Daily Archives: October 4, 2022

2022-10-04: News Headlines

Phil Miller (2022-10-04). British Intelligence Predicted Ukraine War 30 Years Ago. globalresearch.ca

Kenny Stancil (2022-10-04). Supreme Court Poised to Shred What's Left of Voting Rights Act, Plaintiffs Warn. commondreams.org "If the court sides with Alabama," wrote a pair of plaintiffs in Merrill v. Milligan, "political opportunities for people of color will disappear."

Davin Rosborough (2022-10-04). Voting Rights Are Center Stage This Supreme Court Term. aclu.org The

Staff (2022-10-04). Against the EU-Israel Association Council: Samidoun letter to MEPs, gatherings in Brussels and Gothenburg. samidoun.net On 3 October, the "EU-Israel Association Council" convened in Brussels, Belgium, with the participation of 27 European foreign ministers, EU foreign affairs head Josep Borrell, and the Israeli Intelligence Minister Elizar Stern, with prime minister Yair Lapid appearing over video call. This was the first meeting of this council in 10 years after meetings were …

Labor Video Project (2022-10-04). Free Assange, Mumia and Palestine-Rally in Berkeley. indybay.org

Bay Action To Free Julian Assange (2022-10-04). Saturday 10/8: Free Julian Assange NOW! Global Day Of Action. indybay.org Harry Bridges Plaza | Between Ferry Building & Embaradero | San Francisco…

Staff (2022-10-04). Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes History; SCOTUS Poised to Roll Back Voting Rights & Affirmative Action. democracynow.org As public support of the conservative-dominated Supreme Court falls to a record low, justices are set to hear major cases on affirmative action, voting rights and online speech. The court opened its term Monday with new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson becoming the first Black woman in U.S. history to hear a Supreme Court case. Although Jackson is a welcome progressive voice on the bench, "all she'll be able to do is to highlight the extremism of the conservative majority voting bloc on the Supreme Court," says The Nation's legal correspondent Elie Mystal. He adds that the term ahead includes…

Labor Video Project (2022-10-04). Apple Toxic Is It Above The Law? With Whistleblower Ashley M. Gjà∏vik. indybay.org Ashley M. Gjà∏vik an Apple employee discovers that her office is sitting on a super-fund dump site in Sunnyvale. She tries to get it tested by the EPA and is retaliated against and fired. She also discover that Apple has captured the agencies she is trying to get to protect her and her fellow worker.

Kim Chandler, Mark Sherman, Gary Fields (2022-10-04). Black votes matter: Alabama Republicans' gerrymandering faces Supreme Court scrutiny. peoplesworld.org MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)—The invisible line dividing two of Alabama's congressional districts slices through Montgomery, near iconic sites from the civil rights movement as well as ones more personal to Evan Milligan. There's the house where his grandfather loaded people into his station wagon and drove them to their jobs during the Montgomery Bus Boycott as …

The Associated Press (2022-10-04). Reports: Migrant Flights' Mysterious Recruiter Identified. latinorebels.com The mysterious woman who allegedly lured dozens of migrants on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' flights to Martha's Vineyard from San Antonio has been identified by several media outlets as Perla H. Huerta, a former combat medic and U.S. Army counterintelligence agent living in Tampa.

____ (2022-10-03). Snowden Gets Russian Citizenship. transcend.org 26 Sep 2022 – President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden today. The North American's name was included without fanfare on a list of 72 foreigners who became citizens.

David Cole (2022-10-03). Supreme Court Preview: Equal Protection on the Docket. aclu.org At least three times in its history, the Supreme Court has invoked the Constitution in order to frustrate efforts to protect the vulnerable. In the infamous Dred Scott case of 1857, the court declared that the Constitution prohibited federal efforts to free slaves because doing so would violate their owners' property rights — a decision that invalidated the Missouri Compromise and helped bring about the Civil War. | In the early twentieth century, the court repeatedly struck down state and federal protections for workers and consumers, deeming them violations of business owners' constitutional rights of…

Crystal Grant (2022-10-03). Algorithms Are Making Decisions About Health Care, Which May Only Worsen Medical Racism. aclu.org Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making systems — algorithms that analyze massive amounts of data and make predictions about the future — are increasingly affecting Americans' daily lives. People are compelled to include

Madiba Dennie (2022-10-03). A New Term Begins for This Extremist Right-Wing Supreme Court. commondreams.org The supermajority has made clear that judicial restraint won't stand in the way of the goals of the conservative legal movement.

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