The monitor stressed that the “deadliest repression” took place in the provinces of Lorestan and Ilam, home to Kurdish and Lur ethnic minorities.

A clash erupted on Sunday in Malekshahi in Iran’s Ilam province, where security forces opened fire on protesters with heavy weaponry, prompting protests of solidarity across Iran’s Kurdish-inhabited western regions (Rojhelat), culminating in a general strike on Thursday across Rojhelat.

Amnesty said that at least “28 protesters and bystanders, including children,” were killed across eight provinces as of Saturday, while the Oslo-based Hengaw Human Rights Organization on Friday identified 42 protesters “killed by direct fire from government forces” during the recent nationwide protests.

Iran has intensified its crackdown on protesters as demonstrations continue to expand, despite government claims of a softer approach.

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She started looking for data on how many women in the United States were murdered by men each year. She wanted to put a link in her online comments, a gateway to a definitive account of the information she thought might make people see what she saw: a national crisis. “Look at all these freaking women!” she remembers wanting to scream. “Pay attention to this!”

But the data wasn’t there. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked murders using a reporting system with hundreds of potential attributes, such as whether domestic violence was a factor, but the information wasn’t publicly accessible. FBI figures relied on voluntary reporting from thousands of law-enforcement agencies, and some years yielded more robust data than others.

Wilcox also considered the data grossly incomplete because it was anonymous; it didn’t include information about who the victims were. Someone needed to document the women—to name them, describe them, and honor them. And if no one else was doing it, Wilcox decided that she would.

She opened a spreadsheet and got to work. Each successive row would contain the details of a woman’s murder. Wilcox started labeling columns: Name, age, location of death. Whether there were postmortem injuries, and whether the crime was a murder-suicide. The killer or suspected killer’s name—if it was available—and his relationship to the victim. Soon Wilcox had labeled more than thirty columns.
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Femicide entered the lexicon in 1976, when radical feminist scholar Diana Russell used it to describe “the killing of females by males because they are female.” Russell wanted to push back against the normalization of women’s murders, especially in a domestic context, as private misfortunes or crimes of passion. In much the same way that defining genocide clarified the intent behind an atrocity, describing misogynistic murders as femicide demanded that the crimes be recognized as uniquely motivated. “We must recognize the sexual politics of murder,” Russell wrote. “From the burning of witches in the past, to the more recent widespread custom of female infanticide in many societies, to the killing of women for ‘honor,’ we realize that femicide has been going on a long time.”

Almost as soon as the term was coined, women began tabulating femicides. Between January and May 1979, twelve Black women were murdered in Boston, six within a two-mile radius, prompting an activist group called the Combahee River Collective to publish a pamphlet entitled “Six Black Women: Why Did They Die?” The public feared a serial killer, but the victims were bound by their gender, race, and personal circumstances, not by who took their lives. Just two of the women were killed by the same man. With each printing, the collective struck out the old number in the pamphlet’s title to reflect new murders of Black women in the city. A decade later, in 1989, a man shot and killed fourteen women, most of them engineering students, in Montreal. Before the massacre he yelled, “I hate feminists.” In response, activist Chris Domingo created the Berkeley Clearinghouse on Femicide, where she collected stories about similar killings.
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As Women Count USA gained recognition, researchers asked Wilcox to track keywords or trends for their own work. In 2020, Danielle Pollack, a policy manager for the National Family Violence Law Center, requested that she flag cases of girls killed by fathers from whom their mothers had separated. Pollack wanted to use the figures to lobby for changes in family-court systems to protect children. More recently, Alison Marganski, a criminology professor at LeMoyne University, began reviewing Wilcox’s data. She was looking for trends in coercive control, stalking, and abuse that preceded murders—behaviors that, if properly identified, could have prompted police or other individuals to reach out to victims before it was too late.

Marganski told me that she admired Wilcox’s research because it presented a fuller picture of femicide than government data did. That quality gap could widen further. In 2025, the Trump administration removed questions related to gender identity from the National Crime Victimization Survey, a project of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal agencies have deleted thousands of online datasets, including ones related to public health and safety. It’s uncertain to what extent, and how reliably, the federal government will continue to collect crime data. “It’s a very precarious time,” Marganski said, “which maybe makes the case for the grassroots stuff to have a particular role.”

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Overall, the current situation in Iran represents far more than a spontaneous outbreak of unrest. It signals a profound crisis of legitimacy, the collapse of public trust in governing institutions, and a critical phase in the confrontation between society and the ruling order. The trajectory of this moment will depend on the balance between social resistance, state repression, and the capacity of people to organize independently outside both state power and elite opposition forces.

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Any political order that emerges amid destruction on this scale must be understood not simply as a governance choice, but as an existential response to chaos. History is not written solely in the language of destruction. At certain moments, order emerges unexpectedly from within disintegration itself. Recent world history is replete with such examples.

The Latin phrase Ordo ab Chao (order born from chaos) is not a randomly chosen metaphor to describe the experience of Rojava and Northern Syria. The structure that emerged from 2012 onward was not a predesigned state project, but the outcome of society’s effort to preserve its existence and generate continuity in the absence of the state.

Developing amid security vacuums, sectarian violence, and forced displacement, this experience did not seek to impose order by suppressing chaos; rather, it aimed to build order by recognizing chaos, internalizing its parameters, and managing it.
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The economic policies adopted in Rojava and Northern Syria rest on micro-level but highly decisive measures. Ensuring that essential commodities such as sugar, fuel, and basic foodstuffs remain accessible at controlled prices; preventing strategic resources like oil from being surrendered to market speculation; and above all, organizing healthcare services to be entirely free or provided without regard for payment—these are the concrete expressions of this political rationality.

These are not grand ideological claims, but vital balancing mechanisms that prevent social disintegration, displacement, and collapse.

It must be emphasized: this approach is not a romanticized “alternative economic model.” Capitalist reflexes, market relations, and irregular practices persist in this geography as well. This is inevitable. What is decisive is preventing these reflexes from becoming destructive to the political and social fabric. Rather than surrendering the economy to the absolute dominance of the free market, the governing rationality in Rojava has focused on preserving the minimum balance points necessary to keep society standing.

For this very reason, the economic pillar constitutes the sustainability test of the order beyond military and political momentum. A ground where people can receive treatment, access basic needs, and are not pushed into absolute uncertainty about the future serves as the silent but vital carrier of political order. Rojava’s survival to date has been possible because this carrying rationality has been preserved despite immense pressure.

Today, signals from the field indicate that this capacity is being directly targeted. The process conducted under the discourse of “integration” is turning into a liquidation line advancing through unilateral impositions rather than mutual and binding agreements. Turkey’s “multi-instrument pressure” strategy—simultaneously deploying diplomacy, security, and political coercion—aims to appropriate the military, political, and social accumulation built over more than a decade.

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“The world’s most powerful country is in the throes of a political revolution. In our lifetimes, we have never witnessed an American president so committed to and so capable of changing the political system and, accordingly, the United States’ role in the world.”

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While the immediate crisis was addressed, the incident highlighted deeper systemic issues within Greece’s air traffic management (ATM) system. Aviation experts and unions have pointed out that the failure was not an isolated event but rather indicative of broader concerns about the country’s air traffic control infrastructure. Years of chronic underinvestment in Greece’s air traffic systems have left critical components outdated, underfunded, and fragile. Many of the country’s aviation technologies are decades old and in need of urgent modernization to keep pace with rising air traffic demands and global safety standards.

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It was “by no means our intention” to cut power to households, says communiqué, but to “turn off the juice to the military-industrial complex”

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Anarchists have taken responsibility for a major power outage in southeast Berlin early Tuesday, after two high-voltage pylons were set on fire in Johannisthal, Treptow-Köpenick.

The attack, which began around 3.30am according to police, cut electricity to some 43,000 households and 3,000 businesses. Entire areas were left without power, public transport was paralysed, traffic lights went dark, and mobile police units with loudspeaker vans were deployed to inform residents.

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The last remaining uranium mill in the United States is located in White Mesa, Utah. The White Mesa Uranium Mill, owned and operated by Energy Fuels, processes uranium-bearing materials into yellowcake, a key component of nuclear reactor fuel.
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For two decades, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe has actively resisted the operations of the White Mesa Uranium Mill that is contaminating ancestral lands with radioactive waste and jeopardizing its future. They have protested mill operations by building coalitions, organizing spiritual walks and peaceful protests, and educating social sectors through social media.

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The investigation found that for every illegal voter caught, around one million legal voters were wrongly targeted and removed from voter rolls.

This isn’t speculation; it’s data reviewed name-by-name by experts who usually work for Amazon and Microsoft on mailing list hygiene to prevent delivery mistakes.

The bottom line?

Vote suppression is not an accident. It’s a system.

And Vigilantes Inc. exposes the system: the strategists who designed it, the politicians who enable it, the billionaires who fund it — and the communities fighting to overcome it.

If you’ve ever wondered how elections flip in ways that defy demographics… why millions of provisional ballots never get counted… or how “election integrity” became a euphemism for mass disenfranchisement — this film’s for you.

And if you’ve ever felt like your vote doesn’t matter, this Q&A makes one thing painfully clear:

Someone out there is working very hard to make sure you believe that your vote isn’t valuable.

Because your vote is valuable — valuable enough to steal.

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Something is definitively wrong and worrying about US President Donald Trump. His mental state is questionable considering his behavior and his erratic, reckless and delusional statements.

He has made gratuitous insults, threats and attacks against many countries, including close allies, and would seem to have no hesitation in provoking an international trade war. Moreover, his rhetoric seems to get more and more violent as time goes by.

Such pronouncements and threats could be very disruptive politically and economically to international relations. This could lead to a drop in international trade, throw many economies into a severe economic recession, and possibly be a repetition of the policy mistakes of 1929-1939, which led to an economic depression.

President Trump would be well advised to refrain from creating havoc in the world. He should tone down his insults, threats and attacks against other sovereign countries and against international institutions.

In this day and age, when the threat of a nuclear conflict still exists and is indeed very present, it is no time to yield to impulsive actions and to adopt improvised policies. It is a time for cooler heads and for rationality to prevail, with the aim of making the world more peaceful and more prosperous for all.

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