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[ad_1] Monday, August 3rd on RealClearPolitics – Joined by RCP White House Correspondent Carolina Lumetta:00:00 DSA [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. Nicaragua Condemns Attacks. “Nicaragua expresses its unchanging solidarity with the heroic Palestinian people, who continue to face suffering, occupation, destruction and displacement perpetrated by the Zionist government of Israel and its occupying forces,” reads a statement from Nicaragua’s government released on July 29th. The declaration condemned Israel’s renewed attacks, calling them an “unacceptable escalation of violence against the Palestinian people,” and repudiated “the continuous, growing violations of international and humanitarian law, as well as Israel’s attempts to criminalize the Palestinian population who seek only to protect their families, homes and livelihoods.” This statement is Nicaragua’s…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Molly Adams – CC BY 2.0 The new in-thing for Donald Trump and Republicans is to call their Democratic opponents socialists and communists. Their focus groups apparently show that voters can be scared by these words. There is a small grain of truth to the Trumpian allegation. According to polls, most Democrats now have a positive view of socialism. In fact, in at least one poll, Democrats had a more positive view of socialism than of capitalism. While these results are striking, it is worth asking what “socialism” means to people these days. It doesn’t seem likely…

[ad_1] 8/4/1961: President Barack Obama’s birthday. He would appoint two Justices to the Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. President Obama’s appointees to the Supreme CourtThe post Today in Supreme Court History: August 4, 1961 appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Joshua Scheer Ukraine’s role in the Western war machine is expanding far beyond its borders. After years of serving as Washington and NATO’s proxy against Russia, Kyiv is now accused of attacking an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, assisting armed groups seeking to undermine sovereign governments in Africa’s Sahel and collaborating with forces linked to Al Qaeda in Syria. Rather than an isolated nation defending democracy, Ukraine increasingly appears to be marketing itself as a military subcontractor for Western powers—willing to intervene wherever their geopolitical interests are threatened. In this episode of Clearing the FOG, Margaret…

[ad_1] The Cradle’s N. Africa Correspondent There is a machine in the Sahara you can see from space. A conveyor belt, the longest on earth, nearly one hundred kilometers of steel from a mine called Bou Craa to the Atlantic. For half a century it has moved phosphate out of occupied Western Sahara, through wars, ceasefires, and a promised referendum that never came. The richest layer of the deposit is already gone, sold before the Sahrawis could ever vote on it. And the electricity that keeps the belt running is sold to the state by a wind farm belonging to…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Isaac Castillo/Presidencia de la República – CC0 President Daniel Noboa governs Ecuador with increasingly authoritarian methods. Elected in 2023 and reelected in 2025, he has concentrated power in the executive branch, clashed with the Constitutional Court, abused states of emergency, and turned the justice system into a tool against his opponents. Analysts and human rights organizations describe a drift toward a dictatorial edge: a leader who preserves the forms of democracy while eroding its substance. The run-up to the local elections on 29 November 2026, offers the clearest example of this strategy, aimed at securing victory by…

[ad_1] Part one HERE Later this year, the UN will be hosting a major summit on the world’s water supply. The Global Water Conference 2026 is being assembled to tackle what the UN is calling “water bankruptcy”, and pursue Sustainable Development Goal 6 in pursuit of Agenda 2030. Let’s be clear here – we’re not talking about populous arid regions out-growing their aquifer capacity, or aging infrastructure lagging behind urban sprawl. All these are ongoing issues that need to be dealt with  –  but this is not what the Global Water Conference is aimed at.  Rather it’s a focal point for a global “re-thinking” of…

[ad_1] Making an enemies list is creepy. Publishing the names of people you dislike to fuel political supporters’ prejudices is even creepier and potentially dangerous. That’s what New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has done with the introduction of a property tax surcharge on relatively high-value second homes linked to a searchable online database of those who could be affected. The socialist mayor’s defenders point out that tax and property information is a matter of public record in New York, but the packaged publication of surcharge targets and Mamdani’s history of calling out opponents by name suggests something nastier…

[ad_1] The Pacific is now brewing up an El Niño that could well be the most powerful in recorded history by a wide margin. It will ramify to droughts and fires, storms and floods across the world. Will it be strong enough to wake the world to the need for emergency level climate action? In 1998 a monster El Niño was roiling the Pacific, skewing weather patterns all over the planet. The world had just experienced a string of record hot months. Then Vice President Al Gore was preparing for a press conference on the climate turbulence. An aide called…