Mexico Shelves Planned Shipment of Oil to Cuba Amid US Tensions – Bloomberg

Mexico’s state oil company backtracked on plans to send a much-needed shipment of crude oil to Cuba, a long-time ally of ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/mexico-shelves-planned-shipment-of-oil-to-cuba-amid-us-tensions

Renee Good, Killed by ICE, Was Standing in Solidarity with Her Neighbors | Labor Notes

The whistle blows in short bursts: PHWEEE! PHWEEE! PHWEEE! PHWEEE! Code: ICE is nearby. Then comes the long blast: PHWEEEEEEEEEEE! Code: ICE has taken someone. These are the codes rapid responders are using to alert their neighbors and co-workers to ICE sightings and kidnappings. Federal agents are armed with military-style weapons. Up against them, everyday people have
— Read on labornotes.org/2026/01/renee-good-killed-ice-was-standing-solidarity-her-neighbors

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein | The Guardian

Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump

ICE Details a New Minnesota-Based Detention Network That Spans 5 States | WIRED

Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest.
— Read on www.wired.com/story/ice-detention-network-minnesota-5-states/

I’m the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Release me | Opinion

Inside the ICE facility where I’m being held, conditions are filthy, overcrowded and inhumane. None of us deserve to be treated this way.
— Read on www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/01/21/leqaa-kordia-ice-detention-columbia-university-protests/88149826007/

Exposing Britain’s Depravity in Iraq: A.T. Williams’ A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa — Liberated Texts

In September 2003, British soldiers in Anzio Company, in the First Battalion Queen’s Lancashire Regiment, beat an Iraqi civilian to death; his name was Baha Mousa, and he was a 26-year-old father-of-two, who worked as a hotel receptionist in Basra. In addition to killing Mousa – an act which the International Criminal Court concluded constituted
— Read on liberatedtexts.com/reviews/exposing-britains-depravity-in-iraq-a-t-williams-a-very-british-killing-the-death-of-baha-mousa/

The Tag Team Fails in Iran – Antiwar.com

Reprinted from John’s Substack: The mainstream media in the West is committed to portraying the protests in Iran as strictly an internal affair. The people of Iran, so the argument goes, spontaneously rose up against their government because they were in desperate straits due to their leaders’ corruption and mismanagement…
— Read on original.antiwar.com/john-mearsheimer/2026/01/20/the-tag-team-fails-in-iran/

Are sanctuary policing policies no more than a public relations facade?

In a new book based on hours of body-cam footage, a legal scholar shows how local police in sanctuary jurisdictions still help ICE − and why true non-cooperation is nearly impossible to enforce.
— Read on theconversation.com/are-sanctuary-policing-policies-no-more-than-a-public-relations-facade-269245