Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned last month to protest continued arms sales to Israel amid its bombardment of Gaza, wrote in a viral letter that one-sided U.S. support for Israel is “shortsighted,” “destructive” and “contradictory.” Media reports say many others inside the State Department...
In Cambridge, and in dozens of places across the country, local governments are giving their unluckiest residents a guaranteed income — payments of between $200 and $1,000 per month to help them pay rent, put food on the table, gas up their cars, get an education, or do whatever elsewill relieve them of some of the impossible...
Across the US, Jews are facing complex emotions as they grapple with the escalating war in Israel and Gaza. Within families and congregations, on campuses, at protests and online, fissures within Jewish communities are deepening, reflecting broader divisions in public opinion over the war....
Cancer patients are celebrating a string of courtroom victories after juries in three US states recently ordered Germany’s Bayer to pay more than $500m in damages for failing to warn about the health risks of its Roundup herbicides. But the consumer wins come as proposed federal legislation backed by Bayer and the powerful...
As the overall death toll from Israel’s 27-day bombardment tops 9,000, Fadi Abu Shammalah of Just Vision, an NGO based in Israel-Palestine and the US, tells about his family’s experiences on the ground as the besieged territory runs out of water, food and fuel. “We have only one thing: that we are being killed,” says...
The 2020 and 2022 elections showed how democratic institutions in the US are vulnerable to misinformation and disinformation on media platforms, intimidation of election officials, and election interference. Experts have raised concerns that these threats will likely reappear during the next national election, HRW says.
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"I am extremely disturbed that workers in some of the world’s most profitable companies – in one of the richest countries on earth – are struggling to afford to eat or pay their rent,” said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights....
These are good points and possibly true, but we need to be careful. I haven’t formed an opinion on this particular matter with these three companies, but across the econony in many countries -at least in the US and Europe- we often see that the rules are fine, they are just not applied. (The bank failures in the US earlier this year are a good example: bank regulations might be good enough also for the US, but the Silicon Valley Bank and others were exempted from the rules … But as I said, I don’t know whether there is a similar pattern here.)
The best thing would be if end users would stop buying at such companies, however, no matter what the rules are. I fully agree.
The report by the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, published on Oct. 26, said that “critical gaps” in the U.S. anti-money laundering system are vulnerable to exploitation by criminal groups, including those behind the destruction of the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest....
Reporting by Chicago public radio station WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has identified nine current and at least 18 former members of the Chicago Police Department on past internal rosters of the Oath Keepers obtained by OCCRP. The investigation identified another 12...
Albanese has raised the plight of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in talks this week with United States President Joe Biden, stepping up efforts to find a way to release the Australian from jail....
"We should all be standing up and objecting and calling for an end to genocide,” says Butler of the Israeli assault. “Until Palestine is free … we will continue to see violence. We will continue to see this structural violence producing this kind of resistance.”...
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has described the situation as a crisis and has begun to warn that shelters are so full that migrants will soon be forced onto the street as winter approaches. “I cannot say this enough. You know, we are out of the room,” he told reporters this week. “And it’s not ‘if’ people will be...
A free speech battle is playing out on college campuses, as students, professors and others advocating for Palestinian rights across the United States are facing racist attacks and retaliation that threaten their safety and livelihoods. These attacks aim to suppress criticism of Israel and U.S. support of its actions in Gaza....
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China to the Department of Homeland Security cited investigations by the nonprofit journalist organization The Outlaw Ocean Project that revealed human rights abuses on China’s fishing fleet and the forced labor of ethnic Uyghurs from the northwestern region of Xinjiang in seafood...
In their recent sessions, the New York and California legislatures considered enacting new laws that would transform each industry. Among other obligations, both proposals create state regulatory councils, sometimes referred to as “wage boards” or “labor boards,” overseeing the respective industries that are staffed with...
For years, the car industry has been feuding with automotive service groups and right-to-repair advocates over who should control access to telematic data, information about speed, location, and performance that cars transmit wirelessly back to their manufacturers. Increased access to telematic data, repair advocates argue, will...
An obscure part of the Clean Air Act grants regulators an opening to “forgive” air pollution from wildfires, meaning that it doesn’t count against air-quality goals. After wildfires flourished across North America this year, more U.S. states east of the Mississippi may use this exceptional events rule to subtract smoke...
James Comer, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, accuses Gensler of not revealing certain documents and information on the SEC’s involvement in the development of European social engineering initiatives disguised as disclosure and due diligence directives being developed by the European Union (EU)....
In the environs of Phoenix, Arizona, on a 17-acre site that once contained a car body shop and some largely derelict buildings, an unusual experiment has emerged that invites Americans to live in a way that is rare outside of fleeting experiences of college, Disneyland or trips to Europe: a walkable, human-scale community devoid...
Practices that are routine in U.S. prisons, like shackling women during childbirth and unpaid forced labor, are an “affront to human dignity,” and represent the “worst version of a racist criminal legal system” that perpetuates slavery to the present day, according to the U.N. report.
There seems to be a concerted effort to try and smear liberals/democrats here lately. Attention grabbing headline that not untrue, just purposefully distorting the reality by conveniently leaving out important information.
You are right. The article leaves out important information, e.g., the fact that a wide range of politicians around the globe (more than 60 from Australia alone) and from a wide range of the political spectrum demand Assange’s release, let alone journalists and human rights groups.
Unfortunately, there are many communities here on Lemny with that approach - if they disagree, it must be a smear campaign. A friend of mine recently called that the ‘Trumpean I-am-right-and-everyone-else-is-wrong-approach’. I said it’s maybe a glimpse of the culture of debate we can expect from the future.
The charge, from human rights campaigners and some Democrats, follows the fifth anniversary of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi regime agents and comes amid mounting criticism of a proposed new defence treaty between Washington and Riyadh that could result in Saudi Arabia granting official recognition to...
The Biden administration declared on Thursday, November 17, that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince should be considered immune from a lawsuit over his role in the killing of a US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a turnaround from Joe Biden’s passionate campaign-trail denunciations of Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the brutal slaying.
Everywhere birds visit, they perform essential ecosystem services that have economic value and are necessary for the functioning of ecosystems. Following major wildfires like those in Canada, birds that return to burned areas can disperse seeds and aid forest landscape regeneration. Global increases in temperatures contribute to...
Popular Information analyzed publicly available crime data for the stores Target is closing in New York and San Francisco. This data reveals that stores that are being closed have lower levels of theft than nearby stores that have remained open. An analysis of the stores Target is shuttering in the Seattle area follows a similar...
To get from one side of the U.S. to the other is to criss-cross a veritable snakes and ladders of state and county-level legislation and policy. If you’re after a particular title by Toni Morrison or Margaret Atwood, you might find that it’s available in Georgia, and effectively banned next door in Florida. A new initiative...
In light of the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) highlighted stories of physicians who have made the tough decision to leave the red states where they built careers for years, sometimes decades....
The world’s most populous countries facing significant demographic challenges, be it dealing with the legacy of a disastrous one-child policy and ageing population or working out how to take advantage of a booming youth cohort while managing huge disparities in the growth rates of different states....
China-owned companies reckon with U.S. state, national land purchase bans ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5368293...
Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer Accounts ( 1ft.io )
Surprised individuals and small-business owners can’t pay rent or make payroll, and no one ever explains what they did wrong.
State Department Official Resigns, Says Israel Is Using U.S. Arms for Massacre --- [video interview, 17 min + transcript] ( www.democracynow.org )
Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned last month to protest continued arms sales to Israel amid its bombardment of Gaza, wrote in a viral letter that one-sided U.S. support for Israel is “shortsighted,” “destructive” and “contradictory.” Media reports say many others inside the State Department...
'Try this in a small town. Try it in every town:' new documentary featuring a guaranteed basic income in Cambridge shows the good that comes from giving low-income families a little extra help ( basicincometoday.com )
In Cambridge, and in dozens of places across the country, local governments are giving their unluckiest residents a guaranteed income — payments of between $200 and $1,000 per month to help them pay rent, put food on the table, gas up their cars, get an education, or do whatever elsewill relieve them of some of the impossible...
‘I, too, am the Jewish community’: rift among US Jews widens over Gaza war ( www.theguardian.com )
Across the US, Jews are facing complex emotions as they grapple with the escalating war in Israel and Gaza. Within families and congregations, on campuses, at protests and online, fissures within Jewish communities are deepening, reflecting broader divisions in public opinion over the war....
‘It’s an abomination’: battle brewing over proposed US laws to protect pesticide companies ( www.theguardian.com )
Cancer patients are celebrating a string of courtroom victories after juries in three US states recently ordered Germany’s Bayer to pay more than $500m in damages for failing to warn about the health risks of its Roundup herbicides. But the consumer wins come as proposed federal legislation backed by Bayer and the powerful...
'Only Newsom can go to China and embarrass himself this badly:' California Governor met Xi Jinping and human rights never came up --- [Opinion] ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5255150...
“This Is Your Money”: Palestinian Father Pleads with Americans to Stop Funding Israeli Aggression --- [video, 9 min + transcript] ( www.democracynow.org )
As the overall death toll from Israel’s 27-day bombardment tops 9,000, Fadi Abu Shammalah of Just Vision, an NGO based in Israel-Palestine and the US, tells about his family’s experiences on the ground as the besieged territory runs out of water, food and fuel. “We have only one thing: that we are being killed,” says...
Human Rights Watch Urges US To Protect Voters Ahead of 2024 Election ( www.hrw.org )
The 2020 and 2022 elections showed how democratic institutions in the US are vulnerable to misinformation and disinformation on media platforms, intimidation of election officials, and election interference. Experts have raised concerns that these threats will likely reappear during the next national election, HRW says.
Doctors Without Borders USA in Gaza: "We're operating on children without anesthetics. We don't have morphine for them." ( nitter.cz )
MSF USA calls for immediate ceasefire in the war in Gaza, while Israel confirms that airstrike hit largest refugee camp.
Amazon, DoorDash and Walmart are trapping workers in poverty, UN poverty expert says ( web.archive.org )
"I am extremely disturbed that workers in some of the world’s most profitable companies – in one of the richest countries on earth – are struggling to afford to eat or pay their rent,” said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights....
US ‘perfect playground’ for laundering money linked to environmental crimes, new report finds ( www.icij.org )
The report by the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, published on Oct. 26, said that “critical gaps” in the U.S. anti-money laundering system are vulnerable to exploitation by criminal groups, including those behind the destruction of the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest....
Chicago Police Officers Appeared on Membership List of Extremist Oath Keepers Group ( www.occrp.org )
Reporting by Chicago public radio station WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has identified nine current and at least 18 former members of the Chicago Police Department on past internal rosters of the Oath Keepers obtained by OCCRP. The investigation identified another 12...
‘Enough is enough’: Australia PM Albanese talks to Biden about Julian Assange case ( www.smh.com.au )
Albanese has raised the plight of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in talks this week with United States President Joe Biden, stepping up efforts to find a way to release the Australian from jail....
Jewish American Scholar Judith Butler Condemns Israel’s “Genocide” in Gaza --- [video, 5min + transcript] ( www.democracynow.org )
"We should all be standing up and objecting and calling for an end to genocide,” says Butler of the Israeli assault. “Until Palestine is free … we will continue to see violence. We will continue to see this structural violence producing this kind of resistance.”...
New York City sets up office to give migrants one-way tickets out of town, to anywhere in the world ( english.elpais.com )
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has described the situation as a crisis and has begun to warn that shelters are so full that migrants will soon be forced onto the street as winter approaches. “I cannot say this enough. You know, we are out of the room,” he told reporters this week. “And it’s not ‘if’ people will be...
The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: Censorship, Harassment Intensifies on Campus Amid Gaza War - [video, 13 min] ( www.democracynow.org )
A free speech battle is playing out on college campuses, as students, professors and others advocating for Palestinian rights across the United States are facing racist attacks and retaliation that threaten their safety and livelihoods. These attacks aim to suppress criticism of Israel and U.S. support of its actions in Gaza....
Forced labor concerns prompt US lawmakers to demand ban on seafood from 2 Chinese provinces ( apnews.com )
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China to the Department of Homeland Security cited investigations by the nonprofit journalist organization The Outlaw Ocean Project that revealed human rights abuses on China’s fishing fleet and the forced labor of ethnic Uyghurs from the northwestern region of Xinjiang in seafood...
More States Should Take Advantage of an Antitrust Doctrine to Make Our Economy Fairer and More Democratic ( www.thesling.org )
In their recent sessions, the New York and California legislatures considered enacting new laws that would transform each industry. Among other obligations, both proposals create state regulatory councils, sometimes referred to as “wage boards” or “labor boards,” overseeing the respective industries that are staffed with...
EV makers Tesla and Rivian signed a right-to-repair pact, but the fight over who controls the car data continues ( grist.org )
For years, the car industry has been feuding with automotive service groups and right-to-repair advocates over who should control access to telematic data, information about speed, location, and performance that cars transmit wirelessly back to their manufacturers. Increased access to telematic data, repair advocates argue, will...
As U.S. wildfires pollute the skies, a loophole is obscuring the impact. Can it be fixed? ( www.muckrock.com )
An obscure part of the Clean Air Act grants regulators an opening to “forgive” air pollution from wildfires, meaning that it doesn’t count against air-quality goals. After wildfires flourished across North America this year, more U.S. states east of the Mississippi may use this exceptional events rule to subtract smoke...
House Committee issues stern warning to SEC chair Gary Gensler over continuing to "obstruct congressional oversight" ( oversight.house.gov )
James Comer, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, accuses Gensler of not revealing certain documents and information on the SEC’s involvement in the development of European social engineering initiatives disguised as disclosure and due diligence directives being developed by the European Union (EU)....
The Supreme Court weighs whether South Carolina targeted Black voters in redistricting ( english.elpais.com )
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars ( www.theguardian.com )
In the environs of Phoenix, Arizona, on a 17-acre site that once contained a car body shop and some largely derelict buildings, an unusual experiment has emerged that invites Americans to live in a way that is rare outside of fleeting experiences of college, Disneyland or trips to Europe: a walkable, human-scale community devoid...
US prisons rife with human rights abuses, especially against Black people, UN says ( www.reuters.com )
Practices that are routine in U.S. prisons, like shackling women during childbirth and unpaid forced labor, are an “affront to human dignity,” and represent the “worst version of a racist criminal legal system” that perpetuates slavery to the present day, according to the U.N. report.
Why Joe Biden is facing a Julian Assange problem ( web.archive.org )
Biden accused of betrayal of Khashoggi over push to deepen Saudi ties ( www.theguardian.com )
The charge, from human rights campaigners and some Democrats, follows the fifth anniversary of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi regime agents and comes amid mounting criticism of a proposed new defence treaty between Washington and Riyadh that could result in Saudi Arabia granting official recognition to...
At least 1,000 birds died from colliding with one Chicago building in one day ( www.theguardian.com )
Everywhere birds visit, they perform essential ecosystem services that have economic value and are necessary for the functioning of ecosystems. Following major wildfires like those in Canada, birds that return to burned areas can disperse seeds and aid forest landscape regeneration. Global increases in temperatures contribute to...
Retailer Target says it's closing 9 stores due to theft. The crime data tells a different story. ( web.archive.org )
Popular Information analyzed publicly available crime data for the stores Target is closing in New York and San Francisco. This data reveals that stores that are being closed have lower levels of theft than nearby stores that have remained open. An analysis of the stores Target is shuttering in the Seattle area follows a similar...
The Banned Books Club is an e-reader app that can get you over the firewall ( lithub.com )
To get from one side of the U.S. to the other is to criss-cross a veritable snakes and ladders of state and county-level legislation and policy. If you’re after a particular title by Toni Morrison or Margaret Atwood, you might find that it’s available in Georgia, and effectively banned next door in Florida. A new initiative...
Why is healthy food so expensive in America? Blame the Farm Bill that Congress always renews to make burgers cheaper than salad ( fortune.com )
Dear White Women ... [video, 3 min] ( yewtu.be )
A message from the PoliticsGirl regarding the situation in America.
Before she was killed by a Russian missile strike, novelist Victoria Amelina wrote about Ukraine and the meaning of home ( web.archive.org )
Strict abortion laws are driving an exodus of women's health specialists ( www.salon.com )
In light of the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) highlighted stories of physicians who have made the tough decision to leave the red states where they built careers for years, sometimes decades....
Life at 25 in India and China: money worries, hard work and no plans for family ( www.theguardian.com )
The world’s most populous countries facing significant demographic challenges, be it dealing with the legacy of a disastrous one-child policy and ageing population or working out how to take advantage of a booming youth cohort while managing huge disparities in the growth rates of different states....