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2022-03-28: News Headlines

Jacob Augstein (2022-03-28). The spiral of uncertainty. indybay.org Exiting this spiral is difficult. The first step is to acknowledge one's own involvement. It is said that Putin is the prisoner of his historical myths. But this is also true for the countries of the West. Their myth is that of their own blamelessness.

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-28). Georgia won't invade Abkhazia, S. Ossetia, wage war with Russia on Ukraine's orders: ruling party. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The United National Movement was founded by now imprisoned former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, a citizen of Ukraine and former leading official in the Zelensky administration. Saakashvili's trial began today.* Agenda.geMarch 28, 2022 Ruling party head: Georgia "remains committed" to peaceful de-occupation The Georgian Government remains committed to the policy of peaceful de-occupation and will …

_____ (2022-03-28). America Plea Bargains For Its Crimes Of Torture. popularresistance.org The Guardian reported last week that a recently-declassified CIA Inspector General's report from 2008 found that CIA officers at a covert detention site in Afghanistan used a prisoner, Ammar al-Baluch, as a "training prop," taking turns smashing his head against a plywood wall and leaving him with permanent brain damage. Baluch is currently one of five defendants before a military tribunal at the US military prison at Guantanamo charged with participating in the planning for the September 11 attacks. The case has been stuck in the pre-trial phase for 10 years, in part because much of the information that the gove…

Jonathan Kim (2022-03-28). Ruchell Magee turns 83: National leaders demand his immediate release. liberationnews.org Fighters for freedom and justice united on March 19 for a virtual webinar to wish Ruchell "Cinque" Magee 83rd birthday greetings and to demand his immediate release from California Medical Facility in Vacaville, CA. Ruchell Magee is the longest held political prisoner in the United States and nearly 60 years have passed since his arrest and incarceration in 1963. In 1970, after being trapped in the wretched, racist U.S. prison system for 15 years, the 31-year-old Magee joined Jonathan Jackson, William Christmas, and James McClain in escaping the Marin County Courthouse. Magee turned 83 on March 17, 2022.

CA Poor People's Campaign, partners (2022-03-28). Wednesday 3/30: What's Up With Our Alameda County Jail System? Zoom Town Hall. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Kevin Mwanza (2022-03-28). Hired Hit Man Man Sentenced To Life For Murdering Former NBA Player Lorenzen Wright, Ex-Wife Ordered Hit. moguldom.com A Tennessee man was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of former National Basketball Association player Lorenzen Wright, whose bullet-riddled body was found in a field nearly 12 years ago in his hometown of Memphis. A 12-person jury found Billy Ray Turner guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy in the death …

Ramona Wadi (2022-03-28). The US Should Remember that Israel's Squatter-Settlements in Palestine are War Crimes. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — US Ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, engaged in further diplomatic contradictions, as he fluctuated between asserting the Biden administration's stance purportedly against Israeli settlement expansion, yet making concessions for earlier encroachment upon Palestinian land. "We can't do stupid things that impede us from a two-state solution," Nides reportedly told …

D. Watkins (2022-03-27). The "race-obsessed liberal" nightmare: "We have to fight for a country that doesn't love us back" salon.com Playwright Wajahat Ali stopped by "Salon Talks" to discuss his new book, incarceration, Ukraine and white privilege…

Rebecca Talbot (2022-03-27). ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back. truthout.org This story is published in partnership with Just after dawn on September 16, 2021, E.E. and six other African immigrant men were resting in their bunks at the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida, when Captain John Gadson and a group of at least 15 sheriff's deputies stormed in, E.E. and the others sat i…

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