Monthly Archives: July 2022

2022-07-31: News Headlines

Esha Krishnaswamy (2022-07-31). "These are animals, not people": Zelensky frees convicted child rapists, torturers to reinforce depleted military. thegrayzone.com Once condemned by Ukrainian officials and imprisoned for sadistic torture and the rape of minors, leaders of the notorious Tornado Battalion are free under Volodymyr Zelensky's orders. After banning virtually his entire political opposition, publishing a blacklist of foreign journalists and academics accused of advancing "Russian propaganda," and ramming through a law exempting 70% of Ukrainians from workplace protections, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy has freed from prison fascist militants convicted of some of the most heinous crimes the country has …

Binoy Kampmark (2022-07-31). Penal Assassination: The Gradual Effort to Kill Assange. dissidentvoice.org They really do want to kill him. Perhaps it is high time that his detractors and sceptics, proven wrong essentially from the outset, admit that the US imperium, along with its client states, is willing to see Julian Assange perish in prison. The locality and venue, for the purposes of this exercise, are not relevant. …

IMEMC News (2022-07-31). Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Near Jenin. imemc.org On Sunday, Israeli soldiers abducted a former political prisoner and broke into the Village Council building in Nazlet Zaid village, southwest of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Aziz Kilani, the head of Nazlet Zeid Village Council, said several army jeeps invaded the village and abducted a former political prisoner, Zeid …

Editor (2022-07-30). An interview with John Pilger: "Assange is the courageous embodiment of a struggle against the most oppressive forces in our world" mronline.org Last month, British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Assange's extradition to the U.S., where he faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act for publishing true information exposing American war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

English.alaraby.co.uk (2022-07-30). Zelensky calls prison strike 'deliberate Russian war crime'. english.alaraby.co.uk President "Today I received information about the attack by the occupiers on Olenivka [the prison's location], in the Donetsk region. It is a deliberate Russian war crime, a deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian prisoner…

English.alaraby.co.uk (2022-07-30). Detainees' families in Saudi demand news on inmates. english.alaraby.co.uk Contact between the prisoners and their families has been completely cut off since the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday in early July, after several detainees contracted the coronavirus, sources said. | The…

Tyler Durden (2022-07-30). The Genetic Panopticon: We're All Suspects In A DNA Lineup, Waiting To Be Matched With A Crime. zerohedge.com The Genetic Panopticon: We're All Suspects In A DNA Lineup, Waiting To Be Matched With A Crime | "Solving unsolved crimes is a noble objective, but it occupies a lower place in the American pantheon of noble objectives than the protection of our people from suspicionless law-enforcement searches… Make no mistake about it…your DNA can be taken and entered into a…

Fight Back (2022-07-30). Community and labor organizations speak against voter suppression in Milwaukee. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI — On July 26, the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee joined SEIU Wisconsin for an event to speak against voter suppression. Early voting for the partisan primary kicked off on Tuesday in Milwaukee, and while many speakers emphasized the need to vote, the Milwaukee Alliance and RJAM kept their messages focused on the fight for voting rights. This is important, as our voting rights, especially those of oppressed nationalities, are coming under deeper and more frequent attacks. | Lauren Forbush, chair of RJAM, drew connections bet…

A Guest Author (2022-07-30). Julian Assange defense files appeals, granted extension. workers.org By Tareq Haddad This excerpted article, which originally appeared July 16 in Popular Resistance, can be read in full at tinyurl.com/kfzvkh2c. London — Following a June 17 decision from British Secretary of State Priti Patel approving the order to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S., lawyers for the imprisoned WikiLeaks . . . |

Staff (2022-07-30). New theatrical play featuring the struggle of Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat to premiere in Edinburgh. samidoun.net The story of Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, the Palestinian-Scottish doctor and Palestinian community organizer subjected to political imprisonment, surveillance, and repression by British authorities, is coming to the stage in Edinburgh, Scotland. "From the Heart of the Incident" will premiere at ZOO Southside at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on August 8 and 9, 2022. Tickets …

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2022-07-30: News Headlines

Editor (2022-07-30). An interview with John Pilger: "Assange is the courageous embodiment of a struggle against the most oppressive forces in our world" mronline.org Last month, British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Assange's extradition to the U.S., where he faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act for publishing true information exposing American war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tyler Durden (2022-07-30). The Genetic Panopticon: We're All Suspects In A DNA Lineup, Waiting To Be Matched With A Crime. zerohedge.com The Genetic Panopticon: We're All Suspects In A DNA Lineup, Waiting To Be Matched With A Crime | "Solving unsolved crimes is a noble objective, but it occupies a lower place in the American pantheon of noble objectives than the protection of our people from suspicionless law-enforcement searches… Make no mistake about it…your DNA can be taken and entered into a…

A Guest Author (2022-07-30). Julian Assange defense files appeals, granted extension. workers.org By Tareq Haddad This excerpted article, which originally appeared July 16 in Popular Resistance, can be read in full at tinyurl.com/kfzvkh2c. London — Following a June 17 decision from British Secretary of State Priti Patel approving the order to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S., lawyers for the imprisoned WikiLeaks . . . |

Staff (2022-07-30). New theatrical play featuring the struggle of Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat to premiere in Edinburgh. samidoun.net The story of Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, the Palestinian-Scottish doctor and Palestinian community organizer subjected to political imprisonment, surveillance, and repression by British authorities, is coming to the stage in Edinburgh, Scotland. "From the Heart of the Incident" will premiere at ZOO Southside at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on August 8 and 9, 2022. Tickets …

Ali Abunimah (2022-07-29). Ben & Jerry's owner Unilever admits it melted under Israel's threats. electronicintifada.net Ice cream maker and its parent fail to reach deal in lawsuit over decision to stop sales in West Bank settlements.

_____ (2022-07-29). An Interview With John Pilger On Julian Assange. popularresistance.org Last month, British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Assange's extradition to the US, where he faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act for publishing true information exposing American war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. As Pilger explains, Patel's order will be the subject of a further appeal, but the British judiciary that will adjudicate has facilitated Assange's persecution every step of the way. This underscores the urgency of a political fight to free Assange, based on the powerful struggles of the working class that are emerging all around the world. | Pilger began his media career in the l…

Anonymous103 (2022-07-29). Kiev Assassinated Dozens Of Its Own Azov Heroes (18+). southfront.org In the early morning of July 29, Kiev's forces shelled a detention center for Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in the village of Elenovka in the Donetsk People's Republic. The blow was struck precisely at the barracks in which the captured soldiers of the Ukrainian Nazi Azov regiment were held. | The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed the attack. According to the Russia's Defense Ministry and local authorities, Ukrainian troops used US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to strike th…

Contributing Writers (2022-07-29). Kiev Eliminates POW Witnesses/ Commentary and Photos by Eva Bartlett. marktaliano.net Reality Theories, Eva K Bartlett, [2022-07-29 11: AM][ Album ]*Warning, graphic photos in this post. Pretty horrific scenes today at the detention center near the village of Yelenovka which Ukraine bombed late last night with American HIMARS. Press Secretary of the DPR Military Command, Eduard Basurin, said there are a confirmed 53 Ukrainian POWs dead, …

Anonymous103 (2022-07-29). The Skripals Are Either Imprisoned Or Murdered By UK. southfront.org Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia | Written by On 8 March 2018, the brilliant geostrategic analyst who anonymously writes the "Moon of Alabama" blog headlined

Connor Freeman (2022-07-29). Blinken Holds First Call With Lavrov Since February, Ceasefires Not Discussed. news.antiwar.com During a news conference on Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced he held a call with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on a potential bilateral prisoner exchange. A State Department official said the call lasted approximately 25 minutes. Washington and Moscow's top diplomats discussed the Ukrainian grain export deal brokered by the UN and …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-07-29). U.S. political prisoner Mutulu Shakur has six months to live. Will courts finally grant compassionate release? mronline.org Renowned revolutionary leader and health worker Mutulu Shakur has spent over three decades in prison. As his cancer worsens, activists are demanding his release.

Splcenter (2022-07-29). 'Akin to Torture': For-profit immigrant prison singles out Black men after peaceful protest. splcenter.org

WSWS (2022-07-29). Over objections of victim's family, Alabama prisoner executed after US Supreme Court denies stay. wsws.org The victim's family had fought for the state to commute Joe Nathan James Jr.'s sentence to life without the possibility of parole.

WSWS (2022-07-29). 7 Prisoners from Brazil and modern slave labor. wsws.org Tens of millions remain trapped by capitalism in this primitive and brutal condition, and some of them in major urban areas.

Kevin Gosztola (2022-07-28). Whistleblower Testimony Shows BOP Director Ignored Rampant Abuse And Corruption At Atlanta Prison. thedissenter.org Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal (Screen shot from  | Two whistleblowers who worked at United States Penitentiary Atlanta testified at a US Senate hearing and described rampant abuse and corruption that has plagued the medium-security prison in Georgia for several years. | The

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