(2023-09-28). Wednesday 10/4: Protect Our Reproductive & LGBTQ+ Rights Teach-in w/ ACLU Santa Clara Valley. indybay.org Rose Garden Branch Public Library | Community Room | 1580 Naglee Avenue | San José, CA 95126 | Please only use street parking for this event. DO NOT use the library's parking lot since the parking lot gates close at 7 PM.
(2023-09-28). As a New Term Begins, Where Does the Supreme Court Stand on Criminal Justice? aclu.org
(2023-09-29). United States: End Detention Of Venezuelan Special Envoy. popularresistance.org UN experts* today urged the government of the United States of America to end the prolonged pre-trial detention of Alex Nain Saab Morán, a Venezuelan Special Envoy, arrested and extradited to the US on money laundering charges. | Saab was appointed as a Special Envoy by the Government of Venezuela in April 2018 to undertake official missions in Iran to secure humanitarian deliveries to Venezuela, including of food and medicine. | In July 2019, he was placed under US sanctions for allegedly being responsible for inter alia engaging in transactions or programmes administered by the Government of Venezuela. | On 12…
(2023-09-29). It's time to put Virginia's prisons on trial! workers.org 
News release from the tribunal's organizers. On Oct. 7, 2023, the Virginia Prison Justice Network and The Virginia Defenders For Freedom, Justice & Equality will co-sponsor the People's Tribunal on Virginia's Prisons, Jails & Detention Centers, an all-day hearing to be held at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. Testimony about . . . |
(2023-09-28). Rights groups denounce Israel's entry into US visa waiver program. peoplesdispatch.org Many have pointed to the continuing Israeli discrimination against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims with regard to travel and called the US decision tantamount to an endorsement of Israeli policies…
(2023-09-30). Press Freedom Does Not Exist While My Husband Julian Assange Is In Jail. popularresistance.org We must defend the right to offend. The most important aspect of the right to offend is the one that confronts those in power with the truths that they most eagerly wish to conceal. Without this right, the powerful become untouchable. | My husband, Julian Assange, pictured below right, has been imprisoned in HMP Belmarsh in Thamesmead since 2019 because, as the publisher of WikiLeaks, he exposed the abuses of the war on terror which the United States wanted to remain concealed. The US has brought charges against Julian that carry 175 years in prison. As Home Secretary, Priti Patel failed to block Julian's extradi…
(2023-09-29). Tunisia: Opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi begins hunger strike. middleeasteye.net 
Tunisia: Opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi begins hunger strike | Ghannouchi, who has been jailed since April, says he will not eat until restrictions on him and other prisoners are lifted | Fri, 09/29/2023 – 08: 14 | Ennahdha Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's Islamist movement, greets supporters upon arriving at a police station in Tunis on 21 February 2023 (AFP) | Rached Ghannouchi, the leade…
(2023-09-28). Ford And GM Agree To End At Least One Tier; Stellantis Still Holding Out. popularresistance.org The Auto Workers announced encouraging progress in their negotiations with Ford and General Motors September 22, including an end to one of the many concessionary tiers in the union's contract. | In 2015 workers at Chrysler (now Stellantis) voted down a tentative agreement 2 to 1 because it continued an onerous two-tier wage system—and even introduced new tiers. UAW President Dennis Williams (later jailed for corruption) was pissed. At a meeting of local officials called to present that deal, Williams spluttered, "Ending two-tier is bullshit." | The UAW still has other tiers to address, but it looks like Wi…
(2023-09-28). Dirty truth about Karabakh liquidation comes out, as Western officials & think-tankers begin to acknowledge openly their bafflement, bewilderment, etc., over Aliev's decision to resume hostilities DESPITE Karabakh having agreed in principle—in the context of *****previously unacknowledged or only barely/vaguely acknowledged*****, U.S. & Europe-mediated talks—to peacefully reenter Azeri state under a partial autonomy deal. I'm no fan of "4D chess", but, contrary to shallow gloating puff pieces in U.S. MSM (WSJ took the cake!) about Russia losing influence to keep 2 former colonies at peace, it appears Putin skillfully played a weak hand by blessing a military solution, thus strengthening both Aliev & Russia's image w/in Azerbaijan, while hugely undercutting Armenian "Soros program graduate" govt (esp. among Armenia's successful diaspora w/in Russia), while also showing up the USA as unwilling, unable, and/or unprepared to defend Armenia or to risk angering Turkey (the last available major source for Ukraine munitions) by providing any aid or comfort at all (even as Russia remains the ONLY help to Karabakh refugees & remaining population at this time.) Now, as I've written previously, the USA admits to pressuring Armenia on "Zangezur corridor"… while having offered nothing useful, no face-saving Karabakh deal & no help at all, LOL. No matter how long it takes, it's now CLEAR that Armenia's president (who will NEVER be U.S. aid-lavished like Saakashvili was) will be another Saakashvili, either exiled or jailed, or, like Saakashvili, one then the other. (FYI, Saakashvili is in prison, and was just yesterday served a divorce notice by his wife.) I guess Putin Lesson #61,094 is, "Hurry to betray those who are betraying YOU." thedreizinreport.com
(2023-09-29). Woman jailed for selling counterfeit branded goods from Taobao at makeshift stalls. channelnewsasia.com She generated about S$2,400 in monthly profit operating her makeshift stall.
(2023-09-29). "Torture warehouse" exposed in lawsuits against Baton Rouge, Louisiana police department. wsws.org Multiple lawsuits have exposed the existence of a secret warehouse used by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to interrogate, sexually humiliate and beat detainees.
(2023-09-28). David Dayen: Amazon & Google Antitrust Cases Highlight "Newfound Vigor" in D.C. to Fight Monopolies. democracynow.org 
On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, but the details of the suit remain unclear as much of it is redacted to the public. We speak with David Dayen, author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power, about the significance of this lawsuit, which comes just two weeks after the opening of a landmark antitrust trial against Google. "Suddenly there is all this activity in the antitrust space after a period of dormancy for about 40 years," says Dayen, who says the charge is being led by FTC Chair Lina Khan. "Khan represents a…
(2023-09-29). Black Couple Sues White Neighbor Who Sprayed Them With Water Hose, Showed Up With Dog. newsone.com 
A Black couple in Queens, New York, sued their white neighbor who sprayed water on their dinner party guests in a move straight out of the Jim Crow playbook.
(2023-09-28). Jackson Water Crisis: Activists Blast Judge After Claims He Is 'Pitting Black Against White'. newsone.com 
Activists in Jackson, Mississippi, are trying to join a federal lawsuit against the city after claims a judge is ginning up racial division.
(2023-09-29). UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a 'Contemporary Form of Slavery'. scheerpost.com 
(2023-09-29). CEPR Sanctions Watch September 2023. cepr.net 
In this edition of Sanctions Watch, covering September 2023: One year since the creation of the "Afghan Fund," the people of Afghanistan have yet to see any of their assets; Senator Bob Menendez, a leading proponent of the embargo against Cuba, is indicted for corruption; The US and Iran complete a prisoner-swap and asset release …
(2023-09-29). The Jerusalem Post Is Now Enlisting Washed-up ANC Apparatchiks to Whitewash Israel's Practice of Ethnic Apartheid. dissidentvoice.org 
Photo credit: Wall in Palestine/Flickr (CC, image edited) On September 24, the Jerusalem Post published an article titled, "Israel is not an apartheid state, former South African defense minister says." The article notes that the former African National Congress (ANC) minister in question, Mosiuoa Lekota, served time in prison with Nelson Mandela during South Africa's …
(2023-09-28). Al Qaeda and Guantanamo: I Was the Only U.S. Official Imprisoned Over the CIA Torture Program — Because I Opposed It. John Kiriakou. globalresearch.ca
(2023-09-28). I Was the Only US Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program — Because I Opposed It. mintpressnews.com 
The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it — John Kiriakou.
(2023-09-28). Egypt: Dozens detained 'randomly' in crackdown ahead of presidential elections. middleeasteye.net 
Egypt: Dozens detained 'randomly' in crackdown ahead of presidential elections | Rights group says around 30 people have been rounded up in Beheira governorate as part of a nationwide campaign days after authorities declared 10 December as the date for the presidential vote | Thu, 09/28/2023 – 10: 23 | Egyptian police stand outside the entrance to al-Qanatir women's prison in Qalyoubiya province (AFP)…
(2023-09-28). Inside the High-Security "Black Site" Where Leonard Peltier Is Incarcerated. truthout.org Unbeknownst to most protesters who gathered at the White House on the occasion of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier's 79th birthday, Peltier wasn't able to celebrate, much less receive reports on how the well-attended event was progressing. That's because Peltier, who is now spending his 48th year in captivity, was sitting on his bunk, across from his cellie, "locked down" in a… |
(2023-09-29). The Trial of Subhas Nair: Race, Class, and Ideology in Singapore. counterpunch.org On Tuesday, July 18, 2023, Subhas Govin Prabhakar Nair, the Indian Singaporean rapper more commonly known as Subhas, was found guilty on four counts of "promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of race and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony" under section 298A(a) of the Penal Code 1871. On September 5, 2023, Subhas was sentenced to six weeks in prison. Subhas had previously been issued a two-year conditional warning by the Singapore Police for a satirical rap video he released with his sister Preeti Nair, commonly known as Preetipls, critiquing a Havas advertisement for Nets, a Singapore…
(2023-09-28). Ralph Nader: Why Is GOP Not Debating Corporate Crime Wave & the Weakening of Our Democratic Society? democracynow.org 
Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader responds to Wednesday's second Republican debate, saying, "It's pretty embarrassing that this is what they put forward to become the president of the most powerful country in the world." Nader discusses the debate's topics of social media, former President Donald Trump and wealth inequality in America. Nader also calls for the Democratic Party to "stop engaging in candidate suppression" and respect third-party candidates such as Cornel West to run for public office as a constitutional right.