Image by CODEPINK. On Monday, June 16, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced legislation, a War Powers Resolution, to prevent President Trump from using military force against Iran without Congressional authorization. This will force all Senators to go on record...
Image courtesy of Left Voice. On June 18, Anasse Kazib, a French railway worker, trade unionist and socialist leader will stand trial for the charge of “apologia for terrorism.” His supposed crime? Tweets posted to the social media platform X in support of the...
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Photograph Source: Meghdad Madadi – CC BY 4.0 The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69...
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. Israel’s latest strike on Iran had nothing to do with dismantling the Iranian (civilian) nuclear program. Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that “the timing was fixed back in November 2024,” the real zero hour was...
Image by Bill Livingston. By now Tyrant Trump and his fascist wrecking crew have made abundantly clear their objectives of police state control, corporatist rule, and corrupt self-enrichment resulting in the destruction of our constitutional freedoms and its rule of...
Photograph Source: יאיר טלמור (TalmorYair) – CC BY-SA 4.0 At the United Nations 77th Commemoration of the Nakba convened May 15th and 16th in New York, nothing was said about the upcoming Two-State Solution Conference planned at the UN from June 17th-20th, until, at...
Thorne Dreyer (right) and University of Texas campus cop, October 1966. Photograph Source: Thorne Webb Dreyer – CC BY-SA 3.0 Have you noticed? Sixties folk—organizers, activists, pacifists, feminists and liberationists of all stripes— can’t seem to get enough of the...
Photograph Source: SureshMukhiya – CC BY-SA 4.0 When deciding what to make for dinner, many of us think about how to balance making something affordable, delicious, and healthy. And we might consider ethical questions, like whether our food is locally sourced, our...
Photograph Source: PAS China – Public Domain On their own they may not amount to a hill of beans. But grouped together, they provide some food for thought. Various incidents have taken place in a condensed period of time that at the very least are increasing tension...
Photograph Source: Mike Cline – Public Domain Discussions about “tipping points” have been getting plenty of coverage in the last few years as the planet hurtles forward in a climate crisis we seem incapable of stopping. Ice caps and glaciers are melting, sea levels...
Photograph Source: Meghdad Madadi – CC BY 4.0 Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury, evidence preparations that show the threat to be what Michael Walzer calls a...