2022-01-15: News Headlines

Binoy Kampmark (2022-01-15). Enduring Stain: The Guantánamo Military Prison Turns Twenty. dissidentvoice.org Anniversaries for detention centres, concentration camps and torture facilities are not the relishable calendar events in the canon of human worth. But not remembering them, when they were used, and how they continue being used, would be unpardonable amnesia. On January 11, 2002, the first prisoners of the absurdly named "War on Terror", declared with …

Direct Action Everywhere (2022-01-15). Meetup: Gilly's Rescuers on Trial in Iowa. indybay.org DxE investigator Matt Johnson is going to trial in Iowa on January 20th for rescuing a piglet named Gilly from horrific animal cruelty at a factory farm owned by Iowa Select Farms (ISF). Investigators exposed an extremely cruel mass-kill method known as "ventilation shutdown" (VSD). Join us at this Meetup to learn more about the Iowa trial, how we can support animal rescuers and industry whistleblowers, and what this could mean for animals and the movement! | Where: ONLINE on Zoom! Link: dxe.io/meetupzoom | When: Saturday, January 15th, 11am ~ 12: 30pm | What: Community meetup | Every Saturday at 11am we have Meet…

Anish R M (2022-01-14). Julian Assange case: 4 things that the media doesn't tell you. peoplesdispatch.org As a US extradition looms over Julian Assange and the Wikileaks founder continues to remain in prison without charge, we compile a list of the most important facets of his case that mainstream media often overlooked…

Staff (2022-01-14). Yemenis attack ISIL, UAE mercenaries in Shabwah with missiles. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 14 (MNA) — Yemeni army and allied forces attacked the ISIL elements and the UAE-backed mercenaries with missiles and drones in southern Shabwah province.

William Bruno (2022-01-14). Public Health Professionals Must Demand an End to the Use of Weaponized Drones. truthout.org On January 13, 2017, a family including a husband, wife and three small children scurried from building to building in East Mosul, Iraq. They were seeking refuge as a battle between ISIS (also known as Daesh) and U.S.-backed forces swirled around them. The family was huddled in an abandoned school surrounded by other civilians when a U.S.-operated drone struck and destroyed the structure. The father and one of his sons narrowly escaped with their lives. The tragic fate of his wife and other…

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2022-01-14). Pardiss Kebriaei on Guantánamo Prisoners. fair.org Prisoners of Guantánamo (photo: Shane T. McCoy/US Navy) | This week on CounterSpin: As we pass the grim milestone of 20 years of the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, even Michael Lehnert, the Marine general who set the camp up, The number of Muslim men and boys in Guantánamo has shrunk from som…

Gloria La Riva (2022-01-14). 20 years of U.S. crimes against humanity in Guantánamo. liberationnews.org The U.S. government runs Guantánamo prison on Cuban soil, territory illegally held since 1898.

_____ (2022-01-14). Ugandans Escalate Movement Of 'Radical Rudeness' Following Violent Arrest Over Mean Tweet. popularresistance.org "Men with guns are breaking my door. They say they're policemen but are not in uniform. I've locked myself inside." | This was the final Facebook post by Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, 2021 winner of the PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Award, on Dec. 28. Within minutes of his post, Rukirabashaija was abducted by Uganda's Special Forces Command, a military outfit notorious for torturing nonviolent activists. | Rukirabashaija — author of a political allegory novel and an autobiographical book detailing his previous torture — has only surfaced once since his brutal kidnapping. When his lawyer Eron K…

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