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“Daniel Ellsberg Has Passed Away. He Left Us a Message”
Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, published two articles today commemorating the impacts made by Pentagon Papers whistleblower and peace activist Daniel Ellsberg, who passed away on Friday.
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Biden Rebuilds Ties with Saudi Arabia, Sanders Silent on Stopping Yemen War
The Biden administration has recently made efforts to reconcile with Saudi Arabia. The US has been complicit in the war Saudi Arabia has waged on Yemen, being the former’s largest weapons supplier. Sacc Evans-Frant, a member of Action Corps said, “Bernie’s apparent silence — as the historic leader on the Yemen War Powers Resolution in the Senate — is providing cover for other members of Congress to fail to act.”
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A Tale of Two Espionage Act Defendants: Trump and a Drone Whistleblower
Institute for Public Accuracy’s executive director Norman Solomon, and whistleblower Thomas Drake who was indicted in 2010 under the Obama administration, commented on Donald Trump’s recent indictment and the use of the Espionage Act. Speaking in regards to Daniel Hale, a drone whistleblower serving a 45 month sentence, Drake said, “Daniel Hale held faith to the highest ideals of our country and human rights… the deep irony is that the Espionage Act, in its contemporary use, can’t tell Trump and Hale apart.” Solomon said, “For Trump, it will be irrelevant that the 106-year-old Espionage Act does not allow defendants to testify…
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NATO Playing with Fire
Benjamin Abelow, author of “How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe” said recently, To say that the U.S. and NATO provoked the war could mean two different things. Do I mean that they wanted a war, and that they knew their actions would start one? That is one possible meaning of ‘provoked.’ But ‘provoked’ can also mean that their actions caused the war unintentionally.”
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“Austrian Censorship of Peace Conference Is an Outrage”
President of the board of World BEYOND War, Kathy Kelly, made a statement about the cancellation of the Summit for Peace in Ukraine conference in Vienna. She said, “This is not an isolated incident. Western liberal ideals have long asserted that the best answer to mistaken speech was wiser speech and more of it. We now have a rapidly growing liberal consensus in favor, instead, of censoring media outlets, canceling speaking events, and forbidding people with unwanted points of view from even gathering together.”
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Widespread Loss of Medicaid Coverage
Since April, upwards of 600,000 people have had their coverage terminated. Early data shows that the vast majority of enrollees have lost their insurance not because they are ineligible for it but because of “paperwork issues,” ie. procedural disenrollments.
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Influential House Dem “Open to” Cluster Munitions for Ukraine
Regarding Adam Smith’s (D-Wash.) recent comment speaking favorably of potentially providing Ukraine with cluster ammunitions, Norman Solomon says, “As a leading Democrat on military matters, Rep. Smith is putting forward an attitude toward cluster munitions that could have notably pernicious effects. But he’s hardly alone. The moral corrosion — reflected in the current Capitol Hill discourse on cluster munitions — is distinctly bipartisan.”
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Peace Groups: The State Dept. Should Talk to the Russian Ambassador
Director of World Beyond War, David Swanson, has launched a campaign urging the United States government to communicate with the Russian Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov.
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Upcoming Election in Sierra Leone
Chernoh Alpha Bah, founder of Africanist Press, is living in exile in the United States for exposing corruption within the ruling and opposition parties in Sierra Leone. One way the country’s leaders have tried silencing Bah is by hiring an Israeli firm to spy on him.
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Risk of Heart Disease in Younger People
Over half of young adults in the U.S. have cholesterol levels high enough to increase their lifetime risk of a heart attack. But just 20 percent of young adults with high cholesterol are aware of it.
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Howard Zinn