(2021-07-21). Snowden grills WaPo for 'embarrassingly weak' reaction to NSO spyware scandal, says it's untrue Pegasus can't target US phones. rt.com 
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has berated the Washington Post for not taking a more forceful stance on the Pegasus spyware scandal, and said it was untrue to claim the now-infamous malware can't infect US phones. | The former US intelligence contractor expressed dismay over a WaPo editorial in response to reports that NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance firm, sold its Pegasus spyware to government clients who then used the powerful hacking tool to spy on journalists, NGOs workers and even heads of state. The explosive allegations, based on a leaked list of purported Pegasus targets and subsequent forensic an…
(2021-07-21). Pegasus Rides Again: The NSO Group, Spyware and Human Rights. dissidentvoice.org They keep insisting they don't do it. But companies such as the Israeli NSO Group are global vendors for regimes, whatever stripe or colour, for surveillance tools to spy on those they deem of interest. The 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden that exposed the warrantless world of mass surveillance by entities such as the US …
(2021-07-21). #DefundRacism: Palestinian organizations call for action to defund U.S.-registered Zionist settler "charities" samidoun.net 
Over 150 Palestinian organizations, activists and municipalities launched the Campaign to Defund Racism, demanding that New York Attorney General Letitia James revoke the charitable licenses of multiple U.S.-based settler organizations headquartered in the state, all of which fundraise for and support illegal Israeli colonization in Jerusalem and the West Bank of occupied Palestine. Specifically, the campaign targets the Israel Land Fund, the Hebron Fund, Ateret Cohanim, Friends of Ir David (Elad), and Regavim. These settler-funding organizations are propelling, among other colonial efforts, the colonization of S…
(2021-07-21). Samidoun welcomes new affiliates: ACTA and Anti-Imperialist Alliance. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is honored to welcome its two newest affiliate organizations, ACTA and Anti-Imperialist Alliance Ottawa. Samidoun is an independent international, Arab and Palestinian network of organizers and activists working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom and the Palestinian struggle for liberation, and welcomes chapters and organizational affiliates as part of the network. ACTA, based in Paris, France, is an autonomous and partisan media that produces videos, interviews and intervention articles — from inside the struggles. To…
(2021-07-21). Ben & Jerry's To Stop Sales in Israeli Settlements. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Ben & Jerry's announced it will stop selling ice creams in the Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Ben & Jerry's is a subsidiary of Unilever, a Britain-based consumer goods conglomerate. | RELATED: | The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the company's decision is "moral and legal," adding that it is consistent with the rules of international law. | International law…
(2021-07-21). Israel launches air strikes on Lebanon and Syria as part of US-backed shadow war. peoplesworld.org 
Israel launched a missile attack on southern Lebanon early today, just hours after air strikes had targeted Iranian forces near the Syrian city of Aleppo. The Israeli army claimed that it was responding to four rockets launched from Lebanon that triggered warning sirens in the Western Galilee region. No details were given of the targets …
(2021-07-21). Legalized Apartheid: The Israeli Supreme Court Just Cemented Jewish Supremacy into Law. orinocotribune.com 
By Jessica Buxbaum — Jul 16, 2021 | Only a few years old, the nation-state law has already proven it can serve as a legal tool for discrimination, racial segregation, and outright apartheid. | JERUSALEM — In November of last year, an Israeli judge invoked the controversial Jewish Nation-State Basic Law when striking down a lawsuit against the city of Karmiel over funding transportation for two Palestinian students. | In his ruling, the chief registrar of the Krayot Magistrate's Court, Yaniv Luzon, said that establishing an Arabic-language school in Karmiel or funding transportation for Palestinian Arab…
(2021-07-21). Satellite Images: Recent Israeli Strikes On Syria Hit Compound In Eastern Aleppo. southfront.org 
FILE PHOTO An Israeli F-16 fighter jet © Amir Cohen / Reuters | One of the targets of the On July 21, the Aurora Intel Twitter account shared new satellite images showing heavy damage at the compound that's located a few kilometers to the east of Aleppo International Airport. The exact nature of the compound i…
(2021-07-21). Israel's Antisemitism Ruse. zcomm.org When Racists Claim Victimhood…
(2021-07-21). Israel Wants US States to Enforce Anti-BDS Laws Against Ben & Jerry's. news.antiwar.com
(2021-07-21). Israeli Missile Strikes in Northern Syria Kill Five. news.antiwar.com Details are emerging on Israel's overnight missile strikes against Syria's north. The strikes reportedly Syrian state media confirmed the attacks, and said that their The Syrian military said th…
(2021-07-21). Afghanistan War Outcome: Hope for Sovereign Nations Fighting the Scourge of Neocolonial Imperialism. dissidentvoice.org 
Photo credit from the archives of Newsonline Exits of Netanyahu and Trump: chance to dial down Mideast tensions The Iraqi geopolitical analyst, Ali Fahim, recently said in an interview with The Tehran Times: "The arrival of [newly elected Iranian President] Ebrahim Raisi at the helm of power gives a great moral impetus to the resistance …
(2021-07-21). Advierten presión de EE.UU para que países declaren contra Cuba. telesurtv.net Las autoridades cubanas han denunciado que el Gobierno de EE.UU. recurre a maniobras injerencistas para recrudecer el bloqueo impuesto a la isla caribeña.
(2021-07-21). Denuncian represión a manifestantes en ciudades de Colombia. telesurtv.net En varias regiones se reportaron hechos represivos, donde el Esmad atacó con gases y bombas aturdidoras a los manifestantes.
(2021-07-21). US Attacks Sovereignty from Haiti to Cuba to China. sputniknews.com 'Core Group' just kinda decided who the Haitian government is; Dems push for decriminalizing marijuana; NSO spyware exposed; US attacks on Cuba and China connected…
(2021-07-20). Pegasus: Macron May Have Become the Target of Moroccan Gov't. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the French newspaper Le Monde revealed that the phone of President Emmanuel Macron was a target of the Moroccan government. The news is the latest scandal related to the Israeli Pegasus spyware since several media outlets broke the news on Sunday. | RELATED: | According to the newspaper, Macron and another 14 top officials were targetted by the Moroccan government in 2019. However, Morocco's authorities have not denied the allegations, alt…
(2021-07-20). 25 July, New Jersey/NYC: #BlockTheBoat — Mass Picket to Stop Apartheid Israel Zim Ship. samidoun.net 
Sunday, 25 July 6 am (updates TBA — subscribe for text alerts!) Maher Terminal 1210 Corbin St Elizabeth, NJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/500776417869221/ Alert: Ship schedules can change at the last minute. Please sign up for text updates. To sign up for SMS updates, text your name to 833-320-1973 The #BlockTheBoat NY-NJ Coalition is returning to Maher Terminal after leading the first ever Palestine protest at the Port of New York and New Jersey last month. Join us as we mobilize for another community picket line to let ZIM — apartheid Israel's largest shipping company — know that they…
(2021-07-20). Ben And Jerry's Vows To Stop Sales In Israeli West Bank Settlements. popularresistance.org On Monday Ben & Jerry's announced that it would stop selling ice cream in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. The move comes after years of pressure from activists in the company's home state of Vermont. | "We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry's ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)," reads a statement on the company's website. "We also hear and recognize the concerns shared with us by our fans and trusted partners." | "We have a longstanding partnership with our licensee, who manufactures Ben & Jerry's ice cream in Israel a…
(2021-07-20). Ben & Jerry's Vows To Stop Sales In Israeli West Bank Settlements. popularresistance.org On Monday Ben & Jerry's announced that it would stop selling ice cream in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. The move comes after years of pressure from activists in the company's home state of Vermont.
(2021-07-20). "No ice cream for you" — Ben & Jerry's ceases distribution to Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestinian West Bank. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The civil society movement to boycott, divest from and sanction (BDS) Israel racked up another victory on Monday when it was announced that Ben & Jerry's ice cream would cease being sold in the Israeli-only squatter-settlements built on usurped Palestinian-owned farmland. Ben & Jerry's was founded by Ben Cohen and …
(2021-07-20). Cuba: How the CIA Manipulates Social Media and All Media. liberationnews.org 
Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how the people of Cuba demonstrated in support of their revolution and government over the weekend, new environmental disasters brought about by climate change, efforts to prohibit the teaching of the history of racism in America, a new global spying scandal involving an Israeli company, and more.
(2021-07-20). 27 July, NYC: Protest to defund Zionist settler groups. samidoun.net 
Tuesday, 27 July 4: 30 pm 55 Hanson Place — NYC Attorney General's Office Brooklyn, NY Info: www.facebook.com/events/531616891374603/ Demand New York Attorney General Tish James revoke the charitable status of Zionist settler organizations abusing nonprofit law to fund Israel's war crimes of ethnic cleansing and illegal settlement. | The article
(2021-07-20). Israel forces food to rot in Gaza. electronicintifada.net Nursery run by 60-year-old woman bombed repeatedly in May.
(2021-07-20). Calls Grow for Moratorium on Private Spyware After Pegasus Revelations. truthout.org 
Calls are growing for stricter regulations on the use of surveillance technology after revelations that countries have used the powerful Pegasus spyware against politicians, journalists and activists around the world. The Pegasus software, sold by the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, can secretly infect a mobile phone and harvest its information. While the company touts Pegasus as intended for criminals and terrorists, leaked data suggests the tool is widely abused by governments to go after p…
(2021-07-20). Amnesty Int'l Calls for Moratorium on Private Spyware After Israeli NSO Group Pegasus Revelations. democracynow.org 
Calls are growing for stricter regulations on the use of surveillance technology after revelations that countries have used the powerful Pegasus spyware against politicians, journalists and activists around the world. The Pegasus software, sold by the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, can secretly infect a mobile phone and harvest its information. While the company touts Pegasus as intended for criminals and terrorists, leaked data suggests the tool is widely abused by governments to go after political opponents and dissidents, according to reporting from The Pegasus Project, an international consortium of…
(2021-07-20). Mexico Used Private Israeli Spyware Pegasus to Surveil President's Family & a Murdered Journalist. democracynow.org 
Mexico appears to have submitted more phone numbers for potential surveillance to the Israeli cybersurveillance company NSO Group than any other client country, according to an investigation of the company by an international collaboration of media outlets called The Pegasus Project. The Guardian found the mobile phone number of Mexican journalist Cecilio Pineda Birto was selected as a possible target for surveillance by a Mexican NSO Group client just weeks before Pineda's assassination in Guerrero in 2017. Nina Lakhani, senior reporter at The Guardian, says Mexico was NSO Group's first client and authorities th…
(2021-07-20). Israeli software Pegasus may have been used to spy on activists, politicians, journalists globally. peoplesdispatch.org The revelation was made in a report published by The Guardian and 16 other media organizations on Sunday which is based on the findings of Amnesty International and Paris based Forbidden Stories.
(2021-07-20). Ben & Jerry's announce end of operations in Occupied Palestinian Territories. peoplesdispatch.org 
The announcement by the ice cream maker came after a sustained campaign was launched by the BDS movement against company's operations in Israel and in its illegal settlements in the occupied territories…
(2021-07-20). Biden Supports Many Protestors but Not Palestinians. strategic-culture.org It is a fair assumption that Israel's Biden's Washington is reacting as might be expected over the Cuba riots. There was automatic endorsement of the rioters, with Biden
(2021-07-20). As a new Generation Emerges, Evangelical support for Israel is neither permanent nor inevitable. juancole.com 
By Walker Robins | — Israel's former ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, made waves in May 2021 when he publicly suggested that Israel should prioritize its relationship with American evangelicals over American Jews. Dermer described evangelicals as the "backbone of Israel's support in the United States." By contrast, he described American Jews as "disproportionately …
(2021-07-20). Military Situation In Syria On July 20, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On July 20, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 34 times: 16 — in Idlib province, 13 — in Latakia province, 3 — in Hama province, 2 — in Aleppo province | On July 19, Russian warplanes attacked positions of Turkish-backed forces in the Kabani area | On July 19, Israeli warplanes attacked Syrian Army positions in the Al-Safirah area. No casualties were reported | On July 19, Russian military police and…
(2021-07-20). Israeli launches airstrikes on Syria, fires artillery shots into southern Lebanon. peoplesdispatch.org Abiding by its long-term policy, Israel did not acknowledge its airstrikes in Syria. Its forces claimed that they carried out artillery shelling inside Lebanon following firing of two rockets from across the border into northern Israel…
(2021-07-20). Defensas aéreas de Siria repelen ataque israelí contra Alepo. telesurtv.net Las defensas aéreas del Ejército Árabe Sirio lograron repeler la mayoría de los misiles hostiles lanzados contra su territorio.
(2021-07-20). Headlines for July 20, 2021. democracynow.org Report: COVID Death Toll in India May Be Over 4 Million, As COVID Cases Rise in All 50 States, Biden Urges Unvaccinated to Get the Shot, Pediatricians Recommend Universal Masking in Schools, Ariel Henry to Become Haitian PM After Getting Support from U.S. & Core Group, Socialist Teacher & Union Leader Pedro Castillo Wins Peruvian Presidential Election, 35 Killed in Market Blast in Baghdad on Eve of Eid al-Adha, Rockets Land Near Afghan Presidential Palace During Outdoor Eid Prayers, In Victory for BDS Movement, Ben & Jerry's to Stop Selling Ice Cream in Israeli Settlements, Morocco Sentences Journalist Omar Radi…
(2021-07-20). Israeli Airstrikes Pound Military Posts in Syria's Aleppo. news.antiwar.com A new round of airstrikes from Israel hit military posts in and around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Syrian state media claimed to have shot down most of the missiles before they hit, and casualties are still unclear. | The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights T…
(2021-07-20). One of the First Things Bezos Says After Returning From Space: Humanity Should Pollute It. commondreams.org Netanyahu's objective is not really to impede Citizenship and Entry Law, but to create a wedge within the coalition.
(2021-07-20). Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires. commondreams.org Netanyahu's objective is not really to impede Citizenship and Entry Law, but to create a wedge within the coalition.
(2021-07-20). Why Did Netanyahu Vote Against a Racist Law He Wholly Embraces? commondreams.org "Normally the weather predicts what the fire will do," said an Oregon official. "In this case, the fire is predicting what the weather will do."
