2021-10-12: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-10-12). Trump declares January 6 insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt a martyr of his fascist attempt to seize power. wsws.org In a pre-recorded video, former president Donald Trump and Arizona Representative Paul Gosar demanded "justice for Ashli," the Air Force veteran who was killed by Capitol Police during the January 6 attack on Congress.

Sarah Algherbawi (2021-10-12). Gaza's little miracles . electronicintifada.net A number of children were found alive after coming under Israeli bombardment.

RWS (2021-10-12). Redwood City Says Bans Off Our Bodies! indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Roe v. Wade this year. On October 3 the Raging Grannies held a rally in Redwood City in solidarity with Radical Women's national day of mobilization for reproductive justice.

Staff (2021-10-11). Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Indigenous Peoples' Day Shared with Columbus Day Is a "Contradiction" democracynow.org President Biden has formally recognized Indigenous Peoples' Day as a federal holiday, following a growing movement to debunk the myth of Christopher Columbus as a beneficent discoverer and replace it with recognition that the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas unleashed a brutal genocide that massacred tens of millions of Native people across the hemisphere. But the holiday will continue to be shared with Columbus Day, which many argue glorifies the nation's dark history of colonial genocide that killed millions of Native people. "It's just not appropriate to celebrate Columbus and Indigenous peoples on the same…

Margaret Flowers (2021-10-11). Indigenous People's Day Reminds Us To Acknowledge And Support Indigenous Struggles. dissidentvoice.org Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Across the country, a growing number of cities and states are recognizing this day in place of the traditional Columbus Day. This change reflects the growing awareness that holidays like Columbus Day are used to rewrite the past and uphold institutions of white supremacy, racism and settler colonialism. As Justin …

Human Rights Watch (2021-10-11). Israel/Palestine: Facebook Censors Discussion of Rights Issues. juancole.com Human Rights Watch — (Washington, DC) — Facebook has wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians and their supporters, including about human rights abuses carried out in Israel and Palestine during the May 2021 hostilities. The company's acknowledgment of errors and attempts to correct some of them are insufficient and do not address the scale …

Ann Brown (2021-10-11). A Black Organization Became the Largest Militia in the U.S.: An Update On The Fed's Case Against Its Leader. moguldom.com The feds are coming down on the leader of an armed Black militia, the Not Fucking Around Coalition (NFAC), which says it exists to protect Black lives from police brutality. The men and women of the NFAC are most often seen at protests in body armor carrying weapons. The militia's membership numbers have never been …

_____ (2021-10-11). 'Boycott Tour' Demands Justice And Liberation For Palestine. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, 6 October, activists marched through downtown Vancouver, Canada, as part of the Boycott Tour, drawing attention to the complicity of corporations, universities and government institutions in Canada in the ongoing colonization, occupation and apartheid throughout occupied Palestine. | The march took place as part of Palestine Action Week, five days of collective action in solidarity with Palestinians and their fight for liberation, and against settler-colonialism, apartheid, and imperialist violence. Palestine Action Week was organized by a coalition of Vancouver-area groups, including Palestinian Yo…

_____ (2021-10-11). "Boycott Tour" Demands Justice And Liberation During Vancouver Palestine Action Week. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, 6 October, activists marched through downtown Vancouver, Canada, as part of the Boycott Tour, drawing attention to the complicity of corporations, universities and government institutions in Canada in the ongoing colonization, occupation and apartheid throughout occupied Palestine.

Andrew Salmon (2021-10-11). China's winter warriors rout US Marines, UK's MI6. asiatimes.com Chinese President Xi Jinping, besieged by crises from China Evergrande to power outages, may take some comfort in recent news: A human wave of enthusiastic citizens is storming his nation's cinemas. The historical blockbuster Chinese are watching in record numbers is state-funded Korean War epic Battle at Lake Changjin. Its popularity suggests that Beijing's drive …

The Daily Expose (2021-10-11). Holocaust Survivors Join Lawyers: "Request for Investigation" to the ICC. Charge World Governments with Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide, and Breaches of the Nuremberg Code. globalresearch.ca

Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin (2021-10-11). Awakening: Martin Luther King and the Poor People's Campaign. counterpunch.org The usage of the term 'woke' has spread rapidly in the last ten years from meaning awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination to describing the identity politics of various ethnic groups in the USA. The term has a long history reaching back to the 1930s when Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly finished a song advising people with the words to 'best stay woke, keep their eyes open.'

teleSUR (2021-10-11). Italy To Take Measures Against Anti-Vax, Fascist Demonstrations. telesurenglish.net Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi will take measures to prevent further violent demonstrations led by Anti-Vax movements and neo-fascist groups. | RELATED: | On Saturday, citizens took to the streets to protest against the COVID-19 vaccination certificate, which will be mandatory to work from Oct. 15. In Rome, for example, some 10,000 people were in protests in which far-right and neo -fascist leaders made their pr…

WSWS (2021-10-11). Trump, flanked by Republican officials, delivers fascist screed at Iowa State Fairgrounds. wsws.org Solidarizing themselves with Trump's election conspiracies and his attempted coup, top Iowa Republicans, including Governor Kim Reynolds and long-time US Senator Chuck Grassley, welcomed the aspiring Fàºhrer.

WSWS (2021-10-11). Podemos covers up neo-fascist circles in Spanish army. wsws.org As the pandemic surged in December 2020, retired high-ranking military officers threatened to launch a coup and kill "26 million" left-wing voters.

Tom Morello (2021-10-11). 'We came within a baby's breath of a fascist coup in the US'. zcomm.org Poverty and hunger kill more people than anything else on the planet and they are human-made problems. Those are the things that we need to be digging into, rather than being sidetracked by this carnival barker bullshit…

Thom Hartmann (2021-10-11). Hungarian-Style Soft Fascism is the GOP's Ruthless New Brand. zcomm.org Hungarian-style soft fascism is now the GOP's brand and they're doubling down on it, believing to their core that by the end of 2024 they can do to America what Orbán did to Hungary — and therefore never face consequences or serious political opposition ever again…

WSWS (2021-10-11). Philippine presidential elections open, dominated by fascistic and far-right forces. wsws.org An examination of the leading candidates for the presidency reveals that the ruling elites in the Philippines are preparing to run the most right-wing election campaign in the country's history.

teleSUR (2021-10-11). Syria Protests Israel's Plan for Settlements in Golan Heights. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Syrian Foreign Ministry Faisal Mikdad condemned Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's comments expressing his intention to increase settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The Syrian official stressed that such aggressive statements and policies could not change the eternal truth of the area. | RELATED: | "The Golan has been and will remain for Syria and sooner or later, it will return to the embrace o…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-11). Rights groups launch initiative demanding PayPal services in Palestine. peoplesdispatch.org While PayPal operates in over 200 countries, including many affected by years of war and civil conflict, it does not provide services in Palestine. Rights groups have condemned this discriminatory policy against Palestinians as residents of the illegal Israeli settlements in the same area have access to PayPal services…

Editor2 (2021-10-11). Palestine Goes International: On Palestinian Achievements in Sports Throughout the Decades. orinocotribune.com By Issam Khalidi — Oct 8, 2021 | Throughout decades, sports were a mirror that reflected Palestinian reality and portrayed it with all its details. The Palestinian struggle has always been multilateral and sport was one of them. Sports developments have been parallel to and overlapping with political developments, and were not isolated from harsh conditions that were afflicting the Palestinian people before and after the Nakba, Catastrophe, of 1948. | Moreover, sport has been structured and employed to help the Palestinian cause, it went hand in hand with the national-liberation movement — represented…

sputniknews (2021-10-11). 500 Bags Packed With School Supplies, Several Activists & One Hope for a Better Future in Gaza. sputniknews.com The economic situation in the Palestinian coastal enclave has always been fragile, but the crisis has deepened in the past couple of years primarily because of the outbreak of COVID-19.

Staff (2021-10-11). #FreeIssamHijjawi: Join the Twitterstorm and Attend Court (Virtually) to support Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat! samidoun.net Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, Palestinian activist in Scotland and a medical doctor, is today a Palestinian political prisoner in British jails. On Wednesday, 13 October, he is going back to court (virtually) in a request for bail. His bail applications have been denied repeatedly in the past — despite the length of his detention — […] | The article

sputniknews (2021-10-11). Democrat Candidate for Virginia Gov. Claims CRT Was 'Made Up' By GOP, Trump Supporters. sputniknews.com McAuliffe made the remarks in response to a question about how he would respond to a former supporter who is now backing his Republican opponent over public schools "pushing a radical agenda in which American history is portrayed as racist" during an interview with CNN.

Radical Women Won't Stop (2021-10-11). Speakout for Reproductive Justice in San Francisco. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Roe v. Wade this fall. On October 3 Radical Women held a rally for voices to be heard on the right of women and all people to control their own bodies.

Kirkpatrick Sale (2021-10-11). What Are We to Make of Columbus Today? counterpunch.org It being the fashion to tear down monuments these days, I assume on this Columbus Day we will see renewed efforts to tear down effigies of this supremely significant figure in world history. That would be stupid, of course, but it attests to the efforts of some people to reassess the mindless hagiography of Columbus that marked the American response right up to the Sesquicentennial in 1992. And it brings up the question of how we are supposed to regard this man from our perspective today.

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