#Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to #prevent #civilian #deaths by military, watchdog finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/pentagon-civilian-death-program

I despise when new #leftists say #voting won't change anything!

Well, yeah!, not overnight. Voting is one tool in a toolbox (and #civilian action is not a "When all you have is a hammer," situation).

(What follows pertains to the #USA:)

We can #vote #thirdparty and #advocate for others to do the same.

For every presidential #election cycle in which a party receives at least 5% of the vote, that party then receives funding from a presidential fund checkoff ($3 at #tax time from the federal government, NOT your pocket); the funds are proportional to their share of the vote.

If we rally around third parties and check that box at tax time, we can divert a lot of money from the BIG TWO into MANY third parties.

Those third parties can then compete with the current big two on more equal financial footing.

Our votes can fund viable third parties that focus on things OTHER THAN capitalist concerns, because our votes will have taken away the need to secure funding for their #campaign across the nation.

A branch of the #Catholic church expressed deep concern Monday over reports that #Israel was demolishing #civilian & #religious buildings in parts of southern #Lebanon under its control, following allegations that a #convent had been bulldozed.

#war #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-catholics-9dee5593f7cdda56fbefd2fde2d3397a

#Ukraine may have invented a new way to down #Russia’s ‘unstoppable’ #Kinzhal #missiles

A #Ukrainian #ElectronicWarfare project claims to have cracked Russia’s vaunted #hypersonic missile, the Kinzhal, one of the fastest and most feared of its kind in the world.

“When we put up our #EW (electronic warfare) wall, 59 launched Kinzhals, only one landed. All the rest were suppressed,”

https://kyivindependent.com/patriots-or-no-patriots-ukraine-may-have-solved-the-problem-of-russias-kinzhal-missiles/

#RussianAggression #StandWithUkraine #apartments #civilian #RussianInvasion