Daily Archives: October 12, 2022

2022-10-12: News Headlines

____ (2022-10-12). Comicomment: Experiments on African American inmates, 'tip of iceberg' in ugly U.S. past. ecns.cn The U.S. city of Philadelphia issued a formal apology for experiments conducted on African American inmates at a prison decades ago.

WSWS (2022-10-12). Indian Ford workers mount protests for jobs in defiance of union-management severance deal. wsws.org Hundreds of workers at the recently shuttered Ford assembly plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have rebelled against a management-union severance deal that sanctions the elimination of thousands of jobs.

Animal Liberation Press Office (2022-10-12). AVA Summit Bans Press Office for First Time, Disavows Support for Direct Action. indybay.org The Animal Liberation Press Office won't have a chance to see all of you at the upcoming AVA Animal Rights Conference in Washington DC later this month.

____ (2022-10-12). Iran's economy predicted to grow 3% in 2022 despite sanctions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 12 (MNA) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that Iran's economy will experience positive growth in 2022 for the third consecutive year.

Disability Rights California (2022-10-12). Tuesday 10/11: Your Right to Vote: Voice Your Choice w/ Disability Rights California. indybay.org Online voting rights webinar…

CA Poor People's Campaign (2022-10-12). Saturday 10/15: #OurVotingRights: PPC National Day of Action March & Rally in Sacramento. indybay.org Meet at Crocker Park, Third & N Street, Sacramento 95814, | then we'll march to the CA State Capitol Building to rally…

____ (2022-10-12). 14 states elected into UN Human Rights Council. ecns.cn The UN General Assembly on Tuesday elected 14 states into the Human Rights Council to succeed outgoing members.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-10-12). Líbano e Israel resuelven disputa marítima en el Mediterráneo. telesurtv.net "La versión final de la oferta es satisfactoria para Líbano y cumple con sus demandas y preserva los derechos del Líbano sobre esta riqueza natural", dijo el presidente Michel Aoun.

Ed Rampell (2022-10-12). Biden Administration Wants Kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to "Suffer Like Julian Assange," according to UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur. covertactionmagazine.com New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington's onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela The U.S. imperialists "want Alex Saab like they want Julian Assange to suffer," charges human rights and international law expert Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, who the United Nations' Human Rights Council …

_____ (2022-10-11). The Puppets And The Puppet Masters. popularresistance.org Washington, D.C. – Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department of Justice are the puppets, not the puppet masters. They are the faàßade, the fiction, that the longstanding persecution of Julian Assange has something to do with justice. Like the High Court in London, they carry out an elaborate judicial pantomime. They debate arcane legal nuances to distract from the Dickensian farce where a man who has not committed a crime, who is not a U.S. citizen, can be extradited under the Espionage Act and sentenced to life in prison for the most courageous and consequential journalism of our generation. | T…

Anonymous103 (2022-10-11). Kiev Claimed Another Prisoner Swap, It Turned Out Only Bodies Of Dead Solders Returned To Ukraine. southfront.org The head of Vladimir Zelensky's office, Andrei Ermak, announced the exchange of prisoners with Russia. According to him, 32 people…

Editor (2022-10-11). How the West's Sanctions on Russia Boomeranged. scheerpost.com If the damage inflicted by sanctions on the regime in Moscow is less than expected, the self-harm to the rest of Europe and to a lesser degree the US, has been far greater.

____ (2022-10-11). New Zealand slaps sanctions on 75 Russian citizens. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (MNA) — The foreign minister of New Zealand on Tuesday announced that due to the annexation of new regions to Russia, this country has sanctioned 24 people from the annexed regions and 51 officials of the Russian government.

Ann Garrison (2022-10-11). Sanctioning the Horn of Africa. orinocotribune.com By Ann Garrison and John Philpot Oct 7, 2022 | Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia have suffered from a variety of U.S. interventions over many years. Proxy wars and unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, are the tools used to prevent these nations from finding a means of peacefully coexisting. | During Donald Trump's four years in office, he for the most part left the Horn of Africa alone. He just didn't seem interested, and his disengagement created enough breathing room for Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia to form a regional alliance, which the Biden Administration eventually took aim at. In fact, a longtime…

Staff (2022-10-11). Iran summons UK ambassador once again over baseless sanctions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador in Tehran Simon Shercliff for the third time in past months over the UK's intervention in Iran's internal affairs and London's new sanctions against Tehran.

Staff (2022-10-11). Money, not human rights rules in America: Prof. Askari. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (MNA) — Referring to recent tensions in US and Saudi Arabia ties, Hossein Askari, Professor of Business and International Affairs says that the US pays lip service to human rights and corruption in Saudi Arabia.

WSWS (2022-10-11). Australian government to detain women repatriated from Syria. wsws.org The largest yet use of control orders overriding freedom of speech, movement, association and communication to be used against Australian women returning from Syrian detention camps.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-10). Ahead of UN Session, Sahrawis Recollect Decades of Betrayal that Enabled Moroccan Colonization. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni Photo: freewesternsahara.org The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) became "hostage to the Moroccan authorities," unable even "to report on the human rights situation in the territory," said Kamal Fadel, Western Sahara's representative to Australia and the Pacific Amid the ongoing war for the liberation of Western Sahara from Morocco,…

JANET (2022-10-10). Help us break the Sanctions Silence. iacenter.org With your help we can break the silence and publish a very needed book Sanctions — A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy A project of the SanctionsKill Campaign An anthology by social justice activists Donate by credit card at iacenter.org/sanctions-book Everyone who donates $25 or more will receive a copy of the 200 page book: Sanctions — A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy. The impact of sanctions on more than 40 developing and formerly colonized countries, one third of the world's population, was barely discussed in mainstream media for decades. The vibrations of hyperinflation, chronic short…

Staff (2022-10-10). New website for Brussels actions: 29 October, March for Return and Liberation! samidoun.net The Masar Badil (Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement) launched a new website today to highlight the March for Return and Liberation taking place in Brussels, Belgium, on 29 October 2022, as well as the Week of Action for Palestinian Liberation leading up to that date. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is one of the endorsers …

Editor (2022-10-10). [rewind] Kevin Sharp: It's Time to Free Leonard Peltier, America's Longest Serving Political Prisoner. scheerpost.com The Native American activist's attorney tells Robert Scheer why Peltier's imprisonment is one of the worst miscarriages of justice this country has ever seen.

Dan Collyns (2022-10-10). Ecuador's prison violence. america.cgtn.com Ecuador's prisons continue to be plagued by deadly violence as rival gangs vie for control of drug trafficking routes.

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