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Photograph Source: Global Sumud Flotilla In the early hours of April 30, 2026, Israeli forces committed an act of piracy in international waters off the coast of Crete — more than 1,000 kilometers from the shores of occupied Palestine. Armed commandos, supported by drones and electronic jamming, intercepted and seized over twenty vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, detaining activists and damaging engines and communications systems. This brazen violation of international law, far beyond any legitimate claim of self-defense, marks a dangerous escalation in Israel’s campaign to enforce its illegal blockade of Gaza. The blockade itself was imposed in 2007…

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The Congressional Progressive Caucus released its “New Affordability Agenda” this week, an essential step in defining what Democrats are for. The agenda contains 10 concrete legislative reforms, each providing help for Americans sinking beneath the rising costs of basics: healthcare, energy, housing, childcare, wages. The goal is to forge an agenda that all but the most compromised Democrats could unite behind. Twenty-two national organizations endorsed the agenda on its release.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

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 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. (Kyodonews/Zuma Press/Newscom)   In my March 5 Dispatch article on the Iran War and the Constitution, I explained why Donald Trump’s initiation of the war without congressional authorization is unconstitutional. As of today, it is also in violation of the War Powers Act of 1973. Enacted in the wake of the Vietnam War, the WPA requires the president to secure congressional approval within 60 days of entering U.S. troops into “hostilities” or situations “where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances.” The president can seek a 30 day extension without additional congressional authorization, but…

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Image by Getty and Unsplash+. It’s great that wealthy Democratic Party celebrities like Bette Midler and Bruce Springsteen dislike the deranged fascist lunatic atop the world’s most lethal superpower, but their stance on the United States’ 47th president falls far short of the menace posed by the Trump fascist regime. Midler and Springsteen’s statements are incommensurate with the historical moment – a time during which, “humanity,” in the words of Refuse Fascism (RF), “is held hostage by a fascist regime that is genocidal, hell-bent on destroying the environment and which every day is bolting into place a white supremacist, theocratic,…

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Graham Platner, the Maine Democrat who hopes to oust Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, has taken heat for comments he made about rape more than a decade ago. His campaign strategy emphasizes his present views, including his support for legislation to improve tracking of rape kits.  “Our campaign played a key role in passing Representative Valli Geiger’s landmark rape kit bill in Maine,” Platner said in an April 14 X post, sharing a TV ad on the topic. (Geiger’s bill didn’t pass, but Gov. Janet Mills signed a budget in April that included rape kit tracking, which Geiger proposed in…

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