Daily Archives: 2022-03-22

2022-03-22: News Headlines

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-03-22). Mexico launches an historic lawsuit agains U.S. gunmakers. america.cgtn.com Mexico is suing weapon manufacturers in the U.S. for what has become an out of control crisis within its borders. Alasdair Baverstock reports.

Joris Leverink (2022-03-21). Reviving the legacy of civil rights leader Anton de Kom. roarmag.org The story of Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom might seem one of those hard-to-believe Hollywood-style legends. Born the son of a formerly enslaved Surinamese farmer in 1898, he would go on to lead a national struggle against the ruling Dutch Empire before being imprisoned and banished to the Netherlands. Once in exile, he joined the resistance against German occupation, was captured and died of tuberculosis in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of 47. | The seeming contradiction of a Black anti-imperialist that would come to fight and die on behalf of his oppressor nation, coupled with an unrivaled position as a D…

Ann Brown (2022-03-21). Ben Crump And Former Employees File Racial Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit Against Google. moguldom.com Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has filed a racial discrimination class action lawsuit against Google on behalf of former employees of the search engine giant. The lawsuit, filed on March 18, accuses Google of systemic bias against Black employees. Former Black Google employees claim the Alphabet Inc.-owned company steered them to lower-level jobs, paid them …

Tim Wheeler (2022-03-21). Latinos cheated in Washington State voter map. peoplesworld.org YAKIMA—Washington State is guilty of gerrymandering to deny Latino voters representation in the state legislature according to a pending lawsuit filed Jan.19 by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). The lawsuit assails a district map approved by the legislature that is 50.2% Hispanic as a "faàßade" of a map that fairly embraces …

Staff (2022-03-21). Berlin rally calls for freedom for political prisoners and liberation for Palestine. samidoun.net Samidoun Deutschland joined with the Freiheitskomitee Berlin (Freedom Committee Berlin), Komitee fàºr den Anti-Imperialistischen Kampf (Committee for Anti-Imperialist Struggle) and the Netzwerk Freiheit fàºr alle politischen Gefangenen Berlin (Freedom for all Political Prisoners Network) to rally on Friday, 18 March in Berlin for the freedom of all political and revolutionary prisoners. The spirited, youthful rally …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). International Law Is a Meaningless Concept When It only Applies to U.S. Enemies. transcend.org 17 Mar 2022 – International law is a meaningless concept when it only applies to people the US power alliance doesn't like. Neither George W Bush nor Tony Blair are in prison cells at The Hague where international law says they ought to be.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death. transcend.org 14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.

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