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Bill Clinton mediates the handshake between Yitzak Rabin and Yassir Arafat outside the White House on September 13, 1993. Photo: White House Historical Association. “A truce [between Lebanon and Israel] that has been in effect since April 17 has never been respected,” AFP reported. So what exactly is a cease-fire worth if the fighting continues? From Lebanon to Ukraine, cease-fires are announced with great fanfare and violated with remarkable speed. Yet politicians and commentators still speak as if a truce were the same thing as peace.Donald Trump is one of the worst violators of this confusion. Trump’s claims to have…
In Georgia, a new interpretation of state law could force many health clinics run by nurse practitioners to close. Under state law, nurse practitioners must practice under the supervision of a doctor. But the Georgia Composite Medical Board has ruled that nurse practitioners cannot pay physicians for that supervision. Nurse practitioners argue that many physicians will be unwilling to take on the responsibility without compensation, making it difficult or impossible for clinics to operate. The board says the current interpretation makes the doctor the nurse practitioner’s employee, the reverse of what it says is required by law. But nurse practitioners…
Photo by Goutham Ganesh Sivanandam When the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held confirmation hearings for current Department of Interior head Doug Burgum, he made it quite clear that he viewed public lands, lands belonging to the American public, as an asset on “America’s balance sheet”. His implication was pretty clear, these public lands should be used to turn a profit. Public lands belong to all Americans and were set aside for their protection, not for profit. But, no surprise, Burgum fully supports exploitative industries like oil, gas and mining on public lands, so who’s balance sheet will benefit? At an energy…
Cover art [detail] for Jean-Michel Jarre’s album, Equinoxe, by Michel Granger. CC BY 4.0 “Optimism is the philosophy of the past.” – Marcel Proust, The Fugitive + Dante himself couldn’t have found a better spot in Hell to deposit James Dolan, maybe the worst owner in all of professional sports (and that’s really saying something), than to lock him in a box next to a farting, snoring, grunting Donald Trump as 24,000 Knicks fans jeer and boo them both, while watching his team lose to the young San Antonio Spurs, over and over again, night after night for all eternity……
Somali World Cup soccer referee, Omar Artan, who was banned from entry into the US. Photo: Omar Artan’s Facebook page. I know Pete Hegseth put his foot in his mouth and took his eye off the ball on a beach in Normandy the other day when, during a D-Day anniversary gathering, he declared: “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies.” Critics described the speech as grotesque and inappropriate for such a solemn and commemorative occasion. Yet if Hegseth was trying to project an image of a vigilant and uncompromising America, events surrounding the World Cup have…
“The victim of Monday’s knife attack… remains in a serious condition in hospital receiving treatment for serious eye, face and back wounds… Detectives have said there is no indication Monday’s knife attack was terror-related” [emphasis added]. There, in a single paragraph in the Irish Times, the Republic of Ireland’s paper of record—describing an attempted beheading by a “Sudanese asylum-seeker” of a local man, Stephen Ogilvie, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as not being “terrorist-related”—is proof that the Emerald Isle has emerged as the chief promulgator of the approved multicultural rulebook. That rulebook compels politicians to intone that Islam is a religion…
When a defense minister resigns, it is bad news for any government. When a respected and doggedly loyal one like Labour’s defense Secretary, John Healey, storms out, it is catastrophic—especially when he claims he was being forced to make Britain “less safe.” Healey’s Thursday resignation letter places the blame firmly on Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whom he accuses of reneging on his promises to deliver a credible defense Investment Plan (DIP) to rebuild Britain’s enfeebled armed forces. A figure of £28 billion was required. That gradually got whittled down to £18 billion by the Treasury salami slicers. Then on Monday,…
Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. For years, medical appointments and work obligations sent me into hundreds of New York City taxi rides. In a city where most cabdrivers trace their roots to soccer-loving nations, one detail about my background reliably sparks delight. The moment they learn I am from Argentina, many break into a grin and exclaim, “Maradona!”—a spontaneous homage to a player whose name still carries the force of revelation. Few athletes have delivered joy on the scale Diego Armando Maradona once did. I owe him a debt myself. Years ago, while leaving Bangladesh—a country where soccer devotion runs deep—a…
The U.S.-Israel relationship has never been less popular in America, but at the same time that support for Israel is cratering in American public opinion, Congress appears to be fast-tracking an effort to entrench the relationship and give Israel enduring access to both our most sensitive technologies and our most sensitive intelligence—in exchange for nothing more, it seems, than a thank you note from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At the same time, the U.S. is at war, stuck in an unpopular and unnecessary conflict whose political and economic impacts create mounting and unanticipated obstacles for the Trump administration’s agenda.…
Nithya Raman’s come-from-behind victory represents a challenge from the Left to an LA establishment that also regards itself as progressive. Such conflicts are becoming more common as coastal cities evolve into de facto one-party systems, split between establishment Democrats and a newer, generally younger cohort of socialists. Even moderate Democrats — and Republicans, including Spencer […]Read More…Read Full Article ⟶ Source link