(2021-07-08). America's Drug Wars: Fifty Years of Reinforcing Racism. counterpunch.org Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon stood before the White House press corps, staffers at his side, to announce "a new, all-out offensive" against drug abuse, which he denounced as "America's public enemy number one." He called on Congress to contribute $350 million for a worldwide attack on "the sources of supply." The first battle in this new drug war would be fought in South Vietnam where, Nixon said, "a number of young Americans have become addicts as they serve abroad."
(2021-07-08). America's Drug Wars: Fifty Years of Reinforcing Racism. counterpunch.org Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon stood before the White House press corps, staffers at his side, to announce "a new, all-out offensive" against drug abuse, which he denounced as "America's public enemy number one." He called on Congress to contribute $350 million for a worldwide attack on "the sources of
(2021-07-08). A Letter to Oakland Teachers About Pacifica, Race & Democracy. indybay.org Why a Japanese American children's book author/illustrator is going to Vote NO in the Pacifica bylaws referendum — it's simple. New Day supporters illegally shut down WBAI NYC in 2019–using the same excuse: finances. Is New Day's "business plan" really institutionalized racism?>
(2021-07-08). Estados Unidos (su lado agusanado) censura su propia historia. globalizacion.ca En estados como Florida queda terminantemente prohibida la revisión de la historia. La revisión de la historia desde una perspectiva crítica del racismo ("critical race theory"), el esclavismo en nombre de la libertad y la civilización y el imperialismo (también,…
(2021-07-08). Resistance is Not Futile: Fighting Back in an Age of Manufactured Ignorance. counterpunch.org The genocide inflicted on Native Americans, slavery, the horrors of Jim Crow, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, the rise of the carceral state, the My Lai massacre and George W. Bush's torture chambers and black sites, among other historical events, now disappear into a disavowal of past events made even more unethical with the emergence of a right-wing political and pedagogical language of erasure. For example, the Republican Party's attack on the teaching of "critical race theory" — labeled as "ideological or faddish" — denies both the history of racism as well as the ways in which it is enfo…
(2021-07-08). Haiti's police say 4 suspects in the assassination of Jovenel MoàØse killed and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the situation in Haiti amid reports of the killing of Jovenel Moise's alleged assassins, the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Occupied West Bank, and more…
(2021-07-08). The People vs. Mahmoud Abbas: Are the Palestinian Authority's Days Numbered? commondreams.org "It's quite striking that the arguments being made for a U.S. intervention in Haiti are so alike the ones that were used to justify the 1915-34 occupation."
(2021-07-08). Italian Judges To Rule Today Against Operation Condor Killers. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Italy's Supreme Court will sentence 21 former officials and military officers from Bolivia, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay accused of the disappearance of Italians during the execution of Operation Condor, a U.S. counterinsurgency strategy implemented in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s. | RELATED: | The hearing began at 10 a.m. local time and is expected to last most of the day. All of the defendan…
(2021-07-08). PDF of July 8 issue. workers.org 
Download the PDF. Student-athletes win historic ruling Release Alex Saab! Labor strikes back HIV/AIDS: Legacy of resistance Say her name: Sandra Bland COVID devastation Buffalo: Historic mayoral primary vote Editorial: Class war over voting rights Global: N. Korea defiant; China—Africa cooperation; China defeats malaria; Afghanistan. Tear down the walls: Free . . . |
(2021-07-08). Extradition of Alex Saab: U.S. takes effort to starve Venezuelans to new lows. mronline.org Venezuelan official Alex Saab was arrested over a year ago in Cape Verde and in March 2021 the country's Supreme Court approved his extradition to the United States. | July 8, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-07-08). Rallies in Bay Area for Voting Rights. indybay.org Bay Area residents mobilizing to demand Congress fight voter suppression and pass the For the People Act…
(2021-07-08). Thursday 7/8: Davis Rally for Voting Rights. indybay.org Sidewalk outside office of Congressman Garamendi, 412 G St, Davis, CA 95616-4158 | Please wear a mask. This is a peaceful event.
(2021-07-08). Victory for Ghadanfar Abu Atwan after 65 days of hunger strike — towards victory for Palestine! samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Ghadanfar Abu Atwan on his victory over Israeli imprisonment after 65 days of hunger strike. Abu Atwan's sister, Benazeer, and his lawyer, Jawad Boulos, confirmed that he will be released later today, 8 July, and the administrative detention order against him cancelled. His steadfastness and commitment to struggle, like that of his fellow Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, inspire all those around the world who support the Palestinian people and their just cause of return and liberation. His family has confirmed that he will not end his strike until he…
(2021-07-08). Critical Race History in Texas. dissidentvoice.org 
In late December 2015, Constance Hollie-Jawaid and I were still working on the final plans for the dedication ceremony for a Texas state historical marker commemorating the Slocum Massacre. The fight to get the marker approved had been grueling, and, on that particular day, we had traveled to Palestine, Texas, to meet with the marker …
(2021-07-08). Toronto, 11 July: Protest to free Palestine and #SaveSilwan. samidoun.net 
Sunday, 11 July 3: 00 pm Nathan Phillips Square Toronto, ON Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/2850656631843851… TORONTO — ALL OUT THIS SUNDAY at 3: 00 PM at NATHAN PHILIPS SQUARE. The settler-colonial state of Israel continues its encroachment against our rights and our homeland. With Israel's destruction of Palestinian homes in Silwan, the constant bombardment of Gaza, the lynching of Palestinians and the ongoing attempts to ethnically cleanse Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, Beita, Gaza, and Sbeih mountain. Our voices need to be louder than ever to ensure that we show the support for the Palestinian national…
(2021-07-08). Israeli Squatters stole Palestinian Land for an Illegal Settlement, but Plucky town of Beita isn't Taking it Lying Down. juancole.com Beita is an icon of the popular Palestinian resistance ( Middle East Monitor ) — The town of Beita has turned into an icon of the popular resistance in occupied Palestine. It appears to have channelled the spirit of the Jerusalem uprising during the day and the harsh activities of Gaza at night, in harmony …
(2021-07-08). SPLC Action Fund Poll: Mississippi voters want swift action to restore ballot initiative process struck down by state Supreme Court. splcenter.org
(2021-07-08). House OKs bill making it easier for workers to prove age discrimination. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—In a bipartisan vote just before the congressional recess, the Democratic-run House made it easier to prove age discrimination in employment. The 249-178 tally included 29 Republican "yes" votes, but 178 GOPers voted "no." Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, speaking for the legislation (HR2062), reported two of the nation's biggest unions, AFSCME and the National …
(2021-07-08). The People vs. Mahmoud Abbas: Are the Palestinian Authority's Days Numbered? dissidentvoice.org 
"The Palestinian Authority's days are numbered". This assertion has been oft repeated recently, especially after the torture to death on June 24 of a popular Palestinian activist, Nizar Banat, 42, at the hands of PA security goons in Hebron (Al-Khalil). The killing — or 'assassination' as some Palestinian rights groups describe it — of Banat, however, …
(2021-07-08). "Police State Without the State": Palestinian Authority Faces Protests over Critic's Death in Custody. democracynow.org 
We look at growing opposition to the Palestinian Authority after the killing of a prominent activist, Nizar Banat, a vocal critic of the ruling body who died in PA custody after security forces violently arrested him at his home. Banat's killing has sparked protests calling for President Mahmoud Abbas to step down. "The Palestinian Authority now is acting like a police state without the state," says Palestinian writer Mariam Barghouti. "The Palestinian Authority has often collaborated with Israel at the expense of Palestinians."
(2021-07-08). Gaza gets back to business. electronicintifada.net Maldives-style cafe reopened soon after it was badly damaged by Israel.
(2021-07-08). Resistance is Not Futile: Fighting Back in an Age of Manufactured Ignorance. counterpunch.org The genocide inflicted on Native Americans, slavery, the horrors of Jim Crow, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, the rise of the carceral state, the My Lai massacre and George W. Bush's torture chambers and black sites, among other historical events, now disappear into a disavowal of past events made even more unethical with the emergence of
(2021-07-08). More big investors dump Israeli settlement profiteers. electronicintifada.net Norway pension fund KLP divests from 16 firms complicit in Israeli settlements.
(2021-07-08). New triangular axis in Greater Middle East: Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com New triangular axis in Greater Middle East: Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan "Turkey is a sister country of Azerbaijan and Israel is our strategic partner. We want our friends to be friends with each other. If the sides agree to such an initiative, then Azerbaijan will always welcome them." Trend News Agency of Azerbaijan today features …
(2021-07-08). Israel detains Dr. Shatha Odeh of the Palestinian Health Work Committees. peoplesdispatch.org The detention of Dr. Shatha Odeh comes a month after Israel ordered her organization, the Health Work Committees, to cease functioning. Dr. Odeh is also the regional coordinator of the People's Health Movement…
(2021-07-08). Palestinian wins freedom after 64-day hunger strike. electronicintifada.net Israel held Ghadanfar Abu Atwan without charge or trial.
(2021-07-08). The Zionist assault on Judaism. mronline.org Zionism has not yet murdered Judaism but it has undermined its moral and historical integrity. By intentionally fanning antisemitism, Israel is a major contributor to Jewish insecurity. | July 8, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-07-08). Security forces arrest anti-Palestinian Authority demonstrators. peoplesdispatch.org Security forces under the Palestinian Authority (PA) arrested at least 21 Palestinians late on Monday, July 5. Those arrested include journalists, university students, activists and lawyers. They also brutally suppressed a sit-in protest and demonstrations in the Palestinian capital Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Monday night, physically assaulting hundreds of protesters and arresting some to quell the wave of protests against the killing of activist Nizar Banat. | Several protesters were reportedly kept in custody awaiting prosecution. The murder of political activist and anti-corruption figure Nizar Bana…
(2021-07-08). Milwaukee Alliance demands justice for Roberto Zielinski outside District 6 police station. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On the late afternoon of July 6, members of the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression joined with people from the community and other groups like The People's Revolution to continue demanding justice for Roberto Zielinski. The protest started at the corner of S 27th Street and Oklahoma Avenue before moving to the front steps of the Milwaukee Police Department District 6 building. | Zielinski was murdered by an unknown Milwaukee Police Department officer in the late night hours of May 30 just blocks away from District 6. While MPD claims Zielinski was firing shots from a porch…
(2021-07-08). Tweeting Hate: SPLC analysis shows that Twitter has failed to address its use by far-right extremists and was a major tool in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. splcenter.org
(2021-07-08). Israel's "government of change" shows its right-wing credentials. wsws.org All the Bennett government's leading lights were once aides to Benjamin Netanyahu, occupied senior government posts under his leadership and have no significant political differences with him.
(2021-07-08). In Latest Bid to Blunt Progressive Power, Congressional Black Caucus Endorses Nina Turner's Opponent. commondreams.org The PA has proven to be an obstacle in the face of Palestinian freedom, with no credibility among Palestinians.
(2021-07-07). Thursday 7/8: Davis Rally for Voting Rights. indybay.org Sidewalk outside office of Congressman Garamendi, 412 G St, Davis, CA 95616-4158 | Please wear a mask. This is a peaceful event.
(2021-07-07). Trampling the Right to Vote. counterpunch.org "Our battle cry is 'Let My People Vote.'" The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., June 19, 1965, urging the House to pass the Voting Rights Act. Netflix is streaming a movie based on a true story about integrating a White school after an inferior Black school caught fire in Durham, N.C., in 1971. Titled "The
(2021-07-07). A Letter to Oakland Teachers About Pacifica, Race & Democracy. indybay.org Why a Japanese American children's book author/illustrator is going to Vote NO in the Pacifica bylaws referendum — it's simple. New Day supporters illegally shut down WBAI NYC in 2019–using the same excuse: finances. Is New Day's "business plan" really institutionalized racism?>
(2021-07-07). America's Drug Wars. zcomm.org Fifty Years of Reinforcing Racism…
(2021-07-07). America's drug wars. nationofchange.org Fifty years of reinforcing racism.
(2021-07-07). How a Journalist Ended Up on an FBI Watch List. progressive.org I covered Black Lives Matter protests in Wisconsin, so the police put me on a list shared with the FBI.
(2021-07-07). The Fourth of July, six months after the January 6 fascistic insurrection. indybay.org The noxious product of social inequality and war creates the objective conditions for dictatorship. The defense of democratic rights, not only in the US but internationally, depends on the independent mobilization of the working class for socialism.
(2021-07-07). Headlines for July 7, 2021. democracynow.org Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse Assassinated, Eric Adams Set to Become New York City's Next Mayor After Clinching Primary, Nikole Hannah-Jones Rejects Tenure at UNC, Heads to Howard University with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Biden Admin Extends Temporary Protected Status for Yemenis, Pentagon Cancels $10 Billion Cloud Computing Contract with Microsoft, White House Quietly Hosts Brother of Mohammed bin Salman, Lebanon on Brink of Economic Collapse as People Face Hunger, Poverty and Political Uncertainty, Far-Right Israeli Gov't Fails to Renew Apartheid "Citizenship Law", Iran Hosts Intra-Afghan Talks Amid Taliban A…
(2021-07-07). Don't Allow Another US-NATO Libya In The Horn Of Africa. popularresistance.org Africa is not underdeveloped and fraught with militarized instability because there is not enough involvement by Western Europe and its evil settler-colonial spawn, the USA. Anyone who believes that must also believe Africans are inferior savages. The fact is Africa is underdeveloped and destabilized precisely because of centuries of European colonialism and decades of U.S. and Western European neocolonialism. Any disposition held by Africans that lends legitimacy to intervention, sanctions, or the fake moral or altruistic dominion of Pan-European, white supremacist capitalist interests in Africa are based either…
(2021-07-07). Extradition of Alex Saab: US takes effort to starve Venezuelans to new lows. peoplesdispatch.org Venezuelan official Alex Saab was arrested over a year ago in Cape Verde and in March 2021 the country's Supreme Court approved his extradition to the United States…
(2021-07-07). Supreme Court ruling gives green light to even more voter suppression. liberationnews.org 
A Supreme Court decision on two voter suppression laws in Arizona further gutted the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, a key concession won by the Civil Rights Movement. The two state laws upheld by the court's 6-3 ruling on July 1 ban anyone other than a relative or caregiver from collecting absentee ballots and …
(2021-07-07). Buying Democracy in a Good Way. cepr.net Brian Beutler tweeted something this week that got me thinking about ways the Democrats can get around a Republican filibuster on voting rights: make it about money. The key problem facing any voting rights measure is that the Republicans are determined to filibuster anything that limits the ability of states to suppress the vote or …
(2021-07-07). U.S. censorship is increasingly official. mronline.org The Biden administration made headlines last week as it moved to shut down the websites of 33 foreign media outlets, including ones based in Iran, Bahrain, Yemen and Palestine. Officials justified the decision by claiming the organizations were agents of "disinformation." | July 7, 2021…
(2021-07-07). Rally for Palestine held in downtown Dallas. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On July 3, over 50 people gathered at Belo Garden Park in downtown Dallas to protest the recent destruction of Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, and the ongoing siege on Gaza by the Israeli apartheid state. The action was called by the Palestinian Youth Movement. | Chants at the rally included "Free! Free Palestine!", "We don't want two states, we want 48!" and "Intifada! Intifada! Long live the Intifada!" Speeches were delivered by Nashwa Bawab of Palestinian Youth Movement and Fadya Risheq of American Muslims for Justice in Palestine. Nashwa Bawab of Palestinian Youth cond…
(2021-07-07). Palestinian Leader Ahmad Jibril Dead in Damascus. telesurenglish.net The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command announced the death of its Secretary-General, Ahmad "Abu Jihad" Jibril, who passed away Wednesday in a hospital in the Syrian capital, Damascus. | RELATED: | The Martyr Jihad Jibril Brigades also mourned comrade Jibril, who was the Secretary-General of the brigade, stressing "to continue the path with arms until liberation," praying for him to be…
(2021-07-07). 8 July, Madrid: Protest against repression in Palestine: Justice for Nizar Banat. samidoun.net 
Thursday, 8 July 7: 00 pm Embajada Palestina. C/Pío XII, 20 Madrid Info: www.instagram.com/p/CQ_O7TnDtSb/ Join us to demand justice, against repression by the Palestinian Authority, complicity with the Israeli occupation and the assassination of Nizar Banat. Exigimos justicia contra la represión de la autoridad Palestina, cómplice de régimen israelí y asesina de Nizar Banat | The article
(2021-07-07). Palestinian student Layan Nasir seized by Israeli occupation forces. samidoun.net 
Palestinian student Layan Nasir was seized in the early morning hours of Wednesday, 7 July by Israeli occupation forces who invaded her home. She is a student at Bir Zeit University who wrote on social media only two days ago about the attacks she suffered at the hands of undercover Palestinian Authority security forces wearing civilian clothes, who violently beat protesters against the assassination of Palestinian activist Nizar Banat. She is currently being held in the Israeli Ofer prison. There are currently hundreds of Palestinian students detained by the Israeli occupation. At Bir Zeit University alone, Nasi…
(2021-07-07). Free Haitham Siyaj: Stop PA Political Imprisonment of Palestinian Activists! samidoun.net 
Haitham Siyaj, Palestinian struggler and organizer, remains imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority, his detention extended another 24 hours on 7 July 2021. Even after many of the political detainees seized by PA security forces while protesting the assassination of Nizar Banat — part and parcel of PA security coordination with the Israeli occupation — were released, Haitham Siyaj remains behind bars. He was beaten so badly by PA security forces that he was hospitalized; he was then seized from the hospital and has been held in detention since that time. He is now on hunger strike for the third day to…