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[ad_1] As the agriculture sector continues to feel the pain of President Donald Trump’s trade policies and the illegal war in Iran, Washington is bailing out cotton farmers.  On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the Great American Cotton Plan, a protectionist initiative to subsidize American cotton farmers. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the plan is necessary to help domestic growers who are being “crushed by rising costs, unfair foreign competition, and a flood of cheap synthetic products.” To that end, the USDA will distribute $16 million annually to cotton farmers through the Pima Agriculture Cotton Trust Fund,…

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[ad_1] News Desk, The Cradle. Support for Israel now viewed as ‘toxic’. Only 13 percent of Democratic voters in the US view Israel favorably, making support from the lobbying group AIPAC a liability. The pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has begun hiding its involvement in funding political campaigns for candidates running for public office in the US, as support for Israel becomes increasingly toxic among Democratic voters, Haaretz reported on 31 May. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has traditionally boasted of its success in helping elect candidates for Congress and the Senate who are committed to supporting Israel, including voting to provide…

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[ad_1] A ceasefire is supposed to lower the temperature, not provide new vocabulary for the same war. We unpack reports that the U.S. bombed targets in Iran after a ceasefire and why calling it “self-defense” can still function as a direct escalation. I walk through what those strikes signal, how each side tries to define the rules midstream, and why Iran may tolerate only so many “limited” hits before choosing a bigger response. From there, we get specific about the hard constraints behind the headlines: weapons stockpiles, interceptor burn rates, and how long it can take to replace key munitions.…

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[ad_1] Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences. By Chris HedgesThe Chris Hedges Report In the United States, but also around the world, fascism is on the rise again, similar to what occurred in Germany and Italy after World War I.  Its foot soldiers in the U.S. include right-wing extremists who enter the military, where they are welcomed and encouraged, for empowerment and training. The current Trump administration includes Christian Nationalists, such as Pete…

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[ad_1] Joshua Scheer Donald Trump may have delivered the most honest assessment of the Iran War yet — entirely by accident. In an interview conducted not by a journalist but by his daughter-in-law on Fox News, Trump stumbled into a confession that cuts through months of White House triumphalism, media cheerleading, and endless declarations of victory. After boasting that Iran’s navy was “100% gone,” its air force was “100% gone,” and that the United States had effectively defeated the country militarily, Trump casually admitted something extraordinary: “We should not have been in Iran.” There it was. Buried beneath the…

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