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“Ten civilians, including seven children, were killed in the attack, which the Pentagon initially touted as a successful strike against ISIS car bomb. The driver was actually a humanitarian worker who was transporting jugs of water”: CAIR Says Any Pentagon Officials Who Approved ‘Reckless War Crime’ in Kabul Should Resign (CAIR) After the Supreme Court…

Rather than draw attention to the injustice of Aafia Siddiqi’s conviction, a mentally disturbed man who took innocents hostage at a synagogue has provided the government and media an opportunity to once again smear the imprisoned neuroscientist: Aafia Siddiqui, Political Prisoner (Counterpunch) If approved as a U.S. judge in the Eastern District of New York…

“Despite the fact that many of the Bedouins are living on the ancestral homelands, while others were internally displaced after 1940, Israel views them as ‘trespassers’ on their land and does not recognize their ownership’”: What’s Happening in the Naqab? Israel Uproots Palestinians to Plant Trees (Mondoweiss) “[A]n American military presence in Iraq and Syria…

The disgraceful prison at Guantanamo still holds 18 prisoners whose release has been ordered, more continue to be held without charge … Guantánamo Turns 20: Ex-Prisoner Moazzam Begg Calls on Biden to Close Site & End Legacy of Torture (Democracy Now) … and now that the war under which they were taken prisoner has ended…

The U.S. Department of State is calling for an investigation into the death of a man witnesses say “was stopped by Israeli forces while driving home, then dragged out of the car, gagged and handcuffed, and left to die”: Israeli Forces Kill 80-Year-Old Palestinian American Man in Violent Arrest (Democracy Now) The whistleblower came to…

“One attendee from the resistance side said the atmosphere at the talks, held Saturday and Sunday, indicated ‘flexibility’ on the part of Taliban officials” … Taliban Meets with Opposition Militia Representatives in Iran (Washington Post) … “but Iran is still ‘not at the point of officially recognising Taliban’”: Iran Says Won’t Officially Recognise Taliban After…

“I’ve observed trial proceedings in person at Guantánamo. The chipper ‘secrecy’ imposed by the military is insulting, anti-democratic, and cowardly” — Michael Bronner, producer of the 2021 film The Mauritanian: ‘Anti-Democratic and Cowardly’: US Building New Secret Courtroom at Guantánamo (Common Dreams) “Radicalised groups openly calling for genocide of Muslims are roaming free [in India]…

Kazakh ambitions to replace Russian with their own language as the official language provokes troubling rhetoric: Is Kazakhstan Russia’s Next Ukraine? (Middle East Soccer) “While the Houthis have hit Saudi Arabia several times recently, it is a small fraction of cross-border strikes, with the Saudis carrying out dramatically more airstrikes against sites in Yemen”: UN…

As Iran demands U.N. condemnation of the U.S. and a trial for Donald Trump for extra-territorial assassination … Iran Calls for UN Action on US over killing of Qassem Soleimani (Aljazeera) Iran Vows Revenge for Soleimani Killing if Trump Not Put on Trial (Reuters) … “[M]embers of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces were chanting against the…

Transporting “Noureddine Bhairi and his sister-in-law … to an unknown destination” is President Kais Saied’s latest move to drag Tunisia into tyranny: Tunisia’s Ennahdha Party Says Senior Official Detained (Aljazeera) At one point Facebook blamed the “widescale deletion of Palestinian posts” on “a technical bug that it sought to fix,” but, to the alarm of…