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[ad_1] Lindsey Graham died doing what he loved: egging on faraway violence. After returning from a trip to a drone factory in Ukraine, the Republican senator from South Carolina suddenly came down with chest pains. One of his last acts was phoning President Donald Trump—a man who Graham had once called “unfit for office”—to push for more aggressive policies in Europe and the Middle East. “I can’t die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out, and do Israeli-Saudi normalization,” Graham reportedly joked to the people around him, feeling ill after his call with Trump.…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Arun Sreeranganathan – CC BY 4.0 Marcelo Assis recalled how his family arrived in the United States about 35 years ago, “poor as hell”—yet certain that America offered the path forward that they’d never find in their native Brazil or anywhere else. The following years brought ups and downs, with Marcelo serving as a combat medic in the Army and then falling disillusioned with low-paying nonunion work that held him back instead of helping him move ahead. But Marcelo ultimately landed back-to-back union jobs that catapulted him into the middle class and firmly anchored him there. Just…

[ad_1] Immediately after the Supreme Court of the United States threw out his executive order outlawing birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump urged Congress to intervene. In a post on Truth Social, he wrote, “The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process. No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!” It appears that the president decided to lean on Congress for a solution thanks to the concurring opinion written by Justice…

[ad_1] We are in the middle of the year celebrating America’s 250th birthday, a date pegged to the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence, but which also encompasses the entire Founding period including the Revolutionary War. The military struggle with the British started in the Massachusetts hamlets of Concord and Lexington in 1775 and for all practical purposes ended in Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781. But it’s a mistake to think the American Revolution ended in 1781. The struggle for liberty is eternal. And its opponents don’t only live across an ocean or beyond the U.S. borders. As Dr.…

[ad_1] Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist  The Patriot Front’s bold incursions into U.S. cities are a sign of their burgeoning strength and of the weakness of Black movement politics. “Our people, born to this nation of our European race, must reforge themselves as a new collective capable of asserting our right to cultural independence.” – Patriot Front website   The story behind the now iconic photos of Black and brown Washington, DC, commuters who were forced to travel with Patriot Front white supremacists on the metro system begins almost 10 years ago. The Unite the Right rally that took place…

[ad_1] When I was a child I would love looking up at the night sky. I became quite familiar with the northern sky, and how it changed from summer to winter. I could clearly see the Milky Way, which was always stunning. I took it for granted. Today I rarely see the Milky Way. I live in the burbs and can still see a lot of stars at night, but it is nothing like 50 years ago. Even in small cities, you can only see the brightest stars. In order to get an experience like I had regularly in my…

[ad_1] But the late senator, whose death was announced on Sunday, so forcefully came around on the president that Trump was likely one of the last people to speak with the South Carolina Republican on Saturday. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Who was David Brat? Many Americans have forgotten the name. We haven’t. In 2014, David Brat, then a little-known economics professor, stunned the political world by defeating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Republican primary in Virginia. At the time, most observers viewed the upset as an isolated event – a local revolt against an established leader who had lost touch with his district. In retrospect, it was something much larger. David Brat’s victory was an early warning shot. It signaled that a powerful populist movement was building within the Republican Party, one fueled by frustration, distrust of…

[ad_1] PEN America, once a fearless advocate on behalf of persecuted writers around the globe, has become a shill for Zionism and American imperialism. Poison Pen – by Mr. Fish Chris Hedges PEN America, an organization founded to defend persecuted and censored writers, has once again made a mockery of itself with its call to protect Israeli writers from discrimination. Yes. Israeli writers. Its most recent screed, “A Silent Moratorium,” is so tone deaf and embarrassing that it triggered a widespread backlash. PEN America’s president, Dinaw Mengestu, resigned in protest. Mengestu told The New York Times the post is the most recent…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Office of Public Affairs from Washington DC – Public Domain Democratic politicians, as they regularly do, have displayed an inverted double standard regarding the Graham Platner affair and serial sexual abuser Donald Trump. Usually, a political party covers up its own misbehavior even as it accuses its political opponents of similar misdeeds. Instead, the Democrats drive out their own accused – e.g., New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Senator Al Franken (D-MN), Representative John Conyers (D-MI), and others, while giving Donald Trump, the all-time giant, recidivist, boastful, sexual predator, a free pass. Notice the unusual silence of Donald…