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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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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


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


The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in Christopher Park, NYC, representing the president's latest attack on the queer community at the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.

Christopher Park


  • US forces killed two alleged drug smugglers and wounded another in the east Pacific Ocean
  • US sending 200 troops to Nigeria to train the country's military to kill Muslim fighters
  • US launched its 29th drone/missile strike against Somalia
  • Donald Trump is considering sending another aircraft carrier to the Middle East as Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu travels to Washington to discussing attacking Iran
    Donald Trump: "The Peace President"


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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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