(2021-09-30). Drone Strike Hit Iranian-Backed Forces In Syria's Deir Ezzor: Monitoring Group. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | Late on September 30, a drone strike hit a position of Iranian-backed forces in the southern countryside of Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). | "According to information obtained by the activists of the Syrian Observatory, the drone flew over the area at sunset today and targeted, with at least two missiles, the al-Kutf area near the town of al-Bukamal," the London-based monitoring group said in a report. | The SOHR added that Iranian-backed forces…
(2021-09-30). Tuesday 10/19: How Indigenous-led Rights of Nature is Transforming Climate Action Now. indybay.org Online event…
(2021-09-30). Saturday 10/2: Vallejo: Solidarity March for Reproductive Rights. indybay.org Meet at Vallejo City Hall, 555 Santa Clara St., Vallejo, CA 94590 | Wear a Mask. Please follow current COVID guidelines: covid19.ca.gov/safely-reopening/…
(2021-09-30). Tuesday 10/12: Community Living Options & Choices for the Mental Health Disabled w/ Disability Rights CA. indybay.org Online webinar…
(2021-09-30). Formula 1: Qatar set to host first ever Grand Prix in November 2021. middleeasteye.net 
Formula 1: Qatar set to host first ever Grand Prix in November 2021 | Organisers says race will take place on 21 November as rights groups criticise 'sportswashing' by the Gulf state | Thu, 09/30/2021 – 11: 32 | Drivers take the start of the Formula One Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom circuit in Sochi on September 26, 2021 (AFP) | Qatar is set to host a Formula One Grand Prix for…
(2021-09-30). France Threatens Sanctions And Electricity Cuts Against UK As Post-Brexit Tensions Increase. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageBoris Johnson ran on the platform of Brexit but now needs the EU to solve the fuel crisis. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | The French want to continue fishing near the British islands of Jersey and Guernsey in the English Channel, but their licenses expired this week and British authorities refused to renew the majority of them. This fishing saga, and the French threats to cut electricity cables supplying the two British islands, has been ongoing since the economic agreement governing relations between the EU and the UK after Brexit were signed in January. | A…
(2021-09-30). Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo was Reportedly Obsessed with Killing Assange. orinocotribune.com By Kevin Gosztola — Sep 27, 2021 | There were no criminal prosecutions for anyone in the Central Intelligence Agency when they operated a torture program. The White House under President Barack Obama fully embraced a drone program that involved targeted assassinations. | Now, we learn that the CIA redefined WikiLeaks as a "hostile entity" and sought to label WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as an "information broker" to justify aggressive actions intended to disrupt journalism. They even had plans to kill him. | The latest revelations around Assange are exactly why so many advocates did not think it was acce…
(2021-09-29). COVID-19 Detention Camps: Are Government Round-Ups of Resistors in Our Future? dissidentvoice.org No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order. — Albert Speer, Nuremberg Trials It's no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when. This is what we know: the government has the means, the muscle and the motivation to detain individuals …
(2021-09-29). Egypt detains prominent professor critical of pro-government media. middleeasteye.net 
Egypt detains prominent professor critical of pro-government media | In his articles, Ayman Mansour Nada attacked well-known media personalities, whom he accused of being puppets to powerful intelligence officer | Wed, 09/29/2021 – 14: 59 | Ayman Mansour Nada is the dean of the Radio and Television Department at Cairo University and a well respected academic in Egypt (Video grab) | Egyptian security forces hav…
(2021-09-29). Venezuela Denounces Detention of Two FANB Members by Colombia. orinocotribune.com Venezuela condemned the "arbitrary detention" of two of its military personnel by Colombia and has demanded their immediate release to avoid unnecessary tensions between the two countries. | The Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) of Venezuela has denounced the "arbitrary detention" of two of its members by Colombian authorities in the town of Cúcuta, in the department of Norte de Santander at the Colombia-Venezuela border. | According to a statement published on Tuesday, September 28, by the FANB on Twitter, Wilter Alexis González Miranda and Gabriel Antonio Veloz Varela, two Venezuelan sergeants were apprehe…
(2021-09-29). Mexico Talks: Dialogue Table Condemns Xenophobia Against Venezuelan Migrants in Chile. orinocotribune.com Both the Venezuelan government and opposition delegations jointly condemned the xenophobic acts perpetrated against Venezuelan migrants in Chile this weekend. This was announced on Monday, September 27, by Dag Nylander, spokesperson of the facilitator team of the Kingdom of Norway, at the end of the third phase of the Venezuelan dialogue held in Mexico City. Both delegations expressed their absolute condemnation for the acts of xenophobia and violence against Venezuelan families that occurred this Saturday in the Chilean city of Iquique, denouncing the acts as a very serious violation of human rights. The delegat…
(2021-09-29). Video: The Reality of Human Rights in Australia. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2021-09-29). Four political parties announce bloc to resist president Saied's power grab in Tunisia. peoplesdispatch.org 20 Tunisian and international human rights groups also denounced the president's actions in a joint statement, calling them unilateral, authoritarian and in violation of the Tunisian constitution…
(2021-09-29). Poetic Justice: Are and Henceforward Shall Be Free. commondreams.org "In the face of the escalating climate and environmental crises, senseless violence, and blatant human rights abuses, they successfully engage for a better future through solidarity and organization."
(2021-09-29). Torres Strait Islanders say: 'Our Islands, Our Home'. greenleft.org.au Eight Torres Strait Islander Elders are taking the federal government to the United Nations Human Rights Committee over its inaction on climate change. Reports Coral Wynter.
(2021-09-29). Central Syria: 50 Russian Airstrikes Hit ISIS Hideouts As New Combing Operation Begins. southfront.org 
File image. | On September 29, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out more than 50 airstrikes on Syria's central region where ISIS cells have been waging an insurgency against government forces. | According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the airstrikes targeted fortified hideouts of the terrorist group between the eastern Homs countryside and the eastern countryside of Hama. | The airstrikes were carried out in support of a new combing operation by the Syrian Arab Army and its a…
(2021-09-29). Liverpool mobilizes against the AOC Europe arms fair. zcomm.org After two decades of war in Afghanistan, there is no option but to protest a conference for companies complicit in human rights violations…
(2021-09-29). Voting rights 'compromise' allows state lawmakers to trash voter choice. peoplesworld.org 
The Senate's Freedom to Vote Act, a compromise alternative to the House-approved For the People Act, contains some provisions that expand voting rights but fails to prevent Republican legislators, in states they control, from throwing out election results they don't like. Failure to pass the original bill backed by the House could turn voting in …
(2021-09-29). Why the Taliban's Promise to Stop the Opium Trade Rings Hollow. independentmediainstitute.org One of the first announcements the Taliban made after seizing power in Afghanistan in August was that they were going to "ban the production and sale of drugs." But, as with other promises of change made by the Taliban, from women's rights to press freedoms, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about its …
(2021-09-29). WW commentary: Unite for reproductive justice. workers.org 
Protest against Texas abortion ban, Austin. Over 600 marches and rallies are being organized to take place across the country Oct. 2, two days before the U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes for its fall term. The right to legal abortion is at stake. On Dec. 1, the case of Dobbs v. . . . |
(2021-09-29). Family Surveillance by Algorithm: The Rapidly Spreading Tools Few Have Heard Of. aclu.org 
Last month, police
(2021-09-29). For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of 'Vice and Virtue'. fpif.org There is no better symbol for the disappearance of women's rights in Afghanistan than the end of the Ministry of Women's Affairs and the return of the Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. When the Taliban on September 7 announced their new interim government, the vice and virtue The situation has a fe…
(2021-09-29). First Available Data Shows Countries Are Using Special Drawing Rights to Stabilize Their Economies and Address the Pandemic. cepr.net On August 23, 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) allocated $650 billion worth of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to its members to add liquidity to the global economy during the unprecedented health and economic crises caused by COVID-19. SDRs, which are an international reserve asset, can be exchanged for hard currency or donated among member …
(2021-09-29). 'Everything Is on the Line': Senate Under Pressure to Protect Abortion Rights. commondreams.org The Cook Political Report's Editor and Publisher on Biden, Trump and Democratic Chances in 2022 and 2024.
(2021-09-29). Violent deportations of Haitian refugees expose Biden's record on migrant rights. peoplesdispatch.org The violent expulsion of Haitian migrants in Del Rio, at the behest of the Joe Biden administration, has put a spotlight on the president's record of continuing Trump-era laws to expel hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants…
(2021-09-29). The Entire Korean Peninsula as an American Satrapy? dissidentvoice.org 
Foreign Affairs (FA) magazine, published by the right-wing Council on Foreign Relations, has recently published some articles on taking advantage of economic challenges faced by North Korea. On 29 July, FA says, "Change is underway on the Korean Peninsula. FA posits that sanctions have worked for the US, as can be gleaned from the article's …
(2021-09-29). Outrage Over Atrocities Committed Against Alex Saab. popularresistance.org After receiving a letter from the diplomat Alex Saab, the head of the Venezuelan government delegation in the Mexico Talks, Jorge Rodríguez, expressed outrage at the atrocities committed against this representative of Venezuelan diplomacy. In the letter, Saab denounced his subjection to torture in Cape Verde, including psychologically torment. For example, authorities had deprived him of water for days, wrote Saab, "because according to them they must pass the transparent bottles through the x-ray, and the machine is always damaged."
