Daily Archives: July 13, 2022

2022-07-13: News Headlines

Martha Grevatt (2022-07-13). Despite police attacks, protests continue over cop murder of Jayland Walker. workers.org Akron, Ohio, July 3. WW Photo: Martha Grevatt The racist police lynching of Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio, on June 27 sparked a wave of protests that shows no signs of letting up. Walker, a 25-year-old Black man who worked as a DoorDash driver, was shot around 60 times by . . . |

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2022-07-13). CovertAction Bulletin: Judicial Coup? The Supreme Court Case that Could End the Facade of U.S. Democracy. covertactionmagazine.com On today's show we discuss the deep implications that the Supreme Court's decision to take up Harper v Moore could have on the fundamental institution of so-called U.S. democracy. The Supreme Court's ruling on this case could rip the mask off the sham of U.S. democracy and reveal the clear dictatorship of the rich. The recent overturn of Roe, the ongoing January 6th committee hearings, and now the turn towards overturning the fundamental democratic principle of one-person, one-vote marks a new period of political struggle in the United States.

Juan Cole (2022-07-13). The Family of American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, killed by Israeli Sniper, Pleads for Meeting with Biden on Mideast Trip. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The family of slain American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is asking for a meeting with President Joe Biden during his trip to the Middle East this week. So reports Yasmin al-Qassas at Sada al-Balad. In a letter to Mr. Biden, Shireen's brother Anton Abu Akleh wrote that the family "feels …

Editor2 (2022-07-13). Somalia Seeks to Normalize Ties With Israel. orinocotribune.com Israeli media claimed that Somalia seeks to normalize ties with Israel during the second term of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, an ally of the UAE | Somalia is contemplating the normalization of ties with Israel as newly-elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud embarks on an effort to attract foreign support. | The spokesman of the current Somali administration, Abdikarin Ali Kaar, confirmed to Israeli Channel 12 that ongoing consultations at ministerial and parliamentary levels seek a possible peace deal between Somalia and Israel. | The remarks by Kaar were made a few weeks after Mohamud's two-day visit to the…

Staff (2022-07-13). Escritores cubanos intercambian con delegación estadounidense en panel sobre racismo (+Video). cubadebate.cu Los escritores Zuleica Romay, David López y Nancy Morejón intercambiaron con la delegación estadounidense sobre el estado de la racialidad y los aportes a la formación de la nacionalidad y la nación en Cuba intercambiaron, en el panel "Cuba y su negritud, antirracismo e influencia en la vida cultural y social" que sesiona en Casa de las América.

Staff (2022-07-13). Shamkhani to visit Azerbaijan for bilateral ties. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 13 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani is set to visit Baku on Friday.

WSWS (2022-07-13). January 6 hearing details Trump's call for fascist violence to overturn election, conceals role of military and police in coup plot. wsws.org The seventh in the current series of televised hearings by the House Select Committee on the January 6 coup focused on former president Donald Trump's mobilization of violent, far-right terrorists in his attempt to overturn the 2020 election and seize dictatorial power.

WSWS (2022-07-13). Highland Park shooter posted anti-Semitic and racist messages days before shooting. wsws.org The violent, fascist leanings of Highland Park shooter Robert Crimo III continues to be ignored by major media outlets and Democrats alike.

_____ (2022-07-12). How Shinzo Abe Whitewashed Genocidal Imperial Crimes. popularresistance.org Japan's longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe tried to rewrite the history of the fascist Japanese empire and its genocidal crimes. And he and his Nazi-collaborating grandfather enjoyed staunch Western support. | After World War II, the US government pardoned and recruited many of the fascists who had led imperial Japan, putting in power war criminals who had committed genocide in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, carrying out biological warfare, human experimentation, and mass sexual slavery. | Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton discusses how Japan's political system still today is a one-party right-wing…

Contributing Writers (2022-07-12). Germany Criminalizes Journalist for Exposing Ukrainian War Crimes. marktaliano.net READ MORE: Israel is Arming Ukraine's Blatantly Neo-Nazi Militia the Azov Battalion/ The Real News Network, July 6, 2018 In Video: German Journalist On MSM, Situation In Melitopol And Tactics Of Azov MilitantsSouth Front THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: The Same Shady People Own Big Pharma & The Media "One-sided News on Ukraine": Open Letter to CBC …

Anonymous811 (2022-07-12). Kiev Regime Targets Officials In Regions Under Russian Control. southfront.org July 11 was marked by a series of attacks of Ukrainian saboteur against officials in the regions which are under Russian control. | The head of the local administration in the town of Veliky Burluk was killed in a car bomb explosion. The village is located in the Kharkov region and is under control of the Russian military."The car bombing in Veliky Burluk, which resulted in the death of the head of the local administration Yevgeny Yunakov, is a planned terrorist act organized by those fascists…

Miko Peled (2022-07-12). As Biden Visits Israel, Netanyahu is Plotting a Return to Power. mintpressnews.com Netanyahu wants to make sure that any credit Trump might claim for the Abraham Accords — or Biden might claim if Saudi Arabia signs on — will be directed towards him…

Reynard Loki (2022-07-12). With the Supreme Court's EPA Ruling, Can Trump's Damage to the Environment Ever Be Repaired? independentmediainstitute.org Trump's impact on the EPA reveals the frightening power of a corrupt president. By Gregg Barak, Independent Media Institute 6 min read This excerpt is adapted from "Criminology on Trump" (Routledge, 2022) and was produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life (a project of the Independent Media Institute). Grasping the enormity, the …

Urooba Abid (2022-07-12). Victims of Discrimination Have No Path to Justice Following Supreme Court Decision. aclu.org When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, our laws did not provide any recourse against the discrimination she faced. In the decades that followed, organizers and civil rights groups won key battles to expand our laws to protect against discrimination for Black people, women, and people with disabilities. Until recently, thanks to the groundwork laid by people like Parks, people who faced discrimination could seek damages for the emotional distress they endured. But the U.S. Supreme Court blocked that avenue for relief in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C, tur…

Editor (2022-07-12). Roe v. Wade is Gone. A Wave of Criminalization is Coming. scheerpost.com Police arrest four women protesters who chained themselves to the columns at the steps of City Hall to denounce the US Supreme Court decision that ended federal abortion rights protections on July 6, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. David McNew/Getty Images | By Marc Steiner / | The recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case achieved something the right has pursued for decades—overturning Roe v. Wade. From legislation recognizing "fetal personhood" in Georgia and Alabama to…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-12). Biden's Israel visit draws widespread criticism. peoplesdispatch.org Biden will be making his first visit to Israel as president between July 13 and July 15, and will also visit the occupied West Bank to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas…

Ann Brown (2022-07-12). Roland Martin Pleads His Case On Why Black America Should Keep Voting For The Democratic Party. moguldom.com Journalist Roland Martin, host of the podcast "Roland Martin Unfiltered, likens the voting rights atmosphere today to that of 1890 in Mississippi when Black people were stripped of the right to vote by Dixiecrats. Voting rights are in danger today because of efforts by Republicans, Martin said during a July 10 discussion with hip-hop legend …

Brett Wilkins (2022-07-12). Survey Reveals How Much Voters Dislike Companies Funding Seditious GOP Lawmakers. commondreams.org "Given this survey's findings, CEOs should certainly note: they face an undeniable threat to their bottom lines once consumers are made aware of their funding of fascists."

Sam Carliner (2022-07-12). Biden's Middle East Trip Shows His Disregard For Journalists. commondreams.org Biden is demonstrating with his trip to Saudi Arabia and Israel and with his lack of response to police attacks on press within the United States that he takes no issue with emboldening attacks on press freedom.

_____ (2022-07-12). Palestine Action Occupy And Dismantle Thales Weapons Factory In Glasgow. popularresistance.org Glasgow, Scotland – Palestine Action Scotland have made their way back on the roof of weapons company Thales' factory in Glasgow. A team of activists scaled the roof at dawn, and began causing severe damage to site facilities, forcing workers to evacuate the building. Their occupation is ongoing, rendering Thales' conveyor belt of weapons inoperable. | Thales is one of the world's largest arms companies, producing military drones, armoured vehicles, missile systems and more. Amongst the assorted warfare-related hardware made by Thales, the Watchkeeper drone project stands out. The project seeks to further the pol…

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.

____ (2022-07-12). HR org.s silence towards Bosnian genocide not to be forgotten. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) — Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi said that silence of the human rights organizations towards the organized Bosnian genocide will not be erased from the historical memory of nations.

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.

Ramzy Baroud (2022-07-12). Quince años de experimentos fallidos: Mitos y realidades sobre el asedio israelí a Gaza. globalizacion.ca Han pasado quince años desde que Israel impuso un asedio total a la Franja de Gaza sometiendo a casi dos millones de palestinos a uno de los bloqueos más largos y crueles de la historia por motivos políticos. En aquel…

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 …

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). 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.

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.

____ (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.

_____ (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 …

Larry Beck (2022-07-11). US Supreme Court Decisions Highlight Ethical Concerns. fairobserver.com For those of you longing for the simpler life of the 18th century, the chief justice and five associate justices of the US Supreme Court stand at the ready to help you find your way. Spread before them as their sacred guide is the US Constitution, crafted in the late 1780s and ratified in 1788,…

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