Scott Scheffer There have now been over 100,000 lives lost in the U.S. from COVID-19, and nearly half the country is still experiencing uncontrolled outbreaks. Incarcerated populations, nursing home residents, asylum seekers trapped at the border and the homeless are particularly vulnerable. Essential workers, mostly people of color, are getting infected at alarming rates. Yet,…
Category: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Racism, Inequality and Institutional Terrorism: The Origin of Mass Unrest in the United States
Misión Verdad Photo: Elijah Nouvelage / AFP On Friday, May 29, Derek Chauvin, the policeman from Minneapolis (Minnesota, United States) who was seen on a video pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck, was arrested, according to Public Security Commissioner John Harrington. Chauvin had been fired along with three other officers involved in Floyd’s arrest…
Black Alliance for Peace Calls on United Nations to Address U.S. Human Rights Crisis
The extrajudicial murders of African/Black people, such as Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, by agents of the U.S. government and armed civilians have sparked urban rebellions in cities across the United States. Yet these murders cannot be understood outside of the context of the U.S. state’s ongoing assault on the human rights of…
What You Need to Know About the ICC Investigation of War Crimes in Occupied Palestine
Romana Rubeo and Ramzy Baroud Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has, once and for all, settled the doubts on the Court’s jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in occupied Palestine. On April 30, Bensouda released a 60-page document diligently laying down the legal bases for that decision, concluding that “the Prosecution…
From Canadian Dimension Magazine to Trudeau: Coups and Sanctions Against Venezuela
Arnold August In the early hours of 3 May and again on 4 May, heavily armed mercenary groups arrived in speedboats from Colombia and attempted to enter Venezuela. Their members were confronted by the country’s armed forces, militia, police and local fishermen. In the ensuing firefight, eight died and the remainder were apprehended. Among the…
US Responds to Failed Mercenary Incursion with an Escalation of the Economic Blockade Against Venezuela
Misión Verdad Two FBI agents. Photo: Iberoeconomia As Reuters recently reported, “the FBI is investigating several Mexican and European companies allegedly involved in the Venezuelan oil trade while gathering information for a U.S. Treasury Department investigation into possible sanctions. In its report, Reuters anonymously quotes four people familiar with these “investigations” and also sources close…
Communities Violently Evicted in Colombia Amid “Lockdown”
Altos de la Estancia is a park area in the Ciudad Bolívar district which is occupied by homeless locals, migrants, peasants, indigenous people and unemployed workers. Nearly 700 poor families live in precarious conditions in the slums built on the land. Peoples Dispatch On May 11, activists in Colombia denounced violent evictions of families carried…
Indigenous People of Latin America in the COVID-19 Era
Gerardo Szalkowicz Without basic services, excluded by the health system, without documentation to access social programs, and with roads cut off from food supplies, how does the pandemic impact on indigenous communities in Latin America? “In this pandemic we are not all in the same boat, we are all in the same sea; some in…
The Violence of Non-Violence: Canadian Sanctions Policy in Times of Covid-19
Claudia Chaufan and Maria Victor Paez Both at its birth, and later in the paradigmatic Alma Ata declaration, the WHO established a human right to health which required not only access to health care but the satisfaction of a broad range of human needs, such as appropriate nutrition, adequate housing, and personal safety. Decades later…
COVID-19 and the War Against Black Detroit
Mark P. Fancher Corporate America and white supremacists have waged merciless war against the Black megapolis that dared to nurture revolutionaries and great music. “For more than 15 years mass water shutoffs were contributing to the spread of a variety of illnesses in largely black neighborhoods.” After COVID-19 ripped open one of capitalism’s infected scars, both horrific…
Long Breadlines Form Outside of Food Banks as America Struggles to Cope With COVID-19 Fallout
Alan Macleod At least 10,000 cars line up in an orderly fashion in San Antonio, all full of hungry, increasingly desperate people. Thousands already arrived the night before just to get a chance to eat. “We just can’t feed this many,” said the CEO of the local food bank that Texans have descended upon. It is a…
Chemical and Biological Weapons: The US Government Waged a War Against its Own Citizens
Larry Romanoff For the past 70 or so years, the US government waged a war against its own citizens, a reprehensible history of illegal, unethical and immoral experiments exposing countless US civilians to deadly procedures and pathogens. According to a US Congressional investigation, by the late 1970s: “at least 500,000 people were used as subjects…
