(2022-10-11). The Puppets And The Puppet Masters. popularresistance.org Washington, D.C. – Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department of Justice are the puppets, not the puppet masters. They are the faàßade, the fiction, that the longstanding persecution of Julian Assange has something to do with justice. Like the High Court in London, they carry out an elaborate judicial pantomime. They debate arcane legal nuances to distract from the Dickensian farce where a man who has not committed a crime, who is not a U.S. citizen, can be extradited under the Espionage Act and sentenced to life in prison for the most courageous and consequential journalism of our generation. | T…
(2022-10-11). New Zealand slaps sanctions on 75 Russian citizens. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (MNA) — The foreign minister of New Zealand on Tuesday announced that due to the annexation of new regions to Russia, this country has sanctioned 24 people from the annexed regions and 51 officials of the Russian government.
(2022-10-11). Indigenous People's Day Counts Only When We Become Human Beings. dissidentvoice.org 
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist. —Winona LaDuke, "Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights" by Winona LaDuke, progressive.org. June 18, 2013. Water is life. We are the people who live …
(2022-10-11). Assange tests positive for Covid-19 in prison. dissidentvoice.org 
© Getty Images / Guy Smallman Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has tested positive for Covid-19 and is being kept in total isolation at Belmarsh Prison as he continues to fight extradition to the US, his wife Stella told media on Monday. "The next few days will be crucial for his general health," the lawyer, who …
(2022-10-11). Iran summons UK ambassador once again over baseless sanctions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador in Tehran Simon Shercliff for the third time in past months over the UK's intervention in Iran's internal affairs and London's new sanctions against Tehran.
(2022-10-11). AVA Summit Bans Press Office for First Time, Disavows Support for Direct Action. indybay.org The Animal Liberation Press Office won't have a chance to see all of you at the upcoming AVA Animal Rights Conference in Washington DC later this month.
(2022-10-11). Tuesday 10/11: Your Right to Vote: Voice Your Choice w/ Disability Rights California. indybay.org Online voting rights webinar…
(2022-10-11). Australian government to detain women repatriated from Syria. wsws.org The largest yet use of control orders overriding freedom of speech, movement, association and communication to be used against Australian women returning from Syrian detention camps.
(2022-10-10). The Call Heard Around The World. popularresistance.org On Saturday, October 8, thousands of people in the UK gathered for a massive act of solidarity with political prisoner and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Protestors formed a human chain around the Parliament in London to demand that the government cancel Assange's looming extradition to the US, and for him to finally be freed. Stella Morris, Assange's partner, told The Independent that the action had been organized because Parliament was the "seat of democracy" and that Assange represented "democracy at its strongest— government accountability and democratic movement…It is to remind people that this is…
(2022-10-10). Ahead of UN Session, Sahrawis Recollect Decades of Betrayal that Enabled Moroccan Colonization. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni Photo: freewesternsahara.org The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) became "hostage to the Moroccan authorities," unable even "to report on the human rights situation in the territory," said Kamal Fadel, Western Sahara's representative to Australia and the Pacific Amid the ongoing war for the liberation of Western Sahara from Morocco,…
(2022-10-10). PMU detains senior ISIL leader in Baghdad. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — Iraq's Popular Mobilization unit (PMU) on Monday announced that it has managed to arrest a senior ISIL chieftain in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
(2022-10-10). Help us break the Sanctions Silence. iacenter.org With your help we can break the silence and publish a very needed book Sanctions — A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy A project of the SanctionsKill Campaign An anthology by social justice activists Donate by credit card at iacenter.org/sanctions-book Everyone who donates $25 or more will receive a copy of the 200 page book: Sanctions — A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy. The impact of sanctions on more than 40 developing and formerly colonized countries, one third of the world's population, was barely discussed in mainstream media for decades. The vibrations of hyperinflation, chronic short…
(2022-10-10). Fishermen in northern Sri Lanka establish action committee. wsws.org Fishermen in Kayts, who face dire conditions, including starvation, decided to form an independent action committee to fight for their social and democratic rights.
(2022-10-10). Eugene V. Debs and the struggle of railroaders. wsws.org Debs' life—from locomotive fireman, to trade unionist, to socialist candidate for American president, to class war prisoner—holds crucial lessons for today's workers.
(2022-10-10). New York Times: Whether Washington Likes It or Not, Nicolás Maduro Is President of Venezuela. orinocotribune.com This Saturday, October 8, in an opinion piece Recently, the US released two Venezuelans being held in US jails, Efraín Antonio Campo and Francisco Flores de Freitas, which the author considered an "incoherence of US policy towards Venezuela," by Joe Biden's administration. He added that, "even as it negotiates with Mr…
(2022-10-10). New website for Brussels actions: 29 October, March for Return and Liberation! samidoun.net 
The Masar Badil (Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement) launched a new website today to highlight the March for Return and Liberation taking place in Brussels, Belgium, on 29 October 2022, as well as the Week of Action for Palestinian Liberation leading up to that date. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is one of the endorsers …
(2022-10-10). Dr. Mary O'Conner Faces Prison After Refusing to Turn Over Private Medical Records of COVID 'Vaccine Exempt' Patients. globalresearch.ca
(2022-10-10). Iran raps inattention of intl. bodies to Afghan immigrants. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — The Director-General of the Iranian Foreign Ministry for Consular Affairs criticized at the inattention of the international institutions to the issue of Afghan immigrants who are living in Iran.
(2022-10-10). GOP Govs Reject Cannabis Pardons After Getting Private Prison Cash. levernews.com 
(2022-10-10). World Socialist Web Site interviews CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou about Julian Assange's extradition. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Mr. Kiriakou at a recent rally in Washington D.C. about the implications of the US attempt to extradite Assange, the defense of democratic rights, as well as the importance of Assange's plight for working people…
(2022-10-10). Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 — 25 Aug 1900). transcend.org Friedrich Nietzsche's attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment's secularism, expressed in his observation that "God is dead."
(2022-10-10). [rewind] Kevin Sharp: It's Time to Free Leonard Peltier, America's Longest Serving Political Prisoner. scheerpost.com 
The Native American activist's attorney tells Robert Scheer why Peltier's imprisonment is one of the worst miscarriages of justice this country has ever seen.
(2022-10-10). US Plans To Ease Venezuela Sanctions To Let Chevron Pump Oil There Again Reports. orinocotribune.com President Joe Biden is preparing to scale down sanctions against Venezuela to allow US oil major Chevron to start pumping oil again in a country that has theoretically been at conflict for years with the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported. | The move could help raise the global supply of oil and tamp down energy price hikes as the Biden administration heads for mid-term elections in November. The Journal report surfaced on the same day of a large output cut announced by oil producing alliance OPEC+ to shore up crude that prices had been beaten down for since June. | The move could pave the way for a…
(2022-10-10). Ecuador's prison violence. america.cgtn.com Ecuador's prisons continue to be plagued by deadly violence as rival gangs vie for control of drug trafficking routes.
(2022-10-10). UK sanctions Iran Morality Police in support of rioters. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — In an interventionist and proactive move, the British government has imposed sanctions against Iran's Morality Police and a number of Iranian security officials in support of rioters.
(2022-10-10). 12-Year-Old Succumbs to Injuries as Israeli Forces Kill Four Palestinian Teens. commondreams.org Palestinian officials and rights groups say more than 165 people have been killed by Israeli forces throughout Palestine this year, including at least 14 women and 34 children.
(2022-10-10). Guantanamo Detainee Used as 'Prop' for Torture Training Losing Battle for Medical Care. globalresearch.ca
(2022-10-10). Apology far from enough to make up for injuries caused by unethical medical experiments in U.S. ecns.cn U.S. city Philadelphia has apologized for unethical medical experiments conducted on mostly black men in one of its prisons last century, unveiling the county's disgraceful history of racial injustice.