Der mexikanische Künstler Pedro Reyes erschafft aus Waffen, die im Drogenkrieg konfisziert wurden, ein Perpetuum mobile, das in Basel zu erleben ist. Reyes verwandelt Instrumente des Todes in Werkzeuge der Kommunikation – und klagt die Rüstungsindustrie an.
Daily Archives: 26. Juni 2020
Mexico: AMLO Denounces Conspiracy to Remove Him From Office
9.6.2020 It is a plan called ‚Let‘s rescue Mexico‘, which would seek to create a solid opposition with the support of the media, related communicators and business organizations.
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The BOA‘s discourse would focus on two axes: unemployment and insecurity, which includes „holding AMLO‘s presidency responsible for deepening these evils of the country.“
Three die in attempted murder of Mexico City police chief
One prominent Mexican journalist, Pascal Beltrán del Río, claimed the hitmen – who had reportedly carried Barrett assault rifles and grenades and been hidden in a truck – were dressed as road workers. He said the last time Mexico’s capital had witnessed such an assault was nearly 50 years ago, in 1971.
Reports Attack in Mexico City / Justifies Energy Sector Changes
Justifies changes in energy sector. After several complaints by US companies and the US Ambassador, President López Obrador said changes he is pushing in the energy sector do not violate any law, but rather, they are addressing excesses tolerated in the past. “We are not violating any legal order. We are putting order in place because we feel that there were excesses, that there was a lot of corruption,” he said regarding complaints from US companies and US Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau, who has said that changes in the sector are affecting investments. The president said everyone knows that foreign and national energy companies that made big profits colluded with public officials.
U.S. oil companies urge Trump to pressure AMLO on energy reforms
So far Trump has shown no sign he plans to press Lopez Obrador to carry through with the energy reforms.
Meet the far-right oligarchs working to topple Mexico‘s progressive President AMLO
From the beginning of AMLO’s term in December 2018, members of the parties that have dominated Mexican politics for decades, particularly the right-wing National Action Party (PAN) and neoliberal Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), have worked tirelessly to block the new administration’s reforms and abort the Fourth Transformation.
Coronavirus in Kenya: Police kill three in motorcycle taxi protest
Long before the coronavirus restrictions came in, Kenya‘s police were often accused of brutality – Human Rights Watch said that during the 2017 election campaign, police officers beat and killed opposition supporters.
U.N. Rights Expert Urges EU to Punish Any Israeli Annexation in West Bank
A U.N. rights investigator urged the European Union on Friday to consider measures to prevent or punish any Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, a few days after over 1,000 European lawmakers made a similar call.
Netanyahu vows all settlements will be annexed July 1, but other lands may wait
(08.06.2020)
Netanyahu’s comments would mean the government would initially annex about three percent of West Bank territory, covering the 132 settlements, home to some 450,000 Israelis. The remainder of the roughly 30% that the Trump deal grants to Israel — most of which is in the Jordan Valley — would be annexed at a later period, when the joint US-Israeli mapping committee finishes determining the exact territorial divisions beyond the pre-1967 Green Line.
Report: Israel notifies Palestinians it will not annex Jordan Valley
A senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, unnamed in the report, said that the message was sent through Jordan following the reported meeting between Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and King Abdullah II.
Report: Likud party to offer Gantz presidency to scuttle rotation deal
The offer, according to the paper, would upend a rotation agreement between Netanyahu and Gantz for the premiership as stated in their coalition agreement signed earlier this year.
Likud party officials insist it would be „unreasonable“ for Netanyahu to honor the agreement – which allows Gantz to become Prime Minister in November 2021 – due to his politically weakened position, according to a string of national polls.
Obamacare Must ‚Fall,‘ Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court
Eliminating the ACA would end medical insurance for more than 20 million Americans. It would also end widely popular provisions of the law, such as extending parents‘ coverage to children up to the age of 26 and prohibiting insurance companies from denying coverage based on preexisting conditions.
Trump and congressional Republicans have long said they want to „repeal and replace“ Obamacare but have yet to offer legislation addressing what would take its place.
Trump White House wins court ruling upholding plan to require insurers and hospitals to disclose prices
(24.05.2020)
The Trump administration won a court ruling Tuesday upholding its plan to require insurers and hospitals to disclose the actual prices for common tests and procedures in a bid to promote competition and push down costs.
Keir Starmer to meet left-wing MP group amid fury over ‘anti-semitic conspiracy theory’ sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey
Keir Starmer is due to meet members of the Socialist Campaign Group on Friday amid a left-wing backlash over his decision to sack Rebecca Long-Bailey as shadow education secretary for sharing an article containing an “anti-semitic conspiracy theory”.
Protest im Lausitzer Revier „Ende Gelände“ besetzt Bagger im Tagebau Jänschwalde
Dem Ausstiegsgesetz zufolge soll die Nutzung der Kohleenergie in Deutschland bis spätestens Ende 2038 beendet werden.
Protestaktion im Tagebau Garzweiler: Betrieb steht still
RWE hat am Freitag Hauptversammlung in Essen. Der Energiekonzern betreibt den Tagebau Garzweiler. Auch in der Lausitz ist „Ende Gelände“ seit dem frühen Freitagmorgen aktiv. Im Tagebau Jänschwalde haben 13 Aktivisten einen Bagger besetzt.
England: Polizei wertet zu viele Handys ohne Gesetzesgrundlage aus
Nach massiver Kritik hat die englische Datenschutzbehörde das Thema Handyauswertungen unter die Lupe genommen. Das Ergebnis: Die Polizei holt sich zu viele Daten aus den Telefonen und speichert sie zu lange – häufig ohne Rechtsgrundlage.
California Agency Blocks Release of Police Use of Force and Surveillance Training, Claiming Copyright
Under a California law that went into effect on January 1, 2020, all law enforcement training materials must be “conspicuously” published on the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) website.
Bill to Ban Face Surveillance Introduced in Congress
EPIC has repeatedly called for a moratorium on the use of face surveillance and the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020 would stop the use of this dangerous technology.
„…this will transform the struggle, and the face of the struggle, from self-determination to an anti-apartheid revolution.“
Annexation could extinguish Palestinian hope. That’s dangerous.
Even though the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands has gone on for decades, the only times that people have really erupted in opposition to Israel have been when they have lost hope.
U.S. Weighs Israel Annexation Plan as Criticism Grows in Congress, U.N.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to begin process as soon as July 1, though some of his U.S. backers have urged caution
Uncut Chronicles: Blood & Tears. Gaza August 2014
(02.09.2014)
Israel and Gaza‘s ruling Hamas agreed to an open-ended ceasefire on August 26 after seven weeks of fighting – an uneasy deal that halted the Protective Edge operation, with more than 2,200 killed.
Uncut Chronicles: Gaza-Israel War. Deadly July 2014
(03.08.2014)
The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) began their current operation against Hamas after three teens were kidnapped and killed. The military op has already claimed over 1,500 civilian lives in Gaza.
Israel Preparing for International Court to Launch Probe Into War Crimes ‚Within Days,‘ Officials Say
This was sparked by a 2015 declaration by the Palestian government to give jurisdiction to the intergovernmental institution „over alleged crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, since June 13, 2014.“
In December, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced that she had found a basis for an investigation against Israel and Hamas over suspicions that war crimes were committed in the Palestinian Territories in the period beginning in 2014. But she asked that the court issue a pre-trial ruling first on its jurisdiction in cases involving the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
How a US and Qatari regime change deception produced ‘Caesar’ sanctions driving Syria towards famine
Authorized by Congress with no opposition, the so-called Caesar Civilian Protection Act amounts to an act of all out war on the very people it claims to protect. Targeting the Syrian Central Bank and penalizing any foreign company that does business with Damascus, the bill was conceived with the explicit aim of preventing the country from rebuilding after it defeated a proxy war imposed on it by the West, Israel, Turkey, and Gulf monarchies.
Charles Lister, a Gulf-backed de facto lobbyist for the Syrian opposition in Washington, inadvertently revealed the Caesar Act as an instrument of financial terror. In an op-ed for Politico this June, he forecasted “even greater levels of destitution, famine, and worsening criminality and predatory behavior” as a result of the new sanctions.
Predicting that “bread shortages are only a matter of time,” and projecting a famine in the near future, Lister cheerfully framed the human suffering caused by the sanctions as “an opportunity” for the United States to achieve regime change.
Five questions for new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer about his UK and US national security establishment links
(June 5, 2020)
The public deserves answers about the UK’s new opposition leader and his relationship with the British national security establishment, including the MI5 and the Times newspaper, his former role in the Julian Assange case and his membership in the intelligence-linked Trilateral Commission.
Labour leader Keir Starmer confirms his role as establishment Thought Crime Enforcer, purging Rebecca Long-Bailey after she innocently shared an interview with a celebrity who happens to support BDS. Only pro-apartheid thoughts allowed in Labour!
The Campaign Group of left wing Labour MPs have requested a meeting with Keir Starmer about the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey. The request has been declined
Exclusive: Starmer’s cynical actions lead to unintended consequences as left begins preparations for leadership challenge
Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell’s quick public support for Long-Bailey is one barometer of that strength of feeling, along with a parallel show of support from Momentum founder Jon Lansman, in spite of Lansman’s recent enthusiasm for an accommodation with the ‘soft left’.
But the action goes beyond expressions of support for Long-Bailey – and the drivers for action go beyond her sacking.
Left MPs are now generating a list of supporters for a leadership challenge to take place next year, after the 2021 local elections, in the event that Starmer fails to shape up.
Starmer‘s removal of Long-Bailey has rekindled Labour’s civil war
Members of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, including John McDonnell and Richard Burgon, had been biding their time on the backbenches – sometimes making more strident criticisms of the government than Starmer’s, but remaining scrupulously loyal in public.
Now one of their own has been ruthlessly removed, they will feel emboldened to make their voices heard more loudly. McDonnell, who worked closely with Long-Bailey as shadow chancellor, said he stood in “absolute solidarity” with her.