(2021-07-09). Israeli Supreme Court affirms Apartheid law limiting Sovereignty to Jewish Israelis, excluding 20% of Population. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports in an article edited by Mahmud Mujadalah that the Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday refused to strike down the basic law passed by the parliament or Knesset in 2018 declaring Israel a Jewish nation such that sovereignty is solely invested in the Jewish population. …
(2021-07-09). Make Police Obsolete. counterpunch.org The summer of 2020 was the largest protest movement for civil rights and racial justice in a generation. As Americans flooded the streets demanding justice and accountability for police brutality, police departments responded in force. By October 2020, five months into the protests, there were nearly 1000 instances of police brutality recorded. I was one
(2021-07-08). Haitian Police Shoot Down 4 Suspects and Arrest 2 Attackers. telesurenglish.net The Haitian police announced that they had killed four assassins and arrested two members of the commando that assassinated President Jovenel Moise. Three police officers who had been kidnapped were also released. | RELATED: | In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the assassins entered Moise's residence in Pelerin, a high-class neighborhood located on a hill in the highest part of Port-au-Prince. During the attack, the President…
(2021-07-08). Colombian Group Arrested Linked to the Assassination of Moise. telesurenglish.net At least 28 people assassinated President Jovenel Moise, Haitian police said Thursday, adding that 26 were Colombian and two were Americans of Haitian origin. | RELATED: | Eight of them, all Colombians, were still at large, national police director-general Leon Charles said at a news conference, adding that 17 including the two Americans had been arrested. | The director of Noticias Caracol, Juan Roberto Vargas, informed on BLU Radio that several Colombians were among those captured for the assassination of Haitian Presid…
(2021-07-08). US Citizen of Haitian Descent Arrested for Moise Assassination. telesurenglish.net An American citizen and another man believed to be Haitian-American were reportedly arrested in connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse. | James Solages, a US citizen, was identified as a suspect by the Associated Press and The Washington Post. Both the AP and the Washington Post quoted Mathias Pierre, Haiti's minister of elections and inter-party relations. | Further to the investigation, Carl Henry Destin, deputy magistrate of Pétion-Ville, a commune located in Port-au-Prince, affirmed to Le Nouvelliste that the office and the bedroom of the president were ransacked. On h…
(2021-07-08). US Citizen Arrested as Suspect in Assassination of Haitian President. commondreams.org
(2021-07-08). US Citizen Arrested as Suspect in Assassination of Haitian President. commondreams.org "This is not just about abortion at all," said Anu Kumar of the international pro-choice group Ipas.
(2021-07-08). Colombian Mercenaries Behind President's Assassination. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Authorities in Haiti say that two of the subjects arrested for the assassination of President Jovenel MoàØse are Haitian-Americans and 26 are Colombian, for a total of 28 arrested mercenaries. Colombia's Defense Minister Diego Molano Aponte has also declared that the captured mercenaries are retired members of the Colombian Army. Molano Aponte said…
(2021-07-08). Extradition of Alex Saab: U.S. takes effort to starve Venezuelans to new lows. mronline.org Venezuelan official Alex Saab was arrested over a year ago in Cape Verde and in March 2021 the country's Supreme Court approved his extradition to the United States. | July 8, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-07-08). "Police State Without the State": Palestinian Authority Faces Protests over Critic's Death in Custody. democracynow.org 
We look at growing opposition to the Palestinian Authority after the killing of a prominent activist, Nizar Banat, a vocal critic of the ruling body who died in PA custody after security forces violently arrested him at his home. Banat's killing has sparked protests calling for President Mahmoud Abbas to step down. "The Palestinian Authority now is acting like a police state without the state," says Palestinian writer Mariam Barghouti. "The Palestinian Authority has often collaborated with Israel at the expense of Palestinians."
(2021-07-08). Resistance is Not Futile: Fighting Back in an Age of Manufactured Ignorance. counterpunch.org The genocide inflicted on Native Americans, slavery, the horrors of Jim Crow, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, the rise of the carceral state, the My Lai massacre and George W. Bush's torture chambers and black sites, among other historical events, now disappear into a disavowal of past events made even more unethical with the emergence of a right-wing political and pedagogical language of erasure. For example, the Republican Party's attack on the teaching of "critical race theory" — labeled as "ideological or faddish" — denies both the history of racism as well as the ways in which it is enfo…
(2021-07-08). Resistance is Not Futile: Fighting Back in an Age of Manufactured Ignorance. counterpunch.org The genocide inflicted on Native Americans, slavery, the horrors of Jim Crow, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, the rise of the carceral state, the My Lai massacre and George W. Bush's torture chambers and black sites, among other historical events, now disappear into a disavowal of past events made even more unethical with the emergence of
(2021-07-08). Iranian Security Forces Arrested Three Workers in Key Power Plant For Sabotage. southfront.org 
Nuclear power plant in Iran. Image source: Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons | Iranian security forces have arrested three workers at one of the country's key power plants on charges of sabotage, the A source familiar with the case told the agency that the three workers were actively destroying and disabling a part of the power plant in order to cause frequent power outages…
(2021-07-08). Security forces arrest anti-Palestinian Authority demonstrators. peoplesdispatch.org Security forces under the Palestinian Authority (PA) arrested at least 21 Palestinians late on Monday, July 5. Those arrested include journalists, university students, activists and lawyers. They also brutally suppressed a sit-in protest and demonstrations in the Palestinian capital Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Monday night, physically assaulting hundreds of protesters and arresting some to quell the wave of protests against the killing of activist Nizar Banat. | Several protesters were reportedly kept in custody awaiting prosecution. The murder of political activist and anti-corruption figure Nizar Bana…