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(DIR) Post #Ade4HnyoWRoEzLss6q by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-01-08T18:42:48+00:00
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https://popularresistance.org/over-800-organizations-globally-sign-on-to-letter-in-support-of-south-africas-genocide-case-against-the-state-of-israel/
(DIR) Post #Adef27TFgJpulJD6Z6 by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-01-09T02:01:20+00:00
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/08/can-constitutional-literacy-save-us-from-the-drift-to-tyranny/
(DIR) Post #Ak08EtKwrLO83vJ1Ye by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-06-28T03:59:16+00:00
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/27/dina-pinochets-directorate-for-murder-and-torture/
(DIR) Post #Ak405lSikIJ223uyWW by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-07-18T18:35:05+00:00
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Colombia’s government announced it’s ending a ceasefire deal with the largest faction of dissident members of FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The long-anticipated agreement had been brokered last year by the government of leftist President Gustavo Petro. This is Colombia’s defense minister, Iván Velásquez.Iván Velásquez: “Colombia’s military forces received the order to carry out offensive operations with full capacity against these organizations, blocs and fronts that walked away from the generous offer made by the government as it seeks peace.”A ceasefire with a smaller faction of the group will be extended for three months as peace negotiations continue.https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/18/headlines/colombia_ends_ceasefire_agreement_with_farc_faction
(DIR) Post #Ak8vqcMsqaBVSPVdw0 by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-07-21T03:35:57+00:00
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https://www.yesmagazine.org/culture/2024/07/16/women-olympics-gender-rebel
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2024-07-28T00:35:07+00:00
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https://www.corporatecampaign.org/
(DIR) Post #AkPWIYOHvx146p94cK by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-07-29T03:44:42+00:00
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https://jacobin.com/2024/07/bangladesh-student-protests-sheikh-hasina
(DIR) Post #AkfUwraEu5azq3Bgqe by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-08-05T20:31:57+00:00
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https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/libertarianism-and-zionism-cant-be-squared/
(DIR) Post #AkqZ1WDYJ1ulZobuFc by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-08-10T21:49:15+00:00
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(DIR) Post #Al2YzeQp7vWuMzRkTA by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-08-16T23:52:44+00:00
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https://theintercept.com/2024/08/16/trump-shooting-police-bodycam-video-secret-service/
(DIR) Post #AlkUc4EhgTNcacVsY4 by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-09-07T03:51:47+00:00
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/saudi-arabia-human-rights
(DIR) Post #Anau1853oTfMxVMzwW by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-11-01T07:01:55+00:00
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https://www.salon.com/2024/10/31/the-un-warns-famine-is-likely-in-gaza-what-do-malnutrition-and-hunger-do-to-the-body_partner/
(DIR) Post #AoD2FKOgnXLZwmC7gO by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2024-11-19T18:42:04+00:00
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https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/if-you-havent-spoken-to-non-voters-you-havent-explained-the-election-making-sense-of-trumps-victory/
(DIR) Post #ArtsYvz73tUMdC9sTA by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2025-03-10T04:17:43+00:00
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When the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, banks charge more for loans — but often don’t pay higher rates to depositors. This scheme has allowed banks to pocket a more than $1 trillion windfall over the past two and a half years.
(DIR) Post #AsZOZn19gHQsKmGGPo by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2025-03-28T03:26:09+00:00
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President Donald Trump promised to unleash mass deportations on immigrants during his presidential campaign. But he has gone much further, with the disappearing of hundreds of Venezuelan nationals from the United States to El Salvador’s notorious gulag. It’s a warning shot—one that has serious consequences for all of us, immigrant or not.The method and speed of his actions are breathtaking. Over several years, there has been an exodus of millions of Venezuelans from the left wing regime of Hugo Chávez, now overseen by President Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. Congress granted them Temporary Protected Status (TPS), enabling nearly 350,000 Venezuelans to legally reside in the United States.That designation remained on the government’s books until the beginning of 2025. But, within weeks of Trump’s second-term inauguration in January 2025, he rescinded TPS for Venezuelans, invoked a 1798 law called the Alien Enemies Act, and immediately dumped three planeloads of Venezuelan mento El Salvador’s prisons for allegedly being gang members.When an emergency ACLU-led court hearing resulted in U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordering an immediate halt to the deportations, including a demand that the flights be turned around midair, the Trump White House defied the order and pressed ahead. Their justification was that the planes were outside U.S. airspace and, therefore, the order didn’t apply.This action, only one in an overwhelming series of violent political earthquakes unleashed by the Trump regime, is an intentional test of myriad institutional norms and laws.First, Trump is making clear that this is no longer about deporting undocumented immigrants and that anyone can be disappeared at any time. His government is going after U.S. citizens of color. It is targeting academicsof color who are working or studying in the country with valid papers, particularly those who are Muslim or seeking justice for Palestine, such as Mahmoud Khalil and Bader Khan Suri. He is also targeting white Europeans and Canadian tourists, artists, and others. The situation is so dire that Germany and the UK have issued travel advisories against the United States.Second, Trump is using disinformation so willfully and skillfully that he has news media fumbling on fact-checking him, as they take him at face value. He has asserted “pro-Hamas aliens” have infiltrated college campuses—relying on the bipartisan conflation of anti-Israel criticism with antisemitism—and is ominously taking his lead from a Zionist organization that sent him a list of thousands of potential deportees. Indeed, if Nazis—the worst antisemites—are to be found anywhere, it is among Trump supporters.He has claimed the U.S. is being invaded by a dangerous and violent Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua—it is not. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt outrageously libeled the Venezuelan men who were sent to El Salvador as “rapists, murderers, and gangsters.” But there is no evidence of this, and even if there was, there are due process laws in place to deal with these allegations. Instead, innocent people have been indefinitely disappeared into a prison system known for torture and cruelty—what some have justifiably termed a “concentration camp.”To add to the confusion about his actions, Trump claimed he didn’t sign the Alien Enemies Act—and why would he sign a 1798 law? But he did invoke it, in writing, on the White House website. This sort of confusion is designed to suck up media resources. For example, the Washington Post printed an entire story about it, wondering, “Did Trump misspeak? Is he trying to deflect responsibility for a decision?”Trump did the same thing during his first term and many journalists tied themselves into knots attempting to cover his deception. “President Donald Trump lies, but not everything he says is a lie,” said CNN’s Brian Stelter in 2018. That’s like saying, “this man is a rapist but does not rape every woman he encounters.” The obfuscation is the point.And third, Trump is testing the ability of the courts to stop him from breaking the law. Defying Judge Boasberg’s order to stop the disappearances of Venezuelans into El Salvador’s prisons, Trump violently railed against Boasberg as a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator,” and demanded he be impeached in a social media post. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr issued a rare rebuke denouncing such threats, but it was Roberts’s court that ruled Trump was legally immune from prosecutionfor actions conducted during his presidential terms. As it stands now, the president faces no consequences for defying judicial orders. He has also threatened to sanction law firms for accepting cases challenging his policies.There is no more apt time to remind us of the poem, “First They Came,” by Martin Niemöller. Today the administration is going after Venezuelans and Palestinians—tomorrow it can be any one of us.Those Trump supporters who cheered on the president, thinking themselves and their loved ones safe from his hate, now face the deportations of spouses and neighbors.Immigration and Customs Enforcement even mistakenly detained a pro-Trump naturalized U.S. citizen who voted for the racist president and who then expressed shock that he wasn’t safe from Trump’s white supremacist dragnet.Progressives warned for years that Trump’s presidency is based on maintaining white power and racial capitalism at all costs in a demographically changing nation. Critics also cautioned Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden against equating anti-Israel rhetoric with antisemitism and against leaning into anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. They advised mainstream corporate media outlets against accepting and disseminating anti-immigrant narratives and social media platforms against spreading racist lies about immigrants.Had liberal leaders and media outlets unabashedly embraced a multiracial democracy, there would have been a clear delineation between Trump’s Republican Party and the opposition.Instead, by accepting the dehumanization of Palestinians, Muslims, Latin Americans, South Asians, and Arabs—as though there is a hard line between the humanity of immigrants and citizens—Americans opened the door to undermining all our rights. There is no limit he won’t cross unless forcefully stopped.One pro-Trump conservative whose organization boasts about successfully pushing for an extremist Supreme Court majority warned, “What’s going to be on the horizon are denaturalization cases,” which means Trump is likely to begin stripping naturalized citizens (like me) of their citizenship. He’s also pursuing an end to birthright citizenship.The danger of our current political moment is the inevitable outcome of accepting and internalizing dehumanizing narratives about people we deem “others.” Tolerating anti-immigrant cruelty opens the door to all of us being victims of such savagery. No one is immune.Sonali Kolhatkar
(DIR) Post #AshqLezb4bLjN6GMC0 by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2025-04-02T23:04:37+00:00
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https://israelpalestinenews.org/the-zionist-destruction-of-american-higher-education/
(DIR) Post #AtOTXZinPeY6Jguyw4 by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2025-04-23T20:18:56+00:00
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2025-05-08T04:34:23+00:00
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https://www.commondreams.org/further/let-them-die-alone-and-hungryLet Them Die Alone, and Hungry"Drunk on impunity," Israel has grandiosely labeled its latest genocidal move "Operation Gideon's Chariots" wherein, moving from siege to seizure, it plans the bloody conquest, ethnic cleansing, and permanent recolonization of Gaza, using the rhetoric of holy war to justify unholy mass destruction - this, even as many of the Palestinian children who've somehow survived their savage 18 months of carnage now slowly starve to death. "We are complicit," says one angry, grieving doctor. "It is an abomination."Having gotten away with so many atrocities while the international community looks away, Israel just unveiled the latest escalation of its illegal collective punishment of Gazans by finally declaring out loud, "We are occupying Gaza to stay." Unanimously approved by Netanyahu's far-right Security Cabinet, the new "conquering of Gaza" formalizes Israel's plan for the indefinite occupation, forced expulsion and incorporation into "sanitized" Israeli zones of an already long-besieged civilian population "for its own protection." The expansion of an onslaught that has left more than 185,000 Gazans dead, wounded, or missing and millions homeless, hungry, maimed and traumatized is being ludicrously framed as a final mission to dismantle Hamas and retrieve hostages, even though Israel repeatedly failed at each before breaking a ceasefire that would have accomplished both."Gideon’s Chariots will begin with great force and will not end until all its objectives are achieved," Israel thundered, again virtually ignoring the fact that permanent occupation, forced displacement and ethnic cleansing violate international law. "No more going in and out - this is a war for victory," said apartheid Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who urged Israelis embrace, not fear the word "occupation...A people that wants to live must occupy its land." But the name Gideon's Chariots, Merkavot Gideon, invoking the righteous Biblical warrior who led a chosen few to annihilate an ancient Arab people, "layers this symbolism with menace," blending the concepts of divine vengeance with state-sanctioned ethnic violence, the "mythic instruments of war (with) the Israeli Merkava tanks that have long razed homes and lives in Gaza and the West Bank."Sicker, darker undercurrents reportedly surfaced during a Cabinet meeting rife with genocidal banter. After a minister leered that Gazans should "die with the Philistines," Gaza's ancient inhabitants, Netanyahu refuted the idea with, "No. We don’t want to die with them. We want them to die alone." Ominously, the proposal also calls for (now-banned) international aid groups to be replaced with private U.S. military contractors, aka mercenaries, distributing aid at Israeli-designated relief "hubs," which critics call "not an aid plan but an aid denial plan" that flagrantly violates international principles that prohibit an occupier from exploiting humanitarian needs to achieve military or political objectives. Gazan officials angrily rejected the idea as "perpetuation of a malicious policy of siege and starvation...The Occupation cannot be a humanitarian mediator (when) it is the source and instrument of the tragedy."Any illusion of Israel abruptly becoming a merciful presence in Palestinian lives was shattered Tuesday when far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich proclaimed at a West Bank conference, “Gaza will be entirely destroyed." He added Gazan civilians "will start to leave in great numbers (to) third countries," with hopes the territory would be formally annexed "during the current government’s term." He did not mention such annexation or any acquisition of land by military force is forbidden as a founding principle of international law, including the UN charter. Citing a 2024 report by Amnesty International titled You Feel You Are Subhuman, Dalal Yassine writes that Gaza most bitterly represents the end of humanitarian law: "The past 19 months of genocide have not only demonstrated the double standard imposed on Palestinians in Gaza, but also that there is no standard at all."And as it's been all along, the U.S. remains complicit. Israel will not act until after an upcoming trip by Trump, who's voiced no objections - his gold-plated hotel beckons - and as usual gets it all wrong, blaming Hamas for treating Gazans "badly." "People are starving, and we’re going to help them get food," he yammered. "Hamas is making it impossible (by) taking everything that’s brought in." This week, our complicity came into harsher, shocking focus when nine former Biden officials admitted its months-long claims of "working tirelessly" for a ceasefire - a phrase used by Biden, Harris, even AOC, and derided by skeptics as "not a thing" - were all a lie. No demands were made - a moral and political crime re-enforced by a 2024 memo finding "insufficient evidence" linking U.S. arms to rights violations or Israel to blocked aid. One critic: "The lack of concern about Palestinian lives is palpable."Still, the killing goes on, with about half the dead women and children. Implausibly, Israeli forces grow ever more savage: Drones often fire on civil defense teams trying to retrieve the wounded under debris, soldiers just executed 15 Palestine Red Crescent workers, their hands and feet bound, before burying them and their ambulances in the sand; hundreds of doctors, aid workers and journalists have been killed. Last month, they included Ahmad Mansour, burned alive in a media tent, and Fatima Hassouna, a "self-made fighter" colleagues called "the Eye of Gaza," for whom the camera was a weapon to "preserve a voice, tell a story." She died with six siblings, just before her wedding, a day after it was announced a film featuring her, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, will screen at the Cannes Film Festival. "If I die, I want a resounding death," she wrote last year. "Fatima planned for joy," said a friend. "Despite the war, she insisted on dreaming."With Israeli power left untethered, Arab nations largely silent and international rules of law ignored, what's left to protect Gazan lives are mere small gestures. Hundreds of Israelis attend silent vigils to hold images of dead Palestinian children; Artists Against Apartheid and other groups protested in D.C. bearing the names of the dead and installing 17,000 pairs of children's shoes as a searing memorial; Swedish Television announced an initiative to convert the late Pope Francis’s car into a mobile clinic for Gazan children, fulfilling his final wish; World Central Kitchen barely manages to keep open its mobile bakery, the last bakery in Gaza: "We are now near (the) limits of what is possible." Still, desperate hunger mounts. Most Gazans face "acute levels of food insecurity," with more and more children dying from "starvation-related complications," a now-common term that should not exist.Aid officials say close to 300,000 children are on the brink of starvation; about a third of those under two suffer from "acute malnutrition," with the rate swiftly climbing; more than 3,500 under five face imminent death from starvation; at least 27 have died from malnutrition, and at least several more die each day, often newborns of mothers who cannot produce milk. To date, the Israeli onslaught has directly killed over 15,000 children; for every direct death, says The Lancet medical journal, there are up to four indirect deaths from hunger, disease, the collapse of small bodies' immunity and a country's once-flourishing healthcare system. If they can, sunken-cheeked children who've lost half their body weight scavenge in mountains of trash for anything to fill their stomachs alongside their frantic parents: "I don’t want my child to die hungry." One mother: "As people, we are almost dead."The stories and images horrify: Stick-thin, Auschwitz-like limbs protrude, ribs jut from concave chests, eyes grow wide and glazed. Once vibrant, they lie in bed, skin on bone, too weak to walk, stand, turn, lift their head, eventually breathe. An emaciated six-year-old weighing half what he should writhes on a bed, pleading, "I want to leave." A four-month-old, six-pound girl died of malnutrition, blood acidity, liver and kidney failure after her hair and nails fell out. Of newborn twin girls, one died eight days later. A father's father's infant son Abdelaziz died hours after his severely malnourished mother gave birth to him; hospital staff hooked Abdelaziz, premature and gasping, to a ventilator; it stopped a few hours later when the hospital ran out of fuel, and he died "immediately." "I am losing my son before my eyes," says one mother. "In these beds, we are waiting for them to die one by one."Each day, says Tareq Hailat of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, up to ten sick children in Gaza need urgent medical evacuation, but, "It's just not happening." Each one, he stresses, has a story: "They aren't just a number." Among the handful his group managed to get out was 6-year-old Fadi al-Zant from Gaza City, who had cystic fibrosis; he was also starving. When his mother couldn't find food or medication, Fadi's weight dropped from 66 to 26 pounds and he became too weak to walk, he was miraculously evacuated to first Egypt, then New York. Once the media began following his story, Fadi became "the face of starvation in Gaza." But he was a rare, blessed exception. "We are breaking the bodies and minds of the children of Gaza," says Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO. "We are starving the children of Gaza. We are complicit. As a physician, I am angry. It is an abomination."There are so many. Drop Site Newsposted video of the distraught mother of four-month-old Yousef al-Najjar as he lay curled on a hospital bed, small fists flailing, suffering from malnutrition and dehydration. He weighed just 3.3 pounds, one fourth of what he should have weighed. His young mother lamented: He has had spasms trying to breathe, his entire ribcage sticks out, she has never experienced this before, she doesn't know each morning if he's survived: "The woman you see before you is begging for money to feed her children." She held him in her arms, then repeatedly lofted him into the unlistening air, arms straight before her, up and down, up and down, almost weightless. "Why is this happening to us?" she cried. "I swear to God, it's wrong what is happening to us." On Monday, Yousef died from malnutrition, and Israel. May his memory be for a blessing.Abby Zimet
(DIR) Post #AvVQvYdBQWkfsLAmFU by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2025-06-25T23:35:49+00:00
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Let’s be honest about where we are.This week, ICE detention numbers just hit a record high : over 56,000 people locked up. The vast majority with no criminal record, some even deported despite being U.S. citizens.And active-duty troops are still occupying Los Angeles with no plans to leave. Not to keep peace. Not because protests have escalated. But because Donald Trump has decided this city, our neighbors, are the “enemy within.”This is authoritarianism through and through. And if the last few weeks have proven anything, it’s that the Democratic Party isn’t equipped to stop it. Because they refuse to name it. Because they helped build it.ICE was created with bipartisan support. Funded under Republican and Democratic administrations. Expanded under Bush. Supercharged under Obama. Given legal cover by Clinton-era laws. Every step of the way, there were Democrats willing to rationalize it. To vote yes. To say “now is not the time” while communities were being disappeared.Now, even as Trump openly defies court orders, even as federal agents arrest sitting members of Congress, the response from the old guard has been silence or paperwork. Chuck Schumer took two weeks to send a polite letter after Senator Padilla was manhandled by Trump’s DHS in broad daylight. That’s the plan?No wonder sixty-five percent of Democratic voters want new leadership. It’s not because they’ve given up on democracy. Because “strategic patience” isn’t a plan when your community is under siegeWe don’t need more excuses. We need an opposition that won’t flinch. That’s why we’re running with the Green Party—because we never voted to fund ICE, we never made excuses for detention quotas, and we sure as hell won’t stand down while military troops occupy our cities.When elected governor, I will move to cancel all state and local cooperation with ICE, end data sharing with DHS, and turn California into a sanctuary in practice, not just in name. No more loopholes. No more two-faced talking points. Just a clear commitment to protecting every Californian from political terror.The troops are here. The raids are escalating. And the old solutions are still failing. If you’re ready to stop repeating history, help us organize the future.Peace and Power,Butch Ware
(DIR) Post #AvoLGYqEQ1jueWVCPw by ettajamesfan@www.minds.com
2025-07-05T03:39:26+00:00
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