(2023-01-29). Argentine Organizations Demand Presidential Pardon for Indigenous Activist Milagro Sala. orinocotribune.com Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala has been imprisoned since January 2016 over charges that human rights and social activists allege are politically motivated. | January 16, 2023, marked seven years since the illegal arrest of Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala in Argentina. Sala was one of the first victims of the political persecution that characterized the far-right government of former president Mauricio Macri (2015—2019). | On the seventh anniversary of Sala's unjust imprisonment, members of various political, social, and human rights organizations held a press conference at the he…
(2023-01-28). Far Right Supreme Court Ready to Gut Unions (Again) as Workers Die on the Job. scheerpost.com 
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch One of the first dead giveaways for fascism is animosity toward trade unions. That's not to say all anti-union businesspeople are fascist, but simply that that hatred is a first step on the primrose path to a polity of utterly oppressed wage slaves and strictly limited civil rights, a step …
(2023-01-29). Argentine Organizations Demand Presidential Pardon for Indigenous Activist Milagro Sala. orinocotribune.com Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala has been imprisoned since January 2016 over charges that human rights and social activists allege are politically motivated. | January 16, 2023, marked seven years since the illegal arrest of Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala in Argentina. Sala was one of the first victims of the political persecution that characterized the far-right government of former president Mauricio Macri (2015—2019). | On the seventh anniversary of Sala's unjust imprisonment, members of various political, social, and human rights organizations held a press conference at the he…
(2023-01-28). Far Right Supreme Court Ready to Gut Unions (Again) as Workers Die on the Job. scheerpost.com By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch One of the first dead giveaways for fascism is animosity toward trade unions. That's not to say all anti-union businesspeople are fascist, but simply that that hatred is a first step on the primrose path to a polity of utterly oppressed wage slaves and strictly limited civil rights, a step …
(2023-01-28). 'Sheer Brutality': Released Footage Shows Fired Memphis Cops Beating Tyre Nichols. scheerpost.com 
"Charging or jailing the killers is not enough," said the national director of the Working Families Party. "Justice is changing the conditions so no one dies during a traffic stop."
(2023-01-28). 2022 Was A Big Year For Climate Action In The Courts. popularresistance.org A pair of climate cases from opposite sides of the country appear to be the closest yet to holding fossil fuel companies accountable in court. Lawsuits filed by Honolulu, Hawaii, and by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have both overcome initial procedural hurdles and are advancing in state courts, despite dogged attempts by lawyers for the fossil fuel firms to punt the cases into federal courts where they hoped to find an easier path to dismissal. And the two cases have each taken a big leap forward in state courts with judges denying fossil fuel defendants' requests to dismiss the litigation. | Earlier this ye…
(2023-01-28). Billionaire's Lawsuit Against O'Rourke May Stifle Criticism of Money in Politics. truthout.org A recent Texas lawsuit has opened a new front in the ongoing battle over the reign of money in politics, making it a prime example of how wealthy individuals and mighty corporations seek to wield political influence while avoiding public accountability. As Jordan Uhl reported in a January 2023 article for The Lever, Kelcy Warren, a Texas billionaire whose fortune derives from gas and propane… |
(2023-01-28). The Abuse Of The Concept Of 'Populism'. popularresistance.org All regimes based on class antagonism require a discourse to legitimise class oppression and this discourse in turn requires a vocabulary of its own. The neoliberal regime too has developed its own discourse and vocabulary and a key concept in this vocabulary is "populism". This concept is given great currency by the media, which is peopled by members drawn from the upper middle class who have been major beneficiaries of the neo-liberal regime and have therefore developed a vested interest in its continuation. So pervasive is the reach of this concept that even well-meaning and progressive members of the literati…
(2023-01-28). Lula's Recalibrated Multipolar Vision Makes Him Amenable To The US' Grand Strategic Interests. thealtworld.com None of the insight shared in this analysis is to suggest that Lula is controlled by the US, but just that his prior imprisonment clearly changed him. He's no longer the "multipolar revolutionary" that he once was or at least was considered to be, including by the US which deposed his successor and then sought to discredit them both on that perceived basis. Lula's recalibrated vision of multipolarity makes him acceptable to the US, whose ruling Democrats also love his domestic ideological alignment with them and especially his crusade against the right-wing opposition. | Throwing China & Russia Under The Bus In B…
(2023-01-28). Prisoners in Greece: Hunger Strike as a Weapon. unicornriot.ninja
(2023-01-28). Stanford's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Academic Hostility. Coordinated Suppression of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD). globalresearch.ca