On COI #543, Kyle Anzalone discusses Israel’s attack on Rafah.
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America Never Was the Indispensable Nation
Richard C. Longworth, in his Chicago Tribune op-ed “Is America Still the Indispensable Nation?” ponders whether America will remain the world’s indispensable nation much longer.
His concern is that for the first time in the half century of polling by the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, a majority of Republicans think the US should stay out of world affairs. Longworth adds it is reinforced by GOP leadership which is jeopardizing continued US funding of Ukraine’s war against Russia. The resulting US pullback from world dominance, Longworth frets, will produce “global anarchy, a power vacuum drawing in any number of nations, many of them nuclear-armed.”
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Nancy Pelosi Is Pressing Charges Against Peace Activists
Reprinted from WorldBeyondWar with permission.
Nancy Pelosi is having peace activists charged with felonies for nonviolent activities in front of her San Francisco home, and yet not having them investigated for, much less charged with what she has publicly accused them of, namely working for both Russia and China.
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The ‘Human Rights Industry’ and Nicaragua
Reprinted from CovertAction Magazine.
Why do United Nations human rights bodies focus on some countries, but not others? Why do organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International appear to ignore important evidence presented to them? And why do the media repeat stories of human rights abuses without questioning their veracity?
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200+ Unions Launch Network To Push for Gaza Ceasefire
Seven national and over 200 local labor unions in the United States on Friday announced the establishment of a coalition to promote a cease-fire in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
The American Postal Workers Union (APWU), the Association of Flight Attendants, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, the National Education Association, National Nurses United (NNU), the United Auto Workers (UAW), and the United Electrical Workers (UE), and 200 local unions and labor organizations launched the National Labor Network for Cease-fire (NLNC) to “end the death and devastation” in Gaza.
The coalition says it represents more than 9 million union workers – “more than half the labor movement in the United States.”
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Conflicts of Interest: Israel Will Completely Destroy Gaza
On COI #542, Kyle Anzalone discusses the genocide in Gaza.
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