🟡 AirspaceViolation | 7/10
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Iraqi militia reports repeated Israeli airspace violations
Iraqi militia Saraya Awliya al-Dam says Iraqi airspace is being repeatedly violated by Israel in the absence of a clear official Iraqi stance, calling for condemnation.

#OSINT #NewsGroup #Iraq #Israel #AirspaceViolation #Militia

"On Monday, a slightly dishevelled #Iraqi man, shackled and dressed in beige prison overalls, was ushered into a #Manhattan #courtroom.

#MohammadBaqerSaadDawoodalSaadi, 32, pleaded not guilty to a series of #terrorism-related offences, then gestured toward the judge and prosecutors. “I’m a #prisoner of #war. I’m not a threat,” he told them. “Children and women are being killed by your rockets.”

Then, #alSaadi, who faces life behind bars, was led away.

The brief hearing was the latest chapter in an extraordinary story that appears far from over. It involves: two powers at war; one of the most high-profile #terrorist campaigns in #Europe and the #UK for many years; a new form of #warfare to which western #securityservices have yet to find an answer; teenage petty #criminals caught up in #geopolitics; #Islamist #militia in #Iraq; and, inevitably for 2026, the disruptive power of #socialmedia.

The man who brought it all together, investigators say, was al-Saadi."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/07/could-this-one-man-have-been-behind-terrorist-attacks-on-jewish-communities-across-europe

Today in Labor History June 6, 1894: Colorado’s governor sent in the state militia to support the Cripple Creek miners' strike, the only time in history that a state militia was used to help a workers’ struggle, rather than to suppress it. The mine owners were demanding a 10-hour day without an increase in pay. In response, the miners went on strike. There was considerable violence from both sides during the strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM). On March 16, some miners ambushed, shot and beat some sheriff’s deputies. The judge, a WFM member, let the miners off, but charged the deputies with carrying concealed weapons. Furious, the Sheriff arrested 20 union leaders. Meanwhile, the mine owners conspired to bring in hundreds of scabs and deputized vigilantes. When the new deputies marched on the strikers’ camp, the miners blew up several mine structures, forcing the deputies to flee. The mine owners hired hundreds more vigilantes for their army. When he heard about the size of the miner owners’ force, the governor declared the deputies illegal and sent in state troops to defend the miners.

On June 5, the day before the state troops arrived, the mine owners’ army began cutting telegraph lines and arresting and beating reporters and hundreds of town residents, including many who weren’t miners. When the state troops arrived, there were already gun battles going on between the vigilante army and the miners. However, the state troops gained control of the town relatively quickly and the mine owners disbanded their army and sent them home. 300 miners were arrested, but only four were convicted. And the populist governor pardoned them all. The WFM won, keeping the 8-hour day and their $3/day wages. And, they were so popular because of their victory, that they easily organized most of the other industries in the region (e.g., waitresses, laundry workers, bartenders, newsboys) into 54 new locals.

The Cripple Creek strike was a prelude for the Colorado Labor Wars (1903-1904), led by future IWW cofounded Big Bill Haywood, and the Colorado Coalfield War (1913-1914), which historian Thomas G. Andrews called the “deadliest strike in the history of the United States” and which included the Ludlow Massacre. Hundreds were killed in the Coalfield War. During the Labar Wars of 1903-1904, James McParland ran the Pinkerton agency in Denver. He had served as an agent provocateur in the Pennsylvania miners’ union in the 1870s. The state convicted and executed 20 innocent Irish coal miners because of his testimony. (I have depicted that story in my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill.”) Like he did in Pennsylvania, McParlan tried to sabotage the WFM by placing spies and agents provocateur within the union.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #colorado #union #strike #solidarity #militia #sabotage #police #policebrutality #EightHourDay #wfm #vigilantes #cripplecreek #pinkertons #fiction #historicalfiction #books #novel #author @bookstadon

You can read more about the Ludlow Massacre here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/the-ludlow-massacre/

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#Impotent #Senate OKs $70B #immigration bill after rejecting efforts to permanently ban #Trump #SlushFund

The Senate passed legislation to fund Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday, after weeks of delays & fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill.

#law #judiciary #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #MAGASlushFund
https://apnews.com/article/trump-settlement-fund-ice-border-patrol-vote-93b9f5b487997b629d87bf59a046d7ec

🟢 Political Statement | 5/10
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Iraqi militia declares readiness for weapons restrictions
The spokesperson of the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Saraya Awliya al-Dam declared it will be among the first to respond to any genuine national project to restrict weapons to the state, but only if it includes guarantees.

#OSINT #NewsGroup #Iraq #Iran #Militia #PoliticalStatement

When declining to commit to permanently scrapping the controversial $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" #MAGASlushFund, #Trump claims he doesn’t know if the $1.8 billion fund is dead, & calls it ‘a beautiful thing’

#law #judiciary #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #SlushFund #sickness
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/anti-weaponization-fund-trump