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[ad_1] Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi cover a wide range of topics, opening with a critique of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortes’ claims about billionaires and wage theft. Then they dig into a philosophical debate over what it means to be American—heritage vs. creedal identity—then turn to a discrimination lawsuit against The New York Times. On the lighter side, the duo reacts to a new trailer for an Odyssey film adaptation and ranks Christopher Nolan’s movies. They also weigh in on a bizarre story involving Donald Trump and the National Mall reflecting pool, discuss Jeffrey Epstein’s reported suicide note,…

[ad_1] Image by Maria Oswalt. There is deadly irony in the juxtaposition of Trump’s ‘anti-nuclear war’ on Iran, and the ongoing United Nations Review Conference for the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, or NPT RevCon. The decision to initiate a war of aggression against Iran killing thousands of civilians was made (among other public pretexts) in order to prevent Iran’s allegedly intended future construction of a nuclear weapon. The 1970 NPT prohibits the development of nuclear weapons or the transfer of nuclear weapons among or between nations that ratify the treaty. The NPT has slowed the spread of such weapons, while pushing…

[ad_1] In a recent Washington Post op ed, Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth makes the case for legalizing kidney sales. Roth is a world-leading expert on taboo markets and related topics. Here is an excerpt: There are approximately 130,000 new cases of kidney failure annually in the United States. It is disproportionately a disease of the poor, and is four times as likely to affect Black people as White people. Kidney failure costs Medicare alone more than $55 billion per year, mostly for dialysis. More than 500,000 people are presently on dialysis, about half of whom will die within five…

[ad_1] On Thursday, almost half of the United Kingdom was given the opportunity to vote in local elections. Usually, little attention is paid to local elections, whose winners are largely responsible for planning applications and trash collection. But British politics is far from usual at the moment. Voters across England went to the polls to elect over 5,000 councillors in 136 local authorities. At the same time, six directly elected mayors will be chosen, as well as the Scottish and Welsh devolved parliaments. While these election results do not directly affect the British government, they are widely seen as a…

[ad_1] On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg are joined by Thomas Zietzoff to talk about his new book, No Option But SabotageThe Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis.  No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are willing to go to defend the planet in the face of repression and the escalating climate crisis. Thomas Zeitzoff is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University. His research focuses on political violence, social media, and political psychology. He is also the author of Nasty Politics: The Logic of Insults, Threats, and Incitement.…

[ad_1] Sen. Marsha Blackburn sent a sharply worded letter Wednesday to Secret Service Director Sean Curran demanding an immediate, top-to-bottom review of the Secret Service, a move that comes nearly two weeks after an armed gunman sprinted past a checkpoint leading to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in a third assassination attempt on President Trump. As part of the review, Blackburn called for a “full, thorough audit of every single employee on your payroll.” “It is blatantly clear that the Secret Service needs to be cleaned up,” the Tennessee Republican wrote. “Unless you root out the rot, our nation…

[ad_1] The 1965 Voting Rights Act has long been considered a landmark Civil Rights era achievement that aimed to end discriminatory practices against Black Americans who tried to vote.  But a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling largely gutted the law, and many Republicans — including U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, the GOP frontrunner in the race for Florida governor — celebrated the court’s decision. Donalds countered that it was Democrats’ discriminatory gerrymandering practices that spurred the Voting Rights Act’s creation in the first place. Congress wrote and passed the 1965 law “because of the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South,…

[ad_1] The Middle East comes to the Midwest: the Michigan Senate primary has become a fight over Israel and Hamas. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] This is starting to get really weird. For months, people have been talking about the growing list of U.S. scientists that were working on sensitive projects related to our space or nuclear programs that have either suddenly died or mysteriously disappeared. Of course if someone mysteriously disappears and never comes back, it is probably safe to assume that individual is dead. All over the country people have been demanding answers, and now there are a couple of new twists. It turns out that many prominent Chinese scientists have also been suddenly dying, and this has caused a major uproar…

[ad_1] It took a while, but conservatives and Republicans now see Tucker Carlson as little more than a clickbait Benedict Arnold. [ad_2] Source link