Daily Archives: October 11, 2021

2021-10-11: News Headlines

Staff (2021-10-11). Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Indigenous Peoples' Day Shared with Columbus Day Is a "Contradiction" democracynow.org President Biden has formally recognized Indigenous Peoples' Day as a federal holiday, following a growing movement to debunk the myth of Christopher Columbus as a beneficent discoverer and replace it with recognition that the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas unleashed a brutal genocide that massacred tens of millions of Native people across the hemisphere. But the holiday will continue to be shared with Columbus Day, which many argue glorifies the nation's dark history of colonial genocide that killed millions of Native people. "It's just not appropriate to celebrate Columbus and Indigenous peoples on the same…

_____ (2021-10-11). Indigenous People's Day Reminds Us To Acknowledge And Support Indigenous Struggles. popularresistance.org Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Across the country, a growing number of cities and states are recognizing this day in place of the traditional Columbus Day. This change reflects the growing awareness that holidays like Columbus Day are used to rewrite the past and uphold institutions of white supremacy, racism and settler colonialism. As Justin Teba writes, in Albuquerque, they issued a proclamation to recognize this as a day " to reflect upon the ongoing struggles of Indigenous peoples on this land." | I can only write from the perspective of a settler, but I do want to highlight a few of the current struggles.

Human Rights Watch (2021-10-11). Israel/Palestine: Facebook Censors Discussion of Rights Issues. juancole.com Human Rights Watch — (Washington, DC) — Facebook has wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians and their supporters, including about human rights abuses carried out in Israel and Palestine during the May 2021 hostilities. The company's acknowledgment of errors and attempts to correct some of them are insufficient and do not address the scale …

_____ (2021-10-11). "Boycott Tour" Demands Justice And Liberation During Vancouver Palestine Action Week. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, 6 October, activists marched through downtown Vancouver, Canada, as part of the Boycott Tour, drawing attention to the complicity of corporations, universities and government institutions in Canada in the ongoing colonization, occupation and apartheid throughout occupied Palestine.

Andrew Salmon (2021-10-11). China's winter warriors rout US Marines, UK's MI6. asiatimes.com Chinese President Xi Jinping, besieged by crises from China Evergrande to power outages, may take some comfort in recent news: A human wave of enthusiastic citizens is storming his nation's cinemas. The historical blockbuster Chinese are watching in record numbers is state-funded Korean War epic Battle at Lake Changjin. Its popularity suggests that Beijing's drive …

The Daily Expose (2021-10-11). Holocaust Survivors Join Lawyers: "Request for Investigation" to the ICC. Charge World Governments with Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide, and Breaches of the Nuremberg Code. globalresearch.ca

Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin (2021-10-11). Awakening: Martin Luther King and the Poor People's Campaign. counterpunch.org The usage of the term 'woke' has spread rapidly in the last ten years from meaning awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination to describing the identity politics of various ethnic groups in the USA. The term has a long history reaching back to the 1930s when Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly finished a song advising people with the words to 'best stay woke, keep their eyes open.'

WSWS (2021-10-11). Podemos covers up neo-fascist circles in Spanish army. wsws.org As the pandemic surged in December 2020, retired high-ranking military officers threatened to launch a coup and kill "26 million" left-wing voters.

WSWS (2021-10-11). Philippine presidential elections open, dominated by fascistic and far-right forces. wsws.org An examination of the leading candidates for the presidency reveals that the ruling elites in the Philippines are preparing to run the most right-wing election campaign in the country's history.

WSWS (2021-10-11). Trump, flanked by Republican officials, delivers fascist screed at Iowa State Fairgrounds. wsws.org Solidarizing themselves with Trump's election conspiracies and his attempted coup, top Iowa Republicans, including Governor Kim Reynolds and long-time US Senator Chuck Grassley, welcomed the aspiring Fàºhrer.

Tom Morello (2021-10-11). 'We came within a baby's breath of a fascist coup in the US'. zcomm.org Poverty and hunger kill more people than anything else on the planet and they are human-made problems. Those are the things that we need to be digging into, rather than being sidetracked by this carnival barker bullshit…

Thom Hartmann (2021-10-11). Hungarian-Style Soft Fascism is the GOP's Ruthless New Brand. zcomm.org Hungarian-style soft fascism is now the GOP's brand and they're doubling down on it, believing to their core that by the end of 2024 they can do to America what Orbán did to Hungary — and therefore never face consequences or serious political opposition ever again…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-11). Rights groups launch initiative demanding PayPal services in Palestine. peoplesdispatch.org While PayPal operates in over 200 countries, including many affected by years of war and civil conflict, it does not provide services in Palestine. Rights groups have condemned this discriminatory policy against Palestinians as residents of the illegal Israeli settlements in the same area have access to PayPal services…

Editor2 (2021-10-11). Palestine Goes International: On Palestinian Achievements in Sports Throughout the Decades. orinocotribune.com By Issam Khalidi — Oct 8, 2021 | Throughout decades, sports were a mirror that reflected Palestinian reality and portrayed it with all its details. The Palestinian struggle has always been multilateral and sport was one of them. Sports developments have been parallel to and overlapping with political developments, and were not isolated from harsh conditions that were afflicting the Palestinian people before and after the Nakba, Catastrophe, of 1948. | Moreover, sport has been structured and employed to help the Palestinian cause, it went hand in hand with the national-liberation movement — represented…

sputniknews (2021-10-11). 500 Bags Packed With School Supplies, Several Activists & One Hope for a Better Future in Gaza. sputniknews.com The economic situation in the Palestinian coastal enclave has always been fragile, but the crisis has deepened in the past couple of years primarily because of the outbreak of COVID-19.

Staff (2021-10-11). #FreeIssamHijjawi: Join the Twitterstorm and Attend Court (Virtually) to support Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat! samidoun.net Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, Palestinian activist in Scotland and a medical doctor, is today a Palestinian political prisoner in British jails. On Wednesday, 13 October, he is going back to court (virtually) in a request for bail. His bail applications have been denied repeatedly in the past — despite the length of his detention — […] | The article

sputniknews (2021-10-11). Democrat Candidate for Virginia Gov. Claims CRT Was 'Made Up' By GOP, Trump Supporters. sputniknews.com McAuliffe made the remarks in response to a question about how he would respond to a former supporter who is now backing his Republican opponent over public schools "pushing a radical agenda in which American history is portrayed as racist" during an interview with CNN.

Kirkpatrick Sale (2021-10-11). What Are We to Make of Columbus Today? counterpunch.org It being the fashion to tear down monuments these days, I assume on this Columbus Day we will see renewed efforts to tear down effigies of this supremely significant figure in world history. That would be stupid, of course, but it attests to the efforts of some people to reassess the mindless hagiography of Columbus that marked the American response right up to the Sesquicentennial in 1992. And it brings up the question of how we are supposed to regard this man from our perspective today.

Radical Women Won't Stop (2021-10-11). Speakout for Reproductive Justice in San Francisco. indybay.org The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Roe v. Wade this fall. On October 3 Radical Women held a rally for voices to be heard on the right of women and all people to control their own bodies.

Liberation Staff (2021-10-10). Celebrate continuing resistance on Indigenous People's Day. liberationnews.org Holidays which commemorate Christopher Columbus and other figures whitewash the genocide these colonizers spearheaded.

Staff (2021-10-10). 16 October, Vancouver: Free Georges Abdallah! Free Palestine! Protest. samidoun.net Saturday, 16 October 2 pm Consulate of France in Vancouver 1130 W Pender Vancouver, BC, Canada Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/622303178937164/ Georges Abdallah, Lebanese Communist and struggler for Palestine, has been imprisoned in French jails for nearly 37 years, despite being eligible for release since 1999. Even when he has obtained rulings for his freedom through judicial processes, […] | The article

Fra Hughes (2021-10-10). 'Israel' — Beyond Apartheid. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Sep 29, 2021 | Many observers and organizations make parallels between the apartheid segregated Society of South Africa, the Jim Crow racial segregation laws of North America, and "Israel." | Apartheid (/…ôÀàp…ëÀêrt(h)a…™t/, especially South African English: /…ôÀàp…ëÀêrt(h)e…™t/, Afrikaans: [aÀàpart…¶…õit]; transl. "separateness", lit. "aparthood") was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South-West Africa (now Namibia)…

Suzanne James (2021-10-10). Cate Faehrmann: Support the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill. greenleft.org.au In part three of our series on the draft Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill (NSW) 2021, Suzanne James interviewed NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann, co-sponsor of the bill to be introduced by Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich. | Faehrmann gives an insight into the inner workings of the parliamentary machine, including: what happens between now and the final vote on the bill; what people can do to ensure their views are considered; and the underhanded tactics the far right have deployed in the name of the high moral ground.

_____ (2021-10-10). Greek Youth Reiterate Resolve To Fight Fascism. popularresistance.org On the occasion of the first anniversary of the banning of Greek fascist party Golden Dawn, progressive sections organized massive mobilizations across the country on Thursday, October 7, resolving to strengthen the fight against fascism and the system that gives birth to it. The demonstrations, mainly called by student and youth organizations, included concerts and other cultural activities. Trade unionists from the All Workers Militant Front (PAME) and cadre of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) also participated in the mobilization in addition to people from all walks of life. Major mobilizations were witness…

Paul Street (2021-10-10). What Happens in the Red States. counterpunch.org Nationally focused progressive intellectuals and activists might be more willing to confront the fact the United States is being overtaken by a creeping, homegrown Amerikaner fascism if they paid more attention to state-level politics, the soft underbelly of what's left of bourgeois democracy in the not-so United States. | The left tendency to neglect and avoid what's happening in the states is foolish. For one thing, state-level policy has significant direct impacts on a vast swath of the nation's population. From highly populated jurisdictions like Texas (home to 30 million) and Florida (22 million) to small…

Anonymous669 (2021-10-10). Syrian Air Defenses Intercepted 8 Of 12 Israeli Missiles During Recent Attack On T-4 Air Base: Russian MoD. southfront.org The Syrian Arab Air Defense Forces intercepted eight out of 12 missile launched by Israeli fighter jets during the recent…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-10). Atlantic Council on Iran, Azerbaijan and NATO. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Two excerpts. The rest of the article is what one would expect given the source. Iranian war games on the border with Azerbaijan were really a message to Israel [T]he Zangezur corridor [is] proposed by Azerbaijan to connect the rest of the country with its Nakhchivan enclave via Armenia's southern Syunik region. According to Iranian …

Anthony Fulton (2021-10-10). The Collapse of Liberal Zionism. counterpunch.org Image by Summer is over in Israel and so too the holiday season that includes Yom Kippur and Sukkot with their accompanying prayers of remembrance. Memory is integral to most Jewish holidays. The readings at Passover and the lighting of candles at Hanukkah are collective acts of remembrance. The importance of remembering has always been central to Jewish self-identity. As Jonathan Safran Foer would have it: 'Jews have six senses. Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing … memory.' | But here there are also holidays specific to the State of Israel, t…

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2021-10-10). Syria air defense downs 8 missiles fired by Israeli regime. en.mehrnews.com The Pantsir missile systems of the Syrian air defense forces destroyed 8 out of 12 missiles launched by Israel at the T-4 airfield in the Homs region on Friday, said Vadim Kulit.

_____ (2021-10-10). Biden Tells Supreme Court Publicly Documented Torture Is A State Secret. popularresistance.org When Abu Zubaydah was apprehended in Pakistan in 2002, the George W. Bush administration falsely characterized him as chief of operations for al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden's number three man. For the next four years, the CIA sent Zubaydah to its "black sites" in Thailand and Poland where he was viciously tortured. In 2006, Zubaydah was taken to Guantánamo, where he remains to this day. He has never been charged with a crime. | The torture of Abu Zubaydah is thoroughly documented in the 2014 report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In fact, several of the justices at the October 6 Supreme Court oral a…

Marjorie Cohn (2021-10-10). Biden Tells Supreme Court That Publicly Documented Torture Is a State Secret. zcomm.org This case is a pivotal test of the willingness of the Supreme Court to check and balance the executive when it perpetrates torture and other war crimes in its "war on terror"

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