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Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed. Now Führer Trump wants her deported

I was like millions of Americans who were shocked to learn about — and to see the frightening video of — the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thugs kidnapped of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk in broad daylight. She was seemingly targeted because she was one of four coauthors of an op-ed published in the Daily last year. Her arrest came after the pro-Israel group Canary Mission (CM) flagged Ozturk for having "engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024" and Canary Mission shared the information with Marco Rubio and the Israeli embassy. Canary Mission engages in collecting information about Interantional student and professors who are critical of Apartheid Israel and enjoy tax-exempt status but it is not registered as a foreign lobby group. That begs the question, where is the IRS when you need it to revoke CM's tax-exempt status?  The text of op-ed Rümeysa Öztürk co-authored at The Tufts Daily According to Salon News Editor, Charles R.

Let's delete Iran

The US is clearly massing military forces for what many experts believe will be a full-bore attack on Iran. The big question, is this a part of President Trump’s usual negotiating strategy of bluff and bluster or the opening moves in a major war campaign against Iran?Evidence to date strongly suggests that the US is heading towards a major war against Iran. Under presidents Biden and Trump, Israel has achieved remarkable influence over the US. Trump is surrounded by an ardently pro-Israel coterie of aides, advisors and financial backers. The president has made no secret that he is way to the far right of Israel’s current hard-line government. He has called for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, he detests Muslims (unless they are ultra rich Gulf Bedouins) and, of course, now has Jewish relatives as part of his family. Under the unlamented Biden, and now Trump, Israel has assumed control of US Mideast political and military policy. Right now, two US aircraft carriers are steaming to stations within striking range of Iran and Yemen.

Trump and Musk in process of smashing the EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency (epa.gov) ) website includes a short history
of the agency. Here’s some of what you can find there
(https://epa.gov/history/origins-epa).
“The American conversation about protecting the environment began in the 1960s.
Rachel Carson had published her attack on the indiscriminate use of
pesticides, Silent Spring, in 1962.  Concern about air and water pollution had
spread in the wake of disasters.  An offshore oil rig in California fouled beaches
with millions of gallons of spilled oil. Near Cleveland, Ohio, the Cuyahoga River,
choking with chemical contaminants, had spontaneously burst into flames.
Astronauts had begun photographing the Earth from space, heightening awareness
that the Earth’s resources are finite.
“In early 1970, as a result of heightened public concerns about deteriorating city
air, natural areas littered with debris, and urban water supplies contaminated with
dangerous impurities, President Richard Nixon presented the House and Senate a
groundbreaking 37-point message on the environment.  These points included:

Trump: “Very Bad Things are Going to Happen.” Netanyahu Wants the U.S. to Destroy Iran.

In my article, “The High Price of War with Iran: $10 Gas and the Collapse of the U.S. Economy,” I reminded readers of how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been behind the push for America to destroy Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Iran. I reviewed the severe economic consequences for the U.S. if it attacks Iran. Today, I cite the human health and atmospheric effects of a U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear research facilities. The resulting nuclear fallout would bring a catastrophe unprecedented in human history.

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