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A World’s Soul in Tatters

“I left you for God, Daddy.”

Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man – a dad – imagining the words his newborn son would have said. The boy, Jumaa, froze to death in the family’s tent. The infant had a twin brother who was also lying still in their bed one morning recently. The parents rushed the boys to a functioning hospital, where Jumaa’s brother, at the time NBC’s story came out last week, was still fighting for his life.

Jumaa was one of half a dozen Palestinian babies (so far) who have frozen to death in their family’s tents since the onset of winter – just one more fragment of hell the Palestinians are enduring as Israel’s US-complicit genocide continues . . . one death at a time.

Drone Warfare Has Exploded the Myth of Reactor Safety

Terrifying reports from the Ukraine-Russia front underscore an inescapable new nuclear reality:  In the age of drone warfare, the myth of atomic reactor safety has been exploded.

 No matter how thick the containment domes, or how vehement the industry denials, a quantum leap in the killing power of weaponized drones has completely blown past official atomic safety assurances.

 The unwelcome new reality has been brought home by two recent features in the New York Times.

 A devastating, Pulitzer-level dispatch from C.J. Chivers in the Times Magazinecovering the Ukrainian killing fields seems to announce a total transformation in trench warfare.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/magazine/drones-weapons-ukraine-war.html

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We Honor LEONARD PELTIER & His Fellow Prisoners as Trump is Certified & We Evaluate His Nominees

TATANKA BRICCA discusses the chances that Joe Biden will save the life of Leonard Peltier, who’ll be released before 1/20 or die.

A minor correction comes from MYLA RESON…and still more from MIKE HERSH.

Young Progressive Democrats of America is represented by HARTZELL GRAY, who inspires our movement to recruit young activists.

NICOLE UNG urges us to help free whistleblower Charles Littlejohn.

Myla and DAVID SALTMAN talk about beloved corporate-assaulted attorney STEVE DONZIGER who has been privately prosecuted by Chevron Oil.

GAVRILAH WELLS of Amnesty International recalls Trump's mass killings of 13 federal prisoners and urges Biden to keep pardoning folks, especially Peltier.

NICOLE CORRADO evokes the need to sanction a Russian billionaire helping Musk buying Twitter.

Election expert RAY LUTZ shows disturbing statistics from Nevada indicating serious irregularities in the Democratic turnout.

The insane prosecution against JOHN BRAKEY for merely making a public records request is explained by SUSAN PYNCHON.

DON MCCANNE emphasizes the need for youth in the progressive movement.

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones says he wants back in the “deportation business”

SIgn saying illegal aliens here and a stern bald older man with arms crossed and

Ohio’s Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones wants to restart his ICE contract during the second Trump presidency. However, Butler County Jail officers abused immigrants and violated the jail’s contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repeatedly during the first Trump administration.

In 2021, Sheriff Jones claimed he terminated the Butler County Jail’s ICE contract himself after claiming the Biden administration was going to fire him. A lawsuit to hold this jail accountable for abuses against immigrants remains pending in federal court.

Sheriff Jones – as many Ohio immigrants know too well – is an ultra-conservative anti-immigration blowhard from outside Cincinnati who is a regular guest on right-wing media such as Glenn Beck. He has been referred to as Ohio’s “mini-Trump” and has struck fear in hardworking Ohio immigrants who work jobs rejected by white American workers. Butler County, for instance, has a large chicken rendering plant where many workers are Hispanic.

What Billion Dollar, Militarized, Nano-Bio-Tech Industry?

NANO - A Synoptic Perspective

Building on and extending the work of Elana Freeland's, books The Geoengineered Transhuman and Under an Ionized Sky, as well as that of atmospheric scientist Clifford Carmicom, and Dr.

Je Suis Censorship

Blinken’s Blinkered Vision Has Spotted, of All Things, a Genocide

Banner saying Stop Arming Genocide

This article first appeard on World Beyond War

Ohio coal plant said to be nation’s most deadly. New owners seem likely to keep it open

Smoking stacks on a plant by water

This article first appeared on Ohio Capital Journal

Environmental activists have been pressing the company buying an Ohio coal plant said to be the nation’s deadliest to retire the facility. But that seems unlikely, given statements it made in a regulatory filing that it provided to the Ohio Capital Journal.

The buyer, Energy Capital Partners, has boasted of helping plants make the transition away from coal. It hasn’t answered questions about its plans for Gavin, but in a Dec. 11 filing before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, it expressed no such plans for the Gavin Plant.

“As with any electric generation facility, (Energy Capital Partners) and Javelin expect that the Gavin facility… will continue to operate for so long as they are legally able to do so on an economic basis,” it said.

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