2020-05-29: News Headlines

Miko Peled (2020-05-29). "Deadly Exchange": America's Racist Policing Has Roots in Israel. mintpressnews.com During training sessions in Israel, American police delegations meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies and taught what Israel calls counterterrorism, but is in fact no more than "refining methods of racial profiling."

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-29). Political Ambiguity or a Doomsday Weapon: Why Abbas Abandoned Oslo. counterpunch.org This time, we are told, it is different and that President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is absolutely serious about his decision to absolve his leadership from all previous agreements signed with Israel and the United States. But this time is not different, and Abbas is not serious. "The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and

CounterSpin (2020-05-29). Alex Vitale, Chase Madar and Shahid Buttar on Racist Policing. fair.org Media…

Juan Cole (2020-05-29). Saying Quiet Part Very Loud, Netanyahu Calls Palestinians Future "Subjects" as Annexation Looms. commondreams.org Palestinians are still under the security control of the Occupying Israeli military. (Photo: Oren Ziv/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Sarah Lazare (2020-05-29). Minneapolis police leader defending George Floyd's killers tied to 'white power'-linked biker gang. thegrayzone.com From The Grayzone vault: The record of a pro-Trump Minneapolis police leader defending the killers of George Floyd reveals a…

David Penner (2020-05-29). We are Being Held Hostage to Unfettered Capitalism: not to Trump, Racism, the Chinese or COVID-19. dissidentvoice.org As the US continues to be ravaged by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the country remains in lockdown, a morbid irony of which is that we appear to have traded COVID-19 deaths for suicides. The catastrophe has laid bare the cruelties of neoliberalism, yet this has not stopped the media from unleashing a barrage of misinformation, blaming …

Jackie Renzetti in Minneapolis (2020-05-29). 'Really tired and fed up': George Floyd protesters demand action on racism. theguardian.com Protesters leave signs and tributes as years of frustration at racial disparities in policing come to the surface

Caitlin Johnstone (2020-05-29). You Sided With The Abuser Like A Fucking Cliché. thealtworld.com You told your son he shouldn't displease his mother when he showed you the bite marks and bruises. | You chugged Nyquil while your husband raped your daughters and pretended to faint whenever they tried to tell you. | You invited the priest for dinner every Thursday and called your son an evil liar when he said what happens during prayer time. | You shrieked "rioting" and "looting" when people expressed their anger about cops murdering them with impunity. | You shrieked "terrorism" and "antisemitism" when Palestinians rose up against genocide and apartheid. | You called child rape in the Church a conspiracy theor…

United Steelworkers (2020-05-29). United Steelworkers on solidarity and justice for Black Lives. zcomm.org Many of us are saddened, but too many of our African-American members are worried that they can be stopped on the way home from work or a union meeting and suffer the same fate as George Floyd…

teleSUR (2020-05-28). The PLO Keeps Defending Palestine After 56 Years of Its Founding. telesurenglish.net On May 28, Palestinians celebrate 56 years of the founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and remember the words of Yasser Arafat who told them that the main challenge for the people is to achieve an independent state. | RELATED: | In 1964, The Palestinian National Council, at its first meeting held in East Jerusalem from May 28 to June 2, created the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the legitimate r…

Rima Najjar (2020-05-28). Countering the Judaization of the Rest of Palestine. globalresearch.ca Netanyahu's impending annexation of the Judaized parts of the West Bank (he says July 1st) is a transformative event for Palestinian politics, and the Palestinian people, who have long been reined in by impositions that accept Zionist myths and outright …

teleSUR (2020-05-28). Far-Right's Fake News Network Under Investigation in Brazil. telesurenglish.net Brazil's Federal Supreme Court (STF) judge Alexandre De Moraes Wednesday issued 29 search warrants against RELATED: | The criminal association investigation is dir…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-28). Israeli Court Rules Against Demolition of Dozens of Palestinian Family Homes. imemc.org More than 35 Palestinian households in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, have reportedly been successful to extract an Israeli court's ruling that allows them to stay in their their homes, following Israeli military attempts to demolish them. Head of the local Palestinian committee for resisting the Israeli Apartheid Wall …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-28). Israeli Troops Abduct Eight Palestinians Across the West Bank. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, late on Wednesday night and early on Thursday at dawn, eight Palestinians, across the occupied West Bank. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Prisoners' Society said in a statement that Israeli troops invaded both Ya'bad and Qabatia villages of Jenin district and abducted Nour Bashar Abu Bakr, a former …

PCHR (2020-05-28). PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (21 — 27 May 2020). imemc.org Summary of Israeli Violations of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (21 — 27 May 2020) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized with excessive use of force, assault, abuse and attacks on civilians. …

Israel Shahak (2020-05-28). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…

_____ (2020-05-29). 'Racism is over now, thanks!' Madonna trashed for tweeting son's 'TRIBUTE DANCE' to George Floyd amid Minnesota chaos. rt.com Netizens have savaged a bizarre video shared by pop star Madonna, showing her son performing a lively dance routine to stomp out racism in "tribute" to George Floyd — with many asking what this virtue signaling accomplishes. | As Minnesota's Twin Cities erupt into chaos on Thursday night, seeing widespread looting, arson, and vandalism, the Queen of Pop made her own contribution to show solidarity with Floyd's family and those protesting his death — with an interpretive dance routine by her son, David, set to Michael Jackson's 'They Don't Care About Us'. | "My son David dances to honor and pay tribu…

Kevin Alexander Gray, Jeffrey St. Clair, JoAnn Wypijewski (2020-05-29). There is No Peace: an Incitement to Justice. counterpunch.org Summer 2014: a year since George Zimmerman was acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin. Another summer of violence and justification: US shells incinerating Palestinian children, devastating UN refuges in Gaza, pounding Afghan villages, again. Another trial of another white man who says he was scared, who had to defend himself with a blast of ammunition against

Staff (2020-05-29). As Pandemic Epicenter Shifts to Latin America, Gov'ts Use COVID-19 as Pretext for Police Repression. democracynow.org As the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic shifts to Latin America, so too has the use of COVID-19 as a pretext for police repression. "We're seeing that COVID-19, like other pandemics before it, magnifies structural discrimination. And sadly, it's often the most marginalized that are the first targets," says Louise Tillotson, co-author of a new Amnesty International report on the abuse. We also go to San Salvador to speak with journalist Jorge Cuéllar.

Read Black's Law Dictionary (2020-05-29). Manslaughter & 3rd degree murder charge for Kneeling Cop Chauvin. indybay.org After 48 hours of protest in Minnesota of the vicious murder by suffocation of a black man, George Floyd, on May 25, 2020, by 4 Minneapolis police, one of whom, Derek Chauvin, was caught on a video kneeling on the neck of handcuffed Floyd for 9 minutes, killing him, while his fellow thug cops allowed this murder to occur, only Chauvin was arrested on 5/29/30, and charged with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter! This low level of charge should have every attorney in this country screaming since it is a ringing indictment of the whole rotten legal system in this backward, racist, police state in which we live.

RT (2020-05-29). 'Don't throw money at black Americans to riot': Candace Owens spars with Soros-funded NGO over alleged hand in Minneapolis unrest. rt.com Conservative firebrand Candace Owens has started a feud with Open Society Foundations, after accusing the George Soros-funded NGO of fueling the ongoing riots in Minneapolis. | Owens speculated that the fires and looting in Minneapolis was being carried out by activists linked to the billionaire, after noting that Police Chief Medaria Arradondo claimed the criminal activity was being instigated by people not native to the city. | "My guess: As he did with Antifa, Democrat George Soros has these thugs on payroll. He is funding the chaos via his Open Society Foundation," the conservative commentator tweeted. | T…

_____ (2020-05-29). Denver driver RAMS road-blocking protesters angry at police killing of black man in Minnesota (GRAPHIC VIDEO). rt.com A female motorist in Denver, Colorado plowed her SUV through a crowd of demonstrators protesting the police killing of an unarmed black man in Minnesota. Local activists have tried to identify the woman on social media. | As protesters blocked a street in downtown Denver on Thursday, one motorist lashed out at the activists, some of whom were holding 'Black Lives Matter' placards. | Video footage captured at the scene shows the woman accelerating through the crowd at an intersection, throwing one man onto the hood of her vehicle. When the man falls off the SUV, the driver turns her vehicle in his direction and…

RT (2020-05-29). Driver MOWS DOWN protesters in Denver (GRAPHIC VIDEO). rt.com A female motorist in Denver, Colorado plowed her SUV through a crowd of demonstrators protesting the police killing of an unarmed black man in Minnesota. Local activists have tried to identify the woman on social media. | As protesters blocked a street in downtown Denver on Thursday, one motorist lashed out at the activists, some of whom were holding 'Black Lives Matter' placards. | Video footage captured at the scene shows the woman accelerating through the crowd at an intersection, throwing one man onto the hood of her vehicle. When the man falls off the SUV, the driver turns her vehicle in his direction and…

_____ (2020-05-29). 'White liberal Hillary supporters bigger threat than the KKK': CNN's Van Jones channels Malcolm X with warning. rt.com CNN commentator Van Jones has invoked the wrath of a thousand Karens, warning black people that they have more to fear from "white liberal Hillary Clinton supporters" who pretend to be allies than they do from the KKK. | Declaring that the black community is "fragile" and "tired" after years of lies about "progress" always being around the next corner even as innocent black men are killed in broad daylight, Jones took aim at who he believed was responsible. "It's not the racist white person who's in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about," he said on CNN on Friday. "It's the white liberal Hillary Clinton…

RT (2020-05-28). Dozens arrested in NEW YORK as protests over George Floyd's death spread nationwide (VIDEOS). rt.com At least 30 protesters in New York City were arrested after clashing with police over the death of an African-American man in Minneapolis earlier this week, as NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the killing on racism. | Dozens of people were taken into custody at Union Square in Manhattan on Thursday evening, local media reported. After breaking up that demonstration, the NYPD moved to check reports of other protests near the police headquarters and City Hall. | Protesters reportedly threw bottles and trash cans at police, and one officer was injured. | Union Square, NY right now. I'm relieved to see some white f…

Mike Walter (2020-05-28). The Heat: Netanyahu goes on trial+Israel's new unity government. america.cgtn.com History in Israel — a new unity government and Benjamin Netanyahu becomes the first sitting prime minister to go on trial for corruption.

yenisafak (2020-05-29). US: Ohio 'Can't breathe' protests turn violent. yenisafak.com Hundreds of protestors stormed the State House in the capital Columbus amid clashes with police.Videos circulating on social media showed protestors smashing the building's windows.Local TV station WCMH reported that the officers responded with tear gas.Shortly before the demonstrations turned violent, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said that he understands the protestors' anger but urged them to remain peaceful."I understand why some residents are angry and taking to the streets. I have said many times that racism exists across the country, state, and right here in Columbus. We are committed to addressing racism…

_____ (2020-05-29). Minnesota National Guard: Stand Down For Black Lives. popularresistance.org We write you as fellow veterans and service members with full knowledge of what's at stake as many of you are being asked to mobilize against civilians in your own country. As your neighbors fill the streets demanding the justice this country promised them, your command is undoubtedly telling you that you're being activated in service to your community. And yet, it is your community members who fill the streets, while your Commander in Chief tweets about using you to murder people over something as insignificant as property damage. A moral choice lies before you. As veterans who have faced similar tests of consci…

Fight Back (2020-05-29). Chicanos in Boyle Heights to participate in the National Day of Action May 30. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – On Saturday, May 30 at 3 p.m. Centro Community Service Organization (CSO) will be participating in the National Day of Protest to demand the mass release of all prisoners due to COVID-19. The action is called by the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression and CSO is an affiliated organization with the Alliance. We are protesting the murders of Ahmaud Aubery in Georgia, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and George Floyd in Minneapolis because they are outraging, and we must demand justice. This lynch-style, racist terrorism must stop and perpetrators must be punished. | The Boyle Heig…

_____ (2020-05-29). Minneapolis Natives Condemn Man's Death In Custody, 'Racist Ideologies'. popularresistance.org The death of a handcuffed black man in police custody in Minneapolis has stoked anger and frustration among many Native people in the city. | Leaders say relations with law enforcement have remained strained in more than 50 years since the American Indian Movement was founded here in response to alleged police brutality. | The Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors Group, a collaborative of 30 Native organizations operating in the Twin Cities, released a scathing public letter Wednesday condemning George Floyd's death, along with the "ongoing and systemic racist ideologies that continue to run strongly" through the…

Ali Salam (2020-05-28). Israel Escalates Demolition of Palestinian Homes in the West Bank. imemc.org A Palestinian Siam family, on Wednesday, began to tear down parts their own home in occupied East Jerusalem. The family told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem delivered a demolition order to their Silwan home. The pretext used by the so-called Israeli authorities, for the …

Ali Salam (2020-05-28). Israeli Forces Dismantle Four Palestinian-owned Produce Stalls, Stop Construction of Structures. imemc.org Aref Daraghmeh, a local activist, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli forces dismantled four stalls set up by residents to be used to sell vegetables and fruits, in Bardala and Ein al-Bayda villages, Northern Jordan Valley. It was noted that troops also confiscated large amounts of the produce, reducing …

Michael Jansen (2020-05-28). Netanyahu's Trial Closely Resembles Trump's Impeachment. globalresearch.ca Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought in vain to escape his mandatory appearance in court Sunday in his trial for fraud, bribery and breach of trust. At the insistence of the bench, he turned up surrounded by loyalists from his …

Josh Ruebner (2020-05-28). Congress Is Poised to Pass Far-reaching Israeli Wish List. globalresearch.ca With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's passage of the

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-28). Israeli Troops Block Maintenance of Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. imemc.org Israeli troops blocked, earlier on Thursday morning, maintenance works at the Al-Ibrahimi Mosque, an ancient United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-recognized part of Palestinian heritage. Palestinian chief for the Holy Shrine and Muslim scholar, Hefdi Abusnaina, told media outlets that Israeli troops blocked, by force, some construction and …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2020-05-28). Outrage Mounts Over Racist Police and Vigilante Killings against African Americans. globalresearch.ca African Americans continue to be systematically profiled and executed by law-enforcement agencies and bigoted whites creating a volatile situation across the United States | *** | Four Minneapolis police officers have been terminated from their jobs in the aftermath of the videotaped …

Fight Back (2020-05-28). Salt Lake to protest police killings on national day of action May 30. fightbacknews.org Salt Lake City, UT — The people of Salt Lake City plan to answer the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) call for a national day of protest May 30, demanding justice for George Floyd, Bernardo Palacios and all the people murdered by cops in the U.S. | The country has been riven by the murder of Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer put his knee directly on Floyd's neck while he struggled for air and said repeatedly that he couldn't breathe. The murder was caught on film, and as a result, more than 20,000 people took to the streets of Minneapolis May 26 to demand…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-28). Police repress protests demanding justice for George Floyd. peoplesdispatch.org Protests broke out in Minneapolis following the brutal murder of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of a city police officer. The protests, demanding justice for Floyd and an end to racist police violence, were met with violent repression by the police who fired tear gas, water cannons and attacked protesters with batons. His family and social movements in the US demand that the officers responsible for his murder be brought to justice.

Staff (2020-05-28). Civil Rights Attorney: Minneapolis Police Have a Long Pattern of Racist Violence. truthout.org Image Credit: Sigal Photos | Parts of Minneapolis erupted into flames Wednesday night as residents again took to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by white police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday. A viral video shows Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for a number of minutes as Floyd repeatedly says "I cannot breathe." Three other officers stood by as George Floyd suffocated. They have been identified as Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng. All…

Fight Back (2020-05-28). Statement on the lynching of George Floyd. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Frank Chapman, Executive Director National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | Yet another murder of an unarmed Black person in the month of May. Finan Berhe, in Springfield, MD, Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, GA, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY and now George Floyd in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN and all this in the worst pandemic in a century. What an outrage, what an American made tragedy that the lynching of Black people continues unabated, that racist terror continues to stalk the land like a beast of prey. With the brutal, callous…

Morgan Artyukhina (2020-05-27). Far right Hungarian government launches new assault on trans rights. liberationnews.org Hungary's racist, homophobic, transphobic right-wing government has continued its efforts to divide the Hungarian working class by depriving trans and intersex people of their right to legally change their gender.

Staff (2020-05-27). COVID Racial Data Tracker: Ibram X. Kendi on How Better Data Reveals the True Toll of the Pandemic. democracynow.org Ibram X. Kendi says early media coverage of COVID-19 as "the great equalizer" missed the racial impact of the disease. But it soon became clear "that it was Latino Americans and African Americans and Native Americans in particular who were disproportionately being infected and dying." The award-winning author and founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University joins us to discuss why he started the COVID Racial Data Tracker.

Staff (2020-05-27). From George Floyd to Chris Cooper: Ibram X. Kendi on "Racist Terror" Facing Black People in America. democracynow.org "I can't breathe" — that's what George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, repeatedly told a white Minneapolis police officer who pinned him to the ground Monday with a knee to his neck. Video of the police attack went viral. Now four officers have been fired. This comes as another video went viral of a white woman calling the cops on a Black man in New York City's Central Park and falsely accusing him of "threatening her life" after he asked her to leash her dog. We discuss these developments and more with Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American Univer…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-27). Costa Rica becomes a first Central American country to legalize same-sex marriages. peoplesdispatch.org Costa Rica became the first Central American country to recognize same sex marriage yesterday, on May 26. | In August 2018 the Supreme Court had asked the parliament to amend country's Family Code which bans gay marriages by May 26, 2020 failing which same sex marriage will automatically be legal. The Costa Rician parliament did not vote to amend the law nor did it allow the request of some of its conservative members, including the President of the Legislative Assembly pastor Eduardo Cruickshank, that asked the court to delay it. | President Carlos Alvarado tweeted "Costa Rica officially recognizes equal marriag…

Staff (2020-05-27). Israeli Troops Demolish Palestinian Home & Two Buildings near Nablus. imemc.org On Wednesday morning before dawn, Israeli troops invaded several parts of the northern West Bank near Nablus and destroyed a Palestinian home and a tourism center. This follows the destruction earlier on Tuesday of a Palestinian-owned agricultural barn south of Nablus. In the pre-dawn invasion Wednesday, Israeli troops entered the …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-27). Israeli Troops Abduct Sixteen Palestinians from West Bank. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Wednesday morning, several Palestinian residents from the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem and across the rest of the occupied West Bank. In the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, local sources reported that soldiers abducted Abdelraheem Sabbah, 28 and Ra'ed Ammar, 20, after having stormed their …

Miko Peled (2020-05-27). Extortion, Entitlement and Mafia-Style Tactics Mark Israel's Current State of Affairs. mintpressnews.com Anyone who is not yet alarmed may not be aware of the underhanded mafia-style tactics, political extortion, and patronizing sense of entitlement currently on display in Israel. The following developments demonstrate how the county operates both internally and in the international arena. | Czech Foreign Minister slammed!: | As Israel prepares to formally annex large tracts of the West Bank, Tomas Petricek, the Czech Republic's Foreign Minister, was quoted as saying that "annexation is forbidden by international law and also raises serious questions about Israel's future as a democracy." By any normal diplo…

Middle East Eye (2020-02-07). Russia Says Israel Used Civilian Plane as Human Shield During Syria Strikes. theantimedia.com Russia accused Israel of "making a total mockery of the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians."