21 May 2021 — DeSmogUK
Honestly, we’d really rather not be writing about the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group on a windswept Friday afternoon (or, indeed, any afternoon, tbh).
But in what feels like an alarming pattern of recent weeks, yet another high profile figure has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a thinktank infamous for spreading misinformation on climate change.
20 May 2021 — The Electronic Intifada
Huge numbers of people all over the globe have been protesting in solidarity with Palestinians this month as Israel intensifiedits killing campaign in the Gaza Strip, and a massive uprising swept cities and villages all over historic Palestine.
Demonstrations swept Arab capitals, from Rabat to Amman, Beirut to Baghdad, Sanaa to Tunis.
People in Bahrain and Morocco took to the streets, two countries that normalized relations with Israel last year despite popular opposition and no restoration of Palestinian rights.
Protesters filled streets in European cities, including London, Paris, Milan, Brussels and The Hague. (more…)
Credit: Rakesh Kumar
For more on the settler state’s fascist assault on Gaza see: https://www.artforum.com/slant/activestills-collective-documents-the-assault-on-palestinian-life-85746
21 May 2021 — Craig Murray
Dave Llewellyn sat next to me in the public gallery of the Salmond trial as we witnessed the defence witnesses – largely female – who shredded the prosecution case. A few weeks ago, seven detectives of the Serious Crime Squad raided Dave’s home at 5am, handcuffed him and questioned him over conspiracy to murder – in relation to a public Facebook post. Dave has now been charged with a lesser but still imprisonable offence.
8 April, 2021 — The Consumer Trap
Apparently — and entirely predictably — low-Earth-orbit is now firmly within the widening tides of corporate capitalism’s great waste ocean. The communications satellites our overclass uses to maintain its web of ever-expending commercialism is now creating a real crisis of off-planet clutter:
20 May 2021 — Global Justice in the 21st Century
by Richard Falk
[Prefatory Note: This opinion piece was published in Middle East Eye on May 18, 2021, and republished in Il Manifesto and The Wire under different titles. It attempts to contextualize the current violence directed against Gaza in earlier Israeli provocations. It also takes note of Israel’s reliance on excessive force in its attack upon an essentially helpless Gazan civilian population of over two million people trapped inside a crowded and unlawfully blockaded enclave. The communal violence between Arabs and Jews in Israeli towns and villages, the unity displayed by Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories, the protests at the borders of Jordan and Lebanon, the Jewish dissent from Israeli criminal assault on Gaza, and the greater receptivity of the Western media and even the US Congress to Palestinian grievances different than past interludes of severe violence. The future will tell us whether finally an inflection point in the Palestinian struggle has been reached in which the path to peace is cleared by the fusion of resistance from within and solidarity from without.]
20 May 2021 — Off Guardian
In April, the Indian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft, allowing its local partner CropData to leverage a master database of farmers. The MoU seems to be part of the AgriStack policy initiative, which involves the roll out of ‘disruptive’ technologies and digital databases in the agricultural sector.
20 May 2021 • 21:30 — The New Dark Age
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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/
20 May 2021 — Institute of Race Relations
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.
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 – Israel – from altering the character of the land under occupation. However, this has not impeded Israel, whose attempt to evict families in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood resulted in the entry of Israeli border troops inside the al-Aqsa mosque, followed by waves of aerial bombardment that has resulted in daily death and injury toll that will be known only when the dust settles.
17 May 2021 — Jonathan Cook
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.
17 May, 2021 — The Saker
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.
And if you revolt, we cancel you.
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20 May 2021 — Swiss Policy Research
Cumulative covid deaths in Sweden, the EU, and the US (OWD)
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19 May 2021 — Good Law Project
Today the High Court heard our lawyers detail waste, mismanagement – and yet more special treatment for politically connected companies placed in the “VIP” Lane.
19 May 2021 — Indian Punchline
M.K. Bhadrakumar
India gets booted out of Farzad-B gas field 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.
19 May 2021 — Black Agenda Report
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.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Seventy-three years after the Nakba began, the Zionists continue their land and rights thievery, to which June Jordan, the Black American poet, bore powerful witness.
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19 May 2021 — In Gaza
by Eva Bartlett
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.
Marwa also speaks of the unity not only among Palestinian resistance groups, but also Resistance movements throughout the region.
19 May 2021 — Liberation News
By Richard Becker
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 Israel. Protests were reported May 14 in Jordan and Lebanon, and at least nine Palestinians were killed by live-fire ammunition in West Bank protests with many more wounded.
19 May 2021 • 14:50 — The New Dark Age
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“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 says.
Israel kills boy featured in film about imprisoned kids
By Ali Abunimah on May 19, 2021 06:44 am
As Israel bombs Gaza, it is escalating its violence in the West Bank.
The New Dark Age 