Moderator (2021-08-11). Maj. Danny Sjursen on Genocide, Slavery, Imperialism and Hyper Capitalism. scheerpost.com On "Going Underground, " the host speaks to Retired US Army Major Danny Sjursen, author of 'A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism'. He discusses the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the different strands of American imperialism from liberal to neoconservative and …

_____ (2021-08-11). Palestinians Are Calling For International Support For Those Arrested In May. popularresistance.org The fund's aims are to provide legal representation for defendants and to support the detainees' families, "many of whom already live in dire socio-economic conditions, by ensuring that they do not have to bear the financial burden of these legal costs alone". The fund has already raised over $67k of its $307k goal. Palestinians who joined the May uprising were struggling against Israel's ongoing colonisation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian land. They were fighting against racism and state brutality, and for freedom and autonomy. They deserve our support.

Abdul Rahman (2021-08-11). Israel uses the Gaza fishing zone as a tool for collective punishment against Palestinians. peoplesdispatch.org Israel often blocks the fishing zone, driving thousands of Palestinians dependent on it for their livelihood and food using the pretexts of rocket attacks…

Joris Leverink (2021-08-11). Smiling as an act of resistance in Occupied Palestine. roarmag.org Muna El Kurd, activist and Sheikh Jarrah resident smiles as she is arrested in front of her home by Israeli occupation forces. Photo by This essay was produced in collaboration with the Palestinians living in occupied Palestine have been facing ethnic cleansing…

_____ (2021-08-11). Palestine Action Is Hitting Drone Maker Elbit Hard. popularresistance.org A new short film by Real Media follows the group Palestine Action over the past year. Activists have carried out sit-ins and sabotage against Elbit premises, shutting factories down, smashing windows, damaging equipment, graffiting and splashing walls with red paint to symbolize Palestinian blood. According to the film, Palestine Action have carried out more than 70 actions against Elbit in their first year, including 20 high-profile occupations of sites and factories.

Editor (2021-08-11). Feminist protests in Palestine. mronline.org Mapping the fight for women's liberation in Gaza and the West Bank.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-08-11). 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.

Staff (2021-08-11). 'The history of postwar fascism needs to be retold'. therealnews.com Popular understandings of what fascism is, where it came from, and how it was "defeated" have hindered our collective ability to identify and fight fascist threats beyond those that existed in Western Europe a century ago. In the latest installment of her

Staff (2021-08-11). TX Voting Rights Fight Takes Ugly Turn as House GOP Vote to Arrest Dem Lawmakers. truthout.org Texas lawmakers in the state's House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to order state law enforcement to forcibly return Democrats to the legislative chamber, including potentially arresting them, in order to force a vote on implementing restrictive voting provisions in future elections in the state. |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-11). Brazil: Tanks on the Streets — Attacks on the International Left. libya360.wordpress.com Who Will Laugh Last? Brian MierBrazilians woke up yesterday to visions of a nightmare they thought would never return: military tanks and armored vehicles rolling down the national mall in Brasilia, past the Congress and Supreme Court Buildings in an attempt, admitted by top aides of far right President Jair Bolsonaro, to scare Brazil's democratic…

Mel Gurtov (2021-08-11). Pegasus and the Global Surveillance Business. counterpunch.org We have just learned about a powerful spyware known as Pegasus, manufactured and leased by the Israeli company NSO Group and capable of extracting just about every kind of data stored in a smart phone. The Pegasus Project, a consortium of 17 organizations and individuals, mostly journalists, has acquired a leaked list of 50,000 individuals

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-11). After three weeks in the Black Sea, NATO naval group visited Israel. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two Visited Israel Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two (SNMCMG-2) visited Haifa (Israel) from 2nd of August to 5th of August 2021 and conducted a Passing Exercise (PASSEX) with Israeli Navy units in the vicinity of Haifa, Israel following a successful deployment in the Black Sea. **** Prior to the …

sputniknews (2021-08-11). Texas House Speaker Signs Arrest Warrants for 52 Democrats Who Fled to DC Over Voting Bill. sputniknews.com Last month, 52 Texas Democrats fled the state in an attempt to block a vote on an election bill that envisaged tougher voting requirements – a measure Democrats view as harming minorities and abusing voting rights.

No on All Recalls (2021-08-11). Your Vote Needed to Stop Sept 14 Governor Recall. indybay.org The County Voter Handbooks are arriving this week describing the fascist Trump Republican recall election set for September 14, 2021, and how we can vote by mail within 30 days of that election. Every registered voter will receive a vote by mail ballot. Since there is no Electoral College for this, we need every single vote against this recall to avoid the horror of a Trump Republican governor.

_____ (2021-08-11). 'A Five-Alarm Voting Rights Fire': Senate Urged to Fight Back After GOP Blocks For the People Act Again. commondreams.org

Amira Mattar (2021-08-11). At Risk in Israel's Backlash Against Ben and Jerry's? The Right to Protest. thenation.com At Risk in Israel's Backlash Against Ben and Jerry's? The Right to Protest…

_____ (2021-08-11). Poll: Majority of US Voters Want Biden to 'Fight' for Key Voting Rights Bill. commondreams.org "Maybe instead of boosting oil production, President Biden should have pushed for more electric vehicle and transit spending in the infrastructure bill?"

Staff (2021-08-10). Headlines for August 10, 2021. democracynow.org Pentagon Will Require All Military Personnel to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19, Florida Reopens Schools, with Masks Optional, as State Becomes Coronavirus Epicenter, Canada Reopens Border to Vaccinated U.S. Travelers, California Officials Warn Record-Shattering Wildfire Could Burn for Weeks, Greek Prime Minister Apologizes Amid Protests over Government's Handling of Wildfires, Germany Sets Up 30 Million Euro Recovery Fund After Devastating Floods, Small Island States Warn Climate Crisis Threatens "Our Very Future", Sixth Afghan Provincial Capital Falls to Taliban , Indigenous Brazilians Seek Genocide Charges Aga…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-10). Israel Sends Warning Message To Iran After Bombing Hezbollah Last Week. southfront.org Illustrative ImageIsrael blames Hezbollah for attack despite allegedly being carried out by Palestinian groups. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | The Israeli air force admitted for the first time since 2014 that it carried out several strikes in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah military installations. Air raids in the early hours of August 5 targeted the Lebanese villages of Mahmoudieh and Aaichiyeh, and the Lebanese army also recorded artillery fire from Israel. | Accord…

James North (2021-08-10). Sports Apartheid: Israel's Olympic Team Did Not Include a Single Palestinian Citizen of Israel. globalresearch.ca

Tamara Nassar (2021-08-10). Israel uses fake photo to justify shooting woman. electronicintifada.net Father of five latest Palestinian to be killed in Beita.

Angela (2021-08-10). Sunday 8/15: Q&A Discussion of film "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org

Editor2 (2021-08-10). A Shocking List of 52 Zionist- & Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany Comparisons. orinocotribune.com By Dr Gideon Polya — Aug 7, 2021 | The cruel and genocidal oppression of the Indigenous Palestinians by nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel invites comparison with the cruelties of Nazi Germany. However such comparisons made by anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish humanitarians invite false and defamatory Zionist assertions of racism and anti-Semitism. To counter this, provided below is a shocking and detailed list of 52 Zionist- and Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany comparisons. | The following 52-item list of appalling abuses and human rights violations by genocidally ra…

Editor2 (2021-08-10). Black Lives Matter and Cuba. orinocotribune.com By African American Equality Commission, CPUSA — Aug 6, 2021 | In 1988 there was a large march and demonstration in Harlem starting on 125th Street. The lead banner in the march declared, "Africa Called — Cuba Answered." It was a bold statement in support of Cuban military assistance to Angola, which was under attack from internal counter-revolutionary forces, backed and prodded by the apartheid South African military. In the ensuing battles, nearly 5,000 Cuban soldiers gave their lives for African freedom. With Cuban assistance, the Angolan government defeated the South African army, which led to the…

_____ (2021-08-10). Indigenous Group Accuses Bolsonaro of 'Genocide' and 'Ecocide' at The Hague. commondreams.org "This is climate denial," said 350 Canada. "From Canada's Environment Minister no less."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-10). Zambia's Socialist Party Emerges as an Alternative in Upcoming Presidential Elections. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni Rally of the Socialist Party of Zambia in January 2020. Photo: Socialist Party of Zambia Founded in 2018 under the leadership of its current presidential candidate Fred M'membe, the Socialist Party has emerged as a third force in Zambia, providing voters with an alternative to the ruling Patriotic Front and the opposition United…

Jason Dearen (2021-08-10). KKK murder plot involving Florida prison guards exposed. peoplesworld.org PALATKA, Fla. (AP)—Joseph Moore breathed heavily, his face slick with nervous sweat. He held a cellphone with a photo of a man splayed on the floor; the man appeared dead, his shirt torn apart and his pants wet. Puffy dark clouds blocked the sun as Moore greeted another man, who'd pulled up in a metallic …

Staff (2021-08-10). Texas Supreme Court thwarts Democrat effort to overturn governor's veto that blocked legislative funding. rt.com The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a challenge by state Democrats seeking to overturn a move by Governor Greg Abbott that could deprive the legislature of funds for the next two years as part of a standoff over voting laws. | The all-Republican state Supreme Court The judges argued that the funding issue "continues to exist not because…

Staff (2021-08-10). Breaking the dehumanizing spiral of anti-Arabism and anti-Semitism. therealnews.com "While there are differences, to be sure, between anti-Semitism and anti-Arab bigotry, the animus that has driven the hostility directed against both Arabs and Jews springs from the same source," James Zogby argues in

Morning Star (2021-08-10). China joins global fight against 'vaccine apartheid'. peoplesworld.org Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated calls for greater global cooperation in the fight against coronavirus and the equal distribution of vaccines Tuesday. He said that collaboration was crucial to the fight against the pandemic as new strains emerge across the world. Xi recently committed to the donation of two billion vaccines to be made available …

Anonymous007 (2021-08-10). Ethiopian Government Calls On Citizens To Mobilize And Crush Tigray's Forces. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On August 10th, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued a statement calling on "all capable Ethiopians" to join the military and fight against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)."Now is the right time for all capable Ethiopians who are of age to join the Defence Forces, Special Forces and militias to show your patriotism." | The statement came six weeks after the government declared a unilateral ceasefire in the northern region of Tigray on the day Tigrayan forc…

Tom Tomorrow (2021-08-10). Pandemic Advice From a Patriot. thenation.com Pandemic Advice From a Patriot…

Marjorie Cohn (2021-08-10). Israel Lashes Out at Ben & Jerry's. zcomm.org "As Jewish supporters of the State of Israel, we fundamentally reject the notion that it is anti-Semitic to question the policies of the State of Israel." – Ben and Jerry…

_____ (2021-08-10). Judicial Decision On Alex Saab's Extradition Expected Next Week. popularresistance.org The Constitutional Court (TC) of Cape Verde scheduled a hearing on the constitutional appeal of the special envoy of Venezuela, Alex Saab Morán, for next August 13 at 9: 00 a.m. Saab has been held in Cape Verdean prison for 410 days under an arbitrary measure emanating from the United States, victim of a flawed process denounced by the diplomat, his defense, and activists and legal experts worldwide. | "We inform you that by order of the Venerable Presiding Counselor Judge in the file of the Concrete Inspection of Constitutionality No. 2/2021, in which Alex Nain Saab Moran is appellant and the Supreme Court of Jus…

_____ (2021-08-10). 'Democrats Should Leave the State Immediately': Texas Supreme Court OKs Lawmaker Arrests. commondreams.org

_____ (2021-08-10). Supreme Court Hearing Likely as 'Reckless' Bayer Loses Third Appeal Over Glyphosate Use. commondreams.org Congress dithers over a few trillion dollars that could begin to change our nation's emissions course and help save us all from a flaming nightmare.

Philip Giraldi (2021-08-10). Was the Tanker Attack an Israeli False Flag? An Incident that Could Lead to a Much Bigger War. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous Contributor (2021-08-10). Organizing and Fighting Without Dying: Erin Corbett Interviews Alice. itsgoingdown.org Erin Corbett sits down with Alice, one of the co-author's behind This Week in Fascism on It's Going Down. Originally posted here. Most people who have spent enough time organizing know it can be a thankless job. The planet is on fire; millions of people don't have their basic needs met, and are experiencing housing…

Marzieh Rahmani (2021-08-10). 'We reserve right to respond to Israeli attacks'. en.mehrnews.com The secretary-general of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement stressed that Iraqi Resistance reserves the right to respond to Israeli attacks which killed a number of Iraqi Resistance youths.

_____ (2021-08-10). Since 1978, CEO Pay Has Risen 1,322%. Typical Worker Pay? Just 18%. commondreams.org "We believe that there are ongoing acts in Brazil that constitute crimes against humanity, genocide, and ecocide."

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

WSWS (2021-08-10). Ford targeted older salaried employees during 2019 layoffs, documents in age discrimination lawsuit reveal. wsws.org The layoffs were part of a "jobs bloodbath" throughout the auto industry, including nearly 20,000 workers at Ford alone.

Juraima Almeida (2021-08-10). Un Bolsonaro en baja juega con un golpe y hace crecer la tensión en Brasil. globalizacion.ca El ultraderechista presidente brasileño Jair Bolsonaro optó por profundizar la crisis, amenazando responder con un golpe que cerraría las cortes de justicia, el Supremo Tribunal Electoral y el mismo Congreso, en medio de una situación social dramática, a los casi…

WSWS (2021-08-10). Neo-fascist Meloni under discussion as Italian head of government. wsws.org The Fratelli d'Italia, which won only 4 percent of the vote in 2018, have benefited from opposition to ECB banker Draghi's government of national unity.

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-10). Azerbaijan, Israel are strategic partners in international arena: Knesset deputy. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Relations between Israel, Azerbaijan continue to develop dynamically — Knesset MP According to MP Elina] Bardach-Yalov, the Jewish state attaches great importance to relations with Azerbaijan, which, without exaggeration, can be called one of the most reliable strategic partners of Israel in the international arena. "Finance Minister, leader of the Israel Our Home Party Avigdor …

Never Forgive, Never Forget (2021-08-10). 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-……

_____ (2021-08-10). 75 Groups Ask DOJ to Oppose 'Racist' Anti-Protest Laws. commondreams.org Lessons on defending democracy.

Staff (2021-08-10). Headlines for August 10, 2021. democracynow.org Pentagon Will Require All Military Personnel to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19, Florida Reopens Schools, with Masks Optional, as State Becomes Coronavirus Epicenter, Canada Reopens Border to Vaccinated U.S. Travelers, California Officials Warn Record-Shattering Wildfire Could Burn for Weeks, Greek Prime Minister Apologizes Amid Protests over Government's Handling of Wildfires, Germany Sets Up 30 Million Euro Recovery Fund After Devastating Floods, Small Island States Warn Climate Crisis Threatens "Our Very Future", Sixth Afghan Provincial Capital Falls to Taliban , Indigenous Brazilians Seek Genocide Charges Aga…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-10). Israel Sends Warning Message To Iran After Bombing Hezbollah Last Week. southfront.org Illustrative ImageIsrael blames Hezbollah for attack despite allegedly being carried out by Palestinian groups. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | The Israeli air force admitted for the first time since 2014 that it carried out several strikes in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah military installations. Air raids in the early hours of August 5 targeted the Lebanese villages of Mahmoudieh and Aaichiyeh, and the Lebanese army also recorded artillery fire from Israel. | Accord…

James North (2021-08-10). Sports Apartheid: Israel's Olympic Team Did Not Include a Single Palestinian Citizen of Israel. globalresearch.ca

Angela (2021-08-10). Sunday 8/15: Q&A Discussion of film "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org

Editor2 (2021-08-10). A Shocking List of 52 Zionist- & Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany Comparisons. orinocotribune.com By Dr Gideon Polya — Aug 7, 2021 | The cruel and genocidal oppression of the Indigenous Palestinians by nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel invites comparison with the cruelties of Nazi Germany. However such comparisons made by anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish humanitarians invite false and defamatory Zionist assertions of racism and anti-Semitism. To counter this, provided below is a shocking and detailed list of 52 Zionist- and Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany comparisons. | The following 52-item list of appalling abuses and human rights violations by genocidally ra…

Editor2 (2021-08-10). Black Lives Matter and Cuba. orinocotribune.com By African American Equality Commission, CPUSA — Aug 6, 2021 | In 1988 there was a large march and demonstration in Harlem starting on 125th Street. The lead banner in the march declared, "Africa Called — Cuba Answered." It was a bold statement in support of Cuban military assistance to Angola, which was under attack from internal counter-revolutionary forces, backed and prodded by the apartheid South African military. In the ensuing battles, nearly 5,000 Cuban soldiers gave their lives for African freedom. With Cuban assistance, the Angolan government defeated the South African army, which led to the…

Staff (2021-08-10). Texas Supreme Court thwarts Democrat effort to overturn governor's veto that blocked legislative funding. rt.com The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a challenge by state Democrats seeking to overturn a move by Governor Greg Abbott that could deprive the legislature of funds for the next two years as part of a standoff over voting laws. | The all-Republican state Supreme Court The judges argued that the funding issue "continues to exist not because…

_____ (2021-08-10). Supreme Court Hearing Likely as 'Reckless' Bayer Loses Third Appeal Over Glyphosate Use. commondreams.org Congress dithers over a few trillion dollars that could begin to change our nation's emissions course and help save us all from a flaming nightmare.

_____ (2021-08-10). 'Democrats Should Leave the State Immediately': Texas Supreme Court OKs Lawmaker Arrests. commondreams.org

_____ (2021-08-10). Indigenous Group Accuses Bolsonaro of 'Genocide' and 'Ecocide' at The Hague. commondreams.org "This is climate denial," said 350 Canada. "From Canada's Environment Minister no less."

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-08-10). 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.

Marjorie Cohn (2021-08-10). Israel Lashes Out at Ben & Jerry's. zcomm.org "As Jewish supporters of the State of Israel, we fundamentally reject the notion that it is anti-Semitic to question the policies of the State of Israel." – Ben and Jerry…

Staff (2021-08-10). Breaking the dehumanizing spiral of anti-Arabism and anti-Semitism. therealnews.com "While there are differences, to be sure, between anti-Semitism and anti-Arab bigotry, the animus that has driven the hostility directed against both Arabs and Jews springs from the same source," James Zogby argues in

Anonymous007 (2021-08-10). Ethiopian Government Calls On Citizens To Mobilize And Crush Tigray's Forces. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On August 10th, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued a statement calling on "all capable Ethiopians" to join the military and fight against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)."Now is the right time for all capable Ethiopians who are of age to join the Defence Forces, Special Forces and militias to show your patriotism." | The statement came six weeks after the government declared a unilateral ceasefire in the northern region of Tigray on the day Tigrayan forc…

Tom Tomorrow (2021-08-10). Pandemic Advice From a Patriot. thenation.com Pandemic Advice From a Patriot…

Philip Giraldi (2021-08-10). Was the Tanker Attack an Israeli False Flag? An Incident that Could Lead to a Much Bigger War. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-10). Zambia's Socialist Party Emerges as an Alternative in Upcoming Presidential Elections. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni Rally of the Socialist Party of Zambia in January 2020. Photo: Socialist Party of Zambia Founded in 2018 under the leadership of its current presidential candidate Fred M'membe, the Socialist Party has emerged as a third force in Zambia, providing voters with an alternative to the ruling Patriotic Front and the opposition United…

WSWS (2021-08-10). Ford targeted older salaried employees during 2019 layoffs, documents in age discrimination lawsuit reveal. wsws.org The layoffs were part of a "jobs bloodbath" throughout the auto industry, including nearly 20,000 workers at Ford alone.

Anonymous Contributor (2021-08-10). Organizing and Fighting Without Dying: Erin Corbett Interviews Alice. itsgoingdown.org Erin Corbett sits down with Alice, one of the co-author's behind This Week in Fascism on It's Going Down. Originally posted here. Most people who have spent enough time organizing know it can be a thankless job. The planet is on fire; millions of people don't have their basic needs met, and are experiencing housing…

Marzieh Rahmani (2021-08-10). 'We reserve right to respond to Israeli attacks'. en.mehrnews.com The secretary-general of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement stressed that Iraqi Resistance reserves the right to respond to Israeli attacks which killed a number of Iraqi Resistance youths.

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-10). Azerbaijan, Israel are strategic partners in international arena: Knesset deputy. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Relations between Israel, Azerbaijan continue to develop dynamically — Knesset MP According to MP Elina] Bardach-Yalov, the Jewish state attaches great importance to relations with Azerbaijan, which, without exaggeration, can be called one of the most reliable strategic partners of Israel in the international arena. "Finance Minister, leader of the Israel Our Home Party Avigdor …

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

_____ (2021-08-10). 75 Groups Ask DOJ to Oppose 'Racist' Anti-Protest Laws. commondreams.org Lessons on defending democracy.

_____ (2021-08-10). Since 1978, CEO Pay Has Risen 1,322%. Typical Worker Pay? Just 18%. commondreams.org "We believe that there are ongoing acts in Brazil that constitute crimes against humanity, genocide, and ecocide."

Juraima Almeida (2021-08-10). Un Bolsonaro en baja juega con un golpe y hace crecer la tensión en Brasil. globalizacion.ca El ultraderechista presidente brasileño Jair Bolsonaro optó por profundizar la crisis, amenazando responder con un golpe que cerraría las cortes de justicia, el Supremo Tribunal Electoral y el mismo Congreso, en medio de una situación social dramática, a los casi…

Never Forgive, Never Forget (2021-08-10). 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-……

Joris Leverink (2021-08-09). Protesting settler colonialism in the neoliberal university. roarmag.org "Holding Palestine" artistic protest, photo by Steven Maybury. | During May's uprising in Palestine against the latest aggression of the apartheid Israeli state, a few students at the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) in Rotterdam wanted to express their solidarity with the struggle. They hung a banner on the institute's building that read: "STOP THE ETHNIC CLEANSING; #SaveSheikhJarrah; Free Palestine." The action took place at a time when the vicious attacks on civilians in Gaza, the ultra-right-wing mob violence against Arabs in Israel and the forced evictions of the settler colonialist system in Jerusalem had resulte…

Editor2 (2021-08-09). Iran Says 'Israel' Playing Victim to Divert Attention From its Crimes in Palestine. orinocotribune.com Iranian envoy to the United Nations says the Israeli occupation is "playing victim" to divert attention from its continuing crimes in Palestine, warning the 'Israel' against any acts of "adventurism and miscalculations." | Zahra Ershadi, Iran's deputy permanent representative to the UN, made the comments in a statement on Friday after a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on a recent incident for an Israeli-operated oil tanker in the Sea of Oman. | Ershadi's comments came in reaction to Israeli War Minister Benny Gantz who said on Thursday that 'Israel' is ready to attack Iran and that there must be a…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-09). Saudi Arabia cracks down on Palestinian resistance movement. peoplesdispatch.org 69 Jordanian and Palestinian citizens accused of being members of Hamas were sentenced to prison by a court in Saudi Arabia. Hamas has claimed that the verdict is a result of warming relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel…

Staff (2021-08-09). Lawmakers Aren't "Progressive" If They Ignore Palestinian Rights. truthout.org Even after years of dedicated judo training, both Mohamed Abdalarasool from Sudan and Fethi Nourine from Algeria refused to compete in the Tokyo Olympics when they were slated to perform against an Israeli athlete. In an official statement, Nourine said to an Algerian TV station, "We worked a lot to reach the Olympics… but the Palestinian cause is bigger than all of this." This gesture of sacrifice and solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by Israel earned Abdalarasool and Nourine hero status in the Arab…

Randall Kennedy (2021-08-09). Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On? thenation.com Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On?

news.un (2021-08-09). End inequalities, recognize abuses, UN chief says on International Day of Indigenous Peoples. news.un.org Although some countries have begun to rectify their "heinous legacy" of discrimination against indigenous people, more action is still needed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday.

Global Justice Now (2021-08-09). Saturday 9/4: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid International Activist Assembly. indybay.org Online event…

Adan Salazar (2021-08-09). Israel, Australia Report 95-99% Hospitalized Fully Vaccinated. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2021-08-09). Sports apartheid: Israel's Olympic team did not include a single Palestinian citizen of Israel. mronline.org Palestinian citizens of Israel are 20 percent of the population. But not a single one was on Israel's 90-member Olympic team.

Joris Leverink (2021-08-09). Protesting settler colonialism in the neoliberal university. roarmag.org "Holding Palestine" artistic protest, photo by Steven Maybury. | During May's uprising in Palestine against the latest aggression of the apartheid Israeli state, a few students at the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) in Rotterdam wanted to express their solidarity with the struggle. They hung a banner on the institute's building that read: "STOP THE ETHNIC CLEANSING; #SaveSheikhJarrah; Free Palestine." The action took place at a time when the vicious attacks on civilians in Gaza, the ultra-right-wing mob violence against Arabs in Israel and the forced evictions of the settler colonialist system in Jerusalem had resulte…

Editor2 (2021-08-09). Iran Says 'Israel' Playing Victim to Divert Attention From its Crimes in Palestine. orinocotribune.com Iranian envoy to the United Nations says the Israeli occupation is "playing victim" to divert attention from its continuing crimes in Palestine, warning the 'Israel' against any acts of "adventurism and miscalculations." | Zahra Ershadi, Iran's deputy permanent representative to the UN, made the comments in a statement on Friday after a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on a recent incident for an Israeli-operated oil tanker in the Sea of Oman. | Ershadi's comments came in reaction to Israeli War Minister Benny Gantz who said on Thursday that 'Israel' is ready to attack Iran and that there must be a…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-09). Saudi Arabia cracks down on Palestinian resistance movement. peoplesdispatch.org 69 Jordanian and Palestinian citizens accused of being members of Hamas were sentenced to prison by a court in Saudi Arabia. Hamas has claimed that the verdict is a result of warming relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel…

Angela (2021-08-09). Sunday 8/15: Q&A Discussion of film "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org

Staff (2021-08-09). Lawmakers Aren't "Progressive" If They Ignore Palestinian Rights. truthout.org Even after years of dedicated judo training, both Mohamed Abdalarasool from Sudan and Fethi Nourine from Algeria refused to compete in the Tokyo Olympics when they were slated to perform against an Israeli athlete. In an official statement, Nourine said to an Algerian TV station, "We worked a lot to reach the Olympics… but the Palestinian cause is bigger than all of this." This gesture of sacrifice and solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by Israel earned Abdalarasool and Nourine hero status in the Arab…

Allan Fisher (2021-08-09). Saturday 8/7: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-08-09). 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.

news.un (2021-08-09). End inequalities, recognize abuses, UN chief says on International Day of Indigenous Peoples. news.un.org Although some countries have begun to rectify their "heinous legacy" of discrimination against indigenous people, more action is still needed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday.

Randall Kennedy (2021-08-09). Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On? thenation.com Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On?

Global Justice Now (2021-08-09). Saturday 9/4: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid International Activist Assembly. indybay.org Online event…

Adan Salazar (2021-08-09). Israel, Australia Report 95-99% Hospitalized Fully Vaccinated. globalresearch.ca

Never Forgive, Never Forget (2021-08-09). 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 (2021-08-09). Tuesday 8/10: Voting Rights Now! Democracy Can't Wait Virtual Rally & Actions. indybay.org Virtual rally and voting rights actions event…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-08). Hezbollah Secretary General: We Will Not Allow Israel To Change Rules Of Engagements. southfront.org Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah as seen on al-Manar TV during a speech on the fifteenth anniversary the 2006 July War with Israel. | Hezbollah will not allow Israel to change the rules of engagements with Lebanon, the group's Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah said on August 7. | The Lebanese leader made the statement during a televised speech on the fifteenth anniversary the 2006 July War with Israel. The leader said that the balance of deterrence with Israel is the most significant achievem…

Fight Back (2021-08-08). Minnesotans keep the pressure on Klobuchar to end US aid to apartheid Israel. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On August 5, 60 people gathered alongside Washington Avenue near Senator Amy Klobuchar's Minneapolis office to demand an end of U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. The protesters stretched down the block with signs and Palestinian flags, greeting the rush hour drivers, who were overwhelmingly supportive and honking wildly. | The protest was called after Klobuchar, a 'centrist' Democrat, failed to respond to a petition signed by over 1000 of her constituents supporting the Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act (HR 2590) which would…

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 …

_____ (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…

WSWS (2021-08-08). Trudeau appoints loyal servant of ruling elite to Canada's Supreme Court. wsws.org By focusing attention on Justice Jamal's South Asian ethnic origins, the Canadian establishment seeks to cover up his role as a loyal representative of the ruling elite.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

Allan Fisher (2021-08-07). Saturday 8/7: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

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.

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.

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…

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 …

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. |

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.

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".

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…

Global Justice Now (2021-08-07). Saturday 9/4: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid International Activist Assembly. indybay.org Online event…

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 (

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.

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.

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, 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.

Never Forgive, Never Forget (2021-08-07). 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-……

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.

Prabhat Patnaik (2021-08-07). Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists. zcomm.org The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance…

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.

John Lewis Mobilization (2021-08-07). Tuesday 8/10: Voting Rights Now! Democracy Can't Wait Virtual Rally & Actions. indybay.org Virtual rally and voting rights actions event…

news.un (2021-08-06). Escalating Lebanon-Israel aggressions provoking 'very dangerous situation'. news.un.org The UN Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, said on Friday that escalating hostilities over the past two days involving Lebanese and Israeli forces have created "a very dangerous situation" in the volatile border region.

sputniknews (2021-08-06). UN Peacekeepers Call for Immediate Ceasefire Between Israel, Lebanon. sputniknews.com GENEVA, (Sputnik) – The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon amid growing tensions.

Anonymous103 (2021-08-06). Retaliation Strikes Hit Israel, Escalation Growing (Videos). southfront.org Illustrative Image | In early hours of August 6th, rockets were fired from Lebanon towards Israel. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are now responding with artillery rounds, targeting the launch sites in Southern Lebanon. | According to Israeli media, 20 rockets were launched, 10 of them were reportedly intercepted. Some rockets passed the Iron Dome, targeting inhabited areas.Hezbollah statement: | At 11: 15 a.m. this Friday, and in response to the Israeli air raids on open lands in the Al-Jarmaq and Al-Shawakir areas la…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-06). Israel carries out airstrikes at 3 different locations in south Lebanon. peoplesdispatch.org While these were the first officially acknowledged Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since 2014, Israel regularly violates Lebanese airspace to carry out illegal strikes inside Syria…

Asa Winstanley (2021-08-06). One year in, Palestine Action is hitting drone maker Elbit hard. electronicintifada.net Despite more than 70 actions and 100 arrests, not one case has come to trial.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2021-08-06). Pan-Africanism or Zionism: The AU and Palestine Liberation. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-08-06). The Taming Of Anti-Zionism In The United States. popularresistance.org "And so it's been with the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States. I follow the debates on social media and read the opinion pieces. If Palestine still exists as a radical devotion in this corner of the diaspora, as a prelude to old-fashioned leftist internationalism, then it's only among a smattering of unapologetic rejectionists—a subculture of the solidarity movement, really—disavowed by more tasteful voices as irrationally recalcitrant (or aggressively ignored altogether). "

Ramzy Baroud (2021-08-06). The Politics of Cheering and Booing: On Palestine, Solidarity and the Tokyo Olympics. counterpunch.org When the Palestinian Olympic delegation of five athletes — adorned in traditional Palestinian attire and carrying the Palestinian flag — crossed into the Tokyo's Olympic Stadium during the inauguration ceremony on July 23, I was overcome with pride and nostalgia. I grew up watching the Olympics. All of us did. Throughout the month-long international sports

Tjeerd Royaards (2021-08-06). The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. thenation.com The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict…

Editor2 (2021-08-06). US Corporate Media Watch: An Interview with Richard Medhurst. orinocotribune.com Glen Ford was a fierce champion of the anti-imperialist cause. | Richard and Roberto would like to dedicate this feature to Glen Ford, one of the fiercest critics of U.S. corporate media the country has ever known. May we all find creative and courageous ways to honor his memory by speaking out against Wall Street, white supremacy, and the U.S. war machine. | *** | In this feature, we interview Syrian-born journalist Richard Medhurst about state propaganda, the mainstream media, and U.S. imperialism. | Roberto Sirvent: Earlier this summer, the U.S. government seized several news outlets' websites, including one f…

_____ (2021-08-06). It's Not Enough To Restore Eviction Protections. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, popular pressure won out over threats by the US Supreme Court and the Biden administration re-imposed a moratorium on evictions for another 60 days, protecting many Americans behind on rent from losing their homes until October 3. However, the Court is sure to act quickly against this defiance.

Ines Santos (2021-08-06). Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching the Truth About Race in America. aclu.org The assault on the practice and ideology known as Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been a wildly successful propaganda campaign. As of this week, 27 state legislatures and 165 national and local organizations have made efforts to restrict education on racism. But what exactly is CRT, and is it really commonplace in K-12 curriculum, as the right makes it out to be? And why does reckoning with the history of racial oppression elicit such profound censorship from those that typically tout support for free speech? | The practice and framework of CRT, which asserts that racism is embedded in the legal system and gove…

Staff (2021-08-06). Remembering Richard Trumka: Union Leaders Reflect on Death of AFL-CIO Head & Labor Movement Challenges Ahead. democracynow.org Richard Trumka, the longtime president of the AFL-CIO and one of the most powerful labor leaders in the United States, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. Trumka's death has prompted an outpouring of tributes from fellow labor figures, activists and lawmakers, including President Joe Biden. Trumka was a third-generation coal miner from Pennsylvania who, at the age of 33, became the youngest president of the United Mine Workers of America. He continued climbing through the ranks of organized labor for the rest of his life, fighting campaigns against apartheid in South Africa, racism within the labor movem…

Staff (2021-08-06). Steven Donziger, Lawyer Who Sued Chevron over Amazon Oil Spills, Marks 2 Years Under House Arrest. democracynow.org Protests across the United States are calling for the immediate release of environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, who has been held under house arrest in New York for two years after being targeted by the oil giant Chevron. Donziger sued the oil giant in Ecuador on behalf of 30,000 Amazonian Indigenous people for dumping 16 billion gallons of oil into their ancestral lands. Ecuador's Supreme Court ordered Chevron to pay $18 billion a decade ago, a major victory for the environment and corporate accountability. But Chevron refused to pay or clean up the land, and instead launched a legal attack tar…

_____ (2021-08-06). How The West Is Keeping The Covid-19 Pandemic From Ending. popularresistance.org Even though thousands of Covid-19 vaccines are being administered daily, the delta variant of the coronavirus is wreaking havoc around the world. This is in large part, say activists like Achal Prabhala, due to wealthy countries' reluctance to address global vaccine apartheid and put an end once and for all to the pandemic. Prabhala, the head of AccessIBSA, has written numerous articles for the New York Times, The Atlantic, Project Syndicate and elsewhere, advocating for equitable distribution of vaccines, their recipes and technologies. Most recently, he and several other activists spoke to In These Times about…

Paul Street (2021-08-06). Bootlicking Grifters, Trumpenelft Victims, and the Bourgeois-Democratic God That Failed. counterpunch.org Shed a Tear for the Michigan Militia, Comrades One of the most depressing things I've beheld since the elections of the cruel fascistic maniac Donald Trump and the doddering neoliberal caretaker Joe Biden has been the determination of many people I formerly thought be of at least somewhat sound left mind to become useful idiots

Staff (2021-08-06). CNN's strange Wuhan lab story suggests US spies HACKED Chinese database, hints that probe into Covid-19 origins may take longer. rt.com A bizarre CNN story about the ongoing US intelligence investigation of Covid-19's origins that relies on anonymous sources, and seems to make excuses for the spies coming up short, also manages to accuse the US of hacking China. | In a progress report of sorts on the 90-day investigation into the coronavirus origins — with which US spies were tasked Scientists are scouring data from…

Ann Brown (2021-08-06). Boston Mayor Janey Compares Forced Vaccine Passports To Slavery, Jim Crow And Apartheid. moguldom.com Boston Mayor Kim Janey dislikes the idea of vaccine passports and verifications so much that she compared them to the practice of having to show one's papers during slavery and the Jim Crow era. When fellow Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced that New Yorkers had to provide proof of a covid-19 vaccination to enter …

Dave DeCamp (2021-08-06). Israeli Ambassador Says Israel Wants to See 'Regime Change' in Iran. news.antiwar.com Israel's Ambassador to the US and UN Gilad Erdan "In the end, we would ultimately like to see [the government] overthrown and [for there to be] regime change," Erdan told Israel's Army Radio when asked about his government's Iran policy. | It's no secret Israel is hostile to the Iranian government, but Israeli officials have previously avoided such explicit calls for regime change. What Erdan said was interpreted…

sputniknews (2021-08-06). UN Peacekeepers Call for Immediate Ceasefire Between Israel, Lebanon. sputniknews.com GENEVA, (Sputnik) – The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon amid growing tensions.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-06). Israel carries out airstrikes at 3 different locations in south Lebanon. peoplesdispatch.org While these were the first officially acknowledged Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since 2014, Israel regularly violates Lebanese airspace to carry out illegal strikes inside Syria…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-06). Retaliation Strikes Hit Israel, Escalation Growing (Videos). southfront.org Illustrative Image | In early hours of August 6th, rockets were fired from Lebanon towards Israel. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are now responding with artillery rounds, targeting the launch sites in Southern Lebanon. | According to Israeli media, 20 rockets were launched, 10 of them were reportedly intercepted. Some rockets passed the Iron Dome, targeting inhabited areas.Hezbollah statement: | At 11: 15 a.m. this Friday, and in response to the Israeli air raids on open lands in the Al-Jarmaq and Al-Shawakir areas la…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-08-06). The Politics of Cheering and Booing: On Palestine, Solidarity and the Tokyo Olympics. counterpunch.org When the Palestinian Olympic delegation of five athletes — adorned in traditional Palestinian attire and carrying the Palestinian flag — crossed into the Tokyo's Olympic Stadium during the inauguration ceremony on July 23, I was overcome with pride and nostalgia. I grew up watching the Olympics. All of us did. Throughout the month-long international sports

Abayomi Azikiwe (2021-08-06). Pan-Africanism or Zionism: The AU and Palestine Liberation. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-08-06). The Taming Of Anti-Zionism In The United States. popularresistance.org "And so it's been with the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States. I follow the debates on social media and read the opinion pieces. If Palestine still exists as a radical devotion in this corner of the diaspora, as a prelude to old-fashioned leftist internationalism, then it's only among a smattering of unapologetic rejectionists—a subculture of the solidarity movement, really—disavowed by more tasteful voices as irrationally recalcitrant (or aggressively ignored altogether). "

Tjeerd Royaards (2021-08-06). The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. thenation.com The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict…

Editor2 (2021-08-06). US Corporate Media Watch: An Interview with Richard Medhurst. orinocotribune.com Glen Ford was a fierce champion of the anti-imperialist cause. | Richard and Roberto would like to dedicate this feature to Glen Ford, one of the fiercest critics of U.S. corporate media the country has ever known. May we all find creative and courageous ways to honor his memory by speaking out against Wall Street, white supremacy, and the U.S. war machine. | *** | In this feature, we interview Syrian-born journalist Richard Medhurst about state propaganda, the mainstream media, and U.S. imperialism. | Roberto Sirvent: Earlier this summer, the U.S. government seized several news outlets' websites, including one f…

_____ (2021-08-06). It's Not Enough To Restore Eviction Protections. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, popular pressure won out over threats by the US Supreme Court and the Biden administration re-imposed a moratorium on evictions for another 60 days, protecting many Americans behind on rent from losing their homes until October 3. However, the Court is sure to act quickly against this defiance.

Ines Santos (2021-08-06). Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching the Truth About Race in America. aclu.org The assault on the practice and ideology known as Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been a wildly successful propaganda campaign. As of this week, 27 state legislatures and 165 national and local organizations have made efforts to restrict education on racism. But what exactly is CRT, and is it really commonplace in K-12 curriculum, as the right makes it out to be? And why does reckoning with the history of racial oppression elicit such profound censorship from those that typically tout support for free speech? | The practice and framework of CRT, which asserts that racism is embedded in the legal system and gove…

Staff (2021-08-06). Remembering Richard Trumka: Union Leaders Reflect on Death of AFL-CIO Head & Labor Movement Challenges Ahead. democracynow.org Richard Trumka, the longtime president of the AFL-CIO and one of the most powerful labor leaders in the United States, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. Trumka's death has prompted an outpouring of tributes from fellow labor figures, activists and lawmakers, including President Joe Biden. Trumka was a third-generation coal miner from Pennsylvania who, at the age of 33, became the youngest president of the United Mine Workers of America. He continued climbing through the ranks of organized labor for the rest of his life, fighting campaigns against apartheid in South Africa, racism within the labor movem…

Staff (2021-08-06). Steven Donziger, Lawyer Who Sued Chevron over Amazon Oil Spills, Marks 2 Years Under House Arrest. democracynow.org Protests across the United States are calling for the immediate release of environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, who has been held under house arrest in New York for two years after being targeted by the oil giant Chevron. Donziger sued the oil giant in Ecuador on behalf of 30,000 Amazonian Indigenous people for dumping 16 billion gallons of oil into their ancestral lands. Ecuador's Supreme Court ordered Chevron to pay $18 billion a decade ago, a major victory for the environment and corporate accountability. But Chevron refused to pay or clean up the land, and instead launched a legal attack tar…

Global Justice Now (2021-08-06). Saturday 9/4: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid International Activist Assembly. indybay.org Online event…

Staff (2021-08-06). MLK's Family and Civil Rights Leaders Call for Voting Rights March on Washington. truthout.org The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is 56 years old today, but instead of simply celebrating the historic law that helped combat Jim Crow-era suppression of Black voters, civil rights leaders are busy organizing mass actions to bring a fresh slate of voting rights legislation to President Biden's desk. | The nation has reached a tipping point, they say, and the fight to save democracy from modern forms of voter suppression has never been more urgent. An increasingly conservative Supreme Court ha…

Paul Street (2021-08-06). Bootlicking Grifters, Trumpenelft Victims, and the Bourgeois-Democratic God That Failed. counterpunch.org Shed a Tear for the Michigan Militia, Comrades One of the most depressing things I've beheld since the elections of the cruel fascistic maniac Donald Trump and the doddering neoliberal caretaker Joe Biden has been the determination of many people I formerly thought be of at least somewhat sound left mind to become useful idiots

Caolán Magee (2021-08-06). How the Alt-Right Have Used Online Conspiracy Theories to Create a False Class Consciousness and Take Down Democracy. counterpunch.org "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." These words from WB Yeats encapsulate our current political impasse. Whereas in Yeats' time the worst may have been persuaded by the rational, in today's age of social media, the worst can spread their ideas with conviction — irrespective of the truth.

Anonymous Contributor (2021-08-06). Black Texas prisoner gassed, brutalized in solitary confinement cell by white ranking guards. itsgoingdown.org Jason Walker reports on brutal attack on Black inmate in a Texas prison facility by white guards. By Jason Renard Walker Seconds after having his cell gassed by Polunsky Unit's Lieutenant Corbett, Marquis Kingbury #2303732, a black inmate, was nearly killed by Corbett, Sergeant Schwartz, and a team of racist white guards in riot gear, as…

_____ (2021-08-06). No Senate Recess Until Voting Rights Protected. commondreams.org "Mark my words," warned former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "If we don't pass the For the People Act, the GOP is going to gerrymander their way to a House majority—and they may never give it up."

_____ (2021-08-06). As Fascist GOP Threat Grows, Dems Verge on Historic Failure to Secure Voting Rights. commondreams.org "We must take immediate action to sharply reduce heat-trapping emissions to limit the worst climate change impacts, protect public health and lives, and limit economic harms."

Register Peace & Freedom or Green (2021-08-06). 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……

Steve Poikonen (2021-08-05). Ep342: Israel Bombs Lebanon, Biden's EO= Mineral Wars, Apple to Install ScanWare on US Phones. slownewsdayshow.com Paypal @SlowNewsDayShow | CashApp $SlowNewsDayShow | Follow us on Rokfin

Anonymous669 (2021-08-05). Alarming Escalation: Israeli Warplanes Attack Targets In Lebanon (Videos). southfront.org Israel Air Force airplane F-16 D 'Barak Cobra'prepares for take off. June 28 2010. Photo by Ofer Zidon/Flash90 | Early on August 5, warplanes of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out a series of airstrikes on Lebanon's South Governorate, the heartland of Hezbollah. | The Israeli airstrikes targeted empty farmlands and a road in the area of al-Dimashqiyah as well as the area of al-Shawaker near the coastal city of Tyre. No casualties or material losses were reported as a result of the airstrikes, which were apparently carryi…

_____ (2021-08-05). Palestinians Refuse To Concede Land Rights To Israelis In Sheikh Jarrah. popularresistance.org Palestinian families facing ethnic cleansing from their Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday rejected a so-called "compromise" offer from Israel's Supreme Court, which would allow them to remain in their homes if they recognize as rightful owners the Israeli settler group trying to steal the properties. | Under the Israeli high court proposal, four Palestinian families and dozens of others threatened with forced expulsion from the Sheikh Jarrah area would remain in the neighborhood as "protected tenants" who could not be evicted, as long as they acknowledged that Nahalat Shimon Company[…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-08-05). On Palestine, solidarity, and the Tokyo Olympics. peoplesworld.org When the five athletes representing the Palestinian Olympic Games delegation—adorned in traditional Palestinian attire—marched into Tokyo's Olympic stadium, carrying the Palestinian flag during the Olympic Games opening ceremony on July 23, I was overcome with nostalgic pride. I grew up watching the Olympics. We all did. Throughout the entire month-long international sporting event, it was …

Anonymous (2021-08-05). Palestine in Pictures: July 2021. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Editor2 (2021-08-05). Celebrating Sandinismo at Nicaragua's Palestine Park. orinocotribune.com On Sunday, July 18, 2021, thousands of Nicaraguans attended a rally celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution at Palestine Park in Managua. Participants held banners that read "Free Palestine," "Hands Off Cuba," and "Nicaragua Sandinista" as part of the internationalist celebration. | Palestine Park was constructed in 2013 by the government of President Daniel Ortega in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Central to the park is a statue of Palestinian freedom fighter Yasser Arafat, who is also pictured with President Ortega in a nearby poster. The park also features Nicaraguan and Palestin…

Bethany Rielly (2021-08-05). Progressive Israeli Jews condemn apartheid in new statement. peoplesworld.org Over 1,000 progressive Jewish Israelis have signed an open letter declaring themselves "Israelis Against Apartheid" and calling for decolonization of the region. Backed by prominent figures including historian Ilan Pape and B'tselem executive board member Orly Noy, the powerful statement urges immediate international intervention to change Israel's apartheid regime. "As individuals who belong to the side of …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-05). Israel Razes Palestinian Properties in Occupied Territories in Massive Single-Day Demolition Drive. libya360.wordpress.com Abhijan Choudhury (Photo: Palestinian Information Center) Israeli authorities justified the demolitions citing lack of Israeli building permits. They also confiscated scores of Palestinian-owned assets, including cars, tractors, water generators and airstream panels Israeli authorities carried out illegal demolitions of several Palestinian-owned residential, agricultural and commercial properties across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-08-05). The Politics of Cheering and Booing. zcomm.org On Palestine, Solidarity and the Tokyo Olympics…

sputniknews (2021-08-05). Israel's Twitter Page Arouses Fury After Video Boasts of Water Management Accomplishments. sputniknews.com Since 1967, Palestinians in the West Bank have been legally barred from sinking their own wells without a permit from the Israeli military, forcing them to buy water at inflated prices from Israeli water providers.

Staff (2021-08-05). Hunger strike update: Struggle continues against administrative detention. samidoun.net As of 5 August 2021, 15 Palestinians continued their hunger strikes in Israeli occupation, 14 of them protesting their administrative detention — imprisonment without charge or trial — and one, Mohammed Nuwarra, protesting his ongoing solitary confinement. On 5 August, two detainees joined the hunger strike: Akram al-Fasfous, joining his brother, Kayed al-Fasfous, who has been on hunger strike for 22 days. Sign the grassroots international petition: change.org/NoChargeNoTrialNoJail Their other brother, Mahmoud al-Fasfous, also jailed without charge or trial, suspended his hunger strike earlier on Thur…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-05). Palestinians mark 40 days since the killing of activist Nizar Banat. peoplesdispatch.org The well-known Palestinian political and social activist died under suspicious circumstances on June 24 after the Palestinian Authority's (PA) security forces conducted a violent night raid at his home in Hebron in the occupied West Bank…

sputniknews (2021-08-05). What Message do Repeatedly Downed Israeli Missiles in Syria Send to Tel-Aviv and Washington? sputniknews.com Three consequent announcements made on 20, 22, and 25 July by the Russian Ministry of Defence about the successful interception of Israeli missiles in Syrian air space have prompted a heated debate among Mideast and Western observers. Why have the briefings of the Russian Centre for Reconciliation produced so much fuss?

_____ (2021-08-05). Seattle Vigil Against Racist Medical Negligence. popularresistance.org Hundreds of protesters gathered at Westlake Park in Seattle on the afternoon of July 24 for the Healthcare Equity March. This was the most recent of a series of protests centered around Kaloni Bolton, a 12-year-old Black girl who died tragically at the beginning of this year as a result of medical negligence. | The protests have been organized by Kaloni's family and local organization Decolonizing Science, who Kaloni's mother and aunt Kristina Williams and Francis Bowman say have been very helpful in bringing people out. Williams and Bowman spoke with Liberation News to bring attention to Kaloni's story. | On Dec…

WSWS (2021-08-05). Biden administration orders short-term delay in evictions. wsws.org The action, announced Tuesday, is almost certain to be overturned by the federal courts, based on a Supreme Court ruling last June 29.

Danny Haiphong (2021-08-05). Glen Ford: A Remarkable Revolutionary. orinocotribune.com Danny Haiphong — Aug 4, 2021 | Glen Ford was a revolutionary in all that he did. | The year was 2011. I was full to the brim with anger toward the United States for the deleterious impact of racism on my life and the lives of those closest to me. I was equally furious with liberal elitism and the class-blind racial politics that privileged "diversity" over the substantive material issues most critical to oppressed people everywhere. I marched with Occupy Wall Street and engaged in the labor movement but still felt alone. I frequently asked myself: "Why are all sides of the so-called American Left unable to f…

Sue Bull (2021-08-05). Racism, sport and hypocrisy. greenleft.org.au In nations built on occupation and racist dispossession, First Nations athletes are celebrated as "heroes" for their sporting achievements one day, then condemned and vilified the next, argues Sue Bull.

Daniela Jimenez (2021-08-05). Judicial Decision on Alex Saab's Extradition Expected Next Week. orinocotribune.com The Constitutional Court (TC) of Cape Verde scheduled a hearing on the constitutional appeal of the special envoy of Venezuela, Alex Saab Morán, for next August 13 at 9: 00 a.m. Saab has been held in Cape Verdean prison for 410 days under an arbitrary measure emanating from the United States, victim of a flawed process denounced by the diplomat, his defense, and activists and legal experts worldwide. | "We inform you that by order of the Venerable Presiding Counselor Judge in the file of the Concrete Inspection of Constitutionality No. 2/2021, in which Alex Nain Saab Moran is appellant and the Supreme Court of Jus…

_____ (2021-08-05). 'We Need to Take Military Action': Israeli Defense Minister Threatens War With Iran. commondreams.org Sadly, the Forum was an exclusive and controlled global space—not the political space many Global South feminists needed and wanted.

ecns.cn (2021-08-05). Meng extradition case concluding. ecns.cn Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was back in British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver on Wednesday for the final stretch of extradition proceedings that could send her to the U.S.

Kenya Elliott (2021-08-05). As Iran swears in new president, Israel threatens war. liberationnews.org In a disturbing if not surprising display of hostility, Israeli "Defense" Minister Benny Gantz made a series of deeply aggressive comments regarding Iran earlier today, including saying that Israel is ready to attack Iran and engage in a "multi-front" conflict in the region. These comments were clearly timed to coincide with today's inauguration of the …

Martin Downs (2021-08-05). Authorising unregistered care and deprivation of liberty — Martin Downs. ukhumanrightsblog.com Legislatures in London and Cardiff have long ago established the most detailed safeguards and systems of registration to protect young people placed in children's homes — most especially where that involves depriving them of their liberty. At the same time, the administrations in both capitals have presided over a situation whereby there is a significant …

Editor (2021-08-05). International Red Aid 1922—1937: Uniting to defend class war prisoners. mronline.org The initiative came from Polish Communists seeking to aid compatriots jailed or forced into exile in the Soviet republic.

ecns.cn (2021-08-05). Xinjiang residents refute accusations of human rights violations. ecns.cn Residents of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have hit back at accusations of human rights violations, saying some Western countries' claims of "genocide" or "forced labor" are fabricated.

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-08-05). Ideology and its Influence on us Today. anchor.fm In this episode I go over some of the ways in which our ideology, our ethics, morals, values and beliefs are all shaped. We discuss how white supremacy, sexism, Homophobia and Transphobia all stem from similar places, and will never go away until we dedicate time and energy to dismantling our own misconceptions and stigmas, then moving onto others. Plus a bit more rambling!

_____ (2021-08-05). Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott Calls Another Special Session to Attack Voting Rights. commondreams.org "Scientists say we cannot allow this to happen. People in power stand in our way."

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-05). Azerbaijani defense chief inspects new military bases in conquered Karabakh. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Minister Zakir Hasanov visits several new military units stationed in liberated territories Under the instructions of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mr. Ilham Aliyev, construction work in the military units stationed in the liberated territories continues. The Minister of Defense Colonel General Zakir Hasanov visited several recently …

teleSUR, JGN (2021-08-05). Corte Suprema de Brasil anuncia investigación contra Bolsonaro. telesurtv.net El lunes, el TSE determinó la apertura de un proceso administrativo para investigar las denuncias sin pruebas de Bolsonaro.

repost (2021-08-05). Blood On Barbara Lee's Hands! Funding The Apartheid State Israel. indybay.org

David Escobar (2021-08-05). Colombia: When the fascists get offended. zcomm.org Tales of death threats, assaults, harassment, and physical and psychological torture that happened to a group of activists in the city of Cali, Colombia…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-05). Alarming Escalation: Israeli Warplanes Attack Targets In Lebanon (Videos). southfront.org Israel Air Force airplane F-16 D 'Barak Cobra'prepares for take off. June 28 2010. Photo by Ofer Zidon/Flash90 | Early on August 5, warplanes of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out a series of airstrikes on Lebanon's South Governorate, the heartland of Hezbollah. | The Israeli airstrikes targeted empty farmlands and a road in the area of al-Dimashqiyah as well as the area of al-Shawaker near the coastal city of Tyre. No casualties or material losses were reported as a result of the airstrikes, which were apparently carryi…

_____ (2021-08-05). Palestinians Refuse To Concede Land Rights To Israelis In Sheikh Jarrah. popularresistance.org Palestinian families facing ethnic cleansing from their Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday rejected a so-called "compromise" offer from Israel's Supreme Court, which would allow them to remain in their homes if they recognize as rightful owners the Israeli settler group trying to steal the properties. | Under the Israeli high court proposal, four Palestinian families and dozens of others threatened with forced expulsion from the Sheikh Jarrah area would remain in the neighborhood as "protected tenants" who could not be evicted, as long as they acknowledged that Nahalat Shimon Company[…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-05). Israel Razes Palestinian Properties in Occupied Territories in Massive Single-Day Demolition Drive. libya360.wordpress.com Abhijan Choudhury (Photo: Palestinian Information Center) Israeli authorities justified the demolitions citing lack of Israeli building permits. They also confiscated scores of Palestinian-owned assets, including cars, tractors, water generators and airstream panels Israeli authorities carried out illegal demolitions of several Palestinian-owned residential, agricultural and commercial properties across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-08-05). The Politics of Cheering and Booing: On Palestine, Solidarity and the Tokyo Olympics. dissidentvoice.org When the Palestinian Olympic delegation of five athletes — adorned in traditional Palestinian attire and carrying the Palestinian flag — crossed into the Tokyo's Olympic Stadium during the inauguration ceremony on July 23, I was overcome with pride and nostalgia. I grew up watching the Olympics. All of us did. Throughout the month-long international sports …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-05). Palestinians mark 40 days since the killing of activist Nizar Banat. peoplesdispatch.org The well-known Palestinian political and social activist died under suspicious circumstances on June 24 after the Palestinian Authority's (PA) security forces conducted a violent night raid at his home in Hebron in the occupied West Bank…

Anonymous (2021-08-05). Palestine in Pictures: July 2021. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Editor2 (2021-08-05). Celebrating Sandinismo at Nicaragua's Palestine Park. orinocotribune.com On Sunday, July 18, 2021, thousands of Nicaraguans attended a rally celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution at Palestine Park in Managua. Participants held banners that read "Free Palestine," "Hands Off Cuba," and "Nicaragua Sandinista" as part of the internationalist celebration. | Palestine Park was constructed in 2013 by the government of President Daniel Ortega in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Central to the park is a statue of Palestinian freedom fighter Yasser Arafat, who is also pictured with President Ortega in a nearby poster. The park also features Nicaraguan and Palestin…

Staff (2021-08-05). Hunger strike update: Struggle continues against administrative detention. samidoun.net As of 5 August 2021, 15 Palestinians continued their hunger strikes in Israeli occupation, 14 of them protesting their administrative detention — imprisonment without charge or trial — and one, Mohammed Nuwarra, protesting his ongoing solitary confinement. On 5 August, two detainees joined the hunger strike: Akram al-Fasfous, joining his brother, Kayed al-Fasfous, who has been on hunger strike for 22 days. Sign the grassroots international petition: change.org/NoChargeNoTrialNoJail Their other brother, Mahmoud al-Fasfous, also jailed without charge or trial, suspended his hunger strike earlier on Thur…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-08-05). The Politics of Cheering and Booing. zcomm.org On Palestine, Solidarity and the Tokyo Olympics…

sputniknews (2021-08-05). Israel's Twitter Page Arouses Fury After Video Boasts of Water Management Accomplishments. sputniknews.com Since 1967, Palestinians in the West Bank have been legally barred from sinking their own wells without a permit from the Israeli military, forcing them to buy water at inflated prices from Israeli water providers.

sputniknews (2021-08-05). What Message do Repeatedly Downed Israeli Missiles in Syria Send to Tel-Aviv and Washington? sputniknews.com Three consequent announcements made on 20, 22, and 25 July by the Russian Ministry of Defence about the successful interception of Israeli missiles in Syrian air space have prompted a heated debate among Mideast and Western observers. Why have the briefings of the Russian Centre for Reconciliation produced so much fuss?

_____ (2021-08-05). Seattle Vigil Against Racist Medical Negligence. popularresistance.org Hundreds of protesters gathered at Westlake Park in Seattle on the afternoon of July 24 for the Healthcare Equity March. This was the most recent of a series of protests centered around Kaloni Bolton, a 12-year-old Black girl who died tragically at the beginning of this year as a result of medical negligence. | The protests have been organized by Kaloni's family and local organization Decolonizing Science, who Kaloni's mother and aunt Kristina Williams and Francis Bowman say have been very helpful in bringing people out. Williams and Bowman spoke with Liberation News to bring attention to Kaloni's story. | On Dec…

WSWS (2021-08-05). Biden administration orders short-term delay in evictions. wsws.org The action, announced Tuesday, is almost certain to be overturned by the federal courts, based on a Supreme Court ruling last June 29.

Danny Haiphong (2021-08-05). Glen Ford: A Remarkable Revolutionary. orinocotribune.com Danny Haiphong — Aug 4, 2021 | Glen Ford was a revolutionary in all that he did. | The year was 2011. I was full to the brim with anger toward the United States for the deleterious impact of racism on my life and the lives of those closest to me. I was equally furious with liberal elitism and the class-blind racial politics that privileged "diversity" over the substantive material issues most critical to oppressed people everywhere. I marched with Occupy Wall Street and engaged in the labor movement but still felt alone. I frequently asked myself: "Why are all sides of the so-called American Left unable to f…

Sue Bull (2021-08-05). Racism, sport and hypocrisy. greenleft.org.au In nations built on occupation and racist dispossession, First Nations athletes are celebrated as "heroes" for their sporting achievements one day, then condemned and vilified the next, argues Sue Bull.

ecns.cn (2021-08-05). Why investigating U.S. EVALI outbreak important in COVID-19 origin-tracing?>. ecns.cn Amid global efforts in tracing the COVID-19 origins, the connection between the coronavirus and an outbreak of e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury (EVALI) cases in the U.S. in August, 2019 has raised many concerns.

ecns.cn (2021-08-05). Comicomment: In origin tracing, U.S. leads a 'blaming chorus'. ecns.cn The COVID-19 origin tracing is a serious scientific issue that must be studied by scientists and medical experts around the world through cooperation. However, some U.S. politicians placed their hope on the intelligence community, trying to answer a science question with political means.

ecns.cn (2021-08-05). French biosecurity expert dismisses Wuhan "lab leak" theory. ecns.cn "The theory that the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab is not credible," a French biosecurity expert who had monitored the construction of the Biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology has said recently in reference to COVID-19.

Global Justice Now (2021-08-05). Saturday 9/4: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid International Activist Assembly. indybay.org Online event…

ecns.cn (2021-08-05). U.S. closure of Fort Detrick lab not coincidental: expert. ecns.cn The sudden shutdown of the Fort Detrick lab in the United States and the pneumonia outbreak that followed are far from coincidental and should be studied in the scope of the ongoing investigation into the pandemic's origins, a Russian political observer has said.

Daniela Jimenez (2021-08-05). Judicial Decision on Alex Saab's Extradition Expected Next Week. orinocotribune.com The Constitutional Court (TC) of Cape Verde scheduled a hearing on the constitutional appeal of the special envoy of Venezuela, Alex Saab Morán, for next August 13 at 9: 00 a.m. Saab has been held in Cape Verdean prison for 410 days under an arbitrary measure emanating from the United States, victim of a flawed process denounced by the diplomat, his defense, and activists and legal experts worldwide. | "We inform you that by order of the Venerable Presiding Counselor Judge in the file of the Concrete Inspection of Constitutionality No. 2/2021, in which Alex Nain Saab Moran is appellant and the Supreme Court of Jus…

ecns.cn (2021-08-05). Meng extradition case concluding. ecns.cn Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was back in British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver on Wednesday for the final stretch of extradition proceedings that could send her to the U.S.

Editor (2021-08-05). International Red Aid 1922—1937: Uniting to defend class war prisoners. mronline.org The initiative came from Polish Communists seeking to aid compatriots jailed or forced into exile in the Soviet republic.

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-08-05). Ideology and its Influence on us Today. anchor.fm In this episode I go over some of the ways in which our ideology, our ethics, morals, values and beliefs are all shaped. We discuss how white supremacy, sexism, Homophobia and Transphobia all stem from similar places, and will never go away until we dedicate time and energy to dismantling our own misconceptions and stigmas, then moving onto others. Plus a bit more rambling!

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-05). Azerbaijani defense chief inspects new military bases in conquered Karabakh. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Minister Zakir Hasanov visits several new military units stationed in liberated territories Under the instructions of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mr. Ilham Aliyev, construction work in the military units stationed in the liberated territories continues. The Minister of Defense Colonel General Zakir Hasanov visited several recently …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-05). Social movements mobilize in defense of voting rights in the US. peoplesdispatch.org Faith leaders and low-wage workers took to the streets of the US capital on August 2, in defense of voting rights and for a minimum wage of $15 per hour. The protest organized by the Poor People's Campaign comes at a time of increased attacks by conservatives on the voting rights of marginalized communities and a deep economic crisis in the country first and foremost affecting working class people.

ecns.cn (2021-08-05). Xinjiang residents refute accusations of human rights violations. ecns.cn Residents of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have hit back at accusations of human rights violations, saying some Western countries' claims of "genocide" or "forced labor" are fabricated.

ecns.cn (2021-08-05). Shifting blame reflects selfishness of U.S. ecns.cn Recently, the U.S. has led several countries and media outlets in hyping up the claim that the novel coronavirus was the result of a "lab leak".

Kamal Iranidoost (2021-08-05). Iran lodges protest to IMO over rising rhetoric. en.mehrnews.com Iranian Ambassador to the UK Mohsen Baharvand has penned a letter to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to protest the rhetoric recently raised against Tehran after suspicious incidents with tankers in Persian Gulf.

Mohammad Ali Haqshenas (2021-08-05). Embassy urges caution against false flag operations in region. en.mehrnews.com Iran's Embassy in London reviewed the recent days' propaganda against Iran, urging vigilance against false flag operations in the Persian Gulf region.

Register Peace & Freedom or Green (2021-08-05). 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……

ecns.cn (2021-08-05). Secret deal between U.S. Fort Detrick, Japanese germ warfare unit revealed. ecns.cn The United States pardoned members of a notorious Japanese germ warfare unit after World War II in exchange for their data on biological weapons, research by a Chinese historian has revealed.

teleSUR, JGN (2021-08-05). Corte Suprema de Brasil anuncia investigación contra Bolsonaro. telesurtv.net El lunes, el TSE determinó la apertura de un proceso administrativo para investigar las denuncias sin pruebas de Bolsonaro.

repost (2021-08-05). Blood On Barbara Lee's Hands! Funding The Apartheid State Israel. indybay.org

David Escobar (2021-08-05). Colombia: When the fascists get offended. zcomm.org Tales of death threats, assaults, harassment, and physical and psychological torture that happened to a group of activists in the city of Cali, Colombia…

Staff (2021-08-04). Israeli warplanes pound southern Lebanon, as IDF vows to 'continue & intensify' retaliation to rocket fire (VIDEO). rt.com The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of airstrikes on Lebanese territory, calling them retaliation for cross-border rocket attacks after earlier firing scores of artillery rounds in response. | The IDF Video footage has circulated online purporting to show the IDF strikes in progress. | BREAKING…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-04). Israeli Army Escalates Artillery Strikes On Lebanon In Response To Recent Rocket Attack (Videos, Photos). southfront.org Israeli soldiers and IDF Artillery at a staging area in Southern Israel, near the border with neighbouring Palestinian Gaza Strip on November 13, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 | On August 4 noon, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) escalated their artillery strikes on Lebanon in response to the recent Earlier, three rockets were launched from South Lebanon…

Michael F. Brown (2021-08-04). Israel lobby helps Shontel Brown defeat Nina Turner. electronicintifada.net Anti-Palestinian group DMFI PAC funded Ohio congressional candidate who promotes US military aid to Israel with no conditions.

Omar Zahzah (2021-08-04). Fired for a Facebook post, doctor seeks justice. electronicintifada.net The online targeting of Palestinian-American pediatrician intended to chill speech for Palestinian rights.

Staff (2021-08-04). Video: Palestine Solidarity and the Boycott Movement: An Inter-Generational Dialogue. samidoun.net Watch the full video (above) of "Palestine Solidarity and the Boycott Movement: An Inter-Generational Dialogue," organized by the Canada Palestine Association and BDS Vancouver — Coast Salish Territories on Tuesday, 3 August 2021. The online event was also supported by the Canadian BDS Coalition, Just Peace Advocates and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. The full event video is also available on Facebook: www.facebook.com/cpavancouver.org/videos… The event aimed to provide a moderated, dynamic and inter-generational discussion of the history, current challenges and pr…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-08-04). How Human Rights Watch favors Israel. electronicintifada.net There's no equating Palestinian rocket fire and massacres by warplanes.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-04). Outrage in Africa Over the Granting of Observer Status to "Israel" at the AU. libya360.wordpress.com Rosa Moro African member states and organizations in solidarity with Palestine denounce the inappropriateness of the measure and call for its revocation. On July 22, the chairman of the African Union Commission, the Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat, announced that he had received the credentials of Aleli Admasu, "Israel's" ambassador to Ethiopia, Burundi and Chad, which…

Editor (2021-08-04). Israeli soldiers killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy. Then, during his funeral, they killed someone else. mronline.org On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami in his father's car, as the family were on their way home from grocery shopping. The next day at Mohammed's funeral, Israeli soldiers attacked the procession, killing 20-year-old Shawkat Awad.

Angela (2021-08-04). Friday 8/6: Education Webinar: Determined To Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village. indybay.org Facebook…

Latino Rebels (2021-08-04). In Response to 2nd Anniversary of El Paso Massacre, MALDEF Announces New Program to Combat Open Bias and Racism. latinorebels.com The Freedom from Open and Obvious Bias and Racism, "will focus on addressing and reducing the rise in hate crimes rooted in anti-Latino sentiments, including discriminatory policing policies that encourage or tolerate racism."

ecns.cn (2021-08-04). Racist incidents targeting Asian Americans worry students, parents: U.S. media. ecns.cn

WSWS (2021-08-04). More political fallout from the Pegasus spyware revelations. wsws.org Although no government has confirmed that it used the spyware to hack into the smartphones of political opponents and journalists around the world, the Israeli-based NSO Group, which developed the Pegasus tool, has suspended the accounts of several of its state customers.

Dave DeCamp (2021-08-04). Israel's Gantz Urges Action Against Iran 'Right Now' Over Tanker Attack. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2021-08-04). French Morenoites call on trade unions to join anti-vaccine protests. wsws.org The appeal to mobilise the unions in protests called by the far right is reactionary and aligned with the murderous policy of the ruling class.

Editor (2021-08-04). Israeli soldiers killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy. Then, during his funeral, they killed someone else. mronline.org On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami in his father's car, as the family were on their way home from grocery shopping. The next day at Mohammed's funeral, Israeli soldiers attacked the procession, killing 20-year-old Shawkat Awad.

Anonymous669 (2021-08-04). Israeli Army Escalates Artillery Strikes On Lebanon In Response To Recent Rocket Attack (Videos, Photos). southfront.org Israeli soldiers and IDF Artillery at a staging area in Southern Israel, near the border with neighbouring Palestinian Gaza Strip on November 13, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 | On August 4 noon, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) escalated their artillery strikes on Lebanon in response to the recent Earlier, three rockets were launched from South Lebanon…

Omar Zahzah (2021-08-04). Fired for a Facebook post, doctor seeks justice. electronicintifada.net The online targeting of Palestinian-American pediatrician intended to chill speech for Palestinian rights.

Angela (2021-08-04). Friday 8/6: Education Webinar: Determined To Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village. indybay.org Facebook…

Staff (2021-08-04). Video: Palestine Solidarity and the Boycott Movement: An Inter-Generational Dialogue. samidoun.net Watch the full video (above) of "Palestine Solidarity and the Boycott Movement: An Inter-Generational Dialogue," organized by the Canada Palestine Association and BDS Vancouver — Coast Salish Territories on Tuesday, 3 August 2021. The online event was also supported by the Canadian BDS Coalition, Just Peace Advocates and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. The full event video is also available on Facebook: www.facebook.com/cpavancouver.org/videos… The event aimed to provide a moderated, dynamic and inter-generational discussion of the history, current challenges and pr…

WSWS (2021-08-04). More political fallout from the Pegasus spyware revelations. wsws.org Although no government has confirmed that it used the spyware to hack into the smartphones of political opponents and journalists around the world, the Israeli-based NSO Group, which developed the Pegasus tool, has suspended the accounts of several of its state customers.

ecns.cn (2021-08-04). Racist incidents targeting Asian Americans worry students, parents: U.S. media. ecns.cn

repost (2021-08-04). Blood On Barbara Lee's Hands! Funding The Apartheid State Israel. indybay.org

WSWS (2021-08-04). French Morenoites call on trade unions to join anti-vaccine protests. wsws.org The appeal to mobilise the unions in protests called by the far right is reactionary and aligned with the murderous policy of the ruling class.

Jack Dresser (2021-08-03). Political Incongruities in the Olympic Games. Apartheid South Africa, Fragmented Palestine. globalresearch.ca

Juan Cole (2021-08-03). Living in the Dark: Palestinians in Gaza, besieged by Israel and deprived of Electricity, Can't even Refrigerate their Food. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The International Committee of the Red Cross has released a detailed study of life for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that is just as depressing as you would imagine. The electricity situation there has been touch and go for years, in large part because of the illegal Israeli civilian blockade …

Ali Abunimah (2021-08-03). Video shows Israeli shooting that killed 11-year-old boy. electronicintifada.net EU complicity continues to cost Palestinian children their lives.

Staff (2021-08-03). Palestinians Reject Deal That Turns Settlers Into Landlords in Sheikh Jarrah. truthout.org The Israeli Supreme Court this week offered Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah a compromise in their ongoing fight to block Jewish settlers from forcibly expelling them from their own homes. The high court proposed that Palestinian families could stay in their homes for now if they begin paying rent to the Jewish settler group that claims ownership over the properties — a deal the families rejected, insisting they are the legal owners. The planned evictions in East Jerusalem helped spa…

Staff (2021-08-03). Palestinians Reject Israeli Court's Deal That Would Put Them at "Mercy of Settlers" in Sheikh Jarrah. democracynow.org The Israeli Supreme Court this week offered Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah a compromise in their ongoing fight to block Jewish settlers from forcibly expelling them from their own homes. The high court proposed that Palestinian families could stay in their homes for now if they begin paying rent to the Jewish settler group that claims ownership over the properties — a deal the families rejected, insisting they are the legal owners. The planned evictions in East Jerusalem helped spark the last war in Gaza in May and have galvanized international support for Palestinians facing dispossession from sett…

Staff (2021-08-03). The growing uprising against administrative detention: 17 Palestinian detainees on hunger strike. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoners have launched a growing uprising inside Israeli prisons, with the number of hunger strikers now reaching 17. Sixteen of the hunger strikers are protesting their administrative detention, Israeli imprisonment without charge or trial that can be indefinitely renewed. Palestinians routinely are jailed for years at a time without ever being accused of any action under administrative detention orders, and since the beginning of 2021, 40 Palestinian prisoners have launched hunger strikes, most in rejection of administrative detention. There are currently approximately 540 Palestinians jailed witho…

_____ (2021-08-03). 'We Are the Owners': Palestinians Refuse to Concede Land Rights to Israelis in Sheikh Jarrah. commondreams.org Turner and her legions of supporters want nothing less than to transform the Democratic Party into what we desperately need in America: a party that addresses the needs of both people and planet.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-03). Israel's Supreme Court delays ruling on Sheikh Jarrah forced evictions case. peoplesdispatch.org The court offered the Palestinians a compromise deal as per which Palestinians could live in their homes for the next three generations in exchange for accepting Jewish ownership of the land and paying token rent…

Andrew Korybko (2021-08-03). Is Russia Recalibrating Its De Facto Alliance with Israel in Syria? globalresearch.ca

Ann Brown (2021-08-03). Democrats Stop Talk Of Structural Racism After Election, Let Covid Eviction Moratorium Expire. moguldom.com Hot topics during the 2020 presidential election campaign included reparations, structural racism and covid relief programs such as the eviction moratorium. Post-election, these topics have seemingly gone away. The covid eviction moratorium expired July 31 and liberal Democrats are blasting the White House for not extending it. Several progressive Dems have protested. "The White House …

Staff (2021-08-03). Headlines for August 3, 2021. democracynow.org Louisiana Orders Mask Mandate as U.S. Logs Highest Coronavirus Toll Since February, Federal Employees Must Show Proof of Vaccination or Face Regular Tests, U.S., U.K. Say Afghan Taliban Massacred Civilians in Spin Boldak, State Department Offers to Resettle Thousands of Afghans Who Worked with U.S. , Refugee Advocates Sue as Biden Admin Continues Trump-Era Border Policy, HHS Watchdog to Probe Reports of Dire Conditions at Migrant Youth Detention Camp , Progressives Blast White House for Allowing Eviction Moratorium to Expire, 200+ Arrested at D.C. Protest Demanding End to Filibuster, Voting Rights, Study: Gerryma…

Weimer MB, Wakeman SE, Saitz R. (2021-08-03). X-Waiver Exemption in the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply As we pointed out in our Viewpoint, racial disparities in access to MOUD are alarming and place Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, and other racially oppressed and disenfranchised individuals at increased risk of opioid overdose and poor treatment outcomes. We agree with Mr Shearer and colleagues that addressing racism in the field of addiction treatment is critical to ensure equitable access to care. We believe that implementing structural changes such as the ones we proposed, including expanding all treatment options for OUD, acknowledging individuals' social vulnerabilities w…

March On, partners (2021-08-03). Saturday 8/28: Sacramento: March On for Voting Rights. indybay.org California State Capitol, 1315 10th Street Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 95814 | Wear a mask. Please follow all current COVID safety guidelines: covid19.ca.gov/…

Rosalío Muñoz, Janice Rothstein (2021-08-03). California, national right wingers push Newsom recall drive. peoplesworld.org Republicans in California, with substantial in-state and out-of-state money, have succeeded in getting a special election scheduled for Sept. 14, in which they're attempting to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The recall is spearheaded and led by a cabal of the most reactionary sectors of the ruling class-supporting fascist Trump elements in the Republican Party. …

_____ (2021-08-03). Counter-Revolution Strikes Tunisia. strategic-culture.org The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S. just don't want democracy in the Arab world, writes As'ad AbuKhalil. | By As'ad ABUKHALIL | The monarchical-sounding declaration by KaàØs SaàØed eight days ago was stunning: the president who was freely elected in 2019 (for only the second time in Tunisian history) was basically proclaiming a coup d'etat by dismissing the prime minister and suspending parliament. | SaàØed was elected nine years after the overthrow of President Zine Ben Ali, who in 1987 as the security chief launched a coup against Habib Bourguiba, the founding president of Tunisia. T…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-03). The 'Stigma' Of Being Russian At The OIympics Is Reminiscent Of 20th Century Anti-Semitism. southfront.org We are entering dangerous territory when journalists, sportsmen and politicians are united in their abhorrence of Russia… | Written by Johanna Ross, journalist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. | They say that sport and politics shouldn't mix. Perhaps this is the ideal, for in practice the two seem inherently linked. A perfect example of this is Russia's participation in the Olympics games this year, which has been deliberately tarnished from…

Editor (2021-08-03). Fascism come in all shapes and sizes but the 'family resemblances' can no longer be denied. mronline.org Umberto Eco's inventory of proto-fascist characteristics comprised 14 elements. It will not be difficult for us to recognise the variant of many of these in Narendra Modi's New India.

_____ (2021-08-03). Peru's Socialist President, Pedro Castillo, In His Own Words. popularresistance.org Peru's presidential campaign between leftist Pedro Castillo and right-wing Keiko Fujimori has been an epic struggle. When it was clear that Castillo would win with a razor-thin margin, Fujimori — like Donald Trump — cried fraud and is now trying to carry out an electoral coup. While international observers, and even the US State Department, agree that the elections were free and fair, Fujimori's legal maneuvers have managed to delay the official declaration of the winner, sow even more division among the public, and embolden the far right.

Poor People's Campaign & partners (2021-08-03). Monday 8/2: March on Washington D.C. for Voting Rights, Immigrant Rights & Economic Justice w/ PPC. indybay.org Online actions and protest livestream/recording…

WSWS (2021-08-03). Student representatives at Humboldt University in Germany support disciplinary complaint against president, demand action against Professor Baberowski. wsws.org Students do not accept that right-wing extremist professors, with the active support of the university administration, can once again falsify history and promote fascistic politics at German universities.

Ann Brown (2021-08-03). Democrats Stop Talk Of Structural Racism After Election, Let Covid Eviction Moratorium Expire. moguldom.com Hot topics during the 2020 presidential election campaign included reparations, structural racism and covid relief programs such as the eviction moratorium. Post-election, these topics have seemingly gone away. The covid eviction moratorium expired July 31 and liberal Democrats are blasting the White House for not extending it. Several progressive Dems have protested. "The White House …

Staff (2021-08-03). Headlines for August 3, 2021. democracynow.org Louisiana Orders Mask Mandate as U.S. Logs Highest Coronavirus Toll Since February, Federal Employees Must Show Proof of Vaccination or Face Regular Tests, U.S., U.K. Say Afghan Taliban Massacred Civilians in Spin Boldak, State Department Offers to Resettle Thousands of Afghans Who Worked with U.S. , Refugee Advocates Sue as Biden Admin Continues Trump-Era Border Policy, HHS Watchdog to Probe Reports of Dire Conditions at Migrant Youth Detention Camp , Progressives Blast White House for Allowing Eviction Moratorium to Expire, 200+ Arrested at D.C. Protest Demanding End to Filibuster, Voting Rights, Study: Gerryma…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-03). Israel's Supreme Court delays ruling on Sheikh Jarrah forced evictions case. peoplesdispatch.org The court offered the Palestinians a compromise deal as per which Palestinians could live in their homes for the next three generations in exchange for accepting Jewish ownership of the land and paying token rent…

Staff (2021-08-03). Palestinians Reject Deal That Turns Settlers Into Landlords in Sheikh Jarrah. truthout.org The Israeli Supreme Court this week offered Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah a compromise in their ongoing fight to block Jewish settlers from forcibly expelling them from their own homes. The high court proposed that Palestinian families could stay in their homes for now if they begin paying rent to the Jewish settler group that claims ownership over the properties — a deal the families rejected, insisting they are the legal owners. The planned evictions in East Jerusalem helped spa…

Staff (2021-08-03). Palestinians Reject Israeli Court's Deal That Would Put Them at "Mercy of Settlers" in Sheikh Jarrah. democracynow.org The Israeli Supreme Court this week offered Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah a compromise in their ongoing fight to block Jewish settlers from forcibly expelling them from their own homes. The high court proposed that Palestinian families could stay in their homes for now if they begin paying rent to the Jewish settler group that claims ownership over the properties — a deal the families rejected, insisting they are the legal owners. The planned evictions in East Jerusalem helped spark the last war in Gaza in May and have galvanized international support for Palestinians facing dispossession from sett…

Jack Dresser (2021-08-03). Political Incongruities in the Olympic Games. Apartheid South Africa, Fragmented Palestine. globalresearch.ca

Juan Cole (2021-08-03). Living in the Dark: Palestinians in Gaza, besieged by Israel and deprived of Electricity, Can't even Refrigerate their Food. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The International Committee of the Red Cross has released a detailed study of life for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that is just as depressing as you would imagine. The electricity situation there has been touch and go for years, in large part because of the illegal Israeli civilian blockade …

Staff (2021-08-03). The growing uprising against administrative detention: 17 Palestinian detainees on hunger strike. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoners have launched a growing uprising inside Israeli prisons, with the number of hunger strikers now reaching 17. Sixteen of the hunger strikers are protesting their administrative detention, Israeli imprisonment without charge or trial that can be indefinitely renewed. Palestinians routinely are jailed for years at a time without ever being accused of any action under administrative detention orders, and since the beginning of 2021, 40 Palestinian prisoners have launched hunger strikes, most in rejection of administrative detention. There are currently approximately 540 Palestinians jailed witho…

_____ (2021-08-03). 'We Are the Owners': Palestinians Refuse to Concede Land Rights to Israelis in Sheikh Jarrah. commondreams.org Turner and her legions of supporters want nothing less than to transform the Democratic Party into what we desperately need in America: a party that addresses the needs of both people and planet.

Angela (2021-08-03). Friday 8/6: Education Webinar: Determined To Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village. indybay.org Facebook…

Andrew Korybko (2021-08-03). Is Russia Recalibrating Its De Facto Alliance with Israel in Syria? globalresearch.ca

Weimer MB, Wakeman SE, Saitz R. (2021-08-03). X-Waiver Exemption in the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply As we pointed out in our Viewpoint, racial disparities in access to MOUD are alarming and place Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, and other racially oppressed and disenfranchised individuals at increased risk of opioid overdose and poor treatment outcomes. We agree with Mr Shearer and colleagues that addressing racism in the field of addiction treatment is critical to ensure equitable access to care. We believe that implementing structural changes such as the ones we proposed, including expanding all treatment options for OUD, acknowledging individuals' social vulnerabilities w…

_____ (2021-08-03). Peru's Socialist President, Pedro Castillo, In His Own Words. popularresistance.org Peru's presidential campaign between leftist Pedro Castillo and right-wing Keiko Fujimori has been an epic struggle. When it was clear that Castillo would win with a razor-thin margin, Fujimori — like Donald Trump — cried fraud and is now trying to carry out an electoral coup. While international observers, and even the US State Department, agree that the elections were free and fair, Fujimori's legal maneuvers have managed to delay the official declaration of the winner, sow even more division among the public, and embolden the far right.

March On, partners (2021-08-03). Saturday 8/28: Sacramento: March On for Voting Rights. indybay.org California State Capitol, 1315 10th Street Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 95814 | Wear a mask. Please follow all current COVID safety guidelines: covid19.ca.gov/…

Editor (2021-08-03). Fascism come in all shapes and sizes but the 'family resemblances' can no longer be denied. mronline.org Umberto Eco's inventory of proto-fascist characteristics comprised 14 elements. It will not be difficult for us to recognise the variant of many of these in Narendra Modi's New India.

Rosalío Muñoz, Janice Rothstein (2021-08-03). California, national right wingers push Newsom recall drive. peoplesworld.org Republicans in California, with substantial in-state and out-of-state money, have succeeded in getting a special election scheduled for Sept. 14, in which they're attempting to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The recall is spearheaded and led by a cabal of the most reactionary sectors of the ruling class-supporting fascist Trump elements in the Republican Party. …

Anonymous103 (2021-08-03). The 'Stigma' Of Being Russian At The OIympics Is Reminiscent Of 20th Century Anti-Semitism. southfront.org We are entering dangerous territory when journalists, sportsmen and politicians are united in their abhorrence of Russia… | Written by Johanna Ross, journalist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. | They say that sport and politics shouldn't mix. Perhaps this is the ideal, for in practice the two seem inherently linked. A perfect example of this is Russia's participation in the Olympics games this year, which has been deliberately tarnished from…

_____ (2021-08-03). Counter-Revolution Strikes Tunisia. strategic-culture.org The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S. just don't want democracy in the Arab world, writes As'ad AbuKhalil. | By As'ad ABUKHALIL | The monarchical-sounding declaration by KaàØs SaàØed eight days ago was stunning: the president who was freely elected in 2019 (for only the second time in Tunisian history) was basically proclaiming a coup d'etat by dismissing the prime minister and suspending parliament. | SaàØed was elected nine years after the overthrow of President Zine Ben Ali, who in 1987 as the security chief launched a coup against Habib Bourguiba, the founding president of Tunisia. T…

Poor People's Campaign & partners (2021-08-03). Monday 8/2: March on Washington D.C. for Voting Rights, Immigrant Rights & Economic Justice w/ PPC. indybay.org Online actions and protest livestream/recording…

WSWS (2021-08-03). Student representatives at Humboldt University in Germany support disciplinary complaint against president, demand action against Professor Baberowski. wsws.org Students do not accept that right-wing extremist professors, with the active support of the university administration, can once again falsify history and promote fascistic politics at German universities.

repost (2021-08-03). Blood On Barbara Lee's Hands! Funding The Apartheid State Israel. indybay.org

Staff (2021-08-02). Day 8 and 9, Samidoun Ghassan Kanafani Brigade in Lebanon: Conclusion and moving forward. samidoun.net On the morning of Friday 30 August, the Ghassan Kanafani Brigade, the Samidoun delegation to Lebanon, visited the recording studio of the "Palestine Today" TV-channel. We were given a tour of the whole studio, showing us the production and recording rooms, and the studio. The delegation also had the opportunity to meet with Saif Mau'ed, director of Palestine Today, and Mohamad Uthman, who before being the coordinator of correspondents was himself a correspondent in the Great Return March in Gaza, where he was shot by the Zionist military forces. In the meeting Mau'ed and Uthman explained the goals of the channel,…

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2021-08-02). Israel lobby group ADL teams up with PayPal. electronicintifada.net Activists fear result could be more censorship of Palestine rights advocates.

Al-Shabaka (2021-08-02). Israel's Violations of Palestinian Workers' Rights: COVID-19 and Systemic Abuse. juancole.com By Ihab Maharmeh | — ( Al-Shabakah) — The Israeli regime has been systematically violating the rights of Palestinian workers in Israel and its illegal settlements since 1967. How have these violations been exacerbated since the COVID-19 pandemic? Al-Shabaka's guest contributor, Ihab Maharmeh, examines Israel's ongoing abuses of Palestinian workers' labor and human rights. He …

Juan Cole (2021-08-02). Palestinian Christians welcome U.S. United Church of Christ affirmation of right to Boycott Israel for Occupation of Palestinian Territories. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Palestinian Christian organization In 2015, the denomination

Staff (2021-08-02). 3 August, Oldham: Stand with Palestinian Prisoners #ShutDownElbit. samidoun.net Tuesday, 3 August 3: 30 pm Elbit Ferranti Oldham Greenacres Road Oldham, England Info: www.facebook.com/events/s/stand-with-pal… Stand with Palestinian Political Prisoners — Tuesday 3 August 2021 — 3.30pm Elbit Ferranti Oldham, Greenacres Rd, OL4 3JA At the weekend, we learnt the good news that charges have been dropped for 6 of the 8 activists who Shut Down Elbit Oldham on 1 February 2021. Two remain charged. We are making the link between our struggle and all those who are disrupting Israel's occupation. Please bring banners, flags, messages. Our protests are pea…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-02). 17 Palestinians on hunger strike against administrative detention. peoplesdispatch.org 17 Palestinian administrative detainees are on hunger strike in various prisons and detention centers inside Israel to protest against their illegal administrative detention by the Israeli authorities. According to the Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs Commission, the detainees have been on hunger strike for varying number of days, ranging from four days to 21 days. The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) stated that several of the striking detainees have suffered severe deterioration in their health and are in urgent need of medical attention. According to the PPS, they are being held in the Israe…

Aaron Maté (2021-08-02). US suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost. thegrayzone.com Cuba's anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that's one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today. Cuba's anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that's one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today. Cuba's anti-imperialist foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa …

news.un (2021-08-02). General Assembly creates new Permanent Forum of People of African Descent. news.un.org Capping years of deliberations, the UN General Assembly on Monday established a new platform to improve the lives of Afro-descendants, who have for centuries suffered the ills of racism, racial discrimination and the legacy of enslavement around the globe.

Michael Slager (2021-08-02). In the Wake of "Black Lives Matter," does the the 1919 Chicago Race Riot Take on Special Significance? juancole.com Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) — This week marks another infamous anniversary in US history: the Chicago race riot of 1919. It started when white beachgoers threw rocks at Eugene Williams, a black teenager. He had drifted on a homemade raft from his neighborhood beach toward a white section of it, where a group pelted …

Staff (2021-08-02). 100 State Lawmakers From 20 States Join TX Dems in DC to Defend Voting Rights. truthout.org Throughout the week, these state legislators will meet with federal senators and push them to forego an August recess in order to pass those bills. | "We came to Washington, D.C. to demand action and draw the nation's…

Staff (2021-08-02). 100 State Lawmakers From 20 States Join TX Dems in DC in to Defend Voting Rights. truthout.org Throughout the week, these state legislators will meet with federal senators and push them to forego an August recess in order to pass those bills. | "We came to Washington, D.C. to demand action and draw the nation's…

Anonymous007 (2021-08-02). U.S. And UK Accuse Iran Of Carrying Out Drone Attack On Tanker, Plan UNSC Meeting. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | You can read this article in German: On August 1st, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab accused Iran of being responsible for the alleged drone strike on an oil tanker in the Arabian sea. | This followed accusations by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, which Tehran denied.

_____ (2021-08-02). Hundreds Arrested in DC Demanding Voting Rights, End to Poverty, and Death of Filibuster. commondreams.org "Ready solutions are available to address root causes and displacement that are centered in human rights and humanitarian protection."

Bill Blum (2021-08-02). Taking Back the Supreme Court. progressive.org Major changes are warranted to save a broken institution.

Civil Liberties Defense Center (2021-08-02). A Dispatch from FCI Englewood's Segregated Housing Unit. itsgoingdown.org Report from Lauren Reagan of the Civil Liberties Defense Center on the status of anarchist prisoner, Eric King, who has faced years of hardship and abuse at the hands of guards and fascist prisoners. Today I was locked in a small windowless room with asbestos walls crumbling onto a filthy floor for over seven hours….

John Hickman (2021-08-02). Discussions of Iran's Nuclear Enrichment ignore Israel's Atom Bomb Arsenal: What if Iran's Program is a Deterrent to War? juancole.com Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) — According to the latest news coverage, Iran-U.S. negotiations to revive the 2015 JCPOA are in trouble. The main sticking points involve a guarantee demanded by Tehran that Washington will not abandon the deal at some future date as it did in 2018 under the previous administration and …

ecns.cn (2021-08-02). U.S. blames Iran for tanker attack, prepares for response. ecns.cn The United States on Sunday blamed Iran for the attack against an oil tanker managed by an Israeli-owned company in the north Arabian Sea, saying "an appropriate response" is forthcoming.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-02). Iran rubbishes allegations of involvement in attack on Israeli oil tanker off Oman coast. peoplesdispatch.org Israel, the US, and the UK have accused Iran of carrying out a drone attack on an Israeli-owned oil tanker off the Omani coast last week which killed two crew members…

CIIS Public Programs (2021-08-02). Thursday 8/19: On the Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. indybay.org

Staff (2021-08-02). Day 8 and 9, Samidoun Ghassan Kanafani Brigade in Lebanon: Conclusion and moving forward. samidoun.net On the morning of Friday 30 August, the Ghassan Kanafani Brigade, the Samidoun delegation to Lebanon, visited the recording studio of the "Palestine Today" TV-channel. We were given a tour of the whole studio, showing us the production and recording rooms, and the studio. The delegation also had the opportunity to meet with Saif Mau'ed, director of Palestine Today, and Mohamad Uthman, who before being the coordinator of correspondents was himself a correspondent in the Great Return March in Gaza, where he was shot by the Zionist military forces. In the meeting Mau'ed and Uthman explained the goals of the channel,…

Al-Shabaka (2021-08-02). Israel's Violations of Palestinian Workers' Rights: COVID-19 and Systemic Abuse. juancole.com By Ihab Maharmeh | — ( Al-Shabakah) — The Israeli regime has been systematically violating the rights of Palestinian workers in Israel and its illegal settlements since 1967. How have these violations been exacerbated since the COVID-19 pandemic? Al-Shabaka's guest contributor, Ihab Maharmeh, examines Israel's ongoing abuses of Palestinian workers' labor and human rights. He …

Juan Cole (2021-08-02). Palestinian Christians welcome U.S. United Church of Christ affirmation of right to Boycott Israel for Occupation of Palestinian Territories. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Palestinian Christian organization In 2015, the denomination

Angela (2021-08-02). Friday 8/6: Education Webinar: Determined To Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village. indybay.org Facebook…

Aaron Maté (2021-08-02). US suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost. thegrayzone.com Cuba's anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that's one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today. Cuba's anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that's one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today. Cuba's anti-imperialist foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa …

Michael Slager (2021-08-02). In the Wake of "Black Lives Matter," does the the 1919 Chicago Race Riot Take on Special Significance? juancole.com Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) — This week marks another infamous anniversary in US history: the Chicago race riot of 1919. It started when white beachgoers threw rocks at Eugene Williams, a black teenager. He had drifted on a homemade raft from his neighborhood beach toward a white section of it, where a group pelted …

Anonymous007 (2021-08-02). U.S. And UK Accuse Iran Of Carrying Out Drone Attack On Tanker, Plan UNSC Meeting. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | You can read this article in German: On August 1st, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab accused Iran of being responsible for the alleged drone strike on an oil tanker in the Arabian sea. | This followed accusations by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, which Tehran denied.

Poor People's Campaign & partners (2021-08-02). Monday 8/2: March on Washington D.C. for Voting Rights, Immigrant Rights & Economic Justice w/ PPC. indybay.org Online actions and protest livestream/recording…

March On, partners (2021-08-02). Saturday 8/28: Sacramento: March On for Voting Rights. indybay.org California State Capitol, 1315 10th Street Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 95814 | Wear a mask. Please follow all current COVID safety guidelines: covid19.ca.gov/…

John Hickman (2021-08-02). Discussions of Iran's Nuclear Enrichment ignore Israel's Atom Bomb Arsenal: What if Iran's Program is a Deterrent to War? juancole.com Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) — According to the latest news coverage, Iran-U.S. negotiations to revive the 2015 JCPOA are in trouble. The main sticking points involve a guarantee demanded by Tehran that Washington will not abandon the deal at some future date as it did in 2018 under the previous administration and …

ecns.cn (2021-08-02). U.S. blames Iran for tanker attack, prepares for response. ecns.cn The United States on Sunday blamed Iran for the attack against an oil tanker managed by an Israeli-owned company in the north Arabian Sea, saying "an appropriate response" is forthcoming.

CIIS Public Programs (2021-08-02). Thursday 8/19: On the Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. indybay.org

Staff (2021-08-01). Welcome to the Great Reset? Corporate landlords poised to snatch Americans' property after eviction moratorium EXPIRES. rt.com Millions face imminent homelessness, after the Democrats left Washington for the recess without extending an eviction moratorium set to expire on Saturday. America's largest corporate landlords are about to make a killing. | An 11-month eviction moratorium that prevented tens of millions of Americans from losing their homes during the coronavirus-induced economic shutdown expires on July 31, after Congress left Washington for recess without passing a bill to extend it. | The moratorium was put in place by the Trump administration last year and extended by the Biden administration in June, but a Supreme Court r…

_____ (2021-08-01). Actions Demand NY Close Groups Backing Settler Genocide In Palestine. popularresistance.org In the morning they picketed the Long Island home of Justin "Yaacov" Fauci, who moved from New York to invade and steal Palestinian lands including the Al-Kurd family home. He became notorious in a video that went viral of him publicly admitting his crime when he stated, "If I don't steal it, someone else is gonna," as he invaded the Palestinian home. In the afternoon, the advocates marched in Brooklyn, NY and picketed the offices of New York Attorney General Letitia James to draw attention to New York-based Zionist nonprofits helping settlers — like Long Island-born Fauci — to participate in the ethn…

Rima Najjar (2021-08-01). Return to Lifta for Palestinians Is Not a Wish; It's a Promise, Israel! globalresearch.ca

Asa Winstanley (2021-08-01). The plight of Palestinians is well understood, now action needs to be taken. zcomm.org There is no political will in the West to hold Israel to account for its crimes…

Staff (2021-08-01). 7 August, Gothenburg: Demonstration for Palestine / Demonstrera fà∂r Palestina. samidoun.net Friday, 7 August 2: 00 pm Gà∂taplatsen Gothenburg, Sweden Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/608414086807720 Demonstration for Palestine — Stop the forced displacement in Jerusalem — Freedom and return for all Palestinians — Victory to the Palestinian resistance Link to posters: we.tl/t-cPMSkBQgUs Gathering point: Gà∂taplatsen, at 14: 00 Demonstration route: Avenyn Grà∂nsakstorget Domkyrkan Vasagatan Haga Jà§rntorget Closing location: Jà§rntorget 16: 30 Demonstration fà∂r Palestina — Stoppa vrà§kningarna i Jerusalem — Frihet och à•tervà&…

Prof. Byoung Ho Kang (2021-08-01). Election Recount in South Korea: Supreme Court's Second Silence. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-08-01). Craig Murray's Jailing Is The National Security State's Latest Assault On Independent Journalism. popularresistance.org Murray's imprisonment for eight months by Lady Dorrian, Scotland's second most senior judge, is of course based entirely on a keen reading of Scottish law rather than evidence of the Scottish and London political establishments seeking revenge on the former diplomat. And the UK supreme court's refusal on Thursday to hear Murray's appeal despite many glaring legal anomalies in the case, thereby paving his path to jail, is equally rooted in a strict application of the law, and not influenced in any way by political considerations.

_____ (2021-08-01). 'Block The Boat' Hits New Jersey. popularresistance.org Last weekend activists activists held an action at a port in Elizabeth, New Jersey, attempting to block an Israeli-operated cargo ship from unloading. The Haifa-based shipping company ZIM has been targeted by the BDS movement over its connection to Israeli apartheid and last month Bay Area protestors successfully stopped ZIM from offloading in Oakland.

Jeffrey St. Clair (2021-08-01). Rebirth of a Nation: US History According to DW Griffith. counterpunch.org Still from Birth of a Nation. | Since many high school students across the country will be back to learning their history of the US from Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind, it's perhaps instructive to recall that when Birth of a Nation premiered at Clune's Auditorium in LA, to large protests by the NAACP, it was still called The Clansman, the title of the racist novel by Thomas Dixon it was based on. In fact, it's possible that the print that was shown at the White House, which generated such a frenzied reaction from Woodrow Wilson, was still called The Clansman. Dixon was a pal of Wilson's and had arran…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-01). Iran Denies Responsibility For Recent Tanker Attack Following Accusations By Israeli Prime Minister. southfront.org File image. | On August 1, Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett directly blamed Iran for the Two crewmen, a British and a Romanian, were killed in the attack on the Liberian-flagged tanker which is operated by Zodiac Maritime, a London-based company owned by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer. | "The Iranians who attacke…

Dipali Ojha (2021-08-01). Video: India Human Rights Security Council Files COVID Genocide Complaint Against Gates Foundation and Big Pharma. globalresearch.ca Lawyer …

ecns.cn (2021-08-01). Coca-Cola, Visa Reps refuse to condemn China's so-called 'genocide' of Uyghur people: media. ecns.cn Representatives from several major companies declined to denounce the so-called "genocide" of the Uyghur people in China when directly asked by U.S. Republican senators Tom Cotton, a report by FOX Business Network (FBN) has said.

Fight Back (2021-08-01). Oshkosh, WI: Family and community demand justice for Isaiah Tucker 4 years after his murder. fightbacknews.org Oshkosh, WI – 30 concerned community and family members gathered to call for justice for Isaiah Tucker, who was shot and killed by Oshkosh police officer Aaron Achterberg on July 31, 2017. The protest marked the four-year anniversary of his murder. No charges were ever filed in Isaiah's case. The police department investigated themselves with other officers and determined that all instances of violence towards Tucker were justified. | This annual event was organized by United Action Oshkosh (UAO) and the Wisconsin Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression along with the Tucker family to publicly address on…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-01). Enclaves, Mercenaries and Exterminations: The Common Ground between Colombia and Israel. libya360.wordpress.com Eder Peña It has long been said that Colombia is the Israel of Latin America, this statement has been made by different analysts and political figures, especially when in the last decade it has deepened its role as a U.S. base that serves as an experiment and focus for destabilization in the region. A number…