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[ad_1] This morning, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Newman v. Moore. For years, I’ve thought that Chief Judge Moore is simply waiting for Judge Pauline Newman to die. There is no reason why each suspension has to last a year. The Bush appointee is waiting for the Reagan appointee’s life tenure to conclude. She even removed Newman from the ridiculous AI video. Now, alas, the Supreme Court has declined to intervene. Not a single member noted a dissent. They will just wait for this brilliant and capable jurist to expire. My immediate thought was the famous Daily News headline. Ford…

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[ad_1] The court on Monday upheld the Labour government’s terrorism proscription of Palestine Action, overriding a High Court ruling in February and setting off another round of mass arrests of protesters in London. Pro-Palestine demonstration in the U.K., June 2025. (Palestine Action) By Stephen PragerCommon DreamsA U.K. appeals court is being accused of flouting the law to allow the government to suppress free speech after it upheld a ban on the direct action group Palestine Action. Just days after four young activists with the group were hit with unprecedented “terrorism” sentences over their 2024 vandalism of an Israeli-owned weapons facility…

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[ad_1] Image by René DeAnda. In my past two columns, I made the case for the Democratic Party to take the lead in pushing for Trump’s Impeachment. The majority of people favor firing Trump and the massive number of blatant, impeachable acts by the lawless, corrupt, violent, unstable, dangerous Tyrant Trump increases by the day. If it helps the passive Democratic Party leadership, constitutional law specialists agree that were the Founding Fathers (who signed the Declaration of Independence and crafted the Constitution against would-be monarchs) here today, not one would oppose Impeachment. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer, the…

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[ad_1] An art exhibition memorializing the victims of the U.S. massacre of Iranian schoolchildren on the first day of the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran was held in Sydney. Consortium News delivers this report. Speakers: Tim Anderson, John Shipton and Joe Lauria. Editor: Cathy Vogan On Feb. 28, in the opening hours of the U.S. war of aggression against Iran, U.S. cruise missiles rained down on a school in Minab, Iran, killing 156 civilians, including 120 schoolchildren. The exhibit was organized by the Benevolent Iranian Women Association of Sydney in collaboration with the Iranian Friends of Palestine and Families for Palestine. Please…

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[ad_1] President Donald Trump told reporters in France that the U.S.-Iran peace deal announced Sunday evening was already “all signed,” as the conflict entered its 108th day on Monday. Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday morning told Good Morning America, “We already signed the deal digitally yesterday.” Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian had earlier in the day said that “the memorandum of understanding to end the war between Iran and America is scheduled to be signed on Friday,” which was the widespread expectation Sunday night and Monday morning. Trump added that the text of the memorandum of understanding would be available…

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[ad_1] Coal mine blasting, BLM lands, northern Arizona. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Exactly 50 years ago lauded University of Montana professor and historian K. Ross Toole published The Rape of the Great Plains — Northwest America, Cattle and Coal.  As he wrote: “A pitched battle is being fought over the fate of 250,000 square miles of unspoiled wilderness in Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota. In pursuit of “Project Independence” (American energy self sufficiency), powerful coal-mining and utility interests are preparing to strip mine the Northern Great Plains into a desert; impassioned citizens of these states are fighting back. The outcome…

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