Monthly Archives: October 2021

2021-10-03: News Headlines

Asa Winstanley (2021-10-02). Apartheid responses show that appeasing the pro-Israel lobby is a waste of time. zcomm.org The responses to the use of "apartheid" to describe the regime imposed by Israel on the people of occupied Palestine show that appeasing the pro-Israel lobby really is a waste of time…

Anonymous Contributor (2021-10-02). Trinidad, CA: Sheriffs Arrest one Treesitter, Others Take to the Canopy. itsgoingdown.org Report from Redwood Forest Defense on arrest of a treesitter during ongoing forest defense in Northern California. More updates here. Trinidad, CA — A treesitter protesting Green Diamond clearcutting operations was arrested while attempting to climb a one hundred and fifty foot tall redwood tree slated for logging. "They say that we're tresspassing, but all…

Dave DeCamp (2021-10-02). Taliban Raids ISIS-K Hideout North of Kabul. news.antiwar.com A Taliban spokesman The raid took place in the city of Charikar. Earlier, the Taliban arrested two ISIS-K members linked to a roadside bombing in the city who told the Taliban where the hideout was, Karimi said. | ISIS-K is mainly based out of the eastern Nangarhar pro…

Anonymous669 (2021-10-02). SDF Captured ISIS Bomb Maker In Al-Hasakah Security Operation (Photos). southfront.org Illustrative image, SDF's security forces | On October 2, the Syrian Democratic Faces (SDF) announced that its Anti-Terror Forces, known as HAT, had arrested a dangerous bomb maker of ISIS during a special operation backed by the US-led coalition in the northeastern Syrian governorate of al-Hasakah. | "Our forces, enabled by the international coalition, have arrested a dangerous terrorist affiliated with Daesh [ISIS] and responsible for manufacturing IEDs [improvised explosive devices] and transporting them to Daesh cells…

The Lancet (2021-10-02). [Editorial] Fatal police violence in the USA: a public health issue. thelancet.com Preventable violent deaths of people of colour at the hands of police in the USA have been overlooked as a public health issue. Many victims of police violence have become household names, like George Floyd, whose death made headlines worldwide and raised awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement, which targets structural racism and violence against Black people in the USA and abroad. Yet, for every George Floyd, hundreds of other Americans' deaths after violent exchanges with police go unheeded, unacknowledged, and uncounted.

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2021-10-02: News Headlines

Asa Winstanley (2021-10-02). Apartheid responses show that appeasing the pro-Israel lobby is a waste of time. zcomm.org The responses to the use of "apartheid" to describe the regime imposed by Israel on the people of occupied Palestine show that appeasing the pro-Israel lobby really is a waste of time…

Dave DeCamp (2021-10-02). Taliban Raids ISIS-K Hideout North of Kabul. news.antiwar.com A Taliban spokesman The raid took place in the city of Charikar. Earlier, the Taliban arrested two ISIS-K members linked to a roadside bombing in the city who told the Taliban where the hideout was, Karimi said. | ISIS-K is mainly based out of the eastern Nangarhar pro…

Anonymous669 (2021-10-02). SDF Captured ISIS Bomb Maker In Al-Hasakah Security Operation (Photos). southfront.org Illustrative image, SDF's security forces | On October 2, the Syrian Democratic Faces (SDF) announced that its Anti-Terror Forces, known as HAT, had arrested a dangerous bomb maker of ISIS during a special operation backed by the US-led coalition in the northeastern Syrian governorate of al-Hasakah. | "Our forces, enabled by the international coalition, have arrested a dangerous terrorist affiliated with Daesh [ISIS] and responsible for manufacturing IEDs [improvised explosive devices] and transporting them to Daesh cells…

The Lancet (2021-10-02). [Editorial] Fatal police violence in the USA: a public health issue. thelancet.com Preventable violent deaths of people of colour at the hands of police in the USA have been overlooked as a public health issue. Many victims of police violence have become household names, like George Floyd, whose death made headlines worldwide and raised awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement, which targets structural racism and violence against Black people in the USA and abroad. Yet, for every George Floyd, hundreds of other Americans' deaths after violent exchanges with police go unheeded, unacknowledged, and uncounted.

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-01). Saakashvili returns to Georgia: circles within circles of coups, corruption, crime and armed conflict. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== PM Says Saakashvili Arrested NATO's Black Sea Enhanced Partners at daggers drawn: Ukraine summons Georgian ambassador ==== Saakashvili returns to Georgia: circles within circles of coups, corruption, crime and armed conflict President Warns Against Unrest Amid Reports of Saakashvili's Arrival President Salome Zurabishvili warned today against unrest as reports of the arrival of Ex-President Mikheil …

MEE staff (2021-10-01). British citizens file complaint in France against UAE's top Interpol candidate. middleeasteye.net British citizens file complaint in France against UAE's top Interpol candidate | If authorities proceed, Ahmed Naser al-Raisi, the Emirati official running to head Lyon-based force, could be arrested on French soil | Fri, 10/01/2021 – 14: 30 | Major General Ahmed Naser al-Raisi is the top law enforcement officer in the UAE (Wikimedia) | A lawyer for two British citizens who were detained and tortured in the Un…

Anonymous669 (2021-10-01). Greater Idlib Paradise: Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham Arrested, Tortured Three Children For Smuggling Cigarettes. southfront.org File image. | On September 30, security forces of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, arrested three children for smuggling cigarettes from the Turkish-occupied area of Afrin to the region of Greater Idlib. | The three children who attempted to smuggle a few packs of cigarettes to Greater Idlib, where HTS bans smoking, were reportedly tortured by the terrorist group's militants. | HTS militants went one to share a photo of the three children without blurring their faces, likely to humiliate them and intimi…

Anonymous669 (2021-10-01). Explosions, Clashes Reported At Provincial Capital Of Afghanistan's Parwan (Videos, Photos). southfront.org File image. | On October 1, explosions and clashes were reported at Charikar city, the provincial capital of the eastern Afghan province of Parwan. | The first explosion was the result of an attack with an improvised explosive device that targeted a vehicle of the Taliban in the PD2 district of Charikar. Two fighters of the Afghan group were wounded in the attack. | Sources close to the Taliban said that the group arrested two alleged members of ISIS-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) after the attack. The terrorists prov…

_____ (2021-10-01). "Race Norming" and Health Care Jim Crow. popularresistance.org The term "race norming " ought to be immediately suspected as having a nefarious intent. Anything referred to as norming in a racist society invariably ends with Black people getting the short end of the stick. The concept that Black bodies are anatomically different may be known as "race correction", "ethnic adjustment", or "race adjustment" and causes Black people to be undertreated for pain, undiagnosed for serious illness, and denied life saving treatments because of an idea which is inherently white supremacist and very much unscientific.

Staff (2021-10-01). Headlines for October 1, 2021. democracynow.org Congress Extends Gov't Funding as Pelosi Delays House Infrastructure Vote Amid Democratic Split, Court Allows Biden to Continue Mass Expulsions Without Due Process Under Title 42, Merck Applies for Emergency Use of Antiviral Drug That Could Halve Number of Severe COVID Cases, Rep. Cori Bush Opens Up About Having an Abortion After Rape as House Members Share Abortion Stories, Over 50% of Police Killings Go Unreported, Police Kill Black People at 3.5x Higher Rate Than Whites, Protesters Demand Accountability After Officials Suspend Probe into 2020 Beirut Port Blast, Salvadorans Protest New Cryptocurrency, Power Gra…

Jonathan Cook (2021-10-01). CIA plan to poison Assange wasn't needed. The US found a 'lawful' way to disappear him. zcomm.org The US was also able to manipulate the legal processes in both Sweden and the UK to engineer Assange's effective incarceration all that time…

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2021-10-01: News Headlines

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-01). Saakashvili returns to Georgia: circles within circles of coups, corruption, crime and armed conflict. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== PM Says Saakashvili Arrested NATO's Black Sea Enhanced Partners at daggers drawn: Ukraine summons Georgian ambassador ==== Saakashvili returns to Georgia: circles within circles of coups, corruption, crime and armed conflict President Warns Against Unrest Amid Reports of Saakashvili's Arrival President Salome Zurabishvili warned today against unrest as reports of the arrival of Ex-President Mikheil …

Anonymous669 (2021-10-01). Explosions, Clashes Reported At Provincial Capital Of Afghanistan's Parwan (Videos, Photos). southfront.org File image. | On October 1, explosions and clashes were reported at Charikar city, the provincial capital of the eastern Afghan province of Parwan. | The first explosion was the result of an attack with an improvised explosive device that targeted a vehicle of the Taliban in the PD2 district of Charikar. Two fighters of the Afghan group were wounded in the attack. | Sources close to the Taliban said that the group arrested two alleged members of ISIS-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) after the attack. The terrorists prov…

Anonymous669 (2021-10-01). Greater Idlib Paradise: Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham Arrested, Tortured Three Children For Smuggling Cigarettes. southfront.org File image. | On September 30, security forces of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, arrested three children for smuggling cigarettes from the Turkish-occupied area of Afrin to the region of Greater Idlib. | The three children who attempted to smuggle a few packs of cigarettes to Greater Idlib, where HTS bans smoking, were reportedly tortured by the terrorist group's militants. | HTS militants went one to share a photo of the three children without blurring their faces, likely to humiliate them and intimi…

Staff (2021-10-01). Headlines for October 1, 2021. democracynow.org Congress Extends Gov't Funding as Pelosi Delays House Infrastructure Vote Amid Democratic Split, Court Allows Biden to Continue Mass Expulsions Without Due Process Under Title 42, Merck Applies for Emergency Use of Antiviral Drug That Could Halve Number of Severe COVID Cases, Rep. Cori Bush Opens Up About Having an Abortion After Rape as House Members Share Abortion Stories, Over 50% of Police Killings Go Unreported, Police Kill Black People at 3.5x Higher Rate Than Whites, Protesters Demand Accountability After Officials Suspend Probe into 2020 Beirut Port Blast, Salvadorans Protest New Cryptocurrency, Power Gra…

Jonathan Cook (2021-10-01). CIA plan to poison Assange wasn't needed. The US found a 'lawful' way to disappear him. zcomm.org The US was also able to manipulate the legal processes in both Sweden and the UK to engineer Assange's effective incarceration all that time…

Ann Brown (2021-09-30). 2 Columbus Officers Arrested By FBI, Accused Of Distributing Fentanyl. moguldom.com Two police officers in Columbus, Ohio, have been arrested by the FBI and charged with distributing fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is often mixed with heroin and cocaine to increase their euphoric effects and has contributed to the opioid crisis. In the first half of 2021, almost half of the 418 overdose deaths in the U.S. (46 …

Staff (2021-09-30). Olympic gold medalist pleads guilty to felony obstruction charge stemming from his role in US Capitol riot. rt.com Klete Keller, the former Olympic swimming champion who was arrested in January for participating in the US Capitol riot, faces upward of two years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony. | Keller

Alexander Cooney (2021-09-30). Video: Cops for Covid Truth: Message from Alexander Cooney to All Police Officers in Australia. globalresearch.ca

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