Politics & environs 2023

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Brazilian Amazon Leader Urges Lula to Prosecute Bolsonaro for Genocide Against Indigenous Yamomami

 

February 17, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/17/brazil_yanomami_people_lula_bolsonaro

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New film dramatization ‘Argentina, 1985’: Finding justice?

 

February 14, 2023 10:14 AM CST By Michael Berkowitz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/new-film-dramatization-argentina-1985-finding-justice/

 

 

I personally believe that movies such as this one should be shown in schools for young generations to learn...JMHO

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Biden pleads with Congress to pass gun control after six killed in Mississippi

 

President says ‘thoughts and prayers aren’t enough’ after Richard Crum, 52, suspected of carrying out mass shooting in Arkabutla

 

Ramon Antonio Vargas

Sat 18 Feb 2023 14.46 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/18/biden-congress-gun-control-legislation-mississippi-mass-shooting
 

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Sean Penn says US has to accept ‘level of shame’ for not arming Ukraine faster

 

Actor and filmmaker speaks out at premiere of his documentary about president Voldoymyr Zelenskiy

 

Dan Sabbagh in Berlin

Sat 18 Feb 2023 12.46 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/18/sean-penn-says-us-has-to-accept-level-of-shame-for-not-arming-ukraine-faster
 

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Peru’s ‘racist bias’ drove lethal police response to protests, Amnesty says

 

In a damning report, human rights group says state permitted ‘excessive and lethal use of force’ against Indigenous groups

 

Dan Collyns in Lima

Thu 16 Feb 2023 21.01 GMT












https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/16/peru-protests-indigenous-racism-police-violence-amnesty-international
 

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UK-based Iranian TV channel moves to US after threats from Tehran

 

Iran International ‘reluctantly’ shuts London studios due to rising safety concerns for its journalists

 

Geneva Abdul

Sat 18 Feb 2023 13.06 GMT












https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/18/uk-iranian-tv-channel-moves-us-threats-tehran

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Support for an Israel-Palestine confederation is gaining ground

 

Such an arrangement could allow self-determination for both peoples, but to make it work the Palestinians would first need their independence, says Tony Klug

 

Fri 17 Feb 2023 18.42 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/support-for-an-israel-palestine-confederation-is-gaining-ground

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Tunisia crackdown on opposition and media alarms rights groups

 

Ten public figures arrested since Saturday as President Kais Saied pursues what Amnesty calls a repression of dissent

 

Simon Speakman Cordall in Tunis

Fri 17 Feb 2023 13.55 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/tunisia-crackdown-on-opposition-and-media-figures-alarms-rights-groups
 

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Best way to save money? Just eat two meals, says the Wall Street Journal!

 

Our current stage of capitalism demands that poor people make do with less while the rich make no sacrifices

 

Fri 17 Feb 2023 11.00 GMT

Arwa Mahdawi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/commentisfree/2023/feb/17/skip-breakfast-save-money-inflation-capitalism-wsj

 

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Florida couple unable to get abortion will see baby die after delivery

 

Doctors’ interpretation of state law prevents procedure, family tells Washington Post, despite baby’s fatal illness

 

Maya Yang

Sat 18 Feb 2023 19.51 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/18/florida-abortion-law-couple-birth
 

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Beware: we could be entering a dangerous new era of US-China relations

 

Incidents like the Chinese spying balloon could too easily spiral out of control in the future, ending in disaster

 

Sat 18 Feb 2023 11.10 GMT

Christopher S Chivvis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/18/china-spy-balloon-dangerous-new-era-us-china-relations

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Oregon, a hotbed of extremism, seeks to curb paramilitaries

 

As incidents increase, state lawmakers seek to allow civil suits against paramilitaries – but critics say rights will be infringed on

 

Associated Press

Fri 17 Feb 2023 22.18 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/oregon-legislature-paramilitary-civil-suit-bill
 

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Roger Waters ( Pink Floyd band member) full speech at the UN Security Council

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZXMmRg9ZcU

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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El Salvador crackdown breaks the gangs – at huge cost to human rights

 

War on gangs by populist leader Nayib Bukele has produced extraordinary change, but ‘the cure could be as harmful as the disease’

 

Jaime Quintanilla in Soyapango and Tom Phillips

Mon 20 Feb 2023 10.30 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/bukele-el-salvador-gangs-crackdown
 

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Gerontocracy: the exceptionally old political class that governs the US

 

Joe Biden and members of Congress are increasingly long in the tooth – and more and more out of step with a much younger US public

 

David Smith in Washington

Sun 19 Feb 2023 07.00 GMT














https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/19/us-congress-presidency-gerontocracy
 

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“Log Off”: 1 in 3 U.S. Girls Weighs Suicide. Will Congress Restrict Big Tech?

 

February 20, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/20/big_tech_internet_safety

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Teach Black history – don’t ban it!

 

February 10, 2023 10:10 AM CST By Tracey L. Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/teach-black-history-dont-ban-it/

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Being the only one leaves a mark: a Black mother on the long shadow of school segregation

My grandparents were key to integration. Decades later, I belong to several groups and none at the same time

 

Tue 21 Feb 2023 06.00 GMT

Andrea Harris Smith with photographs by Jared Soares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/feb/20/us-school-segregation-race-integration

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Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira remembered in Rio as carnival emerges from Bolsonaro era

 

Dancing and debauchery peppered with more sombre moments, including defiant tributes to murdered British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert

 

Constance Malleret in Rio de Janeiro

Tue 21 Feb 2023 02.03 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/21/dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira-remembered-in-rio-as-carnival-emerges-from-bolsonaro-era
 

 

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What do US supreme court cases against Twitter and Google mean for the internet?

 

Two lawsuits brought by families of terrorist attack victims will consider whether companies are responsible for users’ content

 

Johana Bhuiyan and Kari Paul

Tue 21 Feb 2023 06.00 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/21/us-supreme-court-twitter-google-lawsuit-internet-law
 

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Putin says Russia will halt participation in New Start nuclear arms treaty

 

Russian president airs grievances against west in speech devoted to first anniversary of Ukraine invasion

 

Andrew Roth in Moscow and Julian Borger in Warsaw

Tue 21 Feb 2023 14.16 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/21/putin-russia-halt-participation-new-start-nuclear-arms-treaty
 

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‘An everyday thing’: a fatal beating reveals Argentina’s racist bias

 

Fernando Báez Sosa, son of Paraguayan immigrants, was killed by men who screamed racist slurs as they kicked him to death

 

Natalie Alcoba in Buenos Aires

Tue 21 Feb 2023 10.30 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/21/argentina-racism-fernando-baez-sosa-death
 

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Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu accuses protesters of ‘trampling democracy’

 

PM vows to press ahead with legislation to restrict judicial powers as upwards of 100,000 protesters take to streets

 

Bethan McKernan Jerusalem correspondent

Mon 20 Feb 2023 16.39 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-accuses-protesters-of-trampling-democracy
 

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US supreme court lets Arkansas law penalising Israel boycotts stand

 

Anti-boycott law provides model for legislation to protect oil companies, gun makers and contentious industries from protest

 

Chris McGreal

Tue 21 Feb 2023 19.18 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/21/us-supreme-court-arkansas-anti-boycott-israel-law
 

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After a year of military failure, Putin has retreated deep into delusion - dragging the Russian people with him

 

Confirmation that Russia will be backing out of the New Start treaty underlines his disdain for the international order

 

Tue 21 Feb 2023 16.33 GMT

Samantha de Bendern

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/21/putin-military-failure-deep-delusion-dragging-russian-people-new-start-treaty