Monthly Archives: May 2021

2021-05-25: News Headlines

Max Blumenthal (2021-05-25). To distract from Gaza slaughter, Israel lobby manufactures antisemitism freakout. thegrayzone.com With deceptively edited videos and dubious allegations, the Israel lobby has manufactured an antisemitism epidemic to turn the media's gaze away from dead children in Gaza. Following an 11-day assault on the Gaza Strip in which the Israeli army killed over 220 people, including more than 65 children, and days of videotaped rampages of Jewish extremist mobs against Palestinian people and property inside Israeli cities, Israel lobbyists in the US and Canada have launched a carefully coordinated public relations campaign …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-25). Court declares anti-BDS law in State of Georgia unconstitutional. peoplesdispatch.org A district court delivered the judgement on a case filed by journalist Abby Martin who was not allowed to speak at an event at Georgia Southern University after she refused to sign an undertaking agreeing to distance herself from the BDS movement…

Juan Cole (2021-05-25). In Victory for American Freedom, Judge Mark Cohen Calls "Unconstitutional" Georgia's Ban on Boycotting Israel for Brutalizing Palestinians. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Ross Williams at the Georgia Reporter writes that federal judge Mark Cohen on Monday characterized as unconstitutional a Georgia state law that prohibited contractors for the Georgia state government from boycotting Israel. Cohen is United States District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. This …

_____ (2021-05-25). The Self Determination Of Native Americans Hinges On This Supreme Court Case. popularresistance.org A case brought before the United States Supreme Court by three Native American women, who have been representing themselves, may decide the future of the 1975 Indian Self Determination Act. Clearing the FOG speaks with Charmaine White Face, a petitioner in the case, about her fight to stop the privatization of an Indian Health Service facility, Sioux San Hospital in Rapid City South Dakota, that serves 325 tribes in the area. She describes how the privatization is harming the health of the people who use this historic hospital. To her knowledge, this is the first effort to privatize an Indian Health Service hospi…

Thomas Knapp (2021-05-25). The US and EU vs. Belarus: Pot, Kettle, Black. counterpunch.org On May 23, a fighter jet intercepted Ryanair Flight 4978 as it was about to exit Belarus's airspace en route from Athens, Greece to Vilnius, Lithuania. Citing a supposed bomb threat (apparently contrived by regime agents on board the plane), Belarus air traffic control ordered the Boeing 737 to turn around and land in Minsk.

Tanya Wadhwa (2021-05-25). Colombian Congress debates motions of censure against defense minister Diego Molano. peoplesdispatch.org Two motions of censure have been presented against defense minister Diego Molano by the opposition for the unprecedented level of violence and human rights violations committed by national security forces in the past four weeks of the national strike…

Carlos Arellán (2021-05-25). Colombia Tries to Make a Media Splash by Unilaterally Opening its Border with Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned that Colombia wants to create a "show" at the border to divert attention from the internal drama that the neighboring country is experiencing, amid more that three weeks of strikes and demonstrations met by brutal and bloody repression. | He stressed that the Duque government seeks to open the border unilaterally, which would signify bad intentions on the part of Bogotá. | The Colombian authorities announced that they estimate the border opening to occur on June 1, to which the Venezuelan president replied this Sunday that: "Nothing unilateral is going to work. If the st…

A Guest Author (2021-05-25). Report from Colombia — National strike marches grow ever bigger. workers.org By Fernando Alexis Jiménez Writing from Colombia, the author describes the national pro-strike protests called for May 19 as historically enormous and successful. The article was published on his blog and by rebelion.org. Translation: John Catalinotto May 20 — The mobilizations that began in Colombia 22 days ago — and . . . |

Joris Leverink (2021-05-25). Becoming Black: a conversation with Olúfémi Táíwà≤ and Achille Mbembe. roarmag.org Protester facing police at a Black Lives Matter protest in London, UK — June 6, 2020. Photo: Viktor Kadiri / Shutterstock.com | The Movement for Black Lives not only exposed the brutality of US policing, it has stimulated conversations on systemic racism and coercive state power everywhere. For the tenth edition of its flagship Achille Mbembe is a groundbreaking philosopher, whose many books since the mid 1980s…

Ralph Nader (2021-05-25). Biden: End Your Co-Belligerent Backing of Israeli War Crimes. counterpunch.org As Senator, Vice President, and now President, your self-promoted/displayed empathy has a problem. You can't seem to connect the Israeli military powerhouse's occupation to the oppression and destruction of innocent Palestinian civilians, illegal seizure of Palestinian land/water, and daily violations of U.S. and international law. Israel's military is deliberately bombing these families, the offices of

Anonymous007 (2021-05-25). Military Situation In Afghanistan On May 25, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 24, clashes between the government forces and Taliban continued in the Imam Saheb area | On May 24, clashes between the government forces and Taliban continued in the Pole Khomri area | On May 25, six people, including three civilians and three army soldiers were wounded in two back-to-back explosions in Qarabagh district | On May 24, Afghan forces freed 41 people, including 19 security force members from a Taliban prison in the Marwa village of Pashtun Zargh…

South Front (2021-05-25). Video: Drone Warfare in the Middle East. globalresearch.ca Iran, if Israel …

Project Censored (2021-05-25). Abby Martin, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, and Brian Dolber. projectcensored.org Mickey's first guest, independent journalist Abby Martin of The Empire Files, provides background to the Israeli bombardments of Gaza, and explains how big U.S. media strenuously avoid presenting the truth…

Slomski A. (2021-05-25). Clear Surgical Masks Create More Positive Interactions With Patients. jamanetwork.com Removing the barrier that surgical masks create can help protect the patient-physician relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the authors of a trial in JAMA Surgery.

WSWS (2021-05-25). Educators and workers must take control of the response to the global pandemic! wsws.org We are uniting educators in Michigan with those across the US and internationally, together with autoworkers and workers in all industries, in a common struggle to take control of the response to the pandemic into our own hands.

Naomi Wolf (2021-05-25). The Fascism Construction Manual. indybay.org Immediately after the proclamation of this pandemic, many elements of absolute all-around totalitarianism were put into effect in most countries of the West, even in countries that had previously been robust democracies. All of this happened very quickly and comprehensively.

Zachary Conti (2021-05-25). IMF Proposes $50 Billion Vaccine Plan to End Pandemic and Boost Economy. indybay.org As worldwide COVID cases peak, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva unveiled a $50 billion proposal to support vaccinations of 60% of the world's population. During a G20 and European Commission summit, Georgieva argued the global vaccine investment would end the pandemic and spur $9 trillion in economic gains by 2025.

Toward increasing Networking (2021-05-25). Online events w/ Ben Chavis, Peter Linebaugh, Rosa Clemente, Vandana Shiva, Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are some 20 online events taking place over the next 7 days (and starting tomorrow, May 22), featuring people such as Ben Chavis, Peter Linebaugh, Cynthia Kaufman, Rosa Clemente, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

WSWS (2021-05-25). WSWS readers demand investigation of Pike River mine disaster. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site has received more statements from New Zealand, the UK, Australia, and Canada, demanding justice for the 29 men who died in the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster.

WSWS (2021-05-25). "We're cannon fodder, that's all"—Indian health care workers cry out for basic PPE as official deaths skyrocket past 300,000. wsws.org Health care workers in India and around the globe face horrific working conditions that have contributed to more than 17,000 deaths from COVID-19 among them worldwide.

WSWS (2021-05-25). Dominic Cummings: Former advisor reveals Johnson government's herd immunity plan envisaged 800,000 deaths in UK. wsws.org Cummings reveals that the government discussed the hitherto unknown Operation Nimbus, which contemplated the deaths of 800,000 people with "schools told stay open," while 33 million cases of Covid-19 engulfed the population over a "16 week wave".

WSWS (2021-05-25). Former advisor reveals Johnson government's herd immunity plan envisaged 800,000 deaths in UK. wsws.org Dominic Cummings reveals that the government discussed the hitherto unknown Exercise Nimbus, which contemplated a "16 week wave" of COVID-19 with 33 million cases and 800,000 deaths.

WSWS (2021-05-25). UK: Intensive care nurse who treated Prime Minister Johnson quits, citing "cesspool of COVID" conditions. wsws.org Neither the government, nor the Labour and trade union bureaucracy want an examination of the policy of placing profits over lives that is responsible for the situation she describes.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). New CDC guidance for fully vaccinated adults. What does it mean? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org On Thursday, May 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced updated COVID-19 guidance for masking for fully vaccinated people. For instance, fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a protective mask indoors at a movie theater, shopping center or restaurant. But this new guidance does not apply to health care settings. Mayo Clinic …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Mayo Clinic offers COVID-19 walk-in vaccine clinics in Minnesota. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic in Rochester and at its Health System sites continue to offer patients, visitors and staff additional convenient opportunities to be vaccinated for COVID-19. All domestic and international patients, visitors and staff who want to be vaccinated for COVID-19 have a couple of opportunities to do so at walk-in clinics this week: Mayo Clinic …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). The safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines for children. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine is now available to children ages 12 through 15 in the U.S. Here's what parents, caregivers and children need to know about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, the possible side effects, and the benefits of getting vaccinated. This is written by Mayo Clinic Staff and you can …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Guidelines and nuances of wearing a face mask. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Recent COVID-19 masking guidelines announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, continue to generate a public conversation. "The decision about masking needs to be nuanced," says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "Wearing a mask should be based on the risk of infection, the percentage of the …

Eds. (2021-05-25). Nicaragua's inspiring response to COVID-19. mronline.org Little attention has been paid internationally to how the Central American country has managed to keep COVID-19 cases and fatalities low even under a devastating campaign of U.S. sanctions | May 25, 2021…

Rubin R. (2021-05-25). Studying Allergic Reactions to mRNA Vaccines. jamanetwork.com A new National Institutes of Health phase 2 trial aims to assess whether people with a history of allergies or a mast cell disorder are at a higher risk of systemic allergic reactions to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.

The Conversation (2021-05-25). Suit seeks to limit anti-Muslim speech on Facebook but roots of Islamophobia run far deeper. juancole.com By Caleb Elfenbein | — A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its top executives in federal court over the company's failure to crack down on hate speech against Muslims. Muslim Advocates, a Washington, D.C.-based organization focused on discrimination against American Muslims, alleges in the suit that Facebook has violated a series of local …

Liberation Staff (2021-05-25). Domestic violence, pedophilia, brutality and murder: Who do the Boston Police really serve? liberationnews.org Boston politicians and media have treated each scandal as a disconnected incident rather than as symptoms of structural problems of the BPD and policing at large.

David L. Wilson (2021-05-25). Media 'Border crisis' threatens immigration reform. mronline.org What's striking is how badly the situation has been represented in the more centrist and prestigious parts of the corporate media. | May 25, 2021 | Newswire…

Victor Grossman (2021-05-25). Berlin Bulletin — Anger and dismay over Israeli aggression. workers.org Berlin Bulletin No. 189, May 23 It's no great surprise that most German media, reporting on the Israel-Palestine war, were one-sided, bigoted and misleading! There were samples of fairer treatment, at first, showing the demolition of Palestinian homes, the shutdown of a meeting place for young people, the far-rightist gangs . . . |

Gloria Rubac (2021-05-25). Texas execution exposes death penalty racism. workers.org Texas has shown the world that this racist state should not be in the business of killing. Quintin Jones, an African American man, was denied clemency by the Texas Board of Pardons and Gov. Greg Abbott and was legally lynched at 6: 40 p.m., May 19. Jones' clemency appeal was . . . |

Amiad Horowitz (2021-05-25). Lessons from Vietnam: Elections that can't be bought. peoplesworld.org We Americans are used to the never-ending and increasingly costly cycle of U.S. electoral campaigns. Theoretically, elections are supposed to happen once every two to six years depending on the office and, one would think, campaigns for those elections would coincide with the election schedule. The reality is quite different. The 2020 election is barely …

Yves Smith (2021-05-25). Crypto crackdown: only the beginning? mronline.org The cost and time involved in validating Bitcoin transactions makes it unusable in retail transactions. So they will always be foreign currencies, where you have to trade in and out of them into a real world currency. | May 25, 2021…

Kathy Durkin (2021-05-25). Global protests demand 'Stop Israel's genocide!'. workers.org The whole world is watching in horror as Israel bombs Gaza. As of May 17, the Zionist state has killed nearly 200 people, 58 of them children. With military precision, Israel's bombs are aimed at civilian targets, family homes, refugee camps, hospitals and schools. Israeli missiles razed to the ground . . . |

Ted Kelly (2021-05-25). Delegation observing Syrian elections reaches Damascus. workers.org Damascus, Syria May 23 — As the global conflict centered in their country enters the 11th year, Syrians are preparing for May 26 national elections. Thousands of citizens displaced by war and U.S.-imposed sanctions have already cast their ballots in Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere round . . . |

Editorial Team (2021-05-25). Liberty Steel workers face uncertainty after Stocksbridge plant sale. challenge-magazine.org 5,000 workers are worried for their livelihoods after the UK's third largest steel producer, Liberty Steel, announced plans to sell off it's Stocksbridge plant in order to pay off the debts owed by the company. The back door deal made in Dubai between Indian steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta and Investment Bank Credit Suisse will be

Global Research News (2021-05-25). Selected Articles: How the CDC Is Manipulating Data to Prop-up "Vaccine Effectiveness" globalresearch.ca By The battery pack of a Tesla Model S is a feat of intricate engineering. Thousands of cylindrical cells with components …

Anonymous765 (2021-05-25). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — May 25, 2021. southfront.org This is the newest update of the 'U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Locations Map' exclusive series showing the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence tracks locations of U.S. aircraft carriers using the available open-source information. No classified information was used in production of the map. | click to see the full-size image | Carrier strike group (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is centered on an aircraft carrier and a carrier ai…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-25). Military Situation In Syria On May 25, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 24, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 40 times: 20 — in Idlib province, 11 — in Latakia province, 7 — in Hama province, 2 — in Aleppo province | On May 24, Three people were killed by a motorcycle bomb explosion in Jarablus city | On May 24, Russian police conducted a joint military patrol with the Turkish army in the vicinity of the city of Ain al-Arab | The Russian Defense Ministry warns of "

Anonymous103 (2021-05-25). Armenian Soldier Reportedly Killed In Fire-Fight On Armenian-Azerbaijani Border. southfront.org Illustrative image | The Azerbaijani armed forces opened fire on the positions of the Armenian army near the village of Verin Shorzha in the Gegharkunik region on May 25, according to the press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry."On May 25, at about 14: 20 near the border village of Verin Shorzha, Gegharkunik region of Armenia, the enemy fired at Armenian positions. The details of the incident are being specified," the statement says. | An Armenian soldier was killed as a result of the fire-fight that began after…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-25). Military Situation In Iraq On May 25, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 23, a logistical convoy of the US military was targeted by an IED attack in the Basrah area | On May 24, Iraqi resistance groups fired at least five rockets at Ain Al Asad Airbase in western Iraq's Anbar province. | On May 24, ISIS attacked Iraqi Federal Police point near Riyadh town. Three officers were wounded | On May 24, sporadic clashes between the PKK and Turkish Armu continue in northern Iraq | On May 24, artillery of the PMU shelled ISIS positions in the T…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-25). Military Coup In Mali, Nine Months After The Last One. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 24th, Mali's military detained the President and Prime Minister of the interim government, according to the United Nations and the African Union. The coup d'état took place place nine months after a military coup overthrew its previous leader. | The detention of President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane came hours after a government reshuffle left out two soldiers who led the coup in August last year and raised fears of a second military takeover. | In a joint statement, the U…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-25). Iran Kicks Off Large-Scale Electronic Warfare And Air Defense Exercise. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 25th, the Iranian Army kicked off a large-scale military drill to practice electronic warfare tactics, this drill on electronic warfare is dubbed 'Separ-e-Aseman 1400' (Sky Shield 1400). | According to a statement, this joint drill is being held by the strategic electronic warfare forces of the four forces of the Army and covers large areas of Iran. Rapid response and electronic warfare units of the Army's Ground Force, Air Force, Navy and Air Defense are participating in th…

Anonymous103 (2021-05-25). Biden And Putin To Meet In Geneva In June. southfront.org Illustrative image | The summit of the presidents of Russia and the United States will take place in Geneva on June 16. This was announced on May 25 by the Kremlin an the White House press services."In accordance with the agreement reached, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will hold talks with President of the United States of America Joseph Biden on June 16 in Geneva," the statement says. | This wil…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-25). Russia Completes Runway Reconstruction At Hmeimim Air Base In Syria With Tu-22M3 Landing. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | At Russia's Hmeimim Airbase in Syria, the reconstruction of the runway was completed. | Following the refurbishing, the air base in Syria is capable of receiving all types of Russian military aircraft, including heavy models, the Ministry of Defense said. | The second runway became longer, and the surface was completely replaced and new lighting and radio equipment was installed."It is the first time that aircraft of this type are based at the Khmeimim airfield. Crews of lon…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-25). Military Situation In Yemen On May 25, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 78 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On May 24, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 2 airstrikes on the Sarwah area | On May 24, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 4 airstrikes on the Hazm area | On May 24, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on the Haradh area | On May 25, sporadic clashes between Ansar Allah and Saudi-led forces contin…

Editor2 (2021-05-25). Cuban President Visits Community Project Against Racial Discrimination in Havana. orinocotribune.com The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, this Thursday visited the headquarters of a community project against racial discrimination—the Afro-descendant Neighborhood Network—in Havana, in the municipality of La Lisa. | The official Twitter account of the presidency commented on the meeting, where Maritza López, general coordinator of the initiative, received the Cuban president and provided an explanation of the principles and projections of this community initiative. | Photo: Twitter of the Cuban Presidency. | Created nine years ago, this project against racism also maintains relationships with simi…

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2021-05-25). Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Blank Check Traffic Stops. dissidentvoice.org The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim of every cop on the beat, trooper on the highway and jail official. The framers would be appalled. — Herman Schwartz, The Nation. …

Binoy Kampmark (2021-05-25). Burned by the Diana Cult: the Fall of Martin Bashir. counterpunch.org The interview was infamous, made his name and was bound to enrage. It also received a viewing audience of 23 million people who heard a saucy tale of adultery, plots in the palace, and stories of physical and mental illness. But the tarring and feathering of Martin Bashir for his 1995 Panorama programme featuring Princess

DLI (2021-05-25). USA "Iron Dome" media vaccine proved 99% effective in shielding Israel. indybay.org For the past 2 weeks, since the massive violence perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza began(with massive use of US-made planes and bombs), the White House, alongside the "Corporate-bin-Laden" media, had unleashed a media vaccine, aptly coined, "Iron Dome" media shield, that proved to be nearly 99% effective against criticism from nearly the entire world, on the active support of Israel's virtual massacre of Palestinian civilians.

John Nichols (2021-05-25). More Than 500 of the Staffers Who Got Biden Elected Demand He Defend Palestinian Rights. thenation.com More Than 500 of the Staffers Who Got Biden Elected Demand He Defend Palestinian Rights…

Anti-Empire Project (2021-05-25). Anti-Palestinian Racism: A Resource. zcomm.org The current war throughout Israel and Palestine, focused on Gaza is enabled by a powerful force throughout the West, one that is not talked about and rarely named: Anti-Palestinian Racism…

Labor Video Project (2021-05-25). The People United Will Never Be Defeated! SF Rally Against Attacks On Palestinian People. indybay.org Over 1,000 Palestinians and opponents of the attacks on Palestinians in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank rallied and spoke out in San Francisco on 5/22/21…

Human Rights Watch (2021-05-25). Gaza Hostilities Underscore Role of Int'l Criminal Court. juancole.com By Balkees Jarrah | — Associate Director, International Justice Program | — ( Human Rights Watch ) — Israeli forces have launched relentless airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, while Hamas and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza have fired rockets at Israeli population centers. At least 227 people, including 64 children have been killed in Gaza, …

Phyllis Bennis (2021-05-25). What is Joe Biden's Israel Policy, Exactly? indybay.org The Biden administration thought it could muddle through with the usual pro-Israel platitudes, but rising awareness of Israeli apartheid is making that impossible.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-25). Working class of Glasgow fights to save jobs at McVitie's factory. peoplesdispatch.org On May 11, the Pladis group announced the closure of a biscuit factory of its subsidiary McVitie's at Tollcross, Glasgow, putting at risk around 500 jobs…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-05-25). New Book Accusing CIA Whistleblower Philip Agee of Treason Proves That He Was Not a Traitor. covertactionmagazine.com In 1975, former CIA agent Philip Agee delivered a bombshell with the publication of Inside the Company, an exposé of nefarious CIA activities in Latin America. Growing up in a conservative middle-class family in Tampa Bay, Florida, Agee had joined the CIA in 1957 after graduating from Notre Dame University believing in the virtues of …

Kuehn BM. (2021-05-25). Sexually Transmitted Disease Cases Continue to Break Records. jamanetwork.com Sexually transmitted disease (STD) cases in the US have risen to historic highs, fueling an epidemic that a CDC official said has unraveled 2 decades worth of progress.

Slomski A. (2021-05-25). Patient Navigation Reduces Substance Abuse Disorder Readmissions. jamanetwork.com Proactive patient navigation services reduced inpatient readmissions and emergency department visits among hospitalized patients with comorbid substance use disorders (SUDs) in a trial at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.

WSWS (2021-05-25). Godzilla vs. Kong: Impressive visuals and sound design can't hide the absence of artistic value. wsws.org Godzilla vs. Kong challenges its viewers to reduce their mental faculties.

WSWS (2021-05-25). Rank-and-file Volvo workers demand release of full contract as terms of UAW's secret deal leak out. wsws.org The United Auto Workers continues to conceal the terms of a new six-year contract proposal from nearly 3,000 Volvo Truck workers at the New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia.

Roger Harris (2021-05-25). US Trying to Extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for the 'Crime' of Securing Food for the Hungry: The Case of Alex Saab v. The Empire. counterpunch.org The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. This is according to Montréal-based international human rights lawyer John Philpot. He spoke on May 19 at a webinar sponsored by the Alliance for Global Justice and

Slomski A. (2021-05-25). Patients Favor Surgical Repair of Ruptured ACL. jamanetwork.com Patients with acute rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) who had early surgical reconstruction perceived their symptoms, knee function, and ability to play sports more positively after 2 years than patients who had rehabilitation followed by surgery, if needed. But the clinical importance of the findings reported in The BMJ is unclear because 50% of the rehabilitation group recovered without surgery.

jamanetwork (2021-05-25). The Social Responsibilities of Modern Medicine. jamanetwork.com Frederick R. Green, A.M., M.D., Secretary, Council on Health and Public Instruction, American Medical Association, Chicago…

LaCoursiere D. (2021-05-25). Behavioral Counseling Interventions for Healthy Weight During Pregnancy. jamanetwork.com In this issue of JAMA, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) presents an inaugural Recommendation Statement for behavioral counseling interventions for healthy weight and weight gain during pregnancy, along with an accompanying evidence report and systematic literature review. In this Recommendation Statement, "the USPSTF recommends that clinicians offer pregnant persons effective behavioral counseling interventions aimed at promoting healthy weight gain and preventing excess gestational weight gain in pregnancy (B recommendation)."

WSWS (2021-05-25). Israel to carry out more mass arrests of Palestinians in pursuit of ethnic cleansing. wsws.org Thousands of Israeli security forces from "all units", including border guards and reserve brigades, are to be deployed to carry out raids in the towns and cities with a large Palestinian population—with more than 500 Palestinian homes expected to be raided in the coming days.

WSWS (2021-05-25). Australian public mental health workers take stopwork action. wsws.org Victorian mental health workers are set to strike and march to state parliament to fight for urgently needed better pay and conditions.

Jin J. (2021-05-25). Patient Information: Behavioral Interventions for Healthy Weight Gain During Pregnancy. jamanetwork.com This JAMA Patient Page summarizes the US Preventive Services Task Force's 2021 recommendations on behavioral interventions for healthy weight gain during pregnancy.

Hirai AH, Ko JY, Patrick SW. (2021-05-25). US Hospital Data About Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Maternal Opioid-Related Diagnoses—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Medications for OUD, including methadone and buprenorphine, improve pregnancy outcomes by reducing relapse and risk of preterm birth; however, in many parts of the US, equitable access to these medications for pregnant women remains elusive. In our study, we found notable variation across states in both MOD and NAS rates.

George Wuerthner (2021-05-25). Nuance in Wildfire Policy is Badly Needed. counterpunch.org An excellent overview of wildfire issues was published in the Revelator. I encourage folks to review it. I especially appreciate the linkage of recent large fires to drought and warming temperatures. That is what is driving these fires across the West, and it is good to see the Revelator making this a central theme. Westwide,

Felice Pace (2021-05-25). Who is Suffering From Lack of Klamath Water? Examining Federal Irrigator Claims. counterpunch.org This year the Klamath River Basin's federal irrigators have declared that the US Bureau of Reclamation is taking away their ability to farm by keeping too much water in Upper Klamath Lake and allowing too much water to flow down the Klamath River. Low snowpack and inadequate inflow to Upper Klamath Lake have, in fact,

Dean Baker (2021-05-25). Larry Summers Is Concerned About Inflation, Again. cepr.net Larry Summers has a column in the Washington Post warning about inflationary risks to the economy, due to what he considers an excessively large recovery package from the Biden administration. Summers notes the extraordinarily high rate of inflation in the first quarter and warns us that worse is ahead if corrective measures are not taken …

WSWS (2021-05-25). AP Journalist fired after right-wing campaign over Palestinian activism. wsws.org Associated Press fired Emily Wilder amid a right-wing campaign targeting her for participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations as a student.

Cantor AG, Jungbauer RM, McDonagh M, et al. (2021-05-25). USPSTF Review: Nonmedical Interventions for Healthy Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy. jamanetwork.com This systematic review to support the 2021 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement on interventions for healthy weight and weight gain in pregnancy summarizes published evidence on the benefits and harms of counseling and behavioral interventions for healthy weight and gestational weight gain in adolescent and adult women who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy.

Fight Back (2021-05-25). Photo Essay: One year anniversary of the George Floyd rebellion. fightbacknews.org &nbsp…

WSWS (2021-05-25). Australia: Student association promotes management cuts at Newcastle University. wsws.org The UNSA is holding a series of forums, at which management is being provided with a platform to justify sweeping cuts to course and university jobs.

WSWS (2021-05-25). One year since the police murder of George Floyd. wsws.org The continued prevalence of police violence in the United States one year after the global protests sparked by Floyd's murder makes clear that it is, at its root, a class question and not a racial question.

Sang W, Xu F. (2021-05-25). Effect of Sodium Nitrite on Survival of Cardiac Arrest to Hospital Admission. jamanetwork.com To the Editor In a recent JAMA study, administration of sodium nitrite did not significantly improve survival to hospital admission after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. This result is contrary to animal studies that have shown a protective effect of sodium nitrite in the process of ischemia and reperfusion. In the study by Dr Kim and colleagues, sodium nitrite was administered in patients over a longer period than in the animal studies, and that may have contributed to the negative outcome.

Rubin R. (2021-05-25). Free, At-Home Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Tests. jamanetwork.com The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently began offering a month's worth of free, do-it-yourself (DIY), rapid SARS-CoV-2 tests to residents of Pitt County, North Carolina, and Chattanooga/Hamilton County, Tennessee.

David Rosen (2021-05-25). What's Happening to the Telecom Trust? counterpunch.org Well, the telecom media rollercoaster is once again rolling. On May 17th, AT&T announced that it was spinning off its WarnerMedia subsidiary that includes HBO and Warner Bros. for $5 billion and merging it with Discovery. This followed the May 3rd announcement that Verizon was selling off its media holdings, AOL and Yahoo, for $43

Rubin R. (2021-05-25). Improving Maternal Health. jamanetwork.com The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced measures to improve maternal health.

Lee Hall (2021-05-25). National Beef Burger Day Is a Shame. counterpunch.org Friday, May 28 is National Beef Burger Day. We're supposed to use the hashtag #BeefBurgerBrag and tag @BeefItsWhatsForDinner on Facebook when adding our burger photos to this marketing frenzy. "Americans love burgers and there's no substitute for a real beef burger sizzling on the grill," says the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. Looks like Epicurious will

Rod Driver (2021-05-25). Debt Is A "Financial Weapon" Used to Subordinate Developing Countries. globalresearch.ca "The total amount …

WSWS (2021-05-25). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Five hundred teachers and supporters in Chiapas demanded the release of students from the Mactumactzá Normal School in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. Meanwhile, the Manitoba provincial authorities ruled against protests by Manitoba Hydro workers, who are seeking a new contract.

WSWS (2021-05-25). Far-right mobster Sedat Peker's accusations shake Turkish government. wsws.org Peker, who has boasted of his close ties to US officials, is posting videos with detailed allegations of ties between the mafia and the Turkish political establishment.

Melvin Goodman (2021-05-25). Intelligence and Ideology: the Exaggeration of the Threat. counterpunch.org The three major military powers (the United States, Russia, and China) systematically and consistently engage in inflation of the threats they face. Each side tends to see the worst motivation and the greatest capabilities in assessing its adversaries in order to justify its own actions. This problem was endemic throughout the Cold War, particularly in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan used exaggerated and politicized threat assessments to justify the largest peacetime increase in defense spending and to rally American support for the buildup. Ironically, the United States was doing so at the very time that…

Meyer M, Metayer J. (2021-05-25). US Hospital Data About Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Maternal Opioid-Related Diagnoses. jamanetwork.com To the Editor The recent article describing neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and maternal opioid-related diagnoses (MOD) from 2010 to 2017 provided interesting information. As obstetric and neonatal care practitioners at the only academic medical center in Vermont, we would like to highlight the findings in our state and discuss the interpretation of discharge data in this study.

Kim F, Maynard C, Nichol G. (2021-05-25). Effect of Sodium Nitrite on Survival of Cardiac Arrest to Hospital Admission—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Mr Sang and Dr Xu discuss potential explanations for the lack of benefit seen in our study with the use of sodium nitrite during resuscitation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. They cite 2 potential reasons for this lack of benefit: a delay in nitrite administration compared with animal studies and a potential benefit of sodium nitrite in certain subgroups of patients.

Adler AI, Latimer NR. (2021-05-25). Adjusting for Nonadherence or Stopping Treatments in Randomized Clinical Trials. jamanetwork.com This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods describes various methods to handle trial participant nonadherence to study interventions.

WSWS (2021-05-25). Behind Tesla's rise, part 2: Former Tesla worker speaks out on grueling, unsafe working conditions. wsws.org A former Tesla worker spoke to the WSWS about the callous indifference to worker safety that underlies much of the company's massive valuation.

Yan C, Li H. (2021-05-25). Preliminary Investigation of In situ Thrombus Within Patent Foramen Ovale in Patients With and Without Stroke. jamanetwork.com This study uses high-resolution optical coherence tomography to investigate whether patent foramen ovale could be the site of thrombus formation in patients with or without stroke.

Slomski A. (2021-05-25). Upadacitinib Noninferior to Adalimumab for Psoriatic Arthritis. jamanetwork.com In a phase 3 trial, upadacitinib, an oral Janus kinase inhibitor approved for rheumatoid arthritis, was more effective than placebo and noninferior to adalimumab among patients with psoriatic arthritis who'd had an inadequate response to nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. Adalimumab is a subcutaneously injected tumor necrosis factor α inhibitor used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.

WSWS (2021-05-25). New study expects at least 215,000 jobs to be wiped out in the German auto industry by 2030. wsws.org Germany's biggest trade union, IG Metall, and its affiliated works councils have explicitly supported the auto companies, agreeing to forfeit wage increases by suppressing all opposition in the factories.

Paul Ryder (2021-05-25). The Pentagon Papers at 50: What's Left Out is Crucial. counterpunch.org June 13 will be the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the secret Pentagon Papers, a vast collection of internal U.S. decision-making documents on the Vietnam War. The Papers provoked questions about how the war could have been waged through six presidencies in a row: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon,

WSWS (2021-05-25). New Zealand: Wellington bus drivers reject second pay offer, vote for strikes. wsws.org Over 200 bus drivers voted for further strike action, rejecting a cash payment from NZ Bus in exchange for the gutting of overtime and penalty rates.

, Davidson KW, Barry MJ, et al. (2021-05-25). USPSTF Recommendation: Behavioral Counseling Interventions for Healthy Weight in Pregnancy. jamanetwork.com This 2021 Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that clinicians offer pregnant persons effective behavioral counseling interventions aimed at promoting healthy weight gain and preventing excess gestational weight gain in pregnancy (B recommendation).

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Mayo named a 2021 DiversityInc No. 4 on the Top Hospitals and Health Systems for Diversity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DiversityInc announced its annual Top 50 Companies for Diversity listings. Mayo Clinic was named to two specialty lists this year — No. 4 on the Top Hospitals and Health Systems list, up from No. 7 in 2020, and a new entry onto the Top Companies for People with Disabilities list at No. 19. DiversityInc's listing is …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Science Saturday: Explaining cholesterol, research and regeneration. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Isobel Scarisbrick, Ph.D., directs the Neural Repair Laboratory within Mayo Clinic's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Her lab examines central nervous system repair after injury, such as traumatic spinal cord injury or a disease like multiple sclerosis (MS). A major area of innovation for the lab is improving nerve regeneration by identifying what helps or hinders that process. Cholesterol, the …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Consumer Health: Reducing your risk of breast cancer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Breast cancer will affect 1 in 8 women, according to the American Cancer Society. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the U.S. Researchers have identified hormonal, lifestyle and environmental factors that may increase your risk of breast cancer. And an estimated 5% to 10% of breast cancers are …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Dr. Prathibha Varkey named president of Mayo Clinic Health System. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Prathibha Varkey, M.B.B.S., has been named president of Mayo Clinic Health System, effective August 16, 2021.Dr. Varkey will partner with Mary Jo Williamson, chief administrative officer, Mayo Clinic Health System, to lead the strategy and operations of the health system's 17 hospitals and nearly 50 community clinics across Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin."We're …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Top tips for reducing heart attack and stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My sister just turned 50. She went in for a standard cardiac checkup and learned she has high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The doctor told her that since our mom also had these issues, she must drastically change her diet, increase her exercise, and take medications to lessen her risk for a …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Consumer Health: How some types of osteoporosis drugs can hurt your bones. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about this bone disease, which affects approximately 10 million Americans, according to the Office on Women's Health. Your bones are living tissue that is constantly being broken down and replaced. Osteoporosis occurs when the creation of new bone doesn't …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Consumer Health: Recovering from a stroke. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about stroke and stroke rehabilitation. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and a major cause of serious disability for adults. More than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year, according to the Centers …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Dr. Cheryl Willman named executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs, Director, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Cheryl Willman, M.D., has been named executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs and director of Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Willman comes to Mayo Clinic from University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, where she has served as director and CEO for 20 years. Under Dr. Willman's leadership, University of …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Consumer Health: What do you know about inflammatory bowel disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World IBD Day will be observed on Wednesday, May 19, which makes this a good time to learn more about how these disorders are similar and different. Inflammatory bowel disease, also known as IBD, is an umbrella term used to describe disorders that involve chronic inflammation of your digestive tract. Inflammatory bowel disease can be …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). AI-enabled EKGs find difference between numerical age and biological age significantly affects health, longevity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — You might be older ? or younger ? than you think. A new study found that differences between a person's age in years and his or her biological age, as predicted by an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled EKG, can provide measurable insights into health and longevity. The AI model accurately predicted the age …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Consumer Health: Smoking and rheumatoid arthritis — what's the connection? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is Arthritis Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the connection between smoking and rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that can affect more than just your joints. In some people, the condition can damage a wide variety of body systems, including the skin, eyes, lungs, heart …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Mayo Clinic Cancer Center joins national call to get HPV vaccinations back on track. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has joined 71 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in calling on the nation's health care providers, parents and young adults to help get HPV vaccinations back on track. HPV causes several types of cancers, and nearly everyone gets infected with HPV by age 50. "Mayo Clinic recommends …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Bladder cancer patients require ongoing surveillance. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Bladder cancer is a common type of cancer that begins in the cells of the bladder, a hollow muscular organ in the lower abdomen that stores urine. Bladder cancer signs and symptoms can include blood in the urine, frequent or painful urination, and back pain. "The vast majority of bladder cancer patients are diagnosed with cancer that's not …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-25). Mayo Clinic Minute: Tips to 'stop the bleed' in an emergency. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org If you came upon an emergency where a person is bleeding, would you know what to do? During National Trauma Month, May 20 is acknowledged as Stop the Bleed Day — a day to teach people how to take to control of serious bleeding. In this demonstration, Gwen Meyer, a Trauma Center nurse and trauma …

Mark Lewis Taylor interview by Jamal Journal (2021-05-25). Mumia Abu-Jamal's spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP. indybay.org This interview by the Jamal Journal has just been published by the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper. Permission is granted to reprint as long as the SFBV Newspaper is cited as the original source.

CA Poor People's Campaign & PPC National (2021-05-25). Monday 5/24: Rally to Demand End to Poverty & Starvation Wages in U.S. w/ PPC. indybay.org Online via livestream…

Anti Police-Terror Project (2021-05-25). Tuesday 5/25: Remembering George Floyd and Demanding City Council Defund OPD. indybay.org Broadway and Telegraph in Downtown Oakland…

Watsonville Public Library (2021-05-25). Thursday 6/17: Book to Action: "Watsonville is in the Heart" Oral History Panel. indybay.org To register for this webinar visit: bit.ly/3n13zpE

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-05-25). Proposed Proclamation for 2021 Africa Day – California State Capitol Celebration. indybay.org On May 25, 1963, the Organization of African Union was founded to promote the unity and solidarity of the African nation states to act as a collective voice for the people of the African continent. Today, the African Union continues that journey to secure Africa's long-term cultural, economic, and political future California, the fifth economic power on earth, has a profound role and responsibility towards expanding mutually beneficial trade and commerce.

Angela (2021-05-25). Tuesday 5/25: How do we make the Congressional Progressive Caucus more Progressive? indybay.org Zoom | 5pm-6pm (PDT)…

Lynda Carson (2021-05-25). Rent reporting bill SB 1157 may cost some tenants around $10.00 per month. indybay.org Oakland tenants facing eviction from a non-profit housing developer in 2008. Photo by Lydia Gans…

repost (2021-05-25). The Fight for Independent, Non-Corporate Radio Flares Up Again. indybay.org Despite losing a corporate bylaw proposal at Pacifica by 2 to 1 the same group of people have put another reactionary bylaw proposal to a vote for at Pacifica that will cost over $50,000. This is supported by many staff at KPFA who apparently don't give a damn about the waste of money and hypocrisy of their allies. This includes Cat Brooks, Aileen Alfandary, Mitch Jeserich, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Philip Maldari, Timothy Lynch, Bonnie Simmons, | Kris Welch, Darlene Pagano & Joel Sachs…

NAACP Santa Cruz (2021-05-25). Tuesday 5/25: George Floyd Commemoration. indybay.org 701 Ocean St, Santa Cruz…

Coalition Against Chevron in Myanmar (2021-05-25). Wednesday 5/26: Protest at Chevron HQ! Free Myanmar! indybay.org 6001 Bollinger Canyon San Ramon, California…

David Giesen (2021-05-25). Saturday 5/29: A San Francisco Social Movement history slide show. indybay.org Zoom: zoom.us/j/95929839662?pwd=K2lXZFA5MlBqMytrOWc0dCt6Njdzdz09

Haymarket Books (2021-05-25). Tuesday 5/25: PIC Abolition, the War on Terror, and the Deportation Machine. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…

City Lights Books, GLBT Historical Society (2021-05-25). Monday 5/24: Political History of Act Up NY: The Activist Fight Against the AIDS Crisis. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…

Slomski A. (2021-05-25). Shorter Antibiotic Therapy Safe for Inpatients With Pneumonia. jamanetwork.com For patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia, shortening antibiotic therapy by 5 days does not affect cure rates, a trial published in The Lancet found. The shorter course could substantially reduce antibiotic consumption and resistance, adverse events, and costs.

Pip Hinman (2021-05-25). Inner west residents to be given a say on de-amalgamation. greenleft.org.au Residents in the inner west of Sydney will finally have their say on de-amalgamation now that the Inner West Council has voted for a referendum to be held at the September 4 local government election. Pip Hinman reports.

Pip Hinman (2021-05-25). Mark Kabay-Saleh: 'I have a dream — to save my islands'. greenleft.org.au Mark Kabay-Saleh, from the islands of Masig and Poruma in the centre of the Torres Strait, gave this speech to the climate strike in Brisbane's King George Square on May 21.

Pip Hinman (2021-05-25). NSW pledges to overhaul antiquated consent laws. greenleft.org.au NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman has announced that the state government will reform antiquated consent laws to include a model of affirmative consent, reports Pip Hinman.

Dana Kopel (2021-05-25). Is It Time to Abolish Museums? thenation.com Is It Time to Abolish Museums?

Wen Stephenson (2021-05-25). What's Worse Than Climate Catastrophe? Climate Catastrophe Plus Fascism. thenation.com What's Worse Than Climate Catastrophe? Climate Catastrophe Plus Fascism.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Jumaane D. Williams (2021-05-25). In New York City, Ranked Choice Voting Puts the People in Charge. thenation.com Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Jumaane D. Williams In New York City, Ranked Choice Voting Puts the People in Charge…

Julio Yao Villalaz (2021-05-25). Responsabilidad de Proteger e intervención humanitaria. globalizacion.ca Pocos años antes de que la ONU aprobara la Responsabilidad de Proteger durante la Cumbre Mundial de 2005 y se fundara la Oficina de la ONU para la Prevención del Genocidio y la Responsabilidad de Proteger, fui invitado —como Presidente…

Daniel Fresno (2021-05-25). øEl planeta necesita que lo salven? globalizacion.ca Un vecino del barrio viene impulsando un proyecto muy interesante. Recicla cubiertas de auto viejas, las pinta con colores muy vistosos y las usa como canteros en los que cultiva alimentos. Empezó en su vereda y de a poco fue…

Eduardo Aliverti (2021-05-25). Argentina — Hace falta que los gestos acompañen. globalizacion.ca Si hay acuerdo con que las categorías simbólicas son trascendentales y hasta decisivas, en principio anotemos un punto para la pérfida pero inteligente estrategia de los medios opositores: rige el confinamiento. "Cuarentena" cayó en desuso porque ya no tiene la…

Eduardo Paz Rada (2021-05-25). Bolivia — Seis frentes desestabilizadores al gobierno del MAS. globalizacion.ca Cuando el gobierno del presidente Luis Arce del Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) cumple seis meses con acciones para enfrentar las crisis sanitaria, económica y social, después de once meses de gobierno de facto como efecto de un golpe de estado,…

Sarah Anderson (2021-05-25). Poor People's Campaign and House Progressives Call for a 'Third Reconstruction'. counterpunch.org Amidst partisan haggling over President Biden's infrastructure proposal, the Poor People's Campaign joined progressive House members on Capitol Hill on Thursday to lay out a comprehensive moral vision for the nation. "It's unforgiveable that 250,000 people die every year in this country from poverty and inequality," said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) during a press conference

Rod Driver (2021-05-25). Debt as a Weapon to Exploit Other Countries. zcomm.org "The total amount of third world debt has already been repaid six times over in interest"

Robert Mackey (2021-05-25). Israeli Police Round Up Palestinian Protesters Out of Global Spotlight. zcomm.org "This is what we warned about. Israel will target us all when you stop looking."

Thembisa Fakude (2021-05-25). Stop comparing Israel to Apartheid South Africa; it is worse. zcomm.org For all its horrors and brutality, the apartheid regime in South Africa never used fighter jets and artillery to bomb the oppressed people living in the townships…

_____ (2021-05-24). The Fight For A New Colombia. popularresistance.org On 28 April, Colombian trade unions and social movements staged a new round of Paro Nacional (National Strike) protests, the latest in an ongoing series of mobilisations to address the litany of problems impacting Colombian society. | Opposition to a planned tax reform — which strike organisers said would unfairly target the middle and working classes in what is one of Latin America's most unequal countries — was the central issue, particularly in the context of the global pandemic which has pushed an estimated five million Colombians out of work. Calls to repeal the tax reform were aligned with longe…

Staff (2021-05-24). Workers around the world can help end violence against the people of Palestine and Colombia. therealnews.com Through coordinated and direct action, the international working class helped end apartheid in South Africa; it can do the same now to end the violence of occupation in Palestine and the exploitation and police crackdowns in Colombia.

Joris Leverink (2021-05-24). Resisting the everyday violence of colonial extractivism. roarmag.org Indigenous Peruvians protesting in the city of Ayaviri against the pollution from a nearby mine. Ayaviri, Peru — 2015. Paulo de Abreu / Shutterstock.com | "In many cases, the state legitimizes violence," said the lawyer, professor and researcher on socio-environmental conflicts, Patricia Urteaga Crovetto, as we sat in her university office in Lima, Peru. "People make claims, they knock on doors, organize investigations, run petitions, file complaints, appeal, litigate. They use all the instruments the law offers. When all this does not work, sometimes, violence is their last straw. I do not justify violence,…

Oliver Broudy (2021-05-24). Now Comes the Reckoning: Black Lives Matter Hits the Labor Movement. commondreams.org "The time for playing nice with corporate interests may be coming to an end." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/getty-nursing-home-2_0.jpg

Staff (2021-05-24). George Floyd Week of Action Marks Anniversary of His Murder as Police Reform Bill Stalls in Congress. democracynow.org As the world marks the anniversary of George Floyd's murder, attorney Lee Merritt says there is still a long way to go in reforming "the deadliest police culture in the modern world." Merritt, who has represented the Floyd family and other victims of police brutality, says Republicans and Democrats should come together to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Floyd's death in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, set off a nationwide uprising and global movement calling for an end to racism and for the defense of Black lives.

Jennifer Chudy (2021-05-24). Support for Black Lives Matter Surged Last Year. Did It Last? zcomm.org Did George Floyd's death catalyze support for Black Lives Matter? If so, for how long and for whom?>

Staff (2021-05-24). Venezuela to Start New Vaccination Phase with 1.3 Million Doses from China. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that 1.3 million new COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in the country from China, which would help to accelerate mass vaccination in the country. | During his speech this Sunday, May 23, the president clarified that a new phase of vaccination will start this week, with the aim to get 70% of the population vaccinated by the end of August. | "This week, a new phase of vaccination starts in the country; 1,300,000 new vaccines arrived in Venezuelans from China. More vaccines are arriving this week, and even more doses are yet to come," he stated in his Sunday address…

Jonathan Cook (2021-05-24). Jewish Groups that Aid Israel's War Crimes Can't Deny All Responsibility for Those Crimes. globalresearch.ca Here is something …

Editorial Team (2021-05-24). All the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask. challenge-magazine.org Alexander Norton interviews Keith Lamb on how China's self-proclaimed socialist system measures up to the expectations of a Western socialist expat from Scotland who has lived through almost two decades of drastic change in the world's emerging superpower | In the 1990s and 2000s conventional Western wisdom was that China had long abandoned socialism. But by 2018, when president Xi Jinping lauded Marx as the greatest thinker of modern times at the closing speech of a 2-week celebration of his 200th anniversary and reaffirmed China's commitment to his vision of communism, many on the left — and the right…

WHO Watch Team (2021-05-24). As World Health Assembly starts, solidarity is missing from the agenda. peoplesdispatch.org The 74th World Health Assembly that began on Monday will have to deal with a host of challenges at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the stark inequalities in every aspect of health across the globe…

Moderator (2021-05-24). Chris Hedges and Author Mitchell Plitnick on "Except for Palestine" scheerpost.com On this week's "On Contact," Chris Hedges discusses why American liberals refuse to speak out about the crimes the Israeli apartheid state carries out against the Palestinians, with political analyst and author Mitchell Plitnick. Mitchell Plitnick's new book, with co-author Marc Lamont Hill, is: "Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics." "Israel is in …

WSWS (2021-05-24). Israeli provocations continue as scale of Gaza damage emerges. wsws.org The United Nations said nearly 450 buildings had been damaged, including six hospitals, 53 schools and 11 primary healthcare centres, as well as more than 1,000 homes.

John Buell (2021-05-24). On How there is no Restaurant Worker Shortage, only a Shortage of Safe Jobs with Adequate Pay. juancole.com From the earliest days of the Pandemic relief initiatives business lobbies and conservative pundits have griped about the $600 Federal Unemployment Insurance supplement. They complained that combined state and federal programs would give many employed workers more income than they received in their current jobs. Workers would have an incentive to stay home to sit …

_____ (2021-05-24). War And Climate Disasters Displaced A Record Of 55 Million People In 2020. popularresistance.org Amid a raging global pandemic, a record 55 million people were displaced from their homes but still living in their countries by the end of 2020, according to the latest report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center. | While the figures have been increasing steadily for over a decade, as per the Geneva-based center's annual reports, ferocious storms, floods and conflicts displaced more people within their own country in 2020 — in spite of the global pandemic — than in any other year covered by the IDMC's reporting. Shockingly, the report found that internally displaced people outnumbered ref…

Gavin Phillips (2021-05-24). COVID-19 and the PCR Test — No Pandemic, Only Junk Data! globalresearch.ca Our world, once …

David Alfego, Adam Sullivan, Brian Poirier, Jonathan Williams, Dorothy Adcock, Stanley Letovsky (2021-05-24). [Research Paper] A population-based analysis of the longevity of SARS-CoV-2 antibody seropositivity in the United States. thelancet.com Observational data from a national clinical laboratory, though limited by an epidemiological view of the U.S. population, offer an encouraging timeline for the development and sustainability of antibodies up to ten months from natural infection and could inform post-pandemic planning.

Robert Reich (2021-05-24). Government Can Be the Solution: Eight Lessons From the Pandemic. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/workers_0_2.png

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-05-24). It's Past Time to End U.S. Funding of Israeli Violence. counterpunch.org At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel stood out as a success story, administering more doses of vaccines to its modest-sized 9-million-strong population than any other country after China, the U.S., and the UK. Today, more than 60 percent of Israelis are vaccinated,

WSWS (2021-05-24). Abandonment of health measures threatens US COVID-19 resurgence. wsws.org As dangerous new variants of COVID-19 surge throughout the globe, the United States is systematically ending all measures to contain the ongoing pandemic.

The Associated Press (2021-05-24). Former Banker Guillermo Lasso Becomes President in Ecuador. latinorebels.com QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Former banker Guillermo Lasso was sworn in as president of Ecuador on Monday, saying he will escalate efforts to vaccinate people to protect them from COVID-19 and work to revive an economy hit hard by the pandemic.

WSWS (2021-05-24). COVID-19 breaks out in Taiwan, with daily case numbers above 100. wsws.org Despite the resurgence of the pandemic globally, Taipei continued to ease restrictions, leading to what is now a dangerous outbreak.

David Swanson (2021-05-24). What The New Acceptability of the Lab Leak Origin Tells Us About Media Outlets. warisacrime.org Have you noticed that a lot of science writers have lately been saying that they were perfectly right a year ago to mock and condemn even considering a lab leak origin for Coronavirus but that now it's perfectly proper to admit that Coronavirus may very well have come from a lab? It seems to be …

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-05-24). Afghan Nationalism Faces Existential Challenge. globalresearch.ca Afghan conundrum is …

The Socialist Program (2021-05-24). An Empire in Decline: Unmasking U.S. Strategies to Dominate the Globe. liberationnews.org As the United States' power declines, the managers of U.S. empire are scrambling to come up with new approaches to maintain their dominant position around the globe.

Mike Ervin (2021-05-24). Smart Ass Cripple: The Great Infrastructure Debate. progressive.org One lawmaker's idea of infrastructure is another lawmaker's idea of a frivolous socialist scheme to bankrupt the United States.

WSWS (2021-05-24). Statements of support from New Zealand, Australia and the US for a full investigation of the Pike River mine disaster. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing statements from readers throughout the world in support of the families of those who died in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, who are fighting to uncover the truth about the cause of the disaster and for those responsible brought to justice.

WSWS (2021-05-24). The lessons of the 1994 Moura mine disaster in Australia. wsws.org Socialist Equality Party (Australia) member Terry Cook delivered this speech at the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) May 8 webinar, "Ten years after the Pike River mine disaster."

RobertAlvarez (2021-05-24). There Is No "Border Crisis" ips-dc.org U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) temporarily closed the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego on the morning of Nov. 19, 2018. With Why? Because thousands of migrants, primarily from Central America,…

Staff (2021-05-24). Headlines for May 24, 2021. democracynow.org Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Holds as Gazans Face Grief and Destruction After Israeli Assault, India's Official COVID Death Toll Passes 300,000, Latin America Tops 1 Million Deaths, Average of Daily U.S. Coronavirus Infections Falls Below 30,000 for First Time Since June, Biden Administration to Extend Temporary Protected Status to 100,000 Haitians in U.S., Belarus Uses Fake Bomb Threat to Divert Plane and Arrest Journalist Critical of President, Deposed Burmese Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Appears in Court for First Time Since February 1 Coup, Bangladeshi Journalist Rozina Islam, Who Reported on Corruption, Granted Bail Af…

Staff (2021-05-24). Amid Gaza Ceasefire, Israel Arrests Hundreds & Continues "Colonial Violence" in Occupied Palestine. democracynow.org The United Nations is appealing to the world to address the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza following the 11-day Israeli assault that killed 248 Palestinians, including 66 children, and injured more than 1,700 people. The U.N. is estimating that at least 6,000 residents of Gaza were left homeless after their homes were bombed by Israel, which has maintained a blockade on Gaza for the past 14 years. Tensions also remain high in Jerusalem, where dozens of Jewish settlers backed by Israeli security forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound Friday and Israeli authorities are continuing the campaign to forcibly e…

Staff (2021-05-24). After Record Deportations, Biden Grants 100K Haitians Chance for Temporary Protected Status. democracynow.org The Biden administration is granting more than 100,000 Haitians in the United States the chance to gain temporary protected status, or TPS, which includes work permits and protection from deportation while Haiti suffers a political crisis. Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse continues to refuse calls to step down, even as human rights groups report he has sanctioned attacks against civilians in impoverished neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, with targeted assassinations and threats against government critics carried out with impunity. President Joe Biden deported more Haitians during his first two months than D…

Staff (2021-05-24). "Brutal & Gratuitous": Family of Ronald Greene Demands Justice After Video Shows Deadly Traffic Stop. democracynow.org New bodycam footage is raising more questions about the deadly arrest of a Black man, Ronald Greene, in Louisiana during a 2019 traffic stop in the city of Monroe. Family members said police originally told them Greene died in a car accident, but the Associated Press obtained video of Louisiana state troopers electrocuting, beating and dragging Greene. Greene's family has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit, and Greene's death is also being federally investigated. Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney representing the family of Ronald Greene, says the family had to fight for a year and a half before being allow…

Tim Sullivan (2021-05-24). A small U.S. city, battered by the virus, tells its stories. peoplesworld.org CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — The beleaguered people of Central Falls moved quickly through the high school gym's injection stations and then to rest on dozens of metal folding chairs, borrowed from the Knights of Columbus. Immunity was at hand, but no one was celebrating. Central Falls — the poorest and smallest city in the …

Staff (2021-05-24). Venezuela's COVID-19 Sunday Brief: 1,293 New Cases, 14 Deaths and 93% Recovery Rate. orinocotribune.com On Sunday, May 23, Venezuelan Minister for Communication and Information, Freddy àëáñez, informed that in the last 24 hours 1,293 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Venezuela, of which 1,291 were community transmissions and 2 were imported cases. | àëáñez informed that the state with the most infections is Zulia, with 299 cases in 16 of its 21 municipalities. | The rest of…

Al Neal (2021-05-24). Olympic sized Covid problems for Japan ahead of the Summer Games. peoplesworld.org The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games are now two months away, and the situation does not look good. Current polls show over 80 per cent of the population want the games cancelled. The results are not surprising following the extension of a Covid-19 state of emergency in Tokyo and nine other major cities. Still, there have been no calls by …

Global Research News (2021-05-24). Selected Articles: Bombshell: Nobel Prize Winner Reveals — COVID Vaccine Is 'Creating Variants'. globalresearch.ca By While it is understood that viruses mutate, causing variants, French Virologist and Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier contends that "it is the …

Akash Mehta (2021-05-24). How New York State Let Covid-19 Run Rampant in Prisons. thenation.com How New York State Let Covid-19 Run Rampant in Prisons…

Akash Mehta (2021-05-24). Criminal Negligence: How New York State Let Covid-19 Run Rampant in Prisons. thenation.com Criminal Negligence: How New York State Let Covid-19 Run Rampant in Prisons…

Renee Nal (2021-05-24). Bombshell: Nobel Prize Winner Reveals — COVID Vaccine Is 'Creating Variants'. globalresearch.ca While it is …

WSWS (2021-05-24). UK government relaxes mask wearing in schools as it lifts safety restrictions amid spread of new Covid variant. wsws.org Mask wearing was the main, albeit limited, protection afforded to educators and pupils when schools reopened early March.

George Monbiot (2021-05-24). Britain's borders: wide open to Covid, slammed shut for people in need. zcomm.org The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19…

Patrick Cockburn (2021-05-24). Biden's Timid Gaza Intervention Won't Count for Much But US Reaction Against Israel has Changed Significantly. counterpunch.org During the Israeli bombardment of Beirut in August 1982, President Ronald Reagan phoned Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to express his "shock" and "outrage" at Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire on the Lebanese capital, demanding that they be stopped immediately. He said that Israeli actions were causing "needless destruction and bloodshed" and had halted US-led negotiations to bring about an end to the crisis.

Norman Solomon (2021-05-24). Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices and Targets Journalists. indybay.org Trying to dim the lights on a killing spree…

Victor Grossman (2021-05-24). In Germany, mainstream media backs Israeli attacks on Palestinians. peoplesworld.org BERLIN—It's no great surprise that most German media, reporting on the Israel-Palestine war, was one-sided and misleading! There were samples of fairer treatment at first, showing the demolition of Palestinian homes, the shutdown of a meeting place for young people, the far-rightist gangs marching in East Jerusalem chanting "Death to Arabs," the invasion of al-Aqsa …

Mark Gruenberg (2021-05-24). George Floyd commemoration features demands for comprehensive police reform. peoplesworld.org MINNEAPOLIS—Commemoration of the first anniversary of unarmed Black man George Floyd's murder last May 25 by then-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin features demands for comprehensive police reform to root out systemic law enforcement racism. The Floyd family established a foundation to promote that cause, and it sponsored three days of events in the Twin Cities. Calls …

Saheli Chowdhury (2021-05-24). Syrian Refugees and Residents Abroad Vote Massively in Presidential Elections. orinocotribune.com May 23 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)—On Thursday, May 20, Syrian refugees and residents in different countries around the world voted in massive numbers at Syrian diplomatic missions that were turned into polling centers for the presidential elections. This was the first day of voting in a two-day process—within Syria, citizens will go to polls on May 26. | The generally peaceful electoral process was only marred by xenophobic attacks against Syrian voters in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed one voter, reported Syria News. | The first country to open the polling centers was Australia, where Syrians reg…

Organizing for Union Power (2021-05-24). Organizing for Union Power slate wins San Francisco teachers union elections. liberationnews.org Public Statement On Victory of Organizing for Union Power (OUP) Slate Educators in the Organizing For Union Power (OUP) Slate express our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of members who made our victory possible in the recent UESF Executive Board elections. Over 1,400 educators voted in the largest turnout in recent UESF history. A full …

Editor2 (2021-05-24). Targeting Nicaragua: How Billionaire Foundations Fund NGOs to Advance US Foreign Policy Goals. orinocotribune.com By Rick Sterling — May 21, 2021 | US foreign policy is increasingly promoted by billionaire funded foundations. The neoliberal era has created individuals with incredible wealth and through "philanthropy", they flex their influence and feel good at the same time. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they universally support U.S. foreign policy and the "free market". Because many of these super-rich individuals made their wealth through investments and speculation, most do not like a planned economy, socialized services beyond the private sector or greater government control. | These meg…

Paige Fernandez (2021-05-24). Brooklyn Center Provides a Model for Reexamining Public Safety. aclu.org Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Hesiler should still be alive today. | Instead, both of their lives were cut short by Brooklyn Center Police. Daunte Wright was killed at just 20 years old after being pulled over due to expired registration. Wright's killing joins a long list of Black people whose lives were taken at the hands of law enforcement due to the unnecessary criminalization of minor, petty offenses that are the largest cause of police killings. Eric Garner was killed by an NYPD officer for selling loose cigarettes without a tax stamp, Rekia Boyd and her friends for making noise in a park, and Walter Sco…

Danny Shaw (2021-05-24). This is not a Crisis — This is a Rebellion: A Report from the Front Lines of Haiti. orinocotribune.com By Danny Shaw — May 11, 2021 | All of Haitian society is in revolt. | A mambo and hougan—the traditional voudou priestess and priest—lead ancestral ceremonies before rallies take the streets and block the central arteries of Port-au-Prince, Cap HaàØtien, and other Haitian cities and towns. After one of their members was kidnapped, leaders of the Protestant Church directed its congregation to halt all activities at noon on Wednesday and bat tenèb. Bat tenèb, literally "beat the darkness," is a call for all sectors of Haitian society to beat pots, pans, street lights and anything else as a g…

Aidan Jonah (2021-05-24). Canadian Media Launches Sinophobic Anti-China Campaign, Amid Years of Attacks on Chinese-Canadian Institutions. orinocotribune.com Over the past few weeks there has been a ramping up of a sinophobic anti-China campaign by Canadian media. This campaign comes in total disregard of the clear links between rampant Sinophobia and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes across the continent, including Canada. The core element of this campaign is a push to create the impression among Canadians that China is plotting to subvert Canadian "democracy" and infiltrate Canadian institutions. The groups used as proxies to push these dangerous narratives: Hong Kong "pro-democracy" dissident groups in Canada, and "Uyghur rights" groups and their imperialis…

Rick Sterling (2021-05-24). Why Shady Billionaire-Funded NGOs Pushed a PBS Report on Nicaraguan "Conflict Beef" mintpressnews.com MISKITO COAST, NICARAGUA — There is much truth in the old saying, "He who pays the piper, calls the tune," and the neoliberal era has spawned individuals with incredible wealth who, through "philanthropy," can feel good and flex their influence at the same time. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they almost universally support U.S. foreign policy and the "free market;" and, because many of these super-rich individuals made their wealth through investments and speculation, most do not like a planned economy, socialized services beyond the private sector, or greater government control…

The Empire Files (2021-05-24). AUDIO: Empire Files — The Beginning of the End for Israel. liberationnews.org The past two weeks have revealed a tectonic shift in public opinion towards the Israeli colonial regime.

Ajit Niranjan (2021-05-24). As temperatures rise, extreme weather displaces record numbers of people. peoplesworld.org Storms, floods, wildfires and droughts drove more than 30 million people from their homes last year, as rising temperatures wrought extra chaos on the climate, according to a report published Thursday by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC). Together with wars and violence, which forced 9.8 million people to flee within their borders, extreme weather brought …

Paige Fernandez (2021-05-24). Brooklyn Center Provides a Model for Re-Examining Public Safety. aclu.org Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Hesiler should still be alive today. | Instead, both of their lives were cut short by Brooklyn Center Police. Daunte Wright was killed at just 20 years old after being pulled over due to expired registration. Wright's killing joins a long list of Black people whose lives were taken at the hands of law enforcement due to the unnecessary criminalization of minor, petty offenses that are the largest cause of police killings. Eric Garner was killed by an NYPD officer for selling loose cigarettes without a tax stamp, Rekia Boyd and her friends for making noise in a park, and Walter Sco…

Rick Rozoff (2021-05-24). U.S. Secretary of State assures Ukraine of support for NATO membership plan. mronline.org U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Kiev today. | May 24, 2021…

Anonymous103 (2021-05-24). Another Turkish Officer Killed In Iraqi Kurdistan. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 24, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported that a 25-year-old serviceman of the Turkish Armed Forces had died during the operation in northern Iraq. He was injured during the landing and died of wounds in the hospital. | The same day, the Turkish Defense Ministry has published a video of the elimination of four Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters in the Iraqi province of Dakuk. According to the Turkish special services, two pickup trucks loaded with weapons, which…

Anonymous103 (2021-05-24). Temporary Technical Agreement On Monitoring At Iranian Nuclear Facilities Prolonged. southfront.org Illustrative image | The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran have agreed to extend a temporary technical agreement on monitoring at the Iranian nuclear facilities until June 24, according to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi. A three-month monitoring deal between Tehran and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency As a result of talks hel…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-24). Military Situation In Somalia On May 24, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 19, six Somali government soldiers, including a commander killed in roadside bomb blast in the outskirt of Jowhar town | On May 21, A group of soldiers opened fire on a vehicle with five women including a 13-year-old girl in Daynile of Mogadishu | On May 22, at least six al-Shabaab militants were killed and their bases destroyed in a military operation in the village of Af-ad on the outskirts of Buloburte district | On May 24, unknown gunmen attacked civilians in Balan…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-24). Iran's Inspection Deal With Internatoinal Atomic Agency Expired. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The speaker of Iran's parliament said a three-month monitoring deal between Tehran and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has expired. | As a result, its access to images from inside some Iranian nuclear sites would cease."From May 22 and with the end of the three-month agreement, the (IAEA) agency will have no access to data collected by cameras inside the nuclear facilities agreed under the agreement," state TV quoted parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf as saying. | The…

Anonymous103 (2021-05-24). Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney and the Rule of Law. southfront.org Illustrative image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | One could not accuse US Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming of having a sense of irony. For some time, she has felt her party to be the hostage of a ghoulish monster who refuses to be slayed. And she fears her party has fallen out of love for the rule of law. | In being ousted from the third spot in the leadership of the Republican Conference in the House, Cheney has found a new morality. In her

Anonymous007 (2021-05-24). Military Situation In Donetsk People's Republic On May 24, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | 1. UAF in Pivdenne shelled the Gagarin mine in Gorlovka with grenade launchers | 2. UAF in Pesky shelled Donetsk city with 120-mm artillery | 3. UAF in Vodyanoe shelled DPR forces in Leninskoe with grenade launchers | 4. UAF in Granitnoe shelled DPR forces in Novaya Marevka with grenade launchers | 5. DPR forces Novolaspa targeted UAF positions in Starognatovka with grenade launchers | 6. DPR forces in Gorlovka shelled UAF positions in Katerynivka with grenade lau…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-24). Russia Developing Two Smaller Hypersonic Missiles For Its Tu-22M3 And Su-34 Bombers. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Testing of a new small-sized hypersonic missile "Ostrota" that is to be equipped on Russia's bombers should begin next year, Izvestia Aircraft armed with such ammunition will become part of the Russian non-nuclear deterrent force. | The new missiles will help Russia maintain a leading position in this high-tech type of weapon. It is alle…

Anonymous103 (2021-05-24). In Videos: Two Israelis Wounded In Jerusalem Stabbing Attack. southfront.org Illustrative image | On May 24, an Israeli soldier and a civilian were stabbed in east Jerusalem. The attack took place at the Givat ha-Tahmoshet tram stop in Jerusalem, near the central Israeli police headquarters and not far from Sheikh Jarah. The terrorist was killed on the spot by a police officer. The incident was claimed to be a terrorist attack."Around 1: 30 p.m., an assailant arrived at the light rail station, pulled out a knife and used it to injure two people there. Officers who were on the scene responded quick…

Anonymous103 (2021-05-24). Hezbollah: Powerless Against Gaza, Israel is Doomed to Disappear. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Speech by Sayed Hashem Safi al-Din, Head of the Executive Office of Hezbollah, on May 17, 2021, at a rally in support of Gaza and Palestine, held in the southern suburbs of Beirut (Dahiyeh), four days before the ceasefire. | Translation: Transcript: | In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. | Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers & greetings be upon our Master and Prophet, Abul…

Staff (2021-05-24). Outrage Over Israel's Human Rights Violations Is Fueling the Global BDS Movement. truthout.org Israeli police are now This latest attack on Palestinian rights comes just days after Israeli police once again attacked Palestinians at Al Aqsa Mosque,…

Staff (2021-05-24). Restaurant Workers Say They Won't Return to Work Without a Living Wage. truthout.org On May 20, 2021, about 50 service worker leaders at One Fair Wage, an organization I lead that brings together service workers to demand a living wage, gathered to take an official vote on whether to go on a "wage strike." Some workers had already left the restaurant industry and were considering not returning, and some had stayed, doing the work of two or even three workers in understaffed environments. All were united in their determination not to continue to work for anything less than a full, li…

Staff (2021-05-24). Israel Arrests Hundreds and Continues Colonial Violence in Occupied Palestine. truthout.org The United Nations is appealing to the world to address the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza following the 11-day Israeli assault that killed 248 Palestinians, including 66 children, and injured more than 1,700 people. The U.N. is estimating that at least 6,000 residents of Gaza were left homeless after their homes were bombed by Israel, which has maintained a blockade on Gaza for the past 14 years. Tensions also remain high in Jerusalem, where dozens of Jewish settlers backed by Israeli sec…

Staff (2021-05-24). Republicans Are Against Science, Elections, Democracy, Journalism — and You. truthout.org Watching the puddle of cowardice grow under Kevin McCarthy and congressional Republicans as they flee the very Capitol sack commission they demanded on January 7, one might think: Surely this is the worst, the bottom? Surely these are the telltale scorch marks in the far clearing of the woods, the remnants of some sinister art at work in the dead of night? | Nope, I realize time and again. It's just Republicans doing their eternal thing right out here for all to see. | This is Republicanism in my l…

Staff (2021-05-24). Enbridge Line 5 Pipeline Battle Heats Up in Michigan. truthout.org When Enbridge Line 5 was built in 1953, the notion of tribal consultation was often overlooked by states and corporations. | In those days, pipeline construction was a simple matter. The company paid the state of Michigan

Staff (2021-05-24). A Growing International Movement Is Calling for a "People's Vaccine" truthout.org On a sunny April morning in Philadelphia, Tifrah Akhtar was racing the clock to pick up a rushed-printed sign. Her sign read, in bold letters: "President Biden, Do What You Promised and #FREETHEVACCINE." | Less than 72 hours before, Akhtar had heard President Biden was coming to Philadelphia to speak at an Amtrak station. She'd seen an opportunity, and with help from her six organizer roommates and community organizations like Reclaim Philadelphia, Vietlead, and others, word spread. Approximately 70 peo…

Hugo Murphy (2021-05-24). The Weekly Round-up: Criminal justice scandals and 'prison-like' hotels for victims of modern slavery. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news: Failures of the criminal justice system were once again under the spotlight this week. On Wednesday, business minister Paul Scully announced a statutory inquiry into the sub-postmaster scandal, following widespread outrage at one of the greatest miscarriages of justice un UK legal history. After the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former …

Eds. (2021-05-24). It's all protest music: Bob Dylan at 80. mronline.org Wherever the forces of destruction attempt to cut down trees, pollute our air and water, and rip away the earth for minerals, women have been leading the resistance. In the cities and communities, women have fought for clean water, air, and land for their families to flourish. | May 24, 2021…

teleSUR Desk (2021-05-24). AP sacks correspondent critical of Israel. mronline.org Emily Wilder had been targeted by extremist Zionist media outlets. | May 24, 2021 | Newswire…

Roger Harris (2021-05-24). U.S. trying to extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for the "crime" of securing food for the hungry: the case of Alex Saab v. The Empire. mronline.org The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. | May 24, 2021…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-05-24). Coronavirus Travels and Cruising with Viking. counterpunch.org It starts off as an exercise of anticipation. First comes the softening drinks and teasing morsels which find their mark. The audience at this promotions gig is well heeled, of an age where they have money to burn, but nowhere to burn it. They have not travelled on a luxurious prison of bliss for eighteen

Alessandra Korap Munduruku, Darryl Knudsen, Irikefe V. Dafe (2021-05-24). Rivers are Key to Restoring the World's Biodiversity. counterpunch.org Alessandra Korap Munduruku is a Munduruku Indigenous woman leader from Indigenous Reserve Praia do Ândio in the Brazilian Amazon. She is a member of Pariri, a local Munduruku association, as well as the Munduruku Wakoborûn Women's Association. In 2020, Alessandra won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her work defending the culture, livelihoods and rights of Indigenous peoples in Brazil. | Darryl Knudsen is the executive director of International Rivers. He has 20 years' experience channeling the power of civil society movements to create enduring, positive change toward social and environmental justice…

Johanna Fernández, posted by Jamal Journal (2021-05-24). Mumia Abu-Jamal's case transferred to Pennsylvania Supreme Court. indybay.org Attached is a May 20, 2021 ruling by the Court to transfer Mumia Abu-Jamal's case from the Superior Court, up to the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court. A short legal update is reprinted below from Professor Johanna Fernández of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home (www.bringmumiahome.com).

Paul Dobson (2021-05-24). Venezuela's 'Best Governor' and 2002 'Hero' García Carneiro Dies. venezuelanalysis.com The three-time La Guaira state governor and former defense minister passed away from a heart attack Saturday.

David Price (2021-05-24). Anthropologist Laura Nader on the Lost Art of the Letter. counterpunch.org During the past six decades anthropologist Laura Nader (University of California, Berkeley) has shaped anthropological analysis in important ways relating to how the discipline understands power relations. Her new book, Letters to and from an Anthropologist is a curated collection of her personal correspondence, featuring exchanges with public figures, everyday people, politicians, students whose lives

contributors (2021-05-24). Eman Askar's TikTok deep-history 'Song for Palestine' goes Viral with 10 mn Views in 48 Hours. juancole.com "A song telling the story of Palestine has gone viral on social media. TikToker Eman Askar —

Middle East Eye (2021-05-24). 'She Was Too Vocal': Outrage Grows over AP Journalist Fired for Pro-Palestine Views. globalresearch.ca The Associated Press …

Fight Back (2021-05-24). Grand Rapids, MI: 200 March for Palestine. fightbacknews.org Grand Rapids, MI – 200 protesters, primarily Palestinians and Arab Americans, took to the streets of Grand Rapids, May 22, in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance movement and demanding an end to U.S. support for the state of Israel. This is the second "Free Palestine" protest organized by local activists. | "The Palestinian resistance won a major victory this week, but there is still much more work to be done to fully free the Palestinian people," said organizer Olivia Lashley, "We need to do our part as Americans by pressuring the U.S. government to cut aid to the genocidal Israeli state." | Protesters c…

Yasser Abed (2021-05-24). The People of Palestine Have Been Terrorized. globalresearch.ca For a moment …

_____ (2021-05-24). The US Isn't An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn't A US Puppet. popularresistance.org Nearly 200,000 protesters attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on Saturday afternoon, another clear sign that support for Palestinian rights is becoming increasingly mainstream and the imperialists are losing control of the Israel narrative. | The real consequence of this is that people will begin losing trust in the government and media institutions which support Israel, because without trust the empire can't propagandize people, and without the ability to propagandize us our rulers cannot rule. There's no risk for Israel of losing US backing due to the US government suddenly evolving a consc…

Alex Bainbridge (2021-05-24). Photos: Thousands march again for Palestine after ceasefire. greenleft.org.au Tens of thousands of people across Australia protested against Israel's assault on Gaza and East Jerusalem on May 22 and May 23, reports Alex Bainbridge.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-24). In Al-Aqsa, Sheikh Jarrah and Rest of Palestine, Israeli Oppression Continues. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Jewish settlers invade the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday. Photo: Palestine Chronicle While the ceasefire has ended the bombing in Gaza, violence against Palestinians continues across the occupied territories. The Al-Aqsa compound was invaded on Friday and Sunday and Palestinian organizations have warned of mass arrests by Israel Days after a ceasefire was…

Juan Cole (2021-05-24). Irish Parties and People demand Expulsion of Israeli ambassador, Fines for importing Settler-made Goods. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The recent Israeli assault on the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and the bombardment of Gaza, has stirred passions in the Irish Republic, where public opinion has swung around to be strongly in favor of Palestinian rights and critical of the Apartheid, Occupation government of Israel. Rallies have …

Bilge Nesibe Kotan (2021-05-24). The Destruction of a Famed Gaza Bookstore Severs a Crucial Lifeline. globalresearch.ca The destruction of …

Mosab Abu Toha (2021-05-24). In Gaza, It's Now Time to Count Family Members. thenation.com In Gaza, It's Now Time to Count Family Members…

Mosab Abu Toha (2021-05-24). In Gaza, It's Now Time to Count Our Family Members. thenation.com In Gaza, It's Now Time to Count Our Family Members…

Marilyn Garson (2021-05-24). Israel's Assault on Gaza by Bomb, Then Slow Strangulation. commondreams.org "The risk to Gaza now is the risk of our disengagement before we have brought down the walls. That is the task; nothing less. This time, Gaza must go free." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gaza_15.jpg

Juan Cole (2021-05-24). Irish Parties and People demand Expulsion of Israeli ambassador. zcomm.org The recent Israeli assault on the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and the bombardment of Gaza, has stirred passions in the Irish Republic…

Phyllis Bennis (2021-05-24). So What Exactly is Biden's Israel Policy? counterpunch.org So just what is the Biden administration's policy towards Israel? Why did Biden take so long to respond to the violence as it spiraled out of control in Jerusalem and Gaza? Why do Biden's repeated "Israel has the right of self-defense" litanies so closely match the positions of his predecessor, despite the wide disparity between

WSWS (2021-05-24). Thousands demonstrate in Chicago to oppose Israeli slaughter in Gaza. wsws.org Several thousand protesters marched in downtown Chicago on Friday to oppose the brutal US-backed Israeli war on Gaza.

WSWS (2021-05-24). Protests through Europe against Israel's war on Gaza. wsws.org The protests took place just 48 hours after a ceasefire was announced between Israel and Hamas, but this was widely recognised among those attending the protests as nothing but a tenuous lull before Israel resumes hostilities against a defenceless population.

Ali Abunimah (2021-05-24). Bernie Sanders says "tone down the rhetoric" on Israel's crimes. electronicintifada.net Senator fits mold of "white moderate" condemned by Martin Luther King Jr.

John Kendall Hawkins (2021-05-24). Dylan at 80: A Sonnet of Appreciation. counterpunch.org Dylan at 80: A Sonnet of Appreciation Been around almost as long the war with Russia, a child of Odessa blues, who spat at Ellsberg,* like Dad did the Tsar, went hunting Woody's career, filled his shoes, got himself condemned by the left and right — became the Wandering Jew, harp and guitar, on a

_____ (2021-05-24). Workers At Steel Giant ArcelorMittal Go On Strike. popularresistance.org Canada – In northeastern Quebec, 2,500 ArcelorMittal workers have been on strike since May 10. The strikers, who work in mines, port facilities, rail lines and offices belonging to the Luxembourg-based multinational, are represented by five locals of the United Steelworkers (USW/ Métallos ) and are affiliated with the Quebec Federation of Labour (QFL), the largest labour organization in Quebec with more than 600,000 members. | The strike follows workers' unequivocal rejection of ArcelorMittal's "final and comprehensive" offer. Workers voted against the company's May 7 offer by percentages ranging from 97 percent…

Carey Gillam (2021-05-24). Chlorpyrifos: Common Pesticide Tied to Brain Damage in Children. globalresearch.ca Chlorpyrifos, a widely …

Fight Back (2021-05-24). Long live the George Floyd Rebellion! fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – The murder of George Floyd and the massive rebellion and protest that followed are the most remembered images of 2020. Unfortunately, images of Black people being lynched and murdered by white people in and out of uniform have been the most haunting images of American history. But the images of rebellion in 2020, of millions of people throughout the USA and the world rising up against racist police repression – and the system of oppression that police tyranny serves and protects – have inspired new hope and courage in the struggle for Black liberation. | The George Floyd and Breonna Taylor rebellion…

_____ (2021-05-24). Afro-Pessimism And The (Un)Logic Of Anti-Blackness. popularresistance.org In the late afternoon of 10 February 2015, local police in Chapel Hill responded to a report of fired shots. They entered a Finley Forest condominium to find the lifeless bodies of three young Arabs. The first, Deah Barakat, lay dead in the front doorway. The others, his wife Yusor and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, had been slain in the kitchen. All three had been killed with gunshots to the head in an execution-style murder. Over the coming hours and days, as details emerged on social media, it became clear that these young Muslims had been murdered in a hate crime. Seeing this in the context of state-sponsored is…

Heather L. Weaver (2021-05-24). An Arizona Prison Forcibly Shaved a Sikh Man's Beard. This is a Violation of Religious Freedom. aclu.org Until last year, Surjit Singh's beard had never been trimmed or cut. A devout Sikh, Mr. Singh believes that hair is a divine gift and removing it from the body dishonors God. But in a shocking incident last August, correctional officers processing Mr. Singh's intake at an Arizona prison restrained him and shaved off his beard entirely despite his protests that it would violate his deeply held religious beliefs and despite the fact that federal law protects incarcerated individuals' ability to exercise their faith. Today, along with the ACLU of Arizona, the Sikh Coalition, and the law firm WilmerHale, we filed…

Tamara Nassar (2021-05-24). Leaked Israel lobby documentary now in Arabic. electronicintifada.net Al Jazeera's undercover film was censored after Qatar came under pressure.

Jennifer Dorning (2021-05-24). Unions Are Essential to Racial Justice. progressive.org The advantages of union membership for people of color are not limited to better pay.

_____ (2021-05-24). 'The White Republic': A Response By Gerald Horne. popularresistance.org The good news is that Comrade Bob Wing's analysis represents a step forward in terms of the U.S. Left's understanding of the nation—"republic"—in which it struggles. | The bad news is that the U.S. left has not necessarily kept pace with the U.S. ruling class in terms of similar issues, or even with non-radical African-Americans, for that matter. | Consider the multi-part series on HBO Max (a member in good standing of the much reviled "corporate media") that premiered recently, i.e. Black filmmaker Raoul Peck's "Exterminate All the Brutes," a sweeping analysis and condemnation of settler colonialism…

John Hickman (2021-05-24). Let Lebanon be Lebanon: Paris should Stop Threatening Beirut with EU Sanctions. juancole.com John Hickman "Governing Lebanon is surely more daunting than governing France."[1] That pearl of wisdom in an essay defending consociational democracy by University of Pennsylvania political scientist Brendan O'Leary has never been more accurate. A delicate balance of domestic interests with institutional vetoes at the best of times, Lebanese politics has been stalemated for months …

Arjun Walia (2021-05-24). Sweden Says PCR Tests "Cannot be Used to Determine Whether Someone Is Contagious" globalresearch.ca

Emanuel Pastreich (2021-05-24). Interpretation and Investigation: The Conspiracy Theory Trap. globalresearch.ca The creation of events that will promote irreconcilable interpretations in different interpretive communities has become a cottage industry for the rich and powerful. The radically divergent tales concerning mass shootings and attacks on minorities does wonders to exacerbate rifts between …

Ian Morse (2021-05-24). Millions of Electric Cars Are Coming. What Happens to All the Dead Batteries? globalresearch.ca The battery pack …

Mohamed Elmaazi (2021-05-24). Activists force shutdown of Israeli weapons factory in UK. electronicintifada.net Police still not able to coax activists down after six days, local fire brigade declares support…

_____ (2021-05-24). Groups Condemn Police Actions At Fairy Creek. popularresistance.org X ∑m…ôŒ∏k ∑…ôyÃì…ôm (Musqueam), S·∏µwxñwú7mesh (Squamish) and s…ôlilw…ôta…¨ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C. — May 21, 2021: The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) has written to the provincial government and RCMP Commissioner condemning the arbitrary and unlawful RCMP Exclusion Zone in unceded Ditidaht territory. The RCMP have established two checkpoints and roadblocks along the McClure Main and Caycuse Main roads near the Fairy Creek blockade against old-growth logging. | In an open letter t…

_____ (2021-05-24). Leaks Show DC Cops Justify 'Aggressive' Protest Tactics. popularresistance.org Documents obtained by Al Jazeera appear to show Washington, DC's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) used a training document to justify "an aggressive police response" to left-wing demonstrations and legal observers, according to experts. | Ransomware group Babuk stole the documents from MPD several weeks ago and asked a bounty of $1m for their return. MPD did not pay, resulting in their leak. | The documents include a January 2019 PowerPoint training presentation hacked from an MPD intelligence officer entitled "First Amendment Training Presentation". | The majority of the presentation features images of myria…

Heather L. Weaver (2021-05-24). An Arizona Prison Forcibly Shaved a Sikh Man's Religiously Mandated Beard. This is a Violation of Religious Freedom. aclu.org Until last year, Surjit Singh's beard had never been trimmed or cut. A devout Sikh, Mr. Singh believes that hair is a divine gift and removing it from the body dishonors God. But in a shocking incident last August, correctional officers processing Mr. Singh's intake at an Arizona prison restrained him and shaved off his beard entirely despite his protests that it would violate his deeply held religious beliefs and despite the fact that federal law protects incarcerated individuals' ability to exercise their faith. Today, along with the ACLU of Arizona, the Sikh Coalition, and the law firm WilmerHale, we filed…

Editor2 (2021-05-24). Israel Arrests and Prosecutes Hundreds of Palestinians. orinocotribune.com Human rights defenders denounced the raids as a militarized war against Palestinians with Israeli citizenship or Jerusalem residency permits. | On Sunday night, Israeli police launched a campaign of home raids to arrest Palestinians who had participated in protests in Jerusalem and other mixed cities in Israel. | "This is a war by Israeli police forces against Palestinian protesters, political activists, and minors," denounced Hasan Yabareen, the director of the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (ADALAH). | Police announced that they have arrested over 1,500 people in recent weeks, without specif…

Sam Jacobs (2021-05-24). Weapons of War on Our Streets: The Militarization of America's Police. globalresearch.ca The claim often …

Johanna Kichton (2021-05-24). People's Bailout Coalition Places New York Times Ad With Nearly 200 Progressive Groups Calling on Congress to Go Bigger and Bolder to Deliver Jobs and Justice. peoplesaction.org As Biden Proposes Reducing His Recovery Package, campaigns Urge Congress to Invest $10 Trillion Over Next Decade on Climate, Jobs, and Justice Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 240.206.1145 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The People's Bailout today placed an ad in The New York Times along with three other networks and nearly 200 organizations calling on Congress to go bigger …

Courtenay Barnett (2021-05-24). History: The Inherent Irony in the Palestinian-Israeli Struggle. globalresearch.ca The word 'irony' …

Roger D. Harris (2021-05-24). Alex Saab v. The Empire: How the US Is Using Lawfare To Punish a Venezuelan Diplomat. mintpressnews.com That the US can engineer the arrest of a diplomat — someone who has immunity by international law even in the time of war — is a dangerous precedent.

_____ (2021-05-24). Activists Push To Invest In Community, Not Police. popularresistance.org Just past midnight on December 14, 2020, Osamah Alsaidi walked near a police cruiser on a dark city street of Paterson, New Jersey's third-largest city just outside New York City. Shortly thereafter, that very same police car cut off Alsaidi's path and out jumped officers Kevin Patino and Kendry Tineo-Restituyo. | They immediately accosted the 19-year-old, striking him numerous times and dropping him to the ground where they continued their assault. The police report they filed described Alsaidi as "acting belligerent" and "screaming profanities." That report would remain the only evidence of the incident until s…

Finbarr Toesland (2021-05-24). The Never-Ending Fight Against Conversion Therapy. progressive.org The Born Perfect project is working to end the harmful practice and empower victims and their families.

Fight Back (2021-05-24). International observers arrive in Syria ahead of elections. fightbacknews.org Damascus, Syria – On May 23, an international solidarity delegation arrived in Syria to observe elections set to take place on Wednesday, May 26, when voters will decide the next president of the Syrian Arab Republic. | Syria has been under attack since 2011 when a mix of reactionary militias and foreign mercenaries, some armed and funded by the U.S. and its regional allies, violently seized control of parts of the country with the aim of toppling the anti-imperialist government. Lacking internal unity or coherent popular legitimacy, by 2018 these groups were largely defeated by Syrian forces. Portions of the cou…

_____ (2021-05-24). United Kingdom: Animal Rights Group Blockades McDonalds. popularresistance.org Environmental activits are blockading four McDonald's distribution centres in a bid to stop deliveries to the fast food giant's restaurants across the country this weekend. | Animal Rebellion say that some 50 demonstrators have used trucks and bamboo towers to stop lorries leaving depots in Hemel Hempstead, Basingstoke, Coventry and Heywood in Greater Manchester. | They have poured fake animal blood over signage with some protesters dressed as the chain's mascot, Ronald McDonald. | Demonstrators say they are targeting the chain because of its "role in the climate emergency" and are demanding McDonald's — wh…

Jon Queally, staff writer (2021-05-24). 'State Treachery to the Extreme': Belarus Accused of Inventing Airplane Bomb Threat to Arrest Dissident Journalist. commondreams.org "There is little doubt that the Belarusian authorities used a false bomb threat and a MiG fighter jet to force an airplane flying from one country of the European Union to another to land with the apparent sole purpose of detaining an exiled critical journalist whom they badly wanted silenced." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/belarus-journalist.jpg

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2021-05-24). #MoralMonday Event Elevates Progressive Push for 'Third Reconstruction' Resolution. commondreams.org In everything we do, we must take the extraordinary wealth that is here in America and design policies that build from the bottom up," says Rep. Pramila Jayapal. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/barber-third-reconstruction-2600×1361.jpg

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2021-05-24). Legal Scholars Detail Why DC Statehood Is Absolutely Constitutional. commondreams.org "When the nation's leading constitutional scholars come together to affirm that statehood is constitutional, we need to listen," declared Stasha Rhodes of 51 for 51. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/dc-statehood-supporter-2600×1361.jpg

Brett Wilkins, staff writer (2021-05-24). As Frustration Grows Over GOP Obstruction, Progressives Intensify Demands to Kill Filibuster. commondreams.org "This piece of legislation for an independent commission, that's a good starting place—a reminder why the filibuster needs to go," asserts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bush-filibuster-2600x1361_1.jpg

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2021-05-24). 'Don't Abandon Climate, Care, Jobs, and Justice': Activists Decry Biden Concessions to GOP. commondreams.org "Biden needs to stand strong behind his campaign promises for climate change, jobs, and justice." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/whitehouse-rally-infrastructure-2600×1361.jpg

Brett Wilkins, staff writer (2021-05-24). Advocates Applaud State AGs' Call for Review of Proposed 'Cancer Alley' Petrochemical Plant. commondreams.org "I believe that if there's an honest assessment of the environmental racism behind this project's approval then it will never be permitted," said Sharon Lavigne of RISE St. James. "We must stop Formosa Plastics." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/cancer-alley-2600×1361.jpg

Brett Wilkins, staff writer (2021-05-24). Advocates Hail Ruling Striking Down 'Unconstitutional' Georgia Anti-BDS Law. commondreams.org "This ruling comes at a crucial moment, when millions of Americans are questioning the use of U.S.-provided weapons in the onslaught against the Palestinian people," said PCJF counsel Mara Verheyden-Hilliard. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bds-2600×1300.jpg

Angela (2021-05-24). Saturday 5/22: Resistance Until Liberation. indybay.org Madison Park, Oakland (Eight & Madison)…

Oakland Privacy (2021-05-24). Wednesday 6/9: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveil. indybay.org Email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to obtain Zoom meeting access info.

Angela (2021-05-24). Saturday 5/22: Resistance Until Liberation: Rally & Protest. indybay.org 11 am | 16th & Mission St, SF | March to Civic Center | 1 pm Rally | Civic center, SF…

Pip Hinman (2021-05-24). Morrison hardens law against asylum seekers. greenleft.org.au Paul Gregoire looks at new changes to the Migration Act, which allow the federal government to lock people in immigration detention indefinitely.

Pip Hinman (2021-05-24). Denmark: Do not copy Australia's draconian detention laws. greenleft.org.au Refugee rights activists protested at the Danish Consulate against that government's plans to detain asylum seekers and process them in Rwanda. Stephen Langford reports.

Gary Taxali (2021-05-24). Thoughts and Prayers Again and Again. thenation.com Thoughts and Prayers Again and Again…

Alexandra Klein, Brandon Hasbrouck (2021-05-24). A Few Words for the Firing Squad. thenation.com A Few Words for the Firing Squad…

George Abraham (2021-05-24). Searching for a Palestinian 'After'. thenation.com Searching for a Palestinian 'After'

Michael T. Klare (2021-05-24). The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China. thenation.com The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China…

Jennifer Schaffer (2021-05-24). The Roving Mind of Rachel Kushner. thenation.com The Roving Mind of Rachel Kushner…

Jean Guerrero (2021-05-24). How to Fight White Supremacy by Inverting Stephen Miller's Playbook. thenation.com How to Fight White Supremacy by Inverting Stephen Miller's Playbook…

commondreams (2021-05-24). Attorneys General Demand Deeper Army Corps Analysis of Formosa Plastics' Louisiana Project. commondreams.org ______________________________…

commondreams (2021-05-24). Alarming Lead, Arsenic Levels Found in Popular Vinegar Brands. commondreams.org ______________________________…

commondreams (2021-05-24). 350.org on Biden Administration Doubling Funding to Address Climate Disasters. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Max Richtman (2021-05-24). This Older Americans Month, Let's Recommit to America's Seniors. commondreams.org "Older Americans cannot fill their vital role in society without basic security—the peace of mind of knowing that they can pay their bills and have access to affordable health care and prescription drugs." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/elders.png

Alec Connon (2021-05-24). JPMorgan Chase Just Became the World's Most Dangerous Bank. commondreams.org "Chase is the first major US bank to commit to 2030 climate targets; by setting the bar so devastatingly low they have made it easier for other Wall Street banks to engage in similar acts of greenwashing." #fossilfueldivestment | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/chase_funding_climate.jpg

John Buell (2021-05-24). There's No Restaurant Worker Shortage, Only a Shortage of Safe Jobs With Adequate Pay. commondreams.org "If you believe in its omniscience, the market is signaling corporations and businesses that employers must offer more." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/server_0.jpg

Tobias Siegal (2021-05-24). Thousands of Jews and Arabs march in Tel Aviv for peace, coexistence. zcomm.org Protesters voiced support for the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and called on the government to take immediate action to reach peace with the Palestinians…

Dean Baker (2021-05-24). Vaccinating the World: If We Had Grown Ups in Charge. cepr.net People in policy debates are not supposed to question the desirability of patent monopolies as a mechanism for financing the development of new drugs and vaccines. After all, why ask a question that could jeopardize the profits of some of the world's largest corporations? But, since I live out in Southern Utah, far away from …

Kit Knightly (2021-05-24). How the CDC Is Manipulating Data to Prop-up "Vaccine Effectiveness" globalresearch.ca The US Center …

Chuck Collins (2021-05-24). Family Offices: Trillion Dollar Pools of Unregulated Capital You Haven't Heard About. counterpunch.org Don't be surprised if you haven't heard of a family office as they fly below the radar. I explore the role of family offices in the larger "wealth defense industry" in my new book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions (Polity Books). And Kalena Thomhave and I make the case for

imperial.ac.uk (2021-05-24). New Imperial partnership to explore science communication in Poland and the UK. imperial.ac.uk Imperial is to collaborate with four leading universities in Poland to improve science communication in the two countries.

imperial.ac.uk (2021-05-24). European experts debate emerging tech regulation at Forum panel. imperial.ac.uk An expert panel discussed the upcoming EU AI regulation and how we can responsibly regulate emerging technologies like facial recognition.

Jacob G. Hornberger (2021-05-24). How We Got Omnipotent Government. globalresearch.ca We have all …

George Ygarza (2021-05-24). In Working-Class NJ Town, Activists Push to Invest in Community, Not Police. zcomm.org Abolitionists are confronting racial capitalism and policing in…

Tom H. Hastings (2021-05-24). Why riot? Toward a typology of social unrest. zcomm.org What is the difference between a riot and a protest? What about demonstrations? A vigil? Civil resistance?>

Mel Gurtov, Larry Kirsch (2021-05-24). To Sanction Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Add Them to the State Department's List. counterpunch.org In Jerusalem today, Lehava, the virulent Israeli citizen's group at the epicenter of armed attacks, race-mongering, and incitement of terror against Palestinians, is inextricably bound-up and politically enabled by Otzma Yehudit (translated as "Jewish Power"), an extremist right wing political party now serving as a key player within Netanyahu's governing coalition. Otzma represents one of

WSWS (2021-05-24). This week in history: May 24-30. wsws.org 25 years ago: Peres ousted in Israeli general electionOn May 29, 1996, the Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, won a narrow victory in the Israeli general election, ousting Labor's Shimon Peres. The election dealt a blow to illusions that the Jewish and Arab masses could achieve peace and social progress within the framework established by imperialism in the Middle East.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2021-05-24). America's Public Health System Is Utterly Corrupt. globalresearch.ca A sure sign …

WSWS (2021-05-24). Australia: Transport Workers Union calls for food delivery minimum wage. wsws.org Wednesday's rally was a pitch to Uber and other gig-economy employers to utilise the union as an industrial police force.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-24). Over 800 Algerians detained for questioning in 118th week of Hirak protests. peoplesdispatch.org The latest round of Hirak protests saw police place multiple restrictions in Algiers and other parts of the country. Friday's mobilizations were the second round since the government announced a ban on unauthorized demonstrations…

WSWS (2021-05-24). UAW announces narrow ratification of sellout contract at Nexteer, fueling rank-and-file suspicions of ballot-rigging. wsws.org Saginaw Nexteer workers should establish a rank-and-file committee to demand an audit of the ratification vote supervised by representatives of the workers, not the pro-company UAW.

Pavan Kulkarni (2021-05-24). South African dockworkers to boycott Israeli ships until total liberation of Palestinian people: Union. peoplesdispatch.org The dockworkers continue to boycott work on the Israeli ship Zim Shanghai which arrived at Durban port on May 20. All ships carrying cargo to and from Israel will be boycotted by dockworkers, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) told Peoples Dispatch…

WSWS (2021-05-24). Boeing donates $50 million to Virginia Tech University's "Innovation Campus" wsws.org The donation is the largest in the university's history and was announced as part of an effort to focus on "diversity."

Amanda Alcántara (2021-05-24). 'We Are Here' Is A Vibrant Acclamation of Black and Brown Artists. latinorebels.com The book is a colorful and vibrant acclamation to 50 artists whose work captures the voices in our communities—featuring interviews with each creator.

WSWS (2021-05-24). Behind Tesla's rise, part 1: Tesla's market value and Wall Street speculation. wsws.org Tesla's market capitalization is greater than the next three top automakers combined, which collectively produce 44 times as many vehicles as Tesla.

WSWS (2021-05-24). As National Guard troops withdraw from US Capitol, police reports detail ongoing threats of fascistic violence. wsws.org The warnings indicate that the threat of fascism has not lessened with the election and inauguration of Biden.

WSWS (2021-05-24). 2,500 workers at steel giant ArcelorMittal go on strike on Quebec's North Shore. wsws.org The ArcelorMittal workers must broaden their struggle and make it the spearhead of a working class counteroffensive to put workers' jobs, wages and working conditions ahead of capitalist profit.

Joris Leverink (2021-05-24). Economic Update: Rise and Fall of Labor and Capitalism. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Congress bills H.R.51 giving statehood to Washington, DC, and H.R.1 countering GOP efforts to restrict voting; and Biden's tax reforms to help pay for new and expanded government programs. | In the second half of the program, Wolff interviews Prof. Michael Hillard on the role of labor in the dramatic rise and fall of Maine's paper industry, a parable for the economic difficulties facing the US today. | You can support this show on

Andrew Emett (2021-05-24). Former police officer sentenced to prison for use of excessive force. nationofchange.org "When an officer betrays that oath and violates a person's civil rights, that officer must be held accountable. Our community, and our profession, deserve no less."

John Perry (2021-05-24). NPR Should Ask Where Nicaraguan Non-Profits' Money Comes From. counterpunch.org Imagine what would happen if the US media discovered that a candidate in the mid-term elections was under investigation by the FBI for receiving money from a foreign government. Then, suppose it was one that's hostile to the US, perhaps Syria or Iran, and that the same government was also covertly funding election coverage in,

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-24). Palestinians in East Jerusalem resist ethnic cleansing and blockades and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the mass arrests of Palestinians and the blockade in Sheikh Jarrah, the strike by ArcelorMittal workers in Canada, and more…

Robert S. Becker (2021-05-24). Justice triumphs, stupidity loses: CNN dumps Santorum for obliterating Native American culture. nationofchange.org Good riddance to bad rightwing Christian warrior rubbish that should have been dumped years ago.

John Whitbeck (2021-05-24). A Biden Speech to Transform the Middle East. counterpunch.org President Biden has a problem. He wishes to escape from the Middle East quagmire and focus American foreign policy on the perceived China threat. However, in the wake of the recent Israeli-Palestinian carnage, there is no escape. He must do something. But what? Doing the same thing yet again while hoping for a different result

Louisa Willcox (2021-05-24). Playing Russian Roulette with Grizzly Matron 399 and the Bears of Yellowstone. counterpunch.org Few if any animals have been more celebrated than 399, the matron grizzly bear of Grand Teton National Park. Each year, families flock to Jackson Hole hoping to catch a glimpse of her shepherding her latest brood — now four irrepressible yearlings. Her grown-up daughter, Grizzly 610, accompanied by two pre-adolescent cubs now as large as she is, generates almost as much excitement. Today, about 10 grizzlies of 399's lineage make their living along Jackson Hole's roads in the company of people.

WSWS (2021-05-24). New Zealand: Sister of Pike River mine disaster victim makes powerful statement demanding continued investigation. wsws.org Olivia Monk's Facebook post demanding the truth about the 2010 disaster that killed 29 men, and opposing the Labour government's plan to end the underground investigation, has received widespread support.

El Faro English (2021-05-24). Political Arrests in Nicaragua and Guatemala. latinorebels.com "Throw them in jail, take their cell phones!" yelled Nicaraguan riot police in a Managua office building complex last Thursday morning as they chased down reporters from international and local outlets.

WSWS (2021-05-24). Manhunt continues for Belgian neo-Nazi officer who planned to kill virologists. wsws.org This individual, with documented ties to the far right, was kept in a senior position as a training officer in the Belgian army and given access to the armory.

The Associated Press (2021-05-24). Floyd's Death Laid Bare the 'Minnesota Paradox' of Racism. latinorebels.com MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd's death under a white Minneapolis police officer's knee severely tarnished Minnesota's reputation as a progressive state on matters of race. Many Black residents say it was never deserved in the first place.

Richard Rhames (2021-05-24). Ruralist's Lament: It's Alive! counterpunch.org We've been farming this plot of land for going on half a century. The fields lay between the ledges and the glacial erratics, and we're only the most recent tillers since "Robert Cole, Yeoman" established a homestead here in 1769. The farm buildings Cole erected were obliterated in a great fire that burned much of

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-24). Patriarchy Is as Cunning as Capitalism. libya360.wordpress.com Raúl Cazal and Alba Carosio Alba Carosio has been a feminist activist since the 1960s. She practices a feminism committed to popular struggles and to the poorest and most excluded women. Nevertheless, she is aware that her reach was limited, until Hugo Chávez became President of the Republic: Women's struggles for their rights pre-existed the…

WSWS (2021-05-24). Reject the CDC's change to masking guidelines! wsws.org An aggregate of west coast rank-and-file committees met Saturday and issued a statement opposing the recent decision by the CDC and the further escalation of policies to reopen schools and non-essential workplaces.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-24). Iran, IAEA agree to extend monitoring deal, give ongoing Vienna talks a chance. peoplesdispatch.org The extension follows the expiry of a three-month agreement signed in February between the Iranian government and the IAEA providing the UN body access to Iranian nuclear sites through photos despite an Iranian law restricting physical inspection…

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_____ (2021-05-24). The Fight For A New Colombia. popularresistance.org On 28 April, Colombian trade unions and social movements staged a new round of Paro Nacional (National Strike) protests, the latest in an ongoing series of mobilisations to address the litany of problems impacting Colombian society. | Opposition to a planned tax reform — which strike organisers said would unfairly target the middle and working classes in what is one of Latin America's most unequal countries — was the central issue, particularly in the context of the global pandemic which has pushed an estimated five million Colombians out of work. Calls to repeal the tax reform were aligned with longe…

Joris Leverink (2021-05-24). Resisting the everyday violence of colonial extractivism. roarmag.org Indigenous Peruvians protesting in the city of Ayaviri against the pollution from a nearby mine. Ayaviri, Peru — 2015. Paulo de Abreu / Shutterstock.com | "In many cases, the state legitimizes violence," said the lawyer, professor and researcher on socio-environmental conflicts, Patricia Urteaga Crovetto, as we sat in her university office in Lima, Peru. "People make claims, they knock on doors, organize investigations, run petitions, file complaints, appeal, litigate. They use all the instruments the law offers. When all this does not work, sometimes, violence is their last straw. I do not justify violence,…

Jennifer Chudy (2021-05-24). Support for Black Lives Matter Surged Last Year. Did It Last? zcomm.org Did George Floyd's death catalyze support for Black Lives Matter? If so, for how long and for whom?>

Ralph Nader (2021-05-24). Biden: End Your Co-Belligerent Backing of Israeli War Crimes. globalresearch.ca As Senator, Vice …

Dean Baker (2021-05-24). Vaccinating the World: If We Had Grown Ups in Charge. cepr.net People in policy debates are not supposed to question the desirability of patent monopolies as a mechanism for financing the development of new drugs and vaccines. After all, why ask a question that could jeopardize the profits of some of the world's largest corporations? But, since I live out in Southern Utah, far away from …

contributors (2021-05-24). Eman Askar's TikTok deep-history 'Song for Palestine' goes Viral with 10 mn Views in 48 Hours. juancole.com "A song telling the story of Palestine has gone viral on social media. TikToker Eman Askar —

Middle East Eye (2021-05-24). 'She Was Too Vocal': Outrage Grows over AP Journalist Fired for Pro-Palestine Views. globalresearch.ca The Associated Press …

Moderator (2021-05-24). Chris Hedges and Author Mitchell Plitnick on "Except for Palestine" scheerpost.com On this week's "On Contact," Chris Hedges discusses why American liberals refuse to speak out about the crimes the Israeli apartheid state carries out against the Palestinians, with political analyst and author Mitchell Plitnick. Mitchell Plitnick's new book, with co-author Marc Lamont Hill, is: "Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics." "Israel is in …

Yasser Abed (2021-05-24). The People of Palestine Have Been Terrorized. globalresearch.ca For a moment …

_____ (2021-05-24). The US Isn't An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn't A US Puppet. popularresistance.org Nearly 200,000 protesters attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on Saturday afternoon, another clear sign that support for Palestinian rights is becoming increasingly mainstream and the imperialists are losing control of the Israel narrative. | The real consequence of this is that people will begin losing trust in the government and media institutions which support Israel, because without trust the empire can't propagandize people, and without the ability to propagandize us our rulers cannot rule. There's no risk for Israel of losing US backing due to the US government suddenly evolving a consc…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-24). In Al-Aqsa, Sheikh Jarrah and rest of Palestine, Israeli oppression continues. peoplesdispatch.org While the ceasefire has ended the bombing in Gaza, violence against Palestinians continues across the occupied territories. The Al-Aqsa compound was invaded on Friday and Sunday and Palestinian organizations have warned of mass arrests by Israel…

Alex Bainbridge (2021-05-24). Photos: Thousands march again for Palestine after ceasefire. greenleft.org.au Tens of thousands of people protested against the Israeli assault on Gaza and East Jerusalem on May 22 (and May 23 in Perth). This came the day after a "ceasefire" was announced between Israel and Hamas and a few days after an historic general strike by Palestinians throughout the entire region of historic Palestine.

Alessandra Korap Munduruku, Darryl Knudsen, Irikefe V. Dafe (2021-05-24). Rivers are Key to Restoring the World's Biodiversity. counterpunch.org Alessandra Korap Munduruku is a Munduruku Indigenous woman leader from Indigenous Reserve Praia do Ândio in the Brazilian Amazon. She is a member of Pariri, a local Munduruku association, as well as the Munduruku Wakoborûn Women's Association. In 2020, Alessandra won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her work defending the culture, livelihoods and rights of Indigenous peoples in Brazil. | Darryl Knudsen is the executive director of International Rivers. He has 20 years' experience channeling the power of civil society movements to create enduring, positive change toward social and environmental justice…

Staff (2021-05-24). Venezuela to Start New Vaccination Phase with 1.3 Million Doses from China. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that 1.3 million new COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in the country from China, which would help to accelerate mass vaccination in the country. | During his speech this Sunday, May 23, the president clarified that a new phase of vaccination will start this week, with the aim to get 70% of the population vaccinated by the end of August. | "This week, a new phase of vaccination starts in the country; 1,300,000 new vaccines arrived in Venezuelans from China. More vaccines are arriving this week, and even more doses are yet to come," he stated in his Sunday address…

Johanna Fernández, posted by Jamal Journal (2021-05-24). Mumia Abu-Jamal's case transferred to Pennsylvania Supreme Court. indybay.org Attached is a May 20, 2021 ruling by the Court to transfer Mumia Abu-Jamal's case from the Superior Court, up to the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court. A short legal update is reprinted below from Professor Johanna Fernández of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home (www.bringmumiahome.com).

Patrick Cockburn (2021-05-24). Biden's Timid Gaza Intervention Won't Count for Much But US Reaction Against Israel has Changed Significantly. counterpunch.org During the Israeli bombardment of Beirut in August 1982, President Ronald Reagan phoned Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to express his "shock" and "outrage" at Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire on the Lebanese capital, demanding that they be stopped immediately. He said that Israeli actions were causing "needless destruction and bloodshed" and had halted US-led negotiations to bring about an end to the crisis.

Ali Abunimah (2021-05-24). Bernie Sanders says "tone down the rhetoric" on Israel's crimes. electronicintifada.net Senator fits mold of "white moderate" condemned by Martin Luther King Jr.

Saheli Chowdhury (2021-05-24). Syrian Refugees and Residents Abroad Vote Massively in Presidential Elections. orinocotribune.com May 23 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)—On Thursday, May 20, Syrian refugees and residents in different countries around the world voted in massive numbers at Syrian diplomatic missions that were turned into polling centers for the presidential elections. This was the first day of voting in a two-day process—within Syria, citizens will go to polls on May 26. | The generally peaceful electoral process was only marred by xenophobic attacks against Syrian voters in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed one voter, reported Syria News. | The first country to open the polling centers was Australia, where Syrians reg…

The Socialist Program (2021-05-24). An Empire in Decline: Unmasking U.S. Strategies to Dominate the Globe. liberationnews.org As the United States' power declines, the managers of U.S. empire are scrambling to come up with new approaches to maintain their dominant position around the globe.

Eds. (2021-05-24). It's all protest music: Bob Dylan at 80. mronline.org Wherever the forces of destruction attempt to cut down trees, pollute our air and water, and rip away the earth for minerals, women have been leading the resistance. In the cities and communities, women have fought for clean water, air, and land for their families to flourish. | May 24, 2021…

teleSUR Desk (2021-05-24). AP sacks correspondent critical of Israel. mronline.org Emily Wilder had been targeted by extremist Zionist media outlets. | May 24, 2021 | Newswire…

Editor2 (2021-05-24). Targeting Nicaragua: How Billionaire Foundations Fund NGOs to Advance US Foreign Policy Goals. orinocotribune.com By Rick Sterling — May 21, 2021 | US foreign policy is increasingly promoted by billionaire funded foundations. The neoliberal era has created individuals with incredible wealth and through "philanthropy", they flex their influence and feel good at the same time. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they universally support U.S. foreign policy and the "free market". Because many of these super-rich individuals made their wealth through investments and speculation, most do not like a planned economy, socialized services beyond the private sector or greater government control. | These meg…

David Swanson (2021-05-24). What The New Acceptability of the Lab Leak Origin Tells Us About Media Outlets. warisacrime.org Have you noticed that a lot of science writers have lately been saying that they were perfectly right a year ago to mock and condemn even considering a lab leak origin for Coronavirus but that now it's perfectly proper to admit that Coronavirus may very well have come from a lab? It seems to be …

Danny Shaw (2021-05-24). This is not a Crisis — This is a Rebellion: A Report from the Front Lines of Haiti. orinocotribune.com By Danny Shaw — May 11, 2021 | All of Haitian society is in revolt. | A mambo and hougan—the traditional voudou priestess and priest—lead ancestral ceremonies before rallies take the streets and block the central arteries of Port-au-Prince, Cap HaàØtien, and other Haitian cities and towns. After one of their members was kidnapped, leaders of the Protestant Church directed its congregation to halt all activities at noon on Wednesday and bat tenèb. Bat tenèb, literally "beat the darkness," is a call for all sectors of Haitian society to beat pots, pans, street lights and anything else as a g…

Roger Harris (2021-05-24). U.S. trying to extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for the "crime" of securing food for the hungry: the case of Alex Saab v. The Empire. mronline.org The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. | May 24, 2021…

Aidan Jonah (2021-05-24). Canadian Media Launches Sinophobic Anti-China Campaign, Amid Years of Attacks on Chinese-Canadian Institutions. orinocotribune.com Over the past few weeks there has been a ramping up of a sinophobic anti-China campaign by Canadian media. This campaign comes in total disregard of the clear links between rampant Sinophobia and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes across the continent, including Canada. The core element of this campaign is a push to create the impression among Canadians that China is plotting to subvert Canadian "democracy" and infiltrate Canadian institutions. The groups used as proxies to push these dangerous narratives: Hong Kong "pro-democracy" dissident groups in Canada, and "Uyghur rights" groups and their imperialis…

Rick Sterling (2021-05-24). Why Shady Billionaire-Funded NGOs Pushed a PBS Report on Nicaraguan "Conflict Beef" mintpressnews.com MISKITO COAST, NICARAGUA — There is much truth in the old saying, "He who pays the piper, calls the tune," and the neoliberal era has spawned individuals with incredible wealth who, through "philanthropy," can feel good and flex their influence at the same time. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they almost universally support U.S. foreign policy and the "free market;" and, because many of these super-rich individuals made their wealth through investments and speculation, most do not like a planned economy, socialized services beyond the private sector, or greater government control…

The Empire Files (2021-05-24). AUDIO: Empire Files — The Beginning of the End for Israel. liberationnews.org The past two weeks have revealed a tectonic shift in public opinion towards the Israeli colonial regime.

Global Research News (2021-05-24). Selected Articles: Bombshell: Nobel Prize Winner Reveals — COVID Vaccine Is 'Creating Variants'. globalresearch.ca By While it is understood that viruses mutate, causing variants, French Virologist and Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier contends that "it is the …

Rick Rozoff (2021-05-24). U.S. Secretary of State assures Ukraine of support for NATO membership plan. mronline.org U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Kiev today. | May 24, 2021…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-24). Iran's Inspection Deal With Internatoinal Atomic Agency Expired. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The speaker of Iran's parliament said a three-month monitoring deal between Tehran and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has expired. | As a result, its access to images from inside some Iranian nuclear sites would cease."From May 22 and with the end of the three-month agreement, the (IAEA) agency will have no access to data collected by cameras inside the nuclear facilities agreed under the agreement," state TV quoted parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf as saying. | The…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-24). Military Situation In Donetsk People's Republic On May 24, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | 1. UAF in Pivdenne shelled the Gagarin mine in Gorlovka with grenade launchers | 2. UAF in Pesky shelled Donetsk city with 120-mm artillery | 3. UAF in Vodyanoe shelled DPR forces in Leninskoe with grenade launchers | 4. UAF in Granitnoe shelled DPR forces in Novaya Marevka with grenade launchers | 5. DPR forces Novolaspa targeted UAF positions in Starognatovka with grenade launchers | 6. DPR forces in Gorlovka shelled UAF positions in Katerynivka with grenade lau…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-24). Russia Developing Two Smaller Hypersonic Missiles For Its Tu-22M3 And Su-34 Bombers. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Testing of a new small-sized hypersonic missile "Ostrota" that is to be equipped on Russia's bombers should begin next year, Izvestia Aircraft armed with such ammunition will become part of the Russian non-nuclear deterrent force. | The new missiles will help Russia maintain a leading position in this high-tech type of weapon. It is alle…

Hugo Murphy (2021-05-24). The Weekly Round-up: Criminal justice scandals and 'prison-like' hotels for victims of modern slavery. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news: Failures of the criminal justice system were once again under the spotlight this week. On Wednesday, business minister Paul Scully announced a statutory inquiry into the sub-postmaster scandal, following widespread outrage at one of the greatest miscarriages of justice un UK legal history. After the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former …

Phyllis Bennis (2021-05-24). So What Exactly is Biden's Israel Policy? counterpunch.org So just what is the Biden administration's policy towards Israel? Why did Biden take so long to respond to the violence as it spiraled out of control in Jerusalem and Gaza? Why do Biden's repeated "Israel has the right of self-defense" litanies so closely match the positions of his predecessor, despite the wide disparity between

Phyllis Bennis (2021-05-24). What is Joe Biden's Israel Policy, Exactly? indybay.org The Biden administration thought it could muddle through with the usual pro-Israel platitudes, but rising awareness of Israeli apartheid is making that impossible.

RobertAlvarez (2021-05-24). There Is No "Border Crisis" ips-dc.org U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) temporarily closed the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego on the morning of Nov. 19, 2018. With Why? Because thousands of migrants, primarily from Central America,…

John Kendall Hawkins (2021-05-24). Dylan at 80: A Sonnet of Appreciation. counterpunch.org Dylan at 80: A Sonnet of Appreciation Been around almost as long the war with Russia, a child of Odessa blues, who spat at Ellsberg,* like Dad did the Tsar, went hunting Woody's career, filled his shoes, got himself condemned by the left and right — became the Wandering Jew, harp and guitar, on a

Toward increasing Networking (2021-05-24). Online events w/ Ben Chavis, Peter Linebaugh, Rosa Clemente, Vandana Shiva, Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are some 20 online events taking place over the next 7 days (and starting tomorrow, May 22), featuring people such as Ben Chavis, Peter Linebaugh, Cynthia Kaufman, Rosa Clemente, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

David Price (2021-05-24). Anthropologist Laura Nader on the Lost Art of the Letter. counterpunch.org During the past six decades anthropologist Laura Nader (University of California, Berkeley) has shaped anthropological analysis in important ways relating to how the discipline understands power relations. Her new book, Letters to and from an Anthropologist is a curated collection of her personal correspondence, featuring exchanges with public figures, everyday people, politicians, students whose lives

DLI (2021-05-24). USA "Iron Dome" media vaccine proved 99% effective in shielding Israel. indybay.org For the past 2 weeks, since the massive violence perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza began(with massive use of US-made planes and bombs), the White House, alongside the "Corporate-bin-Laden" media, had unleashed a media vaccine, aptly coined, "Iron Dome" media shield, that proved to be nearly 99% effective against criticism from nearly the entire world, on the active support of Israel's virtual massacre of Palestinian civilians.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2021-05-24). Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney and the Rule of Law. globalresearch.ca One could not …

Binoy Kampmark (2021-05-24). Coronavirus Travels and Cruising with Viking. counterpunch.org It starts off as an exercise of anticipation. First comes the softening drinks and teasing morsels which find their mark. The audience at this promotions gig is well heeled, of an age where they have money to burn, but nowhere to burn it. They have not travelled on a luxurious prison of bliss for eighteen

Juan Cole (2021-05-24). Irish Parties and People demand Expulsion of Israeli ambassador, Fines for importing Settler-made Goods. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The recent Israeli assault on the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and the bombardment of Gaza, has stirred passions in the Irish Republic, where public opinion has swung around to be strongly in favor of Palestinian rights and critical of the Apartheid, Occupation government of Israel. Rallies have …

Bilge Nesibe Kotan (2021-05-24). The Destruction of a Famed Gaza Bookstore Severs a Crucial Lifeline. globalresearch.ca The destruction of …

WSWS (2021-05-24). Thousands demonstrate in Chicago to oppose Israeli slaughter in Gaza. wsws.org Several thousand protesters marched in downtown Chicago on Friday to oppose the brutal US-backed Israeli war on Gaza.

WSWS (2021-05-24). Protests through Europe against Israel's war on Gaza. wsws.org The protests took place just 48 hours after a ceasefire was announced between Israel and Hamas, but this was widely recognised among those attending the protests as nothing but a tenuous lull before Israel resumes hostilities against a defenceless population.

WSWS (2021-05-24). Israeli provocations continue as scale of Gaza damage emerges. wsws.org The United Nations said nearly 450 buildings had been damaged, including six hospitals, 53 schools and 11 primary healthcare centres, as well as more than 1,000 homes.

Mosab Abu Toha (2021-05-24). In Gaza, It's Now Time to Count Family Members. thenation.com In Gaza, It's Now Time to Count Family Members…

Labor Video Project (2021-05-24). The People United Will Never Be Defeated! SF Rally Against Attacks On Palestinian People. indybay.org Over 1,000 Palestinians and opponents of the attacks on Palestinians in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank rallied and spoke out in San Francisco on 5/22/21…

Juan Cole (2021-05-24). Irish Parties and People demand Expulsion of Israeli ambassador. zcomm.org The recent Israeli assault on the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and the bombardment of Gaza, has stirred passions in the Irish Republic…

Gavin Phillips (2021-05-24). COVID-19 and the PCR Test — No Pandemic, Only Junk Data! globalresearch.ca Our world, once …

WSWS (2021-05-24). Abandonment of health measures threatens US COVID-19 resurgence. wsws.org As dangerous new variants of COVID-19 surge throughout the globe, the United States is systematically ending all measures to contain the ongoing pandemic.

WHO Watch Team (2021-05-24). As World Health Assembly starts, solidarity is missing from the agenda. peoplesdispatch.org The 74th World Health Assembly that began on Monday will have to deal with a host of challenges at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the stark inequalities in every aspect of health across the globe…

Staff (2021-05-24). Venezuela's COVID-19 Sunday Brief: 1,293 New Cases, 14 Deaths and 93% Recovery Rate. orinocotribune.com On Sunday, May 23, Venezuelan Minister for Communication and Information, Freddy àëáñez, informed that in the last 24 hours 1,293 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Venezuela, of which 1,291 were community transmissions and 2 were imported cases. | àëáñez informed that the state with the most infections is Zulia, with 299 cases in 16 of its 21 municipalities. | The rest of…

WSWS (2021-05-24). COVID-19 breaks out in Taiwan, with daily case numbers above 100. wsws.org Despite the resurgence of the pandemic globally, Taipei continued to ease restrictions, leading to what is now a dangerous outbreak.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Guidelines and nuances of wearing a face mask. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Recent COVID-19 masking guidelines announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, continue to generate a public conversation. "The decision about masking needs to be nuanced," says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "Wearing a mask should be based on the risk of infection, the percentage of the …

WSWS (2021-05-24). UK government relaxes mask wearing in schools as it lifts safety restrictions amid spread of new Covid variant. wsws.org Mask wearing was the main, albeit limited, protection afforded to educators and pupils when schools reopened early March.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Mayo Clinic offers COVID-19 walk-in vaccine clinics in Minnesota. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic in Rochester and at its Health System sites continue to offer patients, visitors and staff additional convenient opportunities to be vaccinated for COVID-19. All domestic and international patients, visitors and staff who want to be vaccinated for COVID-19 have a couple of opportunities to do so at walk-in clinics this week: Mayo Clinic …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). The safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines for children. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine is now available to children ages 12 through 15 in the U.S. Here's what parents, caregivers and children need to know about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, the possible side effects, and the benefits of getting vaccinated. This is written by Mayo Clinic Staff and you can …

Zachary Conti (2021-05-24). IMF Proposes $50 Billion Vaccine Plan to End Pandemic and Boost Economy. indybay.org As worldwide COVID cases peak, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva unveiled a $50 billion proposal to support vaccinations of 60% of the world's population. During a G20 and European Commission summit, Georgieva argued the global vaccine investment would end the pandemic and spur $9 trillion in economic gains by 2025.

Renee Nal (2021-05-24). Bombshell: Nobel Prize Winner Reveals — COVID Vaccine Is 'Creating Variants'. globalresearch.ca While it is …

Akash Mehta (2021-05-24). Criminal Negligence: How New York State Let Covid-19 Run Rampant in Prisons. thenation.com Criminal Negligence: How New York State Let Covid-19 Run Rampant in Prisons…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). New CDC guidance for fully vaccinated adults. What does it mean? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org On Thursday, May 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced updated COVID-19 guidance for masking for fully vaccinated people. For instance, fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a protective mask indoors at a movie theater, shopping center or restaurant. But this new guidance does not apply to health care settings. Mayo Clinic …

George Monbiot (2021-05-24). Britain's borders: wide open to Covid, slammed shut for people in need. zcomm.org The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19…

John Buell (2021-05-24). On How there is no Restaurant Worker Shortage, only a Shortage of Safe Jobs with Adequate Pay. juancole.com From the earliest days of the Pandemic relief initiatives business lobbies and conservative pundits have griped about the $600 Federal Unemployment Insurance supplement. They complained that combined state and federal programs would give many employed workers more income than they received in their current jobs. Workers would have an incentive to stay home to sit …

_____ (2021-05-24). War And Climate Disasters Displaced A Record Of 55 Million People In 2020. popularresistance.org Amid a raging global pandemic, a record 55 million people were displaced from their homes but still living in their countries by the end of 2020, according to the latest report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center. | While the figures have been increasing steadily for over a decade, as per the Geneva-based center's annual reports, ferocious storms, floods and conflicts displaced more people within their own country in 2020 — in spite of the global pandemic — than in any other year covered by the IDMC's reporting. Shockingly, the report found that internally displaced people outnumbered ref…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-05-24). It's Past Time to End U.S. Funding of Israeli Violence. counterpunch.org At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel stood out as a success story, administering more doses of vaccines to its modest-sized 9-million-strong population than any other country after China, the U.S., and the UK. Today, more than 60 percent of Israelis are vaccinated,

Naomi Wolf (2021-05-24). The Fascism Construction Manual. indybay.org Immediately after the proclamation of this pandemic, many elements of absolute all-around totalitarianism were put into effect in most countries of the West, even in countries that had previously been robust democracies. All of this happened very quickly and comprehensively.

WSWS (2021-05-24). Statements of support from New Zealand, Australia and the US for a full investigation of the Pike River mine disaster. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site is publishing statements from readers throughout the world in support of the families of those who died in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, who are fighting to uncover the truth about the cause of the disaster and for those responsible brought to justice.

WSWS (2021-05-24). The lessons of the 1994 Moura mine disaster in Australia. wsws.org Socialist Equality Party (Australia) member Terry Cook delivered this speech at the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) May 8 webinar, "Ten years after the Pike River mine disaster."

Norman Solomon (2021-05-24). Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices and Targets Journalists. indybay.org Trying to dim the lights on a killing spree…

Jonathan Cook (2021-05-24). Jewish Groups that Aid Israel's War Crimes Can't Deny All Responsibility for Those Crimes. globalresearch.ca Here is something …

WSWS (2021-05-24). Australia: Transport Workers Union calls for food delivery minimum wage. wsws.org Wednesday's rally was a pitch to Uber and other gig-economy employers to utilise the union as an industrial police force.

_____ (2021-05-24). Workers At Steel Giant ArcelorMittal Go On Strike. popularresistance.org Canada – In northeastern Quebec, 2,500 ArcelorMittal workers have been on strike since May 10. The strikers, who work in mines, port facilities, rail lines and offices belonging to the Luxembourg-based multinational, are represented by five locals of the United Steelworkers (USW/ Métallos ) and are affiliated with the Quebec Federation of Labour (QFL), the largest labour organization in Quebec with more than 600,000 members. | The strike follows workers' unequivocal rejection of ArcelorMittal's "final and comprehensive" offer. Workers voted against the company's May 7 offer by percentages ranging from 97 percent…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-24). Over 800 Algerians detained for questioning in 118th week of Hirak protests. peoplesdispatch.org The latest round of Hirak protests saw police place multiple restrictions in Algiers and other parts of the country. Friday's mobilizations were the second round since the government announced a ban on unauthorized demonstrations…

WSWS (2021-05-24). UAW announces narrow ratification of sellout contract at Nexteer, fueling rank-and-file suspicions of ballot-rigging. wsws.org Saginaw Nexteer workers should establish a rank-and-file committee to demand an audit of the ratification vote supervised by representatives of the workers, not the pro-company UAW.

Carey Gillam (2021-05-24). Chlorpyrifos: Common Pesticide Tied to Brain Damage in Children. globalresearch.ca Chlorpyrifos, a widely …

Pavan Kulkarni (2021-05-24). South African dockworkers to boycott Israeli ships until total liberation of Palestinian people: Union. peoplesdispatch.org The dockworkers continue to boycott work on the Israeli ship Zim Shanghai which arrived at Durban port on May 20. All ships carrying cargo to and from Israel will be boycotted by dockworkers, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) told Peoples Dispatch…

WSWS (2021-05-24). Boeing donates $50 million to Virginia Tech University's "Innovation Campus" wsws.org The donation is the largest in the university's history and was announced as part of an effort to focus on "diversity."

WSWS (2021-05-24). Behind Tesla's rise, part 1: Tesla's market value and Wall Street speculation. wsws.org Tesla's market capitalization is greater than the next three top automakers combined, which collectively produce 44 times as many vehicles as Tesla.

_____ (2021-05-24). 'The White Republic': A Response By Gerald Horne. popularresistance.org The good news is that Comrade Bob Wing's analysis represents a step forward in terms of the U.S. Left's understanding of the nation—"republic"—in which it struggles. | The bad news is that the U.S. left has not necessarily kept pace with the U.S. ruling class in terms of similar issues, or even with non-radical African-Americans, for that matter. | Consider the multi-part series on HBO Max (a member in good standing of the much reviled "corporate media") that premiered recently, i.e. Black filmmaker Raoul Peck's "Exterminate All the Brutes," a sweeping analysis and condemnation of settler colonialism…

WSWS (2021-05-24). As National Guard troops withdraw from US Capitol, police reports detail ongoing threats of fascistic violence. wsws.org The warnings indicate that the threat of fascism has not lessened with the election and inauguration of Biden.

John Hickman (2021-05-24). Let Lebanon be Lebanon: Paris should Stop Threatening Beirut with EU Sanctions. juancole.com John Hickman "Governing Lebanon is surely more daunting than governing France."[1] That pearl of wisdom in an essay defending consociational democracy by University of Pennsylvania political scientist Brendan O'Leary has never been more accurate. A delicate balance of domestic interests with institutional vetoes at the best of times, Lebanese politics has been stalemated for months …

WSWS (2021-05-24). 2,500 workers at steel giant ArcelorMittal go on strike on Quebec's North Shore. wsws.org The ArcelorMittal workers must broaden their struggle and make it the spearhead of a working class counteroffensive to put workers' jobs, wages and working conditions ahead of capitalist profit.

Arjun Walia (2021-05-24). Sweden Says PCR Tests "Cannot be Used to Determine Whether Someone Is Contagious" globalresearch.ca

John Perry (2021-05-24). NPR Should Ask Where Nicaraguan Non-Profits' Money Comes From. counterpunch.org Imagine what would happen if the US media discovered that a candidate in the mid-term elections was under investigation by the FBI for receiving money from a foreign government. Then, suppose it was one that's hostile to the US, perhaps Syria or Iran, and that the same government was also covertly funding election coverage in,

Emanuel Pastreich (2021-05-24). Interpretation and Investigation: The Conspiracy Theory Trap. globalresearch.ca The creation of events that will promote irreconcilable interpretations in different interpretive communities has become a cottage industry for the rich and powerful. The radically divergent tales concerning mass shootings and attacks on minorities does wonders to exacerbate rifts between …

John Whitbeck (2021-05-24). A Biden Speech to Transform the Middle East. counterpunch.org President Biden has a problem. He wishes to escape from the Middle East quagmire and focus American foreign policy on the perceived China threat. However, in the wake of the recent Israeli-Palestinian carnage, there is no escape. He must do something. But what? Doing the same thing yet again while hoping for a different result

Louisa Willcox (2021-05-24). Playing Russian Roulette with Grizzly Matron 399 and the Bears of Yellowstone. counterpunch.org Few if any animals have been more celebrated than 399, the matron grizzly bear of Grand Teton National Park. Each year, families flock to Jackson Hole hoping to catch a glimpse of her shepherding her latest brood — now four irrepressible yearlings. Her grown-up daughter, Grizzly 610, accompanied by two pre-adolescent cubs now as large as she is, generates almost as much excitement. Today, about 10 grizzlies of 399's lineage make their living along Jackson Hole's roads in the company of people.

Ian Morse (2021-05-24). Millions of Electric Cars Are Coming. What Happens to All the Dead Batteries? globalresearch.ca The battery pack …

WSWS (2021-05-24). New Zealand: Sister of Pike River mine disaster victim makes powerful statement demanding continued investigation. wsws.org Olivia Monk's Facebook post demanding the truth about the 2010 disaster that killed 29 men, and opposing the Labour government's plan to end the underground investigation, has received widespread support.

WSWS (2021-05-24). Manhunt continues for Belgian neo-Nazi officer who planned to kill virologists. wsws.org This individual, with documented ties to the far right, was kept in a senior position as a training officer in the Belgian army and given access to the armory.

_____ (2021-05-24). Groups Condemn Police Actions At Fairy Creek. popularresistance.org X ∑m…ôŒ∏k ∑…ôyÃì…ôm (Musqueam), S·∏µwxñwú7mesh (Squamish) and s…ôlilw…ôta…¨ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C. — May 21, 2021: The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) has written to the provincial government and RCMP Commissioner condemning the arbitrary and unlawful RCMP Exclusion Zone in unceded Ditidaht territory. The RCMP have established two checkpoints and roadblocks along the McClure Main and Caycuse Main roads near the Fairy Creek blockade against old-growth logging. | In an open letter t…

_____ (2021-05-24). Leaks Show DC Cops Justify 'Aggressive' Protest Tactics. popularresistance.org Documents obtained by Al Jazeera appear to show Washington, DC's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) used a training document to justify "an aggressive police response" to left-wing demonstrations and legal observers, according to experts. | Ransomware group Babuk stole the documents from MPD several weeks ago and asked a bounty of $1m for their return. MPD did not pay, resulting in their leak. | The documents include a January 2019 PowerPoint training presentation hacked from an MPD intelligence officer entitled "First Amendment Training Presentation". | The majority of the presentation features images of myria…

Richard Rhames (2021-05-24). Ruralist's Lament: It's Alive! counterpunch.org We've been farming this plot of land for going on half a century. The fields lay between the ledges and the glacial erratics, and we're only the most recent tillers since "Robert Cole, Yeoman" established a homestead here in 1769. The farm buildings Cole erected were obliterated in a great fire that burned much of

WSWS (2021-05-24). Reject the CDC's change to masking guidelines! wsws.org An aggregate of west coast rank-and-file committees met Saturday and issued a statement opposing the recent decision by the CDC and the further escalation of policies to reopen schools and non-essential workplaces.

Sam Jacobs (2021-05-24). Weapons of War on Our Streets: The Militarization of America's Police. globalresearch.ca The claim often …

Johanna Kichton (2021-05-24). People's Bailout Coalition Places New York Times Ad With Nearly 200 Progressive Groups Calling on Congress to Go Bigger and Bolder to Deliver Jobs and Justice. peoplesaction.org As Biden Proposes Reducing His Recovery Package, campaigns Urge Congress to Invest $10 Trillion Over Next Decade on Climate, Jobs, and Justice Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 240.206.1145 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The People's Bailout today placed an ad in The New York Times along with three other networks and nearly 200 organizations calling on Congress to go bigger …

Courtenay Barnett (2021-05-24). History: The Inherent Irony in the Palestinian-Israeli Struggle. globalresearch.ca The word 'irony' …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-24). Iran, IAEA agree to extend monitoring deal, give ongoing Vienna talks a chance. peoplesdispatch.org The extension follows the expiry of a three-month agreement signed in February between the Iranian government and the IAEA providing the UN body access to Iranian nuclear sites through photos despite an Iranian law restricting physical inspection…

_____ (2021-05-24). Activists Push To Invest In Community, Not Police. popularresistance.org Just past midnight on December 14, 2020, Osamah Alsaidi walked near a police cruiser on a dark city street of Paterson, New Jersey's third-largest city just outside New York City. Shortly thereafter, that very same police car cut off Alsaidi's path and out jumped officers Kevin Patino and Kendry Tineo-Restituyo. | They immediately accosted the 19-year-old, striking him numerous times and dropping him to the ground where they continued their assault. The police report they filed described Alsaidi as "acting belligerent" and "screaming profanities." That report would remain the only evidence of the incident until s…

Jon Queally, staff writer (2021-05-24). 'State Treachery to the Extreme': Belarus Accused of Inventing Airplane Bomb Threat to Arrest Dissident Journalist. commondreams.org "There is little doubt that the Belarusian authorities used a false bomb threat and a MiG fighter jet to force an airplane flying from one country of the European Union to another to land with the apparent sole purpose of detaining an exiled critical journalist whom they badly wanted silenced." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/belarus-journalist.jpg

repost (2021-05-24). The Fight for Independent, Non-Corporate Radio Flares Up Again. indybay.org Despite losing a corporate bylaw proposal at Pacifica by 2 to 1 the same group of people have put another reactionary bylaw proposal to a vote for at Pacifica that will cost over $50,000. This is supported by many staff at KPFA who apparently don't give a damn about the waste of money and hypocrisy of their allies. This includes Cat Brooks, Aileen Alfandary, Mitch Jeserich, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Philip Maldari, Timothy Lynch, Bonnie Simmons, | Kris Welch, Darlene Pagano & Joel Sachs…

Tobias Siegal (2021-05-24). Thousands of Jews and Arabs march in Tel Aviv for peace, coexistence. zcomm.org Protesters voiced support for the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and called on the government to take immediate action to reach peace with the Palestinians…

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2021-05-24). America's Public Health System Is Utterly Corrupt. globalresearch.ca A sure sign …

Kit Knightly (2021-05-24). How the CDC Is Manipulating Data to Prop-up "Vaccine Effectiveness" globalresearch.ca The US Center …

George Abraham (2021-05-24). Searching for a Palestinian 'After'. thenation.com Searching for a Palestinian 'After'

Michael T. Klare (2021-05-24). The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China. thenation.com The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China…

Jennifer Schaffer (2021-05-24). The Roving Mind of Rachel Kushner. thenation.com The Roving Mind of Rachel Kushner…

Jean Guerrero (2021-05-24). How to Fight White Supremacy by Inverting Stephen Miller's Playbook. thenation.com How to Fight White Supremacy by Inverting Stephen Miller's Playbook…

Angela (2021-05-24). Saturday 5/22: Resistance Until Liberation. indybay.org Madison Park, Oakland (Eight & Madison)…

Oakland Privacy (2021-05-24). Wednesday 6/9: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveil. indybay.org Email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to obtain Zoom meeting access info.

NAACP Santa Cruz (2021-05-24). Tuesday 5/25: George Floyd Commemoration. indybay.org 701 Ocean St, Santa Cruz…

Lynda Carson (2021-05-24). Rent reporting bill SB 1157 may cost some tenants around $10.00 per month. indybay.org Oakland tenants facing eviction from a non-profit housing developer in 2008. Photo by Lydia Gans…

Angela (2021-05-24). Tuesday 5/25: How do we make the Congressional Progressive Caucus more Progressive? indybay.org Zoom | 5pm-6pm (PDT)…

Angela (2021-05-24). Saturday 5/22: Resistance Until Liberation: Rally & Protest. indybay.org 11 am | 16th & Mission St, SF | March to Civic Center | 1 pm Rally | Civic center, SF…

Watsonville Public Library (2021-05-24). Thursday 6/17: Book to Action: "Watsonville is in the Heart" Oral History Panel. indybay.org To register for this webinar visit: bit.ly/3n13zpE

Haymarket Books (2021-05-24). Tuesday 5/25: PIC Abolition, the War on Terror, and the Deportation Machine. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…

CA Poor People's Campaign & PPC National (2021-05-24). Monday 5/24: Rally to Demand End to Poverty & Starvation Wages in U.S. w/ PPC. indybay.org Online via livestream…

City Lights Books, GLBT Historical Society (2021-05-24). Monday 5/24: Political History of Act Up NY: The Activist Fight Against the AIDS Crisis. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…

Chuck Collins (2021-05-24). Family Offices: Trillion Dollar Pools of Unregulated Capital You Haven't Heard About. counterpunch.org Don't be surprised if you haven't heard of a family office as they fly below the radar. I explore the role of family offices in the larger "wealth defense industry" in my new book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions (Polity Books). And Kalena Thomhave and I make the case for

imperial.ac.uk (2021-05-24). New Imperial partnership to explore science communication in Poland and the UK. imperial.ac.uk Imperial is to collaborate with four leading universities in Poland to improve science communication in the two countries.

imperial.ac.uk (2021-05-24). European experts debate emerging tech regulation at Forum panel. imperial.ac.uk An expert panel discussed the upcoming EU AI regulation and how we can responsibly regulate emerging technologies like facial recognition.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Top tips for reducing heart attack and stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My sister just turned 50. She went in for a standard cardiac checkup and learned she has high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The doctor told her that since our mom also had these issues, she must drastically change her diet, increase her exercise, and take medications to lessen her risk for a …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Consumer Health: Smoking and rheumatoid arthritis — what's the connection? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is Arthritis Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the connection between smoking and rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that can affect more than just your joints. In some people, the condition can damage a wide variety of body systems, including the skin, eyes, lungs, heart …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Mayo named a 2021 DiversityInc No. 4 on the Top Hospitals and Health Systems for Diversity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DiversityInc announced its annual Top 50 Companies for Diversity listings. Mayo Clinic was named to two specialty lists this year — No. 4 on the Top Hospitals and Health Systems list, up from No. 7 in 2020, and a new entry onto the Top Companies for People with Disabilities list at No. 19. DiversityInc's listing is …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Consumer Health: What do you know about inflammatory bowel disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World IBD Day will be observed on Wednesday, May 19, which makes this a good time to learn more about how these disorders are similar and different. Inflammatory bowel disease, also known as IBD, is an umbrella term used to describe disorders that involve chronic inflammation of your digestive tract. Inflammatory bowel disease can be …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Dr. Prathibha Varkey named president of Mayo Clinic Health System. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Prathibha Varkey, M.B.B.S., has been named president of Mayo Clinic Health System, effective August 16, 2021.Dr. Varkey will partner with Mary Jo Williamson, chief administrative officer, Mayo Clinic Health System, to lead the strategy and operations of the health system's 17 hospitals and nearly 50 community clinics across Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin."We're …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Consumer Health: Reducing your risk of breast cancer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Breast cancer will affect 1 in 8 women, according to the American Cancer Society. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the U.S. Researchers have identified hormonal, lifestyle and environmental factors that may increase your risk of breast cancer. And an estimated 5% to 10% of breast cancers are …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Consumer Health: How some types of osteoporosis drugs can hurt your bones. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about this bone disease, which affects approximately 10 million Americans, according to the Office on Women's Health. Your bones are living tissue that is constantly being broken down and replaced. Osteoporosis occurs when the creation of new bone doesn't …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Mayo Clinic Cancer Center joins national call to get HPV vaccinations back on track. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has joined 71 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in calling on the nation's health care providers, parents and young adults to help get HPV vaccinations back on track. HPV causes several types of cancers, and nearly everyone gets infected with HPV by age 50. "Mayo Clinic recommends …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Consumer Health: Recovering from a stroke. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about stroke and stroke rehabilitation. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and a major cause of serious disability for adults. More than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year, according to the Centers …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Dr. Cheryl Willman named executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs, Director, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Cheryl Willman, M.D., has been named executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs and director of Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Willman comes to Mayo Clinic from University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, where she has served as director and CEO for 20 years. Under Dr. Willman's leadership, University of …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Bladder cancer patients require ongoing surveillance. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Bladder cancer is a common type of cancer that begins in the cells of the bladder, a hollow muscular organ in the lower abdomen that stores urine. Bladder cancer signs and symptoms can include blood in the urine, frequent or painful urination, and back pain. "The vast majority of bladder cancer patients are diagnosed with cancer that's not …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Science Saturday: Explaining cholesterol, research and regeneration. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Isobel Scarisbrick, Ph.D., directs the Neural Repair Laboratory within Mayo Clinic's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Her lab examines central nervous system repair after injury, such as traumatic spinal cord injury or a disease like multiple sclerosis (MS). A major area of innovation for the lab is improving nerve regeneration by identifying what helps or hinders that process. Cholesterol, the …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). AI-enabled EKGs find difference between numerical age and biological age significantly affects health, longevity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — You might be older ? or younger ? than you think. A new study found that differences between a person's age in years and his or her biological age, as predicted by an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled EKG, can provide measurable insights into health and longevity. The AI model accurately predicted the age …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-24). Mayo Clinic Minute: Tips to 'stop the bleed' in an emergency. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org If you came upon an emergency where a person is bleeding, would you know what to do? During National Trauma Month, May 20 is acknowledged as Stop the Bleed Day — a day to teach people how to take to control of serious bleeding. In this demonstration, Gwen Meyer, a Trauma Center nurse and trauma …

George Ygarza (2021-05-24). In Working-Class NJ Town, Activists Push to Invest in Community, Not Police. zcomm.org Abolitionists are confronting racial capitalism and policing in…

Tom H. Hastings (2021-05-24). Why riot? Toward a typology of social unrest. zcomm.org What is the difference between a riot and a protest? What about demonstrations? A vigil? Civil resistance?>

Pip Hinman (2021-05-24). Morrison hardens law against asylum seekers. greenleft.org.au Paul Gregoire looks at new changes to the Migration Act, which allow the federal government to lock people in immigration detention indefinitely.

Pip Hinman (2021-05-24). Denmark: Do not copy Australia's draconian detention laws. greenleft.org.au Refugee rights activists protested at the Danish Consulate against that government's plans to detain asylum seekers and process them in Rwanda. Stephen Langford reports.

Mel Gurtov, Larry Kirsch (2021-05-24). To Sanction Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Add Them to the State Department's List. counterpunch.org In Jerusalem today, Lehava, the virulent Israeli citizen's group at the epicenter of armed attacks, race-mongering, and incitement of terror against Palestinians, is inextricably bound-up and politically enabled by Otzma Yehudit (translated as "Jewish Power"), an extremist right wing political party now serving as a key player within Netanyahu's governing coalition. Otzma represents one of

WSWS (2021-05-24). This week in history: May 24-30. wsws.org 25 years ago: Peres ousted in Israeli general electionOn May 29, 1996, the Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, won a narrow victory in the Israeli general election, ousting Labor's Shimon Peres. The election dealt a blow to illusions that the Jewish and Arab masses could achieve peace and social progress within the framework established by imperialism in the Middle East.

_____ (2021-05-24). United Kingdom: Animal Rights Group Blockades McDonalds. popularresistance.org Environmental activits are blockading four McDonald's distribution centres in a bid to stop deliveries to the fast food giant's restaurants across the country this weekend. | Animal Rebellion say that some 50 demonstrators have used trucks and bamboo towers to stop lorries leaving depots in Hemel Hempstead, Basingstoke, Coventry and Heywood in Greater Manchester. | They have poured fake animal blood over signage with some protesters dressed as the chain's mascot, Ronald McDonald. | Demonstrators say they are targeting the chain because of its "role in the climate emergency" and are demanding McDonald's — wh…

Jacob G. Hornberger (2021-05-24). How We Got Omnipotent Government. globalresearch.ca We have all …

Raul Zibechi (2021-05-23). State, power and society in Latin America. zcomm.org From state violence and neoliberal extractivism to Colombia's general strike and Zapatismo…

priscilla (2021-05-23). Elections in Peru: Shift to the Left or Slide Backwards to the Far Right? dsausa.org RSVP Here Stakes are high as Peruvians go to the polls to elect their next President on June 6th. The country has been devastated by the mismanagement of the COVID-19 crisis, which has led to tens of thousands of reported deaths, mass employment, and economic decline. The two candidates in the second round of the…

_____ (2021-05-23). On Contact: 'Except For Palestine'. popularresistance.org On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses why American liberals refuse to speak out about the crimes the Israeli apartheid state carries out against the Palestinians, with political analyst and author Mitchell Plitnick. | Mitchell Plitnick's new book, with co-author Marc Lamont Hill, is: Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. | "Israel is in breach of more than 30 U.N. Security Council resolutions. It is in breach of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that defines collective punishment of a civilian population as a war crime. It is in violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Con…

Joris Leverink (2021-05-23). A history of erasure and instrumentality in Palestine. roarmag.org Photo by Since its inception as a settler colonial movement in the late 19th century, Zionism has relentlessly pursued a campaign to erase the Palestinian presence in Palestine. It has done so by manipulating the resistance generated by that campaign among Palestinians to its own ends, by instrumentalizing Palestinian resistance so as to de-politicize it and make it appear nothing but criminalized terror. | A key element of settler…

Staff (2021-05-23). Call for Action from Occupied Palestine '48: Resist colonial imprisonment and repression! samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is sharing the following call from Haifa, occupied Palestine '48. Hirak Haifa has distributed this appeal for international action to Palestinian communities and supporters of Palestinian liberation around the world: Israel has declared war against Palestinians who dare to resist its colonial project and demand freedom. Today, the Israeli police announced their intent to arrest over 500 Palestinian citizens of Israel over the next 48 hours. This wave of mass arrests will take place as part of what Israel calls a "law and order" campaign. Thousands of police officer…

Ari Paul (2021-05-23). AP Firing Shows Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Illusion of 'Objectivity'. zcomm.org The firing was an example of just how eager and able right-wing organizations are to ruin the career of anyone who dares speak out about social justice in Israel/Palestine…

Sharon Zhang (2021-05-23). Amazon Brings Anti-Union Tactics to Staten Island Unionization Effort. zcomm.org Three weeks into "JFK8" facility workers' independent union drive, More Perfect Union reports Amazon is ramping up its union-busting effort…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-05-23). UN Recognizes Venezuela's Efforts to Strengthen Human Rights. orinocotribune.com The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights recognized this Friday, May 21, via Twitter, the efforts of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to strengthen the exercise of human rights. | The UN body, led since 2018 by High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, expressed its satisfaction after the government of President Nicolás Maduro adopted procedures that coincide with the recommendations issued by the multilateral organization. | In this sense, the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, recently announced the restructuring of the SEBIN and the DGCIM, Venezuelan State secur…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-05-23). US Winks, Israel Bites? Shifting Middle East Alliances. The War on Iran is "On Hold"? globalresearch.ca At the outset of Bush's Second Term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of rogue enemies of America, & that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us", without US military involvement & without us putting pressure on them "to do it".

Editor2 (2021-05-23). Sanctions, Making Venezuela Scream: A Conversation with Alexander Main (Part I). orinocotribune.com A director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research explains the economic and political impact of the sanctions. | Alexander Main is Director of International Policy at the

_____ (2021-05-23). Mexican Supreme Court Ruled In Favor Of Mayan Community. popularresistance.org Mexico City, Mexico — The First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico confirmed on May 19, 2021 the definitive suspension of the hog farm of the company "Producción Alimentaria Porcícola" (PAPO) in favor of the children of the Mayan village of Homún, Yucatán, Mexico. | The vote was unanimous, with which the Supreme Court Judges confirmed the definitive suspension against the farm, which must remain closed until the definitive trial is resolved. The decision of the Mexican Supreme Court rules in favor of the Mayan people of Homún, specifically to the Mayan children who through an amparo lawsuit h…

_____ (2021-05-23). Mexican Supreme Court Ruled in Favor of Mayan Community, Suspends 49,000 Hog Farm. popularresistance.org The First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico confirmed on May 19, 2021 the definitive suspension of the hog farm of the company "Producción Alimentaria Porcícola" (PAPO) in favor of the children of the Mayan village of Homún, Yucatán, Mexico.

Shawgi Tell (2021-05-23). Charter School Promoters' War on Consciousness. dissidentvoice.org Charter school promoters have always relied on disinformation and irrationalism to justify the existence of charter schools, but in recent weeks and months it appears that a new, more pernicious, form of self-serving disinformation and irrationalism has reared its head. This new disinformation and irrationalism seeks to further debase social consciousness and takes the form …

Editor2 (2021-05-23). Dollarization in Venezuela Causes a Boom in Imported Goods Stores. orinocotribune.com By Michele de Mello — May 17, 2021 | The private sector sidesteps blockade and replaces the State in supplying goods | In the last six years of sanctions, Venezuela's economy has suffered serious attacks. As the country's GDP and oil activity dropped by 60%, imports were taken over by the private sector. Along with the recent process of forced dollarization, the country now faces a boom of bodegons, commercial shops that specialize in selling imported goods. They sell about everything — items of the basic food basket, cleaning and personal hygiene products, candies, beverages, medications. | The first…

The Conversation (2021-05-23). Israel and the Palestinians celebrate a ceasefire — but will anything change? juancole.com By Anthony Billingsley | — Israel and Hamasagreed to a ceasefire. That is good news for everyone involved. The dying can hopefully end and further destruction be avoided — at least for now. Both sides can also claim victory. Hamas can claim to have defended the interests of Palestinians in Jerusalem in contrast to its …

the Jamal Journal (2021-05-23). Mumia Abu-Jamal's Spiritual Advisor Confronts DA Krasner and the FOP. dissidentvoice.org This new mural featuring Pam and Ramona Africa alongside other Black community activists was unveiled on May 11, 2021 directly across the street from Philadelphia City Hall, on the very same block where the infamous statue of Frank Rizzo once stood.—Photo: Jamal Journal staff photographer Joe Piette Mark Lewis Taylor has been a professor in …

Rick Sterling (2021-05-23). How Billionaire Foundations Fund NGOs to Advance US Foreign Policy Goals. dissidentvoice.org US foreign policy is increasingly promoted by billionaire funded foundations. The neoliberal era has created individuals with incredible wealth and through "philanthropy", they flex their influence and feel good at the same time. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they universally support U.S. foreign policy and the "free market". Because many of …

Staff (2021-05-23). How to Fight Big Pharma — And Win. truthout.org The Biden administration's decision to support waiving World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property rules to help fight COVID-19 has the potential to help shift the global power balance toward governments and their people and away from mega-corporations. | At Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, an organization founded to dismantle corporate overreach of our "trade" and globalization policies, we celebrate the Biden-Harris administration's departure from decades of U.S. trade officials relentlessly attacking other countries' acc…

Staff (2021-05-23). Gaza Expecting Surge in COVID Cases Due to Crowding While Sheltering From Bombs. truthout.org As healthcare workers in Gaza cope with the aftermath of the Israel Defense Forces' 11-day bombardment campaign, health officials on Saturday expressed fear that the effects of thousands of Palestinians crowding into shelters for safety from the airstrikes was becoming apparent as coronavirus cases appeared to surge in the besieged territory. | More than 1,900 people were injured in the IDF attacks, with people of all ages crowding hospitals and forcing officials to evacuate Covid-19 patie…

Staff (2021-05-23). More Seniors May Need Rehabilitative Therapy Due to Sheltering During COVID. truthout.org Ronald Lindquist, 87, has been active all his life. So, he wasn't prepared for what happened when he stopped going out during the coronavirus pandemic and spent most of his time, inactive, at home. | "I found it hard to get up and get out of bed," said Lindquist, who lives with his wife of 67 years in Palm Springs, California. "I just wanted to lay around. I lost my desire to do things." | Physically, Lindquist noticed that getting up out of a chair was difficult, as was getting into and out o…

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2021-05-23). Total Tyranny: We'll All Be Targeted under the Government's New Precrime Program. dissidentvoice.org There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. ‚Äï James Bamford It never fails. Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance of crawling out of this totalitarian cesspool in which we've been mired, we get kicked down again. In the same week …

Lucía Eugenia Córdova (2021-05-23). Governor of La Guaira State García Carneiro Passes Away. orinocotribune.com The governor of the state of La Guaira, Jorge Luis García Carneiro, passed away on the morning of this Saturday, May 22. He was 69 years old. | "We regret to report the departure of our Governor of La Guaira, General García Carneiro," wrote Delcy Rodríguez, executive vice president of Venezuela, on her Twitter account. | Communicating the sad news, she described García Carneiro as a "patriotic, loyal, brave and indispensable soldier." She also sent condolences to his wife, María del Valle, his children, and the people of La Guaira. "Venezuela has lost a distinguished son. Fly high general in chief," she added.

Anonymous103 (2021-05-23). So what is money… Really… southfront.org Illustrative image | Written by There is an aphorism that states "it's not getting the right answer but asking the right question" that is crucial. Readers of this site are surely aware of blurbs like 'real money', 'honest money', 'Fiat' money, printed money, borrowed money… ad infinitum. | Indeed, Aristotle named the desirable qua…

Anonymous103 (2021-05-23). Thousands Soldiers, Police Officers Looking For "Belgian Rambo" For Fifth Day. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Since May 18th, the Belgian, German, Dutch police officers and soldiers are searching for a "Belgian Rambo". They are looking for a deserter, an experienced sniper instructor who escaped from the unit, promising to fight the police and the COVID restrictions. | 46-year-old Belgian soldier Jurgen Conings, is allegedly hiding in the woods on the border with the Netherlands. He is armed with four anti-tank grenade launchers, as well as a machine gun and pistols. His abandoned vehicle…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). Drones Rain Over Yemen: Saudi-Led Coalition Lost Second UCAV In A Week. southfront.org Illustrative image, source: the Houthis media wing | On May 22, the Houthis (as Ansar Allah is known) announced that their air-defense forces had shot down a combat drone of the Saudi-led coalition, the second in less than a week. | In a statement, a spokesman for the Yemeni group said that the drone, a Chinese-made CH-4, was shot down over al-Maraziq in the northern Yemeni province of al-Jawf. According to the spokesman, the drone was targeted with a "new ground-to-air missile" that has not been unveiled yet. | "We rei…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). Mysterious Drone Strikes Destroyed Several Hangars In Syria's Deir Ezzor — Report. southfront.org Illustrative image. | On May 23 morning, unidentified combat drones carried out a series of strikes on the outskirts of the town of al-Bukamal in southern Deir Ezzor. The government-held town is located right on the border with Iraq. | According to the Naher Media, a local pro-opposition news blog, the strikes destroyed a number of newly-built hangars in al-Hamdan desert. The strikes didn't result in any human losses. | Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainebiyoun, Afghan and Pakistani armed groups supported by the Iranian Islamic Re…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). 34 Afghan Soldiers, Taliban Fighters Killed In Baghlan Clashes. southfront.org Illustrative image, Fighter of the Taliban | Heavy clashes are still ongoing in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan, where the Taliban launched a large-scale attack earlier this month. | On May 21, eight Afghan service members were killed in an attack by the Taliban on their position in the district of Guzargah-e-Noor, according to the Abbas Tawakuli, commander of the Afghan National Army 217th Pamir Corps, told the TOLO News that six Taliba…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). Central Syria Insurgency: ISIS Cells Attacked Syrian Army Post In Aleppo, Oil Tankers In Raqqa. southfront.org Illustrative image. | Despite sustaining heavy losses in the last few months, ISIS cells in central Syria continue to launch attacks against Syrian government forces and civilians. | On May 20, the group's terrorists raided a position of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Durihim desert in the southern countryside of Aleppo. | According to ISIS news agency Amaq, heavy clashes broke out during the raid. The terrorists destroyed two artillery pieces before withdrawing. No Syrian service members were killed or injured. | Two days ea…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). Iraqi PMU Carried Out 'Special Operation' To Neutralize ISIS Supplies In Kirkuk (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: al-hashed.net | On May 22, the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) announced that they had neutralized the supplies of ISIS cells in Kirkuk during a special operation in the province's southwestern region. | In an official statement, deputy commander of the PMU's 1st Special Missions Regiment, Khalil al-Hajami, said that the operation was carried out in the towns of Ziklabana, Jiam, Dabbagh and Al Bouzerga after receiving intelligence about ISIS activities and supplies there. | "The fo…

Juan Cole (2021-05-23). As Boteach comes for Dua Lipa, has Tactic of Smearing People as anti-Semites for Backing Palestinian Human Rights jumped the Shark? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Orthodox Rabbi Shmuely Boteach has come after the brilliant, Grammy-award-winning Kosovar-British pop star Dua Lipa with an ad in the New York Times accusing her of anti-Semitism for supporting Palestinian rights. She vigorously denied the charge and denounced the ad. She should also sue for libel. Boteach is a huge …

Paul Haeder (2021-05-23). Try as You May to Deny, but Evil is in Our DNA. dissidentvoice.org What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up. ‚Äï John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling We used to research the cup of coffee. School. Mostly community colleges, but …

Mike Whitney (2021-05-23). Ten "Good News" Covid Stories You Probably Missed. globalresearch.ca If you're one …

Patricio Zamorano (2021-05-23). Chile is Reborn by a (Political) Earthquake that Emerged from the Streets. zcomm.org What happened on May 15-16 in Chile has the air of the refounding of an entire nation…

Brenda Norrell (2021-05-23). Unauthorized COVID-19 tests given to Navajos, used in marketing campaign. indybay.org An unauthorized type of COVID-19 tests were given to Navajos and the information wad used in an online marketing campaign. The Navajo Council said the contract, which included services during First Lady Biden's visit, was never approved. Many Navajos are calling for a probe of how virus relief funds were distributed by the Navajo government.

Megan Redshaw (2021-05-23). Latest CDC Data Show Reports of Adverse Events After COVID Vaccines Surpass 200,000, Including 943 Among 12- to 17-Year-Olds. globalresearch.ca VAERS data released …

_____ (2021-05-23). US Trying To Extradite Diplomat For The 'Crime' Of Securing Food For The Hungry. popularresistance.org Special envoy and ambassador to the African Union for Venezuela, Alex Saab, was on a humanitarian mission flying from Caracas to Iran to procure food and gasoline for the Venezuelan CLAP food assistance program. Saab was detained on a refueling stop in the African nation of Cabo Verde and has been held in custody ever since June 12, 2020. | Saab's "crime," according to the US government, which ordered the imprisonment, was money laundering. That is, Saab conducted perfectly legal international trade, but his circumventing the US sanctions — which are designed to prevent relief to the Venezuelans — is…

Donald Monaco (2021-05-23). Israel: Profile of a Terror State. globalresearch.ca Israel's crimes against …

_____ (2021-05-23). More Of The Same: Biden's Hybrid War Against China. popularresistance.org US President Joe Biden's budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6% more than the $704 billion enacted under Donald Trump's administration. The outline states that the primary justification for this increase in military spending is to counter the threat of China, and identifies China as the United States' "top challenge."

_____ (2021-05-23). Tribune Publishing Shareholders Let Everyone Down. popularresistance.org Thousands of NewsGuild-CWA members, myself included, were upset by Tribune Publishing's announcement today that shareholders approved the company's takeover by Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known as "the destroyer of newspapers." | There were several hours of confusion after Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of 24% of Tribune shares, announced that he had abstained from voting. A marked "Abstain" vote, according to the proxy proposal, would serve as a rejection of Alden's attempted takeover. However, several reports indicated Dr. Soon-Shiong submitted a blank proxy card, allowing his shares to count as favoring the…

_____ (2021-05-23). Digital Apartheid: Palestinians Being Silenced On Social Media. popularresistance.org In 1984, Palestinian American intellectual and Columbia University Professor Edward Said famously argued that Palestinians are denied "permission to narrate". | More than 30 years later, in 2020, Maha Nassar, a Palestinian American Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, analyzed opinion articles published in two daily newspapers — The New York Times and The Washington Post — and two weekly news magazines — The New Republic and The Nation — over a 50-year period, from 1970 to 2019. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she found that "Editorial boards and columnists seem to have been quite con…

_____ (2021-05-23). BREAKING: Draft Legislation in New York Would Put Gig Workers into Toothless 'Unions'. popularresistance.org This legislation says that workers would be put into a union that they likely never voted for, and which would not be funded by workers, and barred from putting up any serious fight for an agreement—no strikes, no boycotts, no picketing. It would create a new type of legally recognized union which is not financially accountable to its members. This should be deeply concerning to those who care about building powerful, democratic unions.

Clean Energy Wire (2021-05-23). Why Coal Must be Phased out by 2030 to Save the Planet. juancole.com By Edgar Meza | — ( Clean Energy Wire ) — Germany's recently revamped Climate Action Law calls for the energy sector to reduce CO2 emissions from 175 to 108 metric tonnes by 2030. To reach that target, the energy sector must accelerate the phase-out of coal, according to a new study by Berlin-based energy …

Jim Miles (2021-05-23). Apartheid: A Global Racist Phenomenon. globalresearch.ca The current situation …

Steven Sahiounie (2021-05-23). Syrians Abroad Vote for a Return to Stability. globalresearch.ca Syrians went to …

teleSUR (2021-05-23). UN Atomic Agency To Be Cut Off From Iranian Nuclear Sites. telesurenglish.net The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will no longer be able to access images of the Iranian nuclear sites because a monitoring deal with the UN nuclear body has expired, Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Sunday. | RELATED: | The announcement can be seen as further pressure on the United States to return to the 2015 Nuclear Agreement, of which it pulled out in 2018, by orders of former pr…

_____ (2021-05-23). Draft Legislation Would Put Gig Workers Into Toothless 'Unions'. popularresistance.org New York – An effort backed by the New York State AFL-CIO would create a new bargaining scheme for app-based workers without addressing the question of whether or not these workers are legally "employees." | Labor Notes obtained a draft version of the legislation that is being negotiated by unions and app employers. | Workers for apps like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash are currently considered independent contractors; most in the labor movement consider them misclassified, a tactic the companies use to avoid paying the full cost of benefits. These workers are blocked from unionizing by antitrust laws, and don't have t…

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2021-05-23). On Being Sane in Insane Places: "If Sanity and Insanity Exist, How Shall We Know Them?" globalresearch.ca This article was originally published by Duluth Reader in September 2010, updated version on Global Research on January 11, 2021 In 1973, Dr. D. L. Rosenhan, a professor of psychology and law at Stanford University, published a ground-breaking psychiatric …

Staff (2021-05-23). Saharawis Call for International Pressure Against Morocco for Its Handling of Migration Crisis. orinocotribune.com On Friday, May 20, the Saharawi independence organization Polisario Front called on the international community to pressure Morocco to stop instrumentalizing illegal immigration to push for its claim over Western Sahara. | According to an official statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, the Ministry has urgently called "on the UN, the African Union and the European Union to impose on Rabat the obligation to turn the page on its aggressive policies of drug trafficking and illegal immigration, and to abandon its shameful use of terrorism." | This was the first official…

Thomas Renz (2021-05-23). Video: Lawyers File Temporary Restraining Order Against FDA Emergency Use Authorization of Vax for Children. globalresearch.ca Lawyer Thomas Renz…

Joseph Weber (2021-05-23). Oregon Tells Businesses, Workplaces, Worship Houses Vaccine Proof Required for Entrance Without Mask. globalresearch.ca Oregon is telling …

Ramona du Houx (2021-05-23). Coalition highlights legislation to address plastic pollution caused by oil companies. indybay.org Plastic pollution is killing us. In honor of Endangered Species Day, national Elected Officials back the federal Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act…

Hamilton Nolan (2021-05-23). Lies, Damn Lies, and Inflation. zcomm.org Austerity is about to make its political comeback…

Luke Ottenhof (2021-05-23). What is a solidarity economy — and can it save us from capitalism? zcomm.org "Mutual aid has to exist because our other systems are so deeply failing us."

Tom Phillips (2021-05-23). 'Brazil Is a Global Pariah'. zcomm.org Lula on His Plot to End Reign of 'Psychopath' Bolsonaro…

Badri Raina (2021-05-23). Pinarayi Vijayan's New Cabinet. zcomm.org The Left Repeats Its Old Mistakes…

Alexander Main (2021-05-23). Sanctions, Making Venezuela Scream. zcomm.org Interview on the economic and political impact of the sanctions…

Pip Hinman (2021-05-23). WA health crisis endangers lives. greenleft.org.au Health workers are taking action about system failures after seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath died while waiting for care. Polly Watkins reports.

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Jonathan Cook (2021-05-23). Jewish groups that aid Israel's war crimes can't deny all responsibility for those crimes. dissidentvoice.org Here is something that can be said with great confidence. It is racist — antisemitic, if you prefer — to hold Jews, individually or collectively, accountable for Israel's crimes. Jews are not responsible for Israel's war crimes, even if the Israeli state presumes to implicate Jews in its crimes by falsely declaring it represents all …

Rohan Rice (2021-05-23). Nicaragua's inspiring response to COVID-19. peoplesdispatch.org In a recent study conducted by the University of Oxford and the World Health Organization, socialist Nicaragua was placed number nine on a list of the ten safest countries to visit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nicaragua is the only country within Latin America to appear on that list. As of Sunday May 22, the country had 7,193 confirmed cases and only 185 deaths. | Nicaragua's unorthodox but highly effective management of COVID-19 has so far been a great success. In an informative article written by John Perry for FAIR, Perry demonstrates how the country has approached the COVID-19 pandemic swiftly and thoroughly…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-05-23). US Winks, Israel Bites? Shifting Middle East Alliances. The War on Iran is "On Hold"? globalresearch.ca At the outset of Bush's Second Term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of rogue enemies of America, & that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us", without US military involvement & without us putting pressure on them "to do it".

Raul Zibechi (2021-05-23). State, power and society in Latin America. zcomm.org From state violence and neoliberal extractivism to Colombia's general strike and Zapatismo…

_____ (2021-05-23). On Contact: 'Except For Palestine'. popularresistance.org On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses why American liberals refuse to speak out about the crimes the Israeli apartheid state carries out against the Palestinians, with political analyst and author Mitchell Plitnick. | Mitchell Plitnick's new book, with co-author Marc Lamont Hill, is: Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. | "Israel is in breach of more than 30 U.N. Security Council resolutions. It is in breach of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that defines collective punishment of a civilian population as a war crime. It is in violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Con…

Joris Leverink (2021-05-23). A history of erasure and instrumentality in Palestine. roarmag.org Photo by Since its inception as a settler colonial movement in the late 19th century, Zionism has relentlessly pursued a campaign to erase the Palestinian presence in Palestine. It has done so by manipulating the resistance generated by that campaign among Palestinians to its own ends, by instrumentalizing Palestinian resistance so as to de-politicize it and make it appear nothing but criminalized terror. | A key element of settler…

Ari Paul (2021-05-23). AP Firing Shows Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Illusion of 'Objectivity'. zcomm.org The firing was an example of just how eager and able right-wing organizations are to ruin the career of anyone who dares speak out about social justice in Israel/Palestine…

Not One Nickel, Not One Dime (2021-05-23). Cease Fire in Palestine, 5/20/21. indybay.org After 11 horrifying days of US/Israel war crimes against Palestine, the Palestinians won a cease fire, with no demands met, but the toll tells the story: In Gaza: 230 dead including 64 children, 1710 injured, 75,000 homeless, over 500 homes destroyed. See twitter.com/AdDien90/status/1395398512708243463/photo/1 at twitter.com/hashtag/IsraelExposed?src=hashtag_click&f=live

Speak Out Now (2021-05-23). Sunday 5/23: Palestine: An Uprising Against Zionism and U.S. Imperialism. indybay.org Online event, see website for details…

Juan Cole (2021-05-23). As Boteach comes for Dua Lipa, has Tactic of Smearing People as anti-Semites for Backing Palestinian Human Rights jumped the Shark? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Orthodox Rabbi Shmuely Boteach has come after the brilliant, Grammy-award-winning Kosovar-British pop star Dua Lipa with an ad in the New York Times accusing her of anti-Semitism for supporting Palestinian rights. She vigorously denied the charge and denounced the ad. She should also sue for libel. Boteach is a huge …

Shawgi Tell (2021-05-23). Charter School Promoters' War on Consciousness. dissidentvoice.org Charter school promoters have always relied on disinformation and irrationalism to justify the existence of charter schools, but in recent weeks and months it appears that a new, more pernicious, form of self-serving disinformation and irrationalism has reared its head. This new disinformation and irrationalism seeks to further debase social consciousness and takes the form …

The Conversation (2021-05-23). Israel and the Palestinians celebrate a ceasefire — but will anything change? juancole.com By Anthony Billingsley | — Israel and Hamasagreed to a ceasefire. That is good news for everyone involved. The dying can hopefully end and further destruction be avoided — at least for now. Both sides can also claim victory. Hamas can claim to have defended the interests of Palestinians in Jerusalem in contrast to its …

Editorial Team (2021-05-23). Grenfell costs hit half a billion. challenge-magazine.org Nearly four years since the Grenfell catastrophe, the public costs have surpassed £500 million following the announcement that the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea had spent £406 million on its response and recovery work. | Georgina Andrews, is a member of the YCL's Birmingham branch | The amount is on top of the costs to the taxpayer of the continuing public inquiry, which reached £117 million by the end of March 2021; the majority of which was used on lawyers' bills. | Between 2014 and 2016, flammable aluminium panels were supplanted by non-flammable zinc on the exterior of the Grenf…

Staff (2021-05-23). How to Fight Big Pharma — And Win. truthout.org The Biden administration's decision to support waiving World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property rules to help fight COVID-19 has the potential to help shift the global power balance toward governments and their people and away from mega-corporations. | At Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, an organization founded to dismantle corporate overreach of our "trade" and globalization policies, we celebrate the Biden-Harris administration's departure from decades of U.S. trade officials relentlessly attacking other countries' acc…

Lucía Eugenia Córdova (2021-05-23). Governor of La Guaira State García Carneiro Passes Away. orinocotribune.com The governor of the state of La Guaira, Jorge Luis García Carneiro, passed away on the morning of this Saturday, May 22. He was 69 years old. | "We regret to report the departure of our Governor of La Guaira, General García Carneiro," wrote Delcy Rodríguez, executive vice president of Venezuela, on her Twitter account. | Communicating the sad news, she described García Carneiro as a "patriotic, loyal, brave and indispensable soldier." She also sent condolences to his wife, María del Valle, his children, and the people of La Guaira. "Venezuela has lost a distinguished son. Fly high general in chief," she added.

Anonymous103 (2021-05-23). So what is money… Really… southfront.org Illustrative image | Written by There is an aphorism that states "it's not getting the right answer but asking the right question" that is crucial. Readers of this site are surely aware of blurbs like 'real money', 'honest money', 'Fiat' money, printed money, borrowed money… ad infinitum. | Indeed, Aristotle named the desirable qua…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-23). Military Situation In Yemen On May 23, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 128 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On May 22, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 15 airstrikes on the Sarwah area | On May 22, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on the Haradh area | On May 22, Ansar Allah shot down a Chinese CH-4 drone belonging to the Saudi Arabia in the Maraziq area | On May 23, sporadic clashes between Ansar Allah an…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). Drones Rain Over Yemen: Saudi-Led Coalition Lost Second UCAV In A Week. southfront.org Illustrative image, source: the Houthis media wing | On May 22, the Houthis (as Ansar Allah is known) announced that their air-defense forces had shot down a combat drone of the Saudi-led coalition, the second in less than a week. | In a statement, a spokesman for the Yemeni group said that the drone, a Chinese-made CH-4, was shot down over al-Maraziq in the northern Yemeni province of al-Jawf. According to the spokesman, the drone was targeted with a "new ground-to-air missile" that has not been unveiled yet. | "We rei…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). Mysterious Drone Strikes Destroyed Several Hangars In Syria's Deir Ezzor — Report. southfront.org Illustrative image. | On May 23 morning, unidentified combat drones carried out a series of strikes on the outskirts of the town of al-Bukamal in southern Deir Ezzor. The government-held town is located right on the border with Iraq. | According to the Naher Media, a local pro-opposition news blog, the strikes destroyed a number of newly-built hangars in al-Hamdan desert. The strikes didn't result in any human losses. | Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainebiyoun, Afghan and Pakistani armed groups supported by the Iranian Islamic Re…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). 34 Afghan Soldiers, Taliban Fighters Killed In Baghlan Clashes. southfront.org Illustrative image, Fighter of the Taliban | Heavy clashes are still ongoing in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan, where the Taliban launched a large-scale attack earlier this month. | On May 21, eight Afghan service members were killed in an attack by the Taliban on their position in the district of Guzargah-e-Noor, according to the Abbas Tawakuli, commander of the Afghan National Army 217th Pamir Corps, told the TOLO News that six Taliba…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). Rocket Attack Leaves Three Syrian Soldiers Dead In Greater Idlib. southfront.org Illustrative image. | Three soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) were killed on May 23, when a rocket attack targeted their post in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib.

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). Central Syria Insurgency: ISIS Cells Attacked Syrian Army Post In Aleppo, Oil Tankers In Raqqa. southfront.org Illustrative image. | Despite sustaining heavy losses in the last few months, ISIS cells in central Syria continue to launch attacks against Syrian government forces and civilians. | On May 20, the group's terrorists raided a position of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Durihim desert in the southern countryside of Aleppo. | According to ISIS news agency Amaq, heavy clashes broke out during the raid. The terrorists destroyed two artillery pieces before withdrawing. No Syrian service members were killed or injured. | Two days ea…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-23). Military Situation In Syria On May 23, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 23, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 53 times: 24 — in Idlib province, 10 — in Latakia province, 10 — in Hama province, 9 — in Aleppo province | On May 22, three Turkish-backed militants reportedly were killed while they were trying to infiltrate the village of al-Jat | On May 22, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces north of Lattakia | On May 22, SAA artillery shelled posi…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-23). Iraqi PMU Carried Out 'Special Operation' To Neutralize ISIS Supplies In Kirkuk (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: al-hashed.net | On May 22, the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) announced that they had neutralized the supplies of ISIS cells in Kirkuk during a special operation in the province's southwestern region. | In an official statement, deputy commander of the PMU's 1st Special Missions Regiment, Khalil al-Hajami, said that the operation was carried out in the towns of Ziklabana, Jiam, Dabbagh and Al Bouzerga after receiving intelligence about ISIS activities and supplies there. | "The fo…

Anonymous103 (2021-05-23). Thousands Soldiers, Police Officers Looking For "Belgian Rambo" For Fifth Day. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Since May 18th, the Belgian, German, Dutch police officers and soldiers are searching for a "Belgian Rambo". They are looking for a deserter, an experienced sniper instructor who escaped from the unit, promising to fight the police and the COVID restrictions. | 46-year-old Belgian soldier Jurgen Conings, is allegedly hiding in the woods on the border with the Netherlands. He is armed with four anti-tank grenade launchers, as well as a machine gun and pistols. His abandoned vehicle…

Norman Solomon (2021-05-23). Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices and Targets Journalists. indybay.org Trying to dim the lights on a killing spree…

DLI (2021-05-23). USA "Iron Dome" media vaccine proved 99% effective in shielding Israel. indybay.org For the past 2 weeks, since the massive violence perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza began(with massive use of US-made planes and bombs), the White House, alongside the "Corporate-bin-Laden" media, had unleashed a media vaccine, aptly coined, "Iron Dome" media shield, that proved to be nearly 99% effective against criticism from nearly the entire world, on the active support of Israel's virtual massacre of Palestinian civilians.

Sharon Zhang (2021-05-23). Amazon Brings Anti-Union Tactics to Staten Island Unionization Effort. zcomm.org Three weeks into "JFK8" facility workers' independent union drive, More Perfect Union reports Amazon is ramping up its union-busting effort…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-05-23). UN Recognizes Venezuela's Efforts to Strengthen Human Rights. orinocotribune.com The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights recognized this Friday, May 21, via Twitter, the efforts of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to strengthen the exercise of human rights. | The UN body, led since 2018 by High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, expressed its satisfaction after the government of President Nicolás Maduro adopted procedures that coincide with the recommendations issued by the multilateral organization. | In this sense, the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, recently announced the restructuring of the SEBIN and the DGCIM, Venezuelan State secur…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). The safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines for children. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine is now available to children ages 12 through 15 in the U.S. Here's what parents, caregivers and children need to know about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, the possible side effects, and the benefits of getting vaccinated. This is written by Mayo Clinic Staff and you can …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). New CDC guidance for fully vaccinated adults. What does it mean? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org On Thursday, May 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced updated COVID-19 guidance for masking for fully vaccinated people. For instance, fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a protective mask indoors at a movie theater, shopping center or restaurant. But this new guidance does not apply to health care settings. Mayo Clinic …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Guidelines and nuances of wearing a face mask. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Recent COVID-19 masking guidelines announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, continue to generate a public conversation. "The decision about masking needs to be nuanced," says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "Wearing a mask should be based on the risk of infection, the percentage of the …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Mayo Clinic offers COVID-19 walk-in vaccine clinics in Minnesota. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic in Rochester and at its Health System sites continue to offer patients, visitors and staff additional convenient opportunities to be vaccinated for COVID-19. All domestic and international patients, visitors and staff who want to be vaccinated for COVID-19 have a couple of opportunities to do so at walk-in clinics this week: Mayo Clinic …

priscilla (2021-05-23). Elections in Peru: Shift to the Left or Slide Backwards to the Far Right? dsausa.org RSVP Here Stakes are high as Peruvians go to the polls to elect their next President on June 6th. The country has been devastated by the mismanagement of the COVID-19 crisis, which has led to tens of thousands of reported deaths, mass employment, and economic decline. The two candidates in the second round of the…

Brenda Norrell (2021-05-23). Unauthorized COVID-19 tests given to Navajos, used in marketing campaign. indybay.org An unauthorized type of COVID-19 tests were given to Navajos and the information wad used in an online marketing campaign. The Navajo Council said the contract, which included services during First Lady Biden's visit, was never approved. Many Navajos are calling for a probe of how virus relief funds were distributed by the Navajo government.

Zachary Conti (2021-05-23). IMF Proposes $50 Billion Vaccine Plan to End Pandemic and Boost Economy. indybay.org As worldwide COVID cases peak, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva unveiled a $50 billion proposal to support vaccinations of 60% of the world's population. During a G20 and European Commission summit, Georgieva argued the global vaccine investment would end the pandemic and spur $9 trillion in economic gains by 2025.

_____ (2021-05-23). Mexican Supreme Court Ruled in Favor of Mayan Community, Suspends 49,000 Hog Farm. popularresistance.org The First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico confirmed on May 19, 2021 the definitive suspension of the hog farm of the company "Producción Alimentaria Porcícola" (PAPO) in favor of the children of the Mayan village of Homún, Yucatán, Mexico.

Johanna Fernández, posted by Jamal Journal (2021-05-23). Mumia Abu-Jamal's case transferred to Pennsylvania Supreme Court. indybay.org Attached is a May 20, 2021 ruling by the Court to transfer Mumia Abu-Jamal's case from the Superior Court, up to the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court. A short legal update is reprinted below from Professor Johanna Fernández of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home (www.bringmumiahome.com).

_____ (2021-05-23). US Trying To Extradite Diplomat For The 'Crime' Of Securing Food For The Hungry. popularresistance.org Special envoy and ambassador to the African Union for Venezuela, Alex Saab, was on a humanitarian mission flying from Caracas to Iran to procure food and gasoline for the Venezuelan CLAP food assistance program. Saab was detained on a refueling stop in the African nation of Cabo Verde and has been held in custody ever since June 12, 2020. | Saab's "crime," according to the US government, which ordered the imprisonment, was money laundering. That is, Saab conducted perfectly legal international trade, but his circumventing the US sanctions — which are designed to prevent relief to the Venezuelans — is…

Patricio Zamorano (2021-05-23). Chile is Reborn by a (Political) Earthquake that Emerged from the Streets. zcomm.org What happened on May 15-16 in Chile has the air of the refounding of an entire nation…

Toward increasing Networking (2021-05-23). Online events w/ Ben Chavis, Peter Linebaugh, Rosa Clemente, Vandana Shiva, Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are some 20 online events taking place over the next 7 days (and starting tomorrow, May 22), featuring people such as Ben Chavis, Peter Linebaugh, Cynthia Kaufman, Rosa Clemente, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

_____ (2021-05-23). How Billionaire Foundations Fund NGOs To Advance US Foreign Policy Goals. popularresistance.org US foreign policy is increasingly promoted by billionaire funded foundations. The neoliberal era has created individuals with incredible wealth and through "philanthropy", they flex their influence and feel good at the same time. While these philanthropists can be liberal on some issues, they universally support U.S. foreign policy and the "free market". Because many of these super-rich individuals made their wealth through investments and speculation, most do not like a planned economy, socialized services beyond the private sector or greater government control. | These mega wealthy individuals, and the people w…

_____ (2021-05-23). More Of The Same: Biden's Hybrid War Against China. popularresistance.org US President Joe Biden's budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6% more than the $704 billion enacted under Donald Trump's administration. The outline states that the primary justification for this increase in military spending is to counter the threat of China, and identifies China as the United States' "top challenge."

_____ (2021-05-23). BREAKING: Draft Legislation in New York Would Put Gig Workers into Toothless 'Unions'. popularresistance.org This legislation says that workers would be put into a union that they likely never voted for, and which would not be funded by workers, and barred from putting up any serious fight for an agreement—no strikes, no boycotts, no picketing. It would create a new type of legally recognized union which is not financially accountable to its members. This should be deeply concerning to those who care about building powerful, democratic unions.

Clean Energy Wire (2021-05-23). Why Coal Must be Phased out by 2030 to Save the Planet. juancole.com By Edgar Meza | — ( Clean Energy Wire ) — Germany's recently revamped Climate Action Law calls for the energy sector to reduce CO2 emissions from 175 to 108 metric tonnes by 2030. To reach that target, the energy sector must accelerate the phase-out of coal, according to a new study by Berlin-based energy …

_____ (2021-05-23). Digital Apartheid: Palestinians Being Silenced On Social Media. popularresistance.org Nassar's research, like many others before it, clearly demonstrates that more than three decades after the publication of Said's landmark essay, the exclusion of Palestinian voices from mainstream media narratives in the West — and the attempts to erase the humanity of the Palestinians or whitewash Israel's crimes against them — continue unabated.

_____ (2021-05-23). Tribune Publishing Shareholders Let Everyone Down. popularresistance.org Thousands of NewsGuild-CWA members, myself included, were upset by Tribune Publishing's announcement today that shareholders approved the company's takeover by Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known as "the destroyer of newspapers."

teleSUR (2021-05-23). UN Atomic Agency To Be Cut Off From Iranian Nuclear Sites. telesurenglish.net The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will no longer be able to access images of the Iranian nuclear sites because a monitoring deal with the UN nuclear body has expired, Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Sunday. | RELATED: | The announcement can be seen as further pressure on the United States to return to the 2015 Nuclear Agreement, of which it pulled out in 2018, by orders of former pr…

Mark Lewis Taylor (2021-05-23). Mumia Abu-Jamal's spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP. zcomm.org Interview on many topics including his personal observations from Judge Sabo's 1995-97 PCRA (Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act) hearings…

Hamilton Nolan (2021-05-23). Lies, Damn Lies, and Inflation. zcomm.org Austerity is about to make its political comeback…

Luke Ottenhof (2021-05-23). What is a solidarity economy — and can it save us from capitalism? zcomm.org "Mutual aid has to exist because our other systems are so deeply failing us."

Tom Phillips (2021-05-23). 'Brazil Is a Global Pariah'. zcomm.org Lula on His Plot to End Reign of 'Psychopath' Bolsonaro…

Badri Raina (2021-05-23). Pinarayi Vijayan's New Cabinet. zcomm.org The Left Repeats Its Old Mistakes…

Alexander Main (2021-05-23). Sanctions, Making Venezuela Scream. zcomm.org Interview on the economic and political impact of the sanctions…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Consumer Health: Smoking and rheumatoid arthritis — what's the connection? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is Arthritis Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the connection between smoking and rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that can affect more than just your joints. In some people, the condition can damage a wide variety of body systems, including the skin, eyes, lungs, heart …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Dr. Prathibha Varkey named president of Mayo Clinic Health System. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Prathibha Varkey, M.B.B.S., has been named president of Mayo Clinic Health System, effective August 16, 2021.Dr. Varkey will partner with Mary Jo Williamson, chief administrative officer, Mayo Clinic Health System, to lead the strategy and operations of the health system's 17 hospitals and nearly 50 community clinics across Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin."We're …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Consumer Health: Reducing your risk of breast cancer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Breast cancer will affect 1 in 8 women, according to the American Cancer Society. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the U.S. Researchers have identified hormonal, lifestyle and environmental factors that may increase your risk of breast cancer. And an estimated 5% to 10% of breast cancers are …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Mayo Clinic Minute: Tips to 'stop the bleed' in an emergency. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org If you came upon an emergency where a person is bleeding, would you know what to do? During National Trauma Month, May 20 is acknowledged as Stop the Bleed Day — a day to teach people how to take to control of serious bleeding. In this demonstration, Gwen Meyer, a Trauma Center nurse and trauma …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Consumer Health: What do you know about inflammatory bowel disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World IBD Day will be observed on Wednesday, May 19, which makes this a good time to learn more about how these disorders are similar and different. Inflammatory bowel disease, also known as IBD, is an umbrella term used to describe disorders that involve chronic inflammation of your digestive tract. Inflammatory bowel disease can be …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Bladder cancer patients require ongoing surveillance. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Bladder cancer is a common type of cancer that begins in the cells of the bladder, a hollow muscular organ in the lower abdomen that stores urine. Bladder cancer signs and symptoms can include blood in the urine, frequent or painful urination, and back pain. "The vast majority of bladder cancer patients are diagnosed with cancer that's not …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Mayo Clinic Cancer Center joins national call to get HPV vaccinations back on track. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has joined 71 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in calling on the nation's health care providers, parents and young adults to help get HPV vaccinations back on track. HPV causes several types of cancers, and nearly everyone gets infected with HPV by age 50. "Mayo Clinic recommends …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Science Saturday: Explaining cholesterol, research and regeneration. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Isobel Scarisbrick, Ph.D., directs the Neural Repair Laboratory within Mayo Clinic's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Her lab examines central nervous system repair after injury, such as traumatic spinal cord injury or a disease like multiple sclerosis (MS). A major area of innovation for the lab is improving nerve regeneration by identifying what helps or hinders that process. Cholesterol, the …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Consumer Health: How some types of osteoporosis drugs can hurt your bones. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about this bone disease, which affects approximately 10 million Americans, according to the Office on Women's Health. Your bones are living tissue that is constantly being broken down and replaced. Osteoporosis occurs when the creation of new bone doesn't …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Top tips for reducing heart attack and stroke risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My sister just turned 50. She went in for a standard cardiac checkup and learned she has high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The doctor told her that since our mom also had these issues, she must drastically change her diet, increase her exercise, and take medications to lessen her risk for a …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Dr. Cheryl Willman named executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs, Director, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Cheryl Willman, M.D., has been named executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs and director of Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Willman comes to Mayo Clinic from University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, where she has served as director and CEO for 20 years. Under Dr. Willman's leadership, University of …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Consumer Health: Recovering from a stroke. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about stroke and stroke rehabilitation. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and a major cause of serious disability for adults. More than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year, according to the Centers …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). AI-enabled EKGs find difference between numerical age and biological age significantly affects health, longevity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — You might be older ? or younger ? than you think. A new study found that differences between a person's age in years and his or her biological age, as predicted by an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled EKG, can provide measurable insights into health and longevity. The AI model accurately predicted the age …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-23). Mayo named a 2021 DiversityInc No. 4 on the Top Hospitals and Health Systems for Diversity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DiversityInc announced its annual Top 50 Companies for Diversity listings. Mayo Clinic was named to two specialty lists this year — No. 4 on the Top Hospitals and Health Systems list, up from No. 7 in 2020, and a new entry onto the Top Companies for People with Disabilities list at No. 19. DiversityInc's listing is …

Angela (2021-05-23). Saturday 5/22: Resistance Until Liberation. indybay.org Madison Park, Oakland (Eight & Madison)…

Angela (2021-05-23). Saturday 5/22: Resistance Until Liberation: Rally & Protest. indybay.org 11 am | 16th & Mission St, SF | March to Civic Center | 1 pm Rally | Civic center, SF…

Lynda Carson (2021-05-23). Rent reporting bill SB 1157 may cost some tenants around $10.00 per month. indybay.org Oakland tenants facing eviction from a non-profit housing developer in 2008. Photo by Lydia Gans…

Oakland Privacy (2021-05-23). Wednesday 6/9: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveil. indybay.org Email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to obtain Zoom meeting access info.

Ramona du Houx (2021-05-23). Coalition highlights legislation to address plastic pollution caused by oil companies. indybay.org Plastic pollution is killing us. In honor of Endangered Species Day, national Elected Officials back the federal Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act…

CA Poor People's Campaign & PPC National (2021-05-23). Monday 5/24: Rally to Demand End to Poverty & Starvation Wages in U.S. w/ PPC. indybay.org Online via livestream…

repost (2021-05-23). The Fight for Independent, Non-Corporate Radio Flares Up Again. indybay.org Despite losing a corporate bylaw proposal at Pacifica by 2 to 1 the same group of people have put another reactionary bylaw proposal to a vote for at Pacifica that will cost over $50,000. This is supported by many staff at KPFA who apparently don't give a damn about the waste of money and hypocrisy of their allies. This includes Cat Brooks, Aileen Alfandary, Mitch Jeserich, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Philip Maldari, Timothy Lynch, Bonnie Simmons, | Kris Welch, Darlene Pagano & Joel Sachs…

City Lights Books, GLBT Historical Society (2021-05-23). Monday 5/24: Political History of Act Up NY: The Activist Fight Against the AIDS Crisis. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…

Watsonville Public Library (2021-05-23). Thursday 6/17: Book to Action: "Watsonville is in the Heart" Oral History Panel. indybay.org To register for this webinar visit: bit.ly/3n13zpE

NAACP Santa Cruz (2021-05-23). Tuesday 5/25: George Floyd Commemoration. indybay.org 701 Ocean St, Santa Cruz…

teleSUR (2021-05-22). Colombia: Truth Commission To Investigate Repression in Cali. telesurenglish.net The President of Colombia's Truth Commission Francisco de Roux and the commissioner Alejandra Miller on Friday toured the city of Cali to research human rights violations and contribute to solve the political and social crisis that the city, and the country, have been going through since April 28. | RELATED: | The commission visited the places where national strike protesters are concentrated and accompanied the departure of indigenous pe…

_____ (2021-05-22). The Struggle Continues in Colombia. popularresistance.org Above Photo: AP Photo/Fernando Vergara Colombia's wave of protests continues unabated. This is a first hand account from a comrade living in Colombia. Colombia's wave of protests continues unabated. On May 12th, there were massive demonstrations throughout the country, indicating that the movement shows no immediate signs of waning. Between the last national mobilisation and …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-22). National Strike in Colombia: A Labyrinth for Uribism. libya360.wordpress.com María Fernanda Barreto Operation Orion Victims marched in 2012 to demand justice for their family members. | Photo: EFE "We woke up in the night of terror amidst the bullets and the helicopter…": so begins one of the many terrible stories of the people who lived in the Comuna 13 of Medellin on October 16,…

Betsey Piette (2021-05-22). 'Crown: Freedom' — Tribute to Black women activists. workers.org "Crown: Freedom" adorns wall of Municipal Services Building. WW Photo: Joe Piette "Crown," Philadelphia's newest series of Black Lives Matter murals, now adorns three sides of the Municipal Services Building, the city's most prominent government building. Facing City Hall, it is surrounded by Thomas Paine Plaza, a major site for . . . |

Editor2 (2021-05-22). Chris Hedges, Alan MacLeod on Media Bias and the Christian Right's Obsession with Israel. orinocotribune.com By Mnar Muhawesh Adley — May 21, 2021 | Chris Hedges and Alan Macloed join MintCast to talk about Israel, Christian Zionism, and media bias. | Images from the Israeli onslaught against Palestine have dominated both news broadcasts and social media as the world expresses its outrage over the bombing of civilian targets. | While the latest violence was triggered by an Israeli attack on the al-Aqsa Mosque, the conflict's roots go back at least to the state's creation in 1948, when Israeli forces ethnically cleansed nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland, razing 500 towns and villages in order to mak…

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2021-05-22). In U.S., thousands support heroic Palestinian fightback. workers.org Palestinian resistance continues against the state of Israel's destruction of their homes, seizure of their land, assassination of their leaders and slaughter of their people. This genocidal attack was first made possible by the might and sponsorship of European colonialist powers. The onslaught on Palestine has since been protected and . . . |

Liberation Staff Raleigh (2021-05-22). Historic turnout in Southeast for Palestine; thousands in Raleigh, NC, demand end to Israeli apartheid. liberationnews.org This historic turnout for Palestine this past week in cities in the southeast is also the influence of the nationwide 2020 summer rebellion against police brutality and racism that brought tens of millions of people into the streets.

Margaret Kimberley (2021-05-22). The Palestine Litmus Test. globalresearch.ca President Joe Biden…

teleSUR (2021-05-22). AP Sacks Correspondent Critical of Israel. telesurenglish.net In an open letter, Emily Wilder reported that after she had been targetted by Zionist media her AP superiors reassured her that whe would be protected, but a few days later they changed their mind and fired her for allegedly violating AP policies on social networks. | Wilder, who is Jewish, had promoted the Palestinian cause while in college and her latest social media postings had professionally questioned mainstream media, in reporting about Palestine. | "'Objectivity' feels fickle when the basic terms we use to report news implicitly stake a claim," she wrote. "Using 'Israel' but never 'Palestine,' or 'war'

_____ (2021-05-22). The Past is the Present in Palestine. popularresistance.org If the United States and Israel think that normalizing relations with Arab states will weaken our national cause, they should know that this means nothing to Palestinians. The Palestinian people have learned to look only to themselves for rescue. The young Palestinians of today are brimming with rebellion. They have lost faith in the diplomatic route and are fed up with U.S. policy. Be forewarned: Nothing will contain them.

Michael Welch (2021-05-22). The Third Intifada. Israel's Crimes. Palestine's Wrath. Ray of Hope? globalresearch.ca The Israeli forces launched more than 100 airstrikes on the northern tip of Gaza. On the Israeli side, 12 people were killed including 2 children. On the Palestine side, an estimated 248 people including 66 children were killed, with more than 1,900 wounded…

Press TV (2021-05-22). South African Dockworkers Refuse to Unload Israeli Ship in Solidarity with Palestinians. dissidentvoice.org A member of the South African Student Congress (SASCO) holds a poster reflecting the face of the late Palestinian political leader, Yasser Arafat, during their protest in solidarity with Palestine outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria on May 20, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Dockworkers in the South African port city of Durban have refused to offload cargo …

Vijay Prashad (2021-05-22). Israel's Horrid Occupation of Palestine. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prasad and Arwa Abu Hashhash — May 20, 2021 | The violence witnessed over the last week in Gaza is part of a seven-decade assault on the people of Palestine by the Zionist regime, but it has been met with resistance by the people at every step. | No one can ignore the events in Palestine. No one disputes the horror of it all. Images of the Israeli bombing of Gaza and the human toll exacted against the Palestinians who live in Gaza have saturated social media and have increasingly drawn attention to the violence by the Israeli state and Zionist settlers against Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinia…

Richard Becker (2021-05-22). Palestinians endure, resist after 11 days of U.S.-backed Israeli massacre. liberationnews.org Despite the devastating toll taken by the Israeli onslaught, the Palestinian people have emerged with their will to resist unshaken.

Newsclick (2021-05-22). Palestinian resistance will intensify. peoplesdispatch.org After 11 days of brutal bombing by Israel and determined resistance by the Palestinian people, a ceasefire has been declared in Gaza. The impact of these developments will be significant, not only for Palestine and Israel, but for the region as a whole. Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha analyses the ceasefire, the regional implications and the future of Palestinian resistance.

Max Blumenthal (2021-05-22). Roger Waters and Gabor Maté on Israel's apartheid wars and the price of speaking out for Palestine. thegrayzone.com In a Grayzone livestream, Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters and renowned psychotherapist Gabor Maté discuss Israel's latest assault on Gaza, the rising power of Palestine solidarity activism, and their own paths to clarity on the issue…

Julia Conley, staff writer (2021-05-22). Nearly 200,000 Gather in London for History-Making Demonstration of Solidarity With Palestinians. commondreams.org Despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, said Labour politician John McDonnell, "we will not cease our campaign in solidarity until there is justice." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/londonpalestineprotest1300x681.jpg

Binoy Kampmark (2021-05-22). Burned by the Diana Cult: The Fall of Martin Bashir. dissidentvoice.org The interview was infamous, made his name and was bound to enrage. It also received a viewing audience of 23 million people who heard a saucy tale of adultery, plots in the palace, and stories of physical and mental illness. But the tarring and feathering of Martin Bashir for his 1995 Panorama programme featuring Princess …

Brianna Griffith (2021-05-22). San Antonio teacher fighting retaliation after speaking out against unsafe schools. liberationnews.org After months of outspoken advocacy for school safety during COVID, and retaliation from her school, this means that the school board has effectively fired Tucker.

Editor2 (2021-05-22). Israeli Forces Attack Muslim Worshipers in al-Aqsa Mosque, 80 Palestinians Injured. orinocotribune.com Israeli forces stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem al-Quds in a move condemned as "provocative" amid international efforts to de-escalate tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories. | Eighty Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces stormed al-Aqsa Mosque after noonday prayers on Friday, May 21, and fired sound bombs and rubber bullets at worshipers. | The Israeli troops also arrested a number of young people, some of them wounded, at Bab al-Asbat (Lions' Gate) during the raid, and prevented medical staff from attending to the wounded. | The Palestinian presidency condemned the Israeli regime…

Joris Leverink (2021-05-22). The many afterlives of the Paris Commune. roarmag.org The Annual Memorial Meeting Near the Wall of the Communards in the Cemetery of Père-Lachaise in Paris. Ilyas Repin, 1883. | The commemorative walk to Père-Lachaise Cemetery has been taking place for over 140 years. Every year during the last week of May, participants gather to walk through the streets of Paris to the Mur des Fédérés. Tucked away in the far south-eastern corner of the cemetery, the Mur represents the final resting place of some of the Commune's last defenders — lined up against a wall, shot by the French Army and tumbled into a common grave at its base. | In May 1936, fists raised and accomp…

John VanLiere (2021-05-22). Missouri set to squeeze workers by cutting unemployment benefits. liberationnews.org On June 12, Missouri will end the enhanced benefits provided as supplements to unemployment benefits that are part of the latest COVID-19 relief bill. I…

The Conversation (2021-05-22). Int'l Energy Agency: We must Ban new Fossil Fuels Now to avoid Overheating our Earth. juancole.com By Volker Roeben | — Established in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) was created to maintain the stability of the international oil supply. As an independent adviser to many governments on energy policy, the IEA has the authority to make member states release reserve oil stocks to stabilise …

Paul Haeder (2021-05-22). The Jab, Star Wars, and the Bubble Net of Digital Gulags. dissidentvoice.org See, hear, speak no evil! And, we are the slow fish, the 80 percent: The world's 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world's population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. I …

Editor2 (2021-05-22). 'The Hamas' Are Coming: A View of the Violence from Inside Israel. orinocotribune.com By Miko Peled — Occupied Jerusalem, May 20, 2021 | There are never Palestinians, never people, only "The Hamas." The Hamas thinks;" "The Hamas believes;" "The Hamas should know;" "When the Hamas understands, he will stop;" and finally, "When The Hamas is hit hard he will never dare to attack Israel again." | After less than 48 hours in Jerusalem, it's clear to me that the slaughter in Gaza will not end anytime soon. There is broad popular support in Israel for the endless bloodshed and Benjamin Netanyahu is as strong as ever both domestically and internationally. | According to the Israeli press, Netanyahu a…

Staff (2021-05-22). Progressives Slam Biden for Slashing His Own Infrastructure Plan by $600 Billion. truthout.org Progressives called it a "huge mistake" Friday after the White House announced President Joe Biden had preemptively "President Biden knows this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-22). Biden Administration To Remove US Oil Company From Northeastern Syria — Report. southfront.org File image. | The Biden administration has decided to not extend a sanctions waiver for a small US oil company to operate in northeastern Syria, The company,

Anonymous669 (2021-05-22). Houthis Showcase Wreckage Of Combat Drone Shot Down On Yemeni-Saudi Border. southfront.org Screen grab from the Houthis' video. | On May 22, the Houthis (as Ansar Allah is widely known) released footage showing the wreckage of a Saudi-led coalition combat drone that was recently The drone, a Chinese-made CAIG Wing Loong II, was shot down on May 20 along the Yemeni-Saudi border with a new ground-to-air missile that is yet to be unveiled. | The Wing Loong II has endurance…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-22). Poland Confirms Purchase Of Bayraktar TB2 Combat Drones From Turkey. southfront.org Bayrakdar TB2 UCAV, source: ssb.gov.tr | On May 22, the Ministry of Defense of Poland announced that it would purchase 24 Bayraktar TB2 combat drones from Turkey. | "The Polish military will be equipped with modern equipment, with Bayraktar TB2 which have a striking force and have proven themselves in the wars in the east of our continent. They were also used in Africa," the ministry said on Twitter. | The deal was also confirmed by Poland's Defense Minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, who praised the Turkish-made drone in…

Staff (2021-05-22). State CDC Data Shows Persisting Racial Disparities in Vaccination. truthout.org Black Americans' COVID-19 vaccination rates are still lagging months into the nation's campaign, while Hispanics are closing the gap and Native Americans show the highest rates overall, according to federal data obtained by KHN. | The data, provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to a public records request, gives a sweeping national look at the race and ethnicity of vaccinated people on a state-by-state basis. Yet nearly half of those vaccination records are missing race…

Staff (2021-05-22). GOP Wants Volunteering at the Polls to Come With Risk of Jail Time or Huge Fines. truthout.org Over the past couple months, GOP legislators in several states have passed legislation purportedly intended to protect the integrity of the vote. In reality, these bills — which GOP governors in Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Florida, Iowa, and elsewhere, have rushed to sign — contain poison pill provisions that

Staff (2021-05-22). In Working-Class NJ Town, Activists Push to Invest in Community, Not Police. truthout.org Just past midnight on December 14, 2020, Osamah Alsaidi walked near a police cruiser on a dark city street of Paterson, New Jersey's third-largest city just outside New York City. Shortly thereafter, that very same police car cut off Alsaidi's path and out jumped officers Kevin Patino and Kendry Tineo-Restituyo. | They immediately accosted the 19-year-old, striking him numerous times and dropping him to the ground where they continued their assault. The police report they filed described Alsaidi…

Martin Hart-Landsberg (2021-05-22). The latest argument against federal relief: business claims that workers won't work. mronline.org In reality there is little support for the argument that expanded unemployment benefits have created an overly worker-friendly labor market, leaving companies unable to hire and, by extension, meet growing demand. | May 22, 2021…

Joris Leverink (2021-05-22). May 26 — The end of the Commune is near. roarmag.org Reclus — The Paris Commune Day By Day: | Fusillades can no longer be heard on the other side of the water. Around seven or eight o'clock in the morning we look at the Pantheon: it's been stripped of its red flag. | The Pantheon is no longer anything but the Church of St. Genevieve, a great Catholic chapel, the counterfeit of a Roman monument. What does the Pantheon matter to me now? | The left bank of the Seine is entirely in the hands of the army of Versailles which, master now of the river and an entire half of the city, with its growing forces inundates the Parisians whose men, decreasing by the…

Joris Leverink (2021-05-22). May 22 — Barricades of the Commune. roarmag.org Bax — A Short History of the Paris Commune: | The night of Monday-Tuesday was a night of silent preparation (all too late) and of gloom. In all quarters the pickaxe was to be heard removing paving stones and digging the foundations of barricades, which rose by the hundred. Men, women, and children were at work. Now began that enthusiasm, that limitless courage arid contempt of death-displayed in defense of an ideal — the colossal proportions of which dwarf everything similar in history, and which alone suffices to redeem the sordidness of the nineteenth century. | Here was a heroism in the fac…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-22). Military Situation In Donetsk People's Republic On May 22, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | 1. UAF in Pesky shelled Donetsk city with 120-mm artillery. | 2. UAF in Vodyanoe shelled DPR positions in Zhabunki with grenade launchers. | 3. UAF in Starognatovka shelled DPR positions in Novolaspa with mortars. | 4. UAF in Vodyanoe shelled DPR positions in Kominternovo. | 5. DPR forces in Donetsk city targeted UAF positions in Pesky with 82-mm artillery. | 6. DPR forces in Novolaspa targeted UAF positions in Novoselivka with 82-mm artillery. | 7. DPR forces in…

Eds. (2021-05-22). Fighting anti-trans legislation takes a toll on Texas kids and families. mronline.org A record-breaking wave of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country this year. Texas lawmakers filed the most of any state, the majority of them attacking trans youth. | May 22, 2021…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-22). Military Situation In Syria On May 22, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | — On May 22, Russia reported that Idlib militants had violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 41 times: 22 — in Idlib province, 10 — in Latakia province, 6 — in Hama province, 3 — in Aleppo province. | — On May 21, clashes between the Turkish border guards and enraged civilians were reported near Atmah camp. | — On May 20, five SDF members were killed in an ISIS ambush in the Shaheel area. | — On May 21, a Turkish-backed fo…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-22). Military Situation In Yemen On May 22, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | — The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 108 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours. | — On May 21, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 19 airstrikes on the Sarwah area. | — On May 21, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 6 airstrikes on the Madghal area. | — On May 21, 3 people were killed by a Saudi-led coalition warplanes airstrike on the Zaher district. | — On May 22, spor…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-22). Military Situation In Afghanistan On May 22, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | — On May 21, Taliban captured Jalriz district west of Kabul. | — On May 21, people of Faryab held demonstrations in the city against the appointment of a new governor by the government. | — On May 21, clashes between the Taliban and the government forces were reported near the Nahrin area. | — 92 Taliban members were killed and 48 others were wounded in Laghman, Maidan Wardak, Logar, Sarpul, Balkh, Helmand, Baghlan and Takhar provinces in the pas…

Steve Sweeney (2021-05-22). DP details systematic oppression in Erdogan's new Turkey as show trial reopens in Ankara. mronline.org The Kobani case is the biggest political trial in modern Turkish history with 108 leading HDP officials and parliamentarians facing multiple life sentences as a 3,350-page case file indicts them on 38 counts of homicide. | May 22, 2021…

Eds. (2021-05-22). NATO's war against Yugoslavia: the ghost that still haunts Europe. mronline.org NATO's war against Yugoslavia: the ghost that still haunts Europe | May 22, 2021 | Newswire…

Editorial Team (2021-05-22). Animal Rebellion blockades four McDonalds depots in England. challenge-magazine.org Ben Ughetti, is a member of the YCL's East of England branch | The animal rights group Animal Rebellion have launched numerous direct action operations against the fast food giant McDonalds. Preventing lorries from leaving McDonalds depots in Basingstoke, Hemel Hempstead, Coventry and Heywood, activists from AR explained they were able to use what was described as "bamboo structures" in order to prevent the trucks from leaving the depots. This has meant that over 1,300 McDonald's restaurants have been left without deliveries which McDonald's is yet to comment on. For McDonalds, this will be unlikely to have a…

Anand Naidoo (2021-05-22). The Heat: U.S.-ROK Relations and Global Health Summit. america.cgtn.com China pledges three billion dollars to help developing countries recover from the COVID-19 pandemic at the Global Health Summit. | And U.S. President Biden welcomes Republic of Korea President Moon at the White House.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2021-05-22). Podcast Ep 36: How Palestinian resistance defeated Israel. electronicintifada.net Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer discuss growing sophistication of Palestinian tactics.

Answer Coalition (2021-05-22). Palestinians brutalized despite ceasefire | Protests continue to demand end to Israeli apartheid. answercoalition.org &nbsp…

Phyllis Bennis (2021-05-22). What Is Joe Biden's Israel Policy, Exactly? juancole.com ( Foreign Policy in Focus) — So just what is the Biden administration's policy towards Israel? Why did Biden take so long to respond to the violence as it spiraled out of control in Jerusalem and Gaza? Why do Biden's repeated "Israel has the right of self-defense" litanies so closely match the positions of his …

Ralph Nader (2021-05-22). Biden: End Your Co-Belligerent Backing of Israeli War Crimes. dissidentvoice.org As Senator, Vice President, and now President, your self-promoted/displayed empathy has a problem. You can't seem to connect the Israeli military powerhouse's occupation to the oppression and destruction of innocent Palestinian civilians, illegal seizure of Palestinian land/water, and daily violations of U.S. and international law. Israel's military is deliberately bombing these families, the offices of …

Eric Zuesse (2021-05-22). Israel Is Ethnically Cleansing Gaza. globalresearch.ca This started becoming …

Juan Cole (2021-05-22). Israeli invasion of al-Aqsa Mosque Compound Shows Conflict remains Hot despite Ceasefire, Angers Muslims Worldwide. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Only half a day after a ceasefire went into effect between the Palestinians in Gaza and the government of Binyamin Netanyahu in Israel, the peace was disturbed in Jerusalem at the flashpoint al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Rabi' Sawaid reports for Arab 48 that confrontations broke out Friday afternoon between worshipers at …

Raji Sourani (2021-05-22). "We Want Real Dignity and Freedom" zcomm.org Gazans Welcome Ceasefire But Demand End of Siege & Occupation…

Not One Nickel, Not One Dime (2021-05-22). 5/19/21 Call Congress to support AOC's Reso to Stop Weapons for Israel. indybay.org Now that we have protested, it is time to call Congress. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has introduced a resolution to stop the sale of weapons to Israel. See www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/19/ocasio-cortez-unveils-resolution-block-bidens-735-million-weapons-sale-israel There is no cease fire. Israel continues to bomb Gaza. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ex6SdT3N6g

WSWS (2021-05-22). Israeli security forces storm al-Aqsa after Gaza ceasefire. wsws.org Israel's air strikes continued up until the ceasefire brought a temporary end to the one-sided war that has killed at least 243 Palestinians, including 65 children, and wounded more than 1,900.

Ricardo Vaz (2021-05-22). Venezuelan Opposition Parties to Present Unified Ticket for Regional Elections. venezuelanalysis.com The country will choose mayors and governors in "mega-elections" on November 21.

_____ (2021-05-22). The Biggest Climate Trial of the Year Was a Chevron-Fueled 'Charade'. popularresistance.org After a week of proceedings, the criminal trial for attorney Steven Donziger—who won a multibillion-dollar case against Chevron over pollution in the Amazon rainforest—wrapped up on Monday. In his estimation, the trial was a "charade." And yet he was relatively pleased with the outcome.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Amazon announces end to mask policy in its warehouses. wsws.org Management officials announce that after May 24, workers at its facilities will be allowed on-site without masks if they are fully-vaccinated.

The Red Nation (2021-05-22). To End Fossil Fuels, End Settler Colonialism. zcomm.org Much environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty…

Staff (2021-05-22). China has Exported 700 Million Doses of its COVID-19 Vaccines Worldwide. orinocotribune.com In a recent column featured in Mundo Sputnik, Uruguayan journalist Raúl Zibechi provided some important data regarding the "vaccine race" taking place between China and the United States and its Western allies. | China "has been able to export no less than 700 million doses around the world, while the US has barely sold 3 million doses abroad," according to an Asia Times "Months ago, President Xi Jingping of China declared that vaccines were a 'global public good,' an…

Raymond Wolfe (2021-05-22). 160+ Experts Slam COVID Vaccines as 'Unnecessary, Ineffective and Unsafe' in Powerful Letter. globalresearch.ca Dozens of medical …

Bruce J Kirenga, Pauline Byakika-Kibwika (2021-05-22). [Comment] Excess COVID-19 mortality among critically ill patients in Africa. thelancet.com As of March 25, 2021, a global total of 124‚Äà215‚Äà843 cases of COVID-19, including 2‚Äà734‚Äà374 deaths, had been reported to WHO.1 COVID-19 is now the 12th leading cause of death worldwide, the sixth leading cause of death in high-income countries, and the 41st leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa.2 However, the reasons why there are lower numbers of cases and deaths reported in sub-Saharan Africa are unclear. One possibility is that there are inadequate levels of testing, which could translate to unreported COVID-19 deaths (both i…

Udani Samarasekera (2021-05-22). [Perspectives] Yee-Sin Leo: a leader in Singapore's fight against infectious diseases. thelancet.com In January, 2020, Yee-Sin Leo, Executive Director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) in Singapore, and her team followed an unexplained pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, very closely for any evidence of human-to-human transmission. Given population movement in the region, they knew that if they saw that evidence it meant "that Singapore will get hit with COVID-19 cases", Leo says. So the National Public Health Laboratory at NCID prepared to detect and diagnose cases, drills were done to smooth workflow, and the COVID-19 Research Workgroup was set up.

ACCCOS (2021-05-22). [Articles] Patient care and clinical outcomes for patients with COVID-19 infection admitted to African high-care or intensive care units (ACCCOS): a multicentre, prospective, observational cohort study. thelancet.com Mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is higher in African countries than reported from studies done in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Increased mortality was associated with insufficient critical care resources, as well as the comorbidities of HIV/AIDS, diabetes, chronic liver disease, and kidney disease, and severity of organ dysfunction at admission.

Sophia N Nesamoney, Gary L Darmstadt, Paul H Wise (2021-05-22). [Correspondence] Gendered effects of COVID-19 on young girls in regions of conflict. thelancet.com The Series on Women's and Children's Health in Conflict Settings provides important guidance for addressing the health of women and children in areas of poor security and instability. However, we write to call special attention to the gender inequalities in areas of armed conflict and, in particular, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on young, school-age girls (aged 5—18 years).

John Zarocostas (2021-05-22). [World Report] What next for a COVID-19 intellectual property waiver? thelancet.com The USA has backed a waiver for intellectual property related to COVID-19 vaccines. What happens next? John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.

Nadine K Jawad, Lina Abu Taweeleh, Jad A Elharake, Nicole Khamis, Osaid Alser, Fatima M Karaki, Layla Aboukhater (2021-05-22). [Correspondence] Refugee access to COVID-19 vaccines in Lebanon. thelancet.com Lebanon is currently experiencing multiple unprecedented crises—political, infrastructural, and economic. The Beirut port explosion, in August, 2020, damaged 36% of health facilities.1 The Lebanese pound has lost 90% of its value, pushing more than half of the population into poverty.1 Complicating its desperate plight, Lebanon hosts the largest refugee population per capita in the world.2 The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this situation, leaving an ill-equipped health-care system overwhelmed.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Canadian big business advocates policy of social murder as provinces move to dismantle remaining COVID-19 restrictions. wsws.org As far as the ruling elite is concerned, the pandemic is old news, and the time has come to rapidly dismantle all the remaining restrictions aimed at halting the virus' spread so that corporate Canada can boost its profits.

WSWS (2021-05-22). UK covid cases rise due to ending containment and spread of Indian variant. wsws.org The Tories are responding to the demands of big business that no more lockdowns are imposed and to their support base in the more affluent suburban and rural areas of the country not living in the overcrowded urban centres being hit by the resurgence of the virus.

WSWS (2021-05-22). COVID-19 potentially killing tens of thousands in India every day. wsws.org In the seven weeks since April 1, India's official total of COVID-19 fatalities has risen by more than 125,000, or 75 percent, reaching 291,331 as of yesterday morning.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Amid warnings of "catastrophic" COVID-19 third wave, Brazil's state governors reopen economy. wsws.org The scientific institute Fiocruz's warning that a new surge of current high infection rates "will be catastrophic" is being covered up by the mainstream media and ignored by federal and state governments.

Israel Shahak (2021-05-22). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…

Brasil de Fato (2021-05-22). Environment Minister and president of IBAMA are targeted in Federal Police operation. peoplesdispatch.org The warrants for search and apprehension were issued by the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes. According to the Federal Police, 160 agents are executing 36 warrants in the states of Pará and Sà£o Paulo, and in the Federal District, including residential addresses of the minister Ricardo Salles. | The Supreme Court decision determined the immediate suspension of the Ibama Order issued in February 2020, which allowed the importation of products extracted from forests without export authorizations. | The initial evidence suggests that the document was elaborated due to the demand…

Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Michelle F Gaffey, Neha S Singh, Ana Langer, Karl Blanchet (2021-05-22). [Correspondence] Women's and children's health in conflict settings: build on existing efforts — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Sarah Chynoweth and colleagues for their kind comments about our Series on Women's and Children's Health in Conflict Settings, and for underscoring that future humanitarian health efforts for women and children should build on previous investments and achievements in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in crisis settings. We fully agree. SRH is arguably the area in which most progress has been made in terms of improving humanitarian response for women, and we recognise the decades-long work and leadership of the Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) in driving that progress.

Simukai Chigudu (2021-05-22). [Perspectives] An ironic guide to colonialism in global health. thelancet.com There is something axiomatic about the idea of an evidence-based approach to global health. Who could argue against such a noble enterprise? The uses of evidence and its applications—extended from individual patients to populations at large—are attractive whether in the boardrooms of Geneva or among humanitarian doctors in South Sudan's refugee camps. This approach rationalises complex and diffuse social processes, subtly reconstituting them as discernible medical problems to be solved through technical intervention.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Spain's PSOE-Podemos regime intensifies expulsions of refugees to Morocco. wsws.org The PSOE-Podemos government is expelling thousands of migrants from Spain's enclave of Ceuta to Morocco while detaining refugees and children in horrific conditions.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-22). Thousands of migrants sent back by Spain. peoplesdispatch.org Over the past week, thousands of migrants who arrived at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco were repressed and forced back. Spanish security personnel used metal batons and smoke bombs at them…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-05-22). Ceasefire puts no end to Israeli repression. electronicintifada.net Police attack Palestinians in Jerusalem after weeks of mass arrests.

Frances Madeson (2021-05-22). Sunrise Activists Marching 400 Miles to Demand Green New Deal. zcomm.org "If we do nothing, it's a future I'm scared of for sure, people starving and dying. We're going to see war, people killing just to survive."

teleSUR (2021-05-22). Chile: Two Women Symbolize Historical Progressive Victory. telesurenglish.net The first elections held in Chile since the massive social uprising of 2019, confirmed last weekend that demand for radical change of the country's institutional, social and economic rules is deeply rooted and had not been tamed by brutal repression and the pandemic, as many -especially the traditional political establishment – had wrongly assumed. | RELATED: | Such fatal miscalculation made them act as if nothing had h…

WSWS (2021-05-22). Australia: Victorian state Labor government delivers pro-business budget. wsws.org Many of the workers now being threatened with a significant cut to their real wages were placed at significant risk during the pandemic, and publicly hailed as heroes by the government.

Prabir Purkayastha (2021-05-22). India: World's biggest producer fails to vaccinate its people. peoplesdispatch.org The Narendra Modi government in India chose to believe that it had defeated the pandemic, and therefore the slow pace of its vaccination program posed no problems…

Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza (2021-05-22). Friday May 28: Panel on Alternative Media: Coordination, Cooperation & Socialism (Orinoco Tribune 2 Ω-Year-Anniversary). orinocotribune.com Orinoco Tribune is celebrating 30 months of existence with a panel to discuss alternative media, its importance and the need for better coordination and cooperation in the battle against mainstream media (MSM). | Alternative media outlets and writers have been proliferating in recent years, and a significant number of them are counter-hegemonic, anti-imperialist and socialist. This is a positive phenomenon, but there is sometimes more competition than cooperation among these new information options. | In this panel we hope to address the issue from a constructive perspective, taking into consideration the fact th…

Ricardo Ronquillo (2021-05-22). Cuba — Empresa estatal socialista: øLos dueños se adueñan? globalizacion.ca Fue tan imponente y lapidaria aquella sentencia en una reunión sindical que, pasados 10 años, no logro olvidarla: °El único que no puede perder es el Estado!, proclamó un funcionario, como quien eleva a los cielos, decía entonces, una plegaria…

WSWS (2021-05-22). Justice for the 29 miners killed at New Zealand's Pike River! wsws.org The Socialist Equality Group and the World Socialist Web Site urge workers internationally to send statements supporting the families of the 29 men who died at Pike River, demanding a full and thorough investigation and the prosecution of the company leaders who turned the mine into a death trap.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Defend Sri Lankan poet Ahnaf Jazeem! wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka and the Action Committee for the Defence of Freedom of Art and Expression demand the immediate and unconditional release of the young poet.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Nexteer Saginaw workers express opposition as UAW attempts to push through concessions contract. wsws.org A World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter campaign team spoke to Nexteer workers on the day of their contract vote.

_____ (2021-05-22). Why One State in India Is Showing Promising Signs of Democracy. popularresistance.org The right wing in Kerala has typically claimed that the Left is not equipped to build the state's infrastructure. But this time, the right wing had no grounds to make its typical complaints. Since 2016, the state government has not only improved the basic transportation infrastructure but has also built up other kinds of infrastructure needed by the working class and the peasantry.

Mohammed Samaana (2021-05-22). Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian East Jerusalem is a Spark in a Tinderbox: What I Saw There. juancole.com Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) — The latest escalation in violence in the Middle East was sparked by the Israeli government plan to ethnically cleanse dozens of Palestinian families from the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem. Most of these families had been previously forced from their homes in 1948 when Israel was created …

Roger D. Harris (2021-05-22). US Trying to Extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for the "Crime" of Securing Food for the Hungry: The Case of Alex Saab v. The Empire. dissidentvoice.org The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. This is according to Montréal-based international human rights lawyer John Philpot. He spoke on May 19 at a webinar sponsored by the Alliance for Global Justice and …

Staff (2021-05-22). The United States Should Stop Interfering in Mexico. orinocotribune.com On Tuesday, May 19, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico, decried that the US government "is already taking too long" to respond to the diplomatic note sent to the US Embassy in Mexico, last May 6. The aforementioned note, sent by the government of Mexico, sought explanation regarding the financing of the NGO Mexicans against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI), as well as funding of other political groups disguised as civil associations. President López Obrador emphasized that the financing of local political organizations by a foreign government is "a clear example of foreign interventionism in matters t…

Robert Hunziker (2021-05-22). Chernobyl Alert and The Doomsday Clock. dissidentvoice.org Like the mythical Phoenix, Chernobyl rises from the ashes. A recent… "Surge in fission reactions in an inaccessible chamber within the complex" is alarming scientists that monitor the ruins of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. 1 It is known that this significant renewal of fission activity is located in Sub-Reactor Room 305/2, which contains …

_____ (2021-05-22). Renters in Berlin have a radical plan to seize apartments from landlords. popularresistance.org First residents persuaded the local authorities to bring in a rent cap that instructed landlords to freeze rents at 2019 levels. | However, that was overturned by Germany's federal court in April, which ruled the measures unconstitutional. | Now local campaigners are planning something even more radical: a bid to nationalize thousands of privately owned apartments in the city. | Specifically, campaigners want the government to take apartments from real estate firms that own more than 3,000 apartments, place them into public ownership, and rent them out at more affordable rates.

_____ (2021-05-22). Dubious Arrests, Death Threats and Confederate Loyalists: Welcome to Graham, N.C. popularresistance.org Reported from a community where protesting is restricted and violence feels imminent, "Sound of Judgment" provides a rare view into the fight for justice in small-town America.

_____ (2021-05-22). The End of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. popularresistance.org U.S. representatives have introduced two bills that would finally end Puerto Rico's subordinate Commonwealth status. But continued colonial rule may be the only option Congress seriously considers.

_____ (2021-05-22). Scheer Intelligence: CIA Mideast Expert's View Of The Israeli-Palestinian Crisis. popularresistance.org John Kiriakou's story as an Arabic-speaking former CIA agent and CIA torture whistleblower has taken a number of turns throughout his life, including a prison sentence that sent a wrecking ball through his career and personal life. During his time with the intelligence agency, however, he spent significant periods of time in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and other parts of the Middle East on a quest to round up Al-Qaeda militants during the "War on Terror." Kiriakou's experience gives him a unique insight into the current crisis in the Palestinian territories and Israel with violence continuing to escalate as Israel fires…

Dean Baker (2021-05-22). Republicans Reject Biden Proposal to Spend an Amount Equal to a Quarter of the Military Budget on Infrastructure. cepr.net Washington Post budget reporters have a game where they try to write things in a way that none of their readers have any clue what they are talking about. According to rumors, they give a prize each year to the reporter who does the best job in providing zero information to readers. Today's piece on …

teleSUR (2021-05-22). Myanmar: "Nobody Chooses to be a Refugee" – UNHCR. telesurenglish.net Refugees, people fleeing air strikes by the Myanmar military, and those who are at risk of political persecution, or worse, if they are caught by the junta – they have been the focus of attention in the months since the Feb 1 coup. | RELATE: | This is particularly so in Thailand, which shares a border of over 2,400 km with Myanmar and has hosted nearly 92,000 refugees, most of them of Karen ethnicity, in nine camps fo…

Dakotah Lilly (2021-05-22). Misión àÅrbol: Ecosocialism in an Oil-Rich Nation. orinocotribune.com By Dakotah Lilly — May 21, 2021 | "We must change the system, not the climate." These are some of the words that the Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías opened up his remarks with at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. He went on to say: | Capitalism is a destructive development model that is putting an end to life; it threatens to put a definitive end to the human species. And another slogan calls for reflection. It is very in tune with the banking crisis that swept the world and still affects it, and of how the rich northern countries gave aid to bankers and the big banks. The U.

Janice Kortkamp (2021-05-22). Syria Elections: Always Disparaged by the Meddling Imperial West. globalresearch.ca The election for …

Anita Riveros (2021-05-22). Discovering the Truth Hidden in Official Claims. indybay.org In this piece, the importance of conspiracy theorists is brought up. Not everything that is said should be written off so quickly, there are always more sides of the story that some may not want to tell.

_____ (2021-05-22). Will Biden Stay in Bibi's Pocket? popularresistance.org Netanyahu's own words, videotaped two decades ago, show his disdain for the malleability of former U.S. presidents. As it turns out, Netanyahu had good reason to hold them in contempt as he "maneuvered" around them to ensure unstinting American support for status-quo Israeli domination of the Palestinians.

Justice for Flavia (2021-05-22). Somerville, Massachusetts removes police from schools. zcomm.org he group's aims include removing police from schools, implementing restorative justice, regular anti-racism training, and an independent equity audit…

Jenny Stendahl (2021-05-22). A Syndicalist Strategy for the Swedish Labour Market. zcomm.org The Swedish trade unions can boast of high membership numbers, but generally lack the primary source of union strength: that many colleagues unite and act together…

Jacob Morrison (2021-05-22). Conservatives Love Coal Miners — Until They Go on Strike. zcomm.org The Right has worked hard in recent years to portray itself as defenders of beleaguered coal miners. But over 1,00 miners are on strike in Alabama and we haven't heard a peep about it from conservative talking heads. Weird…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-05-22). It's Past Time to End U.S. Funding of Israeli Violence. zcomm.org What else could billions of American tax dollars buy instead of innocent deaths?>

Marko Kostaniƒá (2021-05-22). A Green-Left Coalition Takes Zagreb. zcomm.org The left-wing platform Mo≈æemo! emerged as the clear winner of elections in the Croatian capital…

_____ (2021-05-22). Continuing Nakba, Continuing Resistance. popularresistance.org It is the stubborn resistance of the Palestinian people and their refusal to accommodate the Zionist settler-colonialist project that have brought us thus far; it is the Palestinian spirit of sumoud that has delivered, albeit 72 years later, the B'tselem and Human Rights Watch reports that now acknowledge Israel is an apartheid state. This is the message of Nakba73 going forward…as the Nakba continues, so will Palestinian resistance. There can never be, and will never be, co-existence with apartheid and settler-colonialism.

zachariah (2021-05-22). What is Pre-Majority Unionism? dsausa.org Join us on Wednesday, May 26th at 8pmET/5pmPT for EWOC's event on Pre-Majority Unionism. We'll hear from: — Auni Ahsan, a member of the Alphabet Workers Union— UE150 Cummins Diesel worker— Dave Cohen, retired UE International Rep and President of UE Local 264 in Holyoke, MA— Representatives from United Campus Workers-CWA Pre-majority unionism is one…

Julio Yao Villalaz (2021-05-22). ONU y la responsabilidad de protección e intervención humanitaria. globalizacion.ca Pocos años antes de que la ONU aprobara la Responsabilidad de Proteger durante la Cumbre Mundial de 2005 y se fundara la Oficina de la ONU para la Prevención del Genocidio y la Responsabilidad de Proteger, fui invitado — como…

Raúl Zibechi (2021-05-22). Chile: La convención constitucional puede ser la tumba de la revuelta. globalizacion.ca La derecha pinochetista fue derrotada, ya que no consiguió el tercio de la convención constitucional necesario para bloquear cambios. Una derrota que comenzó a fraguarse hacia 2000, con la resistencia empecinada del pueblo mapuche y luego las luchas de los…

Emilio Godoy (2021-05-22). América del Sur tiene sueños gasíferos. globalizacion.ca El desarrollo del gas en América del Sur, en tiempos de pandemia y pospandemia protagonizó la sesión del viernes 14 en la XXX Conferencia La Jolla de Energía, que se desarrolla en forma virtual desde el 7 y hasta el…

Carlos F. Chamorro (2021-05-22). El peor escenario electoral en Nicaragua. globalizacion.ca Nicaragua se encamina hacia la peor elección posible el 7 de noviembre, sin garantías ni reforma electoral, con el endurecimiento del control del FSLN sobre el aparato electoral, y tras el nombramiento de 10 magistrados leales al presidente Daniel Ortega….

Susan Jaffe (2021-05-22). [World Report] $6 ∑5 billion proposed for new US health research agency. thelancet.com The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health would fund high-risk, high-reward medical research, but its short-term planning could stymie basic research. Susan Jaffe reports.

Elizabeth McGeorge, Jo James, Nicola Abraham (2021-05-22). [Perspectives] The intergenerational project: creating space for play in health care. thelancet.com If you were to ask adults about their experiences of hospitals, laughter and joy would not be typical responses. Hospitalisation can adversely affect mental and physical wellbeing, especially for older adults. The hospital environment may evoke feelings of distress, boredom, and isolation and can be a risk factor for functional decline, subsequently leading to increased morbidity and mortality. While paediatric wards tempt children towards escapism into a land of play with dedicated play therapists and toys, older adults can experience hours spent passively in bland surroundings with fleeting health-focused encou…

Geoff Watts (2021-05-22). [Obituary] Peter Stanley Harper. thelancet.com Influential clinical geneticist. He was born in Barnstaple, Devon, UK, on April 28, 1939, and died of a stroke in Cardiff, UK, on Jan 23, 2021, aged 81 years.

Seilesh Kadambari, Monique Ingrid Andersson (2021-05-22). [Correspondence] Time to integrate congenital CMV testing into hearing screening for newborn babies. thelancet.com We congratulate the GBD Hearing Loss Collaborators for highlighting the magnitude of hearing loss as an important public health problem.1 Early detection of hearing loss in children can substantially improve their academic performance.2 Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common non-genetic and the only potentially treatable cause of sensorineural hearing loss; globally, it alone accounts for approximately 20% of moderate to profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss in children.3…

Sarah K Chynoweth, Monica A Onyango, Meghan C Gallagher, Sara E Casey (2021-05-22). [Correspondence] Women's and children's health in conflict settings: build on existing efforts. thelancet.com We commend the authors of the Lancet Series on Women's and Children's Health in Conflict Settings, particularly their call for greater political commitment to, and prioritisation of, women's and children's health (WCH) in conflict settings. At the same time, we are concerned about some of the claims and conclusions, including (1) a call for the formation of a new international technical advisory group with a mandate to critique and field-test a WCH framework,1 (2) that a priority predefined package of WCH services is not commonly agreed on and implemented in conflict settings,2 and (3) that there is no central re…

repost (2021-05-22). South African Dockers Stopping Unloading of Israeli Cargo From Zim Ship. indybay.org South African Durban dockers will refuse to unload an Israeli ZIM ship on Friday May 21. In 2010 they also took action to stop the movement of Israeli cargo. This action is backed by COSATA and other trade unions and community groups.

Safe Ag Safe Schools (2021-05-22). Pesticides on your food in California: An illegal helping once a week. indybay.org Illegal levels of pesticides were detected on more than 1 in 25 pieces of produce sampled in California, according to recently released data by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). The rate of illegal samples, 4% of the 3,274 fruit and vegetables tested in 2019, is consistent with the most recent 5-year average (2015-2019).

WSWS (2021-05-22). Thousands of Australian high school students protest climate change inaction. wsws.org One young worker noted that the lack of action on climate change "is all about profit, all about the economy. It's not about the future that young people are trying to fight for and grow up in. It's about what is in their wallet."

Editorial Team (2021-05-22). Big gains for Chile's Communists in regional and constitutional convention elections. challenge-magazine.org Chileans took to the polls last Sunday (16 May 2021) to vote in both regional elections and to also to elect 155 members to a Constitutional Convention tasked with drafting a new constitution. The elected conventional deputies have a year to write the new constitution before the public will vote on whether to ratify it. The demand for this constitutional convention stems from the protests beginning in October 2019 that rocked the country as millions took to the streets to vent frustration at the current constitution which was drafted under the US backed dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1980.

Ken Roseboro (2021-05-22). Mexico Wants to Import Non-GMO Corn and US Farmers Say They Can Deliver It. commondreams.org "Mexico's GMO corn ban presents an opportunity for U.S. farmers to supply non-GMO corn south of the border." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/organic_corn.jpg

WSWS (2021-05-22). Volvo Truck workers in Virginia demand full contract as UAW pushes another sellout deal. wsws.org The newly formed Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee is galvanizing opposition to a new deal the United Auto Workers announced Thursday, with virtually no details.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding calls CDC's mask reversal a "mess" wsws.org "If you go into a grocery store or a workplace, you don't know if the person not wearing a mask is vaccinated," Feigl-Ding told the WSWS.

Michael Winship, Angela Godfrey-Goldstein (2021-05-22). The Biggest Threat to Israel Is the Occupation. commondreams.org Netanyahu says, "We must live by the sword"—but he's never tried alternatives. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/end-occupation1300x681.jpg

Andrew Emett (2021-05-22). Leaked video shows Louisiana state troopers killing man in custody. nationofchange.org None of the state troopers involved in Greene's death currently face criminal charges for taking his life.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Cricklewood depot bus drivers defend David O'Sullivan: "They want to make us into robotic slaves" wsws.org "Why do we have to place our lives on the line just to go to work? Why, when someone raises basic health and safety issues, are they threatened with the loss of their livelihood?"

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-22). Chile Constituent:Will Not Abandon the Streets. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Aznárez and María Torrellas In the context of the latest elections to the constituent convention to create a new Constitution in Chile, we spoke with Nuriluz Hermosilla Osorio, archaeologist and one of the three spokespersons of the Coordinadora Feminista 8M, participant of the Comité Socioambiental and the Comité de Derechos Humanos y Memoria Feminista…

WSWS (2021-05-22). French ruling class supports police rally at the National Assembly. wsws.org Law enforcement enjoys near-unanimous support among the established parties as they denounce justice and demand the formation of an authoritarian police state.

WSWS (2021-05-22). As cases of coronavirus variants rise, Nebraska goes ahead with ceasing mask mandates and continuing in-person learning. wsws.org The state's government is forging ahead with in-person learning this summer as mask mandates are rolled back.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Teachers' union supports return to regular operations at schools and nurseries in Germany. wsws.org The Education and Science Union (GEW) is once again playing a key role in pushing through the "profits before lives" policy in face of enormous resistance among students, educators and parents.

WSWS (2021-05-22). US military running a massive undercover army and conducting warrantless surveillance of Americans. wsws.org Without congressional approval or oversight, the Pentagon is running a secret army of undercover cyberwarriors and purchasing cell phone location data as part of its surveillance of US citizens.

Julia Conley, staff writer (2021-05-22). 'Outrageous': Georgia State Judge Allows Citizens to Examine Fulton County Ballots. commondreams.org "This conspiracy theory about counterfeit ballots has been trotted out by proponents of the 'Big Lie' across the country and shot down every time," said a Fulton County election official after a group of citizens were permitted to conduct their own audit of the county's election results. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/georgia-recount1300x681.jpg

WSWS (2021-05-22). I Care A Lot: Social predators of the elderly. wsws.org The latest film by J Blakeson is a black comedy about a scammer who exploits older people for money.

WSWS (2021-05-22). UK: Manchester Trades Council's Ian Allinson reveals pseudo-left's role in Unite's betrayal of Go North West bus strike. wsws.org Allinson is a typical representative of the "union activist"—invariably low-ranking functionaries and members of various pseudo-left and Stalinist groups, whose activism is carried out solely in the interests of the union bureaucracy's imposition of the dictates of the corporations.

WSWS (2021-05-22). Manchester Trades Council's Ian Allinson reveals British pseudo-left's role in betrayal of Go North West bus strike. wsws.org Allinson is a typical representative of the "union activist"—invariably low-ranking functionaries and members of various pseudo-left and Stalinist groups, whose activism is carried out solely in the interests of the union bureaucracy's imposition of the dictates of the corporations.

Ashley Curtin (2021-05-22). Chile passes single-use plastic regulation that will reduce 23,000 tons of plastic waste a year. nationofchange.org "This law is ambitious, but at the same time it's realistic for where Chile stands regarding waste generation and its technical capabilities to make these changes possible."

WSWS (2021-05-22). Media outrage erupts over decision not to grant 1619 Project architect Nikole Hannah-Jones tenured professorship. wsws.org Instead of a life-time appointment for her first academic position, Hannah-Jones was offered, and accepted, a fixed five-year sinecure with the possibility of tenure at the end of her term.

Staff (2021-05-21). Amnesty International Urges US to Suspend Arms Sales to Colombia: Used to 'Repress Protestors'. orinocotribune.com The non-governmental organization heavily funded by Western countries and corporations documented that the Colombian security forces used the Venom multiple projectile launcher against demonstrators. | The organization Amnesty International (AI) urged the US government to immediately suspend the direct and indirect sale of arms, equipment, and technology to Colombia, because they have been used by police forces to repress citizens during the national strike that began three weeks ago in the Latin American country. | "The role of the United States in fueling the incessant cycles of violence committed against the p…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Colombians Urge End To Stigmatization Of Human Rights Defenders. telesurenglish.net Eleven Colombian social organizations filed a disciplinary complaint on Thursday against several government officials for harassing and stigmatizing human rights defenders. | RELATED: | Colombia's Europa-U.S. Coordination (CCEEU), Political Prisoners Foundation (CSPP), Association for Alternative Social Promotion (MINGA), Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ), and Orlando Fals Borda Socio Juridical Collective (OFB Collective), are…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Colombia's National Strike Committee: Protests Continue. telesurenglish.net Colombia's National Strike Committee confirmed on Friday that the mobilizations will continue, as protests enter their 24th day amid violations of human rights and police brutality. | RELATED: | The president of the Central Unitary of Workers (CUT), Francisco Maltés explained that the Committee has not reached an agreement with president Ivan Duque and although they will continue holding meetings with the cabinet, the dem…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Colombians Denounce Forced Disappearances In Cali. telesurenglish.net Colombia's Institute for Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ) on Thursday denounced the forced disappearance of Cali citizens by the Mobile Anti-riot Squadron (ESMAD) agents. | RELATED: | On Thursday, the victims were detained in a supermarket in the city without the presence of local authorities. According to INDEPAZ, this was an illegal procedure and a violation of human rights. | Members of the Attorney Gene…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). New Colombian Foreign Minister's Trip to the US Questioned. telesurenglish.net Celebrities and demonstrators are currently questioning a visit by the recently inaugurated minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Marta Lucia Ramirez, to the United States, where she will deal with the issue of the social outbreak in her country. | RELATED: | On Thursday, the Foreign Minister lashed out at an op-ed article against point 2.2 of the Peace Agreement, which deals with the participation of citizens in…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Colombia: Constitutional Court Revives Peace Seats. telesurenglish.net The political controversy reached the high court through a tutela action filed by Senator Roy Barreras. | By ruling on a tutela action filed by Senator Roy Leonardo Barreras Montealegre against the Board of Directors of the Senate of the Republic, the Constitutional Court gave the green light for the reactivation of the 16 seats for victims. | RELATED: | The controversy of a political nature reached the High Cou…

Editor2 (2021-05-21). Jesús Santrich: The Laughter of a Bolivarian Cannot Be Easily Extinguished. orinocotribune.com By Néstor Kohanon — May 19, 2021 | The shots and grenades that took his breath away were from the Colombian army, as was the knife or razor with which they mutilated his lifeless hand. The orders came from Iván Duque, the little pigeon sponsored by "il capo mafia" àÅlvaro Uribe. Two equally genocidal Colombian lumpens, cornered by one of the most important popular rebellions that Colombia has experienced in the last decades. | But let no one be deceived. Let's speak without euphemisms. The strategy that guided this operation clearly comes from "higher up": the United States and Israel, two partner stat…

W. T. Whitney (2021-05-21). National Strike in Colombia is Massive, Meets Violent Repression. counterpunch.org Colombia is afire with a National Strike mounted by working people young people, and the excluded. They are protesting neoliberal reforms that diminish lives and hopes. Tax-reform proposals from President Iván Duque's rightwing government triggered large demonstrations that began on April 28 and are continuing. Brutal repression has inflamed the rebellion. The government quickly withdrew

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-21). Duque, Bolsonaro and Piñera: Between Guardianship and Crimes Against Humanity. libya360.wordpress.com Misión Verdad From the right, the presidents of Chile, Sebastián Piñera; Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro; and Colombia, Iván Duque together with the former presidents of Argentina, Mauricio Macri; Ecuador, Lenín Moreno; and Peru, Martín Vizcarra (Photo: Esteban Félix / AP). A few days ago some news portals reported that Colombian President Iván Duque was denounced before…

Gabriela Lopez et al. (2021-05-21). Institutional Responses to the Black Lives Matter Movement in Sonoma County. indybay.org This research paper investigates the institutional responses to the BLM Movement within Sonoma County. By analyzing newspaper articles and qualitative interviews, we were able to determine what kind of responses were happening within the Healthcare, Education, Business and Political sectors in Sonoma County.

Staff (2021-05-21). Palestinian Resistance Wins: Now, The Struggle Continues! samidoun.net With the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestine, one lesson is extremely clear: Palestinian resistance lives, Palestinian resistance thrives, Palestinian resistance unites, and Palestinian resistance wins. The resistance, in all of its varied and creative forms, is deeply rooted in the Palestinian people inside and outside Palestine, a legitimate resistance fighting colonialism, occupation, settler colonialism: Zionist racism, backed by the full weight of U.S. imperialism and its allies in Canada, Europe, Australia and elsewhere. The Palestinian resistance, with the armed struggle at its heart, is not onl…

Fight Back (2021-05-21). Minneapolis to protest the killings of over 200 Palestinians. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Saturday, May 22, at 3 p.m. in Bryant Square Park, (3101 Bryant Avenue S) in Minneapolis, protesters will stand in solidarity with Palestine. | Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been under siege for close to 15 years, and again, they are facing a criminal attack from the Israeli government and military. At least 231 Palestinians, including 65 children, have been killed there in the past 11 days, when Israel began its missile bombardment of the Strip. Palestinian health officials say 1700 Palestinians have been wounded. Over 1300 housing units have been completely demolished or severely dam…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). EU Urges International Efforts To Promote Peace In Middle East. telesurenglish.net European Union (EU) High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Friday urged the international community not to remain impassive in the quest for peace in the Middle East. | RELATED: | "We must support Palestine in its efforts to build its State and promote Palestinian-Israeli relations, although we are far away from achieving both," Borrell said. | The high representative…

_____ (2021-05-21). Millions of Palestinians Join General Strike and Mobilizations to Free Palestine. popularresistance.org Businesses across Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank, Gaza, and Palestinian communities inside Israel are shuttered as workers, young people, and activists take to the streets to demand an immediate end to the latest chapter in Israel's recent offensive against Palestine. Israel's airstrikes, coupled with police and military operations on the ground across the region, have resulted in the deaths of 212 people, with tens of thousands of people left without homes or access to basic necessities like electricity and water.

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Attack on Pro-Palestinian March Leaves 6 Pakistanis Dead. telesurenglish.net On Friday, a bomb attack on a Palestine solidarity march left 6 Pakistanis dead and 14 injured in the Murghi market in Charman city, in the Balochistan province. | RELATED: | "It was an improvised explosive device which went off as participants began to disperse", local administration official Tariq Mengal said, as reported by Sputnik. | Provincial government spokesman Liaquat Shahwani said 10 of the citizens injured have been tran…

Fight Back (2021-05-21). More than 1000 march in Milwaukee for Palestine on the eve of ceasefire. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On May 20, more than 1000 people came together for a Palestinian solidarity rally and march at the lakefront in downtown Milwaukee. This demonstration marked the largest of three actions that have been organized since last Monday when the Israeli government and Zionist mobs began their latest round of violence against the Palestinian people. | The action was called for by a coalition of organizations from Milwaukee, including faith-based groups, student and youth groups, and others. These groups included American Muslims for Palestine, the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Muslim Women's…

Fra Hughes (2021-05-21). So What Happens After the Violence Ends? Who Won & Who Lost, Israel vs. Palestinians? orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes (Belfast) — May 20, 2021 | Self defence, blood lust, ethnic cleansing, disproportionate response, mowing the lawn, genocide, death from the sky. | Whatever way you wish to describe the unparalleled violence unleashed on Gaza is up to you. | I describe it as shooting, or in this case bombing, Palestinians in a barrel. | Let's have a brief resume of what's happened. | The district of Sheikh Jarrah is in East Jerusalem. This was the proposed capital of a Palestine state. The signing of the Oslo Agreement in 1993 saw further Israeli expansion into the West Bank and areas like Silwan and Sheikh Jarr…

Staff (2021-05-21). Battleground Baltimore: Madness from Marilyn Mosby's Office. therealnews.com In this week's roundup of Baltimore news we talk about the latest controversy coming out of the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office, the vetoed predatory renter's bill, and Baltimore stands with Palestine…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). UN Calls for Israel-Palestine Ceasefire to Be Respected. telesurenglish.net UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday called for respect for the recent ceasefire between Israel and Palestine and called on the leaders of the warring parties to start a "serious dialogue" on the root of the conflict. | RELATED: | "I welcome the ceasefire between Gaza and Israel after 11 days of deadly hostilities," the top UN official told a press conference. | Guterres stressed that the Gaza Strip i…

Fight Back (2021-05-21). Los Angeles protest denounces 73 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – 20,000 strong, the Palestinian community and supporters throughout Southern California descended upon the West Los Angeles Wilshire Federal Building and marched to the Israeli Consulate. Protesters demanded an end to the occupation of all historical Palestine and the dismantling of apartheid by the Israeli colonial entity responsible for the terror and mass displacement of Palestinians since 1948, and for and end the violence endured by neighboring Arab countries. | For Palestinians, May 15 marks Al Nakba – Arabic for The Catastrophe. During the 1948 war, at least 750,000 Palestinian men, women…

_____ (2021-05-21). Millions Of Palestinians Join General Strike And Mobilizations. popularresistance.org Businesses across Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank, Gaza, and Palestinian communities inside Israel are shuttered as workers, young people, and activists take to the streets to demand an immediate end to the latest chapter in Israel's recent offensive against Palestine. Israel's airstrikes, coupled with police and military operations on the ground across the region, have resulted in the deaths of 212 people, with tens of thousands of people left without homes or access to basic necessities like electricity and water.

Richard Falk (2021-05-21). Palestine is Winning the Legitimacy War. zcomm.org Israel's own sense of vulnerability to a South African scenario has been exposed by this growing tendency to brand supporters of BDS and harsh critics as 'antisemites'

Michael (2021-05-21). Has Gaza changed the world's perspective of Palestine-Israel? zcomm.org Has Gaza changed the world's perspective on Palestine-Israel? It certainly has, and in doing so has demonstrated that local action can indeed have a global effect…

Mnar Muhawesh Adley (2021-05-21). Panel Discussion: Israeli Intelligence Colludes with Facebook, Google to Censor Palestinian Voices. mintpressnews.com The ongoing assault on Palestine has captured the world's attention. The latest violence was sparked by an attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem by Israeli security forces, resulting in over 300 casualties, as Muslims had gathered to celebrate Ramadan in the region's holiest place of worship. Outside, far-right groups cheered as the mosque was damaged, and launched pogroms against non-Jews inside Israel. | In response, Hamas began firing rockets into Israel, which, in turn, spurred a massive Israeli retaliation that has seen hundreds killed, thousands injured, and forced tens of thousands to flee their hom…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-21). Palestine: The Aftermath of 11 Days of Aggression. libya360.wordpress.com Cease-fire Reached After 11 Days of IOF Aggression on Gaza. Aggression Death Toll: 247 Killed, including 66 Children and 39 Women; 1417 wounded, including 277 women and 412 children The toll of the aggression rose to (247) dead, including (66) children and (39) women, and (1417) wounded, including (277) women and (412) children Cease-fire Reached…

Jeffrey St. Clair (2021-05-21). Roaming Charges: Once Upon a Time in Palestine. counterpunch.org To describe what's happening in Gaza as a "war" requires a suspension of belief in the concept of proportionality. The battle of Borodino was part of a "war." These defenseless attacks on civilian homes and buildings are an escalation of Israel's normal house clearing, using drones and cruise missiles instead of bulldozers.

Jill Richardson (2021-05-21). The Bigger Picture in Israel/Palestine. counterpunch.org Most of the news stories I see about Israel and Palestine focus on recent events. For example, in the latest violence, 213 Palestinians in Gaza are dead (including 61 children) plus another 16 in the West Bank — compared to about 10 Israelis (including two children). President Biden has "expressed support for a cease-fire" but

Daniel Warner (2021-05-21). Israel-Palestine and the Limits of Strategic Ambiguity. counterpunch.org The United States has blocked a United Nations Security Council statement on the continuing violence. According to The Times of Israel, "the draft statement urged Israel to prevent the looming evictions of Palestinian families in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, and called for 'restraint' and respect for 'the historic status quo at the

Julia Conley, staff writer (2021-05-21). Canadian Activists Pour 'River of Blood' on Israeli Consulate Steps to Symbolize Devastation Across Palestine. commondreams.org "The death and destruction inflicted by Israel in Gaza, as well as the heightened violence by Israel across Palestine, cannot be washed away," said Jewish Canadian activists who poured red paint on the steps of Toronto's Israeli consulate to symbolize the bloodshed in Palestine. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/toronto_israel_protest.png

Julia Conley, staff writer (2021-05-21). 'Solidarity With Emily Wilder': Outrage After AP Fires Staffer Targeted by Anti-Palestinian Rights Group. commondreams.org "Today in nonsensical media news, Chris Cuomo faces no discipline and Emily Wilder has no job," said one critic after an AP journalist was fired for criticizing media coverage of Israel and Palestine. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/ap-office1300x681.jpg

commondreams (2021-05-21). National March for Palestine to Go Ahead Despite Ceasefire. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-05-21). Coronavirus Travels and Cruising with Viking. dissidentvoice.org It starts off as an exercise of anticipation. First comes the softening drinks and teasing morsels which find their mark. The audience at this promotions gig is well heeled, of an age where they have money to burn, but nowhere to burn it. They have not travelled on a luxurious prison of bliss for eighteen …

Dan Cohen (2021-05-21). "The Palestinian Sharpeville" — Dr Haidar Eid on the Global Implications of the Gaza Massacre. mintpressnews.com Dr. Haidar Eid, a professor of cultural studies at Gaza's al-Aqsa University on Israel's targeting of middle and upper-class segments of Gaza, comparisons to the fall of South African apartheid, and how the attack on Gaza will fuel the rise of BDS.

Mark Gruenberg (2021-05-21). Workers' rights part of Poor People's Campaign 'Third Reconstruction' plan. peoplesworld.org

Michael T. Klare (2021-05-21). The Good News with Green Energy is the end of Struggles for Oil; the Bad news? Struggle for Lithium. juancole.com (Tomdispatch.com ) — Thanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for non-renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal will vanish. Indeed, the Biden administration has announced a breakthrough target of 2035 for fully eliminating U.S. reliance on those non-renewable fuels …

Staff (2021-05-21). The feds want him to spend 20 years in jail for a single phone call, but their case is falling apart. therealnews.com The case of Baltimore business owner Sean Weston provides a stark example of our criminal justice system's lack of equity. We also speak to James Gibson, a man who spent 29 years wrongfully imprisoned after being brutalized and tortured by Chicago police.

The Conversation (2021-05-21). Antarctica is headed for a climate tipping point by 2060, with catastrophic melting if carbon emissions aren't cut quickly. juancole.com By Julie Brigham-Grette and Andrea Dutton | — While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken draws attention to climate change in the Arctic at meetings with other national officials this week in Iceland, an even greater threat looms on the other side of the planet. New research shows it is Antarctica that may force a …

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-05-21). CNE Confirms Opening Date of Electoral Registry Ahead of 21N Regional Elections in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com With the approval of one thousand registry locations for the special day, the National Electoral Council (CNE) confirmed the approval of the opening of the Electoral Registry, between June 1 and July 15 of this year. | In this way, the electoral power will consolidate the data, by updating and registering new voters, in preparation for the regional and local elections scheduled for November 21 in Venezuela. | This was reported by the president of the CNE, Pedro Calzadilla, at the end of the board of directors' meeting. They defined the new steps to follow as part of the electoral schedule drawn up by the CNE auth…

Staff (2021-05-21). Worker Co-ops vs COVID-19. therealnews.com We know that workers have been on the front lines of the pandemic, too often with no real say in the conditions they've had to face and the risks they've had to take. How would a more democratic economy respond to the current crisis?

Mark Gruenberg (2021-05-21). Shuler, Levin: Pro Act would have stopped Amazon's tactics at Bessemer. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—In a stark illustration of how current U.S. labor law is tilted against workers, two experts on changing it—AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler and Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., a former top union organizer—say the Protect The Right To Organize (Pro) Act would have basically outlawed Amazon's high-pressure tactics that defeated the union organizing drive at …

Global Research News (2021-05-21). Selected Articles: Israel: Is this the Beginning of the End of Apartheid? globalresearch.ca By Israel's PM Netanyahu is a war criminal and should be held accountable for war crimes throughout his PM-ship of Israel, according to the …

Staff (2021-05-21). Rev. Barber Calls for "Third Reconstruction" to Lift 140 Million Out of Poverty. truthout.org Reverend William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach, says the United States needs a "Third Reconstruction" aimed at lifting 140 million poor and low-income people out of poverty. Barber worked with Congressmembers Barbara Lee and Pramila Jayapal to unveil a congressional resolution for a Third Reconstruction this week, which includes measures to expand voting rights, implement immigration reform, raise the minimum wage, establish a federal job…

Staff (2021-05-21). Biden Wants to Hire 87,000 Additional IRS Agents to Go After Wealthy Tax Dodgers. truthout.org The Biden administration is proposing hiring 87,000 new workers for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), effectively doubling the agency's size, as part of a plan to beef up enforcement efforts and find billions of dollars in tax revenues that go uncollected each year. | Enforcement efforts Th…

Karl Engels (2021-05-21). Arabs and Jews in Israel unite against Netanyahu and occupation. peoplesworld.org After an 11-day war that killed more than 240 Palestinians and 12 Israelis, a fragile ceasefire between the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Islamist Hamas militants that rule Gaza took hold early Friday morning. Activists inside Israel—Jewish and Arab alike—hailed the cessation of open fighting but said the conditions for …

Staff (2021-05-21). "We Want Real Dignity and Freedom": Gazans Welcome Ceasefire But Demand End of Siege & Occupation. democracynow.org In Gaza, thousands of people have taken to the streets to celebrate after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire, ending Israel's 11-day bombardment of the territory. At least 243 Palestinians, including 66 children, were killed in the airstrikes and bombings. Rockets fired from Gaza also killed 12 people in Israel. Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, welcomes the ceasefire but stresses Palestinians demand more than just the end of bombing. "We need [the] end of occupation, end of the blockade, self-determination, independence, dignity and freedom," Sourani says. We also spe…

Staff (2021-05-21). Above the Law? Review of Police Killing of Andrew Brown Jr. Demanded After DA Calls It Justified. democracynow.org We speak with Reverend William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and former head of the North Carolina NAACP, who is in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to call for an expedited independent investigation into the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr., the 42-year-old Black father who was killed there last month by a bullet in the back of his head after seven deputies blocked him in his driveway while serving an arrest warrant. On Tuesday, the Pasquotank County district attorney announced a state investigation had found the officers who shot Brown were justified and will not face criminal charges. Barber…

Staff (2021-05-21). Rev. William Barber Calls for a "Third Reconstruction" to Lift 140 Million People Out of Poverty. democracynow.org Reverend William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach, says the United States needs a "Third Reconstruction" aimed at lifting 140 million poor and low-income people out of poverty. Barber worked with Congressmembers Barbara Lee and Pramila Jayapal to unveil a congressional resolution for a Third Reconstruction this week, which includes measures to expand voting rights, implement immigration reform, raise the minimum wage, establish a federal jobs program and more. "There is not a scarcity of resources," says Barber. "What there is is a scarcity of social justice…

Staff (2021-05-21). Jailed at 14, Shot Dead at 17: The Story of Obaida Jawabra's Childhood Under Israeli Occupation. democracynow.org Israeli forces shot and killed Obaida Jawabra, a 17-year-old boy, earlier this week in the al-Arroub refugee camp located near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Obaida was shot in the chest, and witnesses say Israeli soldiers blocked an ambulance from reaching the teenager. He was taken to a local hospital by private car and later pronounced dead. Obaida, who was arrested by Israeli soldiers multiple times and featured in a 2019 short film, "Obaida," about Israeli soldiers detaining Palestinian children, is at least the fourth Palestinian teenager shot dead by soldiers in the occupied West Bank this year. Th…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-21). Greater Idlib: Local Gunmen Attack Turkish Border Post Following Shooting Incident (Videos). southfront.org Illustrative image | On May 21, heavy clashes broke out between Syrian gunmen and Turkish border guards near the town of Atimah in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. | According to opposition sources, local gunmen attacked a Turkish border post in response to an attack in which a child was shot by Turkish service members. The victim, who sustained severe wounds, was reportedly guarding a sheep herd near the Turkish border line when he was shot for no reason. | The Turkish border post was targeted with machine…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-21). Ceasefire Celebrations In Gaza, As U.S. Claims Credit Over Doing Nothing. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Egypt-brokered ceasefire came into effect in the Gaza strip, ending 11 days of conflict and disproportionate Israeli punishment of Palestinians. | Thousands of people in Gaza and the Palestinian territories poured onto the streets to celebrate the ceasefire, waving flags and flashing "V" signs for victory. | At least 232 Palestinians, including 65 children, were killed in the Israeli bombardment. | On the Israeli side, 12 people, including two children, lost their lives. | Celebra…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-21). Former Syrian Army Pilot Working For Militants Assassinated In Greater Idlib (Photos). southfront.org Col. Abdul Halim al-Khalil. | On May 21, a senior commander of the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL) was assassinated in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. | The commander, Col. Abdul Halim al-Khalil, was killed when an explosive device ripped through his pickup truck in the town of Salqin in the northern countryside of Idlib. The explosion didn't result in any other losses. | Col. Al-Khalil, originally from the town of Baluon in the southern Idlib countryside, defected from the Syrian Arab Air…

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Anonymous007 (2021-05-21). "The Putin Pipeline Must Be Stopped": Senators Introduce Bill To Restore Nord Stream 2 Sanctions. southfront.org Fourteen Republican senators have submitted to the US Congress a bill designed to restore sanctions against companies involved in the…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-21). Kurdish Revenge: Turkish Drone Command, Infantry Bases Targeted With Drones (Videos). southfront.org Illustrative image, a DIY suicide drone that was shoot down by the Turkish military last year. | Early on May 21, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that two of its military bases in the eastern region had been attacked. | In a statement, the ministry said that armed drones had targeted the Command of Unmanned Aerial Systems in the province of Batman and the Command of the armed forces' 23rd Infantry Division in the province of ≈ûƒ±rnak. According to the ministry, both attack…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-21). Iran's Revolutionary Guard Unveiled New 'Gaza' Drone, '9-Day' Air-Defense System & 'Quds' Radar (Photos, Video). southfront.org 9-Day air-defense system, screen grab from youtu.be/BhYJxRrhzjM | On May 21, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled a new combat drone, air-defense system and a radar. | The weapon systems were presented during a ceremony that was attended by IRGC Commander-in-Chief Major General Hossein Salami and the commander of the guards' Aerospace Force Major General Amir Ali Hajizadeh. | Gaza Combat Drone | The new drone, named in honor of the Israeli-besieged Palestinian enclave, is a large combat and reconn…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-21). Saudi-Led Forces Blew Up Dozens Of Oil Tankers In Yemeni Marib (Videos, Photos). southfront.org Saudi troops at their base in Yemen's southern port city of Aden in 2015. IMAGE: Reuters | On May 20, the Houthi-appointed Governor of Ma'rib province in central Yemen, Ali Muhammad Toaiman, condemned a recent attack on a fuel market in al-Arqain area. | The market, which hosted dozens of tankers, was set ablaze a day earlier after clashes between Saudi-backed forces and local tribesmen. In a statement to the pro-Houthis Saba News Agency, Toamian claimed that it was the Saudi-backed forces which targeted the market. | "The a…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-21). Bernie Sanders Introduces Resolution Blocking Weapon Sales To Israel, Is He A Nazi? southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 20th, US Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution blocking a $735m US weapons sale to Israel."At a moment when U.S.-made bombs are devastating Gaza, and killing women and children, we cannot simply let another huge arms sale go through without even a Congressional debate," Sanders said. "I believe that the United States must help lead the way to a peaceful and prosperous future for both Israelis and Palestinians. We need to take a hard look at whether the sa…

Staff (2021-05-21). Study Warns That Arctic Has Been Warming 3 Times Faster Than Rest of Earth. truthout.org Over the past five decades, the Arctic has warmed three times faster than the world as a whole, leading to rapid and widespread melting of ice and other far-reaching consequences that are important not only to local communities and ecosystems but to the fate of life on planet Earth. | The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) issued that warning on Thursday in a new

Staff (2021-05-21). Homeland Security Tells ICE to Cut Ties With Jail That Sicced Dogs on Migrants. truthout.org In a move hailed as "a major win" by migrant rights advocates, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday announced it is moving to end migrant detention at two county jails under federal investigation for alleged abuses including forced sterilizations and unleashing dogs on detainees. | DHS said in a

Staff (2021-05-21). Dark Money Groups Are Pouring Untold Millions Into 2021 Redistricting Efforts. truthout.org How congressional districts are drawn can change political outcomes for a decade. But the redistricting process is opaque and open to the influence of a complicated network of " Redistricting is the process of redrawing the maps that decide the makeup of congressional and state districts. In

Whitney Webb (2021-05-21). This Biden proposal could make the U.S. a "digital dictatorship" mronline.org A "new" proposal by the Biden administration to create a health-focused federal agency modeled after DARPA is not what it appears to be. Promoted as a way to "end cancer," this resuscitated "health DARPA" conceals a dangerous agenda. | May 21, 2021…

Eds. (2021-05-21). COVID-19: Like in Dante's 'Inferno', Indians are going through nine circles of hell. mronline.org Akin to how characters in Dante's poem paid for their sins in hell, Indians are paying with their lives during a pandemic for electing a government that is utterly incompetent and bigoted. | May 21, 2021…

Anand Naidoo (2021-05-21). The Heat: Israel and Hamas reach ceasefire agreement. america.cgtn.com After 12 days of fighting, Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-21). Israeli offensive ends after declaration of ceasefire, Gazans claim victory. peoplesdispatch.org The ceasefire was mediated by Egypt and came into effect at 2 am on Friday, ending 11 days of Israeli air strikes on Gaza. Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories took to the streets to celebrate a victory…

Samuel March (2021-05-21). Court of Appeal holds modern slavery conclusive grounds decisions are NOT admissible as expert evidence. ukhumanrightsblog.com R v Brecani [2021] EWCA Crim 731 — judgment here On 19 May 2021 the Court of Appeal was asked to determine whether a Conclusive Grounds Decision made by the Single Competent Authority ("SCA") that a person is a victim of modern slavery is admissible evidence in a criminal trial. Respectfully disagreeing with the decision …

Eds. (2021-05-21). Viral video of posh High School sparks heated debate on privilege. mronline.org After an alumnus of an elite Beijing high school made a video showing off its pristine facilities and supposedly laid-back pace, many online demanded that she and her ilk stop rubbing their privilege in others' faces. | May 21, 2021…

Rosalind English (2021-05-21). Retention of data on alleged rapist lawful despite acquittal in criminal proceedings. ukhumanrightsblog.com YZ, R (on the application of) v Chief Constable of South Wales Police (Rev 1) [2021] EWHC 1060 (30 April 2021) The claimant YZ had been acquitted on three counts raping his former wife but details concerning these matters remain on the Police National Computer (PNC). These proceedings concerned whether such retention was lawful. The …

WSWS (2021-05-21). Young worker's death in rural Australian hospital highlights public healthcare crisis. wsws.org The inquest into the death of 18-year-old Alex Braes in Broken Hill highlights the reality that the country's underfunded public hospitals are woefully unprepared for emergencies.

_____ (2021-05-21). Abby Martin On The Israeli Onslaught And Gaza's Fight For Freedom. popularresistance.org Despite publicly urging caution, restraint and calling for a ceasefire, the United States government continues to aid Israel, this week approving $375 million worth of arms sales to the Jewish state, even as it uses U.S.-made weaponry to attack civilian buildings and other infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. Hospitals, health clinics and homes have been destroyed, with reports confirming the deaths of at least 63 children in Gaza alone. Three pregnant women have also been killed. As of Wednesday morning, the death toll stands at 276.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-05-21). Manufacturing Consent for War: 70 Years of CIA Coups, Assassinations, False Flag Operations and Mass Murder. covertactionmagazine.com A Review of Vijay Prashad's book, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, with foreword by Evo Morales (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020). During his confirmation hearing in February, the CIA's latest director William J. Burns continued a long Agency tradition of playing up the threat from Russia and China along …

David Swanson (2021-05-21). Can You Hold These 12 Guns? Don't Shoot Any Palestinians. Wink. Wink. counterpunch.org Scene 1: A Padded Cell Congress: B. B. Bee. Bee. Bibi, Bibi, Bibi, are you there? Yes, just hold this rocket launcher, and this one, and this one, and, I'm just going to hang these grenades from each of your fingers, and, no don't bend over, here, I'll just put this strap over your shoulders,

Phyllis Bennis (2021-05-21). What Is the Biden Administration's Policy Towards Israel? commondreams.org "Beyond helping to end the devastation underway in Gaza, Biden could, in a minute, transform U.S. policy towards Israel and the Palestinians to one that actually reflects the human rights he claims are central to his foreign policy." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/joe_biden_8_2.jpg

Paul Antonopoulos (2021-05-21). Moody's Highlights that U.S. Was Biggest Loser in Trade War with China. globalresearch.ca According to

Ola Mousa (2021-05-21). How a Gaza mother went through 11 days of hell. electronicintifada.net Israel's air strikes made the ground shake.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-05-21). Ceasefire ends Israeli terror in Gaza — for now. electronicintifada.net Without accountability, another episode of sheer cruelty is inevitable.

Rainer Shea (2021-05-21). Assimilate or Die: the Horrific Settler-Colonial Annexation Strategy Israel Shares with the US. orinocotribune.com In his 1961 work The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon observed that "Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions." | With the ongoing expansion of the manufactured country of "Israel" into Palestinian lands, the European colonists are replicating this model of exporting their evils. This is what Israel's current invasion of Gaza is about: destroying a population like how the Europeans destroyed the Natives, wh…

Staff (2021-05-21). Israel Announces Ceasefire in Gaza After 11 days of Hostilities Leaving Hundreds Dead Among Palestinians. orinocotribune.com A Hamas representative confirmed to Reuters that the ceasefire will be "mutual and simultaneous" and will take effect from 02: 00 a.m. this Friday (23: 00 GMT Thursday). | Israel's Security Cabinet unanimously approved a ceasefire with the Gaza Strip on Thursday after 11 days of Israeli-Palestinian confrontations, the most intense since 2014. | According to the statement, the ministers agreed to "accept the Egyptian initiative for a unconditional bilateral ceasefire, which will take effect at an hour to be determined later," according the newspaper The Times of Israel. | For its part, a Hamas representative confirm…

Juan Cole (2021-05-21). Israel's Pyrrhic Victory: It Razed some buildings, but Reinforced Palestinian National Identity. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Israel and Hamas agreed on an unconditional ceasefire to begin at 2 am on Friday morning, which both sides put into effect, according to the Washington Post. Palestinians throughout the Occupied territories celebrated what they saw as a victory, according to Al Jazeera. One man in Gaza told the network …

Brian Terrell (2021-05-21). "Roof Knocking" in Gaza and the Myth of the Benevolent Drone. zcomm.org The illusion that war can be made safer and the control of repressed people made kinder through the use of drones only makes war and repression more likely…

Jonathan Cook (2021-05-21). Ignore Starmer's moral posturing. He's the one we should blame for stoking antisemitism. zcomm.org No one should be surprised that Britain's rightwing prime minister, Boris Johnson, has had barely anything to say about Israel's pummelling of Gaza…

Staff (2021-05-21). Headlines for May 21, 2021. democracynow.org Israel and Hamas Agree to Gaza Ceasefire After 11 Days of Intense Fighting, U.N. Chief Decries "Hell on Earth" After Israeli Strikes Sever Power, Water and Sewer Lines in Gaza, WTO Chief Pushes European Officials to Drop Opposition to Patent Waiver for COVID Vaccines, New York Launches $5 Million Lottery Incentive to Get Vaccinated , South Korean President to Discuss Denuclearization and Vaccines at White House Meeting, ICE to End Contracts with Two County Jails Where Immigrants Faced Abuses, Salvadoran Officials Exhume Dozens of Women's Bodies on Property of Former Detective, Amnesty Calls for U.S. to Stop Selli…

WSWS (2021-05-21). Israel announces ceasefire as UN says 90,000 Palestinians displaced by bombardment. wsws.org The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on Thursday that more than 90,000 Palestinians had become "internally displaced persons" as a result of the 11 days of murderous bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces.

Moderator (2021-05-21). John Kiriakou: A Former CIA Mideast Expert's View of the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis. scheerpost.com Photo by Troy Page] Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play Editor's Note: A ceasefire was declared on May 21 between Israel and Gaza. While this episode, recorded on May 13, details a crisis that has currently come to a halt, the conversation touches on far-reaching ongoing issues in the region. John Kiriakou's story as an Arabic-speaking former CIA agent and CIA torture… |

Editorial Team (2021-05-21). Historic Palestinian General Strike hits forces of occupation. challenge-magazine.org On Tuesday (18 May 2021) Palestinians across Gaza, the West Bank, occupied territories ad within Israel itself, participated in a General Strike, protesting the ongoing occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Forces, on behalf of the Israeli state. This General Strike, which was organised on extremely short notice, with initial calls to action circulating on social media on the 16th and 17th further highlighted Israel's reliance on the exploitation of Palestinian workers.

commondreams (2021-05-21). Human Rights and Press Freedom Groups Call on Rep Gregory Meeks (D-WA) to Stop Weapons Sale to Israeli Government Following Attacks on Associated Press and Al Jazeera Offices in Gaza. commondreams.org ______________________________…

WSWS (2021-05-21). Russia, China, Iran criticize Israeli onslaught against Gaza. wsws.org A class gulf separates the outrage felt by millions of workers worldwide at the Israeli slaughter on Gaza from the mealy-mouthed statements of the Eurasian capitalist regimes.

commondreams (2021-05-21). United States Must Halt Arms Sale to Israel and Commit to Ending Violations in Gaza. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-21). Palestinians slowly return home after ceasefire in besieged Gaza and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the situation in Gaza following the cessation of Israeli attacks, protests by West Papuan communities in Indonesia demanding an end to violence and the release of political prisoners, the status of migrant children and teenagers in Spain following the mass border crossings from Morocco earlier this week, and the further implications of the ceasefire announced by Israel and Hamas.

Jim Kavanagh (2021-05-21). Apartheid Does Not Have the Right to Defend Itself, or to Exist. counterpunch.org With its latest attack on Gaza—on the families it drove from their homes in what is now Israeli territory—Israel is surpassing itself in viciousness. As of today, Israel has killed 212 Gazans, including at least 61 children and 36 women. It is "obliterate[ing] multiple generations of families" in the middle of the night—at least 21

Sara Roy (2021-05-21). A Letter to Biden on Gaza. counterpunch.org I am writing to you about Gaza, a place that I have studied and written about for the last 35 years, a place that I consider another home, filled with the kindest and most generous people you will ever meet—have you ever been there? But I am writing not only as a scholar of the region but as a Jew and one whose parents survived Auschwitz.

WSWS (2021-05-21). Baltimore Amazon workers endorse International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees. wsws.org The Amazon BWI2 Independent Rank-and-File Safety Committee hereby affiliates itself with the IWA-RFC, and calls for our fellow Amazon workers to do the same.

Stephen Lendman (2021-05-21). Fantasy Israeli Ceasefire. globalresearch.ca By hot and …

Stephen Lendman (2021-05-21). Terrorizing and Massacring Civilians Israel's Specialty. globalresearch.ca Israeli terror-bombing and …

Stephen Lendman (2021-05-21). Terrorizing and Massacring Civilians: Israel's Specialty. globalresearch.ca Israeli terror-bombing and …

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Ecuador: Yaku Perez Resigns From Indigenous Pachakutik Party. telesurenglish.net In Ecuador, ex-presidential candidate Yaku Perez announced Thursday his withdrawal from the Plurinational Movement Pachakutik, noting his opposition to the Indigenous organization's legislative pact with President-elect Guillermo Lasso's party. | RELATED: | Previously, Perez had warned that he would withdraw from Pachakutik if they formed alliances with the leftist Union for Hope (Unes) coalition and the right-win…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-21). Brazil: Indigenous Articulation Takes Attacks against Yanomamis to the Supreme Court. libya360.wordpress.com Martha Raquel Sonia Guajajara, one of the leaders who denounced the unpunished attacks against the indigenous population — Mídia Ninja The population suffers with the escalation of wildcat miners' violence in their lands; the attacks continue The Brazilian Indigenous People Articulation (Apib) issued a petition in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) on Wednesday, May 19, asking…

Staff (2021-05-21). How to Save Lives in Jail During the Opioid Crisis. aclu.org Three million Americans currently suffer from Opioid Use Disorder, or an addiction to opioids. Today, adults between the ages of 25 and 44 are more than twice as likely to die from opioid overdose than from COVID-19. When we zoom in on the prison population, the numbers are even more jarring: 85 percent of people in prison or jail have some kind of substance use disorder, compared with 9 percent of the general population. Yet people who are incarcerated are less likely to get access to the care they need to treat their addiction. | Most prisons and jails don't let people take prescription medications like meth…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Argentina To Impose New COVID-19 Restrictions Starting May 22. telesurenglish.net Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez on Thursday announced new restrictive measures starting on May 22 due to an increase in COVID-19 contagions. | RELATED: | The measures respond to precise health indicators establishing the COVID-19 epidemiological risk in each province. Social, economic, educational, religious, and sports activities will be suspended in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area and other zones un…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Roma Summit Discusses Access to COVID-19 Vaccines. telesurenglish.net On Friday, world leaders and representatives of international organizations take part in a summit aimed at coordinating efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Organized by the European Commission, this summit will close with an official declaration, formalizing the participants' commitments and providing recommendations for global health policy. | "The pandemic has underlined the extraordinary relevance of i…

imperial.ac.uk (2021-05-21). COVID-19 global vaccination programme: the challenges ahead. imperial.ac.uk Vaccine experts from around the world spoke about the challenges of the COVID-19 global rollout at a special webinar event.

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Argentine President Urges Equitable Vaccine Distribution. telesurenglish.net Argentine President Alberto Fernandez warned on Monday that the inequality in the distribution and production of the COVID-19 vaccine is unfair and immoral, during the virtual World Health Summit based in Rome. | RELATED: | "The serious inequality in access to medicines and vaccines represents an unjust, extremely immoral and contrary to the interests of the international community as a whole," Fernandez said. | "Es…

Mordechai Sones (2021-05-21). America's Frontline Doctors Files Motion for Temporary Restraining Order Against Use of COVID Vaccine in Children. globalresearch.ca America's Frontline Doctors …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-21). Fatigue, perceived cognitive impairment and mood disorders associated with post-COVID-19 syndrome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ?– Patients diagnosed with post-COVID-19 syndrome, also known as "PCS," "COVID-19 long-haul syndrome" and "Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS COV-2," experience symptoms such as mood disorders, fatigue and perceived cognitive impairment that can negatively affect returning to work and resuming normal activities, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-21). Mayo Clinic Q and A: What is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My uncle was diagnosed with COVID-19, and his doctors mentioned the possibility of putting him on ECMO. What does this mean? ANSWER: A COVID-19 infection can lead to mild symptoms for many people, but for others, it can cause life-threatening lung failure. In cases like your uncle's, traditional life support measures, such as a …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-21). Talking to your children about vaccines. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expanding its emergency use authorization of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 12-15 years. So parents and caregivers may be getting even more questions from children about whether vaccines are safe and how vaccines can help end the COVID-19 pandemic. Information in this article was contributed by Jennifer …

WSWS (2021-05-21). US states begin eliminating unemployment aid even as nearly half a million jobless claims were filed last week. wsws.org Over 20 states have vowed to end the meager $300-a-week federal jobless benefit while millions remain out of work and an average of 600 people succumb each day to COVID-19.

The Associated Press (2021-05-21). Artist Publishes 100 Drawings From Peru's COVID-19 Pandemic. latinorebels.com LIMA, Peru (AP) — With a pencil and a notebook, artist Edilberto Jiménez walks the streets of Lima and cities in the Andes mountains collecting stories and images about the coronavirus health crisis that has devastated Peru.

Keith Paul Medelis (2021-05-21). The Fight to Never Forget About Those Who Died From COVID-19. latinorebels.com Family members of loved ones who died of COVID-19 now demand that Congress and the media be held accountable for their losses.

WSWS (2021-05-21). Montgomery educator denounces firings and COVID-19 case suppression as Alabama abandons pandemic health and relief measures. wsws.org As the school year draws to a close at Montgomery Public Schools, educators are drawing the lessons of the most challenging year of their careers.

WSWS (2021-05-21). Third oil worker dies from COVID-19 outbreak at Canadian Natural Resources' Alberta worksite. wsws.org The latest death was a man in his 60s, who had two children and seven grandchildren. He had been employed at the CNRL site as a pipefitter from late March.

Eve Ottenberg (2021-05-21). They're Crazy Down in Florida. counterpunch.org Some states were more reluctant than others to recognize the reality of covid. Florida has been in the vanguard of this indisposed cohort, which includes South Dakota, Texas and other red states. Florida governor Ron DeSantis recently signed a law prohibiting vaccine passports, invoking, as he did so, the good common sense of Floridians —

Ashley Curtin (2021-05-21). Sanders addresses health care workforce shortage under new bill Addressing the Shortage of Doctors Act. nationofchange.org The massive shortage was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Sanders said.

WSWS (2021-05-21). Lifting of restrictions by German authorities sabotages vaccine progress. wsws.org The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed an average of about 200 lives per day over the past two months in Germany.

Saheli Chowdhury (2021-05-21). US Extradition of Alex Saab is Illegal & Unfounded: Lawyers & Legal Experts (International Delegation Proposed). orinocotribune.com May 20 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)—Venezuelan businessman and diplomatic envoy Alex Saab, held in Cape Verde and facing extradition to the US, is a victim of political persecution and his case is comparable to that of Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning. Saab, who had engaged in brokering deals that would evade the US economic blockade against Venezuela and bring fuel, food, and other needed materials to the South American country, was detained in the African island nation of Cape Verde last June. | Over the course of the past year, Saab's case has made waves on the African continent and in Venezuela, wh…

Ari Paul (2021-05-21). Israel's War Against Press Turns More Literal. zcomm.org The rest of the world will be worse off, and the Israeli government will get more of what it wants: darkness, and freedom from outside scrutiny…

Ari Paul (2021-05-21). Conservative Jewish Journalists Use False Claims of Censorship to Try to Silence Critics. commondreams.org "The fact is that while the Jewish right claims they are being silenced or vilified in the media by the left, the Jewish right and its allies have levied harsh criticism toward liberal Jews and have in some cases attempted to deplatform them." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/brett_stephens-1.jpg

Ben Norton (2021-05-21). Chile shifts left to rewrite Pinochet-era constitution, as Goldman Sachs eyes its copper reserves. thegrayzone.com Ben Norton speaks with Chilean activist and politician Pablo Sepúlveda Allende about the historic May 15/16 elections in which left-wing and independent candidates won two-thirds of the seats for a convention to rewrite the constitution, which dates back to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Sepúlveda Allende, a grandson of Chile's legendary socialist President Salvador Allende, also discusses Chile's enormous copper reserves, which are some of the largest in the world, and are now being targeted by US corporations, after …

Paul Street (2021-05-21). From What to Why on the Trump Proletarian Narrative. counterpunch.org The wrongheaded but ubiquitous notion that the Republican Amerikaner Trump base is the (um, white) "working-class" drawn to "populism" has been disproven in study after study showing that the Trumpenvolk are relatively affluent, not proletarian and poor, and driven by an ugly, mutually reinforcing mixture of racism, sexism, nativism, fundamentalism, and authoritarianism. Those who have

Mark Fiore (2021-05-21). How to Start a War in Five E-Z Steps. progressive.org Here's hoping stopping this war is easier than starting it.

priscilla (2021-05-21). Farmworkers Modernization Act: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. dsausa.org Join the Immigrants' Rights Working Group of DSA for a discussion about current immigration legislation in Congress.

WSWS (2021-05-21). Two immigrants rescued from deportation in Glasgow by community intervention, as government escalates "hostile environment" wsws.org News soon spread through the Kenmure Road area and beyond of the attempt to remove Sehdev and Singh and hundreds of local people flooded onto the street to block the immigration van's exit.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-21). Spain cracks down on migrants after mass border crossing. peoplesdispatch.org The migrants were intercepted by Spanish security personnel patrolling the borders and at least 5,600 were sent back to Morocco by May 19. Meanwhile, hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children remain stranded in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta…

Jewish Voice for Peace (2021-05-21). Video: Our Approach to Zionism. globalresearch.ca Jewish Voice …

Ken Silverstein (2021-05-21). Which Side Are You On? The Answer is Clear for Today's Useful Idiots for the Right. counterpunch.org In 2016 and 2020, Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic Socialist, was a viable candidate for the presidency of the United States. In a country where the left was systematically persecuted and whose intelligence services systematically persecute it abroad, such a development is significant and without precedent. Recent polls show half of millennials are well disposed

Robert Dodge (2021-05-21). Who has the President's Ear? counterpunch.org Each Spring our country funds its priorities for the coming year. This annual process gives us the opportunity for renewal as we address our critical needs. This year, for the second year in a row, the process is disrupted by the continuation of a global pandemic that has resulted in the loss of more than

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-21). US Extradition of Alex Saab is Illegal & Unfounded: Lawyers & Legal Experts. libya360.wordpress.com Saheli Chowdhury & Steve Lalla Alex Saab: "I'm the object of an unprecedented legal persecution to oust President Nicolás Maduro." Venezuelan businessman and diplomatic envoy Alex Saab, held in Cape Verde and facing extradition to the US, is a victim of political persecution and his case is comparable to that of Julian Assange or Chelsea…

_____ (2021-05-21). Mision Arbol: Ecosocialism In An Oil-Rich Nation. popularresistance.org President Chavez was ahead of his time for a head of state, but was merely reiterating what thousands of activists and thinkers had been saying for decades. "But wait!" many readers and commentators alike may say; "Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution exported oil, so any claims of environmentalism must just be talk!". Nothing could be farther from the truth, as I will show in the following article how Chavez, his successor Nicolas Maduro, and the Bolivarian process as a whole has an outstanding record in terms of combating climate change and defending the environment. | The environment is the beginning and end o…

WSWS (2021-05-21). The Pike River mine disaster in New Zealand: Political lessons from the fight for truth and justice for the deaths of 29 men. wsws.org This speech, delivered by Socialist Equality Group (NZ) member Tom Peters to a webinar on May 8, exposed the complicity of successive governments, trade unions and state agencies in the disaster that killed 29 men 10 years ago, and the subsequent cover-up.

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Cuba Is Ready For the Eurasian Economic Union, Diaz-Canel Says. telesurenglish.net On Friday, President Miguel Diaz-Canel addressed for the first time the Supreme Council of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Cuba is the only Latin American state to enjoy observer status in this regional organization. | RELATED: | He reaffirmed his country's commitment to collaborate in EEU priorities, noting that cooperation links within the organization are mutually beneficial. So far, at least 30 joint actions have been defined in area…

Fight Back (2021-05-21). FRSO fund drive nets $65,000, let's make the push to $100,000. fightbacknews.org We are proud of the progress that our Spring Fundraising campaign has made so far. $65,000 in hand, with many thousands in pledges. We are in striking distance of goal of $100,000. We are poised to make a great leap forward. | FRSO has been growing rapidly, and as a result we need to grow our capacity as a national organization. This fundraising drive makes it possible for us to open a national office and hire staff that can work full time to develop the revolutionary movement. | The decline of U.S. imperialism is accelerating. In the heart of the beast, we have seen a great rebellion against racist inequality an…

Rick Sterling (2021-05-21). Targeting Nicaragua: How Billionaire Foundations Fund NGOs to Advance US Foreign Policy Goals. globalresearch.ca US foreign policy …

teleSUR (2021-05-21). NATO Summit: France to Revitalize Alliance with Organization. telesurenglish.net French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that Paris wants to revitalize its alliance with NATO, but noted that a clarification of NATO's current priorities is in order. | RELATED: | "The [upcoming NATO] summit must deliver a political clarification on the role and strategic priorities of the alliance. The summit must lead to enhanced cohesion within the alliance. We have to be clear amongst ourselves on the values, pr…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). 1.2 Million Mozambicans in Need of Medical Care Due to Jihadism. telesurenglish.net The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday reported that 1.2 million people are in need of medical care in Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique, where 44 out of 132 health centers have been damaged or closed due to jihadist violence. | RELATED: | "There is an urgent need to ensure full access to essential health services in all accessible districts and to establish mechanisms to improve it in districts where it is difficult to e…

_____ (2021-05-21). New Report: Climate Harms to Health Are Widespread & Costly. popularresistance.org A new report NRDC published with partner groups today spotlights the enormous, often overlooked, and inequitable health and economic costs of climate change and air pollution from burning fossil fuels on the United States. This report, produced by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action, and NRDC focuses on the frequently ignored but profound public health problems and costs linked to the climate crisis.

Sharon Kelly (2021-05-21). Who's Making — and Funding — the World's Plastic Trash? globalresearch.ca ExxonMobil is the …

_____ (2021-05-21). Thousands in US participate in nationwide McDonald's strike, reject 'PR stunt' wage hike plan. popularresistance.org Thousands of workers of McDonald's chain in 15 cities across the United States went on strike for wage hikes. On Wednesday, May 19, workers organized in the "Fight for 15" campaign participated in the one-day strike action across the country demanding that the minimum wages for workers at the McDonald's chains be hiked to USD 15 per hour and the right to unionize.

MISH (2021-05-21). Congress Howls as Biden Kills Trump's Sanctions on Russia Gas Pipeline. globalresearch.ca Biden Ends Trump's …

Adam Vaughan (2021-05-21). World's Largest Iceberg Has Just Broken Off an Antarctic Ice Shelf. globalresearch.ca An iceberg bigger …

William M Arkin (2021-05-21). Inside the Military's Secret Undercover Army. globalresearch.ca Below are excerpts of …

_____ (2021-05-21). Klamath Tribes Rally Amid Water Crisis. popularresistance.org A group of protesters gathered at Sugarman's Corner in downtown Klamath Falls last Saturday, preparing to welcome a 25-car caravan of mostly Klamath Tribal members calling for solutions to the Klamath Basin's water crisis.

Johanna Kichton (2021-05-21). People's Action Rebukes President Biden's Walkback on Infrastructure. peoplesaction.org Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 240.206.1145 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action today released the following statement by Climate Justice Campaign Director Kaniela Ing in response to President Biden's surrender to Senate Republicans on his infrastructure bill: "President Biden's bill was already three times too small before this attempt to placate Republicans and their billionaire backers. Republicans don't want …

Michael T. Klare (2021-05-21). Lithium, Cobalt, and Rare Earths. globalresearch.ca Thanks to its …

_____ (2021-05-21). A Day Of Action: Educators Pledge To Teach The Truth, June 12. popularresistance.org Lawmakers in at least 15 states are attempting to pass legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about the role of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and oppression throughout U.S. history.

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Pakistan-China Cordial Relations Growing: Pakistani PM. telesurenglish.net Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that the cordial relations between Pakistan and China are growing deeper and stronger day by day. | RELATED: | Speaking virtually at the inauguration ceremony of the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant Unit-2 (K-2), Khan said that Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and apart from the ever-strengthening bilateral t…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Nicaragua Starts Probe Against Opposition's Cristiana Chamorro. telesurenglish.net Nicaragua's Interior Ministry announced on Thursday a money-laundering probe against opposition politician Cristiana Chamorro, as authorities have gathered "clear evidence" of her financial crimes. | RELATED: | Chamorro, who seeks to challenge president Daniel Ortega in November's presidential election, met with prosecutors on Friday to discuss the law violations regarding the "Violeta Barrios de Chamorros" foundation she…

Kingston Reif (2021-05-21). 500,000,000,000 Reasons to Scrutinize the US Plan for Nuclear Weapons. globalresearch.ca The public

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2021-05-21). More Good News on Ivermectin. globalresearch.ca Ivermectin is an …

Dan Korobkin (2021-05-21). Grand Rapids' Fingerprinting Policy is a Constitutional Nightmare. Michigan's Top Court can End It. aclu.org For more than 30 years, Grand Rapids, Michigan police have engaged in the egregious, unconstitutional practice of detaining people on the street and then fingerprinting and photographing anyone who isn't carrying an ID, all without a warrant. In the process, they have disproportionately targeted Black people, young people, and lower-income people. The

teleSUR (2021-05-21). Peru's Left-Wing Pedro Castillo Leads Polls Ahead of Elections. telesurenglish.net Peru's left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo leads the voter intention two weeks ahead of the presidential elections, pollster Datum revealed on Friday. | RELATED: | The elementary school teacher surpassed by almost nine points his opponent Keiko Fujimori, daughter of dictator Alberto Fujimori. During the survey carried out from May 18 to 20, Castillo reported 45.5 percent of preference while Keiko reached 40,1 percent. | Pr…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). 13 Candidates Murdered so Far Ahead of Mexico's Election Day. telesurenglish.net Mexico's Security Secretary (SSPC) Rosa Rodriguez confirmed on Friday that 13 candidates had been murdered since the start of electoral campaigns ahead of the upcoming June 6 subnational elections. | RELATED: | She informed that 398 candidates are currently under "monitoring and attention" status, 173 of whom are women. So far, the institution has protected 147 candidates and has registered 101 assaults. | San Luis…

Staff (2021-05-21). Venezuela's Attorney General 'Works Blindfolded' Due to Silence from International Criminal Court. orinocotribune.com The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, regretted the absence of communication from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to reports sent by the Public Prosecutor's Office, in which the office detailed progress made in legislative matters, and institutional adjustments that Venezuela has implemented following ICC recommendations. | "We emphasize once again that the Venezuelan state works completely blindfolded in its submission of information to the ICC Prosecutor's Office, since it has not received official notification from this body regarding the facts that are under investigation,"

teleSUR (2021-05-21). US Treasury Proposes Global Minimum Tax Rate of 15 Percent. telesurenglish.net During the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) / G20 international tax negotiations, the U.S. Treasury Department proposed that the global minimum tax rate should be at least 15 percent, noting that the final rate could go even higher. | RELATED: | These negotiations came less than two months after U.S. President Joe Biden proposed a series of corporate tax changes that could raise roughly…

_____ (2021-05-21). Unions Take Up The Fight For Racial Justice. popularresistance.org Labor organizations are taking up the fight for racial justice in many ways. They're developing in-depth member education on racial capitalism. They're using bargaining to address structural racism and developing new leadership.

_____ (2021-05-21). Nationwide McDonald's Strike Rejects 'PR Stunt' Wage Hike Plan. popularresistance.org Thousands of workers of McDonald's chain in 15 cities across the United States went on strike for wage hikes. On Wednesday, May 19, workers organized in the "Fight for 15" campaign participated in the one-day strike action across the country demanding that the minimum wages for workers at the McDonald's chains be hiked to USD 15 per hour and the right to unionize.

Editor2 (2021-05-21). West Africa: ECOWAS Court Orders Cape Verde to Release Venezuelan Diplomat Saab. orinocotribune.com Abuja — Eight days after the African Bar Association's (AfBA) warning to Cape Verde Island over the detention of a Venezuelan diplomat, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court has ruled that the arrest and detention was illegal. | On Monday, the ECOWAS court in Abuja said diplomat Alex Saab should be released and paid $200,000 for unlawful detention. | The AfBA on March 8 had also ordered Cape Verde Island to immediately release Mr. Saab, an accredited Venezuelan special envoy and alternate permanent representative to the African Union. | Mr. Saab was arrested by the Cape Verdean author…

_____ (2021-05-21). Chile Shifts Left To Rewrite Pinochet-era Constitution. popularresistance.org And today we are going to talk about Chile's elections. This May there were municipal elections and constituent elections, to write a new constitution, because today Chile still has a Pinochet-era constitution, which was written in the time of the military dictatorship, of Augusto Pinochet.

Robert Davis (2021-05-21). Colorado Shooting Highlights Need for Stronger Gun Laws. progressive.org The federal impasse on gun violence presents an opportunity for Colorado, and other states, to strengthen local authority to regulate firearms.

PAI (2021-05-21). Latest CDC anti-virus guidance draws some union criticism. peoplesworld.org &nbsp…

Carlos Arellán (2021-05-21). Lula Confirms He Will Run in Brazil's Next Presidential Election. orinocotribune.com Lula finally confirmed that he would compete in an election against Jair Bolsonaro. However, the former president clarified that he would do so under certain conditions: "If I am in the best position to win the presidential elections, and I am in good health, yes, I do not doubt it," he told a French magazine that interviewed him. | According to recent polls, the leader of the Brazilian Workers' Party would defeat the current president in the first and second rounds. | According to Datafolha, in a first vote, Lula would get 44% of the vote, compared to only 23% for Bolsonaro. In the second round, the former presi…

_____ (2021-05-21). New Report: Climate Harms To Health Are Widespread And Costly. popularresistance.org A new report NRDC published with partner groups today spotlights the enormous, often overlooked, and inequitable health and economic costs of climate change and air pollution from burning fossil fuels on the United States. This report, produced by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action, and NRDC focuses on the frequently ignored but profound public health problems and costs linked to the climate crisis.

Rima Najjar (2021-05-21). For Palestinians: No Choice but to Speak Truth to Power. globalresearch.ca Pain mixed with …

Michael T. Klare (2021-05-21). Resource Wars in a Renewable Future? Lithium, Cobalt, and Rare Earths. globalresearch.ca Thanks to its …

imperial.ac.uk (2021-05-21). Imperial connects with Kensington residents on electric vehicles. imperial.ac.uk Imperial's Dr Billy Wu, Senior Lecturer at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, took part in a virtual event on electric cars this week.

Global Research News (2021-05-21). This Week's Most Popular Articles. globalresearch.ca

UUSF Forum (2021-05-21). Sunday 5/30: A Perspective from David Hartsough Peace and Civil Rights Activist, and Author. indybay.org Join Our Zoom Forum with David Hartsough | zoom.us/j/2200241232?pwd=aCt1dWI0OGxUdUxjeUJ5K0xSY09uUT09 | Meeting ID: 220 024 1232 | Passcode: 328697…

Eric Posner (2021-05-21). Disempowering the US cartels. indybay.org Technology corporations mostly form oligopolies, if not monopolies. | U.S. President Joe Biden is signaling that his administration wants to crack down on monopolies… Klobuchar's bill aims to boost antitrust action in many ways: it seeks to increase funding for the FTC and the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.

UUSF Humanists, Non-Theists (2021-05-21). Sunday 5/23: Tom Gallagher, A Social Democrats Take on the Biden Administration. indybay.org Join us on Zoom — | us02web.zoom.us/j/87281301611?pwd=NWF6NGd3bUhpSE14NWJLcmpra1ZSUT09 | Meeting ID: 872 8130 1611 | Passcode: 391496 | Dial by your location | +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)…

Zachary Brikovich (2021-05-21). Colorism Within the Beauty Industry. indybay.org OP-Ed that takes a look at colorism in the beauty industry and the projected trends of the skin whitening market in the future.

Greg Sarris (2021-05-21). Thursday 5/20: Word for Wordcast's Broadcast of Radio Drama "Citizen" (May 20-June 3). indybay.org Tune into KALW, 91.7 FM, at 1 pm. 3 episodes: 5/20, 5/27 and 6/3.

Prof. Eerke Boiten (2021-05-21). NHS Vaccine Passports Are Here — But Will They be Used Beyond International Travel? globalresearch.ca England's

Emir Sader (2021-05-21). Lula consolida sus chances de ganar en primera vuelta. globalizacion.ca Desde que recuperó' sus derechos políticos, Lula da Silva pasó a liderar las encuestas para las elecciones presidenciales del 2022. Pero el sondeo de DataFolha, del periódico Folha de Sà£o Paulo, fue el primero hecho de forma presencial y no…

teleSUR (2021-05-21). US Imposes New Sanctions on Nord Stream Russian Companies. telesurenglish.net The United States has blacklisted 13 Russian ships involved in the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, the US Department of the Treasury said on Friday. | RELATED: | The blacklisted ships are the Academic Chersky, the rtemis Offshore, the Bakhtemir, the Baltic Reseracher, the Finval, the Captain Beklemishev, the Murman, the Narval, the Sivuch, the Spasatel Karev, the Umka, the Vladislav Strizh…

Chris Walker (2021-05-21). Right-Wing Media Hounds AOC Over Her Choice to Keep Wearing Mask. zcomm.org "If you want to keep wearing your mask then do it"

Zoe Schiffer (2021-05-21). Google employees call for company to support Palestinians. zcomm.org 'Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism'

Nimer Sultany (2021-05-21). Peaceful Coexistence in Israel Hasn't Been Shattered — It's Always Been a Myth. zcomm.org As a Palestinian from within Israel I have long been a second-class citizen, denied basic rights…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-21). Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente announce strategic investment in Medically Home to expand access to serious or complex care at home. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn., and OAKLAND, Calif. ? Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente are partnering in an unprecedented collaboration to allow more patients to receive acute level of care and recovery services in the comfort, convenience and safety of their homes. Beginning with significant strategic investments in Medically Home Group, a Boston-based, technology-enabled services company, Mayo Clinic …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-21). Consumer Health: Stroke awareness. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about stroke. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and a major cause of serious disability for adults. More than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-21). Infographic: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET). newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Learn more about pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.?More health tip infographics: ?mayohealthhighlights.startribune.com…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-21). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Addressing equity in clinical trials. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many organizations, Mayo Clinic is working to address disparities and equity in health care. This work is important not only in the clinic setting, but also in addressing equity issues in medical research and clinical trials. Clinical trials are research studies used to determine whether an intervention, such as a drug, device or other …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-21). Consumer Health: Bladder cancer awareness. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is Bladder Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers. Nearly 84,000 new cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2021, according to the American Cancer Society. Bladder cancer occurs in men more frequently than in women, …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-21). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Treatment for patent foramen ovale. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm 36 and do not have any significant medical concerns, but due to a family member's heart health issues, it was recommended I have a cardiac evaluation. After undergoing an echocardiogram, I was surprised to be told that I have a patent foramen ovale. The cardiologist said I don't need to be treated …

John Nichols (2021-05-21). Amid All the GOP's Profiles in Political Cowardice, None Is So Stark as That of Mike Gallagher. thenation.com Amid All the GOP's Profiles in Political Cowardice, None Is So Stark as That of Mike Gallagher…

Dave Zirin (2021-05-21). Remembering Lee Evans, Athlete-Activist Legend. thenation.com Remembering Lee Evans, Athlete-Activist Legend…

Ross Barkan (2021-05-21). Will New York Join the List of Cities With Progressive DAs? thenation.com Will New York Join the List of Cities With Progressive DAs?

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