Operatives from an elite CIA-trained paramilitary unit massacred at least 51 civilians in 10 previously undocumented night raids.

Asia

Pakistan

The Intercept

A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be America’s Exit Strategy From Its Longest War

In 2020, a young father in Idlib, Syria, posted a video of himself teaching his four-year-old daughter to laugh when she heard incoming bombs. In the video, a strike can be heard, then the little rosy-cheeked girl, standing on a couch next to her father, erupts into laughter.

US & Canada

New York, NY

New York

A Photographer Watched Syria’s Children While Their Government Bombed Them

The missiles that killed Salim bin Ahmed Ali Jaber and Walid bin Ali Jaber came in the night. Salim was a respected imam in the village of Khashamir, in southeastern Yemen, who had made a name for himself denouncing the rising power of Al Qaeda’s franchise in the Arabian Peninsula. His cousin Walid was a local police officer.

Facing Years in Prison, Daniel Hale Makes Case Against U.S. Drone Program

Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, is pushing back on Democratic President Joe Biden administration's decision to airstrike in Somalia.

Newsweek

Common Dreams

Ilhan Omar demands answers from White House on airstrike in Somalia

Let’s Build Infrastructure is preparing to launch formally in Washington, D.C., next week with a six-figure advertising blitz focused on pressing lawmakers to use privatization, rather than taxation, to pay for the infrastructure proposals debated in Congress.

Mystery Group Promoting Infrastructure Privatization Boosted by Toll Road Lobbyists

Many people here think they are safe from climate change, the journalist from a German newspaper explained to me. They don’t see it as an immediate threat, like Covid-19. They see the Greens as scolds who want to take away their cheap holidays.

Climate Change

Stuck in the Smoke as Billionaires Blast Off

In the wake of an extreme heat event in the Pacific Northwest that killed at least 200 people, a scientist testified before Congress that the deaths could have been prevented.

“We Knew Who Was Going to Die”: Warnings About Lower-Income Heat Risk Went Unheeded

The assassination earlier this month of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is raising new questions about the threat posed by international mercenaries. It also casts a new light on a story The Intercept published last month that revealed the existence of a 2020 coup plot against the newly elected president of Bolivia, Luis Arcé, successor to the country’s long-serving leftist President Evo Morales.

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