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[ad_1] Joshua Scheer President Donald Trump calls his Gaza agreement a “major milestone” toward peace. For Palestinians living beneath Israeli aircraft and beside an ever-advancing military boundary, that triumphal language bears little resemblance to reality. Israel killed 18 Palestinians on Sunday in one of the deadliest days since the supposed ceasefire began, while survivors described attacks striking the enclave from north to south. Gaza health authorities say at least 1,230 Palestinians—most of them civilians—have been killed since the Trump-backed agreement was reached in October. Nor has the ceasefire produced the promised Israeli withdrawal. Israeli forces have instead expanded their…
[ad_1] The United States seems stuck in another cycle of promised diplomatic solutions that forestall looming strikes on strategic targets in Iran. On the verge of imminent military activity against energy and logistical targets this past weekend, President Donald Trump discovered another off-ramp to avoid escalation. It’s a cycle we’ve seen before as the U.S. struggles to achieve its objectives. Shrinking munitions stockpiles, both offensive and defensive, have become a growing part of the U.S. strategic calculus. Just last week, reports indicated that Adm. Bradley Cooper recommended pausing strikes because of a dwindling target list and critical weapon shortages. Gen.…
[ad_1] Unlike in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, at least he has had the wisdom so far to resist a greater mobilization and commitment. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Austin Sarat When things don’t go well for President Trump, his usual response is to search for someone or something to blame. Rigged elections, weaponized prosecutions, and the deep state are some of his favorite targets. So when his plan to renovate Washington’s iconic Reflecting Pool turned into a fiasco, it was not surprising that he went back to a familiar playbook. For more than a century, the pool has connected the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, but Trump concocted a scheme to drain it, paint its bottom “American flag blue,” and have it ready to go…
[ad_1] Thanks to Buddy and Alan VM for your support of the Daily Grail! New evidence suggests humans were crossing open oceans tens of thousands of years earlier than we thought. Related: Archaeologists discover that humans and Neanderthals sailed the Mediterranean Sea at least 130,000 years ago. We need to quarantine aliens on the Moon, scientists propose. The next information war is already here: AI systems are consuming false, misleading, and manipulated content from across the internet – and increasingly presenting it as authoritative answers to millions of users. Monkeys sometimes have ‘pets’, just like humans do. Dying people often…
[ad_1] When you fly into this summer destination, Up North in Michigan parlance, you arrive at the Cherry Capital Airport. Drive over to the shores of Grand Traverse Bay, and there’s a flower bed designed to appear as three cherries hanging from a branch. And you want to take in a minor league baseball game? Well, you’ll be going to see the “Pit Spitters” (the cherry logo is spitting out a baseball, not its own pit). Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] COVID-19 was a traumatic experience for our families, small businesses, schools and country. Understandably, people don’t like thinking or talking about it. But we must. We now know, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul’s doggedness and Anthony Fauci’s supreme arrogance that he freely expresses in his diary, almost every decision made by the medical industrial complex was exactly the wrong thing to do. Fauci has blown himself up, and almost overnight he has gone from hero to antihero. Politicians and the media didn’t take note of the fact that Fauci had a track record of hysterical and erroneous predictions about…
[ad_1] Max Blumenthal and Michelle Witte The Grayzone US prosecutors are accusing a legal permanent resident of Louisiana of participating in the October 7 attacks in Israel. Yet their case relies almost entirely on intelligence from Israel which the defendant’s lawyers are unable to see, and an Israeli agent they can not identify. That agent may be Lt. Col. Avi Kalo, who previously testified anonymously in the hyper-politicized, constitutionally questionable Holy Land Foundation trial. The US Department of Justice has accused a 33-year-old Louisiana resident named Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi of joining Hamas’ attack on Israel on the morning of October…
[ad_1] Unfortunately, Labor Day has become a long weekend for mattress sales and political platitudes when it should be the annual day when working people present the case for taking control of our country back from the corporatists who shape our political economy. The first Monday in September is a massive, unused civic asset, a legally recognized national holiday that could function as a recurring general assembly of America’s workers—if we choose to reclaim it. Instead of being about the power of labor over capital, Labor Day has been domesticated into barbecues and ballgames while giant corporations tighten their grip…
[ad_1] In addition to winning the presidency in 2024, Republicans also won America’s economic majority. Becoming the economic majority happened quickly for Republicans, and the conditions driving it appear to be increasing. If continued, this trend will have great implications for America’s economic and political future. In 2024, Donald Trump won not only the popular vote and 312 electoral votes; the states he won also comprised an economic majority of America’s Gross Domestic Product. Late last year, Visual Capitalist released a review of each state’s 2023 contribution to America’s GDP. Tallying up Trump’s 2024 states shows these accounted for 51.5%…