From the Trenches World Report

Mint Press News – by Whitney Webb

For over a decade, pro-Israel and ultra-nationalist Israeli settler groups have sought to weaponize the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, through concerted covert editing campaigns, offering Wikipedia editing courses to West Bank settlers and even formal alliances between Israel and Wikipedia to allow Israelis to create and edit content in a variety of languages.  Continue reading “How a Small Group of Pro-Israel Activists Blacklisted MintPress on Wikipedia”

Yahoo News

A 65-year-old woman was tasered after fleeing then kicking out at a police officer who stopped her over a broken light.

Debra Hamil, from Oklahoma, has been charged after body camera footage showed her resisting arrest during the confrontation in the town of Cashion last month.  Continue reading “Woman, 65, tasered by police after fleeing then kicking officer who stopped her over broken light”

New Hampshire Union Leader – by Jason Schreiber

Continue reading “Hampton officer resigns following arrest for DWI, allegedly reported for duty intoxicated”

Air Force Magazine – by Rachel Cohen

Only six of the Air Force’s 61 B-1 bombers are fully mission-capable, a South Dakota senator said July 30. 

The B-1 fleet is in the midst of an intensive slate of maintenance work and upgrades. Of the 61 jets, 15 are in depot maintenance and 39 aircraft are down for inspections or other issues, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for Gen. John Hyten, the US Strategic Command chief who is under consideration to become vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.   
Continue reading “Senator: About 10 Percent of B-1s are Fully Combat-Ready”

Reuters – by Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) – More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.  Continue reading “Bulk of Trump’s U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers -advocacy group”

Rense.com – by Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael

The following passages are from Dr. Raphael’s book Jews and Judaism in the United States: A Documentary History (New York: Behrman House, Inc., Pub, 1983), pp. 14, 23-25.

“Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade; indeed, the bylaws of the Recife and Mauricia congregations (1648) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos for each Negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday. Continue reading “Jewish Involvement In Black Slave Trade To The Americas”

Desert Peace – by Evelyn Hecht-Galinski

No, the story can not be covered up, every attempt is doomed to failure in the long run. Even though the “Jewish State” maintains the most efficient “cover-up center”, the secretive security section of the Zionist “War Department” for “blue-and-white washing”. (1) The documents about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the evidence of expulsion, deportations of about 800,000 Palestinians, massacres, rape, raids and destruction by the “Jewish Defense Army” at the founding of the state on its murderous way to the Judaisierung, one wants again to the secret thing do. Thanks to the Israeli daily Haaretz, this attempt, which has been going on for years, to make the Nakba (catastrophe) disappear into secret archives, has been uncovered. (2)  Continue reading “Uncovering The Attempts To Steal All Of Palestinian Land”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

During the July 30 Democrat Debate Bernie Sanders pledged numerous new gun controls focused on gun sales and also made clear his intention to remove protections that spare gunmakers from lawsuits.

Sanders made clear that he had a D- rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA) now, and suggested it will probably drop to an F if he wins the presidency.  Continue reading “Democrat Debate: Bernie Sanders Pledges War on Gun Sales, Gun Makers”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New video surfaced Tuesday evening of more NYPD officers being doused with water.

The most recent incident in Queens has compelled lawmakers to announce a new bill that cracks down on anyone who disrespects the badge, CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported.  Continue reading “Following Another Water Incident, Assemblymen Propose Law Making Disrespecting Police A Felony”