(2021-07-14). Cuba faces looting, whose hands are behind it? mronline.org The Cuba "protest-story" is not a single incident. Similar foreign interference happened in other countries. The Cuba-protest-incident is not going to be last attempt by the Empire. | July 14, 2021 | Commentary…
(2021-07-14). The Hidden Hand of the US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests. zcomm.org The protests should be understood in the context of a brutal economic war waged by the United States against the island nation for more than 60 years…
(2021-07-14). USA regime fans anti-Cuba protests. indybay.org 2 weeks after thoroughly embarrassed by a UN vote(184-2!) on the illegal & immoral blockade on Cuba, the Evil Empire strikes back, by promoting and hyping street protests in Cuba. Trying to salvage "face" in the international community, Washington tries to channel global opinion away from its criminal culpability in the rising domestic tensions on the Caribbean island socialist government.
(2021-07-14). America's Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq — and Iran? juancole.com 
( Code Pink) — At Bagram air-base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that was until recently the headquarters of America's 20-year occupation of their country. Afghan officials say the last U.S. forces slipped away from Bagram in the dead of night, without notice or coordination. The Taliban …
(2021-07-14). The Syria Deception: The Public Has Been Hoodwinked Yet Again into Supporting a Criminal War of Aggression — and One That Has Been Effectively Lost. orinocotribune.com 
By Jeremy Kuzmarov — Jul 8, 2021 | United States warmakers have become so skilled at propaganda that not only can they wage a war of aggression without arousing protest; they can also compel liberals to denounce peace activists using language reminiscent of the McCarthy era. | Take the case of Syria. The people and groups one would normally count on to oppose wars have been the ones largely defending it. They have also often been the ones to label war opponents as "Assad apologists" or "genocide deniers"—causing them to be blacklisted. | A protest against US bombing of Syria in April 2017, near the Mar…
(2021-07-14). Thai activists condemn cancellation of COVID testing facility for migrant workers. peoplesdispatch.org According to reports, the government's move may leave over 30,000 high-risk expatriate workers in the capital region, mostly from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, without any assistance…
(2021-07-14). Milwaukee activists commemorate 40th anniversary of killing and police torture of Ernest Lacy. liberationnews.org 
Thousands of people took to the streets for weeks in the wake of the killing of Lacy, "Ten thousand strong every day," according to Mertyl Lacy, Ernest's 88-year-old mother.
(2021-07-14). No 'middle ground' — Abolish the death penalty! workers.org 
Protesters march on the Texas State Capitol building at the annual 2011 March to Abolish the Death Penalty. President Biden is under intense pressure from activists around the country to abolish the federal death penalty after a state-sanctioned bloodbath marked the end of his predecessor's first and only term. President . . . |
(2021-07-14). Saudi Officials Claim 'Accident' Behind Large Explosions In Ammo Depots Near Al-Kharj (Video). southfront.org 
Screen grab from one of the explosions' videos. | Early on July 14, a series of explosions rocked the outskirts of the central Saudi city of al-Kharaj to the south of the Kingdom's capital al-Riyadh. | Local activists shared videos on social media showing large explosions near al-Kharaj, where ammunition depots and military bases are known to be located. | A spokesman for the Saudi Ministry of Defense, Brigadier General Turki al-Malki, claimed in a brief statement that an "accident" was behind the explosions. | "An inciden…
(2021-07-14). Flint, MI: Tallahassee activists, community members demand justice for Donald Stokes II. fightbacknews.org Flint, MI – On July 12, two dozen Flint community members and some unexpected allies from Tallahassee, Florida gathered in front of the downtown Flint courthouse, to demand justice for Donald Stokes II. Stokes was a 19-year-old African American teenager killed in Flint, Michigan. | In the early-morning hours of May 23, Donald Stokes, affectionately also known as "Nephew" and "Dapper," approached what he believed to be his brother's house. According to his family, before Stokes even made it to the top of the steps, he was shot three times by the as-yet-unnamed homeowner. The Genesee County Prosecutor's Office…
(2021-07-13). PSUV Expresses Solidarity with Cuba in Face of US Imperialist Aggression — Demonstration in Support of Cuba in Caracas. orinocotribune.com Caracas, July 12, 2021 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)—The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), in a public statement issued this Monday, July 12, expressed its solidarity with the people and government of Cuba, faced with a new onslaught by the US empire against the Cuban Revolution. | "We will accompany that brother people as another soldier to defeat the imperialist recolonizing plans with which they intend to overthrow the independence and sovereignty of our sister nation and establish, at an inopportune moment, the re-instatement of the nefarious Plan Condor that—violating democracy, inst…
(2021-07-13). The United States tries to take advantage of the price Cubans are paying for the blockade and the pandemic. peoplesdispatch.org Cuban government officials and activists have reiterated their demand for an end to the blockade imposed by the US which over six decades has cost Cuba $147.8 billion in damages…
(2021-07-13). The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti? counterpunch.org Today, the people of Haiti are facing down the US-backed dictatorship of the ruling Haitian Tet Kale Party (PHTK) that came to power through the fraudulent election of Michel Martelly in 2010 and maintained its grip on power through the fraudulent election of Jovenel Moise in 2016, what Haitian activists refer to as electoral coup d'etats. Both elections were held under UN occupation and sponsored by the US government. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton detoured from her trip to the Middle East at the height of the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt and personally intervened to put Martelly into power. Similarly,…
(2021-07-13). Ongoing Israeli Genocide of Palestinians. dissidentvoice.org 
The world needs to know the horrendous dimensions of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, and of the gross Apartheid Israeli maltreatment of 5.2 million Occupied Palestinians and in particular of the 2 million inmates of the blockaded and bombed Gaza Concentration Camp. A numbers-based summary of these ongoing atrocities will strengthen global Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions …
(2021-07-13). The Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq and Iran? progressive.org It's time for President Biden to realize that the United States should stop invading and attacking other countries.
(2021-07-13). UK government refuses to reveal details of its support for the Saudi war machine. wsws.org The venal Saudi monarchy serves as a crucial custodian of Britain's geostrategic interests in the energy-rich region and a key partner in Washington and London's anti-Iranian axis.
(2021-07-13). The War Economy Must End. Where Do These Aegis Naval Destroyers Go? globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-13). Ohio activists fight for unemployment benefits, housing for all. liberationnews.org 
On June 26, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation from the Miami Valley and Columbus chapters came together outside the Ohio Statehouse to protest the end of Ohio's $300 pandemic unemployment subsidy.
(2021-07-13). Youth Activists Rally Outside Feinstein's LA Office Demanding Civilian Climate Corps. commondreams.org Sanders, chair of the Senate Budget Committee, described the spending agreement as the "most significant piece of legislation… since the Great Depression."
(2021-07-13). Saudi Arabia: New Details of Alleged Torture Leaked. juancole.com ( Human Rights Watch ) — (Beirut) — New accounts have emerged of alleged torture of high-profile political detainees in Saudi prisons, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi authorities failed to independently and credibly investigate allegations that Saudi authorities tortured Saudi women's rights activists and others detained in early 2018, including with electric shocks, beatings, …
(2021-07-13). Cashless debit card fast-tracks economic apartheid. greenleft.org.au Activists are continuing to organise against the cashless debit card, which is being rolled out in lower socio-economic communities. Bernadette Smith reports.