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[ad_1] Clarence Thomas's Constitutional Firepower [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Politically active people my age fondly remember conservative intellectual William F. Buckley hosting the wildly popular TV show, “Firing Line,” where he for years interviewed luminaries from across the political spectrum. He sparred with leftist Noam Chomsky about American imperialism, chatted with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher about the future of free markets, and talked to poet Allen Ginsberg about drugs and spirituality. Heady stuff. These lofty civil debates went beyond politics and delved into psychology, art and literature. The show reflected an emerging conservative movement that was clever and optimistic, and which preferred to out-argue opponents rather than “own” them. That…
[ad_1] John Feffer for Foreign Policy in Focus Donald Trump has always considered himself exceptional—that is, an exception to the rules. As a tycoon, he has demonstrated that multiple bankruptcies and an utter contempt for business associates have not hindered his accumulation of wealth. As a politician, he has shown that the same outrageous statements and scandals that have sunk other careers have only made him stronger, at least according to his base. And now, in his second term as president, he has set out to prove that he can intervene militarily in the Middle East and emerge with…
[ad_1] Five year old Hind Rajab after her graduation from kindergarten. The UN has now found that Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children. I read the report as a mother, against the speed with which we are already forgetting. I am a mother. I am Palestinian. I am a psychoanalyst, which means I spend my days with people learning to survive what should have destroyed them. Start with the child we have already been allowed to forget. On January 29, 2024, a six-year-old named Hind Rajab sat in a car in Gaza City, packed in against the bodies of her aunt, her…
[ad_1] Trump, Refugees and the Supreme Court [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Leading up to our Independence Day party, my wife asked whether she should buy us T-shirts celebrating America’s 250th anniversary or stick with what we already have. We went with our existing garments. When the red, white, and blue string lights are up and the Gadsden flag is flying out front, my son will don his free speech shirt, my wife will wear one with USA printed across it, and my shirt will show an image of George Washington crossing the Delaware and text reading: “Americans. Willing to cross a frozen river to kill you. In your sleep. On…
[ad_1] A 25-year-old American was killed, along with the former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier, as part of Operation Condor, a secret U.S.-backed campaign of terror against Latin American leftists, Brett Wilkins reports. Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams The Institute for Policy Studies this week welcomed a judge’s homicide convictions and prison sentences for three agents of former U.S.-backed Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet who murdered Ronni Karpen Moffitt, one of the progressive think tank’s employees, during a 1976 car bombing targeting her colleague, the exiled leftist diplomat Orlando Letelier. Chilean Judge Paola Plaza González sentenced three former agents of the…
[ad_1] In Monsanto Case, the Supreme Court's Center Prevails [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Why Is Trump Taking Cues From Gavin Newsom? [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] THE CLARITY ACT AND THE STABLECOIN WARS Ellen Brown As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that could seriously impinge on our financial independence. The Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act, H.R. 4766, is slated to make privately issued stablecoins a major component of the U.S. monetary system. Supporters see stablecoins as a way to strengthen the dollar’s global role while creating a vast new market for U.S. Treasury securities. Critics see the rise of programmable private money that can be monitored, frozen,…