Sara Flounders (2021-09-24). 'Rising Together' rally for solidarity. workers.org A giant 18-foot-tall paper-mache puppet of Mumia Abu Jamal was the centerpiece of the"Rising Together" rally held Sept. 19 at Foley Square in New York City. The program used art, banners, speakers, culture and poetry to call for the freedom of political prisoners including Mumia Abu Jamal, Julian Assange, Alex . . . |

Anonymous669 (2021-09-24). Houthis Launched Missile, Five Drones At Saudi Arabia In New Large-Scale Attack. southfront.org Illustrative image. | On September 24, the Saudi-led coalition announced that it had intercepted and shot down five suicide drones and a ballistic missile which were launched from Yemen, allegedly by the Houthis (Ansar Allah), over Saudi Arabia's southern region. | The coalition claimed that the five drones were on their way to attack city of Khamis Mushait in the southern province of 'Asir, while the ballistic missile was heading towards the provincial capital of Jizan. | "The [Houthi] militia's aggressive attempts to attack…

WSWS (2021-09-24). Biden administration sends migrants in chains back to Haiti, prepares Guantanamo camp. wsws.org The US government is violating international law in its forcible deportation of migrants without so much as a hearing.

Kevin Gosztola (2021-09-24). Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale In Carceral Limbo While US Generals Shirk Responsibility For Deadly Strikes. thedissenter.org Daniel Hale (Photo: Bob Hayes)Around two months ago, drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in prison  after he stood before a federal judge and delivered a statement that demonstrated he was a person of conscience. | "I am here to answer for my own crimes and not that of another person. And it would appear that I am here today to answer for the crime of stealing papers for which I expect to spend some portion of my life in prison," Hale declared. "But what I am really here for is having stolen something that was never mine to take: precious human life." | Hale add…

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-23). UN: Zelensky pushes Crimea's "liberation" as Ukraine, Turkey strengthen military alliance. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kuleba: Ukraine UN General Assembly attracts support of partners for development of Crimea Platform, release of political prisoners "Volodymyr Zelensky and Recep Erdogan discussed cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey in security and defense. There are several very ambitious projects in the field of military-technical cooperation between our countries. This is the production of drones and …

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-23). Next Turkish intervention? Algeria, Morocco clash over Western Sahara. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== Turkish combat drones to be used in Western Sahara after Karabakh, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Donbass ==== Algeria closes airspace to all Moroccan planes Algeria's presidency has announced the closure of the country's airspace to all Moroccan planes, according to the presidency, in the latest dispute between the two neighbours at odds mainly over Western …

Jessica Corbett (2021-09-23). 'This Cannot Happen': Biden DHS Seeks Contractor for Migrant Detention Center at Guantánamo Bay. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-09-23). Send Haitian migrants to GITMO? Report that small detention facility in Guantanamo Bay will house migrants sparks outrage. rt.com The Biden administration is seeking guards fluent in Haitian Creole to staff a detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — but it is far too small to have an impact on the thousands of Haitian migrants currently camped in Texas. | According to an NBC News report on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a contract

sputniknews (2021-09-23). DHS Looks to Staff Gitmo Migrant Facility With Guards Who Speak Haitian Creole Amid US Border Surge. sputniknews.com In the early 90s, US Coast Guard cutters transported thousands of Haitians fleeing the coup-hit country to refugee camps based at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. At one point, the detention facility came under human rights scrutiny, and was branded an "HIV prison camp" for its quarantining of HIV+ refugees and their relatives.

Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska (2021-09-23). Afghanistan: Ex-Bagram Inmates Recount Stories of Abuse, Torture. globalresearch.ca

Editor2 (2021-09-23). War Hawks Quietly Positioning Canada to Participate in US-led Ballistic Missile Defence Program. orinocotribune.com During the 2021 federal election campaign, there has been almost no emphasis or discussion in the media on the Liberal government's plan to spend more than $553 billion on the military over the next 20 years, including the awarding of contracts for purchase of military fighter jets and armed drones in the next few months. The contracts for new frigates have already been awarded, including design components by Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems. | Since then, the U.S. has spent more than $100 billion attempting to build a missile shield, and for almost two decades the U.S. and defense industry lobb…

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-23). Next Turkish intervention? Algeria, Morocco clash over Western Sahara. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== Turkish combat drones to be used in Western Sahara after Karabakh, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Donbass ==== Algeria closes airspace to all Moroccan planes Algeria's presidency has announced the closure of the country's airspace to all Moroccan planes, according to the presidency, in the latest dispute between the two neighbours at odds mainly over Western …

Jessica Corbett (2021-09-23). 'This Cannot Happen': Biden DHS Seeks Contractor for Migrant Detention Center at Guantánamo Bay. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-09-23). Send Haitian migrants to GITMO? Report that small detention facility in Guantanamo Bay will house migrants sparks outrage. rt.com The Biden administration is seeking guards fluent in Haitian Creole to staff a detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — but it is far too small to have an impact on the thousands of Haitian migrants currently camped in Texas. | According to an NBC News report on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a contract

sputniknews (2021-09-23). DHS Looks to Staff Gitmo Migrant Facility With Guards Who Speak Haitian Creole Amid US Border Surge. sputniknews.com In the early 90s, US Coast Guard cutters transported thousands of Haitians fleeing the coup-hit country to refugee camps based at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. At one point, the detention facility came under human rights scrutiny, and was branded an "HIV prison camp" for its quarantining of HIV+ refugees and their relatives.

Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska (2021-09-23). Afghanistan: Ex-Bagram Inmates Recount Stories of Abuse, Torture. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-09-22). 'This Cannot Happen': Biden DHS Seeks Contractor for Migrant Detention Center at Guant√°namo Bay. commondreams.org Peruvian President Pedro Castillo is pushing for an international accord to "guarantee universal access to vaccines for all people on the planet, with no discrimination on the basis of privilege."

Paul Haeder (2021-09-22). So You Go Deaf at a Protest: *MIC/MICC* at the Helm. dissidentvoice.org *Military Industrial Complex, or Lawrence Wilkerson's, Military Industrial Congressional Complex* You get a story on the supposed Havana Syndrome, and then you also get the concept of mass psychogenic illness (you know, it's all in your head, buster, those heart palpitations, the sweats, the throbbing veins, after getting mRNA "vaccinated") explained, and, well, no huge …

Kevin Gosztola (2021-09-22). Twenty Years In A Security State: CIA's Global Rendition Network, Wrongful Detentions (Exclusive For Subscribers). thedissenter.org Photo Adaptation: [Editor's Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter presents a retrospective on this transformation in policing and government. This is an exclusive article for paid subscribers. Thanks for supporting independent journalism.]The Central Intelligence Agency had a network of secret prisons as part of the rendition, detention, and torture program. Detainees were cruelly and inhumanely treated by CIA interrogators as well as intel…

_____ (2021-09-22). Rapid Shift to Electric Vehicles Could Create Over 150,000 Jobs in US by 2030. commondreams.org "It is psychologically hard for me to recall all that was happening," said one former Bagram Air Base inmate. "The torture was mostly done by Afghans, sometimes the Americans. But the orders came from the U.S."

Moderator (2021-09-22). Ex-Prisoners Recall U.S. Torture at 'Afghanistan's Abu Ghraib'. scheerpost.com Activists protest U.S. torture at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 27, 2009. ( By Brett Wilkins / In a chilling reminder of the war crimes committed during the 20-year…

_____ (2021-09-22). Ex-Prisoners Recall US Torture at 'Afghanistan's Abu Ghraib'. commondreams.org Premature endorsement of incomplete and inadequate targets is the wrong approach.