Daily Archives: January 12, 2024

2024-01-12: News Headlines

John Jiggens (2024-01-12). John Pilger fought for the truth and for Assange's freedom. independentaustralia.net

News Desk, The Cradle. (2024-01-12). Oman Seizes Drones Bound For UAE-Backed Forces In Yemen. popularresistance.org Omani customs authorities seized a shipment of drones hidden in a truck from the UAE heading for Yemen on 10 January. | "The Directorate General of Customs seized a truck at the Hafeet crossing loaded with wireless drones coming by transit system from the United Arab Emirates heading to the Republic of Yemen," said the customs authorities. | "Customs inspectors were able to discover the shipments hidden professionally in places specially prepared for smuggling them in the truck. The concerned authorities began investigating the case in order to complete the rest of the legal procedures against the suspects," the…

infobrics (2024-01-11). Ukraine's air defense in critical condition. infobrics.org The neo-Nazi regime's forces are not able to face Russian intense use of missiles and drones.

Angela (2024-01-12). Friday 1/12: Webinar: Guantanamo, Where Do We Go From Here? indybay.org

Editor (2024-01-12). An ex-CIA agent looks back at 22 years of torture at Guantánamo Bay. mronline.org "Guantánamo has been universally condemned by every human rights, civil liberties, and civil rights group in the world that has expressed an opinion, as well as by the United Nations, and most countries in the world," writes John Kiriakou.

Connor Echols (2024-01-11). Why won't Biden close Gitmo? responsiblestatecraft.org

Today marks 22 years since the first set of detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. military base in Cuba. The camp, in the George W. Bush administration's telling, fell outside of the normal jurisdiction of federal courts and was thus free from pesky concerns like treating detainees humanely or charging them with crimes. | "Gitmo" quickly became a by-word for the worst excesses of the Global War on Terror, including torture and indefinite detention. By 2005, the New York Times editorial board

Editor (2024-01-11). An Ex-CIA Agent Looks Back at 22 Years of Torture at Guantánamo Bay. scheerpost.com

Angela (2024-01-11). Friday 1/12: Webinar: Guantanamo, Where Do We Go From Here? indybay.org

John Kiriakou, Scheer Post. (2024-01-11). An Ex-CIA Agent Looks Back At 22 Years Of Torture At Guantanamo Bay. popularresistance.org January 11 marks the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the prison component of the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Cuba. The U.S. military has been at Guantánamo for decades, of course, but the idea to use the isolated base as a prison where men — and in some cases boys — who had never been formally accused of a crime could be held forever, came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney in 2002. In the intervening years, presidents and members of Congress of both parties have ignored civil rights, civil liberties and human rights to keep this abomination open. It's up to the rest of us to deman…

Roy Eidelson (2024-01-11). Guantanamo: An Enduring Stain. counterpunch.org The infamous U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay turns 22 this month. Its ugly history now spans an entire generation. For those who might not remember, on January 11, 2002, General Richard Myers described Guantanamo's first arrivals as "people that would gnaw hydraulic lines in the back of a C-17 to bring it down" and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld chimed in, "To be in an eight-by-eight cell in beautiful, sunny Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is not inhumane."

Editor (2024-01-11). John Kiriakou: 22 Years of Terror at Guantanamo Bay. scheerpost.com

newarab (2024-01-12). South Africa, Israel made their cases at the ICJ. What next?>. newarab.com Israel and South Africa have each made their cases in public hearings at the South Africa has accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Israel has conducted indiscriminate bombings, arbitrary killings, and tortured detainees over the course of its onslaught, which has lasted m…

WSWS (2024-01-11). "Goon Squad" of Mississippi sheriff deputies carried out campaign of terror and torture. wsws.org Deputies in Rankin County carried out a reign of extrajudicial torture and brutality that went ignored for years.

Mark Gruenberg (2024-01-12). Worker centers, advocates demand Biden protect whistleblowing migrants. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO —Worker centers and migrants' advocates are demanding that President Biden, and particularly his Department of Homeland Security, publicize and publicly advocate a little-known DHS waiver of deportation for undocumented people who become whistleblowers about worker exploitation and abuse on the job. With backing from the AFL-CIO-recognized National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), they're undertaking …

Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. (2024-01-11). Boeing Whistleblower Warns Against Corporation's 'Safety Exemptions'. popularresistance.org Following another incident involving a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, a known Boeing whistleblower is sounding the alarm over the multinational corporation's requests for "safety exemptions." | The Associated Press reported that "a fuselage panel blew out on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 seven minutes after takeoff from Portland, Oregon." | "The rapid loss of cabin pressure pulled the clothes off a child and caused oxygen masks to drop from the ceiling, but miraculously none of the 171 passengers and six members were injured. Pilots made a safe emergency landing," AP added.

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