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Jamal Kanj for Middle East Monitor “He’ll do whatever I want him to do,” Donald Trump declared recently about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The statement may be one of the most revealing statements Trump has ever made—not for what it says about Netanyahu, but for what it reveals about Trump’s psychology. It was intended as a display of strength. Instead, it exposed the opposite. Trump has built a political persona around hyperbole, self-aggrandizement, and declarations of superiority to cover up for an oversized inferiority complex, he only knows its extent. When he insists that Netanyahu is acting at his command,…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani needs to make some big changes before moving forward with the City Council’s well-intentioned but flawed effort to steer more distressed housing into the hands of nonprofit building managers. The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, part of a batch of bills vetoed by ex-mayor Eric Adams on his final day in office, has been reintroduced and will likely come up for a vote later this year – but it will need guardrails to keep swindlers and bunglers from making the city’s housing crisis even worse. Source link
The party may reclaim the US House and even Senate, but primary candidates are far from united on how to move forward Source link
Juan Cole for Informed Comment South Korea, the world’s 13th largest economy, spends more of its gross domestic product to import fossil fuels than almost any other country on earth, with the bill amounting to $25 billion a year, according to Energy Live News. Worse, the cost of fossil gas could increase by 41% this year, since has seen a price spike over the Iran War and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Moreover, it seems unlikely that the Persian Gulf will ever again be a reliable source of fossil fuels, since there will be further Israel-US-Iran wars. So…
Trump’s striking progress on the U.S.-Mexico border wall is attracting less opposition because of Biden’s catastrophic record. Source link
In an excerpt from his new book, the vice president reflects on how the death of the young conservative activist influenced his family to embrace a new life Source link
A bill’s provision to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries will go to a U.S. House vote after an effort to stop it failed Thursday. Passage will make it nearly impossible to end the U.S.-Israel special relationship, writes Alan MacLeod. Alan MacLeod for MintPress News Amid widespread and growing public opposition to the Israeli genocide of Gaza and South Lebanon, a controversial new bill seeks to formally integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries like never before, making it difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. Section 224 of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) proposes to join the two…
Conditions that led to bloody prewar protests have been made worse, commentators say Source link
It seems the people squawking the loudest about "following the science" were not exactly following it. Source link
Jennifer K. Rumple Prism Deep East Oakland, California. Locals call it “Deep in the E” or simply, “The Deep.” This is where Diamond Allen primarily grew up in the early 2000s. The neighborhood is made up of predominantly working-class Black and Latino families who have faced significant disinvestment and longstanding neglect of infrastructure and resources—including limited access to fresh produce and full-service grocery stores. There were four liquor stores on Diamond’s block, he recalled. Not much else. “I remember frequently going to the liquor store after school with my friends and buying a honey bun or a bag of…