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As Trial Begins In Vermont, Palestinian Shooting Victims Remain Brave

On September 14, 2026, the attempted murder trial of Jason Eaton opened in Burlington, Vermont. Eaton is accused of shooting three young Palestinian men in that city on November 25, 2023 and has pled not guilty by reason of insanity. The mental fitness of the three victims, however, is unquestionable after hearing their testimony on Monday. And so is their moral fortitude. Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Aliahmad grew up together in Ramallah, Palestine, where they were classmates in a Quaker School. In 2023 they were all students at various colleges in the northeastern United States, with either U.S. citizenship or permanent residency. 

Violence Against Muslims Exacerbated By Islamophobes In Media

In February 2007, the highbrow National Book Critics Circle nominated, for Best Book in the Field of Criticism, a book called While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within, widely viewed as denigrating an entire religious group, including by previous nominee Eliot Weinberger, who called it “racism as criticism.” The book didn’t win, but its serious recognition in high literary circles highlighted the mainstreaming of Islamophobia. FAIR produced a report looking at the media. We called it Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation. 

What Can Cities Learn From Baltimore’s Decline In Violence?

When Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott proposed his signature violence reduction strategy in 2021, he was asking community members to believe that an effort that had already failed — twice — could work if the city tried again. Baltimore had tried versions of the strategy, known as focused deterrence, in the 1990s and in 2014. The approach — often oversimplified as a “carrot-and-stick” tactic for violence prevention — aims to identify the small number of people most likely to be involved in shootings and offer them both help and the promise of legal consequences if violence continues.

Euro-Med Monitor Closes Offices In Gaza After Threats

After 15 years of carrying out essential fieldwork in the Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) has closed its Gaza office. The decision was taken as a precautionary measure, in response to recent Israeli occupation threats, smear campaigns, and actions targeting the organisation and its staff. Maha Hussaini, Euro-Med Monitor’s head of media, manages the Gaza office. Herself and her Gaza team have received threats, including death threats via social media and phone calls. There have also been multiple hacking attempts of Euro-Med Monitor’s website.

ICE Tweets Are So Racist, Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence

Colorado law enforcement officials warned their counterparts across the country that social media posts by the Department of Homeland Security recruiting for ICE contained so many white supremacist themes that they could endanger the public, according to internal records obtained by The Intercept. The Colorado Information Analysis Center cautioned in a March bulletin that “violent extremists” might perceive “White Supremacy Ideology in ICE Recruitment Materials, Leading to a Potentially Increased Threat Environment.” The bulletin from an agency tasked with preventing terrorism advised law enforcement offices throughout the United States that these posts could create a “permissive environment to engage in vigilante action and/or violence against individuals perceived to be immigrants.”

Gaza Flotilla Activists Recount ‘Super Sadistic’ Torture, Sexual Abuse During Abduction In Israel

International activists with the Global Sumud Flotilla revealed upon their arrival in Turkiye on 21 May that they were subjected to sexual abuse and torture during their abduction in Israel. Survivors reported prolonged beatings, starvation, and degrading strip searches, with reports of rape and sexual assault. Arriving in Istanbul, the activists bore clear signs of torture and mistreatment with swollen hands, broken bones, and severely bruised by the violence. Footage captured upon their arrival showed detainees displaying their injuries, one removing a scarf to reveal painful wounds sustained in custody.

‘Worthy Children Of Heroes, Martyrs:’ How Nicaragua Cultivates Peace

“I thought they were going to kill us. The bullets were flying past our house, and I was so afraid a stray one would hit us,” Socorro tells me. She’s recounting a gang fight that took place more than a decade ago right outside the walls of mismatched metal sheeting that surround her garden near Managua. “My granddaughter was small at the time, I ran with her and hid behind a barrel, thinking it was full and that the water would help protect us. But the joke was on me, the barrel was empty!” Socorro cackles, today able to laugh at the narrow escape.

The Night The Protests In Iran Were Co-Opted By Outside Forces

In early January 2026 I’m in southwest Iran to see my grandparents for Sizdah Rajab, the birthday of Imam Ali — our Father’s Day. There have been countrywide protests over the economy for the past two weeks. I’m worried that they might turn deadly — an infiltration is likelier now after the June onslaught than it has ever been. A former American official wished “a happy new year” to the “Mossad agents” walking next to Iranian protestors.  But there’s enough calm to keep us bound to our community: aunts, uncles, and cousins, those of us who have left for life in Tehran, are all home.

Veterans Call To Action: ICE Out Of Our Cities!

Veterans For Peace is outraged at the murders of three civilians by ICE agents, the first being Keith Porter who was killed by an off-duty ICE agent, then Renee Good who was killed in her vehicle, and most recently Alex Pretti – a VA nurse – who was killed on the sidewalk for legally and lawfully expressing his Constitutionally protected first amendment right to film operations. ICE and other militarized federal agents have been allowed to act with impunity for over a year, and this has culminated in harassment, bloodshed, and summary executions of US citizens simply for exercising Constitutional rights.

The New Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

We face a difficult question: what happens when the asset bubble pops and savings prove far less dependable than we assumed? What happens when things get worse? How should we prepare for the psychological, financial, discriminatory, and violent upheaval that approaches like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? In my header, Esme Washington watches from her Main Street salon as Thiel, Musk, Fink, and Trump charge down the street as symbols of an economic breakdown. These threats are intertwined because collapse will be experienced as a chain reaction. Bills and financial strain drives stress and family instability.

Immigration Agents Are Using Banned Moves That Cut Off Breathing

Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns. An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold, wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later. A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed; she then appeared to pass out. An agent in Massachusetts jabbed his finger and thumb into the neck and arteries of a young father who refused to be separated from his wife and 1-year-old daughter. The man’s eyes rolled back in his head and he started convulsing.

The Police Can’t And Won’t Protect Us From ICE

As protests against ICE and the killing of Renee Nicole Good and Keith Potter continue around the country, the Trump administration is sending an additional 1,000 ICE agents to Minnesota and threatening to use the Insurrection Act as he prepares to send in the military.   In response, many moderates in the Democratic Party and in the media have proposed using local police to try to protect residents and rein in ICE. For example, on Morning Joe, just a couple days ago, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer said Democrats have talked with “police officers around the country and they know that ICE is “…so totally untrained in police doctrine; they don’t know what to do or how to do it.”

Iran Says Over 100 Security, Police Forces Killed By Armed Rioters

Over 100 members of the Iranian security forces have been killed by violent, foreign-backed rioters since the start of the unrest across the country late last month, local media reports said on 11 January. According to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency, the number stands at 109 security personnel. This includes eight members of Iran’s FARAJA Special Forces Units. “The servicemen were martyred after swarms of violent rioters attacked them by firing bullets and hitting the law enforcement forces with various weapons,” said the commander of the special forces General Masoud Mosaddeq.

Anti-Government Protests In Mexico Exposed As Destabilization Plot

A right-wing, billionaire-backed and violent demonstration was held in Mexico City on November 15 against President Claudia Sheinbaum. Corporate media in the United States portrayed the protests as Gen Z taking a stand against corruption, but the march had all the makings of a US-backed destabilization effort. Clearing the FOG speaks with Jose Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth, co-hosts of the public TV program Sin Muros and the podcast Soberania, about the protests, who is behind them, the achievements of the Fourth Transformation and the risks of US aggression in the region.

Clutching At Pearls, The World’s Largest Criminal Enterprise, The US, Cracks Down On Crime

Sociologists correlate high homicide rates to high unemployment and poverty rates; known historically as the Black Belt, Chicago’s predominantly African American South side is home to both. Characterized by disinvestment schemes such as tax increment financing districts which divert property tax money from the neighborhoods to white elephant projects that benefit the wealthy, southside Chicago was also home to the late police commander, Jon Burge, whose detectives extracted confessions from more than 100 people, mostly Black, by shocking them with cattle prods, smothering them with plastic typewriter covers and pointing guns in their mouths while pretending to play Russian roulette.
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