Daily Archives: December 6, 2022

2022-12-06: News Headlines

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2022-12-06). Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Regime Bans Russian Orthodox Church. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous Contributor (2022-12-06). Counter-Protesters Defend Ft. Lauderdale from Anti-Trans Hate Rally and Proud Boys. itsgoingdown.org Report back from antifascist counter-mobilization against a gender fascist rally in so-called Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Originally published to Iron Snowflake. On the 3rd of December, the Proud Boys, so-called "Gays against Groomers," "Moms4Liberty," and other far-Rights groups rallied on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale, FL to support DeSantis's attacks on transgender people. Counter-protesters outnumbered the fascists,…

WSWS (2022-12-06). Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Part 4. wsws.org The perhaps most disturbing component of the relativization of the crimes of fascism in Bloodlands is Snyder's systematic distortions of the Nazi-led genocide of 6 million European Jews and his attempt to whitewash the crimes of Ukrainian fascists and collaborators.

WSWS (2022-12-06). DeSantis-backed school boards begin firing superintendents and enacting reactionary measures across Florida. wsws.org Following the election of 25 out of 30 school board candidates endorsed by fascistic Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, school boards across Florida begin firing superintendents who previously enforced school mask mandates in 2021.

Julia Conley (2022-12-06). Right-wing SCOTUS majority signals support for anti-LGBTQ+ reactionariesÔøº. nationofchange.org "It does not bode well for the future of civil rights law that Gorsuch believes a state imposes 'reeducation training' on employers when it reminds them how to comply with nondiscrimination rules," said one court observer.

Ghada Al-Haddad (2022-12-06). Israel's Blockade Leaves Gaza's Firefighters Badly Equipped. towardfreedom.org Gaza has between 450 and 500 emergency responders, including firefighters. First responders are supposed to be protected under the Geneva Conventions. However, many have been killed during Israel's aggressions against Gaza since 2008, reports Ghada Al-Haddad for Electronic Intifada.

Staff (2022-12-06). Adal and Ahmad Musa relaunch hunger strike after their administrative detention is renewed. samidoun.net Adal and Ahmad Musa, two Palestinian prisoners and brothers jailed without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation regime, have relaunched their hunger strike on 5 December 2022 after both of their detention orders were renewed, despite both brothers concluding agreements for their release in order to end their prior hunger strikes. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner …

Staff (2022-12-06). Detained French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri faces forced deportation at any time #JusticeforSalah. samidoun.net Detained French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri is threatened with deportation from his homeland, occupied Palestine, at any moment by Israeli occupation regime officials. While his deportation was originally announced for 4 December, he was then ordered held for further hearings on 6 December 2022. However, rather than legally delaying his deportation, he was ordered transferred from …

Julia Conley (2022-12-06). Al Jazeera Sues Israeli Forces at the International Criminal Court. truthout.org Following an investigation that Al Jazeera said uncovered new evidence regarding the fatal shooting of Palestinian-America journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May, the international news network said Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against Israeli military forces at the International Criminal Court. "Al Jazeera's legal team has conducted a full and detailed investigation into the case and… |

Lee Siu Hin, National Immigrant Solidarity N (2022-12-06). Winter 2022 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant Justice News Alert! indybay.org Racist Hate and Migrantphobia Continues Under Biden…

Barry Sheppard (2022-12-06). United States: Open carry laws spur gun violence. greenleft.org.au The United States Supreme Court struck down a state law in June that restricted the carrying of guns in public, reports Barry Sheppard. Since then, 38 states have legislated some form of "open carry" laws, and others are preparing to do the same.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-12-06). Golden Harvest Ceremony – Growing food in Historic Negro Bar, Lake Natoma, California. indybay.org 1848 Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar Gold Mining District on Ancient Indigenous Lands in California. "It's important to keep the focus squarely on the culprit that brought us to this point today. And that's the US government. Its subtle and overt expansion of White supremacy is to blame here. These are two incredibly aggrieved, hyper-marginalized groups,"

People for the American Way (2022-12-06). Sunday 12/4: "Voting Rights: The Struggle To Be Counted" – History Film on Black Voter Suppression. indybay.org Online event…

Staff (2022-12-06). Al Jazeera demanda a Israel por el asesinato de periodista palestina. telesurtv.net Abu Akleh, corresponsal de televisión de Al Jazeera durante 25 años, fue asesinada por las fuerzas israelíes el 11 de mayo.

Rqorinoco (2022-12-05). Arnold August: Dems Seek Political Gain by Pretending Opposition To Right-wing Fascism (Interview). orinocotribune.com A Canadian expert on American internal affairs, Arnold August, says the Democrats' opposition to the "right-wing fascism" is not genuine. | "The interest of the Democrats and its media, such as CNN, is not to oppose right-wing fascism but rather to build a straw man for political gain in order to cover their own traces," August, a member of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), tells the Tehran Times. | August also says people in Europe and the United States know that "the US/NATO war against Russia" is cause of the recent inflation, unprecedented in decades. | Following is the text of the interview: | Q: Inflation…

Rqorinoco (2022-12-05). Arnold August: Dems Seek Political Gain by Pretending Opposition To Right-wing Fascism. orinocotribune.com By Mohammad Hassan Nikbin — Nov 22, 2022 | A Canadian expert on American internal affairs, Arnold August, says the Democrats' opposition to the "right-wing fascism" is not genuine. | "The interest of the Democrats and its media, such as CNN, is not to oppose right-wing fascism but rather to build a straw man for political gain in order to cover their own traces," August, a member of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), tells the Tehran Times. | August also says people in Europe and the United States know that "the US/NATO war against Russia" is the cause of unprecedented inflation in recent decades. | Follow…

____ (2022-12-05). (Italiano) Verso un Nuovo Ordine InternazionaleUna Prospettiva Nonviolenta. transcend.org Come l'industria delle armi sta portando l'umanità all'autodistruzione.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-12-05). Nigerian President: Ukraine Weapons 'Filtering' to Lake Chad Region. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic Despite months of allegations that Western weapons being supplied to the Kiev regime are ending up in black markets around the world, the Neo-Nazi junta keeps insisting that this is not the case and that it's all just "Russian propaganda" aiming to cause a rift between Kiev and the political West. However, the…

Olga Zinoviev (2022-12-05). Intervista a Olga Zinoviev: "L'intero Occidente in guerra contro la Russia" globalresearch.ca In questa puntata di Grandangolo Dentro la Notizia riportiamo l'intervista integrale (di cui abbiamo anticipato un estratto in Grandangolo 72), effettuata a Mosca da Jean Toschi Marazzani Visconti, a Olga Zinoviev, responsabile del Centro internazionale di ricerca e …

_____ (2022-12-05). Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a "Good Guy"? New Film Says Yes. strategic-culture.org Controversial New Documentary Reveals How A Teenage Army Physicistnewsauthor">D Ted Hall Saved The Russian People From A Treacherous U.S. Sneak Attack In 19 -51—And May Well Have Prevented A Global Nuclear Holocaust | By Ron RIDENOUR | The provocative documentary "A Compassionate Spy" tells the amazing but almost unknown story of a "near-genius" Harvard physics major, who at age 17, was selected to help develop an atom bomb before the Nazis did. | At 18, after graduating from Harvard, Ted was the youngest physicist to work on the atomic bombs at Los Alamos, New Mexico. He worked with uranium and the implosion syst…

_____ (2022-12-05). Israel's Nuclear Menacing Of The Middle East. popularresistance.org As Western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many Western governments continue to turn a blind eye to Israel's own nuclear weapons capabilities. Luckily, many countries around the world do not subscribe to this endemic Western hypocrisy. | "The Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction" was held between Nov. 14-18, with the sole purpose of creating new standards of accountability that, as should have always been the case, be applied equally to all Middle Eastern countrie…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-12-05). White Americans Eligible To Get Race-Neutral 'Reparations' in Rhode Island: Black America Speaks Out. moguldom.com Providence, Rhode Island, recently announced a "reparations" program to help atone for its history of racism and discrimination, but critics are blasting it for being race-neutral. According to a report by The Washington Post, Mayor Jorge Elorza signed a $10 million budget for the Providence Municipal Reparations program. "The radical thing that we did was we put …

_____ (2022-12-05). Abahlali baseMjondolo's Fight For Dignity And Land, 17 Years On. popularresistance.org 17 years ago, the residents of 12 informal settlements in the city of Durban came together and formed Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), or 'shack dwellers' in Zulu. The movement emerged at a time of widespread mobilizations against the ruling African National Congress' failure to fulfill its promises to provide services and housing for the poor in post-apartheid South Africa. | "What do we want?" AbM's founding member and president, then 30 year-old S'bu Zikode had asked in 2005, "The basics. Water, electricity, sanitation, land, and housing." | Over the following years, AbM grew into a militant collective with more t…

_____ (2022-12-05). Haitians Protest Against Racist Deportations From Dominican Republic. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, November 29, hundreds of Haitians protested in Port-au-Prince against the mass deportations of Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent from the Dominican Republic. The protest was called by the Haiti chapter of the Assembly of Caribbean People (ACP). | The protesters gathered in front of the embassy of the Dominican Republic in Port-au-Prince and demanded that Dominican authorities end the indiscriminate deportations and the inhumane treatment of Haitians on the other side of the border. They condemned the harassment meted out to their compatriots by the Dominican immigration authorities an…

WSWS (2022-12-05). We Are Not Ghouls and The Corridors of Power: Two films probe or fail to probe US responsibility for genocide and torture. wsws.org We Are Not Ghouls is a valuable documenting of the violation of basic democratic rights that US authorities inflicted on its detainees during the "war on terror."

Amy Goodman (2022-12-05). Students Sue Yale for Pressuring Those With Mental Health Needs to Withdraw. truthout.org A group of current and former Yale students is suing the Ivy League university over what they say is "systemic discrimination" against students struggling with mental health issues. In a lawsuit filed last week, they say school administrators routinely pressure students to withdraw from Yale rather than accommodating their mental health needs, a practice that disproportionately hurts students of… |

Chris Walker (2022-12-05). Supreme Court Poised to Side With Anti-LGBTQ Web Designer in Discrimination Case. truthout.org On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by an evangelical Christian web designer who alleges that a Colorado law barring discrimination based on sexual orientation is in violation of her religious freedoms. Lorie Smith, a web designer from the Denver area who runs a company called 303 Creative, preemptively sued Colorado over the law, claiming that she feared… |

Editor (2022-12-05). Palestinian executed at point-blank range by Israeli border police. mronline.org The harrowing video capturing the Israeli border police officer shooting a Palestinian in Huwwara has circulated widely on social media and sparked outrage among Palestinians.

Jessica Buxbaum (2022-12-05). US Plans to Build Jerusalem Embassy on Palestinian Land. mintpressnews.com "Should the US proceed with this plan, it would not only be complicit with Israel's illegal confiscation of Palestinian-owned land, but it would also become an active participant in the seizure of the land of U.S. citizens." — Adalah…

TeleSUR (2022-12-05). Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Youth in West Bank. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Israeli occupation forces raided the Dheisha refugee camp, south of the city of Bethlehem, where they killed a 22-year-old and wounded six other Palestinians. | RELATED: | Omar Manna Fararja died as a result of being shot in his chest, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported, adding that the wounded people were taken to the nearest hospital facility for urgent medical attention. | As a result of the raid,…

Angela (2022-12-05). Sunday 12/11: Q&A Discussion of "Come and See; Go and Tell – Next Year in Palestine" indybay.org

____ (2022-12-05). Palestine to attend meeting of Assembly of States Parties of ICC: official. ecns.cn Palestine is to attend a meeting of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC) scheduled for Monday in The Hague, a senior Palestinian official announced on Sunday.

Staff (2022-12-05). 6 December, Ottawa: Film Screening, "Resistance: Why?" samidoun.net Tuesday, December 6 7 p.m. EST DARC, formerly known as the SAW Gallery 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa OTTAWA: Come join Samidoun Ottawa and the Palestinian Youth Movement Ottawa as we screen the documentary film "Resistance, Why?" (1970) directed by Christian Ghazi. "Resistance, Why" is one of the most recent restorations of Beirut-based non-profit @nadi_lekolnas, who found …

Iram F. Ali (2022-12-05). What the 2022 Midterms Taught Us About Immigration Reform. aclu.org Immigration has long been used as a wedge issue during election years, and this year was no different. Many candidates peddled falsehoods and racist tropes about an "invasion" to instill fear and win support for their campaigns. America's Voice, an immigration advocacy organization, identified over

Liberation Staff (2022-12-05). Order now! "The Supreme Court versus Democracy" liberationnews.org The newest pamphlet from the Party for Socialism and Liberation exposes the attempts of the right wing of the capitalist ruling class to alter the form of the political system in the United States to destroy core democratic rights.

The Associated Press (2022-12-05). Both Sides See High Stakes in Gay Rights Supreme Court Case. latinorebels.com The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples.

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-12-05). Grupo de Puebla se solidariza con lucha palestina por libertad. telesurtv.net Mencionó que lo que enfrenta el pueblo palestino no es solo una ocupación militar, sino un régimen colonial de apartheid.

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-12-05). Fuerzas israelíes asesinan a joven palestino en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net El joven palestino de 22 años de edad, Omar Manna Fararja, fue disparado en su pecho con munición real.

TeleSUR (2022-12-05). Women's Boxing Approved in Cuba. telesurenglish.net The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) announced on Monday the inclusion of women in the practice of boxing on the island, with a view to freeing them from discrimination or exclusion in this field. | RELATED: | From the auditorium of the Havana Sports City Coliseum, INDER vice-president Ariel Sainz Rodríguez and the Cuban Boxing Federation president, Alberto Puig de la Barca, held a…

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-12-05). Israel lanza nuevo bombardeo contra la Franja de Gaza. telesurtv.net Se reportan fuertes explosiones. Según Tel Aviv, fueron atacados un taller para fabricar cohetes y un túnel que son utilizados por la organización palestina Hamás.

Paul Messersmith-Glavin (2022-12-04). The Expansive Horizons of Antifascism: Interview With Editor Shane Burley. truthout.org The following interview was originally published by The Institute for Anarchist Studies. Paul Messersmith-Glavin: Talk about what was going on in the world four or five years ago and what motivated you to put this collection together. Shane Burley: I think I first came up with the idea in 2018 when I was at a bar with Kim Kelly and Spencer Sunshine. It seemed like the time to start something like… |

Staff (2022-12-04). GOP Silence on Trump's Call to Axe Constitution Reveals 'Full Embrace of Fascism': House Dem. commondreams.org "Last week the leader of the Republican Party had dinner with a Nazi leader and a man who called Adolf Hitler 'great,'" said Rep. Bill Pascrell. "Yesterday Trump called for throwing out the Constitution and making himself dictator."

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-04). Sleeping With The Third Reich: America's Unspoken "Alliance" with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. globalresearch.ca Without US support to Nazi Germany, the Third Reich would not have been able to wage war on the Soviet Union. Germany's oil production was insufficient to wage a major military campaign. Throughout the war, the Third Reich relied on regular shipments of crude oil from US Standard Oil owned by the Rockefeller family.

Ramzy Baroud (2022-12-04). "Deliberate Ambiguity": Israel's Nuclear Weapons Are Greatest Threat to Middle East. dissidentvoice.org As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to Israel's own nuclear weapons capabilities. Luckily, many countries around the world do not subscribe to this endemic western hypocrisy. 'The Conference on the Establishment of a …

Abdel Bari Atwan (2022-12-04). Israel's war on the Palestinian narrative. thealtworld.com Brandishing the sword of anti-Semitismto suppress the truth won't work forever | Israel's lobbyists in the West are in a frenzy these days. They are desperate to discredit and denounce any political act or artistic work that exposes the ugly criminal face of Israeli occupation, especially in the Western world and its festivals, forums, universities, and media. This is an assault on freedom of expression which used to be a mainstay of Western democracy but is regrettably no longer the case. | A ferocious campaign is currently being waged against the film Farha by Jordanian director Darin Sallam, which tells the st…

Anonymous669 (2022-12-04). Palestinian Fighters Fire At Israeli Warplanes As Strikes Hit Gaza Following Rocket Attack (Videos). southfront.org Early on December 4, a series of Israeli strikes hit the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket attack that targeted settlements near the Palestinian enclave. | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that a rocket was fired from Gaza at southern Israel late on December 3. The rocket landed in an open field, causing no injuries or damage. Still, an alert was activated near the Gaza border settlements of Nahal Oz and Kfar Aza. | In a statement, the IDF said that the retaliatory strikes targeted a weapons workshop a…

Staff (2022-12-04). International lawyers' organization adopts resolutions to free Salah Hamouri and the Holy Land Five, condemn German anti-Palestinian repression. samidoun.net The International Association of Democratic Lawyers, an international alliance of lawyers and legal organizations accredited to ECOSOC and UNESCO, convened its Council meeting virtually on 3-4 December 2022, considering a number of important issues. The IADL, which brings together progressive lawyers and legal organizations from all continents, addressed a wide variety of global topics during …

TeleSUR, YSM (2022-12-04). ONU condena asesinato de joven palestino en Huwwara, Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Ammar Mifleh murió luego de que un militar israelí le disparase a quemarropa. Otros uniformados impidieron que fuese socorrido y murió desangrado.

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