2022-07-18: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-07-18). The relativisation of fascism in Germany and the recall of Ukrainian ambassador Andrij Melnyk. wsws.org The reactions to the dismissal of the Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin, Andrij Melnyk show how far the rehabilitation of the Nazis in Germany has progressed 77 years after the end of the Third Reich.

Fight Back (2022-07-18). Collective statement: Biden in occupied Palestine and the 'Jerusalem Declaration'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on Biden in Palestine and the Jerusalem Declaration, signed by 80 organizations, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). | The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, to liberate their land from the river to the sea. This strategic partnership of violence, warmongering, repression…

Edited by Michael Harris (2022-07-18). California United States Colored Troops Help Save the Union. indybay.org Rev. Thomas Starr King helped keep the thin margin of Union California vs Confederate California. US Colored Troops from California helped preserve the Union and begin the ending of legal slavery in America. Today, we honor National Buffalo Soldiers Day and share our unique California Journey from Slavery to Freedom.

Barry Sheppard (2022-07-18). Biden's Middle East trip a failure. greenleft.org.au United States President Joe Biden's trip to the Middle East was all about re-setting relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia, despite their ongoing state violence and repression, reports Barry Sheppard.

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-07-18). Líder supremo Jamenei indulta o baja condenas a presos en Irán. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con medios oficiales, el líder supremo persa puso en libertad o redujo las penas a 2.272 prisioneros.

Karen J. Greenberg (2022-07-18). The State of Disgrace in Washington. juancole.com ( Tomdispatch.com ) Well before the House select committee's January 6th investigation began, trust in the classic American system of checks and balances as reliable protection against executive (or, more recently, Supreme Court) abuses of power had already fallen into a state of disgrace. A domestically shackled Biden presidency, a Congress unable to act, …

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-07-18). Diez frases contra el racismo para recordar a Nelson Mandela. telesurtv.net "Nadie nace odiando a otra persona por el color de su piel. La gente aprende a odiar. También se le puede enseñar a amar", pensaba Madiba.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-17). The Belarus Tactical Group: Belarusians in the DUK SS International. libya360.wordpress.com Laurent Brayard Denis Prokhorov The Belarus Tactical Group was in fact a squad that grew out of a small company founded by Belarusian neo-Nazi activists who came to Ukraine to fight in the Donbass. They initially joined various battalions, most notably the Azov Battalion, but some also participated in the Maidan Revolution during the winter…

_____ (2022-07-17). 'Jerusalem Declaration': Imperialism, Zionism And Settler Colonialism. popularresistance.org Below are key points identified by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in responding to the Biden-Lapid Declaration ("The U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration") issued on Thursday, 14 July 2022. While the declaration largely holds nothing new, it once again reveals the joint commitment to imperialism and Zionism that is responsible for the past 75 years of colonization in Palestine. | Imperialism here means more arms, more support and more money for Israel. It means Phantom jets, atomic bomb secrets, and the building of an economy capable of facing the permanent blockade and state of w…

Anonymous349 (2022-07-17). Military Situation In Palestine On July 17, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org On July 17, a 17-year-old Palestinian ran over an Israeli policeman at the Ra'anana intersection near the Kfar Saba station in the north of Tel Aviv. An Israeli policeman was killed | On July 17, the Palestinian groups fired several rockets towards the sea | On July 17, General Michael Kurilla, the US CENTCOM commander visited Israel | Two Palestinians were injured during the Israeli military attack on the city of Tubas, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent |

Staff (2022-07-17). Biden visited region to serve occupiers' interests: Al-Houthi. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 17 (MNA) — A member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council said that US president Joe Biden just like the former US presidents visited the Middle East to serve and support Israel with Muslim's money.

____ (2022-07-17). Palestinians condemn 'unfair' U.S. diplomacy over Palestinian-Israeli issue. ecns.cn Dozens of Palestinians on Friday demonstrated in the West Bank city of Bethlehem against U.S. President Joe Biden's visit over the long-time unfair U.S. diplomacy in dealing with the Palestinian-Israeli issue.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-07-17). Israel bombardea varios objetivos en la Franja de Gaza. telesurtv.net El bombardeo provocó un incendio en el lugar mientras se veían columnas de humo en el área.

_____ (2022-07-17). Ghost Stories Of Capitalism: Watching The Shutters Of Austerity Close. popularresistance.org By the end of the 1970s,U.S. capitalism entered its neoliberal phase where austerity and privatization reigned supreme. Federal agencies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) were reduced to near non-existence. Welfare was eradicated all together in 1996 and tens of thousands of public housing units were demolished or privatized under the Bill Clinton administration. CAP agencies either shut their doors permanently or offered only the services that were supported by a mixture of private philanthropy and meagre government subsidy. It was out of this environment that Tri-CAP formed to addres…

A Guest Author (2022-07-16). Biden in Occupied Palestine and the 'Jerusalem Declaration'. workers.org Samidoun Palestine Prisoner Solidarity Network issued this collective statement with co-signers "in struggle and solidarity" July 16. The full list of signers, including Workers World Party and the International Action Center, is at samidoun.net. Organizations can endorse at bit.ly/bidenpalestine. Protesters hounded U.S. President Joe Biden in Palestine, including July 15 . . . |

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