2023-11-29: News Headlines

Ben Norton (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…

Editor (2023-11-29). West Votes Against Democracy, Human Rights, Cultural Diversity at UN; Promotes Mercenaries, Sanctions. scheerpost.com

The Independent (2023-11-28). Kitutu fails to block iron sheet trial. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Anti-Corruption Court has rejected Minister for Karamoja Affairs Mary Gorreti Kitutu's plea challenging her trial in the iron sheets scandal on grounds of alleged torture. Lady Justice Jane Okuo Kajuga, presiding over the court on Tuesday, dismissed Kitutu's application, stating it lacked substantial evidence and contained falsehoods, as …

presstv.ir (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…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-11-28). Israel extends detention of Al-Shifa hospital's director by 45 days. peoplesdispatch.org Al-Shifa hospital director Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya and his colleagues were arrested on November 23, a day before the ceasefire came into effect. Israeli forces had continuously targeted and raided the hospital leading to the death of patients…

presstv.ir (2023-11-28). 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…

Aimee Rickman (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 …

Nashwa Bawab, In These Times. (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…

Peoples Dispatch (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…

Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo, LA Progressive. (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…

Shinji Kojima (2023-11-29). To Bury or Not to Bury: Muslim Migrants and the Politics of Funerary Rights in Contemporary Japan. asia-pacificresearch.com

presstv.ir (2023-11-28). 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.

presstv.ir (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.

WSWS (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.

Ana Perdigón (2023-11-28). European Union Eases Some Illegal Sanctions Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The European Union (EU) agreed to relax some of the sanctions imposed on Venezuela, with the objective of "facilitating organizations to deliver humanitarian aid," in accordance with the recommendations of the United Nations. | The group currently consisting of 27 countries agreed to introduce exceptions to the asset freeze that the EU maintains against Venezuela, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Guinea, Lebanon, Burma, Nicaragua, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe. | Referring to United Nations (UN) resolution 2664, passed in 2022, the EU can carry out financial transactions if the objective is to ensure humanitarian assista…

infobrics (2023-11-28). German military "would only last two days in a battle" due to weapons deliveries to Kiev. infobrics.org Germany will face deindustrialisation if sanctions on Russian energy continue, warns CEO.

María Páez Victor, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-11-28). ExxonMobil's Land Grab. popularresistance.org 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 producing or selling its oil. Also there have been direct and indirect support for coup d'etat attempts, street violence leading to murders and injuries, cyberattacks on its electricity grid, sabotage of oil and infrastructure, financing criminal bands, corruption of officials, assassination attempt against the President and his cabinet, setting up a false presidency, appropriating CITGO oil company and billions of Venezuelan assets in banks,…

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