State Power Crushes Accountability from Border to Battlefield
A federal judge ordered the return of a cartel witness deported three times after finding likely due process violations, exposing an immigration system that discards inconvenient testimony as casually as it discards people the state expelled him repeatedly.
When pressed about the Iran war, a CENTCOM press official threatened to put an Intercept reporter on a "list of people to disregard," and the Pentagon spokesperson admitted the existence of a secret blacklist of journalists operating outside any public rule the blacklist functions as a prior restraint dressed in camouflage.
Two Phoenix police officers were fired and arrested after an unreported traffic stop in which they assaulted a man and a woman and shocked them with a Taser; the police chief said the stop had never been logged the cover-up was standard practice until exposure forced action.
Zambian authorities sealed off the court grounds where an opposition leader is preparing to challenge the outcome of Aug. 13 elections, as the deadline to file a petition draws near the shutdown turned the judiciary into a physical barrier against democratic contestation.
Iran's currency has hit a record low as Washington prepares to announce new sanctions it said would be an "economic D-Day" the sanctions target a population, not a policy, wielding hunger as a weapon of statecraft.
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans the decision to fire no longer requires a human operator, only capital's investment in autonomous lethality.
As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C. enters its second year, guard members who served many months on the mission describe the toll of domestic militarization the occupation normalizes military force against the cities that feed the empire.
A sailor onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln said his father was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while he spent roughly nine months deployed at sea amid reported shortages of clean water, food and supplies the war machine deports the families that staff it.
Australian rank-and-file industrial workers demanded freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk, whose only crime has been fighting for the unification of Ukrainian and Russian workers to oppose a war that comes at their expense through their pockets and blood internationalist resistance names the real enemy: the class that profits across every border.
Residents of Gary, Indiana fight to survive without power for twelve days and counting in what community leaders call a "Katrina moment" infrastructure collapse is not an accident but a budget choice, written in the language of austerity.