(2021-05-30). Neoliberalism, Fake News and Electoral Processes. orinocotribune.com By Fernando Buen Abad — May 25, 2021 | It is a huge mistake to assume that neoliberalism is only a bourgeois canniness exclusive to the economic-financial field. It is a serious error that must be corrected immediately. Neoliberalism is, pathetically, an ideological ambush (in the sense of the "false consciousness" explained by Marx) developed to dispute and impose the "common sense" of certain capitalist interests in their imperial phase. Verbigracia: a shredding machine of acquired social rights; a demolisher of humanist principles of solidarity; a "human meat grinder" in labor, educational and health cent…
(2021-05-30). The Fall and Rise (and Fall?) of Apartheid. orinocotribune.com 
By Jinan Bastaki — May 27, 2021 | Apartheid in South Africa ended in part due to sanctions and pressure from the international community. It is once again on the international community to ensure that international law is upheld and apartheid sees its demise, this time in Palestine. | The vast majority of people today look back on the apartheid era in South Africa—1948-1990—with disdain and horror. Condemnation of the injustices under apartheid is, today, unequivocal; however, apartheid practices in Israel today are, despite the work of many human rights organizations and activists, still conside…
(2021-05-30). Central Syria: Over 60 ISIS Terrorists Killed, Or Injured In Russian Airstrikes Last Month. southfront.org 
2717545 10/10/2015 Russian Su-25 attack aircraft take off from the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Dmitriy Vinogradov/RIA Novosti | At least 27 ISIS terrorists were killed and 41 others were wounded in central Syria over the last 30 days as a result of Russian airstrikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on May 30. | According to the London-based monitoring group, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out more than 1,050 airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in the central region during…
(2021-05-30). Saturday 6/12: "SNCC": Civil Rights Movement Film and Discussion w/ Director Danny Lyon. indybay.org Virtual film screening and discussion (FREE)…
(2021-05-30). Nonprofit housing developer EBALDC attacks just cause tenant protections. indybay.org Oakland tenants facing eviction after a nonprofit housing developer violates their rights under just cause eviction protections a number of years ago.
(2021-05-30). Tuesday 6/1: Know Your Rights: Disability Discrimination and Your Job. indybay.org Online workshop (FREE)…
(2021-05-29). Colombia: An observer's account. peoplesdispatch.org The International Mission of Solidarity and Human Rights Observation arrived to Colombia on May 25 to verify denouncements of human rights violations committed by the Colombian forces during the National Strike. | Teri Mattson of CODEPINK who is part of the delegation sends a report from Pereira where she and other members of the mission have been meeting with human rights organizations and movements.
(2021-05-29). National strike in Colombia completes one month, the struggle continues. peoplesdispatch.org 
The struggle, which began in rejection of a neoliberal tax reform bill, has transformed into a social uprising in Colombia demanding structural changes and an end to policies that only deepen social inequality and deprive the greater part of the population of basic rights…
(2021-05-29). The World Trade Organization Is Threatening Vaccine Equity and Climate Goals. truthout.org 
The huge COVID-19 vaccine supply gap between rich and poor countries exposes the deadly problem of intellectual property (IP) rights and the dangerous monopoly power of Big Pharma. It also exposes in glaring terms the failures of the entire system of global trading rules regulated by the World Trade Organization (WTO). In this exclusive interview for Truthout, Jayati Ghosh, one of the world's leading development economists, dissects the question of intellectual property rights relating to vac…
(2021-05-29). Overrepresented in prisons: LGBTQ2S+ people. workers.org 
At every stage in the criminal injustice system, LGBTQ2S+ people are overrepresented, including within the juvenile justice system. Queers Demand a World Without Prisons: "We reject hate crimes legislation, 'gender-responsive' prisons, and all other measures that use gay rights rhetoric to expand the systems that murder and imprison us. We . . . |
(2021-05-29). The West ignores neo-Nazi past of Belarusian 'activist'. challenge-magazine.org 
Western politicians have condemned Belarus in the last week after a Ryan Air Flight travelling from Greece to Estonia was forced to land in Belarus by the Belarusian Air Force last Sunday. The Belarusian government has claimed that the plane was grounded because of fears that Hamas was going to blow up the plane in response to the EU's refusal to condemn Israeli aggression over the last fortnight. NATO countries have ridiculed these claims, instead presenting the action as a crackdown by President Lukashenko against opposition to his government after 26-year-old opposition journalist Roman Protasevich was deta…
(2021-05-29). Rights Groups Warn Biden Fast-Tracking Asylum Cases Could Endanger Families. commondreams.org "A rocket docket that moves people too quickly through this flawed system is the opposite of justice." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-05-29). There Is Nothing 'Civil' or Humane About the Detention of Noncitizens. commondreams.org "Immigration detention cannot be improved, and the closure of Irwin and Bristol should be the first step toward ending immigration detention altogether." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …