Daily Archives: November 20, 2021

2021-11-20: News Headlines

TASS (2021-11-20). Belarus' Investigative Committee identifies 109 victims of Polish border forces' actions. tass.com According to the Investigative Committee's department, criminal proceedings into five episodes of violence used by the Polish and Lithuanian forces against migrants are underway in the Grodno region…

Rainer Shea (2021-11-20). Haiti's Migrant Crisis & the Blind Eye to Imperialism's Sins. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Nov 17, 2021 | Earlier this year, when photos came out of Texas border patrols riding on horseback to use whip-like reins for intimidating Black Haitian migrants, the United States was confronted with an uncomfortable reality about how our society is set up. | Images like these were supposed to be confined to America's era of slavery, yet here they were today. What factors had led to the situation revealed in these photos? Why had these migrants fled their homes? How much was the United States to blame? Beyond the unnerving optics, how many parallels were there between the context behind the…

_____ (2021-11-20). Why Seed Companies Fear México. popularresistance.org Last month México's Supreme Court provided hope for biodiversity, especially in the Global South, while flaming fear for seed companies. In a historic step, it ruled for corn advocates and against genetically modified (GMO) corn. The decision was a momentous act in country where maíz (corn) carries daily and sacred significance. This promises a way out of stale GMO debates that plague us. One side argues that genetic changes to seeds increase harvests. Seed companies and industrial agriculture make up this side. Another side says GMOs damage plant DNA.

Alex MacDonald (2021-11-19). Poland-Belarus: One-year old Syrian boy latest to die on Europe's border. middleeasteye.net Poland-Belarus: One-year old Syrian boy latest to die on Europe's border | Death of Syrian child comes as hundreds of Iraqis are repatriated from Belarus-Poland border | Fri, 11/19/2021 – 12: 46 | Two graves of refugees who died trying to get to Poland are seen at the Muslim cemetery in Bohoniki on 18 November 2021 (AFP) | A one-year-old Syrian boy has become the latest death among migrants trap…

Ryan Devereaux (2021-11-19). U.S. Military Training in Mexico Increased as Human Rights Waned. zcomm.org In the years after the U.S. pledged to invest in human rights and rule of law, the Pentagon spent millions training elite Mexican units how to fight…

Gabriela Rodríguez (2021-11-19). México — La brújula de las remesas. globalizacion.ca De octubre a agosto del año fiscal 2021 casi se ha triplicado el número de eventos de aprehensión de personas mexicanas en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos (indicador del crecimiento del flujo migratorio) al pasar de 213 mil (octubre-agosto…

_____ (2021-11-19). Big Oil Pays $192 Million To Extract Fossil Fuels From The Gulf. popularresistance.org The Biden administration went through with the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history Wednesday. In the controversial sale, major fossil-fuel companies including ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and BP bid a total of $192 million for the rights to drill a stretch of the Gulf of Mexico that is about double the size of Florida, The AP reported. The amount offered is the second-highest total since bidding resumed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2017. The Biden administration has been widely criticized for allowing the sale to proceed even after President Joe Biden promised U.S. climate action during the COP26 ta…

_____ (2021-11-19). Fossil Fuel Companies Pay $192 Million To Extract Fossil Fuels From The Gulf Of Mexico. popularresistance.org The Biden administration went through with the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history Wednesday. In the controversial sale, major fossil-fuel companies including ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and BP bid a total of $192 million for the rights to drill a stretch of the Gulf of Mexico that is about double the size of Florida, The AP reported. The amount offered is the second-highest total since bidding resumed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2017. The Biden administration has been widely criticized for allowing the sale to proceed even after President Joe Biden promised U.S. climate action during the COP26 ta…

_____ (2021-11-19). On The Structure Of Kellogg's Corporate Control. popularresistance.org Workers at Kellogg's went on strike early October for the first time since 1972. It's now mid-November, snow is falling, and it's starting to get really cold outside. At the request of the company, workers briefly returned to the negotiating table in what turned out to be a corporate PR stunt for the annual shareholders' meeting. The Kellogg Company has shut them out, hired scabs, and still refuses to budge from their desire to make every community look more like the maquiladoras or sweatshops in Mexico, where they have been shifting North American production for decades.

Mouris Salloum George (2021-11-19). México — Primer sicario y nacimiento de leyendas del narcotráfico. globalizacion.ca Primer sicario de Sinaloa. ´No había existido otro pistolero como él. Poseía una brutal sangre fría que se convirtió en leyenda en Sinaloa a partir del 21 de febrero de 1944, durante la madrugada del carnaval de Mazatlán. En el…

Pedro Miguel (2021-11-19). México-Estados Unidos: Relación de Estado. globalizacion.ca Se confirma: los agàºeros de un desencuentro catastrófico entre Andrés Manuel López Obrador y Joe Biden se han disipado. Esas fantasías apocalípticas, con todo y su ignorancia, cortedad de miras y mala fe, corrieron la misma suerte de las que…

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