Racism News Monitor

2021-08-18: News Headlines

Ali Abunimah (2021-08-18). What Israel hopes to gain from America's Afghan disaster. electronicintifada.net Bennett may push Biden for more belligerence towards Iran.

_____ (2021-08-18). Protesting Settler Colonialism In The Neoliberal University. popularresistance.org During May's uprising in Palestine against the latest aggression of the apartheid Israeli state, a few students at the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) in Rotterdam wanted to express their solidarity with the struggle. They hung a banner on the institute's building that read: "STOP THE ETHNIC CLEANSING; #SaveSheikhJarrah; Free Palestine." The action took place at a time when the vicious attacks on civilians in Gaza, the ultra-right-wing mob violence against Arabs in Israel and the forced evictions of the settler colonialist system in Jerusalem had resulted in a global show of solidarity. | A few hours after the banner…

_____ (2021-08-18). Why More Celebrities Don't Speak Out On Israel-Palestine. popularresistance.org The new MintPress podcast "The Watchdog," hosted by British-Iraqi hip-hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know — including intelligence, lobby and special-interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media. | Hollywood is not exactly known for being a hotbed of anti-war, anti-imperialist activism. Indeed, so close is the relationship between the national security state and Tinseltown that the Departme…

Susana Khalil (2021-08-18). The Palestinian Cause is Neither a Religious nor a Human Rights Cause. orinocotribune.com By Susana Khalil — Aug 15,2021 | The Palestinian cause is political, it is a cause of National Liberation. |

| The violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people is the consequence of the violation of their right to struggle for their national liberation, their right to exist as a nation-state. | The Palestinian cause is political, it is a cause of National Liberation, and it is the cause of a native people that today in the 21st century is fighting against a colonial yoke and anachronism called "Israel". That's all, I repeat that's all. | To hide the colonial character, Zionist propaganda…

Sam Bahour (2021-08-18). Hyphen-ated for Life: Palestinian-American, Almost. counterpunch.org "Democratic representation of We The People requires an accurate ascertainment of who 'We The People' are." ~Arab American Institute The space of identity is tight. A single identity can hardly fit into its place, yet that is what society expects. The reality of identity is much more dynamic and colorful than dry categories of some

Anonymous669 (2021-08-18). Israel Destroyed Observation Post In Syria's Al-Quneitra With Guided Missiles (Videos). southfront.org FILE IMAGE | Late on August 17, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) destroyed an observation post of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the southern Syrian governorate of al-Quneitra. | At least three guided missiles, reportedly Spike NLOS, hit…

Peter Boyle (2021-08-18). More billionaires or human survival? greenleft.org.au Billionaires are profitting from the COVID-19 crisis while lower income countries struggle to secure vaccines. Peter Boyle argues that the global vaccine apartheid is a symptom of the billionaire-profit-first system that is capitalism.

Revolution Books (2021-08-18). Friday 9/10: Fascist Lunacy and 'woke folk' insanity: a new 'two outmodeds'. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-18). Azerbaijan releases information on Israeli, Turkish drones destroying Armenian targets. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azerbaijan releases data on Armenian military targets destroyed by UAVs during Second Karabakh War Azerbaijani border guards had destroyed a big number of strategic military targets of the Armenian Armed Forces during the 44-day Karabakh war (from late Sept. to early Nov.2020) by using Harop and Guzgun [Kuzgun] unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the State Border …

_____ (2021-08-18). Descendants Sue County To Stop The Human Trafficking Of Black Bodies. popularresistance.org The unthinkable, unconscionable, immoral, racist, and illegal is occurring in Bethesda, Maryland located in Montgomery County. For those who thought the buying and selling of Black bodies was made illegal by the 13th amendment, Montgomery County, Maryland is challenging that notion. To paraphrase Frederick Douglas, the 21st century selling and buying of Black flesh in Montgomery County, Maryland should "disgrace a nation of savages." | For more than 350 years, Montgomery County has displayed a history of kidnapping, raping, and murdering of Africans. The County, in collusion with a private investor, has placed Bl…

WorkWeek (2021-08-18). WorkWeek On Trumka, Racist Attacks & Hanging Nooses & Privatization Of Education. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the death of former AFL-CIO president Trumka, the racist terror campaign against Black LA Belt line rail workers including hanging nooses. WorkWeek also covers the privatization of public education and the racist xenophobic attacks on Asians and Asian Americans.

Talia Lavin (2021-08-18). Why Transphobia Is at the Heart of the White Power Movement. thenation.com Why Transphobia Is at the Heart of the White Power Movement…

_____ (2021-08-18). Texas Supreme Court Says Dems Who Fled State to Block Voter Suppression Package Can Be Arrested. commondreams.org "Voters deserve better," said one advocacy group.

Mark Gruenberg (2021-08-18). House on verge of votes on infrastructure, budget, voting rights. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—With heavy lifting scheduled in the U.S. House next week on infrastructure, the budget, and voting rights, progressive groups and their allies are scrambling to put pressure on the majority Democrats to stand by party priorities on those issues. Those priorities include provisions to battle climate change, tax the rich, permanently enact paid family and …

_____ (2021-08-18). As Covid-19 Cases Rise, Global Task Force Lays Out How to Avert Future Pandemics. commondreams.org GOP-appointed judges sided with Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and right-wing lawmakers in the state, who are seeking to secure a quorum to pass legislation attacking voting rights.

Staff (2021-08-17). AOC Stresses Moral Obligation to Afghan Refugees as Fox Revives Racist Tropes. truthout.org Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has called on the United States to fulfill its "moral obligation to the Afghan people" by swiftly accepting refugees into the country in light of the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. | But even as Ocasio-Cortez and progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-California) call for a more humanitarian approach toward those affected by the U.S.'s 20 years of military occupation and sudden departure from Afghanistan, right-w…

Staff (2021-08-17). Corporate Media Are Erasing US's Long-Term Culpability for Afghanistan War. truthout.org For a time back in the bad old days of Donald Trump, it seemed as if the corporate "news" media had ever so slightly corrected their hard-wired rightward tilt. They were still awful when viewed from a progressive vantage point, and Fox News was going to Fox News no matter what, but as the daily grind of the Trump presidency grew into a roaring existential threat to the country, that media often said what needed saying, providing

Tamara Nassar (2021-08-17). Israel kills four in attack on Jenin refugee camp. electronicintifada.net Palestinians defend Jenin refugee camp from Israeli invasions.

Jason Ditz (2021-08-17). Israeli Defense Ministry Seizes Chocolate Bound for Gaza. news.antiwar.com Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced Monday that Israel had For years, Israel had forbidden chocolate from even entering the Gaza Strip as a "luxury item." Recent, some limited imports have been allowed, though Israel tends to curb them whenever they feel like making a move against the Palestinians. | This was different…

Angela (2021-08-17). Thursday 8/26: Virtual Book Launch – In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home. indybay.org

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-17). Israeli forces kill 4 Palestinians during violent raid in Jenin refugee camp. peoplesdispatch.org Jenin and Beita have witnessed regular demonstrations since May against an illegal Israeli army outpost next to the recently evacuated illegal Israeli settlement of Eviatar…

This Week in Fascism (2021-08-17). This Week in Fascism #117: Violence Explodes as Proud Boys Unite with Far-Right Churches and Anti-Vaxxers. itsgoingdown.org cover photo: @AlissaAzar Welcome fellow antifascists! Across the so-called United States, far-Right and fascist forces have embedded themselves within the growing tensions surrounding Trumpian opposition to 'Critical Race Theory,' masking, and vaccines. Already we've seen street clashes break out in Salem, Portland, and Los Angeles involving the Proud Boys and other far-Right gangs. In Los…

John Pilger (2021-08-17). A Day in the Death of British Justice. orinocotribune.com By John Pilger — Aug 13, 2021 | I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange's partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, her name was uttered in court by a barrister and a judge, forgettable people were it not for the power of their endowed privilege. | The barrister, Clair Dobbin, is in the pay of the regime in Washington, first Trump's then Biden's. She is America's hired gun, or "silk", as she would prefer. Her target is Julian A…

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-17). 21st century barbarism: Azerbaijan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com If the description is not unfair to barbarism, which was a product of historical circumstances centuries ago — not a conscious choice in the 21st century. We returned to land of our ancestors by crushing Armenian army, head of Armenian fascism — President Aliyev "They thought that Azerbaijan would not liberate its lands through war. …

Michael F. Brown (2021-08-17). Biden administration and media hand occupied land to Israel. electronicintifada.net False accusations directed at Hizballah following rockets fired at occupied Shebaa Farms and not at Israel.

Ortega AN, Roby DH. (2021-08-17). Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities. jamanetwork.com Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care. Racism resulted in hospitals refusing to desegregate despite the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 until they were forced to under threat of losing federal funds from the newly enacted Medicaid and Medicare programs in 1966. For American Indian and Alaska Native persons, health care has always been and remains to be segregated. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted long-sta…

jamanetwork (2021-08-17). Does Race Interfere With the Doctor-Patient Relationship? jamanetwork.com Much has been written about the doctor-patient relationship and its many challenges and ramifications. However, almost nothing is written about the effects of race on this relationship. This is unfortunate, since we live in an era of increasing concern for community medicine and for improving the delivery of medical care to all people. In discussing the effects of race on the doctor-patient relationship, our aim must not be merely to accuse or to place blame but to analyze critically the problem, with the goal of improving medical care delivery. Our silence on this issue tends to deny that we see racism as a majo…

Kevin Gosztola (2021-08-17). Listen To The Fifth Episode Of 'Primary Sources' With Jeffrey Sterling (Exclusive For Paid Subscribers). thedissenter.org CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling recounts racism he experienced at the CIA and how he came to be the target of an Espionage Act prosecution…

WSWS (2021-08-17). Texas Supreme Court blocks mask mandates. wsws.org The Texas Supreme Court reversed lower court rulings that upheld local mandates in defiance of Governor Greg Abbott's executive order.

_____ (2021-08-17). Dems Unveil Key Voting Rights Bill Amid Calls to Pass For the People Act. commondreams.org "It is essentially science denial to permit a pipeline of this magnitude during a climate crisis."

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2021-08-17: News Headlines

Tamara Nassar (2021-08-17). Israel kills four in attack on Jenin refugee camp. electronicintifada.net Palestinians defend Jenin refugee camp from Israeli invasions.

Angela (2021-08-17). Thursday 8/26: Virtual Book Launch – In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home. indybay.org

WorkWeek (2021-08-17). WorkWeek On Trumka, Racist Attacks & Hanging Nooses & Privatization Of Education. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the death of former AFL-CIO president Trumka, the racist terror campaign against Black LA Belt line rail workers including hanging nooses. WorkWeek also covers the privatization of public education and the racist xenophobic attacks on Asians and Asian Americans.

Raouf Halaby (2021-08-16). Déjà Vu: Saigon, Vietnam, 1975; Kabul, Afghanistan, 2021. counterpunch.org In addition to global warming (floods, fires, destructive storms, water shortages and water pollution) a pernicious COVID virus with all its offspring variants, a depressed economy, abuse of power, rabid racism, graft and corruption at all levels – Hubris and Arrogance, the afflictions to which all empires succumb, are America's tragic flaws.

_____ (2021-08-16). One Year On: the Abraham Accords and Palestinians' Political Exclusion. strategic-culture.org The "deal of the century" may no longer be part of mainstream narratives on Palestine, given the Biden Administration's faàßade of favouring the two-state politics over annexation, Ramona Wadi writes. | A year since former US President Donald Trump announced the brokering of the Abraham Accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, there is no longer any pretence that the normalisation agreements were signed with any Palestinian interests in mind. The narrative of preventing Israel's annexation of Palestinian territory was, of course, a mere vague premise upon which the international community could…

WSWS (2021-08-16). US Supreme Court blocks part of New York eviction moratorium. wsws.org The Supreme Court agreed to partially lift a ban on evictions in New York, which is set to expire at the end of the month.

Ann Brown (2021-08-16). US Will Never Be Majority Minority Because Immigrants Assimilate Into Anti-Blackness. moguldom.com One complaint in Black America is that it seems it is always under attack — even from other Black people or people of color. Even immigrants feed into and adopt anti-Blackness, according to Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley. Black Americans are sometimes looked down upon by African and Caribbean immigrants, and Latino immigrants often latch …

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-08-16). How a Black Lives Matter Leader Started a 'Freedom School' Summer Program for Kids. counterpunch.org Middle- and upper-income parents know that summers are an opportunity to give one's children the sort of well-rounded education that can enhance future college applications. Summer camp rosters fill up months in advance, and price tags for enrichment programs can run upwards of $500 a week. This is especially true in high-priced Southern California, where

Mark Gruenberg (2021-08-16). A real coup couldn't happen here…could it? peoplesworld.org It's often been said of the resilience of U.S. political institutions against a coup that "It can't happen here." But as more and more evidence turns up about the Jan. 6 invasion, complete with Confederate flags, into the U.S. Capitol, the answer to that conclusion increasingly looks like "Yes, it could…and it almost did." And …

Matt Taibi, Sean Connolly (2021-08-16). A people's victory: Fascist Long Island police bill shot down. liberationnews.org The rapid and organized response of Long Island, NY residents stopped the Nassau County government from signing into law a bill that would allow police to sue protestors for up to $50,000.

City Lights Booksellers, Pub. (2021-08-16). Tuesday 8/24: US History of Colonialism, Genocide, White Supremacy & Slavery w/ author Dunbar-Ortiz. indybay.org Online event…

Ilan Ben Zion (2021-08-16). Secretive Israel-UAE oil deal endangers prized Eilat corals. peoplesworld.org EILAT, Israel (AP) — The Red Sea reefs off the Israeli resort of Eilat host some of the greatest coral diversity on the planet. A symphony in splendid technicolor, the reefs are among the world's most resilient coral colonies against warming seas. They have also become an unlikely battleground, caught between Israeli diplomatic and business …

Anonymous103 (2021-08-16). Rocket Fired At Israel From Gaza Following Fierce Clashes In West Bank (Video). southfront.org Illustrative Image | In early hours on August 16th, a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel. It marked the first rocket attack since the recent Israel's 11-day assault on the Gaza Strip in May. | Air raid sirens have sounded in the town of Sderot in southern Israel. | According to the Israeli Defense Forces, only one rocket launch was identified and the rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome Air Defense System. | Video showing the rocket interception over the town of Sderot was released online. | pic.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-08-16). U.S. Government Withholding Hundreds of Pages About Deadly 1967 Israeli Attack on U.S. Navy Ship. covertactionmagazine.com Documents would help answer historical mystery An ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals that the U.S. government is …

Staff (2021-08-16). 21N: PSUV Announces Remaining Candidates for Governors in Eight States After Reviews. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, August 14, the directorate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) announced the names of the candidates that were kept on hold after the party primaries for the November 21 regional elections. A number of results of mayors and governorships were reviewed in which the results of the Open Primary Elections (EPA) did not meet certain requirements, and also considering the alliances with the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP). | At a press conference, Diosdado Cabello, PSUV first vice president, informed that after the necessary reviews made by the national leadership of the party, the remaining gover…

Fight Back (2021-08-16). 50 years after end of dollar's link to gold: U.S. faces new crisis. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, then-President Nixon ended the U.S. dollar's link with gold. This marked a retreat from the economic supremacy of the United States after World War II. Less than four years later, the fall of Saigon marked a defeat for the United States and a turning point in U.S. domination of the developing world. | In 1944 the United States hosted a meeting at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to set out a post-World War II economic agreement. At the meeting, the United States' plan dominated over a British plan crafted by famous economist John Maynard Keynes. This was the end of…

Guest Contributor (2021-08-16). Challenge to Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme dismissed by Supreme Court. ukhumanrightsblog.com A and B v Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority and another [2021] UKSC 27 On appeal from [2018] EWCA Civ 1534 The claimants in the case were victims of human trafficking with unspent convictions in Lithuania. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS) provides compensation to victims of crime, apart from where they have unspent criminal convictions …

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2021-08-16: News Headlines

Angela (2021-08-16). Thursday 8/26: Virtual Book Launch – In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home. indybay.org

City Lights Booksellers, Pub. (2021-08-16). Tuesday 8/24: US History of Colonialism, Genocide, White Supremacy & Slavery w/ author Dunbar-Ortiz. indybay.org Online event…

WorkWeek (2021-08-16). WorkWeek On Trumka, Racist Attacks & Hanging Nooses & Privatization Of Education. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the death of former AFL-CIO president Trumka, the racist terror campaign against Black LA Belt line rail workers including hanging nooses. | WorkWeek also covers the privatization of public education and the racist xenophobic attacks on Asians and Asian Americans.

Shatha Hammad (2021-08-15). Palestinians Fight for Right to Water, Survival in Jordan Valley. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-08-15). 15 August, Den Haag: March for Palestine. samidoun.net Sunday, 15 August 3 pm Het Plein, Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands Info: www.instagram.com/p/CSURK7CNqHI/ Make noise for Palestine! A call to groups and individuals across The Netherlands: the Palestinians of Sheikh Jarrah have called for August to be an international month of action in the streets, and we shall respond. Following protests across the world, […] | The article

Jay Janson (2021-08-15). Why Not Boycott US Products Until It Ends Its Embargo of Cuba and Leaves Guantanamo? dissidentvoice.org On 23 June, 184 nations at United Nations voted for an end to the half-century long USA embargo against tiny Cuba. Only the USA and Israel voted against the resolution. A Reuters article reprinted in the New York Times wrote: Cuba said earlier this month the decades-old U.S. trade embargo cost it a record total …

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-08-15). How a BLMLeader Started a 'Freedom School' Summer Program. zcomm.org Jasmine Richards views the education and empowerment of young Black and Brown children in her community to be just as important as fighting racist police brutality…

ERA Coalition, Women's March, & more (2021-08-15). Saturday 8/28: #Rally4ERA: No Time Limit on Equality Rally at U.S. Supreme Court. indybay.org U.S. Supreme Court or join online rally livestream and actions…

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2021-08-15: News Headlines

Shatha Hammad (2021-08-15). Palestinians Fight for Right to Water, Survival in Jordan Valley. globalresearch.ca

City Lights Booksellers, Pub. (2021-08-15). Tuesday 8/24: US History of Colonialism, Genocide, White Supremacy & Slavery w/ author Dunbar-Ortiz. indybay.org Online event…

_____ (2021-08-14). Iran To Finally Take Full Membership Of The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. strategic-culture.org By Silk Road BRIEFING | Moves come after Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agree to drop objections following regional security concerns in Afghanistan | Iran is finally set to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) after Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agreed to drop their objections. Iran had originally applied to join in 2006 and 2015, however with the country like landlocked Tajikistan and Uzbekistan also bordering Afghanistan in addition to offering seaport access to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, both nations have opted to welcome Iran as an ally. | The secretary of the SCO's Supreme National Security Counc…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-14). Israeli Army Shot Down Drones Launched By Hezbollah, Hamas. southfront.org An Iron Dome antimissile system is installed near the Israeli side of the border with Syria in the Golan Heights. IMAGE: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that their troops shot down two drones that violated the country's airspace on August 11. | The first drone was shot down in the northern region, in the eastern part of the Blue Line that separates Israeli-held areas from Lebanon's territory. The IDF said that the drone was launched by Hezbollah. | The army did not share any addition…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-14). Wreckage Of Another Israeli Glide Bomb Intercepted By Syrian Air Defenses Found In Lebanon (Video, Photos). southfront.org Illustrative image. | On August 13, Lebanese news sources shared footage showing the wreckage of an Israeli SPICE 1000 glide bomb that was intercepted by Syrian Arab Air Defense Forces (SyAADF) during the The wreckage was recently found in Ehden Valley in Mount Lebanon. Ehden is located some 60 km away from al-Daba Air Base in the southern countryside…

Bryant Diaz (2021-08-14). U.S. Premiere Screening + Q&A: Fedayin. peoplesforum.org For over 35 years, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah has been imprisoned. A Lebanese communist engaged in resistance alongside Palestinian fighters, he has been imprisoned by the French judicial system and successive governments since 1984. Beyond the judicial harassment to which he has been subjected, this documentary film will trace the political course of Georges Abdallah and seeks to show how his ideas and struggle are still vital and necessary.

Fra Hughes (2021-08-14). Palestine Aid on the Ground in Gaza. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes Belfast — Aug 11, 2021 | In 2010 a group of international activists joined Mr. George Galloway on his Viva Palestina 5 medical aid convoy to Gaza. | Their aim was to break the illegal siege, bring much-needed aid, medical equipment, and supplies to the people in distress. To bring hope, help, solidarity, and compassion to those living under a brutal medieval siege illegally imposed upon them by the apartheid state of Israel. | Nearly 2 million souls hemmed into a piece of land the size of the Ards peninsula 26 miles by 6 miles surrounded by land, sea, and air by the Zionist army, navy, and air…

Editor2 (2021-08-14). 'Economic Warfare [Is] Designed to Starve the Cuban People Into Rebellion' (Interview). orinocotribune.com CounterSpin interview with James Early on Cuban blockade | Janine Jackson interviewed IPS's James Early about the Cuban blockade for the Janine Jackson: In the wake of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests, lawmakers in Florida—as elsewhere—passed legislation increasing penalties for blocking public streets, and offering protection to people who hit protesters with their car. But when people took to the street to show suppo…

WSWS (2021-08-14). Amid xenophobic campaign, far-right mob attacks Syrian refugees in Turkey. wsws.org This fascistic onslaught is a serious warning to workers in Turkey and all over the world.

_____ (2021-08-14). A Day In The Death Of British Justice. popularresistance.org I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London Wednesday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange's partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, her name was uttered in court by a barrister and a judge, forgettable people were it not for the power of their endowed privilege. | The barrister, Clair Dobbin, is in the pay of the regime in Washington, first Trump's then Biden's. She is America's hired gun, or "silk", as she would prefer. Her target is Julian Assange, who has committed no crime an…

_____ (2021-08-14). The Far Right's Deadly Embrace of Anti-Vaccine Stupidity. commondreams.org The coronavirus pandemic has taught us that only by acting as a community we can solve global threats. Soaring temperatures put humanity at existential risk.

No on All Recalls (2021-08-14). Your Vote Needed to Stop Sept 14 Governor Recall. indybay.org The County Voter Handbooks are arriving this week describing the fascist Trump Republican recall election set for September 14, 2021, and how we can vote by mail within 30 days of that election. Every registered voter will receive a vote by mail ballot. Since there is no Electoral College for this, we need every single vote against this recall to avoid the horror of a Trump Republican governor.

Andrew Moss (2021-08-14). The path to citizenship is the path to a more democratic America. zcomm.org Citizenship, and the voting rights that go with it, are ultimately issues of agency, power, and voice…

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2021-08-14: News Headlines

Juan Cole (2021-08-14). A new Palestinian generation is leading a different media strategy. juancole.com By Linda Shalash | — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Among the most important outcomes of the events in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied Jerusalem, and the subsequent Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, is the emergence of a new, unconventional Palestinian generation, which led the media battle against the occupation locally and …

WSWS (2021-08-14). Amid xenophobic campaign, far-right mob attacks Syrian refugees in Turkey. wsws.org This fascistic onslaught is a serious warning to workers in Turkey and all over the world.

City Lights Booksellers, Pub. (2021-08-14). Tuesday 8/24: US History of Colonialism, Genocide, White Supremacy & Slavery w/ author Dunbar-Ortiz. indybay.org Online event…

ERA Coalition, Women's March, & more (2021-08-14). Saturday 8/28: #Rally4ERA: No Time Limit on Equality Rally at U.S. Supreme Court. indybay.org U.S. Supreme Court or join online rally livestream and actions…

Staff (2021-08-13). Headlines for August 13, 2021. democracynow.org U.S. Begins Evacuating Afghanistan Embassy Staff as Taliban Seize Kandahar and Herat, China Closes Shipping Terminal over Single COVID-19 Case; Russia Logs Record Death Toll, FDA Approves Third COVID-19 Vaccine Dose for Immunocompromised People, New Orleans, San Francisco to Require Vaccination Card or Negative Test for Indoor Venues, Four Teachers in Florida's Broward County Die of COVID-19 in One Day, Supreme Court Blocks Part of New York Eviction Moratorium Despite Worsening Pandemic, Israel to Resume Building Illegal Settlements in Occupied West Bank, Jewish American Leaders Demand AIPAC Apologize over Islamo…

Asa Winstanley (2021-08-13). Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Civil rights group slams "illegal measures" on the pretext of coronavirus.

Editor2 (2021-08-13). Has AU Declared War on Member States by Granting Israel 'Observer Status'? orinocotribune.com By Iqbal Jassat — Aug 9, 2021 | In the midst of a full-blown controversy sparked by a decision to allow Israel "observer status" at the African Union, it is crucial to note that the Zionist colonial settler regime hasn't halted its violent plunder of Palestinian rights while relentlessly pushing ahead with illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. | Strange as it sounds, the bizarre fact is that the unauthorized permission by the AU Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat has resulted in leaders of the African continent facing divisive consequences of a rash, unwise and problematic decision.

Hatem Abudayyeh (2021-08-13). Lawmakers Aren't "Progressive" If They Ignore Palestinian Rights. orinocotribune.com By Souzan Naser & Hatem Abudayyeh — Aug 9, 2021 | Even after years of dedicated judo training, both Mohamed Abdalarasool from Sudan and Fethi Nourine from Algeria refused to compete in the Tokyo Olympics when they were slated to perform against an Israeli athlete. In an official statement, Nourine said to an Algerian TV station, "We worked a lot to reach the Olympics… but the Palestinian cause is bigger than all of this." This gesture of sacrifice and solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by Israel earned Abdalarasool and Nourine hero status in the Arab world and beyond. | In another refreshing move, corp…

Staff (2021-08-13). Canadian Relief Agency Refused Emergency Medical Support Donation for Palestine. truthout.org Last June, with the spectre of a T…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-08-13). The Murder of the 'Menacing' Water Technician: On the Shadow Wars in the West Bank. counterpunch.org There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians which is rarely highlighted or even known. It is a water war, which has been in the making for decades. On July 26 and 27, two separate but intrinsically linked events took place in the Ein al-Hilweh area in the occupied Jordan Valley, and

Anonymous103 (2021-08-13). IDF Veterans Issue Report About Settler Violence Against Palestinians In The West Bank. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Dr. Leon Tressell. | There is a broad consensus amongst international institutions that Israel remains the occupying power in Gaza and the West Bank. The Hague regulations of 1907 and the fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 impose certain rights and obligations upon any nation that is illegally occupying a territory. | In December 1975 the United Nations General assembly passed a resolution which recited that "any military occupation however temporary" constituted "an act of aggression…

Allan Fisher (2021-08-13). Saturday 8/14: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Intersection of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

Staff (2021-08-13). US Supreme Court partially overturns New York's statewide eviction ban. rt.com The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked New York's eviction moratorium, ruling that the policy violates landlords' right to due process. The decision will remain in force as litigation on the dispute continues. | The 6-3 decision partially stuck down the statewide eviction ban on Thursday, ruling in favor of a group of property owners who challenged the moratorium in an emergency filing to the Supreme Court. Three liberal-leaning justices — Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan —

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-08-13). Apartheid tech is no climate change solution. electronicintifada.net Israel finds opportunity to rebrand itself in wake of new IPCC report.

John Pilger (2021-08-13). A Day in the Death of British Justice. counterpunch.org I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange's partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, her name was uttered in court by a barrister and a judge, forgettable people were it not for the power of their endowed privilege.

John Feffer (2021-08-13). The Delta Variant of Global Stupidity. zcomm.org Why is the far right jumping on the anti-vaccination bandwagon?>

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-13). Cali: City of Explosion and Resistance. libya360.wordpress.com Marco Teruggi State repression was the response of the government of Iván Duque against the demonstrations. Neighborhoods and their poor youth, who confronted the police and military deployment, played a leading role. And the indigenous movement: the most organized actor. "Stop the genocide" reads a huge mural in downtown Cali, the city called "branch of…

John Catalinotto (2021-08-13). Class forces behind U.S. genocide in Hiroshima, Nagasaki. workers.org This article, which has been slightly excerpted, was first published in Workers World, August 13, 2015. On the 70th anniversary of the mass murders of the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, respectively, a discussion in the U.S. corporate media centered on . . . |

Staff (2021-08-13). Rick Perlstein: 'I was drafted into the project of settler colonialism as a child'. therealnews.com In the second segment of this week's Marc Steiner Show, we bring you the latest installment of our ongoing series "Not in Our Name," which highlights the diverse voices of Jewish activists, artists, intellectuals, and others who are speaking out against the Israeli occupation. In this installment, Marc talks with Rick Perlstein about growing up Jewish in Milwaukee, the process of unlearning Zionist indoctrination, and how the United States' support of an Israeli ethno-state foments continued violence. Perlstein is a world-renowned author, journalist, and historian of the American right; his most recent book…

Bryan Ellis (2021-08-13). Tampa activists call for Tampa General Hospital to divest from Israel. liberationnews.org On July 16, activists gathered outside Tampa General Hospital (TGH) to denounce the hospital's partnership with Israel and call for it to divest from the "Florida-Israel Business Accelerator" (FIBA).

Anonymous103 (2021-08-13). Israel Tries To Bridge Gap With Diaspora Amid Fears Of Strained Relations With The West. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Written by Israel's first post-Netanyahu…

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-13). Azerbaijan to buy billions more of Israeli arms for new war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azerbaijan in Talks to Buy $2 Billion More Israeli Arms Citing fears [sic] of another war in Karabakh, Azerbaijan is reportedly in negotiations to purchase $2 billion more in weapons from Israel. The Israel Hayom (Today) news site reported on Thursday that Azerbaijan is negotiating to sign contracts with Israeli defense companies…. ….Baku is currently …

Brian Cloughley (2021-08-13). Why Does Israel Have a Stockpile of Nuclear Weapons? counterpunch.org The main result of the meeting between Presidents Putin and Biden in Geneva on June 16 was the joint statement that "we reaffirm the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." This most welcome recognition that nuclear war would probably destroy the world is especially relevant now, because August sees the 76th anniversary

Paul Street (2021-08-13). Hey Joe, The Coup Rolls On. counterpunch.org While Joe Biden champions bipartisanship, the Republicans, now the Amerikaner Party of Trump (APOT), are taking a leaf from Adolf Hitler. Just before Christmas in 1924, Hitler left prison after serving time for leading the failed Nazi revolution (Beer Hall Putsch) of November 1923. He now understood that it had been premature to attempt to

Mark Fiore (2021-08-13). Patriotism Is Our Passport! progressive.org It is mind-boggling that we are still arguing over face masks at this point in the pandemic and is even more nuts that we are fighting about life-saving vaccines.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-13). Runasur: A Project of Cohesion in a Fragmented World. libya360.wordpress.com Javier Tolcachier "Let us live as brothers and congregated in a single body. Let us take care of the protection and preservation of the Spaniards, Creoles, mestizos, Zambos and Indians for being all compatriots, as born in these lands and of the same origin." — Tupac Amaru "There is nothing in the world more powerful…

_____ (2021-08-13). Scheer Intelligence: Prisons Enable America's Obscene Wealth. popularresistance.org The story of Marshall "Eddie" Conway, a military veteran and former Black Panther who was imprisoned for 43 years for a crime he didn't commit, is one that gets to the heart of systemic racism in the United States. Despite grueling conditions, in prison Conway pursued three college degrees, and was considered an "exemplary" prisoner for starting a prison literacy program and organizing the prison library. On the other hand, his efforts to organize a union among his fellow convict laborers was crushed by the authorities. After being released in 2014 following an appellate court judgment that his jury had been give…

Tongtan Chantarat, David C. Van Riper, Rachel R. Hardeman (2021-08-13). [Research Paper] The intricacy of structural racism measurement: A pilot development of a latent-class multidimensional measure. thelancet.com Our analysis suggests that measuring structural racism as a multidimensional determinant of health provides additional insight into the mechanisms underlying population health inequity vis-à -vis using multiple unidimensional measures without capturing their joint effects.

Moderator (2021-08-13). Eddie Conway: Prisons Enable America's Obscene Wealth. scheerpost.com Eddie Conway. [J.M. Giordano/City PaperCredits] Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play The story of Marshall "Eddie" Conway, a military veteran and former Black Panther who was imprisoned for 43 years for a crime he didn't commit, is one that gets to the heart of systemic racism in the United States. Despite grueling conditions, in prison Conway pursued three college degrees… |

Staff (2021-08-13). US Supreme Court declines to block Indiana University's vaccine mandate, preserving key precedent for compulsory Covid-19 jabs. rt.com The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from students who sought to strike down Indiana University's Covid-19 vaccine mandate, leaving in place a potentially key legal precedent for forced inoculations. | Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the emergency request to hear the case on Thursday, meaning the high court won't overturn rulings by an Indiana district court and the US Court of Appeals in Chicago, which upheld the mandate. There were no dissenting opinions cited from other Supreme Court justices. | The Indiana case marked the first legal challenge of a Covid-19 vaccine mandate to come before…

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2021-08-13: News Headlines

Asa Winstanley (2021-08-13). Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Civil rights group slams "illegal measures" on the pretext of coronavirus.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-08-13). Apartheid tech is no climate change solution. electronicintifada.net Israel finds opportunity to rebrand itself in wake of new IPCC report.

John Feffer (2021-08-13). The Delta Variant of Global Stupidity. zcomm.org Why is the far right jumping on the anti-vaccination bandwagon?>

No on All Recalls (2021-08-13). Your Vote Needed to Stop Sept 14 Governor Recall. indybay.org The County Voter Handbooks are arriving this week describing the fascist Trump Republican recall election set for September 14, 2021, and how we can vote by mail within 30 days of that election. Every registered voter will receive a vote by mail ballot. Since there is no Electoral College for this, we need every single vote against this recall to avoid the horror of a Trump Republican governor.

City Lights Booksellers, Pub. (2021-08-13). Tuesday 8/24: US History of Colonialism, Genocide, White Supremacy & Slavery w/ author Dunbar-Ortiz. indybay.org Online event…

Allan Fisher (2021-08-13). Saturday 8/14: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Intersection of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

Staff (2021-08-13). Canadian Relief Agency Refused Emergency Medical Support Donation for Palestine. truthout.org Last June, with the spectre of a T…

ERA Coalition, Women's March, & more (2021-08-13). Saturday 8/28: #Rally4ERA: No Time Limit on Equality Rally at U.S. Supreme Court. indybay.org U.S. Supreme Court or join online rally livestream and actions…

Paul Street (2021-08-12). Ghost Canaries in the Amerikaner Mine. counterpunch.org Being a radical Leftist of the communist kind has curiously inoculated me from the "brocialist" economism and intimately related class reductionism that disfigures some key parts of the American left, such as it is. It's not just that there's no room for downplaying the problems of racism and sexism in genuinely radical politics or that

Sophia Purdy-Moore (2021-08-12). The Olympics is over, but its problem with Black athletes clearly isn't. thecanary.co The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games drew to a close on 8 August, but the repercussions of its racist, transphobic policies continue to impact the lives of Black athletes. | Over the course of the games, we saw organisers promoting discriminatory policies that pander to Eurocentricity at the expense of Black athletes — particularly Black women. This came as no surprise, as racism and white supremacy have played a central role in the development of the games. If the

John Bachtell (2021-08-12). 'People's Vaccine' needed to break monopoly profiteering and end vaccine apartheid. peoplesworld.org As the COVID-19 pandemic rages and new, more dangerous variants emerge, demands are growing for a "people's vaccine" to counter the chief obstacle to global vaccination—Big Pharma profiteering. Public health officials and infectious disease specialists all agree: The pandemic will not end until most of the world is vaccinated. Poor and medium-income countries face a …

_____ (2021-08-12). Confederated Salish And Kootenai Win The Day. popularresistance.org Congratulations to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes on their recent acquisition of the National Bison Range. | In September 2018, I made my first official trip as assistant secretary-Indian affairs to the homelands of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The purpose of the trip was to learn about the irrigation project on the Flathead Reservation. I learned about the challenges with rate setting, aging infrastructure, the differing needs of Indian and non-Indian water users, water rights, the history behind the project and the need for a fair and just water claims settlement with the federal go…

WSWS (2021-08-12). Minneapolis Public Schools and teachers union pursue agreement to prioritize race in hiring and firing. wsws.org The measure's aim, in line with the Democratic Party's program of identity politics, is to undermine legislation passed during the Civil Rights movement which outlawed racial discrimination, render seniority rights moot, and stoke divisions among educators, parents and students.

Albert Bender (2021-08-12). Thousands of Indigenous children perished in 'genocide boarding schools'. peoplesworld.org Hunger. Starvation. Beatings. Ill-clothed in the cold of winter. Forbidden to speak their Native tongues. Sexual predators roaming the dormitory halls in the middle of the night like wild animals searching for prey and snatching youngsters from their beds. Such was the lot of thousands of Indigenous children in the heyday of the Indian boarding school era which stretched from the …

Juan Cole (2021-08-12). Dear CIA Director Burns: Don't Listen to the Israelis on Iran— They just want you to fight a war for them. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Jonathan Lis at Haaretz reports that the Israeli government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is lobbying the US to get on a war footing with Iran. The Israelis will try to convince CIA director William Burns of their position on Iran in his meetings there on Wednesday. Lis makes 3 …

Ramzy Baroud (2021-08-12). The Murder of the "Menacing" Water Technician: On the Shadow Wars in the West Bank. dissidentvoice.org There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians which is rarely highlighted or even known. It is a water war, which has been in the making for decades. On July 26 and 27, two separate but intrinsically linked events took place in the Ein al-Hilweh area in the occupied Jordan Valley, and …

Middle East Monitor (2021-08-12). Israel's siege of Occupied Palestinian civilians is halving Gaza patients' survival rates. juancole.com By Maya Abuali | — ( Middle East Monitor) — Lacking in 60 per cent of appropriate medicine and treatment protocols as a result of the siege, Gaza's already deficient cancer care is slipping further into chaos as restrictions grow harsher. Beyond dealing with the Gaza Strip's already uninhabitable living conditions, Palestinian cancer patients in …

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-12). Caveman mentality: Russian FM says U.S., NATO pander to "outright racist and neo-Nazi" Ukraine regime. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com West well aware of Crimea being part of Russia, says Russia's top diplomat "They are trying to pander to the outright racist and neo-Nazi actions and plans of the current Kiev regime just to disturb us," Sergey Lavrov noted "If our Western partners have to hide their complete awareness of reality behind the desire to …

Dr. Mohammad Salami (2021-08-12). Jordan's Shrinking Role in Palestine's Liberation Effort. towardfreedom.org The landlocked country is playing an increasingly insignificant role in the dispute, even though the peace process would be incomplete without the kingdom's input. In fact, until the 1970s, Jordan was an indispensable player, having hosted thousands of Palestinian refugees. Jordan seems to be trapped by its own security restrictions and has largely ceded the peace process to its rivals, including Egypt.

_____ (2021-08-12). One-Time 99% Tax on Billionaires' Pandemic Profits Could Fund Vaccines for the Entire World. commondreams.org "Raytheon profits from the killing of civilians, families, and children in Palestine, Yemen, and elsewhere. We can't sit idly by while Raytheon engineers new and more destructive ways of killing innocent people."

Staff (2021-08-12). Antiwar Group Blocks Entry to Raytheon Facility to Protest Killing of Civilians. truthout.org A group of anti-war activists blockaded the entrances to a Raytheon facility in Portsmouth, Rhode Island on Thursday morning to protest the role the weapons-maker plays in the killing of civilians in Yemen, the occupied Palestinian territories, and elsewhere around the world. | The demonstration was organized and live-streamed on Facebook by Resist and Abolish the Military Industrial Complex (RAM INC) and The FANG Collective, a direct-action organization based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (…

sputniknews (2021-08-12). US Supreme Court Strikes Down Part of New York State's Ban on Evictions During Pandemic. sputniknews.com In addition to roughly 11 million Americans behind on rent due to pandemic-related financial issues, another 1.75 million homeowners are also behind on their mortgages, threatening a tsunami of evictions once federal protections are lifted.

_____ (2021-08-12). Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Indiana University's Vaccine Mandate. commondreams.org "To date, 10 countries have administered more than 75% of the world's vaccines, while low-income countries have received just over 1%."

WSWS (2021-08-12). Texas House speaker issues arrest warrants for missing Democrats in bid to pass anti-voting rights bill. wsws.org The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a restraining order that protected Democratic lawmakers from being forced into the Texas House chamber.

_____ (2021-08-12). Family of John Lewis Joins Demand That Biden Kill Filibuster to Defend Voting Rights. commondreams.org "Blue hydrogen has large climatic consequences. We see no way that blue hydrogen can be considered 'green,'" says the report.

_____ (2021-08-12). Wisconsin on Track for Another 'Wolf Slaughter,' Sparking Calls for Federal Protections. commondreams.org "If President Biden and Senator Schumer truly care about ending the war on voting rights they have to use their political will to abolish the filibuster and pass the For the People Act immediately," said one organizer.

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2021-08-12: News Headlines

Staff (2021-08-12). Asesinato de Jovenel MoàØse: Premeditación, participación de los EEUU y complicidad del personal de seguridad. cubadebate.cu El informe preliminar elaborado por las autoridades haitianas deja asentadas sus presunciones sobre el magnicidio: la premeditación de los mercenarios colombianos en el plan de asesinato, la participación de dos empresas con sede en EE.UU. y la complicidad del personal de seguridad del mandatario en los hechos porque, cuando se ejecutó el asalto a la residencia de MoàØse, "la puerta principal estaba abierta".

Staff (2021-08-12). Nicaragua: Encuesta confirma al FSLN como favorito a elecciones. cubadebate.cu Una encuesta publicada la víspera en Managua confirmó al gobernante Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) como favorito de cara a las elecciones generales del 7 de noviembre próximo.El estudio realizado solo en Managua reveló que el índice de predisposición política favorece al partido rojinegro, con el 62,7 por ciento.

ecns.cn (2021-08-12). Nearly 1.4 billion covered by health insurance in China. ecns.cn China's healthcare plans had covered 1.36 billion residents by the end of last year after the country worked for decades to create a sturdier insurance safety net in the world's most populous nation, a white paper said on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2021-08-12). UNHCR objects to renewed U.S. expulsion flights of migrants under public health restrictions. ecns.cn The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) expressed concern on Wednesday over the resumption of the U.S. practice of flying non-Mexican asylum seekers and migrants to southern Mexico after expelling them under a U.S. health law regulation implemented last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

sputniknews (2021-08-12). US Civil Rights Groups Escalate Pressure on Biden to Keep Prisoners at Home Amid Pandemic. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik), Barrington M. Salmon – A coalition of criminal justice activists is upping its campaign to prevent the Biden administration from forcing thousands of inmates to return to prison as COVID-19 infections continue to surge, Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) President Kevin Ring said.

ERA Coalition, Women's March, & more (2021-08-12). Saturday 8/28: #Rally4ERA: No Time Limit on Equality Rally at U.S. Supreme Court. indybay.org U.S. Supreme Court or join online rally livestream and actions…

ecns.cn (2021-08-12). Facts reveal U.S. failing in COVID-19 response: report. ecns.cn Furthermore, the "virus origin-tracing terrorism" that emerged in the country should be investigated as this is an attempt to manipulate "global public opinion," the authors said.

Staff (2021-08-12). Senator Rand Paul accused of 'insider trading' after he belatedly reveals wife invested in pharma firm in early days of Covid-19. rt.com Senator Rand Paul was accused of "insider trading" after he revealed that his wife bought stock in the firm that makes antiviral drug remdesivir in early 2020, disclosing the purchase more than a year after the reporting deadline. | The Kentucky Republican acknowledged the stock buy on Wednesday in a Senate filing, the Washington Post According to the filing, the senator's wife invested b…

Staff (2021-08-12). Texas governor says anyone who defies state ban on mask mandates will be taken to court. rt.com Texas Governor Greg Abbott has asked an appeals court to strike down a masking requirement imposed by a country judge and promised more lawsuits against officials who rebel against his ban on mask mandates. | Abbot and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that they had filed a petition asking the 5th Court of Appeals to strike down an order by Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, who instructed businesses, public schools, child daycare centers and government offices to require indoor mask-wearing. | The governor banned Texas officials from imposing any form of a mask mandate in May, under the threat of a f…

_____ (2021-08-12). Confederated Salish And Kootenai Win The Day. popularresistance.org "In September 2018, I made my first official trip as assistant secretary-Indian affairs to the homelands of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The purpose of the trip was to learn about the irrigation project on the Flathead Reservation. I learned about the challenges with rate setting, aging infrastructure, the differing needs of Indian and non-Indian water users, water rights, the history behind the project and the need for a fair and just water claims settlement with the federal government."

ecns.cn (2021-08-12). Unilateral sanctions against Venezuela "crime against humanity": FM. ecns.cn Imposing unilateral sanctions against Venezuela and other countries is "a crime against humanity" that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court must investigate, Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza said Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2021-08-12). Average life expectancy in China rises to 77.3 yrs: white paper. ecns.cn

ecns.cn (2021-08-12). China has over 1 mln medical, health institutions: white paper. ecns.cn The number of medical and health institutions in China skyrocketed from 170,000 in 1978 to over 1 million in 2020, according to a white paper.

ecns.cn (2021-08-12). China lifts nearly 99 mln rural poor out of poverty in 8 yrs: white paper. ecns.cn By the end of 2020, China had lifted all the 98.99 million rural residents living below the current poverty line out of poverty after eight years of efforts, according to a white paper.

Marzieh Rahmani (2021-08-12). Moscow to boost relations with Tehran based on mutual respect. en.mehrnews.com Iran is Russia's friend and neighbor, and the country will continue to strengthen relations based on mutual respect, the RussianEmbassy said.

teleSUR, JL (2021-08-12). Denuncian asesinato de líder social en el Meta, Colombia. telesurtv.net Indepaz señala que en lo corrido del 2021 se han asesinado 107 líderes sociales y 1.223 desde la firma de los Acuerdos de Paz en 2016.

City Lights Booksellers, Pub. (2021-08-12). Tuesday 8/24: US History of Colonialism, Genocide, White Supremacy & Slavery w/ author Dunbar-Ortiz. indybay.org Online event…

sputniknews (2021-08-12). Awkward Moment: Biden –°onfuses Gov. Gretchen Whitmer With Energy Sec Jennifer Granholm – Video. sputniknews.com US President Joe Biden is no stranger to blunders and awkward behaviour: just earlier this week he seemingly took a cue from a Secret Service agent to follow the sidewalk path into the White House and followed the security officer across the lawn, prompting social media users to mock him for "getting lost in the bushes".

No on All Recalls (2021-08-12). Your Vote Needed to Stop Sept 14 Governor Recall. indybay.org The County Voter Handbooks are arriving this week describing the fascist Trump Republican recall election set for September 14, 2021, and how we can vote by mail within 30 days of that election. Every registered voter will receive a vote by mail ballot. Since there is no Electoral College for this, we need every single vote against this recall to avoid the horror of a Trump Republican governor.

teleSUR, SH (2021-08-12). Reportan el asesinato de firmante de la paz en Nariño, Colombia. telesurtv.net Con José Harleyo Popayán serían 34 los firmantes de acuerdo de paz asesinados en 2021.

Moderator (2021-08-11). Maj. Danny Sjursen on Genocide, Slavery, Imperialism and Hyper Capitalism. scheerpost.com On "Going Underground, " the host speaks to Retired US Army Major Danny Sjursen, author of 'A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism'. He discusses the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the different strands of American imperialism from liberal to neoconservative and …

_____ (2021-08-11). Palestinians Are Calling For International Support For Those Arrested In May. popularresistance.org The fund's aims are to provide legal representation for defendants and to support the detainees' families, "many of whom already live in dire socio-economic conditions, by ensuring that they do not have to bear the financial burden of these legal costs alone". The fund has already raised over $67k of its $307k goal. Palestinians who joined the May uprising were struggling against Israel's ongoing colonisation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian land. They were fighting against racism and state brutality, and for freedom and autonomy. They deserve our support.

_____ (2021-08-11). Palestine Action Is Hitting Drone Maker Elbit Hard. popularresistance.org A new short film by Real Media follows the group Palestine Action over the past year. | Palestine Action was founded a year ago by activists in the UK to focus on taking direct action against Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. | Elbit is Israel's largest private arms manufacturer. It makes the vast majority of Israel's drone fleet and, as the film explains, markets its weapons as "combat proven" — tested on Palestinians. | The company has 10 factories and offices in Britain, which the group has been targeting. | You can watch the full film in the video above. I am one of several people in the film giv…

_____ (2021-08-11). Palestinians Calling For International Support For Those Arrested In May. popularresistance.org Marshood explained that the arrests were not confined to those demonstrating, but also to those who were aiming to document the repression: | Mass waves of arrests were done, either in protests or even to people who were just passing by, people were arrested from their cars. People were arrested from their homes. Even those who were documenting arrests got arrested.[These arrests] included very brutal and violent physical and mental assaults on the detainees. Whether inside the police cars or inside the police station. | A report released in June by Israeli human rights organisation Adalah documented the use of t…

Joris Leverink (2021-08-11). Smiling as an act of resistance in Occupied Palestine. roarmag.org Muna El Kurd, activist and Sheikh Jarrah resident smiles as she is arrested in front of her home by Israeli occupation forces. Photo by This essay was produced in collaboration with the Palestinians living in occupied Palestine have been facing ethnic cleansing…

Abdul Rahman (2021-08-11). Israel uses the Gaza fishing zone as a tool for collective punishment against Palestinians. peoplesdispatch.org Israel often blocks the fishing zone, driving thousands of Palestinians dependent on it for their livelihood and food using the pretexts of rocket attacks…

news.un (2021-08-11). Arrests of Palestinian rights defenders part of 'wider crackdown'. news.un.org Israel must safeguard human rights activists in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and within its borders, a UN-appointed expert said on Wednesday.

Editor (2021-08-11). Feminist protests in Palestine. mronline.org Mapping the fight for women's liberation in Gaza and the West Bank.

Fight Back (2021-08-11). Families denounce LA Sheriff Villanueva, call for August 29 protest. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – Local activists with the Chicanx Moratorium Committee and families who have lost loved ones to LA Sheriff's killings held a press conference on August 5, to denounce Sheriff Villanueva, call for his ouster and urge participation in a protest on August 29. | Family members of Anthony Vargas, David Ordaz and Paul Rea were present. Attendees also included many young people, Black Lives Matter-LA member Baba Akili, union members from SEIU and UTLA, and the community group Centro CSO. Carlos Montes, longtime Chicano human rights activist, urged Chicano and all working people to stand up against…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-08-11). International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples toward 2021 California Admission Day. indybay.org The living legacy of Indigenous people throughout the Great State of California legacy will no longer be discounted and/or discredited. Generational Genocide, Slavery and Disparaging treatment cannot be ignored any longer. Together, we can and must form a more perfect union by facing "what really happened" and Build Back Better in 2021.

news.un (2021-08-11). UNHCR alarmed over US 'expulsion flights' to southern Mexico. news.un.org The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised concern on Wednesday over a new policy by the United States, using public health orders linked to COVID-19, to expel some asylum-seekers and migrants by flying them to southern Mexico.

Staff (2021-08-11). Texan House speaker signs arrest warrant for 52 runaway Democrats after lawmakers fled state to block passage of Republican bill. rt.com A senior Texan lawmaker has signed an arrest warrant for 52 Democrats who fled the state to avoid voting on a controversial Republican bill which cannot be passed into law without the presence of five more lawmakers. | Late on Tuesday evening, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan signed the arrest warrants, understood to be civil not criminal, for 52 Democrat legislators who have avoided their duties in the assembly, according to US news agencies. | The move came after the Texas Supreme Court gave lawmakers permission to use law enforcement to compel the runaway Democrats to return to the House. According to The Da…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-11). Brazil: Tanks on the Streets — Attacks on the International Left. libya360.wordpress.com Who Will Laugh Last? Brian MierBrazilians woke up yesterday to visions of a nightmare they thought would never return: military tanks and armored vehicles rolling down the national mall in Brasilia, past the Congress and Supreme Court Buildings in an attempt, admitted by top aides of far right President Jair Bolsonaro, to scare Brazil's democratic…

The Canary (2021-08-11). Assange is 'an innocent man accused of practising journalism'. thecanary.co Julian Assange's partner has described him as "an innocent man accused of practising journalism" as she arrived at a legal hearing which will see the US government challenge a judge's decision not to extradite him to the US on espionage charges. | Stella Moris, who has two children by Assange, stood in front of the steps of the High Court and told his supporters: "The US government is exploiting the inherently unfair arrangement between the US and the UK. | "They are exploiting the inherently unfair extradition arrangements with this country in order to arbitrarily prolong his imprisonment. The imprisonment of an…

Staff (2021-08-11). ALL California teachers face Covid vaccine mandate or regular testing, Newsom announces. rt.com California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a Covid-19 vaccine mandate or weekly testing for teachers and school staff, saying it is "the right thing to do" and making his state the first to pass such a requirement. | The mandate will apply to teachers, as well as "custodial staff, the bus drivers, folks that are critical to supporting the entire school ecosystem," Newsom said at a Wednesday press conference at Carl B. Munck Elementary School in Oakland. | "We think this is the right thing to do," the governor continued, "and we think this is a sustainable way to keeping our schools open and to address the…

Staff (2021-08-11). 'The history of postwar fascism needs to be retold'. therealnews.com Popular understandings of what fascism is, where it came from, and how it was "defeated" have hindered our collective ability to identify and fight fascist threats beyond those that existed in Western Europe a century ago. In the latest installment of her

Staff (2021-08-11). NYPD spent $159mn on facial recognition, 'stingray' cellphone trackers & X-ray van spy tools using secretive fund, documents show. rt.com For years, the NYPD used a "surveillance slush fund" for a range of policing tech with no public oversight — under a shadowy deal with city officials that kept equipment used in "confidential operations" secret. | Newly released documents reveal the New York Police Department (NYPD) has spent at least $159 million in public money since 2007, through a "Special Expenses" fund, on potentially invasive surveillance tools like facial-recognition software, predictive policing programs, "stingray" cellphone trackers — and even vans fitted with X-ray machines to spot weapons. | That year, the force entered…

Staff (2021-08-11). TX Voting Rights Fight Takes Ugly Turn as House GOP Vote to Arrest Dem Lawmakers. truthout.org Texas lawmakers in the state's House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to order state law enforcement to forcibly return Democrats to the legislative chamber, including potentially arresting them, in order to force a vote on implementing restrictive voting provisions in future elections in the state. |

TASS (2021-08-11). North Korea eyes stronger cooperation with Russia to resist US — envoy. tass.com According to North Korean Ambassador to Russia Sin Hong-chol, Pyongyang cannot ignore the threats it faces at the backdrop of the hostile policy that the US pursues against North Korea…

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-11). After three weeks in the Black Sea, NATO naval group visited Israel. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two Visited Israel Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two (SNMCMG-2) visited Haifa (Israel) from 2nd of August to 5th of August 2021 and conducted a Passing Exercise (PASSEX) with Israeli Navy units in the vicinity of Haifa, Israel following a successful deployment in the Black Sea. **** Prior to the …

commondreams (2021-08-11). Rise Up Patriots and Resist: A Third of the Country Has Finally Achieved Herd Stupidity, and It's Killing Us. commondreams.org ProPublica's new investigation reveals how the pass-through businesses deduction benefited the nation's richest.

Mel Gurtov (2021-08-11). Pegasus and the Global Surveillance Business. counterpunch.org We have just learned about a powerful spyware known as Pegasus, manufactured and leased by the Israeli company NSO Group and capable of extracting just about every kind of data stored in a smart phone. The Pegasus Project, a consortium of 17 organizations and individuals, mostly journalists, has acquired a leaked list of 50,000 individuals

_____ (2021-08-11). 'A Five-Alarm Voting Rights Fire': Senate Urged to Fight Back After GOP Blocks For the People Act Again. commondreams.org

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_____ (2021-08-11). Palestine Action Is Hitting Drone Maker Elbit Hard. popularresistance.org A new short film by Real Media follows the group Palestine Action over the past year. Activists have carried out sit-ins and sabotage against Elbit premises, shutting factories down, smashing windows, damaging equipment, graffiting and splashing walls with red paint to symbolize Palestinian blood. According to the film, Palestine Action have carried out more than 70 actions against Elbit in their first year, including 20 high-profile occupations of sites and factories.

Editor (2021-08-11). Feminist protests in Palestine. mronline.org Mapping the fight for women's liberation in Gaza and the West Bank.

sputniknews (2021-08-11). Texas House Speaker Signs Arrest Warrants for 52 Democrats Who Fled to DC Over Voting Bill. sputniknews.com Last month, 52 Texas Democrats fled the state in an attempt to block a vote on an election bill that envisaged tougher voting requirements – a measure Democrats view as harming minorities and abusing voting rights.

No on All Recalls (2021-08-11). Your Vote Needed to Stop Sept 14 Governor Recall. indybay.org The County Voter Handbooks are arriving this week describing the fascist Trump Republican recall election set for September 14, 2021, and how we can vote by mail within 30 days of that election. Every registered voter will receive a vote by mail ballot. Since there is no Electoral College for this, we need every single vote against this recall to avoid the horror of a Trump Republican governor.

_____ (2021-08-11). 'A Five-Alarm Voting Rights Fire': Senate Urged to Fight Back After GOP Blocks For the People Act Again. commondreams.org

Amira Mattar (2021-08-11). At Risk in Israel's Backlash Against Ben and Jerry's? The Right to Protest. thenation.com At Risk in Israel's Backlash Against Ben and Jerry's? The Right to Protest…

_____ (2021-08-11). Poll: Majority of US Voters Want Biden to 'Fight' for Key Voting Rights Bill. commondreams.org "Maybe instead of boosting oil production, President Biden should have pushed for more electric vehicle and transit spending in the infrastructure bill?"

Staff (2021-08-10). Headlines for August 10, 2021. democracynow.org Pentagon Will Require All Military Personnel to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19, Florida Reopens Schools, with Masks Optional, as State Becomes Coronavirus Epicenter, Canada Reopens Border to Vaccinated U.S. Travelers, California Officials Warn Record-Shattering Wildfire Could Burn for Weeks, Greek Prime Minister Apologizes Amid Protests over Government's Handling of Wildfires, Germany Sets Up 30 Million Euro Recovery Fund After Devastating Floods, Small Island States Warn Climate Crisis Threatens "Our Very Future", Sixth Afghan Provincial Capital Falls to Taliban , Indigenous Brazilians Seek Genocide Charges Aga…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-10). Israel Sends Warning Message To Iran After Bombing Hezbollah Last Week. southfront.org Illustrative ImageIsrael blames Hezbollah for attack despite allegedly being carried out by Palestinian groups. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | The Israeli air force admitted for the first time since 2014 that it carried out several strikes in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah military installations. Air raids in the early hours of August 5 targeted the Lebanese villages of Mahmoudieh and Aaichiyeh, and the Lebanese army also recorded artillery fire from Israel. | Accord…

James North (2021-08-10). Sports Apartheid: Israel's Olympic Team Did Not Include a Single Palestinian Citizen of Israel. globalresearch.ca

Tamara Nassar (2021-08-10). Israel uses fake photo to justify shooting woman. electronicintifada.net Father of five latest Palestinian to be killed in Beita.

Angela (2021-08-10). Sunday 8/15: Q&A Discussion of film "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org

Editor2 (2021-08-10). A Shocking List of 52 Zionist- & Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany Comparisons. orinocotribune.com By Dr Gideon Polya — Aug 7, 2021 | The cruel and genocidal oppression of the Indigenous Palestinians by nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel invites comparison with the cruelties of Nazi Germany. However such comparisons made by anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish humanitarians invite false and defamatory Zionist assertions of racism and anti-Semitism. To counter this, provided below is a shocking and detailed list of 52 Zionist- and Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany comparisons. | The following 52-item list of appalling abuses and human rights violations by genocidally ra…

Editor2 (2021-08-10). Black Lives Matter and Cuba. orinocotribune.com By African American Equality Commission, CPUSA — Aug 6, 2021 | In 1988 there was a large march and demonstration in Harlem starting on 125th Street. The lead banner in the march declared, "Africa Called — Cuba Answered." It was a bold statement in support of Cuban military assistance to Angola, which was under attack from internal counter-revolutionary forces, backed and prodded by the apartheid South African military. In the ensuing battles, nearly 5,000 Cuban soldiers gave their lives for African freedom. With Cuban assistance, the Angolan government defeated the South African army, which led to the…

_____ (2021-08-10). Indigenous Group Accuses Bolsonaro of 'Genocide' and 'Ecocide' at The Hague. commondreams.org "This is climate denial," said 350 Canada. "From Canada's Environment Minister no less."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-10). Zambia's Socialist Party Emerges as an Alternative in Upcoming Presidential Elections. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni Rally of the Socialist Party of Zambia in January 2020. Photo: Socialist Party of Zambia Founded in 2018 under the leadership of its current presidential candidate Fred M'membe, the Socialist Party has emerged as a third force in Zambia, providing voters with an alternative to the ruling Patriotic Front and the opposition United…

Jason Dearen (2021-08-10). KKK murder plot involving Florida prison guards exposed. peoplesworld.org PALATKA, Fla. (AP)—Joseph Moore breathed heavily, his face slick with nervous sweat. He held a cellphone with a photo of a man splayed on the floor; the man appeared dead, his shirt torn apart and his pants wet. Puffy dark clouds blocked the sun as Moore greeted another man, who'd pulled up in a metallic …

Staff (2021-08-10). Texas Supreme Court thwarts Democrat effort to overturn governor's veto that blocked legislative funding. rt.com The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a challenge by state Democrats seeking to overturn a move by Governor Greg Abbott that could deprive the legislature of funds for the next two years as part of a standoff over voting laws. | The all-Republican state Supreme Court The judges argued that the funding issue "continues to exist not because…

Staff (2021-08-10). Breaking the dehumanizing spiral of anti-Arabism and anti-Semitism. therealnews.com "While there are differences, to be sure, between anti-Semitism and anti-Arab bigotry, the animus that has driven the hostility directed against both Arabs and Jews springs from the same source," James Zogby argues in

Morning Star (2021-08-10). China joins global fight against 'vaccine apartheid'. peoplesworld.org Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated calls for greater global cooperation in the fight against coronavirus and the equal distribution of vaccines Tuesday. He said that collaboration was crucial to the fight against the pandemic as new strains emerge across the world. Xi recently committed to the donation of two billion vaccines to be made available …

Anonymous007 (2021-08-10). Ethiopian Government Calls On Citizens To Mobilize And Crush Tigray's Forces. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On August 10th, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued a statement calling on "all capable Ethiopians" to join the military and fight against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)."Now is the right time for all capable Ethiopians who are of age to join the Defence Forces, Special Forces and militias to show your patriotism." | The statement came six weeks after the government declared a unilateral ceasefire in the northern region of Tigray on the day Tigrayan forc…

Tom Tomorrow (2021-08-10). Pandemic Advice From a Patriot. thenation.com Pandemic Advice From a Patriot…

Marjorie Cohn (2021-08-10). Israel Lashes Out at Ben & Jerry's. zcomm.org "As Jewish supporters of the State of Israel, we fundamentally reject the notion that it is anti-Semitic to question the policies of the State of Israel." – Ben and Jerry…

_____ (2021-08-10). Judicial Decision On Alex Saab's Extradition Expected Next Week. popularresistance.org The Constitutional Court (TC) of Cape Verde scheduled a hearing on the constitutional appeal of the special envoy of Venezuela, Alex Saab Morán, for next August 13 at 9: 00 a.m. Saab has been held in Cape Verdean prison for 410 days under an arbitrary measure emanating from the United States, victim of a flawed process denounced by the diplomat, his defense, and activists and legal experts worldwide. | "We inform you that by order of the Venerable Presiding Counselor Judge in the file of the Concrete Inspection of Constitutionality No. 2/2021, in which Alex Nain Saab Moran is appellant and the Supreme Court of Jus…

_____ (2021-08-10). 'Democrats Should Leave the State Immediately': Texas Supreme Court OKs Lawmaker Arrests. commondreams.org

_____ (2021-08-10). Supreme Court Hearing Likely as 'Reckless' Bayer Loses Third Appeal Over Glyphosate Use. commondreams.org Congress dithers over a few trillion dollars that could begin to change our nation's emissions course and help save us all from a flaming nightmare.

Philip Giraldi (2021-08-10). Was the Tanker Attack an Israeli False Flag? An Incident that Could Lead to a Much Bigger War. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous Contributor (2021-08-10). Organizing and Fighting Without Dying: Erin Corbett Interviews Alice. itsgoingdown.org Erin Corbett sits down with Alice, one of the co-author's behind This Week in Fascism on It's Going Down. Originally posted here. Most people who have spent enough time organizing know it can be a thankless job. The planet is on fire; millions of people don't have their basic needs met, and are experiencing housing…

Marzieh Rahmani (2021-08-10). 'We reserve right to respond to Israeli attacks'. en.mehrnews.com The secretary-general of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement stressed that Iraqi Resistance reserves the right to respond to Israeli attacks which killed a number of Iraqi Resistance youths.

_____ (2021-08-10). Since 1978, CEO Pay Has Risen 1,322%. Typical Worker Pay? Just 18%. commondreams.org "We believe that there are ongoing acts in Brazil that constitute crimes against humanity, genocide, and ecocide."

John Lewis Mobilization (2021-08-10). Tuesday 8/10: Voting Rights Now! Democracy Can't Wait Virtual Rally & Actions. indybay.org Virtual rally and voting rights actions event…

WSWS (2021-08-10). Ford targeted older salaried employees during 2019 layoffs, documents in age discrimination lawsuit reveal. wsws.org The layoffs were part of a "jobs bloodbath" throughout the auto industry, including nearly 20,000 workers at Ford alone.

Juraima Almeida (2021-08-10). Un Bolsonaro en baja juega con un golpe y hace crecer la tensión en Brasil. globalizacion.ca El ultraderechista presidente brasileño Jair Bolsonaro optó por profundizar la crisis, amenazando responder con un golpe que cerraría las cortes de justicia, el Supremo Tribunal Electoral y el mismo Congreso, en medio de una situación social dramática, a los casi…

WSWS (2021-08-10). Neo-fascist Meloni under discussion as Italian head of government. wsws.org The Fratelli d'Italia, which won only 4 percent of the vote in 2018, have benefited from opposition to ECB banker Draghi's government of national unity.

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-10). Azerbaijan, Israel are strategic partners in international arena: Knesset deputy. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Relations between Israel, Azerbaijan continue to develop dynamically — Knesset MP According to MP Elina] Bardach-Yalov, the Jewish state attaches great importance to relations with Azerbaijan, which, without exaggeration, can be called one of the most reliable strategic partners of Israel in the international arena. "Finance Minister, leader of the Israel Our Home Party Avigdor …

Never Forgive, Never Forget (2021-08-10). Salesforce Client is Republican Party. indybay.org San Francisco's very own tech giant, Salesforce, continues to do the bidding of its client, the Republican Party, also known as the Republican National Committee, despite the Jan. 6, 2021 seditious insurrection by Nazi Trump thugs to overthrow the government by force and violence to install Nazi Trump as dictator. See www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-salesforce-……

_____ (2021-08-10). 75 Groups Ask DOJ to Oppose 'Racist' Anti-Protest Laws. commondreams.org Lessons on defending democracy.

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2021-08-10: News Headlines

James North (2021-08-10). Sports Apartheid: Israel's Olympic Team Did Not Include a Single Palestinian Citizen of Israel. globalresearch.ca

Angela (2021-08-10). Sunday 8/15: Q&A Discussion of film "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org

_____ (2021-08-10). 'Democrats Should Leave the State Immediately': Texas Supreme Court OKs Lawmaker Arrests. commondreams.org

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-08-10). International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples toward 2021 California Admission Day. indybay.org The living legacy of Indigenous people throughout the Great State of California legacy will no longer be discounted and/or discredited. Generational Genocide, Slavery and Disparaging treatment cannot be ignored any longer. Together, we can and must form a more perfect union by facing "what really happened" and Build Back Better in 2021.

Tom Tomorrow (2021-08-10). Pandemic Advice From a Patriot. thenation.com Pandemic Advice From a Patriot…

Philip Giraldi (2021-08-10). Was the Tanker Attack an Israeli False Flag? An Incident that Could Lead to a Much Bigger War. globalresearch.ca

John Lewis Mobilization (2021-08-10). Tuesday 8/10: Voting Rights Now! Democracy Can't Wait Virtual Rally & Actions. indybay.org Virtual rally and voting rights actions event…

_____ (2021-08-10). 75 Groups Ask DOJ to Oppose 'Racist' Anti-Protest Laws. commondreams.org Lessons on defending democracy.

Joris Leverink (2021-08-09). Protesting settler colonialism in the neoliberal university. roarmag.org "Holding Palestine" artistic protest, photo by Steven Maybury. | During May's uprising in Palestine against the latest aggression of the apartheid Israeli state, a few students at the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) in Rotterdam wanted to express their solidarity with the struggle. They hung a banner on the institute's building that read: "STOP THE ETHNIC CLEANSING; #SaveSheikhJarrah; Free Palestine." The action took place at a time when the vicious attacks on civilians in Gaza, the ultra-right-wing mob violence against Arabs in Israel and the forced evictions of the settler colonialist system in Jerusalem had resulte…

Editor2 (2021-08-09). Iran Says 'Israel' Playing Victim to Divert Attention From its Crimes in Palestine. orinocotribune.com Iranian envoy to the United Nations says the Israeli occupation is "playing victim" to divert attention from its continuing crimes in Palestine, warning the 'Israel' against any acts of "adventurism and miscalculations." | Zahra Ershadi, Iran's deputy permanent representative to the UN, made the comments in a statement on Friday after a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on a recent incident for an Israeli-operated oil tanker in the Sea of Oman. | Ershadi's comments came in reaction to Israeli War Minister Benny Gantz who said on Thursday that 'Israel' is ready to attack Iran and that there must be a…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-09). Saudi Arabia cracks down on Palestinian resistance movement. peoplesdispatch.org 69 Jordanian and Palestinian citizens accused of being members of Hamas were sentenced to prison by a court in Saudi Arabia. Hamas has claimed that the verdict is a result of warming relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel…

Staff (2021-08-09). Lawmakers Aren't "Progressive" If They Ignore Palestinian Rights. truthout.org Even after years of dedicated judo training, both Mohamed Abdalarasool from Sudan and Fethi Nourine from Algeria refused to compete in the Tokyo Olympics when they were slated to perform against an Israeli athlete. In an official statement, Nourine said to an Algerian TV station, "We worked a lot to reach the Olympics… but the Palestinian cause is bigger than all of this." This gesture of sacrifice and solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by Israel earned Abdalarasool and Nourine hero status in the Arab…

Randall Kennedy (2021-08-09). Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On? thenation.com Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On?

news.un (2021-08-09). End inequalities, recognize abuses, UN chief says on International Day of Indigenous Peoples. news.un.org Although some countries have begun to rectify their "heinous legacy" of discrimination against indigenous people, more action is still needed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday.

Global Justice Now (2021-08-09). Saturday 9/4: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid International Activist Assembly. indybay.org Online event…

Adan Salazar (2021-08-09). Israel, Australia Report 95-99% Hospitalized Fully Vaccinated. globalresearch.ca

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Editor (2021-08-09). Sports apartheid: Israel's Olympic team did not include a single Palestinian citizen of Israel. mronline.org Palestinian citizens of Israel are 20 percent of the population. But not a single one was on Israel's 90-member Olympic team.

Angela (2021-08-09). Sunday 8/15: Q&A Discussion of film "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org

Allan Fisher (2021-08-09). Saturday 8/7: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-08-09). International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples toward 2021 California Admission Day. indybay.org The living legacy of Indigenous people throughout the Great State of California legacy will no longer be discounted and/or discredited. Generational Genocide, Slavery and Disparaging treatment cannot be ignored any longer. Together, we can and must form a more perfect union by facing "what really happened" and Build Back Better in 2021.

Randall Kennedy (2021-08-09). Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On? thenation.com Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On?

Global Justice Now (2021-08-09). Saturday 9/4: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid International Activist Assembly. indybay.org Online event…

Adan Salazar (2021-08-09). Israel, Australia Report 95-99% Hospitalized Fully Vaccinated. globalresearch.ca

Never Forgive, Never Forget (2021-08-09). Salesforce Client is Republican Party. indybay.org San Francisco's very own tech giant, Salesforce, continues to do the bidding of its client, the Republican Party, also known as the Republican National Committee, despite the Jan. 6, 2021 seditious insurrection by Nazi Trump thugs to overthrow the government by force and violence to install Nazi Trump as dictator. See www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-salesforce-……

John Lewis Mobilization (2021-08-09). Tuesday 8/10: Voting Rights Now! Democracy Can't Wait Virtual Rally & Actions. indybay.org Virtual rally and voting rights actions event…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-08). Hezbollah Secretary General: We Will Not Allow Israel To Change Rules Of Engagements. southfront.org Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah as seen on al-Manar TV during a speech on the fifteenth anniversary the 2006 July War with Israel. | Hezbollah will not allow Israel to change the rules of engagements with Lebanon, the group's Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah said on August 7. | The Lebanese leader made the statement during a televised speech on the fifteenth anniversary the 2006 July War with Israel. The leader said that the balance of deterrence with Israel is the most significant achievem…

Fight Back (2021-08-08). Minnesotans keep the pressure on Klobuchar to end US aid to apartheid Israel. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On August 5, 60 people gathered alongside Washington Avenue near Senator Amy Klobuchar's Minneapolis office to demand an end of U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. The protesters stretched down the block with signs and Palestinian flags, greeting the rush hour drivers, who were overwhelmingly supportive and honking wildly. | The protest was called after Klobuchar, a 'centrist' Democrat, failed to respond to a petition signed by over 1000 of her constituents supporting the Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act (HR 2590) which would…

Middle East Monitor (2021-08-08). Palestinian Students in Gaza Are Back after Israel tried to destroy their future. juancole.com By Wafa Aludaini | — ( Middle East Monitor) — As Palestinian high school students celebrate their success in the Tawjihi exams and plan for the future, those in Gaza are still trying to rebuild their lives after Israel's brutal bombing campaign in May. The Tawjihi exams were held just one month after the ceasefire …

_____ (2021-08-08). Rania Khalek On US Mideast Genocide. popularresistance.org Around one quarter of the world lives in countries under unilateral United States sanctions. While American government officials insist that sanctions are targeted at officials committing human rights abuses in foreign countries, the United Nations notes that they always "disproportionately affect the poor and most vulnerable." | In Cuba, U.S. sanctions are causing shortages that led to widespread protests earlier this summer and are slowing the worldwide rollout of Cuba's domestically produced coronavirus vaccine. U.S. government documents explicitly state that the goal of the blockade of the island is to "decre…

WSWS (2021-08-08). Trudeau appoints loyal servant of ruling elite to Canada's Supreme Court. wsws.org By focusing attention on Justice Jamal's South Asian ethnic origins, the Canadian establishment seeks to cover up his role as a loyal representative of the ruling elite.

Juan Cole (2021-08-08). Why does he Hate our Freedoms? White Nationalist Extremist Tucker Carlson touts Orban's Hungarian Fascism as better than America. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Extreme white nationalist Tucker Carlson took his Fox Cable "News" show on the road to extreme white nationalist Hungary this week. It reminded me a little of when Stephen Colbert went to New Zealand and hung out with Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, except that both Colbert and Arden are very …

Juan Cole (2021-08-08). Why does he Hate our Freedoms? zcomm.org White Nationalist Extremist Tucker Carlson touts Orban's Hungarian Fascism as better than America…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-08). Riots In South Africa: Causes, Interests And Consequences. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Daniel Deiss and Edwin Watson. | In July 2021, South Africa was swept by the largest wave of violence seen since the fall of apartheid in 1994. The protests that began on July 8 have quickly turned into pogroms that involved thousands of people. | The nominal cause for the outbreak of riots was the arrest of a former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma on charges of corruption. Mr. Zuma's controversial activities have long raised questions. | After the fall of apartheid he acquired seni…

Michael Welch (2021-08-08). Video: Innumerable Ways Canada Supports Israeli Apartheid. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-08-08). Governments Are Spying On The People Who Bring Us The News. popularresistance.org Janine Jackson: If you don't know the story of how a consortium of journalists revealed how countries around the world have bought spyware from an Israeli surveillance firm, supposedly to track terrorists and other criminals, well, that's understandable. Though it is a journalist-driven effort, and is leading to calls for the resignation of officials in Hungary, for example, the Pegasus Project hasn't really gotten the pay-attention-to-this treatment from US news media. But that emphatically does not mean that the story doesn't concern you and your right to know. | Joining us now to help connect those dots is Cin…

Mike Ludwig (2021-08-08). Call for Voting Rights March on Washington. zcomm.org Nationwide, 18 states have passed 30 laws that restrict ballot access in one way or another in the months since Trump lost the 2020 election…

Eve Ottenberg (2021-08-08). Fannie Lou Hamer and the Ongoing Struggle for Voting Rights. counterpunch.org Fannie Lou Hamer was a firebrand. She was a civil rights organizer that doesn't come along every day. Charismatic, she did not kowtow to charismatic leaders. An individual who was a force of nature, she preferred group leadership. A politician who could have led nationally, she believed fiercely in the local and in grassroots organizing. […] | To read this article, In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to acc…

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