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[ad_1] Corporate Dem Angie Craig outspent Flanagan by roughly four to one. But Flanagan’s ground game, and her promise to avenge Minnesota after ICE’s cruelty, gave her a 20-point win. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Ggia – CC BY-SA 4.0 That grand old thing is getting on a bit.  Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951 has suffered abuse, subversion and neglect from state parties.  At times, it is only honoured in the breach.  At other times, it is not honoured at all.  After three-quarters of a century, it is easy to forget the hot ideal that streaks through the document: that it contains, as Christopher Bentram aptly remarks, “a kind of substitute citizenship” for those who have left their country of origin and find their bonds “broken by the threat of prosecution.”  It…

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[ad_1] Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson argues that federal health officials ignored or downplayed “red flags” about vaccine safety during the COVID pandemic and the news media shares responsibility for failing to scrutinize their claims, during an appearance on the “Charlie Kirk Show.”ANDREW KOLVET: I think this is really infuriating on so many levels, but it’s because it’s about children too, right? Pregnant women.This is a tweet from Meghan McCain. She says, “Put Fauci in jail. I am a woman who was pregnant and had a miscarriage during COVID.” She goes on to say, “This is not hyperbole. Handcuff, perp…

[ad_1] 8/13/1788: Federalist No. 85 is published by Alexander Hamilton. Alexander HamiltonThe post Today in Supreme Court History: August 13, 1788 appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier group. Photo: US Navy. President Donald Trump and self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are pushing for a post-World War II record $1.6 trillion Pentagon budget for next year, a sum so obscenely high that it is almost impossible to comprehend. The proposed $600 billion increase alone is almost twice the total annual military budget of America’s closest rival, China. That supposed rivalry, despite the big spending gap, makes China central to justifying the Pentagon’s bloated budget. And Hawaiʻi is, in turn, central to the Trump administration’s Indo-Pacific military strategy which assumes that deterring…

[ad_1] We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF. Reading by Tim Foley: Basically we’ve got two choices: we either aggressively denormalize Israel or we watch our society become more and more Israeli. We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF. We either turn support for Israel into political campaign poison, or we watch politicians obliterate our right to criticize Israel while backing increasingly evil Israeli military agendas. We either ferociously oppose our government’s involvement in middle eastern wars, or we watch Israeli leaders grow more…

[ad_1] Dave DeCamp from Antiwar.com reported in a recent piece that the Pentagon admitted in its annual report to having committed two large-scale massacres against civilians in Yemen. The Pentagon acknowledged that hundreds of civilians, including children were killed and injured in a series of strikes. A public and open admission of war crimes. Another in an endless series. There has been an ongoing war against Yemen over the past decade, the United States and it’s coalition of Gulf nations have imposed embargoes and inflicted attacks on the populace. An act of punishment against the Houthi (Ansar Allah) leaderhip, who…

[ad_1] Image by Brett Wharton. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s 2025 military budget at only $7.5 billion. So how is Iran holding its own against the multi-trillion-dollar US war machine? A critical difference between the US war on Iran and previous US and allied bombing campaigns against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan,…

[ad_1] August 13, 2026 Nathaniel St. Clair “Who wants all this shit?” Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair, CounterPunch – CC BY 4.0 These are some photographs I have taken of street messages I have come across while walking or cycling around Portland, OR. Some are political. Some are jokes. Some are both. Some I agree with. Some I definitely don’t. Some I can’t make heads or tails of. But maybe they will resonate with you. They are free to share and use, as long as you credit:‘Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair, CounterPunch – CC BY 4.0′ “Remember to take care…