Daily Archives: May 27, 2023

2023-05-27: News Headlines

Staff (2023-05-26). Debate en torno al racismo se reaviva en España por el caso de Vinícius. cubadebate.cu Muchas personas migrantes residentes en España que han sido objeto de racismo lamentan que se hable sobre esta problemática únicamente cuando la víctima es una personalidad famosa como el futbolista brasileño Vinícius Júnior del Real Madrid.

PACBI (2023-05-26). Activists Put Focus on PUMA's Complicity in Israeli Apartheid at 75th Anniversary Shareholders Meeting. bdsmovement.net

Maddi Johnson (2023-05-26). Nakba in Portland Solidarity with Palestine. workers.org Portland, Oregon U.S. imperialism was in the crosshairs of the Nakba event in Portland on May 21. Speeches and signs alike identified U.S. weapons and money as the critical factor that allows Israel to perpetrate genocide and apartheid on the Palestinian people. Credit: Sarah Kowaleski Speakers, including those from organizers . . . |

WSWS (2023-05-27). Transatlantic: The plight of artists and intellectuals fleeing the Nazis in 1940. wsws.org One of the most remarkable collections of political and cultural figures ever assembled, reduced by the defeats of the working class to a wretched condition, is gathered in Marseille.

WSWS (2023-05-27). Berlin police open criminal investigation aimed at silencing Roger Waters. wsws.org The State Security Department at the Berlin State Criminal Police Office has announced that a criminal investigation has been initiated against Roger Waters for "incitement of hatred" for dressing in a Nazi-like uniform during his recent concerts in the capital city of Germany.

WSWS (2023-05-27). Russian fascist with ties to leading German neo-Nazis led Ukrainian-backed incursion of Russia. wsws.org The incursion provides an object lesson in the character of the war waged by NATO against Russia.

WSWS (2023-05-26). Behind Boric's defeat and strengthening of fascists in vote on Chile's constitution. wsws.org The party receiving the most votes was the fascistic Republicans, led by José Antonio Kast, the son of a Nazi German officer and admirer of US president Donald Trump.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-26). Russian Lancet Loitering Munitions Hit Eight More Ukrainian Howitzers (Videos). southfront.org MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | The Russian military has targeted eight more howitzers of Kiev forces in the special military operation zone using Lancet loitering munitions. | Videos that surfaced online between May 15 and 25 showed the pinpoint strikes that damaged or destroyed three Soviet-made 2S1 Gvozdika self-propell…

Ali Abunimah (2023-05-26). Biden launches new plan to censor criticism of Israel. electronicintifada.net Federal government's "anti-Semitism" strategy receives warm welcome from Israel lobby.

MEE staff (2023-05-26). US: White House reveals plan to combat antisemitism amid criticism. middleeasteye.net US: White House reveals plan to combat antisemitism amid criticism | While plan was made in response to rise in antisemitism, it includes various references to US commitment to Israel | Fri, 05/26/2023 – 17: 25 | US President Joe Biden speaking at event in the Rose Garden of the White House, on 25 May 2023 (AFP) | The White House released a new plan to combat antisemitism, which it said reaffirmed "the Unit…

Dr. Naomi Wolf (2023-05-26). Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide: Dr. Naomi Wolf on the Pfizer "Confidential Report" globalresearch.ca The truth is: I've been rendered almost speechless because recently I've had the unenviable task of trying to announce to the world that indeed, a genocide — or what I've called, clumsily but urgently, a "baby die-off" — is underway.

splcenter (2023-05-26). Honor service members by removing Confederate symbols from public spaces. splcenter.org

Hugo Guzmán (2023-05-26). Chile: Far right will control the drafting of new constitution. greenleft.org.au Chile witnessed a significant triumph for the far right in its constitutional elections on May 7, which has never been seen before in its contemporary political history, reports Hugo Guzmán.

Lynda Carson (2023-05-27). Banned books or banned author recommendations. indybay.org In Opposition To The Banning Of Books By Dangerous Fascist Right-Wing Extremists:…

Suds, Snacks, Socialism Forum Committee (2023-05-27). Saturday 6/3: Attack on Trans People: A Page in the Fascist Playbook. indybay.org Starry Plaugh Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | also online…

Jeferson Miola (2023-05-26). Brasil — Asfixiar al gobierno de Lula. globalizacion.ca Una poderosa articulación del establishment actúa cohesivamente en la estrategia de hacer inviable y asfixiante al gobierno de Lula. En este empeño, la oposición de ultraderecha y fascista va de la mano de ciertos partidos de derecha que, sorprendentemente, incluso…

WSWS (2023-05-26). DeSantis joins Republican presidential race, challenging Trump from the right. wsws.org The candidacy of the Florida governor is another step in the shift of the Republican Party towards outright fascist authoritarianism.

Staff (2023-05-26). Con Filo: El rostro del fascismo (+ Video). cubadebate.cu Distamos mucho de los odiadores, esos seres enfermos de resentimiento, incapaces del perdón y de la empatía, que han abrazado la causa de la contrarrevolución muchas veces por interés, pero han terminado siendo víctimas de su propia prédica. De ellos y del más reciente episodio de agresión contra el grupo Buena Fe se habló este jueves en Con Filo.

WUFJEP (2023-05-27). Friday 5/26: Free Palestine! indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery | San Francisco…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-05-27). Global solidarity event in Lebanon: Palestine is the cause of all. plenglish.com The participants of the event discussed the confrontation with the ambitions of the West and the United States, the centrality of the Palestinian cause and the urgency of moving towards a multipolar order. | The positions of solidarity towards Palestine on the part of intellectuals, popular communicators, academics and journalists focused on strengthening unity, rejecting normalization of relations with Israel, and demanding greater condemnation from the international community. | Lisandro Brusco, militant of the Movimiento Amplio de Izquierda-Rosario of Argentina, stressed the need to strengthen the resistance…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-05-26). Spotify odds stacked against Lowkey. electronicintifada.net Looby pressure and board links to Israeli military portents of censorship but rapper not intimidated.

Palestine Action. (2023-05-26). Palestine Action Blockade Leicester's Israeli Weapons Factory. popularresistance.org On the 24th day of Palestine Action's siege against Leicester's Israeli Elbit factory — UAV Tactical Systems, another blockade has successfully locked down the company's only entrance gates in the early hours of this morning. | An immovable vehicle and two Palestine Actionists have locked-on in the road outside the perimeter fence, evading their paramilitary-style security workforce, the site's surveillance cameras, and inhibiting the company's ability to open by blocking staff entry. | In Leicester, and in Elbit's 7 other remaining sites in Britain, weaponry is being manufactured and exported to Israel.

Shir Hever (2023-05-26). Israeli protests expose divisions in the military. electronicintifada.net Netanyahu exploits army split to weaken protests against him.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-26). Hezbollah Secretary-General Threatens Israel With 'Grand War'. southfront.org Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah during his annual Resistance and Liberation Day speech. Via Al-Manar TV. | On May 25, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel with a "grand war," in response to recent warnings to Lebanon from officials in Tel Aviv. | In his annual Resistance and Liberation Day speech, which marks the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon 23 years ago, Nasrallah said Israeli leaders should "be careful and not make wrong calculations." | Israel…

Editor (2023-05-26). 'There Is No Safe Place in Gaza': Palestinians Speak Out During Israeli Assault. scheerpost.com

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-26). Several US Congress members sign letter criticizing Paypal for discriminating against Palestinians. peoplesdispatch.org The letter addressed to Paypal CEO Dan Schulman claimed that the company was discriminating against Palestinians by banning them from using its services, while allowing illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank to use their digital payments platform…

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-05-26). ONU denuncia violencia israelí contra asentamientos palestinos. telesurtv.net Los palestinos se ven forzados, en muchas ocasiones, a abandonar su tierra debido a las condiciones adversas de vida bajo el régimen de ocupación israelí.

Aseel Mousa (2023-05-26). Women with breast cancer denied treatment by Israel. electronicintifada.net Blockade causes nightmares for medical patients.

MEE staff (2023-05-26). West Bank: Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers and torch vehicles. middleeasteye.net

MEE staff (2023-05-26). West Bank: Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in Hebron settlement. middleeasteye.net

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-05-26). NY bill would stop charities from funding Israeli crimes. electronicintifada.net State-registered groups send at least $60 million a year to Israeli settler organizations.

Shir Hever (2023-05-26). Hostile ideologies: Hindutva and Zionism march hand in hand. electronicintifada.net Azad Essa's new book, Hostile Homelands, examines why the Indian government shifted its views on Palestine in favor of an alliance with Israel.

Staff (2023-05-26). "Are you an anti-Palestinian racist?" youtube.com "Why can't you answer the question: are you an anti-Palestinian racist?" Canadian activist Yves Engler confronts Justin Trudeau's close adviser Stephen Bronfman on Thursday, challenging his support for Israel. Support independent watchdog journalism! www.patreon.com/MintPressNews

ecsorinoco (2023-05-26). Palestinian Resistance's Tactical Triumph: Missiles Multiply Despite Losses. orinocotribune.com In its These targeted killings sought to weaken the PIJ's leadership structure and disrupt the organization's command and control. However, despite these setbacks, the PI…

Fight Back (2023-05-26). Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela visits San Francisco as part of Nakba 75 Tour. fightbacknews.org San Francisco, CA — On May 19, around 100 people gathered in San Francisco State University's Knuth Hall for the San Francisco leg of the Mandela Nakba 75 Tour. It featured the Honorable Chief Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela and member of the Parliament of South Africa. | The tour was co-hosted by the US Palestinian Community Network and the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, and had already visited Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Cleveland, and Orange County. | San Francisco State University Assistant Professor in Race and Resistance Studies Rama Ali Kased emceed the eve…

Gideon Polya (2023-05-26). Censorship of Indigenous Australians and Palestinians, Stan Grant, Julian Assange, and Truth Tellers. dissidentvoice.org Eminent Australian and Indigenous journalist, Stan Grant, was recently driven to resign from the ABC (the tax-payer-funded Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) as compere of the high-rating Q+A TV program by a flood of devastating racist abuse after he participated in a frank and truthful ABC discussion of the British Crown and genocidal colonialism on …

ecns.cn (2023-05-27). InsightsÔΩúInternational relations expert: G7 has transformed into a containment machine for other countries. ecns.cn Linjie Chou Zanadu, senior research fellow at the European Center for Peace and Development, claimed that G7's mission has never changed: to guard the interest of those imperial powers. In addition, Chou explained that G7 members intentionally exclude other countries that are not 100 percent in line with the Western ideological camp. Therefore, G7 is highly racist and is now an ultra neo-liberal institution.

Samir Shaheen-Hussain, Alisa Lombard, Suzy Basile (2023-05-27). Perspectives] Confronting medical colonialism and obstetric violence in Canada. thelancet.com On Sept 28, 2020, just moments before her death, 37-year-old Joyce Echaquan sent a message to her family via Facebook Live, expressing her distress about treatment administered by hospital staff at an emergency department in Joliette, QC, Canada. She had been admitted there a few days earlier with severe abdominal pain. Echaquan was entitled to respectful, dignified care. Instead, capturing health-care workers treating her disdainfully with slurs and taunts based on degrading stereotypes of Indigenous women, Echaquan's live-stream video made headlines worldwide, exposing the racist and sexist violence Indigenous…

Fight Back (2023-05-26). Judge sentences Anthony Gay to 7 years of torture; Anthony's fight continues. fightbacknews.org Peoria, IL – Activists, family members and supporters of Anthony Gay rallied outside the U.S. Central District Court in Peoria, Tuesday morning, May 23. Members of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression led the group in chanting, "Free, free Anthony Gay" and "The people united will never be defeated" before entering the courthouse for Anthony's sentencing hearing. | Anthony Gay is a political prisoner. He was incarcerated at 21 years old for a minor offense and held in solitary confinement for 22 years in Illinois prisons. Much of that time was spent in Tamms Correctional Center, a torture…

Bennan Center for Justice (2023-05-27). Tuesday 6/13: How the Supreme Court is Dividing America. indybay.org Online event – FREE…

Center for Biological Diversity (2023-05-27). California Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Thursday Over Monterey Oil, Gas Drilling Restrictions. indybay.org Residents to Rally at Local Courthouse in Support of Measure Z…

Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2023-05-26). US Troops To Train Peruvian Armed Forces, Proves US Behind Coup. popularresistance.org Amid continuing social upheaval five months after the parliamentary coup against Pedro Castillo, the Peruvian Congress, controlled by the hard right, has approved the entrance of US troops into national territory to train the Peruvian military and National Police beginning June 1st through the end of the year. This comes after the Supreme Court ruled that protest is not a protected right under the 1993 Fujimori dictatorship era constitution. This also comes after a visit from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association Clément Nyaletsossi Voule stated that there was no evidence of…

Staff (2023-05-26). Headlines for May 26, 2023. democracynow.org GOP Pushes for Steep Cuts to Domestic Programs, Environmental Protections as Debt Default Looms, U.S. and South Korea Hold Largest-Ever Live-Fire War Games, French Police Attack Climate Activists Protesting TotalEnergies' Annual Investor Meeting, Supreme Court Guts Clean Water Act, Indiana Medical Board Disciplines Doctor Who Provided Abortion to 10-Year-Old Rape Survivor, Oath Keepers Founder Gets 18 Years in Prison for Role in Jan. 6 Insurrection, Minneapolis Remembers George Floyd 3 Years After His Murder Set Off Historic Protests, NYC Activists Demand End to NYPD's Strategic Response Group 3 Years…

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