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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 12:04

Max Blumenthal tours Iran’s aerospace park and gets an inside look at the country’s missile, drone, air defense and space program, and what its development means for US-Iranian negotiations.

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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 11:55

Max Blumenthal meets Professor Mohammed Marandi in Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra war martyr’s cemetery and visits the graves of friends Marandi lost during Iran’s eight year-long war with Iraq. Marandi explains what he thinks Iran is fighting for, why he believes the US is ultimately responsible for filling up the cemetery, and addresses his country’s situation as it is faced with the threat of a new war. Video produced by Ahmad Saadaldin.

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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 09:30

“Republicans advance bill with steep cuts to Medicaid as part of Trump agenda.” —The Hill

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Quit complaining about Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid. If you all stopped whining that low- and middle-income people deserve quality health care, you’d notice there are plenty of ways to accumulate enough money to afford health insurance yourself. Have you welfare queens even considered becoming actual queens? Once you’re in charge, you can leverage your position to make loads of money. Just pull yourself up by the bootstraps you acquired by abusing your power.

People these days don’t have enough get-up-and-go. One little setback and they’re dependent on Medicaid forever. Instead, when life hands you lemons, demand that it also hand you a $400 million jet in exchange for unnamed future political favors.

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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 03:35

“The first group of White South African refugees arrived in the U.S. on Monday under President Trump’s executive order mandating they be prioritized for resettlement—even as the broader refugee program remains largely on hold.”
NPR

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1. Are you a victim of racial discrimination?
A. Yes
B. Yes, in the sense that the systemic advantages my people used to enjoy have been chipped away at somewhat in recent years

2. Do you own Birkenstocks?
A. No
B. Yes

3. Is there currently a genocide against people of your race, religion, or culture?
A. Yes
B. Yes, in the sense that we are no longer allowed to take land away from other people whenever we want to, which is basically just as bad

4. Is rice a crucial staple in your cuisine?
A. Yes
B. No

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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 00:14
Den humanitära situationen är nu akut i Gaza. Värre än någonsin under det här kriget. Bristen på mat, vatten och mediciner uppskattades redan för några månader sedan innebära att 9 000 barn behövde behandling mot undernäring, 2 000 hade behov av akut vård. Sedan dess har situationen förvärrats ytterligare. Antalet akut undernärda barn beräknas ha […]
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Thu, 15/05/2025 - 23:32

I remember the phrase from my boyhood, listening to baseball games on the old wooden radio by my bed. A major hitter would be up and — bang! — he’d connect with the ball in a big-time fashion. The announcer in a rising voice would then say dramatically: “It’s going, going, gone!” It was a phrase connected to success of the first order. It was Duke Snider or Mickey Mantle hitting a homer. It was a winner all the way around the bases. Today, though no one may say it anymore, somewhere deep inside my mind I can still hear it. But now, at least for me, it’s connected to another kind of hitter entirely and another kind of reality... Read more

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