Daily Archives: August 8, 2021

2021-08-08: News Headlines

Middle East Monitor (2021-08-08). Palestinian Students in Gaza Are Back after Israel tried to destroy their future. juancole.com By Wafa Aludaini | — ( Middle East Monitor) — As Palestinian high school students celebrate their success in the Tawjihi exams and plan for the future, those in Gaza are still trying to rebuild their lives after Israel's brutal bombing campaign in May. The Tawjihi exams were held just one month after the ceasefire …

Angela (2021-08-08). Sunday 8/15: Q&A Discussion of film "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org

Allan Fisher (2021-08-08). Saturday 8/7: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

_____ (2021-08-08). Rania Khalek On US Mideast Genocide. popularresistance.org Around one quarter of the world lives in countries under unilateral United States sanctions. While American government officials insist that sanctions are targeted at officials committing human rights abuses in foreign countries, the United Nations notes that they always "disproportionately affect the poor and most vulnerable." | In Cuba, U.S. sanctions are causing shortages that led to widespread protests earlier this summer and are slowing the worldwide rollout of Cuba's domestically produced coronavirus vaccine. U.S. government documents explicitly state that the goal of the blockade of the island is to "decre…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-08). Riots In South Africa: Causes, Interests And Consequences. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Daniel Deiss and Edwin Watson. | In July 2021, South Africa was swept by the largest wave of violence seen since the fall of apartheid in 1994. The protests that began on July 8 have quickly turned into pogroms that involved thousands of people. | The nominal cause for the outbreak of riots was the arrest of a former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma on charges of corruption. Mr. Zuma's controversial activities have long raised questions. | After the fall of apartheid he acquired seni…

Juan Cole (2021-08-08). Why does he Hate our Freedoms? White Nationalist Extremist Tucker Carlson touts Orban's Hungarian Fascism as better than America. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Extreme white nationalist Tucker Carlson took his Fox Cable "News" show on the road to extreme white nationalist Hungary this week. It reminded me a little of when Stephen Colbert went to New Zealand and hung out with Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, except that both Colbert and Arden are very …

Juan Cole (2021-08-08). Why does he Hate our Freedoms? zcomm.org White Nationalist Extremist Tucker Carlson touts Orban's Hungarian Fascism as better than America…

Global Justice Now (2021-08-08). Saturday 9/4: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid International Activist Assembly. indybay.org Online event…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-08-08). International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples toward 2021 California Admission Day. indybay.org The living legacy of Indigenous people throughout the Great State of California legacy will no longer be discounted and/or discredited. Generational Genocide, Slavery and Disparaging treatment cannot be ignored any longer. Together, we can and must form a more perfect union by facing "what really happened" and Build Back Better in 2021.

Michael Welch (2021-08-08). Video: Innumerable Ways Canada Supports Israeli Apartheid. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-08-08). Governments Are Spying On The People Who Bring Us The News. popularresistance.org Janine Jackson: If you don't know the story of how a consortium of journalists revealed how countries around the world have bought spyware from an Israeli surveillance firm, supposedly to track terrorists and other criminals, well, that's understandable. Though it is a journalist-driven effort, and is leading to calls for the resignation of officials in Hungary, for example, the Pegasus Project hasn't really gotten the pay-attention-to-this treatment from US news media. But that emphatically does not mean that the story doesn't concern you and your right to know. | Joining us now to help connect those dots is Cin…

Eve Ottenberg (2021-08-08). Fannie Lou Hamer and the Ongoing Struggle for Voting Rights. counterpunch.org Fannie Lou Hamer was a firebrand. She was a civil rights organizer that doesn't come along every day. Charismatic, she did not kowtow to charismatic leaders. An individual who was a force of nature, she preferred group leadership. A politician who could have led nationally, she believed fiercely in the local and in grassroots organizing. […] | To read this article, In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to acc…

Never Forgive, Never Forget (2021-08-08). Salesforce Client is Republican Party. indybay.org San Francisco's very own tech giant, Salesforce, continues to do the bidding of its client, the Republican Party, also known as the Republican National Committee, despite the Jan. 6, 2021 seditious insurrection by Nazi Trump thugs to overthrow the government by force and violence to install Nazi Trump as dictator. See www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-salesforce-…

John Lewis Mobilization (2021-08-08). Tuesday 8/10: Voting Rights Now! Democracy Can't Wait Virtual Rally & Actions. indybay.org Virtual rally and voting rights actions event…

Mike Ludwig (2021-08-08). Call for Voting Rights March on Washington. zcomm.org Nationwide, 18 states have passed 30 laws that restrict ballot access in one way or another in the months since Trump lost the 2020 election…

Staff (2021-08-07). WATCH: Taliban fighters joyride in Humvees after capturing Nimroz provincial capital & seizing more US-made weaponry. rt.com Taliban militants were spotted parading around in US-made Humvees after seizing a major city in Nimroz province, footage shows — the first regional capital to fall to the group as it launches a wave of attacks across Afghanistan. | The militants were seen making victory laps around the city of Zaranj on Friday afternoon in the captured vehicles, having just captured the provincial capital after overrunning Afghan government forces. |

sputniknews (2021-08-07). Watch Taliban Militants Parade in US-Made Humvees After Seizing Afghan Provincial Capital. sputniknews.com On Friday, Afghanistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ghulam Isaczai told the UN Security Council that the scale and scope of the ongoing Taliban* offensive in the country "are akin to an invasion unparalleled in the last 30 years of the conflict".

_____ (2021-08-07). Media Paints Israel As 'Victim' As Hezbollah Responds To Airstrikes. popularresistance.org Lebanese Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for the firing of the 19 rockets into northern Israel in response to a series of Israeli air and artillery strikes carried out earlier this week on southern Lebanon. The rocket fire reportedly shocked the Israeli military establishment and sparked further aggression against targets in Lebanon's south; and, in defiance of all evidence, Western mainstream media quickly took to painting Israel as the victim.

_____ (2021-08-07). Media Paints Israel As "Victim" As Hezbollah Responds To Fresh Israeli Airstrikes. popularresistance.org Lebanese Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for the firing of the 19 rockets into northern Israel in response to a series of Israeli air and artillery strikes carried out earlier this week on southern Lebanon. The rocket fire reportedly shocked the Israeli military establishment and sparked further aggression against targets in Lebanon's south; and, in defiance of all evidence, Western mainstream media quickly took to painting Israel as the victim.

sputniknews (2021-08-07). Israel-Hezbollah Confrontation is 'Exchange of Messages', War is Not on Horizon, Expert Says. sputniknews.com The reason for this is not only the reluctance of Hezbollah to draw Lebanon into another bloody conflict, especially now when the country is mired in deep economic and political crises. It also stems from Israel being preoccupied with other problems and the split within its own coalition.

Dave DeCamp (2021-08-07). Hezbollah Fires Rockets in Response to Israeli Airstrikes. news.antiwar.com Hezbollah responded Friday to recent Israeli shelling and airstrikes in southern Lebanon by firing rockets into Israel. The incident marks the Israel said 19 rockets were launched from Lebanon and that it fired back with artillery after the barrage. The back and forth is the most significant escalation between Israel and Hezbollah in years, but no casualties were reported on either side. | Israel's initial shelling of Lebanon took place late We…

_____ (2021-08-07). The Politics of Cheering and Booing: On Palestine, Solidarity, and the Tokyo Olympics. commondreams.org "If the corporate Democrats running the party keep… reforms off the table and marginalize the candidates espousing them, they are foreclosing big opportunities to landslide the Trumpian Republicans."

Brett Wilkins (2021-08-07). Palestinians Refuse to Concede Land Rights to Israelis. zcomm.org "The minute we pay rent for our homes, it means we have given up ownership," said one woman who could be expelled to make way for Jewish settlers…

Sharmila Devi (2021-08-07). [World Report] Palestinian health NGO leader detained. thelancet.com Health and human rights organisations have requested the release of Shatha Odeh, director of the Palestinian Health Work Committees, who is being held by the Israeli military. Sharmila Devi reports.

Anonymous669 (2021-08-07). Israeli Military Struck Gaza Strip In Response To Attacks With 'Arson Balloons' (Videos, Photos). southfront.org Illustrative photo of an Israeli F-15 Eagle fighter jet (Edi Israel/Flash90/File) | Early on August 7, warplanes of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out a number of airstrikes on the Palestinian Gaza Strip. | In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that the airstrikes were a response to repeated attacks with "arson balloons" by Palestinians in Gaza. | The IDF claimed that the airstrikes destroyed a compound and a rocket launching site of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movem…

Staff (2021-08-07). Israel Lashes Out at Ben & Jerry's for Boycott in Occupied Palestinian Territory. truthout.org The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement got a powerful boost when Ben & Jerry's announced its boycott in the illegally Occupied Palestinian Territory. On July 19, the iconic ice cream company

Staff (2021-08-07). 7 August, Toulouse: Palestine Stand — Free all Palestinian prisoners! samidoun.net Saturday, 7 August 11 am Metro Capitole Toulouse, France Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/436408997413252/ Saturday August 7th from 11am to 1pm, Collectif Palestine Vaincra is organizing a Palestine Stand at the exit of the Capitole metro in Toulouse. Today, 4,850 Palestinians are imprisoned in Israeli occupation prisons, including 540 administrative detainees (without charge or trial). This comes in addition to the case of Georges Abdallah, Palestinian resistance fighter imprisoned in France since 1984. Faced with this situation, more than 17 prisoners are on hunger strike to demand their immediate rele…

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2021-08-07). US transfers 40 ISIL forces to its base in Hasaka: report. en.mehrnews.com Syrian sources reported that the US military transferred dozens of ISIL prisoners in Syria to its base.

Alan MacLeod (2021-08-07). CoJiT: The "Anti-Extremism" Think Tank Started by Sons of Israeli Superspy Robert Maxwell. orinocotribune.com By Alan Macleod — Aug 3, 2021 | CoJiT's profound and manifold connections to the Israeli security state call into question the Maxwell brothers' motives for founding the think tank, considering how an anti-Muslim extremism agenda could dovetail so easily with a pro-Israeli state one. | LONDON — If you have not heard of Combating Jihadist Terrorism and Extremism (

Editor (2021-08-07). The far Right's manufactured meaning of Critical Race Theory. mronline.org Right-wing commentators claim to know what CRT is, while showing no interest in engaging with its ideas, and only very rarely quote the words of its proponents.

Staff (2021-08-07). 7 August, Toronto: Make Noise for Jerusalem. samidoun.net Saturday, 7 August 2 PM Yonge/Dundas Square Toronto ON Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/218433180287757/ TORONTO: Join us this Saturday August 7th at 2PM in Yonge & Dundas Square to make some noise for Jerusalem and take a stand against Zionist settler-colonialism. As Israel's attempts to evict and displace the residents of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan continue unabated, we call on all people of conscience to show out and stand with residents of occupied East Jerusalem resisting displacement. We demand an end to state and institutional complicity with Israeli apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. We dem…

teleSUR (2021-08-07). Brazil: Bolsonaro Calls Supreme Court's Head "Son of the Bitch" telesurenglish.net Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro publically offended the country's Head of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) Judge Luiz Barroso by calling him "son of the bitch" and "terrorists' defender" during a visit to Joinville. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro took part in a motorbike rally in Santa Catarina while violating all health measures established by federal and local authorities to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. | The President also accused…

_____ (2021-08-07). 2021 Is The Year Of Catastrophic Climate Change, But Capitalism Doesn't Care. popularresistance.org "The notion of the supremacy of self-gratification has been so powerfully engrained in us, the economically fortunate ones — particularly over the last 40 years or so — that our fellow citizens, in significant numbers, soon forgot the beauty of the clean air, the silence and the return of birdsong to our city centres in the first Covid lockdown, and felt stifled, longing to return to whatever their previous obsessions had been — tourism, spectacle, over-consumption."

ecns.cn (2021-08-07). What is the U.S. afraid of? What kind of 'truth' does it try to make up?>. ecns.cn The U.S.' "excessive efforts" on origin tracing has distorted this scientific issue while its failure to curb the surging COVID-19 cases has ruined its international image.

_____ (2021-08-07). Is the Western Hemisphere Hurling Towards a 'Covid Civil War'? strategic-culture.org Vaccine passports in major cities will be viewed as an abuse of political power for ulterior motives, Robert Bridge writes. | Apartheid conditions are being created in Western countries between the vaccinated and 'anti-vaxxers.' And with the introduction of vaccine passports, which could theoretically deny the unvaccinated the most basic and essential services, things could get ugly very fast. | It wasn't supposed to be this way. What began as "15 days to flatten the curve," and then as a voluntary vaccination program, is now steamrolling into a form of government overreach as the simple things people took for g…

WSWS (2021-08-07). New Zealand government's proposed "hate speech" law attacks free speech. wsws.org The Labour-Green Party government is turning to identity politics and exploiting the fascist 2019 Christchurch massacre to attack free speech and suppress social opposition from the working class.

_____ (2021-08-07). Reverend William Barber Leads Moral Monday March For Voting Rights To US Capitol. popularresistance.org On Monday August 2, 2021, Reverend William Barber II walked alongside Jesse Jackson leading several thousand on a revival of that same moral imperative. Their Moral Monday March was to demand that Congress restore the Voting Rights Act, signed by President Johnson on August 8, 1965, by passing the For The People Act, legislation which will strike down at the Federal level, all new voting restrictions passed in States like Georgia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Arizona.

_____ (2021-08-07). Reverend William Barber Leads Moral Monday March For Voting Rights. popularresistance.org On Monday August 2, 2021, Reverend William Barber II walked alongside Jesse Jackson leading several thousand on a revival of that same moral imperative. Their Moral Monday March was to demand that Congress restore the Voting Rights Act, signed by President Johnson on August 8, 1965, by passing the For The People Act, legislation which will strike down at the Federal level, all new voting restrictions passed in States like Georgia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Arizona.

teleSUR, MER (2021-08-07). Defensa de diplomático Alex Saab expone ilegalidades en proceso. telesurtv.net El Tribunal de la Cedeao ha ordenado en dos ocasiones la libertad inmediata de Alex Saab ante las irregularidades en su detención.

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-07). 'Tatar genocide' card played to drive Russia out of Crimea. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Cf. Poland 1939, Serbia 1999. Mejlis: Restoration of rights of indigenous peoples of Ukraine is key tool for Crimea de-occupation ==== Kosovo in Crimea: Ukraine, Turkey exploit Tatar genocide charge against Russia U.S., Ukraine, Turkey gear up Kosovo model for Russia ==== The main goal of the Crimea Platform is the de-occupation of Crimea, and …

teleSUR, SH (2021-08-07). Talibanes capturan una segunda capital provincial en Afganistán. telesurtv.net En la tarde del viernes, los talibanes tomaron el control de la ciudad de Zaranj, capital de la provincia suroccidental de Nimroz.

H. Scott Prosterman (2021-08-07). Israeli Olympic Gold Medalist Isn't "Jewish Enough" to Marry in Israel. juancole.com Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) — How convenient that the dynamic of sports and politics now collides with the question of "Who is a Jew?"* And just in time for the closing ceremonies of the 2020 Olympics. The prompt for this age-old dialectic comes back to who has a right to marry whom in …

Anonymous Contributor (2021-08-07). Call for Phone-Zap to Support Revolutionary Prisoner, Kevin Rashid Johnson. itsgoingdown.org Call to support revolutionary and Black liberation prisoner Keven Rashid Johnson, who is being targeted by prison authorities and white supremacist prisoners. Kevin Rashid Johnson is an incarcerated comrade and revolutionary who is under attack by the prison authorities who are trying to pit him against white supremacist inmates. He needs your solidarity and support!…

ecns.cn (2021-08-07). WHO should conduct origin tracing in the US: China Daily editorial. ecns.cn A survey conducted around the world by China Global Television Network in the six official languages of the United Nations over the past few weeks found that 83.1 percent of the respondents support the World Health Organization carrying out a novel coronavirus origin tracing investigation in the United States.

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2021-08-07). Iran not to hesitate to defend its sovereign rights in PG. en.mehrnews.com Condemning the G7 statement over baseless accusations against Iran, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that Iran will not hesitate to defend its sovereign rights in the Persian Gulf.

Marzieh Rahmani (2021-08-07). Biden flubs number of vaccinated Americans. en.mehrnews.com In his speech on Friday, the US president made another blunder, making a mistake over the total number of vaccinated people in the United States.

teleSUR, SH (2021-08-07). Colombia suma una nueva masacre para llegar a 64 en el 2021. telesurtv.net La masacre se registró en el interior de una vivienda en el municipio colombiano de Soacha dejando tres hombre y una mujer muerta.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-08-07). Congresistas de EE.UU. piden a Biden cerrar cárcel en Guantánamo. telesurtv.net Los presidentes de varios comités legislativos se sumaron a la iniciativa para que se ejecute inmediatamente el cierre de la prisión.

Register Peace & Freedom or Green (2021-08-07). Pro-Israel PAC Defeats Sanders' Candidate Turner in Ohio. indybay.org Nina Turner, Bernie Sanders' campaign manager running for a House of Representatives seat in Ohio, was defeated by the reactionary Democratic and Republican parties, including the super PAC Democratic Majority for Israel, "a group founded by longtime Democratic pollster Mark Mellman and bankrolled by an oil and gas executive. The organization has also received money from Republican donors." See www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/04/con…

sputniknews (2021-08-07). Edward Snowden Slams Apple's Plan to Scan Every User's Phone as 'Assault on Privacy'. sputniknews.com The tech giant previously announced it will be using the neuralMatch software in order to scan photos uploaded to the iCloud by American users and will notify the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) if child abuse imagery is discovered.

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