(2024-03-22). Why the US Wants to Block Free and Fair Elections in Palestine w/ Dr. Mustafa Barghouti. thealtworld.com Israel continues to starve, bombard, and ethnically cleanse Palestine with the full backing of the US government. The death toll stands at over 31,000 people, and more than half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million people are facing imminent famine. And while the world has its eyes on Gaza, Israel has intensified its slaughter and torture of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. | Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a physician and general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, joins the show from Ramallah to discuss the possibility of Palestinian political unification in a postwar Gaza why free and fair election…
(2024-03-22). War on Gaza: Footage shows Israeli drone killing four Palestinian civilians. middleeasteye.net 
War on Gaza: Footage shows Israeli drone killing four Palestinian civilians | Israeli drone footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows four Palestinians targeted and killed at the beginning of January in Khan Younis | | A missile from an Israeli drone targeting four young Palestinian men explodes in Khan…
(2024-03-22). Six White Mississippi "Goon Squad" Cops Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Torturing Black Men. democracynow.org 
In Mississippi, six former sheriff's deputies have been sentenced to between 10 and 40 years in prison for raiding a home and torturing, shooting and sexually abusing two Black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, in January 2023. The six former deputies, all of whom are white, called themselves the "Goon Squad" and have been linked to at least four violent attacks on Black men since 2019. Two of the men attacked and tortured by the group subsequently died. To discuss the case and the verdict, we're joined by Eddie Parker and attorneys Malik Shabazz and Trent Walker. "Never have we…
(2024-03-22). Report: Assange In Plea Deal Talks. popularresistance.org Lawyers for Julian Assange and officials of the U.S. Justice Department are engaged in talks for a possible plea deal that could see Assange walk out of Belmarsh Prison in London as a free man, according to a report Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal. | The newspaper said the DOJ was considering whether to allow Assange to "plead guilty to a reduced charge of mishandling classified information," which is a misdemeanor. He is currently charged with felonies for allegedly violating the U.S. Espionage Act and for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, charges that carry as much as 175 years in prison.
(2024-03-22). Assange in plea deal talks. mronline.org 
The report in The Wall Street Journal makes public what Consortium News had learned off the record, namely that the U.S. is engaging Julian Assange's lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.
(2024-03-22). Has the PKK acquired kamikaze drones to hit Turkish aircraft? middleeasteye.net 
Has the PKK acquired kamikaze drones to hit Turkish aircraft? | The Kurdish group may have obtained Iranian-made UAVs to attack Turkey's combat drones | | A member of the PKK carries an automatic rifle on a road in the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq, 22 June 2018 (AFP/Safin Hamid) | The
youtube.com (2024-03-22). LIVE: Outside Moscow concert hall after shooting by several gunmenRussia's Federal Security Service said 40 people died and more than 100 were wounded in an attack Friday at a Moscow concert hall.
The attack, which Russian authorities are investigating as terrorism, is the deadliest in Russia in recent years.
Several gunmen burst into the concert hall on the edge of Moscow and sprayed visitors with automatic gunfire, killing and wounding dozens and starting a massive blaze
PositiveUniverse.com Comment (2024-03-22). The duplicitous American MSM wants the public to believe that Russia vetoed the US drafted Security Council calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.The American MSM wants the public to believe that Russia vetoed the US drafted Security Council calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
It was a trick resolution question. It did NOT call for a ceasefire and simply stated that a ceasefire is an 'imperative' (important), further enabling the march by Israel for an upcoming Rafah invasion and massive slaughter of Palestinians.