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By Marjorie Cohn This article was originally published by Truthout Supporters of Trump-sanctioned individuals or entities face maximums of $1 million in fines and 20 years imprisonment. The United States has long endeavored to undermine the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Donald Trump has taken the assault to a new level with punishing sanctions against those who seek to hold accountable individuals who commit the most atrocious crimes. On February 6, 2025, Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14203, Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court, which authorized sanctions against ICC judges and senior prosecutors who participated in…
An executive order and a $100 billion Kentucky data center project mark the latest steps in the Trump administration’s plan to accelerate the construction of AI infrastructure by opening federal land and shortening permitting timelines. Environmental groups have already launched legal challenges. The Trump administration signaled plans to aggressively accelerate construction of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers by opening federal lands to massive technology campuses and fast-tracking environmental approvals. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced it will convert the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky into a $100 billion AI data center campus powered by 2 gigawatts of natural gas generation and…
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Joy to the World – by Mr. Fish Western media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges ScheerPost The Western media manufactures consent for genocide. It normalizes Israel’s decades-long military occupation and apartheid. It erases Israel’s flagrant violations of international law. It perpetuates the fallacy of Israeli victimhood. It betrays, discredits and demonizes the work of Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza, at least 220 of whom have been killed by Israel between Oct. 7, 2023, and August 2025. It supinely accepts draconian Israeli censorship. It acquiesces with tepid letters of protest at Israel’s refusal to allow…
Download Audio. Scott interviews Arta Moeini of The Institute for Peace & Diplomacy about several articles he’s written recently digging into the true risk of Trump’s decision to kill Iran’s supreme leader and launch this regional war in the Middle East. Discussed on the show: “The dangerous martyrdom of Khamenei” (Unherd) Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn “Welcome to Fortress Iran” (Unherd) “Trump can forge a new Middle East” (Unherd) “The virtue of America First” (Unherd) “The Coming Multi-World: A New Civilizational Theory of International Relations” (The Institute for Peace & Diplomacy) Dr. Arta…
It’s tempting to regard Andy Burnham’s first visit to Kiev as the beginning of a new British approach toward Ukraine, not least because governments encourage such interpretations whenever continuity can profitably be dressed up as initiative. In the month or so since taking office, Burnham has made several high-profile commitments on this front: in addition to choosing Ukraine for his first foreign journey as prime minister, he also reaffirmed Britain’s leading position in “the Coalition of the Willing,” promised assistance with Ukrainian long-range missile production, and couched this all in language sufficiently emphatic to attract an angry response from Moscow. …
Jake Johnson Common Dreams “To come here and say, ‘Have some perspective’? You ought to have some damn perspective,” Jackson said in a video reply to the vice president. Troy Jackson, the Democratic US Senate nominee for a critical seat in Maine, denounced Vice President JD Vance on Monday for downplaying the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian national who was killed by a federal immigration agent last month in Biddeford. During a visit to Maine on Monday, Vance told residents who are “so worried about that situation” to “have a little bit of perspective.” Vance added that “we can absolutely investigate every…
Every day, Americans walk into hospitals trusting that the machines keeping watch over their hearts are working for them. Most have no idea that some of those machines may be working for Communist China. Last year, FDA and federal cybersecurity officials issued a warning about a patient monitor called the Contec CMS8000, a medical device used routinely in American hospitals to track heart rate, blood pressure, and electrocardiograms. Investigators found a back door built into the software. Not a simple glitch, but a highly technological avenue to siphon patient data out of our health care facilities and into outside remote servers. The company that manufactures…
Dan Steinbock Informed Comment Iran has not collapsed, while Hormuz has become a global economic choke point. The central failure was not ignorance of the risks, but the political decision in Washington and Tel Aviv to gamble that coercive military power could overcome them. So, why did they set the stage for the catastrophe that was both unwarranted and unnecessary? The Israeli conventional war game In February 2024 – after 4 months of the Israeli obliteration of Gaza – over 100 senior military and government officials participated in a report by Reichman University’s Institute for Counter-Terrorism which outlined in painful detail how unprepared the…
Download Audio. Scott brings Tim Shorrock back on the show to dig into the latest developments between Trump and the leaders of both South Korea and North Korea. They discuss the specifics and the broader historical context behind these latest moves. Discussed on the show: Empire Blues with Tim Shorrock Tim Shorrock is the author of Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing and a regular contributor to The Nation and the Korea Center for Investigative Reporting. Follow him on Twitter @TimothyS and subscribe to his Substack. Sign up for the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy…