Tag Archives: human rights

Sometimes good things fall apart…….

Posted on December 7, 2025 by borderslynn

The American Supreme Court decisions at July 2025: https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-supreme-court-rules-donald-trump-15-times-row-2100190 Chief Justice Roberts: The Reuters article goes on to say: The Roberts Court is the most conservative court in 100 years, and it has laudably corrected major jurisprudential mistakes in abortion, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged anti immigration, anti-institutions, anti-multicultural, causing deaths which were preventable, causing harm, civil rights, conservative, constitution, cruelty, due process, extremism, fear, greed, human rights, John Roberts, Kushner, law, purging, Putin, Qatar, revenge, right wing, SCOTUS, UAE, US Supreme Court, wealth for the few, white supremacy | Leave a comment

Making a Difference

Posted on October 20, 2025 by borderslynn

Wanting to show support for Palestinians by sailing toward Gaza is not a crime. Harming peaceful protestors is. Greta Thunberg alleges torture in Israeli detention after Gaza flotilla arrest By Reuters October 8, 20258:06 AM GMT+1Updated October 8, 2025 STOCKHOLM, Oct … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged abuses, belief, bravery, courage, degrading captives, human rights, inhumane, Israelis, Palestinians, peaceful protests | Leave a comment

B’Tsalem Aim: to work toward us all living safely together

Posted on July 30, 2025 by borderslynn

I am reproducing this webpage:

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged atrocities, crimes against humanity, genocide, human rights, intent to destroy, murder, Palestine, starvation as a weapon | Leave a comment

Humanity with and without Empathy

Posted on June 8, 2025 by borderslynn

If you are fortunate to have been born with a neurotypical brain, you will have developed empathy, an important component for interacting with other life forms, sensing what they might be thinking, using an amazing set of tools provided by … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged activism, artificial intelligence, bravery, conflict, dismantling of institutions, Empire, exhaustion, fear, human rights, humanity, journalism, lawmakers, media, persecution, semantics, speaking truth to power, technology | Leave a comment

Gulag mentality

Posted on May 16, 2025 by borderslynn

It is sad, but true. The Gulag horrors are being expanded in Russia. Innocent civilians from Ukraine are suffering there. Out of our sight, out of reach from their suffering families. Pain radiates out from their locations and maybe you … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged conflict, deportation, detention centres, Gulag, human rights, immigration hubs, innocent civilians, lawless behaviour, Pope Leo XIV, prisons, psychopathic behaviour, Russia, torture, ukraine, unsafe passage, war | Leave a comment

Incarceration and gang culture

Posted on May 7, 2025 by borderslynn

In 1992 Venezuela was the richest country in the Western Hemisphere., due to its massive oil reserves, drilled by American oil companies. Below, an extract from the BBC obituary of Chavez, 5 March 2013 Father’ Fidel With his fiery revolutionary … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 18th Street., america, Aragua, Bukele, Castro, CECOT, Chavez, Communism, crime, Cuba, degradation, deportation, El Salvador, human rights, Latin America, Mara salvatrucha, MS-13, oil wealth, prison culture, punishment, Socialism, tattoos, TDA, transnational crime, Tren de Aragua, venezuela, violence | 1 Comment

The Right to Peaceful Protest: against those who abuse human rights

Posted on March 13, 2025 by borderslynn

I am reproducing this piece by Robert Reich. I fear what happened in Nazi Germany and more recently in the Arab Spring may be about to happen in the United States. Who would ever have thought this could become a … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged abuses, American constitution, authoritarian, cruelty, debate, dictatorship, free speech, human rights, occupiers, points of view, Robert Reich, subjugation, unfair imprisonment, universities | Leave a comment

Latest from Global Witness

Posted on September 16, 2024 by borderslynn

Open menu. Global Witness Press release | Sept. 10, 2024 More than 2,100 land and environmental defenders killed globally between 2012 and 2023 Share thisTweetShare FacebookShare LinkedIn Read this content in:FrançaisPortuguêsEspañol Land and environmental defenders An estimated 196 land and … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged big business, climate crisis, criminals, deforestation, dictators, environment, greed, human rights, immoral corporates, killing of activists, mining, planet destruction, river pollution, violence | Leave a comment

1918: Peace not War

Posted on August 2, 2024 by borderslynn

After the horrors of WW1 many countries tried to come together to forge peace. But, somehow, along the way, those who saw the possibility of weapons manufacturing as a means to create jobs and bring wealth, won the arguments. Now, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged arms trade, banks, carnage, contamination, death, destruction, genocide, harm, human rights, international, investors, jobs, land grab, law, murder, occupation, returns, uninhabitable, wealth | Leave a comment

US: Social Democracy coinciding with Jim Crow

Posted on May 20, 2024 by borderslynn

In the US, after WWII, the way to peaceful coexistence between North and Southern States was to exclude any benefit to African Americans, despite their contribution during World War II. https://www.history.com/news/black-soldiers-world-war-ii-discrimination The Republican Right had been opposed to Franklyn D … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1918 to 1950s, Africa, African Americans, American Dream, apartheid, British, complicit in human harm, democracy, discrimination, exclusion, FDR, French, human rights, israel, Jim Crow, Jordan, Kant, League of Nations, left vs right, marginalising, Palestinians, peace, peace vision, polarization, populism, Republicans, socialist, subjugation, utopia, war, welfare state, white supremacy, WW1, WWII | Leave a comment

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