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Time for a United Front Against Trump and Realism About Harris

With Election Day just three weeks off and voting already underway in some states, the race for president is down to the wire. Progressives could make the difference.

 While no one in their left mind plans to vote for the fascistic and unhinged Donald Trump, some say they won’t vote for Kamala Harris because of her loyalty to President Biden’s support for the Israeli war on Gaza. That might enable Trump to win with enough electoral votes from swing states -- Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

 Those seven states are where progressives may well hold the future in their voting hands.

Stevie Nicks Lights a Fire

Last night on Saturday Night Live, there was that rare moment when a performer chose to give voice to the 200 million or so of us Americans who, for over two years, have been in a rage that the Supreme Leader in America (aka, the “Supreme Court,” that group of 5 or 6 religious right-wing nutters who rule over what women can and cannot do with their bodies in this country), overturned Roe v. Wade. 

The great Stevie Nicks, in her own rage over this injustice, sang for the first time live on national television her new song about those who have committed this atrocity against women. It’s called “The Lighthouse” — and my jaw dropped as she belted out one fiercely brutal lyric after another aimed squarely at the Court, at Trump, at MAGA Nation — and imploring all women to take a stand, to fight back now, it’s not too late. 

Biden should not prevent the ICC from issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahuu

On January 8, 2009, my friend Tammy Obeidallah (known by the moniker "Intifada girl") and I co-authored an open letter to our US Senator Goerge Voinovich to have the name of Meir Dagan, the head of the Israeli Mossad, be added to the US "Terrorist Watch list and " No Fly List. Voinovich died in 2016 at age 79 and we never got a courtesy response letter from him. Mr. Dagen, who also passed away in 2016 at age 71, was notorious for committing war crimes during his military service in the Israeli Defense Forces during the 1970s in Gaza and 1980s in Lebanon.  Meir Dagan established his reputation by severing the heads of innocent and unarmed civilians in both aforementioned locations. Shamefully, Israel's Channel 2 named him the country's "Man of the Year" in 2008.

Once again today, I would like to ask our US State Department and the US Justice Department to add the names of Crime Minister Netanyahu of Israel and the Israeli War Minister Yoal Gallant to the "Terrorist Watch List" and "No Fly List" and freeze all of their assets on any U.S. Banks. America should not provide a safe haven or a sanctuary for anyone who has committed war crimes.

 

12 Reasons to vote against Trump

Introduction
This post offers eleven reasons to vote against Trump/Vance in the November
presidential election. The reader may think of more reasons. It will take a large
vote for Harris/Walz to accomplish this goal and thus end Trump’s dominating
influence on the Republican Party and US politics. It is a truly epical fight about
democracy vs fascism.

Images, Politics, and Activists on Genocide/Holocaust

DO NOT SAY YOU DID NOT KNOW. DO NOT SAY YOU COULD NOT ACT
and for those of you active: never stop - keep pushing (you are making a
difference as empire is besieged and beginning to crumble at the edge). We
send you love and respect from under the boot of colonization and apartheid.

*Images, politics, and activists on genocide/holocaustImages *(of
US/Israeli genocide)
Just past 24 hours and no seen in mainstream media:  UN report on the
Israeli destruction of healthcare service; three more massacres of
civilians in Gaza, attack on a school in Gaza, bombing residential areas
inBeirut; attacking UN personnel injuring two; murdering more journalists
(now 174); taking over UNRWA building inJerusalem....
https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/1840762333150240786
UN: In northern #Gaza, 400,000 Palestinians are trapped under heavy

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Qualified Recipient for First Time in at Least Six Years

Congratulations are in order for Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. The Nobel Peace Prize has for the first time in at least six years gone to a group of people who work to reduce warmaking, people who in fact seek to abolish nuclear weapons. Nihon Hidankyo has relentlessly done the work of educating the world, thanklessly, for many years. This prize should be celebrated far and wide.

Congratulations are also in order to the Nobel Committee, for somehow manintaining the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize despite how the committee has mistreated it time and time again, and for — this time — getting it right. May this mark a new principled commitment!

Don't bomb Iran, for Israel's sake!

A long time ago, an elephant named Elie lived in the savanna. He made a daily trip to the pond for a bath and water. One day, he passed his neighbor Brenda the bird. Elie told her he did not like her singing at all which interrupted his beauty nap. Elie decided to get even with Brenda, so he crushed her eggs in her nest. Brenda flew to her flock to seek their help, devastated by her loss. One bird told her, "Elie is the biggest and strongest animal and we are no match for him." Another bird had a brilliant idea:  "Why not fly over Elie's head and poke out both his eyes?" So, the next day, all the birds hovered over Elie and poked out his eyes. Blind, Elie was unable to find food or water, became sick, and died. I recounted the story from a book called "Kalila wa Dimna," written a century ago in Persia (modern-day Iran) and translated into many foreign languages. It is one of many beautifully written stories about animals that still hold in our everyday lives. In case you have not watched the news lately, Netanyahu is about to declare unholy war on Iran.
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