“Two of my sons are now imprisoned and [the Israeli authorities] haven’t even explained why,” Iyad Burnat, a Palestinian non-violent resistance activist, told me in an interview about current events taking place in his village, Bil’in, 12km west of Ramallah. Burnat, the head of the Bil’in Popular Committee against the …
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Johnson, 27, who is a member of the Taking the Initiative Party, is in critical condition in hospital after the shooting on Consort Road, in the Peckham area of south London. Those held on suspicion of her attempted murder include a 17-year-old who was arrested by officers from Southwark and …
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That’s according to multiple sources, who have revealed that the Belarusian spent a long time with the Ukrainian militia. However, there is some debate about his role with the battalion, with some believing he was just a volunteer journalist, and others suggesting he was involved in fighting. According to the …
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Over the last weekend, there were 12 mass shootings in US cities across eight states – Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Minnesota – which left 11 dead in just another routinely violent display of America’s gun problem. Meanwhile, the UK saw a single senseless shooting …
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The attack came after Johnson received “numerous death threats as a result of her activism,” the Taking the Initiative party said in a statement. It added that the 27-year-old mother of two “has always been actively fighting for black people and the injustices that surround the black community”. The police …
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While house hunting recently, I strolled through an upscale, though approachable neighborhood full of younger residents – the millennials and post-millennials who define and drive much of today’s political debate. The leanings of the locals was made clear enough between the proliferating collage of lawn signs, bumper stickers and fluttering …
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“Remember guys: mandating voter ID is unattainable and racist but mandating vaccine ID cards? Not a problem,” tweeted conservative author and commentator Candace Owens on Saturday – echoing the concerns of many others. Actually, the debate is a sensitive one not only for the US. Across the ocean, in the …
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A prominent anti-government activist, Al-Wazni has been a vocal critic of Iranian influence in Iraq. He survived an attempted assassination during violent anti-government protests in 2019, but was slain by an unknown gunman on Sunday morning, outside his home in the city of Karbala. Local authorities have pledged to find …
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Navalny allegedly began his ‘hunger strike’ to protest being refused permission to see a doctor of his choice for his leg pains. He has been complaining of health problems since late March, when his lawyers claimed that he was losing sensation in one of his limbs as well as being …
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As the tech companies collude with the Democratic National Committee to deplatform and censor in the name of safety and stability, more voices of dissent are silenced. Niccolo Machiavelli said, “It is much safer to be feared than loved.” ‘The Prince’ is the OG of playbooks for the leaders who …
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