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  • Forever War with Iran?

    “Now, the ceasefire he negotiated with Tehran has collapsed and Trump risks dragging the U.S. into yet another forever war — in Iran.”

  • Genocide as Politics by Other Means with the “Board of Peace”

    “If the plans that are currently being elaborated for Gaza go forward, genocide may come to be seen by some nations as the legitimate and lucrative extension of politics by other means.”

  • 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 doing this is painfully obvious: they know the American people don’t want it, but they’re too scared to stand up to the Israel lobby.“

  • 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 “the two-state scenario is far-fetched to the point of delusion if not evasion.”

  • 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 has hardened markedly in recent weeks as they have become increasingly convinced that Trump intends to restart the war.”

  • 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 moviegoers and cable subscribers. The combined company would consolidate Hollywood into four major studios controlling 85 percent of wide-release films. The company would have a 27 percent market share of box office revenue and a 27 percent market share of basic cable. “One out of…

  • 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.”

  • Matt Gaetz, Progressive Caucus Team Up to Oppose Syria Occupation

    “Ryan Grim of the Intercept reports in: “Matt Gaetz, Progressive Caucus, and Former Obama Ambassador Team Up to Oppose Syria Occupation” that: “The Obama administration’s ambassador to Syria [Robert Ford], a leading voice in favor of aggressively confronting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the time, is now backing an effort by Rep.…

  • Public Investments in the mRNA Vaccines

    The U.S. government invested at least $31.9 billion to develop, produce and purchase mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. “Since the U.S. people and government made the investments and took on the risks that were needed to produce the vaccines,” said Shawn Fremstad of CEPR, “we also need to be the ones to direct how the value we…

  • Amazon HQ2 Doesn’t Deliver Jobs: A Lesson on Corporate Subsidies

    “Amazon’s HQ2 slowdown is the latest evidence that incentives do not enable a company to defy gravity. At least the State of Virginia’s subsidies — probably the smallest offered among the HQ2 finalists — are performance-based, so the State is not going to pay unless the jobs materialize. Residents of Long Island City in Queens…

  • Medicare and Drug Prices

    Recent analysis in the Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy predicts that Medicare will most likely negotiate prices for 38 Medicare Part D drugs and two Part B drugs between 2026 and 2028.

  • Voters Rejecting Biden While DNC Rigs Process

    “Joe Biden’s presidency has been an abject failure. This is certainly the impression one gets from looking at the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll results, which find that ‘more than 6 in 10 Americans (62 percent) say they would be “dissatisfied” or “angry” if Biden were reelected in 2024.’ Just seven percent of voters say they…

  • The Federal Government’s Response to Covid

    The congressional Covid-19 select committee held a hearing on the federal government’s response to the pandemic. Three witnesses selected by the Republican majority spoke: physicians Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Marty Makary. The hearing “perpetuated the narrative that they were ignored and silenced––though we know that they advised governors and President Trump.”

  • Groups Calling for End to Yemen War Which Has Killed Hundreds of Thousands

    The Norwegian Refugee Council states: “The international community today showed it has abandoned Yemen at this crucial crossroads, with a mere quarter of the amount needed to support the millions of Yemenis who require urgent assistance. This is woefully inadequate and gives the signal that some humans are less valuable than others.”

  • Carter Blocked Abourezk’s Resolution to Hostage Crisis

    In 2002, Abourezk went on a delegation to Baghdad organized by the Institute for Public Accuracy, meeting with the Iraqi leadership. Just after that delegation, the Iraqi government allowed the weapons inspectors, which Bill Clinton had withdrawn in 1998, back into the country. Some hoped the invasion, which took place almost exactly 20 years ago,…

  • Mask Mandates: Bret Stephens Gets It Wrong

    The New York Times ran a misleading opinion piece by Bret Stephens this week on the benefits of mask mandates. Public health experts quickly responded to clarify the issue.

  • Biden: * “Must Negotiate” on Ukraine * Caving to Israel on Iran War Threats

    “NATO’s relentless escalation of its proxy war in Ukraine has endangered world security, while escalating inflation and lowering living standards for working people in the United States. Though we all deplore the illegal Russian invasion, we must accept that there can be no final victory over a nuclear armed power. Continued NATO arms deliveries will…

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