#israel #palestine : #gaza / #domesticpolicy / #hamasmassacre / #family / #protest / #governnent / #accountability / #socialcohesion

„At the protest, speakers railed against the government’s failure to hold itself accountable for October 7, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of leading a directionless forever war at the expense of their slain loved ones so he can remain in power.“

https://www.timesofisrael.com/we-wont-let-them-forget-tel-aviv-protest-demands-oct-7-inquiry-ahead-of-memorial-day/

#kuwait #usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #gulfstates / #domesticpolicy / #humanrights / #journalism / #repression / #nationalunity / #erosion

„The #detention of a prize-winning international journalist over his reporting of a friendly fire incident in Kuwait is raising questions about the crackdown on #freedomofspeech across the #MiddleEast as a result of the US-Israel war with Iran, the #CommitteetoProtectJournalists has warned.“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/14/detention-journalist-ahmed-shihab-eldin-kuwait-crackdown-freedom-speech-iran-war

Detention of journalist in Kuwait raises questions about crackdown on freedom of speech

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was arrested after reporting on friendly fire incident during US conflict with Iran

The Guardian

Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.

Early warning systems, care networks, and deliberate policy choices can save lives, but only where a politics of care is actively built and maintained.

by Aaron Thierry: https://theconversation.com/preventable-deaths-in-a-warming-world-how-politics-shapes-who-lives-and-who-dies-273132

#policy #domesticPolicy #grievability #climateChange #naturalDisasters #casualties

Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies

Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.

The Conversation

#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #domesticpolicy / #opposition / #repression / #execution

(Carpe diem!)

„Speaking on Tuesday, G. M. Ejei said cases involving individuals accused of assisting hostile actors should be handled more rapidly, according to Mizan news. He urged authorities to accelerate verdicts, including executions or the #confiscation of assets. (…) [S]ecurity forces have detained hundreds of people on accusations of collaboration.“

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-judiciary-chief-calls-fast-track-cases-tied-enemy-collaboration

Iran judiciary chief calls to fast-track cases tied to ‘enemy collaboration’

Middle East Eye

#iran : #domesticpolicy / #repression / #opposition / #execution / #deathpenalty

„Abolhassan Montazer and Vahid Baniamerian have been hanged after Iran’s Supreme Court upheld their sentences.“

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/4/iran-executes-suspected-members-of-dissident-group-amid-us-israel-war

See also:

„Iran: Seven protesters and dissidents at risk of imminent execution after four men arbitrarily executed in secret within 24 hours“
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/03/iran-seven-protesters-and-dissidents-at-risk-of-imminent-execution-after-four-men-arbitrarily-executed-in-secret-within-24-hours/

Iran executes two convicted members of banned opposition group

Abolhassan Montazer and Vahid Baniamerian have been hanged after Iran’s Supreme Court upheld their sentences.

Al Jazeera

Trump/GOP domestic policy clarified.

"It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”

The words above are from Trump.

Trump/GOP domestic policy:
- the Federal government has no responsibility for individual and family benefit programs
- the States alone are responsible for individual and family benefit programs
- taxes are for defense and security spending only

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-sentence-that-should-sink-donald-trumps-presidency_n_69cea133e4b0d214cc70659a?origin=home-latest-news-unit

#Politics #Trump #GOP #DomesticPolicy #Defense

The Sentence That Could Sink Donald Trump’s Presidency

The single most consequential thing Trump said yesterday didn’t come from his primetime address.

HuffPost
#China is an authoritarian, surveillance state ruled by a one powerful man. That said, the Chinese Communist Party under Xi’s leadership seems to legit try to do its best for the country and people. There are glaring empire tendencies on the downside - thinking of Tibet, Taiwan and the Uyghurs - but on the upside the government/party has lifted a ton of people out of poverty and propelled the country into global tech, automotive, economic and alternative energy leadership roles. Most recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for mobilizing the whole society to actively participate in afforestation, stressing that a sound ecological environment is shared by all and requires the joint efforts of all. Just sayin… Beats the crap outta paying a billion taxpayer dollars to remove US wind energy installations already underway and approving clear cutting of old-growth forests. #environment #DomesticPolicy

#israel #palestine : #domesticpolicy / #opt / #legislation / #deathpenalty / #ngo / #amnestyinternational

„Israeli authorities must urgently repeal legislative amendments expanding Israel’s use of the death penalty, adopted today with a majority of 62 Knesset members, said Amnesty international.“

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/03/israel-opt-newly-adopted-death-penalty-law-must-be-repealed/

Israel/OPT: Newly adopted death penalty law must be repealed

Israeli authorities must urgently repeal legislative amendments expanding Israel’s use of the death penalty, adopted today with a majority of 62 Knesset members.

Amnesty International

To borrow from Senator Chris Murphy’s comment on Trump

“This is the most incompetent, incoherent war[/economic, foreign, and domestic policy/administration] America has fought[/enacted] in the last 100[/250] years, and that’s saying a lot,” Murphy said, with his comments at the Capitol aired on CNN’s NewsNight on Thursday.

There, now I can take Alie out for her morning walk.

#Politics #Trump #GOP #IranWar #PeteHegseth #ChrisMurphy #Economics #ForeignPolicy #DomesticPolicy

#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #government / #domesticpolicy / #protest / #analysis

„To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic #convulsions that produced last January’s #uprising.“

https://portside.org/2026-03-08/iran-transformed

Iran Transformed

On February 28 Israeli warplanes assassinated Ali Khamenei, Iran’s leader, by dropping thirty bombs on his compound in Tehran. It was the opening salvo of the US and Israel’s joint war of choice.

Portside