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Unwanted Kisses: Spain and the Future of Feminism

6Sep

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Unwanted Kisses: Spain and the Future of Feminism

BY VICTOR LASA Photograph Source: Estevoaei – CC BY-SA 4.0 Feminism is the most crucial democratizing power in the world today. The first time I heard this statement made by the still Minister for Equality in Spain, Irene Montero (Podemos), I did not believe it fully applied to an advanced European democracy. But I was to be woken up by reality only a few months later, together with the rest of the country. On August 20th, the Spanish female national team won its first World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, the most successful female sporting event in football, being the most viewed ever. It was a historic achievement that transcended the realm of sports. This was the same team that only eight months before had to rebel against one of the most powerful institutions in a co...

Criminalising Activism: Woodside, Protest and Climate Change

6Sep

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USA

Criminalising Activism: Woodside, Protest and Climate Change

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: Disrupt Burrup Hub Homepage On August 1, protesters against the Burrup Hub expansion in Western Australia, a project of one of Australia’s most ruthless fossil fuel companies, took to the Perth home of its CEO, Meg O’Neill. The CEO of Woodside was not impressed. In fact, she seemed rather distressed. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a member of the business community, in professional athletics, or just a school kid… everybody has the right to feel safe in their own home,” she subsequently told a breakfast event. “What happened Tuesday has left me shaken, fearful, and distressed.” In distress, opportunities for revenge grow. Members of the Disrupt Burrup Hub have had Woodside in their sights for some time. Their primary object of...

Human Rights and the Saudi Zio-Wahhabi regime

6Sep

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Saudi Arabia, USA

Human Rights and the Saudi Zio-Wahhabi regime

Prioritizing Human Rights in Relations with Saudi Arabia BY KATHY KELLY The Bombing of a Neighborhood in Yemen, December 28, 2017. Photo: Aida Fallace. The Saudis picked us up from the detention center in Daer and put us in a minibus going back to the Yemen border. When they released us, they created a kind of chaos; they screamed at us to “get out of the car and get away.” … this is when they started to fire mortars – to keep us into the mountain line, they fired the mortar from left and right. When we were one kilometer away, … We were resting together after running a lot…and that’s when they fired mortars on our group. Directly at us. There were 20 in our group and only ten survived. Some of the mortars hit the rocks and then the [fragments of the] rock hit us… They ...

Undue Nuclear Influence: Is It Lobbying or Bribery?

6Sep

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USA

Undue Nuclear Influence: Is It Lobbying or Bribery?

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Bill Gates is getting a handout from the US government (i.e. US taxpayers) for his nuclear pipe dream despite being a billionaire. (Photo: World Economic Forum/Creative Commons) The temptation toward nuclear bribery and corruption as we detailed in earlier stories on Ohio, South Carolina and Illinois, and updated on July 2, may prove not to be a unique event. The pattern of struggling nuclear power plant owners is countrywide, as the aging US reactor fleet becomes ever more uneconomical, even as owners seek second 20-year operating license extensions out to 80 years. After a flurry of nuclear plant closures, mainly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, new laws have changed the economic landscape and some plant owners ...

Which Nation Has Taxed the Rich the Most?

6Sep

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USA

Which Nation Has Taxed the Rich the Most?

BY SAM PIZZIGATI Photograph Source: badlyricpolice – CC BY 2.0 Eight decades ago, at a pivotal turning point in American history, our nation’s richest faced a 94 percent federal tax rate on their income over $200,000, the equivalent of about $3.5 million today. At that point, near the end of World War II, only one other nation — the UK — taxed its rich at a steeper rate. The wealthiest Brits ended the war facing a 97.5 percent tax on their top-bracket income. These stiff top tax rates — all nearly unimaginable today — would help usher in a generation of unparalleled economic progress for average Americans and Brits. And those rates ebbed only slightly in the postwar years. In the 1950s, America’s richest faced a 91 percent top tax rate. The GOP president then sitting in ...

In record breaking heat, Nazi army intentionally impedes Palestinian families’ access to water

6Sep

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

In record breaking heat, Nazi army intentionally impedes Palestinian families’ access to water

In record breaking heat, Israel intentionally impedes Palestinian families’ access to water CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Israel makes no pretext of hiding its discriminatory water policies. While Palestinians, their herds, and their crops, remain thirsty, Jewish Israelis enjoy abundance. (photo) Is this water apartheid? Recent viral videos show Israeli Civil Administration overseeing as Israeli soldiers and workers fill Palestinian water wells with cement – in the middle of a sweltering summer. Was this a fluke, or part of a massive, discriminative strategy on Israel’s part to drive Palestinians to despair? The answer will become clear as we sift through the evidence below. by Kathryn Shihadah About 300,000 Palestinians live in Area C, the part of t...

Nazi army Using an Attack Dog, Soldiers Forced Palestinian Women to Undress

5Sep

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi army Using an Attack Dog, Soldiers Forced Palestinian Women to Undress

Nazi soldiers brought out attack dogs for a middle-of-the-night raid on a Palestinian residence that included 15 children. (illustration) During a Hebron raid by Israeli forces, five female family members were forced to undress while threatened by a dog from the canine unit and the soldiers’ rifles. by Amira Hass, Two masked Israeli women soldiers with rifles and an attack dog forced five female members of a Palestinian family to strip naked, each one separately, in the West Bank city of Hebron in July. The soldiers threatened to release the dog if the women did not comply, the family says. During the raid on the family’s home, male soldiers searched the male family members but did not require them to take off their clothes. The army had intelligence that there were we...

Billionaires Envision a New Utopian City…to Replace What They Ruined

5Sep

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USA

Billionaires Envision a New Utopian City…to Replace What They Ruined

BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair What do billionaires do with all their money? Maybe they buy off a Supreme Court justice. Maybe they get their kicks from diving to the extreme depths of an ocean in a tiny metal capsule. Maybe they start a space company to fly into outer space for fun. Or, perhaps they fantasize about building a brand-new California city from scratch, one with more housing than San Francisco and more walkability than Los Angeles. The billionaires have money to burn. And so, they pool together a few drops of their obscene wealth into realizing this wild fantasy. It’s true. The New York Times, in a series of reports in late August 2023, revealed that a small group of white male billionair...

5Sep

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USA

More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota

BY ELLEN BROWN uring the bank’s five-year start-up phase, the time projected to achieve a full lending portfolio. The authors concluded: “In just its five-year start-up phase, a New York City public bank has the potential to create thousands of jobs, while constructing and renovating nearly 20,000 units of affordable housing, directing over a billion dollars to climate infrastructure investments, and expanding the capacity of the city’s CDFI community banks and credit unions to meet the needs of low- and middle-income New Yorkers. … “By partnering with CDFI banks and credit unions and other responsible lenders, the public bank could enable these institutions to increase their lending by over $5.8 billion. Besides financing affordable housing and community development an...

The Korean War Continues With Biden’s Renewal of Travel Ban to North Korea

5Sep

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

The Korean War Continues With Biden’s Renewal of Travel Ban to North Korea

BY AMANDA YEE General Douglas MacArthur, UN Command CiC (seated), observes the naval shelling of Incheon from USS Mount McKinley, 15 September 1950 On August 22, the U.S. State Department renewed its ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea. This travel ban prohibits as many as 100,000 Korean Americans living in the United States from visiting their relatives in North Korea. The ban was first set in place by the Trump administration in 2017, and—in spite of Korean American activists’ repeated calls to lift the draconian ban—has been renewed annually since. During his presidential campaign in 2020, Joe Biden had promised to “reunite Korean Americans separated from loved ones in North Korea for decades,” but has extended the travel ban each...