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Gaza/Palestine News Links 19-20 May 2021
20 May 2021 • 21:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Conservative Jewish Journalists Use False Claims of Censorship to Try to Silence Critics “The Hamas” are Coming: A View of the Violence from Inside Israel https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-hamas-are-coming-view-violence-inside-israel/277210/ Continue reading
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IRR News 20 May 2021: Stop and search – more concerns about PCSC Bill
If anti-racism is about social justice, social justice is about rights, and this week on IRR News we focus on legislation and police practices that erode rights, as well as asking what should be done in complicated circumstances when the rights of different groups seemingly collide. Continue reading
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Sleep Now in the Fire: The Twentieth Newsletter (2021)
20 May 2021 — Tricontinental Laila Shawa (Palestine), The Hands of Fatima, 1989. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Israel’s massive war machine attacks the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) with total disregard for international law. Since the OPT is an occupied territory, the United Nations does not permit the occupier… Continue reading
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Ignore Starmer’s moral posturing. He’s the one we should blame for stoking antisemitism
No one should be surprised that Britain’s rightwing prime minister, Boris Johnson, has had barely anything to say about Israel’s pummelling of Gaza, with nearly 200 Palestinians reported to have been killed by airstrikes and many hundreds more seriously wounded. Continue reading
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The mask of “liberal democracy” falls with a bang
Nakba, May 15, 2021. Future historians will mark the day when Western “liberal democracy” issued a graphic proclamation: We bomb media offices and destroy “freedom of the press” in an open air concentration camp while we forbid peaceful demonstrations under a state of siege in the heart of Europe. Continue reading
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Covid: The Big Picture (May 2021)
The…chart shows that after more than one year into the pandemic, cumulative confirmed covid mortality in Sweden – without lockdown, mask mandate, and primary school closures – is significantly lower than the average in both the EU and the US. Within the US, the same applies to Florida, especially if adjusted for the mean age… Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: High Court update
Today the High Court heard our lawyers detail waste, mismanagement – and yet more special treatment for politically connected companies placed in the “VIP” Lane. Continue reading
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How India lost its way in Persian Gulf
There have been two successive setbacks in the past one-year period to the India-Iran relationship. India has been literally eased out of two strategically important projects in Iran that were full of promise to uplift the ties in a medium and long term perspective. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 19 May 2021
19 May 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: The Palestine Litmus Test Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist President Joe Biden continues to proclaim endless support of apartheid Israel, but millions have decided that defense of Palestinian rights and lives is the only civilized response to barbaric aggression. Poem: June Jordan, Moving towards Home, Editors,… Continue reading
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Marwa Osman on Israel’s genocide of Gaza, and the new precedent of united regional Resistance
A very informative discussion with Beirut-based journalist and political analyst Marwa Osman, on the litany of Israeli crimes against Palestinians in Gaza during Israel’s horrifying bombardment of the beseiged and densely inhabited Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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Massive resistance in all parts of Palestine amid deadly Israeli assault
In just the last week, the situation in occupied Palestine and the larger region has seen a dramatic shift. A new wave of resistance has sparked militant mass protests not only in cities and towns across the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, but also in many Palestinian or “mixed” cities inside the 1948 borders of… Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 18-19 May 2021
19 May 2021 • 14:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back “Today we are Nazis,” says member of Israeli Jewish extremist group By Array on May 19, 2021 07:20 am Extremist mobs attacking Palestinians are organized, Adalah… Continue reading
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Antarctic melt: tipping point by 2060
While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken draws attention to climate change in the Arctic at meetings with other national officials this week in Iceland, an even greater threat looms on the other side of the planet. New research shows it is Antarctica that may force a reckoning between the choices countries make today about greenhouse gas emissions… Continue reading
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Racism, mental health and pre-crime policing: the ethics of Vulnerability Support Hubs – New Medact report!
Racism, mental health and pre-crime policing: the ethics of Vulnerability Support Hubs – our latest report, out today – exposes how a counter-terrorism police-led project blurs the boundaries between security and mental health care in disturbing and dangerous ways, through documents obtained in a series of long-running Freedom of Information requests. Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 17-18 May 2021
18 May 2021 • 20:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Unity at Last: The Palestinian People Have Risen Podcast Panel: The Israeli Assault on Gaza with Malak Mattar, Dan Cohen and Miko Peled https://www.mintpressnews.com/podcast-panel-israel-assault-gaza-malak-mattar-dan-cohen-miko-peled/277155/ Carnage in… Continue reading
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Palestine on Strike – Solidarity statement on events in Palestine
I am sure that you will have heard about the recent escalation of violence that Palestinians are experiencing, which began around two weeks ago with families in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem facing forced eviction as a result of a legal loophole. Continue reading
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Israel’s Pyrrhic victory in Gaza, Netanyahu is real winner
Egypt has once again been thrust onto the forefront of brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi remarked on Monday that a ceasefire might still be within reach. Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin, 17th May 2021
The countdown has already begun. The Government’s plan is to copy your entire GP medical history – including all the most sensitive parts – and make it available for third parties to apply for and buy access. Even though Matt Hancock Directed it to happen he’s not going to tell anyone about it. Neither will Boris. Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 16-17 May 2021
17 May 2021 • 21:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Israeli strikes on Gaza hit Red Crescent building, killing 2, aid group says https://www.rt.com/news/524076-israel-hamas-gaza-strikes/ How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians https://countercurrents.org/2021/05/how-the-united-states-helps-to-kill-palestinians/ Continue reading
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