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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41454969

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41454969

WASHINGTON DC, USA – In what diplomats and historians of yore dubbed the “shining city on a hill,” the United States of America now appears to be anything but. The nation is a powder keg.

Donald Trump and his administration have always known the time would come that they would have to protect one of their Immigration and Customs Enforcement goons – particularly if an agent killed an American citizen during one of their many ramped-up, hyper-militarized invasions in Democratic-led cities across the United States.

Since Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza in 2023, several nations – including Japan, Canada, France, Italy, and Spain – have moved to enact various arms embargoes against Israel. The US, which has supported, supplied, and financed Israel’s assault, could now help backfill any weapons that Israel may be missing, under the defense bill released Sunday night.

Since Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza in 2023, several nations – including Japan, Canada, France, Italy, and Spain – have moved to enact various arms embargoes against Israel. The US, which has supported, supplied, and financed Israel’s assault, could now help backfill any weapons that Israel may be missing, under the defense bill released Sunday night.

The gravity and extent of the damage being done to our constitutionally-guaranteed rights and freedoms by this administration is mind-boggling, says constitutional law professor Kim Wehle.

Under the so-called “ceasefire agreement,” for every dead Israeli handed over to Israel, Israel would, in turn, return the remains of 15 Palestinians. To date, Israel has returned some 300 Palestinians, but without providing the names of the deceased. Due to Israel’s bombing of the forensic labs, all of the identification is being done by hand, a laborious job. Israel had, of course, failed to place the bodies in refrigerators, so the bodies arrived decomposed. And also mutilated. As Palestinian bodies are brought to Gaza, their family members wait to find out whether their loved ones are among the dead, trapped under the rubble, or still held hostage in Israel.

Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.

17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

The man who targeted and killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their home in Minnesota in June was a Trump supporter.

On Wednesday, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s abuse, some of whom were speaking out for the first time, gathered on Capitol Hill with Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to rally behind the members’ push to release the Epstein Files.

Die Rationalisierung von Vertreibung und Auslöschung ist nur durch die Entmenschlichung der Unterdrückten durch die Unterdrücker möglich. Hier in der EU und in DE insbesondere ignorieren und reproduzieren wir diese Entmenschlichung unbewusst im politischen Diskurs - durch einseitige und verzerrte Betrachtungen, Cliches und aggressive Ignoranz - um uns von unserer Mitverantwortung abzulenken. Wenn wir tatsächlich Menschenwürde verteidigen wollen, dann dürfen wir diese Dynamik aber nicht ignorieren - anfangen sollten wir dort, wo aus Worten Taten wurden und werden.

JD Vance is the talk of the town over in the Cotswolds, a charming and luxurious region of England dubbed “the Hamptons of the UK.”

Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts called Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide Thursday night, making her the highest-ranking House Democratic official to do so.

Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts called Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide Thursday night, making her the highest-ranking House Democratic official to do so.

Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts called Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide Thursday night, making her the highest-ranking House Democratic official to do so.

The letter, led by a centrist Democrat, underscores how much of the party, especially the more moderate wing, is being pushed to evolve their stances as anger among Americans over Israeli settler violence and Israel's genocide in Gaza grows.

Gallego’s leadership of the letter marks another shift in moderate Democrats’ approach to Israel and Palestine. Just last week, while in Iowa, Gallego attracted criticism for an exchange he had with voters. At a public event, Gallego had said, “The people of Gaza are in this situation because Donald Trump is President.”

The letter, led by a centrist Democrat, underscores how much of the party, especially the more moderate wing, is being pushed to evolve their stances as anger among Americans over Israeli settler violence and Israel's genocide in Gaza grows.

Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul, whose family was displaced by Israel, wrote about the ‘evils’ of Zionism, prompting a flurry of attacks from Tim Kaine, Abigail Spanberger, and other party colleagues.

A leader for a contractor providing security to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site operation allegedly serves in a role in the Infidels Motorcycle Club. according to corporate records and two sources who have served as GHF contractors, including former Green Beret and 25-year veteran Anthony Aguilar.

A leader for a contractor providing security to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site operation allegedly serves in a role in the Infidels Motorcycle Club. according to corporate records and two sources who have served as GHF contractors, including former Green Beret and 25-year veteran Anthony Aguilar.

A leader for a contractor providing security to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site operation allegedly serves in a role in the Infidels Motorcycle Club. according to corporate records and two sources who have served as GHF contractors, including former Green Beret and 25-year veteran Anthony Aguilar.

Major leaders in the Democratic party – including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and NY Governor Kathy Hochul – have still refused to endorse Democratic nominee for New York Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, despite him winning the primary fair and square.

"[Zohran] Mamdani comes from a culture that lies about everything," he posted. "It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way."

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Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy on what's driving Netanyahu and why this will be a defining moment for Trump's MAGA movement.

On my first day, the second official day of the mission, we were overrun; it was pure chaos. At the aid site’s entrance gates, we had people waiting in five lanes separated by metal fencing. One lane was strictly for women and children. The other four were all men, and they were letting people in, five, 10, 20 at a time – whatever we could handle. It was not organized, and people were getting smushed and trampled. Eventually, there were so many people in the lanes that the gates burst.

On my first day, the second official day of the mission, we were overrun; it was pure chaos. At the aid site’s entrance gates, we had people waiting in five lanes separated by metal fencing. One lane was strictly for women and children. The other four were all men, and they were letting people in, five, 10, 20 at a time – whatever we could handle. It was not organized, and people were getting smushed and trampled. Eventually, there were so many people in the lanes that the gates burst.

Unfortunately the article has a hard paywall. Here’s an uploaded podcast interview.

Unfortunately the article has a hard paywall. Here’s an uploaded podcast interview.

The new Israeli-backed food distribution site in Gaza has become the scene of a series of massacres after UNRWA commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini warned that aid distribution in the region has become a “death trap.”

June 1st, we’ll attempt to, again, sail towards Gaza and to try to break the siege and open up a humanitarian corridor by delivering aid like food and medical supplies,” says Thunberg. A similar mission to sail to occupied Gaza in May was aborted after a flotilla dubbed the “Conscience” suffered two drone attacks while in international waters.

June 1st, we’ll attempt to, again, sail towards Gaza and to try to break the siege and open up a humanitarian corridor by delivering aid like food and medical supplies,” says Thunberg. A similar mission to sail to occupied Gaza in May was aborted after a flotilla dubbed the “Conscience” suffered two drone attacks while in international waters.

June 1st, we’ll attempt to, again, sail towards Gaza and to try to break the siege and open up a humanitarian corridor by delivering aid like food and medical supplies,” says Thunberg. A similar mission to sail to occupied Gaza in May was aborted after a flotilla dubbed the “Conscience” suffered two drone attacks while in international waters.

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The Israeli military is changing its story on the 2022 killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh – again.

Trump's announcement on Tuesday that the US would cease bombing the Houthis, not even two months after he foolishly escalated the cynical sea-and-air assault he inherited from the Biden administration, came as a surprise, particularly while Sanaa International Airport lay smoking on Monday from Israeli warplanes. But the year-long US campaign, from the start, lacked any theory of victory.

Last week, the streets of Brooklyn looked like those of the occupied West Bank, with pro-Israel extremists chasing, harassing, and even threatening to rape a woman they thought was part of a pro-Palestine protest, all under the watchful eye of the NYPD.

Palestinian Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi has been released from ICE detention.

JENA, Louisiana – An immigration judge in Louisiana ruled on Friday that Palestinian student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil can be deported on the basis of a letter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that says he has personally determined Khalil poses “adverse foreign policy consequences” to the US.

“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.

Khalil’s March 7 email came after an earlier Jan. 31 email he sent, in which he urged the school “to take immediate action to protect international students at Columbia facing severe and pervasive doxing, discriminatory harassment, and very possibly deportation in retaliation for the lawful exercising of their rights to freedom of speech, expression, and association…”

[I found a paywall a few pages down in article, sorry. --PL]

Prem Thakker February 11, 2025

Since Israel reluctantly signed the three-stage Gaza ceasefire deal in Doha, a slew of prominent Israeli experts have been consistently sounding the alarm that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already looking for a way to “evade the agreement”;

Surge of aid during Gaza ceasefire shows Israel could have always allowed more assistance in, aid groups say.

The Israeli government is also preventing another group of health workers from entering the enclave, as thousands of Palestinians seek treatment.

Week 1: Donald Trump signs a record number of executive actions limiting constitutional rights and freedoms, and escalates his rhetorical attacks on the press.

Trump marked being ‘dictator-for-a-day’ flanked by four of the richest people on Earth – one of whom appeared to do a Nazi salute.