(2021-07-28). As January 6 hearing details fascist violence of Trump mob, Republicans rally in defense of jailed insurrectionists. wsws.org The openly fascist faction of the House Republicans, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, held a press conference in front of the Justice Department to defend what they called the "political prisoners" imprisoned for their roles in the January 6 assault on Congress.
(2021-07-28). Lawsuit against Pilgrim's Pride for COVID-19 work-related deaths may be thrown out with new Texas law. wsws.org The Pandemic Liability Protection Act (PLPA), signed into law by right-wing governor Gregg Abbott, provides near-blanket immunity from business liability and lawsuits for exposing workers to COVID-19…
(2021-07-28). Who is Ruchell Magee and why he has been in prison for 58 years. workers.org 
Ruchell Cinque Magee, a U.S. political prisoner who has served over 58 years in California prisons, was again denied parole July 15 by the state's Board of Parole Hearings. Why won't the state of California allow Magee to go free? His story begins as a Black man from Louisiana, who . . . |
(2021-07-28). Why we need to stop Warehousing the Mentally Ill in Jail: Only Private Prison Corps. Profit. juancole.com Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — By essentially rejecting the provisions of the U.S.Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, a very well designed 1963 Kennedy era program entitled, "Action for Mental Health" and other attempts to trim mental health budgets and services, many states and localities have opted to spend the same dollars …
(2021-07-28). Drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in prison. wsws.org Hale, who exposed the murderous nature of the US government drone warfare program during the Obama administration, was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for violating the Espionage Act.
(2021-07-28). Republicans rally for Trump mob as hearing details fascist violence. indybay.org The openly fascist faction of the House Republicans, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, held a press conference in front of the Justice Department to defend what they called the "political prisoners" imprisoned for their roles in the January 6 assault on Congress.
(2021-07-28). Samidoun Delegation to Lebanon Day 6: Borders of occupied Palestine, Khiam prison and Mleeta resistance landmark. samidoun.net 
The sixth day of the Ghassan Kanafani Brigade, the Samidoun delegation to Lebanon, began with a trip to Maroun al-Ras, on the border with occupied Palestine. The delegation traveled with members of the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine, an international campaign founded in 2013 headquartered in Lebanon to defend and promote Palestinian refugees' inalienable right to return to their homeland. Samidoun, member organizations and allied groups, including Collectif Palestine Vaincra and Alkarama Palestinian Women's Mobilization, have participated widely in many campaigns and actions of the Global Campaign over th…
(2021-07-28). MINN: Police Mob Stalks Lone Red Lake Native Youth Water Protector, Provokes Arrests. indybay.org In Thief River Falls, Minn., on Monday, an out-of-control police mob stalked a lone Red Lake Youth Water Protector without cause when he went a restroom. Then Sheriff's deputies provoked the arrests of two Water Protectors, who had just been released from jail for protecting the water, when they came to the Native youth's aid.
(2021-07-27). With union support, Chicago civilian board to exercise increased control over police. peoplesworld.org 
CHICAGO —With support from nine unions, including the politically powerful Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Service Employees Local 73, and SEIU Healthcare, Chicago's civilians will, starting next year, have an independent police board that exercises increased control—for them—over Chicago's police. That control, capping a long campaign by civil rights and community groups, is the result of …
(2021-07-27). The People of the U.S. Oppose the Blockade of Cuba. liberationnews.org 
Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how people in Cuba and their supporters around the world are stepping up mobilizations in defense of the country's independence as the U.S. government announces more sanctions. They also discuss the legacy of civil rights legend Bob Moses, the politics of the Tokyo Olympics, the renewed spread of COVID across the country, and more.
(2021-07-27). Cuba's Cultural Counter-Revolution: US Gov't-Backed Rappers, Artists Gain Fame As 'Catalyst For Current Unrest'. popularresistance.org Over the past decade, the US government has spent millions of dollars to cultivate anti-government Cuban rappers, rock musicians, artists, and journalists in an explicit bid to weaponize "desocialized and marginalized youth." The strategy implemented by the US in Cuba is a real life version of the fantasies anti-Trump Democrats entertained when they fretted that Russia was covertly sponsoring Black Lives Matter and Antifa to spread chaos through North American society.
(2021-07-27). UNVACCINATED diners only: California restaurant says it's having fun watching 'heads explode' over mandatory no-vax policy. rt.com 
A California restaurant has refused to back down after being bombarded with negative press and customer reviews for posting a sign demanding that all diners provide proof that they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. | With vaccination status increasingly becoming a prerequisite to participate in many ordinary activities, one Huntington Beach eatery has decided to take a slightly different approach to granting privileges based on personal medical decisions. | On its storefront window, Basilico's Pasta e Vino taped a sign reading: "PROOF OF BEING UNVACCINATED REQUIRED. We have zero tolerance for treasono…
(2021-07-27). Biden Upholds Trump Memo That Would Send 4,000 People Back To Prison. popularresistance.org For her 65th birthday, Diana Marquez was grateful to be out of prison and celebrating with her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren. They feasted on a smorgasbord of brisket, sushi and Mexican food. She was not allowed to leave the house, but she still felt blessed to celebrate the day surrounded by family rather than confined in a prison cell. | Marquez is one of over 4,000 people who were released from federal prison to home confinement under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to stem the spread of COVID-19 behind bars. The CARES Act prioritizes the release of people whose ag…
(2021-07-27). Biden says US 'combat mission' in Iraq will be over by year's end, but won't say how many troops to remain deployed. rt.com 
President Joe Biden said the US combat mission in Iraq will end this December, when Washington's role will shift to training local forces, but declined to say what will come of the 2,500 American troops still in the country | Speaking during a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday, Biden
(2021-07-27). Snowden skewers Big Tech, 'amoral' capital firms for enabling 'Insecurity Industry' & calls for urgent action before it's too late. rt.com 
Warning that companies that claim to protect national security are the "greatest danger" to it, Edward Snowden has urged the dismantling of this 'Insecurity Industry' by banning trade in intrusive software and penalizing enablers. | In a searing
(2021-07-27). Solidarity rally supports striking prisoners in Louisiana. liberationnews.org 
Conditions inside David Wade Correctional Center are vile; inmates are regularly subjected to life-threatening levels of high heat and black mold.
(2021-07-27). Diners Beware: That Meal May Cost You Your Privacy and Security. aclu.org If you've been to a restaurant lately and scanned a QR code rather than order from a physical menu, you likely paid for that meal with not just your money, but your privacy and security too. Businesses are taking advantage of the rise of touchless services during the pandemic to harvest massive amounts of sensitive information about who we are, where we go, and what we do, including our eating and drinking habits — when all we want to do is just eat a meal. | In the past decade, technology companies and the advertising industry have created a vast and extremely lucrative online spying apparatus. They try…
(2021-07-27). Intelligence forces arrest Mossad terrorist network in W Iran. en.mehrnews.com Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced on Tuesday that a network of the members of the Zionist regime's Spy Organization (Mossad) was arrested on the western border of the country.
(2021-07-27). Delta variant is one of the most infectious respiratory diseases known, U.S. CDC director says. ecns.cn "The delta variant is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strains," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday.
(2021-07-27). U.S. rocked by more than 900 shooting incidents last week: media. ecns.cn More than 900 shooting incidents took place across the United States last week, according to ABC News.
(2021-07-27). Americans' optimism about country's direction drops nearly 20 points: poll. ecns.cn Americans' optimism about the direction of the country has dropped nearly 20 points, according to the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll.
(2021-07-27). Comicomment: U.S. 'cannot fool all the people all the time' over Fort Detrick. ecns.cn You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
(2021-07-27). US drone whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in prison. rt.com 
Daniel Hale, a former US Air Force intelligence analyst who leaked information about civilian deaths caused by drone strikes overseas, has been sentenced to almost four years in prison under the Espionage Act. | US District Judge Liam O'Grady passed the sentence on Tuesday in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, saying that the 45-month sentence was needed as a deterrent to others from disclosing government secrets. O'Grady told Hale he had other options than to share classified documents with a reporter. | Whistleblower Daniel Hale faces sentencing today for revealing the widespread murder of civilians by…
(2021-07-27). Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence For Releasing Drone Documents. thedissenter.org 
Daniel Hale (Photo: Bob Hayes) | Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison. It was a severe sentence but not the harshest sentence ever issued in an Espionage Act prosecution against a former United States government employee or contractor for the "unauthorized disclosure" of information. | The sentence was not what U.S. prosecutors demanded. They wanted Hale to go to prison for nine years, but it is likely Judge Liam O'Grady issued a lower sentence after considering his mental health problems. | This case is the first major Espionage Act conviction under President J…
(2021-07-27). Hedges: The Price of Conscience. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced today to 45 months in prison. The documents, published by The Intercept on October 15, 2015, exposed that between January 2012 and February 2013… |
(2021-07-27). US: Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Given 45 Months in Prison. telesurenglish.net U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady handed down the sentence on Tuesday in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, stating that the 45-month sentence was needed as a deterrent to others from revealing government secrets. O'Grady told Hale he had other possible options than to share classified documents with a reporter. | Hale, 33, pleaded guilty in March to one count of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, admitting to "retention and transmission of national security information" as well as leaking 11 classified documents to a journalist. The documents were leaked to the Intercept, which published them in Octobe…
(2021-07-27). Fifteen Detainees Continue Hunger Strike. imemc.org 
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that fifteen detainees in Israeli prisons and detention camps are ongoing with the hunger strike, protesting their continued arbitrary Administrative Detention, without charges or trial. The PPS stated that the detainees are demanding to be released, as they are not facing any charges and are held under the …
(2021-07-27). Biden Is Imposing More Harsh Sanctions on Cuba — and Guantánamo Remains Open. truthout.org 
As the United States imposes new Cuba sanctions, citing human rights abuses, we look at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a notorious gulag that President Biden himself has called an "advertisement for creating terror." This month, the first Guantánamo Bay prisoner to be released under the Biden administration, Abdul Latif Nasser, returned to his home country of Morocco after nearly two decades of being held without charge even though he wa…
(2021-07-27). Calls Grow for Biden to Close Guantánamo Military Prison as U.S. Sanctions Cuba over Human Rights. democracynow.org 
As the United States imposes new Cuba sanctions, citing human rights abuses, we look at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a notorious gulag that President Biden himself has called an "advertisement for creating terror." This month, the first Guantánamo Bay prisoner to be released under the Biden administration, Abdul Latif Nasser, returned to his home country of Morocco after nearly two decades of being held without charge even though he was cleared for release in 2016. There are 39 other prisoners still at Guantánamo, nearly two decades after the start of…
(2021-07-27). Western left intellectuals and their love affair with the attempted 'color revolution' in Cuba. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Noam Chomsky, Gilbert Achcar, Paul Le Blanc, Suzi Weissman, Tithi Bhattacharya, Charlie Post, Robert Brenner, Gayatri Spivak, Alex Callinicos, Ashley Smith, Eric Toussaint, Marc Cooper, Etienne Balibar. These are a handful of the over 500 signatories on an open letter directed to the blockaded Cuban government on July 12 demanding "respect for the democratic rights of all Cuban people" and the release of "dissident Marxist" Frank García Hernández and his comrades from jail after the protests of July 11. | These signatories are high-profile academic socialists in the U.S. and Europe, featured promine…
(2021-07-27). The Collective Suicide Machine. strategic-culture.org Invading Iraq and Afghanistan, dropping iron fragmentation bombs on villages and towns, kidnapping, torturing and imprisoning tens of thousands of people, using drones to sow terror from the skies, resurrected the discredited radical jihadists and was a potent recruiting tool in the fight against U.S. and NATO forces. We were the best thing that ever happened to the Taliban and al Qaeda.
(2021-07-27). Debtors' prisons on the rise as COVID-19 ravages the southern United States. wsws.org On July 6, 55-year-old Charles Anderson spent his last day in Marion County Jail. He was arrested 28 days prior for unpaid debts regarding his failure to make monthly payments and fees associated with three court cases dating back to 2003. Upon his arrest, he was jailed with three other men in a 6-by-10-foot cell.
(2021-07-27). Modi government's "terrorism" frame-up vendetta leads to death of 84-year-old tribal-rights activist. wsws.org Stan Swamy succumbed to complications from the COVID-19 he contracted while in prison awaiting trial on bogus terrorism charges.
(2021-07-27). AOC Blasts White House Suggestion People Can "Out-Organize" Voter Suppression. truthout.org 
As Republicans have for months swept the country with laws aimed at suppressing voters, the White House has taken a relatively soft stance on combating such efforts. In response, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) emphasized on Monday that now is the time to "fight like hell" for democracy. | A New York Times
(2021-07-27). By acknowledging America can't stop the pipeline, Biden's Nord Stream 2 deal seals the end of the Washington-centric world order. rt.com 
The new agreement between the US and Germany was supposed to show the West was united behind American leadership across the globe. Instead, the deal lays bare the emerging fault lines in a rapidly changing multi-polar world. | Clothed in the usual unifying language of upholding common values and confronting Russia, the pact was published last week to great fanfare and harsh criticism at the same time. The US agreed to give its "permission" for the gas pipeline, in exchange for concessions from Germany. Berlin has committed to a one-off payment of $175 million to fund Ukraine's transition to greener energy, and…
(2021-07-27). Black Women Giving Birth in Prison Face Surveillance Disguised as Medical Care. truthout.org 
It is no hidden fact that the
(2021-07-27). Iran's Intelligence Ministry Says It Has Shattered Mossad Sleeper Cell Plotting Mass Unrest. sputniknews.com Iran and Israel have no relations to speak of, and have waged a decades-long covert war involving cyberattacks, sabotage strikes against one another's commercial shipping, the assassination of nearly a dozen Iranian nuclear scientists by Israeli agents, and more.
(2021-07-27). Maine's Facial Recognition Law Shows Bipartisan Support for Protecting Privacy. aclu.org This piece was first published in Maine has joined a growing number of cities, counties and states that are rejecting dangerously biased surveillance technologies like facial recognition. | The new law, which is the strongest statewide facial recognition law in the country, not only received broad, bipartisan support, but it passed unanimously in both chambers of the state legislature. Lawmakers and advocates spanning the political spectrum — from the progressive la…
(2021-07-27). The Continuing Horror of CIA's Torture and Abuse. counterpunch.org Nearly two decades ago, the Central Intelligence Agency began its sadistic program of torture and abuse, and the Department of Defense created a prison at Guantanamo to evade U.S. law. We are still learning about the horrors of the Global War on Terror. On July 16, military prosecutors finally asked to erase information obtained through
(2021-07-27). Can East African workers overcome cooptation and suppression? zcomm.org Are radical worker struggles, which waned as a result of protracted government efforts to infiltrate and co-opt organized labor, making a comeback in East Africa?>
(2021-07-27). 150 Voting Rights Groups Warn Biden Against Attempting to 'Out-Organize Voter Suppression'. zcomm.org "Every American deserves and should be able to rely on a baseline level of voting access… Only passage of both the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act can make this aspiration a reality."