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2020-05-07: News Headlines

A. Majumdar (2020-05-07). PDF download of May 7 issue. workers.org Click to download entire 12-page PDF May Day coverage. Also: COVID‚Äë19 North Carolina protest; Genocide on Detroit; Cuban medical team; Trump and China; Pennies vs. billions; Tear down the walls A world without prisons; Mumia: On prison guards; Louisiana death camps; ‚ÄÇEditorial Fascists = bosses' tools; World Palestine Britain Venezuela . . . |

Martha Grevatt (2020-05-07). COVID-19 = genocide for Detroit. workers.org Michigan State Representatives Jewell Jones and Isaac Robinson, co-sponsors of a bill for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs. Robinson died March 29 of suspected COVID-19. Here they are protesting a polluting company US Ecology in Detroit. May 4 — Coronavirus, COVID-19, the pandemic — or as . . . |

Kathy Durkin (2020-05-07). Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain. workers.org Members of Unite the Union, a British and Irish labor union, show support for the Palestinian people. The Palestine Solidarity Committee won a legal victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain when the country's highest court issued a landmark ruling that struck a blow against the Whitehall . . . |

Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All (2020-05-07). SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests. indybay.org Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the "thin blue line" flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.

William rivers Pitt (2020-05-07). Far Right Group Behind Boston's "Straight Pride" Also Organized "Reopen" Protest. zcomm.org If the federal government actually starts helping people, Trump and his allies fear that capitalism will lose its stranglehold on the nation…

Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels (2020-05-07). May 1945: Nazi Germany Surrenders, but… on May 7, 8, or 9? globalresearch.ca After the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the Americans, British, and Soviets had agreed that there would be no separate negotiations with Nazi Germany with respect to its capitulation.

RT (2020-05-07). RT SPECIAL VICTORY DAY PROGRAMMING TO AIR AND STREAM WORLDWIDE IN SIX LANGUAGES. rt.com MOSCOW, MAY 7 — On May 9 RT will run special programming dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the allied victory in the Second World War and Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War in English, German, Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian. Since the beginning of 2020, RT has launched multiple Victory Day projects, including a film recreating the circumstances surrounding the capture of the iconic May 1945 photograph "Raising a Flag over the Reichstag." | On May 9, RT will air the full version of the documentary series under the title #VictoryAlphabet: from Brest to Reichstag, which tracks the Red Army's…

MoveOn (2020-05-07). MoveOn: Protecting Voting Rights in the Age of Coronavirus. indybay.org Online…

Staff (2020-05-06). Headlines for May 6, 2020. democracynow.org White House to Wind Down Coronavirus Task Force Even as U.S. Cases Surge, Trump Meets Tribal Leaders, Promising to Distribute Long-Delayed Coronavirus Relief Funds, Ousted Scientist's Whistleblower Complaint Cites "Political Connections and Cronyism", Trump Lashes Out Against "Mourning in America" Advertisement, Researchers Say Coronavirus May Have Mutated in Europe to Become More Contagious, Amazon Worker Dies of COVID-19; Wisconsin Supreme Court May Revoke Remain-at-Home Order, Michigan Security Guard Shot After Enforcing Mask Policy, As Meatpackers Fall Ill from COVID-19, Wendy's Faces Hamburger Shortage, Sena…

Ruth Conniff (2020-05-06). Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Asks if Safer at Home Order Is 'Tyranny'. commondreams.org People hold signs during a protest against the coronavirus shutdown in front of the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 24, 2020. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

RT (2020-05-06). A red-baiter, an anti-Trumper & a libertarian walk into a bar: Facebook angers conservatives & liberals alike with oversight picks. rt.com Facebook has unveiled its 20-person Oversight Board, a supposedly independent body able to reverse the platform's own content moderation decisions. The names have raised eyebrows all over the political spectrum. | The social media behemoth revealed its 'supreme court' roster on Wednesday, showing off a pedigreed list of legal scholars, human rights advocates, and journalists from around the globe. While the Oversight Board idea was initially presented to the Facebook community back in 2018, as a way for aggrieved users to appeal content take-downs to an independent panel, bylaws unveiled in January suggested i…

commondreams (2020-05-06). Supreme Court to Hear Case on Future of Birth Control Coverage. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Ruth Conniff (2020-05-06). Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Asks if Safer at Home Order Is 'Tyranny'. progressive.org The state's conservative justices raise issue of Japanese internment camps while discussing Governor Tony Evers's order.

Editor (2020-05-06). Blueprint for action against neofascists. workers.org The emergence of neofascist vermin from under their rocks to demand "reopening" businesses — a demand dear to super-rich capitalist rulers — makes it imperative for the left to develop a blueprint for countering the fascist threat, a threat that has constantly reappeared in U.S. history. On April 30, hundreds . . . |

Susan Abulhawa (2020-05-06). Taking advantage of pandemic / Israel moves to annex more Palestinian land. workers.org Speaking to students at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University in November 1989, Benjamin Netanyahu, at that time the Israeli deputy foreign minister, said: "Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China [at Tiananmen Square], when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among . . . |

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-06). 100 Years of Shame: The Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo. mintpressnews.com One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened in a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera to seal the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I.

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-06). 100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo. dissidentvoice.org One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I. It was on April 25, 1920, that the San Remo Conference Resolution was …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-06). Rouhani urges EU to pressure Israeli regime, not allow further attacks on Syria. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 6 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the Islamic Republic of Iran expects Europe to put pressure on the Zionist regime and not allow it to continue attacks on Syria.

IMEMC News (2020-05-06). Army Abducts Fateh Secretary In Al-Jalazoun. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, the secretary of Fateh movement in the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers abducted Tha'er Nakhla, while he was heading back home after a visit to the al-'Ezariyya …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-06). Israeli army bombs three different locations inside besieged Gaza strip. peoplesdispatch.org Israel continues its oppressive policies against Palestinians and has seized fresh Palestinian lands and demolished houses. It is also refused calls to release Palestinian prisoners in light of the COVID-19 emergency…

IMEMC News (2020-05-06). Israeli Soldiers Fire Missiles Into The Gaza Strip. imemc.org Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday at dawn, several missiles targeting two areas south of Gaza city, and Beit Hannoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, causing damage. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed in military bases across the perimeter fence, fired several artillery shells into a building east …

Frank Smyth (2020-05-06). The Early NRA Had Nothing to Do with the KKK. progressive.org Neo-Nazis and others only got closer later.

IMEMC News (2020-05-06). Explosion In Gaza Injures Several Palestinians. imemc.org In a brief statement, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip has reported that several Palestinians were injured, on Wednesday evening, in an explosion in Gaza city. Eyad El-Bozom, the spokesperson of the Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip, said medics evacuated the wounded to the Shifa Medical Center, …

splcenter (2020-05-06). SPLC's Civil Rights Memorial Center, closed due to COVID-19, publishes children's activity book online. splcenter.org

PCHR (2020-05-05). PCHR Welcomes the Response of the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court to the Observations of Amici Curiae, Legal Representatives of Victims, and States. imemc.org On 30 April 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) submitted a 60-page document to the Pre-Trial Chamber I responding to the observations of amici curiae, legal representatives of victims, and States concerning the situation in the State of Palestine. The Palestinian Centre for Human …

Ali Salam (2020-05-05). Israeli Forces Storm Qalandia and Al-'Arroub Refugee Camps. imemc.org Tense confrontations between local Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers at Qalandia refugee camp, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, and Al-'Arroub refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, on Monday. QNN reporters said that Israeli forces closed roads in Al Matar neighborhood, and Kafr 'Aqab, while the Israeli …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-05). Israel Delivers More Demolition Orders to Palestinians in West Bank. imemc.org Israeli authorities in the internationally-recognized occupied West Bank, reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian households, ahead of the demolition of their homes. In the northern West Bank village of Aqqaba, north of Tulkarem city, Israeli troops reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian …

Farid Parsa (2020-05-06). Chinese Authoritarianism Versus White Racism. iranian.com For many Europeans racism is normal. Especially when it's directed at people who look different to them. Although Europeans have come a long way from their colonial past they still have a long way to go. Many Europeans led by the U.S. have been engaged in derogatory and racist language toward the Chinese government and …

sputniknews (2020-05-07). 75 Years of Victory: Capture of Berlin by Soviet Forces in 1945. sputniknews.com On 9 May, Russia is marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

sputniknews (2020-05-07). Bestselling Author Ripped Over 'Fake Apology' for 'Racist Remarks' About Meghan Markle. sputniknews.com Emily Giffin has drawn ire in the comments thread for finding fault with what she referred to as the Duchess of Sussex's lack of maternal skills and being "phony" in a video for her baby son's first birthday.

Ali Salam (2020-05-05). Israeli Forces Demolish Several Palestinian Structures, Deliver Demolition Notices. imemc.org Israeli forces demolished an agricultural structure, on Monday, in the Jordan Valley village of Tayasir, northern West Bank, according to activist Aref Daraghme. Daraghme told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the village and demolished a small 36 square meter structure with an aluminum ceiling. Authorities rationalized the demolition …

IMEMC News (2020-05-05). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fifteen Palestinians In Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported that the soldiers, undercover officers, and the police stormed many neighborhoods in Jerusalem, including the Old City, and conducted violent searches …

Ali Salam (2020-05-05). Palestinian Prisoner Re-Detained on the Day of his Release. imemc.org Israeli forces, on Monday morning, arrested Nihad Zgheir, as soon as he was released from Israel's Gilboa jail, Quds News Network reported. The Committee of the Families of Jerusalem Prisoners told QNN that Zgheir, 42, who was released from prison Monday morning, after serving 35 months, was re-arrested by the …

IMEMC News (2020-05-05). Illegal Israeli Colonists Uproot Palestinian Lands Near Hebron. imemc.org A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, squatting on Palestinian lands in direct violation of International Law, bulldozed a large area of Palestinian lands near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, to prepare for a new segregated road. Eyewitnesses said the colonists, accompanied by a large number of …

John Whitehead (2020-05-05). Technofascism: The Censorship of David Icke is Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age. mintpressnews.com CHARLOTTESVILLE ( That's not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you're inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous. | Take David Icke, for example. | Icke, a popular c…

Montenegro RE. (2020-05-05). My Name Is Not "Interpreter" jamanetwork.com In this essay, the author relays his personal experience with ethnicity-based discrimination and discusses the "microaggressions" that medical trainees from underrepresented groups based on race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation experience.

John Klyczek (2020-05-05). COVID-19 "CARES Act" Bankrolls AlI Post-Human Education. dissidentvoice.org In 1982, former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement for the US Department of Education, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, blew the whistle on the Reagan Administration's Project BEST (Better Education Skills through Technology): a techno-fascist plan to privatize the American school system by selling it out to Big Tech corporations that …

splcenter (2020-05-05). Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic. splcenter.org White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.

Ruth Conniff (2020-05-04). Wisconsin Protesters Target 'Tony the Tyrant'. progressive.org GOP temper tantrum escalates as state Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on restrictions.

Alison Weir (2020-05-04). FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign. mintpressnews.com Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.

Carmen Martinez (2020-05-04). Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected. splcenter.org Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hatewatch Staff (2020-05-04). Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing. splcenter.org As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.

Hatewatch Staff (2020-05-04). Anti-LGBTQ Group Pushes Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theories Amid COVID-19. splcenter.org Family Research Council (FRC) has branched out of its usual anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice rhetoric to push longtime right-wing conspiracy theories about voting by mail. It's a narrative that is gaining popularity during COVID-19 restrictions with regard to public gatherings and social distancing.

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-03). The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate. 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 (5/2/19). 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 …

Alan Macleod (2020-05-01). Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again. mintpressnews.com Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he

splcenter (2020-05-01). Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed. splcenter.org With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.

splcenter (2020-05-01). Celebrating the Freedom Riders. splcenter.org

Gareth Porter (2020-04-30). With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran. thegrayzone.com An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…

Leela Anand (2020-04-30). Biden and Trump compete to produce most misleading, racist anti-China ad. liberationnews.org Both political parties in the U.S. seek to make a national enemy out of China. But the U.S. working class has more to gain from friendship, solidarity and exchange of knowledge with China and the Chinese people.

Hatewatch Staff (2020-04-30). Cody Wilson Uses COVID-19 Crisis To Re-enter Extremist Movement. splcenter.org A registered sex offender and antigovernment icon is trying to use the current global pandemic to whitewash his image. A recent post on Jacobite magazine's website seeks to remind readers of Cody Wilson's past contributions to the movement and to cast doubt on the government responsible for his arrest and sentencing.

2020-05-07: Social Media Postees

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COVID-19 = genocide for Detroit
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Michigan State Representatives Jewell Jones and Isaac Robinson, co-sponsors of a bill for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs. Robinson died March 29 of suspected COVID-19. Here they are protesting a polluting company US Ecology in Detroit. May 4

100 Years of Shame
Ramzy Baroud | zcomm.org | 2020-05-07
Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/100-years-of-shame/

PDF download of May 7 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Click to download entire 12-page PDF May Day coverage. Also: COVID‚Äë19 North Carolina protest; Genocide on Detroit; Cuban medical team; Trump and China; Pennies vs. billions; Tear down the walls A world without prisons; Mumia: On prison guards; Louisiana death camps; ‚ÄÇEditorial Fascists = bosses' tools; World Palestine Britain Venezuela . . . | Continue reading PDF download of May 7 issue at Workers.org…
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Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Members of Unite the Union, a British and Irish labor union, show support for the Palestinian people. The Palestine Solidarity Committee won a legal victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain when the country's highest court issued a landmark ruling that struck a blow against the Whitehall . . . | Continue reading Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain at Workers.org…
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SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests
Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All | indybay.org | 2020-05-07
Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the "thin blue line" flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/03/18832811.php

Far Right Group Behind Boston's "Straight Pride" Also Organized "Reopen" Protest
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-05-07
If the federal government actually starts helping people, Trump and his allies fear that capitalism will lose its stranglehold on the nation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/far-right-group-behind-bostons-straight-pride-also-organized-reopen-protest/

May 1945: Nazi Germany Surrenders, but… on May 7, 8, or 9?
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-07
After the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the Americans, British, and Soviets had agreed that there would be no separate negotiations with Nazi Germany with respect to its capitulation.
globalresearch.ca/may-1945-operation-sunrise-nazi-germany-surrenders-but-on-may-7-8-or-9/5334299

RT SPECIAL VICTORY DAY PROGRAMMING TO AIR AND STREAM WORLDWIDE IN SIX LANGUAGES
rt.com | 2020-05-07
MOSCOW, MAY 7

MoveOn: Protecting Voting Rights in the Age of Coronavirus
MoveOn | indybay.org | 2020-05-07
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/06/18832850.php

A red-baiter, an anti-Trumper & a libertarian walk into a bar: Facebook angers conservatives & liberals alike with oversight picks
rt.com | 2020-05-06
Facebook has unveiled its 20-person Oversight Board, a supposedly independent body able to reverse the platform's own content moderation decisions. The names have raised eyebrows all over the political spectrum. | The social media behemoth revealed its 'supreme court' roster on Wednesday, showing off a pedigreed list of legal scholars, human rights advocates, and journalists from around the globe. While the Oversight Board idea was initially presented to the Facebook community back in 2018, as a way for aggrieved users to appeal content take-downs to an independent panel, bylaws unveiled in January suggested i…
rt.com/news/487979-facebook-oversight-board-bipartisan-hate/

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Asks if Safer at Home Order Is 'Tyranny'
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-06
The state's conservative justices raise issue of Japanese internment camps while discussing Governor Tony Evers's order.
progressive.org/dispatches/wi-supreme-court-safer-at-home-tyranny-conniff-200506/

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Asks if Safer at Home Order Is 'Tyranny'
Ruth Conniff | commondreams.org | 2020-05-06
People hold signs during a protest against the coronavirus shutdown in front of the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 24, 2020. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Supreme Court to Hear Case on Future of Birth Control Coverage
commondreams.org | 2020-05-06
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100 Years of Shame: The Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-06
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened in a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera to seal the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I.
mintpressnews.com/100-years-annexation-palestine-san-remo-conference/267259/

100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-06
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I. It was on April 25, 1920, that the San Remo Conference Resolution was …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/100-years-of-shame-annexation-of-palestine-began-in-san-remo/

Army Abducts Fateh Secretary In Al-Jalazoun
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-06
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, the secretary of Fateh movement in the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers abducted Tha'er Nakhla, while he was heading back home after a visit to the al-'Ezariyya …
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Israeli Soldiers Fire Missiles Into The Gaza Strip
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-06
Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday at dawn, several missiles targeting two areas south of Gaza city, and Beit Hannoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, causing damage. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed in military bases across the perimeter fence, fired several artillery shells into a building east …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-fire-missile-into-the-gaza-strip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-soldiers-fire-missile-into-the-gaza-strip

Taking advantage of pandemic / Israel moves to annex more Palestinian land
Susan Abulhawa | workers.org | 2020-05-06
Speaking to students at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University in November 1989, Benjamin Netanyahu, at that time the Israeli deputy foreign minister, said:…
workers.org/2020/05/48290/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-advantage-of-pandemic-israel-moves-to-annex-more-palestinian-land

Rouhani urges EU to pressure Israeli regime, not allow further attacks on Syria
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-06
TEHRAN, May 6 (MNA)

Israeli army bombs three different locations inside besieged Gaza strip
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-06
Israel continues its oppressive policies against Palestinians and has seized fresh Palestinian lands and demolished houses. It is also refused calls to release Palestinian prisoners in light of the COVID-19 emergency…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/06/israeli-army-bombs-three-different-locations-inside-besieged-gaza-strip/

Blueprint for action against neofascists
Editor | workers.org | 2020-05-06
The emergence of neofascist vermin from under their rocks to demand "reopening" businesses

The Early NRA Had Nothing to Do with the KKK
Frank Smyth | progressive.org | 2020-05-06
Neo-Nazis and others only got closer later.
progressive.org/dispatches/early-nra-had-nothing-to-do-with-kkk-smyth-200506/

Explosion In Gaza Injures Several Palestinians
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-06
In a brief statement, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip has reported that several Palestinians were injured, on Wednesday evening, in an explosion in Gaza city. Eyad El-Bozom, the spokesperson of the Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip, said medics evacuated the wounded to the Shifa Medical Center, …
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SPLC's Civil Rights Memorial Center, closed due to COVID-19, publishes children's activity book online
splcenter.org | 2020-05-06
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PCHR Welcomes the Response of the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court to the Observations of Amici Curiae, Legal Representatives of Victims, and States
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
On 30 April 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) submitted a 60-page document to the Pre-Trial Chamber I responding to the observations of amici curiae, legal representatives of victims, and States concerning the situation in the State of Palestine. The Palestinian Centre for Human …
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Israeli Forces Demolish Several Palestinian Structures, Deliver Demolition Notices
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli forces demolished an agricultural structure, on Monday, in the Jordan Valley village of Tayasir, northern West Bank, according to activist Aref Daraghme. Daraghme told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the village and demolished a small 36 square meter structure with an aluminum ceiling. Authorities rationalized the demolition …
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Palestinian Prisoner Re-Detained on the Day of his Release
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli forces, on Monday morning, arrested Nihad Zgheir, as soon as he was released from Israel's Gilboa jail, Quds News Network reported. The Committee of the Families of Jerusalem Prisoners told QNN that Zgheir, 42, who was released from prison Monday morning, after serving 35 months, was re-arrested by the …
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Chinese Authoritarianism Versus White Racism
Farid Parsa | iranian.com | 2020-05-06
For many Europeans racism is normal. Especially when it's directed at people who look different to them. Although Europeans have come a long way from their colonial past they still have a long way to go. Many Europeans led by the U.S. have been engaged in derogatory and racist language toward the Chinese government and …
iranian.com/2020/05/06/chinese-authoritarianism-versus-white-racism/

75 Years of Victory: Capture of Berlin by Soviet Forces in 1945
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-07
On 9 May, Russia is marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
sputniknews.com/photo/202005071079227881-capture-of-berlin-by-soviet-forces-in-1945/

Bestselling Author Ripped Over 'Fake Apology' for 'Racist Remarks' About Meghan Markle
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-07
Emily Giffin has drawn ire in the comments thread for finding fault with what she referred to as the Duchess of Sussex's lack of maternal skills and being "phony" in a video for her baby son's first birthday.
sputniknews.com/society/202005071079230478-bestselling-author-ripped-over-fake-apology-for-racist-remarks-about-meghan-markle/

Israel Delivers More Demolition Orders to Palestinians in West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli authorities in the internationally-recognized occupied West Bank, reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian households, ahead of the demolition of their homes. In the northern West Bank village of Aqqaba, north of Tulkarem city, Israeli troops reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian …
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Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fifteen Palestinians In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported that the soldiers, undercover officers, and the police stormed many neighborhoods in Jerusalem, including the Old City, and conducted violent searches …
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Israeli Forces Storm Qalandia and Al-'Arroub Refugee Camps
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Tense confrontations between local Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers at Qalandia refugee camp, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, and Al-'Arroub refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, on Monday. QNN reporters said that Israeli forces closed roads in Al Matar neighborhood, and Kafr 'Aqab, while the Israeli …
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Illegal Israeli Colonists Uproot Palestinian Lands Near Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, squatting on Palestinian lands in direct violation of International Law, bulldozed a large area of Palestinian lands near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, to prepare for a new segregated road. Eyewitnesses said the colonists, accompanied by a large number of …
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A Silent Curriculum
Brooks KC. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-05
In this narrative medicine essay, a medical student reflects on the ways in which she has seen racism and implicit bias affect clinical practice and emphasizes the importance of examining and challenging these biases to address health inequalities.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765417

Technofascism: The Censorship of David Icke is Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age
John Whitehead | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-05
CHARLOTTESVILLE ( Rutherford) —-We are fast becoming a nation–nay, a world–of book burners.While on paper, we are technically free to speak–at least according to the U.S. Constitution–in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow. | That's not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you're inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous. | Take David Icke, for example. | Icke, a popular c…
mintpressnews.com/technofascism-david-icke-digital-book-burning-totalitarian-age/267246/

My Name Is Not "Interpreter"
Montenegro RE. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-05
In this essay, the author relays his personal experience with ethnicity-based discrimination and discusses the "microaggressions" that medical trainees from underrepresented groups based on race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation experience.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765422

COVID-19 "CARES Act" Bankrolls AlI Post-Human Education
John Klyczek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-05
In 1982, former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement for the US Department of Education, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, blew the whistle on the Reagan Administration's Project BEST (Better Education Skills through Technology): a techno-fascist plan to privatize the American school system by selling it out to Big Tech corporations that …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/covid-19-cares-act-bankrolls-ali-post-human-education/

Why Keep On Confronting?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-05
On April 25 the White House published a heartening and most welcome "Joint Statement by President Donald J. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia" to mark "the 75th Anniversary of the historic meeting between American and Soviet troops, who shook hands on the damaged bridge over the Elbe River. This event heralded the decisive defeat of the Nazi regime." Some of us considered this a most positive step in relations between the cou…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/05/why-keep-on-confronting/

Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-05-05
White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/why-white-supremacists-are-targeting-zoom-meetings-during-covid-19-pandemic

Wisconsin Protesters Target 'Tony the Tyrant'
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-04
GOP temper tantrum escalates as state Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on restrictions.
progressive.org/dispatches/wisconsin-protesters-target-tony-the-tyrant-conniff-200504/

FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-04
Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.
mintpressnews.com/fbi-documents-israel-collusion-2016-trump-campaign/267212/

Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected
Carmen Martinez | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/05/amid-pandemic-poultry-workers-must-be-protected

Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/facebook-go-platform-organizing-protests-against-social-distancing

Anti-LGBTQ Group Pushes Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theories Amid COVID-19
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
Family Research Council (FRC) has branched out of its usual anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice rhetoric to push longtime right-wing conspiracy theories about voting by mail. It's a narrative that is gaining popularity during COVID-19 restrictions with regard to public gatherings and social distancing.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/06/anti-lgbtq-group-pushes-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories-amid-covid-19

The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-03
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 (5/2/19). 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 …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/the-full-story-behind-faucis-3-7-million-to-wuhan-flu-cv-overlap-it-was-always-israelgate/

Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-01
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he announced on social media last night,…
mintpressnews.com/juan-guaido-trying-to-overthrow-venezuela-government/267201/

Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/02/weekend-read-even-southern-states-continue-honoring-confederate-holidays-monuments-are

Celebrating the Freedom Riders
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
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With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

2020-05-06: News Headlines

Philip Giraldi (2020-05-06). USS Liberty: Israel's War Crimes Have Killed Americans. globalresearch.ca Imagine if you will a ship from a nation not at war with anyone sailing in international waters on a quiet June day being suddenly attacked by unidentified warplanes and torpedo boats, their markings covered up to conceal their country …

Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All (2020-05-06). SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests. indybay.org Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the "thin blue line" flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.

WSWS (2020-05-06). German authorities press charges in Làºbcke murder case. wsws.org The neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst is accused of having shot leading Christian Democratic politician Walter Làºbcke in cold blood on the terrace of his home on the night of June 2, 2019.

The Palestinian Information Center (2020-05-06). Facebook Deletes Accounts of Palestinian Activists and Journalists. globalresearch.ca Facebook on Monday evening removed dozens of accounts run by Palestinian activists and journalists without prior notice. | Some accounts were deleted for no reason and other users were informed they "violated the site's policies". | Sada Social Center on Tuesday said …

Philip Giraldi (2020-05-05). Israel's War Crimes Have Killed Americans. thealtworld.com If the president loves to honor the military, start with the U.S.S. Liberty | Imagine if you will a ship from a nation not at war with anyone sailing in international waters on a quiet June day being suddenly attacked by unidentified warplanes and torpedo boats, their markings covered up to conceal their country of origin. The vessel under attack had little with which to defend itself, but its crew heroically made sure that a large national flag was hoisted to demonstrate that it was not a belligerent in anyone's conflict. The attackers noted the nationality of the vessel, but persisted in their aggression in a c…

PCHR (2020-05-05). PCHR Welcomes the Response of the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court to the Observations of Amici Curiae, Legal Representatives of Victims, and States. imemc.org On 30 April 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) submitted a 60-page document to the Pre-Trial Chamber I responding to the observations of amici curiae, legal representatives of victims, and States concerning the situation in the State of Palestine. The Palestinian Centre for Human …

Ali Salam (2020-05-05). Israeli Forces Storm Qalandia and Al-'Arroub Refugee Camps. imemc.org Tense confrontations between local Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers at Qalandia refugee camp, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, and Al-'Arroub refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, on Monday. QNN reporters said that Israeli forces closed roads in Al Matar neighborhood, and Kafr 'Aqab, while the Israeli …

IMEMC News (2020-05-05). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fifteen Palestinians In Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported that the soldiers, undercover officers, and the police stormed many neighborhoods in Jerusalem, including the Old City, and conducted violent searches …

Ali Salam (2020-05-05). Israeli Forces Demolish Several Palestinian Structures, Deliver Demolition Notices. imemc.org Israeli forces demolished an agricultural structure, on Monday, in the Jordan Valley village of Tayasir, northern West Bank, according to activist Aref Daraghme. Daraghme told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the village and demolished a small 36 square meter structure with an aluminum ceiling. Authorities rationalized the demolition …

Ali Salam (2020-05-05). Palestinian Prisoner Re-Detained on the Day of his Release. imemc.org Israeli forces, on Monday morning, arrested Nihad Zgheir, as soon as he was released from Israel's Gilboa jail, Quds News Network reported. The Committee of the Families of Jerusalem Prisoners told QNN that Zgheir, 42, who was released from prison Monday morning, after serving 35 months, was re-arrested by the …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-05). Israel Delivers More Demolition Orders to Palestinians in West Bank. imemc.org Israeli authorities in the internationally-recognized occupied West Bank, reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian households, ahead of the demolition of their homes. In the northern West Bank village of Aqqaba, north of Tulkarem city, Israeli troops reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian …

John Whitehead (2020-05-05). Technofascism: The Censorship of David Icke is Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age. mintpressnews.com CHARLOTTESVILLE ( That's not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you're inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous. | Take David Icke, for example. | Icke, a popular c…

Montenegro RE. (2020-05-05). My Name Is Not "Interpreter" jamanetwork.com In this essay, the author relays his personal experience with ethnicity-based discrimination and discusses the "microaggressions" that medical trainees from underrepresented groups based on race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation experience.

Staff (2020-05-05). Far Right Group Behind Boston's "Straight Pride" Also Organized "Reopen" Protest. truthout.org In March of 1770, a group of British troops found themselves accosted by a mob of angry colonists in Boston. The soldiers were pelted with rocks, snowballs, and struck with clubs. Finally, one soldier fired his weapon in self-defense, and the other troops followed suit. When the smoke cleared, three colonists lay dead. Eight others were wounded, and two of those would later succumb to their injuries. | The event became known as the Boston Massacre, and was initially a public opinion coup for P…

John Klyczek (2020-05-05). COVID-19 "CARES Act" Bankrolls AlI Post-Human Education. dissidentvoice.org In 1982, former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement for the US Department of Education, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, blew the whistle on the Reagan Administration's Project BEST (Better Education Skills through Technology): a techno-fascist plan to privatize the American school system by selling it out to Big Tech corporations that …

Max Elbaum (2020-05-05). Trump and the Militias Consummate Their Marriage. zcomm.org Historical experience shows that when a powerful wing of a ruling class throws in with grassroots fascists, a fascist or fascist-like regime moves from back-drawer possibility to imminent danger…

RAIN (2020-05-05). Social Distancing With Tear Gas and Walls: the "Racist, Hateful, And Life-Threatening Campaign" Unleashed Against The Romani With Covid-19. counterpunch.org She was 37 years old. Her name was not reported. We will never know the name of her baby. For three days after her waters broke, she appealed multiple times for attention at Ohrid General Hospital in North Macedonia. Every visit ended the same way, with her being denied treatment. Her friend, who drove her

splcenter (2020-05-05). Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic. splcenter.org White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.

Alison Weir (2020-05-04). FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign. mintpressnews.com Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-04). Israeli Troops Abduct Eight Palestinians, Ransack Home of Former Prisoner. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Monday, eight Palestinian residents from different areas of the West Bank. Local Palestinian media sources said that those abducted were identified as Ziyad Abu Salem from the Abu Shkhaidem village, north of Ramallah city, Nawras Ferras from Markaba village, south of Jenin city. The sources …

Ali Salam (2020-05-04). Palestinian Youth Shot, Injured by Israeli Forces in Jericho. imemc.org Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Sunday night, a Palestinian youth in Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in the eastern West Bank city of Jericho, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Witnesses said that the army opened fire at Palestinian youths, striking one in the leg, the youth was rushed to hospital …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-04). Report: In April; 1015 Israeli Violations Against Palestinians. imemc.org Media department of the Islamic Hamas party reportedly recorded 1015 Israeli army violations against Palestinians in the West Bank, during April of this year, alone. The department noted in a report that Israeli troops, over the past couple of months, have been carrying out various violations against Palestinians, especially under …

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-04). Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo. strategic-culture.org Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and produced biological warfare weapons, there is no recent documented proof of a government being engaged in the widespread release of a biological warfare agent to cause maximum deaths. The 1972 Con…

Carmen Martinez (2020-05-04). Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected. splcenter.org Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hatewatch Staff (2020-05-04). Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing. splcenter.org As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.

sputniknews (2020-05-06). UK Gov't Launches Picture Contest to Celebrate 70 Years of British-Israeli Diplomatic Relations. sputniknews.com The UK has launched a competition to promote friendly ties between the two nations seven decades after diplomatic ties were established.

sputniknews (2020-05-06). Three Revolutionary Guardsmen Reportedly Killed in Clashes in Western Iran. sputniknews.com Tehran has waged a low-intensity counterterrorism campaign against militants in the country's northwest for several decades, accusing the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia of providing support to local separatists, and accusing officials in Iraqi Kurdistan of helping to arm and train the guerillas.

sputniknews (2020-05-06). Israel Won't End Syria Operations Until Iran Leaves, Defence Minister Says. sputniknews.com In recent years, Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes against targets in Syria that presumably contain or belong to Syrian or Iranian forces. Iran denies the presence of troops in Syria and refers to its forces there as mere advisors to Bashar al-Assad's government.

sputniknews (2020-05-06). How Nazis Sought to Profit Even From Dead Inmates at Notorious Mauthausen Concentration Camp. sputniknews.com As the Western Allies' armies advanced into Germany in the spring of 1945, they found out about the horrific scale of Nazi atrocities, something the Red Army and the people of Eastern Europe had already known about for several years.

yenisafak (2020-05-06). Israel signs deal to lease drones to Greece for border defence. yenisafak.com Israel said it will lease drones to Greece to defend its borders, in the first military deal between the two countries which includes an option to buy the system.The Israeli Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that the agreement with the Hellenic Ministry of National Defence was signed digitally due to the coronavirus crisis.Under the deal, Israel's Defence Ministry will lease the Heron unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system, made by state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries for three years.The Heron system, which is used by Israel's military and in naval forces around the world, is equipped with both day and night ac…

Alan Macleod (2020-05-01). Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again. mintpressnews.com Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he

splcenter (2020-05-01). Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed. splcenter.org With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.

splcenter (2020-05-01). Celebrating the Freedom Riders. splcenter.org

Gareth Porter (2020-04-30). With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran. thegrayzone.com An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…

Hatewatch Staff (2020-04-30). Cody Wilson Uses COVID-19 Crisis To Re-enter Extremist Movement. splcenter.org A registered sex offender and antigovernment icon is trying to use the current global pandemic to whitewash his image. A recent post on Jacobite magazine's website seeks to remind readers of Cody Wilson's past contributions to the movement and to cast doubt on the government responsible for his arrest and sentencing.

Cassie Miller (2020-04-27). Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists. splcenter.org Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Florida voting rights trial to be argued online. splcenter.org

splcenter (2020-04-24). Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later. splcenter.org

splcenter (2020-04-24). Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources. splcenter.org On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.

Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano (2020-04-24). Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report. splcenter.org Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.

Hatewatch Staff (2020-04-23). Oath Keepers Chaplain Quits Over Leader's COVID Response. splcenter.org Chuck Baldwin, who has served as the national chaplain of the antigovernment Oath Keepers since 2013, announced his resignation early Tuesday morning on Facebook.

Caleb Kieffer (2020-04-23). The Social Contract Publishes its Last Tract. splcenter.org The Social Contract, a long-running quarterly journal founded by John Tanton, ran its final issue in Fall 2019.

splcenter (2020-04-22). First person to die in Alabama's prisons with COVID-19 spent more than four decades behind bars. splcenter.org

splcenter (2020-04-22). SPLC Action makes recommendations to Congress to address COVID-19 needs in the Deep South. splcenter.org The SPLC Action Fund sent a detailed letter to members of Congress on April 22, 2020, highlighting the need for federal action that specifically addresses the needs of people in South.

Rachel Janik (2020-04-21). Augustus Invictus Arrested in Florida for Stalking, Violating Bond. splcenter.org Invictus' father, John Gillespie, was arrested days earlier and charged with human trafficking of children under 18 years old.

Eddie Bejarano (2020-04-21). Anti-Immigrant Movement Has History of Politicizing Disease. splcenter.org COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, is the latest disease the nativist movement has politicized to demonize immigrants.

splcenter (2020-04-17). SPLC lawsuit challenging Mississippi's failure to provide a uniform public school system moves forward. splcenter.org When Precious Hughes looked down the long, dark halls of Raines Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi, she saw lights flickering, water spots staining the ceilings and paint chipping off the walls.

splcenter (2020-04-17). 25 years later, Oklahoma City bombing still inspires antigovernment extremists. splcenter.org At 9: 02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a bomb exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children.

Hannah Gais (2020-04-16). Hate Groups and Racist Pundits Spew COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media Despite Companies' Pledges to Combat It. splcenter.org Hate groups and racist pundits have pushed misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic on mainstream social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube throughout the crisis, despite companies pledging to fight fake news about the virus.

Middle East Eye (2020-02-07). Russia Says Israel Used Civilian Plane as Human Shield During Syria Strikes. theantimedia.com Russia accused Israel of "making a total mockery of the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians."

2020-05-06: Social Media Postees

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USS Liberty: Israel's War Crimes Have Killed Americans
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-06
Imagine if you will a ship from a nation not at war with anyone sailing in international waters on a quiet June day being suddenly attacked by unidentified warplanes and torpedo boats, their markings covered up to conceal their country …
globalresearch.ca/israel-war-crimes-killed-americans/5711808

SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests
Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All | indybay.org | 2020-05-06
Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the "thin blue line" flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/03/18832811.php

German authorities press charges in Làºbcke murder case
wsws.org | 2020-05-06
The neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst is accused of having shot leading Christian Democratic politician Walter Làºbcke in cold blood on the terrace of his home on the night of June 2, 2019.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/06/lubc…

Facebook Deletes Accounts of Palestinian Activists and Journalists
The Palestinian Information Center | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-06
Facebook on Monday evening removed dozens of accounts run by Palestinian activists and journalists without prior notice. | Some accounts were deleted for no reason and other users were informed they "violated the site's policies". | Sada Social Center on Tuesday said …
globalresearch.ca/facebook-deletes-accounts-palestinian-activists-journalists/5711961

Israel's War Crimes Have Killed Americans
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-05
If the president loves to honor the military, start with the U.S.S. Liberty | Imagine if you will a ship from a nation not at war with anyone sailing in international waters on a quiet June day being suddenly attacked by unidentified warplanes and torpedo boats, their markings covered up to conceal their country of origin. The vessel under attack had little with which to defend itself, but its crew heroically made sure that a large national flag was hoisted to demonstrate that it was not a belligerent in anyone's conflict. The attackers noted the nationality of the vessel, but persisted in their aggression in a c…
thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/israels-w…

PCHR Welcomes the Response of the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court to the Observations of Amici Curiae, Legal Representatives of Victims, and States
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
On 30 April 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) submitted a 60-page document to the Pre-Trial Chamber I responding to the observations of amici curiae, legal representatives of victims, and States concerning the situation in the State of Palestine. The Palestinian Centre for Human …
imemc.org/article/pchr-welcomes-the-response-of-the-prosecution-of-the-international-criminal-court-to-the-observations-of-amici-curiae-legal-representatives-of-victims-and-states/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-welcomes-the-response-of-the-prosecution-of-the-international-criminal-court-to-the-observations-of-amici-curiae-legal-representatives-of-victims-and-states

Israel Delivers More Demolition Orders to Palestinians in West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli authorities in the internationally-recognized occupied West Bank, reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian households, ahead of the demolition of their homes. In the northern West Bank village of Aqqaba, north of Tulkarem city, Israeli troops reportedly handed over demolition warrants to a number of Palestinian …
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Israeli Forces Demolish Several Palestinian Structures, Deliver Demolition Notices
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli forces demolished an agricultural structure, on Monday, in the Jordan Valley village of Tayasir, northern West Bank, according to activist Aref Daraghme. Daraghme told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the village and demolished a small 36 square meter structure with an aluminum ceiling. Authorities rationalized the demolition …
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Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fifteen Palestinians In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported that the soldiers, undercover officers, and the police stormed many neighborhoods in Jerusalem, including the Old City, and conducted violent searches …
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Israeli Forces Storm Qalandia and Al-'Arroub Refugee Camps
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Tense confrontations between local Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers at Qalandia refugee camp, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, and Al-'Arroub refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, on Monday. QNN reporters said that Israeli forces closed roads in Al Matar neighborhood, and Kafr 'Aqab, while the Israeli …
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Palestinian Prisoner Re-Detained on the Day of his Release
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-05
Israeli forces, on Monday morning, arrested Nihad Zgheir, as soon as he was released from Israel's Gilboa jail, Quds News Network reported. The Committee of the Families of Jerusalem Prisoners told QNN that Zgheir, 42, who was released from prison Monday morning, after serving 35 months, was re-arrested by the …
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A Silent Curriculum
Brooks KC. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-05
In this narrative medicine essay, a medical student reflects on the ways in which she has seen racism and implicit bias affect clinical practice and emphasizes the importance of examining and challenging these biases to address health inequalities.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765417

Technofascism: The Censorship of David Icke is Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age
John Whitehead | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-05
CHARLOTTESVILLE ( Rutherford) —-We are fast becoming a nation–nay, a world–of book burners.While on paper, we are technically free to speak–at least according to the U.S. Constitution–in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow. | That's not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you're inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous. | Take David Icke, for example. | Icke, a popular c…
mintpressnews.com/technofascism-david-icke-digital-book-burning-totalitarian-age/267246/

My Name Is Not "Interpreter"
Montenegro RE. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-05
In this essay, the author relays his personal experience with ethnicity-based discrimination and discusses the "microaggressions" that medical trainees from underrepresented groups based on race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation experience.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765422

Far Right Group Behind Boston's "Straight Pride" Also Organized "Reopen" Protest
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-05
In March of 1770, a group of British troops found themselves accosted by a mob of angry colonists in Boston. The soldiers were pelted with rocks, snowballs, and struck with clubs. Finally, one soldier fired his weapon in self-defense, and the other troops followed suit. When the smoke cleared, three colonists lay dead. Eight others were wounded, and two of those would later succumb to their injuries. | The event became known as the Boston Massacre, and was initially a public opinion coup for P…
truthout.org/articles/far-right-group-behind-bostons-straight-pride-also-organized-reopen-protest/

Trump and the Militias Consummate Their Marriage
Max Elbaum | zcomm.org | 2020-05-05
Historical experience shows that when a powerful wing of a ruling class throws in with grassroots fascists, a fascist or fascist-like regime moves from back-drawer possibility to imminent danger…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-and-the-militias-consummate-their-marriage/

COVID-19 "CARES Act" Bankrolls AlI Post-Human Education
John Klyczek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-05
In 1982, former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement for the US Department of Education, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, blew the whistle on the Reagan Administration's Project BEST (Better Education Skills through Technology): a techno-fascist plan to privatize the American school system by selling it out to Big Tech corporations that …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/covid-19-cares-act-bankrolls-ali-post-human-education/

Why Keep On Confronting?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-05
On April 25 the White House published a heartening and most welcome "Joint Statement by President Donald J. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia" to mark "the 75th Anniversary of the historic meeting between American and Soviet troops, who shook hands on the damaged bridge over the Elbe River. This event heralded the decisive defeat of the Nazi regime." Some of us considered this a most positive step in relations between the cou…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/05/why-keep-on-confronting/

Social Distancing With Tear Gas and Walls: the "Racist, Hateful, And Life-Threatening Campaign" Unleashed Against The Romani With Covid-19
RAIN | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-05
She was 37 years old. Her name was not reported. We will never know the name of her baby. For three days after her waters broke, she appealed multiple times for attention at Ohrid General Hospital in North Macedonia. Every visit ended the same way, with her being denied treatment. Her friend, who drove her…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/05/social-distancing-with-tear-gas-and-walls-the-racist-hateful-and-life-threatening-campaign-unleashed-against-the-romani-with-covid-19/

Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-05-05
White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/why-white-supremacists-are-targeting-zoom-meetings-during-covid-19-pandemic

Palestinian Youth Shot, Injured by Israeli Forces in Jericho
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-04
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Sunday night, a Palestinian youth in Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in the eastern West Bank city of Jericho, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Witnesses said that the army opened fire at Palestinian youths, striking one in the leg, the youth was rushed to hospital …
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Report: In April; 1015 Israeli Violations Against Palestinians
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-04
Media department of the Islamic Hamas party reportedly recorded 1015 Israeli army violations against Palestinians in the West Bank, during April of this year, alone. The department noted in a report that Israeli troops, over the past couple of months, have been carrying out various violations against Palestinians, especially under …
imemc.org/article/report-in-april-1015-israeli-violations-against-palestinians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-in-april-1015-israeli-violations-against-palestinians

FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-04
Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.
mintpressnews.com/fbi-documents-israel-collusion-2016-trump-campaign/267212/

Israeli Troops Abduct Eight Palestinians, Ransack Home of Former Prisoner
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-04
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Monday, eight Palestinian residents from different areas of the West Bank. Local Palestinian media sources said that those abducted were identified as Ziyad Abu Salem from the Abu Shkhaidem village, north of Ramallah city, Nawras Ferras from Markaba village, south of Jenin city. The sources …
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Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-04
Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and produced biological warfare weapons, there is no recent documented proof of a government being engaged in the widespread release of a biological warfare agent to cause maximum deaths. The 1972 Con…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/04/cults-and-bioterrorism-toxic-duo/

Israel Won't End Syria Operations Until Iran Leaves, Defence Minister Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-06
In recent years, Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes against targets in Syria that presumably contain or belong to Syrian or Iranian forces. Iran denies the presence of troops in Syria and refers to its forces there as mere advisors to Bashar al-Assad's government.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005061079214052-israel-wont-end-syria-operations-until-iran-leaves–defence-minister/

Three Revolutionary Guardsmen Reportedly Killed in Clashes in Western Iran
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-06
Tehran has waged a low-intensity counterterrorism campaign against militants in the country's northwest for several decades, accusing the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia of providing support to local separatists, and accusing officials in Iraqi Kurdistan of helping to arm and train the guerillas.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005061079216520-three-revolutionary-guardsmen-reportedly-killed-in-clashes-in-western-iran/

UK Gov't Launches Picture Contest to Celebrate 70 Years of British-Israeli Diplomatic Relations
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-06
The UK has launched a competition to promote friendly ties between the two nations seven decades after diplomatic ties were established.
sputniknews.com/uk/202005061079214027-uk-govt-launches-picture-contest-to-celebrate-70-years-of-british-israeli-diplomatic-relations/

How Nazis Sought to Profit Even From Dead Inmates at Notorious Mauthausen Concentration Camp
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-06
As the Western Allies' armies advanced into Germany in the spring of 1945, they found out about the horrific scale of Nazi atrocities, something the Red Army and the people of Eastern Europe had already known about for several years.
sputniknews.com/military/202005061079214909-how-nazis-sought-to-profit-even-from-dead-inmates-at-notorious-mauthausen-concentration-camp/

Israel signs deal to lease drones to Greece for border defence
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-06
Israel said it will lease drones to Greece to defend its borders, in the first military deal between the two countries which includes an option to buy the system.The Israeli Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that the agreement with the Hellenic Ministry of National Defence was signed digitally due to the coronavirus crisis.Under the deal, Israel's Defence Ministry will lease the Heron unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system, made by state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries for three years.The Heron system, which is used by Israel's military and in naval forces around the world, is equipped with both day and night ac…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israel-signs-deal-to-lease-drones-to-greece-for-border-defence-3518806

Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected
Carmen Martinez | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/05/amid-pandemic-poultry-workers-must-be-protected

Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/facebook-go-platform-organizing-protests-against-social-distancing

Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-01
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he announced on social media last night,…
mintpressnews.com/juan-guaido-trying-to-overthrow-venezuela-government/267201/

Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/02/weekend-read-even-southern-states-continue-honoring-confederate-holidays-monuments-are

Celebrating the Freedom Riders
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
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With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

Cody Wilson Uses COVID-19 Crisis To Re-enter Extremist Movement
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-04-30
A registered sex offender and antigovernment icon is trying to use the current global pandemic to whitewash his image. A recent post on Jacobite magazine's website seeks to remind readers of Cody Wilson's past contributions to the movement and to cast doubt on the government responsible for his arrest and sentencing.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/30/cody-wilson-uses-covid-19-crisis-re-enter-extremist-movement

Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2020-04-27
Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/27/anti-lockdown-rallies-are-providing-opening-proud-boys-and-other-far-right-extremists

Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/fraihat-v-ice-community-resources

Florida voting rights trial to be argued online
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/25/florida-voting-rights-trial-be-argued-online

Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/remembering-deadly-poway-shooting-one-year-later

Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report
Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/24/trumps-immigration-order-was-drafted-officials-ties-hate-groups-according-report

The Social Contract Publishes its Last Tract
Caleb Kieffer | splcenter.org | 2020-04-23
The Social Contract, a long-running quarterly journal founded by John Tanton, ran its final issue in Fall 2019.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/23/social-contract-publishes-its-last-tract

Oath Keepers Chaplain Quits Over Leader's COVID Response
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-04-23
Chuck Baldwin, who has served as the national chaplain of the antigovernment Oath Keepers since 2013, announced his resignation early Tuesday morning on Facebook.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/23/oath-keepers-chaplain-quits-over-leaders-covid-response

First person to die in Alabama's prisons with COVID-19 spent more than four decades behind bars
splcenter.org | 2020-04-22
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/22/first-person-die-alabamas-prisons-covid-19-spent-more-four-decades-behind-bars

SPLC Action makes recommendations to Congress to address COVID-19 needs in the Deep South
splcenter.org | 2020-04-22
The SPLC Action Fund sent a detailed letter to members of Congress on April 22, 2020, highlighting the need for federal action that specifically addresses the needs of people in South.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/22/splc-action-makes-recommendations-congress-address-covid-19-needs-deep-south

Anti-Immigrant Movement Has History of Politicizing Disease
Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-21
COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, is the latest disease the nativist movement has politicized to demonize immigrants.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/21/anti-immigrant-movement-has-history-politicizing-disease

Augustus Invictus Arrested in Florida for Stalking, Violating Bond
Rachel Janik | splcenter.org | 2020-04-21
Invictus' father, John Gillespie, was arrested days earlier and charged with human trafficking of children under 18 years old.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/21/augustus-invictus-arrested-florida-stalking-violating-bond

SPLC lawsuit challenging Mississippi's failure to provide a uniform public school system moves forward
splcenter.org | 2020-04-17
When Precious Hughes looked down the long, dark halls of Raines Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi, she saw lights flickering, water spots staining the ceilings and paint chipping off the walls.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/27/splc-lawsuit-challenging-mississippis-failure-provide-uniform-public-school-system-moves

25 years later, Oklahoma City bombing still inspires antigovernment extremists
splcenter.org | 2020-04-17
At 9: 02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a bomb exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/17/25-years-later-oklahoma-city-bombing-still-inspires-antigovernment-extremists

2020-05-05: News Headlines

RT (2020-05-05). Vienna's vice mayor takes heat after 'ASYLUM SEEKER VIRUS' reference. rt.com The vice mayor of Vienna and high-ranking member of Austria's anti-immigration party faced accusations of racism after he blamed the rise in daily Covid-19 infections on the local migrant community. | "It is now clear… that the increasing coronavirus numbers in Vienna can only be attributed to asylum seekers," Vice Mayor Dominik Nepp

RT (2020-05-05). Kim Jong-un accepts WWII medal awarded by Putin days after DEATH rumors spread by Western media. rt.com He may have been reported dead last week by US/UK media, but today North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received a medal from President Putin for his contribution to perpetuating the memory of Soviet citizens buried in North Korea. | In 2019, the Kremlin announced the creation of a brand new award named '75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945′, to be given to those chosen by the president. The award has already been presented to multiple people, many of whom are Russian veterans. | | @ Russian Embassy in North Korea | According to the Facebook page of the Russian Embassy in North Korea, Kim was…

Philip Giraldi (2020-05-05). Israel's War Crimes Have Killed Americans. thealtworld.com If the president loves to honor the military, start with the U.S.S. Liberty | Imagine if you will a ship from a nation not at war with anyone sailing in international waters on a quiet June day being suddenly attacked by unidentified warplanes and torpedo boats, their markings covered up to conceal their country of origin. The vessel under attack had little with which to defend itself, but its crew heroically made sure that a large national flag was hoisted to demonstrate that it was not a belligerent in anyone's conflict. The attackers noted the nationality of the vessel, but persisted in their aggression in a c…

James J. Zogby (2020-05-05). 100 Years After San Remo and the Denial of Arab Rights Continues. globalresearch.ca It was appropriate that during the week in which we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the San Remo Conference, Israelis and Americans were discussing the Israeli government's declared intention to annex large portions of occupied Palestinian lands. As was the …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-05). Syria's air defense repels Israeli airstrike over Aleppo. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 05 (MNA) — Syria's army air defenses confronted on Monday a missile aggression on Assfaira region in Aleppo southeastern countryside.

Ted Glick (2020-05-05). On Lying and the 2020 Presidential Election. zcomm.org I would be lying if I said that I thought electing Biden, or anyone other than Sanders, was a guarantee of a transformation. It wouldn't be. But it would be a blow against rising fascism in this country, at least, and hopefully much more…

John Whitehead (2020-05-05). Technofascism: The Censorship of David Icke is Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age. mintpressnews.com CHARLOTTESVILLE ( That's not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you're inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous. | Take David Icke, for example. | Icke, a popular c…

Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All (2020-05-05). SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests. indybay.org Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the Blue Lives Matter flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.

Staff (2020-05-05). Far Right Group Behind Boston's "Straight Pride" Also Organized "Reopen" Protest. truthout.org In March of 1770, a group of British troops found themselves accosted by a mob of angry colonists in Boston. The soldiers were pelted with rocks, snowballs, and struck with clubs. Finally, one soldier fired his weapon in self-defense, and the other troops followed suit. When the smoke cleared, three colonists lay dead. Eight others were wounded, and two of those would later succumb to their injuries. | The event became known as the Boston Massacre, and was initially a public opinion coup for P…

Max Elbaum (2020-05-05). Trump and the Militias Consummate Their Marriage. zcomm.org Historical experience shows that when a powerful wing of a ruling class throws in with grassroots fascists, a fascist or fascist-like regime moves from back-drawer possibility to imminent danger…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-05). Era of Nazism has gone over: IDO's head to German govt. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 5 (MNA) — In his reaction to the heinous treatment of Federal Government of Germany against Muslims enthusiast to Lebanese Hezbollah while attending the mosques of this country, Head of Islamic Development Organization (IDO) Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Qomi on Tue. said that the German government should know that the era of Nazism has gone over.

Shane Quinn (2020-05-05). 75 Years Ago: Nazi Germany Lies in Rubble and How the Wehrmacht's Ultimate Defeat Came About. globalresearch.ca Three-quarters of a century ago the Third Reich lay in ruins, its ruler Adolf Hitler dead, having shot himself in the right temple with his 7.65mm pistol on 30 April 1945. Hitler had refused to leave Berlin over previous days, …

RAIN (2020-05-05). Social Distancing With Tear Gas and Walls: the "Racist, Hateful, And Life-Threatening Campaign" Unleashed Against The Romani With Covid-19. counterpunch.org She was 37 years old. Her name was not reported. We will never know the name of her baby. For three days after her waters broke, she appealed multiple times for attention at Ohrid General Hospital in North Macedonia. Every visit ended the same way, with her being denied treatment. Her friend, who drove her

splcenter (2020-05-05). Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic. splcenter.org White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.

Al Neal (2020-05-04). Judge tosses out equal pay discrimination claims made by Women's soccer. peoplesworld.org On International Workers' Day, May 1, a federal judge quietly tossed out part of the U.S. Women's National Team's pay discrimination lawsuit—the unequal pay argument—while allowing their allegations of discriminatory working conditions to proceed to trial. It was a shocking judgment and a loss for players. Led by Alex Morgan, players filed their lawsuit in March …

Alison Weir (2020-05-04). FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign. mintpressnews.com Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.

Ruth Conniff (2020-05-04). Wisconsin Protesters Target 'Tony the Tyrant'. progressive.org GOP temper tantrum escalates as state Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on restrictions.

Elie Mystal (2020-05-04). It's Time to Bring the Supreme Court Into the Modern Era—and the Light. thenation.com It's Time to Bring the Supreme Court Into the Modern Era—and the Light…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-04). Report: In April; 1015 Israeli Violations Against Palestinians. imemc.org Media department of the Islamic Hamas party reportedly recorded 1015 Israeli army violations against Palestinians in the West Bank, during April of this year, alone. The department noted in a report that Israeli troops, over the past couple of months, have been carrying out various violations against Palestinians, especially under …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-04). Israeli Troops Abduct Eight Palestinians, Ransack Home of Former Prisoner. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Monday, eight Palestinian residents from different areas of the West Bank. Local Palestinian media sources said that those abducted were identified as Ziyad Abu Salem from the Abu Shkhaidem village, north of Ramallah city, Nawras Ferras from Markaba village, south of Jenin city. The sources …

Azhar Azam (2020-05-04). The COVID-19 Crisis Profoundly Exposes African Americans to the Scourge of Poverty and Racism. globalresearch.ca They live below the poverty level. They are prison …

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-04). Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo. strategic-culture.org Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and produced biological warfare weapons, there is no recent documented proof of a government being engaged in the widespread release of a biological warfare agent to cause maximum deaths. The 1972 Con…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-04). Stalin and Voroshilov are back in Donbass: Donetsk and Luhansk to be renamed on Victory Day. peoplesdispatch.org This May 9 marks the 75th anniversary of the Victory Day, which commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany during the second world war in 1945…

Carmen Martinez (2020-05-04). Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected. splcenter.org Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hatewatch Staff (2020-05-04). Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing. splcenter.org As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.

The Canary (2020-05-03). Israeli court to hear petitions against Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal charges. thecanary.co Israel's high court is set to begin hearing petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal indictments.The proceedings on 3 May, held by a large panel of 11 justices and, in a rare instance, to also be broadcast live, will focus on the issue of whether a politician can form a government while under indictment — something the Israeli legal code does not explicitly prohibit.If the court voids Netanyahu's ability to serve as prime minister, Israel could be plunged into political chaos and it would likely trigger the country's fourth election in just over 12 months.The high cour…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-03). On International Day of Journalists, Dr. Ashrawi Honors Press. imemc.org Senior Palestinian leader and Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, stated on Sunday, that press freedoms are an integral part of public freedoms. | Dr.

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-03). Officials Decry Israeli Seizure of Palestinian Authority's Tax Funds. imemc.org A number of Palestinian officials in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, Israel's seizure of the Palestinian Authority's (PA) tax funds, considering this as theft against the Palestinian people. Hussien Elsheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs with the PA, confirmed today that the Israeli Magistrate Court in …

sputniknews (2020-05-05). Revealed: How USSR's 'Death to Spies' Spooks Paralyzed Third Reich Intelligence. sputniknews.com Nazi intelligence and the Kriegsmarine mastered the art of spreading radio disinformation among the Allies after the occupation of France and the campaign for the Atlantic. However, by 1944, the NKVD and SMERSH (Red Army counterintelligence), set up similar operations, disorganizing Wehrmacht intelligence-gathering until the very end of the war.

Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer (2020-05-04). The Hate That Is Among Us. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-03). The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate. 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 (5/2/19). 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 …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-03). Israeli Troops Abduct Twelve Palestinians, Including Former Prisoner. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, early on Sunday, a dozen Palestinians from different parts of the Palestinian territories, prisoners sources said. The Ramallah-based Palestinian prisoners forum said that Israeli troops invaded the al-"Isawiya neighborhood of the old city of Jerusalem, which is internationally-recognized as an Israeli-occupied Palestinian area. The forum added …

Eliza Egret (2020-05-03). Greek refugee camps 'beyond breaking point' as UK government continues its racist policies. thecanary.co Human rights campaigners on the Greek island of Samos have told The Canary that the situation for refugees is "beyond breaking point". Since the Europe Must A…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-02). Israel Plans New Colonial Settlement in Northern West Bank. imemc.org Israeli authorities reportedly endorsed the erection of a new Israeli colonial settlement near the Kufur Qasem town, north of the West Bank. According to Ma'areef Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper, the 10 acres of Palestinian farm land, on which the colonial settlement is set to be erected, will be rather designated as …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-02). Israeli Troops Shoot at Palestinian Fishermen and Farmers in Gaza. imemc.org Israeli troops opened fire on Saturday, at local Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza, mainly in the Khuza'a rural area, east of the southern Khan Younis city. Local Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israeli troops, stationed on the Israeli side of the border, east of Khan Younis city, opened …

Ted Kelly (2020-05-02). PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies. workers.org Eric McGill was locked up in Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Lebanon, Pa., on Jan. 19, 2019. For 15 months now he has been held there, not because he has been convicted of a crime, but because he cannot afford the preposterous $1 million bail the judge set. And during . . . |

a guest author (2020-05-02). Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps'. workers.org By Quess Moore This slightly edited talk is by Quess Moore speaking at the April 9 Workers World Party webinar. Moore organizes with New Orleans Workers Group and Take 'Em Down NOLA, a group which has been working to take down symbols of white supremacy and slavery. View all the . . . |

Alan Macleod (2020-05-01). Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again. mintpressnews.com Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Soldiers Assault And Abduct A Father And His Three Sons In Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers assaulted and abducted, on Friday evening, a Palestinian father and his three sons in Bab al-'Amoud area, in occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped the father and his three sons, from the Salayma family, while walking near Bab al-'Amoud, before repeatedly assaulting them, and abducted them. …

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Israeli Soldiers Injure Six Palestinians, Including Two Children, In Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession against the Annexation Wall and colonies in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured six Palestinians, including two children. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, …

Fight Back (2020-05-01). Chicago Tribune lends its press to racism. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – The headline in the Chicago Tribune Wednesday, April 19 blared: "Two charities have bailed scores of felony defendants out of Cook County Jail. Some were soon charged with new crimes." The headline could have said, with equal validity, that "Millions of Chicagoans were not arrested last year. Some were charged with new crimes." | The article is filled with racist 'dog whistles' about [Black and brown] people with guns and hysteria regarding violent crime. In actual fact, in the past three years the rate of violent crime in Chicago has declined significantly. The Tribune is blowing the racist 'get to…

splcenter (2020-05-01). Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed. splcenter.org With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.

splcenter (2020-05-01). Celebrating the Freedom Riders. splcenter.org

Leela Anand (2020-04-30). Biden and Trump compete to produce most misleading, racist anti-China ad. liberationnews.org Both political parties in the U.S. seek to make a national enemy out of China. But the U.S. working class has more to gain from friendship, solidarity and exchange of knowledge with China and the Chinese people.

Gareth Porter (2020-04-30). With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran. thegrayzone.com An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…

Hatewatch Staff (2020-04-30). Cody Wilson Uses COVID-19 Crisis To Re-enter Extremist Movement. splcenter.org A registered sex offender and antigovernment icon is trying to use the current global pandemic to whitewash his image. A recent post on Jacobite magazine's website seeks to remind readers of Cody Wilson's past contributions to the movement and to cast doubt on the government responsible for his arrest and sentencing.

Ryan Cristián (2020-04-29). Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag. 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 (4/28/19). 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 …

Staff (2020-04-28). Labour Party Plot Against Corbyn Revealed. therealnews.com Newly-elected leader Keir Starmer promised to investigate the evidence that senior party members actively undermined Jeremy Corbyn, even at the cost of weakening Labour in the general election.

Aviva Levine (2020-04-28). Trump attacks trans health access during a pandemic. liberationnews.org Under an expected rewrite of part of the ACA, discrimination against trans people in health care would be legally permitted.

Staff (2020-04-27). The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony. therealnews.com Co-hosted by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle — Families Forum. Co-sponsored by over sixty peace organizations and religious institutions around the world Anat Marinin and Ahmed Aljaafri — Bereaved Israeli sister, Anat, who lost her two brothers, Pinchas (Pinka) and Yair, during the Yom Kippur War will hold a conversation with bereaved Palestinian,…

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Kim Jong-un accepts WWII medal awarded by Putin days after DEATH rumors spread by Western media
rt.com | 2020-05-05
He may have been reported dead last week by US/UK media, but today North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received a medal from President Putin for his contribution to perpetuating the memory of Soviet citizens buried in North Korea. | In 2019, the Kremlin announced the creation of a brand new award named '75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945′, to be given to those chosen by the president. The award has already been presented to multiple people, many of whom are Russian veterans. | | @ Russian Embassy in North Korea | According to the Facebook page of the Russian Embassy in North Korea, Kim was…
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Kim Jong-un accepts WWII medal awarded by Putin days after DEATH rumors spread by Western media
rt.com | 2020-05-05
He may have been reported dead last week by US/UK media, but today North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received a medal from President Putin for his contribution to perpetuating the memory of Soviet citizens buried in North Korea. | In 2019, the Kremlin announced the creation of a brand new award named '75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945′, to be given to those chosen by the president. The award has already been presented to multiple people, many of whom are Russian veterans. | | © Russian Embassy in North Korea | According to the Facebook page of the Russian Embassy in North Korea, Kim…
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Israel's War Crimes Have Killed Americans
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-05
If the president loves to honor the military, start with the U.S.S. Liberty | Imagine if you will a ship from a nation not at war with anyone sailing in international waters on a quiet June day being suddenly attacked by unidentified warplanes and torpedo boats, their markings covered up to conceal their country of origin. The vessel under attack had little with which to defend itself, but its crew heroically made sure that a large national flag was hoisted to demonstrate that it was not a belligerent in anyone's conflict. The attackers noted the nationality of the vessel, but persisted in their aggression in a c…
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100 Years After San Remo and the Denial of Arab Rights Continues
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-05
It was appropriate that during the week in which we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the San Remo Conference, Israelis and Americans were discussing the Israeli government's declared intention to annex large portions of occupied Palestinian lands. As was the …
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Syria's air defense repels Israeli airstrike over Aleppo
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-05
TEHRAN, May 05 (MNA)

Vienna's vice mayor takes heat after 'ASYLUM SEEKER VIRUS' reference
rt.com | 2020-05-05
The vice mayor of Vienna and high-ranking member of Austria's anti-immigration party faced accusations of racism after he blamed the rise in daily Covid-19 infections on the local migrant community. | "It is now clear… that the increasing coronavirus numbers in Vienna can only be attributed to asylum seekers," Vice Mayor Dominik Nepp said on Monday, after a recent testing campaign at migrants' quarters in the district of Erdberg revealed 26 new Covid…
rt.com/news/487790-coronavirus-vienna-fpo-migrants/

On Lying and the 2020 Presidential Election
Ted Glick | zcomm.org | 2020-05-05
I would be lying if I said that I thought electing Biden, or anyone other than Sanders, was a guarantee of a transformation. It wouldn't be. But it would be a blow against rising fascism in this country, at least, and hopefully much…
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Technofascism: The Censorship of David Icke is Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age
John Whitehead | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-05
CHARLOTTESVILLE ( Rutherford) —-We are fast becoming a nation–nay, a world–of book burners.While on paper, we are technically free to speak–at least according to the U.S. Constitution–in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow. | That's not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you're inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous. | Take David Icke, for example. | Icke, a popular c…
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SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests
Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All | indybay.org | 2020-05-05
Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the Blue Lives Matter flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.
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Far Right Group Behind Boston's "Straight Pride" Also Organized "Reopen" Protest
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-05
In March of 1770, a group of British troops found themselves accosted by a mob of angry colonists in Boston. The soldiers were pelted with rocks, snowballs, and struck with clubs. Finally, one soldier fired his weapon in self-defense, and the other troops followed suit. When the smoke cleared, three colonists lay dead. Eight others were wounded, and two of those would later succumb to their injuries. | The event became known as the Boston Massacre, and was initially a public opinion coup for P…
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Trump and the Militias Consummate Their Marriage
Max Elbaum | zcomm.org | 2020-05-05
Historical experience shows that when a powerful wing of a ruling class throws in with grassroots fascists, a fascist or fascist-like regime moves from back-drawer possibility to imminent danger…
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Why Keep On Confronting?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-05
On April 25 the White House published a heartening and most welcome "Joint Statement by President Donald J. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia" to mark "the 75th Anniversary of the historic meeting between American and Soviet troops, who shook hands on the damaged bridge over the Elbe River. This event heralded the decisive defeat of the Nazi regime." Some of us considered this a most positive step in relations between the cou…
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75 Years Ago: Nazi Germany Lies in Rubble and How the Wehrmacht's Ultimate Defeat Came About
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-05
Three-quarters of a century ago the Third Reich lay in ruins, its ruler Adolf Hitler dead, having shot himself in the right temple with his 7.65mm pistol on 30 April 1945. Hitler had refused to leave Berlin over previous days, …
globalresearch.ca/75-years-ago-nazi-germany-lies-rubble-wehrmachts-ultimate-defeat/5711813

Era of Nazism has gone over: IDO's head to German govt
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-05
TEHRAN, May 5 (MNA)

Social Distancing With Tear Gas and Walls: the "Racist, Hateful, And Life-Threatening Campaign" Unleashed Against The Romani With Covid-19
RAIN | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-05
She was 37 years old. Her name was not reported. We will never know the name of her baby. For three days after her waters broke, she appealed multiple times for attention at Ohrid General Hospital in North Macedonia. Every visit ended the same way, with her being denied treatment. Her friend, who drove her…
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Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-05-05
White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/why-white-supremacists-are-targeting-zoom-meetings-during-covid-19-pandemic

It's Time to Bring the Supreme Court Into the Modern Era–and the Light
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-05-04
It's Time to Bring the Supreme Court Into the Modern Era–and the Light…
thenation.com/article/politics/scotus-cameras-hearing/

Wisconsin Protesters Target 'Tony the Tyrant'
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-04
GOP temper tantrum escalates as state Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on restrictions.
progressive.org/dispatches/wisconsin-protesters-target-tony-the-tyrant-conniff-200504/

Israeli Troops Abduct Eight Palestinians, Ransack Home of Former Prisoner
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-04
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Monday, eight Palestinian residents from different areas of the West Bank. Local Palestinian media sources said that those abducted were identified as Ziyad Abu Salem from the Abu Shkhaidem village, north of Ramallah city, Nawras Ferras from Markaba village, south of Jenin city. The sources …
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Report: In April; 1015 Israeli Violations Against Palestinians
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-04
Media department of the Islamic Hamas party reportedly recorded 1015 Israeli army violations against Palestinians in the West Bank, during April of this year, alone. The department noted in a report that Israeli troops, over the past couple of months, have been carrying out various violations against Palestinians, especially under …
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FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-04
Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.
mintpressnews.com/fbi-documents-israel-collusion-2016-trump-campaign/267212/

The COVID-19 Crisis Profoundly Exposes African Americans to the Scourge of Poverty and Racism
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
They live below the poverty level. They are prison inmates in large numbers. They are most likely to be killed by the police, a longstanding grievance that originated the Black Lives Matter (BTM) movement to protest against police killing and | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-profoundly-exposes-african-americans-racism/5711687

Judge tosses out equal pay discrimination claims made by Women's soccer
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-04
On International Workers' Day, May 1, a federal judge quietly tossed out part of the U.S. Women's National Team's pay discrimination lawsuit–the unequal pay argument–while allowing their allegations of discriminatory working conditions to proceed to trial. It was a shocking judgment and a loss for players. Led by Alex Morgan, players filed their lawsuit in March …
peoplesworld.org/article/judge-tosses-out-equal-pay-discrimination-claims-made-by-womens-soccer/

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-04
Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and produced biological warfare weapons, there is no recent documented proof of a government being engaged in the widespread release of a biological warfare agent to cause maximum deaths. The 1972 Con…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/04/cults-and-bioterrorism-toxic-duo/

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Wayne Madsen | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-04
Although there is no recent history of nation-states propagating biological warfare attacks, there is a history of dangerous religious cults being involved in preparing for or carrying out them. | Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and…
thealtworld.com/wayne_madsen/cults-and-b…

Stalin and Voroshilov are back in Donbass: Donetsk and Luhansk to be renamed on Victory Day
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-04
This May 9 marks the 75th anniversary of the Victory Day, which commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany during the second world war in 1945…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/04/stalin-and-voroshilov-are-back-in-donbass-donetsk-and-luhansk-to-be-renamed-on-victory-day/

Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected
Carmen Martinez | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/05/amid-pandemic-poultry-workers-must-be-protected

Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/facebook-go-platform-organizing-protests-against-social-distancing

Revealed: How USSR's 'Death to Spies' Spooks Paralyzed Third Reich Intelligence
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-05
Nazi intelligence and the Kriegsmarine mastered the art of spreading radio disinformation among the Allies after the occupation of France and the campaign for the Atlantic. However, by 1944, the NKVD and SMERSH (Red Army counterintelligence), set up similar operations, disorganizing Wehrmacht intelligence-gathering until the very end of the war.
sputniknews.com/military/202005051079202603-revealed-how-ussrs-death-to-spies-spooks-paralyzed-third-reich-intelligence/

The Hate That Is Among Us
Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-04
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On International Day of Journalists, Dr. Ashrawi Honors Press
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-03
Senior Palestinian leader and Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, stated on Sunday, that press freedoms are an integral part of public freedoms. | Dr.
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The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-03
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 (5/2/19). 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 …
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Officials Decry Israeli Seizure of Palestinian Authority's Tax Funds
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-03
A number of Palestinian officials in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, Israel's seizure of the Palestinian Authority's (PA) tax funds, considering this as theft against the Palestinian people. Hussien Elsheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs with the PA, confirmed today that the Israeli Magistrate Court in …
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Israeli Troops Abduct Twelve Palestinians, Including Former Prisoner
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-03
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, early on Sunday, a dozen Palestinians from different parts of the Palestinian territories, prisoners sources said. The Ramallah-based Palestinian prisoners forum said that Israeli troops invaded the al-"Isawiya neighborhood of the old city of Jerusalem, which is internationally-recognized as an Israeli-occupied Palestinian area. The forum added …
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Israeli court to hear petitions against Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal charges
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-03
Israel's high court is set to begin hearing petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal indictments.The proceedings on 3 May, held by a large panel of 11 justices and, in a rare instance, to also be broadcast live, will focus on the issue of whether a politician can form a government while under indictment

Greek refugee camps 'beyond breaking point' as UK government continues its racist policies
Eliza Egret | thecanary.co | 2020-05-03
Human rights campaigners on the Greek island of Samos have told The Canary that the situation for refugees is "beyond breaking point". Since the early 2000s, people have been seeking refuge on the Aegean islands, fleeing the West's neo-colonial policies in the Middle East. Around 7,000 people are currently stuck in Samos' Vathy camp, which has capacity for under 700 people. | Europe Must A…
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Israeli Troops Shoot at Palestinian Fishermen and Farmers in Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-02
Israeli troops opened fire on Saturday, at local Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza, mainly in the Khuza'a rural area, east of the southern Khan Younis city. Local Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israeli troops, stationed on the Israeli side of the border, east of Khan Younis city, opened …
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Israel Plans New Colonial Settlement in Northern West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-02
Israeli authorities reportedly endorsed the erection of a new Israeli colonial settlement near the Kufur Qasem town, north of the West Bank. According to Ma'areef Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper, the 10 acres of Palestinian farm land, on which the colonial settlement is set to be erected, will be rather designated as …
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PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-05-02
Eric McGill was locked up in Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Lebanon, Pa., on Jan. 19, 2019. For 15 months now he has been held there, not because he has been convicted of a crime, but because he cannot afford the preposterous $1 million bail the judge set. And during . . . | Continue reading PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies at Workers.org…
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Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps'
a guest author | workers.org | 2020-05-02
By Quess Moore This slightly edited talk is by Quess Moore speaking at the April 9 Workers World Party webinar. Moore organizes with New Orleans Workers Group and Take 'Em Down NOLA, a group which has been working to take down symbols of white supremacy and slavery. View all the . . . | Continue reading Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps' at Workers.org…
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Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-01
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he announced on social media last night,…
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Soldiers Assault And Abduct A Father And His Three Sons In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers assaulted and abducted, on Friday evening, a Palestinian father and his three sons in Bab al-'Amoud area, in occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped the father and his three sons, from the Salayma family, while walking near Bab al-'Amoud, before repeatedly assaulting them, and abducted them. …
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Israeli Soldiers Injure Six Palestinians, Including Two Children, In Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession against the Annexation Wall and colonies in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured six Palestinians, including two children. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, …
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Chicago Tribune lends its press to racism
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-01
Chicago, IL – The headline in the Chicago Tribune Wednesday, April 19 blared: "Two charities have bailed scores of felony defendants out of Cook County Jail. Some were soon charged with new crimes." The headline could have said, with equal validity, that "Millions of Chicagoans were not arrested last year. Some were charged with new crimes." | The article is filled with racist 'dog whistles' about [Black and brown] people with guns and hysteria regarding violent crime. In actual fact, in the past three years the rate of violent crime in Chicago has declined significantly. The Tribune is blowing the racist 'get to…
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Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/02/weekend-read-even-southern-states-continue-honoring-confederate-holidays-monuments-are

Celebrating the Freedom Riders
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
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With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

Biden and Trump compete to produce most misleading, racist anti-China ad
Leela Anand | liberationnews.org | 2020-04-30
Both political parties in the U.S. seek to make a national enemy out of China. But the U.S. working class has more to gain from friendship, solidarity and exchange of knowledge with China and the Chinese people.
liberationnews.org/biden-and-trump-compete-to-produce-most-misleading-racist-anti-china-ad/

Cody Wilson Uses COVID-19 Crisis To Re-enter Extremist Movement
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-04-30
A registered sex offender and antigovernment icon is trying to use the current global pandemic to whitewash his image. A recent post on Jacobite magazine's website seeks to remind readers of Cody Wilson's past contributions to the movement and to cast doubt on the government responsible for his arrest and sentencing.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/30/cody-wilson-uses-covid-19-crisis-re-enter-extremist-movement

Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-29
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 (4/28/19). 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 …
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2020-05-04: News Headlines

Alan MacLeod (2020-05-04). Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again. Calls on Military to Support Him. globalresearch.ca Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled …

Elie Mystal (2020-05-04). It's Time to Bring the Supreme Court Into the Modern Era—and the Light. thenation.com It's Time to Bring the Supreme Court Into the Modern Era—and the Light…

Ruth Conniff (2020-05-04). Wisconsin Protesters Target 'Tony the Tyrant'. progressive.org GOP temper tantrum escalates as state Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on restrictions.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-04). Al-Nujaba distributed Subsistence packages in Palestine. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 04 (MNA) — Following its aids to Iraqi, Iranian and Syrian people, al-Nujaba Movement, on the occasion of Ramadan month, distributed aid packages, including foods and medical supplies, among some Palestinian families.

Al Neal (2020-05-04). Judge tosses out equal pay discrimination claims made by Women's soccer. peoplesworld.org On International Workers' Day, May 1, a federal judge quietly tossed out part of the U.S. Women's National Team's pay discrimination lawsuit—the unequal pay argument—while allowing their allegations of discriminatory working conditions to proceed to trial. It was a shocking judgment and a loss for players. Led by Alex Morgan, players filed their lawsuit in March …

Alison Weir (2020-05-04). FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign. mintpressnews.com Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.

RT (2020-05-04). Buzzing where corona can't get you: Watch Russian warplanes train for V-Day air show. rt.com Russia may have suspended most public events marking the upcoming Victory Day, but demonstrations by military aircraft are still expected to take place. With less than a week to go, the crews are busy training. | Footage released by Russia's Southern Military District on Monday shows fighter jets training solo and in formations for next Saturday's demonstrations, held to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany. | May 9 is one of the biggest national holidays in Russia, with military parades and commemorative ceremonies held throughout the country. This year the coronavirus pandemic threw a spanner in the works…

Gareth Porter (2020-05-04). Netanyahu pushed US towards war with Iran. zcomm.org An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran…

The Palestinian Information Center (2020-05-04). Likud Files Knesset Bill to Annex Occupied Palestinian Territories. globalresearch.ca Member of the Knesset May Golan (Likud) on Sunday submitted a bill calling for imposing Israel's sovereignty on the occupied territories of the Jordan Valley, the northern Dead Sea area and the West Bank. | According to Israel's Channel 7, economy …

The New Arab (2020-05-04). Trump Welcomes Israel's Illegal Plan to Annex West Bank Amid Growing Anger. globalresearch.ca The US announced it is willing to recognise and support Israeli Prime Minister

Azhar Azam (2020-05-04). The COVID-19 Crisis Profoundly Exposes African Americans to the Scourge of Poverty and Racism. globalresearch.ca They live below the poverty level. They are prison …

Rob Urie (2020-05-04). Economic Decline and the Threat of Fascism. zcomm.org If blame can be placed with an errant leader rather than serial crises of capitalism, then changing leaders means they can keep capitalism…

Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All (2020-05-04). SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests. indybay.org Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the Blue Lives Matter flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.

Wayne Madsen (2020-05-04). Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo. thealtworld.com Although there is no recent history of nation-states propagating biological warfare attacks, there is a history of dangerous religious cults being involved in preparing for or carrying out them. | Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and…

Women's and Feminist Collectives of Uruguay (2020-05-04). Uruguay: May First Feminist Manifesto. zcomm.org The exit from this crisis must be feminist, migrant, plurinational, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, anti-prison, anti-capitalist, anti-extractivist and anti-fascist…

South Front (2020-05-03). Video: Golan Heights Escalation and New Drama in Idlib. globalresearch.ca Early on May 1, several missiles launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights hit positions of the Syrian Army near Tell Ahmar and Quneitra city. The strike reportedly led to no casualties among Syrian personnel, but destroyed several pieces of military …

teleSUR (2020-05-03). Israel's Top Court Discusses Netanyahu's Legal Ability to Govern. telesurenglish.net Israeli Supreme Court began Sunday a two-day discussion to determine whether the criminal charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disqualify him from holding his post. | RELATED: | "Today we shall hear arguments on the question of bestowing the duty of forming a government on a Knesset (Parliament) member against whom an indictment has been filed," Chief Justice Esther Hayut sa…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-03). On International Day of Journalists, Dr. Ashrawi Honors Press. imemc.org Senior Palestinian leader and Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, stated on Sunday, that press freedoms are an integral part of public freedoms. | Dr.

Adriaan Alsema (2020-05-03). Colombia sacked officials never mentioned in illegal army spying scandal. colombiareports.com Seven of nine army officials who were sacked by Colombia's defense ministry on Friday over their alleged role in reported intelligence gathering for President Ivan Duque's far right party were…

The Canary (2020-05-03). Israeli court to hear petitions against Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal charges. thecanary.co Israel's high court is set to begin hearing petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal indictments.The proceedings on 3 May, held by a large panel of 11 justices and, in a rare instance, to also be broadcast live, will focus on the issue of whether a politician can form a government while under indictment — something the Israeli legal code does not explicitly prohibit.If the court voids Netanyahu's ability to serve as prime minister, Israel could be plunged into political chaos and it would likely trigger the country's fourth election in just over 12 months.The high cour…

Marjorie Cohn (2020-05-03). Israel's New Government Is Exploiting Pandemic to Annex 30 Percent of West Bank. zcomm.org One of the central pillars of this new regime is the unlawful annexation of the Jordan Valley and illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The annexation has the full backing of U.S. President Donald Trump…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-03). Israeli Troops Abduct Twelve Palestinians, Including Former Prisoner. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, early on Sunday, a dozen Palestinians from different parts of the Palestinian territories, prisoners sources said. The Ramallah-based Palestinian prisoners forum said that Israeli troops invaded the al-"Isawiya neighborhood of the old city of Jerusalem, which is internationally-recognized as an Israeli-occupied Palestinian area. The forum added …

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-05-03). Israel Behind Air Strikes in Syria Directed against Hezbollah. "Greater Israel" in the Making? globalresearch.ca Tensions have worsened in the Middle East. Apparently, the Israeli government is promoting an escalation of violence in Syria with the aim of expelling any trace of Iranian presence from the country, leading to the collapse of relations between Tehran …

Abdel Bari Atwan (2020-05-03). Why is Israel stepping up attacks on Syria? thealtworld.com Netanyahu is trying to achieve several objectives while the world looks elsewhere | There has been a steady upping of the pace of unprovoked Israeli military attacks on Syria recently. As presumably intended, this escalation has gone largely unreported in the international media and unnoticed by an outside world preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic. | On Friday, Israeli warplanes launched a missile strike on a military base near the city of Hama, causing extensive casualties. The previous night, Israeli helicopters overflying the occupied Golan Heights targeted sites used by pro-government Iranian-backed par…

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-03). The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate. 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 (5/2/19). 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 …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-03). Officials Decry Israeli Seizure of Palestinian Authority's Tax Funds. imemc.org A number of Palestinian officials in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, Israel's seizure of the Palestinian Authority's (PA) tax funds, considering this as theft against the Palestinian people. Hussien Elsheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs with the PA, confirmed today that the Israeli Magistrate Court in …

Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All (2020-05-03). SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protest. indybay.org Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show police wearing face masks that depict the Blue Lives Matter flag. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.

yenisafak (2020-05-04). Italy joins nations warily leaving lockdown amid fears of 'second wave'. yenisafak.com Italy was among a slew of countries easing lockdown restrictions on Monday to resurrect their economies, but officials cautioned against moving too swiftly as new coronavirus cases passed 3.5 million globally and deaths neared a quarter of a million.Italy, among the world's hardest-hit countries, started to relax the longest lockdown in Europe, allowing about 4.5 million people to return to work after nearly two months at home.Spain, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Israel, Tunisia and Lebanon were also among countries easing some restrictions, variously reopening factories, construction sites, parks, hairdressers…

sputniknews (2020-05-04). US Supreme Court Breaks Precedent By Allowing Public Broadcast of Oral Arguments. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – For years, Justices had rejected proposals to broadcast oral arguments live. Tuesday's hearing took place by audio conference call, with the court building closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

sputniknews (2020-05-03). Israeli Court Hears Petitions against Netanyahu Forming Gov't While Under Indictment for Corruption. sputniknews.com Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted earlier this year on charges of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust. Israel's longest serving prime minister has denied any wrongdoing, claiming he is the victim of a politically motivated "witch hunt".

repost (2020-05-03). 4/30/20: 45th Anniversary of Victory in Vietnam. indybay.org On April 30, 1975, the "little people in black pajamas" of Vietnam defeated the mightiest, most despicable war machine the world had seen since Nazi Germany, namely the US military, as they chased the US military and their local lackeys onto helicopters, boats and planes, causing celebrations around the world, including here in the Bay Area where we, who opposed the war machine and resisted the draft, danced in streets. Today, Vietnam has ZERO deaths from the coronavirus because it has SOCIALIZED medicine. For more, see www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/a-letter…

Eliza Egret (2020-05-03). Greek refugee camps 'beyond breaking point' as UK government continues its racist policies. thecanary.co Human rights campaigners on the Greek island of Samos have told The Canary that the situation for refugees is "beyond breaking point". Since the Europe Must A…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-03). Illegal extension of arms embargo to kill JCPOA forever. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 03 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Rear Admiral Shamkhani warned that the illegal extension of Iran's arms embargo will result in the destruction of the 2015 nuclear deal — also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — forever.

sputniknews (2020-05-03). Minnesota Weatherman Sacked For Repost Likening Anti-Lockdown Protesters With Nazi Sympathisers. sputniknews.com A group dubbed "Liberate Minnesota" has been protesting lockdown measures introduced in the state, and are calling for the reopening of the economy. The state has recently extended the stay-at-home order to 18 May to slow the spread of COVID-19.

sputniknews (2020-05-03). Women at War: Female Soldiers of the Soviet Red Army in the 1940s. sputniknews.com Russia is preparing to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 against Nazi Germany.

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-02). Israeli Troops Shoot at Palestinian Fishermen and Farmers in Gaza. imemc.org Israeli troops opened fire on Saturday, at local Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza, mainly in the Khuza'a rural area, east of the southern Khan Younis city. Local Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israeli troops, stationed on the Israeli side of the border, east of Khan Younis city, opened …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-02). Israel Plans New Colonial Settlement in Northern West Bank. imemc.org Israeli authorities reportedly endorsed the erection of a new Israeli colonial settlement near the Kufur Qasem town, north of the West Bank. According to Ma'areef Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper, the 10 acres of Palestinian farm land, on which the colonial settlement is set to be erected, will be rather designated as …

Ted Kelly (2020-05-02). PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies. workers.org Eric McGill was locked up in Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Lebanon, Pa., on Jan. 19, 2019. For 15 months now he has been held there, not because he has been convicted of a crime, but because he cannot afford the preposterous $1 million bail the judge set. And during . . . |

a guest author (2020-05-02). Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps'. workers.org By: Quess Moore/transcribed by Mirinda Crissman This slightly edited talk is by Quess Moore speaking at the April 9 Workers World Party webinar. Moore organizes with New Orleans Workers Group and Take 'Em Down NOLA, a group which has been working to take down symbols of white supremacy and slavery. . . . |

Tyler Olson (2020-05-01). Case Asking Supreme Court to Halt Enforcement of "Stay-at-home Order". Justice Alito Orders Pennsylvania Government to Respond. globalresearch.ca

Alan Macleod (2020-05-01). Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again. mintpressnews.com Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-01). Hating Arabs as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government is Likely to Survive. counterpunch.org Shortly after an agreement to form a "national emergency government" in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that 'democracy' in Israel has been 'safeguarded'. But how is a deal that would grant Israel's right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a veto power over the very judicial system which

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-01). Arab League warns Israel against plans to annex occupied Palestinian territories. peoplesdispatch.org A new national unity government in Israel, headed by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has announced plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank with US support…

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians Near Ramallah. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, three young Palestinian men in Beit Sira village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after invading and violently searching several homes causing excessive damage. Kifaya Anqawi, the mother of Yousef Anqawi, 20, who was killed by Israeli soldiers along with …

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Soldiers Assault And Abduct A Father And His Three Sons In Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers assaulted and abducted, on Friday evening, a Palestinian father and his three sons in Bab al-'Amoud area, in occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped the father and his three sons, from the Salayma family, while walking near Bab al-'Amoud, before repeatedly assaulting them, and abducted them. …

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Israeli Soldiers Injure Six Palestinians, Including Two Children, In Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession against the Annexation Wall and colonies in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured six Palestinians, including two children. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, …

Ali Salam (2020-05-01). Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Carwash and Agricultural Nursery near Bethlehem. imemc.org The Israeli army demolished, Thursday morning, a Palestinian car wash near Bethlehem, while it was under construction, a local official reported. Iyad Abu Sarra, from al-Khader municipality, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers destroyed the car wash for construction without a permit. The military also demolished an agricultural nursery …

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Israeli Soldiers Injure Two Palestinians Near Qalqilia. imemc.org Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, two young Palestinian, south of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Local sources said the two young men, identified as Khaled Khalil Zamari, 23, and Haitham Mansour, 21, were on Palestinian land, near the illegal Annexation Wall, south of Qalqilia. There were …

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Army To Demolish The Home Of A Palestinian Suspected Of Carrying Out A Stabbing Attack. imemc.org Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, and stormed the home of a wounded Palestinian, who is suspected of carrying out a stabbing, Tuesday, and handed the family a demolition order for their home. Media sources said several army …

Fight Back (2020-05-01). Chicago Tribune lends its press to racism. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – The headline in the Chicago Tribune Wednesday, April 19 blared: "Two charities have bailed scores of felony defendants out of Cook County Jail. Some were soon charged with new crimes." The headline could have said, with equal validity, that "Millions of Chicagoans were not arrested last year. Some were charged with new crimes." | The article is filled with racist 'dog whistles' about [Black and brown] people with guns and hysteria regarding violent crime. In actual fact, in the past three years the rate of violent crime in Chicago has declined significantly. The Tribune is blowing the racist 'get to…

2020-05-04: Social Media Postees

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Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again. Calls on Military to Support Him
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled …
globalresearch.ca/juan-guaido-trying-overthrow-venezuelan-government-again/5711721

Netanyahu pushed US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | zcomm.org | 2020-05-04
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/netanyahu-pushed-us-towards-war-with-iran/

Wisconsin Protesters Target 'Tony the Tyrant'
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-04
GOP temper tantrum escalates as state Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on restrictions.
progressive.org/dispatches/wisconsin-protesters-target-tony-the-tyrant-conniff-200504/

It's Time to Bring the Supreme Court Into the Modern Era–and the Light
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-05-04
It's Time to Bring the Supreme Court Into the Modern Era–and the Light…
thenation.com/article/politics/scotus-cameras-hearing/

Al-Nujaba distributed Subsistence packages in Palestine
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-04
TEHRAN, May 04 (MNA)

FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-04
Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.
mintpressnews.com/fbi-documents-israel-collusion-2016-trump-campaign/267212/

Trump Welcomes Israel's Illegal Plan to Annex West Bank Amid Growing Anger
The New Arab | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
The US announced it is willing to recognise and support Israel's annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank shortly after Israel announced its illegal plan. | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to go ahead with controversial…
globalresearch.ca/trump-welcomes-israel-illegal-plan-annex-west-bank-amid-growing-anger/5711649

Likud Files Knesset Bill to Annex Occupied Palestinian Territories
The Palestinian Information Center | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Member of the Knesset May Golan (Likud) on Sunday submitted a bill calling for imposing Israel's sovereignty on the occupied territories of the Jordan Valley, the northern Dead Sea area and the West Bank. | According to Israel's Channel 7, economy …
globalresearch.ca/likud-files-knesset-bill-annex-occupied-palestinian-territories/5711704

The COVID-19 Crisis Profoundly Exposes African Americans to the Scourge of Poverty and Racism
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
They live below the poverty level. They are prison inmates in large numbers. They are most likely to be killed by the police, a longstanding grievance that originated the Black Lives Matter (BTM) movement to protest against police killing and | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-profoundly-exposes-african-americans-racism/5711687

Economic Decline and the Threat of Fascism
Rob Urie | zcomm.org | 2020-05-04
If blame can be placed with an errant leader rather than serial crises of capitalism, then changing leaders means they can keep capitalism…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/economic-decline-and-the-threat-of-fascism/

SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protests
Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All | indybay.org | 2020-05-04
Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show a row of police wearing face masks that depict the Blue Lives Matter flag. At least one policeman at a reopen rally the same day wore the same mask. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott says he is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/03/18832811.php

Judge tosses out equal pay discrimination claims made by Women's soccer
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-04
On International Workers' Day, May 1, a federal judge quietly tossed out part of the U.S. Women's National Team's pay discrimination lawsuit–the unequal pay argument–while allowing their allegations of discriminatory working conditions to proceed to trial. It was a shocking judgment and a loss for players. Led by Alex Morgan, players filed their lawsuit in March …
peoplesworld.org/article/judge-tosses-out-equal-pay-discrimination-claims-made-by-womens-soccer/

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-04
Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and produced biological warfare weapons, there is no recent documented proof of a government being engaged in the widespread release of a biological warfare agent to cause maximum deaths. The 1972 Con…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/04/cults-and-bioterrorism-toxic-duo/

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Wayne Madsen | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-04
Although there is no recent history of nation-states propagating biological warfare attacks, there is a history of dangerous religious cults being involved in preparing for or carrying out them. | Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and…
thealtworld.com/wayne_madsen/cults-and-b…

Uruguay: May First Feminist Manifesto
Women's and Feminist Collectives of Uruguay | zcomm.org | 2020-05-04
The exit from this crisis must be feminist, migrant, plurinational, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, anti-prison, anti-capitalist, anti-extractivist and anti-fascist…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/uruguay-may-first-feminist-manifesto/

Buzzing where corona can't get you: Watch Russian warplanes train for V-Day air show
rt.com | 2020-05-04
Russia may have suspended most public events marking the upcoming Victory Day, but demonstrations by military aircraft are still expected to take place. With less than a week to go, the crews are busy training. | Footage released by Russia's Southern Military District on Monday shows fighter jets training solo and in formations for next Saturday's demonstrations, held to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany. | May 9 is one of the biggest national holidays in Russia, with military parades and commemorative ceremonies held throughout the country. This year the coronavirus pandemic threw a spanner in the works…
rt.com/russia/487684-russia-air-show-rehearsal/

Israel's Top Court Discusses Netanyahu's Legal Ability to Govern
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-03
Israeli Supreme Court began Sunday a two-day discussion to determine whether the criminal charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disqualify him from holding his post. | RELATED: | Hating Arabs as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government is Likely to Survive | "Today we shall hear arguments on the question of bestowing the duty of forming a government on a Knesset (Parliament) member against whom an indictment has been filed," Chief Justice Esther Hayut sa…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israels-Top-Court-Discusses-Netanyahus-Legal-Ability-to-Govern-20200503-0012.html

Israel Teeters on Brink
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-05-03
Protests erupt against Indicted Netanyahu forming Government, and Supreme Court prepares to Rule on his Eligibility…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/israel-teeters-on-brink/

On International Day of Journalists, Dr. Ashrawi Honors Press
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-03
Senior Palestinian leader and Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, stated on Sunday, that press freedoms are an integral part of public freedoms. | Dr.
imemc.org/article/on-international-day-of-journalists-dr-ashrawi-honors-press/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-international-day-of-journalists-dr-ashrawi-honors-press

Israel's New Government Is Exploiting Pandemic to Annex 30 Percent of West Bank
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2020-05-03
One of the central pillars of this new regime is the unlawful annexation of the Jordan Valley and illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The annexation has the full backing of U.S. President Donald Trump…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/israels-new-government-is-exploiting-pandemic-to-annex-30-percent-of-west-bank/

Video: Golan Heights Escalation and New Drama in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-03
Early on May 1, several missiles launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights hit positions of the Syrian Army near Tell Ahmar and Quneitra city. The strike reportedly led to no casualties among Syrian personnel, but destroyed several pieces of military …
globalresearch.ca/video-golan-heights-escalation-idlib/5711578

Israeli court to hear petitions against Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal charges
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-03
Israel's high court is set to begin hearing petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal indictments.The proceedings on 3 May, held by a large panel of 11 justices and, in a rare instance, to also be broadcast live, will focus on the issue of whether a politician can form a government while under indictment

Israel Behind Air Strikes in Syria Directed against Hezbollah. "Greater Israel" in the Making?
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-03
Tensions have worsened in the Middle East. Apparently, the Israeli government is promoting an escalation of violence in Syria with the aim of expelling any trace of Iranian presence from the country, leading to the collapse of relations between Tehran …
globalresearch.ca/israel-can-be-behind-air-strikes-syria/5711574

Officials Decry Israeli Seizure of Palestinian Authority's Tax Funds
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-03
A number of Palestinian officials in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, Israel's seizure of the Palestinian Authority's (PA) tax funds, considering this as theft against the Palestinian people. Hussien Elsheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs with the PA, confirmed today that the Israeli Magistrate Court in …
imemc.org/article/officials-decry-israeli-seizure-of-palestinian-authoritys-tax-funds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=officials-decry-israeli-seizure-of-palestinian-authoritys-tax-funds

Israeli Troops Abduct Twelve Palestinians, Including Former Prisoner
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-03
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, early on Sunday, a dozen Palestinians from different parts of the Palestinian territories, prisoners sources said. The Ramallah-based Palestinian prisoners forum said that Israeli troops invaded the al-"Isawiya neighborhood of the old city of Jerusalem, which is internationally-recognized as an Israeli-occupied Palestinian area. The forum added …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-twelve-palestinians-including-former-prisoner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-twelve-palestinians-including-former-prisoner

The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-03
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 (5/2/19). 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 …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/the-full-story-behind-faucis-3-7-million-to-wuhan-flu-cv-overlap-it-was-always-israelgate/

Why is Israel stepping up attacks on Syria?
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-03
Netanyahu is trying to achieve several objectives while the world looks elsewhere | There has been a steady upping of the pace of unprovoked Israeli military attacks on Syria recently. As presumably intended, this escalation has gone largely unreported in the international media and unnoticed by an outside world preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic. | On Friday, Israeli warplanes launched a missile strike on a military base near the city of Hama, causing extensive casualties. The previous night, Israeli helicopters overflying the occupied Golan Heights targeted sites used by pro-government Iranian-backed par…
thealtworld.com/abdel_bari_atwan/why-is-…

Italy joins nations warily leaving lockdown amid fears of 'second wave'
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-04
Italy was among a slew of countries easing lockdown restrictions on Monday to resurrect their economies, but officials cautioned against moving too swiftly as new coronavirus cases passed 3.5 million globally and deaths neared a quarter of a million.Italy, among the world's hardest-hit countries, started to relax the longest lockdown in Europe, allowing about 4.5 million people to return to work after nearly two months at home.Spain, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Israel, Tunisia and Lebanon were also among countries easing some restrictions, variously reopening factories, construction sites, parks, hairdressers…
yenisafak.com/en/world/italy-joins-nations-warily-leaving-lockdown-amid-fears-of-second-wave-3518594

US Supreme Court Breaks Precedent By Allowing Public Broadcast of Oral Arguments
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-04
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – For years, Justices had rejected proposals to broadcast oral arguments live. Tuesday's hearing took place by audio conference call, with the court building closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
sputniknews.com/us/202005041079194802-us-supreme-court-breaks-precedent-by-allowing-public-broadcast-of-oral-arguments/

Israeli Court Hears Petitions against Netanyahu Forming Gov't While Under Indictment for Corruption
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-03
Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted earlier this year on charges of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust. Israel's longest serving prime minister has denied any wrongdoing, claiming he is the victim of a politically motivated "witch hunt".
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005031079181381-israeli-court-hears-petitions-against-netanyahu-forming-govt-while-under-indictment-for-corruption/

SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protest
Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All | indybay.org | 2020-05-03
Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show police wearing face masks that depict the Blue Lives Matter flag. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/03/18832811.php

Colombia sacked officials never mentioned in illegal army spying scandal
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-03
Seven of nine army officials who were sacked by Colombia's defense ministry on Friday over their alleged role in reported intelligence gathering for President Ivan Duque's far right party were…
colombiareports.com/colombia-sacked-officials-never-mentioned-in-illegal-army-spying-scandal/

4/30/20: 45th Anniversary of Victory in Vietnam
repost | indybay.org | 2020-05-03
On April 30, 1975, the "little people in black pajamas" of Vietnam defeated the mightiest, most despicable war machine the world had seen since Nazi Germany, namely the US military, as they chased the US military and their local lackeys onto helicopters, boats and planes, causing celebrations around the world, including here in the Bay Area where we, who opposed the war machine and resisted the draft, danced in streets. Today, Vietnam has ZERO deaths from the coronavirus because it has SOCIALIZED medicine. For more, see www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/a-letter…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/30/18832708.php

Greek refugee camps 'beyond breaking point' as UK government continues its racist policies
Eliza Egret | thecanary.co | 2020-05-03
Human rights campaigners on the Greek island of Samos have told The Canary that the situation for refugees is "beyond breaking point". Since the early 2000s, people have been seeking refuge on the Aegean islands, fleeing the West's neo-colonial policies in the Middle East. Around 7,000 people are currently stuck in Samos' Vathy camp, which has capacity for under 700 people. | Europe Must A…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/05/03/greek-refugee-camps-beyond-breaking-point-as-uk-government-continues-its-racist-policies/

Illegal extension of arms embargo to kill JCPOA forever
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-03
TEHRAN, May 03 (MNA)

Women at War: Female Soldiers of the Soviet Red Army in the 1940s
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-03
Russia is preparing to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 against Nazi Germany.
sputniknews.com/photo/202005031079180501-Women-at-War-Female-Soldiers-of-the-Soviet-Red-Army-in-the-1940s/

Minnesota Weatherman Sacked For Repost Likening Anti-Lockdown Protesters With Nazi Sympathisers
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-03
A group dubbed "Liberate Minnesota" has been protesting lockdown measures introduced in the state, and are calling for the reopening of the economy. The state has recently extended the stay-at-home order to 18 May to slow the spread of COVID-19.
sputniknews.com/us/202005031079181929-minnesota-weatherman-sacked-for-repost-likening-anti-lockdown-protesters-with-nazi-sympathisers/

Israeli Troops Shoot at Palestinian Fishermen and Farmers in Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-02
Israeli troops opened fire on Saturday, at local Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza, mainly in the Khuza'a rural area, east of the southern Khan Younis city. Local Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israeli troops, stationed on the Israeli side of the border, east of Khan Younis city, opened …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-shoot-at-palestinian-fishermen-and-farmers-in-gaza/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-shoot-at-palestinian-fishermen-and-farmers-in-gaza

Israel's New Government Is Exploiting Pandemic to Annex 30 Percent of West Bank
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-02
After three indecisive elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponent Benny Gantz agreed to form a unity government in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. | One of the central pillars of this new regime is the unlawful annexation of the Jordan Valley and illegal Jewi…
truthout.org/articles/israels-new-government-is-exploiting-pandemic-to-annex-30-percent-of-west-bank/

Israel Plans New Colonial Settlement in Northern West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-02
Israeli authorities reportedly endorsed the erection of a new Israeli colonial settlement near the Kufur Qasem town, north of the West Bank. According to Ma'areef Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper, the 10 acres of Palestinian farm land, on which the colonial settlement is set to be erected, will be rather designated as …
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PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-05-02
Eric McGill was locked up in Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Lebanon, Pa., on Jan. 19, 2019. For 15 months now he has been held there, not because he has been convicted of a crime, but because he cannot afford the preposterous $1 million bail the judge set. And during . . . | Continue reading PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48116/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pa-prisoners-tortured-for-protesting-racist-policies

Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps'
a guest author | workers.org | 2020-05-02
By: Quess Moore/transcribed by Mirinda Crissman This slightly edited talk is by Quess Moore speaking at the April 9 Workers World Party webinar. Moore organizes with New Orleans Workers Group and Take 'Em Down NOLA, a group which has been working to take down symbols of white supremacy and slavery. . . . | Continue reading Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps' at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48121/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=louisiana-prisons-are-death-concentration-camps

Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-01
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he announced on social media last night,…
mintpressnews.com/juan-guaido-trying-to-overthrow-venezuela-government/267201/

Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-01
One year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. | MPN– Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he announced on social media last night, "To the…
thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/groundhog-d…

Hating Arabs as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government is Likely to Survive
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
Shortly after an agreement to form a "national emergency government" in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that 'democracy' in Israel has been 'safeguarded'. But how is a deal that would grant Israel's right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a veto power over the very judicial system which…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/hating-arabs-as-a-common-ground-why-israels-coalition-government-is-likely-to-survive/

Army To Demolish The Home Of A Palestinian Suspected Of Carrying Out A Stabbing Attack
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, and stormed the home of a wounded Palestinian, who is suspected of carrying out a stabbing, Tuesday, and handed the family a demolition order for their home. Media sources said several army …
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Israeli Soldiers Injure Six Palestinians, Including Two Children, In Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession against the Annexation Wall and colonies in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured six Palestinians, including two children. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, …
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Israeli Soldiers Injure Two Palestinians Near Qalqilia
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, two young Palestinian, south of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Local sources said the two young men, identified as Khaled Khalil Zamari, 23, and Haitham Mansour, 21, were on Palestinian land, near the illegal Annexation Wall, south of Qalqilia. There were …
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Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Carwash and Agricultural Nursery near Bethlehem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
The Israeli army demolished, Thursday morning, a Palestinian car wash near Bethlehem, while it was under construction, a local official reported. Iyad Abu Sarra, from al-Khader municipality, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers destroyed the car wash for construction without a permit. The military also demolished an agricultural nursery …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-demolish-palestinian-carwash-and-agricultural-nursery-near-bethlehem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-demolish-palestinian-carwash-and-agricultural-nursery-near-bethlehem

Chicago Tribune lends its press to racism
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-01
Chicago, IL – The headline in the Chicago Tribune Wednesday, April 19 blared: "Two charities have bailed scores of felony defendants out of Cook County Jail. Some were soon charged with new crimes." The headline could have said, with equal validity, that "Millions of Chicagoans were not arrested last year. Some were charged with new crimes." | The article is filled with racist 'dog whistles' about [Black and brown] people with guns and hysteria regarding violent crime. In actual fact, in the past three years the rate of violent crime in Chicago has declined significantly. The Tribune is blowing the racist 'get to…
fightbacknews.org/2020/5/1/chicago-tribune-lends-its-press-racism

2020-05-03: News Headlines

South Front (2020-05-03). Video: Golan Heights Escalation and New Drama in Idlib. globalresearch.ca Early on May 1, several missiles launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights hit positions of the Syrian Army near Tell Ahmar and Quneitra city. The strike reportedly led to no casualties among Syrian personnel, but destroyed several pieces of military …

The Canary (2020-05-03). Israeli court to hear petitions against Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal charges. thecanary.co Israel's high court is set to begin hearing petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal indictments.The proceedings on 3 May, held by a large panel of 11 justices and, in a rare instance, to also be broadcast live, will focus on the issue of whether a politician can form a government while under indictment — something the Israeli legal code does not explicitly prohibit.If the court voids Netanyahu's ability to serve as prime minister, Israel could be plunged into political chaos and it would likely trigger the country's fourth election in just over 12 months.The high cour…

Marjorie Cohn (2020-05-03). Israel's New Government Is Exploiting Pandemic to Annex 30 Percent of West Bank. zcomm.org One of the central pillars of this new regime is the unlawful annexation of the Jordan Valley and illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The annexation has the full backing of U.S. President Donald Trump…

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-05-03). Israel Behind Air Strikes in Syria Directed against Hezbollah. "Greater Israel" in the Making? globalresearch.ca Tensions have worsened in the Middle East. Apparently, the Israeli government is promoting an escalation of violence in Syria with the aim of expelling any trace of Iranian presence from the country, leading to the collapse of relations between Tehran …

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-03). The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate. 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 (5/2/19). 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 …

Adriaan Alsema (2020-05-03). Colombia sacked officials never mentioned in illegal army spying scandal. colombiareports.com Seven of nine army officials who were sacked by Colombia's defense ministry on Friday over their alleged role in reported intelligence gathering for President Ivan Duque's far right party were…

Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All (2020-05-03). SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protest. indybay.org Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show police wearing face masks that depict the Blue Lives Matter flag. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.

repost (2020-05-03). 4/30/20: 45th Anniversary of Victory in Vietnam. indybay.org On April 30, 1975, the "little people in black pajamas" of Vietnam defeated the mightiest, most despicable war machine the world had seen since Nazi Germany, namely the US military, as they chased the US military and their local lackeys onto helicopters, boats and planes, causing celebrations around the world, including here in the Bay Area where we, who opposed the war machine and resisted the draft, danced in streets. Today, Vietnam has ZERO deaths from the coronavirus because it has SOCIALIZED medicine. For more, see www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/a-letter…

Eliza Egret (2020-05-03). Greek refugee camps 'beyond breaking point' as UK government continues its racist policies. thecanary.co Human rights campaigners on the Greek island of Samos have told The Canary that the situation for refugees is "beyond breaking point". Since the Europe Must A…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-03). Illegal extension of arms embargo to kill JCPOA forever. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 03 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Rear Admiral Shamkhani warned that the illegal extension of Iran's arms embargo will result in the destruction of the 2015 nuclear deal — also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — forever.

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-02). Israel Plans New Colonial Settlement in Northern West Bank. imemc.org Israeli authorities reportedly endorsed the erection of a new Israeli colonial settlement near the Kufur Qasem town, north of the West Bank. According to Ma'areef Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper, the 10 acres of Palestinian farm land, on which the colonial settlement is set to be erected, will be rather designated as …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-02). Israeli Troops Shoot at Palestinian Fishermen and Farmers in Gaza. imemc.org Israeli troops opened fire on Saturday, at local Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza, mainly in the Khuza'a rural area, east of the southern Khan Younis city. Local Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israeli troops, stationed on the Israeli side of the border, east of Khan Younis city, opened …

Ted Kelly (2020-05-02). PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies. workers.org Eric McGill was locked up in Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Lebanon, Pa., on Jan. 19, 2019. For 15 months now he has been held there, not because he has been convicted of a crime, but because he cannot afford the preposterous $1 million bail the judge set. And during . . . |

a guest author (2020-05-02). Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps'. workers.org By: Quess Moore/transcribed by Mirinda Crissman This slightly edited talk is by Quess Moore speaking at the April 9 Workers World Party webinar. Moore organizes with New Orleans Workers Group and Take 'Em Down NOLA, a group which has been working to take down symbols of white supremacy and slavery. . . . |

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Israeli Soldiers Injure Six Palestinians, Including Two Children, In Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession against the Annexation Wall and colonies in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured six Palestinians, including two children. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, …

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Army To Demolish The Home Of A Palestinian Suspected Of Carrying Out A Stabbing Attack. imemc.org Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, and stormed the home of a wounded Palestinian, who is suspected of carrying out a stabbing, Tuesday, and handed the family a demolition order for their home. Media sources said several army …

Ali Salam (2020-05-01). Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Carwash and Agricultural Nursery near Bethlehem. imemc.org The Israeli army demolished, Thursday morning, a Palestinian car wash near Bethlehem, while it was under construction, a local official reported. Iyad Abu Sarra, from al-Khader municipality, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers destroyed the car wash for construction without a permit. The military also demolished an agricultural nursery …

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-01). Hating Arabs as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government is Likely to Survive. counterpunch.org Shortly after an agreement to form a "national emergency government" in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that 'democracy' in Israel has been 'safeguarded'. But how is a deal that would grant Israel's right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a veto power over the very judicial system which

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Israeli Soldiers Injure Two Palestinians Near Qalqilia. imemc.org Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, two young Palestinian, south of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Local sources said the two young men, identified as Khaled Khalil Zamari, 23, and Haitham Mansour, 21, were on Palestinian land, near the illegal Annexation Wall, south of Qalqilia. There were …

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Soldiers Assault And Abduct A Father And His Three Sons In Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers assaulted and abducted, on Friday evening, a Palestinian father and his three sons in Bab al-'Amoud area, in occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped the father and his three sons, from the Salayma family, while walking near Bab al-'Amoud, before repeatedly assaulting them, and abducted them. …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-01). Arab League warns Israel against plans to annex occupied Palestinian territories. peoplesdispatch.org A new national unity government in Israel, headed by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has announced plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank with US support…

IMEMC News (2020-05-01). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians Near Ramallah. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, three young Palestinian men in Beit Sira village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after invading and violently searching several homes causing excessive damage. Kifaya Anqawi, the mother of Yousef Anqawi, 20, who was killed by Israeli soldiers along with …

Fight Back (2020-05-01). Chicago Tribune lends its press to racism. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – The headline in the Chicago Tribune Wednesday, April 19 blared: "Two charities have bailed scores of felony defendants out of Cook County Jail. Some were soon charged with new crimes." The headline could have said, with equal validity, that "Millions of Chicagoans were not arrested last year. Some were charged with new crimes." | The article is filled with racist 'dog whistles' about [Black and brown] people with guns and hysteria regarding violent crime. In actual fact, in the past three years the rate of violent crime in Chicago has declined significantly. The Tribune is blowing the racist 'get to…

Alan MacLeod (2020-05-01). Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again. thealtworld.com One year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. | MPN— Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he

Tyler Olson (2020-05-01). Case Asking Supreme Court to Halt Enforcement of "Stay-at-home Order". Justice Alito Orders Pennsylvania Government to Respond. globalresearch.ca

splcenter (2020-05-01). Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed. splcenter.org With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.

Robert L. Kendrick (2020-05-01). Virtual Liberation in Italy. counterpunch.org For most years in Italy, April 25th would be a day of commemoration and sociability. It marks the 1945 call from the anti-Nazi Committee of National Liberation (CLN) for the final uprising against the German occupiers and Mussolini's puppet regime, and is thus Liberation Day, with special emphasis on the Italian Resistance of 1943-45. It

sputniknews (2020-05-03). Israeli Court Hears Petitions against Netanyahu Forming Gov't While Under Indictment for Corruption. sputniknews.com Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted earlier this year on charges of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust. Israel's longest serving prime minister has denied any wrongdoing, claiming he is the victim of a politically motivated "witch hunt".

sputniknews (2020-05-03). Women at War: Female Soldiers of the Soviet Red Army in the 1940s. sputniknews.com Russia is preparing to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 against Nazi Germany.

sputniknews (2020-05-03). Minnesota Weatherman Sacked For Repost Likening Anti-Lockdown Protesters With Nazi Sympathisers. sputniknews.com A group dubbed "Liberate Minnesota" has been protesting lockdown measures introduced in the state, and are calling for the reopening of the economy. The state has recently extended the stay-at-home order to 18 May to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Eoin Higgins, staff writer (2020-05-01). Echoing Praise for Charlottesville Neo-Nazis, Trump Calls Armed Anti-Lockdown Fanatics 'Very Good People'. commondreams.org "Trump is using a tactic of authoritarians who pretend that they have no influence over the actions of private militias or thug squads. This is failed state stuff right here." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

PCHR (2020-04-30). PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (23 — 29 April 2020). imemc.org Summary of Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (23 — 29 April 2020) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to violate Palestinians' human rights and commit crimes against civilians and their properties, conducting raids into Palestinian cities without regard to the state of emergency declared across the …

Gareth Porter (2020-04-30). With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran. thegrayzone.com An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…

IMEMC News (2020-04-30). Kairos Palestine: The Dire Consequences of Israel's "Coalition Government" imemc.org By Kairos Palestine: April 30th, 2020: Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps.

Alison Weir (2020-04-30). As US Approaches Record Deficit, Israel Asks for Record Handout. iranian.com Breaking Defense, a digital magazine that covers military issues, reports that Israel may ask for its U.S. aid early, possibly in a lump sum that could be as high as $7.6 billion. This would work out to almost $21 million per day from American taxpayers, even though the U.S. is approaching a $4 trillion deficit (the largest in the world), …

Leela Anand (2020-04-30). Biden and Trump compete to produce most misleading, racist anti-China ad. liberationnews.org Both political parties in the U.S. seek to make a national enemy out of China. But the U.S. working class has more to gain from friendship, solidarity and exchange of knowledge with China and the Chinese people.

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-29). Hate as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government Is Likely to Survive. mintpressnews.com Israeli leaders insist that democracy, transparency, and inclusion are achievable, even when millions of the country's Arab citizens are marginalized and continue to be victims of institutional racism that dates back to the very foundation of Israel.

Miko Peled (2020-04-29). Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's New Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Takes Aim at the Holy Sanctuary. mintpressnews.com Israel's right-wing poster boy has been slated for the role of Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, giving him both the position and power to carry out his apocalyptic vision of building a Jewish Temple on the site of the Dome of the Rock.

Ryan Cristián (2020-04-29). Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag. 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 (4/28/19). 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 …

Staff (2020-04-28). Labour Party Plot Against Corbyn Revealed. therealnews.com Newly-elected leader Keir Starmer promised to investigate the evidence that senior party members actively undermined Jeremy Corbyn, even at the cost of weakening Labour in the general election.

Aviva Levine (2020-04-28). Trump attacks trans health access during a pandemic. liberationnews.org Under an expected rewrite of part of the ACA, discrimination against trans people in health care would be legally permitted.

Staff (2020-04-27). Has The Coronavirus Crisis Softened Hamas? therealnews.com The Gaza Strip lacks protective gear, clean water, and ventilators, putting immense pressure on Hamas to sign a ceasefire agreement with Israel. But the Israeli side isn't as eager to make a deal.

Staff (2020-04-27). The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony. therealnews.com Co-hosted by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle — Families Forum. Co-sponsored by over sixty peace organizations and religious institutions around the world Anat Marinin and Ahmed Aljaafri — Bereaved Israeli sister, Anat, who lost her two brothers, Pinchas (Pinka) and Yair, during the Yom Kippur War will hold a conversation with bereaved Palestinian,…

Cassie Miller (2020-04-27). Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists. splcenter.org Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.

Staff (2020-04-24). "We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege. democracynow.org As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."

Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano (2020-04-24). Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report. splcenter.org Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources. splcenter.org On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later. splcenter.org

splcenter (2020-04-24). Florida voting rights trial to be argued online. splcenter.org

Hatewatch Staff (2020-04-23). Oath Keepers Chaplain Quits Over Leader's COVID Response. splcenter.org Chuck Baldwin, who has served as the national chaplain of the antigovernment Oath Keepers since 2013, announced his resignation early Tuesday morning on Facebook.

2020-05-03: Social Media Postees

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Israel's New Government Is Exploiting Pandemic to Annex 30 Percent of West Bank
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2020-05-03
One of the central pillars of this new regime is the unlawful annexation of the Jordan Valley and illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The annexation has the full backing of U.S. President Donald Trump…
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The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-03
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 (5/2/19). 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 …
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Israel Teeters on Brink
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-05-03
Protests erupt against Indicted Netanyahu forming Government, and Supreme Court prepares to Rule on his Eligibility…
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Israel Behind Air Strikes in Syria Directed against Hezbollah. "Greater Israel" in the Making?
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-03
Tensions have worsened in the Middle East. Apparently, the Israeli government is promoting an escalation of violence in Syria with the aim of expelling any trace of Iranian presence from the country, leading to the collapse of relations between Tehran …
globalresearch.ca/israel-can-be-behind-air-strikes-syria/5711574

Israeli court to hear petitions against Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal charges
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-03
Israel's high court is set to begin hearing petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal indictments.The proceedings on 3 May, held by a large panel of 11 justices and, in a rare instance, to also be broadcast live, will focus on the issue of whether a politician can form a government while under indictment

Video: Golan Heights Escalation and New Drama in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-03
Early on May 1, several missiles launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights hit positions of the Syrian Army near Tell Ahmar and Quneitra city. The strike reportedly led to no casualties among Syrian personnel, but destroyed several pieces of military …
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SFPD Wore "Blue Lives Matter" Face Masks While Responding to Protest
Insult to Black Lives Matter, Insult to All | indybay.org | 2020-05-03
Photos of the scene at a May 1 housing protest in San Francisco show police wearing face masks that depict the Blue Lives Matter flag. Police regulation states that officers cannot alter their uniform. City Police Chief Bill Scott is seeking "neutral" face coverings for the city's rank and file.
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Colombia sacked officials never mentioned in illegal army spying scandal
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-03
Seven of nine army officials who were sacked by Colombia's defense ministry on Friday over their alleged role in reported intelligence gathering for President Ivan Duque's far right party were…
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4/30/20: 45th Anniversary of Victory in Vietnam
repost | indybay.org | 2020-05-03
On April 30, 1975, the "little people in black pajamas" of Vietnam defeated the mightiest, most despicable war machine the world had seen since Nazi Germany, namely the US military, as they chased the US military and their local lackeys onto helicopters, boats and planes, causing celebrations around the world, including here in the Bay Area where we, who opposed the war machine and resisted the draft, danced in streets. Today, Vietnam has ZERO deaths from the coronavirus because it has SOCIALIZED medicine. For more, see www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/a-letter…
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Greek refugee camps 'beyond breaking point' as UK government continues its racist policies
Eliza Egret | thecanary.co | 2020-05-03
Human rights campaigners on the Greek island of Samos have told The Canary that the situation for refugees is "beyond breaking point". Since the early 2000s, people have been seeking refuge on the Aegean islands, fleeing the West's neo-colonial policies in the Middle East. Around 7,000 people are currently stuck in Samos' Vathy camp, which has capacity for under 700 people. | Europe Must A…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/05/03/greek-refugee-camps-beyond-breaking-point-as-uk-government-continues-its-racist-policies/

Illegal extension of arms embargo to kill JCPOA forever
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-03
TEHRAN, May 03 (MNA)

Israeli Troops Shoot at Palestinian Fishermen and Farmers in Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-02
Israeli troops opened fire on Saturday, at local Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza, mainly in the Khuza'a rural area, east of the southern Khan Younis city. Local Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israeli troops, stationed on the Israeli side of the border, east of Khan Younis city, opened …
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Israel Plans New Colonial Settlement in Northern West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-02
Israeli authorities reportedly endorsed the erection of a new Israeli colonial settlement near the Kufur Qasem town, north of the West Bank. According to Ma'areef Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper, the 10 acres of Palestinian farm land, on which the colonial settlement is set to be erected, will be rather designated as …
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Israel's New Government Is Exploiting Pandemic to Annex 30 Percent of West Bank
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-02
After three indecisive elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponent Benny Gantz agreed to form a unity government in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. | One of the central pillars of this new regime is the unlawful annexation of the Jordan Valley and illegal Jewi…
truthout.org/articles/israels-new-government-is-exploiting-pandemic-to-annex-30-percent-of-west-bank/

PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-05-02
Eric McGill was locked up in Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Lebanon, Pa., on Jan. 19, 2019. For 15 months now he has been held there, not because he has been convicted of a crime, but because he cannot afford the preposterous $1 million bail the judge set. And during . . . | Continue reading PA prisoners tortured for protesting racist policies at Workers.org…
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Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps'
a guest author | workers.org | 2020-05-02
By: Quess Moore/transcribed by Mirinda Crissman This slightly edited talk is by Quess Moore speaking at the April 9 Workers World Party webinar. Moore organizes with New Orleans Workers Group and Take 'Em Down NOLA, a group which has been working to take down symbols of white supremacy and slavery. . . . | Continue reading Louisiana prisons are 'death concentration camps' at Workers.org…
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Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, three young Palestinian men in Beit Sira village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after invading and violently searching several homes causing excessive damage. Kifaya Anqawi, the mother of Yousef Anqawi, 20, who was killed by Israeli soldiers along with …
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Hating Arabs as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government is Likely to Survive
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
Shortly after an agreement to form a "national emergency government" in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that 'democracy' in Israel has been 'safeguarded'. But how is a deal that would grant Israel's right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a veto power over the very judicial system which…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/hating-arabs-as-a-common-ground-why-israels-coalition-government-is-likely-to-survive/

Israeli Soldiers Injure Two Palestinians Near Qalqilia
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, two young Palestinian, south of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Local sources said the two young men, identified as Khaled Khalil Zamari, 23, and Haitham Mansour, 21, were on Palestinian land, near the illegal Annexation Wall, south of Qalqilia. There were …
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Arab League warns Israel against plans to annex occupied Palestinian territories
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-01
A new national unity government in Israel, headed by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has announced plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank with US support…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/01/arab-league-warns-israel-against-plans-to-annex-occupied-palestinian-territories/

Soldiers Assault And Abduct A Father And His Three Sons In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers assaulted and abducted, on Friday evening, a Palestinian father and his three sons in Bab al-'Amoud area, in occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped the father and his three sons, from the Salayma family, while walking near Bab al-'Amoud, before repeatedly assaulting them, and abducted them. …
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Arab League warns Israel against plans to annex occupied Palestinian territories
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-01
A new national unity government in Israel, headed by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has announced plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank with US support…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/01/arab-league-warns-israel-against-plans-to-annex-occupied-palestinian-territories/

Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Carwash and Agricultural Nursery near Bethlehem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
The Israeli army demolished, Thursday morning, a Palestinian car wash near Bethlehem, while it was under construction, a local official reported. Iyad Abu Sarra, from al-Khader municipality, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers destroyed the car wash for construction without a permit. The military also demolished an agricultural nursery …
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Army To Demolish The Home Of A Palestinian Suspected Of Carrying Out A Stabbing Attack
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, and stormed the home of a wounded Palestinian, who is suspected of carrying out a stabbing, Tuesday, and handed the family a demolition order for their home. Media sources said several army …
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Israeli Soldiers Injure Six Palestinians, Including Two Children, In Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-01
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession against the Annexation Wall and colonies in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured six Palestinians, including two children. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, …
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Chicago Tribune lends its press to racism
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-01
Chicago, IL – The headline in the Chicago Tribune Wednesday, April 19 blared: "Two charities have bailed scores of felony defendants out of Cook County Jail. Some were soon charged with new crimes." The headline could have said, with equal validity, that "Millions of Chicagoans were not arrested last year. Some were charged with new crimes." | The article is filled with racist 'dog whistles' about [Black and brown] people with guns and hysteria regarding violent crime. In actual fact, in the past three years the rate of violent crime in Chicago has declined significantly. The Tribune is blowing the racist 'get to…
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Case Asking Supreme Court to Halt Enforcement of "Stay-at-home Order". Justice Alito Orders Pennsylvania Government to Respond
Tyler Olson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Justice Samuel Alito this week ordered the Pennsylvania government to respond to arguments from a variety of Pennsylvanians asking the Supreme Court to halt enforcement of Gov. Tom Wolf's strict stay-at-home order, aimed at fighting the coronavirus, because they …
globalresearch.ca/alito-orders-pennsylvania-respond-case-asking-supreme-court-halt-enforcement-stay-home-order/5711436

Israeli Court Hears Petitions against Netanyahu Forming Gov't While Under Indictment for Corruption
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-03
Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted earlier this year on charges of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust. Israel's longest serving prime minister has denied any wrongdoing, claiming he is the victim of a politically motivated "witch hunt".
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005031079181381-israeli-court-hears-petitions-against-netanyahu-forming-govt-while-under-indictment-for-corruption/

Minnesota Weatherman Sacked For Repost Likening Anti-Lockdown Protesters With Nazi Sympathisers
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-03
A group dubbed "Liberate Minnesota" has been protesting lockdown measures introduced in the state, and are calling for the reopening of the economy. The state has recently extended the stay-at-home order to 18 May to slow the spread of COVID-19.
sputniknews.com/us/202005031079181929-minnesota-weatherman-sacked-for-repost-likening-anti-lockdown-protesters-with-nazi-sympathisers/

Women at War: Female Soldiers of the Soviet Red Army in the 1940s
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-03
Russia is preparing to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 against Nazi Germany.
sputniknews.com/photo/202005031079180501-Women-at-War-Female-Soldiers-of-the-Soviet-Red-Army-in-the-1940s/

Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-01
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he announced on social media last night,…
mintpressnews.com/juan-guaido-trying-to-overthrow-venezuela-government/267201/

Groundhog Day: Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-01
One year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. | MPN– Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled against hunger and destruction and sided with the constitution," he announced on social media last night, "To the…
thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/groundhog-d…

Weekend Read: Even as Southern states continue honoring Confederate holidays, monuments are being removed
splcenter.org | 2020-05-01
With a recent stroke of his pen, Gov. Ralph Northam put Virginia at the forefront of efforts across the South to remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/02/weekend-read-even-southern-states-continue-honoring-confederate-holidays-monuments-are

Virtual Liberation in Italy
Robert L. Kendrick | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
For most years in Italy, April 25th would be a day of commemoration and sociability. It marks the 1945 call from the anti-Nazi Committee of National Liberation (CLN) for the final uprising against the German occupiers and Mussolini's puppet regime, and is thus Liberation Day, with special emphasis on the Italian Resistance of 1943-45. It…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/virtual-liberation-in-italy/

Echoing Praise for Charlottesville Neo-Nazis, Trump Calls Armed Anti-Lockdown Fanatics 'Very Good People'
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-01
"Trump is using a tactic of authoritarians who pretend that they have no influence over the actions of private militias or thug squads. This is failed state stuff right here." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Kairos Palestine: The Dire Consequences of Israel's "Coalition Government"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-30
By Kairos Palestine: April 30th, 2020: Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
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With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

As US Approaches Record Deficit, Israel Asks for Record Handout
Alison Weir | iranian.com | 2020-04-30
Breaking Defense, a digital magazine that covers military issues, reports that Israel may ask for its U.S. aid early, possibly in a lump sum that could be as high as $7.6 billion. This would work out to almost $21 million per day from American taxpayers, even though the U.S. is approaching a $4 trillion deficit (the largest in the world), …
iranian.com/2020/04/29/as-us-approaches-record-deficit-israel-asks-for-record-handout/

With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | iranian.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran. President Donald Trump scrapped the nuclear deal with Iran and continued to risk war with Iran based on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim to have …
iranian.com/2020/04/30/netanyahu-pushed-the-us-towards-war-with-iran/

Biden and Trump compete to produce most misleading, racist anti-China ad
Leela Anand | liberationnews.org | 2020-04-30
Both political parties in the U.S. seek to make a national enemy out of China. But the U.S. working class has more to gain from friendship, solidarity and exchange of knowledge with China and the Chinese people.
liberationnews.org/biden-and-trump-compete-to-produce-most-misleading-racist-anti-china-ad/

Hate as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government Is Likely to Survive
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
Israeli leaders insist that democracy, transparency, and inclusion are achievable, even when millions of the country's Arab citizens are marginalized and continue to be victims of institutional racism that dates back to the very foundation of Israel.
mintpressnews.com/hate-as-a-common-ground-israel-coalition-government-survive/267091/

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's New Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Takes Aim at the Holy Sanctuary
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
Israel's right-wing poster boy has been slated for the role of Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, giving him both the position and power to carry out his apocalyptic vision of building a Jewish Temple on the site of the Dome of the Rock.
mintpressnews.com/bezalel-smotrich-apocalyptic-vision-israel-new-minister-jerusalem-affairs/267104/

Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-29
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 (4/28/19). 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 …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/israel-attacks-syria-us-oks-annexation-opcw-caught-again-impending-already-here-bio-false-flag/

Labour Party Plot Against Corbyn Revealed
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-28
Newly-elected leader Keir Starmer promised to investigate the evidence that senior party members actively undermined Jeremy Corbyn, even at the cost of weakening Labour in the general election.
therealnews.com/stories/labour-party-corbyn-leaked-report-anti-semitism

Trump attacks trans health access during a pandemic
Aviva Levine | liberationnews.org | 2020-04-28
Under an expected rewrite of part of the ACA, discrimination against trans people in health care would be legally permitted.
liberationnews.org/trump-attacks-trans-health-access-during-a-pandemic/

Has The Coronavirus Crisis Softened Hamas?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-27
The Gaza Strip lacks protective gear, clean water, and ventilators, putting immense pressure on Hamas to sign a ceasefire agreement with Israel. But the Israeli side isn't as eager to make a deal.
therealnews.com/stories/has-coronavirus-softened-hamas-israel-ceasefire-gaza

The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-27
Co-hosted by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle

Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2020-04-27
Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/27/anti-lockdown-rallies-are-providing-opening-proud-boys-and-other-far-right-extremists

"We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-24
As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/24/tarek_lou…

Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/remembering-deadly-poway-shooting-one-year-later