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Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its leaders ignored international demands to host the matches elsewhere and now face calls for a boycott of the World Cup and of the U.S. “Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn’t matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.” – Pele’ This week the United States, along with Canada and Mexico, will…
The preeminent historian of the American Founding, Gordon Wood, died last week as the result of a traffic accident. Wood, a long-time professor at Brown University, had a profound and prolific effect upon the historiography of the American Revolution and the Founding in an academic career spanning six decades. Significantly, he was the first leading historian to emphasize the importance of republican thought and principles, both classical and modern, to 18th-century America, a tradition that later gave way to the totalizing force of equality and democratization. Creation of the American Republic (1969), fashioned from Wood’s dissertation under the equally notable…
After Iran’s foreign minister said that a deal to end the Iran War had “never been closer,” Israel bombed Dahiyeh, Beirut on Sunday, the 107th day of the Iran War. The Islamic Republic has insisted that the ceasefire to the war includes Lebanon, where Israel has waged a military campaign, and some analysts say Israel’s escalations in Lebanon are designed in part to hamper U.S.–Iran diplomacy. Israel bombed an apartment building in Beirut’s southern suburbs, killing at least three people, according to local journalists in Lebanon. The attacks came after Hezbollah drones were launched across the border into northern Israel.…
The following discussion features political scientist John Mearsheimer and longtime Russian strategist Sergey Karaganov in a conversation hosted by Glenn Diesen on one of the most alarming questions facing the world today: whether the war in Ukraine and the escalating confrontation between NATO and Russia could ultimately lead to the use of nuclear weapons. What follows is not an endorsement of the views expressed, but an examination of arguments increasingly being made within influential foreign policy circles as the conflict continues to intensify. Mearsheimer and Karaganov debate the collapse of Cold War-era deterrence, the risks of NATO escalation, the…
Luis de Jesus Reyes, Breakthrough News. Sanctions, energy crisis, and threats of invasion. The situation in Cuba is steadily worsening. Compounding the prolonged economic crisis and deteriorating energy situation are new unilateral measures by the United States. It is just past 9:00 pm, and the Havana neighborhood where I live is completely dark. This part of the capital has been without electricity for 20 hours. On my street and those nearby, the silence has been broken by the noise of cacerolazos (pot-banging protests), a form of dissent that used to be rare in Cuba but is becoming increasingly frequent these days. To…
In her new memoir, Dr. Jill Biden, Ed. D., fondly recounts the moment she had Source link
There is overwhelming evidence that Platner knew the meaning of his Nazi Totenkopf tattoo before last year. Source link
The judge didn’t allow Palestine Action activists at trial to explain they were trying to stop a genocide. Their attorneys decried terrorism sentences following a nonviolent conviction as unprecedented and dangerous to speech. Stephen PragerCommon Dreams In a decision that Amnesty International described as “completely disproportionate,” four demonstrators with the outlawed group Palestine Action were sentenced as terrorists in the U.K. on Friday after being convicted for causing damage at an Israeli weapons factory in 2024 to protest the genocide in Gaza. Supporters of the so-called “Filton 4” were filmed crying and embracing outside Woolwich Crown Court in London as the judge, Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson, handed down sentences ranging…
Can Trump Get a Good Iran Deal? Source link
Trump is 80 and still running circles around most politicians. The media’s age fixation isn’t journalism – it’s discrimination dressed up as concern. Source link