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No wonder Pres Trump dislikes the SPLC ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center
www.splcenter.org

... The SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people. ...


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... French Rafale fighters were deployed from a Lithuanian air base where they are stationed as part of a decades-long NATO air-policing effort. The fighters armed with air-to-air missiles joined jets from Sweden, Finland, Poland, Denmark and Romania. They all took to the skies to inspect and keep watch on the Russian flight, the French detachment said.

The Russian mission included two supersonic Tu-22M3s, as well as about 10 fighters " both Su-30s and Su-35s " that took turns escorting the larger strategic bombers, according to the statement.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the long-range bombers' flight was scheduled and occurred in airspace over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. The flight took more than four hours, the ministry said Monday on Telegram.

"At certain stages of the route, the long-range bombers were accompanied by fighters of foreign states," the ministry said. "Crews of long-range aviation regularly conduct flights over the neutral waters of the Arctic, the North Atlantic, the Pacific Ocean, as well as the Baltic and Black Seas. All flights of Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft are carried out in strict compliance with international rules for the use of airspace." ...

NATO's Allied Air Command also did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

The military alliance routinely scrambles fighter aircraft to intercept Russian warplanes that approach or fly near NATO airspace. NATO says the Russian planes it intercepts often fail to use their transponders and don't communicate with air traffic controllers or file a flight plan. NATO jets are sent up to identify them. ...


In Iran, the regime has indeed changed: It's less restrained, more hard-line
www.csmonitor.com

... Every night, thousands of fervent, flag-waving supporters of Iran's Islamic Republic take to the streets to vent vitriolic rage at their American and Israeli attackers.

They celebrate surviving 40 days of war, a fragile ceasefire, and now negotiations in which they believe Iran has the upper hand.

The chants also herald another change: The ascendance of a new hard-line cadre of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has stepped up as the United States and Israel have assassinated scores of senior military and political figures, including the longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

U.S. President Donald Trump, invoking an initial and oft-cited war aim, says he has achieved "regime change" in Iran, and that the new leaders are "less radical and much more reasonable" than before.

But analysts say the decapitation campaign has, instead, enabled the rise of the most hard-line elements of the IRGC, which now feel freshly emboldened and less willing to compromise to end the war. ...


George "Dubya" Bush's Global War on Islam (GWOT) and bombing countries never really stopped, did it?


The only POTUS who never ordered one bombing or airstrike?

Jimmy Carter.

No shots were fired under his watch, which is what he was most proud of.

Iran's Foreign Minister Says US Blockade of Iranian Ports Is an 'Act of War'
www.usnews.com

... Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports was an "act of war" and thus a violation of the ceasefire.

"Iran knows how to neutralize restrictions, how to defend its interests, and how to resist bullying," he said in a post on X on Tuesday. ...


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