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The Espionage Act has been used and abused to punish whistleblowers, journalists, and publishers, prosecuting them as if they were traitorous enemies, but denying them the right to put forward the defense that they were exposing, rather than committing, a crime.
We've seen indictments of Thomas Drake, Chelsea Manning, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou, Edward Snowden, Reality Winner, Julian Assange, Terry Albury, and Daniel Hale, not for trying to harm the United States but for trying to protect the United States from abuses within its government.
We need whistleblowers protected and rewarded. We need members of the press left free to exercise their First Amendment rights. We need the Constitutional right to defend oneself in court protected.
Oh, mercy, save us from Trump’s SAVE Act, which is all about restricting access to the ballot, fixing things that are not broken, and maintaining power in the hands of the minority, rather than the majority. Currently, amid a flurry of preposterous threats by Trump, the bill is bottled up in Congress, because the majority leader of the Senate, South Dakota’s John Thune, says they simply don’t have the votes, provoking a firestorm from the whacky conservative rightwing of the Republican Party. Thune is also resisting efforts to scuttle the filibuster, a long tradition in that body to block legislation unpopular with one party or another by stopping any business being done through endless talking on the floor of the body until one side or another blinks and caves into the other.
The President of the World is busy choosing new leaders for the countries that stole our idea of stealing, like Cuba, and stole our idea of terrorizing, like Iran. The Iran excursion is facilitated by white phosphorus, since he likes white things almost as much as gold ones. American remain divided over the un/dear leaders, disagreeing on whether he is racist, corrupt, cruel, or dangerous.
The extent to which Israeli interests have come to dominate US foreign policy in the Middle East can be measured in terms of its effectiveness if one considers the seven trips to the US made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during President Donald Trump’s first year in office. Bibi received a passionate reception from Congress and the media which came in spite of the fact that he was the man principally responsible for a horrific genocide being conducted against the Gazans and, more recently, unprovoked attacks on primarily civilian targets on the Palestinian West Bank as well as in neighboring Lebanon and Syria.
Admittedly, the soft landing by Netanyahu in the United States has been facilitated by the Israeli Lobby’s corruption of congress by virtue of hundreds of millions of dollars liberally distributed among both Democrats and Republicans. And the same Jewish billionaires have also been adept at buying up media outlets to make sure that the portrayal of Israelis as perpetual victims is front and center when the American public watches the news or reads a newspaper.
Let us imagine a liberated Palestine. Let us consider how justice for the Palestinian people would reshape not only the region but, indeed, the entire globe.
This is not a conversation about a "political solution" in the narrow, bureaucratic sense. Such solutions require no particular genius: true justice can only occur when the Palestinian people are granted the totality of their rights and the fulfillment of their political aspirations.
Equally true is the reality that no such justice can manifest so long as Israel remains committed to its current Zionist ideology—a framework predicated on racial supremacy and the systematic eradication of the indigenous Palestinian Arab population. Once the shackles of this ideology are broken, the exact political mechanics become secondary; history suggests that the future would lean toward a shared coexistence rather than a continuation of the current segregation along ethnic lines.
Saturday, March 14, 7-8pm
Zoom
Join us by Zoom to discuss
In the fog of war: nuclear nonproliferation and building solidarity
Speaker:
Phil Wilayto - Virginia Defenders, insights on IRAN and CUBA. (Calling from Conference on CUBA)
The sudden and ongoing attack on Iran is making the world nervous about the the effect on the US and other countries and the potential of nuclear war.
Phil Wilayto will report from the gathering to collect humanitarian aid for Cuba and his experiences with Iran and Cuba.
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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87630301989...
Meeting ID: 876 3030 1989
Passcode: 867737
Pedophile Trump said he gave the greenlight for the attack on Iran when his slum lord son-in-law Jared Kushner (a Jewish Zionist) told him that Iran was about to attack the US! Trump was also "persuaded" after meeting several times in the last few months with his "great friend" Miliekowsky (changed name to Netanyahu to appear local). The latter has an international warrant for his arrest by the ICC for crimes against humanity and war crimes (for the still ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine). The Epstein Regime (Israel/USA governments joined at the hip) started this disastrous war 12 days ago and were totally unprepared for it. Trump copied the usual Israeli lies when they were killing civilians (Iran bombed its own elementary school etc.). This has to be the most stupid war ever launched since the War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748) between Spain and Britain. But this is far more dangerous and the US/Israel, Iran and of course our planet pay the price.
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Two GOP Reps. are in legal trouble. They are Representative Randy Fine (FL) and Max Miller (OH) who are being both sued by separate entities.
Looks like both men have nothing better to do than making outrageous statements on social media that intended to defame Muslims, spreading lies about Muslim institutions, and trying to silence opposition to the Israeli brutality to attract media attention similar to Donald Trump's style.
Case number one: Against US Rep. Randy Fine
https://freepress.org/article/us-rep-randy-fine-muslim-enemy-1
A real estate developer turned showman becomes president. His name has long been associated with the orbit of a convicted child sex offender. A former television host ends up running the Department of Defense—an institution that under his swaggering vision of power renamed the Department of War.
The president orders an attack and the kidnapping of a foreign leader, ignites a war against another nation—killing its leader and innocent schoolgirls—and sends paramilitary forces—ICE—into the streets of his own country. Under his reign, the Middle East burns. Oil surges, markets tremble, and the price of energy—and everything chained to it—climbs at home and across the globe.
The spectacle might seem laughable if its consequences were not so grave. But the laughter dies quickly. What unfolds feels less like governance than a fever dream of power—something torn from the reels of an old dystopian film—where the grotesque becomes ordinary and men intoxicated with bluster, spectacle, and machismo mistake domination for leadership.