(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). Past Time to End the Persecution of Julian Assange. scheerpost.com 
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch It's long past time for the U.S. and U.K. to free Julian Assange. His flagrantly unjust incarceration is a global scandal, and the world is quite upset about it. Indeed, on September 19 at the United Nations, heads of state denounced this phony prosecution for the fraud and subterfuge it …
(2023-10-10). Sunday 10/8: Power Hour for Gaza: The Root of Violence is Oppression Teach-in. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2023-10-10). 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). 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). Sunday 10/8: Power Hour for Gaza: The Root of Violence is Oppression Teach-in. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(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…
(2023-10-10). Israel Can't Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price -Gideon Levy. indybay.org We thought we'd continue to go down to Gaza, scatter a few crumbs in the | form of tens of thousands of Israeli work permits — always contingent on | good behavior — and still keep them in prison.
(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…
(2023-10-09). Palestinian Prisoners' Statement on Gaza and the Palestinian Resistance. samidoun.net
(2023-10-10). How efforts to restrict democracy in Ohio make it harder to fight climate changeÔøº. nationofchange.org Gerrymandering, voter suppression, dark money and other moves insulate policymakers from accountability when they prop up fossil fuels at the expense of clean energy.
(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…
(2023-10-09). Palestinian Prisoners' Statement on Gaza and the Palestinian Resistance. samidoun.net
(2023-10-10). How efforts to restrict democracy in Ohio make it harder to fight climate changeÔøº. nationofchange.org Gerrymandering, voter suppression, dark money and other moves insulate policymakers from accountability when they prop up fossil fuels at the expense of clean energy.
