Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 28, 2024

welcome to democracy Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report I'm Amy Goodman President Biden won the Democratic Primary in Michigan despite over 100,000 people casting their ballots for uncommitted as voters took part in a protest over Biden's support for Israel's assault on Gaza Biden won about 81% of the vote in Michigan 13.3% of Voters were uncommitted in recent weeks a number of arab-american groups LED calls urging voters to choose uncommitted the group listened to Michigan had set a goal of 10,000 uncommitted votes but they secured 10 times that number receiving about one sixth of Biden's vote total listen to Mission campaign organizer Lila alabed spoke Tuesday night I can't express enough the amazing team that has come together to put uncommitted on the map as everyone is looking at Michigan in order to save lives I want to remind everyone that a vote uncommitted was a humanitarian vote it was our vote to save as many lives as possible placing third in Michigan was Maran Williamson who supported a ceasefire in Gaza before dropping out of the race Dean Phillips Place fourth many analysts say Biden's support for Israel could result in him losing the Battleground state of Michigan in November in Michigan's Republican primary Donald Trump beat Nikki Haley 68 to 26% Michigan Republicans will also hold a caucus on Saturday during an interview with the Wall Street Journal Nikki Haley warned a trump victory in November could be quote suicide for our country the UN special repur on the right to food has accused Israel of committing war crimes by inten Ally depriving food to Gaza the official Michael fak told the guardian quote Israel's announced its intention to destroy the Palestinian people in whole or in part simply for being Palestinian in my view as a human rights expert this is now a situation of genocide he said this comes as the United Nations is warning a quarter of all Palestinians are one step away from famine Ramesh Roger singam coordination director of the un's humanitarian office spoke Tuesday and here we are at the end of February with at least 576,000 people in Gaza one quarter of the population one step away from famine with one in six children under two years of age in Northern Gaza suffering from acute malnutrition and wasting in Gaza City residents have described dire conditions where children have no food to eat there is no food to feed my children nor is there any bread we came to the point where we are eating tree leaves we are eating the food of this donkey what more do you want you are asking me why did I come here I came because I want to take flour look my leg is broken and I came to take flour I came to take flour you were asking me why did I come I came yesterday and people stepped over me I came today even if I were to die I want to take a bag of flour because I can't feed my children I don't have anything to give my children to eat even if I die I will stay in other developments representatives from Hamas and fat are scheduled to meet in Moscow Thursday to discuss forming a Unified Government the meeting comes just days after the Palestinian prime minister and cabinet resigned amidst pressure by the US and Arab countries in Media news more than 50 prominent broadcast journalists have signed an open letter calling for unfettered access to Gaza signatories on the letter include journalists from the BBC NBC Sky News CNN ABC and CBS in the letter they wrote quote we call on the government of Israel to openly State its permission for international journalists to operate in Gaza and for the Egyptian authorities to allow International journalists access to the Rafa Crossing unquote almost no International journalists have been allowed inside Gaza except when embedded with the Israeli military for the past 5 months the world has relied on the reporting of Palestinian journalists who have been killed by Israeli forces in record numbers by one count over 125 journalists have lost their lives in Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has credited US public support for Israel as being a key factor in allowing Israel to resist calls to end its war on Gaza Netanyahu cited one poll that showed 82% of Americans support Israel Netanyahu said quote this will help us continue the campaign until total Victory unquote other polls have painted a very different picture a recent AP poll found half of us adults said they believe Israel's actions have gone too far netanyahu's comments came after President Biden said Israel will quote lose support from around the world if it quote continues on its current path President Biden hosted Congressional leaders at the White House Tuesday for talks on averting a partial government shutdown and to push for passage of a 95 billion package for Ukraine Israel and Taiwan Republican house Speaker Mike Johnson's refused to schedule a vote on the military aid bill which has already been approved by the senate in public remarks Biden said the consequences of an action on approving money for Ukraine are dire the fifth largest wildfire in Texas history is forced a nuclear weapons facility outside Amarillo to temporarily pause operations Tuesday The Smokehouse Creek Fire has burned more than 300,000 acres of land since Monday evacuations were ordered in parts of Texas and Oklahoma Texas governor Greg Abbotts issued disaster declarations for 60 counties as temperatures have soared across the region on Monday temperatures in Dallas reach 94° fahr heat records have been broken across the Midwest in other climate news US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen met with Brazil's environment Minister Marina Silva sa Paulo Tuesday Silva warned the climate emergency could lead to more global conflict we are living in a context of wars with terrible losses from a humanitarian point of view from an ethical political social economic point of view it is practically unspeakable what is happening in the world with the wars that are happening and obviously that we want peace but in the context of climate change we cannot forget deny the fact that we can have great instabilities if we do not solve the problem of climate change a Russian court has sentenced a longtime human rights activist OLG orof to two and a half years in prison for speaking out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine and taking part in anti-war demonstrations Oraf is a leader of the now liquidated Rights group Memorial which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 and the right livelihood award in 2004 he briefly spoke Tuesday after the sentencing we live in the 21st century those guys are going backwards to 20th 17th and even 16th Unfortunately they are dragging our country with them but we will win anyway in other news from Russia the funeral for Alexi naali will be held in mosc on Friday the Russian opposition leader died nearly two weeks ago in an Arctic prison his wife ulia addressed the European Parliament earlier today in Guinea at least two young protesters were killed Monday as a general strike against military rule paralyzed the capital conri clashes broke out between security forces and demonstrators as guiney's union leaders are demanding an end to Media censorship and lower food and living costs the strike comes one week after the military government which took power in a 2021 coup unexpectedly dissolve the transitional government that had been in place since 2022 seizing the passports of government members and freezing their bank accounts demonstrations in Guinea have been rare since the coup military leaders banned all protests in 2022 and arrested several opposition leaders activists and journalists unions leading the recent strike are also demanding the release of Saku Jamal pessa of the Union of press Professionals of Guinea who was arrested in January in Mexico two mayoral candidates from the state of mitak Khan were killed Monday within hours of each other Miguel anel Zavala and Armando Perez Luna were preparing to begin their campaigns for mayor of maravatio in the coming days when they were gunned down in separate incidents both candidates were found shot to death in their cars many have warned Mexico's upcoming June election could be one of the most violent on record Mitch Aran has been at the center of drug cartel fighting over territorial control zala was a gynecologist running with President Andres Manuel Lopez oor's party morina Luna was the mayoral candidate for the conservative National Action Party in California the city of San Francisco has issued a formal apology to Black residents for supporting policies that perpetuated Decades of racism and discrimination a resolution was unanimously approved by City supervisors Tuesday apologizing to the African-American community and their descendants for quote Decades of systemic and structural discrimination targeted acts of violence atrocities said San Francisco supervisor Walton who was the lead proponent of the resolution and the only black member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors but racial Justice Advocates say an apology is not enough as they continue to pressure San Francisco officials to approve over 100 other proposals for reparations Boston's the only other US city that's issued a similar apology while at least nine other states have formally apologized for slavery and in labor news thousands of hourly workers at a mercedesbenz plant in Vance Alabama have signed Union cards to join the United Auto Workers more than half of some 6,000 workers said they support joining the the union a major victory in one of the largest Mercedes-Benz plants in the United States workers are demanding higher wages and better working conditions in a statement Mercedes worker Jeremy Kimbrell said quote we haven't taken this step Lightly for years we've Fallen further behind while Mercedes has made billions unquote earlier this month the majority of Volkswagen workers at a plant and Chattanooga Tennessee signed cards to join the UAW and those are some of the headlines this is democracy Now democracynow.org the Warren peace report

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Published: Wed Feb 28 2024