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12+ min ago (121+ words) Above photo: A vote during a Knesset plenum session, Jerusalem, 12 June 2025. Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90. Over the past two years, the Israeli Knesset has passed dozens of new laws, the cumulative effect of which'is to further entrench and deepen Israel's regime of apartheid and repression over all Palestinians under its control" both in Israel [] The post Over 30 New Laws Enacted Since 7 October Further Entrench Apartheid appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. READ THE FULL REPORT Taken together, these legislative initiatives reveal that this Israeli government and parliament continue to act in defiance of the state's constitutional commitments and international law, reinforcing a regime of apartheid and deepening the denial of Palestinian collective and individual rights....

20+ min ago (282+ words) We all have someone in our life who still refuses to believe Israel is committing genocide.They might say "I don't like what's going on there." Or "I don't agree with Netanyahu." Or "war is always ugly". But they refuse to use the word "genocide." It might be your mom or your dad or your aunt or your dental hygienist. It might be all of them. That's why I wanted to write this article for anyone to share. The 25 organizations on the following list are not radical or "fringe," whatever that means.They are all highly regarded. The post 25 Highly Respected Organizations Say Israel's Committing Genocide appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. And if it needs repeating, the genocide has not stopped with the so-called ceasefire.Israel hasviolated the ceasefire nearly 500 timesin 44 days and killed hundreds. As I wrote about recently,…...

35+ min ago (253+ words) President Donald Trump announced the death of 20-year-old National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom on Thursday evening, one day after she was shot in Washington, D.C. by a suspected Afghan national. "I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on, right now, I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the Guardsmen that we are talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she's just passed away," announced Trump. "She's no longer with us." He continued, "She's looking down at us right now. Her parents are with her. This just happened. She was savagely attacked. She's dead. She's not with us. Outstanding in every single way, in every department. Just horrible. As you know, the other young man is fighting for his life. He's in very bad shape, he's fighting…...

36+ min ago (49+ words) Heavy rains have unleashed devastating floods and landslides across South Asia. Tens of thousands displaced as floods sweep across South Asia Heavy rains have unleashed devastating floods and landslides across South Asia. Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia have all been hit, with rising death tolls and mass evacuations....

36+ min ago (307+ words) Aaron Perine is a writer that covers Free Streaming TV, normal TV, small TV (the kind that plays on your phone mostly!), and even movies sometimes! Phase Hero co-host. Host of Free Space: The Free Streaming TV Podcast. Noah Schnapp and Maya Hawke really Love bringing this conversation to life. The two actors talked to Netflix's TUDUM about the moment Will always needed to have." "When I read the scripts for this season, and it was so much of me and Robin for four or five episodes, I was very excited to film with her. She was amazing to work with and taught me so much," Schnapp said." He added, "She became like an older sister for me, and it was really cool. Our relationship on the show versus outside the show kind of mirrored each other. She was kind…...

38+ min ago (242+ words) Wednesday, November 26, marks the final day of a nationwide wave of strikes and protests against the anti-social policies of Belgium's so-called Arizona government. Workers in transport and public services, joined by thousands across other sectors, remain outraged by Prime Minister Bart De Wever's agenda, which includes attacks on pensions, wages, and public services, all while increasing spending on militarization. Picket lines sprang up across the country, with workers rejecting the government's plans. Reporting from the strike at the port of Antwerp, Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) General Secretary'Peter Mertens'wrote: "Workers are furious that the government is coming for their pensions, trying to steal their wage indexation and, on top of that, wants to raise taxes on gas and fuel. "No way,' they're saying here." The post Belgian Workers Reject Arizona's Austerity In Strike Wave appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. The…...

51+ min ago (302+ words) Sarah Fimm (they/them) is actually nine choirs of biblically accurate angels crammed into one pair of $10 overalls. They have been writing articles for nerds on the internet for less than a year now. They really like anime. Like... REALLY like it. Like you know those annoying little kids that will only eat hotdogs and chicken fingers? They're like that... but with anime. It's starting to get sad. [A knight faces off against an armored giant in ]While most titles give you a big old "GAME OVER" when your character shuffles off their mortal coil, these video games make mortality part of the plot In the digital worlds beyond our own, the afterlife possibilities are endless Hellscapes lousy with literal demons Heavens with everything you could dream of except a stable internet connection Purgatories where death and rebirth are part…...

55+ min ago (664+ words) And now this unsustainable system is crashing down. What he had not anticipated, however, was the response of some of his employees when he gathered them together to announce that he was their new boss and had decided to raise their pay. When he informed them that he was ending the dop, however, seven of the 15 farm workers walked off in disgust, never to return. "They had grown so accustomed to receiving part of their pay in wine that it seemed perfectly normal to them," the attorney told me. "That some of them were sick and even dying was of no importance to them. They simply could not imagine life without the dop." That also characterizes perfectly the overlords of America's system of racial capitalism, who are addicted to an unsustainable economic model that squeezes poor people'disproportionately Black'out of more…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago (301+ words) Can a grassroots movement beat them back? "We're going to continue to organize," says Stop ShotSpotter organizer Navi Heer. In two separate incidents, both in Kansas, two'police officers'in different departments, (one of them a chief),'were caught using Flock to spy on ex-partners. (If'National Security Agency staff are tempted to do this, we should expect the same and worse from local cops.) In another case, as'Truthout'has'previously reported, Flock data compiled in Illinois was made accessible to immigration agencies " a flagrant violation of the state's'TRUST Act, passed in 2021, which prohibits state and local police from assisting with federal immigration enforcement. Speaking of losing control, here's a sampling of some of Flock's most preposterous hardware and software issues, as detected by Jordan, Gaines, and others: "There's just no point in using Flock Safety if you have to talk to a judge to…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago (242+ words) As Americans around the country settled down to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with family, far-right Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) workshopped an idea for how to disrupt one of those family's dinners next year for a political stunt. "Next year, I think I'm going to hold a contest to show up at someone's Thanksgiving day dinner to debate their leftist family members," Luna suggested on X. "What do you think?" Her idea was largely not met with enthusiasm. "That it's time to touch grass?" wrote Democratic strategist and author Lis Smith. "I think I would absolutely wreck you," wrote Texas Democratic legislative candidate Sara McGee. "Or you could just be a normal person and enjoy the god damn holiday instead of ruining someone else's," wrote Democratic strategist Mike Nellis. "It would be an accurate representation of conservative politics at the moment, going…...