Month: May 2021

In a major win for the climate, the US Senate reverses Trump methane ruling

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Gas flaring in Harris County, Texas. Photo credit: Jim Evans – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 – via Wikimedia.

By Anders Lorenzen

Chuck Schumer, US Senate majority leader, called it a major victory for action on climate change. With a 52-42 vote in favour of the measure, including three Republican senators voting with Democrats, a major climate and environmental victory was achieved when they approved a measure that would restore the regulation of methane, the second most potent greenhouse gas (GHG) after CO2.

First of many important steps

Schumer, a Democrat, explained that the passing of this bill would help the Biden Administration carry out its ambitious emission reduction plans during the next decade.

“This is the first of many important steps the Senate will take” to achieve President Joe Biden‘s climate goals, he said.

Together with fellow Democrats Martin Heinrich and Ed Markey, as well…

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Berlin police have arrested at least 354 people who took part in May Day demonstrations that devolved into full-scale riots in the German capital

Colombian General Strike victory.. Reports on slaughter and repression.. Ongoing Revolt.. Eng/Esp

Colombian organizations deliver a balance of repression amid protests as dictator Duque announces the withdrawal of Tax Project,

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Aunque el presidente Duque anunció el retiro del proyecto, los colombianos se mantienen en las calles exigiendo que no debe existir ningún tipo de reforma.

Colombians remain in the streets demanding that there should be no type of reform.
The organization Defender La Libertad reported that there were 21 homicides and more than 500 arbitrary detentions throughout the country.

UPDATE...Palmira MASSACRE
According to information in the city of Palmira, Valle del Cauca, whereCali city is situated and the most violent actions have been reported, more than 30 have been ‘disappeared’ and at least three deaths are estimated. Valle del Cauca is a major bastion of indigenous and left wing culture.

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4 out of every 10 Turkish women experience domestic violence, academic study says

By Turkish Minute – May 1, 2021 574 shared with thanks..Illustrations added.

Four out of every 10 Turkish women experience domestic violence during their lifetime, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported citing BBC Turkish service.

A demonstrator wearing a protective face masks holds up a placard reading ‘Stand up against violence towards women’ during a demonstration for a better implementation of the Istanbul Convention and the Turkish Law 6284 for the protection of the family and prevention of violence against women, in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 5, 2020. – Thousands of women in Turkey took to the streets to demand that the government does not withdraw from a landmark treaty on preventing domestic violence. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

According to the report, citing a study by the Ankara-based Hacettepe University Population Studies Institute, 75 percent of women who are divorced or separated from their spouses are victims of physical abuse. Nine percent of women suffer from sexual abuse during their childhood.

The results of the study, which was conducted in 2008 and 2014, were presented to the Parliamentary Investigation Committee on Violence Against Women.

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“Ban Glyphosate to protect public health!”- peer-reviewed studies

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Campaigners: “Ban Glyphosate to protect public health!” Open letter to politicians calls for controversial chemical to be banned, cites peer-reviewed studies

On 9 April 2021, retired physician and health and environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason wrote to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA).

She wanted to draw the agency’s attention to the findings that indicate the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes high levels of mortality following contact exposure in bumblebees (glyphosate-formulated herbicides are the most widely used weedicides in agriculture across the globe).

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Catalan alternative unionism unites against precariousness on an Anti-Capitalist May Day Eng/Esp


Alternative trade unionism and social movements blocked the Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona on May 1 with a concentration denouncing the capitalist system as “irrational” and the cause of social crises and ecological catastrophes, underlining the “absolute failure” of the capitalism to solve the crisis derived from the pandemic.
By Kaos. Class Struggle Posted on May 1, 2021/ Source: ANC, CGT and Kaos

The trade union organizations that are alternatives to bureaucratic trade unionism organized in the Taula Sindical de Catalunya (CGT, IAC, CNT, COS, Co.bas) together with anti-capitalist political organizations and social groups have denounced that the pandemic has highlighted the precariousness it causes… the current capitalist economic model.

The action consisted of cutting Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona with a concentration of activists against the current economic model. Participants denounce the capitalist system as “irrational” and the cause of social crises and ecological catastrophes, pointing to the “absolute failure” of capitalism to resolve the crisis derived from the pandemic.

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In 2018 the US Was at War With Uyghur Terrorists. Now It Claims They Don’t Even Exist

Cultivated by the US government as human rights activists, Uyghur American Association leaders partner with far-right lawmakers and operate a militia-style gun club that trains with ex-US special forces

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By Alan Macleod

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With China now in the U.S. crosshairs, the ETIM has moved from being an adversary to being a potential asset.

WASHINGTON —In the dying months of his administration, President Donald Trump removed from the United States terrorist list a little-known paramilitary organization called ETIM, an acronym that stands for either the East Turkestan Independence Movement or the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, depending on whom one asks. The group is also sometimes known as the [East] Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP or ETIP).

Explaining the decision, the State Department said that “ETIM was removed from the list because, for more than a decade, there has been no credible evidence that ETIM continues to exist.” The move was hailed by a wide range of Uyghur groups in the United States, who saw it as a step towards blocking China’s actions against Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province.

Yet the decision…

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