umbertino Posted March 2, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 UN urged to intervene over destruction of US abortion rights Exclusive: letter from human rights groups says overturning of the constitutional right violates US’s obligations as a UN member state Poppy Noor Thu 2 Mar 2023 05.01 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/destruction-us-abortion-laws-human-rights-violation-un Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 2, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 ‘Havana syndrome’ not caused by foreign adversary, US intelligence says The involvement of overseas foes in ‘anomalous health incidents’ suffered by US diplomats and spies was deemed ‘very unlikely’ Julia Carrie Wong in New York Wed 1 Mar 2023 20.41 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/01/havana-syndrome-us-intelligence-services-determine-no-foreign-adversaries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 2, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Protests at SCOTUS as justices move to kill debt relief for 26,000,000 March 1, 2023 10:11 AM CST By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/protests-at-scotus-as-justices-move-to-kill-debt-relief-for-26000000/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 2, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Amidst despair of war, biggest Berlin peace rally in many years March 1, 2023 11:45 AM CST By Victor Grossman https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/amidst-despair-of-war-biggest-berlin-peace-rally-in-many-years/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 2, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Michigan’s Song of Ice and Fire: Power failures and toxic waste plagues March 1, 2023 11:55 AM CST By Andrew Wright https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/michigans-song-of-ice-and-fire-power-failures-and-toxic-waste-plagues/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism A platform that can mimic humans’ writing with no commitment to the truth is a gift for those who benefit from disinformation. We need to regulate its use now Fri 3 Mar 2023 10.00 GMT Emily Bell https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/03/fake-news-chatgpt-truth-journalism-disinformation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 Belarus jails Nobel peace prize-winning dissident Ales Bialiatski Pro-democracy activist sentenced to 10 years as part of Alexander Lukashenko’s purge of opponents Andrew Roth in Moscow Fri 3 Mar 2023 14.27 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/03/belarus-jails-nobel-peace-prize-winning-dissident-ales-bialiatski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as Ohio crash prompts scrutiny to industry Exclusive: employee says manager told her to stop marking cars for repair, as Ohio derailment brings hard look at industry’s record of blocking safety rules Michael Sainato Fri 3 Mar 2023 09.00 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/us-rail-workers-east-palestine-ohio-train-crash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 Netanyahu has brought Israel to a dangerous moment. We, the Jewish diaspora, cannot just stand by There must be outside intervention to facilitate new negotiations with the Palestinians – and international pressure to halt his excesses Fri 3 Mar 2023 08.00 GMT Margaret Hodge https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/03/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-jewish-diaspora-palestinians Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 (edited) Starbucks condemned for ‘intimidation’ of US union organizers Bernie Sanders moves to summon chief executive Howard Schultz to Senate committee to explain repeated anti-union violations Michael Sainato Thu 2 Mar 2023 18.23 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/02/starbucks-union-intimidation-bernie-sanders-howard-schultz Starbucks fired a union organizer. New York City got him rehired Austin Locke was sacked days after he helped unionize workers. A monumental new labor law means he’s back on the job Wilfred Chan Fri 3 Mar 2023 06.00 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/03/starbucks-unions-fired-workers-new-york-city-labor-law Edited March 3, 2023 by umbertino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 ‘Warfare is encroaching’: aid groups may have to cut back services in Haiti as violence grows Médecins Sans Frontières operations threatened by armed incidents and shootouts at its hospitals, but closure would be a ‘catastrophe’ for Haitians Luke Taylor Fri 3 Mar 2023 11.55 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/03/gang-violence-aid-groups-consider-abandoning-haiti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 Israel and the West Bank: a week of rage and rampage Escalating violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories is happening amid unprecedented anti-government protests. It’s no coincidence, reports Bethan McKernan Presented by Michael Safi with Bethan McKernan; produced by Natalie Ktena and Solomon King; executive producer Phil Maynard Fri 3 Mar 2023 03.00 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/mar/03/israel-west-bank-week-rage-rampage-podcast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 Meet the Bronx Activists Who Won a Historic Settlement for NYPD’s Violent Attack at 2020 BLM Protest March 03, 2023 https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/3/mott_haven_nypd_settlement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 Connecticut union health care workers conduct civil disobedience “die-in” March 3, 2023 10:06 AM CST By Joelle Fishman https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/connecticut-union-health-care-workers-conduct-civil-disobedience-die-in/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 A window on ‘Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War’ at NYU March 3, 2023 9:52 AM CST By Danielle Nista And Miriam Basilio https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/a-window-on-fighting-fascism-visual-culture-of-the-spanish-civil-war-at-nyu/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 2013-2014....When it all started..... It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war The attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all Wed 30 Apr 2014 21.01 BST (8 years old article) Seumas Milne https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 ‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsens Multiple governments warn of critical water shortages as heatwaves and lack of rain leave river systems depleted Jon Henley in Paris, Sam Jones in Madrid, Angela Giuffrida in Rome, and Philip Oltermann in Berlin Sat 4 Mar 2023 06.00 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2023/mar/04/very-precarious-europe-faces-growing-water-crisis-as-winter-drought-worsens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Trouble in paradise: corruption in the Caribbean has become normalised The focus is often on rich countries when it comes to corruption initiatives but the situation is so embedded in these islands that it demands greater attention Sat 4 Mar 2023 07.00 GMT Kenneth Mohammed https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/04/trouble-in-paradise-corruption-in-the-caribbean-has-become-normalised Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 ‘Just the tip of the iceberg’: Kimberlé Crenshaw warns against rightwing battle over critical race theory Exclusive: Author and academic cautions pushback against racial justice education feeds revival of segregationist policies Gloria Oladipo in New York Sat 4 Mar 2023 07.00 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/04/critical-race-theory-kimberle-crenshaw-segregation-us-democracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Rightwing Republicans rail against US aid for Ukraine: ‘We’ve done enough’ War emerges as a wedge issue in the forthcoming Republican primary election as far right at CPAC call for US to end support David Smith in Oxon Hill, Maryland Sat 4 Mar 2023 09.00 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/04/cpac-rightwing-republicans-ukraine-support-marjorie-taylor-greene I am no rightwinger myself----But in regards to this....I have to agree.....Nomore weapons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 My country does give weapons (and / or weapon components) too....I am disagreeing with this...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Berlusconi blames Zelenskyy for war in Ukraine ‘All he had to do was to stop attacking the two autonomous republics of the Donbas and this would not have happened,’ ex-PM said By Nicolas Camut February 13, 2023 11:32 am CET https://www.politico.eu/article/silvio-berlusconi-blame-volodymyr-zelenskyy-war-ukraine-russia/ As much as I do not like good ole Silvio.....In this here case........I do not disagree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 The Woman Shaking Up Italian Politics (No, Not the New Prime Minister) Daughter of Italian and Jewish American parents, Elly Schlein wants to remake the center-left opposition to Giorgia Meloni, if only her party can survive it By Jason Horowitz March 4, 2023, 3:00 a.m. ET https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/world/europe/elly-schlein-italy.html Intelligent individual ...She can be able to get Italian DP out of the mud it got deeply into in these past years ( thanks to bad leaders and other issues) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2023 ‘No one is coming to save us’: residents of towns near toxic train derailment feel forgotten People living near the chemical disaster are wary of contamination, and even across the state line Pennsylvanians are worried Nina Lakhani in Darlington, Pennsylvania, and Steubenville, Ohio Sun 5 Mar 2023 13.09 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/05/forgotten-towns-ohio-toxic-train-derailment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted March 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2023 Israel is at a crucial crossroads: it can save itself or slide into despotism Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has quickly transformed into the country’s gravest threat Sun 5 Mar 2023 07.31 GMT Dahlia Scheindlin https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/05/benjamin-netanyahus-government-has-quickly-transformed-into-the-countrys-gravest-threat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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