(2021-09-08). America's Housing Crisis Is About to Get Much, Much Worse. zcomm.org The Supreme Court has chosen to side with landlords over the millions of renters on the edge of eviction. The tidal wave of pain that will soon descend on the nation is hard to comprehend…
(2021-09-08). Bolsonaro rehearses fascistic coup on Brazil's Independence Day. wsws.org The September 7 demonstrations were a high point of a dictatorial turn advanced ever more frantically by Bolsonaro.
(2021-09-08). America's Lost Causes: Misty-eyed Nostalgia for Bounty Hunters, Slave-Holding and Wife-beating. juancole.com We have a conflagration of "Lost Causes" in America. Some people in the South still revere the Confederate leaders who betrayed the United States during the Civil War. Now much of the South is wrapped up in another "Lost Cause" a series of destructive myths — the fiction that the election was stolen from Donald …
(2021-09-08). Patriotic Snitch: Bob Hawke as US Informant. counterpunch.org Larrikin is a word often, and inaccurately used, in Australian political lingo. Australia's longest serving Labor Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, was known as one such figure. He was praised as the great communicator and healer between the forces of labour and capital, enjoyed imbibing, his sports and varied female company. He could also be vain
(2021-09-08). Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion in landmark ruling and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the landmark ruling issued by Mexico's Supreme Court to decriminalize abortion services; the indictments announced against 14 Palestinian security officers for the custodial killing of activist Nizar Banat; counter-protests organized across Brazil against rallies held by far right President Jair Bolsonaro; parliamentary elections in Morocco amid continued demands for political and democratic reforms; and a recent study on mask-wearing conducted in Bangladesh and the urgent changes needed in the public health response to COVID-19.
(2021-09-08). Mexico Court Says Criminalising Abortion Unconstitutional. popularresistance.org Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to penalise abortion, a major victory for women's health and reproductive rights that comes amid a "green wave" of abortion decriminalisation in Latin America. | The Mexican court's decision on Tuesday follows moves to decriminalise abortion at the state level, although most of the country still has tough laws in place against women terminating their pregnancy early. | "This is a historic step for the rights of women," said Supreme Court Justice Luis Maria Aguilar. | The court unanimously annulled several provisions of a law from Coahuila — a stat…
(2021-09-08). Mexico decriminalizes abortion in historic ruling. peoplesdispatch.org Mexico's Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the laws that penalize women and pregnant persons for terminating their pregnancy are unconstitutional. With the historic decision, the country's top court decriminalized abortions across national territory…
(2021-09-08). A Chill Wind: Texas Unleashes Bounty Hunters on Women. otherwords.org Back in the 19th century, Texas was awash in vigilante groups. In those dark years, various self-appointed "law enforcers" modeled after the Texas Rangers embarked on Thanks to the Supreme Court, the state is now unleashing another wave of newly minted bounty hunters — this time on women. | The Supreme Court has let stand the Lone Star State's latest attack on women — a law t…
(2021-09-08). IDF Carry Out Raids Looking For 6 Escape Palestinians In Occupied West Bank. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Israeli forces stormed dozens of areas across the occupied West Bank district of Jenin, looking for the 6 escaped Palestinians. | Media sources in Jenin said dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Arraba plain area and conducted searches in Palestinian communities. | According to Palestinian media outlets, the Israeli forces raided the homes of the six escaped prisoners and began to arrest their relatives. | They invaded Arabbuna village northeast of Jenin and sto…
(2021-09-08). 21N Regional Elections: Diosdado Cabello Presents Report on Chavismo Nominations — Eduardo Samán Excluded. orinocotribune.com At a press conference on Monday, September 6, Diosdado Cabello, first vice-president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), reported that 183,806 persons were nominated by the party's bases to be candidacies for the regional elections of November 21. In this regard, he explained that all the candidacies of the Great Simón Bolívar Patriotic Pole (GPP) have already been registered with the National Electoral Council (CNE). | "All the nominated candidates of the Great Patriotic Pole are already registered, in all governorates, in all municipalities and in all municipal councils," informed Cabello. | Yout…
(2021-09-08). US DOJ Probes Raytheon's Alleged Bribery Payments to Qatar Armed Forces Contractor: Report. sputniknews.com Over the past seven years, Raytheon has reportedly signed a number of hefty defence contracts with Qatar worth more than $7 billion, including those related to building and servicing the US Patriot missile system.
(2021-09-08). The Race Class Narrative Can Win. popularresistance.org We're glad to be at a point in American political discourse where the question being posed is how to talk about race and class, rather than whether to do so. For too long, many on the left, especially white progressives, have shied away from talking directly about race and racism. Talking about race, they have argued, is divisive and costs us electoral victories. This approach centers the experiences of white voters, who don't feel the direct impact of racism in our economy or democracy, and neglects the concerns of people of color, who make up a large portion of our base. It also ignores the fact that race is al…
(2021-09-08). The Movement To De-Cop The Campus. popularresistance.org Police abolition has become a national conversation since the George Floyd uprisings. Many university police chiefs are encouraging the misconception, however, that campus police are somehow different from other police forces‚Äâ—‚Äâdespite their long history of racist violence. | To take just one example, a campus police officer at the University of California, Los Angeles shot and wounded a Black man he assumed was unhoused in 2003; in 2009, that same officer repeatedly used a Taser on an Iranian American student studying in the library. | But police violence is not confin…
(2021-09-07). Groups Call On Trudeau And RCMP To Protect Secwepemc Activists. popularresistance.org Blue River, BC — Over 40 human rights lawyers, organizations, authors and First Nations representatives penned a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling on him to abide by demands made from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) calling on Canada to immediately halt construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. | The letter follows a summer of escalating confrontations, including assaults, surveillance, and harassment targeting Secwepemc land defenders by pipeline workers and security. | The letter urging Prime Minister Trudeau to stop the construction of the…
(2021-09-07). Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Ban: We Will Fight Back! liberationnews.org 
Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how a Texas law has destroyed abortion rights for 16 million women and girls and is being used by right-wing political forces as a model for the rest of the country — but a new fightback movement is taking shape.
(2021-09-07). Southern White Male GOP Voter Suppression, anti-Abortion Laws are ways of reviving Jim Crow and expanding it to White Women. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — African-Americans have complained about the tendency of commentators to compare political suppression and regressive policies of white Republicans to slavery. Nothing, they rightly maintain, is like slavery. But some GOP laws passed by elite white males are very much like Jim Crow-style discrimination. Voter i.d. laws, for instance, are completely …
(2021-09-07). In Unanimous Ruling, Mexican Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion. commondreams.org "Just your regular reminder that failing to mitigate risk (including taking action on climate change) is the more expensive option (and also leaves people dead and communities destroyed)."
(2021-09-07). Texas Abortion Ban Is a Violation of International Law. truthout.org 
United Nations experts tasked with monitoring human rights abuses across the globe are condemning Texas' near-total abortion ban as a clear violation of international law, characterizing the state's newly imposed restrictions as "profoundly discriminatory" and dangerous. | Melissa Upreti, a human rights lawyer and the chair of the U.N.'s working group on discrimination against women and girls,
(2021-09-07). Abortion bounty hunters in Texas are not 'whistleblowers' — they're cruel vigilantes. nationofchange.org Aided by the U.S. Supreme Court, the state of Texas has now codified misogyny.
(2021-09-07). Mexico Supreme Court Rules Abortion Not a Crime. latinorebels.com The decision will immediately only affect the northern border state, but it establishes "obligatory criteria for all of the country's judges," compelling them to act the same way in similar cases, said court President Arturo Zaldívar.
(2021-09-07). Conservative Republican Demagogues. counterpunch.org "This country is frightening" (Author's italics.) — Philip Roth, "American Pastoral," 1997 Republican state legislatures and governors, with Texas leading the way, are dismantling the essence of American democracy, and the conservative Supreme Court is helping them reach their goal. Get ready to kiss goodbye to Roe v. Wade. These conservative demagogues are building on the authoritarian,
(2021-09-07). Another Israeli Air Strike Hit Gaza Strip "To Avenge Launch Of Arson Balloons" (Video). southfront.org 
(2021-09-07). War is a Racist Enterprise. popularresistance.org The debacle in Afghanistan exposes how racism oozes from every edifice of the U.S.'s imperialist wars. War requires the dehumanization of its subjects. It is assumed that Afghanistan needs the United States to achieve any modicum of (white) "civilization." The people of Afghanistan have been deemed incapable of expressing self-determination without the almighty hand of the U.S. military. The Taliban, on the other hand, represents the "heart of darkness" that must be wiped away in order for the people of Afghanistan to leave their "primitive" existence behind.
(2021-09-07). Global Vaccine Apartheid Must Be Ended This Instant. commondreams.org "Urgent international action is needed to support millions of people with the necessities of life through the coming months and Afghanistan's harsh winter," said head of the Afghan Red Crescent. | We are all safer when everyone is vaccinated. New, more vaccine-resistant variants are emerging, endangering everyone.
(2021-09-07). Citing 'Vaccine Apartheid,' 1,500+ Global Groups Urge Delay of UN Climate Summit. commondreams.org "On average, U.S.-led airstrikes have killed more than 1,000 civilians a year since 2001."
(2021-09-07). Largest Confederate Statue Left in the US Will Be Removed This Week in Richmond. truthout.org 
A statue of Confederate war general Robert E. Lee will be removed this Wednesday from the pedestal it has occupied in Richmond, Virginia,
(2021-09-07). Groups Call On Justin Trudeau And RCMP To Protect Secwepemc Activists. popularresistance.org Over 40 human rights lawyers, organizations, authors and First Nations representatives penned a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling on him to abide by demands made from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) calling on Canada to immediately halt construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
(2021-09-07). The left needs bigger victories besides 'consciousness raising'. therealnews.com 
Author and activist Shane Burley has observed and reported on the movements of the far right for many years, including the recent violent demonstrations by Proud Boys and other right-wing groups in Portland, Oregon. In the first installment of this week's Marc Steiner Show, Burley issues a dire warning: The far right is continually working to recruit people who have been disaffected by capitalism and harness their rage for reactionary ends. To stave off the violent threats posed by the far right and build real political power, the left needs to find ways to tangibly improve people's lives. Shane Burley is t…
(2021-09-07). Attacks on Critical Race Theory Seek to Insert Fascist Politics Into Education. zcomm.org This attack on critical race theory is part of a broader attack on the wider issues of critical pedagogy, critical thinking, dissent and civic consciousness…
(2021-09-07). Friday 9/10: Twenty Years After 9/11: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…
(2021-09-07). 'Left in Tatters': New Report Describes Israeli Attack's Impact on Gaza's Productive Sector. orinocotribune.com The Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip in May 2021 had catastrophic economic effects, especially on the productive sector, and caused direct and indirect losses exceeding half a billion dollars in various sectors, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a report released last week. | Titled "Left in Tatters," the report stated that the Israeli army carried focused air and guided artillery attacks on economic facilities including various factories and production units. | In addition to targeting production facilities in different areas in Gaza, the Israeli army deliberately targeted the Gaza Industr…
(2021-09-07). How EU clinched a secret deal with Israeli ministry in East Jerusalem. electronicintifada.net New envoy to Tel Aviv laments "untapped potential" of relations.
(2021-09-07). German police secretly procured & USED controversial Israeli Pegasus smartphone spyware — media. rt.com 
German police bought and used controversial Pegasus spyware sold by the Israeli NSO group in 2019, it has been revealed. The program has allegedly been used for high-profile spying by multiple governments. | The explosive revelation was According to Die Zeit, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) opted to procure the h…
(2021-09-07). China-Israel Bilateral Relations Harm Washington's Interests In The Middle East. southfront.org 
Israel's Haifa PortBeijing builds a new port in Haifa and this is likely to hamper US Navy activities. | Written by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. | Chinese investments have been present throughout the world in recent decades. Even in the US and in nations allied to Washington, the high presence of Chinese companies and products cannot be avoided. However, when investments shift from a stric…
(2021-09-07). Ibram X. Kendi And Democratic Debate. counterpunch.org The vast majority were sympathetic with "anti-racism," believing that we're living in a time now when minorities are finally getting some respect and attention from government and corporations. But at the same time, they were confused about what racism really means because so many are being labeled racist, making the charge meaningless or at least less relevant. Several mentioned that Kamala Harris had called Joe Biden a racist during the primaries, but she became his choice for VP. The term that came up often was "diversity." Most commented that a more diverse population would ultimately get rid of racism becaus…
(2021-09-07). Facebook Apologizes For 'Primates' Label On Video Of Black Men. moguldom.com 
Facebook has apologized for artificial intelligence (AI) software that labeled Black men as "primates," but only after the New York Times reported on the social media giant's racist gaffe. Facebook's AI software asked users watching a video featuring Black men if they wanted to see more "videos about primates." In its Sept. 3 apology, Facebook said its AI mislabeling …
(2021-09-07). México — Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación: Aborto, decisión histórica. globalizacion.ca Está prevista para hoy una sesión de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) en la que se deberá decidir si el máximo tribunal del país declara o no inconstitucional el artículo 196 del Código Penal de Coahuila,…
(2021-09-07). Former Trump Aide Jason Miller Detained in Brazil Over Alleged 'Anti-Democratic Acts'. commondreams.org "Texas already had some of the most restrictive voting laws in the nation, and the passage of this egregious bill just made conditions for voters even worse," said one voting rights advocate.