Politics & environs 2022

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US senators announce gun violence bill with bipartisan support

 

Breakthrough in a 29-year stalemate on gun reform comes after two devastating mass shootings in Texas and New York

 

Guardian staff and agencies

Wed 22 Jun 2022 01.39 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/21/us-senators-gun-violence-bill-bipartisan-support
 

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Honduras: man who planned Berta Cáceres’s murder jailed for 22 years

 

Roberto David Castillo sentenced for role in assassination of Indigenous environmentalist in 2016

 

Nina Lakhani

Mon 20 Jun 2022 23.08 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/20/honduras-man-who-planned-berta-caceress-jailed-for-22-years
 

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The borough that figured it out: how Brooklyn reduced gun violence

 

Brooklyn tackled the pandemic’s surge in gun violence with a strategy that would once have been a nonstarter: using police and incarceration as a last resort. But will that clash with Eric Adams, the ‘tough on crime’ mayor?

 

Chip Brownlee

Thu 23 Jun 2022 10.00 BST











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/23/brooklyn-ny-crime-decrease-progressive-da-eric-gonzalez
 

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‘The PCC are after me’: the drug cartel with Paraguay in its clutches

 

A Brazilian former prison gang is threatening to turn its neighbour into a narcostate and its deadly tentacles extend much further

 

by Laurence Blair in Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/23/paraguay-pcc-brazilian-drug-cartel

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Exhausted US airport workers see hope in minimum wage bill as summer of travel chaos looms

 

Bill would raise the minimum wage for US airport workers at a time when the travel industry in the US is in a deep crisis

 

Michael Sainato

Thu 23 Jun 2022 10.00 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/23/airport-workers-us-15-dollars-minimum-wage-bill
 

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The Guardian view on Colombia’s election: a chance for a change

 

The emergence of a progressive politics in a country traditionally in the grip of the right should be welcomed

 

Thu 23 Jun 2022 17.01 BST

Editorial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/23/the-guardian-view-on-colombias-election-a-chance-for-a-change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sex for a job: the scandal of Haiti’s exploited US garment workers

 

Women paid a pittance for making clothes for top US brands are often forced to have sex by bosses to keep their jobs, say unions

 

Sophie Cousins in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Thu 23 Jun 2022 06.57 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/23/sex-for-a-job-the-scandal-of-haiti-exploited-us-garment-workers
 

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Ecuador facing food and fuel shortages as country rocked by violent protests

 

Government rejects conditions for dialogue to end 10 days of Indigenous-led demonstrations against economic policy

 

Reuters in Quito

Wed 22 Jun 2022 21.48 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/22/ecuador-protests
 

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‘We didn’t sign up to die’: US transit workers sound alarm over rising violence

 

Unions say trend of assaults and abuse on staff is intolerable – and crisis will worsen without federal action

 

Michael Sainato

Fri 24 Jun 2022 10.00 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/24/us-transport-workers-rising-violence-job-unions
 

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The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh: Tracing a Bullet to an Israeli Convoy

 

A New York Times investigation found that the bullet that killed a Palestinian-American journalist was fired from the approximate position of an Israeli military vehicle

 

By Raja Abdulrahim, Patrick Kingsley, Christiaan Triebert and Hiba Yazbek

Videos by Phil Robibero

• Published June 20, 2022Updated June 21, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/20/world/middleeast/palestian-journalist-killing-shireen.html

 

Edited June 24, 2022 by umbertino

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Abortion banned in multiple US states just hours after Roe v Wade overturned

 

Utah among first states to outlaw almost all abortions, while mayor of Washington DC declares it ‘pro-choice city’

 

Miranda Bryant

Sat 25 Jun 2022 13.43 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/25/abortion-banned-in-multiple-us-states-just-hours-after-roe-v-wade-overturned
 

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Eighteen killed as hundreds try to cross into Spain’s Melilla enclave

 

Crowd of more than 500 enter border control area after cutting fence in attempt to cross from Morocco

 

Agence France-Presse in Rabat

Sat 25 Jun 2022 10.36 BST








 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/eighteen-killed-as-throng-of-migrants-storms-spains-melilla-border-from-morocco

 

 

Dead count now is at least 27 as per news agency which I just read

 

 

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‘Lives will be saved’: Biden signs most sweeping gun control law in decades

 

Bipartisan deal ‘doesn’t do everything I want’, president says, but will toughen background checks and facilitate ‘red flag’ laws

 

Associated Press in Washington

Sat 25 Jun 2022 14.31 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/25/joe-biden-signs-gun-control-law

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‘What have we done?’: six years on, UK counts the cost of Brexit

 

Sectors from fishing to aviation, farming to science report being bogged down in red tape, struggling to recruit staff and racking up losses for the first time

 

Toby Helm, Robin McKie, James Tapper & Phillip Inman

Sat 25 Jun 2022 13.42 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/25/what-have-we-done-six-years-on-uk-counts-the-cost-of-brexit

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‘An unspoken epidemic’: Homicide rate increase for Black women rivals that of Black men

 

Five Black women and girls were killed each day in 2020, most of them with guns. Gender violence must be at the center of the gun debate, advocates say

 

Lois Beckett and Abené Clayton

Sat 25 Jun 2022 10.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/homicide-violence-against-black-women-us

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Brazilian police investigate potential ordered killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

 

Atalaia do Norte chief says ‘very important testimony’ heard after starting new line of inquiry

 

Oliver Laughland in Atalaia do Norte

Fri 24 Jun 2022 21.04 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/brazilian-police-investigate-potential-ordered-killing-of-dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira

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How the Christian right took over the judiciary and changed America

 

Leaders of the movement understood very well that if you can capture the courts, you can change society

 

Katherine Stewart

Sat 25 Jun 2022 08.00 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/roe-v-wade-abortion-christian-right-america













 

Should you teach your children about racism? Of course – here’s how

 

Ibram X Kendi has taught millions to think differently, with his bestselling How to be an Antiracist. Here’s his advice on how to raise a new generation

 

Ibram X Kendi

Sat 25 Jun 2022 07.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/25/ibram-x-kendi-how-to-teach-children-about-racism

 

 

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Why is the US about to give away $52bn to corporations like Intel?

 

The Chips Act would provide an enormous subsidy to chipmakers for making their chips in the US. This is extortion

 

Sun 26 Jun 2022 11.37 BST

Robert Reich

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/us-chips-act-intel-robert-reich

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We Americans are dancing on the Titanic. Our iceberg is not far away

 

The greatest shock of all would be to wake up and find that while we were driving the kids to soccer practice and enjoying cocktails, autocracy took hold

 

Mon 27 Jun 2022 11.16 BST

Francine Prose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/27/we-americans-are-dancing-on-the-titanic-our-iceberg-is-not-far-away

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Thousands protest against G7 in Munich as leaders gather for summit

 

Demands include end to fossil fuels, preservation of biodiversity and greater social justice

 

Associated Press in Munich

Sat 25 Jun 2022 15.18 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/thousands-protest-against-g7-in-munich-as-leaders-gather-for-summit
 

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Moroccan authorities accused of trying to cover up Melilla deaths

 

Concern at apparent plan to bury victims without investigating cause of death or trying to identify them

 

Stephen Burgen in Barcelona

Mon 27 Jun 2022 14.54 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/27/moroccan-authorities-accused-of-trying-to-cover-up-melilla-deaths


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla
 

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‘The Punisher’: Rodrigo Duterte’s violent reign as Philippines president to end

 

Analysis: Duterte’s popularity remains undented among people in poorer areas despite attacks on human rights, rule of law and media

 

Rebecca Ratcliffe

Tue 28 Jun 2022 05.00 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/28/the-punisher-rodrigo-dutertes-violent-reign-as-philippines-president-to-end
 

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Texas migrant deaths ‘a horrific human tragedy’, says San Antonio mayor

 

Discovery of 50 people dead in a trailer prompts outpouring of compassion but governor bucks trend by blaming deaths on Biden

 

Samira Asma-Sadeque

Tue 28 Jun 2022 15.43 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/28/texas-migrant-deaths-reaction-san-antonio
 

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Ernst & Young pays $100m to settle US charges of cheating by audit staff

 

SEC alleged EY employees cheated on exams required to obtain and maintain CPA licenses and misled investigators

 

Dominic Rushe in New York

Tue 28 Jun 2022 14.17 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/28/ernst-and-young-fined-cheating-audit-settlement
 

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Killing and outrage: little has changed in the Amazon after years of violence

 

Before the deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, Chico Mendes’ murder in 1988 and Dorothy Stang’s assassination in 2005 shook Brazil

 

Andrew Downie in São Paulo

Wed 29 Jun 2022 10.15 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/brazil-amazon-killings-mendes-stang
 

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Jubilation and hope as convention puts final stamp on Chile’s new draft constitution

 

Draft shifts country away from Pinochet-era document, enshrining cultural rights and laying out path of autonomy for Indigenous peoples

 

John Bartlett in Santiago

Wed 29 Jun 2022 01.08 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/jubilation-and-hope-as-convention-puts-final-stamp-on-chiles-new-draft-constitution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

War on drugs prolonged Colombia’s decades-long civil war, landmark report finds

 

Truth commission’s report, touted as a chance to heal after half a century of bloodshed, called for a ‘substantial change in drug policy’

 

Joe Parkin Daniels

Wed 29 Jun 2022 00.07 BST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/war-on-drugs-prolonged-colombias-decades-long-civil-war-landmark-report-finds