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Indiana's governor would have command of a new military police force under a bill passed Wednesday by the Indiana House.

Why it matters: Uninvited and unwanted law enforcement forces have entered cities around the country, sometimes to devastating effect, most recently seen in Minneapolis, where President Trump sent an unprecedented surge of federal agents that was met with fierce opposition and turned deadly.

A US Border Patrol agent pulls the pin of a crowd control grenade before throwing it at assembled press and protesters outside a Minneapolis hotel where a demonstration was staged in the wake of the killing of a second local resident by US Border Patrol this month.Tom Hudson/ZUMA

A memorial "ID badge" for VA nurse Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol officers earlier in the day, is displayed during a vigil on Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

In response to the deadly shooting of nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents, the government and conservatives have rushed to defend the killing by questioning why the slain observer was carrying a weapon and suggesting protesters should not be armed.

U.S. President Donald Trump (C) sits in between Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan (L) and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev during a signing ceremony for the “Board of Peace” at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 22, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The so-called Board of Peace that President Donald Trump officially launched in Davos, Switzerland last week is developing sweeping plans for a U.S.-backed administration to rule Gaza, according to a draft of the Board’s resolution.

As Trump’s violent dictatorial grip over America worsens, his violations of our Constitution, federal laws, and international treaties become more brazen. Only the organized people can stop this assault on our democracy by firing him through impeachment, the power exclusively accorded to Congress by our Founders.

The New York Times published a seven-day series of editorials (12/8/25–12/14/25) meant to examine, as the initial piece put it, “what’s gone wrong with the US military” and “how we can create a relevant and effective force that can deter wars whenever possible and win them wherever necessary.”

Corporate media have deployed a lexicon of legitimation in their coverage of the deadly US invasion of Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife and fellow politician Cilia Flores.

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 20, 2026

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 20, 2026

This was a headline in the New York Times on Tuesday: “With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest: After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial power trying to seize another nation’s land.” Here is a sentence from the article that followed: “Never in the past century has America gone forth to seize other countries’ land and subjugate its citizens against their will.”

Late last night, Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour posted on social media that the staff of the U.S. National Security Council had sent to European ambassadors in Washington a message that President Donald J. Trump had already sent to Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway. The message read:

Indiana University Emeritus Professor, Department of History, James Madison

(Watching Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, January 14, 2026 reminded me of the US wars on people abroad and at home:  https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/14/saint_paul_city_council_ice )

Federal agents forcefully push through a crowd of bystanders as they attempt to leave the scene where an agent killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026. Photo by Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images

In the wake of an ICE agent’s grotesque shooting of an unarmed woman – a US citizen – in Minneapolis on Wednesday, it has become chillingly evident that no one is safe in America from President Donald Trump’s 21st-century Gestapo.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is slated to close in May 2026 after union workers went on the longest strike in the history of U.S. newspapers (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images).

Millions have seen the video, but some reports suggest that you should not believe your eyes that saw ICE agents murder Renee Nicole Good as she attempted to slowly move her car away from them.

On Friday morning, around 150 parents, students, and educators gathered for a press conference at Lake Hiawatha Park in South Minneapolis to demand ICE leave Minneapolis. The event took place two days after federal agents detained an on-duty school staffer and member of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators (MFE) at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis.

The United Nations Office of Human Rights, headed by Volker Türk, on Wednesday issued an extensive report on the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank in which it for the first time described Isra

Every time people or corporations or countries that are richer and more powerful attack and exploit those that are not, the fabric of civilization frays.’ Photograph: Nicole Combeau/EPA

Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, on February 22, 1997. (Davidoff Studios / Getty Images)

The Trump administration is rewarding states for cutting food assistance.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, on Monday announced some of the state-by-state disbursement from the Rural Health Transformation Program. Every state will receive between $145 million and $281 million next year—but some are rightly upset about how the money is being awarded.

Leonardo Garcia Venegas was detained by immigration agents while filming a raid on his worksite, despite having a REAL ID on him and telling the officers he was a citizen.

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned.