Trump is threatening to remove about 5000 troops from Germany, and threatening to do something similar in Spain, Italy and other European countries where the US has bases and Trump does not like their governments’ positions on his and Netanyahu’s war of choice on Iran. Why stop there? Trump does not own those countries. European leaders should request that all US troops leave their countries, as well as leave Greenland, and that US bases in those places be closed.
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In the six months since a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, more than 800 civilians have been killed and living conditions have remained dire. Meanwhile, Palestinians in the West Bank face a surge in violence from Israeli settlers and soldiers. While the world’s attention has turned to the war in Iran, is there any end to the suffering in sight? Annie Kelly speaks to the Guardian’s chief Middle East correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison
... full articleThe more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
“One of the greatest cures for despair and depression is to do something, and to do something with the people who care,” says Rebecca Solnit. In this episode of Movement Memos, host Kelly Hayes talks with Solnit about hope, backlash, political memory, and why history can help us understand our own power. Their conversation explores feminism, climate grief, authoritarianism, misogyny, interdependence, and why the right’s push to roll back hard-won freedoms is also a reaction to how much movements have already changed the world.
... full articleTo disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
Sixty years ago, opposition to America’s war in Vietnam, a major attack concerned the costs of diverting U.S. resources away from social spending to the military, what was called Guns and Butter.
I was the junior member of the Columbia University triumvirate headed by Seymour Melman and Terence McCarthy. We lectured widely, wrote in magazines such as Ramparts and newspapers. The New York Tribune still existed as an alternative to The New York Times, and regularly published our critiques in its interviews and on its editorial pages.
... full articleI have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Accounts by U.S. soldiers who survived a deadly strike by Iran in Kuwait that contradicted the Pentagon’s narrative are “falsehoods,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suggested in a contentious hearing in the House on Wednesday.
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-New York) asked Hegseth about a CBS report finding that soldiers were commanded to relocate to the U.S. base at a hub in the Port of Shuaiba about a week before the U.S. and Israel launched the war, despite officers knowing that it would be a likely target for retaliatory strikes. Indeed, on the first full day of the war, Iran struck the facility, leaving six soldiers dead and over 20 wounded.
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