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Best of the Web: Who's behind the mysterious 'Iran-backed terror cell' haunting Europe?

Wyatt Reed
The Gray zone
Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00 UTC
Israel terror cell
Claims that an Iran-backed group is carrying out attacks in European cities raise questions about why they're not targeting countries directly involved in the US-Israeli war, and why they appear to communicate like Israelis. Strangely, suspects arrested in the attacks have been released on bail.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of Ashab al-Yamin. Officially known as "Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI)," or the "Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right," the group mysteriously appeared in early March, and, according to mainstream media, it's taking the continent by storm.

But a closer look at the supposedly Iran-backed terror organization suggests that it does not exist in any concrete form, and may be a confection of Israeli intelligence.

Though the nebulous HAYI claimed credit for torching ambulances belonging to a Jewish community organization in London on March 23, two suspects in the attack have been released on bail, and are not charged with any terror-related crimes. What's more, London Metropolitan Police have so far refused to release the men's names, raising questions about their identities. Were they even Muslim?

Comment: In other words, we can probably expect to see more terror attacks in the West that are attributed to Iran - but that are, in all likelihood, the work of Mossad - in order to scare governments and populations into supporting the criminal war now being waged against the Persian nation. AND more censorship of the objective criticism being levied against the Zionist cabal.

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USA

Florida, Mississippi join wave of states tightening citizenship rules for voter eligibility

Bonny Chu
Fox News
Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:04 UTC
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Mississippi's act takes effect on July 1, while Florida's measure follows on Jan 1, 2027

Florida and Mississippi voters will soon face new citizenship verification rules after governors signed the measures into law Wednesday, triggering at least two lawsuits in the Sunshine State.

The measures, signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, are aimed at upholding election integrity as similar legislation by President Donald Trump remains stalled in Congress.

Mississippi's measure is expected to take effect on July 1, with Florida's law following on Jan. 1, 2027.

Under both laws, voters will be required to provide citizenship documents — such as birth certificates, passports or naturalization certificates — if local officials challenge their eligibility after cross-referencing databases for voter registration applications. If individuals fail to provide the required proof of citizenship after being flagged, both states are required to remove them from their voter registration rolls.
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Whistle

Treasury unveils whistleblower portal to combat transnational Medicare, Medicaid fraud rings

Kimberly Hayek
ZeroHedge
Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:20 UTC
White House/Dept of Tresury
© Madalina Vasilu/The Epoch TimesThe White House and the U.S. Department of the Treasury • Washington D.C. • March 10, 2025
Whistleblowers are encouraged to report abuse of Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health benefit programs, the Department of the Treasury announced on March 30, while warning that sophisticated fraud schemes are siphoning billions from them.

In an advisory, the Treasury detailed the way in which transnational criminal organizations — working with domestic fraudsters and organized crime groups — create fake health care providers, employ cover people to pose as owners who are not U.S. residents, and steal the personal data of actual beneficiaries to submit false claims for care that was never provided or was not needed. Proceeds are then laundered through wire transfers, digital assets, and culpable bank co-conspirators before being transferred overseas.

The department said its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has published a proposed rule to fully implement a whistleblower program that would reward 10-30 percent of penalties collected in successful enforcement in fraud and money laundering cases, as well as sanctions violations. Payments would be taken from penalties obtained under the Bank Secrecy Act and other laws already in place.
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Explosion

What the Iran-Iraq war can tell us about the US-Israeli war on Iran

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Aljazeera
Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00 UTC
Iranian guards and volunteers
© APIranian Revolutionary Guards and volunteer tank hunters give victory signs on the southern front of the Iran-Iraq war in December 1982
When the United States and Israel launched their illegal war on Iran on February 28, they called on the Iranian people to rise up. They then proceeded to bomb not just military targets, but civilian housing, universities, schools, hospitals, commercial buildings and historical sites.

In the sound of explosions today, many Iranians hear echoes from the past: from the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988.

In the fall of 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, I was a 20-year-old student at Tehran Polytechnic University and a member of an opposition group. The first time I saw the impact of war firsthand was in October of that year. One evening, my friend Farhad and I were standing in line to load two boxes of antigovernment pamphlets onto a bus heading to Isfahan; given the restriction of movement and the checkpoints set up by the Revolutionary Guard, this was the only safe way to transport such materials.

Suddenly, the thunderous shots of air defence systems shook the ground and lit the sky with blue, orange, yellow, and red rays of light. The sirens went off. I had never felt so fearful, helpless, and disoriented. Running around to find a possible shelter, the ground shaking under my feet, the smashing booms of unremitting air defence, and multidirectional screams of a terrorised crowd closed off all space to think what exactly was happening.
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Gavel

The Demise Of Trial By Jury

Celina
American Greatness
Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:36 UTC
Students at Augustana College react to the verdict of O. J. Simpson’s murder trial, October 3, 1995
Students at Augustana College react to the verdict of O. J. Simpson’s murder trial, October 3, 1995. A man got away with a murder that everyone knew he committed, and half the room is happy because of his race.
Justice isn't blind anymore: Multiculturalism has made impartial justice impossible
"Law grows with the growth, and strengthens with the strength of the people, and finally dies away as the nation loses its nationality."
— Friedrich Carl von Savigny
On Tuesday, October 3, 1995, the verdict in the O. J. Simpson criminal trial was broadcast live across the globe, a truly defining moment of the late twentieth century. In the now-iconic split-screen imagery, as the words "not guilty" reverberated through the Los Angeles courtroom, black spectators erupted in celebration and applause, raising their fists in jubilation. Conversely, white spectators sat frozen in stunned, horrified silence, grappling with an incomprehensible subversion of the evidentiary record. The stunning juxtaposition of the visual perfectly captured the fracture of a society devoid of a shared moral consensus.

This was obviously not an exercise in blind justice; it was an exercise in racial grievance. Decades later, juror Carrie Bess admitted with chilling indifference in a 2016 documentary that 90 percent of the predominantly black jury knew Simpson was guilty, but voted to acquit him purely as "payback" for the Rodney King incident. When asked if she believed that decision was right, she merely shrugged.
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People

The Tyranny Of Compelled Speech

George Ramsay
The Epoch Times
Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:47 UTC
scoreboard shows a message declaring an indigenous land acknowledgement
© The Canadian Press/Ryan RemiorA scoreboard shows a message declaring an indigenous land acknowledgement before an NHL hockey game between the Montreal Canadiens and the San Jose Sharks in Montreal on Oct. 19, 2021.
While censorship is often the main focus of discussions about free speech, there's a related phenomenon that can do just as much damage to a free society. Not by preventing people from saying things they believe in, but by forcing them to say things they do not.

Compelled speech requires people to use certain words or phrases, or to partake in upholding certain ideological beliefs. It is just as dangerous to free expression as overt censorship.

The constant recitation of indigenous "land acknowledgements" illustrates Canada's shift towards enforced mass-compliance on complicated social issues. These statements have become ubiquitous in Canadian public life: at schools, workplaces, government functions, ceremonies, and sporting events. Institutions display them on websites, documents, email signatures, and social media. A busy person in Canada may come across dozens of land acknowledgements per day in various contexts.

Although framed as optional gestures of respect, many organizations now have policies mandating land acknowledgements; in other circumstances, social pressure can make them seem obligatory even if they're not.
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Bad Guys

The Palantir Panopticon

Michael Rectenwald
REKT
Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00 UTC
Palantir panopticon
In my book Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom (2019), I argued that the main danger with AI is not a rogue super-intelligence that might rebel against humanity; the far greater danger is perfect AI obedience. AI could function as the ultimate instrument of authoritarian "elites," faithfully executing total surveillance, behavioral scoring, and preemptive social control.

Further, AI reliance risks the wholesale abdication of human agency and the flattening of human intelligence and sociality. As decision-making authority is ceded to algorithms, people will become passive nodes in a system that replaces human thinking with AI information processing — "Bots R Us" — eroding autonomy, creativity, and genuine deliberation.
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Magnify

Acting AG Todd Blanche: Investigating ActBlue allegations is a top priority

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:00 UTC
ActBLue
© UnknownActBlue under attack
The Democratic Party's premier fundraising machine is in serious legal jeopardy, and the new man running the Justice Department just made clear he intends to do something about it.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that ActBlue's own lawyers had warned its leadership in early 2025 that it may have lied to Congress about how it screens out illegal foreign donations.

In 2023, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones sent a letter to Republican congressional investigators assuring them the platform used rigorous safeguards. The letter described "multilayered" screenings that helped "root out" overseas contributions. What the platform's own legal team later discovered was considerably more inconvenient: those protections weren't consistently applied in practice.

"This presents a substantial risk for ActBlue," the law firm, Covington & Burling, wrote in one of two memos expressing legal concerns. One memo raised the specter of a criminal investigation if prosecutors believed that ActBlue had tried to conceal facts about its efforts to prevent foreign contributions.

Federal election law prohibits foreign citizens or people who are not permanent residents from donating directly to federal candidates or political action committees. Lying to or obstructing Congress is a crime.

The memos instigated a meltdown at the highest levels of ActBlue, one of the Democratic Party's most vital financial organs.

Comment: Clearly action needs to be taken! A sample of ActBlue issues:

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Explosion

The myth that won't die: "War is good for the economy"

Carlos Boix
mises.org
Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00 UTC
Tank and econ chart
© AdobeStock
War is the ultimate government intervention. It is the excuse for all kinds of evils to be imposed on the governed. From confiscation through taxes and inflation to restriction of freedom of speech and the redirection and even nationalization of whole industries, nothing increases state power such as war.

As the state is predatory and produces nothing of use, it is the ultimate impoverishing situation. From an ideological point of view, it is even worse, mixing love for one's culture and homeland with the state itself. It reduces individual's resistance to loss of liberty and creates in their minds the myth of the protecting government.

There is also another insidious idea that a lot of people hold: That is that war has economic and other benefits, not to certain individuals or groups, but to the community at large. It is worth examining these supposed benefits to show that no, war does not benefit the community, it is just death and destruction.
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Life Preserver

Flotilla coalition prepares renewed mission to break Gaza siege


The Cradle
Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00 UTC
Flotilla for Gaza
© Reuters
The international flotilla of over 80 boats and 1,000 activists will sail from Barcelona to challenge Israel's blockade on Gaza and demand humanitarian access

A coalition of pro-Palestine activists announced on 3 April that it will launch a new maritime mission from Barcelona on 12 April to challenge Israel's blockade on Gaza, according to reports citing statements by the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The group said more than 80 boats and around 1,000 international participants will take part in the initiative in a renewed attempt to reach the besieged enclave by sea.

It follows a previous high-profile journey across the Mediterranean that drew global attention before Israeli forces illegally intercepted the vessels and detained activists near Gaza.

Comment: Amidst war in Iran, political and societal upheaval in the US, and countless other large developments near and far, the Flotilla activists are doing the world (and the Gazans) a great service by continuing to bring attention to what is likely to be one of history's most horrible war crimes.

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