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Major unions like the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and citizen groups like Indivisible and Public Citizen are calling for a national Mayday strike. It’s a powerful idea, building off of a Minnesota day this past January where people didn’t go to work or school, didn’t shop, and didn’t otherwise participate in ordinary activities. The Minnesota day was spearheaded by major unions, 700 local businesses closed in solidarity, and 75,000-100,000 people marched in the streets.
Special Report: Melt ICE/Free Palestine
Is it possible the present movement to thwart American fascism now includes Palestinian liberation, for the first time? Exploring the connections reveals a bedrock commonality: ethnic cleansing.
“Israel must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,” UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms.
Dr. Abu Safiya was “subjected to torture and other cruel and degrading treatment,” they said. His health condition is “dire.”
Many are already familiar with the iconic Palestinian doctor from Gaza. But the deserved and urgent focus on his case should not end with him. Rather, it should illuminate the broader catastrophe afflicting Gaza’s health sector — one deliberately dismantled as part of the ongoing genocide that began on October 7, 2023.
The voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 is often remembered as a triumphant undertaking financed by the Spanish crown, neatly encapsulated in the enduring myth of Queen Isabella I pawning her jewels. That image, repeated for centuries, is less history than propaganda—an oversimplified story that obscures the far more complex network of people and resources that made the expedition possible. A closer examination reveals that Jews and individuals of Jewish descent—particularly Conversos, or “New Christians”—were central to the enterprise. Their involvement spanned finance, political advocacy, and the scientific knowledge that made transatlantic navigation feasible in the first place.
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“I call up France, Macron – whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.”
It is not the first time that Donald Trump has resorted to this kind of language. But the timing, as always, is everything.
His remarks about Emmanuel Macron, delivered during a private lunch in Washington, were crude and personal, yet also deeply political.
Macron’s response—measured but unmistakable—was to dismiss them as “neither elegant nor up to standard,” adding that they did not merit a reply.
But to treat this as merely another episode of improvised rhetoric is to miss its significance.
Trump’s attack on Macron did not emerge in a vacuum. It came as part of a broader complaint, one that placed France—and by extension other NATO allies—at the center of a narrative of absence.
“We didn’t need them, but I asked anyway,” Trump said, before mocking Macron’s supposed refusal to provide immediate military support in the Gulf.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Former Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (1997 to 2013) challenged three administrations, Clinton (Serbia), Bush (Iraq), and Obama (Libya), over unauthorized military action under the War Powers Resolution, led Congressional opposition to the Iraq War, and delivered 155 speeches in Congress warning against war with Iran.
“The President's address to the nation was a tone-deaf sale pitch for more war, delivered on the first night of Passover.
Civilian and military casualties are mounting across the region. Lives are being extinguished while triumphalist and violent rhetoric is offered as justification. War is being escalated in the name of peace, a contradiction that demands moral clarity, not political acceptance.
Each life lost carries equal value. No nation’s suffering is expendable. No people exist as collateral.
