Daily Archives: February 17, 2022

2022-02-17: News Headlines

Staff (2022-02-17). Ukraine reveals new gun plan. rt.com Legal gun ownership in Ukraine would make any aggressor think twice before attacking it, Kiev's defense chief believes | Allowing people in Ukraine to legally own handguns would greatly improve national security against outside "aggressors," Ukraine's Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov told news agency RBK Ukraine on Thursday. The move would "increase citizens' personal security, help law enforcement and certainly reduce crime rates," the minister claims. | Reznikov said on Thursday he has been a "longtime gun-rights supporter", adding that "as a lawyer" he believes a gun law is long overdue in Ukraine. In late…

Juan Cole (2022-02-17). Conflict with Russia is Raising your Gasoline Bill; an Electric Car is the Answer. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Reporters pressed White House spokesperson Jen Psaki on Wednesday about the likelihood that any Russian military engagement in Ukraine will raise petroleum prices further. Ensuing US sanctions on Russia would keep some of its petroleum off the market, as has already happened to Iran, at a time when demand is …

Staff (2022-02-17). US warns of 'global fallout'. rt.com The world economy will pay a heavy price if the West imposes new sanctions on Moscow, the US Treasury warns | If Russia launches an invasion of Ukraine, the global economy will suffer an inevitable fallout as a result of newly unleashed Western sanctions on Moscow, the US Treasury secretary warned on Wednesday. | Speaking to French news agency AFP, Janet Yellen explained that the US and its European allies are preparing a "very substantial package of sanctions that will have severe consequences for the Russian economy." | However, despite Washington wanting the highest cost to fall on Moscow, she admitted that…

Angela (2022-02-17). Wednesday 2/23: No to Normalizing Apartheid, Yes to human rights for all. Oppose H.R. 2748. indybay.org 1002 4th St, San Rafael…

Human Rights Working Group, Forum at UUSF (2022-02-17). Sunday 2/27: Dangerous Truths. indybay.org

Staff (2022-02-17). Ethiopia: Amnesty Accuses Tigrayan Forces of Rape & Murder in Latest Probe of War Crimes in Conflict. democracynow.org Amnesty International is accusing Tigrayan forces of deliberately killing dozens of unarmed civilians and gang-raping dozens of women and girls in the northern Amhara region of Ethiopia. This comes as the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan rebel forces remain at war, and just last year Amnesty similarly accused the Ethiopian government of subjecting Tigrayan women and girls to rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, sexual mutilation and other forms of torture. "These are deliberate attacks which constitute war crimes and possibly may also constitute crimes against humanity," says Amnesty's Donatella Ro…

teleSUR, DRL, JDO (2022-02-17). ONU llama a proteger los DD.HH. de migrantes en el mundo. telesurtv.net Lo dijo el secretario general, A. Guterres, en la presentación del Informe sobre Migración Segura, Ordenada y Regular.

Ahmed Abdulkareem (2022-02-17). As US Renews Support for Saudi War in Yemen, Civilian Death Toll Nearly Doubles. mintpressnews.com "The civilian death toll in Yemen has almost doubled since the United Nations rights body dissolved its monitoring mechanism in the war-torn country." — Norwegian Refugee Council Report…

Staff (2022-02-17). Students sue school over book banning. rt.com US students suing a St. Louis school claim books are being banned as part of an effort to "remove" ideas on race and sexuality | The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of two young students against the Wentzville School Board in St. Louis, Missouri, claiming they violated civil rights by banning a handful of books from school libraries. | The students in question were not identified as they are minors, but they have been referred to as C.K.-W and D.L. | According to the class action lawsuit, the recent vote to ban certain books is part of a "targeted campaign by the St. Charles…

Jasper Gold (2022-02-17). Court of Appeal examines limits of judicial authority. ukhumanrightsblog.com R (Richards) v Environment Agency Case [2022] EWCA Civ 26 Richards is, at its core, a case about the proper relationship between the courts, regulators and third parties who engage in potentially hazardous activities, but the Claimant in the case was none of these. Rather, it was Mathew Richards, a 6-year-old boy who suffers from …

Foreign Policy in Focus (2022-02-17). U.S. Sanctions on Afghanistan Could Be Deadlier Than 20 Years of War. juancole.com By Mark Weisbrot | — (Foreign Policy in Focus ) — Originally published in Inside Sources. Economic sanctions have, in recent years, become one of the most important tools of U.S. foreign policy. There are currently more than 20 countries subjected to various sanctions from the U.S. government. But if more Americans knew how many …

_____ (2022-02-16). Pipeline Politics And The Ukraine crisis. popularresistance.org Amid escalating tensions between the United States, NATO and Russia, all eyes are on Ukraine. Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland describes it as "a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism." But Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany, is an integral part of the story. | On January 27, US Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, asserted, "If Russia invades Ukraine one way or another … we will work with Germany to ensure it [the pipeline] does not move forward." Delayed by US threats and sanctions, Nord Stream 2 highlights…

John Wojcik (2022-02-16). Biden: Expect U.S. sanctions against Russia to raise energy costs here. peoplesworld.org Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a joint news conference following their talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Putin says Moscow is ready for security talks with the U.S. and NATO and Scholz says there is a diplomatic way out of the crisis. But the Biden administration seemed to have little interest in anything the two leaders put forward. | Sergey Guneev / Sputnik / Kremlin Pool Photo via AP | In a speech several hours later, Biden said he supported continued talks but dashed some of the high hopes emanating from moves in Europe by declaring that…

_____ (2022-02-16). War Inc. Throws an Invasion Party and No One Shows Up. strategic-culture.org Moscow has not deviated for a moment from its Sun Tzu approach — while detailing all demands and all red lines many times over. | The Dem combo remote-controlling the senile President of the United States by earpiece/teleprompter was never accused of being the brightest bulbs in the room — any room. | That explains why one of their own, Nancy Pelosi, on ABC News, gave the whole Russian "invasion" game away two — or three — days, depending on their math, before the "canceled" non-event. | First she said, "If we were not threatening the sanctions and the rest, it would guarantee that Putin w…

_____ (2022-02-16). There Is a Limit to the Tyrant's Power: Ottawa Freedom Convoy Tears Down Illusion of Democracy in North America. strategic-culture.org Tyrants living in their ivory tower echo chambers are panicking as they have no idea how to interact with actual human beings organizing themselves around such non-mathematical principles as "freedom", "justice" and "rights". | No, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! | When the oppressed man finds no justice, | When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals | With fearless heart to Heaven, | And thence brings down his everlasting rights, | Which there abide, inalienably his, | And indestructible as stars themselves. | -Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell's Rutli Oath | Who would have thought that Canada would ever…

_____ (2022-02-16). Trucker Convoy Going Strong. With Matt Ehret. The Strategy Session, Episode 45. strategic-culture.org Tyrants living in their ivory tower echo chambers are panicking as they have no idea how to interact with actual human beings organizing themselves around such non-mathematical principles as "freedom", "justice" and "rights".

Editor (2022-02-16). Colombia is bleeding to death. mronline.org Human rights movements recorded an increase of attacks against police stations, military bases, and civilians and reported assassinations and intimidation against social leaders in several departments. In February, the panorama has been no different.

_____ (2022-02-16). Time For UK Government To Come Clean On Ties To US Torture Program. popularresistance.org We Americans have had a painful and difficult national debate over the past 20 years relative to torture. Torture was official U.S. government policy from 2002 until at least 2005, and that iteration was not formally outlawed until passage of the McCain-Feinstein Amendment in 2015. (The torture program was a highly-classified secret from 2002 until I revealed it in a nationally-televised interview in December 2007.) | In truth, torture has been illegal in the U.S. since at least the end of World War II. In 1946, the U.S. Government executed Japanese soldiers who had waterboarded American prisoners of war. In Janu…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-02-16). A President Moving Weight? Former Honduras President Accused Of Drug Trafficking Links Turns Himself In. moguldom.com Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez was detained by police in Tegucigalpa on drug trafficking charges on Tuesday, Feb. 15, nearly three weeks after he left power and an arrest and extradition request was made by the United States. Hernandez, 53, and his brother, Juan Antonio 'Tony' Hernandez, 43, are accused of turning the small …

scorinoco (2022-02-16). Israeli Occupation Arrested 504 Palestinians, Including 54 Children, in January 2022. orinocotribune.com Occupied Palestine (Palestine Online)—Israeli occupation authorities arrested 504 Palestinians, including 54 children and six women, in the month of January 2022 only. | In a report released last Thursday, February 10, by a number of Palestinian prisoners advocacy groups, inclduding Addameer, Palestine Prisoners' Society and the Palestinian Commission of Detainees' and ex-Detainees' Affairs, the groups said that 'Israel' arrested 504 Palestinians in January 2022. | Among the arrested are 54 children, all under the age of 18. One of them is a child who is under the age of 12. There are also six women among t…

teleSUR (2022-02-16). Judge: Former Honduran President To Remain in Custody. telesurenglish.net The Extradition Judge of First Instance of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras issued this Wednesday the provisional detention to the former president of the country, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is requested by the justice of the United States (USA) for allegedly incurring in the crimes of drug trafficking and use of weapons. | RELATED: | The Supreme Court details that the hearing of presentation and evacuati…

teleSUR (2022-02-16). Ex-President Hernandez To Appear Before Honduran Supreme Court. telesurenglish.net After the United States requested his extradition for drug trafficking and weapon use charges, Honduras' former President Juan Orlando Hernandez (2014-2022) will appear on Wednesday before the Supreme Court Judge Edwin Ortez. | RELATED: | Besides reviewing Hernandez's charges, Ortez will determine at this hearing whether the ex-president should remain in pre-trial detention at the facilities of the National Directorate of…

_____ (2022-02-16). An Inside Look At The The Day Without Immigrants Demonstration In DC. popularresistance.org Washington D.C. — Carlos Eduardo Espina walked to the White House on Monday morning a TikTok star with over 2.5 million followers. By day's end, the 23-year-old Texan from College Station had become an icon of immigrant rights organizing. | "It's cold," said Espina as he strolled through downtown Washington, D.C., at 6: 30 a.m. "I'm not used to this kind of weather." It was 27 degrees outside and windy. | Weeks earlier, Espina came up with the idea to spearhead "A Day Without Immigrants" on Valentine's Day. The rationale was simple: the holiday relies on immigrant labor, so what if immigrants simply didn't s…

_____ (2022-02-16). Democrats, The More Effective Evil. popularresistance.org When all else fails, when you are clueless about how to halt a 7.5% inflation rate, when your Build Back Better bill is gutted, when you renege on your promise to raise the minimum wage or forgive student debt, when you can't halt the Republican suppression of voting rights, when you have no idea how to handle the pandemic which has claimed 900,000 lives — 16% of the world's total deaths although we are less than 5% of the world's population — when the stock market fluctuates on wild rollercoaster rides of highs and lows, when what little help the government offered to the labor force — half of…

Peter Certo (2022-02-16). In OtherWords: February 16, 2022. otherwords.org This week, Ennedith Lopez shares a frustrating experience she had with police while peacefully demonstrating for abortion rights. She knows firsthand it isn't always easy to speak up for reproductive health. But with Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned — something Americans oppose 2 to 1 — it's more important than ever, she argues. | Also this week, Rebekah Entralgo looks at the growing push to hold Amazon accountable for the December 2021 warehouse collapse that killed six workers. And Sonali Kolhatkar looks beyond the recent Neil Young-Spotify feud to the streaming giant's exploitative busi…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-16). How to Withstand the Neo-Fascists Conquest of Power. libya360.wordpress.com Kali Akuno Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press Thousands of demonstrators crowd Bank Street in Downtown, waving flags and signs during the Lobby Day rally by gun rights activists at the State Capitol on the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. It is my honest assessment that as of this writing we have a little less than two…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-16). Land rights activists in Thailand face prosecution for sit-in protest in Bangkok. peoplesdispatch.org A total of 16 activists have received summons for participating in a two-week long protest in Bangkok for land rights and the rights of the Indigenous Bang Kloi community…

_____ (2022-02-16). The Persecution Of Alex Saab. popularresistance.org "It's not a crime to fulfill a diplomatic mission. It's not a crime to evade sanctions that are harming an entire country. It can't be illegal to help a people." Camilla Fabri Saab made these impassioned remarks when explaining the situation behind the illegal arrest and extradition – the kidnapping, in essence – of her husband, Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. | Alex Saab is virtually unknown in the United States, where he is currently languishing in a Miami prison, but he has been vital to Venezuela's ability to survive the brutal economic war being waged by the U.S. He is a political prisoner whose case has para…

Direct Action Everywhere (2022-02-16). Sunday 2/27: Animal Sanctuary Volunteer Day. indybay.org 2785 Franklin Canyon Rd, Martinez, CA 94553…

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