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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

Now, he’s doing just that. Source link

Shannon Bosch, Edith Cowan University  The Conversation Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it’s an “outrage” the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have decided not to open a criminal investigation into the Israeli strikes that killed an Australian aid worker, Zomi Frankcom, and six of her colleagues in Gaza in April 2024. He added: It falls far short of the accountability that we expect and consistently called for on behalf of Australia. International law is clear: states are obligated to investigate alleged war crimes committed by their nationals or armed forces, or on their territory. And, if it’s appropriate, they are…

A race that Transportation Secretary Duffy has called the first IndyCar event ever held in Washington, and that organizers expect to draw more than a million spectators Source link

Juan Cole Informed Comment The Turkish government has become an ever greater thorn in the side of the expansionist, far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. On Friday, Turkish Justice Minister Akin Gurlek issued a Red Notice to Interpol asking that it help apprehend Netanyahu and one other Israeli official on Turkish charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and torture. In mid-July, Gurlek indicted Netanyahu and a colleague in Turkiye itself on those charges. Interpol does not itself issue warrants but rather implements those issued by member states. Turkiye joined in 1930, Israel in 1939. However, Interpol by its own constitution…

Long before Silicon Valley embraced Trump, Joe Lonsdale wanted to remake government and shift the nation’s approach to homelessness. Now, his friends in the White House are listening. Source link

When the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April on controversial fraud charges, the storied civil rights organization faced a major threat to its lifeblood — the flow of donor dollars. Not because it was convicted or because the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status. Not even because individual donors stopped writing checks. Instead, three Wall-Street-affiliated grantmaking giants each made a decision, one they refused to fully explain, to prevent donors from using their platforms to give to the embattled nonprofit. Vanguard Charitable, Fidelity Charitable and Charles Schwab’s DAFgiving360 sponsor donor-advised funds, offering account holders immediate…

Iran’s military posture has shifted throughout its wars with the U.S. and Israel from defensive to offensive, a spokesman for the Iranian army said in comments reported Saturday. “We will respond to any act of aggression immediately and on a broader scale than the aggression itself,” Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia told Iranian state media, clarifying that the new doctrine does not imply Tehran will launch preemptive attacks. Akraminia added that the Strait of Hormuz had become a source of “decisive geopolitical influence” for the Islamic Republic. Iran effectively closed the waterway, a critical trade chokepoint for energy, after the U.S.…

News Desk, The Cradle. Bessent said that illegal US sanctions are a replacement for a war of aggression that has failed to break Tehran. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on 20 August that Washington will likely “not restart” large-scale military operations against Iran, as the White House shifts to a campaign of maximum economic sanctions. “If we are doing the maximum economic pressure, then that means that likely there will not be a large-scale kinetic restart,” Bessent said in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk on the Street news program. Trump had announced hours earlier on Truth Social that…