreams.org For the second consecutive week, students in New York City went on strike Monday morning to protest persistent segregation in their schools, more than six decades after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schools must serve children of all races equally. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-11-25). Israel Expels Human Rights Watch Official Over BDS Support. telesurenglish.net A Human Rights Watch (HRW) official complied with an Israeli expulsion order on Monday imposed over accusations he backs an international pro-Palestinian boycott, but said the edict would only encourage rights abuses. | RELATED: | Israel 1st Western Democracy to Expel HRW Worker: HRW Director | HRW and Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen representing the New York-based organization in Israel and the Palestinian territories, have denied the allegations. | Three weeks ago, Israel's Supreme Court upheld…
(2019-11-25). Israel Expels Human Rights Watch Director for Opposition to Illegal Settlements. truthout.org Human Rights Watch on Monday vowed to continue fighting the violation of Palestinians' human rights by the Israeli government as the organization's director for the region was expelled from Israel. | Omar Shakir was forced out of the country three weeks after the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the government's decision to revoke his work visa on the g…
(2019-11-25). Real Danger in US Decision to Normalize Illegal Settlements. telesurenglish.net It is hardly shocking that the United States government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements which have been built in defiance of international law, are, somehow, "consistent" with international law. | RELATED: | Israel Expels Human Rights Watch Official Over BDS Support | US foreign policy has been edging closer towards this conclusion f…
(2019-11-25). Hidden in the Tory manifesto is a vile and racist attack they hope you won't notice. thecanary.co 
On 24 November, the Conservatives released their manifesto, which has drawn widespread criticism for its misleading claims and shady costing. But what's received less attention is two sentences that are utterly vile, racist, and dangerous. In fact, th…
(2019-11-24). Armenian Genocide Resolution Reaffirms G-word is a Tool for US Realpolitik. dissidentvoice.org 
Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in an overwhelming bipartisan majority to officially recognize the Armenian genocide more than a century after the atrocities were committed. The motion was a departure from decades of U.S. government refusal because of its realpolitik considerations of regional ally and fellow NATO member, the Republic of Turkey. …
(2019-11-24). Thousands of Settlers Storm Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. imemc.org The Palestine News Network (PNN) reported that thousands of Israeli settlers, on Saturday, stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, under heavy military protection. While the Ibrahimi Mosque is an Islamic place of worship, Palestinian Muslim worshipers were not allowed to enter it for prayer. Local sources observed several buses carrying …
(2019-11-24). Israeli Forces Fire Tear-Gas at Schools in Hebron. imemc.org Dozens of Palestinians students and citizens sustained suffocation, on Sunday, when Israeli forces fired tear-gas canisters near a complex of schools in Hebron, according to the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA). The correspondent reported that dozens of Palestinian children as well as adults, suffered the effects of toxic tear-gas …
(2019-11-24). Center-Right Klaus Iohannis Re-Elected President of Romania. telesurenglish.net Romania's center-right incumbent President Klaus Iohannis was elected Sunday for a second term after he heavily defeated his socialist opponent Viorica Dancila in a runoff vote. | RELATED: | Romania Announces Israel Embassy Will Move to Jerusalem | According to the eastern European country's electoral body, the center-right former physics professor obtained 62.8 percent of the votes, while Social Democrats' (PSD) Dancila received the other 37.1 percent. | "The winner today is modern…
(2019-11-24). Palestinian P.M. Visits Family of Seriously Ill Prisoner. imemc.org Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh said that the "issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails will remain a top priority and it will be raised at international forums." | The Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported the P.M.
(2019-11-24). Israeli Forces Arrest Three Children in Hebron. imemc.org Three Palestinian children were arrested by Israeli soldiers, on Sunday, while they were leaving school in Beit Ummar in northern Hebron, Quds News Network (QNN) reported. Israeli forces arrested the minors, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron after they left school, taking them to a police station …
(2019-11-24). US: House Democrats Extend Patriot Act in Concealed Bill. telesurenglish.net The United States House of Representatives passed a short-term funding bill in an effort to avert a government shutdown Tuesday, which included an extension, buried in the legislation, to the Bush-era Patriot Act. | RELATED: | Trump Accuses Impeachment Witness Of Lying, Defends Giuliani | The funding bill was approved by the Senate earlier on Thursday, hours before President Donald Trump signed the document. With a vote of 231-192, the Democrat-led House passed the bill effectively…
(2019-11-23). Muslim woman defends Jewish children from antisemitic abuse. thecanary.co 
A man has been arrested after antisemitic abuse was directed towards Jewish children on the London Underground.The suspect was held in Birmingham on 23 November on suspicion of committing a racially aggravated public order offence and he remains in custody.His arrest came after a man was filmed reading anti-Jewish bible passages to two young boys while they were travelling with their family on the Northern Line.Asma Shuweikh came to the defence of the family, who were travelling on the Northern Line on Friday (Chris Atkins/PA)Wearing a cap and hoody, the man is seen in the video threatening a man off-camera after…
(2019-11-23). Israel: Netanyahu to Give up 4 Ministry Posts Due to Indictment. telesurenglish.net Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reported to relinquish the four ministerial posts he currently holds in the coming days following the indictment against him for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, according to a report published Saturday by Haaretz. | RELATED: | Israel's PM Netanyahu Charged in 3 Corruption Cases | On Thursday Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit indicted the premier for the long-running investigations dubbed Cases 1000, 2000 and 4000. Under Israel's law, Neta…
(2019-11-23). Ukrainegate 13,000 Times Worse Than You Think. dissidentvoice.org Did you know that Donald Trump had the State Department, USAID, NED, and the CIA fund and train Neo-Nazi, fascist militias to overthrow the government of Ukraine? These riot mobs, primarily Svoboda and Right Sector, stormed the capital, firebombed and shot the police, and destroyed democracy inside Ukraine. When the legitimately elected president was forced …
(2019-11-23). Iran False Flag Prep, US Government's Staggering Bolivia Hypocrisy, Netanyahu Indicted & Patriot Act. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/22/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
(2019-11-23). Allegations of racist incidents lead to virtual shutdown of campus at Syracuse University. wsws.org The university has accepted the demands of students, including moves toward the segregation of dorms based on race, but the campus has been effectively closed through the end of the semester.
(2019-11-23). Over 1200 rally in Chicago at relaunch of National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – More than a 1200 joined together November 22, at the hall of the Chicago Teachers Union, to refound the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. The newly refounded Alliance will center its efforts on building the fight against police crimes and for community control of the police, and it will campaign for the release of political prisoners and the wrongfully convicted. | Longtime leaders of the Black liberation movement, Angela Davis and Frank Chapman, along with elected officials, trade unionists, and other progressive activists addressed the packed rally that opened the confere…
(2019-11-22). We thought the house was empty. mronline.org 
On 13 November 2019, as part of its deadly attack on the people of Gaza, Israeli armed forces bombed a building in the Deir al-Balah neighbourhood of Gaza City. | Source
(2019-11-22). Michael Edison Hayden on Stephen Miller, Mallory McMaster on Katie Hill. fair.org 
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(2019-11-22). With No End in Sight, Israel's Election Soap Opera Rages On. mintpressnews.com The Israeli election process, like a bad soap opera, has been going on for many months now with no end in sight, and precisely like a poorly made soap opera, the squabbling, blaming, threatening, scare tactics and mudslinging have lead to nothing. | The Boss: | Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, assumed to be the "Boss" of Israeli politics, seems to have lost his touch. In two consecutive elections, he was unable to win a majority or form a coalition government. | The rise of a united opposition to run against him led by former IDF generals — who by the way at one point or another served him — is…
(2019-11-22). Washington's Consensus on Neofascist Coups in Latin America. counterpunch.org The Obama-backed right-wing coup in Honduras helped fuel Central American migrant streams that the demented fascist oligarch Donald Trump railed against during his successful and Nativist presidential campaign. "Donito Assolini" has been mired in partisan turmoil since the beginning of his cancerous, white-nationalist presidency. The two major parties and their constituents disagree sharply over whether the tiny-fingered, tangerine-tinted, Twitter-tantruming tyrant Trump should be impeached and removed for trying to trade arms to Ukraine in exchange for political dirt on the ludicrous right-wing Democratic-presid…
(2019-11-22). Congress Quietly Unites To Extend "Temporary" Patriot Act Under Cover Of The Impeachment Distraction. thelastamericanvagabond.com The only time Republicans and Democrats can agree is when they are discussing the expansion of the permanent war and surveillance state. The Last American Vagabond takes a closer look at the many layers of deception about how legislation gets pushed through which contains buried provisions that further erode the U.S. Constitution and liberty. This is …