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The Grayzone The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after he returned from a reporting trip to Iran. The lawsuit accuses the government of not only violating his Fourth Amendment rights, but of retaliating against him for his journalism and constitutionally protected opinions. Laura Loomer has boasted of lobbying top Trump officials to imprison Blumenthal, and effectively took credit for the seizure of his devices. Was federal law enforcement weaponized against the journalist due to pressure from an Israel-aligned smear merchant? The following article was originally posted on…

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Trita Parsi Substack It’s not about Iran. It’s the threats that an unchecked America poses to others I have been stunned by the number of officials from a wide variety of countries who, while hardly favoring Iran or feeling much empathy for the Islamic Republic, have privately expressed to me a huge sigh of relief over Tehran’s success in thwarting US-Israeli aggression. Given that many of these officials represent countries squarely in the US camp and have deep problems with the Islamic Republic, this “tacit rooting” for Iran tells us something about the state of global affairs. There is…

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 Maximillian Alvarez TRNN In her 2001 masterwork Nickel and Dimed, the late Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to report on the daily realities working people in America face trying to get by on minimum-wage. After working as a housekeeper, a nursing aide, a home cleaner, a server, and more, Ehrenreich wrote that “The first thing I discovered is that no job, no matter how lowly, is truly ‘unskilled.’” It is difficult to overstate the impact that Ehrenreich’s book and body of work have had on US culture and working-class politics over the last 25 years, and the enduring relevance of her…

I think nothing enrages Americans more than a lack of accountability from government officials. Yes, it happens often, and the public hasn’t taken up torches and pitchforks (yet), but I would point out that these incidents are cumulative and they light a growing fire within the collective memory. Eventually, people are going to snap if they don’t see action taken to rectify past wrongs. This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci faced a flurry of questions from the Senate Homeland Security Committee over his handling of the covid response as well as his involvement in the gain of function research which likely…

We managed to develop a bill that transformed welfare offices into job-finding offices. The centerpiece — replacing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families — created incentives that encouraged people to acquire the habits and skills that form the basis of independence.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

Alan Macleod MintPress News From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli special forces.  But how safe is it to entrust your life and most intimate details to agents from spying agencies with a long track record of infiltrating, surveiling, and blackmailing foreign targets?  MintPress explores how Israeli security took over Hollywood and the world.  In High Demand Israeli Secret Service agents do not die or fade away, writes The New York Post. Instead, they move to Hollywood.…

So far, Trump has responded with a mixture of half-hearted persuasion, denial and threatening bluster. Source link

Tensions soar between Tel Aviv and Ankara over their designs on Syria; would Trump nuke Iran? And the killing goes on in Ukraine and Gaza. Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, 8pm Tonite. Guests: Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vogan A Grok egendered image prompted by Consortium News in which Grok covered up Israeli aggression by removing its name from the map. We added it to the final image above.   Please Donate toCN’s SummerFund Drive! Source link