2021-10-14: News Headlines

Richard Falk (2021-10-14). The Rebranding of Antisemitism after the Holocaust. zcomm.org By making the Palestinian people and their supporters bear the ongoing burdens of this grotesque genocide perverts the legacy of the Holocaust, extending the dark shadows of racism over Israel experience and identity in ugly reactive forms…

Staff (2021-10-14). RT Creative Lab releases 'Children of the Siege: VR Sketches', animated movie dedicated to kids of Leningrad during WWII (VIDEO). rt.com RT Creative Lab has released an animated movie, 'Children of the Siege. VR Sketches', dedicated to the children trapped in the city of Leningrad during the siege by Nazi forces, considered to be the deadliest in history. | Over three hundred thousand children were evacuated from Leningrad in the two months after WWII began in the Soviet Union. When the siege of the city began in September 1941, over four hundred thousand kids were trapped inside. | Children in besieged Leningrad knew little else but starvation and cold; they grew up to the whistle of shells and booms of explosions. The siege lasted a grueling…

WSWS (2021-10-14). Nazi barbarism, World War I and the traumas of the 20th century: Three Minutes—A Lengthening, Where is Anne Frank, Benediction and Mothering Sunday. wsws.org The new films about Nazism and the Holocaust are clearly a response to the rise and threat of the far right, in Germany, the US and elsewhere.

Ted Kelly (2021-10-14). Free Leonard Peltier and all Native prisoners! workers.org Leonard Peltier During the era of colonial theft and conquest, North America became a proving ground for European imperialists. This was where strategies of biological warfare and genocide were honed, as well as the industry that has become a pillar of modern global capitalism: mass incarceration. One cannot talk about . . . |

Anonymous669 (2021-10-14). Iranian-Backed Forces Threatens 'Harsh Response' To Recent Israeli Airstrikes On Syria's Palmyra. southfront.org Iranian-backed forces massing around Deir Ezzor city | The Allies of Syria Operations Room, which commands Iranian-backed forces in Syria, has vowed to response "very harshly" to the In a statement released on October 14, the operations room revealed that the Israeli airstrikes had destroyed several barracks and a s…

sputniknews (2021-10-14). Syria's Anti-Daesh Allies Vow to Respond to Alleged Israeli, US Aggression Over Palmyra. sputniknews.com At least one soldier was killed and three others injured in what the Syrian military says was an Israeli attack in the skies above Palmyra, Syria shortly before midnight on Wednesday. The Israeli military, which has previously admitted to carrying out "hundreds" of strikes against its neighbour, did not comment on the strikes.

Ann Brown (2021-10-13). Black America: Tony Dungy Is The NFL Owners' Guy Called On To Downplay Racism. moguldom.com NBC sports analyst Tony Dungy is facing significant backlash from Black America for comments he made about former Las Vegas Raiders head football coach Jon Gruden's racist emails — comments some say were in defense of Gruden. Gruden resigned Monday after emails he wrote over the course of 10 years were revealed that showed racist, …

teleSUR (2021-10-13). The Guatemalan State Perpetuates the Colonial Violence. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Indigenous peoples, farmers, human rights defenders, and environmental activists took to the streets of Guatemala City to reject racism and land grabs. | RELATED: | "The Guatemalan State perpetuates the Colonial era violence and discrimination. It has not been able to turn off our dreams," Mayan leader Andrea Ixchiu stated and urged Guatemalans to promote the foundation of a plurinational State that respects t…

Donna Katzin (2021-10-13). Turning Away from Fossil Fuels. zcomm.org Lessons from the Anti-Apartheid Movement…

Vijay Prashad (2021-10-13). Afghanistan tackles Islamic State. asiatimes.com On October 8, a terrible blast struck the worshippers attending Friday noon prayers at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the Khan Abad district of Kunduz, one of Afghanistan's largest cities in its northern belt. This is a mosque frequented by Shiite Muslims, who were referred to as "our compatriots" by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid. Forty-six people died immediately in the blast, …

Ali Abunimah (2021-10-13). Sweden moves to criminalize support for Palestine. electronicintifada.net Holocaust scholars reject use of anti-Semitism smears against Palestine campaigners.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-10-13). Indigenous Resistance Day: Venezuela Condemns Historic Crimes of Europe. orinocotribune.com Venezuela joins the voice of the peoples of America who suffered for over 300 years from the genocide that followed the invasion by the Spanish empire, and announced forceful political actions of an international scope to vindicate the struggle of the peoples, when commemorating the Day of indigenous Resistance, this Tuesday, October 12. | President Nicolás Maduro reported that his government will issue formal communications directly to the King of Spain, with reflections on the historical consequences of the conquest. Venezuela will also petition the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to tr…

Ed Rampell (2021-10-13). Where Can You Go to Hiss Kissinger, Boo Nixon and Pelt Pinochet with Squishy Tomatoes? covertactionmagazine.com Try Mark Wilding's Wildly Funny, But Razor-Sharp, Satirical Dramatization of the CIA-Backed Fascist Coup in Chile. You may think you …

WSWS (2021-10-13). Accepting televised debate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon puts forward neo-fascist Eric Zemmour. wsws.org The decision by Mélenchon, the presidential candidate of LFI, to debate with a political criminal who is still undeclared as a candidate for 2022 is politically wretched.

teleSUR (2021-10-13). Amazon, Google Employees Demand Boycott of Israel. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, a group of over 400 Amazon and Google employees signed an open letter urging both companies to cancel a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and cease all ties with the country's military. | RELATED: | More than 400 Amazon and Google employees signed the petition anonymously, requesting the cancellation of Project Nimbus, whereby the two tech giants provide cloud services to the Israeli gov…

Global Voices (2021-10-13). 'Sindyanna of Galilee': Extending the olive branch between Arabs and Israelis. juancole.com By Coco Cresswell | — ( Globalvoices.org) — In 1996 Hadas Lahav, a Jewish Israeli social activist, had a vision: a future of Arab-Israeli coexistence. That same year, through co-founding Sindyanna of Galilee, a female-led social enterprise producing olive oil and other local products, she began to put this dream into practice. Sindyana of Galilee …

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2021-10-13). Iran blasts Israel for disseminating false accusations. en.mehrnews.com Iran's Representative at the First Committee of the UN General Assembly blasted the Israeli regime for disseminating false and fabricated accusations against regional countries, particularly Iran.

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-13). Azerbaijani president on Eurasian energy war, conflict with Iran, Israeli military in conquered Karabakh. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com President Ilham Aliyev has given an interview to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica Italy is one of the first countries involved in this work [in conquered Nagorno-Karabakh]. The first country is Turkey, the second is Italy. This is not accidental. It was our choice. I said that we will invite only companies from friendly countries …

Abhijan Choudhury (2021-10-13). Best-selling Irish writer Sally Rooney joins BDS campaign. peoplesdispatch.org Rooney rejected an Israeli publisher's offer to release a Hebrew version of her book. The publishing house in question, Modan, is well known for its ties to the Israel military…

Anonymous669 (2021-10-13). Israeli Airstrikes Hit Syria's Palmyra, Four Casualties Reported. southfront.org An Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jet flies during an aerial demonstration. (photo credit: AMIR COHEN — REUTERS) | Late on October 13, a series of Israeli airstrikes hit the outskirts of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs. | A military source told the Syrian Arab News Agency that the aerial attack was launched from the southeastern area of al-Tanf, which is occupied by the US-led coalition and its proxies."At around 23: 34 pm, 13-10-2021, the Israeli enemy carried out an a…

Phillip Smith (2021-10-13). US Congress votes to kill racist crack and powder cocaine sentencing disparity. nationofchange.org Reform advocates praised the passage of the EQUAL Act in the House.

teleSUR (2021-10-13). Nicaragua Approves Voting Manual for November Elections. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) Director Adriana Molina approved the Nov. 7 General Elections' Voting Manual to guide citizens in this process and support the work of the personnel of the 3,016 polling stations. | RELATED: | "The 64-page manual details the authorities' functions throughout the election process, which include the initial transfer of materials, the Voting Reception Boards (JRV…

Nayvin Gordon (2021-10-13). MEN WAKE UP! —Supreme Court Zealotry wants to control men's reproductive rights!! Toda. indybay.org Satirical letter about religious zealots control over reproduction…

Peter Certo (2021-10-13). In OtherWords: October 13, 2021. otherwords.org When Donald Trump asked Georgia state officials to "find" him nearly 12,000 extra votes last year, what if they'd say "sure"? Voting rights advocates worry the state's harsh new voter suppression law will make it easier for state officials to interfere in the counting of local election results, or even overturn them. | That's why Black pastors and voting rights supporters Lee Harris and Jane E. Thomas say Congress needs to pass the Freedom to Vote Act. This week in OtherWords, they explain how the law would fight state-level voter suppression efforts across the country and strengthen the right to vote for everyon…

Lee Harris, Jane E. Thomas (2021-10-13). The Freedom to Vote Act Is No 'Compromise.' Pass It Now. otherwords.org In a year that began with the promise of a new direction for our country, few things have been more disheartening than the eruption of voter suppression laws in Republican-led states. These laws gut the voting rights that Black and brown voters fought and died to secure. | We battled them state by state, in a grim version of Whac-a-Mole. Now we need Washington to step in and do its part. Finally, we have a new bill in Congress: the Freedom to Vote Act. | This bill must pass. And it must pass now, because states are already preparing for the 2022 elections. | The Freedom to Vote Act was introduced in the Senate as…

Richard C. Gross (2021-10-13). Bullying Standard Practice for Right-wing Republicans. counterpunch.org "Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards." — Mahatma Gandhi Bullying seems to be the common denominator in the Republican Party, from a former president on down to GOP-led state governments that have been restricting voting rights. The majority in this country of endless political wars and congressional gridlock between two major

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