Above Photo: U.S. C-RAM Air Defense System Activated, Iraq, Dec. 19, 2021. (@Esiznews_com / Twitter) The Green Zone, Which Houses Some Main Iraqi Government Offices And The U.S. Embassy, Has Frequently Been Targeted By Insurgent Mortar And Rocket Attacks. Two Katyusha rockets were fired early Sunday on the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses the U.S. embassy in central Baghdad, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported. One of the rockets was destroyed in the air by the C-RAM defense system, which protects the U.S. embassy site, and the other landed near the grand celebrations square in the zone, damaging two civilian […]
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On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry told journalists that additional 18 military transport Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Force with peacekeepers aboard have landed at Yerevan’s airfields. Russian Il-76 and An-124 military transport planes continue airlifting the peacekeepers to the area of the peacekeeping mission. The planes have already made 95 flights since the start of the peacekeeping operation, the Defense Ministry spokesman said. “Another 18 Il-76 planes and two An-124 Ruslan aircraft of the military transport aviation of the Russian Aerospace Force with equipment and staff of the 15th peacekeeping brigade sent to Armenia to participate in a peacekeeping […]
The Russian military is sending attack helicopters to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone following the start of the peacekeeping operation. According to a press release issued Thursday by the Russian Defense Ministry, An-124 Ruslan military transport aircraft delivered eight Mi-8 transport and Mi-24 attack helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces army aviation to the airfield in Yerevan, Armenia. “Helicopters will be involved in the peacekeeping operation to monitor the ceasefire and military operations control areas in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone,” the ministry said. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – According to the Defense Ministry, helicopters will also be involved in transporting […]
Swedish Interior Minister Mikael Damberg condemned the gangs for acting with impunity and stressed that no criminals should be allowed to decide what others should and shouldn’t do. Inhabitants in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta have been told to stay indoors after 6 pm – not by the police or the authorities, but by criminal gangs who call the shots in the area. The police initially noticed that there were unusually few people in Tensta in the evenings in late August. Later, they received tips that gangsters had threatened people with weapons and violence to force them indoors. “There were people, […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/1d/1080605915_0:68:1280:788_1200x675_80_0_0_72008b87f2ad6ae10db93349d942f84d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009291080605985-uk-foreign-secretary-raab-visits-demilitarized-zone-dividing-two-koreas/ LONDON (Sputnik) – UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab visited on Tuesday the demilitarized zone dividing South and North Korea, and said the UK is determined to push Pyongyang to denuclearization. “Today at the #DMZ I reaffirmed UK support for South Korea’s efforts to improve relations with the North and our determination to push the DPRK to denuclearisation,” Raab said on Twitter. Raab, who accompanied his tweet with pictures of him in the demilitarized zone, which is regarded as one of the most heavily guarded borders on the world, also said that the United Kingdom […]
In 1986, an explosion at one of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s reactors disgorged an enormous mass of contaminated nuclear particles into the air. The radioactive cloud stretched out across parts of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Every day, several hundred tourists visit the abandoned Ukrainian city of Pripyat and Chernobyl, where shift workers serving the station live. Every person is given an individual dosimeter and taught to use it during the tour. For several years, the tourists who came to the area were only allowed to visit the abandoned schoolyards, amusement parks, and classrooms outside the nuclear plant. Since 2019, the infamous […]
Life In The US Has The Hallmarks Of A “Low-Grade War Zone” By Patrick Farnsworth, Truthout. September 21, 2020 Life In The US Has The Hallmarks Of A “Low-Grade War Zone”2020-09-212020-09-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/po.png200px200px Above photo: A mailman makes a delivery on September 9, 2020, in San Francisco, California. Santiago Mejia / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images. Countless red flags have sprung up in recent months indicating a creeping authoritarianism coming into full form. Vigilante forms of far right “justice” have become commonplace, as in the high-profile case of 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the numerous cases of far right violence and intimidation directed at Black Lives […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107855/83/1078558374_0:0:3077:1731_1200x675_80_0_0_8746bb01adfb5766bbbdd850b392588e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008271080297198-three-katyusha-rockets-land-inside-baghdads-green-zone-no-casualties-reported/ Three Katyusha rockets have landed inside Baghdad’s Green Zone on Friday local time, according to the Iraqi Prime Minister’s press office. No casualties have been reported. The rockets were launched from the Al-Baiji area, a neighborhood in Baghdad west of the Green Zone. Between three and five explosions have been reported. The bombing is the second one within hours, according to Sky News Arabia. Earlier Thursday evening, a missile also landed inside the Green Zone perimeter, Arab News reported. According to the outlet, there have been more than 30 attacks on American interests in Iraq […]
The family of a young black man shot dead in Seattle’s former protest encampment, known as “CHOP,” has filed a wrongful death claim against the city, arguing first responders failed to offer help as the 19-year-old bled to death. The family of Lorzeno Anderson filed the claim on Monday through a local law firm, alleging that “Seattle officials created a dangerous environment and city personnel failed to protect or medically assist” the teen after he was shot in the early hours of June 20. “Explain to me why they didn’t go in there and help my son,” Anderson’s mother, Donnitta Sinclair, […]
On the 98321048973242th consecutive night of protests in Portland, the demonstrators attempted once again to set up an “autonomous zone” similar to the debacle that transpired in Seattle. The Portland communists must be losing their touch, because they’ve unable to match their counterparts to the north, as the police repeatedly dismantle the zones and send the protesters running. This time, they attempted a hostile takeover of the same parks that were taken over during Occupy Portland. The Oregonian reports: Authorities on Thursday closed a pair of downtown parks that are hubs for Portland protesters. About 5 a.m., Portland police announced the […]
President Donald Trump joined Sean Hannity on Thursday night to discuss the latest on the Democrat endorsed riots and mayhem in cities across the US. During their discussion Sean Hannity asked President Trump about rumors he heard about the president warning the Seattle Mayor about the CHOP Zone in Seattle. Sean Hannity: I had a source that told us but have not been able to confirm it the the reason the Seattle Mayor finally acted was because they were given notice that if they didn’t act that you were going to. Is there any truth to that? President Trump: 100%. We […]
In one of the most moving Hannity Shows ever, the father of a son slain in the CHOP zone in Seattle spoke out. It was a very emotional interview for Hannity and viewers who could see the pain the father felt after losing his son so senselessly. Hannity held one of his most riveting interviews of all time last night when he brought on his show the father of a teen slain in Seattle’s CHOP zone a few weeks ago. Hannity provided the father ample time to share his story and feelings about losing his son so senselessly. Horace Lorenzo Anderson […]
After a so-called “autonomous police-free zone” was established in Seattle in the wake of George Floyd’s death on 8 June, the city’s mayor Jenny Durkan referred to it as a “peaceful expression” of the community’s grief. But the zone has since seen a series of shootings. US Police have dispersed protesters in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupation Protest (CHOP) area also referred to as an “autonomous” and “police-free” zone on Wednesday morning, following an emergency order issued by Seattle’s mayor Jenny Durkan. The order was issued on 30 June to respond to “reported life safety, public health and property issues” around the […]
There was another shooting in the CHAZ/CHOP “autonomous zone” of Seattle around 3 a.m. on Monday morning — this is the fifth one since rioters took over the area. A livestreamer at the scene said that they believed there are at least two people shot, one to the head. At least one of the victims was being transported to the hospital in a private vehicle by the time police arrived. TRENDING: MUST READ… Report: Tulsa Arena Management Sabotaged Trump Rally Attendance “We just heard shot after shot after shot,” a livestreamer on the scene said. “There are at least two victims, […]
After a failed bid to remove barricades from Seattle’s protester encampment – in which municipal workers were blocked by demonstrators – the city’s mayor said they will try again Sunday, soon after being hit with another lawsuit. Friday morning saw protesters at the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” (CHOP) stand-off with city workers who’d arrived to clear away street barriers set up around the zone, with one activist seen laying in the road to stop equipment from entering the area. Following the tense interaction and a lengthy meeting with protesters, however, Mayor Jenny Durkan now says the barricades will come down over […]
Time to go kids.DC Police on Tuesday swept out the leftist vermin in the street attempting an autonomous zone in the nation’s capitol. Advertisement – story continues below The squatters wanted an autonomous zone blocks from the White House.They want a revolution. The DC Police were chanting, “Move forward. Move forward…” as they cleared the street from far left activists. DC police clear the streets just north of the #WhiteHouse where protesters tried to set up an autonomous zone last night. pic.twitter.com/OgId4yFs9u — Charlotte Cuthbertson (@charlottecuthbo) June 23, 2020 TRENDING: It Begins… White Allies Paint Whip Marks on their Backs and […]
On Monday night the Seattle Police Department announced on Twitter that they will retake control of the police precinct overrun by Antifa domestic terrorists and their allies in the violent BLM mob. This was after the shootings this weekend in the lawless CHOP zone. Tonight The Gateway Pundit learned that a host ofconservative groups and possible hundreds of activists were planning to descend on the hellhole and restore order. BREAKING: CHOP GETS THE CHOP! Seattle Mayor Sends In Police to Retake East Precinct in the CHOP Zone Bikers for Trump – Boots On The Ground, Proud Boys, and several other patriot […]
The War Zone Is America By Andrea Mazzarino, Tom Dispatch. June 22, 2020 The War Zone Is America2020-06-222020-06-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/israel-police-american-training-from-the-grayzone.jpg200px200px Above photo: Militarized police from the Grayzone Project. A Military Spouse’s Perspective on Racism and Armed Violence in the United States. Recently, in this Black Lives Matter protest moment, my five-year-old son looked at me and asked, “Mommy, where did all the brown people go? Did the police here shoot them?” We’d just moved to the outskirts of a more affluent rural town from a city where my son and three-and-a-half-year-old daughter mixed daily with black, Latino, and Asian American kids and were among […]
Videos show Portland police removing barricades and disbanding a nascent ‘Autonomous Zone’ set up by protesters in front of the mayor’s home after activists’ demands were not met at a city hall meeting. Demonstrators set up a row of barriers outside Mayor Ted Wheeler’s apartment on Thursday morning, but Portland police officers had little patience for the project, moving in quickly to tear them down after declaring the gathering a “civil disturbance” at 5:30 a.m. PPB is declaring a civil disturbance and unlawful assembly from NW 11th east to NW Park Ave and NW Irving south to NW Everett St. If […]
Multiple rockets are believed to have been fired into the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Iraq’s capital city, according to local media, with US Apache helicopters reportedly scrambled in the area following the blasts. Up to four Katyusha rockets landed in or near the Green Zone early on Thursday morning, a correspondent for Al-Arabiya reported. Citing local sources, the outlet also noted that helicopters were seen in the airspace over the zone, which houses US and other diplomatic facilities. Other unconfirmed reports also suggested four rockets were fired in the attack, and that the aircraft seen were American Apaches. Photos purporting to show the rocket […]
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Life And Times At The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone By Shane Burley, ROAR Magazine. June 17, 2020 Life And Times At The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone2020-06-172020-06-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/one-of-the-entrances-to-the-chaz.-photo-by-derek-simeone-from-flickr-e1592408051577.png200px200px Above photo: One of the entrances to the CHAZ. Photo by Derek Simeone from Flickr. Following a long tradition of left revolutionary praxis, protesters in Seattle have declared a cop-free autonomous zone in the heart of the city. Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed one of the largest uprisings in recent US history. The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, brought millions of people in the US and around the world out […]
After a week of lusting for conflict in a six-block activist zone in Seattle, far-right figures went and made their own trouble. Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone—or CHAZ, although some newer stylings refer to it as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP—is a small protest area that emerged last week, after police vacated a nearby precinct and city leaders agreed to leave the streets open for Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Almost immediately, figures on the right looked for evidence that the loosely organized protest area was a den of violence and criminality, with President Donald Trump tweeting threats to send […]
The government of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) on Tuesday installed concrete barriers on city streets on the boundaries of the area occupied by armed leftists to prevent vehicles from entering. One lane is reported to be left open to allow access by emergency vehicles. Police will not be allowed in except to respond to life-threatening crimes. The concrete barriers are encased in plywood so occupiers can paint the new barricades with slogans and ‘art’. Photo by CHAZ City 206, WikiCommons Photo of street barricades that are being replaced with concrete barriers courtesy of the Seattle government. While Fox News is […]
The Seattle district known as CHOP — for “Captiol Hill Organized Protest” — and initially known as CHAZ, has been occupied by demonstrators for over a week.The protesters pushed the police out of their precinct station a week ago. Democrats around the country are pushing to defund police departments following the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta. At the same time the American left and their fake news media are promoting anti-police protests and the demonization of police. On Monday night a business owner in CHAZ or CHOP told reporters he called the police to report […]
Raz Simone, the so-called warlord of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone carved out of Seattle by activists, has been filmed handing out assault rifles to minors. That’s a state felony, if only there were anyone to enforce the law. Video that surfaced on Monday – from Simone’s own June 10 Facebook livestream, apparently – shows him handing out assault rifles that look like the ubiquitous AR-15 semi-automatic, including to individuals who look far younger than 21. Washington state law, which went into effect last year, makes it a gross misdemeanor to transfer an assault rifle to anyone under 21, with any […]
Seattle’s bustling Capitol Hill neighborhood has long been a hotbed of gentrification, but right now, the streets surrounding Cal Anderson Park are undergoing a different kind of transformation. Over the past several days of its remarkable existence, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) has captured radical imaginations across the country, and struck fear into the hearts of conservative politicians and right-wing media pundits (including the president). Also known as the Seattle Autonomous Zone, the six blocks surrounding Seattle’s now-abandoned East Precinct have become a virtually cop-free space, populated instead by a diverse congregation of activists and community members who have turned […]
Antifa and BLM this week set up a new “autonomous zone” at Hyde Park inside and around the University of Chicago Police Department. Protesters set up tents outside and inside the police department. The UCPD chief agreed to meet with the malcontents protesting on Monday so they are staying put until then. Since there are no available restrooms nearby, the protesters are urinating in diapers. TRENDING: Atlanta Police Chief Resigns After Deadly Police Shooting of Black Man Resisting Arrest at Wendy’s Drive-Thru GOOD MORNING: HYDE PARK PROTESTS DAY 2 https://t.co/NCvQKQrOW8 — Grace Del Vecchio (@delvecchiograce) June 13, 2020 Protesters inside are […]
The so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”, or “CHAZ”, was established by protesters around the East Precinct after police retreated from the area on Monday. Protesters in Seattle held down a Christian street preacher in the area of the self-declared “Seattle Autonomous Zone” on Saturday. Footage circulating on social media shows protesters pinning him to the ground as he shouts, “You’re choking me” before they let him go. BREAKING: Group of Antifa holds down a street preacher as he screams ‘You’re choking me’ in Seattle Autonomous Zone pic.twitter.com/1ZfjHe9V3n — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) June 13, 2020 The reaction to the post has been controversial: […]
Protesters have set up barricades around the abandoned Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct after police retreated from Capitol Hill on Monday in what was approved by the city mayor as an act of “trust and de-escalation”. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and police chief Carmen Best appear to disagree on how to handle the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”, or “CHAZ”, set up by protesters around the East Precinct. Over the course of the events, Dunkan and Best have given contradicting statements concerning the “CHAZ”. Durkan has described the establishment of the “Cops Free Zone” as an act of “patriotism”, signaling that she sees […]
The situation in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle is about what you would expect about now.They built a border wall and established segregated gardens. Advertisement – story continues below Today the CHAZ Community leader told all white people to give $10 to a black person.Considering most of the people in CHAZ haven’t held a job in a while this could be quite a sacrifice. The black person in the video is seen clapping and cheering. TRENDING: Biden Narrows VP Pick Down to Six Women — But Look Who’s NOT on the List! Revenge is great! Via Ian Miles […]
Raz Simone, the self-appointed ‘warlord’ of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), blames a hacker for “old” tweets, after users found decade-old homophobic posts – similar to what once happened to MSNBC host Joy Reid. Simone, a rap musician and activist, has risen to prominence as a leading figure in the CHAZ experiment, and his newfound status has brought with it new scrutiny of his record. This week, some right-wing outlets delved deep into his digital footprint and allegedly dug up some unsavory tweets from 2010 in which a homophobic slur was used. The screenshots of the now-deleted tweets have been […]
A video surfaced online purportedly showing a machete-wielding man scaring people inside the ‘autonomous’ CHAZ enclave set up by activists in the middle of Seattle, Washington. Police have warned of lawlessness in the area. The short clip that has been circulating on social media shows a man in dark clothes holding what appears to be a machete while strolling near tents set up on a sports field. At one point, the man starts waving his weapon as several bystanders seem to become concerned about his behavior. Activists established the ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ (CHAZ) in downtown Seattle earlier this week amid […]
Tucker Carlson continued his extensive reporting on CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone and nation state inside Seattle, Washington. Advertisement – story continues below CHAZ was a creation of Antifa-Anarchists and Black Lives Matter protesters following the mass protests of last week. On Friday night Tucker Carlson ran a tourism ad for the nation state of CHAZ.This is hilarious! Via Tucker Carlson Tonight: TRENDING: JUST IN: Minneapolis City Council Unanimously Votes to Replace Police with ‘Community-Led Public Safety System’ For the record — the Cancel Culture is going after Tucker Carlson for his honest reporting on the violent and destructive left […]
President Donald Trump says Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, a largely police-free community space fashioned amid protests, is run by “domestic terrorists.” Seattle’s police department made (and walked back) a claim about anarchists “extorting” businesses in the area. But actual businesses around the zone say they’re watching Ava DuVernay films, handing out granola bars, and having a nice time. Following several nights of showdowns between police and protesters, in which cops made liberal use of tear gas and flash grenades, Seattle reached a detente with activists on June 9. The city would open up a few streets for Black Lives Matter […]
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Where Seattle Protesters Gather Without Police By Evan Bush, Seattle Times. June 12, 2020 The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Where Seattle Protesters Gather Without Police2020-06-122020-06-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/seattle-autonomous-zone-e1591927282924.jpg200px200px Above Photo: East Pine Street reopens to at least pedestrian traffic after Seattle police closed the East Precinct. Protesters surge toward the East Precinct as demonstrations continued. By Dean Rutz for The Seattle Times. Welcome to the CHAZ, the newly named Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where most everything was free Tuesday. Free snacks at the No-Cop Co-op. Free gas masks from some guy’s sedan. Free speech at the speaker’s circle, where anyone could […]
It looks like the party is over. Antifa domestic terrorists in Washington state set up an “autonomous zone” in six square blocks in Seattle this week. On Tuesday “Free Capitol Hill” the Antifa “Autonomous Zone” released its list of demands from the Seattle and Washington State governments. TRENDING: “I Should Never Have Been There” – Gen Mark Milley Stands with the Mob – Apologizes for Walking to Torched St. John’s Church with President Trump (VIDEO) The list includes reparations, ending the police and free stuff — pretty much what you would expect from a bunch of illiterate leftie kids. Within 72 […]
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has rebuffed US President Donald Trump’s vow to send in troops to remove protesters occupying an abandoned police station if local officials don’t act, saying it would be an “illegal” invasion. Responding to the president’s remarks earlier on Thursday – in which he threatened to directly intervene if Seattle officials don’t “take back” the city – the mayor insisted any such move would violate the protesters’ constitutional rights. “Lawfully gathering and expressing First Amendment rights, demanding we do better as society… is not terrorism, it’s patriotism,” Durkan said. The threat to invade Seattle is not only unwelcome, it’s illegal. Also […]
A self-styled “warlord” of the Seattle Autonomous Zone (and local rapper) is quickly learning that policing is a tough job, struggling to maintain safety and order amid the newly minted commune’s post-revolutionary hangover. Raz Simone, self-appointed “warlord” of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), attempted to clear up some misunderstandings about the protest community, explaining to the Post Millennial on Thursday that his only goal for the moment was “to keep the peace and unity, honestly, that’s it.” Sort of like a police officer. “A few different organizations have different demands, and no one speaks for everyone, but everyone’s trying to […]
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Forms Around Emptied East Precinct By Jake Goldstein-Street and Alex Garland, CapitolHillSeattle.com. June 11, 2020 Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Forms Around Emptied East Precinct2020-06-112020-06-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/chaz-e1591888459857.jpg200px200px Above photo: By Alex Garland. ‘Welcome to Free Capitol Hill.’ The first night in the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone that has formed in the wake of police giving up the week-long blockade of the East Precinct was rainy and peaceful and full of speeches from activists, agitators, poets, and socialist city council members. “I guess whatever the fuck we’re doing is effective,” one organizer identified as Magik said over a megaphone early in the night as […]
Photo by CHAZ City 206, WikiCommons, https://www.facebook.com/mance.rayder.1029/posts/735139263908049 The nation of CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) in what used to be Seattle was set up by antifa earlier this week. CHAZ has its first self declared dictator/warlord. Seattle based rapper Raz Simone evidently deputized himself and his crew, and they are patrolling the streets, regulating any unauthorized activity in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Raz Simone, a Seattle local, stated he belongs to the “People’s Force,” a replacement for Seattle PD in #FreeCapitolHill. On June 8th in a live video he advised that unfamiliar faces should be stopped, questioned, and checked to […]
Activists who established a commune around an abandoned police precinct in Seattle are finding out the hard way it’s not easy to run a revolution, dealing with food supply issues, internal squabbling and even a wannabe strongman. After Seattle PD vacated the East Precinct in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on Sunday, activists moved in and set up an “autonomous zone” spanning several city blocks, putting up barricades and “persuading” local residents and businesses to de facto separate from the city. Their creation has been dubbed the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or CHAZ. “Right now at CHAZ there is food, security, bathrooms, […]
At least one rocket was fired into the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in the Iraqi capital, with a loud blast reported in the area. The attack reportedly resulted in no casualties and only minor damage. A Katyusha rocket landed within the Green Zone in the early hours of Thursday morning, setting off sirens at the US Embassy, Reuters reported, citing a witness. Nobody was killed in the blast, according to Iraq’s Security Media Cell, which added that the rocket is believed to have been fired from a nearby sports stadium. A local reporter shared footage of the aftermath of the […]
Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006101079579211-sirens-sound-off-as-rocket-land-in-baghdads-green-zone-near-us-embassy/ An Iraqi security source tells Sputnik that a rocket struck an area close to the US Embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq, “An explosion has recently hit the Green Zone after a rocket had fallen near the US Embassy inside the zone. Sirens have sounded in the Green Zone,” the source told Sputnik late Wednesday. Reports have yet to emerge regarding possible damaged or victims from the blast. Kurdistan 24 journalist Barzan Sadiq posted footage of impact area in central Baghdad, alleging the projectile fired was a Katyusha rocket. Sirens and billowing smoke […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey will not allow Syria’s Idlib it “to become a conflict zone again.” He also accused the Syrian government on Tuesday of “increasing provocations” in the rebel-held areas. The Turkish-Russian ceasefire deal over three months ago halted major fighting in Syria’s northwest region. Syrian government forces have repelled militants’ attack on a settlement in the southern part of the Idlib de-escalation zone, the Russian military said on Monday. Damascus’ SANA news agency reported last week on infighting among Turkey-backed militants over “the looting of agricultural lands after the displacement of their owners” in northwestern […]
After police in Seattle, Washington retreated from the Capitol Hill neighborhood, protesters took over the abandoned ‘regime’ precinct and erected barricades to mark an ‘autonomous zone’ for several blocks around it. Six blocks of downtown Seattle have been declared the ‘Free Capitol Hill Zone’ or ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ (CHAZ), according to area activists that have taken control of Seattle PD’s East Precinct, on 12th Avenue and E. Pine Street. Journalist Julio Rosas tweeted out photos from the ‘Zone,’ including flyers demanding that Seattle PD be defunded, and declaring that police “will always be racist because capitalism requires inequality.” I’m outside […]
COLUMBIA, South Carolina—Steve Benjamin, the black mayor of Columbia, was pissed. “Take your asses home,” he ordered. It was Saturday evening, May 30, in this city of 140,000. A day of protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police had started peacefully. That afternoon, hundreds of people gathered at the state capitol building at the southern end of the city’s bustling Main Street. They held signs. They chanted. They sang hymns. But they didn’t break any laws. Nothing burned. What happened next maps onto the experiences of other, bigger cities across the United States. The demonstration escalated, and the […]
A suicide bomber has struck a mosque at the entrance to the international zone in the Afghan capital Kabul during evening prayers, killing one person and injuring at least three others. Interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian confirmed that the attacker blew himself up inside a washroom at the Wazir Akbar Khan mosque in the central district, next to the Green Zone – home to international offices, journalists and diplomats – at around 7:25pm local time on Tuesday. No group has claimed responsibility for the mosque attack. Kabul has recorded more than 30 blasts over the past two months, leaving several people […]
Precinct is down pic.twitter.com/LCs90UdF2o — Sophia Narwitz (@SophNar0747) May 29, 2020 It’s a war zone. Protestors and police clash. Fires everywhere. Chaos pic.twitter.com/juyx11rtZK — Sophia Narwitz (@SophNar0747) May 29, 2020 The State Patrol is here at 4th and Nicollet pic.twitter.com/dtf2D8O9wN — Ricardo Lopez (@rljourno) May 29, 2020 Source link
At least one rocket fell near Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the US Embassy and other diplomatic compounds in Iraq, according to reports, possibly marking the first attack on the facility in weeks. The explosion set off sirens at the US Embassy compound on Tuesday morning, local media said. The rocket was reportedly fired from Baghdad’s west and hit an empty building inside the zone, Reuters reported, citing Iraqi military. No casualties have been reported in the incident. Sounds of explosions heard in Baghdad’s Green Zone. Sirens triggered. #Iraq — Baxtiyar Goran (@BaxtiyarGoran) May 18, 2020 Though the sprawling […]
A right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker has backed Yair Netanyahu, son of the Israeli Prime Minister, in criticizing the EU. The German and the Israeli both want the return of a “Christian” Europe, or so they say. While his father cobbles together a coalition government with rival Benny Gantz and prepares for a visit from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo next week, Yair Netanyahu spends his time on social media, defending his beleaguered dad and firing off incendiary tweets at his political opponents. These posts have landed him in trouble before, like when he published a meme depicting his […]