Politics & environs 2023

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Bodies Recovered at Mass Graves in Nasser Hospital Bear Signs of Torture, Mutilation & Execution

 

April 25, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/25/gaza_mass_graves_war_crimes

 

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Ohio: Franklin County treasurer attends Netanyahu meeting, steps up Israel Bond purchases

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan has demonstrated long-standing support for Israel Bonds—including sinking public money into the investment vehicle that provides cash to the Israeli government

 

April 25, 2024 10:37 AM CDT

By Christine Whit

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/ohio-franklin-county-treasurer-attends-netanyahu-meeting-steps-up-israel-bond-purchases/

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(Armenian) Genocide in Real Time

 

As an American, I share the deep sorrow over my country’s complicity in this horrific crime against humanity

 

April 25, 2024

Ronald Grigor Suny

 

 

 

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestine-israel-genocide-gaza-war-biden/

 

 

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

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Filming the Story of Amílcar Cabral’s Revolution

 

An interview with: Flora Gomes

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/amilcar-cabral-documentary-film-revolution

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Sandro Pertini, Italian President With Common Touch, Dies at 93

 

By Clyde Haberman, Special To the New York Times

• Feb. 26, 1990 (34 years ago)

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/26/obituaries/sandro-pertini-italian-president-with-common-touch-dies-at-93.html

 

The best president Italy has ever had....A man of his word...A true anti-fascist

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‘Political arrest’ of Palestinian academic in Israel is civil liberties threat, say lawyers

 

Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s legal team and employer speak out after arrest over podcast comments

 

Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem

Fri 26 Apr 2024 15.42 CEST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/political-arrest-palestinian-academic-nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian-israel-civil-liberties-threat
 

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Four students on why they’re protesting against war in Gaza: ‘Injustice should not be accepted’

 

Students demonstrating and hunger-striking face arrests and hospitalization – but they think they can make a difference

 

Adam Gabbatt

Fri 26 Apr 2024 14.00 CEST






https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/college-protests-israel-gaza
 

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French students occupy University of Paris in pro-Palestine protest – video

 

Students at the University of Paris resumed their pro-Palestine demonstrations on Friday, two days after French police broke up a similar protest. Students at Sciences Po blocked access to a campus building using makeshift barricades, including garbage cans, a bicycle and wooden platforms. Demonstrators also gathered outside the Sorbonne, where Emmanuel Macron was set to deliver a speech on Europe

 

Source: Reuters

Fri 26 Apr 2024 16.47 CEST Last modified on Fri 26 Apr 2024 16.49 CEST

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/apr/26/french-students-occupy-paris-university-in-pro-palestine-protest-video

 

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Chaotic and thrilling: Columbia’s radio station is live from the student protests

 

As pro-Palestinian demonstrations roil campus, the station’s undergraduate reporters – working 18 hour days – have become an essential news source

 

Victoria Borlando and Hannah J Davies

Fri 26 Apr 2024 16.00 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/columbia-protests-student-reporters-radio-station-wkcr
 

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Columbia students and supporters expose the lies about the campus uprising

 

NEW YORK—U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson steps out the front door of Columbia University’s library and immediately faces a wave of heckling. The discomfort on his face settles into a sickly sweet politician’s smirk.

“Booooo!” the crowd heckles. “We can’t hear you!”

 

April 26, 2024 10:02 AM CDT

By Taryn Fivek

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/columbia-students-and-supporters-expose-the-lies-about-the-campus-uprising/

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Repression of Gaza war protests intensifies: Arrests at Yale, firings at Google

 

NEW HAVEN, Conn. and NEW YORK CITY—Rising tensions over U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza continued on April 22, with 47 students being arrested by Yale University police in New Haven, Conn., after a peaceful sit-in there and with Google firing 50 workers, most of them from its Manhattan offices, who peacefully sat in against the firm’s big tech contract with the Israeli armed forces

 

April 23, 2024 10:40 AM CDT

By Mark Gruenberg

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/repression-of-gaza-war-protests-intensify-arrests-at-yale-firings-at-google/

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How the US Media Failed to Tell the Story of the Occupation of Palestine

 

A Q&A with the creators of The Occupation of the American Mind, a documentary analyzing media coverage of the occupation of Palestine

 

April 26, 2024

Dave Zirin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/occupation-of-the-american-mind-documentary/

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Pro-Palestine camps spread to 40 US campuses, with hundreds arrested

 

Professors at Emory University arrested as campuses follow Columbia’s lead in demanding ceasefire and divestment

 

Coral Murphy Marcos

Fri 26 Apr 2024 19.44 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/pro-palestinian-protests-college-campuses
 

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The prince, the plotters and the would-be putsch: Germany to try far-right coup gang

 

Ex-soldier, conspiracy theorist, astrologer and anti-vaxxer among the first of 27 people on trial for trying to violently topple the German government – led by Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss

 

Kate Connolly in Berlin

Sat 27 Apr 2024 14.00 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/27/the-prince-the-plotters-and-the-would-be-putsch-germany-to-try-far-right-coup-gang
 

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A new generation at UC Berkeley pitches its tents

 

The university has said it won’t give in to students’ demands – but it has budged before

 

Gabrielle Canon in Berkeley

Sat 27 Apr 2024 16.00 CEST

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/university-california-berkeley-palestine-protest

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US faculty speak up and stand alongside student Gaza protesters

 

With pro-Palestine students arrested and campus protests broken up, educators are increasingly rallying in support

 

Erum Salam

Sat 27 Apr 2024 14.00 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/us-faculty-university-students-campus-protests-gaza
 

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France’s Justice System Is Cracking Down on Israel’s Critics

 

By  Harrison Stetler

04.27.2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/france-insoumise-hassan-panot-palestine-censorship

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‘My hands went cold’: Rio’s reporters risk death to reveal criminal ties between police, politicians and mafia

 

The killing of councillor Marielle Franco has inspired a generation of journalists to probe the city’s dangerous underworld

 

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Sun 28 Apr 2024 12.00 CEST

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/28/rio-reporters-risk-death-criminal-ties-police-politicians-marielle-franco

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Some are born lucky, so the left shouldn’t flinch from giving others a helping hand

 

When we mistakenly believe we live in a meritocracy, those in need are left behind

 

Sun 28 Apr 2024 11.00 CEST

Sonia Sodha

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/28/some-are-born-lucky-so-the-left-shouldnt-flinch-from-giving-others-a-helping-hand

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Portuguese government rejects president’s suggestion of slavery reparations

 

President advocated ‘paying the costs’ of colonial-era crimes but government said focus was deepening international cooperation

 

Sam Jones and Ashifa Kassam in Madrid

Sun 28 Apr 2024 12.42 CESTFirst published on Sun 28 Apr 2024 05.06 CEST

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/28/portugal-rejects-proposal-to-pay-reparations-for-slavery-after-comments-from-president

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Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’

 

US senator says Israeli prime minister is using antisemitism to distract attention from ‘extremist and racist government’ policies

 

Robert Tait in Washington

Sat 27 Apr 2024 20.09 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/bernie-sanders-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war
 

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World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

 

Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa sign motion for fairer tax system to deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty and climate crisis

 

Larry Elliott Economics editor

Thu 25 Apr 2024 07.00 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/billionaires-should-pay-minimum-two-per-cent-wealth-tax-say-g20-ministers
 

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Echoes of Vietnam era as pro-Palestinian student protests roil US campuses

 

Calls for divestment continue despite hundreds of arrests, with more demonstrations planned for Democratic national convention

 

Edward Helmore in New York

Sun 28 Apr 2024 13.00 CEST

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/28/us-student-protests-gaza-israel

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Alleged far-right plotters on trial in Germany accused of plan to overthrow state

 

Reichsbürger movement led by antisemitic pseudo-aristocrat driven by hatred for democracy, says minister

 

Kate Connolly in Berlin

Mon 29 Apr 2024 14.47 CEST




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/29/alleged-far-right-plotters-on-trial-in-germany-accused-of-plan-to-overthrow-state
 

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Zionism can – and must – be about liberation of Jews and Palestinians

 

We are entwined and must be liberated together. We must work to end the war and bring safety and security to both peoples

 

Mon 29 Apr 2024 12.12 CEST

Jo-Ann Mort

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/29/zionism-jews-palestinians