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UN Passes Resolution Condemning Death Penalty Despite US Opposition

24Dec

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UN Passes Resolution Condemning Death Penalty Despite US Opposition

The U.S. joined Saudi Arabia, Iran and North Korea in voting against the resolution. By Julia Conley , COMMONDREAMS Anti-death penalty activist Judy Coode of Pax Christi International demonstrates in front of the U.S. Justice Department on July 13, 2020, in Washington, DC. President Joe Biden’s stated opposition to the death penalty did not stop the United States from joining Saudi Arabia, Iran, and North Korea in voting against a United Nations resolution supporting a worldwide moratorium on the practice on Thursday, leading critics to question once again whether the president will make good on his campaign pledge to eliminate capital punishment in his own country. The resolution passed in a vote of 125-37 with 22 abstensions, but as it has ...

NAFTA’s Imposed Poverty Paved the Way for Mexico’s Informal Work Economy

23Dec

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Mexico

NAFTA’s Imposed Poverty Paved the Way for Mexico’s Informal Work Economy

Roughly 60 percent of people employed in Mexico are informal workers with no safety net. By: Tamara Pearson , TRUTHOUT A roaming vendor and street stalls in Cuetzalan, Puebla state. “You don’t think about the future.… There’s no future to think about. Future is arriving home to sleep,” Nemir said. “It’s stressful. Sometimes you feel like you won’t get anywhere. You can’t plan anything. You feel defeated.” Nemir (who requested his last name not be used due to fear of reprisal), worked for years delivering food via apps like Rappi, and now cleans and delivers 20-liter bottles of water. He is part of the majority of workers (at least 60 percent) in Mexico who have informal jobs. That typically means seven-day work weeks and no rights like social security or retirement. ...

Mumia Abu-Jamal May Finally Get a Chance for New Trial

23Dec

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Human Rights, USA

Mumia Abu-Jamal May Finally Get a Chance for New Trial

Arkansas Circuit Judge: Mumia Abu-Jamal Should Be Freed https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2022/12/14/mumia_abu_jamal_new_evidence “Abu-Jamal was wrongfully prosecuted, wrongfully convicted, wrongfully sentenced and is now wrongfully incarcerated.”By Amy Goodman , DEMOCRACYNOW!PublishedDecember 14, 2022 This Friday, Mumia Abu-Jamal faces what could be his last chance for a new trial to consider newly discovered evidence that casts doubt on his 1982 conviction for murder. The journalist and former Black Panther has spent 41 years in prison for the death of police officer Daniel Faulkner, for which he has always maintained his innocence. His lawyers say evidence in boxes discovered in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in 2019 shows his trial was t...

Might Russia Initiate the Use of Nuclear Weapons?

23Dec

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Russia, Ukraine

Might Russia Initiate the Use of Nuclear Weapons?

How can anyone but fools trust the U.S. regime again? B: y Eric Zuesse U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media and think tanks are constantly using the phrase (or equivalents) “Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine”, as-if Russia’s democratically elected President Vladimir Putin (whose job-approval-rating by his fellow-citizens is — and long has been — vastly higher than is that of America’s President) ever DID actually threaten to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. But it’s all a lie by the U.S.-and-allied regimes, because he hasn’t. The U.S.-and-allied regimes lie routinely, just as they did in 2002 and 2003 about “Saddam’s WMD,” and they’ve been doing it nonstop ever since, unapologetically, boldly — insultingly, to their pub...

After 41 Years in Prison, Mumia Abu-Jamal May Finally Get a Chance for New Trial

23Dec

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Human Rights, USA

After 41 Years in Prison, Mumia Abu-Jamal May Finally Get a Chance for New Trial

Evidence suggests the prosecutor in Mumia’s trial bribed star witnesses to testify and wrongly excluded Black jurors. By: Marjorie Cohn , TRUTHOUT A supporter of Mumia Abu-Jamal emotionally chants "No justice, no peace until Mumia is released," outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 24, 2017. Award-winning journalist and author Mumia Abu-Jamal has been in prison for 41 years in a case infused with racism. The 68-year-old is a former Black Panther and the author of a dozen books, including the celebrated Live from Death Row. After his 1982 conviction in the killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner, Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death. In 2011, his sentence was reduced to life without the possibility of parole. Abu-Jamal has a serious heart c...

Several US Cities Have Increased Policing of Palestine Solidarity

23Dec

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Several US Cities Have Increased Policing of Palestine Solidarity

Multiple U.S. cities have adopted a definition of antisemitism that silences Palestinians and expands surveillance. By Danya Zituni , TRUTHOUT Hundreds of people gather in front of the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles, California, on May 18, 2021, to protest in solidarity with Palestinians on strike in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In multiple cities across the U.S., the right-wing push for new laws to silence criticism of Israel for its human rights violations has reached a crescendo. As part of a growing international effort, Israel lobby groups have convinced local jurisdictions in several U.S. states to adopt the controversial and overbroad definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which classifies virtua...

David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky, “Optimism of the will and the four horsemen of the apocalypse”

23Dec

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Politics, Ukraine

David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky, “Optimism of the will and the four horsemen of the apocalypse”

By: Tom Dispatch David Barsamian: What we are facing is often described as unprecedented — a pandemic, climate catastrophe and, always lurking off center stage, nuclear annihilation. Three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Noam Chomsky: I can add a fourth: the impending destruction of what remains of American democracy and the shift of the United States toward a deeply authoritarian, also proto-fascist, state, when the Republicans come back into office, which looks likely. So, that’s four horses. And remember that the Republicans are the denialist party, committed to racing to climate destruction with abandon in the hands of the chief wrecker they now worship like a demigod. It’s bad news for the United States and for the world, given the power of this country. Barsa...

23Dec

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USA

Do Your Multiplication

BY PAUL STREET Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair All I’ve got left, writing-wise, for 2022 is six reflections on one of the smartest things I’ve heard this year: Noam Chomsky’s recent comment to the effect that humanity today is up against four apocalyptic “horsemen”: ecocide, pandemicide, potentially nuclear war, and fascism: 1. Please note the gender of horsemen. Patriarchy runs richly through each of these four great scourges. 2. The worst of the “four horsemen” (I suggest a fifth below) is arguably the first one, with the climate crisis in the lead – the biggest issue of our or any time. There’s no public health, demilitarization, democracy, social justice, and rule of law on a dead planet. At the same time, the odds of annihilation through n...

The-econoThe Economic Realities We Face at the End of 2022

23Dec

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USA

The-econoThe Economic Realities We Face at the End of 2022

BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Economies around the world were shocked and damaged over the course of 2022. Global capitalism had been brewing conflicts among the major powers (the United States, China, and the EU) for some time as their relative strengths and vulnerabilities shifted. U.S. capitalism and its empire are widely perceived as waning. Europe’s role as a U.S. ally and indeed its economic future became correspondingly riskier as a result. China’s economic growth encountered problems but continued to be remarkably positive and often crucially supportive of world economic conditions in ways that were once more closely associated with the role of the United States. China’s deepening alliance with Russia as well as its burgeoning global economic reac...

Chomsky: US Sanctions on Iran Don’t Support the Protests, They Deepen Suffering

23Dec

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Iran, USA

Chomsky: US Sanctions on Iran Don’t Support the Protests, They Deepen Suffering

The sanctions harm the Iranian economy, causing enormous suffering. But that has been the U.S. goal for over 40 years.By C.J. Polychroniou , TRUTHOUT Iranian fans hold up a banner that says "Woman Life Freedom" during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group B match between England and Iran at Khalifa International Stadium on November 21, 2022, in Doha, Qatar. Protests have been raging in Iran since mid-September in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in a hospital in Tehran after being arrested a few days earlier by Iran’s morality police for allegedly breaching the Islamic theocratic regime’s dress code for women. Protesters are widely describing her death as murder perpetrated by the police (the suspicion is that she died from blows...