(2022-12-11). Justice Demanded in Death of Abbey Lynn Steele in Rapid City. indybay.org On Friday, December 2, 2022, 20-year-old Abbey Lynn Steele of Rapid City, South Dakota died at Monument Hospital after arriving unconscious and not breathing from the Pennington County Jail on November 16th.
(2022-12-11). The American century was yesterday. indybay.org "The people can always be made, with or without the right to vote, | to follow the orders of the leaders. It is very simple. One need | nothing to do but to tell the people that they are being attacked, and to reproach the pacifists of their lack of patriotism and claim that they are putting the country in danger. This method works in every country." (Hermann Goering said this when in prison in 1946)…
(2022-12-10). Brittney Griner arrives in the U.S. after prisoner exchange. wsws.org WNBA star athlete Brittney Griner arrived at a US Army base in Texas on Friday, ending 10 months of detention on a drug smuggling frame-up by the Russian government of Vladimir Putin.
(2022-12-10). Brittney Griner arrives in the US after prisoner exchange. wsws.org WNBA star athlete Brittney Griner arrived at a US Army base in Texas on Friday, ending 10 months of detention on a drug smuggling frame-up by the Russian government of Vladimir Putin.
(2022-12-10). Basketball, Viktor Bout and Troubling Exchanges. southfront.org 
| Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Prison exchanges and swaps are never entirely satisfactory affairs. The appropriate measure in such cases is the degree of dissatisfaction that arises from them. In the instance of the exchange of US basketballer Brittney Griner for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the Russian negotiators may well count themselves richer in the bargain. | Griner, a two-time Olympic champion, was detained in February this year at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport possessing cartridges…
(2022-12-10). [Comment] An urgent call to address interpersonal and structural racism and social inequities in Australia. thelancet.com On Oct 13, 2022, Cassius Turvey, a young Aboriginal teenager, was brutally attacked in Perth, Western Australia, and died 10 days later, amidst concerns that more could have been done to save him.1 His death spread waves of shock and condemnation globally, with the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, calling it "racially motivated".2 The teenager's death adds to innumerable instances of racial brutality against Indigenous peoples and Black people across the world, generating Black Lives Matter marches and calls for global justice.
(2022-12-10). [Correspondence] "Your people have always been servants": internalised racism in academic medicine. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests catalysed a global racial awakening, intensifying an outcry to abolish structural racism, including making science more equitable and accountable. Many minoritised people had an epiphany: that we are standing at the foot of a "hostile obstacle course",1 which contrasts with the popular, but passive, leaky pipeline analogy.
(2022-12-10). Black Market in Broad Daylight. orinocotribune.com 
By Lauren Smith Dec 6, 2022 | U.S. school kids, hospital patients, and prison inmates share food poisoning, while food liquidators boast they turn "trash into treasure." | [This article is the second part of a series on human rights abuse by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Miami Federal Detention Center (Miami FDC).
(2022-12-10). [Comment] Indigenous health in Brazil: from vulnerable to protagonists. thelancet.com Indigenous peoples usually have worse social and health conditions than their non-Indigenous counterparts.1 The worse health of Indigenous populations stems from the processes of colonisation that caused ruptures in traditional ways of life, loss of territories, environmental degradation, racial discrimination, and socioeconomic and political marginalisation.2,3 Migration and urbanisation result in housing instability and affect the wellbeing and health of Indigenous populations through weakening social cohesion and networks, loss of identity, and spiritual and emotional bonds.
(2022-12-10). [Perspectives] Delan Devakumar: redressing racism and discrimination in health. thelancet.com Delan Devakumar, Professor of Global Child Health and Co-Director of the Centre for the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents at University College London (UCL), UK, has always understood racism and what it is like to be discriminated against. About a year before he was born, his parents' house in Sri Lanka was burnt down. "It was a targeted attack", he says. "My father comes from the Tamil minority group." Later, as a south Asian boy growing up in north Wales, UK, he experienced racism first hand and recalls how "in the 1980s and 90s there weren't many people who looked like us; being called names and someti…
(2022-12-10). [Editorial] Advancing racial and ethnic equity in health. thelancet.com "Racism is a public health emergency of global concern." Since we wrote these words in June, 2020, a monumental worldwide reckoning with racism, xenophobia, and discrimination in society—its roots, its consequences, and its redress—has gathered pace. Marches have taken place and statues have been toppled, activists galvanised and institutions investigated, reforms proposed and elections contested. Progress has been uneven, but interrogation of the power structures that prejudice and mistreat specific groups of people while privileging others has heightened an acknowledgment of racism and its harms[mda…
(2022-12-10). [World Report] "They see us differently": advancing health for Roma. thelancet.com Roma are Europe's biggest minority ethnic group and face continued discrimination in health care. Udani Samarasekera reports.
(2022-12-10). Key U.S. states move to eliminate wage discrimination. america.cgtn.com The wage transparency law passed in New York city in November. It came after a six-month delay due to initial pushback from some members of the local business community. According to the New York city Commission on Human Rights, the mandate requires New York …
(2022-12-10). Social Movements in Peru Demand New Elections and Constituent Assembly. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, December 8, various social movements and political parties in Peru carried out demonstrations demanding new general elections and a constituent assembly to overcome the country's political and constitutional crisis after Congress ousted President Pedro Castillo on Wednesday, December 7. Supporters of Castillo, who is now in prison, protested in the streets of the capital, Lima, as well as in other cities in condemnation of the coup and the appointment of Vice President Dina Boluarte as the new president. | Political groups, such as the Nuevo Peru movement, have called for an early general election an…
(2022-12-10). Tribunal peruano rechaza demanda de habeas corpus del expresidente Pedro Castillo. telesurtv.net El Tercer Juzgado Constitucional de Lima de la Corte Superior de Justicia informa que no se había acreditado la supuesta vulneración a su derecho a la libertad.
(2022-12-10). Judicial Coup in Argentina: Corrupt Judges Conspire With Media Oligarch to Ban Cristina Kirchner From Office. scheerpost.com 
Leaked messages show Argentina's corrupt judges and prosecutors conspired with right-wing media oligarchs to launch a judicial coup against left-wing ex President and current VP Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sentencing her to six years in prison and banning her from running in the 2023 elections.
(2022-12-10). Judicial Coup In Argentina. popularresistance.org Argentina's notoriously corrupt and deeply politicized judicial system set off an international scandal on December 6, sentencing left-wing former President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to six years in prison and banning her from future office based on highly dubious charges. | Prominent leaders across Latin America denounced the ruling as a "judicial coup." It is eerily similar to the fraudulent case that led to the imprisonment of Brazil's left-wing former President Lula da Silva in the lead-up to the 2018 elections, which the United Nations Human Rights Committee later denounced as…
(2022-12-09). Georgia: shrewish U.S. dominatrix lays down law on Saakashvili, Ukraine war, Russian "occupation" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaDecember 9, 2022 U.S. Ambassador Talks Saakashvili, Georgians in Ukraine, Public Defender While attending an event at the Kutaisi State University on 9 December, U.S. Ambassador Kelly Degnan spoke with journalists about the ailing health of imprisoned ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgians fighting in Ukraine, and the ongoing Public Defender selection process. Asked about Saakashvili's …
(2022-12-09). Brittney Griner's Supporters Secured Her Freedom. truthout.org Basketball star Brittney Griner landed in the United States early Friday after nearly 10 months of detention in Russia. Griner was freed Thursday in a dramatic prisoner swap between the United States and Russia, with the Biden administration agreeing to free Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer who was serving a 25-year sentence. Griner had been held in Russia since February… |
(2022-12-09). The Dirty Side Of Russian Prisoner Paul Whelan: Is He Really The Hero MAGA Claims? moguldom.com The Biden administration has been criticized for securing the release of celebrity basketball player Brittney Griner, who spent nine months in a Russian prison after police found cannabis oil in her luggage, while former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan remains imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges. Congressional Republicans questioned the decision to agree to a prisoner …
(2022-12-09). U.S. basketball player Griner swapped for Russian citizen Bout. ecns.cn U.S. Basketball player Brittney Griner, who's been detained in Russia since February, was released and heading home Thursday after a prisoner swap between Washington and Moscow.
(2022-12-09). Qatar in the grip of Washington. journal-neo.org 
Washington's defense of its unipolar world is becoming increasingly difficult for the White House, and it is accompanied by growing opposition from Russia, China and an increasing number of supporters of a multipolar world order. Under these circumstances, Washington is desperately trying to demonstrate what little still remains of its influence on the suppression of …
(2022-12-09). Do not expel Salah Hammouri, France tells Israel. electronicintifada.net Occupation authorities have extended the Palestinian-French lawyer's detention.
(2022-12-09). Philippines: Raise the demand for freedom of all political prisoners. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extends its solidarity to all political prisoners, their families, friends and supporters in line with the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. The Filipino people, in particular, demand the release of all political prisoners who continue to languish in jail under the Marcos regime. | The number of political prisoners Philippines continues to rise. Over the past six month, at least 25 have been arrested, adding to…
(2022-12-09). Street Veteran Lee Coleman Faces 3 Years in Jail, Activists say 'Police are Disarming the Movement'. unicornriot.ninja
(2022-12-09). Street Veteran Lee Coleman Faces 3 Years in Jail. unicornriot.ninja
(2022-12-09). Sander Claessens: 'We defend a socialist society where people and the planet come first'. mronline.org 
The president of the Comac student movement in Belgium spoke to Peoples Dispatch about organizing students and youth to fight against oppression and injustice…
(2022-12-09). JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Lies Spies Tell About Assange. scheerpost.com 
The imprisoned publisher was attacked during a big-name counter-intelligence event in Washington this week with the same kind of innuendo that a larger gang, back in 2019, threw at the Hunter Biden laptop story.
(2022-12-09). All out for Mumia Abu-Jamal Dec. 9. iacenter.org By Betsey Piette December 5, 2022 Political prisoner and author Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested 41 years ago on Dec. 9, 1981. He has been held captive by the state of Pennsylvania ever since. A final hearing on his current appeal is scheduled for Dec. 16 in Philadelphia. Artist's depiction of Mumia December 2022. Credit: Brice Patterson Black activist and artist Brice Patterson, who grew up in Philadelphia during this time, described how he became aware of Abu-Jamal's case: "Mumia was someone who became a person of legend. I remember hearing elders and community members speak of him fondly or as a solemn story in pa…
(2022-12-09). Perú's Courts Rule 7 Days Imprisonment for President Castillo. orinocotribune.com
(2022-12-09). Perú's Judiciary Dictates Seven Days Imprisonment to President Castillo. orinocotribune.com
(2022-12-09). Black voters not fooled by Republicans' racial tokenism with Herschel Walker. peoplesworld.org 
Rev. Dr. Sen. Raphael Warnock has made history by being the first Black senator elected to a full six-year term in Georgia history. His victory was secured despite the Republican Party's racist voter suppression and "any other Black person will do" tactics. Black voters—who are more than a quarter of the Georgia electorate—made up the …
(2022-12-09). Judicial coup in Argentina: Corrupt judges conspire with media oligarchs to ban Cristina Kirchner from office. multipolarista.com 
Leaked messages show Argentina's corrupt judges and prosecutors conspired with right-wing media oligarchs to launch a judicial coup against left-wing ex President and current VP Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sentencing her to six years in prison and banning her from running in the 2023 elections.
