(2023-12-18). Christmas Greetings From Bethlehem. popularresistance.org We have been writing annual Christmas messages of peace, for human rights, and relating sometimes what happened in the passing year for decades. Since I returned to Bethlehem in 2008, these messages have been special. Since founding the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) in 2014, we also added greeting from PIBS. This year writing seems tougher than ever considering the ongoing and unprecedented genocide/holocaust occurring in Palestine. In the ten weeks before Christmas, more than 20,000 civilians (>8000 of them children) were killed. 2.3 million people were denied food, water and med…
(2023-12-18). West Fears 'Atrocity Upsurge' While Ignoring Gaza. scheerpost.com 
Gaza, Oct. 17. (Saleh Najm and Anas Sharif/Fars News/Wikimedia Commons) | By Jonathan Cook / How do politicians, diplomats, the media and even the human rights community keep us politically ignorant, docile and passive — a collective mindset that prevents us from challenging their power as well as the status quo they benefit from? | The answer: By constantly misrepresenting r…
(2023-12-18). Sen. Padilla's Office is Chalk Marked – Gaza Ceasefire Now. indybay.org Human rights activists protest outside Senator Alex Padilla's office demanding his support for permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
(2023-12-18). Human Rights Day Candlelight Vigil: Respect the Human Rights of the Palestinian People. indybay.org "As we prepare to celebrate Christmas this year, the Holy Land is bathed in blood," said Mario Galvan, Board Member of Sacramento Area Peace Action.
(2023-12-18). Israel-Palestine war: Palestinian detainees from Gaza die in Israeli custody, says report. middleeasteye.net 
(2023-12-18). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 73: Reports surface of Palestinian deaths inside Israeli detention camps. mondoweiss.net 
As Israel continues attacking medical facilities in Gaza, Israeli media reports detained Gazans ranging in age from 12 to 70 were taken to army camps in southern Israel where they were subjected to severe abuse and at least several have died.
(2023-12-18). Report: Trump Wants 300K Troops to Build "Detention Camps" at Southern Border. truthout.org Former President Donald Trump would send an unprecedented number of U.S. military troops to the southern border if elected president again in the 2024 race, tasking them with building migrant prisons and other infrastructure to punish migrants, sources told Rolling Stone Magazine. At least three sources familiar with the situation confirmed to the publication Trump's intent to use "hundreds of… |
(2023-12-18). Australian government tries to thwart High Court challenges to new detention laws. wsws.org The Labor government's manoeuvre underscores how far it is prepared to go, hand-in-hand with the Liberal-National Coalition, to override even the limited protections in the Australian Constitution against arbitrary detention by executive decree.
(2023-12-18). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 73: Reports surface of Palestinian deaths inside Israeli detention camps. mondoweiss.net
(2023-12-18). Starbucks Ordered To Reopen 23 Stores. popularresistance.org Like its alleged intimidation tactics and firing of workers who have led unionization efforts, Starbucks' closure of at least 23 stores amid a nationwide workers' rights push last year did not go unnoticed by federal regulators, who ordered the global coffee chain to reopen the locations on Wednesday. | The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint saying that eight of the shuttered stores were among the more than 360 Starbucks locations that have voted to unionize, and that executives did not notify the union, Starbucks Workers United, about the closures ahead of time—robbing organizers of a…
(2023-12-18). World is bigger than the FIVE. muslimmirror.com By Kashmala Ishfaq Elahi "The campaign launched by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the UN General Assembly emphasizes that 'The world is bigger than five.' As ordinary individuals, we share a common passion for rights and equality, as well as a fervent interest in diplomacy, supporting democratization. The assertion that the world is more …
(2023-12-18). Member of Zelensky's Servant of the People party injures 26 in grenade attack. wsws.org Combined with the state-organized crackdown on opposition and democratic rights, the violence of the war and conscription drive have created the conditions for such a violent anti-social and anti-democratic attack.
(2023-12-18). Labor's new punitive refugee laws criticised. greenleft.org.au 