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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

-Benjamin Franklin

Neera Tanden

March 11, 2026

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

-Leonardo da Vinci

Gutting Discrimination Enforcement in Education: What Could Go Wrong?

by Mike Ervin © The Progressive
March 11, 2026

Inever knew, until now, that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is just another one of those mouthpiece organizations for radical leftist terrorists. But that must be the case, because the squatter currently occupying the White House says that radical leftist terrorists are the only ones who dare to question anything he does. And the GAO is questioning how the squatter has gone about dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.

In February, the GAO, which “examines how taxpayer dollars are spent and provides Congress and federal agencies with objective, nonpartisan, fact-based information to help the government save money and work more efficiently,” issued a very scary report about the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR).

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Palestinian Citizen of Israel Jailed for Criticism of the War on Iran

Yarden Azoulay Katz © Counterpunch
March 12, 2026

Earlier this month (March 2), Israeli police arrested and jailed Majd Asadi, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, on charges of “incitement” and support for “terrorism.” Asadi is an opera singer and activist from Daliyat al-Karmel, a town in northern ’48 Palestine. He had written a Facebook post critical of the US-Israeli war on Iran. It appeared after Israel, aided by the CIA, assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, also killing his daughter and grandchild.

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

-George Orwell

Palestinians in Gaza Slam Kushner’s Reconstruction Plan as Disguised Theft

By Hend Salama Abo Helow, © Truthout
March 11, 2026

Coastal tourism sites, 180 gleaming skyscrapers, business and industrial centers, new urban cities, more than 100,000 housing units, over 200 schools, more than 75 medical facilities, and a colossal number of job opportunities. This is Jared Kushner’s futuristic master plan for Gaza.

Kushner — Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former U.S. special envoy — presented his master plan in Davos at the World Economic Forum in the form of a computer-generated, color-coded map of what he described as a “new Gaza.”

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