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  • What Does Trump Really Know About Project 2025?

    A public spreadsheet lists the connections that each contributor to the Project 2025 proposal has to the Republican Party. 

  • South African Group Urges Banning Israel from Olympics

    “The Olympic Games are a global symbol of unity, peace, and respect for human dignity. Allowing Israel to participate despite its ongoing violations of international law and human rights undermines these core values. Just as the international community rallied to isolate apartheid South Africa, we must now call for the exclusion of Israel from the Olympics until it ends its discriminatory practices and respects the rights of the Palestinian people.”

  • Netanyahu Visit: Crimes and Lies

    Al Jazeera reports: “At least 70 people were killed in an Israeli attack on eastern Khan Younis which began minutes after the Israeli military issued mass evacuation orders. … UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine] chief Philippe Lazzarini said that Israeli forces shot at a UN convoy heading to Gaza City on Sunday despite the movement being approved by Israeli authorities. Israel’s Knesset passed three bills banning UNRWA, and designating it a ‘terrorist organisation.’”

  • 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.”

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • * 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.”

  • 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”

  • 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. 

  • Congress Integrating U.S. and Israeli Militaries

    “Congress has once again defied the will of the American people and moved us one step closer to fusing our military industrial complex with Israel’s. Even worse, they’re not even willing to have an honest, public debate about the issue. They just keep pushing this dangerous proposal forward behind closed doors. And, the reason they’re…

  • Has “the Two-State Solution” Become a Disingenuous Fantasy?

    Every Democrat and most Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee say they support a “two-state solution.” At the same time, “ending Israeli control over Palestinians in the territories occupied since 1967 is not on the table,” Norman Solomon wrote last week. “For politicians it has become a box to check,” while at this point…

  • Lebanese President Meeting with Trump to Surrender Sovereignty?

    Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and is scheduled to meet with President Trump on Tuesday.

  • Why There’s a Call for Boycotting “The Odyssey”

    Calls for an international boycott of Christopher Nolan’s recently released version of “The Odyssey” are based on his decision to shoot a segment of the film in the occupied nation of Western Sahara. 

  • What the Public Still Doesn’t Know About PFAS

    Earthjustice and a coalition of environmental organizations are challenging the approval of a new PFAS fluid, Chemours’ Opteon 2P50, that would be used in data centers.

  • Netanyahu and Perpetual War

    Trita Parsi writes: “Tehran believes Washington brokered the Lebanese-Israeli agreement — which contradicts the U.S.-Iran MOU by conditioning Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon on Hezbollah’s disarmament — to enable Israel to retain key positions that would weaken Hezbollah’s ability to support Iran in the next war. … What is clear is that the outlook of Iranian strategists…

  • Why 12 States Are Challenging Huge Hollywood Merger

    In a piece for The American Prospect, David Dayen reports that a group of states sued to block the $110 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. These states argue that the merger, approved last month by the federal government, will lead to lower revenues for theater owners and cable distributors and higher prices for…

  • Is the Iran War Restarting the Yemen War? * Drone Operators: “Refuse to Fly”

    “A truce that ended nearly a decade of war in Yemen has mostly held since 2022. It is being severely tested four years later, as tensions tied to the war in Iran risk spilling over.”

  • Lessons on Iran from JFK: “A Blockade Is an Act of War”

    “During the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK ordered a ‘quarantine’ of only offensive weapons to Cuba and sought Organization of American States agreement; all other ships were allowed to continue through. When a member of the media was goading JFK into aggressive action, he responded: ‘A blockade is an act of ag[ression], war.’

  • Lebanon “Walks into Israel’s Trap”: The Next Rafah?

    “Mass demolition in the southernmost parts of Lebanon is an ongoing problem, with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz quoted as saying the country was ‘applying the Rafah Model’ on Lebanon, and that southern Lebanon would ultimately turn into Gaza, citing the mass level of destruction inflicted on the Gaza Strip in recent years.”

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