Politics & environs articles 2021

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Brazil hospital chain accused of hiding Covid deaths and giving unproven drugs

 

Group of whistleblowing doctors gave 10,000-page dossier to investigators last month with allegations against Prevent Senior

 

Tom Phillips and Flávia Milhorance in Rio de Janeiro

Wed 29 Sep 2021 19.45 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/29/brazil-prevent-senior-hospital-chain-covid-accusations

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Erdoğan and Putin hold face-to-face talks over Syria ceasefire

 

Turkey’s president wants to shore up the truce because it has been ruptured repeatedly in the last 18 months

 

Bethan McKernan in Istanbul

Wed 29 Sep 2021 17.06 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/29/erdogan-and-putin-hold-face-to-face-talks-over-syria-ceasefire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Syrian exiles forced to prop up regime with fees for avoiding conscription

 

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and Siraj reveal how refugees are pressured for cash

 

Ali Al Ibrahim

Tue 28 Sep 2021 13.49 BST

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/28/why-syrian-exiles-are-having-to-pay-up-to-skip-military-service

[umbertino]

Mass protests in Brazil call for Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment

 

Crowds parade through cities as polling shows president’s ratings sinking to new depths

 

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Sat 2 Oct 2021 19.53 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/02/mass-protests-in-brazil-call-for-bolsonaros-impeachment

[umbertino]

Draghi, Scholz or Macron? Merkel’s crown as Europe’s leader up for grabs

 

The three contenders to take the helm for the continent as era of outgoing German chancellor draws to a close

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome, Kate Connolly in Berlin and Jon Henley in Paris

Sun 3 Oct 2021 11.51 BSTLast modified on Sun 3 Oc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/03/draghi-scholz-or-macron-merkels-crown-as-europes-leader-up-for-grabs

[umbertino]

Philippines' Duterte says he is retiring from politics, but not everyone is convinced

 

October 2, 20217:54 PM CEST

By Karen Lema

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippine-president-duterte-says-he-is-retiring-politics-2021-10-02/

[umbertino]

War crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Libya since 2016, says UN

 

Fact-finding mission says migrants and detainees particularly exposed to violations since civil war

 

Peter Beaumont

Mon 4 Oct 2021 14.21 BSTLast modified on Mon 4 Oct

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/04/war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity-committed-in-libya-since-2016-says-un

[umbertino]

Ethiopia expels ‘meddling’ UN staff as famine deepens in Tigray without aid

 

Seven senior officials responsible for ‘delivering lifesaving aid’ told to leave amid de facto blockade of food, medicine and fuel

 

Georgina Quach

Fri 1 Oct 2021 15.50 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/01/ethiopia-expels-meddling-un-staff-as-famine-deepens-in-tigray-without-aid

[umbertino]

Reports of physical and sexual violence as Libya arrests 5,000 migrants in a week

 

Raids by the security forces leave at least one man dead, as official observers decry ‘inhumane’ detention conditions

 

Fri 8 Oct 2021 07.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/08/reports-of-violence-libya-arrests-5000-migrants

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On Monday, the first findings from an independent fact-finding mission commissioned by the UN’s Human Rights Council found that “murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts committed against migrants [in Libya] form part of a systematic and widespread attack directed at this population, in furtherance of a state policy” which may amount to crimes against humanity

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‘They wanted to kill me’: the lawyer taking on police brutality in Kenya

 

Almost 20 years ago, a police shooting left David Makara without an arm and facing jail. Inspired by the blind lawyer who saved him, he now defends others facing injustice

 

Sarah Johnson

Tue 5 Oct 2021 11.01 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/05/they-wanted-to-kill-me-the-lawyer-taking-on-police-brutality-in-kenya

[umbertino]

Former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr dies aged 88

 

First president after 1979 Islamic revolution clashed with clerics and fled to exile in France a year later

 

Reuters in Paris

Sat 9 Oct 2021 13.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/09/former-iranian-president-abolhassan-bani-sadr-dies-aged-88

[umbertino]

Saudi aide accused of directing Khashoggi murder edges back to power

 

Saud al-Qahtani, aide to Mohammed bin Salman, hailed as patriot on pro-government social media

 

Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent

Fri 8 Oct 2021 18.29 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/08/saudi-aide-accused-of-directing-khashoggi-moves-closer-back-to-power

[umbertino]

Spies, lies and doublethink: Lea Ypi on growing up in Europe’s last communist state

 

She believed her parents loved Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist regime. But once Albania’s communist system collapsed, Lea Ypi began to realise nothing was as it seemed …

 

Sat 9 Oct 2021 13.00 BST

Aida Edemariam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/09/spies-lies-and-doublethink-lea-ypi-on-growing-up-in-europes-last-communist-state

[umbertino]

Sebastian Kurz to quit as Austrian chancellor due to corruption inquiry

 

Coalition partner, the Green party, demanded Kurz go after prosecutors announced investigation

 

Associated Press

Sat 9 Oct 2021 19.05 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/09/sebastian-kurz-to-quit-as-austrian-chancellor-due-to-corruption-inquiry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sebastian Kurz departure is further blow to Europe’s centre-right

 

Resignation of Austrian chancellor follows Germany’s CDU crashing to its worst federal election result

 

Philip Oltermann in Berlin

Sun 10 Oct 2021 15.53 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/10/sebastian-kurz-departure-further-blow-europe-centre-right

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‘We have to show courage’: the Philippines mothers taking Duterte and his ‘war on drugs’ to court

 

Up to 30,000 are believed to have died since the president urged police to start killing drug users – now their families want justice

 

Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent

Mon 11 Oct 2021 00.45 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/11/we-have-to-show-courage-the-philippines-mothers-taking-duterte-and-his-war-on-drugs-to-court

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30 minutes ago, umbertino said:

Duterte

This guy is a political Thug and killer. Yep electiond DO have consequences!!

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37 minutes ago, md11fr8dawg said:

This guy is a political Thug and killer. Yep electiond DO have consequences!!

He definitely is...In the beginning he tried to pass in the eyes of Flipinos as the savior and the all problems solver...He lied....

 

Thug, killer, monster..A sort of Pol Pot ( Cambodia bloody dictator, who had a degree in philiosphy but then claimed he was going to reduce Cambodia population of 7M  to a 1M of real ( in his personal idea of it) of realComunists....)

 

Edited October 11, 2021 by umbertino

[umbertino]

 

 

He definitely is...In the beginning he tried to pass in the eyes of Flipinos as the savior and the all problems solver...He lied....

 

Thug, killer, monster..A sort of Pol Pot ( Cambodia bloody dictator, who had a degree in philosphy but then claimed he was going to reduce Cambodia population of 7M  to a 1M of real ( in his personal idea of it) of real Comunists if that was the price to pay in order to achieve his goal....)

 

He mistrusted( and killed a lot of them) all intellectuals and men/ women with a minimal level of culture, education.....OR put them in concentration camps for " re-education"...If one spoke one or more foreign languages....That was the end for them

 

nd he was an intellectual ..Had studied in Paris  at the Sorbonne University if I'm not mistaken

Edited October 11, 2021 by umbertino

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Trial opens in Burkina Faso over killing of revolutionary hero Thomas Sankara

 

Fourteen men, including an ex-president, on trial 34 years after assassination of icon of pan-Africanism

 

Agence France-Presse in Ouagadougou

Mon 11 Oct 2021 10.47 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/11/thomas-sankara-trial-burkina-faso

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Bolsonaro blocks free tampons and pads for disadvantaged women in Brazil

 

Campaigners say president’s veto is ‘absurd and inhumane’ in country where period poverty keeps one in four girls out of school

 

Jo Griffin

Mon 11 Oct 2021 12.02 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/11/bolsonaro-blocks-free-tampons-and-pads-for-disadvantaged-women-in-brazil

 

 

That's the man in charge of the 2nd biggest Country of the Americas.......Thank God 2002 ( election year) is nearing fast ( but not fast enough)....Lula for President

Edited October 11, 2021 by umbertino

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Cuba denies opposition permission for march in Havana after July protests

 

Letter says protest planned for 15 November has ‘the open intention of changing the political system in Cuba’

 

Reuters in Havana

Tue 12 Oct 2021 21.11 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/12/cuba-denies-opposition-permission-for-march-in-havana-after-july-protests

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Corporate Accountability review – complicity in Argentinian state terror exposed

 

Jonathan Perel’s low-key doc focuses on the companies, still in business, which collaborated with the killings and torture that followed 1976 coup

 

Cath Clarke

Tue 12 Oct 2021 13.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/12/corporate-accountability-review-complicity-in-argentinian-state-terror-exposed

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Bolsonaro must be held criminally responsible for assault on the Amazon, say activists

 

In a petition to the international criminal court experts said the ‘mass deforestation’ poses a clear danger

 

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Tue 12 Oct 2021 07.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/12/bolsonaro-must-be-held-criminally-responsible-for-assault-on-the-amazon-say-activists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

Is America experiencing an unofficial general strike?

 

Across the country, people are refusing to return to backbreaking or mind-numbing low-wage jobs

 

Wed 13 Oct 2021 11.16 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/13/american-workers-general-strike-robert-reich

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‘Brazil is a racist country, statistically’: Luedji Luna, the bold voice of Bahia

 

Amid hostile rhetoric from her president, the singer is trying to foreground community and love in her new, rapturously received album

 

Mon 7 Dec 2020 10.58 GMT

Dom Phillips

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/07/brazil-is-a-racist-country-statistically-luedji-luna-the-bold-voice-of-bahia