(2024-01-05). New Hampshire Democrats Join Republicans in Passing Anti-Trans Bills. truthout.org On January 4, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed two bills attacking LGBTQ rights — one that would permit discrimination against trangender people in public spaces and one that would ban gender-affirming procedures for trans youth. HB 396 would weaken the guarantee of equal protection under the law for LGBTQ people by permitting the state and educational institutions to discriminate… |
(2024-01-05). Assange's Rights and Press Freedom Hang in the Balance. counterpunch.org 
The deadline for Julian Assange's fight against extradition to the United States looms, as British judges will decide his case on February 21. Meanwhile, the American demand that Wikileaks publisher Assange stand trial in Virginia on trumped-up charges is what has kept this journalist locked up in Britain's maximum security Belmarsh jail for four years, and sequestered for refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy in London for seven years before that.
(2024-01-05). Australian media studies teacher denounces Gaza genocide and escalating attacks on democratic rights. wsws.org "Millions of people are shocked by what they see going on day after day in Gaza, but they need to understand the whole brutal history of the oppression and dispossession of Palestinian people." — Australian media studies teacher…
(2024-01-05). Ray McGovern: The Imprisonment of the Palestinian People Was Not an Act of God. scheerpost.com 
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube / Rumble Israel's current war on Gaza and the Palestinians draws pessimism and hopelessness, reminding two veterans of its origin in another such war in the region in 1967, The Six Day War, which resulted In Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern joins host Robert …
(2024-01-05). 20 Years Too Many, Free Simon Trinidad Now! popularresistance.org On January 2, 2004, under the orders of the U.S. government and the CIA, Ecuadorian and Colombian forces kidnapped and arrested Colombian revolutionary Simon Trinidad. 20 years detained and imprisoned is 20 too many. That needs to change immediately, and conditions are better than ever for activists in the U.S. and Colombia to push for his freedom. | A member of the revolutionary organization and army of the people, the FARC, since 1987, Trinidad was a leading thinker and peace negotiator. Acting in that role, Trinidad's and the FARC's peace-seeking efforts have been routinely sabotaged by the U.S. government and…
(2024-01-05). S.Africa's Pistorius To Be Released From Prison. latintimes.com South Africa's ex-Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison on parole Friday, almost 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a crime that gripped the world.
(2024-01-05). 20 Years Too Many, Free Simon Trinidad Now! scheerpost.com 
By Fight Back! News On January 2, 2004, under the orders of the U.S. government and the CIA, Ecuadorian and Colombian forces kidnapped and arrested Colombian revolutionary Simon Trinidad. 20 years detained and imprisoned is 20 too many. That needs to change immediately, and conditions are better than ever for activists in the U.S. and …
(2024-01-05). Former Guatemalan President Released From Prison After 8 Years; Can't Leave Country. latintimes.com César Calderón, Molina's lawyer, said the former president – who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy – was released Wednesday night after he posted a bond of $1.3 million. However, he won't be able to leave Guatemala.
(2024-01-05). Hamilton New Years Noise Demo Reportback 2023. itsgoingdown.org Report on new year's eve noise demo in so-called Hamilton, Ontario. See our roundup of other noise demos across the US and Canada, here. For the 15th year in a row, we lit up the sky with fireworks to deliver warm new years greetings to prisoners in Hamilton, ON. Our first stop was to the…
(2024-01-05). New Jersey's Failures to Provide for Mentally Ill People in Prison. scheerpost.com 
(2024-01-05). Ralph Nader on Stopping Gaza War & Why Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Is the Real Problem on Campus. democracynow.org 
Ralph Nader, longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic and four-time former presidential candidate, joins Democracy Now! to discuss Americans pushing the government to end "this genocidal war in Gaza," large donors influencing free speech and curriculum at universities, and his new book, The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right.
(2024-01-05). Democracy Now! 2024-01-05 Friday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 05, 2024; "My Heart Is Still in Gaza": Palestinian Scientist Flees Israeli Bombs, Begs World to Stop Genocide; "The IDF Should Not Exist": Meet Meital Yaniv, Former Israeli Soldier Turned Anti-Zionist Organizer; Ralph Nader on Gaza Ceasefire & Why Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Is the Real Problem on Campus | Headlines for January 05, 2024; "My Heart Is Still in Gaza": Palestinian Scientist Flees Israeli Bombs, Begs World to Stop Genocide; "The IDF Should Not Exist": Meet Meital Yaniv, Former Israeli Soldier Turned Anti-Zionist Organizer; Ralp…
(2024-01-05). Israel cannot be a colonial power and a democracy. therealnews.com 
Israel's status as a bona fide democracy is often taken to be a self-evident truth, but a more critical look at the history and reality of Zionism calls this into question. After all, how can a democracy exist in a country constitutionally defined as an ethnostate that can only exist through the suppression and gradual elimination of its Others? Israeli historian Ilan Pappé joins The Chris Hedges Report for a discussion on Israel as an inherently colonial, and therefore anti-democratic, project. | Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Ex…