In Response to a 2024 DOJ Report, Phoenix Police Claim They Won't Use Force Excessively on Kids. Yet, All Force Used Offensively on People is Excessive, Authority to do so is Immoral and Illegitimate

DOJ says Phoenix Cops Routinely Unlawfully Stop, Detain and Arrest Black, Latino and Homeless People and DA Disproportionately Charge and Over Charge Them w/Crimes, Violating Their Imaginary "Rights"

From [HERE] In June 2024, the Department of Justice issued a damning report on the abuses of Phoenix police, laying out in painstaking detail how cops routinely trampled the rights of residents. Some of those abuses involved minors, who were on the receiving end of unnecessary force and aggressive treatment by police.

“(The Phoenix Police Department) does not take into account the vulnerability of children and their stage of development,” the DOJ report read. “As one sergeant explained, ‘We don’t really treat youth any differently than adults.’”

Now, in an announcement that reads like a direct response to the DOJ report, the police department has avowed it will treat youth differently from adults. On Thursday, Phoenix police publicized its new “Youth Interactions” policies, which are meant to guide officers in their encounters with minors.

The department is seeking public input on the new policies, which are not merely updates to previous policies. Phoenix police spokesperson Sgt. Jennifer Zak confirmed to Phoenix New Times that the department “did not previously have a policy specifically for the interactions with our youth, who are an important part of our community.”

“This new policy is all part of the Phoenix Police Department’s commitment to continuous improvement,” she added.

The city is accepting comments on the policy through Nov. 22.

The new policies begin with an assertion that should seem obvious: that “youth are developmentally different from adults” and that police should calibrate their interactions according to those differences. From there, the policies go on to provide guidelines on practices that were specifically called out in the DOJ report.

THANKS FOR YOUR VOTE NGHR BUT KEEP THE CHANGE: TREADMILLING BLACK PUPPETICIANS RUN THEIR MOUTHS ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY BUT COPS ARE MURDERING BLACK PEOPLE IN CITIES WHERE WHITE LIBERALS ARE IN CONTROL

RIGHTS ARE CULTURAL GRATUITIES PERCEIVED THROUGH VARIOUS FANTASY FRAMES CREATED TO PROVIDE A PRETENSE OF CIVILITY UNDER A SYSTEM WHEREBY THEIR VERY UNDERMINING AND VIOLATION IS VOUCHSAFED- FUNKTIONARY

Answering the DOJ report

One portion of the new policies discusses when and why cops can place handcuffs on minors. The DOJ report noted that Phoenix officers “use excessive force during encounters with kids,” and that “nearly every child we interviewed complained officers closed handcuffs on their wrists so tightly that they reached the point of pain and injury.” In some cases, the cuffs were so tight that kids’ hands went numb and their wrists carried marks for months.

“Others said they sustained deep cuts on their wrists and, when they asked officers to loosen the cuffs, PhxPD instead tightened them further,” the report said.

Seemingly in response, the new youth interaction policies state that “the Department recognizes that detaining or handcuffing youth may cause trauma.” The policies now prohibit cops from handcuffing kids “to intimidate or scare them” or when kids “are not under arrest or detained and/or do not pose a safety risk.” If kids are found to have committed no offense, they are to be uncuffed “immediately.” [MORE]

After the Marshall Project Found that Cleveland Police Stopped and Searched Black People 3X More than Whites, Liberal Authorities Hired a Firm to Create a Report that Refutes It w/rigged Mythematics

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:  

mythematics – the manipulation of statistics to formulate and reflect the validity a preconceived desired result or position in an academic and/or socio-political context. (See: Statistics)

From [HERE] Amid public perception that Cleveland police target Black drivers, city officials have contracted with a data analytics firm to help department leaders monitor potential bias and discrimination by officers.

The move comes one year after a Marshall Project - Cleveland and News 5 analysis of 17,000 police stops found police searched Black people more than three times as often as White people during 2023 stops — despite finding contraband at similar rates.

Leigh Anderson, executive director of Cleveland’s Police Accountability Team, said the contract delivers on a promise that city leaders made in October 2024 to engage outside experts to review traffic stop data.

“Our commitment is really to the community to make sure that that wasn’t rooted in racial bias,” Anderson said. “I recognize the weight of public concern when it comes to trust in law enforcement.”

The new partnership with Sigma Squared adds more oversight to a department under a federal consent decree since 2015, following years of excessive force complaints and paying millions of dollars in lawsuit settlements and judgments for police misconduct.

Cleveland police searched Black people more than three times as often as White people during stops in 2023 — despite finding contraband at similar rates, a Marshall Project - Cleveland and WEWS News 5 analysis found.

The analysis examined the race of people stopped by Cleveland officers and was developed using data the city was required to provide under a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice in 2015, following years of excessive force complaints and paying millions of dollars in lawsuit settlements and judgments for police misconduct.

A preliminary analysis of 2024 traffic and investigatory stops by Sigma Squared found that Cleveland police did not target Black drivers, records show.

The analysis also found that police recovered contraband at similar rates regardless of race, records show. The city expects to release a final analysis once it is completed.

Harvard economists Roland Fryer and Tanaya Devi founded Sigma Squared in the wake of nationwide social justice protests in 2020. Police departments in Louisville and New Orleans also hired Sigma Squared recently.

Sigma Squared will provide the city with a dashboard where Police Chief Dorothy Todd and her command staff can see the number of police stops in any area of the city. The data will help them analyze whether the encounters triggered an arrest, a warning, a citation or a search and seizure, officials said.

Todd said she looks forward to being able to examine practices in near real time and make necessary adjustments instead of waiting a year for data.

“This is our commitment and dedication to compliance with the consent decree,” Todd said. “This shows that what we're doing is working. This shows the changes that have been made.”

As shootings continue to make headlines, the biggest task is to reduce violent crime and keep residents safe by targeting crime hot spots — regardless of the location, Todd said.

Cuban American Confronts Federal Race Soldier Cops Arbitrarily Stopping Law Abiding NonWhite People

Are Authorities Scaring Non-White People Into Supporting a Digital ID? On Video ICE Race Soldiers Arbitrarily Stop a Latino Looking Woman Outside a Walmart and Demand to Know Where She Was Born

In Nazi Germany How Could Cops Tell Who Was Jewish & Who Was Not? During Nazi Gernamy Jews were identified by the outward marking of persons - as Jews six years or older could only appear in public when wearing the Jewish star on their clothing. [Identification papers are an importatnt part of any police state system as are restrictions on people's freedom of movement.] In a system of racism/white supremacy there is no need for any such star or outward marking because your skin color makes you their target.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services Renews Request to Require People to Disclose All Social Media Platforms, Identifiers Used Over Past 5yrs for Visas, Visa-free entry, Residency or Citizenship

Doubling down on its attack on anonymity and disregarding comments from the Identity Project and more than a thousand other organizations and individuals, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has renewed its request for blanket authorization to require applicants for US visas, visa-free entry, residency, or citizenship to disclose every social media platform and identifier they have used in the last five years.

Today the Identity Project and Restore The Fourth (RT4) filed comments opposing this USCIS proposal for dragnet social media surveillance of foreign visitors and residents and the US citizens with whom they communicate and associate on social media.

USCIS made no significant changes in response to the first round of public comments and ignored most of the issues we and others raised, including the ways that social media surveillance would impact First Amendment rights of assembly and association. [MORE]

Under the Guise of Immigration Enforcement, ICE Is Mounting a Mass Surveillance Campaign on American Citizens

While a federal judge scrutinizes the constitutionality of tactics used by federal immigration authorities during ongoing protests in Chicago, these same agencies are quietly amassing behind-the-scenes surveillance technology. Originally slated to target undocumented immigrants, the technology is now being used to investigate protestersof President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. 

Backed by funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in July, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has entered into contracts with companies to provide surveillance capabilities like facial recognition algorithms, an iris-scanningidentification app, controversial spyware on smartphones, and a real-time smartphone location and social media tracking system. In September alone, ICE racked up $1.4 billion in new surveillance technology contracts, the highest in at least 18 years, according to The Washington Post. 

These contracts are in addition to any privately owned surveillance networks to which ICE has access. Flock Safety, for example, has allowed ICE to access over 80,000 of its AI-powered license plate reader cameras installed nationwide, according to 404 Media. The expansive—and growing—mass surveillance camera network captures the license plate number, make, model, and any distinctive features of all passing vehicles, making it possible to track cars and, by extension, drivers, often without a warrant. 

Although ICE has sold its surveillance campaign as necessary to locating and deporting undocumented immigrations, the Trump administration has signaled that the technologies will also be used on American citizens. In September, Trump signed an executive order designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization and signaled that federal agencies, including ICE, should devote resources to investigating the network. Todd M. Lyons, acting director of ICE, told Glenn Beck during an interview shortly after the executive order was signed that the agency would "track the money," "ringleaders," and "professional agitators" who are "being brought in" from outside the Chicago area to protest against immigration enforcement. But whether from Chicago or elsewhere, protester or "domestic terrorist," constitutional rights and limitations still apply, although adherence by federal agencies is being questioned. [MORE]

Experimental AI Technology Used at a Public School in Baltimore County Confused a Bag of Chips with a Firearm, Which Led Cops to Falsely Detain, Search and Niggerize Student at Gun Point

From [HERE] He ate a bag of Doritos and crumpled it up in his pocket when he was done.

But he had no idea that action would lead to guns in his face 20 minutes later.

"Police showed up, like eight cop cars, and then they all came out with guns pointed at me talking about getting on the ground. I was putting my hands up like, 'what's going on?' He told me to get on my knees and arrested me and put me in cuffs," Allen said.

Officers searched him and then found the empty bag by the door.

He said an officer then showed him a picture from the AI detection system the school uses saying the crumpled-up chip bag looked like a firearm.

Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers told reporters that the system worked how it was meant to.

"The program is based on human verification and in this case the program did what it was supposed to do which was to signal an alert and for humans to take a look to find out if there was cause for concern in that moment," Rogers said.

But Allen is skeptical.

"I don't think no chip bag should be mistaken for a gun at all," he said.

The school's principal Kate Smith sent a letter to parents saying in part, "Please know that ensuring the safety of our students and school community is one of our highest priorities."

But Allen said Smith didn't come to speak to him until three days after the incident happened.

"I was expecting them to at least come up to me after the situation or the day after, but three days later that just shows like, do you really care or are you just doing it because the superintendent called me," Allen said. 

He told WMAR-2 News that the principal asked him how he was and to come to her if he needed anything.

Now, he feels on edge at a place where he's supposed to feel safe.

"Now, I feel like sometimes after practice I don't go outside anymore. Cause if I go outside, I don't want - don't think I'm safe enough to go outside, especially eating a bag of chips or drinking something. I just stay inside until my ride comes," said Allen.

Finding the Racist Roots of Maryland’s Juvenile Justice System [a state controlled by elite white liberals]

From [HERE] The Maryland juvenile justice system dates back to 1830, when the state adopted what was then a radical policy of jailing children and adults separately. The point was to shield kids, who were often jailed for minor offenses like vagrancy, from what corrections officials described as “the contaminating influences of evil and corrupt companions” in an 1870 report.

The state’s first juvenile correctional facility — the House of Refuge — opened its doors in 1855. But this Baltimore City jail was only for White boys. It would take the state almost 20 more years — and the end of the Civil War — to open the House of Reformation in Cheltenham for Black boys as young as 5.

The two youth prisons were by no means “separate but equal.” Our research revealed that, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the White facility received more funding from the state government and Baltimore City, more positive press attention, and more programming than the Black one. Even the facility names spoke to different attitudes about what these children were in need of: White youth required “refuge;” Black youth needed “reformation.”

While the Whites-only facility emphasized education, the state’s 1870 report prescribed work for Black “juvenile offenders” who could not “be expected to rise superior to the favored race.” To this end, boys at the House of Reformation were leased out to local farmers, often in cruel conditions. “I was at Cheltenham [three] years, [five] months, and a few days, and I had school two afternoons during this time,” a former prisoner named William Creasy told The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper in 1925. “They would hire the boys out with mean people who hated colored people, and the boys were worked just like slaves.” [MORE]

Alabama Authorities Tortured Anthony Boyd Before "Executing" Him Using Nitrogen Suffocation. For 38 Minutes the Black Man Jolted, Trembled, Took Deep, Open-Mouthed and Chest-Heaving Gasping Breaths

From [HERE] The State of Alabama executed Anthony Boyd by nitrogen suffocation yesterday. It was the longest execution recorded as a result of this experimental method of execution that raises serious concerns that Alabama is subjecting people to torture and cruelty.

His execution was carried out after three justices of the Supreme Court warned about the risk that Mr. Boyd would suffer during the execution. Earlier this week, Mr. Boyd’s lawyers had asked the Court to stay the execution, arguing that Alabama’s use of nitrogen suffocation as a method of execution was unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. While a majority of the Court denied the stay request, Justice Sotomayor, writing on behalf of Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissented due to concerns about the significant and lengthy suffering Mr. Boyd would be subjected to during his execution by nitrogen suffocation.

Justice Sotomayor wrote that Mr. Boyd would be subjected to “unnecessary psychological terror” throughout his execution, as he faced “up to seven full minutes of conscious, excruciating suffocation,” during which time he would undergo “severe emotional suffering” while “consciously experiencing the ‘primal urge to breath.’” This result amounted to a “superadded psychological torment” that “goes well beyond what is inherent in any constitutional method of execution.”

Excruciating and Tormenting Effects of Nitrogen Suffocation

Justice Sotomayor pointed to witness accounts of the seven executions that have been carried out by nitrogen suffocation to date as evidence for the dissent’s concerns about the excruciating and tormenting effects of the execution method.

In January, 2024, Kenneth Smith was forced to inhale nitrogen gas through a mask, writhed in pain, “thrash[ed] against the straps” binding him to the gurney, “violently jerk[ed]” his head and body back and forth for several minutes, “heav[ed] and retch[ed] inside the mask,” clenched his fists, and gasped for air as fluid filled his mask. Mr. Smith was not pronounced deceased until 32 minutes had elapsed.

In September, 2024, Alan Miller “started to shake very intensely,” “gasped, shook[,] and struggled against his restraints,” and was not pronounced dead until more than 16 minutes elapsed.

In November, 2024, Carey Grayson “shook ‘his head vigorously,’” “struggled[] while clearly still breathing,” and “raised both of his legs far off the gurney as he pushed against the restraints” until he, too, was pronounced dead after 16 minutes.

In February and June 2025, respectively, Demetrius Frazier and Geoffrey Hunt both suffered from “apparent consciousness for minutes, not seconds; and violent convulsing, eyes bulging, consistent thrashing against the restraints, and clear gasping for the air that will not come.”

And in September 2025, Geoffrey West “coughed and gasped deeply,” “appeared to foam at the mouth,” and rolled his head from side to side as his face became purple. These seven executions have made clear, Justice Sotomayor wrote, that “nitrogen hypoxia is not at all what it was promised to be.”

“Shuddering, Open-mouthed, Chest-heaving Gasps”

The reality of Mr. Boyd’s execution proved that the three dissenting justices’ concerns over the continued use of nitrogen suffocation as an experimental method of execution were correct.

After being administered nitrogen gas through a mask, 38 minutes went by before Mr. Boyd was officially pronounced dead, a period of time the Commissioner for the Alabama Department of Corrections conceded was the longest for any execution carried out by nitrogen suffocation.

During those 38 minutes, Mr. Boyd’s body “began to jolt,” he “appeared to tremble and stutter,” and “take deep, gasping breaths” that “appeared to speed up” and turned into “shuddering, open-mouthed, chest-heaving gasps” before Mr. Boyd took “a few shallow, choke-like breaths” that caused his head to “loll back and then to the side,” all signs of suffering in line with the other individuals executed by nitrogen suffocation.

One witness commented that it looked like Mr. Boyd was “gasping for air,” just as Justice Sotomayor feared.

Lee Hedgpeth, an official media witness, documented Mr. Boyd’s suffering, including the fact that he “thrash[ed] against his restraints,” that his “eyes rolled back, leaving only their whites, the color of the sheet,” and that Mr. Boyd took a “series of deep, agonized breaths that last for more than 15 minutes, each break shuddering Boyd’s restrained head and neck,” and noted that Mr. Boyd was “still visibly moving during what may have been a consciousness check” many minutes after the execution had begun.

The Hague Court Grants Israel Another Extension in Genocide Case brought by South Africa

From [HERE] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has granted Israel another extension to submit its evidence in response to South Africa's argument that it has committed genocide in Gaza. 

In an order dated 20 October and published on Thursday, the ICJ said it has accepted Israel's request to further extend its deadline by two months to 12 March 2026, after an earlier extension to 12 January. 

The ICJ's original deadlines for the two states to deliver their written arguments were 28 October 2024 for South Africa and 28 July 2025 for Israel to file its counter-arguments, known as “counter-memorials”. 

South Africa complied with its deadline, but Israel in April requested an extension of six months, which South Africa opposed.

The ICJ compromised, granting a five-and-a-half month extension to 12 January 2026.

Israel then sent a letter to the court on 14 October, asking for a second extension of at least five months.

Its representative explained that some evidentiary issues related to South Africa's submission remained "unresolved" due to "the status of a number of documents referred to via hyperlinks which had not been annexed to that pleading".

Israel added that another reason for its request relates to its devotion of "significant attention and resources" to engage with the court on the Advisory Opinion on Israel's humanitarian obligations, which the court delivered on Wedesday.

South Africa urged the court to reject Israel's request, since the latter had already been granted an extension on the same grounds raised in its latest letter.

"The extension requested would be irreconcilable with the urgency of the case and the principle of equality between the Parties," the ICJ cited South Africa as saying. [MORE]

Do You Believe in the Existence of Antifa? Small, Inconsequential Loose Group of Fake Anarchists Have No Presence in Most Cities. Exaggerated as Boogeyman by Republicrats to Expand Governmental Power

ANARCHISTS/VOLUNTARYISTS CANNOT ALSO BE STATIST. Democratic strategist James Carville has reignited the debate over the existence and nature of Antifa, proclaiming the left-wing movement to be literally "non-existent" during a fiery appearance on the "Politics War Room" podcast this Wednesday.

Carville, the colorful political commentator, launched into an inflammatory rant dismissing the movement—which garnered significant national attention during the Summer 2020 riots in cities like Portland and Seattle—as little more than "vapor" because it lacks a formal structure or leadership.

"I don’t know who the f--k Antifa is. I want to punch the president of Antifa? Give me his address," Carville challenged in a clip posted to Politicon’s YouTube channel. "Where do I find this son of a b--ch? … Where’s the headquarters? Who is the board of directors?"

The strategist was unyielding in his assertion, arguing that attacking Antifa is akin to "attacking air."

"There is no such thing as Antifa. It’s like attacking vapor. There is no Antifa," he insisted. "It’s not an organization. There’s no nothing!"

Carville is not alone in the Democratic sphere in downplaying Antifa's organizational status. ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel previously asserted, "There’s no Antifa... This is an entirely imaginary organization."

However, the political and legal implications of the movement are far from imaginary for the Trump administration. President Donald Trump previously designated Antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" via executive order and later announced plans to designate it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

Furthermore, the Department of Justice brought its first federal terrorism case against two individuals linked to the left-wing ideology who allegedly coordinated an attack on a Texas federal immigration detention facility.

Despite the administration's actions and the movement's prominent visibility during the unrest, Carville stands firm: "They loop into this and they keep repeating it and it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as Antifa." [MORE]

The Right to Possess and Carry Firearms is for Racists Only to Trump and the NRA: Hypocritical Elite Republicrats Have Committed Few Resources to Winsome Earle-Sears’ Campaign

From [HERE] “Why does Polymarket say Sears has little chance of winning?” a question from comment poster “Akai” asks under the AmmoLand article “NRA and President Trump Can Determine Whether Virginia Goes to [Winsome] Earle-Sears or the Democrats.” It’s a fair observation.

That column notes that National Rifle Association leaders have not demonstrated a commitment of resources and manpower equivalent to a plan submitted to them detailing district strategies needed to get low-propensity gun voters to the polls, and that President Trump has yet to come out with a full-bore campaign commitment for the Republican candidate.

It’s also an accurate question. The cryptocurrency-based prediction site, with an impressive accuracy percentage, allows individuals to place bets on various future events. In this case, the smart money says it’ll be a blowout, with Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s chances predicted at 95% to Earle-Seares’ 5 %.

What does that mean? Are NRA and President Trump showing political savviness by not getting too deep into a race that can’t be won, thus avoiding Democrat gloating that will attempt to exploit their positions as vulnerable in the aftermath of the November election through to the 2026 national midterms?

Who thinks Democrats won’t do that anyway? And left unsaid is how predictions could have changed if the aggressive and well-funded district-by-district organizing campaign presented to NRA before early voting had begun had been adopted and implemented, and if President Trump had used his bully pulpit to urge his followers to get out the vote for  Earle-Sears early on, instead of finally speaking up a few days ago and admitting “he has not ‘been too much involved’ in the gubernatorial election in Virginia.”

Why not? Aside from a grudge over something Earle-Sears, who has since offered praise for MAGA, said about him? Plenty of people he’s gone on to embrace have said worse. [MORE]

Nigeria Committing Atrocities, Crimes Against Humanity with American Arms and Aid

The very week the United States’ Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a $346 million arms sale to Nigeria, the U.S. State Department also released its 2024 Country report on human rights practices in the West African country.

The report, which has previously affected the country’s eligibility for security assistance, confirmed what civil society groups have been saying for years: that the security forces of Nigeria, Washington’s most significant ally in Sub-Saharan Africa, habitually operate with impunity and without due regard for human rights protection — a key condition for receiving U.S. security cooperation.

For example, the report spotlighted the following human rights abuses as ongoing concerns: “arbitrary and unlawful killings; disappearances; or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; arbitrary arrest or detention; serious abuses in a conflict.”

It also claimed that “military operations against ISIS-WA, Boko Haram, and criminal organization targets” often resulted in civilian deaths. Other findings include the use of “excessive force,” “sexual violence and other forms of abuse” by the military in the pursuit of jihadists, as well as inappropriate detention for prolonged periods and often in poor conditions of women and children removed from or allegedly associated with jihadists reportedly for “security screening and perceived intelligence value.”

Interestingly, the new arms sale is meant for exactly the same theater of operations where the above alleged abuses have reportedly occurred. There, in the treacherous terrain of the country’s northeast, Nigeria’s army has been fighting for more than a decade in a bloody stand-off with jihadists. The arms are also meant for use in and around the Gulf of Guinea where piracy and illegal trafficking of arms, humans and narcotics pose new challenges.

What this means therefore is that if approved, U.S.-origin weapons comprising an assortment of munitions, precision bombs, rockets and related equipment would arm units of Nigeria’s security forces whose egregious abuses bordering on war crimes are confirmed not just by civil societies but by the U.S. State Department.

Since the 1950s, the U.S. has been the world’s leading arms-exporting nation accounting between 2019 and 2023 for 42 percent of all global arms exports. Several laws exist ostensibly to regulate and ensure that U.S. security assistance is provided to allies without undermining America’s core values. For example, Section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act expressly forbids the United States from providing security assistance to any country whose government engages in a “consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.” Investigations by human rights groups and the media, including Reuters and Premium Times, have uncovered a consistent pattern of abuse by security forces that suggests that Nigeria has met this threshold.

However, not once have any of the relevant legal provisions conditioning arms sales on respect for human rights and civilian harm concerns been enforced. Indeed, successive U.S. administrations since the 1970s, Democrats and Republicans alike, have routinely ignored them while there is as yet no record of Congress successfully stopping an arms sale on this account — although it has delayed some. In 2022, during the Biden administration, Congress blocked a planned shipment of 12 AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria over human rights concern, but this was soon reversed. [MORE]

Israel's Genocide in Gaza Impossible without Global Complicity, UN report says 63 European States Paid for It, Arab States Taking No Action

From [HERE] A new United Nations report reveals that more than 60 countries are complicit in the "collective crime" of enabling Israel's genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. 

An advanced version of the report by UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, was made available on Monday. 

In her second report this year, Albanese called the genocide a “collective crime, sustained by the complicity of influential Third States that have enabled longstanding systemic violations of international law by Israel".

"Framed by colonial narratives that dehumanize the Palestinians, this livestreamed atrocity has been facilitated through Third States’ direct support, material aid, diplomatic protection and, in some cases, active participation."

The report shows that without the support of mostly European countries, Israel would not have been able to sustain its full-pronged assault on Gaza.

She categorised the support into four main categories: diplomatic, military, economic and humanitarian.

No 'decisive action' from Arab states 

Albanese argues that diplomatic immunity for Israel and failure to hold it to account for violating international laws, particularly in the West, has allowed it to continue its genocide with impunity.

The report says this took place through western media and political discourse, which “parroted Israeli narratives” and failed to distinguish between Hamas and Palestinian civilians, and drew on colonial tropes of Israel’s right to defend itself as a "civilised" nation against "savages".

Albanese highlighted that the US used its UN Security Council veto power seven times to control ceasefire negotiations and provide diplomatic cover for the genocide. But she notes that the US did not act alone. It was helped by abstentions and delays, as well as watered-down draft resolutions from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands.

All of these actions helped stymy concrete actions while creating “an illusion of progress”. [MORE]

UN Experts Decry Trump’s War [white american rhetoric] Threats and Extrajudicial Murders Against Venezuela as ‘Extremely Dangerous Escalation’

A group of United Nations experts on Tuesday condemned US President Donald Trump’s recent threats to wage war on Venezuela and said his decision to bomb at least seven boats in international waters—killing dozens of people accused without evidence of drug trafficking—amounted to “extrajudicial executions.”

Trump’s repeated threats against Venezuela “violate the fundamental international obligations not to intervene in the domestic affairs or threaten to use armed force against another country,” said the trio of experts, warning that the US president’s belligerence represents “an extremely dangerous escalation with grave implications for peace and security in the Caribbean region.”

Even if the Trump administration had substantiated its drug trafficking claims, the experts continued, “the use of lethal force in international waters without proper legal basis violates the international law of the sea.”

The statement from the UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, and special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism came amid growing alarm over Trump’s actions and posturing against Venezuela.

Earlier this month, Trump authorized covert CIA operations in the country and declined to answer when asked whether the move amounted to a green light for the agency to assassinate the nation’s president, Nicolás Maduro.

The Trump administration has also amassed an “unusually large force” in the Caribbean consisting of thousands of troops, at least eight warships, and a squadron of jets.

“Trump has said nothing to dispel concerns that the United States could launch a full-scale military operation,” The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

In their statement, the UN experts called Trump’s warmongering against Venezuela a violation of the UN Charter, which they note “prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”

They also cast the administration’s aggressive conduct as a reprise of the sordid record of US intervention, covert and otherwise, in Latin America.

“The long history of external interventions in Latin America must not be repeated,” the experts said. “The lessons from history must be learned and not repeated. The international community must stand firm in defending the rule of law, dialogue, and the peaceful settlement of disputes.” [MORE]

Trump’s Unaccountable and Uncontrollable ICE Race Soldiers Are Making America Resemble a Third World Dictatorship

From [HERE] The United States is increasingly playing out scenes reminiscent of a brutal fascist regime as officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) show an absolute disregard for human rights as they hunt down illegal immigrants.

In the small California town of Campo, which sits less than a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, witnesses described the terror they experienced as they watched masked men round up agricultural workers employed on farms – young and old alike – and force them into unmarked cars.

In most cases, the officials wear plain clothes and refuse to identify themselves, thus making it impossible to distinguish between immigration agents and imposters. And with no number to call to track down their loved ones, people have no choice but to report the disappearances as potential kidnappings.

One young man asked as his friend was shoved into an unmarked van, “What kind of police go around in masks without uniforms and identification badges?”

Citizens feel desperate as there is nothing that can be done to rein in the power of the ICE troops. Filing complaints with the Department of Homeland Security is a futile gesture because the office that once handled them has been dismantled. There is little hope of holding individual agents accountable for alleged abuses because there is simply no way to reliably learn their identities. This has led to a situation where people are afraid to venture onto the street to perform simple chores, like go grocery shopping or pick up their children from school.

Across the nation, people must accept the grim reality that there are virtually no limits on what federal agents can do to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of mass deportations. The town of Campo has proven to be a testing ground for much larger raids and even more violent arrests in places like Portland, Oregon and Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere. [MORE]

It's Too Expensive to Be Innocent or to Assert Your Right to a Trial: “Criminal,” An Animated, Musical Documentary Indictment of the Cash-Bail System

White Jury is Told that Sonya Massey Could have been Saved after a White Columbus Cop Shot Her in the Face

The second day of testimony has ended in the trial of ex-sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, who faces murder charges for fatally shooting a Black woman in her Illinois home after she called 911 for help.

Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old single mother of two teenagers, called emergency responders on July 6, 2024, over a suspected prowler on her property in Springfield. Grayson, a Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy at the time, responded to the scene with his partner, Dawson Farley. Body camera footage shows Grayson firing at Massey after telling her to drop a pot of hot water.

The jury is made up of 11 white people and 1 black person.

Dr. Nathaniel Patterson, a forensic pathologist with the Sangamon County Coroner's office, testified Thursday that Massey could have survived the gunshot wound if medical aid had been given soon afterward and the bleeding had been controlled, according to WICS.

Expert witness Louis Dekmar, a retired police chief from LaGrange, Georgia, also told the court that he reviewed body camera footage of the shooting. Dekmar testified he did not see any threatening behavior from Massey before Grayson pointed his gun at her, according to WICS.

Grayson, who is white, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. [MORE]