FOLLOW RT’s LIVE UPDATES Dubenskij was reporting from an eastern suburb of Paris, where protests were getting turbulent, with police repeatedly using tear gas on the demonstrators, according to reports. RT’s correspondent was posting videos and photos of police cordons at the scene, which were not letting anyone go through. READ MORE: Police use tear […]
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Paris police detain RT correspondent at post-election protest, take phone away
Private Prison Operator Behind Bill to Detain Immigrant Children for Longer Periods of Time
05/02/17 | HOUSTON, TX — A new bill that could make its way through the Texas Senate this week would classify privately owned detention centers for immigrant women and children as “childcare facilities.” Calling the detention centers “childcare facilities” would permit holding women and children for extended amounts of time, […]
SWAT Mistakes Prayer Group for Gun Thieves, Raid Wrong Home, Detain 14yo Girl in Bathroom
The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office in Gaithersburg admits they got it all wrong when they burst into Israel Orellana’s home in Montgomery County. Orellana has the same name as the man police were searching for in a gun theft case. But still, incredibly, Carroll County got a warrant to search the wrong address. Worse yet, […]
Cops Detain Entire School, Illegally Search/Grope 900 Kids — Find NOTHING, Parents Furious
Worth County, GA — Children feel violated, parents are furious, and a lawsuit is getting filed after the Worth County Sheriff’s office conducted an illegal search of 900 students — in the name of the war on drugs. The rights-violating intrusive and aggressive patdowns and drug dog searches yielded absolutely nothing. On April […]
Syrians Protest against Israeli Occupation and Planned Annexation of the Golan Heights
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Syrians in the Israeli occupied Syrian Golan Heights rallied in protest against the Israeli occupation, illegal oppression of Syrian culture and identity, outspoken plans to permanently annex the Syrian territory and Israel’s use of the Golan for military action against Syria and the support of Al-Qaeda and ISIL linked insurgents in […]
Jihadists recruit & train Syrian teens to carry out terror acts, opposition tells Russian military
According to data provided by Syrian opposition representatives, a special unit consisting of teenagers was formed in the Syrian province of Idlib, Russia’s defense ministry’s spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said during a news briefing. The teenagers reportedly completed “a special training program” conducted by Al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham militants. The eldest “recruit” of […]
Israel Admit To Spraying Poison On Palestinian Crops
Israel have admitted that their military have used crop-dusters to destroy hundreds of acres of Palestinian crops for “security operations” reasons. Palestinian officials say that poisons were sprayed in land inside the Gaza strip which has ended up killing most of the vegetation. Sputniknews.com reports: “For years now, the IDF has unilaterally maintained a lethal […]
The mainstream press can’t handle anti-Zionism– Rosengarten
Anyone looking for an end of year gift should consider Lillian Rosengarten’s wrenching memoir, Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza. Here’s an interview I did a few days ago with the author. She says there’s a political element to the blackout of her book by the […]
‘Allahu Akbar’: A Muslim family in suburban New Jersey responds to the Paris attacks
“Allahu Akbar.” It is a man’s voice, low and sombre. My eyes drift down the hall that leads off from the snug kitchen where I sit. In the milky light of the November sunset, I see Musa, a wiry middle-aged man with a salt-and-pepper beard, prostrated in prayer. “Allahu Akbar,” he repeats, sitting up. Beside […]
Global Hunger Index report finds 3.1m children die of starvation every year
Nearly 800,000 people across more than 50 developing countries are suffering from hunger, with violent conflicts and instability being named among the main causes.However, the situation has improved somewhat since last year, according to the new Global Hunger Index report. Some 795 million people are struggling with hunger, with one in nine people worldwide […]
Police Say They Can Detain Photographers If Their Photographs Have ‘No Apparent Esthetic Value’
Tech Dirt Aug 17, 2011 Apparently the police in Long Beach, California, have a policy that says if a police officer determines that a photographer is taking photos of something with “no apparent esthetic value,”they can detain them. This revelation came after photographer Sander Roscoe Wolff was taking the following photo: The police officer somehow […]