(2022-07-16). The ISL whitewashes the crimes of Ukrainian fascism to justify its alliance with the far right. wsws.org The ISL employs the Stalinist methods of historical lies and amalgams in order to sow historical confusion and cover up the crimes of the far right.
(2022-07-16). Iran Proxy Claims Iraqi PM Wants Normalization With Israel. news.antiwar.com This weekend's GCC+3 summit in Saudi Arabia is fueling some controversy in Iraq. Iraq PM Mustafa Kadhimi will attend the summit, and his rivals in pro-Iran proxy groups think he's up to something. | It's not clear how this got started, but Ketaib Hezbollah figures are claiming that some Israelis might attend the summit, expanding that to PM Yair Lapid possibly being there, and then suggesting Kadhimi There is no evidence of any of this, and Lapid almost certainly…
(2022-07-16). Biden hopes for Israeli integration at Arab summit in Saudi. tribune.com.pk 
U.S. President Joe Biden will discuss regional missile and defence capabilities on Saturday when he meets Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, where he will be seeking to integrate Israel as part of a new axis largely driven by shared concerns over Iran, said a senior administration official. | "We believe there's great value in including as many of the capabilities in this region as possible and certainly Israel has significant air and missile defence capabilities, as they need to. But we're having these discussion bilaterally with these nations," the administration official told reporters. | Biden, on his first Mid…
(2022-07-16). Daily Round-up | Iranian president denounces US-Israel joint declaration & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of Iran's response to a US-Israel statement, the resignations of Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mario Draghi, and a controversial amendment in Brazil…
(2022-07-16). Represión israelí deja cinco palestinos heridos en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Durante la represión, decenas de personas presentaron asfixia por los gases lacrimógenos arrojados.
(2022-07-16). The nightmarish reality of post-Roe America. wsws.org In the weeks after six unelected Supreme Court justices abolished the right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade, a nightmarish reality is coming into focus.
(2022-07-16). Presidente de Palestina demanda fin de la ocupación israelí. telesurtv.net Mahmoud Abbas se reunió con Joe Biden, a quien exigió se reconozca al Estado de Palestina como condición para la paz y la seguridad.
(2022-07-16). Worsening Chaos: Israel's Political Instability is Now the Norm. dissidentvoice.org 
The collapse of the short-lived Israeli government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid validates the argument that the political crisis in Israel was not entirely instigated and sustained by former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Bennett's coalition government consisted of eight parties, welding together arguably one of the oddest coalitions in the tumultuous history of …
(2022-07-16). Zionist regime fighter jets attack Gaza Strip (+VIDEO). en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — The Israeli regime's fighter jets attacked places in the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning.
(2022-07-16). Palestinians condemn 'unfair' U.S. diplomacy over Palestinian-Israeli issue. ecns.cn Dozens of Palestinians on Friday demonstrated in the West Bank city of Bethlehem against U.S. President Joe Biden's visit over the long-time unfair U.S. diplomacy in dealing with the Palestinian-Israeli issue.
(2022-07-16). Saturday 7/16: All Out for Palestine. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz…
(2022-07-15). Ukraine: Is Russia's Advance Too Slow? libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic In 2014/2015, the then-nascent Kiev regime suffered a humiliating debacle after it was defeated by a much smaller, undermanned and under-equipped Donbass force. The political West stepped in and forced the Neo-Nazi junta to sign the Minsk agreements and prevent the complete collapse of the regime, which, according to their own admission, used the agreements to buy time…
(2022-07-15). Who is Biden Working For? On Israel Visit, "Zionist" Biden Whitewashes Israel's Crimes. mintpressnews.com 
Judging by his performance, Joe Biden is working for AIPAC and not for the American people. He hit every note, shook every hand and repeated his mantras, clearly trying to please his donors back home.
(2022-07-15). Biden toes the Israel line in West Asia visit. peoplesdispatch.org The US signed an agreement continuing military aid to Israel, while the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh at the hands of Israeli forces and the larger issue of continuing violation of Palestinian human rights by the Israeli apartheid regime remained unaddressed.
(2022-07-15). Indian Adani Ports, local Gadot win bid to buy Israel's Haifa Port for $1.2bn. tribune.com.pk 
Israel said on Thursday it will sell Haifa Port, a major trade hub on its Mediterranean coast, to winning bidders Adani Ports of India and local chemicals and logistics group Gadot for 4.1 billion shekels ($1.18 billion). | Gadot and Adani made it to the end of a two-year tender process that Israel hopes will lower import prices and help shorten notoriously long wait times at Israeli harbours. | "The privatisation of the port of Haifa will increase competition at the ports and lower the cost of living," Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said. | Adani will have a majority 70% stake and Gadot will hold the rema…
(2022-07-15). Biden, Lapid Sign Joint US-Israel Declaration Against Iran. southfront.org 
The declaration says the US will use all of its 'national power' to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon | Originally published by AntiWar | President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday The document, officiall…
(2022-07-15). Report: US Clinches Deal for Steps Toward Saudi-Israeli Normalization. news.antiwar.com The Times of Israel reported Thursday that President Biden An unnamed Middle Eastern diplomat told the Times that Egypt had agreed to transfer the control of two Red Sea islands, T…
(2022-07-15). President Biden: US Won't Wait Forever on Iran Nuclear Deal. news.antiwar.com Throughout months and months of nuclear talks, the US has brought up the idea of time running out. President Biden added to that position today, suggesting the US Iran has long rejected the idea of the US setting artificial deadlines, and doubly so since the US seems to be pushing the process back every time there is a meeting, and lamenting the lack of progress. | Biden's comments come during his Israel visit, and stay on brand in that they give the impression that the US is…
(2022-07-15). Biden's moment of truth about Palestine. electronicintifada.net Expectations were low and still the US president managed to disappoint.
(2022-07-15). Don't single out Jews in the fight against bigotry. electronicintifada.net "I hate the word Holocaust," says Dutch activist Jaap Hamburger, who lost many relatives in the Nazi genocide.
(2022-07-15). Minneapolis police murder Tekle Sundberg. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Minneapolis police once again proved that Black lives in this city do not matter when they shot and killed a 20-year-old man, Tekle Sundberg, who was having a mental health crisis, July 14. MPD officers Aaron Pearson and Zachary Seraphine shot him early Thursday morning after a six-hour standoff at an apartment building in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis. Both officers were also part of the SWAT team that murdered Amir Locke in Minneapolis in February of this year. | A vigil Thursday night outside the apartment building where Tekle was killed and was attended by around 100 people. Tekle'
(2022-07-15). Biden-Lapid Joint Declaration Takes Aim At BDS Movement. popularresistance.org On July 14 U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a joint strategic declaration that highlights the bonds between the two countries, pledges further bilateral cooperation, and vows to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. It also takes aim at the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), the nonviolent effort to pressure Israel in meeting its obligations under international law. | "The United States and Israel affirm that they will continue to work together to combat all efforts to boycott or de-legitimize Israel, to deny its right to self-defense, or to unfairly sin…
(2022-07-15). The Push-Pull Of The Abortion Rights Struggle Continues In The US. popularresistance.org In the few weeks that have passed since the United States Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, stripping abortion rights from millions of women, the people of the United States have continued to fight back. Despite assurances, the response from the Biden administration to protect the fundamental right has been deemed resoundingly inadequate. | "The mass of the people will have to flood into the streets, and will have to remain in the streets," Monica Illyrich, a young organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, told Peoples Dispatch. "We will have to do everything they can to let the…
(2022-07-15). The Biden-Lapid "Jerusalem Declaration": Strategic partnership of imperialism, Zionism and settler colonialism. samidoun.net 
Below are key points identified by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in responding to the Biden-Lapid Declaration ("The U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration") issued on Thursday, 14 July 2022. While the declaration largely holds nothing new, it once again reveals the joint commitment to imperialism and Zionism that is responsible for the past 75 years …
(2022-07-15). Chris Hedges: War with Iran. scheerpost.com 
Illustration by Mr. Fish — "Biden at Bat" | By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | The United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia are plotting a war with Iran. The 2015 Iranian nuclear arms accord, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Donald Trump
(2022-07-15). The West Inverts Reality and Projects its Own Criminality onto Russia. Russia opposes Western-supported Nazism. marktaliano.net 
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(2022-07-15). Saudi Arabia opens airspace to 'all carriers' in gesture to Israel. tribune.com.pk 
Saudi Arabia announced on Friday it was lifting restrictions on "all carriers" using its airspace, an apparent gesture of openness towards Israel hours before US President Joe Biden's arrival. | The US leader welcomed the "historic" decision, the latest conciliatory move by Riyadh concerning the Jewish state, which it has refused to recognise despite intensive efforts by the Israelis to establish ties with Arab countries. | The Saudi civil aviation authority "announces the decision to open the Kingdom's airspace for all air carriers that meet the requirements of the authority for overflying," it said in a stat…
(2022-07-15). 10-year-old in Ohio forced to cross state lines for an abortion. peoplesdispatch.org Three days after the Supreme Court eliminated federal abortion rights, a doctor received a call about a pregnant, 10-year-old rape victim. The doctor was not permitted to perform an abortion.
(2022-07-15). The Selfish Politics of Anti-Abortionists. independentmediainstitute.org The Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was predictable even as it was shocking. Right-wing forces have spent years working painstakingly on multiple fronts in plain sight to ensure that the right to an abortion would no longer be guaranteed, and they have won. Two of the three Supreme Court Justices, Brett …
(2022-07-15). Jessica Mason Pieklo on Abortion Rights, Preston Mitchum on Reproductive Justice. fair.org This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court's reversal on abortion rights is so actually and potentially devastating that it's hard to know where to look. It's worth tracing things back—Katherine Stewart in the Guardian, among others, walks us through how, at a time when most Protestant Republicans, including the Southern Baptist Convention, hailed the liberalization …
(2022-07-15). FSU Students for a Democratic Society condemns Patriot Front organizing in South Florida. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the followings statement from FSU Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | On July 2nd, less than 100 Patriot Front members from across the country convened in Boston for a march through the downtown. Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that engages in street protests, offensive attack training, and utilizes American fascist imagery for propaganda and recruitment purposes. Outfitted with steel police shields and flags depicting the fasces, a symbol used by Mussolini's National Fascist Party, the cowardly group marched with their faces covered in an attempted sh…
(2022-07-15). Tragic Comedy: Film focuses on fight to remove Confederate memorials. splcenter.org
(2022-07-15). Iran expresses anger regarding US-Israel deal over nuclear program. peoplesdispatch.org The US declared that it will use all possible ways, including force, to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons in a joint strategic declaration signed with Israel…
(2022-07-15). Saudi Arabia Opens Skies To 'All Carriers' In Breakthrough Step To Normalize With Israel. southfront.org 
El Al Boeing 787 -9 jet number 4X-EDA at Ben Gurion Airport., 18 September 2017. Photo by Wikimedia user (LLHZ2805). | Saudi Arabia has opened its airspace to all air carriers in a move that its meant to allow for more overflights to and from Israel. | In a statement released on July 14, the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said that the kingdom's airspace was now open to all carriers that meet its requirements for overflights, in line with international conventions that say there should be n…
(2022-07-15). Yale historian Timothy Snyder promotes anti-Russian racism. wsws.org The anti-Russia diatribes of Professor Timothy Snyder are acquiring a pathological character. He is moving ever more closely toward open advocacy of the physical obliteration of Russia and the extermination of its population. One detects in his writings the stench of genocidal racism.
(2022-07-15). Tehran reacts to joint declaration of Biden, Zionist PM. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 15 (MNA) — As long as the fake regime of Israel is the first destination of the trips of American presidents, the nations and countries of the region will not reach peace and stability, the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said.
(2022-07-15). Joe Biden se reunirá con el líder palestino Mahmud Abás. telesurtv.net En la víspera cientos de palestinos se movilizaron en rechazo a la visita de Joe Biden a Israel para fortalecer su alianza y apoyo al estado invasor.
(2022-07-15). The US Is Descending Into a Crisis of Overt Fascism. There's Still a Way Out. zcomm.org The specter haunting the United States consists not only of an impending fascism, but also of the inability of conscience, morality and justice to catch up with reality…
(2022-07-14). Mainland denounces DPP's sinister aim of damaging cross-Strait relations. ecns.cn A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Thursday criticized Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority for its sinister intention of deliberately obstructing exchanges of compatriots across the Taiwan Strait and damaging cross-Strait relations.
(2022-07-15). Guerra, libertad sexual y fascismo en Alemania Lavanda y Rojo. workers.org Además de los ataques legislativos a las mujeres, a las personas no conformes con el género y a las vidas de los LGBTQ+, en junio grupos supremacistas blancos como los Proud Boys han intentado una incursión de estilo militar en Pride in the Park en Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, y han . . . |
(2022-07-15). Palestinians Protest, hang Black Flags of Mourning over Biden's Bethlehem Visit, Accusing him of Sidelining their Political Rights. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that widespread protests broke out on Thursday in the Israeli-Occupied Palestinian West Bank against the planned visit on Friday by US President Joe Biden to Bethlehem, with residents staging demonstrations and raising black flags. They chanted against US one-sidedness in backing Israel's actions, and …
(2022-07-15). In Biden World, Palestinians are not an Occupied Nation-in-Waiting but a mere Charity Case. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) When the Palestinian Authority leader jumped on the US bandwagon spouting status quo rhetoric, he should have remembered President Joe Biden's dedication to Zionism and colonial Israel. Upon arriving in Israel yesterday for a two day visit during which he will also go to the occupied West Bank, Biden …
(2022-07-15). Tehran has no limits on boosting inclusive coop. with Baku. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 15 (MNA) — The Islamic Republic of Iran does not have any restrictions regarding the promotion of comprehensive relations and cooperation with the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said.
(2022-07-15). Climate activists demand more from state lawmakers in wake of Supreme Court EPA ruling. zcomm.org With the federal government's ability to tackle climate change curtailed by the Supreme Court, activists are pressing climate-friendly state lawmakers to step up…
(2022-07-15). S Arabia opens airspace to all carriers in gesture to Israel. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 15 (MNA) — Saud Arabia said it is lifting restrictions on "all carriers" using its airspace, in an apparent gesture of openness toward Zionists following Biden's pledge to aggressively push for the normalization of Riyadh-Tel Aviv ties.
(2022-07-15). The Heat: Biden's Middle East visit. america.cgtn.com It's described as a high stakes visit to the Middle East. From Israel to Saudi Arabia, we'll discuss what the Biden administration hopes to accomplish in the region.
(2022-07-15). In occupied West Bank, Biden says Palestinians need to see 'political horizon'. tribune.com.pk 
US President Joe Biden said during a trip to the occupied West Bank on Friday that Palestinians need to see a path towards statehood, even if hopes for a peace process with Israel remain bleak. | Biden's visit to Bethlehem came ahead of a flight to Saudi Arabia, whose leaders on Friday changed aviation rules in an apparent gesture of openness towards Israel. | The president's visit to the Saudi city of Jeddah will follow talks with Abbas, the latest high-level diplomatic meeting after those with the Israeli leadership on Thursday. | Biden reiterated his administration's commitment to a two-state solution to en…
(2022-07-14). PSL Editorial — Biden's Middle East trip: Apartheid, war and oil. liberationnews.org 
Biden is evidently more concerned about the fading fortunes of U.S. empire than addressing the dire problems faced by working people.
(2022-07-14). PA far right pushes crackdown on abortion, voting rights in a single package. liberationnews.org 
This agenda of ultra right wing religious fundamentalism is embodied by politicians like Doug Mastriano, who won the state Republican Party's gubernatorial primary race in May.
(2022-07-14). As Anti-BDS Bills Become the Norm, ACLU Takes Free Speech Fight to the Supreme Court. towardfreedom.org If certain pro-Israel and pro-fossil fuel advocates get their way, U.S. residents will lose a fundamental right to free speech and protest, reports Jessica Buxbaum.
(2022-07-14). With the Supreme Court's EPA Ruling, Can Trump's Damage to the Environment Ever Be Repaired? independentmediainstitute.org Click here for an image that you may use to accompany the article (the caption, credit and source URL are listed in the description field). Grasping the enormity, the breadth, and the depth of "Trump corruption" is rather astonishing. Most news junkies and politicos alike are quite familiar with the in-your-face looting, skimming, and self-dealing …
(2022-07-14). Abortion access: don't agonize — organize! WW commentary. workers.org 
Women's March "Summer of Rage" kicked off in Washington, D.C., July 9. Thousands of women and people of all genders, nationalities and ages, who gathered in Washington, D.C., on July 9, turned out to protest the outrageous decision handed down by the Supreme Court on June 24, outlawing abortions. By . . . |