(2023-01-03). Ajamu Baraka: The Left Must Draw Clear Political And Ideological Lines. popularresistance.org As 2022 comes to an end and major crises abound, Clearing the FOG spoke with Ajamu Baraka, a long time human rights defender and co-founder of the Black Alliance for Peace, about the big picture of what is happening politically and upcoming opportunities to organize for change. Baraka discusses the continued move to the right in the United States by both of the major political parties and their voting bases, including those in the liberal class, the complicity of the corporate media and the rise of censorship and repression against those who do not adhere to the manufactured narrative. Baraka explains why the Lef…
(2023-01-03). Will the International Court of Justice finally give a Verdict against Israel's Illegal Squatting in Palestine? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment)  ; Al-Quds [Jerusalem] reports the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution entitled "Israeli Practices that affect the Human Rights of the Palestinian People in Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." It depended on Chapter XIV, Article 96 of the U.N. Charter, which specifies that "The General Assembly or …
(2023-01-03). President Boric Says Chile Will Open Embassy in Occupied Palestine. indybay.org "We cannot forget a community that is suffering from an illegal occupation, a community that is resisting, a community that is seeing its rights and dignity violated every day," Chile's leftist president said.
(2023-01-03). Ukraine Wants EU to Scrap Medicine Exemption for Russia Sanctions. news.antiwar.com Ukraine is threatening to punish European pharmaceutical companies that are still operating in Russia and wants EU sanctions on Russia to apply to medicine, POLITICO reported in December. The EU has imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Russia but has exempted medicines due to humanitarian concerns. The report said that the exemption hasn't "sat well" with Ukraine …
(2023-01-02). Ten Oil Field Workers Killed in Attack in Eastern Syria. news.antiwar.com Ten oil field workers were killed in an attack Friday on a bus in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province, Syrian state media reported. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the attack was carried out by terrorists linked to ISIS, but the report isn't confirmed, and no group took responsibility for the incident. …
(2023-01-02). Looking Back on 2022: Ukraine and the Rest of the Story. transcend.org 26 Dec 2022 – As 2022 draws to a close, the world bears the tragic burden of the war in Ukraine and there is nothing to indicate that it will end any time soon. Thousands have perished. A huge number of people have been injured and maimed. Both Russian and Ukrainian prisoners have been subjected to torture.
(2023-01-02). Twitter Promoted Pentagon Propaganda to Whitewash Occupation, War Crimes in West Asia. orinocotribune.com By Fayha Shalash — Dec 27, 2022 | Raja' sat quietly in her living room, staring at her son's picture on the wall. She loved the way he smiled, and said she sees him in every corner of the house. But now, she only has painful memories, knowing his body is detained by Israeli occupation forces in an Israeli morgue. | Martyrs' families in the West Bank say Israeli policy to hold their children's bodies is a form of collective punishment. | Some of the bodies have been held since 2016. More than 118 Palestinian martyrs are still in the Israeli morgues, while 253 are buried in unknown cemeteries called 'the ceme…
(2023-01-02). "The anthem of return and liberation" : Karim Younes's letter in advance of his release. samidoun.net 
Palestinian prisoner Karim Younes, the longest consecutively-held detainee of the occupation, wrote a letter from his cell in Hadarim prison, to be released in advance of his liberation on 5 January 2023, after 40 years of imprisonment. Karim Younes has been jailed by occupation forces since 6 January 1983. He was initially sentenced to death …
(2023-01-02). China's revised law on protection of women takes effect. ecns.cn China's newly-revised Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of Women comes into force on January 1, 2023.
(2023-01-02). The fight for refugee rights: 2022 into 2023. greenleft.org.au For refugees, people seeking asylum and their supporters, 2022 was a difficult year. But progress has been made, reports Jonathan Strauss.
(2023-01-02). US Spreads Misery By Imposing Sanctions On A Third Of Humanity. popularresistance.org On November 14, the Biden administration announced yet another round of sanctions on Russia, targeting this time Russia's military supply chains by imposing sanctions on 14 individuals and 28 entities that it said were part of a transnational network that procured technology to support Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine. | One of the companies blacklisted was Milandr, a Russian microelectronics company that Washington says is part of Moscow's military research and development structure. | The sanctions additionally targeted several aviation-related companies and two individuals—Abbas Djuma and Tigran Khristo…
(2023-01-02). Russia Dropping US Dollar for Chinese Yuan — And Fast. transcend.org 26 Dec 2022 – In response to Western sanctions, Russia's central bank is dropping the US dollar for Chinese yuan. The yuan's share of Moscow's currency trading increased from 1% to 40-45% in 2022, while dollar trade halved from 80% to 40%.
(2023-01-02). Pakistan's Imran Khan Compares His Ouster to CIA Coup in Iran, Criticizes Western Colonialism. orinocotribune.com By Ben Norton  ; Dec 31, 2022 | Pakistan's former Prime Minister likened the The CIA-organized coup "was a very similar pattern followed in when my government was dismissed," Khan said. | He likewise praised Iran's independence today, stating that Western sanctions means that "the people of Iran might have suffered, but they h…
(2023-01-02). Venezuela's Maduro Says He's Ready to Work Toward Normalization With the US. news.antiwar.com Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday that Venezuela is "ready" to work toward normalization with the US, which would involve the Biden administration lifting crippling economic sanctions on the South American country. "Venezuela is ready, totally ready, to take steps towards a process of normalization of diplomatic, consular and political relations with the current administration …
(2023-01-02). U.S. Spreads Misery Across the Globe Imposing Sanctions on a Third of Humanity. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov …Yet There is Almost No Opposition or Outcry—Even When Sanctions are Increasingly Having a Boomerang Effect. The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a 'response to foreign tyranny,' but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations. On November 14, the Biden…