Belgian MP: Europe must leave NATO or face total collapse
“I do not think the European Union will survive if they continue to run after Donald Trump, to continue to have this relationship inside NATO.”
Revulsion at Israel is changing everything, w/ Susan Abulhawa
It’s been over a thousand days since Israel began its livestreamed genocide in Gaza, and global politics is still shifting as a result.
Iran ceasefire ‘over’ – but even MAGA wants war to end
“Once the Lebanon war wasn’t enough, they created a new route in Hormuz.”
How to beat AIPAC money: New York’s democratic-socialist upset | w/ Claire Valdez
“The writing is on the wall. It should be apparent at this point to the Democratic party leadership that AIPAC is toxic, that funding for Israel is deeply unpopular from among the base and that changes need to happen.”
Regime change failed: millions mourn Iran’s Supreme Leader
“They thought it would be a cakewalk, that ‘We’re going to come from the sky with our bombs!’”
‘Mass murder by policy’: Abby Martin on the US war on Cuba
“This is mass murder by policy. And the world has spoken several times over that this is an egregious crime against humanity, to punish 11 million people on a peaceful island that has done nothing but try to advance humanity.”
What they don’t teach you about July 4th | Rania Khalek & Zoe Alexandra
Trump’s America 250: “a cultish level of fascistic exceptionalism.”
Immigration terror for profit: inside the private prison cartel
“ICE’s budget is bigger than the Justice Department, including the FBI, and all other federal law enforcement agencies combined — and larger than most militaries in the world except for around the top ten… Congress gave $75 billion to ICE last year— then another $70 billion to ICE and CBP this year — with no restrictions. A blank check.”
And private prison companies are cashing it, according to Jesse Franzblau, Associate Director of Policy with the National Immigrant Justice Center. With the US Supreme Court ruling Trump can end TPS protections for more than 350,000 immigrants from Haiti and Syria, the Temporary Protected Status program looks set to die by year’s end without legal intervention.
The deportation machine is a business, and business is booming: Jesse explains why we should still be very concerned about SCOTUS’ end-of-term ruling on birthright citizenship, and what the private companies and contractors behind the US immigrant detention industrial complex stand to gain as hundreds of thousands of people are made more vulnerable to deportation by this latest blow to TPS.”