Daily Archives: July 5, 2020

2020-07-05: News Headlines

Rima Najjar (2020-07-05). Palestine, Annexation and the Wrong Story. globalresearch.ca The other night I watched PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff. The report on the annexation (do I need to qualify or explain "annexation"? What other country has or is likely ever to declare its impending annexation of someone else's land …

Glenn Greenwald (2020-07-05). House Democrats Restrict Trump's Planned Withdrawal of Troops. zcomm.org It should come as absolutely no surprise that House Democrats are finding common cause with Liz Cheney and other GOP warmongers to block any efforts to reduce even moderately the footprint of the U.S. military in the world or its decades-long posture of endless war…

Stephen Lendman (2020-07-05). The Unthinkable: Is a US-China War Possible? US War Ships in the South China Sea. A New Era of "Great Power Competition" globalresearch.ca The US is waging undeclared war on China by other means — aiming to undermine its growing prominence on the world stage. | Pompeo falsely calling China's new national security law "an affront to all nations," his endless war of words …

Stephen Lendman (2020-07-05). Trump Regime Wants Legitimate Iranian Fuel Shipments to Venezuela Seized. globalresearch.ca No nation in world history more strongly professes support for democratic values and the rule of law while more egregiously breaching its proclaimed principles than the US. | It's been this way throughout the country's history, fleeting moments alone when positive …

South Front (2020-07-05). Video: String of ISIS Attacks Continues in Syrian Desert. globalresearch.ca Since the start of the week, the Syrian Army has repelled several ISIS attacks on its positions in the desert in central Syria. | The most recent attack took place in eastern Homs early on July 2 and became the largest …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-07-05). LancetGate: "Scientific Corona Lies" and Big Pharma Corruption. Hydroxychloroquine versus Gilead's Remdesivir. globalresearch.ca Introduction: | There is an ongoing battle to suppress Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), a cheap and effective drug for the treatment of Covid-19. The campaign against HCQ is carried out through slanderous political statements, media smears, not to mention an authoritative peer reviewed …

Paul Larudee (2020-07-05). Government of, for and by Everyone, Equally. dissidentvoice.org Read Part I, Part II, and Part III. The US is ruled by a private club of a few hundred oligarchs and corporations. An uprising aimed at the police cannot succeed without taking economic and political power away from this club and redistributing it among the poor and disenfranchised, especially Blacks and Indigenous members of …

Press TV (2020-07-05). US Builds New Air Base in Syria. dissidentvoice.org The United States has built a new military base, including an airport for military aircraft, for its occupying forces in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah. Local sources told Syria's state news agency SANA on Wednesday that the new base and its airport had been established in Jazira Region, located between Um Kahif Village and Tal …

F. William Engdahl (2020-07-05). Is Washington Provoking India into a War with China? globalresearch.ca US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a recent video conference suggested that the US might move some of its troops from Germany to the region around India, citing growing US security concerns in the Asian region. Given the dramatic …

Various Contributors (2020-07-05). In Memoriam: Dr.Howard Croft 1941 — 2020. zcomm.org Members and activists who have long memories of his tireless work for empowerment of all residents of the District of Columbia contribute their recollections…

Fight Back (2020-07-05). Tampa protesters march to get charges dropped, community control of the police. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On the evening of July 3, 50 members of the community marched through downtown Tampa to demand that local State Attorney Andrew Warren drop charges on protesters arrested during the Justice for George Floyd movement. Many protesters from events over the past several weeks in Tampa face charges like unlawful assembly and inciting a riot, both of which have been commonly used by police across the country to repress activists. The organizers of the march and protest, Tampa Bay Community Action Committee (TBCAC), previously had a similar event after which 67 protesters had their cases dismissed. They say…

Ali Salam (2020-07-05). Israeli Forces Injure Six Palestinians in Nablus. imemc.org Six Palestinians were injured, on Friday, when Israeli forces attacked a peaceful protest, in the village of Asira ash-Shamaliya, north of Nablus, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Dozens of protesters gathered for the Friday prayer, near the northern West Bank village, to protest the Israeli threat of confiscation. Israeli …

Ed Ciaccio (2020-07-05). We Need a New National Anthem. dissidentvoice.org As we celebrate the 244th anniversary of our nation's Declaration of Independence, in the midst of demonstrations and protests against systemic racism and police brutality of African-Americans, it is time to consider replacing our national anthem with one more suitable to the values and priorities of the United States in 2020. There are many important …

ACU (2020-07-05). Video: Germany's Extra-parliamentary Inquiry on COVID-19. globalresearch.ca Dear fellow citizens, | Welcome to the ACU, the Extra-Parliamentary Corona Investigation Committee. If the Parliament does not do it, then we citizens are called upon to do it ourselves. | Extra-parliamentary Corona Committee of Inquiry, we will investigate why these …

Prabir Purkayastha (2020-07-05). Break Gilead's patent since US has bought all stock of Remdesivir. peoplesdispatch.org Trump is trying to improve his waning electoral chances by reserving all of Gilead's stock of Remdesivir to cover up his disastrous handling of the Covid-19 epidemic so far…

Sandipan Talukdar (2020-07-05). COVID-19: virus strain dominant worldwide is different from original in Wuhan. peoplesdispatch.org According to a publication in Cell, the strain, which is named D614G, is a result of point mutation of the original strain. However, it is not associated with disease severity…

Ben Barbour (2020-07-05). CIA Information Warfare Succeeds: Occupation of Afghanistan Forced to Continue, Trump's Real Crimes in Afghanistan Ignored. globalresearch.ca On July 1st the House Armed Services Committee

_____ (2020-07-05). The Truth About Russian-Taliban Ties. popularresistance.org The New York Times' latest fake news provocation alleging that Russia's military-intelligence agency GRU solicited the Taliban (officially designated as "terrorists" by Moscow) to assassinate American soldiers in Afghanistan has brought a lot of attention to Moscow's ties with the militant group. The truth, however, is just as intriguing than the fake news about them. On the surface, it's surprising enough that Russia has diplomatic contacts with the Taliban considering that the latter grew out of the 1980s Mujahiddin that defeated the USSR. | Casual observers could be forgiven for thinking that Russia still hold…

_____ (2020-07-05). San Quentin Inmates On Hunger Strike. popularresistance.org Several men incarcerated in California's San Quentin State Prison who have tested positive for COVID-19 have gone on a hunger strike to protest what they call "dismal" living conditions, KNTV in San Jose reported Wednesday. | More than 1,100 active coronavirus cases have been reported at San Quentin, California's oldest prison and home to the state's only death row. At least one person, a 71-year-old death row inmate, has died of complications from the coronavirus. | The hunger strike at San Quentin, north of San Francisco, began Monday, The Appeal reported. The strikers are protesting inhumane and cramped condit…

_____ (2020-07-05). Facebook Groups Pivot To Attacks On Black Lives Matter. popularresistance.org A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests of racial injustice. | These groups, which now boast a collective audience of more than 1 million members, are still thriving after most states started lifting virus restrictions. | And many have expanded their focus. | One group transformed itself last month from "Reopen California" to "California Patriots Pro Law…

yenisafak (2020-07-05). Virus outbreak in Hebron 'out of control': Palestine. yenisafak.com Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila has described the coronavirus outbreak in the West Bank city of Hebron as "out of control".Speaking in an interview with Palestine TV, al-Kaila said 173 virus infections were registered in Hebron on Saturday.The health minister is set to visit the city on Sunday to check on the health situation there.According to the minister, 50 Palestinian medics have so far contracted the virus.As the cases continue to surge, al-Kaila expected that the Palestinian government would extend a lockdown imposed in the territories for five more days to stem the spread of the pandemic.On Wedne…

en.mehrnews (2020-07-05). Baghdad to turn to UNSC to protest Turkey's attack. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Referring to the recent Turkish attacks on northern the country, Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman said that it is possible for Baghdad to turn to the Security Council to protest Turkey's attacks on its territory.

en.mehrnews (2020-07-05). VIDEO: Iraqi nation protest Saudi's insult to Ayat. Sistani. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) — Hundreds of Iraqi people gathered in front of Saudi Arabia's embassy in Baghdad on Sunday to protest against a cartoon published in Asharq al-Awsat that has insulted Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sistani.

RT (2020-07-05). Anti-Trump brigade rushes to school president over misleading clip implying he said Desert Storm op was in 'jungles of Vietnam'. rt.com Trump critics were very quick to give the US president a history lesson after he seemingly mistook the Vietnam War for the Gulf War during his Independence Day speech… except that he didn't. | A short clip circulating on social media seemed to suggest that Donald Trump mistakenly said that Operation Desert Storm — an offensive against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the 1990 Gulf War — actually took place in "the dense fields and jungles of Vietnam" during his July 4 address. | Some Twitter warriors quickly jumped in to blast and mock the president for what looked like an embarrassing gaffe on Indep…

RT (2020-07-05). 'F**k the American flag': WATCH BLM protesters stomp on & BURN US flag outside White House (VIDEO). rt.com A group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington DC marked July 4 by trampling on the American flag before setting it on fire, arguing that the US state symbol represents "slavery, genocide and war." | Footage showing protesters mocking the US flag began making the rounds online on Saturday evening. | | © REUTERS/Leah Millis | One of the videos, filmed at a square outside the White House that was officially named 'Black Lives Matter Plaza' in the wake of the protests, shows a young black woman dancing on the American flag, as another female protester with a megaphone in her hand can be heard shout…

RT (2020-07-05). 'F*ck the American flag': WATCH BLM protesters stomp on & BURN US flag outside White House (VIDEO). rt.com A group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, DC, has marked July 4th by trampling the American flag before setting it on fire, while arguing that the US state symbol represents "slavery, genocide and war." | Footage that shows protesters mocking the US flag began making rounds online on Saturday evening. | | © REUTERS/Leah Millis | One of the videos, filmed at a square outside the White House, an area which was officially named 'Black Lives Matter Plaza' in wake of the protests, shows a young black woman dancing on the American flag sprawled on the ground, as another female protester with a m…

RT (2020-07-05). 'We're in your house': Armed black protesters march through Georgia Confederate park. rt.com Scores of armed black protesters marched through Stone Mountain Park in Georgia, calling for the removal of an infamous Confederate monument and warning "redneck" militias that "we're in your house." | Footage from the march, which brought out 100 to 200 demonstrators, showed heavily-armed black protesters marching through the park on Independence Day, leading some on social media to react with worry at what appeared to be a volatile situation as protests across the country have descended into violence. | "Threat. Counter threat. Because threats don't mean s**t to us. Ya'll been threatening us since Birmingham…

The Canary (2020-07-05). Fire chiefs call for cladding answers ahead of Grenfell Inquiry restart. thecanary.co Fire chiefs have said it is "imperative" that an inquiry establishes why Grenfell Tower came to be covered in dangerous flammable cladding.The hearings into the disaster which, according to official figures, killed 72 people in 2017 will reopen on 6 July after being halted in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Attendance will be limited to comply with social distancing guidelines. Only members of the panel, the counsel to the inquiry, the witness giving evidence and their legal representative, support staff, and an invited journalist will be allowed to attend.Parliamentary committee debating the need to f…

The Canary (2020-07-05). Christopher Columbus statue toppled in Baltimore amid Black Lives Matter protests. thecanary.co Protesters in Baltimore pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the city's Inner Harbour. They used ropes to topple the statue on 4 July near the Little Italy neighbourhood, news outlets reported. | Protesters mobilised by the Black Lives Matter movement and the police killing of George Floyd have called for the removal of statues of Columbus, Confederate figures and others. They say the Italian explorer is responsible for the genocide and exploitation of Indigenous peoples in the Americas. | According to the Baltimore Sun, the city owned the statue. It was dedicated in 1984 by former mayor…

Alex Darocy (2020-07-05). Anti-Fourth Celebration in Santa Cruz. indybay.org To celebrate the holiday weekend without glorifying genocide, slavery and the settler state, community members in Santa Cruz organized a block party on July 4 at the Town Clock, which was followed by a protest march. An online post promoting the street party read: "This event is open to all members of the community who do not want to celebrate the foundations of this country being on stolen land. This is a space to share food, community and acknowledge the truth. We are choosing to honor those who have suffered genocide by the American government. This day is a sanitized holiday to erase indigenous nations and a…

Abdul Rahman (2020-07-05). India should not be a pawn in US imperialist efforts against China. peoplesdispatch.org India and China are two sovereign and independent countries with their own set of strengths and problems. They need to sit and talk to resolve their issues on their own…

Common Dreams staff (2020-07-05). 'Completely Out of Control': China Says 'US Epidemic' Threat to Rest of the World. commondreams.org 'In the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more countries and regions will be forced to suffer because of the US.' | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/florida-new-infections-07042020-955px.jpg

Kate Aronoff (2020-07-05). The Democrats' New Climate Plan: Improved But Weirdly Isolationist. zcomm.org Shaped by mass demand, Congressional Democrats' June 30th report on the climate crisis is a welcome improvement. But, in addition to its weak response to fossil fuel expansion, the report adopts an America First strategy to solve a global problem.

Philip A Farruggio (2020-07-05). Co Dependence Day. Voting will Not Solve Anything. Furthering Demand for Real Change in America. globalresearch.ca They'll be shooting off the fireworks, eating and drinking like ' Ants at a picnic' and sending 'Social Distancing' out the window. Why not? It's July 4th once again, a time to celebrate. Celebrate what? This pandemic is showing its …

Marie Okwo (2020-07-05). Igbo Women Seek Biafra, Voice Nigeria's Bleak Future. globalresearch.ca Nigeria is one of the largest by territory with population (estimated currently at 206 million) and huge economy in Africa. Situated on the southern coast on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, this country most often referred to …

Eric Zuesse (2020-07-05). Netherlands 'Justice' Is Totally Corrupt: The Malaysian MH17 Court Case against Russia. globalresearch.ca On Friday, July 3rd, the judge in the Netherlands court case against Russia as having fired a Buk missile that brought down the Malaysian Airlines plane that Ukrainian Air Traffic Control had instructed to fly over Ukraine's civil-war zone on …

Johanna Ross (2020-07-05). Scotland Could Place English in Quarantine as Independence Debate Heats Up. globalresearch.ca There's no doubt that Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has had a better pandemic than her English counterpart. Sturgeon's ratings have been consistently high throughout the crisis, with one

Tyler Shipley (2020-07-05). The World Is Burning and Canada Will Not Extinguish It. globalresearch.ca It's hard to find things to celebrate right now. Between a dangerous virus and the dangerous police, the news cycle is even darker than usual. This week, Justin Trudeau and the Canadian establishment will try to interrupt that cycle and …

Matthew Ehret-Kump (2020-07-05). Benjamin Franklin and the International Dimensions of 1776. How an Age of Reason Was Subverted. globalresearch.ca This July 4th, a larger-than-usual shadow is cast upon America which has come face-to-face with some serious historic reckonings. While the existence of an oligarchy and international "deep state" should not be ignored as a political force of …

IMEMC Staff (2020-07-05). Israeli Troops Abduct a Palestinian Student in Ramallah. imemc.org Israeli troops abducted early on Sunday a Palestinian university student in the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israel soldiers, stationed on a mobile military roadblock, near the Khan Alahmar neighborhood, mainly on the Ramallah-Jericho street, intercepted student Majdy Abuzaid, 20, before they …

IMEMC Staff (2020-07-05). New Illegal Israeli Settlement Units Announced in Bethlehem. imemc.org The so-called Israeli settlement council in the West Bank, announced on Sunday a new colonial illegal settlement project, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Chief for the Palestinian file for illegal colonial Israeli settlement in the Bethlehem city, Hassan Brega, confirmed earlier today that the so-called Israeli settlement council, …

Ali Salam (2020-07-05). Israeli Settlers Invade Town near Jenin, Threaten Palestinians near Hebron. imemc.org Illegal Israeli settlers, Friday night, stormed areas south of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said the invasion prompted confrontations between Palestinian civilians who resisted the invasion, and illegal settlers who were protected by soldiers. Israeli forces provided cover for the colonists …

Ali Salam (2020-07-05). Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure Seven Palestinians in Abu Dis. imemc.org Israeli forces, on Friday evening, injured 23 Palestinians during an invasion into the town of Abu Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS). Soldiers stormed Abu Dis town, which elicited resistance among the local Palestinian civilians. The army used live rounds, rubber-coated steel rounds …

Walden Bello (2020-07-05). The Racist Underpinnings of the American Way of War. zcomm.org The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country's wars…

Gord Doctorow (2020-07-05). Next Steps in the Anti-Racist Struggle? zcomm.org We need to make important and unifying decisions toward a just transition. And then we need to act…

_____ (2020-07-05). The Democrats' Disastrous, Militarist Climate Plan. popularresistance.org Don't believe for a minute that the Democrats climate plan even means what it says. Its solutions include disastrous scams like "biofuels" and nuclear energy. It proposes no fundamental change in lifestyle, no reduction in personal consumption, and no halt or reduction in eating meat (but renewable energy production on land used for livestock, so that the same land can mitigate the unacknowledged damage it is doing). It offers no proposed federal budget with any major moving of the money to where it's needed, and no plan to extract any resources from billionaires and corporate giants. | This plan has been critici…

_____ (2020-07-05). The Return Of The Anti-Antiwar Left. popularresistance.org In the writings of Dreyfuss, The New York Times' Michelle Goldberg, Mother Jones' David Corn, The Atlantic's Franklin Foer, New York magazine's resident dolt Jonathan Chait, and many more besides, we can see the emergence of the anti-anti-Cold War Left, there has also reemerged alongside it the very vocal and ravenously unscrupulous anti-antiwar Left. And it is on the issue of the Syrian war on which the anti-antiwar Left has coalesced, inexplicably arguing for the wholesale takeover of a secular police state by the very same Islamist radicals who, if given the chance, would turn around and immediately kill them…

_____ (2020-07-05). Churchill, Columbus And Leopold All Fall Down. popularresistance.org The perpetrators of crimes against humanity are often elevated to positions of respect and admiration. It all depends on who did the killing, and who was killed. Now the murderers are being called to account. The new movement in the United States against police and other state violence has inspired this welcome change taking place all over the world. The criminals are being exposed decades and even centuries after their atrocities took place. There is no statute of limitations for murder nor should there be for calling out people who have the blood of millions on their hands. The hand wringing over monument remov…

_____ (2020-07-05). On Contact: Patriotism And Dissent With Danny Sjursen. popularresistance.org Former Army Major Danny Sjursen, a frequent contributor to Popular Resistance, urges people to consider themselves citizens of humanity and not of a nation. Sjursen is the author of "Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War" where he defines patriotism as wanting the country to live up to its aspirations, that dissents from the United States when it is wrong. When a country becomes an empire, Sjursen says it is our patriotic duty to dissent. Sjursen discusses three types of patriotism. Principled participatory patriotism takes the same sense of duty to urge the United States to become a better place t…

_____ (2020-07-05). Your White Neighbor's 'Black Lives Matter' Yard Sign Is Not Enough. popularresistance.org Despite my having grown up in the South, Portland is the most racist place I have ever lived. This is because being anti-racist isn't about using politically correct buzzwords and giving lip service to sensitive conversation topics. Being anti-racist is about constructing a landscape that is safe for dark people to inhabit. It is not about white people trying to prove they are "woke" by putting up yard signs. That is not even what "woke" means. "Woke" is a territory of open-eyed, unsuperficial, cultural awareness white people are nowhere close to occupying; they are not even in the neighborhood. But being anti-ra…