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Iran at the UN General Assembly
Sina Toossi offered us an analysis of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the United Nations, the indirect talks involving Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and the latest statements from senior Iranian officials.
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Challenging Zionism in Schools
Marcy Winograd writes that schools need to critically examine Zionism as a political ideology and that allowing students to question Zionism supports intellectual freedom and critical thinking.
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NSA Restructuring
The National Security Agency announced it would undergo its most extensive restructuring in at least a decade.
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RootsAction and Progressive Democrats of America Urge AOC and Ro Khanna to Run in 2028
Two national activist groups, Progressive Democrats of America and RootsAction, announced that they are launching a campaign this November after the midterms to call for Reps. Ro Khanna and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president in 2028.
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9/11 Whistleblower Coleen Rowley on Continuing Perpetual War Propaganda
Coleen Rowley is a former FBI special agent and division counsel. She wrote a May 2002 memo to the FBI’s then-Director Robert Mueller exposing some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 conduct. Later in 2002 she was named a Person of the Year by TIME, when the magazine reported: “Coleen Rowley is the FBI staff attorney who caused a sensation in May with a memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller about how the bureau brushed off pleas from her Minneapolis, Minn., field office that Zacarias Moussaoui, who is now indicted as a Sept. 11 co-conspirator, was a man who must be investigated.”
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Former Immigration Judge Calls for Resignations
In a video shared via social media, former immigration judge George Pappas calls on immigration judges to resign. “The time has come,” he says, “to look at the machinery you are operating, recognize its profound moral bankruptcy, and resign… The immigration courts are no longer tribunals of law. They are administrative assembly lines engineered for indiscriminate cruelty.”
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Israeli Military Funding of U.S. Universities Research
New reporting from Drop Site News found that Israeli military institutions and weapons companies are funding military research at various U.S. universities. After reviewing state and university audits, research papers, funding disclosures and other records, journalists identified more than $15 million in funding that was unreported or inconsistently reported. Research at the universities includes projectile-impact prediction, autonomous micro-helicopters, high-speed rotorcraft, surveillance and human-activity recognition, target identification, network analysis, magnetic sensing and high-power microwave technology.
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The Road to Medicare for All
A new book, The Road to Medicare for All, will be released on September 4. The book provides a roadmap for making health care a right in the United States while offering arguments against scare tactics and fear mongering.
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‘Quadcopters’ Used to Kill Children in Gaza
A report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University, “Lethal Precision Without Accountability: Israeli Government ‘Quadcopter’ Use in Gaza,” does a deep dive into the use of soldier-operated ‘quadcopter’ drones that facilitate close-range attacks on civilians, including children. These drones are small, relatively inexpensive, easy to use, and can be operated by just one soldier. They are very lethal. This technology is subject to no oversight or accountability.
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Israel and Its Lobby ‘Gone Rogue’
Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s new book, Israel’…
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