(2022-07-09). (W.E. Talk) What can we learn from the economic battle between Russia and Western countries. ecns.cn While the Russian economy is showing resilience in the face of heavy sanctions in the recent months, the Western countries are suffering from the weaponization of the U.S. dollars started by themselves, which also triggered ripple effects on global trade and financial system.
(2022-07-09). Detenido presunto autor del asesinato a indigenistas brasileros. telesurtv.net Dom Phillips y Bruno Pereira eran fuertes defensores de los derechos de la comunidad indígena y la Amazonía brasilera.
(2022-07-09). Journalists In India Face Many-Sided Threats And Hurdles. popularresistance.org On May 3 World Freedom Day ten international human rights and press freedom organizations (including the Committee to Protect Journalists and PEN America) expressed serious concern at the increasing assaults on journalists and media freedom in recent times. They called upon the Indian authorities to stop targeting journalists and critics, and more particularly to desist from prosecuting them under sedition and/or counterterrorism laws. | This was just one among several several statements to emerge from international media and rights organizations to express concern regarding the fast deteriorating press freedom s…
(2022-07-09). How War Crimes Went Unpunished and a Publisher Became the Criminal (Book Review). orinocotribune.com By Kamala Emanuel — | The Trial of Julian Assange: A story of persecution (2022, Verso, London) by Nils Melzer (with Oliver Kobold), a highly readable, newly-released book offers a wealth of information on the ongoing persecution and torture of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. | The book is as invaluable for those who have supported Assange from the outset, as it is for those sceptical of his fear of extradition to the United States, or influenced by the prolonged character assassination campaign against him. | It begins with a compelling explanation of why the book has come into existence. Au…
(2022-07-09). [World Report] "Chaos" for patients and providers after US abortion ruling. thelancet.com A patchwork of state laws replace abortion rights once guaranteed by Roe v Wade. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
(2022-07-09). Biden signs toothless executive order in lieu of serious measures to defend abortion rights. wsws.org The meager scope of the executive order's provisions as well as Biden's speech belied his effort to present himself and the Democratic Party as defenders of the right to abortion and democratic rights in general.
(2022-07-09). How can American women's human rights be guaranteed. ecns.cn The case of a 10-year-old child rape victim in Ohio who was six weeks pregnant but ineligible for an abortion in her own state and forced to travel to Indiana for the procedure has shocked the U.S. and the world. The abortion ban does secondary harm to the girl.
(2022-07-09). The Democratic Party-sanctioned police rampage in Akron, Ohio. wsws.org The savage police murder of Jayland Walker followed by a Democratic-led police-state crackdown in Akron, Ohio has exposed the class role of the police and the bankruptcy of reforming the capitalist state.
(2022-07-08). G20 Diplomats Fail to Reach Consensus on Ukraine War. news.antiwar.com The G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, on Friday Many G20 members have not followed the US-led sanctions campaign against Russia, including Indonesia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa. The meeting opened with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi calling for the G20 nations to work together to end the war. | Marsud…
(2022-07-08). Turkish Military Is Building New Position Near Russian Camp In Syria's Greater Idlib. southfront.org 
Turkish forces are seen near Mount Barsaya, northeast of Afrin, Syria January 23, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi | The Turkish military is building yet another position in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on July 8. | According to the London-based monitoring group, the new position is being built near Khirbat al-Naqus, one of the key towns of the al-Ghab Plains in the northwestern Hama countryside. Turkish engineer units are reportedly cons…
(2022-07-08). After Drop in May, Venezuela Oil Exports Rise as Crude Flows to Europe Again. orinocotribune.com The first shipments of Venezuelan crude to Europe helped boost the country's oil exports by 61%, according to PDVSA data. These exchanges had been stopped for two years due to illegal US and European sanctions. | Italy's Eni (ENI.MI) and Spain's Repsol (REP.MC) began taking Venezuelan crude after receiving the green light from the US State Department, a decision that was made to help Europe compensate for the loss of Russian oil, after the blockade of Russia by the US and its junior partners that began with Russia's military operation in Ukraine. | The oil-for-debt swaps, seen by analysts as a sign of Washington'
(2022-07-08). Excusing Israeli apartheid in the NYT. electronicintifada.net Newspaper of record falsely claims A.B. Yehoshua supported extending one state with equal rights to Palestinians in Gaza.
(2022-07-08). ACLU Takes Fight Against Palestinian-Exception in the First Amendment To Supreme Court. scheerpost.com 
By Jessica Buxbaum / MintPress News LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS — In June, a federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas law barring state contractors from boycotting Israel, sparking concerns over First Amendment rights in the United States. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision made last year by a panel of three judges who found …
(2022-07-08). CEPR Sanctions Watch, May-June 2022. cepr.net Though now a key part of US policy-making, and a defining feature of the global economic order, sanctions, and their human costs, as well as violations of treaties to which the United States is a signatory, receive relatively little attention in most US media outlets.
(2022-07-08). Federal Judge Finds Arizona's Prison Health Care Is "Plainly Grossly Inadequate" and Unconstitutional. aclu.org A prison sentence should not mean people lose fundamental human rights such as access to health care or humane conditions of confinement. Yet in Arizona prisons, despite a settlement promising to improve conditions, this problem persisted for years. Finally, after almost a decade of broken promises by Arizona state prison officials, U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver
(2022-07-08). Gabriela USA and International Women's Alliance condemn overturn of Roe v. Wade. iacenter.org July 8, 2022 This slightly edited joint statement was released on June 24 by Terrie Cervas, GABRIELA USA Secretary General and Angelica Lim, GABRIELA USA International Relations Officer and International Women's Alliance Secretariat Member. You can email both organizations at gabrielawomen@gmail.com and internationalwomensalliance@gmail.com. GABRIELA USA and International Women's Alliance (IWA) vehemently condemn the United States Supreme Court overturn of Roe v. Wade and call on all people to defend basic human rights to health care, including access to abortion, and to fight the attacks on women's rights. Roe v…
(2022-07-08). Chicago demands justice for Jayland Walker, community control of police. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – 200 protesters marched in Chicago's Federal Plaza, Wednesday evening, July 6, to demand justice for Jayland Walker, who was murdered on June 27 by Akron Ohio police. Speakers at the rally connected the murder to similar police killings and other police crimes such as torture and wrongful conviction. The protesters demanded that the officers who killed Jayland Walker be convicted, and that community control of the police be enacted. | The march was organized by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and was one of several protests this week called for by the National Allian…
(2022-07-08). Fresh US Sanctions On Iran Despite Wanting To Revive Nuclear Deal. popularresistance.org The current round of sanctions add to the numerous rounds of similar coercive measures imposed by the US on Iran after the Donald Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the multi-party JCPOA in May 2018. | On Wednesday, July 7, the US Treasury and State Departments announced fresh sanctions on various entities involved in Iranian oil trade with China and other East Asian countries. The fresh sanctions come despite the ongoing efforts to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the Iran nuclear deal, in Qatar.
(2022-07-08). Al Falasteniyeh Media Network announces upcoming launch on th anniversary of Ghassan Kanafani's assassination. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the launch of Al Falasteniyeh Media Network. Committed to return and liberation for Palestine and to highlighting people in struggle, Al Falasteniyeh can be an important step in bringing the voices of the Palestinian prisoners' movement "from the river to the sea to the world," as the slogan of …
(2022-07-08). Alex Saab Hails Venezuela on Its Independence. orinocotribune.com By Alex Saab  ; Jul 5, 2022 | Dear President Nicolas Maduro and beloved people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. I would like to send you my greetings on the occasion of our Independence Day. | Our country is moving steadily towards economic growth, stability and national reconciliation despite the sanctions and the inhumane blockade imposed by the United States. | Of course, we would make much faster progress if, in a show of patriotic sorrow, the small section of the opposition that supports these sanctions would also join us, especially on this important date, in our demand for an immediate end to th…
(2022-07-08). Starbucks sows doubt about abortion, gender-affirming healthcare as union-busting tactic. liberationnews.org 
When Starbucks' "values" clash with the need to constantly increase profits, profits are always the priority…
(2022-07-08). Reproductive justice and the U.S. carceral system. iacenter.org By Marie Kelly July 8, 2022 The Supreme Court ruling against reproductive rights guaranteed for 50 years in the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision has had dramatic and devastating consequences for anyone who can get pregnant but is trapped in the U.S. carceral system. Number of incarcerated women accelerating Ban the shackling of incarcerated pregnant people! Illustration by Molly Crabapple According to the Prison Policy Initiative, the incarceration rate of women in the U.S. has grown at twice the pace of men over the past 40 years. There has been a startling 475% increase in women incarcerated. The majority of women (…
(2022-07-08). Texas abortion activists keep up the street movement despite record heat. liberationnews.org 
Texas has been one of the major epicenters of the right-wing assault against abortion rights.
(2022-07-08). White House Extends Permit for Liquefied Gas Exports to Venezuela (No Sanctions Relief). orinocotribune.com 
Caracas, July 7, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—This Thursday, July 7, the United States Treasury Department, through the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Washington and Caracas have resumed a timid dialogue and contacts since last March, when a high-level US delegation met with Presid…
(2022-07-08). 11 months in Israeli prison: Shatha Odeh's struggle for basic rights. peoplesdispatch.org Health activist Shatha Odeh speaks to Hani Serag of People's Health Movement about her days imprisoned in two Israeli prisons, the everyday struggle of prisoners for their basic rights and the atrocities inflicted upon them by Israeli authorities.
(2022-07-08). Three Ways We're Fighting for Disability Rights in Courtrooms Across the Country. aclu.org People with disabilities have a right to equal access under the law, including equal access to voting, education, and protections in the criminal legal system. But too often, policies and practices at the polls, and in schools, jails, and prisons violate our fundamental rights. These violations hinder access to the ballot, risk students' health and safety, and trap people with disabilities in the carceral system. | At the ACLU, we're fighting back in the courts and in legislatures to help people with disabilities access their rights. In honor of Disability Pride Month this July, we're highlighting a few of our…
(2022-07-08). US imposes fresh sanctions on Iran & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of fresh US sanctions on Iranian entities, the mounting crisis of global hunger, Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank, and a taxi drivers' strike in Italy…
(2022-07-08). EU Parliament Condemns Overturning of Roe, Calls to Double Down on Abortion Rights. commondreams.org "Women's and girls' human rights can never be taken for granted, and we must always fight to defend them."
(2022-07-08). North America's migrant crisis. america.cgtn.com In this series, CGTN correspondents analyze immigration in the Americas.
(2022-07-08). Condenan a 21 años de prisión a expolicía por violar derechos civiles de George Floyd en EE.UU. telesurtv.net El exagente, de 46 años de edad, ya había sido sentenciado a 22 años y seis meses de prisión en junio de 2021.
(2022-07-08). UK Bill Threatens Journalists With Life In Prison. popularresistance.org The British Parliament is debating a national security bill which could undermine the basis of national security reporting and ultimately throw journalists in jail for life. | A person convicted under the new offense of "obtaining or disclosing protected information," defined in Section 1 of National Security Bill 2022, faces a fine, life imprisonment, or both, if convicted following a jury trial. | A review of the parliamentary debate on the bill makes clear that work by press outlets such as WikiLeaks is at the heart of Tory and Labour MPs' thinking as they push to make the bill law.
(2022-07-08). Genocide in Indian Country: Torture Experiments, Trafficking and Mining. indybay.org Censored News: Exposing the Genocide: Torture Experiments, Trafficking and Mining. Mohawk Mothers continue their case in Quebec Superior Court. Their case exposes the U.S. CIA torture experiments, as Mohawk Mothers demand a search for unmarked graves of their children at McGill University in Montreal.
(2022-07-08). China rejects new US sanctions on Iranian oil sector. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 07 (MNA) — The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman rejected the new sanctions announced by the US Treasury Department against Iran and urged Washington to abandon the wrong practice of resorting to sanctions.
(2022-07-07). Twin Cities organizers memorialize 53 migrants who died in south Texas, press Senator Smith for immigrant rights action. fightbacknews.org St. Paul, MN – On July 5, organizers from several local immigrant rights organizations held a press conference on Saint Paul's West Side to remember the 53 migrants who tragically died in San Antonio, Texas, suffocated in a truck container. After the press conference, the community members went to Senator Tina Smith's nearby office, where they read the names of the 53 Mexican and Central American migrants and pressed an aide to the senator on the urgency to take action now to end the policies of border militarization and exclusion that make deaths in the borderlands a common occurrence. | After the press conferen…
(2022-07-07). The NLRB Is Underfunded And Understaffed. popularresistance.org The budget for the National Labor Relations Board for fiscal year 2022 was $274 million, which might sound like a lot of money. But it is the same amount as the Board's budget for Trump-era fiscal years 2021 and 2020, and that is a problem. | In fact, the NLRB has not had an increase in funding since 2014, the year that the Republicans took control of Congress during the Obama administration and reignited their decades-old campaign to deep-six workers' rights to unionize. | No increase "means a cut to the agency's funds, due to inflation and other factors," explains Burt Pearlstone, president of the NLRBU, the un…
(2022-07-07). Appleton WI: "Nothing to celebrate" July 4 rally demands non-enforcement of state's anti-abortion law. fightbacknews.org Appleton, WI — On July 4, hundreds of community members gathered in downtown Appleton to make their voices heard in support of reproductive rights for all. | What started earlier in the week as two separate events converged into one mass gathering of people who are stirred to action in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Dobbs on June 24, which erased the 50 years of affirmed federal protection for access to safe, legal abortion. | Concerned community individuals were supported by members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Food Not Bombs-Fox Valley (FNBFV), United Action Oshkosh…
(2022-07-07). How the 'Janes' created underground abortion access. iacenter.org By Marie Kelly June 24, 2022 A U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is expected to overturn the 1973 SCOTUS Roe v. Wade ruling sometime during late June — and pave the way to re-criminalization of the right to abortion. At this writing 26 states are poised to outlaw abortion and impact the lives of 64 million women — and any person of childbearing age who has a uterus. (guttmacher.org/abortion-rights-supreme-court, U.S. Census Bureau) A banner for the Jane Collective, the Abortion Counseling Service of Chicago Women's Liberation, carried during a protest for abor…
(2022-07-07). Opening the boxes of capitalism's skeletons. iacenter.org By Julia Wright July 5, 2022 "This is the hour of the furnaces; we only see the light" — Che Guevara "Blossoming purple, a forgotten artichoke in a dark cupboard" — haiku by Richard Wright, 1960 Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley These are strange days during the floundering of what was said to be our unsinkable "democracy," when each dark event seems to be the butterfly effect of a deja vu going back to slavery or to our Civil Rights Movement. Science fiction would appear to be old hat. We, writers, will have to invent something else. This July 3 marks the 40th year of the incarceration of…
(2022-07-07). Mexico's immigration crisis. america.cgtn.com In recent years, Mexico has tracked a record number of undocumented immigrants entering its territory.