2024-01-26: News Headlines

Naureen Shah (2024-01-26). What's Hiding in the Immigration & Border Deal? More Mass Surveillance. aclu.org Behind closed doors, the White House and Congress continue to negotiate major changes to border and immigration law as part of a larger deal on foreign military assistance. One of the rumored proposals is to expand a program called Family Expedited Removal management, or FERM. | Already, we've seen families in this program suffering harm and denied due process. But with the potential for a second Trump administration, the risks of this program are even more severe — including widespread surveillance. |

edited by Khubaka, MIchael Harris (2024-01-26). Rosa Louise McCauley Parks – Speech 1965 – Alabama Freedom March – Selma to Montgomery. indybay.org 24th Annual, California Rosa Parks Day, continues the journey to share a more authentic life legacy of the Mother of the US Civil Rights Movement as "Patron Saint" of the Women's Political Council of Montgomery, Alabama and much more…

Ron Jacobs (2024-01-26). Incarceration as Fascism, Incarceration as Imperialism. counterpunch.org Incarceration is about controlling. Not just those who commit criminal acts, but also those who society has no economic use for. If there are no laws existing to lock up this latter demographic, the facts tell us that the ruling classes will create new laws and intensify enforcement of existing statutes. An almost perfect example

teleSUR (2024-01-26). Hague Court Demands Israel to Prevent Genocide in Gaza. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) made its first decision on the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel for genocide crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. | RELATED: | While the judges did not rule on whether the Zionist state is committing genocide, they issued a kind of "restraining order" to study the case in its entirety, which could take years. | The ICJ requires Israel to take immediat…

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-01-26). The War On Journalism In Belmarsh, The War On Journalism In Gaza. caitlinjohnstone.com.au The fight to free Assange is a fight to protect press freedoms around the world, since the US is using the case in an attempt to set a legal precedent for extraditing and imprisoning any journalist or publisher anywhere in the world who shares information with the public that the US doesn't want shared.

teleSUR (2024-01-26). 61 Palestinian Journalists Are Imprisoned in Brutal Conditions. telesurenglish.net Shurua Asad, the spokeswoman for the Palestinian Journalists' Union, denounced that Israel is holding 61 journalists in poor conditions. | RELATED: | Among them, 15 were detained in the first eight months of 2023, and another 46 after the conflict with Hamas erupted. This means a significant increase in media employees detained by Israel since the outbreak of the war in October. | Most of the journalists are from occupied West Bank. They…

WSWS (2024-01-26). Ukraine shoots down Russian plane carrying prisoners of war. wsws.org The Ukrainian government makes one contradictory statement after another in an effort to cover up shooting down a military aircraft over Russian territory carrying 65 its own prisoners of war.

The Independent (2024-01-26). Ssenyonyi asks EU to put pressure on Govt over missing persons. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Joel Ssenyonyi has appealed to European Union Ambassadors to push the Government of Uganda to account for Ugandans who went missing after the last general elections. He also asked them to ensure a speedy trial of political prisoners most of whom belong to …

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