(2022-08-30). Yemen Government Claims 'Dangerous Escalation' After 10 Troops Killed in Taiz. news.antiwar.com An overnight attack near the Yemeni city of Taiz This comes just weeks after the government warning the blockade threatened the ceasefire. Human rights groups are also The…
(2022-08-30). Energy Sanctions on Russia Have Been a Boon for China and India. infobrics.org When the UK and the U.S. banned Russian oil imports, and the European Union approved sanctions that made it a lot harder to trade in Russian oil, media reports highlighted the argument that Russian could not possibly replace Europe with Asia as its biggest oil client…
(2022-08-30). San José reacts to Supreme Court threat to overturn DACA. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – "No ban! No wall! Legalization for all!" was heard at San José City Hall as about 20 people showed up on Saturday, August 27, to protest the possibility of the U.S. Supreme Court repealing DACA, which would affect nearly a million undocumented immigrants and their families in the United States. | The protest coincided with the 52nd anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium and came in response to a call from the Legalization for All (L4A) Network. The connection between the struggles of undocumented immigrants, especially from Mexico and other Latin American nations, and the Chicano nation, or Aztlan,…
(2022-08-30). CA Tribes and Delta E.J. groups ask State Water Board to reconsider Delta Plan. indybay.org "The State Water Board has made a public commitment to addressing the State sponsored racial inequity baked into the water rights system," said Rica Garcia, an attorney with the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School. "It now needs to act in alignment with that commitment by addressing the issues raised in the Petition."
(2022-08-30). Why is the MNA-UMPNC saying Michigan Medicine nurses will receive no strike pay? wsws.org The MNA-UMPNC has posted a series of FAQs on its website in advance of the work stoppage authorization vote this week, one of which says that nurses will not receive any strike pay if they vote to walk out at Michigan Medicine to fight for their rights.
(2022-08-30). New Zealand Labour government to expand exploitative migrant labour schemes. wsws.org While tight restrictions remain on permanent residency for immigrants, the Labour government is expanding exploitative and low-paid temporary work schemes.
(2022-08-30). New Orleans protest demands hurricane relief for all immigrants, defends DACA. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – Dozens of protesters rallied at the statue of Benito Juarez on August 27 to demand hurricane relief funds for all immigrants, regardless of legal status. The rally also came in response to national call to action by the Legalization for All Network to defend DACA against legal attacks and to commemorate the Chicano Moratorium. | The rally was planned to coincide with the anniversaries of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ida, which both made landfall in Louisiana on August 29. Although it was largely the labor of immigrant workers that rebuilt New Orleans after both disasters, many immigrants face…
(2022-08-30). Immigrant rights protest makes noise in support of DACA outside Minnesota Twins game. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Sunday, August 28, dozens of protesters gathered with signs, noisemakers and flyers across the street from Target Field in downtown Minneapolis. The demonstration was organized by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) and is also part of a national call to action for DACA by the Legalization for All Network, coinciding with the 52nd anniversary of the historic Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles, California. | Protesters gathered in support of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, marking ten years since the program was implemented in 2012. | DACA is a temporary pro…
(2022-08-29). 'Genocide of His People Is Complete': Last Member of Isolated Brazilian Tribe Found Dead. commondreams.org "For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth," said one Indigenous rights campaigner.
(2022-08-29). West's neoliberal 'age of abundance' is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home. popularresistance.org France's President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned that "we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance," calling it "a kind of major tipping point or a great upheaval." | Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing. | Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington's ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a governmen…
(2022-08-29). West's Neoliberal 'Age Of Abundance' Is Over. popularresistance.org France's President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned that "we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance," calling it "a kind of major tipping point or a great upheaval." | Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing. | Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington's ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a governmen…
(2022-08-29). Amid Curbs, India-Russia Trade Via INSTC Booms. infobrics.org The International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) has been facilitating a higher volume of trade between India and Russia via Iran over the last three months amid the West's sanctions on Moscow…
(2022-08-29). Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan deepen cooperation to bypass Western sanctions. infobrics.org North-South Corridor will make anti-Russia sanctions even more ineffective.
(2022-08-29). Nuremberg: Holocaust Survivor Vera Sharav's Alert about Nazi Tactics in 2022. transcend.org "Humanity Is Currently Under Siege by the Global Heirs of the Nazis" – Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate, speaks first at the 75th Anniversary Event of the Nuremberg Code in Nuremberg, Germany, on 20 Aug 2022.
(2022-08-29). Freeze or Starve? Sanctioning Russia Leaves Germans a Choice this Winter. libya360.wordpress.com C.J. ATKINS Freeze or starve: With energy costs driving up the price of everything, Germans will face a choice this winter. Here, a pedestrian walks through the freezing winter fog in Berlin. | Maurizio Gambarini / dpa via AP The biggest beneficiary in the whole affair, Pohl argues, has been U.S. imperialism. Its energy companies…
(2022-08-29). Khalil Awawdeh's message to the world: "Our cause is just, regardless of the high price paid" samidoun.net 
Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh, on his 180th day of hunger strike, issued a video message to the people of the world, where he speaks slowly and laboriously, with his emaciated body visible, highlighting the justice of the Palestinian cause: "Oh, free people of the world, this suffering body, of which nothing remains but skin and …
(2022-08-29). One-third of American women have lost abortion rights since Roe v. Wade overturned. wsws.org When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in September, nearly 21 million women lost unrestricted access to abortion. This week, laws going into effect in several states will make abortion even harder to access. Should courts drop their injunctions against anti-abortion laws in other states, 36 percent of American women will lose the right to abortion.
(2022-08-29). (W.E.Talk) Why the Emancipation of Millions of Serfs in Tibet A Glorious Monument to Human Rights Protection in the World. ecns.cn
(2022-08-29). JCPOA talks aim at removing sanctions, accusations. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 29 (MNA) — The Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said the goal of the JCPOA negotiations is to remove sanctions and false accusations raised against the country.
(2022-08-29). ISIL terrorist group detained in S Lebanon. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (MNA) — Lebanese sources announced that the country's security forces have detained a group of ISIL terrorists in the south of the country.
(2022-08-29). Rights Defenders Call for Cessation of Hostilities in Ethiopia. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts for Ethiopia called on parties to the conflict in Ethiopia to immediately cease fighting and return to dialogue. | RELATED: | The Commission "is outraged about the renewal of hostilities between the government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)," a statement issued by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) quoted the Comm…
(2022-08-29). Argentina: The Attack Against Cristina Is Backfiring. popularresistance.org The prosecutors and judges who intend to politically destroy the current Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, have had their shot backfire. Those who, after years of unsuccessful judicial and media set-ups, sometimes forged in the very same office of the former right-wing president Mauricio Macri, are now asking for 12 years in prison and to perpetually disqualify her from holding public office. Charges that venal judges and Macri's cronies would be happy to impose on her as a sentence. They already have it written, thundered Cristina, who made a memorable plea via digital networks from he…
(2022-08-29). Mujeres de Chile instan a aprobar nueva Constitución. telesurtv.net Organizaciones feministas coinciden que la nueva Carta Magna dignifica los derechos de las mujeres.
(2022-08-28). Philippines: Free Adora Faye de Vera, poet, patriot and warrior for women's liberation. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following August 27 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | We join the clamor of women's groups, artists, poets, rights defenders and other democratic organizations for the immediate release of Adora Faye de Vera. Adora Faye was arrested by police last Wednesday afternoon in her place of residence in Quezon City, and later brought to Calinog town, Iloilo, where she is being made to face false criminal charges. She joins at least 800 other political prisoners in the Philippines who continue to suffer unjust incarceration. | Adora Faye is an artist, a poe…
(2022-08-28). ICE Prison In South Georgia Should Be Shut Down, Not Expanded. popularresistance.org Neal, a Jamaican citizen who owned and operated a yacht servicing company for 25 years in South Florida, spent 17 months in a prison that's been converted into a detention center for immigrants in Georgia. Speaking to us of his experience at the Folkston ICE Processing Center, Neal described a prison that lacks basic safety and care for the people detained there and overall conditions that reveal a jarring lack of regard for human life. | "That place is not for safety or for human beings—it is just for money," said Neal, who wishes to be identified by his first name only. "I thought this government was goin…