Daily Archives: July 15, 2021

2021-07-15: News Headlines

DLI (2021-07-15). 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.

Hands Off Yemen, Action Corps, CODEPINK, UAWM (2021-07-15). Friday 7/16: Stop the U.S.-Saudi War on Yemen. indybay.org SF Federal Building, 90 7th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103…

teleSUR (2021-07-15). Argentine Activists to File a Complaint Against Jujuy Governor. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Tupac Amaru Neighborhood Organization (TANO) will file a criminal complaint against Jujuy Governor Gerardo Morales, who is suspected of having provided logistical support to the coup d'etat against Bolivia's President Evo Morales in 2019. | RELATED: | TANO will request the Argentine Justice to investigate the visit of Ivanka Trump and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Director…

Staff (2021-07-15). Protest confronts Israeli apartheid cycling "ambassadors" at the Tour de France 2021. samidoun.net On Wednesday, 14 July, in Boussan, on the 17th stage of the Tour de France international cycling race, approximately 20 people from Collectif Palestine Vaincra — a member organization of the Samidoun Network — the Campaign BDS Toulouse, and the Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique rallied along the route of the race to denounce the participation of the "Israel Start-Up Nation" team, a cycling team designed to whitewash the image of Israeli apartheid internationally, serving as "ambassadors" of Zionist colonialism. Making themselves widely seen and heard by the participants and organizers, the demonstrators…

Waging Nonviolence (2021-07-15). As Biden backslides, a bigger, better-organized climate movement prepares to seize this 'now or never' moment. juancole.com by Nick Engelfried | — ( Waging Nonviolence ) — Over 500 activists from the youth-led Sunrise Movement descended on Washington, D.C. last week for one of the largest U.S. climate protests since COVID-related restrictions began easing. The young people rallied in front of the White House on June 28, to hear from a range …

Editor (2021-07-15). Food riots show the need for a basic income grant. mronline.org As rioters target supermarkets, activists call on the government to help those who cannot survive amid rising prices and mass unemployment. | July 15, 2021 | Newswire…

Medea Benjamin (2021-07-14). Protests in Cuba Stirred by the Hidden Hand of the United States. progressive.org Anti-Cuba propaganda is being pushed by the right, but the protests in Cuba are more of a condemnation of U.S. foreign policy than a reflection on the Cuban government.

Medea Benjamin (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…

Farooque Chowdhury (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…

Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold (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 …

scorinoco (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…

Peoples Dispatch (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…

Mirinda Crissman, Ted Kelly (2021-07-14). 'No 'middle ground'Abolish the death penalty! workers.org 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 Donald Trump went on a killing spree and had 13 people legally lynched in the last six months . . . |

Robert Penner (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.

Mirinda Crissman (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 . . . |

Anonymous669 (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…

Fight Back (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…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-07-14). US Targets Nicaraguan Presidential Election: Former Solidarity Activists Echo Imperial Talking Points. libya360.wordpress.com Roger D. Harris Before Henry Kissinger became a Clinton pal, liberals condemned him for saying: "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves." The…

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