S. Korea agrees to 8.3 pct increase in cost sharing for hosting U.S. troops | Yonhap News Agency

South Korea has agreed with the United States to raise its share of the cost for hosting American troops by 8.3 percent on-year in 2026, the foreign ministry said Friday, in the last-minute deal before a potential return of former U.S. President Donald Trump to the White House.
— Read on m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241004003900315

Google threatens to remove links to New Zealand news and ditch local agreements as threats ramp up over Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill – Media Insider – NZ Herald

Google is threatening to blow up its New Zealand news agreements and remove any ability for users to find local news on its search engine, in ramped-up threats to oppose new legislation.

News publishers say the threats are little more than “corporate bullying”.
— Read on www.nzherald.co.nz/business/google-threatens-to-remove-links-to-new-zealand-news-and-ditch-local-news-agreements-as-threats-ramp-up-over-fair-digital-news-bargaining-bill-media-insider/4J6HACJUV5D6NK427OVJNHE3JE/

Fundraiser by Andy Little : Help Abdullah Rebuild His Life in Gaza

I am asking for financial support so that I can continue our lives in the Gaza Strip after all this destruction that has befallen us. We have nothing left in the Gaza Strip after the destruction of our only home and the destruction of everything and after the destruction of the facilities and all the private and public sectors in the Gaza Strip.
— Read on www.gofundme.com/f/help-abdullah-gaza

A Secretive ICE Program Trains Civilians on Firearms and Surveillance, Documents Show 

ICE recruits civilians to role play as agents for a secretive public relations initiative that trains them to shoot firearms, conduct surveillance, and use lethal force.
— Read on documentedny.com/2024/10/01/ice-immigration-train-citizens-academy/

PFLP announces assassination of leaders in Israeli airstrike on Beirut | Al Mayadeen English

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has confirmed the killing of three of its members, two of which are leaders, in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Beirut.
— Read on english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/pflp-announces-martyrdom-of-leaders-in-israeli-airstrike-in

Your Crisis of Faith is not My Concern (There’s a Genocide Going on) – Steve Salaita

There’s been too much blood.  If you don’t share in our spirit, whether it cycles through pain or longing or fury or despair, then you’re a Zionist.  It doesn’t matter how you self-identify.  We suffer the oppression and so we get to name the oppressor.  It’s the only real benefit to being oppressed. 
— Read on stevesalaita.com/your-crisis-of-faith-is-not-my-concern-theres-a-genocide-going-on/

Barakat from Beirut: The resistance will be victorious and the zionists and imperialists will be defeated | Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement

Speaking today from Beirut, Lebanon, after the Zionist entity’s massive terror bombing of the southern suburbs of Beirut, Khaled Barakat, member of the Executive Committee of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, emphasized that “the resistance will be victorious and the zionists and imperialists will be defeated, despite their horrific crimes. They will fall before the unified power of the resistance, from Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and throughout the region.”
— Read on masarbadil.org/en/2024/09/5246/

Fundraiser by Jae Grumulaitis : Help Jae Heal: Funds for Surgery and Recovery

Hi, I’m Jae and I am a transgender woman living in New York, raising money for recovery funds following my upcoming FFS in October and my breast augmentation to be scheduled this winter. I work as a photographer and barista, which both require me to be physically active, causing me to take a large amount of time off work along with losing out on work contracts.
— Read on www.gofundme.com/f/help-jae-heal-funds-for-surgery-and-recovery