Birds of a Fascist Feather: Why Israel Is Aiding Colombia's Crackdown on Protesters
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2021-06-04
Photos circulating on …
globalresearch.ca/birds-fascist-feather-why-israel-aiding-colombia-crackdown-protesters/5746945
America's Nazi Problem and the End of Policing
Henry Giroux | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
The Black Lives Matter movement has made clear that America is reproducing alarming echoes of the past. It has exposed the mobilizing passions and ideological discourses of fascism evident in Trumpland. At a different time in history, Cedric Robinson identified this American form of fascist politics as racial capitalism. [3] According to Robinson, America had its own home-grown version of fascism, which did not simply emulate the fascist European movements of the 1920s but reached back to the era of Jim Crow and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States.[4] Fascism was no longer viewed as simply an import…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/americas-nazi-problem-and-the-end-of-policing/
'We Know Occupation'
Sam Klug | zcomm.org | 2021-06-04
Why the Black Lives Matter movement might help shift the conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-know-occupation/
UK's First Black Studies Professor Calls on African Diaspora to Unite
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-06-04
As Black Lives Matter continues to flourish in the United States and beyond, many activists within the movement are calling for renewed internationalism and collaboration among people across the African Diaspora. In this exclusive interview, author, activist and Black radical scholar Kehinde Andrews issues the call: "We need to get back aligned with the revolutionary version of Pan-Africanism." | Andrews is founder of the Harambee Organization of Black Unity and professor of Black Studies at Birmingh…
truthout.org/articles/uks-first-black-studies-professor-calls-on-african-diaspora-to-unite/
Israel's Netanyahu pledges to destroy President Biden's Iran, Settlements Policies if he Can Survive
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-06-04
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Outgoing Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu lost his chance to form a government as the deadline ran out on Thursday, but he swung into action in an attempt to stop his rivals from forming one, either. A successful prime minister would have to be able pass a confidence vote in …
juancole.com/2021/06/netanyahu-president-settlements.html
The Fumbling King of Palestine: Palestinians are Defeating the Oslo Culture
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
The political discourse of Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, is similar to that of an ineffectual king who has been isolated in his palace for far too long. The king speaks of prosperity and peace, and tirelessly counts his innumerable achievements, while his people are dying of starvation…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/the-fumbling-king-of-palestine-palestinians-are-defeating-the-oslo-culture/
An Ordinary German Neo-Nazi Death Squad Man
Thomas Klikauer — Catherine Link | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
The biography of German Neo-Nazi death-squad leader Franco Albrecht — known in the German press only as Franco A — begins in the city of Offenbach in 1989. Franco Albrecht's mother, a local woman, had married an Italian immigrant, a man whose grandfather served in Hitler's navy and had Germanic runes engraved on his tombstone.
counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/an-ordinary-german-neo-nazi-death-squad-man/
The Regressive Economic Policies Of Bolivia's Coup Government
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-06-04
The IHRC/UNHR report emphasizes the racist nature of the violence, including that all of the victims of these massacres were Indigenous. Bolivia has the largest percentage of Indigenous people in the Americas, and Evo Morales was the country's first Indigenous president. His government had undertaken numerous reforms and economic policies that had benefited Bolivia's Indigenous people, who are economically disadvantaged relative to the rest of the population.
popularresistance.org/the-regressive-economic-policies-of-bolivias-coup-government/
Norman Finkelstein: Truth and justice are the ultimate test, not international NGOs
Ann Garrison | mronline.org | 2021-06-04
Even Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in Gaza, and the idea of a Jewish state in the context of Palestine is not legitimate. | June 4, 2021…
mronline.org/2021/06/04/norman-finkelstein-truth-and-justice-are-the-ultimate-test-not-international-ngos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=norman-finkelstein-truth-and-justice-are-the-ultimate-test-not-international-ngos
When Israel killed doctors
Isra Saleh el-Namey | electronicintifada.net | 2021-06-04
Road leading to Gaza's largest hospital badly damaged during massacre.
electronicintifada.net/content/when-israel-killed-doctors/33331
Palestinian Fighters Open Fire At Israeli Drone Swarm Over Gaza (Videos)
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-06-04
Screen grab from one of the videos showing two Israeli drones passing by each other over the Gaza Strip. | Late on June 3, a swarm of small quadcopter drones launched by the Israeli military invaded the skies of the Gaza Strip. | A source in Gaza's armed factions told the al-Quds newspaper that the drones had flown over military posts as well as civilian homes and buildings. The drones were targeted by Palestinian fighters, who managed to shot down some of them. | "By flying these drones, occupation forces attempted to test a…
southfront.org/palestinian-fighters-open-fire-at-israeli-drone-swarm-over-gaza-videos/
Bernie Sanders must stop whitewashing Israel's next racist government
Ali Abunimah | electronicintifada.net | 2021-06-04
The coalition-in-waiting is another collection of genocidal extremists.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/bernie-sanders-must-stop-whitewashing-israels-next-racist-government
Podcast Ep 39: Fighting censorship of Palestine
Nora Barrows-Friedman | electronicintifada.net | 2021-06-04
Do Silicon Valley corporations have authority to decide what can and cannot be taught in classrooms?
electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-39-fighting-censorship-palestine
Edward Said and Palestine (1986)
Josh Frank | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
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counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/edward-said-and-palestine-1986/
My Bill Would Stop US Aid From Funding Palestinian Suffering
Betty McCollum | thenation.com | 2021-06-04
My Bill Would Stop US Aid From Funding Palestinian Suffering…
thenation.com/article/world/hr2590-us-aid-israel-palestine/
Saturday 6/5: From the Bay to Palestine: Rise Up for Liberation
Angela | indybay.org | 2021-06-04
San Leandro Marina | 1253 Marina Blvd, San Leandro, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/03/18842921.php
Friday 6/4: Protest: Free Palestine
Angela | indybay.org | 2021-06-04
MLK Plaza | 2 E Oak St, Stockton, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/03/18842923.php
Friday 6/4: Palestine 101 & Naksa Community Teach-In
Angela | indybay.org | 2021-06-04
1331 S Nutwood St, Anaheim, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/02/18842914.php
Saturday 6/5: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel
Allan Fisher | indybay.org | 2021-06-04
Ocean and Water Street, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/03/18842926.php
How the Tulsa Race Massacre Was a Violent Act of Racist Economic Injustice
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
One hundred years after the worst instance of racist mob violence in 20th-century America, the Tulsa Race Massacre is finally getting the attention it is due. The 1921 terrorist attack by an armed white mob against a prosperous Black community is perhaps one of the clearest and most extreme illustrations of how many African Americans…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/how-the-tulsa-race-massacre-was-a-violent-act-of-racist-economic-injustice/
Palestinian Authority rounds up activists
Tamara Nassar | electronicintifada.net | 2021-06-04
After life of resistance, former Birzeit student dies by Israeli fire.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/palestinian-authority-rounds-activists
Belgian neo-Nazi fugitive officer Jurgen Conings monitored for years by intelligence agencies
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
With Conings still on the loose three weeks after threatening to kill virologists, the claim he acted as a lone individual is completely untenable.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/belg…
America's Nazi Problem and the End of Policing
Henry A. Giroux | zcomm.org | 2021-06-04
The conditions that produce authoritarian societies are with us once again…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/americas-nazi-problem-and-the-end-of-policing/
The Fight Against Fascism Isn't Over
Shane Burley | zcomm.org | 2021-06-04
Interview on the state of fascism in the Biden era, mutual aid and building movements during an era of collapse…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-fight-against-fascism-isnt-over/
We need to hear — and share — the voices of Palestinian artists
Markela Panegyres | greenleft.org.au | 2021-06-04
One small way we can express solidarity with Palestinian artists, writers and musicians is by learning about their work and sharing it with others, writes Markela Panegyres.
greenleft.org.au/content/we-need-hear-and-share-voices-palestinian-artists
We need to hear — and share — the voices of Palestinian artists
Markela Panegyres | greenleft.org.au | 2021-06-04
More than 44 Palestinian cultural institutions were partially or completely destroyed by Israel's latest bombing attacks. One small way we can express solidarity with Palestinian artists, writers and musicians is by learning about their work and sharing it with others, writes Markela Panegyres.
greenleft.org.au/content/we-need-hear-and-share-voices-palestinian-artists
Thursday 6/10: The Rise Of Fascism In The US, Labor & The Insurrection
UFCLP | indybay.org | 2021-06-04
By Zoom | us02web.zoom.us/j/82861963736?pwd=Y2NFc2……
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/01/18842893.php
The more it Changes . . . What can we Expect from the new Unity Coalition Government in Israel?
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-06-04
By John Strawson | — Israeli politics are entering a new chapter. After inconclusive elections in March, a politically diverse coalition has formed to end Benjamin Netanyahu's 12 years as prime minister. The eight-party coalition is led by right-winger Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid. The two will take turns as prime minister, with Bennett …
juancole.com/2021/06/changes-coalition-government.html
Democracy on the Precipice?
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarussian dictator, snatches a dissident from midair. Military strongman Assimi Goita launches another coup in Mali. Benjamin Netanyahu escalates a military conflict to save his own political skin in Israel. In the United States, the Republican Party launches a full-court press to suppress the vote. Authoritarianism, like war, makes headlines. It's hard…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/democracy-on-the-precipice/
Naphtali Bennett to head Israeli "government of change" to oust Netanyahu
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
Bennett will head a deeply unstable, unprincipled coalition with a majority of one in the 120-seat Knesset.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/isra…
Four Things to Know About Israel's New 'Change Coalition'
RobertAlvarez | ips-dc.org | 2021-06-04
In Israel's parliament, the Knesset, a broad but shaky new "change coalition" claims it's ready to finally oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — the right-wing Likud leader who's held the office for the last 12 years. | If approved, the new coalition would anoint as prime minister Naftali Bennett, a former Netanyahu ally who supports settlement expansion and annexation of much of the West Bank, and who is significantly further to the right than Netanyahu himself. In theory, if it stays in power for two years, the more centrist Yair Lapid would then take over as prime minister. But that's a big "if" [mdas…
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Confronting The Book of Joshua
Anthony Fulton | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
The Joshua Generation: Israeli Occupation and the Bible — Rachel Havrelock (Princeton University Press, 2020) If these are indeed the last days of Benjamin Netanyahu's reign as Prime Minister of Israel, then one of his most notable parting gifts will have been the political rehabilitation of the strand of Religious Zionism represented by right-wing politicians…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/confronting-the-book-of-joshua/
Naftali Bennett to head Israeli "government of change" to oust Netanyahu
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
Bennett will head a deeply unstable, unprincipled coalition with a majority of one in the 120-seat Knesset.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/isra…
New Investigation Reveals Role of Israeli Operatives in Colombia's "Political Genocide"
Dan Cohen | orinocotribune.com | 2021-06-03
By Dan Cohen — Jun 2, 2021 | Known as the "Red Dance," the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union remains one of the most extreme cases of political violence in Latin America and new evidence suggests that it was concocted by one of the most decorated spies in Israeli history. | BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — On April 6, 1984, a group of men dressed in police uniforms arrived at the home of Milcíades Contento in the town of Viotá, Colombia. Contento was a peasant, communist and member of the Patriotic Union (UP), a newly-formed experimental political party born out of the 1985 peace negotiations between the cons…
orinocotribune.com/new-investigation-reveals-role-of-israeli-operatives-in-colombias-political-genocide/
Colombia: "The Government Murders with Impunity Because the US Empire is Behind it."
Carlos Aznarez | orinocotribune.com | 2021-06-03
By Carlos Aznarez — May 31, 2021 | Cecilia Zamudio is a Colombian writer, poet, journalist and artist, and like many of her compatriots lives these days with great concern for what means the repressive escalation of the government of Iván Duque, but also with deep satisfaction to the patriotism that the Colombian people starring a national productive strike that has passed the month of duration, With her we talked about all these contingencies, in order to further sharpen the efforts of internationalist solidarity with the struggle of that people. | Day after day, Uribism in government continues to develop a…
orinocotribune.com/colombia-the-government-murders-with-impunity-because-the-us-empire-is-behind-it/
New Investigation Reveals Role of Israeli Operatives in Colombia's "Political Genocide"
Dan Cohen | orinocotribune.com | 2021-06-03
By Dan Cohen — Jun 2, 2021 | Known as the "Red Dance," the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union remains one of the most extreme cases of political violence in Latin America and new evidence suggests that it was concocted by one of the most decorated spies in Israeli history. | BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — On April 6, 1984, a group of men dressed in police uniforms arrived at the home of Milcíades Contento in the town of Viotá, Colombia. Contento was a peasant, communist and member of the Patriotic Union (UP), a newly-formed experimental political party born out of the 1985 peace negotiations between the cons…
orinocotribune.com/new-investigation-reveals-role-of-israeli-operatives-in-colombias-political-genocide/
A business without bosses
Staff | therealnews.com | 2021-06-03
ChiFresh Kitchen, located in Chicago, is owned and operated by formerly incarcerated women of color. Launched just as the pandemic hit, its five worker-owners mobilized to provide healthy meals to communities hardest hit by COVID-19 and systemic racism. | This story has been supported by the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigorous and compelling reporting about responses to social problems.
therealnews.com/a-business-without-bosses
Naomi Osaka and the Power of 'Nope'
Lindsay Abrams | zcomm.org | 2021-06-03
When athletes such as Osaka are told to refrain from commenting on racism or politics and instead to shut up and play, it has always included an unsaid caveat: "unless we stand to profit off your voice."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/naomi-osaka-and-the-power-of-nope/
More Than McCarthyism: The Attack on Activism Students Don't Learn About from Their Textbooks
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca | commondreams.org | 2021-06-03
"The long Red Scare of the 20th century was a scorched-earth policy against the country's most progressive forces—labor unions organizing across racial lines; civil rights organizations offering intersectional critiques of capitalism, racism, and gender oppression." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2021/06/03/more-mccarthyism-attack-activism-students-dont-learn-about-their-textbooks?cd-origin=rss
More than McCarthyism: the attack on activism students don't learn about from their textbooks
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-06-03
In legislatures across the country, Republican lawmakers are introducing bills to curtail what educators–in public schools and universities–can say and teach about racism and sexism. | June 3, 2021…
mronline.org/2021/06/03/more-than-mccarthyism-the-attack-on-activism-students-dont-learn-about-from-their-textbooks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-than-mccarthyism-the-attack-on-activism-students-dont-learn-about-from-their-textbooks
Struggle against cops & prisons shake up Pittsburgh politics
Andrew Bankson | zcomm.org | 2021-06-03
In Pittsburgh, the movement for Black lives has continued to upend the local political establishment…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/struggle-against-cops-prisons-shake-up-pittsburgh-politics/
Why do White Republicans oppose Black Lives Matter?
Julie Hollar | mronline.org | 2021-06-03
Look what they're watching. | June 3, 2021 | Newswire…
mronline.org/2021/06/03/why-do-white-republicans-oppose-black-lives-matter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-do-white-republicans-oppose-black-lives-matter
Top Ways Israel's Netanyahu Torpedoed Mideast Peace and Harmed Israel and America
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-06-03
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — A step was taken by his rivals toward unseating long-serving Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday when opposition parties all along the political spectrum from left to right formed a coalition of national unity. Ironically, that coalition only reached a majority in parliament by accepting for the first time …
juancole.com/2021/06/israels-netanyahu-torpedoed.html
Top Ways Israel's Netanyahu Torpedoed Mideast Peace and Harmed Israel and America
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-06-03
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — A step was taken by his rivals toward unseating long-serving Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday when opposition parties all along the political spectrum from left to right formed a coalition of national unity. Ironically, that coalition only reached a majority in parliament by accepting for the first time …
juancole.com/2021/06/israels-netanyahu-torpedoed.html
The Fumbling King of Palestine: Palestinians are Defeating the Oslo Culture
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-06-03
The political discourse of Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, is similar to that of an ineffectual king who has been isolated in his palace for far too long. The king speaks of prosperity and peace, and tirelessly counts his innumerable achievements, while his people are dying of starvation …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/06/the-fumbling-king-of-palestine-palestinians-are-defeating-the-oslo-culture/
Portugal: Left Bloc faces Socialist Party in government and rising far right
Dick Nichols | greenleft.org.au | 2021-06-03
It was inevitable that the 12th National Convention of Portugal's radical Left Bloc, the third largest parliamentary force, would be unlike its predecessors, writes Dick Nichols.
greenleft.org.au/content/portugal-left-bloc-faces-socialist-party-government-and-rising-far-right
"The Second": Carol Anderson on the Racist Roots of the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-06-03
Do African Americans have Second Amendment rights? That's the question Emory University professor Carol Anderson set out to answer in her new book, "The Second," which looks at the constitutional right to bear arms and its uneven application throughout U.S. history. She says she was prompted to write the book after the 2016 police killing of Philando Castile, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop after he told the officer he had a legal firearm. Anderson says the Second Amendment was always intended to be a means of arming white people to control the Black population. "There was this massive fear about these…
www.democracynow.org/2021/6/3/carol_ande…
4 June, Toulouse: Palestine Stand — Solidarity is our weapon!
Staff | samidoun.net | 2021-06-03
Friday, 4 June 11 am to 1 pm Metro Bagatelle Toulouse, France Facebook : www.facebook.com/events/225330892443874/ On Friday, 4 June, Collectif Palestine Vaincra will organize a Palestine Stand at the exit of Bagatelle metro station in Toulouse, France, in solidarity with Palestine. In the aftermath of the murderous Israeli assault on Gaza, Palestine, the Palestinian people need our support more than ever in their struggle for return and liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. All are invited to join in, gather stickers and flyers, take solidarity photos and sign on to the campaign to free Georg…
samidoun.net/2021/06/4-june-toulouse-palestine-stand-solidarity-is-our-weapon/
Antisemitism's Misdirection: Who Gets Hurt?
Ira Glunts | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-03
Unfounded or unconfirmed charges of antisemitism made by US pro-Israel organizations which are then parroted by the pro-Zionist US mainstream press, always increase when Israeli actions become so hideous they shame even some of its most dedicated supporters. With the latest Israeli shelling of Gaza, its evictions of Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/03/antisemitisms-misdirection-who-gets-hurt/
United Nations: Forced Expulsion Of Palestinians Violates Law
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-06-03
United Nations representatives have denounced the potential forced expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood as a "violation of international law". | Speaking from Sheikh Jarrah on Wednesday, UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini said: "This eviction violates international law and Israel's obligation as an occupying power. For UNRWA, these Palestinian refugees are experiencing a second displacement in living memory." | He said as head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees it is his job "to protect and assist Palestinian refugees". | "I ha…
popularresistance.org/united-nations-forced-expulsion-of-palestinians-violates-law/