Daily Archives: September 22, 2021

2021-09-22: News Headlines

Suzanne James (2021-09-22). NSW Greens MP challenges 'in good faith' discrimination. greenleft.org.au Greens MP for Newtown Jenny Leong spoke to Suzanne James about how bullying and toxic politics have been used to suppress democratic outcomes in the ongoing religious freedom bill debate in New South Wales.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-22). US deportations of Haitian migrants could violate international law and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border where thousands of Haitian migrants continue to be stranded; protests by Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia ahead of a parliamentary vote on Germany's $1 billion deal in recognition of the 1904-1908 genocide; a ruling by Pakistan's Supreme Court ordering the resettlement of families affected by encroachment drives in the city of Karachi; and Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech in the 76th UN General Assembly.

Jisr Collective (2021-09-22). The Palestinian Refugee and Diasporic Community Denounces Unconditional Aid for Israel. counterpunch.org On July 29th, H.R.4373 committed to providing Israel $3.3 billion in unconditional military aid after it passed in the House in a close bipartisan vote of 217-212. The Palestinian refugee and diasporic community residing within the so-called United States is outraged by this bill that embodies all the funding mechanisms for US interference in Palestine. We center

Fight Back (2021-09-22). Dallas protest stands in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On September 19, about 50 people gathered in Belo Garden Park in Downtown Dallas to support six Palestinian political prisoners who recently escaped from Israeli detention, and to call for the freedom of all Palestinian political prisoners. The rally was organized by Palestinian Youth Movement, American Muslims for Justice in Palestine, and Students for Justice in Palestine. Chants included "Intifada! Intifada! Long live the Intifada!" "We don't want two states! We want '48!" and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." | Speeches followed the chants. Jhad Villena of Malaya Move…

Anonymous669 (2021-09-22). Israeli Army Says It Lost Drone Over Syria Due To 'Technical Failure'. southfront.org St. Inigoes, Md. (June 27, 2005) — A Skylark drone on display at the 2005 Naval UAV Air Demo at the Webster Field Annex of Naval Air Station Patuxent River. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain. | On September 22, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that they had lost a drone over Syria territory as a result of a "technical failure". | According to the IDF, the drone crashed during "routine operational activity". An investigation into the incident has been launched. | Local sources in…

Nadya Tannous (2021-09-22). Restricting US Military Aid to Israel in the Age of Normalization. zcomm.org The tide is clearly shifting in the US…

sputniknews (2021-09-22). Axis of Resistance Killed US, Israeli Commanders in Revenge for Soleimani's Assassination – Report. sputniknews.com General Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, along with al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi, was killed in a US targeted drone strike at Baghdad International Airport in January 2020.

Asa Winstanley (2021-09-22). Why is Owen Jones defending a Nazi collaborator? electronicintifada.net Guardian columnist defends his support for purge of Ken Loach's left-wing group.

Chris MacIntosh (2021-09-22). Global Economic Chaos? BlackRock and Citi Get on Board the "Climate Train" globalresearch.ca

Martha Grevatt (2021-09-22). Latin America: 2021 has been a year of struggle. workers.org Mass demonstrations and strikes targeting unpopular governments and foreign business interests are taking place all over Latin America. Throughout 2021 Argentinians have been in the streets, opposing everything from unemployment to fracking to the Zionist occupation of Palestine. A Sept. 4 march, in memory of those lost to COVID, protested . . . |

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-22). Latest triumphalist tirade from NATO partner Azerbaijan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The beginning of the Patriotic War went down in history as the road to the Great Victory "…Today, the Azerbaijani Army is dealing crushing blows to the enemy on Azerbaijani soil….What does an Armenian soldier do in our land?! What is the Armenian army doing in our land?!…" These thoughts are from the historical address …

_____ (2021-09-22). Racism Denies Common Prosperity In The United States. popularresistance.org Mainstream U.S. media frequently depicts China as a "closed off" country that treats ethnic minorities with contempt and oppression. The New York Times took this baseless accusation further in an op-ed published on September 9 that claimed China was closing itself off from the world and rejecting the English language. No verifiable proof was offered beyond reforms to the education system that seek to address economic and social stressors faced by Chinese families. | The op-ed argued that China's decision to place tighter regulations on its private tutoring and examination process is a sign that the country is clo…

_____ (2021-09-22). In Central York, Kids Rose Up To Save Books From Their Parents. popularresistance.org The mess in the Central York School District, which includes several suburban townships just north of York, in a county where Donald Trump won 62% of the vote, started after some parents and teachers had hoped to bolster the curriculum around anti-racism in the wake of the George Floyd protest marches in spring 2020. The move backfired when some parents started complaining about the reading list proposed by a committee. "I don't want my daughter growing up feeling guilty because she's white," one parent, Matt Weyant, told a recent school board meeting. Then, panicked school board members imposed "a freeze" on stu…

_____ (2021-09-22). I'm Fighting For Ethnic Studies So My History Won't Be Erased. popularresistance.org Last year, as a massive uprising against systemic racism swept across the world, activists fighting for Black liberation and racial justice put radical demands against institutional racism on the table, such as abolishing and defunding the police. Another key step toward challenging institutional racism is the push for ethnic studies and teaching about systemic racism in U.S. schools. I am part of that fight in California. | Last year, Pittsburg, California's school board passed an ethnic studies resolution and tasked an ethnic studies committee with implementing curricula for the school district. Pittsburg is a…

Joris Leverink (2021-09-22). How the Nation of Islam fought white supremacy with pie. roarmag.org Apples fall from trees and berries grow on bushes, but food is not given by nature. It is a construct and, as such, conveys meaning. Although most foods affirm the status quo, there are also foods that register discontent with the dominant social order and hopes for an alternate future. They are part of the foodscape and remind us that dissidents have always contested the food system at the deepest level. | Consider the Nation of Islam's navy bean pie. This dense, amber-colored dessert embodied a sweeping anti-racist narrative and was a weapon in the group's battle against white supremacy, evoking the possibility…

_____ (2021-09-22). Texas, Big Oil Target Indian Children In Bid To End Tribal Sovereignty. popularresistance.org If the Supreme Court overturns the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) — a federal law that keeps Native children with Native families — tribal sovereignty could soon be a thing of the past in the U.S. Should the Supreme Court rule in the plaintiffs' favor in the case of Brackeen v. Haaland, we could quickly see a return to blatant, pre-1978 genocidal practices — when Native babies were legally stripped of their families, culture, and identities. | It's critical that every one of us take immediate action. Before you do anything else today, sign our petition telling President Biden and the Department…

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2021-09-22). Friday 9/24: Virtual Forum: Is it Time to Abolish the Supreme Court? indybay.org Virtual event…

Ted Kelly (2021-09-22). Free abortion on demand for ALL Genders! workers.org The writer (she/her) is a transgender lesbian in Philadelphia, Pa. The Texas abortion ban — which went into effect Sept. 1 with U.S. Supreme Court approval — was a declaration of war against everyone oppressed on the basis of their gender. But if we're going to fight this war . . . |

OtherWords (2021-09-22). A Chill Wind: Texas Unleashes Bounty Hunters on Women. juancole.com ( Otherwords.org) — For now, the Supreme Court has allowed Texas to sic bounty hunters on women seeking constitutionally protected abortions. By Martha Burk | September 8, 2021 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 a …

Editor (2021-09-21). Big Pharma and vaccine apartheid. mronline.org The webinar on 'Vaccine Imperialism: Scientific Knowledge, Capacity and Production in Africa' which took place on 5 August 5, 2021, was organized by the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) in partnership with the Third World Network-Africa (TWN-Africa).

Ann Brown (2021-09-21). MAGA's Pompeo Tries To Connect UN Conference On Reparations To Anti-Semitism. moguldom.com World leaders are scheduled this week to discuss reparations, racial justice and equality for people of African descent during the United Nations General Assembly at an event that has been boycotted by the U.S. and slammed by MAGA Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as "laced with anti-Semitism." One of the U.N. General events, planned in …

_____ (2021-09-21). UN Chief Tells World Leaders To Their Faces That Vaccine Apartheid Is 'An Obscenity'. commondreams.org Bold climate policies cannot include doling out billions in dirty energy handouts.

Victor Grossman (2021-09-21). Will the Left advance with a Social Dem win in Germany? peoplesworld.org BERLIN — In German elections — like the coming ones, as always on a Sunday — all you have to do is present the registration paper mailed to every citizen, then make crosses on a paper ballot. No trouble with the boss, no missing work, long lines or quarrels about fraud or discrimination. It sounds …

_____ (2021-09-21). Zionists Rewrite Palestine's Story. popularresistance.org Palestine – As these words were being written, the final two Palestinian freedom prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison were caught by the Israeli authorities. Palestine is still reacting to this courageous escape and the consequent re-capture of the six political prisoners who escaped and defied the entire Israeli security apparatus. However, even though they managed to free themselves from this high-security prison, they found a world that doesn't care. The rest of the world did not step up to save these brave men and did not provide them with sanctuary, and so they were caught. | One of the great tragedies o…

Amjad Ayman Yaghi (2021-09-21). Terror throughout the night. electronicintifada.net Israel's May attack on Gaza is regarded as its cruelest to date.

Editor2 (2021-09-21). Burned in Car Fire, Falsely Accused of Terrorism, Palestinian Mother Imprisoned without Medical Care. orinocotribune.com By Jessica Buxbaum — Sep 15, 2021 | "This is all part of the deliberate medical neglect policy that the Israeli occupation uses. They don't feel like they have an obligation toward Palestinian detainees and prisoners regarding their health care." — Milena Ansari, Addameer | OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM —In 2018, Palestinian prisoner Israa Jaabis appeared in court to appeal her sentence. Israa had been convicted of attempted murder — accused of blowing up her car near an Israeli military checkpoint — and sentenced to 11 years in 2016. The car accident left her completely disfigured, with fi…

WSWS (2021-09-21). New York Times revels in remote-control assassination of Iranian scientist. wsws.org Last November's US-Israeli state murder of Iran's top nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was recognized at the time as a potential trigger for a catastrophic war in the Middle East.

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2021-09-21). Pfizer Admits Israel Is the Great COVID-19 Vaccine Experiment. globalresearch.ca

MEE staff (2021-09-21). 'Dangerous implications' for Palestinian refugees in new US funding plan: Report. middleeasteye.net 'Dangerous implications' for Palestinian refugees in new US funding plan: Report | The agreement signals a reawakening of pro-Israel policy, argues the Palestine Return Centre | Tue, 09/21/2021 – 14: 53 | Palestinians collect food aid at a distribution centre run by Unrwa for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City on 26 July 2021 (AFP) | A

Nur Ayoubi (2021-09-21). Italian boxer of Moroccan origins beats rival with Nazi tattoos for title. middleeasteye.net Italian boxer of Moroccan origins beats rival with Nazi tattoos for title | Hassan Nourdine's victory has been hailed, while Italy's boxing federation has come under fire for allowing his opponent to compete in the title match | Tue, 09/21/2021 – 16: 23 | 'Beating someone with those tattoos is a victory worth double,' said Hassan Nourdine, Italy's new super-featherweight boxing champion (Screengrab/Twitter)…

_____ (2021-09-21). Yimby Movement Is Not The Answer To Housing Crisis. popularresistance.org There is a battle raging in U.S. cities around land and who controls it. It is fought with zoning laws and red lines. Its battlefields are neighborhood associations and local elections. Across the country, racist reactionaries square off against capitalist developers in a struggle to determine the future of the housing market. In these types of battles, whoever wins, tenants lose, according to housing organizers working to halt the damage wrought by both developers and racist politicians. | The U.S.'s housing crisis began long before COVID eviction moratoria brought the problem into the spotlight. Median rent in…

Editor2 (2021-09-21). Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Biden Administration's Order to Deport Haitians as Illegal and Racist (Statement). orinocotribune.com By The Black Alliance for Peace — Sep 18, 2021 | When a white Fox News reporter used a drone to film the thousands of Haitian and other Black asylum seekers camped beneath a bridge spanning the Rio Grande and linking Del Rio, Texas to Ciudad Acuña, in the Coahuila state of Mexico, he immediately (and deliberately) brought a stereotypical image of Black migration: That of the teeming, African hordes, ready to burst the borders and invade the United States. Such images are as cheap as they are racist. And, typically, they erase the larger question: Why are so many Haitians at the U.S. border? |

Fight Back (2021-09-21). Minneapolis referendum on policing: Vote No on Question 2. fightbacknews.org Just last year, the halls of power in Minnesota shook when people answered the murder of George Floyd by rising up. We marched on the State Capitol, the county attorney, the state attorney general, the police federation and the interstate highways. Day and night, for weeks on end, we faced riot police, tear gas, National Guard troops and white supremacists. The Third Precinct police station was burned, as were hundreds of other buildings. And fires here sparked protests across the world and transformed the political landscape. | Today, when Minneapolis is in the midst of its first local elections since the uprisi…

Umar A Farooq (2021-09-21). US journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem files Supreme Court petition over 'kill list' lawsuit. middleeasteye.net US journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem files Supreme Court petition over 'kill list' lawsuit | Lawyers say case raises questions about legality of US air strikes and an American citizen's right to due process | Tue, 09/21/2021 – 12: 49 | Bilal Abdul Kareem believes he was targeted five times by US air strikes in 2016 (Facebook) | Bilal Abdul Kareem, an American journalist based in opposition-held northwe…

Staff (2021-09-21). "We Are Troy Davis": 10 Years After Georgia Execution That Galvanized Anti-Death Penalty Movement. democracynow.org Tuesday marks 10 years since the state of Georgia executed Troy Anthony Davis for a crime many believe he did not commit. He was put to death despite major doubts about evidence used to convict him of killing Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail, including the recantation of seven of the nine non-police witnesses at his trial. As the world watched to see whether Davis's final appeal for a stay of execution would be granted by the U.S. Supreme Court, Democracy Now! was the only news outlet to continuously broadcast live from the prison grounds in Jackson, Georgia. We revisit parts of our six-hour special report,…

Amanda Mills (2021-09-21). Supreme Court has set a date to hear Mississippi's abortion case. nationofchange.org "The fate of Roe v. Wade and legal abortion is on the line."

Staff (2021-09-21). Civil Rights Activists Prepare for Sit-Ins If Manchin Won't Budge on Filibuster. truthout.org Civil rights activists and faith leaders say they are readying a campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience against Sen. Joe Manchin for his opposition to voting rights and expansive spending bills backed by Democrats. | Leaders of the Poor People's Campaign are calling on Manchin to ditch the filibuster so Democrats can pass voting rights legislation and drop his opposition to a $15 minimum wage and $3.5 trillion in new social and climate investment. | All eyes have been on the conservative…

WSWS (2021-09-21). The Freedom to Vote Act: Another capitulation to the Republican assault on democratic rights. wsws.org The new bill kneels to the demands of right-wing Democratic Senator Joe Manchin while failing to reverse the most serious Republican attacks on voting rights.

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