(2021-10-02). Apartheid responses show that appeasing the pro-Israel lobby is a waste of time. zcomm.org The responses to the use of "apartheid" to describe the regime imposed by Israel on the people of occupied Palestine show that appeasing the pro-Israel lobby really is a waste of time…
(2021-10-02). [Editorial] Fatal police violence in the USA: a public health issue. thelancet.com Preventable violent deaths of people of colour at the hands of police in the USA have been overlooked as a public health issue. Many victims of police violence have become household names, like George Floyd, whose death made headlines worldwide and raised awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement, which targets structural racism and violence against Black people in the USA and abroad. Yet, for every George Floyd, hundreds of other Americans' deaths after violent exchanges with police go unheeded, unacknowledged, and uncounted.
(2021-10-02). "Don't Buy Into Occupation" Coaltion: Billions in European Financial Support to Companies in Illegal Israeli Settlements. Report. globalresearch.ca
(2021-10-02). Palestine in Pictures: September 2021. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine…
(2021-10-02). Saturday 10/2: Free Palestine. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz…
(2021-10-02). SFSU Professors fight to defend Palestine and protect academic freedom. indybay.org The Zionists are working to destroy the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) program and it's director Professor Rabab Abdulhadi…
(2021-10-02). ASU students fight to defend Multicultural Center. liberationnews.org 
Arizona State University, like many other college campuses in America, is a pivotal location for the struggle against racism. The campus has had several incidents calling attention to the mistreatment of Black and Brown people in Arizona, such as when a Black professor was tackled to the ground for "jaywalking" by an ASU police officer …
(2021-10-02). WW Commentary: Unite for reproductive justice. workers.org 
Over 600 marches and rallies are being organized to take place across the country Oct. 2, two days before the U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes for its fall term. The right to legal abortion is at stake. On Dec. 1, the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization will be . . . |
(2021-10-02). Creating a Powerful, Broad-Based Moral Movement. zcomm.org Today's voting rights and economic justice advocates must apply two key lessons from the courageous activists of a half-century ago…
(2021-10-01). Politics can't be left in the hands of the politicians. peoplesworld.org 
Much depends on the outcome of the debate now raging in Washington on the infrastructure and $3.5 trillion economic and environment legislative packages. One thing is sure: Whatever the result of current negotiations, the discussion would not even have been possible but for the mass anti-racist and ultimately anti-fascist democratic uprisings of 2020. The country …
(2021-10-01). Laughing at Mass Death Brings Us Closer to Fascism. zcomm.org We have witnessed the evolution of a social and moral binary in the United States: vaccinated and unvaccinated…
(2021-10-01). Majority of US Muslims have experienced Islamophobia, poll finds. middleeasteye.net 
Majority of US Muslims have experienced Islamophobia, poll finds | Two-thirds of respondents say they experienced Islamophobia, while more than 90 percent say anti-Muslim hatred affected their mental well-being | Fri, 10/01/2021 – 21: 21 | Demonstrators take part in a protest against growing Islamophobia, white supremacy and anti-immigrant bigotry, on 24 March 2019 in New York City (AFP) | More than two-thirds…
(2021-10-01). Podcast Ep 45: The Palestinian Authority and other collaborators. electronicintifada.net Palestinian intellectual Joseph Massad on how Israel came to co-opt the PLO.
(2021-10-01). Professor David Miller fired after Israel lobby smear campaign. electronicintifada.net Bristol University "has embarrassed itself," says leading lobby critic.
(2021-10-01). Video: Samidoun on normalization campaigns and Palestinian and Arab resistance. samidoun.net Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, appeared on Press TV's "Spotlight" program on 30 September 2021 to discuss the official Bahraini U.S.-backed normalization deal with the Israeli regime. She joined Palestinian commentator and analyst Lamis Andoni on the program. Watch the video: Both guests discussed the role of U.S. imperialism […] | The article
(2021-10-01). Israel wrecks wedding dreams. electronicintifada.net Woman killed during May attack just days before her planned wedding.
(2021-10-01). UN: Removal of Indigenous Population — 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor) — Each year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provides proof of the fallacy upon which the two-state compromise in Palestine-Israel is based. Palestine's economy is tied perpetually to donor funding and Israel's existence. "Recovery in 2021 and beyond hinges on actions that will be taken (or not) by …
(2021-10-01). Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Palestinian newspaper Quds gives the details of an attack this week by Israeli squatter-settlers on native Palestinians of the small town of Mafriqa in the vicinity of al-Khalil (which the Israelis call Hebron). Palestinian rights organizations said that on Tuesday, 60 armed squatters with clubs and handguns and stones …
(2021-10-01). Iran says Israeli foreign minister's trip to Bahrain 'stains' its rulers. middleeasteye.net 
Iran says Israeli foreign minister's trip to Bahrain 'stains' its rulers | Israel's Yair Lapid toured the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, which has faced off with Iranian vessels in recent years | Fri, 10/01/2021 – 17: 34 | A handout picture released by Bahrain's official news agency (BNA), shows Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (R) welcoming Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in the Bahrain…
(2021-10-01). Israel Conducts Investigation Into Incident With Drone Reportedly Downed by Hezbollah in Lebanon. sputniknews.com The Shiite political party and militant group reportedly claimed in a statement earlier that its fighters shot down an IDF drone in the Maryamin valley with "appropriate weapons."
(2021-10-01). Bahrainis protest Israeli foreign minister's visit and opening of embassy. peoplesdispatch.org The demonstrators expressed strong opposition to the normalization deal signed between Bahrain and Israel last year, denouncing the regime's actions as treasonous and an abandonment of the Palestinian cause…
(2021-10-01). Israel's post-Gaza bombing assault on Black history and identities. mronline.org 
To continue the marginalization of Black and, more recently, Muslim groups, you do not have to suddenly turn society upside down or challenge the dominant religious white or secular culture, or even, as in Nazi Germany, change citizenship and property ownership rules—in contrast to periodic historic assaults on certain white ethno-religious groups, who, by comparison, have sometimes enjoyed bourgeois, socioeconomic class power.
(2021-10-01). Satellite Images Show Secret Iranian Missile Base Was Seriously Damaged In Explosion. southfront.org 
ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE | A secret missile base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) located near the Iranian capital, Tehran, was seriously damaged as a result of a mysterious explosion, Israel's ImageSat International revealed on September 30. | The company shared satellite images of the facility taken on September 27, shortly after the explosion. The images show serious damage at the facility, which allegedly belongs to the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group. | The Iranian industrial group, which was sanctioned by the US…
(2021-10-01). Israel Has Not Earned an African Welcome. counterpunch.org "I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity." Though he tenaciously believed in African unity, the African liberation struggle and its social and economic freedom, with these words legendary Pan-Africanist, Thomas Sankara spoke of a world community, one that transcended the narrow confines of birth and gender, of
(2021-10-01). Israel: Recaptured Palestinian jailbreakers transferred to solitary confinement. middleeasteye.net 
Israel: Recaptured Palestinian jailbreakers transferred to solitary confinement | Lawyer condemns the move as 'arbitrary' and Hamas as 'retaliatory', with one prisoner close to a hunger strike | Fri, 10/01/2021 – 12: 58 | Palestinian citizens in Israel gather outside Gilboa prison in the north, in support of Palestinians in Israeli jails, 18 September 2021 (AFP) | Israel's Prison Service (IPS) has moved to sol…
(2021-10-01). "Race Norming" and Health Care Jim Crow. popularresistance.org The term "race norming " ought to be immediately suspected as having a nefarious intent. Anything referred to as norming in a racist society invariably ends with Black people getting the short end of the stick. The concept that Black bodies are anatomically different may be known as "race correction", "ethnic adjustment", or "race adjustment" and causes Black people to be undertreated for pain, undiagnosed for serious illness, and denied life saving treatments because of an idea which is inherently white supremacist and very much unscientific.
(2021-10-01). Alto al terror racista contra los refugiados haitianos! °Alto a las deportaciones! workers.org 
°Reparaciones para el pueblo haitiano! Workers World Party/Partido Mundo Obrero, saluda la valentía inspiradora del pueblo haitiano — en Del Río, Texas, y en Haití, ahora y durante más de dos siglos. La brutalidad racista de los Estados Unidos está en exhibición en todo el mundo, con imágenes de sus . . . |
(2021-10-01). Alec Karakatsanis on 'Crime Surge' Copaganda, Jane Manning on Gender-Based Crime. fair.org 
New York Times ( This week on CounterSpin: "Crime wave" politics are a time-honored response to political movements that take on racist policing in this country, dating back at least to Barry Goldwater, as organizer Josmar Trujillo was
(2021-10-01). Truth or Fiction: Teaching digital literacy to children is vital to combating online disinformation. splcenter.org
(2021-10-01). Conceal and Carry Restrictions Can Help Protect Freedom of Expression. aclu.org The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in an important legal challenge to New York's concealed carry law. The law requires people registering for concealed carry gun licenses to demonstrate "proper cause" in order to do so, and in particular to demonstrate a specific need for self-defense if they seek to carry a gun for that purpose. | The question in the case is whether the Second Amendment permits New York to restrict the carriage of firearms in this manner. The meaning, intent and reach of the Second Amendment remain a matter of deep controversy, but the Supreme Court has made clear that Second Amendmen…
(2021-10-01). "Diversity," "White Supremacist" Among Terms WI GOP Seeks to Ban in Schools. truthout.org 
Republicans in Wisconsin are
(2021-10-01). The Supreme Court and the Coming End of Abortion Rights. counterpunch.org October 4, is the first Monday in October. It is the start of the new US Supreme Court term. It may also be the last term where Roe v. Wade is the law of the land and abortion rights are constitutionally protected. This coming term the Supreme Court will review a Mississippi law that effectively bans all abortions after
(2021-10-01). Forget the Voting Rights bill: Here's how to destroy GOP voter suppression. nationofchange.org The lesson to be learned here? When you are faced with a massive obstacle, aka, the Republicans in U.S. Senate blocking your way, then you must either go around it, over it, under it, or right through it.