(2022-08-23). Spanish-Russian journalist Pablo Gonzalez held six months in Polish jail on bogus spying charge. wsws.org His arrest was coordinated between NATO states, including Spain's Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, and has met with silence by European and US media.
(2022-08-23). Release students detained under Sri Lanka's anti-terror laws! wsws.org The detention of student activists under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act is part of President Wickremesinghe's broad class-war assault on the working class and the poor.
(2022-08-23). RISE for Youth program celebrates successful first year. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org RISE for Youth, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the NAACP, recently wrapped up its inaugural year of programming. The program, which received funding through Mayo Clinic's $100 million commitment against racism, drew rave reviews from scholars, community partners and Mayo Clinic staff. For as long as she can remember, Aisha Qassim has wanted to become a surgeon. But with no doctors in her family, she wasn't sure of the…
(2022-08-22). Albert Woodfox, Angola Three warrior passes. workers.org 
August 9 Who has not heard of the Angola Three, three young Black prisoners who were falsely accused of killing a prison guard in 1972, in the infamous Louisiana maximum-security prison, sited at a former slave plantation and named for the place where the African captives came from: Angola. On . . . |
(2022-08-22). The Chris Hedges Report: Psychology of a Klansman. scheerpost.com 
By Chris Hedges / On Jan. 9, 1966, the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan murdered the Black civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, after firebombing and shooting into his house. It was one of thousands of hate crimes conducted in the South by whites who waged a reign of terror against Blacks to frighten them from abandoning calls for desegregation and voting rights. Terrorism by white vigilantes against religious and ethnic minorities is ingrained in the DNA of…
(2022-08-22). The world says: "Free Khalil Awawdeh!" as Palestinian prisoner continues hunger strike for 172nd day. samidoun.net 
Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh has continued his hunger strike for the 172nd day. Since his detention was "suspended" on Friday, 19 August, he has been held in Assaf Harofeh hospital, where he has been interviewed by journalists and visited by his family members and loved ones. He has repeatedly affirmed that he will only end …
(2022-08-22). Timbaland And Swizz Beatz Sue Owner Of Verzuz Over $28M Acquisition Payout. moguldom.com Hip-hop producers Swizz Beatz and Timbaland have filed a $28 million lawsuit against video-sharing social networking platform Triller over Verzuz acquisition payments. Verzuz is a webcast series created by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz and was introduced during the covid-19 pandemic as a virtual DJ battle on an Instagram Live broadcast in March 2020. In Janurary 2021, they …
(2022-08-22). Lawsuit: Couple Fakes Being White And Sees Their Home Appraisal Skyrocket By $300K. moguldom.com Unfortunately, this is a story that keeps recurring. A Black couple gets lowballed on an appraisal but when they have a white friend step in and fake that they are the homeowner, the appraisal comes back thousands of dollars higher. This is exactly what happened to Dr. Nathan Connolly and his wife, Dr. Shani Mott, …
(2022-08-22). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Twenty Palestinians In West Bank. imemc.org 
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the Israeli soldiers stormed and violently searched dozens of homes across the occupied West Bank, and abducted twenty Palestinians, including fathers and sons, and a young woman. The invasions targeted cities, towns, villages, and refugee camps, across the occupied West Bank, including the occupied capital, Jerusalem. Among the abducted …
(2022-08-22). Palestinian collective struggle on the rise inside occupation prisons. samidoun.net 
Palestinian prisoners announced that they will pursue steps of collective struggle inside occupation prisons beginning on Monday, 22 August. These collective struggle steps were suspended in March 2022 after an agreement was purportedly reached to improve conditions for Palestinian detainees whose rights are systematically violated by occupation forces, from denial of family visits to constant …
(2022-08-22). Iran Says Prisoner Swap With US Not Tied to Nuclear Talks. telesurenglish.net Iran considers exchanging prisoners with the United States as a humanitarian issue and has not tied it to the fate of the talks on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday. | RELATED: | Iran has negotiated the issue with the U.S. indirectly and outside the nuclear deal's framework. The possibility existed for a prisoner swap between Tehran and Washington, he noted, sayin…
(2022-08-22). The Deadly Business of Reporting Truth. transcend.org 17 Aug 2022 – Violence is press censorship. To kill or imprison a journalist is to silence the public's source of news. 33 journalists around the world have been killed this year and 494 are imprisoned, according to Reporters Without Borders. In 2022 once per week, average, somewhere in the world a journalist is killed.
(2022-08-22). Assange Attorneys and Journalists Sue the CIA over Spying. transcend.org 18 Aug 2022 – "Journalists are allowed to request documents that have been stolen and to publish them." So wrote U.S. federal Judge John Koeltl in a 2019 opinion dismissing a lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee against Julian Assange, Wikileaks and others.
(2022-08-21). 52nd commemorative event of the Chicano Moratorium to be held in Los Angeles. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA — Plans are underway to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the August 29, 1970 Chicano Moratorium, which demanded a stop to the Vietnam War and an end to discrimination and racism. Over 30,000 Chicanos and supporters gathered in East LA at then-Laguna Park. The same park is now named after Ruben Salazar, who was killed by authorities that day. Salazar was a well-known and proud Chicano news producer and journalist. Since 1970, many have honored and continued with the legacy started at the Chicano Moratorium. | Today, Centro Community Service Organization (CSO) is leading the effort in Los…
