Editor2 (2022-01-31). Following "Unjustifiable" UAE Bombing of Saada Prison, US & UN Condemn Yemeni Retaliation. orinocotribune.com By Ahmed Abdulkareem — Jan 25, 2022 | "This is the latest in a long line of unjustifiable airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led Coalition on places like schools, hospitals, markets, wedding parties, and prisons." — Ahmed Mahat, head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in Yemen | SAADA, YEMEN — In a scene rife with chaos and crying, volunteers and a rescue squad pulled the bodies of 91 prisoners from the rubble of the Sa'ada City Remand Prison in southern Yemen on Tuesday. Early last Friday morning, United Arab Emirates (UAE) warplanes supported by the United States targeted the overcrowded p…

Editor (2022-01-30). ACLU Demands 'Truly Systemic Overhaul' of U.S. Civilian Harm Policies. scheerpost.com By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams After the Pentagon chief moved to improve how the U.S. mitigates and responds to civilian harm, the ACLU on Thursday urged more sweeping action in light of recent tragedies, including an August drone strike that killed 10 people in Afghanistan. "While a serious Defense Department focus on civilian harm is long overdue and welcome, it's …

Charles Taylor (2022-01-30). All States Need Expanded Medicaid Access. Gerrymandering Prevents It. truthout.org My job at the Mississippi NAACP is to safeguard the civil rights of those in my state and fight for current and future generations. | When I think about the challenges facing Mississippi, they come down to the "haves" and the "have-nots." It's about power — who has it, who's working to maintain it, and who lacks it. | Two policy issues confronting states, particularly Southern states, include closing the health insurance coverage gap and redistricting. These issues impact people's quality of lif…

Benjamin Norton (2022-01-30). Saudi Arabia kills 91, injures 236 in Yemen with US-made bomb from Raytheon. multipolarista.com Saudi Arabia attacked a detention center in Yemen's Saada city with a US-made laser-guided bomb from Raytheon, killing 91 people and injuring 236 more. President Joe Biden claimed he would end US support for Saudi bombing, but has not.

Joel Warner (2022-01-30). WEEKEND READER: Nursing Home Execs Fess Up. dailyposter.com

_____ (2022-01-30). The Global Links Of The Recent Escalation In The Yemen Conflict. popularresistance.org The last month has seen a drastic escalation in the war in Yemen. According to the UN, January will most likely be the month with the highest ever casualties reported since the war began in 2014. The January 21 strike on a prison in Sa'ada which killed 91 people marked the highest death toll in a single strike in the last three years. The number of airstrikes carried out by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition last December was already the highest in years. In all likelihood, this figure will be even higher by the end of January. | On the other hand, the Houthis have demonstrated their capacity and willingness to retal…

IGD Worldwide (2022-01-30). UK Threatens Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone with Years of Post-Release Criminalization and Extreme Surveillance. itsgoingdown.org | Syndicated from While nobody should look to the so-called judicial system for justice, the extrajudicial prosecution of anarchists is a trend that has spread further across the globe in recent years. | The state is so shamelessly vindictive, so unabashedly a weapon against freedom that more and more anarchists worldwide face extreme repression without even the formality of a conviction or an official guilty verdic…

Editor (2022-01-30). The Supreme Court Just Allowed the Executions of Two Disabled Black Men. scheerpost.com Officials from San Quentin State Prison in California display the prison's lethal injection facility in 2010. California recently placed a moratorium on capital punishment, but other states are moving in the opposite direction, pursuing methods such as gas chambers and firing squads. MICHAEL MACOR / THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE VIA GETTY IMAGES | By Mike Ludwig / In what activists warn could be the first in a spike of executions this year, Matthew Reeves and Donald Anthony Grant were k…

_____ (2022-01-30). Venezuelan Coup Attempt Leader Might End Up In Prison Soon. popularresistance.org As The Canary has consistently reported, the US-backed coup attempt in Venezuela has been degenerating into an increasingly pathetic and embarrassing spectacle. Now, in one final gasp of desperation, Juan Guaidó has called for a fresh round of protests next month. But it looks like he and his dwindling band of followers' hopes of toppling the government will soon be dashed. Because there are now growing calls for his prosecution for crimes including treason. | Washington and its mouthpieces in the corporate-owned media will surely crow that this somehow constitutes 'proof' of the Venezuelan government's authorita…

_____ (2022-01-30). On Contact: Assange Can Appeal UK Supreme Court. popularresistance.org The British High Court of England and Wales on Monday said it would allow the imprisoned publisher of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, to, in essence, appeal a ruling that would have seen him extradited to the United States where he faces a possible 175 years in prison for the publication of classified documents and videos. | The High Court technically refused to allow an appeal to the Supreme Court, but, in a legal loophole, it left it up to that court to determine whether it will grant permission to consider one legal issue. | "We certify a single point of law … in what circumstances can an appellate court receive…

Anonymous669 (2022-01-29). Russia Deployed Su-34s At Al-Qamishli Airport After ISIS Attack On Al-Hasakah Prison (Video, Photos). southfront.org File image. | The Russian Aerospace Forces deployed two Su-34 fighter bombers at the northeastern Syrian airport of al-Qamishli following the On January 25, a video and several photos showing the two Su-34s fighter bombers at the airport surfaced on social networks. | pic.twitter.com/Km57PcId9j

Black Lives Matter, Demand Justice (2022-01-29). Thursday 1/27: Call to Action: Ensuring a First Black Woman SCOTUS Justice Organizing Call. indybay.org Online event…

_____ (2022-01-29). Michael Ratner Was A Revolutionary Lawyer Like No Other. popularresistance.org When Michael Ratner died in 2016, the world lost one of the great human rights lawyers of the past century. A descendant of holocaust survivors, Ratner embodied the courage and integrity that is often sorely lacking among his peers in the legal field, taking on cases that seemed impossible to win, but were always essential to protecting human rights. He served as president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) as well as the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and spent much of his life advocating for the protection of civil liberties and civil rights. | One of his greatest achiev…

Joel Britton (2022-01-29). Sacramento protest says, 'Free Carlos Harris!'. themilitant.com SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three dozen people rallied in a Martin Luther King Day protest Jan. 17 across the street from the state Capitol building here demanding that Carlos Harris and other unjustly incarcerated prisoners be released. "My cousin Carlos has served 17 years of a 28-year-and-four-month sentence for a crime he did not commit," said protest organizer Aisha Hampton. Harris was framed up and jailed in 2005 for the attempted murder of Robert Carr, and other charges. | Harris protested that he had inadequate counsel and was railroaded to prison for a crime committed by others when he wasn't even present…

Anonymous Contributor (2022-01-29). Justice Demands Freedom for Fidencio Aldama. itsgoingdown.org An update and call to action from the Fidencio Aldama Support Group regarding the case of Indigenous Yaqui political prisoner Fidencio Aldama. La versión en español sigue a la versión en inglés Indigenous Yaqui land defender Fidencio Aldama has been imprisoned since October 27, 2016. He is currently serving a sentence of fifteen years and…

Anonymous Contributor (2022-01-29). Indigenous Prisoner in Struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez Shows Solidarity with Journalists Under Attack in Mexico. itsgoingdown.org Statement from Indigenous prisoner in struggle Marcelino Ruíz Gómez showing solidarity with journalists in Mexico after three journalists have already been killed just this year To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation To the Human Rights Defenders To the National and International Sixth To the National Indigenous Congress To the Indigenous Governing Council To the…

Bryant Arroyo (2022-01-29). Time for justice / Urgent need for change in PA sentencing system. workers.org The writer is currently incarcerated at Pennsylvania's SCI Coal Township. The Families Against Mandatory Minimum (FAMM) report points out the "irrational and ineffective" sentencing laws in Pennsylvania, which send too many people to prison for far longer than necessary. Sentencing laws that severely limit pathways to relief from excessive and . . . |

Staff (2022-01-29). Killing of Swede & American in Congo results in 51 death sentences. rt.com The country has a moratorium on carrying out executions, however | More than 50 people charged with crimes in connection with the 2017 slayings of two UN staffers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been sentenced to death. | A military court imposed the death penalty on 51 of the 54 defendants who were charged in the case, and an army colonel was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Congo has a moratorium on carrying out death sentences, so as long as that remains in place, the alleged killers will serve life prison terms. More than 20 of the defendants were sentenced in absentia because they remain fugi…

Editor (2022-01-29). The 13th Amendment's Fatal Flaw Created Modern-Day Slavery. scheerpost.com In this rare photograph taken in 2000, prisoners at the Ferguson Unit in Texas are seen working in the prison's cotton fields. By Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell / The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American…

Anonymous669 (2022-01-29). Al-Hasakah Prison Battle: 20 ISIS Terrorists Surrendered, Others Continue To Resist (Videos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Hawar News Agency. | As of January 29, clashes continue in the northeastern Syrian city of al-Hasakah where the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is still trying to neutralize the remnants of ISIS terrorists who SDF fighters eliminated five of th…

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2022-01-29). Censorship by algorithm does far more damage than conventional censorship. mronline.org Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience with being throttled into invisibility by Silicon Valley algorithmic suppression that will ring all too familiar for any online content creators who've been sufficiently critical of official western narratives over the last few years.