(2021-05-24). The US Isn't An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn't A US Puppet. popularresistance.org Nearly 200,000 protesters attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on Saturday afternoon, another clear sign that support for Palestinian rights is becoming increasingly mainstream and the imperialists are losing control of the Israel narrative. | The real consequence of this is that people will begin losing trust in the government and media institutions which support Israel, because without trust the empire can't propagandize people, and without the ability to propagandize us our rulers cannot rule. There's no risk for Israel of losing US backing due to the US government suddenly evolving a consc…
(2021-05-24). Syrian Refugees and Residents Abroad Vote Massively in Presidential Elections. orinocotribune.com 
May 23 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)—On Thursday, May 20, Syrian refugees and residents in different countries around the world voted in massive numbers at Syrian diplomatic missions that were turned into polling centers for the presidential elections. This was the first day of voting in a two-day process—within Syria, citizens will go to polls on May 26. | The generally peaceful electoral process was only marred by xenophobic attacks against Syrian voters in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed one voter, reported Syria News. | The first country to open the polling centers was Australia, where Syrians reg…
(2021-05-24). An Empire in Decline: Unmasking U.S. Strategies to Dominate the Globe. liberationnews.org 
As the United States' power declines, the managers of U.S. empire are scrambling to come up with new approaches to maintain their dominant position around the globe.
(2021-05-24). U.S. trying to extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for the "crime" of securing food for the hungry: the case of Alex Saab v. The Empire. mronline.org 
The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. | May 24, 2021…
(2021-05-24). AUDIO: Empire Files — The Beginning of the End for Israel. liberationnews.org 
The past two weeks have revealed a tectonic shift in public opinion towards the Israeli colonial regime.
(2021-05-24). Iran's Inspection Deal With Internatoinal Atomic Agency Expired. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The speaker of Iran's parliament said a three-month monitoring deal between Tehran and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has expired. | As a result, its access to images from inside some Iranian nuclear sites would cease."From May 22 and with the end of the three-month agreement, the (IAEA) agency will have no access to data collected by cameras inside the nuclear facilities agreed under the agreement," state TV quoted parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf as saying. | The…
(2021-05-24). Venezuela to Start New Vaccination Phase with 1.3 Million Doses from China. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that 1.3 million new COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in the country from China, which would help to accelerate mass vaccination in the country. | During his speech this Sunday, May 23, the president clarified that a new phase of vaccination will start this week, with the aim to get 70% of the population vaccinated by the end of August. | "This week, a new phase of vaccination starts in the country; 1,300,000 new vaccines arrived in Venezuelans from China. More vaccines are arriving this week, and even more doses are yet to come," he stated in his Sunday address…
(2021-05-24). Venezuela's COVID-19 Sunday Brief: 1,293 New Cases, 14 Deaths and 93% Recovery Rate. orinocotribune.com On Sunday, May 23, Venezuelan Minister for Communication and Information, Freddy àëáñez, informed that in the last 24 hours 1,293 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Venezuela, of which 1,291 were community transmissions and 2 were imported cases. | àëáñez informed that the state with the most infections is Zulia, with 299 cases in 16 of its 21 municipalities. | The rest of…
(2021-05-24). NPR Should Ask Where Nicaraguan Non-Profits' Money Comes From. counterpunch.org Imagine what would happen if the US media discovered that a candidate in the mid-term elections was under investigation by the FBI for receiving money from a foreign government. Then, suppose it was one that's hostile to the US, perhaps Syria or Iran, and that the same government was also covertly funding election coverage in,
(2021-05-24). Iran, IAEA agree to extend monitoring deal, give ongoing Vienna talks a chance. peoplesdispatch.org The extension follows the expiry of a three-month agreement signed in February between the Iranian government and the IAEA providing the UN body access to Iranian nuclear sites through photos despite an Iranian law restricting physical inspection…
(2021-05-24). Activists Push To Invest In Community, Not Police. popularresistance.org Just past midnight on December 14, 2020, Osamah Alsaidi walked near a police cruiser on a dark city street of Paterson, New Jersey's third-largest city just outside New York City. Shortly thereafter, that very same police car cut off Alsaidi's path and out jumped officers Kevin Patino and Kendry Tineo-Restituyo. | They immediately accosted the 19-year-old, striking him numerous times and dropping him to the ground where they continued their assault. The police report they filed described Alsaidi as "acting belligerent" and "screaming profanities." That report would remain the only evidence of the incident until s…
(2021-05-24). Denmark: Do not copy Australia's draconian detention laws. greenleft.org.au Refugee rights activists protested at the Danish Consulate against that government's plans to detain asylum seekers and process them in Rwanda. Stephen Langford reports.
(2021-05-24). In Working-Class NJ Town, Activists Push to Invest in Community, Not Police. zcomm.org Abolitionists are confronting racial capitalism and policing in…
(2021-05-23). Sanctions, Making Venezuela Scream: A Conversation with Alexander Main (Part I). orinocotribune.com 
A director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research explains the economic and political impact of the sanctions. | Alexander Main is Director of International Policy at the
(2021-05-23). Dollarization in Venezuela Causes a Boom in Imported Goods Stores. orinocotribune.com 
By Michele de Mello — May 17, 2021 | The private sector sidesteps blockade and replaces the State in supplying goods | 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…
(2021-05-23). Mumia Abu-Jamal's Spiritual Advisor Confronts DA Krasner and the FOP. dissidentvoice.org 
This new mural featuring Pam and Ramona Africa alongside other Black community activists was unveiled on May 11, 2021 directly across the street from Philadelphia City Hall, on the very same block where the infamous statue of Frank Rizzo once stood.—Photo: Jamal Journal staff photographer Joe Piette Mark Lewis Taylor has been a professor in …
(2021-05-23). Drones Rain Over Yemen: Saudi-Led Coalition Lost Second UCAV In A Week. southfront.org 
Illustrative image, source: the Houthis media wing | On May 22, the Houthis (as Ansar Allah is known) announced that their air-defense forces had shot down a combat drone of the Saudi-led coalition, the second in less than a week. | In a statement, a spokesman for the Yemeni group said that the drone, a Chinese-made CH-4, was shot down over al-Maraziq in the northern Yemeni province of al-Jawf. According to the spokesman, the drone was targeted with a "new ground-to-air missile" that has not been unveiled yet. | "We rei…
(2021-05-23). Mysterious Drone Strikes Destroyed Several Hangars In Syria's Deir Ezzor — Report. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | On May 23 morning, unidentified combat drones carried out a series of strikes on the outskirts of the town of al-Bukamal in southern Deir Ezzor. The government-held town is located right on the border with Iraq. | According to the Naher Media, a local pro-opposition news blog, the strikes destroyed a number of newly-built hangars in al-Hamdan desert. The strikes didn't result in any human losses. | Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainebiyoun, Afghan and Pakistani armed groups supported by the Iranian Islamic Re…
(2021-05-23). Governor of La Guaira State García Carneiro Passes Away. orinocotribune.com 
The governor of the state of La Guaira, Jorge Luis García Carneiro, passed away on the morning of this Saturday, May 22. He was 69 years old. | "We regret to report the departure of our Governor of La Guaira, General García Carneiro," wrote Delcy Rodríguez, executive vice president of Venezuela, on her Twitter account. | Communicating the sad news, she described García Carneiro as a "patriotic, loyal, brave and indispensable soldier." She also sent condolences to his wife, María del Valle, his children, and the people of La Guaira. "Venezuela has lost a distinguished son. Fly high general in chief," she added.
(2021-05-23). UN Recognizes Venezuela's Efforts to Strengthen Human Rights. orinocotribune.com The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights recognized this Friday, May 21, via Twitter, the efforts of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to strengthen the exercise of human rights. | The UN body, led since 2018 by High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, expressed its satisfaction after the government of President Nicolás Maduro adopted procedures that coincide with the recommendations issued by the multilateral organization. | In this sense, the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, recently announced the restructuring of the SEBIN and the DGCIM, Venezuelan State secur…
(2021-05-23). US Trying To Extradite Diplomat For The 'Crime' Of Securing Food For The Hungry. popularresistance.org Special envoy and ambassador to the African Union for Venezuela, Alex Saab, was on a humanitarian mission flying from Caracas to Iran to procure food and gasoline for the Venezuelan CLAP food assistance program. Saab was detained on a refueling stop in the African nation of Cabo Verde and has been held in custody ever since June 12, 2020. | Saab's "crime," according to the US government, which ordered the imprisonment, was money laundering. That is, Saab conducted perfectly legal international trade, but his circumventing the US sanctions — which are designed to prevent relief to the Venezuelans — is…
(2021-05-23). US Winks, Israel Bites? Shifting Middle East Alliances. The War on Iran is "On Hold"? globalresearch.ca At the outset of Bush's Second Term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of rogue enemies of America, & that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us", without US military involvement & without us putting pressure on them "to do it".
(2021-05-23). UN Atomic Agency To Be Cut Off From Iranian Nuclear Sites. telesurenglish.net The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will no longer be able to access images of the Iranian nuclear sites because a monitoring deal with the UN nuclear body has expired, Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Sunday. | RELATED: | The announcement can be seen as further pressure on the United States to return to the 2015 Nuclear Agreement, of which it pulled out in 2018, by orders of former pr…
(2021-05-23). Sanctions, Making Venezuela Scream. zcomm.org Interview on the economic and political impact of the sanctions…