Dr. Adam Hamawy says that to move forward, the Democrats must embrace an anti-war, economically progressive agenda, and abandon the categories of left vs. right.
Hedges Report: Former US Army MD’s Congressional Bid
Critics Call for Probe of ‘Book-Burning’ by AI Giants
In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, a coalition of U.S. civil society groups call AI giants’ mass book buying and destruction an effort to “corner the essential inputs of AI development.”
ICE Wants Americans’ Emails
The federal government does not possess a general police power to investigate people because of what they think, believe, say, read, write or post, writes Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.
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WATCH: TWTW — Neo-Israelites vs. Neo-Ottomans
Tensions soar between Tel Aviv and Ankara over their designs on Syria; would Trump nuke Iran? And the killing goes on in Ukraine and Gaza. Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, 8pm Tonite.
‘Barclays 5′ Palestine Activists Won’t Be Tried as Terrorists
A U.K. judge ruled Friday that the damage protesters caused at a bank branch was not enough to merit terrorism sentencing, Dania Akkad reports. Sentencing is on Sept. 4.
The Deplorable Extremism of the ‘Moderates’
The New York Times applies the soothing “moderate” label to those aligned with a brutal status quo at home and abroad, writes Norman Solomon. What’s so moderate about genocide?
US Meddling In Brazilian Elections
Alan MacLeod covers Washington’s attempts to put another Bolsonaro in power in Brazil, the most populous country in Latin America and a bulwark against U.S. regional dominance.
UK Jury Refuses to Convict 7 From Palestine Action
After 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on most of the charges of organizing a raid on an Israeli weapons plant and the defendants were discharged Wednesday.
Israel Admits Firing on Hind Rajab’s Car & Ambulance
In addition to contradicting the IDF’s previous denials about killing the 5-year-0ld, Israel said it would probe the March 2025 massacre of rescue workers in Rafah, but not that of World Central Kitchen workers in April 2024.
Israeli Mole Inside the UN
U.N. spokespeople are deflecting questions about a Drop Site News investigation of alleged spying by staffer Yahav Lichner in 2014 and 2015, Dulcie Leimbach and Damilola Banjo report.
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WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The Last Empire’
Abby Martin joins CN Live! to discuss her newest film, The Earth’s Greatest Enemy, about U.S. militarism, empire and environmental destruction.Watch the replay.
Pentagon Eyeing Tactical Nuclear Weapons Use
The strategy is being overseen by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, who has long called for the U.S. to prepare to fight a “limited nuclear war,” reports Dave DeCamp.
Australian Shadow Flights: F-35 Jet Parts to Israel
Following last year’s revelations of the secret shipping of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel through Thailand from Sydney, new documents show parts being routed onto passenger jets through the U.S., Peter Cronau reports.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Landlord Diplomacy
You read here and there that Kushner and Witkoff’s undertakings with Moscow and Tehran reflect a diplomatic “style.” On we go to the normalization of stupidity and hubris as merely a new form of statecraft.
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Jeffrey Sachs: Fauci Must Come Clean
We should open the files to an independent inquiry into the origins of Covid-19 with subpoena power, insulated from agencies whose conduct is in question, write Jeffrey Sachs and Neil L. Harrison.
Vijay Prashad: The Fidel Castro I Knew
Fidel Castro was not a utopian socialist. He rejected those who believed that you could leap from poverty directly to wealth.
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A Tale of Two Genocides: Cambodia & Israel
Where Cambodia chose the difficult, winding road of national healing, Israel spurred a suicidal treadmill of retribution in the Middle East, writes Laurent Evrard.
Caitlin Johnstone: Another Day in Dystopia
While the planet burns and the sky is full of Flock’s police-camera tyranny, AI is increasingly pervasive and intrusive and making everyone dumber and exposed to wild unpredictability.
Elon Musk’s Fortune Comes From Not Paying Taxes
If it weren’t for laws that permit the wealthy to endlessly defer paying taxes by keeping their gains unrealized, there would be no trillionaires, write Stephen Land and Bob Lord.
Jonathan Cook: The Corporate Climate Catastrophe
Governments knew what was coming, but they shrank from taking on the corporate sector, which is now more powerful than ever.