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Radical Israeli settlers post list of their attacks on West Bank Palestinians
The tally, titled "Monthly summary of the struggle against the Arab enemy in the Holy Land", lists 29 vehicles set ablaze, 12 homes torched, "40 Arabs injured", and hundreds of windows smashed and olive trees cut down across 33 towns and villages. Five of them are in Mikhmas, a village near Ramallah. A nearby Bedouin community left the area this month, citing sustained harassment.
https://www.newarab.com/news/radical-israeli-settlers-list-attacks-west-bank-palestinians

General Security targets oil refineries in Al-Jarzy Town in Deir Ezzor
Villages in the south-eastern countryside of Ain Al-Arab (Kobani) are experiencing systematic assaults targeting Kurdish families’ homes since factions affiliated with the Ministry of Defense of the transitional government took control of the area. SOHR activists have reported that these factions continue to loot property in the countryside of Sarrin and Jalabiya belonging to Kurdish families forcibly displaced to Kobani.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/378097/

Bodyguards for Azerbaijani president, in town for Trump’s Board of Peace, attack protesters in DC
Demonstrators calling for the release of political prisoners were driven from the street near the motorcade of Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani leader. The clashes broke out outside the Waldorf Astoria on Pennsylvania Avenue, blocks from the White House, where Aliyev was staying during an official visit.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/azerbaijan-trump-board-peace-protestors

Turkish authorities arrest Deutsche Welle journalist for alleged Erdogan insult
Uludag, who works for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle’s Turkish service, was taken from his home in Ankara late Thursday on suspicion of insulting the president and disseminating misleading information through his posts on X. The journalist, known for his reporting on the judiciary and corruption cases, was later transferred to Istanbul, where prosecutors charged him with insulting the president — an offense that carries a maximum prison sentence of four years.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-journalist-detained-insulting-erdogan-47a5f547b003e89d9a06e95f10f6e61e

France arrests nine over far-right activist's killing
Quentin Deranque, 23, died after sustaining a severe brain injury when he was attacked by at least six people last week on the sidelines of a far-right protest against a left-wing politician speaking at a university in the southeastern city of Lyon.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260217-france-arrests-seven-over-far-right-activist-s-killing
https://archive.ph/0wpl7

Google Gave a British Student’s Credit Card and Bank Information to ICE
Google handed a British graduate student’s bank and credit card information over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after he was targeted by the agency for attending a pro-Palestine protest for just five minutes. The tech giant fulfilled a subpoena request from ICE for “a wide array of personal data” on Amandla Thomas-Johnson, an activist and journalist who was studying in the US at Cornell University, The Intercept reported.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/20/google-gave-a-british-students-credit-card-and-bank-information-to-ice/

Trump changed mind on Chagos deal ‘after UK blocked use of Diego Garcia for Iran strikes’
In his latest change of heart on the deal, the US president said on social media that Keir Starmer was “making a big mistake” by handing sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius in exchange for continued use by the UK and US of their airbase on one of the islands, Diego Garcia. While Trump had previously criticised the plan, which is backed by the US state department, earlier in February he had described it as the “best” deal Starmer could make in the circumstances.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/donald-trump-turns-against-uk-chagos-islands-plan-iran

Resistance to the NATO Security Summit in Munich
Thousands from anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary and democratic organizations took part in the action organized by the Anti-NATO Platform against the summit, which brought together the imperialists and their lackeys responsible for injustice, exploitation and wars around the world. PARTIZAN and AGEB also took part in this action.
https://redherald.org/2026/02/19/germany-resistance-to-the-nato-security-summit-in-munich/

2 Cambodian journalists appeal treason convictions over a photo from Thai border clash
Phorn Sopheap of Battambang Post TV Online and Pheap Pheara of TSP 68 TV Online were arrested in separate locations on July 31 while returning from reporting trips. Authorities say they took photographs in a restricted military zone, and one showed land mines, which appeared to discredit official Cambodian denials of using such weapons.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-media-landmines-border-photo-221fdc9bddec96aae686ec65a875af1c

Indian farmers intensify opposition to trade deal with the US
The united front of farmers’ groups in India, Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), announced the launch of a new campaign to demand the removal of the country’s Minister of Commerce and Industries Piyush Goyal, for his role in “anti-people” trade with the US.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/20/indian-farmers-intensify-opposition-to-trade-deal-with-the-us/

Gabriela condemns break in and theft at Caloocan office
According to the group, the incident is linked to the militarization and red-tagging by the NTF-Elcac and the 12th Civil Military Operation (CMO) across North Caloocan communities. Surveillance and spying against Caloocan activist leaders reportedly followed one after the other since the year began.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/gabriela-condemns-break-in-and-theft-at-caloocan-office/

Junta Airstrikes, Troop Deployments Follow Ex-Resistance Leader’s Surrender in Sagaing
Encircled by National Unity Government (NUG)-aligned People’s Defense Force (PDF) units, he and his group were airlifted after a military ground unit reached the village in advance and escorted them, a resistance member on the ground said. After the evacuation of Bo Nagar and his group, the regime used gyrocopters to bomb areas around Pale town and in nearby Yinmabin Township where resistance groups have been active. This continued Thursday, Ko Zaw Htet, leader of Pale Township’s People’s Administration under the NUG, told The Irrawaddy. However, no damage or casualties were reported in the attacks.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/junta-airstrikes-troop-deployments-follow-ex-resistance-leaders-surrender-in-sagaing.html

Israel has biblical right to the Middle East, Huckabee tells Carlson
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee suggested in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson that, under a biblical interpretation, Israel could claim a right to territory spanning much of the Middle East.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/tucker-carlson-mike-huckabee-israel-middle-east
https://archive.ph/jhyZf

US President Trump promises new tariffs, slams Supreme Court decision
Instead of using IEEPA, Trump said on Friday that he would turn to the Trade Expansion Act to impose a 10 percent global tariff for 150 days, replacing some of the tariffs that were struck down by the court.
He added that investigations into unfair trade practices would allow him to expand his tariff campaign as well.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/20/us-president-trump-promises-new-tariffs-slams-supreme-court-decision
https://archive.ph/yfua0

US citizen shot and killed by federal immigration agent last year, new records show
The death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, would mark the earliest of at least six deadly shootings by federal officers since the start of a nationwide immigration crackdown in Donald Trump’s second term. On Friday, DHS said the shooting on South Padre Island last March occurred after the driver intentionally struck an agent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/us-citizen-killed-federal-immigration-agent

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies
The agency is asking private biometric contractors how to build a unified platform that would let employees search faces and fingerprints across large government databases already filled with biometrics gathered in different contexts. The goal is to connect components including Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Secret Service, and DHS headquarters, replacing a patchwork of tools that do not share data easily.
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-a-single-search-engine-to-flag-faces-and-fingerprints-across-agencies/
https://archive.ph/LUIq5

Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors
Yarbrough’s remaining donors include others with ties to the Claremont Institute and the secretive far-right Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), including Nate Fischer, a venture capitalist with documented links to JD Vance, and Andrew Beck, Claremont’s vice-president for communications and an admitted SACR member.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/jace-yarbrough-texas

Toxic Tap: Lead detected in 7 of 10 New Orleans homes amid delayed pipe replacement
The S&WB doesn’t know the full extent of lead in the system, but this testing provides the most complete and recent snapshot the city has. More than 1,100 households were tested. The worst test recorded levels of lead 100 times the federal action level. (The program is ongoing, and residents can still request water testing kits.)
https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-randy-hayman-water-quality-public-health-general-news-c99a02d38dc9a7d6ed13ef580f5c8916

Advocates urge Hochul, Mamdani to deny 'vindictive' Bronx judge more time on bench
Fabrizio has been the subject of media reports in past years, in which both named and unnamed sources including prosecutors and defense attorneys, questioned his fitness for office. In one 2023 episode, described in reports by New York Focus and The City and recounted in the letter along with court transcripts, Fabrizio became increasingly angry at a defense attorney who had been newly assigned to a case.
https://gothamist.com/news/advocates-urge-hochul-mamdani-to-deny-vindictive-bronx-judge-more-time-on-bench
https://archive.ph/Ol18D

Australia as Zionist-Occupied Territory
Australia has always been susceptible to the Zionist siren song. H. V. Evatt was a brilliant lawyer and High Court of Australia judge (at 36, the youngest appointee ever). He was also joint Foreign Affairs Minister and Attorney-General in successive Labor governments, 1941-49. However, Evatt moonlighted as Chair of the UN Special Committee on Palestine in 1947. In that capacity, through crude partisan means (while claiming otherwise), he legitimized the preposterous Resolution 181 (II) of November 1947 for the partition of Palestine – that Resolution itself the product of corrupt threats to voting members. Caroline Graham, sometime journalist and academic, has re-told the Evatt story. Graham cites Evatt’s contemporary – equally reputable lawyer, Pakistani delegate Muhammad Zafrulla Khan – who took umbrage at Evatt’s blocking of a submission of the partition plan to the recently empowered International Court of Justice. For Khan, this was “a confession that the General Assembly is determined to make recommendations in a certain direction, not because these recommendations are in accord with principles of international fairness and justice.” Yet Evatt is feted for his significant role in using UN auspices to legitimize the state of Israel then being forged by terrorist means.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/20/australia-as-zionist-occupied-territory/

Jeffrey Epstein and the psychology of bourgeois decadence
One of the great mysteries of society is what those who do terrible, unjustifiable things, think about their behaviour. How do they justify the unjustifiable? When posing the question, we often answer that they are in denial as to what they have really done; or that they admit it, but tell themselves it was the right thing to do, it is for the greater good, etc. The release of (some of) the Epstein files reveals that not only are the most depraved crimes imaginable being routinely committed by wide layers of the ruling class, but that in many cases those doing so are not in denial. Nor do they bother with any real justification for their acts beyond: “I can get away with it because I am special. The rules don’t apply to me and my friends”.
https://communist.red/jeffrey-epstein-and-the-psychology-of-bourgeois-decadence/

Trump Privately Dreams of Iran Regime Change Glory as Democrats Cynically Weigh Political Benefits of War
Since mid-January, as U.S. war planners have presented President Donald Trump with a spectrum of options for military action against Iran, Trump has repeatedly opined in private about his desire to go down in history as the president who “changed the Iranian regime” that has remained in power since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Sources with knowledge of internal White House deliberations told Drop Site that Trump is emboldened by what he sees as a phenomenal success in his Venezuela strategy—issuing sweeping demands for capitulation under threat of removing the ruling government and then abducting President Nicolás Maduro when he refused to obey. But, the sources said, Trump and his aides have pressed war planners for assurances that chaos produced by any U.S. military action would calm down in time for the midterm election season to kick into high gear. Trump has suggested to aides that he would make a deal with Iran if its leaders bend to his central demands but he stands ready to unleash a massive military operation—potentially including one aimed at assassinating Iran’s leadership—if they do not. Trump has said he may consider an initial round of attacks in an effort to push Iran to submit. In that event, the massive firepower in the region would remain if he decided to move forward with a broader war. Iranian officials say they are currently working on a formal response to the U.S. position laid out in Geneva on Tuesday during indirect talks, but have cautioned Iran has its own red lines. Tehran, meanwhile, told the United Nations it would consider U.S. bases “legitimate targets” if attacked, putting U.S. servicemembers at serious risk. The potential for fallout in the event of a regime change war is at the heart of the meek response from Democrats, who see Trump walking into a trap of his own making. The Democratic political calculation was laid bare in an unusually frank conversation last June between a senior foreign policy aide to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a top official in an organization opposing Iran strikes.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-iran-regime-change-democrats-chuck-schumer-midterms


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