2021-12-06: News Headlines

Adri Nieuwhof (2021-12-06). Roger Waters: Why I support war crimes case against Israel's Benny Gantz. electronicintifada.net Ismail Ziada will learn this week if he can get justice in a Dutch court.

WSWS (2021-12-06). DSA National Political Committee rejects calls to expel Jamaal Bowman for supporting Israeli war crimes. wsws.org The entire episode exposes the real character and political function of the DSA as a faction of the Democratic Party.

Editor (2021-12-06). Omicron variant exposes danger of global vaccine apartheid. mronline.org A new, heavily mutated Coronavirus variant, Omicron, is causing alarm around the world as scientists race to discover more about this new type of the virus and its potential resistance to vaccines.

Editor2 (2021-12-06). Kyle Rittenhouse, a new "American Hero"? orinocotribune.com By Dalia González Delgado — Nov 29, 2021 | Kyle Rittenhouse is the new hero of the radical right in the United States. The acquittal of the young man, accused of killing two people and wounding another during protests in Wisconsin, has provoked mixed reactions and fuels the long debate on racism, violence and gun ownership in this confused country. | Beyond the controversy surrounding the judicial process, I am interested in focusing on other fundamental questions: Why were there protests in the first place? What was a 17-year-old teenager doing there with an assault rifle, in a state where he does not even…

WSWS (2021-12-06). With robust police escort, fascist paramilitary group stages Saturday night march on Lincoln Memorial. wsws.org In a disgusting spectacle, over a hundred fascists with the Patriot Front group, formerly Vanguard America, marched on the Lincoln Memorial while chanting fascist slogans as police provided protection.

Rachel Evans (2021-12-06). Protest demands Morrison 'kills the bill'. greenleft.org.au Protesters rallied agains against the federal government's religious discrimination bill. Rachel Evans reports.

WSWS (2021-12-06). Romanian Social Democrats join Grand Coalition government amid raging pandemic. wsws.org As COVID-19 rips through the population, the main bourgeois parties form a Grand Coalition government, strengthening the fascist AUR party.

Rossana Rossanda (2021-12-06). For Rossana Rossanda, Communism Was a Choice Compelled by Reason. zcomm.org Interview about becoming a Communist in Fascist Italy…

Jenny Farrell (2021-12-06). Sally Rooney: In search of the Marxist novel. peoplesworld.org For the past weeks, successful 30-year-old Irish author Sally Rooney has been in the headlines. Following her refusal to grant the translation rights of her new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021) to the Israeli Modan publishing house, 70 prominent authors have now backed her decision in a statement. In May of this year, …

splcenter (2021-12-06). Vote Your Voice Expands: SPLC pledges $100 million to support voter engagement and pro-democracy groups in Deep South through 2032. splcenter.org

Eric Zuesse (2021-12-05). How Israel's Actions Against Iran Are Rooted in Cecil Rhodes's 1877 Plan. dissidentvoice.org There has been much speculation about why Israel was allowed in 1967 to intentionally bomb the USS Liberty and slaughter 34 American soldiers on that ship which the U.S. Government has covered-up. And there also is much speculation about why, as reported to Congress by the Congressional Research Service on 7 August 2019, "Israel is …

Jonathan Cook (2021-12-05). How Starmer's Labour Reversed 40 Years of Progress on Israel and Palestine. dissidentvoice.org British politics is lurching backwards when it comes to Israel. Gains won over many decades that made it possible to critique Israel and its belligerent rule over Palestinians are being undone almost overnight — and on both sides of the supposed political divide. A rash of recent incidents illustrate how quickly the rot has set …

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-12-05). Bennett blesses street executions of Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Border Police officers hailed as heroes after shooting prone assailant.

Marjorie Cohn (2021-12-05). For the First Time, Supreme Court Is Poised to Retract a Fundamental Right. zcomm.org While Chief Justice John Roberts may not be prepared to squarely overturn Roe and Casey, he signaled his readiness to uphold the Mississippi law, gutting the right of women to choose abortion…

Elisha Brown (2021-12-05). The South's Last Three Abortion-Safe States Are Bracing for a Post-Roe Future. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court this week heard

Jon Queally (2021-12-05). Sanders Calls on Congress to End Filibuster If Needed to Protect Abortion Rights. truthout.org Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday called it unacceptable to sit back and watch the U.S. Supreme Court possibly end the right of women to access abortion care and said his colleagues in the Senate should act urgently to end the filibuster and codify into federal law the protections afforded by Roe v. Wade — the historic ruling now under the most severe threat since it was first decided in 1973. | In an email to supporters, the Independent from Vermont and former presidential candidate…

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