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[ad_1] Last November, six members of Congress, all Democrats, posted a video that reminded U.S. military personnel of their duty to “refuse illegal orders.” That well-established principle, which is reflected in the Defense Department’s Law of War Manual, is legally uncontroversial. And as a federal judge later noted, the video was “unquestionably protected” by the First Amendment. President Donald Trump nevertheless insisted that the legislators had committed a grave crime. “It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” He added that “their…
[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair President Donald Trump has brazenly engaged in what appears to be insider trading. A bombshell story published in Bloomberg on May 14, 2026, revealed that Trump made thousands of stock trades in the first quarter of this year with companies connected to the government. This isn’t fake news. Bloomberg analyzed publicly available information from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics regarding Trump’s financial disclosures—information that Trump was forced to divulge because of a government regulation called the STOCK Act. Bloomberg summarized its findings, stating that “President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that he or his investment advisers made more than…
[ad_1] Workers’ World. Please join the global appeal to organizations to endorse the Palestinian refugees’ call to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the enforcement of U.N. Resolution 194 pursuant to Article 15 of the Rome Statute Concerning the Ongoing Denial of the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees by signing the following petition. We, the undersigned, call upon the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC to initiate an investigation pursuant to Article 15 of the Rome Statute into the ongoing crimes associated with the forced displacement of the Palestinian people and the systematic denial of their right to…
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[ad_1] By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout The judge’s ruling rejected a request to end the prison’s use of grueling farm labor as a disciplinary measure. In a ruling that is notably silent on Louisiana’s history of slavery and white supremacy, a federal judge sided with the Louisiana State Penitentiary on May 26, rejecting a request to end the prison’s notorious practice of forcing groups of predominately Black prisoners to perform grueling farm labor on the grounds of a former slave plantation. Commonly known as Angola, named after a plantation which itself was named after the…
[ad_1] Photograph Source: Saqib Qayyum – CC BY-SA 3.0 Today’s cities are hotbeds of inequality. Urban real estate is one of the most expensive kinds of land in the world. It attracts billionaires looking to store their wealth and hedge funds looking to garner predictable returns: New York’s avenues, Paris’s thoroughfares, and Dubai’s dazzling skyscrapers are great at making the rich richer. But they raise the cost of urban life for everyone else. And yet, plenty of people who are not rich flock to cities, driving the ongoing expansion of urbanism across the globe. In the 21st century, humans became…
[ad_1] Jake Johnson for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s decision last year to withdraw the US from a global effort to rein in corporate tax-dodging has allowed major American companies to avoid at least $40 billion in income taxes, a significant win for profitable business at a time when working class families are struggling with higher costs and stagnant pay. The New York Times, citing securities filings, reported Friday that American Express, Paypal, Pepsi, and other major US-based corporations “avoided taxes by attributing hundreds of billions of dollars in earnings to low- or no-tax foreign locales like Cyprus, Bermuda, Switzerland, and the Cayman Islands.” The Times noted…
[ad_1] The US wants to rehabilitate its “post-war” economy. Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert. President Trump’s visit to China raised several questions among international analysts. Some believe Trump was trying to pressure China on the Iranian issue. Other experts, however, believe that Trump acted out of desperation, trying to reach a mutual understanding with his Chinese counterpart to save the American economy. In a recent interview, geopolitical analyst Danny Haiphong stated that Trump attempted to alleviate the pressure on the American economy – generated by the illegal war…
[ad_1] Robin Andersen The New York Times attempted to ‘balance’ Nicholas Kristof’s documentation of the systematic rape of Palestinians by Israeli forces with yet another unverified rape ‘investigation’ claiming that Hamas had weaponized sexual violence on October 7. It was written by the paper’s pro-Israel Jerusalem-based reporter, Isabel Kershner. Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times Op-ed piece titled The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians, published on May 11, was based on documentation and grueling victim testimonies of rapes that Palestinians have experienced at the hands of Israeli security forces. Brutal and sadistic acts of sexual torture are described…
[ad_1] You are invited to speak to a large auditorium of people. Which of the following audiences would you prefer to address for an extended talk and question and answer session? Two thousand people nearly all of whom would describe themselves like you describe yourself—or 2,000 who would describe themselves as uninvolved or as Trump voters or even MAGA members? How should one even think about such a choice? For example, whatever size audience you would prefer, suppose they are nearly all largely with you. In that case, what might you say to them? Might you prefer to say things…