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France's "Casino" supermarket chain was in court in France last week.

On the in many parts militant protests at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul against the appointment of the new openly pro-government rector Melih Bulu, the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TIHV) has published a provisional evaluation report that illustrates how the old Turkish state is expanding and intensifying its repression on broad sections of the people.

Greenland and Faroe Islands

The Joint Arctic Command was part of an international military excercise in Norwegian waters around Bergen, participating with its inspection ship Hvidbjørnen (The White Bear), with military ships and/or submarines from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Canada and Holland.

An extreme snow storm hit the south of the United States, especially last week. Texas has been particularly hard hit as the government has taken no action against it. Usually it is at least plus six degrees warm there in February. But on February 17th it was partly minus 18 degrees. The supply of electricity and tap water has collapsed.

In the following we want to give a short brief on the actions (suspected) carried out by the People´s Liberation Guerilla Army(PLGA) under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)[CPI(Maoist)] the ongoing People´s War.

The Spanish rapper and communist Pablo Hasél is sent behind bars for two and a half years. The reason for this scandalous sentence is solely his lyrics and expressions of opinion.

In Freiburg a graffiti was put up with the slogan "Ni oubli! Ni pardon! Pierre Overney est immortel!" (Not forgotten! Not forgiven! Pierre Overney is immortal!).
Pierre Overney was a militant of the Gauche Proletarienne (Proletarian Left) in France.
While distributing flyers in front of a Renault-factory in Paris, mobilising for an antifascist demonstration, he was shot by a security guard on February 25, 1972.

What sounds like silly superlatives has a serious background: the German state, and especially its repression or security agencies, are arming up. A TAGESSCHAU article reports how Berlin investigators failed to decrypt a smartphone access. Since the LKA couldn't find a way either, they turned to the comparatively newly created Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITiS) in Munich. This "hacker authority" was created in 2017 to provide high-level technical support to security apparatuses. This is also the case here.