Environmentally-Conscious Worker’s Mail.

Kat Tu, from Act!onAid Australia writes

Today we took to the streets of Sydney to demand that Nike pay its workers!

We stood with the 1,200 women workers of the Violet Apparel factory in Cambodia, who are demanding Nike pay the US$1.4 million in owed wages, benefits and damages.

After the Violet Apparel factory – which produced for Nike – abruptly closed down in 2020, these women lost their jobs overnight. They were relying on wages and benefits to feed their families, pay rent, and pay for medical care, but the full payments never came.

They've been waiting for nearly 2 years. Nike made over US$19 billion in profit last year, while these women who made their clothes are wearing the cost of the pandemic.

You can help those comrades (they are women, Act!onAid folks, but above all they are workers!). Give Nike a piece of your mind.

War Crimes.

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole – Judgement of the International Military Tribunal, September 30th, 1946.

Defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal
trial of war criminals in Nuremberg. November 1945. [A]

The Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal (more precisely, the International Military Tribunal) defined three broad categories of crimes:

1. crimes against peace,
2. war crimes proper and
3. crimes against humanity.

Where is that Building?

The New York Times’ Visual Investigation team released a comparison of a video recently filmed by a local councilman showing bodies scattered along Yablonska Street, Bucha, of what looks like civilians and corresponding but older satellite imagery provided by Maxar Technologies, to argue that those bodies have laid there since at least mid-March.

This would contradict official Russian claims that no civilian had been harmed during the Russian occupation, which ended in March 31.

The photo below shows the whole area studied. It comes from France24. I must highlight that that image is not supposed to show the location of the bodies.

To that photo, I added where the video starts (red oval, near the lower border of the photo) and the general direction the councilman travelled on Yablonska Street (red arrow pointing upwards).

Why Joe Biden’s Remarks are a Dangerous Big Deal.

… And why commentators left them unexamined.

The perspective of a few days affords time for understanding. 

Let’s rewind. I suppose by now you must be aware that US President Joe Biden, during a speech delivered at Warsaw a week ago, let this allegedly unscripted pearl slip:

 

To avoid misunderstandings, this is what he said in black and white: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power”.