From the Trenches World Report
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By Mohammed Haddad – Aljazeera
In 2024, Israel illegally seized 23.7sq km (9.15 sq miles) of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, amid its ongoing war on Gaza.
That’s more than the land it took over the past 20 years combined. Continue reading “Visualising how Israel keeps stealing Palestinian land”
By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
The Biden administration reinforces its ranks with what some reports see as yet more ardent censorship advocates. Continue reading “Biden Appoints Social Media Censorship Advocate To White House Digital Strategy Team”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
The Daily Wire’s Jordan Peterson on Friday threw a fit on Twitter demanding mass censorship of all anonymous accounts after someone used AI to make fun of him. Continue reading “Jordan Peterson Demands Elon Musk Enact Mass Censorship to Stop People From Making Fun of Him”
Ever wondered where your dollar stretches the least in the U.S.?
States vary significantly when it comes to cost of living, which takes into account expected expenses for essentials like housing, food, and transportation.
In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu maps out the top 10 U.S. states with the highest annual cost of living in 2024. The cost of living figures are based on data calculated by Forbes Advisor.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted he doesn’t know if an Israeli bombing of a tent camp the Israeli military declared a “safe zone” killed Mohammed Deif, Hamas’s senior military commander. Continue reading “Netanyahu Admits He Doesn’t Know If Strikes on Gaza ‘Safe Zone’ Killed Hamas Military Commander”
By Hayden Cunningham – The Postmillennial
Law enforcement officials currently believe that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, acted alone in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. While the investigation is ongoing, and authorities are examining whether any individuals or groups were involved, there is no immediate evidence suggesting Crooks had assistance in his attack. Continue reading “Authorities say gunman likely acted alone in assassination attempt on Donald Trump”
A Texas-based company has started making vending machines for gun ammunition, arguing that this is the safest way to sell it. Continue reading “Gun Ammunition Vending Machines Installed at Grocery Stores in 3 States”
On Wednesday, the new head of the US’s de facto embassy in Taiwan vowed to President William Lai Ching-te that the US would provide strong military support for the island amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing. Continue reading “New Top US Envoy in Taiwan Vows Strong Military Support”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Israel Defense Forces on Thursday finally admitted after nine months of lies that the IDF themselves killed Israeli hostages in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th by firing an RPG into the home they were held in, shelling them repeatedly with a tank and then unloading on them with a hail of bullets. Continue reading “IDF Admits They Killed Israeli Hostages in Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct 7 With Tank Shelling and Hail of Bullets”
Surprise. Surprise. AT&T has revealed a massive hack of customer data for the second time this year. This latest batch of customer data includes “records of customer call and text interactions” that occurred “between approximately May 1 and October 31, 2022, as well as on January 2, 2023,” the company wrote in a regulatory filing Friday.
AT&T said the data does not include “content of calls or texts, personal information such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth, or other personally identifiable information,” but noted the data does include “periods of time, records of calls and texts of nearly all of AT&T’s wireless customers and customers of mobile virtual network operators (“MVNO”) using AT&T’s wireless network.”
By Katie Daviscourt – The Postmillennial
A Disney whistleblower released internal documents to journalist James O’Keefe that revealed the Walt Disney Company has a long history of pushing a radical LGBTQ agenda onto children, specifically during Pride month. Continue reading “Disney co-sponsored naked LGBTQ Pride Parades for kids”
By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
Canada’s government has decided to spend some $146.6 million (CAD 200 million) and employ, full-time, 330 more people to be able to implement the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63). Continue reading “Canada Allocates $146.6M for New Censorship Commission to Enforce Online Harms Act”
On Thursday, Russian officials reacted strongly and vowed to respond to the US announcing that it will deploy missile systems to Germany starting in 2026 that were previously banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Continue reading “Russian Officials Vow Response to US Missile Deployment to Germany”
The Biden administration’s punitive ‘pause’ of arms transfers for certain types of munitions to Israel, namely 500-pound and 2,000-pound bombs, didn’t last very long. As many predicted from the start, it was a mere slap of the wrist ploy for PR purposes to take some pressure off from both European allies abroad and Progressive Democrats at home in the US.
“The U.S. will soon begin shipping to Israel the 500-pound bombs that the Biden administration had previously suspended, ending a two-month pause it had imposed in a bid to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza, U.S. officials said,” according to fresh Wall Street Journal reporting.
By Thomas Stevenson – The Post Millennial
During a conference on Thursday evening for the Ukrainian Compact at the NATO summit in Washington, DC, Biden called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “President Putin” as he introduced the Ukrainian leader. Continue reading “Biden flubs Zelensky introduction, calls him ‘President Putin’ at NATO summit”
NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress (WJC) today commended Meta’s announcement that it will expand its policies to classify the misuse of the term ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for ‘Jews’ as antisemitic and Tier 1 hate speech. This landmark decision, following years of advocacy by the WJC, its affiliated Jewish communities, and other organizations, marks a significant step in combating the veiled antisemitism that has proliferated under the guise of political discourse and has skyrocketed since October 7. Continue reading “World Jewish Congress Praises Meta Policy Decision to Prevent Antisemitic Use of the Term ‘Zionist’”
Wow. After decades of Dr. Stanley Plotkin and his vaccinologist disciples insisting vaccines are the most well studied products on the planet, they just penned an article admitting precisely the opposite. Continue reading “AND LIKE THAT, THE CLAIM VACCINES ARE THE WORLD’S BEST STUDIED PRODUCT DIES”
The Israeli military dropped leaflets telling Palestinians to head south to an area it bombed on the same day. Continue reading “Israel Orders the Evacuation of Gaza City”
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched an investigation into an air traffic control error that resulted in a close-call incident involving two commercial airlines nearly colliding mid-air. The incident occurred around 11:50 am on Monday. The incident was captured by dash camera footage from police in Syracuse, New York. Continue reading “FAA launches investigation into air traffic control error after near-mid-air collision between two commercial planes”