German media continues to whitewash Israel’s genocide in Gaza, this time on live national television. On Tagesschau, the most-watched news program on German television, a reporter in Tel Aviv downplayed Israel’s massacring of displaced Palestinians by saying that Israel is trying its best to provide safe corridors and so-called “protective bunkers” for the displaced. Are they even following what’s going on in Gaza right now, or do they choose to be this ignorant?

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Eine KI schreibt für den «Blick» Artikel aus anderen Zeitungen um. Obwohl die Ergebnisse mangelhaft sind, hat Ringier damit ehrgeizige Pläne. https://www.woz.ch/!92CQSTBZ4TT4

Yesterday, a Trump-appointed judge threw out the entire classified documents case against Donald Trump, defying over half a century of legal precedents. This should give those who marched with signs reading "no one is above the law" cause to reflect.

What is law, anyway? And who does it serve?

Law is not an impartial institution that inherently serves to keep tyranny at bay. It is a weapon in the hands of the ruling class. It is chiefly used against poor people and activists; when it plays a role in internal conflicts within the ruling class, the outcome generally shows the balance of power between the factions.

In this context, promoting obedience to the law as a good in itself means accepting that might makes right. All the legitimacy that Biden and his supporters have invested in the legal system have only made it a more dangerous weapon for Donald Trump to employ, should he return to power.

As we move into an era in which the court system will serve the most authoritarian elements in our society, the argument that it is necessary to obey the law will be used to excuse complicity in more and more egregious crimes against humanity.

Instead of saying "no one is above the law," we should say, with Hannah Arendt, “No one has the right to obey.” 🏴

Our analysis on this subject from 2018 remains evergreen:

https://crimethinc.com/abovethelaw

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On this day, 17 July 1936 a Spanish military uprising began in Morocco as right wing generals declared war on the new Republican government. The rising had been due to begin at 5 AM on July 18, but the plot in Melilla, Spanish Morocco, had been uncovered, and so a local military officer decided to initiate the coup attempt a day early.The rebel officers arrested loyal officers, seized all the public buildings in the city, as well as the aerodrome, and made lists of union members, left-wing activists, Republicans and Freemasons, and arrested them all..Some residents in working class districts attempted to resist, but they had no arms, and so were quickly overcome. Anyone who resisted was summarily shot, including the mayor and the loyal local general. Rebels in Melilla then telephoned plotters in Ceuta and Tetuán, who then initiated their rising as well, resting or executing anyone who resisted.The following day, workers across Spain began to go on strike and requisition weapons to defend themselves and the Republic, even though the Republican government would refuse to give them arms.These events marked the beginning of the Spanish civil war. In the coming days, full-scale social revolution would break out which would set the Spanish working class, and volunteers from across the world, against the combined might of the bulk of the Spanish military backed up by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Our podcast episodes 39-40 give an overview of the conflict: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/ To access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo

Joe Biden is considering backing a host of reforms to the US Supreme Court including ending lifetime appointments, according to US media.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6p25e0pej3o

“The IMF and the World Bank are here to take over [our] land.” – A protester was killed in Kenya’s resurgent anti-government uprisings during the country’s worst political crisis since independence from British colonial rule in 1963. Several concessions from President Ruto have failed to appease the tireless protesters, who have vowed to “finish the mission,” in other words, Ruto must go.

The IMF-backed tax reform bill that sparked the protests in the first place was canceled by Ruto, but the IMF said it would press for reform plans anyway, which has left at least 50 killed and hundreds injured. Earlier, the IMF urged the government to ignore the protests and hold on to the unpopular neoliberal reforms.

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