____ (2022-09-18). China to impose sanctions on CEOs of Raytheon Technologies, Boeing Defense. ecns.cn China has decided to impose sanctions on two senior executives of American firms involved in the latest U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, to defend China's national sovereignty and security interests, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday.

Staff (2022-09-18). Iran ready to implement agreement on prisoner swap with US. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — Stating that Tehran is ready to implement an agreement on the prisoner swap with Washington, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that it is now up to the US to decide whether it wants to implement the deal or not.

Lynda Carson (2022-09-18). Governor Gruesom Newsom Signs SB 1388 Attacking The Unhoused. indybay.org John George Psychiatric Hospital & Santa Rita Jail Are Condemned By Findings Of The DOJ:…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-18). Saudi War on Yemen Has Claimed Over 13,000 Civilian Casualties: Report. orinocotribune.com Thousands of women and children have been killed and injured since 2015, when Saudi Arabia launched a brutal war on the Arab world's poorest country | A report by the Entesaf Organization for Women and Child Rights has revealed that Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen has killed and injured over 13,000 Yemeni civilians since 2015. | During the 2,700 days of the aggression, 3,856 children and 2,433 women have been killed, while 4,237 children and 2,858 women have been injured by the Saudi aggression. | According to the same source, since the beginning of the aggression, over 6,000 civilians have been disabled. However, th…

Lee Siu Hin (2022-09-18). Fall 2022 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant Justice News Alert! indybay.org U.S. Political Prisoners Special Report: We Have Hundreds of Political Prisoners, Thousands of Asian-American Hate Victims, Half Million Child Farm Labors!

Brenda Norrell (2022-09-18). Standing Rock Rattled Legislators into Backdoor Deal: Prison for Peaceful Protesters. indybay.org

_____ (2022-09-17). US Leaders Moralize About Alleged Human Rights Abuses In Russia And China To Justify Proxy Wars. popularresistance.org Jonny, a pseudonym for a 45-year-old man currently being held in pretrial detention in Miami's Federal Detention Center (FDC Miami), believes that prison authorities are trying to kill him. Maria, Jonny's partner of three years, tells me in a series of interviews translated by her teenage daughter that she is also concerned for his life, given FDC Miami's cruel mismanagement of his grave medical condition. | As a pretrial detainee, Jonny's innocent until proven guilty and protected by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, but you wouldn't know this from the inhumane treatment he receives at the…

Scorinoco (2022-09-17). Bachelet's 'Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in Xinjiang' Risks Discrediting the OHCHR and Politicizing the Human Rights Regime. orinocotribune.com By Casey Ho-yuk Wan — Sep 14, 2022 | Introduction | On 31 August 2022, shortly before the tenure of Michelle Bachelet as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ended, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released its "Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the People's Republic of China."[1] | This write-up is a response to the "Assessment," which raises serious doubts as to the impartiality, objectivity, and non-selectivity of the OHCHR's work with implications for the credibility not merely of the Assessment, but of the OHCHR as a responsible inter…

_____ (2022-09-17). Sanctions Won't Stop Latin American Leaders From Talking With US Workers. popularresistance.org On September 24, leaders from Cuba and Venezuela will speak at an event titled "The People's Summit: Democracy Beyond the US Empire". The event is convened by the International Peoples' Assembly, an international network of people's movements and organizations. The event will be held in the historic Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, as the UN General Assembly convenes further downtown in Manhattan. | Speakers include Bruno Rodriguez, the Foreign Minister of Cuba, Carlos Faria, the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Kristin Richardson Jordan, District 9 Council Member for New York City, Vijay Prashad, Director…

Mark Taliano (2022-09-17). Freedoms Denied in Niagara Region. marktaliano.net READ MORE: COVID-19 Vaccines: Proof of Lethality. Over One Thousand Scientific Studies Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre for Research on Globalization Video: Brian Peckford, Signatory of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, on Trudeau and the COVID-19 Mandates Mark Taliano…

Fight Back (2022-09-17). Minneapolis highway bannering shows solidarity with Palestine. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On September 16 members of the MN Anti-War Committee (AWC) held banners on the footbridge over Interstate 35W at 24th Street in south Minneapolis during rush hour to raise awareness of Israeli attacks on the human rights of Palestinians. | The bannering was held on that day to mark the 39th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre. In 1982, from September 16 to 18, right-wing paramilitaries backed by Israel and the U.S., murdered 3500 mostly Palestinian residents of a refugee camp in Lebanon. | …

Ricardo Gomez (2022-09-17). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Local Journalism Gets Historic Boost. levernews.com Good things are happening! A historic new program in California aims to usher in the next generation of community-based reporters. Also, Louisiana organizers celebrated a victory for their collective health, stopping the completion of a so-called "Cancer Alley" petrochemical complex. Meanwhile, Oakland takes a stand for Indigenous rights by returning stolen land, and a German experiment in reimagining public transit is having an immense impact on carbon emissions.All this and much more in this week's edition of You Love To See It, available below. | Read the full story: | Sign up now to read the full s…

Eforinoco (2022-09-17). EMTRASUR Crew Members Detained Illegally in Argentina for Months Finally Arrive in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Seven crew members remain in Argentina, including four Iranians and three Venezuelans. | On Friday, September 16, 12 of the 19 crew members of the EMTRASUR plane finally arrived in Venezuela, after an Argentinian court allowed them to leave Argentina on Tuesday, September 13. They had been for more than three months in that country. | The 12 crew members were received by the Venezuelan Minister for Transportation Ramón Velázquez Araguayán. | On their return trip to the country, the 12 crew members first made a stopover in Bolivia on Thursday, from where they embarked on the final leg of their journey at night.

Editor (2022-09-17). "Death By Incarceration": Human Rights Groups Urge UN to Call for Abolition of Life Without Parole Sentences. scheerpost.com

Scorinoco (2022-09-17). Documentary 'Alex Saab, A Kidnapped Diplomat' Premieres. orinocotribune.com The documentary Alex Saab, A Kidnapped Diplomat, directed by Venezuelan journalist and documentary filmmaker Karen Méndez, which tells the truth about the illegal detention of Venezuelan ambassador Alex Saab, first in Cape Verde and since October 2021 in the United States, premiered on Friday, September 16. | "For years, opinion experts on media have lied about Alex Saab, and they hide the truth that he brought food, medicine and fuel to Venezuela in the midst of the total blockade by the US," Méndez wrote on Twitter. "It is time to listen to lawyers, experts and family members to understand the story of the firs…

Fight Back (2022-09-17). Austin students rally in defense of abortion rights. fightbacknews.org Austin, TX — The Austin Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized a rally at the University of Texas at Austin on September 15 in defense of women's and reproductive rights, as a part of the National SDS Day of Action. About 35 students rallied at 6 p.m. at the corner of Speedway and 21st Street on UT campus. Speakers from six other organizations gave speeches condemning the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Texas Heartbeat Act. | The Texas Heartbeat Act (SB8) was passed in September last year in preparation for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It bans abortions when there are cells that will l…

Staff (2022-09-17). Countries eager to have relations with Iran despite sanctions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 17 (MNA) — "Despite the fact that the enemies thought they could isolate Iran with sanctions and threats, today we see the eagerness of the countries in the region to cooperate with our country," according to the Iranian president.

Staff (2022-09-17). As U.S. Ships Immigrants Around, Ken Burns Claims He's Going to Tell the Truth About the Holocaust. davidswanson.org

Infobrics (2022-09-16). India unlikely to be coerced by G7 to enforce price cap on Russian oil. infobrics.org Ursula von der Leyen says anti-Russia sanctions "are here to stay" despite European crisis…

Staff (2022-09-17). Countries eager to have relations with Iran despite sanctions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 17 (MNA) — "Despite the fact that the enemies thought they could isolate Iran with sanctions and threats, today we see the eagerness of the countries in the region to cooperate with our country," according to the Iranian president.

____ (2022-09-17). China to impose sanctions on CEOs of Raytheon Technologies, Boeing Defense. ecns.cn China has decided to impose sanctions on two senior executives of American firms involved in the latest U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, to defend China's national sovereignty and security interests, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday.

Fight Back (2022-09-17). Minneapolis highway bannering shows solidarity with Palestine. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On September 16 members of the MN Anti-War Committee (AWC) held banners on the footbridge over Interstate 35W at 24th Street in south Minneapolis during rush hour to raise awareness of Israeli attacks on the human rights of Palestinians. | The bannering was held on that day to mark the 39th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre. In 1982, from September 16 to 18, right-wing paramilitaries backed by Israel and the U.S., murdered 3500 mostly Palestinian residents of a refugee camp in Lebanon. | …

Lynda Carson (2022-09-17). Governor Gruesom Newsom Signs SB 1388 Attacking The Unhoused. indybay.org John George Psychiatric Hospital & Santa Rita Jail Are Condemned By Findings Of The DOJ:…

Staff (2022-09-17). As U.S. Ships Immigrants Around, Ken Burns Claims He's Going to Tell the Truth About the Holocaust. davidswanson.org

Fight Back (2022-09-17). Austin students rally in defense of abortion rights. fightbacknews.org Austin, TX — The Austin Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized a rally at the University of Texas at Austin on September 15 in defense of women's and reproductive rights, as a part of the National SDS Day of Action. About 35 students rallied at 6 p.m. at the corner of Speedway and 21st Street on UT campus. Speakers from six other organizations gave speeches condemning the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Texas Heartbeat Act. | The Texas Heartbeat Act (SB8) was passed in September last year in preparation for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It bans abortions when there are cells that will l…

Lee Siu Hin (2022-09-17). Fall 2022 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant Justice News Alert! indybay.org U.S. Political Prisoners Special Report: We Have Hundreds of Political Prisoners, Thousands of Asian-American Hate Victims, Half Million Child Farm Labors!

Brenda Norrell (2022-09-17). Standing Rock Rattled Legislators into Backdoor Deal: Prison for Peaceful Protesters. indybay.org

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-16). Iran's Raisi Tells Putin Cooperation Makes US-Sanctioned Countries Stronger. news.antiwar.com Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday called for more cooperation between countries that are targeted by US sanctions in a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. "The relationship between countries that are sanctioned by the US, such as Iran, Russia or other countries, can overcome …

____ (2022-09-16). Xinjiang local rebuffs claims of 'forced labor' during UN session. ecns.cn The allegation of "forced labor" in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is an absolute lie, a representative from Xinjiang stood out at the 51st regular session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-16). Izyum is Bucha 2.0: New Ukrainian False Flag War Crimes and Western PSYOP. libya360.wordpress.com Nicolas Cinquini While the authorities have ordered lawsuits and detention of collaborators but private channels are simply spurring the murder of civilians, Ukraine pretends on September 15, 2022, to have found out a mass grave of 440 bodies near Izyum. The Russian forces have seized Izyum, northeastern Ukraine, in March, on their path to the…

Infobrics (2022-09-16). India unlikely to be coerced by G7 to enforce price cap on Russian oil. infobrics.org Ursula von der Leyen says anti-Russia sanctions "are here to stay" despite European crisis…

Lauren Smith (2022-09-16). Massive Human Rights Abuses in America's Prison System. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous669 (2022-09-16). Turkish Forces Shelled Russian Patrol In Northeastern Syria. southfront.org Sergei Novikov/TASS | On September 16, the Turkish military and its proxies shelled a patrol of the Russian Military Police in Syria's northeastern region, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. | The London-based monitoring group said that the Russian patrol came under fire while it was building barriers along the strategic M4 highway in the northern Raqqa countryside. The highway links Raqqa with al-Hasakah to the east, and Aleppo from the west. | The Russian patrol quickly withdrew from the highway…

Fight Back (2022-09-16). Statement condemning the OHCHR's 'Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement initiated by Friends of Socialist China. Freedom Road Socialist Organization is among the signers. | We strongly condemn the publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of its Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. In the words of former OHCHR lawyer and human rights expert Alfred de Zayas, this document "should be discarded as propagandistic, biased, and methodologically flawed." | Based on substandard research methods and biased sources, the Assessmen…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-16). India's Media at 75: Shackled by Profit, Politically Imprisoned. orinocotribune.com Editorial note: As a rule Orinoco Tribune does not re-publish opinion pieces more than 10 days after their original publication, but in this case we are making an exception, because this is a on a very sensitive issue that demands attention. | By P. Sainath Aug 17, 2022 | Prime Minister Narendra Modi's lockdown speech of March 24, 2020 gave a nation of 1.4 billion people four hours to shut itself down. It would devastate hundreds of millions of livelihoods within days. Minutes after Modi's speech, his government listed the essential services that would remain operational through the lockdown. | Refreshingly…

_____ (2022-09-16). US To Release Stolen Afghan Reserves, With A Catch. popularresistance.org The US government announced on 13 September that it would release a significant portion of the $7 billion stolen Afghan central bank funds to a bank of international settlements in Basel, Switzerland. | The trusteeship will help the US to oversee the disbursements of the funds in order to bypass the Taliban government in Kabul. | Washington withdrew its financial support for Afghanistan, following the Taliban victory against the US-trained army in 2021. Besides harsh economic sanctions, the US government also froze the funds of Afghanistan's Central Bank, causing a widespread humanitarian crisis in the country.

Rebecca McCray (2022-09-16). The Civil Rights Movement's 'Smallest Freedom Fighter' on the Power of Your Vote. aclu.org On the morning of March 7, 1965, 7-year-old Sheyann Webb-Christburg scrawled a note to her parents and set it on the washing machine before quietly slipping out of her home in Selma, Alabama: "I am marching for our freedom." | Her parents warned her not to join the more than 600 other marchers that day, bound for the Edmund Pettus Bridge and then Montgomery. They knew it would be dangerous, and they were right — March 7 would come to be known as Bloody Sunday. | "But I had become disobedient," Sheyann told the ACLU in a recent interview. "I had already made up my mind, and nobody was going to turn me aro…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-16). Party with Neo-Nazi Roots Surges in Sweden. libya360.wordpress.com Ceren Sagir | Agencies Sweden Democrats' party leader Jimmie àÖkesson will be in a position to extract major concessions from the new right-wing government. His SD party's roots are in the violent neo-Nazi extremist movements of the 1980s, and anti-immigrant ideology remains at the core of its program. | Johan Nilsson / TT News Agency…

Editor (2022-09-16). UN Special Rapporteur Calls for the End of All Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran. scheerpost.com

Kevin Gosztola (2022-09-16). Censorship Is A Bedrock of Incarceration In The United States. thedissenter.org Brian Nam-Sonenstein, co-host of "Beyond Prisons," appears on "Unauthorized Disclosure," to outline the issue of censorship in US prisons.

Staff (2022-09-16). Washington Again Threatens Venezuela with Sanctions: President Maduro Couldn't Care Less. orinocotribune.com Caracas, September 15, 2022 ( "Nicolás Maduro makes a serious mistake if he thinks that our patience is infinite and that delaying tactics will serve hi…

Fight Back (2022-09-16). USF students march in defense of abortion rights. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On Wednesday, September 14, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society organized a protest as a part of a National Day of Action around reproductive rights. The rally brought out about 30 students to march across campus to show their support for abortion rights. Members from many other student groups gave speeches to show solidarity on this issue. | Diego Falcon, a member of UndocUnited, said that he "saw this coming since the Trump administration" and that "the abuse of women in ICE detention centers facing forced hysterectomies" was a precursor to the loss of bodily autonomy. | Florida's own abor…

Robert Inlakesh (2022-09-16). Gaza Follows Lebanon With Claims To Gas Fields. thelastamericanvagabond.com On September 13, different Palestinian political factions in Gaza organized a demonstration, coinciding with the inauguration of a sea passage at the Gaza port. The demonstrators chanted for their rights to Gaza's gas fields, seemingly inspired by Lebanon's own bid to secure its rights to its natural resources. This Tuesday, Palestinians participated in an event,

Staff (2022-09-16). Al Falasteniyeh: New Palestinian media network committed to return and liberation. samidoun.net youtu.be/BfsbtlRZMKQ Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Al Falasteniyeh Media Network, a new Palestinian media initiative that aims to link Palestinians inside occupied Palestine and everywhere in exile and diaspora together with Arab and international liberation movements, with a clear and principled commitment to anti-normalization, return and liberation. With the slogan, "From the River to …

_____ (2022-09-16). Groups Urge UN To Call For Abolition Of 'Death By Incarceration'. popularresistance.org Several human rights organizations submitted a 31-page complaint to United Nations experts today, alleging that the United States is committing torture and violating the prohibition against racial discrimination by condemning people to death by incarceration through extreme sentences including life and life without possibility of parole (LWOP). The groups, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Drop LWOP Coalition and the Abolitionist Law Center, are urging the UN to call for the abolition of all death by incarceration sentences. | "Death by incarceration is the devastating consequence of a cruel and…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-16). Over 600 Palestinians Arrested Last Month: Report. orinocotribune.com The commission said that, by the end of August, 4,6 Palestinian prisoners were held in occupation prisons | A statement released by the Commission of Detainees' Affairs for Palestinian Prisoners on 12 September revealed that the Israeli authorities arrested 607 Palestinians, including 13 women and 59 children, last month. | The commission added that there has been an increase in the number of violations committed by Israeli forces in August, including field executions and organized arrest campaigns, which resulted in grave human rights violations against the detainees and their families. | The occupation forces…

Rotimi Adeoye (2022-09-16). A Look at History: Civil Liberties Are on the Ballot. aclu.org There are countless elections happening across the nation this November. Whether it's for a district attorney election in your town or a governor's race in your state, we want to give you the tools to vote your values and have informed conversations with your friends and families. In spite of the fact that most elections take place once every few years, it's important to remember that every single one will have lasting effects on our country. | There should be no doubt that throughout American history, elections can sometimes lead to the rollback of all of our civil rights. That's why it's important to vote fo…

John W. Whitehead (2022-09-16). Overthrow the Government: All the Ways in Which Our Rights Have Been Usurped. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-09-16). Palmer: A man just out of prison reenters society. wsws.org Nuanced performances grace this composed and patient film, a relative rarity in present-day cinema.

WSWS (2022-09-16). Oppose the reactionary smear campaign against Harvard Professor John Comaroff! wsws.org Should these reactionary forces succeed it would represent a major blow to academic freedom, democratic rights and serious scholarship.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-16). Poll: 85% of swing state voters, 18 to 40, back unions. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —Young voters in nine swing states with tight Senate races strongly back workers' rights, and especially the Protect The Right To Organize (PRO) Act, says a new Hart Research poll, commissioned by the Communications Workers. As a matter of fact, support for the PRO Act, organized labor's #1 legislative priority, is so lopsided among …

Nitza Soledad Perez (2022-09-16). Why Republican governors are dropping off migrants in Democratic areas. america.cgtn.com A group of migrants were dropped off by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday night. Officials of the upscale resort town were surprised by the unannounced flights. Martha's Vineyard has called itself a 'sanctuary destination' that welcomes immigrants. Still, Democrats were quick to criticize the …

TeleSUR (2022-09-16). 12 Crew From Plane Retained in Argentina Arrive in Venezuela. telesurenglish.net The 12 crew members who were authorized to leave Argentina after the Venezuelan plane was detained in that country arrived on Friday at the Simón Bolívar de Maiquetía international airport in the state of La Guaira. | Relatives welcome the 12 crew members who were authorized to leave Argentina after being detained…

_____ (2022-09-15). Workers Building New US Embassy In Honduras Are On Strike. popularresistance.org The Biden administration has pledged that "the United States will work with governments to strengthen … the enforcement of labor laws, promote decent work, and support workers in exercising their freedom of association and collective bargaining rights," as one of four pillars of its strategy to address the root causes of migration from Central America. | In Honduras today the U.S. has an opportunity to practice this with the 1,100 workers it has hired to build a new embassy. But it's blowing it. | Instead, police have been called in to bust a strike that's been going on at the construction site in Tegucigalpa s…