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“Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine.”
The words are those of Renee Good’s wife Becca. They cut to our heart – our humanity. She was shot in the face by an ICE agent, who then muttered: “Fuckin’ bitch.” The murder of this 37-year-old mom as she tried to drive around the ICE guys who stopped her is national news, of course. Almost everyone has seen at least one of the many videos of the incident and, you might say, the national dialogue about virtually anything else has been put on hold.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested, detained, deported, and/or imprisoned many people that it has unilaterally determined to be undesirables. At first, they claimed they would deport only criminals, but it has already gone beyond that. We at the Free Press consider every person who has been sent to the Tecoluca (El Salvador prison), Guantanamo naval base, or detained in other prisons throughout the country to be innocent until proven guilty. We will include students who have been expelled for protesting genocide. It appears the government will revoke Visa's to get rid of undesirable students. This article will be updated as long as is necessary.
Introduction
In this article I offer an update of evidence on the accelerating climate crisis. We may be at a point where the crisis will continue to advance, as it has, and cause ever-more destruction and death across the planet. It is an existential threat to humanity.
It would take far more effort by nations, especially those in the West and China, to end dependence on fossil fuels and the accompanying torrent of carbon emissions they produce. This appears to be increasingly unlikely, but the only recourse.
Every Key Climate Indicator is Flashing Red
Julia Conley reports on March 23, 2026, on the absence of effective action in the U.S. and across the globe to slow down the climate crisis (https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-report-climate). She writes that “every key climate indicator is flashing red,” referencing the annual State of Global Climate report by the United Nation’s meteorological agency, The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO). Here’s some of what she reports.
A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the US-Israeli aggression on Iran. She recognizes the illegality of the war and does not shy away from condemning it in clear terms. Yet, almost invariably, she feels compelled to qualify her position, reminding her audience that Iran has killed "tens of thousands of protesters" during recent anti-government demonstrations.
The number itself is highly questionable. Even widely cited figures from international reporting—such as Reuters coverage in January 2026—place the death toll of the protests in the thousands, not tens of thousands. But the issue here is not the exact number, nor even the complex context of those protests, which began as genuine expressions of discontent but were later exploited by various external and internal actors seeking to destabilize the country.
The issue is the qualification itself.
Drawing on decades of experience in Congress and his consistent opposition to U.S. military interventions, Kucinich situates the current conflict within a longer historical arc of American foreign policy defined by overreach, deception, and mounting human and economic cost.
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At the heart of his analysis is a simple but urgent truth: This is a war of choice, not necessity. Kucinich argues that the conflict does not arise from core American interests, but rather from external pressures, geopolitical entanglements, and the enduring influence of allied political forces, particularly those aligned with Benjamin Netanyahu. He describes a dynamic in which U.S. policy is shaped less by national interest and more by political leverage, lobbying power, and strategic manipulation.
A Familiar Pattern: From Vietnam to Iraq to Iran
The news is filled with the harm Trump has generated over his second presidential term, and before. He is linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile networks. His association with Elon Musk led to the reduction of federal jobs and serivces. His “Big Beautiful Bill” reduced taxes on the rich and powerful permanently. He has deployed ICE agents in cities across the country to find, detain, and/or deport immigrants, most of whom have been law-abiding and employed residents and citizens. Millions of people have protested against Trump’s ICE policies. He seems egomaniacally to look for every opportunity to have his name put on government building, monuments, and even on a one-dollar bill.
Many Americans are coming around to the view, based on what comes out of President Donald Trump’s mouth and what he writes down on his Truth Social site, that the US Head of State is insane. Larry Johnson is reporting “shocking details of what is going on behind the scene at the White House [where] Donald Trump began exhibiting signs of early dementia in September 2025… He frequently confabulates, he routinely loses his temper and unleashes screaming rants, and he is incapable of doing critical thinking. [As a result] Trump’s senior White House staff are behaving like children with an abusive, drug-addled father… i.e., they walk on egg shells fearful of saying anything that might ignite Trump’s rage.”
Rima Hassan, 33, was born in the Neirab Palestinian refugee camp near Aleppo, Syria. Her family hails from the village of al-Birwa—depopulated in 1948—located south of Acre. She immigrated to France with her mother and five siblings at the age of nine, and at eighteen she obtained French citizenship. She later studied law at the Sorbonne University, where her thesis focused on apartheid in South Africa and Israel.
In June 2025, she joined the Freedom Flotilla bound for Gaza, sailing aboard the vessel Madeleine. She was accompanied by eleven others, including climate activist Greta Thunberg. The vessel was intercepted by the Israeli Navy in international waters about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the Palestinian coast as they attempted to deliver food, children’s prosthetics, and other urgently needed supplies to Gaza’s besieged population. Hassan stated that she was beaten while in Israeli custody.