Rob Hyde (2021-07-10). [World Report] The slow road to atonement. thelancet.com New research is spurring renewed efforts by august German medical institutions to acknowledge and address their historical connections with Nazi rule. Rob Hyde reports.

WSWS (2021-07-09). Biden administration capitulates to Republican attacks on voting rights. wsws.org The Democratic Party leadership has largely dropped efforts, either in Congress or the courts, to overturn restrictive new state laws.

Indivisible Yolo County (2021-07-09). 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.

Leon Kunstenaar (2021-07-09). 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…

Juan Cole (2021-07-09). Israeli Supreme Court affirms Apartheid law limiting Sovereignty to Jewish Israelis, excluding 20% of Population. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports in an article edited by Mahmud Mujadalah that the Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday refused to strike down the basic law passed by the parliament or Knesset in 2018 declaring Israel a Jewish nation such that sovereignty is solely invested in the Jewish population. …

Jeffrey St. Clair (2021-07-09). Roaming Charges: Flaming Patriots. counterpunch.org On almost every issue that matters, including the future of life on the planet, the US government, if not the entire US culture, has become a real time case study of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, where the more incompetent it becomes, the less able it is to realize that what it's doing isn't working. The less you know, the less you know what you don't know.

Ramzy Baroud (2021-07-09). The People vs. Mahmoud Abbas. zcomm.org Are the Palestinian Authority's Days Numbered?>

Allan Fisher (2021-07-09). Saturday 7/10: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

_____ (2021-07-09). Fascist Plots: Contemporary Lessons From The 1934 'Business Plot'. popularresistance.org Six months ago, on January 6, 2021, a racist mob, incited by outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump, stormed the U.S. Capitol in a chaotic attempt to prevent the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election results, a necessary step before the inauguration of Joe Biden. | The assault on the Capitol was led by militarized fascist groups composed of many current or former military and police.[1] Some of the leaders of the organizations involved, such as Enrique Tarrio and Joseph Biggs of the Proud Boys, had direct ties to U.S. intelligence agencies, having served as FBI informants.[2] Only one fifth…

Raouf Halaby (2021-07-09). Biden Kneels Before Israeli President's Chief of Staff. counterpunch.org I thought I've seen it all! On July 5, 2021, Alison Weir, the daring and indefatigable Executive Director of If Americans Knew, posted a photograph of Joe Robinette Biden prostrating himself in front of outgoing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin — right smack in the White House's Oval Office — the world's nerve center of supreme

Susan Block (2021-07-09). Good Riddance to Bad Rummy. counterpunch.org They say that history is written by the winners. But what if you wage a war that nobody wins? That's the Iraq War (also the Afghan war). Everybody lost (except maybe Iran and Israel) and continues to lose, 20 years later, as a defeated America fitfully attempts an ignominious, dangerous, but better-late-than-never withdrawal. One of

_____ (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."

Peoples Dispatch (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…

teleSUR (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…

Workers World Party (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 . . . |

Editor (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…

Leon Kunstenaar (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…

Indivisible Yolo County (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.

Jorge Majfud (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,…

Sheila Hamanaka (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?>

Henry Giroux (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…

Alfred W. McCoy (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."

Alfred W. McCoy (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

PAI (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 …

Staff (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…

Ramzy Baroud (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, …

E.R. Bills (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 …

Staff (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…

Staff (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."

Henry Giroux (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

Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman (2021-07-08). Gaza gets back to business. electronicintifada.net Maldives-style cafe reopened soon after it was badly damaged by Israel.

Middle East Monitor (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 …

splcenter (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

Adri Nieuwhof (2021-07-08). More big investors dump Israeli settlement profiteers. electronicintifada.net Norway pension fund KLP divests from 16 firms complicit in Israeli settlements.

Tamara Nassar (2021-07-08). Palestinian wins freedom after 64-day hunger strike. electronicintifada.net Israel held Ghadanfar Abu Atwan without charge or trial.

Fight Back (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). 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.

WSWS (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.

Rick Rozoff (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 …

Peoples Dispatch (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…

Jeff Halper (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…

Peoples Dispatch (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…

splcenter (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

Alfred W. McCoy (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."

Alfred W. McCoy (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

Sheila Hamanaka (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?>

Jorge Majfud (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,…

Henry Giroux (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…

Peoples Dispatch (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."

teleSUR (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…

Workers World Party (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 . . . |

Editor (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…

Leon Kunstenaar (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…

Indivisible Yolo County (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.

Staff (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…

E.R. Bills (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 …

Staff (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…

Middle East Monitor (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 …

splcenter (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

PAI (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 …

Ramzy Baroud (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, …

Staff (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."

Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman (2021-07-08). Gaza gets back to business. electronicintifada.net Maldives-style cafe reopened soon after it was badly damaged by Israel.

Henry Giroux (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

Adri Nieuwhof (2021-07-08). More big investors dump Israeli settlement profiteers. electronicintifada.net Norway pension fund KLP divests from 16 firms complicit in Israeli settlements.

Rick Rozoff (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 …

Peoples Dispatch (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…

Tamara Nassar (2021-07-08). Palestinian wins freedom after 64-day hunger strike. electronicintifada.net Israel held Ghadanfar Abu Atwan without charge or trial.

Jeff Halper (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…

Peoples Dispatch (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…

Fight Back (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…

splcenter (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

WSWS (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.

Indivisible Yolo County (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.

Richard C. Gross (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

Sheila Hamanaka (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?>

Alfred W. McCoy (2021-07-07). America's Drug Wars. zcomm.org Fifty Years of Reinforcing Racism…

Alfred W. McCoy (2021-07-07). America's drug wars. nationofchange.org Fifty years of reinforcing racism.

Isiah Holmes (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.

WSWS Repost (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.

Staff (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…

Brianna Griffith (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…

Sameena Rahman (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 …

Dean Baker (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 …

Alan MacLeod (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…

Fight Back (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…

teleSUR (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…

Staff (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

Staff (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…

Staff (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…

Alfred W. McCoy (2021-07-07). America's drug wars. nationofchange.org Fifty years of reinforcing racism.

Alfred W. McCoy (2021-07-07). America's Drug Wars. zcomm.org Fifty Years of Reinforcing Racism…

Sheila Hamanaka (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?>

Isiah Holmes (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.

WSWS Repost (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.

Alan MacLeod (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…

Staff (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…

Brianna Griffith (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…

Sameena Rahman (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 …

Richard C. Gross (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

Dean Baker (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 …

Indivisible Yolo County (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.

Staff (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…

Staff (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…

Caitlin Johnstone (2021-07-07). The Sociopaths are Cocksure while Those with Empathy are Full of Doubt. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Jul 6, 2021 | In a 1933 essay lamenting the rise of Nazism in Germany, Bertrand Russell Which is of course a dynamic that's still at play in the modern world; the Dunning-Kruger effect is a thing, and one need only to look at American presidents to see that there's little relationship between one's intelligence and how far they can rise if they get it in t…

Staff (2021-07-07). 8 July, Berlin: In memory of Ghassan Kanafani. samidoun.net Thursday, 8 July 5 pm Brandenburger Tor Berlin, Germany Info: www.instagram.com/p/CRBmUxarrTe/ Join us on Thursday, 8 July to remember Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian revolutionary writer, thinker and leader, on the 49th anniversary of his assassination. ÿ¥ÿßÿ±ŸÉŸàŸÜÿß ÿ∫ÿØÿߟ㠟şä ÿ®ÿ±ŸÑŸäŸÜ! ŸàŸÇŸÅÿ© ŸÅŸä ÿߟÑÿ∞&Yu…

Staff (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

Anonymous669 (2021-07-07). Iran Unveils Own Copy Of Israeli Spike Anti-Tank Guided Missile (Video, Photos). southfront.org Click to see original-size image. Source: Fars News Agency. | On July 7, Iran unveiled the ground-launched version of the "Almas" anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) which is a direct copy of the Israeli Spike system. | The missile was presented during a ceremony that the saw the delivery of modern equipment and weapons to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ground Force. | The ceremony was attended by IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami, IRGC Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour a…

Staff (2021-07-07). In Leaked Video, GOP Congressman Admits His Party Wants Chaos and Obstruction. truthout.org Newly leaked video footage of a recent event hosted by the right-wing group Patriot Voices shows Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas openly admitting that his party wants "18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done" as President Joe Biden, a bipartisan group of senators, and congressional Democrats work to pass climate and infrastructure legislation. | "Honestly, right now, for the next 18 months, our job is to do everything we can to slow all of that down to get to December of…

Staff (2021-07-07). Teachers' Unions Are Pushing Back Against Attacks on Anti-Racist Education. truthout.org The president of one of the nation's largest teachers' unions on Tuesday pushed back against a nationwide campaign by Republicans and the right-wing media to manufacture controversy around critical race theory and anti-racist education in public schools, pledging to defend members who teach "honest history." | In a keynote speech before the union's virtual national conference, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten said a campaign by "Fox News and some lawmakers" to "di…

Ramona Wadi (2021-07-07). Israel's colonial violence and international humanitarian aid. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Whenever Israel bombs Gaza, donor countries are expected to raid their treasuries and manage the resultant humanitarian crisis. The aftermath of the latest colonial aggression against the enclave is no different. On one hand, the reconstruction of Gaza will probably follow previous mechanisms in which the UN plays a …

Tamara Nassar (2021-07-07). Israel tries to whitewash its bloody legacy in Lebanon. electronicintifada.net Offer of "humanitarian aid" comes after new threats of death and destruction.

Juan Cole (2021-07-07). Israel and the Racial Politics of Palestinian Family Separation. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Tuesday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett slammed opposition parties, led by former PM Binyamin Netanyahu, for having voted against renewal of the Family Separation Law for Palestinian-Israelis married to Palestinians. He said that the opposition had done direct damage to Israeli security. The …

Indivisible Yolo County (2021-07-06). 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.

Jason Koslowski (2021-07-06). States Are Attacking the Teaching of Racism. zcomm.org To fight back, we'll need to organize in our unions to take action — from the bottom up…

Sheila Hamanaka (2021-07-06). 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?>

_____ (2021-07-06). America's Drug Wars: Fifty Years of Reinforcing Racism. commondreams.org "We call on the P5 heads of government to jointly affirm this simple and powerful formula and provide a vital demonstration of leadership that would strengthen the NPT."

Moderator (2021-07-06). America's Drug Wars: Fifty Years of Reinforcing Racism. scheerpost.com Flickr By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch 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… |

WSWS Repost (2021-07-06). 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.

Staff (2021-07-06). Glimmer of Hope in Honduras: Ex-Dam CEO & West Point Grad Convicted in Murder of Berta Cáceres. democracynow.org A former U.S.-trained Honduran military officer and businessman has been found guilty of plotting the assassination of Berta Cáceres, the award-winning Lenca land and water defender killed in 2016. The Honduran Supreme Court ruled unanimously that David Castillo, the former president of the hydroelectric corporation DESA, was a co-perpetrator in Cáceres's murder. Cáceres was assassinated as she led the fight against the construction of DESA's massive hydroelectric dam on a river in southwestern Honduras that is sacred to the Lenca people. Seven hired hitmen were convicted of her murder in 2018 and sentenced in 20…

Ali Abunimah (2021-07-06). Israel's apartheid marriage law is the essence of Zionism. electronicintifada.net Failure to renew discriminatory measure gives Palestinians no reprieve.

Luis Feliz Leon (2021-07-06). Freedom Riders Ride Again for Voting Rights. progressive.org A caravan led by UNITE HERE is part re-creation, part addressing a new wave of voter suppression.

_____ (2021-07-06). Republican Attacks on Voting Rights Are Racist and Hostile to Democracy. commondreams.org Instead of building walls, we should be building connections between farmers and markets for more secure jobs, economies, and prospects for rural families.

_____ (2021-07-06). Doctor: "Voting Rights Are Health Care Rights" commondreams.org "In almost every swing state, we have someone running for secretary of state who has been fearmongering about the 2020 election or was at the insurrection."

Ramona du Houx (2021-07-06). Supreme Court guts voting rights when upholding Arizona's restrictions, elected officials. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Once hailed as the most effective civil rights legislation in the nation's history, now the Supreme Court has turned on the promise of democracy, the promise of equality and equity for all. For without voting rights, communities of color and low income become disenfranchised, and equality and equity unfulfilled dreams.

Staff (2021-07-06). Grace Lee and James Boggs Showed How We Can Unite Our Struggles for Justice. truthout.org People march through a neighborhood to protest against anti-Asian violence on March 18, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Stephen Maturen / Getty Images | A vicious wave of anti-Asian attacks surged during the pandemic and prompted the #StopAsianHate movement, but there's a deeper history of racist violence and multiracial solidarity — a history that Rep. Rashida Tlaib, actor Danny Glover, educator Maya Soetoro-Ng and I discussed in a recent conversation hosted by Haymarket Books and the Jame…

WSWS (2021-07-06). Israel faces new coronavirus outbreak due to the Delta variant. wsws.org The Israeli Health Ministry data show that the Pfizer vaccine is now 64 percent effective against preventing COVID-19 infection, whereas before the rise of the Delta variant in Israel it was 94.3 percent effective.

WSWS (2021-07-06). Biden hails abandonment of social distancing, covers up Trump's coup attempt in Fourth of July speech. wsws.org President Joe Biden addressed a maskless crowd on the South Lawn of the White House Sunday night, delivering a Fourth of July address in which he pledged to continue dismantling protections to stop the spread of COVID-19 and covered up the fascist coup attempt of January 6.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-06). Law that discriminates against Palestinian families in Israel set to expire after 18 years. peoplesdispatch.org The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law was not renewed after a vote in the Knesset resulted in a tie. The law effectively separates Palestinians in the occupied territories from their spouses who are citizens of Israel…

Editor2 (2021-07-06). Brazil Rallies Against Bolsonaro as He Faces Court-Ordered Criminal Probe in 'CovaxinGate'. orinocotribune.com By Shobhan Saxena and Florencia Costa | CIA director William Burns' secret trip to Brasilia raises suspicion that the Biden administration may throw a lifeline to the beleaguered president for its geopolitical moves against China and Venezuela. | Sao Paulo: A day after a judge of the Supreme Federal Court ordered a criminal investigation against Jair Bolsonaro in the Covaxin scandal, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in 350 cities and towns to protest against the government and demand that the president be impeached. | On Friday evening, Justice Rosa Weber ordered the prosecutor general's of…

Ralph Nader (2021-07-06). Mind-Stretching Summertime Book Recommendations. counterpunch.org 1. Honor Thy Label: Dr. Bronner's Unconventional Journey to a Clean, Green, and Ethical Supply Chain by Gero Leson. Dr. Leson, Bronner's vice president, tells the inside story of pioneering efforts for "building and scaling" ethical production, cooperating with suppliers in Sri Lanka, Ghana, India, Palestine, and beyond, and embracing Fair Trade and Regenerative organic agriculture. 2. To Be A Water Protector:

Editor2 (2021-07-06). Report: 91% of Gaza Children Traumatized After Israel's Last Offensive. orinocotribune.com Nine out of ten children in the Gaza Strip currently suffer some form of conflict-related trauma after the Israeli military attack ended over a month ago, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor). | A human rights report published on Friday revealed that 91% of children in the Gaza Strip had suffered psychological trauma following the latest Israeli aggression last May. | In addition to more than 260 martyrs claimed by the aggression, including entire families, hundreds were injured, thousands of homes were completely and partially destroyed, and drastic damage to the economy an…

Amal Haddad (2021-07-06). Gaza Is Still Under Attack—but You Wouldn't Know It From the Media. thenation.com Gaza Is Still Under Attack—but You Wouldn't Know It From the Media…

_____ (2021-07-06). The Twisted Case Of Craig Murray. popularresistance.org The recent decision of the High Court of Judiciary in Edinburgh arguing that the journalist and whistleblower Craig Murray should not appeal his conviction and sentence for contempt of court to the United Kingdom Supreme Court was not unexpected.

Susan Price (2021-07-06). The battle to save Willow Grove continues. greenleft.org.au Residents have taken to the Supreme Court to save Willow Grove, as the local community and unionists stand by to defend the historic site. Susan Price reports.

Susan Price (2021-07-06). The battle to save Willow Grove continues. greenleft.org.au Residents have taken to the Supreme Court to save Willow Grove, as community and unionists stand by to defend green ban. Susan Price reports.

Susan Price (2021-07-06). The battle to save Willow Grove continues. greenleft.org.au Residents have taken to the Supreme Court to save Willow Grove, as community and unionists stand by to defend the historic site. Susan Price reports.

Staff (2021-07-06). Headlines for July 6, 2021. democracynow.org WHO Warns Against Dropping Public Health Measures as Delta Coronavirus Variant Spreads , President Biden Says Getting Vaccinated Is "Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do", U.N. Says 400,000 in Ethiopia's Tigray Region Are in Famine, with 1.8 Million on the Brink, U.S.-Trained Honduran Ex-Military Officer Found Guilty of Participating in Murder of Berta Cáceres, Tropical Storm Elsa Makes History as Worsening Climate Crisis Bakes Northern Hemisphere, "Eye of Fire" Erupts from Ruptured Pipeline Near Gulf of Mexico Oil Platform, Black Community in Memphis Defeats Oil Pipeline That Threatened Water Supply, Jessica Reznicek…

Juan Cole (2021-07-06). "Chaos" in Israeli Parliament over Apartheid-style Law against Family Unification for Palestinian-Israelis. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Al-Quds Al-Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] reports "chaos" in the Israeli parliament as it debated into the wee hours of Tuesday morning the renewal of a 2003 law that places obstacles to family unification inside Israel of Palestinian-Israelis who marry Palestinians living in the Occupied West Bank or Gaza. Members of parliament …

_____ (2021-07-06). Palestinians In Chicago Nurture Connection To A Homeland Far Away. popularresistance.org An Estimated 85,000 Palestinians Live In Greater Chicago — 60% Of The Area's Arab Population. The Connection Some Of Them Feel To Their Homeland Was On Full Display During Street Protests In The Loop In Late May.

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2021-07-05). Supreme Court Drives a Stake Through the Heart of the Voting Rights Act. globalresearch.ca

Ramona du Houx (2021-07-05). Supreme Court guts voting rights when upholding Arizona's restrictions, elected officials. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Once hailed as the most effective civil rights legislation in the nation's history, now the Supreme Court has turned on the promise of democracy, the promise of equality and equity for all. For without voting rights, communities of color and low income become disenfranchised, and equality and equity unfulfilled dreams.

Sheila Hamanaka (2021-07-05). 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?>

WSWS Repost (2021-07-05). 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.

Staff (2021-07-05). Vancouver marchers call to #SaveSilwan and defend Palestine against Israeli colonialism. samidoun.net Demonstrators for justice in Palestine marched in Vancouver on Saturday, 3 July, demanding an end to the forced expulsion, home demolitions and displacement in Silwan and throughout occupied Palestine. Protesters gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the center of downtown Vancouver in response to a call from Silwan families resisting Israeli colonialism. Over 130 families, including 1,500 Palestinians, are threatened with the demolition of their homes and expulsion from their land in order to facilitate the construction of a "biblical theme park," the so-called "City of David," atop their destroyed homes and…

Staff (2021-07-05). Ghadanfar Abu Atwan on 60th day of hunger strike — take action to demand his freedom. samidoun.net On 4 July 2021, Ghadanfar Abu Atwan — Palestinian jailed without charge or trial — entered his third month of hunger strike. He has gone without food for 60 days in order to demand his freedom from administrative detention, Israeli imprisonment without charge or trial. Take action to free Ghadanfar — we urge all supporters of Palestine to sign the petition launched by independent grassroots international activists to demand his immediate release and seek worldwide support: www.change.org/freeGhadanfar Ghadanfar Abu Atwan, from Dura, near al-Khalil, launched his hunger strike on 5 May 2021 i…

Staff (2021-07-05). New York protest to #SaveSilwan demands end to U.S. aid to Israel. samidoun.net New Yorkers gathered on Friday, 2 July in a protest to defend Silwan and defend Palestine. The protest was organized outside the offices of the "Friends of Ir David," one of multiple U.S.-based and -registered tax-exempt organizations that fundraise for the colonial settler organizations currently engaged in displacing Palestinians in order to build illegal, exclusively Jewish colonies on occupied Palestinian land. In Silwan, these organizations are working hand in hand with the Israeli regime to forcibly displace over 1,500 Palestinians from their homes and lands in order to construct a religious theme park, the…

Allan Fisher (2021-07-05). Saturday 7/3: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz…

Daniel Beaumont (2021-07-05). The Twilight of Zionism. counterpunch.org The price was high but the Palestinians had the attention of the world press again in May. It took an eleven-day bombardment of Gaza and assaults of various forms on Palestinians in the West Bank and even within Israel itself. The daily violence visited on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is not news.

Anonymous007 (2021-07-05). First "AI War": Israel Uses AI-Controlled Drone Swarms, Supercomputers Against Palestinians. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has reportedly deployed an AI and supercomputers to identify strike targets in what they are calling the first artificial intelligence (AI) war. | During the 11-day escalation in May 2021, the IDF used a swarm of AI-guided drones and supercomputing to comb through data and identify new targets within the Gaza Strip. It claims this is the first time ever that a swarm of AI drones has been used in combat. | The use of AI in drone strike…

Emilie Dye (2021-07-05). Is Fulton v the City of Philadelphia Really a Win for Freedom of Religion? counterpunch.org Many are heralding the Supreme Court's decision in Fulton v Philadelphia as a win for freedom of religion when in fact it is just the opposite. The Supreme Court has required the City of Philadelphia to continue to hire an organisation guilty of using a government contract to enforce their ideology and potentially negatively impact

Staff (2021-07-05). "The Second": Carol Anderson on the Racist History Behind the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms. democracynow.org As gun violence soars in the United States, we look at the Second Amendment and its racist roots with Carol Anderson, author of the new book, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America." In the book, Anderson details how the Second Amendment was written to empower local militia groups to put down slave revolts and protect plantation owners. She writes the Second Amendment is "rooted in fear of Black people, to deny them their rights, to keep them from tasting liberty." Carol Anderson joined us from Atlanta, where she is a professor at Emory University. She is also the author of "One Person, No Vote:…

Staff (2021-07-05). UN panel finds that three female Palestinian students from Birzeit University are in arbitrary detention. samidoun.net Over 300 organizations around the world have come together to demand justice and freedom for imprisoned Palestinian students. The Israeli occupation has targeted Palestinian students and, specifically, the Palestinian student movement and Palestinian student organizations for harsh repression and political detention and imprisonment. Find action items and endorse the campaign: samidoun.net/freepalestinianstudents/ ** The following report is republished from Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights. Download the UN Panel report: lphr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/A… Lawyers for P…

WSWS (2021-07-05). Prosecutors submit evidence that Kenosha, Wisconsin shooter Rittenhouse has ties to fascist Proud Boys. wsws.org Assistant district attorneys have submitted a request to the judge overseeing the case to admit additional evidence that the shooter is associated with the violent white supremacist group the Proud Boys.

Mark Curtis (2021-07-05). Foreign Minister James Cleverly Accused of Breaking UK Ministerial Code over Arms to Israel. globalresearch.ca

Ramona du Houx (2021-07-04). Supreme Court guts voting rights when upholding Arizona's restrictions, elected officials. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Once hailed as the most effective civil rights legislation in the nation's history, now the Supreme Court has turned on the promise of democracy, the promise of equality and equity for all. For without voting rights, communities of color and low income become disenfranchised, and equality and equity unfulfilled dreams.

Nathan King (2021-07-04). The Heat: U.S. Economy, Afghanistan and voting rights. america.cgtn.com For nearly 20 years, it was the centerpiece of U.S. operations in Afghanistan. Now the remaining American convoys have rolled out of Bagram Airfield. And the June jobs report delivers encouraging news for U.S. workers.

Staff (2021-07-04). 'Rules are rules': Biden wades into US sprinter's cannabis ban as anti-doping body accused of RACISM. rt.com President Joe Biden sided with the US Anti-Doping Agency, which suspended rising US sprint star Sha'Carri Richardson for one month after testing positive for marijuana, but said he's proud of how she handled the situation. | Asked whether Richardson's ban, which will likely cost her a spot in the women's 100-meter event at the Tokyo Olympics, was fair, Biden said: "The rules are rules." | "Whether they should remain the rules is a different issue, but the rules are the rules," Biden said, while praising Richardson, who admitted she had used marijuana to cope with the death of her mother, for the way she respon…

Staff (2021-07-04). Palestinian resistance celebrated at Palestine Stand in Toulouse, France. samidoun.net On Saturday, 3 July, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member organization of the Samidoun Network, organized a Palestine Stand at the Capitole metro station in Toulouse, France. The initiative focused on celebrating the legitimacy and necessity of Palestinian resistance in confonting colonization, racism, and apartheid violence, especially following the deadly Israeli military aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in May 2021. üáµüá∏ Hier à Toulouse, nouveau Stand Palestine à la sortie du métro Capitole en soutien à la résistance palestinienne. Celu…

WSWS Repost (2021-07-04). 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.

_____ (2021-07-04). Thousands March In Cancel Canada Day Actions. popularresistance.org On July 1, several thousand Indigenous people and settler and immigrant allies answered the call of organizations like Idle No More to protest the celebration of Canada Day and the ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples. Cancel Canada Day actions took place across the land occupied by the Canadian state, from St. John's, Newfoundland, in the east, to Victoria, B.C., including a march of thousands to parliament in Ottawa. | July 1 of this year marked the 154th anniversary of Confederation, forming the "Dominion of Canada" out of the colonies of Upper Canada (now Ontario), Lower Canada (now Quebec), Nova Scotia, an…

_____ (2021-07-04). Thousands March In Cancel Canada Day Actions. popularresistance.org On July 1, several thousand Indigenous people and settler and immigrant allies answered the call of organizations like Idle No More to protest the celebration of Canada Day and the ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples. Cancel Canada Day actions took place across the land occupied by the Canadian state, from St. John's, Newfoundland, in the east, to Victoria, B.C., including a march of thousands to parliament in Ottawa.

Allan Fisher (2021-07-04). Saturday 7/3: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz…

Daniel Beaumont (2021-07-04). The Twilight of Zionism. counterpunch.org The price was high but the Palestinians had the attention of the world press again in May. It took an eleven-day bombardment of Gaza and assaults of various forms on Palestinians in the West Bank and even within Israel itself. The daily violence visited on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is not news.

Anonymous669 (2021-07-04). Cargo Ship Attacked In Northern Indian Ocean Is Not Israeli One. southfront.org The previously Israeli-owned CSAV TYNDALL is seen sailing near the port of Pireas, Greece, on January 15, 2021. (Screenshot: YouTube) | The cargo ship that was attacked in the northern Indian ocean on Many sources, including the al-Mayadin TV that was the first to report the attack, claimed that the ship was owned by an Israeli firm. This claim turned ou…

Staff (2021-07-04). July 4 Glorifies the US Military — a Force With White Supremacy at Its Core. truthout.org In his "What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July" speech, Black abolitionist Fredrick Douglass highlighted the gross contradictions of a country that claimed to celebrate freedom and independence while embracing slavery. Douglass, however, took solace in America's age. "There is consolation in the thought that America is young. Great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages," Douglass said in his speech on July 5, 1852. The country was 76 at the time. | Toda…

Danny Schechter (2021-07-04). July 4: "Patriotic Rituals R Us". American Independence and Frederick Douglass' Echoes Through The Ages. globalresearch.ca This incisive article was written by the late Danny Schechter, renowned author, television producer, filmmaker and contributor to Global Research, first published on July 4th, 2014. Danny's thoughts and analysis will be remembered. | * * * | The wheel of …

Ramona du Houx (2021-07-04). Supreme Court guts voting rights when upholding Arizona's restrictions, elected officials. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Once hailed as the most effective civil rights legislation in the nation's history, now the Supreme Court has turned on the promise of democracy, the promise of equality and equity for all. For without voting rights, communities of color and low income become disenfranchised, and equality and equity unfulfilled dreams.

Nathan King (2021-07-04). The Heat: U.S. Economy, Afghanistan and voting rights. america.cgtn.com For nearly 20 years, it was the centerpiece of U.S. operations in Afghanistan. Now the remaining American convoys have rolled out of Bagram Airfield. And the June jobs report delivers encouraging news for U.S. workers.

Staff (2021-07-04). 'Rules are rules': Biden wades into US sprinter's cannabis ban as anti-doping body accused of RACISM. rt.com President Joe Biden sided with the US Anti-Doping Agency, which suspended rising US sprint star Sha'Carri Richardson for one month after testing positive for marijuana, but said he's proud of how she handled the situation. | Asked whether Richardson's ban, which will likely cost her a spot in the women's 100-meter event at the Tokyo Olympics, was fair, Biden said: "The rules are rules." | "Whether they should remain the rules is a different issue, but the rules are the rules," Biden said, while praising Richardson, who admitted she had used marijuana to cope with the death of her mother, for the way she respon…

Staff (2021-07-04). 'Rules are rules': Biden wades into US sprinter's cannabis ban as anti-doping body accused of RACISM. rt.com President Joe Biden sided with the US Anti-Doping Agency, which suspended rising US sprint star Sha'Carri Richardson for one month after testing positive for marijuana, but said he's proud of how she handled the situation. | Asked whether Richardson's ban, which will likely cost her a spot in the women's 100-meter event at the Tokyo Olympics, was fair, Biden said: "The rules are rules." | "Whether they should remain the rules is a different issue, but the rules are the rules," Biden said, while praising Richardson, who admitted she had used marijuana to cope with the death of her mother, for the way she respon…

Staff (2021-07-04). Palestinian resistance celebrated at Palestine Stand in Toulouse, France. samidoun.net On Saturday, 3 July, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member organization of the Samidoun Network, organized a Palestine Stand at the Capitole metro station in Toulouse, France. The initiative focused on celebrating the legitimacy and necessity of Palestinian resistance in confonting colonization, racism, and apartheid violence, especially following the deadly Israeli military aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in May 2021. üáµüá∏ Hier à Toulouse, nouveau Stand Palestine à la sortie du métro Capitole en soutien à la résistance palestinienne. Celu…

WSWS Repost (2021-07-04). 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.

_____ (2021-07-04). Thousands March In Cancel Canada Day Actions. popularresistance.org On July 1, several thousand Indigenous people and settler and immigrant allies answered the call of organizations like Idle No More to protest the celebration of Canada Day and the ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples. Cancel Canada Day actions took place across the land occupied by the Canadian state, from St. John's, Newfoundland, in the east, to Victoria, B.C., including a march of thousands to parliament in Ottawa.

Daniel Beaumont (2021-07-04). The Twilight of Zionism. counterpunch.org The price was high but the Palestinians had the attention of the world press again in May. It took an eleven-day bombardment of Gaza and assaults of various forms on Palestinians in the West Bank and even within Israel itself. The daily violence visited on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is not news.

Anonymous669 (2021-07-04). Cargo Ship Attacked In Northern Indian Ocean Is Not Israeli One. southfront.org The previously Israeli-owned CSAV TYNDALL is seen sailing near the port of Pireas, Greece, on January 15, 2021. (Screenshot: YouTube) | The cargo ship that was attacked in the northern Indian ocean on Many sources, including the al-Mayadin TV that was the first to report the attack, claimed that the ship was owned by an Israeli firm. This claim turned ou…

Staff (2021-07-04). July 4 Glorifies the US Military — a Force With White Supremacy at Its Core. truthout.org In his "What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July" speech, Black abolitionist Fredrick Douglass highlighted the gross contradictions of a country that claimed to celebrate freedom and independence while embracing slavery. Douglass, however, took solace in America's age. "There is consolation in the thought that America is young. Great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages," Douglass said in his speech on July 5, 1852. The country was 76 at the time. | Toda…

Allan Fisher (2021-07-04). Saturday 7/3: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz…

Danny Schechter (2021-07-04). July 4: "Patriotic Rituals R Us". American Independence and Frederick Douglass' Echoes Through The Ages. globalresearch.ca This incisive article was written by the late Danny Schechter, renowned author, television producer, filmmaker and contributor to Global Research, first published on July 4th, 2014. Danny's thoughts and analysis will be remembered. | * * * | The wheel of …

The Conversation (2021-07-03). What the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona Law means for your Right to Vote. juancole.com By Cornell William Clayton and Michael Ritter | — Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will make it harder for some residents to cast ballots. That's the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, one of the decade's most important voting rights …

Ramona du Houx (2021-07-03). Supreme Court guts voting rights when upholding Arizona's restrictions, elected officials. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Once hailed as the most effective civil rights legislation in the nation's history, now the Supreme Court has turned on the promise of democracy, the promise of equality and equity for all. For without voting rights, communities of color and low income become disenfranchised, and equality and equity unfulfilled dreams.

Jessica Corbett (2021-07-03). Supreme Court Delivers Blow to the Voting Rights Act. zcomm.org After SCOTUS Upholds Arizona Limits, Congress Urged to Protect Voters and Expand Court…

Cornell William Clayton, Michael Ritter (2021-07-03). Supreme Court blunts voting rights in Arizona—and potentially nationwide—in controversial ruling. nationofchange.org The court's decision further erodes the Voting Rights Act. Attention now shifts to Congress to see whether it will respond.

Michael Welch (2021-07-03). Canada Day Summer 2021. Mourning the Victims of the Nations "Residential Schools" globalresearch.ca "Many "corrections" are still needed to rid Canada of the structural violence and systemic racism that has evolved here over the past five centuries. One step in this process is to revise our understanding of history and to do …

Staff (2021-07-03). Black Lives Matter gestures given green light for Tokyo Games as Olympic chiefs confirm athletes can kneel before events are held. rt.com The International Olympic Committee appears to have fully opened the door to gestures such as the taking of the knee for Black Lives Matter at this summer's games in Tokyo, easing the rules after consulting thousands of athletes. | A new version of International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines, produced to provide "further clarity and guidance" to athletes, gives stars the "opportunity to express their views" in areas including media zones and centers, at press conferences and on social media. | In a potentially telling section for competitors planning to repeat the kneeling gesture that has become prevalen…

_____ (2021-07-03). Olympics Chiefs Relax Protest Rules For Tokyo Games. popularresistance.org The decision came amid calls to relax rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter, which states: "No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas." The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had promised to review the rule after the Black Lives Matter movement gained global support.

WSWS Repost (2021-07-03). 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.

WSWS (2021-07-03). The Fourth of July in the United States, six months after the January 6 fascistic insurrection. wsws.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.

WSWS (2021-07-03). The democratic issues in Bill Cosby's release. wsws.org On Thursday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the April 2018 conviction of actor and entertainer Bill Cosby, ordering his immediate release from prison. The court ruled that the prosecution violated Cosby's Fifth Amendment right to protection against forced self-incrimination.

WSWS (2021-07-03). US Supreme Court upholds restrictive Arizona voting rules. wsws.org The escalating attack on democratic rights reflects the rightward shift of the entire ruling class in the aftermath of the January 6 coup attempt.

Anonymous103 (2021-07-03). New Wave Of Israeli Airstrikes Targeted Hamas Facilities In Gaza (Video). southfront.org Click to see full-size | The Israel Defense Forces bombed Gaza for the second time in the last two days. Late at night, Israeli Air Force fighter jets carried out airstrikes on what is reported to be Hamas' 'weapons manufacturing sites'. | The previous strikes According to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the strikes tar…

Human Rights Watch (2021-07-03). Gaza Disability Rights Defender recounts harrowing Flight from Israeli Airstrikes at U.N. juancole.com By Abier Almasri | Research Assistant, Middle East and North Africa Division | @abier_i | — ( ) — Abeer al-Harakli, a 28-year-old disability rights defender from Gaza, addressed the United Nations earlier this month at the 14th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. …

Angela (2021-07-03). Thursday 7/1: Tell Pelosi: Take Action for Palestine. indybay.org 90 7th St, San Francisco…

Staff (2021-07-03). China's foreign minister calls for international 'Great Wall of Immunity' to stop Covid-19. rt.com Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the international community to work together to build a "Great Wall of Immunity" against Covid-19 on Saturday. | During a speech to the 9th World Peace Forum in Beijing, Wang The most urgent priority is to expedite the construction of the 'Great Wall of Immunity' to fend off the virus, surpass political discrimination and carry ou…

Juan Cole (2021-07-03). United Nations Accuses Israel of 'Grave Violations' against Palestinian Children. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — This week, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres presented a report to the 75th General Assembly on the "Promotion and protection of the rights of children: promotion and protection of the rights of children: Children and Armed Conflict" It had a damning section on the situation in Israel …

Allan Fisher (2021-07-03). Saturday 7/3: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz…

_____ (2021-07-03). Shutting Down The British Arms Trade To Israel. popularresistance.org Palestine Action Has Made Headlines For Its Forceful Commitment To Shutting Down The Arms Trade Between Israel And The U.K., Trying To Do With Direct Action What Anti-War Organizations Have Long Been Calling For.

_____ (2021-07-03). PalAction: Shutting Down The British Arms Trade To Israel. popularresistance.org Palestine Action Has Made Headlines For Its Forceful Commitment To Shutting Down The Arms Trade Between Israel And The U.K., Trying To Do With Direct Action What Anti-War Organizations Have Long Been Calling For.

Susana Khalil (2021-07-03). European Monotheism is Arab Monotheism — Crusades, Zionism and Saudism are Burdens of the Imperial West. orinocotribune.com

Staff (2021-07-03). Black Lives Matter gestures given green light for Tokyo Games as Olympic chiefs confirm athletes can kneel before events are held. rt.com The International Olympic Committee appears to have fully opened the door to gestures such as the taking of the knee for Black Lives Matter at this summer's games in Tokyo, easing the rules after consulting thousands of athletes. | A new version of International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines, produced to provide "further clarity and guidance" to athletes, gives stars the "opportunity to express their views" in areas including media zones and centers, at press conferences and on social media. | In a potentially telling section for competitors planning to repeat the kneeling gesture that has become prevalen…

_____ (2021-07-03). Olympics Chiefs Relax Protest Rules For Tokyo Games. popularresistance.org The decision came amid calls to relax rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter, which states: "No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas." The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had promised to review the rule after the Black Lives Matter movement gained global support.

WSWS (2021-07-03). The Fourth of July in the United States, six months after the January 6 fascistic insurrection. wsws.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.

WSWS Repost (2021-07-03). 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.

The Conversation (2021-07-03). What the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona Law means for your Right to Vote. juancole.com By Cornell William Clayton and Michael Ritter | — Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will make it harder for some residents to cast ballots. That's the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, one of the decade's most important voting rights …

Cornell William Clayton, Michael Ritter (2021-07-03). Supreme Court blunts voting rights in Arizona—and potentially nationwide—in controversial ruling. nationofchange.org The court's decision further erodes the Voting Rights Act. Attention now shifts to Congress to see whether it will respond.

Ramona du Houx (2021-07-03). Supreme Court guts voting rights when upholding Arizona's restrictions, elected officials. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Once hailed as the most effective civil rights legislation in the nation's history, now the Supreme Court has turned on the promise of democracy, the promise of equality and equity for all. For without voting rights, communities of color and low income become disenfranchised, and equality and equity unfulfilled dreams.

Jessica Corbett (2021-07-03). Supreme Court Delivers Blow to the Voting Rights Act. zcomm.org After SCOTUS Upholds Arizona Limits, Congress Urged to Protect Voters and Expand Court…

Michael Welch (2021-07-03). Canada Day Summer 2021. Mourning the Victims of the Nations "Residential Schools" globalresearch.ca "Many "corrections" are still needed to rid Canada of the structural violence and systemic racism that has evolved here over the past five centuries. One step in this process is to revise our understanding of history and to do …

Human Rights Watch (2021-07-03). Gaza Disability Rights Defender recounts harrowing Flight from Israeli Airstrikes at U.N. juancole.com By Abier Almasri | Research Assistant, Middle East and North Africa Division | @abier_i | — ( ) — Abeer al-Harakli, a 28-year-old disability rights defender from Gaza, addressed the United Nations earlier this month at the 14th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. …

Staff (2021-07-03). China's foreign minister calls for international 'Great Wall of Immunity' to stop Covid-19. rt.com Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the international community to work together to build a "Great Wall of Immunity" against Covid-19 on Saturday. | During a speech to the 9th World Peace Forum in Beijing, Wang The most urgent priority is to expedite the construction of the 'Great Wall of Immunity' to fend off the virus, surpass political discrimination and carry ou…

Anonymous103 (2021-07-03). New Wave Of Israeli Airstrikes Targeted Hamas Facilities In Gaza (Video). southfront.org Click to see full-size | The Israel Defense Forces bombed Gaza for the second time in the last two days. Late at night, Israeli Air Force fighter jets carried out airstrikes on what is reported to be Hamas' 'weapons manufacturing sites'. | The previous strikes According to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the strikes tar…

Allan Fisher (2021-07-03). Saturday 7/3: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz…

Angela (2021-07-03). Thursday 7/1: Tell Pelosi: Take Action for Palestine. indybay.org 90 7th St, San Francisco…

_____ (2021-07-03). PalAction: Shutting Down The British Arms Trade To Israel. popularresistance.org Palestine Action Has Made Headlines For Its Forceful Commitment To Shutting Down The Arms Trade Between Israel And The U.K., Trying To Do With Direct Action What Anti-War Organizations Have Long Been Calling For.

Susana Khalil (2021-07-03). European Monotheism is Arab Monotheism — Crusades, Zionism and Saudism are Burdens of the Imperial West. orinocotribune.com

Staff (2021-07-02). 'The officer dragged me out of the car': Cops who stopped sprint duo 'face investigation over alleged racism & dishonesty' (VIDEO). rt.com Police officers who were involved in the stop and search of British sprinter Bianca Williams and her athlete partner are now under investigation for gross misconduct in relation to racism and dishonesty, reports have claimed. | Ricardo dos Santos and Williams were stopped in north-west London on July 4 last year by Territorial Support Group officers linked to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). | They were searched on suspicion of possessing drugs and weapons, with their then-three-month-old son in the back seat. Nothing was found in the vehicle or on their person. | Since then, an investigation launched by…

Marjorie Cohn (2021-07-02). UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence. zcomm.org Activists as well as legislators must use this report to effect real change and dismantle systemic racism…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-07-02). Bennett's Political Theater: the Decisive Israeli-Palestinian Fight Ahead. counterpunch.org Many Palestinians believe that the May 10-21 military confrontation between Israel and the Gaza Resistance, along with the simultaneous popular revolt across Palestine, was a game-changer. Israel is doing everything in its power to prove them wrong. Palestinians are justified to hold this viewpoint; after all, their minuscule military capabilities in a besieged and impoverished

Ramzy Baroud (2021-07-02). Bennett's political theatre: The decisive Israeli-Palestinian fight ahead. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Many Palestinians believe that the 10-21 May military confrontation between Israel and the Gaza Resistance, along with the simultaneous popular revolt across Palestine, was a game-changer. Israel is doing everything in its power to prove them wrong. Palestinians are justified to hold this viewpoint; after all, their minuscule military …

Ramzy Baroud (2021-07-02). Bennett's Political Theater: The Decisive Israeli-Palestinian Fight Ahead. zcomm.org Many Palestinians believe that the May 10-21 military confrontation between Israel and the Gaza Resistance, along with the simultaneous popular revolt across Palestine, was a game-changer…

Anonymous007 (2021-07-02). Israel Bombs Gaza In Response To Incendiary Balloons Lighting Open Fields On Fire. southfront.org Illustrative image, click to see full-size. A fireball lights up the night sky above buildings near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, as IDF planes hit a Hamas site in the Palestinian enclave, on June 17, 2021. | In the early hours of July 2nd, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck an alleged Hamas 'weapons manufacturing site' in Gaza, in response to alleged incendiary balloons being launched toward Israeli territory. | In response to the arson balloons launched from Gaza toward…

Elie Mystal (2021-07-02). Bigots Have Finally Accomplished Their Goal of Gutting the Voting Rights Act. thenation.com Bigots Have Finally Accomplished Their Goal of Gutting the Voting Rights Act…

Staff (2021-07-02). Supreme Court "Hijacking" Democracy with Rulings That Gut Voting Rights & Allow More Dark Money. democracynow.org In a pair of major rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court has gutted more of the Voting Rights Act while making it easier for billionaires to secretly bankroll political campaigns. In a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices upheld two Arizona election laws that have been widely criticized for their impact on minority voters, sending a signal that other voting restrictions in Republican-led states are also likely to be ruled constitutional if challenges are brought to the high court. In a separate case, the court's conservative majority struck down a California law that required charities to privately disclose their top do…

Staff (2021-07-02). Headlines for July 2, 2021. democracynow.org Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Voter Suppression Law in Latest Blow to Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court Strikes Down California Donor Law in Major Win for Dark Money Groups, Trump Organization Charged with Criminal Tax Fraud, CFO Charged with Grand Larceny, WHO Warns Delta Coronavirus Variant Driving Massive Third Wave Across Africa, Venezuela Begins Administering Cuban-Made Abdala COVID-19 Vaccine, Extreme Heat Wave Scorches Canada, Nearly Wiping Out Canadian Town of Lytton, Pelosi Appoints Republican Liz Cheney to Select Committee to Probe Capitol Insurrection, Attorney General Merrick Garland Halts Federal Exec…

Ramona du Houx (2021-07-02). Supreme Court guts voting rights when upholding Arizona's restrictions, elected officials. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Once hailed as the most effective civil rights legislation in the nation's history, now the Supreme Court has turned on the promise of democracy, the promise of equality and equity for all. For without voting rights, communities of color and low income become disenfranchised, and equality and equity unfulfilled dreams.

Glenn Sacks (2021-07-02). Schools Must Teach About Racism. progressive.org Teaching about racism helps explain many of the key issues that students and their families face.

WSWS (2021-07-02). 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones granted tenure after weeks of media furor. wsws.org The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to grant Hannah-Jones' application for a full tenure professorship after weeks of outrage and accusations of racism over an initial decision to postpone a vote.

Staff (2021-07-02). 'The officer dragged me out of the car': Cops who stopped sprint duo 'face investigation over alleged racism & dishonesty' (VIDEO). rt.com Police officers who were involved in the stop and search of British sprinter Bianca Williams and her athlete partner are now under investigation for gross misconduct in relation to racism and dishonesty, reports have claimed. | Ricardo dos Santos and Williams were stopped in north-west London on July 4 last year by Territorial Support Group officers linked to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). | They were searched on suspicion of possessing drugs and weapons, with their then-three-month-old son in the back seat. Nothing was found in the vehicle or on their person. | Since then, an investigation launched by…

Sonia Qadir (2021-07-02). Revolutionizing the narrative: Building a principled Pakistani solidarity movement for Palestine. mronline.org As part of the ongoing Nakba, Israel has once again unleashed its latest reign of terror on Palestine, in response to resistance by Palestinians against ethnic cleansing of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem (meant to eviscerate both Palestinian social and cultural life from the city). | July 2, 2021…

Allan Fisher (2021-07-02). Saturday 7/3: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz…

Angela (2021-07-02). Thursday 7/1: Tell Pelosi: Take Action for Palestine. indybay.org 90 7th St, San Francisco…

David Bacon (2021-07-02). The Real Target in the Supreme Court's 'Cedar Point' Decision. thenation.com The Real Target in the Supreme Court's 'Cedar Point' Decision…

Editor (2021-07-02). Reparations! Bring Indigenous children home. workers.org There is no greater proof of genocide than the systematic theft and killing of the children of a people. The governments of the U.S. and Canada stand criminally indicted of genocide after the renewed revelation in late May of the deaths of thousands of Indigenous children at state-run, state-authorized "boarding" . . . |

Eric A. Gordon (2021-07-02). Fiddler on the sidewalks of New York: What became of Tevye. peoplesworld.org BEVERLY HILLS—The last we saw renowned Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem's touching character Tevye the Milkman, he was exiting the stage escaping an anti-Semitic pogrom in Russia headed for parts unknown. People like him wound up in France, England, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia. Many found themselves in New York and other American cities …

David Masciotra (2021-07-02). The Phony Free Speech Panic Versus Right Wing Fascism. counterpunch.org Few trends in American discourse are more revolting than the phony free speech panic. Substack sobbers, like Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, declare their martyrdom while collecting thousands of dollars in subscription fees. They compete only with multimillionaire TV talk show hosts, such Tucker Carlson and Bill Maher, for the ultimate prize in absurdity: Claiming

Eve Ottenberg (2021-07-02). Native Genocide, Native Liberation. counterpunch.org The scope of violence against Native people in the United States is truly staggering. In fact, it would be safe to say the historical genocide never ended. It is ongoing. It is the violence of stolen lands, of stolen children, of dispossession, of police, of payday lenders, liquor stores and pawnshops, of fracking and mining

David Cronin (2021-07-02). "Sad" EU officials happy to boost cooperation with Israel. electronicintifada.net Nuclear research among topics being explored.

STEVE O'KEEFE (2021-07-02). Will Donald J. Trump Be America's Last President? counterpunch.org An amazing thing happened in Israel recently. The hard right and the hard left aligned to kick Benjamin NetanYahoo to the curb. Similarly, the pro-corporate right and anti-corporate left came together in the United States to kick Donald J. Trump to the curb. When these aligned enemies realize they hate each other, they will open

John O'Kane (2021-07-02). Critical Race Theory in Practice. counterpunch.org Critical Race Theory thrives in academe after the anti-racist activism of the 1960s and early 1970s expires: MLK's direct action strategy for change through a multi-racial, class coalition; and the subsequent selective embrace of Malcolm X's focus on combatting the exploitative domination of black communities. When the political tide turns conservative and support for liberal

_____ (2021-07-02). Pueblo Of Zuni Blasts Administration's Position Against Apaches. popularresistance.org The Pueblo of Zuni would be remiss in this context to remain silent on the recent legal position taken by the Biden-Harris Administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding Chi'chil Bildagoteel (i.e., Oak Flat) and the Resolution Copper mine in Arizona. The Administration's stated position is unfortunate and extremely troubling, as it is in fact little more than a continuation of a policy of containment and erasure of Native peoples that directly contradicts in substance, content, and spirit the Administration's own E.O. 13985. This position is a reinforcement and reproduction of racist legal legacies of Nat…

John Nichols (2021-07-02). The True American Patriots Are the Anti-Imperialists. thenation.com The True American Patriots Are the Anti-Imperialists…

Labor Video Project (2021-07-02). ILWU & Fight Against Zionist Shipping Line ZIM In Oakland & West Coast. indybay.org ILWU Local 10 retired member Jack Heyman is interviewed about the struggle against the Israeli shipping line ZIM and the action by ILWU longshore workers in Oakland and the West Coast to abide by picket lines.

Mel Gurtov (2021-07-02). Saving the US-Iran Nuclear Agreement. counterpunch.org Despite the best efforts of the Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu to disrupt the nuclear talks with Iran by attacking Iran's nuclear computer network, the news out of Geneva is that a new agreement is close to being signed. It has been a very rough road to get there—a road worth recalling because among that

_____ (2021-07-01). Analysis Shows How Democrats Fall for Right Wing-Orchestrated Attacks on Ilhan Omar. commondreams.org When that question remains publicly unaddressed, the context of racism and militarism continues to fester within the nation's police departments.

Channing Martinez (2021-07-01). How the Los Angeles Metro Sabotaged Its Own Less Fair "Fareless Transportation Plan" and Reverted to Its Structural Transit Racism. counterpunch.org An Organizer's Analysis and Plan for Action In its May 2021 the Los Angeles the MTA rejected demands by the Bus Riders Union and many community allies for "free public transportation for all" now. Instead, MTA Mayor Eric Garcetti and County Supervisor Janice Hahn cut a back room deal to kill the plan for free

Robert Koehler (2021-07-01). Politically Correct Racism. counterpunch.org "The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie." I offer these words of Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose 2019 essay is part of the New York Times Magazine's "1619 Project," to the Heritage Foundation and the horde of Republican politicians currently trying to update the look and feel of American racism (a.k.a.,

Ramzy Baroud (2021-07-01). Bennett's Political Theater: The Decisive Israeli-Palestinian Fight Ahead. dissidentvoice.org Many Palestinians believe that the May 10-21 military confrontation between Israel and the Gaza Resistance, along with the simultaneous popular revolt across Palestine, was a game-changer. Israel is doing everything in its power to prove them wrong. Palestinians are justified to hold this viewpoint; after all, their minuscule military capabilities in a besieged and impoverished …

WSWS (2021-07-01). Republican governors deploy police and troops against immigrants along US-Mexico border. wsws.org Not only is the deployment an unconstitutional challenge to the federal government, but the South Dakota National Guard is being paid for by a fascist billionaire, not the state government.

Staff (2021-07-01). 3 July, Vancouver: Save Silwan, Defend Palestine. samidoun.net Saturday, 3 July 1: 00 pm Vancouver Art Gallery 750 Hornby Street Vancouver Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/515066043074118/ VANCOUVER, WE WILL NOT STOP. After the assassination of Nizar Banat by the PA, the destruction of the Rajbi shop in Silwan and the ongoing attempts to ethnically cleanse Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, Beita, Gaza, Sbeih mountain, our voices need to be louder than ever. The PA and the Zionist regime are roadblocks to Palestinian liberation and are funded with your taxpayer dollars via arms sales & military police training. We're demanding an end to Canadian complicity in Palestinian genocid…

John Wojcik (2021-07-01). Supreme Court guts what's left of the Voting Rights Act. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court early this morning gutted the little that is left of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by upholding two racist election laws enacted in the 2020 battleground state of Arizona that make it much more difficult for minorities in that state to vote. The ruling said essentially that any changes …

Davin Rosborough (2021-07-01). Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act Decision Narrows Another Path to Challenge Discriminatory Voting Laws. aclu.org Today, the Supreme Court decided two Arizona voting laws were not racially discriminatory and did not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) in

Ramona du Houx (2021-07-01). Supreme Court guts voting rights when upholding Arizona's restrictions, elected officials. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Once hailed as the most effective civil rights legislation in the nation's history, now the Supreme Court has turned on the promise of democracy, the promise of equality and equity for all. For without voting rights, communities of color and low income become disenfranchised, and equality and equity unfulfilled dreams.

Deadline for Democracy Coalition (2021-07-01). Friday 7/9: Walnut Creek: Deadline for Democracy Sidewalk Rally for Voting Rights. indybay.org Intersection of Ygnacio Valley Road and Civic Drive, Walnut Creek 94596 | This is a peaceful event. Follow current COVID safety guidelines.

The Conversation (2021-07-01). Structural racism: what it is and how it works, and why Critical Race Theory Explains it. juancole.com By Vini Lander | — From the moment it was published, the UK's Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities' report was met with a media storm driven by both its supporters and detractors. Months later, amid continued division over the report's position that racism isn't pronounced in the UK, there's still some confusion about what …

Daniel Lopez (2021-07-01). Arizona doctor fired for pro-Palestine statement in Zionist smear campaign. liberationnews.org A central goal of these smear campaigns is to strike fear into all activists.

Staff (2021-07-01). Global Calendar of Resistance: Join these events to defend Palestine! samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international supporters of Palestine to escalate their organizing and struggle to confront massacres and ethnic cleansing and support Palestinian resistance throughout the entire land of Palestine. (The list below will be constantly updated — our Global Calendar — please share the link with your friends and comrades!) These events are organized by many groups around the world — wherever possible, we link to the original organizers so that you can be in direct contact! Please note: this list is for action-oriented/out…

Yara Hawari (2021-07-01). Palestinians are Mobilized in the face of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing. juancole.com (Al-Shabaka ) — The ongoing Palestinian uprising against the Israeli settler-colonial regime in colonized Palestine did not begin in Sheikh Jarrah, the Palestinian neighborhood of Jerusalem whose residents face imminent ethnic cleansing. While the threat of the expulsion of these eight families certainly catalyzed this mass popular mobilization, the ongoing uprising is ultimately an articulation …

Ali Abunimah (2021-07-01). Anti-imperialism and the liberation of Palestine. electronicintifada.net US efforts to foment sectarianism have failed to weaken resistance.

Asa Winstanley (2021-07-01). The World's Gaze is turning away from the Palestinians, but their Oppression hasn't Changed. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — If there was only one tiny sliver of hope that emerged after the horrors that Israel inflicted on the Palestinians last month, it was a new sense of unity among the people of Palestine themselves. And the global solidarity movement for Palestinian rights received a major boost too. On …

Allan Fisher (2021-07-01). Saturday 7/3: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz…

Angela (2021-07-01). Thursday 7/1: Tell Pelosi: Take Action for Palestine. indybay.org 90 7th St, San Francisco…

_____ (2021-07-01). Judge Tosses Frivolous Lawsuit By Heiress Seeking To Destroy The Grayzone. popularresistance.org The District of Columbia Superior Court has rejected a frivolous, million-dollar lawsuit claiming libel, defamation, and tortious conspiracy filed by writer Sulome Anderson against The Grayzone's editor Max Blumenthal and assistant editor Ben Norton. | Judge William M. Jackson's June 16, 2021 decision put an end to the entitled heiress' three-year-long campaign to smear and bankrupt The Grayzone with the help of a powerful DC lawyer closely linked to the Israel lobby. | It was a humiliating resolution to a legal assault that threatened to impose a serious chilling effect on independent media and press freedom had…

_____ (2021-07-01). Court Drops Bombshell On B.C. Natural Gas Industry. popularresistance.org The B.C. Supreme Court has found the B.C. government infringed the Blueberry River First Nation's treaty rights by allowing decades of industrial development in their traditional territory.

_____ (2021-07-01). Supreme Court Ruling Delivers 'Dark, Dark Day for Democracy'. commondreams.org To tackle concentration in the tech sector, Congress must restrict discretion by judges and agencies that are subject to shifting political winds.

Anonymous669 (2021-07-01). Israeli Military Warned Syrian Soldiers Against Using Equipment Supplied By Hezbollah. southfront.org An old military vehicle can be seen positioned near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights. IMAGE: AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS | On July 1, the Israeli military dropped leaflets over the western countryside of Daraa in southern Syria warning Syrian Arab Army (SAA) service members against using devices and equipment which were recently supplied to them by Lebanon's Hezbollah. | The leaflets were dropped over an army base located a few kilometers away from the separation line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. | &yuml…

Staff (2021-07-01). UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence. truthout.org On June 28, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet released

Daniel Lopez (2021-07-01). Arizona doctor fired for pro-Palestine statement in Zionist smear campaign. liberationnews.org A central goal of these smear campaigns is to strike fear into all activists.

Staff (2021-07-01). Global Calendar of Resistance: Join these events to defend Palestine! samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international supporters of Palestine to escalate their organizing and struggle to confront massacres and ethnic cleansing and support Palestinian resistance throughout the entire land of Palestine. (The list below will be constantly updated — our Global Calendar — please share the link with your friends and comrades!) These events are organized by many groups around the world — wherever possible, we link to the original organizers so that you can be in direct contact! Please note: this list is for action-oriented/out…

Staff (2021-07-01). 3 July, Vancouver: Save Silwan, Defend Palestine. samidoun.net Saturday, 3 July 1: 00 pm Vancouver Art Gallery 750 Hornby Street Vancouver Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/515066043074118/ VANCOUVER, WE WILL NOT STOP. After the assassination of Nizar Banat by the PA, the destruction of the Rajbi shop in Silwan and the ongoing attempts to ethnically cleanse Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, Beita, Gaza, Sbeih mountain, our voices need to be louder than ever. The PA and the Zionist regime are roadblocks to Palestinian liberation and are funded with your taxpayer dollars via arms sales & military police training. We're demanding an end to Canadian complicity in Palestinian genocid…

Yara Hawari (2021-07-01). Palestinians are Mobilized in the face of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing. juancole.com (Al-Shabaka ) — The ongoing Palestinian uprising against the Israeli settler-colonial regime in colonized Palestine did not begin in Sheikh Jarrah, the Palestinian neighborhood of Jerusalem whose residents face imminent ethnic cleansing. While the threat of the expulsion of these eight families certainly catalyzed this mass popular mobilization, the ongoing uprising is ultimately an articulation …

Ali Abunimah (2021-07-01). Anti-imperialism and the liberation of Palestine. electronicintifada.net US efforts to foment sectarianism have failed to weaken resistance.

Asa Winstanley (2021-07-01). The World's Gaze is turning away from the Palestinians, but their Oppression hasn't Changed. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — If there was only one tiny sliver of hope that emerged after the horrors that Israel inflicted on the Palestinians last month, it was a new sense of unity among the people of Palestine themselves. And the global solidarity movement for Palestinian rights received a major boost too. On …

Allan Fisher (2021-07-01). Saturday 7/3: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz…

John Wojcik (2021-07-01). Supreme Court guts what's left of the Voting Rights Act. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court early this morning gutted the little that is left of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by upholding two racist election laws enacted in the 2020 battleground state of Arizona that make it much more difficult for minorities in that state to vote. The ruling said essentially that any changes …

Davin Rosborough (2021-07-01). Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act Decision Narrows Another Path to Challenge Discriminatory Voting Laws. aclu.org Today, the Supreme Court decided two Arizona voting laws were not racially discriminatory and did not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) in

Ramona du Houx (2021-07-01). Supreme Court guts voting rights when upholding Arizona's restrictions, elected officials. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Once hailed as the most effective civil rights legislation in the nation's history, now the Supreme Court has turned on the promise of democracy, the promise of equality and equity for all. For without voting rights, communities of color and low income become disenfranchised, and equality and equity unfulfilled dreams.

Deadline for Democracy Coalition (2021-07-01). Friday 7/9: Walnut Creek: Deadline for Democracy Sidewalk Rally for Voting Rights. indybay.org Intersection of Ygnacio Valley Road and Civic Drive, Walnut Creek 94596 | This is a peaceful event. Follow current COVID safety guidelines.

The Conversation (2021-07-01). Structural racism: what it is and how it works, and why Critical Race Theory Explains it. juancole.com By Vini Lander | — From the moment it was published, the UK's Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities' report was met with a media storm driven by both its supporters and detractors. Months later, amid continued division over the report's position that racism isn't pronounced in the UK, there's still some confusion about what …

Channing Martinez (2021-07-01). How the Los Angeles Metro Sabotaged Its Own Less Fair "Fareless Transportation Plan" and Reverted to Its Structural Transit Racism. counterpunch.org An Organizer's Analysis and Plan for Action In its May 2021 the Los Angeles the MTA rejected demands by the Bus Riders Union and many community allies for "free public transportation for all" now. Instead, MTA Mayor Eric Garcetti and County Supervisor Janice Hahn cut a back room deal to kill the plan for free

Robert Koehler (2021-07-01). Politically Correct Racism. counterpunch.org "The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie." I offer these words of Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose 2019 essay is part of the New York Times Magazine's "1619 Project," to the Heritage Foundation and the horde of Republican politicians currently trying to update the look and feel of American racism (a.k.a.,

_____ (2021-07-01). Analysis Shows How Democrats Fall for Right Wing-Orchestrated Attacks on Ilhan Omar. commondreams.org When that question remains publicly unaddressed, the context of racism and militarism continues to fester within the nation's police departments.

Angela (2021-07-01). Thursday 7/1: Tell Pelosi: Take Action for Palestine. indybay.org 90 7th St, San Francisco…

_____ (2021-07-01). Judge Tosses Frivolous Lawsuit By Heiress Sulome Anderson Seeking To Destroy The Grayzone. popularresistance.org Judge William M. Jackson's June 16, 2021 decision put an end to the entitled heiress' three-year-long campaign to smear and bankrupt The Grayzone with the help of a powerful DC lawyer closely linked to the Israel lobby. It was a humiliating resolution to a legal assault that threatened to impose a serious chilling effect on independent media and press freedom had it been successful.

Anonymous669 (2021-07-01). Israeli Military Warned Syrian Soldiers Against Using Equipment Supplied By Hezbollah. southfront.org An old military vehicle can be seen positioned near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights. IMAGE: AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS | On July 1, the Israeli military dropped leaflets over the western countryside of Daraa in southern Syria warning Syrian Arab Army (SAA) service members against using devices and equipment which were recently supplied to them by Lebanon's Hezbollah. | The leaflets were dropped over an army base located a few kilometers away from the separation line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. | &yuml…

Staff (2021-07-01). Xi calls for 'complete reunification' with Taiwan as China celebrates centenary of its Communist Party. rt.com Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged his compatriots to "smash" any attempts at independence from Taipei, calling for "reunification" with the island in an address marking the 100th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party. | In an extensive speech from Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Wednesday, Xi hailed China's progress at home, such as rooting out "absolute poverty," and warned foreign powers against attempts to "bully" or lecture China. | Speaking on the issue of Taiwan, which has become a bone of contention between Beijing and Washington, with the latter routinely sending warships into the sensitive waters of t…

_____ (2021-07-01). Court Drops Bombshell On B.C. Natural Gas Industry. popularresistance.org The B.C. Supreme Court has found the B.C. government infringed the Blueberry River First Nation's treaty rights by allowing decades of industrial development in their traditional territory.

_____ (2021-07-01). Supreme Court Ruling Delivers 'Dark, Dark Day for Democracy'. commondreams.org To tackle concentration in the tech sector, Congress must restrict discretion by judges and agencies that are subject to shifting political winds.

WSWS (2021-07-01). Republican governors deploy police and troops against immigrants along US-Mexico border. wsws.org Not only is the deployment an unconstitutional challenge to the federal government, but the South Dakota National Guard is being paid for by a fascist billionaire, not the state government.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-01). Dozens killed in crackdown on Swaziland's pro-democracy protests and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the escalating crackdown on pro-democracy protestors amid an internet blackout in Swaziland, the killings of 15 people in Haiti amid a surge in gang violence, protests in Sudan against worsening economic conditions and the approval of a new IMF debt relief loan, and the destruction of Palestinian properties by Israeli authorities in Occupied East Jerusalem's Silwan area.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2021-07-01). Podcast Ep 41: The village of Lifta and the expulsion of the Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Forced out of his village by Zionist militias as a child, Yacoub Odeh fights to return.

MANO Magazine (2021-07-01). OPINION: What Racists Don't Want Us to Know. latinorebels.com The controversy around critical race theory shows how much white supremacy wants to maintain its whitewashed version of American history.

By Brenda Norrell (2021-07-01). The Shingwauk Files: Documenting Genocide at Native Residential Schools in Canada. indybay.org Mohawk Nation News said, "Each unmarked grave is a separate crime scene and criminal investigation. We know who did the crime. We want to know the specifics of the individuals involved, just like the Nuremberg trials."

_____ (2021-07-01). The Empire Strikes Back at the Left in Buffalo and Cleveland. commondreams.org "Without swift action from Congress, GOP-controlled state legislatures will continue to pass racist anti-voter laws to pick and choose who votes and who doesn't."

Labor Video Project (2021-07-01). ILWU & Fight Against Zionist Shipping Line ZIM In Oakland & West Coast. indybay.org ILWU Local 10 retired member Jack Heyman is interviewed about the struggle against the Israeli shipping line ZIM and the action by ILWU longshore workers in Oakland and the West Coast to abide by picket lines.

Sam Pizzigati (2021-06-30). An Inequality Even Conservative Justices Can't Swallow. counterpunch.org College football coaches normally don't pay much attention to U.S. Supreme Court decisions. College football coaches normally don't pay much attention to much of anything outside their coaching lanes. They've become notorious for their single-minded focus on the gridiron. But coaches have been paying attention to the nation's High Court this week because the Supremes

Staff (2021-06-30). Headlines for June 30, 2021. democracynow.org Israeli Forces Begin Demolitions in East Jerusalem's Silwan, Attack Protesters, U.S. Military May Be Near End of Afghan Withdrawal as Top General Warns of Possible Civil War, Russia Tests Missiles in Crimea After Start of Ukraine-NATO's Black Sea Military Drill, Israel's Foreign Minister Inaugurates Embassy in UAE, Former South African President Jacob Zuma Sentenced to Prison for Contempt of Court, COVID Surge Brings Indonesia to "Edge of Catastrophe"; Virus Lowered Brazil's Life Expectancy, Vaccinated Angelenos Urged to Keep Masking Amid Delta Variant Spread; 800 Line 3 Workers Got COVID, Pfizer & Moderna Vaccin…

Linda Ereikat (2021-06-30). Carrying Palestine's grief . electronicintifada.net We are all birds, hoping to fly home.

_____ (2021-06-30). Coming Out Against Imperialism. popularresistance.org 'Gay Liberation is for the homosexual who stands up, and fights back.' In 1970, the year after the Stonewall riots, fliers for the first Christopher Street Liberation Day captured the theory, practice and spirit of a new generation driven to action. The origins of this new movement and its principles of popular mobilisation, however, can be found as much in the struggles for freedom fought in Cuba, Algeria, Vietnam, South Africa and Palestine as Manhattan's West Village or Islington's Highbury Fields. | Stonewall wasn't the first time queer people in the US had revolted against police repression, but its importan…

Coastside United for Action (2021-06-30). Wednesday 7/7: Voting Rights Now! Sidewalk Rally for Democracy in Pacifica. indybay.org Intersection of CA-1 and Reina Del Mar @ 1 Reina Del Mar, Pacifica, CA 94044…

Deadline for Democracy Coalition (2021-06-30). Friday 7/9: Walnut Creek: Deadline for Democracy Sidewalk Rally for Voting Rights. indybay.org Intersection of Ygnacio Valley Road and Civic Drive, Walnut Creek 94596 | This is a peaceful event. Follow current COVID safety guidelines.

Rainer Shea (2021-06-30). Colombia's Nazistic Horrors Show How the US Government Will React to Future Domestic Revolts. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Jun 26, 2021 | With the world-shocking acts of state violence that have been carried out by Israel and Colombia during the last two months, we've gotten a clearer picture of what it will look like when the "imperial boomerang" effect—where an empire's evils abroad manifest within the empire's own borders—fully comes to define events within the core of global imperialism the United States. In Israel, the US empire has cultivated a laboratory in necro-politics, where methods of brutal repression have been innovated to preserve the settler state in the face of unending Palestinian r…

Robert Koehler (2021-06-30). Politically Correct Racism. zcomm.org So a major component of the latest manifestation of racism is that white people are its victims…

Allan Fisher (2021-06-30). Saturday 6/26: Solidarity with Palestine weekly protest. indybay.org Corner of Ocean Street and Water Street; Santa Cruz…

Angela (2021-06-30). Thursday 7/1: Tell Pelosi: Take Action for Palestine. indybay.org 90 7th St, San Francisco…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-30). Former UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon calls Israeli policies in occupied territories apartheid. peoplesdispatch.org Moon joins a growing international group of leaders and organizations that demand the recognition of the asymmetry between Israel and Palestine and an end to Israeli impunity and human right violations in the occupied Palestinian territories…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-06-30). No child safe under Israel's rule of terror. electronicintifada.net May attack on Gaza was "most fearful" one yet.

_____ (2021-06-30). How Gaza Dethroned The King Of Israel. popularresistance.org How did Benjamin Netanyahu manage to serve as Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister? With a total of 15 years in office, Netanyahu surpassed the 12-year leadership of Israel's founding father, David Ben Gurion. The answer to this question will become particularly critical for future Israeli leaders who hope to emulate Netanyahu's legacy, now that his historic leadership is likely to end. | Netanyahu's 'achievements' for Israel cannot be judged according to the same criteria as that of Ben Gurion. Both were staunch Zionist ideologues and savvy politicians. Unlike Ben Gurion, though, Netanyahu did not lead a so-c…

Juan Cole (2021-06-30). Israeli Forces Demolish Shop, Homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem's Silwan, beginning Ethnic Cleansing Drive. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Tuesday evening, Israeli security forces cracked down on Palestinian protesters in Silwan just south of the Old City of Jerusalem when the latter engaged in protests against the demolition by Israel of a commercial complex, including a butcher shop, in the region. …

Juan Cole (2021-06-30). Ethnic Cleansing Drive. zcomm.org Israeli Forces Demolish Shop, Homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem's Silwan…

Jeff Abbott (2021-06-30). The Other Americans: Guatemala's Far Right Seeks Amnesty for War Crimes. progressive.org The proposed amnesty for the Guatemalan military comes as a blow to the families who have continued to search for their loved ones, especially Indigenous victims of the war.

Joel Wendland-Liu (2021-06-30). Will Biden continue the racist Trump-era 'China Initiative?'. peoplesworld.org Trump launched the so-called "China Initiative" in 2018 to target scholars who worked with Chinese colleagues on science-related projects. Since then, more than a dozen U.S.-based scholars have been arrested, jailed, put on show trials, and harassed by federal authorities. Notably, former Trump aide Steve Bannon's comment that there are "too many Asians in Silicon …

Joel Wendland-Liu (2021-06-30). Will Biden continue the racist Trump-era 'China Initiative'? peoplesworld.org Trump launched the so-called "China Initiative" in 2018 to target scholars who worked with Chinese colleagues on science-related projects. Since then, more than a dozen U.S.-based scholars have been arrested, jailed, put on show trials, and harassed by federal authorities. Notably, former Trump aid Steve Bannon's comment that there are "too many Asians in Silicon …

Nicholas Stender (2021-06-30). Supreme Court to tenants facing eviction: One more month — and that's it! liberationnews.org On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling declining to strike down the Centers for Disease Control's eviction moratorium. This is welcome news to the millions of people behind on their rent, but there is also cause for concern — and an urgent need for Congress to act. Justice Brett Kavanaugh was the deciding …

Martha Grevatt (2021-06-30). Fallo de Corte Suprema: Intolerancia tras hoja de higo de la religión. workers.org El fallo del 17 de junio del Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos, en el caso Fulton contra Filadelfia, representa un ataque intolerante a los derechos de las personas LGBTQ2S+. Afuera de la Corte Suprema, el 8 de octubre de 2019, exigiendo protección legal contra la discriminación de LGBTQ2S+. En . . . |

Anonymous007 (2021-06-30). Rafael Reveals New "Sea Breaker" Maritime and Land-Based Autonomous Precision Missile. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On June 29th, Israeli company Rafael unveiled its "Sea Breaker", which is a Maritime & Land-Based, Long-Range Autonomous Weapon System. | It is essentially a new precision missile, with 300 km range. It can operate from ships at sea, and also ground-based launchers. | The Sea Breaker is a naval and artillery unit "force multiplier, designed to overcome the challenges of the modern warfare arena," Rafael said in a statement. | The four-meter-long missile weighs less than 400 k…