New statistics from the U.S. Crisis Monitor and the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) show that police used violence against leftwing protesters three times as often as [.]
HuffPost reports David Frederick, a partner at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, can boast some solid progressive victories in the U.S. Supreme Court. He represented Tyson Foods workers in a successful wage theft case, took on tobacco titan Altria over false claims of “safer” cigarettes, and argued against a BP gas facility in Delaware, to name but a handful of the at least 50 cases Frederick has argued before the nation’s highest court.
However, Frederick also defended Shell against lawsuits seeking to hold the company which has known about the dangers of anthropogenic climate change since at least the 1980s legally liable for the damage it has caused. Frederick argued that such suits have no legitimate legal grounds and should be dismissed. He further asserted that Shell could only be sued for climate issues in the Netherlands, where the company is based.
Manhattan federal judge enjoins Trump from vendetta against human rights lawyers
by Brett Wilkins Common Dreams
A federal judge in New York on Monday issued an injunction against President Donald Trump’s June executive order sanctioning human rights lawyers cooperating with an International Criminal Court investigation of alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan.
US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Manhattan issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from targeting four law professors with criminal or civil penalties for supporting the work of the ICC in its investigation of alleged extrajudicial killing, torture, rape, and other potential war crimes committed by military and CIA personnel and allied forces during the ongoing 19-year war in Afghanistan the longest campaign of the so-called War on Terror.
Fukushima nuclear clean-up hugely affected by discovery of lethal radiation levels
Lethal Levels of Radiation Found in Damaged Fukushima Reactor Will Have ‘Huge Impact’ on Shutdown, Regulators Warn https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/30/lethal-levels-radiation-found-damaged-fukushima-reactor-will-have-huge-impact
The radiation levels reported around shield plugs at two reactors are high enough to kill a worker exposed for even an hour.
In what Japanese regulators on Wednesday called an “extremely serious” development, lethal levels of radiation have been recorded inside the damaged reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, threatening the shutdown and decommissioning of the site of the second-worst peacetime nuclear disaster in history.”This will have a huge impact on the whole process of decommissioning work.”
Investigative reporting details massacres, reign of terror by U.S.-backed death squads in Afghanistan
By Brett Wilkins, CommonDreams.org
The Americans, said the head of one provincial government, ‘step on all the rules of war, human rights, all the things they said they’d bring to Afghanistan,’ and are ‘conducting themselves as terrorists.’
An extraordinary investigation by Australian journalist Andrew Quilty published Dec. 18 by
The Intercept reveals U.S.-backed Afghan government paramilitary death squads have been waging a campaign of terror targeting civilians including children in Wardak province as part of the American military occupation of the nation that began nearly two decades ago.