The Hudak Report 11/06/24
News Featured On Social Media
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fires Defence Minister Yoav Gallant (Middle East Eye)
Erasing ‘Any Sign of Life,’ Israeli Demolition Teams Razing Entire Villages in Lebanon (Antiwar.com)
Gaza Tells Us Who We Are (Caitlin Johnstone)
What the U.S. Air Force Doesn’t Want You To Notice on Election Night (Truthdig)
Other News
British Columbia: “Dock employers in British Columbia shut out workers on Monday after a union’s strike notice, bringing trade to a halt across Canada’s busiest and third-busiest ports.” (Read more at Yahoo! Finance)
Canada Post: “Canada Post says the threat of a strike is "rapidly impacting" its revenue as customers who worry about their holiday packages not arriving in time switch delivery services.
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Canada Post and its unionized employees have been in contract talks for nearly a year. Last month, 95 per cent of workers voted in favour of a strike.” (Read more at CBC News)
Comoros: “At least 25 migrants died last Friday off the coast of the Comoros, a three-island country in south-east Africa, after “their boat deliberately fell into the hands of traffickers,” the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported.” (Read more at teleSUR)
Germany: “Germany's Federal Public Prosecutor announced on Tuesday that eight suspected members of a right-wing militant group had been arrested in a series of raids across three countries and involving hundreds of officers.
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The statement said the group plotted to seize power in the state of Saxony and potentially other eastern German states "to establish governmental and societal structures inspired by National Socialism." (Read more at DW)
London: “Around 150 bus drivers and their supporters marched through central London on Tuesday to demand safety for workers and passengers.” (Read more at Socialist Worker)
Los Angeles Times: “In an internal email sent on November 3, Patrick Soon-Shiong, medical technology billionaire and owner of the Times, outlined some of the reasons behind his decision that the paper would not endorse a candidate for president this year.
In the email, sent to the LA Times’s top editor and the president and COO and obtained by Drop Site News, Soon-Shiong says the policies supported by both candidates—in what is a clear reference to Israel’s brutal war on Gaza—played an important role in his decision. (Read more at Drop Site News)
Nigeria: “The accused had faced charges including treason and inciting a military coup, and had been arraigned in batches of 76 and 43 last Friday.
One of the charges carried the death penalty.” (Read more at RFI)
Spain: “Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced that a relief package of €10.6 billion has been approved to help victims of the flash floods that hit the eastern coast of the country around Valencia last week.” (Read more at euronews)
What I’m Reading
Disruptive Protest Isn’t Meant to Convince — It’s Meant to Break the Status Quo
How Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny