2023-05-12: News Headlines

Richard Becker (2023-05-12). Israel at 75: Fascist, apartheid and genocidal watchdog for US imperialism. liberationnews.org All people who believe in justice need to join in solidarity with the heroic and long-suffering Palestinian people.

infobrics (2023-05-12). China Promises Bilateral Cooperation With South Africa. infobrics.org China and South Africa have a longstanding relationship that dates back to the era of the anti-apartheid struggle. This relationship is characterized by strong solidarity between the two countries as they work to promote their shared interests and values…

Mnar Adley (2023-05-12). Africa Rising: Nkosi Mandela on South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid. mintpressnews.com Nelson Mandela's grandson and member of the African National Congress, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, joins Mnar Adley in this exclusive interview to deconstruct Africa's rise against colonialism, and its fight against Israeli apartheid.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-11). "Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages" peoplesdispatch.org The International People's Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians' continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel…

WSWS (2023-05-12). May 8 and the rehabilitation of Nazism in Germany. wsws.org At least 13 million Soviet soldiers and 14 million civilians lost their lives in the war. But at the Berlin commemorative events this year, the displaying of the Soviet flag was forbidden.

WSWS (2023-05-12). Ninety years since the Nazi book burnings. wsws.org The anniversary of the book burnings must be a warning to workers and youth worldwide. Today the same contradictions are developing that led to barbarism in the 20th century. The danger of fascism and world war is back.


ecns.cn (2023-05-12). Around 2,000 Nazi badges seized at Guangzhou airport. ecns.cn A total of 1,881 Nazi badges in a courier were intercepted by Guangzhou Customs before they were shipped overseas through the airport of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, recently.

_____ (2023-05-12). Nazi Germany's Defeat… But a Pause for Fascism as NATO's Proxy War in Ukraine Demonstrates. strategic-culture.org Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 has proven to be only a pause in a longer historical struggle against fascism. We are seeing that struggle playing out in Ukraine, and with Washington's madcap psychopathic aggression toward Russia. | This week marked the 78th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945. While the evil Third Reich was vanquished, a deeper monster had not been slain. Nazi Germany was only one version of Western imperialist fascism, a force that reemerged postwar in full strength in the form of the United States of America and its various Western clients. | It is not hyperbole to describe Wa…

infobrics (2023-05-11). Russia concludes investigations on Donbass genocide. infobrics.org According to data released by the Moscow's investigative committee, 5,000 ethnic Russian civilians died in Donbass region since 2014.

Chris Walker (2023-05-11). Eric Trump Threatens Lawsuit Over Truthful Reporting on Speaking Tour. truthout.org Eric Trump, son of former President Donald Trump, has threatened to sue MSNBC host Rachel Maddow over her accurate reporting that he will be taking part in a speaking tour alongside white supremacists this weekend. Eric Trump — who, alongside his older brother Donald Trump Jr., helped manage his father's companies while he was in office — is set to participate in the far right ReAwaken America… |

Chris Walker (2023-05-11). Even Some at CNN Viewed the Trump Town Hall as a Problematic "Spectacle of Lies" truthout.org Following CNN's town hall featuring former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, some CNN reporters have denounced the network's decision to grant the 2024 GOP presidential contender an hour of airtime to rant about his far right views with little opportunity for pushback. Although a corporate statement from CNN praised host Kaitlan Collins for asking "tough, fair and revealing questions" and… |

WSWS (2023-05-12). At CNN Town Hall, Trump defends January 6 coup, repeats election lies. wsws.org The ex-president rehashed false claims of a "rigged election" while pledging to pardon the fascist thugs who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.




Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-11). The Arrest of Imran Khan: The Naked Face of Fascism in Pakistan. libya360.wordpress.com Aasma Wadud Imran Khan's popularity skyrocketed after the regime change, and now he is considered Pakistan's most loved, embraced, and acknowledged leader After the forced regime change has been rough for Imran Khan, PTI's leaders, voters, supporters, journalists, social media activists, and the general public, the PDM government came to power with a fascist mindset…

teleSUR, nama, JDO (2023-05-12). ONU condena muertes de civiles en Gaza por ataques de Israel. telesurtv.net Las víctimas mortales por los bombardeos de Tel Aviv contra la Franja de Gaza aumentaron a 31, entre ellos seis niños y tres mujeres. También se reporta un civil fallecido en Israel.

Canadians for Justice, Peace in the Middle East (2023-05-12). One Year After the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, Canada Must Hold Israeli Officials Accountable. globalresearch.ca

Palestine Action. (2023-05-12). Palestine Action On Day Ten Of 'The Siege'. popularresistance.org Yesterday the Israeli occupation bombarded densely populated areas of Gaza, murdering 13 Palestinians including 4 children. Not willing to tolerate British complicity in these sort of abuses, two actionists retaliated, this morning, against the British roots of Israeli aerial domination over Palestinians. | Palestine Action drove a car through the inner perimiter of Leicester's Israeli drone factory, UAV Tactical Systems (U-TacS), blockading the only entrance for the site. Two activists are using a lock on device to maintain the block in place, which immediately stopped a delivery from entering the premises. The…

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-05-12). Asciende a 29 cifra de muertos en la Franja de Gaza por bombardeos de Israel. telesurtv.net En el último ataque aéreo con drones contra la ciudad de Gaza, murió un palestino en la aldea de Ezbet Abd Rabo.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-12). Israeli assault on Gaza enters fourth day with 31 Palestinians killed in bombing. peoplesdispatch.org Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Israel's indiscriminate airstrikes have primarily st…




Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-12). US 'seizes' over a dozen web domains related to Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah. peoplesdispatch.org In 2021, the US had similarly seized domains related to Press TV, Al-Masirah, and Palestine Today—all of them critical of the policies of the US and its allies, especially Israel…

Richard Becker (2023-05-12). Israeli bombing of Gaza the latest in 75 years of massacres. liberationnews.org In four straight days of shelling of civilian areas in Gaza, Israeli planes have killed more than 33 Palestinians and injured more than 110, including several children.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-12). Death Toll From Israeli Attack On Gaza Reaches 31 (Videos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Israeli Air Force. | On May 11, the death toll from the Israeli operation against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the Gaza Strip reached 31. | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched the operation, codenamed Shield and Arrow, early on May 9 in response to a series of rocket attacks that targeted settlements around Gaza a week earlier. At least 215 positions of the PIJ have been struck since the start of the operation, according to…

Anonymous669 (2023-05-12). Islamic Jihad Fire Rockets At Jerusalem, Israel Respond With More Strikes On Gaza (Videos). southfront.org Illustrative image. Source: the PIJ military media. | The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that targeted Jerusalem city on May 12 afternoon. | The Gaza-based armed factions said that it had launched two main barrages, aimed at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and other cities in central Israel. | Israeli military sources said that two rockets fired from Gaza toward Jerusalem were intercepted, one by the Iron Dome and the second by David's Sling. Howeve…

Vanessa Beeley (2023-05-12). "Peace in the Middle East is sending Western Globalists and Israel into a tailspin." thealtworld.com Quantum Nurse www.quantumnurse.life presents: | Freedom International Livestream | On May 9, 2023 Thursday @ 12: 00 PM EST 5: 00 PM UK 6: 00 PM Germany | Guest: Vanessa Beeley | Topic: "Peace in the Middle East is sending Western Globalists and Israel into a tailspin."

Robert Inlakesh (2023-05-11). Israel Launches A New War On Gaza, Kills Overwhelmingly Civilians, But Why Now? thelastamericanvagabond.com At around 2: 00 AM, Tuesday Morning, unprovoked Israeli airstrikes rained down on residential buildings throughout the besieged Gaza Strip. Israel had decided to launch an assassination campaign against leaders in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, murdering three of them along with their families whilst they slept in their beds at night. Despite the majority

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-12). US 'seizes' over a dozen web domains related to Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah. peoplesdispatch.org In 2021, the US had similarly seized domains related to Press TV, Al-Masirah, and Palestine Today—all of them critical of the policies of the US and its allies, especially Israel…

Richard Becker (2023-05-12). Israeli bombing of Gaza the latest in 75 years of massacres. liberationnews.org In four straight days of shelling of civilian areas in Gaza, Israeli planes have killed more than 33 Palestinians and injured more than 110, including several children.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-12). Death Toll From Israeli Attack On Gaza Reaches 31 (Videos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Israeli Air Force. | On May 11, the death toll from the Israeli operation against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the Gaza Strip reached 31. | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched the operation, codenamed Shield and Arrow, early on May 9 in response to a series of rocket attacks that targeted settlements around Gaza a week earlier. At least 215 positions of the PIJ have been struck since the start of the operation, according to…

Anonymous669 (2023-05-12). Islamic Jihad Fire Rockets At Jerusalem, Israel Respond With More Strikes On Gaza (Videos). southfront.org Illustrative image. Source: the PIJ military media. | The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that targeted Jerusalem city on May 12 afternoon. | The Gaza-based armed factions said that it had launched two main barrages, aimed at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and other cities in central Israel. | Israeli military sources said that two rockets fired from Gaza toward Jerusalem were intercepted, one by the Iron Dome and the second by David's Sling. Howeve…

Vanessa Beeley (2023-05-12). "Peace in the Middle East is sending Western Globalists and Israel into a tailspin." thealtworld.com Quantum Nurse www.quantumnurse.life presents: | Freedom International Livestream | On May 9, 2023 Thursday @ 12: 00 PM EST 5: 00 PM UK 6: 00 PM Germany | Guest: Vanessa Beeley | Topic: "Peace in the Middle East is sending Western Globalists and Israel into a tailspin."

Robert Inlakesh (2023-05-11). Israel Launches A New War On Gaza, Kills Overwhelmingly Civilians, But Why Now? thelastamericanvagabond.com At around 2: 00 AM, Tuesday Morning, unprovoked Israeli airstrikes rained down on residential buildings throughout the besieged Gaza Strip. Israel had decided to launch an assassination campaign against leaders in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, murdering three of them along with their families whilst they slept in their beds at night. Despite the majority

teleSUR (2023-05-11). 29 Palestinians Killed In Israeli Airstrikes. telesurenglish.net The state news agency WAFA reported the death of another Palestinian in an Israeli airstrike on the village of Ezbet Abd Rabo in the northern Gaza Strip. | RELATED: | The latest victim of Israeli aggression was killed in a drone strike on a group of Palestinians in Ezbet Abd Rabo, according to WAFA's correspondent. | The death toll now stands at 29, including at least seven children, three women and two elderly people, the…

teleSUR (2023-05-11). Palestinian Death Toll From Israeli Airstrikes Reaches 25. telesurenglish.net In the early hours of Thursday, Israel continued to indiscriminately shell the Gaza Strip, killing three citizens and wounding 15 people. From Tuesday until today, the Israeli occupation forces have left 25 Palestinians dead. | RELATED: | According to data from the Palestinian authorities, the Israeli bombardments have killed 15 civilians, including six children. The number of wounded in Gaza now amounts to 79 people. | Am…

Jessica Buxbaum (2023-05-11). Israel's Latest Hasbara Scheme Enlists High School Students as Trolls Against Palestine. mintpressnews.com The Israeli government is training high school students as part of its propaganda efforts to combat criticism of its policies and delegitimize the BDS movement.

_____ (2023-05-11). Palestine Is Boiling and Will Not Cool Down. strategic-culture.org The Israeli aggression against Palestinians has reached the point where they are not permitted to hear the call to prayer, Steven Sahiounie writes. | Khader Adnan, 45, of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, died while on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison. | He started the hunger strike on February 5, when he was arrested and sentenced in an Israeli military court and placed into "administrative detention", which means detention without charges in abhorrent prison conditions. | It was the Israeli common practice of administrative detention that prompted the hunger strike. | Held without charges or trial, this mark…

Ahmed Al-Sammak (2023-05-11). Israel kills woman weeks before wedding. electronicintifada.net Dania Adas and Muhammad Saad had planned their celebrations and their future.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-11). Israel Assassinates Another Islamic Jihad Commander In Gaza (Videos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Israeli Air Force. | On May 11 afternoon, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) assassinated another senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the Gaza Strip. | The commander was identified as Ahmad Abu Daqqa. He was reportedly the second-in-command in the PIJ's rocket force. Ali Ghali, the commander of the force, was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza in the morning. | The IDF said that the assassination of Abu Daqqa was carrie…

Farid Abdel-Nour (2023-05-11). 1 Year Ago Israel Killed Shireen Abu Akleh. We Won't Forget Her, or the Nakba. truthout.org Two weeks before an Israeli sniper killed Shireen Abu Akleh, Reporters Without Borders marked the fourth anniversary of the killing of Palestinian journalists Ahmed Abu Hussein and Yasser Murtaja by Israeli forces. The organization also reported that from March 30, 2018, to April 25, 2022, "at least 144 Palestinian journalists [had] been at the receiving end" of Israeli military or police violence. |

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-05-11). Episode with Sina from East is a Podcast. podcasters.spotify.com In this episode me and Sina speak about a range of topics beginning with Sina's feelings waking up every morning to check his phone and see "what unspeakable crimes the Empire has committed today", along with growing up as he called himself, "a citizen subject" of the US Empire, as many immigrants or simply non-white people have to deal with. | We also touch on some of the shifting energies between the multiple growing and declining hegemons, the ignorance of the West as regards China, Iran, Taiwan, Palestine, Israel, Syria and other nations, the NATO war on Russia, and many other things! | For more from Sina, ch…

Omar Karmi (2023-05-11). Stuck in Israel's stranglehold. electronicintifada.net Squeezed on all sides, Palestinians increasingly look for change at the top.

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-11). Sanders Hosts Event Commemorating Israel's Nakba After McCarthy Kicked It Out. truthout.org On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) swooped in to save an event at the Capitol commemorating the 75th anniversary of what Palestinians know as the Nakba, or catastrophe — the time period during which Zionist militants expelled three quarters of Palestinians from their homes to establish the state of Israel — after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) attempted to cancel the event. |

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-05-11). Podcast Ep 77: Zionism's inevitable demise. electronicintifada.net Ghada Karmi's new book explains the inevitability of the one-state solution and a post-colonial future in Palestine.

Meg Kinnard (2023-05-12). GOP Sen. Tuberville says white supremacists in military aren't racist, they're "Americans" peoplesworld.org COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)—Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is facing backlash for remarks he made about white supremacists in the armed forces in an interview about his blocking of military nominees. He said that while Democrats may consider such people to be racists, "I call them Americans." Tuberville said Thursday that his comments had been misinterpreted. His office …

Claudine Constant (2023-05-12). Here's How Connecticut Could Implement a Historic New Voting Law. aclu.org Known as the "land of steady habits," Connecticut represents a microcosm of the racist legacy of voter suppression nationwide — but that might change soon. | While some people think of Connecticut as progressive, in truth, we're behind on protecting the right to vote: Connecticut is one of only four states that does not have in-person early voting, one of only 15 states without no-excuse absentee voting, and is in the

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2023-05-12). Supremo paquistaní ordena la liberación de ex primer ministro. telesurtv.net El titular del Tribunal Supremo de Islamabad, Umar Ata Bandial, señaló que la detención "no es válida".

Ahmed Afzaal (2023-05-12). US-backed Military once again Targets Deposed Pakistani PM Imran Khan. dissidentvoice.org Imran Khan poses the greatest threat to Pakistan's military monopoly on political power. The arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and leader of the Pakistan Movement for Justice (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI) caused thousands of Pakistanis to take to the streets and protest. However, Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered on May 11 his release, …

Ashley Curtin (2023-05-12). Supreme Court upholds California Prop. 12. nationofchange.org California's Prop. 1, which bans the in-state sale of pork, eggs, and veal from animals "confined in a cruel manner," was challenged by the corporate pork production industry.

Staff (2023-05-12). Public reaction to Imran Khan's arrest signals a loss of support for Pakistan's powerful military. thecanary.co Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested by paramilitary forces, in a move that Pakistan's Supreme Court has now described as illegal. Ever since a no-confidence vote removed Khan from power, the public has lost trust in Pakistan's military. Such widespread rage against the military, however, is nothing new in Pakistan. Parts of Pakistan's …

teleSUR (2023-05-11). Pakistan: Supreme Court Orders Release of Former PM Imran Khan. telesurenglish.net On Thursday evening, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered police to immediately release former Prime Minister Imran Khan who was arrested on May 9 on the charges of corruption. | RELATED: | The verdict was given on a plea of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party saying that the arrest was illegal as it was made at the premises of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) when Khan was seeking protective bail. | The Supr…

Julia Rock (2023-05-11). Clarence Thomas reversed position after gifts and family payments. mronline.org The Supreme Court justice switched sides on a landmark legal doctrine, satisfying his benefactors' conservative advocacy machine.

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-11). NATO military brass oversees large-scale, multinational Swedish war games. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOSupreme Headquarters Allied Powers EuropeMay 11, 2023 Director SHAPE Partnerships visits Exercise Aurora 23 in Sweden SHAPE's Deputy Chief of Staff Partnerships Directorate visited Exercise Aurora 23 from May 7 to 10, 2023, Sweden's largest annual home defence exercise, designed to test the nations defensive plans across all force domains. Rear Admiral Gunnstein Bruà•sdal was …

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