Notices by Ken M (kmontenegro@freeradical.zone)

Israel trained the Nicaraguan Contras and the Guatemalan juntas. It armed apartheid South Africa and kept Rhodesia on life support as that former settler-colony faced growing international isolation. https://progressive.international/wire/2025-11-10-pi-briefing-no-41-palestine-stolen-or-decolonised/en

Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List https://www.wired.com/story/hack-exposes-kansas-city-kansas-polices-secret-misconduct-list/

BREAKING: CAIR Calls on ICE to Release Sami Hamdi, British Journalist Abducted Over Criticism of Israel’s Genocide https://www.cair.com/press_releases/breaking-cair-calls-on-ice-to-release-sami-hamdi-british-journalist-abducted-over-criticism-of-israels-genocide/

Israel and US Scorn ICJ Ruling Against Starving Civilians as Method of Warfare https://truthout.org/articles/israel-and-us-scorn-icj-ruling-against-starving-civilians-as-method-of-warfare/

We already know a potential invasion of Venezuela would be a disaster. Estimates from 2019 predicted up to 200,000 U.S. troops would be needed to maintain order, to say nothing of the mountainous terrain that soldiers would need to traverse, and a nightmarish insurgency https://theintercept.com/2025/10/22/trump-venezuela-boat-war-justification/

She Warned About Silicon Valley 25 Years Ago. We Ignored Her. https://www.thenerdreich.com/she-warned-about-silicon-valley-25-years-ago-we-ignored-her/

a wartime culture of lawlessness in Special Operations had come home to roost in another way: a wave of domestic crimes committed by soldiers with the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, many of them around Fort Bragg https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/magazine/trump-hegseth-pardon-power-military-warrior.html

How LA Unified is trying to protect immigrant families during Trump's pervasive crackdown https://calmatters.org/education/2025/09/la-unified-immigrant-families/

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/20/uk_palantir_defense_pact/

Disconnection is not care.
Dissociation is not care.
Silence is not care.
https://convergencemag.com/articles/black-people-healing-justice-demands-borderless-struggle/

US Government Seeks Medical Records of Trans Youth https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-seeks-medical-records-of-trans-youth/

Law used to kick out Nazis could be used to strip citizenship from many more Americans https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/04/politics/justice-department-trump-denaturalization

it is unclear how the Predator surveillance could “support” ICE agents and other federal law enforcement without monitoring the protests and capturing images of protesters. https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-predator-drone-flights-la-protests/

RFK Jr. Orders HHS to Give Undocumented Migrants’ Medicaid Data to DHS https://www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr-orders-hhs-to-give-undocumented-migrants-medicaid-data-to-dhs/

ICE advances sole source deal with Palantir for new surveillance backbone https://www.biometricupdate.com/202506/ice-advances-sole-source-deal-with-palantir-for-new-surveillance-backbone

NY county exec's armed volunteer unit amounts to illegal militia, Democrats say in lawsuit https://www.nbcnewyork.com/long-island/ny-county-exec-armed-volunteer-unit-illegal-militia-democrats/6137572/

Americans favor deporting undocumented immigrants, until they're asked how https://www.axios.com/2025/01/19/poll-americans-mass-deportation-policies-trump

‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/27/mexico-city-utopias-project-mayor

Squeezed by high prices, a growing number of Americans find shelter in long-term motels https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/squeezed-high-prices-growing-number-americans-find-shelter-long-term-m-rcna184166

The primary goal of this post-AI socialist technology policy would be to endow individuals, irrespective of class, race or gender, with access to institutions, infrastructures and technologies that augment their creative autonomy and allow them to develop their capacities to the fullest. In other words, we need to enact a switch from human augmentation to human enhancement. https://buff.ly/3DlHI8P