_____ (2023-02-08). Memphis Police Chief Trained With Israel Security Forces. popularresistance.org The death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers last month once again ignited outrage over the violent, militarized nature of U.S. law enforcement and placed scrutiny on police departments' bloated budgets . | Among the objections to policing that are being revived are criticisms of a controversial series of trainings and exchange programs for U.S. police in Israel. Scores of American law enforcement leaders have attended the programs, where they learned from Israeli police and security forces known for systemically abusing the human rights of Palestinians. | Some of the Memphis Poli…

Anonymous669 (2023-02-08). Turkish Army Fires At Kurdish Forces In Northern Syria Amid Humanitarian Operations. southfront.org Turkish forces are seen at Mount Barsaya in northeast of Afrin, January 28, 2018 / Khalil Ashawi / Reuters | On February 8, four fighters of the Manbij Military Council, a faction of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), were wounded in an attack by the Turkish military, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. | The London-based monitoring group said that the fighters were wounded when the Turkish military targeted a military position of the SDF near the village of Tukhar, to the east of Manbi…

amnesty (2023-02-08). Palestinian lives in peril as Israel reinforces apartheid. amnesty.org Israeli authorities must dismantle the system of apartheid which is causing so much suffering and bloodshed.

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-02-09). Denuncian más de 4. 0 detenciones arbitrarias en El Salvador. telesurtv.net Desde el inició del estado de excepción en el Salvador, organizaciones defensoras de Derechos Humanos han denunciado detenciones arbitrarias por las fuerzas policiales.

Salma Allam (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!"

WSWS (2023-02-09). Indiana workers denounce fraudulent UAW run-off election. wsws.org In discussions outside factory gates, workers expressed deep opposition to the brazen violation of their rights and the "choice" in the election between two longtime union bureaucrats.

Women's March, Working Families Power (2023-02-08). Tuesday 2/7: #AbortionRights: Text Party for WI Supreme Court Election – NO to Far Right Justices. indybay.org Online event…

Jim McMahan (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, . . . |

Salma Allam (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!"

WSWS (2023-02-09). Indiana workers denounce fraudulent UAW run-off election. wsws.org In discussions outside factory gates, workers expressed deep opposition to the brazen violation of their rights and the "choice" in the election between two longtime union bureaucrats.

Women's March, Working Families Power (2023-02-08). Tuesday 2/7: #AbortionRights: Text Party for WI Supreme Court Election – NO to Far Right Justices. indybay.org Online event…

Jim McMahan (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, . . . |

WSWS (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.

Staff (2023-02-08). The labour and social struggle in France, confronting the pension cuts: Palestine is present! samidoun.net Throughout the cities and towns of France, mass mobilizations, one-day general strikes and ongoing labour actions have mobilized tens and hundreds of thousands to take to the streets to defend labour rights against the pension "reform" plan that aims to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 and increase the number of years a …

Bilal G. Morris (2023-02-08). Civil Rights Leaders Demand Action In Response To President Biden's State Of The Union. newsone.com

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-02-08). Remembering Jesse B. Blayton Sr.: Black American Media Pioneer. moguldom.com If making history was a person, it could easily have been Jesse B. Blayton Sr. Not only was Blayton an iconic scholar, serial entrepreneur and civil rights activist, he was also the first to amplify Black voices through broadcast radio. According to his biography on Black Past, Blayton purchased WERD-AM in Atlanta, Georgia, for $ ,000 on Oct …

Almontasser Bella Kassier (2023-02-09). Stop Sanctions On Syria IMMEDIATELY. indybay.org Thousands of Syrians under rubble due to multiple incredible earthquakes. They could not be extracted due to American blockade on Syria. U.S government causes KILLING Syrian people under rubble and DESTROYING lives of survivals.

Peoples Dispatch (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.

ecns.cn (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.

Staff (2023-02-08). Syria: Illegal Sanctions Exacerbate Suffering of Those Affected by Earthquakes. orinocotribune.com On Monday, February 6, Syria condemned the negative impact of illegal sanctions against the country, which increase the suffering of those affected by the recent earthquake. "The impacts of unilateral sanctions increase the suffering," said Syrian Minister for Foreign Affairs Faisal al-Miqdad, quoted by the official Syrian news agency SANA. The earthquake has killed more than one thousand people in Syria. | Speaking at a meeting with representatives of organizations and offices of the United Nations (UN) and non-governmental entities in Damascus, the minister addressed the measures taken by the government and the…

Victoria Torres (2023-02-08). Venezuela Coordinates Emergency Assistance for Syria. orinocotribune.com On Monday, February 6, after the devastation and material damage in Syria caused by a strong earthquake, Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Relations Yván Gil met with the Syrian Ambassador in Caracas, Kenan Zaher Al Deen, to coordinate support that the Venezuelan government will provide Syria. This is also within the context of the illegal US and European sanctions that the Syrian people still face amid the foreign occupation of their country. | President Nicolás Maduro instructed to "provide all the support available to help this sister nation. Let the Syrian people count on our total solidarity!" Yván Gil wrote o…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-08). Daily Round-up | Western sanctions hampering earthquake relief in Syria & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stores of sanctions hampering earthquake relief in Syria, the recent Ecuadorian elections, NHS workers continuing their strikes, and a Kenyan court allowing Meta to be sued…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-08). U.S./Western Sanctions On Syria Hamper Relief-and-Rescue Work After Earthquake. towardfreedom.org About 11,000 people have been reported dead in Turkey and Syria, and thousands more are injured, after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit on February 6. Peoples Dispatch reports.

WSWS (2023-02-08). Aid to earthquake victims requires the immediate lifting of US sanctions against Syria. wsws.org A major factor in the devastation now unfolding and which will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the coming weeks and months is the bloody intervention of US imperialism in the region over the last three decades.

Shabbir Rizvi (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.

teleSUR (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…

Fight Back (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…

WSWS (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.

Fight Back (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.

Peoples Dispatch (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,"

Salma Allam (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!"

Ann Brown (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 …

Women's March, Working Families Power (2023-02-08). Tuesday 2/7: #AbortionRights: Text Party for WI Supreme Court Election – NO to Far Right Justices. indybay.org Online event…

Jim McMahan (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, . . . |

WSWS (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.

americanthinker (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.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (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.

WSWS (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.

Staff (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. |

Peoples Dispatch (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.

ecns.cn (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.

teleSUR (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…

Dave DeCamp (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 …

Juan Cole (2023-02-07). With Thousands Dead or Wounded, Will earthquake Aid for Syria be Impeded by US Sanctions? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) &#1 ; 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 …

Peoples Dispatch (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.

ecns.cn (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.

teleSUR (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…

Dave DeCamp (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 …

Juan Cole (2023-02-07). With Thousands Dead or Wounded, Will earthquake Aid for Syria be Impeded by US Sanctions? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) &#1 ; 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 …

Staff (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…

Dave DeCamp (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…

Peoples Dispatch (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…

teleSUR (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.