Author: Eli Garcia-Mendez

By Eli Mendez – By 2019, journalist Andy Ngo had already spent four years documenting the violence of Antifa in its juggernaut city Portland. Then he became the story.  At an Antifa march on June 29, 2019, black-clad left-wing extremists descended on him, mobbed him and beat him until his eyes swelled and his brain bled. “I felt something hit me really hard in the back of the head,” Ngo says. “People dressed in black surrounded me. I felt punches to the head and face in every direction. I tried really hard to hold on to my GoPro equipment. Unfortunately…

By Eli Garcia – The earth itself is being rewritten in Tehran. At Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, bulldozers have paved the burial site of thousands of political prisoners. Where mourners once left flowers, cars will now park in Lot 41. “They are not just killing people—they are killing memory,” says Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran In the wake of the12-day Israel-Iran war, Tehran has unleashed a new wave of repression: hundreds of executions, secretive trials and the destruction of graves linked to past atrocities. Rights groups warn that this isn’t random brutality but a…

By Eli Garcia-Mendez –A group of amateur archaeologists believe they may have found Noah’s ark on Mount Ararat in Turkey.On the slopes of Mount Ararat, at a site called the Durupinar formation, researchers have discovered what looks like the outline of a massive ship. For Christians, the location is significant: the Bible says Noah’s Ark came to rest “upon the mountains of Ararat” after the flood.“The evidence we’re seeing is extraordinary,” says Andrew Jones, a researcher leading the effort. “Ground-penetrating radar shows layers and structures beneath the surface that match the description of the Ark in Genesis.”This is not the…