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In recent years, Donald Trump has frequently billed himself as a bringer of peace. During 2023 and 2024, as he campaigned for re-election, he declared at least 53 times that he would end the Ukraine War within 24 hours of taking office or even before that. Referring to peace for Ukraine before a gathering in Council Bluffs, Iowa in July 2023, he insisted: “I’ll get that done within 24 hours. Everyone says, ‘Oh, no, you can’t.’ Absolutely, I can. Absolutely I can.”

Trump has vowed to terminate other wars, as well. Promising to end the war in Gaza and “bring peace back to the Middle East,” Trump assured audiences that “we will return the world to peace.” Indeed, in his January 20, 2025 inaugural address, he proclaimed that “we will measure our success . . . by the wars we end.” And “my proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker.”

The U.S. is on the wrong side of history by blindly supporting the Israeli genocide against Palestinians and the MSM and public officials mislead the American public into believing Palestinians fighting the Israeli occupation are "terrorists" and Israel is simply defending itself against "savages" and evil people who do not value human life. It is shameful and wrong to call Israelis as hostages when they are detained but referring to detained Palestinian as prisoners. This leads the readers to believe that the Israelis were innocent victims whereas Palestinians must have committed a crime. Language does matter in shaping one's opinion.
 
There is systematic abuse of women and children as young as 9 in Israeli detention centers where they are held for months without trial often for no reason or for verbally challenging IDF soldiers speaks for itself. This appalling and systematic abuse was one of the principal and most pressing reasons for the Al Aqsa Flood operation that took place on October 7, 2023. Prior to this date, Israel was holding 5,200 Palestinian hostages that most of the world don't know or care about.
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Original Sin How About Original Spin? WOW!!! There are no words- Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson you had one job!! In a time when 64% of Americans report having "not very much" or "no trust at all" in the media according to the Pew Research Center. You two so-called “journalists” and the media outlets that pay you, put the cherry on the sundae. Collectively you all chose to sit on critical information about the unraveling of American democracy until it could be packaged, bound, and sold at Barnes & Noble.

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As the NATO Parliamentary Assembly sat for its spring session, hundreds of protestors representing a broad coalition of the peace movement, workers, and environmentalists demonstrated just on the other side of the perimeter to protest, loudly, against the continued expansion of NATOs imperialist mission.

Demonstrators gathered early Saturday morning on the grassy lawn of the Dayton public library, closed to the public for the day to accommodate the NATO meeting. Outside hundreds gathered to hear speeches from the coalition of organizations behind the protests, including Veterans for Peace, the Ohio Peace Council, the Ohio Nuclear Free Network, and the Communist Party USA.

Just next door, separated by 12 foot high portable security fencing and dozens of heavily armed police, representatives and staff of the 32 nation NATO alliance were contained within a multi-block security perimeter in the Oregon riverfront district of downtown Dayton. Windows of the hotels looked down over the day's festivities and the protesters just outside the walls.

Donald Trump’s lethal fossil/nuke attack on the US renewable energy industry is poised to destroy America’s ability to compete in global markets for the foreseeable future. 

“Drill baby drill” and yet another “nuclear renaissance” are Trump’s siren calls for a destroyed American economy.

Despite Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” hype, wind, solar, geothermal, battery storage and other green sources are far cheaper, safer, cleaner, more reliable, faster to build and job producing than fossil fuels and nuclear reactors.

Thus, more than 80% of the world’s new energy production continues to come from wind, solar, geothermal, battery storage and other green sources.  Both nuclear power and fossil fuels are in steep global decline.

Though photovoltaic cells were first deployed at New Jersey’s Bell Labs in 1957, the booming solar panel industry is now dominated by China. The U.S. does have the capacity to produce a substantial 50 gigawatts of solar panels every year.  

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The Ohio Senate Finance Committee will hold four public hearings on the state budget next week:

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War no more!

This Memorial Day weekend, Veterans For Peace is calling on its members and friends to reflect on the gravity of the day, whose official purpose is to “honor all those who died in service to the U.S. during peacetime and war.” Veterans For Peace chooses to honor ALL who have died in wars, both combatants and civilians. Our hope is that a sober accounting of the casualties of war will mitigate against the tendency to turn Memorial Day – like Veterans Day – into a patriotic celebration of U.S. militarism.

We remember the words of President Eisenhower, who during World War II, was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe:

“War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil”. He also famously stated, “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”

Medal of Honor winner Marine Corps General Smedley Butler took it a bit further:

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The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” as Harry from Resident Alien would say, is some bullshit. And this is some bullshit.

First, it’s projected to add nearly $4 trillion to our debt, but that is a very conservative estimate. Even some Republicans believe it’ll add more than $10 trillion. I have a question that’s harder than defining Habeas Corpus. How do you reduce the deficit by adding $4 trillion to it? And don’t give me that DOGE bullshit as it’s not even going to cut $1 trillion from our debt, which is currently around $36 trillion, partly thanks to Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which just got extended as part of this huge bill.

Yeah, that’s right. Trump’s 2017 tax cuts added trillions to our debt, which they extended last night shortly after Trump pronounced himself a “deficit hawk.” He’s more of a hawker of cheap goods made in China, like his shitty shoes, shitty caps, shitty guitars, etc, etc.

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