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After Step Aside Joe — Now What?
“We’re glad to see that Joe Biden has finally ended his presidential run. When we launched our ‘Step Aside Joe’ campaign 20 months ago, we’d hoped he would withdraw early enough for there to be an open primary process like in 2020, allowing the Democratic Party to consolidate behind a candidate strong enough to repel Donald Trump’s neofascism. While time is now short, we still hope that the Democrats will find a candidate who will animate the same kind of multigenerational, multiracial coalition of working people and grassroots activists that defeated Trump in 2020.”
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World Court Rules Overwhelmingly Against Israel’s Occupation
“The World Court has just rejected all Israeli, U.S. and western objections, ruled that the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (and all settlements), is entirely unlawful and declares Israel is committing racial segregation/apartheid in the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territories.] Importantly, they also ruled that the Oslo agreements do not and cannot trump the obligations of international law, which protect the rights of the Palestinian people. And it rules that Israel must evacuate all settlers, dismantle settlements and the wall, provide full reparations to Palestinian victims, and allow all Palestinians who were forced out to…
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J.D. Vance on Abortion Privacy
J.D. Vance pressured federal regulators to kill a privacy rule that prevents police from accessing the medical records of people seeking abortions.
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As World Court Rules on the Israeli Occupation, the U.S. Refuses to Recognize the Geneva Conventions
The Genocide Convention case is ongoing and has resulted in Orders by the ICJ for Israel to stop its offensive in Rafah, which Israel and the U.S. have continued to ignore.
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* RNC Protests * “Wars Overseas Will Come Home”
“The wars I took part in, Afghanistan and Iraq, were waged by the U.S. under banners of freedom and democracy.”
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The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose
“A bipartisan sampling of the world’s greatest perpetrators and enablers of political violence has rushed to condemn political violence”
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Election Denialism as a National Security Issue
A recent poll found that two out of three Americans are concerned that political violence could follow the November election. According to election integrity experts, the public fears multiple kinds of election-related violence: pre-election, election day, and post-election.
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Israel’s Famine, Ethnic Cleansing and Settlement Plans Proceeding
Haaretz reports in “Road to Redemption: How Israel’s War Against Hamas Turned Into a Springboard for Jewish Settlement in Gaza” that: The army’s activities in the occupied areas are diverse: expanding military bases, building infrastructure and even paving roads, all while under persistent Hamas fire. Based on satellite imagery analysis and other open sources, Haaretz calculates that the Israeli army now controls about 26 percent of Gaza. … After nine months of war, the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Gazans to the southern part of the Strip is becoming permanent. The IDF has occupied strategic areas from which Gazans…
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What Does the Chevron Doctrine’s Overruling Mean for Disabled People?
The future of public agencies is uncertain after the Supreme Court handed down the decision to overrule the Chevron doctrine. Experts say that disabled Americans will be disproportionately impacted by the decision.
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U.S. and NATO Give Canada “Marching Orders”
She said today: “NATO has militarized Canadian foreign policy. Canada no longer does peacekeeping. Canada is at its lowest level in 30 years for peacekeeping with only 49 Canadian soldiers on United Nations peace support operations. Instead, Canada has over 1,000 soldiers leading a NATO battle group in Latvia. Over the 25 years, Canada has participated in aggressive NATO operations against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Canada is in the NATO Ukraine group supplying weapons to Ukraine and refusing to use diplomacy to end the war. Canada is joining the U.S. militarization of the Asia Pacific and provoking war with…
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