(2021-07-30). Joe Biden's Hollow Resistance: Words vs. Deeds. counterpunch.org Biden is rightly under fire from some progressive Democrats for refusing to seriously align himself with the anti-racist voting rights movement being led by the Texan legislators calling for federal intervention. By all indications, the Clinton-Obamanite Biden-its-time Democratic mis-leadership's perspective is that racist voter suppression in the states is a fait accompli but that this is surmountable since the Democrats will just work harder to get more votes.
(2021-07-30). Another Israeli Spy Story: When Will It End? globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-30). "New Form" of Ice Cream "Terrorism": How Ben & Jerry's has Exposed Israel's anti-BDS Strategy. dissidentvoice.org 
Ben & Jerry's decision to suspend its operations in the occupied Palestinian West Bank is an event that is proving critical to Palestinian efforts, which ultimately aim at holding Israel accountable for its military occupation, apartheid and war crimes. By responding to the Palestinian call for boycotting apartheid Israel, the ice cream giant has delivered …
(2021-07-30). For Justice in Palestine, Boycott Netflix's Apartheid TV: "Hit and Run" counterpunch.org The Dream Factory. Notes from the Shop Floor. The best defender of apartheid Israel is not that ferocious bully, AIPAC. It is, and it always has been, Hollywood. The entertainment industry creates soft, smooth propaganda which is easy to digest, in a compelling dramatic form. "It's not propaganda. It's just TV. Good TV." For those
(2021-07-30). How Ben & Jerry's Exposed Israel's anti-BDS Strategy. counterpunch.org What differentiates Ben & Jerry's decision to abandon the ever-growing market of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank from previous decisions by other international corporations is the fact that the ice cream company has made it clear that its move was morally motivated. Indeed, Ben & Jerry's did not attempt to mask or delude their decision in any way: "We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry's ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory."
(2021-07-30). Israeli forces kill another Palestinian youth in the occupied West Bank. peoplesdispatch.org 20-year-old Shaukat Awad was shot when Israeli forces opened fire on the funeral of Mohammed al-Alami who was killed a day before. At least 12 Palestinians were wounded with live ammunition at the funeral…
(2021-07-30). Dallas protests political repression in the Philippines. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On July 25, about 30 people gathered at Belo Garden Park in downtown Dallas to protest killings of activists and indigenous people in the Philippines by Rodrigo Duterte's far-right government. The protest was called by Malaya Movement Texas, and the Dallas Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines. | The protest was a part of nationwide demonstrations against political repression on the date of the Philippines State of the Nation Address, with protests also occurring in Austin and Houston. The event was cohosted or endorsed by the Dallas Anti-War Committee, Dallas Alliance Against Racist an…
(2021-07-30). A Look Inside Israel's Recent Coronavirus Outbreak. "Most of the People Tested Positive Are Vaccinated" globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-30). Rise of the Right: How the Vaudeville Left Fuels White Supremacy. counterpunch.org There's little evidence to validate the myth that Trump supporters are more likely than other Americans to be economically insecure. Most come from decent to well-to-do financial backgrounds, earning incomes that qualify them as middle to middle-upper income. The predominant view among social science experts is that reactionary socio-political attitudes are the primary statistical predictors of Trump support. |
(2021-07-30). Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Youth at Funeral of Slain Child. imemc.org 
In a serious escalation, the Israeli occupation army opened fire at the funeral procession of the slain Palestinian child, Mohammad Moayyad Bahjat al-'Allami, 11, shot and killed by the army in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in southern occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Shawkat Khaled Awad, 20, who was …
(2021-07-30). Freedom for Palestinian child prisoner Abdullah Bassem Abu Bakr! samidoun.net 
An information blackout targeting not only the media and human rights and social justice organizations but also his own family is continuing over the condition of the Palestinian child detainee Abdullah Bassem Abu Bakr (17 years) from Ya'bud al-Qassam, occupied Jenin district. The child's father affirms that the information they're provided with about his son's condition is scarce. Since he was seized on Sunday at 1: 00 am by Israeli occupation forces, the family has not received information about their son until Thursday, 29 July 2021 — 5 days after their son was admitted to the hospital. When the news brok…
(2021-07-30). Ben & Jerry's Co-founders: Nothing 'Anti-Semitic' about Ice Cream Embargo of Illegal Israeli Settlements. palestinechronicle.com 
Ben & Jerry's co-founders have pushed back against claims of anti-Semitism following the company's decision to stop offering its ice cream products in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, noting that they themselves are Jews. Writing in the
(2021-07-30). Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of Apparent War Crimes in Gaza Assault; Urges ICC Probe. democracynow.org 
Human Rights Watch is calling on the International Criminal Court to open a probe into apparent Israeli war crimes committed during its recent 11-day assault on Gaza that killed 260 Palestinians, including 66 children. We discuss a major report HRW released this week that closely examines three Israeli strikes that killed 62 Palestinians civilians in May. U.S.-made weapons were used in at least two of the attacks investigated. Human Rights Watch concluded Israel had committed apparent war crimes. "You had people's entire lives — their homes, their businesses, their wives, their children, their husbands [mda…
(2021-07-30). Sunday 8/1: Virtual Book Launch – In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home. indybay.org
(2021-07-30). Black Lives Matter defends Cuba's right to sovereignty. workers.org 
This statement, first posted on the BLM twitter account July 14, has generated considerable coverage. Many in the corporate media have attacked BLM for…
(2021-07-30). US Charities Illegally Funding Illegal Israeli Settlements. indybay.org In a July 22, 2021 letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Reps. Tlaib, Bush, Carson, McCollum, Ocasio-Cortez, Pocan and Pressley demanded that Yellen investigate the illegal activities of pro-Israel charities in funding illegal Israeli settlements. See ccrjustice.org/reps-tlaib-ocasio-cortez-……
(2021-07-30). Anti-BDS Jewish Orgs Back Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Sales Ban in Settlements Despite Israeli Pressure. democracynow.org 
Israel has launched what has been described as a maximum pressure campaign against Ben & Jerry's and its parent company Unilever, after the iconic ice cream brand announced it would halt sales in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israel has asked 35 U.S. governors to enforce state laws which make it a crime to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS. The founders of Ben & Jerry's, who no longer have operational control of the company, have defended the company's decision. A number of Jewish groups including J Street, the New Israel Fund and Americans for Peace Now, all of whom…
(2021-07-30). Thursday 8/19: On the Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. indybay.org
(2021-07-30). Republicans rally for Trump mob as hearing details fascist violence. indybay.org The openly fascist faction of the House Republicans, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, held a press conference in front of the Justice Department to defend what they called the "political prisoners" imprisoned for their roles in the January 6 assault on Congress.
(2021-07-30). Saturday 7/31: Voting Rights Rally: Selma-Mongomery Style March in Texas Livestream & Actions w/ PPC. indybay.org Online protest livestream & actions voting rights and justice…
(2021-07-29). Israel is determined to Criminalize Boycott Movement, but Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream struck a blow for First Amendment. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor) — Ben & Jerry's decision to suspend its operations in the occupied Palestinian West Bank is an event that is proving critical to Palestinian efforts, which ultimately aim at holding Israel accountable for its military occupation, apartheid and war crimes. By responding to the Palestinian call for boycotting apartheid Israel, the …
(2021-07-29). Mexico president blasts 'inhumane' US sanctions against Cuba. en.mehrnews.com Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has scoffed at the notion that Mexico should honor a US-imposed embargo on Cuba, as his country sends aid to the island in defiance of Washington's suffocating economic bans.
(2021-07-29). Bolivia Joins Humanitarian Effort To Help Cubans. telesurenglish.net Bolivian President Luis Arce announced on Thursday that it would ship with humanitarian aid, including food, syringes, and biosecurity items. This, amid calls by the Mexican government for Latin American leaders to help Cuba tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | "In the framework of reciprocity between peoples, we approved the Supreme Decree that authorizes the donation of syringes, food, and biosafety supplies t…
(2021-07-28). UN envoy: 'Political manipulation' won't defeat pandemic. ecns.cn A Chinese envoy to the United Nations on Wednesday rejected "false information" from the United States on the coronavirus' origin, saying that "political manipulation is unpopular, cannot defeat the pandemic and is doomed to failure".
(2021-07-28). Politicizing COVID-19 fight is perilous, says S. African official. ecns.cn As the rest of the world tries to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with science, some in the United States have chosen to politicize COVID-19, Anwar Adams, a councillor in the City of Cape Town has said.
(2021-07-28). Geo-political rivalry blocks global coronavirus cooperation, says Bangladeshi official. ecns.cn A senior Bangladeshi official has said that labelling COVID-19 as a Chinese virus is "very unfortunate" and that geo-political rivalry is "engulfing" global efforts to fight the pandemic.
(2021-07-29). Russia rejects Dutch court ruling to hand $5 BILLION of taxpayers' cash to ex-oligarchs over collapse of Yukos oil & gas empire. rt.com 
Officials in Moscow have vowed to vigorously appeal a judicial ruling in an international arbitration court that would bind Russia to hand over billions of dollars to the former shareholders of the collapsed Yukos energy giant. | The office of the country's Prosecutor General said on Thursday that it does not acknowledge the validity of the decision, by the International Arbitration Court in The Hague. Authorities said that Russia would "appeal the decision without fail," questioning both the basis of the judges' jurisdiction and the claims themselves. | Earlier that day, representatives of the shareholders wh…
(2021-07-29). EU issues travel warning after Greece's south Aegean islands report spike in Covid infections. rt.com 
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned against travel to Greece's south Aegean islands, updating the area to dark red after a spike in coronavirus cases was reported by officials. | Greece has drawn visitors to the 13 islands, including Mykonos and Santorini, by promoting them as 'Covid-free' destinations but the updated The ECDC's travel map is a f…
(2021-07-29). 'Biggest destroyer of peace': China lashes out after US Navy warship sails through Taiwan Strait for SEVENTH time under Biden. rt.com 
A US Navy guided missile destroyer has crossed the Taiwan Strait in the South China Sea, making it the seventh such trip by an American warship this year, and prompting China to accuse the US of trying provoke its military. | The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Benfold sailed northwards through the strait on Wednesday, the US Navy said in a statement. The maneuver was confirmed by Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense on Thursday, with officials saying the military used joint intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance tools to monitor movements at sea and in the air around Taiwan, accordin…
(2021-07-29). Priest gagged for saying Canada residential-school victims lied about abuse for 'extra money' & joke about SHOOTING church vandals. rt.com 
A Catholic priest has been barred from speaking publicly by a Canadian archdiocese, after accusing residential-school survivors of lying about sexual abuse to get more money, and of speaking about wanting to shoot church vandals. | The inflammatory statements, made over a number of weeks by Father Rhéal Forest at St. Emile Roman Catholic Church in Winnipeg, were even shared on the church's Facebook page, but have since been taken down. | During a mass on July 10, Forest said the survivors lied about being sexually abused in a ploy to receive more money in the settlement process with the federal governme…
(2021-07-28). Comicomment: Is mute Fort Detrick 'innocent'?>. ecns.cn It is not up to the U.S. itself to decide whether the Fort Detrick laboratory is "clean."
(2021-07-29). Inside the deadly fight to save a Palestinian village from illegal Israeli settlements. therealnews.com 
In early May, a group of Israeli settlers arrived with caravans and set up an illegal outpost on the top of Jabal Sabih on the outskirts of Beita, which is located in the northern occupied West Bank. Since then, every single day for more than two months, Palestinian protests against the settlements in the village have been nonstop—and the Israeli response to these protests has been severe and deadly. |
(2021-07-29). WATCH: Israeli Forces Raid Defense for Children International's Office in Al-Bireh. palestinechronicle.com 
Israeli forces raided Defense for Children International's headquarters in the central occupied West Bank, confiscating computers and client files, early Thursday morning. Israeli forces raided DCIP's headquarters located in Al-Bireh's Sateh Marhaba neighborhood, near Ramallah,
(2021-07-29). Funeral of Palestinian Child Killed by Israeli Army Turns Deadly. palestinechronicle.com 
A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli army gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Thursday after the presence of Israeli forces at the funeral of a Palestinian boy sparked violence, officials said. "Shawkat Khalid
(2021-07-29). Israeli Forces Shoot, Kill Palestinian Child, Youth in West Bank. palestinechronicle.com 
A 20-year-old Palestinian who was shot by Israeli soldiers earlier today in Beit Ummar town in West Bank and critically wounded has died of his wounds, said the Ministry of Health. Shawkat Khaled Awad is
(2021-07-29). The Two-State Compromise Normalizes Israeli Colonialism. palestinechronicle.com 
Following the signing of last year's Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration, the international community woke up to the normalisation of Israel's colonization of Palestine; nobody seemed to be particularly averse to this. It
(2021-07-29). UN Calls for Political Solution to End Israel-Palestine Strife. telesurenglish.net The United Nations called for a political solution to end the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, although the international community is providing urgent assistance to Gaza in the wake of the most recent round of hostilities. | RELATED: | "Urgent efforts to improve the situation in Gaza must move forward swiftly, but let us not lose sight of the broader goal: resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ending the occ…
(2021-07-29). First Amendment gets frozen out as US politicians threaten to lick Ben & Jerry's. electronicintifada.net Allies of Israel choose illegal settlements over ending the occupation and equal rights for Palestinians.
(2021-07-29). Mexico Discloses Contracts Linked to Israeli Company NSO Group Signed by Previous Governments (Pegasus). orinocotribune.com 
The Mexican Government delivered to the Attorney General's Office (FGR) 31 contracts signed with companies linked to the Israeli company NSO Group, amounting to $61 million, for the acquisition of spy equipment and software in order to tap the phones of opposition leaders. "The impact on public coffers amounts to 1.97 billion pesos, a little more than $61 million, for the acquisition of software, hardware, databases, platforms, licenses, and maintenance of the contracts," explained the Secretary of Public Safety, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, at the presidency's morning press conference. | With the equipment and software…
(2021-07-29). California Poor People's Campaign pushes Sen. Feinstein on filibuster. peoplesworld.org 
SAN FRANCISCO — Their voices rang out as they gathered at the foot of the towering office building in the heart of downtown, singing new words to the iconic labor and civil rights anthem, Which Side Are You On? "We're outside, Dianne Feinstein, our voices loud and clear: Voting rights are what we need, we …
(2021-07-28). Columnist calls for depoliticizing COVID-19 origin-tracing. ecns.cn A Tanzanian columnist has called for depoliticizing COVID-19, saying politics should not in any way influence scientific inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus.
(2021-07-28). Science should prevail in origin-tracing of COVID-19, say Nepali experts. ecns.cn Efforts to probe the origin of COVID-19 could be hamstrung by the politicization of the issue, with a conspiracy theory about lab leaks taking precedence over a scientific conclusion.
(2021-07-29). Any form of U.S. military contact with China's Taiwan opposed. ecns.cn A State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson on Thursday voiced firm opposition to any form of military contact between the United States and China's Taiwan region.
(2021-07-28). Tiktok vows to strengthen data security. ecns.cn As part of efforts to strengthen its global data security, the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok has opened its first regional Fusion Centre in Dublin, Ireland, to detect and respond to critical incidents in real-time.
(2021-07-28). China-U.S. relationship at 'new critical juncture': new Chinese ambassador. ecns.cn China's new Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang on Wednesday said the China-U.S. relationship "has once again come to a new critical juncture, facing not only many difficulties and challenges but also great opportunities and potentials."
(2021-07-29). Algerian olympian punished for refusing match with Israeli. electronicintifada.net The IOC used to boycott apartheid. Now it punishes those who resist it.
(2021-07-29). Israel kills child out shopping with his dad. electronicintifada.net Slaying comes day after occupation soldiers killed water engineer for Beita village.
(2021-07-29). Ben & Jerry's Is Carrying on a Proud Tradition of Boycotts for Human Rights. ips-dc.org Pulling out of Israel's illegal settlements, encouraged by a petition campaign in their home state of Vermont, is consistent with their history — and U.S. public opinion.
(2021-07-29). Day 7 of the Samidoun Delegation to Lebanon: Ain el-Helweh refugee camp. samidoun.net 
On Wednesday, 28 28 July 2021, the Ghassan Kanafani Brigade, the Samidoun delegation to Lebanon, spent its seventh day in Lebanon in the city of Saida, specifically in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp. Ain el-Helweh refugee camp is populated by 100,000 refugees, of which 90-95% are Palestinians. All of them are located in an area of 1 square kilometer. The camp was created in 1948/1949 to shelter all those Palestinians who were forcibly displaced from Palestine during the Zionist ethnic cleansing in 1948 (the Nakba). During the war in Lebanon, many other refugees from other camps, as well as Lebanese who had been d…
(2021-07-29). 'We're proud Jews': Ben & Jerry's co-founders say there's nothing 'anti-Semitic' about ice cream embargo of Israeli settlements. rt.com 
Ben & Jerry's co-founders have pushed back against claims of anti-Semitism following the company's decision to stop offering its ice cream products in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, noting that they themselves are Jews. | Writing in the New York Times, Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield said they were "proud Jews" who view Israel's occupation of the West Bank as a barrier to peace. | "It's possible to support Israel and oppose some of its policies, just as we've opposed policies of the US government. As such, we unequivocally support the decision of the company to end business in the occupied territ…