Monthly Archives: March 2023

2023-03-31: News Headlines

John Kiriakou, Consortium News. (2023-03-30). New Report On US Solitary Confinement. popularresistance.org In prisons and jails across America, between 41,000 and 48,000 people are currently being held in solitary confinement, or "isolation," as it is called in a new study by the Correctional Leaders Association and the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale University Law School. | Those numbers are too high, especially when the United Nations' special rapporteur for torture has called the U.S. practice of using solitary confinement as a punishment a form of torture. Still, as high as the numbers are, they are far lower than they were in 2014. And there is growing support across the country for solitary…

Jeremy Kuzmarov, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-03-30). Chechen Torturers From Syria Sign Deal With Ukraine To Fight Russians. popularresistance.org In early March, Asia Times reported that the Ukrainian government under Volodymyr Zelensky had signed a deal with newly arrived Chechen fighters from Syria to establish an all-Chechen brigade reporting directly to the Ministry of Defense. | Many of the Chechens in Syria had been part of ISIS and other al-Qaeda offshoots like Jabhat al-Nusra, with Chechen commander Abu Omar al-Shishani serving as ISIS Minister of War. | The Chechens wanted to directly fight the Russians with whom they have been at war for more than 300 years—and to fight against Chechen forces on the Russian side led by Ramzan Kadyrov, who s…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-03-30). Australia Court Rules Whistleblower Protection Law Does Not Protect Whistleblower Richard Boyle. thedissenter.org An Australia court decided the Public Interest Disclosure Act does not protect whistleblower Richard Boyle from facing a criminal trial.

John Kiriakou, Consortium News. (2023-03-30). New Report On US Solitary Confinement. popularresistance.org In prisons and jails across America, between 41,000 and 48,000 people are currently being held in solitary confinement, or "isolation," as it is called in a new study by the Correctional Leaders Association and the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale University Law School. | Those numbers are too high, especially when the United Nations' special rapporteur for torture has called the U.S. practice of using solitary confinement as a punishment a form of torture. Still, as high as the numbers are, they are far lower than they were in 2014. And there is growing support across the country for solitary…

Jeremy Kuzmarov, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-03-30). Chechen Torturers From Syria Sign Deal With Ukraine To Fight Russians. popularresistance.org In early March, Asia Times reported that the Ukrainian government under Volodymyr Zelensky had signed a deal with newly arrived Chechen fighters from Syria to establish an all-Chechen brigade reporting directly to the Ministry of Defense. | Many of the Chechens in Syria had been part of ISIS and other al-Qaeda offshoots like Jabhat al-Nusra, with Chechen commander Abu Omar al-Shishani serving as ISIS Minister of War. | The Chechens wanted to directly fight the Russians with whom they have been at war for more than 300 years—and to fight against Chechen forces on the Russian side led by Ramzan Kadyrov, who s…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-03-30). Australia Court Rules Whistleblower Protection Law Does Not Protect Whistleblower Richard Boyle. thedissenter.org An Australia court decided the Public Interest Disclosure Act does not protect whistleblower Richard Boyle from facing a criminal trial.

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2023-03-30: News Headlines

Anonymous669 (2023-03-29). Russian Lancet Drones Destroy More Howitzers, Tanks Of Kiev Forces (Videos). southfront.org MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | Between March 24 and 29, Russian news sources shared several videos documenting recent strikes with Lancet loitering munitions against Kiev forces in the special military operation zone. | The strikes destroyed or damaged two American-made M777 towed 155 mm howitzer, a Soviet-made 2S3 Akatsi…

Editor (2023-03-29). John Kiriakou: US Solitary Confinement. scheerpost.com Most states have at least considered initiatives to do away with, or to reduce the use of, isolation in their prison systems, according to the latest major report on the subject. But there's bad news too.

Anonymous669 (2023-03-29). Russian Lancet Drones Destroy More Howitzers, Tanks Of Kiev Forces (Videos). southfront.org MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | Between March 24 and 29, Russian news sources shared several videos documenting recent strikes with Lancet loitering munitions against Kiev forces in the special military operation zone. | The strikes destroyed or damaged two American-made M777 towed 155 mm howitzer, a Soviet-made 2S3 Akatsi…

Editor (2023-03-29). John Kiriakou: US Solitary Confinement. scheerpost.com Most states have at least considered initiatives to do away with, or to reduce the use of, isolation in their prison systems, according to the latest major report on the subject. But there's bad news too.

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