From the Trenches World Report
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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’”
By Cindy Harper – Reclaimthenet.org
In 2020, as the reaction to the Covid pandemic tightened its global grip, the administration of Minnesota’s Democratic Governor, Tim Walz, controversially initiated a hotline encouraging citizens to report non-compliant neighbors, opening a Pandora’s box of surveillance reminiscent of dystopian literature. Continue reading “Walz’s 2020 Covid Snitch Hotline Sparks Debate Amid VP Bid”
By Umar A Farooq – Middle East Eye
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ team has publicly disavowed suggestions that she is open to an arms embargo on Israel, a day after progressive activists described an “openness” from the vice president to discuss regulating military aid to Israel. Continue reading “Kamala Harris aides reject Israel arms embargo, refuting ‘Uncommitted’ activists”
By Thomas Stevenson – The Post Millennial
Kamala Harris’ choice for VP candidate Tim Walz backed giving illegal immigrants free tuition at Minnesota colleges, signing the measure into law as the state’s governor in 2023. According to a report from the SCRIPPS News, in 2023 an omnibus education bill that was signed a bill into law by Walz, the “North Star Promise” program allowed for illegal immigrants to apply for free college tuition within the Minnesota State and University of Minnesota school systems if their families make less than $80,000 a year. Continue reading “Tim Walz backs plan for taxpayers to fund college tuition for illegal immigrants”
Bodycam footage from local Pennsylvania police reveal that in the moments after last month’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump, an officer says he told the Secret Service to cover the warehouse used by shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks.
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Vice President Kamala Harris shouted down a group of pro-Palestine activists at a rally in Detroit on Wednesday, ordering them to shut their damn mouths while she is speaking. Continue reading ““I’M SPEAKING!” Kamala Harris Pivots From “I See You and I Hear You” on Palestine”
Authorities in the UK are now arresting people for posting “inaccurate information” on social media, according to a new report.
Sky News reports that a woman has been arrested by Cheshire Police for posting “inaccurate information on social media” about the attacker who stabbed three girls to death in Southport last week. Continue reading “UK Authorities Now Arresting People For Posting “Inaccurate Information” On Social Media”
By David Krayden – The Post Millennial
National banks continue to shut down branches at an alarming rate, with more than 30 locations being shuttered in just two weeks in July, the Daily Mail reports. Banks closing branches include Chase, Bank of America, PNC, Axiom Bank, Capitol, Citizens, Dollar Bank, Lemont, Wells Fargo and Zions Bancorporation. Continue reading “Major US banks shutter 33 locations in just 2 weeks”
By Andrew Lapin – Times of Israel
In 2005, a high school geography teacher in rural Mankato, Minnesota, arrived at a politics boot camp named for a progressive Jewish senator, where he honed his skills in grassroots organizing and voter outreach. Continue reading “How a progressive boot camp founded by Jews helped Tim Walz become a politician”
By Alex MacDonald – Middle East Eye
A group of religious Israelis have been pictured practising the ritual of the red heifer, which is meant to herald the building of a new Jewish temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Continue reading “Israelis practise red heifer ritual in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque”
Instead of doing its job, the United Nations has “surrendered to the power of the US” and given in to the “Israeli lobby” while the “European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase,” the senior official claimed. Continue reading “Top UN Official Resigns over Failure to Stop ‘Genocide’ in Gaza”
By Ken Macon – Reclaim The Net
In the wake of recent riots in the UK, Tobias Ellwood, former lawmaker, British Army reservist and a senior officer in the 77th Brigade, has voiced strong opinions on the role of social media in fueling public disorder. Ellwood, known for his previous support of vaccine passports and online vaccine certificate databases, emphasized the alleged negative impacts of online anonymity in a recent interview. Continue reading “UK Riots Are Used To Call For End To Online Anonymity”
The US is ready to guarantee that it would allow Israel to restart the genocidal war in Gaza after the first phase of any hostage and ceasefire deal that might be reached with Hamas, according to Israeli media reports. Continue reading “US To Let Israel Restart Military Operations in Gaza After First Phase of Ceasefire Deal”
Egypt has just issued a rare and oddly specific NOTAM, or Notice to Air Missions alert, instructing all of its airlines to avoid Iranian airspace for a 3-hour period in the overnight and early morning hours of Thursday. Some other countries have since followed in issuing similar do not fly alerts, including the UK.
“All Egyptian carriers shall avoid overflying Tehran. No flight plan will be accepted overflying such territory,” the notice says. Specifically the instructions are valid from 01:00 to 04:00GMT (or 9pm to 12am US Eastern). Will the big expected Iranian retaliation be tonight? Zero hour may be approaching fast.
By Hayden Cunningham – The Postmillennial
Bloomberg made a stealth edit made to an article about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who was selected as Kamala Harris’ running mate. The edit changed a reference to Walz’s military service location from Iraq to Italy, with no explanation provided in the editor’s note as to why the change was made. Continue reading “Bloomberg stealth edits article that falsely stated Tim Walz served in Iraq with National Guard—he served in Italy”
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Monday that Ukraine had received $3.9 billion from the US in the form of “direct budgetary aid,” which is disbursed directly to the Ukrainian government through the World Bank. Continue reading “US Gives Ukraine $3.9 Billion in ‘Direct Budgetary Aid’”