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[ad_1] A court in Moscow has taken away 123 properties from the Jehovah’s Witnesses and given them to the Russian government. The properties include 63 homes and business buildings totaling more than 11,000 square meters (118,000 square feet) plus 60 pieces of land totaling 5.6 hectares (13.8 acres). Russia banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses as an “extremist organization” in 2017, a decision the European Court of Human Rights later called illegal, and many members have since been jailed for what authorities call “extremist activity.” [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] There is no ceasefire in Gaza; no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is only genocide. It changes shape and intensity but not its essence. The Peace President – by Mr. Fish. By Chris HedgesScheerPost There is no ceasefire in Gaza. There is no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is no roadmap to ending the genocide or mechanism to creation of a Palestinian state. Israel has refused to implement or abide by any of the conditions of Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” since its inception. It won’t begin to honor them now. There is only genocide. It…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Most people recognize that Donald Trump and his kids are stealing from us with both hands every day. But they are not as outraged as they should be because most have the view that everyone does it. While I will never defend the Democrats as paragons of honesty (what the hell are those crypto contributions?), they are not in the same ballpark as Trump and his crew. Part of the confusion stems from the media’s refusal to ever put big numbers in context. They all know that the vast majority of…

[ad_1] One aspect of the South Florida facility has drawn far less attention, though: the name itself, and the long history of associating alligators with racist ideas about people of color. I’m a historian of wildlife, the environment and American culture who has studied the cultural and environmental history of the American alligator. My research shows that the species has carried a variety of meanings in the United States, ranging from a prized source of leather for luxury fashion to an emblem of Florida identity. Less well known is the reptile’s role in the nation’s history of racial stereotyping. For…

[ad_1] Make Love Not AI. OpenAI’s “head of ethics” suddenly leaves the company under mysterious circumstances. AI‑designed viruses are a test of whether biosecurity can keep pace. Skywatcher: The UFO Disclosure team that disappeared. An engineer says he’s found a way to overcome earth’s gravity—SHHHH! Not so loud, they’ll hear you! (Video) The unexpected pattern found in the Ubatuba material | The Sol Forum clip (Video) Beyond the Stars: UFOs and death symbolism with Joshua Cutchin | CITD 2026. Witnesses often describe colors emitted by UFOs which defy definition. A few scientists who discovered a new color might relate (archived…

[ad_1] Mali remains in chaos. Al-Qaeda-linked militants and Tuareg separatists have recently demonstrated an ability to coordinate attacks against the Malian military, while the country’s Russian-backed junta struggles to maintain control over territory far beyond the capital. Violence has spread across the Sahel, and Mali remains one of the epicenters of the region’s seemingly endless war against jihadist insurgencies. Washington’s answer, as usual, is to ask what more it can do. That is the wrong question. The more important question is what Washington has already done. For all the attention devoted to Mali’s military coups, Tuareg separatism, Islamist extremism, French…

[ad_1] Image Source: ElijahPepe – Own work, derivate of Template:2023 Sudanese Clashes detailed map This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. The original can be viewed here: Sudan adm location map.svg – CC BY-SA 4.0 There is now strong evidence of closer ties between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Iran. Yet almost every aspect of it is still disputed. Some of the wilder claims such as Iran wanting a permanent naval base on Sudan’s Red Sea coast remain unconfirmed. Claims of chemical-weapons use by the SAF in its war…

[ad_1] LONDON — The New York Times, normally so squeamish about the use of firearms, recently published a highly sympathetic account of a woman using a gun to defend herself in Wyoming. Unfortunately, the woman wasn’t a woman, but a man claiming to be a woman. And “she” wasn’t defending herself, she was the aggressor. (Pronouns translated into British under order of the Crown Court.) The Times’ video of the incident shows the transgender, who goes by “Rihanna” but still dresses like a man, walking, right hand on her holstered gun, directly into the path of three men crossing the…

[ad_1] According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s 2025 military budget at only $7.5 billion. So how is Iran holding its own against the multi-trillion-dollar US war machine? A critical difference between the US war on Iran and previous US and allied bombing campaigns against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now…

[ad_1] Jason Arday, the disgraced Cambridge sociology professor who resigned on August 5 over plagiarism claims, will no doubt bounce back. As he said himself in a Times interview: “We’re talking about academia here. I didn’t murder somebody.” Arday, appointed professor of sociology of education and fellow of Jesus College at the age of 37, is now a national celebrity. He is a cause supported by a legion of wealthy anti-racist backers allied to the left-wing Good Law Project, who have defended him against accusations of bare-faced lying. One of the UK’s leading defamation law firms, Carter-Ruck, is firebombing anyone…