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JD Vance points at Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a press briefing on the Iran ceasefire negotiations. (Screengrab from video posted to X.)

By some miracle, Donald “Blockade Everybody” Trump may have achieved a peace deal with Iran. That is, if and only if he decides to snap a leash on the U.S. attack dog in the region, namely Israel, whose nearly universally loathed prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, flatly rejected el jefe’s deal the minute it was announced. More

Events in Cuba have flown under the radar lately, but big changes are afoot. Noted by PBS June 19 but only belatedly by anybody else, Cuba’s new

The Supreme Court has been on a partisan, right-wing rampage lately, and the results for everyone from migrants to gun-crime victims to voters swamped by

“They brought me here to kill me,” Gazan Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya told his last known visitor to the Israeli underground Rakefet prison, where he is

So the geniuses in the white house have begin to suspect that maybe, just maybe, as journalist Mark Ames noted on X, after weeks of CIA-targeted bombings

Since its last two murders in mid-July, ICE, mothballed for a mere 24-hours, has dropped out of the news. Its stop and shoot habit, one can only assume,

Since its last two murders in mid-July, ICE, mothballed for a mere 24-hours, has dropped out of the news. Its stop and shoot habit, one can only assume, is approved by the man who nixed the Department of Homeland Security’s pause of it, namely Donald “Deporter-In-Chief” Trump. On July 13, an ICE agent shot and More

Since its last two murders in mid-July, ICE, mothballed for a mere 24-hours, has dropped out of the news. Its stop and shoot habit, one can only assume,

Photo by engin akyurt “To the victor go the spoils,” was Donald “Nail a Commie” Trump's recent pronouncement on Venezuela. But what kind of victor?