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Trump’s Iran War has turned into a frozen fiasco. American motorists face steadily rising costs of fuel. Many retail prices are also rising as the now closed Persian Gulf causes commodity prices to mount. The Jeffery Epstein scandal, which lies at the heart of the Persian Gulf war, is beginning to break out into the open. The Trump administration just spent $20 billion to try to distract attention from it.
What does Trump do? He blames Germany for being soft on what he calls terrorism. This from the man who authorized his Israeli ally to kill over 79,000 West Bank Arabs and killed thousands of Iranians in recent weeks. Germany, thunders Trump, is ‘soft’ on military matters and only interested in playing footsie with wicked Muslims. The US, says Trump, is doing Europe a huge favor by stationing over 80,000 troops in Europe. He’s been claiming this for a long time. As I’ve written in the past, Trump simply does not understand the nature of geopolitics. Why should he? Trump used to renovate old hotels and run beauty pageants. The trembling yes-men who surround him dare not contradict their leader, who styles himself a ‘unique genius.’
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan interview special guest Travis Irvine and play his favorite anti-war songs.
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In actions that would do Putin, Orban, or Maduro proud, Vanguard and Fidelity just created a precedent to cut off funds to any nonprofits disliked by the federal government or any state government. The justification is a Trump administration indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) claiming that SPLC paying hate group informants constituted fraud. SPLC has actually coordinated with Federal and state law enforcement for years, using information supplied by the informants to help secure indictments and convictions.
Today, May 1, 2026, as the "No Kings" banner flies from the statehouse in Columbus to the streets of Cleveland and across the heart of America, we are witnessing more than just a labor strike. We are seeing a national rejection of a future that has already been scripted for us. While the administration moves forward with the "Project 2025" agenda – a calculated blueprint to dismantle the federal workforce and consolidate executive power – the people have decided to stop the machine.
This "May Day Strong" boycott is our collective response to a vision of governance that treats the Constitution as a suggestion. We are currently facing the shadow of Senate Bill 293, a law that enables systematic voter purges, while the Senate Judiciary Committee weighs House Bill 20, which seeks to criminalize the citizen journalists of the Fourth Estate for documenting police activity. Most alarming is the renewed attempt to resurrect the failed 60 percent threshold for citizen-led ballot initiatives a transparent power grab designed to silence the majority because the "kings" know we are ready to win.
I am writing this to shine a light on the human toll inflicted on a Palestinian family living in France, as well as the silence of mainstream media and public officials. I hope readers will share this story widely. Perhaps your share will be the reason these three children are safely returned to their family.
A Palestinian family evacuated from Gaza to France says French authorities have separated three children from their parents after allegations of abuse that the family strongly denies and that courts have not substantiated with evidence. The abduction took place in cooperation with an organization that describes itself as supporting survivors of the Gaza genocide.
The case centers on three siblings — Rabhi (11), Nour (10), and Hussam al‑Din (8) — who arrived in France with their father and grandfather after fleeing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The French Foreign Ministry facilitated their evacuation in late 2023. Their mother, Raghda al‑Sheikh, remained trapped in Gaza, hoping to reunite with them later.
URGENT: Call your Member of Congress immediately (202) 224-3121 and tell them to
VOTE NO on the FARM BILL
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Members of Congress must vote NO on this unconstitutional Farm Bill.
Despite today’s vote to remove the chemical liability shield, the Farm Bill currently under consideration in the House remains a devastating failure of policy and responsibility.
This is a moment for caution, not celebration. If we signal victory now, before the full House vote, we risk sending exactly the wrong message to America, that this bill is now safe to support. It is not.
This Farm Bill still erodes states’ rights, limits the ability of communities to protect their citizens, entrenches industrial agriculture, and locks farmers further into dependence on costly chemical inputs and consolidated corporate power.
The European Union is the “chief of all cowards,” Amnesty International declared in a searing statement issued on April 21. The condemnation was a direct response to the European bloc’s systemic failure to sever ties with Israel during the Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg.
Despite months of legal warnings, the EU once again prioritized procedural safety over the urgency of human life.
The efforts to press the EU to finally take a moral position were led by a coalition of Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia, later joined by Belgium. They argued that the EU-Israel Association Agreement—the legal framework governing their trade relationship—is predicated on the "respect for human rights."
