Daily Archives: 2023-11-16

2023-11-16: News Headlines

Rio Matsumoto (2023-11-16). The Latest Must-Pass Bill Barreling Through Congress is an Attack on Gender-Affirming Care. aclu.org

Binoy Kampmark (2023-11-16). The Politics of Indefinite Detention in Australia. dissidentvoice.org The High Court of Australia is not known for its zealotry in protecting human rights, and certainly not when considering the persuasive pull of international law and conventions. The Australian Parliament is usually given a generous hand in making policies that tend to outrage such conventions, a freedom made that much easier by an absence …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-11-16). The Politics of Indefinite Detention in Australia. asia-pacificresearch.com

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (2023-11-16). Israel turns Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza into detention center. indybay.org The Israeli forces stormed in large numbers the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City and turned it into military barracks and a detention center, where patients, displaced persons, and healthcare professionals are subjected to different forms of abuse, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on Wednesday. | Euro-Med Monitor expressed fears of killings and executions as its team documented sporadic gunfire in the hospital since the early minutes of the raid, stressing that the al-Shifa Complex did not witness any gunfire other than from the Israeli forces.

teleSUR (2023-11-16). Mexico Slams Texas Anti-Immigrant Measures. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry slammed the latest anti-immigrant measures passed by the legislature of the state of Texas, saying they aimed to curb the flow of migrants by criminalizing them. | RELATED: | The bills passed by Texas with the goal of criminalizing migrants "will result in the separation of families, discrimination and racial profiling," the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry said. | "Mex…

Anonymous Contributor (2023-11-15). Report back on Jail Vigil outside DeKalb County Jail following 'Block Cop City' Mobilization. itsgoingdown.org Report back on recent noise demo in solidarity with those arrested during recent 'Block Cop City' mobilization in so-called Atlanta, Georgia. On Monday, November 13th after the mass action to Block Cop City in Atlanta, there was a press conference and jail vigil at the Dekalb County Jail, where many people arrested in affiliation with…


Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-11-15). Palestinian Rights Organizations Sue Biden for Failure to Prevent Genocide in Gaza. libya360.wordpress.com Prem Thakker Secretary of State Antony Blinken, President Joe Biden, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a Cabinet meeting in the White House in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2, 2023. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The federal lawsuit accuses President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin of…

Staff (2023-11-15). Peter Beinart: Israel Will Only Be Secure & Safe If Palestinians Are Given Freedom. democracynow.org Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, discusses proposals for a prisoner swap with Hamas, the ongoing cycle of Palestinian oppression and resistance, censorship of pro-Palestine advocacy in the United States, what he calls a "generational struggle" among American Jews over Zionism, and more on Israel's current assault of Gaza.

Leila M. Aruri (2023-11-16). Today, my prison is my cellphone. electronicintifada.net The destruction of Gaza is being broadcast on CNN.

Yoav Haifawi (2023-11-16). Reports of harsh conditions and abuse in Israeli security prisons where Palestinians are being held for social media posts. mondoweiss.net Jamal, a hard-working father of a big family in Haifa, has been held in Megiddo security prison for over a month after being charged with supporting terrorism for a poem he posted on Facebook.

Staff (2023-11-16). Lingayat Mutt sex scandal: Karnataka HC grants bail to rape accused. muslimmirror.com Rape accused Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru of the historical Murugha Mutt in Chitradurga was on Thursday released from prison after 14 months. He was arrested last year on charges of raping minor girls staying at the residential hostel run by the Murugha Mutt. The accused influential Lingayat seer spent 14 months in the Chitradurga district prison. …

World Beyond War (2023-11-16). Open Letter from a Ukrainian Facing Prison for Speaking for Peace. pressenza.com Greetings from Kyiv. Yesterday my city was disturbed again by air raid sirens, so I ran from Vernadsky scientific library to hide in the closest shelter, a subway station. Ruthless Russian aggression against Ukraine continues, as well as the Ukrainian defensive war effort. Civilians are dying, cities are being bombarded on both sides of the frontline, and that is the essence of any war — aggressive or defensive — the pure evil of war, which is barbaric mass killing by definition. | By Yurii Sheliazhenko | The air raid alert didn't stopped President Zelensky from signing a request to his pocket parliam…




Gary Engler (2023-11-15). Serial Abuse of 'Antisemitism' Destroys Meaning, Harms Jews. counterpunch.org When you accuse people of antisemitism for being against bombing civilians, the killing of children, putting thousands, including 14-year-olds, in prison without trial; or for supporting United Nations resolutions criticizing Israel, chanting slogans that call for a secular state, demanding a ceasefire in a military operation that has killed over 11,000 people, you are undermining




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