2021-10-16: News Headlines

Brenda Norrell (2021-10-16). BIA Occupation in Washington: Native People Under Arrest Demanding Justice. indybay.org Native People occupying the Bureau of Indian Affairs are now being arrested, during Day 4 of People vs. Fossil Fuels. Follow Censored News for this breaking news story.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2021-10-15). SFSU told to protect professor against censorship. electronicintifada.net Professor Rabab Abdulhadi says ruling is vindication after years of bullying and harassment by anti-Palestinian groups.

Derek Royden (2021-10-15). The CIA's illegal plots against Wikileaks and Julian Assange. nationofchange.org There should be more sympathy for Assange and the outlet he founded in corporate media.

WSWS (2021-10-15). Pandemic continues to kill in America, while the ruling elite squabbles over mandates. wsws.org While the corporate media and political establishment declare the worst of the pandemic over, the death toll continues at 10,000 or more a week.

Shane Quinn (2021-10-15). Four Crucial Anniversaries Overlooked by Western Media. orinocotribune.com By Shane Quinn — Oct 12, 2021 | 1) Atomic bombings of Japan — Last year, the 75th anniversary of the atomic attacks received sparse coverage. With the bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, mankind entered the defining period of its brief existence on earth: the nuclear age. | Certain defences and excuses, in support of the plainly criminal use of atomic weapons against Japanese civilians, have been relayed obediently by mainstream scholars through the decades: that the atomic attacks saved the lives of half a million American soldiers, who otherwise would have been killed in a land invasion of Japan,…

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