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18.10.2026 - 16:04 [ Emirates247.com ]

Abu Dhabi launches new surveillance system

(July 13, 2016)

Abu Dhabi‘s Monitoring and Control Centre has launched the Falcon Eye surveillance system across the city, including the airport, main islands, Bani Yas and Musaffah. The system links thousands of cameras into a central platform that provides live feeds, smart alerts and incident access to help authorities monitor traffic violations, accidents, public hygiene and gatherings. Officials said the project supports Abu Dhabi‘s push to use technology to improve security, safety and city management.

16.10.2026 - 14:01 [ Freie Universität Berlin ]

Studie zur deutschen Nahostberichterstattung

Ein Forschungsteam der Freien Universität Berlin hat untersucht, wie Handlungsspielräume bei der Berichterstattung über den Nahostkonflikt von Medienschaffenden wahrgenommen werden. Diese Studie ist im Oktober 2026 als Arbeitspapier des CeMIL erschienen.

Für die Studie befragten Prof. Dr. Carola Richter, Dr. Jannis Julien Grimm und Nina Moya Schreieder im Mai und Juni 2026 Journalist:innen, die für deutsche Medien zur Nahost-Region und damit verbundenen Themen berichten. Von fast 600 systematisch ausgewählten Journalist:innen nahmen rund 30 Prozent an der anonymen Online-Befragung teil – eine vergleichsweise hohe Rücklaufquote. „Offensichtlich gab es ein großes Bedürfnis bei mit dem Thema befassten Journalist:innen, sich zu äußern“, sagt Prof. Dr. Carola Richter.

16.10.2026 - 13:33 [ Neues Deutschland ]

Drang zur Selbst­zensur im Gaza-Krieg

Es ging dabei um das Klima nach dem 7. Oktober 2023 – das Datum markiert den Angriff palästinensischer Gruppen auf israelisches Militär und Zivilist*innen mit 1200 Toten und den Beginn von Israels Gaza-Krieg mit inzwischen mindestens 74.000 Toten, darunter 21.000 Kinder.

An der anonymen Online-Befragung beteiligten sich 179 von 597 gezielt angeschriebenen Journalist*innen, 145 davon füllten den Fragebogen vollständig aus.

04.10.2026 - 15:21 [ Jacopo Custodi / Jacobin ]

Europas Rechte leckt Trump die Stiefel

Es zeigt sich: Immer wieder haben sich gerade jene Parteien, die behaupten, die Nation an die erste Stelle setzen zu wollen, als die eifrigsten Verräter der Interessen ihres eigenen Volkes erwiesen. Sich mit Trump und Netanjahu gut zu stellen, scheint schlichtweg wichtiger.

In diesem Sinne kuschelt sich die radikale Rechte auch eng an das liberal-konservative Establishment in den europäischen Institutionen. Tatsächlich hat sich die einstige Kluft zwischen diesen beiden Fraktionen seit Jahren stetig verringert. Die jüngsten Kriegshandlungen in Nahost machen diese Annäherung noch deutlicher sichtbar. Beide Seiten sind nur allzu gerne bereit, ihre Rolle als Untergebene in der globalen Hierarchie zu spielen.

10.09.2026 - 12:40 [ Demoocratic Socialists of America ]

Complicit Coverage

The titles of two new books about Israel’s genocide in Gaza succinctly state their shared argument: Corporate, mainstream media have been complicit in the horrific violence the Zionist state has inflicted and continues to inflict on Palestinians in Gaza. Print and online media, as well as cable news, have sold the genocide to their readers and audiences, turning reality on its head by portraying the Israeli perpetrators as victims of bloodthirsty terrorists and their Palestinian victims as bloodthirsty terrorists, terrorist sympathizers, or terrorists-to-be. As Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Nissim Vaturi said in a televised 2025 interview, “any child” born in Gaza is “already a terrorist from the moment of his birth.”

Adam Johnson, a media analyst and co-host of the podcast Citations Needed, and Robin Andersen, professor emerita of media studies at New York’s Fordham University and contributor to various independent media, have meticulously documented how U.S. media enable Israel’s mass killings. Their reviews of print, online, and cable coverage illustrate how media have acted as virtual mouthpieces for Israel’s government and its military as well as for the U.S. State Department.

10.09.2026 - 11:15 [ Foix News ]

GOP launches midterm ‚Trumpapalooza‘ convention in Dallas

The Republican National Committee launched its midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday, with President Donald Trump set to be the keynote speaker on Wednesday followed by Vice President JD Vance and the president on Thursday.

29.08.2026 - 16:56 [ Emirates247.com ]

Abu Dhabi launches new surveillance system

(July 13, 2016)

Abu Dhabi‘s Monitoring and Control Centre has launched the Falcon Eye surveillance system across the city, including the airport, main islands, Bani Yas and Musaffah. The system links thousands of cameras into a central platform that provides live feeds, smart alerts and incident access to help authorities monitor traffic violations, accidents, public hygiene and gatherings. Officials said the project supports Abu Dhabi‘s push to use technology to improve security, safety and city management.

29.08.2026 - 15:46 [ Junge Welt ]

Staat gegen Linke: Urteil vor dem Urteil

Der in Leipzig lebende Autor war seit November 2023 außerdem in der Bewachung etwa von Geflüchtetenunterkünften tätig. Wie aus dem Gerichtsbeschluss hervorgeht, ersuchte die Stadt Leipzig den sächsischen Verfassungsschutz noch im selben Monat um Kenntnisse zu Merten. Die hatte der Inlandsgeheimdienst freilich parat: Merten sei im Bundesvorstand der SDAJ für Bildungsaufgaben zuständig gewesen, sei zudem für die »linksextremistische« Tageszeitung junge Welt sowie für die Wochenzeitung Unsere Zeit tätig gewesen.

08.08.2026 - 21:00 [ Common Dreams ]

Senate Confirms ‘Personal Servant to Donald Trump’ Blanche as AG in Late-Night Vote

Around 4:30 am ET, the US Senate voted 50-49 to confirm Blanche, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and acting attorney general since April, as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. It did so despite widespread concerns, including among some Republicans, that he would use the office primarily to carry out the president’s whims.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), one of two Republicans who voted against Blanche, outlined her concerns in a social media post Friday ahead of the vote, saying Trump had “accelerated” the “politicization—even weaponization” of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and that Blanche had played a part.

25.06.2026 - 14:13 [ Common Dreams ]

Caving to Trump ‘Temper Tantrum,’ Two Republicans Flip to Block Iran War Powers Resolution

Two Senate Republicans who supported a previous resolution calling for an end to the US war on Iran changed their votes late Wednesday after President Donald Trump publicly and privately berated GOP lawmakers, calling them “losers” who provided “aid and comfort to the enemy.”

In Wednesday’s procedural vote, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)—who reportedly got into a shouting match with Trump over the Iran war during a closed-door lunch hours earlier—sided with virtually every other Republican in opposing the war powers resolution, just a day after he supported a separate, symbolic resolution calling for the removal of US forces from the conflict. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also switched, changing his vote to “present” at the urging of the president.

25.06.2026 - 13:52 [ CBS News ]

Senate rejects measure to restrict Trump‘s Iran war powers as key Republicans shift votes

Updated on: June 24, 2026 / 11:37 PM EDT / CBS News

Later in the day, however, signs emerged that some of the Senate Republicans who had previously voted to constrain Mr. Trump‘s war powers were reconsidering.

Cassidy was briefed on Iran at the White House by Vice President JD Vance and special envoy Steve Witkoff, the senator confirmed on X, writing that the conversation „address[ed] many of my concerns.“ Cassidy voted against advancing the resolution Wednesday night.

And Paul voted present on Wednesday, despite voting in favor of the last several Iran war powers resolutions. He said on X his goal was to „give the President more space and leverage to negotiate a lasting peace.“

25.06.2026 - 13:50 [ CBS News ]

Trump has testy meeting with GOP senators, telling Cassidy at one point to sit down

Updated on: June 25, 2026 / 12:07 AM EDT / CBS News

President Trump‘s meeting with Republican senators on Wednesday turned testy, and at one point, he sternly told Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy to sit down, after questions arose about the War Powers Resolution, according to sources directly familiar with the meeting.

17.04.2026 - 17:37 [ MainePublic.org ]

Rep. Golden casts pivotal vote against resolution limiting Trump‘s war powers in Iran

In a statement, the Marine Corps veteran said the U.S. and Iran are currently negotiating „over critical questions of national security and international order“ during a tenuous ceasefire.

„I believe we must maintain a strong negotiation position over Iran’s nuclear program, freedom of movement in the international waters at the Strait of Hormuz, and how to achieve a durable peace between our two nations,“ said Golden, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee. „At this moment, a resolution like this would weaken our hand.“

17.04.2026 - 17:32 [ Antiwar.com ]

House Narrowly Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution as Thousands More US Troops Head to Middle East

The bill failed in a vote of 213-214, with just one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden (ME), joining Republicans to kill the legislation. Only one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), voted in favor, while Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), who supported a previous War Powers Resolution, voted “present.” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who previously suggested she might support the bill, didn’t vote.

16.04.2026 - 17:04 [ Reuters ]

US military: ‚locked and loaded‘ to strike Iran‘s power plants, energy industry if ordered

„We are reloading with more power than ever before, and better intelligence,“ Hegseth ​said at a Pentagon news briefing. „We are locked and loaded on your critical dual-use infrastructure, ⁠on your remaining power generation, and on your energy industry. We‘d rather not have to do it.“

01.04.2026 - 12:54 [ Reuters ]

Pentagon declines to reaffirm NATO‘s collective defense, says up to Trump

The remarks by Hegseth at a Pentagon briefing were extraordinary, given that collective defense lies at the heart of the NATO alliance, which was formed in 1949 with the primary aim of countering the risk of Soviet attack on allied territory.

24.03.2026 - 12:56 [ theHill.com ]

Trump says Hegseth ‘first one to speak up’ in support of Iran war

“Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up and you said let’s do it because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon,” the president said at a Memphis Safe Task Force roundtable in Tennessee.

Hegseth was sitting beside Trump at the roundtable in Memphis.

24.03.2026 - 12:49 [ Rolling Stone ]

Trump Tries to Spread Blame for Iran War

As the conflict increases in complexity and decreases in popularity with the American public, Trump is trying a new tactic: throwing his Cabinet under the bus.

At a Monday roundtable event with national military and law enforcement leaders, Trump told the audience and reporters that his Secretary of Defense and self styled Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, was actually the person responsible for pushing him to go to war.

19.03.2026 - 13:51 [ Semafor.com ]

Exclusive: FBI investigates intelligence aide who resigned over war

Trump aides and allies denounced Kent as a leaker immediately after his resignation became public.

Kent wrote in his resignation letter that Iran poses “no imminent threat to our nation” and accused Trump of initiating the war “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

The FBI and the White House declined to comment.

19.03.2026 - 13:17 [ Tucker Carlson / Youtube ]

Glenn Greenwald: War Updates, False Flags, and Netanyahu’s Desperate New Attempt for Power

Throughout the west, criticizing the Netanyahu government is now a crime punishable by imprisonment. Glenn Greenwald on the end of free speech.

19.03.2026 - 12:58 [ New York Times ]

On Iran, Gabbard Turned Intelligence Duties Over to Trump

Ms. Gabbard does not quickly turn on her allies, and she showed little desire to throw Mr. Kent under the bus or attack him. But she has remained in her position by being a careful student of Mr. Trump, and knows how to stay on his good side. And critiquing the president’s view of the threat from Iran was clearly not the way to keep your job.

So she came up with her line that it is Mr. Trump, not the intelligence community, that determines what constitutes a threat.

15.03.2026 - 22:43 [ The Young Turks / Youtube ]

BREAKING: Tucker Carlson Might be Arrested! Find Out Why!

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15.03.2026 - 22:24 [ Tucker Carlson / X ]

When you discover the CIA has been reading your texts in order to frame you for a crime.

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15.03.2026 - 21:54 [ Glenn Greenwald / Substack ]

CIA Prepares Criminal Referral of Tucker Carlson, as Israel and its Loyalists Demand His Arrest

On Friday morning, I taped an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s program to discuss the ongoing Iran War, growing Israeli influence in the U.S., and proliferating attacks on free speech in the West in the name of shielding that one foreign country from critique (I presume it will air in the next few days). Perhaps the most notable part of our conversation was what Tucker told me prior to the cameras rolling.

Tucker said he had learned from several high-placed sources — and he obviously has many within the Trump administration — that the CIA was preparing a criminal referral about him to the DOJ. The subject of the agency’s report of suspected crimes: conversations he allegedly had with Iranian officials and others in Iran prior to the start of the Trump/Netanyahu war. The clear implication was that Tucker had committed acts of subversion or even treason by speaking to Iranians in advance of the war that was about to be launched on their country.

15.03.2026 - 21:28 [ theHill.com ]

FCC chair threatens networks’ licenses after Trump complains about Iran coverage

“Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions — also known as the fake news — have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” Carr wrote in a post on the social platform X.

“The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not,” he warned.

15.03.2026 - 21:26 [ Mother Jones ]

FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcast Licenses Over Iran War Coverage

Amid surging oil prices and an unpopular war of choice in Iran, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is threatening not to renew the licenses of broadcasters for “running hoaxes and news distortions.” The Saturday post from Carr on X is not subtle: It explicitly warns broadcasters that they “have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.”

Carr’s missive came in response to a Truth Social post on Saturday from President Donald Trump, which the FCC chair included in full as a screenshot.

04.03.2026 - 12:17 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Der freundliche Herr Merz

Völkerrecht? War da was? Stärke des Rechts? Zweifel am Erfolg eines Militärschlags als probates Mittel zum Regimewechsel? Leerstellen allesamt. Im Oval Office saß der deutsche Kanzler überwiegend schweigend und lächelte. Ein stummer Gast eines wie stets gedanklich mäandernden US-Präsidenten, der ansonsten genau weiß, dass er das Recht des Stärkeren definiert.

04.03.2026 - 11:44 [ Daily Beast ]

Red-Faced Little Marco Cornered on Trump’s Muddled War Plan

(March 3, 2026)

The exchange took place after Rubio made a jaw-dropping admission on Monday: the U.S. struck Iran because Israel was planning to strike first, and Washington feared Tehran would retaliate against American forces.

But asked on Tuesday if Israel forced his hand, Trump rejected this explanation outright, telling reporters in the Oval Office: “No. I might have forced their hand.”

Asked to explain this a few hours later, a defensive Rubio said: “I was asked a very specific question, so you guys can misrepresent it, but I was asked a very specific question yesterday.

“The bottom line is this: we, the president, determined we were not going to get hit first. It’s that simple, guys, we are not going to put American troops in harm’s way.”