Monthly Archives: July 2023

2023-07-27: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-27). Djilang community mobilises against racism. greenleft.org.au

Staff (2023-07-27). Racism Unleashed: Attack Dogs Maul, Bite & Terrorize Prisoners Across United States. democracynow.org A shocking new investigation by Insider reveals patrol dogs in U.S. prisons have attacked at least 295 people since 2017, with Virginia setting dogs on prisoners more than any other state. These attacks can leave people with grievous physical and psychological scars, sometimes permanently disabling and disfiguring them. The report also finds ties between procedures in U.S. prisons and the abuses committed by U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib, where soldiers used attack dogs to terrify Iraqi detainees along with other forms of torture and humiliation. For more, we speak with journalist Hannah Beckler, an investigations ed…

Staff (2023-07-26). Ben Crump: Florida's New Curriculum, Claiming "Benefits" of Slavery, Will Cause "Psychological Trauma" democracynow.org We speak with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about two recent cases of anti-Black racism making headlines in the United States: Florida's new curriculum standards that teach students the "benefits" of transatlantic slavery to enslaved people, and a set of lawsuits against Northwestern University accusing the school's athletic teams of widespread and institutionalized hazing, including physical, racial and sexual abuse. Crump is representing former Northwestern football players in one of the lawsuits. Republican presidential contender and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has doubled down…

LaborFest.net (2023-07-27). Friday 7/28: Photos: 1973 Durban Working Class Uprising against apartheid & 1984 ILWU Boycott Of SA Cargo. indybay.org ILWU Local 10, Henry Scmidt Room, 400 North Point St., SF…

Editor (2023-07-27). Stop Congressional support for Israeli apartheid! workers.org In 1972, Rep. Ronald V. Dellums (D-California) introduced a bill on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus (founded in 1971), calling on Congress to pressure South Africa to end apartheid and other racist practices. CBC members would introduce at least 15 more such bills until the U.S. Congress finally passed . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-26). Nomatemba Tambo: "African Solutions Are Needed for African Problems" libya360.wordpress.com The continent must be more introspective to agree on how to move forward, says the daughter of anti-apartheid activists Oliver and Adelaide Tambo The African continent must realize that what happens within it is more important than what happens outside of it, South African diplomat Nomatemba Tambo told RT in an exclusive interview. Speaking with…

WSWS (2023-07-27). Flagging DeSantis campaign lays off dozens of staff, including neo-Nazi communications aide. wsws.org The 25-year-old former National Review writer was revealed to have created DeSantis' latest fascist advertisement, featuring the governor in front of a glowing Sonnenrad and marching soldiers.

Chris Walker (2023-07-26). DeSantis Staffer Fired After He Shares Video With Gov in Front of Nazi Imagery. truthout.org An employee of Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R-Florida) presidential campaign was fired on Tuesday after he produced a video featuring Nazi imagery and posted it on Twitter. Nate Hochman, who served as a speechwriter for the DeSantis campaign and previously wrote for the right-wing publication The National Review, created a meme-filled video promoting DeSantis and disparaging former President Donald Trump… |

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-26). Twitter Threatens to Nix Advertisers' Verification If They Don't Spend More. truthout.org Instead of banning neo-Nazis and white supremacists who have overrun Twitter (recently renamed X) and caused concerns for advertisers on the platform, the company is threatening advertisers, saying that if they don't spend a certain amount of money each quarter, they could risk losing their verification and being impersonated on the platform. According to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal… |

Editor (2023-07-27). rewind] Norman Lear: Honoring One of America's Greatest Patriots on His 101st Birthday. scheerpost.com

teleSUR- lvm, DRL (2023-07-27). Autoridades de Iraq condenan nueva quema del Corán en Dinamarca. telesurtv.net Estas acciones por los autodenominados Patriotas Daneses han tenido lugar frente a las embajadas de Türkiye, Egipto y Pakistán en Copenhague.

Hannah Gais, Rachel Janik (2023-07-26). Speaker at 'Unite The Right' Rally Charged. splcenter.org Virginia authorities have arrested and charged a white nationalist once prominent in the "alt-right" for his involvement in a torchlit march the night before the deadly 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Hatewatch has learned.

Brenda Norrell (2023-07-27). United Nations Hears Testimony on Violations of Indigenous Rights by Governments, Police. indybay.org The United Nations heard testimony from Indigenous Peoples around the world, on the devastation from mining, ongoing genocide, and murder by federal agents and militarized forces, during this week's session of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.

Liberation Staff (2023-07-27). PSL Editorial — Occupation continues 70 years after the Pentagon's "forgotten" genocide in Korea. liberationnews.org Every U.S. soldier and weapon system must be immediately withdrawn. 70 years is long enough — it's time for real peace in Korea…

manager (2023-07-26). How Unions Can Use Universal Design to Better Serve Workers with Disabilities. cepr.net As Disability Pride Month draws to a close, today, July 26th marks the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The landmark civil rights legislation set out to prohibit disability-based employment discrimination and to ensure that people with disabilities enjoyed equal access to opportunities and services. While the passage of the ADA represented …

Chris Walker (2023-07-26). New Evidence Surfaces That 303 Creative Owner Misled SCOTUS. truthout.org A petitioner in the recent U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people in Colorado appears to have misled the Court regarding key facts in the case. Lorie Smith, who owns the website production company 303 Creative, was represented in the case by the far right legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). In their filing to the Court… |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-27). Doctors without Borders call Israel's forceful eviction of Palestinians from Masafer Yatta a war crime. peoplesdispatch.org Hundreds of Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta for generations are being constantly harassed by the occupation forces in order to force them to leave the area and allow Israel to build a firing range for the military…

Revolutionary Workers United Front (2023-07-27). Friday 7/28: Free Palestine! indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery | San Francisco…

teleSUR (2023-07-27). Venezuela Denounces Illegal Auction of CITGO. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez denounced that the United States government continues to promote the auction of the Venezuelan state company CITGO Petroleum, a subsidiary of the state oil company PDVSA. | RELATED: | This illegal auction seeks to sell CITGO to a U.S.-Israel firm whose main manager has ties to former congressman Juan Guaido. | During a parliamentary session, Rodriguez speci…

teleSUR (2023-07-27). Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Palestinian Teen in West Bank. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Israeli troops shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy during a raid in the city of Qalqilya in the West Bank. | RELATED: | The deceased young man was identified by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) as Fares Abu Samra, who was transferred in critical condition to a hospital after being shot in the head. | The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the incident took place during an Israeli military raid, which led to clashes with youths during which soldiers opened fire. | A…

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-07-27). Ministro de Seguridad israelí irrumpe en Explanada de Mezquitas. telesurtv.net Ben-Gvir afirmó que los israelíes tienen que mostrar su dominio en este importante lugar para el pueblo sionista.

teleSUR, nama, JDO (2023-07-27). Soldados de Israel matan a palestino de 14 años en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net El incidente ocurrió cuando militares ocupantes intentaron realizar una redada nocturna, que desencadenó en enfrentamientos con jóvenes palestinos.

WSWS (2023-07-27). Netanyahu's judicial coup and the dead end of Zionism. wsws.org Netanyahu's government of ultra-nationalists and religious Zionists seek the total annexation of the Occupied West Bank, ethnic cleansing throughout Israel and to impose authoritarian rule over a society characterized by acute social inequality, stepped up militarism and cultural reaction.

Tamara Nassar (2023-07-27). Anthropologists back Israel boycott in landslide vote. electronicintifada.net Filmmakers respect call to pull out of Jerusalem film festival.

Deiaa Haj Yahia (2023-07-27). Israel is ignoring crime in Palestinian communities. electronicintifada.net State neglect, easy access to unlicensed arms and a lack of hope all fuel crime spike among Israel's Palestinian citizens.

unitedEditor (2023-07-27). Should Türkiye mediate between Israel and Palestine? uwidata.com The overlapping visits of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to Türkiye and the planned visit of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu raised a question: "Is Türkiye taking on a mediation role?" Is there such a plan or intention? If so, what does it mean for Türkiye and the world? We asked these questions to United World International …

teleSUR, jaa, YSM (2023-07-27). Líder de Hamás y presidente de Palestina se reúnen en Türkiye. telesurtv.net Los líderes intercambiaron primero a solas y luego con Erdogan en el Palacio Presidencial, a puertas cerradas.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-07-27). Soldados israelíes asesinan a palestino en Nablus, Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Al morir, Mohamad Abdulhakim Nada contaba con 23 años. Recibió un disparo en el pecho durante una incursión de los ocupantes en el campamento de refugiados de Al Ain.

Miko Peled (2023-07-26). Miko Peled: Israel Was Never a Cohesive Democracy, and Its Disintegration Was Inevitable. mintpressnews.com Miko Peled on how long-running racial tensions, social divisions and the systemic oppression of Palestanians have all culminated in the current crisis in Israel.

Miko Peled, MintPress News. (2023-07-26). Israel Was Never A Democracy; Its Disintegration Was Inevitable. popularresistance.org Israel is a nation grappling with deep internal divisions, and unfortunately, it is the Palestinian people who are paying the heavy price. Recently, a group of Israeli reservists known as "Brothers In Arms" made headlines by refusing to fulfill their reserve duty in protest of the newly passed "Judicial Reform." Their stated concern was for the preservation of "Jewish democracy," with an emphasis on creating a better future for their children within such a system. | Some of the refusers who sat with their backs to the cameras, probably because they were members in some of Israel's highly secretive death squads, k…

_____ (2023-07-26). Do the Pentagon leaks reveal Bidens agenda to weaken America, Israel and beyond. strategic-culture.org By Ben KERIDO | Join us on , , and . | Ominous alarms sounded. All throughout southern and central Israel, a robotic feminine voice stating "color red" echoed stoically. | Israeli residents were notified that they had as lit…

Editor (2023-07-26). American Anthropological Association endorses academic boycott of Israel. mronline.org Members of the American Anthropological Association overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions with 71% of members supporting the measure.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-07-26). Mass Israel chaos over Netanyahu court coup draws mostly silence in U.S. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Mass chaos in Israel over the far-rightist Netanyahu government's legislative coup against the one roadblock—the Supreme Court—to its seizure of total government control drew, surprisingly, mostly silence in the U.S., Israel's closest ally. And those who spoke out split along partisan lines: Democratic union leaders, but not lawmakers, denounced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coup attempt; …

teleSUR (2023-07-26). Israel's Supreme Court to Hear Petitions Against Judicial Law. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Israel's Supreme Court announced that it will hear petitions against a new law that limits some of its powers, potentially setting up a confrontation between the court and the government. | RELATED: | A new law that cancels the Supreme Court's power to overrule government decisions by deeming them "unreasonable" was passed by Israeli parliament on Monday, sparking stormy demonstrations across the count…

Mitchell Plitnick (2023-07-26). Leading Liberal Zionist Voices Call for Ending U.S. Aid to Israel. globalresearch.ca

Zachy Hennessey (2023-07-26). Israel's Credit Rating Lowered by Morgan Stanley, Moody's Warns of 'Significant Risk'. globalresearch.ca

972mag (2023-07-27). The real aim of the judicial coup's first law. 972mag.com Yariv Levin listed five gov't decisions that were blocked for being 'unreasonable.' All were about Palestinians and the occupation.

David Cronin (2023-07-27). Sinéad O'Connor had courage, Ireland's leaders do not. electronicintifada.net Singer's heartfelt support for Palestinian rights contrasts with robotic messages from Dublin's government.

Staff (2023-07-26). Samidoun joins international fact-finding mission to expose U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is participating in the international fact-finding mission in Venezuela launched by the International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, Coercive Economic Measures, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the National Lawyers Guild (U.S.) on the impact of U.S. sanctions and coercive economic measures targeting the people and nation …

teleSUR (2023-07-26). Hamas Leadership Met With Palestinian President in Türkiye. telesurenglish.net The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced that its leadership met on Tuesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Turkish capital of Ankara. | RELATED: | Husam Badran, a member of the Hamas politburo, said that the meeting discussed the preparations for the Palestinian factions' meeting scheduled to be held in Cairo on July 30 | A Hamas delegation, headed by the movement's politburo chief Ismail Ha…

teleSUR (2023-07-26). Venezuela and Palestine Strengthen Bilateral Relations. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Venezuelan authorities received the head of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, with the aim of strengthening bilateral, diplomatic and commercial relations between both nations. | RELATED: | Media reported that Fattouh held working meetings with Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, Foreign Minister Yvan Gil, and National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez. | "It is a pleasure to receive the president of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, on his official visit to our country…

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-07-26). India demands an end to the aggressions against Cuba and Palestine. plenglish.com New Delhi, Jul 26 (Prensa Latina) The Solidarity Committee with Cuba in India today approved two declarations of solidarity with the island and the people of Palestine in their struggle to defend their rights.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-27). Norlane community pushes back against racist provocation. greenleft.org.au

ecns.cn (2023-07-27). Procuratorates vow to use law to promote economic development. ecns.cn Procuratorial organs have vowed to actively coordinate development and security and use the rule of law to promote sustained economic performance and a favorable business environment, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said.

Jake Johnson (2023-07-27). Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction Moves Forward Thanks to Supreme Court. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a pair of lower court orders that temporarily halted construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 300-mile fracked gas project that has long been a top priority of Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, a close ally of the fossil fuel industry. The high court's brief order, which does not mention any dissents, sides with pipeline backers and vacates stays issued… |

teleSUR (2023-07-26). Guatemalan Electoral Tribunal Denounces Arbitrary Raids. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Supreme Electoral Court President Irma Palencia denounced the arbitrary raids that her institution has suffered from the Guatemalan Prosecutor's Office. | RELATED: | During a virtual intervention at the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), she criticized the interference of the Guatemalan Public Ministry after the first round of the presidential elections held on June 25th. They att…

Aaron Mendelson (2023-07-26). How Republicans flipped America's state supreme courts. nationofchange.org State supreme courts were once dominated by Democrats, but not anymore.

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2023-07-25: News Headlines

Staff (2023-07-24). Cop City and the escalating war on environmental defenders. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in In These Times on July 13, 2023. It is shared here with permission. The fight in Atlanta over Cop City, a massive police training facility, has turned into ground zero for overlapping crises facing our country: the climate emergency, vast political and economic inequality, ever-militarizing police forces and systemic racism. If we …

Editor (2023-07-24). The Climate Crisis Is Most Detrimental to the Black Community. scheerpost.com As the only key to being insulated from the worst aspects of climate change in its current form is through financial stability, the economic fragility that has been a hallmark of this community due to systemic racism makes it most susceptible to feeling the effects of climate change more than any other group.

Staff (2023-07-24). "Chaos & Violence": NYC to Pay $13M to Those Attacked by Police in 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests. democracynow.org In a landmark $13 million settlement, New York City has agreed to pay 1,300 people attacked by police while protesting the Minnesota police murder of George Floyd in 2020. Sow v. City of New York yielded the largest total payout to protesters in a class-action suit in U.S. history, totaling about $10,000 per person. The suit focused on how police violated protesters' civil and constitutional rights by making mass arrests and using excessive force that included improper use of pepper spray and using a tactic called kettling to trap and arrest protesters before a curfew went into effect. The case used a video…

Staff (2023-07-24). Palestine and its supporters were the subject of a day of international protest. thecanary.co People have taken action in the UK, Canada, and France over the imprisonment of UK pro-Palestine activists. It came after high-profile campaigners, including Roger Waters, issued a joint statement condemning the British state's persecution of the six people over their activism against the state of Israel. Imprisoned for resisting Israel's apartheid As the Canary has …

Editor (2023-07-24). Right-Wing has not tried to suppress teaching the history of anti-imperialist movements because they are rarely discussed in any course. mronline.org Most Americans Don't Know About the Real Patriots Who Opposed the Nation's Forever Wars Going Back to the 19th Century.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-24). Revolutionary feat commemorated in Cienfuegos. plenglish.com Cienfuegos, Cuba, Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) The city of Cienfuegos lived another patriotic day on Monday, when the 70th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks were commemorated.

Brenda Norrell (2023-07-24). United Nations Hears Testimony on Violations of Indigenous Rights by Governments, Police. indybay.org The United Nations heard testimony from Indigenous Peoples around the world, on the devastation from mining, ongoing genocide, and murder by federal agents and militarized forces, during this week's session of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.

WSWS (2023-07-24). Spain in election limbo after right-wing Popular Party and far-right Vox fail to secure majority to govern. wsws.org Calls for "Unity against fascism" will be used as a weapon against the working class, to try and blackmail workers into uniting behind a renewed Socialist Party-Sumar government to try and stifle a movement to the left that has seen an eruption of struggles against their pro-war and austerity policies.

Julie Hollar (2023-07-24). Covering 'Racist State' backlash—but not the reality that Israel is a racist state. mronline.org When Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D.—Wash.) called Israel a "racist state" at the Netroots Nation conference, corporate media dutifully covered the political backlash—but scrupulously avoided evaluating the veracity of Jayapal's statement.

Steve Topple, The Canary. (2023-07-24). International Day Of Protest For Palestine And Its Supporters. popularresistance.org People have taken action in the UK, Canada, and France over the imprisonment of UK pro-Palestine activists. It came after high-profile campaigners, including Roger Waters, issued a joint statement condemning the British state's persecution of the six people over their activism against the state of Israel.

Staff (2023-07-24). Israel arrested 570 Palestinian children in first half of 2023. peoplesdispatch.org Israeli occupation forces have arrested at least 570 Palestinian children in the first six months of the current year, the Palestinian Information Center reported on Sunday, July 23, quoting the director of the Palestinian Center for Prisoners Studies (PCPS). PCPS director Riyad al-Ashqar claimed that the figure was 15% higher than the same period last …

Jake Johnson (2023-07-24). Israeli Parliament Passes Part of Reforms Popularly Opposed as "Judicial Coup" truthout.org Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved part of a proposed judicial overhaul that would limit the Supreme Court's power to check government action, a key priority of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government. The vote took place as protests raged outside the Israeli Knesset and across the country. Polling has shown that a majority of Israelis oppose the sweeping overhaul… |

teleSUR, DRL (2023-07-24). Congreso israelí aprueba reforma judicial en medio de protestas. telesurtv.net La Policía detuvo a una veintena de manifestantes "por violar el orden público", y grupos de movilizados realizaron acciones de desobediencia civil.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-07-24). Al menos 13 palestinos resultan heridos por fuerzas israelíes. telesurtv.net Los combatientes de la Resistencia palestina detonaron un artefacto explosivo contra los vehículos militares israelíes.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-07-24). Israel pulls the trigger, US lets it off the hook. electronicintifada.net Palestinians call for urgent accountability as abuses spike.

Staff (2023-07-24). Headlines for July 24, 2023. democracynow.org 30,000 Flee Rhodes as Greece Battles Dozens of Wildfires; Italy Hit by Ice Storms After Record Heat, Monsoon Brings Deadly Floods, Landslides in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Triggers Dengue Outbreak, Nova Scotia Inundated with 3 Months' Worth of Rain; Washington Wildfire Tops 52,000 Acres, Right Underperforms Expectations in Spain Election; Separatist Parties Emerge as Kingmakers, Hun Sen Retains Cambodian Leadership, Likely to Hand Power to Son, After Suppressing Opposition, Israel Passes Contentious Judicial Reform as Protesters Say They Won't Back Down, Israeli Forces Kill Two More Palestinian Tee…

PACBI (2023-07-24). American Anthropological Association Votes by 71% to Boycott Complicit Israeli Universities. bdsmovement.net

_____ (2023-07-24). UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel Has Turned All of Palestine into 'An Open-Air Prison' to Further Annexation Plans. transcend.org 16 Jul 2023 – Francesca Albanese's June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to "de-Palestinianize" the occupied territory, threatening "the existence of the Palestinians as a people."

Ramzy Baroud (2023-07-25). The Resistance vs. The Palestinian Authority: Will Abbas Lead Palestinians to Civil War? orinocotribune.com

krish-rad_ind (2023-07-24). Activists Rally For East Palestine Residents To Get Free Health Care. popularresistance.org

Ramzy Baroud (2023-07-24). From Oslo to Unity: Reimagining Palestine Solidarity for the Future. mintpressnews.com

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-07-24). Venezuela ratifies unrenounceable defense of Palestine's cause. plenglish.com Caracas, Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Monday ratified the stance of the Government of Nicolás Maduro regarding the unrenounceable defense of the Palestinian people's cause.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-07-24). Podcast Ep 80: From NYC to Florida, students fight lobby smears. electronicintifada.net Fatima Mohammed and Ahmad Daraldik stand strong against racist campaigns over their Palestine advocacy.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-24). Norlane community pushes back against racist provocation. greenleft.org.au

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-24). Study: Affirmative Action for the Richest 1 Percent Is Common at Elite Colleges. truthout.org Just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled to end race-based affirmative action in college admissions, a new study suggests that "affirmative action" for the rich is very much alive when wealthy Americans seek acceptance to the most elite colleges in the U.S. According to a study released Monday by Opportunity Insights, a Harvard University-based research group, students from families within the… |

Melissa Price Kromm (2023-07-24). North Carolina GOP's Plan to Hijack Elections Should Concern Voters Everywhere. truthout.org The Supreme Court recently prevented Republicans from hijacking state and county election boards in its 6-3 ruling against North Carolina Republicans in Moore v. Harper. If the state GOP had been successful, they would've been able to run federal-level elections in North Carolina and across the country without any pathway for citizens to challenge unfair election laws. But voting rights are still… |

Kameron Hurt (2023-07-24). Ruchell Magee, longest-held political prisoner, wins freedom. liberationnews.org Magee is an 84-year-old man who has lived a long life in pursuit of justice and the end of white supremacist oppression.

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2023-07-24: News Headlines

Staff (2023-07-24). "Chaos & Violence": NYC to Pay $13M to Those Attacked by Police in 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests. democracynow.org In a landmark $13 million settlement, New York City has agreed to pay 1,300 people attacked by police while protesting the Minnesota police murder of George Floyd in 2020. Sow v. City of New York yielded the largest total payout to protesters in a class-action suit in U.S. history, totaling about $10,000 per person. The suit focused on how police violated protesters' civil and constitutional rights by making mass arrests and using excessive force that included improper use of pepper spray and using a tactic called kettling to trap and arrest protesters before a curfew went into effect. The case used a video…

Staff (2023-07-24). Palestine and its supporters were the subject of a day of international protest. thecanary.co People have taken action in the UK, Canada, and France over the imprisonment of UK pro-Palestine activists. It came after high-profile campaigners, including Roger Waters, issued a joint statement condemning the British state's persecution of the six people over their activism against the state of Israel. Imprisoned for resisting Israel's apartheid As the Canary has …

Sameena Rahman (2023-07-23). US Congress votes 412-9 that Israel isn't an apartheid state, denying reality. liberationnews.org The U.S. is Israel's chief benefactor and plays a significant role in advancing Israeli policies and thus is directly complicit in Israeli apartheid.

Sameena Rahman (2023-07-23). US Congress votes 412-9 that Israel isn't apartheid, denying reality. liberationnews.org The U.S. is Israel's chief benefactor and plays a significant role in advancing Israeli policies and thus is directly complicit in Israeli apartheid.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-24). Revolutionary feat commemorated in Cienfuegos. plenglish.com Cienfuegos, Cuba, Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) The city of Cienfuegos lived another patriotic day on Monday, when the 70th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks were commemorated.

Ali Abunimah (2023-07-23). UK union cancels "Weaponising Anti-Semitism" book launch. electronicintifada.net Senior leaders of Unite accused of political censorship.


Brenda Norrell (2023-07-24). United Nations Hears Testimony on Violations of Indigenous Rights by Governments, Police. indybay.org The United Nations heard testimony from Indigenous Peoples around the world, on the devastation from mining, ongoing genocide, and murder by federal agents and militarized forces, during this week's session of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.

Loretta Ross, Scot Nakagawa, Convergence. (2023-07-23). Don't Let The Chain Of Freedom Break At Your Link. popularresistance.org The last 45 years have seen the consolidation of the far Right. | While "many white liberals have been so eager to put the ideology of white supremacy behind them that they declare it prematurely dead over and over again." | Smith College Professor Loretta Ross and 22nd Century Initiative Director Scot Nakagawa have both engaged for decades in the fight against the far Right. In this conversation they look at the lessons that Ross' work with the National Anti-Klan Network hold for the present; how the landscape of the Right has changed; and how we should orient ourselves to the present. Convergence Editorial Boar…

WSWS (2023-07-24). Spain in election limbo after right-wing Popular Party and far-right Vox fail to secure majority to govern. wsws.org Calls for "Unity against fascism" will be used as a weapon against the working class, to try and blackmail workers into uniting behind a renewed Socialist Party-Sumar government to try and stifle a movement to the left that has seen an eruption of struggles against their pro-war and austerity policies.

Jake Johnson (2023-07-24). Israeli Parliament Passes Part of Reforms Popularly Opposed as "Judicial Coup" truthout.org Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved part of a proposed judicial overhaul that would limit the Supreme Court's power to check government action, a key priority of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government. The vote took place as protests raged outside the Israeli Knesset and across the country. Polling has shown that a majority of Israelis oppose the sweeping overhaul… |

teleSUR, DRL (2023-07-24). Congreso israelí aprueba reforma judicial en medio de protestas. telesurtv.net La Policía detuvo a una veintena de manifestantes "por violar el orden público", y grupos de movilizados realizaron acciones de desobediencia civil.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-07-24). Al menos 13 palestinos resultan heridos por fuerzas israelíes. telesurtv.net Los combatientes de la Resistencia palestina detonaron un artefacto explosivo contra los vehículos militares israelíes.




Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-24). Israel arrested 570 Palestinian children in first half of 2023. peoplesdispatch.org At least 29 of the Palestinian children arrested by the Israeli forces this year in six months were below the age of 12, and two of them were just 10 years old. Israel has already killed 31 Palestinian children this year…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-07-24). Israel pulls the trigger, US lets it off the hook. electronicintifada.net Palestinians call for urgent accountability as abuses spike.

Staff (2023-07-24). Headlines for July 24, 2023. democracynow.org 30,000 Flee Rhodes as Greece Battles Dozens of Wildfires; Italy Hit by Ice Storms After Record Heat, Monsoon Brings Deadly Floods, Landslides in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Triggers Dengue Outbreak, Nova Scotia Inundated with 3 Months' Worth of Rain; Washington Wildfire Tops 52,000 Acres, Right Underperforms Expectations in Spain Election; Separatist Parties Emerge as Kingmakers, Hun Sen Retains Cambodian Leadership, Likely to Hand Power to Son, After Suppressing Opposition, Israel Passes Contentious Judicial Reform as Protesters Say They Won't Back Down, Israeli Forces Kill Two More Palestinian Tee…

PACBI (2023-07-24). American Anthropological Association Votes by 71% to Boycott Complicit Israeli Universities. bdsmovement.net

Julie Hollar (2023-07-24). Covering 'Racist State' backlash—but not the reality that Israel is a racist state. mronline.org When Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D.—Wash.) called Israel a "racist state" at the Netroots Nation conference, corporate media dutifully covered the political backlash—but scrupulously avoided evaluating the veracity of Jayapal's statement.

_____ (2023-07-24). UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel Has Turned All of Palestine into 'An Open-Air Prison' to Further Annexation Plans. transcend.org 16 Jul 2023 – Francesca Albanese's June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to "de-Palestinianize" the occupied territory, threatening "the existence of the Palestinians as a people."

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-24). Israel arrested 570 Palestinian children in first half of 2023. peoplesdispatch.org At least 29 of the Palestinian children arrested by the Israeli forces this year in six months were below the age of 12, and two of them were just 10 years old. Israel has already killed 31 Palestinian children this year…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-07-24). Israel pulls the trigger, US lets it off the hook. electronicintifada.net Palestinians call for urgent accountability as abuses spike.

Staff (2023-07-24). Headlines for July 24, 2023. democracynow.org 30,000 Flee Rhodes as Greece Battles Dozens of Wildfires; Italy Hit by Ice Storms After Record Heat, Monsoon Brings Deadly Floods, Landslides in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Triggers Dengue Outbreak, Nova Scotia Inundated with 3 Months' Worth of Rain; Washington Wildfire Tops 52,000 Acres, Right Underperforms Expectations in Spain Election; Separatist Parties Emerge as Kingmakers, Hun Sen Retains Cambodian Leadership, Likely to Hand Power to Son, After Suppressing Opposition, Israel Passes Contentious Judicial Reform as Protesters Say They Won't Back Down, Israeli Forces Kill Two More Palestinian Tee…

PACBI (2023-07-24). American Anthropological Association Votes by 71% to Boycott Complicit Israeli Universities. bdsmovement.net

Julie Hollar (2023-07-24). Covering 'Racist State' backlash—but not the reality that Israel is a racist state. mronline.org When Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D.—Wash.) called Israel a "racist state" at the Netroots Nation conference, corporate media dutifully covered the political backlash—but scrupulously avoided evaluating the veracity of Jayapal's statement.

_____ (2023-07-24). UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel Has Turned All of Palestine into 'An Open-Air Prison' to Further Annexation Plans. transcend.org 16 Jul 2023 – Francesca Albanese's June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to "de-Palestinianize" the occupied territory, threatening "the existence of the Palestinians as a people."

teleSUR (2023-07-23). Israeli Lawmakers Debate Judicial Overhaul Bill Amid Protests. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Israeli lawmakers began a marathon debate on the first major bill of a contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary ahead of a final vote on Monday, as massive crowds rally across the country to protest against the plan. | RELATED: | The bill would cancel the Supreme Court's power to override decisions by the ministers that it deems "unreasonable." The two final rounds of votes at the Knesset, the Israeli pa…

Anonymous669 (2023-07-23). Iran's Revolutionary Guard Unveils Upgraded Version Of Shahed-149 Combat Drone (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. | On July 22, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled an upgraded version of the Shahid-149 combat drone. | The Shahed-149, which was developed by the Shahed Aviation Industries, is a high-altitude long-endurance combat drone similar in size, shape and role to the American MQ-9 Reaper. The drone was first unveiled and named after the Gaza Strip in honor of the Palestinians' struggle against Israel amid the May 2021 Palestinian-Israeli c…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-07-23). Israeli Prime Minister has cardiac pacemaker implanted. plenglish.com Tel Aviv, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker, a week after his medical admission after suffering from dehydration, a statement from his office reported today.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-07-23). Reservists' rebellion threatens Israeli government. plenglish.com Tel Aviv, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) Some 10 thousand Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservists joined today the protest against a controversial judicial reform promoted by the Government, which tries to limit the growing unease in the Army.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-07-24). From Oslo to Unity: Reimagining Palestine Solidarity for the Future. mintpressnews.com

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-07-24). Venezuela ratifies unrenounceable defense of Palestine's cause. plenglish.com Caracas, Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Monday ratified the stance of the Government of Nicolás Maduro regarding the unrenounceable defense of the Palestinian people's cause.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-07-24). Podcast Ep 80: From NYC to Florida, students fight lobby smears. electronicintifada.net Fatima Mohammed and Ahmad Daraldik stand strong against racist campaigns over their Palestine advocacy.

Mike Valente, WTAE. (2023-07-23). Activists Rally For East Palestine Residents To Get Free Health Care. popularresistance.org Joy Marie Mann was not expecting a large crowd Friday night, but she was heartened that some of her close friends and fellow activists traveled from across the country to meet ahead of a health care rally in Ohio. | "They're just very passionate people who are just very caring and support nationally improved 'Medicare for All' and believe in human rights," said Marie Mann, a health care activist from Harrisburg. | In between interviews, speeches and a short candlelight vigil, Mann and the other activists at Schenley Park spoke to each other about their plans to attend a "Medicare for All" rally in Lisbon, Ohio.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-24). Norlane community pushes back against racist provocation. greenleft.org.au

Fight Back (2023-07-23). Milwaukee Anti-War Committee rallies against the Milwaukee Air & Water Show. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On Saturday, July 22, activists and community members united at The Calling sculpture in downtown Milwaukee to protest the annual Milwaukee Air & Water Show. The rally was organized by the Milwaukee Anti-War Committee (MAC) to demonstrate that the show is not a harmless family event as it is often portrayed, but a celebration of U.S. militarism and a polarizing affair for the city. | Members from Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (MAARPR), and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) came together with the community to demand an…

Fight Back (2023-07-23). Louisianans rally, GOP bans kids' trans healthcare, other anti-LGBTQ bills fail. fightbacknews.org Baton Rouge, LA — Dozens of protesters gathered at the Louisiana State Capitol building, July 18, for an emergency demonstration against three anti-LGBTQ bills. The Republican supermajority called a special legislative veto override session after these bills were vetoed by Governor John Bel Edwards. The governor's move in support of the LGBTQ community resulted from substantial pressure from the people of Louisiana. | Demonstrators chanted "Racist, sexist, anti-gay – GOP go away!" and "Louisiana say it clear, trans youth are welcome here!" on the steps of the capitol building as the veto override session b…

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-24). Study: Affirmative Action for the Richest 1 Percent Is Common at Elite Colleges. truthout.org Just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled to end race-based affirmative action in college admissions, a new study suggests that "affirmative action" for the rich is very much alive when wealthy Americans seek acceptance to the most elite colleges in the U.S. According to a study released Monday by Opportunity Insights, a Harvard University-based research group, students from families within the… |

Melissa Price Kromm (2023-07-24). North Carolina GOP's Plan to Hijack Elections Should Concern Voters Everywhere. truthout.org The Supreme Court recently prevented Republicans from hijacking state and county election boards in its 6-3 ruling against North Carolina Republicans in Moore v. Harper. If the state GOP had been successful, they would've been able to run federal-level elections in North Carolina and across the country without any pathway for citizens to challenge unfair election laws. But voting rights are still… |

Kameron Hurt (2023-07-24). Ruchell Magee, longest-held political prisoner, wins freedom. liberationnews.org Magee is an 84-year-old man who has lived a long life in pursuit of justice and the end of white supremacist oppression.

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2023-07-23: News Headlines

It's Going Down (2023-07-22). This Is America #188: Vishal Singh on Bloody Brawls Marking Pride in SoCal; Action Camp Kicks off in Michigan. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, July 21th, 2023. On today's episode we present an interview with antifascist journalist and researcher Vishal Singh about the bloody brawls erupting outside of school board meetings in Southern California and how the fight against the far-Right is evolving as gender fascists double down against LGBTQ+ communities. We then feature…

Sameena Rahman (2023-07-23). US Congress votes 412-9 that Israel isn't apartheid, denying reality. liberationnews.org The U.S. is Israel's chief benefactor and plays a significant role in advancing Israeli policies and thus is directly complicit in Israeli apartheid.

SAMIR (2023-07-22). Filmmakers withdraw from apartheid Israel's Jerusalem Film Festival. bdsmovement.net

Jessica Buxbaum, Mintpress News. (2023-07-22). Sierra Club Workers Challenge Leaders' Greenwashing 'Apartheid Tours'. popularresistance.org In June, members of the Sierra Club unit of the Progressive Workers Union (PWU) passed a resolution pledging solidarity with the Palestinian people as the environmental organization pushes forward with its planned trips to Israel. | The workers' resolution puts its words into action by ensuring union funds aren't investing in Israel's settler enterprise and contributing to the oppression of Palestinians. It also calls for establishing a Palestine solidarity committee to foster relationships with Palestinian-led organizations and help educate members on the connections between Palestine and Indigenous struggles in…

WSWS (2023-07-22). Francis Fukuyama parades Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion at Stanford University. wsws.org In proudly sharing a platform with Ukrainian neo-Nazis who are fighting a war on behalf of US imperialism, Fukuyama, the erstwhile prophet of the triumph of "liberal democracy", has become the embodiment of the bankruptcy of his own theory.

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-07-22). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

David Starr (2023-07-22). Right-Wing Has Not Tried to Suppress Teaching the History of Anti-Imperialist Movements Because They Are Rarely Discussed in Any Course. covertactionmagazine.com Most Americans Don't Know About the Real Patriots Who Opposed the Nation's Forever Wars Going Back to the 19th Century On February 20, journalist Max Blumenthal gave a powerful address at the Rage Against the War Machine rally across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in which he emphasized how Ukrainians had been used …

Ali Abunimah (2023-07-23). UK union cancels "Weaponising Anti-Semitism" book launch. electronicintifada.net Senior leaders of Unite accused of political censorship.

mondoweiss.net (2023-07-23). How Jeremy Corbyn was toppled by the Israel lobby. mondoweiss.net Asa Winstanley's new book shows how the Israel lobby weaponized antisemitism to create a new McCarthyism to bring down Jeremy Corbyn.

Brenda Norrell (2023-07-23). United Nations Hears Testimony on Violations of Indigenous Rights by Governments, Police. indybay.org The United Nations heard testimony from Indigenous Peoples around the world, on the devastation from mining, ongoing genocide, and murder by federal agents and militarized forces, during this week's session of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.

Keerti Gopal (2023-07-22). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Illinois Abolishes The Cash-Bail Trap. levernews.com Good things are happening! Illinois takes the lead on curbing pretrial discrimination, the EPA gets serious about lead poisoning, incarcerated students regain access to federal aid, and another college ends legacy admissions.When You Land On Illinois, Get Out Of Jail Free: Illinois is the first state to abolish cash bail, with its supreme court determining it's unconstitutional to hold defendants in jail based on their inability to pay.Cash bail allows people to put up a sum of money in exchange for leaving jail and awaiting trial at home. It's entirely contradictory to the principle of "innocent until pr…

WSWS (2023-07-22). The Spanish elections: Podemos/Sumar and the return of Francoism. wsws.org Across Europe, a dangerous pattern has been seen time and again when a mass leftward shift has prompted the formation of "broad left" parties, only to see them betray and hand the initiative to the far right.

Art Persyko (2023-07-22). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

teleSUR (2023-07-23). Israeli Lawmakers Debate Judicial Overhaul Bill Amid Protests. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Israeli lawmakers began a marathon debate on the first major bill of a contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary ahead of a final vote on Monday, as massive crowds rally across the country to protest against the plan. | RELATED: | The bill would cancel the Supreme Court's power to override decisions by the ministers that it deems "unreasonable." The two final rounds of votes at the Knesset, the Israeli pa…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-07-23). Reservists' rebellion threatens Israeli government. plenglish.com Tel Aviv, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) Some 10 thousand Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservists joined today the protest against a controversial judicial reform promoted by the Government, which tries to limit the growing unease in the Army.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-07-23). Israeli Prime Minister has cardiac pacemaker implanted. plenglish.com Tel Aviv, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker, a week after his medical admission after suffering from dehydration, a statement from his office reported today.

Anonymous669 (2023-07-23). Iran's Revolutionary Guard Unveils Upgraded Version Of Shahed-149 Combat Drone (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. | On July 22, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled an upgraded version of the Shahid-149 combat drone. | The Shahed-149, which was developed by the Shahed Aviation Industries, is a high-altitude long-endurance combat drone similar in size, shape and role to the American MQ-9 Reaper. The drone was first unveiled and named after the Gaza Strip in honor of the Palestinians' struggle against Israel amid the May 2021 Palestinian-Israeli c…

teleSUR, DRL (2023-07-23). Israelíes protestan contra la reforma judicial de Netanyahu. telesurtv.net Las marchas comenzaron bajo el lema "No le permitiremos destruir nuestro hogar", en referencia al primer ministro israelí Benjamín Netanyahu.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-07-23). Israel asesina a joven de 18 años en territorios palestinos. telesurtv.net El Ministerio de Salud de la Autoridad Palestina dijo que el conductor del automóvil, Fawzi Hani Mukhlafa, de 18 años, fue llevado al Hospital Rafidia en Naplusa, donde fue declarado muerto.

Editor (2023-07-22). PA President Mahmoud Abbas: A Puppet in the Hands of Israel and the US? scheerpost.com Despite its near complete failure, the Oslo Accords succeeded in one thing: it provided Israel with a Palestinian force whose main mission is to assist the Israeli occupation in its quest to maintain total control over the West Bank.

Ramona Wadi (2023-07-22). An exercise in omitting Israel's colonial foundations. thealtworld.com

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-23). Norlane community pushes back against racist provocation. greenleft.org.au

Aallyah Wright (2023-07-22). White Leaders Prevent an Alabama Town's First Black Mayor From Serving. truthout.org Newbern, Alabama — There's a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town's first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall. After years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil rights lawsuit he is accusing town officials of conspiring to deny his civil rights and his position because of… |

teleSUR, JCM (2023-07-23). Irán exige a Suecia entregar al autor que quemó ejemplar del Corán. telesurtv.net El líder supremo de Irán, el ayatolá Ali Jameneí, pidió este sábado que el autor de la quema de un ejemplar del Corán en Estocolmo sea sometido al "máximo castigo".

Meredith Reiches (2023-07-22). Perspectives] What we get wrong about patriarchy. thelancet.com In June, 2022, when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the 1973 case protecting the right to abortion at the federal level, Senator Susan Collins, a Republican legislator from Maine, criticised the decision in a statement in a press release. The Supreme Court, she wrote, had "abandoned a fifty-year precedent at a time that the country is desperate for stability" and she drew attention to "the importance of supporting long-standing precedents". It is noteworthy that, in her statement, Collins did not reach for the language of freedom, equality, or progress to express dismay at the abrogation of a right th…

WSWS (2023-07-22). Oklahoma and Alabama carry out back-to-back executions by lethal injection. wsws.org Lethal injection was used to execute Jemaine Cannon on Thursday morning in Oklahoma and James Barber on Friday morning in Alabama, after last-minute legal challenges were struck down by an appeals court and the US Supreme Court.

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2023-07-22: News Headlines

Mike Ludwig (2023-07-21). 60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty. truthout.org Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to serve their own agendas. The Constitution is "colorblind," they claim, and if this flies in the face of… |

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Lebanon Condemns New Attack on Quran in Stockholm. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Lebanon condemned an attack on Quran in Stockholm, saying "it constitutes a continuous violation of Muslims' feelings and dignity." | RELATED: | A statement released by Lebanon's Foreign Affairs Ministry called on Swedish authorities to take appropriate measures to end all acts that deepen feelings of hatred, Islamophobia and racism, incite violence, and insult religions. | The Lebanese statement comes in…

It's Going Down (2023-07-22). This Is America #188: Vishal Singh on Bloody Brawls Marking Pride in SoCal; Action Camp Kicks off in Michigan. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, July 21th, 2023. On today's episode we present an interview with antifascist journalist and researcher Vishal Singh about the bloody brawls erupting outside of school board meetings in Southern California and how the fight against the far-Right is evolving as gender fascists double down against LGBTQ+ communities. We then feature…

SAMIR (2023-07-22). Filmmakers withdraw from apartheid Israel's Jerusalem Film Festival. bdsmovement.net


Jessica Buxbaum, Mintpress News. (2023-07-22). Sierra Club Workers Challenge Leaders' Greenwashing 'Apartheid Tours'. popularresistance.org In June, members of the Sierra Club unit of the Progressive Workers Union (PWU) passed a resolution pledging solidarity with the Palestinian people as the environmental organization pushes forward with its planned trips to Israel. | The workers' resolution puts its words into action by ensuring union funds aren't investing in Israel's settler enterprise and contributing to the oppression of Palestinians. It also calls for establishing a Palestine solidarity committee to foster relationships with Palestinian-led organizations and help educate members on the connections between Palestine and Indigenous struggles in…

Editor (2023-07-21). 'Israel Is an Apartheid State': Progressives Explain Decision to Boycott Israeli President's Speech. scheerpost.com "It's contradictory to claim to support human rights when you're arming the oppressors with billions of dollars of bullets and bombs," said Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush.

krish-rad_ind (2023-07-21). Israel's Apartheid versus South Africa's Apartheid: The U.S. Congress is more unanimously supportive of Israel's apartheid than it was of South Africa's. theduran.com

thenation (2023-07-21). In Jenin, as Elsewhere, Netanyahu Knows He Can Count on Washington's Complicity. thenation.com As America's nonresponse to the attack on Jenin demonstrates, support for Israeli apartheid is fully bipartisan.


WSWS (2023-07-22). Francis Fukuyama parades Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion at Stanford University. wsws.org In proudly sharing a platform with Ukrainian neo-Nazis who are fighting a war on behalf of US imperialism, Fukuyama, the erstwhile prophet of the triumph of "liberal democracy", has become the embodiment of the bankruptcy of his own theory.

Staff (2023-07-21). "The Wind Knows My Name": Novelist Isabel Allende on Child Separation from the Nazis to U.S. Border. democracynow.org In an in-depth interview about her work, we speak with Isabel Allende, one of the world's most celebrated novelists, author of 26 books that have sold more than 77 million copies and have been translated into 42 languages. Her books include The House of the Spirits, Paula and Daughter of Fortune, and her latest novel is The Wind Knows My Name, which looks at the trauma of child-family separation, from Nazi Germany to the U.S.-Mexico border, and those on the frontlines helping migrant children. "That idea of separating the kids is extremely cruel, but it keeps happening," Allende tells Democracy…

_____ (2023-07-21). Historical Falsification in the Service of Pro-War Propaganda. strategic-culture.org In its latest foray into the realm of historical falsification, the New York Times on Tuesday published a news analysis pinning the blame for World War II on the Soviet Union. The lengthy article authored by Andrew E. Kramer, entitled "A Current War Collides with the Past: Remnants of World War II in Ukraine," makes no mention of either the Holocaust or the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet people.

David Starr (2023-07-22). Right-Wing Has Not Tried to Suppress Teaching the History of Anti-Imperialist Movements Because They Are Rarely Discussed in Any Course. covertactionmagazine.com Most Americans Don't Know About the Real Patriots Who Opposed the Nation's Forever Wars Going Back to the 19th Century On February 20, journalist Max Blumenthal gave a powerful address at the Rage Against the War Machine rally across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in which he emphasized how Ukrainians had been used …

WSWS (2023-07-22). Francis Fukuyama parades Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion at Stanford University. wsws.org In proudly sharing a platform with Ukrainian neo-Nazis who are fighting a war on behalf of US imperialism, Fukuyama, the erstwhile prophet of the triumph of "liberal democracy", has become the embodiment of the bankruptcy of his own theory.

Staff (2023-07-21). "The Wind Knows My Name": Novelist Isabel Allende on Child Separation from the Nazis to U.S. Border. democracynow.org In an in-depth interview about her work, we speak with Isabel Allende, one of the world's most celebrated novelists, author of 26 books that have sold more than 77 million copies and have been translated into 42 languages. Her books include The House of the Spirits, Paula and Daughter of Fortune, and her latest novel is The Wind Knows My Name, which looks at the trauma of child-family separation, from Nazi Germany to the U.S.-Mexico border, and those on the frontlines helping migrant children. "That idea of separating the kids is extremely cruel, but it keeps happening," Allende tells Democracy…

_____ (2023-07-21). Historical Falsification in the Service of Pro-War Propaganda. strategic-culture.org In its latest foray into the realm of historical falsification, the New York Times on Tuesday published a news analysis pinning the blame for World War II on the Soviet Union. The lengthy article authored by Andrew E. Kramer, entitled "A Current War Collides with the Past: Remnants of World War II in Ukraine," makes no mention of either the Holocaust or the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet people.

David Starr (2023-07-22). Right-Wing Has Not Tried to Suppress Teaching the History of Anti-Imperialist Movements Because They Are Rarely Discussed in Any Course. covertactionmagazine.com Most Americans Don't Know About the Real Patriots Who Opposed the Nation's Forever Wars Going Back to the 19th Century On February 20, journalist Max Blumenthal gave a powerful address at the Rage Against the War Machine rally across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in which he emphasized how Ukrainians had been used …

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Denmark: Another Incident of Quran Burning. telesurenglish.net A Danish far-right anti-Islam group burned a copy of the Holy Quran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen. | Related: | On Friday, an Anadolu Agency correspondent said that members of the group, which calls itself "Danske Patrioter" (Danish Patriots), waved anti-Islam banners and chanted insulting slogans against Islam. | Followers of the group threw the Iraqi flag and the Quran on the ground and stomped on them. They also posted a live video on the group's Facebook accoun…

Susana Khalil (2023-07-21). Judaism Is a Religion, Not a People; Palestine Is Not a Religion, It Is a People. orinocotribune.com By Susana Khalil — Jul 19, 2023 | The epitome of artificial secularism and the true Euro-Zionist colonial anachronism: Israel. | Honor and glory to Europe; its secularism cost it centuries of blood, cruelty, horror, and terror. With its so-called secularism nowadays, it atrociously defends and venerates its fictional "nation-state" Israel, which does not hold its origins in a people, but in a religion. | The European Zionist movement succeeded in 1948 in imposing a colonial regime in Palestine. It makes aesthetic use of Judaism, the mere religious semitic legacy that is part of Arab ancestry and heritage, f…

Keerti Gopal (2023-07-22). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Illinois Abolishes The Cash-Bail Trap. levernews.com Good things are happening! Illinois takes the lead on curbing pretrial discrimination, the EPA gets serious about lead poisoning, incarcerated students regain access to federal aid, and another college ends legacy admissions.When You Land On Illinois, Get Out Of Jail Free: Illinois is the first state to abolish cash bail, with its supreme court determining it's unconstitutional to hold defendants in jail based on their inability to pay.Cash bail allows people to put up a sum of money in exchange for leaving jail and awaiting trial at home. It's entirely contradictory to the principle of "innocent until pr…

WSWS (2023-07-22). The Spanish elections: Podemos/Sumar and the return of Francoism. wsws.org Across Europe, a dangerous pattern has been seen time and again when a mass leftward shift has prompted the formation of "broad left" parties, only to see them betray and hand the initiative to the far right.

Art Persyko (2023-07-22). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

teleSUR, nama, JDO (2023-07-22). Manifestaciones en Israel dejan al menos 15 detenidos. telesurtv.net Unas siete personas fueron detenidas solo en Tel Aviv, donde los activistas bloquearon la autopista Ayalon varias horas.

Anonymous669 (2023-07-21). Israel Receives Three New F-35 Stealth Fighter Jets From U.S. (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Israeli Air Force. | The Israeli Air Force (IAF) had received three new F-35 stealth fighter jets, the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, announced on July 21. | The jets landed at the Nevatim air base a day earlier. The delivery brought the number of F-35s in service with the IAF to 39. Adding to the number, an experimental fighter jet known as AS-15 stationed at the Tel Nof air base. | The IAF operates a special version of the F-35A modified with Israeli-ma…

Anonymous669 (2023-07-21). Israeli Army Started Fire On Front With Lebanon To Remove Mines (Videos, Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. By Ali Shoeib. | On July 20, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) started a fire along the separation line with Lebanon, causing dozens of old mines planted there to explode. |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-21). One Palestinian youth killed, four others wounded in Israeli occupation's raid on Nablus. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinians were resisting Israeli occupation forces who stormed the area to provide security cover to illegal settlers invading the locality. Since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in 1967, extremist right-wing settlers have tried to claim exclusive access to Joseph's Shrine, which has been visited by people of all faiths for ages…

WSWS (2023-07-21). Congress, Biden embrace Israeli racists and warmongers. wsws.org While Congress overwhelmingly approved a resolution denying that Israel is a racist state, the White House invited the racist-in-chief, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to make an official visit to Washington..

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Israeli Air Force Reservists Protest Against Judicial Reform. telesurenglish.net On Friday, 1,142 volunteer reservists of the Israeli Air Force announced their suspension of service in protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reform. | RELATED: | They conveyed their decision in a letter addressed to Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Air Force Chief Tomer Bar. The Air Force volunteers joined over 4,000 reservists from various Army units who have announced similar measures in recent weeks. | The reservists call on the N…

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Israeli Forces Kill Two Palestinian Teenagers. telesurenglish.net Palestinian authorities on Friday denounced the killing by Israeli forces of two Palestinian teenagers in the occupied West Bank. | RELATED: | The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that Muhamad Foad al-Bayed, 17, was shot in the head by Israeli forces during riots in the town of Umm Safa, neighboring Ramallah. | According to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, the Israeli army attacked residents in the Jalazone refugee camp in the northern…

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-22). Norlane community pushes back against racist provocation. greenleft.org.au

Monica Moorehead (2023-07-21). Workers World Party remembers Minnie Bruce Pratt. workers.org Minnie Bruce Pratt was already a renowned lesbian poet, author and anti-racist activist even before she joined Workers World Party over 20 years ago. She became a managing editor of Workers World/Mundo Obrero newspaper following the death of her longtime partner and spouse, Leslie Feinberg, in 2014. Minnie Bruce Pratt . . . |

thecommunists (2023-07-21). Comrade Tongogara, who dedicated his life to the cause of freedom. thecommunists.org Lalkar is sad to announce the death of Comrade Tongogara, who breathed his last on 11 May this year. Born Danny Morrell on 6 February 1942, he adopted the name Tongogara after the great Zimbabwean fighter Josiah Tongogara who fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe from the clutches of the racist white minority regime of …

Esther Schrader (2023-07-21). Complaint details discriminatory impact of school closures in Louisiana parish. splcenter.org

Meredith Reiches (2023-07-22). Perspectives] What we get wrong about patriarchy. thelancet.com In June, 2022, when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the 1973 case protecting the right to abortion at the federal level, Senator Susan Collins, a Republican legislator from Maine, criticised the decision in a statement in a press release. The Supreme Court, she wrote, had "abandoned a fifty-year precedent at a time that the country is desperate for stability" and she drew attention to "the importance of supporting long-standing precedents". It is noteworthy that, in her statement, Collins did not reach for the language of freedom, equality, or progress to express dismay at the abrogation of a right th…

WSWS (2023-07-22). Oklahoma and Alabama carry out back-to-back executions by lethal injection. wsws.org Lethal injection was used to execute Jemaine Cannon on Thursday morning in Oklahoma and James Barber on Friday morning in Alabama, after last-minute legal challenges were struck down by an appeals court and the US Supreme Court.

Chris Walker (2023-07-21). Alabama GOP Defies Supreme Court Order to Pass Maps Empowering Black Voters. truthout.org The Republican-controlled Alabama state legislature is set to defy a mandate from the U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate courts by passing a new congressional map that will only include one majority-Black district. After the last census, Alabama passed new maps that "packed" Black voters in the state within a single district. A federal court ruled last year that the map in question was unfair… |

Robert Reich (2023-07-21). How to fix a broken Supreme Court. nationofchange.org The Supreme Court derives its strength not from the use of force or political power, but from the trust of the people.

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-21). Senate Democrats Advance Bill to Force Supreme Court to Adopt Ethics Code. truthout.org Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation on Thursday that would force the Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code for the first time in history. The committee voted along party lines to approve Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (D-Rhode Island) Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act, which is aimed at reining in corruption among justices in a time when new… |

Trisha Trigilio (2023-07-21). The Illinois Supreme Court Cash Bail Ruling, Explained. aclu.org Under a Why was there a lawsuit over it?: | Despite broad support for this law, including support from victims' rights advocates, law enforcement officials filed multiple lawsu…

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Electoral Body of Guatemala Condemns Raid Against It. telesurenglish.net The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Guatemala stated that the proceedings carried out by the Special Prosecutor's Office Against Impunity (FECI) in its Human Resources offices and against the person in charge of the Registry of Citizens, Eleonora Castillo, are not "coherent or consistent". | Related: | Through a communiqué, the TSE pointed out that these actions "provoke an adverse environment to legality" and…

Press Associates (2023-07-21). Union-backed coalition throws weight behind effort to revive Freedom to Vote Act. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—Four big unions—the Teachers (AFT), the Communications Workers, the Service Employees, and AFSCME—plus Pride at Work and the Working Families Party, were among 260 groups who renewed their support for a wide-ranging pro-voting rights bill in D.C. this week. The Freedom to Vote Act, pushed by congressional Democratic leaders, was expected to come up …

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2023-07-21: News Headlines

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Lebanon Condemns New Attack on Quran in Stockholm. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Lebanon condemned an attack on Quran in Stockholm, saying "it constitutes a continuous violation of Muslims' feelings and dignity." | RELATED: | A statement released by Lebanon's Foreign Affairs Ministry called on Swedish authorities to take appropriate measures to end all acts that deepen feelings of hatred, Islamophobia and racism, incite violence, and insult religions. | The Lebanese statement comes in…

Mike Ludwig (2023-07-21). 60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty. truthout.org Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to serve their own agendas. The Constitution is "colorblind," they claim, and if this flies in the face of… |

Editor (2023-07-20). 58% Depressed: The Racism of Israel's Apartheid Regime Toward Palestinians Shows in Their Mental Health. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — While the Democrats in Washington, D.C. conduct a bizarre debate about whether Israel is a racist state, The World Bank has released some findings from its The Palestinian Psychological Conditions Survey (PPCS). They are summarized by Alia Aghajanian, Arden Finn, Gianluca Mele, and Nadir Mohammed. In a survey …

Dave Zirin (2023-07-20). Athletes boycotted games in 2020 to demand racial justice. Where's the fire gone? therealnews.com The growth of the Black Lives Matter movement through the 2010s catalyzed a resurgence of Black activism in professional sports that had its climax in 2020 with the athletes' boycott following the shooting of Jacob Blake. Just a few years later, this energy seems to have dissipated. What happened, and how can we comprehend these recent events in the longer arc of Black activism in sports? Sports journalist and author Howard Bryant joins Dave Zirin on Edge of Sports for a look at the build-up to 2020 and how many athletes' politics were co-opted in the aftermath. | Later in the show, Zirin shares some 'Choic…

Editor (2023-07-21). 'Israel Is an Apartheid State': Progressives Explain Decision to Boycott Israeli President's Speech. scheerpost.com "It's contradictory to claim to support human rights when you're arming the oppressors with billions of dollars of bullets and bombs," said Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush.

thenation (2023-07-21). In Jenin, as Elsewhere, Netanyahu Knows He Can Count on Washington's Complicity. thenation.com As America's nonresponse to the attack on Jenin demonstrates, support for Israeli apartheid is fully bipartisan.

Anonymous834 (2023-07-21). Israel's Apartheid Versus South Africa's Apartheid: The U.S. Congress Is More Unanimously Supportive of Israel's Apartheid Than It Was Of South Africa's. southfront.org Written by Eric Zuesse On Wednesday, July 19th, the Asian-American Sharon Zhang headlined "Only 9 House Reps Vote Against Resolution Denying Israeli…

Jessica Buxbaum (2023-07-20). Sierra Club Workers Challenge Leadership's Greenwashing 'Apartheid Tours'. mintpressnews.com In June, members of the Sierra Club unit of the Progressive Workers Union (PWU) passed a resolution pledging solidarity with the Palestinian people as the environmental organization pushes forward with its planned trips to Israel. | The workers' resolution puts its words into action by ensuring union funds aren't investing in Israel's settler enterprise and contributing to the oppression of Palestinians. It also calls for establishing a Palestine solidarity committee to foster relationships with Palestinian-led organizations and help educate members on the connections between Palestine and Indigenous struggles in…

Miko Peled (2023-07-20). Isaac Herzog's Visit to Congress: A Showcase of Apartheid Apologetics. mintpressnews.com On the fallout from Isaac Herzog's visit to Washington and the pathetic display of apartheid apologetics borne of a single congresswoman's bravery to dare call Israel what it is: a racist state.

_____ (2023-07-21). Historical Falsification in the Service of Pro-War Propaganda. strategic-culture.org In its latest foray into the realm of historical falsification, the New York Times on Tuesday published a news analysis pinning the blame for World War II on the Soviet Union. The lengthy article authored by Andrew E. Kramer, entitled "A Current War Collides with the Past: Remnants of World War II in Ukraine," makes no mention of either the Holocaust or the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet people.

Staff (2023-07-21). "The Wind Knows My Name": Novelist Isabel Allende on Child Separation from the Nazis to U.S. Border. democracynow.org In an in-depth interview about her work, we speak with Isabel Allende, one of the world's most celebrated novelists, author of 26 books that have sold more than 77 million copies and have been translated into 42 languages. Her books include The House of the Spirits, Paula and Daughter of Fortune, and her latest novel is The Wind Knows My Name, which looks at the trauma of child-family separation, from Nazi Germany to the U.S.-Mexico border, and those on the frontlines helping migrant children. "That idea of separating the kids is extremely cruel, but it keeps happening," Allende tells Democracy…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-20). Lord of the Underworld: Meet the Paratrooper from North Carolina who Helped Orchestrate the War in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Evan Reif Brian Boyenger [Source: foreigncombatants.ru] One of the great mysteries surrounding the Maidan coup and the civil war which has followed is how the rabble of soccer hooligans and neo-Nazis who orchestrated the coup were able to become an army capable of subjugating the nation so quickly. Despite Western narratives, the Maidan was a…

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Denmark: Another Incident of Quran Burning. telesurenglish.net A Danish far-right anti-Islam group burned a copy of the Holy Quran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen. | Related: | On Friday, an Anadolu Agency correspondent said that members of the group, which calls itself "Danske Patrioter" (Danish Patriots), waved anti-Islam banners and chanted insulting slogans against Islam. | Followers of the group threw the Iraqi flag and the Quran on the ground and stomped on them. They also posted a live video on the group's Facebook accoun…

Susana Khalil (2023-07-21). Judaism Is a Religion, Not a People; Palestine Is Not a Religion, It Is a People. orinocotribune.com By Susana Khalil — Jul 19, 2023 | The epitome of artificial secularism and the true Euro-Zionist colonial anachronism: Israel. | Honor and glory to Europe; its secularism cost it centuries of blood, cruelty, horror, and terror. With its so-called secularism nowadays, it atrociously defends and venerates its fictional "nation-state" Israel, which does not hold its origins in a people, but in a religion. | The European Zionist movement succeeded in 1948 in imposing a colonial regime in Palestine. It makes aesthetic use of Judaism, the mere religious semitic legacy that is part of Arab ancestry and heritage, f…

Sara Flounders (2023-07-20). A Visit to Xinjiang, China Makes Clear that U.S. Government and Media Have Hoodwinked Public into Believing China Committed Genocide Against the Uyghur. covertactionmagazine.com Politicized Allegations Are False Propaganda Designed to Mobilize Public Opinion Against China in Support of War U.S. propaganda is powerful. Responding to an increase in U.S. attacks on China, a delegation was organized by the China/U.S. Solidarity Network, which then visited China from May 11 to May 31. One focus of the trip was a …

teleSUR (2023-07-20). Egypt: Activist Pardoned One Day After Conviction. telesurenglish.net Egypt's president Abdul Fattah Al-Sissi pardoned human rights activist and researcher Patrick Zaki and his lawyer, Moahmed el-Baqer, a day after Zaki was sentenced to three years in prison over an online article he wrote describing discrimination against Egypt's Coptic Christian minority. | Related: | The courts impose sentences on Zaki in a national emergency situation, and although the state of emergency was lifted in 2021, the trials c…

Art Persyko (2023-07-21). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Israeli Air Force Reservists Protest Against Judicial Reform. telesurenglish.net On Friday, 1,142 volunteer reservists of the Israeli Air Force announced their suspension of service in protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reform. | RELATED: | They conveyed their decision in a letter addressed to Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Air Force Chief Tomer Bar. The Air Force volunteers joined over 4,000 reservists from various Army units who have announced similar measures in recent weeks. | The reservists call on the N…

Anonymous669 (2023-07-21). Israel Receives Three New F-35 Stealth Fighter Jets From U.S. (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Israeli Air Force. | The Israeli Air Force (IAF) had received three new F-35 stealth fighter jets, the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, announced on July 21. | The jets landed at the Nevatim air base a day earlier. The delivery brought the number of F-35s in service with the IAF to 39. Adding to the number, an experimental fighter jet known as AS-15 stationed at the Tel Nof air base. | The IAF operates a special version of the F-35A modified with Israeli-ma…

Anonymous669 (2023-07-21). Israeli Army Started Fire On Front With Lebanon To Remove Mines (Videos, Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. By Ali Shoeib. | On July 20, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) started a fire along the separation line with Lebanon, causing dozens of old mines planted there to explode. |

teleSUR, nama, JDO (2023-07-21). Manifestaciones en Israel dejan al menos 15 detenidos. telesurtv.net Unas siete personas fueron detenidas solo en Tel Aviv, donde los activistas bloquearon la autopista Ayalon varias horas.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-21). One Palestinian youth killed, four others wounded in Israeli occupation's raid on Nablus. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinians were resisting Israeli occupation forces who stormed the area to provide security cover to illegal settlers invading the locality. Since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in 1967, extremist right-wing settlers have tried to claim exclusive access to Joseph's Shrine, which has been visited by people of all faiths for ages…

WSWS (2023-07-21). Congress, Biden embrace Israeli racists and warmongers. wsws.org While Congress overwhelmingly approved a resolution denying that Israel is a racist state, the White House invited the racist-in-chief, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to make an official visit to Washington..

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-07-21). Israeli blockade of Gaza threatens the lives of cancer patients. plenglish.com Ramallah, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) The lack of medicines caused by Israel's blockade threatens the lives of over 9,000 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip, the health authorities denounced.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-07-20). Lebanon's 2006 Victory Demolished 'Israel's' 'Deterrence Capacity' and Led to Today's Resistance. orinocotribune.com By Robert Inlakesh — Jul 16, 2023 | "Israel" now finds itself surrounded by a united Resistance to the North and South, while it fails to prevent the development of a new Resistance stronghold inside the occupied West Bank | The victory of Lebanon, in forcing the Israeli occupation army to withdraw and flee Lebanese territory, in the war of 2006, not only represented the first defeat inflicted on the Zionist Entity by an Arab force but also built a deterrence capacity against the occupying regime. This led the Israeli military to focus on the Resistance forces in the Gaza Strip, which would eventually develo…

_____ (2023-07-20). Israel and Saudi Arabia — Will it be against or for the agreement? journal-neo.org

Philip Weiss (2023-07-20). Biden, Jayapal, and liberal Zionists rush to prop up the Israel lobby for 2024. mronline.org Liberal Zionists rushed to affirm their support for Israel and hatred of anti-Zionism in the wake of the Pramila Jayapal "racist state" comment because they are afraid the Israel lobby will abandon the Democratic party.

mforinoco (2023-07-20). 33-Day Israeli War on Lebanon Marked 'Strategic Turning Point' for Resistance. orinocotribune.com By Hiba Morad — Jul 18, 2023 | This week, 17 years ago, the Israeli regime launched an all-out war against Lebanon, a small West Asian country neighboring the occupied Palestinian territories. | After 33 days of intense fighting, on August 14, 2006, the tiny nation of brave people captured the imagination of the world for inflicting crushing defeat on a relatively dominant entity. | The resistance fighters in the Arab country, located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, destroyed the regime's illusion of invincibility and forever changed the power equations. | During the 33-day war, Lebanese resi…

Ruwaida Amer (2023-07-20). Flights from Israel won't end Gaza's isolation. electronicintifada.net Offers of trips via Ramon Airport have aroused quite a few suspicions.

Monica Moorehead (2023-07-21). Workers World Party remembers Minnie Bruce Pratt. workers.org Minnie Bruce Pratt was already a renowned lesbian poet, author and anti-racist activist even before she joined Workers World Party over 20 years ago. She became a managing editor of Workers World/Mundo Obrero newspaper following the death of her longtime partner and spouse, Leslie Feinberg, in 2014. Minnie Bruce Pratt . . . |

thecommunists (2023-07-21). Comrade Tongogara, who dedicated his life to the cause of freedom. thecommunists.org Lalkar is sad to announce the death of Comrade Tongogara, who breathed his last on 11 May this year. Born Danny Morrell on 6 February 1942, he adopted the name Tongogara after the great Zimbabwean fighter Josiah Tongogara who fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe from the clutches of the racist white minority regime of …

teleSUR (2023-07-20). New York City to Pay $13 Million to George Floyd Protesters. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the New York City Hall agreed to pay compensation of US$13.7 to 1,380 protesters who were affected by the illegal tactics used by the Police during the repression of anti-racist protests that occurred between May 28 and June 4, 2020. | RELATED: | More specifically, New York City will pay US$9,950 to each of the citizens who filed a class action lawsuit for violation of constitutional rights against the Police. | In the paym…

Esther Schrader (2023-07-21). Complaint details discriminatory impact of school closures in Louisiana parish. splcenter.org

Meredith Reiches (2023-07-22). Perspectives] What we get wrong about patriarchy. thelancet.com In June, 2022, when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the 1973 case protecting the right to abortion at the federal level, Senator Susan Collins, a Republican legislator from Maine, criticised the decision in a statement in a press release. The Supreme Court, she wrote, had "abandoned a fifty-year precedent at a time that the country is desperate for stability" and she drew attention to "the importance of supporting long-standing precedents". It is noteworthy that, in her statement, Collins did not reach for the language of freedom, equality, or progress to express dismay at the abrogation of a right th…

Robert Reich (2023-07-21). How to fix a broken Supreme Court. nationofchange.org The Supreme Court derives its strength not from the use of force or political power, but from the trust of the people.

teleSUR (2023-07-21). Electoral Body of Guatemala Condemns Raid Against It. telesurenglish.net The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Guatemala stated that the proceedings carried out by the Special Prosecutor's Office Against Impunity (FECI) in its Human Resources offices and against the person in charge of the Registry of Citizens, Eleonora Castillo, are not "coherent or consistent". | Related: | Through a communiqué, the TSE pointed out that these actions "provoke an adverse environment to legality" and…

Trisha Trigilio (2023-07-21). The Illinois Supreme Court Cash Bail Ruling, Explained. aclu.org Under a Why was there a lawsuit over it?: | Despite broad support for this law, including support from victims' rights advocates, law enforcement officials filed multiple lawsu…

Chris Walker (2023-07-21). Alabama GOP Defies Supreme Court Order to Pass Maps Empowering Black Voters. truthout.org The Republican-controlled Alabama state legislature is set to defy a mandate from the U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate courts by passing a new congressional map that will only include one majority-Black district. After the last census, Alabama passed new maps that "packed" Black voters in the state within a single district. A federal court ruled last year that the map in question was unfair… |

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-21). Senate Democrats Advance Bill to Force Supreme Court to Adopt Ethics Code. truthout.org Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation on Thursday that would force the Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code for the first time in history. The committee voted along party lines to approve Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (D-Rhode Island) Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act, which is aimed at reining in corruption among justices in a time when new… |

teleSUR, nama (2023-07-21). Ente electoral de Guatemala condena allanamiento en su contra. telesurtv.net Fiscalía de Guatemala allanó por segunda vez la sede del Tribunal Supremo en búsqueda de evidencias y registros.

teleSUR odr DRL (2023-07-21). Piden no aplicar auto de reelección presidencial en El Salvador. telesurtv.net Desde la sociedad civil presentaron un escrito ante el TSE donde solicitó que abroguen la resolución 1-2021 de la Sala de lo Constitucional de la Corte Suprema de Justicia (CSJ).

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-07-21). EU mission condemns harassment of STE and Semilla party in Guatemala. plenglish.com Guatemala City, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) Yesterday, the European Union election observation mission (Moeue) strongly condemned the harassment of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (SET) and the Semilla movement by the Attorney General's Office.

Chris Walker (2023-07-20). Florida Will Require Students to Learn Enslaved People "Benefited" From Slavery. truthout.org The Florida Board of Education has approved new curriculum standards for lessons on Black history that racial justice advocates and educators say will whitewash the brutality of white supremacy and slavery in the U.S. The board will now require teachers to tell middle school students that enslaved people gained a "personal benefit" from the skills they learned under slavery before the Civil War. |

Staff (2023-07-20). Guatemala: Electoral Tribunal Reaffirms Movimiento Semilla's Green Light. orinocotribune.com The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Guatemala confirmed this Tuesday, July 18, in a communication sent to the Public Prosecutor's Office that it will not veto the Movimiento Semilla party, the political party to which Bernardo Arévalo, candidate for the presidential runoff on August 20, belongs. | The decision of the electoral court responds to a request—the second of its kind—made to the Attorney General's Office, endorsed by Judge Freddy Orellana, to remove Semilla from the presidential race on charges of corruption, linked to an alleged use of false signatures in order to register the party.

Press Associates (2023-07-21). Union-backed coalition throws weight behind effort to revive Freedom to Vote Act. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—Four big unions—the Teachers (AFT), the Communications Workers, the Service Employees, and AFSCME—plus Pride at Work and the Working Families Party, were among 260 groups who renewed their support for a wide-ranging pro-voting rights bill in D.C. this week. The Freedom to Vote Act, pushed by congressional Democratic leaders, was expected to come up …

Brett Wilkins (2023-07-20). DeSantis sued for 'aggressive campaign' against former felons seeking to restore voting rights. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in A voting rights group on Wednesday sued Republican Florida Gov.

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2023-07-20: News Headlines

Editor (2023-07-20). 58% Depressed: The Racism of Israel's Apartheid Regime Toward Palestinians Shows in Their Mental Health. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — While the Democrats in Washington, D.C. conduct a bizarre debate about whether Israel is a racist state, The World Bank has released some findings from its The Palestinian Psychological Conditions Survey (PPCS). They are summarized by Alia Aghajanian, Arden Finn, Gianluca Mele, and Nadir Mohammed. In a survey …

Editor (2023-07-19). Missing Links in Textbook History: Racism and Race. scheerpost.com By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Race is the child of racism, not the father. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me In 1963, James Baldwin wrote in "The Fire Next Time," "You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were Black and for no other …

Jessica Buxbaum (2023-07-20). Sierra Club Workers Challenge Leadership's Greenwashing 'Apartheid Tours'. mintpressnews.com In June, members of the Sierra Club unit of the Progressive Workers Union (PWU) passed a resolution pledging solidarity with the Palestinian people as the environmental organization pushes forward with its planned trips to Israel. | The workers' resolution puts its words into action by ensuring union funds aren't investing in Israel's settler enterprise and contributing to the oppression of Palestinians. It also calls for establishing a Palestine solidarity committee to foster relationships with Palestinian-led organizations and help educate members on the connections between Palestine and Indigenous struggles in…

Miko Peled (2023-07-20). Isaac Herzog's Visit to Congress: A Showcase of Apartheid Apologetics. mintpressnews.com On the fallout from Isaac Herzog's visit to Washington and the pathetic display of apartheid apologetics borne of a single congresswoman's bravery to dare call Israel what it is: a racist state.

Staff (2023-07-20). Artists pull out of Latitude Festival over its sponsorship from apartheid-supporting Barclays. thecanary.co The Latitude Festival announced Barclaycard as its headline sponsor this year. A quick browse of its website shows the company's name splattered everywhere. However, some artists due to perform at the festival are not having it — and have cancelled their appearances. This is because Barclays itself is a serial abuser of people and planet …

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-19). Only 9 House Reps Vote Against Resolution Denying Israeli Apartheid. truthout.org The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution vowing perpetual allyship with Israel and denying the country's apartheid against Palestinians on Tuesday night, just days after Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) criticized Israel's violent oppression and far right regime over the weekend. The legislation, which states that "Israel is not a racist or apartheid state" despite mountains of evidence and… |

KATIE (2023-07-19). More Than 300 Israeli Apartheid Free Zones Across Italy. bdsmovement.net

teleSUR, JGN (2023-07-20). Presidente Ortega pide a la Unión Europea respeto para Nicaragua. telesurtv.net Ortega reveló que los europeos presionaron para que "el fascista, el nazi presidente de Ucrania (Volodímir Zelenski)" estuviera en la Cumbre de la Celac y la UE.

Staff (2023-07-19). The Whitewashing of Neo-Nazis: Lev Golinkin & Ben Makuch on How Far Right Is Exploiting Ukraine War. democracynow.org Multiple reports are reinvestigating the neo-Nazi fighters and militias involved in the war both in Russia and Ukraine. "You have neo-Nazis on both sides of this conflict," says Ukrainian American journalist Lev Golinkin, a longtime reporter on the far right in Ukraine and Russia who is critical of the Western media's normalization of groups like the Azov Battalion. "We are sending a very dangerous message that if you're the right type of neo-Nazis, we will not only work with you, we will celebrate you," Golinkin notes. | We also speak with national security reporter Ben Makuch…

Drago Bosnic (2023-07-19). Ukraine's Unrelenting Demographic Collapse. Towards a Failed State under Kiev Nazi Regime. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-07-19). Historical falsification in the service of pro-war propaganda. wsws.org The Times' pro-war propaganda has given way to pro-Nazi apologetics.

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2023-07-19). The US-Nazi Connection Since World War II: From Inspiring the Third Reich to Supporting the Neo-Nazis of Ukraine. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-07-20). How the Israel Lobby Tried to Tank Jeremy Corbyn: In-Depth Analysis w/ Asa Winstanley. soundcloud.com A massive, years-long smear campaign was launched against anti-war, anti-elite Jeremy Corbyn shortly after his election to lead the British Labour Party. The campaign targeted Corbyn and his supporters as being anti-Semitic. What's the truth and what really happened? Walter Smolarek is joined by investigative journalist Asa Winstanley, who writes for the Electronic Intifada and …

Editor (2023-07-19). Patriarchy and the origins of women's oppression. mronline.org Any vision of a world beyond capitalism involves the liberation of women from oppression, exploitation and discrimination. But just because we might have been able to win revolutionary social change, it does not mean that equal economic, social and cultural rights will be automatic for women.

Mike Walter (2023-07-19). The Heat: Far Right Growing in Europe. america.cgtn.com The far-right is making gains in Europe and becoming more mainstream. All across Europe, from Sweden to Greece, far-right parties are gaining strength and winning seats in parliaments. In Italy, Giorgia Meloni, became western Europe's first far-right prime minister since World War II, when she …

Art Persyko (2023-07-20). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

teleSUR (2023-07-20). Israeli Army Kills Palestinian in Nablus. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Israeli occupation forces killed Badr Sami Ribhi Masri, a 19-year-old Palestinian youth, and wounded three people in Nablus. | RELATED: | The Palestinian Health Ministry informed that the injured were taken to Rafidia Hospital, where two of them remain in serious condition. | About 30 people also suffered suffocation from tear gas, including a 12-year-old girl, said the Red Crescent emergency servi…

Philip Weiss (2023-07-20). Biden, Jayapal, and liberal Zionists rush to prop up the Israel lobby for 2024. mronline.org Liberal Zionists rushed to affirm their support for Israel and hatred of anti-Zionism in the wake of the Pramila Jayapal "racist state" comment because they are afraid the Israel lobby will abandon the Democratic party.

Ruwaida Amer (2023-07-20). Flights from Israel won't end Gaza's isolation. electronicintifada.net Offers of trips via Ramon Airport have aroused quite a few suspicions.

mforinoco (2023-07-20). 33-Day Israeli War on Lebanon Marked 'Strategic Turning Point' for Resistance. orinocotribune.com By Hiba Morad — Jul 18, 2023 | This week, 17 years ago, the Israeli regime launched an all-out war against Lebanon, a small West Asian country neighboring the occupied Palestinian territories. | After 33 days of intense fighting, on August 14, 2006, the tiny nation of brave people captured the imagination of the world for inflicting crushing defeat on a relatively dominant entity. | The resistance fighters in the Arab country, located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, destroyed the regime's illusion of invincibility and forever changed the power equations. | During the 33-day war, Lebanese resi…

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-07-20). Un joven palestino muere a manos del Ejército de Israel. telesurtv.net Según medios locales, el incidente fue después de que el jefe de la Policía de Israel, Kobi Shabtai, visitara la Tumba de José.

_____ (2023-07-20). Israel and Saudi Arabia — Will it be against or for the agreement? journal-neo.org

aljazeera (2023-07-20). Why the Western media lied about Israel's Jenin siege. aljazeera.com The brutal assault was an 'operation' in their accounts, dripping with insincerity that George Orwell warned about.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-07-19). PA President Mahmoud Abbas: A Puppet in the Hands of Israel and the US? mintpressnews.com Despite its near complete failure, the Oslo Accords succeeded in one thing: it provided Israel with a Palestinian force whose main mission is to assist the Israeli occupation in its quest to maintain total control over the West Bank.

Ryan Cristián (2023-07-19). Investigation Found East Palestine "Controlled Burn" Unnecessary (Norfolk Lied) & Israel Bombs Syria. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (7/19/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Robert Inlakesh (2023-07-19). Israel's Attack On Jenin Failed, So Tel Aviv Uses The Palestinian Authority To Do Its Dirty Work. thelastamericanvagabond.com This Monday, Palestinians across various cities inside the occupied West Bank took to the streets in protest of the Palestinian Authority's arrest campaign of resistance fighters wanted by the Israeli military. In the wake of Israel's failed invasion of Jenin, which fell short of dealing a blow to the newly formed armed groups in the

Rajaa Salah (2023-07-19). "Prisoners are alive but without life" electronicintifada.net Yusri Atiya al-Masri is free after two decades in Israeli prison, but he still struggles with the consequences of years of medical neglect.

Dave DeCamp (2023-07-19). Two Syrian Soldiers Wounded in Israeli Airstrikes on Damascus. news.antiwar.com Israeli airstrikes targeted Syria's capital Damascus early Wednesday morning, wounding two Syrian soldiers, Syrian media has reported. "At about 12: 25 am, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression with bursts of missiles from the direction of the north of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points in the vicinity of Damascus," a military source …

scorinoco (2023-07-19). Israel Recognizes Morocco's Illegal Occupation of Western Sahara. orinocotribune.com Israel has recognized Morocco's sovereignty over the occupied territory of Western Sahara and is considering opening a consulate there, Reuters has In response, a senior Moroccan government official

Caleb Crowder (2023-07-19). On Israel and Palestine, US Electeds Are Out of Touch With Their Own Voters. ips-dc.org The United States' support for Israel—military, financial, diplomatic and more—is an old story. It hasn't changed much, other than to escalate. Israel bombs Gaza, and Congress votes to send hundreds of millions of dollars beyond the $3.8 billion mandated by law, and to send new weapons to replace those used up in the assault. Israeli settlers officially backed by police and military raid Jenin and other West Bank towns, attacking residents and seizing land to expand illegal settlements, all in violation of international law, and Washington continues to protect Israel from ever being held accountable i…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-19). Rights groups urge US Congress to order investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh's killing. peoplesdispatch.org The well-known Palestinian journalist was killed by Israeli soldiers while covering a violent raid by occupation forces in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank last year…

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-07-19). Syria urges UN to take measures against Israeli attacks. plenglish.com In a statement, the Foreign Ministry urged the UNSC to assume its role and condemn the attack, in addition to taking immediate measures to force Israel to remove those criminal policies that flagrantly violate international and humanitarian law. | The Ministry further called on those Western governments protecting and supporting Tel Aviv not to obstruct UNSC ¥s work on putting an end to crimes by the Israeli occupation authorities and holding them accountable. | In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Israeli fighter jets launched several missile barrages at sites nearby Damascus City, causing injuries to tw…

Israel Shahak (2023-07-19). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…

teleSUR (2023-07-20). New York City to Pay $13 Million to George Floyd Protesters. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the New York City Hall agreed to pay compensation of US$13.7 to 1,380 protesters who were affected by the illegal tactics used by the Police during the repression of anti-racist protests that occurred between May 28 and June 4, 2020. | RELATED: | More specifically, New York City will pay US$9,950 to each of the citizens who filed a class action lawsuit for violation of constitutional rights against the Police. | In the paym…

Mike Ludwig (2023-07-19). Family Suspects Racist Policing, Foul Play in Mysterious Death of Daniel Barajas. truthout.org Both of his sisters had recently given birth, so in January 2022, Daniel Adrian Barajas was driving from Kentucky to Dallas, Texas, to meet his new niece and nephew. Barajas, a 38-year-old specialty welder, did not make it beyond Saline County, Arkansas, where his family says local law enforcement detained, searched and then "abandoned" him on Interstate 30. Daniel Barajas was fatally — and… |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-19). Haitians Protest UN Occupation and Pending Foreign "Intervention" libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison Haitians protest oligarchic rule, UN occupation, and foreign military "intervention." The US and Canada have been arguing for a multilateral military intervention in Haiti led by the army of a third country, possibly even Rwanda, to support the puppet regime that they installed. They are using "gang violence" as the racist excuse, but…

Editor (2023-07-20). Hornet's nest of misogynist enablers. workers.org This time even the Supreme Court of the United States "liberals" got it wrong. On June 27, in a 7-to-2 ruling reversing a lower court's decision in Counterman v. Colorado, SCOTUS prioritized so-called "free speech" over protecting millions of victims of stalking — primarily women and gender-oppressed people. According to . . . |

Staff (2023-07-20). Guatemala: Electoral Tribunal Reaffirms Movimiento Semilla's Green Light. orinocotribune.com The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Guatemala confirmed this Tuesday, July 18, in a communication sent to the Public Prosecutor's Office that it will not veto the Movimiento Semilla party, the political party to which Bernardo Arévalo, candidate for the presidential runoff on August 20, belongs. | The decision of the electoral court responds to a request—the second of its kind—made to the Attorney General's Office, endorsed by Judge Freddy Orellana, to remove Semilla from the presidential race on charges of corruption, linked to an alleged use of false signatures in order to register the party.

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-07-20). Presidente Lula exige sancionar a agresor de juez del Supremo. telesurtv.net "Necesitamos castigar severamente a las personas que todavía transmiten odio", afirmó el mandatario petista.

Editor (2023-07-19). Everybody should see "Every Body" mronline.org A wave of exclusion is sweeping the nation, in state legislatures and federal courts, including the Supreme Court.

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2023-07-19: News Headlines

Editor (2023-07-19). Missing Links in Textbook History: Racism and Race. scheerpost.com By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Race is the child of racism, not the father. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me In 1963, James Baldwin wrote in "The Fire Next Time," "You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were Black and for no other …

KATIE (2023-07-19). More Than 300 Israeli Apartheid Free Zones Across Italy. bdsmovement.net

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-19). Only 9 House Reps Vote Against Resolution Denying Israeli Apartheid. truthout.org The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution vowing perpetual allyship with Israel and denying the country's apartheid against Palestinians on Tuesday night, just days after Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) criticized Israel's violent oppression and far right regime over the weekend. The legislation, which states that "Israel is not a racist or apartheid state" despite mountains of evidence and… |

KATIE (2023-07-18). On Nelson Mandela Day, 250 civil society organizations worldwide call on UN to investigate Israeli apartheid. bdsmovement.net

PACBI (2023-07-18). During the Women's World Cup, Call Out FIFA and PUMA's Complicity in Israeli Apartheid. bdsmovement.net

Staff (2023-07-18). Palestinian Attorney Noura Erakat: The U.S. Is Normalizing Apartheid by Hosting Israel's President. democracynow.org As President Biden meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House today, several progressive Democrats have announced plans to boycott Herzog's address to a joint session of Congress. This comes after Biden invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the United States this year despite recently criticizing the makeup of Netanyahu's far-right Cabinet as "one of the most extremist" he has seen. The visits from Israeli leadership are an attempt to "normalize apartheid," says Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat, who compares today's U.S…


Amy Goodman (2023-07-18). Palestinians Say US Is "Normalizing Apartheid" by Hosting Israeli President. truthout.org As President Biden meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House today, several progressive Democrats have announced plans to boycott Herzog's address to a joint session of Congress. This comes after Biden invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the United States this year despite recently criticizing the makeup of Netanyahu's far-right Cabinet as "one of the most… |

WSWS (2023-07-19). Historical falsification in the service of pro-war propaganda. wsws.org The Times' pro-war propaganda has given way to pro-Nazi apologetics.

Staff (2023-07-19). The Whitewashing of Neo-Nazis: Lev Golinkin & Ben Makuch on How Far Right Is Exploiting Ukraine War. democracynow.org Multiple reports are reinvestigating the neo-Nazi fighters and militias involved in the war both in Russia and Ukraine. "You have neo-Nazis on both sides of this conflict," says Ukrainian American journalist Lev Golinkin, a longtime reporter on the far right in Ukraine and Russia who is critical of the Western media's normalization of groups like the Azov Battalion. "We are sending a very dangerous message that if you're the right type of neo-Nazis, we will not only work with you, we will celebrate you," Golinkin notes. | We also speak with national security reporter Ben Makuch…

Drago Bosnic (2023-07-19). Ukraine's Unrelenting Demographic Collapse. Towards a Failed State under Kiev Nazi Regime. globalresearch.ca

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2023-07-19). The US-Nazi Connection Since World War II: From Inspiring the Third Reich to Supporting the Neo-Nazis of Ukraine. globalresearch.ca

infobrics (2023-07-18). New attack on Crimean Bridge shows terrorist nature of Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime. infobrics.org Unable to win militarily, Kiev focuses on terrorist tactics in its so-called "counteroffensive".




Editor (2023-07-19). Patriarchy and the origins of women's oppression. mronline.org Any vision of a world beyond capitalism involves the liberation of women from oppression, exploitation and discrimination. But just because we might have been able to win revolutionary social change, it does not mean that equal economic, social and cultural rights will be automatic for women.

Mike Walter (2023-07-19). The Heat: Far Right Growing in Europe. america.cgtn.com The far-right is making gains in Europe and becoming more mainstream. All across Europe, from Sweden to Greece, far-right parties are gaining strength and winning seats in parliaments. In Italy, Giorgia Meloni, became western Europe's first far-right prime minister since World War II, when she …

Art Persyko (2023-07-19). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

teleSUR, YSM (2023-07-19). Canciller de Venezuela insta a construir un mundo diferente. telesurtv.net Gil resaltó las alianzas del capitalismo con el fascismo en distintos momentos de la historia, y destacó que en los últimos tiempos, se evidencian en el avance de las derechas.

Ciarán Giles (2023-07-18). Los fascistas podrían volver al gobierno en España por primera vez desde la muerte de Franco. peoplesworld.org MADRID (AP) — Las elecciones generales de España el domingo podrían convertir al país en el último miembro de la Unión Europea en girar hacia la derecha, un cambio que representaría un cambio importante después de cinco años bajo un gobierno de izquierda. El presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, convocó elecciones anticipadas después de que …

Ciarán Giles (2023-07-18). Fascists could return to government in Spain for first time since Franco's death. peoplesworld.org MADRID (AP)—Spain's general election on Sunday could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the right, a shift that would represent a major upheaval after five years under a left-wing government. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and its small far-left coalition partner, Unidas Podemos ("United …

Editor (2023-07-19). Patriarchy and the origins of women's oppression. mronline.org Any vision of a world beyond capitalism involves the liberation of women from oppression, exploitation and discrimination. But just because we might have been able to win revolutionary social change, it does not mean that equal economic, social and cultural rights will be automatic for women.

Mike Walter (2023-07-19). The Heat: Far Right Growing in Europe. america.cgtn.com The far-right is making gains in Europe and becoming more mainstream. All across Europe, from Sweden to Greece, far-right parties are gaining strength and winning seats in parliaments. In Italy, Giorgia Meloni, became western Europe's first far-right prime minister since World War II, when she …

Art Persyko (2023-07-19). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

teleSUR, YSM (2023-07-19). Canciller de Venezuela insta a construir un mundo diferente. telesurtv.net Gil resaltó las alianzas del capitalismo con el fascismo en distintos momentos de la historia, y destacó que en los últimos tiempos, se evidencian en el avance de las derechas.

Ciarán Giles (2023-07-18). Los fascistas podrían volver al gobierno en España por primera vez desde la muerte de Franco. peoplesworld.org MADRID (AP) — Las elecciones generales de España el domingo podrían convertir al país en el último miembro de la Unión Europea en girar hacia la derecha, un cambio que representaría un cambio importante después de cinco años bajo un gobierno de izquierda. El presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, convocó elecciones anticipadas después de que …

Ciarán Giles (2023-07-18). Fascists could return to government in Spain for first time since Franco's death. peoplesworld.org MADRID (AP)—Spain's general election on Sunday could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the right, a shift that would represent a major upheaval after five years under a left-wing government. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and its small far-left coalition partner, Unidas Podemos ("United …

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2023-07-18). No Labels: A Republican-backed group set on Trump's 2024 comeback. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Spoiler alert! Corporate chieftains and big givers, all but one of them nameless, thanks to federal rules, are poised to spoil next year's election and the effort to defeat the menace of Republican right-winger and fascist favorite Donald Trump. The moguls are funding their pro-Trump campaign through an allegedly non-partisan non-profit, No Labels. How non-partisan …

Rajaa Salah (2023-07-19). "Prisoners are alive but without life" electronicintifada.net Yusri Atiya al-Masri is free after two decades in Israeli prison, but he still struggles with the consequences of years of medical neglect.

Israel Shahak (2023-07-19). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…

Caleb Crowder (2023-07-19). On Israel and Palestine, US Electeds Are Out of Touch With Their Own Voters. ips-dc.org The United States' support for Israel—military, financial, diplomatic and more—is an old story. It hasn't changed much, other than to escalate. Israel bombs Gaza, and Congress votes to send hundreds of millions of dollars beyond the $3.8 billion mandated by law, and to send new weapons to replace those used up in the assault. Israeli settlers officially backed by police and military raid Jenin and other West Bank towns, attacking residents and seizing land to expand illegal settlements, all in violation of international law, and Washington continues to protect Israel from ever being held accountable i…

Dave DeCamp (2023-07-19). Two Syrian Soldiers Wounded in Israeli Airstrikes on Damascus. news.antiwar.com Israeli airstrikes targeted Syria's capital Damascus early Wednesday morning, wounding two Syrian soldiers, Syrian media has reported. "At about 12: 25 am, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression with bursts of missiles from the direction of the north of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points in the vicinity of Damascus," a military source …

scorinoco (2023-07-19). Israel Recognizes Morocco's Illegal Occupation of Western Sahara. orinocotribune.com Israel has recognized Morocco's sovereignty over the occupied territory of Western Sahara and is considering opening a consulate there, Reuters has In response, a senior Moroccan government official

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-19). Rights groups urge US Congress to order investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh's killing. peoplesdispatch.org The well-known Palestinian journalist was killed by Israeli soldiers while covering a violent raid by occupation forces in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank last year…

Editor (2023-07-19). Biden, Jayapal, and Liberal Zionists Rush to Prop Up the Israel Lobby for 2024. scheerpost.com Liberal Zionists rushed to affirm their support for Israel and hatred of anti-Zionism in the wake of the Pramila Jayapal "racist state" comment because they are afraid the Israel lobby will abandon the Democratic party.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-07-19). PA President Mahmoud Abbas: A Puppet in the Hands of Israel and the US? mintpressnews.com Despite its near complete failure, the Oslo Accords succeeded in one thing: it provided Israel with a Palestinian force whose main mission is to assist the Israeli occupation in its quest to maintain total control over the West Bank.

teleSUR (2023-07-19). Massive Protests Against Judicial Reform Rock Israel. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Israeli demonstrators took to the streets across the country in protest against the far-right coalition's moves to push ahead with the controversial judicial overhaul. | RELATED: | Tens of thousands of protesters participated in the so-called "Day of Disruption," holding rallies on streets in major Israeli cities. Temporary blockades were set up on six highways, including sections of the Ayalon Highways…

Anonymous669 (2023-07-19). Syrian Service Member Killed In Israeli Attack On Damascus (Video). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Israeli Air Force. | Early on July 19, a series of Israeli strikes targeted the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency. | Citing a military source, the official news agency said that Syrian air defenses had confronted Israeli missiles launched at 12.25 am local time [21: 25 GMT] from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and "shot down most of them". Two Syrian service members were wounded in the Isr…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-19). Polisario disqualifies Israeli recognition of Moroccan sovereignty. plenglish.com In a statement issued by the Ministry of Information of the Polisario Front, it underlined that "such a decision is not an achievement for the occupying State of Morocco, but a clear condemnation of an alliance of two discordant states that militarily occupy Western Sahara and the Palestinian territories, respectively (…)." | According to the text spread by the Saharawi agency SPS, Morocco and Israel subjugate the nations with the same practices of oppression, "confiscating their internationally recognized rights to self-determination and independence." | "Israel's decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty ov…

teleSUR- jaa, DRL (2023-07-19). Israelíes salen a la calle contra reforma judicial de Netanyahu. telesurtv.net En un nuevo Día de la Resistencia, el pueblo de Israel se sumó con fogatas y bloqueos en estaciones ferroviarias.

teleSUR- jaa, DRL (2023-07-19). República Saharaui rechaza decisión de Israel sobre su soberanía. telesurtv.net El Gobierno y el Frente Polisario resaltaron que estas declaraciones sólo fortalecerán la determinación del pueblo saharaui por continuar su lucha.

teleSUR, nama, DRL (2023-07-19). Irán y Rusia buscan fecha de reunión cuatripartita sobre Siria. telesurtv.net En mayo ocurrió primer encuentro de estos cancilleres para elaborar hoja de ruta que normalice los lazos turco-sirios.

Staff (2023-07-18). Israeli Forces Blindfold & Handcuff Palestinian Reporter Who Filmed Settler Attack in Masafer Yatta. democracynow.org On Saturday, Basel Adra, reporter for Local Call and +972 Magazine, was detained while covering an Israeli settler attack in the West Bank area of Masafer Yatta. After he refused to hand over his video footage, Israeli soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded him and then sat him in a chair in the blazing sun for hours. The Union of Journalists in Israel denounced Basel's detention, describing it as a "serious violation of freedom of the press." Adra joined the show to discuss the difficulty of witnessing the crimes of Israeli forces against Palestinians as a local journalist. "I'm a Pale…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-07-18). Abbas picks up where Israel left off in Jenin. electronicintifada.net Palestinian Authority's crackdown on armed resistance will only alienate the public.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-07-18). Pramila Jayapal caves in to Israel lobby. electronicintifada.net Biden invites Netanyahu to White House after "warm and long" phone call.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-18). Israel recognizes Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. peoplesdispatch.org Israel is now among the handful of countries which have extended their recognition to the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. It follows in the footsteps of the US which did so during the presidency of Donald Trump in 2020…

Editor (2023-07-18). UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel Has Turned All of Palestine Into 'An Open-Air Prison' to Further Annexation Plans. scheerpost.com Francesca Albanese's June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to "de-Palestinianize" the occupied territory, threatening "the existence of the Palestinians as a people."

Marc Steiner (2023-07-18). Israel's war on Jenin and the push for 'final victory'. therealnews.com In the past year, the city of Jenin in the West Bank has become a particularly sharp thorn in the side of the Israeli occupation. On July 4th and 5th, Israeli forces swept into Jenin Refugee Camp in an attempt to suppress a rising armed resistance emanating from the area. Despite slaughtering 12 Palestinians, Israel accomplished little of military value in the operation, failing to flush out resistance forces or even take and hold the refugee camp. For all its brutal repression, the truth is that Israel today is far weaker than it has been in the past. Externally, international opinion, and particularly Jew…

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-18). House Wastes No Time Crafting Pro-Israel Resolution After Jayapal Criticism. truthout.org The House is set to vote on a resolution today pledging the U.S.'s allegiance to Israel in perpetuity and outright denying Israel's human rights violations, seemingly in order to isolate and punish Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) over a comment criticizing the state over the weekend. The one-page resolution, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), states that "Israel is not a racist or… |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-19). Haitians Protest UN Occupation and Pending Foreign "Intervention" libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison Haitians protest oligarchic rule, UN occupation, and foreign military "intervention." The US and Canada have been arguing for a multilateral military intervention in Haiti led by the army of a third country, possibly even Rwanda, to support the puppet regime that they installed. They are using "gang violence" as the racist excuse, but…

Mike Ludwig (2023-07-19). Family Suspects Racist Policing, Foul Play in Mysterious Death of Daniel Barajas. truthout.org Both of his sisters had recently given birth, so in January 2022, Daniel Adrian Barajas was driving from Kentucky to Dallas, Texas, to meet his new niece and nephew. Barajas, a 38-year-old specialty welder, did not make it beyond Saline County, Arkansas, where his family says local law enforcement detained, searched and then "abandoned" him on Interstate 30. Daniel Barajas was fatally — and… |

Editor (2023-07-19). Everybody should see "Every Body" mronline.org A wave of exclusion is sweeping the nation, in state legislatures and federal courts, including the Supreme Court.

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-07-19). Presidente Lula exige sancionar a agresor de juez del Supremo. telesurtv.net "Necesitamos castigar severamente a las personas que todavía transmiten odio", afirmó el mandatario petista.

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-07-19). Autoridad electoral de Guatemala reitera apoyo a partido Semilla. telesurtv.net Ante esta nueva petición del Ministerio Público el Tribunal Supremo Electoral se limitó a reiterar la necesidad de obedecer la decisión de la Corte de Constitucionalidad.

Michael Fox (2023-07-18). Why the US can't ban Trump from politics like Brazil did to Bolsonaro. therealnews.com Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from holding political office for the next eight years. The country's Supreme Court ruled on June 30 that he had abused his political power, attacked the electoral system and misused the media. Analysts say he's likely to suffer more consequences, as this was just one of more than a dozen cases pending against the former president. | The ruling has left some wondering how Bolsonaro could be stripped of his right to hold office in Brazil, while his idol, Donald Trump, in the United States is still a leading candidate for the Republican nomination next…

Igor Derysh (2023-07-18). Georgia Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Trump's Attempt to Quash Investigation. truthout.org The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday rejected former President Donald Trump's long-shot bid to throw out a special grand jury's investigative findings and disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the proceedings. The court, whose nine justices were mostly appointed by Republican governors, unanimously rejected Trump's motion just three days after he filed it. |

Press Associates (2023-07-18). Judge's order deprives 65,000 NYC delivery drivers of big raise. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK —A New York State Supreme Court judge's order has deprived approximately 65,000 low-paid food delivery drivers for DoorDash, Lyft, and UberEats of a big raise the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission granted to them, pending a July 31 court session. Judge James Coyne's order, at the demand of the three delivery firms, …

teleSUR (2023-07-18). Panama: Martinelli Sentenced to 128 Months in Prison. telesurenglish.net Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli (2009—2014) was sentenced Tuesday to 128 months in prison for the crime of money laundering in the case known as "New Business." | RELATED: | The Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) released the decision in charge of magistrate Baloísa Marquínez, in the case of the purchase of the newspapers "El Panamá América", "Crítica" and "Día a Día" from Editora Panamá América S.A. (EPASA).

Editor (2023-07-18). Catching heat from Big Brother: Education and climate in MAGAland. mronline.org "In Real Time" is a monthly series on our blog by Stan Cox, author of The Path to a Livable Future and The Green New Deal and Beyond. The series follows the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they navigate America's unfolding crisis of democracy. Read previous "In Real Time" dispatches here. Listen to the "In Real Time" …

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2023-07-18: News Headlines

teleSUR, JGN (2023-07-18). Conoce algunas frases de Nelson Mandela contra el racismo. telesurtv.net El líder sudafricano consagró su vida a luchar en contra de la segregación racial y en pro de una sociedad democrática.

WSWS (2023-07-17). Antisemitism and anti-Chinese racism: The case of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wsws.org Kennedy is not just a lunatic bigot. Powerful sections of the US ruling elite are promoting the Wuhan lab lie, claiming China deliberately created the COVID virus, and whitewashing the neo-Nazi forces in the Ukraine war.

Amy Goodman (2023-07-18). Palestinians Say US Is "Normalizing Apartheid" by Hosting Israeli President. truthout.org As President Biden meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House today, several progressive Democrats have announced plans to boycott Herzog's address to a joint session of Congress. This comes after Biden invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the United States this year despite recently criticizing the makeup of Netanyahu's far-right Cabinet as "one of the most… |

KATIE (2023-07-18). On Nelson Mandela Day, 250 civil society organizations worldwide call on UN to investigate Israeli apartheid. bdsmovement.net

Editor (2023-07-17). Chris Hedges: Cornel West and the Campaign to End Political Apartheid. scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-07-17). Cornel West And The Campaign To End Political Apartheid. popularresistance.org The Republican and Democratic parties have no intention of allowing independents and third parties into their exclusive club. A series of arcane laws and rules governing elections make it extremely difficult for outsiders to get on the ballot, receive exposure, raise money, comply with regulations that are designed to advance the interests of Republicans and Democrats or participate in public debates. Third parties and independents are effectively disenfranchised, although 44 percent of the voting public identify as independent. This discrimination is euphemistically labeled "bipartisanship," but the correct term…

infobrics (2023-07-18). New attack on Crimean Bridge shows terrorist nature of Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime. infobrics.org Unable to win militarily, Kiev focuses on terrorist tactics in its so-called "counteroffensive".

Anonymous103 (2023-07-18). War Crime: Azov Fighter Describes How He Killed Civilian In Mariupol. southfront.org

Evan Reif (2023-07-17). Lord of the Underworld: Meet the Paratrooper from North Carolina who Helped Orchestrate the War in Ukraine. covertactionmagazine.com One of the great mysteries surrounding the Maidan coup and the civil war which has followed is how the rabble of soccer hooligans and neo-Nazis who orchestrated the coup were able to become an army capable of subjugating the nation so quickly. Despite Western narratives, the Maidan was a violent coup, and their government was …

Art Persyko (2023-07-18). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

teleSUR, YSM (2023-07-18). Canciller de Venezuela insta a construir un mundo diferente. telesurtv.net Gil resaltó las alianzas del capitalismo con el fascismo en distintos momentos de la historia, y destacó que en los últimos tiempos, se evidencian en el avance de las derechas.

Staff (2023-07-18). Delcy Rodríguez in Brussels: Fascism Will Not Be Tolerated in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, stated at the People's Summit, organized by grassroots organizations in Brussels in parallel to the CELAC-EU Summit, that Latin America and the Caribbean have been careful so that fascism does not grab political power in the region. | "We can say that we are trying to keep fascism away from power in Latin America, and if these ideologies reach political power, we know that it would be costly for our peoples," the Venezuelan vice president said on Monday, July 17, during her participation in the People's Summit plenary. | "If something defines this period of Venezu…

Basav Sen, Foreign Policy in Focus. (2023-07-17). Why I Crashed The White House Garden Party For Narendra Modi. popularresistance.org On June 22, the White House held a "welcoming ceremony" for visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the South Lawn of the White House, where members of the public could register to attend. | I signed up, along with my friends Keya and Apoorva. Our goal was not to welcome Modi, but rather to be a visible presence as dissenting voices. We wore t-shirts with the hand-painted message "Modi=Fascist" under our outer garments and smuggled in printed signs denouncing the Modi government's human rights violations and persecution of religious minorities. | An overwhelming majority of the crowd of more than 1,000 we…

Marc Steiner (2023-07-18). Israel's war on Jenin and the push for 'final victory'. therealnews.com In the past year, the city of Jenin in the West Bank has become a particularly sharp thorn in the side of the Israeli occupation. On July 4th and 5th, Israeli forces swept into Jenin Refugee Camp in an attempt to suppress a rising armed resistance emanating from the area. Despite slaughtering 12 Palestinians, Israel accomplished little of military value in the operation, failing to flush out resistance forces or even take and hold the refugee camp. For all its brutal repression, the truth is that Israel today is far weaker than it has been in the past. Externally, international opinion, and particularly Jew…

Editor (2023-07-18). UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel Has Turned All of Palestine Into 'An Open-Air Prison' to Further Annexation Plans. scheerpost.com Francesca Albanese's June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to "de-Palestinianize" the occupied territory, threatening "the existence of the Palestinians as a people."

teleSUR (2023-07-18). Palestinian Territories Face Unprecedentedly Complex Conditions. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh warned that the Palestinian territories are witnessing unprecedentedly complex conditions at all levels. | RELATED: | During a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah with Stephen Hickey, director of Middle East and North Africa Affairs at the British Foreign Office, Shtayyeh highlighted "the absence of a political horizon, the financial blockade, and the Israeli piracy of our…

teleSUR- jaa, DRL (2023-07-18). República Saharaui rechaza decisión de Israel sobre su soberanía. telesurtv.net El Gobierno y el Frente Polisario resaltaron que estas declaraciones sólo fortalecerán la determinación del pueblo saharaui por continuar su lucha.

teleSUR, nama, DRL (2023-07-18). Irán y Rusia buscan fecha de reunión cuatripartita sobre Siria. telesurtv.net En mayo ocurrió primer encuentro de estos cancilleres para elaborar hoja de ruta que normalice los lazos turco-sirios.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-07-18). Continúan protestas contra reformas judiciales en Israel. telesurtv.net La Policía confirmó la detención de más de 15 personas, 14 en el centro del país, una en la capital y otras dos en la región costera.

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-18). House Wastes No Time Crafting Pro-Israel Resolution After Jayapal Criticism. truthout.org The House is set to vote on a resolution today pledging the U.S.'s allegiance to Israel in perpetuity and outright denying Israel's human rights violations, seemingly in order to isolate and punish Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) over a comment criticizing the state over the weekend. The one-page resolution, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), states that "Israel is not a racist or… |

WSWS (2023-07-18). Leading House Democrat retracts and apologizes for criticism of Israel. wsws.org Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, was in headlong retreat after her truthful remark that Israel is a racist state came under fire.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-18). Israel recognizes Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. peoplesdispatch.org Israel is now among the handful of countries which have extended their recognition to the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. It follows in the footsteps of the US which did so during the presidency of Donald Trump in 2020…

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-07-18). Pramila Jayapal caves in to Israel lobby. electronicintifada.net Biden invites Netanyahu to White House after "warm and long" phone call.

teleSUR- jaa, DRL (2023-07-18). Palestina llama a romper silencio contra los crímenes de Israel. telesurtv.net La cancillería denunció las continuas violaciones de la ocupación israelí.

Editor (2023-07-17). Israel Moves Toward 'Dictatorship' and Polarization. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — On the eve of Israeli President Isaac Herzog's controversial visit to the United States, which several members of Congress say they will boycott, Israeli society is coming apart at the seams. The presidency in Israel is a purely symbolic post. Power resides with the …

_____ (2023-07-17). Palestine: Destruction in Jenin Is 'Catastrophic': This Is What We Know So Far. transcend.org 5 Jul 2023 – Residents who were forced by the Israeli occupation forces to leave their homes and take refuge in hospitals reported that the attacks pursued them inside hospitals, supposed to be a haven. There were 12 Palestinians killed and 120 wounded, 20 of whom in serious condition.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-17). Palestinians denounce Israeli company's decision to reduce West Bank's water supply. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinians already receive three times less amount of water compared to Israelis, and seven times less than the illegal Israeli settlers living in the occupied West Bank…

David Cronin (2023-07-17). EU fears offending Israel — internal paper. electronicintifada.net Why does citizen's watchdog regard secrecy as reasonable?

teleSUR (2023-07-18). Gaza: +9000 Cancer Patients Suffer From Medicine Shortages. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Palestinian health authorities said that the lack of medicines threatens the lives of more than 9,000 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip. | Related: | "Cancer patients in the Gaza Strip suffer from a lack of diagnostic and treatment capabilities, with the increasing number of cancer patients among the population of the Gaza Strip," Subhi Skaik, director general of the Gaza Cancer Center, said at a press conference. | Accord…

OHCFHR (2023-07-18). Palestinians Face Existential Threat. Palestine Transformed Into "Surveilled Open Air Prison" globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-07-17). Top U.N. Human Rights Official & Fmr. Swedish FM on Palestine, Sudan & U.S. Cluster Bombs to Ukraine. democracynow.org On Friday, July 14, Amy Goodman moderated a wide-ranging panel on human rights in Venice, Italy, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The panel's speakers included United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Tàºrk, former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrà∂m and Eamon Gilmore, the European Union special representative for human rights. They discussed the U.S. sending cluster bombs to Ukraine, the war in Sudan, Palestine, as well as the role of civil society and the media in elevating human rights issues.

splcenter (2023-07-17). Extremist Group Illegally Promotes Security Services Across U.S. splcenter.org Mayhem Solutions Group, a border-focused antigovernment extremist organization, illegally promotes its private security and investigation services. The group disregards legal orders ordering them to stop advertising and has a history of omitting facts about personnel and the company's legal history on license applications, documents show.

Michael Fox (2023-07-18). Why the US can't ban Trump from politics like Brazil did to Bolsonaro. therealnews.com Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from holding political office for the next eight years. The country's Supreme Court ruled on June 30 that he had abused his political power, attacked the electoral system and misused the media. Analysts say he's likely to suffer more consequences, as this was just one of more than a dozen cases pending against the former president. | The ruling has left some wondering how Bolsonaro could be stripped of his right to hold office in Brazil, while his idol, Donald Trump, in the United States is still a leading candidate for the Republican nomination next…

Igor Derysh (2023-07-18). Georgia Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Trump's Attempt to Quash Investigation. truthout.org The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday rejected former President Donald Trump's long-shot bid to throw out a special grand jury's investigative findings and disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the proceedings. The court, whose nine justices were mostly appointed by Republican governors, unanimously rejected Trump's motion just three days after he filed it. |

Pavel Gerardo Vega (2023-07-18). Guatemala: Suspender al Movimiento Semilla, crónica de un atentado contra la voluntad popular. globalizacion.ca El proceso de reconteo de actas de la primera vuelta de las elecciones acaba en más incertidumbre: por un lado el Tribunal Supremo Electoral oficializa el balotaje entre Sandra Torres y el candidato sorpresa Bernardo Arévalo, y por el otro…

Guest Contributor (2023-07-17). R. v. Foster: Reigniting the UK Abortion Law Debate. ukhumanrightsblog.com Last month marked one year since the startling repeal of Roe v Wade on the 24th June 2022 — the day the US Supreme Court rowed back the right of American women to obtain an abortion. Almost exactly a year later, back in the UK, last month saw the conviction of Carla Foster for the late …

Kwolanne Felix (2023-07-17). Slavery Isn't Just Black History — It's US History. truthout.org A recent Reuters investigation reveals that more than 100 U.S. political leaders descend from slaveholders. This includes five living U.S. presidents, two Supreme Court justices, 11 governors and 100 legislators across party lines. Amid rising debates on slavery and its legacy, from school curricula to the movement for reparations, Reuters examined how politicians are reckoning with these… |

Paul Kiel (2023-07-17). Billionaire Cut His Tax Bill by Taking Justice Clarence Thomas on Yacht Trips. truthout.org For months, Harlan Crow and members of Congress have been engaged in a fight over whether the billionaire needs to divulge details about his gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, including globe-trotting trips aboard his 162-foot yacht, the Michaela Rose. Crow's lawyer argues that Congress has no authority to probe the GOP donor's generosity and that doing so violates a constitutional… |

Jen Deerinwater (2023-07-17). Since "Dobbs" Ruling, Native People Face a Web of Obstacles to Reproductive Care. truthout.org Abortion access was already a near impossibility for people receiving services through the Indian Health Service (IHS), even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The ruling is likely to increase already high rates of pregnancy-related mortality for Native pregnancy-capable people (NPCP) in the U.S., creating "the perfect environment for… |

Staff (2023-07-17). Vice President Rodríguez Arrives in Brussels to Represent Venezuela at III EU-CELAC Summit. orinocotribune.com Delcy Rodríguez, the vice president of Venezuela, arrived in Brussels, Belgium, on Sunday to take part in the III Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU). | Vice President Rodríguez was received by European Union officials along with the Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Affairs Yván Gil, Venezuelan ambassador to Belgium, Claudia Salerno, and Venezuelan ambassador to the EU, Jorge Valero. | Rodriguez expressed via her social media accounts that Venezuela will advocate for "respectful relations between nations" at the summit, countering the supremacist and r…

Rebekah Barber, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-07-17). Next Steps In The Fight For Debt Relief. popularresistance.org The student loan pause offered a safety raft to millions of Americans who are drowning in debt. The Supreme Court's recent 6-3 decision to block student debt relief will devastate these borrowers, many of whom finally experienced what it was like to have money to set aside for the chance to purchase homes, start families and live without constantly worrying about debt. | After having this taste of freedom, Americans are ready to organize to protect what the Biden administration promised them. | Among the groups leading the charge — and continuing to push the Biden administration to exercise all options for…

Editor (2023-07-18). Catching heat from Big Brother: Education and climate in MAGAland. mronline.org "In Real Time" is a monthly series on our blog by Stan Cox, author of The Path to a Livable Future and The Green New Deal and Beyond. The series follows the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they navigate America's unfolding crisis of democracy. Read previous "In Real Time" dispatches here. Listen to the "In Real Time" …

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WSWS (2023-07-17). Antisemitism and anti-Chinese racism: The case of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wsws.org Kennedy is not just a lunatic bigot. Powerful sections of the US ruling elite are promoting the Wuhan lab lie, claiming China deliberately created the COVID virus, and whitewashing the neo-Nazi forces in the Ukraine war.

Ray Levy-Uyeda (2023-07-16). The Farm Bill Is an Opportunity to Address Climate Change and Structural Racism. truthout.org This story was originally published at Prism. A significant piece of legislation most voters have likely never heard of will spend the summer sitting on the cutting room floor of Congress. When the legislation is ready for a vote, it will ensure people aren't sentenced to hunger for lack of income, dictate international trade policies, and provide support to a farm system that—depending on who you… |

Basav Sen, Gabrielle Colchete, In These Times. (2023-07-16). Cop City And The Escalating War On Environmental Defenders. popularresistance.org The fight in Atlanta over Cop City, a massive police training facility, has turned into ground zero for overlapping crises facing our country: the climate emergency, vast political and economic inequality, ever-militarizing police forces and systemic racism. | If we want a democracy healthy enough to solve these crises, it's worth paying attention to what is happening in the South River Forest. | On May 31, in a disturbing move shortly before Atlanta's City Council approved more funding for the facility, Georgia law enforcement arrested three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which provides activists with l…

Roberto Morea, Fausto Bertinotti, Transform! Europe. (2023-07-16). Antifascism In Italy: 'We Are At The Beginning Of A New Phase'. popularresistance.org In Italy the Republic has never been able to fully settle accounts with fascism. By that, I mean that, under various conditions and in different cycles of Italian history, the antithesis between fascism and anti-fascism could emerge again, albeit in ever-changing ways. | Anti-fascist culture has been through many ups and downs. It has, at times, enjoyed an absolutely overwhelming hegemony, also because of its rebirths — as in the early 1960s, and as in the long cycle opened up by 1968 and 1969, that is, in moments when it resisted attempts to erase or manipulate it — when it resisted attempts to reduc…


Editor (2023-07-17). Chris Hedges: Cornel West and the Campaign to End Political Apartheid. scheerpost.com

Anonymous103 (2023-07-16). In Video 18+: Ukrainian Nazis Killed Civilians In Ugledar Region. southfront.org

unitedEditor (2023-07-17). Hostility towards Türkiye in NATO exercises. uwidata.com By Turhan àñzlຠTürkiye has been a NATO member since 71 years. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that our country suffered the most among NATO member countries. NATO claims to be a defense alliance, but its hostile actions against us have revealed its aggressive nature. Coups, attempted coups, assassinations targeting patriotic intellectuals, incitement …

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-16). NSW legal groups call for new religious discrimination amendments to be rejected. greenleft.org.au




Art Persyko (2023-07-17). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

David Cronin (2023-07-17). EU fears offending Israel — internal paper. electronicintifada.net Why does citizen's watchdog regard secrecy as reasonable?

Editor (2023-07-17). Israel Moves Toward 'Dictatorship' and Polarization. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — On the eve of Israeli President Isaac Herzog's controversial visit to the United States, which several members of Congress say they will boycott, Israeli society is coming apart at the seams. The presidency in Israel is a purely symbolic post. Power resides with the …

Anonymous103 (2023-07-16). Thousands Of Israelis Demonstrated In Tel Aviv For The 28th Week In A Row. southfront.org Originally published on On July 24, thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv and several other cities of occupied Palestine for the 28th week in a row in protest against the judicial reform program of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Israeli regime. | The main demonstration was held on Kaplan Street in Tel Av…




Anonymous669 (2023-07-16). Three Israelis Wounded In New West Bank Shooting Attack. southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Via Twitter. | On July 16, an Israeli was seriously wounded and two others were lightly hurt in a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank. | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) alleged that the three were wounded when a Palestinian gunman or gunmen opened fire from a passing vehicle on a highway near the settlement of Tekoa, some 16 kilometers to the south of the city of Jerusalem. | According To Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service, the 35-year-…

Juan M. Garcia (2023-07-16). Palestine and Russia call for an end to Israel's escalation. plenglish.com Ramallah, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of Palestine and Russia agreed on the need to end Israel's escalation on the occupied territories, and to resume dialogue, local media reported on Sunday.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-07-16). Israelíes se movilizan en rechazo a la reforma judicial. telesurtv.net Se trata de la jornada 28 de protestas masivas contra una iniciativa legal que afectaría la democracia y el equilibrio de poderes, según los manifestantes.

Revolutionary Workers United Front (2023-07-16). Friday 7/14: Free Palestine! indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery | San Francisco…




Fight Back (2023-07-17). Storms can't dampen Chicago solidarity with Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Chicago IL – On July 12, despite heavy rain and tornado warnings, more than 50 people rallied in downtown Chicago to demand that the charges on the Tampa 5 be dropped. The protest was part of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression National Day of Action for The Tampa 5's second court date. | Speakers took their turns denouncing the reactionary Republican agenda and Ron DeSantis. All the while rain poured down and storm sirens began to blare. | Erin Boyle of SDS said, "We are living through an unprecedented reversal of progressive policies in publ…

Guest Contributor (2023-07-17). R. v. Foster: Reigniting the UK Abortion Law Debate. ukhumanrightsblog.com Last month marked one year since the startling repeal of Roe v Wade on the 24th June 2022 — the day the US Supreme Court rowed back the right of American women to obtain an abortion. Almost exactly a year later, back in the UK, last month saw the conviction of Carla Foster for the late …

Fight Back (2023-07-16). As legal battle over abortion in Wisconsin heats up, obstacles appear. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On July 11, Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee (RJAM) held a press conference in front of Milwaukee City Hall concerning the recent updates to the lawsuit being pursued by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul against the 1849 state statute 940.04. This lawsuit was launched by Kaul on June 28, 2022, in response to the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision and came in the wake of mass protests across the state. | If this lawsuit wins, the next hurdle to abortion access will be from a different state statute, 940.195, which says that anyone who "causes bodily harm to an unborn child by an act…

Lauren Rankin (2023-07-16). The Abortion Justice Act Is the Reproductive Rights Legislation the US Needs. truthout.org Marking the tragic one-year anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in which the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives unveiled their latest attempt to protect abortion rights: the Abortion Justice Act. Introduced by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus's Abortion Rights and… |

Fight Back (2023-07-17). Storms can't dampen Chicago solidarity with Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Chicago IL – On July 12, despite heavy rain and tornado warnings, more than 50 people rallied in downtown Chicago to demand that the charges on the Tampa 5 be dropped. The protest was part of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression National Day of Action for The Tampa 5's second court date. | Speakers took their turns denouncing the reactionary Republican agenda and Ron DeSantis. All the while rain poured down and storm sirens began to blare. | Erin Boyle of SDS said, "We are living through an unprecedented reversal of progressive policies in publ…

Guest Contributor (2023-07-17). R. v. Foster: Reigniting the UK Abortion Law Debate. ukhumanrightsblog.com Last month marked one year since the startling repeal of Roe v Wade on the 24th June 2022 — the day the US Supreme Court rowed back the right of American women to obtain an abortion. Almost exactly a year later, back in the UK, last month saw the conviction of Carla Foster for the late …

Fight Back (2023-07-16). As legal battle over abortion in Wisconsin heats up, obstacles appear. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On July 11, Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee (RJAM) held a press conference in front of Milwaukee City Hall concerning the recent updates to the lawsuit being pursued by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul against the 1849 state statute 940.04. This lawsuit was launched by Kaul on June 28, 2022, in response to the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision and came in the wake of mass protests across the state. | If this lawsuit wins, the next hurdle to abortion access will be from a different state statute, 940.195, which says that anyone who "causes bodily harm to an unborn child by an act…

Lauren Rankin (2023-07-16). The Abortion Justice Act Is the Reproductive Rights Legislation the US Needs. truthout.org Marking the tragic one-year anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in which the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives unveiled their latest attempt to protect abortion rights: the Abortion Justice Act. Introduced by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus's Abortion Rights and… |

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