(2022-09-02). Climate, conflicts raise stakes in hungry world. ecns.cn Millions of people struggling for food every day are seeing their hopes dimmed by soaring grain prices and tight supplies amid the impact of climate change and Western sanctions on Russia.
(2022-09-02). Saturday 9/3: Meetup: How You Can Help Ban Tools of Torture in Rodeos. indybay.org Crescent Lawn UC Berkeley…
(2022-09-02). Sullivan Walter, incarcerated for 36 years, exonerated in Louisiana. wsws.org Walter was convicted in a one-day trial and sentenced as an adult, serving 36 years in a Louisiana prison for a crime he did not commit. He became the 42nd person exonerated by the Innocence Project New Orleans.
(2022-09-02). China rechaza informe de ONU sobre DD.HH. en Xinjiang. telesurtv.net El portavoz de la misión permanente de China ante la ONU en Ginebra señaló que el texto difama y calumnia a Beijing.
(2022-09-01). Why Germany Needs a Revolution. libya360.wordpress.com Eric Zuesse Berlin's Brandenburg Gate displayed the yellow and blue colours of Ukraine in an act of solidarity — Image AP Germany's newsmedia — echoing America's — have attributed the soaring fuel-prices to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which clearly is a lie, because the source is clearly Germany's anti-Russian sanctions and termination of the Nord…
(2022-09-01). Why Germany Needs a Revolution, and What Type. southfront.org 
Written by Germany's newsmedia — echoing America's — have attributed the soaring fuel-prices to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which clearly is a lie, because the source is clearly Germany's anti-Russian sanctions and termination of the Nord Stream 2 natural-gas pipeline and other supplies into Germany of the least-expensive fuels-sources, which had been Ru…
(2022-09-01). Sanctions on Russia Threaten Fertilizer Production and Could Lead to Famine. covertactionmagazine.com The media are concealing an outrageous scandal in the context of the Russia sanctions—while distracting with a sideshow by spreading silly lies about Switzerland. Does Der Spiegel, an opinion leader in much of Europe, deserve the disqualification "lying press"? Far be it from me to call mainstream journalists liars across the board, because first of …
(2022-09-01). India-Russia Working on New Payment System for Defence Deals. infobrics.org Hit by more Western sanctions on Russian banking channels, Moscow and New Delhi are now working out a new payment system for defence equipment already ordered…
(2022-09-01). Russian Diamonds Are Back with Deals Being Done in Indian Rupees Instead of US Dollars. infobrics.org After being hit with US sanctions, Russian mining giant Alrosa is back selling more than $2 million per month in diamonds…
(2022-09-01). Russia Jumps to Become Third-Largest Market for Yuan Payments. infobrics.org Russia has charged up to third place in a list of countries outside mainland China using the yuan for global payments, highlighting how it is being affected by Western sanctions…
(2022-09-01). Bolsonaro Sentenced for Genocide by Permanent Peoples' Tribunal. telesurenglish.net This is an instance of symbolic justice that reveals the president's responsibility for the deaths caused in the country by COVID-19, particularly those of health professionals and indigenous and Afro-descendant populations. | RELATED: | Argentina's former Supreme Court of Justice member, Eugenio Zaffaroni, exposed the correlation between Jair Bolsonaro's speech and the crimes against Human Rights in Brazil, the…
(2022-09-01). China Rejects UN Human Rights Report on Xinjiang. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, China rejected the report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on alleged human rights violations in the Xinjiang region. | RELATED: | Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the OHCHR report is a mishmash of false information and acts as a political tool to serve the strategy of the United States and certain other Western countries to use Xinji…
(2022-09-01). How Can Americans Tolerate U.S. Government's Crucifixion Of Julian Assange? southfront.org 
Written by Julian Assange has long been in solitary-confinement imprisonment in Britain awaiting extradition to America on charges which could bring him 175 years in prison, but he has never been convicted of anything, and the U.S. Government has violated both the U.S. Constitution and U.S. laws by having thus imprisoned him for over a decade without his ever havi…
(2022-09-01). New victory for Palestinian prisoners' movement as occupation retreats from repressive measures. samidoun.net 
The Palestinian prisoners' movement announced a new victory on Thursday, 1 September 2022, in which the occupation prison administration retreated from its new repressive measures imposed upon the prisoners. In light of this achievement, the united prisoners' movement announced that they would not head into a collective mass hunger strike, saluting the prisoners, the Palestinian …
(2022-09-01). Over 100,000 people have gone missing in Mexico since 2007. america.cgtn.com The Mexican government estimates that since around 2007, more than 100,000 people have gone missing. This week, the UN top human rights official sent a special message to Mexico's government, urging it to bring cases of forced disappearances to light.
(2022-09-01). Saudi court sentences woman to 45 years in prison for social media posts. peoplesworld.org 
A Saudi court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for allegedly damaging the country through her social media activity, according to a court document obtained today. Little is known about Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani, who hails from one of the biggest tribes in Saudi Arabia and has no apparent history of activism. …
(2022-09-01). Routine COVID testing ended in English hospitals, care homes, prisons and homeless shelters. wsws.org COVID is being treated as no worse than a mild seasonal cold despite its long-term severely debilitating impact, leaving the continually evolving virus free to circulate.
(2022-09-01). Putin expresa sus condolencias por muerte de Mijaíl Gorbachov. telesurtv.net El presidente Putin consideró al expresidente soviético Mijaíl Gorbachov como un político y estadista con enorme impacto en la historia mundial.
(2022-09-01). Mijail Gorbachov murió en Moscú 31 años después que la Unión Soviética. globalizacion.ca Gorbachov, presidente de la Unión Soviética durante sus últimos siete años de existencia, murió en Rusia a los 91 años, por problemas renales. Durante su gobierno lanzó reformas para lograr la ´glasnost ª (apertura) y la ´perestroika ª (reestructuración), que marcaron uno…
(2022-08-31). Iran Considers IAEA Demands 'Excessive'. popularresistance.org "We consider the IAEA's demands excessive because their implementation is impossible due to the sanctions," Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) spokesman Behruz Kamalvandi said Tuesday. | The spokesman explained that the "Strategic Action to Lift Sanctions" law, approved in November 2020 by the Iranian Parliament, implies that the UN nuclear agency will have minimal oversight within the framework of safeguards mechanisms. | However, he said that if Westerners lift anti-Iranian sanctions and accomplish their commitments, Iran will also return to the original promises made under the 2015 nuclear deal, officia…
(2022-08-31). Prisoners for Profit: From the Kononovich Brothers to U.S. Jails. libya360.wordpress.com John Parker Based on remarks given at "Free the Kononovich Brothers: International Campaign Meeting" on Aug. 25. Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich are leaders of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine. They were among hundreds of political opponents of the Ukrainian regime jailed this year, and thousands since the 2014 U.S.-backed coup. On July 18,…
(2022-08-31). There's No Place For Burnout In A Burning World. popularresistance.org By the age of 10, I was terrified about the state of the world. I wanted to quit school and volunteer for environmental and human rights groups. Instead, I distributed leaflets in my neighborhood and attended rallies with my dad. At 14, I watched "An Inconvenient Truth." At 15, I read a National Geographic article about coal — how it planted cancer in people's lungs, stole their breath, and polluted their water. This broke my heart and, in the midst of that brokenness, I devoted my life to stopping climate change. | Fast forward a decade, and I'd had the privilege of working in several nonprofits, including…
(2022-08-31). US Decision-Makers Cannot Handle End Of White Supremacy. popularresistance.org US law has to be based on human rights standards. We see as a contradiction for the US to pretend to be a leader of human rights when its law and practice is anything but practices in law that are in correspondence with human rights standards. We believe that if there's going to be legitimacy and the international human rights framework, that has to be a framework that is applied equally to all nations. | For example, when we were building the US human rights network that would apply international human rights standards to the US, looking at issues of mass incarceration that we have in the US, looking at the fail…
(2022-08-31). MN launches Abortion Action Coalition, demands end to state funding for 'crisis pregnancy centers'. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — Chants of "When abortion rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up fight back!" could be heard up and down Chicago Avenue and 41st Streets in South Minneapolis on Thursday, August 18, as 40 protesters gathered outside the Tandem Family Resource Center – one of Minnesota's now-infamous "crisis pregnancy centers" – for a rally for women's and reproductive rights. The action was organized by the newly formed Minnesota Abortion Action Coalition (MNAAC) to demand an end to state funding for Tandem and other "crisis pregnancy centers" like it. | A chorus of honks greeted the protest, many…
(2022-08-31). University of Minnesota Teamsters picket, march against poverty wages. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — More than 300 University of Minnesota (UMN) service workers represented by Teamsters Local 320, along with members AFSCME, students, faculty, and others, protested on the school's campus, August 30, to demand an end to poverty wages and abusive employment practices. | Local 320 represents 1500 workers at UMN who clean buildings, service dormitories, maintain grounds, prepare food, maintain HVAC systems, care for research animals, drive trucks, and perform other activities across the university's five campuses. Many of the workers are Black, including immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia and…