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Professor Paul Finkelman has asked me to post the following guest post, and I am more than happy to do so. Prof. Finkelman is a leading legal scholar and legal historian, and is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, emeritus at Albany Law School. For my part, I will note that I agree with most of his analysis. As a general rule, the government should not be in the business of promoting or discouraging religious observances. But the military presents a special case, because the lives of members of the armed forces (while on duty)…
June 8, 2026 Consortium News was launched 31 years ago as the first U.S. alternative, internet news. There’s been an explosion of independent news sites since. CN Live! began in 2019 followed by a plethora of other alternative webcasts. Clashes in Kiev during Feb. 2014 coup. (Mstyslav Chernov/Unframe, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) It’s no exaggeration to say that Consortium News has blazed a trail for independent news and analysis as an alternative to the mainstream, Establishment media. While there are a vast array of independent media in an age when anyone with a…
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Knowing LA as I do, I didn’t dare hope that a guy like Spencer Pratt actually had a chance of winning and becoming Mayor. But I must admit, I let my guard down, and I began to care about how the race turned out. Well, now we know. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
Republicans are fixating on Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico’s faith. They should worry about what it says about their own relationship to religion and Christianity. Source link
In its more than two centuries of existence, the Democratic Party has, from time to time, demonstrated that it knows how to do politics. This may be one of those moments. Source link
The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the Global South. Hubris Gargantua – by Mr. Fish. By Chris HedgesScheerPost The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, are ushering in a new world order. This order is one where voices of reason and stability emanate not from the West — which spent tens of billions of dollars sustaining Israel’s…
A decision was made to flood the Western world with people from foreign countries with incompatible attitudes, cultures, and behavior. Concepts such as the Kalergi Plan have been floating around for decades, but now the theoretical has become the actual. Sub-Saharan Africa will see the largest population growth over the next 25 years, as some countries are set to almost double their populations. East Asia is facing the opposite problem, as the population rates of Japan, China, and South Korea are among the lowest in the world. Population rates and average IQ are linked together, but mention that in the…
A week ago, former 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley arrived for a meeting with his new boss, Nick Bilton, on the CBS News show at which they both work. Pelley took this as an opportunity to lecture and browbeat Bilton. In the meeting, which was recorded and leaked to the press, Pelley publicly accused those whom he works for as lacking credentials as journalists. Singling Bilton out, Pelley said that he hadRead Full Article ⟶ Source link
President Donald Trump claimed on Monday morning that a peace deal in the Middle East is just around the corner, “subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way.” He posted this statement a few hours after Iran and Israel bombed each other for the first time since a ceasefire took effect on April 7. That ceasefire originally gave both sides two weeks to hammer out a final agreement to end the U.S.-Iranian conflict and work towards regional peace. Two months later, there is no deal and the two sides have been engaged in increasingly violent tests of each others’…