From the Trenches World Report
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By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
The UK authorities and the media either willing to or feeling pressure to take their cues from the government, continue to assert that the root cause of the serious rioting that hit the country this month is to be found on – social media. Continue reading “Specialist UK Police Teams Target “Hate” on Social Media”
The Oregon National Guard is sending off 230 guardsmen to Iraq and Syria amid soaring tensions in the Middle East as the US is pledging to defend Israel from an expected Iranian reprisal attack. Continue reading “Oregon National Guard Sends Off 230 Soldiers to Iraq and Syria”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday “reiterated the United States’ commitment to take every possible step to defend Israel” after the Jewish state bombed another school in Gaza and conducted yet another “unhelpful” assassination. Continue reading “U.S. Accelerates Military Deployment to Middle East as Israel Bombs Another School”
The largest home improvement retailer in the US beat second-quarter earnings and sales expectations but lowered its comparable sales and profit forecasts for the year. This aligns with our ongoing theme of an emerging consumer slowdown. Continue reading “Home Depot Slashes Sales, Profit Outlook As Higher Rates “Pressure Demand””
By David Krayden – The Post Millennial
A report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association has revealed that while there was an overall six percent decline in violent crime among 69 American cities during the first half of 2024 when compared to the same period in 2023, some major cities have seen an increase in homicides. Continue reading “Homicides rise in Atlanta, Charlotte, Minneapolis, Omaha, Raleigh: report”
Vermont’s Supreme Court has ruled that schools in the state can begin vaccinating children without the knowledge or consent of their parents. Continue reading “Vermont Schools Can Vaccinate Children against Parents’ Wishes, State Supreme Court Rules”
By Miles Dilworth – The Daily Mail
San Francisco’s glitzy hotels have been plunged into massive debt following a dramatic drop off in tourism to the Golden Gate City.
The Californian city’s two biggest hotels, the Hilton Parc 55 and Hilton San Francisco Union Square, have lost a combined $1billion in value, according to the Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
The State Department said Friday that the US will continue providing military aid to an Israeli military unit that was responsible for the death of 78-year-old Palestinian American Omar Assad. Continue reading “US To Keep Funding Israeli Military Unit That Killed Elderly Palestinian American”
By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
Under Louisiana’s new, recently enacted law (HB 173), journalists and other citizens are limited in their right to film the police. Continue reading “Louisiana’s New Law Sparks First Amendment Showdown”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is rounding up Brits and launching a totalitarian crackdown in response to last week’s fiery but mostly peaceful protests over a Rwandan teen stabbing three British girls to death. Continue reading “UK Govt Threatens to Extradite Americans for ‘Incitement,’ Censor ‘Legal But Harmful’ Content”
By Lubna Masarwa – Middle East Eye
At least 100 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, were killed at dawn on Saturday after Israeli forces targeted a school in Gaza City whilst displaced people performed morning prayers. Continue reading “Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 100 people during dawn prayers”
By ARMAGEDDON PROSE – Zerohedge
When I was younger in 2010, during a brief stint as an English teacher in Saudi Arabia that didn’t end harmoniously for the involved parties, I was struck by the fact that I could buy cigarettes from the corner store in dollars. Continue reading “BRICS Alternative Currency Near Realization, American Empire Death Imminent?”
The parents of a former student at Tualatin High School in Oregon have filed a lawsuit against the school district, alleging that the district failed to protect their disabled daughter from being raped in a gender-neutral school bathroom during school hours. Continue reading “Parents sue Oregon school district after student raped in gender neutral bathroom”
Israel has targeted 13 shelter centers in Gaza since the beginning of August alone, the Civil Defense spokesman in the Palestinian enclave, Mahmoud Basal, said on Saturday. Continue reading “‘Peak of Criminality’ – 13 Schools Turned Shelters Targeted in Gaza by Israel in August alone”
By Cindy Harper – Reclaimthenet.org
Facebook has decided to block user access to posts containing the viral #XX hashtag following the ongoing debate over gender eligibility in women’s Olympic boxing in Paris. Continue reading “Facebook Takes Sides in Olympic Gender Debate as #XX Hashtag is Blocked”
President Joe Biden signed a bill on April 24th that would ban TikTok, the shortform video app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, if the company doesn’t sell the platform off within a year. Continue reading “TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform”
London’s Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well. Continue reading “UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over online posts: ‘We’ll come after you’”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube who championed deplatforming and censorship as a tool of social engineering, died of lung cancer at age 56 on Friday. Continue reading “Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies at 56 of Lung Cancer”
By Zainab Al Mashat and Omar Al Jaffal – The Guardian
A draft law in Iraq that would allow the marriage of girls as young as nine has provoked protests across the country, with women’s rights activists saying it would “legalise child rape”. Continue reading “Draft Iraqi law allowing 9-year-olds to marry would ‘legalise child rape’, say activists”
A new study by a team of Canadian researchers into excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic found that patterns of excess death globally could not be explained by the virus, including long COVID. Continue reading “HealthNew Study of 125 Countries Finds No Evidence COVID Vaccines Provided ‘Any Benefit’”