By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that the US would defend Israel if it faces attacks in response to its airstrike in Beirut that targeted a Hezbollah commander and the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas’s political bureau who was killed in Tehran. Continue reading “Austin Pledges the US Will Defend Israel If It Faces Attack After Latest Escalations”

By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net

In the wake of the EU elections, those at the helm of the bloc are working to make the already contentious Digital Services Act (DSA) – which critics say is a sweeping censorship law – even more controversial. Continue reading “EU Regulators Seek to Formalize “Disinformation Code” Under Censorship Law”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

One of the Israeli Defense Force soldiers suspected of raping a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military base in Israel told the media that military police interrogators “applauded us.” Continue reading “IDF Soldier Suspected of Raping Palestinian Prisoner Says Military Police Interrogators ‘Applauded Us’”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

A member of the Israeli Knesset has defended the idea of raping Palestinian prisoners after Israeli soldiers suspected of sexually torturing a detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility were arrested. Continue reading “Israeli Lawmaker Says Raping Palestinian Prisoners Is ‘Legitimate’”

By TYLER DURDEN – Zerohedge

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration expects to spend more money than originally anticipated over the next fiscal year on the emergency shelter system housing migrants and local families, according to revised estimates released this month.

Continue reading “Migrant Shelter Costs In Massachusetts To Exceed $1 Billion For The Next Several Years, State Predicts”

By Hannah Nightingale – The Postmillennial

EXCLUSIVE: XX-XY Athletics launches fund for women athletes who fight against 'trans' males in their sports

XX-XY Athletics, the athletic clothing brand that supports women’s sports, has launched a fund to support female athletes who are speaking out against the inclusion of biological males in women’s sports and help take “monetary cancellation” off the table. The fund launched the same day that the Biden administration’s Title IX rewrite goes into effect. Continue reading “XX-XY Athletics launches fund for women athletes who fight against ‘trans’ males in their sports”

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell – The Daily Signal

A pen chooses male or female

A Republican congresswoman from Illinois has introduced a bill to clearly define sex based on biology, rather than ideology. Continue reading “House Bill Would Codify Sex as Male and Female, Not Gender Identity or Expression”

By Reddit

r/conspiracy - Israeli soldiers are wearing a badge on their uniform showing a map of the “Greater Israel” which includes parts of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon!

For those who do not know, Greater Israel includes: Continue reading “Israeli soldiers are wearing a badge on their uniform showing a map of the “Greater Israel” which includes parts of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon!”

By Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal – The Grey Zone

The Grayzone’s publication of an embarrassing phone call with a National Endowment for Democracy VP triggered an institution-wide meltdown at the US government’s regime change laboratory. Following the call, the group’s founding president privately admitted the “fiasco” exposed major “problems beneath the polished surface.”

Continue reading “The Grayzone caused ‘biggest PR fiasco in history’ for US govt regime change arm, leaked emails reveal”

By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net

Meta’s decision to shut down a content surveillance tool called CrowdTangle, announced earlier in the year and about to take effect next month, has met with opposition from a group of US lawmakers. Continue reading “Lawmakers Request Delay on Meta’s Shutdown of “Fact-Checker” Favorite Content Surveillance Tool”