As Boteach comes for Dua Lipa, has Tactic of Smearing People as anti-Semites for Backing Palestinian Human Rights jumped the Shark?
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-05-23
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Orthodox Rabbi Shmuely Boteach has come after the brilliant, Grammy-award-winning Kosovar-British pop star Dua Lipa with an ad in the New York Times accusing her of anti-Semitism for supporting Palestinian rights. She vigorously denied the charge and denounced the ad. She should also sue for libel. Boteach is a huge …
juancole.com/2021/05/boteach-smearing-palestinian.html

UN Recognizes Venezuela's Efforts to Strengthen Human Rights
José Manuel Blanco Diaz | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-23
The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights recognized this Friday, May 21, via Twitter, the efforts of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to strengthen the exercise of human rights. | The UN body, led since 2018 by High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, expressed its satisfaction after the government of President Nicolás Maduro adopted procedures that coincide with the recommendations issued by the multilateral organization. | In this sense, the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, recently announced the restructuring of the SEBIN and the DGCIM, Venezuelan State secur…
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US Trying To Extradite Diplomat For The 'Crime' Of Securing Food For The Hungry
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-23
Special envoy and ambassador to the African Union for Venezuela, Alex Saab, was on a humanitarian mission flying from Caracas to Iran to procure food and gasoline for the Venezuelan CLAP food assistance program. Saab was detained on a refueling stop in the African nation of Cabo Verde and has been held in custody ever since June 12, 2020. | Saab's "crime," according to the US government, which ordered the imprisonment, was money laundering. That is, Saab conducted perfectly legal international trade, but his circumventing the US sanctions — which are designed to prevent relief to the Venezuelans — is…
popularresistance.org/us-trying-to-extradite-diplomat-for-the-crime-of-securing-food-for-the-hungry/

UN Atomic Agency To Be Cut Off From Iranian Nuclear Sites
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-23
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will no longer be able to access images of the Iranian nuclear sites because a monitoring deal with the UN nuclear body has expired, Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Sunday. | RELATED: | Iran Rules Out US Claim of "Step-by-Step" Lifting of Sanctions | The announcement can be seen as further pressure on the United States to return to the 2015 Nuclear Agreement, of which it pulled out in 2018, by orders of former pr…
telesurenglish.net/news/UN-Atomic-Agency-To-Be-Cut-Off-From-Iranian-Nuclear-Sites-20210523-0001.html

Sanctions, Making Venezuela Scream
Alexander Main | zcomm.org | 2021-05-23
Interview on the economic and political impact of the sanctions…
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Colombia: Truth Commission To Investigate Repression in Cali
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-22
The President of Colombia's Truth Commission Francisco de Roux and the commissioner Alejandra Miller on Friday toured the city of Cali to research human rights violations and contribute to solve the political and social crisis that the city, and the country, have been going through since April 28. | RELATED: | Colombia: Constitutional Court Revives Peace Seats | The commission visited the places where national strike protesters are concentrated and accompanied the departure of indigenous pe…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Truth-Commission-To-Investigate-Repression-in-Cali-20210522-0002.html

Chris Hedges, Alan MacLeod on Media Bias and the Christian Right's Obsession with Israel
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-22
By Mnar Muhawesh Adley — May 21, 2021 | Chris Hedges and Alan Macloed join MintCast to talk about Israel, Christian Zionism, and media bias. | Images from the Israeli onslaught against Palestine have dominated both news broadcasts and social media as the world expresses its outrage over the bombing of civilian targets. | While the latest violence was triggered by an Israeli attack on the al-Aqsa Mosque, the conflict's roots go back at least to the state's creation in 1948, when Israeli forces ethnically cleansed nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland, razing 500 towns and villages in order to mak…
orinocotribune.com/chris-hedges-alan-macleod-on-media-bias-and-the-christian-rights-obsession-with-israel/

Spain's PSOE-Podemos regime intensifies expulsions of refugees to Morocco
wsws.org | 2021-05-22
The PSOE-Podemos government is expelling thousands of migrants from Spain's enclave of Ceuta to Morocco while detaining refugees and children in horrific conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/22/spai…

Spain's PSOE-Podemos regime intensifies expulsions of refugees to Morocco
wsws.org | 2021-05-22
The PSOE-Podemos government is expelling thousands of migrants from Spain's enclave of Ceuta to Morocco while detaining refugees and children in horrific conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/22/spai…

US Trying to Extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for the "Crime" of Securing Food for the Hungry: The Case of Alex Saab v. The Empire
Roger D. Harris | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-22
The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. This is according to Montréal-based international human rights lawyer John Philpot. He spoke on May 19 at a webinar sponsored by the Alliance for Global Justice and …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/us-trying-to-extradite-venezuelan-diplomat-for-the-crime-of-securing-food-for-the-hungry-the-case-of-alex-saab-v-the-empire/

Biden Administration To Remove US Oil Company From Northeastern Syria — Report
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-22
File image. | The Biden administration has decided to not extend a sanctions waiver for a small US oil company to operate in northeastern Syria, Al-Monitor reported on May 21, citing sources informed on the matter. | The company, Delta Crescent Energy LLC, was granted a
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Animal Rebellion blockades four McDonalds depots in England
Editorial Team | challenge-magazine.org | 2021-05-22
Ben Ughetti, is a member of the YCL's East of England branch | The animal rights group Animal Rebellion have launched numerous direct action operations against the fast food giant McDonalds. Preventing lorries from leaving McDonalds depots in Basingstoke, Hemel Hempstead, Coventry and Heywood, activists from AR explained they were able to use what was described as "bamboo structures" in order to prevent the trucks from leaving the depots. This has meant that over 1,300 McDonald's restaurants have been left without deliveries which McDonald's is yet to comment on. For McDonalds, this will be unlikely to have a…
challenge-magazine.org/2021/05/22/animal-rebellion-blockades-four-mcdonalds-depots-in-england/

Chile Constituent:Will Not Abandon the Streets
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-22
Carlos Aznárez and María Torrellas In the context of the latest elections to the constituent convention to create a new Constitution in Chile, we spoke with Nuriluz Hermosilla Osorio, archaeologist and one of the three spokespersons of the Coordinadora Feminista 8M, participant of the Comité Socioambiental and the Comité de Derechos Humanos y Memoria Feminista… Read…
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