The CIA ran a covert boat-strike campaign near the Galápagos Islands, separate from the Pentagon's acknowledged operation that has killed at least 220 people. Survivors were hooded, cuffed, and flown to El Salvador. Eight men from the fishing boat Fiorella are still missing.
An ICE health agency document confirms the administration subjected at least one hunger striker in immigration detention to forced feeding, catheterization, or involuntary blood draws — practices international human rights bodies classify as torture. The document was not leaked. The agency published
The same GlobalX aircraft that flew Portugal's national team to Dallas on July 4th ran ICE deportation flights the day before and after — including missions that sent Venezuelans to El Salvador's Cecot mega-prison in defiance of federal court orders. FIFA has not commented.
Somali referee Omar Artan was denied entry to the United States. He is an accredited FIFA official. The 2026 World Cup starts in a year, and FIFA has said nothing.
Since U.S. and Israeli strikes began February 28, Iran has executed at least 32 verified political prisoners. The war didn't build Tehran's repression — but it gave the regime exactly what it needed: the world's attention fixed on bombs while the executions proceed in the background.
Sovereignty, mandatory traceability, community-anchored development, binding accountability. The New Earth Framework proposes what voluntary guidelines never could. Part 6 — the conclusion.
Liberia funded civil war with blood diamonds — then rebuilt. The Palm Farm project invested $140K and transformed a region. If it works there, it can work in Sudan. Part 5 of a six-part investigation.
19 million children out of school. Child soldiers. Mercury poisoning. Sudan is producing the largest lost generation since Cambodia — and the world barely notices. Part 4 of a six-part investigation.
Who profits from Sudan's conflict — and why voluntary frameworks, veto power, and supply chain opacity are features of the system, not failures. Part 3 of a six-part investigation.
How gold extracted from RSF-controlled mines in Darfur flows through Dubai's refineries and into global markets — its violent origins erased at the molecular level. Part 2 of a six-part investigation.
Inside the intersection of Sudan's humanitarian catastrophe, global mineral supply chains, and the systems that sustain them. Part 1 of a six-part investigation.
El Salvador's state of emergency has detained 88,000 people without charges over four years, leaving thousands of children without parents as mass arrests eliminate due process under a policy internationally praised as 'tough on crime.'
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese documents systematic torture of Palestinians in Israeli detention as deliberate state policy, not isolated abuse.
Despite congressional mandates requiring transparency, families of 42 people who died in ICE custody are blocked from accessing medical records and autopsy reports that could explain preventable deaths.