Law, Power, and Justice

NEWS NOTES

Trump is exploiting the death of a police officer.  Let’s just hope he doesn’t come out the front door selling sneakers and bibles.

The UN is reporting a surge in sexual violence in the gang dominated society of Haiti.  Gangs have not only taken over government offices and police stations, but have looted banks and hospitals.  The State Department has announced it is sending equipment, including weapons and ammunition to “Haitian security forces.”  (Note: I’m not sure who this might be and sounds a lot like further arming gangs.)  The United States has evacuated some stranded citizens.  (Note: Leading right-wing news to report yet another “invasion” of undocumented people supposedly sent to Guantanamo to await being secreted into the United States by Democrats.)

After grudgingly admitting that ISIS had attacked in Moscow, Putin (along with some left-wing podcasts) blames the Ukrainians.  Putin has put Russia’s economy on what Hanna Notte calls in the New York Times (NYT)  a “solid non-Western foundation” and secured “sanctions-proof supply chains,” which largely insulate it from Western pressure.  It has ensured a supply of weapons from Iran and North Korea.  On Wednesday, Russia struck Kharkiv with aerial bombs for the first time since 2022  (See Notte, Hanna 3/29/24 “Putin’s Next Escalation is Coming.”