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.
18 May 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
(Andreas Kambanis via Flickr under CC by SA 2.0)
by Julie Brigham-Grette and Andrea Dutton
The Conversation, May 17, 2021
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 and the future survival of their coastlines and coastal cities, from New York to Shanghai.
That reckoning may come much sooner than people realize.
19 May 2021 — Medact
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.
18 May 2021 • 20:00 — The New Dark Age
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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 Gaza
https://countercurrents.org/2021/05/carnage-in-gaza/
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18 May 2021 — Medact
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.
17 May 2021 — Indian Punchline
Building housing the offices of Associated Press and other media collapses after Israeli airstrike, Gaza City, May 15, 2021.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.
17 May 2021 — MedConfidential
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.
17 May 2021 • 21:30 — The New Dark Age
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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/
16 May 2021 — Internationalist 360°
The Romanian press, in reporting on the ongoing U.S. Army-led 30,000-troop, 27-nation war games codenamed DEFENDER-Europe 21, cited an American commander in the country characterizing them as “mutual intra-NATO defense.” A suggestion: NATO should publish a Militarese-English dictionary for the uninitiated.
16 May 2021 — Good Law Project
On Tuesday, our legal challenge to the PPE procurement scandal will be heard in the High Court. It’s the first day of a mammoth five day hearing.
16 May 2021 • 23:00 — The New Dark Age
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“Anti-Zionist Naples”: Award-Winning Italian Artist Speaks about Palestine and Why He Quit Photojournalism
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/anti-zionist-naples-award-winning-italian-artist-speaks-about-palestine-and-why-he-quit-photojournalism/
Roger Waters On Israel’s Crimes And Palestine’s Resistance
https://popularresistance.org/roger-waters-on-israels-crimes-and-palestines-resistance/
