Politics & environs 2023

[umbertino]

John Fetterman can help lift the stigma around mental illness and depression

 

The US senator checked into a hospital for clinical depression – and has provoked a conversation about mental health

 

Tue 21 Feb 2023 20.50 GMT

Akin Olla

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2023/feb/21/john-fetterman-depression-mental-illness-stigma

[umbertino]

Remains of anti-Franco activist who died in 1973 recovered in Catalonia

 

Forensics identify remains of Cipriano Martos, an antifascist forced to drink sulphuric acid during a police interrogation

 

Sam Jones in Madrid

Wed 22 Feb 2023 15.47 GMT












https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/22/remains-cipriano-martos-anti-franco-activist-who-died-in-1973-recovered-catalonia


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


After 2nd WW was over in Europe  we had a few fascist dictatorships......Spain,Portugal,Greece
 

[umbertino]

‘Very alarming’: US airport screenings see a surge in loaded guns

 

You can’t carry a bottle of water on board the plane, but plenty of people – knowingly and unknowingly – try to carry gun

 

Chris McGreal

Wed 22 Feb 2023 08.00 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/22/gun-planes-tsa-airport-screenings
 

[umbertino]

Israeli troops kill nine in West Bank raid, say Palestinian officials

 

About 80 Palestinians sustained gunshot wounds in Nablus raid, according to health ministry

 

 

Agence France-Presse

Wed 22 Feb 2023 12.47 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/22/israeli-troops-west-bank-raid-palestinian-deaths-nablus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wave of ‘Israeli spring’ protests leaves Palestinian citizens out in the cold

 

Arab minority has been alienated by united opposition against judicial reforms by Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition

 

Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem

Sat 18 Feb 2023 16.00 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/18/israeli-spring-protests-netanyahu-leave-palestinian-citizens-in-the-cold
 

Edited February 22, 2023 by umbertino

[umbertino]

Who Killed Malcolm X? Family to File $100M Suit v. FBI, CIA, NYPD & Others to Find the Truth

 

February 22, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/22/malcolm_x_wrongful_death_lawsuit

[umbertino]

‘The Memphis 7’ stand up to Starbucks with the help of Bernie Sanders

 

February 14, 2023 10:24 AM CST By Mark Gruenberg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-memphis-7-stand-up-to-starbucks-with-the-help-of-bernie-sanders/

[umbertino]

Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza after militants fire rockets in wake of West Bank raid

 

Region braced for escalation in violence as attacks from both sides follow deadliest Israeli army raid in decades in Nablus

 

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

Thu 23 Feb 2023 15.31 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/23/rockets-fired-from-gaza-towards-israel-hours-after-deadly-raid-on-west-bank-city
 

[umbertino]

US mass killings linked to extremism at highest level in decades, report finds

 

Anti-Defamation League says all extremist killings last year linked to rightwing extremism and a high number to white supremacy

 

Associated Press in Washington

Thu 23 Feb 2023 13.54 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/us-mass-killings-extremism-anti-defamation-league

[umbertino]

‘They don’t care’: how the US lets down workers with serious illnesses

 

Ernest Paschal II was fired from Walmart while recovering from sepsis – and like many sick workers, he’s found employers aren’t accommodating

 

Michael Sainato

Sat 18 Feb 2023 09.00 GMT












https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/18/walmart-sick-workers-serious-illnesss
 

[umbertino]

Serving $66 entrees for $18 an hour: the union push at an upscale New York restaurant

 

If the workers at Lodi succeed, they could be leaders in a new labor-organizing movement at higher-end eateries – but supporters say there is fierce pushback

 

Frida Garza

Thu 23 Feb 2023 10.00 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/lodi-new-york-restaurant-workers-unionize
 

[umbertino]

Western countries stay silent as India cracks down on democracy

 

Rajendra Kumar Kale responds to an article by Arundhati Roy on how Narendra Modi’s violent nationalism is underwritten by big business

 

Thu 23 Feb 2023 12.00 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/23/western-countries-stay-silent-as-india-cracks-down-on-democracy

[umbertino]

California Nurses re-charge their fight for Medicare For All

 

February 23, 2023 9:51 AM CST By Mark Gruenberg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/california-nurses-re-charge-their-fight-for-medicare-for-all/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indiana bill would have health professionals, not cops, respond to mental health crises

 

February 21, 2023 12:35 PM CST By Calvin Timm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/indiana-bill-would-have-health-professionals-not-cops-respond-to-mental-health-crises/

[umbertino]

Tunisia forces arrest senior opposition figure as crackdown escalates

 

Jaouhar Ben M’barek is most prominent opposition figure to be rounded up in president’s campaign of detentions

 

Agence France-Presse in Tunis

Fri 24 Feb 2023 13.47 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/tunisia-forces-arrest-senior-opposition-figure-as-crackdown-escalates
 

[umbertino]

Leaders of German left condemn ‘peace rally’ over far-right involvement

 

Renegade former leader of Die Linke among organisers of rally opposing western weapons exports to Ukraine

 

Philip Oltermann in Berlin

Fri 24 Feb 2023 06.00 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/leaders-of-german-left-condemn-peace-rally-over-far-right-involvement
 

[umbertino]

Guantánamo Bay sends two inmates to Pakistan after 20 years

 

Pair were held for al-Qaida involvement but never charged – their release leaves 32 people detained in prison camp

 

Reuters

Fri 24 Feb 2023 04.12 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/24/guantanamo-bay-sends-two-inmates-to-pakistan-after-20-years

[umbertino]

“A War of Imperial Aggression”: How Russia’s Invasion One Year Ago Changed Ukraine & the World

 

February 23, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/23/russia_ukraine_one_year_anniversary

[umbertino]

Bomb Train: Calls Grow for New Laws on Rail Safety After Toxic Disaster in East Palestine, Ohio

 

February 24, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/24/east_palestine_norfolk_southern_train_safety

[umbertino]

Dr. Martin Luther King on the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois

 

February 24, 2023 10:32 AM CST By Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/dr-martin-luther-king-on-the-legacy-of-w-e-b-du-bois/

[umbertino]

Pennsylvania’s method of funding schools ruled unconstitutional

 

February 24, 2023 10:05 AM CST By Rosita Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/pennsylvanias-method-of-funding-schools-ruled-unconstitutional/

[Pitcher]

Political Corruption in Arizona Exposed

The truth always comes out.  Listen to this Revealing testimony at the Arizona Oversight Hearings on Elections. It’s is EXPLOSIVE 🧨!!!  Be sure to read the comments below.  
 

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

 

Thanks for your contribution to the thread, Pitcher....Have a great weekend

[umbertino]

‘They were shot in the head’: morgue gives up truth of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war

 

Crusading pathologist Raquel Fortun finds evidence of multiple murder at the direction of ‘a madman’ in the exhumed remains of young Filipinos

 

 

Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent

Sun 26 Feb 2023 12.00 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/26/they-were-shot-in-the-head-morgue-gives-up-truth-of-rodrigo-dutertes-drug-war

It was a long time known fact that he is a blood-loving individual / criminal and totally crazy
 

Edited February 26, 2023 by umbertino

[umbertino]

‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing

 

Victories at several companies energized organizers, but hostile corporations – and an impotent labor board – stymie negotiations

 

Steven Greenhouse

Sun 26 Feb 2023 09.00 GMT













https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/26/amazon-trader-joes-starbucks-anti-union-measures
 

[umbertino]

El Salvador moves suspected gang members to 40,000-capacity ‘megaprison’

 

Around 2,000 inmates transferred on Friday as part of president’s crime crackdown

 

Reuters in San Salvador

Sat 25 Feb 2023 16.59 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/25/el-salvador-moves-2000-suspected-gang-members-to-new-megaprison


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

[umbertino]

Migrants go paddling 3,500km from the US border: Pablo Allison’s best photograph

 

‘I joined a caravan of 2,000 people as they set off from southern Mexico, all risking death by machete or gun. After walking 50km in intense heat, we stopped at this river to rest’

 

Interview by Chris Broughton

Wed 22 Feb 2023 15.00 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/22/migrants--caravan-paddling-us-border-pablo-allisons-best-shot