(2023-07-11). Human Rights Activists Warn Climate-Induced Heat Waves Are Killing Asylum Seekers at the Border. democracynow.org 
A massive heat dome is starting to engulf the southern United States this week. It could grow to be one of the worst in the region's history, breaking records for intensity and longevity and impacting some 50 million people in Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Southern California and Nevada. Heat domes are a key part of heat waves and have become hotter and longer due to climate change, making heat the leading cause of weather-related death in the United States. Along the Southwest border, more than 100 migrants have already died from heat this year amid the Biden administration's continued crackdo…
(2023-07-10). Cluster Bomb Deliveries to Ukraine Alarm Human Rights and Antiwar Advocates. truthout.org The Biden administration is drawing outrage after announcing it will send cluster bombs to Ukraine as part of a new weapons package. When deployed, cluster munitions spread smaller "bomblets" across a wide area and regularly kill civilians, either on initial impact or from unexploded segments that go off later. Their use has been banned by 123 countries that signed the Convention on Cluster… |
(2023-07-11). British intelligence in the dock for CIA torture. thegrayzone.com Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA's global torture program. Britain's foreign and domestic intelligence apparatus is facing scrutiny by a tribunal tasked with intelligence oversight. On May 26, London's infamously opaque Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) unanimously issued a landmark ruling which means the complaints of two Saudis brutally tortured at CIA black sites and jailed for years in Guantanamo Bay can finally be heard, at least …
(2023-07-11). Palestinian Prisoners Call For The Freedom Of Palestine Action Prisoners. popularresistance.org From inside Israeli jails, the Palestinian Prisoners' Movement has issued a statement demanding the freedom of Palestine Action prisoners held in British jails. Six activists from Palestine Action are currently detained, and over 100 more are facing custodial sentences, for disrupting the British manufacture of Israeli weaponry [1] [2]. | On Wednesday 5th July, nearly 80 public figures including celebrities, activists, academics and lawyers issued a statement of solidarity saying "We demand the charges are dropped against those already incarcerated and at risk of prison over their work to disrupt the criminal pro…
(2023-07-11). Free Mohammed Abu Sakha! Palestinian circus artist in administrative detention. samidoun.net 
On Monday, 10 July, an Israeli occupation military court ordered Palestinian circus artist Mohammed Abu Sakha to six months in admininistrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. In the past year, the use of administrative detention to target Palestinians has spiked dramatically, with approximately 1,083 Palestinians currently jailed without charge or trial, over one-fifth of …
(2023-07-11). Big turn out for NAIDOC march. greenleft.org.au Thousands took part in the annual National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee march for land rights and justice for First Nations. Chris Petersen reports.
(2023-07-11). Law That Made "Sex Work Industry More Dangerous" Upheld in Court. scheerpost.com 
(2023-07-11). How the Supreme Court blocked Alabama's effort to dilute Black voting power. splcenter.org
(2023-07-11). America's lost promise of economic rights. therealnews.com 
Inequality lies at the heart of contemporary American politics—from the dizzying power of corporations and the billionaire class to the racialized and gendered dimensions of wealth and income disparities. Yet the question of economic justice, as well as the struggle to attain it, also has long historical roots. Mark Paul joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss his new book,
(2023-07-11). Tuesday 7/11: Banking on a Safe World: Divest from Nuclear Weapons & Fossil Fuels w/ Indigenous Leaders. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…
(2023-07-11). Monday 7/17: Banking on a Safe World: Divesting from Nuclear Weapons & Fossil Fuels. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…
(2023-07-11). Headlines for July 11, 2023. democracynow.org Turkey Drops Opposition to Sweden's Membership as NATO Summit Opens in Lithuania, Kremlin Says Putin Spoke with Wagner Group Leaders, Including Prigozhin, After Mutiny , Historic Floods Hit Northeastern U.S. as Heat Wave Bakes Southern States, Witnesses Say Palestinian Shot by Israeli Troops Was Left to Bleed Out at Checkpoint, Protests Erupt as Israeli Lawmakers Advance Bill to Gut Judiciary, U.S. and Israel Launch Joint War Games, Rights Groups Condemn Tunisia's Government for Abandoning Asylum Seekers at Libyan Border, Iowa's GOP-Controlled Legislature Convenes Special Session to Consider Abo…
(2023-07-11). Wednesday 7/19: Renters' Rights Clinic in West Oakland. indybay.org Oakland Public Library: West Oakland Branch | 1801 Adeline Street | Oakland, CA 94607…
(2023-07-11). Court rules in herbal tea trademark dispute. ecns.cn In its statement on Monday, JDB claimed the retrial judgment was inconsistent with the SPC's and vowed to appeal to resolutely protect its legitimate rights and interests.
(2023-07-11). Iran Seeks Dialogue to Resolve Dispute Over Maritime Gas Field. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Naser Kanani, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry, affirmed that his country seeks to resolve the dispute with Kuwait over the Al Dorra oil field through diplomatic means. | RELATED: | The announcement on the Persian Gulf oil field comes just a few days after Iran and Saudi Arabia rejected Tehran's rights to the gas-rich deposit. | "Iran's policy is based on dialogue, cooperation, and eng…
(2023-07-10). United States: Supreme Court upholds LGBTQ discrimination, denies student debt relief. greenleft.org.au 
The United States Supreme Court curtailed LGBTQ rights and struck down debt relief for students on June 30, reports Barry Sheppard.
(2023-07-10). The Weekly Round-up: the COVID-19 Inquiry, Crimes of Aggression in Ukraine, and UK Special Forces in Afghanistan. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In the news On Thursday, the High Court dismissed a claim for judicial review brought by the Cabinet Office, regarding a notice issued by the Chair of the COVID-19 Inquiry which requested the disclosure of correspondence between former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his senior advisers. The Cabinet Office argued the Inquiry Chair's notice was unlawful …
(2023-07-10). United States: Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Mississippi law against Black voting rights. greenleft.org.au 
The United States Supreme Court upheld, on June 30, a century-old Mississippi law used during the "Jim Crow" segregationist era to deny Black people in the state the right to vote, reports Malik Miah.
(2023-07-11). Wednesday 7/19: Renters' Rights Clinic in West Oakland. indybay.org Oakland Public Library: West Oakland Branch | 1801 Adeline Street | Oakland, CA 94607…
(2023-07-11). Court rules in herbal tea trademark dispute. ecns.cn In its statement on Monday, JDB claimed the retrial judgment was inconsistent with the SPC's and vowed to appeal to resolutely protect its legitimate rights and interests.
(2023-07-11). Iran Seeks Dialogue to Resolve Dispute Over Maritime Gas Field. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Naser Kanani, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry, affirmed that his country seeks to resolve the dispute with Kuwait over the Al Dorra oil field through diplomatic means. | RELATED: | The announcement on the Persian Gulf oil field comes just a few days after Iran and Saudi Arabia rejected Tehran's rights to the gas-rich deposit. | "Iran's policy is based on dialogue, cooperation, and eng…
(2023-07-10). United States: Supreme Court upholds LGBTQ discrimination, denies student debt relief. greenleft.org.au The United States Supreme Court curtailed LGBTQ rights and struck down debt relief for students on June 30, reports Barry Sheppard.
(2023-07-10). The Weekly Round-up: the COVID-19 Inquiry, Crimes of Aggression in Ukraine, and UK Special Forces in Afghanistan. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news On Thursday, the High Court dismissed a claim for judicial review brought by the Cabinet Office, regarding a notice issued by the Chair of the COVID-19 Inquiry which requested the disclosure of correspondence between former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his senior advisers. The Cabinet Office argued the Inquiry Chair's notice was unlawful …
(2023-07-10). United States: Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Mississippi law against Black voting rights. greenleft.org.au The United States Supreme Court upheld, on June 30, a century-old Mississippi law used during the "Jim Crow" segregationist era to deny Black people in the state the right to vote, reports Malik Miah.
(2023-07-11). Criminal Sanctions: Washington Extends Authorization of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Exports to Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The US government extended the authorization of liquefied petroleum gas exports to Venezuela. According to a "Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this general license, all transactions related to the exportation or reexportation, directly or indirectly, of liquefied petroleum gas to Venezuela,…
(2023-07-10). "Sanctions have lethal effect": Intellectuals call for end to US blockade on Cuba and Venezuela. peoplesdispatch.org More than 50 intellectuals from around the world have called on US Senator Bob Menendez to stop supporting sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela. In a "We respectfully ask that you stop spreading the false narrative that…