Running Out of Excuses, Colltalers
Rare protests erupted in Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, triggered by anger at China’s repressive Covid policies. As the World Cup dominates the sports headlines, attention is slowly turning to the fate of the estimated thousands of migrant workers killed constructing Qatar’s stadiums and infrastructure.
Trump’s tax records, which he’s been fighting to keep away from the public, may be reviewed by the House, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. But given its recent history, don’t hold your breath just yet. Iran’s abhorrent “Morality Police” is using rape to silence and traumatize for life an entire generation.
Let’s begin in Brazil, where a 16-year-old killed three and wounded 13 in two schools in Aracruz, Espírito Santo state. The uncommon attack follows two other school shootings in the past six months. The suspect, who wore military attire with a swastika pinned to his bulletproof vest, is in custody. Presidente Bolsonaro is a supporter of the new gun culture emerging in the country and Brazilians now purchase more than a thousand weapons a day.
In Ukraine, a winter without power may be even more devastating than the Russian shelling, which now seems directed at disabling the country’s vital infrastructure. But when President Zelenskyy said that Kyiv residents were not getting what they need, local hero Mayor Klitschko, a former world heavyweight champion, took issue. “This is not nice. Not for Ukrainians or for our foreign partners,” Klitschko said of his political rival’s allegations.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban have reinstated public floggings as a form of criminal punishment, and 14 people got beat up this week. “Public flogging of women and men is a cruel and shocking return to out-and-out hardline practices by the Taliban,” said Amnesty International’s activist Samira Hamid.
In the U.K., two Just Stop Oil protesters were found guilty of criminal damage to an 18th-century frame. Emily Brocklebank and Louis McKechnieentered London’s Courtauld Gallery in June and glued their hands Continue reading