Politics & environs 2023

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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
 

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‘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
 

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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/

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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/

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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/

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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

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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
 

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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
 

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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

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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

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‘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
 

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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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

 

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‘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

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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

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‘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

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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
 

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My country does give weapons (and / or weapon components) too....I am disagreeing with this......

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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

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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)

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‘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
 

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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