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40+ Groups Urge Wikipedia to Oppose Co-Founders’ ‘Censorship on Gaza Genocide’
After months of internal debate, editors of the Wikipedia article titled “Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza” renamed the entry “Gaza genocide” in July 2024, reflecting experts’ growing acknowledgement that Israel’s annihilation and siege of the Palestinian exclave met the legal definition of the ultimate crime. The entry also notes that the Gaza genocide is not settled legal fact—an International Court of Justice case on the matter is ongoing—and that numerous experts refute the claim that Israel’s war is genocidal.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-wikipedia

FDA warns Target, Walmart over failure to pull recalled baby formula from shelves
ByHeart Inc. initiated a voluntary recall of its Whole Nutrition Infant Formula on Nov. 8, which it then expanded to all of its formula products a few days later. The retailers were informed of the recall in writing, but the products continued to be sold in over 175 locations across 36 states, per the FDA's letter. In one case, the formula remained on shelves over three weeks after the recall was issued, the letter said.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/15/infant-botulism-fda-recall-warning-target-walmart-kroger
https://archive.ph/Uxwia

Chicago police arresting Black legal gun owners for personal gain, source says
This comes nearly two months after CBS News Chicago uncovered multiple cases in which CPD officers stopped Black gun owners for minor traffic violations and then charged them with felonies, including unlawful gun possession, even though they had legal firearm licenses.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-police-black-gun-owner-arrests-bolster-numbers-inside-source/

ICE enters NYC shelters armed and without judicial warrants, reports show
New York City’s sanctuary laws bar city staffers from authorizing federal immigration officers to enter private areas of city property, with a few exceptions, including if they are presented with a judicial warrant or if there are “exigent circumstances,” such as imminent danger. Yet on two occasions, incident reports show, shelter employees allowed immigration officers to enter private areas of shelters and, in a third case, gave officers information about a former resident, all without verifying that the officers had a judicial warrant. In those cases, legal experts who reviewed the reports said staff violated the city’s sanctuary laws.
https://gothamist.com/news/ice-enters-nyc-shelters-armed-and-without-judicial-warrants-reports-show
https://archive.ph/0u3mb

Why Florida is ground zero for coming ObamaCare storm
Florida leads the country in the number of individuals enrolled in an Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plan, with 1 out of 5 Floridians, or 4.7 million people, benefiting from subsidized health insurance, according to KFF, a nonprofit organization focused on health policy. The Sunshine State’s relatively large number of small-business owners and hospitality workers account for the particularly high reliance on ACA plans, said Erica Li, a health policy analyst at Florida Policy Institute.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5640956-rising-healthcare-costs-florida-obamacare-subsidies/
https://archive.ph/dXjsl

CPP lambasts AFP-PNP holiday spoilers for "no ceasefire" declaration
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) lambasted the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) for shutting the door on a holiday ceasefire declaration by their government. The Party said it clearly showed the AFP and PNP’s bloodlust and intention to spoil the traditional holiday celebrations of Filipinos across the country, especially in areas where all-out war against peasant communities and guerrilla forces is being conducted. “The knee-jerk reaction of the AFP and PNP to the CPP’s unilateral ceasefire declaration shows that Marcos has nothing to offer the people during the traditional holidays but bullets and bombs, as it orders the AFP and the PNP to mount relentless combat operations in the coming days,” says CPP Chief Information Officer Marco L. Valbuena. He added that the suppression campaign being carried out by the military and police, now packaged as “peace and development” operations, target mainly peasant communities which they suspect of supporting the New People’s Army. Units of the NPA have become invisible to the military as they carry out deep and wide mass work in the countryside.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/cpp-lambasts-afp-pnp-holiday-spoilers-for-no-ceasefire-declaration/

Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal: Trump Should Heed the Growing Calls Within MAGA and Reject Israel’s Agenda
If President Donald Trump wants to achieve stability in the Middle East, he should put an end to Israeli interference in U.S. policy toward Palestine, senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Drop Site. Instead, Meshaal said, the U.S. should enter into a genuine process of direct negotiations with Hamas and other Palestinian political factions aimed at establishing friendly, bilateral relations. “Unfortunately, one of the problems with the U.S. administration is that it prioritizes Israel’s interests more than the United States’ own interests. Even Trump’s people—MAGA—came to realize that Israel is a burden on them, restricting and harming U.S. interests. I am simply calling on the American people and the U.S. administration to judge based on America’s interests, not Israel’s,” Meshaal said. “If they look at us even for a moment in a fair and impartial way, they will see that the Palestinian people are oppressed under occupation, and they have the right to resist—unless America steps in and forces Israel to withdraw, in which case we would thank America.” He added, “When the world fails to help you, you have no choice but to resist the occupier until you force it to withdraw.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-leader-khaled-meshaal-interview-trump-maga-united-states-support-israel-gaza-netanyahu

Trump Wants Puerto Rico to Be the US’s Aircraft Carrier
Puerto Rico sits at the center of this shift. Military officials now refer to the archipelago as a natural aircraft carrier, a colonial territory strategically located just a few hundred miles from Caracas, governed by the United States but denied political rights. In Ceiba, the massive Cold War–era base at Roosevelt Roads, closed in 2004 after the historic Vieques struggle, is undergoing rapid reactivation. Satellite photos show resurfaced taxiways, expanded logistics zones, and a new presence of F-35 fighter jets, among the most advanced in the US arsenal. Likewise, when Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, one may wonder what role Puerto Rico is playing in these actions. As Michelle Ellner notes, this is not the first time that US bases in Puerto Rico have served as logistical hubs for interventions across the hemisphere, from the US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, to Grenada in 1983, and Panama in 1989. Meanwhile, Marines are conducting amphibious landing drills along Puerto Rico’s southern coast. National Guard units are supporting operations from Aguadilla and Isla Grande, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued emergency airspace warnings asking civilian pilots to “exercise extreme caution” due to heightened military activity. What Washington calls training is experienced locally as an occupation. For Vieques, in particular, this moment is a painful return to the past. Vieques endured sixty years of military training, which involved bombings, contamination, unexploded ordnance, and health crises that continue to this day. Residents who grew up diving under their beds during training exercises now watch their children flinch at the same noise. Many still recall relatives lost to cancers linked to toxic exposure. Bombing ended in Vieques in 2003, but the health crisis never did. After two decades of federal cleanup efforts that are incomplete and ongoing, hearing military aircraft again feels like history repeating itself.
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/trump-venezuela-puerto-rico-military

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