Monthly Archives: August 2022

2022-08-27: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-08-27). Recently-released videos show federal agents assaulting immigrant workers in 2018 raid at Tennessee slaughterhouse. wsws.org Agents carried out their rampage despite not having warrants, deportation orders or any proof of wrongdoing.

TeleSUR, lvm, MER (2022-08-27). Arriba nueva delegación médica cubana a Nayarit, México. telesurtv.net "La salud en Nayarit avanza con un esfuerzo de todas y todos por el bienestar de nuestras familias", precisó el gobernador.

TeleSUR -HIM (2022-08-27). Padres de desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa se movilizan en México. telesurtv.net Los padres de los 43 estudiantes normalistas reiteraron que no cesarán en su lucha hasta conocer la verdad sobre el paradero de sus hijos, y exigir justicia.

____ (2022-08-26). Tibet aids COVID-hit population. ecns.cn A total of 7,270 people in difficulties including 2,452 stranded travelers and migrant workers have been provided with basic living materials valuing 1.818 million yuan (about $265 thousand) since the latest outbreak of COVID-19 in Tibet Autonomous Region, said an official at a press conference on Wednesday.

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2022-08-26: News Headlines

____ (2022-08-26). Tibet aids COVID-hit population. ecns.cn A total of 7,270 people in difficulties including 2,452 stranded travelers and migrant workers have been provided with basic living materials valuing 1.818 million yuan (about $265 thousand) since the latest outbreak of COVID-19 in Tibet Autonomous Region, said an official at a press conference on Wednesday.

TeleSUR (2022-08-25). Conservatives Want to Discredit Cristina Fernandez, AMLO Says. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) accused right-wing politicians of seeking to discredit Argentina's Vice Oresident Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner, for whom a prosecutor requested a 12-year prison sentence and disqualification of her political rights from for life. | RELATED: | "I do not know in detail the legal process against Cristina, but it is evident that the conservatives are involve…

_____ (2022-08-25). Underneath Israeli Tourist Resorts Lie Remains Of Palestinian Towns. popularresistance.org Between the two historic Palestinian port towns of Haifa and Akka — both occupied since 1948 — there exists a lovely bay called the Bay of Haifa. The cities were subjected to a heavy ethnic cleansing campaign, and now they consist of a majority Jewish Israeli population. Several Zionist colonies were established across the Bay of Haifa over the years, and even though this is prime beachfront real estate, housing was constructed largely for new, poor immigrants. | One of the colonies built on Haifa Bay is the city of Kiryat Yam. It sits right on the Mediterranean coast, but the area is considered less…

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-08-25). Mexico's campaign to recover stolen artifacts. america.cgtn.com Mexico, a country with a painful colonial history, is staging an international pressure campaign to get stolen artifacts and wealth returned to the country.

WSWS (2022-08-25). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Airline pay strikes continue to sweep Europe in Spain, Romania, Germany, Portugal; civil servants, firefighters and teachers in one-day national walkout in Kosovo; rolling strikes by Dutch railway workers over conditions and cost of living begin; 2,700 teachers walk out in Norway over pay and staff shortage; waste and recycling workers' stoppages sweep Scotland as rubbish piles up in streets; Qatar government deports migrant workers after arresting them for protesting non-payment of wages; National one-day stoppage in South Africa against plunging living standards; | One striker shot dead and three hospitalised b…

Ana Perdigón (2022-08-25). Four Presidents of the Region Condemn Judicial Persecution Against Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández. orinocotribune.com The presidents of four Latin American countries, namely, the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández; the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce; the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador; and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, have condemned the judicial persecution suffered by Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina. | The four presidents released a joint statement denouncing the judicial persecution against Cristina Fernández which aims to remove her from public, political and electoral life. | The trial is also trying to bury the values and ideals that Cristina Fernández repres…

TeleSUR -ysm- JL (2022-08-25). Vinculan a proceso al exprocurador mexicano por caso Ayotzinapa. telesurtv.net El exprocurador general, Jesús Murillo Karam, es señalado por la Fiscalía como el principal responsable de fabricar la denominada "verdad histórica".

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