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More than 60 MPs and lords want an explanation from the U.K. trade secretary how an illegal arms shipment to Israel was exported from Britain and what will be done about it, John McEvoy reports. U.K. Trade Secretary Peter Kyle during a business meeting in Beijing in January. (Simon Dawson / No 10/ Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) By John McEvoyDeclassified UK Over 60 MPs and Lords have demanded answers over illegal shipments of weaponry from Britain to Israel via Belgium. MPs who have signed the letter include Diane Abbott, Richard Burgon, John McDonnell, and Hannah Spencer, while the Lords include Baroness Sayeeda…

A two-week, 50-state fair on the National Mall kicked off Wednesday night with music, fair food, and Air Force flyovers. The crowd of roughly 1,000 sat in folding chairs or stood on a portion of the Mall between the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol. Many wore “America is back” red hats, embroidered with “GASF” for “Great American State Fair.” While many of the night’s speakers stuck to generally patriotic themes, praising the nation’s endurance through wars and terrorist attacks, President Trump’s speech ran along the lines of his standard political rally remarks.  “Today we have the largest economy on…

A 6–3 conservative majority of the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the U.S. government can turn away asylum seekers who arrive at the border without processing their claims. The case, Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, was one of the closely watched immigration cases of the current Supreme Court term. It concerned whether an alien who is stopped on the Mexican side of the U.S.–Mexico border “arrives in the United States” under the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which states that an alien “who arrives in the United States …may apply for asylum” and be inspected. The decision…

Two imperialist wars have challenged the international Left: the U.S. and Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Some have upheld the best traditions of the left, solidarity with the oppressed and their right to resist without exception, while others have fallen into the trap of selective solidarity, refusing to extend support to one of the two peoples. In the spirit of principled universalism, two Ukrainian leftists, Andriy Movchan and Nina Potarska, joined the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Here Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Andriy Movchan about their participation in the Flotilla and its significance for building…

"This bill is a major step toward reducing housing costs for millions of American families, and Donald Trump just doesn’t care," Elizabeth Warren told HuffPost. Source link

On June 18, the Supreme Court decided United States v. Hemani. The case was 9-0, though was fragmented. Justice Thomas concurred, finding that possession statute exceeded Congress’s powers under the Commerce Clause. Justices Jackson and Sotomayor repeated their view that Bruen was wrongly decided. And Justices Alito and Kagan concurred in judgment, though I still am not entirely sure what they disagreed with the majority about. Today, the Supreme Court decided Wolford v. Lopez. There was a time when we had to wait more than a decade for the Supreme Court to decide a Second Amendment case. This year, we get two victories…

Iranian forces also targeted US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait in response to US strikes that began on Wednesday night Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday that its forces targeted US aircraft at the al-Azraq air base in Jordan as part of its response to US strikes across southern Iran that began on Wednesday night. The IRGC claimed the attack hit F-35, F-15, and F-16 fighter jets and destroyed US military facilities. So far, there’s been no confirmation of the damage from the US, but the US has consistently downplayed Iranian attacks on its bases and has attempted to…

Despite the biggest supply shock in history, the oil market turned out to be significantly more flexible than most experts anticipated. Source link

Congress introduced legislation this month allowing seriously ill patients to access select treatments their physicians would prescribe – without FDA approval. That would mark a fundamental departure from the FDA’s total control over every prescription drug in America. That stranglehold is the efficacy mandate – the FDA’s requirement to certify that drugs work before any patient can access them, a federal override of the physician-patient relationship. Six center directors, two commissioners, thousands of departures since January 2025 – yet the FDA’s fundamental problem is not its leadership. The problem is its power. Safety oversight – ensuring that drugs are not…

Israel’s politicians and generals have a strategy: not security, not coexistence. It is the oldest colonial formula in history: seize the land, expel the indigenous population, and then call the defenders terrorists. On March 16, Israel invaded South Lebanon under the pretext of protecting its Jewish-only colonies in the north. At first, it was a so-called security zone ranging from four to six miles inside Lebanon. This was followed by ordering the evacuation of towns and villages for an area of roughly 775 square miles, about a fifth of the entire country. Now, to shield its occupying army in the…