Daily Archives: July 27, 2021

2021-07-27: News Headlines

Ben Norton (2021-07-27). Nicaragua's Sandinistas Battle 'Diabolical' US Empire and Poverty on 42nd Anniversary of Revolution. globalresearch.ca

Michelle Chen (2021-07-27). You Can Work but Not Stay. progressive.org Immigrant rights activists are trying to convince elected officials that workers are essential enough to be given a path to citizenship.

Laura Donnelly (2021-07-27). It Took a Data Leak to Reveal Huge Portion of UK "COVID Hospitalizations" Are Admitted for Something Else. anti-empire.com More than half of The figures suggest vast numbers are being classed as Experts said i…

Human Rights Watch (2021-07-27). Ben and Jerry's Is Shunning Israeli Settlements. The US Should Too. juancole.com By Sari Bashi | Special Advisor, Program Office | — Published in: Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) ( Human Rights Watch ) — Ben & Jerry's, the popular Vermont-based ice cream company, announced earlier this week that it will stop selling its products to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Activists have …

Robert Norse (2021-07-27). Novato Victory: Kudos to the California Homeless Union and Attorney Anthony Prince. indybay.org In mid-July Attorney Anthony Prince of the California Homeless Union successfully applied for a restraining order to stop enforcement of a thinly-disguised anti-homeless Novato city Camping ban designed to work around the Martin v. Boise decision. Perhaps activists in Santa Cruz can take similar action, long promised by the Santa Cruz Homeless Union, either with or without an attorney.

Tamara Nassar (2021-07-26). Israeli gunfire takes lives of two more Palestinian teens. electronicintifada.net Muhammad Tamimi, 17, was fatally shot by soldiers invading the village of Nabi Saleh.

_____ (2021-07-26). Nicaragua's Sandinistas Battle 'Diabolical' US Empire And Poverty. popularresistance.org Managua, Nicaragua — 42 years after the victory of the Sandinista revolution, Nicaraguans are still celebrating the gains of the leftist movement, and hoping to take the transformative process to another stage. | This July 19, tens of thousands of Nicaraguans flooded downtown Managua, the capital, to show their support for the revolution and the national government that since 2007 has been led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). | An ocean of Nicaraguans filled the streets bearing red and black bandanas, waving FSLN flags, and chanting revolutionary slogans. | The celebration lasted for an e…

teleSUR (2021-07-26). Nicaragua Has Had Free Elections Since the Revolution Triumphed. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega recalled that thanks to the Sandinista Revolution the country will hold free elections in November. | RELATED: | "Thanks to our first Constitution, the first free election in Nicaraguan history was held after the triumph of the Revolution. Despite the aggressiveness of the Empire, the people together with the Sandinista National Liberation Front won the first electi…

Tom O'Connor (2021-07-26). China Backs Cuba in Saying US Should Apply Sanctions to Itself. anti-empire.com China has supported Cuba's argument that the United States should consider applying sanctions to itself for alleged human rights abuses before taking on other countries. | Speaking Friday at a press conference in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian asserted that his country "firmly supports the efforts of the Cuban government and people to maintain social stability" as President The latest measures, unveiled Thursd…

The Times of Israel (2021-07-26). Supposedly Russia Is Moving to Limit Israeli Strikes on Syria. anti-empire.com Russia has "run out of patience" with Israel in Syria and is planning a shift in its policies toward Israeli sorties over the country, according to an unconfirmed report on Saturday. | The London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat cited an unnamed "well-informed" Russian source as saying that following talks with Washington, Moscow had got the impression that "Washington does not welcome the continuous Israeli raids," and thus believes it has the freedom to act more aggressively to thwart them. | In light of this, the Russians were now supplying Syrian forces with more advanced anti-missile systems and know-h…

Andrew Chuter (2021-07-26). Great Britain Has a Total of 6 Destroyers. 5 Are Out of Action. anti-empire.com Five of the Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers are unavailable for deployment, leaving just one warship in the class capable of operations, defense procurement minister Jeremy Quin acknowledged this week. | Four of the Type 45s currently unavailable are in various stages of maintenance or upgrade. The remaining warship out of action, HMS Diamond, ran into technical problems earlier this month while escorting a Royal Navy—led carrier strike group on a deployment to the Indo-Pacific region. | The one operational destroyer in the fleet, HMS Defender, is helping provide air defense cover to the aircraft carrier HM…

Editor (2021-07-26). Nicaragua's Sandinistas battle 'diabolical' U.S. empire and poverty on 42nd anniversary of revolution. mronline.org The Grayzone reports from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life, President Ortega condemns the dictatorial U.S. "empire that wants to dominate all countries," and Vice President Murillo declares poverty an imperialist "crime against humanity."

CJ Hopkins (2021-07-26). Make the Red Triangle Nazis Used to Mark Their Political Enemies. Put "Unvaccinated" in the Center. Wear It in Public. anti-empire.com Editor's note: I think Hopkins has a very interesting and valuable idea here. We would definitely benefit from a visual identifier (aside from not wearing a face diaper) to stand out from the virus cultists in human skin. | But there is also something pathetic about making that identifier a concentration camp chest badge, and something lame — as well as futile — about the strategy being to parade our victimhood so as to appeal to the "better nature" of the insectoid New Normals. | The identifier has to be something that is dignified and cool. Rattling the bugs is all good, but it can't be done from a…

Staff (2021-07-26). Children in the Philippines Have Been Banned From Exiting Their Homes for 68 of the Last 70 Weeks. anti-empire.com The COVID cult demands its pound of flesh. To appease the mind virus freaks children in the Philippines have been technically banned from exiting their doorway for 1 year and 4 months now. As soon as the ban was lifted earlier this month it was

Peter C. Earle (2021-07-26). Harvesting the Sickening Fruit of Lockdowns: US Saw 20,000 Extra Overdose Deaths in 2020 Alone. anti-empire.com According to the Centers for Disease Control, over 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020. That's an all-time high, and the steepest year-over-year increase in thirty years. By way of comparison just over 72,000 Americans died of overdoses in 2019. | Some 57,000 of those overdose deaths are estimated to have come from the use of opioids. Cocaine and methamphetamine overdose deaths expanded as well. But it's not only that drug use (and abuse) rose: as stay-at-home orders were imposed, ongoing counseling, outpatient addiction therapies, and other forms of treatment were interrupted. Opioids have a notorious…

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (2021-07-26). The Cost of Lockdowns May Be as High as 5 Million Deaths in India Alone. And Rising. anti-empire.com A The report is impressive in its data and methods, but the interpretation the authors provided is not. They argued that the increased excess dea…

Moderator (2021-07-26). Hedges: The Collective Suicide Machine. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost The debacle in Afghanistan, which will unravel into chaos with lightning speed over the next few weeks and ensure the return of the Taliban to power, is one more signpost of the end of the American empire. The two decades of combat, the one trillion dollars we spent, the 100,000 troops deployed to subdue Afghanistan, the high-tech gadgets… |

Newsclick (2021-07-26). Pegasus: Why privacy is crucial for democracy. peoplesdispatch.org The Pegasus spyware scandal has rocked India too with opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, serving ministers, journalists and activists figuring in the list. The government has denied allegations of spying but many questions remain unanswered. Journalist Aunindyo Chakravarty looks at some of the dimensions of the issue…

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