(2022-03-28). Tuesday 3/29: Protecting Women Human Rights Defenders from Online Threats, Violence & Surveillance. indybay.org Online event via livestream or watch recording…
(2022-03-28). The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution. transcend.org The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution, by Nils Melzer, Verso, 8 Feb 2022, 368 pp. – In July 2010, WikiLeaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. Unsurprisingly, Melzer's book has hardy received a whisper in the Western corporate mainstream press.
(2022-03-28). Police hunt for assailants behind plumber's torture. plusnews.ug Police have launched a manhunt for unknown people captured in a video torturing a man by burning his back with melting plastic after tying his hands and legs. Police swung into action when the video went viral on social media over the weekend showing a group of people donning NRM shirts torturing their victim. Police Spokesperson, …
(2022-03-28). Disponible para consulta anteproyecto de Ley de la Expropiación por Razones de Utilidad Pública o Interés Social (+ PDF). cubadebate.cu La iniciativa, cuyo anteproyecto ha sido publicado en la web del MFP con la posibilidad de que la ciudadanía emita sus criterios, regula la expropiación por razones de utilidad pública o interés social como medio de actuación del Estado en favor de intereses colectivos, como forma de adquisición de bienes y derechos para el patrimonio estatal.
(2022-03-28). Denuncian violaciones de DD.HH. de una minera en Honduras. telesurtv.net Secretaría de Derechos Humanos revela maltrato contra defensores de tierras en Azacualpa, Copán, por la minera Aura/Minerals-Minosa.
(2022-03-28). Obituary: How Madeleine Albright's 'Munich Mindset' Turned into Uninhibited Interventionism. transcend.org 24 Mar 2022 – Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State, a prominent liberal interventionist, and promoter of NATO expansion, died on 23 Mar from cancer at the age of 84. A refugee who rose to the highest levels of government, she became a well-positioned advocate of American exceptionalism.
(2022-03-28). Reporting from Moscow: Sanctions May Achieve the Opposite of Biden's Stated Long-Term Goals. transcend.org 27 Mar 2022 – In Russia, sanctions have taken a bite out of the Russian economy, but interviews and data suggest they cannot fulfill the West's strategic motives for imposing them.
(2022-03-28). Kharrazi calls for guarantees, lifting of bans before deal. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 28 (MNA) — An advisor to Iran's Leader Kamal Kharrazi said Monday that issues of assurances and lifting of sanctions need to be resolved on the part of the United States before any deal in the Vienna talks.
(2022-03-28). How the anti-Russian sanctions were planned. wsws.org According a Wall Street Journal article, detailed sanctions planning began shortly before Thanksgiving last year when US Treasury Secretary Yellen met with senior military and intelligence officials.
(2022-03-28). The US Should Remember that Israel's Squatter-Settlements in Palestine are War Crimes. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — US Ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, engaged in further diplomatic contradictions, as he fluctuated between asserting the Biden administration's stance purportedly against Israeli settlement expansion, yet making concessions for earlier encroachment upon Palestinian land. "We can't do stupid things that impede us from a two-state solution," Nides reportedly told …
(2022-03-27). Ending the War in Ukraine is Halfway Through. orinocotribune.com By Elijah J Magnier — Mar 21, 2022 | Russia and Ukraine are taking the first steps towards ending the war through direct and video negotiations. After the past four rounds, progress was registered between the negotiators, notwithstanding the continuous clanging of arms. Ukraine realised that the West was sanctioning Russia to weaken its economy without necessarily having any consequence for the ongoing war. Western countries were also ready to provide media support and weapons for the army to fight alone. In contrast, the Ukrainians thought they could drag the world into a much larger war against Russia. The…
(2022-03-27). ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back. truthout.org This story is published in partnership with Just after dawn on September 16, 2021, E.E. and six other African immigrant men were resting in their bunks at the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida, when Captain John Gadson and a group of at least 15 sheriff's deputies stormed in, E.E. and the others sat i…
(2022-03-27). Iran reaches agreement with E3 in Vienna: Amir-Abdolahian. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 27 (MNA) — "We have reached an agreement with three European countries on a draft text that needs to be finalized," the Iranian FM said Sunday, while calling on Washington to take practical steps to lift the sanctions on Iran.
(2022-03-27). Madleine's pro-sanctions line was "(M)albright"? indybay.org It was an opportunity the "Corporate-bin-Laden" media couldn't pass up. With the passing of Madeleine Albright, mainstream media(MSM) was full of effusive praises for the ex-Sec'y of State under President Clinton, himself a bought-off NeoLiberal White House Occupier who aggressively advanced U.S. Imperial interests all over the world.
(2022-03-27). Effective lifting of sanctions Iran's main priority in talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 27 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Sunday held a meeting with the EU coordinator of the JCPOA Commission Enrique Mora in Tehran and discussed Vienna talks with him.