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2021-08-10: News Headlines

Editor2 (2021-08-10). A Shocking List of 52 Zionist- & Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany Comparisons. orinocotribune.com By Dr Gideon Polya — Aug 7, 2021 | The cruel and genocidal oppression of the Indigenous Palestinians by nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel invites comparison with the cruelties of Nazi Germany. However such comparisons made by anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish humanitarians invite false and defamatory Zionist assertions of racism and anti-Semitism. To counter this, provided below is a shocking and detailed list of 52 Zionist- and Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany comparisons. | The following 52-item list of appalling abuses and human rights violations by genocidally ra…

Editor2 (2021-08-10). Black Lives Matter and Cuba. orinocotribune.com By African American Equality Commission, CPUSA — Aug 6, 2021 | In 1988 there was a large march and demonstration in Harlem starting on 125th Street. The lead banner in the march declared, "Africa Called — Cuba Answered." It was a bold statement in support of Cuban military assistance to Angola, which was under attack from internal counter-revolutionary forces, backed and prodded by the apartheid South African military. In the ensuing battles, nearly 5,000 Cuban soldiers gave their lives for African freedom. With Cuban assistance, the Angolan government defeated the South African army, which led to the…

Syeda Milliha (2021-08-10). Documents Foreshadow a Grim Future for COVID-19 Spread in Federal Prisons. aclu.org Last fall,

Editor (2021-08-10). United States: Activision workers walk out against sexist oppression. mronline.org For years, a toxic culture of rampant sexism has permeated Activision Blizzard, the video game development company behind titles including World of Warcraft and Call of Duty.

Workers World Philadelphia bureau (2021-08-10). Protesting prison profiteers. workers.org Gathered outside the world headquarters of the Aramark corporation in Philadelphia Aug. 7, around 20 demonstrators denounced that company and several others that profit heavily from the prison-industrial complex. Protesters against prison profiteers gather outside Aramark's corporate office, Philadelphia, Aug. 7. Credit: Joe Piette The action was called to show . . . |

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-10). Moroccan journalist ends hunger strike against illegal detention after 122 days. peoplesdispatch.org Soulaimane Raissouni's trial has been called "unfair" and one of the many "arbitrary and abusive prosecutions" by the Moroccan authorities against journalists critical of the government…

WSWS (2021-08-10). Ford targeted older salaried employees during 2019 layoffs, documents in age discrimination lawsuit reveal. wsws.org The layoffs were part of a "jobs bloodbath" throughout the auto industry, including nearly 20,000 workers at Ford alone.

_____ (2021-08-10). Electric School Bus Proponents Decry Infrastructure Bill's Shortcomings. commondreams.org After the high court's ruling, Texas House Republicans approved a motion directing state law enforcement to track down quorum-breaking Democrats blocking voter suppression legislation.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-09). Saudi Arabia cracks down on Palestinian resistance movement. peoplesdispatch.org 69 Jordanian and Palestinian citizens accused of being members of Hamas were sentenced to prison by a court in Saudi Arabia. Hamas has claimed that the verdict is a result of warming relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel…

Denis Rogatyuk (2021-08-09). René González of the Cuban Five on Cuba's Challenge and Washington's Hypocrisy (Interview). orinocotribune.com René González is one of the Cuban Five, long jailed in the US for their intelligence work combating far-right Miami terrorist groups. He spoke to Jacobin about the blockade and what his trial told him about the US's concern for human rights in Cuba. | René González is a former member of Cuba's "

Chris Banks (2021-08-09). What U.S. political prisoner Daniel Hale exposed to the world. liberationnews.org Since 2001, the United States has been running a global assassination program. There are over one million people on multiple watchlists. No proof of wrongdoing is required to get there, and there is no judicial process. Instead, the White House and military have a bureaucratic process to select people from the watchlists and approve them …

The Highwire (2021-08-09). Major Health Care Provider Files Million Dollar Lawsuit in "Politically Motivated" Attempt to Silence Top COVID Doctor Peter A. McCullough. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-08-09). Slavery still exists in the US, but these CA organizers are working to end it. therealnews.com The 13th Amendment outlaws slavery except as punishment for a crime. That means that Black and Brown people in prisons all over the country are forced to work for low or no wages, while others profit. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Eddie Conway speaks with California organizers Jeronimo Aguilar and John Cannon about why we must fight to eradicate the last vestiges of slavery and how they are using legislation and other methods to get the job done. Jeronimo Aguilar is an Elder Freeman Policy Fellow at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, where he is working on local and statewide legislative ef…

A Guest Author (2021-08-09). The price you pay as a trans woman in prison. workers.org By Miley Fletcher Miley Fletcher is a trans woman incarcerated at S.C.I. Forest in Pennsylvania, where 214 transgender prisoners are incarcerated according to their sex assigned at birth. When a lot of us who are incarcerated receive a fictional or false misconduct accusation, you have to look at the circumstances . . . |

news.un (2021-08-09). End inequalities, recognize abuses, UN chief says on International Day of Indigenous Peoples. news.un.org Although some countries have begun to rectify their "heinous legacy" of discrimination against indigenous people, more action is still needed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday.

Shaw Drake (2021-08-09). Border Patrol Must Stop Holding People in an Inhumane Outside Pen Under a Highway in South Texas. aclu.org Still wet from the river and held outdoors under the Anzalduas International Bridge overnight, the mother of a 6 year old pleaded with Border Patrol agents to help her sick child and others. "They're not going to die," replied one agent, according to But children have

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