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Labour members should organise within Constituency Labour Parties and trade union branches to pass motions in support of migrants and bring these into effect by mobilising for solidarity actions on our streets and in our workplaces
ICYMI Wednesday I took a little license in the title. Here’s what you may have missed (NYT): More than 100 former national security officials from Republican administrations and former Republican members of Congress endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday after concluding that their party’s nominee, Donald J. Trump, is “unfit to serve again as president.” […] The 111 signatories included former officials who served under Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush. Many of them had previously broken with Mr. Trump, including two former defense secretaries, Chuck Hagel and William S. Cohen; Robert B. Zoellick, a former president of the World Bank; the former C.I.A. directors Michael V. Hayden and William H. Webster; a former director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte; and former Gov. William F. Weld of Massachusetts. Miles Taylor and Olivia Troye, two Trump administration officials who became vocal critics, also signed. Here’s the link.
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter warns that Israel is unraveling from within after its latest attack on Lebanon, as its military weakens and society fractures.
The post Scott Ritter: Israel’s Collapse is Imminent Amid Escalation in Lebanon appeared first on MintPress News.
Once upon a time in America, we could all argue about whether or not U.S. global power was declining. Now, most observers have little doubt that the end is just a matter of timing and circumstance. Ten years ago, I predicted that, by 2025, it would be all over for American power, a then-controversial comment that’s commonplace today. Under President Donald Trump, the once “indispensable nation” that won World War II and built a new world order has become dispensable indeed. The decline and fall of American global power is, of course, nothing special in the great sweep of history. After all, in the 4,000 years since humanity’s first empire formed in the Fertile Crescent, at least 200 empires have... Read more
Source: What Does It Take to Destroy a World Order? appeared first on TomDispatch.com.
A shadowy Hungarian firm is at the center of Israel’s lethal pager explosions in Lebanon. With 26 dead, the incident highlights Israel’s covert operations and foreign involvement in the Middle East conflict.
The post Israel’s Lebanon Attack: Hungarian Shell Company Linked to Deadly Pager Blasts appeared first on MintPress News.
The movement counts among its ranks many disillusioned Arab and Muslim voters in the key swing state of Michigan.
The post Kamala Harris Refused to Meet With Uncommitted About Gaza — and Uncommitted Refused to Endorse Her appeared first on The Intercept.
In a sane world Board of elections officials and supervisors take oaths before starting their public service jobs, both in my state and in Georgia. Here’s Georgia Code § 21-2-70: (B) In the case of a board of elections, each member of the board shall take an oath in the following form upon becoming a member of the board which shall apply to all primaries and elections conducted by the board throughout such person’s tenure on the board: I, __________________, do swear (or affirm) that I will as a member of the board of elections duly attend all ensuing primaries and elections during the continuance thereof, that I will to the best of my ability prevent any fraud, deceit, or abuse in carrying on the same, that I will make a true and perfect return of such primaries and elections, and that I will at all times truly, impartially, and faithfully perform my duties in accordance with Georgia laws to the best of my judgment and ability. Now, like the presidential oath (Article II, Section 1, Clause 8) and the Foreign Emoluments Clause (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8), try enforcing it.
Sean Görman works as the villainous “Manager of Champions” in New England Championship Wrestling. A graduate of Emerson College’s creative writing program, he’s the author of wrestling memoir Until We’re Strangers Again and numerous articles and essays about wrestling.
Experts on international law pointed to the indiscriminate nature of the blasts in Lebanon and the prohibition on booby traps.
The post Paging The Hague: Israel’s Exploding Electronics Might Be War Crimes appeared first on The Intercept.
Experts on international law pointed to the indiscriminate nature of the blasts in Lebanon and the prohibition on booby traps.
The post Paging The Hague: Israel’s Exploding Electronics Might Be War Crimes appeared first on The Intercept.
The vocabulary of grief is never complete.
THE STRAIGHTFORWARD TITLE: The Condiments Aisle 2
THE FOREBODING ROMAN TITLE: The Condiments Aisle, Part II
THE PUNNY TITLE: The Secondiments Aisle
THE PUNNY TITLE THAT’S OVERDOING IT: The Condiments Aisle 2: Come What Mayo
THE REDUNDANT TITLE: The Condiments Aisle 2: The Next Chapter
THE “ANGLING FOR AWARDS” TITLE: The Condiments Aisle 2: The Willow Weeps
As funerals were held for the dead and the wounded filled hospitals, social media and the international press buzzed with the alarming question: Could smartphones be next?
The draft programme for government, titled ‘Our Plan: Doing What Matters Most’ drops long-standing proposals to address poverty, transform health, and advance environmental protections.
For a lover of Soviet avant-garde art, In The Eye Of The Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930 is a tipping moment of a few realisations, that started around the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022. The exciting and pioneering art coming out of Soviet Empire in the 1920s and 1930s has been Russified for a […]
New cross-party campaign aims to increase the number of MPs from working-class backgrounds, challenging the dominance of legal and lobbying professions in politics
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So far, no one has been able to hold the notorious Israeli spyware firm accountable for complicity in human rights abuses.
The post These Human Rights Defenders Were Hacked by Pegasus. Now They Want Police to Charge the Spyware Maker. appeared first on The Intercept.
. Timeless masterpiece