_____ (2022-03-20). Sanctions against Biden End his Career. journal-neo.org By launching information warfare and sanctions against undesirable countries and politicians, the United States clearly did not consider that these same weapons could very well punish the US, its American "stability", as well as knock many politicians of this "empire of lies" off pedestal. So, once Moscow, in response to the White House's insinuations, blacklisted …

UUSF Human Rights Working Group, Forum (2022-03-20). Sunday 3/27: The 1619 Project – Its Significance for Today. indybay.org Join us on ZOOM Sunday, March 27 from 1 to 3 PM Pacific Time…

teleSUR -HIM (2022-03-20). Protestan en Perú contra indulto de expresidente Fujimori. telesurtv.net Organizaciones defensoras de derechos humanos, así como miembros del gabinete ministerial han expresado su preocupación por el fallo del Tribunal Constitucional.

BARUARC (2022-03-20). Saturday 4/9: Rally and March for Abortion Rights SF Bay Area and Nationwide. indybay.org Rally starts at noon in Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley Campus (public welcome) | Entrance near Telegraph and Bancroft…

JANET (2022-03-20). LIVE THIS WEDNESDAY 3/23 @ 7:30PM Eastern — Biden's Threat: Nuclear War or Sanctions. iacenter.org REGISTER NOW! Join the International Action Center WEDNESDAY MARCH3 23rd at 7: 30PM EST for a livestream event. The fires of war have been lit in Ukraine. The U.S. corporate media fans the flames despite the best efforts of anti-war activists around the world attempt to extinguish them. Now President Biden has poured gasoline on an already volatile situation by issuing this ultimatum: there will either be sanctions or there will be nuclear war. This threat means that, no matter what, the U.S. is hell-bent on making Ukrainians and Russians suffer. It means that the U.S. and NATO is holding all of Europe hostage in…

Gefira, Global analysis (2022-03-20). Much wants more and loses all. indybay.org It is the West that cannot imagine a life without money and the resultant luxuries. Sanctions or no sanctions, Western companies will sooner or later (I bet: sooner) resume business with Russia because — as everybody in the West knows — "money makes the world go round".

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-19). Venezuela Criticizes UN's Politicization of Human Rights (+Bachelet). orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan government has thanked the United Nations' (UN) recognition for Venezuela's progress in the implementation of human rights, but has denounced the disqualifications—without evidence—that persist and smear the government's respect for and cooperation with international human rights mechanisms. | Héctor Constant Rosales, ambassador and permanent representative of Venezuela to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva, took part in the presentation of a report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet. In said presentation, Constant declared that the Venez…

Staff (2022-03-19). Amazon compra los estudios MGM y añade miles de películas y series a su catálogo. cubadebate.cu Amazon finalizó la compra de MGM, por lo que muy pronto añadirá el catálogo del importante estudio a su servicio Prime Video. La operación, valuada en 8 450 millones de dólares, hace a Amazon de un catálogo que incluye más de 4 000 películas y 17 000 episodios de series de TV y la totalidad de los derechos de las franquicias.

_____ (2022-03-19). Women And Labor: Key Struggles In The MENA Region. popularresistance.org How do women and gender equality measures advance in a context of conflict, climate change, high unemployment, low labor force participation, limited democratization and a pandemic? These are challenges facing the Arab region as many citizens, women's rights organizations, some governments and external partners seek wide-ranging institutional changes and an improved environment for women's participation and rights. | Surveys show public support for some — but not all — proposals for gender equality. Equal inheritance rights for women, for example, remain off the table, even in progressive Tunisia. Fam…

Andrew Green (2022-03-19). [Obituary] Sarah Weddington. thelancet.com Lawyer, politician, and advocate for women's rights and reproductive health care. Born on Feb 5, 1945 in Abilene, TX, USA, she died on Dec 26, 2021 in Austin, TX, aged 76 years.

Ann Garrison (2022-03-19). Sanctions: A Sanctimonious Word for Economic Warfare and Outright Theft (Interview). orinocotribune.com The US claims the right to sanction, to steal from other nations, with one-third of humanity suffering from these crimes. Sanctions are war by other means and cause great suffering around the world. Black Agenda Report's Ann Garrison interviewed Congolese economist Jean-Claude Maswana about such unilateral sanctions and their effects. | The word "sanctions" emerged in the Middle Ages, meaning ecclesiastical decrees. Today it's a sanctimonious word for economic warfare, including even outright theft. Despite all the terror about what could happen in Ukraine next, Afghans are still facing freezing cold and starvati…

Xiaolu Sun (2022-03-19). Russian metals are deeply rooted in the U.S. market. america.cgtn.com As the U.S. expands sanctions against Russia, there are a handful of metals that have been noticeably left off the blacklist: nickel and palladium. Find out why.

Andrew Green (2022-03-19). [Obituary] Sarah Weddington. thelancet.com Lawyer, politician, and advocate for women's rights and reproductive health care. Born on Feb 5, 1945 in Abilene, TX, USA, she died on Dec 26, 2021 in Austin, TX, aged 76 years.

Gefira, Global analysis (2022-03-19). Much wants more and loses all. indybay.org It is the West that cannot imagine a life without money and the resultant luxuries. Sanctions or no sanctions, Western companies will sooner or later (I bet: sooner) resume business with Russia because — as everybody in the West knows — "money makes the world go round".

_____ (2022-03-18). We Are In A Period Of Great Tectonic Shifts. popularresistance.org The war in Ukraine has focused attention on the shifts taking place in the world order. Russia's military intervention has been met with sanctions from the West as well as with the transport of arms and mercenaries to Ukraine. These sanctions will have a major impact on the Russian economy as well as the Central Asian states, but they will also negatively impact the European population who will see energy and food prices rise further. Until now, the West has decided not to intervene with direct military force or to try and establish a 'no-fly zone'. It is recognized, sanely, that such an intervention could escala…

JANET (2022-03-18). U.S. threatens nuclear war or sanctions. iacenter.org By Sara Flounders March 16, 2022 People line up to withdraw U.S. dollars and euros from an ATM in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 25. A seismic shift is sending shock waves through the global economy. The well-established capitalist disorder, dominated by U.S. imperialism and in place since World War II, is on shaky ground. Extreme economic sanctions imposed on Russia are dragging the whole world into a war that started long before the Russian intervention in Ukraine on Feb. 24. A big calculation is which countries will be forced to accept the onerous economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the U.S. Countries rep…

_____ (2022-03-18). Washington Rushes To Hide Its 'Octopus' NED Funding In Ukraine. popularresistance.org Despite the attempt to hide this sponsorship, an 80-page document showing US government NED funding for hundreds of Ukraine groups has been leaked. Now posted on several sites this document allows us a window into some of the internal U.S. influence since the CIA orchestrated Kiev coup of 2014. Many of the allocations have to do with anti-Russian propaganda, usually in the name of 'transparency', human rights, 'independent journalism', monitoring and so on. | For example, the list shows us that a Ukraine group 'InformNapalm', set up "to debunk myths and expose secrets of the Russian hybrid war" and which claims t…

_____ (2022-03-18). Do Texas Prison Conditions Violate Human Rights Standards? popularresistance.org Late last year, a Scottish court quietly refused what seemed like a routine extradition. It wasn't that of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose drawn-out efforts to avoid the American prison system have grabbed international headlines for years. Instead, it was that of a relatively unknown Scottish man, Daniel Magee, who'd allegedly shot a security guard in Austin, Texas, in 2016 before fleeing to his native country. | The refusal to send a prisoner back is not unprecedented — but what has raised eyebrows in the legal community is the reason: An Edinburgh judge decided that poor conditions in Texas priso…

ecns.cn (2022-03-18). Residents' stories tell of human rights progress. ecns.cn Residents from northwest China's Xinjiang have shared their life and career stories to show the all-round progress of human rights in the autonomous region.

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-03-18). Tehran committed to promotion of human rights in world. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) — Tehran is committed to promoting human rights in the world, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said, adding that selective, political approaches will undermine human rights instead of improving it.

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-03-18). Double standards on human rights to mark collapse of West. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) — Hojatoleslam Seyyed Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard says double standards on human rights will mark the end of Western power and the collapse of the hegemonic system,…

teleSUR, yart, JGN (2022-03-18). Peruanos protestan ante decisión de liberar a expdte. Fujimori. telesurtv.net El expresidente Fujimori (1990-2000) fue condenado en 2009 a 25 años de prisión por violaciones a derechos humanos.

Rann Miller (2022-03-18). Opinion: In A Racist Social Structure, There Are No Mistaken Identities. The Ryan Coogler Arrest Was On Brand. moguldom.com In January of this year, acclaimed film director Ryan Coogler was mistaken for a bank robber. Bank staffers at an Atlanta Bank of American branch mistakenly thought Coogler was staging a robbery, so they called cops, and the "Black Panther" director was detained by police, in handcuffs. Coogler had handed the bank teller a handwritten …

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-03-18). Iraqi forces detain top ISIL chieftain in W Iraq. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) — The Iraqi security forces neutralized movements of ISIL terrorists in western Iraq, arresting an ISIL element, Iraqi sources reported on Friday.

C.J. Atkins (2022-03-18). 'Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson' back in print. peoplesworld.org Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson, cowritten with People's World staff writer Eric A. Gordon has been out of print for almost twenty years. International Publishers has just reissued it in a new paperback edition now that Gordon, the surviving coauthor, has secured the legal rights from the original publisher. People's World …

Fight Back (2022-03-18). New Orleans trans and workers organizations demonstrate for International Women's Day. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – Community members gathered in New Orleans on the weekend after International Women's Day to mark the holiday in the context of critical struggles unfolding across the country. They gathered on Claiborne Avenue at the sight of the 2015 murder of Penny Proud, a 21-year-old Black trans women. | Serena Borne of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) highlighted the importance of gathering at this location. "We must understand the connection between legislation that attacks trans youth or women's reproductive rights, and anti-trans hate crimes that happen far too often." | Many local organization…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-03-18). Independent vets group aims to counter right's clout in military. peoplesworld.org ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Remember the kids' game "Capture the flag?" Well, former Army Sgt. Linsay Rousseau and her colleagues at a relatively new veterans' group, Continue To Serve, want to "recapture the flag," so to speak, from the radical right. And the word "patriotism," too. The sergeant, one of four full-time staffers at the group, which seeks …

_____ (2022-03-18). US Threatens Nuclear War Or Sanctions. popularresistance.org The well-established capitalist disorder, dominated by U.S. imperialism and in place since World War II, is on shaky ground. Extreme economic sanctions imposed on Russia are dragging the whole world into a war that started long before the Russian intervention in Ukraine on Feb. 24. | A big calculation is which countries will be forced to accept the onerous economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the U.S. Countries representing a majority of the world's population are not willing to tie their sovereignty to total Wall Street control. To the shock of U.S. war strategists, almost all of Latin America, the Caribbean,…

Editor (2022-03-18). Sanctions anyone? Imperialist contradiction or the unintended consequence of involuntary decolonization. mronline.org In support of the white supremacist Ukrainian puppet government, many U.S. and European companies have been withdrawing from doing business in Russia.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-18). U.S. ultimatum to Georgia: war or regime change. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The MessengerMarch 18, 2022 US Ambassador Meets Opposition, Comments on Sanctions Against Russia The US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan held a meeting with opposition members of parliament on March 17. According to her, very good discussions took place, during which they talked about the current developments in the region and her meetings in Washington. …

Anand Naidoo (2022-03-18). The Heat: Sanctions imposed on Russia. america.cgtn.com Russia is under severe economic sanctions imposed by western countries. But do sanctions work?

JANET (2022-03-18). Sign on: End Sanctions & War. iacenter.org SanctionsKill Campaign Statement on Ukraine Conflict END ALL WARFARE — NO SANCTIONS Sign on — click here The SanctionsKill Campaign is a broad coalition of social justice, solidarity, and peace forces focused on exposing the devastating impact of US sanctions on civilian populations globally. Sanctions are not a substitute for war The current regime of sanctions against Russia is not a substitute for war, but a form of warfare. Sanctions kill many thousands just as bombs do. Sanctions create hyperinflation, artificial famines, social upheavals, and health crises that punish civilian populations. As US…