(2023-10-09). Crackdown on Press Freedom in India Leaves 50 Detained and Over 100 Homes Raided. orinocotribune.com Indian authorities carried out mass raids and detentions under the guise of the draconian UAPA on the morning of October 3. | The homes of over 100 journalists, contractors, and former employees associated with the progressive news outlets Newsclick and Peoples Dispatch, as well as Tricontinental Research Services were raided by Indian authorities in the early morning of October 3 in the capital New Delhi. Several raids were also carried out in the cities of Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Mumbai. According to local reports around 50 individuals were taken to police stations for additional questioning. | Newsclick…
(2023-10-09). Crackdown on Press Freedom in India Leaves 50 Detained and Over 100 Homes Raided. orinocotribune.com Indian authorities carried out mass raids and detentions under the guise of the draconian UAPA on the morning of October 3. | The homes of over 100 journalists, contractors, and former employees associated with the progressive news outlets Newsclick and Peoples Dispatch, as well as Tricontinental Research Services were raided by Indian authorities in the early morning of October 3 in the capital New Delhi. Several raids were also carried out in the cities of Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Mumbai. According to local reports around 50 individuals were taken in to the police station for additional questioning. | News…
(2023-10-09). Afghanistan: Urgent action critical after devastating earthquake. commondreams.org Responding to the catastrophic earthquake that struck western province of Herat in Afghanistan over the weekend, Zaman Sultani, Amnesty International's regional researcher for South Asia, said: "Amnesty International expresses our deepest condolences to the families who have lost loved ones in the devastating earthquake."Amnesty International calls on the Taliban de facto authorities to attend to the immediate and essentials needs of the affected communities and ensure that rescue and relief efforts are carried out without discrimination and in a manner that is compliant with international human rights standard…
(2023-10-08). #NoKidsInPrison Art Installation Highlights Youth Incarceration Driven By Target. unicornriot.ninja
(2023-10-09). Inmate gets jail for punching chief warder in Changi Prison, fracturing his facial bone. channelnewsasia.com It took pepper spray and a group of prison officers to subdue the aggressive inmate.
(2023-10-09). Private-hire car driver gets jail for paying 15-year-old girl for sex. channelnewsasia.com The girl turned to sex work to provide for herself and her newborn child.
(2023-10-09). Ashkelon Speaks: The Story of the Middle East Conflict. dissidentvoice.org 
The bold and suicidal actions by Gaza militants defy reason… to the reasonable. To those frustrated by decades of oppression, with no apparent means to alleviate the suffering, the actions become comprehensible. Looking north from the Gaza border, the Gazan people can reconstruct their ancient village, al-Majdal, now called Ashkelon. The modern Israeli city of …
(2023-10-09). Initial Comments on Hamas's October Counter-Offensive. internationalviewpoint.org "The Palestinian struggle must rely primarily on mass political action against Israel's oppression, occupation, and settler-colonial expansion." | – | / |
(2023-10-09). Sunday 10/8: Power Hour for Gaza: The Root of Violence is Oppression Teach-in. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2023-10-09). Gaza offensive: we are all Palestinians! internationalviewpoint.org "In fact, the war against the Palestinians has been going on for 75 years, and the left should remember the need for solidarity with resistance struggles against oppression and occupation." | – | / |
(2023-10-09). Western Complicity in Apartheid Israel's Brutal Violence Heightens Palestinian Resistance & International Solidarity. internationalviewpoint.org "Since oppression is the root cause of violence, to end all violence — the initial and ongoing violence of the oppressor and the reactive resistance of the oppressed — we must act to end oppression." | – | / |
(2023-10-09). Palestinian operation 'legitimate defense' against Israeli occupation: Iran's UN mission. presstv.ir Iran's mission to the United Nations supports Palestinians' 'legitimate defense' against Israel's 70 years of oppression.
(2023-10-09). Historian Rashid Khalidi: Palestinians "Living Under Incredible Oppression, … It Had to Explode" democracynow.org 
In New York, we speak with Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, who lays out how this weekend's extreme violence between Hamas and Israel will force "a paradigm shift." Colonial powers will no longer believe they can force people to live under the conditions Israel has subjected Palestinians to and expect no retaliation of the oppressed, says Khalidi. "That idea has exploded as a result of the horrific events over the past two-and-a-half days," says Khalidi, who calls the blockade of Gaza "a pressure cooker. It had to explode." In response…
(2023-10-08). Initial Comments on Hamas's October Counter-Offensive. internationalviewpoint.org "The Palestinian struggle must rely primarily on mass political action against Israel's oppression, occupation, and settler-colonial expansion." | – | / |
(2023-10-08). Sunday 10/8: Power Hour for Gaza: The Root of Violence is Oppression Teach-in. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2023-10-08). Gaza offensive: we are all Palestinians! internationalviewpoint.org "In fact, the war against the Palestinians has been going on for 75 years, and the left should remember the need for solidarity with resistance struggles against oppression and occupation." | – | / |
(2023-10-08). Western Complicity in Apartheid Israel's Brutal Violence Heightens Palestinian Resistance & International Solidarity. internationalviewpoint.org "Since oppression is the root cause of violence, to end all violence — the initial and ongoing violence of the oppressor and the reactive resistance of the oppressed — we must act to end oppression." | – | / |
(2023-10-08). Indonesia, Pakistan call for end to Israeli aggression against Palestinians. presstv.ir Indonesia and Pakistan have called on the Israeli regime to immediately halt its brutal aggression against Palestinians.
(2023-10-09). The Root of Violence Is Oppression. transcend.org 7 Oct 2023 – Following 16 years of Israeli military blockade, Palestinian fighters from Gaza launched an unprecedented assault, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed and wounded, and civilians kidnapped. The Israeli government declared war, launching airstrikes, killing hundreds of Palestinians and wounding thousands, bombing residential buildings and threatening to commit war crimes against besieged Palestinians in Gaza.
(2023-10-09). Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance against Israeli Colonialism. dissidentvoice.org International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a "prison camp." Journalist Ben Norton looks over the evidence. See related article: …
(2023-10-09). President of Ecuador extends state of emergency another 30 days. plenglish.com The president explained that the decision, passed through Executive Decree 890, responds to the serious internal situation in Ecuador. According to Lasso, this should guarantee the intervention of the Armed Forces and the National Police in the fight against organized crime and common crime. | Last August 10th, Lasso declared a state of emergency nationwide after the assassination of presidential candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, while he was leaving a campaign rally in the capital. | The announcement was also connected to a new prison crisis, when seven hit-men, linked to the crime against Villavicencio, were…
(2023-10-09). Palestine: The Resistance Rises Toward Revolution, Return And Liberation. popularresistance.org As the morning dawns on 7 October 2023, the resistance is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza with a comprehensive offensive confronting the occupier by land and air, taking control of Palestinian land, seizing occupation settlers and soldiers and launching thousands of missiles as Palestinian resistance forces fight to advance return and the liberation of Palestine. | The new resistance operation, titled the Al-Aqsa Flood by Mohammed Deif, commander in chief of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, comes on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war in which Egypt…
(2023-10-09). Headlines for October 9, 2023. democracynow.org Death Toll in Gaza and Israel Tops 1,300 as Israel Declares War on Hamas Following Surprise Attack, U.S. Beefing Up Military Support to Israel; U.N. Expert Blasts "Selective Outrage" over Conflict, "Apartheid Resistance Is Not Terrorism": Protesters Stand in Solidarity with Palestinians, Over 2,000 People Killed in Afghan Earthquake, Suspects in Killing of Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Found Dead in Prison, Colombia and Dissident Rebel Faction Agree to Ceasefire Ahead of Peace Talks, Colombian Court Allows Fraud Trial of Ex-President àÅlvaro Uribe to Move Forward, Tens of Thousan…
(2023-10-08). Police and Prison Guards in Maine Are Committing Abuses With Terrifying Impunity. truthout.org Maine is likely not the first state one thinks of as a place to investigate the impunity of the criminal legal system. That's due to several factors, including but not limited to: 1.) the state's whiteness, 2.) its small population, and 3.) its remoteness. Yet, the state is rife with examples of the unaccountable impunity of the criminal legal system that are worth studying for abolitionists. Take… |
(2023-10-08). Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance Against Israeli Colonialism. scheerpost.com 
By Ben Norton / Geopolitical Economy Report International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a "prison camp". Journalist Ben Norton …
(2023-10-08). Hundreds killed in Israel, Gaza after surprise resistance raid. electronicintifada.net Hamas deputy chief says enough Israeli captives are being held in Gaza to secure release of all political prisoners.
(2023-10-08). US: Republicans blame attacks on Israel on Biden prisoner swap with Iran. middleeasteye.net 
(2023-10-08). Right-wing rallies against Sanchez and amnesty in Spain. plenglish.com The protest in Barcelona was, above all, a claim of the conservative Popular Party (PP) and its leader Alberto Nuñez Feijoo. The latter has just lost his Prime Minister's investiture attempt in the Congress of Legislators in two failed votes, thus the PP's aim was to undermine at all costs another executive that would head the current PM at the Palace of Moncloa. | Backed by the extreme VOX right and other minor conservative formations, slogans were heard in Barcelona against Sanchez and the whole range of leftists who support him. | The cries of "No to amnesty" and "Puigdemont to prison," prevailed in the demon…
(2023-10-08). Hamas boasts of large number of Israelis taken captive during blitz. presstv.ir Hamas says it has enough Israeli captives to swap them for the release of all Palestinian prisoners.
(2023-10-08). Hamas: Number of Israelis taken prisoner many times 'more than dozens'. presstv.ir Hamas says the number of Israelis taken captive in its ongoing operation against the regime is many times more than "dozens."
(2023-10-09). Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance against Israeli Colonialism. transcend.org 8 Oct 2023 – International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against Apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a "prison camp". We look over the evidence.
(2023-10-09). Israeli terror against Palestinians is behind the war in the Mideast. peoplesworld.org 
At a minimum hundreds of Israelis and even more Palestinians have already been killed in violence now marked by constant barbaric air raids Israel has unleashed on the territory of Gaza, a small enclave near the southern tip of Israel that is literally an outdoor prison for its 2 million Palestinian inhabitants. People in Gaza …
(2023-10-09). Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance against Israeli Colonialism. transcend.org 8 Oct 2023 – International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against Apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a "prison camp". We look over the evidence.
(2023-10-09). Israeli terror against Palestinians is behind the war in the Mideast. peoplesworld.org At a minimum hundreds of Israelis and even more Palestinians have already been killed in violence now marked by constant barbaric air raids Israel has unleashed on the territory of Gaza, a small enclave near the southern tip of Israel that is literally an outdoor prison for its 2 million Palestinian inhabitants. People in Gaza …