Progressive search for action

30+ min ago (311+ words) Police are the foundation of a state's law and order. Law enforcement agencies are central to public security, social peace, and crime suppression. But when the public begins to lose faith in this force, the overall stability of the state suffers. by GM Forhadul Mozumder (Dhaka Bureau) However, not all police members are bad; indeed, many have sacrificed their lives while performing their duties. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bangladesh Police stood by the starving people with food to the best of their ability." Image: Courtesy of Police Department. Nevertheless, some irregularities, weaknesses, and systemic flaws have tarnished the image of the entire force. It is urgent to overcome this situation, and for that, a cohesive, realistic, and humane action plan is necessary. Fourthly, Community Policing must be genuinely implemented. Regular meetings and dialogues in cities, villages, neighborhoods, awareness programs…...

45+ min ago (1797+ words) Republican Matt Van Epps narrowly beat Democrat Aftyn Behn in a special election Tuesday night to represent Tennessee 7th congressional district. Van Epps was leading Behn 53.5 percent to 45.5 percent, with 75 percent of votes counted, when NBC News declared Van Epps's victory. The district has not had a Democratic representative since 1983, but Van Epps's win came after polls showed the two neck-and-neck heading into Tuesday. Democrats had hoped to continue their strong electoral fortunes from last month, when they flipped some of the most Republican districts across the country and won the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia. Behn outperformed Kamala Harris's 2024 margin in the district, nearly closing the 20-point gap between her and Donald Trump. But the Trump-endorsed Van Epps, a former commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services and Army helicopter pilot, ultimately defeated Behn, a Tennessee state representative…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago (523+ words) Quibbling over the semantics of "double-tap" doesn"t change the reality that the strike was a summary execution of men clinging to the remains of a boat." Special Operations Command pushed back on the contention that Adm. Frank Bradley ordered a double-tap attack when the U.S. military conducted a second strike killing survivors of the September 2 boat attack in the Caribbean, first reported by The Intercept. He does not see his actions on 2 SEP as a "double tap," Col. Allie Weiskopf, a Special Operations Command spokesperson told The Intercept on Tuesday in response to questions about the follow-up attack. In military jargon, the term double tap" " which has no legal or doctrinal meaning " typically refers to a follow-on strike to kill rescuers or first responders. Such attacks have been carried out by U.S. forces in conflicts including the drone wars in Pakistan,…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago (754+ words) Labor Notes, the pseudo-left publication which sponsors TDU and many of these groups, carried a fawning article which openly defended what it falsely characterized as a "neutral" stance towards Trump. Fain has spent the last two years all but campaigning for World War III, citing the war economy during the Second World War as the model for today. He gave a major pro-war speech at the 2024 Labor Notes convention, which barely avoided a breakup over the issue of the Gaza genocide. TDU, for its part, rejected a motion condemning the genocide at its last convention in 2023. The growing support for fascism is the most overt and crude expression of the labor bureaucracy's hatred and fear of the working class. It can only be overthrown through a rebellion from below and replaced with a new leadership, rank-and-file committees, based on a…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago (844+ words) Theaters throughout the United States are currently screening Nuremberg, a film by director James Vanderbilt on the 1945 trial of the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany for "crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity and a common plan or conspiracy to commit those crimes." The Nuremberg tribunal created the current operative framework of international law, under which it is an individual crime for politicians and military leaders to wage aggressive war and commit war crimes. On Friday, the Washington Post reported that, in the first of these murders, carried out by a missile strike on September 2, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued an order to "kill everybody," and, pursuant to this order, a second missile was launched, killing the survivors from the first strike. These revelations have come amidst a crisis within the American state that was intensified on November…...

2+ hour, 28+ min ago (536+ words) Buckle up, it's a rollercoaster. Intensity colors your morning as the stubborn Taurus moon launches into an opposition with Mercury in Scorpio. It may be time for a fully honest conversation. Holding back could keep people at a distance, so challenge yourself to open up. The early afternoon offers a window of stability, so take a moment to center yourself. The moon is on the move, linking up with affirming Jupiter retrograde and mature Saturn in quick succession, which will help you regain composure. But another detour is on its way, and it's more dramatic than the last. Expect the unexpected when the moon bumps into Uranus this evening. The turbulent, liberating planet will shove you outside your comfort zone. Do your best to roll with the punches " a flexible attitude works wonders. When the moon drifts into quick-witted Gemini…...

2+ hour, 31+ min ago (305+ words) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) declared President Donald Trump'creepy" on Tuesday night, hours after the president singled her out during a cabinet meeting. In the meeting, Trump made staggeringly xenophobic remarks against Somalis, stating that he does not want them in the U.S. They contribute nothing," the president said. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you. Some will say that is not "politically correct.' I don't care. Their country is no good for a reason." He also called Omar a terrible person," stating: You know, our country's at a tipping point. We could go bad. We're at a tipping point. I don't know if people mind me saying that, but I'm saying it. We could go one way or the other, and we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our…...

3+ hour, 6+ min ago (482+ words) In a social media post on Monday night, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that after a meeting with President Donald Trump the administration is expanding asylum and immigration restrictions. In language fascists use before exterminating people, Noem said she is "recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies." Referencing the shooting last week of two National Guard soldiers in Washington D.C. by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, a CIA asset and Afghan national, Noem railed against "foreign invaders" who "slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS." She added: "WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE." The expanding blacklist is reinforced by racist incitement that now accompanies every major policy announcement. At the end of an over two-hour long cabinet meeting Tuesday, in…...

3+ hour, 13+ min ago (798+ words) At the start of the holiday season, General Motors announced the permanent layoff of 1,140 workers at its Factory Zero Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center, effective January 5. One day after Thanksgiving, dozens of low-income and elderly tenants at the historic Leland House downtown were abruptly told they must leave their homes or face having their electricity cut off in the dead of winter. Taken together, these events expose the real content of Detroit's corporate-driven "revival: record profits, luxury towers and holiday parties for the financial and political elite, and unemployment and homelessness for the working class. GM's WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act filing on November 20 announced that 1,140 Factory Zero workers'assembly operators, material handlers and other workers'will be permanently laid off due to "slower near-term EV adoption. The entire facility will be cut to a single shift, hollowing out what was hailed…...

3+ hour, 20+ min ago (404+ words) Sen. Angus King (I-ME) brought the Department of Defense's Law of War Manual on CNN to explain why the military carried out an illegal order when it killed survivors of a shipwreck. Hegseth initially responded to the story by calling it "fake news," but has since acknowledged the second strike and claimed it was Bradley's decision. The secretary insisted on Tuesday that he "didn't stick around" to watch the boat strikes, but this directly contradicts his Sept. 3 boast on Fox News, where he said, "I watched it live." On Tuesday's episode of The Source on CNN, King brought some reading material to explain why the second strike " to say nothing of the first strike " was illegal. "This is something called the Department of Defense Law of War Manual," the senator said. "It's in three volumes. And the third volume applies…...