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- 'Ridiculous' and 'Infuriating': Biden rebuked for continued opposition to Supreme Court expansion
President Joe Biden was rebuked Saturday for doubling down on his opposition to expanding the U.S. Supreme Court even after its deeply unpopular right-wing majority spent the past week ending the constitutional right to abortion care, weakening gun restrictions, undermining the separation of church and state, and eroding hard-won civil... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: June 26, 2022 - 6:02 pm - Here are 10 ways billionaires avoid taxes on an epic scale
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox Series: The Secret IRS Files Inside the Tax Records of the .001% Last June, drawing on the largest trove of confidential American tax data that’s ever been... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: June 26, 2022 - 5:04 pm - Supreme Court's legal terrorism: Why appealing to 'tradition' on abortion is obscene
With its Siamese-twin decisions on Thursday and Friday, the Supreme Court didn't just turn back the clock or flip through the pages of the calendar looking for a new decade — or century — to love. Calling themselves textualists and originalists, they simply put the Constitution through a search engine... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: June 26, 2022 - 4:58 pm - 'I have seen no evidence': Fox News host blasts 'unhinged' Trump for election lies
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade took a shot at former President Donald Trump for his "unhinged" lies about the 2020 presidential election. While speaking about the Jan. 6 hearings, Kilmeade recalled his interactions with Trump following the last presidential election. "The president was unhinged during that period," the Fox News... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: June 26, 2022 - 4:48 pm - NBC panel laughs out loud at Peggy Noonan when she says GOP 'should become a party that helps women'
Guests on an NBC panel laughed out loud at conservative columnist Peggy Noonan after she suggested that Republicans should use the "victory" over abortion rights to become a "party that helps women." During a discussion on Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd noted that there is Republican infighting about whether... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: June 26, 2022 - 4:45 pm - Sovereign-citizen members bolster their audiences by adding QAnon beliefs to their mix
The “sovereign citizen” movement—comprising scam artists and their gullible followers who claim that, by filling reams of documents full of pseudo-legal babble, ordinary citizens can declare themselves free of government rule at any level, thus becoming the law unto themselves—seems to have figured out how, after a couple of decades... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: June 26, 2022 - 4:28 pm - VideoDocumentary shows Trump ranting that Kemp and Raffensperger are cowards and 'stupid people': filmmaker
Among the most bizarre things that happened in the final weeks of Donald Trump's presidency is his White House and top adviser Jared Kushner allowed British filmmaker Alex Holder to document 11 hours of the former president, including on Jan. 6, 2021, and the days after. Speaking to CNN on... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: June 26, 2022 - 3:04 pm - Illinois Republican thanks Trump for giving 'white life' a victory by helping overturn Roe
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) is being targeted for a comment she made Saturday night at a rally for Donald Trump. Miller told the crowd how thankful she was for Trump appointing three Supreme Court justices that ensured the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. What followed, however, left people questioning... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: June 26, 2022 - 11:08 am - Trump-backed Republican Texas House candidate in Collin County charged with impersonating public servant
June 24, 2022 "Republican Texas House candidate in Collin County charged with impersonating public servant" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief, our... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: June 26, 2022 - 10:55 am - QAnon's 'Q' delivers first new messages since 2020
On Friday, amidst the chaos of the news of the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, QAnon's 'Q' left the first new series of messages since 2020. The first message — "Shall we play a game once more?" — was left using 'Q's credentials on what Daily Beast... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: June 26, 2022 - 10:49 am
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- Cultural Warriors: Why Palestine’s Sports Victories Should Inspire UsThe Palestine National Football Team has, once more, done the seemingly impossible by qualifying for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. By any standards, this is a great achievement, especially as the Palestinians have done it with style and convincing victories over Mongolia, Yemen and the Philippines, without conceding a single... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: June 25, 2022 - 4:00 am
- Iraq Daily Roundup: Two KilledFour people were wounded. The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Two Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: June 25, 2022 - 3:35 am
- Shireen Abu Akleh: US Media Probes One Killing but Not Countless Other Israeli CrimesThe New York Times published this week the conclusion of its investigation into the killing of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. It was the fourth major US news organization to look in detail at what happened to Abu Akleh during an Israeli army raid into the Palestinian city of... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: June 24, 2022 - 4:00 am
- The Grand Miscalculation: The US Helped Create the Russia-China CoalitionFor decades, the United States has actively pursued the containment and cornering of Russia with the goal of asserting its own power and influence. Instead of formulating a relationship with a major regional power, this process has brought the United States to the significant challenge of the Russian and Chinese... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: June 23, 2022 - 4:00 am
- Julian Assange and Personal Freedom"I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude." ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) It wasn’t until 1969 that the Supreme Court’s modern First Amendment jurisprudence made it clear that whenever there is a clash between the government and a person over the constitutionality of the person’s speech, the courts will give... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: June 23, 2022 - 4:00 am
- Iraq Daily Roundup: Seven KilledSeven people were killed. The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Seven Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: June 23, 2022 - 3:48 am
- Whose War Is It?Hardliners in the US and Europe have spent the last four months agitating for Western escalation in Ukraine with the goal of erasing the remaining limits on direct US and allied involvement in the war. Max Boot is the latest one to insist that it is our war: "We keep... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: June 22, 2022 - 4:00 am
- Has Ukraine Adopted a New Strategy of Insulting the Allies?Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba appears to have launched a new strategy in his country’s war against Russia. Insult Kyiv’s closest supporters by calling them Russian pawns. He penned an article in Foreign Affairs, what amounts to the venerable newsletter of the Blob, the internationalist establishment. The US and Europe... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: June 22, 2022 - 4:00 am
- Playing With Fire in UkraineOriginally posted at TomDispatch. As Alfred McCoy suggests today, we’re now in the latest version of a “cold war” when it comes to Russia and China. Let’s take a minute, though, to think about that grim term, which, until relatively recently, seemed to be a relic of history. During the... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: June 22, 2022 - 4:00 am
- Iraq Daily Roundup: Six KilledSix people were killed in Iraq. The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Six Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: June 22, 2022 - 3:26 am
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- Russia’s Justifications for Its War in Ukraine Don’t Hold UpThe Russian government’s justifications for its war in Ukraine―the largest, most destructive military operation in Europe since World War II―are not persuasive. Although, in defending the Russian invasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s primary emphasis has been on the threat of Ukraine joining NATO, that action, had it occurred, would have... Read more »Source: Z Blogs – Zcomm | Published: June 19, 2022 - 10:02 pm
- Imperial Nostalgia and Its PerilsAlthough great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon. Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »Source: Z Blogs – Zcomm | Published: May 8, 2022 - 7:56 pm
- Imperial Nostalgia and Its PerilsAlthough great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon. Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »Source: Z Blogs – Zcomm | Published: May 8, 2022 - 2:34 pm
- Military and Economic Power Once Again Fail to Produce HappinessAlthough the rulers of the world’s major military and economic powers have repeatedly claimed that they are making their nations great again, their policies have not resulted in widespread happiness among their citizens. That conclusion emerges from the recent World Happiness Report-2022, published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. ... Read more »Source: Z Blogs – Zcomm | Published: April 16, 2022 - 4:50 pm
- Who Speaks for the World?Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies. Since World War II alone, these acts of aggression have included France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, Britain’s... Read more »Source: Z Blogs – Zcomm | Published: April 3, 2022 - 7:44 pm
- Peace in Ukraine through neutrality and peaceful EU membership, end the USA’s proxy war against RussiaEthnic division was used to consolidate control by the USA and Nationalists of Ukraine. They have signed Minsk Peace Accords to end the civil wars in Donbas region through referendums, signed since 2015, but they did not implement them, because maintaining an active civil war front psyche of ‘them and... Read more »Source: Z Blogs – Zcomm | Published: March 31, 2022 - 2:37 pm
- Rebirth of Our United Nations Is The Eventual Way, Not the False Profit of WarYou obviously can not be against this terrible war, but support it continuing. We must support the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and encourage them to find mutual peace in an agreed neutrality/sovereignty to end this tragic and unnecessary confrontation between such close peoples. Neutrality and internationally monitored referendums... Read more »Source: Z Blogs – Zcomm | Published: March 15, 2022 - 3:14 pm
- The Imperialist Roots of Putin’s PolicyA key factor that explains Vladimir Putin’s military invasion of Ukraine is traditional Russian imperialism. Throughout the world’s long and bloody history, other powerful territories (and, later, nations) expanded their lands through imperial conquest, including Rome, China, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Russia was no exception. ... Read more »Source: Z Blogs – Zcomm | Published: March 9, 2022 - 8:43 pm
- We must all pursue obvious conditions of a mutual peace, not arm further and cheer on a hopeless war.The declared intention of USA NATO and Ukraine’s government to join in a hostile military alliance against their neighbour Russia has now proven to be a terrible mistake and negligent disaster for the people and sovereign state of Ukraine. For USA/NATO to now continue making Ukraine a weapon, while we... Read more »Source: Z Blogs – Zcomm | Published: March 6, 2022 - 3:01 pm
- Psychiatrists, Local Police, Wifes, Regional Elections and Judges in Santiago de Compostela (VI)(i) This is the Wikipedia article on the Galician Regional Elections held by the Galician Autonomous President, Alberto Nuñez Feyjoo, on March 1, 2009; the first Regional Elections in which he was victorious. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elecciones_al_Parlamento_de_Galicia_de_2009?wprov=sfti1 in total number and percentage of votes, the opposition won, made up of Emilio Pérez Touriño... Read more »Source: Z Blogs – Zcomm | Published: February 26, 2022 - 6:44 pm