European Union governments want to be able to spy on reporters in the name of national security, even as lawmakers urge them to crack down on spyware.
EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters
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The Phony War on American Culture
The Phony War on American Culture
Consider how gender is one focus of their culture war campaign. Transgender people hardly affect our personal lives, despite the Republican campaigns to make it a voting issue. In America, only 1.3 million adults and 300,000 children identify as transgender out of a population of 332 million. Only 36 transgender athletes compete in college sports that include over half a million participants. Yet the Republican legislature in Kansas recently banned transgender girls from female high school sports, despite having only three transgender girls out of 41,00 competing in the state. Indeed, they should be respected and accommodated in some way. Yet, GOP legislators are considering a flood of bills to restrict transgender behavior, flooding email boxes with requests for donations, blasting isolated events on Fox News, and making them campaign issues.
Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power
U.S. Special Operations forces are not required to vet for past human rights violations by the foreign troops they arm and train as surrogates, newly disclosed documents show.
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The irregular warfare program has provided training to allied forces in countries that face a threat of invasion by larger neighbors, the senior Defense Department official said. The Washington Post has reported that an irregular warfare proxy program in Ukraine was terminated just before the Russian invasion, and that some officials want to restart it.
Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power
Pro-ISIS fighter in Ukraine received UK missiles and ‘SAS training’
A convicted torturer and supporter of Islamic State obtained British and US rocket launchers and claims to have been instructed by the SAS.
Pro-ISIS fighter in Ukraine received UK missiles and ‘SAS training’
Previously:
[05.31.2022] “These are animals, not people”: Zelensky frees convicted child rapists, torturers to reinforce depleted military
Bannon, Guo, Yan: Where a Populist Right Idol Gets His Funding
As we roll into the 2024 political season, you can rest assured the political right will be posturing more and more against China, while rightfully calling for an end to Ukraine aid. This trend was highlighted by a long line of recent Republican congressional and senatorial candidates (Joe Kent, Blake Masters, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, J.D. Vance, Mehmet Oz, etc).
Bannon, Guo, Yan: Where a Populist Right Idol Gets His Funding (archived)
Mind-blowing: the French State is relocating political repression
the DGSI subcontracts to London
read a brief evocation on April 18, found it difficult to believe, until a first French article [English] in the evening, in Libération.
Mind-blowing: the French State is relocating political repression
Prosecutors urge no bail for Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui in fraud case
NEW YORK — A judge should reject bail for a wealthy self-exiled Chinese businessman charged in a $1 billion fraud case because he’s already trying to obstruct justice from jail, and can flee or do harm if he is freed, no matter how stringent his bail conditions, prosecutors said Monday.
Prosecutors urge no bail for Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui in fraud case
US could carry out its first military execution in over 60 years
A former soldier on military death row for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, could face execution after the nation’s top military court hears the case.
US could carry out its first military execution in over 60 years
Haunted by the Story of John Bennett and Other Black Soldiers’ Lives on Death Row
For years, I have carried around in my head a haunting tale—that of a handsome young black army soldier named John Arthur Bennett, and what occurred along a snowy winter creek in Austria and deep in the bowels of death row basement at the army’s Fort Leavenworth prison.
Haunted by the Story of John Bennett and Other Black Soldiers’ Lives on Death Row
ICC issues arrest warrant against Putin as part of US-NATO propaganda campaign for regime change
On Friday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, for alleged war crimes.
ICC issues arrest warrant against Putin as part of US-NATO propaganda campaign for regime change
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