Michael Tracey is a very good investigative reporter. And he's right—there's nothing new here and we don't live in a "democracy" in the US. We live in an oligarchy. The Princeton Study told us this a few years back:https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/ The Reagan era document is even longer at over 1000 pages. The Heritage Foundation which sponsors this things has been around for over 40 years now, so there is nothing surprising—they've been writing about these things for decades now. They weren't hi ...Continue Reading

Whatever the fall election drama brings, the US continues to grievously abuse its prisoners. Thank god for the great work of the Center for Constitutional Rights.---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Center for Constitutional Rights <alerts@PROTECTED>Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 11:20 AMSubject: News: We’re demanding an investigation into ICE’s abuse of of hunger strikersTo: Josie Setzler <josiesetzler@PROTECTED>In this issue:We’re demanding an investigation into ICE’s abuse of of hunger strikers Up ...Continue Reading

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While this writer is on target pointing out the bipartisan love affair with maintaining and expanding the military industrial complex and it’s path of destruction across the globe, I find it deeply disturbing he doesn’t think what’s left of the tatters of our democracy would be fully extinguished were Trump to get re-elected and use Project 2025 as the roadmap to his fascist takeover. On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 6:58 AM Mary Kuehn smkuehn@PROTECTED [Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition] <peacelist@PROTECTED> wrote:__&n ...Continue Reading

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/opinion/biden-michigan-voters-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.600.YY5n.I1T-tCxrzrn_&smid=url-share ...Continue Reading

Getting ready to fight Iran in the coming world war, maybe? I wonder if this is extortion, where Netanyahu pledges not to immediately use nuclear weapons against Hezbollah and Iran if the US agrees to get waist deep in the Big Muddy. [*]*Unmarked planes are being used by US forces to fly from Cyprus to Israel, including as recently as June 26* [*]*The aircraft are believed to be used by highly secretive 427th Special Operations Squadron and the CIA* [*]*/Declassified/** also finds 26 huge US military transport planes h ...Continue Reading

  Some remarkable history that I didn't know about.The false equivalency of nuclear disarmament and nuclear abolitionBy Jasmine Owens | July 11, 2024https://thebulletin.org/2024/07/the-false-equivalency-of-nuclear-disarmament-and-nuclear-abolition/Demonstrators file past the headquarters of the United Nations on their way to a peace rally that drew an estimated 750,000 people to New York City’s Central Park on June 12, 1982, to protest nuclear weapons. Credit: UN Photo/Yutaka NagataSince the horrific bombings of Hi ...Continue Reading

Get Outlook for iOSFrom:* Eyewitness Palestine <info@PROTECTED>Sent:* Friday, July 12, 2024 10:25 AMTo:* Khani Begum <khani@PROTECTED>Subject:* [EXTERNAL] July Newsletter: Visit Akka  Join us on a tour of the historic and famous city of Akka!Last September, Eyewitness Palestine relaunched it's monthly newsletters to highlight various cities, towns and villages all over historic Palestine. We kicked these newsletters off with interviews and information on the beautiful city of Akka. Although we had an a ...Continue Reading