(2023-02-07). Guantánamo Bay: 21 years of crimes against humanity. liberationnews.org 
Last month, 150 human rights organizations signed onto a letter organized by the Center for Victims of Torture to close Guantánamo Bay.
(2023-02-07). Palestinians Condemn Killing of 17-Yo Teen in West Bank. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry condemned the death of Hamza Al-Ashqar, a 17-year-old teenager, who was killed by Israeli soldiers in the city of Nablus. | RELATED: | An Israeli army force stormed Nablus and clashed with stone-throwers. Al-Ashqar was critically wounded and was taken to the hospital. He died of wounds later. | "He was shot in the face by Israeli troops with a 7.62 mm caliber bullet," human rights defender Sarah…
(2023-02-07). Twin Cites rally demands freedom for Leonard Peltier. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis MN – One hundred people rallied in front of the federal courthouse in Minneapolis on February 6 to demand freedom for Leonard Peltier. Peltier is the longest-held indigenous political prisoner in the U.S. Human rights activists worldwide have repeatedly called for his release. | Nick Estes of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee said, "Today we are standing with a dozen or so rallies across the world at courthouses and embassies in solidarity with Leonard Peltier. This is the day he was arrested by the RCMP and so we count this day as the first day of his incarceration. He is entering his 48th year o…
(2023-02-07). "A Safe Place" exposes state and federal cover-up of 2018 death of Jerod Draper inside Indiana jail. wsws.org Instead of receiving medical attention while suffering an overdose inside the Harrison County Jail in October 2018, Draper was restrained, tortured and shocked with a taser by jailers and medical staff.
(2023-02-07). Community rallies for hunger strikers at Tacoma Northwest Detention Center. fightbacknews.org Tacoma, WA – On Saturday, February 4, over 50 people came to support the ongoing hunger strikes occurring in the Northwest Detention Center. The detention center is operated by the GEO group, sanctioned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. | This solidarity action was organized by La Resistencia NW to support the undocumented people detained inside. The crowd chanted, "Chinga la migra" and "Estan no solos – you are not alone!" Several detainees video-called the crowd to express their gratitude and to explain their predicament. | In the NWDC, over 100 people went on hunger strike for the most basic of demands.
(2023-02-07). Taliban authorities detain professor for opposing ban on women's education. peoplesdispatch.org On Friday, February 3, Taliban authorities arrested professor Ismail Mashal, who rose to prominence after he The 37-year-old professor, who ran a private university in Kabul, has stood defiantly against the Taliban's restrictions on women's education despite threats to his life. "The only power I have is my pen, even if they will kill me, even if they will tear me into pieces, I won't stay silent now,"
(2023-02-08). New York City protesters demand shutdown of immigration detention center. liberationnews.org 
"U.S. imperialism has caused the conditions for immigrants to leave their country and find shelter here," declared Rojas. "So they're not asking for anything that is not owed to them. They are asking for humanity and dignity!"
(2023-02-07). Black Man Died After Pleading With Prison For Insulin: Prison Wanted More Money. moguldom.com Clifford Farrar, 51, was a prisoner at Stafford Detention Center in Washington state. He also had type 1 diabetes and had been insulin dependent since age 15. His condition was known to the prison, yet in December 2021, he died after pleading for insulin that would have saved his life, his family said. Farrar died …
(2023-02-08). Tuesday 2/7: #AbortionRights: Text Party for WI Supreme Court Election – NO to Far Right Justices. indybay.org Online event…
(2023-02-08). Black Reconstruction on Carolina's Gold Coast. workers.org 
The "Reconstruction Era" following the Civil War spanned 1865-1876; it was a brief period in which formerly enslaved Black people won some political, social and economic rights in the South. But the former slaveocracy regained state power and enforced economic and political oppression once again. The March to the Sea, . . . |
(2023-02-08). NYU graduate student loses job, investigated "for anti-Semitism" after writing anti-Israel slogan on trash bag. wsws.org The actions by the New York University administration against Naye Idriss constitute a fundamental assault on democratic rights and set a dangerous precedent for the victimization and targeting of left-wing students and university employees.
(2023-02-07). The University of Pennsylvania has become the poster child for 'woke'. americanthinker.com In just the last year, it's taken three steps that are problems for national security, academic liberty, and women's rights.
(2023-02-07). 2023 Rosa Parks Day – Transit Equity Week. indybay.org After her arrest, Rosa Parks lost her job as a seamstress and without support from the Civil Rights Movement Leaders moved north to Detroit where her brother Sylvester McCauley an US Army Veteran lived with his large family. Auntie Rosie and Raymond Parks regained human dignity and hope. From 1965-1988 she worked as an administrative aide to U.S. Representative John Conyers.
(2023-02-07). 000 people protest Danish government's planned scrapping of public holiday to pay for military spending increase. wsws.org Sunday's protest, the largest in Denmark for over a decade, is part of an upsurge of working-class opposition across Europe to the ruling elite's determination to make them bear the cost of militarism and war through social spending cuts and attacks on wages and worker rights.
(2023-02-07). Federal Judge Issues Order Suggesting 13th Amendment Protects Abortion Rights. truthout.org A federal judge has suggested that abortion rights may still be protected by the U.S. Constitution, in spite of the Supreme Court ruling last year that upended decades of precedent protecting the right to abortion. The Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling last June overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which recognized the right to have an abortion in every state in the U. |
(2023-02-08). Sanctions imposed by U.S. and allies hamper relief and rescue work in earthquake-devastated Syria. mronline.org 
Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday.
(2023-02-08). Quake death toll in Tàºrkiye, Syria crosses 6,000, with calls mounting to lift U.S. sanctions on Syria. ecns.cn The death toll from Monday's devastating earthquakes climbed to 5,434 in Tàºrkiye and 812 in Syria on Tuesday, while calls mounted to lift the U.S. sanctions on Syria.
(2023-02-07). Lift US Sanctions on Syria Following Earthquake: Red Crescent. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) President Khaled Hboubati called for lifting the U.S. and Western sanctions on Syria to facilitate relief efforts as the earthquake-stricken country is in dire need of rescue equipment. | RELATED: | He made the remarks in a press conference in Damascus, stressing that the earthquake, which jolted parts of Syria on Monday, has killed over 800 people so far. | The SARC wants e…
(2023-02-07). After Earthquake Devastates Syria, US Shows No Interest in Lifting Sanctions. news.antiwar.com After a devastating earthquake hit Syria and Turkey, killing thousands of people, the US State Department showed no interest in lifting crippling economic sanctions on Syria that are specifically designed to prevent the country's reconstruction. As of Monday night, the earthquake has killed at least 2,921 people in Turkey and 1,444 in northwest Syria, including …
(2023-02-07). With Thousands Dead or Wounded, Will earthquake Aid for Syria be Impeded by US Sanctions? juancole.com 
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment)  ; The 7.8 earthquake that struck south-central Turkey and northwest Syria early on Monday morning. Although over two thousand are being reported dead in Turkey at midnight on Monday and more than a thousand in Syria, the death toll will grow a great deal as the rubble is combed by rescue …
(2023-02-08). Sanctions imposed by U.S. and allies hamper relief and rescue work in earthquake-devastated Syria. mronline.org Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday.
(2023-02-08). Quake death toll in Tàºrkiye, Syria crosses 6,000, with calls mounting to lift U.S. sanctions on Syria. ecns.cn The death toll from Monday's devastating earthquakes climbed to 5,434 in Tàºrkiye and 812 in Syria on Tuesday, while calls mounted to lift the U.S. sanctions on Syria.
(2023-02-07). Lift US Sanctions on Syria Following Earthquake: Red Crescent. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) President Khaled Hboubati called for lifting the U.S. and Western sanctions on Syria to facilitate relief efforts as the earthquake-stricken country is in dire need of rescue equipment. | RELATED: | He made the remarks in a press conference in Damascus, stressing that the earthquake, which jolted parts of Syria on Monday, has killed over 800 people so far. | The SARC wants e…
(2023-02-07). After Earthquake Devastates Syria, US Shows No Interest in Lifting Sanctions. news.antiwar.com After a devastating earthquake hit Syria and Turkey, killing thousands of people, the US State Department showed no interest in lifting crippling economic sanctions on Syria that are specifically designed to prevent the country's reconstruction. As of Monday night, the earthquake has killed at least 2,921 people in Turkey and 1,444 in northwest Syria, including …
(2023-02-07). With Thousands Dead or Wounded, Will earthquake Aid for Syria be Impeded by US Sanctions? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment)  ; The 7.8 earthquake that struck south-central Turkey and northwest Syria early on Monday morning. Although over two thousand are being reported dead in Turkey at midnight on Monday and more than a thousand in Syria, the death toll will grow a great deal as the rubble is combed by rescue …
(2023-02-07). Foreign Affairs Magazine Admits Defeat of US Sanctions. orinocotribune.com Foreign Affairs, one of the most influential US establishment magazines, recently This conclusion is reached after an assessment of recent US sanctions on countries like China and Russia, whose way of getting around them was to "create alternative global financial structures to insulate themselves and others from punitive action, and that Washington and its acolytes will no longer b…
(2023-02-07). Syrian Arab Red Crescent Calls for Lifting of Sanctions on Syria After Earthquake. news.antiwar.com The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) on Tuesday called for the lifting of US and other Western economic sanctions on Syria following a massive earthquake that has killed over 7,000 people in Syria and Turkey. "The evacuation process and rescue operations are restricted due to obstacles resulting from the severe sanctions," said …
(2023-02-07). Sanctions Hamper Relief And Rescue Work In Earthquake-Devastated Syria. popularresistance.org The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Khaled Hboubati, demanded on Tuesday, February 7, that Western countries, specifically the US and its allies, lift their siege and sanctions on Syria so that rescue and relief work can proceed unimpeded, after the country was devastated by a powerful earthquake on Monday. | "We need heavy equipment, ambulances and fire fighting vehicles to continue to rescue and remove the rubble, and this entails lifting sanctions on Syria as soon as possible," Hboubati said at a press conference on Tuesday, as reported by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). | A powerful earthquake regis…
(2023-02-07). Sanctions imposed by US and allies hamper relief and rescue work in earthquake-devastated Syria. peoplesdispatch.org Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday…
(2023-02-07). Unesco Fears Damage To Syrian, Turkish Heritage. telesurenglish.net "My condolences go out to the families and loved ones of those who died. My thoughts are also with the injured and all those affected. Our Organization will provide assistance within its mandate," said Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO's Director-General. | People visit the tomb-sanctuary on Mount Nemrut, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Adiyaman Province, Tàºrkiye, on June 7, 2022.