Tag: justice

I’m the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky… Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit. Jasmine Mooney There was no explanation, no warning. One minute,… Read More I’m the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

Dilip

US Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Reinstate Tens of Thousands of Federal Workers After ‘Sham’ Mass Firings

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to reinstate tens of thousands of probationary federal employees on Thursday, according to Politico’s Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney. In his ruling, Alsup referred to the mass firings as “unlawful” and a “sham.” Gerstein and Cheney describe Alsup’s order as “one of the most far-reaching rejections of the Trump administration’s effort to slash the bureaucracy… Read More US Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Reinstate Tens of Thousands of Federal Workers After ‘Sham’ Mass Firings

Dilip

Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte arrested in Manila after ICC warrant

Duterte is wanted by the international criminal court over his so-called ‘war on drugs’, which rights groups say left 30,000 people dead Rebecca Ratcliffe The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has been taken into custody after the international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest for his so-called “war on drugs”. The former leader, who… Read More Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte arrested in Manila after ICC warrant

Dilip

Camouflaging Crimes

Every so often at The Caravan, we come across crimes and violations committed by men and women in uniform. In February this year, we reported on the Delhi police’s illegal detention and harassment of students who had been protesting at the Jamia Millia Islamia university. The protest was in response to the university’s attempts to… Read More Camouflaging Crimes

Dilip

Surviving Hard Times

The Last Generation of Black Americans Under Jim Crow and the Culture of Racism in America By Douglas H. White Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President Donald Trump is giving voice to such hate, making it state policy and central to his presidential agenda. Recently,… Read More Surviving Hard Times

Dilip

‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets

Inspired by Che Guevara, Jean Ziegler has spent the past 60 years exposing how Switzerland enabled global wrongdoing. His enemies accuse him of treason Ziegler would use the term “secondary imperialism” to define his country’s modus operandi. This was not the first-order French, British or, later, American imperialism… It was a more discreet kind of… Read More ‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets

Dilip

Nation-states as national homes; and Sir Edwin Montagu’s views on Zionism (1917)

Dilip Simeon NB: This is part of a paper that I wrote in October 2023. Trump’s new declaration that he intends to complete the process of ethnic cleansing is merely the latest and most brazen declaration of the murderous impulses of American imperialism. He and his cronies will meet the same fate of the Presidents… Read More Nation-states as national homes; and Sir Edwin Montagu’s views on Zionism (1917)

Dilip