Daily Archives: October 30, 2021

2021-10-30: News Headlines

Fight Back (2021-10-30). Milwaukee Alliance celebrates the unveiling of Lucille Berrien Park. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI — On October 23, nearly 100 community members, activists and local politicians gathered at Berrien Park for the public unveiling of the Milwaukee County Parks sign with the new name. The campaign was initiated when the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression learned about the origins of the name for Lindbergh Park and Charles Lindbergh's proximity to the Nazis. | After months of canvassing efforts led by the Alliance that saw members going door-to-door in the predominantly Black community surrounding the park, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors in late June voted unan…

WSWS (2021-10-30). Modi makes spectacle of India's 1 billionth COVID vaccine shot to cover up his government's culpability for mass death. wsws.org By rights, Modi should be charged—as his Brazilian counterpart, the fascist Jair Bolsonaro, has been—for promoting quackery and presiding over crimes against humanity.

WSWS (2021-10-30). Oklahoma death row prisoner John Grant vomits, convulses in death chamber as state resumes executions. wsws.org Grant's execution was the first in Oklahoma since 2015 after a series of them went horribly wrong. It proceeded after the US Supreme Court lifted his stay of execution.

Editor (2021-10-29). The Holy Land Foundation Five: How U.S.-Israeli geopolitics cruelly warped the U.S. judicial process. mronline.org While Bush rushed to designate the Holy Land Foundation a terrorist organization and declare that closing them down was somehow a great achievement in the fight against terrorism, the fact of the matter was that he had no proof.

IMEMC (2021-10-29). Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. globalresearch.ca

sputniknews (2021-10-29). 'Childish Remarks': Iran Slams Israeli Envoy to India For Accusing It of 'Destabilising' West Asia. sputniknews.com Besides the UAE, Israel last year also normalised ties with Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. All the diplomatic agreements were mediated by the US under former President Donald Trump. Iran has labelled the so-called Abraham Accords as "strategic idiocy" and a "stab on the back" of Palestinian people.

Ann Brown (2021-10-29). Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude Jr: I Don't Know How America Will Survive. Greed, Racism And Selfishness Are Hollowing It Out. moguldom.com Respected Princeton University Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. isn't too optimistic about the current state of the U.S or its future. "I don't know how this country is going to survive. Greed, racism, and selfishness are hollowing it out," Glaude tweeted Thursday. Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at …

Global Research News (2021-10-29). Selected Articles: Scientist Whose Wife Was Injured by COVID Vaccine Tells FDA: 'Please Do Not Give this to Kids'. globalresearch.ca By The late Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was South Africa's anti-apartheid revolutionary, who served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, …

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-10-29). Campaign for Venezuela's 21N Regional Elections Begins: How Many Candidates are There? orinocotribune.com According to the schedule established by Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), the campaign for Venezuela's November 21 regional and municipal "mega-elections" officially began today. Venezuelans will select governors, mayors, city councilors, and regional legislators during the process. | It is an event that brings together almost 68,000 male and female candidates from the different opposition groups against 3,072 candidates nominated by the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP). This last alliance, that of Chavismo, has as its strength the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Venezuela's leading party since…

Bill Meyer (2021-10-29). Palestine at the Toronto International Film Festival. peoplesworld.org Films made about the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and the plight of the Palestinians are increasing in number. The BDS movement has gained steam. At a time when even saying something against the Israeli Zionist government is deemed anti-Semitic, it takes brave artists to make truthful films about the realities in the Middle East. And …

Brittani Banks (2021-10-29). 'Fascist' Doesn't Mean What It Used To. independentmediainstitute.org The question of whether or not Russia is fascist rarely if ever gets asked nowadays because it seems so obvious: Why waste the time it takes to even ask the question? International relations scholars; major media organizations; non-scholarly yet high-profile shapers of the prevailing wisdom; and politicians on both sides of the aisle seem almost …

_____ (2021-10-29). Panopticon: How Mainstream Academia Normalized Mass Imprisonment. strategic-culture.org The panopticon of the Smart City is a system set up so that free citizens police, interrogate, and report on each other. | Academia, with its woke newspeak, is a god-awful thing. Only through the complete destruction of language can actually fascist policies, which threaten to eradicate humanity, be passed off as progressive, even social-democratic. Our aim is to build upon our previous chapters to show that these were not intellectual fishing expeditions — we're here with the receipts. | Jeremy Bentham's horrific theory and model of the Panopticon is openly presented as a 'positive vision of the future' wh…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-10-29). 1979 Assassination of U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs Set Groundwork for America's Longest War. covertactionmagazine.com New evidence links Zbigniew Brzezinski, the CIA and European fascists who formed the Safari Club to the crime. Dubs had …

Michael F. Brown (2021-10-29). Tough choices for Biden administration: Which empty words to approve? electronicintifada.net Settlements and Israeli human rights crackdown highlight Washington's complicity.

Ali Abunimah (2021-10-29). Israel told EU in advance of plan to label rights groups "terrorist" electronicintifada.net Brussels "not standing fully behind its values, its principles and also its partners."

Kelly Kunzl (2021-10-29). Summer raids on rights groups foreshadowed "terrorist" designation. electronicintifada.net Israel has been attacking Palestinian activists for decades.

Ruwaida Amer (2021-10-29). Israel puts Gaza's deaf people in extreme danger. electronicintifada.net Being unable to hear explosions made the May attack even more terrifying.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-29). UK unions condemn Israel's "terrorist" label to Palestinian human rights groups. peoplesdispatch.org The unions urged the UK government and the international community to pressure Israel to reverse the decision and uphold Palestinian rights in accordance with international law…

Aseel Jundi (2021-10-29). Jerusalem Palestinians Fight to Preserve Cemetery Slated for Demolition. globalresearch.ca

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-10-29). 10 Top Quotes From Legendary Political Thinker Fannie Lou Hamer. moguldom.com Fannie Lou Hammer isn't a legend by happenstance. The passionate civil, voting and women's rights activist rose to iconic status because she did iconic things. The youngest of 20 children born to sharecropper parents, Hamer wasn't a stranger to being trampled by white supremacy. As a result, she dedicated her life to fighting for economic …

Jenny Pierson (2021-10-29). How Critical Race Theory Hysteria May Influence the Future of Affirmative Action. independentmediainstitute.org The end of abortion rights in the United States seems to be a foregone conclusion. After rejecting efforts to temporarily halt the Texas abortion law on two separate occasions, the Supreme Court may validate the law this term. Undermining Roe v. Wade, or overruling it as the court's decision on Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban portends, …

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-29). EUCOM/NATO commander hosts top brass for Russia Strategic Roundtable, China Strategic Roundtable. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The commander of U.S. European Command is also the top military commander of NATO: Supreme Allied Commander Europe. ==== USEUCOM Commander Hosts Russia Strategic Roundtable Commander of U.S. European Command (USEUCOM), Air Force General Tod D. Wolters, hosted a senior U.S. military leader forum focused on global campaigning and integrated deterrence at the Pentagon today. …

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-29). NATO celebrates national day of Turkey, "birthplace of civilization in the world" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationSupreme Headquarters Allied Powers EuropeOctober 29, 2021 Turkish National Day Meet Mehmet Cetin from NATO's Cyber Security Centre. We asked him a few questions about his country and about Turkey's National Day. NATO…benefits from experienced personnel in the Turkish Armed Forces and increases the level of interoperability among alliance members. Istanbul…connects the …

Henry A. Giroux (2021-10-29). Jim Crow Politics Have Descended on Education. zcomm.org We must refuse to turn education into work stations of right-wing ideology and white supremacy…

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