Daily Archives: 2021-07-31

2021-07-31: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-07-31). Journalist Craig Murray jailed for eight months in a major assault on democratic rights. wsws.org The railroading of Murray into prison is the culmination of a politically motivated witch-hunt. For the last decade, Murray has been a trenchant defender of jailed journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

_____ (2021-07-31). Criminalization of Free Speech: Craig Murray's Jailing is the Latest Move to Snuff out Independent journalism. globalresearch.ca Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He …

RT (2021-07-31). Why Is No One Talking About Whistleblower Daniel Hale? dissidentvoice.org Daniel Hale, a former US air force intelligence analyst, leaked information about how trigger happy the US military was when it came to drones and innocent civilians in Afghanistan. Aaaaaand for having a conscience, he's been slapped with a 4 year prison sentence! As RT's Polly Boiko explains.

Herb Boyd (2021-07-31). Bob Moses, Civil Rights legend and mathematician, dead 86. zcomm.org Beaten, shot at, arrested and jailed, none of these acts of terrorism stopped Moses in his fight for equal rights and against the tyranny that kept countless number of Black Americans for exercising their democratic rights…

Rainer Shea (2021-07-31). The Freedomless, Heavily Surveilled Hellscape the US Plans to Bring to Its Own People. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Jul 29, 2021 | Revolutionaries in the US need to adopt the mentality that they're being perpetually targeted by counterinsurgency, because they already are. Throughout this last year's Black Lives Matter protests, the US National Security State has

Jonathan Cook (2021-07-31). Craig Murray's jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism. dissidentvoice.org Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge …

Jonathan Cook (2021-07-31). Craig Murray's jailing is the national security state's latest assault on independent journalism. thegrayzone.com Former British diplomat and independent journalist Craig Murray is the first person imprisoned in the UK over media contempt in 50 years. This article was originally published at Jonathan Cook's blog. Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on …

Jonathan Cook (2021-07-31). Craig Murray's jailing is the latest move to snuff out independent journalism. zcomm.org In the Assange and Murray cases, the British state is carving out for itself a space to define what counts as legitimate, authorised journalism…

Santa Cruz Police News (2021-07-31). Santa Cruz County Jail Inmate Dies Following "Medical Emergency" indybay.org Felipe Herrera, a 57-year-old inmate at the Santa Cruz County Jail, died on Tuesday, July 27.

Melvin J. Medina (2021-07-30). Our Leaders Can Save Lives With the Stroke of a Pen. aclu.org The single action of a governor or president can reset people's lives and send them on a journey of liberation and healing. This should be done more often in every state. | "This is a very strange feeling, tomorrow's the first day of the rest of my life. The depression can be gone. You're free to do what you want to do. You don't have this hanging over you anymore." | — Michael McCloud, In most states, governors have the unilater…

teleSUR (2021-07-30). Report: Colombia Protests Marked by Illegal Detentions, Torture. telesurenglish.net A new report from Amnesty International highlights that Colombian authorities illegally detained, tortured, and used live ammunition during the protests. | RELATED: | "Police officers and armed civilians, acting with their acquiescence and tolerance, attacked the protesters, committing acts of torture in some cases," the report indicates. | Since I published this investigation into the role of US intel…

Jacquelyne Germain (2021-07-30). The Texas Legislature's Culture War. aclu.org On July 12, Texas House Democrats headed to Washington D.C. in a last resort attempt to deny Republicans the quorum they needed to pass restrictive voting measures during a special legislative session. The Democratic exodus not only stalled the GOP-led election bills, it also delayed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's longer agenda for this special session, including legislation to ban transgender youth in sports, further limit access to reproductive healthcare, and dictate how U.S. race history is taught in schools. | The Texas Democrats who fled said they aren't returning until the special session expires on August 6,…

Staff (2021-07-30). Freedom for Palestinian child prisoner Abdullah Bassem Abu Bakr! samidoun.net An information blackout targeting not only the media and human rights and social justice organizations but also his own family is continuing over the condition of the Palestinian child detainee Abdullah Bassem Abu Bakr (17 years) from Ya'bud al-Qassam, occupied Jenin district. The child's father affirms that the information they're provided with about his son's condition is scarce. Since he was seized on Sunday at 1: 00 am by Israeli occupation forces, the family has not received information about their son until Thursday, 29 July 2021 — 5 days after their son was admitted to the hospital. When the news brok…

A Guest Author (2021-07-30). Black Lives Matter defends Cuba's right to sovereignty. workers.org This statement, first posted on the BLM twitter account July 14, has generated considerable coverage. Many in the corporate media have attacked BLM for…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-07-30). US Empire: Get Out of Cuba's Way. libya360.wordpress.com Obi Egbuna Remarks by Obi Egbuna Jr External Relations Officer to the Zimbabwe Cuba Friendship Association/Organizer of the Get Out Of Cuba Way Movement/Campaign delivered at the Black Lives Matter Educational Webinar Monday July 26th 2021. On behalf of the Zimbabwe Cuba Friendship Association and the Get Out Of Cuba Way Movement, we are thrilled…

Louis Proyect (2021-07-30). Eric Blanc, the Finnish Revolution of 1918 and Voting Democrat. counterpunch.org Seven years ago, Eric Blanc's "National liberation and Bolshevism reexamined: A view from the borderlands"made quite a splash, at least within the tiny world of Marxist scholarship. I welcomed a defense of those caught in the Czarist prison-house of nations, especially those that hoped to make revolutions themselves. At the time, Blanc had not yet

Netizensouljahtv (2021-07-30). Video: COVID Prison in British Columbia? globalresearch.ca

Paul Street (2021-07-30). Joe Biden's Hollow Resistance: Words vs. Deeds. counterpunch.org Biden is rightly under fire from some progressive Democrats for refusing to seriously align himself with the anti-racist voting rights movement being led by the Texan legislators calling for federal intervention. By all indications, the Clinton-Obamanite Biden-its-time Democratic mis-leadership's perspective is that racist voter suppression in the states is a fait accompli but that this is surmountable since the Democrats will just work harder to get more votes.

_____ (2021-07-30). Craig Murray Will Surrender Himself For Prison. popularresistance.org In the case against former United Kingdom diplomat-turned whistleblower Craig Murray, the UK supreme court refused to hear Murray's appeal. He will now surrender himself to police for an eight-month prison sentence. The High Court in Edinburgh in Scotland convicted Murray of contempt on March 25 after concluding that he published several blog posts, which they believe led people to identify witnesses in the sexual assault trial against former Scottish Minister Alex Salmond.

Center for Biological Diversity (2021-07-30). Lawsuit Threatened Over U.S. Failure to Protect Imperiled Wildlife From Marine Highway Program. indybay.org Program Funds Expansion of Ship Traffic That Harms Protected Species…

WSWS repost (2021-07-30). 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.

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