(2021-05-03). On the Insidious Discourse of "Terrorism" in the US and How It Functions to Demonize Palestine Advocates and Muslims. globalresearch.ca After Heike Schotten, Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts …
(2021-05-03). Brazilian Senate Will Question: Bolsonaro on COVID-19 Response. counterpunch.org The Supreme Court of Brazil has authorized a Senate Commission (CPI, Commisà£o Parlamentar de Inquérito) to investigate Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on his handling of COVID-19 in Brazil. The impetus for investigating the Brazilian president seems to be appropriate given how much Bolsonaro has downplayed the Coronavirus and the fact that Brazil has the second-highest
(2021-05-03). Salvadoran Congress Dismisses Justices and Attorney General Not Aligned with Bukele. orinocotribune.com The legislators of the ruling party of the Congress of El Salvador dismissed, in its first session, all Justices of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court and the Attorney General of the country. | With 64 votes in favor and 19 against, with one abstention, the Salvadoran Congress approved the dismissal of both regular and alternate justices of the Supreme Court, which is a constitutional body. This event sends a clear signal of President Bukele's attempt to control all branches of the State. | The members of the Congress belonging to Bukele's New Ideas party, who supported the motion, asserted that the…
(2021-05-03). Bukele's Legislative Assembly Ousts Supreme Court Magistrates and Attorney General. latinorebels.com Various legal experts have called what happened on May 1 a technical coup d'etat.
(2021-05-03). Quibbling Over Cruelties: Human Rights Watch, Israel and Apartheid. dissidentvoice.org Criticism of Israel's policies towards Palestinians has always induced a defensive rage from its defenders and advocates. A Threshold Crossed, a report by Human Rights Watch, lit several fires of rage and disapproval. Israel, according to the authors, is responsible for apartheid policies. The word, and the application of its meaning, is immemorially nasty. This …
(2021-05-03). Quibbling Over Cruelties: Human Rights Watch, Israel and Apartheid. southfront.org 
Illustrative image: אי־אף־פי | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | Criticism of Israel's policies towards Palestinians has always induced a defensive rage from its defenders and advocates.
(2021-05-03). Palestinians protest forceful eviction of families from Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem. peoplesdispatch.org 
An Israeli court ordered at least 13 out of a total of 28 Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah locality to vacate the houses they have been inhabiting for generations to pave the way for the construction of an illegal Jewish settlement…
(2021-05-03). ZarifGate: Iranian Supreme Leader Chastises Foreign Minister. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 2nd, Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, issued an apology for comments that he said "annoyed" the country's supreme leader. | Recordings surfaced late last month of Zarif, long the public face of Iranian diplomacy, saying the Revolutionary Guards had far more influence in foreign and nuclear affairs than he did. | Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appeared to chastise Zarif during a televised speech. | Khamenei didn't specifically say Zarif's name, but…
(2021-05-03). 7 Year Anniversary Commemoration Of Odessa Massacre Met With Nazi Demonstration. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 2nd, nationalists and veterans from the Volunteer battalions carried out a march in Odessa. | About 400 people took part in it. | Ukrainian outlet Strana Members of radical nationalis…
(2021-05-03). Drive-By Shooting In The West Bank, Hours After IDF Shoots And Kills 60-Year-Old Woman. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 2nd, three 19-year-old yeshiva students were injured, two of them seriously, in a drive-by shooting at a bus stop in the northern West Bank. | The shots were fired from a passing car at the Tapuah Junction south of Nablus. The victims were all civilians, according to the Israel Defense Forces."IDF troops returned fire at the vehicle, which fled the scene. IDF troops are searching for the vehicle and are setting up roadblocks in the area," the military said. | Then, due to the in…
(2021-05-03). Democratic Senator Under Fire for Invoking January 6 Attack to Justify Opposing Vaccine Patent Waiver. commondreams.org Democratic Sen. Chris Coons "is choosing to support vaccine apartheid to protect the pharma industry that has given tens of thousands to his campaign," said one advocacy group. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-05-03). France's Jean-Luc Mélenchon appeals to President Macron against the fascistic coup-plotting military generals. wsws.org Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Unsubmissive France is encouraging the working class to rely on the action of Macron and the top military brass.
(2021-05-03). Clueless Santorum perpetrates 'second genocide' of Native Americans. nationofchange.org Thus do racists defend "manifest destiny," the delusion that God endorsed genocide, the greatest single theft of land, freedom and property in history.
(2021-05-03). A Brief History of Israeli Interventionism in Lebanon. orinocotribune.com By Yanis Iqbal — Apr 30, 2021 | Israel has a long-standing interest in Lebanon. These interests have periodically manifested themselves in bloody attacks against the small Arab state. Two important sources on the Zionist plans for Lebanon are the diary of Moshe Sharett, who was the Prime Minster of Israel in 1954-1955 and who was considered a "soft Zionist", and Livia Rokach's "Israel's Sacred Terrorism: A study based on Moshe Sharett's Personal Diary, and other documents". In the latter we find some very important information, and it is worth quoting at length: | "Then he [Ben Gurion] passed on to another i…
(2021-05-03). Recent incidents in Israel part of Resistance's revenge. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 03 (MNA) — The aide to Iranian Parliament's speaker says that the recent incidents in Palestinian-occupied lands of Israel were part of the Resistance groups' response to the Zionist regime's mischiefs and acts of sabotage.
(2021-05-03). US not close to returning to JCPOA: Biden to Mossad chief. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 03 (MNA) — US President Biden told the director of Israeli regime's intelligence service, Yossi Cohen, on Friday that the US has a long way to go in talks with Iran before it agrees a return to full compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal.
(2021-05-03). Oppression in the Form of Israeli Dates. commondreams.org Today, labor abuse, exploitation of natural resources, and theft of Palestinian land comes in the form of Israeli dates," writes Sanaa Khalil. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-05-03). Biden Won't Reverse Trump's Western Sahara Move. news.antiwar.com According to a report from Axios, the Biden administration told Morroco that it would not reverse the Trump administration's move to recognize Morrocan sovereignty over Western Sahara, which was Rabat's reward for normalizing relations with Israel. Sources told Axios that Secretary of State Antony Blinken conveyed the message to Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in …
(2021-05-03). Australian PM Defends Decision to Jail, Impose Fines on India Returnees Amid Racism Allegations. sputniknews.com Australia's decision to ban arrivals from India comes on the back of similar travel bans by other nations, including the US and the United Kingdom. However, Australia's threat to jail passengers travelling from India during the ban has prompted criticism from the Australian Human Rights Commission, the nation's federal watchdog.
(2021-05-03). In the #1 Agriculture Economy in the USA, CA could use a visit from Secretary Vilsack. indybay.org During the hearing last week focused on USDA's discriminatory history toward Black farmers, I gave Chairman David Scott "a single and solemn commitment from me and from the team at USDA, that we will over the next four years do everything we can to root out whatever systemic racism and barriers may exist at the Department of Agriculture directed at Black farmers, socially disadvantaged farmers, and people who live in persistently poor areas in rural America."
(2021-05-03). The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism. thenation.com The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism…
(2021-05-03). White Solidarity Activists Take Over the Block of Racist Cop Callers in Alameda, California. indybay.org No More Klan-ameda Kop Kallers!
(2021-05-02). Capitalism and Racism Are Enemies of an Effective Vaccine Plan. truthout.org 
Pandemics don't spread evenly. The spread depends on environmental conditions such as temperature and airflow, population density and size, and, as it turns out, privilege. Brutal capitalism has driven the disproportionate impact of COVID on marginalized communities, and it is now driving inequities in vaccine distribution. | Not surprisingly, the contours of COVID's impacts have reflected pre-existing societal disparities — which are often shaped along gender, race and class lines. These disparities…
(2021-05-02). French labor unionists call for Histadrut boycott. samidoun.net 
In a video released on 1 May 2021, French trade unionists associated with the CGT, France's largest labor federation, in the Haute-Garonne region of France, issued a call for boycott of the Histadrut. The video statement responded to Palestinian labor activists' calls to boycott the Israeli trade union federation, known since its inception as a pillar of the Zionist project and directly implicated in the colonization of Palestine and the dispossession, expulsion and colonization of Palestinian people and Palestinian land. The video was issued by Collectif Palestine Vaincra, based in Toulouse, France. The Collecti…
(2021-05-02). Video: The liberation of Palestine — Arab and international perspectives on an alternative revolutionary path. samidoun.net On 1 May 2021, the Alternative Palestinian Path (Masar Badil) and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network organized an online event on Arab and international dimensions of the liberation of Palestine | The article
(2021-05-02). International 1 May actions call for liberation of Palestine, freedom for Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network chapters and members participated in a wide range of global activities, demonstrations and mobilizations marking 1 May, International Workers' Day, as did many advocates for justice and liberation for Palestine and for Palestinian political prisoners. The flag of Palestine and banners of liberation were raised at many international demonstrations, calling for freedom for the prisoners and liberation for Palestine from the river to the sea. Samidoun Deutschland members took to the streets in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, and Berlin, among other cities in Germany. In Frankf…
(2021-05-02). El Salvador: Supreme and Constitutional Courts Wiped Out. telesurenglish.net In the first session of the newly-elected Legislative Assembly Sunday, El Salvador's ruling party wiped out the entire judiciary: the judges of the Constitutional Chamber, the Supreme Court and Attorney General Raul Melara were all fired. | RELATED: | The judiciary was punished for objecting to decrees issued by Bukele in fighting Covid-19, media reports say. President Nayib Bukele's New Ideas party won a landslide majorit…
(2021-05-02). Commission Finds Anti-Black Police Violence Constitutes Crimes Against Humanity. zcomm.org On April 27, the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States issued its long-awaited report on the U.S.'s police-perpetrated racist violence…
(2021-05-02). 1500 rally and march in Chicago on May Day. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – The movements for immigrant rights, against police crimes, and the labor movement of essential workers united today to mark May 1, International Workers Day in Chicago. Banners read "Legalization for all," "Stop police crimes" and "Justice for essential workers." | The mobilization represented the unity reached between the major immigrant rights group the state, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR). ICIRR's two legislative priorities are legalization for all and a pathway to citizenship at the feder…
(2021-05-02). Massachusetts House Rejects Distorted Definition Of Antisemitism. popularresistance.org Cambridge, MA – The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected an amendment to the state budget which would have Massachusetts adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, a definition that equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism, within its law on religious discrimination | The problem amendment, called "Condemnation of Antisemitism and Adoption of IHRA Definition", was submitted by Rep. Howitt (R. Seekonk) as amendment #300 to the state budget bill, H.4000. | With only two days to respond before the amendment was considered, Jewish Voice for Peace- Boston, Massachusetts Peace Action, the A…
(2021-05-02). Why the ACLU Abstained From the BLM Censorship Controversy. scheerpost.com Victoria Pickering / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] By Glenn Greenwald / Substack Enormous sums of money have poured into racial justice groups since the May, 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police Department officer. "The foundation widely seen as a steward of the Black Lives Matter movement says it took in just over $90 million last year," according to a February Associated Press review… |
(2021-05-02). On Contact: Police Abuse And Torture. popularresistance.org Chris Hedges discusses police abuse and torture with civil rights attorney Flint Taylor. Taylor's new book is 'The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago'. With his colleagues at the People's Law Office, Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases exposing the corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department and throughout the city's political machine, from the alderman to the mayor's office. The book takes the reader from the 1969 murder of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark — and the historic 13-year trial that followed — to the pursuit of…
(2021-05-02). Time To Call A Spade A Spade — OpEd. eurasiareview.com More than two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman empire in 1914, on the eve of World War I. By 1922, there were fewer than 400,000. The others — some 1.5 million — had been killed. Most historians describe this mass annihilation as genocide. More than 30 nations agree. Some prominent countries do not, among them Britain, Australia and Israel. | A few years ago the UK government was asked in parliament whether it recognized the existence of genocide in Armenia in 1915. A foreign office minister responded: "The Government acknowledges the strength of feeling about this terrible episode of history…
(2021-05-02). "Genocide charge" worthy of United States: Turkey. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 02 (MNA) — The Turkish vice president says Biden has chosen the wrong path by accusing the Ottoman Empire of "genocide against Armenians".
(2021-05-02). Saudis And Israelis Don't Approve Of JCPOA Talks — OpEd. eurasiareview.com According to media reports, with Iran and world powers resumed nuclear talks, Saudi Arabia and Israel also have intensified consultations. Washington and Tel Aviv on the one hand and Washington and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council on the other hand are having extensive talks. | Both, Israel and Saudi Arabia want to influence any US move to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which they have publicly opposed right from the beginning. | As the Iranian negotiating team head to the Austrian capital of Vienna, a senior Israeli delegation comprising of Mossad Chief Yosef Cohen, Head of Military Intelligence Ta…
(2021-05-02). Zionists have targeted Palestinian identity of Occupied Lands. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 02 (MNA) — While condemning Israeli expansion of settlements in the occupied lands, Spokesman for Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that Zionist regime with these actions has targeted the identity of 'Occupied Lands'.
(2021-05-02). Three Zionist soldiers wounded in shooting in West Bank. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 03 (MNA) — Three Israeli Zionist soldiers were seriously wounded in a shooting in the north of the West Bank and were taken to hospital, Palestinian media said on Sunday afternoon.
(2021-05-02). Hamas warns Israel against forceful eviction of Palestinians. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 03 (MNA) — The Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas has warned the Israel regime against evicting Palestinians in East Quds, as the Tel Aviv regime continues with its home demolition.
(2021-05-02). Israeli Soldiers Shoot at Knife-Wielding Woman – Video. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A woman was shot after she tried to stab Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers at the Gush Etzion Junction in the south of Bethlehem, the IDF said on Sunday.
(2021-05-02). Extremism is on the Rise in Israel. zcomm.org Though the situation in Jerusalem has now calmed, the floodgates of Jewish extremism have already been flung wide open…
(2021-05-02). Biden Tells Mossad US Not Close to Iran Deal. news.antiwar.com While Israel's delegation came to the US being warned by the Biden Administration that they aren't going to allow Israel to dictate the Iran nuclear talks, President Biden certainly seems to be continuing to give the Israelis the impression that this is their process. | Israeli officials say Biden told the director of Mossad that the Perhap…
(2021-05-02). Biden Tells Mossad US Not Close to Iran Deal. news.antiwar.com While Israel's delegation came to the US having been warned by the Biden Administration that it won't allow Israel to dictate the Iran nuclear talks, President Biden certainly seems to be continuing to give the Israelis the impression that this is their prerogative. | Israeli officials say Biden told the director of Mossad that the Perh…
(2021-05-02). Palestinian resistance turns into important regional actor. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 02 (MNA) — The Iranian Parliament Speaker's Special Aide for International Affairs says that the Palestinian resistance has become an important and influential regional player both politically and on the battlefield.
(2021-05-02). White Solidarity Activists Take Over the Block of Racist Cop Callers in Alameda, California. indybay.org No More Klan-ameda Kop Kallers!