Protecting the unmarked burials and the water, in the spirit of the Ghost DancersLive from Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass Lithium MineThursday, May 11, 2023, 6 amWatch nowhttps://www.facebook.com/ProtectThackerPass/videos/941069800554453For the second time in a month, Paiute elders are blocking construction with prayer.Elders are calling for people to "Come help us in a good way, stand up and be

May 10 2023 ByNews Desk Washington is reportedly pushing once again to secure the army chiefs presidency after Saudi Arabia clarified that it will not veto Hezbollah-backed candidate Suleiman Franjieh US ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea has redoubled efforts to meddle in Lebanons presidential deadlock in a bid to dissuade political leaders from backing Marada []

By Connor Freeman | Libertarian Institute | May 11, 2023

The ruling class in Washington is planning on using Americas sons and daughters as cannon fodder to wage their long-awaited war against China. President Joe Biden along with the other de facto employees of the military industrial complex, including in Congress, have not made their plans a secret. Contrarily, they are quite happy to brag about basically any escalation they can get.

Hawks in the Pentagon, along with those in the administration and legislative branchincluding the key leadershiphave been speaking explicitly about the coming war with China for a while now, usually boasting about all they are doing to prepare for, as well as provoke, such a conflict.

This all began in earnest during the Barack Obama administration. War with China, despite the Republican Partys obsession with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the Progressive Democrats project led byamong othersthe likes of Obama, Biden, Hillary Clinton, Kurt Campbell, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, and Michelle Flournoy.

In 2011, Obama launched the pivot to Asia. The policy has been expanded by each successive administration. Obamas project for the new American century entails the largest military buildup since the Second World War, shifting hundreds of bases as well as two-thirds of all U.S. Air and Naval forces to the Asia-Pacific region. Washington is encircling China for a future war with Beijing. In the words of Lew Rockwell, The U.S. seeks to encircle China and make it bow down before the hegemon....

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Pakistans top court has ordered the anti-graft agency to release former Prime Minister Imran Khan from its custody amid violent and widespread protests sparked by his detention.

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Imran Khans arrest earlier this week, which sparked deadly protests across the South Asian country, was illegal and invalid.

Your arrest was invalid so the whole process needs to be backtracked, Pakistans Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial told Khan, who has been in custody since Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, the court directed the the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to present the former premier before the court.

Subsequently, Khan was presented in court amid tight security about 5:45 pm local time. The top courts order on Thursday came after Khans legal team challenged his arrest by the NAB on Tuesday.

The shock arrest has triggered violent protests across the country, prompting the government to call out the army to help restore order.

Tensions remained high on Thursday with paramilitary troops and police on the streets in big cities.

Supporters of Khans Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party have attacked military establishments and set other state buildings and assets ablaze.

A total of nearly 2,500 people have been arrested so far and at least 11 killed and dozens injured. Authorities have also arrested at least three senior leaders of PTI party as of Thursday.

Footage shared by an Islamabad police official showed military vehicles with mounted guns lined up on the side of a road and soldiers holding assault rifles.

Mobile data services remained suspended and schools and offices were closed in two of Pakistans four provinces. Social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram have been blocked.

More than 100 police cases have been registered against Khan by the government since his removal from power in April 2022 after he lost a confidence vote in parliament.

Pakistans President Arif Alvi, who is also a senior PTI leader, said he was alarmed, shocked and deeply disturbed over the situation in the country.

After his ouster in April last year, Khan accused an unnamed foreign power in a clear reference to the United States of funding a conspiracy to topple his democratically elected government.

Khan insisted that the foreign power sent millions of dollars to opposition parties to launch a no-confidence vote against him in the parliament.

The former prime minister has declared he fears for his life if detained, and that authorities wan...

Tomorrow marks one year since veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered by the Israeli military while covering an Israeli invasion of Jenin refugee camp. The brutal silencing of her voice, and the images of Israeli riot police beating mourners at her funeral, will be remembered as defining moments exposing the cruelty of Israeli apartheid.

As part of our ongoing series on freedom of expression, we recognize that Shireens case is not an anomaly, but reflects decades of Israeli impunity for the systemic targeting of journalists. This visual honors the journalists who were killed simply because their voices exposed the atrocities of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid.

This visual covers the period from 20002022, based on a comparative review of six different sources of documentation. Organizations citing lower figures usually adopt a narrower focus on journalists killed on assignment. Higher figures sometimes cover a wider time period, use a broader definition of journalist, or include cases involving other perpetrators.

The stories of James Miller and Shireen Abu Akleh show a recurring pattern. Both journalists were killed with a single shot just below their press helmets. In both cases, they were clearly identifiable by their blue press vests and were standing in a group with other journalists. Israeli military spokespeople lied about crossfire from Palestinian armed groups in both incidents. In Millers case, a...

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Fawad Chaudhry, the vice president of the opposition Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in Pakistan, has been arrested from outside the Supreme Court premises, Pakistani media reported on Wednesday.

Chaudhry was arrested late Wednesday night after he came out of the apex court premises after having spent over 12 hours inside the Supreme Court in a bid to evade the arrest, media reported.

It was earlier reported that Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the vice chairman of the PTI, and PTI Secretary-General Asad Umar were also arrested in Pakistan.

The Pakistani authorities said Monday that former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan had been taken into custody following a hearing of the Islamabad High Court in the Al-Qadir Trust case.

PTI called on citizens of Pakistan to gather for mass protests, demanding Khans release.

On Tuesday, Pakistans authorities said Khan was facing an inquiry by the National Accountability Bureau in the Al-Qadir Trust case, related to a settlement between the PTI government and a property tycoon, which reportedly caused a loss of 50 billion Pakistani rupees ($17.6 million) to the national exchequer.

The actions spurred mass protests across the country, with activists setting police vehicles on fire and damaging government property and the police using tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd.

If you ask me how I feel a year after Shireen Abu Aklehs assassination, I would tell you that I feel angry because both Shireen and I died under the tree that day. Shireen awaits justice from heaven, while I wait for it down here on earth.

 EU = NAVO

Borrell vertelt hoe de EU het Oekraense leger bijstaat in oorlog met Rusland. Borrell Rusland wil verslaan zodat Europa meer boter heeft?

Borrell: "We hebben 17.000 Oekraense soldaten getraind, tegen het einde van het jaar zullen we 30.000 Oekraense soldaten trainen. 

We zullen ook een miljoen granaten van 155 mm en meer dan 1.000 raketten voorbereiden. 

70 miljard euro zal de komende 3 jaar in onz...

When Rashida Tlaib tweeted about the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, AIPAC described her history as "dangerous lies." Meanwhile, liberal Zionist statements on Israel's founding contain Nakba denial as well.

BY ANDREW KORYBKO | MAY 11, 2023

The US Is Rounding Up Allies Ahead Of A Possible War With China, which the former plans to fight via the emerging alliance system that can be described as AUKUS+ if it unfolds. This refers to that regional groups function as the core of a larger anti-Chinese network that informally includes Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, and South Korea. NATO will also obviously play a role too, with that bloc building upon its Secretary-Generals related statement of intent by opening a liaison office in Japan.

Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi told CNN that this development is supposedly due to the Ukrainian Conflict making the entire world less stable, but the reality is that this is part of a preplanned move to more effectively coordinate the containment of China. It would have happened on a different pretext had that aforementioned conflicts latest phase not broken out last year, but that event provided a convenient excuse for speeding up their plans and disguising them as anti-Russian instead.

NATOs liaison office in Japan will serve as that alliances first official outpost in the Asia-Pacific, thus enabling it to more directly organize AUKUS+s expansion. Assembling that regional dimension of this emerging system is important in and of itself, but the European one is indispensable for maximally pressuring China. Its therefore expected that more countries from the continent will soon dispatch vessels to the region as part of the joint operations that the liaison office will organize.

This is precisely what EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell had in mind when suggesting late last month that member states should patrol the Taiwan Strait. Since practically every EU member is also part of NATO, this de facto amounts to that alliance doing this, which is dangerous due to the risk of this provoking an incident with China that could prompt the implementation of Article 5. Thats probably the point though, namely to create a crisis that can justify the further acceleration of AUKUS+s expansion.

Nothing good is therefore expected to come from the opening of NATOs...

By Timur Fomenko | RT | May 11, 2023

On Tuesday, China and Canada engaged in a tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats. The row was triggered by allegations that Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei hadinterfered in Canadian politics, apparently targeting anti-China Conservative MP Michael Chong.

The claims created a media firestorm in Ottawa after the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service (CSIS) reportedly accused an accredited Chinese diplomat of targeting Chong. Justin Trudeaus government, under political pressure from the opposition, subsequently decided to act.

This row isnt the first to derail relations between China and Canada. Its one of many, including Ottawas decision to arrest Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018, Chinas retaliatory arrest of Canadian nationals Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, Ottawas sporadic allegations of Chinese interference, and then Xi Jinpings harsh rebuke of Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 summit last November. Its fair to say that relations between the two countries are in a state of freefall. But the question might be asked, who is the real culprit here? Or more to the point, who governs Canada?

Allegations of foreign interference are a funny thing, because they tend to only be used against countries who represent an ideological or cultural other. They never focus on certain allied countries that actually do interfere in the nations politics, controlling its media and political discourse, while using think tanks, often sponsored by military and government bodies, and to deliberately cause controversies in Canada in order to steer the country in a certain direction. It seems, for example, very fishy that in the midst of this whole saga, the US-sponsored Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank published an article calling for Canada to join AUKUS, the Australia, UK, US Pacific military alliance.

If it was not obvious enough already, no country has interfered in Canadian politics more than the United States. Although Canada appears more progressive and forward-thinking than its southern neighbor in many respects, the reality is that Ottawa is a loyal and obligated follower of the US and steadfast in its commitment to Anglophone exceptionalism. Although Canada is geographically larger than the US, its population is about 10% the size and as such, it is strategically, economically, culturally, and geographically dominated by Washington, giving it very little leverage in its foreign policy direction.

Arguably, out of all the Fi...

Gaza: Palestinian boy dies after panic attack from Israeli bombing

By Drago Bosnic | May 11, 2023

While serving as the UK Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss pompously announced that so-called Global NATO was in the making, while also calling for the United Nations to be reformed to the political Wests liking (although quite the opposite is sorely needed). However, the ever-belligerent power pole seems to be having trouble forming even the Asia-Pacific NATO, let alone a global organization that would gather virtually all of Washington DCs vassals and satellite states. The main issue seems to be stemming from the unresolved historical disputes of the Second World War and the way it affected the Asia-Pacific region.

It should be noted that attempts to create a NATO equivalent in the region are hardly new. The United States has been trying to accomplish this for decades during the (First) Cold War. However, the deals would usually fall apart faster than it took them to be signed by all parties involved. Such disunity greatly contributed to the humiliating defeat of US aggression in Vietnam/Indochina half a century ago. Nowadays, similar disunity is once again emerging among Americas East Asian satellite states, specifically between South Korea and Japan. The US insists that the two countries should set their differences aside and go for a historical push that would lead to complete reconciliation.

However, numerous Japanese war crimes during WWII (as well as in the decades prior) are deeply ingrained in the minds of the Korean people, on both sides of the 38th parallel. In fact, its one of the few things both Seoul and Pyongyang actually agree on, albeit tacitly. A recent South Korean court case was supposed to resolve the issue of several major Japanese companies using forced labor in Korea during WWII, but Tokyo was still left unscathed by the process, which angered many Koreans. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol dubbed the court decision a step towards trilateral cooperation to defend freedom, peace and prosperity not only in our two countries, but also around the world.

The trilateral cooperation he was referring to is between the US, Japan and South Korea. However, only a third of South Korean citizens support the deal, as they consider it didnt truly address Japanese war crimes. Worse yet, this isnt the first time such deals have fallen through. In 2015, a similar arrangement regarding the so-called comfort women battalions, another Japanese war crime that went largely unpunished, collap...

The main grain terminal at the Port of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea has fallen quiet in recent years at least according to ship monitoring services.

Automated Identification Systems (AIS) tracking data, which provides open source information on the positioning and movement of ships, shows few ships visiting the Avlita grain terminal in Sevastopol since Russia annexed the territory from Ukraine in 2015. 

International sanctions on the city of Sevastopol and the Avlita terminal (which has also been referred to as Aval in some media reports and registers) could explain why traffic has seemingly been so low. 

But other open sources paint a radically different picture of events at the terminal.

Satellite imaging services such as Planet, social media posts and a new Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) tool built as part of Bellingcats Tech Fellowship scheme, show that vessels have in fact covertly continued to make regular visits.

Bellingcat identified at least 179 days in the first 12 months of Russias full-scale invasion where ships had been present at Avlita terminal with their AIS transponders turned off. 

This appears to support the findings of several media reports that claimed activity at the terminal has continued apace.

The Financial Times, Bloomberg, CNN, Reuters, the BBC, the Wall Street Journal and Associated Press have all reported on apparent grain exports at the terminal since the onset of Russias full-scale invasion, even highlighting some of the shi...

Wat beweert Het Parool hier? Welnu, dat Lodewijk heeft ontdekt wat elke Amsterdammer al lang weet, namelijk dat 'de stad uit het lood is geslagen,' ironisch genoeg als gevolg van ondermeer het failliete beleid dat Asscher als PVDA loco-burgemeester heeft gevoerd. Na zijn vertrek bleek hij de stad met een grote schuld te hebben opgezadeld, en zijn beleid voor de binnenstad was uitgelopen op een platte vercommercialisering van de historische binnenstad, die een vrijplaats is geworden voor de buitenlandse onderwereld die hier via het vastgoed circuit zijn vele miljoenen aan zwart  geld witwast. Dit alles is het resultaat van het feit dat de neoliberale Lodewijk toen kennelijk 'haast' had en daardoor niet zag 'wat beter' kon, althans, zo moet men opmaken uit de tekst op de cover. 

The Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and BAP member organization, MOLEGHAF, request the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) launch a serious and in-depth investigation into the assassination of former Haitian de facto President Jovenel Mose. We demand to know the truth concerning U.S. and other foreign countries complicity in plotting to kill Mose, as well as to assassinate activists and ordinary Haitian citizens.

The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) recently published information based on newly obtained evidence from the ongoing U.S. prosecution of the alleged assassins. It reveals the seeming complicity of foreign embassies in Haiti, including those of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan.

The Haiti/Americas Team and MOLEGHAF, in addition, strongly denounce the recent U.S. attempts to have Brazil lead another military invasion and the occupation of Haiti. We also denounce efforts by defense contractor Wesley Clark to work with the unelected and illegitimate Ariel Henry to organize a paramilitary group in Haiti to rival [Russias] Wagner Group. The Haiti/Americas Team and MOLEGHAF are against Haiti being used as a geopolitical chess piece for the United St...

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• Russian forces captured several buildings on Chaikovskoho street;
• Russian forces took control of Post Office in the north-west of Bakhmut city;
• In the north-west of Bakhmut, Wagner fighters advanced along the streets of Medvedev, Chernyakhovsky, Tolbukhin;
• Wagners assault detachments captured several positions near the intersection of Levanevsky and Defenders of Ukraine streets;
• The AFU captured some Russian positions and advanced about 600 meters near the Chasov YarBakhmut road;
• The AFU captured some Russian positions and advanced up to 600 m near Bogdanovka.

MORE ON THE TOPIC:

• Military Situation In Bakhmut On May 10, 2023 (Map Update)
• Military Situation In Bakhmut On May 9, 2023 (Map Update)
• In Video: Russian Advance In Bakhmut On February 10-May 9, 2023 (Map Update)

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• On May 11, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 2 times: 1 in Idlib province, 1 in Latakia province;
• On May 11, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SDF positions near Tel Tamar;
• On May 11, an SAA officer was killed and four policemen were wounded in a car explosion in Damascus. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack;
• On May 10, foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, Russia and Iran met in Moscow to discuss normalization of ties between Ankara and Damascus.

MORE ON THE TOPIC:

• Military Situation In Syria On May 10, 2023 (Map Update)
• Military Situation In Syria On May 9, 2023 (Map Update)

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Raising the federal debt limit over the years has secured unconditional routine Congressional passage and was endorsed by presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. After all, it allows the U.S. Treasury to pay past and existing bills, not expand future spending.

Routine, that is, until the recent arrival of the mad-dog Republicans with their monetized brains indentured to the war-making military industrial complex and Wall Street speculators gambling with other peoples savings.

It wouldnt have mattered if the Democrats campaigned in 2022 as did vigorous New Deal Democrats instead of campaigning like willing servants of corporate cash and political/media consultants conflicted with their corporate clients. Imagine, in New York, a state controlled by a Democratic Governor and Democratic state legislature, Republicans won four U.S. House seats previously held by the blundering Democrats. The GOP could have been vanquished. (See, winningamerica.net).

Instead, the GOP squeaked through with a tiny majority to take over the U.S. House and let some 30 off-the-wall crazies turn the screws on their Speaker Kevin McCarthy. He hails from impoverished and neglected Bakersfield, California.

Fearing the crazies might dislodge him, McCarthy has accepted many of their cruel budget cuts as a condition of lifting the debt limit. Failing to raise the debt limit will result in an unprecedented default by the U.S. Treasury sometime in the early summer. Taken together, the GOP cuts represent a congealed and vicious assault against defenseless Americans. Of course, the avaricious plutocrats, with their hands deep in Uncle Sams pockets, have been shielded from any financial pain by the demands of these ruthless Republicans.

Congressional history has rarely witnessed such a corrupt, cruel and explicit drive to turn the delegated sovereignty of the people against the citizenry.

The Republican-demanded cuts totally exclude the vast, bloated military budget, which amounts to over half of the entire federal governments operational budget, and doesnt reduce the huge corporate welfare giveaways and bailouts. Republicans leave intact the huge gaping tax escapes for super-wealthy individuals and giant corporations. The latter bonanza implicitly rejects Bidens revenue producing proposals to eliminate some of Trumps 2017 tax cuts for the very rich like Trumps family.

A partial litany of the latest heartless GOP horrors that will result from the budget cuts they are anticipated to propose include:

Reduced funding for nutritio...

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• Russian artillery struck the AFU positions near Stupochki;
• Russian artillery struck the AFU positions near Avdeevka;
• Russian artillery struck the AFU positions near Ugledar;
• The Russian Army destroyed an ammo depot of the AFU near Belokuzminovka;
• The Russian Army destroyed an ammo depot of the AFU near Preobrazhenka;
• The Russian Army slightly advanced near Bilogorivka;
• Clashes between Russian forces and the AFU continue in Mariinka;
• Clashes between Russian forces and the AFU continue near Ugledar;
• Clashes between Russian forces and the AFU continue near Pervomaiske;
• Clashes between Russian forces and the AFU continue in Bakhmut;
• Up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 armored vehicles, 2 motor vehicles were destroyed by Russian artillery on Krasniy-Liman front, according to the Russian MOD;
• Up to 240 Ukrainian servicemen, 4 motor vehicles, 3 armored vehicles, 1 Gvozdika were destroyed by Russian artillery on Donetsk front, according to the Russian MOD;
• Up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, 7 motor vehicles, 3 armored vehicles were destroyed by Russian artillery in South Donetsk and Zaporozhye region, according to the Russian MOD.

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• Military Situation In Bakhmut On May 10, 2023 (Map Update)
• Military Situation In Ukraine On May 10, 2023 (Map Update)

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Karen Hunt Our fearless leaders love war. They love talking about it. They love playing war games. They love fighting in actual wars. Thats because they always benefit from themany kind of war. Were going fight this and win, they say. Were all in this together, they say. Except, whatever this is, what they really

Turkey elections: Presidential candidate Ince withdraws

By Al Jazeera, May 11, 2023

For years, climate activists have centered their work around stopping some of the worlds biggest polluters from fossil fuel companies, to the meat industry, to industrial farming. And while they remain some of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis, theres a lesser known climate culprit thats often forgotten: the military.

Experts have pointed out that the US Department of Defense is the worlds single largest greenhouse gas emitter, with the US military referred to as one of the largest climate polluters in history.  In fact, research suggests that if all of the worlds militaries were a country theyd be the fourth largest emitter across the globe.

And beyond the emissions from Humvees, warplanes, and tanks, modern warfare has a devastating effect on the planet. From bombing campaigns to drone strikes, warfare releases greenhouse gas emissions, compromises geodiversity, and can cause soil and air contamination.

In this episode of The Stream, well look at the scale of military emissions, and whether a less militaristic society is not only good for people, but also for the planet.

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Editors Note: The tool detailed in this article has been developed as part of Bellingcats Tech Fellowship program and can be accessed in full here. Read Bellingcats investigation into grain exports at the Port of Sevastopol here.

Ships have been covertly docking at a sanctioned terminal in the Crimean port of Sevastopol since the onset of Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Media reports have previously noted how individual ships had been docking at the Avlita grain terminal, contradicting Automated Identification Systems (AIS) tracking data that publicly monitors the movements of vessels.

Bellingcats full investigation can be seen here and raises questions as to what the ships have been loading and why the need for secrecy.

While Ukraine has accused Russia of looting grain from occupied areas in the south and east of the country, Russia has denied this. 

Satellite imagery from Planet helped Bellingcat identify many of the days when ships were present at the terminal. But a tool developed as part of Bellingcats Tech Fellowship scheme provided further important details on days when there was no satellite coverage.

What follows is an introduction to the tool and its practical uses, as well as further explanation on how it was applied to monitor events at the Avlita terminal.  

The Ship Detection Tool

The Ship Detection Tool is a satellite imaging tool that uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery to identify ships in port, at anchor or at sea. It was critical to uncovering the presence of ships at the Crimean port of Sevastopol in the days and months after Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. Bellingcat found that ships had docked at Avlita grain terminal (which has also been referred to as Aval in some media reports and registers) on at least 179 days during the first year of the war.

The tool itself is now publicly available here and can be used to carry out further investigations into vessel movements from sanctioned ports or for a variety of other investigative purposes.

May 10 2023 ByNews Desk Israeli warplanes have continued to bombard dozens of locations in the Gaza Strip, leaving several civilians dead Hundreds of Palestinian rockets continued to rain down on Israeli settlements and cities on 10 May, sending settlers fleeing for bomb shelters and causing significant damage to buildings in the settlements of Ashkelon and Sderot. []

May 10 2023 ByNews Desk Clashes between citizens and security forces broke out in several cities following the dramatic arrest of the former PM who was ousted in a US-backed coup Pakistani police have detained at least 945 supporters of ousted prime minister Imran Khan in Punjab, the countrys most populous province, since protests erupted on 9 []

Gaza: Israel's killing of children denounced around the world

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• The organization Judicial Watch obtained records from Texas A&M revealing it received almost $486 million in grants and contracts from the Qatar Foundation, raising questions about Qatari funding of American institutions.
• The information was released in a court victory obtained by Zachor Legal Institute, an advocacy group fighting antisemitism, which sought information about potential influence by the Qatar governments funding of certain Texas A&M University programs.
• The case was resolved in favor of Judicial Watch and Zachor Legal Institute in March 2023, with the documents being ordered to be made public by Judge Amy Clark Meachum.
• There appear to be discrepancies between what Texas A&M reported to the federal foreign gift reporting system and what was listed in their gift reporting received by Judicial Watch.
• The litigation also aimed to shed light on how Texas A&M established a degree-conferring campus in Qatar without the Texas Legislatures permission or involvement. Read More

The post New Documents Show Qatar Granted Millions to Texas A&M appeared first on The Clarion Project.

• Meta identified three advanced persistent threat (APT) groups using elaborate fictitious personas on Facebook and Instagram to target individuals in South Asia with social engineering tactics.
• The APT groups masqueraded as recruiters, journalists, military personnel, and romantic connections and relied heavily on social engineering rather than malware to trick victims.
• Meta disrupted 110 accounts linked to Bahamut, 120 accounts associated with a Pakistan-based APT group, and 50 accounts tied to an India-based threat actor dubbed Patchwork.
• Meta also took down six adversarial networks from the U.S., Venezuela, Iran, China, Georgia, Burkina Faso, and Togo that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on various social media platforms. Read More

The post Meta Uncovers Cyber Espionage Operations Across South Asia appeared first on The Clarion Project.

• A student at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., is facing charges after allegedly posting a photo of a gun and threatening messages in a group chat.
• A police investigation found no ongoing threat to the community.
• The student is facing potential criminal charges and disciplinary action by the school. Read More

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