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Where Cambodia chose the difficult, winding road of national healing, Israel spurred a suicidal treadmill of retribution in the Middle East, writes Laurent Evrard. Phnom Penh Skyline from the Toul Kork area. (Looppty /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0) By Laurent Evrardin Phnom PenhSpecial to Consortium News History is written in blood, but it is redeemed by choice. Across the theater of human suffering, few nations have stared into the abyss of total annihilation quite like Cambodia. Under the psychotic agrarian utopia of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, nearly a quarter of the country’s population of eight million people was systematically…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has transformed how Americans think and talk about health policy. Source link
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Last week we heard that US sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships in the Middle East were being fed food that, from photos that surfaced in the media, looked worse than what you would feed a dog. Parents and spouses of service members risked disciplinary action against their loved ones to highlight to the US Navy Secretary and to the media the revolting conditions aboard the carrier, which has been at sea with no port of call for a record period of time. Stories of broken toilets, filth, and mold everywhere were reported in the…
If anyone believes that peace will be achieved by “reshaping the Middle East”—via the Trump Board of Peace project—I’ve got a couple of bridges linking Brooklyn with Manhattan that I’m willing to sell for a song. I might be going out on a limb here, but there will never be peace in the Middle East as long as Benjamin Netanyahu and his ilk are in control of the out-of-control, American-supported and -supplied Israeli government. And before the usual suspects like the neocons start bleating about antisemitism, here are some undeniable facts: Netanyahu needs the war in Gaza and against Iran…
Monday, August 17th on RealClearPolitics:00:00 How Big is the Big Tent? 07:12 Jeffries and the Socialists11:05 DSA Accuses Rubio of Genocide18:12 Debbie Wass… Source link
In April, the en banc Fifth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of Texas’s law requiring the posting of Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. For much of the past four months, I wondered whether the ACLU would take the risk of filing a cert petition. On the one hand, separationists must publicly state they will fight to the last stage to ensure there is no religion in the classroom. On the other hand, the Supreme Court could set a broader that would set back separationism far more than Kennedy v. Bremerton did. Why not just let Louisiana and Texas go to avoid setting…
The US increasingly prioritizes technological dominance, supply-chain security, industrial protection and strategic competition with China. Under Trump, this approach has become openly transactional and unilateral: tariffs, market access and security instruments are used to compel partners and competitors alike. The EU, by contrast, seeks regulatory power, industrial resilience, climate leadership and greater strategic autonomy. Brussels remains firmly embedded in the Western alliance, but is increasingly unwilling to accept Washington’s unilateral priorities as Europe’s own. Managed confrontation by another name The 2025 US-EU framework agreement illustrates the contradiction. Washington committed to an all-inclusive 15% tariff ceiling on most EU goods, while…
“Golden age” is an easy line to sell. Living through the consequences of a war of choice is harder. We’re joined by Col. Lawrence Wilkerson for a blunt look at where the United States stands as the Iran conflict drags on, and why the economy, the military, and public trust can’t be separated when policy decisions start compounding. We talk through the gap between political messaging and real constraints: munitions shortages, JDAM kit limitations, and a defense industrial base that can’t simply surge precision weapons overnight. Wilkerson explains why rare earth metals and critical inputs like gallium matter for systems…
California has now told the country that it doesn’t know how many noncitizens have been removed from its voter rolls. Source link