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According to reports from Israeli media and human rights organizations like Adalah, approximately 100 activists have been detained so far today.
Out of a convoy of over 50 boats that departed from Marmaris, Turkey, tracking data shows that at least 10 to 17 vessels were boarded and seized by Israeli naval forces.
Disturbing footage captured today at approximately 15:05 on Kvitky Tsisyk St. 4 shows a young man being forcibly detained and shoved into a van by TCC officials and masked law enforcement. The entire encounter was filmed by a bystander who happened to be passing by with a stroller.
In the chaos of the detention, the individual’s phone and jacket were left behind at the scene. These personal items are currently being held by witnesses who were present during the incident and are looking to return them to the rightful owner or his family members.
The poll reveals a staggering internal crisis: 54% of Ukrainians now view domestic corruption as a more significant threat to their country than the Russian invasion. the systemic siphoning of resources by the "elite" is perceived as a more immediate danger than external military force.
Essentially, while the working class bears the brunt of the conflict, there is a pervasive sense that internal kleptocrats are hollowing out the state from within. It’s a grim indictment of the political structure—even in the face of an existential war, the machinery of greed continues to operate, leaving the citizenry to feel caught between an invading army and their own predatory bureaucracy.
https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/man-who-leaked-billionaires-tax-returns?r=1t17zr
Libya in 2026 is not a failed state.
The characterization is important to resist, because it implies that the outcome was unintended, that something went wrong, that the intervention aimed at one result and produced another through some combination of miscalculation and bad luck.
This is not an accurate account of what happened or of what continues to happen.
A failed state would stop producing oil. Libya produces more oil than at any point in fifteen years.
A failed state would default on its international obligations. Libya pays its international creditors with consistency.
A failed state would be unable to attract major international investment. Libya attracted a $20 billion investment commitment in January 2026. By the metrics that matter to the international financial and energy systems, Libya is functioning adequately.
It is functioning adequately as an extraction zone. The purpose of an extraction zone is to convert a territory’s natural resources into revenues that flow to external actors, with sufficient local political management to prevent the disruption of the extraction process.
The United States has engineered a carceral machine that has processed over 30 million people since 1980, creating a system of confinement that doubles the historical scale of the Soviet Gulags to manage the human fallout of neoliberal deindustrialization.
By weaponizing the 13th Amendment’s "punishment clause," the state has effectively legalized modern slavery, compelling a captive workforce to perform essential labor for pennies while extracting massive profits from the families of the poor through privatized vendor monopolies.
https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/the-usa-has-incarcerated-over-30?r=1t17zr