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María Corina Machado: Venezuelan opposition leader wins Nobel Peace Prize Machado is recognised for "tireless work promoting democratic rights" in Venezuela, the Nobel Committee says.

María Corina Machado: Venezuelan opposition leader wins Nobel Peace Prize

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Not at all Nobel.

The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

“If the EU cannot enforce its own laws then it is a vassal to Washington and to Silicon Valley, with Trump as its overlord.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unity is desperately needed, but the EU prefers turf wars to facing down Russia | Paul Taylor Failure to agree a common defence strategy risks emboldening Vladimir Putin. The squabbles have to stop, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

Unity is desperately needed, but the EU prefers turf wars to facing down Russia | Paul Taylor

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

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It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

The Garden after Gaza: Final Meditation After the Wasteland, a New Imperium

Just published. “there is no timeline for transition from the new Board of Peace, which so eerily echos the old British 1922 Palestinian Mandate, to vaguely promised and defined Palestinian self-rule … .”
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“I did not believe Israel would reach the point of starving people to death. I did not believe it would, on average, erase a classroom of children every single day … . Nor did I believe the world would permit Israel to do all this … .”

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

Stephen Miller straight up murdered people in those boats off the coast of Venezuela and this is their attempt to make it legal.

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’ Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech

4/5 L’Etat de Californie sanctionnera immédiatement toute université qui accepterait le deal de l’administration

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

New from 404 Media: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells me "we are determined to fight this."

"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."

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Not good.

I have to go.

« Ce que le plan de Donald Trump pour Gaza passe sous silence en dit beaucoup plus que ce qu’il propose » CHRONIQUE. Si on ne peut que saluer la tentative de trouver une issue à la guerre entre Israël et le Hamas, le plan présenté par Donald Trump omet de nombreux éléments déterminants pour l’avenir de la...

"Une pacification de Gaza, et de Gaza seulement, ne peut pas être la paix." Gilles Paris @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Trump comments on the opposition: "I  thought [I] would be met with fury on the left, but they're sort of giving up."

 "I really thought that we were gonna have to sort of fight it through. There's been no fight."

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

“The … nerds who promised us a future of universal brotherhood … have thus been able to transform themselves into frightening molochs, engaged in a ruthless war for planetary and intergalactic supremacy, with no rules or responsibilities to counterbalance their immoderate power.” on.ft.com/3WbdPy4

The format is the politics | Shehr | thenews.com.pk How media was instrumentalised after Charlie Kirk’s murder

"The old regime of meaning-making, wherein editors determined exposure and sequence, is defunct. Now the crowd publishes first. Institutions scramble to retrofit coherence." Narendra Pachkhédé www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1...

The Banality of Watchability: Nuremberg and Western Moral Failure - NAKED PUNCH Nuremberg restages justice as heritage cinema—grand sets, solemn tones, clever repartee—yet in doing so, it reveals the deepest irony of accountability: law

"Nuremberg arrives in 2025, the very year the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has delivered its most damning interim findings against Israel and the West has responded not with accountability but with equivocation, military aid, and vetoes at the UN." nakedpunch.com/the-banality...

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

“The executive told Israel officials that Microsoft “is not in the business of facilitating the mass surveillance of civilians” and notified them that it would “disable” access to services that supported the Unit 8200 surveillance project …”. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Sarkozy Guilty of Conspiracy to Use Libyan Money for 2007 Campaign Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France, was convicted of plotting to finance his election bid with help from the government of Muammar el-Qaddafi.

Breaking News: Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s former president, was found guilty of conspiring with Libya to illegally finance his 2007 campaign.

Au Danemark, des drones d’origine inconnue survolent plusieurs aéroports pour la deuxième fois de la semaine Les drones ont été repérés au-dessus des aéroports d’Aalborg (Nord), d’Esbjerg (Ouest), de Sonderborg (Sud) et de la base aérienne militaire de Skrydstrup (Sud) avant de repartir de leur propre chef, a annoncé la police jeudi.

Au Danemark, des drones d’origine inconnue survolent plusieurs aéroports pour la deuxième fois de la semaine

«Enshittification» : la nouvelle doctrine de l'Empire américain | Le Grand Continent Le plan de l’administration Trump pour faire du reste du monde un vassal d’extrême droite — et les moyens pour le déjouer. Une pièce de doctrine signée Henry Farrell et Abraham Newman.

« Le dispositif déployé par Washington est bien plus subtil qu’un simple chantage : l’administration Trump veut utiliser son contrôle sur les infrastructures numériques pour faire de l’Europe un vassal d’extrême droite. » legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...