(2022-08-25). Ukraine: Under the cover of war, Zelensky tears up workers' rights. greenleft.org.au Almost a month after Ukraine's parliament adopted two anti-worker bills, President Volodymyr Zelensky finally ratified Law 5371 on August 17, thereby removing union rights for most of the country's workers, reports Federico Fuentes.
(2022-08-25). Killing Spree: Starting Today, Oklahoma to Execute One Man Per Month for Next 2 Years Amid Protests. democracynow.org 
Oklahoma plans to execute a person a month for the next two years, starting today. We get an update from Connie Johnson, former state senator and murder victim family member with the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and speak with world-renowned anti-death-penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean. "Our death penalty is broken. It always was from the beginning," Prejean tells Democracy Now! "I recognize that this is torture and an abuse of human rights. In time, with our help, as we continue to get the word out, the American people are going to see that, too. And we are going to end…
(2022-08-25). Crypto Spook And Mystery: Insider Says Most NFTs Don't Actually Give You Any Ownership Of The Asset. moguldom.com Non-fungible tokens or NFTs have been hyped as the next step in the evolution of Web 3.0, promising unique ownership of digital assets in what has become a multibillion-dollar asset class, but a new report casts doubt on that promise. NFT holders may not own the intellectual property (IP) rights of the assets they've purchased, …
(2022-08-25). Israel's Lapid Urges US to Scrap Iran Nuclear Deal Talks. news.antiwar.com On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid urged the US and the EU to quit negotiations with Iran aimed at reviving the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, as Washington and Tehran appear to be close to an agreement. The Israeli leader claimed that lifting sanctions on Iran would give the Islamic Republic $100 billion …
(2022-08-25). Racial disparity, nebulous funding: unfair arrest and incarceration in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. liberationnews.org 
On July 11, Urbana City Council voted to approve a special use permit to consolidate jail facilities in Champaign County at the urging of local law enforcement entities.
(2022-08-25). The Legacy of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex. Nehanda Abiodun Enters the Struggle. globalresearch.ca
(2022-08-25). Palestinian Collective Struggle on the Rise Inside Occupation Prisons. orinocotribune.com Palestinian prisoners
(2022-08-25). Friday 8/26: ShutDown the Anti-Abortion Action by "ProLifeSF" at UC Berkeley. indybay.org Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley (near Bancroft and Telegraph)…
(2022-08-25). China to take measures after U.S. adds 7 firms to export control list. ecns.cn China's Ministry of Commerce said Thursday it will protect the legitimate rights of Chinese companies after the U.S. added seven Chinese entities to its export control list.
(2022-08-24). Iran Can Supply Europe With Energy If Sanctions Are Lifted But Cannot Fully Replace Russia. southfront.org 
An Iranian crude oil supertanker anchored off Singapore. IMAGE: REUTERSTrade routes make Iranian energy alternative an unfeasible option. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | As Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani Chafi said, Tehran can partially make up for the shortfall in the world energy market caused by the crisis surrounding the conflict in Ukraine. The fuel-energy crisis concerns Europe first, especially with countries that have rejected Russian oil and…
(2022-08-24). Special Drawing Rights One Year Later, By the Numbers. cepr.net It's been one year since the world, via the International Monetary Fund (IMF), took a historic step to address the global challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 23, 2021, $6 billion worth of resources known as Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) were distributed among IMF member countries around the world. These resources, a type …
(2022-08-24). Palestinians resist U.S. imperialism and Israeli occupation. workers.org 
On Aug. 18, Israeli occupation forces raided, physically blocked and imposed closure orders on the offices of seven prominent Palestinian human rights, feminist and social services organizations operating in the Ramallah area of the occupied West Bank. Background to the demonization In 2021, Israel falsely and preemptively designated six of . . . |
(2022-08-24). Israeli Army Shuts Down Prominent Palestinian Rights Groups. orinocotribune.com 
Israeli occupation forces raided, sealed and imposed closure orders on the offices of several prominent Palestinian human rights, feminist and social services organizations in the West Bank early Thursday, August 18. | Hours earlier, soldiers shot in the chest and The teen was fatally injured during confrontations that erupted when Jewish worshippers, escorted by the Israeli military, infiltrated th…
(2022-08-24). Argentina: Cristina Kirchner Denounces Trial as 'Media-Judicial Firing Squad'. orinocotribune.com Despite the lack of evidence following three years of trial, and the blunders that the judiciary committed by taking "evidence" from other cases, the prosecutors asked for 12 years in prison and a lifetime political ban for Cristina Kirchner. The court, confirming its partiality, denied the former president and current vice-president of Argentina her right to expand the preliminary statement, which prompted a forceful response from her. | Rarely have the workings of the media-judicial-political system in Argentina been exposed with such clarity as we have seen with the nine-day display of a diversionary strategy…
(2022-08-24). Bradford Gamble, liberated activist and prison whistleblower. workers.org 
When Bradford Gamble died, he was surrounded by his family. The 65-year-old had been imprisoned for nearly a lifetime — 46 years — before he learned he was dying of cancer. With the help of activists on both sides of the prison walls, Gamble fought relentlessly to win his freedom. . . . |
(2022-08-24). Repurposing Prisons Can Revitalize Rural America. popularresistance.org The economic fortunes of rural communities across the United States are often deeply intertwined with the prison industrial complex. This poses a real challenge to the project of ending mass incarceration. How can organizers build political opposition to prisons in areas where prisons are the lifeblood of a community? And what should be done with former prisons once they are closed? The question of repurposing prisons in particular is too often neglected by state governments. A new report from the Sentencing Project finds that while 21 states have closed prisons since 2000, many of these sites have simply become…
(2022-08-24). Famous 'Big Short' Investor Sells All Stocks Except One, A Private Prison Operator. moguldom.com Michael Burry, the hedge fund manager who made hundreds of millions of dollars betting that the U.S. housing market would crash, has dumped his stock portfolio and bought more than 0,000 shares of The Geo Group, the world's second-largest private prison operator. Burry's ability to predict and profit from his trades ahead of the 2008 …
(2022-08-24). Twitter campaign for releasing Abdul Jalil Al-Senkis. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — It's a call for a Twitter campaign aimed at releasing Abdul Jalil Al-Senkis who is jailed in Al-Khalifa regime's prison.
(2022-08-24). 17 ISIL terrorists detained in Iraq's Kurdistan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — Iraqi security sources on Wednesday announced that 17 ISIL terrorists were detained in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
(2022-08-24). Primary results yesterday have Republicans shaking in their shoes. peoplesworld.org 
KINGSTON, N.Y.—The constitutional right to abortion and democracy itself took center stage and gave Democratic Ulster County, N.Y., Executive Pat Ryan a win in a special congressional election in a swing U.S. House seat in New York's Hudson Valley. The unexpected win by a pro-abortion rights candidate in his race against a popular Republican, Marc …
(2022-08-23). Mexico: Former Prosecutor General Arrested For Role In Ayotzinapa Case. popularresistance.org Former prosecutor general of Mexico, Jesús Murillo Karam, was arrested on Friday, August 19, for alleged involvement in the Ayotzinapa forced disappearance case, in which 43 teaching trainee students of Guerrero state were forcibly taken and later executed during the midnight hours of September 26-27, 2014. Murillo Karam, who headed the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), was the mastermind behind the deceiving "historical truth" narrative of the case. | The news of the detention was reported by the Attorney General's Office (FGR) through an of…
(2022-08-23). Graduate Students Across The US Are Organizing For Abortion Rights. popularresistance.org This week, graduate students from more than fifty colleges and universities across the United States launched the Graduate Student Action Network (GSAN), a coalition centered around fighting for abortion rights and other forms of reproductive justice. GSAN's first action is to coordinate a National Student Day of Action for abortion rights, to be held on October 6, the anniversary of the day a federal judge first blocked the draconian anti-abortion law in Texas. | The network includes graduate student unions, graduate student governments, and student advocacy organizations like Socialists of Caltech and CUNY For…
