From the Trenches World Report
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By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
Canada’s authorities want to speed up the process of adoption of a sweeping censorship law, Online Harms Act/Bill C-63 – and to that effect, it has now been split into two separate bills. Continue reading “Canada Splits Online “Harms” Bill to Speed Up Controversial Censorship Push”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Israel launched over 480 strikes across Syria in the two days following their “liberation” from Bashar al-Assad, destroying their air defense systems, long-range missiles, weapons stockpiles, airfields, anti-aircraft batteries, drones, fighter jets, naval vessels, tanks and weapon production sites to ensure the former regional threat remains a rump state forever. Continue reading “Israel Bombs Syria Back to the Stone Age in Wake of Jihadi ‘Liberation’ from Assad”
By Katie Daviscourt and Ari Hoffman – The Postmillennial
A Seattle Public Schools vice principal has been arrested on prostitution charges during a major child sex trafficking operation. Alex Diaz Rios, 29, was taken into custody by Renton Police on September 24 and has been charged with one count of patronizing a prostitute after soliciting a 15-year-old boy. He pleaded not guilty to the charges on November 13, court documents show. Continue reading “Seattle vice principal among 7 arrested during undercover child sex trafficking operation”
By Alex Oliveira and Craig McCarthy – NY Post
A New Jersey congressman claimed Wednesday that the mystery drones over the Garden State are from Iran, and they’re being launched by a mothership parked off the East Coast. Continue reading “Mystery NJ drones are coming from Iranian mothership offshore, congressman suggests: ‘Should be shot down’”
The Israeli military has pushed further into Syrian territory and is said to be only 25km from Damascus Continue reading “Israel Says It Launched 480 Strikes in Syria Since Fall of Assad”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Luigi Mangione’s one-page “manifesto” was published online Tuesday by Ken Klippenstein, who said major media outlets have had it in their possession but have refused to publish it without even providing a reason why. Continue reading “Luigi Mangione Laments Poor State of American Healthcare in Leaked ‘Manifesto’”
On Tuesday, the US announced that it disbursed a $20 billion loan for Ukraine that will be paid back using interest earned on frozen Russian Central Bank assets, a step that marks an escalation of the Western economic war against Russia. Continue reading “US Disburses $20 Billion Loan for Ukraine That Will Be Repaid Using Russian Assets”
By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
Canada’s Manitoba province government is looking into changing its election law to include combating various forms of “disinformation,” Canadian media is reporting. Continue reading “Manitoba Could Rewrite Election Rules in the Name of Fighting “Disinformation””
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Israel First Rep. Brian Mast (R) of Florida, who wears his Israel Defense Forces uniform to Congress, is set to become the next chair of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee thanks to a “push” from President-elect Donald Trump. Continue reading “Rep. Brian Mast, Who Wears His IDF Uniform to Congress, to be Next House Foreign Affairs Chair”
Extremist armed factions across Syria are carrying out executions of civilians and soldiers amid the chaos following the fall of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Al-Mayadeen reports on Tuesday that a video circulating on social media shows armed militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Al-Qaeda offshoot that took control of Damascus on Saturday, carrying out field executions of unarmed men in the village of al-Rabia in the countryside of Latakia.
Continue reading “Extremist Groups Carry Out Revenge, Sectarian Killings In HTS-Controlled Syria”
Watch reporters laugh after Miller says they support the ICC.@nadia_bilbassy: President said that Assad should be held accountable, will you support his application to stand in front of the ICC as a war criminal
Miller: We support the work of the ICC, obviously we have… pic.twitter.com/tN8IXma5KL
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) December 9, 2024
By David Krayden – The Post Millennial
The Supreme Court missed an opportunity Monday to reiterate the ascendancy of the Second Amendment over local culture and quash Hawaii’s “spirit of Aloha” ruling that rejected the essential right to bear arms when they declined intervene in a case that challenged the state’s ban on carrying firearms in public without a permit. Continue reading “Supreme Court declines to intervene in case that upholds Hawaii’s ‘spirit of Aloha’ over 2A rights”
Today, Israel bombed Gaza and Lebanon. It also bombed Syria. Unbelievable violation of the Vienna convention and Palestine and Lebanon and Syria sovereignty.
Only Israel can invade and occupy three countries without any consequences under international law. pic.twitter.com/dzyRb8x8kY
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) December 8, 2024
A Biden-Harris Administration information paper explains that “our country is facing an unprecedented mental health crisis impacting people of all ages. In 2021, two in five American adults reported experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression and forty-four percent of high school students reported struggling with persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness.” Continue reading “School-Based Mental Health Diagnosing, A Prescription for Disaster”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Daniel Penny on Monday was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely and is now a free man. Continue reading “Jury Finds Daniel Penny Not Guilty in Death of Jordan Neely”
On Monday, the US State Department backed Israel’s seizure of territory in Syria that came after the collapse of the government of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, framing it as a defensive action. Continue reading “US Backs Israel’s Land Grab in Syria”
By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is an advocate of a range of controversial policies he these days promotes through his foundation – from much-scrutinized agriculture practices, aggressive vaccination, and digital ID crusades, to now endorsing online age verification. Continue reading “Bill Gates Pushes for Age Verification Digital ID”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who worked as a software engineer, was arrested Monday morning on gun charges and named as a “strong person of interest” in connection to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Continue reading “Luigi Mangione, Ex-Ivy League Student, Arrested in Connection to Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO”
Yet another gruesome gang horror has played out in Haiti, as at least 184 people — most of them elderly — were variously slashed, hacked or shot to death on the orders of a warlord who’d been advised that aging slum residents had used sorcery to give his son a severe illness. Interim Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé called it “a barbaric act of unbearable cruelty.” Continue reading “180 Dead: Haitian Warlord Orders Massacre Of Elderly For Using ‘Sorcery’ To Sicken Son”
By Ari Hoffman – The Post Millennial
Late Monday night, New York prosecutors charged Luigi Mangione with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. This comes after he was taken into custody in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Continue reading “Luigi Mangione charged with murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO”