Chad Marlow (2024-01-29). Celebrating An Important Victory In The Ongoing Fight Against Reverse Warrants. aclu.org For years, the ACLU and other privacy advocates have been challenging law enforcement's growing use of reverse warrants. These problematic warrants include, most prominently, reverse location warrants (also known as geofence warrants), which seek location data to identify anyone who was within a defined area during a specific time period. A second type, reverse keyword warrants, demand the identity of every person who entered a certain word or phrase into a search engine during a set timeframe and possibly within a defined geographic area. The constitutionality of reverse warrants is highly suspect because, li…

Sharon Zhang (2024-01-29). Report: Hate Against Muslims, Palestinians Increased 178 Percent in Last 3 Months of 2023. truthout.org Incidents of hate and discrimination against Muslims and Palestinians across the U.S. increased drastically as Israel's genocidal assault of Gaza was ongoing in the last three months of 2023, the U.S.'s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group has announced. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released data on Monday showing that the organization received 3,578… |

Redazione Italia (2024-01-30). Stop torture and inhumane treatment at Europe's borders. pressenza.com Launched a European mobilization by associations, movements, committees, parties, activists, volunteers, activists with the instrument of the ECI, the European Citizens' Initiative. | We are activists of Stop Border Violence, an Association formed in January last year, to promote an ECI (European Citizens' Initiative) called Art. 4: Stop Torture and Inhuman Treatment at Europe's Borders. | We ask the European Commission that the human rights enshrined in the founding Charter of the Union itself, be guaranteed to all and in particular, to the most fragile people, fleeing conflict, severe discrimination, climate ch…

albawaba (2024-01-30). Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years in prison. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – According to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and VP Mahmood Qureshi have been sentenced to 10 years in jail, in the state secrets case which may be challenged in higher court. "Former prime minister Imran Khan and PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) vice-president Qureshi have been sentenced to 10 years each inside a prison in the cypher case," a spokesman for the party told AFP.The case is based on how the two handled a so-called "cypher" sent by Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, which claimed Washington was involved in a plot to remove Khan from off…

Staff (2024-01-30). Pakistani court sentences ex-Premier Imran Khan to 10 years. muslimmirror.com ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his top diplomat Shah Mahmood Qureshi to 10 years in jail in a case that accused the incarcerated ex-premier of leaking "state secrets." The sentence was announced by Judge Abual Hasnat Moham ≠mad Zulqarnain in the northeastern garrison city of Rawalpindi's …

presstv.ir (2024-01-29). Israel has jailed over 6,000 Palestinians since October 7: Report. presstv.ir A new report says the Israeli regime has jailed at least 6,330 Palestinians since October 7, 2023.

Derrick Broze (2024-01-30). Second Phase of Historic #FluorideLawsuit Begins Wednesday. thelastamericanvagabond.com On Wednesday, the second phase of the fluoride lawsuit will resume at the Phillip Burton Federal Courthouse after nearly four years of delays. The proceedings will be the latest hearings in an eight-year legal battle between the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). The battle began following the EPA's 2016

Staff (2024-01-29). Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Biden, Blinken Sued for Backing Israel's War on Gaza. democracynow.org The Biden administration is on trial in the United States for failure to prevent the "unfolding genocide" in Gaza. On Friday, lawyers for the Biden administration argued the court lacks the proper jurisdiction to decide the case, while Palestinians and Americans testified about atrocities committed by Israel with American support. "I can't think of another time where, in a U.S. federal court, Palestinians have been on the witness stand, one after the other after the other, describing their experiences under Israeli occupation," says Diala Shamas, senior staff attorney at the Center f…

albawaba (2024-01-30). Syrian star Nesreen Tafesh sentenced to prison in Egypt. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Syrian star Nesreen Tafesh is in a pinch as the Misdemeanor Court in Egypt upheld a ruling issued by the Court of First Instance to imprison the actress and singer amid issuing "bad checks" to a woman. According to

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2024-01-30). Neoliberalism Plunges Ecuador Into A State Of Crisis; US Escalates Militarism. popularresistance.org On January 7, Adolfo Macias, known as "Fito", a leader of an Ecuadorian drug cartel, escaped from prison, which sparked uprisings across the country. In response, President Daniel Noboa declared a national state of emergency and decreed that the country is in a state of internal conflict, listing 20 gangs as terrorist groups. Clearing the FOG spoke with Alex Main of the Center for Economic Policy and Research about the conditions that have led to growing poverty, insecurity and violence in Ecuador. Main explains how the United States is exploiting the current situation to justify sending US weapons and military p…

_____ (2024-01-29). Nonviolent Strategy to Halt the Genocide in Gaza, Liberate Palestine and Defeat the Global Technocracy. transcend.org 24 Jan 2024 – In accordance with its long-planned, detailed and comprehensive blueprint labeled 'The Great Reset', the Global Elite is currently implementing its program to reshape world order, kill off a substantial proportion of the human population, enclose the Commons 'forever', transfer all remaining wealth to the Elite and enslave those left alive in one of their technocratic 'smart city' prisons.

Editor (2024-01-29). What It's Like to Live in One of the Country's Deadliest Prison Systems. scheerpost.com

albawaba (2024-01-29). WSJ reports potential 2-Month ceasefire plan between Israel and Palestine. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – In a recent development reported by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), there are claims of ongoing efforts to draft a ceasefire plan lasting around four months between Israel and Palestine. As Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip persist since October 7, the reported plan, attributed to Egyptian officials, is said to include the release of all prisoners.The proposed initial phase involves a six-week ceasefire, during which Israeli women, children, and elderly individuals in Gaza would be freed. In return, Israel would release Palestinian prisoners and permit an increase in aid to Gaza.According to the WSJ re…

albawaba (2024-01-29). WSJ report reveals extent of damage to Hamas tunnels. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – In a recent report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), it has been revealed that despite weeks of Israeli efforts to destroy tunnels, approximately 80% of Hamas's tunnel network in Gaza remains intact.Officials from both the United States and Israel suggest that, despite ongoing Israeli airstrikes since October 7, the extensive network of Hamas tunnels, estimated to be hundreds of kilometers long, has largely withstood the attacks. The neutralization of Hamas tunnel capabilities is deemed crucial by Israel for capturing high-ranking Hamas leaders and efforts to rescue Israeli prisoners.While officials fr…

WSWS (2024-01-29). Jury trial of Oxford High School shooter's mother on manslaughter charges opens in Pontiac, Michigan. wsws.org The effort to convict Jennifer and James Crumbley and send them to prison is, in essence, an attempt to scapegoat them for the broader, toxic social problems of capitalist society that are behind the epidemic of mass shootings in schools and workplaces across the US.

Amy Goodman (2024-01-30). Will Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip Be Freed After Supreme Court Hears Case? truthout.org In an extraordinary development, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip will now get the chance to argue for a new trial, after maintaining his innocence for three decades. Glossip has faced nine separate execution dates and been given his final meal three times. In 2015, he was saved from death just hours before his execution only after prison officials… |

Editor (2024-01-30). The Harshest Pains of Prison Are Suffered Inside. scheerpost.com

Naureen Shah (2024-01-26). What's Hiding in the Immigration & Border Deal? More Mass Surveillance. aclu.org Behind closed doors, the White House and Congress continue to negotiate major changes to border and immigration law as part of a larger deal on foreign military assistance. One of the rumored proposals is to expand a program called Family Expedited Removal management, or FERM. | Already, we've seen families in this program suffering harm and denied due process. But with the potential for a second Trump administration, the risks of this program are even more severe — including widespread surveillance. |

edited by Khubaka, MIchael Harris (2024-01-26). Rosa Louise McCauley Parks – Speech 1965 – Alabama Freedom March – Selma to Montgomery. indybay.org 24th Annual, California Rosa Parks Day, continues the journey to share a more authentic life legacy of the Mother of the US Civil Rights Movement as "Patron Saint" of the Women's Political Council of Montgomery, Alabama and much more…

Ron Jacobs (2024-01-26). Incarceration as Fascism, Incarceration as Imperialism. counterpunch.org Incarceration is about controlling. Not just those who commit criminal acts, but also those who society has no economic use for. If there are no laws existing to lock up this latter demographic, the facts tell us that the ruling classes will create new laws and intensify enforcement of existing statutes. An almost perfect example

teleSUR (2024-01-26). Hague Court Demands Israel to Prevent Genocide in Gaza. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) made its first decision on the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel for genocide crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. | RELATED: | While the judges did not rule on whether the Zionist state is committing genocide, they issued a kind of "restraining order" to study the case in its entirety, which could take years. | The ICJ requires Israel to take immediat…

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-01-26). The War On Journalism In Belmarsh, The War On Journalism In Gaza. caitlinjohnstone.com.au The fight to free Assange is a fight to protect press freedoms around the world, since the US is using the case in an attempt to set a legal precedent for extraditing and imprisoning any journalist or publisher anywhere in the world who shares information with the public that the US doesn't want shared.

teleSUR (2024-01-26). 61 Palestinian Journalists Are Imprisoned in Brutal Conditions. telesurenglish.net Shurua Asad, the spokeswoman for the Palestinian Journalists' Union, denounced that Israel is holding 61 journalists in poor conditions. | RELATED: | Among them, 15 were detained in the first eight months of 2023, and another 46 after the conflict with Hamas erupted. This means a significant increase in media employees detained by Israel since the outbreak of the war in October. | Most of the journalists are from occupied West Bank. They…

WSWS (2024-01-26). Ukraine shoots down Russian plane carrying prisoners of war. wsws.org The Ukrainian government makes one contradictory statement after another in an effort to cover up shooting down a military aircraft over Russian territory carrying 65 its own prisoners of war.

The Independent (2024-01-26). Ssenyonyi asks EU to put pressure on Govt over missing persons. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Joel Ssenyonyi has appealed to European Union Ambassadors to push the Government of Uganda to account for Ugandans who went missing after the last general elections. He also asked them to ensure a speedy trial of political prisoners most of whom belong to …