(2023-11-29). West Votes Against Democracy, Human Rights, Cultural Diversity at UN; Promotes Mercenaries, Sanctions. orinocotribune.com 
By Ben Norton — Nov 26, 2023 | The West voted against the rest of the world on United Nations General Assembly resolutions, opposing democracy, human rights, and cultural diversity, while supporting mercenaries and unilateral coercive measures (sanctions). | Western governments frequently claim that their foreign and domestic policies are motivated by "human rights" and "democracy". They often even lecture their adversaries for purportedly failing to respect these concerns. | But on the international stage, Western capitals have shown their commitments to be merely rhetorical, as they have consistently voted…
(2023-11-29). West Votes Against Democracy, Human Rights, Cultural Diversity at UN; Promotes Mercenaries, Sanctions. scheerpost.com 
(2023-11-29). I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences. truthout.org Decades ago, most people had never even heard the term "death by incarceration," the racially discriminatory and cruel practice commonly known as life imprisonment. Now in 2023, the United Nations has condemned it and called on the United States to abolish it. In October, as I sat facing the members of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, my mind drifted to moments during my 27… |
(2023-11-29). UAE Oil CEO Sultan Al Jaber Uses His Role as U.N. Climate Summit President to Push Fossil Fuel Deals. democracynow.org 
As the largest-ever United Nations climate summit kicks off Thursday in Dubai, we look at how the COP28 president, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, who is also CEO of the United Arab Emirates state oil company, has used climate summit meetings to lobby countries for oil and gas deals. The Centre for Climate Reporting obtained documents from meeting briefings that include Abu Dhabi National Oil Company talking points. The Centre's Ben Stockton lays out how the oil boss was put in charge of the climate summit, and how the UAE also hopes to use COP28 to deflect from "a record of human rights abuses." The new…
(2023-11-29). Mass Killings in Darfur Revealed as Fighting Between Sudanese Military Factions Escalates. democracynow.org 
We get an update on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, where more than 12,000 people have been killed and over 6 million displaced since April, when the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group broke out into fighting. Earlier this month, human rights groups say members of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group carried out a massacre of around 1,300 Masalit people over three days in Sudan's West Darfur region and have subjected them to unlawful detentions, sexual violence, ill-treatment and looting. "The overall picture that survivors drew to us is horrific," say…
(2023-11-29). China reaffirms position on Palestinian-Israeli issue. ecns.cn China has always stood firmly on the side of peace, human rights and international law, and has supported the United Nations and the secretary-general in playing a unique and irreplaceable role in resolving the conflict.
(2023-11-30). Calling for Genocide. counterpunch.org 
While anti-Islam manifestations have exponentially increased after the Israeli onslaught on the Palestinians in Gaza, the case of Stuart Seldowtiz is different for many reasons. Seldowitz had a high-ranking position in the State Department at a time when the US was outsourcing torture to countries like Egypt and Syria. According to justiceinitiative.org, "At least 136 individuals were reportedly extraordinarily rendered or secretly detained by the CIA and at least 54 governments reportedly participated in the CIA's secret detention and extraordinary rendition program; classified government documents may reveal ma…
(2023-11-29). Ecuador reconoce derechos territoriales a comunidades indígenas. telesurtv.net Asimismo dispone que el Gobierno ofrezca disculpas públicas a los siekopai "por la vulneración de su derecho a mantener la posesión de sus tierras y territorios ancestrales".
(2023-11-29). Israel extends detention of Gaza's Shifa hospital chief for 45 days. presstv.ir Mohammad Abu Salmiya had been arrested last week along with five other medical staff by Israeli forces in Gaza…
(2023-11-29). Gender, labor, democracy, and Americanism: U.S. history in the (un)making. mronline.org 
In the early hours of Monday, May 15, 2023, the historical highway marker recognizing the birthplace of a renown feminist, anti-racist labor organizer and defender of reproductive rights was taken down. The marker was formally approved and erected by the State, following years of community effort on behalf of this locally-born female hero. It stood …
(2023-11-29). WI Bills Would Require Libraries to Tell Parents What Books Their Kids Check Out. truthout.org Wisconsin Republicans have introduced two bills that would require libraries in the state to inform parents any time their children check out books or materials, a proposal that critics say would be overly burdensome and detrimental to children's rights and safety. Senate Bills 597 and 598, authored by Republican Senators Romaine Quinn and Barbara Dittrich, are being promoted as so-called… |
(2023-11-29). The Right's persecution of Palestine supporters looks a lot like a new Red Scare. mronline.org Workers have been fired. Students have lost job offers. Activists have been harassed. But you can't bully a movement into silence.
(2023-11-29). US Says If CIA-Backed Embassy Security Opened Phones Of Assange Visitors, It Was Constitutional. thedissenter.org 
Support independent journalism on press freedom, whistleblowers, and government secrecy. An attorney for the United States government contended CIA-backed contractors had not violated the privacy rights when they allegedly opened the physical structure of cellphones belonging to Americans, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Ecuador embassy in London. "There are several cases," U.S. Attorney Jean-David Barnea argued, "that say that by giving your pho…
(2023-11-29). The Right's Persecution Of Palestine Supporters Looks Like A New Red Scare. popularresistance.org I attended the Janazah and burial of Wadea Al-Fayoume on October 16. In the first weeks of Israel's assault on Gaza, the six-year old Palestinian American boy, from a suburb of Chicago, was stabbed 26 times by his family's landlord in a hate crime. | The United States is currently awash in rhetoric justifying Muslim and Arab deaths. Joseph Czuba, 71, the landlord charged with killing Wadea and gravely injuring his mother, was on the receiving end of that rhetoric. | Czuba was reportedly an avid listener of conservative talk radio. According to Czuba's wife, he'd grown irate over supposed plans for a ‚Ä…
(2023-11-29). Community organizations in the UK step up solidarity with Palestine by blockading arms supply companies. peoplesdispatch.org Activists from the British tenants' union and housing rights platform ACORN organized blockades in front of the offices of three arms companies that are involved in supplying arms to Israel…
(2023-11-29). How Gaza War Galvanizes Global Indigenous Solidarity Movement. popularresistance.org For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for liberation, mainly in the Global South. | And since national liberation movements were, per definition, the struggle for Indigenous people to assert their collective rights for freedom, equality, and justice, the Palestinian struggle was positioned as part of this global Indigenous movement. | Alas, the collapse of the Soviet Union; the growing dominance of the United States and its allies; and the return of Western colonialism in the form of neocolonialism to Africa, the Middle Eas…
(2023-11-29). To Bury or Not to Bury: Muslim Migrants and the Politics of Funerary Rights in Contemporary Japan. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2023-11-29). Headlines for November 29, 2023. democracynow.org More Captives Released from Gaza and Israel as Key Parties Urge Extension of Truce, Aid Groups Detail Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza as Hundreds of Thousands Face Starvation, Israeli Forces Continue Deadly West Bank Attacks, Lay Siege to Jenin Hospitals During Lengthy Raid, "I Am But One Casualty in the Much Wider Conflict": Shot Palestinian American Student Speaks Out, Koch Super PAC Endorses Nikki Haley as GOP Nominee for President, Center for Reproductive Rights Argues Against Texas Abortion Ban Before State's Supreme Court, Panama to Expel Canadian-Owned Copper Mine After Supreme Court Ruling,…
(2023-11-29). Three Redistricting Cases to Watch. aclu.org Next year, voters across the country will head to polls to cast their ballots for congressional and state representatives. The choices we'll have before us as voters are dictated by what district we live in — lines that are redrawn every 10 years. This critical process, called redistricting, is intended to ensure each district accurately reflects the people who live there. But in practice, some states have strayed from that ideal and instead drawn district lines that dilute the power of voters of color, particularly Black voters, in an effort to manipulate election results. | This manipulation undermines…
(2023-11-29). UN envoy: Iran's missile, space programs fully in compliance with international law. presstv.ir Iran's UN envoy says the country's missile and space programs are fully in compliance with its legitimate rights under international law.
(2023-11-29). ExxonMobil's Land Grab. libya360.wordpress.com Maria Paez Victor The Venezuelan people voted in an electoral dry-run ahead of December 3's referendum to support the government's legal battle for the Essequibo Strip. (Venezuelanalysis) Attacks on Venezuela by the USA and its allies include 930 illegal sanctions that shut the country out from international finance blocking it from buying medicines, food or…
(2023-11-29). European Oil Corporations Eager to Resume Business With Venezuela Despite Sanction Uncertainty. orinocotribune.com According to The US outlet reports that companies such as Shell Plc. (United Kingdom), Repsol SA (Spain), Mol Nyrt (Hungary), Maha Energy AB (Sweden), along with…
(2023-11-29). Why have right-wing forces attacked Adania Shibli's novel Minor Detail? wsws.org After the outbreak of the new Israeli war against Palestinians a number of critics discovered antisemitism in the book and denounced Shibli as a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activist.