Daily Archives: October 5, 2021

2021-10-05: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-10-05). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Sugar care workers for GuySuCo in Guyana protested over unpaid bonuses and discrimination while hospital workers in the Canadian province of New Brunswick have returned a massive strike vote in defense of wages, staffing and services.

Brenda Norrell (2021-10-05). Paiute Shoshone Myron Dewey: Going Home, A Final Salute. indybay.org As Standing Rock Water Protectors escort Paiute Shoshone Myron Dewey filmmaker and journalist to his final resting place today on in his homeland, we echo Myron's words from his livestream a week ago, his final voice opposing the Navy's bombing range, lithium mining, and the greed and genocide that runs as a scar through his ancestral homeland in what is known as Nevada.

Steven Sahiounie (2021-10-05). Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan Create Tensions for Iran. globalresearch.ca

MEE staff (2021-10-05). African Union: Drop Israel's observer status, rights groups tell AU leaders. middleeasteye.net African Union: Drop Israel's observer status, rights groups tell AU leaders | Israel's human rights violations should disqualify country from seat at African Union table, groups tell AU in legal submission | Tue, 10/05/2021 – 09: 00 | African Union commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat granted observer status to Israel this July (Reuters) | The African Union should withdraw Israel's observer status because the…

MEE, agencies (2021-10-05). Iran: Biden aides to tell Israelis that US will pursue 'other avenues' if diplomacy fails. middleeasteye.net Iran: Biden aides to tell Israelis that US will pursue 'other avenues' if diplomacy fails | Remarks comes as Israel's national security adviser Eyal Hulata on visit to Washington to share latest intelligence | Tue, 10/05/2021 – 08: 26 | Under a 2015 deal, Iran curbed its uranium enrichment programme, a possible pathway to nuclear arms, in return for the lifting of economic sanctions (AFP)…

Stephen R. Shalom (2021-10-05). Ben and Jerry's boycott: New Jersey's anti-boycott act must be repealed. zcomm.org Many are aware of the horrible way that Israel treats Palestinians. But did you know that Israel is aided in this by the state of New Jersey?>

sputniknews (2021-10-05). Israel's FM Lapid Offers to Rebuild Gaza But Egyptian Source Says His Plan Might Be 'Too Ambitious'. sputniknews.com The latest hostilities that ended in May have dealt a severe blow to the Gaza Strip, where dozens of government buildings, hospitals, police stations, roads, mosques and residential units have been fully or partially destroyed.

teleSUR (2021-10-05). 200 Venezuelans Return To Their Country From Chile. telesurenglish.net In the early hours of Tuesday, 200 Venezuelans returned to their country on a chartered flight from the public company Conviasa. The repatriation of this group occurs days after Venezuelan migrants were victims of acts of xenophobia in Iquique City, Chile. | RELATED: | "Today 200 compatriots return to Venezuelan territory thanks to the "Return to the Homeland" program. Venezuela welcomes you with open arms. Missi…

Martha Grevatt (2021-10-05). La brutalidad racista contra los migrantes haitianos desata la indignación. workers.org El mundo entero ha respondido con horror y rabia a las imágenes de migrantes haitianos azotados y aterrorizados por agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos a caballo. Se han establecido paralelismos con la esclavitud en el hemisferio occidental, a la que se puso fin por primera vez en . . . |

Marjorie Cohn (2021-10-05). Biden's Expulsion of Haitian Migrants Is Racist, Illegal — and Trumpian. zcomm.org Since the horrific photos of mounted Border Patrol agents menacing Black migrants with whips became public, voices against the Biden administration's cruel, racist and illegal policies have reached a crescendo…

WSWS (2021-10-04). Equal Opportunity Employment Commission sues Ford for pregnancy discrimination. wsws.org According to the lawsuit, Edwina Smith was given a conditional offer of hire by Ford which was effectively rescinded after she disclosed she was pregnant in a routine pre-employment physical.

Matt Trinder (2021-10-04). Los antirracistas conmemoran la derrota de los camisas negras fascistas de Mosley. peoplesworld.org LONDRES — Los antirracistas tomaron las calles del East End de Londres el domingo para celebrar los 85 años desde la histórica victoria sobre el fascismo en la Batalla de Cable Street de 1936. El exlíder del Partido Laborista británico Jeremy Corbyn se unió a sindicalistas y grupos de campaña para conmemorar el 4 de …

Matt Trinder (2021-10-04). Anti-racists commemorate defeat of Mosley's fascist Blackshirts at 'Battle of Cable Street'. peoplesworld.org LONDON—Anti-racists took to the streets of London's East End Sunday to celebrate 85 years since the historic victory over fascism in the 1936 Battle of Cable Street. Former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was joined by trade unionists and campaign groups to mark Oct. 4, 1936, the date when an estimated 250,000 people stood …

Basav Sen (2021-10-04). Why Did a US Envoy Meet With the Head of a Fascist Militia in India? counterpunch.org Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the U.S. recently, attending the UN General Assembly session and meeting with President Biden. In spite of his government's reign of terror against religious and ethnic minorities and dissidents in India, his U.S. hosts remained strangely silent. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by Modi has committed egregious

RT News (2021-10-04). Booster Jab Every 6 Months? 1.5m Double-dosed & Recovered Israelis Lose Green Pass Privileges as Stricter COVID-19 Rules Kick In. globalresearch.ca

MEE staff (2021-10-04). Israel-Palestine: Settler attacks on Palestinians more than double in two years, says report. middleeasteye.net Israel-Palestine: Settler attacks on Palestinians more than double in two years, says report | Israeli authorities have created what officials described as a "permissive atmosphere", including allowing settlers to "let off steam" | Mon, 10/04/2021 – 11: 07 | Hebrew graffiti in the village of Deir Estya, which translates as 'village of terrorists', in an apparent 'price tag' attack by Jewish settlers, 18 June 2…

Editor (2021-10-04). The brutality of denying water to Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills. mronline.org For the past 15 years, I have witnessed how the Israeli army cuts Palestinian communities from accessing water in order to expel them and take their land.

Lawrence Davidson (2021-10-04). A Problem of Clerical Hypocrisy: The Two Tiers of "Progressive Except for Palestine" counterpunch.org Anyone who pays attention to the struggle for Palestinian rights, and the corresponding fight for a just and egalitarian Israel, is familiar with the phenomenon PEP: Progressive Except for Palestine. There are literally tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews who think of themselves as liberals, progressives, devoid of racism, proponents for peace, and otherwise

Sean Mathews (2021-10-04). Azerbaijan rejects Iran's claim it is hosting a secret Israeli military force. middleeasteye.net Azerbaijan rejects Iran's claim it is hosting a secret Israeli military force | Tensions between Azerbaijan and Iran are running high over allegations of Israeli military presence, with more military drills planned | Mon, 10/04/2021 – 19: 15 | Iranian army tanks during a military exercise in northwest of the country, close to the Iranian Azerbaijani border, on 1 October 2021 (Iranian Army office/AFP)…

repost (2021-10-04). SFSU Professors fight to defend Palestine and protect academic freedom. indybay.org The Zionists are working to destroy the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) program and it's director Professor Rabab Abdulhadi…

Robert S. Becker (2021-10-04). 'Conspiracism' poisons the rightwing fringe; progressives not immune, just much smarter. nationofchange.org What changes before 2024 if the GOP can't exit the pandemic-decimated, insurrectionist Trump train wreck?>

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2021-10-04). President Maduro Insists that Spain Should Apologize for Colonial Era Massacres: 'Aznar is Racist' (+ AMLO). orinocotribune.com Caracas, October 3, 2021 (

_____ (2021-10-04). Horgan's Fairy Creek Excuses Betray Citizens. popularresistance.org The NDP government can't keep dodging responsibility for the debacle at Fairy Creek — or the much bigger questions about the RCMP's role in the province. | Especially as increasing RCMP resources — with provincial government approval — are devoted to shutting down protests, frequently by Indigenous people. | Last week, the BC Supreme Court refused to extend an injunction against protesters blocking logging, citing RCMP civil rights' abuses — facilitated by the provincial government — in enforcing the court order. | The dispute is about old-growth forests on southern Vancouver Island.

Davi Bertges (2021-10-04). Brazil: Indigenous lands in danger due to capitalist exploitation. greenleft.org.au Brazil's Supreme Court reserved its judgment on a historic case winding back Indigenous land rights, known as marco temporal (timeframe), on September 15, reports Davi Bertges.

Adam Trumper (2021-10-04). NSW Police powers challenged. greenleft.org.au The Australian Criminal and Family Lawyers is challenging several New South Wales Police powers under the COVID-19 public health orders in the Supreme Court. Adam Trumper reports.

Staff (2021-10-04). Bans Off Our Bodies: Planned Parenthood Pres. on Abortion Bans, Bills in Congress & the Supreme Court. democracynow.org After thousands of people marched in hundreds of rallies across the United States to protest against tightening abortion restrictions, we speak with Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson, who says the weekend actions represent "a movement moment" for reproductive rights. "More than 80% of Americans believe that Roe should be the law of the land," she says. "And yet, in state after state, these horrific restrictions and bans are continuing to further erode our ability to access our constitutional right."

teleSUR (2021-10-04). Pope Francis Stresses Relevance of Conference on Climate Change. telesurenglish.net Pope Francis affirmed on Monday that the next conference of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP26) is called to offer urgent and effective responses to the ecological crisis and of values. | RELATED: | In a speech at the meeting "Faith and Science: Towards COP26", promoted by the Holy See and the embassies of the United Kingdom and Italy in the Vatican, the Supreme Pontiff pointed out that the meeting, schedu…

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