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[ad_1] Peter Kuznick, Consortium News. The horrors of 1945 have too often been forgotten or ignored. Despite the heroic struggle of the people of Hiroshima, 81 years ago today, and of Nagasaki. The following is the text of a keynote address the author delivered in Nagasaki on July 25 at an international peace conference sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun, the Nagasaki city government and the Nagasaki peace movement. On June 10, 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, who was then U.S. Director of National Intelligence, released a brief but poignant video that began with devastating scenes of atomic-bombed Hiroshima. She stressed, however, that the…

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[ad_1] A shopping center in the city of Kremenchuk, Ukraine after a Russian rocket strike on June 27, 2022, which killed 18 civilians. Wikimedia. Few episodes better illustrate the strange politics of today’s Ukraine debate than Laura Loomer’s journey from one of the loudest voices of the anti-Ukraine movement to a self-described convert after witnessing the war first-hand. She even invited UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson to visit with her after he heavily criticised President Zelenskyy, but Robinson, a recent visitor to Moscow, declined the invitation outright. Her later interview with Zelenskyy further underscored the extent of her very public…

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[ad_1] President Donald Trump has always loved the idea of taking other countries’ oil by force. And he claims to have accomplished that goal in Venezuela. The war there “lasted 48 minutes, and we paid for the war with what we’ve taken out many, many, many times. Where have you heard that before? You haven’t heard that before. That’s the old fashioned way, right? The old-fashioned way. To the victor belong the spoils,” Trump told a crowd in Las Vegas on Wednesday. That’s not how other officials advertised U.S. oversight of Venezuelan oil. “We’re the bankers, we don’t direct the…

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[ad_1] “Exactly 61 years from the signing of the Voting Rights Act, we won our primary despite a redistricting blow that cracked Memphis’ representation in Congress.” Jake Johnson Common Dreams Justin Pearson, a Tennessee state representative who rose to national prominence for his role in gun control and voting rights protests, won the Democratic primary on Thursday for a US House seat in Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District, which Republican lawmakers dismantled earlier this year as part of a broader gerrymandering effort. In his election night speech, Pearson called GOP redistricting—enabled by a recent US Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial discrimination—an “attempt to keep people like us…

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[ad_1] From Ali v. Osman, decided yesterday by the N.D. Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice Lisa Fair McEvers: Ali and Osman married in 2001 in Sudan. Both parties are dual citizens of the United States and Sudan. The parties are the parents of five children—three of whom were minors at the time of trial…. In July 2024, Ali commenced this action seeking a divorce from Osman. In October 2024, Osman moved to dismiss the divorce action, disputing that he and Ali were still married at the time of the action. Osman asserted they were no longer married…

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[ad_1] Nate Bear Do Not Panic I’ve held back on writing about the Russia-Ukraine war, and this article probably won’t win me many fans. But for better or worse, I always try to tell it how I, at least, see it. And I’m tired. Tired of the liberal delusion, the hypocrisy, the childish analysis, and outright bloodthirstiness over Ukraine. I’m tired of the pretence that a proxy war which has now lasted longer that the first world war is a righteous battle against evil for the soul of the world. I’m tired of the fact that wanting an end…

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