Daily Archives: October 3, 2021

2021-10-03: News Headlines

Binoy Kampmark (2021-10-02). Britannia Turns Back The Boats. dissidentvoice.org Pushing people back across borders; turning asylum seekers away from shores. When such tactics were openly adopted and used with impunity by Australia's navy and border force, it caused outrage and concern in the maritime community and pricked the interest of border protectionists the world over. Disgust and outrage have, in time, been replaced by …

_____ (2021-10-02). IEN On Bipartisan Infrastructure Package And Build Back Better Act. popularresistance.org Let us be frank. As communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis and fossil fuel extraction, our situation is dire. While we experience unparalleled disaster in the form of floods, fires, droughts, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples and state-sanctioned violence against Indigenous and Black communities, the crisis at the so-called border, and other results of climate chaos, we know U.S. elected leadership is in the position to redirect course on behalf of Mother Earth and future generations. The truth is, Congress promised our communities they would work to solve the climate crisis and environmenta…

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2021-10-02). 5 civilians killed, 11 wounded in Saudis attack on Saada. en.mehrnews.com An artillery attack by the Saudi army on the border area in Yemen's Saada province left five Yemeni civilians dead and 11 wounded.

Staff (2021-10-02). Biden's Expulsion of Haitian Migrants Is Racist, Illegal — and Trumpian. truthout.org Notwithstanding President Joe Biden's promise to pursue a more humane immigration policy than his predecessor, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been illegally expelling Haitian migrants, with the Border Patrol cracking whips and herding them like cattle. When U.S. authorities put them on a plane to Haiti, "they chained us like animals — our hands, feet and waist — and once we arrived, they unchained us so journalists wouldn't see us," one Haitian man told John Oliver on "Last…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-02). Norway: U.S. Marine Corps outpost on Russia's border. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The U.S. Marine Corps has been present in Norway since the beginning of the Cold War, when Norway was the only NATO member bordering Russia. Earlier this year over 1,000 U.S. Marines were deployed to Norway for anti-Russian Arctic warfare training. ==== II MEF Intelligence Leaders Welcome Norwegian Counterparts As a critical and valued ally …

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-02). Azerbaijan-Iran conflict: war games on both sides of the border, Iranian embassy in Baku attacked. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Any armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Iran would necessarily entail the participation of Azerbaijan's Baku Declaration/Three Brothers strategic military allies, Turkey and Pakistan, both of whom also border Iran.Turkey has been engaged in proxy wars with Iran in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, arguably also in Nagorno-Karabakh given the long-term alliance between Iran and Armenia; Pakistan …

Editor2 (2021-10-02). Haiti and the Visible Pain of Racism. orinocotribune.com By Alejandra García — Sep 28, 2021 | I have fresh in my mind those images of those guards on horseback chasing Haitians with whips at the southern border of the United States just like in the days of slavery. The pictures taken on September 21 scream from the shadows of that country's racist past that still remains today. | The crisis occurred when hundreds of Haitian migrants were trying to cross the border from Ciudad Acuña, in Mexico, to a camp set up under a bridge in the town of Del Rio, Texas. They just wanted to buy food and water, which are basic goods they could not find on the US side. | In that ca…

WSWS (2021-10-02). Australian government accelerates border reopening despite soaring COVID-19 cases. wsws.org Travel restrictions are being lifted to satisfy the demands of the corporate elite for a faster full reopening of the economy, regardless of record infections.

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM (2021-10-02). Tuesday 11/9: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with Steve Wasserman: Not a Nation of Immigrants. indybay.org Online webinar…

teleSUR, JDO (2021-10-02). ONU insta a garantizar derechos humanos de migrantes haitianos. telesurtv.net Solicita a los Gobiernos que sopesen sus necesidades de protección y permitan su acceso a vías migratorias regulares.

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