Staff (2024-03-05). Headlines for March 5, 2024. democracynow.org Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Trump Can't Be Barred from Ballot over Jan. 6, Super Tuesday: Millions Head to Polls in 15 States, from California to Alabama, Minnesota Activists Urge Voters to Select "Uncommitted" to Protest Biden's Backing of Israel, "Look at Yazan": Palestinian Diplomat Decries Death of Palestinian Boy Who Starved to Death, U.N. Experts Weigh In on Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 & Inside Israeli Jails, Ukraine Sinks Russian Warship in the Black Sea, 20,000 Soldiers Take Part in NATO War Exercise in Finland, Norway and Sweden, Chad: Head of Military Junta Announce…

Agence France-Presse (2024-03-05). Accused Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira pleads guilty, faces almost 17 years jail. scmp.com Jack Teixeira, once a low-level Massachusetts Air National Guard IT specialist, was accused of orchestrating the most damaging leak of US classified documents in a decade.

newarab (2024-03-05). Lebanese journalists take Israel to ICC over media killings. newarab.com The Lebanese Press Syndicate will take Israel to the The journalists' union announced plans to participate in lawsuits to be filed before the ICC against Israel but did not say which parties will be involved in the legal action. | Israel's war on Gaza has left at least 30,000 dead, while its bombing of southern Lebanon killed 271 people, including 42 civilians, by the end of February, while dozens of Palestinian…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-03-05). The United Kingdom: Zionism's Covert Nerve Center. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Britain's century-long commitment to Zionism and collaboration with Israel today plays a frequently overlooked role in perpetuating the oppression and genocide against Palestinians. Britain's role in sustaining the Zionist entity On 9 February, British Defense Minister James Heappey informed parliament that Israeli military operatives are "currently … posted in the UK," both within…

Staff (2024-03-05). "The Zone of Interest": Oscar-Nominated Film Producer on the Holocaust, Gaza & "Walls That Separate Us" democracynow.org Ahead of the 96th Academy Awards, we're joined by James Wilson, producer of the Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest, who raised Israel's assault on Gaza in his BAFTA Award acceptance speech last month. The film follows the fictionalized family of real-life Nazi commandant Rudolf Hà∂ss as they live idyllically next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Wilson says the film serves as a metaphor for the occlusion of "systemic violence, injustice, oppression, from our lives," and challenges audiences' complicity by asking them to identify with Hà∂ss and his wife Hedwig. &#…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-03-05). France's Draft Law: Citizens Who Speak out against the Covid-19 Vaccine. "3 Years Prison and €45,000 Fine"? globalresearch.ca What this decision implies is that THE LIE HAS BECOME THE TRUTH. You can be arrested for informing friends and neighbours that the Covid-19 vaccine is a toxic substance? | Does this mean that you cannot even quote official data on mortality and morbidity?

Staff (2024-03-05). Without Evidence, Without Trial Date, Without Support From Spain: Journalist Pablo González Serves 2 Years in Prison in Poland. orinocotribune.com Journalists and jurists have criticized Spain for abandoning the reporter Pablo González Yagàºe, noting that…

Staff (2024-03-05). Haiti: Ariel Henry's U.S.-Backed "Criminal Regime" Faces Gang Uprising; U.N. Set to Deploy Kenyan Police. democracynow.org Haiti is under a state of emergency after the country's gangs freed thousands of people from the country's largest prisons and are reportedly uniting to bring down Haiti's de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who has yet to return to the country since he traveled to Kenya last week to discuss a deal to bring a U.N. force of 1,000 Kenyan police to the island. "It is a desolation that we are feeling. It is a terror that we are living," says Haitian pro-democracy advocate Monique Clesca about escalating gang violence that has already displaced thousands of Haitians. "We have been…

Associated Press (2024-03-05). Gangs in Haiti try to seize control of main airport as violence grips capital. scmp.com Attack on airport occurred just hours after authorities in Haiti ordered a nighttime curfew following violence in which armed gang members overran the two biggest prisons.

newarab (2024-03-04). Shehbaz Sharif voted in as Pakistan's PM for second time. newarab.com Shehbaz Sharif was voted in as Pakistan's prime minister for a second time on Sunday, presiding over a shaky alliance that has shut out followers of jailed opposition leader Newly sworn-in lawmakers in Pakistan's National Assembly elected Sharif by 201 votes, three weeks after national elections marred by widespread allegations of rigging. | "Shehbaz Sharif has been declared to have been elected as prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan," said the newly appointed speaker of the Nati…

Associated Press (2024-03-04). Haiti declares emergency and curfew after weekend jailbreak, explosion of violence. scmp.com An explosion of violence over the weekend saw armed gang members storm the country's two biggest prisons, allowing hundreds of inmates to escape.

Staff, Palestine Chronicle. (2024-03-04). Nicaragua Sues Germany At ICJ Over Support To Israel. popularresistance.org In a statement on Friday, the government of Nicaragua said that "it presented a lawsuit before the International Court of Justice against the Federal Republic of Germany for violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crime of Genocide." | According to the statement, Germany has provided political, financial, and military support to Israel knowing that it would be used to commit "serious violations of international law." | The statement also highlighted that Germany cut off assistance to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), despite being…

_____ (2024-03-04). Collective Israeli Tyranny and Peace Disruption in the Occupied Territories. transcend.org The fallacy of the international community in accepting that the Palestinians in the occupied territories are safe is denial of the truth because the tentacles of operation of the oppressive apparatus of Israel are being deployed through the services of the Israeli settlers in the ongoing harassment, oppression, violent attacks, stealing and expropriation of their property.

Fra Hughes (2024-03-04). Ireland's Shame: The Betrayal of Palestine. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Feb 26, 2024 | It is not the bombs of our enemies that hurt us the most, but the duplicity of our friends and the treachery of their deeds. | For 800 years, the Irish have fought a genocidal British occupation. | Eight centuries of ethnic cleansing, land clearances, massacres, starvation, colonisation, and a brutal military oppression. | Successive generations of Irish men and women, boys and girls, have fought clandestinely and openly to liberate Ireland from foreign imperialist control. | Ireland was Britain's first conquest. | The British Empire went on to occupy, and even colonise approxi…

teleSUR (2024-03-03). Haiti: More Than 3,600 Prisoners Released After Prison Attack. telesurenglish.net Without official data yet, it is expected that more than a dozen inmates have died, and almos 4,000 were scaped after the attack on a prison by criminal gangs seeking to overthrow the current de facto government of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. | RELATED: | Although the government has not yet ruled on the matter, reporters from the Spanish news agency EFE found that around 12 corpses lie outside the prison, most of th…

albawaba (2024-03-04). Canada imposes sanctions on 6 Russians over Navalny's death. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Weeks after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Canadian government announced new sanctions against six Russian officials. On Feb. 16, Russian officials announced the death of Navalny in an Arctic prison colony and kept his body for several days before allowing his family to hold the funeral, which was held in a church in Maryino on March 1, according to the opposition leader's team.Canadian Foreign Ministry announced in a statement imposing sanctions on "senior officials and high-ranking employees of Russia's prosecution, judicial and correctional services."The second day after…

readthemaple (2024-03-04). Community Groups Discuss Suppression Of Pro-Palestinian Voices. readthemaple.com We are seeing the impact that the Zionist lobby is having … and we decided that this was the time to speak up.