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Posts by Marjorie Cohn

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Pope prays at Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade Pope Leo XIV has traveled to pray at a popular Catholic shrine in Angola that was an epicenter of the African slave trade.
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Mediators push US-Iran ceasefire extension as deal hopes fade Sources tell MEE progress made on key issues, but major gaps remain ahead of Wednesday’s deadline
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Exclusive: Pentagon ramps up planning for possible military ops in Cuba Pentagon plans for a possible Cuba operation have accelerated as officials prepare for a potential order from Donald Trump, USA TODAY has learned.
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U.S. Officials Visited Havana to Lay Out Proposals for Cuban Reforms

"The delegation told Cuba’s leadership that it had only a narrow window of time to make the economic and political changes demanded by the Trump administration."

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Minneapolis Woman Violently Dragged From Car by ICE Files Claim Against DHS Aliya Rahman hopes to highlight tools that could “make mass acts of racial violence seem too expensive for these folks.”…

Aliya Rahman, a Minneapolis resident who was violently detained by ICE officers, has filed a federal tort claim against the DHS, claiming the agency used excessive force and violated her rights. Rahman was never charged with any crime.

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Korean A-bomb victims head to UN to tell their stories and seek accountability A delegation of victims and advocates will head to the US next week to alert the international community about the toll that America’s atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on Koreans who were...

"A delegation of victims and advocates will head to the US next week to alert the international community about the toll that America’s atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on Koreans who were forced there during Japanese rule."

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This Isn’t Just Trump’s War on Iran. Both Parties Paved the Way for Disaster. We must recognize Democrats share responsibility with the GOP for creating the climate that made such a war possible.
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House effort to end Trump's war with Iran fails by one vote The nearly party-line vote of 213-214 shows that Republicans are sticking with the president's military campaign in Iran. Every Democrat except one voted to order an end to the war.
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‘Woe to Those Who Manipulate Religion,’ Pope Says Amid Standoff With Trump

He said, “woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth ... Blessed are the peacemakers."

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Cuba’s Unbroken Spirit and the World’s Silence “We’re rebels. We defeated Batista in 1959. We survived the Bay of Pigs. We endured the Special Period when the Soviet Union collapsed, and we were left with nothing. We’ll survive this, too.”
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Major League Baseball Is Sanitizing Jackie Robinson’s Radical Legacy This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
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UN Experts Call for Global Halt to Arms Transfers to Israel Amid Lebanon Attacks “This is not self-defence. It is a blatant violation of the UN Charter,” the group said of Israel’s Lebanon attacks.
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Mass Action Targets Schumer and Gillibrand Ahead of Senate Vote on Israel Aid The Senate is poised to vote on resolutions that would block over $650 million in weapons sales to Israel.
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Voters Think Candidates Who Won’t Stand Up To AIPAC Won’t Fight On Other Issues, Either: New Poll A new poll from Drop Site and Zeteo finds Democratic Senate voters in Michigan care more about limiting AIPAC’s influence than Hasan Piker’s.
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Apologies to all the people in Lebanon : Peoples Dispatch It bears thinking that the world needs to apologize to Lebanon and to Palestine as the genocide by Israel grinds on from Gaza City to Beirut.
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Why are Democratic leaders still ignoring voters on Israel? | Norman Solomon Decisions at the latest Democratic National Committee meeting emphasized the disconnect between the party’s leadership and its base
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The Failure to Stop Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Has Allowed It to Expand Into Lebanon Israel is also perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lebanon.

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How the Israeli-US War on Iran has spurred Nuclear Proliferation Jonathan Granoff,
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Trump announces Navy blockade in Strait of Hormuz after Iran talks fizzle President Trump on Sunday announced that the U.S. military will begin blockading ships seeking to enter the Strait of Hormuz after weekend peace talks with Iran did not bring about a deal. “E…

The art of the bully: cut off your nose to spite your face

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Trump Reportedly Agreed to Include Lebanon in Ceasefire But Lied About It Anyway The death toll from Israel’s massive, 10-minute blitz on Lebanon on Wednesday has surpassed 300 people.

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Sonia Sotomayor Makes Rare But Damning Critique Of A Fellow Supreme Court Justice The justice had rare public criticism for her colleague and his justification of racial profiling in immigration-based stops of U.S. citizens.

Regarding Kavanaugh: “I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops. This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour.”

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Israel Carpet Bombs Lebanon After Announcement of Iran Ceasefire Israeli forces announced on Wednesday that it struck 100 sites in Lebanon over just the course of 10 minutes.

Israeli forces launched some of the most intense bombardments of Lebanon in recent years on Wednesday, striking Beirut and towns and cities across the country just hours after a ceasefire deal that reportedly includes Lebanon was announced.

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Iran closes Strait of Hormuz over Israeli barrage in Lebanon Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday over the Israeli military’s barrage of attacks in Lebanon against Iran-backed Hezbollah, Iranian state media reported.  Two tankers were able to pass t…
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Supreme Court Is Poised to Gut Remaining Protections of the Voting Rights Act The prohibition of racial discrimination in voting and the right to have absentee ballots counted are in grave peril.

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NY Times: Trump Announces Two-Week Cease-Fire, Backing Down From Threats of Imminent Devastation. Trump announced a deal with Iran shortly before his deadline for Iran to agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the death of a “whole civilization.”

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Demand Immediate Removal of President Trump by Means of the 25th Amendment We must reach out to everyone we can to build an unstoppable demand for the immediate removal from office of President Trump by means of the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which allows for t...
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US Satellite Firm Blacks Out Iran War Images Per US Government Request - News From Antiwar.com Planet Labs says it will “indefinitely withhold” satellite visuals of Iran and the wider Middle East war zone after a request from the US government and the Trump administration. In an email to custom...
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Iran Rejects Temporary Ceasefire, Says It Has Already Laid Out Terms for Agreement Senior Iranian official tells Drop Site that Trump is pushing for a deal but the new proposal is “detached from the realities on the ground.”
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Pope Leo Condemns “Imperialist Occupation” as He Urges Trump to End War on Iran “Neither in the pastoral sphere nor in the social and political spheres can good come from abuse of power,” he said.
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Trump Says US Will Bomb Iran Into “Stone Ages,” Invoking Vietnam Carpet Bombing The US will bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages, where they belong,” Trump said of the country with 93 million people.
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