(2021-08-15). Despite Thousands of Protestors, Line 3 Almost Done. popularresistance.org In the dense coniferous forests of northern Minnesota, they've shown up nearly every day to chain themselves to equipment and block traffic on roads, chanting "water is life." | Not a week has passed this summer that activists haven't used their bodies to stymie construction of Line 3, an oil pipeline that would deliver energy-intensive Canadian crude from the tar sands of Alberta to the Midwest. But those efforts don't appear to be stopping the project, which has steamrolled forward since obtaining its final permits late last year. | All but the Minnesota section of Enbridge Energy's 1,031-mile pipeline has been…
(2021-08-15). India's New IT Rules Paving Way for Legitimised Surveillance. counterpunch.org 
Image by As the Indian government is confronted with a global snooping scandal with over 300 journalists, politicians and bureaucrats on the list of those surveilled by the state, the Modi government had intensified its bid to rampage through the country's latest Internet Technology laws. | While the central government claims that the new laws are aimed at quelling the crisis of misinformation in the country by targeting sources, social media giants, alternative media platforms and privacy activists claim that the laws will bring them under direct…
(2021-08-15). Turkish LGBTQ Activists Counter Oppression With Art, Solidarity and Radical Hope. truthout.org 
Activism came to Hazar Kolancalƒ± like a thunderstorm, at first a rumbling in the distance and then upon her all at once. The constant — and
(2021-08-15). In Somalia, The US Is Bombing The Very 'Terrorists' It Created. popularresistance.org This July, the Biden administration picked up where Trump left off and began bombing Somalia, a country with a gross domestic product of less than $6 billion and a poverty rate of 70 percent. But why? | The official reason provided by the Pentagon was that the Somali National Army needed air support in its operations to counter al-Shabaab. But the actual reason was that Somalia is geo-strategically important to US empire. | Successive US administrations have cycled through a myriad of excuses to either bomb the country or to arm its dictators: Cold War politics, "humanitarian intervention," anti-piracy, and more…
(2021-08-15). Juvenicide: A Crime of the Multidimensional War in Colombia. orinocotribune.com By María Fernanda Barreto — Aug 12, 2021 | At the beginning of the 1990s as the victor of the "cold war," which in reality had very hot expressions, the United States, having established itself since the second post-war period as the head of the capitalist empire, also consolidated itself as the greatest political and military power, and became the axis of the unipolar world. That had been the objective of the struggle against communism, which justified all wars in a supposed defense of peace that, it was said, only capitalism could sustain. | That was at least the idea that was sold to world public opinion,…
(2021-08-15). Is It Time To Create A UN Political Body For Climate Change? popularresistance.org United nations – As a wisecracking cynic once remarked: "The sun would never set on the British empire because God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark". Perhaps it was an uncharitable remark because most of the British colonies have long gone. | But when i quoted this witticism to a British journalist, he countered: "I am sure it was told by a Scotsman." | Since Scotland is not a colony, its demand for independence is not a matter of decolonization, which is virtually dead on the UN's political agenda. | The United Nations, at its very inception 76 years ago, created a Trusteeship Council, one of its main or…
(2021-08-14). Palestine Aid on the Ground in Gaza. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes Belfast — Aug 11, 2021 | In 2010 a group of international activists joined Mr. George Galloway on his Viva Palestina 5 medical aid convoy to Gaza. | Their aim was to break the illegal siege, bring much-needed aid, medical equipment, and supplies to the people in distress. To bring hope, help, solidarity, and compassion to those living under a brutal medieval siege illegally imposed upon them by the apartheid state of Israel. | Nearly 2 million souls hemmed into a piece of land the size of the Ards peninsula 26 miles by 6 miles surrounded by land, sea, and air by the Zionist army, navy, and air…
(2021-08-14). Grieving the Loss of Yemeni Children–US Complicit. indybay.org Members of the Yemeni-American community and world peace activists grieved the third year anniversary of the loss of dozens of innocent children whose lives were taken by a 500 pound U.S. made, Saudi-UAE led bomb.
(2021-08-14). Argentina, the US Will Come for You Next. orinocotribune.com By Lois Pérez Leira — Aug 10, 2021 | After a series of successive defeats in Nuestra América [Our America], the Empire is trying to focus its artillery on Nicaragua. The objective is to prevent the presidential elections to be held in November: by creating all kinds of fake news and encouraging social discontent, etc. | For this purpose, imperialism relies on the Nicaraguan parasitic oligarchy, manifested by right-wing parties, some of them coming from Sandinistas who have capitulated to the Empire, and, as usual, on the OAS, despite the latter being in terminal decline. | Nicaragua is not a minor issue,…