Illinois Senators Duckworth, Durbin Vote To Continue Weaponizing Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
January 18, 2024
My Illinois Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin had their chance to make a dent in Israel’s ongoing 102 day genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. They voted to continue it. Senator Bernie Sanders offered a mild resolution calling on the State Department to determine if the billions in US 2,000 lb. bombs and other weapons […]
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That Old Canard of Isolationism
January 17, 2024
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In my “daily briefing” from Reuters this morning, an old canard popped up again: As Donald Trump strengthens his lead in the race for the Republican nomination, some US allies are worried about an American turn toward isolationism, a shift that would reflect an electorate largely focused on […]
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Re-Designating the Houthis Is a Major Error
January 17, 2024
The Biden administration will undo one of the few good things it has ever done: The Biden administration plans to put the Houthi rebel group back on one of its lists of terrorist organizations, days after the U.S. launched strikes on its facilities in Yemen in retaliation for months of attacks on commercial vessels in […]
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With Friends Like Netanyahu, President Biden Needs a Good War Crimes Defense Lawyer
January 17, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the US Saturday that his 100 day war of genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza has got ‘MADE IN USA’ stamped all over it. “This is not just our war – it is also your war. This is the war of the sons of light against […]
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Conflicts of Interest: US Rejects Iraqi Request to End Occupation
January 16, 2024
On COI #526, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss the conflicts across the Middle East. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
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Sanders to Force Senate Vote on Probing Israeli War Crimes
January 16, 2024
UPDATE: On Tuesday night the Senate voted down the Sanders resolution by a vote of 72-11. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday that he will force a Senate floor vote this week on a resolution that would suspend aid to Israel if the U.S. State Department fails to report on how Israeli weapons – many of […]
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OpenAI Cuts ‘Military and Warfare’ Ban From Permissible Use Policy
January 16, 2024
ChatGPT maker OpenAI this week quietly removed language from its usage policy that prohibited military use of its technology, a move with serious implications given the increase use of artificial intelligence on battlefields including Gaza. ChatGPT is a free tool that lets users enter prompts to receive text or images generated by AI.The Intercept‘s Sam […]
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Open Your Eyes to Genocide in Gaza, Congressman Casten
January 15, 2024
In Congressman Casten’s worldview, foreign policy, foreign wars including genocide in Gaza, are topics that dare not speak their name in Illinois’ 6th District. Go to Congressman Sean Casten’s website. You will find virtually no mention of the ongoing genocide in Gaza; a genocide that Casten backs with his lockstep support of President Biden’s fueling […]
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Don’t Forget What Dr. King Taught – That Violence Begets Violence
January 15, 2024
There’s nothing more important on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day than to remember our nation’s preeminent civil rights hero’s greatest but possibly most ignored insight (at least since the U.S. launched its series of post 9-11 “wars on terror”): Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the […]
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Biden’s Yemen Attacks Fail To ‘De-Escalate’ Red Sea Tensions
January 15, 2024
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: As could have been predicted, several rounds of US and allied airstrikes on Yemen have failed to “de-escalate” tensions with the Houthis, who have declared that they would halt shipping to and from Israeli ports in response to Tel Aviv’s destruction of Gaza. In a bind, what will Biden […]
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