(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…
(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… |
(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 …
(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…
(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.
(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.
(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…
(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…
(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.
(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…
(2023-07-20). 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…
(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…
(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…
(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 …
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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. |
(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.
(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…
(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..
(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.
(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
(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.
(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…
(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.
(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 . . . |
(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 …
(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…
(2023-07-21). Complaint details discriminatory impact of school closures in Louisiana parish. splcenter.org
(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…
(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.
(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…
(2023-07-21). The Illinois Supreme Court Cash Bail Ruling, Explained. aclu.org Under a
(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… |
(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… |
(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.
(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).
(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.
(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. |
(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.
(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 …
(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.