This is what moral courage sounds like. Read more
The chief constable of Hampshire police has apologised to the family of Henry Nowak for the student being handcuffed and arrested as he lay dying. Read more
Tensions in the Middle East heated up on Wednesday after Iran attacked Kuwait and Bahrain following the latest U.S. strikes against the Islamic Republic, further testing a fragile ceasefire as President Donald Trump said talks to end the war are progressing.
An Iranian attack damaged Kuwait's main airport, killing one and injuring more than 60 people, according to Kuwaiti authorities.
U.S. Central Command said American forces "successfully defeated" Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting Bahrain and civilian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
None of those attacks hit their targets, CENCOM said.
As we reported, this morning, during a massive attack on St. Petersburg, Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles hit the Russian corvette "Boykiy" located at the naval base in Kronstadt. Read more
We cannot outsource components of our national security to nations that do not share our interests and that is exactly what this proposed scheme would do
The war against Iran may have resulted in some tactical victories for Israel and the United States on the battlefield, but Israel is not winning American public opinion and neither are those American leaders who ardently support it. Read more
SpaceX is expected to start trading on the Nasdaq in just over two weeks, but Morningstar analysts have warned that Elon Musk's tech behemoth is "significantly overvalued." The hotly-anticipated debut is expected to be the largest ever initial public offering, with SpaceX reportedly targeting a $75 billion fundraise and a valuation of $1.75 trillion. "We think the company has been significantly overvalued and investors will have opportunities to buy the stock at more attractive levels after the IPO," Morningstar analysts wrote in a note published Monday.
The Pentagon has appointed a rioter convicted for his role in 6 January, 2021 insurrection to a sensitive national security role dealing with counterterrorism, overriding insiders' concerns about his past record.
Elias Irizarry, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection with the storming of the US Capitol, has been appointed to a position in the US Department of Defense's special operations and low intensity conflict office which manages highly classified military operations, causing alarm among Pentagon officials.
The story was first reported by the Washington Post, which published a picture of Irizzary " holding what appeared to be a metal pole and wearing a pro-Donald Trump Make America Great Again (Maga) hat " looking over a wall on the day of the riot.
The eclipse that will darken the sky and have a historic duration will not be seen again for more than 156 years. The total solar eclipse will last the longest (4-6 minutes) in the southern Spain and parts of Northern Africa.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue conducting war crimes funded with American taxpayer funds by attacking hospitals in Lebanon. The IDF claimed that they weren't directly attacking the hospitals as such, but rather were attacking "terror infrastructure" and the medical facilities "happened to be in the way during the attacks."
IDF looting, outrages, and blasphemies continue in Lebanon, all funded by American taxpayer dollars
White supremacist Adan Hernandez-Mayoral (24) threw his life away after being sentenced in federal court to 54 months confinement for brutally attacking a woman of color on a bus in Kent, Washington. On 7 March 2024, the miscreant boarded a metro bus and began antagonizing the victim, calling her "Rosa Parks," and ordered her to move to the back of the bus, yelling "I don't like Black people, f***in' hate 'em," before savagely attacking the helpless woman.
How this 24-year-old violent doofus even heard of American heroine Rosa Parks is anyone's guess
Nine African teenagers who gang raped a 14-year-old girl three times in Belgium have all been spared jail, with seven getting just 30 hours of community service. Read more
A bed bug infestation at an Agriculture Department building is riling agency staff, reigniting frustrations over remote work policy and making at least some employees sick. The bugs were found in the building that houses the Animal and Plant Inspection Service, the agency responsible for containing and mitigating the spread of invasive pests in the U.S. The irony, one USDA employee said, "was lost on no one." The George Washington Carver Center in Beltsville, Maryland, first notified employees of the situation in mid-May, according to five employees familiar with the matter and a transcript of a town hall meeting obtained by NOTUS. The department opted to send employees home and allow them to telework for a few days to fumigate the building.
George Santos, the former lawmaker who lied about his background, got expelled from Congress, and then became a convicted fraudster, is reportedly being investigated for insider trading. The probe, NPR reported on Tuesday, centers on Santos' comments about February's State of the Union address and his alleged bets on Kalshi, a prediction market website. On February 23, a day before Donald Trump's address to Congress, Santos posted a video on X in which he said he would attend. The odds on Kalshi that Santos would show up subsequently rose and remained relatively high. Its peak was 76 cents"meaning a wager of that amount would win $1. A "no" bet of 24 cents would thus carry much more value.
President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency cuts are hitting the state of Texas hard, as a long-controlled pest is threatening to resurge and decimate the livestock industry. The New World screwworm, the larval stage of a parasitic fly known for laying eggs inside livestock animals and letting the maggots chew their way out, could cause massive damage to cattle herds. In the past, the U.S. managed to work together with Mexico to drive back screwworms, but they have been expanding their territory recently. Attorney Blake Allen weighed in on the matter: "Screwworms coming back into the U.S. cattle herd/stock is going to potentially devastate the industry and jack up meat prices. Worst part is, this was preventable. Trump & DOGE pushed funding cuts on/destroyed agencies that were directly responsible for fighting this pest."
The psychosis of permanent war results, as it has in the U.S., in the curtailing of civil liberties and punishing economic austerity. Dissent is equated with treason. State power serves the dictates of empire rather than democracy, which devolves into farce, or in our case, a tawdry reality show.
The rollback of the New Deal, the closest we came to a social democracy, began in the mid-1940s. Cold War anti-communism and corporate opposition converged to make war on organized labor and the New Deal left.
This assault culminated in the Second Red Scare.
Israeli police unleashed the locusts on ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting mandatory military service in the IDF. Tens of thousands joined the demonstrations, as police used water cannon, stun grenades, and horses to disperse crowds. In the video you can see an Israeli mounted police officer's horse trampling one of the Haredim.
Undeclared Civil War Erupting in Israel
