Daily Archives: May 15, 2021

2021-05-15: News Headlines

Fight Back (2021-05-15). Lebanese protesters cross borders to occupied Palestine, face Israeli gunfire. fightbacknews.org According to a report from Lebanon's authoritative news outlet Al-Manar, a demonstration supporting the resistance in Palestine crossed the border between Lebanon and the territory under Israeli occupation on May 13. | "A number of Lebanese protesters demonstrated spontaneously near the barbed-wire fence off the Israeli settlement of Al-Metula, storming the border an crossing shortly into the occupied Palestinian territories," reports Al-Manar, which had a reporter on the scene. | "The protesters held Lebanon's, Hezbollah's and Palestine's flags and chanted slogans in support of Gaza against the Israeli agg…

Eds. (2021-05-15). Soviet Jews "stand with Israel forever" mronline.org This is what happens when a whole group of people gets converted to ethno-nationalism, which has become a kind of secular religion for them—a belief system predicated on messianic ethnic cleansing and blood-and-soil thinking. Most of my old Soviet immigrant friends aren't religious, but Zionism fills in that gap for them. | May 15, 2021…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-15). Russian Forces Dispatched To Armenia's Border Following Breach By Azerbaijani Special Forces. southfront.org Screen grab from Sputnik Armenia video. | Armenia has requested military support from Russia following a border breach by Azerbaijan troops, Earlier this week, hundreds of Azerbaijan special forces personnel

Binoy Kampmark (2021-05-15). Elbowed and Hustled: Australia's Yellow Peril Problem. dissidentvoice.org With the babble about Cold War paranoia becoming a routine matter in Canberra, the treacherous ground for war with China is being bedded down and readied. The Yellow Peril image never truly dissipated from Australia's politics. It was crucial in framing the first act of the newly born Commonwealth in 1901: the Immigration Restriction Act. …

Richard Becker (2021-05-14). Massive resistance in all parts of Palestine amid deadly Israeli assault. liberationnews.org 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 …

Aboulfotouh Kandil (2021-05-14). Chicago and nationwide demonstrations demand end to attacks on Palestinians. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO—A protest here by thousands against the Israeli attacks on Gaza was emblematic this week of actions that swept the nation's cities from coast to coast and of more marches and rallies expected this weekend. The mass gathering in downtown Chicago, condemning the Israeli violence against Palestinians both in Gaza and within the borders of …

Staff (2021-05-14). Israel Isn't Entitled to "Self-Defense" Against the People Under Its Occupation. truthout.org As Israel continues to pummel the Palestinian people with bombs and artillery shot into Gaza from troops amassed along its borders in preparation for a ground invasion, the Biden administration has reaffirmed its unwavering support for Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians. | Israel could not commit its crimes without the

Anonymous669 (2021-05-14). Gaza Conflict Spillover: Israeli Army Struck Syrian-Lebanese Border. southfront.org Israel's first two F-35 stealth fighter jets on their maiden flight as part of the Israeli Air Force on December 13, 2016. (Israel Defense Forces) | Early on May 14, an Israeli warplane targeted a vehicle near a Syrian town located next to the border with Lebanon, according to Lebanese and Israeli sources. | The vehicle, a pickup, was targeted near the Syrian town of al-Juntliyah in western Homs. Israeli sources claimed that the vehicle was about to move a weapons shipment from the Syrian town, where Hezbollah is known to be p…

WSWS (2021-05-14). Mounting death toll as Israel's war on Gaza escalates. wsws.org Sixteen thousand army reservists have been called up and ground forces sent to the border in preparation for a ground invasion…

Tom Athanasiou (2021-05-14). What's Missing From Biden's Climate Agenda? commondreams.org "We need a Green New Deal. But we also need a new internationalism, an emergency internationalism, and a solidarity than includes distant strangers as well as strangers within our own borders." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climateagenda-1.jpg

Special to People's World (2021-05-14). New play 'Ursula' about children at the U.S. border to stream on demand. peoplesworld.org The city of Los Angeles' Latino Theater Company is partnering with Cara Mía Theatre in Dallas to stream Cara Mia's world premiere production of Ursula, written, performed, and directed by Mexican-born theater artist Frida Espinosa Màºller. Màºller's extraordinary performance as an unaccompanied minor arriving at the U.S.-Mexican border will stream on demand from May 20 …

Jim McMahan (2021-05-14). Caravans protest immigrant detention. workers.org Tacoma, Wash. Im/migrant-led caravans from the Pacific Northwest region came to protest the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Wash., May 8. The Mothers Day action, held the day before, brought families from Portland and Salem, Ore., Seattle and other cities. Their cars were decked with "Free Them All" flags . . . |

Eds. (2021-05-14). How the modern NRA was born at the border. mronline.org Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman, which examines how NRA head Harlon Carter fused gun rights, immigration enforcement, and white supremacy. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. | May 14, 2021…

Monica Grover (2021-05-14). Viruses Know No Borders. Neither Should Vaccines. counterpunch.org In mid-April, three of my cousins — Shashi, Manju, and Renu, all sisters living in New Delhi — died within 10 days of each other. The eldest sister, Manju, was turned away from three medical clinics before she ran out of oxygen. The sole survivor of their nuclear family, Rajesh — or "Chotu" ("Little One")

_____ (2021-05-14). Scotland: Hundreds Of People Block Detention Of Immigrant Neighbors. popularresistance.org Glasgow, Scotland – One of two men detained by immigration officers in Scotland and subsequently released after protesters blocked them from leaving has said he's grateful "fate" bought him to live among the demonstrators in Glasgow. | On Monday evening, protesters sat on the road in front of the Home Office van parked on Kenmure Street in Glasgow. Police officers surrounded the vehicle. | Hundreds of protesters were at the scene, chanting refrains like "Leave our neighbours, let them go" and "Cops go home". | "I'm so happy that my fate brought me to live here in Glasgow, where the people are so connected that th…

WSWS (2021-05-14). Thousands protest against New Zealand government's anti-immigrant policies. wsws.org The protests are a sign of growing anger towards the Labour Party-led government's brutal and discriminatory border policies, which are aimed at whipping up nationalism and xenophobia.

Julia Conley, staff writer (2021-05-14). 'Nothing Is More Beautiful Than Solidarity': Hundreds Mobilize to Stop Arrest of Immigrant Neighbors in Glasgow. commondreams.org "Nothing is more beautiful than solidarity," said MP Zarah Sultana after Glasgow residents stopped the detention of two men by Immigration Enforcement agents. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/glasgow_refugees.png

Rick Rozoff (2021-05-14). U.S. recruits students from Georgia's "occupied territories," Israel supplies missiles. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. recruits students from Georgia's "occupied territories," Israel supplies missilesRick Rozoff The U.S.-NATO-EU triumvirate, after subduing the European continent in a manner Charlemagne, Napoleon and Hitler could only dream of, can't refrain from taunting Russia in every country bordering it except Belarus (for the moment), China and North Korea. Norway, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania …

Latino Rebels (2021-05-14). #LatinoRebels10: From 2018, When Elementary School Teachers Dressed Up as a Trump Border Wall. latinorebels.com Why, Idaho school teachers, why?>

WSWS (2021-05-14). I Never Cry: Developing a thick skin in the new Europe. wsws.org Polish writer-director Piotr Domalewski's I Never Cry (Jak najdalej stad) tackles the subject of Polish migration to more prosperous European Union countries and the difficulties encountered by the families they leave behind.

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