2022-08-30: News Headlines

Tamara Nassar (2022-08-30). Musicians boycott Berlin festival backed by Israel. electronicintifada.net Pop-Kultur organizers had concealed Tel Aviv's support until the last minute.

_____ (2022-08-30). Residents Refuse To Be Forced From Homes Won Through Past Struggle. popularresistance.org Forty years ago, residents of Philadelphia won a subsidized housing community in the area known as Black Bottom after fighting the discrimination and displacement being used to clear the way for University City. Now the city is allowing that community, 72 residences called University City Townhomes (UCT), to be sold for gentrification. Clearing the FOG spoke with Rasheda Alexander, a resident of UCT, and Sterling Johnson of Philadelphia Housing Action about their efforts to protect UCT and stop the wave of evictions and displacement that primarily target low income black and brown people. Their organizing and act…

Fight Back (2022-08-30). San José reacts to Supreme Court threat to overturn DACA. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – "No ban! No wall! Legalization for all!" was heard at San José City Hall as about 20 people showed up on Saturday, August 27, to protest the possibility of the U.S. Supreme Court repealing DACA, which would affect nearly a million undocumented immigrants and their families in the United States. | The protest coincided with the 52nd anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium and came in response to a call from the Legalization for All (L4A) Network. The connection between the struggles of undocumented immigrants, especially from Mexico and other Latin American nations, and the Chicano nation, or Aztlan,…

Brenda Norrell (2022-08-30). Catholic Church: "Take the Money and Run" indybay.org An access to information request exposes Canada's secret deal that allows the Catholic Church to renege on its promise of $25 million for residential school survivors. When the deal to renege was exposed this week, the Catholic Church announced that it is quickly moving all of its financial assets to the Vatican Bank. The Catholic Church confessed to genocide in July. Demands continue for Nuremburg-style trials in the international court.

Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon (2022-08-30). Steps Left for Electing Progressives and Defeating Republicans in the Midterms. indybay.org Threat of fascism is real but disaster can be avoided…

____ (2022-08-30). MOFA: Chinese Embassy in Cambodia receives over 20 Taiwan compatriots' requests for help. ecns.cn The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday said the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia has received requests for help from more than 20 Taiwan compatriots and has assisted the Cambodian side in successfully rescuing some of them.

____ (2022-08-30). Chinese Embassy in Cambodia receives over 20 Taiwan compatriots' requests for help. ecns.cn

H. Scott Prosterman (2022-08-30). Expanding the Occupation of Palestinians in thenewsauthor"> of Jesus. juancole.com Most people agree that imperialism has been a very bad thing for the world. American Indian leader Dennis Means addressed a capacity crowd at the Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan in 1981. When I asked him to compare the plight of American Indians with the Palestinians, Mr. Means said, "Palestinians are the Indians …

Diegoramos718 (2022-08-29). Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Israeli War on Palestinians Possible. scheerpost.com Protest for Palestine. Brahim Guedich, CC BY-SA 4.0 By Ramzy Baroud / While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case.

WSWS (2022-08-29). Baltic governments use war in Ukraine to accelerate removal of Soviet World War II monuments. wsws.org The reactionary campaign is designed to sow ethnic divisions and erase from historical memory the defeat of fascism and the massive victory it signified for both the Soviet and international working class.

Staff (2022-08-29). Why Israel fiercely opposes nuclear deal with Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 29 (MNA) — Mossad chief David Barnea issued a warning shot against the 2015 Iran nuclear deal while the European Union, together with Iran and the US, were engaged in a flurry of diplomatic efforts to get the nuclear deal revived.

____ (2022-08-29). Vera Sharav: When a Holocaust Survivor Confirms the Parallels, We Need to Listen. transcend.org 22 Aug 2022 – This is the New Eugenics. It is embraced by the most powerful global billionaire technocrats who gather at Davos: Big Tech, Big Pharma, the financial oligarchs, academics, government leaders & the military industrial complex. These megalomaniacs have paved the road to another Holocaust. This time, the threat of genocide is Global in scale.

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-29). Former Israeli Officials Urge Israel to Prepare Military Action Against Iran. news.antiwar.com Former Israeli intelligence and military officials have urged Israel to prepare for military action against Iran as Washington and Tehran are negotiating a revival of the nuclear deal, The Palestine Chronicle reported on Monday. In an interview with Israel Hayom that was published Sunday, Amos Gilad, the former chief of Israel's Defense Ministry's Political-Military Affairs …

____ (2022-08-29). Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Possible Israeli War of Aggression against Palestinians. transcend.org 26 Aug 2022 – While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. The deadly Israeli wars on Gaza are made possible, not only by western weapons and political support, but through an endless stream of media misinformation and misrepresentation.

____ (2022-08-29). Nuremberg: Holocaust Survivor Vera Sharav's Alert about Nazi Tactics in 2022. transcend.org "Humanity Is Currently Under Siege by the Global Heirs of the Nazis" – Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate, speaks first at the 75th Anniversary Event of the Nuremberg Code in Nuremberg, Germany, on 20 Aug 2022.

Ed Rampell (2022-08-29). "Mood of Militancy" Movies Star at Black August Film Festival in Pasadena. covertactionmagazine.com What is Black August and the FilmFestnewsauthor">D After It? The inaugural Black August Film Festival, zooming in on what Frantz Fanon called "the wretched of the Earth" and their opposition to systemic racism, took place in Pasadena, California, August 13-14. Unlike other Black-themed filmfests that may screen socially conscious indies alongside the typical mindless …

Ed Rampell (2022-08-29). "Mood of Militancy" Movies Star at Black August Film Festival in Pasedena. covertactionmagazine.com What is Black August and the FilmFestnewsauthor">D After It? The inaugural Black August Film Festival, zooming in on what Frantz Fanon called "the wretched of the Earth" and their opposition to systemic racism, took place in Pasadena, California, August 13-14. Unlike other Black-themed filmfests that may screen socially conscious indies alongside the typical mindless …

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-29). US Hints to Israel's Gantz It's Preparing Military Option Against Iran. globalresearch.ca

TeleSUR (2022-08-29). Jordanians Keen to Maintain Palestinian Tourism. telesurenglish.net After Israel opened an airport near its southern border with Jordan to Palestinian passengers travelling abroad last week, several Jordanian travel agents expressed concern that the Israeli move would significantly reduce the number of Palestinians travelling via Jordan. | RELATED: | Dozens of Palestinians departed for Cyprus from Israel's Ramon Airport on Aug. 22 after Israel launched a pilot program to enable Palest…

Hans Stehling (2022-08-29). Palestine: The Shocking Myth of a 'Land with No People for a People with No Land!'. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-08-29). Khalil Awawdeh's message to the world: "Our cause is just, regardless of the high price paid" samidoun.net Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh, on his 180th day of hunger strike, issued a video message to the people of the world, where he speaks slowly and laboriously, with his emaciated body visible, highlighting the justice of the Palestinian cause: "Oh, free people of the world, this suffering body, of which nothing remains but skin and …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-29). Macron Insulted Africans' Intelligence. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew The shameless ethno-nationalist supremacy associated with his hateful remark will result in Africans doubling down on their anti-imperialist and Pan-Africanism activism since no self-respecting person would ever capitulate in the face of such blatantly racist pressure and thus voluntarily submit themselves to being dominated by their abuser. French President Macron claimed during his latest trip to…

____ (2022-08-29). Israel's Assault on Palestinian NGOs Is Shutting off Access to International Community. transcend.org 23 Aug 2022 – Experts say that Israel's recent assault with overnight raids on Palestinian NGOs and closure of six Palestinian civil society groups will further block ties to international institutions from which they receive most of their funding. To what extent these groups will be able to continue operating with the outside world?>

____ (2022-08-29). (Norsk-Norwegian) Israels forbrytelser mot Palestina. transcend.org Samfunnsdrap er villet lemlestelse — drap av et samfunn ved à• eliminere forutsetningene for et levende, levende, dynamisk samfunn.

WSWS (2022-08-29). One-third of American women have lost abortion rights since Roe v. Wade overturned. wsws.org When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in September, nearly 21 million women lost unrestricted access to abortion. This week, laws going into effect in several states will make abortion even harder to access. Should courts drop their injunctions against anti-abortion laws in other states, 36 percent of American women will lose the right to abortion.

Staff (2022-08-29). Resistance continuing in West Bank more severe than before. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 29 (MNA) — The spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas Abdul-Latif Al-Qanu said that resistance is continuing in the West Bank more severe than before.

____ (2022-08-29). The Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA, 2015) Should Be Renewed. transcend.org 25 Aug 2022 – Undoing the human and diplomatic harm of Trump's international legacy is a complex matter that not only exhibits the persisting influence of unrepentant Trumpists but the passivity of the Democratic Party leadership, particularly when it dares to disagree with Israel on a matter of foreign policy concern.

Tim Wheeler (2022-08-29). Sequim, Washington state Healing Clinic opening a victory over racism. peoplesworld.org SEQUIM, WA.About three hundred people gathered Saturday, Aug. 20 for the ribbon-cutting of the Jamestown Healing Clinic, celebrating our victory for people in our community struggling against addiction to opioids. There was much joy in the air with singing and drumming by a chorus of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe. Brent Simcosky, director of the Jamestown …

WSWS (2022-08-29). Pfizer's anti-COVID pill Paxlovid shows no benefit for younger adults. wsws.org A recent Israeli study demonstrated that Pfizer's anti-COVID pill had no benefit for those younger than 65. However, it did show benefits among seniors at high risk for severe disease.

Jon Queally (2022-08-29). 'Genocide of His People Is Complete': Last Member of Isolated Brazilian Tribe Found Dead. commondreams.org "For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth," said one Indigenous rights campaigner.

Staff (2022-08-29). Iran condemns Israel's continued attacks against Syria. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (MNA) — Condemning the Israel's continued attacks against Syria, Iran's Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN rejected US accusations against Iran leveled by the American representative in Security Council meeting.

Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon (2022-08-29). Progressive Champions Needed to Destroy Republican Prospects in Midterms. commondreams.org If the GOP wins control of Congress, political realities will surely get much worse, moving the United States closer to fascism. This must not happen.

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-08-29). Soldados israelíes hieren a 11 palestinos en Jenin, Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Ocurrió durante una redada en la ciudad de Qabatiya. Siete de los lesionados fueron por uso de munición real.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-28). Russian Allegations of Rampant Nazism in Europe. libya360.wordpress.com Gilbert Doctorow A couple of weeks before Vladimir Putin announced his 'special military operation' in Ukraine, he met in the Kremlin with Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz. At their joint press conference following the meeting, Putin mentioned in passing that Ukraine is controlled today by neo-Nazis. This remark was famously ridiculed by Scholz as "laughable," thereby…

Fight Back (2022-08-28). Philippines: Free Adora Faye de Vera, poet, patriot and warrior for women's liberation. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following August 27 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | We join the clamor of women's groups, artists, poets, rights defenders and other democratic organizations for the immediate release of Adora Faye de Vera. Adora Faye was arrested by police last Wednesday afternoon in her place of residence in Quezon City, and later brought to Calinog town, Iloilo, where she is being made to face false criminal charges. She joins at least 800 other political prisoners in the Philippines who continue to suffer unjust incarceration. | Adora Faye is an artist, a poe…

Paul Craig Roberts (2022-08-28). Biden Again Shows a Nazi Face. thealtworld.com The tyrannical anti-American Biden Regime tried to again seize the legislative function from Congress and mandate the unconstitutional requirement that medical doctors must perform "gender-transition" operations and abortions regardless of their religious beliefs. | To be clear, the White House Tyrant tried to coerce medical doctors into acting contrary to their beliefs. | A federal district court slapped down the White House Nazi. When the Nazi regime appealed, the US Court of Appeals for the Firth Circuit unanimously upheld the district court. | What do Americans think of a Nazi dictator who tries to control do…

_____ (2022-08-28). Is Vietnamese-Israeli Defense Cooperation Facing Problems? journal-neo.org On July 12, Israel and Vietnam marked the 29th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations and emphasized in official statements that there is great potential for the further development of economic and diplomatic cooperation that could bring significant benefits to both sides. Vietnam, as you know, is a member of the Association of Southeast …

Fight Back (2022-08-28). One-year anniversary car caravan for Earl Lawhorn held in Milwaukee. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On August 26, the family of Earl Lawhorn joined the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression in a car caravan to demand justice for him and his family. Lawhorn was murdered by Milwaukee police exactly one year before. Cops initiated a high-speed chase with Lawhorn. The chase culminated in a fatal shooting, which the police officers justified by claiming Lawhorn had fired on them. Evidence presented by the district attorney to the family revealed that the firearm in Lawhorn's possession was broken and unable to fire. | Over the last year, Lawhorn's family has been trying to piece…

Dave LIndorff (2022-08-28). Enough With the Unseemly Whining About Student Debt Forgiveness! thiscantbehappening.net The greed, self interest and racism of US citizens never ceases to amaze and appall me. President Biden was dragged, against his own wishes, into using his executive authority to cancel a paltry $10.000 in federally insured student college debt for all those former students with current income of less than $125,000, and an … |

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