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[ad_1] Photograph Source: Kskhh – Public Domain On Tuesday, as American aircraft struck Iran for a tenth consecutive night, Iran’s interior minister Eskandar Momeni flew to Islamabad. He was carrying a direct message from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. When he arrived, he sat down with Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. Tehran is at war with the world’s most powerful military. Its list of trusted messengers is short. It chose Pakistan. This is the part of the 2026 war that the daily coverage keeps walking past. The reigning story is a duel: American firepower against Iranian defiance, with the…

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[ad_1] Monday, July 27th on RealClearPolitics – joined by RCP White House Correspondent, Carolina Lumetta: 00:00 Rand Paul Publishes Fauci’s Diary 17:19 Trump’s WHC… [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] In November it will be 30 years since California voters passed Proposition 215,  legalizing cannabis for medical use. Last Sunday at the state fair some of the activists involved in that campaign were given awards –heavy medals that said “Pebbles Trippet Lifetime Achievement.” I made the drive to hot, flat Sac to see the trailer of a film about Pebbles and a documentary about the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club, original headquarters of the Prop 215 campaign. Fairgoers were checking out the vendors’ wares and showing almost zero interest in the OGs. Like the “Cannabis Cup” of yesteryear, the…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair One of the key factors in understanding Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not to view the United States as a homogeneous bloc standing united behind its president. Throughout his first term (2017–2021) and his second term, which began in January 2025, Trump has faced internal resistance on a considerable scale. This resistance has taken many forms: mass mobilisations, trade union action, election campaigns, international solidarity movements, civil disobedience and the emergence of left-wing candidates in certain major cities. These struggles have at times succeeded in curbing, altering or delegitimising certain policies of Trump’s. They…

[ad_1] Brian Hurton died alone in East Kilbride, Scotland, after calling 999 twice, complaining of severe breathing problems. Dispatchers told him both times that no ambulance would be sent right away because they were busy. Instead, they said a clinician would call him back. A clinician tried to reach him an hour later, but he didn’t answer, and an ambulance wasn’t sent until almost three and a half hours after his first call. Paramedics found him dead on his bathroom floor.  He died of an aortic dissection. A review found that his first call should have gotten higher priority and…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Cory Doctorow – CC BY-SA 2.0 The continued electoral success of the Democratic Socialists of America–whose candidates run for Democratic Party nominations rather than as independents–has a lot of people very angry. Most of these candidates when judged by their policies are more FDR’s New Deal than worker-controlled factories–a return to the party’s greatness rather than importing radical politics into a centrist machine. But in the US that practically makes you a Naxalite. For mainstream Democrats this is a crisis. Challengers running on single-payer health care, universal childcare and rent control are beating corporate Democratic incumbents in…

[ad_1] The US government has come dangerously close to doing something sensible that the public wants: removing the dreaded annual clock changes which make the warmer months “Daylight Savings Time.” However, seeing two paths diverge in the wood, they have, without any justification, decided to take the obviously idiotic one and make Daylight Savings Time permanent instead of standard time. There are practical problems with this, particularly for us northerners, but my great issue is that, hippies and nihilists notwithstanding, time is an observable reality that humans across the world have spent thousands of years studying. I am sympathetic to…

[ad_1] When I spoke with renowned professor, activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis for the inaugural episode of Laura Flanders & Friends in 2024, decades of activism were seeing results: support for Palestine was growing, calls for criminal justice reform were growing, and Davis had just released a book of essays discussing the intersections between feminism and prison abolition. Today we find ourselves in a new era of chaos: AI data megacenters are sucking up resources, immigration police are killing people, rapists are enjoying impunity — and throughout it all the for-profit incarceration system expands. The number of ICE detention…

[ad_1] When House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries sent out a recent “dear colleague” letter, its second sentence cited “the position articulated by… pro-peace organizations like J Street.” The congressman and J Street were opposing an amendment to block $3.3 billion in military shipments and other aid to Israel. Jeffries contended that the measure was “overly broad.” On the same day, using the same phrase “overly broad,” J Street issued a statement declaring that “we support Leader Jeffries’ decision to oppose the amendment.” Both Jeffries and J Street respectfully noted that many members of Congress had understandable reasons to back the…