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Rajiv Menon, a leading British civil rights barrister, again faces contempt proceedings over his closing speech in trial of pro-Palestine activists, reports Dania Akkad. “The Right of Juries” plaque outside of Old Bailey, UK, 2016. (Paul Clarke, Flickr, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0) By Dania AkkadDeclassified UK A leading British civil rights barrister faces contempt proceedings once again after a judge decided to refer allegations against him for a second time. The original proceedings brought against Rajiv Menon KC were thrown out last month for procedural reasons. But on June 22, Justice Jeremy Johnson ruled that Menon’s case met the necessary “threshold…
Why isn’t anyone else writing about this? On Wednesday, the Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the presidents of the United States and Iran. Meanwhile, major disasters were breaking out all over America. Is this just some sort of really bizarre coincidence, or is something else going on here? Read the evidence that I have compiled below and decide for yourself. On Wednesday, the very first named storm of the season, Tropical Storm Arthur, suddenly formed and slammed into the Texas coastline… Tropical Storm Arthur made landfall along the coast of Texas on Wednesday, and as the first storm of the…
This week, guest host Eric Boehm is joined by Financial Times columnist and economist Soumaya Keynes to discuss her new book, How to Win a Trade War. They examine Donald Trump’s tariff policies, whether trade wars can ever be won, and why Keynes believes that simply saying no one wins a trade war is no longer enough. She explains how China’s economic model challenged the old rules-based trading system and why many policymakers now see Beijing as a unique economic rival. They also discuss the collapse of the World Trade Organization’s dispute-settlement system, the growing role of national security in trade policy,…
Washington’s crippling sanctions on Venezuela remain in place despite one of the country’s worst-ever natural disasters, Brett Wilkins reports. President Donald Trump on Jan. 3 at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, following his administration’s illegal invasion of Venezuela and seizure of its president, Nicolas Maduro. (White House /Molly Riley) By Brett WilkinsCommon Dreams Human rights groups have implored the United States and allied countries to lift all sanctions against Venezuela — which experts say have already killed tens of thousands of people — as the beleaguered South American country reels from Wednesday’s devastating earthquakes. At least 589 people are dead and…
As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its break from and against the “tyranny” and “despotism” of the British government, the fascist Trump47 regime is carrying out a draconian campaign of tyrannical and despotic repression against free speech and public assembly. NSPM-7 in Fascist Action in Texas and Minnesota Last March, the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) successfully tried and convicted nine protesters on charges of “Antifa”-aligned terrorism for a July 4, 2025 action outside a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement concentration camp in Prairieland, Texas, just south of Dallas. The trial focused on a protest…
Energy Secretary Chris Wright declared Thursday, during an interview with CNBC at Idaho National Laboratory, that America had entered the “golden era” of nuclear energy. Wright’s bold proclamation coincides with the Energy Department’s launch this week of a $17.5 billion loan program, through its Office of Energy Dominance Financing, to “rebuild” America’s nuclear supply chain. The loan program will finance five projects “sponsored by utilities and energy companies nationwide” that will begin construction on 10 large-scale commercial nuclear reactors across the United States by 2030. It’s a lofty goal, and there’s certainly a demand nationwide for new energy generation capacity, but…
What Would C. S. Lewis Have Thought of AI? Source link
The right’s verdict is in: white, heterosexual, Christian men face the most discrimination in the US. The Giants don’t want to push back Source link
Still from Ghost in the Shell. Manga/Anchor Bay. Here are the price-to-earnings ratios as of Friday, June 19. At 37.16, the average increased slightly over last week. Most of us tend to think that the people controlling billions, or even hundreds of billions of dollars, at major corporations have a pretty good idea of what they are doing with their companies’ money. But that clearly is not always the case. For example, in 2000, Time-Warner, which was at the time the largest media company in the country, effectively sold itself for nothing to AOL. The sale went through just two…
The Tartan Army Takes America Source link