Trump turns on colleges, colleges on human rights
Sarah Sakha | zcomm.org | 2020-05-09
"We know then the main purpose is to curb Palestinian activism and give Israel a continued path to perpetuate their injustices without opposition from Palestinians, Jews or anyone."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-turns-on-colleges-colleges-on-human-rights/

Haniyeh describes normalizing ties with Israeli regime as 'unforgivable'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-09
TEHRAN, May 09 (MNA)

Navajo coronavirus relief efforts expand and former bordertown mayor counters racism
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-05-09
Relief efforts expand as coronavirus cases and deaths increase. Former Mayor of Page, Arizona, joins relief efforts, countering the recent racist incidents in the bordertown of Page. The Navajo Nation reports 103 new cases of coronavirus and three more deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,757 and 88 deaths.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/08/18832911.php

Storming of Berlin: Rare HD WW2 photos from May 1945 colorized for the first time
rt.com | 2020-05-09
#VictoryPages presents rare historical footage of the Battle of Berlin for the first time in color as part of RT's tribute to the 75th anniversary of the defeat of fascism. | Brazilian artist Marina Amaral, famous for colorizing historical photos, gave these photographs a second life, adding color to one of the greatest battles of the Second World War. Her incredible work brings the viewer closer to history, allowing one to feel the scale of events unfolding in 1945 in the center of the defeated Third Reich. | | © RT / Marina Amaral | For the 75th anniversary of victory in World War II, we are publishin…
rt.com/news/487037-victorypages-ww2-colorized-photos/

Eyewitness: Russia's 70th V-Day
I.V. Sta | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-09
In addition to beautiful parades, fireworks and concerts, I was able to witness multitudes of people sharing with each other something wholly priceless: the gratitude of being alive thanks to those who fought fascism.
liberationnews.org/eyewitness-russias-70th-v-day-2/

On the frontlines: Red Army veteran Moritz Mebel talks about his battles against fascism
Franziska Kleiner | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-09
On the 75th anniversary of Victory Day, which commemorates the surrender of Hitler's Germany in World War II, we bring you the recollections of Red Army veteran Moritz Mebel who took part in grueling campaigns against the Nazis from the gates of Moscow to the Czech Republic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/09/on-the-frontlines-red-army-veteran-moritz-mebel-talks-about-his-battles-against-fascism/

Protesters' Calls to Return to Normal Are Acts of White Supremacy
Sonali Kolhatkar | zcomm.org | 2020-05-09
The protests are a form of white privilege in action as the virus disproportionately infects and kills African Americans and people of color…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/protesters-calls-to-return-to-normal-are-acts-of-white-supremacy/

Antifascists demand that May 8 become a holiday in Germany
John Spohr | indybay.org | 2020-05-09
The real goal is a nationwide public holiday anyway, as demanded in the petition. The Berlin Senate could also lobby for such a gesture, that May 8 is considered the day of liberation from National Socialism.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/08/18832925.php

Forgetting someone? WH attributes victory over Nazis to 'America & UK' in bizarre VE-Day message, gets schooled on Twitter
rt.com | 2020-05-09
The White House has marked the victory over Nazi Germany in a tweet hailing the role of the US and the UK, while leaving out the nation that sacrificed the most

Russia's mightiest military aircraft buzz over Moscow to mark 75th anniversary of Nazi defeat (PHOTO, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-05-09
Defying clouds in the sky and Covid-19 on the ground, Russia's deadliest bombers, nimblest fighter jets and strongest transport aircraft flew over the capital in celebration of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany 75 years ago. | V-Day is one of the most important national holidays in Russia, and this year was supposed to have seen massive celebrations throughout the country. But Covid-19 and its lockdowns threw a wrench into the plans, forcing…
rt.com/russia/488222-moscow-flyovers-victory-day/

Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-08
From Coca-Cola to Nestle, some of the most iconic American brands eagerly took part in the Nazi experiment. | MPN– May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies' victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed in fighting, famines or exterminated in death camps. While many novel socially-distanced celebrations across the world are going on, some large corporations are laying low in the knowledge that they actively collaborated with and helped Hitler's war machine. | Standard Oil, a huge monolith…
thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/victory-in-…

Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-08
May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies' victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed in fighting, famines or exterminated in death camps. While many novel socially-distanced celebrations across the world are going on, some large corporations are laying low in the knowledge that they actively collaborated with and helped Hitler's war machine. | Standard Oil, a huge monolith now split up into a myriad of smaller ones, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, and Marathon, was crucial to both prolon…
mintpressnews.com/victory-in-europe-day-these-american-corporations-aided-nazi-germany/267345/

Palestinians And Israelis Remember Casualties Together
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
The alternative memorial service organized by peace organizations in Israel/Palestine challenges the racist official memorial services of the State of Israel in which only Israeli casualties are remembered.
therealnews.com/stories/palestinians-israelis-remember-casualties-memorial-service

Palestine President Abbas Threatens to Tear-up Agreements with Israel, US if West Bank Is Annexed
The New Arab | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
The Palestinian Authority has threatened to cut all agreements signed with Israel and the US, if the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank goes ahead. | During a meeting in Ramallah with the Fatah Central Committee, Mahmoud…
globalresearch.ca/palestine-president-abbas-threatens-tear-up-agreements-israel-us-west-bank-annexed/5712232

Palestine President Abbas Threatens to Tear-up Agreements with Israel, US if West Bank Is Annexed
The New Arab | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
The Palestinian Authority has threatened to cut all agreements signed with Israel and the US, if the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank goes ahead. | During a meeting in Ramallah with the Fatah Central Committee, Mahmoud…
globalresearch.ca/palestine-president-abbas-threatens-tear-up-agreements-israel-us-west-bank-annexed/5712232

100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I. It was on April 25, 1920, that the San Remo Conference Resolution was…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/100-years-of-shame-annexation-of-palestine-began-in-san-remo/

Justice is Indivisible: Placing Palestine Back at the Center of American Muslim Activism
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-08
In many mosques across the US, Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and other places of great and perpetual injustice are hardly mentioned. Perhaps, argues Ramzy Baroud, over fear that doing so would place them at the radar of the FBI or local enforcement agencies.
mintpressnews.com/placing-palestine-center-of-muslim-american-activism/267317/

Placing Palestine Back at the Center of Muslim Discourse in the West
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-08
It was nearly twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington D.C. that I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be made a central topic in the American Muslim political agenda. The point, which took many by surprise, was enunciated by a young American Pakistani Muslim academic, whose name is not important …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/placing-palestine-back-at-the-center-of-muslim-discourse-in-the-west/

This is Not a Conspiracy, It is a Terrifying Opportunity
Brad Evans | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
Every catastrophe and crisis are followed by a litany of conspiracy theories. The Covid-19 pandemic has proved no exception. From tales concerning transmission of some lethal agent through 5G infrastructure, to grand theories concerning a mastermind plot to destabilise the world, the fantastical and the absurd have spread almost as quickly as the virus. While the early culprits ranged from the Bill Gates to the Iranians, George Soros to the Eco-fascists, it's becoming more and more common to suggest some orchestrated Chinese plot. The alleged death of Kim Jong-un which had socialists the world over speculating ab…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/this-is-not-a-conspiracy-it-is-a-terrifying-opportunity/

Republicans Say They'd Break Rule They Invented to Derail Obama's SCOTUS Pick
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-08
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from Baltimore's Johns Hopkins hospital on Wednesday evening after having been treated for an infection in her gallbladder. | Ginsburg is "doing well and glad to be home," according to a spokeswoman for the Court, but that hasn't stopped some Republicans in the Senate from considering what they might do if her seat (or even somebody else's) were suddenly to become vacant…
truthout.org/articles/republicans-say-theyd-break-rule-they-invented-to-derail-obamas-scotus-pick/

Will the Supreme Court return eastern Oklahoma to the Five Tribes?
Albert Bender | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-08
The case of McGirt v. Oklahoma sits at the top of the Supreme Court docket as the Indian law case that will decide the issue of whether eastern Oklahoma will be returned to reservation status. Oral arguments in this matter had been scheduled for April 21, but the Supreme Court delayed the hearing to June due to COVID-19, but has now …
peoplesworld.org/article/will-the-supreme-court-return-eastern-oklahoma-to-the-five-tribes/

'Craven and repugnant': Dem Feinstein roasted for attack on Biden accuser Reade after backing Blasey Ford during Kavanaugh fiasco
rt.com | 2020-05-08
Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein is being lambasted for apparent double standards after attacking Tara Reade, the former Joe Biden staffer who alleges the Democrat presidential candidate sexually assaulted her. | The Californian politician unequivocally supported Christine Blasey Ford when she accused then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 2018. However, now that it's a Democrat facing the charges, Feinstein's singing an entirely different tune. | Discussing Reade's claims, which date back to 1993, Feinstein questioned why she waited 27 years to make them public. | Also on rt.com…
rt.com/usa/488176-feinstein-roasted-tara-reade-attack/

Israel: A Lab for "The New Vaccine Order"? Towards a Second Lockdown?
Joshua Tartakovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
In the fight against corona virus, when trying to discern in what direction the Western world is going, it is almost always useful to watch the steps taken by Israel, the Zionist State.[1]. | Israel is not only a threat to …
globalresearch.ca/israel-lab-new-vaccine-order/5712184

Israeli Navy Injures 3 Palestinian Fisherman off Gaza Coast
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-08
The Israeli navy attacked fishermen Friday morning, off the coast of the Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent. He stated that naval boats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats sailing northwest of Gaza city, shooting a 60-year-old fisherman with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head. The wounded man was …
imemc.org/article/israeli-navy-injures-3-palestinian-fisherman-off-gaza-coast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-navy-injures-3-palestinian-fisherman-off-gaza-coast

Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure 4 Palestinians in Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-08
Israeli troops reportedly fired live ammunition and tear-gas canisters at many protesters in the northern West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum. Local sources reported that at least four Palestinians were wounded by live rounds, with medical sources describing their injuries as light, while many others suffered the toxic effects of …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-shoot-injure-4-palestinians-in-kufur-qaddoum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-shoot-injure-4-palestinians-in-kufur-qaddoum

Slaughter of the Innocents: COVID-19 & the Future of Agriculture
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
It's early days yet, but the COVID-19 pandemic has already proven to be revelatory, exposing much that is ugly about the "normal" functioning of the US: the sorry state of health care, the unresponsiveness of corporate-owned government, the hyper individuality of the populace, the high levels of ignorance among the same, and the racism of…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/slaughter-of-the-innocents-covid-19-the-future-of-agriculture/

Roaming Charges: Ain't Living Long Like This
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
+ The detestable rationalizations liberals make for sticking with Biden despite Tara Reade's convincing story can't come as any surprise. It's the same ritual contortions they've made about the Iraq war, fracking, abortion, the drug war, Anita Hill, social security, segregation, climate change, health care, deportations, a living wage, student debt, the Patriot Act, pipelines, the Libyan coup, climate change. To be a Democrat is to live in a constant state of denial, self-contradiction and moral hypocrisy.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/roaming-charges-aint-living-long-like-this/

Selected Articles: Economics and the Pandemic, Where's the Money coming From?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
Israel: A Lab for "The New Vaccine Order"? Towards a Second Lockdown? | By Joshua Tartakovsky, May 08, 2020 | As coronavirus broke out, Israel became the first Western country to close itself off to all flights . It then proceeded …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-israel-lab-new-vaccine-order-towards-second-lockdown/5712265

Selected Articles: Economics and the Pandemic, Where's the Money coming From?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
Israel: A Lab for "The New Vaccine Order"? Towards a Second Lockdown? | By Joshua Tartakovsky, May 08, 2020 | As coronavirus broke out, Israel became the first Western country to close itself off to all flights . It then proceeded …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-israel-lab-new-vaccine-order-towards-second-lockdown/5712265

US Toughens Visa Rules for Chinese Journalists to Add to 'Greater National Security Protections'
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-09
In late February, China expelled three Wall Street Journal correspondents after the newspaper's publication of an opinion column that Beijing condemned as racist.
sputniknews.com/asia/202005091079254991-us-toughens-visa-rules-for-chinese-journalists-to-add-to-greater-national-security-protections/

Final days of the war against fascism–from the Daily Worker archives
People's World | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-08
75 years after the defeat of Hitler and the fall of fascism in Europe, we present highlights from those historic days as they were covered in the pages of the Daily Worker, predecessor of People's World. From the historic meeting of U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe River in late April 1945 to the …
peoplesworld.org/article/final-days-of-the-war-against-fascism-from-the-daily-worker-archives/

V-E Day today marks the defeat of fascism in Europe
Victor Grossman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-08
BERLIN

How the USSR made the World War II victory over German fascism a reality
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-08
On May 8, 1945, at 11: 01 pm Central European Time

Ex-cop and son charged with murdering unarmed jogger on video
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-08
"Ahmaud was killed three days before the anniversary of the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin. Both incidents are a reminder that white supremacy has been a foundation for our country and leads repeatedly to the targeting and harming people of color, particularly African Americans."
nationofchange.org/2020/05/08/ex-cop-and-son-charged-with-murdering-unarmed-jogger-on-video/

500-car caravan demands right to recovery
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-08
Chicago, IL – 500 cars from around Chicago converged on the State of Illinois Building as Governor J.B. Pritzker held his daily COVID-19 press briefing May 7. The horns could be heard clearly from inside the building. | The Right to Recovery coalition was organized by United Working Families and includes 50 organizations such as the Chicago Teachers Union and Black Lives Matter-Chicago, as well as 13 elected officials. | The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) organized 20 cars to parade from the Pilsen Neighborhood, where they met up with the Jane Addams Senior Caucus (JASC). The C…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/8/500-car-c…

V-E Day Plus 75: From a Moment of Victory to a Time of Pandemic
Andrew Bacevich | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
The 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender in May 1945 ought to prompt thoughtful reflection. For Americans, V-E Day, as it was then commonly called, marked the beginning of "our times." The Covid-19 pandemic may signal that our times are now coming to an end. Tom Engelhardt, editor and proprietor of TomDispatch, was born less…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/v-e-day-plus-75-from-a-moment-of-victory-to-a-time-of-pandemic/

75 years on from the Nazi defeat, many still suffer impact of conflict: Guterres
news.un.org | 2020-05-08
On 8 and 9 May, the UN commemorates the millions who lost their lives during the Second World War, the tragic conflict that led to the birth of the United Nations. In a video message released late on Friday, UN chief António Guterres warned that divisions still exist, and called for a world based on peace and unity.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1063602

Victory Day: Remembering the Great Patriotic War
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-08
What is Victory Day ? | Every spring, as the weather improves, Russians begin to venture outside to enjoy the warming sun, or perhaps to open up their dachas or to prepare vegetable gardens for planting. There is also the long May holiday to anticipate. This year however is different. Like almost everywhere else in the world, Russia has been hit by the coronavirus. It means people are asked to stay in their flats and not go out except for necessities, like groceries, prescriptions, and the like. It is a time of worry, frustration, aggravation. In short, this year the May holiday is not going to be a holiday at al…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/08/victory-day-remembering-the-great-patriotic-war/

"It Could Be Something We Didn't See On The Tape"—Ahmaud Arbery and the Eternal Guilt of Black Victims
Christian Christensen | commondreams.org | 2020-05-08
To accept the alternative—the killing was planned and unprovoked—is to expose the murder to be a product of a racist society. (Photo: Ahmaud Arbery/Family photo) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/08/it-could-be-something-we-didnt-see-tape-ahmaud-arbery-and-eternal-guilt-black?cd-origin=rss

Why It's Wrong (and Racist) to Blame Covid-19 on Chinese 'Wet Markets'
Joshua Cho | commondreams.org | 2020-05-08
New York Times depiction (1/25/20) of a wet market in Shenzhen, which is 680 miles from Wuhan. (Photo: Lam Yik Fei/New York Times) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/08/why-its-wrong-and-racist-blame-covid-19-chinese-wet-markets?cd-origin=rss

Why Trump and Anti-Lockdown Protesters' Calls to Return to Normal Are Acts of White Supremacy
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
When the coronavirus pandemic was first declared, Americans dutifully stayed at home to prevent outbreaks like the ones playing out in China and Italy. Although a majority of Americans continue to support quarantine orders intended to quell the spread of the virus, a growing number of anti-lockdown protests across the nation are sending a clear…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/why-trump-and-anti-lockdown-protesters-calls-to-return-to-normal-are-acts-of-white-supremacy/

PDF download of May 7 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Click to download entire 12-page PDF May Day coverage. Also: COVID‚Äë19 North Carolina protest; Genocide on Detroit; Cuban medical team; Trump and China; Pennies vs. billions; Tear down the walls A world without prisons; Mumia: On prison guards; Louisiana death camps; ‚ÄÇEditorial Fascists = bosses' tools; World Palestine Britain Venezuela . . . | Continue reading PDF download of May 7 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48326/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-download-of-may-7-issue

UK Supreme Court Reverses BDS Ban
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-07
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the largest British Palestinian solidarity group, successfully petitioned to reverse a 2016 ban preventing local governments divesting from companies involved in the Israeli occupation.
therealnews.com/stories/uk-supreme-court-reverses-bds-ban-palestine-solidarity-campaign

Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Members of Unite the Union, a British and Irish labor union, show support for the Palestinian people. The Palestine Solidarity Committee won a legal victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain when the country's highest court issued a landmark ruling that struck a blow against the Whitehall . . . | Continue reading Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48312/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-movement-scores-big-legal-win-for-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-campaign-in-britain

COVID-19 = genocide for Detroit
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Michigan State Representatives Jewell Jones and Isaac Robinson, co-sponsors of a bill for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs. Robinson died March 29 of suspected COVID-19. Here they are protesting a polluting company US Ecology in Detroit. May 4

Colombia's great coronavirus heist | Part 4: agriculture minister, 11 governors to court over corruption
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-07
Colombia's Supreme Court will investigate one minister and 11 governors after the prosecution opened more than 1,200 investigations into alleged corruption with coronavirus emergency funds. The Prosecutor General's Office, the…
colombiareports.com/colombias-great-coronavirus-heist-1-minister-11-governors-to-court-over-corruption/

No One, Not Even Trump, is Above the Law
David Cole | aclu.org | 2020-05-07
Next week, on May 12, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in three cases about whether President Trump can block subpoenas issued to his banks and accountant to hand over his personal financial documents in connection with investigations of potential crimes. We argue that Trump, no less than anyone else, has no right to block such subpoenas. No one, not even the president, is above the law. , , Our amicus curiae briefs for the cases, Trump v. Mazars/Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG and…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/no-one-not-even-trump-is-above-the-law

Joe Biden Could Sexually Harass Someone in the Middle of Fifth Avenue
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-07
and get away with it. Those who live in eternal fear are only replacing the Orange Man with the Gray Man. | Peter VAN BUREN | Tara Reade says Joe Biden once grabbed her privates and demanded sex. Will that change the election in November? | The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings were a turning point, when the presumption of innocence was thrown out in favor of a new standard, "credible accusation." Evidence was replaced by #BelieveAllWomen. Praised by Dems and the media as fierce justice…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/07/joe-biden-could-sexually-harass-someone-in-the-middle-of-fifth-avenue/

Colonial Settlers Uproot Hundreds of Grapevines In Bethlehem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-07
Israeli colonial settlers in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, reportedly uprooted hundreds of newly-planted grapevines, south of the city. Head of the Palestinian Office for Fighting Israeli Settlements and Israel's Apartheid wall in Bethlehem, Hassan Breega, told media outlets that Israeli settlers from the nearby colonial illegal Israeli …
imemc.org/article/colonial-settlers-uproot-hundreds-of-grapevines-in-bethlehem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colonial-settlers-uproot-hundreds-of-grapevines-in-bethlehem

Israeli Police Abduct Two Youths from West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-07
Israeli forces abducted two Palestinian youths, on Thursday morning, from East Jerusalem and Hebron. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic) reported that Israeli police invaded the Silwan neighborhood of east Jerusalem, and abducted a youth, identified as Yahya Zagheer, from his home. Local sources said that Israeli forces invaded the …
imemc.org/article/israeli-police-abduct-two-youths-from-west-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-police-abduct-two-youths-from-west-bank

Right of Palestine should be taken from usurper regime of Israel in force: official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

Palestinians And Israelis Remember Casualties Together
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
The alternative memorial service organized by peace organizations in Israel/Palestine challenges the racist official memorial services of the State of Israel in which only Israeli casualties are remembered.
therealnews.com/stories/palestinians-israelis-remember-casualties-memorial-service

Palestine President Abbas Threatens to Tear-up Agreements with Israel, US if West Bank Is Annexed
The New Arab | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
The Palestinian Authority has threatened to cut all agreements signed with Israel and the US, if the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank goes ahead. | During a meeting in Ramallah with the Fatah Central Committee, Mahmoud…
globalresearch.ca/palestine-president-abbas-threatens-tear-up-agreements-israel-us-west-bank-annexed/5712232

100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I. It was on April 25, 1920, that the San Remo Conference Resolution was…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/100-years-of-shame-annexation-of-palestine-began-in-san-remo/

Justice is Indivisible: Placing Palestine Back at the Center of American Muslim Activism
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-08
In many mosques across the US, Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and other places of great and perpetual injustice are hardly mentioned. Perhaps, argues Ramzy Baroud, over fear that doing so would place them at the radar of the FBI or local enforcement agencies.
mintpressnews.com/placing-palestine-center-of-muslim-american-activism/267317/

This is Not a Conspiracy, It is a Terrifying Opportunity
Brad Evans | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
Every catastrophe and crisis are followed by a litany of conspiracy theories. The Covid-19 pandemic has proved no exception. From tales concerning transmission of some lethal agent through 5G infrastructure, to grand theories concerning a mastermind plot to destabilise the world, the fantastical and the absurd have spread almost as quickly as the virus. While the early culprits ranged from the Bill Gates to the Iranians, George Soros to the Eco-fascists, it's becoming more and more common to suggest some orchestrated Chinese plot. The alleged death of Kim Jong-un which had socialists the world over speculating ab…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/this-is-not-a-conspiracy-it-is-a-terrifying-opportunity/

Israel: A Lab for "The New Vaccine Order"? Towards a Second Lockdown?
Joshua Tartakovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
In the fight against corona virus, when trying to discern in what direction the Western world is going, it is almost always useful to watch the steps taken by Israel, the Zionist State.[1]. | Israel is not only a threat to …
globalresearch.ca/israel-lab-new-vaccine-order/5712184

S Arabia, UAE promulgate relations with Israel thru. content of TV series: al-Houthi
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

Navajo coronavirus relief efforts expand and former bordertown mayor counters racism
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-05-08
Relief efforts expand as coronavirus cases and deaths increase. Former Mayor of Page, Arizona, joins relief efforts, countering the recent racist incidents in the bordertown of Page. The Navajo Nation reports 103 new cases of coronavirus and three more deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,757 and 88 deaths.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/08/18832911.php

Slaughter of the Innocents: COVID-19 & the Future of Agriculture
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
It's early days yet, but the COVID-19 pandemic has already proven to be revelatory, exposing much that is ugly about the "normal" functioning of the US: the sorry state of health care, the unresponsiveness of corporate-owned government, the hyper individuality of the populace, the high levels of ignorance among the same, and the racism of…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/slaughter-of-the-innocents-covid-19-the-future-of-agriculture/

Seventy-five years since the end of World War II
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
Three quarters of a century after the end of the war, fascism and war are imminent global dangers once again.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/pers…

The lesson of WWII? 'Industrialized mass murder' only possible when people stop questioning narratives, Werner Herzog tells RT
rt.com | 2020-05-08
The 75th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany should serve as a reminder to all that the Holocaust was carried out using a tightly controlled, unchallenged narrative, filmmaker Werner Herzog told RT. | Having grown up in the ruins of post-war Germany, the acclaimed director, screenwriter and producer spoke with Sophie Co. host Sophie Shevardnadze about lessons that can be gleaned from one of the darkest episodes in human history. | The atrocities carried out by the Nazis were the result of a lockstep narrative of "demonization" which replaced facts, Herzog observed. He argued that scapegoating people and e…
rt.com/news/488108-werner-herzog-ww2-holocaust-fascism/

British designers create typographic tribute to cities affected by World War II
rt.com | 2020-05-08
Designers Liam + Jord have created a series of minimalistic history-inspired "logos" for cities affected by World War II as part of RT's tribute project #VictoryPages featuring cities such as Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, and Hiroshima. | Anti-aircraft floodlights were an integral part of Moscow's defense system in the first year of the Great Patriotic War

Victory Day karaoke: Russian flashmob invites ANYONE to iconic WWII sing-along in 100+ languages
rt.com | 2020-05-08
A one-of-the-kind Russian website has enabled anyone to pay vocal tribute to the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat

V-E Day Plus 75: From a Moment of Victory to a Time of Pandemic
Andrew Bacevich | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
The 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender in May 1945 ought to prompt thoughtful reflection. For Americans, V-E Day, as it was then commonly called, marked the beginning of "our times." The Covid-19 pandemic may signal that our times are now coming to an end. Tom Engelhardt, editor and proprietor of TomDispatch, was born less…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/v-e-day-plus-75-from-a-moment-of-victory-to-a-time-of-pandemic/

Why Trump and Anti-Lockdown Protesters' Calls to Return to Normal Are Acts of White Supremacy
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
When the coronavirus pandemic was first declared, Americans dutifully stayed at home to prevent outbreaks like the ones playing out in China and Italy. Although a majority of Americans continue to support quarantine orders intended to quell the spread of the virus, a growing number of anti-lockdown protests across the nation are sending a clear…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/why-trump-and-anti-lockdown-protesters-calls-to-return-to-normal-are-acts-of-white-supremacy/

MoveOn: Protecting Voting Rights in the Age of Coronavirus
MoveOn | indybay.org | 2020-05-08
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/06/18832850.php

PDF download of May 7 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Click to download entire 12-page PDF May Day coverage. Also: COVID‚Äë19 North Carolina protest; Genocide on Detroit; Cuban medical team; Trump and China; Pennies vs. billions; Tear down the walls A world without prisons; Mumia: On prison guards; Louisiana death camps; ‚ÄÇEditorial Fascists = bosses' tools; World Palestine Britain Venezuela . . . | Continue reading PDF download of May 7 issue at Workers.org…
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UK Supreme Court Reverses BDS Ban
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-07
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the largest British Palestinian solidarity group, successfully petitioned to reverse a 2016 ban preventing local governments divesting from companies involved in the Israeli occupation.
therealnews.com/stories/uk-supreme-court-reverses-bds-ban-palestine-solidarity-campaign

Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Members of Unite the Union, a British and Irish labor union, show support for the Palestinian people. The Palestine Solidarity Committee won a legal victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain when the country's highest court issued a landmark ruling that struck a blow against the Whitehall . . . | Continue reading Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain at Workers.org…
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Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Members of Unite the Union, a British and Irish labor union, show support for the Palestinian people. The Palestine Solidarity Committee won a legal victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain when the country's highest court issued a landmark ruling that struck a blow against the Whitehall . . . | Continue reading Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain at Workers.org…
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COVID-19 = genocide for Detroit
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Michigan State Representatives Jewell Jones and Isaac Robinson, co-sponsors of a bill for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs. Robinson died March 29 of suspected COVID-19. Here they are protesting a polluting company US Ecology in Detroit. May 4

No One, Not Even Trump, is Above the Law
David Cole | aclu.org | 2020-05-07
Next week, on May 12, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in three cases about whether President Trump can block subpoenas issued to his banks and accountant to hand over his personal financial documents in connection with investigations of potential crimes. We argue that Trump, no less than anyone else, has no right to block such subpoenas. No one, not even the president, is above the law. , , Our amicus curiae briefs for the cases, Trump v. Mazars/Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG and…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/no-one-not-even-trump-is-above-the-law

Joe Biden Could Sexually Harass Someone in the Middle of Fifth Avenue
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-07
and get away with it. Those who live in eternal fear are only replacing the Orange Man with the Gray Man. | Peter VAN BUREN | Tara Reade says Joe Biden once grabbed her privates and demanded sex. Will that change the election in November? | The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings were a turning point, when the presumption of innocence was thrown out in favor of a new standard, "credible accusation." Evidence was replaced by #BelieveAllWomen. Praised by Dems and the media as fierce justice…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/07/joe-biden-could-sexually-harass-someone-in-the-middle-of-fifth-avenue/

Colombia's great coronavirus heist | Part 4: agriculture minister, 11 governors to court over corruption
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-07
Colombia's Supreme Court will investigate one minister and 11 governors after the prosecution opened more than 1,200 investigations into alleged corruption with coronavirus emergency funds. The Prosecutor General's Office, the…
colombiareports.com/colombias-great-coronavirus-heist-1-minister-11-governors-to-court-over-corruption/

Colonial Settlers Uproot Hundreds of Grapevines In Bethlehem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-07
Israeli colonial settlers in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, reportedly uprooted hundreds of newly-planted grapevines, south of the city. Head of the Palestinian Office for Fighting Israeli Settlements and Israel's Apartheid wall in Bethlehem, Hassan Breega, told media outlets that Israeli settlers from the nearby colonial illegal Israeli …
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Roaming Charges: Ain't Living Long Like This
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
+ The detestable rationalizations liberals make for sticking with Biden despite Tara Reade's convincing story can't come as any surprise. It's the same ritual contortions they've made about the Iraq war, fracking, abortion, the drug war, Anita Hill, social security, segregation, climate change, health care, deportations, a living wage, student debt, the Patriot Act, pipelines, the Libyan coup, climate change. To be a Democrat is to live in a constant state of denial, self-contradiction and moral hypocrisy.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/roaming-charges-aint-living-long-like-this/

Selected Articles: Economics and the Pandemic, Where's the Money coming From?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
Israel: A Lab for "The New Vaccine Order"? Towards a Second Lockdown? | By Joshua Tartakovsky, May 08, 2020 | As coronavirus broke out, Israel became the first Western country to close itself off to all flights . It then proceeded …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-israel-lab-new-vaccine-order-towards-second-lockdown/5712265

Putin, Merkel Exchange Congratulations on Anniversary of Liberation From Fascism
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have exchanged congratulations, in a phone conversation, on the 75th anniversary of the world's liberation from fascism, the Kremlin said on Friday.
sputniknews.com/europe/202005081079242497-putin-merkel-exchange-congratulations-on-anniversary-of-liberation-from-fascism/

We'll Meet Again: Royal Albert Hall to Host 1st Closed Door Victory Day Concert Amid COVID-19 – CEO
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
The Royal Albert Hall will hold a major performance unlike any of its kind in the venue's 150-year history to commemorate the 75th Victory Day at 18: 00 GMT. The event promises to be a powerful rendition of classic songs celebrating the sacrifices of veterans across the United Kingdom and the Allied victory over Nazism on the Western Front.
sputniknews.com/interviews/202005081079239864-well-meet-again-royal-albert-hall-to-host-first-closed-door-victory-day-concert-amid-covid-19/

Israeli Navy Opens Fire at Palestinian Fishermen off Gaza Shore
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-07
Israeli naval forces targeted, on Thursday at dawn, several Palestinian fishermen, while attempting to earn a living, sailing off the northern shores of the Gaza Strip. Local media outlets and witnesses said that Israeli naval vessels attacked fishermen in Alwaha, Alsudaniya areas, north of the coastal enclave, as the fishermen …
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FBI Finds Evidence Of Israeli Intervention In Trump's 2016 Campaign
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-07
An Israeli minister met with Roger Stone to provide information that may have benefited the Trump campaign. The discovery implicates Netanyahu in an attempt to distort the 2016 US election result.
therealnews.com/stories/fbi-evidence-israel-netanyahu-roger-stone-intelligence-meeting-2016-campaign

Iran is in Syria to stay, and Damascus's response towards Israel is only postponed
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-07
Recently, Israel claimed Iran was withdrawing its forces from Syria following the repetitive airstrikes Tel Aviv jets carried out from above Lebanon and additionally violating Iraqi air space. Furthermore, Israeli officials seem to believe that Iran can't accept being challenged in Syria, yet is still far from seeking revenge anytime soon. This is Israeli wishful thinking, wanting to drag Iran into a confrontation according to Tel Aviv's own terms and timetable. This tactic to drag Iran into the war seems to be supported both by Israel and the US, offering President Donald Trump the potential victory he needs for…
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L'Iran est en Syrie pour y rester et Damas s'occupera d'Israà´l en temps et lieu
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-07
Récemment, Israà´l a affirmé que l'Iran retirait ses forces de la Syrie en raison des frappes aériennes répétées de Tel-Aviv effectuées depuis le Liban ou en violant l'espace aérien irakien. De plus, les responsables israéliens semblent croire que l'Iran accepte mal que sa présence soit contestée en Syrie, mais que ce n'est pas demain la veille qu'il cherchera vengeance. C'est un v≈ìu pieux d'Israà´l, qui veut entraàÆner l'Iran dans un affrontement selon ses propres conditions et conformément au calendrier de Tel-Aviv. Cette tactique visant à entraàÆner l'Iran dans la guerre s…
thealtworld.com/elijah_magnier/liran-est…

How capitalism and racism hold back a COVID-19 cure
Neal Sweeney | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-07
In a few short months, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has swept the world without any proven treatment or vaccine.
liberationnews.org/how-capitalism-and-racism-hold-back-a-covid-19-cure/

Surviving this Pandemic is Hard, For America's Most Vulnerable, its Nearly Impossible
Eleanor Goldfield | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-07
This coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the exclusion of whole subsets of the most vulnerable in our society, exemplifying the toxic mix of racism, sexism, imperialism, and capitalism that the US blends so well.
mintpressnews.com/surviving-coronavirus-hard-americans-capitalism/267293/

As economy crumbles, Trump taps neo-fascist militias for his re-election effort
Max Elbaum | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-07
Donald Trump tweets so many outrageous things and tells so many lies, it's easy for any particular statement to get buried in the shitstorm. But a presidential call to "liberate" states led by elected officials of the opposition party while Trump supporters carry guns into their state capitols shouldn't be one of them. In the …
peoplesworld.org/article/as-economy-crumbles-trump-taps-neo-fascist-militias-for-his-re-election-effort/

Survivor of Nazis' Leningrad siege now helps needy during pandemic
Irina Titova | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-07
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP)–As a child during the Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II, Galina Yakovleva learned how to make the best of fearful times. Today, she's using those lessons as she brings food and supplies to needy people locked down in the coronavirus pandemic. The 80-year-old drives a white minivan every day …
peoplesworld.org/article/survivor-of-nazis-leningrad-siege-now-helps-needy-during-pandemic/

May 1945: Nazi Germany Surrenders, but… on May 7, 8, or 9?
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-07
After the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the Americans, British, and Soviets had agreed that there would be no separate negotiations with Nazi Germany with respect to its capitulation.
globalresearch.ca/may-1945-operation-sunrise-nazi-germany-surrenders-but-on-may-7-8-or-9/5334299

Patriotic Millionaires: "Congress Must Pass Legislation Expanding the Definition of Illegal Misconduct By Government Officials"
commondreams.org | 2020-05-07
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Facebook deletes dozens of Palestinian activists' accounts
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-07
Social media site Facebook has blocked dozens of pages belonging to Palestinian activists on Monday and Tuesday, May 5 and 6, using the vague category of "not following the community standards". The real figure may rise as reports of more accounts being blocked are still emerging. | According to Facebook, it has already "reviewed" the decision and hence there is no grievance redressal available for those whose pages have been blocked or deleted. | Speaking to Middle East Eye, one of the activists, Imad Jibreen, who lives in the occupied West Bank, claimed that Facebook "did not provide any specific reason" for de…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/07/facebook-deletes-dozens-of-palestinian-activists-accounts/

Facebook deletes dozens of Palestinian activists' accounts
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-07
Social media site Facebook has blocked dozens of pages belonging to Palestinian activists on Monday and Tuesday, May 5 and 6, using the vague category of "not following the community standards". The real figure may rise as reports of more accounts being blocked are still emerging. | According to Facebook, it has already "reviewed" the decision and hence there is no grievance redressal available for those whose pages have been blocked or deleted. | Speaking to Middle East Eye, one of the activists, Imad Jibreen, who lives in the occupied West Bank, claimed that Facebook "did not provide any specific reason" for de…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/07/facebook-deletes-dozens-of-palestinian-activists-accounts/

Why It's Wrong (and Racist) to Blame Covid-19 on Chinese 'Wet Markets'
Joshua Cho | fair.org | 2020-05-07
The New York Times ( 1/25/20) says the eating of unusual animals like turtles and snakes is "driven as much by the desire to flaunt wealth as by a mix of superstition and belief about the health benefits of wildlife." Whereas people eat frog legs at Coney Island because, well, they like the way they taste. | The stigmatization of Asian people and their culture as "inferior" or "exotic" isn't a ne…
fair.org/home/why-its-wrong-and-racist-to-blame-covid-19-on-chinese-wet-markets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-its-wrong-and-racist-to-blame-covid-19-on-chinese-wet-markets

How being a passenger almost put a man behind bars for life in Alabama
splcenter.org | 2020-05-07
When Roberto Cruz dozed off in the passenger seat of a blue Jeep Cherokee on June 23, 2003, he had no idea that he'd end up in Alabama, let alone sentenced to life without parole in a prison there.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/07/how-being-passenger-almost-put-man-behind-bars-life-alabama

100 Years of Shame: The Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-06
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened in a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera to seal the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I.
mintpressnews.com/100-years-annexation-palestine-san-remo-conference/267259/

100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-06
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I. It was on April 25, 1920, that the San Remo Conference Resolution was …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/100-years-of-shame-annexation-of-palestine-began-in-san-remo/

COVID–19: The Big Pharma players behind UK Government lockdown
Vanessa Beeley | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-06
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas." |

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Asks if Safer at Home Order Is 'Tyranny'
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-06
The state's conservative justices raise issue of Japanese internment camps while discussing Governor Tony Evers's order.
progressive.org/dispatches/wi-supreme-court-safer-at-home-tyranny-conniff-200506/

A red-baiter, an anti-Trumper & a libertarian walk into a bar: Facebook angers conservatives & liberals alike with oversight picks
rt.com | 2020-05-06
Facebook has unveiled its 20-person Oversight Board, a supposedly independent body able to reverse the platform's own content moderation decisions. The names have raised eyebrows all over the political spectrum. | The social media behemoth revealed its 'supreme court' roster on Wednesday, showing off a pedigreed list of legal scholars, human rights advocates, and journalists from around the globe. While the Oversight Board idea was initially presented to the Facebook community back in 2018, as a way for aggrieved users to appeal content take-downs to an independent panel, bylaws unveiled in January suggested i…
rt.com/news/487979-facebook-oversight-board-bipartisan-hate/

Israeli Soldiers Fire Missiles Into The Gaza Strip
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-06
Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday at dawn, several missiles targeting two areas south of Gaza city, and Beit Hannoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, causing damage. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed in military bases across the perimeter fence, fired several artillery shells into a building east …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-fire-missile-into-the-gaza-strip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-soldiers-fire-missile-into-the-gaza-strip

COVID-19 = genocide for Detroit
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Michigan State Representatives Jewell Jones and Isaac Robinson, co-sponsors of a bill for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs. Robinson died March 29 of suspected COVID-19. Here they are protesting a polluting company US Ecology in Detroit. May 4

100 Years of Shame
Ramzy Baroud | zcomm.org | 2020-05-07
Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/100-years-of-shame/

PDF download of May 7 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Click to download entire 12-page PDF May Day coverage. Also: COVID‚Äë19 North Carolina protest; Genocide on Detroit; Cuban medical team; Trump and China; Pennies vs. billions; Tear down the walls A world without prisons; Mumia: On prison guards; Louisiana death camps; ‚ÄÇEditorial Fascists = bosses' tools; World Palestine Britain Venezuela . . . | Continue reading PDF download of May 7 issue at Workers.org…
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Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Members of Unite the Union, a British and Irish labor union, show support for the Palestinian people. The Palestine Solidarity Committee won a legal victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain when the country's highest court issued a landmark ruling that struck a blow against the Whitehall . . . | Continue reading Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain at Workers.org…
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SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests
Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All | indybay.org | 2020-05-07
Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the "thin blue line" flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/03/18832811.php

Far Right Group Behind Boston's "Straight Pride" Also Organized "Reopen" Protest
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-05-07
If the federal government actually starts helping people, Trump and his allies fear that capitalism will lose its stranglehold on the nation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/far-right-group-behind-bostons-straight-pride-also-organized-reopen-protest/

May 1945: Nazi Germany Surrenders, but… on May 7, 8, or 9?
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-07
After the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the Americans, British, and Soviets had agreed that there would be no separate negotiations with Nazi Germany with respect to its capitulation.
globalresearch.ca/may-1945-operation-sunrise-nazi-germany-surrenders-but-on-may-7-8-or-9/5334299

RT SPECIAL VICTORY DAY PROGRAMMING TO AIR AND STREAM WORLDWIDE IN SIX LANGUAGES
rt.com | 2020-05-07
MOSCOW, MAY 7

MoveOn: Protecting Voting Rights in the Age of Coronavirus
MoveOn | indybay.org | 2020-05-07
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/06/18832850.php

A red-baiter, an anti-Trumper & a libertarian walk into a bar: Facebook angers conservatives & liberals alike with oversight picks
rt.com | 2020-05-06
Facebook has unveiled its 20-person Oversight Board, a supposedly independent body able to reverse the platform's own content moderation decisions. The names have raised eyebrows all over the political spectrum. | The social media behemoth revealed its 'supreme court' roster on Wednesday, showing off a pedigreed list of legal scholars, human rights advocates, and journalists from around the globe. While the Oversight Board idea was initially presented to the Facebook community back in 2018, as a way for aggrieved users to appeal content take-downs to an independent panel, bylaws unveiled in January suggested i…
rt.com/news/487979-facebook-oversight-board-bipartisan-hate/

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Asks if Safer at Home Order Is 'Tyranny'
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-06
The state's conservative justices raise issue of Japanese internment camps while discussing Governor Tony Evers's order.
progressive.org/dispatches/wi-supreme-court-safer-at-home-tyranny-conniff-200506/

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Asks if Safer at Home Order Is 'Tyranny'
Ruth Conniff | commondreams.org | 2020-05-06
People hold signs during a protest against the coronavirus shutdown in front of the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 24, 2020. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Supreme Court to Hear Case on Future of Birth Control Coverage
commondreams.org | 2020-05-06
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100 Years of Shame: The Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-06
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened in a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera to seal the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I.
mintpressnews.com/100-years-annexation-palestine-san-remo-conference/267259/

100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-06
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I. It was on April 25, 1920, that the San Remo Conference Resolution was …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/100-years-of-shame-annexation-of-palestine-began-in-san-remo/

Army Abducts Fateh Secretary In Al-Jalazoun
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-06
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, the secretary of Fateh movement in the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers abducted Tha'er Nakhla, while he was heading back home after a visit to the al-'Ezariyya …
imemc.org/article/army-abducts-fateh-secretary-in-al-jalazoun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=army-abducts-fateh-secretary-in-al-jalazoun

Israeli Soldiers Fire Missiles Into The Gaza Strip
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-06
Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday at dawn, several missiles targeting two areas south of Gaza city, and Beit Hannoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, causing damage. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed in military bases across the perimeter fence, fired several artillery shells into a building east …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-fire-missile-into-the-gaza-strip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-soldiers-fire-missile-into-the-gaza-strip

Taking advantage of pandemic / Israel moves to annex more Palestinian land
Susan Abulhawa | workers.org | 2020-05-06
Speaking to students at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University in November 1989, Benjamin Netanyahu, at that time the Israeli deputy foreign minister, said:…
workers.org/2020/05/48290/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-advantage-of-pandemic-israel-moves-to-annex-more-palestinian-land

Rouhani urges EU to pressure Israeli regime, not allow further attacks on Syria
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-06
TEHRAN, May 6 (MNA)

Israeli army bombs three different locations inside besieged Gaza strip
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-06
Israel continues its oppressive policies against Palestinians and has seized fresh Palestinian lands and demolished houses. It is also refused calls to release Palestinian prisoners in light of the COVID-19 emergency…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/06/israeli-army-bombs-three-different-locations-inside-besieged-gaza-strip/

Blueprint for action against neofascists
Editor | workers.org | 2020-05-06
The emergence of neofascist vermin from under their rocks to demand "reopening" businesses

The Early NRA Had Nothing to Do with the KKK
Frank Smyth | progressive.org | 2020-05-06
Neo-Nazis and others only got closer later.
progressive.org/dispatches/early-nra-had-nothing-to-do-with-kkk-smyth-200506/

Explosion In Gaza Injures Several Palestinians
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-06
In a brief statement, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip has reported that several Palestinians were injured, on Wednesday evening, in an explosion in Gaza city. Eyad El-Bozom, the spokesperson of the Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip, said medics evacuated the wounded to the Shifa Medical Center, …
imemc.org/article/explosion-in-gaza-injures-several-palestinians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=explosion-in-gaza-injures-several-palestinians

SPLC's Civil Rights Memorial Center, closed due to COVID-19, publishes children's activity book online
splcenter.org | 2020-05-06
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/06/splcs-civil-rights-memorial-center-closed-due-covid-19-publishes-childrens-activity-book

PCHR Welcomes the Response of the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court to the Observations of Amici Curiae, Legal Representatives of Victims, and States
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
On 30 April 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) submitted a 60-page document to the Pre-Trial Chamber I responding to the observations of amici curiae, legal representatives of victims, and States concerning the situation in the State of Palestine. The Palestinian Centre for Human …
imemc.org/article/pchr-welcomes-the-response-of-the-prosecution-of-the-international-criminal-court-to-the-observations-of-amici-curiae-legal-representatives-of-victims-and-states/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-welcomes-the-response-of-the-prosecution-of-the-international-criminal-court-to-the-observations-of-amici-curiae-legal-representatives-of-victims-and-states

Israeli Forces Demolish Several Palestinian Structures, Deliver Demolition Notices
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli forces demolished an agricultural structure, on Monday, in the Jordan Valley village of Tayasir, northern West Bank, according to activist Aref Daraghme. Daraghme told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the village and demolished a small 36 square meter structure with an aluminum ceiling. Authorities rationalized the demolition …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-demolish-several-palestinian-structures-deliver-demolition-notices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-demolish-several-palestinian-structures-deliver-demolition-notices

Palestinian Prisoner Re-Detained on the Day of his Release
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli forces, on Monday morning, arrested Nihad Zgheir, as soon as he was released from Israel's Gilboa jail, Quds News Network reported. The Committee of the Families of Jerusalem Prisoners told QNN that Zgheir, 42, who was released from prison Monday morning, after serving 35 months, was re-arrested by the …
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Chinese Authoritarianism Versus White Racism
Farid Parsa | iranian.com | 2020-05-06
For many Europeans racism is normal. Especially when it's directed at people who look different to them. Although Europeans have come a long way from their colonial past they still have a long way to go. Many Europeans led by the U.S. have been engaged in derogatory and racist language toward the Chinese government and …
iranian.com/2020/05/06/chinese-authoritarianism-versus-white-racism/

75 Years of Victory: Capture of Berlin by Soviet Forces in 1945
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-07
On 9 May, Russia is marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
sputniknews.com/photo/202005071079227881-capture-of-berlin-by-soviet-forces-in-1945/

Bestselling Author Ripped Over 'Fake Apology' for 'Racist Remarks' About Meghan Markle
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-07
Emily Giffin has drawn ire in the comments thread for finding fault with what she referred to as the Duchess of Sussex's lack of maternal skills and being "phony" in a video for her baby son's first birthday.
sputniknews.com/society/202005071079230478-bestselling-author-ripped-over-fake-apology-for-racist-remarks-about-meghan-markle/

Israel Delivers More Demolition Orders to Palestinians in West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli authorities in the internationally-recognized occupied West Bank, reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian households, ahead of the demolition of their homes. In the northern West Bank village of Aqqaba, north of Tulkarem city, Israeli troops reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian …
imemc.org/article/israel-delivers-more-demolition-orders-to-palestinians-in-west-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israel-delivers-more-demolition-orders-to-palestinians-in-west-bank

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fifteen Palestinians In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported that the soldiers, undercover officers, and the police stormed many neighborhoods in Jerusalem, including the Old City, and conducted violent searches …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-fifteen-palestinians-in-jerusalem-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-soldiers-abduct-fifteen-palestinians-in-jerusalem-2

Israeli Forces Storm Qalandia and Al-'Arroub Refugee Camps
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Tense confrontations between local Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers at Qalandia refugee camp, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, and Al-'Arroub refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, on Monday. QNN reporters said that Israeli forces closed roads in Al Matar neighborhood, and Kafr 'Aqab, while the Israeli …
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Illegal Israeli Colonists Uproot Palestinian Lands Near Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, squatting on Palestinian lands in direct violation of International Law, bulldozed a large area of Palestinian lands near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, to prepare for a new segregated road. Eyewitnesses said the colonists, accompanied by a large number of …
imemc.org/article/illegal-israeli-colonists-uproot-palestinian-lands-near-hebron/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=illegal-israeli-colonists-uproot-palestinian-lands-near-hebron

A Silent Curriculum
Brooks KC. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-05
In this narrative medicine essay, a medical student reflects on the ways in which she has seen racism and implicit bias affect clinical practice and emphasizes the importance of examining and challenging these biases to address health inequalities.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765417

Technofascism: The Censorship of David Icke is Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age
John Whitehead | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-05
CHARLOTTESVILLE ( Rutherford) —-We are fast becoming a nation–nay, a world–of book burners.While on paper, we are technically free to speak–at least according to the U.S. Constitution–in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow. | That's not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you're inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous. | Take David Icke, for example. | Icke, a popular c…
mintpressnews.com/technofascism-david-icke-digital-book-burning-totalitarian-age/267246/

My Name Is Not "Interpreter"
Montenegro RE. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-05
In this essay, the author relays his personal experience with ethnicity-based discrimination and discusses the "microaggressions" that medical trainees from underrepresented groups based on race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation experience.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765422

COVID-19 "CARES Act" Bankrolls AlI Post-Human Education
John Klyczek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-05
In 1982, former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement for the US Department of Education, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, blew the whistle on the Reagan Administration's Project BEST (Better Education Skills through Technology): a techno-fascist plan to privatize the American school system by selling it out to Big Tech corporations that …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/covid-19-cares-act-bankrolls-ali-post-human-education/

Why Keep On Confronting?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-05
On April 25 the White House published a heartening and most welcome "Joint Statement by President Donald J. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia" to mark "the 75th Anniversary of the historic meeting between American and Soviet troops, who shook hands on the damaged bridge over the Elbe River. This event heralded the decisive defeat of the Nazi regime." Some of us considered this a most positive step in relations between the cou…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/05/why-keep-on-confronting/

Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-05-05
White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/why-white-supremacists-are-targeting-zoom-meetings-during-covid-19-pandemic

Wisconsin Protesters Target 'Tony the Tyrant'
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-04
GOP temper tantrum escalates as state Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on restrictions.
progressive.org/dispatches/wisconsin-protesters-target-tony-the-tyrant-conniff-200504/

FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-04
Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.
mintpressnews.com/fbi-documents-israel-collusion-2016-trump-campaign/267212/

Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected
Carmen Martinez | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/05/amid-pandemic-poultry-workers-must-be-protected

Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/facebook-go-platform-organizing-protests-against-social-distancing

Anti-LGBTQ Group Pushes Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theories Amid COVID-19
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
Family Research Council (FRC) has branched out of its usual anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice rhetoric to push longtime right-wing conspiracy theories about voting by mail. It's a narrative that is gaining popularity during COVID-19 restrictions with regard to public gatherings and social distancing.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/06/anti-lgbtq-group-pushes-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories-amid-covid-19

The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-03
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 (5/2/19). 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 …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/the-full-story-behind-faucis-3-7-million-to-wuhan-flu-cv-overlap-it-was-always-israelgate/

Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-01
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he announced on social media last night,…
mintpressnews.com/juan-guaido-trying-to-overthrow-venezuela-government/267201/

Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/02/weekend-read-even-southern-states-continue-honoring-confederate-holidays-monuments-are

Celebrating the Freedom Riders
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/04/celebrating-freedom-riders

With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

USS Liberty: Israel's War Crimes Have Killed Americans
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-06
Imagine if you will a ship from a nation not at war with anyone sailing in international waters on a quiet June day being suddenly attacked by unidentified warplanes and torpedo boats, their markings covered up to conceal their country …
globalresearch.ca/israel-war-crimes-killed-americans/5711808

SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests
Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All | indybay.org | 2020-05-06
Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the "thin blue line" flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/03/18832811.php

German authorities press charges in Làºbcke murder case
wsws.org | 2020-05-06
The neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst is accused of having shot leading Christian Democratic politician Walter Làºbcke in cold blood on the terrace of his home on the night of June 2, 2019.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/06/lubc…

Facebook Deletes Accounts of Palestinian Activists and Journalists
The Palestinian Information Center | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-06
Facebook on Monday evening removed dozens of accounts run by Palestinian activists and journalists without prior notice. | Some accounts were deleted for no reason and other users were informed they "violated the site's policies". | Sada Social Center on Tuesday said …
globalresearch.ca/facebook-deletes-accounts-palestinian-activists-journalists/5711961

Israel's War Crimes Have Killed Americans
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-05
If the president loves to honor the military, start with the U.S.S. Liberty | Imagine if you will a ship from a nation not at war with anyone sailing in international waters on a quiet June day being suddenly attacked by unidentified warplanes and torpedo boats, their markings covered up to conceal their country of origin. The vessel under attack had little with which to defend itself, but its crew heroically made sure that a large national flag was hoisted to demonstrate that it was not a belligerent in anyone's conflict. The attackers noted the nationality of the vessel, but persisted in their aggression in a c…
thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/israels-w…

PCHR Welcomes the Response of the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court to the Observations of Amici Curiae, Legal Representatives of Victims, and States
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
On 30 April 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) submitted a 60-page document to the Pre-Trial Chamber I responding to the observations of amici curiae, legal representatives of victims, and States concerning the situation in the State of Palestine. The Palestinian Centre for Human …
imemc.org/article/pchr-welcomes-the-response-of-the-prosecution-of-the-international-criminal-court-to-the-observations-of-amici-curiae-legal-representatives-of-victims-and-states/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-welcomes-the-response-of-the-prosecution-of-the-international-criminal-court-to-the-observations-of-amici-curiae-legal-representatives-of-victims-and-states

Israel Delivers More Demolition Orders to Palestinians in West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli authorities in the internationally-recognized occupied West Bank, reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian households, ahead of the demolition of their homes. In the northern West Bank village of Aqqaba, north of Tulkarem city, Israeli troops reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian …
imemc.org/article/israel-delivers-more-demolition-orders-to-palestinians-in-west-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israel-delivers-more-demolition-orders-to-palestinians-in-west-bank

Israeli Forces Demolish Several Palestinian Structures, Deliver Demolition Notices
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli forces demolished an agricultural structure, on Monday, in the Jordan Valley village of Tayasir, northern West Bank, according to activist Aref Daraghme. Daraghme told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the village and demolished a small 36 square meter structure with an aluminum ceiling. Authorities rationalized the demolition …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-demolish-several-palestinian-structures-deliver-demolition-notices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-demolish-several-palestinian-structures-deliver-demolition-notices

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fifteen Palestinians In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported that the soldiers, undercover officers, and the police stormed many neighborhoods in Jerusalem, including the Old City, and conducted violent searches …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-fifteen-palestinians-in-jerusalem-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-soldiers-abduct-fifteen-palestinians-in-jerusalem-2

Israeli Forces Storm Qalandia and Al-'Arroub Refugee Camps
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Tense confrontations between local Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers at Qalandia refugee camp, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, and Al-'Arroub refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, on Monday. QNN reporters said that Israeli forces closed roads in Al Matar neighborhood, and Kafr 'Aqab, while the Israeli …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-storm-qalandia-and-al-arroub-refugee-camps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-storm-qalandia-and-al-arroub-refugee-camps

Palestinian Prisoner Re-Detained on the Day of his Release
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli forces, on Monday morning, arrested Nihad Zgheir, as soon as he was released from Israel's Gilboa jail, Quds News Network reported. The Committee of the Families of Jerusalem Prisoners told QNN that Zgheir, 42, who was released from prison Monday morning, after serving 35 months, was re-arrested by the …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-prisoner-re-detained-on-the-day-of-his-release/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-prisoner-re-detained-on-the-day-of-his-release

A Silent Curriculum
Brooks KC. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-05
In this narrative medicine essay, a medical student reflects on the ways in which she has seen racism and implicit bias affect clinical practice and emphasizes the importance of examining and challenging these biases to address health inequalities.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765417

Technofascism: The Censorship of David Icke is Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age
John Whitehead | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-05
CHARLOTTESVILLE ( Rutherford) —-We are fast becoming a nation–nay, a world–of book burners.While on paper, we are technically free to speak–at least according to the U.S. Constitution–in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow. | That's not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you're inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous. | Take David Icke, for example. | Icke, a popular c…
mintpressnews.com/technofascism-david-icke-digital-book-burning-totalitarian-age/267246/

My Name Is Not "Interpreter"
Montenegro RE. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-05
In this essay, the author relays his personal experience with ethnicity-based discrimination and discusses the "microaggressions" that medical trainees from underrepresented groups based on race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation experience.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765422

Far Right Group Behind Boston's "Straight Pride" Also Organized "Reopen" Protest
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-05
In March of 1770, a group of British troops found themselves accosted by a mob of angry colonists in Boston. The soldiers were pelted with rocks, snowballs, and struck with clubs. Finally, one soldier fired his weapon in self-defense, and the other troops followed suit. When the smoke cleared, three colonists lay dead. Eight others were wounded, and two of those would later succumb to their injuries. | The event became known as the Boston Massacre, and was initially a public opinion coup for P…
truthout.org/articles/far-right-group-behind-bostons-straight-pride-also-organized-reopen-protest/

Trump and the Militias Consummate Their Marriage
Max Elbaum | zcomm.org | 2020-05-05
Historical experience shows that when a powerful wing of a ruling class throws in with grassroots fascists, a fascist or fascist-like regime moves from back-drawer possibility to imminent danger…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-and-the-militias-consummate-their-marriage/

COVID-19 "CARES Act" Bankrolls AlI Post-Human Education
John Klyczek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-05
In 1982, former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement for the US Department of Education, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, blew the whistle on the Reagan Administration's Project BEST (Better Education Skills through Technology): a techno-fascist plan to privatize the American school system by selling it out to Big Tech corporations that …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/covid-19-cares-act-bankrolls-ali-post-human-education/

Why Keep On Confronting?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-05
On April 25 the White House published a heartening and most welcome "Joint Statement by President Donald J. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia" to mark "the 75th Anniversary of the historic meeting between American and Soviet troops, who shook hands on the damaged bridge over the Elbe River. This event heralded the decisive defeat of the Nazi regime." Some of us considered this a most positive step in relations between the cou…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/05/why-keep-on-confronting/

Social Distancing With Tear Gas and Walls: the "Racist, Hateful, And Life-Threatening Campaign" Unleashed Against The Romani With Covid-19
RAIN | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-05
She was 37 years old. Her name was not reported. We will never know the name of her baby. For three days after her waters broke, she appealed multiple times for attention at Ohrid General Hospital in North Macedonia. Every visit ended the same way, with her being denied treatment. Her friend, who drove her…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/05/social-distancing-with-tear-gas-and-walls-the-racist-hateful-and-life-threatening-campaign-unleashed-against-the-romani-with-covid-19/

Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-05-05
White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/why-white-supremacists-are-targeting-zoom-meetings-during-covid-19-pandemic

Palestinian Youth Shot, Injured by Israeli Forces in Jericho
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-04
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Sunday night, a Palestinian youth in Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in the eastern West Bank city of Jericho, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Witnesses said that the army opened fire at Palestinian youths, striking one in the leg, the youth was rushed to hospital …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-youth-shot-injured-by-israeli-forces-in-jericho/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-youth-shot-injured-by-israeli-forces-in-jericho

Report: In April; 1015 Israeli Violations Against Palestinians
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-04
Media department of the Islamic Hamas party reportedly recorded 1015 Israeli army violations against Palestinians in the West Bank, during April of this year, alone. The department noted in a report that Israeli troops, over the past couple of months, have been carrying out various violations against Palestinians, especially under …
imemc.org/article/report-in-april-1015-israeli-violations-against-palestinians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-in-april-1015-israeli-violations-against-palestinians

FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-04
Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.
mintpressnews.com/fbi-documents-israel-collusion-2016-trump-campaign/267212/

Israeli Troops Abduct Eight Palestinians, Ransack Home of Former Prisoner
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-04
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Monday, eight Palestinian residents from different areas of the West Bank. Local Palestinian media sources said that those abducted were identified as Ziyad Abu Salem from the Abu Shkhaidem village, north of Ramallah city, Nawras Ferras from Markaba village, south of Jenin city. The sources …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-eight-palestinians-ransack-home-of-former-prisoner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-eight-palestinians-ransack-home-of-former-prisoner

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-04
Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and produced biological warfare weapons, there is no recent documented proof of a government being engaged in the widespread release of a biological warfare agent to cause maximum deaths. The 1972 Con…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/04/cults-and-bioterrorism-toxic-duo/

Israel Won't End Syria Operations Until Iran Leaves, Defence Minister Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-06
In recent years, Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes against targets in Syria that presumably contain or belong to Syrian or Iranian forces. Iran denies the presence of troops in Syria and refers to its forces there as mere advisors to Bashar al-Assad's government.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005061079214052-israel-wont-end-syria-operations-until-iran-leaves–defence-minister/

Three Revolutionary Guardsmen Reportedly Killed in Clashes in Western Iran
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-06
Tehran has waged a low-intensity counterterrorism campaign against militants in the country's northwest for several decades, accusing the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia of providing support to local separatists, and accusing officials in Iraqi Kurdistan of helping to arm and train the guerillas.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005061079216520-three-revolutionary-guardsmen-reportedly-killed-in-clashes-in-western-iran/

UK Gov't Launches Picture Contest to Celebrate 70 Years of British-Israeli Diplomatic Relations
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-06
The UK has launched a competition to promote friendly ties between the two nations seven decades after diplomatic ties were established.
sputniknews.com/uk/202005061079214027-uk-govt-launches-picture-contest-to-celebrate-70-years-of-british-israeli-diplomatic-relations/

How Nazis Sought to Profit Even From Dead Inmates at Notorious Mauthausen Concentration Camp
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-06
As the Western Allies' armies advanced into Germany in the spring of 1945, they found out about the horrific scale of Nazi atrocities, something the Red Army and the people of Eastern Europe had already known about for several years.
sputniknews.com/military/202005061079214909-how-nazis-sought-to-profit-even-from-dead-inmates-at-notorious-mauthausen-concentration-camp/

Israel signs deal to lease drones to Greece for border defence
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-06
Israel said it will lease drones to Greece to defend its borders, in the first military deal between the two countries which includes an option to buy the system.The Israeli Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that the agreement with the Hellenic Ministry of National Defence was signed digitally due to the coronavirus crisis.Under the deal, Israel's Defence Ministry will lease the Heron unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system, made by state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries for three years.The Heron system, which is used by Israel's military and in naval forces around the world, is equipped with both day and night ac…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israel-signs-deal-to-lease-drones-to-greece-for-border-defence-3518806

Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected
Carmen Martinez | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/05/amid-pandemic-poultry-workers-must-be-protected

Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/facebook-go-platform-organizing-protests-against-social-distancing

Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-01
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he announced on social media last night,…
mintpressnews.com/juan-guaido-trying-to-overthrow-venezuela-government/267201/

Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/02/weekend-read-even-southern-states-continue-honoring-confederate-holidays-monuments-are

Celebrating the Freedom Riders
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/04/celebrating-freedom-riders

With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

Cody Wilson Uses COVID-19 Crisis To Re-enter Extremist Movement
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-04-30
A registered sex offender and antigovernment icon is trying to use the current global pandemic to whitewash his image. A recent post on Jacobite magazine's website seeks to remind readers of Cody Wilson's past contributions to the movement and to cast doubt on the government responsible for his arrest and sentencing.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/30/cody-wilson-uses-covid-19-crisis-re-enter-extremist-movement

Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2020-04-27
Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/27/anti-lockdown-rallies-are-providing-opening-proud-boys-and-other-far-right-extremists

Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/fraihat-v-ice-community-resources

Florida voting rights trial to be argued online
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/25/florida-voting-rights-trial-be-argued-online

Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/remembering-deadly-poway-shooting-one-year-later

Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report
Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/24/trumps-immigration-order-was-drafted-officials-ties-hate-groups-according-report

The Social Contract Publishes its Last Tract
Caleb Kieffer | splcenter.org | 2020-04-23
The Social Contract, a long-running quarterly journal founded by John Tanton, ran its final issue in Fall 2019.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/23/social-contract-publishes-its-last-tract

Oath Keepers Chaplain Quits Over Leader's COVID Response
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-04-23
Chuck Baldwin, who has served as the national chaplain of the antigovernment Oath Keepers since 2013, announced his resignation early Tuesday morning on Facebook.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/23/oath-keepers-chaplain-quits-over-leaders-covid-response

First person to die in Alabama's prisons with COVID-19 spent more than four decades behind bars
splcenter.org | 2020-04-22
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/22/first-person-die-alabamas-prisons-covid-19-spent-more-four-decades-behind-bars

SPLC Action makes recommendations to Congress to address COVID-19 needs in the Deep South
splcenter.org | 2020-04-22
The SPLC Action Fund sent a detailed letter to members of Congress on April 22, 2020, highlighting the need for federal action that specifically addresses the needs of people in South.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/22/splc-action-makes-recommendations-congress-address-covid-19-needs-deep-south

Anti-Immigrant Movement Has History of Politicizing Disease
Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-21
COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, is the latest disease the nativist movement has politicized to demonize immigrants.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/21/anti-immigrant-movement-has-history-politicizing-disease

Augustus Invictus Arrested in Florida for Stalking, Violating Bond
Rachel Janik | splcenter.org | 2020-04-21
Invictus' father, John Gillespie, was arrested days earlier and charged with human trafficking of children under 18 years old.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/21/augustus-invictus-arrested-florida-stalking-violating-bond

SPLC lawsuit challenging Mississippi's failure to provide a uniform public school system moves forward
splcenter.org | 2020-04-17
When Precious Hughes looked down the long, dark halls of Raines Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi, she saw lights flickering, water spots staining the ceilings and paint chipping off the walls.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/27/splc-lawsuit-challenging-mississippis-failure-provide-uniform-public-school-system-moves

25 years later, Oklahoma City bombing still inspires antigovernment extremists
splcenter.org | 2020-04-17
At 9: 02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a bomb exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/17/25-years-later-oklahoma-city-bombing-still-inspires-antigovernment-extremists

Kim Jong-un accepts WWII medal awarded by Putin days after DEATH rumors spread by Western media
rt.com | 2020-05-05
He may have been reported dead last week by US/UK media, but today North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received a medal from President Putin for his contribution to perpetuating the memory of Soviet citizens buried in North Korea. | In 2019, the Kremlin announced the creation of a brand new award named '75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945′, to be given to those chosen by the president. The award has already been presented to multiple people, many of whom are Russian veterans. | | @ Russian Embassy in North Korea | According to the Facebook page of the Russian Embassy in North Korea, Kim was…
rt.com/russia/487828-russia-award-kim-medal/

Kim Jong-un accepts WWII medal awarded by Putin days after DEATH rumors spread by Western media
rt.com | 2020-05-05
He may have been reported dead last week by US/UK media, but today North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received a medal from President Putin for his contribution to perpetuating the memory of Soviet citizens buried in North Korea. | In 2019, the Kremlin announced the creation of a brand new award named '75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945′, to be given to those chosen by the president. The award has already been presented to multiple people, many of whom are Russian veterans. | | © Russian Embassy in North Korea | According to the Facebook page of the Russian Embassy in North Korea, Kim…
rt.com/russia/487828-russia-award-kim-medal/

Israel's War Crimes Have Killed Americans
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-05
If the president loves to honor the military, start with the U.S.S. Liberty | Imagine if you will a ship from a nation not at war with anyone sailing in international waters on a quiet June day being suddenly attacked by unidentified warplanes and torpedo boats, their markings covered up to conceal their country of origin. The vessel under attack had little with which to defend itself, but its crew heroically made sure that a large national flag was hoisted to demonstrate that it was not a belligerent in anyone's conflict. The attackers noted the nationality of the vessel, but persisted in their aggression in a c…
thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/israels-w…

100 Years After San Remo and the Denial of Arab Rights Continues
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-05
It was appropriate that during the week in which we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the San Remo Conference, Israelis and Americans were discussing the Israeli government's declared intention to annex large portions of occupied Palestinian lands. As was the …
globalresearch.ca/100-years-after-san-remo-denial-arab-rights-continues/5711830

Syria's air defense repels Israeli airstrike over Aleppo
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-05
TEHRAN, May 05 (MNA)

Vienna's vice mayor takes heat after 'ASYLUM SEEKER VIRUS' reference
rt.com | 2020-05-05
The vice mayor of Vienna and high-ranking member of Austria's anti-immigration party faced accusations of racism after he blamed the rise in daily Covid-19 infections on the local migrant community. | "It is now clear… that the increasing coronavirus numbers in Vienna can only be attributed to asylum seekers," Vice Mayor Dominik Nepp said on Monday, after a recent testing campaign at migrants' quarters in the district of Erdberg revealed 26 new Covid…
rt.com/news/487790-coronavirus-vienna-fpo-migrants/

On Lying and the 2020 Presidential Election
Ted Glick | zcomm.org | 2020-05-05
I would be lying if I said that I thought electing Biden, or anyone other than Sanders, was a guarantee of a transformation. It wouldn't be. But it would be a blow against rising fascism in this country, at least, and hopefully much…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-lying-and-the-2020-presidential-election/

Technofascism: The Censorship of David Icke is Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age
John Whitehead | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-05
CHARLOTTESVILLE ( Rutherford) —-We are fast becoming a nation–nay, a world–of book burners.While on paper, we are technically free to speak–at least according to the U.S. Constitution–in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow. | That's not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you're inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous. | Take David Icke, for example. | Icke, a popular c…
mintpressnews.com/technofascism-david-icke-digital-book-burning-totalitarian-age/267246/

SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests
Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All | indybay.org | 2020-05-05
Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the Blue Lives Matter flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/03/18832811.php

Far Right Group Behind Boston's "Straight Pride" Also Organized "Reopen" Protest
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-05
In March of 1770, a group of British troops found themselves accosted by a mob of angry colonists in Boston. The soldiers were pelted with rocks, snowballs, and struck with clubs. Finally, one soldier fired his weapon in self-defense, and the other troops followed suit. When the smoke cleared, three colonists lay dead. Eight others were wounded, and two of those would later succumb to their injuries. | The event became known as the Boston Massacre, and was initially a public opinion coup for P…
truthout.org/articles/far-right-group-behind-bostons-straight-pride-also-organized-reopen-protest/

Trump and the Militias Consummate Their Marriage
Max Elbaum | zcomm.org | 2020-05-05
Historical experience shows that when a powerful wing of a ruling class throws in with grassroots fascists, a fascist or fascist-like regime moves from back-drawer possibility to imminent danger…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-and-the-militias-consummate-their-marriage/

Why Keep On Confronting?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-05
On April 25 the White House published a heartening and most welcome "Joint Statement by President Donald J. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia" to mark "the 75th Anniversary of the historic meeting between American and Soviet troops, who shook hands on the damaged bridge over the Elbe River. This event heralded the decisive defeat of the Nazi regime." Some of us considered this a most positive step in relations between the cou…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/05/why-keep-on-confronting/

75 Years Ago: Nazi Germany Lies in Rubble and How the Wehrmacht's Ultimate Defeat Came About
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-05
Three-quarters of a century ago the Third Reich lay in ruins, its ruler Adolf Hitler dead, having shot himself in the right temple with his 7.65mm pistol on 30 April 1945. Hitler had refused to leave Berlin over previous days, …
globalresearch.ca/75-years-ago-nazi-germany-lies-rubble-wehrmachts-ultimate-defeat/5711813

Era of Nazism has gone over: IDO's head to German govt
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-05
TEHRAN, May 5 (MNA)

Social Distancing With Tear Gas and Walls: the "Racist, Hateful, And Life-Threatening Campaign" Unleashed Against The Romani With Covid-19
RAIN | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-05
She was 37 years old. Her name was not reported. We will never know the name of her baby. For three days after her waters broke, she appealed multiple times for attention at Ohrid General Hospital in North Macedonia. Every visit ended the same way, with her being denied treatment. Her friend, who drove her…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/05/social-distancing-with-tear-gas-and-walls-the-racist-hateful-and-life-threatening-campaign-unleashed-against-the-romani-with-covid-19/

Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-05-05
White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/why-white-supremacists-are-targeting-zoom-meetings-during-covid-19-pandemic

It's Time to Bring the Supreme Court Into the Modern Era–and the Light
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-05-04
It's Time to Bring the Supreme Court Into the Modern Era–and the Light…
thenation.com/article/politics/scotus-cameras-hearing/

Wisconsin Protesters Target 'Tony the Tyrant'
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-04
GOP temper tantrum escalates as state Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on restrictions.
progressive.org/dispatches/wisconsin-protesters-target-tony-the-tyrant-conniff-200504/

Israeli Troops Abduct Eight Palestinians, Ransack Home of Former Prisoner
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-04
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Monday, eight Palestinian residents from different areas of the West Bank. Local Palestinian media sources said that those abducted were identified as Ziyad Abu Salem from the Abu Shkhaidem village, north of Ramallah city, Nawras Ferras from Markaba village, south of Jenin city. The sources …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-eight-palestinians-ransack-home-of-former-prisoner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-eight-palestinians-ransack-home-of-former-prisoner

Report: In April; 1015 Israeli Violations Against Palestinians
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-04
Media department of the Islamic Hamas party reportedly recorded 1015 Israeli army violations against Palestinians in the West Bank, during April of this year, alone. The department noted in a report that Israeli troops, over the past couple of months, have been carrying out various violations against Palestinians, especially under …
imemc.org/article/report-in-april-1015-israeli-violations-against-palestinians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-in-april-1015-israeli-violations-against-palestinians

FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-04
Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.
mintpressnews.com/fbi-documents-israel-collusion-2016-trump-campaign/267212/

The COVID-19 Crisis Profoundly Exposes African Americans to the Scourge of Poverty and Racism
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
They live below the poverty level. They are prison inmates in large numbers. They are most likely to be killed by the police, a longstanding grievance that originated the Black Lives Matter (BTM) movement to protest against police killing and | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-profoundly-exposes-african-americans-racism/5711687

Judge tosses out equal pay discrimination claims made by Women's soccer
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-04
On International Workers' Day, May 1, a federal judge quietly tossed out part of the U.S. Women's National Team's pay discrimination lawsuit–the unequal pay argument–while allowing their allegations of discriminatory working conditions to proceed to trial. It was a shocking judgment and a loss for players. Led by Alex Morgan, players filed their lawsuit in March …
peoplesworld.org/article/judge-tosses-out-equal-pay-discrimination-claims-made-by-womens-soccer/

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-04
Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and produced biological warfare weapons, there is no recent documented proof of a government being engaged in the widespread release of a biological warfare agent to cause maximum deaths. The 1972 Con…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/04/cults-and-bioterrorism-toxic-duo/

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Wayne Madsen | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-04
Although there is no recent history of nation-states propagating biological warfare attacks, there is a history of dangerous religious cults being involved in preparing for or carrying out them. | Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and…
thealtworld.com/wayne_madsen/cults-and-b…

Stalin and Voroshilov are back in Donbass: Donetsk and Luhansk to be renamed on Victory Day
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-04
This May 9 marks the 75th anniversary of the Victory Day, which commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany during the second world war in 1945…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/04/stalin-and-voroshilov-are-back-in-donbass-donetsk-and-luhansk-to-be-renamed-on-victory-day/

Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected
Carmen Martinez | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/05/amid-pandemic-poultry-workers-must-be-protected

Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/facebook-go-platform-organizing-protests-against-social-distancing

Revealed: How USSR's 'Death to Spies' Spooks Paralyzed Third Reich Intelligence
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-05
Nazi intelligence and the Kriegsmarine mastered the art of spreading radio disinformation among the Allies after the occupation of France and the campaign for the Atlantic. However, by 1944, the NKVD and SMERSH (Red Army counterintelligence), set up similar operations, disorganizing Wehrmacht intelligence-gathering until the very end of the war.
sputniknews.com/military/202005051079202603-revealed-how-ussrs-death-to-spies-spooks-paralyzed-third-reich-intelligence/

The Hate That Is Among Us
Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-04
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On International Day of Journalists, Dr. Ashrawi Honors Press
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-03
Senior Palestinian leader and Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, stated on Sunday, that press freedoms are an integral part of public freedoms. | Dr.
imemc.org/article/on-international-day-of-journalists-dr-ashrawi-honors-press/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-international-day-of-journalists-dr-ashrawi-honors-press

The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-03
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 (5/2/19). 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 …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/the-full-story-behind-faucis-3-7-million-to-wuhan-flu-cv-overlap-it-was-always-israelgate/

Officials Decry Israeli Seizure of Palestinian Authority's Tax Funds
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-03
A number of Palestinian officials in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, Israel's seizure of the Palestinian Authority's (PA) tax funds, considering this as theft against the Palestinian people. Hussien Elsheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs with the PA, confirmed today that the Israeli Magistrate Court in …
imemc.org/article/officials-decry-israeli-seizure-of-palestinian-authoritys-tax-funds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=officials-decry-israeli-seizure-of-palestinian-authoritys-tax-funds

Israeli Troops Abduct Twelve Palestinians, Including Former Prisoner
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-03
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, early on Sunday, a dozen Palestinians from different parts of the Palestinian territories, prisoners sources said. The Ramallah-based Palestinian prisoners forum said that Israeli troops invaded the al-"Isawiya neighborhood of the old city of Jerusalem, which is internationally-recognized as an Israeli-occupied Palestinian area. The forum added …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-twelve-palestinians-including-former-prisoner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-twelve-palestinians-including-former-prisoner

Israeli court to hear petitions against Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal charges
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-03
Israel's high court is set to begin hearing petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal indictments.The proceedings on 3 May, held by a large panel of 11 justices and, in a rare instance, to also be broadcast live, will focus on the issue of whether a politician can form a government while under indictment

Greek refugee camps 'beyond breaking point' as UK government continues its racist policies
Eliza Egret | thecanary.co | 2020-05-03
Human rights campaigners on the Greek island of Samos have told The Canary that the situation for refugees is "beyond breaking point". Since the early 2000s, people have been seeking refuge on the Aegean islands, fleeing the West's neo-colonial policies in the Middle East. Around 7,000 people are currently stuck in Samos' Vathy camp, which has capacity for under 700 people. | Europe Must A…
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Israeli Troops Shoot at Palestinian Fishermen and Farmers in Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-02
Israeli troops opened fire on Saturday, at local Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza, mainly in the Khuza'a rural area, east of the southern Khan Younis city. Local Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israeli troops, stationed on the Israeli side of the border, east of Khan Younis city, opened …
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Israel Plans New Colonial Settlement in Northern West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-02
Israeli authorities reportedly endorsed the erection of a new Israeli colonial settlement near the Kufur Qasem town, north of the West Bank. According to Ma'areef Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper, the 10 acres of Palestinian farm land, on which the colonial settlement is set to be erected, will be rather designated as …
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PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-05-02
Eric McGill was locked up in Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Lebanon, Pa., on Jan. 19, 2019. For 15 months now he has been held there, not because he has been convicted of a crime, but because he cannot afford the preposterous $1 million bail the judge set. And during . . . | Continue reading PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies at Workers.org…
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Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps'
a guest author | workers.org | 2020-05-02
By Quess Moore This slightly edited talk is by Quess Moore speaking at the April 9 Workers World Party webinar. Moore organizes with New Orleans Workers Group and Take 'Em Down NOLA, a group which has been working to take down symbols of white supremacy and slavery. View all the . . . | Continue reading Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps' at Workers.org…
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Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-01
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he announced on social media last night,…
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Soldiers Assault And Abduct A Father And His Three Sons In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers assaulted and abducted, on Friday evening, a Palestinian father and his three sons in Bab al-'Amoud area, in occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped the father and his three sons, from the Salayma family, while walking near Bab al-'Amoud, before repeatedly assaulting them, and abducted them. …
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Israeli Soldiers Injure Six Palestinians, Including Two Children, In Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession against the Annexation Wall and colonies in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured six Palestinians, including two children. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, …
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Chicago Tribune lends its press to racism
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-01
Chicago, IL – The headline in the Chicago Tribune Wednesday, April 19 blared: "Two charities have bailed scores of felony defendants out of Cook County Jail. Some were soon charged with new crimes." The headline could have said, with equal validity, that "Millions of Chicagoans were not arrested last year. Some were charged with new crimes." | The article is filled with racist 'dog whistles' about [Black and brown] people with guns and hysteria regarding violent crime. In actual fact, in the past three years the rate of violent crime in Chicago has declined significantly. The Tribune is blowing the racist 'get to…
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Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.
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Celebrating the Freedom Riders
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
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With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

Biden and Trump compete to produce most misleading, racist anti-China ad
Leela Anand | liberationnews.org | 2020-04-30
Both political parties in the U.S. seek to make a national enemy out of China. But the U.S. working class has more to gain from friendship, solidarity and exchange of knowledge with China and the Chinese people.
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Cody Wilson Uses COVID-19 Crisis To Re-enter Extremist Movement
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-04-30
A registered sex offender and antigovernment icon is trying to use the current global pandemic to whitewash his image. A recent post on Jacobite magazine's website seeks to remind readers of Cody Wilson's past contributions to the movement and to cast doubt on the government responsible for his arrest and sentencing.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/30/cody-wilson-uses-covid-19-crisis-re-enter-extremist-movement

Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-29
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 (4/28/19). 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 …
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