Paul Craig Roberts (2023-08-13). The 14th Amendment's Requirement of Equality Under Law Is a Dead Letter Constitutional Guarantee. thealtworld.com I explained and documented in my 1995 book, The New Color Line, that the EEOC had created in defiance of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment a two-tier legal system in which "preferred minorities" enjoyed rights superior to those of white American citizens to university admissions, employment, and promotion. Less qualified blacks according to the objective admission scores can be admitted at the exclusion of more qualified whites, and less qualified blacks can be hired and promoted at the expense of more qualified whites. I have stressed for many years that the failure of the courts to defend the 14t…

Staff (2023-08-13). 14 Palestinian prisoners now on hunger strike to confront administrative detention as movement grows in occupation jails. samidoun.net As the struggle continues inside occupation prisons for justice and liberation, there are currently 14 Palestinian prisoners engaged in an open hunger strike to demand freedom from administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. There are over 1100 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial under such orders, over one-fifth of all Palestinian prisoners (approximately 5,000) …

Hal McNulty (2023-08-14). Weekly Round-up: Presidential assassination; sewage lawsuit; lefty lawyers. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news One of the candidates running in Ecuador's upcoming presidential election has been assassinated. Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead at a campaign rally in Quito. His election platform addressed the issues of corruption and government links to organised crime. There is speculation that the powerful Los Lobos gang is behind the killing. This …

Editor (2023-08-14). Chris Hedges: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — The Israel Lobby's Useful Idiot. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military occupation, horrific violence and apartheid, backed by billions of U.S. dollars, on the indigenous population of Palestine. It is the all powerful against the all powerless. Israel uses its modern weaponry …

Eleanor J. Bader (2023-08-13). New Book Edited by Incarcerated Writers Explores Oppression Beyond Prison Walls. truthout.org "The precariat is not the equivalent of what we used to call the working class," National Book Critics Circle award recipient Eula Biss writes in the introduction to American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion. "More common now is gig work, with no set hours, no potential for advancement, work done through the interface of an app by workers who don't know the people for whom they're working. |

People's Dispatch. (2023-08-14). US-Based Organizations Demand Blackrock Cancel Zambia's Debt. popularresistance.org On August 14, progressive organizations, led by the ANSWER Coalition and the Peoples Forum, will rally outside of the BlackRock global headquarters in New York City to demand that the multinational investment company cancel Zambia's debt. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, holds the largest privately-owned share of Zambia's debt at a staggering USD 220 million. BlackRock is not starved for funds, owning USD 10 trillion in assets and dividends and investing in industries such as private prisons, fossil fuels, and pharmaceutical giants. | "[BlackRock's] refusal to cancel or negotiate a restructuring of t…

Editor (2023-08-14). How Palestinians Started Smuggling Their Sperm Out of Israeli Prisons. scheerpost.com

_____ (2023-08-13). Five for five: U.S.-Iran prisoner swap and the nuclear deal. strategic-culture.org The U.S. and Iran are in a negotiation to swap five prisoners held in Iran for five prisoners held in the U.S. | Join us on , , and . | The U.S. and Iran are in a negotiation to swap five prisoners held in Iran for five pris…

JANET (2023-08-13). Wars against Black history. iacenter.org By Mumia Abu-Jamal August 9, 2023 This slightly edited July 21, 2023 commentary was recorded on prisonradio.org. Mumia Abu-Jamal And now we see, perhaps for the first time in modern days, states like Florida waging war against Black history by passing laws against what teachers can teach, and, perhaps more importantly, what they cannot. In the land that brags about First Amendment laws of free speech, teachers are threatened to be silent about any Black history after 1875, or the time of Reconstruction. It's as if, for Black people, history stopped at Reconstruction and nothing happened in their lives. To add mor…

Andrew Korybko (2023-08-13). Kyrgyzstan Is The US' Next Regime Change Target. thealtworld.com What Senator Menendez demands is nothing short of a soft coup brought about by voluntarily reversing Kyrgyzstan's recent "Democratic Security" successes under the Damocles' sword of "security and economic" consequences if it dares to refuse. If he has his way, then suspected Color Revolutionaries will be released from prison, Western "NGO" intel fronts will be allowed to meddle with impunity, and their allied propaganda outlets will once again incessantly spew anti-state disinformation for provoking riots. | Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez conveyed his country's intentions to overt…

Staff (2023-08-11). Viola Liuzzo Human Rights Hero (1925-1965). wibailoutpeople.org In 1965 Viola Liuzzo heeded the call of Martin Luther King, Jr. and traveled from Detroit, Michigan to Selma, Alabama to assist the Selma to Montgomery March. Thirty-nine (39) years old and the mother of five, Viola was horrified seeing, on television, marchers beaten on the Edmond Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. She called her husband, Anthony Liuzzo — a Teamsters Union business agent — to tell him she was leaving for Alabama because the civil rights movement "was everybody's fight." She drove her 1963 Oldsmobile 8…

teleSUR (2023-08-11). World Bank Not to Finance in Uganda Because of Anti-LGBTI Law. telesurenglish.net The World Bank insists that the law undermines the institution's efforts to democratize access to development, as "inclusion and non-discrimination are at the core (…) Our goal is to protect sexual and gender minorities from discrimination and exclusion in the projects we finance. These measures are under discussion with the authorities", to which he adds that until laws guaranteeing these rights are passed, public financing will not continue on their part. | This law will institutionalize discrimination and rejection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in Uganda. Aug. 11, 2023.

Craig Murray (2023-08-11). The Silence on Imran Khan. orinocotribune.com By Craig Murray — Aug 9, 2023 | Pakistan has imposed a media blackout over the deposed prime minister and thousands of new political prisoners incarcerated in appalling conditions. Condemnation in the U.K. and U.S. has been non-existent. | Given the large population in the U.K. of Pakistani origin, the lack of serious media coverage of the overthrow and incarceration of Imran Khan, and the mass imprisonment of his supporters, is truly extraordinary. | Imran Khan was last week sentenced to three years in prison — and a five-year ban from politics — for alleged embezzlement of official gifts. This…

Fight Back (2023-08-11). Santa Ana rallies in solidarity with the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Santa Ana, CA – On August 9, chants of "When the Tampa 5 are under attack, what do we do? Stand up fight back!" filled the Plaza Calle Cuatro in downtown Santa Ana. A group of activists from Community Service Organization Orange County (CSO OC), MEChA University of California Irvine (UCI), Brown Berets, Anakbayan UCI, and community members rallied as part of a national call to protest for the Tampa 5 who are facing felony charges and up to a decade of incarceration for protesting on the University of South Florida campus. | Jay Perez, CSO OC member, kicked off the rally by speaking about the right-wing attacks on…

Staff (2023-08-11). Headlines for August 11, 2023. democracynow.org Maui Wildfire Death Toll Rises to 55 as Residents Survey Unfathomable Devastation, ECOWAS Says Use of Force Is Possible in Niger Coup Response as Bloc Activates "Standby Force", One Dead, Six Arrested over Assassination of Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio, 23 Rohingya Refugees Drown, Dozens Missing After Shipwreck, Americans Jailed in Iran Transferred to House Arrest on Way to Possible Release, SCOTUS Blocks Purdue Pharma Settlement Deal That Would Protect Sackler Family from Civil Liability, Louisiana Gov. Orders Pardon Board to Review Clemency Requests for 56 Death Row Prison…

Zane McNeill (2023-08-11). Anti-LGBTQ Couple Sues After Foster Care Application Denied. truthout.org A Catholic couple in Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit against the state's Department of Children and Families (DCF) for denying their foster care application over concerns that they would not affirm an LGBTQ child. The couple is being represented by the right-wing law firm behind several consequential Supreme Court cases — including Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which granted owners of some private… |

Anand Naidoo (2023-08-11). The Heat: Trump Investigation. america.cgtn.com New revelations regarding the 2020 U.S. presidential election have emerged. How will this impact Donald Trump's reelection campaign? On Thursday, former U.S. President Donald Trump and his former aide, Walt Nauta, pleaded not guilty to new charges in the classified documents case. This is one …

teleSUR (2023-08-11). Iran Awaits Release of Its Assets Held in Korean Banks. telesurenglish.net On Friday, an exchange of prisoners between Iran and the United States will take place simultaneously with the release of Iran's frozen assets in banks of the Republic of Korea (ROK). | RELATED: | "The U.S. prisoners in Iran will leave simultaneously with the irreversible release of our illegally held citizens and the full transfer of illegally held assets in South Korea, similar to the recently freed assets in…

teleSUR (2023-08-11). Suspects in Villavicencio's Murder Sentenced to Prison Terms. telesurenglish.net An Ecuadorian judge ordered this Thursday the remand in custody of the six men arrested for the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. | Related: | The magistrate opted for the imprisonment of the six men of Colombian nationality based on the evidence presented by the Prosecutor's Office during the arraignment hearing at the Flagrancy Unit of Pichincha. | A little more than 24 hours after the mur…

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. (2023-08-11). Eritrea Celebrates Freedom. popularresistance.org I was honored to speak at the 49th annual National Council of Eritrean Americans conference and festival recently held in Tacoma, Washington. Black Agenda Report has always been a staunch defender of the rights of the Eritrean people to live free from U.S. domination. BAR exposes the lies that are told about that nation by the U.S. and their partners in corporate media. The late Glen Ford was especially keen to explain why this country, which is referred to as a "prison camp" and which is described in the most negative and inaccurate ways possible, is in fact a functioning state which overcomes the hardships crea…

Sonya Soni (2023-08-11). We Must Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline. progressive.org Rather than confront the root causes of youth instability, the system is skewed toward punishing young people of color and their families.

WSWS (2023-08-11). Texas woman wrongly convicted of murder exonerated after serving 18 years of life sentence. wsws.org Rosa Jimenez, exonerated in the accidental death of a toddler she was babysitting, now faces end-stage kidney disease caused by her years of imprisonment.

Fight Back (2023-08-11). Seattle activists hold barbecue to raise funds for the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Seattle, WA — On August 9, the UW Progressive Student Union (UW PSU), a chapter of Students For A Democratic Society, and the Seattle Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (SAARPR) held a fundraiser in response to a national call to action in support of the Tampa 5. The Tampa 5 are student and community activists who are currently facing up to ten years in prison for protesting Ron DeSantis' attacks on education in Florida. | A crowd of 45 people rallied in Powell Barnett Park to chant, give speeches and donate funds to the Tampa 5's legal defense fund. Chants of "When protesters are under attac…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-08-11). Cuban hero meets with solidarity movement in Russia. plenglish.com Guerrero thanked Russian friends for their efforts and support for his release and that of his comrades who were unjustly imprisoned in the United States for fighting terrorism. | "The feelings of solidarity and friendship from friends like you made the years of imprisonment more bearable for us and gave us the strength to continue our struggle," he added. | Guerrero told his Russian friends that a revolutionary always has a reason to fight and to demonstrate the rightness of the cause he is defending. The most important thing is to transmit this spirit to the new generations, which are much more prepared than t…