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[ad_1] While Israel’s impunity for conducting unbridled violence is cracking in the U.S., politicians’ habit of tying career survival to Tel Aviv persists in traditional power structures, writes Ramzy Baroud. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Hukabee at a celebration in Jerusalem of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. (US Embassy Jerusalem. Flickr/CC BY 4.0) By Ramzy BaroudZ Network Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship between both countries.  The first incident occurred on July 8 when U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and his…

[ad_1] If you want to discover how people feel about the way the world is going, don’t look to language to tell you, not to articles like this one, or even those of the most informed and articulate. I’ve run out of words to say. But keep using them, which makes the words even more impotent. Language always fails. It can’t express the inexpressible and when it tries to do so, language leads us astray, into wrong turns and cul-de-sacs that are hard to find our way out of. As Bill Evans said, “Words are the children of reason and,…

[ad_1] Anthony Fauci declined Wednesday to testify at a Senate hearing on Covid, saying he was invoking the Fifth Amendment in order to avoid baseless prosecution by Republicans. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox In his opening statement to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Fauci said that Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) was attempting to use the hearing to satisfy his “obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution.” “The sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that…

[ad_1] Illustration: Lex Villena; Lev Kropotov My new article, “The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning” (coauthored with Josh Braver) is now up on SSRN, available for free download. It will soon be submitted to law reviews! Here is the abstract: Exclusionary zoning is the biggest cause of the housing crisis besetting many parts of the United States. This Article shows how state constitutions can be used to combat it through two complementary paths: litigation under existing constitutional provisions and constitutional amendment. It provides the first comprehensive account of state constitutional jurisprudence on exclusionary zoning across all fifty states. It finds…

[ad_1] Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents want to know what’s in your phone—and they won’t take no for an answer. Courts have long held that border cops don’t have to respect the Fourth Amendment when searching for contraband, and the CBP claims that this power includes the data stored on travelers’ phones. Now, the feds are trying to argue that erasing that data is a form of illegal obstruction. Samuel Tunick, a participant in the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement, was returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic in January 2025 when a CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team…

[ad_1] And honestly, that’s just to start down a list — or do I mean to start into deep chaos? — on this distinctly crazed planet of ours. It’s generally growing ever harder to find any version of good news relating to the (yes, again!) distinctly (over)heating world we’re now living in. Under the circumstances, give China some credit. Admittedly, that country still pours more fossil fuels into the atmosphere than any other place on Earth, but in its imperial rise, it’s also taken something remarkably close to full-scale control over making (and selling globally) just about anything from solar panels to wind-turbine equipment…

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[ad_1] From the Complaint in Kivler v. Wolf Licensee LLC, just removed to E.D. Pa.: E.K., is a 16-year-old student athlete, who won her [wrestling] match at the district championship. Shortly after being crowned district champion on February 21, 2024 [likely a typo for 2026 -EV], a reporter from Fox56 (Wolf) requested to interview E.K, and E.K. agreed. During this recorded interview, E.K. described the match and her strategy for how she planned to prevail. However, on February 24, 2026, Defendants published the Article that did not use the quote E.K. provided, but rather an entirely different quote that E.K.…

[ad_1] Médecins Sans Frontières says Israeli violence in Gaza inflicts suffering on Palestinians every day but is calibrated to avoid stirring international outrage, Jessice Corbett reports. Children in Gaza rummaging through ruins and trash posing catastrophic environmental and health risks, July 2024. (Ashraf Amra /UNRWA/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0) By Jessica CorbettCommon Dreams Nearly 10 months into a “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, as Israel killed at least one Palestinian man with an airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp yesterday, Doctors Without Borders declared  “the wounds of war are not only unhealed—they are still being inflicted.” “This is not a ceasefire,”…

[ad_1] Flock Safety and the private surveillance companies building an American panopticon one municipal contract at a time The black pole does not look like tyranny. That is the point. It looks like street furniture. A small black camera. A solar panel. A utility box. Nothing dramatic. No uniformed officer standing beside it. No marked police vehicle. No flashing lights. No warrant presented to the driver. In many communities, there was barely any public debate before it appeared. Yet the device photographs nearly every vehicle that passes. It reads the license plate, records the time and location, identifies the make,…