(2022-09-06). We Need a New "Church Committee" to Curb Massive Intelligence Agency Criminality Ranging From Illegal Surveillance to Torture and Assassination. covertactionmagazine.com Russia-Gate and CIA ties to Ukrainian death squads, along with killer drone program and worldwide surveillance apparatus, necessitates new investigations of U.S. intelligence agencies modeled after the Church Committee hearings of 1975. The year 1975 was designated "the year of intelligence," a season of inquiry into America's spy agencies and their abuses. Senator Frank Church …
(2022-09-06). NATO's Crime Against Libya Is Having Blowback, Causing the Russia Sanctions to Further Harm Europe. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea  ; Sep 1, 2022 | Eleven years ago, when the U.S. empire committed one of its most recent great crimes by bombing Libya into becoming a failed state, the
(2022-09-06). US needs to abandon making excessive demands in talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 06 (MNA) — Th Iranian Government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi has called on Washington to give up making excessive demands in nuclear talks and stressed the need for giving concrete assurances to Iran on lifting of sanctions.
(2022-09-06). Peace Talks Essential as War Rages on in Ukraine. dissidentvoice.org 
Peace talks in Turkey, March 2022. Photo credit: Murat Cetin Muhurdar / Turkish Presidential Press Service / AFP Six months ago, Russia invaded Ukraine. The United States, NATO and the European Union (EU) wrapped themselves in the Ukrainian flag, shelled out billions for arms shipments, and imposed draconian sanctions intended to severely punish Russia for …
(2022-09-06). Rattling the Bars: Unions must stand up for prisoners. zcomm.org Interview on why the union movement today should see the prison struggle as an essential part of the fight for justice for all workers…
(2022-09-06). Financial crisis in European energy markets. wsws.org The Swedish government announced at the weekend announced it would provide up to $23 billion in credit for utility companies, a decision resulting from the moves by the G7 powers to escalate sanctions against Russia.
(2022-09-06). New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss Has Extreme Anti-Labor, Anti-Environment Record. truthout.org The United Kingdom's Conservative Party has voted for Liz Truss to become its new leader, replacing Boris Johnson and making her Britain's next prime minister. Truss served as foreign secretary under Johnson and has a record of "extreme neoliberal policies," says British journalist George Monbiot. These include supporting tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulating the fossil fuel industry and refusing to regulate agricultural pollution. Monbiot also warns Truss will undermine the country's model public health system and labor rights for organizing workers. | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may n…
(2022-09-06). Unions warn new British PM Truss of 'fierce resistance' if she targets workers. peoplesworld.org 
LONDON (Morning Star)—Unions warned Liz Truss Monday that she faces "fierce resistance" if she attacks workers' rights after entering Downing Street. Truss came under intense pressure to drop her campaign rhetoric to slash workers' rights as soon as she was announced as the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest. She also faced fresh demands …
(2022-09-06). George Monbiot: New U.K. PM Liz Truss Has "Extreme Neoliberal" Anti-Labor, Anti-Environment Record. democracynow.org 
The United Kingdom's Conservative Party has voted for Liz Truss to become its new leader, replacing Boris Johnson and making her Britain's next prime minister. Truss served as foreign secretary under Johnson and has a record of "extreme neoliberal policies," says British journalist George Monbiot. These include supporting tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulating the fossil fuel industry and refusing to regulate agricultural pollution. Monbiot also warns Truss will undermine the country's model public health system and labor rights for organizing workers.
(2022-09-06). 'End Energy Sanctions Against Russia Because We Are on Our Knees': Italy's Salvini Breaks Ranks. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-06). Help Michael Kimble Hire a New Legal Team! itsgoingdown.org Call to help long-term anarchist prisoner Michael Kimble hire a new legal team after being held captive for nearly 35 years in prison. Donate HERE Michael Kimble is a passionate freedom fighter who has been held captive by the Alabama Department of Corrections for nearly 35 years. After defending himself during a homophobic attack by…
(2022-09-06). The Opening Statement: Summer 2022. itsgoingdown.org Introducing The Opening Statement, a new abolitionist publication from Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity. The Opening Statement is a free quarterly newsletter that features articles written by those currently imprisoned by the state of Michigan. We publish poetry, political writing and opinion pieces, as well as other relevant pieces by non-incarcerated authors. "Between 2017 and…
(2022-09-06). The Trump Supreme Court Is Nothing New. tomdispatch.com Has the Trump Supreme Court gone rogue? The evidence mounts. Certainly, its recent judicial blitzkrieg has run roughshod over a century's worth of settled law. A woman's right to get an abortion? Gone (at least as a constitutionally protected civil right). Meanwhile, voting rights are barely hanging on, along with the 1965 Voting Rights Act that gave them life. State legislatures, so the court ruled, may no longer rein in the wanton availability of firearms and so the bloodshed will inevitably follow. Climate catastrophe will only get closer as the Supremes have moved to disarm the Environmental Protection Agency…
(2022-09-06). Liz Truss Premiership and the Middle East: Set to Put Money Over Human Rights and Democracy. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-06). Abortion Struggles Beyond Voting: Women's Liberation, Reproductive Care, and Dual Power. itsgoingdown.org Looking at the historical experiences of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1990s, Spencer Beswick argues that reproductive rights were not won by electoral means and won't be defended by them either. Originally posted to Hard Crackers. by Spencer Beswick At recent pro-choice demonstrations, we have been told that the only way to protect…
(2022-09-06). Chicago demands city pass Bodily Autonomy Sanctuary City Ordinance now! liberationnews.org 
The Bodily Autonomy Sanctuary City Ordinance would extend and codify the current executive order, ensuring that the Chicago Police Department and other agencies cannot aid other jurisdictions in carrying out the arrest or criminalization of individuals from other states with restrictive laws who travel to Chicago seeking abortions, gender affirming care or other bodily autonomy…
(2022-09-06). From Coast to Coast: Open Letter by Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone. itsgoingdown.org An open letter from anarchist prisoner Toby Shone in the so-called United Kingdom addressing the upcoming Running Down the Walls events happening in the US. For a list of upcoming events, go here. photo: Unicorn Riot I've previously written about the need to recreate an Atlantic bridge, based on international revolutionary solidarity and reciprocal knowledge,…
(2022-09-06). Chile Goes Back to the Drawing Board After Voters Overwhelmingly Reject New Progressive Constitution. democracynow.org 
Voters in Chile have rejected a new constitution that would have replaced the country's Pinochet-era constitution and expanded rights for Indigenous peoples and abortion seekers, guaranteed universal healthcare and addressed the climate crisis. The new charter was rejected with 62% voting "no," and President Gabriel Boric has now vowed to continue efforts to rewrite the charter. Corporations and outside interests overwhelmingly outspent supporters of a constitution that "does not put extraction as the center of Chile's development but people as the center of its development," s…
(2022-09-06). Turkey: Another left-wing MP arrested. greenleft.org.au Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MP Semra Gàºzel, a 38-year-old medical doctor, became the latest elected representative of this major left-wing party to be jailed in Turkey, reports Peter Boyle.
(2022-09-06). On Joe Biden, FDR, and the Promise of Labor Day. commondreams.org If there is any day on which it is important to remember the connection between defense of democracy and defense of the labor movement—and social and economic rights more generally—it's Labor Day.
(2022-09-06). Supreme Court Confirms Correct Approach to Deportation Cases. ukhumanrightsblog.com In Secretary of State for the Home Department v HA (Iraq) [2022] UKSC 22, the Supreme Court has confirmed that the Court of Appeal was right to reject the idea that, when assessing whether it would be unduly harsh (and therefore disproportionate) for a person to be deported from the UK, the degree of harshness that would arise from this should be assessed by reference to a comparison with that which would 'necessarily' be involved for any child faced with the deportation of a parent. The Court also provided useful guidance concerning the application of the test for whether there are very compelling circumstances…
(2022-09-05). Is It Time to Stop Bullying Iran? Washington Should Restore the Nuclear Program Agreement with Iran Now. transcend.org 4 Sep 2022 – It is time for the morally attuned public to awake to the reality that a nuclear Israel has neither security justifications nor political grounds for its continuing bullying of Iran. Iran's political solidarity with some movements in the region pales in its gravity compared to the U.S. and Israel's discretionary bombing, political assassinations, interventions, and violations of the basic sovereign rights of countries in the Middle East.
(2022-09-05). The U.S. is a Serial Human Rights Abuser. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Martinez Protesters gather in front of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq on Dec. 31, 2019 to condemn airstrikes by the U.S. forces against Hashd Shaabi bases in Iraq. (Photo by Khalil Dawood Xinhua) The latest report from the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS), entitled "U.S. commits serious crimes of violating human rights in…
(2022-09-05). Getting It Wrong on Ukraine. transcend.org 1 Sep 2022 – Bill Arkin and his employers at Newsweek seem to be content with serving as the Defense Intelligence Agency's stenographers, putting out stories which have not, and will not, stand the test of time. Arkin is a prisoner of his sources, a problem that pervades Western reporting on the conflict in Ukraine.
(2022-09-05). US Sets Up Third Base in NE Syria. news.antiwar.com The US is reportedly growing its military presence in Syria this weekend, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights saying they The latest base is just 3 km from Qamishli, a Kurdish SDF city which also hosted a Syrian air force site in recent years. All three bases are in or near SDF territory. | The main US base in Hasakeh is at al-Omar, one of Syria's oil fields. The site was established during the Trump Administration with designs on taking all of th…
(2022-09-05). The US Keeps Betting On Cuba Surrendering Out Of Desperation. popularresistance.org Last week, US President Joe Biden extended for one more year the sanctions on Cuba, arguing the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917. This mechanism has been used for the last 60 years to back the countless sanctions that make up the US blockade against Cuba. | This time, Biden only limited himself to saying that it was a "matter of interest to the United States." By a stroke of the pen, he condemned the Cuban people to continue to suffer all the economic shortages caused by the blockade. Sanctioning and playing with the welfare of millions of people, with their very lives, seems to be a reflex action of US politic…
(2022-09-05). The US Keeps Betting on Cuba Surrendering Out of Hunger and Desperation. popularresistance.org Last week, US President Joe Biden extended for one more year the sanctions on Cuba, arguing the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917. This mechanism has been used for the last 60 years to back the countless sanctions that make up the US blockade against Cuba. | This time, Biden only limited himself to saying that it was a "matter of interest to the United States." By a stroke of the pen, he condemned the Cuban people to continue to suffer all the economic shortages caused by the blockade. Sanctioning and playing with the welfare of millions of people, with their very lives, seems to be a reflex action of US politic…
(2022-09-05). Russia imposes sanctions on 25 US nationals incl actors. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 05 (MNA) — Russia imposed sanctions on 25 US nationals, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, in a tit-for-tat measure, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
(2022-09-05). Gas Pipeline Closed Until Sanctions Against Russia Gone-Peskov. telesurenglish.net "The problems in deliveries arose due to the sanctions that have been imposed on our country and a number of companies by Western countries, including Germany and the UK," a Kremlin spokesman said. | Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Western sanctions against Russia have a detrimental effect on the operation of Nord Stream 1. Sep. 5, 2022.
(2022-09-05). Venezuelan Foreign Minister Faría: Washington Interested Only in Oil. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Foreign Minister Carlos Faría said that the United States government seeks to establish relations with Venezuela without dismantling the illegal sanctions regime that Washington applies to the Caribbean country. | This was stated by the top diplomat during an interview with the minister for culture, Ernesto Villegas, broadcast by VTV this Sunday, September 4. | "It was an initiative of the United States government to make this approach to President Nicolas Maduro to normalize relations, but not the diplomatic one, nor the dismantling of the sanctions, but in the reestablishment of the energy relationsh…
(2022-09-05). The United States Only Cares About Energy: Venezuelan FM Faria. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Faria revealed that the U.S. government seeks to establish relations with Venezuela without dismantling the sanctions regime that Washington applies to the Bolivarian revolution. | RELATED: | "The U.S. government took the initiative to make a rapprochement with President Nicolas Maduro to normalize relations but not diplomatic ones nor the dismantling of sanctions. It sought…
(2022-09-05). The Biggest Prison on Earth. The Land of Historic Palestine. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-05). As US Workers Fight for Labor Rights, Public Support for Unions Soars to Five-Decade High. scheerpost.com 
Demonstrators gathered at Union Square in New York City Saturday, February 20, 2021 to stand in solidarity with Amazon workers in Alabama voting to become the company's first union in the United States. Demonstrators marched to Jeff Bezos' luxury penthouse at 212 Fifth Avenue following speeches. (Photo by Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto via AP) | By Julia Conley / Amid a continued high-profile push for workers' rights at U.S. companies including Starbucks and Amazon, pol…
(2022-09-05). US Sets Up New Military Base In Syria. popularresistance.org According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), US forces established a third military base in Syria on 3 September. | The new US military base was set up in Naqara village, just three kilometers from Qamishli in the northeastern province of Hasakah. | The US has two more bases, one of them located in Himo village and another one in the Tel Fares area near the Qamishli airport. | Armed groups have recently stepped up against US occupational forces and their regional allies due to the illegal exploitation of fossil fuels. | The Syrian government has accused the United States of stealing the c…
(2022-09-05). Free Ahmad and Adal Musa: Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 29 days. samidoun.net 
Two Palestinian prisoners — brothers from al-Khader, west of Bethlehem — have been on hunger strike for 29 days against their administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Ahmad Hussein Musa, 44, and his brother Adal, 34, went on hunger strike when they were seized by occupation forces on 6 August 2022 and have continued …
(2022-09-05). If sanctions lifted, Iran can meet Europe's energy needs. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 05 (MNA) — Referring to the energy crisis in Europe, the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that if JCPOA negotiations are successful and unilateral sanctions against the country are lifted, Iran can meet most of Europe's needs.
(2022-09-05). 'We'll Come Back Stronger,' Vows Chilean Left After Plebiscite Loss. commondreams.org "We will continue fighting more than ever to live in fairer, more egalitarian, and more humane Chile," said one prominent rights group.
(2022-09-05). Borrell says less optimistic about JCPOA revival. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 05 (MNA) — The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that he is less optimistic about the conclusion of the Vienna talks on the removal of anti-Iran sanctions and the JCPOA revival.
(2022-09-05). (W. E. Talk) Why China poles apart from western countries in protecting human rights of ethnic minorities. ecns.cn Professor Shen Guiping pointed out in an exclusive interview by China News Service that compared with western developed countries, China's protection of the human rights of ethnic minorities is more active and comprehensive.
(2022-09-05). Why unions can't ignore incarcerated workers. therealnews.com 
An estimated two thirds of the more than one million prisoners in the United States today are incarcerated workers. With many prisoners earning less than a dollar an hour, and those who refuse to work often facing vicious retaliation in the form of punitive solitary confinement, labor exploitation is an important part of what makes life in American prisons so brutal. It's little surprise that prisoners' resistance often centers around the question of labor, as was seen during the nationwide 2017 prisoners' strike. In spite of these realities, 'labor issues' and 'prison issues' are all too often presented as…
(2022-09-05). 'We'll Come Back Stronger,' Vows Chilean Left After Visionary Constitution Rejected. commondreams.org "We will continue fighting more than ever to live in fairer, more egalitarian, and more humane Chile," said one prominent rights group.
(2022-09-05). Barbara Ehrenreich and the Real Work of Labor Day. commondreams.org Every walkout, every outstretched hand, every word written or spoken in defense of workers' rights, is a victory—whether it results in immediate and obvious success or not.
(2022-09-04). Iran has other options if West does not want agreement. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) — A senior Iranian lawmaker has warned the western countries to reach an agreement with Iran soon and stressed that Tehran sees resolving the safeguard issue as a prelude to removal of sanctions.
(2022-09-04). Major Criminal Justice Reform is on the Docket in California. scheerpost.com 
Solitary Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, Calif. ( By Victoria Valenzuela /…
(2022-09-04). Over 15 million Chileans vote on proposed constitution. america.cgtn.com Over 15 million Chileans voted on Sunday to approve or reject a new constitution. The proposed constitution focuses more on social rights and the environment. See the latest.
(2022-09-04). Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to 3 more years in prison, totaling 20 years. ecns.cn Myanmar's former State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday has been sentenced to three years in jail for electoral fraud in 2020, increasing her total prison term to 20 years.