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Hunger strike inside, protests outside the private prison holding good American immigrants, best of the best. Not content to destroy America’s working class, they also destroy the media, thank you Bari Israel Weiss. Still no competition with Israel, which can destroy several countries at once. USA a close second. Now refugees in the US will become refugees from the US. But no worries, we’ll just erase all this from the museums. And history.
The U.S. has no right to attack Cuba, threaten Cuba, starve Cuba, or decide Cuba’s future. The people of Cuba need fuel, medicine, food, and sovereignty. For more than 60 years, Washington has tried to force Cuba into submission through economic warfare, isolation, and regime-change operations. Media outlets should not help recycle the narratives used to justify escalation and intervention.
Cuba does not need another “new relationship” written in Washington. Cuba needs the U.S. to get out of its way.
To the editors of Axios,
We are deeply concerned by Axios’ recent reporting alleging that Cuba acquired hundreds of military drones for possible attacks on Guantánamo, U.S. vessels, and Key West.
On the outskirts of Lhasa, Tibetan mourners whispered prayers, while hungry brooding vultures circled overhead.
Cawing.
"This is our sky funeral. We let the vultures eat the bodies of dead Tibetans," a mourner said as we sat on rocky dirt among other Tibetan mourners at the beginning of the somber rites.
"I personally think it is too gruesome. But this is our Buddhist tradition."
Cremations and burials are difficult to perform.
Firewood is scarce throughout much of Tibet.
The ground is often frozen or rocky.
A gray boulder looming 30 feet high, served as the cold altar for Lhasa's Tibetan corpses.
The flat boulder's 20-foot by 20-foot surface could be used every day except Sundays.
Sky funerals -- "bya gtor" or "alms for the birds" -- began at dawn with attendees moaning prayers.
"Today, four bodies," the mourner quietly explained.
"You can see, three of the dead are village women.
"Also a merchant. He is a murder victim. He was killed two nights ago in the Lhasa market at a card game. Stabbed.
For decades, Washington has told itself a reassuring story about Iran. The conflict, according to the conventional narrative, began in 1979 with the Islamic Revolution, the hostage crisis, and the rise of an anti-American theocracy determined to challenge the United States and its allies.
It is a convenient story. It is also historically incomplete.
For those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears to be an earth-shattering event. On the surface, it looks as if the days of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of far-right extremists are numbered. The reality, however, is far more complex.
Israel’s current political implosion is fundamentally tied to its failure to escape the ghosts of October 7. When the country's military defenses collapsed on that day, Israel was transformed from a state with a formidable reputation as an invincible regional superpower into one trapped with a struggling army, structurally incapable of decisively winning a single war.
After 20 years of controversial and challenging work, the “rights of nature” movement, which aims to extend legal protections to the natural world, finds itself on shaky ground, facing counterattacks, outright bans, corruption, cooptation, and — in a few inspiring cases — victories.
A new report called the State of Rights of Nature explores these issues in detail based on the expertise of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), the organization responsible for the first modern “rights of nature” law in the world which passed in 2006.
For thirty years, CELDF has worked with hundreds of communities across the U.S. and internationally on rights of nature, participated in numerous coalitions and conferences, and watched a spark turn into a global movement. But the growing popularity of rights of nature has also fueled a backlash which, in some cases, has led powerful forces to co-opt movement language and advocates to water down their rights of nature initiatives to the point of near irrelevance.
GREEP Zoom # 268 opens with JUDITH EHRLICH and CLAIRE GREENSFELDER introducing us to a wonderful new documentary about DAN ELLSBERG & his legendary activism that changed the world.
We then take a deep deep dive into the decisive, dangerous world of protecting the 2026 election through the critical eyes of RAY MCCLENDON, JOHN BRAKEY, ALLISON GREENE, LYNN FEINERMAN, RAY LUTZ, MYLA RESON, JOHN STEINER, STEVE CARUSO and others.
The key issues that have erupted as we approach this world-changing vote include Gerrymandering, mass intimidation, stripping the voter rolls, vote by mail, manipulating the vote count and much more.
From LORI GRACE, DOROTHY REIK and DAVID SALTMAN we get priceless perspectives on the media sink hole surrounding this all-important issue.
We then visit the AI/Data Center battleground with Ohio’s LEATRICE GUTTENTAG, VINA COLLEY and CHRISTIAN NUNES, both of them neck deep in grassroots fights against these hideous planet-destroying digital monstrosities that are so often now nuke-powered.
What does an alliance between China, Russia, Iran and North Korea mean for the West, especially America and the rest of the world? Is this cabal as Peter Van Praagh, president of the Halifax International Security Forum, believes in cahoots with the express purpose of disrupting the global status quo? If so, what’s new about that? Far from strangers the relationship between these four nations dates back as early as the Cold War. While the four nations were never best friends, so to speak, the relationship between the four has taken on greater meaning and substance since the war in Ukraine and the West’s reaction, namely the United States’s response by way of economic sanctions and military support of Ukraine.
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 08:00pm
this event will be occurring via Zoom
Join us for the online premiere of "An Ordinary Insanity", a new 28-minute documentary featuring renowned whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. Filmed by Oscar-nominated director Judith Ehrlich one year before his death, Ellsberg provides a powerful wakeup call about the global threat posed by nuclear weapons and how we can greatly reduce the danger of nuclear annihilation.
The free premiere will include a panel featuring director Judith Ehrlich, Ellsberg family members, and nuclear weapons experts and activists, followed by a Q&A.
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jX-74q1nTcaqFOyW8_iDkw?link_id=4&ca…