Daily Archives: May 30, 2022

2022-05-30: News Headlines

Ben Becker (2022-05-30). The revolutionary origins of Memorial Day and its political hijacking. liberationnews.org The spirit of the first Decoration Day — the struggle for Black liberation and the fight against racism — has unfortunately been whitewashed from the modern Memorial Day.

Benjamin Norton (2022-05-30). Colombia's far-right presidential candidate praised Hitler: Millionaire Rodolfo Hernández goes to runoff. multipolarista.com A far-right hundred-millionaire real estate mogul who called himself a "follower" of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Rodolfo Hernández, won second place in round one of Colombia's presidential elections. He will compete against center-left candidate Gustavo Petro in a runoff vote in June.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-05-30). Thousands of extremists allowed to storm al-Aqsa during so-called "march of flags" peoplesdispatch.org Israelis observe "the day of unity of Jerusalem" to commemorate the occupation of the old city in 1967 and carry out the provocative March of Flags throughout occupied East Jerusalem to mark the occasion…

____ (2022-05-30). Biden hails Modi, the butcher of Gujarat, for India's COVID policy of mass death. wsws.org Biden declared the COVID policy of India, which has the highest death toll in the world, a "success," while praising the "democratic" policy of a fascistic prime minister complicit in the mass murder of Muslims.

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-05-30). "Security situation in Darfur remains very dangerous" peoplesdispatch.org Reiterating the call for a UN force to protect the displaced who have been "left at the mercy of militias," Adam Rojal, spokesperson of Darfur's refugees and IDPs, told Peoples Dispatch that violence in Darfur is part of the military junta's campaign "to kill the surviving victims of genocide and war crimes"

____ (2022-05-30). U.S. Congress Holds First UFO Hearings in Fifty Years Just as Biden Administration Budgets Record $27.6 Billion for Space Weapons. transcend.org On 17 May 2022, the U.S. Congress held its first hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena —the new official name for Unidentified Flying Objects —in more than years. Wernher von Braun, a Nazi scientist recruited under Operation Paperclip, said: "Weapons will be based in space—hence the need to create a psychological nexus whereby people will fear all things alien."

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