The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department

Los Angeles has long served as a proving ground where the counterinsurgency tactics later adopted by police throughout the United States were first domestically deployed. Ever since the nation’s very first no-knock SWAT raid on the Black Panther Party headquarters at 41st & Central and the CIA-facilitated, “crack cocaine explosion”that was first unleashed on South Central to more recent, repressive innovations like so-called “Community Policing” and today’s “Predpol,” the City of Angels has repeatedly been lauded as a “model” for “modern” policing. But what is the Los Angeles model, really? And why is it being exalted again now?

The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department

‘The Movement Underestimates Fascism’ – Gerald Horne | Groundings

The goat 🐐 himself Dr. Gerald Horne joins a special bonus episode discussing the current state of global politics, imperialism in crisis, the potential for a new multipolar world, and the rising fascism across the west.
— Read on groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/horne-bonus

Infamous US list against Cuba rejected in Syria – Prensa Latina

Damascus, Jun 21 (Prensa Latina) The Association of Syrian Graduates in Cuba issued a statement on Friday in which it condemned the Caribbean island’s inclusion again on Washington’s list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
— Read on www.plenglish.com/news/2024/06/21/infamous-us-list-against-cuba-rejected-in-syria/

together


baby if we have it apart we’ll have it 
together, don’t you think so? 
can’t see us as two powers nullifying 

baby if we have it together 
we’ll have it apart, 
isn’t that the promise of love?
with(out) laches lingerings of ruin

baby if we do together we’ll have 
forever, that’s what u told me when 
you kissed me on saturday night 

baby if we don’t got it together now 
we can go on and get it together.

Terrorism: Theirs and Ours

Terrorists change. The terrorist of yesterday is the hero of today, and the hero of yesterday becomes the terrorist of today. This is a serious matter of the constantly changing world of images in which we have to keep our heads straight to know what is terrorism and what is not. But more importantly, to know what causes it, and how to stop it.
— Read on www.sangam.org/ANALYSIS/Ahmad.htm

Haiti – FLASH : Signing of an agreement on the legal status of the Mission – HaitiLibre.com : Haiti news 7/7

Friday June 21, 2024 in Washington, Ambassador Gandy Thomas, Acting Representative of Haiti to the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Ambassador of Kenya to the United States, Lazarus O. Amayo signed a SOFA legal agreement Status Of Force Agreement on the status of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MMSS), announced Cristobal Dupouy, the special representative of the Secretary General of the OAS in Haiti.

Let’s remember that SOFA agreements are international legal agreements allowing for derogations, within certain limits, from the principle of territorial jurisdiction of the host State. This agreement which grants a set of privileges and immunities to members of the Mission, guaranteed by the Haitian State. This agreement was essential and conditioned the deployment of the Mission.
— Read on www.haitilibre.com/en/news-42604-haiti-flash-signing-of-an-agreement-on-the-legal-status-of-the-mission.html