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[ad_1] It’s hard to believe this summer marks six decades since the Beatles, the greatest of pop-rock bands, released the album that truly catapulted them to that title. And I’m not talking about Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Abdul El-Sayed beat Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Now he faces a harder test against a strong Republican candidate. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The director of the documentary Earth’s Greatest Enemy, about U.S. empire, militarism and environmental destruction, says we aren’t angry enough. Filmmaker Abby Martin delivers a powerful message with her film  Earth’s Greatest Enemy. She says the fight against the war machine and the fight to save the planet are the same and we are not angry enough about it. Not only is the U.S. military the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels, at 270,000 barrels a day, but it has been excluded because of the Kyoto protocols from the emissions counts on grounds of national security. As are other…

[ad_1] You’d have an easier time hitting a fastball off Milwaukee Brewers phenom Jacob Misiorowski than getting Congress to take back wasteful spending it has appropriated, as the Trump administration is finding out. On Monday, the Senate passed a continuing resolution to fund parts of the federal government through December 11. The bill includes a provision that temporarily blocks the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from implementing a rule change that would have given executive branch political appointees greater control over the disbursement of federal grants. Proposed by the OMB in May, the rule has garnered over 62,123 public…

[ad_1] Voters also rejected an amendment that would have gradually eliminated the state’s income tax in what one Democratic mayor said would benefit the wealthy “while raising costs on hardworking families.” Julia Conley Common Dreams The Democratic mayor of Kansas City, Missouri was among those celebrating what he called the “TOTAL repudiation by Missouri voter of a core agenda of state GOP leadership” on Tuesday night after the state voted by a 60-point margin against Amendment 4, a measure backed by the Republican governor which would have weakened voters’ ability to pass citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives. “We took over control of the state of Missouri…

[ad_1] An excerpt from a detailed analysis at FoxNews.com from John Malcolm, a former federal prosecutor and current VP of the Meese Institute for the Rule of Law at Advancing American Freedom: Several factors suggest Fauci’s invocation [of the Fifth Amendment privilege] was improper. Two are critical. The first is Fauci’s pardon…. The second is time: Fauci retired in 2022, making it unlikely that any state crime he might have committed would fall within the applicable statute of limitations, assuming any state could credibly claim that he committed a crime or that venue was proper in that state. In Hoffman v.…

[ad_1] From Gavin Newsom in California to Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, the debate over Medicare for All continues to expose the tension between campaign promises, corporate influence, and the political power of the health insurance industry. Editor’s note: We are republishing this article following Abdul El-Sayed’s victory over establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Despite being dramatically outspent and opposed by powerful party leaders and corporate interests, El-Sayed prevailed on a platform centered on Medicare for All, economic justice and an end to unconditional U.S. military aid to Israel. His victory reinforces the argument made below:…

[ad_1] Venezuela’s electric grid was once the envy of Latin America. The Guri Dam, completed in 1986, was one of the world’s largest hydroelectric plants, and the nation’s grid reached 96 percent of households by the early 2000s. Today, after more than two decades of socialist rule, hours-long outages are routine in Venezuela. Blackouts disable water pumps, cellular service, electronic payments, and hospital equipment. The independent National Hospital Survey reported 233 deaths from 2019 through 2021 attributable to electrical failures, including patients who lost mechanical ventilation or could not reach operating rooms because elevators stopped. In March 2019, a nationwide…

[ad_1] Abdul El-Sayed, photo Wikipedia. At 2 AM Michigan time last night, NBC projected that AIPAC’s candidate was on her way to look for a new job. Representative Haley Stevens’ defeat in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is the last nail in AIPAC’s coffin. The once-feared Israel lobby is sinking, along with Israel, like a stone in American public opinion. Despite sixty-to-one spending against Abdul El-Sayed, Stevens couldn’t keep her head above water. AIPAC and its Israel-first Jewish billionaires turned Michigan into the most expensive Democratic Senate primary in American history and lost anyway. Just think about it for a second:…

[ad_1] Media reports offered new details on the Pentagon’s munitions stockpiles and Iranian and Omani negotiators discussed the future of Hormuz, as the Iran War entered its 159th day Wednesday.  The U.S. military has used up nearly 80 percent of its THAAD interceptors and 50 percent of its Patriot interceptors, CNN reported Tuesday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the Pentagon’s inventory. One of CNN’s sources also claimed that the military had fired “virtually all” of its Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSMs). Oman and Iran have continued their talks over the future management of the Strait…