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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…

How fitting that the federal case against the performative former FBI Director is surrounded by drama and deception. Just like his corrupt stint at the FBI. Source link

Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Settlers besiege Palestinian families in Qusra. Israel’s government responds by handing settlement security to the police of hardline minister Ben-Gvir- a move seen to further entrench Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Israel’s Defense Minister, Israel Katz, has moved to transfer security authority over Israeli settlements and settlers in the occupied West Bank from the Israeli army to the civil police, a decision Palestinians read as a decisive step toward the de facto annexation of the territory, and one that places the settler movement, in effect, in charge of policing itself. Katz gave the Israeli army two weeks to draft…

The internet still has some good things on it, and hopefully the Grail news briefs are one of those! Thanks to Cat Vincent! Quote of the Day I had a guy die on me once, during the war, and he looked up at me and he said, ‘What the hell happened? What happened?’ And here I was, just a schmo from the East Side of New York City, y’know, and how do you answer the guy? I told him, ‘You happened.’ See? And that was real. It got me to think how valuable human beings are; and at that moment…

As it does with pretty much everything, the Trump White House is going about the Natalie Harp controversy all wrong. It responded to a glancing blow from Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff with the usual eruptions from Trump’s ego and id. (As far as neurologists and particle physicists can deduce, the two have fused, taking up so much space in the process that Trump’s superego has been reduced to the subatomic dimensions of a quark.) Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

In an open letter, signatories from around the world call on the pope to organize an emergency international summit to address questions of peace and nuclear disarmament. Pope Leo XIV’s during his inauguration, May 18, 2025. (U.S. Department of State/ Public Domain) By Peter Kuznick, Ivana Nikolic HughesNuclear Insanity We appeal to you, Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV, as the leader who has made the greatest effort to speak for humanity as a whole, instead of for specific nations, religions, or constituencies, to call for an emergency international summit to guide the world away from the current path of war…

The Treasury Department released details Monday concerning the “Economic D-Day” U.S. officials have been promising to unleash against Iran. Dubbed “Operation Economic Outcast,” these measures include the widening of secondary sanctions to cover new sectors and activities, new sanctions on nearly 60 Iran-linked entities, the suspension of licenses for Iranian remittance payments and academic exchanges, and new guidance aimed at stopping third-countries from cooperating with Iranian efforts to control the Strait of Hormuz. In a press conference Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the moves constituted “an unprecedented campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its enablers” that would…