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After jail, house arrest and an ankle monitor, a reprieve for a ‘Cop City’ protester: ‘The process was the punishment’
The arson charge in Fulton county carried a sentence of up to 20 years. Superior court judge Emily Richardson agreed last week to having Mazurek take what’s known as an Alford plea to a reduced charge of criminal damage to property and a decade of probation. The case’s long unwinding follows several others connected to the movement against Cop City in recent months – including a judge’s dismissal, in September, of Rico, or racketeering, charges against 61 defendants. State attorney general Chris Carr has appealed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/07/cop-city-protester-case-no-conviction-arson

US Argues ‘Emergency’ of Iran War Means Israel Needs 20,000+ More Bombs Without Congressional Approval
The US State Department is hiding behind the war against Iran that was started by US President Donald Trump last week to justify an emergency order to ship more than 20,000 bombs—estimated at a value of $660 million—to Israel, skirting a pending approval process for the sale by Congress.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-bombs-for-israel-iran-lebanon

US agency did not perform safety checks of more than 100 food ingredients, analysis finds
The review of FDA records by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) non-profit reveals that diverse products across the food pyramid, such as Capri Sun drinks, Kettle and Fire organic broth, Acme smoked fish, and Quaker Oats snack bars, use a range of substances that have not undergone review by regulators.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/07/fda-food-product-safety-checks-substances

Police investigating after device thrown at anti-Islam protest in New York City
Police are investigating the incident that started late Saturday morning when someone from the anti-Islam protest associated with conservative influencer Jake Lang shot pepper spray into a counterprotesting group near the mayoral residence Gracie Mansion, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Tensions continued to heighten, she said, when someone in the counterprotest lit and threw a device she described as smaller than a football into the protesting crowd of about 20 people.
https://apnews.com/article/antiislam-protest-gracie-mansion-new-york-8ed487ed2d2f92a32fb0fabbf058dd2a

Family seeks answers after "senseless and callous death" of autistic man during encounter with Howard County Police
Grieving family members told WJZ Investigates they are "deeply saddened and shocked" over the death of 25-year-old Alexander LaMorie, an autistic man killed during an encounter with Howard County police outside his apartment complex early Sunday morning.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/howard-county-police-shooting-patuxent-apartment-columbia-lamorie/

Tractors and Tensions: Greek Farmers Rush to Athens Demanding Urgent Reforms
On February 13, farmers across Greece mobilized, converging from Afidnes toward Syntagma Square in Athens after a nationwide committee organized roadblocks. Their demands were clear: urgent government reforms, including reductions in production costs and the immediate disbursement of subsidies. Conversations with the ruling party, New Democracy, led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, have brought no comprehensive solutions. In response to governmental neglect, farmers organized a protest. It began in Afidnes, where farmers gathered from all across Greece and waited with tractors lined up, ready to roll toward the parliament in Athens. For the farmers, this was a powerful act of defiance — a show of solidarity that aimed to gather more international recognition for their issues. Farmers of all ages came together, from teenagers to elders — they stood with anticipation, sharing both grievances and discontent toward the system.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/tractors-and-tensions-greek-farmers-rush-to-athens-demanding-urgent-reforms/

The Silence is Not Peace; The Lack of a GI Movement in the US
The silence is not peace, nor is it acceptence, nor resignation. It is the vacuum seal of a pressure cooker. Iran has been struck and it has struck back. The Ayatollah is dead. Missiles arc over the Middle East like scythes. In Europe, Argentina, Austrialia and other 'western' countires, the streets are on fire with riot and protest. In the United States, dissenters are being collected—not in mass internments, but quietly, efficiently, on phony charges that dissolve into the algorithmic fog. The state has actively used the police, the surveillance apparatus, and other means to repress dissenters and silence critical voices. Lawfare, kidnappings, and the surveillance state keep our best organizers compressed, paranoid, and less effective. They are forced to operate within rhetorical gaps and permitted moves in a saloon poker game where the dealer's gun always prevents victory. Polymarket ticks quietly upward: 20 percent odds a nuclear weapon is used before 2027. But real ones know that small things like this are soft disclosure that the use of a "tactical" nuclear weapon is already priced in. The fact that the polymarket put the odds out there, that the question can be asked publicly, that the Overton Window has slid open just enough to let that specific smoke out—this tells us that someone, somewhere, has already put out the word. The fire is already burning. The scenario is already written.
https://john-henry.neocities.org/gi-movement

Ten Days that Shook the World: Chapter VIII Counter-Revolution
NEXT morning, Sunday the 11th, the Cossacks entered Tsarskoye Selo, Kerensky[1] himself riding a white horse and all the church-bells clamouring. From the top of a little hill outside the town could be seen the golden spires and many-coloured cupolas, the sprawling grey immensity of the capital spread along the dreary plain, and beyond, the steely Gulf of Finland. There was no battle. But Kerensky made a fatal blunder. At seven in the morning he sent word to the Second Tsarskoye Selo Rifles to lay down their arms. The soldiers replied that they would remain neutral, but would not disarm. Kerensky gave them ten minutes in which to obey. This angered the soldiers; for eight months they had been governing themselves by committee, and this smacked of the old régime…. A few minutes later Cossack artillery opened fire on the barracks, killing eight men. From that moment there were no more “neutral” soldiers in Tsarskoye Petrograd woke to bursts of rifle-fire, and the tramping thunder of men marching. Under the high dark sky a cold wind smelt of snow. At dawn the Military Hotel and the Telegraph Agency had been taken by large forces of yunkers, and bloodily recaptured. The Telephone Station was besieged by sailors, who lay behind barricades of barrels, boxes and tin sheets in the middle of the Morskaya, or sheltered themselves at the corner of the Gorokhovaya and of St. Isaac’s Square, shooting at anything that moved. Occasionally an automobile passed in and out, flying the Red Cross flag. The sailors let it pass…. Albert Rhys Williams was in the Telephone Exchange. He went out with the Red Cross automobile, which was ostensibly full of wounded. After circulating about the city, the car went by devious ways to the Mikhailovsky yunker school, headquarters of the counter-revolution. A French officer, in the court-yard, seemed to be in command…. By this means ammunition and supplies were conveyed to the Telephone Exchange. Scores of these pretended ambulances acted as couriers and ammunition trains for the yunkers.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed/1919/10days/10days/ch8.htm