2021-07-07: News Headlines

Teresa Páez (2021-07-07). Boston activists protest illegal U.S. arrest of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. liberationnews.org The unprecedented extortion that Washington is employing to block Venezuela's food and medicine supplies is evidenced in the U.S. government's persecution of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab.

Answer Coalition, Boston (2021-07-07). Boston activists protest illegal U.S. arrest of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. answercoalition.org

Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza (2021-07-07). DSA Delegation Meets with President Maduro—Uproar Already in US. orinocotribune.com Caracas, July 6 (special for OrinocoTribune.com)—This past Friday, July 2, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, received a delegation of representatives from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) at the Miraflores palace in Caracas, where they held a cordial meeting in which political and geopolitical issues were discussed along with history, on the occasion of the 200-year anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo that consolidated Venezuela's independence from the Spanish empire. | During the meeting, the activists told the president about their experience during their s…

The Socialist Program (2021-07-07). Climate Change Activists Given Long Prison Sentences While Big Oil Makes Super-Profits. liberationnews.org This interview is an episode of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it. You can follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how …

Staff (2021-07-07). Free Haitham Siyaj: Stop PA Political Imprisonment of Palestinian Activists! samidoun.net Haitham Siyaj, Palestinian struggler and organizer, remains imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority, his detention extended another 24 hours on 7 July 2021. Even after many of the political detainees seized by PA security forces while protesting the assassination of Nizar Banat — part and parcel of PA security coordination with the Israeli occupation — were released, Haitham Siyaj remains behind bars. He was beaten so badly by PA security forces that he was hospitalized; he was then seized from the hospital and has been held in detention since that time. He is now on hunger strike for the third day to…

Victor Grossman (2021-07-07). Rumsfeld's death won't stop those who seek world domination. peoplesworld.org Don't speak ill of the dead, they say, but if I were to choose candidates for an Evil Hall of Fame, I'd have to ignore such advice; the late Donald Rumsfeld would be close to the top of my list. Starting off as just one more conservative congressman from a conservative Chicago district in 1962, …

Robert Jensen (2021-07-06). Making Sense of Sex and Gender. dissidentvoice.org A few months after I had written an article critiquing the ideology of the transgender movement, a comrade from a progressive group told me he wanted to understand why I was challenging trans activists, whom he saw as being political allies on the left. I outlined what is now called the "gender critical" feminist argument, …

Black Alliance for Peace (2021-07-06). Human Rights Violence in Haiti: Continued U.S./OAS/UN Support for Unconstitutional Actions by Haiti's Illegitimate Government. globalresearch.ca

Norman Solomon (2021-07-06). The Empire Strikes Back at the Left in Buffalo and Cleveland. indybay.org Corporate Democrats Crank Up Their Firepower…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-06). 18 Hirak activists freed on Algerian independence day. peoplesdispatch.org There are still close to 300 political detainees being held in prisons in Algeria. The president has indicated that more releases will take place in the days to come…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-07-06). Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Unity. libya360.wordpress.com Tricontinental Some of AFRICOM's known permanent and semi-permanent military bases on the African continent, 2019. How do you visualise the footprint of Empire? The images in this dossier map some of AFRICOM's military bases on the African continent — both 'enduring' and 'non-enduring', as they are officially called. The satellite photos were gathered by data…

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