The Green Party issued the following:
WASHINGTON — As extreme weather intensifies across the planet, more than 110 green, community, labor and faith groups released a letter today urging President Biden and Congressional Democrat leaders to fund a 10-year, $42 trillion ecosocialist Green New Deal far larger than the $3.5 trillion stimulus package target announced last week by Senator Schumer.
Green Party of the United States
www.gp.org
For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Contact:
Michael O’Neil, Communications Manager, meo@gp.org, 202-804-2758
Diana Brown, Co-chair, Media Committee, media@gp.org, 202-804-2758
Philena Farley, Co-chair, Media Committee, media@gp.org, 202-804-2758
Mark Dunlea, Co-Chair, EcoAction Committee, ecoaction-cochairs@gp.org, 518 860-3725
“This is America’s last, best chance to help ensure we avoid the worst consequences of climate collapse. While the world’s remaining ‘carbon budget’ has been predicted to run out in only seven years, other recent studies — including one leaked from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — show the situation is likely even more dire. With the Democrats facing a major challenge in the 2022 elections to hold their narrow control of Congress, the world cannot afford them to squander this opportunity on anything less than a full-out mobilization of the country’s resources,” said Mark Dunlea, Co-chair of the EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the United States.
The groups are calling for an annual $4.2 trillion investment for the next decade in a combination of climate investment and an Economic Bill of Rights. The latter, which would include responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, includes a guaranteed living wage job and income for all Americans, expanded and improved Medicare-for-All, housing and education. The federal government would plan and manage the construction of publicly-owned, energy systems and manufacturing, coordinating the transformation of our manufacturing, agricultural, and transportation systems for environmental sustainability and economic democracy.
The green stimulus program would have a goal of slashing greenhouse emissions as rapidly as possible (e.g., zero by 2030). Such a goal necessitates immediately halting any expansion or development of new fossil fuel infrastructure, including fracking and oil and gas pipelines. Existing fossil fuel use must also be rapidly phased out, as well.
The groups advocate paying for the stimulus through: higher taxes on the wealthy (and cracking down on their tax evasion), at least a 50% cut in the Pentagon budget, and a robust carbon tax based on the principle of polluters pay and borrowing.
Coinciding with this week’s letter, elected officials across the planet on Monday launched a Global Alliance for a Green New Deal. Green Party of England and Wales member of Parliament Caroline Lucas, who introduced the first Green New Deal Bill more than a decade ago, stated "Pledges and targets will not avert catastrophic climate change — ambitious action will, but it's been perilously absent. The world is running out of time and out of excuses. A Green New Deal wouldn't only avert the worst of the climate and nature crises. It would make everyday life better for the vast majority of people wherever they live in the world. This is our moonshot moment, but this time it's about making a better life here on Earth.” U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is also a co-founder of the alliance.
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350.org local affiliates from across the country have signed the letter. "The world is facing a climate emergency and we need the White House and Congress to act like it. We need to halt new fossil fuels and rapidly phase out existing uses. We need to invest in a green economic stimulus that supports a Just Transition and invests heavily in assisting the principal victims of climate change - low-income and communities of color,” said Sandy Steubing of PAUSE, the Albany 350 affiliate.
“Since our Camp firestorms killed at least 86 mostly elders in 2018, where we lost 14,000 homes and Bear/North Complex fires of 2020, where we lost 900 more homes, we feel ignored as our streets are filled with homeless fire survivors who still have not received one dime from PG&E even though PG&E pled guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter,” said Mark Kay Benson, 350 Butte.
“The Green New Deal would bring extra sources of income allowing us to better pay for programs like education and social services, allowing us to not rely on an economy solely based on tourism. Any renewable energy sources will pay for themselves in a matter of a few years. By 2050 we will have a natural disaster in every direction we look. By 2050 we will have run out of non-renewable resources. By 2050 it will be too late. There is no future letting avarice influence any decisions made. We didn't act yesterday so we need to act now. Pass the Green New Deal,” said Daniel Alves of the Green Party of Nevada.
“The world, our country and the Upstate NY region where my fellow workers toil and live is experiencing the ravages of a runaway climate catastrophe brought about by an economic cabal destined to exploit all of nature, its flora and fauna, and the workers who are struggling just to survive the system’s greed. Time is past due to change. A Green New Deal to replace the deadly paradigm we have mistakenly assumed would sustain us is our only hope to rebuild smart, rebuild sustainably, rebuild peaceably. I beg you to see the future as I and my fellow workers see it and join us for an ecological and economic transformation that will save the future generations from the disasters we are so frequently experiencing in the present,” said Greg Giorgio, Secretary, Upstate NY Regional Branch of the IWW.
"In our dozen years of our on-the-ground activism on behalf of people and the only planet we have — despite Bezos and Branson's sickening, ego-fueled joyrides — we have seen local, state, and national leaders fail us, even as more and more climate-related catastrophes including the current pandemic have befallen communities and destroyed lives nationwide. There is no ‘safe’ place now. Taking an ecosocialist approach immediately is our last, best hope for mitigating the effects of climate disruption and creating an egalitarian society in which all may flourish," said Maura Stephens, a cofounder of the Coalition to Protect New York.
“The original Civilian Conservation Corps was instrumental in aiding in the recovery of forest ecosystems, in preventing erosion, in restoring and establishing native plant populations and in bolstering and reintroducing native fauna as well. As we train workers to be skilled at habitat restoration, we can work with an eye towards helping the land adjust to climate changes, towards making sure we have maximum carbon storage in our rural areas, and towards using smart growth principles to construct affordable housing in compact urban areas, avoiding smothering rural and farm lands with new housing developments as our dense coastal populations relocate inland,” said Grace Nichols of Save the Pine Bush.
A copy of the letter is available online.
To: President Joe Biden
Cc: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Dear President Biden:
We urge you and Congress to immediately fund an ecosocialist Green New Deal with an annual $4.2 trillion investment for ten years to help prevent climate collapse while helping our country recover from COVID-19.
We call for a presidential declaration of a climate emergency with various executive orders to implement it. We must – as a coalition of hundreds of groups representing millions of people across the country fighting for climate, racial and economic justice have called for – Build Back Fossil Free.
We are facing a climate emergency that threatens the future of humanity. The recently leaked study by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that we must immediately take radical, comprehensive action to avoid catastrophic global warming. The situation is much worse than the IPCC stated two years ago when it called for urgent action. The study warns of a series of thresholds, such as at the melting of polar ice sheets and the loss of the Amazon rainforest, beyond which recovery from climate breakdown may become impossible: “Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems … humans cannot.”
The acceleration of extreme weather throughout the planet – wildfires on the West Coast and Australia, unprecedented heat waves worldwide, flooding, droughts – shows that we have already squandered far too much time .
We support an annual $2.7-trillion investment in climate action, including the rapid expansion of clean, renewable energy such as solar, wind (offshore as well as land-based), geothermal, and battery storage, as well as conservation. This expansion needs to be accomplished by targeting the funds to municipal utilities, rural electric cooperatives, and community and worker-owned companies. We support a sustainable, regenerative agriculture system and other natural processes to capture carbon. We must avoid the mistake of funding false climate solutions such as carbon capture technology, “renewable” gas, biomass and nuclear.
An additional $1.4 trillion annually should be invested in an Economic Bill of Rights, helping America recover from the COVID crisis. This includes finally making health care a universal right through an improved and expanded Medicare for All program. We should guarantee everyone a living wage job and a minimum income. We also need to make access to college education and quality, energy efficient housing a human right.
The green infrastructure proposal should focus on public ownership and democratic control — rather than private profit — since the capitalist system and reliance on market forces created the climate crisis.
The federal government should plan and manage the construction of publicly owned energy systems and manufacturing, coordinating the transformation of our manufacturing, agricultural, and transportation systems for environmental sustainability. Such efforts have been used in prior national emergencies such as after Pearl Harbor to ensure that all of our nation’s resources are marshaled to solve the crisis. The public enterprises created in this new program must remain under social ownership as public utilities and community worker cooperatives, unlike after World War II when they were turned over to the wealthy and their giant corporations.
Public ownership would help ensure community residents get to determine the siting for such large-scale renewable energy projects, speeding up the construction process.
The green stimulus program should have a goal of slashing greenhouse emissions as rapidly as possible (e.g., zero by 2030). Not only must we immediately halt any expansion of, or development of new fossil, fuel infrastructure, including fracking and oil and gas pipelines, but we must also rapidly phase out existing uses altogether. This includes funding a transition from heating and cooling by gas to clean renewable energy such as geothermal and heat pumps. We must invest in energy efficiency, including a massive investment to retrofit existing homes and buildings while requiring new buildings to be zero emission structures.
The climate action program needs to be based on the concept of a Just Transition. We need to guarantee wages, benefits and jobs for up to five years for workers and communities presently dependent on fossil fuels, ensuring all Americans prosper from the green transformation. At least 40% of the funds must go to the communities most harmed by pollution and climate change.
We should pay for the stimulus through higher taxes on the wealthy (and cracking down on their tax evasion), at least a 50% cut in the Pentagon budget, a robust carbon tax based on the principle of polluters pay and borrowing. Over time, the program will cover its costs, including borrowed funds, out of revenues from public enterprises, including public power fees, public transit fares, and public housing rents.
We oppose the proposal to fund the bipartisan infrastructure deal by privatizing infrastructure that should be public assets. For example, the deal would facilitate a Wall Street takeover of public services like water, which we absolutely oppose.
This is America’s last opportunity to avoid climate chaos. President Biden, we need bold leadership from you and Congress that puts the needs of the many ahead of the wealth of the few. A Green New Deal is the path to jobs, peace and a livable future.
Organizational Endorsers
| EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the United States | National |
| 350 Butte County | CA |
| 350 CT | CT |
| 350 Eugene | Oregon |
| 350 West Sound Climate Action | Washington |
| 350Brooklyn | New York |
| 350NYC | NY |
| Affordable Beauty | New York |
| Athens County's Future Action Network (ACFAN.org) | Ohio |
| Aytzim: Ecological Judaism | NY and national |
| Azul | California |
| Berkeley Fellowship of UU's Social Justice Committee | CA |
| Bronx Climate Justice North | NY |
| Bronx Green Party | New York |
| Broome Tioga Green Party | NY |
| Campaign for Renewable Energy | NY |
| Capital District Socialist Party | New York |
| Church Women United in New York State | NY |
| Climate Reality Project | New York |
| Coalition for Outreach, Policy, & Education | New York |
| Coalition to Protect New York | New York |
| Corvallis Interfaith Climate Justice Committee | Oregon |
| Council on Intelligent Energy & Conservation Policy (CIECP) | New York |
| Courage California | CA |
| DC Metro Science for the People | DC |
| DC Statehood Green Party | DC |
| Dominican Sisters of Sparkill | New York |
| Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition | NY |
| Earth Action, Inc. | Florida |
| Environmental Justice Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center | New York |
| Environmentalists Against War | California |
| Erie County Green Party | NY |
| Foodscraps360 | NY |
| FrackBustersNY | NY |
| Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement | New York |
| Granny Peace Brigade, NYC | NY |
| Green Education and Legal Fund | New York |
| Green Party of Alameda County | CA |
| Green Party of Bay County | Florida |
| Green Party of Butte County, CA | CA |
| Green Party of California | CA |
| Green Party of Duval County | FL |
| Green Party of Nassau County | NY |
| Green Party of New York | New York |
| Green Party of Santa Clara County, CA | California |
| Green Party of Texas | Texas |
| Green Party of Texas | Texas |
| Hampton Roads Green Party | Virginia |
| Harford County Climate Action | Maryland |
| Health Care A Right | PA |
| Illinois Green Party | IL |
| Integrated Environmental Data, LLC | New York |
| International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute | CA |
| Iowa Green Party | Iowa |
| IPSEC | NY |
| Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution | USA |
| Love Plant Nourish by Ike & Eli's Organic Farm, LLC | TX |
| Manhattan Local of the NY Green Party | New York |
| Metro N.Y. Catholic Climate Movement | NY |
| Morningside Gardens Green Committee for Environmental Sustainability | New York |
| Mothers Out Front-Tompkins | New York |
| MUSE USA | NY |
| NC Climate Justice Collective | North Carolina |
| Nevada Green Party | Nevada |
| New York University - Tisch School of the Arts | NY |
| Nicaragua Center for Community Action | CA |
| North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE) | New York |
| North Bronx Racial Justice | NY |
| North Carolina Green Party | North Carolina |
| North Country Earth Action | NY |
| Nuclear Age Peace Foundation | New York |
| occupyradio.net | N.Y. |
| Ocean State Green Party | RI |
| Pacific Green Party, Linn-Benton (OR) Chapter | Oregon |
| PAUSE, People of Albany United for Safe Energy | NY |
| Peacemakers of Schoharie County | New York |
| People's Climate Movement-Capital Region | New York |
| Pioneer Valley Local - Green-Rainbow Party of MA. | MA |
| Pollution free society | TN |
| Puget Sound Socialist Party | Washington |
| Putnam Progressives | NY. |
| Resist Spectra | NY |
| Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center | Colorado |
| Save the Pine Bush | New York |
| Schenectady Neighbors For Peace | New York |
| Seeds for the Sol | Oregon |
| Sisters of Charity Federation | NY |
| Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt, New York | NY |
| Snake River Alliance | ID |
| Social Eco Education (SEE-LA) | CA |
| Solidarity Committee--Capital District | NY |
| Spring Hill United Church of Christ | Florida |
| Stephanie Low Artists Inc. | New York |
| Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE) | NY |
| Stop SPOT and Texas Gulf link saveourgulfcoast | Tx |
| Sustainable Tompkins | New York |
| System Change Not Climate Change | North America |
| The Borneo Project | CA |
| The Committee to Elect Joe Manchik for Congress | Ohio |
| The Earth, Inc., Buddhist Action Coalition, CRICCC | NY |
| Treaty Alignment Campaign | Massachusetts |
| Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany | NY |
| Upstate NY IWW | New York |
| Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132 | OR |
| Volusia Climate Action | Florida |
| WASHTENAW350 | Michigan |
| Weather Medic Inc | New York |
| WESPAC Foundation, Inc. | NY |
| WILPF | California |
| WILPF St Louis | Missouri |
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Green New Deal — Full Language, gp.org
Green Party of the United States
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Newsroom | Twitter: @GreenPartyUS
Green candidate database and campaign information
Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the United States
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This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Thursday, July 22, 2021. As Muarafa al-Kadhimi prepares to meet with US President Joe Biden, many Iraqis make requests to Joe.
People in conflict are at risk around the world. 17-year-old Ali Adil is only one such person. Mina Aldroubi (THE NATIONAL) reports:
An Iraqi social media influencer has attracted the attention of top officials in Washington with a plea to President Joe Biden to help him seek refuge outside of the country.
High school pupil Ali Adil, 17, has been using social media platforms for the last five years to convey the struggles of young Iraqis as they experience few employment opportunities, electricity cuts, poor public services and deteriorating security.
His effort to publicise his plight was spotted by a top US diplomat in the Middle East, Joey Hood, acting assistant secretary at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
In his latest video posted on Instagram, Ali is seen standing on a rooftop on a hot summer's day with the sound of gunshots in the background, telling Mr Biden that he will “commit suicide and jump from the building” if he does not receive help from Washington.
“Biden if you don’t help me I will jump, I’m not joking with you, I’m on the rooftop, if you don’t help me I will die, can you hear the fire in the background? This is normal in Iraq,” the teenager said.
At the US State Dept's Twitter feed, this was posted:
In addition to the global pandemic, there is widespread unemployment in Iraq, failing public services due to widespread political corruption and ongoing security concerns.
Protests have continued in the country since 2019 over various issues including frequent electricity shortages and power outages and lack of accountability for the targeting of activists.
Acting Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Joey Hood picked up on the video, recording his own response: "Please Allawi, we in America love you, do not jump, I'm not Joe Biden, but Joey Hood, and life is precious."
"Iraq needs you; your voice is important for Iraq, I cannot bring you to the US but if I ever visit Iraq I'll make sure to see you."
Halgurd Sherwani (KURDISTAN 24) adds:
Joey Hood, acting assistant secretary of the US State Department Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, later responded to Adil, pleading with him not to jump.
“We in America love you,” Hood said, encouraging the young Iraqi to vote in elections to change the country’s future.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi hosted Adil at his office in Baghdad on Wednesday, stressing that he told the young man he had “complete freedom” to criticize the government.
Ali has "complete freedom" to speak his mind? The only ones with complete freedom in Iraq are the assassins in the security forces (militias) who kill with impunity. We'll note this Tweet:
That's the 'freedom' the Iraqi people see on the streets of their country, the 'freedom' of assassins. The people? They suffer.
July 26th, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kahdimi will visit with US President Joe Biden. Will anyone in the press pool for that photo-op dare to bring up Ali? Are they too scared to mention the 17-year-old's name?
They probably are too scared. They've gotten their marching orders, sell the failure Mustafa for a second term as prime minister. If you can't outright lie to create a positive buzz around him, just say he's the best that Iraq could have, right?
Mustafa's Iraq? Margaret Stanton (The Organization For World Peace) explains:
Dozens of people died in a fire at Al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq. There are various reports disputing the death toll, from the Health Ministry saying 60 to Iraq’s state news industry reporting 92 deaths. This is the second deadly fire to occur in one of Iraq’s coronavirus wards in three months. The police announced that sparks from a faulty wiring system caused an oxygen tank to explode, leading to the fire. Additionally, reports on the hospital’s condition highlighted the lack of basic safety infrastructures, like fire sprinkler systems and fire alarms.
An anonymous medic told Reuters, “[W]e complained many times… that a tragedy could happen any moment from a cigarette stub, but every time we get the same answer from health officials: ‘We don’t have enough money’.” According to Johns Hopkins University, Iraq has experienced over 17,000 deaths and 1.4 million confirmed COVID-19 cases. It is experiencing a third wave due to the delta variant. The country’s hospitals, which were already neglected from decades of war and widespread corruption, have been severely overwhelmed and strained by the pandemic.
Iraq’s new isolation wards are missing crucial safety measures, causing doctors and patients alike to fear the hospitals. “[…When I’m on call I numb myself because every hospital in Iraq is at high risk of burning down every single moment,” said Hadeel al-Ashabl, a Baghdad doctor working in an isolation ward like the one in Nasiriyah. Although patients refuse treatment inside hospitals, “it’s also out of their hands.” Local media reported that 13 arrest warrants were issued, including one for the province’s health chief Saddam Sahib al-Taweel by the Integrity Investigation Court. As the government is trying to investigate and find out who is responsible for the fire, angry relatives clashed with police, setting fire to two police vehicles, a Reuters witness said.
Mustafa's Iraq? Fuwaz Turki (GULF NEWS) also details Mustafa's Iraq:
Iraq is a resource-rich nation where, if the reservoir of oil it has in the ground is money in the bank, Iraqis today would be wealthy folks. But they are not. The country they inhabit has one of the highest poverty rates among middle-income economies in the world, with a staggering 36 per cent unemployment rate.
Iraq, it seems, has fallen into an abyss. And whenever Iraqis gaze at that abyss, as they daily do, it gazes beckoningly back at them.
Ravaged Syria and Lebanon can now pass the torch on to Iraq — that ancient land between the Tigris and the Euphrates, once the vanguard of Arab and Islamic civilisation — as the epicentre of a suffering humanity living chaotic, helpless lives, at the receiving end of corruption, ineptitude and double-dealing by self-serving elites to whom the rules of the social contract are there to be broken.
Why? Why has it come to this in so many countries in the Arab World, a world once known to an earlier generation as the Arab Nation, where Arabs were confident that one day, and soon, they would live as one united people possessed of a dynamic voice in the global dialogue of cultures?
[. . .]
Next Monday, US President Joe Biden will host Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi at the White House. Were I the American president I would have some rancorous words to say to the Iraqi prime minister, directed clearly not at the visiting diplomat personally but at the excesses that his government has allowed those “political parties” responsible for the tragedy in Nasiriya to get away with.
Taif Alkhudary (THE NEW ARAB) offers:
The fires in Al Hussein and Ibn Al-Khatib hospitals are symptomatic of the larger issue of systemic political corruption in Iraq. This has allowed the same political elites that were empowered by the US and its allies in 2003 to hold on to the reins of government for over 18 years, without providing even the most basic of services to their citizens.
The deterioration of public services in Iraq can be traced back to the Iran-Iraq war when spending on public goods was already being cut. This deficit was later exacerbated by the most comprehensive sanctions programme to be placed on any country in history, making it difficult to procure medicines and equipment from abroad or to provide comprehensive training to medical professionals.
Following the implementation of the Muhasasa Al Ta'ifia or the ethno-sectarian apportionment system in 2003, the health system began to deteriorate even further.
This new political system, which was supposed to ensure rights and representation for all, has actually meant that after every election cabinet positions and civil service jobs are divided between the dominant ethno-sectarian political parties. These same parties then appoint their most loyal civil servants to key positions within the ministries they gain. In turn, they use their positions to embezzle public funds and ensure that they end up in party coffers.
A recent Chatham House report revealed that senior civil service positions have become so lucrative that in recent election negotiations, parties opted to obtain these posts over cabinet positions as means of ensuring that public funds go back into their pockets. This means that instead of funding vital public infrastructure such as health services, political parties use public money to fund their own activities and interests.
Who among the US press will bring reality to the photo-op next Monday? Probably no one. They're not their to tell the truth, after all, they're present to advance a narrative and narratives are pre-determined.
Mustafa offers faux rage from time to time which always fits the narrative. He never does anything. He okays a US bombing of Iraq and then he offers public statements (a) pretending to be shocked by the bombing he knew about and (b) pretending to be outraged. He is in it for Iraq, he lies. When Iraqi citizens are shot down in the streets by Mustafa's own forces, he won't even bring the killers to justice. When Iraqi women are raped, he doesn't give a damn. Matthew Russell Lee (INNER CITY PRES) reports:
Hypocrisy on Iraq by the UN
under Antonio Guterres is on
display. Guterres has covered
up the rapes of Iraqis by UN
former staff member Karim
Elkorany, arrested then freed
on $500,000 bond on September
2, 2020 in connection with
drugging and raping women in
Iraq while working for the UN
in 2016, then allegedly lying
to the FBI about it in 2017.
See below.
But on
July 21, 2021, with Guterres'
main spokesman / censor
Stephane Dujarric on extended
vacation, the UN Security
Council issued a boiler plate
statement while refusing to do
any oversight of UN rapes, or
Guterres' censorship: "The
members of the Security
Council condemned in the
strongest terms the cowardly
terrorist attack in Baghdad,
Iraq, on Monday, 19 July 2021.
The attack, which was claimed
by Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh),
resulted in at least 30 deaths
and at least 50
injured.
The members of the Security
Council expressed their
deepest sympathy and
condolences to the families of
the victims and to the
Government of Iraq, and they
wished a speedy and full
recovery to those who were
injured.
The members of the Security
Council reiterated their
support for the independence,
sovereignty, unity,
territorial integrity,
democratic process and
prosperity of
Iraq.
The members of the Security
Council reaffirmed that
terrorism in all its forms and
manifestations constitutes one
of the most serious threats to
international peace and
security.
The members of the Security
Council underlined the need to
hold perpetrators, organizers,
financiers and sponsors of
these reprehensible acts of
terrorism accountable and
bring them to justice, and
urged all States, in
accordance with their
obligations under
international law and relevant
Security Council resolutions,
to cooperate actively with the
Government of Iraq and all
other relevant authorities in
this regard."
A
superseding indictment
belatedly unsealed on October
29 said Elkorany raped a UN
contractor, in the US and
Dohuk, Iraq. And still the UN
did nothing.
On November
9, another brief status
conference in the case, which
Inner City Press live tweeted:
AUSA Richenthal
says the US is reviewing more
electronic devices.
Elkorany's lawyer Dawn Cardi asks for 90 more days' delay, since some of the discovery is marked "Restricted."
Mustafa is a failure. Fires are breaking out in hospitals due to lack of oversight. Hospital staff are quitting because Mustafa never fixes anything, just fires and arrests people. Installing fire alarms and fire sprinklers? Mustafa won't get off his lazy ass and order that. And, in the midst of a pandemic, there are no real precautions to protect the Iraqi people. Dijilah Tweets:
We're going to wind down with Black Alliance for Peace. First, BLACK AGENDA REPORT'S Margaret Kimberley speaking about whistleblower Daniel Hale.
And now this statement from BAP:
For Immediate Release
Media Contact:
(202) 643-1136
communications@blackallianceforpeace.com
JULY 16, 2021—The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with the sentiments and positions the Black Lives Matter coalition recently expressed on U.S. policies on Cuba. The moral hypocrisy and historic myopia of U.S. liberals and conservatives, who have unfairly attacked BLM’s statement on Cuba, is breathtaking.
Their reaction comes on the heels of another in a series of annual votes in the United Nations, when most of the world’s countries—except for the United States and Israel—overwhelmingly supported ending the murderous six-decade-long economic embargo against Cuba.
Not only do Democrats and Republicans join hands to defy the world by refusing to lift the embargo. U.S. congresspeople as well as the anti-communist and anti-Black corporate press display their duplicity by continuing the subversion against Cuba. This only demonstrates for oppressed working-class and colonized people—once again—that the U.S. ruling class remains united in its hostility to any socialist project and sees all such attempts by global South nations as existential threats to the rule of capital.
BAP welcomes the principled stance taken by BLM and hopes BLM will continue to be a visible force in the ongoing struggle against war, subversion, militarism, intervention and the economic exploitation that is at the center of U.S. imperial policies. Too often, BAP has been a lone voice in opposition, a position fundamental to the Black Radical Tradition.
Progressive Black forces are making the connections between the U.S. reaction to Cuba, Haiti, Colombia and the United States deploying its military on the African continent in the form of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). That connection links back to the United States when we understand these policies are directly related to the militarization and violence of police forces in the United States and to the economic and social crisis of the capitalist system.
It is only by making those connections and building an effective unified Black working class-based opposition that real leadership can be given to the movement for substantial social change in the United States. BAP sees this as the historic task of the current Black revolutionary movement. Going forward, BAP hopes we will be able to find a way toward the unity of all Black, colonized, working-class and poor people in the United States.
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