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The fastest way to understand a crisis is to stop arguing about talking points and look at what is physically happening. Today we do exactly that with Larry Johnson as LtCol. Karen Kwiatkowski fills in for Kyle, starting with the Strait of Hormuz and the hard question behind every headline: is it actually open, and who controls passage right now? We point listeners to real-time ship tracking, then walk through what the traffic patterns imply for global oil prices, shipping risk, and the credibility gap between public claims and observable reality. From there, we dig into Tehran’s power structure and…

So one of the political lessons of the primary election season is how badly polls have been wrong. Comrade Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan was supposed to win by more than 20 percentage points, but instead barely escaped by a thin cat’s whisker. And the extremist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin was also supposed to win by 20 points or so. But she lost by an even thinner cat’s whisker. And there are plenty of other examples. Where am I going with all this? Well, all these polls show President Trump’s supposed unpopularity on Iran or the economy or the much-abused term…

Here’s what’s happening in Florida and across the country in key races. Source link

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy’s new book Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America subverts the norms of its genre. Politicians who seemingly aspire to higher office tend to focus on sharing their biography and bland, poll-tested policy prescriptions. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

The Armenian genocide launched by the so-called “Young Turks” in the last stages of the Ottoman Empire comes to mind as I watch the soft, seductive, silky smooth, and venomously evil AI political ad posted by a Republican congressional candidate in Florida. As happened in Germany in the 1930s and Rwanda in the 1990s, the ruling ethnic group set the stage for murder by publicly demeaning the targeted minority. A century ago, Ottoman leaders referred to Christian Armenians as Gavur (Infidel) and Rayah (cattle). The Young Turks went further, declaring “Turkey for the Turks” and describing Armenians as dangerous microbes…

Fidel Castro was not a utopian socialist. He rejected those who believed that you could leap from poverty directly to wealth. Olfer, Peru, Castro X100. (Via Transcontinental Institute for Social Research) By Vijay PrashadTricontinental: Institute for Social Research I was only 16 years old when I first set eyes on Fidel Castro at the 1983 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in India. When Castro, who would have turned 100 last week, met Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at the conference venue, he broke protocol and gave her a giant bear hug. Castro loved India, something I would learn from him 18 years later…

Politics is pervading every aspect of our experience of life on this planet. Our only volition is in what we choose to do about this inescapable reality. Reading by Tim Foley: Saying “I’m not into politics” is just saying “I support status quo politics.” It’s saying you endorse all the violence, exploitation, ecocide and abuse of the current order. Politics are always happening all around you in every moment of every day, whether you are “into” it or not. Everything you do in your everyday life is pervasively shaped by local and national laws, by economic systems, by oligarchy, by…

A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik Source link

Yesterday, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded that the Attorney General did not properly appoint Sigal Chattah as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada. The AG had named Chattah to the post in an effort to get around the need to either nominate a U.S. Attorney the Senate would confirm or accept a judicial appointment. Judge Eric Miller wrote for the panel in United States v. Jackson. His opinion begins: These cases present the question whether the Attorney General can make someone an Acting United States Attorney—bypassing the usual requirement…

Mansa Musa TRNN How are hip hop and Black Liberation connected? In this special Black August edition of Rattling the Bars, former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa sits down with artist, producer, and “Panther Cub” Mopreme Shakur on the rooftop of a hotel in the nation’s capital. Together, they explore Shakur’s memoir, This Thug’s Life, tracing the trajectory from the rise and fall of Black Power to the birth of hip hop through the eyes of the son of a Panther and the stepbrother of a legend. Additional links/info: Credits: Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino The…