Daily Archives: August 13, 2022

2022-08-13: News Headlines

Martha Grevatt (2022-08-13). Michigan primary election — Rep. Rashida Tlaib wins, Zionists lose. workers.org Rashida Tlaib of Detroit made history Jan. 3, 2019, when she became the first Palestinian-American Representative in the U.S. Congress. Rep. Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar were also the first two Muslim women elected to the House. Using her position to denounce Israeli apartheid, Rep. Tlaib has drawn the ire . . . |

WSWS (2022-08-13). Search warrant in FBI raid on Trump compound cites Espionage Act. wsws.org While Trump and his allies have continued to incite fascistic violence in the days following Monday's FBI raid, President Joe Biden has remained silent.

Anonymous Contributor (2022-08-13). "A Unique Form of Hell": How Community Stepped into Action in the Wake of Unite the Right in Charlottesville. itsgoingdown.org Five years after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a survivor of the car attack looks back on the importance of community support and solidarity. On August 12, 2017 a Nazi mowed us down and murdered Heather Heyer. The past five years have been a unique form of hell. What stands out for me…

Allan Fisher (2022-08-13). Saturday 8/13: All Out for Palestine. indybay.org Santa Cruz: Ocean at Water Streets corner…

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-08-13). Armada israelí reprime en altamar a pescadores de Gaza. telesurtv.net Sucede mientras las fuerzas israelíes continúan incrementando los asentamientos ilegales en la Palestina ocupada.

Isaac Nellist (2022-08-13). Stand with Palestine, protesters say. greenleft.org.au Chants of "Free Free Palestine" and "From the River to the Sea" were heard around Sydney Town Hall on August 13, where more than 100 protesters stood in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Isaac Nellist reports.

WSWS (2022-08-13). Italy faces the threat of a far-right government. wsws.org Seven weeks before the election, Giorgia Meloni, the 45-year-old chairwoman of the neo-fascist Fratelli d'Italia, is regarded as the most likely candidate to head the next Italian government.

Staff (2022-08-12). EU admits it applies double standards to Ukraine, Palestine. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 12 (MNA) — The EU's foreign-policy chief Josep Borrel has admitted that double standards permeate international relations, after being asked in an interview why Brussels was far more willing to support the people of Ukraine than Gaza.

Anonymous669 (2022-08-12). Two Civilians Wounded In Israeli Attack On Syria's Al-Quneitra. southfront.org A Merkava IV tank. FILE PHOTO: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems | On August 12, two Syrian civilians were wounded when a battle tank of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) fired two rounds at the outskirts of the town of al-Hmidaiah in the countryside of Syria's al-Quneitra. | The target of the attack was reportedly an observation post of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) that is known to be frequented by members of Lebanon's Hezbollah. | Al-Hmidaiah is located within the UN-monitored 235 square kilometer buffer zone…

IMEMC News (2022-08-12). 41 Days After Her Death, Palestinians Hold Funeral For Woman Who Died In Israeli Prison. imemc.org On Thursday, hundreds of Palestinians marched in the funeral procession and ceremony of a Palestinian woman who died in Israeli prisons 41 days earlier due to medical neglect and mistreatment by the Israeli occupation authorities. Israel initially refused to release her corpse. The woman, Sa'diyya Farajallah, 68, from Ethna town west of the southern West …

IMEMC News (2022-08-12). Israeli Navy Attacks Palestinian Fishing Boats In Southern Gaza. imemc.org On Thursday night, Israeli navy ships attacked Palestinian fishing boats near the Rafah shore in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said the navy ships fired dozens of live rounds, gas bombs, and flares at the fishing boats, forcing them to leave without being able to fish to provide for their families …

IMEMC News (2022-08-12). Young Palestinian Man Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In Gaza. imemc.org On Friday, Palestinian medical sources have confirmed that a young man died from serious wounds he suffered during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. The Nasser Medical Center in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, said the young man, Anas Khaled Anshasi, 22, died in the Intensive Care Unit from …

Staff (2022-08-12). UN Urges Israel Be Held Accountable for Killing Palestinian Children. orinocotribune.com UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, alarmed by the mass murder of Palestinian children by Israel in the latest escalation, urges accountability. | In a

Fight Back (2022-08-12). Chicago's movement to free wrongfully incarcerated gains traction as Foxx moves to exonerate 8. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of Police Torture (CFIST) of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | The Campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of Police Torture (CFIST) of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression hails the announcement by the Cook County State's Attorney Office in the cases of David Colon, Johnny Flores, Nelson Gonzalez, Marilyn Mulero and Jaime Rios —previously released — and Carlos Andino, Alfredo Gonzalez and Louis Robinson, still imprisoned. All are surviv…

Jennesa Calvo-Friedman (2022-08-12). To Fight a Stacked Federal Bench, the ACLU Goes to the States. aclu.org "Turn to the states." That has been the battle cry among many who seek to preserve the right to abortion since the Supreme Court's

Rainer Shea (2022-08-12). The Crypto-Fascist Group That's Infiltrating the Online Communist Community. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea Aug 7, 2022 | Marxist Anti Imperialist Collective, a crypto-Strasserite group, has MAC runs several "communist" subreddits that are easy to mistake for being trustworthy, namely European Socialists, Americas Socialists, and Africas Socialis…

Belén Fernández (2022-08-12). Israel Continues to Routinize 'Systematic Slaughter'. commondreams.org Israel is engaging in straight-up terrorism—at least according to, you know, the Cambridge Dictionary definition.

Jeffrey C. Isaac (2022-08-12). MAGA 'Patriots' Are Answering the Call to the Right's Hatred of Liberal Democracy. commondreams.org How many more will heed this call in the days and weeks to come, as far-right Congressional leaders, activists, and media influencers intensify their rhetoric of "patriotic" resistance to "tyranny?"

Kit Klarenberg (2022-08-11). New Research Finds CIA Used Black Americans as Drugs Experiment Guinea Pigs. mintpressnews.com By now, many will be familiar with Project Perhaps the program's most notorious aspect was the administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs to targets, particularly LSD. These substances were brought to Langley's attention in 1948 by Richard Kuhn, one of 1,600 Nazi scientists covertly spirited to the U.S. via Operation Paperclip following W…

Grant Miner (2022-08-11). NYC rally condemns latest Israeli assault on Gaza, local ties to Zionist forces. liberationnews.org "Resistance is not terrorism," declared Nerdeen Kiswani, an organizer with Within Our Lifetime. "Palestinians have every single right to defend themselves by any means necessary!"

Staff (2022-08-11). Midterm Elections: How These Offices Impact Your Rights. aclu.org Following a radical Supreme Court term that has had a

_____ (2022-08-11). There Is No Arab Unity Without Palestine. popularresistance.org It seemed all but a done deal: Israel is finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine is becoming a marginal issue that no longer defines Israel's relations with Arab countries. Indeed, normalization with Israel is afoot, and the Arabs, so it seems, have been finally tamed. | Not so fast. Many events continue to demonstrate the opposite. Take, for example, the Arab League two-day meeting in Cairo on July 31 — August 1. The meeting was largely dominated by discussions on Palestine and concluded with statements that called on Arab countries to reactivate the Arab boycott of Israel until the l…

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