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A senior Israeli official said the IDF has established a “yellow line” dividing southern Lebanon. In Gaza, the IDF kills Palestinians who cross the “yellow line.” The senior Israeli official told reporters on Saturday, “The ‘Yellow Line’ model implemented in Gaza will be replicated in Lebanon; the IDF [Israeli military] has already established a ‘Yellow Line’ and its forces are currently working towards it.” #عاجل ينشر جيش الدفاع نطاق خط الدفاع الأمامي الذي تعمل فيه قواته في جنوب لبنان لمنع تهديد مباشر على بلدات الشمال 🔸في هذه الأيام تعمل خمس فرق عسكرية إلى جانب قوات سلاح البحرية بشكل متزامن جنوب…

Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard, February 11, Occupation at Building 77 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Image courtesy of DBNY Campaign. Formation / Foundational Principles Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard (DBNY) was formed in September 2024 in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, with the specific aim to materially disrupt the supply chain of weapons and technology being used to exterminate our brothers and sisters in Palestine. Unlike actions that have targeted politicians and liberal institutions, appealing to power at the top (e.g. the UN, NYT, Gracie Mansion, etc.), or ‘permitted protests’ organized in collaboration with the NYPD, we believe that…

Despite drop, vice president’s favorability remains rock-solid with base GOP voters. Source link

The Problem With Political Pundits Cherry Picking Poll Data Source link

Hoover Institution Fellow Eyck Freymann, who also serves as a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute, has published a new book titled Defending Taiwan warning that the United States has no serious contingency plan for a Chinese invasion of the island — and that […]Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

From Judge Kai Scott (E.D. Pa.) today in Bunce v. Visual Tech. Innovations, Inc.: … Plaintiff … sought reasonable travel costs for a cancelled deposition. In response, Mr. Rajan filed an omnibus motion seeking sanctions and objecting to the Plaintiff’s travel costs. Plaintiff responded accordingly, highlighting that although Mr. Rajan was sanctioned previously “for his use of made-up cases and other authorities that did not support his propositions[… ] Rajan has once again used a made-up case and cited to other authorities that don’t support his propositions[.]” In his Reply, Mr. Rajan only briefly addressed this issue in a footnote.…

Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain In the universe of far-right politics, the three members of the Axis of Evil are Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Viktor Orban. The first presides over the most powerful country in the world. The second launched the first major land invasion in Europe in over 75 years. The third has done his best to destroy the European Union from within. On Sunday, the axis lost its littlest member. After 16 consecutive years as the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban—the joint-custody mini-me of Putin and Trump—went down for the count. His party,…

Meet the Man Who Will Get Inside Trump's Mind Source link

Over at Divided Argument, Will Baude comments on the NYT release of internal Supreme Court memos concerning whether to stay the Obama EPA’s Clean Power Plan. I largely concur with Baude’s assessment. One point he makes is worth expanding upon. As I noted Saturday, the documents largely confirm what educated observers already suspected about the Court’s decision.  Baude writes: the biggest scandal here is in fact the leaks themselves. Supreme Court leaks like these — including copies of confidential work product — are becoming more common. In my view, this is a bad thing. It will damage the institutional culture of the…

The U.S. economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and how we can break the blockade. By Chris HedgesScheerPost Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the antiwar organization CODEPINK, speaks with Chris Hedges about her recent visit to Cuba as part of one of the many humanitarian delegations that have visited the island in response to the severe economic blockade imposed by the Trump administration. Benjamin describes the current situation as “dire”, the worst she has experienced in her 50 years of solidarity work with Cuba, referring…