2021-05-18: Social Media Postees

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Death of FARC-EP's Jesús Santrich: Breaking News, False Positive, Uribismo Media Smokescreen or Colombian Violation of Venezuelan Territory?
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-19
The alleged death "in combat" in Venezuelan territory of the Colombian guerrilla commander Jesús Santrich could end up being "breaking news" for Semana news magazine, but it is more likely that it will end up ranking in the top ten of fake news–which is saying a lot because the story concerns Colombia, a country where fabricating fake news, mounting false flag operations, and producing smokescreens is already part of the daily modus operandi of the ruling elite, inextricably associated with its media apparatus. | The alleged news is trending on social media networks and remains as such although, after twelv…
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Why the United States has Blood on its Hands in Palestine
Medea Benjamin, Nicholas J.S. Davies | juancole.com | 2021-05-18
( Code Pink) -The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United States is an innocent neutral party to the conflict. In fact, large majorities of Americans have told pollsters for decades that they want the United States to be neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But U.S. …
juancole.com/2021/05/united-states-pales…

Syringes for Cuba: Campaign to send vital COVID supplies
Stephanie Hedgecoke | workers.org | 2021-05-18
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 . . . | Continue reading Syringes for Cuba: Campaign to send vital COVID supplies at Workers.org…
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Venezuela Receives 25 Tons of Medical Supplies from China
slorinoco | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-18
Some 25 tons of medical supplies from China arrived in Venezuela as part of the air bridge established between the two countries to combat and treat COVID-19, reported Venezuelan Health Minister Carlos Alvarado this Monday, May 17. | He emphasized that this air bridge between both nations reaffirms the strong bond of friendship that exists between China and Venezuela. | #UltimoMinuto | | Arriban a Venezuela insumos médicos provenientes de China, como parte del puente aéreo establecido entre ambas naciones para combatir la pandemia…
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"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-18
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…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

How the United States Contributes to the Killing of Palestinians
Medea Benjamin | progressive.org | 2021-05-18
As Gaza suffers, Congress has been slow to counteract President Joe Biden's plan to continue funneling military aid to Israel.
progressive.org/dispatches/united-states…

Why the United States has Blood on its Hands in Palestine
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2021-05-18
U.S. media and politicians betray their own lack of neutrality by blaming Palestinians for nearly all the violence and framing flagrantly disproportionate, indiscriminate and therefore illegal Israeli attacks as a justifiable response to Palestinian actions…
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Selected Articles: How the United States Helps to Kill Palestinians
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-18
How the United States Helps to Kill Palestinians | By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, May 18, 2021 | The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United Sta…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-how-united-states-helps-kill-palestinians/5745591

Labor for Palestine's Call for Nakba Day Support for Palestine
repost | indybay.org | 2021-05-18
U.S. Labor Must Stand With Palestine! | Labor for Palestine, Nakba Day, May 15, 2021 | As workers, labor, and anti-apartheid activists, we join millions around the world to unequivocally condemn Israel's genocidal attacks on the Palestinian people: mass evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighborhoods of Jerusalem, storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, waves of state-sponsored violence throughout the West Bank and the '48 areas (stolen from Palestine in 1948), and merciless bombardment of Gaza that has already killed and wounded hundreds of people, many of them children.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/17/1884259…

'Organizing Did This': Amazon Extends Moratorium on Police Use of Facial Recognition Tech
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-05-18
"This is a huge win for privacy and is the direct result of years of work by activists and advocates who have shed light on the dangerous use of this flawed technology." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Activists Push for Charges to Be Dropped Against Demonstrators for Black Lives
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-18
At a press conference last month, members of the coalition stood in front of Travis County District Court in Austin with banners highlighting her case and calling for the dropping of charges against defendants criminalized during the uprisings across the country. The coalition formally presented a petition with over 2,000 signatures demanding that Travis County District Attorney José Garza drop the charges against people who protested for Black lives in Austin last year.
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Stay Away Ordinance Casts Long Shadow
Steve Pleich | indybay.org | 2021-05-18
Activists Fear Increased Use of Stay Away Power…
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Colonialism & Imperialism are the Root of Venezuela's Economic Problems, Not Socialism, Says US Economist Michael Hudson (#SanctionsKill)
Steve Lalla | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-18
May 16 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)–The US oligarchy became wealthy by exploiting the labor and natural resources of peoples and lands across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. In our millennium, Venezuela's assets were seized by an empire in decline. As its economy continues to weaken, the US lashes out with increasingly desperate policies of economic "sanctions" against those that try to break out of its orbit. In the process, it drives its enemies together. | "Ironically, America's attempt to isolate other countries is turning into an attempt to isolate itself," said economist Michael Hudson recently. O…
orinocotribune.com/colonialism-imperiali…

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, War as the Enemy of Reform
Tom Engelhardt | warisacrime.org | 2021-05-18
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. "A United States Coast Guard cutter fired 30 warning shots after 13 Iranian fast patrol boats menaced a group of American Navy ships sailing in the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon said on Monday…" — so began a … Continue reading "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, War as the Enemy of Reform"
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WEBINAR TOMORROW — Alex Saab's Lawyer: 'How the US Starves Venezuelans' (#SanctionsKill)
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-18
(ESPAàëOL ABAJO) | 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 procuri…
orinocotribune.com/webinar-tomorrow-alex…

Change of Strategy Again: Capriles Recommends Opposition Participate in Regional Elections
Carlos Arellán | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-18
In an interview published this Sunday, May 16, by the Spanish media outlet El País, Henrique Capriles Radonski challenged Juan Guaidó–without mentioning him directly–when Capriles revealed an imminent change of opposition strategy. According to the interview, Venezuela's far right now wishes to participate in the regional elections of November 2021. | The two-time loser in presidential elections remarked that voting is the ideal and most plausible alternative for an opposition that did not achieve anything in almost three years of a "maximalist" strategy. | Capriles concluded that the "all or nothing"
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Simonovis Resigns as Guaidó's Head of Security
Daniela Jimenez | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-18
The fugitive from Venezuelan justice, Iván Simonovis, presented his "resignation" as Commissioner of Security and Intelligence, a fictitious position to which Simonovis was appointed by former deputy Guaidó after he proclaimed himself interim president of Venezuela. | Simonovis, who from the United States has participated in plans to overthrow Venezuela's legitimate government, did not provide a reason why he is leaving this position–one that lacked any legal recognition in any case. | It should be noted that his resignation arrives within the framework of Guaidó's newest announcement that he wishes to ente…
orinocotribune.com/simonovis-resigns-as-…

How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies | commondreams.org | 2021-05-17
"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… …
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Red Cross to Mediate Release of Captured Venezuelan Soldiers on Colombian Border
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2021-05-17
Caracas has confirmed that eight soldiers are being held by "irregular Colombian armed groups."
venezuelanalysis.com/news/15206

Sunday COVID-19 Brief: 14 Deaths and 1,070 New Cases in Venezuela
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-17
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…
orinocotribune.com/sunday-covid-19-brief…

Minnesota: More than 2000 protest against ongoing Nakba In Palestine
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-05-17
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…
fightbacknews.org/2021/5/16/minnesota-mo…

A Mainstream Outlet Accepted my Pitch on What Media Refuses to say About US Empire — Then Refused to let me Say it
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-17
By Matthew Alford — May 13, 2021 | A mainstream academic outlet called The Conversation green-lighted my article on foreign policy issues Western media refuses to discuss. With the piece ready to go live, everything went horribly wrong. | This is a story about how the media works. Specifically, it's about my failed attempt to publish an article with the mainstream media about some of the things that news outlets consistently avoid when they cover US/UK foreign policy. | You're maybe thinking, "That's your own fault — why would you ever have thought you could get an article about what the mainstream med…
orinocotribune.com/a-mainstream-outlet-a…

War By Other Means: Who Is Financing The Iranian "6Rang" LGBTQ Organization?
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-05-17
Illustrative image | Written by Mark Dankof. | 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…
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Stay Away Ordinance Casts Long Shadow
Steve Pleich | indybay.org | 2021-05-17
Activists Fear Increased Use of Stay Away Power…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/16/1884253…

Nakba 73: Actions in 75+ U.S. cities remember the Palestinian 'Catastrophe' of 1948
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2021-05-17
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 …
liberationnews.org/nakba-73-actions-in-7…

Nakba 73: Actions in 75+ US cities remember the Palestinian 'Catastrophe' of 1948
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2021-05-17
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 …
liberationnews.org/nakba-73-actions-in-7…

Colonialism & Imperialism are the Root of Venezuela's Economic Problems, Not Socialism
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-17
Steve Lalla The US oligarchy became wealthy by exploiting the labor and natural resources of peoples and lands across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. In our millennium, Venezuela's assets were seized by an empire in decline. As its economy continues to weaken, the US lashes out with increasingly desperate policies of economic "sanctions" against those… Read…
libya360.wordpress.com/2021/05/17/coloni…

A conversation with Firouzeh Khosrovani, Iranian director of Radiograph of a Family
wsws.org | 2021-05-17
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."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/17/inte…

Dollarization in Venezuela causes a boom in imported goods stores
Michele de Mello | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-17
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 sanctions posed operational limitations that paralyzed the state's import capacity. Thus, the state sought an alternative in outs…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/17/dollariza…

Dollarization in Venezuela causes a boom in imported goods stores
Michele de Mello | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-17
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 bodegons appeared in 2016 when the country was going through its largest supply crisis in recent history. Bodegas offered im…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/17/dollariza…

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