Israel tried to influence UK courts against pro-Palestine activists: Report
Israeli forces have arrested more than 5,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the year, amid a surge in the regime’s attacks on Palestinian towns and cities. The Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) made the announcement in a statement on August 29, saying the occupation forces arrested 200 citizens across the West Bank within a week, which...
Sudan: Its diversity, economics and history
KHARTOUM, Sudan—Nothing says diversity like Sudan. Once Africa’s largest country, now divided by neocolonial and neoliberal machinations the U.S. help to engineer, it’s separated as North and South. But Sudan enjoys a rich cultural and ethnic religious heritage. Those things have endured despite economic and political turmoil as Sudan retains its sense of authenticity. Sitting in a cafe here with...
Sri Lanka: Mishandling of economic crisis triggers alarm over rights violations
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on April 5 urged authorities in Sri Lanka to defuse tensions peacefully, after a state of emergency was declared in response to protests over the country’s deepening economic crisis. OHCHR said that the situation has worsened and that there have been shortages of food and fuel, along with power cuts, prompting new protests by desperate...
Intentional blindness, warmongering keeps feeding U.S. downfall
by Naba’a Muhammad and Brian E. Muhammad The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, patriarch of the Nation of Islam, teaches that no individual nor nation can escape the law of justice today. We are living in the day of God’s Judgement and a time when the consequences of deeds, individual and national deeds, cannot be averted except through repentance, atonement, and...
Nigeria sues U.S. drug company Pfizer for $7 Billion
GINNEWS Anger at deadly Nigerian drug trials (BBC, 06-20-2007)Pharmaceutical trials in developing countries criticized (FCN, 06-11-2007)Nigeria: Drug Test - FG Sues Pfizer for $7 Billion (Daily Trust, 06-05-2007)Profit still trumps public health for ‘Big Pharma’ firms (FCN, 12/08/2006)Pharmaceutical cartel: How does it work? (FCN, 02/04/2004)Activists charge pharmaceutical cartel with being a tool for genocide (BBC, 01-20-2004) (GIN) - The pharmaceutical company...
Activists call for end to ‘China’s genocide’ against Muslim ethnic group
“Act now America ... Act now to stop China’s genocide ... Act now to save Uyghurs ... Act now to free East Turkistan.” Protesters chanted in front of the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan prepared to meet with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska on March...
Latin America wary of U.S. military expansion
WASHINGTON (IPS)–While much of the world’s attention has been focused on Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine, Washington has quietly boosted its military presence in Colombia, supposedly to search for contractors kidnapped by leftist insurgents. But observers call the stepped-up militarization part of a strategy to tighten U.S. control of the country, and the region. Published figures show that...
19 suspects go on trial in Paris in deaths of 39 migrants who suffocated in a truck in 2019
PARIS—A trial opened in Paris on October 17 of 19 people suspected of playing critical roles in a smuggling operation that went awry and sent 39 Vietnamese migrants to their deaths four years ago when they were locked inside a stifling hot truck trailer. Courts in Britain, where the truck was found on Oct. 23, 2019, and in Belgium, where...
Half of U.S. troops in Iraq say it’s time to come home
Most Iraqis doubt U.S. will ever leave (FCN, 02-14-2006)Broken coalition, resistance and dwindling recruitment mark two-year anniversary of U.S. invasion of Iraq (FCN, 04-06-2005) WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - The findings of an unprecedented poll of U.S. troops in Iraq are certain to add to steadily growing pressures on the Bush administration to accelerate Washington's withdrawal from a country that...
UN’s Bachelet hails ‘millions of voices’ tackling racial discrimination
More than two decades after the signing of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action (PoA)—the UN’s blueprint to tackle racism and other forms of discrimination—UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on March 28, hailed the “millions of voices around the globe” who’ve made it their mission to eradicate the scourge, while also noting that more work needs to...