Monthly Archives: September 2022

2022-09-14: News Headlines

Staff (2022-09-14). Nord Stream problems caused by sanctions on Russia. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the problems with gas supply to Europe through the Nord Stream-1 pipeline had been caused by Western sanctions on Moscow.

Staff (2022-09-14). Taiwan hosts foreign lawmakers to push China sanctions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — Taiwan's de facto ambassador in Washington, Hsiao Bi-khim, hosted on Tuesday dozens of international lawmakers who back sanctions on China.

WSWS (2022-09-14). SEP and IYSSE in Sri Lanka call public meeting to oppose state repression against anti-government protesters. wsws.org Amid a growing crackdown by President Wickremesinghe, the online public meeting entitled "Stop the repression of anti-government protesters! Release all political prisoners!" will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, September 25.

____ (2022-09-14). Chinese envoy calls for adjustment of Sudan sanctions. ecns.cn A Chinese envoy on Tuesday called for the adjustment, and ultimate lifting, of Security Council sanctions against Sudan in relation to the Darfur region.

CPVAW (2022-09-14). Thursday 10/20: March For Women's Rights (Everyone Welcome). indybay.org Steps of County Building | 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz…

Bay Action To Free Julian Assange (2022-09-14). Thursday 9/22: Press Conference: SF Chronicle-End Your Silence On The Jailing And Extradition Of Julian Assange. indybay.org San Francisco Chronicle | 5th & Mission St. | San Francisco…

Lee Siu Hin (2022-09-14). 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!

Herbert Storn, Roland Rottenfusser (2022-09-14). Question sanctions and The cry of the poor. indybay.org In Germany, we tend to moralize and romanticize in politics. This prevents us from taking a sober view of world events. We fail to recognize that the U.S. is ruthlessly asserting its own interests, against enemy and friend. By now it should have become clear that the interests of the EU and the U.S. have long since ceased to coincide.

Anonymous103 (2022-09-13). Europe's Leaders Continue To Prioritise US Interests Over Citizens' Wellbeing. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageEuropean protestors demand an end to anti-Russia sanctions to alleviate cost-of-living crisis. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | With winter approaching, Europeans are thinking about how their livelihoods will be affected. Rallies, strikes, demonstrations and protests are gaining momentum as the cost-of-living becomes unbearable. Although European media tried to hide this, even paid local propagandists cannot ignore the growing anger…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-13). Report: US Considers Sanctions on China to Deter Taiwan Attack. news.antiwar.com The US is considering The sources said that the discussions on the sanctions were in their early stages and didn't detail possible measures Washington could impose. But they would have to go beyond the sanctions the US has already implemented on China in recent years. The repo…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-13). UN Rapporteur Calls for US Sanctions on Iran to Be Lifted. news.antiwar.com A UN rapporteur issued a report on Monday Alena Douhan, a special rapporteur for the impact of unilateral coercive measures, said that the sanctions impact nearly every aspect of life and called for them to be lifted. | The US sanctions technically have exemptions for goods such as food and medicine, but Douhan said that licenses that are supposed to be issued by the US Office of For…

Dana Sanchez (2022-09-13). US Government, DOJ Charge Memphis Executive With Falsifying Water Quality Records In 2 States, Sentenced To 3 Years. moguldom.com Memphis CEO DiAne Gordon, 61, was sentenced Sept. 12 to three years in prison on charges of fabricating hundreds of water monitoring reports and submitting fraudulent documents to state regulators in Mississippi and Tennessee since 2017. Gordon was the co-owner and CEO of Environmental Compliance and Testing (ECT), a company that presented itself as a full-service environmental …

The Socialist Program (2022-09-13). The Deepening Assault on Core Democratic Rights in the USA. liberationnews.org The United States is in the midst of a political upheaval right now, after the 2020 uprising, the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, and the Dobbs decision that overturned one of the Supreme Court's biggest decisions — access to abortion under Roe v. Wade.

_____ (2022-09-13). Venezuela Rejects Washington's Statement On Imprisoned US Citizens. popularresistance.org This Saturday, September 10, the Venezuelan government rejected, through a communique, the statement made on Friday by US Department of State spokesperson, Ned Price, labeling US Marine veteran and MVM Inc. "contractor" Matthew Heath's detention as wrongful and his arrest as based on specious charges. | At the time of his capture in September 2020, Heath had allegedly already taken photos of strategic military and oil refining facilities in Zulia and Falcón states. He entered Venezuela illegally from Colombia through Paraguachón (Zulia state) and his final destination was Aruba. To avoid being detained at checkpo…

_____ (2022-09-13). The Genius Of Ella Jo Baker. popularresistance.org Ella Jo Baker will be inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame as an "Unsung Hero" at a ceremony at the National Press Club on Oct. 6 in Washington DC. | Ella Baker is well-regarded as a giant in the Civil Rights Movement, known for her unique participatory grassroots organizing style and also for her ability to galvanize young people to bring a militancy in the struggle to end segregation. But Baker is less known for her innovative organizing prowess before the 1960s — forming a network of self-help cooperatives to bring economic relief to black people during the Depression. | "Ella Baker was one of the…

Jackson Todd (2022-09-13). California's fast food sectoral bargaining law could revolutionize the labor movement. peoplesworld.org It was a historic Labor Day for California's 5 ,000 fast food workers. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the FAST Recovery Act, transforming labor rights for workers in the industry after a long organizing effort from workers across the state. Beyond California or fast food, this victory could shape a new era of the labor movement and …

WSWS (2022-09-13). North Carolina Supreme Court rules that nurses can be held criminally liable for medical errors. wsws.org The decision, which overturns a 90-year-old precedent, is the latest attack on health care workers and erodes their rights.

____ (2022-09-13). Sanctions waiver of humanitarian goods 'big, sheer lie'. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 13 (MNA) — Iran Deputy Judiciary for International Affairs and Secretary of Human Rights Office said that exemption of humanitarian items from sanctions is a big lie to escape pressure of public opinion and international responsibility.

Julia Conley (2022-09-13). Rights Advocates Condemn UK's Crackdown on Anti-Monarchy Protesters. commondreams.org "Whoever you are, whatever your cause, it is vital you are able to stand up for what you believe in without facing the risk of criminalization," said one civil liberties campaigner.

Julia Conley (2022-09-13). In 'Despicable Show of Cruelty', Graham Dismisses Woman's Story of Nonviable Pregnancy. commondreams.org "He just turns away from her and starts yelling about Democrats to drown her out," said one rights advocate. "Sort of a metaphor for the Republican Party."

Kwjorinoco (2022-09-13). The US Against Assange: A Torrent of Evil. orinocotribune.com Few times has an empire demonstrated such cruelty and determination to destroy a single man as the US has in its crusade to silence Julian Assange, the activist who revealed the human rights abuses and permanent transgression of international law indulged in by the US throughout the world. | Interviewed by La Jornada during their visit to Mexico, John and Gabriel Shipton, the WikiLeaks founder's father and half-brother, respectively, told us of the inhumane treatment reserved for Julian in the UK's maximum security prison where he is fighting the near-complete attempt by the US to extradite him under the 1917 Esp…

____ (2022-09-12). Putin Sees Future with Asia and Claims Western Economic Decline in New Speech. transcend.org 9 Sep 2022 – Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin addressed Western sanctions, Russia's growing relationship with Asia and an update on Ukraine.

Lowkey (2022-09-12). Economist Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation & Class War. mintpressnews.com Economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins Lowkey where he exposes ways economic policy can be a code term used by the political establishment for class war. Wolff explains how the cost of enmity with Russia is being placed on the shoulders of the working class in the West, whom recently experienced one of the worst crashes of capitalism in its history.

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2022-09-13: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-09-13). Sri Lanka: Stop the repression of anti-government protesters! Release all political prisoners! wsws.org President Wickremesinghe is stepping up the arrest of anti-government protesters in preparation for state repression against the working class.

CPVAW (2022-09-13). Thursday 10/20: March For Women's Rights (Everyone Welcome). indybay.org Steps of County Building | 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz…

____ (2022-09-13). Shanghai steadily resumes international flights. ecns.cn Since September, Shanghai immigration inspection authorities have processed about 49,000 passengers, an increase of about 40 percent over the same period last month, according to local authorities.

Bay Action To Free Julian Assange (2022-09-13). Thursday 9/22: Press Conference: SF Chronicle-End Your Silence On The Jailing And Extradition Of Julian Assange. indybay.org San Francisco Chronicle | 5th & Mission St. | San Francisco…

Herbert Storn, Roland Rottenfusser (2022-09-13). Question sanctions and The cry of the poor. indybay.org In Germany, we tend to moralize and romanticize in politics. This prevents us from taking a sober view of world events. We fail to recognize that the U.S. is ruthlessly asserting its own interests, against enemy and friend. By now it should have become clear that the interests of the EU and the U.S. have long since ceased to coincide.

____ (2022-09-12). Putin Sees Future with Asia and Claims Western Economic Decline in New Speech. transcend.org 9 Sep 2022 – Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin addressed Western sanctions, Russia's growing relationship with Asia and an update on Ukraine.

Editor (2022-09-12). Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation and Class War. scheerpost.com Economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins Lowkey where he exposes ways economic policy can be a code term used by the political establishment for class war. Wolff explains how the cost of enmity with Russia is being placed on the shoulders of the working class in the West, whom recently experienced one of the worst crashes of capitalism in its history.

Lowkey (2022-09-12). Economist Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation & Class War. mintpressnews.com Economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins Lowkey where he exposes ways economic policy can be a code term used by the political establishment for class war. Wolff explains how the cost of enmity with Russia is being placed on the shoulders of the working class in the West, whom recently experienced one of the worst crashes of capitalism in its history.

Staff (2022-09-12). While US Leaders Moralize About Alleged Human Rights Abuses in Russia and China To Justify Proxy Wars, Prisoners in the US Routinely Suffer From Inhumane Treatment (Alex Saab Prison). orinocotribune.com By Lauren Smith &#1 ; Sep 7, 2022 | A Miami Prisoner is Among Those Who Believe That U.S. Prison Authorities Are Trying to Kill Them | While U.S. leaders denounce Russia and China, and other official enemies for alleged human rights violations daily, they are silent about the massive human rights abuses that occur routinely in the U.S. prison system—the largest and most oppressive in the world. | 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 o…

WSWS (2022-09-12). Australian retail lobby calls for working age to be lowered to 13. wsws.org Amid spiralling inflation and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the ruling class is intent on destroying the hard-won rights gained by workers over a whole historical period, including restrictions on child labour.

____ (2022-09-12). Let's Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy. transcend.org 4 Sep 2022 – The U.S. posits itself as a champion of opportunity, freedom, human rights and civil liberties, even as half the country struggles at subsistence level, militarized police gun down and imprison the poor with impunity, and the primary business of the state is war. This collective self-delusion masks who we have become. Under inverted totalitarianism, there is no attempt, unlike fascism and state socialism, to address the needs of the poor.

Staff (2022-09-12). Venezuela Rejects Washington's Statement on Imprisoned US Citizens. orinocotribune.com Caracas, September 11, 2022 ( At the time of his capture in September 2020, Heath had allegedly already taken photos of strategic m…

José Luis Granados Ceja (2022-09-12). Venezuelan Key Asset Monómeros Still Caught in Limbo as Colombia's Petro Weighs Takeover. venezuelanalysis.com The move to sell a majority stake of Monómeros to Colombia could serve as a trial balloon for other enterprises targeted by US sanctions.

Staff (2022-09-12). After 37 days of hunger strike, Adal Musa secures his freedom in victory. samidoun.net On 12 September, after 37 days of hunger strike, Adal Musa has suspended his strike with another defeat for the colonial jailers. He will be released from administrative detention (Israeli imprisonment without charge or trial) on 6 November 2022, as confirmed by Muhja al-Quds. He joined his brother, Ahmad Musa, on a hunger strike (which …

Justin Wetherell (2022-09-12). Gendered Dress Codes Hurt Everyone — Especially Non-Binary People Like Me. aclu.org I started working as a Flight Attendant for Alaska Airlines in July of 2014. I grew up by the airport in Anchorage, with Alaska Airlines planes constantly flying overhead. Every summer when visiting family, we flew on Alaska Airlines. I wanted to work for the airline for as long as I can remember and was ecstatic when I got the position. I always felt a sense of belonging — being part of a close-knit community with a huge impact on my home state. | For the past eight years, I've given a lot to the company. I participated in many community events and promotional activities and was hired to be a flight att…

Paulo Cabral (2022-09-12). African heritage of the "Quilombos" in Brazil. america.cgtn.com Brazilian Quilombos were communities formed by runaway slaves between the 17th and 19th centuries. Today, Brazilian law grants these population rights over the lands they occupy. Paulo Cabral reports.

Michelle Hernandez (2022-09-12). First city in Southeast Los Angeles to win rent stabilization and just cause ordinance. liberationnews.org On August 22, the Bell Gardens City Council voted unanimously in favor of the first Rent Control and Just Cause ordinance in Southeast Los Angeles. This victory comes after 2.5 years of tireless organizing by the largely working class immigrant women and families that make up the Union de Vecinas of Bell Gardens, backed by non-profit California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. The ordinance still requires one more final vote of approval, but once passed will set an incredible precedent in a region of LA County that has been historically neglected, marginalized and victim to corruption scandals.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-09-12). Carabineros reprimen actos de conmemoración del golpe de Estado. telesurtv.net La tradicional romería hacia el Cementerio General de Santiago fue convocada por agrupaciones de derechos humanos en memoria de las víctimas.

Fight Back (2022-09-11). Dallas fights for immigrant rights: 'Biden, we are still here'. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – In a response to the call to action by the Legalization for all Network, on August 27, a protest marked the 52nd anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium by speaking out in defense of the local immigrant community. | "We are still here!" went the call from the speaker of La Frontera Nos Cruzó. In the wake of the horrific overturning of Roe v. Wade, millions of Texan immigrants' status hangs anxiously in anticipation of the next move of the United States Supreme Court. The speaker from La Frontera Nos Cruzó spoke on the need for legalization for all now, the historical context of Latinos and Chican…

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