An Iranian military spokesperson has mocked US attempts at a ceasefire deal, insisting the US was only negotiating with itself. read more
Outraged Americans are demanding that members of the Trump family face conscription if a comprehensive military draft is enacted during wartime. However, the 19 year old may be exempt from military service due to a medical waiver. read more
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss won Tuesday's Democratic primary to succeed Rep. Jan Schakowsky, dealing a blow to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in a race that had turned into a referendum on the group's ability to influence the party. Biss, whose mother is Israeli and whose grandparents are Holocaust survivors, has sharply criticized Israel's war in Gaza " and faced an onslaught of attack ads from a group aligned with AIPAC as a result. read more
Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC that the U.S. Navy is not ready to begin escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. read more
[I]t's not just Israel's policies toward the Palestinians that have eroded Americans' good will toward Israel. Perhaps as important has been Israel's role in American politics ... . Israel, by behaving appallingly and then trying to silence any condemnation of its appalling behavior as antisemitic, gives ammunition to Jew haters. As Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and president of the liberal Zionist group J Street, told me, "When you end up using antisemitism as a pretext for kicking kids out of universities and out of the country, and you use it as a pretext for ending cancer research and use it as a pretext for undercutting the First Amendment, you're going to get some blowback against the people doing that." read more
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The 4.2% protection is
a sharp step up from the prior projection of 2.8%. Moreover, it is much higher than the 2.7% Fed officials estimated when they updated their own forecasts last week.
The revision is due to two primary factors: the war in the Middle East, and the ongoing impact from U.S. tariffs that, while lower than prior levels, continue to boost prices around the world.
("Global forecasting group sees U.S. inflation at 4.2% this year, much higher than Fed estimate," www.cnbc.com
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Coriolanus -
Your point on Kovic and Kerry well put. The anti war movement eventually generated so much fuel in part because the participation of returning troops helped in the legitimacy department. They'd been there, many complicit in horrors, and they were really angry.
I think it was probably 1966 when I went to a friend whose dad was an intel officer with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, KY. En route, I recall being in an airport bathroom (probably Nashville), talking with four uniformed Black soldiers sitting/standing along a wall, drinking some wine. They invited me to join them, which I did, and, boy, were they in a collective bad mood: orders to Vietnam. But what really got them going was the final solution to their sergeant problem. This sergeant, who every time they were out and about maneuvering and such got them "killed." Every time. They planned to toss a grenade at him in Vietnam in an act of self-preservation. Yeah, the wine, bad news talking, and so forth. But the fragging idea was already kicking around, even that early (pre-Tet).