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Long Live the Young King

This exciting week, the man aiming to become king of everything made his first statements. Greenland should be bought by the United States. Canada needs to be sold to the US. The Gulf of Mexico should be renamed "The Gulf of America".Trump has launched a race for imperial rebranding. France seeks the return of what was once called the Louisiana Purchase. "We sold it very cheap in 1803 for only $15 million because we went bankrupt financing the American Revolution against the cunning British." We want to bring it back - with interest. We also want parts of Kebek that were hijacked from the US. Long live France! ".Not to be left behind, Spain and Mexico have united in a joint lawsuit seeking the U.S. return portions of Northern Mexico and California seized in the 1840s.Mexico was forced to give over 55% of its land to the Americans. Former French nationalist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, whom I interviewed in the 1980s, said to me: "You Americans have stolen California from Mexico." Now they are getting it back through immigration". "Un bon mot" (words with place), as the French say.Spain has claims to California, which it once ruled. Spain also wants the Philippines and Cuba back.

The War Criminal 'Victim': Netanyahu’s Inevitable Fate

Suddenly, Yoav Gallant, Israel's notorious Minister of Defense, disappeared into obscurity. The man who served in his country's military for about 35 years, in politics for nearly 10, and oversaw major wars, including the ongoing genocide in Gaza, quickly retreated from headlines and political significance.

 In his resignation letter, Gallant accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who fired him on November 5, along with his replacement, Israel Katz, of endangering the country's security. However, he kept his criticism largely focused on the issue of military conscription for Israel's ultra-Orthodox community.

A World’s Soul in Tatters

“I left you for God, Daddy.”

Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man – a dad – imagining the words his newborn son would have said. The boy, Jumaa, froze to death in the family’s tent. The infant had a twin brother who was also lying still in their bed one morning recently. The parents rushed the boys to a functioning hospital, where Jumaa’s brother, at the time NBC’s story came out last week, was still fighting for his life.

Jumaa was one of half a dozen Palestinian babies (so far) who have frozen to death in their family’s tents since the onset of winter – just one more fragment of hell the Palestinians are enduring as Israel’s US-complicit genocide continues . . . one death at a time.

Drone Warfare Has Exploded the Myth of Reactor Safety

Terrifying reports from the Ukraine-Russia front underscore an inescapable new nuclear reality:  In the age of drone warfare, the myth of atomic reactor safety has been exploded.

 No matter how thick the containment domes, or how vehement the industry denials, a quantum leap in the killing power of weaponized drones has completely blown past official atomic safety assurances.

 The unwelcome new reality has been brought home by two recent features in the New York Times.

 A devastating, Pulitzer-level dispatch from C.J. Chivers in the Times Magazinecovering the Ukrainian killing fields seems to announce a total transformation in trench warfare.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/magazine/drones-weapons-ukraine-war.html

We Honor LEONARD PELTIER & His Fellow Prisoners as Trump is Certified & We Evaluate His Nominees

TATANKA BRICCA discusses the chances that Joe Biden will save the life of Leonard Peltier, who’ll be released before 1/20 or die.

A minor correction comes from MYLA RESON…and still more from MIKE HERSH.

Young Progressive Democrats of America is represented by HARTZELL GRAY, who inspires our movement to recruit young activists.

NICOLE UNG urges us to help free whistleblower Charles Littlejohn.

Myla and DAVID SALTMAN talk about beloved corporate-assaulted attorney STEVE DONZIGER who has been privately prosecuted by Chevron Oil.

GAVRILAH WELLS of Amnesty International recalls Trump's mass killings of 13 federal prisoners and urges Biden to keep pardoning folks, especially Peltier.

NICOLE CORRADO evokes the need to sanction a Russian billionaire helping Musk buying Twitter.

Election expert RAY LUTZ shows disturbing statistics from Nevada indicating serious irregularities in the Democratic turnout.

The insane prosecution against JOHN BRAKEY for merely making a public records request is explained by SUSAN PYNCHON.

DON MCCANNE emphasizes the need for youth in the progressive movement.

The turmoil and human suffering to come in 2025

The Presidential Election

Trump barely won the presidential election in November. Although he claims that his victory gave him a mandate to implement an extreme right-wing agenda, the numbers say otherwise. His margin of victory was the smallest of any presidential election since 1900. And we should bear in mind that Trump’s vote is unfairly buttressed by widespread right-wing gerrymanding in “red” states. James M. Lindsay cites the following “official” numbers in an article for the Council for Foreign Relations (https://cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers). 

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