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Megyn Kelly is joined by Dave Aronberg, co-host of The MK True Crime Show, and Mark Geragos and Matt Murphy, hosts of In The Well, to discuss the disturbing … Source link

By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout AIPAC funneled money into opposing a candidate who has barely mentioned Israel on the campaign trail. AIPAC has lost yet another race into which it poured millions of dollars on Thursday after California state Sen. Aisha Wahab won her special election to serve out the rest of Eric Swalwell’s term in the U.S. House of Representatives.  The Associated Press called the race on Thursday evening for Wahab, who received 53 percent of the vote compared to Democratic opponent Melissa Hernandez’s 47 percent. Wahab is the first Afghan American ever…

The Pentagon on Friday fired the publisher, the editor-in-chief, and a Middle East correspondent from Stars and Stripes, a military newspaper that receives funding from the Defense Department but maintains editorial independence. The firings have raised concerns about infringements on the publication’s First Amendment rights. In recent weeks, Stars and Stripes has reported on the mental health struggles of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, whose deployment was extended by months to support war efforts against Iran. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox A statement by Erik Slavin, the dismissed editor-in-chief, shed light on…

Battle of the Populists: MAGA vs. the DSA Source link

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations. And as a belief system which is unconcerned about Black and brown death. This July was the second warmest on record and tens of thousands of Europeans have died this summer from complications associated with exposure to extreme heat. Climate change still ranks as low as 15th on what U.S. voters consider a key issue. Some years ago , Seattle-based journalist Charles Mudede wrote a piece entitled, “The Fact is Nothing is Going to be Done About Climate…

Despite the narrow loss by Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong in the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary last week, DSA candidates have prevailed in primaries this year from Maine to California. The Democratic Party establishment believed it dodged a bullet in Wisconsin, but this threat is not going away any time soon. The roots of the radical left’s success were seeded almost a decade ago. In 2017, a writer in a Democratic Socialists of America publication laid out a strategy under a plain title: “Want to Elect Socialists? Run Them in Democratic Primaries.” The Democratic Party, the article conceded, was deeply flawed…

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history. Steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people. There is a certain comfort in the stories that empires tell about themselves. In these stories, capitalism appears as the natural flowering of European ingenuity – the product of reason, scientific discovery, technological innovation, and the thrift of industrious individuals. Colonialism and slavery, when they appear at all, are treated as regrettable episodes alongside an otherwise triumphant march towards modernity. Our…

Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir will visit Iran Monday to continue peace talks, the Iranian foreign ministry said Sunday. In June, Pakistan helped broker a framework U.S.–Iran agreement—the memorandum of understanding (MOU)—that quickly fell apart but still offers a possible off-ramp from the war. A Pakistani government source told Reuters that Munir planned to discuss recent threats of economic warfare by President Donald Trump, among other issues. “He will discuss peace under Islamabad’s MOU, Trump’s warning, and the situation after the Pakistan-Turkey-Saudi Arab Agreement and Houthi issues with Iranian leaders,” the source said. Subscribe Today Get daily emails…

Kit Klarenberg Substack Over the past two decades, hardline Ukrainian ultranationalists have waged an ever-escalating war on history at home and abroad, with dramatic, world-changing consequences. In the country itself, a highly repressive legal apparatus is increasingly enforcing dangerously skewed narratives of Kiev’s near and distant past, with excessive criminal penalties even for those who unwittingly fall foul of the law. A brazenly politicised battle, it has become turbocharged since the Ukraine proxy conflict’s eruption. Despite widespread opposition, Kiev’s aggressive ultranationalist offensive on history is only intensifying. These are the grave findings of an extraordinary paper by Ukrainian academic Georgiy Kasianov, “To…

Stephen A. Smith, the highly regarded basketball analyst, apologized to Kyrie Irving for criticizing him during the pandemic for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. “Kyrie Irving, no matter what we think, may have been more right than we have given him credit for, and unquestionably was more vilified than he deserved. And ladies and gentlemen, it starts with me,” Smith said. On July 30, after watching Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, basketball analyst Stephen A. Smith broke from his vacation to record an apology video to basketball star Kyrie Irving. Like…