2021-05-17: News Headlines

Stephanie Hedgecoke (2021-05-18). Syringes for Cuba: Campaign to send vital COVID supplies. workers.org During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba's Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade sent 53 contingents of volunteer health workers to over 40 countries — in addition to Cuban medical personnel already working in 58 countries. And more than 45 countries requested Cuba's Interferon Alpha 2B protocol to use for . . . |

Staff (2021-05-17). Sunday COVID-19 Brief: 14 Deaths and 1,070 New Cases in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, May 16, Venezuela reported 1,070 new COVID-19 cases, out of which 1,063 were from community transmission, and seven were imported (three from Panama, three from Aruba. and one from Mexico). | The state with the most positives in the last 24 hours was Yaracuy, with 183 cases. The rest of the infections were distributed across the country as follows: La Guaira, 164; Aragua, 111; Miranda, 94; Zulia, 86; Caracas, 76; Táchira, 65; Anzoátegui, 59; Trujillo, 41; Guárico, 37; Falcón, 35; Carabobo, 31; Nueva Esparta, 26; Portuguesa, 20; Lara, 11; Sucre, eight; Cojedes, seven; Apure, six; Bolívar, two; and Mér…

Liberation Staff (2021-05-17). Nakba 73: Actions in 75+ US cities remember the Palestinian 'Catastrophe' of 1948. liberationnews.org Seventy-three years after al-Nakba, or "the Catastrophe," Palestinians and their supporters from all around the world took to the streets to stand with the Palestinian resistance to Israeli apartheid, demand an end to U.S. aid to Israel and called for support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. As many as 100,000 people in the …

Anonymous103 (2021-05-17). War By Other Means: Who Is Financing The Iranian "6Rang" LGBTQ Organization? southfront.org Illustrative image | Written by The pattern is always unmistakable. The folks who use Usury, Economic Sanctions, Coup d'Etats, Assassinations, and endless Empire Wars, also employ Cultural Marxism, especially when it comes to the targeted character of the LGBTQ movement's slings and arrows against both Christianity and Islam, and against sovereign nation-states who have figured out that Zio-Globalism is the death of their nations a…

Fight Back (2021-05-17). Minnesota: More than 2000 protest against ongoing Nakba In Palestine. fightbacknews.org Columbia Heights, MN – On May 15, over 2000 people marched in the streets to protest the Israeli regime's latest onslaught against Palestine. The occasion was Nakba Day, commemorated on May 15 every year since 1948 when Zionist settlers ethnically cleansed over 750,000 Palestinians from their national homeland. The event was organized by American Muslims for Palestine-Minnesota (AMP-MN) and the Anti-War Committee (AWC), which were joined by Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Minnesota (SJP-UMN), Jewish Voice for Peace-Twin Cities, Women Against Military Madness and others. | Demonstrators wav…

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies (2021-05-17). How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians. commondreams.org "The silence and worse from President Biden and most of our representatives in Congress at the massacre of civilians and mass destruction of Gaza is unconscionable." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Steve Pleich (2021-05-17). Stay Away Ordinance Casts Long Shadow. indybay.org Activists Fear Increased Use of Stay Away Power…

WSWS (2021-05-17). A conversation with Firouzeh Khosrovani, Iranian director of Radiograph of a Family. wsws.org As part of our coverage of this year's San Francisco film festival, we commented on Iranian director Firouzeh Khosrovani's film. We suggested the work was "a sensitive, semi-autobiographical and semi-fictionalized portrait."

Fight Back (2021-05-16). Michigan protest demands 'Free Palestine'. fightbacknews.org Grand Rapids, MI – 60 protesters gathered for a "Free Palestine, Stop U.S. Aid to Israel" protest in Grand Rapids, Michigan on May 15, as the world observed Nakba Day amid continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. | Organized by the Grand Rapids Anti-War Committee, the protest featured speakers from Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Democratic Socialists of America, Bimose Ode, Justice for Black Lives, and local Palestinian activists. | Protesters chanted "Free, free, Palestine!" and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!" | "Joe Biden and the American government need to stop fu…

Staff (2021-05-16). How El Nacional Building was Found After Executive Embargo — Meanwhile Al Jazeera and AP Offices in Gaza Bombed to the Ground. orinocotribune.com Diosdado Cabello, Venezuelan National Assembly deputy, posted two images on his Twitter account, showing the completely empty building of the newspaper El Nacional, in Caracas, "without workers or equipment," and there were even some offices given on rent to other companies. | This came just a few hours after the notice by poster delivered to the owners of the newspaper this Friday afternoon, informing of the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to proceed with an executive embargo of the main headquarters of the national daily, resulting from a defamation trial initiated by Cabello against the news out…

Oliver Boyd-Barrett (2021-05-16). Ottoman's Forever Empire and its Multiple Triggers for War. dissidentvoice.org Trading Genocides On April 24, 2021, US President Joseph Biden declared that the massacre of 1.5 million Turkish Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide. As to whether genocide is the word Americans can consent to use about Native Americans who suffered death, torture, displacement, apartheid and disease at the hands, mainly, of European settlers in the …

Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza (2021-05-16). Six Months Before Regional Elections in Venezuela — What Polls Show. orinocotribune.com Caracas, May 15 (OrinocoTribune.com) — Almost six months before the mega regional elections in Venezuela scheduled for November, in which governors, mayors and city council members will be elected, a poll carried out by the firm Hinterlaces is showing positive trends in favor of the ruling PSUV and Chavismo, despite a high percentage of the electorate identifying themselves as politically non-aligned or non-affiliated to any party. | The regional elections are scheduled for Sunday, November 21, as announced last Thursday by the newly elected National Electoral Council (CNE) authorities. This new CNE board ha…

Staff (2021-05-16). Venezuela Denounces Abduction of Eight Soldiers by Colombian Narco Terrorist Groups. orinocotribune.com Eight members of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) were abducted by armed criminal groups from Colombia that entered Venezuelan territory through the international border in Apure state. The incident occurred during full combat actions that had been implemented since late March this year in defense of national sovereignty. The information was communicated to the country this Saturday afternoon by the Minister for Defense, General in Chief Vladímir Padrino López, who read out an official statement broadcast through state media Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). | Padrino López further informed that on May 9,…

Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza (2021-05-16). URGENT WEBINAR THIS WEDNESDAY 19th: Alex Saab's Lawyer: 'How the US Starves Nations'. orinocotribune.com Alex Saab's lawyer, Femi Falana, has agreed to participate in a webinar about this important case related to US "sanctions". | Caracas, May 16 (OrinocoTribune.com)— Alex Saab has been illegally held by Cape Verdean authorities in prison, and most recently in a unique form of house arrest. Saab was apprehended because of his attempts to bypass illegal US and European "sanctions" against the Venezuelan people. | Saab, a special diplomatic envoy of Venezuela at the time of his irregular detention, and currently ambassador of Venezuela to the African Union, was instrumental in procuring international supplie…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-16). Military Situation In Yemen On May 16, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 125 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On May 15, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 13 airstrikes on the Sarwah area | On May 15, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 5 airstrikes on the Khab and Shaaf area | On May 15, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on the Zaher area | On May 16, sporadic clashes between Ansar Allah and Saudi-led fo…

teleSUR (2021-05-16). Israel's Crimes Against Palestine Are Genocide, Iran Denounces. telesurenglish.net Iran's Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to declare Israel's aggressions against Palestinians as genocide and crimes against humanity. | RELATED: | "Innocent men, women, and children are being slaughtered with the most lethal and sophisticated weapons. Houses are being demolished with their residents trapped inside," he stressed during an OI…

teleSUR (2021-05-16). Leal: Colombia Will Continue Protests, It Has Nothing to Lose. telesurenglish.net In an interview granted this Sunday to HispanTV, Dr. Angel Rafael Tortolero Leal, research professor at the UNERG of Venezuela, said that the indignation against the repression and brutality of the police in Colombia is not limited to this country, but is a feeling that has sprouted globally. | RELATED: | Since April 28, Colombia has been the scene of massive protests, in the framework of a national strike…

teleSUR (2021-05-16). Telesur President Highlights Anti-Uribe Sentiment in Colombia. telesurenglish.net The Colombian journalist and president of Telesur, Patricia Villegas, highlighted during an interview in Caracas today that in her country, there is a widespread feeling of rejection to Uribism, massively expressed among the poorer popular sectors and the youth. | RELATED: | During an interview granted to the Venezuelan Minister of Culture, Ernesto Villegas, the head of the multinational channel, talking about a politic…

Staff (2021-05-16). Recovery: All Gasoline Currently Sold in Venezuela Is Nationally Produced. orinocotribune.com All the fuel that is currently being sold in Venezuela has been nationally produced, stated Executive Vice President and Minister of Economy and Finance Delcy Rodríguez, in an interview with the newspaper àöltimas Noticias. | When asked about the recovery of diesel and gasoline production in Venezuela, Rodríguez said that "the working team in Petróleos de Venezuela, the Ministry, and the Alí Rodríguez Araque Commission have all been making important efforts to recover the national production. What is circulating in the market today, all of it is of national production." | "Positive things can also come out o…

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