"The continued expansion of NATO is a serious threat against the stability and security of independent countries in various regions" of the world," Iran's president said.He expressed hope that what is going on in Ukraine would finally benefit the nations and the entire region.
Without Mr. Bragg's commitment to move forward, the prosecutors late last month postponed a plan to question at least one witness before the grand jury, one of the people said. They have not questioned any witnesses in front of the grand jury for more than a month, essentially pausing their investigation into whether Mr. Trump inflated the value of his assets to obtain favorable loan terms from banks.Now - with time running out for this grand jury, whose term will expire in April, and without Dunne - a veteran of the DA's office who has been closely involved with the inquiry, "the yearslong investigation could peter out."
The precise reasons for Mr. Bragg's pullback are unknown, and he has made few public statements about the status of the inquiry since taking office. In a statement responding to the resignations of the prosecutors, a spokeswoman for Mr. Bragg said that he was "grateful for their service" and that the investigation was ongoing. -NYT
I am increasingly concerned at the rate at which the so-called "CVE field" [countering violent extremism] is being infiltrated by activists describing themselves as "Anti-Fascists" who advocate for committing criminal offences in furtherance of their opposition to the radical right. This has exploded since the riot that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, for which a large number of criminal investigations are still ongoing. As someone who has spent more than a decade delivering and studying state responses to counter the radical right, as well as other forms of terrorism, I feel compelled to challenge the implied narrative that the only way to oppose the radical right is by emulating their tactics.One might think that this wouldn't be a controversial opinion. Yet it was met with an avalanche of abuse and hit pieces emanating (and apparently coordinated by) Antifa-linked social-media accounts in the United States. Despite the fact that I had written numerous articles for CARR over the last four years (17, according to the website), it was suddenly (and ludicrously) claimed that my former career as a police officer meant that my supposed "bias against antifascists" had always been lying in plain sight.
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