We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Aresolution to rein in the U.S.’s war on Iran failed the House by one vote on Thursday, with only one Democrat voting against the legislation.
House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Gregory Meeks’s (D-New York) war powers resolution failed 214 to 213, in a largely party line vote. Conservative Democrat Rep. Jared Golden (Maine) was the only Democrat to join most Republicans in voting no on the effort.
... full articleWhen (people) go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor’s will and call it peace.
Soy hincha del Real Madrid desde 1977. Seguiré siéndolo, pero desde que echaron a Xabi Alonso, añadido a lo cansino y falso que es la propaganda de Don Florentino y sus súbditos contra los árbitros en el fútbol español, no he visto ningún partido del RMCF. He escuchado por radio los despropósitos de Arbeloa, Vinicius, Mbappé, Rüdiger y otros, y me ha entusiasmado escuchar las descripciones de las hazañas de Valverde y Güller, ppero no he visto ni un segundo de un Real Madrid que da vergüenza ajena desde que se fue Alonso. Horrible todo, un asco total. No valen tantas idioteces, el hincha no merece tanta bajeza. Si dimite Florentino, volveré a ver jugar a un club que he seguido durante casi 50 años. Ya está bien, carajo.
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Democratic senators overwhelmingly voted to block bomb and bulldozer sales to Israel on Wednesday, in a reflection of the Jewish state’s plummeting stock among party rank-and-file and growing anger over the war with Iran.
The Democratic votes on the pair of resolutions from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., were not enough to overcome universal opposition from Republicans.
Still, the votes represented a watershed moment in the party’s relationship with Israel and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel had continued to enjoy strong support from Democratic leaders, despite outrage from the base over the war on Gaza. Sanders said the votes signaled that party leaders are finally taking note.
... full articleWe attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
Just over a month has passed since the first missiles of Operation Epic Fury killed, on the very first day, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, 150 schoolgirls and school staff, and most of Iran’s military (40) and political leadership and days since a precarious ceasefire went into effect. The attacks have not only destroyed vital infrastructure in the Middle East, particularly in Iran, but have also completely shattered hopes for coordination and the common defense of sovereignty in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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