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Thursday, February 12, 2026

"Recent US-Russian talks about ending Moscow's war on Ukraine should not be taken as a sign that Russia poses less of a threat to the US and Europe. Despite this illusory thaw, Russia continues to regard the US as its principal global adversary."

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US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is endorsing over a dozen candidates for the mid-term elections which will be held on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

ICE plans to have a presence at the FIFA 2026 World Cup this summer, bleated acting director Todd Lyons. Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and ICE's actions have fueled international backlash that could affect how global fans, teams, and governments engage with the World Cup." read more


Florida handyman Andrew Paul Johnson who received a pardon from President Trump for attacking the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021 has been convicted of multiple state charges of child molestation and exposing himself to children.

Andrew Paul Johnson Used Bullhorn to Lead Attackers on 6 Jan 2021


Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians. read more


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The first Jesuit pope in Vatican history was looking forward to meeting with "Genocide Joe" in Rome in January 2025. Joe Biden wanted to present His Holiness with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his last official trip as POTUS. The California wildfires precluded President Biden from attending, so he awarded the medal to the pontiff by phone.

Good thing.

Many Vatican observers knew the Pontiff was going to give the second Catholic POTUS in US history an earful (behind closed doors, of course) about America's disgraceful support for Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank.

Don't believe Coriolanus?

Don't care.

Link: Pope Francis and Gaza Genocide

The parallels between the 1968 and 2024 POTUS elections are manifest, including both Tuesdays falling on 5 Nov, both DNCs holding conventions in Chicago, and both DNC conventions shutting out antiwar Samaritans. We can blame the anti-communist jingoists and the military-industrial complex cronies for that in 1968 and AIPAC Islamophobes in 2024.

Be that as it may, three candidates ran in 1968: Richard Nixon (R), Hubert Humphrey (D), and single-issue segregationist George Wallace (AIP). His racist American Independent Party (AIP) won 9.9m votes and a few Electoral College states.

In 1968, there was no political avenue for antiwar Samaritans with these three candidates, so in good conscience they stayed home.

Similarly, between Dummkopf Trumpf and Kamala Harris, who both supported Israel's pogrom against the Palestinians and POTUS Joe Biden who was labeled "Genocide Joe," there was no political avenue for antiwar Samaritans in 2024, so in good conscience they stayed home.

They didn't waste their time with Green Party candidate Dr Jill Stein who received a meager ~640,000 votes nationwide.

The answer to our binary system is to make AIPAC a single issue third party, like George Wallace did in 1968 with the AIP.

Instead of AIPAC funding candidates from both parties with billions of dollars in dark money, like betting on every horse in every race, they should become a political party unto itself in broad daylight under the powerful antiseptic power of the sun.

This way American voters have three choices on Election Day: Conservative Republicans, Progressive Democrats, or the single-issue America-Israel Party (AIP, like George Wallace's 1968 party).

America first, right Fellow Travelers?

In 2016 a woman won the popular vote over a man in the presidential election.

The numbers on Tuesday 8 Nov 2016:

Dummkopf Trumpf (male): 62,984,828 (46.1%)

Hillary Clinton (female): 65,853,514 (48.2%)

Hillary Clinton was cheated of her victory by the anachronistic Electoral College system which was designed to keep the status quo in power, as well as Russian interference and James Comey's unwise comments about her personal OPSEC procedures.

Michelle Obama: "Don't ask about me running for Prez because you (we) the Electoral College system isn't ready to have a woman President."

BTW: Democrats historically do better at national elections during peacetime.

Woodrow Wilson (1916) and FDR (1940) won their elections before entering the global conflagrations raging around them. After Woodrow Wilson won, he could decide how to steer the country. When he was advised that a British loss would cost American banks billions of dollars because of loans to their banks that the Kaiser would never honor being repaid, Wilson started tilting isolationist America toward the Allies for the sake of those mega-banks and the US economy

In 1944, more Servicemen identified as Democrats than Republicans and the US kept the course with FDR against fascism.

Look at all the presidential elections from 1948 to 2024.

LBJ knew VPOTUS Hubert Humphrey was going to lose weeks before Tuesday 5 Nov 1968 because of the Vietnam War (Source: Phone transcripts released from archives).

LBJ himself didn't want to run again, which he announced on national TV on 31 March 1968, two months after this atrocity was perpetrated on 1 Feb 1968 and the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo went viral:


The antiwar movement in the US is as old as the American Revolution.

With progressive candidates on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026, the Democratic Party can recapture the millions of pacifist voters they lost on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024 (6,265,888).

We can oust the Republicans, warmongers, antisemites, fascists, Islamophobes, and status quo dinosaurs this year by enlarging the "Big Tent" once again like we did on Tuesday 3 Nov 2020.


But candidates that receive AIPAC money or support ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank won't get the support of these millions of voters in future elections.


About Face (formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War)
America First Committee " opposed American entry into the Second World War
American League Against War and Fascism
American Peace Mobilization
American Peace Society
American Writers Against the Vietnam War
A.N.S.W.E.R. (also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition)
Another Mother For Peace[9]
Anti-War Committee
Antiwar.com
Buffalo Nine
Campus Antiwar Network
Committee for Non-Violent Action (later merged with the War Resisters League)
Committee for Nonviolent Revolution
Center on Conscience & War (formerly known as NISBCO)
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
Council for a Livable World
Council for the National Interest
Code Pink: Women for Peace
Common Dreams
Direct Action to Stop the War
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Gay Liberation Network
GI Rights Network
Gold Star Families for Peace
Grandmothers for Peace
Iraq Peace Action Coalition
LewRockwell.com
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Military Families Speak Out opposed to war in Iraq
Mennonite Central Committee
Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
New York Peace Society " first peace society in U.S., opposed 19th and 20th century wars
No Conscription League
Not in Our Name
Orange County Student Alliance
Peace Action
Peace Alliance
Peace and Freedom Party
People's Coalition for Peace and Justice
People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace " anti-World War I group
Port Militarization Resistance
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
RESIST
Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity[10]
Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice[9]
September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)
The World Can't Wait
Troops Out Now Coalition
United for Peace and Justice
Veterans for Peace
Vietnam Day Committee
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
War Resisters League
Win Without War
Women's Peace Party[9]
Women's Peace Society[9]
Women's Peace Union[9]
Writers Against the War on Gaza
Youth International Party (Yippies)

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