2022-07-12: News Headlines

Al-Shabaka (2022-07-12). Palestinians are Uniting, caught between Alliance of Authoritarian States and Western Indifference. juancole.com By Tareq Baconi | ( Al-Shabaka ) Over the course of the past decade, a new regional architecture has come into focus in the Middle East and North Africa. The US has shown greater signs of withdrawal and retrenchment from the region. Tensions have arisen and subsided between regional powers, proxy wars continue …

WSWS (2022-07-12). Wisconsin Supreme Court declares absentee ballot drop boxes illegal, questions validity of 2020 election. wsws.org The Wisconsin ruling is the latest in a long line of attacks on voting rights by Republican legislatures and courts following the defeat of former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

WSWS (2022-07-12). January 6 committee hearings resume with focus on ties between fascist groups and Trump camp. wsws.org Tuesday's hearing will present evidence of direct connections between the Trump White House and groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

Micheal Berosch (2022-07-12). Dealing with Police and Government Agents. indybay.org "Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances." (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson writing in Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49 (1949))…

WSWS (2022-07-12). German Socialist Equality Party files constitutional complaint against criminalisation of Marxism. wsws.org On 2 June, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, Socialist Equality Party) filed a constitutional complaint with the Supreme Court against its surveillance and defamation by the Secret Service.

WSWS (2022-07-12). Police crackdown continues in Akron, Ohio, as Democratic mayor keeps curfew in place. wsws.org Defying police violence and fascist threats, thousands marched in support of Jayland Walker over the weekend.

Editor (2022-07-11). Ruins of Azov Steel Factory display Nazi insignia and signs of NATO support. mronline.org Owner of plant, Rinat Akhmetov, is allegedly connected to organized crime.

____ (2022-07-11). (Italiano) Medio Oriente e giornalismo mancante su conflitto e pace. transcend.org 8 Luglio 2022 – Due immagini di affari internazionali, affari umani a dire il vero, due discorsi: l'approccio securitario e l'approccio pacifista; che competono per la nostra attenzione trattando la stessa preoccupazione per la violenza ma in modo diametralmente opposto.

Ali Abunimah (2022-07-11). Will Israel join an Arab NATO? electronicintifada.net Watch: US helps cover up murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, Ali Abunimah tells BT News.

Jason Ditz (2022-07-11). Israel Says Giving Up Harming Iran's Enrichment Program. news.antiwar.com In statements that seem designed to update the anti-Iran narrative ahead of President Biden's visit, Israeli officials are saying they The narrative is meant to suggest Israel isn't going to keep assassinating people tangentially involved in enrichment, at least formally, and is meant to back claims that Iran already has enough uranium for a weapon, an almost certainly false allegation. | The report suggests tha…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2022-07-11). Israeli court rules in favor of sweeping impunity. electronicintifada.net Legal system is "committed to the legitimization of war crimes," human rights groups say.

_____ (2022-07-11). The CIO Was One of the Most Successful Anti-Racism Movements in U.S. History. popularresistance.org In the 1930s, a new type of union, an "industrial" union that welcomed all workers in a single workplace emerged as the cutting edge of working-class struggle. Previously, unions and employers both had a long history of racism and support for white supremacy. Certain jobs were reserved for whites, and Black workers were kept out of factories and union halls. This had catastrophic consequences for the working class. For example, in the 1919 Steel Strike, employers brought in 30,000 Black and immigrant workers to break the strike staged by white workers and their racially exclusive unions. Long prevented from joini…

Staff (2022-07-11). Video: Ghassan Kanafani Literature and Revolution with Louis Allday and Omar Zahzah. samidoun.net On Friday, 8 July — the th anniversary of the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani — Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network organized a webinar on Kanafani's literary and revolutionary life. The webinar featured Louis Allday, historian, writer and publisher of the Liberated Texts series, the publisher with Ebb Books of the new edition of On Zionist …

Fight Back (2022-07-11). SCOTUS decision on the EPA: Time to fight for climate justice in the streets! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by the Minnesota-based Climate Justice Committee. | On Thursday June 30, the Supreme Court ruled against the EPA and its ability to set pollution limits on power plants. This is a blow to the U.S. government's ability to combat climate change and comes on the heels of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to an abortion. It's also a sign that the current court is set out on an anti-people agenda that will put a corporate and a right-wing agenda before the needs of the people. And it's a sign that the…

Editor (2022-07-11). Thousands on Parole and Probation Face Unique Barriers in Seeking Abortion Care. scheerpost.com Map of the United States showing which states will outlaw abortion now that Roe v. Wade is overturned. Parole and probation population data from the Prison Policy Initiative. Chart by ScheerPost. | By Victoria Valenzuela / Original to ScheerPost | ScheerPost Staff Writer | The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaves many among the more than

WSWS (2022-07-11). Supreme Court agrees to hear "independent legislature" case as Republicans prepare their next coup. wsws.org The "independent legislature theory," which was invoked in the theft of the 2000 election and in Trump's attempted coup in 2020, would give Republican-controlled state legislatures the unchecked power to rig and overturn upcoming elections.

TeleSUR, ldp, SH (2022-07-11). Rechazan declaración racista de la jefa del Parlamento de Perú. telesurtv.net La titular del Parlamento dividió al país entre indios y blancos mientras negaba tener un discurso divisionista de clases.

WSWS (2022-07-11). Oath Keepers brought grenades, rifles, "suitcases full of ammunition" to Washington D.C. on eve of January 6. wsws.org The new evidence comes as the January 6 House Select Committee prepares to hold its seventh hearing, centered on the nexus between fascist militia groups and the Trump White House.

Staff (2022-07-11). US-led regional defense system provokes Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 11 (MNA) — Iran has officially reacted to a US-led plan to build a regional missile defense system that includes Israel and its onetime Arab foes.

Michael Arney (2022-07-11). Resisting Supreme Court, New York State safeguards gun safety and abortion rights. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—Supreme Court rulings seem to mimic one Republican's slogan "Jesus, Guns, and Babies." The New York State Democratic supermajority has struck back. The state's first female governor, Kathy Hochul, convened a special session of the state legislature at the end of June in response to the Court's rulings of the prior week. She originally …

_____ (2022-07-10). Is The US Now Trying To Destabilize Uzbekistan? popularresistance.org Unfortunately, the failure of the recent attempt to create an armed conflict in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) has not dampened Washington's ardor in searching for ways to destabilize the situation in Central Asia and in creating an additional inconvenience for Russia, which at present is conducting a special military operation to de-Nazify Ukraine, by creating a "second front." The United States, to this end, continues to use its sponsored NGOs, media and US intelligence capabilities to foment old conflicts in the region to put pressure on regional security, with a subsequent threat to Russia, as…

_____ (2022-07-10). War Scars The Earth. To Heal, We Must Cultivate Hope, Not Harm. popularresistance.org "No War 2022, July 8 — 10," hosted by World BEYOND War, will consider major and growing threats faced in today's world. Emphasizing "Resistance and Regeneration," the conference will feature practitioners of permaculture who work to heal scarred lands as well as abolish all war. | Listening to various friends speak of the environmental impact of war, we recalled testimony from survivors of a Nazi concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin, Sachsenhausen, where over 200,000 prisoners were interned from 1936 — 1945.

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