2021-10-04: News Headlines

Editor (2021-10-04). The brutality of denying water to Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills. mronline.org For the past 15 years, I have witnessed how the Israeli army cuts Palestinian communities from accessing water in order to expel them and take their land.

Staff (2021-10-04). Headlines for October 4, 2021. democracynow.org Rallies Across U.S. Call for Reproductive Justice Amid GOP Assault on Abortion, U.S. Tops 700K COVID Deaths; CA Announces Student Vaccine Mandate as NYC Educator Mandate Starts, Major Orange County Oil Spill Blankets Beaches, Kills Wildlife, Pandora Papers Expose Secret Financial Dealings of World Leaders, Billionaires and Other Elites, Facebook Whistleblower Says Co. Repeatedly Put Profit Over Safety, Calls for Regulations, Kabul Blast Kills Five People as Afghan Humanitarian Crisis Grows, 8 Killed at Indian Farmworker Protest, 4,000 Refugees, Including Children, Arrested in Raids by Libyan Authorities, 3 Millio…

Erik Molvar (2021-10-04). Can the BLM be Fixed? Tracy Stone-Manning Takes the Helm of a Broken Agency. counterpunch.org After a contentious confirmation fight in the Senate, Tracy Stone-Manning has been confirmed to become the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. This will be the first time the agency has a properly-confirmed Director since the Obama administration. Under Trump, the agency was headed by a series of temporary stand-ins, including the public-lands-selloff activist

MEE, agencies (2021-10-03). Tunisia arrests MP and TV host over comments against president: Lawyer. middleeasteye.net Tunisia arrests MP and TV host over comments against president: Lawyer | Lawmaker Abdellatif al-Alaoui and journalist Amer Ayad are being held on charges of 'plotting against state security' | Sun, 10/03/2021 – 15: 48 | Lawmaker Abdellatif al-Alaoui was detained after criticising the Tunisian president on Zitouna TV (video grab) | Tunisian authorities on Sunday arrested an MP and a televis…

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