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‘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.

Campaign Nonviolence Action Days In Challenging Times

For 12 years, Campaign Nonviolence has worked with tens of thousands of people to build a culture of active nonviolence. Looking at the devastating violence in our world — from racism to war to poverty to the climate crisis — we asked people to join us in engaging the transformative power of nonviolence in our lives, communities and society.  Thousands of groups joined in. Over the years, they’ve marched against gun violence. Created zones of peace in violence-prone areas. Shut down military bases. Trained thousands of students in anti-bullying practices. Held racial healing circles. Distributed tens of thousands of meals in mutual aid. Pressured banks to divest from fossil fuels and weapons. And so much more. 

Syria: Nearly 10,000 Killed Since West-Friendly Militants Seized Power

The SOHR reported on Thursday that “due to ongoing violence by local and foreign militants,” at least 9,889 people had been killed since 8 December 2024, the day Damascus fell under the controversial rule of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militant group. The SORH said that 7,449 civilians were among the victims, including 396 children and 541 women. It also stressed that there has been no accountability for killings carried out by members of HTS-affiliated armed factions. This is while “in some cases, perpetrators are being covered up and facts are being distorted.”

Solidarity Statement For Gaza From Wolastoqewi-Mothers, Grandmothers, And Aunties

As Wolastoqewi-Mothers, Grandmothers, and Aunties—keepers of life, memory, and spirit—we speak today not out of anger, but out of deep sorrow and responsibility. Our teachings remind us that every child is sacred, that land is not a possession but a living relative, and that dignity belongs to all peoples, no matter how far from our own homeland they may be. We have long followed a path of non-interference, respecting the sovereignty and self-determination of other nations. This is a principle that has allowed us to survive, to heal, and to remain rooted in our own identity. Yet, there are moments in history when silence becomes too heavy to bear.

Detainment Of Chris Smalls: White Supremacy At The Core Of Zionism

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally denounces the brutal assault and abduction of Amazon Labor Union co-founder Chris Smalls, who was detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Though he is now released, the exceptionally heinous treatment of Smalls by the Zionist state forces demonstrates the historical neurotic fear of any interconnection between Black / African resistance to white supremacy and resistance to capitalist exploitation. As part of the 21-member international collective aboard the aid ship Handala, a flotilla that was headed to Gaza to protest and break the blockade on the Palestinian people collectively being starved to death, Smalls was the only member of the group beaten and choked by IDF agents.

Colombia’s Courts Finds Álvaro Uribe Guilty After 13-Year Judicial Process

On Monday, Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia, 44th judge of the Bogotá criminal court, found former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez guilty of witness bribery and procedural fraud. The verdict concludes a 13-year judicial process fraught with political tensions, complex evidence, and heated debate over the independence of Colombia’s judiciary. At the hearing’s start, Heredia sent a forceful message to the country: “The wait is over. We want to tell Colombia that justice has arrived.” The judge called this one of the most significant moments in recent judicial history.

West Bank On The Brink

Israel is meticulously following a textbook model of instigating unrest in the occupied West Bank. The latest such provocations consisted of stripping the Palestinian-run Hebron (Al-Khalil) municipality of its administrative powers over the venerable Ibrahimi Mosque. Worse, according to Israel Hayom, it granted these powers to the religious council of the Kiryat Arba Jewish settlement, an extremist settler body. Though all Jewish settlers in occupied Palestine can be qualified as extremists, the approximately 7,500 inhabitants of Kiryat Arba represent a more virulent category.
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