(2022-08-11). Kiev and the West infuriated by Amnesty International's expose on Ukrainian military. infobrics.org Amnesty International's report on Ukraine supports claims made by other human rights groups.
(2022-08-11). Wednesday 8/10: Police Brutality Against Protesters: John Burris to Announce Case Against City of SF. indybay.org The Chase Center | 3rd St between 16th & Warriors Way…
(2022-08-11). 70% of Americans support deciding state abortion rights by ballot measure: pollÔøº. nationofchange.org After an "enormous victory" in Kansas, some progressives argue that ballot measures "are the next frontier" for protecting access to reproductive healthcare.
(2022-08-11). Oso Blanco Statement in Support of Pushing Down the Walls. itsgoingdown.org 
The following statement from Indigenous political prisoner Oso Blanco addresses upcoming Running/Pushing Down the Walls events being organized by chapters of the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) Federation. For more information on Oso Blanco, go here. For upcoming Pushing/Running Down the walls events, go here. Brother and sisters, Comrades, I thank you all very much for…
(2022-08-11). Federal Civil Rights Suit in Abortion Rights Protester Case. indybay.org At a press conference in front of the Chase Center in San Francisco, a suit against the city and county of San Francisco is announced. Demonstrators for abortion rights were arrested by police, and one was injected against her will with a sedative by the fire department on June 13, leading to the suit. Photos by Rachel Podlishevsky, ProBonoPhoto.org and Dan Ryan, ProBonoPhoto.org | Please credit the photographers…
(2022-08-11). U.S. in no position to lecture other countries on human rights: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn
(2022-08-10). US Warns Africa Against Buying Anything From Russia Besides Grain and Fertilizer. news.antiwar.com The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Thomas-Greenfield said during a visit to Uganda that countries could buy "Russian agricultural products, including fertilizer and wheat" but added that "if a country decides to engage with Russia, where there are sanctions, then they are breaking those sanctions." | "We caution countries not to break those sanctions because then … they stand the chance of having actions taken agai…
(2022-08-10). Israeli Army Demolishes Residential Sheds In Jericho. imemc.org 
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a residential shed and handed orders targeting a barn and four sheds near Jericho in the northeastern West Bank. Hasan Mleihat, the coordinator of the Al-Baidar Organization for Defending Bedouin Rights, said several army vehicles invaded Arab az-Zawahra Bedouin village near al-'Auja village, north of Jericho after surrounding it. He …
(2022-08-10). Western sanctions undermine New START nuclear arms control treaty. infobrics.org The political West kept ignoring repeated warnings by the Russian leadership for months.
(2022-08-10). Russian Warplanes Rain Hell On ISIS Hideouts In Raqqa After Attack On Syria Army. southfront.org 
Russian Su-25 attack aircraft take off from the Khmeimim airbase in Syria © Dmitriy Vinogradov / Sputnik | On August 10, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) carried out a series of airstrikes on hideout of ISIS cells in Syria's central region. | According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 13 airstrikes targeted caves in the outskirts of the town of Resafa in the southern Raqqa countryside, where ISIS terrorists have been taking shelter. The London-based monitoring group didn't rep…
(2022-08-10). Brittney Griner Case Highlights America's Marijuana Contradictions, Harsh Sentencing Against Black America. moguldom.com WNBA star Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia for possessing having vape cartridges containing hashish oil, which is illegal in the country. She was sentenced to nine years in a Russian jail for drug-smuggling. Some say a marijuana conviction wouldn't have been much different in the U.S. for Black women. In some case, it could …
(2022-08-10). Penal Assassination: The Gradual Effort to Kill Assange. orinocotribune.com By Binoy Kampmark — Aug 1, 2022 | They really do want to kill him. Perhaps it is high time that his detractors and sceptics, proven wrong essentially from the outset, admit that the US imperium, along with its client states, is willing to see Julian Assange perish in prison. The locality and venue, for the purposes of this exercise, are not relevant. Like the Inquisition, the Catholic Church was never keen on soiling its hands, preferring the employ of non-church figures to torture their victims. | In the context of Assange, Britain has been a willing jailor from the start, guided by the good offices of Was…
(2022-08-10). Immigrant Detainees Strike Over $1 A Day Pay, Working Conditions. popularresistance.org At two federal detention centers in California, more than 50 immigrant workers are on strike over unsafe working conditions and low wages. | "We are being exploited for our labor and are being paid $1 per day to clean the dormitories," said strikers at a central California detention center in a June statement received by public radio station KQED. | Detained workers, known as "housing porters," participate in a supposedly volunteer working program while locked up. They use their earnings to pay for the exorbitant cost of phone calls and commissary items like dental floss and tortillas. | "They are compelled to do…
(2022-08-10). Growing battle in Ofer prison confronts administrative detention, demands freedom for Nidal Abu Aker. samidoun.net 
Nidal Abu Aker, Palestinian leftist, community leader in Dheisheh refugee camp and journalist, was seized on Monday, 1 August in a violent assault on his home in the camp by Israeli occupation forces. Just days later, on 9 August, he was ordered jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention for six months. Now, Palestinian …
(2022-08-10). Black Women Will Face The Brunt Of Abortion Bans. popularresistance.org On July 29, Louisiana reinstated a controversial abortion ban, which led to the immediate cancellation of procedures in the state. Following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in late June, a number of states across the country have moved to outlaw abortion, and in Louisiana, women in poverty will bear the worst burdens of the newly reinstated ban. These women are the true experts regarding the fatal risks of taking away reproductive freedom in the state‚Äâ—‚Äânot anti-abortion politicians. | The politicians gutting abortion rights likely don't understand the pa…
(2022-08-10). Political Prisoners in the United States, 2022. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith  ; Aug 6, 2022 | There are many ways to define what is a political prisoner. The most well-known cases are those the national security state framed-up, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for an offense because of their political activism, such as Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling class control results some activists locked up for their effective revolutionary work. "Political prisoner" has often means those jailed for fighting their national oppression, as the…
(2022-08-10). Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Near Bethlehem. imemc.org 
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers abducted a former political prisoner at the "Container" military roadblock northeast of Bethlehem, in the occupied West, and closed it for several hours, causing an extended traffic jam. Media sources said the soldiers abducted Firas Ahmad Hassan, 47, after forcing him out of a car at the roadblock and abducted him. …
(2022-08-10). The United States Has Many Political Prisoners — Here's A List. popularresistance.org The United States constantly accuses its adversaries of holding political prisoners, while insisting it has none of its own. But for its entire history, the US government has used incarceration of its political opponents as a tool to crush dissent and advance the interests of economic elites. | Well-known cases are those entrapped or framed in US national security state sting operations, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for a minor offense because of their political activism, such as Black revolutionary George Jackson. | Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling-class c…
(2022-08-10). Free Khalil Awawdeh: 161 days of hunger strike, Palestinian prisoner's life at risk #FreeKhalil. samidoun.net 
Khalil Awawdeh, the 40-year-old Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for 161 days, is in an extremely desperate health condition in the Ramle prison clinic. The Israeli occupation has repeatedly attempted to evade its commitments to the resistance, as promised by Egyptian mediators, to release Awawdeh to a hospital and free Bassam al-Saadi. He has not …
(2022-08-10). Iran, Turkish FM hold phone conversation on ties, JCPOA talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Turkish counterpart Mevlàºt àáavu≈üoƒülu held a phone call Wednesday to discuss Tehran-Ankara bilateral ties as well as Vienna talks on the removal of anti-Iran sanctions.
(2022-08-10). Mobilization of young voters may allow Dems to hold the House. peoplesworld.org 
If Democrats successfully defend and expand their U.S. Senate and House majorities in the November elections, young voters taking their wrath out on Republican candidates will be a big reason. Passage of historic climate legislation by Democrats, ongoing gun violence and mass shootings, and the Republican assault on abortion rights and democracy are energizing young …
(2022-08-10). Dangerous terrorist detained in NW Iraq. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iraq's Popular Mobilization unit (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Sha'abi, on Wednesday managed to arrest a dangerous terrorist in the northwestern country.
(2022-08-10). Letter Carriers' Rolando spells out Amazon threat to postal workers. peoplesworld.org 
CHICAGO  ; Organizing Amazon against its ever-expanding reach and the radical right extremist threat to democracy are two main challenges confronting Letter Carriers and all unions in coming years, union President Fredric Rolando said at his union's convention here this week. The other challenge facing the Letter Carriers, of course, is negotiating a new contract with …
(2022-08-10). Why Does Canada Still Allow Torture in Prisons? commondreams.org The consciousness of Canadians has caught up with what prisoners have known for years. Prolonged solitary confinement is torture.
(2022-08-10). Four men convicted in 2013 blaze freed after count overturns decision. america.cgtn.com Four men convicted in connection with a deadly nightclub fire that killed more than 200 people in Brazil are out of jail. They were freed after a court overturned their sentences.
(2022-08-09). The UN Just Declared The Human Right To A Healthy, Sustainable Environment. popularresistance.org Climate change is already affecting much of the world's population, with startlingly high temperatures from the Arctic to Australia. Air pollution from wildfires, vehicles and industries threatens human health. Bees and pollinators are dying in unprecedented numbers that may force changes in crop production and food availability. | What do these have in common? They represent the new frontier in human rights. | The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on July 28, 2022, to declare the ability to live in "a clean, healthy and sustainable environment" a universal human right. It also called on countr…
(2022-08-09). Crisis of the Wheat Export Supply Chain: EU Sanctions against Russia Could Trigger an African-Middle Eastern Migrant Crisis. globalresearch.ca
(2022-08-09). Australian Labor Party And Assange: Burying The Politics. popularresistance.org The difficulty for the Australian Labor government in deciding how to respond to the Julian Assange case is that once a prosecution is characterised as a political prosecution then, by its nature, there can be no expectation of due process. | The U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty forbids extradition in the case of "political offences." Former Australian High Commissioner to the U.K. George Brandis — who was commissioner for almost the entirety of Assange's Belmarsh imprisonment since 2019 — doesn't agree that Assange is a political prisoner. | The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and its new…
(2022-08-09). How Activism Labour Defies Capitalism. popularresistance.org It only takes one doom scroll through social media to see there is no shortage of injustice in the world. But there is also no shortage of people who have dedicated themselves to dismantle systems of violence and advance justice through activism. | With how deeply entrenched injustice is in our society, the work to dismantle injustice is a full-time job. Despite the hours put in, this job does not fit a capitalist and colonial view of labour. | El Jones, a prison abolitionist dedicated to fighting state violence, said that for Black people, there is a historical precedent that makes it easier for this work to go…
(2022-08-09). Justice Department: NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Must Wait to Apply for Pardon. scheerpost.com 
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter The United States Justice Department will not grant a waiver to NSA whistleblower Reality Winner so she can apply for a pardon. All individuals formerly incarcerated in federal prisons are typically required to wait five years after their last day of confinement before their pardon application may be considered, …
(2022-08-09). América Latina ante las elecciones en el seno del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas (para el período 2023-2025): Algunos apuntes. globalizacion.ca 
Según se desprende de la lista de los actuales Estados que integran el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas, en este 2022 llegan a expiración de sus respectivos mandatos Brasil y Venezuela (véase listado oficial). | Como bien se sabe,…
